we’re sheep and we’re as helpless in our own walk in the Christian world as sheep are without a Shepherd ladies and gentlemen we need a shepherd and we need a Shepherd who calls us by name we need a Shepherd who knows us we need a Shepherd who makes sure that we get in the fold before darkness and protects us and keeps evil beasts away from us we need a Shepherd that’s why we love Psalm 23 The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want did you ever read the part that says he leads me beside Still Waters why does he do that CU I don’t have enough
sense to go there myself I’m a sheep I am a Shepherd but I’m also a sheep the Good Shepherd loves his sheep and the Good Shepherd leads his sheep Jesus described himself in two little words that comprise three letters Jesus says you want to know me here’s my name I am I am now that title I am speaks of the self-existence of Jesus it speaks to the fact that he is the everpresent one his name is not I was his name is I am his name is not I will be his name is I am as we’ve already learned in this series The Lord Jesus Lives now in the Eternal
present and many respects there is no past or future for Jesus everything is in the present he doesn’t live in time he lives outside of time and so it is true of the Lord Jesus to say that his name is I am and what are the challenges you have when you teach on the Life of Christ is how do you help people to know Christ because in order to learn something we have to have something we already know from which to start the process and there are no precedent for Jesus there’s never been anybody like him nor will there ever be there’s no
one to whom you can compare him so almighty God in his wisdom and through his word has given us a number of metaphors to help us understand who Jesus is and those metaphors are in the Gospel of John it was written to prove that Jesus is God and these seven I am statements kind of go along with the seven sign Miracles that are in John’s gospel and these statements are given to us to help us understand about Jesus they’re pictures of Jesus and we’re going to go through them quickly when we get done we will have added to our understanding of
