This book is very deep and is awesome, I have  not completed retyping it and as soon as I finish I will add the rest to this sight.

 Please note I am also going to add my Revelation on this book. I pray you will gain from reading this. For God truly wants to have a relationship with us beyond that of human form, He wants us to worship Him in the Spirit. Praise God.

INTERVENTION IN THE ECCLESIA
By: Seeley D Kinne

 

(Please note that I have placed the numbering system beside the Roman Numerals for those like me who forgot all she remembers about the Roman numeral system.)

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Introduction

 

            Intervention is a state in which the act of God performs or brings forth an experience or condition in the recipient by divine sovereign power, independent of the ability of the individual to contact the power of God and bring things to pass.
            Most spiritual persons have seen acts of intervention in their lives. But the continuous state of intervention is now available to those who enter the rest of God.
            This divine grace of intervention is absolutely necessary for all who attain full overcoming and the bride company. It is impossible of attainment without the sovereign hand of God stretched out for every such an one.
            Therefore, to merely read these teachings and mentally grasp them is not sufficient. The must be experimentally entered step after step; to do which, you must come into the teachings of Holy Spirit. He must have hold of your inner being and carry you along into these things of God. No other way can be found. It is God's way.

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Intervention

 

            Intervention is a suspension of the ordinary law of approach to God, and the interposition of the divine hand to do things beyond man's faith and working in prayer and seeking.
            Intervention is the way God has often bridged over the shortcomings and failures of His servants. It means God working beyond man and his way of faith. It is God in the lead.     
            God is going to do great things using His servants as a channel, altogether beyond what they could believe for. That is intervention. This part of His last day great working that is to be done in many places.
            Now in regard to intervention, there is this to be added: It is the full return of man to his proper state of pliability in the hands of the Lord, and the elimination of all independent action: that is, the state in which the Lord is the actor--man is acted upon. Few Christians arrive at this state, but some are approximately near to it.
            Since the Creator made man with a high order of power of will, dominion and lordship, and gave him title deed to the earth, God would not intrude upon these rights. But by an exceeding wise and benevolent plan, the Son becomes a man, bears the curse, pays the debt to justice, and becomes the heir of all things.
            Yet Jesus Christ has waited nearly twenty centuries to give man an opportunity to do with divine, conveyed powers. Now the age must be closed. The Lord is taking hold of the whole situation, though still using human servants. Intervention appears in the Lord's exercise of sovereign powers in connection with the ministry of His servants, when He as Sovereign God arises and does great miraculous things beyond the faith and gifts of His servants.

 

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Apostolic State

 

 

            This is the method of spiritual progress especially into the apostolic state. Most schools of attainment in spirituals are based on human method and means; therefore the indifferent progress made. But there are divine methods that are altogether successful.

            The divine method calls for prayer, waiting and seeking God. Following which, or coming forth in or through these efforts is revelation. This is an illumination that opens to one the way. It is accompanied or followed by working of the Spirit, which motions bring one into the things revealed and sought.

            But in intervention, the hand of God’s power is present to carry one beyond ordinary human attainment and miraculously sets one onward into the things of God. Those whom God has led in this way into spiritual states and things, if they pay heed to His movings, He will miraculously carry into the apostolic ministry.

            This is a spiritual state in which control or the motions of being pass out of the natural into the spiritual; that is, from the initiative of the natural man into the initiative of the Holy Spirit—a state of being moved by the divine will. Thereby there comes a full and free entrance into the supernatural realm, or kingdom of heaven.

            This is the apostolic or miracle realm. Here comes forth the true ecclesia. This is the kingdom of heaven in operation on earth.

            God is bringing a company of men and women today into this high full state of divine control. Here the miracle working power of the spirit operates to perform any and all miracles that God may see best to do. This company will come forth as the prophetic army described in Joel 2:1-11 and Isaiah 13:6.

 

Joel 2:1-11  Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. 6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. 7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: 8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. 9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. 10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: 11 And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? KJV

Isa 13:6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. KJV

            From or through them will come the prophetic word of God in foretelling determinate counsel in this, the great day of Jehovah.

 

 

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Sovereignty

           

 

            The sovereignty, the dominion, the omnipotence of Almighty God the Father, The Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit have been obscured and lost to our vision through the downward slide of Christianity; and the sense of the dread, august and terrible God of Heaven has been dimmed and minified, while the creature, man, has been greatly magnified and made brilliant.

            This loss of appreciation of the infinite, almighty I AM and His proper exalted place in man’s view, and that along with not relegating man to the low place where he properly belongs, are and have been, both of them, of inestimable hurt.

            It is of absolute necessity that one have a correct view of these two great facts—the almightiness of God, and the low estate of the creature. Lack of such vision prevents entrance into the apostolic state. Such a discovery and comprehension, and adjustment to the omnipotent God can only be accomplished through revelation and by the inner moving of the Holy Ghost, showing the way and bringing one into sense of God. “According to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will” (Eph. 1:11).

            There are steps in our relation to God that may be taken in a way that seems only partly in the Spirit. But in the higher spiritual attainments we reach a view where we see the utter helplessness of the creature.

            One cannot enter the apostolic state by any human effort whatever, but must be carried there by a direct act of God.

            There is an error some have fallen into. This error is as follows: since God is all-powerful and man is so helpless, therefore man should do nothing and leave all to God. But the Scriptures show this to be wrong, for they repeatedly tell us to pray, seek God, wait on God and search for Him as for hid treasures. “He meeteth him that waitheth” and many like passages.  These show that the creature has his part to do and what it is. Rather the Lord said, “Work your way, step by step into the things of God.”

            Nor is there any contradiction between sovereignty of God and the free will of man. Man is a higher order of being—even called gods in scripture (John 10:34)

John 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? KJV

            This sovereignty and dominion of God is to have entire possession of man. That is, man is to be directed, controlled and operated by the supreme will and sway of the Lord without being interfered with by human choice.

            It might appear at sight that such a state would be severe bondage. This view arises from and is produced by the loose and undisciplined condition man is found in. He has been unbridled and wayward. When once the hand of God gets the reins, and brings His child into a thoroughly chastened and disciplined state, when the will of man blends, and is made parallel with, and brought into union with the divine will. Lo!! Instead of finding an irksome bondage, the soul emerges from all its old bondages and limitations into a freedom, unbounded and exceedingly delightful.

            Now the springs of action arise in God and lead to God. They are of such a flavor that living becomes a luxury, a perennial joy. Those servants who attain this relationship to Christ become “vessels unto honor, sanctified and meet for the Master’s use and prepared unto every good work” (2 Tim. 2:21).

2 Tim 2:21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work. KJV

 

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Re-Creation

 

            The warped, gnarled and snarled state of man in the Fall unfits him for divine use. God’s plan to use men, therefore, calls for a re-creation of those who become His vessels. A great transformation of spirit, soul and body is required.

            The minuteness, extent and completeness of this rebuilding far surpass the ordinary conception and experience of salvation in the new birth. Human intelligence can scarcely grasp and comprehend, even with the aid of revelation, the infinite ingenuity which has devised a plan which destroys no created faculty, yet reconstructs and restores these powers, till such an one reigns in life by Christ Jesus, through the intervention of abundant grace (Rom. 5:17).

Rom 5:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) KJV

            We are now come to the great day of the Lord. His unfolding plan points to great events. It is the time of the latter rain outpouring. There is a call for prepared efficient vessels for divine use in the closing work of the ages, and the soon coming bride translation.

            These and other startling events demand rediscovery of truths that have been lost, and as well, new and deeper revelations of truth, which will take us farther into the fullness of perfection of His uttermost salvation (Heb. 7:25).

Heb 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. KJV

            As has already been seen, these higher spirituals are not entered by humanly devised rules, methods or grace; they are bestowed by the grace of God. Earnest trustful prayer, diligent seeking, and patient waiting on God are essential.

            The Holy Spirit will come upon one, and by operations of His power, bring one into the realm of miracles and into union with God in His supernatural work. In order that one may dwell in this real of Holy Spirit control, the work of re-creation must be deeply wrought in mind, will and heart; spirit, soul and body.

            The wonders of man’s re-creation is a marvelous work of God. It goes forward without marring his personal character, but retains his individual cast of character. Impartations of new things from God, yet all the while retaining, refining and enhancing original characteristics, is work of divine art. Illustrating samples—a slow, hesitant speaker becomes fluent through a gift of prophecy, even in natural conversation. A timid one, when prayed for, becomes free and easy. By spiritual effusions and breakings wrought by grace, he who was stern and severe by nature becomes mild and gentle and tender, while retaining firmness and solidity.

            Where there are natural qualifications of gifts, the Spirit may graft in an additional gift and power of similar quality or kind. If there be no natural gift or ability, the Lord may miraculously create outright a spiritual gift. Sometimes infirmities are caused through demon interference which may be prenatal, or other wise. Or it may be caused by physical defect or accident. It may be a fault of blood circulation, or of improper nerve action, or paralysis or weakness of an organ, causing only partial functioning.

            Disease may cause similar failure of mind power. All faults, defects or undeveloped organs—every kind of infirmity, physical, mental, soulish or spiritual, the Lord is ready to heal. “Himself took our infirmities and bare our diseases.” By whose stripes we are healed.”

 

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Christ in You

 

            In this teaching of “Christ in you,” we will see what is the state into which the apostles were brought as instruments, by whom miracles and wonders described in scripture were wrought.

There is passage in scripture descriptive of the means employed by which the apostles became channels of these acts of the Lord. Consider the following statements as they are given eighteen or twenty times in Acts 14:26 to 15:18:

            --Recommended to grace of God (Acts 13: 2-4; 14:26).

            --The rehearsed all that God had done with them (verse 27).

            --How He had opened the door of faith to the gentiles (verse 27).

            --Declaring conversation of the Gentiles (verse 3).

            --Declaring all things that God had done with them (verse 4).

            --God mad choice (verse7).

            --Bare them witness (verse 9).

            --Giving the Holy Ghost (verse 8).

            --Put no difference (verse 9).

            --Purifying their hearts (verse 9).

            --Through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, saved (verse 11).

            --Paul and Barnabas declaring what miracles and wonders God wrought among the                         gentiles by them (verse 12).

 

            God did visit the gentiles:

            --“I (God) will return.”

            --“Will build again the ruins thereof.”

            --“Will build again the tabernacle of David.”

            --“Saith the Lord who doeth all these things.”

            --Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world.

            --God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul

            --“God also bearing them withness (Heb. 2:4).

            --Confirming the word with signs following.

            --“I will set it up.”

            --“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure”

             (Phil. 2:13).

            --“Working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight” (Heb 3:21).

            --“Yet not I but the grace of God which was in me” (I Cor. 15:10).

            --“I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.”

            --“We as laborers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building”

            (I Cor. 3: 6, 9).

 

            These with other parallel passages teach that the New Testament ministry was not working for God, but God working through them. God was the actor; men were agents. The state of apostles was one of entire divine control of the whole being. This state of union with Christ has been obscured to vision and lost to experience. Now in these times of restoration this truth of divine control is again to be restored to us.

 

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The Will

 

            First as to the will, the controlling faculty; rebellion, disobedience and contrariness are deeply rooted and interwoven in the warp and woof of the will. Rebellion against God and His government is just natural to fallen man. Satin has succeeded in weaving into man’s thought fabric many lies and half-truths. These perversions are accepted and believed by man. He bases excuse for disobedience to God upon them. He is too contrary to candidly investigate and prove and prove. He does not want to face facts and submit to God, nor will he until God runs him into a corner by preaching, providence and chastisement. So deeply is rebellion rooted in the will that, though a master stroke be dealt at conversion, it must be followed by blow upon blow.

            The patience of the Lord in His work of straightening, untangling and adjusting man’s will to the will of God is very wonderful. A re-created will (all waywardness, willfulness and variation taken away)—a will put in harmony, union and made one with God—is most glorious. Set into the mystery of unity with God. This is “Christ in you”: in the will.

 

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The Heart

 

            Heart is a name applied to that part of man which is divided into affections, the emotions, the desires, the appetites’ and the propensities. When the heart state is seen in the light of God, it appears quite as badly broken and perverted as the will.

            The way of heart attachments to persons and things may be illustrated by comparing it to the support of a vine. The vine grows a curling wiry tendril that winds around and fastens the vine to whatever support may be near. The heart was so created that divine attachments, powers and tempers might flow through its avenues, and the divine nature be displayed in its inflow and outflow of graces and fruits of the Holy Spirit, such as love, benevolence, joy, peace, etc.. Here again is seen the infinite patience of our Savior in His work of detaching from wrong attachments, and crucifying inordinate tendencies, and restoring these heart faculties to their true center in God.

            God said of the creation that when it was finished it was good. Therefore, recreation is not the destruction of any of man’s faculties, but is restoration from their fallen state: a reconstruction so that they may be subject to the working of the power of Christ within. It is the independent, selfish, earthward tendencies of these faculties that are to be eliminated, or changed into spiritual, heavenly, Godward motives.

            Man is thus created anew, that through him may be exhibited the affections, emotions, attachments and nature of God. It is not wrong to love with natural, but it is heavenly to have divine love flow through human love, making it pure, fervent and unselfish.

 

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The Mind

 

            Truly beautiful and magnificent is the human mind and its operations through its reason, perception, intuition, memory, imagination, consciousness, etc… The manner I which this intricate machinery interworks to accomplish mental process, and obtain results is very wonderful.

            But alas! The work of the enemy has pervert, weakened and estranged the mind from God. Its powers are out of harmony with God. The nations forget God. The fool reasons there is no God. Those esteemed wise reason themselves farther and farther from God. But when “the son of God is come and hath given us an understanding.” Then we know him (I John 5:20).

1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come , and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. KJV

            Mental powers are weakened when separated from God and the indwelling Christ; but functioning in the Spirit, they become mighty. Man’s mind is normal only when it operates in the Spirit of God. “I hate vain thoughts,” says the Psalmist in 119:13. How marvelous to have the thinking activities so operate that one can say, “All my springs are in thee” (Psalm 87:7)

     Scripture complete:

Ps 119:113 I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. KJV

Ps 87:7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee. KJV

 

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The Senses

 

            The senses are a very unique set of powers in man; operating through physical organs, they contact the physical world. Their soulish center is in consciousness. When normal and spiritual, they convey facts of spirit, sensation, and knowledge of God and heavenly realms to the spirit of man. Connection between sense consciousness and man’s spirit was lost; but through re-creation made alive to God, it again connects with sense consciousness.

            In the fall, God’s manifestations, angels and spiritual sights ceased, and man became spiritually blind, deaf and insensible. Re-creation of the senses opens to man again a door into the spirit realm where men may see “visions of God,” heaven and spirit beings and things.

            The spirit world is a higher realm than or earth state. Adam was so created that he could contact the spirit world, which ability he lost, but in Christ it may be regained. Those who have reached higher spiritual attainments have often testified to seeing, hearing or feeling that arose from relations with the higher spiritual realm. That channel which conveys sense activities between soul and spirit in man became inactive, so that the flow of sense information from soul to spirit ceased. In Christ’s re-creation it is restored.

           

 

 

 

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Consciousness

 

            Consciousness is the center of that intelligent state of existence peculiar to man among earth’s creatures. Here are reported and commingled into what may be termed the stream of natural life all the findings of will, heart, mind and senses. All we discover and know is assembled in the consciousness.

            When the mind operates in the Spirit, the heart is filled with the love of God, where “it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do.”

            When the senses are exercised in Spirit, then consciousness becomes a center of spiritual inflow. Then can it be said, “I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” Then can the miracle-working power of Christ freely operate, and the kingdom of heaven is manifest in apostolic power.

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Please note this is my revelation, please be prayerful as you read this because you need to ask God to give you a revelation regarding this book. 

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Please note that after reading more of the book by Seeley D. Kinne, “Intervention in the Ecclesia.” I began to pray and ask God to show me how to completely submit to Him so the Holy Ghost could intervene in my life and in my complete body, soul, and spirit.

 

For those of you who don’t know me that well, please I beg you to be patient and read on, and for those who know me, please read on anyway, (you see I love to paint pictures) I do have a point I am trying to make. Thank you in the Name of Jesus, Amen.

 

This morning when God woke me up and I went into our den to pray and read, God told me to go back to the first Revelation which He had given me in 1999. When Johnny, my husband reads this he will probably say something to the effect of, “Oh no, here we go again, John 17.”

 

You see when God gave me my first revelation it was very strange for me, because I was not use to be given Revelations from God, didn’t even know what they were. Yet through the mercy and intervention of God that morning God gave me this, God wants to give all Himself to us.

 

As a good little Methodist when I was moved by the Holy Spirit at age 11 I got up out of my seat and made my way to the front. I asked Jesus to come into my life, repeated what Rev. Chapel told me to say, was sprinkled and then I said to myself, “Now what?”

 

Receiving no instruction from the Methodist Church I struggled on in my life, knowing in my heart I had been saved by the Grace of God. Then at 18 years old, 4 days before my oldest son, Eric was born I was baptized in water by a Baptist Preacher in Pax River Maryland. Still I said to my self, “Now what?”

 

At 27 years old I repented of my sins, received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, was delivered of many things in my life, received my Prayer language and was re-baptized in a United Pentecostal Church and still I said to myself, “Now what?”

 

In the year 2000 at the invitation of a friend, I began my journey into the “Now whatness of what God is all about.” Praise God!! (That is my description of what God is doing now in His chosen People.)

 

It was then I began to seek to be IN the Kingdom of God and to strive to be found worthy to be called a “Son of God,” according to God’s will.

 

Ok, so now you have the history of my seeking after Our Father God, the short version. Now I will get back to the Revelation.

 

The revelation I received in 1999 is found in John 17. I discovered through God’s revealing unto me that salvation is only a step in the great and glorious walk with God, there is more and I pray that if you are seeking God that you never become satisfied. For there will always be more, so keep seeking.

 

The Holy Ghost showed me that 1, Jesus rules all flesh, according to the KJV. I also found out that Jesus had to be glorified so that He could glorify the Father. That Jesus loved us so much that He asked God to protect us from the evil one. He also not only left us His peace, which is greater than any peace on this earth, He also left us His Joy. Wow, which takes care of all those “sad-you-sees” the pastors look out at while he is preaching and as he looks down from the pulpits every Sunday. So put a smile on your face.

 

The real revelation however; came when I got to verse 20 and on down thru verse 23. What was this now, Father where I am in You and You are in Me, may they be one and I in them and You in me. (Paraphrased)

 

Wow, not what the Methodist Church had taught where you just ask Jesus to come and live in your heart. Not what the Baptist taught once saved always saved. Not what the UPC taught, you get the Holy Ghost and each time you want to pray in your prayer language you have to tarry again. Wow, I had all of God in me. Wow, Praise God, Awesome, more awesome than words can describe. WOW!!!!!

 

I Guess I should now clarify THE REVELATION regarding the book “Intervention in the Ecclesia,” by: Seeley Kinne or the beginning of it anyway.

 

Below you will find a translation of John 17 and Genesis 1: 26-27 from the Revised English Bible. When I met Pastor George McDowell he told me about a translation study bible, “Dickson New Analytical Study Bible.”

 

There is a section on page 21 of the revised version copyrighted in 1973 which shows “The lineage of the Bible in English.” It details those English translated version which are most translated from the Original Text taken directly from the Greek and Hebrew. The New English Bible is one of these. Therefore, I really enjoy reading it.

 

However; it was not until this morning when God woke me up that I read John 17. As I began to read the Lord showed me:

 

1. In the beginning of the chapter that once again the Son had to be glorified in order to bring Glory to the Father.
2. In verse 2 that Jesus has been made sovereign over all mankind, to give eternal life to all who God gave him.
3. Remember Jesus had to be glorified in order to glorify God. Now verse 4 and 5……. Vs 4, just like Jesus we must finish the work which God has given us to do, just like Jesus. Here it is: Vs 5. Jesus ask to be glorified in God’s presence with the same glory that He had before the world began. Ok hold on.
4. Geneses 1: 26 and 27. We were made in the image of God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost. He created us in His image, male and female.
5. And yes just as Job said in chapter 38: 37 while the morning stars sang in chorus and the sons of God all shouted for joy? (The Revised English Bible) if only we could remember when we were still in heaven, before we were born.
6. So if we could only remember what it was like before we came to these sinful bodies which we live in we could commune with God in the way Seeley D. Kinne describes in. “Intervention in the Ecclesia.” Completely in the Spirit, putting off the sinful natures, plural because it’s not just the body, it is also the soul, mind, will, heart, eyes, ears, all of the organs that lusts after the things that are not of God, all these things we have to learn to lay down.

 

It is my opinion that there is nothing within our physical state that can lay down all that needs to be laid down. Therefore; it is only through the intervention of God, through the power of the Holy Ghost that this can occur.

 

I pray for those who have read this in its entirety and thank you for sticky it out and I pray that you rather you agree with me or not, for after all who am I? I pray that you will seek out the truth for yourselves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Revised English Bible

Oxford University Press

Cambridge University Press

1990

 

John 17

 

1. Then Jesus looked up to heaven and said: Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that the Son may glorify you. 2. For you have made him sovereign over all mankind, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3. This is eternal life: to know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4. I have glorified you on earth by finishing the work which you gave me to do; 5. and now Father glorify me in your own presence with the glory which I had with you before the world began. 6. I have made your name known to the men whom you gave me out of the world, They were yours and you gave them to me, And they have obeyed your command. 7. Now they know that all you gave me has come from you; 8. for I have taught them what I learned from you, and they received it: they know with certainty that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. 9. I pray for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, because they belong to you. 10. All that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine; and through them is my glory revealed. 11. I am no longer in the world, but I am coming to you, Holy Father protect them by the power of your name, the name you have given me, that they may be one, as we are one. 12. While I was with them, I protected them by the power of your name which you gave me, and kept them safe. Not one of them is lost except the man doomed to be lost, for scripture has to be fulfilled. 13 “Now I am coming to you; but while I am still in the world I speak these words, so that they may have my joy within them in full measure. 14. I have delivered your word to them, and the world hates them because they are strangers in the world, as I am. 15. I do not pray you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. 16 They are strangers in the world, as I am. 17. Consecrate them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world, 19 and for their sake I consecrate myself, that they too may be consecrated by the truth. 20. It is not for these alone that I pray, but for those also who through their words put their faith in me. 21. May they all be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, so also may they be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. 22. The glory which you gave me I have given to them, that they may be one, as we are one; 23. I in them and you in me, may they be perfectly one. The world will know that you sent me. 24. Father, they are your gift to me; and my desire is that they may be with me where I am, so that they may look upon my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world began. 25. Righteous Father, although the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you sent me. I made your name known to them. And will make it known, so that the love you had for me may be in them, and I in them.

 

Genesis 1: 26. Then God said, “let us make human beings in our image, after our likeness, to have dominion over the fish in the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, all wild animals on the land, and everything that creeps on the earth.” 27. God created human beings in his own image; in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.