What's so good about "Good Friday"?

John 10

New Living Translation (NLT)

The Good Shepherd and His Sheep

10 “I tell you the truth, anyone who sneaks over the wall of a sheepfold, rather than going through the gate, must surely be a thief and a robber! 2 But the one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice. 5 They won’t follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don’t know his voice.”

6 Those who heard Jesus use this illustration didn’t understand what he meant,

BC cartoon....

So what’s so good about good Friday?

ITS ALL ABOUT a man GOING die...!!!

WELL WHATS GOOD ABOUT THAT?

One year that we were going to South Africa British airways messed up our our connecting flights so we had to stay in a hotel at their expense.  It was 4 or 5 star Hilton hotel...and they gave us a key that was an all access pass. Opened all doors to any facility in the hotel. Restaurants, swimming pool, sauna bath gym...

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a key like that in real life?

I wonder How many doors have you gone through today?

Open a door in paradise...all access pass to the garden.

Enjoy it...its a garden of perfection and relationships...enjoy.

One condition!

2 Tree’s of good and evil.

Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Genesis 2:9

Ever had a door slammed in your face.

THAT’S WHAT Adam and Eve did...

slammed the door in Gods face. Instead of obeying God...

They thought they knew best!!!! 

What did God do? And drove out Adam and eve.

He put cherubim to guard the entrance. WHY?

For their protection he did not want them to touch the tree of life...especially as they were sin full. (Sin is saying no to God that's what they did when they did their own thing.)

If they could have found their way back into the garden and touched the tree of life they would be locked into a life of complete separation from God for ever !!! Gen 3:22

So right from the start.  God protected the man and woman .

NO ACCESS NO WAY BACK FOR THE MAN AND WOMAN THIS WAY!!!!

BUT A PLAN WAS BEING MADE....GODS PLAN HIS WAY.

You cant just come back to me any old way...there is a way and its my way.

John 10: I am the door.

Not a door not some kind of door, not a revolving door...NOT ANY RUBBISH DOOR  ..BUT THE DOOR!

To where?

Back into a relationship to God!!!!! A way that was safe...

John 10:6 people did not understand...

Have you seen HINterland a who did it show...a city cop come to the country wales...green fields and sheep!!!

14. I am shepherd

He lays down his life for his sheep.

So he starts to make a connection with the Door and shepherd.

Corral narrow door way.

The shepherd would sit or lay down so nothing can get through except over his body.

I am the door and eternal life is on the other side....

John 14:6...I am the way, truth and life...there is no other way to come to God.. except by ME.....I am the Plan!!!!

John 10:9.... I am the door:

There are many believe that God has been hiding from them all their lives.

Some people spend their whole lives knocking on doors...the financial door, success door, sex door, drugs door, relationship door...  only to find...no one home...no satisfaction...there was nothing there.

THAT’S WHAT’S SO GOOD ABOUT GOOD FRIDAY...

Not any man but Jesus came to make a way back to God and died doing so....BUT and rose again in order to open up an all access door.

And He says THROUGH IT come as you are...

It doesn’t matter if you’re an abandon wife or husband, whether you are sane or suicidal, drug addict, business man or at home mom.

so crippled with guilt because of your past mistakes, that never ending search for more and satisfaction.

come as you are...

If you trust me to be the door ...and come through that door I will relieve you of the past and create a new destiny and destination for you....

John 11:25.... "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,.....I will give you LIFE.

Its there for the taking...new lives for old..... And that is what is so good about good Friday.