 In the past you've seen me highlight a particular passage in regards to eternal security that I regard as the undefeated text. John 10 28. I use that passage often because as of yet I still have not found anyone to give an argument against the Greek. Well let me say this. I think I now have a new favorite verse. I know it sounds shocking but I think I found a new favorite verse. As a matter of fact interestingly enough it employs a little bit of the same rule. As a matter of fact not a little bit it actually employs the same rule and I've covered it before but even more so now the more that I look at it I think this is an awesome verse. I think this shows the links that God goes through to keep us saved him doing so and then we're going to look at another passage also I think that also accompanies it. So let's go to John 10. It's still in John 10 and let's read it. He says truly truly this is Jesus speaking. Now this is him speaking. I say to you he who does not enter by the sheep door into the fold of the sheep but climbs up some other way he is a thief and a robber but he who not I think he's speaking of Satan but he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. Well who is the shepherd of the sheep? That will obviously be Jesus. To him the doorkeeper opens and the sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name and leaves him out now. He's describing this as not a condition. This could not be taken out even grammatically that the sheep have to hear his voice in order to follow him. That's not what it says. The sheep hear his voice. That's not a condition. This is stating what they do. The sheep are hearing. They are listening however you want to take it. They are listening but they hear his voice and he calls them. That clearly is also not a condition. It's not that if he calls them says that this is what he does. He calls who he calls his sheep by name. In other words he calls a sheep Corey, Frank, Mary, Sue, Sheila, Terry. He calls you by name and leads them out. He is leading them. Who's he leading out the sheep? When he puts forth all his own his own what? His own sheep. Meaning the sheep belong to him. We'll talk about how the sheep belong to him in the first place. He goes ahead of them and what happened? What did he say? The sheep follow him. It doesn't say the sheep have to follow him. The sheep if they want to be a sheep they must follow him. He's stating what the sheep do. The sheep follow him. As a matter of fact, he even says why the sheep follow him. Which indicates that there is no condition that is put upon the sheep in order to be sheep. They just are sheep and they follow them. Why do they follow them? This word here the Greek word that's to the right that you see is the word hattim because they know his voice. It didn't say they if they know his voice they'll follow him. That's not you cannot take it that way. The sheep follow him because they know his voice. Now I'm saying a lot and I have not gotten to my favorite verse but this leads into it. What's your favorite verse Corey? Well glad you asked. It's the very next verse verse 5. Look what he says. A stranger they simply will not follow but will flee from him because their word hattim is there again because they do not know the voice of the stranger. Now in John 10 28 I invoke the the rule this emphatic negation of a subjunctive meaning if you use that umay two negatives I'm sorry a double negative two negatives in front of a subjunctive then what you are doing is you are negating the possibility of this happening in the future. That's the key especially that last part. You negate the possibility of it happening in the future. It's an emphatic negation. There's no way to get around it. Those who try to get around it such as in 10 28 they'll point to a different verse rather than 10 28. So here's how we know one now I still love 10 28 but here's how we know that my understanding it's not just my I can't find a greek grammarian who says different there would be there would be someone who has a a degree a master's or even a doctorate but they're not grammarians who would disagree and they don't deal with the with the text but here's another text for them or others to disagree with. In verse 5 he says a stranger they simply will not follow. Well this word simply actually is not there. The word that's used there is the word for follow it is the greek word aklu feisussen. This is a plural future active indicative. Now I stated the rule previously about this emphatic negation. There are two ways to emphatically negate something to say that it is impossible for it to happen. One a double negation in front of a subjunctive. A subjunctive is a word that conveys potentiality probability so you negate even the possibility the probability the possibility of it happening even in the future. The other way that's also a way to say in the greek that it's impossible to happen is to have a double negation in front of a future active indicative in other ways this will never happen in the future either. So here's what we have here we have this future active indicative that has this double negation ume and then this this greek word aklu feisussen he says that because of this he says they will never ever ever ever ever follow a stranger but what will they do they will flee and oh by the way this is also a this is a future this is a future tense but it's a middle voice so they will never follow this person i'm sorry they will flee they absolutely will flee they will free from it or from him or whomever so whatever is going to cause a person whatever you think that would cause a person to stop believing to stop following to stop listening to stop bearing fruit whatever it is it's got to be something on the outside versus something on the inside we know what we have on the inside if you're a believer you have the holy spirit and so here you are walking if you indeed are saved that is if indeed you are saved then what is going to draw you away what is going to captivate your attention what is going to get you to possibly return to your old nature whatever it is whatever that voice is whatever that calling is he says you simply will not follow but you will flee why because they do not know the voice of the stranger but they do know we do know the sheep do know the voice of Jesus this is what he was saying and so this even emphatically rejects the possibility of anyone walking with or going towards a stranger a strange voice sin in the future he says a stranger a stranger they simply would not follow something foreign something belonging to another something strange something that is not theirs so we say stranger it doesn't necessarily mean a person who they won't follow know anything that is foreign to the spirit anything that is foreign to our lifestyle that's literally what this word means this word a lot trio i'm sorry a lot trio which is anything that's foreign anything that is strange belonging to something else which would be sin which would be of the world so anything of that nature he says verse five we simply will not follow and he gives the most emphatic way to say it cannot happen now or in the future and we know what can happen in the future because again this is a future active indicative so it negates it happening in the future interestingly enough you someone might even want to ask well how was that possible correct how how do you know what someone is going to do in the future well because we are saved because we have the Holy Spirit there's a passage that we don't really equate to this topic as often as we should we should so let's go to roman's eight and see if this passage makes sense in light of what i just said paul says and we know that god the active agent causes he's the one he causes all things to work together for good to those who love god so it's god that is whatever's happening he will cause it to work together for the good of who those who love him so let's say if you are a believer you love the lord on day one there are those that will contend that you won't it's possible to not love god in a year or in a week in a month in five years it's possible to follow him it's possible to believe in him it's possible to have faith in him today and then a year from now a month from now 10 years from now not follow here have faith well what does this passage say god will not let that happen why he will cause all those things to work together why for the good of those who love him so for those who love him those believers on day one he is going to make sure he is going to work and there's the word that's used there this word this cause is sooner gay he is going to work with all those things and cause them to work for the good of who those people who love them who do we call those people who love them those sheep those sheep who love him because he also says another part that he will cause us to be his god i mean to be to be his children he will be our god we will love him he states that and we also know that because that he can make these declarative emphatic statements these are reassuring statements such as we find in john 637 where he says all that the father gives to me will come i'm sorry all the father gives me will come to me that's a promise that's a statement they will come and the one who comes to me i will certainly not cast out oh by the way there's that emphatic negation that's ume ekbalo which is they will there will never ever ever under any circumstances the possibility of them being cast out in the future won't happen he says i'll come down to the will from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me that is the father and this is the will that all that he has given me that's all of us sheep he will not lose any so all that he gives to him he won't lose any why because even if there is a sheep that may look over there that may want to stray away over that may want to walk over there that may want to stop and look back what is he going to do one he's going to go and get him because we've seen him say so but also he's going to cause everything that's happened for the good of that sheep meaning it if they lose their salvation if they walk away forever in our and perish that means he did not call that thing to work for that sheep that person who loves him they're good and so it is literally impossible and so to see going back to my new favorite verse going back to john 10 5 that's why this is so reassuring anything that is strange foreign on the outside greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world outside of me the holy spirit is greater than that a stranger which is going to cause what's going working us a stranger we simply will not or we will never ever ever under any circumstances follow that strange voice that strange thing anything that is foreign but what we do he says we will we will flee because we don't know the strange voice but he did say that we follow him because we do know his voice never in the scriptures has ever taught that we will stop knowing his voice as a matter of fact jesus makes a statement himself in matthew seven when he speaks about these people who says many will say to me in that day lord lord but what is his final conclusion i never knew you he tells us in john 10 that he knows us and we know him so i just don't understand why a person would not want to believe the promises of god the comforting words of of him that he's the very same jesus who goes to prepare a place for us and if he's going to do so he's going to come back and he can be sure that when he comes back we'll be there waiting for him because while he's there he's going to cause all these things to work for our good while he's there we won't listen to any strange voices a matter of fact we will never listen to a strange voice as a matter of fact anything strange outside of him we will flee amen