Our Worthy Shepherd (Zechariah 11:17)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 24 December 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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In this episode of Pray the Word on Zechariah 11:17, David Platt leads us to follow Jesus as the worthy shepherd of our lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:05.7 | Zachariah 11 verse 17, woe to my worthless shepherd who deserts the flock. May the sword strike |
| 0:13.6 | his arm and his right eye. Let his arm be wholly withered. His right eye utterly blinded. |
| 0:21.1 | What a picture of woe coming straight from the mouth of God to the one he calls my worthless |
| 0:30.8 | shepherd. This is God speaking directly through Isaiah to leaders among his people entrusted by God |
| 0:40.7 | to care for his people and they're not doing it. They're deserting and destroying and deceiving |
| 0:48.1 | and ignoring in many ways the flock. They're indulging themselves while hurting the flock. |
| 0:55.6 | Then it's a humbling picture for anyone in any position of spiritual leadership. Certainly |
| 1:03.3 | shepherd's pastors in a church, but not just in that sense to think about any sense of spiritual |
| 1:11.1 | leadership you have in someone else's life in your home, your family, any sense of spiritual |
| 1:18.0 | influence you have for others in the church regardless of what position you might be in. Certainly |
| 1:24.4 | those who are in particular positions, but God has entrusted each of us with the care of people |
| 1:32.8 | around us and reading Zachariah 11 17 just drives us doesn't it to say we don't want to be |
| 1:39.6 | worthless shepherds. We want to care well for people around us in our homes, in our churches, |
| 1:46.8 | in the places where we have been given influence at work in our communities to care well for people |
| 1:54.8 | and in this picture, especially on this day. Are we not so thankful that God has come himself to be |
| 2:04.9 | our shepherd our good shepherd Jesus God born in the flesh to be our shepherd and he is not a |
| 2:14.3 | worthless shepherd he is a worthy shepherd he doesn't desert the flock he dies for the flock |
| 2:22.0 | and so we pray Lord Jesus we exalt you as our shepherd as the good shepherd as the great shepherd |
| 2:30.4 | we praise you for giving your life for us as your sheep for coming to us |
| 2:37.2 | think born among us for living the life we could not live with no sin and then for dying the death |
| 2:44.3 | we deserve to die for our sin and then for rising and conquering sin and the grave all glory be to your |
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