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John chapter 10 · Scripture Unscripted

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John 10 Let us pray. Our Father, who is in heaven,
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holy is your name, your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth
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just as it is in heaven. Give us this day Our Daily
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Bread. Forgive us for our sins.
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Help us to forgive those who sin against us.
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Lead us not into temptation. Deliver us from the evil one,
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for yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever.
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God, we are here today to honor you and to bless you God, and to
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walk in steadfast obedience to the truth that you have revealed
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to us. God, we are thankful for the
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words that we hold in our hands that are alive and active and
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that are reading us and discerning us.
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And God, I pray that we will hide them in our hearts.
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Lord, we desire not to sin against you.
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Father, we desire to be obedient children.
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God, we desire to be the sheep that hear your voice.
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God, we desire a touch from you. We desire to be made whole and
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to be healed. God of all of our infirmities
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and our sin sickness. God, we desire for you to purify
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us and purge out all the dross and all the impurities.
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God, we desire to be made more like you.
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Lord, we desire to be holy because you are holy.
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God help us to be your hands and feet.
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Help us, God, to have the mind of Christ, help us.
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God to love you even more. Father, we desire to fall even
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more madly in love with you. God help us to return back to
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our first love. Help us not to be distracted by
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this world and by all of the lights and all of the flash and
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all of the distractions. Lord that are coming our way.
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Lord, I pray that we will not be LED off.
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Lord, like a moth to the flame. Lord, I pray that we'll burn
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bright for you. God, I pray that you'll fill our
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lamps. Lord, I pray that we can be
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salt. Lord, for this wicked and dark
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and perverse generation. God, I pray that we will cleanse
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the wounds, Father, and that we will purify all of the things
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that are not clean. Father, give us a clean heart
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today. God, I pray that we'll season
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this world with the savour of the Savior.
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God, I pray that as we move and have our being in you, God, I
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pray that it touches many lives. I pray that many people come
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into the fold. God, I pray that they'll hear
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your voice while they still have time, God, and they won't wait.
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And Lord, they will not wait till the end.
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And God enter in as if they escaped out of a fire.
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God, I pray that they'll put their faith in you today.
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God, I pray that they'll be sanctified and consecrated
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today, God. For today is the day of
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salvation. And so God, we offer that to all
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that we meet along the way. God, knowing that you worthy of
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our praise, You're worthy of our adoration, You're worthy of all
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of our attention. God, and we just desire you and
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you alone. Father, we press towards you and
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you alone. Father, we just want to see your
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eyes like fire and hair like wool.
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We want to hear your voice, the sound of the many waters.
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God, we want to see the train of your robe and filling the
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temple. God, we want to see the rainbow
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in the sea of glass mingle with fire.
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God, we desire to be taken up, to be caught up into the throne
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room. God, we just want to see you,
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Father, and lay at your feet. Lord, and cast our crowns among
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your feet. God, we desire nothing more than
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your presence. Lord Jesus, we only want you and
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you alone. Jesus, let us touch the hem of
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your garment today. God, let us lay our head on your
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chest today. We just want you, Jesus, and we
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want the whole world to know you, to know you in the way that
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you can be known. Father, we just want to lock
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eyes with you. We want to put our hand to the
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plow. We want to be found doing the
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things that you would have us to do with this little short
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lifetime that you've given us. God, I pray that we can be found
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faithful ministers of the gospel.
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God, I pray that we can be found doing the things that you would
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want done for this day and for such a time as this.
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God, you are our everything. You are our first thought.
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You are the last thought. You are the Alpha and the Omega.
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You're the beginning and the end.
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God of our entire lives. You're the breath and our lungs.
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You're the heartbeat in our chest.
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You are our minds. Lord, you give us the mind of
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Christ. God, you are the reasoning that
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we have. You are all of our being.
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And so God, we yield to you. Lord, we open up ourselves
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completely to you, God, and we trust all of your ways are good,
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even when we don't understand them.
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Father, we trust that you're leading us home.
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We trust that even in the things that we are uncomfortable with,
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God, you are refining us. So God, we thank you for the
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sacrifice of Christ. We thank you.
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We know that He's going to tread the wine press, God, and we just
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want to be there with him, Father, and we just want to see
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you and all of your glory. Yes, God, show us your glory.
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God, come and get your glory. God, it's you and it's you alone
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that we are here for. And so teach us your eternal
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ways, your eternal thoughts, your eternal paths.
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God, teach us through the Scripture.
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Thank you for the inspired, infallible, and arrant
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Scripture. God.
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Thank you for Genesis to Revelation.
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God, I thank you for the completed work, Father, the
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authority over the land, the authority over all generations
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and all people groups and all tongues and all nations.
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God, this is the authority. And I thank you, God, that we
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can hold it in our hands and we can have it.
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And when it is precious to us, God.
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And so, Lord, we just want you. And it's in Jesus Christ, holy
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and precious name that I pray, Amen.
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Let's start in verse one. Truly, truly, I say unto you, he
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that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up
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some other way. The same is a thief and a
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robber. So here we can see the correct
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way to enter into ministry. We can see that it is not a
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plaque on the wall. We can see that it is not a
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degree. We can see that we cannot
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manufacture this calling. The Spirit of God calls out to
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us. God is beckoning us into the
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fold, but we must respond. We cannot blasphemy the Spirit
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when it is calling out to us. Friends, we must enter in the
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straight and the narrow way. We cannot hop over the fence.
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We must enter in through Jesus Christ.
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And then it is the sacrifice in the blood of Jesus Christ that
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atones for all of our sins. So we can stand in the presence
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of God Almighty. And it is only by that blood
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that we can enter in, friends. And if we try to enter in
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through all of our works and through all of our behavior,
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we've missed the mark. Verse 2 But he that enters in by
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the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
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So here we can see that Jesus Christ is the Good Shepherd.
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We can see here that we are His flock, we are in His fold and
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He's telling us and He's making it plain to all of the religious
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leaders and all the Jews who are listening to him give this
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message. And perhaps this message came
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right after the healing of the man that was born blind.
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We can see here that he is wanting to show them that they
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are airing grievously by not entering in through him, but
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trying to get there by all of their religion and politics and
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trying to get there by the law and trying to get there by
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having all of the Pentateuch and traditions and having all of
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their man made ideas. And he's showing them that
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unless they come to him honestly, unless they come to
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him and fall on that stone and be broken to pieces, they cannot
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enter in. And if they are left in that
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state, then that stone will fall on them and pulverize them.
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Verse 3. To him the Porter opens, and the
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sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name, and
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leads them out. So here we can see that in this
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time he as he was talking to all of the Jews of the land at this
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time, they would have understood this parable.
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They would have understood this saying of his that whenever the
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sheep were put up in a town, they were put together in a pen
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and the shepherd would come to the keeper of the door and he
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would gain access into that pen and he would call out and his
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sheep knew his distinctive call and they would come running
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towards him. And the other sheep that did not
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know it would stand back and would not come.
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So here Jesus is referencing to all of them that would have been
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very familiar with this practice.
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But for you and for I, the application is we can know when
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when a counterfeit comes across. We can know when it's not the
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voice of God by studying and listening and being in tune with
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God's voice. And His voice is all over every
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single one of these pages, from Genesis to Revelation.
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It's one voice, friends, and it's calling out to you, and
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it's calling out to me. And the voice is of Christ, and
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it is on every page and every syllable, friends, every comma
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and every period, friends. It's Christ and Christ
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crucified. And so we must hear this voice
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and know this voice and understand this voice, so that
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when a counterfeit does come across, not if, but when a
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counterfeit comes across, the spirit of Antichrist, whenever
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it calls out to us, we are not duped.
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We are not LED astray. We can know that we are obeying
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that voice, that still small voice.
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And sometimes it is counter to our own understanding.
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But that is OK because the way of God in the way of Jesus
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Christ is perfect and good and it's whole and it's trustworthy
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and it's true and no matter if it makes you uncomfortable, we
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must obey those things. But far be it from us to listen
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to the spirit of Antichrist that tells us to fall into comfort,
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to fall into self-reliance, to fall into money and the spirit
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of mammon, to fall into all of our prejudiceness and all of the
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things that plague us. Fall into deception.
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These are the lies and the trickery of the enemy.
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And we must be on guard and safeguard ourselves by listening
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and being in tune with the voice of God on every single one of
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these pages. Friends, we must get in this
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good book. Study it.
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This is the lifeline, friends. He's given us his spoken word.
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He's given us the the complete authority, but we must get in
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it. And the Word became flesh.
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We must get in it, friends, and learn it for ourselves and know
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it for ourselves, own it for ourselves and live it out.
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Friends. It's not enough just to hear it,
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but we must obey, friends, and we must have faith and increase
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the faith. As the storms of life wage and
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rage all around us, friends, we must obey it.
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We must increase our faith and let the faith that we have
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become practical in action. Friends.
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And what does that look like? Taking care of widows and
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orphans in their time of distress.
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What does it look like to seek justice and to love mercy and to
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walk humbly? What does that look like,
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friends? It looks like us being able to
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safeguard ourselves from sexual immorality.
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This is the will of God for us, friends, is to not fall into all
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the traps and all the deception of the enemy.
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And it will come and it is relentless, but we must resist
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the enemy and he will flee from us.
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Friends, soak that shield of faith in the water, the living
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water, and as it is heavy, lift it up over your head.
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Lift it up over your your thoughts and your mind, and
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watch how it extinguishes the fiery darts of the enemy.
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For and when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them,
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and the sheep follow him, for they know His voice.
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Do you know his voice, friends? It is congruent.
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It is the same from Genesis to Revelation.
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And if you want to know the unrevealed will of God, you must
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obey the revealed will of God. God, do you know his voice
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today? It's on every page 5.
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And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him,
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for they know not the voice of the strangers.
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These are the ones who try to start all of these cults.
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These are the ones who try to masquerade themselves as angels
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of light. These are the ones who try to
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dupe the masses with prosperity gospel.
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These are the ones who try to twist the scriptures for their
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own benefit and we must be safeguarded against those.
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We need the pure word friends. We need the true religion
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friends, We need God Almighty. We need a relationship with God
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Almighty through His Son Jesus Christ.
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We need to be in dwelled with the Holy Spirit and have
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discernment friends. 6 This parable spoke Jesus unto them,
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but they did not understand what things they were which he spoke
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unto them. So here it was a paradox.
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In here Jesus knows that as he speaks to them, he doesn't just
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tell them outright. He speaks to them in a parable
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so that it will be revealed to those who honestly approach him
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and they will go in as he cast alongside of them.
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But for those who remain at the door, those who do not choose to
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enter into this parable, they will be left outside friends,
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and the door will be shut and they will bang on it and say,
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let us in. But he will say, The door is
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shut now, and then you will go into eternal separation from
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Him. The weeping and gnashing of
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teeth, Friends. Seven Then said Jesus unto them
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again, Truly, truly, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
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So here this time these shepherds would lay across the
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entrance into the fold, and the sheep could not come over him
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without Him knowing it. The wolves could not come in
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without Him knowing it. He's telling you, Here's another
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one of His great I am claims to his messianic title to his
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deity. Friends, He's showing the Jews
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here, He is the great I am, and we know that the Trinity is 3
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separate persons operating in one office, God the Father, God
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the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
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Friends 8 All that ever came before me are thieves and
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robbers. But the sheep did not hear them.
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So he's talking about the false prophets.
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He's talking about all of the wicked religious leaders who
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tried to lead the people astray and to get them to believe that
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it was all about money, it was all about power, it was all
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about greed, that it was all about position.
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And Jesus is saying that even though they looked the part,
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they were not of me because they were thieves and they used
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deception and they were robbers. They were brutal in their force.
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And how many times have we seen that played out?
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But I would have you to know that that that has nothing to do
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with God. God is loving and God is good
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and God is pure and God is wholesome.
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And God doesn't see people as a means to an end.
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God sees them as eternal beings who are going to spend eternity
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somewhere. And there are only two choices.
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And we must get it right while there is still breath in our
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lungs. Friends. 9 I am the door by me.
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If any man enters in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and
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out, and find pasture. So here he makes another.
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I am proclamation unto the Jews, and unto all the religious
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people, and. These are bold claims that he is
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God Incarnate and he's showing them that he is the door.
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He's showing them that he is the one that they must enter in, and
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if they will enter in through him, then they can go in and out
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and they will find pasture. And it shows us that we have
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free will, and it shows us that we are empowered by him.
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And it shows us that we can have our being in Him, and that we
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can be settled in Him, and that we have the ability, friends, to
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minister unto those. He's showing us that this
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pasture, we will never be hungry.
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He's showing us that when we are with Him, there's freedom,
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friends, there's freedom where the Spirit of God is.
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He's showing us how we must be saved.
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It is by entering in to a relationship with God Almighty
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through His Son Jesus Christ through the spilled blood on
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Calvary 10. The thief comes not but for to
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steal and to kill and to destroy.
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I am come that they might have life and they might have it more
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abundantly. So here in verse 10, friends, we
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know this verse well that the enemy, the devil, Satan, his
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only tactic is to steal, kill and destroy.
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He's been doing it since the Garden of Eden.
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And if it's not broke, then don't fix it.
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And it works, friends. He promises us such luxury.
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He promises us such prosperity. He promises us that we will have
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all the glory without the suffering in Jesus Christ's way
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is that if we will choose to lay down our lives for our brothers
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on this side, that we will inherit eternal life.
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And that we will experience all of the glory that He has and
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that we can have the abundant life now.
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That we cannot be tricked and duped by the enemy.
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His way only leads to death. There is no deliverance on any
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of the promises. He He is only a counterfeit.
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That is the reason that he is the Antichrist.
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He desires to be worshipped like Christ, but he cannot deliver on
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any of the promises that Jesus Christ promises us.
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We must get attached and yoked to Jesus.
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We cannot get duped by all of the promise of prosperity, all
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the promise of glory without suffering.
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We cannot get duped by the promise that we can have all the
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things that we could ever want here, and if we'll just bow down
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to Satan, then all the kingdoms of the world will be ours.
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He cannot deliver on these false promises.
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These are lies. He is the father of lies and He
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will lie to you over and over and over and over and over again
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until you latch on to 1 lie and then He puts the ring in your
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nose and He leads you off into bondage, which leads to your
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demise and to your your death friends.
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And in the beginning it sure looked pretty.
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It sure looked good. It sure looked promising.
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But in the end, it bites like a Viper.
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It is death, friends, and we cannot be duped by Him.
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Jesus invites us into the abundant life, friends, and the
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abundant life is being filled with the Spirit and having
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discernment and knowing what to do and when to do it and how to
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do it. Knowing that when you get to the
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fork in the road that He is going to lead you on the right
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path. Knowing that whenever you have
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to make a hard decision, He's going to be there with you to
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help you make that decision. Knowing that if you wake up and
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acknowledge Him, He's going to direct your steps.
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Knowing that He's leading you home and that you're going from
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glory to glory. Knowing that any suffering that
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you have to go through in this life is nothing in comparison to
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what He has in store for you in the life to come.
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Knowing that this abundant life can be started now, but we will
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have it in its entirety in eternity.
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Friends 11 I am the Good Shepherd.
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The Good Shepherd gives his life for the sheep.
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So we can see here another I am statement that he is claiming to
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be God. He's saying I am the Good
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Shepherd. And he asked the rich young
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ruler, why do you call me good? There is none good but God.
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And so we know that he is God and that he is showing them and
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he's showing us that he lays down his life and no one took it
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from him that he laid it down for us, and that there is no
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greater love than that. And the resurrection power, when
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he took it back up, is available to you and available to me, the
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same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead.
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And we're going to see that as he continues on. 12 But he that
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is a hireling, and not the shepherd who's owned the sheep,
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are not sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and
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the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep.
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So we can see here that these dumb blind shepherds, these dumb
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dogs who do not know how to bark, they allow the wolf into
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the pen. They go running as soon as they
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see opposition. And they were only there for
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their own selfish gain. They'd cared nothing for the
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sheep. And we can see here that Jesus
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Christ modeled for us what it looks like to lay down our lives
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for the sheep and to protect them and to care for them. 13
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The hireling flees because he is a hireling and cares not for the
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sheep. 14 I am the Good Shepherd, and I know my sheep
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and am known of mine. So the sheep know him.
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Do you know his voice? Can you discern his voice?
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Do you know whenever there's a counterfeit, Satan always leaves
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the calling card? He will tell the truth wrapped
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up in a lie. He will tell a lie wrapped up in
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the truth He gives us, just like He did with Eve.
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He gives us what we think of as truth, but in that there will be
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a lie sprinkled in. That should raise the alarm.
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It should have us to see it and to not just Passover it.
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Satan cannot deliver on the promises that he tries to give
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us. And if we are in tune with God,
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we'll hear Jesus's voice and He will call us out of that lie.
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He'll call us out of that sin. And we do not have to stay
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stuck, Friends. We can get unstuck by listening
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for the Shepherd's voice, and He will lead you into paths of
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righteousness. 15 As the Father knows me, Even so I know the
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Father, and I lay down my sheep, my life for the sheep.
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So here he's telling us that he's going to the cross and he's
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going to give his life as a ransom for many, and that he's
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going to take it back up again. 16 And other sheep I have which
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are not of this fold, them also I must bring, and they shall
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hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and 1 shepherd.
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So we can see here that he's talking about the Gentiles, he's
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talking to the Jews, and he's saying that he has Gentiles in
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the world that he's going to call.
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And there is one shepherd and there is one fold.
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So you can see here that we are intermingled and we all listen
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to the Good Shepherd, and the Jews and the Gentiles together
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will inherit eternal life if they will believe and enter in
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through the door, through the Good Shepherd, through Jesus
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Christ. He is the only way to the
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Father. 17 Therefore does my Father love me because I lay
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down my life, that I might take it again.
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Resurrection power on full display, friends. 18 No man
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takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself.
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I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
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This commandment have I received of my Father.
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So we know that Elijah and Moses came and spoke with Jesus on the
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Mount of Transfiguration, and they were explaining to him all
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the things that would happen in here.
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We could see that Jesus has received a commandment from the
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Father, that he has the ability to lay it down and to take it up
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again. 19 There was a division, therefore again among the Jews
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for these sayings. That's what Jesus does.
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He draws the line in the sand. And you must choose this day.
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You must choose. But As for me, in my house we
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will serve the Lord. Choose you whom you will serve
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this day. But As for me, in my house we
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will serve the Lord. I pray that you can say that
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there's such a division, a line in the sands.
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You're either for him or you're against him.
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There is no neutrality with Jesus Christ. 20 And many of
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them said He has a devil, he is mad, why do we hear him?
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21 Others said these are not the words of him that has a devil.
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Can the devil open the eyes of the blind?
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So here you can see that half were divided and that some of
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them tried to relegate all of his authority to some kind of
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demonic authority. And the other ones who would
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come to him honestly and openly, then they could see that the
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devil has no power to do the things that Jesus Christ did.
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Everything that Jesus Christ touched turned to life, friends
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and life abundantly. And we must see that Jesus is
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good, and that He has all power, and that there is life that
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springs from Him. Even in the destructive miracles
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of the fig tree, whenever He said that it would be barren, He
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was showing us that we must have life and that he desires life,
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and it is only life when you come to Him. 22 And it was at
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Jerusalem, the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
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So here we know that during the 400 years of silence between the
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Old Testament and the New Testament, we know that there
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was a lot going on there. We know that Antiochus Epiphanes
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came in and there was a foreshadowing of what is to come
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in the tribulation. And there was so much
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destruction and there were thousands and thousands of Jews
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that were destroyed and sold into slavery.
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And there were laws that were enacted against all of the
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Jewish customs. And there was pig's blood that
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was being spilled out on the holy altar.
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And there was the gold being stripped out of the temple.
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And there was so much of the foreshadowing of the
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abominations of desolations and the desecration of the temple.
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And you can see here that this is what is referenced in this
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feast of the dedication. And we know that for Hanukkah.
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And we know that during that time, if you go back and read
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the history, not inspired, but the history of the Jews, you can
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see that there was enough oil for one day and it burned for
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8:00. And you can see here that it's
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all referenced in this, this one little passage that Jesus is
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about to speak on. And we know that it was winter,
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or as some would say, it was stormy.
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Let's see what has to happen here. 23 And Jesus walked in the
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temple in Solomon's porch. So we see Jesus.
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He is walking along the porch. We know that this is during the
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festival of dedication. 24 Then came the Jews round and about
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him, and said unto him, How long do you make us to doubt?
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So Jesus has already made it as plain as possible, and here
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they're encircling him. Here they're trying to trap him.
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Here they want him to make it plain, and that wasn't so that
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they would believe on him. They were trying to trap him
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here. And he knows all of their
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motives and tactics. Let's see what he has to say
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about it. If you be the Christ, tell us
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plainly. 25 Jesus answered them. I told you, and you believe not
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the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness
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of me. 26 But you believed not, because you are not of my sheep,
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as I said unto you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them,
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and they follow me. 28 And I give unto them eternal life,
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that, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man
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pluck them out of my hand. So here you can see that if we
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will abide in Christ, and we will get grafted in as wild
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branches, grafted into the natural, and if we will stay
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there, we will have our eternal life.
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Friends, it is by getting connected to the vine, it is by
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producing fruit that it proves our inheritance, it proves that
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we are with Him. And it is a natural overflow,
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the abundance that comes from the life that is connected to
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Him, abiding in Him, we know that that is proof that we
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belong to Him and we will have eternal life.
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And you cannot hide the light, you cannot.
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It will shine bright. And the fruit shows that we
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belong to him, and we don't have to work towards producing that
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fruit. It is so natural. 29 My father,
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which gave them me, is greater than all.
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And no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand.
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How many times he backs it up, He shows us that Satan cannot
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pluck us out of God's hand. If we will abide with him, if we
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will stay with him, it will go well with us.
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Friends, we can know that we know that we know that we know
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that we're going to bust heaven wide open.
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We can know that we have our assurance of salvation.
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We do not have to doubt it, friends, We don't have to have a
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hope. So maybe so kind of faith, we
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can have a know so kind of faith and it is proven by the fruit
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that we bear, and it will naturally occur as we stay
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connected to the vine. 30I and my father are one God the Father
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and God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, three persons in one. 31
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Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
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We can see multiple times how many times they were wanting to
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stone him, but it was not yet his time.
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He was on a divine timeline, and we know that he was operating in
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the will of the Father, and there he was, bulletproof,
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untouchable, until it was time for him to give up the ghost,
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and no one took it from him. 32 Jesus answered them.
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Many good works have I showed you from my Father.
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For which of those works do you stone me?
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33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone
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you not, but for blasphemy, and because that you being a man
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makes yourself God. Wow, we can see that Jesus is
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God, came down wrapped in flesh, lived a perfect sinless life,
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showed everyone the way to the Father and how they must come to
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God through Jesus Christ, through the sacrifice of his
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blood on the cross, being indwelled with the Holy Spirit.
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And here these Jews and these Pharisees and these religious
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leaders, they refused to come to Him honestly.
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They refused to come to Him in the right posture, and they
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thought that He was blaspheming God, but He proved to them that
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He was their Messiah, but they did not want to see it.
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They did not want to come to him and be truthful in their
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approach. 34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your
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law? I said, You are gods?
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35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and
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the Scripture cannot be broken. 36 Say you of him whom the
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Father has sanctified and sent into the world, you blasphemy,
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because I said I am the Son of God.
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So Jesus makes it plain. Jesus cannot make it any more
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clear that He is the only begotten Son, that whosoever
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will believe in him shall not perish, but have eternal life,
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and they refuse to believe it. Here Jesus is referencing
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Psalms, the book of Psalms, where God calls the righteous
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judges to be lowercase G gods, and he's saying that all
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scripture cannot be broken. It's an error and it's
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infallible. What is written remains, and
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here Jesus is showing them their hypocrisy.
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And if they would just concede on the point that the Scriptures
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are true and that the Scriptures are trustworthy, then there is
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no plausible, plausible way that they can try to connect this
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blaspheming charge to Jesus Christ by saying that He is the
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Son of God. And they erred and they fell
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away because of their blindness, and they had seared their
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conscience, and they would not come to Him as the only way.
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And it is their disobedience that led to our salvation.
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And it is a divine mystery that once you and I are coming into
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the fold, the jealousy of the Jews will cause them to come to
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the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior.
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What an amazing mystery that God had orchestrated since the
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beginning of time. 37 If I do not, the works of my Father
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don't believe me. 38 But if I do, though you believe me, not
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believe the works that you may know and believe that the Father
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is in me and I in him. So you can see here that they
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have this communion that the Father and the Son, if you go
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back to Genesis and look, there is a passage that says let us
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make them in our own image. And this is God the Father and
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God the Son communing and speaking about the creation of
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mankind. And you can see the Trinity at
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play throughout all of Scripture.
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It is congruent and it all fits together perfectly, and we can
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see it that Jesus and God are one, but they are separate
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persons. 39 Therefore they sought again to take him, but he
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escaped out of their hand. They couldn't touch him, 40 and
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went away again beyond Jordan, into the place where John at
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first baptized, and there he abode.
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So he got out of the jurisdiction of Pilot, in the
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jurisdiction of the Sanhedrin, and he went in to Harrods
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jurisdiction to get ready for the final battle, the Battle of
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Calvary. Whenever he would sweat like
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drops of blood and he would ask the Father if there was any
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other way to take this cup of wrath, of indignation, of all
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the sins of the world that was going to be poured out on him.
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He went to prepare for that, friends, and we know that Jesus
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often went to desolate places, and we know that he was going to
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commune with the Father and to receive the filling.
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And we would do well to do the same, friends, to get away from
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the hustle and the bustle and the rat race of life, and turn
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off all the noise and sit in God's presence, and take every
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thought captive and make them obedient unto Christ.
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As you sit in the silence, do not let your mind run.
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Do not let your mind just go wherever it wants to go.
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Take all of those thoughts captive and make them obedient
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unto Christ, and replace all the lies with truth.
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That is the way that we conquer all of our emotions.
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That is the way that we ascend the hill with clean hands,
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friends, with a pure heart. Friends.
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We can not bow down to idols, we cannot swear by a false God, but
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we enter into his presence, friends, that way. 41 And many
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resorted unto him and said, John did no miracle, but all things
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that John spoke of this man were true. 42 And many believed on
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him there. So we can see that the religious
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leaders refused to believe on him.
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And he goes over to the Jordan, he goes out of the area of
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Jerusalem, and he goes to where John the Baptist had his
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ministry and where all the people were coming to be
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baptized. And it says that many believed
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on Jesus. And we see that John decreased
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as Jesus increased. And that was the way of the
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Father. And we know it is still the same
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today. We must decrease and let Jesus
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increase over our lives and speak a better word over all of
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the lies of the enemy. We must be on guard.
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I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter here in
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God's Word. We get so much theology from
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this one chapter about what we believe and how to operate in
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this life. We get so much.
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It's so rich. It's a deep, deep well, and we
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must unearth all the gems and jewels.
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I'm praying for you and I love you.
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So does God. Stay prayed up today and tell
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somebody your salvation story as you go out.
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Tell them what the Lord has done for you.
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Bring that back on your mind and it'll edify you to hear yourself
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speak that. See you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.