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 all whom 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.

The Ancient Relationship The Ancient Relationship The Character The Character The Direction 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 all whom 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 the Ancient Relationship

2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom 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 “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 the Ancient Relationship

Understand true relationship Understand true relationship Welcomed into the perichoretic dance Welcomed into the perichoretic dance Application