Jesus desired that their be unity among the disciples. He prayed that they would be one, even as he was with the Father.

1. Tribute to Mothers
• Go Fish – The Mom Song
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkc9-
SvqfDM

2. The Heart of Jesus (Part III): That
We May Be One
John 17:20-26

3. Can 1+1=1?
“A man shall leave his mother and
his father and cleave to his wife
and they shall become One flesh”

4. Can one be two, or two one?

5. Can two not be one?

6. Can 1+1+1=1

7. Can many not be one?

8. Many people but One Church

9. Pull out a US coin
e pluribus unum (“out of many—one”)

11. Biblical Oneness is not

12. Biblical Oneness is not

13. Biblical Oneness is not:
• God as one with the creation.
• An infinite universe with an infinite God.
• Mankind being one with God, as if each one of
us is God.
• Mother Earth, married to Father Son

14. Biblical Oneness is:
• The Father is God
• The Son is God
• The Holy Spirit is God
• There is only ONE God

16. We are not God, but
We can be one with
God!

17. Biblical Oneness
When we believe in the Son, we receive
forgiveness from the Father and become indwelt
by the Holy Spirit .
We become children of God, separated from the
world and one with God and the universal family
of God.

18. John 17:20-26 (ESV)
20 “I do not ask for these
only, but also for those
who will believe in me
through their word, 21 that
they may all be one, just
as you, Father, are in me,
and I in you, that they also
may be in us, so that the
world may believe that
you have sent me.
• Not just the apostles
who heard the word
through me, but
• All who hear the word
through them
• We may be one with
each other
• That the world May
believe the Father sent
the Son

19. Indwelling yields Oneness
21b just as you, Father, are
in me, and I in you, that they
also may be in us, so that
the world may believe that
you have sent me.
• The Father is in the Son
• The Son is in the Father
• His desire is those after
the apostles may be in
God
– By hearing the word,
receiving the word,
believing the word, we are
in the Father and Son
– Result --- World may
believe the Father sent the
Son.

20. Unity is accomplished through the
glory of the cross.
22 The glory that you have
given me I have given to
them, that they may be
one even as we are one,
• The glory is the cross.
– He said earlier, “Now
glorify me that I may
glorify you…”
– The glory of the cross
brings oneness
• It purifies us of sin and
gives us access to the
Father.
• It opens us up to the
indwelling of the Spirit.

21. Knowledge of God’s love gives unity
23 I in them and you in me,
that they may become
perfectly one, so that the
world may know that you
sent me and loved them
even as you loved me.
• Christ in us,
• The Father in the Son
• So that
– Believers may be
perfectly One (mature)
– The world will know the
Father sent the Son
– That the world may
know the love the Father
had for us, the love he
had for the Son.

22. Unity is in the future with Jesus
24 Father, I desire that they
also, whom you have
given me, may be with me
where I am, to see my
glory that you have given
me because you loved me
before the foundation of
the world.
• Believers may be with
Jesus in eternity
– To witness his heavenly
glory
– To witness his eternal
glory

23. Contrast – Know/Don’t know
25 O righteous Father,
even though the world
does not know you, I
know you, and these
know that you have
sent me.
• The world doesn’t know
the Father
• Jesus knows the Father
• Those that know Jesus
was sent by the Father
know the Father.

24. We will grow in our knowledge
of the Father
26 I made known to
them your name, and I
will continue to make
it known, that the love
with which you have
loved me may be in
them, and I in them.”
• We know the Father
because the Son made
him known
• The Son will continue to
make the Father known.
• Why, so the love the
Father has had for the son
will indwell in those that
know the Son.
• So the Son’s love may
indwell them.

25. Knowing
Knowing about my wife doesn’t bring me
oneness with my wife.
The more I Know her, the more I become ONE
with her.

26. It’s not about knowing something
about someone
It’s about knowing that
someone.
Knowing about God is not
knowing God.
Know Jesus, Know God, no
Jesus, no God.

27. Do You Know Him?
“Talk about what you believe and you have
disunity. Talk about Who you believe in
and you have unity.”
E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973),
missionary to India.