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Is The Lord Your Shepherd?
for some us God is a footnote, irrelevant, distant in the corner of our life not important to our daily life.
for some of us God is somebody we visit on weekends briefly then forget about him the rest of the week.
for some of us may not be sure he exist at all.
for some of us he is our faithful and close companion everyday.
for some of us God is our healer just when we really need it, our help only when we are struggling, he’s our friend when its convenient , and our ruler or master hardly ever.
Can you make the same claim that the Psalmist makes, “THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD”?
Brothers & sisters we as sheep are weak, vulnerable, & dumb, needy, wandering, & dependent.
Too many people in the world think we are wolves, that we are strong and don’t need anybody but that is an illusion.
At some point God/life will show us that we are weak and we are sheep and we always need a Shepherd
In fact in John 10 we find out that their are thieves and robbers around us and we need a Shepherd to protect us.
John 10:1 ““Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.”
Jn. 10:8 ““All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.”
John 10:10 ““The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”
We have a good one if we will listen and follow Him?
This passage has roots in O.T scripture.
The leaders of God’s people were supposed to lead them but they weren’t
IN Ezek.
God say he will shepherd His people.
Jesus says in John 10 “I am the good Shepherd”.
He is God and He is the Shepherd!
That’s what makes him such a good shepherd, the perfect shepherd
Is the Lord... is God... is Jesus your shepherd?
The fundamental statement of Ps. 23 “The Lord is my shepherd” denotes - that you can have other shepherds.
politicians, emotions, friends, passions,
I shall not want why? because he is my shepherd.
he, he , he
I will Fear no evil why? because The lord is my shepherd he is with me
Is the Lord your shepherd?
Why would you not let Jesus be your shepherd?
Jesus is a wonderful/good shepherd we need a guide, a protector, a provider you need to feed and nurtured.
There is no better shepherd.
No matter what you are going through in life Jesus is there.
He’s not like the thief and the robber or the hired hand.
Are you one of God’s sheep?
Let’s take a sheep test!
1)Jesus sheep hear his voice!
You may be saying this morning I am here of course I listen to the voice of the shepherd?
what about tomorrow?
when you are at work?
When you are at school?
When siting on the couch watching t.v.?
The reason we need to listen to his voice
Do you pick an choose the words you hear,do you only let part of his words in & filter out those words you don’t want to hear or are to difficult for you to hear?
You have to let His words in and really let them work in your lives
You have to listen to his word everyday all day.
You must read his word
first part of the sheep test
Jesus sheep hear his voice?
2) Jesus sheep know His voice!
Do you recognize his voice, your friends voice, your own voice, the worlds voice, or the the devils voice?
Can you tell its not Jesus speaking when they are speaking, their are preachers who don’t teach truth, can you tell.
politicians?
can you tell if it is his voice?
How can you tell?
They listen to his voice so often and so regularly that they know his voice without even looking at him.
We have to be so familiar with his voice by hearing it so many times every day.
Many Christians today wouldn’t know whether it is his voice or not.
they don’t listen daily to his voice they don’t have enough experience with him to know whether it is Jesus or not
we need to hang around Jesus a lot.
Again this isn’t just a Sunday & Wednesday thing.
We must be around Jesus all the time.
Sheep test:
Jesus sheep hear his voice!
Jesus sheep know His voice!
3) Jesus sheep follow His voice!
they move, they act, based on his voice.
Sheep make decisions based on his voice.
Sheep make commitments based on his voice.
Sheep reject certain things because of his voice.
Jesus sheep will not follow a stranger!
some of us are so gullible, would you know he’s not telling me right he is not leading me where they good shepherd would?
Jesus sheep hear His voice
Jesus Sheep know His voice!
Jesus sheep follow His voice!
IS THE LORD YOUR SHEPHERD TODAY & EVERYDAY?
close relationship - they are with him everyday all day long.
EVERYDAY
Psalm 23 is the Lord my shepherd everyday?
We like it at funerals, when I am sick.
what about Tues afternoon I am walking with him through my Wed.
Thurs.
Fri.
the shepherd is God - Jesus
Listen to his word - hear
let His Word change us - believe
decide to to follow him repentance
pledge allegiance - confession
be united with him in baptism and you follow him everyday
not a loose, part time relationship…it’s a daily all the time relationship
P.S. Jesus is the Door
if you are going to find spiritual safety you have to go through the DOOR when you go out you go out Through the DOOR.
Jesus is the Door
Are You following the good shepherd?
notice I didn’t ask if you go to church.
A lot of people go to church the real question is
Are you following the Shepherd every day all day?
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