True Sheep Hear the Voice of Jesus Christ as
Shepherd and Follow Him (John 10:1-14)
14. In John 10: A believer in the Gospel according to Jesus is someone who hears and obeys Christ’s voice, and enters into an abundantly satisfying life of personally experiencing Christ (John 10:1,3,10,11,14).
A BELIEVER ENTERS THROUGH JESUS. John 10:1 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
A BELIEVER HEARS CHRIST’S VOICE. John 10:3To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
A BELIEVER HAS BEEN SAVED BY JESUS AND FINDS PASTURE. John 10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
A BELIEVER HAS AN ABUNDANT LIFE. John 10:10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.
A BELIEVER TRUSTS IN CHRIST’S LIFE LAID DOWN FOR THEIR SINS. John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
A BELIEVER IS KNOWN BY JESUS AND PERSONALLY KNOWS JESUS. John 10:14 I am the good shepherd, and I know My sheep and am known by My own.
The Four Gospels are
For Christ’s Church
The Four Gospels, and their powerful presentations of Christ’s gospel messages, were written:
• FOR Christ’s Church;
• TO Christ’s Church; and
• BY the Apostles of Christ’s Church.
The Four Gospels were each written after the birth of Christ’s Church in Acts 2.
The Four Gospels were written for those who were being saved and trained in Christ’s Church.
The Four Gospels were written during the very era when Paul and the Apostles were taking the Good News into all the world and to every creature.
The Four Gospels should be the richest treasure trove to us in Christ’s Church; and we should be mining the very words of Christ, as He speaks to every heart, laden with sin.
The Gospels are so powerfully the voice to us the Church, of God the Son, the Savior of the world.