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NASB | John 17:1 Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 17:1 When Jesus had spoken these things, He raised His eyes to heaven [in prayer] and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, so that Your Son may glorify You. |
Bible Question:
John17:14-19 What is it meaning when Jesus is saying. We and Him are not being of this world? I have put the marks around the question parts. if that is ok? 14--- I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, (because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.) How are we being kept from evil? 15--- I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, (but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.) Again He is saying that we are not of the world, as He is not also 16--- (They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.) What is meaning when he is saying we are to be sanctified? 17--- (Sanctify them through thy truth:) thy word is truth. Jesus is saying He sends us into the world as He was by God. 18--- (As thou hast sent me into the world,) (even so have I also sent them into the world.) He then is sanctifying Himself so we will be also sanctified through the truth. 19--- (And for their sakes I sanctify myself,) (that they also might be sanctified through the truth.) Thank you KcabmI4 |
Bible Answer: Hi Kcabm: It's good to see you are back here to study God's word with us! I'll try to answer as best I can. You ask: "What is it meaning when Jesus is saying. We and Him are not being of this world?" I think it means just what it says, but to put it in other words; we are in this sinful world, but we are not part of it. Just as He came from Heaven and is not part of His creation, He has come to dwell/live in us by His Holy Spirit, and as born again believers we can say Jesus lives in us. And as He is not part of this world, and because He is In us, we are not part of this world. We no longer belong to the world, but we now belong to God; We can call ourselves sons of God. "As He says also in Hosea, "I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, 'MY PEOPLE,' AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, 'BELOVED.'" "AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, 'YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,' THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF THE LIVING GOD." Rom 9:25-26 We belong to Him and with Him and will be with Him for eternity. You ask: "How are we being kept from evil?" By the indwelling Holy Spirit, we no longer are held captive to a sinful life; we no longer live for the worldly lustful desires of the flesh and the word. But we live for higher things, and we seek Him, and we seek His gift's, and when we fail, we know He will keep us, for we are His sheep, and He is the good shepherd, and He will forgive us our sins, and wash us and impute righteousness unto us. You ask: "What is meaning when he is saying we are to be sanctified?" Sanctification is the process by which we learn and grow in righteousness and become more Christ-like as He by His Spirit and through His word (the Bible) teaches and changes us day by day, and year by year, as we learn and grow in the Lord. Easton's Bible Dictionary says this: "--Sanctification involves more than a mere moral reformation of character, brought about by the power of the truth: it is the work of the Holy Spirit bringing the whole nature more and more under the influences of the new gracious principles implanted in the soul in regeneration. In other words, sanctification is the carrying on to perfection the work begun in regeneration, and it extends to the whole man (Romans 6:13; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Colossians 3:10; 1 John 4:7; 1 Corinthians 6:19). It is the special office of the Holy Spirit in the plan of redemption to carry on this work (1 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:13). Faith is instrumental in securing sanctification, inasmuch as it (1) secures union to Christ (Galatians 2:20), and (2) brings the believer into living contact with the truth, whereby he is led to yield obedience "to the commands, trembling at the threatenings, and embracing the promises of God for this life and that which is to come." Perfect sanctification is not attainable in this life"-- Easton's Bible Dictionary "Jesus is saying He sends us into the world as He was by God." Yes, He was sent from Heaven (this does not diminish His equality with the Father) to teach the gospel, but more to save and redeem mankind from the power of sin and evil and from eternal hell. And as he also sends us into the world, not to say that every Christian is to go on a missionary journey but to preach the word at every opportunity. "He then is sanctifying Himself so we will be also sanctified through the truth." Not that He needed to be Sanctified, for He is and was always perfect, but that He willingly came to earth and through obedience lived a holy life in all ways perfect, and now in Him, we too can be brought to holiness through His living in us, and sanctified by the power of the Holy Spirit through His obedience and perfection. He is the truth, His word is truth. "Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me." John 14:6 I hope this helps God bless John |