sanctified

Good morning friends,
I really enjoyed working with Habitat and with other urban Christians yesterday. If you're free and have the inclination, I know there are opportunities to work with Habitat today and tomorrow. There are also opportunities this morning and Saturday morning to serve with Third Presbyterian's dining room ministry and on Saturday there's a chance to do some sprucing up at New Life Presbyterian. Of course, Saturday morning Laurelton is hosting a car wash from 9-11 am and your help would be much appreciated there.

Jesus prays knowing that his disciples will be hated. He doesn't pray that God would remove them from the world that hates them; instead he prays that God would protect them from Satan. And he prayer that God would sanctify them (make them holy) in the truth, which is God's word. God's word sets us apart for holiness, service and sometimes trouble. And God's word gives us eternal life. Where is that word calling you today?

God bless,
Sam

John 17:11-19

11And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. 12While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.



14I 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. 15I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. 16They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 17Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.