Portraits of a Savior Week 4
John 10:11 (NIV)
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
Kalos: good; fine moral character.
1. Jesus cares for us sacrificially.
✔️We are loved.
John 3:16 (NIV)
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 15:13–14 (NLT)
There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
✔️Love Him more.
1 John 4:19 (NIV)
We love because he first loved us.
Psalm 63:1–3 (NIV)
You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. 2 I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. 3 Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.
John 10:14 (NIV)
“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me—
2. Jesus knows us intimately.
✔️We are known.
He knows our names.
He knows our natures.
He knows our needs.
✔️Seek to know Him better.
3. Jesus leads us as one flock in many folds.
John 10:16 (NIV)
I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.
✔️Be easy to lead.
Hebrews 3:7–8 (NIV)
So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion,
Hebrews 3:12–13 (ESV)
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
✔️Trust His voice and care instead of wandering on your own.