ONE IN ESSENCE. John 10 When the Lord Jesus Christ came into the world, He did not come to judge or condemn people but to save them from their sins. However, His arrival caused a crisis, similar to how light strongly affects darkness when people prefer darkness. The Pharisees had been losing every confrontation with Jesus because He was the Light of life. They were determined to keep the status quo, which they believed they were in control of.
Those who were unaware of spiritual blindness saw an example of Christ's healing power when the blind man received his physical sight. Someone who can restore physical sight also has the power to grant spiritual insight. Conversely, those who claimed to understand spiritual matters by adding their own rules to God's law remained in spiritual blindness because of their unbelief and deliberate rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ. "He came unto His own, and His own received Him not."
IF ANY MAN A word to the lost, Jn.10:9: “If any man enter in, he shall be saved.”
- He shall be saved – (1) Noah was saved from danger by going through the door of the ark, (2) The offender was saved from death by going through the door of the city of refuge, (3) The Passover person was saved from the destroyer by going inside the blood-sprinkled door.
- Shall go in – to the presence of the Lord (1) To find fellowship with God (2) To find communion with God (3) To find acceptance with God (4) To find favor with God
- And shall go out – to the presence of the people (1) Identification [Heb. 13:13] unto Him without the camp (2) Testimony [Mat. 22:10] so those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all as…
- Shall find pasture – (1) Food for the soul: the sustenance is there (2) Rest for the weary: the shelter is there (3) Safety for the tested: The Shepherd is there.