I want you to turn to two passages of scripture, John Chapter 10 and Psalm 23 will start at

John 10, so open to John Chapter 10 and then put a marker at Psalm 23. If you're only going to go to one scripture, go to

Psalm 23, because we'll spend most of our time in Psalm 23.

And I want to welcome all the campuses and all the affiliate churches.

We're in a series called Jesus. We've talked about how that Jesus

is the same yesterday, today, and forever, that he's a builder, that he was building

before us, that he was building when he's on this earth that he is

still building today and we'll build tomorrow in your life we talked about how a few weeks

go two weeks ago he was a human when he came to this earth.

You remember that?

And wasn't that a great message, how the Lord just showed us, hey, I can relate, because I became

a human.

And then last week, Pastor John even took us to another level of his humanity and said,

listen, not only did he become a human, but he became the lowest rank of a human,

so he could relate to everything that we go through.

And so this week the title of the message is The Shepherd,

the Shepherd, that Jesus is a Shepherd.

Now the Bible depicts the church in many different ways, but let me just give you three of them.

It depicts the church as a family.

It depicts the church as a fellowship, and it depicts the church as a flock, a family, a fellowship, and a flock. And Psalm 100

verse says we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. So we're sheep and he is our shepherd. Look at John 10 now

verse, John chapter 10 verse 10. The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy.

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