Good
The word for “good” here is not the usual word for “good” in the New Testament. The usual word is “agathos” which describes moral quality; as in-he’s a good person
Here the word is “kalos” and that is a word that means not only that a person is good, but in his goodness, beautiful. Not as in pretty, but as in delighting, inspiring.
It denotes:
beautiful, excellent, eminent, choice, surpassing, precious, useful, suitable, commendable, admirable,
Is this the Jesus you have discovered?
It’s in the following of Jesus that you discover him to be good, gracious, loving and kind.
From afar you may agree with Isaiah who said Isaiah 53:2
He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
But up close. As you get to know him. As you walk with him and follow after him you may declare with like the writer of Song Of Solomon 5:10 He’s one in a million. There’s no one quite like him!
There is more than faithfulness in Him; there is more than virtue in Him; there is more than truth in Him; he is all together wonderful.
Shepherd
But he is not just good, and removed, isolated, seperate
He is the good shepherd.
Since the industrial revolution we have moved further away from the agrarian lifestyle that was once common to most people.
When Jesus said he was the good shepherd people knew what a shepherd was and what a shepherd did.
They knew that:
He lived with his sheep. Slept with the sheep.
He never left his sheep unattended or alone.
He knew them all by name.
Jesus knows you very well. He knows everything about you and still loves you.
Matthew 10:30 And even the very hairs on your head are numbered.
That’s means more than he knows how many there are, but that every one has a number. So if you lose a hair he knows that was hair number 13,654.
2. The shepherd desires the very best for His sheep.
They were not just his job, they were his life. He saw them as friends.
He would seek the greenest pastures and still waters, he would protect them and fight for them. Jesus said, “I have come that they might have life and that more abundantly.”
The sheep would learn to trust the shepherd.
John 10: 3-4 He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.
Several groups in one pen over night. In morning shepherd would call and begin to walk and his sheep would hear his voice and follow.
They would then here his voice and follow him. Why? Because they had learnt to trust the shepherd.
Do you hear his voice leading you?
If we understood the nature of a shepherd and understood the nature of Jesus, we would also be willing to follow him.
3. The shepherd gives his life for the sheep.
John 10:11,13 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep. The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep.
1. How much does Jesus care about you? Enough to give His life for you.
The cross always brings a wide variety of responses.
Some see the horrible cruelty of man.
Some see excruciating pain.
Some see a bloody, gory sight.
I see infinite love; love beyond comprehension. The love of my Shepherd for me.
It was not the nails that held Jesus to the cross. It was his love for you and his desire to see you living whole, healed, purposeful lives.
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