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Sheep now returned to the Shepherd

Sheep now returned to the Shepherd
  • We are like the Sheep going astray, but now have returned to the Shepherd

We are like the Sheep going astray

Isaiah 53:5-6
New King James Version (NKJV)

5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Now have returned to the Shepherd

1 Peter 2:24-25
New King James Version (NKJV)

24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed. 25 For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer[a] of your souls.

Footnotes:

  1. 1 Peter 2:25 Greek Episkopos

Returned is Passive Tense

  • Which means Its not you return, someone is returning you to the shepherd
  • Healing operates best when you know that you are part of the flock and the Lord is your shepherd
  • When He is your Shepherd you shall not lack
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I Will

I Will

The New Covenant

Hebrews 8:10-12
New King James Version (NKJV)

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds[a] I will remember no more.”[b]

Footnotes:

  1. Hebrews 8:12 NU-Text omits and their lawless deeds.
  2. Hebrews 8:12 Jeremiah 31:31–34

The Good Shepherd

Psalm 23:2-3
New King James Version (NKJV)

2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters.
3 He restores my soul;
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.

  1. He makes me
  2. He leads me
  3. He restores me

New Covenant

Jeremiah 23:1-8
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23 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” says the Lord. 2 Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel against the shepherds who feed My people: “You have scattered My flock, driven them away, and not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your doings,” says the Lord. 3 “But I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. 4 I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor shall they be lacking,” says the Lord.

Matthew 18:12-14

New King James Version (NKJV)

12 “What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? 13 And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.14 Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

  • The Good Shepherd Left the 99
  • The Good Shepherd go to the mountains to seek
  • The Good Shepherd finds the lost
  • The Good Shepherd rejoices

Its all Jesus, the Good Shepherd

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Shepherds who Feed

Shepherds who Feed

Shepherds who feed My people

Jeremiah 23:1-8
New King James Version (NKJV)

23 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” says the Lord. 2 Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel against the shepherds who feed My people: “You have scattered My flock, driven them away, and not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your doings,” says the Lord. 3 “But I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. 4 I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor shall they be lacking,” says the Lord.

5 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness;
A King shall reign and prosper,
And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.
6 In His days Judah will be saved,
And Israel will dwell safely;
Now this is His name by which He will be called:

THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.[a]

7 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that they shall no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ 8 but, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ And they shall dwell in their own land.”

Reference

  1. Jeremiah 23:6 Hebrew YHWH Tsidkenu

When this will happen?

IT IS NOW

Time when

  • I(Father God) will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries
  • bring them back to their folds
  • they shall be fruitful and increase
  • from the north country and from all the countries

Now Jews are back to Jerusalem

  • from North ( Russia : Moscow )
  • from all countries

What is the result?

They shall

  • fear no more,
  • nor be dismayed,
  • nor shall they be lacking

What these shepherds feed People with?

  • THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
  • This is a Gift
  • This is opposite to Self Righteousness: which you get by concentrating/correcting on yourself ( on your deeds and activities )

Sheep having no shepherd

Sheep having no shepherd is the Reason for being :

  • weary
  • scattered

Matthew 9:36
New King James Version (NKJV)

36 But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.

What is The Good Shepherd’s part?

Matthew 18:12-14

New King James Version (NKJV)

12 “What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? 13 And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.14 Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

  • The Good Shepherd Left the 99
  • The Good Shepherd go to the mountains to seek
  • The Good Shepherd finds the lost
  • The Good Shepherd rejoices

Its all Jesus, the Good Shepherd

What is Our Part?

  • Consent to be saved
  • Consent to be carried
  • Consent to be found
  • Consent to be loved
  • Consent to be cared

This is called SALVATION ( Consenting to be saved )

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What makes a Good Shepherd?

What makes a Good Shepherd?
  • Well fed sheep makes Good Shepherd
  • Good Shepherds are Good sheep
  • They allow themselves to be Shepherded

David is a good example

  • God says ” I saw you taking care of the sheep” –> Resulted in becoming a king
  • David saw himself as a Sheep
  • David is a real Shepherd taking care of the sheep, but still he wrote, The Lord is my Shepherd
  • David while defeating Goliath, He remembered God is his Shepherd and hit Goliath to the ground, they he became one of the Greatest King

2 Samuel 7:8
New King James Version (NKJV)

8 Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people, over Israel.

Psalm 78:70-72
New King James Version (NKJV)

70 He also chose David His servant,
And took him from the sheepfolds;
71 From following the ewes that had young He brought him,
To shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel His inheritance.
72 So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart,
And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

1 Chronicles 17:7
New King James Version (NKJV)

7 Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.

I shall not lack

David saw himself as a sheep, resulting in –> I shall not lack

Psalm 23:1
New International Version (NIV)

1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

  • I shall not lack health
  • I shall not lack wealth
  • I shall not lack favor
  • I shall not lack blessings
  • I shall not lack peace
  • I shall not lack Joy

Last words to Peter

Last words of Jesus to Peter

  • Feed My Lambs
  • Tan My sheep
  • Feed My Sheep

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