John 17

O the infinite moment, interest, value, and consolation of this prayer! Because it is the last, regular, formal petition our Savior offered for His disciples in all ages and nations, consequently we are all equally interested in this farewell prayer. "Jesus spoke these words, and lifting up His eyes, to heaven, said, Father, the hour has come; glorify Thy Son, in order that the Son may glorify Thee: as Thou hast given to Him authority over all flesh, in order that everything Thou hast given unto Him, He may give eternal life unto them." Jesus was glorified when He died, the period of His humiliation having expired.

So the saints all enter glorification when they evacuate this body. As to the essence of glorification, we are like a sinner describing regeneration, or an unsanctified Christian expounding that precious grace, as we all have to die in order to be glorified. N. B. - Glorification is a spiritual experience, as real as regeneration or sanctification, the soul being glorified when it evacuates the body, and the body when raised from the dead or translated. The human soul of Jesus was glorified when it evacuated His body, and His body when He arose from the dead.

"I have manifested Thy name to the people whom Thou hast given Me out of the world." Eklektos, "elect," is from ek, "out," and lego, "to choose." Hence the elect are, those whom God chose out of the world and gave His Son. "They were Thine, and Thou gavest them to Me; and they have kept Thy word. Now they know that all things so many as Thou hast given Me are with Thee. Because I have given unto them the words which Thou gavest unto Me, and they received them, and they truly know that I came out from Thee, and they believed that Thou hast sent Me. I pray for these; I pray not for the world, but for these whom Thou hast given unto Me; because they are Thine. And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine; and I have been glorified in them." You see from this prayer that sanctification, for which He is praying, is only for His disciples, and not for the people of the world and make you a disciple, and the other to give farewell prayer and fail to see the two works of grace in sanctification; i.e., the one to take you out of the world, and make you a disciple, and the other to give you the sanctification for which Jesus prays for all of His disciples.

"Holy Father, keep them through Thy name whom Thou hast given unto Me, in order that they may be one as We are." You see clearly from this prayer that sanctification is the only unifier of the Lord's disciples. We are all witnesses that the true sanctification this day destroys all sectarian division, bringing the people of God into glorious unity and harmony. You see here that all sectarian divisions are interdicted by our Lord's farewell prayer.
 

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