Jesus The Good Shepherd

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Jesus TheGood Shepherd
John 10
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Many Were Shepherds
Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your
occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your
servants are shepherds, both we and also our
fathers. Gen. 473
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Moses and David were Shepherds
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Received birth announcement of Jesus
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Jesus The Good Shepherd
John 10
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Parable of the Sheepfold
John 101-6
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Sheepfold
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Sheepfold
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The doorway into a sheepfold
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John 101
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not
enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up
some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
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John 102
But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of
the sheep.
John 103
To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear
his voice and he calls his own sheep by name and
leads them out.
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John 104
And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes
before them and the sheep follow him, for they
know his voice.
John 105
Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but
will flee from him, for they do not know the
voice of strangers.
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John 106
Parable
Jesus used this illustration, but they did not
understand the things which He spoke to them.

• They did not understand
• Because they would not

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Jesus TheGood Shepherd
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I Am The Door
John 107-10
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John 107
Then Jesus said to them again, "Most assuredly,
I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
John 108
All who ever came before Me are thieves and
robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
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The doorway into a sheepfold
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John 109
I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will
be saved, and will go in and out and find
pasture.
John 1010
"The thief does not come except to steal, and to
kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may
have life, and that they may have it more
abundantly.
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I Am The Good Shepherd
John 1011-18
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John 1011
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives
His life for the sheep.

• Contrasts with Hireling !

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John 1012
But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one
who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming
and leaves the sheep and flees and the wolf
catches the sheep and scatters them.
John 1013
The hireling flees because he is a hireling and
does not care about the sheep.
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John 1014
I am the good shepherd and I know My sheep, and
am known by My own.
John 1015
As the Father knows Me, even so I know the
Father and I lay down My life for the sheep.
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John 1016
"And other sheep I have which are not of this
fold them also I must bring, and they will hear
My voice and there will be one flock and one
shepherd.
John 1017
Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay
down My life that I may take it again.
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John 1018
No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of
Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have
power to take it again. This command I have
received from My Father."
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Lessons we can Learn from Jesus the Good Shepherd
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Jesus is the Door
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John 146 I am the way, the truth and the
life no man cometh unto the father, but by
me. Matt. 613-14 door is narrow Religious
leaders of that day were like thieves and
robbers They do not bring the truth.
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Jesus is the Shepherd
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• Evil Shepherds fed themselves
• Ezek 342
• Prophesied of the Great Shepherd
• Ezek. 3423-27
• Jesus was the Great Shepherd
• Gave his life for the sheep
• Died in place of the sheep

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Jesus is OurGood Shepherd

• He died Physically
• Sheep might live spiritually

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Are you one of His Sheep ?
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Sermon by Arthur Pigman Evans Church of Christ
515 Gibbs Road Evans, Ga. 30809 706-855-1249 evan
scoc_at_bellsouth.net www.evansgachurchofchrist.org S
unday Morning July 27, 2008