上帝在乎。耶稣为我们他的门徒和未来的信徒祷告。约翰福音17:9-26
17:9 我为他们祈求，不为世人祈求，却为你所赐给我的人祈求，因他们本是你的。
17:10凡是我的都是你的，你的也是我的，并且我因他们得了荣耀。
17:11从今以后，我不在世上，他们却在世上；我往你那里去。圣父啊，求你因你所赐给我的名保守他们，叫他们合而为一，像我们一样。
17:12我与他们同在的时候，因你所赐给我的名保守了他们，我也护卫了他们；其中除了那灭亡之子，没有一个灭亡的，好叫经上的话得应验。
17:13现在我往你那里去，我还在世上说这话，是叫他们心里充满我的喜乐。
17:14我已将你的道赐给他们。世界又恨他们，因为他们不属世界，正如我不属世界一样。
17:15我不求你叫他们离开世界，只求你保守他们脱离那恶者（注：或作“脱离罪恶”）。
17:16他们不属世界，正如我不属世界一样。
17:17求你用真理使他们成圣，你的道就是真理。
17:18你怎样差我到世上，我也照样差他们到世上。
17:19我为他们的缘故，自己分别为圣，叫他们也因真理成圣。
17:20我不但为这些人祈求，也为那些因他们的话信我的人祈求，
17:21使他们都合而为一。正如你父在我里面，我在你里面，使他们也在我们里面，叫世人可以信你差了我来。
17:22你所赐给我的荣耀，我已赐给他们，使他们合而为一，像我们合而为一。
17:23我在他们里面，你在我里面，使他们完完全全地合而为一，叫世人知道你差了我来，也知道你爱他们如同爱我一样。
17:24父啊，我在哪里，愿你所赐给我的人也同我在那里，叫他们看见你所赐给我的荣耀。因为创立世界以前，你已经爱我了。
17:25公义的父啊，世人未曾认识你，我却认识你，这些人也知道你差了我来。
17:26我已将你的名指示他们，还要指示他们，使你所爱我的爱在他们里面，我也在他们里面。”
Is God around? Is God present? Does God care?
Yes, He is around and present and He cares. John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
God does care. He shows His love for His people by sending His one and only son Jesus Christ to come to us as a person to tell us about Him and how to know Him. Jesus came to earth to tell us about God the true God. Jesus the son of God who is God told us that believing in Him will lead us to knowing God the Father and Jesus himself. Knowing God will lead the people to eternal life.
God does care. Jesus prays for us His disciples and also pre-believers. John 17:9-26
9I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours.
10All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them.
11I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name--the name you gave me--so that they may be one as we are one.
12While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.
13"I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.
14I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
15My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
16They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.
17Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
18As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.
19For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.
20"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,
21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one:
23I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
24"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
25"Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me.
26I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."
