May 12 – Sermon Notes
SCRIPTURE READING
John 17:6-19 (CEB)
6 “I have revealed your name to the people you gave me from this world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 8 This is because I gave them the words that you gave me, and they received them. They truly understood that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
9 “I’m praying for them. I’m not praying for the world but for those you gave me, because they are yours. 10 Everything that is mine is yours and everything that is yours is mine; I have been glorified in them. 11 I’m no longer in the world, but they are in the world, even as I’m coming to you. Holy Father, watch over them in your name, the name you gave me, that they will be one just as we are one. 12 When I was with them, I watched over them in your name, the name you gave to me, and I kept them safe. None of them were lost, except the one who was destined for destruction, so that scripture would be fulfilled. 13 Now I’m coming to you and I say these things while I’m in the world so that they can share completely in my joy. 14 I gave your word to them and the world hated them, because they don’t belong to this world, just as I don’t belong to this world. 15 I’m not asking that you take them out of this world but that you keep them safe from the evil one. 16 They don’t belong to this world, just as I don’t belong to this world. 17 Make them holy in the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 I made myself holy on their behalf so that they also would be made holy in the truth.
FILL IN THE BLANKS
God is described as a birth-giver or a comforting _________________ in Isaiah, as a mother who feeds a child or as a mother bear in Hosea, a calming
mother in the Psalms, and a mother hen in both
Matthew & Luke.
We’re reminded that the disciples were
chosen from the _________________, are in the world, are hated by the world, and are not of the world.
“We should be rigorous in judging _________________, and gracious in judging others.” – John Wesley
Jesus certainly didn’t come into the world to teach us new ways to ___________________ ourselves.
It’s important that we learn to understand that Jesus and God are one. It’s equally as important that we
understand their desire that ___________ are one – with them and with one another.