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. In a large church or a classroom or a business, it's easy to get lost in the crowd and just become one of many.

But in the kingdom of God, Jesus is aware of every individual. He knows each of us by name.

Today on Truth for Life, Alastur Begg examines the intimacy between the good shepherd and his flock.

Let's open our Bibles to chapter 10 in the Gospel of John.

Thank you. 10 in the Gospel of John. Don't be put off by the idea of eternal life.

I have conversations I've told you this before about eternal life, how the idea of eternity

is a scary thought in many ways.

But actually, I've been thinking about it some more,

and I realize, and maybe it's time to understand this, but we think wrongly when we think

about eternity just as an extension of the duration of life, an extension of life's duration.

So it goes on and on and on and on and on. But no,

because eternal life is not something that is first of all out there, it is first of all

something that is present here. Today, the reality of it, brought into a new dimension.

If you like, it is an intensification of the experience of life, an intensification of the experience

of life. Do you remember when you fell in love? You're like, whoa! Time stopped. You remember

when you were in the Alps of Switzerland, if you had the privilege, or you were

in the Rockies, or you were in the Grand Canyon, whatever it was, and you stood there

in a moment of rapture, and you suddenly said yourself, you know what, I think I've been standing

here for five minutes, and I haven't even noticed it. They come offering all kinds of stories. They'll steal from you. They'll destroy

you. All the false gods of the false teachers are self-depleting idols. Jesus, life, life as you can scarcely imagine it. I am the door. He who enters by me will be saved.

Discover abundant life. I also remembered this morning something that I had written in one of my little blight books.

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