As I announce each week before I begin the message, the message will come from the Gospel of John chapter 10, starting with verse 1, which I expect you to have your Bibles and open there too, because I want you to make sure what I say is the Scriptures, is actually the Scriptures, because sometimes I throw you a curve ball. Now Jesus, one of Jesus' teaching styles, especially when it came to the general public, was to teach in parables. Now parables is kind of like metaphors, except not only does it compare something, it has spiritual significance. And so Jesus is going to present two parables, parables in this accounting of the Gospel, and we're going to see the first parable they just don't get, which is not unusual, because most of the people never seem to get his parables. Even his own followers oftentimes would say, "Jesus, what did you mean by that?" And so hopefully we'll be able to understand what the parables are and to appreciate his teaching.

Sermon Notes

John 10:1 – 6 Jesus is the Good Shepherd. He enters and sheep hear His voice and follow Him, but not the voie of another

John 10:7 – 10 Jesus is the door and those who came before Him are thieves and robbers

John 10:11 – 13 As the Good Shepherd He will lay down His life for the sheep, but a hired hand would not

John 10:14 & 15 He knows His sheep and His sheep know Him

John 10:16 He has other sheep, which are not in this fold

John 10:17 & 18 The father loves Him because He lays down His life for the sheep

John 10:19 – 21 There is a division over who Jesus is