Often Often when people share prayer requests, we hear about the need for healing from illness or injury or success in various endeavors.

And while it's not wrong to pray for these things, we don't find this in Jesus' high priestly prayer.

So what was his focus in this sacred prayer?

We'll find out today on Truth for Life.

Alistair Begg is teaching from chapter 17 of John's Gospel.

The Father is personally distinct from the Son, even as the Son and the Father are distinct from the Holy Spirit.

So we're confronted by the fact that from all of eternity, within the Godhead, there was love and there was communication.

Verse 24 reinforces this. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me

where I am, to see my glory that you have given me. Listen, because you loved me before the foundation

of the world. It's a profound mystery. It's a profound truth. But we'll leave mystery and go on

to security. To security. I just picked these. You could have

chosen maybe another five words, but you'll notice how the disciples are described in verse six.

I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world.

Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word."

Now, hopefully there's at least one person who is saying to himself, well, we dealt with that back in chapter six.

It's probably a lady, actually, usually pay more attention,

but 637. This is 636. But I said to you that you have seen me, and yet you do not believe

all that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me, I will

never cast out. And this is the will of Him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all

that He has given me, but raise it up on the last day, for this is the will of my Father,

that everyone who looks on the Son

and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

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