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” ‘Brothers, if you have any exhortation to address to the people, please speak up.’ So Paul arose, motioned to them for silence, and began.” –Acts 13:15-16 Imagine visiting a church. You’re a total stranger. After the reading of the Scriptures, everyone sits down. Suddenly the priest or minister looks at you and asks if you would give the sermon. What would you do? This happened to St. Paul when he visited the synagogue of Antioch in Pisidia. When Paul was put on the spot, he was ready. He even gave the assembly a tour through the history of the...

“If anyone hears My words and does not keep them, I am not the one to condemn him, for I did not come to condemn the world but to save it. Whoever rejects Me and does not accept My words already has his judge, namely the word I have spoken – it is that which will condemn him on the last day.” –John 12:47-48 “If anyone hears My words and does not keep them, I am not the one to condemn him, for I did not come to condemn the world but to save it. Whoever rejects Me and does...

“I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish.” –John 10:28 Jesus promised to give us eternal life, that is, the quality of life that is lived in heaven forever. Jesus kept His promise when He died on the cross and rose from the dead. We received His gift of eternal life when we were baptized. We live eternal life when we give our lives to Jesus and love Him with all our hearts, all our souls, all our minds, and all our strength (see Lk 10:27). By faith, are we living eternal life right now? If we’re not...

“My solemn word is this: I am the Sheepgate.” –John 10:7 Jesus is not only the Good Shepherd (Jn 10:11); He is also the Lamb of God (Jn 1:29) and even the Sheepgate. Don’t marry anyone who tries to enter your life apart from Jesus through mere friendship or sexual attraction. Don’t let people into your life just because of business or money. TV personalities, athletes, and entertainers have a major influence in millions of people’s lives, but have they entered through the Sheepgate, Jesus? “Whoever does not enter the sheepfold through the gate but climbs in some other way...

“I am the Good Shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me in the same way that the Father knows Me and I know the Father.” –John 10:14-15 The Bible promises we can know Jesus, that is, have a personal relationship with Him, in the same way that the heavenly Father and God the Son have a personal relationship. By God’s grace, we can become “sharers of the divine nature” (2 Pt 1:4) and have a divine relationship with Jesus, the Good Shepherd. In a divine relationship, there is unity and love that we as human beings can’t...