Sentences with word «sheepfold»

I believe somewhere in the Gospel of John Jesus stated that he had sheep in other sheepfolds.

In John 10:15 - 16, Jesus indicates that there are two sheepfolds which will be brought together into one flock.

Yes, there are different sheepfolds, and God is the shepherd of them all.

Finally, he would gather all those sheep who would follow him into the everlasting sheepfold of God.

I don't have the verse in front of me this minute, but Jesus said He has sheep in other sheepfolds to whom He must go.

How is a church like a sheepfold?

How much easier to climb into the sheepfold by another way!

«Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way is a thief and a robber.»

He chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; from tending the ewes that had young he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, of Israel his inheritance.

Just referring to the sheep fold... This is how I view the two sheepfold... although I must admit by reading both views of what has been written concerning the sheep fold is that:

The other sheepfold the two sheepfolds... are the... before sheep fold which were the God sheepfold... and the second sheepfold which is the Jesus sheepfold...

Who was Holy Spirit given to the world... through his Natural Mother Mary... revealed in the flesh... The Jesus Generation... The sheepfold of all sheepfolds...

In John 10:16 Jesus speaks of sheep not of this sheepfold.

This chapter is a comment on rather than an extension of Chapter 9, and it begins with a simple parable that defines the setting for the two main affirmations that follow: that Jesus is the door to the sheepfold (in verses 7, 9) and that be is the shepherd (11, 14).

In Jn 10 he describes himself as the gate of the sheepfold through which people must enter to have salvation and life in abundance.

This is reminiscent of Jesus» earlier statement that only thieves and robbers enter a sheepfold by coming over a wall (John 10:1).

«I am the gate of the sheepfold....

But David's story began with a profound reliance on God who called him from the sheepfold to the kingship, and by the grace of God it did not end with his exploitation of Bathsheba and Uriah.

Jesus says, of course, that there are other sheep which are not of this sheepfold (John 10:16), which most likely refers to Gentile believers who were known as «God - fearing Gentiles.»

In beginning to make this sheepfold, God the Father gave all His sheep to Jesus (John 10:29).

In Jesus, both Jewish sheep and Gentile sheep are brought together into one sheepfold.

In John 10, the sheep Jesus is talking to are Jewish sheep, and the sheep not of this sheepfold are the Gentile sheep, and Jesus will bring both flocks together into one sheepfold, the fold of Jesus Christ, the church.

In verse 16 he speaks of sheep not of this sheepfold.

So in other words, «the sheep not of this sheepfold» that Jesus is referring to throughout John 10 are already sheep before they believe in Him.

They all were familiar with a sheepfold — an enclosed area in which many different shepherds placed their sheep and hired a gatekeeper to attend it.

The shepherds had to know their own sheep to distinguish them from the sheep of others who shared the sheepfold with them.

But Jesus also had human sheep in other sheepfolds.

To Jesus, the sheepfold was the safe abode of all God's people.

David is taken from the sheepfold and given a name among the great ones, while Solomon builds an ivory throne that sits atop a seven - step, stylized mountain.

McArthur, like hundreds of angry brethren before him from all theological positions on the dial, has succeeded in dragging the majority of us sheep once more out of the sheepfold, to graze poison grass in foreign pastures.

He is free to join a kingdom of nobodies (to recall Crossan's marvelously apt phrase) because he has no stake in the sheepfold.

A small wooden main door leads to a large quadrangular courtyard from which the places once destined to the farmer's various activities develop: the rooms where he slept with his family, the stalls, the sheepfolds, the tool - sheds and a kitchen with a large fireplace for the production of cheese.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park is famed for its eloquent championing of local heroes Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth — and for its sheepfolds.