"Choose the Door to Life" (John 10:1-10)

Fourth Sunday of Easter, May 3, 2020

I am the door for the sheep

Readings:

First Lesson: 1 Samuel 17:34-37

Second Lesson: Hebrews 13:20-21

Psalm 23

Sermon: John 10:1-10

It’s a big deal that Jesus is the door to life.  Let us be sheep of the Good Shepherd: the door to life.

The sheep pen door in Jesus time was where the shepherd remained when the sheep were inside the pen; he determined who came in and who went out; he slept the night in the doorway to prevent predators from coming in.  Jesus is our doorway to protect us from the devil, the world, and our sinful nature and we can remain with him and away from our bad choices.

If we have faith in him and in him alone. Even though we continue to do these bad things, we remain with our good shepherd

Let us make good choices: 

  • Our 1st choice is to follow our Good Shepherd, listen to his voice, read his book, the Bible, so we know which voice to listen to. 

  • Our 2nd choice is to flee away from those thieves and robbers, the strange voices that can steal kill and destroy our lives with Christ. 

  • Our 3rd choice is to do the first and second choices regularly and flee from those strange perilous voices that lead us away from Him and to retain this life we have in Jesus’  promised peaceful pastures.

With the help of the good shepherd Jesus we can enter thru the door to life.

Pastor Tim Patoka

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