*WHY DID JESUS PRAY FOR GOD TO SANCTIFY HIS DISCIPLES WITH TRUTH?*

By C.C Anaedu

Jesus Christ when he discovered that he was about to be killed to fulfill his mission on earth, He knew that his physical demise will leave his disciples to continue from where He stopped. He made a prayer to his Father asking him to sanctify his disciples with truth. What does this imply? What lessons can we learn from this today?

John 17v15-16
*"I do not request that you take them out of the world, but that you watch over them because of the wicked one. They are no part of the world ,just as I am no part of the world. Sanctify them by means of the truth. Just as you sent me into the world, I also sent them into the world. And I am sanctifying myself in their behalf, so that they also may be sanctified by means of truth. "*

For us to understand this part of scripture, we need to understand what sanctification means. To sanctify simply means TO SEPARATE, TO PURIFY, TO PUT APART for God's glory.

Then who is the wicked one? The wicked one is the Satan the devil and his agents. What are their mission? TO STEAL, TO KILL and TO DESTROY. (see John 10v10)

Which instrument do this wicked one, Satan the devil and his agents use? He uses LIES. (See John 8v44) All his agents are using the LIES from him to steal, kill and destroy anything. The first lie Satan told man was in the Garden of Eden. Satan told Eve that if they eat of the forbidden fruit that they will not die but they will be like God. (See Gen.3v2-5) Did man eventually die after they ate the fruit? Did they later because like God?

*Jesus requested for God to watch over them, because he knew that immediately he leaves the earth that Satan the wicked one will come to DECEIVE, POLLUTE, LEAD THEM ASTRAY with his lies and demonic activities .* Jesus had earlier warned them to beware of false teachers and false prophets who will come with impure and false worship. (See Matt 7v15-23) Jesus knew these people will come up with all forms of false teachings, demonic teachings, pagan teachings and festivals, pagan ordinances and all forms of idolatrous practices ,renaming of pagan gods and goddesses and their ordinances to become Christendom ordinances and demonic practices such as spiritism, divination and sorcery.

These are all lies from the wicked one, Satan. They were all part of the then world of Roman Empire. Jesus separated himself from the worldly ordinances, participation, festivals, teachings etc of the world then. Here in that scripture, He was praying for God to SEPARATE THEM, PURIFY THEM, MAKE THEM LOOK DIFFERENT from the world by revealing THE TRUTH to them. *Jesus was praying for his disciples to separate from every of the practices, ordinances of the world that originated from Satan which is not from God. Jesus was simply asking his Father to help his disciples NOT TO CONTAMINATE THEMSELVES, NOT TO BE INVOLVED IN IMPURE WORSHIP, NOT TO MIX THE TRUTH WITH SATANIC LIES AND FALSE TEACHINGS. This is only possible by divine revelation of Scriptural truths, what the scriptures actually teach.* _Jehovah God does not want any form of mix-up, He does not want satanic contamination. He wants exclusive devotion. (See Exo. 20v4-6, Isa. 42v10, Luke 4v8, 2Cor. 6v14-18)_

*Today all these satanic inventions abound. Lies and false teachings and false festivals, pagan ordinances and idolatrous symbols etc have been christened by the wicked one to become Christendom practices today. Activities such as getting involved in military service, Christmas, Easter, Birthday, symbol of Halo, cross, New Year day celebration, using of instrument to pray, worship of saints, doctrine of Trinity, immotality of souls and many more originated from pagan world. We need to learn the accurate knowledge of Scriptures to be able to separate ourselves from these teachings satanic, pagan ordinances and practices. These things were warned by early disciples too (See 1Tim.4v1-2, 2Tim. 4v3-4, 2Pet. 2v1-3, 2Thess. 2v1-2,)*

Because of Mary Magdalene

True talk brah. Pls, what's d guy above me trying to say?

JJOF:
True talk brah. Pls, what's d guy above me trying to say?

Jesus Christ told his disciples that they will be free whenever they know and learn the truth from the scriptures.

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*WHY DID JESUS PRAY FOR GOD TO SANCTIFY HIS DISCIPLES WITH TRUTH?*
By C.C Anaedu
Jesus Christ when he discovered that he was about to be killed to fulfill his mission on earth, He knew that his physical demise will leave his disciples to continue from where He stopped. He made a prayer to his Father asking him to sanctify his disciples with truth. What does this imply? What lessons can we learn from this today?
John 17v15-16
*"I do not request that you take them out of the world, but that you watch over them because of the wicked one. They are no part of the world ,just as I am no part of the world. Sanctify them by means of the truth. Just as you sent me into the world, I also sent them into the world. And I am sanctifying myself in their behalf, so that they also may be sanctified by means of truth. "*
For us to understand this part of scripture, we need to understand what sanctification means. To sanctify simply means TO SEPARATE, TO PURIFY, TO PUT APART for God's glory.

There is no need for this meaningless epistle here since what Jesus Christ prayed for can and should be understood by paying focus to the information presented right there in His Gospel His Gospel.

The Truth is none other than the Spirit of Truth — the same one who lives inside of Jesus Christ - John 14 vs 6 - whom Jesus Christ announced as the 'Another Helper' that He would ask the Father to send to His disciples. According to what Jesus Christ said of the Spirit of Truth in John 14 vs 15 - 27 & John 15 vs 26 - 27 & John 16 vs 4 - 16, the Spirit of Truth would lead His followers to righteousness with God aka sanctification. Without His lead, no follower can attain Holiness - John 8 vs 31 - 44 - and ultimately cannot be approved righteous by the Father.