The voice of the shepherd7/30/2023 We must live with the faith of believing in the righteousness of God rather than our emotions. That’s the only way we can keep ourselves from getting immersed in the fleshly sentiments and getting hurt, and become even more formidable by faith. And we must definitely remember that we are the people who have received salvation from sin eternally from God. We must mend the hurt with the faith of believing the gospel of the water and the Spirit. I want you to know that the reason you and I have also been born to this world as creatures is in God’s will, and it aims to make us become the children of God ultimately. Nothing in the universe exists aimlessly, and rather, everything has instead been created to reveal the glory of God. And you and I, who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit that the Lord has given to us, have now become the people of God and the children of the Lord eternally. And though the body has no choice but to live in this world committing sins, the soul has received salvation through the faith of believing the righteous work of the Lord: to atone for all the sins of the world, He has received the baptism and shed His blood on the Cross. We were able to become the Lord’s people and the Lord became our good Shepherd because of the Lord who has saved you and me from sin through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Our Lord saved our souls perfectly from the sins of the world. Our souls would have still been tied to sin and couldn’t have received the remission of sins forever if it had not been for our Lord. This command I have received from My Father.’” I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. And other sheep I have which are not of this fold them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice and there will be one flock and one shepherd. As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father and I lay down My life for the sheep. I am the good shepherd and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. Then Jesus said to them again, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.’ Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them. And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. “‘Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
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