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The Third Sunday of Easter
Today’s Reading: John 10:11-16
Daily Lectionary: Exodus 32:15-35; Luke 6:39-49
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. (John 10:11)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. What makes a shepherd a good shepherd? He must know a little something about sheep. He must be dedicated to his flock. He must be brave and strong. He must love his sheep.
Jesus is all these things, but they are not what make Him the Good Shepherd. He is the Good Shepherd because He lays down His life for the sheep.
In contrast is the hired hand. He sees the wolf coming and flees. He leaves the sheep to certain death. He cares nothing for the sheep other than the paycheck they provide. And there are other paychecks out there.
The Good Shepherd cares for His sheep and would rather die in their place. Jesus’ love is such that He’s willing to give up everything He has to save His beloved. He lays down His own life so that we might live.
There is another peculiarity of good shepherds: The sheep know his voice. So Jesus says, “I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd” (John 10:16).
Jesus leads us with His voice. He gathers His flock with His Word. In the Smalcald Articles Martin Luther writes, “Thank God, today even a seven-year-old child knows what the Church is, namely, the holy believers and lambs who hear the voice of their Shepherd.” Wherever Christ’s Word is proclaimed and heard, there His sheep find their Shepherd. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.
The King of love my shepherd is, Whose goodness faileth never; nothing lack if I am His And He is mine forever. (The King of Love My Shepherd Is, LSB 709:1)
Merciful Father, who by the humiliation of Your Son raised up the fallen world, grant to Your faithful people perpetual gladness, and make those whom You have delivered from the danger of everlasting death to be partakers of eternal joys; through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. (Collect for the Third Sunday of Easter)
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By Higher Things®Today’s Reading: John 10:11-16
Daily Lectionary: Exodus 32:15-35; Luke 6:39-49
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. (John 10:11)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. What makes a shepherd a good shepherd? He must know a little something about sheep. He must be dedicated to his flock. He must be brave and strong. He must love his sheep.
Jesus is all these things, but they are not what make Him the Good Shepherd. He is the Good Shepherd because He lays down His life for the sheep.
In contrast is the hired hand. He sees the wolf coming and flees. He leaves the sheep to certain death. He cares nothing for the sheep other than the paycheck they provide. And there are other paychecks out there.
The Good Shepherd cares for His sheep and would rather die in their place. Jesus’ love is such that He’s willing to give up everything He has to save His beloved. He lays down His own life so that we might live.
There is another peculiarity of good shepherds: The sheep know his voice. So Jesus says, “I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd” (John 10:16).
Jesus leads us with His voice. He gathers His flock with His Word. In the Smalcald Articles Martin Luther writes, “Thank God, today even a seven-year-old child knows what the Church is, namely, the holy believers and lambs who hear the voice of their Shepherd.” Wherever Christ’s Word is proclaimed and heard, there His sheep find their Shepherd. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.
The King of love my shepherd is, Whose goodness faileth never; nothing lack if I am His And He is mine forever. (The King of Love My Shepherd Is, LSB 709:1)
Merciful Father, who by the humiliation of Your Son raised up the fallen world, grant to Your faithful people perpetual gladness, and make those whom You have delivered from the danger of everlasting death to be partakers of eternal joys; through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. (Collect for the Third Sunday of Easter)