Notice the value of God's Word: "... these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves." A person could experience God's joy, if he has the words of Jesus!
And if we read the whole of prayer of Jesus in John 17, we'll understand that His words or the words of His Father are not intended for everyone in the world. We read in verses 6 to 8:
"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. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me."
Jesus intended to give the words to the people whom the Father gave to Him "out of the world." He also stated in verse 14: "I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world."
In John 15:11, He told His followers:"These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
Do we "hear" His words right now?
He wants us to have His Joy -- that our joy may be full!
No wonder David declared in Psalm 1 that the delight of the blessed man is in the law, in the testimony, in the declaration of the Lord, or in His Word "and on his law he meditates day and night" (verse 2).
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