One Flock And One Shepherd - [John 10:11-16]

Sharing the Gospel with Psalm 23 and John 10

Let me ask you a serious question. Do you ever get nervous when you're sharing the gospel? Is there ever a time where you just think okay? I know I Need to preach Christ, I'm going to the hospital. My grandmother's dying my friends very sick may not make it.

I need to preach Christ in him crucified. How do I do it? Do you ever feel that way ever I Know some have. Because they're like Steve. What do I do? I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. It's a professional tip.

Normally don't like to share these things, but I'm trying to work myself out of a job. It's really easier than you think. Here's what I tell people and here's what I what I've learned to do because it just listen.

I'm gonna say it works, and then you're gonna say well I'm gonna write this down because now I know how to get people into the kingdom. That's not what I mean. I mean Every time I've done this and every every time I've told somebody to do this they have been able to successfully give the gospel to somebody it starts with Psalm 23.

Why do you start with Psalm 23? Because almost everybody knows it and at least even the worst people in the world know this part. You know yay, though. I walked through the valley of the shadow of death.

You know I won't fear no evil, and you know sometimes it comes back to because I'm so bad right. But when you start reading Psalm 23 people know it they recognize it. And then what do you suppose you do?

You open your Bible to John 10, which is what we're going to do right now, and you tell him who this shepherd is. You tell him about Jesus. You go from Psalm 23 the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want He does all these things leaves me beside Stillwaters and all these kind of things from King James still my head, but then you go on and you just explain who the shepherd is.

I've used this format in funerals because it's easy to personalize it and kind of talk about the person and This is a great way to share the gospel and John 10 really just Overflows with the gospel the goodness of Christ.

Just gives us a really intimate portrait of him. Laying down his life for his people and if you read just a few more verses in John 10 you see The resurrection foretold and I'm telling you it cannot get any easier than Psalm 23 and then John 10.

Jesus the Good Shepherd Knows His Sheep

Well, let's read our passage this morning. John 10 verses 11 to 16 the Lord speaking He says I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd who does not own the sheep sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

He flees because He's a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the Good Shepherd. I Know my own and my own know me. Just as the father knows me and I know the father and I lay my life down my life for the sheep and I have other sheep that are not of this fold.

I Must bring them also and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock one shepherd. One man I read this week When he was talking about the Gospel of John, he sort of lumped the book of Romans in there, too and he said That Romans and the Gospel of John are like the Mount Everest of the New Testament.

Now personally, I would prefer never even see Mount Everest. And I certainly wouldn't go see that movie because I just picture myself plunging down the slopes, but that's not the point. The point is it's so lofty That you can look down from the Gospel of John as it were and just see the truths of the New Testament.

You have like a cat bird seat to look down and see all the truth that is in the New Testament. In fact, he says from its peaks it is possible to survey much of the territory a biblical revelation including the Old Testament the synoptics that is to say Mark Luke and Matthew Mark and Luke and other portions of the New Testament.

The Apostle John writing his gospel if you'll recall many years after Matthew Mark and Luke Did so to fill in some theological gaps to emphasize the deity of Christ. So does it any wonder that it's just kind of packed that it's loaded with these mountaintop truths.

At the end of chapter 8 if you'll recall Jesus had offended the Pharisees with the truth. When he told them that he was the great I am Yahweh. Remember he said before Abraham was I Am that in its in and of itself is a great truth because it just speaks of his eternality and His opponents that day understood exactly what he said.

Because they tried to kill him. They understand that they understood that he is making himself out to be God. But he escaped the mob. By means that are not clear. They were not described for us and sometime later He finds this man who had been born blind he and his disciples are just walking through the city.

And they find this man and he heals him. Rather than engage his disciples in this theological exercise. They want to get into. Well, he does briefly but then he moves on he heals him and he does it on the Sabbath and the aftermath of that Goes on and on all the investigation of the Pharisees as they try to you know, kind of convict Jesus of being a heretic so they can kill him and we're still looking at the aftermath of that healing here this morning as he's Speaking to the Pharisees and speaking to those who are listening to him.

This morning we're going to see two truths that demonstrate his deity and you're like you do that over and over again. Because that's what the book is about. Now this morning I'm going to skip around a little bit within this Regroup the text because if I didn't I'd be addressing a point and then going away from it and coming back to it and so I'm kind of Rearranging things and hopefully you won't get too confused.

The Perfect Shepherd Knows, Loves, and Leads His Sheep

First Jesus is the perfect Shepherd. He's the perfect Shepherd. Look at verse 11. And if you also see verse 14 because he says the same thing in slightly different ways. Verse 11. I am the Good Shepherd.

That's in contrast what? With the bad shepherds with the false shepherds and he knows his flock. Look at verse 14. He says I am the Good Shepherd. I know my own. Well any human shepherd Knows his flock why because he's spending all day out there with them feeding them caring for them.

He gets in and he rescues them from various Traps that they wander into he picks out, you know the little Things that they get out. I'm sure he takes care of their wounds. I mean he really is like the parents of this flock.

He intimately knows his sheep. He knows each individual sheep's quirks. It's scars. I would be surprised to find out that they named their flocks. But Jesus is the great I am he's Yahweh. And this is I am the Good Shepherd.

It's one of the seven I am statements starts with a go a me. And he knows his own he knows his sheep. He knows You if you are one of his sheep. If you belong to him, he knows what you do for him your service for him.

He knows your love for him. And he knows your sins your failures. He knows everything about you and as I like to say, he knows everything about you, but he loves you anyway. Now it's easy to just pass that by but let me put it this way if somebody here if someone else besides you and Well, if someone else beside you knew every thought that you had and knew every action that you took.

If they had perfect knowledge of you, may I suggest that no matter how wonderful you are. They probably wouldn't like you. I wouldn't want anybody to know everything I thought. Everything that just ran through my head.

First of all, it'd be kind of scary. I'd be checking for microphones and stuff like that. But More importantly they would get to know The sin that remains in you and in fact if you really think about your own life and your own thought life.

You Will wind up just as Mike's been saying pastor Mike's been saying on Sunday night understanding that you are The worst of all sinners like Paul said in 1st Timothy chapter 1 but God Jesus irrevocably places his affection upon you.

We are loved. But we are not lovable. Jesus is the perfect shepherd and he is known by his flock. Look at verse 14 continuing on the second part of it. It says and my own know me. What does that mean.

Well, he goes on and explains it verse 15 as he is known. By his sheep he's also known by the father. Look at verse 15. It says just as the father knows me and I know the father now think about that. You know my own know me that in other words the sheep know Jesus.

And then he says just in the same way as the father knows me. Well, what does he mean? Does he mean that we have exactly the same sort of knowledge and relationship that the father and son have? No, it would be impossible.

The father and son are infinites. We are finites. The father and son have known one another perfectly forever before time even existed. We cannot fully understand God. We cannot fully comprehend God so we cannot fully know God.

But we do know him we do know Jesus. So, what does that mean? What does it mean to know Jesus? What do the sheep do? What's their relationship? How is it that they know him? Well, first of all, you show that you know him if you follow Jesus.

If you follow him just keeping this metaphor, what does sheep do with their shepherd? They Follow him. They follow him. They don't go running off after someone else. They don't go trying to find some other shepherd.

They don't seek some other truth sheep. Believers also trust Jesus. Again sheep have an inherent Trust in their shepherd. How much time you know, just to get it silly for a moment. How much time do you think a sheep worries?

How much time do you think he spends out in the field just kind of worrying about his life and wondering what you know. What's gonna happen next? The truth is they don't. They're not capable. Really. They don't have a worry mode.

Makes me wonder why we spend so much time worrying. We are sheep and we have the perfect shepherd. He makes promises to us that he keeps. Which leads right into number three believers depend on Jesus.

Just as sheep depend on the shepherd. That's really a step beyond trust. Let's just kind of tear it down a little bit. Sheep are Dumb. We're not dumb. We're very clever. In fact, I would argue that we're maybe a little bit too clever.

I mean well, we're clever enough to think that we need to add something to Jesus work or you know, maybe we can't trust him to meet all of our needs or. Maybe our obedience to him will cause him to love us more to care more about us to take better care of us.

If I just do this Jesus, will you give me this we do this for me? Will you do that for me? He cannot love you more. He cannot care more about you. And he cannot break his word. We depend on him. We trust him in every condition in every situation at all times.

It's what sheep do. Notice also that he is the shepherd of other sheep. This perfect shepherd is a shepherd of other sheep. Look at verse 16 and I have other sheep that are not of this fold. Again, I feel Obligated to say this he's not talking about going to North America and visiting the American Indians.

And you say why would you even say that because I'm a former Mormon? That's what they believe this means and I'm like if you look at it in context, it can't possibly mean this. He just says look other than you Jews.

You people that I'm talking to you. I have other sheep other people that the father has given me that I'm going to gather in too, I have other sheep that are not of this fold and It look he says there he's gonna round them up it says I must bring them also and They will listen to my voice and then there's going to be one flock united with the shepherd.

Look at verse 16. So there will be one flock one shepherd. Sheep hear his voice. They believe him. They trust him. They follow him. There will be one flock one shepherd. What he's talking about is it's no longer limited to the Jews.

The Gentiles will be brought in. There will be people from every tribe every nation every tongue in heaven. Well, how is that because Other sheep he has that are not of this fold. That's his meaning. Jesus is the perfect shepherd.

The Perfect Sacrifice Lays Down His Life for the Sheep

We're gonna spend the rest of our time looking at Jesus as the perfect sacrifice. The perfect sacrifice again back in verse 11 the second half of it. The Good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep and Again repeating in verse 15 and I lay down my life for the sheep very similar language.

Really the only difference. I mean, there's there's slightly different ones. He certainly identifies himself as the Good Shepherd, right? So he personalizes it in verse 15 and he lays down his life his own personal life instead of just.

You know the Good Shepherd he's making it very clear who he is and what he does. Now it must be said that a run-of-the-mill a normal human shepherd Cannot cannot do his flock any good by dying for them.

In fact It's quite the opposite of that a Shepherd who laid down his life for his sheep who sacrificed himself for his flock Would fail all the way around. Why? Because without his protection they'd be done for.

They would be smoked. They would have no idea what to do. They're so dependent on the shepherd. He's the one who leads them to Freshwater and to grazing fields. They would just wander around and be lost.

But a run-of-the-mill a normal human shepherd. It's his job. He provides for his family. This is what he does to make ends meet. The sheep are important, right? They are a resource. They are his livelihood.

But are they more important than he is now spiritually, we know that that's. That they're not right because they're animals. They don't have a soul. They will not give an account to God. But even on a human and on an economic level.

We just imagine, you know guy comes home. Well, he doesn't come home. You know, I don't think the shepherd when he left home in the morning. His wife said to him now, honey, you make sure you come home.

Don't sacrifice yourself for the flock. Because because it's just kind of dumb right you wouldn't do that. What's the point. But on the other hand these sheep are important, you know, because every sheep is important he can't say.

You know, I lost five sheep today. I guess we'll just put an insurance claim in. You know. There's nothing like that. So they are important, but they're not important as important as he is but Jesus is the Good Shepherd not a mere mortal shepherd and His concern is not for the physical life of dirty foolish woolly sheep.

But rather his concern is for the eternal eternal souls of human beings. His death rather than being some calamity for the flock leads to eternal life and The Greek word here where he it said that he lays down his life as Sukkot and it just indicates his Whole being.

Nothing is held back. He's doing everything for the good of the sheep and Ultimately as we'll see in a moment, it's his life that brings about their eternal life. But let's look at his sacrificial actions his sacrificial attitude in Contrast with the hired hand.

Look at verse 12. He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd who does not own the sheep sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees and the wolf snatches them and scatters them and Flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.

Now some of you will probably want to know. Well, who's the wolf? You know, what? What's the point of the wolf here? Don't get caught up in the wolf. The point of the wolf is that sheep are in danger.

And without a shepherd the wolf just comes in and grabs them. But this isn't talking about a specific person or a specific situation. This is just talking about the dangers of life. But think about these guys these hirelings these hired hands.

They're kind of like day laborers at Home Depot. Why? Because you hire them and they might come in and do a great job. But you know, let's say they're building a wall for you. Whatever. I mean walls aren't very popular out here.

I don't know what digging a trench for you and then the house gets on fire. You wouldn't expect them to go. I mean they could but you wouldn't expect them to go Into the house and try to save people and all this other stuff.

Why. They have no emotional attachment to the family. They have no emotional attachment to the home. They're day laborers. And for the flock. You know, they have no emotional attachment. They don't spend every single day with them.

They don't own them. They have no economic Investments in the sheep. This is a job. This is a way to pay the bills to keep the lights on. Okay, they didn't have lights, but They're just trying to make ends meet.

And one flock or one sheep is like any other. When the hireling sees danger approaching the flock, you know, here come the wolves. What does he think? I better Save the sheep because They're very important to me.

No, she says forget the sheep. I'm worried about me. I'm not gonna you know, allow that wolf to bite me to scratch me to do whatever I'm leaving. I'm out of here. Let's look back at the context. This man born blind Jesus heals him on the Sabbath and the Pharisees.

They're nominally the shepherds right they are the guides the spiritual guides they're supposed to protect the flock of God. What's their response to this man born blind. Are they happy. Are they rejoicing for him.

Are they concerned for him. Do they want to just care for him? Are they super happy that he got healed? No, they want to talk to him about Jesus and about being healed on the Sabbath and they ultimately they kick him out of the synagogue.

Their only concern was for themselves in their position because Jesus is a threat. Do they care for the flock? Hirelings. They made this man Who was a pariah when it first began because he was born blind.

They made him into a pariah all over again by kicking him out of the synagogue. They are Hirelings they have no interest no attachment to the sheep. Their only concern was their own position their own welfare.

Now, let's ask some questions here. Why must Jesus lay down his life? Why does he have to? Sacrifice his own life for the sheep. And it really means that he died for the benefits of his sheep. What is that benefits.

Well, he paid in full the price for their sins for every believer. When he was confronted or when he confronted the Pharisees on the Temple Mount if you recall in chapter 8 so he said to them again, I'm going away and you will seek me and you will and You will die in your sin where I am going.

You cannot come. Well, where was he going? He was going to heaven. And he says to them because you die in your sins because you are guilty of your sin when you die. You will not go to heaven to die in sin.

That is to say to be guilty of sin leaves you in debt a debt that you cannot pay one unpaid for sin prevents you from Going to heaven where Jesus is. Now unbelievers hate this they say well if God exists, which I'm not certain of.

Surely, he must be kind enough to overlook overlook a few sins. I mean who's perfect a Few things we didn't do or that we did do that. We shouldn't have done. If God exists, he certainly must be a God of love.

And what would you say to that? The answer is yes. He is a God of love. Who else would send his son on a rescue mission to save sinners. He's also a God of justice and of holiness. Every sin must be punished and Nothing may enter his presence tainted by sin.

There's not going to be any sin in heaven. He had to die to pay the price that the sheep owed. He also had to die. Out of obedience to the father. I'm gonna skip ahead for just a minute if you look at verse 18.

And you'll see again what I was talking about with regard to the resurrection. No one takes it from me. That is to say his life, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it up again.

This charge I received from my father. Well, what is the charge? Some of your translations may even say commandments. That's exactly what it is. He received an order from the father. And look he says I have authority to lay it down.

Well, where did he get that authority from the father? He's always acting in obedience To the father. He perfectly does the will of the father. Well, why is that is he less than the father? No. He's eternally God in every bit as Much God as the father.

Each of the three persons of the Trinity Have a particular role. They all perfectly perform these roles so that God and the persons of the father the Son and the Holy Spirit may all together be glorified.

One God three persons each with different sometimes overlapping roles. But Jesus in the economy of the Trinity is sent to obey perfectly the father. Why. Because we don't someone had to someone had to obey in your place and That someone is the Lord Jesus Christ.

He was obedient to the father and he died because it was the father's desire for him to do so I'm gonna go to a few verses. You can just write these down or just listen because when I go through just a few Fairly rapidly here Isaiah 53 verse 10 yet it was the will of the Lord speaking of Jesus was the will of the father to crush him.

He was put he put he has put him to grief when his soul makes an offering for guilt. He shall see his offspring his spiritual children. He shall prolong his days. The will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

Acts 2 verse 23 this Jesus is Peter preaching this Jesus delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. This was Known by the father ahead of time and planned by the father ahead of time even in the Gospel of John Chapter 6 verses 37 through 39 John writes this he says and it's John's or Jesus speaking.

He says all that the father gives me will come to me and Whoever comes to me. I will never cast out for I've come down from heaven Not to do my will but the will of him who sent me the father and this is the will of him who sent me.

That I should lose nothing of all that he has given me but raise it up on the last day the father gives Essentially the sheep to the son he puts The son in charge of this flock of the sheep. And then he says, you know ultimately bring them back to me.

Jesus is going to bring them all back. Look. He says that I should lose nothing of All that he has given me but raise it up on the last day talking about that day of judgment and taking them to heaven.

He's given to Jesus by the father cannot be raised up unless The Good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. Why does he do it? Why does Jesus do this because he loves the sheep? In John 15, what does he say?

He says greater love has no man than what? Then he laid down his life for his friends. This is what Jesus did. Now Why must it be the life of Jesus in particular? Why is he the Good Shepherd who has to lay down his life?

Well first this because his life has infinite value for just a moment. I want to talk about sin. We fail sometimes to grasp I think to fully comprehend the gravity the weights the seriousness of sin. How even the smallest sin is such an offense to God?

In fact, sometimes I think our thoughts of Sin are Basically the same kind of things that we would hear from unbelievers. Kind of a shrug not too serious. I don't think we take it as seriously as we should Jesus called for Radical action to remove sin from our lives.

Why did he do that? Because as both God and man he was calling or he was trying to express From God's perspective how serious it is the horror that we should see sin with. What do you see in the sermon on the mount if your hand caused you to stumble it's better that you Cut it off.

Why. Because we keep you out of heaven and he let me just Crash that up a little bit if somebody is to put a bag of Containing a lot of money and they told you there was five million dollars in there and you went you counted five million dollars.

And he says okay now to get this money. All you have to do is chop off your left hand. Can I see a show of hands on who would do that? Not very many people would do that. What if it was a hundred million?

What if it was a billion? What if it was ten billion? What if they put all the money in the world? I wouldn't do it for anything. Well, why is that? Because I value my hand and it's gonna hurt a lot and I'm not gonna have my hand.

I'm gonna have a lot of money, but I'm not gonna have my hand. I think I'd probably call the police. When Jesus tells us to cut off our hand if it causes us to sin, he's stressing the seriousness of sin.

The sinfulness of it the weight of it. He's not saying, you know what mar the image of God mar the creation of God. He's saying this is how much you should hate the sin in your life. There's no such thing as a minor sin.

What did James say if you break the law one little part of it, you're guilty of the whole thing that level of guilt. Demands a redemption a price of infinite value. Only God in human flesh could pay the price for sin and that's Jesus.

Each of us has sin and even if we didn't even if we could die for Ourselves to redeem ourselves from Adam's sin. We could only pay for ourselves. So it wouldn't help anybody else because we're just a person.

He's God in the flesh. So he has infinite value. He also had to die. It had to be Jesus. He's the perfect sacrifice because of his inherent perfection. Jesus perfectly obeyed the law. He perfectly obeyed the Father.

He is the flawless spotless lamb of God. He is the only sacrifice that could satisfy the wrath of God for all the sins of all his sheep. Forever he lays down his life for the sheep. Listen to Galatians 4 verses 4 and 5 but when the fullness of time had come God sent forth his son born of a woman born under the law to redeem those who were under the law so that we believers Might receive adoption as sons.

That's the purpose to redeem people. Redeem the sheep redeem believers. So he lays down his life for the sheep. Well who are the sheep. You just read through this section you don't have to go back to John 6, but they are those given to Jesus by the Father those whom he will raise up in Ephesians they're referred to as the chosen the elect.

Those who the Father chose before the foundation of the world. They like the man born blind. Are those who hear the words of Jesus and worship him. Yes, they believe him, but they worship him they understand that he is God.

What did he say. My sheep hear my voice they believe me they trust me they follow me. Some might say well, you know there is a benefit to The non sheep. I'll call them you know the goats the wolves whatever you want to call them.

Well there may be a benefit. The question is why did he die and it was for the sheep? But did Jesus lay down his life for all men. Well no again think of our text for the sheep. Consider the setting in which he says those things.

There are Pharisees listening there are unbelievers listening. Is he dying for their sins as he laid down his life for them. Are they among the sheep. The answer is no. Look back at verse 8 John 10 all who came before me are thieves and robbers.

But the sheep did not listen to them. All who came before him were the religious authorities of his day. And he says. They tried to they tried to lead the sheep of stray. They're a separate group. They are definitely not in the sheep fold.

Now could one of them repent. Yes, they could. But there is something that has to happen before repentance. Over and over and again in Scripture. We see this and that one thing is Regeneration. Jesus said it himself in John 3.

He said you must be born again in order to see the kingdom of God. There is no faith. There is no repentance. There is no forgiveness. No adoption and no salvation apart from a regenerating work of the Holy Spirit.

Unless God wills unless the Holy Spirit wills. You cannot will. Unless the Spirit works to revive you you are dead in your sins and trespasses. You cannot in the words of Jesus from John 6. You cannot come to Christ on your own.

He says there that unless the Father draws you but it's the work of the triune. God has to go first. Furthermore the Spirit does not give you a push a nudge of encouragement. He doesn't whisper in your ear.

He doesn't give you a spark of faith. He transforms you. He grants you new affections new desires and a new nature. All things have passed away. Well, what are those who died apart from faith. Before Jesus was born Jew and Gentile.

What about them? Did he die for their sins? Were those who were already facing the eternal wrath of God standing before the judgment seat of God. Were they the beneficiaries of the Good Shepherd's sacrificial death.

The text says what He laid down his life for the sheep. It's appointed for a man wants to die and then to face judgment. They don't die as non sheep and then become sheep after death. There is no second chance.

Therefore there would be no purpose in Jesus suffering for the sins of those who did not believe before he was even born. Now does the sacrifice of Jesus accomplish? What it was intended to accomplish.

Does it ever fail? Absolutely not. I Refer to Jesus as the perfect sacrifice because he alone is sinless and he alone could bear the wrath of God for his chosen sheep. But also because he cannot fail His purpose will come about.

He came to save his people from their sins and he will not fail on that. Listen to what? Carson DA. Carson says he says the Shepherd did not die. He's talking about this a more liberal view. Well, maybe he just died as a good example sacrifice.

He says the Shepherd does not die for a sheep to serve as an example. Throwing himself off a cliff and a grotesque and futile display while bellowing. See how much I love you. That's not what Jesus did.

He loved his sheep. He cared for a sheep and he cared for them all the way to the cross. He intimately knows his sheep. He loves them. He knows that they're in mortal peril. He knows that they stand condemned.

They have a fatal disease and that disease is called sin and for sin they will face eternal torment. But the father sends him he who obeys and interposes himself between the wrath of God and his sheep.

He cannot fail. He will not die in vain. All of God's purposes will be fulfilled. Let me ask you is Jesus your Shepherd? Is he your sacrifice? He must be both or he is neither. Let me put it another way.

He must be Your Lord and your Savior. You must be willing to follow him or his sacrifice is not for you. You must obey him or he did not die for you. Doesn't mean you're gonna going to obey perfectly.

No, but it means your heartbeat is to follow him. If he is your Shepherd, you will hear his voice and you will obey his voice. Now again thinking about Psalm 23, I don't want to take the time to read it.

So I'll just say this if Jesus is your Shepherd. You shall not want. Jesus will be your source of spiritual nourishment. He will be your pasture. He will be your water. Jesus will restore your soul. He will lead you in paths of righteousness for his glory.

If Jesus is your Shepherd, what have you to fear? He is your comforts. He is all your hope. He has promised you a seat at his banquet feast in heaven where you will dwell with him forever. Friends if you've not believed in Jesus as your Lord and Savior if you're not sure he is your Shepherd.

Would you please talk to me one of the elders one of the shepherds? One of the ushers somebody in a suit. Somebody who just looks like they know what they're talking about. Do that today. Jesus Christ fully man fully God the perfect Sacrifice for sin who died for sinners and was raised on the third day.

I Don't want anybody to leave today without knowing exactly where they stand with the Good Shepherd. Now let me ask you one last question. Do you think you can share the gospel With your friends with your family as you're heading to the hospital.

You don't know what to say. You think you can do it. It's pretty easy. Psalm 23 John 10. Let's pray our Father in heaven. We thank you for Jesus Christ, we thank you for our perfect Shepherd for our perfect sacrifice Father we do not deserve it.