When he becamethe high priest…

John 17:1-6

Prayer

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to allwhom you have given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you the onlytrue God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you on earth,having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.

5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. 6 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

• The Ancient Relationship• The Character • The Direction

Three Points

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to

heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has

come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you”

Two Brief Notes…

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to

heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come (“The weekend is here” MSG);

glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you”

Two Brief Notes…

4 I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you

gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own

presence with the glory that I had with you before the world

existed.

The Ancient Relationship

The Father, Son, and Spirit have been in mutual relationship since before the world was conceived.

The Ancient Relationship

PERICHORESIS

the ancient language

C. S. Lewis

"whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each

one of us" (The Weight of Glory, 153).

"Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in

me?...Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me" (John

14:10a, 11).

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and

said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son

may glorify you, 2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give

eternal life to allwhom you have given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you the only

true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you on earth,

having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.

5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. 6 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

What is glory?

The Father, Son, and Spirit have been in mutual and edifying relationship since before the world was conceived.- HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY – Phil Robertson

The Character of theAncient Relationship

2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to allwhom you have given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you the onlytrue God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you on earth,having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.  . . . 6 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

The Father, Son, and Spirit have been in mutual, edifying, and generative relationship since before the world was conceived.

The Direction of theAncient Relationship

• Understand true relationship• Welcomed into the perichoretic

dance

Application