John 10:7-10

No one has the right to steal your peace in Christ, no one, place your faith in Him!  Faith alone, believing without physically seeing, pleases God. Jesus came to this earth to give you hope through His salvation..... don’t allow anyone to steal it from you. Let Jesus into your life :)

Some shepherds lay down across the entry of the sheepfold at night to sleep. Wild beasts would be discouraged from entering, and sheep would not exit. Thus the shepherd was also the door.

 The thieves and robbers were the Pharisees, the legalist. Satan used them to make salvation a matter of works, and not the free gift of God to all who would accept eternal life in Jesus Christ. Jesus died for our sins so that we could have an abundant life here and in the life to come.

The thieves take life; the shepherd gives it. Abundant life includes salvation, nourishment, healing, and much more. Life here refers to eternal life, God’s life. It speaks not only of endlessness, but of quality of life. With Christ, life on earth can reach much higher quality, and then in heaven it will be complete and perfect.

John 10:7-10

⁷ Then Jesus said to them again,  “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. ⁸ All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. ⁹ I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 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.