Lesson: Christ’s Kingdom Fulfills the Ten Commandments<br>
Reading: Christ’s desire for us<br>
Reference: John 17:14–26<br><br>
John 17:14: I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.<br>
John 17:15: I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.<br>
John 17:16: They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.<br>
John 17:17: Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.<br>
John 17:18: As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.<br>
John 17:19: And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.<br>
John 17:20: Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;<br>
John 17:21: That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.<br>
John 17:22: And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:<br>
John 17:23: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.<br>
John 17:24: Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.<br>
John 17:25: O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.<br>
John 17:26: And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. <br>
(KJV)<br>