John 17: 10 -11.
All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
Jesus is still in the upper room the night He was to be betrayed, continuing with this prayer. Jesus is explaining again that He and the Father, are completely unified in their actions and belief. If you look at this prayer, Jesus shows His omniprescence, the ability to be everywhere in time at the same time. The believer's in the Old Testament, like Abraham, David, Isaac and Jacob; all believed the Promise of the Messiah, without ever seeing His coming. They did not know Jesus, but they knew the Father, and they were saved because of this belief that God would keep His promise. When Jesus came to Minister to the people, the people believed the Words of the Father first, then as they came to know Jesus, they started to believe in Him also, because His message is the same as the Father's. Jesus is telling them that He is no longer in the world, because His time on earth is short, and He is passing the mantle of preaching, teaching, and healing onto His Disciples. They will have great power, but they will not be God! Jesus is the only True God, that walked among us, He had to walk and keep all of God commands perfectly to be our True and Perfect Sacrifice, and to be able to Atone for our sins. No other god has done that!! That puts Jesus in a place by Himself, and gives Him the right to say "That no one comes to the Father except through Me!" Do you believe yet?? There is still time to make that commitment.
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