“I already told you,” Jesus replied, “but you did not believe. The works I do in My Father’s name testify on My behalf.Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believe not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, these bear witness of me.
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… You don't believe me. the works that I do in my Father's name, these bear witness of me. Now, which work do you criticize? I've healed the blind. I've taken care of the withered hand. I have worked with those that are penniless and provided help and sustenance. Which one do you choose as an object of offense? They say, no, it isn't the works. It isn't the works. Verse 33, for the good work we do not stone you. Our problem is you're a blasphemer. You being a man, make yourself out to be God. Now turn to the page, verse 34. Jesus answered them with a question that has become, well, a problem of conflict to the reader of Scripture. Listen to what he says. Has it not been written in your law, I said you are gods? If he then called them, if he called them gods to whom the word of God came, the scripture can't be broken. Do you say of him whom the father set apart and sent into the world, you are blaspheming because I said I am the son of God? …
… He said, I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me, but you do not believe. because you are not of My sheep. As I said to you, My sheep hear My voice. I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. Neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand. I and My Father are one. Now here, Jesus declares a unity between Himself and the Father, a text that has been ripped from its context time and again in church history. We think back to Arius in the fourth century where he used this verse, I and the Father are one, to interpret it in this way, that yes, Jesus was one with the Father only in the sense that they agreed on the same mission. …
And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. For My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand. I and the Father are one. He who has ears to hear the word of God, let them hear. You may be seated. Let us pray. Our fathers, we consider these words from the 10th chapter of John. We pray that you would grant to us understanding of the meaning of Jesus' words, how they relate and edify His people even now. For we ask it in His name. Amen. Last week we, for the second time, considered elements of Jesus healing the man born blind. And we didn't finish chapter 9 last week, but at the very end of that chapter, leading up to what I read this morning, the following things took place. Jesus found the man who had been cast out from the presence of the Pharisees because of his testimony to Christ, and he said to him, Do you believe in the Son of God? …