A Man Named Jesus

All these sheep pens, who are listening to my voice will one day all come together and worship and listen to God. Do you get that!

There is diversity in the kingdom of God- the Jews, Samaritans, Gentiles. All those that would accept Jesus as Lord and Savior from every walk of life!

The hurting, outcasts, dirty and stinky, the exiled Jews are all welcome if they would hear His voice and respond.

Gathering sheep is what the good shepherd does.

Sheep run from strangers and strange voices

As you hear the voice of the Lord, you should stay away from strange voices.

Some listen to the shepherd and then also listen to the enemy because the enemy tickled their ear. Stay away from strange voices that take you away from God.

Stay away from voices that call you to be isolated and alone. You are not a one man show and you and I need each other. You may hear from God in your alone times with Him but you also need to be present with Him as He speaks to the whole sheep pen.

The wolves attack the isolated sheep alone. The one that has gone off course and away from the shepherd.

Wolves attack as a group and will get the isolated from all sides if they are able.

You would think the devil would leave you alone if you have been through a lot but he does not care, he will attack without mercy and try to take you down when you are the most vulnerable and weak so that you will not influence the unbelievers.

When you hear the wolf howling, he is gathering up and calling other wolves.

Robert Morris talks about the wolf at the fringes of the pen attacking the weak and pulling the ones not paying attention.

Morris says that if he was the one on the fringes that he would excuse himself back to the middle and get as close to the shepherd as possible.

The bible talks about the enemy coming to “kill, steal, and destroy.”

He will do whatever he can to cause to you to leave the safety of the pen or keep you from ever getting into the safety of the pen.

The whole idea of a magician is to distract you first and then deceive you.

A trick is not good if you can figure out how it is done.

All can be explained if they had to tell you how they distracted you and how they deceived you so that they can get you to the end result without you knowing how you got there.

Closing

John chapter 10:11-15 Read from Bible

There are shepherds and there is THE GOOD SHEPHERD!

Jesus is the one who laid down His life for His sheep and wants to lead us and guide us in this life and promises the believer eternity with Him.

(19) “The Jews who heard these words were again divided. Many of them said, He is demon-possessed and raving mad. Why listen to him?

Illustration-

I want to tell you a story about Paul Morphy was the world’s champion chess player in the 19th century. One day he was invited by a friend to look at a valuable painting titled, “the chess player.” in the painting, Satan was represented as playing chess with a young man, the stake being the young man’s soul. the game had reached the stage where it was the young man’s move; but he was checkmated. there was no move he could make which would not mean defeat for him and so the strong feature of the picture was the look of utter despair on the young man’s face as he realized that his soul was lost.