JOHN 10:15-16 WHO ARE THE SHEEP NOT OF THIS FOLD?

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amigo de christo

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Who are harlots?
those who commit fornication against GOD
and often many do so even using His name .
Example . YE cannot serve two masters . Many choose to include things CONTRARY to GOD while also using HIs name
to do so . So now a leave us with a word
Ye cannot serve the love of the world and the LOVE OF GOD
Ye cannot serve both the finding common ground interfaith and GOD . ITS one or its the OTHER .
Ye cannot love money prosperity gospel and GOD . Its one or the other .
 

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those who commit fornication against GOD
and often many do so even using His name .
Example . YE cannot serve two masters . Many choose to include things CONTRARY to GOD while also using HIs name
to do so . So now a leave us with a word
Ye cannot serve the love of the world and the LOVE OF GOD
Ye cannot serve both the finding common ground interfaith and GOD . ITS one or its the OTHER .
Ye cannot love money prosperity gospel and GOD . Its one or the other .
Amen!...thanks.
 
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amigo de christo

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Amen!...thanks.
perhaps the largest example of all out harlotry is this
Ye cannot serve and beleive both the gospel of GOD and this other broad path gospel .
In other words one cannot claim OH I DO BELIEVE JESUS IS THE CHRIST but then imply OH but its not necessary one did beleive .
MANY use the NAME of JESUS and do so to bring this other all religoins are serving the same GOD in different ways .
Many sure claim to BELIEVE IN JESUS and yet sure dont seem to BELEIVE HIS WORDS .
 

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perhaps the largest example of all out harlotry is this
Ye cannot serve and beleive both the gospel of GOD and this other broad path gospel .
In other words one cannot claim OH I DO BELIEVE JESUS IS THE CHRIST but then imply OH but its not necessary one did beleive .
MANY use the NAME of JESUS and do so to bring this other all religoins are serving the same GOD in different ways .
Many sure claim to BELIEVE IN JESUS and yet sure dont seem to BELEIVE HIS WORDS .
I met a vicar today in my supermarket..I asked her what church she preached at, as I’ve never ever seen her before, we live in a small community here....anyway on my way out of the supermarket , out of nowhere I shouted “ Praise The Lord”!!.....for some reason everyone started laughing..
 
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amigo de christo

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I met a vicar today in my supermarket..I asked her what church she preached at, as I’ve never ever seen her before, we live in a small community here....anyway on my way out of the supermarket , out of nowhere I shouted “ Praise The Lord”!!.....for some reason everyone started laughing..
Sister this world gonna think we are nuts .
We have got to be on gaurd sister these churches are in trouble . I think pearl brought a pretty good message
on another thread . If we love this people , we must help this people .
You can stay in prayer for them and be praying also for true ones to rise up and start correcting these churches and fast
its called mixture in the church .
Sister lizbeth left a real good reminder on that thread .
 

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those who commit fornication against GOD
and often many do so even using His name .
Example . YE cannot serve two masters . Many choose to include things CONTRARY to GOD while also using HIs name
to do so . So now a leave us with a word
Ye cannot serve the love of the world and the LOVE OF GOD
Ye cannot serve both the finding common ground interfaith and GOD . ITS one or its the OTHER .
Ye cannot love money prosperity gospel and GOD . Its one or the other .
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You mean like when he said I HAD to TELL GOD to get the SON out of my way so i could get the job done .
Kenneth copeland and scores of others are in dire peril and trouble .
Well, that was a stupid thing to say if he indeed said it. Like when Martin Luther wrote, Even if we committed murder and adultery a thousand times a day, it would not separate us from God.
 
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You mean like when he said I HAD to TELL GOD to get the SON out of my way so i could get the job done .
Kenneth copeland and scores of others are in dire peril and trouble .
I think Copeland is demon possessed!
 

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Interfaith will destroy them all . No man can stand before GOD on judgment day
without the mercy of HIS grace which is given to those in Christ Jesus .
If a man thinks his religoin , his works , his so called love can save him he has decieved himself .
If a man believes He can stand before GOD and offer up his own works as a bargaining chip before God
that man is blind to the standards of a HOLY RIGHTEOUS GOD
and blind He is to the depravity of his own self that falls far short of the GLORY of GOD .
interfaith a fools gospel and its love will save none . WE SHOULD HAVE PREACHED JESUS to them ,
not told them we all serving the same GOD . the blood of many will be upon much of even christendom who
wallked these religoins and themselves right to damnation . GOD provided the world a lamb , and I SUGGEST we preach
ONLY HIS NAME , JESUS THE CHRIST , and the dire need to beleive on HIM to all .
 
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[Jhn 10:15-16 KJV] 15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, [and] one shepherd.

Jesus laid down his life for the sheep, The sheep are his people, Israel.

Jesus says he has other sheep not of this fold. Who are the sheep not of this fold? Who is the fold Jesus speaks of?

The most common answer is Gentiles.

I think there is a better answer.

[Psa 78:52 KJV] 52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

[Isa 40:11 KJV] 11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are with young.

The verses above show that Israel are called sheep and Jesus is their shepherd.

[Jer 23:3 KJV] 3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

[Mic 2:12 KJV] 12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of [the multitude of] men.

[Jer 31:10 KJV] 10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare [it] in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd [doth] his flock.

[Eze 34:12 KJV] 12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep [that are] scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

The above verses say that the sheep are scattered. They were scattered into other countries outside of Israel. These are the sheep Jesus is talking about as being not of the fold and that he will bring in John 10:16. The sheep in the fold in Israel will be united with the sheep that have been scattered to make one fold with Jesus their shepherd.

Gentiles are never called sheep.

[Act 20:28-29 KJV] 28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

One could say that Paul calls the church a flock; Paul was sent to the Gentiles, so therefore Gentiles would also be sheep.

This is the only place where Paul uses this term; Paul never calls the body of Christ sheep.

Paul was speaking to elders of the church. Paul told them to take heed unto yourselves, the elders, and to all the flock. Yourselves and the flock are two separate groups. There was still the little flock, the remnant of Israel at that time which helped in Paul's ministry (Acts 9:26-27). The elders were to take heed of wolves who would not spare the flock (Matthew 7:15 10:16) which may be a warning for the remnant facing the tribulation in the future. The remnant would have to beware of false brethren and false prophets.

[Act 20:30 KJV] 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Note the word also. That means something is being said of them as well as someone else.

Once again Paul is addressing "your own selves" as opposed to the "flock" and saying that of them also there shall arise perverse men just as is the case for the flock of believing Israel
Jesus was talking with his disciples in this account. They are part of the 144,000 anointed of whom will be the resurrected first and awarded a heavenly abodes. Actually, they do not “fall asleep in death” as most of us have and will. (1 Corinthians 15:51, 51) Compare: Luke 12:32; Revelation 5:10; 14:1-4; 20:6.

The second resurrection consists of “…a great crowd, which no man was able to number…,” who “…come out of the great tribulation….” (John 10:16; Revelation 7:9, 14) Those determined to be “meek ones” and “upright” will “possess the earth” forever. They “will be left over in it.”-Psalms 37:11, 22, 29, 34; Proverbs 2:21; Matthew 5:5. Compare: Psalms 78:69; 104:5; 115:16; Ecclesiastes 1:4; Isaiah 45:18.
 

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esus was talking with his disciples in this account. They are part of the 144,000 anointed of whom will be the resurrected first and awarded a heavenly abodes.
I think they may very well be