Verse 11, I am the good shepherd. That's
what we want to talk about tonight, the good shepherd. The good shepherd
giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is in hireling, and
not the shepherd whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf
coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth. And the wolf catches
them, and scatters the sheep. The howling fleeth because he
isn't howling, and he careth not for the sheep. I am the good
shepherd, and know my sheep, and have known of mine. As the
Father knoweth me, even so I know the Father, and I lay down my
life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which
are not of this fold, them also I must bring, and they shall
hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.
Therefore doeth my Father love me, because I lay down my life,
that I might take it again. No man taketh 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 commandment have I received
of my Father." The Good Shepherd. Here our Lord Jesus Christ Himself
calls Himself the Good Shepherd. I am the Good Shepherd. Whenever
you find that I am, he's identifying himself as God and also as the
good shepherd. The good shepherd. Good shepherd,
perfect shepherd. And he said here in verse 8,
he said, all that ever came before him were nothing but thieves
and robbers. Well, what did they steal? What did they rob? Well,
they steal God's glory. They rob God of His glory. They
steal the truth of God and change it and corrupt it. And they came
to steal and fleece the sheep of God and abuse them. And it says here, but the sheep
wouldn't hear it. He said in another place, the sheep will
not follow the voice of a stranger. Now you can mark that down. When
our Lord Jesus Christ says that His sheep Won't hear these thieves
and these robbers. Men that's robbing God of the
glory, stealing and perverting the scriptures. But this is one
of the most glorious, most blessed images that our Lord Jesus gives
of himself. Good shepherd. A good shepherd. The Old Testament is full of
shepherds. Abel was a shepherd, keeper of the sheep. David was
a shepherd. And our Lord Jesus Christ here,
Moses was a shepherd on the backside of the desert. And here he gives
us this blessed image of himself, the good shepherd. And anyone
can understand the strong protecting the weak. The strong watching
out and protecting the weak. Anybody can understand the wise
guarding the simple. The wealthy taking care of the
poor. And we can especially understand a shepherd watching over and
caring for his sheep, protecting his sheep. Not only doing, protecting
them and caring for them, and watching over them and protecting
them, but also if one's lost, going out and finding that one
lost sheep. That's why he's such a good shepherd.
Our Lord says, you know, that if he loses one, he goes into
the wilderness to find that one lost sheep. That's how much he
cares for his sheep. And wherever those sheep are
lost, He's going to go wherever they are, and He's going to find
them. And when He finds them, He says He lays them on His shoulder.
And you can read over in Isaiah 40, if you want to, when you
get time to go, and there our Lord's depicted as a shepherd
where He carries the sheep on His shoulder and the lambs in
His bosom. That's what it talks about. So
let's look at this Good Shepherd. Look at this Good Shepherd. The
first thing we notice about the Good Shepherd is, in verse 11,
the Good Shepherd gives his life for the sheep. Gives his life
for the sheep. Now this is not talking about
him laying down his life to defend the sheep. That's not what he's
talking about. David has it in his life to defend
the sheep. When a bear comes, he kills the
bear. When a lion comes, he kills the
lion. This is not talking about him laying down his life if somebody
comes in and tries to hurt the sheep or defend the sheep. That's not what it's talking
about. It's talking about him laying down his life to save
the sheep. Laying down his life, pouring
out his life's blood to save the sheep, to redeem the sheep.
Look what it says there in verse 15. He says, you know, down there
in the last part of the verse, I laid down my life for the sheep. There in verse 17, he says this,
three times in a row, I lay down my life for the sheep. Verse
18, I lay down my life. Three times in a row, he says,
the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. I lay down my
life. And no better love that this than a man hath for his
friends, and he lay down his life for them. And our Lord Jesus
Christ, when it came for him to die, he laid it down. He gave
it up. Nobody took it from him. That's
what he says. The Good Shepherd has all power.
He says down there in verse 18, no man takes it from myself.
But I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down. I have power to take it up again. So the Good Shepherd has all
power. He's got power to live. He's
got the power to die. He's got the power to live again.
He's got the power to save. He's got the power to satisfy
God. He has got the power, the right, the authority to lay down
his life. He willingly, he had the power,
the strength, the might to say, will himself to die. He had the
power and the might to bring himself again from the dead.
That's what he said, I've got the power to lay it down. I've
got the power to take it up again. And all beloved, and then he
says he has the power to, where did he get this power? There
in verse 18 again. This commandment have I received
of my father. What commandment? I'm going to
give all power to you. Power laid down in your life,
power taken up again. And all beloved, he had the power
to obey his father. And the father commanded life
and death to be in his power. The father loved his son. and
for his willingness to lay down his life for his sheep. Let me
show you something over in 1 Peter 2.25. You know, it says that
we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the
suffering of death. And you know what it says? That
he, by the grace of God, should taste death. That he, by the
grace of God, should taste death. In 1 Peter 2.25, here's what
we're talking about. For ye were as sheep going astray. That's what we were. We were
sheep. Never been nothing but sheep. Not goats made into sheep. We were always a two-county sheep,
lost sheep and found sheep. Sheep is in one fold, sheep that
ain't in the fold, but he gonna be brought in the fold. For ye
were as sheep going astray, but are now returned unto the shepherd
and bishop of your souls." That's the Lord Jesus Christ. And you
know the scripture says this, that he was led as a lamb to
the slaughter. As a sheep before his shearers,
he was done, and he opened not his mouth. They came to take
him. And they said, he said, came
out and met him in the garden. And he said, who's he to you?
They said, Jesus and that. He said, I am! When you look
at that, and it says, I am he, but he is in a tax. He said,
I am! And they led him away. When we're
talking about laying down his life, he'd done something willingly,
proudly, graciously. And when it was time to rise
again, time for life, that's what he just read in Revelations
1, the first begotten from the dead. He was the first one that
was begotten from the dead. Now there have been people raised
from the dead, but somebody else raised them from the dead. Christ
had raised himself from the dead. He was the first one man that
was dead that raised himself from the dead. He raised other
men from the dead. And men had been trespassed,
they hadn't had death, it was taken the glory. But Christ was
in the tomb, and at his time for him to live again, he lived
again. And then look what else it says
here. And oh, the good shepherd has all power, power laid out
in his life. And look in verse 16. It says here, he says, his
sheep hear his voice. Now, He laid down His life for
these sheep, and it says, His sheep hear My voice. Ain't that
what it says down there in the middle of the verse? Of the sheep
I have which have not this fold, them also must break, and they
shall hear My voice. His sheep hear His voice. They
shall hear it. We hear His voice. Where do we
hear His voice? We hear His voice in His Word.
Some people don't hear it. They can't hear it. Why can't
you hear it? They're strangers. They don't
hear the voice of the shepherd. And we hear His voice in His
Word. We hear His voice in the preaching of the gospel. You
know, I was talking to somebody the other day, and I've told
you all this before. You know, when the Scriptures talk about
the gospel come unto us in power and in the Holy Ghost and in
much assurance, that means that when you hear the gospel, And
when you hear Christ preaching, when you hear things as true
in the Scriptures, your heart answers back to them, that's
so, that's true, that's right. And what it is, it's Christ in
you answering to Christ in the Scriptures. And when you see
Christ in the Scriptures and you experience these things and
understand these things, your heart answers to what you understand
in the Scriptures. It's like when you look in a
mirror, you see yourself in the mirror. When we look in the Word
of God, we see Christ in the Scriptures. And all we hear is
voice, and the word we hear is voice in the preaching of the
gospel. And I'll tell you something, beloved, and we know His voice
when we hear it. We know it when we hear it. And
we know when somebody's not got His voice, and when somebody
else is saying something, we know it's not His voice. That's
not the voice of my Master. That's not the voice of the Lord
Jesus Christ. That's not the voice of my Master.
When somebody comes along and says something, and says, preaching
something, and talking about something, or you read something,
you'll say, that's not my Master's voice. That's not my Master's,
that's not my Savior's voice. And look up here in verse 8,
he says it again in verse 8. All that ever came before me
are thieves and robbers, and there was this, but the sheep
did not hear them. They didn't listen to him. Oh
my! And I'm going to tell you something
else about the sheep. He said, my sheep hear my voice. Every one of his sheep hear his
voice individually. Sometimes, and this is the thing
about it too, what he may say to one, the other person may
not get that. And another person gets something
else. But every sheep hears his voice individually. Every one
of you sitting here tonight, you're hearing my voice, but
if you hear the voice of Christ, you hear it for yourself, not
the person next to you, not for somebody at the house. That's
why people say, I wish somebody had been there. They need to
hear that. If they hadn't needed to hear it, they'd have been
here. And I tell you, you're here, so it's for us to listen
to. My sheep hears my voice, and
we hear His voice, and it individually speaks to me. We sang that song
more about Jesus in His Word, holding communion with my Lord,
hearing His voice in every line, making His faithful say, Amen. Yeah. And then look what He says
here. They hear His voice. He's the
Good Shepherd and they hear His voice. They don't hear no other
voice. And look what it says here in verse 18 again. Excuse
me, verse 16. And of the sheep I have, Now
listen to this, them I must, them I also must bring. You notice
he said, I must bring them. He didn't say I'm going to peg
them, I'm going to plead with them, I'm going to knock on their
door, I'm going to drag them by their ears, I'm going to kick
them along. No, no. He says I'm going to
bring them. He calls the lost sheep of the
house of Israel, the Jews. You know, when that Syro-Phoenician
woman came to him, she said, Lord, have mercy on my daughter.
She's previously vexed with the devil. He said, I'm not sent
but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Oh, that's fine. That's wonderful. And then, but
here he says, I've got other sheep which are not of this fold.
It's not of the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And you
know, there's lots of people in Israel, but they wasn't all
lost sheep. Zacchaeus was a lost sheep. Mary Magdalene was a lost
sheep. That blind man in John 9 was
a lost sheep. And you find that those lepers
were lost sheep. Wherever Christ went, He saved
lost sheep of Israel. And lots of people were not lost
sheep. The Pharisees wasn't lost sheep. Is that not right? The Sadducees wasn't lost sheep. The High Priest wasn't a lost
sheep. You who have lost sheep, the ones that Christ went to
and called them. And he said, and you know there's
other sheep that are not in this fold, that's not Jews. And guess what? You know what?
I must bring them. Oh, he thought he must bring
them. Well, how's he going to bring
them? First thing he does to bring them is lay down his life
on them. I lay down my life for it. I shed my blood for it. I'm
that lamb that was slain. I'm the satisfaction to the justice
of God. I'm the sacrifice for their sins.
I made my soil an offering for their sins. It pleased the Lord
to bruise me. I bore their iniquities in my
own body on the tree. Then how's he going to bring
them? By doing that, he says the gospel. He says, My sheep
hear My voice, and He sends the gospel, and effectually, effectually
calls them to Himself. Yeah. Lazarus, come forth. He came forth. Zacchaeus, come
down. He comes down. Barnabas, come here. He comes
here. Every place He calls somebody,
they came. Saddam, they Saddam. Oh, beloved,
I'm telling you, when He calls His sheep, I mean they're coming. And here's the thing about it.
If God lets me live another 25, 30 years and lets me continue
to preach that long, you know how many sheep I'll see come
into the fold. Look how many we've seen come
into the fold. There was a sheep come into the fold the other
day. How did he get in it? Christ
went and got him and brought him. There's a sheep. Lost sheep
till he's way up? Fifties, maybe. Fifty? There's a lost sheep? Did he
know there's a sheep? How'd he get brought? How'd he
get brought here to the sound of the gospel? To be where the
gospel of the grace of God is preached? What made him dissatisfied
with what was going on? What brings men to place where
they hear the gospel? Christ said, I must bring them.
And I don't care where they are, He's going to bring them. I'll tell you a true story. There
was this missionary who went to Mexico. A young man took his
wife and his daughter down there. And he's already come from a
Reformed Baptist church from Canada. He goes to Mexico, and
you've got him a bunch of tracts printed up, and he's going to
go out and stand out and start preaching in some of the squares
and all that. You know, they learn Spanish.
He went down there, and he'd get out there and start preaching
and arguing with people and trying to teach them things like that.
And then he found out Cody Gruber and Walter were down there. And
this guy's supposed to be believing the doctor's grace. Well, he
started attending the services. And God brought him from Canada.
all the way to the Yucatan in Mexico and Manitta. And he went
down there a couple or three years before God crossed his
path with the gospel and sent him from Canada to Mexico as
a missionary and then saved him by the grace of God when he got
no sound of the gospel. You think God ain't got preachers
in Canada? Yep. He wanted him saved in Mexico. He wanted... God's gonna bring
his sheep, I'm telling you. You're going to get them. I love
it. I mean to love it. They're going
to hear His voice. And He says, other sheep I have. And you know how we become the
other sheep? Look down at verse 29. I'll tell you how we became
the other sheep. My Father which gave them Me. That's how we became His sheep.
The Father gave us to Christ. I'm going to give you a whole
bunch of sheep. And I'll make you responsible
to bring them. And not only that, because they
hear his voice and he brings them, they must be brought. But
look what else he does. He says in verse 14 here, he
says he knows his sheep. I am the good shepherd and know
my sheep. Now what does he mean here, he
knows my sheep? What's the extent of this knowledge
in knowing his sheep? You know, to me, all sheep look
alike. Think about that. We don't know
who the sheep are. When people come in, they all
look the same to me, in the sense of this, that they all need the
gospel, they all need to hear Christ, they all need to hear
the Word of God. So we know, but when he says,
I know my sheep, what's the extent of this knowledge that he knows?
Well, it's the complete knowledge he has of every one of his sheep.
It's a perfect knowledge he has of it. It's an infinite knowledge.
It's the same thing when he says, whom he foreknew, he foreloved,
he had this intimate knowledge and acquaintance with. You know
why? He knows their name. You know how many times in the
Scriptures he calls somebody by name? Nathanael he called
by name. Philip he called by name. Peter
he called by name. John he called by name. Zacchaeus
called by name. Matthew he called by name. And
He knows their name. And He knows where they are.
He couldn't find them if He didn't know where they was. You know, they didn't pick them,
run around, well, let me see if I can find them, you know,
on this side of the mountain or on that side of the mountain.
No, no, He knows exactly where they are. He knows their nature. He knows their nature. He knows
their need. All His sheep He got, they know
their sheep's nature, and He knows the meat of the sheep.
He loves them long before they ever know Him. And He makes them
to know that He knows their nature, makes them to know that He knows
their name, makes them to know that He knows where they are
and knows their need. And let me tell you something,
it's not our voice or their voice or their cry that saves them
and brings them to the fold, but it's His voice, it's His
Word, and it's His gospel that brings us to the fold. That's
right. We don't bring ourselves to the
fold. You can cry all you want to and shed all the tears you
want to and cry out all you want to. It's not our voice that puts
us in the fold. It's His voice. Huh? Oh, by His knowledge shall my
righteous servant justify many. Look in Matthew 7 with me just
a moment. Over here He says, I know my sheep. I know my sheep. I'm the good shepherd and know
my sheep. Look in Matthew 7 with me, verse 22. He knows them. The intimate knowledge,
the intimate acquaintance with them. Now here's some people
that he knew, but yet he didn't know them. In verse 22, Matthew
7. Many will say to me in that day,
Lord, Lord. They say the right words. They
can put up billboards, Jesus is Lord over this area, Jesus
Lord over that area. Put up billboards, Jesus Lord
over Crossville. And have we not prophesied in
your name? That means we've done a lot of
preaching. And have we not in thy name cast out devils, and
in thy name done many, many wonderful works? Now listen. Then will
I profess unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me you that work
iniquity. Now he knew that there's workers of iniquity. He knew what they did. He knew
they was lying. He knew they was self-righteous.
He knew they was trusting in their works as trusting in their
preaching as trusting in their deeds. But he knows his sheep, but he
didn't know these. It's a different kind of knowledge.
He knows what they did, but he knows us personally. And these
folks would try and tell the Lord how much he should know
about them. And he said, I don't know you
at all. I doubt that would tell you a
story. True story. There's a young man up in Claremont,
West Virginia that works for the, he's a highway patrolman. And he's the son of some folks
up there in Katie Vantage's church. And every once in a while he'll
pull somebody over and the person will say, don't you know who
I am? You know, you ought to know who I am. And he hollered
back to the fellow in the car and says, Hey, we got another
one of these fellas around here that don't know who he is. And that's the way these folks
was. You know, Lord, don't you know who we are? Oh, I know more
about you. I know more about you than you
know about yourself. But the difference in the knowledge,
see? He knows them as iniquity, workers of iniquity. I know what
He, complete, perfect, infinite, perfect, blessed knowledge has
of us. And then look back over with
me again in verse 14 of John's end. He knows Yeshua, and then
guess what? And His sheep know Him. He says that in verse 14, I am
the Good Shepherd and know My sheep, and look here, and am
known of Mine. Not only do we know Him, He knows
us, but we know Him. I am My Beloved and My Beloved
is Mine. Oh Beloved, we know who He is.
We've heard His voice. We know who He is. We know what
He did. We know why he did it. We know
why he came into this world. Came into this world to be our
representative, to be our substitute, to bear our sins, to face God's
justice, to bear our wrath. We know him to be as our glorious
Redeemer, as our Savior. The very fact that he's called
the Savior tells us that he saves. And oh, this is pure. I know
my sheep and my sheep know me and know of mine. This is the
deepest and most sacred of all relationships. I know my sheep
and have known of mine. This is like a marriage. That's
how intimate this is. I know mine and they are known
to me. It's like called a marriage, it's called a father and a child,
a head and a body, flesh and bone. That's how intimate and
close this relationship between believers and Christ are, the
sheep and the shepherd. And the sheep know Him. Oh, we
know Him. But just like we know the Son's
in the heaven, and I know so little about the Son, I don't
know how far away it is, I don't know how big it is, I don't know
how hot it is, but I know it's there. And I know my Savior,
and I know the Lord Jesus Christ, but oh, how little I know of
Him compared to what I'm going to know one of these days. Oh, we do know this. We know
that He saves. We know that He saves by Himself. And we know He came into this
world to lay down His life for us, and there's nothing, nothing
that keeps Him from saving His people. And look here, Noah,
listen, the sheep know the shepherd, and you know why? Because he
made himself known to them. Yeah. You know, Paul said, I
know whom I have believed. I know whom I have believed.
This foundation of God stand assured, the Lord knoweth them
that are His. And let me show you something
else. This blessed my heart right here. In verse 12. But he that is in howling, and
not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not. See if the wolf coming and leaves
the sheep. Now I want you to notice here whose own the sheep
are not. The Lord Jesus Christ owns his
sheep. He claims his sheep. The Highling,
he don't own the sheep. He don't possess the sheep. That's
why he leaves the sheep. And our Lord Jesus Christ said
he owns the sheep. That shepherd owns the sheep.
And there's own means two things here. First means to own something
is to possess it. When you own something, it's
yours. I own my house. It's my house. I own these clothes. They're my clothes. Something
you possess. And then also admit to something. When somebody says,
will you own up to that? Will you admit to what you've
done? So Christ says He owns us as possesses us. And then
He admits that we're His. Do you own that fellow right
there? He says, I do. I'm not ashamed to be called
their God. I'm not ashamed of my sheep. Huh? And oh, beloved,
He owns us by price. He laid His life down to howling
pleas. They're not His. He is owned
by power. Blessed is He whom thou choosest,
and calls us to approach unto Thee. We're His, owned by His
voice, we hear it. Owned by His Spirit that He puts
in us. We're His, owned by His choice. Not only His sovereign choice,
but we're His by our choice. I'll choose Him. I want Him. I need Him. I've got to have
Him. Do you need Christ? Do you want
Christ? Do you want Him? Is He your shepherd? David said, the Lord is my shepherd. He is saying, the Lord is my
shepherd. He'll carry those lambs and the
shepherd will come with his reward with him. And oh, we're His by
choice. Look what it says down here in
verse 27. My sheep hear my voice, I know them. And what's this?
They follow me. Where does the shepherd go? That's
where we go. Our Lord Jesus Christ, after
Simon Peter, denied him. He said, Peter, love us now,
me. Oh, yes, Lord. You know what
the first thing you told him to do? Feed my sheep. Feed my
sheep. Don't feed my sheep. And I'm
ashamed to say this, and I'm embarrassed to say it, but I
used to back years ago, and some of you have heard me say it.
I'm in the business of shearing sheep and dehorning goats. What
a despicable, awful thing to say. That's a thief and a robber. God never said anything about
shearing sheep. He said, feed them, protect them, love them,
care for them. Nothing about shearing them.
Comfort you, comfort you, my people. And I bless God that
after all these years, He made me understand that. Teach me
that. And that's why I don't give anybody anything to do but
rest in Christ. You know? You just come here
and hear the gospel. God'll take the shepherd, He'll
take care of the sheep. I'll be here for you, and you know
that, you know, my heart's open for you, my heart's for you,
I love every single one of you, and we get along wonderfully,
but I'm not going to run your life, I'm going to tell you where
you can go and where you can't, what you can do and what you
can't. The shepherd, if he can't take care of you, some little
old two-by-four preacher like me certainly can't. Is that not
right? And He loveth thou me, feed my
sheep. And then it says He owns us. He said, whose sheep are
not. Whose own the sheep are not.
He owns us as we are. He sees us as sheep. Look at
us. Look where we are. He says, that's
my sheep. That's one of my sheep. Oh, did
you see what they did? Where they was? That's one of
my sheep. You hear what he did? That's
one of my sheep. You hear where he went? That's
one of my sheep. He's not ashamed of us. He's
not ashamed of us. And let me hurry here quickly.
And now in verse 13, not only does he own his sheep, he possesses
them, and then he owns up to them. Not ashamed of them. Claims them. Claims them. He
cares for his sheep. Down in verse 28, it says this, the good shepherd, the perfect
shepherd, is very, very careful for his sheep. In fact, it says
here, I give unto them eternal life, and watch this, and they
shall never perish. There's lots and lots of enemies
out there, lots of wolves, lots of lions, lots of bears. David
had a lion come and a bear come. And I'm telling you, he says,
you know he did it, I never lost a sheep. He says, Father, I've
lost none of them, save the son of perdition, that the Scriptures
might be fulfilled. Here they all are. All that you
give me, I've not lost a one of them. And he said they shall
never perish. And listen here. That's going
to be people trying to get you. That's going to be people trying
to get you. That's going to be folks coming to try to seduce
you, and pull you, and tug you, and grab you, and try to get
you out of my hand. They're going to whisper in your
ear. You're going to feel like a hypocrite when you go places,
say things, and do things. You're going to wonder if you're
one of my sheep, and they'll try to pluck you out of my hand.
But he said they won't be able. You know what Tim James called
that? Two-fisted security. Two-fisted security. He said,
I give unto him eternal life, he says, and look here. And they're
going to pluck him out of my hand, and neither of which my
father gave me is greater than all, and no man's able to pluck
him out of here. That's two-fisted salvation. That's two-fisted. And that's two-fisted. Now, if
you know God's hands that get us out of there, and His hands
are big enough to hold us all, huh? And oh, beloved, and that's
what He says, we need not fear any enemy of our soul. For our
Good Shepherd already protected us. He's laid down His life,
His power, His blood, and His wisdom. And He, beloved, He done destroyed
every enemy. And the Good Shepherd cares about
our safety, cares about our supply, cares about our food. He's our
defense. He's our food. And He said this,
He said, I'm with you all the way, even to the end of the world.
And then last of all, verse 16. All of his sheep shall one day
be gathered into one fold. And other sheep I have which
do not of this fold, them also I must bring, these other sheep,
and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and
one shepherd." And beloved, there will be one
flock, one fold, one shepherd. His sheep right now, he's got
sheep in every country. Every state. He's got sheep everywhere. He's
got sheep everywhere. Got them in China. Got them in
Vietnam. Got them in Kentucky. Got them
in Michigan. Got them in Mexico. Got them
in Thailand. Got them in New Guinea. Lance was showing us some pictures
when he first went down there years ago. I heard these guys
standing around in a little old war cloth with women's naked,
babies hanging all over them. This guy got these big bones
through their nose. Hair of red mud claked out in
their hair. And that's the kind of people
he's preaching to. Walking out there preaching to. And now,
now, one of these very fellows is doing the preaching while
he's back here. God's got people everywhere.
One here, one there. And it don't take... He's got
sheep. And they're in every country.
They speak every language. We're divided by boundaries,
divided by cultures, divided by age. But of every age, every
one of his sheep that has heard and will hear his voice, they'll
know him and he'll know them. And all of them will be brought
one of these days into the fold, and there will be one great fold
in glory. All the sheep will get there.
All language barriers will be broken down. All cultural barriers
will be broken down. All color barriers will be broken
down. Everything will be just... Because there's one Lord. We
have the same Spirit. We've been baptized in the same
body. And when we get there, we'll all know one thing. Unto
him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
be glory both now and for ever and ever. And then, beloved,
we'll be in evergreen pastures, following the Lamb." Huh? The
Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me to lie
down. Green pasture. Oh boy, what a
blessed future we've got. Oh, what a shepherd! What a shepherd!
What a shepherd! Our Father, O gracious, gracious
God in heaven, thank You for another day, a day of the privilege
of preaching the gospel, preaching our Lord Jesus Christ, talking
of Him and His glory, of His great work, His great love were
with the loveless. for the abundant mercy that he
gave us and gives us every day. And oh, Father, I know you've
got sheep here. And I know you've got sheep that
haven't been brought into the fold. You've got sheep that hear
your voice and hear in your voice. And I know that they'll follow
you. And we'll follow you. And we
believe that. We trust you with that. And we
trust you, Lord Jesus, that everyone who you died for and laid down
your life, they'll never perish. They will never follow a stranger.
They'll not hear another voice. And we bless you for that. Meet
the needs of these dear children of God as they go about their
lives, their jobs, their works. What they do, protect them and
keep them. Continue to strengthen Peggy
and her body. Pray for the dear saints at Cebulon.
Meet their needs. Encourage them. And provide a meeting place for
them and the funds to find and direct them, Lord. For we thank
you for them. Thank you for our preacher brethren.
For our dear saints and the missionaries you allowed us to support. Bless
these dear saints as they go. In Christ's name, Amen. Amen. There is a name I love to hear,
I love to sing His word. This sounds like music in my
ear, the sweetest name on earth. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus! Oh, how I love Jesus! Because He first loved me. Amen. I'll see you Wednesday
night.