How to Live An Abundant Life

Light in the Darkness

Part 10 – How to Live An Abundant Life

John 10

10 …I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10b.

How Jesus Offers Us Abundant Life

1) Jesus provides the for our and eternal life!

1 “Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. 5 But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.” 6 Jesus used this figure of speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.

7 Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. 8 All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. 9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. John 10:1-9

1 The Lord is my shepherd,… 2 he leads me beside quiet waters. Psalm 23:1-2

10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10

6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,

    each of us has turned to our own way;

and the Lord has laid on him

    the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:6

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17

2) Jesus His life so that we could have life!

11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.

14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. 17 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.” John 10:11-18

• When comes, Jesus us.

12 The hired hand is not the shepherd… So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. John 10:12

34 …“Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. 1 Samuel 17:34-35.

• When we are in , Jesus for us.

1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,

he leads me beside quiet waters, Psalm 23:1-2

• When we are , Jesus to us.

14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— John 10:14.

3 …He guides me along the right paths

    for his name’s sake. Psalm 23:3

27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. John 10:27-28

How Jesus Offers Us Abundant Life

1. Jesus provides the only door for our salvation and eternal life!
2. Jesus laid down His life so that we could have life!

• When danger comes, Jesus protects us.
• When we are in need, Jesus provides for us.
• When we are lost, Jesus calls to us.