according to John. John 10. I'd like to look at one verse,
verse 30 this morning. John 10, verse 30. The Lord Jesus Christ speaking And
he says, I and my Father are one. Now, the Lord had been speaking
to a group of unbelieving Jews, and He said in verse 27, He says,
My sheep is sheep, sheep by gift from the Father, Sheep by purchase
by His blood. And sheep by a willing consent
in the day of His power, calling them to Himself. My sheep hear
my voice. They have ears to hear the voice
of the Lord Jesus Christ in the gospel. of grace. My sheep hear my voice. They
hear my speech. They hear my direction. They
know me. I know them. Now, he said in
verse 5 of this chapter, he said that strangers, they're not going
to follow. And you know that. You that know
Him, you know You hear the voice of a stranger. You hear the voice
of one that doesn't honor Almighty God in all things. You hear the voice of one that
gives glory unto man. And you're not going to listen
to that. I'm not going to hear that. My
sheep hear my voice and they follow me. They follow me in
the truth of regeneration. They follow me. A believer hears,
salvation is all of grace. You say, that's the one I follow. Salvation is of the Lord. That's
who I follow. Salvation is not of man. He's
the one I'm following. Salvation is eternal. That's
who I'm following right there. They follow me. And I give, verse
28, I give. They don't earn it and they can't
lose it. I give unto them eternal life
right now. The believer possesses eternal
life right now. Life eternal from the Lord Himself,
from God. He who is God. Nobody can give eternal life
save He who is life. Eternal life Himself. I'm the way, I'm the truth, I'm
the life. No man comes to the Father but
by Me. My sheep hear My voice, they
follow Me, and they shall never perish. In Christ. His body. Never perish. Robed in His righteousness. They're holy. Made, created,
born of God. Now here's an amazing thought. When God gives a man, gives a
woman a new heart. Born from above. Born of God. That which is born of God does
not sin. That new man does not sin. Now, I will tell you this. A
believer sees his old man. He sees that old man and he readily
admits with the Apostle Paul, I know that in me, that is in
my flesh, There dwells no good thing. I know that. But I do
know this. That which is born of God doesn't
sin. And it's not going to perish.
You have, you that know Him, you that believe, you have a
new nature. Right now. You have eternal life
right now. that will see Him. And when the
veil of this old flesh falls off, and we see no more by faith,
right now we know in part, we see in part, we see through a
glass darkly, but there's a new man there that knows God. He's not going to perish. You
have, you possess, you have the earnest of God's Spirit right
now. The promise of eternal life.
You possess it right now, and that man, that new creature,
is going to be with God. Job said, I'm going to see God.
These eyes. These eyes changed. These eyes
made new. This flesh. These hands. He's going to change us. He's
going to make a new man. But it's going to be you. That which God has made. Never
going to perish. Never going to perish because
it's born of God. Never going to perish because
we're in His hand. Verse 28, neither shall any man
pluck them out of My hand. No one's going to pluck anybody
that Almighty God has everlastingly loved. They're not going to take
them away from Him. Look at verse 29, My Father which gave them
Me is greater than all. I began to think, greater than
what? Greater than all. Greater than all! What? Name
anything! Man, demon, universe, circumstances,
whatever, whatever. My Father which gave them Me
is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of
My Father's hand. those that the Father gave me
in grace, in election. All that the Father chose to
salvation, 2 Thessalonians 2.13, greater. No man is able to pluck
them out of His hand. My sheep, He said, are in My
hand and in the Father's hand that you could just Try to contemplate
that and come to the fullness of that understanding. I'm telling
you, that's eternal security. Somebody say, how do you describe
the hand of Almighty God? He said, they're in my hand.
No man can take them out of my hand or in the Father's hand,
and nobody can take them out of the Father's hand. There's
no Scripture that sets forth the truth. Any man that just
says that a believer can be saved and then lost again, just walk
away. Don't argue with him. Know and
be kept by the power of God. I'm so thankful for that scripture. It comes to my mind so many times.
When I wrestle with myself, and I know you that know of you do
too, I'm so thankful I think of two Scriptures really. Lord,
if You should mark inequity, who could stand? Lord, if You
counted, if You charged this to my count, who could stand
before You? Blessed is the man to whom the
Lord will not impute sin. You say, yeah, but I'm a sinner.
I know that. But let me tell you, the blessing
of Christ being made sin for His people, God doesn't charge
you with it. He doesn't charge you with it.
Somebody says, if I believed that, then I'd just live like
the devil. No, if God gave you a new heart,
He'd break you. That's what He would do. No. They follow me. I know them. They hear my voice. They follow me. Our Lord made
this glorious statement concerning His sheep and their eternal security. And then He gave this blessed
Scripture that we will look at for just a few minutes concerning
the unity between Himself and the Father. He said, I and my
Father. And actually, if you look, it
says really in verse 30, it says, and in my is in italics, it says,
I and Father are one. I and Father are one. I know this. I know that that the Scripture
sets forth the blessed Trinity. The Scripture sets forth that
there's three that bear record in heaven. The Father, the Word,
the Spirit. These three are one. I can't
and no one this side of glory. can express the fullness of the
understanding of the Trinity. But I do know this, God is one
God, pleased to manifest Himself in three distinct persons. One God. So the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit are set forth in Scripture as being one God. And here the Lord Jesus Christ
declares that He and the Father, and of course not to the exclusion
of the Holy Spirit, are one. One. One God. Three manifestations. Three persons. I know that the
Father is God. The Scripture says, For the meat
which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting
life." That food. Don't labor after food. Don't
labor after filling yourself upon. Not physically. Spiritually. But for that meat
which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall
give unto you, for Him hath God the Father sealed." I know that
the Father is God. I know that the Lord Jesus, the
Son, is God. I know that Jesus Christ is God. Behold, a virgin shall be with
child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his
name Immanuel, which being interpreted is God with us." God! I think about when John wrote,
he said, we've beheld His glory. We've touched Him. Who do men
say that I am, Peter? Well, some say that you're Jeremias.
Some say you're this prophet, that prophet. He said, who do
you say I am? He said, I say that you're the Anointed One.
You're the Christ. You're God. You're God with men. We're looking at Almighty God.
That's what Peter said. And he said, Peter, flesh and
blood teach you that. My Father which is in heaven.
I know that the Holy Spirit is God. John 4.24, it says, God
is a spirit. And they that worship Him must
worship Him in spirit and in truth. So when we speak of God,
we speak of Father, Son, and Spirit. One. One God. One in purpose. One in power. One in will? God. Almighty God. Let me read Isaiah
9 for you. I'm sorry, Isaiah 46. I'll read
this. Isaiah 46, verses 9 to 11. Here's Almighty God. One in purpose.
One in power. One in will. Isaiah 46, verse
9. Remember the former things of
old. For I am God, and there is none
else. I am God. There is none like
me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times
the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand,
and I will do all My pleasure, calling a ravenous bird from
the east, the man that executeth My counsel from a far country.
Yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass, I have
purposed it, I will also do it. Here is what Almighty God says
forth. That which I purpose, that which
I will, I will bring it to pass. God Almighty. One. God the Father, God the Son,
God the Spirit. God purposes, God accomplishes. One in nature. One in nature, character, constitution. What is the nature? What is the
character of Father, Son, and Spirit? Holy. Holy. I want you to turn to Isaiah
6. Isaiah chapter 6. I want you
to look at this. Isaiah 6, verse 1 to 3. I want you to look at this, the
wording of Scripture. We look in the Old Testament
and you see capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D. Whenever you see all those four
letters capitalized, that is setting forth Jehovah. Father, Son, and Spirit. If you see capital L, little
o, little r, little d, that is the fullness of the Godhead bodily
in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Okay? All caps, Father, Son, Spirit. Capital L, little o, little r,
little d, the Lord Jesus Christ, the fullness of God. Knowing
that, Isaiah 6, verse 1, In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord. I saw Christ. I saw Jesus Christ
the Lord. sitting upon a throne, high and
lifted up. And his train filled the temple. And above it stood the seraphims,
each one with six wings. And with twain he covered his
face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did
fly. And one cried unto the other
and said to the Lord Jesus Christ, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Jehovah. I thought it was talking about
Christ. It is. Who is He? He's Jehovah. The Lord of hosts. The whole
earth is full of His glory. Who is He? He's God. Father, Son, Spirit, the fullness
of the Godhead bodily. There is God Himself in human
flesh. Almighty God enthroned. Christ victorious sitting And
the Lord says back in John 10, verse 30, I and the Father are
one. Is the Father the mighty God? So is the Son. Isaiah 9, verse
6, For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given. The government
shall be upon His shoulder. His name. The One who is the
Son given. The one who is the child born.
His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the
Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. That's who He is. He said, Philip, John 14, 9,
He that has seen Me has seen the Father. before Abraham was. I am. I mean, we began to talk about
Jehovah and the Lord Jesus Christ, the fullness of Father, Son,
Spirit, three manifestations, one God. And the more we look
into this mystery, the marvel of the oneness of Almighty God
in three persons, And people listened to that and they said,
that doesn't make sense. I said, we believe Him. We believe
God. This is what God said. This is
what Almighty God says. Is the Father omniscient? Is He all-knowing? That's what
it means. Does He know everything? Sure He does. So is the Son. Peter said unto Him, Lord, Thou
knowest all things. Thou knowest that I love thee."
Matthew 9, for Jesus knowing their thoughts, said, Wherefore
think ye evil in your hearts? He knew. You think we're fooling
Him this morning? You think He doesn't know what
we think? You think we don't know? We're naked before Him. All things
are known. Is the Father immutable? Is He
unchanging? The Scripture says Jesus Christ
the same yesterday, today, and forever. So the whole tenor of
Scripture, John 5.21 is this, that all men should honor the
Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son
honoreth not the Father that sent Him. Mr. Hawker said this
in closing. The sacred three in one. have
eternally entered into covenant engagement with each other to
bring about the accomplishment of the same design. The Father
is spoken of as God who chose the bride for Christ. Now that's
the way the Scripture sets it forth. The Father chose and gave
to the Son That's what God said. The Scripture sets forth that
the Son, in covenant agreement, would come into this world, made
of a woman, made under the law, would assume the form of sinful
flesh. No sin. But He looked just like
His people. Flesh. Just like they had. But
it had no sin to it. And He came into this world and
lived and died for them. Lived establishing righteousness
for them as their federal head. Earned a righteousness that God
imputes to them. And He went to the cross and
was made sin. Bore their guilt and put it away
in covenant agreement. And the Spirit of God in covenant
agreement said, I'll call them out. I'll quicken them in due
time when it pleases God, when it pleases the Father and the
Son and the Spirit. I'll call them. And I'll keep
them. I'll seal them. And I'll teach
them. And I'll teach them for Christ Himself, God Almighty
says. Three distinct offices. One God. Manifest their unity and oneness
in the setting forth of the Lord Jesus Christ, God Almighty. One in glory. God saves His people. I want you to listen to this
last verse. One of the most amazing verses. I read this in Acts 20. Take heed, therefore,
unto yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost
hath made you overseers." Now listen to this wording, "...to
feed the church of God which He purchased with His own blood." The blood of God? God, in glorious union with humanity,
bled and died, putting away the guilt of His people. A body was prepared Him, a body
such that His human nature did What God, apart from flesh, could
not do? Die. Somebody says, well, that
wasn't God that actually died. My friend, be real careful. Be real careful what you say. The Lord Jesus Christ, God, the fullness of the Godhead
bodily. The Scripture says, to feed the
church of God which He purchased with His own blood. The blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ shed at Calvary was God Almighty. A deity bled through humanity? I'm telling you, that's our hope. My friend, the more we see of
the wonder of His substitutionary death, the more we realize, Lord,
I believe Help mine unbelief. Almighty God, the fullness that
Isaiah said, I saw Him. I saw Him sitting on the throne. I saw God's Christ high and lifted
up. And the seraphim cried, Holy,
Holy, Holy. is the Lord, capital L, capital
O, capital R, capital T. The whole earth is full of His
glory. Who was that on that cross? I'll
tell you who that was. That was God in human flesh. Lord, teach us. Teach us to bow. Teach us to
see. Lord, teach us to long after.
I want to be corrected. I want to be taught. Lord, and
forgive me for my fickle thoughts that think less of You than You
are. For Christ's sake, Amen.