Easter 4 Series A

Easter 4 Series A

FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

3 May 2020

Acts 2:42–47

1 Peter 2:19–25

John 10:1–10

The Crucified and Risen Lord Jesus Christ Is Our Good Shepherd

Although we “were straying like sheep,” the Lord Jesus Christ has willingly suffered and died for us, bearing our sins “in his body on the tree” (1 Peter 2:24–25). We are healed by His wounds (1 Peter 2:24), and in His resurrection He gathers us to Himself as our Good Shepherd, by whose righteousness we “have life and have it abundantly” (John 10:10). Now through other shepherds whom He calls and sends in His name, He guards and keeps us in the green pastures of His Church, leading us beside the quiet waters of our Baptism and spreading the feast of His Table before us. Since He has called us by the Gospel to be His own dear sheep, we also “hear his voice” and “know his voice” (John 10:3–4) in the faithful preaching of His Gospel, and we follow Him by faith. When we receive His Gospel, we have the abundant life and common unity of the entire flock under one Good Shepherd, in “the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship” and in “the breaking of bread and the prayers” (Acts 2:42).

John 10:1

Ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ὁ μὴ εἰσερχόμενος διὰ τῆς θύρας εἰς τὴν αὐλὴν τῶν προβάτων ἀλλὰ ἀναβαίνων ἀλλαχόθεν ἐκεῖνος κλέπτης ἐστὶν καὶ λῃστής• 

"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. - The only relationship we have with people is through Christ.

Thief's and robbers know not the sheep 

John 10:2 

ὁ δὲ εἰσερχόμενος διὰ τῆς θύρας ποιμήν ἐστιν τῶν προβάτων.

But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. What every pastor should be...no def. article..."a" shepherd...

See Acts 20:28ff

John 10:3

τούτῳ ὁ θυρωρὸς ἀνοίγει, καὶ τὰ πρόβατα τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ ἀκούει καὶ τὰ ἴδια πρόβατα φωνεῖ κατ’ ὄνομα καὶ ἐξάγει αὐτά. 

To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

To this one...the pastor... We are shepherds He is the chief shepherd do not add adjectives to pastors...

John 10:4

ὅταν τὰ ἴδια πάντα ἐκβάλῃ, ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῶν πορεύεται, καὶ τὰ πρόβατα αὐτῷ ἀκολουθεῖ, ὅτι οἴδασιν τὴν φωνὴν αὐτοῦ• 

When he has brought out all his own, he journeys goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

We follow Jesus through suffering through donkey tracks and skid marks. We walk by faith and not through sight

John 10:5 

ἀλλοτρίῳ δὲ οὐ μὴ ἀκολουθήσουσιν ἀλλὰ φεύξονται ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι οὐκ οἴδασι τῶν ἀλλοτρίων τὴν φωνήν.

A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."

Know. By the word spoken...

John 10:6

ταύτην τὴν παροιμίαν εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς• ἐκεῖνοι δὲ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τίνα [e]ἦν ἃ ἐλάλει αὐτοῖς. 

This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

Not a parable but a figure of speech, spoken to the Pharisees who don't get it because they don't want to be dependent. 

John 10:7 

Εἶπεν οὖν πάλιν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς• Ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν [g]ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ θύρα τῶν προβάτων.

So Jesus again said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 

Spoken to the Pharisees who hate him.

John 10:8 

πάντες ὅσοι ἦλθονπρὸ ἐμοῦ κλέπται εἰσὶν καὶ λῃσταί• ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἤκουσαν αὐτῶν τὰ πρόβατα.

All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

All who came before me...under priests, and false prophets - who were taking advantage of the people through theft - (see Malachi) - they were impostors - 

John 10:9

ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ θύρα• δι’ ἐμοῦ ἐάν τις εἰσέλθῃ σωθήσεται καὶ εἰσελεύσεται καὶ ἐξελεύσεται καὶ νομὴν εὑρήσει.  

I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.

John 10:10 

ὁ κλέπτης οὐκ ἔρχεται εἰ μὴ ἵνα κλέψῃ καὶ θύσῃ καὶ ἀπολέσῃ• ἐγὼ ἦλθον ἵνα ζωὴν ἔχωσιν καὶ περισσὸν ἔχωσιν.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

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