He Is Our Good Shepherd
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wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the
sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good
shepherd…” He says it again. If He said it once, it would have been true. He kept saying it.
Why? It’s a great truth for eternity. “I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known
of mine.”
Say this out loud:
He knows me, and I know Him.
He’s my Good Shepherd.
I won’t follow a stranger, but I’ll follow Him fully.
He said, “As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the
sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall
hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.” Did you know there won’t be
denominations in heaven? One fold, one flock, one Shepherd. “Therefore does my Father love
me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.” Hallelujah. Glory to God.
Continue reading with verse 27. “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow
me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck
them out of my hand.”
Is anyone bigger than the Shepherd? Then why does the wolf get so many of the sheep? As I
have said twice, all we like sheep have gone astray. They have left the flock, gone off on their
own, and done their own thing. But, if you stay close to Him, if you stay in His will and obey
Him, can anything overpower Him? Is there anything big enough, bad enough, terrible enough,
to rip you out of the hand of your Shepherd and take you out from His care and His protection?
Nothing and nobody can separate us from the love of God. (Romans 8:38,39) Nothing can
separate us from the hand of our Great Shepherd.
What did He say? “My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man,” actually
this just means “nothing,” “is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.” (John 10:29) When
you’re pressing up against the leg of the Shepherd, you are safe. There is no disease, there is no
devil, there is no curse, there is no accident, there is nothing that can get past Him, or through
Him, or over Him because He is greater than all.
He said, “I am the Good Shepherd. Nothing, nobody can pluck you out of My hand.” The Father
Who gave you to Him is greater than all, and nobody can pluck you out of His hand.
Now, there is something I want you to notice in Matthew 12. We’ve already answered the
question, but we’re just confirming it. I don’t want you to think that the reason we believe in
healing is because I preached a quick message one time and we got excited. I’ve given scripture
after scripture and verse after verse, truth after truth. The Bible says, “Out of the mouth of two or
three witnesses” (2 Corinthians 13:1), and we are on reason number 19, and we’re sure.
Matthew 12:10 says, “And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they
asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him. And he
