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Jesus and Parables
Jesus used parables to illustrate spiritual truths.
The parables work, because the hearer relates to that already known in the story and is then able to relate better to the information being portrayed.
Story of Tweety: Vaccuumed, Washed, Hairdried - Have you every had a Tweety kind of day?
Verse 21 harkens back to the context in which Jesus tells this story.
Pharisees are the false shepherds
trampling people
by whom the 10 Commandments became 250
not interested in the sheep
didn’t care that a blind man could see, that one of their sheep were no longer afflicted.
They just wanted to kill Jesus to further their own agendas and maintain the status quo along with their authority
A Good Shepherd: David, Ezekiel, even references to the Messiah
As I read , there are four points that I’ve considered in light of being a First Time Shepherd.
Explain
The Good Shepherd:
Owns His sheep
Knows His sheep
Leads His sheep
Gives up His life for His sheep
Owns His Sheep
We’ve agreed to not only rent Brenton and Sand’s House, but to manage their property for them while they are away.
This involves looking after their sheep.
In that regard we are hirelings.
Now I would like to think we are better than the hirelings that Jesus spoke about in his parable, but at the end of the day, these are Brenton and Sandi’s sheep.
They have the financial responsibility for them.
They gain from the wool and from selling the lambs.
We care for the sheep, but we don’t own them.
We have no say in what ultimately happens to them; whether the lambs stay or go
Buddy and Rosemary
W Phillip Keller is a Kenyan Shepherd who writes about the 23rd Psalm from a shepherd’s perspective.
Started with 30 sheep as a boy
Had to mark the sheep as his own with a knife in the ear.
Brenton and Sandi tag their sheep
Nails driven through flesh
blood on doorframes
permanent piercing, with holes and scars forever
Any of this sound familiar?
In revelation, Jesus marks or seals us!! JESUS HAS PAID WITH HIS BLOOD
The Good Shepherd owns us!!!
We give ourselves to him voluntarily in love
Knows His Sheep
Knows His Sheep
I do not know B&S sheep.
They do not know me
Story of first time shepherding Lorrie and Lorraine
In the context Jesus is talking about, the Shepherd knows a sheep face in 100.
It sounds strange, but I am beginning to understand.
Cant Recognise B&S sheep
Can tell Buddy and Rosemary apart just by looking at them
More importantly, the sheep know the Shepherd
56km of grass for all the sheep in Jerusalem that all the shepherds used.
all the sheep mingled together - shepherd called, all the sheep untangled.
Story of Buddy
Buddy and Rosemary know Naomi’s voice.
It comes down to being broken and restorative relationship
W Phillip Keller writes of about “He leads me besides still waters”.
Sheep become agitated when thirsty
when left to their own devices they will drink whatever water they will find
They rely on the Good Shepherd to take them to good water - he alone knows where to find it
Blessed are those who ghunger and thirst for righteousness,
hFor they shall be filled.
Matt
People today are spiritually thirsty, but are drinking from all kinds of sespools - They need to be led to the Good Shepherd who knows where to find the water!!
People today are thirsty, but are
(NKJV)
Christ Reveals the “Living Water”
37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”
Leads His Sheep
Difference between Driving not Leading
The Good Shepherd leads - he goes before us, He knows the way; He climbs over the rough terrain for us
When evangelising, it is easy to resort to the fear model where we push and poke and prod people into keeping doctrines.
It is more difficult to lead.
God leads us through life, the highs and the lows - Eg of eye surgery
Jesus led me; he leads all of us.
Ron Halvonsen Snr in preaching on the Good Shepherd shares a story of people being asked about their favourite Bible verse: eveyone proudly recited theirs.
A older man was asked.
He said “And it came to pass”.
People laughed thinking he was getting forgetful.
He went on to say “When I was thirty, I lost my job with 6 children to feed; at 40, I lost my son in the war; at 50, my house burnt to the ground, there was nothing left.
At 60, my wife of 40 years was diagnosed with cancer and one year later, after fighting and praying, she died; and through it all, god led me to the 85 times in the Bible that it is recorded: “It came to pass”.
Jesus leads us through it all
The Good Shepherd lifts us up out of the ditch every time.
Lay down His life for the Sheep
two ways to lay down your life:
to die for the sheep - preach as HS leads
to lay down like a garment - Jesus lay down His life by leaving heaven, coming as a baby, the Jews were not ready for their Messaih to do that
Jesus’s life wasnt taken!!! IT WAS GIVEN.
The romans did not take his life - The Good Shepherd lay it down
Caiphas did not take his life - The Good Shepherd voluntarily lay it down
The Jews did not take his life!
The good Shepherd willingly lay it down
From crib, to cross, to cript Jesus lay it down for you and for me!!!
Will you except the call of the Good Shepherd today???
Charles Heston (10 Commandments and Ben Hur; deep voice) and Billy Graham
same event in Washington DC as guest speakers
Heston asked to recite the 23rd Psalm
Standing ovation; people applauding
Billy Graham asked to recite the 23rd Psalm
no one stood, no one applauded
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