Gospels (30) - John 10:1-21

Teacher: Rusty Kennedy
​Series: Gospels

Rusty's notes

John 9 – the blind Jewish man has been excommunicated by the Pharisees and Jesus went to find Him. Jesus was revealed to the seeing man and believed… by faith… receiving salvation.

• Just last night I received a text from someone showing me their friends letter of excommunication in the next month from a local church.
  
  

John 10:1-21
1 “Truly I tell you, anyone who doesn’t enter the sheep pen by the gate but climbs in some other way is a thief and a robber.

• Shepherd – Any kind of leader (Political or Spiritual)
• Jesus is now speaking about the Pharisees who excommunicated the healed Jewish man.
• They are the thieves.
• They are communicating a false message.
• Picture of Russian Jesus
• The difference is this… The Pharisees believe the entrance to the pen was through the oral law.
• Jesus lived under the written Law.
• The Pharisees added so much to the Gospel that it became “religious”

2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.

• Shepherd’s pen was typically a stall area that was attached to a dwelling (home).
• Sometimes the pens were shared and between two homes.
• But there was only ONE door.

3 The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

• He calls each by name… and they knew their shepherd.
• The Shepherd leads them in and out of the pen.
• Jesus… my Shepherd leads me out of error.

4 When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they know his voice.

• How many voices do you have in your head?
• Where do your thoughts come from?
• 1. 5 Senses – Past experiences stored in your brain.
• 2. Power of Sin that dwells in our flesh (Romans 5:17 - 17 So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me.[1])
• 3. The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead.

5 They will never follow a stranger; instead they will run away from him, because they don’t know the voice of strangers.”

• Illustration of a blindfolded teen listening for her father.

6 Jesus gave them this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them.
 - Parable

• Someone please tell me why Jesus is speaking in parables.

7 Jesus said again, “Truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.

• This is the 3rd time Jesus referred to Himself as “I AM”

8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. 9 I am the gate. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.

• “THE” good shepherd – Jesus
• “A” shepherd – of Leavener
• You are not my flock
• Look higher than me
• Saved from hell… saved from condemnation… saved from these earthly bodies… saved from sin…

10 A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.

• Who is this thief? – The Pharisees… but ultimately it is satan
• John 8:44 - because he is a liar and the father of lies.[2]
• Anyone that adds to the Gospel.
• I did Officer Ron Shephard’s graveside last Saturday and everyone was standing around the plot.
• I had the ear of the Mayor and the Fishers leadership.
• I had no time to teach an “explained” Gospel.
• I simply stated that Ron believed in God/Jesus and that was all that mattered.
• Immediately, POS kicked in and started reminding me of all the other saints there and did I explain the Gospel “well enough”.
• It can’t get any simpler than “believe in Jesus”.
• You don’t need all the religion.
• But watch this… I am crazy enough to believe Jesus’ next statement.

I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.

•  Once believed that Jesus promised me a “good life”
• I would be void of suffering.
• But I have come to understand
• Colossians 3:4 - 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.[3]
• Galatians 2:20-21 - 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing. [4]
• It’s not about my circumstances… it is about Christ living in me.
• Jesus came to give me His life.
• How much of Christ’s life do I have? An abundance. A full life… 100%
• Romans 5:10 - 10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled (past tense) to God through the death of his Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be (present/future) saved by his life.[5]
• What does that look like for you?

11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them. 13 This happens because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care about the sheep.
14 “I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 But I have other sheep that are not from this sheep pen; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.

• The Gentiles and the Jews as one.

17 This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.”
19 Again the Jews were divided because of these words. 20 Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and he’s crazy. Why do you listen to him?” 21 Others were saying, “These aren’t the words of someone who is demon-possessed. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”[6]

• Interview with Michelle Hernandez

[1] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Ro 7:17). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Jn 8:44). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Col 3:4). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[4] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Ga 2:20–21). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[5] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Ro 5:10). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[6] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Jn 10:1–21). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.