Firm Foundations

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Firm Foundations

• Lesson 42
• Jesus is the only doorway
• to eternal life
• Memory verse John 146

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Sheep!

• What do you know about sheep?
• The people in Jesus day knew a lot about sheep!
• Even in towns
• Jesus talked a lot about sheep

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The door of the sheepfold

• Land in Israel is dry
• Shepherds often left home with sheep to find
  grass
• Often had to sleep outside at night
• Found a cave, or
• Built a sheep pen
• This is a sheepfold
• How did the shepherd keep the sheep in the pen
  when he slept?

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The door of the sheep fold (cont.)

• John 107
• Jesus is the way to safety
• John 844
• Satan is a liar and murderer
• Wants to trick us into thinking were safe with
  him

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False saviours

• John 108
• Other men came and acted as the deliverer
• Satan uses tricks to make us follow his ways
• They look good
• Their end is death
• Truth
• Found only in the Bible

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Jesus, the only door

• John 109
• Only one door to sheepfold
• Remember Noahs ark
• John 1010
• Satan wants to destroy
• But tries to convince you that hell make you
  happy
• Jesus gives life fully
• John 635
• Life that truly satisfies

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Jesus, the good shepherd

• John 1011
• Jewish leaders would not believe He was saviour,
  wanted to kill Him
• Jesus is like a shepherd that dies for His sheep
• Isaiah 534-5
• Prophecy saviour would suffer and die for us
• Promises about Jesus life came true

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Jesus the way, the truth, the life

• John 146
• The way
• The only way to God and everlasting life
• The truth
• Came to tell us Gods message
• All truth
• Jesus cannot lie
• The life
• The only one who can save us

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Conclusion

• There is only one God
• One Saviour
• For the whole world
• For you
• For me
• There is no other way to be saved

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Questions

1. How did the shepherds in Jesus day make
   themselves like a door to the sheep?
2. Why did Jesus call Himself the door of the sheep?
3. Of whom do the thieves and robbers who killed the
   sheep remind us?
4. What did Jesus say He would do for His sheep?
5. What did Jesus promise to give His sheep?
6. Who are Jesus sheep?
7. Is there another way to God for people in other
   countries?