Teachers who deliberately deceive the people of God or misguidedly lead your people astray because they lack sound, scriptural understanding. At the Festival called Hanukkah, Israel’s people remembered a special time, 165 years before Jesus came to the earth. A foreign ruler had come to Jerusalem. He had put false gods in the temple in Jerusalem. But some of Israel’s people attacked that ruler and they sent him away. Then they made the temple clean again so that they could worship the one true God there. Lord Jesus is true to His name and Word. He is qualified to be our all and all.
It reads in John 10: 7-21 EASY> So Jesus spoke again. He said, ‘I tell you this: I am like the gate for the sheep. All other men who came before me were like robbers. But the sheep did not listen to them. I am like the gate. Everyone who comes in through me will be safe. They will be free to come in and to go out. And they will find plenty of food. The robber only wants to take away my sheep. He wants to kill them. He comes only to destroy them. But I have come so that they can have true life. And so that they can have everything that they need. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd would die so that he can save his sheep. Another man may take care of sheep so that he gets money. But the sheep do not belong to him. A man like that is not the shepherd. If a wolf comes, a man like that runs away when he sees it. He leaves the sheep in danger. Then the wolf attacks the sheep. It causes them to run away in all directions. That man runs away because the sheep do not belong to him. He does not think that the sheep are important. I am the good shepherd. I know my own sheep, and they know me. I know them in the same way that my Father knows me. And they know me in the same way that I know the Father. I will die so that I can save my sheep. I also have other sheep, and I must bring them too. They do not belong to this group of sheep. But they also will listen to my voice. So all the sheep will become one group, and they will have one shepherd. The Father loves me because I choose to die for my sheep. But after I give my life like that, I will become alive again. Nobody can take my life away from me. Instead, I myself can choose to die. I have authority to do that. I also have authority to become alive again. My Father has said that I must do that.’ Again, the Jews could not agree about these things that Jesus said. Many of them said, ‘He has a demon in him and he is crazy. You should not listen to him!’ But other people said, ‘A man with a demon in him could not teach like this! A demon could not make blind people able to see!’