Hey, it's day 34 on our 40-day tour through the Gospel of John.

We're into John chapter 17 now, one of the shortest chapters in all of John's Gospel,

just 25 verses, but it packs some power and

has some key passages in it i want to point those out to you as we take this tour through john's

gospel here in john chapter 17 jesus is wrapping up what's called his farewell discourse we

started with that in chapter 14 technically toward the end of chapter 13 in the upper room is when he

started to say farewell to his disciples. He says, I'm going to leave. You won't see me for a while,

but take heart. In fact, that's the way he ends his last words with his disciples. Then he

transitions in chapter 17 from giving his last words to his disciples to starting to pray

his final words to his father in heaven before he goes to the cross. It starts in verse one,

Father, the hour has come. It's time. Glorify your son so that he, meaning me, can give glory

back to you. I know that there are some people

who trip over this. They say, how can Jesus pray to his father in heaven? Aren't they one and the same?

But that's putting worldly and human limitations on something that's heavenly, that goes beyond

what our brains can fully grasp. Don't trip up on that. Dr. Geiser, one of my

favorite seminary professors, an Old Testament professor taught us, he said when God, when it comes to

the mystery of the Trinity, when God is becoming too divided, when you think of God as Father,

Son, and Holy Spirit is three completely independent persons, then you've gone too far

and you need to recapture the unity of the Holy Trinity.

On the other hand, on the flip side of that same coin, Dr. Geiser would say, when God is not

becoming distinct enough, when it's just one God, whether it's Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,

but the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit don't have any distinctiveness.

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