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Introduction
– Jesus healed a man born blind.
The Pharisees kept asking him how he was healed and who healed him.
Crazy story about the Pharisees grilling him, his parents, coming back to him.
And then he showed he understood more about Jesus than they did.
9:30-33.
They get defensive and toss him out.
Being tossed out of the temple is not like being thrown out of class or sent to the principal’s office.
It’s more like being excommunicated from the church.
Jesus then found the man, and when the man realized Who Jesus is, he believed and worshiped.
v. 39 Jesus came to help the blind see and to blind those who think they do see.
The Pharisees are understanding that Jesus is talking about them.
Jesus responds starting in Chapter 10 with several parables or word pictures.
Shepherd, Sheep, and Gate
Shepherd, Sheep, and Gate –
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v.1 Very truly – honestly and sincerely
John 10:1-6
Pharisees – directly addressing those who believe they can see.
Religious leaders
Picture of sheep courtyard on home
Sheep pen = courtyard, in town, with a gate.
Family sheep kept in at night.
Door or gate with keeper.
Pharisees – directly addressing those who believe they can see.
Religious leaders
Sheep pen = courtyard, in town, with a gate.
Family sheep kept in at night.
Door or gate with keeper.
If entering the courtyard any other way than the door, obviously thief or robber.
v.2 shepherd enters by the door
v.3 keeper opens the door to let the shepherd in.
There could be sheep from several families in the courtyard, so the shepherd calls his sheep by name, they listen and follow.
Sheep pen with gate, doorkeeper info
v.4 he leads his own out, goes ahead, they follow
v.4 he leads his own out, goes ahead, they follow
know his voice, he knows their names.
Obvious relationship between shepherd and sheep.
Trust.
Shepherd is not how we sometimes picture – the soft guy with a little lamb over his shoulders.
The shepherd was low on social status, dirty from the sheep, used to being outdoors.
As we’ll see the shepherd had to deal with wild animals.
So not a soft guy.
v.5 will never follow a stranger, will run away because – don’t know voice.
No relationship, no trust.
v.6 Jesus spoke in parable or illustration.
Pharisees didn’t get it.
So Jesus picks up again in v.7 to expand on the picture and explain
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John 10:7-10
Again saying very truly (So, let Me make this more clear…)
I AM the door.
Probable that this section talks about the pen in the pasture.
No gate or door.
Shepherd stays in the doorway to protect the sheep.
Picture of pasture pen with opening
Common picture – shepherd and sheep.
Jesus begins to contrast the shepherd with the thief, robber, stranger, hired man.
v.8 All others are thieves and robbers – trying to get in some other way.
Sheep don’t listen.
Thieves and robbers – false shepherds are previous leaders who led the sheep away.
Took advantage of, robbed the sheep.
Sheep don’t listen to the false shepherd
Thieves and robbers – false shepherds are previous leaders who led the sheep away.
Took advantage of, robbed the sheep.
and warnings to false shepherds taking advantage of sheep.
Jesus is also communicating that the Pharisees are false shepherds mistreating the sheep - the example being the blind man tossed out of the temple.
Sheep don’t listen to the false shepherd
v.9 Enter through the Shepherd to be saved, kept, protected.
In His explanation, Jesus is the door, not just the door keeper.
Jesus is the only way into the fold/pen.
Declaring Himself as the only way to be saved.
We’ll see that in more detail in a minute.
v.10 motivation of thief.
steal.
kill.
destroy.
abuses the sheep.
motivation of shepherd.
Shepherd gives life.
abundant life.
life to the full.
Not talking about wealth and ease, but a richly rewarding and joyful life with the Shepherd.
not just future in heaven, this is life now in the spirit.
Amazing, free, life.
Not only does Jesus present Himself as the gate to the pen, now He describes Himself as a shepherd.
Not just any shepherd…
motivation of shepherd.
give life.
abundant life.
life to the full.
Not talking about wealth and ease, but a richly joyful and rewarding life with the Shepherd.
In His explanation, Jesus is the door, not just the door keeper.
Common picture – shepherd and sheep.
Jesus begins to contrast the shepherd with the thief, robber, stranger, hired man.
Not only does Jesus present Himself as the gate to the pen, now He describes Himself as a shepherd.
Not just any shepherd…
The Good Shepherd
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v.11 The Good Shepherd –
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