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Jesus is a Good Shepherd

Hear Christ`s voice and make Him your Shepherd

05/07/2017

By: Apostle Valdemiro Santiago

Jesus made a speech in John 10: 19 where He said He was a good Shepherd and said who His sheep was. Because of this speech, Jewish people were split, and they said He was possessed and was fool. Of course the ministry of Jesus was bigger than ours, miracles were bigger and more emotional, His words touched more hearts than our full ministry. But even with this difference, some said that Jesus was possessed and it must have been hard to Him, that`s why He cried sometimes. We can find passages in the Bible where Jesus cried, but never where Jesus laughed. He absorbed the suffering of all human beings in all of generations. Two thousand years later, you and I can be healed in Jesus` gesture. We are healed at the act of crucifixion, At the moment of carrying the cross, we are saved.

He had the skill of forgiving. If Jesus Christ underwent all of these conditions and He was Holy, we sinners, have to glorify God because we are privileged for being able to imitate Him and forgive. God gives opportunities, but even so, they believe we are fool, deceiver, possessed. It`s necessary to be much courageous to talk about Jesus this way.

There is difference between a possessed one`s speech and the speech of the one who is anointed by God. The possessed one never touches anyone`s heart in such a positive way. Those people saw miracles, like many see today, but even so, they criticized and still criticize. Men never see virtues but mistakes. Jewish people wanted to question Jesus at Salomon`s temple for Him to say He was Christ and for Him to be sentenced guilty, confessed offender according to Moses’ law, so they would be able to take Him to court to sentence Him. Jesus said the work he performed on behalf of God was testified, but they didn`t believe because they weren`t His sheep. It`s not Jesus who elects His sheep, we do it when we hear Christ`s voice. The ones who hear God`s voice become Christ`s sheep. When you become one of them, He greatly invests in you to such an extent that He gives His life for you – as He did so. You are the one who decides whether you are sheep or not and follow the Shepherd, that is Christ. The world has so many voices. Satan bombs from all sides and you have to hear the Lord`s voice. Few keep with Him, but those who keep will see the glory of God closer. The salvation is with the Shepherd, for you to know, it`s Jesus Christ. If you believe in Jesus Christ, You attract benefits for you not for the church or others, and He changes your history.