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John 10:30 – I and the Father are one.”

Deuteronomy 6:4 – Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

John 17:20-21,23 – “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me…I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

John 6:35 – Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

John 8:58 – “Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!”

Application:

• ·         Jesus and the Father are one in essence or nature, will and purpose, but they are not identical persons.
• ·         The truth revealed to Israel that God is one and that this one God created all things, sustains all things and governs all things stood in radical opposition to all the religions of the ancient Near Eastern world.
• ·         Israel could live serenely in the knowledge that all things and all times were under the rule of one divine King, whose ways are righteous and whose purpose with her and through her is salvation for humankind—from sin and judgment and every evil that has burdened human life.
• ·         The unity of believers should have an effect on outsiders, to convince them of the mission of Christ.
• ·         Unity is connected not only with the mission of Jesus but also with God’s love for people and for Christ.
• ·         Jesus did not say “I was” but “I am”, expressing the eternity of His being and His oneness with the Father.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV