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are going to enjoy the pasture, you must come out of the fold. Once you come out of the fold, you will find yourself in the pasture. Hallelujah!
The Lord came that the sheep might have life and might have it abundantly (John 10:10). This means that the Lord came to impart Himself as life to His sheep because He is their pasture. As long as the sheep stay in the pasture, they will have the supply of life abundantly. By feeding on the pasture, the sheep will enjoy the pasture as their abundant life supply, for the Lord is their abundant life. They will enjoy the Lord and ex perience Him as their life more abundantly.
How could the Lord fulfill this matter of being the pasture of life to the sheep? It is by re alizing that the grass, in order to be eaten, must pass through the process of death. All of the liv ing grass eaten by the sheep must pass through the process of death. Hence, as we shall see, the Lord said that He had to lay down His life for His sheep. He first had to die that He might minister Himself as life to the sheep.
CHRIST LAYING DOWN HIS SOULISH LIFE THAT THE SHEEP
MAY HAVE THE DIVINE LIFE
In verse 10 the Lord said, "I came that they