Welcome to Deepen with Pastor Joby Martin.

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Hey, church family.

Welcome back to Deepa Diva Week 24.

This past weekend, we discussed what is known as the

high priestly prayer. It's a really special place in scripture where Jesus not only prays

for the disciples that he's with right there, but he also prays for us. He prays for, in his words, those who will believe.

And one of the number of things he prayed for for the disciples in the first century

and also those of us who are disciples now is he prays for oneness.

He doesn't use the word unity.

I mean, same thing, I guess, but he prays for oneness. And he's,

the level of oneness that he is praying for between you and I is as close as or as one as Jesus

is with the Father, which is a supernatural kind of oneness. And he said that there's a result to

that kind of oneness when believers who one day will put their faith in Jesus, that the result

of the oneness of those believers from all over the world, different languages, different cultures,

different colors, different ethnicities, different languages, different cultures, different colors, different

ethnicities, different likes, different political persuasions, that when the church comes together

as one, he says that the world may believe that he is who he says he is, that the oneness of believers matter. Now, we live in a world,

especially in the last two years. This seems to be more divided than ever. Politically,

racially, scientifically, all, I mean, you just pick the thing, man. I think these things are

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