The Good Shepherd John 10:28-31
• I give-Not Will Give
• Them-The Possessors Not Professors
• Eternal life-A Byproduct of Salvation, Never Obtained Apart from Christ
• Never perish-Indeed Not Ever Be Destroyed or Lost
• Neither shall any man (autos)-A Reference to a Definite Person, Place, Thing or Concept
• Pluck them out of my hand-Snatch; Security is In the Ability of the Shepherd
• The Security of God’s Sheep is Assured:
• By Definition
• By Gifting
• By Promise of God
• The Good Shepherd Has a Threefold Relationship to His Sheep:
• Loving Relationship because He Died for the Sheep
• Living Relationship Because He cares for the Sheep
• Lasting Relationship Because Not a One is Lost
• Is greater than all-Supreme Authority and Power
• No man is able-Confidence
• Out of my Father’s hand-Double Protection
• I and my Father are one-Deity
• Are one-Unity, Not Identity
• One in Essence
• Jewish Belief Punished Statements Like This as Blasphemy (Lev 24:16)
• Stone him-Hostility
• Jews took up stones-Carried in Their Hands
• Again-A Second and More Desperate Attack (Jn 8:59)