John 10:7-10

God gave His only Son, all man and all God, to the world as a gift. 

Our acceptance of Him determines our eternal life. Jesus laid down His deity to become for us the line in the sands of time that we can choose to accept or deny. There is no other way for man to be saved. 

Faith in Him… not religious laws… saves!

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. 

The thieves take life; the shepherd gives it.

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.

⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 

John 14:6

¹⁸ For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. 

Ephesians 2:18