John 10:7-10

We are safe and secure  from evil in the power of Holy Spirit to protect every area of our life that we give to Him in the name of  Jesus.

Psalm 91:1–2 (NKJV): He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in Him I will trust.”

Psalm 91:11 (NKJV): For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.

The Old Testament system of judges was temporary, based on men who God raised up to help deliver Israel in a time of need. Jesus, on the other hand, was not a leader who stepped in for a short time to bring help and hope to one nation. Jesus brought deliverance that will never end. While judges will rise and fall, and leaders will come and go, Jesus will never fade - even though, when He walked the earth, people wondered, Why Him?

"... He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him … But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed." (Isaiah 53:2;  5) First5 

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. The New King James Version

Jesus is the gateway for eternal life as well as the one who leads the sheep.  Jesus’ ‘I Am’ Statements highlights the misleading ministry of previous generations of Israel’s leaders who had been leading them astray. Jesus fulfills the messianic role of the shepherd. This role in Ezekiel is depicted as fulfilled by God; Jesus makes the claim that He (as God in flesh) is the one fulfilling it.  Faithlife Study Bible

Jesus is the shepherd; here He is the door. 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.  Jesus, the shepherd, gives spiritual life and access to spiritual food. 

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. 

Jesus is the good shepherd who gives His life for the sheep, as opposed to the wicked thief who takes their lives. Life here refers to physical life. Jesus laid down His physical life in order to give us eternal life. The NKJV Study Bible

Many who hear the word of Christ, do not understand it, because they will not. But we shall find one scripture expounding another, and the blessed Spirit making known the blessed Jesus. Christ is the Door. And what greater security has the church of God than that the Lord Jesus is between it and all its enemies? He is a door open for passage and communication. Here are plain directions how to come into the fold; we must come in by Jesus Christ as the Door. By faith in him as the great Mediator between God and man. Also, we have precious promises to those that observe this direction. Christ has all that care of his church, and every believer, which a good shepherd has of his flock; and he expects the church, and every believer, to wait on him, and to keep in his pasture. Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

John 6:27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

John 8:24 Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”