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Ezekiel 34:16 · BSB
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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…who are supposed to be the shepherds are in fact spiritually blind. And these shepherds are in fact the very shepherds that God warned us about inEzekiel chapter 34. Now you may not be familiar with Ezekiel 34, but it is a passage that is worth your attention. Remember that Ezekiel is in the Old Testament and…
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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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…them back in. They seemed like lost sheep without a shepherd missing. You might be blessed. Ezekiel 34 versus 11 to 16. That's the 23 to 24 again.Ezekiel chapter 34versus 11 to 16 and what's going on for the assess the Lord God. Behold, I, I am myself Hindi lamang. I will send some under shepherds. I myself…
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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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…with the Lord. And so that's what we're going to do today. We're going to preach the word. If you have your Bibles, turn with me to the book ofEzekiel chapter 34. We're going to begin in verse 1 and we're going to go to verse 5. A message I've entitled, Shepherds After His Heart. Shepherds After His Heart.…
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…hurt by the church, and he is not indifferent to the ways that we have been hurt by those in positions of spiritual or religious power. InEzekiel chapter 34, we read God's word of judgment that he has for his people, specifically the leaders of his people, who he calls the shepherds, those are the ones…
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…and instead of serving the people, they serve themselves. But not Jesus. But that was the false shepherds here. In fact, we can go back toEzekiel chapter 34, and there we see that God issued a scathing indictment upon the false shepherds of Israel. I want to show you something, because I want to show…
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…that had not been true shepherds, and what they had done, they had actually drawn Israel away. And if you want to or if you would, if you turn toEzekiel chapter 34with me this morning. We'll mostly be in John 10, but if we could look to Ezekiel 34. Here's what we read in Ezekiel 34. Oh, shepherds of Israel,…
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If you have a Bible, I invite you to turn toEzekiel chapter 34. I think this is our fifth or sixth week in Ezekiel now. If you remember, Ezekiel is a 30 year old priest living far far away from the temple which…
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…new rescue, a new Exodus rescue that is to come. And there are a number of examples of this, but I think the one that fits this passage so well isEzekiel chapter 34. And so in this chapter, Ezekiel prophesies against the shepherds of Israel. Um, he says that they've neglected the sheep, that they've made…
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…22 through 24, where God promises a solution in those closing verses, so you can turn there. It's also going to be on the screen. But let's read inEzekiel, chapter 34, starting in verse 1. The word of the Lord came to me, son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. As I already said, these are not…
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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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…look like. And that happens in Ezekiel, and some passages are going to come up for us now. And Peter, can you try to stop the ringing, please?Ezekiel chapter 34says this. The word of the Lord came to the Son of Man's prophecy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, this is what the…
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…20, it says, Look up and see those who are coming from the north. Where is your flock that was entrusted to you, the sheep of which you boasted?Ezekiel chapter 34gives us a similar idea where it describes to us the bad shepherds. In other words, the bad leaders of Israel who abused their people. And in the…
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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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…20, it says, Look up and see those who are coming from the north. Where is your flock that was entrusted to you, the sheep of which you boasted?Ezekiel chapter 34gives us a similar idea where it describes to us the bad shepherds. In other words, the bad leaders of Israel who abused their people. And in the…
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…for Israel alone. All through the Old Testament, God reminds people of his ultimate plan. And in fact, in the passage that we read earlier fromEzekiel chapter 34, God is saying that the day will come when he will judge the false shepherds of Israel. And that he will come himself as the true shepherd. And he…
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…were referred to as shepherds who weren't doing their job, who weren't caring for the sheep as they should have been. But in that same chapter,Ezekiel chapter 34the Lord says this, he says, But I am going to be the shepherd of my people. And one of the ways that he was going to care for his people was by…
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