Daily Meditations on the Bible
(Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law) … or by believing what you heard?
Summary: This mediation takes us on an wonderful journey. Putting the pieces of this verse/puzzle together, we see how God uses the law to bring us into his fold.
Continue reading “Galatians 3:2d – Fence and Gate”
Therefore Jesus said again, ”Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
In the first parable (verses 1-5) the key elements are a shepherd, a gate, sheep, and the thief. In this second parable, we have the gate, the sheep, and the thieves. It is getting harder to ignore the obvious point Jesus is making. Instead of speaking of himself in the third person, he changes tactics and speaks in the first person: “I am the gate…” There are only two other groups in this parable; the sheep and the thieves. Where does that leave the Pharisees…? Even they must have been able to pick up on that!
Continue reading “The Gate – John 10: 7-10”