07/04/2025
✝️🇳🇬 CHURCH OF NIGERIA
(ANGLICAN COMMUNION)
DAILY FOUNTAIN DEVOTIONAL
Date: Monday, April 7, 2025
✝️📖: TOPIC: MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE
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✝️TEXT: John 10:22-42(NKJV)
10:22. Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter.
10:23. And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.
10:24. Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him, "How long do You keep us in doubt? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly."
10:25. Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's name, they bear witness of Me.
10:26. "But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.
10:27. "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
10:28. "And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone sn**ch them out of My hand.
10:29. "My Father, who has given [them] to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to sn**ch [them] out of My Father's hand.
10:30. "I and [My] Father are one."
10:31. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
10:32. Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?"
10:33. The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."
10:34. Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods" '?
10:35. "If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),
10:36. "do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?
10:37. "If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
10:38. "but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father [is] in Me, and I in Him."
10:39. Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.
10:40. And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and there He stayed.
10:41. Then many came to Him and said, "John performed no sign, but all the things that John spoke about this Man were true."
10:42. And many believed in Him there.
✝️📜 STUDY: The events of today's reading took place during the Feast of Dedication. This festival, which was held on the 25th day of the Jewish ninth month of Kislev (around December), was introduced to mark the re-consecration of the temple after it was polluted centuries earlier. Solomon's Porch of the temple was also where the lame man was healed through Peter and John, and a regular meeting room of the early disciples (v.23; Acts 3:11; 5:12).
The Jews wanted Jesus to tell them clearly if He was the expected Messiah. But Jesus' response showed that the unbelief of the Jews prevented them from accepting him as the Messiah. The Jews were expecting a political Messiah who would deliver them from the Romans (John 6:15), but Jesus' kingship is not of this world. Rather, He came to give eternal life to those who hear his voice. Do you hear the voice of the Master which comes to us regularly as we read through the Scriptures, listen to sermons or participate in various Christian activities? Let our attention each time be to hear Him speaking to us. That is when we can reap the benefits of eternal life and union with God (vv. 28-30).
✝️🙏 PRAYER: O Lord, help me to hear your voice always, and to follow you closely, Amen!
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