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Reading: John 10:1-10 (The
Message)
"Let me set this before you as plainly as I can. If a person climbs over or
through the fence of a sheep pen instead of going through the gate, you know
that person is up to no good—a sheep rustler!
The shepherd walks right up to the gate. The gatekeeper opens the
gate to him and the sheep recognize his voice.
He calls his
own sheep by name and leads them out. When he gets them all out, he leads them
and they follow because they are familiar with his voice.
They won't follow a stranger's voice
but will scatter because they aren't used to the sound of
it."
Jesus told
this simple story, but they had no idea what He was talking about.
So He tried again.
" I'll be explicit, then. I am the Gate
for the sheep. All those others are up to no good—sheep stealers, every
one of them. But the sheep didn't listen to them. I am the Gate. Anyone who
goes through Me will be cared for—will freely go in and out, and find
pasture. A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came so they
can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.
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