I Am the Door (Malawi)
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I Am the Door
I Am the Door
John 10:1-10
ILL- getting to Falls Creek without keys to the trailer. (Monty)
ILL-My trailer is locked on to my truck and only key is in Mountaineer.
How do you get in without a key? Locked doors control who has access.
Jesus controls access to His Kingdom.
1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.
2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
5 A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”
6 This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
7 So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Jesus cries out very clearly that he is God by this parable.
He is the door- controls who is allowed to be his sheep.
He is the Good Shepherd- very obvious to the Jews that there was only one Good Shepherd.
4 Ways to Live in the Flock
4 Ways to Live in the Flock
1. Listen (8)
1. Listen (8)
8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
It matters who you are listening to.
False prophets of the past- or maybe more currently the Scribes and Pharisees.
Context of chapter 9
Jesus healed man born blind and Pharisees did not like it.
Jesus is warning against the scribes and pharisees.
13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
52 Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”
vs 1- anyone who tries to come to God without going through Jesus is a thief and a Robber- this was the Scribes and Pharisees.
1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.
APP- Making up your own rules will not get you to heaven.
I know you hear a lot of noise about heaven.
I am going to listen to the one who was resurrected from the dead.
Hear his voice (3)
3 To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
We must listen to the Shepherd.
2. Enter (9a)
2. Enter (9a)
9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
Only one entrance.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Parable of 2 Ways
13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Jesus is the gate.
Free Will decision to enter. But you have to enter through the gate.
13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
3. Exit (9b)
3. Exit (9b)
9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
You won’t leave the security of the pen unless you trust the shepherd.
Live in the security of being his sheep.
They do not come and go alone- always with the Shepherd.
Go in and out and find pasture- Live within the relationship of the shepherd means having peace/ needs met.
Beatitudes- "Blessed" = fulfilled. Having spiritual needs satisfied.
4. Live (10)
4. Live (10)
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
kill=slaughter.
Jesus came so we can have life - abundantly.
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Abundantly= perisson= "that which goes beyond necessity." The gift of Jesus is life beyond our wildest dreams.
Everyone lives for eternity- only the saved live abundantly.
The choice: spiritual death or abundant life?
CONCLUSION
Our salvation is determined by what we do with Jesus.
We have sinned.
He died for our sin.
He is the only way.
Have you entered by the gate?
Have you entered by the gate?