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July 15 - John 10 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello, friends, it's Sean here. Hello.
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  Good to have your company at the beginning of a new week.
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  It's Monday, it's the 15th of July.
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  And here we are diving back into the book of John.
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  Yes, John, that old disciple reflecting on his life with
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  Jesus. And God uses this man and these
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  words to communicate truth to us.
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  And the thing that John has, that none of the other gospels
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  have is these I am statements, these famous statements that he
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  shares, Jesus sharing. I am.
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  And today we're going to hear about I am the Good Shepherd as
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  he works these analogies into Jesus identity and his role and
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  what his purpose is. Fascinating, deep theological
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  stuff for us to wrap our heads around and understand more about
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  who our God is. And that's what we do today.
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  So let us put down everything that is to come, everything that
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  has been and everything that might even just be going on
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  around us at the moment, and draw our hearts and minds toward
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  God and His Word and everything He's going to teach us.
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  Ah, how great, let's do it together.
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  Let's read John chapter 10. I tell you the truth, anyone who
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  sneaks over the wall of a sheepfold rather than going
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  through the gate must surely be a thief and a robber.
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  But the one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the
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  sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate
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  for him and the sheep recognise his voice and come to him.
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  He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
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  After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them
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  and they follow him because they know his voice.
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  They won't follow a stranger. They will run from Him because
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  they don't know His voice. Those who heard Jesus used this
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  illustration didn't understand what he meant, so He explained
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  it to them. I tell you the truth, I am the
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  gate for the sheep. All who came before me were
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  thieves and robbers, but the true sheep did not listen to
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  them. Yes, I am the gate.
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  Those who come in through me will be saved.
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  They will come and go freely and will find good pastures.
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  The thief's purpose is to steal and kill and destroy.
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  My purpose is to give them rich and satisfying life.
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  I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd sacrifices his
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  life for the sheep. A hired hand will run when he
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  sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep
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  because they don't belong to him and he isn't their shepherd.
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  And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock.
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  The hired hand runs away because he's working only for the money
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  and doesn't really care about the sheep.
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  I am the Good Shepherd, I know my own sheep and they know me,
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  just as my Father knows me and I know the Father.
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  So I sacrificed my life for the sheep.
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  I have other sheep too that are not in this sheep fold.
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  I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice and
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  there will be one flock with one shepherd.
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  The Father loves me because I sacrificed my life so I may take
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  it back again. No one can take my life from me.
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  I sacrifice it voluntarily, for I have the authority to lay it
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  down when I want to, and also to take it up again, for this is
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  what my Father has commanded. When he said these things, the
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  people were again divided in their opinion about him.
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  Some said he's demon possessed and out of his mind.
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  Why listen to a man like that? Others said.
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  This doesn't sound like a man possessed by a demon.
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  Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?
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  It was now winter and Jesus was in Jerusalem at the time of
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  Hanukkah, the festival of dedication.
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  He was in the temple, walking through the section known as
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  Solomon's Colonnade. The people surrounded him and
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  asked, How long are you going to keep us in suspense?
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  If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly, Jesus replied.
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  I have already told you, and you don't believe me.
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  The proof is the work I do in my Father's name.
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  But you don't believe me, because you are not my sheep.
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  My sheep listened to my voice. I know them and they follow me.
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  I give them eternal life and they will never perish.
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  No one can snatch them away from me, for my Father has given them
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  to me and he is more powerful than anyone else.
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  No one can snatch them from the Father's hand, and the Father
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  and I are one. Once again, the people picked up
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  stones to kill him, Jesus said at my father's direction.
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  I've done many good works. For which one are you going to
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  stone me? They replied.
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  Where's stoning? You're not for any good work,
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  but for blasphemy. You, a mere man, claimed to be
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  God, Jesus replied. It is written in your own
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  scriptures that God said to certain leaders of the people.
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  I say you are gods and you know that the scriptures cannot be
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  altered. So if those people who received
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  God's message were called gods, why do you call it blasphemy
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  when I say I am the Son of God? After all, the Father set me
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  apart and sent me into the world.
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  Don't believe me unless I carry out my Father's work.
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  But if I do His work, believe in the evidence of the miraculous
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  works I have done, even if you don't believe me, then you will
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  know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the
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  Father. Once again they tried to arrest
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  him, but he got away and left them.
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  He went beyond the Jordan River, near the place where John was
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  first baptising, and stayed there a while and many followed
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  him. John didn't perform miraculous
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  signs, they remarked to one another.
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  But everything he said about this man has come true, and many
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  who were there believed in Jesus.
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  We love you, Jesus. We thank you for your teaching.
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  We thank you that even though you are the Son of God, sent by
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  the Almighty God to save us, that here you are as personal
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  and close as ever. Thank you that you are a God who
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  loves us and draws to us so that we can understand who you are
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  and that we see these people who are witnessing the things you
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  did and they could not help but be changed and believe in you.
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  Thank you for the faith that you've put in our hearts, that
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  we too can believe in you, and that we can open our arms and
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  receive this incredible gift of your love and your forgiveness.
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  We want to live our lives for you, and we pray all of this in
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  your precious and holy name, Amen.