UNCERTAIN – Part 3
God-Sufficient Sheep
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Book: A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 – W. Phillp Keller
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Psalm 23 (NKJV) – A Psalm of David. 1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. 3 He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the LORD Forever.
He restores my soul.
Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again— my Savior and my God!—Psalm 42:11 (NLT)
“If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? 13 And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that didn’t wander away! 14 In the same way, it is not my heavenly Father’s will that even one of these little ones should perish.—Matthew 18:12–14 (NLT)
For you have rescued me from death; you have kept my feet from slipping. So now I can walk in your presence, O God, in your life-giving light.—Psalm 56:13 (NLT)
If you think you are standing strong, be careful not to fall.—1 Corinthians 10:12 (NLT)
Reasons for being Cast:
1) Soft
2) Too Much
3) Too
You say, ‘I am rich. I have everything I want. I don’t need a thing!’ And you don’t realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.—Revelation 3:17 (NLT)
For the LORD disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.”—Hebrews 12:6 (NLT)
He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.
All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the sins of us all.—Isaiah 53:6 (NLT)
There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.—Proverbs 14:12 (NLT)
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.—John 14:6 (NLT)
The stubborn, self-willed, proud, self-sufficient sheep that persists in pursuing its old paths and grazing on its old polluted ground will end up a bag of bones on ruined land.—William Keller
Then, calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me.—Mark 8:34 (NLT)
Keller highlights Seven new habits of a true follower of Jesus:
1) Love God, then love people.
We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.—1 John 3:16 (NLT)
2) Be set apart.
3) Not about me.
4) Serve. Don’t boss.
5) Attitude of Gratitude.
6) Cooperate and Comply with God’s will.
Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me.—Luke 9:23 (NLT)
7) Summit to God’s will.
We are witnesses of these things and so is the Holy Spirit, who is given by God to those who obey him.”—Acts 5:32 (NLT)
For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.—Philippians 2:13 (NLT)