1. Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher Jim Rickard www.GraceDoctrine.org Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012

2. Doxology Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.— Amen.

3. John 17 The Great High Priestly Prayer of our Lord!

4. John 17:6-19 John 17:14 Cosmos Diabolicus versus Bible doctrine resident within your soul. The reality of our “Heavenly Citizenship!”

5. John 17:14a, “I have given to them Your (God the Father) Word (i.e., Bible Doctrine).”

6. “Have given” – DIDOMI Perfect, Active, Indicative, Jesus taught them God’s Word from which a present state emerges, “the world has hated them”.

7. Principles: Having built an ECS, via the Word of God resident in your soul, makes you an enemy of the KOSMOS. (Satan’s Cosmic System)

8. The Word of God is absolutely no good to you unless the doctrines that are found in it are actually transferred into the human spirit.

9. “To them” = Bible Doctrine resident within your soul is advantageous to your life, especially in the face of persecutions.

10. 1. The Word of God has existed in two forms.

11. a. In eternity past there was no written Word yet the Word existed in the mind of God. 1 Cor 2:16; Deut 4:33; Ezek 10:5

12. b. The completed Canon of Scripture. 2 Tim 3:16-17, “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.”

13. 2. Bible doctrine is available to every believer priest and everything that is found in the Bible is written to be understood.

14. 3. There is no such thing as instant understanding; the advanced is built upon the less advanced; the basic concepts which must come first.

15. 4. GAP has been designed by God so that the believer can take it in. John 14:26; 1 Cor 3:10-11; Heb 6:1-3

16. 1 Cor 3:10-11, “According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it. 11 For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”

17. John 17:14b, “And the world (Satan’s Cosmic System), hated them (the disciples),”

18. KOSMOS is an organized system and it is Satan’s system to refute Bible doctrine, Eph 6:10-17. What Satan really hates and what his system rejects is the Word of God.

19. “Hated”, MISEO Aorist, Active, Indicative “hate, detest, (especially to persecute), despise, disregard, or be indifferent to”.

20. Satan’s Cosmic System (i.e., unbelievers, the religious types, Fallen Angels; etc.), as one group has hatred towards disciples of Jesus Christ. John 15:18-16:3, 33

21. The world does not hate believers without the Word, it welcomes them because the power of the believer is in his ECS.

22. It is the ECS which reflects the glory of God and to have an ECS requires a lot of Bible doctrine in the human spirit.

23. Grace Fellowship Church Thursday, January 12, 2012 Tape # 12-005 Jesus Prays for His Disciples The World’s Hatred of the Believer Great High Priestly Prayer, Part 55 John 17:14; 14:26; 15:18-16:3; Eph 6:10-17; Heb 6:1-3 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2012