“YOU DO NOT BELIEVE!”

 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 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 FATHER ARE ONE.””

JESUS said in Ephesians 1:3-10 that “HE CHOSE US BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD”, so HE KNEW us long before we were born!  In John 10:30 HE says “I AND THE FATHER ARE ONE”!  So GOD the FATHER, GOD the SON, and GOD the HOLY SPIRIT fully KNEW us since BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD and CHOSE us anyway?!?

Why were we CHOSEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD?  We hadn’t even drawn a breath or done anything to advance HIS KINGDOM?!?  HE CHOSE us to fulfill HIS PURPOSE of using the “least of these” to accomplish HIS PLAN.  Moses was a stuttering person. David was a womanizing person. Paul was a murderer.  Yet HE CHOSE all of them to GLORIFY HIMSELF because HE knew what the outcome would be in their lives.  

Therefore, one must acknowledge that if we are CHOSEN, there MUST be those who are not CHOSEN!  Just as JESUS spoke in Matthew 10:27, “…NO ONE WILL SNATCH THEM OUT OF THEM OUT OF MY HAND”, HE also said in Matthew 10:25 “I told you, and “YOU DO NOT BELIEVE”!  

Has HE CALLED you???  Answer HIM while you still can!!!