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… Jesus never claimed to be God. They said, Jesus never claimed to be God, therefore I don't believe he's God. Here's Jesus claiming to be God in John chapter 10 verse 30. He said, I and my father are one. You're like, well that doesn't sound like a claim to be God. Oh yeah, look at what the Jews did. They took up stones to stone him. Then he says, many good works I have shown you from my father. For which of those do you stone me? The Jews answered, for a good work we do not stone you, but for blasphemy because you, being a man, make yourself God. Jesus is God. Therefore, we have two closing points. Therefore, know what you believe. Know what you believe and know why you believe it and be able to defend it. One day, a preacher asked a man, what do you believe? The man said, well, I believe the same as the church. And what does the church believe? Well, the man said, I suppose they believe the same as me. …
… Has he spoken and will he not make it good? John 10, 30, I and my father are one. In other words, people say, yeah, but that's God the Father. But Jesus came and He changed everything. I and my Father are one. Hello? Philippians says, let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God. Hebrews 13, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. because God is the same. He cannot change. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights with whom there is what? No variation or shadow of turning. And every single day, Christians are falling into that deception that God has changed his mind. That God of the New Testament is not the God of the Old Testament. That it's not the same. That we have a new thing. And it's a new thing. Guys, this is not a different God. …
… declares the Lord." In the wonderful language of John 10, verses 28 to 30, "'I give eternal life to My sheep. They will never perish. No one will 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 the Father's hand. I and the Father are one." Summed up, God is for us. He knows how weak we are. He knows how sinful we are. But He is for us. And Paul is about to prove that. How do we know that? Look at verse 32. He, meaning God, who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Amazing statement. The greatest proof of God's promise to keep us is what He sacrificed to get us. This is an argument from the greater to the lesser. His love is so strong that He gave His Son for us. …
… 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. They thought alike. They embraced the same ethic. But, said Arius, Jesus was not God. He did not share in the being of God or in the essence of God, only in the agenda of God. And so we can't read in this text said Arius and later Jehovah Witnesses and Mormons who interpret it the same way. We can't refer in this text to the statement, I and the Father are one, as an expression of deity for Jesus. …
… 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? And the man said, Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him? And Jesus said, You have both seen him, and it is he who is talking with you. …