Not Of The World

John 17:14-26

Key Verse 14: I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

V14-19

1. What has Jesus given us?(14a) How does the world treat those who follow Jesus’s words and why?(14b) What does it mean to be ‘not of the world’? (16)

   
   

2. What did Jesus not ask God for? (15a) Instead, what did he ask God to do for his disciples and why? (15b-17) What can we learn from this? What does it mean to ‘sanctify us in the truth’?

   
   

3. What purpose does Jesus have for sending us into the world?(18, 20) How might we live differently knowing we are “not of the world” and are being “sent into the world”?(18) Why did Jesus consecrate himself and how is it related to our sanctification?(19) 

V20-23

4. For whom did Jesus also ask God for these things?(20) Why does Jesus want all believers to be united as one?(21 & 23) What glory did Jesus give his disciples and how does that glory help the disciples to be one?(22)Why do you think that when the disciples become perfectly one, the world will know that God sent Jesus and love believers? (23)

V24-26

5. What does Jesus desire and why? (24) What does the world not know, and what do Jesus and his disciples know (25) and what is the significance of this? What did Jesus make known to his disciples, and why does he continue to make it known?(26)