Introduction:

Theme: Three matters you must understand about the eleven disciples so you will be strengthened in your Christian faith.

John 17:6-12 (NASB)

⁶ “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

⁷ Now hey have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You;

⁸ for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

⁹ I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours;

¹⁰ and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them.

¹¹ I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are.

¹² While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

1. The eleven disciples serve as a template for all believers in Christ v.6-10
2. The request for the eleven disciples is necessary for all believers in Christ v.11
3. The preservation of the eleven disciples is a comfort for all believers in Christ v.12

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