John 10 is so loaded with good verses, it can be overwhelming. I love the beauty of God's Word. In verse 18 Jesus proclaims His authority over His own life. Jesus foretells here that He has the authority to lay His life down, Jesus will give up His life for us by dying on the cross. Then this same Jesus will on the authority given to Him, rise again. Jesus death and resurrection happened through Jesus willingness to sacrifice for us. This was not something done to Him outside of His control, rather it was done under His authority as willing service.
In Verses 24 and 25, Jesus is asked if He is the Christ. His answer is that He already told them and they did not believe Him. The did not believe because they are not part of His flock. Jesus then continues on to proclaim eternal life to His flock and security for them in verses 28 and 29. So if you believe in Jesus it is because you are in His flock. He has given His flock eternal life and no one can snatch us away from Him.
Then Jesus proclaims His deity. This is a great passage to confirm that Jesus Himself claimed to be God. This is not just something that people decided later. It is His claim. No one can convince people with grand logic of this Truth, only His flock will come to believe this Truth. We Proclaim Jesus as Christ and part of the Trinity, not to convince those who are not of His flock, but rather we do so first out of obedience, because we are told by our Lord to do this. Our secondary motivation is to find the rest of His flock. Their response to His calling will show them to us.
Let us go out and proclaim Jesus to the world today, in hopes that we can find the rest of the flock.
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