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The Other Sheep
 
November 16, 2008
*John 10:14-18*
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I’ve often joked about being dumb sheep, haven’t I? Well today we finally arrive in John 10 where Jesus calls us His sheep.
We’ll see from the Scripture how the image of sheep is used by Jesus.
But before we start, I want to read “Return to God” That is the theme of the July 5th devotional from Experiencing God Day-by-Day.
Here is what Henry Blackaby had to say: In Zechariah 1:3 we read:
/“So tell the people: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Return to Me”—[this is] the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts.”/
God places much of the burden of what we will become on our response to Him.
If we have drifted from God, His call is to return to Him.
God promises that if we will return, He will immediately renew His relationship with us.
James 4:8 promises that if we draw near to God, He will draw near to us.
Matthew 7:7 guarantees that if we seek Christ, we will find Him.
Much of the Christian life rests upon our response and our desire to experience God to the fullest.
Why is it that some Christians seem to go so much deeper in their walk with God than others?
Why have some had such powerful intercessory prayer ministries that have changed the courses of nations?
Why has God chosen to anoint the words of some so that, when they speak or pray or preach, it is obvious that their words are consecrated by God?
It is because these individuals have committed themselves to pursue God until His presence is powerfully real in their lives.
They have decided to settle for nothing less than a vibrant relationship with God, and He has honored their desire.
Have you become complacent with your relationship with God, or are you hungering for more?
Don't become satisfied with a relationship with God that is broken by sin and void of the power of the Holy Spirit.
You have just as much of God's powerful presence available to you as the greatest saint in Christian history!
Return to God.
There is so much more in store for you if you will return to Him.
He awaits your response.
As the chosen sheep of His pasture let’s see what Christ has for us today.
Please turn in your Bible to John, chapter 10 and follow along as I read starting with verse 14. /I am the good shepherd; and I know My own, and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they shall hear My voice; and they shall become one flock with one shepherd.
For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.
No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative.
I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again.
This commandment I received from My Father.
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I want us to focus on verse 16 because it is such a clear statement of the authority and power of Christ to multiply his church.
Jesus says,  /I have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice.
So there shall be one flock, one shepherd.
/Today I’ll show you how this statement is related to our calling to evangelize our world.
But before I do, I want to set the scene.
The sheep scene!
Let's clarify some of Jesus' terms here.
He says, /"I have other sheep that are not of this fold."/
"This fold" refers to the fold of Israel.
Christ was sent by God first to Israel.
That’s where His ministry started, but by no means did it end there!
He is saying that he has sheep that are among the Gentiles, the nations.
They are not Jews.
They do not belong to the Jewish fold.
Jesus said, “I begin gathering my sheep from the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24; 10:5–6).
“But I have sheep that are not in Israel which I must gather also.”
That’s a good thing for us isn’t it?
For if the words of Jesus were for only Israel, where would that leave us?
But he also clarifies that not all Jews are his sheep.
Some are and some aren't.
When Jesus says in verse 15, /"I am the good shepherd; and I know my own, and my own know me,"/ he was implying that some sheep (in this fold) are Christ's and some are not.
This is pretty much the same image that we have in the parable of the sheep and the goats (Matthew 25:31–46).
Some are His, some are not!
Notice this more clearly in verses 3b–4 of John chapter 10: /He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they recognize his voice.
/ . . . he calls HIS OWN sheep by name and leads them out.
When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them.
And how does He identify His own?
Look at/ /verse 14: /I am the good shepherd; I know MY OWN and MY OWN know me.
/His own are those who know Him.
And the same is true today.
If your truly KNOW Him, the you are His own and He knows you.
That is why Christianity is a relationship, not a religion.
Isaiah 43:10 says we are to know Him – that’s what He chose us for: to know Him.
We only have relationships with those we know well.
So, not all the people in the fold of Israel belonged to Christ.
Some were his sheep.
Some were not.
Look what Paul wrote in Romans 9:6, /"Not all those from Israel are Israel."
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Now this raises the question: How is it that some sheep inside the fold of Israel are /not/ Christ's sheep and some people outside the fold of Israel are Christ's sheep?
The answer is that God has chosen some people from Israel and some from the nations; And these are his sheep.
He then gives them to his Son.
You can see this clearly in John 17:6.
Jesus says to his Father, "/I have told these men about you.
They were in the world, but then you gave them to me.
Actually, they were always yours, and you gave them to me; and they have kept your word.
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So before the disciples came to Jesus, they belonged to God.
God had chosen them.
This is the deepest reason why the sheep come to Christ.
It's even clearer in John 6:37, /All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will not cast out.
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Those who come to Jesus come because they have been given to Jesus by the Father.
They were his by his design and choice, and they come to Jesus because they are God's own.
(See 6:39, 44, 65; 17:9, 24; 18:9.)
Be sure you see the staggering implication of these verses.
God chose us.
He gave us to Jesus.
They are designed to fill us with hope that Christ will multiply his church triumphantly.
/"All that the Father gives me will come to me."/
And these verses are designed to humble us and nullify all our presumption that we could have or would have ever come to Christ on our own.
Look at verse 27 in John 10: /My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
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Why did you recognize the voice of Jesus when he called you?
Because you were his sheep.
It's not the other way around.
Being one of Christ's sheep enables you to recognize your shepherd and respond to his call.
But responding to his call does not make you one of his sheep, you already are one of his sheep, chosen by the Father.
You come to the Son because the Father gives you to the Son.
In John 6:44 & 65 /As it is written in the Scriptures, `They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me/.
Then he said, "That is what I meant when I said that people can't come to me unless the Father brings them to me."
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