2. Leading or misleading?
John 10

3. Who is leading your inner life?

4. Our inner man has a problem
Our inner man has a problem! We have broken hearts, desperate, misled, restless, godless, confused,…

5. Here we talk about the soul!!!
We need a leadership in our life...
Our souls are not made to function
without God!!!
We need leadership in our souls just
like an engine needs fuel and a sheep
needs a shepherd!

6. Isa. 53:6
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7. Helfried

9. Problem:
Who needs a man like him?

10. Shepherd = like a Mountain guide:
1) Precedes (=leading),
2) Protects
3) Provides

11. 1) Precedes (=in front; leading),

12. The break /shelter the summit

13. Out of the sheep pen: A SIGN!!!

16. 1) Jews: The sheep pen represents
the old religious way of living=Law
2) Gentiles: our old life! Our life in Adam
Jesus Christ is calling us out, before He
can lead us in. John 5:24, Acts 26:18, Col.1:13,

17. John 5:24
"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my
Word and believes him who sent me has
Eternal life and will not be condemned;
he has crossed over from death to life
(= new sheep pen)

18. Acts 26:18
to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
(=new sheep pen)

19. Col.1:13
For he has rescued us from the dominion
of darkness and brought us into the
kingdom of the Son he loves,(=new sheep pen)

20. Eph.2:5-6 God made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

21. But the Jewish leaders were ... Not protecting, but destroying
Ad 2. He PROTECTS
But the Jewish leaders were ...
Not protecting, but destroying
Not giving a safe feeling, but threatened!
Didn’t care, but were careless!
Not comforting, but confronting!

23. Ezek. 34:6
6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no-one searched or looked for them.
7 "‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

27. But what is our PROBLEM?
Why do we run away from HIM?
- false teaching ( through home, church,
books, songs…etc) 1Tim.4:1
- false personal picture or impression
- based on certain experiences

28. We have formed the wrong picture!
We have a problem to trust Him.
We are afraid that:
- He will bring us to places where we do
not want to be;
- He doesn’t know what he is doing!
- He is asking things from us what we do
not want to do or I can’t do!

29. Listen to the word: Protection
1 John 5:18 the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him.
John 17:15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
2 Thess. 3:3 But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.

30. Thieves, robbers and killers: - The Law and legalism: 2.Cor.3:6
- False Teachers take away life :
1 Tim.4:1 + 1 Tim.6:3-5
- Love for money and goods:
1 Tim.6:5; Luke 8: Luke 12:21
- The devil: John Cor.4:4-5 & 2.Cor.11:3
- Sorrow and fear: Matth.13:21-23
- Tradition Marc 7:13
- not forgiving, bitterness and hate

31. Protection: - Gen.2:8 a garden (an enclosure, a fenced in
piece of ground)
- Job 1: "Does Job fear God for nothing?"
Satan replied. "Have you not put a hedge around
him and his household and everything he has?
Ps 5:12 For surely, O LORD, you bless
the righteous; you surround them with your favour
as with a shield.
Ps 34:7 The angel of the LORD encamps
around those who fear him, and he delivers them.

32. Shepherd = like a Mountain guide:
1) Precedes (=in front,leading
2) Protects
3) Provides

33. Psalm 23
1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in
want.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he
leads me beside quiet waters,
3 He restores my soul. He guides me in paths of
righteousness for his name’s sake.

34. 4 Even 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 overflows.
6 Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

35. PROVIDING – John 10:10
Our modern word ‘PSYCHIATRY’ comes from two Greek words:
Psyche = person, breath, soul, mind, reason
Iatreia = treatment, healing, restoring.

36. So put the words together and we have
‘the healing, restoring the soul’.
Healing means bringing the person into
a right relationship with the physical,
mental and spiritual laws of God.
3 John1

37. “I have sought here to explain the great principles that God has ordained to govern the life of man, believing as I do, that if man lives according to these principles, his life will be whole and healthy. If he violates them,
he will be sick. As someone has put it:
„He who formed our frame made man a perfect whole; And made the body’ s health depends upon the soul.“

38. “ The 23 Psalm is a pattern of thinking, and when a mind becomes saturated with it, a new way of thinking and a new life are the result.
It contains only 118 words. One could memorize it in a short time.

39. But its power is not in memorizing the
words, but rather in thinking the thoughts.
The power of this Psalm lies in the
fact that it represents a positive, hopeful,
faith approach to life.”
(Charles L. Allen in “God’s Psychiatry” )

40. 2.Cor.4:16-18
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
18 So we fix our eyes NOT on what is seen, but on what is UNSEEN. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

41. We are called to…
- believe the unseen
- follow the unseen,
- talk to the unseen,
- listen to the unseen!

43. We are in God’s hand John 10:28 and...
‘in Christ’ 1 Cor.1:30 Col.3:3