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Ezekiel 34:1 · BSB
34:1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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…Let me read it. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I want you to turn to your Bibles toEzekiel chapter 34. It's on page 857 of your pew Bible. This is kind of a lengthy section I'm going to read, but I'm going to read it so you get it. What Jesus is…
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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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…40 or 50 minutes, but I don't really know how long this is going to be. And maybe I'll just skip some stuff if we start going on too long. This isEzekiel chapter 34. And we're going to start rather than verse one, we'll get to, we're going to start in verse 11. So if you have your Bibles, if you have your…
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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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…his shepherd, who's been leading him his entire life. It's used in Psalm 23 when David famously says, The Lord is my shepherd. It's used again inEzekiel chapter 34, where God calls Israel's leaders bad shepherds because they're taking advantage of his people, and he promises that he will one day come and…
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…Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Pastor Zach, for being obedient to the Holy Spirit. Praise God. You can be seated if you can. So let's go intoEzekiel chapter 34. And we are getting into kind of the more exciting part of Ezekiel. God's word is always exciting, but it's a little more exciting when it gets…
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…Jesus is doing way more than that. He's thinking of the prophets. And I'll just give you one example. This is a short snippet from the prophetEzekiel chapter 34. Here's what it says. This is what the sovereign Lord says. I myself will search for my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they…
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…Well, scholars tell us, that he's referring to the gathering of sheep, God's people. It is a shepherding image, that was used in places likeEzekiel chapter 34, using covenant and messianic language here. In this passage, Ezekiel 34, the leaders of Israel are rebuked, because they've taken advantage of the…
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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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…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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…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 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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…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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