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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON JOHN - JOHN 17:9-16
  by J.C. Ryle
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"I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the
world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to
you. Everything I have belongs to you, and everything you have belongs
to me, and I have been glorified by them. I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep
them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one
just as we are one. When I was with them I kept them safe and watched
over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost
except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be
fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in
the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves. I have
given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not
belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world. I am not
asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe
from the evil one. They do not belong to the world just as I do not
belong to the world.

These verses, like every part of this wonderful chapter, contain some
deep things which are "hard to be understood." But there are two plain
points standing out on the face of the passage which deserve the special
attention of all true Christians. Passing by all other points, let us
fix our attention on these two.

We learn, for one thing, that the Lord Jesus does things for His
believing people which He does not do for the wicked and unbelieving. He
helps their souls by special intercession. He says, "I pray for them--I
pray not for the world, but for those who You have given Me."

The doctrine before us is one which is specially hated by the world.
Nothing gives such offence, and stirs up such bitter feeling among the
wicked, as the idea of God making any distinction between man and man,
and loving one person more than another. Yet the world\

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