Contributed by Frank Gallagher on Sep 13, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    These shepherds were symbolic of Jesus Christ the Good Shepherd, who would also humbly follow God’s will.  Their sheep represent us as believers, in several ways:
- Sheep cannot clean themselves.  Some animals such as a cat can do that, but not sheep.  Likewise, we as unbelievers were not able to
                    
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                    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 24, 2010
                
                
                
                    TO MANY  PROFESSING CHRISTIANS  LEAVE CHRIST AND OUR CHURCHES FOR WHAT? FOR ANYTHING AT ALL THAT THIS WORLD HAS TO OFFER? IS LIKE  BEING DUPED  BY A DODGY CAR SALESMAN INTO TRADING  IN YOUR  TOP OF THE RANGE ROLLS ROYCE  FOR A  CLAPPED OUT  ROBIN  RELIANT, YOU WERE PROMISED  SO MUCH  FROM THE
                    
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                    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on Nov 10, 2006
                
                
                
                    See the words spoken “Follow me and I will MAKE YOU...” Spurgeon explains it this way in his introduction to his sermon on this text, “When Christ calls us by His grace we ought not only remember what we are, but we ought also to think of what He can make us. It is, ‘Follow Me, and I will make
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Let me give you a real life example of how this works. A young couple decided to start their own business. He was an engineer and she was an advertising copywriter. They wound up buying a small salmon cannery in Alaska. They soon discovered they had a problem. Customers opening a can of their
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 22, 2005
                
                
                
                    I want you to watch a modern day example of what we’re talking about in a clip from the movie, Simon Birch (Chapter 8).  Notice particularly the contrast between how some people relate to little Simon Birch versus others.
If we were looking for an example of how to not win a child to the Lord I
                    
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                    Contributed by Mike Rexroat on Nov 25, 2007
                
                
                
                    Let me give you an example that has nothing to do with Christmas but in which the same principle applies.  
 
We have all heard of St. Jude’s Hospital in Memphis...a wonderful, wonderful organization that is deserves every bit of support that they get.  This year they had an event called Country,
                    
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                    Contributed by Kenneth  Trent on Feb 25, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Let me share an example from my own experience.  I was privileged to be on the mission field of East Africa in 1963.  While in Tanzania (then called Tanganyika) I was blessed to work alongside Bill Lewis, our Southern Baptist missionary to the Rungwe district near Mbeyu.  Bill was one of the
                    
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                    Let me give you another example of how God is on the move.
Haiti is a state that made a pact with the devil three hundred  years.  It is renown as a centre of witchcraft, voodoo and satanic worship. In 1991 Christians went to the most traditional satanic voodoo field in Haiti and were "violent in
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Oct 24, 2025
                
                
                
                    [234].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - RIGID TREES ARE OUR EXAMPLE
Trees are a wonderful aspect of God’s creation and they are the mightiest organic structures on earth, discounting the great coral reefs.  This poem is not about trees in general, but specific trees.
Those are the ones that are often
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “Jesus did not say discuss me; he said follow me.”  We do not make terms with Christ; we surrender to Christ.  We do not compromise with Christ; we submit to Christ.  Christianity does not mean being interested in Jesus Christ; it means taking the same oath as princes take to a king or queen in a
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 3, 2012
                
                
                
                    "Jesus Christ asks each one of us, not for obedience primarily, not for repentance, not for vows, not for conduct, but for a heart; and that being given, all the rest will
                    
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                    "Christ’s method alone will give true success in reaching the people.  The Savior mingled with men as one who desired their good.  He showed His sympathy for them, ministered to their needs, won their confidence.  Then He
                    
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