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January 10, 1988
The disciples walked and talked with Jesus. They knew the sound of His voice and felt the touch of His hand. Yet in John 17, they found themselves facing the same question that every follower of Christ has faced since: How can we be disciples of Christ when we can’t see Him, hear Him, or touch Him in the flesh? Alistair Begg teaches us that Jesus left a design for discipleship and explains five characteristics that mark His disciples, both then and today.
13But now aI am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have bmy joy fulfilled in themselves. 14cI have given them your word, and dthe world has hated them ebecause they are not of the world, fjust as I am not of the world. 15I gdo not ask that you htake them out of the world, but that you ikeep them from jthe evil one.1 16kThey are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17lSanctify them2 in the truth; myour word is truth. 18nAs you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19And ofor their sake pI consecrate myself,3 that they also qmay be sanctified4 in truth.
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