in general.

Enjoy.

In In Jesus' high-prosely prayer found in the gospel of John, he prayed for his disciples,

Father, keep them in your name. What did he mean by that? Today on Truth for Life,

Alastur Begg explores the answer and helps us understand why it's significant for us as believers today.

We're in John Chapter 17.

Jesus' departure is so near that he can actually use the present tense to describe it.

And the disciples are to be left alone in what is essentially a cold, wicked world.

He's been preparing them for this before, but certainly at the beginning of Chapter 14,

where he sits with him and he says, now, listen, don't like your hearts be troubled. You believe in

God. Believe also in me. And then he goes on to explain the wonder of all that will unfold

in the glory when gathered

into the presence of Jesus, that which is anticipated will then be enjoyed. All of that by way of

preparation. And now he addresses his father, holy father. Notice the way this sentence goes, and I am no longer in the world,

but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. There's a period there in English. That's the

end of that statement. Then, Holy Father begins his address. God, the Holy One, transcendent deity.

Father, the expression of his personal intimacy.

He who dwells in unapproachable light is actually approachable in Jesus.

And he realizes that this wicked world that he's leaving these guys behind in is such that

the holiness of the Father is to be the holiness of their lives so that they might shine

as lights in the darkness.

And since that world is a cold and a difficult world, he needs them, he wants them to know

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