Okay so John chapter 10 and so John chapter 10 basically continues straight
on from Jesus addressing some of the Pharisees at the end of chapter 9 so if
you have a look at chapter 9 and from verse 39 and Jesus said for judgment I
am come into the world that they which seem not might see and that they which
see might be made blind and some of the Pharisees which were with him heard
these words and said unto him are we blind also Jesus said unto them if you
were blind you should have no sin but now you say we see therefore your sin
remaineth then it goes straight into verse 1 verily verily I say unto you he
that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold but climbeth up some other way
the same is a thief and a robber but he that enterth in by the door is a
shepherd of the sheep to him the porter openeth and the sheep hear his voice and
he calleth his own sheep by name and leadeth them out and when he putteth
forth his own sheep he goeth before them and the sheep follow him for they know
his voice and a stranger will they not follow but will flee from him for they
know not the voice of strangers this parable spake Jesus unto them but they
understood not what things they were which he spake unto them okay let's pray
father I thank you for your word I thank you for this great gospel I thank you
for this chapter and for just so many truths that will you know we can learn
from this please fill me with your spirit now help people to hear what
you've got to say for them to them out of the out of your word and help us to
just just just pay attention and listen and be open to the truths that come come
come from this in Jesus name we pray Amen okay so this is a parable Jesus
explains it in the following verses let's go through the following verse and
then we'll come back to the parable so verse 7 Jesus says then said Jesus unto
them again verily verily I say unto you I am the door of the sheep so this is
the third I am of the Gospel of John Jesus has already said I am the bread of
life in John 6 I am the light of the world in John 8 now he's saying I am the
door of the sheep so the door is to the sheepfold which isn't it's not like a
huge grazing field the sheepfold is basically a safe area it's a safe
enclosure where the sheep are collected okay kind of like a pen yeah he says in
verse 8 all that ever came before me are thieves and robbers but the sheep did
not hear them I am the door by me if any man enter in he shall be saved and
shall go in and out and find pasture he's the door yeah the door to
salvation not a door the door he's the only door to salvation isn't he he's the
only door I am the door he says I am the door by me if any man enter in any man
yeah okay the offer from from the beginning is is to everyone isn't it but
of course we have a choice to reject that but if any man enter in not if only
some if the pre predestined men enter in or if the Jews enter in it's if any man
enter in he shall be saved not he shall start being saved not he might be saved
he shall be saved yeah if any man enter in he's a door if any man entering he
shall shall be saved going through a door is pretty easy isn't it like the
other I am is going through the door is pretty easy isn't it like eating of
eating some bread is pretty easy like when he goes on to say so you know he's
a water as well okay and he says here and shall go in and out and find
pasture once he saved he continues sorry he says and going to find pastures oh
sorry point being once he saved he continues to live his life doesn't it so
once you're one once you're saved you still have to live life don't you still
have to go in and out and find pasture it's not that just that you're in the
sheepfold and that's it you still have to live life so he says here and shall
go in and out and find pasture now verse one of the parable said verily verily I
send to you he that enter is not by the door into the sheepfold but climb it up
some other way the same is a thief and a robber what's the difference between the
thief and a robber so a thief one who secretly unlawfully and feloniously
takes the goods or personal property of another the thief takes the property of
another privately the robber by open force now the robber in law number one
one that makes it goods or money from the person of another by force or
menaces not always force and with a felonious intent and number two in a
looser sense one who takes that to which he has no right one who steals plunders
or strips by violence and wrong okay so it's not again not just violence by
wrong as well okay so obviously this is talking about false religion okay false
religion clearly but I would add to that infiltrators false prophets as well okay
that those that both are among us and those are without as well it's the
unsaved trying to gain access to the sheep isn't it and that can be both
current and probably future potential sheep yeah okay verse 8 said all that
ever came before me are thieves and robbers but the sheep did not hear them
okay coming before him as well you could look at that and coming before him in
our own lives so before we came to Jesus Christ there many that came before him
weren't there there were many different ideas of salvation false religions that
many people have been exposed to any other way of salvation any other way to
heaven is a lie and is ultimately theft and robbery isn't it okay any other way
because so much of it is about money isn't it so much of false religion is
about money I mean just you know think about it think about the amount of money
in false religions I drive regularly into central London and I go past
Westminster Cathedral I also go past Westminster Abbey as well wow you see
see anyone seen those places recently the money involved in there and and just
ridiculous isn't it the amount of money we were looking my kids were asking me
about the Vatican the other day so I just went online and showed them a few
documentary short little videos about the Vatican just what a colossal waste
of money just ridiculous isn't it the amount of money people's money that has
been given to the church spent on that let alone the money that's been siphoned
away and the rest of it absolutely wicked it's so much about money isn't it
and all false religions the world over any of the successful ones are just
absolutely loaded aren't they um so theft yes but how about robbery so how
about robbery how many cults so how many cults where they where a lot of it is
is threats of some sort or other isn't it at least they don't want you to leave
the cult do they a lot of people fear you know that fear of leaving but think
about the the physical violence threatened by false religions over
history I mean the Roman Catholic Church for one I mean absolutely horrific is
that when you look back in history and the crimes committed by that wicked
false religion on people it's just been terrible and still we have people the
world over that were involved in the Catholic Church who know this but it's
not just the Catholics what about the Protestants as well I mean good old John
Calvin who who many people seem to basically idolize don't they the world
over called for servitors to be burned at the stake didn't they and that that
was one of you know just one of many many of the Protestant Church you were
again you know they were just swapping what the Catholics were doing weren't
they and there was kind of you know the same thing a Catholic witch-hunt and and
especially going for people that really believed didn't they because the
Anabaptists didn't fare too well under either of them did they about the
Muslims as well and the threats of violence and and you know you got all
sorts of things going on for people dare you know people who are mixed up in
Islam who want to either not be involved or marry out of it or anything else
there's a lot of violence a lot of threats a lot of violence threats on
threatened to unbelievers and what is it it's robbery isn't it it's robbery
because ultimately again it comes back to money and it comes back to a whole
system and people making money out of it but the sheep did not hear them did they
he said all that ever came before me are thieves and robbers but the sheep did
not hear them now if they're sheep and they're saved then at some point they
stopped hearing them didn't they at some point they must have stopped hearing
them and really ultimately I suppose did they really believe them because there
are those you sometimes feel don't you when you're out soul winning there are
those that are so mixed up in false religion it doesn't matter what you tell
them it's like they they all they truly have put their whole heart into it but
the sheep can't have done could they to have got saved verse 10 said the thief
cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy I am come that they might
have life and that they might have it more abundantly and a false religious
leader the false prophet the infiltrator come to steal don't they they want your
money but it's not just your money they want your friendship they want your
allegiance as well so obviously looking at the big false religions it will be
the money mainly the motivations of money to be involved in that to preach
that to be one of their false prophets it's money but the infiltrator the the
false prophet that tries to get into churches okay a lot of the time it's
money sometimes they want to put a you know a following off them but a lot of
the time they want your friendship as well they want your allegiance they want
to pull you away they want to befriend the church and pull them away from the
leadership pull them away from the truth and again they're stealing now aren't
they they're stealing your friendship they're stealing your allegiance because
really they don't have your heart and you know they don't have your your
welfare at heart do they because really what they want it's for their own their
own nefarious reasons they want to they want to stop people getting saved don't
they so a lot of the time the people that attack churches the ones that are
preaching against our sorts of churches the ones that are coming into our sorts
of churches the people that are just pulling potential sheep away into their
false religions they're they're they're destroying because they're stopping
people getting saved aren't they they're stopping I mean some of these false
religions you could say and look people have a free will choice to go into them
don't they have the choice to be good and evil okay and I'm not trying to
absolve them of blame but the people are wicked in these false religions at top
of these false religions and they're stopping people getting saved and in the
same people that attack our sorts of churches so winning churches are
ultimately trying to prevent salvations now they claim they're not they claim
they're just so angry about whatever you know unfairness say they think they see
in our churches or you know this hero worship or whatever it is a claim is
their major issue but really what are they really doing they're attacking one
of the few soul-winning churches around one of the few soul-winning churches in
the States all they're really doing is stopping people getting saved and
claiming that it's for you know you know the greater good and everything else and
and notice how they never attack any of the other churches they don't care about
the churches that aren't out soul-winning do they okay they don't
care what what so-called qualifications or lack of that the pastor's have in
those churches they don't care they don't care about the so-called you know
cult-like mentality in those churches they did when they were so winning when
the the brother hauls churches and those other churches were so winning they
cared then didn't they then they were getting attacked then the attacks but
but now they just move on it's just always so winning churches but what a
great second half the verse as well says I am come that they might have life and
there is a choice there isn't now I'm come that they might have life and
number two there and that they might have it more abundantly now look there's
there's obviously there's people that use this verse and preach you know their
health wealth prosperity type nonsense from it what does abundantly mean fully
amply plentifully in a sufficient degree so I you know I've heard this
preach in different ways and I don't believe it is just talking about having
eternal life because he's come that they might have life and then and that
they might have it more abundantly because you know the false teachers
preach the the health wealth prosperity but they obviously always base it on a
little bit of truth don't they so there's a little bit of truth to wash
down the poison you know they'll they'll claim that and then go if you just put a
bit extra in the offering plate you know then you're gonna be alright you're
gonna you're gonna be rich you're gonna you're gonna get all this all the
blessings of God and look we're not guaranteed riches and good health but
turn to Psalm 112 Psalm 112 would anyone here go back to their old life okay you
might have times when the devil tries to tempt you to look back at Egypt and
think things are actually much better then but when you really really sit down
and you think about it no way would you I don't think you would and the devil
will tempt you with that but really when you're clear when you have clarity
there's no way you want to go back to your old life is there and when you're
living for Christ when you're getting sin out of your life when you're in the
spirit and resisting the flesh you're doing things for God it doesn't compare
does it it does not compare it doesn't matter what worldly pleasures you might
have had it doesn't matter if you've gone from the riches and the fun and all
the things that the world tells you is great to the to what the world will tell
you is a boring Christian life the truth is you wouldn't swap it would you I hope
you wouldn't swap it because it doesn't matter what tribulation you're going
through it doesn't matter what what hard season of life you might be in it does
not compare does it it doesn't compare and and and if you all think you're
looking back then you know you really have to you really have to be real with
yourself and honest and just remind yourself of the burden of bondage of
that sin that we're all under and look don't get me wrong we can still be under
the bondage of sin can't we but you know what if you're living for Christ you're
trying your best it's a different game isn't it it's a different game and
obviously knowing for sure as well that you're saved how different is that but
having life yeah we have life through salvation but to have it more abundantly
and and it is abundance and I'm not talking about wealth and I'm not talking
necessarily and I'm not talking about you know you can have the best health
but you have abundant life when you live for God don't you it doesn't matter it
doesn't compare look at Psalm 112 says praise ye the Lord blessed is a man that
feareth the Lord that delighteth greatly in his commandments so you might have it
more abundantly you're blessed when you fear the Lord and delighteth greatly in
his commandments his seed shall be mighty upon earth the generation of the
upright shall be blessed wealth and riches shall be in his house and his
righteousness endureth forever unto the upright there arises light in the
darkness he is gracious and full of compassion and righteous a good man
showeth favor and lendeth he will guide his affairs with discretion surely he
shall not be moved forever the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance he
shall not be afraid of evil tidings his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord his
heart is established he shall not be afraid until he see his desire upon his
enemies he had dispersed he have given to the poor his righteousness endureth
forever his horn shall be exalted with honor the wicked shall see it and be
grieved he shall gnash with his teeth and melt away the desire of the wicked
shall perish the man that feareth the Lord that delighteth greatly in his
commandments we should have life abundantly and I think we do and I think
like I said when you really when you feel like you're in the spirit and you
feel like you're doing your best for God and look we're gonna fail often we're
gonna have bad days and good days but when you are life is there's so much
more abundance isn't there then then what we did have then the life before
that he says in verse 11 I am the Good Shepherd the Good Shepherd giveth his
life for the sheep so this is the next I am I am the Good Shepherd it does make
you think of Psalm 23 a bit doesn't it the Lord's my Shepherd I shall not want
but Isaiah 40 turn to Isaiah 40
because I believe here Jesus again is saying he's make it clear that he is God
Isaiah 40 Psalm 23 obviously the Lord's my Shepherd
Isaiah 40 in verse 10 behold the Lord God will come with strong hand and his
arm shall rule for him behold his reward is with him and his work before him he
shall feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather the lambs with his arm and
carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those that are with young and it's
just another one of the I am's the I am statement itself being God and it's just
Jesus showing although who he is who he's being prophesied about he's talked
about he is the Lord and even though he is God he gave his life for us all for
all the sheep didn't he gave his life for every single one of us verse 12 says
but he that is an hireling and not the shepherd whose own the sheep are not
seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and fleeth and the wolf catcheth
them and scattereth the sheep the hireling fleeth because he is an hireling
and careth not for the sheep right Jesus is a good shepherd that's contrasted by
the hireling the person that's just in it for the money of course the motivation
of most false prophets is money isn't it okay and we you know I don't think
that's probably lost on anyone here the motivation is money and it you know like
I said before it's not just submit the megabucks is it so you look at other you
know I've thought before about like the Church of England vicar for example and
you know this guy okay he's not really loaded but really it's still for in
their mind a comfy cushy job okay he's not he's not flying the private jet but
he still generally you know he's got a house for free he's got you know he gets
pretty good money pretty good standing in a community and everything else and
they are pretty well for doing very little okay it's like 15 minute little
sermon air you know they even get free dresses to wear as well so I don't even
have to wait for it but but it's the same with all with all of this and it's
the same with the repent of your sins pastor because the repent of your sins
pastor he's gone through Bible College and for him now to basically have that
job he's got to keep preaching a lot of the time this rubbish to be whatever
denominator you know part you know Baptist sort of group that he's with and
everything else but it's still it's a job a lot of times house I remember the
first church I was kind of involved with it was an evangelical church I remember
this lady there saying to me oh you know have you ever thought about you know
being a pastor and it the first thing she said was get a free house you know
get it's good money that's what these guys are just saying to each other you
know it's like wow like that's it that's that's your kind of trying to
entice me to be like a evangelical as one of these sort of wicked churches
anyway but um but but the hireling they you know and they are and these guys are
in it for the money in one way or another it might not be mega money but
it's a lot of the time they feel it's easy money following the way of Balaam
the son of Bozor who loved the ways of unrighteousness but like I said I think
there are likely many Baptist pastors in the world who are in it for the money
I think okay might not be mega bucks so they're in it for the money they're
preaching lies they're preaching they're preaching not the truth because they
don't want to lose their congregation and I'm saying at the beginning maybe
before they're full on false profit I don't think they literally let
necessarily just go straight into that they're not just false profit from the
start all of them but they're just preaching lies for the money aren't they
I don't know what that crossover point is where that time comes maybe it does
come from Bible College for some but then they're there the motivation is a
job and then when they're there they're preaching they don't want to lose
whatever support it is from the sending church maybe they maybe you know if
they've come out you know I've known a you know a couple that have come here
that have been sent out they're basically getting paid to do it they're
getting paid you know and they don't they're not going to start preaching the
truth when the sending church is telling them to preach lies and when they're
there for the money they're relying on the tithe or relying on the support of
the sending church they want to see numbers rising in their churches don't
they okay so they want to see those numbers going up they're selling their
books aren't they sometimes out of the church as well they want popularity so
they won't they won't preach on the sin then will they they won't preach in the
sin they won't call out the war and these aren't necessarily false prophets
sometimes so this could just be a hireling so this could be a hireling
someone who's motivation someone who's who's who's basically you know gone into
preaching really like that lady was trying to entice me many years ago their
motivation a lot of the time is the money and the job and the the the easy
life and well I don't have to you know break my back doing whatever job it is
anymore right now all I have to do is write a
little 10-minute sermon for this you know dud church somewhere preach once a
week you know it but when they're in it for the money they have to keep the
church high a lot of the time because it's all about the money it's all about
the tithe it's all about the support they won't preach on the sin will they a
lot of the time is they worried about losing people they won't preach the
truth they won't call out the wolves among them as well because when you're
calling out the walls again you're losing the church so they kind of don't
really care too much because all they want is people in the church they don't
want to be contentious they don't want the challenges they're more likely to
leave the church when it gets difficult because they weren't there for God were
they they weren't there for the right motivation they were there when they're
just in it for the money they're the hireling and and you could take that
principle or you could see that principle in other areas of your life
can't you what about child care so you know do you think that anyone really
cares about your children like you do no one does do they no one cares about you
you know you want them to and you kind of sometimes you're confused well they
don't see the cuteness that you see you know you decide they're so they're just
looking thinking yeah great the snow all over their face you know the the rest of
it this like screaming voice it just winds you up love my kid like I do you
know but but they don't do they do a lot of the time a parent will think the
sunshine's out of their kid don't they but but many people don't see that but
they don't and look you know when when you you know when you get that that
hireling in to look after your kids they're never gonna look after your kid
like you do they're never gonna put on their own they're never gonna care so
much I remember I remember seeing like just the most blatant display this one
so I was doing a landscaping jobs job many years ago and I was at the
customers house and they're with the kid and you know playing with a kid and then
the nanny turns up yeah and the nanny was just you know like this super nanny
just so loving so kind so much attention to this kid while the mums getting ready
and everything yeah okay so I'll do this job the mum goes shuts the door gets in
the car suddenly the phone comes out it's like yeah whatever right literally
for the next couple of hours there was this that the kid was just left to
themselves and you know and I didn't even care that you could see that you
know and that's the hireling isn't it because the hireling obviously is gonna
look good in front of people but as soon as you you know as soon as you're you
know the parents out of the way the hireling just resorts to being a hireling
and again you see that in the workplace don't you as well anyone who's ever
employed people if they're just based on a wage anyway I used to get it again
when I employed people for landscaping you know that you would leave them on
the job and they look so great and then you leave the job and then you come back
here did you actually get anything done at all because if they're not on a
reward and that's why a lot of jobs have reward schemes have incentive schemes
and things like that don't they because the hireling is just there for if the
money's coming anyway they don't really care do they because they're just there
for the money there's no other vested interest okay but that's the same I
believe that's the same when you have people in the ministry just for money
who are just there just for money just for a paycheck that's really they don't
really have a passion they're just kind of there because you know that's that's
what they could do that's a good they're not bad job yeah fancy yeah maybe we
could go into that that'd be a good job you know that's not what we want do we
you want around churches you want people are passionate want to preach the Word
of God I want to make a difference and make changes not people that well fancy
a bit a bit of easy cash verse 14 says I am the good shepherd and know my sheep
and have known of mine as the father knoweth me even so know I the father and
I lay down my life for the sheep okay now let's have a look at verse 2 again
then of the parable okay so verse 2 but he that entereth in by the door is a
shepherd of the sheep so Jesus is both the door for the sheep to enter through
faith and also the shepherd or at least he's a good Shepherd isn't it it said
verse 3 to him the porter openeth and the sheep hear his voice and he calleth
his own sheep by name and leadeth them out Jesus knows each and every one of us
by name that's pretty pretty cool thing to think about isn't it and from
salvation he wants to lead us through life as well okay so after salvation he
wants to lead us through life verse 4 and when he putteth forth his own sheep
he goeth before them and a sheep follow him for they know his voice
he leads by example why do the sheep follow him for they know his voice yeah
so deep down save people do know his voice don't they they know the voice of
the shepherd if we're to follow Jesus so we have to know the difference between
his voice and the voice of strangers now obviously deep down we know his voice
and look praise God that we have every word that Jesus wants us to hear
preserved for us as God promised to yeah in this book we've got the book but
we've also got in this book we've got every call of the shepherd in it don't
we so we've got every it's like the shepherd guidebook there for the sheep
but we have to learn it and and you know if we want to know and understand his
voice we have to learn it don't we so look we might know it and we know it
when we hear it but you want to know every single call don't you you want to
know every single one of those shepherd whistles and everything else you've got
to learn it you got to learn the book because when we know his voice it says
in verse 5 and a stranger will they not follow but will flee from him for they
know not the voice of strangers oh we have to flee from the strange voice yeah
that's what we should be doing shouldn't we we should be fleeing from the strange
voice the false doctrine we should flee from not what oh well I'm not sure well
I like the way they talk and oh I like this and like I saying with hymns and
all of that we should literally be fleeing the other way from it I don't
want to hear it I don't want any of that getting in my head I don't want to hear
that stuff and look that was hard wasn't it that was hard up until you know sort
of January this year when we when this got started because it was difficult
because on one hand you're trying to stay faithful and go to church and on
the other hand you you just keep hearing false doctrine don't you we
should just be fleeing it we don't want to hear false doctrine and of course I'm
talking about you know damnable heresies here and look and heresies to a degree
if you're literally just hearing false doctrine that's a bit concerning isn't
it then you're wondering well how you know where's your grasp of the Word of
God but but especially when we're hearing things you like did he just say
that I'll just give him the benefit that we should just be fleeing it shouldn't
we fleeing it we don't want to be around it but the damnable heresies
obviously it's not just coming from from from the you know the preacher the
pastor it's not just coming from YouTube the damnable heresies will and do come
from people amongst in churches don't they and we have to flee from it you
have to make you know you hear that you're hearing that strangers voice then
that's like that's a big cause for concern is there and that's the time to
go and tell someone about that and look the voice of strangers well will include
whispering in the church as well okay like and like I said I'm not saying
about anyone who whispers or anyone who use a hushed tone or anything I'm not
saying that that's it they're a hundred percent they're wicked but that is the
voice of strangers isn't it that is one of the tactics is the whispering and
it's subtle and like I've said before it's subtle but and look this isn't like
witch hunt time like I keep saying because I know churches could do I don't
want to do that but but on the same hand we should be fleeing from that so it's
not that okay right you've got to look out for it no but but look out for it
for your own good because people they're subtle really clever they'll befriend you
and then whisper to you and then try and just make you you know try and put
thoughts in your mind make you hate other people flee from it just flee from
it people like that get away from them you know because that that's that's
where which that's how they break up churches and they're clever about it
that obviously the false doctrine outside the church flee from it YouTube
flee from it false Bibles flee from it I don't want to hear any one preacher if I
hear someone preaching false Bibles switch off straight away I mean I don't
I just don't see why you'd sit through a word of it and that's same if I'm
looking or reading on things and you know and reading different theories and
ideas or stuff it they're using a false Bible good night done switched off no
way second you see that it's a voice of a stranger and if they can't recognize
that what hope have they got you know it's get rid of that get rid of any of
that sort of stuff now verse 14 jump forward to verse 14 he said I am the
Good Shepherd and know my sheep and a known and a known of mine as a father
knoweth me even so know I the father and I lay down my life for the sheep because
he and the father with the Holy Spirit make one God don't they okay verse 16
and other sheep I have which are not of this fold them also I must bring and
they shall hear my voice and there shall be one fold and one shepherd so what's
this other fold well he's talking to the Jews here in Jerusalem okay he's he's
been preaching throughout basically Israel the other sheep of the Gentiles
aren't they the other sheep of the Gentiles turn to Ephesians chapter 2
because there are many heretics all over this country and the rest of the world
that want to split Christians into their idea of race don't they just love it's
so fleshly man just loves splitting people into race they love being proud
of their race they love being negative about their race they love just anything
they can it says race race race isn't it and of course the world pushes that on
us as well the Zionists want to elevate the so-called Jews don't they as one
race and Gentiles as another yeah they love doing that don't they I mean it's
completely lost on them it seems all the many converts to Judaism not not
just throughout history but throughout the Bible that's just doesn't matter
about that because we could still just call them a race what they just become a
race again at what point what if you convert to Judaism maybe now how many
generations till you're now the race of Jews anyone want to guess at that I
don't know I reckon it's probably a few generations maybe it's only one
generation if you just grow your hair with some curly tassels get a yamakaron
or one of those silly fairy top hats and dress in that weird outfit that they
wear maybe that's enough maybe then you're a new race maybe you're a race of
Jews but it's nonsense isn't it it's nonsense there are these Hebrew roots
people that want to claim that their race are one of the twelve tribes you
heard that stuff before yeah and I don't know how many of the twelve tribes are
speaking to a guy and by the way there's been quite a push on that there's kind
of these black Hebrew roots guys pushing this a lot of the time but I spoke to a
guy not long ago is trying to tell me that in fact the whites the whites are
one of whatever tribe and the pure race and everything else it's like where'd
you get this rubbish from you know um but always always when you look at this
always this goes in hand with with the false gospel doesn't it there's always
some work salvation washed up in there because they don't know the voice of
Shepherd do they now I'm not saying everyone mixed up in that is because
people get saving there somehow that sometimes they just don't actually try
and read the Word of God hear the Word of God and then they're not really
recognizing the voice of the Shepherd now they can recognize when they hear it
but it doesn't mean that they're gonna hear it does it just cuz you're safe
doesn't mean you're automatically gonna read your Bible Jesus said there would
be one fold and one Shepherd now most of these people don't get either of those
truths do they okay one fold one Shepherd okay because again they want to
try and add other sort of you know shepherds in or or a different version
of the Shepherd some sort of full Shepherd and many different folds and
there are churches throughout the world we don't really get that so much here
but there are churches are basically just basically you know they're
separated by race aren't they their church is a black church or a white
church or a messianic Jew Church or whatever it is it's just such nonsense
isn't it Ephesians chapter 2 and from verse 10 and this is just a great
passage okay it's a quite a few verses but just try and really really just
listen to the words for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus
unto good works which God hath before ordained that we shall walk in them
wherefore remember that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh who are
called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh
made by hands that at that time you were without Christ being aliens from the
Commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the Covenants and promise having no
hope and without God in the world but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes
were afar off are made nigh by the blood of Christ for he is our peace who
hath made both one and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us
having abolished in his flesh the enmity even the Lord Commandments contain
ordinances for to make in himself of twain one new man like one fold so
making peace and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross
having slain the enmity thereby and came and preached peace to you which were
far off and to them that were nigh for through him we both have access by one
spirit unto the Father now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners but
fellow citizens with the Saints and of the household of God one household isn't
there and a built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets Jesus Christ
himself being the chief Cornerstone in whom all the building singular fitly
framed together grieth unto an holy temple in the Lord in whom ye also are
builded together for inhabitation of God through the Spirit one fold one shepherd
yeah pretty simple isn't it and again one of many many passages throughout the
New Testament makes it very clear doesn't it and and wow just just beggars
belief doesn't it that so many so-called save people just seem to just completely
misses true okay one fold one shepherd verse 17 back to back to John 10 there
therefore doth my father love me because I laid down my life that I might take it
again now that the therefore is revert is referring to verse 15 there as a
father knoweth me even so now I know I the father and I lay down my life for
the she and and you know what an amazing thing he did didn't he that he he laid
down his life verse 18 no man taketh it from me but I lay it down of myself I
have power to lay it down I've had to take it again this commandment have I
received of my father I remember when I was younger learning the story of Jesus
and you know when I say the story definitely not having the gospel preached
me but knowing you know the story of Jesus is his life is his death is
burial his resurrection and and in my mind it was kind of like he was a bit
weak you know it's like you just couldn't evade those Romans you know
just because there's always the Romans isn't it you know if you notice when
you're young that's taught at school it's those evil Romans the Jews is kind
of not really mentioned yet and it was kind of like you know Jesus Christ I
mean well you know if he's God you know God's son why did you know because at
the time you don't really understand it we just think why can they evade them
why can you know maybe just didn't have this sort of power that you're kind of
thinking you must have where's a superhero power you know but when you
really understand it when you really understand the gospel and you really
understand that he laid down his life for the sheep the power required to do
that is just amazing isn't it that's that's going to hell and and I believe
he suffered an eternity in hell in those three days to pay for all of our
eternities in hell and I and for me the power required to do that is something
else isn't it that's amazing that is beyond any sort of supernatural power
that he could have just evaded capture and killed them or whatever else Jesus
God willfully died for us willfully died for us physically and spiritually that's
amazing isn't it absolutely amazing yet he still submitted to the Father didn't
he he still submitted to the Father he was still an example to us submitting to
the Father and in Philippians chapter 2 you can turn there if you like
Philippians chapter 2 great couple of verses here that just make that so clear
Philippians 2 6 who being in the form of God talking about Christ here thought
it not robbery to be equal with God but made himself of no reputation and took
upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men and being
found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death
even the death of the cross what an amazing God we have what an amazing Lord
we have absolutely amazing go back to verse 19 guys it you know that to me is
it's a great little passage then it's good reminder for us when we get a bit
puffed up even the Lord Jesus Christ humbled himself became obedient unto
death even the death of the cross gave verse 19 back to John 10 there was a
division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings and many of them said
he had the devil and is mad why hear ye him okay that's the reprobates isn't it
that's a reprobate the twice dead the sons of Belial many of them and many of
them said he had the devil okay and again you know in this time that we're
in now don't you think they're probably many many more and look you know it's
such a truth of the Bible this in it and it's missing sadly and it's miss it's
been missed in anyone here who's had it been at any previous churches in this
country obviously I don't think any one of them believe this doctrine understand
this doctrine but it's such a clear part the Bible it's such an important
part of the Bible and it is something that we that we have to deal with in
life don't we and we have and again we don't have to be just constantly
accusing everyone and calling everyone it but on the same man we don't want to
just avoid that part it's a bit uncomfortable don't want people to feel a
bit you know awkward and think about this no like that there there were many
many said he had the devil yeah and and and that that you know that that what
happens you call him a devil you say Jesus Christ has a devil because they
said he had the devil yeah that they're in danger of eternal damnation so me
the the blaspheme in the Holy Spirit these people are reprobates and there
were many them and now there are many many more okay because people have got
worse and worse and worse and worse so look the truth is there are many around
and there are many in our lives and I was talking to a brother the other day
and just talking about people back in my past it just when it starts dawning on
you how many reprobates you probably knew I like and you're looking back not
so old because they were all like flaming sodomites it's easy to just go
well they you know sodomites reprobates that's it no I'm talking about like
blatant psychopaths when you look back at how they behaved and the way they
behaved and when you look into this wow there are so many there are so many and
so many that were basically a thorn in my side when I was young and leading you
into all sorts of sort of wicked situations and stuff like that and man
there are many there are many verse 21 others said these are not the words of
him that had the devil can a devil open the eyes of the blind okay remember
this is straight off the healing of the blind man in chapter 9 yeah verse 22 and
it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication it was winter and Jesus
walked in the temple in Solomon's porch then came the Jews round about him and
said unto him how long does thou make us to doubt if thou be the Christ tell us
plainly they just want to accept it and worship him don't they it's like oh just
tell us because we just want to want to worship you oh maybe not yeah he cuz
he's already told them in a variety of ways isn't it it's like he spelled it
out in this way that way he's tried every different angle Jesus asked them I
told you and you believe not the works that I do in my father's name they bear
witness of me it doesn't matter what he says it does they still won't believe
will they it's a refusal to believe like these atheists are sometimes think you
know and you know it doesn't matter what amazing creation they see what
unique beautiful flower without any other purpose and being a unique
beautiful flower what unique beautiful creature you know that you just wow how
did you even come up with the idea of that it just doesn't matter it's just a
sheer refusal isn't it in the same way here it's just a refusal it's just it
doesn't matter what you do what you say no verse 26 but ye believe not because
ye are not of my sheep as I said unto you they don't believe because they're
not saved pretty simple isn't it they don't believe because they're not saved
my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me and I give unto them
eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of
my hand my father which gave them me is greater than all and no man is able to
pluck them out of my father's hand I am my father a one what a great few verses
there for eternal security I'm great and I used to use this a lot in gospel
presentations I do sometimes as well but I think originally when I was first just
preaching the gospel I used to use this all the time you know for this this was
my chosen eternal security passage he says my sheep hear my voice and I know
them and I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish shall never
perish not might not perish and it's not because they're now perfect is it it's
not because they're now perfect because they will keep repenting of their
sins they shall never perish yeah and you know sometimes it's confusing how
people get that but again because they're not of the sheep they don't hear
his voice do they and they choose not to when you're trying to show it to them
you know it's like like I know if they look at this they think like salvation
turns you into some sort of repenting robot okay well I'm saved it's eternal
because I will just always repent of every sin I do it says bizarre is I had
I had one of these today and she just would not get over that you know no in
fact she did get over eventually then claimed she already was saved but then
kind of went back you know anyway but they're just so frustrating these people
aren't they but but again when they years in these Pentecostal churches and
preaching out that full stuff it's so hard to get them out isn't it no one
can pluck them out of his hand not even yourself because many people come out
with that one don't know you know you know that like oh well only if you give
up your your faith you know only if you choose to give up well what what are you
not a man are you not a person because obviously it's talking about person here
no no man no man he said neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand my
father which gave them is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out
of my father's hand he says I am a father one look no one can just take you
away from God can they no one can take you away it doesn't matter verse 30 when
he says I am my father one that's one God that is in three persons yeah I am
my father a one God he's not saying I am my father the same person yeah which is
ridiculous because he's talking and praying to his father a lot as well as
many many other truths right verse 31 then the Jews took up stones again to
stone him in verse 24 they said then came the Jews round about him and said
unto him how long does thou make us to doubt if thou be the Christ tell us
plainly he's just basically told them and now they want to kill it oh but but
but he said that he was one you know with God the Father that's why they
want to kill him you know but but what does Christ mean anointed Messiah yeah
so what they what who do they think he is if he's saying he's the Christ that's
what he's saying I mean you don't have to turn there but just a couple of
verses just remind you that Isaiah 7 14 therefore the Lord himself this is
prophesying of him shall give you a sign behold a virgin shall conceive and bear
a son and shall call his name Immanuel which as we know means God with us yeah
it's not oh well the Christ is someone separate is God with us
Isaiah 9 6 said for unto us a child is born unto us a son is given and the
government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called wonderful
counselor the mighty God the everlasting father the prince of peace
okay he is God in the flesh the Christ was always going to be God in the flesh
wasn't he and now that he said it tell us plainly he tells them now they're
going to try and kill him because really they just want an excuse to kill him
don't they it's like tell us so that we can then have an excuse to kill you
verse 32 Jesus answered them many good works have I showed you from my father
for which of those works do you stone me so look these murderous Jews have just
taken up stones are holding the stones and Jesus is still talking to them at
this point isn't it so he's still talking to them verse 33 the Jews
answered him saying for a good work we stone thee not but for blasphemy and
because that thou being a man makers thyself God Jesus answered them is it
not written in your law I said ye are gods now this is from Psalm 82 if you
want to turn there and by the way he said he said here is it not written in
your law so that's the Psalms here being called the law yeah I think many people
think it's just the Ten Commandments so it's just you know the the Torah now
that's the Psalms being called the law as well and from Psalm 82 in verse 1 it
says God standeth in the congregation of the mighty he judgeth among the gods how
long will ye judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked sealer defend
the poor and fatherless do justice to the afflicted and needy deliver the poor
and needy rid them out of the hand of the wicked they know not neither will
they understand they walk on in darkness all the foundations of the earth are out
of course I have said ye are gods and all of you are children of the Most High
but ye shall die like men and fall like one of the princes arise Oh God judge
the earth for thou shalt inherit all nations now God's here with a small G I
believe now I've heard is preached in different ways I mean some have maybe
gone back to back to Genesis 3 maybe as well but I know I just think it's just
talking about them being elevated above the world because as we know the God
small G talking about throughout the Bible are not gods are they they're not
gods they're just idols people devils and ultimately Satan is really behind
all of that isn't he being elevated to God and in and just being elevated above
people so they're not so not being elevated God being elevated above people
okay so here I believe that when he's saying ye are gods and all of you are
children of the Most High well by being children of God and then I believe this
Jesus explains that in the next verse of verse where we were of John there of
John 10 where he says where are we where he says sorry about being gods he says
Jesus said is it not written in your law I said ye are gods then he goes on in
verse 35 if he called them gods unto whom the word of God came and the
scripture cannot be broken say ye of him who the father of the sanctified has sent
into the world of thou blasphemous because I said I am the Son of God so
verse 35 if he called them gods unto whom the word of God came and I believe
that it's basically by being the ones who receive the Word of God okay that
they're elevated above people it's not that they're gods small G in terms in
terms of they've got some sort of power I just believe they're elevated by
people they were given the Word of God they are gods you know in the in the
world being elevated by others that's how I read that verse so verse 35 they
because he says if he called them gods unto whom the Word of God came that's
what I think that's why what it's talking about I don't think it's talking
about that one verse and the scripture cannot be broken because it's a power
the power of the word they were it came to them first didn't it say ye of him
whom the father sanctified has sent into the world thou blasphemous because I
said I am the Son of God so Jesus is showing the hypocrisy of their stance
based on that isn't he but he's also stating who he is even clearer so he's
kind of arguing back remember they got the stones already to stone him and then
he's saying then he kind of adds it a bit more there he says say ye of him
whom the father has sanctified and sent into the world thou blasphemous because I
said I am the Son of God so he's getting even bolder here really with them he's
making it clearer verse 37 if I do not the works of my father believe me not
but if I do though you believe not me believe the works that ye may know and
believe that the father is in me and I in him and that's it if he was just some
guy claiming to be God you could see how it might irritate them couldn't you
but he's doing miracle after miracle healing casting out devil's many are
believing on him for salvation they have no excuse today they have absolutely no
excuse verse 39 therefore they sought again to take him but he escaped out of
their hand and like I said the other week they're trying to murder God they're
still they they you know they can't argue it they're just trying to murder
they're still trying to murder God how wicked what a wicked wicked religion
that is because there are some wicked false religions in the world aren't
there okay but modern Judaism is a false religion that that comes from people
that were trying to murder God I mean that's something else isn't it
absolutely something else and yet we have churches and I could go on a rabbit
hole of this every week but it winds me up so much that you have churches around
this country and around the world that are trying to get us to elevate these
people these people that are full that they're not a race they're following a
religion they're following a religion which which at least 2,000 years ago was
trying to murder God and ever since is blaspheming him and trying any other way
to turn people against him and everything else it is absolutely wicked
is it and it is I'm so look I'm not sorry because look people who call
themselves Jews yeah I've got nothing against those people any more than any
other false religion look for me I'd love to get them saved but the truth is
that religion has to be the most wicked as in it that religion is wicked that
Babylonian Talmud is wicked it's blasphemous and people that get into it
they get I think they reprobate sooner than any other religion because what
they do they're teaching them that Jesus has a devil they're teaching that he's
some sort of magician and all the other filth it's wicked it's a wicked
religion it's not a race it's a religion yeah we've got nothing against people
that want to call themselves a race of Jews but the religion is wicked it's
absolutely wicked and I mean trying to murder God that's something else isn't
it you know murders one thing trying to murder God amazing verse 40 and went
away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized and there
he abode and many resorted unto him and said John did no miracle but all things
that John spake of this man were true only more people like John the Baptist
they if the Pentecostals especially the Charismatics focused on speaking the
truth they wouldn't never be trying to do miracles would they spend the whole
time trying to do miracles and prove something with the miracles of tongues
and miracles of this and miracles of that or what did John the Baptist do he
just preached the truth didn't he John did no miracle but all things that John
spake this man were true and that's something that's something we could all
learn from isn't it yeah forget trying to you know trying to just oh what works
can I look we should want to do works for God don't we but but ultimately we
want to make sure that we're spot on with truth yeah and the truth comes to
the Word of God doesn't it verse 42 and many believed on him there and that's
that many again many believe many believe many believe me throughout the
Gospel of John we see it pretty much every single chapter that many believed
how many are in the upper room at the beginning of Acts 126 many many many
many and 126 people why because if you get saved it doesn't mean you're
automatically going to be a disciple if only again there's the few remnant of
saved churches in this country could get that idea into the head they might go
out and continue to preach the gospel and not put it all down to whether or
not that person turns up at church whether or not they do the discipleship
program whether or not they get baptized that's got nothing to do with it many
many many many believed on him what does it take to be saved believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ our shall be saved okay but many believed but many didn't become
disciples did they because being a disciple if you continue in my word then
are ye my disciples indeed there's a condition there to be a disciple you
need to continue in the word to be saved you need to believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ two separate things and if only people could get that through their head
it would be great because then they might actually have more of a zeal for
soul winning again because again we could put too much focus on what we
gotta get them to the church you know they're not going to how do it you know
we want to disciple him yeah sure you know off the Great Commission in Matthew
is about discipling them yeah but the first part of the Great Commission is
getting people saved and look that should be our main motivation and
whether or not they come to the church they're saved aren't they yeah we want
to get them yeah we want to disciple yeah we want to do that but look
throughout the Gospel of John many many many people believed and many didn't
become disciples in fact the vast majority did it on that let's pray
father I thank you for your word I thank you for the great truths there thank you
for eternal life you know and and thank you that we do hear your voice and thank
you that you know us and that we follow you and thank you that you give unto us
eternal life and that we should never perish and it's just you know it's an
amazing truth it's something that sometimes I think we could take for
granted and thank you for for what you've done for us and thank you for
your many other truths thank you that everyone here is is trying to be a
disciple thank you for that please help us to be a good disciple to follow you
to follow your word to love your word to follow your commandments and help us to
do that this week help us to keep you in the center of our week help you help us
to to be more like you in in in the workplace in in you know in in our in
our family life as well and help us to just just follow you this week as you
know to the best of our ability and Lord we thank you for this church we thank
you for all these people we thank you for today we thank you for the
salvation's please help us to get people saved in the week and help us to be back
here next week to worship you to honor you and to go out and get people saved
in Jesus name we pray all of this