1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:03,600 It's good to be here with all of you today, we just have a 2 00:00:03,608 --> 00:00:07,200 wonderful crowd and we are so thankful that you are here that 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,700 you have chosen to be with us. If you're visiting, we say, 4 00:00:10,700 --> 00:00:12,800 welcome. And please come back every 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,900 opportunity that you have an occasion or we have an occasion 6 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:19,200 to meet. I'm enjoying the series that I 7 00:00:19,208 --> 00:00:22,800 have started on the I am statements of Jesus as found in 8 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:26,000 The Gospel according to John and so far. 9 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,900 In this series, we've talked on when Jesus said I am the bread 10 00:00:29,900 --> 00:00:34,100 of life and we've also talked on when Jesus said I am the light 11 00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:37,100 of the world now, I did those in reverse order. 12 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:40,300 The first one was bread of life. The second one was light of the 13 00:00:40,300 --> 00:00:44,000 world, but I taught him a lot of the world first, but this one is 14 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,400 the next in its succession. This is the third one when has 15 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:53,300 said so long ago, he said I am the door as an introductory text 16 00:00:53,300 --> 00:00:56,200 in John chapter 10. Beginning at the beginning in 17 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:00,900 verse 7, John 10, beginning in verse 7, Then Jesus said to 18 00:01:00,908 --> 00:01:03,200 them. Again, most assuredly, I say to 19 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:09,000 you, I am the door of the sheep. All who will ever come before me 20 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,800 are thieves and robbers, but the Sheep did not hear them. 21 00:01:13,500 --> 00:01:17,100 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will 22 00:01:17,100 --> 00:01:20,700 be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. 23 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,900 The thief, does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to 24 00:01:24,900 --> 00:01:28,100 destroy. I have come that they may have 25 00:01:28,100 --> 00:01:32,800 life and that they may have It more abundantly just a few 26 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,700 things to kind of set up the study set up this great sermon 27 00:01:36,700 --> 00:01:41,300 Jesus preached so long ago it is on the heels of what happened in 28 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:44,500 chapter 9. Now I know that we have a 29 00:01:44,500 --> 00:01:48,200 chapter break where we have end of chapter 9 and then we have a 30 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,300 big number 10. They're starting the next 31 00:01:50,300 --> 00:01:53,600 chapter and that was obviously done by the translators. 32 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:57,700 But really there's no chapter Break by way of context, it 33 00:01:57,700 --> 00:02:01,500 flows right into the very next. Let me show you what I mean in 34 00:02:01,500 --> 00:02:04,000 chapter 9. You remember that story and I 35 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,900 don't have time to go very deep into it. 36 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,400 Just to set our minds on the setting, and on the scene Jesus 37 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:14,300 with his disciples were passing by, and they saw a beggar, a man 38 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:16,900 that was born blind. And you remember the disciples 39 00:02:16,900 --> 00:02:21,500 said to Jesus, tell us master who did Sin, did this man 40 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:23,200 sinned, or did his parents in that? 41 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:27,000 He was born blind, and Jesus would say this, it's neither his 42 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,600 parents fault nor his fault, it's nobody's fault. 43 00:02:29,700 --> 00:02:32,100 Alt. But obviously, as I paraphrase 44 00:02:32,100 --> 00:02:34,300 in the end, you're going to see the glory of God. 45 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,200 Jesus heals the man, the man can now. 46 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:38,400 See. And then, here come the 47 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:42,700 Pharisees and the Pharisees were infuriated, because Jesus 48 00:02:42,700 --> 00:02:46,700 performed this miracle on the Sabbath day, and they can just 49 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:49,800 imagine in their mind, they can't fathom a scenario that 50 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,600 somebody can be from God and not recognize the Sabbath. 51 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,200 The Pharisees came and questioned this man. 52 00:02:57,500 --> 00:03:00,100 And this man said that he was healed by Jesus. 53 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:04,300 The Pharisees went to this man's parents and they asked the 54 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:06,700 parents. Is this your son? 55 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,000 Was he born blind? And how is it now that he can 56 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,600 see? The Bible says that the parents 57 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,700 responded like this? Yes, he's our son. 58 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Yes, he was born blind. But as to the reason he could 59 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,900 now see, why don't you ask him? He's of age. 60 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,100 And then it says, and this, they said, for fear of the Jews, you 61 00:03:27,100 --> 00:03:29,600 remember, those religious leaders had already said at. 62 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,700 Anybody is going to profess that. 63 00:03:31,700 --> 00:03:34,400 Jesus is the Christ. They would be cast out of the 64 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,400 synagogue. And that's exactly what happened 65 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,500 to this, man. He is cast out, you know, what 66 00:03:39,500 --> 00:03:44,500 else happens, great bitterness and great disdain is now the 67 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:47,600 fury in their hearts at the Lord and they want to kill him. 68 00:03:48,300 --> 00:03:51,000 So chapter 10. What are we talking about? 69 00:03:51,100 --> 00:03:54,800 It's the same day. It's the same scene it's the 70 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,500 same people. Jesus is responding to the same 71 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:02,900 event. Now, the leaders of Israel are 72 00:04:02,900 --> 00:04:07,200 the false Shepherds that Jesus talks about in chapter 10, as we 73 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,500 begin. But standing there, you got the 74 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:12,500 same disciples, you got the Pharisees, you got the blind 75 00:04:12,500 --> 00:04:15,500 beggar, and you got the rest of the Jews, and Jesus makes a 76 00:04:15,500 --> 00:04:20,200 great contrast between them and himself down in verse 11. 77 00:04:20,500 --> 00:04:22,600 When he said, I am the Good Shepherd. 78 00:04:23,900 --> 00:04:28,300 Who lays down his life for his sheep leaders of Israel, they 79 00:04:28,300 --> 00:04:31,000 were the thieves and they were the robbers. 80 00:04:31,500 --> 00:04:34,900 So the picture every Shepherd is really just a word picture. 81 00:04:36,100 --> 00:04:39,300 Jesus does not refer to himself to verse 11 as the Good 82 00:04:39,300 --> 00:04:42,600 Shepherd, but it was very fitting for the occasion because 83 00:04:42,700 --> 00:04:46,100 it would have been very familiar with those in Jerusalem and 84 00:04:46,100 --> 00:04:49,400 Judea You know, there's something else that they knew, 85 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,700 they knew all about Shepherds and their flocks. 86 00:04:53,900 --> 00:04:57,000 You know what else they knew? They had enough knowledge of the 87 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,600 Old Testament to remember. And realize at the greatest 88 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:05,200 Shepherd Of All, Is God that God is referred to in the Old 89 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,800 Testament as a shepherd. And what does a Shepherd? 90 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:14,600 Do a Shepherd cares for his flock and that's what God does 91 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:18,500 for us when we are his beautiful picture but let's just look at 92 00:05:18,500 --> 00:05:22,000 it from a physical standpoint. Now, I did a little research 93 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:23,900 about this. I knew a little bit of this Not 94 00:05:23,900 --> 00:05:26,800 really to the extent because I got to tell you what. 95 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,300 I think about sheep grazing out in the field, I think of just 96 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:33,600 what I just said you can go through agricultural land and 97 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,000 agricultural country and you can look out and you could see sheep 98 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,700 and their Grazing In This plentiful plush great land 99 00:05:41,700 --> 00:05:44,300 right? See cattle out there to do the 100 00:05:44,300 --> 00:05:49,800 same thing, that's not what they did back then the plush and 101 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:54,000 plentiful lands were farming. So grazing land was quite 102 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,100 different. In fact, there was rough and 103 00:05:56,100 --> 00:05:59,600 Rocky Terrain. And early in the morning, the 104 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:04,100 shepherd would come and he would take the Sheep out of the fold. 105 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:05,800 I'm gonna get more back to the fold. 106 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,500 You just a moment, take the Sheep out from the fold and they 107 00:06:09,500 --> 00:06:13,500 would go out and they would Grace, it was rough and Rocky 108 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:17,300 terrain and it was very dangerous and when I read some 109 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:23,100 things about this sheep, ran the risk of being injured all the 110 00:06:23,100 --> 00:06:27,200 time. They also ran the risk of 111 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:30,000 wandering off, no doubt when Jesus talked about that, 112 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,400 Parable. When he talked about the lost 113 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,400 sheep, it was in reference to what they would have understood. 114 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,000 You know why? Because when you turn them 115 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,500 loose, you got the shepherd overseeing at all. 116 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,400 But when you turn them loose, you might get one that is just 117 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,000 wandering off. And the reason for that is the 118 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:48,200 grass was very sparse. It wasn't all in one area. 119 00:06:48,300 --> 00:06:52,100 So a sheep would have to wander off over here and find some more 120 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,600 grass to eat. The shepherd had to be on his 121 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,600 toes. It was a very arduous detail. 122 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,200 It was difficult, it was tiring. It was exhausting for the 123 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,000 shepherd. He had to protect him too. 124 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:09,900 Maybe they would have a leg that got wedged between two rocks and 125 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:12,800 couldn't get out the shepherd, had to be ready to go and 126 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,700 dislodge that the shepherd had to also protect against wild 127 00:07:16,700 --> 00:07:20,200 animals, that would come and destroy the Sheep. 128 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,300 He also had to protect about some of those thieves and 129 00:07:23,300 --> 00:07:25,000 robbers. They would go out there and they 130 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,800 would steal the Sheep so they can have the meat and they can 131 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,200 have the wool. It was an all-day affair. 132 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,600 And according to Scholars, it was exhausting, one historical 133 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,900 writer wrote. This, I think this is, this is 134 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:43,900 very telling He said that night, you meet the shepherd, and he's 135 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:48,400 coming back to the fold Sleepless, he's weather-beaten, 136 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,100 and he's leaning on his staff. That's the picture of how it was 137 00:07:52,100 --> 00:07:55,300 for a Shepherd. You know, there were shepherds 138 00:07:55,300 --> 00:07:57,300 in the Old Testament that we can read about. 139 00:07:57,300 --> 00:08:00,800 We can read about Abraham, we can read about Isaac, we could 140 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,900 read about Jacob, we can read about Moses, who tended the 141 00:08:03,907 --> 00:08:06,700 flocks in Midian for his father-in-law. 142 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:09,100 How about David? David was a Shepherd boy. 143 00:08:09,300 --> 00:08:14,300 Boy, he also was one of those. But in all that being said, they 144 00:08:14,300 --> 00:08:17,200 all bore the characteristics of a good shepherd and here they 145 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:23,900 are constant. Vigilance Fearless courage and 146 00:08:23,900 --> 00:08:28,800 patient love for his flock. Now Jesus later on is going to 147 00:08:28,808 --> 00:08:30,800 talk about himself being the Good Shepherd. 148 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:34,500 You know what? Jesus is to Jesus Bears, the 149 00:08:34,500 --> 00:08:36,400 characteristics of a Good Shepherd. 150 00:08:36,500 --> 00:08:41,100 The best shepherd with his constant, vigilance, his 151 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:46,400 Fearless courage that he showed and patient love for his flock. 152 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,300 The most well-known Shepherd in the Old Testament obviously is 153 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:52,700 God in the psalmist. David said, a made it very 154 00:08:52,700 --> 00:08:57,300 personal in that 23rd, psalm not quote, the whole passage, but in 155 00:08:57,300 --> 00:09:01,600 the twenty-third Psalm David said, the Lord is my shepherd 156 00:09:02,300 --> 00:09:07,000 and I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in 157 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,300 Green Pastures, he leadeth me beside the Still Waters, he 158 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:15,100 restores my soul, At the end of that Psalm, he said, surely 159 00:09:15,100 --> 00:09:21,000 goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I 160 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,700 will dwell in the house of the Lord forever when you think 161 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:27,500 about the Lord, and you are his that's personal. 162 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:32,900 The Lord is my shepherd, and I shall not want much more on that 163 00:09:32,900 --> 00:09:34,900 later on. So, with that little bit of 164 00:09:34,900 --> 00:09:36,700 background, let's look at the story now. 165 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:40,100 And really, I got to tell you at the very beginning, it just 166 00:09:40,100 --> 00:09:44,100 looks like a little story. That is not very deep and that 167 00:09:44,100 --> 00:09:46,500 is wrong. Just like all the other teaching 168 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:50,400 of Jesus, some of the deepest things ever, preached were done 169 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,800 by our Lord and presented in a very simple way. 170 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,600 This passage is so deep in theology, it is so deep in 171 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,900 meaning, let's try to dig some of those things out. 172 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:04,700 Let's begin with verse 1 of John chapter 10. 173 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:11,800 Most assuredly. I say to you, he who does not 174 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:16,800 enter the Sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way. 175 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:19,800 The same is a thief and a robber. 176 00:10:19,900 --> 00:10:23,800 All right. What is the Sheepfold with the 177 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,500 Sheepfold in the village? I'm told that's what a fold is 178 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,600 in the village. You would have a Sheepfold 179 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:35,200 simply a pain, that pain would be the place where he, where the 180 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,200 Sheep would sleep. The shepherd would bring. 181 00:10:38,300 --> 00:10:42,800 The Sheep at night to be safe. That was in a Sheepfold. 182 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,500 They go out all day grazing. There's a lot of history behind 183 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:50,700 this. And when they came in, they were 184 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:53,700 put in a pin. For the night. 185 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,000 You know what, I read that in villages they had a number of 186 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,800 shepherds. All kinds of shepherds a large 187 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,300 number of Shepherds and every one of the shepherd's had their 188 00:11:04,300 --> 00:11:06,800 own sheep. You know, what's interesting? 189 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:10,400 They would bring them at night and put them in one fold. 190 00:11:10,700 --> 00:11:15,200 They would be in this one pin. They would come and take all of 191 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,500 those sheep, they all be put together. 192 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:23,200 One at a time, the shepherd would take his rod and he would 193 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,100 place it at the entrance of that Sheepfold. 194 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,200 So it would keep the sheep from going in. 195 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,200 It would all be examined one of the time. 196 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:33,700 The shepherd would examine the Sheep top to bottom front to 197 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:37,100 back, maybe that sheep being outside, he didn't recognize it 198 00:11:37,100 --> 00:11:41,600 before, maybe he got a cut, he would take oil, which was for 199 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:43,800 medicinal and soothing properties. 200 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,500 And he would put it on those wounds. 201 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:49,300 He would care for the Sheep. When the Sheep was okay, 202 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,000 completely taken care of. He would want like the Old 203 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Testament, speaking of God and Ezekiel. 204 00:11:55,100 --> 00:11:58,700 He would lift his rod and let the sheep in. 205 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:01,300 He would drop it back down again for the next sheet. 206 00:12:01,300 --> 00:12:03,700 That would come. He would examine that sheep. 207 00:12:03,700 --> 00:12:08,100 Top to bottom front to back dr. The Sheep if necessary, then he 208 00:12:08,100 --> 00:12:12,100 would lift his rod and let the Sheep go in one of the time and 209 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:16,800 every Shepherd did that with every one of his sheep. 210 00:12:18,700 --> 00:12:22,600 Simple and closure. Surrounded by a wall. 211 00:12:24,300 --> 00:12:29,000 And if night would come, if anybody is going to get in, they 212 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,900 had to jump the wall. Because they hired a porter. 213 00:12:32,900 --> 00:12:36,200 That was a guy, by the way, in verse 3, it talks about him as 214 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,000 being a doorkeeper. That's a Hired Hand. 215 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:40,900 We find out he's referred to a Hired Hand. 216 00:12:40,900 --> 00:12:44,000 I think it's verse 12, he's talking about a Hired Hand later 217 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,000 on, right? But that's the porter, that's 218 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,200 the doorkeeper. And his job would be to keep 219 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:52,900 everybody out over the nighttime and guard the sheep. 220 00:12:52,900 --> 00:12:57,800 That was his job. Now, Shepherds the next day 221 00:12:58,300 --> 00:13:01,300 would reappear. And I love this. 222 00:13:01,900 --> 00:13:06,300 The Bible says that they go out and they call them by name and 223 00:13:06,300 --> 00:13:10,100 they lead them back to the pasture now. 224 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:15,100 If you go to verse 1 again this is a very Vivid picture. 225 00:13:15,100 --> 00:13:18,900 Most assuredly, I say to you he who does not enter the Sheepfold 226 00:13:18,900 --> 00:13:22,500 by the door, but climbs up some other way the same as a thief 227 00:13:22,500 --> 00:13:24,700 and a robber. Now, what is this? 228 00:13:26,100 --> 00:13:29,900 I tell, you got to be careful about commentaries because some 229 00:13:29,900 --> 00:13:32,800 commentators think this is talking about the church. 230 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:38,700 No, it's not. Jesus, as the Good Shepherd does 231 00:13:38,700 --> 00:13:41,000 not lead people out of the church. 232 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:46,200 He leads people to the church. Also, if this was talking about 233 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,900 the church, it says thieves and robbers. 234 00:13:48,900 --> 00:13:52,500 They can't get in the door, but they can get in if they jump the 235 00:13:52,500 --> 00:13:54,700 wall. No, you can't do that. 236 00:13:54,700 --> 00:13:58,100 You can't come in any other way, other than what Jesus has 237 00:13:58,100 --> 00:13:59,500 outlined to come into the church. 238 00:13:59,500 --> 00:14:02,300 So it can't be the church. So what is it? 239 00:14:03,100 --> 00:14:04,300 Some people say. It's Heaven. 240 00:14:04,300 --> 00:14:06,900 That doesn't make sense either, because Jesus doesn't lead 241 00:14:06,900 --> 00:14:11,000 people away from Heaven. Jesus leads people to heaven. 242 00:14:12,700 --> 00:14:20,100 So what is it? What's this Sheepfold? 243 00:14:20,700 --> 00:14:27,500 In this case, the Sheepfold stay with me, please is Judaism and I 244 00:14:27,500 --> 00:14:30,700 believe specifically, those who were baptized by John the 245 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:35,300 Baptist and that would make John the Baptist, the doorkeeper or 246 00:14:35,300 --> 00:14:39,500 the porter. Now, we're going to use the word 247 00:14:39,500 --> 00:14:42,200 fold again, that will refer to the church later on. 248 00:14:42,300 --> 00:14:44,200 We're going to refer to different things, but right now, 249 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:48,300 what are we talking about? Jesus came to do what lead his 250 00:14:48,300 --> 00:14:53,500 sheep out of the Sheepfold. That's the Sheepfold obviously 251 00:14:53,500 --> 00:14:56,900 of Israel or Judaism, and John the Baptist. 252 00:14:56,900 --> 00:14:58,900 You remember, he was the Forerunner. 253 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,500 He was the one that said, the one that comes after me is 254 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:04,600 mightier than I am. He's the one that said, Behold 255 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,500 the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, Jesus went 256 00:15:08,500 --> 00:15:13,900 after John the Baptist. So in this Corral or pin or 257 00:15:13,900 --> 00:15:16,800 Sheepfold you find those in Judaism. 258 00:15:16,900 --> 00:15:21,400 What did Jesus come to do? Lead people out of Judaism. 259 00:15:23,100 --> 00:15:28,400 You know, when John the Baptist baptized people, it was for the 260 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:35,400 baptism of repentance, for the remission of sins, that would 261 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:37,000 have been for the remission of sins. 262 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,900 If that person died before, Jesus died on the cross and shed 263 00:15:40,900 --> 00:15:43,600 his blood, it would have been remission of sins for that 264 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,300 person to. So you think about it this way? 265 00:15:46,300 --> 00:15:48,900 Well, we're talking about those in Judaism. 266 00:15:49,100 --> 00:15:51,600 Is it talking about those that were baptized by John? 267 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:53,700 We know the gospel went for Everywhere. 268 00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:57,100 We know that people everywhere were baptized by the baptism of 269 00:15:57,100 --> 00:16:01,500 John, he was the Forerunner preparing them and preparing the 270 00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:06,700 way for Jesus Christ, his cousin that was six months younger than 271 00:16:06,700 --> 00:16:11,900 he was, but he was the Lord. Now notice this, there's 272 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:13,700 something else. So, the first fold that we're 273 00:16:13,700 --> 00:16:17,700 talking about, obviously is Judaism, but there's got to be 274 00:16:17,700 --> 00:16:21,900 another one too, because if we drop down to verse 16 and other 275 00:16:21,900 --> 00:16:26,000 sheep have, Which I have which are not of this fold. 276 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,700 Who's that? There's only one Shepherd. 277 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:36,700 What's the other fold? I think the other fold has to be 278 00:16:36,700 --> 00:16:41,200 this. It's the Gentiles, it's Nations. 279 00:16:41,700 --> 00:16:45,100 It's the countries of the world. You see the picture? 280 00:16:46,300 --> 00:16:51,300 The Good Shepherd came to lead, sheep out of the bondage of 281 00:16:51,300 --> 00:16:57,000 Judaism and the bondage of Sin from Judaism to Gentiles out of 282 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,300 the world. Jesus comes to lead them. 283 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:07,099 All right, so what's the fold? The full Dan is, whatever holds 284 00:17:07,099 --> 00:17:11,000 temporarily, the sheep that belong to God, Judaism 285 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,400 specifically, baptized by John, I think in the context here, or 286 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:19,000 the world now, I have to make this point of clarification. 287 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,400 People that believe in predestination. 288 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,599 And what I mean by that is that God has predetermined. 289 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:31,000 Who's going to be saved? Often times use this idea and 290 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,900 use this concept to say you see God already chose them. 291 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,400 So they are in the fold. God already chose them and then 292 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:42,400 they come later on but they were chosen to be saved by God. 293 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:43,900 Originally that's not what this means. 294 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:49,400 It holds temporarily whatever you are Jew or Gentile your held 295 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,100 in that. Fold and those that are gods, 296 00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:57,100 are those that will obey God. And by obedience, to God, and 297 00:17:57,100 --> 00:18:00,300 obedience to the gospel, you are LED in the paths of 298 00:18:00,300 --> 00:18:02,500 righteousness. Following the shepherd, that's 299 00:18:02,500 --> 00:18:06,600 all that means. All right. so what we, what 300 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:08,800 we've noticed is, we noticed about the shepherd and we've 301 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:15,100 noticed about the Sheepfold, what about What about the 302 00:18:15,100 --> 00:18:18,700 Christian age? In the Christian age. 303 00:18:19,900 --> 00:18:23,300 There's going to be one fold, and that's the church. 304 00:18:25,300 --> 00:18:31,100 There's one Shepherd and that's Jesus and whether you're a Jew 305 00:18:31,100 --> 00:18:36,400 or a gentile, you'll be in that one fold in that one Church. 306 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Remember, he calls people out of Judaism and out of the world and 307 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:48,000 brings them into the fold of permanence and that's the 308 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,500 kingdom, that's the church. Okay? 309 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,200 So what about this? What about this phraseology? 310 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:01,500 John chapter 10 and verse two, he who enters by the door, is 311 00:19:01,500 --> 00:19:05,500 The Shepherd of the sheep. What's the door now later on? 312 00:19:05,500 --> 00:19:09,000 Jesus is going to call himself the door, but in this passage 313 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,100 says this, he who enters by the door, is The Shepherd of the 314 00:19:13,100 --> 00:19:14,700 sheep. What's it speaking about? 315 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:18,400 In this particular verse, it's talking about privilege, right 316 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,300 Authority and ownership, nobody has the authority, but Jesus. 317 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,300 Now, let's look at the Shepherds sheep relationship, right? 318 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,400 You got the doorkeeper there, the doorkeepers. 319 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,900 Not letting anybody and accept the shepherd. 320 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,600 There's only one way to get to the Sheep by the shepherd. 321 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,500 And that's in the door. That's his ownership, his 322 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:41,500 authority, his right, and his privilege, because he is the 323 00:19:41,508 --> 00:19:48,200 Messiah, he is the Lord, he is the Good Shepherd, and the only 324 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:52,000 one that brings eternal life. Now. 325 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,300 Who are the thieves and robbers, who climb up another way? 326 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:04,100 The thieves and the robbers, are any false Shepherds. 327 00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:07,900 But in context, here in this case, it's the Pharisees and the 328 00:20:07,908 --> 00:20:13,700 scribes, but it's any false Shepherds and John chapter 10 329 00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:17,300 and verse 3. To him, the doorkeeper opens, 330 00:20:17,300 --> 00:20:22,700 and the sheep hear his voice. And he calls his Sheep by name, 331 00:20:23,100 --> 00:20:25,300 then in verse four, leads them out. 332 00:20:25,300 --> 00:20:30,500 And when he brings them out of his own sheep, He goes before 333 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:34,400 them and the Sheep follow him for, they know his voice. 334 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,100 I read something. Now those of you that know me 335 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:42,600 really well, especially my family have teased me of how 336 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:49,700 I've named my animals. We named a If a dog, you name 337 00:20:49,700 --> 00:20:51,700 the dog, he speak the dog's name. 338 00:20:51,700 --> 00:20:52,800 I'm ready. What do you mean? 339 00:20:54,100 --> 00:20:56,700 I even named my fish. Yeah Nemo. 340 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,500 But I've been teased in my lifetime because of the way that 341 00:21:02,500 --> 00:21:05,600 I have named my horses and my dogs. 342 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:10,900 For example, when I was younger, I had a Queensland healer, a ROM 343 00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:14,300 colored Queensland, you know, it, you know, his name was Roni. 344 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,900 I had a dun-colored. Horse know his name was Donny. 345 00:21:20,300 --> 00:21:23,000 I had a black calf roping horse and I was in college, know his 346 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,100 name was Blackie. I've got a paint horse now, 347 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,000 paint color doors. You know, his name is, his name 348 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,700 is paint. Do you know that these Shepherds 349 00:21:32,700 --> 00:21:36,200 did that very same thing? They would look to have Mark of 350 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,500 Distinction, Mark that distinguish them from somebody 351 00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:42,500 else and they would come up with a name and they would name the 352 00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:46,200 Sheep. When the shepherd comes to call 353 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,700 the Sheep out of the Sheepfold and bring them back out in the 354 00:21:48,708 --> 00:21:51,000 pasture, you know what he does? He comes in. 355 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,700 He's the only one with that kind of authority. 356 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,500 The gatekeeper lets him in, he goes in and he starts calling 357 00:21:55,500 --> 00:21:58,200 their names. Two things. 358 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,300 They know their name. And they know his voice. 359 00:22:04,700 --> 00:22:07,500 They know his voice because they've heard his voice. 360 00:22:08,700 --> 00:22:13,000 And they come to the shepherd and he leads him back out for 361 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:18,300 another day. Grazing, all day long. 362 00:22:19,700 --> 00:22:23,800 The shepherd knows the sheep, and the Sheep know the shepherd. 363 00:22:24,500 --> 00:22:30,700 Notice verse 5 yet, they will by no means follow a stranger, but 364 00:22:30,700 --> 00:22:33,900 he will flee from him for. They do not know the voice of 365 00:22:33,900 --> 00:22:37,100 strangers. This is so important. 366 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,500 This is really important. They don't know the voice of the 367 00:22:41,500 --> 00:22:44,900 stranger. Now, I hope you understand the 368 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:47,100 spiritual application of all of this. 369 00:22:47,100 --> 00:22:50,400 We're not really talking about physical Shepherds and we're not 370 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,400 really talking about animals. Are we? 371 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,400 But it's a picture, it's a sermon. 372 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,000 The Lord is preaching, he's giving a tremendous illustration 373 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,600 here. The shepherd calls the sheep and 374 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,400 calls them by name. And the Sheep come because they 375 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,400 know the boys and they know their name, there's a 376 00:23:07,408 --> 00:23:09,400 relationship there. You know what? 377 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:13,800 They don't listen to. They don't hear the voice of the 378 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:19,700 stranger, who's that? What's the voice? 379 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,800 What's the voice of the Shepherd? 380 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:27,400 By the way, representative of its referring to distinctive 381 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:32,300 quality of Jesus's teaching. It's listening to the Lord, It's 382 00:23:32,300 --> 00:23:35,300 following the word of God today, that's the voice. 383 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,200 The voice of strangers are these, and this is very 384 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:46,100 prominent in today's society, really is philosophies Theories 385 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:52,200 and speculation. You know what happens today? 386 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:59,300 What happens today? Is people our kids, our 387 00:23:59,300 --> 00:24:02,400 children. And in the institutions of 388 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:08,900 learning, they hear things like philosophy, theories and 389 00:24:08,900 --> 00:24:11,800 speculation, do you know what that is? 390 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,600 With referring to the universe and referring to God and 391 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:17,300 referring to our existence and all of that? 392 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:19,500 You know, that's called that's called a stranger. 393 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,600 A stranger bringing in philosophy, theories and all of 394 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,600 that stuff. And by the way you can't even 395 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,900 say it's science. My dad used to say this that 396 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,800 scientists catching up to the Bible, catching up to God. 397 00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:35,600 Because I'll tell you right now, if it violates, if science 398 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:42,200 violates God, it's not science. God invented all the signs, too. 399 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,700 The Stranger is somebody that comes in with a philosophy or 400 00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:51,500 theory that causes people to doubt. 401 00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:55,800 To doubt their faith. That's why we have to be rooted 402 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,500 and grounded in the teachings of Jesus in following the word of 403 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:02,700 God, because that's the voice, that's the voice of the 404 00:25:02,700 --> 00:25:05,800 shepherd. That's the one that we know, we 405 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,300 know that voice. And when you hear, by the way, 406 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,600 the strangers voice that brings in things that violate the word 407 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,200 of God. We reject it, we got a rejected. 408 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:23,800 Now. Also, I think there's something 409 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:30,700 important point out, too. People that are false teachers, 410 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:34,000 even religiously fall into this category too. 411 00:25:35,900 --> 00:25:40,200 And I like what one scholar said, he said, people that are 412 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:48,500 loyal to the false teacher. Do not know the ship. if people 413 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:55,000 are loyal to the false teaching, you don't know my shepherd. 414 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,000 We know the shepherd as we hear his voice, if you stopped 415 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,400 listening, listening to his voice, where's the mark of 416 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,000 Distinction? That's why we can never ever 417 00:26:05,500 --> 00:26:12,800 ever stop listening to the voice of Jesus in John, chapter 10 and 418 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:17,100 verse 6 Jesus used this illustration but they did not 419 00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:19,300 understand the things, which he spoke to them. 420 00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:22,900 And again, one of those things, Jesus says something, he 421 00:26:22,900 --> 00:26:25,600 preaches the perfect sermon, it's the perfect setting. 422 00:26:25,700 --> 00:26:28,600 He knows the topic, he's going to cover the whole nine yards. 423 00:26:28,700 --> 00:26:30,600 He uses illustrations that they'll understand. 424 00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:32,600 Oh by the way, all they didn't get it. 425 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:36,900 They didn't understand they did not understand now. 426 00:26:36,900 --> 00:26:40,700 What do we know so far before we progress and the last part of 427 00:26:40,700 --> 00:26:43,400 our lesson is the shortest part but it's the conclusion and 428 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,500 we're going to get to what Jesus meant when he said, I am the 429 00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:47,100 door. What are we known so far? 430 00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:51,600 We know there's a Shepherd, we know there are sheep. 431 00:26:51,900 --> 00:26:55,500 We know that all the shape of all the shepherds are in one 432 00:26:55,500 --> 00:26:58,100 Sheepfold. We know that the shepherd comes 433 00:26:58,100 --> 00:27:02,300 and calls, not somebody else's sheep calls his own sheep, the 434 00:27:02,300 --> 00:27:05,900 folds that we Come out of, from a spiritual perspective, are the 435 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,900 folds of Judaism and the folds of the world. 436 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:16,000 And Jesus leads us out. We also learned this that Jesus 437 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,300 says he who enters by the door and that means this so far. 438 00:27:21,300 --> 00:27:23,400 That means by his authority, he has the authority. 439 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,300 He has the right. He owns the Sheep. 440 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,300 I got to throw something in here. 441 00:27:29,700 --> 00:27:32,000 Do you know? According to Romans you are 442 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:37,100 owned by something. I know that sometimes in life, 443 00:27:38,300 --> 00:27:42,700 especially when were younger, we don't want to be owned, we don't 444 00:27:42,700 --> 00:27:45,400 want to be told what to do. And by the way, our society 445 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,200 really bows their neck at being told what to do. 446 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,900 And I get that fine, whatever. I'm not even address, I'm not 447 00:27:51,900 --> 00:27:54,500 addressing that. I'm addressing this, though. 448 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,500 The Lord owns you if you're a Christian. 449 00:27:58,900 --> 00:28:01,800 You've been bought by the inestimable price of the blood 450 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,000 of Jesus. He owns your life for the rest 451 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:09,100 of your life, you submit to Jesus for the rest of your life. 452 00:28:09,100 --> 00:28:12,800 Why he has the authority, he died for our sins, he shed his 453 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,400 blood, the nail prints are in his hands. 454 00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:21,100 Like my dad used to say, son, Jesus has all the votes, he's 455 00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:24,100 got it all. Alright. 456 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,700 Now what now? Jesus is going to say this. 457 00:28:29,700 --> 00:28:35,500 Now, he's going to say this. Jesus said to them. 458 00:28:35,500 --> 00:28:40,400 Again, now up until verse 6, they had no clue what he was 459 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,400 talking about. Well, he sent them again. 460 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:47,500 Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 461 00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:51,700 All who ever come before me are thieves and robbers, but the 462 00:28:51,700 --> 00:28:54,600 Sheep did not hear them. Hold it right there. 463 00:28:55,700 --> 00:29:01,000 He's not only the shepherd. He's also the door. 464 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,600 He's not just a shepherd. He's the door. 465 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,400 Doors lead somewhere. What else? 466 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,000 Dear stop to consider that we have freedom to. 467 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,700 The Bible talks about worried the slave of sin or we are the 468 00:29:20,700 --> 00:29:24,700 slave of Jesus Christ, okay. But have you ever stopped to 469 00:29:24,700 --> 00:29:29,700 consider what we are free from? Being a Christian is about 470 00:29:29,700 --> 00:29:32,900 freedom. Not freedom to do. 471 00:29:32,900 --> 00:29:35,800 Whatever you want to do. I didn't say that, but it is 472 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:40,100 about freedom. He leads people out from the 473 00:29:40,100 --> 00:29:45,000 freedom of bondage. Freedom of bondage. 474 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,600 That includes the bondage of the Old Law and that includes the 475 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:55,500 bondage of sin. I'm so thankful when I became a 476 00:29:55,500 --> 00:29:59,100 Christian that I was free from the bondage of sin. 477 00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:01,200 It feels wonderful when you obey the gospel. 478 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,100 Do you know why? Because your sins are washed 479 00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:05,000 away. No longer. 480 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,100 Are you the slave of sin? No longer. 481 00:30:07,100 --> 00:30:10,900 Are you under bondage, the bondage of sin? 482 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,100 If a person came back in those days, from the law of Moses, 483 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,900 they're no longer under the bondage of the Old Law in Jesus 484 00:30:18,900 --> 00:30:20,400 Christ. All right. 485 00:30:21,300 --> 00:30:27,100 Now in the next, the next phrase of his first notice, he said, I 486 00:30:27,100 --> 00:30:30,900 am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will 487 00:30:30,900 --> 00:30:35,700 be saved and he will go in and out and find pasture where an 488 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:40,300 amazing statement in John. 14 and 6, Jesus said, I am the way, 489 00:30:40,300 --> 00:30:43,500 the truth, and the life. No one comes into the father, 490 00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:48,400 except through me. What we have here is we've gone 491 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,800 from a metaphor to fact. We've gone from a metaphor. 492 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,100 We've gone from a scenario. We've gone from an illustration 493 00:30:56,100 --> 00:31:00,500 to fact and here it comes. Jesus says, I am the door. 494 00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:03,200 It's me. And if anybody enters through 495 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:07,700 me, he's going to be saved and will go in and out and find 496 00:31:08,500 --> 00:31:14,200 Pasture metaphor to reality, you will be saved. 497 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,700 What about this last phrase here? 498 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,500 What about this last phrase? And we'll go in and out and find 499 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:27,400 pasture, you know, this is the saving Shepherd. 500 00:31:29,700 --> 00:31:31,500 We have the beauties of being saved. 501 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,300 But according to what Jesus says here, we also have something 502 00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:39,500 else. We have the freedom to go in and 503 00:31:39,500 --> 00:31:42,600 out and find pasture. So, what is the spiritual 504 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:46,300 application? This is what ATMs are said in 505 00:31:46,300 --> 00:31:50,500 its application. It simply means if a man accepts 506 00:31:50,500 --> 00:31:54,600 Jesus as his Shepherd by obedience to the gospel, and 507 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,400 fulfilling the terms that the Lord has given us. 508 00:31:57,500 --> 00:32:02,400 When you do that, he will be saved from the Wolves of sin. 509 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:07,500 And also will be abundantly supplied with spiritual pasture 510 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,800 or food. In other words, I love this. 511 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:19,500 We got nothing to fear in a literal sense. 512 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:24,000 The Sheep had nothing to fear because the shepherd kept the 513 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,800 Wolves Away. What about this? 514 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:29,500 What about from a spiritual perspective? 515 00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:31,500 Sometimes, we're going to have a hard life, sometimes. 516 00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:32,800 We're going to have difficult things. 517 00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:37,800 Sometimes that is all true, but we are going to have spiritual 518 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,800 pasture and spiritual food. We've got nothing to lose. 519 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,700 We've got nothing to fear, if we follow the lord, now let me hang 520 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:47,100 a little meat on that that statement will have no fear 521 00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:48,800 here. It is in Romans chapter 8 522 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,500 beginning in verse 35, who shall separate us from the love of 523 00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:56,700 Christ, shall tribulation or distress or persecution. 524 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:02,000 Duchenne or famine or nakedness or Peril or sword as it is 525 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,500 written for your sake. We are killed all day long. 526 00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:08,400 We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter in and all these 527 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,400 things we are more than conquerors through him. 528 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,800 Who loved us for? I am persuaded, I love this. 529 00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:17,600 That neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities 530 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,200 nor powers nor things present, nor things to come nor height 531 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,700 nor depth nor any other created thing. 532 00:33:24,500 --> 00:33:28,400 Shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is 533 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:34,200 in Christ Jesus our lord. So summing up. 534 00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:43,500 The Lord is the shepherd. And the shepherd is the door. 535 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:52,400 God, feeds us and God sustains us with Green Pastures through 536 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:56,400 our whole spiritual life. What is that? 537 00:33:58,700 --> 00:34:08,300 That's the word of God. That's the word of God. you 538 00:34:08,300 --> 00:34:15,500 remember Jeremiah said, Jeremiah said said when when your word 539 00:34:16,699 --> 00:34:20,199 King. I ate them. 540 00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:25,699 Another translation says, Thy Word was found and that became 541 00:34:25,699 --> 00:34:29,300 my food. That is the spiritual food that 542 00:34:29,300 --> 00:34:31,800 we need. We've been given all things that 543 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,300 pertain to life and godliness so where does his voice come to us? 544 00:34:35,300 --> 00:34:40,100 His voice comes to us in his word, through the word, as the 545 00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:43,699 spirit gives life to the word. We follow the scripture. 546 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,300 We must love the word. We say, like David said, oh, how 547 00:34:47,300 --> 00:34:50,199 I love your law, It is our Delight. 548 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,600 Find the one final passage. That's verse 10. 549 00:34:56,900 --> 00:35:01,800 The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to 550 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:06,000 destroy. I've come that they may have 551 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,600 life and that they may have it more. 552 00:35:09,300 --> 00:35:12,000 Abundantly, here's the comparison. 553 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,700 Jesus draws a conclusion. And what he's saying is this, 554 00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:20,700 he's saying the religious hierarchy of hardened Israel, 555 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,700 you know what, they were? They were the murderous Thief 556 00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:25,600 intent on killing and destroying. 557 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,800 But Jesus Christ is the true Shepherd who came to bring 558 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,500 Abundant Life. To the people of God. 559 00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:42,800 It saddens me when I see people that think that to be a 560 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:49,100 Christian, you have to live. A life that has no joy, I don't 561 00:35:49,100 --> 00:35:54,400 get that I. Once heard a man. say if you're 562 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:59,100 not a little bit miserable, you are not living the Christian 563 00:35:59,100 --> 00:36:05,100 Life as you should. Wow, because even if you have a 564 00:36:05,100 --> 00:36:07,300 hard time that there's nothing is has be miserable, you know, 565 00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:11,600 it says have joy. It says Rejoice, the Apostle 566 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,900 Paul was under house, arrest awaiting, his execution and his 567 00:36:14,900 --> 00:36:17,500 famed throughout Philippians is rejoice. 568 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,300 And why is that? I'm going to leave you with the 569 00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:23,800 words of Burton Kaufman. This is what he said about this. 570 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:30,600 The Christian Life is the happy life free abundant and 571 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,600 overflowing adventurous and exciting Beyond any other kind 572 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:39,100 of existence why can't men believe their creator to the 573 00:36:39,100 --> 00:36:43,600 effect that the way of Christ is the way of joy and fulfillment. 574 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,300 I'm going to tell you what it's the greatest life in the world. 575 00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:52,300 It's the greatest life ever. And by the way, if you're 576 00:36:52,300 --> 00:36:55,900 literally living the Christian life and you're behaving as you 577 00:36:55,900 --> 00:36:59,900 should at your job and school or wherever your friends, if you're 578 00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:03,000 doing it as a Christian, the way that you should, you're going to 579 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,300 stay out of trouble. There's benefits everywhere. 580 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:11,000 It is the best life. It's filled with joy. 581 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:16,400 We've been taken from the sold of sin in the world, and we are 582 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,900 now in the fold, being the church being the kingdom. 583 00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:24,600 And one day Jesus is going to take that church, that Kingdom 584 00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:28,200 and handed over to his father. And we get to go to heaven, and 585 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:32,100 then it'll be worth it all. We thank you for listening to 586 00:37:32,107 --> 00:37:37,000 our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 587 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,500 Road in Bakersfield, if you would like any additional 588 00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:43,800 information or you would like to receive a free Bible 589 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:49,300 correspondence, course by mail. 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