The Door | Troy Kennedy | ONE 2022

ONE 2022

Mar 20

Teaching Notes

People are entryways to a new direction and quality of life.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”
John 10:1-5 ESV

Sheep know their own shepherd. They won't follow anyone else.

So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 10:7-10 ESV

Jesus is the door that leads to life. All other doors lead to death.

“You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life…If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.”
John 5:39-40,46 NIV

“I pity celebrities, no I really do – these people were once perfectly pleasant human beings. But now their wrath is awful. I think when God wants to play a really rotten practical joke on you, he grants you your deepest wish and then laughs merrily when you realize you want to kill yourself. You see they wanted fame. They worked, they pushed, and the morning after each of them became famous they wanted to take an overdose. Because that giant thing they were striving for, that fame thing that was going to make everything okay; that was going to make their lives bearable; that was going to provide them with personal fulfillment and happiness had happened, and they were still them. The disillusionment turned them howling and insufferable.”
Cynthia Heimel, “Tongue in Chic” column in The Village Voice, January 2, 1990

There is no other door that will lead you to life abundant.

We don’t believe that his grace is enough.

When we pass through the true door of salvation, we find abundance of life that transcends our earthly circumstances.

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”
John 14:27

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
1 John 5:11-12

Today is the day you can pass through the door of his salvation.

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