John 10:27

while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “I will yet gather others to him, in addition to his own who are gathered.”

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’ ” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.

But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.

and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, Yahweh your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

“Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

“Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations, and declare it in the distant islands. Say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’

Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they are like the jewels of a crown, lifted on high over his land.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”

It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’

if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”