John 17:17 “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.” In the last three verses of this second and largest section of what we are calling The Real Lord’s Prayer, Jesus makes his second specific request for his disciples who are with him on that night before his crucifixion. His first request was for…
John 17:15 “I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.” In our last study, when we looked at verses 14 and 16, we focused on Jesus’ statement that the disciples, like himself, were “not of the world”, and now Jesus explicitly states…