Why You Should Abandon False Shepherds and Turn to the Great Shepherd, Part 13

TEXT: John 10:22-28

Adrian Rogers said, "I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they're counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they've never been born again."

Although Jesus avoided referring to Himself as the Messiah or as the King of the Jews, there were many times when He gave the Jews a reason to believe in Him. His actions and His words were a huge mountain of evidence that should have led to belief and faith in Him. But, for these religious Jews, it didn't. Thus, He says, "I told you, and ye believed not..."

What were the things that Jesus had told them? Up until this point in the Gospel of John, Jesus had said the following...