I AM the Good Shepherd
John 10:11-30
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.” (John 10:11)
The Good Shepherd …
- Dies for the Sheep (v. 11)
- He “gives His life for the sheep.”
- Four times speaks to laying down His life for His sheep (v. 11, 15, 17, 18)
- He “gives His life a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:45)
- He “gives His life for the sheep.”
- Saves the Sheep (v. 12-13)
- The hireling.
- The priests who abdicated their responsibility.
- Ezekiel 22:27
- Knows the Sheep (v. 14-15)
- He knows His own. (2 Timothy 2:19)
- His own know Him. (2 Timothy 1:12)
- Calls the Sheep (v. 16)
- “other sheep … not of this fold.”
- Acts 11:18
- “there will be one flock and one shepherd.”
- Ephesians 4:4-6
- “other sheep … not of this fold.”
- Heard by the sheep (v. 25-27)
- “you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep” (v. 26)
- “My sheep hear my voice … and they follow me.” (v. 27)
- Keeps the Sheep for Eternity (v. 28-29)
- “I give them eternal life”
- 1 John 2:25
- “No one will snatch them out of my hand.”
- John 6:39
- “I and the Father are one.”
- John 14:10
- “I give them eternal life”
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