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Hi friends. I'm Annie F. Downs. Let's read the Gospels. The Gospels are the first four books

of the New Testament in the Bible, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These are the stories of Jesus Christ's life on earth, the friendships, the parables, the sacrifices, the meals, the miracles. So here is how it works. I'll read three chapters to you. You can listen or read along in your own Bible or online, and then I'll pray, and that's it. So today is day four,

and I'll be reading John chapters 10 through 12 in the new living translation, and we are on page

37 of the Let's Read the Gospel's Guided Journal. John 10, I tell you the truth, anyone who sneaks over the wall of a sheepfold, rather than going

through the gate, must surely be a thief and a robber. But the one who enters through the gate is a

shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognizes his voice

and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his

voice. They won't follow a stranger. They will run from him because they don't know his voice.

Those who heard Jesus used this illustration didn't understand what he meant, so he explained it to them.

I tell you the truth,

I am the gate for the sheep. All who came before me were thieves and robbers. But the true sheep

did not listen to them. Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved.

They will come and go freely and will find good pastures. The thief's purpose is to steal and kill and destroy.

My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd

sacrifices his life for the sheep. A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will

abandon the sheep because they don't belong to him and he isn't their shepherd.

And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock. The hired hand runs away because he's working

only for the money and doesn't really care about the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my own

sheep and they know me. Just as my father knows me and I know the father, so I sacrifice my life for the sheep.

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