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TOPICS THIS WEEK – July 2 – July 8
Worship Sunday – Ministry; Monday – Who Is the Greatest? – Tuesday – At the Feast of Tabernacles; Wednesday – Among Snares; Thursday – The Light of Life; Friday – The Divine Shepherd; Saturday, the Sabbath – The Last Journey From Galilee [All topics per Desire of Ages by Ellen G. White.]
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Words of Encouragement
1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.
Isaiah 54:4, 5 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
For Heaven’s Sake…
“‘I am the Good Shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.’ ‘I am the Good Shepherd, and know My sheep, and am known of Mine. As the Father knoweth Me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down My life for the sheep.’ DA 476.1
“Again Jesus found access to the minds of His hearers by the pathway of their familiar associations. . . . Now in a beautiful pastoral picture He represents His relation to those that believe on Him. No picture was more familiar to His hearers than this, and Christ’s words linked it forever with Himself. Never could the disciples look on the shepherds tending their flocks without recalling the Saviour’s lesson. They would see Christ in each faithful shepherd. They would see themselves in each helpless and dependent flock. DA 476.2
” . . . He shall feed His flock like a shepherd: He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom.’ Isa. 40:9-11. David had sung, ‘The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.’ Ps. 23:1. And the Holy Spirit through Ezekiel had declared: ‘I will set up one Shepherd over them, and He shall feed them.’ ‘I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick.’ ‘And I will make with them a covenant of peace.’ ‘And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen; . . . but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.’ Ezek. 34:23, 16, 25, 28. DA 476.3
“Christ applied these prophecies to Himself, and He showed the contrast between His own character and that of the leaders in Israel. The Pharisees had just driven one from the fold, because he dared to bear witness to the power of Christ. They had cut off a soul whom the True Shepherd was drawing to Himself. In this they had shown themselves ignorant of the work committed to them, and unworthy of their trust as shepherds of the flock. Jesus now set before them the contrast between them and the Good Shepherd, and He pointed to Himself as the real keeper of the Lord’s flock. Before doing this, however, He speaks of Himself under another figure. DA 477.1
“He said, ‘He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.’ The Pharisees did not discern that these words were spoken against them. When they reasoned in their hearts as to the meaning, Jesus told them plainly, “I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.’ DA 477.2
“Because we are the gift of His Father, and the reward of His work, Jesus loves us. He loves us as His children. . . . Heaven itself can bestow nothing greater, nothing better. Therefore trust. DA 483.3
“Jesus thought upon the souls all over the earth who were misled by false shepherds. Those whom He longed to gather as the sheep of His pasture were scattered among wolves, and He said, ‘Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and they shall become one flock, one shepherd.’ John 10:16, R. V. DA 483.4”
Please listen to the recording to get a simple and very clear and very brief discussion of the Trinity concept and the popular false concepts surrounding the Godhead in Protestantism.
(This study is based on John 10:1-30; and chapter 52, “The Divine Shepherd” in The Desire of Ages (DA), by Ellen G. White.)
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