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John 17: 21] That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
[22] And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
[23] I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

The unity in verse 21 is a consequence of the glory Christ’s going to give them in verse 22 and that’s the reason the unity has to do with the kingdom. It’s a reference to what He’s going to do and accomplish in the kingdom.

Jordan says, “This kingdom’s going to go out and bear a testimony to the whole world. All the nations of the earth—and they’re going to be made perfect in one. For example, come over to Hebrews 11 when He talks about some of the better things that are going to be available to the Hebrew saints.

“Hebrews 11 he goes through this great cloud of witnesses and what faith has accomplished down through the ages since the time of Adam and Abel and he comes down to verse 39:
28] Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
[29] By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
[30] By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
[31] By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
[32] And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
[33] Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
[34] Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
[35] Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
[36] And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
[37] They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
[38] (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
[39] And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
[40] God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

“They’re not going to get the promise; they’re not going to get the whole she-bang until the whole program is accomplished. The promise had to do with the kingdom and He said they didn’t get the conclusion of their hope yet because ‘they without us,’ the thing isn’t going to be concluded. But eventually it’s going to be concluded, and what Christ is praying for them back here is that it might all be made perfect in one.

“The unity has to do with, just as the Father is in Christ and Christ is in the Father, that relationship-- that’s the unity that they’re going to share. He’s going to be in them, they’re going to be in Him; just as He’s in the father and the Father is in Him.

“We been seeing this all through the Book of John and it just goes back to the theme that, ‘As many as received Him to them He gave power to become the sons of God.’ What He’s praying for here is the thing that John 1:12 is the whole spiritual issue in all of the Book of John.

“John 5:19 says, ‘Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.’
“You see the Father, the Son. ‘The relationship I’m having with the Father back here.’ Now they’re going to have the same relationship with us over here. Then they’re going to share that.”