A GROUP of poor shepherds and a missionary were gathered tether around a log fire, one chill night, in a cabin in the mountains of Asia Minor. These rugged men listened intently while the missionary read to them from the Holy Scriptures.
Very appropriately the missionary read from John’s Gospel, chapter 10. “I am the good Shepherd: the good Shepherd giveth His life for the sheep.” v. 11.
An eager voice interrupted: “Oh, Sir, is that the gospel?”
“Yes,” he replied, “This is the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
“Oh,” said the shepherd, his face aglow with simple pleasure and confidence, “I didn’t know before that that Book was a Sheep Book.”
Yes, the Bible is a sheep book; it is for lost sheep as well as for those who are found.
It tells of Jesus, the Son of man, who “came to seek and to save that which was lost.” Luke 19:10.
“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” Isa. 53:6.
The Lord can say of those who trust Him as their Saviour: “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. My Father, which gave them Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand.” John 10:27-29.
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