SCRIPTURE REFERENCES FOR THIS SERMON:
John 17:9-19
17:9 I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me because they belong to you.
10 Everything I have belongs to you, and everything you have belongs to me, and I have been glorified by them.
11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.
12 When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.
13 But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.
14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
15 I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.
16 They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.
17 Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.
18 Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.
19 And I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they too may be truly set apart.
