The Good Shepherd – Part i
John 10:14
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
(John 10:14)
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. (Psalm 23:1)
  The LORD is my shepherd. This is a personal declaration by all of the redeemed of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is proclaimed long before the Good Shepherd walked upon the earth. His shepherds’ qualities have been of old, and continue to this very day to all His redeemed. In the declaration by the Spirit of God, in Psalm 23, we have a personal relationship as well as a personal presence of the Lord Himself. The LORD is my shepherd, pertains to my salvation through the very One who gave His life, and shed His blood on the cross of Calvary. He, the Good Shepherd, went into the wilderness of death and searched out my soul, and saved me for His eternity. We could say that Psalm 23 is my side of things, as John Chapter 10 (in relationship to the Good Shepherd) is His side of things pertaining to my salvation, and His eternal presence to my spirit, to my heart, and to my soul. He has come to give me life, and to give it more abundantly. This is the eternal relationship that I share with Him in the power of His endless life. Nothing on earth, and nothing in heaven can separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, the Shepherd of my soul.
  The doctrine of no hope has been around for a long time. It comes from the ministers of Satan. They use it to justify all the unsaved souls running to their religious systems. They preach a Christ with no power, they preach an empty salvation, and yet, they will tell you how spiritual they are, and how many gifts that they possess, which is the deception of the impoverished souls. They belong to religion and not to Christ. Their preachers are the thieves and robbers of John Chapter 10. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. (John 10:1) They want to limit the Lord’s salvation to those that THEY are endeared by, and prosper by. They preach a gospel of wealth, as if it determines the blessings of God, that if one gives to God the heavens will open and gold coins will fall into their coffers. This is a perversion of all that God is. The most dedicated servant is only looking for a Well done, thou good and faithful servant (Matthew 25:21, 23). His trusted servants are not looking for financial reward, they are not looking for an earthly empire of religion, they are simply communing with the Lord and obeying His will in relationship to the particular ministry that God has given. What means the bleating of the sheep (1 Samuel 15:16) It is better to obey than all the sacrifices of mankind. It is better to be the obedient servant than to walk the corrupt halls of religious institutions. This is where the thieves and the robbers receive their authority, and this is where they declare their limited atonement, and limited salvation. They not only refuse to believe in the power of the Lord Jesus Christ to keep His sheep, and precious souls, but they deny the very declaration in the Word of God that points specifically to God’s rest for the redeemed soul, and the possession of that soul by God, and not by man. They ignore the parables of the sower, and refuse to believe in eternal life that is possessed by the sheep of His pasture. They also ignore that He knows His own sheep by name, and these names have come out of the book of life which was written before the foundation of the world. The thieves and the robbers refuse to believe in the lost goats, and the tares that try to steal a place among the saints of light. The thief is a dastardly human being. He is an opportunist. The thief uses every opportunity to steal, and the greatest prize is to steal from the Lord, and from His people. Every Sunday they milk the cows from every drop of milk, but this is not all, they also attempt to rob the saints of their eternal inheritance in the Lord. They do this by preaching the world, the flesh, and the devil. Christ has become an afterthought in their messages, for greed is the primary subject of every message: they are constantly in a building program, or fund-raising system without end building the empires of man’s religion. The thief is also a con man taking widows into poverty by their smooth words, and deceptive ways. Robbing children of their inheritance, and spending the money on foolish worldly lusts to maintain their ungodly systems so that they may attract more goats, and more tares.
  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. (John 10:1) Christ introduces us to the thief and the robber in the very first verse of John Chapter 10. The thief is usually not violent, but tends to be crafty and subtle, he is the serpent’s man, and the serpent directs his slithering path. The robber is not so, for he comes to maim or to kill. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. (John 10:10) The robber will not stop at any deception or deed to seize his prize, and the robber as well as the thief has no love for lost souls. Both the thief and the robber lead lost souls to hell at Abaddon command and direction. The robber is an ambassador of death and not of life. Whenever the thief and the robber team up, they reign over the swamp of deadly waters that flood their religious system full of the lost souls of mankind which will be condemned by the Lord as documented in Revelation 17:5. And upon her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
The First United Cult of Thought — Intellectualism
  These robbers and thieves are the Judases of today. They have given themselves to the prince of darkness, and they use the power of persuasion and intellectualism to lull their congregations to their own thoughts, and not the thoughts of God. Intellectualism is a cult of thought. It was the first recorded cult in the history of mankind. It took place after the universal flood, and it was called Babel. It was under the dominion of Nimrod, a man of renown, he used the collective thought of mankind to establish his kingdom, and his cult, the birth of intellectualism. This cult still exists today. They still dominate others by the powers of their intellect, and not by the mind of Christ. The difference between the mind of Christ, and the cult of intellectualism is this: the mind of Christ has a divine origin. The cult of intellectualism owes its existence to fallen humanity. Intellectualism accentuates sin, condones it, and therefore, it denies the mind of Christ (who is the Almighty God).
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding. (Job 28:28)
The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs1:7)
My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my understanding: (Proverbs 5:1)
The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy [is] understanding. (Proverbs 9:10)
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. (Isaiah 55:8) For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:9)
  The cult of intellectualism refuses the wisdom of God for the wisdom of mankind. They deny the Word of God, and the power of the divine Word. For wisdom can only be known by the revelation of God to a redeemed soul. True wisdom is found in the very Person of Jesus Christ. Possessing this wisdom of God separates the Lord’s sheep from the wide world of intellectualism. False intellectualism is the biggest thief and robber of precious souls. When anyone is brought to God by the Good Shepherd (in relationship with the Holy Spirit) the Lord seals that soul with the blood of the covenant once and for all. Eternity becomes part of the life of that soul, and is upheld by the One who holds the power of life, the Lord Jesus Christ. When a soul enters into the grace of God, it is for eternity, all is established and fulfilled by Christ Himself. His suffering upon the cross and His shed blood will never be denied by the sheep of His pasture. Only the goats and the tares will turn away from the blood of Christ for they have no part with Him. We can put them with those who deny the existence of the eternal soul in relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ, and by their denial they are trampling under foot the blood of Christ and doing despite to the Spirit of grace. They are reprobates concerning the truth, and by their earthly preaching they are leading the blind into the darkest pit. However, for the sheep, the Good Shepherd has sent the Holy Spirit to lead His sheep into all truth. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. (John 16:13)
The Spirit of Truth
 [Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. (John 14:17)
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: (John 15:26)
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. (John 16:13)
We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. (1 John 4:6)
  The Lord sending the Holy Spirit of God is a divine act to ensure that His children or sheep have His pastoral care for them, which is totally revealed in Psalm 23. In Psalm 23 the first step that we take with the Lord is to know His care for us. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. (Psalm 23:1) I shall not want — The apostle speaking by the Spirit of truth declared this same thought in Philippians 4:11-13.
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. (Philippians 4:11)
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. (Philippians 4:12)
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. (Philippians 4:13)
Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction. (Philippians 4:14)
  The apostle brings up his own contentment, not with the things of the earth, but with the One who possesses the earth, the Lord Jesus Christ, and His green pastures. Paul realized the Shepherd’s care of not only himself, but also the sheep of His pasture. In Psalm 23 the green pastures are full of contented sheep, and this is because the Good Shepherd is among them. I shall not want, for He has provided all things for this life, and for eternity. I bow my knee before the Lord Jesus Christ, and accept His care and His provision for His servant’s work. The natural man, and the religious man, are anchored to the world, and to its systems of government and religion. The sheep of the Lord are removed from the world in their spiritual birth as they become new creatures they become heavenly creatures translated into the kingdom of God through Jesus Christ, the Son of God’s love.
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: (Colossians 1:13)
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: (Colossians 1:14)
  Through the divine power of Christ we are no longer earthlings, we are made partakers of the heavenly calling in Christ Jesus. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; (Hebrews 3:1) This calling is sealed with His blood, and is upheld by the Apostle and High Priest of our profession. He, as the Good Shepherd, will finish our earthly sojourn with us, and will lead us into His eternal presence throughout all eternity, and we will spend eternity with the Good Shepherd in His green pastures, the pastures of eternal peace and rest.
  In Psalm 23 we have a scene of repose as the sheep rests in the pleasant pastures of the Lord. For the peace of God is beyond all understanding as we abide in His peace in the greenest pastures of God’s love. Christ walks with us in the very faith of the Son of God, who loved us, and gave Himself for us. The pastures are heavenly for He is seated at the right hand of God for us. We are His permanent possessions in His Person at the right hand of God. He makes His presence known to His sheep (whether one or all the sheep) they know His presence. We get our spiritual food from the very green pastures of the Lord for it is His manna, for He, and He alone, is the bread of life.
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. (John 6:50)
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. (John 6:51)
  The eternal life that we possess is HIS eternal life. This makes us inseparable from the Son of God for by His sacrifice on the cross He has claimed His children for Himself with His OWN eternal life. Who can separate us from the eternal life which is in Christ Jesus our Lord? For in Him and Him alone is life, and life everlasting.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men. (John 1:4)
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. (John 1:5)
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. (Hebrews 7:16)
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: (John 10:27)
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (John 10:28)
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. (Psalm 23:2)
  Not only do we have eternal life, but the Lord Jesus has sent His OWN eternal Spirit into our hearts, into our souls, and into our spirits. The eternal Spirit of God is the well of water springing up within us bringing forth the wonder and glory of our Savior to our hearts, to our minds, and to our consciousness for we are aware of His presence with us. And to show the depth of the waters of life in Jesus Christ through His Spirit he leadeth me beside the still waters. He has quelled the storm, and the tumult that were against us, thus, the waters are stilled in glory before His throne, and there (in glory) we see the crystal sea as smooth as glass and emitting the color of gold (His righteousness and His holiness).
And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. (Revelation 4:6)
And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. (Revelation 15:2)
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. (Revelation 22:1)
The Gift of Peace
  All these waters originate from the Person of Christ. He has given the springs of waters springing up within us to refresh our souls in His presence. We (through the Spirit of God and the Word of God) behold His throne and the crystal sea that are at peace for us in Revelation 22:1. He has given us His peace. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (John 14:27) When you think of all the gifts that Christ has given to His Church, one rarely hears of this wonderful gift of peace. For this peace that we have with God comes from the throne sitter, the Lord Jesus Christ in Revelation Chapter 4. As we, through the Spirit, behold Him, we see our Peace in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ, but only with a restored soul for He, and only He can restore our soul. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. (Psalm 23:3) He has taken us out of the possession of Adam, of sin, of death, and of the devil. He has defeated the devil who had the power of death, and replaced that death with eternal life in Himself. He that believeth in me shall NEVER die were the words of the Lord Jesus Christ in John Chapter 11, verse 26, And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? We do not often hear from pulpits that we (as the children of God) are eternal beings, and therefore are like the angels in this one point: we will never suffer the death of Adam! Like Job, we will see Him, we will behold Him with our eyes, and this being will dwell eternally in His presence.
Free — Free At Last
  He has restored my soul! He has emancipated me from ALL that was against me. His deliverance is complete, is sure, and is forever. And this could only be done by the eternal Son of God, who came out of heaven’s glory to declare His redemption among men, and deliver His own from the bondage of sin and death. The Good Shepherd knows His sheep and calls them by name, and they can declare that He restoreth my soul. The Spirit of God woes the soul. He broods over it, but it is the Lord Christ who gives unto the soul eternal life.
  Why would God, who is One Being of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, demand that ALL power in heaven and earth be given unto the Lord Jesus Christ before the foundations of the world? The Lord Jesus was given of God to be the sacrifice for sin. He stepped forward in His own eternal state and declared, Here am I, send me.
The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, (Luke 4:18)
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. (John 6:38)
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. (John 17:23)
  This proclamation that He was sent by God the Father to do the will of God entailed all His life on earth as He was manifested to take away the sin of the world. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. (Hebrews 10:7) He knew His own path before the foundation of the world. He knew that mankind would have to suffer under sin, and would have to be born again of the Spirit’s breath to become a heavenly creature. For we are in Christ, and Christ is in us, and Christ is sat down on His throne in heavenly places. The gift of the Spirit of God is to instruct us, and lead us into all truth, and to seek the things that are above where Christ is seated.
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. (Colossians 3:1)
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (Colossians 3:2)
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (Colossians 3:3)
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. (Colossians 3:4)
  The Spirit of God has joined us to Christ in heavenly places. We can never again be of the earth — earthly, for Christ (in His death upon the cross) cast out Adam, and his sin. By His own suffering, and His condemnation of His own flesh the judgment of God could bring forth the righteousness of God in each one of us who are born of the Spirit of God. His suffering was to put away sin in the flesh so that we, the children of God, could be made the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ; therefore, Adam is put out of the way by the sacrifice of the Lord in His flesh. He took away sin and death, and the works of the devil, and of twain made one new man in His redemptive glory. Remember that He did not possess His redemptive glory before His death upon the cross. His redemptive glory came forth in His eternal life from the tomb when He manifested Himself to His disciples, and to Mary, and to many others around Jerusalem, and to those of Galilee. He had a witness of His redemptive glory after His resurrection, and displayed that glory in His new Man before the world, and then He took that new Man, the Man of Redemption, and sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (Hebrews 1:3)
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; (Ephesians 2:15)
  It is the heavenly Man who has given us His peace. It is the heavenly Man, Christ Jesus, who has made us His peace, and has translated us into His kingdom, and we are sat down with Him, for we now have peace with God.
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; (Ephesians 2:14)
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; (Ephesians 2:15)
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: (Ephesians 2:16)
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. (Ephesians 2:17)
  Our peace is in the Person of God the Son. Our soul has been restored by the Good Shepherd who gave His life for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. (John 10:11)
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. (John 10:17)
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. (John 10:18)
  In the power of His redemption He has brought us to a place of eternity in His own eternal life. Truly, His sacrifice on the cross is the mystery of godliness. And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. (1 Timothy 3:16) Each and every Christian has been brought into the mystery of godliness by the power of the Almighty God for God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself.
The Theme of the Spirit in Psalm 23 and John Chapter 10
  The theme of the Spirit in Psalm 23, and in John Chapter 10 is to present to us a Sovereign Savior who is able to redeem, to lead, and to keep His sheep who He leads into green pastures because He and He alone leads His sheep. He also declared to us that He is the door, and there is no other door to salvation except through Jesus Christ our Lord. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. (John 10:9)
  It is this Good Shepherd, the Shepherd of redemption that goes BEFORE His sheep. He makes the path of righteousness in His own name. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. (Psalm 23:3) The Good Shepherd has fulfilled ALL righteousness. He leads His sheep out of this ungodly world in His own righteousness which He has imputed unto them. It is not their intrinsic righteousness, for they have NO righteousness. It is the gift of HIS righteousness that we possess, thus, giving us a standing before God as a redeemed bride in white garments (pure and clean) before the Shepherd of our soul. For in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ ALL righteousness is upheld.
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: (1 Corinthians 1:30)
That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. (1 Corinthians 1:31)
The Name — Jesus Christ
— The Eternal Being —
  The very name of Jesus Christ speaks of the glory of God. For in Jesus we see the Savior and the Man of sacrifice. As the Christ of God we see the Anointed One, He is the One exalted higher than the heavens. The combination of both of these names (Jesus Christ) gives us an Eternal Being in which all righteousness dwells. One day all of humanity: past, present, and future will have to bow the knee to that very glorious name of Jesus Christ.
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: (Philippians 2:9)
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; (Philippians 2:10)
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:11)
  This is the purpose of God the Father that Christ, the Anointed One (with the oil of gladness) will be glorified before all of mankind. Both the redeemed and the lost will be able to see, and be submissive to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. The apostle Paul gave us these words through the Spirit of God, I bow my knees, and this was his relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ: a bond servant in complete submission to His Lord. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, (Ephesians 3:14) In the hearts, souls, and spirits of all the redeemed we hear the words, I have bowed my knee to the Lord Jesus Christ. The lost of the world will have to bow their knees before the eternal glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, however, theirs will be a forced bowing of submission to the judgment that is set out against them, and then . . . they will be cast out into the eternal flames.
  The Lord is working within His own, as the Good Shepherd, He is working out His own will through them that we can behold and be partakers of His good pleasure. God’s purpose is to dwell among a people who are not tainted by sin. A people cleansed in the blood of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. This alone gives them a standing before God as the redeemed of the Lord. For the precious blood of Christ cleanses from all sin, and this if for all eternity. God SEES a sinless people made perfect IN His Son by the blood of the cross. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. (Hebrews 10:14)
  I ask this question, If He has perfected you, if He has made you perfect, how can you undue that, how can you go against the sovereignty of God when He has declared you to be perfect? I may suggest this: that maybe you were never made perfect, and this is why you doubt the eternal purpose of God, and His sovereignty over the children of God! In Hebrews 10:14 God declared that this perfection is FOREVER, and in Hebrews 10:12, this perfection is applied to the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God.
  Once again we see the Spirit of God bringing out the everlasting scope of eternity for the Lord Jesus offered one sacrifice for sin FOR EVER. In verse 14, the Spirit of God declared that by His offering Himself He has perfected for ever them that are sanctified. These who are sanctified through the sacrifice of Christ, and delivered from this world to be a heavenly host before His throne, are just men made perfect in the Lord Jesus Christ.
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, (Hebrews 12:22)
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, (Hebrews 12:23)
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. (Hebrews 12:24)
  When anyone designs an object that is perfect, and all who see this object states that it is perfect, how can that person design that object with more perfection? Perfection (when it is accomplished) is a one time thing or act; therefore, God making peace for us (through the death of His Son) has given His Son once and for all to make just men perfect in Jesus Christ. These just men are sanctified once and for all as we see in Hebrews 10:10, and in Hebrews 9:24. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Hebrews 10:10)
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: (Hebrews 9:24)
  The LORD is my shepherd. He is the Good Shepherd of the sheep. He leads me in my present time (my life here on earth is led by His presence). And now, He appears in the presence of God for all His children for He has given the true sacrifice for His sheep once and for all, consequently, I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. God has glorified His Son, and highly exalted Him higher than the heavens so that He as the Good Shepherd can meet all the needs of His sheep including walking with them through the valley of the shadow of death. It is only a shadow, not the reality of death. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. (Psalm 23:4)
Believest thou This?
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: (John 11:25)
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? (John 11:26)
  He gives unto His sheep eternal life, whosoever liveth and believeth in the Lord Jesus Christ will never taste death, This is the Good Shepherd so that I can say without a doubt, The Lord is my Shepherd. Amen.
© Copyright 2019, Michael Haigh
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