2020 for JESUS - Day 101: JESUS is THE DOOR... SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP... DOOR OF THE SHEEP... LIFE... THE GOOD SHEPHERD... ONE SHEPHERD... AUTHORITY...

John 10:1-21 

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by THE DOOR into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber. 

2 But HE who enters by THE DOOR is a SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP. 

3 To HIM the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear HIS voice, and HE calls HIS own sheep by name and leads them out. 

4 When HE puts forth all HIS own, HE goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow HIM because they know HIS voice. 

5 A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.” 

6 This figure of speech JESUS spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which HE had been saying to them.

7 So JESUS said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP. 

8 All who came before ME are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. 

9 I AM THE DOOR; if anyone enters through ME, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; 

I came that they may have LIFE, and have it abundantly.

11 “I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD; 

THE GOOD SHEPHERD lays down HIS LIFE for the sheep. 

12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 

13 He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep. 

14 I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD, and I know MY own and MY own know ME, 

15 even as THE FATHER knows ME and I know THE FATHER; and I lay down MY LIFE for the sheep. 

16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; 

I must bring them also, and they will hear MY voice; and they will become one flock with ONE SHEPHERD. 

17 For this reason THE FATHER loves ME, because I lay down MY LIFE so that I may take it again. 

18 No one has taken it away from ME, but I lay it down on MY own initiative. I have AUTHORITY to lay it down, and I have AUTHORITY to take it up again. This commandment I received from MY FATHER.”

19 A division occurred again among the Jews because of these words. 

20 Many of them were saying, “HE has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to HIM?” 

21 Others were saying, “These are not the sayings of one demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can he?”

2020 for JESUS - Day 100: JESUS is THIS MAN... GOD... A PROPHET... CHRIST... THE SON OF MAN... LORD...

Today is Day 100 of 2020!

Today, we hopefully see JESUS more clearly 

than we did 100 days ago.

Today, suprisingly and amazingly, 

we have arrived at the reading of the blind man 

who received his sight.

Interesting As the mother of a daughter born with severe eye challenges...  I have often connected to this story on multiple levels.  She was the 5th person in the world to have "null point eye surgery"... she had many sensory issues... she suffered from a 24/7 migraine for 19 years...  Yesterday, I shared the first part of John 9, when JESUS gave sight to the man who had been born blind.  I believe that JESUS did the same thing for our daughter on the day in 2015, HE took her home to live with HIM forever, where she now has more than 20/20 vision.

John 9 

13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who was formerly blind. 

14 Now it was a Sabbath on the day when JESUS made the clay and opened his eyes.

 15 Then the Pharisees also were asking him again how he received his sight. And he said to them, “HE applied clay to my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” 

16 Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, “THIS MAN is not from GOD, because HE does not keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And there was a division among them. 

17 So they said to the blind man again, “What do you say about HIM, since HE opened your eyes?” And he said, “HE is A PROPHET.”

18 The Jews then did not believe it of him, that he had been blind and had received sight, until they called the parents of the very one who had received his sight, 

19 and questioned them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?” 

20 His parents answered them and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 

21 but how he now sees, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him; he is of age, he will speak for himself.” 

22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed HIM to be CHRIST, he was to be put out of the synagogue. 

23 For this reason his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”

24 So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, “Give glory to GOD; we know that THIS MAN is a sinner.” 

25 He then answered, 

“Whether HE is a sinner, I do not know; 

one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” 

26 So they said to him, “What did HE do to you? How did HE open your eyes?” 

27 He answered them, “I told you already and you did not listen; why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become HIS disciples too, do you?” 

28 They reviled him and said, “You are HIS disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 

29 We know that GOD has spoken to Moses, but as for THIS MAN, we do not know where HE is from.” 

30 The man answered and said to them, “Well, here is an amazing thing, that you do not know where HE is from, and yet HE opened my eyes. 

31 We know that GOD does not hear sinners; but if anyone is GOD-fearing and does HIS will, HE hears him. 

32 Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. 

33 If this man were not from GOD, HE could do nothing.” 

34 They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” So they put him out.

 

35 JESUS heard that they had put him out, and finding him, He said, “Do you believe in THE SON OF MAN?” 

36 He answered, “WHO is HE, LORD, that I may believe in HIM?” 

37 JESUS said to him, “You have both seen HIM, and HE is THE ONE WHO is talking with you.” 

38 And he said, “LORD, I believe.” And he worshiped HIM. 

39 And JESUS said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.” 

40 Those of the Pharisees who were with HIM heard these things and said to HIM, “We are not blind too, are we?” 

41 JESUS said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.

2020 for JESUS - Day 99: JESUS is RABBI... GOD... THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD... THE MAN THEY CALL JESUS... THIS MAN...

John 9 

As HE went along, HE saw a man blind from birth. 

2 HIS disciples asked HIM, “RABBI, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said JESUS, “but this happened so that the works of GOD might be displayed in him. 

4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of HIM who sent ME. Night is coming, when no one can work. 

5 While I AM in the world, I am THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.”

6 After saying this, HE spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.

 7 “Go,” HE told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.

8 His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?” 

9 Some claimed that he was.

Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”

But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”

10 “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.

11 He replied, “THE MAN THEY CALL JESUS made some mud and put it on my eyes. HE told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”

12 “Where is THIS MAN?” they asked him.

“I don’t know,” he said.

...come back tomorrow and we'll continue reading about where JESUS is...

2020 for JESUS - Day 98: JESUS is I AM... BEFORE ABRAHAM...

 

In John 8, JESUS continues by making some pretty profound claims about HIMSELF:

48 The Jews answered HIM, “Aren’t we right in saying that YOU are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?”

49 “I am not possessed by a demon,” said JESUS, “but I honor MY FATHER and you dishonor ME. 

50 I am not seeking glory for MYSELF; but there is ONE WHO seeks it, and HE is THE JUDGE. 

51 Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys MY WORD will never see death.”

52 At this they exclaimed, “Now we know that you are demon-possessed! 

Abraham died and so did the prophets, 

yet you say that whoever obeys YOUR WORD will never taste death. 

53 Are YOU greater than our father Abraham? 

He died, and so did the prophets. 

Who do YOU think YOU are?”

54 JESUS replied, “If I glorify MYSELF, MY GLORY means nothing. 

MY FATHER, whom you claim as your GOD, is THE ONE who glorifies ME. 

55 Though you do not know HIM, I know HIM. 

If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, 

but I do know HIM and obey HIS WORD. 

56 Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing MY day; 

he saw it and was glad.”

57 “YOU are not yet fifty years old,” they said to HIM, “and YOU have seen Abraham!”

58 “Very truly I tell you,” JESUS answered, “BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM” 

59 At this, they picked up stones to stone HIM, 

but JESUS hid HIMSELF, slipping away from the temple grounds."