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John10:7 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door.

Can there be any doubt for a true Christian's loving the truth who the door of the sheep pen is? Only a person not reading Christ Jesus words here would put a man, a group, or an organization as the door to the sheep pen, but of much more importance why would Christ talk about this?

Well, first let us remember the Jews were God's people picked because of the faith of Abraham God's friend. The nation of Israel was made powerful by God through his righteous laws, and his blessing when the put faith in him as their God.

Subsequently, the Jewish nation thought they were God's door into paradise, not Jesus Christ who had been speak of being the bread of life, as God's manna given too those same Israelite's under the headship of the Old Law given to Moses. But here Christ removes a powerful organization of God setting up as the door into life, but why?

Simply put, the law could not make a person righteous, it could condemn a person as a sinner needing the blood of innocent victim, an animal in this case under the Old Law. So the nation did not get life from the law, nor was the blood of animals enough for them to get life with God. Hence, it was Christ Jesus blood that would open the door into life for all those accepting his life.

John 5:21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

John 5:24 "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

However, most Jew's rejected Christ Jesus by looking to an earthly organization and its power, its history for thousand's of years, it took real faith to see the Christ as God chosen channel over men in the flesh with powerful position honored and looked up to by other men. Today many reject the Son of Man for the same reason while using his name and God's written word for a man made organization with powerful honored leader over them. But Christ is the door and no one can shut that door upon earth or open it, only a fool and robber with think they were that worthy.

John 5:37 The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
5:38 You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent. 5:39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. 5:40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. 5:41 I don't receive glory from men.

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