OUR FATHER WHO IS ONE WITH HIS SON

The book of John chapter 10 captures another confrontation that occurred between Jesus and the people who were pressing to get Him to definitively identify Himself to them.

22 Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter. 23 And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. 24 Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him, “How long do You keep us in doubt? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. 26 But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. 27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 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. 30 I and My Father are one.”

Scriptural prophecies gave the markers of the Messiah and the astonishing healings that Jesus was doing in their midst as well as a segment of the people believing in Him from these works and His words, were what those genuinely seeking the Messiah should have recognized.

Instead, some of the people wanted Jesus to self-identify as the Messiah but this would be incorrect because the miracles He was doing were the pre-ordained witnesses to His status and the annointed one.

Jesus said that those who responded to Him on the merits of His own testimony and the miracles He performed were His because they knew His voice and He would give them eternal life.

This passage also contains a great revelation into the nature of God as a triune being where Jesus declared that He, the Son of God, and the Father, were one.

This singularization of two separate identities gives a glimpse into the trinity where God exists as one God and  expresses Himself as multiple persons.

Amen.

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