Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter Ten

                                                                                                                                              Verses 6-11 continued

Jesus again spoke of Himself as being the "door" by which His sheep enter into His sheepfold and come out of His sheepfold. All of the sheep who enter into the sheepfold through the "door" can only represent the entire human race. To enter through a "door" can only symbolize being created by God. All of the sheep who enter the sheepfold through the "door" can only represent the entire human race. They go into the sheepfold, and they can come out of the sheepfold to find pastures, but those pastures only represent earthly pleasures that are not sinful. These are not the special sheep that Jesus calls out of His sheepfold to spiritual pastures and waters.

Jesus again spoke about the "thief," but this time He meant the Devil himself who seeks to completely destroy the lives of humans whom God creates and loves. But Jesus came to earth to save the lives of the entire human race. He will give His abundant life to those whom He saves by His grace. Genesis 3:21; John 5:24. He will also restore the lives of all human who do not obtain salvation by grace. God has a higher and a lesser form of salvation for all of humanity. John 5:24; John 5:28-29; Revelation 5:11-14. The fact that everything that God creates can only be eternal, and God's Love can never fail, means that God puts a mandatory obligation on Himself to save all of humanity from the inner spiritual death that seeks to completely destroy them. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; Psalm 36:6; I Corinthians 13:8.

Jesus sacrificed Himself on a cross to save the entire human race with a higher and a lesser form of salvation. Through His death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus forever removed all humans' spiritual deaths from them, with all the sins and evil that it causes, so that He could rescue the lives of the entire human race from eternal separation from Him. He is the good Shepherd who gave His life for all the sheep in the sheepfold, and His abundant life to all His sheep whom He leads out of His sheepfold. John 5:24; John 5:28-29; Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45:20-25; I Corinthians 3:11-15; I Corinthians 15:22; Hebrews 2:9-15; I Timothy 6:13; I Timothy 4:10; Colossians 1:15-23; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 11:25; Matthew 13:36-43.