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JESUS THE MASTER LOGICIAN
MONDAY, JULY 28
John 10:22-39

Psalm 82

 

“I and my Father are one.”

 

JESUS THE MASTER LOGICIAN
 
Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Feast of Dedication (or Hanukkah). On this occasion, the unbelieving Jews demanded of Jesus, “If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.” This is a most unreasonable request. Jesus had already identified who He truly was by His words and His works. The problem was not with Jesus, but with them. These stiff-necked people simply would not believe His words, nor the miracles that authenticated those words. Jesus told them why. It was because they were not of His sheep. In other words, they were still unconverted pigs, and not regenerate sheep. He knows His sheep, and they recognise His voice and follow naturally. They have eternal life, and are forever saved. No one—not even Satan (cf. John 10:28-29)— can wrench them out of His Father’s hand.
 
“I and my Father are one” is one of the most explicit texts on the deity of Christ. The Jews who heard those words certainly knew what they meant. Without hesitation, they stoned Jesus for making Himself God. Jesus indeed was God Himself. In His essence or being, He is the same or equal with God the Father. As much as God the Father is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient, so is Jesus. Here we see also the plurality of Persons within the Trinity. “I and my Father” comprises two Persons, yet They are one God.
 
As Logician of logicians, Jesus defended the Truth that He was God Himself. He employed an argument that was irrefutable. Jesus questioned them, “Is it not written in your law (in Ps 82:6), I said, Ye are gods (Hebrew Elohim which is also used of God Himself)? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?” (John 10:34-36). If lesser beings like human judges were called gods according to the Written Word, how could Jesus, who was certainly greater than all their judges combined, the Living Word Himself, not be called the Son of God? His enemies had absolutely no answer to such a masterful rebuttal.
 
THOUGHT: What is the image of God in man?

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I want to reflect Thy holiness in my life.

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