The Repeated Stuff Matters

John 10:31-42

³¹ Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone him.

³² Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these works are you stoning me?”

³³ “We aren’t stoning you for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because you—being a man—make yourself God.” (John 10:31-33)

³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, I said, you are gods? ³⁵ If he called those to whom the word of God came ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken— ³⁶ do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God? ³⁷ If I am not doing my Father’s works, don’t believe me. �(John 10:34-37)

³⁸ But if I am doing them and you don’t believe me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in me and I in the Father.” ³⁹ Then they were trying again to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.

⁴⁰ So he departed again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. ⁴¹ Many came to him and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.” ⁴² And many believed in him there. (John 10:38-42)

“I and the Father are one.”

John 10:30

1. The Repeated Divine Claim and Its Significance

John 10:30-33

“¹⁷ Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working, and I am working also.” ¹⁸ This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him: Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.”

John 5:17-18

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.”

John 8:58

³¹ Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone him.

³² Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these works are you stoning me?”

³³ “We aren’t stoning you for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because you—being a man—make yourself God.”

“there had been no trial or that the power to execute prisoners had been denied them. Their intense hatred overruled common sense and standard practice.”

ROBERT H. MOUNCE, JOHN (THE EXPOSITOR’S BIBLE COMMENTARY)

“¹⁰ But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he told the paralytic— ¹¹ “I tell you: get up, take your mat, and go home.”

Mark 2:10-11

“This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and the one you have sent —Jesus Christ.”

John 17:3

Early Church Hersies

The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-Day Saints

“Mormons talk about a Jesus who was the spirit child of Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother. They refer to Jesus as the brother of Lucifer who proposed a better plan of redemption and won the designation “Messiah.” They believe in a Jesus who filled in the gap of humanity’s need through his atoning sweat in the garden.”

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- (Lukus Counterman)

Jesus’ Divine Claim Support by the Scriptures

Jehovah Witnesses

“Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that Jesus was created by Jehovah as the archangel Michael before the physical world existed, and is a lesser, though mighty, god.” (Justin Taylor)

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Jesus’ Divine Claim Support in the Scriptures

“To blaspheme is to speak with contempt about God or to be defiantly irreverent. Blasphemy is verbal or written reproach of God’s name, character, work, or attributes.”

GotQuestions.Org

Application

³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, I said, you are gods? ³⁵ If he called those to whom the word of God came ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken— ³⁶ do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God? 

2. Jesus Proves Himself With the Word of God

John 10:34-36

³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, I said, you are gods? ³⁵ If he called those to whom the word of God came ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken— ³⁶ do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God? 

‘Gods’ = Elohim

A) The “gods” are supernatural beings who rule under God.

Psalm 82

• God takes His position in His assembly;�He judges in the midst of the gods. (Psalm 82:1, NASB)

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• ⁶ I said, “You are gods,�And all of you are sons of the Most High.�⁷ Nevertheless you will die like men,�And fall like one of the princes.”(Psalm 82:6-7, NASB)

B) The “gods” of Psalm 82 are human judges, and rulers who have been granted authority in the earth.

³⁶ why do you call it blasphemy when I say, ‘I am the Son of God’? After all, the Father set me apart and sent me into the world. (John 10:36, NLT)

³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, I said, you are gods? ³⁵ If he called those to whom the word of God came ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken— ³⁶ do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God? 

 “Scripture cannot be cancelled or ‘made void; nor can it be set aside when its teaching is inconvenient. What is written remains written.”

¹⁰ For just as rain and snow fall from heaven

and do not return there

without saturating the earth

and making it germinate and sprout,

and providing seed to sow

and food to eat,�

¹¹ so my word that comes from my mouth

will not return to me empty,

but it will accomplish what I please

and will prosper in what I send it to do.” (Isaiah 55:10-11)

“For the word of God is living and effective and sharper than any double-edged sword, penetrating as far as the separation of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart." (Hebrews 4:12)

²⁴ For All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like a flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

²⁵  but the word of the Lord endures forever.

(1Peter 1:24-25)

November Challenge

³⁷ If I am not doing my Father’s works, don’t believe me. ³⁸ But if I am doing them and you don’t believe me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in me and I in the Father.” ³⁹ Then they were trying again to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.

3. Remember the Father’s Work on Display

John 10:37-38

“Believe the Works”

John 10: 17, 25, 32, 37

“Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working, and I am working also.”

John 5:17

Application

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