Live to Love Scripture Encouragement John 10.1

John 10:1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.” Jesus was still talking to the Pharisees who asked if they were blind. Jesus had told them that because they say they see, they were blind and that their sins remained. Notice how Jesus answered their question with a parable about the sheep and the door into the safe-haven of the fold. Speaking in parables reveals where God is working and giving sight to the blind. Or where He is blinding those who think they see. Basically, Jesus was telling the Pharisees that they were thieves and robbers who had entered God’s house to steal God’s sheep. Those thieves and robbers are evident in the church today as well. Those who deny that Jesus’ atoning sacrifice is the only door to right standing with God are robbers. Anyone who cannot see that Jesus was God in the flesh, sent to be our substitute so that our sins could be laid upon Him and then removed by His death, has come to cause destruction. There is only one door and one shepherd—Jesus Christ, the Son of God.