Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 1, 2024
                
                
                
                    [007].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - A SHEPHERD LEFT HIS COMFORT ZONE
Shepherds and sheep feature quite often in the biblical record and Jesus used parables and illustrations involving sheep.
This poem was developed from a comment a Convention speaker made when teaching on the Lost Sheep.  The
                    
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                    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 Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    GUARDED BY THE SHEPHERD
Charles Spurgeon says this about the Great Shepherd:  
What is there in you, dear friend, more than there is in any other professor, why you should not prove an apostate after all? What is there about me that I should stand where so many others have fallen? 
There is
                    
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                    Contributed by Ervin Kimrey on Jun 29, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SHEPHERD
With a spring in his step and an eye to the sky, at sunrise, he makes straight for the sheep fold. As soon as he rattles the gate, he gives his morning call, greets the sheep, often by name, every sheep is on its feet. They spring toward the gate, with expectancy
                    
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                    ON SHEPHERDS
"Let me tell you a bit about shepherds. They were the last people you’d expect God to take notice of. First of all, they were religious outcasts. According to Jewish religious law, these men were unclean. Their line of work prevented them from participating in the feasts and holy days
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard White on Jan 9, 2010
                
                
                
                    Lambing:  A shepherd tells of how they get an orphaned lamb to be adopted.  Two ewes gave birth, one ewe died giving birth while the other gave birth to a stillborn lamb.  The ewe that survived would not accept the surving orphaned lamb.  The shepherds would take the wool off the dead lamb and
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 23, 2022
                
                
                
                    Two people were watching a man drive a herd of sheep through the main street of a small town.
“I thought shepherds led sheep. I didn’t know they drove them with a whip.”
“They do,” the other fellow remarked. “That’s not a
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 28, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    OUR "IN JESUS" VOICE
I'm always intrigued by the phrase some parents and care-givers use with children: "Now children, we need to use our 'indoor' voices."
What Ephesians 4 is saying is that when in the church (not the building) we need to use our "in Jesus" voices.
Those voices need to lift up,
                    
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                    Main Idea: Jesus died a horrible death so we could live for eternity. 
Verse: Jesus “Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness…” (1 Peter 2:24 NKJV). 
Illustration: A man was sentenced to a horrible death. He was to be buried up
                    
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