👀Good Shepherd or YOUR Shepherd?

So if Jesus is to be your shepherd, you have to confront the lie.

I do not need saving.

Within the DNA of a sheep is the immense truth that a sheep is not a predator.

They don't have big teeth.

They're fluffy.

And they can turn into lamb chops.

And Jesus, if you remember last week, what did we talk about? Jesus said, I am the door.

I'm the door.

And so Jesus takes the picture a step further and he paints this picture of laying across the door of the sheepfold.

And then he goes a step further by saying what? The length to which he is willing to go for the protection of those in his care.

You notice in John chapter 10, verses 11 through 21, there is no question that the wolf exists.

There is no question that there is a need for a shepherd.

And if the shepherd is not laying across the sheepfold, guess what happens? The wolf...

The wolves get to eat.

They get to eat the sheep.

Now, the sheep, in order to have the shepherd as their shepherd, guess what they need to believe beyond a shadow of a doubt? They have to believe that they need to be saved.

Because guess what happens? If you're a sheep and you say, I don't need no shepherd.

I can take care of myself.

and stay out in the fields at night in the pasture land, what is going to happen? You will be a sheep no more.

But then there's those sheep behind the shepherd, and what is in between them and danger and death? It's a shepherd.

And when that wolf came to confront the sheep, The job of the shepherd was to fight for the lives of the sheep.

So Jesus, how does he say this? He says, I am the good shepherd.

I'm the good shepherd.

So what does that, that tells us that if there is a good shepherd, what does that also mean? There's a bad shepherd.

And the even scarier part is that you and I belong to one of those.