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John 10
*THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP*
There is something about the imagery of shepherd with sheep that brings great comfort to the heart of a believer if we embrace its meaning.
The Lord is indeed our Shepherd.
He leads us in paths of righteousness; he makes us lie down in green pastures; he leads us beside still waters; he takes us through places of danger and darkness.
What a comforting thing it is to know we have such a Shepherd.
One day Jesus looked upon the city of Jerusalem and burst into tears.
“They are as sheep without a shepherd.”
In John 10, Jesus creates a word picture.
It is an extended metaphor, or a simile.
He is our shepherd and He calls us to explore that relationship.
Our Lord builds his teaching around four figures that are taken from the life of a shepherd.
*I. **True Shepherd (1-5)* *Legitimate relationship*
In the first figure he is clearly setting himself apart as the True Shepherd of the sheep in contrast to the false shepherds
This passage follows immediately on the healing of the man born blind, who had been cast out of the synagogue because of his faith in Jesus.
Jesus sees these leaders, these Pharisaical rulers of the Jews who had twisted and distorted the teachings of the law, as false shepherds.
"Thieves and robbers," he calls them.
*"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.
"But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep.
"To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
"When he puts forth all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
"And a stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."
John 10:1-5*
In the East, shepherds typically brought their flocks(of 10-20) into one central sheepfold every evening where half-a-dozen flocks gathered together and were guarded by a porter or gatekeeper.
In the morning the shepherds returned and each called his own sheep.
Although the flocks had been mingled together, each flock knew its own shepherd's voice, and each would follow its own shepherd and no other.
·Three marks of the true Shepherd:
1. "He who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep."
First, *"He who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber; but he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep."*
What does he mean, "the door?"
He is referring, of course, to the normal, proper entrance to a sheepfold.
If someone is sneaking in over rock walls, he is a thief.
The prophets had predicted the way the Shepherd would come to the sheep.
They had foretold where he would be born, whom he would be born to, and the unusual character of his birth.
They had predicted how he would appear to the nation, how he would be introduced, where he would live, what he would say, and what he would do when he came.
This is what our Lord means.
He came the predicted way, the normal, expected way.
No other person in all the history of Israel ever came to Israel this way.
That is how we can know that he is the true Shepherd of the sheep.
He entered by the door.
2.
*"To him the gatekeeper opens."*
The second mark is, *"To him the gatekeeper opens."*
That "gatekeeper," of course, is John the Baptist.
He opened the door.
He was the "voice crying in the wilderness, 'Prepare ye the way of the Lord,'" {cf, John 1:23}.
John the Baptist identified Jesus in the words, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world," {John 1:29 RSV}.
To that Lamb "the gatekeeper opened."
3. *"The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out."*
The third clear and unmistakable mark is, *"The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out."
*His own would recognize his voice.
/Four things are characteristic of this fact.
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1. “He calls them by name.”
2.
"He leads them out."
3. "He goes before them."
4. "A stranger they will not follow
The first is that *he calls them by name*.
Notice that every encounter with Jesus in this gospel is on a personal basis.
He met /Nicodemus/ by night; he met the /woman at the well of Samaria/; he met the /impotent man/ at the pool of Bethesda; he met the /man born blind/.
In each of these encounters he met the individual personally, alone.
Through all the centuries since, every believer who has come to Jesus has come alone.
Jesus never takes a group in at once.
It is always you and he alone.
What you believe in the silence and loneliness of your own heart about him is what makes the difference.
There is where the transaction is done.
*"He calls his own sheep by name."*
Then, second, "He puts them out," *he leads them out."*
That interesting phrase is used in Chapter 9 of the man who was born blind.
(double meaning) The Pharisees "cast him out" of the synagogue and that is the same word employed here.
Jesus is saying that, when that happened, it was not only the Pharisees doing it but it was he, himself, who was behind it; it was he who moved them to excommunicate him.
He led that man out of the false teaching which they had used to keep him in spiritual blindness.
Then, third, *"He goes before them."*
When he leads you out he does not leave you alone; he has already gone ahead of you.
In every situation you have to face he has been there first.
He has chosen for you every circumstance of your life as a believer.
That is the great truth of Scripture that helps us handle the pressures, the dangers, and the pitfalls of life: He has gone before us.
And, fourth, the sheep trust his voice: *"A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."*
The God of Mohammedan Islam is not Jehovah God of the Bible.
Mohammed’s view of Allah creates the opportunity for terrorism, following the God of the Bible does not.
We must be able to recognize the voice of the Shepherd.
Illus.
Two men were called on, in a large classroom, to recite the Twenty-third Psalm.
One was an orator trained in speech technique and drama.
He repeated the psalm in a powerful way.
When he finished, the audience cheered and asked for an encore that they might hear his wonderful voice again.
Then the other man repeated the same words--’The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want...’ but when he finished, no sound came from the class.
Instead, people sat in a mood of deep devotion and prayer.
\\ Then the first man stood to his feet.
“I have a confession to make,” he said.
“The difference between what you have just heard from my friend, and what you heard from me is this: I know the Psalm, but my friend knows the Shepherd.”
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In Verses 6-10 our Lord changes the figure slightly.
Here he becomes the "door" of the sheep.
He puts it in a most specific way:
*II.
The “door” of the sheep.
(6-10) Loving Relationship*
*This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.
Jesus therefore said to them again, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
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