We have considered for some weeks
now the tremendous fact of God's salvation of a people. Of how
they are saved from their sins. Saved from sin. Delivered from
judgment, delivered from the wrath of God. Delivered from
their enemies. Brought unto God. A people who
are chosen by God under salvation. Chosen that they should hear
the gospel of a saviour who came into this world to take the judgement
which they deserved. To take the wrath of God which
burned against their sin and to take it upon himself for them
in their place. that they should be delivered
and that he should have them as his people, as his bride to
lead them forth into glory. What a salvation, what a saviour
and what wonderful mercy and grace to a people chosen of God
to be united as one with that saviour. And in the 17th chapter
of John's Gospel, we hear the words of the prayer of that saviour
for his people. The love he has for them, the
union he has with them, the union he has with his father. How close
and how intimate their relationship is shown to be with both Christ
and His Father, how particular His love is, and how tremendous
His salvation is, that it should come for a people that dwell
in this world of darkness and death, and deliver them and save
them to bring them into an eternal glory in which there never enters
one sin, one crime, one tear, one disease, one sorrow, a glorious
end, a glorious salvation. For salvation is not only concerning
that from which we are saved, we are not only saved from sin
and saved from judgment and saved from death and saved from wrath,
we are saved unto heavenly glory. unto union with Christ, unto
righteousness. We have a wonderful hope set
before us. And here in John chapter 17,
Christ speaks both of that from which we are saved and that unto
which we are saved. He opens in verse one, these
words spake Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said,
Father, the hour is come. Glorify thy Son, that thy Son
also may glorify thee. As thou hast given him power
over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many
as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that
they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom
thou hast sent, I have glorified thee on the earth. I have finished
the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify
me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee
before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto
the men which thou gavest me out of the world. Mine they were,
and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word. Now
they have known that all things whatsoever Thou hast given Me
are of Thee. For I have given unto them the
words which Thou gavest Me, and they have received them, and
have known surely that I came out from Thee, and they have
believed that Thou didst send Me. I pray for them, I pray not
for the world, but for them which Thou hast given Me. For they
are thine, and all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am
glorified in them. 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. 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 and now come I to thee and these
things I speak in the world that they might have my joy fulfilled
in themselves I have given them thy word and the world have hated
them because they are not of the world even as I am not of
the world I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the
world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil. They
are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify
them through thy truth. Thy word is truth. As Thou hast
sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into
the world. And for their sakes I sanctify
myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also, which shall
believe on me through their word, 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. Verse 14, I have given them thy
word, and the world have hated them, because they are not of
the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou
shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst
keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even
as I am not of the world. They are not of the world, even
as I am not of the world. We see here a people chosen of
God, given to the Son, a people whom he calls mine. and mine
are thine and thine are mine, a people for whom he came, a
people for whom he died, a people for whom he suffered, a people
for whom he laid down his life under the sword of God's justice,
a people for whom he waded through the fires of death, through the
waters of death, a people whom he loved. A people who are His,
and a people who being His, He can speak of as being not of
the world, even as I am not of the world. Here is a man unlike
any other, born of woman, very man, but a man who is also divine,
a man who came from another place, A man who is God. God as man. The divine man. God. The person of the Son of
God who took upon himself flesh. who was made flesh, who took
humanity into union with his divinity. He came from heaven's
glory. He came from the bosom of the
Father. He came from another place. He
came from outside of time. He is without beginning and without
end. Here is a man without sin. God. God with us, Emmanuel. and he is not of the world. Everlasting, from everlasting
to everlasting. A man, yes, but not a fallen
man. A man, yes, but not a man who
sinned from the womb as you and I have. A man, yes, but not a
man who was estranged from God because of his rebellion. A man,
yes, but not a man like you and I, who shook our fists in God's
face, and raged against our Maker, and went astray, and lived for
our own glory, lived in rebellion against God and all His ways. Oh, how man born of Adam hates God by nature. Oh how man
born of Adam is corrupt from head to toe. How corrupt, how
evil you and I are by nature. How rebellious, how proud, how
arrogant, how fallen. Made of God, but gone astray. And here comes another man. Another
man. With flesh like Adam. But a divine
man. Whoever loved God. Whoever loved
the Father. Whoever did the will of the Father. Who never went astray. Who never
spake an evil word. Who never fought an evil thought. who always glorified his God
in all he did. I have glorified thee on the
earth, he cries, I have finished the work which thou gavest me
to do. He comes and he stands here contemplating
that death which he must enter into in order to deliver these
fallen sinners from the grave. And he stands as one who was
at perfect union with his father, never having rebelled, never
having sinned. Another man. A man of whom the
first Adam was but a figure. The first man was but a figure. This is the man, the true man. God made man. The son of God. The man who is not of the world,
who came for a people. Born of Adam, yes. Dwelling in
this world, yes. Children of wrath as others,
yes. But a people chosen of God and
given unto this man as his bride. A people who would be united
with him. A people who were in him. for
whom he would die, that he might take them in the flesh to be
one with him, that they also in him should be not of the world. Not of the world. Separated unto
God. Sanctified, separated through
the truth unto their God. Chosen. This people Chosen of
God, elect, are different. They're marked out by God as
different from all others. In themselves, naturally speaking,
they are the same as all others. If you're one of these, you will
know that you were born a sinner like all others. Outwardly, you appear a man,
a woman, as any other. inwardly the ragings of sin in
your heart cause you to think and act like all others. But
if you're one of these, God had his eye on you from before you
were born. If you're one of these, you were
chosen in Christ from before this world was made. If you're
one of these, you will come to hear the gospel and come to hear
of a Saviour who came for you and suffered for you and died
for you and rose for you. One who took your sin and was
crucified for it. And if you hear that Gospel,
you will hear it by the Spirit of God, who will open your ears
to hear and open your eyes to see, and put faith in your heart
to believe. If you ever hear, you will know
what it is to be born again by God, born from heaven on high,
and being born again. Having the life of God enter
your soul. Having eternal life in Christ
enter into your very being. You will soon discover what it
is to be not of the world. You'll soon know that you're
different. Once you were just as others.
Once you were just as others but now you know there's a change. Now there's a mighty change within. Suddenly what you once loved
you no longer love. Suddenly your thoughts and affections
are somewhere else. All that striving that you once
had to achieve something in this world, to be something in this
world, to gain the acclaim and the applause of others in this
world, all now seems worthless. pointless, futile. Now those things you loved, those
things you desired, that the world greatly esteems, have become
nothing. And now that which you once despised,
and which the world around you despises, and hates and mocks
and derides, you now love. You live in a world that says
there is no God. You live in a world that says
go this way, seek this, build up your own riches, build up
your own empire. You live in a world that says
happiness is here, live life to the full. You live in a world
which has promised you enjoyment and pleasure in so many things
and now you've found there's no joy in any of it. The joy
there is, is passing and fleeting. Now you've found that true joy
is somewhere else entirely. It's exactly in that place that
everyone else would tell you not to go. Perhaps in this world
you've gone to religion. Perhaps you've sought out a church. Perhaps you've heard some speak
of Jesus and of his death. But even then you've found they've
led you somewhere else. Because the Jesus and the death
of Jesus and the gospel that they've spoken of bears no resemblance
to the Jesus that you've come to discover is the Son of God
who prayed this prayer in this chapter for His people whom His
Father gave unto Him. Because He prays and says, I
pray for them, my people. I pray not for the world, but
for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine, and all
mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them. But they say in the churches
where you heard them speak of a Jesus, that their Jesus loves
all the world. And there Jesus prays for all
the world. And there Jesus wants all the
world to be saved. And there Jesus can't save all
the world unless all the world agree to be saved by him. So
there Jesus in the end saves none and is a hopeless caricature
and a hopeless travesty and a blasphemous idol of man's imagination. and you discover that the Jesus
and the gospel that some speak of is as far from the truth and
as far from reality as any other religion and any other ideology
and any other thinking of this world which would lead you far
from God. It promises much It says a lot. It makes a great noise. They
have their gospel, they have their services, they have their
worship, they have their churches, they have their organizations,
they have their religion, as the other religions have their
religion and their works and their ways and their rituals.
and as all the other organizations in this world have their ideas,
as the football has its football and entertainment, as the world
has its entertainments and distractions, as the world in all its different
forms and manners leads this one and that one to go that way
and this way, seeking after happiness, seeking after some sort of salvation,
seeking after some sort of peace, and all leading the same broad
way to destruction. but you've come to hear in the
gospel of a saviour who is not of the world and of a people
in him who are not of the world and you've begun to discover
that what the world said unto you whether it's a secular world
or a religious world never led unto this saviour because the
world hates him and the world hates them as they hated him
and the world put him to death and the world puts them to death
as they put him to death I pray for them I pray not for the world
but for them which thou hast given me for they are thine and
all mine are thine and thine are mine and I am glorified in
them 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 has given me that they may be one as we
are If you come to know this saviour and his gospel and his
salvation, you'll soon discover what it is to be not of the world. You'll soon discover that your
loves and your hopes and your desires are set upon one who
is no longer in this world physically. And one whose ways and thoughts
are not like the ways and thoughts of the world around you. and
you'll soon discover that the world around you begins to notice
something in you that it disapproves of. You speak of Christ and even
those who claim to follow him often will look upon you with
a furrowed brow and will distance and will rail against you. You begin to find this world
a lonely place because like he, you are not of the world. You
begin to discover that your appetite is for heavenly things, another
world, another place, another age, another thought, another
mentality, another truth from that which
the world calls truth. and another man. Oh what a prayer this is for
Christ's people. A people who walk through this
world though they're not of this world. A people who will know
the hatred and the persecution of this world. Because this world
persecuted their master. And this world will persecute
them. And how they need one who prays for them. How they need
to know the love of a saviour who watches over them, who keeps
them, who intercedes for them, who is one with them. How we
need this prayer and what love and hope and rejoicing we find
manifested in this prayer. We do have a Saviour who prays
for us. He prays for us every day. He
prayed here as He approached His death, as He approached that
hour in which men would slay Him. And He prays today. He watches over His people. He knows where they are. He knows
what they suffer. He knows what they feel. and
His love is set upon them from everlasting unto everlasting. What a prayer, what a people
we see described here, wrapped up in their Saviour, one with
Him. What concern He has for them,
what communion He has with them, what love He has for them. They
are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. He prays
that they should be taken out of the world. Delivered from
the world. Brought to be with Him. One with
Him and His Father. One. What is the world? What is the world? They are not
of the world even as I am not of the world. What is the world? the world in the scriptures is
translated the English word world is translated from four different
Greek words in various places the word here in this passage
is cosmos but there are several other words translated world all of which have a bearing upon
the meaning there is the word Aeon which refers to the age
or the ages or the passing of time sometimes translated ages
in some verses and sometimes translated world but ultimately
the world as considered in time We read that word in Galatians
1.4, Jesus who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver
us from this present evil age. Evil Aeon. He's delivered us from time to
bring us into eternity. This world by definition is rooted
in time. There was no such thing as time
until God created the world and God created the sun and caused
the world to spin around the sun. And when God burns this
world up in fire as he has promised to do on the last day and brings
in a new heaven and a new earth, we will go to be with God in
eternity. Time will be no more, but this
world is a world of time. It has a beginning and an end
and the hours tick by ever so rapidly unto that last day. That last day when the ages will
be brought to a conclusion and when all men and women, you and
I included, will stand before our Maker, our Creator. and we
will answer for what we have done in the flesh, what we have
fought, what we have said, what we have fought and said about
and in relation to this gospel, this message. All will have to
answer. Why when you heard my gospel
have you trampled it underfoot? Have you heard of Jesus Christ? Have you heard of the Son of
God? Have you heard of his death upon
Calvary's cross? Have you heard how Christ Jesus
came into this world to save sinners? What have you done with
that message? Has it gone in one ear and out
the other? Has it gone into your memory
to be dealt with at a future date? Have you despised it? Have you rejected it? What have
you done with the Saviour of whom that word speaks? Well there comes a day, the last
day, the end of the ages when you will stand before God and
He will ask you and you need an answer. otherwise you will
go into a place where there is no end in which there is just
eternal suffering but now you live in an age in
time where you wake up in the morning and you go to sleep at
night and you wake up the next day and each day is a day that
God has given you a day in which you can hear of eternal things
a day in which you can hear a voice that spans from eternity into
time from heaven into earth A day in which you can hear the voice
of the Son of God, the Son of Man, the last man, the second
man, the last Adam, speaking by his Spirit to a world. and declaring his gospel and
his salvation. Every day you rise up in the
morning is a day God has given you to hear. And every day you
lay your head upon the pillow at night and have ignored that
message and pushed it aside is another day that you have stepped
closer to death and to judgment. This is the day that the Lord
hath made. This is the day of salvation. This is the day in which the
gospels preached. And this is a day, an age, a
time which will not go on forever. The world aeon. There is another
word for world or G from which we get the term geography G and
it is a Greek word that sometimes translated world in the scriptures
which has to do with geography which has to do with the earth
the countries the locations the place we live in time but we
also live upon this globe we are here We are flesh walking
upon the earth. But here's a man who is not of
the world. He's not of time, he's not of
the aeons, he was there before time ever was and he came from
a place outside of this earth, outside of this universe. He
came from heaven's glory, he came from the bosom of his father
into this world to save those upon it. Sinners like you and
I. Another word translated world
in the scriptures is oikumene which has to do with an abode
a habitation not simply a place as in J as in this country, in
that country, but a place that you call home, a place in which
you dwell, a place which is your habitation. This world is not only time in
which we dwell, is not only a planet upon which we stand, but it's
our home. We live here. We dwell here. And naturally speaking, we're
very much wed to here. But Christ here speaks of a people
who are not of the world, not of time, not of the earth, and
for whom this world is not their habitation. Because like Abraham,
They are as those pilgrims and sojourners who journey through
this world seeking another country, another home, another habitation. They seek a heavenly country.
This world is not their own. They know it's not. They walk
lightly to it. They, as it were, dwell in tents,
moving around from place to place because they're on a journey.
Oh yes, we may have our homes, we live in certain places, we
have our jobs, we have our work, we have our schools, we have
our families, but we know this isn't where we'll dwell forever,
we're just passing through. We're not of the world. And all that Christ says here
could equally be applied to the Aeons, to the Jade, to the Occumene. the ages, the place, the country,
our habitation, our home. But the word actually used in
this passage is the cosmos, which is a word translated world that
goes beyond all of these things, it goes deeper. It's not just
the time and the place, but it's the whole structure, the order,
the arrangement, the functioning, the mindset, the thinking, the
attitude, the life of this world, the cosmos. This world has a power, it has
powers and authorities and structure to it. There are countries and
nations and within each nation there is an order. There are
those who rule and those who rule beneath them and those who
serve. There is an economy. There is
that trade and merchandising. There is that functioning of
how people live and how they trade and how they buy and they
sell. there is that thinking that pervades
all that to seek happiness in this habitation you must buy
and you must sell and you must gather up riches and you must
climb a ladder to the top you must seek to rise up in this
world and its system and its workings you must seek to gain approval
from those above you and those alongside you. Seek the world's
acclaim. Seek the world's applause. Do
what you must do to get on. Whether it involves work, whether
it involves bribery, whether it involves connections, whether
it involves pleasing this one or that one. The world has a
manner and a means of working. thinking, ideals, it has its
ideals of how things should be, it has its values, it has its
lifestyles and the thing that's common to all ultimately is that
those values, that lifestyle, that order, that thinking is
one in which God is set aside. The world doesn't mind bowing
down to authority as long as it doesn't mean bowing down to
God. The world doesn't mind hard work as long as it's not serving
God. The world doesn't mind religion and moral living as long as it's
not in relation to the one true and living God. There is a cosmos,
a world around you, a thinking, an attitude, an order, a structure,
and the child of God is not of it. We once were We're born amongst
it, we dwell amongst it. As Christ says, I pray not that
thou should take them out of the world but that thou should
keep them from the evil. We live here. We have our homes
here. We're in time. We have to trade
to live. But we know that we're not of
it. And we know that the greatest
of heights that we could attain to in this world are nothing.
We know it's all corrupt. We know that those in power are
only there because God has put them. We know the machinations
of this world work according to evil and rebellion against
God. And we know that our love, our
desire and our destination lies far from this world. And all that happens to us as
we journey through this world is because of one who is outside
of this world. Because of one who is sovereign
and reigns over this world and brings all things in this world
to pass for the glory of his name and for the good of his
people. There is one who reigns on high,
one with his father, one with his people, who is praying for
that people, that God would keep them as they journey through
this world, that they, one day, should be with him. For they
are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. What of
you? Are you of the world? Is this
age, this aeon, this time, all you have? People speak, live
life to the full, you only have one life. My life. No fear, it's my life, I'll live
it to the full. Well that life's brief. And those
people in their 20s who speak like they're immortal soon find
themselves in their 60s and 70s and 80s and facing death in but
a moment. And soon find that they never
did in that life all that they'd have hoped to. And soon find
that it's gone from their fingers. Are you living for time? Or are
you living for eternity? Are you living for this world,
this country, this land? Do you desire to visit every
nation and see every wonderful sight and see every place and
think that if you travel here and travel there and go here
and go there and see these people and those people that you'll
attain unto happiness? You will not. You will not. Is this world your
habitation? or do you seek a heavenly country?
Do you seek an abode above where Christ dwells? Is this world,
it's cosmos, it's thinking, it's glory, it's power, it's economy,
it's riches, it's wealth, it's pleasures, is that what you long
to fill your heart with? Well, go on. But if God sets
his love upon you, you will find like the prodigal son that you
will spend all you have and you will be left with nothing and
be left feeding the swine and discover that this world and
its cosmos is nothing. Don't be so foolish. If you do go the way of the prodigal,
may God have mercy upon you to bring you as he did to yourself,
to your senses, to return unto your father. Is this world your
world? Is this world your love? Is this
world your all? Or are you like those of whom
Christ speaks in this passage? not of the world, even as he
is not of the world. Notice the use in this verse
of I am. Repeatedly in John's gospel,
Christ speaks and says I am, I am the bread of life. I am
the way, the truth and the life, I am. This is God speaking, I
am. Call me I Am. He's everlasting,
He always is, I Am. I Am not of the world. There's
only one who can really speak of being not of this world and
that's the great I Am, God Himself. And the reason His people are
not of the world is because they are wed, they are united under
Him. Christ dwells within them. They are one with the Father,
the I am is one with them, I am not of the world. This is God
who speaks, a divine person and as a divine person he has the
authority to speak and the authority to pray and the authority and
power to pray for His people and to know that those prayers
will be answered. If Christ prays for you, His
words, His prayers will be answered. If He prays for you, that you
should be brought out of this world and brought to be where
He is, then you will be. If He prays for you, your salvation
is certain. Is he praying for you? I am not of the world. God is
not of this world. He's not bound by time. He's not bound by the physical
realm of this earth. This world is not his home. His power and authority is not
subject to that power found in this world. This world's power,
its order, its economy, its thinking is in total contrast to that
power and authority which it found rooted in his heavenly
throne above. He's not of this world. And if
you know Him and you love Him, you'll not be of this world.
You'll love Him and His glorious truth. You will love heavenly
truths. You will long to be where He
is. You will long to depart from this place. You'll long to serve
Him. He's eternal, everlasting, heavenly. He's not of the world. And if we're not of the world,
then we are made to be as He is. And we were made to be where
He is, for that's what salvation is. In Christ, all His people,
for whom He died, for whom His blood was shed, are made to be
the righteousness of God in Him. They are made in him to have
a life eternal and this is life eternal that they might know
thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. They're
given everlasting life, life without beginning, life without
end, eternal life, equality and order of life unlike that mortal
life which we have here below. Everlasting life. And if you're
made to be it, if you're born again by the Spirit of God as
you heard the Gospel, then it's a life that you have now. When
you're born again you have it now, you enter into a being where
you have a life that had no beginning. You were ever in Christ from
all eternity. Not in the flesh but in the Spirit,
you were always in Him, chosen to be His. And when the Spirit
of God comes by the Gospel, then that life enters your soul. And
you breathe a new life. You breathe the life of heaven. all your sins are blotted out
all your sin is destroyed it's put away we are in Christ the
righteousness of God when God looks upon us he looks upon his
son and he says this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased
and when he looks on us he sees us in him in whom he is well
pleased he's as pleased with his people in Christ as he is
with his own son If you're His, He looks on you with the same
love He has for His Son, who is perfect, glorious and wonderful. And if you're in Him, you have
life now and you are seated in Him, with Him in Heaven's glory
now. Oh yes, physically you in your
body are on this earth. Physically you weighed through
time on this journey to the end of your days, but in Christ you're
in glory now. We're seated in the heavenlies. It's as though we're there we
can as it were look up by faith and behold the Lamb of God upon
the throne. We can shut our eyes and depart
from all the world around us and go into that inward communion
with Him and look and breathe and see our Saviour risen and
glorified and ascended and sat down victorious and us sat down
in Him. And we're going to be there in
eternity to come because it's already wrought, it's already
done, it's already certain. In God's eyes we're already there. What about in your eyes? Are
you journeying through this pilgrimage with your eyes still set upon
this world, still seeking and grabbing after this and that,
still striving to do this and that, still striving to sort
out your own troubles and battles by your own strength? Or are
you looking up by faith unto your Saviour? who has done it
all, who has finished the work, I have glorified thee on the
earth, I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do, I
have saved my people with an outstretched arm, they're mine. and they're mine now, and they're
mine to sit with me, risen from the grave, delivered from their
sins, around my throne, and one day they will be there bodily,
rising from the dead, going up to glory with Him, to look and
to reign and to behold His face forevermore. Is that your hope? Are you longing for it? Do you
wake up every day thinking, might this be the day? when I will
finally, with the eyes of my flesh, when I will finally look
and behold and know I'm there. Well if it's not the day it's
because it's still a gospel day, a wonderful day to share that
news with others, a wonderful day in which God is still adding
to his church those that should be saved. But one day when all
the fold, when all those are gathered in, for whom Christ
prays here, then, then we will look, then we will be gathered,
then we will be ushered in. The sheep will be separated from
the goats. Then, because he came and he
died and he rose again for that people who will be with him forevermore. Are you amongst that people?
Did you die with him? Did he suffer for your sins?
Did you rise with him? Have you heard the Gospel? Have
you heard the voice of the Spirit of God on high? Has life entered
your soul? Or are you still raging against
Him? Will you in the end stand around
His throne and throw up your crown in praise for Him? Will you throw your crown at
His feet? Will you praise His name forevermore? Or will He say of you when you
come on that day and say, Lord, Lord, I didn't know, I wasn't
sure. Or Lord, Lord, I did this in
thy name. I went to church, I was there
every week. I read the Bible from time to
time. When you say, Lord, Lord, will
He say of you, depart from me. I never knew you. Oh that we should by his grace
be amongst that people who are one with him. I'll listen to how he closes
this prayer. What a wonderful victorious conclusion. What a height to reach. Verse
20. Neither pray I for these alone,
but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. Have you heard their word? It's
the truth. But for them also which shall
believe on me through their word. That they may all 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, and the glory which thou gavest me I have given them,
that they may be one even as we are one. 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 has loved them as
thou hast loved me. 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 loves me before
the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world
have not known thee, But I have known thee, and these have known
that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them
thy name, and will declare it, that the love wherewith thou
hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. And I have declared
unto them thy name, and will declare it. as he continues to
declare today by his Gospel that the love wherewith thou hast
loved me may be in them and I in them. Do you know this love? Have you heard this word? Do
you know this Saviour? Are you of this world? Or are
you not of this world? Are you locked in time? or will
you in eternity go to be where He is, to be one with Him and
to throw down your crown at His feet in awe and wonder at a Saviour
who wrought a salvation which is certain and complete and which
makes a people to be as He is, one with God, one before God,
washed clean in the blood of the Lamb, righteous. They are not of the world, even
as I am not of the world.