<TITLE>03. Par 10-12</TITLE>L-10 And you know, if you were going out, especially in my country, to have a little picnic, we just have to have a little shade to have a picnic. Now, if a little tree had been stuck out last year by someone, we couldn't have very much confidence that we'd meet much shade there. But you go to where the big old stately oak stands, where the trials and temptations, and the swinging of the limbs back and forth and back and forth, has moved that old tree, till them roots are way down deep in the ground. You can pretty well believe she's still standing there.
That's the way I like to get to an old God-saved saint that's weathered the storm, and their roots are still holding deep in the love of God, what it means to get to a person like that and have a little time of fellowship: means so much.
Now, it was a strange thing; Jesus said here in Saint John 10, "I am the Door." I always wondered how He could be a Door and be a Man. That used to bother me. How could He be a Door and yet be a Man?
When I was over in the orient, I found out what that Scripture meant. He said here, "I am the Door. And all that comes before Me is robbers." And then I wondered how that was.

L-11 And in the orient, how they take care of their sheep, the shepherd brings them in at night, and he counts them every one to see if every one is in. If there's one missing, he will not lay down until he goes out into the deserts, or wherever he's herded all day long, and he will find that sheep, lay it over his shoulders, bring it in. Then when all is in the fold, then the shepherd lays himself down at the gap. He is the door to the sheepfold. There's no other way; it's a corral, got a top over it. And nothing can come in to those sheep until it crosses the shepherd.
And what a relief, what a lovely thing to know, that when we are tucked into His blessed keeping, He becomes the Door, and there's nothing could happen to you. No matter what it is, it'll all have to come by the Shepherd. If it's sickness, it might be for your correction. It might be for a testimony against the enemy. It might be for the exaltation of Christ's Name. But nothing can come to you except He permits it to come. He's the Door to the sheepfold.

L-12 Said all that comes are robbers, all that ever comes to Him trying to get you, try to take you out of His fold, is robbers, evil ones, trying to take you from His fold. But they cannot get you. I just love to bleat that out. Nothing can bother you if you are in God's sheepfold. For He is the Door Himself, and there's no other way. Everything has to be permitted by Him.
Sometimes you say, "Why do I get sick?" It may be for His glory.
One time when they were passing a blind man, the disciples said, "Who sinned, this man or his parents?"
And Jesus said, "In this case neither sinned, he nor his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest."


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