Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful

that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hi, friends, welcome back to you're

in the Bible. My name is Alexa, and I'm here with my co-host Beth. Hey, everyone. So this week, we have looked at Ezekiel 34, 7, through 16 and John 10, 11 through 15. And now we want to see how those passages connect to one another and ultimately point to Christ. So Alexa, can you help us make all those connections? Absolutely. I loved looking at these passages this week because the shepherd connection between them is so strong.

I remember studying these passages when I was doing a study on Jesus' I-Am statements,

and I was just blown away when I learned that Jesus calling himself the good shepherd in John 10 wasn't a new idea.

This title points back to what we see in Ezekiel 34.

And we see that in a few ways.

The first is that Jesus shows himself to be God's promised shepherd.

Earlier this week, when we studied Ezekiel 34, 7 through 16, we learned that God was going to shepherd his people, but he was also going to

send another shepherd, God's servant, David, to shepherd over Israel. Now, we know that at the time

of Ezekiel 34, David is long dead. So God isn't talking about the actual king, David. He's talking

about the Messiah who would come from David's line. So fast forward to John 10, Jesus calling himself the good shepherd

is his way of saying that he fulfills God's promise in Ezekiel 34, 7 through 16. He is God's

promised shepherd, the good shepherd. Okay, so God promises that a shepherd will come. So let's talk

about why Jesus then calls himself the good shepherd at the time that he did.

Yeah, that leads me to another reason why John 10 and Ezekiel 34, 7 through 16 are connected.

If we zoom out a bit from John 10 and consider the chapter before it,

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