S91P4 – Signs of a good shepherd: a sheep himself

John 10:25-30 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me.  But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.  My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they…

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S91P3 – Signs of a good shepherd: driven to unity

John 10:11-13 I am the good shepherd.  The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.  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.  The hireling flees because…

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S91P2 – Signs of a good shepherd: moved by compassion

Mat. 9:35-36 Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.…

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Qualify your shepherd

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yejqp-ff12f8 We know deception is out there.  This is no secret to the Church.  Many of us, however, have not developed the discernment necessary to distinguish good shepherds from bad ones or true teachers from false ones.  It is a critical skill not only for our protection but for the protection of the brothers and…

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S91P1 – Signs of a good shepherd: a life preserver

John 10:7-10 Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in…

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S90P9 – That which love seeks: to redeem all

2 Pet. 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. One did not need to look that closely to see that there was a stark difference between the two teachers.  The first…

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S90P8 – That which love seeks: a full investment

Mat. 22:37-40 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’  This is the first and great commandment.  And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’  On these two commandments hang all the Law…

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S90P7 – That which love seeks: to be the anchor

1 Cor. 13:1-3 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but…

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S90P6 – That which love seeks: empowerment

1 John 4:17-18 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment.  But he who fears has not been made…

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S90P5 – That which love seeks: obedience to truth

2 John 1:4-6 I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.  And now I plead with you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another. …

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