João 10
R.C. Sproul · Citado em PreceptAustin
João 10
Sproul - Some biblical commentators look at this text and say that when Jesus spoke of thieves and robbers, He referred to false messiahs or to the Devil. I don’t think so; this comment is far more pointed than that. Remember, this comment came right on the heels of a very heated discussion between Jesus and the Pharisees about the man born blind. This is the context. Jesus addressed those whom God had called to be the shepherds over His flock, the clergy of His day, who had so recently cast the healed man out of the synagogue, rejecting a sheep in the flock of God. Jesus called these clergy, the Pharisees, thieves and robbers. (BORROW John) Steven
João 10
Sproul explains that Adam jumped into the pit and in Adam, we all jumped in with him. God imputed Adam’s sin to the entire human race. We’re helplessly incapacitated by our sin, but at the same time God holds us responsible to repent and believe. (Secure Forever) A T Robertson on because you are not My sheep - This had been the point in the allegory of the Good Shepherd. In fact, they were the children of the devil in spirit and conduct (John 8:43), pious ecclesiastics though they seemed, veritable wolves in sheep's clothing (Matthew 7:15). Hendriksen on do not believe...not of My sheep - You do not believe what these works so clearly teach. That failure to believe, that open hostility, is their sin. For this they—and they alone—are fully responsible. Nevertheless, there is also the factor of divine predestination: “you do not believe because you are not of my sheep.” The sheep of the good shepherd are those who had been given to him by the Father (John 10:29; cf. Jn 6:37+, Jn 6:44+). They listen to the shepherd’s voice and follow him (John 10:3, 4+). Returning to the angle of the divine decree, note the following: Whereas all men have sinned in Adam, lie under the curse, and are deserving of everlasting death, no one can ever charge God with injustice for having left some to perish, while he chose others out of this mass of corruption to be his own. We confess, of course, that it is not possible for us to harmonize the two lines which run parallel in Scripture (and sometimes, as here, even in one verse: Jn 10:26!): human responsibility, on the one hand, and divine predestination, on the other. To deny either is foolish. Both lines are clearly drawn by Jesus, by John (and by Scripture in general; cf. Luke 22:22+; Acts 2:23+), and this again and again. (BORROW Exposition of the Gospel according to John, PAGE 120) Steven