And the title of our sermon this morning is Forever His. Forever His. And we are in John chapter 17, working through this paragraph in verses 20 to 26. And as we've been working through this, this prayer I hope has come into focus more as we've worked through the text, one prayer beginning in John chapter 17, verse one, running down through verse 26. So many profound truths expressed here. So many things that are woven together. We'll see more of that this morning. So as we work through the text, I pray you're taking notes, right? You're engaging with the text, be engaged with the text of scripture. We need to be expository listeners as much as I would be an expository preacher, right? Thinking through clause by clause, word by word, putting all this together so that we can understand what the Lord is teaching, what the Lord intends for us to know from this text so that we can know how that applies to us, how it applies to our heart. And we need to pray that the spirit of God would change us as a result of it and by his grace. So John chapter 20, verses 20 through 26. Now in John chapter 17, beginning in verse six specifically, the Lord references his disciples. He says in verse six, I have manifested your name to the men whom you have given me out of the world. As we come down to verse nine, the Lord prays for them. He says, I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me. Now specifically in praying for them, he makes two requests of God the Father. First one in verse 11, holy Father, keep through your name those whom you have given me. In other words, protect them, preserve them, keep them from the evil one. The second comes in verse 17, sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth. Now those two requests, keep them, sanctify them are not only for those 11 men that are walking with the Lord. Verse 20 says, I do not pray for these alone, but also for all those who will believe in me through their word. In other words, keep them also, right? Sanctify them also. You and I are not an afterthought in the eternal plans and purposes of God. The church, the church of the living God is right here on the heart of our Lord as he prays. We're not the leftover lasagna, right? We're part of the eternal plans and purposes of God from the beginning. And so right now he is praying for us, praying for his church, his people. Now he's going to charge the church with one overarching mission, the Great Commission. He's going to leave them departing by means of the cross. He's going to leave them with the responsibility to preach the gospel and to call sinners to Christ. Now the Lord knows in praying for that that that work will bear fruit. He knows that. He has said he will build his church and he prays for the church now in verse 20. So the prayer, the prayer to keep them, the prayer to sanctify them is a prayer for the Lord's disciples here in John chapter 17. And according to verse 20, it's a prayer for all those after them who would turn from their sin, trust Christ alone through the word of God, which is the gospel that was preached to them. As we come to our texts now, why keep them? Why sanctify them? What is the aim of the keeping and the sanctifying? That becomes the Lord's concern in verses 20 through 26. There are two requests of the Lord in verses 20 to 26 that express that concern. In other words, keep them, sanctify them. So in verse 21, they all may be one as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be one in us. The second request comes in verse 24. Father, I desire and that means I will. It's not a wish, it's a will. It's the will of the Lord Jesus Christ that they also whom you gave me, may be with me where I am. In those two requests that we see from verses 20 to 26, he is one dealing with both the reality and the implications of our union with Christ. And we look at that last week, right? Secondly though, he's dealing with the future reality and consummation of our eternal communion with Christ. Union with Christ and communion with Christ. So now if you think about it and you start putting these pieces together, the Lord's prayer in John chapter 17 sweeps across the entire landscape of all of redemptive history, of all the eternal plans and purposes of God to save a people to himself. From the eternal councils of the Godhead in eternity past, as God the Father chooses a special people out of the world to give God the Son as a love gift to him. Then he who was eternally God the Son, he made himself of no reputation. He took the form of a slave. He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross in order to redeem them.  And now having been raised from the dead, he always lives to make intercession for them. He rules and he reigns as his body, the church, carries on his work of gathering in the elect through the preaching of the gospel. So the Lord's prayer then in John chapter 17 stretches from eternity past through the present and into eternity future now, as that elect people redeemed and righteous, verse 24, are with him where he is to enjoy communion with Christ forever and ever to the glory of God, amen. It's a glorious prayer. The blessed state, the blessed state of those, I do need the tissues. The blessed state of those who are in union with Christ is that we are forever his in the mind and in the heart of God, in eternity past, in the mind and heart of God, as the Lord prays here in John chapter 17, in our hearing through which we become encouraged, don't we? And in the mind and heart of God, in eternity future, we are forever his. It's a blessed salvation, is it not? We should take encouragement in that. That should fuel our hope, fuel our joy, fuel our faith, fuel our service. It's a glorious prayer. Many of us had the blessing this last week of seeing a precious couple in our church married. Wonder where they are today? Where are they today? As you listen to a wedding sermon, right? As you witness their joy, if you're married, you can't help but think about the joy and the blessing and the bliss of your own marriage, right?  In marriage, one man, one woman, now one flesh for one lifetime. It communicates a permanence, right? The marriage ceremony. If you're in Christ, if you're in Christ, that blissful oneness that a godly marriage is supposed to portray, that blissful oneness in marriage is mere shadow compared to the reality that's in Christ. Amen? Psalm chapter 16 verse 11, in your presence is fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures forevermore, forevermore. God says to Hosea in chapter two verse 19, I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness and justice in loving kindness and mercy. I will betroth you to me, permanence, permanence, right, we're forever his. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness and you shall know the Lord. So through trials and tribulations, through pain and through suffering, many of you are going through difficulties right now. It are unbearable apart from Christ. Through battles, through difficulties, through weakness, through this life, we are forever his. And we looked last week at how all of this, right? The whole grand sweeping scope, from beginning into eternity, how all of that is based first upon our union with him, our union with Christ. Remember in Ephesians, right? Ephesians chapter one verse four, he chose us in him before the foundation of the world. Ephesians chapter one verse seven, in him we have redemption through his blood. In Ephesians chapter one verse eight, that he might gather together in one all things in him. In Ephesians chapter one verse 11, in him also we have obtained an inheritance. In Ephesians chapter one verse 13, and all that guaranteed having been sealed with a Holy Spirit of promise in him. And so the Lord's prayer, really in all of John chapter 17, is founded in, rooted upon, grounded upon our union with the Lord Jesus Christ. Verses 20 through 26, deal directly with the implications of that union. Our union then, that union with Christ leads to those two requests that we see Jesus make in verses 20 through 26, that they may be one, that they may be with me where I am. We see a prayer then and its purpose in verses 20 through 23, that's what we're gonna look at today. And then we see a prayer and its purpose in verses 24 through 26, and we'll get to that next week. All right, so let's first, let's look at his prayer and that prayer's purpose beginning in verse 20. The Lord prays, he says I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they all may be one as you father are in me and I in you, that they also may be one in us. So now in verse 20, he prays for the church made up of all those, the church is made up of all those who place repentant faith in Christ alone through the word of the gospel, the word of the apostles that was preached to them, through the word passed down to us from the apostles. Now that prayer for the church is expressed in two parts in verse 21, two parts. The first part is this, that they all may be one, that they all may be one. The second part is this, that they also may be one in us, may be one in us. Now he's praying for unity. He's praying for oneness, one unity in the church, but also two unity with the triune God. That's what is meant by the word us there. In fact, this concern, this oneness, this concern for unity woven into the fabric of the entire prayer. He said that, stated it explicitly back in verse 11, the second half of verse 11 there, holy father he says, keep through your name those whom you have given me to what end, for what purpose, that they may be one as we are. So we're talking about unity. We're talking about unity specifically in a church, and we're talking about the unity of the body, the unity of believers with their God. Now what can we learn about unity from this text? What are we to take away from it? How are we to understand what the Lord is praying for here? Is he speaking of, in John chapter 17, in this paragraph, is he speaking about an institutional unity? Is he speaking about an organizational unity? We need to organize ourselves under one world church and all come together, come home to mother, is that what he's talking about? Is he talking about a physical unity? Are we to organize ourselves around denominations and associations? Is that the unity that he's speaking about? There are many who believe that we must organize ourselves around denominations or associations, and if we do not, then we violate the intent of the Lord's prayer here in John chapter 17, and we're in sin. But is that it? Is this unity external, or is it internal? Is it visible, or is it invisible? Is it spiritual? Is it physical? What is it? And one of the chief causes, one of the chief causes of disunity among the churches today, is a misunderstanding of unity. They don't know what unity is in Christ, and their misunderstanding of unity leads to schism, leads to division, leads to disunity. I wanna give you a few observations from the text, a few points from the text that describe what this unity is, all right? The first one is this. This is unity in the faith. This is unity in the faith. Look at verse 21. Who is the they in verse 21 referring to? That they all may be one, that they also may be one in us. The theys, those pronouns in verse 21, they refer back to verse 20, and all those who believe in him through the apostles' word. That's who the they is talking about there. That means that for one point, this unity is unity among genuine Christians, those who believe savingly in the Lord Jesus Christ. And this is where unity among Christians begins. This is where unity among Christians begins. In other words, all those who are born again, all those who are born again of the spirit of God. That's why Paul in Ephesians chapter four refers to it as the unity of the spirit, right? Paul says, if you don't have the spirit of God, you're none of his.  When you are born again by the spirit, the spirit of God indwells the believer. We are brought into unity with Christ, union with Christ, and union, unity with one another. This begins when your Christianity, so to speak, begins. Paul said in Ephesians chapter four, verse four, he said there is one body and one spirit just as you were called in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and father of all who is above all and through all and in you all. This becomes then a unity of the spirit that we are to keep in the bond of peace. So it's a spiritual unity, right? It's a spiritual unity. Paul explains that by the spirit of God we are made members of his body. Now, think with me for a moment. Where is that unity expressed? Where do you see that unity expressed? If we are members of his body, we're brought into union with Christ, that union is with Christ and with one another. It is a spiritual unity based upon our one faith, one baptism, one spirit. Where is that unity expressed? Is expressed in the local church? Is expressed here among us, brothers and sisters? Turn with me to 1 Corinthians chapter 12. 1 Corinthians chapter 12. We have one example of this. That unity not expressed in Rome, not expressed in denomination, not expressed even in association, that unity is expressed in a local church among genuine believers, brothers and sisters in Christ and dwelt by the same spirit. 1 Corinthians chapter 12 and look down at verse 12. And look at how this is worded here. For as the body is one, we are one together in one body. As the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body being many are one body, so also is Christ. We're brought into spiritual union with Christ. We're brought into union with one another. We're one body though many members, whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free and have all been made to drink into one spirit. For in fact, the body is not one member, but many if the foot should say, because I'm a foot not a hand, am I not of the body? Is it therefore not of the body? If the ear should say, because I'm not an eye, I'm not of the body, is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? But now God has set the members, each one of them in the body, just as he pleased. And if they were all one member, where would the body be? See how our unity is expressed. Does this unity, we think about it in this way, does this unity that the Lord is talking about, does that unity mean uniformity? No, does oneness mean sameness? Now this is very important to think about with respect to unity. No, it doesn't mean sameness. Look back up at chapter 12, verse four. Paul says in verse four, there are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. There are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. Not uniformity, not sameness, but oneness. And you can see, can't you? First Corinthians 12, how all that is of the spirit. It's a spiritual unity, believers unified with one another, believers unified to their head, Christ, who is head of the body, this unity of the faith. The unity that's being expressed here, and in John chapter 17, is authored and sustained by the spirit of God. Authored and sustained by the spirit of God. And it's in our relationship by faith to our head, the Lord Jesus Christ. Our unity then is based upon the foundation of, rooted and grounded in our union with him. Being brought into union with him, we have unity with one another. Now let's apply that for a moment, how we think about that. If you are vitally connected to the head of the church by faith, then you're going to experience the spirit wrought unity that is described in the Bible. Spirit wrought growth, spirit wrought maturity, spirit wrought holiness, spirit wrought nourishment, spirit wrought fruitfulness. If you are vitally connected to the head of the church through the spirit of God, you're going to experience that. If you're not vitally connected to the head of the church by his spirit, if you're not in him or if you don't maintain, if you're a genuine Christian and you don't maintain an abiding union with Christ, then dry rot sets in. Death creeps in, you begin to wither and die. We've seen it before, haven't we? Those that have professed Christ and been among us that began to withdraw themselves from the body. As they withdraw themselves from the body, you see the withering effects of that. They become a withering and eventually dead, gangrenous, cancerous sucker branch on the body of Christ. They don't help the body, they don't edify the body.  That's because they're not vitally connected to their head. We saw that expressed in John chapter 15 verse five. Jesus says, I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him bears much fruit. For without me, you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered.  Now think about this with respect to the church. The Lord is praying for unity in his body, unity in the church. When does disunity, discord or division often occur? When does unity begin to break down with someone? It occurs when someone begins to withdraw themselves from the body. It happens when someone begins to withdraw themselves from that vital connection to their head which is often expressed in the ministry of the local church. It begins in the heart, doesn't it? Begins at home in the heart. They're not reading their Bibles, they're not praying, they're distant from God. Their prayers are like hitting a brass ceiling, right? And then they begin to withdraw from brothers and sisters who love them, who hold them accountable. They begin to stand opposed to them. Shows up in their life, doesn't it? Shows up in their life. So one way that you can labor, as Paul tells us to do, labor to keep the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace is you get involved, you get involved in the church. You remain vitally connected to your head through the means which he has appointed, reading the Bible, meditating on the Bible, worshiping God through the word of God, praying and praying fervently, asking God to help you to change your heart, right?  You remain vitally connected to your head. You love your brothers, right? You serve your brothers. Now we've seen that time and time again, over and over again. That's a proverbial pattern that comes right out of the pages of scripture and we see it in our own experience. If you're in a godly church, when you become disconnected from your head and you begin to withdraw yourself, we see that death, we see that dry rot setting in and before too long, we've seen it time and time again, you're gone. So consider this with me. There's some of you here who are, you're on the edge of the flock, right?  You need to be vitally connected. What should this teach us? If this is a spiritual unity, born by the spirit of God who uses means to cultivate it and to grow it and to mature it, then what should we do, brothers and sisters? We should cling to those means, cling to Christ by faith, availing ourselves of those means to be in vital union with him. And when you are connected to your head, you grow and you produce fruit. If you're concerned that you're not wetted to him that way that you should be, you're in danger. If you're concerned because you don't see the growth that you should see, you're not having victory in the battle with sin that you should have. If you're not engaged in loving your brothers, involved in the life and health of his church and you're not vitally connected to your head and dry rot is setting in, do something about that. Trust Christ, cry out to Christ for help, right? Put faith in him, but seek that unity. Unity is a unity in the faith. Secondly, the unity that he's speaking about in verses 20 to 26 is a unity in the truth. It's a unity in the truth. The Lord's prayer for unity, back in John chapter 17, in verse 21 is for those who believe in Christ through the word of the apostles. Now that word of the apostles there in verse 20 is the same word of truth mentioned in John chapter 17 verse 17 where he prays, sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth. Now when Paul stresses in Ephesians chapter four, verse five, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, the one faith there refers to the substance or the content of the faith to which you and I have been delivered if you're in Christ. Jude calls it the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. It's the substance of our faith, the content of our faith. John Owen makes the point that in order to have unity in the truth, two things are required. Two things are required. One is a precise and express profession of the fundamental articles of Christian religion as he puts it. A precise and express profession of the fundamental articles of Christian religion. Those are important, right? Fundamental articles of Christian religion. We're talking about justification by faith, salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, to the glory of God alone, right? These fundamental articles. Now those articles for us are laid out in our statement of faith. We have a statement of faith of London Baptist Confession 1689, expressly lays out what we believe fundamentally the Bible teaches. Those things are important. How we practice those things laid out in our covenant, our church covenant. But both of those things very important. They need to be clearly and expressly stated and we need to unify around that truth, the truth of what the Bible teaches. Secondly though, you don't just need those articles of Christian religion. Owen says, in all other things and duties, every man must be fully persuaded in his own mind. Owen continues, he says, and walking according to what he hath attained, do follow peace and love with those who are otherwise persuaded than he is. In other words, we need to be persuaded in our own minds with those things that are not fundamental, with those things that are sometimes difficult, those things that are sometimes hard to understand. There needs to be love between brothers and we each need to be persuaded in our own minds according to our own consciences. If you think about that, right? Even the way the Bible is written in the wisdom of God and I wanna unpack this for you just a little bit. In the wisdom of God, how he even conveys truth to us allows for that kind of difficulty and allows for us to labor with it and that for our good. Now you consider the nature of man after the fall, which is sinful and depraved, right? By its nature, by man, by his nature is divisive, right? We're sinful and we're gonna sinfully air in our understanding of scripture. But even in the way that scripture is revealed to us, it allows us, allows for us to labor with the text of scripture and that for our good.  In his wisdom, oneness in the truth does not mean sameness. Again, in God's wisdom, unity does not mean uniformity. One day, all denominations, all breaches, will all be eviscerated and we will be one worshiping the Lord together in perfect unity. On this side of heaven, we're to labor with the text. Unity in the truth, according to the Bible, is something we must mature into. It's something that we must labor to keep and beyond those fundamental articles of Christianity, every man must be fully persuaded in his own mind. I wanna turn to two texts with respect to that. First is Romans chapter 14. Look at Romans chapter 14. We're to have unity around the truth. Romans chapter 14, and in the pages of God's word, we see this oneness when there's not sameness. There's an expectation there's not going to be sameness and we must in maturity, according to the spirit, love our brothers, love our sisters as we pursue oneness, even though there's not sameness. Look at Romans 14, he says in verse one, receive one who is weak in the faith but not to disputes over doubtful things. For one believes he may eat all things but he who is weak eats only vegetables. Let him, let not him who eats, despise him who does not eat. Let not him who does not eat, judge him who eats for God has received him. Who are you to judge another servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand for God is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day above another. Another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. Now, what he's referring to here are not unity based on fundamental things, necessary requirements. You can't be a Christian and deny the Trinity. You can't be a Christian and deny the deity of Christ. You can't be a Christian and deny justification by faith alone, right? He's not speaking about those determined facts that in order to be a Christian you're believing Christ in those things, all right? He's talking about scruples here, things that are more doubtful, things that are not sure. He says we must be fully convinced in our own mind. Verse six, he who observes the day observes it to the Lord. He who does not observe the day to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord for he gives God thanks and he who does not eat to the Lord he does not eat and gives God thanks. None of us lives to himself and no one dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord. And if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lords. To this end Christ died and rose and lived again that he might be the Lord both of the dead and of the living. Why do you judge your brother? Why do you show contempt for your brother? We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Drop down and look at verse 19. And here I think is in God's wisdom, the point. Therefore, verse 19, let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another. Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure but it is evil for the man who eats with offense. It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak. Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy as he who does not condemn himself and what he approves. But he who doubts is condemned if he eats because he does not eat from faith. Whatever is not from faith is sin. In other words, this is how we hold unity in the truth. There's no preconceived notion here that we're gonna have sameness. There is a command to oneness. Oneness but not sameness. Unity not uniformity, all right? In other words, you don't take your theological scruple and so discord with it. Paul says receive one who is weak in the faith but not to disputes over doubtful things. In our past here, we've seen a pattern of this. We've seen a pattern of young men becoming puffed up with knowledge. Old men too, we've had a couple of those as well. But their wicked pride will not allow them to hold their position. They become convinced in their own mind and their wicked pride will not allow them to hold that position in unity and in peace. And they are compelled by their pride to sow discord with it, to be divisive with it. They begin to stand opposed. After now standing opposed, they begin to persuade allies. Having persuaded allies to their case, they are and become more and more divisive. In Proverbs 6.19, the Lord hates the one who sows discord among brethren. So what's the point? We're to walk in love toward our brothers. We're to walk in love toward your church. You're to walk in love toward your elders. There is to be, there is to be spirit wrought peace and spirit wrought unity even when we disagree.  Paul tells Titus, warn that wicked man once, warn him twice, and then get him out. He is warped and sinning being self-condemned. We have to learn, we have to learn and mature into being able to disagree without sinning against your brother, without sinning against your church, without sinning against the Lord. And this is all, this is all a result of pride. It's all a result of pride. It's staggering to me today, the lengths to which most professing churches, I use that word professing there for a reason, or most professing Christians, the lengths to which they will go to fabricate or counterfeit this kind of unity, this unity in the truth. They'll usually do it in one of three ways. First way that they do it, the way that they counterfeit this kind of unity is through their silence. They just don't say anything, right? They're not gonna say anything. They won't talk about it because they don't want to offend.  They won't bring up anything that might cause a disagreement. They won't confront anyone with the truth because that sham counterfeit unity is more important to them than the truth, right? They believe that they can maintain peace or maintain unity through avoidance. We can't do that in the church. It is to be a unity that is founded upon, grounded in, rooted upon the truth of God's word. We can't be silent. You have to take a stand for the truth. And if that means that we have to part ways, then we part ways.  We're not gonna have this unity. It's too precious. It's too sweet here. And we love the peace and unity that God has graced us with here. So we have to take a stand for the truth. They'll do it through silence. Secondly, they'll do it through ambiguity. We'll talk about it, but we won't talk clearly about it. We have to maintain vagueness about it in order to preserve what we think is Christian unity. We'll attract more people by being vague, right? Our statement of faith is gonna be three points instead of 23 points because we want more people included and not ex. Besides, you know what? It's loving when you include people. It's unloving to exclude people. Ambiguity, we're not gonna be clear. We're gonna be vague. Who should you be trying to love preeminently? Yeah, the author of the word of God, right? We should love him preeminently. God told Eli, didn't he, right? He told Eli, essentially, I'm gonna break off the arm.  God deserves our honor preeminently. Thirdly, they'll do it through compromise. So through silence, through ambiguity, thirdly through compromise. A sham unity is built on accepting or even affirming. It's not enough that you just accept their viewpoint. You have to affirm their viewpoint, right? Otherwise, you're out. A sham unity is built on accepting or even affirming fundamental differences. The catch phrase is, we just agree to disagree. We're gonna agree to disagree. There are many things, folks, on which we cannot agree to disagree. We cannot agree, they are wrong. It is unbiblical. We'd have to take a stand for the Lord. We cannot compromise. We cannot compromise. If true unity is built on a foundation of truth then we cannot compromise. All of this, right? Silence, ambiguity, compromise. This unity all justified today under a flag of love, under a flag of love. And if you take a stand for the truth, you are censured as unloving. If you attend church here regularly, you gotta get used to that. Gotta be used to that. Unity apart from conviction regarding the truth. Listen, unity apart from conviction regarding the truth shows a contempt for Christ and His authority over the church. If you show pretense of having a unity that is apart from the truth of God, then you show contempt for the head of the church and His authority. We must be clear, not vague. We must be uncompromising. We cannot compromise. And we must take a stand for the truth. And we need to do that loudly. We can't be silent. But when you do that, you come under fire. You come under fire. You know, it's amazing to me. It's amazing to me how wicked men will raise a standard of their own opinion, right? And then censure us by that standard as though we should be regulated by them. They hold the standard with sincerity. We hold the standard with sincerity. We need to learn how to disagree. But they judge us because we differ from them. A Christian is going to face that. If you go to church here, you gotta get used to that. Unity in the truth. Unity in the truth means that we must never accommodate our faith or our practice to the measures and standards of other men. Unity in the truth means that we must never accommodate our faith or our practice to the measures and standards of other men. Our standard is the truth of God. Our standard is the word of God. And that's the unity that's being prayed for here by the Lord in John chapter 17. It's a unity in the faith and it's a unity grounded in the truth. Thirdly, it's a unity reflective of the Trinity. Reflective of the Trinity. Reflective of the Trinity. Look at verse 21. Lord praise that they, that's the church again, all believers, that they all may be one, even as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be one in us. Look at verse 22, same prayer expressed, right? And the glory which you gave me, I have given them that they may be one just as we are one. Verse 23, I in them and you in me, that they may be perfect, made perfect in one. So the Lord here in John chapter 17, if you start putting this together, the Lord prays for a horizontal unity, so to speak, between all believers, among genuine believers in the church, that they all may be one. That verb may be there for you Greek guys is subjunctive. It shows intention, right? That's gonna be important in a moment. That verb is subjunctive showing intention, that they all may be one, right? He prays for that horizontal unity among genuine believers. Then he bases that unity or he grounds that unity in the unity that we see within the Godhead. The unity that believers are to reflect is the unity that we see between the Father and the Son. I think with me. Then he gives it a vertical purpose in verse 21 as well. That they also may be one in us. So put it together. Horizontal unity, all believers in the church were to be unified with one another. Unified in the faith, unified on the truth, right? Spiritual unified, spiritually unified by the Spirit of God. That horizontal unity is to be reflective of the unity that we see between God the Father and God the Son. We'll talk about what that means. And that for the purpose that we may be one with them, right? It's where the us comes in. One with the Trinity.  Now our understanding of this unity hinges on the meaning of that little word as kathos.  Now think about the unity of Father and Son together with me. Father and Son have perfect unity from all eternity. Perfect unity. But notice how the Lord words this. Father and Son, though perfectly unified, are distinct here. As you, Father, are opposed to the cults, right? Are opposed to oneness pentecostals or motorless. They are distinct.  This is a relational or a reciprocal unity. You, Father, are in me and I am in you. It's a unity that's been witnessed by them. It's the witness, they've witnessed this unity. And they've witnessed it through the incarnation, through the Lord's earthly ministry. So what they've seen then, the unity that's being expressed here, is a unity of purpose. It's a unity of message. It's a unity of work. It's a unity of mission. Lord Jesus Christ said, I came to do my Father's will, right? I always do those things which are pleasing to Him. You see the Son obeying the Father. You see the Father responding to the Son. You see the works that are being done. You see Jesus Christ carrying out on earth the redemptive plans and purposes of God from before time began. You see that kind of unity between God the Father, God the Son. That's the kind of unity that's being expressed here in verse 21 with respect to the Trinity. Then He added to that us. We're added to that. The end of verse 21, that they also may be one in us. We're to be in unity with both Father and Son. Now think with me again, what is this referring to? It's not referring to ontological unity or unity of being. We're not gods. We're not little gods. We're nothing like God. We are a created being. He is internal. We change by the second He is immutable, right? That's what the cults teach. That's not what He's saying here. This is not saying that we relate to God as created beings. The way that Jesus relates to God as a created being. It's also cult teaching. That's not what's being communicated here. And although this unity is rooted in our union with Christ and the union that we are brought into at salvation, the use of the, if you follow the Greek guys, the use of the subjunctive and the fact that these represent, the subjunctive represents purpose clauses. These are purpose clauses. The unity, this unity, is the purpose for which He prays, keep them, sanctify them, right? Therefore, this unity called for is based upon God the Father and God the Son's unity of mind, unity of purpose, unity in the work of redemption, unity of love, unity in the heart of God toward lost sinners, right? Unity of purpose, one heart, one mind, one love, one purpose, one work. And that's reflected in the Lord's obedience to the Father. It's reflected in the Lord's words, Lord's actions, always being those actions that please the Father. It's reflected in the Lord's compassion for sinners. It's reflected in His continuous evangelism. Even when the Lord heals people, healing their physical body and healing their spiritual state, their soul. It's primarily here reflected in the Lord's mission for having come to the earth. And that's linked carefully with the purpose of all this, that the world may believe that God the Father sent Him. So it's reflected in the Lord's mission. Now an indication of that, it's further seen in verse 22. Look at verse 22. And again, this is a little more difficult to piece together. So please just think with me, right? Verse 22, the glory which you gave me, I have given them that they may be one just as we are one. Now look up at verse five. Look up at verse five. This glory, the glory of verse 22 is not the glory in verse five, which he had with God the Father before the world was. He's praying in verse five for that glory to be restored to him. We're talking about two different kinds of glory here, okay? What's being referred to in verse 22 is his messianic glory. The glory which was given to him that he can then turn and give to those in his body is his messianic glory. The glory given to him as one sent into the world to save sinners. The glory referred to here is the same glory referred to in chapter one, verse 14. The word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory. The glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. The glory of his incarnation. The glory of his coming, the glory of him taking on flesh in order to save and redeem sinful man, that glory, right? Now that glory, he says in verse 22, is given to them. What glory is? Glory is a revelation of God. It's a manifestation of God's character, God's attributes, God's purposes, who he is, what he does. And in that sense, in verse 22, he gives it to them, fully revealing himself to them, his saving purposes, his redemptive mission, his sacrificial death, his substitutionary atonement, soon his resurrection from the dead. And now having that glory given to them, they may be one just as we are one. What is that talking about? To what end? Paul calls it the light of the gospel, of the glory of Christ. We're to bear witness to that glory. That's what we've been given, folks. We've been given that glory, the glory of the Son, which we are to proclaim as the Father sent the Son, now the Son sends us. Peter says, first Peter chapter two, verse nine, he says, but you, speaking of the church here, you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own special people, so that you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light, who were once not a people, but now you are the people of God who had not obtained mercy, but now you have obtained a mercy. Do you see how that fits together? See, everything merges together. This is the unity that he's talking about in John chapter 17. It's a unity of faith. It's a unity around the truth. It's a unity that reflects the trinity in as much as that unity. It's a unity of mind, a unity of purpose, a unity of heart, a unity of mission, a unity of evangelizing the lost, right? A unity of God and redeeming, seeking and saving that which was lost. That's the unity being referred to here. Unity, therefore, is to be a unity in the faith, a unity of genuine believers. It's to be grounded in the truth, faithfulness to the word of God. Unity is to be centered in or bounded by the heart, the mind, the purpose, the work, the mission of God. When we enter into that heart, when we enter into that work, when we enter into that mind, that mission, we're entering into unity with him. Incidentally, most professing Christians aren't in unity with him because they're not aligned with that mission, that work, that heart, that desire. It's a mark of conversion. It's a mark of God's work, a work of grace in your heart that you desire the salvation of lost people. That's a work of God in the heart in every Christian. All of this now terminates in an ultimate purpose, an ultimate purpose. And that purpose being the glory of God. That's point two on your notes. We are forever his in blessed union with him, so the Lord prays point one verses 20 and 21, keep them, sanctify them, that we may be one. That, for the purpose that, my glory might be revealed. That's point two verses 21 through 23. That they may proclaim my praises, in other words. That glory is manifested or revealed in this world. Verse 21. That the world may believe that you sent me. Drop down to verse 23. You see the same thing expressed. That the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me. That glory is also manifested or revealed in heaven. Verse 24. Father, I desire that they also whom you gave me may be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which you have given me. We'll study that next week. So this unity is spiritual, but in as much as it is spiritual, it bears observable or evident fruit. The world sees the truth of the gospel on display through the unity of God's people, right? They see evidence in his people of his divine mission, his divine work. And though we have differences, this unity of heart, this unity of mine, love, truth is the foundation of our evangelism. Verse 23 adds the visible testimony of love to the revealed glory. Look at that verse. Verse 23. That the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me. Didn't the Lord say in John chapter 13 when we study that text, right? In verse 35. By this all will know that you are my disciples. How? If you have love for one another. That's right. If you have love for one another. All this to say. Descension, discord, division, gossip, strife, contention, backbiting, hypocrisy has no place in the Lord's church. You have it in small unity with your father the devil when you do that, then unity with Christ. Paul exhorts us in Ephesians chapter 4 verse 1. I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called with all lowliness and gentleness, with long suffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. That unity needs to be evident in the church, but that unity should also be evident in your marriage. Shouldn't it? That unity should be evident in your home. The spirit produces this unity. The spirit empowers believers to practice this unity. The spirit works through means to ensure this unity. It's a spiritual unity. And it's a spiritual unity among those who make up his body across all denominations, across all churches. Those who are genuinely a part of the body of Christ. It's a unity of purpose, a unity of heart, a unity of mission, a unity of message. And one day every distinction will disappear. No denominations in heaven, right? Perfect unity. I love this text. Revelation chapter 7 verse 9. A glimpse of our unity. After these things, I looked and behold, a great multitude which no one could number of all nations, all tribes, all peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the Lamb clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands and crying out with a loud voice saying, salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb. And all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures and they fell on their faces before the throne and they worshiped God saying, amen, blessing and glory and wisdom, thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen. Let's pray. Father in heaven, we praise you and worship you and thank you for this precious oneness that we have with our Savior. God, for this oneness that we have with you and the Trinity, for this precious communion that we've been brought into in Christ, we praise you Lord for what a joy and what a blessing that is, even magnified by the fact that we will enjoy a perfect communion with you for all eternity in heaven, worshiping and praising you, praising the Lamb who is slain or what a glorious thought that we are forever yours. I pray God that you would preserve us in that unity. You would protect us in that unity or that you would protect us from discord, division, dissension, gossip, slander, backbiting, strife. God, please, Spirit of God, cause us, enable us, empower us, supply the means necessary for us to labor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Help us to protect that which is so precious to us here. God, I pray that if you were to tarry, Lord, that you would just give us many more years of peace and unity and joy and love for one another. Knowing that that, Lord, that unity, one heart, one mind, one mission, one love, one faith, one baptism, one Lord, one spirit, all just joined together, Lord, to see you glorified in the evangelization of the lost, in the discipleship of the saints, Lord, that you may be worshiped and praised as is right. We love you and thank you for these glorious blessings. Thank you for this text. Thank you for my brothers and sisters. Thank you for your church. In Jesus' name, amen.


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Okay, good morning everyone and thank you for joining us today for the event is nuclear deployment to slow for net zero and I'm delighted to be joined by a panel of very distinguished speakers who are going to be able to Share their experiences their views on on this topic and hopefully we will learn a lot from from the discussion today of course the Discussion is taking place a few days after a series of announcements that were made first by the IAEA Director General Grossi, who's a unfortunately cannot be here today with us But who released on the 1st of December an IEA statement that was endorsed by 40 member states and you have the copy of the Statement here on the on on my left and then on the 2nd of December There was an announcement by over 20 countries for a tripling of nuclear power by 2050 So this gives us a context in which to take some Discussion around Well, can we make it has the nuclear proven to be able to decarbonize quickly There are always some discussions about Delays and constructions and so on so we will we will hear about about All these aspects. So let me introduce the speakers first. We have to my left assistant secretary Andrew light of the Department of Secretary of Energy for international affairs at DOE in the US and who's also a member of the Governing Board of the International Energy Agency. So thank you for joining us today. We have from Sweden the State secretary under the Ministry of Climate and Enterprise Daniel Westland who has also experienced of working in the Swedish Nuclear industry in Vattenfall and Fossmark and also the waste agency then to his left we have Valérie Faudon she's the Delegate general delegate or the head of the French nuclear society Sven and has also an experience working in the nuclear industry before at at a river and then Far left we have mr. Wang Kai who is Vice president from a CNNC and who will be able to share the experience of the Chinese Fleet build out and lessons learned from that Before we start the discussion the we will invite I will invite Assistant secretary light to make some opening remarks from the podium then I will ask the other speakers to Share some thoughts on the topic of its nuclear too slow for for net zero and then we will go into the Q&A part of the discussion so And and do you like please and I'll give you the microphone Okay, okay, okay, I'm using this one. Can you hear me? Oh great. Okay good so I When I was actually coming back from the IEA the last IEA governing board in Paris In October, I believe it was I got on my flight a united flight from Washington to Paris and the head Steward came to me and he said mr. Light We just want to thank you and it's like for what and he said Well according to our records you have been a mileage plus member for 30 years And I said well yes, I was a very precocious eight-year-old You know and that it's a joke that I because I did not become a mileage plus member I'm older than that right so but the point is this this is the 28th cop. This is my 26th cop I've been doing this for most of my adult life. I've seen the transformations Things have we have done so much better on the transformation of this Forum from being solely a place where people sit in rooms and negotiate text and Try to come to consensus and burn out the midnight oil to the very last second to becoming this Incredible celebration on the solution side of things and especially I'm so encouraged and in the last just the last three years I would sort of say since Glasgow the footprint of nuclear energy has been increasing and increasing increasing so that is Firmly established you can see that from walking around and seeing all of the different boosts and and and forums that we have here to do that and in that respect I could not be prouder of my team that Led with our partners in the UAE and France and others in creating this tripling nuclear energy Resolution that we were able to get that was announced on Saturday with President Macron leading and all of our leaders there Which was extraordinary and it is like it feels easy when you say things like well We're gonna triple by 2050 and we're gonna double this by 2030 and you know an on and on and on and our eyes can glaze over as what is meant by this But what really what we felt in finding what was originally 22 signatories that were on Saturday is now Already in just a couple days up to 24 and we got I was in a bilateral meeting with Croatia yesterday Who joined in real time and said we are number 24 This is not just a question of bringing a community of countries together in order to be resolved to Committed to expanding the role of nuclear as a source of dispatchable carbon-free Baseload power as a solution to climate change as a creator of jobs in our countries But also very much so to do things that we as long overdue Creating a community of countries that will go to the international finance institutions and say nuclear must be treated The same way as you were looking at every other solution to climate change And I think that that is a very important step forward and then one that we are going to see there But like I said the problem is this because in my 30 years of working in forums like this one One of the things we got wrong is that our models were too conservative. So while we see an acceleration on the solution side Unprecedented and when you look at for example the dramatic drop We were completely wrong on how fast for example the price per kilowatt hour for solar would drop to just take one example And how fast a country like India for example could deploy Gigawatts of solar power in a span of time that we never thought possible for any region of the world Especially in poorer countries of the world that were stretched We're seeing climate impacts that are unprecedented We're seeing every day Death tolls rise because of climate-juiced impacts We are seeing billions of dollars in damages, and we're not seeing a let-up on that. We're seeing Open discussion of solutions that we've never dreamed of in previous decades because things are getting harder and harder and so the only the the the framing of this panel is Is nuclear too slow is brilliant because exactly the kind of question We need to ask for everything on the solution side because we're simply out of time I for example is just on a panel on interconnectivity in ASEAN in just a second ago and the question there was about creating the More integrated grid in Southeast Asia and at one point I sort of said There's no time left for demonstration projects. There's no time We can't do demonstration projects anymore They're not worth the time you put into them unless they are so big They essentially are operational and they are and they transform economies So this is exactly the question that we need to ask about nuclear. I Was in a conversation yesterday I won't say which government With someone who may become a new energy minister in their government in In a country that actually does have an active nuclear program And when I sort of asked if you become the new energy minister, will you? Continue right the program of your government and This is the problem we face because whether it is real or whether there's a perception the answer was Well, this is an industry that overpromises and underdelivers everything Goes into cost overruns. Everything takes too long We have had experienced our own versions of this in the United States And again, I think that is wrong with respect to the totality of the projects that the country's represented Here and everyone else who involved in the nuclear industry is doing but it is a perception that is pervasive And so we need a concentrated answer to it And we need to work together on that as a global industry to cement this because there is no way now It's easy for us to sort of say if you're a pragmatist about climate solutions as I am then you have to be in favor of all the above solutions which I am in which the by demonstration Absolutely is But you must have a filter and you must have defensible case That you can be fast enough and quick enough to be on the pace and the scale for example that we've seen Some other parts the industry move forward on and that means a number of things one thing that I think that it means is it means that we have got to Absolutely Come together on streamlining finance So I mentioned the sort of push in the tripling nuclear pledge on lobbying the IFIs on that and that's got to happen again and again and again Secondly, it means that we've got to build a stronger relationship between our governments and our industries And so I was a particularly particularly happy to see the Japanese leadership and the G7 this year in the energy ministerial Track which I'm the lead negotiator on for the United States for the first time ever It's embarrassing to say this for the first time ever in the history of the G7 We had a business forum at the energy ministerial long long long overdue the Japanese first-ever business forum in Sapporo was nuclear Bold of them obviously given the diversity of views on nuclear among the G7 parties But absolutely essential and necessary so that we are bringing bringing these tighter relationships between them Secondly, I think that competition is good in this industry. It is absolutely essential I think that the world of SMR's is going to be better than the current world that we have a nuclear just because it gives us a diversity of solutions Because it gives us ability not only to provide electricity But also to use nuclear and industrial decarbonization and in in district heating in many solutions in in in far away Communities I was in Iceland just a month ago for the Arctic forum and there we talked a lot about the use of nuclear and polar regions and isolated places There's all these ways in which this new technology that we have all Invested in in one way or another gives us so many more options We will be competitive. This is good for the business model This is good for the global growth of the industry and the rigor of the industry and overcoming these hurdles to make Sure that you were on time and at budget when you promise to do something that is something we all need to compete with each Other and force each other to do better and Because we know that this is a complicated environment For example where if Westinghouse gets a contract as they just did in Poland to build three AP 1000s and Potentially three more coming coming in the first ever Nuclear build civil nuclear build that Poland has ever had because they did not have a nuclear industry when they were Under the sphere of the Soviet Union We've now got to we know that Westinghouse cannot build the entire thing We know that there for example are parts of that package of those first three reactors They're gonna need to go to the other providers for example for the turbines They're gonna need to go to a number of reactors for hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts And so this is where again we need coordination So once we go through competitive tender processes, which I absolutely believe in we've got to then figure out How do we work most effectively together to not dawdle not go through months and months and months of technology selection But to work effectively together and that means talking about the contingency plans before a tender process is even and that is a coordination I think the private sector owes us and thirdly I think that we need to find the political will To work together to come up with the best answers. I must say that I am enormously impressed with Nuclear energy association with all of our industry associations in the ways in which they've recruited actively squads of youth to get out there To to to to help to spread the word about the role that nuclear will play in climate solutions We need more of that We need political will to get each other's backs to make sure that we are Resolutely part of the solution moving forward because we know that about the other the the extent problems We know about the concerns about safety. We know about the concerns about waste We have the most we have an enviable amount of international coordination through the IAEA for example I've said before as a former recovering. I should say climate negotiator in this forum for the United States. I Wish that we had the kind of tight coordination in the framework convention that we actually have through the IAEA For moving forward on practical solutions for having an acceptable pathways for the minimum That's needed to move forward to find these solutions and because we already have that foundation Which now goes back 50 years going back to President Eisenhower's Adams for peace speech and The launch of the IAEA and those forms which we have all dedicated to work through we have that foundation We have that we can now turn into an engine for the political will that will cement our role in this And so there's a lot more I can say I'm sure the panel will say much more on the growth of SMRs And all those things and I'm happy to talk about what the United States is doing But I think that what I wanted to speak to here is really what we can all do together While we are competitive in order to move these solutions forward and cement them as part of our net zero future. Thank you Thank you for your inspiring words and the microphone is here, sorry and also for for drawing attention to to to the to the challenge to the fact that the Industry has tended to over promise, but we will hear from the from the different speakers how what best practices what experience we can draw from the past to Address the the challenge the events this morning before before The current one was about decarbonizing hard to abate sectors How to use nuclear power to decarbonize and produce sustainable aviation fuel decarbonized steel industry? so the challenge is enormous that the number of Reactors that we will need to build collectively is also a very high so Looking forward to to the discussion now and I will ask a secretary Westman to Share some thoughts about the question is nuclear power too slow for net zero your country has Taken some some some very ambitious steps recently Recognizing that you will need nuclear power. Maybe you can explain a little bit the context Yeah, sure. Thank you. We've known all along, but I'll tell you a bit about what's going on I wrote my PhD thesis on minor actinides and how to transmute them in fast spectrum reactors And now they made me state secretary or deputy minister if you like for the climate and environmental minister And I claim that there is a good reason for this because nuclear and and the climate mitigation work is Intertwined in a very in a very distinct way And I'll try to give you few words on the Swedish example to show you why this is Sweden is approaching deep decarbonization. We've cleaned up electricity and heat decades ago electricity was Fossil free around 1985 when we completed the build-out of the nuclear program heat we Still burned some fossil fuels all well even after the year 2000, but now it's gone and we are The fossil fossil fuels we still have left is basically plastics from from domestic waste We're trying to do something about that but that includes recycling plastics And you know so I claim that heat and electricity has been cleaned up The background to this was not the climate. It was different different things first of all Economic progress and the connection we had at the time back in the 60s and 70s when the decisions to build the nuclear power plants were made We had a strong connection between electricity consumption and growth So to continue growth We thought at the time that it was necessary to rapidly expand electricity production Hydro power had been the build-out was completed We wanted to save the last four rivers and we turned to nuclear power the option We had at the time was oil and there were studies for Massive imports of oil to operate big oil powered plants luckily we choose the nuclear path and The main reason for that was also not climate. It was Geopolitics we wanted to be more independent from oil imports We commissioned 12 reactors in the years 1972 to 1985 That makes us the fastest. That's the fastest addition of clean energy. The world has seen In exception for the Icelandic And the Norwegian build-outs of hydro which was very fast due to the low populations of those countries But if you look at the per capita extensions, Sweden is the The fastest addition of clean electricity Our wind expansion in recent years has also been quite Impressive, it's in place 15 or so of rapid clean energy additions The United Arab Emirates addition of clean energy with the Baraka plant will also be among the fastest So that's quite impressive that you can do that in a new country today When we built the fastest we were having one reactor per one million people under construction So if you expand that to a global level, you can ask yourself, it's tripling on nuclear power possible Yeah, I claim it would be We can build a lot more reactors and we can do it even in in countries that are not as well off as My country is in 1965 when we took the first decision to to build a light water reactor We were not a rich country even compared to most countries today, Sweden's per capita Economy at the time was very low Despite this we managed to build the 12 reactors in 13 years or commissioned them in 13 years Deep decarbonization is something else than just reducing emissions reducing emissions You can do it by energy efficiency or by adding some weather dependent electricity production and you will reduce your emissions But eliminating Emissions means that everyone in every sector has to go all the way to zero Everyone has to have a plan for their fossil emissions in their activity and their daily life We have to do this together because people can't do it by themselves so main main tool we have is Electrification and that of course is because the three means of clean electricity that we know of that can be expanded on a big Big scale is solar wind and nuclear and all of them produce electricity. So that means electricity electrification becomes vital So if we clean up electricity, that's the first step second step is to electrify everything or basically everything Now my country cleaned up electricity in 1985, but now when we're entering deeply carbonization We need to get rid of coal in in iron making. We need to get rid of fuels in the transportation sector and some parts of the industry that we didn't electrify yet That means that we have to do things differently and we had to have have to add much more clean electricity Now people have been arguing that we can just add electricity That's not the case and it's been obvious to us in recent years that if you just add electricity You can't add electricity consumption We've added lots and lots of wind power 14,000 megawatts That's more than that's twice they installed the nuclear capacity It's more than the at par with the hydro capacity But we couldn't really add any consumption Because the electricity system is not about production of electricity. It's about a system It's a working system of production distribution and consumption and all the parts has to work together And unless they do that you will not be able to add consumption So now we realize that we have to build a lot more dispatchable capacity We're not building any more hydro plus the potential is not that big So the the dispatchable tool we have at hand is nuclear Basically the other options would be biofuels which we cannot expand at the scale necessary. It might be The fossil fuels which for obvious reasons can't be expanded So that's the reason why we now have to expand nuclear at the pace. We're talking about we're talking about doubling our electricity production in Roughly 20 years from 150 160 actually to 300 terawatt hours or more Hydro is responsible for half the production today Which gives us a very flexible system since we can turn the plants on and off and save the water for later Now when we double the system without increasing hydro hydro is going to go to one-fourth That means that more much more dispatchable capacity has to come from nuclear The plan the government has proposed Includes that well the goal is to have two big reactors or course something corresponding to two big reactors at in place in 2035 and then rapidly expanding that to adding corresponding to 10 big reactors or 30 or 50 or so small ones if you wish by 2045 We also allow more sites which opens up for more applications when we Open up to build smaller reactors along the coast in the north We can use them to power or to heat our paper industry so that we can use the biomass that we burn there today for producing fuels for the planes and ships So in summary we cannot expand the power system without dispatchable capacity. That's been quite obvious to us after a few years of trying Nuclear power is the only dispatchable option available to us Even though we have forests and rivers in many other countries. It's really the only option available and This makes nuclear expansion a prerequisite prerequisite for electrification Which in turn is a prerequisite for for solving the climate Mitigation issue and this will be obvious to everyone everybody everywhere. So I urge you all to Plan ahead for deep decarbonization for eliminating emissions. Do not settle with a plan a word Ideas for how to reduce them. You need to plan all the way to the end. Thank you so much thank you for sharing the vision of how to how to get to net zero and and and Identifying that nuclear is is really part of your your your solution mix and in terms of deploying Deploying nuclear we calculated that to triple globally Nuclear capacity by 2050 we would need to bring in every year around 33 gigawatts of nuclear every every year And and actually in 1984 and 1985 This is what the world was connecting. So it has been done in the past But of course a lot needs to be to be done to to be in that situation to to replicate this experience Valerie you are representing a country that also has decarbonized quickly with a Rapid build out of the nuclear fleet. What does the title of this event inspire? And what would you like to share? Yeah, so I said we did it and we would like to do it again So in France the story looks very much like the Swedish story In the beginning of the 70s a 70% of our electricity was coming from full-size fuse and maybe oil When we had the first of oil shock in 73 The number one consumer of oil in France was edf And so we managed to decarbonize in 25 years and to go from 70% fossil fuel in the electricity production to less than 10% we build 58 units in 25 years and So it's not as fast as what you did, but it's quite fast and I have to say there's very impressive figures that impresses me a lot Is that we managed to decouple? We managed to decouple CO2 emissions from GDP if I take what we did between 1980 and 1985 we decreased our CO2 emissions at the country level by 30% while we increased GDP by 20% so That means the power of nuclear so when we try to understand What we did well We think that really One big factor is that there was a lot there was a government plan We had visibility on a number of units that we had to build and that gives Confidence for the supply chain to invest in their plants and also hire people and train them so they really had a plan and confidence in this plan so they could invest and And of course increase their competence and build you know the ability to build fast so That's what we want to do now so When when we hear about Well, nuclear is too slow. I think the thing where nuclear is Incredibly fast and beats everyone is for long-term operations So we have a huge long-term operation programs, which is very much inspired by the US one And so right now we're bringing all the units from 40 You know a first unit are reaching 40 years old So we're bringing them to 50 and we want to bring them to 60 And we don't know yet whether we can go beyond 60, but that's probably the fastest and most competitive thing we can do but then we want to build again and So learning from the past we want to build a continuous industrial program, so we're Right now preparing a low for 40 EP 14 EPRs. So six plus eight before 2050 So why EPRs? It's because we want we want we want to ensure electricity Security so we want to build a lot of capacity on the existing sites that we have so that means I starting 1935 we have to bring one EPR online every every year For the domestic program, so we currently have plans to hire a hundred thousand people In addition to our existing two hundred thousand employees to be able to execute on the program So in addition to the EPR program, which is really targeted with LTO program as You know making sure guarantee the security of supply for electricity We have an SMR program and also an advanced modular program So right now we have an EPR an SMR program gen three called a new ward which will be able to do Hydrogen with high temperature Electrolysis as well as heat of course and we are all this advanced small companies We are 15 of them that can do industrial heat and so forth in a program, which is very similar to the US one So we forgot to hydrogen. We have a government program to bring to be able to produce 700,000 tons of hydrogen by 2030 and we'll use our grid Because our grid is decarbonized so we see where a Situation where the Electrolyzers are close to the consumption sites mostly industrial sites because we can do that because our grid is decarbonized So we're struggling with the European Commission for that because they have a vision which is very renewable hydrogen But we're getting through because we have this alliance of 15 countries that are pro nuclear in Europe now and The next stage for us now after hydrogen will be a heat because even if we're going to electrify everything We believe that by 2050 we'll have 50% of the energy consumption will be Electricity versus to 25% now, but the other 50% is heat and We don't have enough biomass So we count on the SMRs and the advanced modular reactor to be able to help produce Urban heat to develop urban heat networks as well as ingestual heat to be able to decarbonize. Okay, that's a story. Thank you Thank you, Valerie Mr. Wang Kai China has been leading in the construction of nuclear reactors in the last two decades So maybe for you the question Nuclear deployment is not too slow in China. You have been building quite fast But at the scale of the energy demand of the country What do you see? How do you see nuclear? Playing a role a bigger role in the decarbonization of the country. Yeah, thank you Well, I come from the working level of Nuclear company, so maybe I do not have the strategic view as gentlemen and madam But I will share you what I'll share with you what China is doing now for a reference. Okay So first of all, I would like to extend my thanks to the IAEA and Anri and the director Huang for inviting me here Well, I think it's a reasonable choice to to to invite me because China is really Indispensable when you talk about nuclear deployment in the world right now Because China is building the biggest number of new units in the world now Although China hasn't didn't join the statement of the 22 countries for a tripling for tripling the nuclear install capacities By 2050 China has taken its position by actions Right now China is building 24 reactors which is the biggest number in the world and accounts for one third of the total number of New units in in the world under construction Well, most of them are 1000 megawatt reactors and China keeps a rhythm of approving eight as six to eight new units every year So we start construction of six to eight new units every year if we keep that rhythm We will have 115 reactors under in operation by 2035 So China will achieve the goal of tripling the tripling the total installed capacity of nuclear by 15 years earlier than 2050 Well, China is also doing his work on developing new Developing a series of different size sizes of nuclear reactors We're not working. We're working not only on 1,000 megawatts. We're also working on SMRs and the generation for reactors On in September this year. IEA hold held Workshop in China in Hainan province for SMRs and why because there China is building an SMR and it will be on in commercial operation by 2025 so the the delegates visited this working working site of this reactor and See what is see the construction. Well, China is also developing HDG are high temperature a gas cooled reactors as the generation for SMR well that The pilot project is already in operation and will be in commercial operation next year Well, China is also working on the multi-purpose Utilization of nuclear technologies such as madam has said hydrogen heating and Seawater desalination. Well, we has already we have already some projects of heating provided by nuclear, but we're still working on R&D for the desalination and Hydrogen because the the cost the cost is still high. We want to improve the cost effectiveness and compatibility of the nuclear for Hydrogen and the desalination well, so China is working very hard on the development and Application of nuclear for the goals of net zero Thank you. Thank you. So you mentioned you mentioned the the issue of reducing costs Andrew in your in your opening remarks you were citing solar and how the cost of solos gone down dramatically There is hope that for small modular reactors By deploying them in large numbers that their cost would also go down. So The US is is very much looking at SMR technology as one of the key nuclear technology for for decarbonization What needs to be done to support this? SMR deployment in large numbers. What is the US government doing to to to enable that? Thank you So all in all the United States has invested about three point three billion dollars I mean, I think actually that's a conservative estimate It doesn't actually count all of the programs going back and several administrations to incubate SMRs primarily through our Idaho National Lab On advanced reactors and I think that many other countries have obviously invested a lot and I'm incredibly encouraged Wang Kai To 2025 is truly impressive for first commercial deployment. So we will all 2035. Okay, right, okay All right. Well now we have now we have a race. I thought we'd already lost but okay. Good to know good to know I'll take that home. I was panicking there for a second But the the but that's good, right? That is that's and I think that's an appropriate time scale to sort of think about these things But I think that just to be very brief and to answer your question I think that there's a bunch of things that we need to do beforehand before the first reactor Goes online and is producing power that someone is paying for I think that one of the things that we need to obviously is to work on diversification of fuel supply for SMRs the world Cannot tolerate with this incredible technology about to come online again Dramatically increasing the sectors in which we can deploy SMRs including desalination a great point in hydrogen and others We've got to make sure that we've got a diversification of support fuel supply so that no one country has Cornered the market on that so that what could potentially who knows what things will happen in the world Which would slow down our ability to deploy as fast as possible and in many and many Uses as possible if we've got to narrow a supply chain there It would be true for any sector of the energy economy And so it absolutely must be something that we work on for SMRs And I think that we've seen a lot of political will to try to get us there Um, secondly, I think that we need to have advanced plans for integrated systems The really exciting thing about SMRs again is how we can see them as part of an integrated system That includes renewables that includes lots of other energy platforms That can be that cannot that can provide the base load dispatchable power on top of existing renewable fleets that might already be out there And I think those something we talk about a lot and the question is how can we go ahead and pre build for example our grids to handle that kind of integration so that you're not doing we have an Difficult problem in the united states. We're not having a problem creating more Renewable energy and getting more decarbonized energy Plants that are built we're having now to build a grid to catch up with that activity We need to flip that and have our integrated systems already in place so that we can then on board Write those energy production centers into that and be able to move forward faster two more points Obviously we need to all work on our regulatory structures And I think I would sort of say the united states for example could be faster Absolutely here. We need to be do more do more information sharing about how we're all handling What are the differences in which we will have regulatory structures that will deal with a very different kind of multiplicity of uses and multiplicity of kinds of technologies that are deployed in order to do that And finally I will just have a plea for governance. I'll call it governance sanity and so the the what I mean here is This is perhaps the worst name of anything that has ever ever been conceived In the four walls of the cop in 28 years, but later actually earlier today We had the presidency had a hydrogen Presidency event, which was terrific and I think a lot of our governments participated in it and it's great and there many have assigned The declaration of intent on mutual recognition of certification schemes of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and hydrogen deliverables I will not repeat that. I could never possibly remember it. No one could But nonetheless we we signed a hydrogen thing What disturbed me and disturbed our colleagues in the united states is that The embedded phrase on the hydrogen that was being promoted in this declaration was renewable and low-carbon hydrogen What's not included in renewable and low-carbon hydrogen? Hydrogen produced from nuclear energy This is just silly Right and it and and these kinds of ways in which we have sort of cleverly created You know for convenience political convenience sake ways of talking about just one of the examples of Wang Kai said Of where you can use smr's hydrogen production We need to make sure that our finance structures our government structures are all aimed and include smr's in the same bucket In which we include every other decarbonized solution that is out there in order to produce hydrogen And so this is something we've got to get through we've got to fix it And we got to make sure that we are creating a future which will be ready for the deployment of this exciting technology Thank you, and uh, you're right To to address this expansion of nuclear power. We will need finance and we will need to bring private financing into nuclear and certification or recognition of the low carbon or sustainable value of what nuclear produces is is is key and This is valet was saying a fight sometimes in the european union for for for hydrogen so maybe valet you can say a few words about The the need for for recognizing the The value of of nuclear products In the decarbonization context. I think we we're fighting for technology neutrality Like we have in the us because we have 10 rules that are going to are being discussed right now. You have the Aviation fuel directive. I mean you have lots of text and every time we have to fight To make sure that nuclear is included and the dream is what you have in the us We the ira is that it's completely technology neutral and what counts is the amount of co2 That you emit while you're producing the hydrogen. So that's really what we We would dream of Exactly, but it's much better now since we have this alliance of countries that are pro nuclear because of course we have The more we are the stronger we are when we're negotiating But it's still complicated and it's also science that speaks Exactly, even when we have the science reports, it's always very difficult Daniel We've talked about Finance we've talked about supply chain industry Recognition So policies and so on on the policy side Sweden has Pushed legislation very fast in in recent weeks even if I believe last week The law that was limiting the the number of reactors was was changed. This was this happens very quickly In some countries it takes years and years to To to change legislation. Why why is it happening so quickly in in your country? And what can we learn from from the political process that is allowing this Well, first of all, we're in a hurry and we are supposed to be climate neutral in 2045 That's just over 20 years from now And we will need at least four fifths of that time 16 years to build things So the this Present term of the government the four years we have we have to set everything in place that Makes people take those investment decisions the climate transition Happens through millions and millions of decisions by kitchen tables and in boardrooms The role of the government and the parliament is to set the conditions in place so that people can make those decisions And so that the change becomes acceptable to people so that the policy can prevail and we can continue the path towards net zero now We knew what to do We had an energy debate in sweden since our referendum a nuclear in 1980 that focused entirely on electricity and Entirely on nuclear power. We did not talk about security of supply or geopolitics or Even costs because everybody knew that electricity was always there in abundance And it was always cheap Until it was suddenly not and that was when we closed four reactors the last government closed four reactors in a very short time Or actually they claimed the market closed them But there were politics behind it. So now we lost out of 10 reactors. We lost Four of them in a very short time Which created a completely new situation so that when the voters changed the government They pretty much asked us to fix the electricity system and we knew what to do So we started doing that day one, but now So far we're only fixing legislation and policy and I hope that we've been supportive in this alliance that france is forming in the european union because As we said the wording makes a difference. That's the next step. We have to do something about to complete this Plus we have to put in in place the financing Framework for this and how to share risks between different actors Yes for you to know the european union uses the word renewable in two ways First there is a definition saying which six or whatever it is energy sources count as renewable And then it's used when you talk about non fossil So in europe there are two kinds of energy fossil and renewable So if it's not fossil, it's renewable, right? And that goes through all the documents and by mixing up the one meaning which is solar wind bio and the others counted They're listed in a definition in an act called the renewable energy directive That's one thing but then in other in other discussions we use the same word When we mean non fossil energy in sweden, we use the term fossil free all the time To include everything that solves the problem And I think without changing that we cannot We cannot have equal terms for for the tools we need to fix climate change Thank you a little bit of pragmatism also in the in the choice of words and policies To serve the the purpose of decarbonization. I think we shouldn't forget. That's the ultimate goal These words have been chosen to be exclusive. Yes. Yes. Yes Mr. Wang Kai Kai Can you share what would be your recommendation? From from the experience of the chinese industry That you would like to share with the rest of the world in terms of nuclear buildout and also deployment of different types of technologies that you are mentioning. Well, yes, in fact, um Well Well, why should uh, whether should we uh, whether we should or not to Accelerate to the deployment of nuclear that depends on many factors. I think We should not decide on one goal And for all the countries because that depends on on the country such as the size and the potential of the market energy market and the financial conditions of the country and also the experience its experience in nuclear and The manpower and talents Well, so I do believe that the answer is to the our title is the the question Is yes for countries like france and the united states But for emerging countries, it's quite complicated. I think because we're going to face a lot of challenges there I think first the challenge should be the money You know that a 1000 megawatt reactor costs At least three to five million billion u.s. Dollars And the preparation time for a new project is about three to five years And the construction period lasts about six to ten years So you invest that means you invest a lot of money And during 10 to 15 years you get nothing in return and you still have to pay the interest to the banks So that's not attractive to private sector investors at all so you know in china most nuclear owners and builders and Big banks like big financial entities like banks are state-owned enterprises So maybe that's that's perhaps the reason why china can implement the It's ambitious nuclear plan so efficiently so this So well, sorry. Sorry. So the second challenge. I think it should be the manpower and the And the manufacturing capacity well, as I said china is China is now building six to eight new units per year But china hadn't found that rhythm until many lessons has been were learned during the 20 years between 1984 to 2200 2004 China built only nine units But during the three years before fukushima china approved in one go About 26 units When the 20 when these units began construction at the same time uh, we fell into a lack of Qualified workers and engineers And we were badly short of Good manufacturers for components and equipment so we recruit and recruited and trained at once a lot of thousands of uh, the engineers Talents and workers for the sector and we built we established and and Expand expanded many suppliers and the suppliers bought a lot of equipment and machines for manufacturing Well, suddenly fukushima happened and then china had to suspend the approval of new reactors Uh until to 2015 that's about four four years And then china refined found back found back its pace of approval of new reactors to Little by little till six to eight units per year Well during the years of suspending The manpower and manufacturing capacity was were excess so overabandoned and That's that's a big waste. So my suggestion is that If you accelerate the deployment of nuclear you should do it progress progressively and uh, you should Increase the number little by little And keep it stable when it reaches when you reach a certain speed Uh, and simultaneously, uh, you should make your make sure that your Manpower and manufacturing capacity Are compatible with your speed of deployment. That's the second challenge the last one In my mind is that the balance between speed and the safety because when you are building a lot of So many reactors at once You can it is more difficult for you to ensure that every part of every reactor conforms perfectly to the strictest Safety standards So that will be tough work for the regulators and the supervisory authorities. Well, that's all. Thank you Thank you for for all these recommendations. We're running out of time. We should have had a longer session But thank you a big round of applause for all the speakers And on on some of the topics that you mentioned fine fine as we had an event here yesterday, but on friday, there will be events around mobilizing youth because we will need talent We will need to attract and create skills for for this great ambition of Doubling or tripling nuclear power by by by 2050 and help help the world to decarbonize So thank you again to all the speakers and thank you to the audience


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