Victory In Christ

Jesus prayed that we Christians would have joy as we are protected from the evil influences of the world and set apart into righteousness. 

“Now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in them. I have given them your Word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I am not praying that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by the truth; your Word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. I sanctify myself for them, so that they also may be sanctified by the truth”  ~~ John 17:13-19 (CSB)