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True Sheep and Their True Shepherd
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PRAYER
An evangelist was preaching in a small Methodist church in Georgia and asked the crowd, “How many of you folks here this morning are Methodists?”
Everybody raised a hand, except one little old lady.
After the service, when the two shook hands he said, “Ma’am, I noticed you didn’t raise your hand.
That means you’re not a Methodist.
Would you mind telling me what you are?
She said, “Well, I am a Baptist.”
Some of the others didn’t seem to like her answer.
So, he asked her, “Ma’am would you mind telling me why you’re a Baptist?”
She said, “I really don’t know, except my mother and father was a Baptist.
My grandmother and my grandfather were Baptist.”
The preacher said, “Ma’am, that’s really not a good reason to be a Baptist.
Suppose your mother and your father, and your grandmother and grandfather had been morons, what would you have been?”
Without batting an eye, she said, “I guess I’d have been a Methodist.”
Not offense to our Methodists friends, but it raises a good point.
I don’t want to talk to you about being a Methodist, a Catholic, a Lutheran or even a Baptist.
R.G. Lee said, “We’re a rather conservative bunch.
Like Methodist without the excitement.
We never raise our hands in church.
We can’t We’re afraid if we raise them too high, God might call on us.
In fact, we’re so conservative, Christ could come back tomorrow and we’d form a committee to look into it.”
Why are you a Christian?
Why do you claim to be a Christ follower?
Why are you a sheep?
Do you know the benefits of being one?
I wonder how many people with their name on the Baptist roll know why they are Baptist.
I wonder how many people on a church roll, on our church roll, know why they are Christian.
This passage can be an encouraging one for a Christian, as long as they are living in the spirit, in the will of God.
It can also be a passage we want to avoid if we are living as carnal Christians.
Boy have I learned a lot about sheep this week.
After learning what I did, I don’t want to be a sheep either.
I want to talk to you about
Wolf
See in the flesh, with our American mentality and way of life, we don’t like being called sheepish or being seen as sheep.
Some of you want to be like a wolf.
We think the wolf is unafraid and a risk taker.
We think a wolf rises to the challenge with its powerful instinct, intuition and high intelligence.
But, surprisingly a wolf is one of the earth’s most cowardly and fearful animals, which is the reason it is so sly.
It can also be one of the most vicious and blood-thirsty animals.
Lion
In the sermon on the mount () Jesus warns his followers to beware of the ravenous wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing.
Jesus says the ones looking to rob the flock of their joy, rob the flock of their power, rob the flock of their faith, rob the flock of their witness, those people are like the wolf, sly and cunning.
They come in and kill the church from the inside out.
They take on the characteristics of the wolf pack.
Often, they simply kill as much prey as is possible, regardless of hunger and appetite.
This is done by “hamstringing” their prey.
This leaves them helpless and unable to move.
Then the wolf pack can eat and tear him apart at their own will.
Although savage and bloodthirsty, wolves are among some of the world’s smartest and most perceptive mammals.
These people are often most of the only ones left in a dying church because wolves have an extremely mighty stamina lasting on the hunt for 8-10 hrs at a time.
They stare down their prey and are stimulated by the prey trying to run away from them.
They are tenacious and do not give in until they are done.
But in what is known as the “Conversation of Death” the wolf seeks to determine if the hunt will be stopped or not, if the prey resists or not.
That is why James tells us to resist the Devil and he will flee.
Paul knew how people, acting like wolves could be in a church and the damage they could do to the flock (reference to sheep).
Listen to how the Message paraphrases his last words to the Ephesian elders.
See, no person claiming the name of Christ should ever been known by wolf like character, or want to be known in this way, because the wolf is only ever described in scripture as a tool of satan to destroy the church.
They come in and kill the church from the inside out.
They take on the characteristics of the wolf pack.
Often, they simply kill as much prey as is possible, regardless of hunger and appetite.
This is done by “hamstringing” their prey.
This leaves them helpless and unable to move.
Then the wolf pack can eat and tear him apart at their own will.
Although savage and bloodthirsty, wolves are among some of the world’s smartest and most perceptive mammals.
These people are often most of the only ones left in a dying church because wolves have an extremely mighty stamina lasting on the hunt for 8-10 hrs at a time.
They stare down their prey and are stimulated by the prey trying to run away from them.
They are tenacious and do not give in until they are done.
But in what is known as the “Conversation of Death” the wolf seeks to determine if the hunt will be stopped or not, if the prey resists or not.
That is why James tells us to resist the Devil and he will flee.
See, no person claiming the name of Christ should ever been known by wolf like character, or want to be known in this way, because the wolf is only ever described in scripture as a tool of satan to destroy the church.
Lion
Some of you may not like being known as a wolf, but boy how majestic is the lion?
I mean come on it is known as “the King of the Jungle.”
We want to be strong and confident like the lion.
Sheep
See, no person claiming the name of Christ should ever be known by lion like character, or want to be known in this way, because the Bible describes satan as a lion on the prowl seeking to devour Christians.
If I ever think it cannot be me, I am wrong.
Think it cannot be you, you are wrong.
It can.
Remember, Jesus called one of his most loyal and vocal disciples satan.
Telling Peter, get the behind me satan.
Again we are told to resist the devil and he will flee.
Resisting the actions will cause sheep acting like wolves and lions to flee.
It will cause the wolves who only look like sheep to flee.
Sheep
Sheep are:
Sheep are:
Sheep are:
slow learners - constantly going through the same painful lesson over and over again
slow learners - constantly going through the same painful lesson over and over again
demanding - demanding from the time is a newborn, more and more grass, when snow on ground steady fussing at shepherd for food
demanding - demanding from the time is a newborn, more and more grass, when snow on ground steady fussing at shepherd for food
stubborn - cannot get them to do anything very easily
unpredictable - will watch a car coming for several hundred yards and then run right out in front of it.
unpredictable - will watch a car coming for several hundred yards and then run right out in front of it.
imitators - Sheep have a strong instinct to follow the sheep in front of them.
When one sheep decides to go somewhere, the rest of the flock usually follows, even if it is not a good "decision."
For example, sheep will follow each other to slaughter.
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