2. Calls His sheep by Name Psalm 100:3 Know that the Lord Himself is God; it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

3. Calls His sheep by Name Deuteronomy 26:18 “The Lord has today declared you to be His people, a treasured possession....”

5. Isaiah 40:11 Like a shepherd He tends His flock; He gathers up the lambs with His arm; He carries them close to His heart; He leads the ewes along.

6. Calls His sheep by Name

7. PROVIDES FOR ALL HIS SHEEP Donald Carson “...the life Jesus’... disciples enjoy is not to be construed as more time to fill (merely ‘everlasting’ life), but life at its scarcely imagined best....”

8. Sacrifices for HIS SHEEP Zechariah 11:17 “Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock!”

9. Sacrifices for HIS SHEEP 1 Samuel 17:34–35 David said to Saul, “Your servant was tending his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock, I went out after him and attacked him, and rescued it from his mouth; and when he rose up against me, I seized him by his beard and struck him and killed him.”

11. Sacrifices for HIS SHEEP Donald Carson The shepherd does not die for his sheep to serve as an example, throwing himself off a cliff in a grotesque and futile display while bellowing, ‘See how much I love you!’ No, the assumption is that the sheep are in mortal danger; that in their defense the shepherd loses his life; that by his death they are saved.

12. Sacrifices for HIS SHEEP Isaiah 53:6 All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.

13. PROTECTS HIS SHEEP FOREVER Colossians 3:3...your life is hidden with Christ in God.

14. PROTECTS HIS SHEEP FOREVER Romans 8:38–39 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

15. PROTECTS HIS SHEEP FOREVER Leon Morris...our continuance in eternal life depends not on our feeble hold on Christ, but on His firm grip on us.

16. Why don’t we follow Jesus? Does He really know the way? Does He really care? Can He fulfill His promise? Oswald Chambers The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.

17. Are you part of His flock? John 20:31...these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.

18. Are you following His Lead?

19. Are you a shepherd to others? John 21:16 [Jesus] said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” [Jesus] said to him, “Shepherd My sheep.”