Luke chapter 19. I'm taking the
title for the message from what is said in verse 10. Luke 19
verse 10. The Son of Man. The God-Man. The Mediator. God Almighty manifest
in the flesh. The Son of Man is come. In the
fullness of time, God sent forth His Son made of a woman, made
under the law to do what? To redeem them. Call His name
Jesus. He shall save His people from
their sin. For the Son of Man has come to
seek out His sheep. To seek them out and to save
them. Why did He do that? They were
lost sheep. All we like sheep have gone astray. We've every one turned to our
own way. The Lord is on the trail of His
sheep. It's the Good Shepherd, the Chief
Shepherd, the Good Shepherd who laid down His life for the sheep.
He will seek them out, and He will find them, and He will save
them by His grace. Just like this man we're going
to read about here, Zacchaeus. So the title of the message is
taken from verse 10, the Lord Jesus Christ came to seek and
to save the lost. We find the Lord Jesus Christ
must need to go through Jericho to meet blind Bartimaeus to restore
his sight, just like he must need to go through Samaria to
find that woman at the well. And the Lord told her, you drink
of that natural water, you'll thirst again. But if you drink
of that water that I give you, there will be a well of water
springing up into everlasting life. And I love what she said.
Remember, Lord, give me that water. That's the water I want. Living fountain of the well of
salvation in Christ. Here we see the Good Shepherd,
the Lord Jesus Christ, crossing the path of His elect. calling
him out of bondage to liberty in the Lord Jesus Christ, giving
all Zacchaeus salvation by the sovereign will, grace, and power
of God. We see the pattern of salvation
here, how the Lord seeks out his people, how he finds his
sheep, and how he gives them salvation. Now, there are many
reasons by way of introduction. Let me give you this. There are
many reasons why we preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ,
but we can sum those reasons up with these three. The first
reason we preach the gospel is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ,
to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. That should be the chief end
and purpose of everything we do, but especially when it comes
to worship, Praising the Lord and preaching the gospel is the
honor and glory of the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone. Him alone. In Psalm 115, you remember David
said, not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name do
we give glory, for your mercy and for your truth's sake. And
Paul said in Galatians 6, 14, God forbid us a glory, save in
the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. So the first reason for preaching
the gospel is to honor and to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. The second reason, because God
has commanded His church to do just that. We studied that when
we closed our study in the book of Matthew. The risen Lord, do
you remember what he said to those disciples? He said, all
powers given to me in heaven and earth, go therefore and preach
the gospel to every creature. And that's what we do. And then
Paul, when he writes back his last words to young Timothy,
the preacher of the gospel, he said, I charge you before God
and the Lord Jesus Christ to preach the word. Preach Christ. preach Christ. Paul said, I'm
determined to know nothing among you but Jesus Christ and Him
crucified. And here's the third reason.
Because the Lord Jesus Christ has ordained and uses the preaching
of the gospel as the means to call out His people. As the means
to call out His people. God has a covenant people. And
He's going to call them out of darkness into His marvelous light.
With what? With what means? The truth. Our Lord said, you shall know
the truth. and the truth will set you free. It pleased God
through the preaching of the gospel to call out his people.
We read in Romans 10, whosoever shall call upon the name of the
Lord shall be saved. How shall they call upon him
in whom they've not believed? And how shall they believe in
him of whom they've not heard? And how shall they preach except
they be sent of God? And then he quotes from the book
of Isaiah, how beautiful are the feet of those that preach
the gospel that says, thy God reigns and rules everywhere. over all things, over all people,
everywhere. So we are sent to preach the
gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And through the preaching of
that gospel, God calls out His people. Now, this ministry is
about preaching the gospel of Christ, preaching the gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ. We preach the gospel with the
means that God has given us. He's given us some good means.
We've been on the radio for many, many years, 25, 26, 27 years,
a long time, every Sunday. The gospel is preached here through
this radio station that we're on. Actually, we're on two different
radio stations. And the one of them is a 100,000
watt station, goes all over this area, all the way to Big Stone
Gap, all the way to Ashland, Kentucky. all the way to, we
were in Hazard, Kentucky the other day, and we listened to
96.5. So that gospel is being preached
on the radio, the gospel being preached also on TV, We've been
putting up Pastor Mahan's TV sermons. Why do we do that? We take the funds that the Lord
puts on your heart to give to the preaching of the gospel.
We use a thousand dollars a month spent on preaching the gospel.
TV, radio, the TV broadcast, the internet, sermon audio. We've
been on sermon audio now for 20 years. You think, well, is
it bearing any fruit? Recently, there's a man in South
Africa who started listening to sermon audio, started listening
to Pastor Mahan, Gabe Stoniker, Todd Nyberg, and others. And
you know what? The Lord taught him the Gospel.
He recently came all the way from South Africa to the church
in Kingsport to hear the gospel. To hear the gospel. Through that
sermon audio. See, it's a means that God has
ordained to call out His people. So we use that. Radio, TV, sermon
audio, the internet, sending out our bulletins. Our bulletins
go out all over the world. They go all over the world. And
then we recently published a book that's been distributed worldwide. So we're serious about preaching
the gospel because God has commanded us to do so. And this is not
a one-man ministry. This is our ministry. This is
our ministry together. I couldn't do these things without
your support and without your prayer. Someone asked Charles
Spurgeon, who was a great preacher in England back in the 1800s,
who preached to 4,000 or 5,000 people every service. His place
was packed. And someone asked him one time,
well, what do you attribute that to? He said, well, the purpose
of God. But he said this, my people pray
for this ministry. And that's a blessing to know
that. I pray for you and I trust that you pray. I call your name
before the Lord every day. I think of each one of you individually
and I call your name before the Lord and ask the Lord to bless
you and to keep you. And I trust you do that for us
as well. So we use the means that God
has ordained preaching the gospel, and through that, the Lord has
been pleased to call out His people. Aren't you glad He sent
you a gospel preacher? Aren't you glad He crossed your
path with the gospel? He ordained those means. One day, you just didn't bump
into the gospel. The Lord sent you a gospel preacher with a
gospel message, and He blessed that to your heart. And that's
what we see in our story today with Zacchaeus. We can see several
things about this story of Zacchaeus. We see the effectual, irresistible
call of God. This call of God was to a notorious
sinner. Look at verse 1 down through
verse 5. And Jesus entered and passed
through Jericho. Jericho was a notorious, wicked
city. You remember one time when Joshua
crossed Jordan, what happened to Jericho? The Lord brought
the city down and the people there and behold there was a
man named Zacchaeus which was cheap among the publicans and
he was rich. This man was the IRS of his day. You ever had an IRS agent come
to your house? Collect some money? I'd be nervous. I'd be scared. I'd call me a
certified public accountant to try to help me out of the mess
I'm in. But this man was a notorious sinner. He was a publican, a
tax collector, and he was rich. And he was rich because he extorted
the people. He abused the people. He gave
Rome some, but he kept a lot for himself. And he sought to
see the Lord Jesus Christ who he was. Now this is what we call
pervenient grace. This is grace before grace. This
is God working in him before he meets the Savior. God in His
good providence arranged all this meeting, and He sought to
see the Lord Jesus who He was, and He could not for the press,
the crowd, because this man was a little man. Maybe he was five
feet tall, I don't know. But the scripture said he was
of little stature. And he ran before and climbed
up a sycamore tree to see him. God will even use a sycamore
tree. He will use whatever means he's pleased to cross the path
of his people. And this man climbed up this
sycamore tree for he was to pass that way to see him. And when
Jesus came to the place, verse five, here he stands right beneath
that sycamore tree. And there was probably others
in that tree, don't you think? Don't you think maybe the children
are notorious for climbing trees, aren't they? There were probably
others up in that tree, but the Lord Jesus Christ had his heart
on that one center right there. Zacchaeus, I know you. I've loved you. I've chosen you
in that eternal covenant of grace. You're mine. You're mine. And I came here to save you. And when Jesus came to the place,
he looked up and saw him. And said unto him, How do you
know his name? How do you know his name was
Zacchaeus? Did somebody tell him that? The Lord has known
his people from everlasting. He knows his sheep by name. And he calls them out. Zacchaeus!
Make haste, come down, for today I must. This is a must. Salvation is a must. How shall
we escape if we neglect so great salvation? I must abide at your
house. I'm going to go home with you.
Now, it was a sovereign call to a notorious sinner. It was
a call of grace, wasn't it? It was a call of mercy. Zacchaeus
was a bad man. who lived in a bad city, Jericho,
and he was in a bad business. He was a chief tax collector,
he was probably the boss of Matthew, you know Matthew the gospel writer,
one of the apostles, you remember Matthew was a publican. We studied
that in the book of Matthew, didn't we? Matthew chapter 9. When Matthew was sitting at the
receipt of customs, and he was taking in money, the Lord Jesus
Christ walked up to the table and said, Matthew, follow me. And he dropped everything and
followed the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord used him as the apostle.
And Zacchaeus was probably the boss of Matthew. Zacchaeus probably
wondered one day when Matthew went missing from work, where'd
you go? What happened to you? Oh, I'm
following the Lord Jesus Christ. Maybe Matthew had planted that
seed of the word in the heart of Zacchaeus. Maybe that's how
we heard about this man. Matthew also was a tax collector. Yet even though Zacchaeus was
a bad man, living in a bad city, in a bad business, this man was
a guilty man, a sinful man, yet this man's sinfulness did not
deter the Lord Jesus Christ from crossing his path and calling
him out. We must understand that our sins
don't keep us from Christ. Did you hear that? Our sins don't
keep us from the Lord Jesus Christ. He came to save sinners. Sinners He came to save. Turn
to Luke chapter 5. Let's see if we can find that.
Luke chapter 5 verse 27. Luke chapter 5 verse 27. Here's a story that I just told
you about. In Luke 5, 27, after these things, he went forth and
saw a publican named Levi. We know this is Matthew, sitting
at the receipt of customs. And he said unto him, follow
me. And he left all and rose up and followed him. And Levi
made a great feast in his own house. And there was a great
company of publicans and others that sat down with them. But
the scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples saying,
why do you eat? and drank with publicans and
sinners. And the Lord answered them, they
that are whole need not a physician, but they who are sick. I came
not to call the righteous sinners to repentance." Sinners to repentance. Sinners to repentance. Look over
here at Luke 15 verse 1. Luke 15, verse 1. You see, it's
not our sin that keeps us from Christ, it's our self-righteousness
that keeps us from Christ. It's our self-righteousness that
keeps us from Christ. Look at Luke 15, verse 1. Then drew near unto him all publicans
and sinners. For to hear him, and the Pharisees
and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and
he eats with them. He does what? He receives sinners. He's called a friend of publicans
and sinners. And here's my thought on that.
No sinner is too vile. No sinner is too mean. No sinner
is too wicked, too wild. There's no case to the Lord Jesus
Christ cannot heal. You know why? He came to save
sinners. He came to save the worst of
the worst. He came to heal and to save and
to make us new creatures in Christ Jesus. Turn over to Luke chapter
4. You remember when he went to
his hometown there in Nazareth? to worship the true and living
God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In Luke chapter 4,
you look at verse 16, he came to Nazareth where he'd been brought
up, and as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on a
Sabbath day, stood up for the read, and they would deliver
him, unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah, And when he had
opened the book, he found the place where it was written, Isaiah
61, verse 10, the place where he had written, The Spirit of
the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach
the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach the labyrinth to the captive, recovering sight to
the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. It's a
priest's acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book
and gave it to the minister and sat down. And the eyes of all
of them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And it
began to say unto them, this day is this Scripture fulfilled
in your ears. The Spirit of the Lord was upon
him and anointed him that he might come and save his people
from their sin. So we know the Lord Jesus Christ
came to save sinners, right? We know the scripture said that
Christ died for the ungodly. God committed His love toward
us, and while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Now the question
for us is this. Are we sinners? Are we sinners? Born in sin, shaped in iniquity. Are we sinners by practice and
choice and birth? Yes, we are. We're guilty. were
guilty. The Lord Jesus Christ died for
the ungodly. When we were yet without strength
in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. In Luke chapter
8, we won't turn and read it, but you remember the wild man
in the tombs There in Gadarene, he was naked and wild and nobody
could tame him and they chained him up and he just broke the
chains. He was demon possessed and everybody thought, well there's
no hope for that man. That man's a goner. He's gone. Until he met the Lord Jesus Christ. And when the Lord saved him by
his grace, they came and they saw that wild man sitting at
the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ before he was running wild. Clothed
and in his right mind, a mind that believes the gospel of Christ. I'm saying there's no case too
desperate. Since God saved this sinner,
I like what Newton said, One of John Newton's preaching friends,
William Jay, came to Newton one day and said, Have you heard
the news? God in His marvelous grace saved that notorious sinner
down there in Bath County. And he said to John Newton, I'll
never despair of God's mercy again. Since God saved that sinner,
He can save any sinner. And Newton said, Brother Jay,
since God saved this sinner, I'm never despaired of God's
mercy saving any sinner. If God saved me, He can save
you. I'm the chief of sinners. So
we see the Lord Jesus Christ, no case too desperate for Him.
He's able to save to the uttermost all that come to God by Him.
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all that temptation,
the Lord Jesus Christ came to save sinners, and Paul said,
I'm the chief one. It says in Luke 9, verse 11,
the Lord healed all them that had need of healing. He never
turned one mercy beggar away. That ought to encourage us. He
never turned... I read through this book, and
I never turned one who came to the Lord with a need and asked
for mercy. What blind Bartimaeus say? Thou
son of David! And the Lord healed him. I'm
a blind man. I need my sight. We never read
of one being turned away that came to the Lord seeking mercy.
That will encourage us to come boldly to the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in our time
of need. Here's the second thing I want
us to consider. This call of the gospel in the hands of God
the Holy Spirit is a personal call. It's called a high calling,
a heavenly calling, it's a holy calling, but it's a personal
call. The foundation of God standeth
sure, having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are His. Verse
5, when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, Zacchaeus,
and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste. and come down for
today I must abide at your house. The Lord knows his sheep by name
and he calls them out of darkness into his marvelous light. He
said to Jeremiah, before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. And I ordained you. God has loved
His people with an everlasting love. He wrote our name, the
name of all God's elect, or written in the book of life from the
foundation of the world. He's always known our name. He's
always known us. We read a moment ago, all that
the Father giveth to me, they'll come to me, and those that come
to me, I'll never cast them out. They're one with Him. Now, the
point I'm making here is this call of the gospel is a personal
call. I'll give you some examples.
We read a moment ago, he said, Matthew, follow me. Lazarus, who had died, you remember
Mary and Martha, their brother? Lazarus died, had been in the
grave four days, and the Lord Jesus Christ walked up to the
mouth of that grave and said, remove the stone. Wait a minute,
he's been dead four days, his body's rotten. Removed the stone,
and he said, Lazarus, come forth. There's the command of God. And
the scripture said, he that was dead came forth. There was a
personal call. Lazarus, come forth. Someone
said, if he just said, come forth, all the dead people would come
forth. But he called Lazarus, come forth. And Lazarus came
forth. He called Zacchaeus down out
of that tree. Zacchaeus made haste and came
down. That's the personal, powerful call of God the Holy Spirit. Zacchaeus was one of those chosen
in the covenant of grace before the foundation of the world.
He was a spiritual son of Abraham. As it says in verse 9, this day
is salvation come to this house for as much as he also is the
son of Abraham. All those Jews standing around
there were sons of Abraham. They were descendants of Abraham.
but they all weren't sons of Abraham in a spiritual sense,
the spiritual seed of Israel. He was a spiritual son of Abraham
whose name was written in the book of life, who must have salvation
by the Lord's purpose, power, providence, and grace. Let's
see if we can find that in the scripture. Let's turn over here
to 2 Thessalonians. 2 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians
chapter 2. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, look
at verse 13. We are bound to give thanks always
to God for you brethren, beloved of the Lord. because God hath
from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification
of the Spirit and belief of the truth." There's that truth again. No lie is the truth. No lie can be the truth. "...the Spirit and belief of
the truth, whereunto He called you by our gospel to the obtaining
of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ." There's the call of
the gospel again. We believe the Gospel. We believe
the truth because we've been chosen. We've been sanctified
by God the Holy Spirit. What is that? That's regeneration.
The fruit of that is belief in the truth. He called you by our
Gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. The third thing I want us to
consider is this, verse 5. He says in our text here, It was a humbling call, wasn't
it? It was a humbling call. Make Hastings come down. Come
down. For today is the day of salvation. It was a humbling call. Make
haste and come down. When the Lord is pleased to call
us with the gospel, we'll be convicted of our sin. He'll show
us and teach us that we're guilty before God. We will own what
we are, sinners, and we will bow to the sovereign throne of
God. We won't be like that Pharisee
who bragged on himself in Luke 18 and went home condemned. We'll be like that publican who
cried for mercy and went to his house justified. You remember
the story of Saul of Tarsus? how he was on his way to persecute. He had special letters, permission
to go to Damascus to arrest believers who called upon the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ and arrest them and put them in prison.
And guess what happened? He met the Lord Jesus Christ.
And the Lord unhorsed him, put him in the dust, made him to
cry out, Lord, what would you have me to do? You know who that
man later became? The Apostle Paul. Saul of Tarsus,
that old proud, arrogant Pharisee who hated the Lord Jesus Christ,
hated the true God of Scripture. When he met the Master, when
he met the Lord, he's in the dust, bowing in submission. Lord, what would you have me
to do? Before the Lord lifts us up, He must bring us down
before His throne. Before the Lord clothes us with
His righteousness, He must strip us naked and make us to know
that we're guilty sinners before God. Let every mouth be stopped
and all the world become guilty before God. Before the Lord heals
us by His mighty grace, you know what He does? He wounds us with
the sword of the Spirit and He operates us upon us with his
word. Before the Lord speaks in grace
to our heart, he makes us to know that we deserve nothing
but judgment. The wages of sin is death, but
the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. We know that we're guilty. We
know that we deserve judgment. We know that the Lord sent us
to eternal condemnation. That's exactly what we deserve.
Guilty. But by His grace, He makes us
objects of His love and objects of His mercy. So it's a humbling
call, isn't it? Zacchaeus, get down. Submit to
the Lord. And that's what we do because
He's called us irresistibly, effectually with the Gospel.
He makes us willing in the day of His power. Here's something
else. It was an abiding call, a lasting
call, verse 5. I must abide at thy house. In
our salvation, this is a must. Christ must abide, and He does
within us. Christ in you is the hope of
glory. When He saves us by His grace,
He takes up residency in our heart. He makes us new creatures
in Christ Jesus. The Lord Jesus Christ has done
a work of grace for us upon Calvary's tree, but He also must do a work
of grace within us, in our heart. to make us new creatures. By
nature we don't love God. By nature we don't believe God.
He must give us faith. He must give us love for Him. And that's what He does. We experience
His salvation by application of grace to the heart. God who
has begun a good work in you. He's done that work of grace
for us upon Calvary Street. But He also must do that work
of grace in us. convicting us, regenerating us,
making us new creatures in Christ Jesus. This call was an effectual
call. At the command of make haste
and come down, Zacchaeus make haste and come down, that was
an effectual call, was it not? My sheep hear my voice, I know
them, they follow me. Zacchaeus was not invited to
come down, The sovereign king of the universe does not invite
men to do things, he commands as the king of kings. We read
in Psalm 33, he spake and it was done, he commanded, and it
stood fast. I love the story of King David. When he came to the throne as
anointed king, and when he made good on his word to his friend
Jonathan, Jonathan and David made a covenant, remember? And
Jonathan said, David, God's going to make you the king on the throne,
and when He does, would you remember my family? Jonathan had one son who was
crippled, lame on his feet, and when David came to the throne,
he remembered that word of the covenant, and he called Old Mephibosheth,
come to me. How did he come? They brought
him. We call that fetching grace. Fetching grace. And when Mephiboshep
came before David, he fell on his face and said, what am I? Such a dead dog as I am. Oh, you're one of those covenant
children. I made a promise to your dad. I'm going to show you
mercy for Jonathan's sake. And that's exactly the gospel
story. The Lord Jesus Christ saves us
for Christ's sake. His namesake. His namesake. This was an effectual call. It
was a command of God to come down. And notice the effect it
had on Zacchaeus. He made haste and he came down
and he received the Lord joyfully. You see that in verse 6? This
is a fruit of grace, rejoicing in the Lord. And the Pharisees,
they murmured and complained, as they usually do, but this
man received the Lord Jesus Christ with joy in his heart. That's
what saving faith does. Saving faith doesn't accomplish
salvation. Saving faith receives him who
did accomplish salvation. This effectual, invincible call
of the Gospel was a converting call. Look at verse 8. Zacchaeus,
now he's a changed man. He's met the Master. God's given
him a new heart, a new mind, a new will. And Zacchaeus said
to the Lord, Behold Lord, the half of my goods I'm going to
give to the poor. Before he was on a take, now
he's given. He's given. Why? He's received
mercy. Behold Lord, the half of my goods
I give to the poor. And if I've taken anything, from
any man by false accusation, and you can be assured he did,
I'm going to restore unto him four times more than what I took
away from him. Why would he do that? To earn
salvation? To earn mercy? No, because he
received mercy. Those who have been forgiven,
they forgive. Those who have received mercy
are merciful to others. Those who have received grace
are gracious to others. And that's what we see in He
was a changed man. Once he loved all that money,
now he's a lover of the Lord Jesus Christ. God brought a change
in his heart. That old hard-hearted publican
who took money from others wants to give it back. Now he's a generous
giver, made willing in the day of God's power. Now here's the
last thing. The effectual call was the result
of this eternal covenant. Verse 9 and 10. The Lord said
to him, this day is salvation. Come to this house because he's
one of those spiritual sons of Abraham. The Son of Man. The God-Man. The Mediator. The
Son of God became the Son of Man that sons of men might be
made sons of God. For the Son of Man has come to
seek and to save the lost. You're a son of Abraham. Zacchaeus
was more than a natural descendant of Abraham. He was a spiritual
son of Abraham, one chosen in that eternal covenant of grace.
They which be of faith, Paul writes in Galatians 3, they which
be of faith the same are the children of Abraham. All of God's
elect are spiritual sons of Abraham. He is a Jew which is one inwardly,
and that circumcision is of the heart. You know, you're looking
at a Jew, I've been circumcised in the
heart. I'm one of the Lord's covenant
children. Abraham, a spiritual son of Abraham.
This is a biography of every sinner saved by the grace of
God. For the Lord Jesus Christ is on a mission of mercy to call
out his elect among the fallen sons of Adam. He came to seek
and to save the lost. And He's going to save every
one of them for whom He died. My sheep hear My voice. I give
them eternal life. And they shall never perish.
Let me show you a Scripture that comes to my mind here just while
we're closing. And I'll quit with this. But
turn to John chapter 10 for just a minute. Let me show you what
I'm talking about. John chapter 10. Those Jews murmured and complained. In John chapter 10 verse 22.
John 10, 22, it was Jerusalem. It was at Jerusalem, the Feast
of the Dedication. It was winter. And Jesus walked
in the temple on Solomon's porch. Then came the Jews round about
Him and said unto Him, How long dost Thou make us to doubt, if
Thou be the Christ? Tell us plainly. And He said,
I told you, and ye believe not the works that I do. in my Father's
name. I told you. But you believe not. Why? You believe not because
you're not one of my sheep. As I said to you, my sheep. Zacchaeus
was one of those sheep. Matthew was one of those sheep.
My sheep, hear my voice. I know them. And they follow
me and I give unto them eternal life. And they shall never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father which
gave to me is greater than all. No man can pluck them out of
my Father's hand. Oh, I and my Father are one."
Then the Jews took up stone to stone him again. You do not believe
because the Lord said, you're not one of my sheep. You're not
one of those spiritual sons of Abraham. I came to seek and to
save my people. And he got the job done.