John 17

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Jesus enters into a time of prayer. He says that He has done the work that God told Him to do. He says that eternal life is to know God and Jesus Christ, the one whom He sent. Jesus asks His Father to keep the believers safe because they are Jesus' people, and since everything that belongs to the Son belongs to the Father, they are God's people, too. In addition, God says that the world does not accept His disciples because they do not belong to the world. They belong to the Father and the Son in Heaven. He doesn't want God to remove the believers from the world, only to protect them from the evil one. Jesus prays that God will speak truth to the disciples, and that through that truth, the disciples can speak that truth out into the world. He also prays for all of the future Christians. He prays that we can be united with God. Jesus goes to make this happen on the cross when He wipes away our sins. Sin is what separates us from God, and when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, He takes on all of our sin and dies for it, so God can be with us. Finally, Jesus asks that His followers be with Him when our physical bodies die, so that we can go to Heaven and see Jesus in all of His glory. He is about to make all of this possible...