Finding Comfort and Guidance in the Good Shepherd

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1. "The reality is if you can't say the word my, the rest of the psalm means nothing to you. If you're not, if you don't know the shepherd, then you can't experience the blessings of following the shepherd, and the rest of the chapter is all the benefits of being able to say the Lord or Yahweh is my shepherd personally. Not I've heard about him, not I've thought about him, not I've read about him. I know him. So the biggest thing of guidance that you have, best principle I could ever give you as sheep, which we are characterized by in the Bible, though I'd rather been a rhinoceros, and all we like rhinoceros have gone astray, and every rhinoceros has turned to his own way." [46:49] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2. "The best thing you can do as a sheep is stay close to the shepherd. Jesus said his sheep follow him because they know his voice. Why do they know his voice? Every time he says something, something good comes out of it. They're trained their ears. I hear his voice. He feeds me. I hear his voice. I get quiet waters. I hear his voice. He restores back, back, back, back, back. Verse five. Verse five says that they're not going to follow a stranger who likes to imitate the shepherd, but he always speaks with a different tone. You have to learn the tone of the shepherd." [51:33] (51 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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3. "If you can't start there in guidance that you're stupid, then you're in pride, and you're going to be blinded by your own. Be careful. Be careful. He that thinks he can stand on his own, beware lest he falls. Pride goes before a fall, and a haughty spirit before destruction. It's okay to say I'm, I'm, I'm limited. Let's use a nicer word. Let's be politically correct. I'm, I'm challenged. I'm challenged. No, I'm stupid. You can be challenged. I'm stupid. I need God's guidance. I'm not ever going to be smart enough, strong enough, or wise enough to make the right go. Life's too complicated. Life's too challenging. Life's too hard. I need a shepherd." [49:39] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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4. "When you meet him, when you know the shepherd, when you follow him to the green pastures, when he restores your soul, when he anoints your head with oil and blesses you, when you hold up your empty cup like I did this morning, God I'm empty you filled my cup hurricane drained my cup lift it back up well maybe he's going to get tired of this no maybe he's going to run out of good stuff no don't ever stop god where's your cup this morning is it full overflowing can you bless other people or is it empty it's okay but don't stay empty all for it to know I can't fill your cup I might have drained your cup this morning you may not like them but but if you hold your cup to jesus lord my love is empty my peace is empty i hold your cup up lift it up say jesus fill my cup he's got enough wants to bring you home" [01:18:03] (69 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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5. "Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life now I learned that goodness and mercy I I'm I'm not going with a translation love it's fine love's good but surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days all the days of my if you don't believe that you're looking over your shoulder for evil for guilt shame our backs are vulnerable it's the only part of our body that the armor of god doesn't cover and david understands that when you're following the sheep shepherd your backs to what's behind you in this case it's the armies of absalom and they're coming after him but what was his rear guard who had his back goodness mercy what is that well angels power of god's hedge protection of his presence it's goodness that silences evil it's mercy that shuts the mouth of accusations and when i get fear coming from behind me something's gonna get you god's god he's got the shepherd's got your back just stay near the when you get to where you can't hear his voice you're in a dangerous place something what's the most dangerous place where you're so far from the shepherd you can't hear his voice the most the safest place to be is to be near the shepherd that doesn't mean you're not going to walk through hard stuff just means you're walking through it with him i will fear no evil why because he's with me and he's bad to the bone remember jesus is bad to the bone he's he's a warrior that's never lost a battle he's a shepherd that's never had a wolf intimidated him he's a shepherd that says i'm going to beat those wolves by laying down my life he let the wolves come and get him he let the wolves come and devour him so that through his death he could offer us goodness and mercy and the last line i will dwell in the house of the lord forever" [01:13:04] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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