Christianity Oasis Forum

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June 7
Sunday


WORDS AND
NUMBERS

READ:
John 17:20-26
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My husband is a "numbers" person; I am a "word" person. When my incompetence with numbers gets the best of me, I try to boost my ego by reminding Jay that word people are superior because Jesus called Himself the Word, not the Number.

Instead of trying to defend himself, Jay just smiles and goes on about his business, which consists of much more important things than my silly arguments.

Since Jay will not defend himself, I feel compelled to do so. Although I am right about Jesus being the Word, I am wrong in saying that He didn't refer to Himself as a number. One of the most moving passages of Scripture is christ's prayer just before His arrest and crucifixion. Facing death, Jesus prayed not only for Himself, but also for His disciples and for us. His most urgent request on our behalf involved a number: "[I pray] that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me" (John 17:21).

As people who live by the Word, we need to remember that "right words" sound hollow to the world unless we, being one in christ, are glorifying God with one mind and one voice. __Julie Ackerman Link
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```````````````````Make us one, Lord, make us one;``````````````
``````````````````````Holy Spirit, make us one.``````````````````
```````````````Let Your love flow so the world will know````````````
``````````````````We are one in You. __Cymbala`````````````````
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God calls His children to unity.

**************Today's Bible Reading __ John 17:20-26************

20 I do not pray for these
alone, but also for those
who will believe in Me
through their word; 21 that
they all may be one, as You,
father, are in Me, and I in
You; that they also may be
one in Us, that the world
may believe that You sent
Me. 22 Adn the glory which
You gave Me I have given
them, that they may be one
just as We are one: 23 I in
them, and You in Me; that
they may be made perfect
in one, and that the world
may know that You have
sent Me, and have loved
them as You have loved Me.

24 Father, I desire that they
also whom You gave Me
may be with Me where I
am, that they may behold
My glory which You have
given Me; for You lvoed Me
before the foundation of the
world. 25 O righteous
Father! The world has not
known You, but I have
know You; and these have
known that You sent Me.

26 And I have declared to
them Your name, and will
declare it, that the love with
which You loved Me may
be in them, and I in them.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

John 17 is truly "the Lord's prayer," as He prays for His disciples
and for us just hours before going to the cross to rescue us from our
sins. Yet, in the face of the horrors of Calvary, it is not agony that is
on His mind--it is glory. It is His own glory that He has shared with
us (v.22), a reflection of the Father's glory which Christ had through
the Father's love "before the foundation of the world" (v.24).
__Bill Crowder