Believers Kept (John, Chapter 17)
Kept in the Father's
Name:
Joh 17:11 ¶ And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the
world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom
thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
Kept in
Safety:
Joh 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy
name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the
son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
Kept in
Joyfulness:
Joh 17:13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in
the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
Kept
in Purity:
Joh 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the
world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Kept Separated
from the World:
Joh 17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of
the world.
Kept in Process of Sanctification:
Joh 17:17 ¶
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Kept in Active
Service:
Joh 17:18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I
also sent them into the world.
Kept in Perfect Unity:
Joh 17:20
¶ Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me
through their word;
Joh 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father,
art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world
may believe that thou hast sent me.
Kept for the Coming
Glory:
Joh 17:22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them;
that they may be one, even as we are one:
Joh 17:23 I in them, and thou in
me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou
hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Joh 17:24 ¶ Father,
I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they
may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the
foundation of the world.
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