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Ezekiel 34:15–16 · BSB
34:15 I will tend My flock and make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD.
34:16 I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
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…not them. So who? Who is it that he's talking about? Those all who came before him? Last week I suggested that he is drawing on imagery employed inEzekiel chapter 34to speak of leaders who should have been caring for the sheep but instead cared for their own gain. Like spiritual leaders who were exploiting…
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…to serve us well at this point. So leave John 10 behind for just a moment and join me in some quick sweeping Bible background by joining me inEzekiel chapter 34. The blessed sound of turning pages. Ezekiel 34. I'm going to hop through this text a little bit just for the sake of time. Listen to the words…
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…people, Jeremiah and Ezekiel. And I want to take a moment and show you this. I want you to go to Jeremiah chapter 23, and then we're going to go toEzekiel chapter 34. Because there's so much significance here. God uses these prophets, and it's in these two prophetic pictures from Jeremiah and Ezekiel 34 that…
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…lambs. Make sure that they're not pushed too hard, loving the weakest and the most feeble of his people. The next prophecy we want to look at is inEzekiel chapter 34, three verses, verses 22 to 24. Ezekiel 34 is describing the abuse of the false shepherds. And then he goes on to say in verse 22, therefore, I…
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…But over and over and over, you see this pattern of failure until they eventually, God's people, end up in exile. Then you get to the prophetEzekiel chapter 34. It really captures, I encourage you to read that sometime this week. It captures the devastation. And the prophet indices the shepherd kings of…
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…goes forward unchecked. And when leadership without holiness leads to ruin. And the failure of leadership is talked about all over in Scripture.Ezekiel chapter 34, for instance. Woe to the shepherds of Israel who've been feeding themselves. Shouldn't the shepherds feed the flock? Jeremiah 23, woe to the…
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…heart. But we also find in scripture that God himself willingly takes upon himself the role of shepherd. Or the title of shepherd. We could look atEzekiel chapter 34. Starting in verse 11, where the Lord calls himself a shepherd to his people. For thus says the Lord God, Behold, I myself will search for my sheep…
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…and laying the foundations of the earth and saying to Zion, You are my people. Maybe there's something to that. Maybe an even stronger illusion isEzekiel chapter 34and verse 4, where God is chastising the Jewish leaders. Says, the weak you have not strengthened, the sick you've not healed. The injured you've…
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…to them, shepherd the people just like I do. But the problem was, instead of caring for the flock, they abandoned the flock. Go with me, please, toEzekiel chapter 34. Ezekiel chapter 34. First there, if you could give me the page number, I forgot to check it there. Ezekiel 34. 8-6-5. 8-6-5. Ezekiel 34. And in…
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…sheep by name and leads them out. What Jesus is doing here, my brothers and sisters, is he's reminding these Pharisees of a prophecy from Ezekiel,Ezekiel chapter 34. And in Ezekiel 34, we read these words. I'll read from verse one. The word of the Lord came to me, son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of…
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…that God will gather the nations and he will judge them. But this description here of judgment is more likely to reflect the fulfillment ofEzekiel chapter 34. Especially verse 17, picking up again in verse 23. There, God the judge speaks of judging sheep and goats. He says, As for you, my flock, thus…
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…about the temple by which he meant his body being destroyed and built again in three days. Also, during this festival, one of the readings was fromEzekiel chapter 34. Graham referred to that last week. It's a chapter about the leaders of Israel, the shepherds of Israel, and how they have failed God. And so Jesus…
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…these men would know that this isn't the first time that God's had some really chilling words to say about bad and selfish leaders of his people.Ezekiel chapter 34. Ezekiel, one of the prophets that we get in the Old Testament, speaks to his generation. God, through Ezekiel, speaks to his generation of really,…
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…they never leave His hand. He will never let them go. So let that omnipotent hand lighten your burden without lessening your responsibility. InEzekiel chapter 34, God speaks some really sobering words against the shepherds of His people. Because they are feeding themselves and not feeding His sheep. They're…
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…fulfill what God had promised all along. I've come to the conclusion that we will not get the full depth of meaning of John 10 unless we also haveEzekiel chapter 34in mind. And it's too much for me to exposit that chapter. But I do encourage you, if you've got a Bible, turn to Ezekiel chapter 34, keep your…
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…helps us to understand this you can keep your finger in Matthew and go back to Ezekiel the prophet if anybody has a page number that might helpEzekiel chapter 34anyone got a page number no different bible sorry 866 thank you Ezekiel 34 and here God through the prophet Ezekiel is showing the damage that is…
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…You leaders, you shepherds, you elders, you are being ungodly in my own house, underneath my own roof. It continues in the book of Ezekiel. InEzekiel chapter 34. We read some astounding words. Ezekiel 34, the word of Yahweh came to me. Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say…
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…Of course he would go after the one. I know guys like that. How else would they be found? There's an amazing passage, one of my favorites. InEzekiel chapter 34, where God is rebuking the shepherds of his people, these shepherds that he had kind of set up to lead his people. And he's rebuking them because…
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…been the spiritual leaders. They should have been the shepherds in some sense of their day. Just like the religious leaders in the Old Testament inEzekiel chapter 34. It reminds me much of what we see in Jesus' day. It says this, the word of the Lord came to me, Son of Man, prophesy against the shepherds of…
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…gospel and go back to Ezekiel and I haven't got a page number so the first one there could help us all by finding it it's not too far backEzekiel chapter 34thank you it's on page 8 6 5 Ezekiel chapter 34 so the prophets tell us that he would be a shepherd of the people and here we get a bigger picture…
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