EP #191 w/ Bishop Singleton | Topic: "Relationship of the Sheep and the Shepherd" 1 Corinthians 11:1

Show Notes: Transforming Lives Bible Radio Show with Bishop Dr. Virginia Singleton
Episode Title: Relationship of the Sheep and the Shepherd

🎙️ Episode Overview:
In this episode of Transforming Lives Bible Radio Show, Bishop Dr. Virginia Singleton delves into the divine relationship between the sheep and the shepherd, drawing from 1 Corinthians 11:1—"Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ."

This powerful teaching unpacks the spiritual connection between believers (the sheep) and Jesus Christ (the Good Shepherd). We explore the role of leadership, obedience, and the importance of following Christ-centered guidance in our daily walk of faith.

📌 Key Discussion Points:
✔️ Understanding the role of the shepherd in guiding, protecting, and nurturing the flock
✔️ The responsibility of the sheep—obedience, trust, and staying in alignment with the Shepherd’s direction
✔️ The importance of spiritual mentorship and following godly leadership
✔️ How 1 Corinthians 11:1 reminds us to follow leaders who are following Christ
✔️ Jesus as The Good Shepherd (John 10:11) and His role in our spiritual lives📖 Scriptures Referenced:
🔹 1 Corinthians 11:1 – Follow me as I follow Christ
🔹 Psalm 23:1-6 – The Lord is my Shepherd
🔹 John 10:11-14 – Jesus, the Good Shepherd who lays down His life for His sheep
🔹 Ezekiel 34:11-16 – God’s promise to seek and care for His sheep

🛠️ Practical Takeaways:
✅ The importance of spiritual leadership and mentorship in the body of Christ
✅ How to discern godly leadership and align with those who truly follow Christ
✅ The blessings of obedience and trust in the Shepherd’s guidance
✅ Why we should cultivate a deeper relationship with Jesus as our Shepherd

🎧 Tune in Now for this impactful message and gain insight into strengthening your faith through the Shepherd-Sheep Relationship!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Transforming Lies Bible Radio Show with Doctor V and Florence,
South Carolina and the Divine Church US a.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Little You catch Transforming Bible Radio Show every Tuesday with
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the Lord. Everybody just want to tell you welcome back
to the Transforming Lines Bible Radio Show. You listen to
your most favorite Bible radio hosts, none other than this
doctor Virginia Singleton, affectionately known as Doctor V, Senior Pastor
of the Divine Church of Deliverance, located here in the

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I just want to take opportunity and invite you to
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But we have to give the greatest honor to the
one who makes it possible for this flat for them
to be provided that the word might go out to
the masses. And his name is Jesus Christ. So if
you will, as you share and invite others to this
platform tonight, tag somebody you know, let us go before

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the throne and thank God for our Lord and savior,
Jesus Christ, precious Father. In the name of Jesus, we
come at this time to tell you thank him. Father, God.
We thank you for life, health and strength. Lord. We
thank you for the blood that is still flowing warm
in our veins. Father, We thank you for last night's rest.

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We thank you God that you kept us all the
way from last week up to this very appointed time,
that we may come before the people, O God, and
share under the word from you. Lord, be at that
you breathe on all of us tonight. Lord, breathe on
our ears, Lord, that we may be able to hear

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and understand what you are saying. Ton Lord, Lord, till
our heart so God, that we will posture ourself to
receive this word. Tonight, Father God, we asked that you
look down on this humble servant. Lord, look into my heart. God,
anything be there not like you, kick it out, cast

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it away from me, O, God, that I become more
and more like you. Lord, Keep us all in your care, Lord,
and give us a mind to do that which is
right and pleasing in your sight. Lord. As we go
to the throne with this word, Lord, let the heroes,
let somebody's heart change, and somebody's life be transformed because

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of the word. Be thinking now with the name of
the Father, in the name of the Son, and in
the name of the Precious Holy Ghost, in Jesus the
Christ name. But we wait, and we all say amen, Amen,
and Amen again. I say, well, come back to the
Transforming Lies Bible Radio show. You're listening to your most

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favorite Bible radio hosts, none other than Doctor Z. As always,
there is a word from the Lord, and tonight, by
permission of the Holy Spirit, we hope that you have
your sword, which is your Bible, with you tonight so
you can read along as we talk about these scriptures

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on tonight. But by permission of the Holy Spirit. Our
foundational supportive passage will come from First Corinthians, chapter eleven
and verse one. That's First Corinthians, chapter eleven and verse one,
and it reads, this week they followers of me, even

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as I also am of Christ, Oh, by tumission of
the Holy Spirit. Tonight our topic for a Bible discussion
is going to be relationship of the sheep and the shepherd.
Relationship of the sheep and the shepherd. Just do a

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little introductory here. When we think it about relationships, we
all have different types in all different levels of relationship.
We look at our employees, we got a relationship with
a supervisor. When we look at our members of the church,
they are developing relationships with their pastor or by whatever

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name they call their leader. Then when we look at David,
David he knew that. He said, so I'm twenty three
and one, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.
That was relationship when he said the Lord is my shepherd.
Even though David was a shepherd, he recognized that he

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also needed a relationship with a shepherd. So he became
the sheep under the shepherd of God. And then tonight
we also want to think about the people of God
and the relationship that we have with him. When we
look in the Bible, the word of God said our

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Father that said relationship, we have relationship with him. Well,
what was Apostle Paul saying to us tonight in our
foundational checks when he said, by followers of me, even

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as I also am of Christ? Well, it was standing
the reason to say that he was inviting to follow
us to be a relationship with him as well that
he had a relationship with Jesus Christ. Paul was encouraging

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the Corinthian Christians concerning the appropriate ordinances and admonished them
to imitate, or we can also say, to follow after
the manner in which he showed honor, respect, and holding

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reverence to Jesus Christ. As he was imitating the essence
of how Jesus communicated with his followers. So he was
trying to get them to not look at who he was,
but to look at the relationship that he had with Jesus.

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And he said, as you see me practiced the attributes
of Jesus Christ, imitate me as your person in the flesh.
What you see me do that is pleasing in the
Lord's sight imitate those attributes, then we both and have
a relationship with him. He was demanding their invitation of

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Jesus and not of themselves. Now in a pretext chapter
chapter four, verses sixteen of First Corinthians, Paul was also
sharing the same sentiments to the Corinthian Church as he

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continues here in this foundation of check chapter to Night
chapter eleven, as he continues to stand and not waiver
in how believers should relate to Jesus. Now, we can
relate to people in certain ways, but the way that

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we relate to g Jesus is on a whole different level.
The passage reads, talking about chapter four and verse sixteen,
Paul said, where ford I beseech you be ye followers

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of me? You never say be a follower like me?
He said, be ye followers of me? I mean I'm
following somebody too. So the good thing that you see
me do, the spiritual holy attributes that you see me demonstrate,
I want you to also demonstrate those same attributes in

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the way that you live your life. He was also saying,
follow me and imitell you what I do in service
to Jesus. When we look closely at the scriptures, and
Paul's leadership. If any of us know about Paul's background

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as a leader, as apostle, as a preacher, as a pastor,
as a teacher, we could certainly say that he can
be tlunted as a good and true shepherd to the
people that God had given him charge over. Paul was

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remembering that they were God's people, not his people, but
God's people, and he could take no ownership for them
except to leave them the Jesus accorded to the teachings
of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So in his Paul

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did not go to the people telling the people about
eye Paul. This an eye Paul that he wanted to
make sure that he held up the blood stained better
and that he lifted up the name of Jesus to
the people, so that Jesus would draw the people unto themselves.

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As we know, Jesus said, if I may be lifted up,
I will draw of men unto me. But mankind will
never have a relationship with Jesus if they don't know
who Jesus is. Again tonight, now we're talking about relationship

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of the sheep and the shepherd at their understanding as
their under shepherd Paul understood the importance of maintaining a true,
trusting relationship with those that he had opportunity to teach

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and took the pre to concerning God's love and God
desired to have a bonding relationship with them. Yes, certainly,
Paul wanted the people to have a relationship with him
as their leader, but more than that, he assured that

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they had a relationship with Jesus Christ. Paul established relationships
with the lost according to the foundational relationship that Jesus
fostered between himself and man you see black Jesus. Paul

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recognized that when there is a good and healthy respect
Jim between the sheep and the shepherd, that is what
is important to God and it will make people feel
more comfortable taking instructions or are being taught or being

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preached to being guided by their shepherd. And we can
we'll use that name tonight, shepherd interchangeably with pastor, the leader, teacher, preacher, whatever,
but with their shepherd. Now, this also talks about the
relationship between the pastor and their flock. Then the sheep

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and the flock. We'll take heed to the leading and
instructions of the shepherd, or should we say their pastor,
the true shepherd will lead the sheep. I'm gonna say
that again, the true shepherd will lead the sheep. And

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why do we have to meet that distinguished between a
good shepherd and a true shepherd, Because the Bible also
speak of power age those who do not have a
love or care for the sheep. But the true shepherd
will lead the sheep, showing them love, pointing them to

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Jesus Christ, and not lord themselves over the sheep as
if they were their god, or never insinuated any way
to the Corinthian Church that he was their God, because
he made it a point to priest Jesus Christ so

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they will know who they are true effort is because
Paul established his relationship with Jesus Christ. He encouraged the
people to after the works that they observed him doing

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in order to lead them into cultivating a lasting and
loving relationship with the only true God, which is Jesus Christ. Again,
as I say, Paul was not trying to force the
people to have a relationship with him, while on the

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other hand, they had to have some type a relationship
with Paul as their leader, as their pastor, as their preacher,
as their teacher as their apostle, in order for them
to trust their lives to Paul to lead them and
guide them in the teachings of the words of the Lord.

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Now Paul understood his assignment. Every shepherd, every pastor, every preacher,
every teacher, every leader, no matter what your five four ministry,
what your calling, and what your office is hauled, understood

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his assignment, which was to shepherd the people in gaining
spiriture insight to who Jesus was in their life. It
was not as much pro pole for the people to
look at what He meant to them in their life.
Eve wanted them to get an understanding and a knowledge

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of who Jesus was as the good Shepherd, the chief
shepherd in their life. Now, in the Gospel of John
chapter ten, as we read verses one through five, this
is where Jesus himself fought a terrible concerning the relationship

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of the good, true shepherd and the sheep. Jesus said, verily, verily,
I say unto you, he that interest not by the
door into the sheepfold, but climbed up some other week,

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the same as a thief and a rama by. Because
Jesus said, I am the door, I am the way.
I am the truth, and I am the lie. And
no man can come to the Father but by me.
So that the right way that we got to go in.
And we must be shepherded in by our shepherd. But

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he that interest in by the door is the shepherd
of the sheep, Jesus Christ, or be can in the
change of it, put our pastor, the leader, apostle, prophet, teacher,
e dangerous whatever here as the shepherd to him the

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porter open it, and the sheep here his voice, and
he called it his own sheep by name. Oh Jesus,
know our name. He know your name. He knows his
sheep one by one, just like a good pastor. By

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whatever time do we put on ourselves, we know our people,
buy their name, and letting them out ver his foe says.
And when he put it for his own sheep, he
goes before them, and sheep follow him, for they know

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his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but
will flee from him, for they know not the voice
of strangers. So the relationship between the shepherd and the sheep,
they are constantly undergirding their sheep. They are pushing them,

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they are prodding them. They are burying them up, and
they will send them ahead of their Why because their
job is to be the watchman over the sheep. He
goes before them and make sure that the pathways are clear,
to make sure they are stired away from and hurt

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arm a danger. That is why it is so important
that true pastors they teach and preach the word of
God to warn the people that these things you may counter,
but you can go to the word of God in
order to come back whatever it is that become negative

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in your life. And they say, and the sheep follow him,
but they know his voice. Every member know the voice
of their leader. I don't care if you've got a
thousand pastors in one place, But when a member is
a member of a respective pastor, when their pastors speak,

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they know that voice from any other pastor and the
stranger they're not gonna follow them, because the other pastors
let their pastors. But to them they are strength. Because
this is not whom I said on, This is not
who seed me. Yeah, they preach and teach the gospel,
but where I fellowship at my pastor's name is such

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and such. And because they teach the truth, and because
the relationship that we have. They preaching teach not a
word that's gonna harm me, but they're gonna preach and
teach a word that's gonna save me from myself from
my sin. And that is why they won't flee away

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from a pastor like Death that showed them love and
that teach them the truth. Why because they know not
the voice of strangers. Strangers can be a pastor out
there that is teaching their own doctrine. That is not
a good relationship for the people that follows them. Now

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we've read those passages. What a powerful description and demonstration
of a relationship of the sheep and the shepherd. You've
seen again, like Paul, a good and true pastor has

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personal knowledge about the people that they are the unshepherd over.
They understand their own divine call, and they possessed consecrated
and honest motives concerning the law's souls. Their motive is
to grow them, not decrease them. Their motive is to

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bear them up, not to tear them down. That's the
relationship between a true shepherd and their sheep with their
best interest. For the totality of God's Church is not
just in respect to the ones that's under their charge.

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But any sheep that a good and wise shepherd come
in contact with, they will alsofold them the same benefit
of what is needed that they give to those of
their own law. They also possessed a divine funnuncience well

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that include wisdom and revelation. They are acquaintance with the
needs of the flocks. They expressed care and concern in
providing them help when in trouble. They set a trusting

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example of leading and not controlling the law. Member we
already forced said that Paul realized that the people did
not belong to them, so his assignment was to bring
them into the presence of Almighty God, who was their

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rightful and ultimate shepherd. They feed them the truth of
the God, not some made up mambo jumbo, the truth
of the Gospel, and not man made doctrine that will
destroy them. In respect to the relationship of the sheep

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and the shepherd, the shepherd's motives are sure in living
what they teach and preach. So when bishops sang them,
says motives are right. When every time she stands behind
that sacred podium, her whole gold and her heart desire

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is for somebody to give their life to Christ, not
that they will look up to them, Not that she
wants them to look up to her as their passer,
but she wants to make sure she points the way
the Jesus Christ. And the only way I can do
that is by giving them the truth of the Gospel,

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which teaches them about who Jesus is. So the shepherd's
modest are sure in living to what they're teaching themselves.
Not just you do as I do what I say,
do not as I do. But when you're leading the
right way, then you will have a desire for the

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people to imitate the goodness, to imitate the attributes that
you are imitating yourself of the Lord, and your following
after what God commandments teaches. You will have a heart
desire to see people follow after the Lord and do that.
Rich is right. It's all about pointing them away out

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of darkness, trying to help them get to a place
of life as well as they will visit the flock
if the flock is in trouble, if they are in need,
if they have a situation going on in their life,
then because of the relationship with the sheep and the

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shepherd the pastor, they will go and see after that
sheep see after that member, make sure that whatever they
may be in need of. The shepherd's job is to
make sure that that need is met, being careful to
make a profit, sacrificice in meeting their needs, and because

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of the good relationship. When strangers try to mislead the
flock away from the truth, because let me tell you,
they're hirings out there that will try to lure people
away from air place of worship, that is not a

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true sheepher a true shepherd if a person desires to
go somewhere else and relocate, our job is to help
that member transition to wherever they say the Lord have
sent them to go, not try to convince them, for

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they're all benefit. You need to stay where you are.
We do not own nobody, never always remember, and shepherds
recognize that they are just the un the shepherd. But
Jesus Christ is the shepherd, and our job is to
promote whatever it takes to get people of Jesus no

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matter where they are. And a false shepherd will not
be able to mislead the flock away from the truth.
The slot will not straight and follow after them. Why God,
they know the truth and have been very well kept

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and very well fed the truth, as if they were
eating fresh, green grass instead of withered and dry weeds
that will provide no manner of nourishment the nutrition for

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but will eventually lead them to their death. My God,
my God, when people graves on green, healthy grass, Now
this is just a metaphor. We're not saying that you
go out in your yard and go out and start

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eating up some grass. But this is just a metaphor
that helps us recognize the difference between when the members
in one perspective place of worship versus another place of worship.
It depends upon what they're said, is how they're going
to grow, how they're going to produce, and how they're

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going to be able to come into the knowledge and
understanding of who Christ is in their life. So when
the grains on green help degress, which represents the Word
of God, they are well nourished, and ultimately they will
grow and produce all that is good and their relationship

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with their shepherd. Therefore, the flood will not behave as
being unlearned and ignorant of the truth. Instead, they have
a gold and a heart desire to please, not man,

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not to please that passor. But now because they have
up the good word of the truth of the godspel
and they know what God's commandments is in that word
in order for them to have a standing and right
relationship with Him. Now, because of that, their gold becomes

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to please fond. Why because of the relationship that they
have with a true shepherd, one that have told them
the truth. Again, I remember, we want to imitate that
which is right, and we are following after a true shepherd.

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The sheep have been led because of the truth to
the knowledge of what is expected for them to walk
in a right relationship with the shepherd who is Jesus Christ.
True shepherds or denying themselves comfort in order to ensure

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that the sheep's needs are provided. Let me put a
pin right there for men. When we talk about true
shepherds denying themselves comfort is very oftentimes when pastors get
palls in the middle of the night, maybe anytime of

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the day, anytime of the morning, and with all types
of situations that they have to deal with concerning people.
We have schedules, but when a need arising, there is
a sense of urgency no matter what that pastor is doing.

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When at all possible, they drop everything so that they
can go and see after that sheep to make sure
their need is met and to help get them through
whatever Christ is they may be going through. So the
true shepherd dey not their own comfort. They'll get out

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of their vEDS in the middle of the night that matter,
that's one, two, three, or four o'clock in the morning,
if they are needed by their blocks. That is a good, true,
loving shepherd who had a great relationship with their people

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right because they want to provide what they need now.
Isn't that just like Jesus who denied himself of a
perfect heaven at home. He had every risking his heart
ever desired. But when he looked down at the situation

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and the climate of the world at that time, he said, Father,
I know you want a relationship with the people and
that you create it, and right now they don't know you.
But if you give me about it, I'll go down
and I will develop a relationship with them, and those

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that will imitate the way that I live and serve you,
they will come into the knowledge of who you are
and they can be your people. He left his heaven
at home in order for a sinful dying world to
gain life, forgiveness and an eternity with Jesus Christ. Just

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any shepherd wouldn't do that. They have to have a
heart of love, that have to have a heart that
cares for people outside of themselves. A true shepherd is
not SEALTHI is a true shepherd does not show respector
of person as we'll force say it again and recognize that, Yes,

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I have been appointed as the und the shepherd and
the rochman over business block. But whoever I come in
contact that might be in need, whether they fellowship where
I am the overseer or not, they get the same
benefit of what I give those Why because they are

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old By's children while has something to think about. As
Jesus taught in verses full in five, he knows his sheep,
and they know his voice, a voice that is calm
and quietly calling his children out of trouble places and

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away from danger. Ever, when you were out there in
the world doesn't have to be when you was in
the world. Might be even now when we know that
we're getting ready to do the wrong thing, or if
our lives may be in danger that we don't even
realize it. Sometimes we hear a little still voice, don't

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do that, don't go there. You know that's wrong. You
know what I told you to do, that's not right.
The Lord will talk to us in that still, small,
quiet voice to call us out of those faces of
danger to save our lives. Our parents do the same thing.

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When our parents pray for us, they are somewhat of
a shepherd to us as well. They shepherd us in
the home and they pray for us. They teach us
that which is right. And let me tell you, when
we get out there and we get with our little
cliques and we'll start doing the wrong thing after a while,

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we hear that voice of what that mama said. Now,
didn't you did not tell you when you go out there,
don't you do this? Don't you do that? Don't you
go there, Don't you do it. We will hear those
voices that our parents when they have taught us, and
we may have heard them praying for us and passing
by their door, we may have heard them praying and

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crying out to the Lord, Lord Peace, take care of
my child. Lord Peace, Let my child not go out
there and get in into trouble. Lord priests, make sure
my child do the right thing, because I'm not always
able to be with them, Lord, but you see them
at all time, you know, so we can hear those voices,
and that would help us to turn back away from

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the strangers that is leading us through danger. We will
come out of those dangerous places. They will not hear
to the voice of the strange and false leaders that
desire this separation from Jesus. Even vulnerable sheep are covered

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by their good shepherd to shield them from grazing in
dry pastors where they become impotent and remain in the
dark concerning the love of Jesus Christ for their soul.
A fool shepherd are open with the sheep. They teach

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them the truth because they want them to get to
know food Christ is. Because they are not an ironing.
They're not in it for the money. But you get
a hiring that is shepherding the people. Nine point ninety
nine point nine percent of the time, they're not going
to tell them the truth because they're going to keep
them in the darkness so they won't leave their fellowship

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and go somewhere else where. The grass is green. The
good shepherd provides shelter for the sheep, which is the
word of God by reminding them of this promise at
Psalm ninety one Versus one and two, He that dwelleth

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in the secret place of the Most High, shall abide
under the shadow of the almighties. And then the sheep
can say, I will say of the Lord, he is
my refuse and my fortress, my God. In him I trust.

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See the sheep come into the knowledge that a relationship
between them and their shepherd is a place of safety,
a dwelling place where they are protected from hurt, palm,
and danger. Now, in contrast to that good shepherd, the

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prophet Jeremiah offers a different view of what the Bible
calls a wolf in sheep's clothing, which misleading the sheep
in a false relationship that keeps them blinded from all
that God has all bread ordained for their lives. Now,

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come on, Jeremiah, talk to us, Jeremiah says in Chapter
twenty three, verses one through fourth, which is referencing how
God is against faithless, false shepherds who destroyed as out
of the sheep. This is how it read. Wall be

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unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of
my astor, said the Lord. Therefore, thus said the Lord,
God of Israel, against the pastors that feed my people.
Ye have scattered my flock and driven them away, and

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have not visited them your whole. I will visit upon
you the evil of your doings, says the Lord. And
I will gather the remnant of my flock out of
all countries whether I have driven them, and will bring

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them again to their foods, and they shall be fruitful
and increase. And I will set up shepherds over them,
rich shall feed them, and they shall fear no more
barbies me. Neither shall they be lacking, saith the Lord.

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There is a difference between a hiring is a false
shepherd and a true shepherd that leaves and God will love.
Now also Jeremiah in chapter three and verse fifteen, Jeremias

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says this of the Lord, and I will give you
pastors according to a mind heart, which shall feed you
with knowledge and understanding. Now this is about God promising
to provide spiritual leadership and guidance to his people by

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appointing shepherds or pastors after his own heart. Those da
got the same attributes. They imitate who Jesus is, and
they don't come with their own agenda they come with
nothing but the truth. They are loving, time and merciful.
They feed them with knowledge and understanding of the Word

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of God. This verse also highlight them parts of good
leadership in relationship with the flow, in guiding and caring
for them as well as the community of people. It
is symbody of the role that leaders should follow in

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nurturing and guiding the people. In the relationship with the
shepherd and the sheep, the shepherd should provide with clarity,
knowledge and understanding of the Word of God in order
to help them approach challenging and grow through trials and tribulations,

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and not in judgment of the people's faults and their failure.
Just as Jesus the good Shepherd, just as he doret
us with us to his people with care and spiritual wisdom.
That is how the true shepherd still be attending to

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the people that has been placed under their care. Wow.
When we look at these passages that I just finished
reading talking about a strong, loving relationship of the sheep
and the shepherd, these passages certainty is descriptive of a

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good relationship between the sheep. And then it also give
us the difference of what a false non caring shepherd
look like. However, the Lord promised to deliver his people
out of the snare and misleading of those after their

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own doctrines. And let me tell you well, the great
true shepherd Jesus will do. He will read write your story.
It does not matter what any hiring or anybody who
don't love God. I don't care. If it's your supervisor,
your boss, I don't care. If it's the president of

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the company, the CEO. It does not matter who it is.
People in your life when they're supposed to be giving
you all that which is good, and they won't give
you anything for your benefit because they want everything for
their own benefit. They want to always be in the
light and keep everybody else in the dark. But the
Lord says, I will read write your story to make

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sure you get all of the promises, all of the
blessings that I have already ordained for you. And see
that is the relationship between a good true shepherd and
their Jesus picked up his promise in John chapter ten,

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verses ten through fifteen to explain what a good true
shepherd looks like. This is what Jesus sees. He said,
the thief cometh not but to steal and to kill
and to destroy. That don't sound act no good relationship

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to me right there. That's a false relationship. Somebody who
wants to get everything from you that they can get,
and they have no desire or intention to give you
anything in return. But Jesus goes on and he said,
I am come that they not have life, and that

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they not have it more abundantly. Wow, he said. In
verse eleven, I am the good shepherd, the good shepherd
given his life for the But here that is hiring
and not the shepherd of the people, who's on the

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sheep or not said the wolf. They see the wolf
coming and they're leaving the sheep and flint, and the
wolf catches them and scattering the sheep, the hiring flint
because he is and hiring and carries not for the sheep,

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while being that they have no relationship with them. They're
just in it for the money and what they can
get out of the people. Verse fourteen, Jesus said, I
am the good shepherd, meaning that he is the chief
and great father, he said, and nobody's sheep, and am

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known of mine. And you are in a real good,
trusting relationship with somebody. You know things about each other
that other people don't know, and you trust each other
on the level that you're not going to trust any
by the else. A true shepherd know his sheep, and

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the sheep know their shepherd. Another false, non caring shepherd,
they will not follow. And now verse fifteen, Jesus said
again there as the Father knows me, even so know
I the father, and I laid down my life for

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the sheep. Jesus saying, I know my father, and my
father knows me. That's the kind of relationship that me
and my father have. And when we look at it
in respect to the leader and the person that they
are leading, when they have a good relationship and the
audience ain't here, then they can look at each other

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on these same levels. Wise, because they have established a
trust between one another. The relationship of the sheep and
the shepherd mixed the difference of whose voice the sheep
will hear and who they will follow. The apostle Peter

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was chosen to lead it as a true and good
shepherd of God's sheep. He has been signed a ministry
to develop a real relationship with God's people and bring
them into the Kingdom of Almighty God did not have

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a relationship just to bring himself into the kingdom and
make himself look good. It was to point the people
to Christ. As Luke fourteen, verse eighteen and nineteen said,
this is Jesus talking. Jesus said, the spirit of the

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Lord is upon me. Why because he have anointed me
to preach the gospel to the poor. He have sent
me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to
the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to

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set at liberty them that are rused, to preach the
acceptable year of the Lord. So here's Jesus saying that
the Lord is sending me. My Father is sending me
that I may establish a relationship with the people so

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that they can trust me to us shook them into
the Kingdom of God. And he recognizes that the Lord
knows that these people are going to have all types
of impotencies that's going on in their lives. They may
be poor, they might be broken hearted, they needed, they
might be a captive, they could be blind, and they

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could be brused by the wear and care of this
world as well as these same things and become a
person's thought when they are high. By following after a
hiring that will not teach and preach the truth to them,
they will never be able to come up out of

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these places where they are until they hear the truth
of the Gospel of the promises that their shepherd, Jesus
Christ have many unto them as his sheep, or shall
we say children, He promised to withhold no good thing

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from his children. This is why when we look at
the true leadership of a true pastor, they don't try
to keep the people in the dark by lying to them.
They will preach the gospel of the truth so that
our blinded eyes can be open, so they can be

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led to Jesus Christ and know that you do have salivation.
The Lord died for you on the cross. He shed
its blood, its pure blood, blood not touched or stained
by any sin, just so he can have a relationship

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with you and lead you back to the Father. A
true loving shepherd knows the sheep that have been appointed
to them. They don't have to Nobody don't have to
come and tell them at their member, because they them.
They follow athors and imitate the attitude and attributes of

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Jesus Christ. Talking about that true shepherd, because how can
I expect for anybody to follow me as a leader
in doing anything that is right when every time they
come into my presence, every time they look at me,
I am doing that which is wrong. I am partaking

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in those things which are contrary to the word of God.
And then we get upset when people don't want to
follow us. But we are not being a good shepherd.
You know, when we are doing the wrong thing. We'll
go out and we'll party with the people. We will
hang out with them, We'll go to all these ungouded places,
and they say us partaking, you know, of all these

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unguarded things. They hear all this ungoded conversation that we
engage ourselves in. That's what the hirelings do. Now I'm
not talking about the true shepherd, but we expect for
them to come in and do everything right. No, they
do what they see us do. They act the way

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they see us act, and they will say the thing
that they hear us say and think that it's all
right because they don't have the truth of the gothpel
that God has a standard and these unguarded things does
not spit in God's standard. When we say that he

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is our shepherd, because when he is our shepherd, as
Paul was trying to teach to rent Insured, then you
will imitate his attributes. Watch me, watch my life. There
was a time Paul probably told them about this whole story,
how he used to be of the world, but when

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he met the Lord on his road to the Mosca,
he changed, He changed his heart, everything changed about him,
you know. So that has to happen. So now he said,
I have a wonderful relationship with him because that experience
helped to bring me into the knowledge of it true

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love for me, and that he only wants the best
from me. When I was fighting against all and I
was seeing everything away from his people that he had
for them, why because I didn't know no better. So
when it we no better, we do better. When we
know the difference between a hiring, which is a rookie

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shee clothing who is out there for the money, he'll
know the difference between a true shepherd that has a
real relationship with us because they love God and they
want you also to know the love of God, and
they teach nothing but the unadulterated Gospel, which is the
truth of jee Christ White, so that the eyes of

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the people can be opened. And what those eyes are
open now they understand and they know when they're in
the presence of a hiring and a wood in sheep floating.
And that's why a stranger they're not going to follow,
because now they know the truth, they'll follow after and
imitate the attitude and attributes of Jesus Christ. This is

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what the shepherd needs to do. Why because they want
to encourage the people to do the same. I cannot
expect for you to walk, as the old folks say,
walk the chalk line. When I tie mine up and
put it in the box of the eyes, make for
you to walk the chalk line, meaning walk in the

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righteousness of God. I got to do the same thing
as your leader, so you can see how it is
supposed to be done. A good shepherd develops a so
not wish your washing, honest relationship with the sheep. Bet

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on two times the sheep. They don't straddle the fence
with the sheep when the sheep see them on Sunday,
to be the same way the sheep see them with
the out in the store shopmen, or on the street,
in the grocery store wherever. And that relationship is solid
and honest with the sheep. However they see us at

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one time, it should be the same way when they
see us, no matter where they see us, that even
in our homes, they should see us the same. How
is that admitating the attitude and the attributes of Jesus Christ.
This is how we draw them. And they want to
know more about that Jesus that we know because they

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have established their relationship with Jesus Christ. Talking about now
the true shepherd and the sheep, both of them now
and they have decided we're come into agreement on these
attitudes and these aftributes of Jesus, and we both walk
into the light of his word. Now we have established

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a relationship with Jesus Christ. We are in relationship with
the same true God in his name is Jesus. Having
fellowship with friends are good, but that en't up. A
relationship with Jesus Christ is the greatest circle we can

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ever choose as a foundation to build on. So it's
all right for us to have relationships and fellowship with
our friends, but we need to understand our friends trying
to get to Heaven just like we are. Our friends
are trying to keep their souls saved just like we are.
Our friends can't save us from anything. We need a

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relationship with Jesus Christ. That is the greatest circle, you
and Jesus. That's the greatest circle that you can be in.
To build on that foundation, let Jesus be your foundation
and look to him as your ultimate true shepherd to
establish a lasting internal relationship. We have done what the

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Lord had told us to do on tonight, and I
believe that somebody's party is going to change and somebody's
going to be trans not's going to be transformed by
this word. We want to thank all of you who
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There's nothing wrong with I had the fellowship with people,
but I encourage you to establish a relationship with Jesus Christ.
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