Hey there, friends. Welcome back. It is time for the morning mindset. You and I have an

opportunity right now to read and understand the very words of God Himself and to get

our minds and alignment with the way He thinks about the world. Today we're going to be

looking at John chapter 10, verse number 16, and this one is really interesting. So I hope

you stick around before we get there. I want to remind you our prayer episode is coming

up on Friday. That's an opportunity for me to pray for you along with all the other

morning mindset listeners who listen and pray along. So if you have a request or if you

have a praise report you would like to share with the morning mindset listing family,

you can go to morning mindset media.com slash prayer and pass that along to us and we

would love to pray for you on this Friday's episode. Okay, John chapter 10 verse 16 is a verse

that many people have taken out of context for various reasons that most of the time they're

trying to prove something that they already believe by using a passage of scripture. When

in fact that passage of scripture doesn't really say what they're saying that it says.

Hope this is not too confusing. Now in theological terms what that is called is

I said Jesus rather than exe Jesus. Exe Jesus is what we should do. It's pulling the meaning out of

the text that is already there. I said Jesus is putting something into the text that isn't there.

It's our own preconceived notion or idea. Now let's read John 10, 16 and I'll tell you some of

the things people have said about it and why they're not true. John chapter 10 verse 16 says and

this is Jesus speaking and I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also

and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock one shepherd. Okay, now in the

previous illustration Jesus called himself the good shepherd. So when we read there at the end

one shepherd he's talking about himself. He is going to be the shepherd over this one flock

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