“As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.” John 17:18-19.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
The conversation that Jesus had with Me, which He shared with you at the Seder the night before He gave His life to give you eternal life, was for believers in His Name and not for the world.
I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours; and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. John 17:9-10.
By the “world” as used in separating believers in My Son therefrom, I mean the life of empty show (lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life) that has no foundation in My Word. That was what My Son addressed in the parable He told of the house built on sand and the house built on THE rock.
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and does them, is like a wise man who built his house on THE rock. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on THE rock. Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.” Matthew 7:24-27.
Remember what THE ROCK is, it is what the church is built upon, the revelation of My Word made flesh as My Son and your Messiah and Lord in whom I have given you the fullness of redemption by His blood and eternal life. Everything on earth that is not built on the rock of My Word, with the cornerstone as Jesus your Messiah and Lord, will fall.
And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.” This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire. Hebrews 12:26-29.
And that Kingdom that cannot be shaken is the Kingdom of My Beloved Son to which I have translated all My sanctified ones whom My Son has made worthy to share in His inheritance as joint heirs with Him in the Light.
Joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the sanctified in Light. For He rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the Kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:11-14.
If you live a lie, as Adam did, you will perish. Lies perish, only the truth endures. That is why everything built upon My Word, and Jesus is the expression of My Word, will endure. The truth is imperishable and is forever. When you are born again from above by the seed of My Word planted and cultivated in you, you have eternal life and cannot perish.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” John 3:16.
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” John 10:27-29.
The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9.
This prayer of Jesus for you in His conversation with Me should be something that you keep in your mind and heart. It is very important in instructing you how to conduct yourself in the world and what your relationship is with Me in Christ Jesus. It is about true unification, sanctification, consecration, and living in the love I have for you to protect you from contamination by evil. And yet I rarely hear it preached upon or talked about among believers. Yet My Son considered it so important that He not only prayed for those present at that Seder but for ALL who would believe in Him through their word, through their sharing, preaching, teaching, and witnessing to all He had said and done.
Jesus did not pray that I take believers out of the world, far from that, He prayed that you would be in the world to be sent out as He was to seek and save the lost, Luke 19:10, to do the good works that I planned for you in advance, Ephesians 2:10, and to heal all those oppressed by the devil. Acts 10:38. In other words, to undo the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8.
But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. John 17:13-19.
In returning to Me after His sojourn upon the earth according to the flesh, He gave you His joy so that your joy can be full. My joy is your strength. I anointed Jesus with the oil of joy, Psalm 45:7; Hebrews 1:9, and the anointing of the Head runs down on all the Body. The anointing lifts the burden and destroys the yoke.
How did He give you this anointing so it fills your cup to overflowing? By the Words He spoke to you. Jesus gives you My Word, which is Spirit breathed and anointed with My power. And they received that Word.
Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You; for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me. John 17:7-8.
My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. John 15:8-11.
But to the worldly minded (the mind of the flesh that does not understand spiritual things but only what can be seen and touched with the five physical senses) spiritual things are nonsense. The worldly minded, who walk in the flesh, cannot understand because their minds have been blinded by the god of this world (the devil whom Adam put on his dominion throne). And this is why the worldly-minded go after My Word with such vengeance, trying to ban it from every place. They are taken captive by the devil and he hates My Word because it enables you to tread on his lies and take him down so that he has to flee from you whenever you wield the Sword of the Spirit, which is My Word. My Word crushed his head but he still tries to bruise your heel.
Keeping My Word separates you from the worldly. Jesus manifested My Name to you and gave you My Word. He sanctified you and made you Mine. You are in His hand, the hand of the good Shepherd, and in His hand you are in Mine.
Your Words were found and I ate them, and Your Words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; for I have been called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts. I did not sit in the circle of merrymakers, nor did I exult. Because of Your hand upon me I sat alone. Jeremiah 15:16-17.
My Word is truth and My Word in your heart as your meditation sanctifies you in the truth. Jesus had already told the disciples this in His conversations with them preceding this prayer at that Seder meal. In fact, this conversation with Me is a culmination of all the truths He was revealing to them at that meal.
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes (cleans) it so that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the Word which I have spoken to you.” John 15:1-3.
He cleans you by My Word.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. Ephesians 5:25-27.
But for Him to clean and sanctify you with My Word you must take that Word in, as My prophet Jeremiah described it you must eat it. Jesus said that as well in His conversation with the devil that we covered in a prior life lesson. And the way you eat words is by hearing them, reading them, speaking them, and meditating upon them until they become part of you the way the food you eat does. Your physical appearance shows what you are eating and your spirit and soul (mind, will, and emotions) show what you are feeding upon, but that flows over into your health and longevity as well. I tell you that you prosper and stay in good health by your soul prospering by walking in the truth.
People need to know the truth to set them free from the evil that ensnares them in darkness and tormented lives of ambition, selfishness, depression, grief and fear. I sent Jesus on a mission of good news of reconciliation and of emancipation from the captivity of the devil to the glorious freedom of My children.
Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives. Hebrews 2:14-15.
He came to preach the good news to the poor of prosperity and Kingdom benefits, freedom to the oppressed, sight to the blind, clear hearing to the deaf, release to prisoners, and the healing of broken hearts—Kingdom living even now on earth. Jubilee with all debts paid and slaves set free. And Jesus sanctified Himself as the truth, the way and the life for your sakes that you would also be sanctified in truth in, through, and with Him.
Look again at what He said on this:
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Your Word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. John 17:13-19
He sanctified Himself, consecrated and set Himself apart from the worldly mindset, he devil had no part in Him, Jesus did not permit even one thought in His soul that was not of Me and in perfect alignment with My Word. But do you see the depths of what He said? He sanctified Himself for your sakes so that you yourself would be sanctified in truth. It is My doing that you are in Christ Jesus, and I made Him to be wisdom unto you, and righteousness and SANCTIFICATION and redemption. 1 Corinthians 1:30. I am the LORD who sanctifies you and I did it in Jesus. My love manifests in that I gave you Jesus so you could live YOUR life THROUGH Him. 1 John 4:9.
His merits are accounted to you. When you receive the abundance of grace (My divine life flowing into you and producing the fruit of the Spirit) and the gift of righteousness (My righteousness given to you in Jesus as He bore all your sins) you reign in life through Christ Jesus. Jesus has made it possible for you to live a sanctified life by the grace which has come to you in Him. You have become a new creation in Christ, born again from above by the imperishable seed of My Word.
When you pray in His Name in the truth of My Word, He has set Himself apart for you to bring that to pass, just as He did at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple when Peter and John invoked His Name by faith to heal the man crippled from birth. Sent forth by Jesus, He was with them as they did the works He did and greater.
The greater work is bringing people to be born again from above through faith in His Name, which He could not do when He was in the flesh on earth as He had not yet died, risen, and been glorified in His return to My right hand. But now He is. And He has promised to be with you always as you walk upon the earth as His body, the Church.
There is so much treasure for you to gather and enjoy in this conversation of Jesus with Me that was the culmination of His teachings to His disciples at the Passover Seder the night He was betrayed. And He continued that conversation with Me and Peter, James and John in the Garden of Gethsemane in that hour in which He accepted all sins ever committed or that would be committed as your scapegoat and unblemished lamb. It is there that you, as He agonized and sweat blood over the evil of sin that His eyes were to pure to look at or countenance entering His sinless flesh, that you realize the hideousness of sin and what it does to the one who commits it. When you get even a small revelation of what sin does to the human spirit, soul, and body, you will pray as Jesus counseled you to do that night, “Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Matthew 26:41.
I love you. And Jesus told you of My great love that night. He told the disciples and all you to follow them in the faith, that I love you just as much as I love Him. I see and love in you what I see and love in Christ. You are My child and My heir, a joint heir with Christ. You will never be able to fathom the unfathomable riches I have given you in Christ. Do not reject so great a Salvation.