Shepherds

“them ever and that shepherd turned around he's like oh yeah he's like that's john and jake and He's like naming every single one of this entire flock. The shepherd's not distant. The shepherd's near. The shepherd is personal. The shepherd lives with the sheep. He walks with the sheep. He knows the sheep. In every season, Deuteronomy 31 says this of our God. He says, I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

“no way respected, and yet God chose to make the birth announcement of the coming of Christ to the shepherds. And every one of us has to pause and say, God, why the shepherds? Why the shepherds? Now, obviously, the shepherd metaphor is used throughout the Bible. Psalm 23, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me to lay down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.”

“He's anointed our head with oil, our cup overflows. he's a good shepherd but he's the shepherd king and he rules in the presence of our enemies the second thing that I want you to see is that this good shepherd the shepherd king he also rules with all sufficiency I love this next line it's so cool he says surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life now there's some some meaning in here that's kind of hard”