TSK · John 10:3

He takes me to lush pastures, he leads me to refreshing water.

For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a psalm of Asaph. O shepherd of Israel, pay attention, you who lead Joseph like a flock of sheep! You who sit enthroned above the cherubim, reveal your splendor!

Like a shepherd he tends his flock; he gathers up the lambs with his arm; he carries them close to his heart; he leads the ewes along.

You will say to the prisoners,‘Come out,’ and to those who are in dark dungeons,‘Emerge.’ They will graze beside the roads; on all the slopes they will find pasture.

Then I will reply,‘I will bring them back from the land of the north. I will gather them in from the distant parts of the earth. Blind and lame people will come with them, so will pregnant women and women about to give birth. A vast throng of people will come back here.

“‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.

It is written in the prophets,‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

“I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me–

But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.

because a door of great opportunity stands wide open for me, but there are many opponents.

At the same time pray for us too, that God may open a door for the message so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.

They were shown that they were serving not themselves but you, in regard to the things now announced to you through those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven– things angels long to catch a glimpse of.

Listen! I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home and share a meal with him, and he with me.

If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.