The real “Lord’s Prayer” is not the one we pray, but the one he prayed! Here are some highlights with a few comments:

I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. (John 17.4, ESV)

Jesus referred to God’s work several times in John. “The Father is working, and I am working” in John 5. “We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day” in John 9. In this prayer, the work seems to be the men:

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. (John 17.6, ESV)

In any case, it’s the Father’s work. Not all were healed. Jesus chose 12 and invested in them and a few others. 

I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. (John 17.15 – 17, ESV)

There’s the famous “in the world but not of the world.” There needs to be a sanctification / a separation. But a separation of values even while I am “in the world.” 

We are sent into the world. Not called to separate from the world. 

As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. (John 17.18, ESV)

There’s more to come tomorrow…