“THE JEWS!”

 John 10:22-30                    (ESV)

I AND THE FATHER ARE ONE

“[22] At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, [23] and JESUS was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon. [24] So “THE JEWS” gathered around HIM and said to HIM, “How long will you keep us in suspense? 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 bear witness about ME, [26] but you DO NOT believe because YOU ARE NOT among MY sheep. [27] MY sheep hear MY voice, and I know them, and they follow ME. [28] I give them eternal life, and they will NEVER perish, and NO ONE WILL 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 the FATHER’S HAND. [30] I AND THE FATHER ARE ONE.””

There are many places in Scripture where it talks about BELIEVERS are CHOSEN!  However, when THE CREATOR is speaking to “THE JEWS” in the nine verses above, HE VERY PLAINLY says that YOU (THE JEWS) ARE NOT MY sheep!  Obviously “THE JEWS” DOES NOT indicate that everyone associated with them have been selected to be CHOSEN by THE FATHER to be apart of HIS KINGDOM!

Being one of THE CHOSEN doesn’t enunciate that we are better than others.  Being CHOSEN simply indicates that despite our faults and imperfections, we have been selected (“before the foundation of the world” according to Ephesians 1:4) by our CREATOR to serve HIM.  We are not WORTHY to be selected by HIM, but OUT OF HIS MERCY HE CHOSE us to become SONS of the MOST HIGH GOD (Titus 3:4-7)!  

Our feeble minds have never been adequate to imagine any goodness or worthiness to select us over the “lowest of the low” category in life.  Yet HE CHOSE us to be one of the SELECT IN HIS EYES!!  Others, including “THE JEWS” written about in the Scriptures above, were TOLD directly from the CREATOR HIMSELF and they DID NOT BELIEVE!!!  

Andraé Crouch wrote in the early 1970’s a song entitled “I don’t know why JESUS loved me”.  It wasn’t a very long hymn, but it says more than my mind can comprehend!  I’m not worthy of HIS MERCY and GRACE, but CERTAINLY GLAD that HE CHOSE me!!  “THE JEWS” couldn’t SEE that they NEEDED a SAVIOR to redeem them from being a part of “THE JEWS”!!!