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What Jesus Wants (John 17:3-26)

"And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth. “My prayer is not for the world, but for those you have given me, because they belong to you. Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth. Just as you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world. And I give myself as a holy sacrifice for them so they can be made holy by your truth. I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me. I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me. I have revealed you to them, and I will continue to do so. Then your love for me will be in them, and I will be in them.” (John 17:3, 9, 17-19, 21, 23, 26 NLT) In one of the last recorded prayers of Jesus, before He went to th...