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April 3 - John 10 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Thursday.
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  It's the. 3rd of March. So good to have your company as
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  we are continuing on this journey through the book.
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  Of John. And we spoke.
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  A while ago about. Jesus sharing these I.
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  AM statements. Or John capturing Jesus.
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  And his I am statements. And we have so far heard that
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  Jesus says I am the bread of life.
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  Yesterday we heard Jesus say I. Am the light of the world.
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  And today, today's action packed.
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  We've got 2. I am.
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  Statements that are recorded in. Chapter 10.
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  So we're going to hear more. About Jesus.
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  Sharing the essence of. Who He is as our God as we read
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  together John chapter. 10. I tell you the truth.
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  Anyone who sneaks over. The wall of a sheepfold rather.
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  Than going through the gate must surely be a thief and a.
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  Robber but. The one who enters through the.
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  Gate is the shepherd of the sheep, the.
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  Gatekeeper opens the gate for him and the sheep recognise his.
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  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.
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  He walks. Ahead of them, and they know him
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  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.
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  I am the gate. For the sheep all.
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  Who came before me were thieves. And robbers, but the true sheep.
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  Did not listen to them. Yes, I.
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  Am the gate. Those who come in through me
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  will be. Saved.
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  They will come and. Go freely.
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  And will find good. Pastures.
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  The thief's purpose is to. Steal and kill and destroy my.
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  Purpose is. To give them a rich and
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  satisfying life. I am the.
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  Good Shepherd The Good Shepherd sacrifices his life for the
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  sheep. A hired hand will run when he
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  sees a wolf coming. He will abandoned the sheep
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  because they don't belong to him and he isn't their.
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  Shepherd, so the wolf. Attacks them and scatters the.
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  Flock. The hired hand runs away because
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  he's working only for the money and doesn't really care.
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  About the sheep I. Am the.
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  Good Shepherd. I know my own sheep and they
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  know me, just as my Father knows me and I know the Father.
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  So I sacrifice my life. For the sheep, I have other
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  sheep too. That are not in the sheepfold.
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  I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice and
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  there will be 1 flock with one. Shepherd The.
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  Father loves me because I sacrifice my.
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  Life so. I may take it back again.
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  No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it.
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  Voluntarily, for I have the authority to lay it down when I
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  want to, and also to. Take it up.
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  Again, for this is what my father has commanded when he
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  said these things. The people.
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  Were divided in their opinion about him.
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  Some said oh 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 were the Messiah, tell us plainly, Jesus.
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  Replied 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, but
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  you don't believe me, because you are not my sheep.
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  My sheep listen 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.
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  The Father and I are one. Once again, the people picked up
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  stones to kill him. Jesus said.
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  At my father's direction, I have done many good works.
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  For which one are you going to stone me?
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  They. Replied.
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  We're not stoning you for any good work, but for blasphemy.
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  You, a mere man, claim to be God.
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  Jesus replied. It is written in your scriptures
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  that God said to certain leaders of the people.
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  I say you are. Gods and you know that the
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  scripture cannot be altered. So if.
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  These people who received God's message were called gods.
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  Why do you call a blasphemy when I say I am the Son of God?
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  After all, the Father set me. Apart.
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  And sent me into the world. Don't believe me unless I carry
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  out my father's work. But if I do his work.
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  Believe in the evidence of the miraculous works I have done.
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  Even if you don't believe me. Then you will know and
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  understand. That the father is in.
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  Me and I am in the father once again they tried to arrest him.
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  Be 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.
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  And many followed him. John didn't perform miraculous
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  signs they remark to one another.
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  But everything he said about this man has come true.
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  And many who were. There.
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  Believed in Jesus, now Jesus.
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  Thank you for your. Words that you share here, you
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  say that you are the gate you. Are the only gate.
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  You are the only. Way that we are able to access
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  the Father. And through you, Jesus, and
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  through everything you've done for us.
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  We are. Able to come into your presence,
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  into the presence of you, our incredible God.
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  Who with? Love and.
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  Sacrifice has. Found this way to make.
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  Us whole again. And you?
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  Are the Good Shepherd. You know us and we know your
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  voice, and we come to you, and Lord, we want to live following
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  you. But in order for us to do that.
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  We need your ongoing. Transformation.
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  So continue to shape us and mould.
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  US Lord Jesus. As we go about.
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  Each day. Living as.
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  Your sheep. Following your voice.
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  Doing what you call us to do. Thank you for calling us.
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  Thank you for including us, for protecting us, for leading us.
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  And for loving. Us, I pray all of this in your
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  loving, protecting name. I'm in.