Saturday, May 24, 2014

The Shepherd and the Door

John 10:1 KJV
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

The meaning of the verse is not speaking of those who try to be saved some other way than Christ, but of those who try to shepherd the people of a God some other way than Christ. It it speaking of those who:
  • First, are not sheep of this fold
  • Second, are not sent of God
  • Third, are not sensitive to the care of the sheep but whose purpose is their own advancement 
Jesus is both the true shepherd and the door by which others enter into the cadre of Shepherd's. Since the beginning of the faith people have entered into the ministry of the shepherd through some other way than the door of Christ:
  • They have entered through the door of influence
  • They have entered through the door of parentage
  • They have entered in through the door of education
  • They have entered through the door of charisma

Truly none of these were doors but breeches in the walls of faith, places where the will of men wore weak the walls of genuine faith. Christianity, in many quarters, has very little to do with Jesus Christ and much more to do with the machination of religion.

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