We need to remember that God never promises His people that they don't have to go into the valley of the shadow of death.

We all will enter into that veil at some point.

But the absolute promise that God gives to His people is that He will never send us there alone.

And I can't think of any place that I would have to be frightened if I knew the Lord was with me.

And so that is our hope as Christians that we can count upon the ultimate shepherd of our souls to be with us no matter what.

Who is Jesus?

If you ask a group of people, you'll have a variety of answers and opinions.

But the question that we really should be asking is who did Jesus say that He is?

I am Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us today for renewing your mind.

Is the good shepherd.

He is Dr. Sproul.

Once again, we're going to continue with our series on the I.M.s of Jesus.

And in our last session, we looked at Jesus' pronouncement, I.M. the door in which he spoke of the door to the sheepfold,

or the gateway to eternal life, to the Father's house.

And that saying was in response to the reaction against Jesus' healing, the man born blonde.

And that in that same discourse, Jesus calls himself the good shepherd.

And I mentioned that we can distinguish between the statement, I am the door to the sheepfold, and I am the good shepherd.

But they belong together as part of the same discourse that Jesus had with His people.

And before we now look at the I.M. the good shepherd, let me just make one last comment about His statement, I.M. the door,

because we saw that at the end of that phase of His discussion, He said that if anyone enters by me, He will be saved.

And He speaks of salvation in connection to His being, the gate or the portal or the door.

And I just wanted to call your attention back to Romans chapter 5.

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