So with deep love, I pray for my disciples. I’m not asking on behalf of the unbelieving world, but for those who belong to you, those you have given me. For all who belong to me now belong to you. And all who belong to you now belong to me as well, and my glory is revealed through their surrendered lives. “Holy Father, I am about to leave this world to return and be with you, but my disciples will remain here. So I ask that by the power of your name, protect each one that you have given me, and watch over them so that they will be united as one, even as we are one. (John 17:9-11)
The revelation of the New Man – The Christ man isn’t a futuristic vision, it is a NOW reality. Even as Jesus asked the Father to guard over us, to protect us, that we may be one with them, even as Jesus is one with the Father.
Religion wants to keep us in the doorway of this revelation but seeks to prevent us from walking in it. Thus the doctrine of a sinner saved by grace is anchored in much of the western Church theology. It denied the full victory of what Jesus fulfilled on the cross, in liberating us from the dominion of sins influence. keep us prisoners in a false identity as sinners when the Father declares in His Word that we are His offspring, walk in His Righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:2)
And as many believe in this false identity, they are seduced into looking like the world, exactly the opposite of what Jesus prayed to the Father in the following verses:
“But now I am returning to you so Father, I pray that they will experience and enter into my joyous delight in you so that it is fulfilled in them and overflows. I have given them your message and that is why the unbelieving world hates them. For their allegiance is no longer to this world because I am not of this world. I am not asking that you remove them from the world, but I ask that you guard their hearts from evil, For they no longer belong to this world any more than I do. “Your Word (John 1:1) is truth! So make them holy by the truth. I have commissioned them to represent me just as you commissioned me to represent you. (John 17:13-18, TPT)
This is such a powerful revelation here, and if you have studied the Bible, you know that the Father didn’t just hear the words of His Son here, He honored them b y putting His Yes & Amen on them.
Religion wants to bring us back under the law of works, convincing us that it is up to us to sanctify our lives before the Lord, that our consecration is based on what we can do, not on what the Messiah has already done. This is an outward BIG FAT LIE. Read the next set of verses as they prove it is a religious LIE:
And now I dedicate myself to them as a holy sacrifice so that they will live as fully dedicated to God and be made holy by your truth.” “And I ask not only for these disciples, but also for all those who will one day believe in me through their message. (John 17:19-20, TPT)
So for those of you who still consider yourselves to be sinners, are you saying the Father failed to honor His Son’s request here? Because if you still see yourself as a sinner, maybe you are not truly a son or daughter of the Lord, or just maybe you have been imprisoned with a lie. Because these next verses highlight something very important:
I pray for them all to be joined together as one even as you and I, Father, are joined together as one. I pray for them to become one with us so that the world will recognize that you sent me. For the very glory you have given to me, I have given them so that they will be joined together as one and experience the same unity that we enjoy. You live fully in me and now I live fully in them so that they will experience perfect unity, and the world will be convinced that you have sent me, for they will see that you love each one of them with the same passionate love that you have for me. “Father, I ask that you allow everyone that you have given to me to be with me where I am! Then they will see my full glory—the very splendor you have placed upon me because you have loved me even before the beginning of time. “You are my righteous Father, but the unbelieving world has never known you in the perfect way that I know you! And all those who believe in me also know that you have sent me! I have revealed to them who you are and I will continue to make you even more real to them, so that they may experience the same endless love that you have for me, for your love will now live in them, even as I live in them!” (John 17:21-26, TPT)
So how can one be a sinner yet be one with the Godhead at the same time? Or how can one be a sinner and be joined as one with Christ?
They can not. Religion lies!!!!
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