1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,500 animal I'm talking about tonight. 2 00:00:02,500 --> 00:00:05,340 Sheep, the animals are sheep. 3 00:00:05,340 --> 00:00:07,540 Now stop me if you heard this one. 4 00:00:09,220 --> 00:00:11,680 I'm not trying to pull the wool over your eyes. 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:15,680 You missed the first pun and you got, 6 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:17,860 stop me if you heard this one. 7 00:00:19,260 --> 00:00:22,320 Yeah, this message is for you. 8 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:27,320 These jokes are bad. 9 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:32,500 For you nerds out there, 10 00:00:32,500 --> 00:00:36,040 if there were sheep in the Star Wars universe, 11 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:37,340 where would they be from? 12 00:00:40,940 --> 00:00:41,780 Dagobah. 13 00:00:45,740 --> 00:00:46,580 That's for free. 14 00:00:46,580 --> 00:00:51,320 Anyway, okay, so this is the audience participation portion. 15 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:52,160 I'm gonna come down. 16 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:53,460 I'm gonna come down to you, my Bible. 17 00:00:53,460 --> 00:00:56,400 In the Old Testament, 18 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,160 where do you hear about sheep? 19 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:00,000 Give it to me. 20 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,400 Raise your hands, I'll call on you. 21 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:04,160 Psalm 23, right? 22 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,400 Think about sheep with Psalm 23, where else? 23 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,980 Where do you hear about sheep in the Old Testament? 24 00:01:11,980 --> 00:01:13,180 Miss Kathy. 25 00:01:14,620 --> 00:01:15,940 Isaiah 53. 26 00:01:15,940 --> 00:01:17,620 All we like sheep have gone astray. 27 00:01:17,620 --> 00:01:19,320 We turn anyone to his own way 28 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:22,080 and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of his soul. 29 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,420 It also says he was led like a lamb 30 00:01:25,420 --> 00:01:27,720 that's done before his shears and he opened out his mouth. 31 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:28,900 Yeah, that's it. 32 00:01:28,900 --> 00:01:29,720 Georgia Bate. 33 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,260 David's a shepherd who agrees there's sheep 34 00:01:34,260 --> 00:01:36,240 connected with David for sure. 35 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:37,440 Yeah, what else? 36 00:01:38,540 --> 00:01:40,040 I thought about a bunch of them. 37 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:43,980 Now you're getting into stuff that... 38 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:47,920 Yeah, okay, took the flocks to Dothan. 39 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,080 That's like a Jeopardy one, man. 40 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:51,420 Like you're gonna win. 41 00:01:51,420 --> 00:01:52,260 Yeah, that's good. 42 00:01:52,260 --> 00:01:53,080 What else? 43 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,280 Exodus the lamb. 44 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:57,080 The Passover lamb. 45 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,120 You can just remember the Passover lamb, right? 46 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,000 So you have the Passover lamb that's there. 47 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:03,200 Early, earlier on. 48 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:04,360 Okay, who else? 49 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:05,500 Oh, yes, Ella. 50 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,900 Psalm 103, does that talk about lambs? 51 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:10,740 Cool. 52 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:12,640 Very specific. 53 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:13,700 That's good. 54 00:02:13,700 --> 00:02:15,240 Huh? 55 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:16,580 Abel. 56 00:02:16,580 --> 00:02:18,140 Cain was a tiller of the ground. 57 00:02:18,140 --> 00:02:21,080 Abel was a keeper of the sheep. 58 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:22,840 Yeah, that's awesome. 59 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:25,240 Huh? 60 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:26,080 Did I say something wrong? 61 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:27,780 I probably did. 62 00:02:27,780 --> 00:02:29,980 Yeah, you think of any more? 63 00:02:29,980 --> 00:02:32,720 What about like the sacrifice, the day of atonement? 64 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:37,280 Were that, that was all part of the things that they would do? 65 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,920 You guys, what about Isaac being... 66 00:02:42,260 --> 00:02:44,120 Hey, I see the fire. 67 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:45,760 I see the wood. 68 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:47,660 Where's the lamb? 69 00:02:47,660 --> 00:02:49,700 And then he was, there was a substitute. 70 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:51,400 A ram caught in the thicket. 71 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,240 What'd you think, Dave, you got another one? 72 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,680 Yeah, the Bible talks about the fat. 73 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:00,280 Yeah, it's better to obey than to sacrifice. 74 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,280 The baby is better than the fat of rams. 75 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:03,120 That's awesome. 76 00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:07,460 You guys got a bunch of the ones that I thought about. 77 00:03:07,460 --> 00:03:09,420 What about in the New Testament? 78 00:03:09,420 --> 00:03:12,500 Where does the Bible talk about lambs in the New Testament? 79 00:03:15,500 --> 00:03:17,300 Dave Fawcett. 80 00:03:17,300 --> 00:03:19,300 He gets a sticker on his chart tonight. 81 00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:20,140 Amen. 82 00:03:20,140 --> 00:03:20,960 Amen. 83 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,340 John the Baptist sees Jesus coming and says, 84 00:03:24,340 --> 00:03:26,700 behold, the Lamb of God, 85 00:03:26,700 --> 00:03:28,880 which takeeth away the sin of the world. 86 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:29,780 Where else? 87 00:03:31,580 --> 00:03:33,280 What'd you say? 88 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,140 My sheep hear my voice and they know me 89 00:03:35,140 --> 00:03:36,080 and they follow after me. 90 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:37,080 Yeah, very good. 91 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:38,320 John chapter 10. 92 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,020 I'm the great shepherd Jesus called himself. 93 00:03:41,020 --> 00:03:42,920 You guys are right on it. 94 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:43,860 I'm the good shepherd. 95 00:03:43,860 --> 00:03:47,660 The shepherd lays down his life for his sheep. 96 00:03:47,660 --> 00:03:50,620 I want to show you another place 97 00:03:50,620 --> 00:03:53,220 and it kind of connects with what we're talking about tonight. 98 00:03:53,220 --> 00:03:55,620 I had you go to 1 Peter 5, but before I do that, 99 00:03:55,620 --> 00:04:00,020 I want you guys to go to John chapter number 21. 100 00:04:00,020 --> 00:04:01,740 John chapter number 21. 101 00:04:03,100 --> 00:04:08,100 This passage will be on the screen, 102 00:04:08,100 --> 00:04:16,880 but you remember that Peter had this amazing relationship with Jesus, 103 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,080 and so many of the disciples. 104 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,880 And after Jesus rose from the dead, 105 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,400 Peter said at some point, he said, I'm gonna go fishing. 106 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,400 And he goes back, he takes some of those other guys with them 107 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,120 and they go fish. 108 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:36,920 And much like when Jesus called them, 109 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:38,960 they fished all night and how much did they catch? 110 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:41,520 Show me the universal symbol for how much they caught. 111 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:42,360 Very good. 112 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:46,200 They caught nothing, much like what happens when I go fishing. 113 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,300 I catch nothing, right? 114 00:04:49,300 --> 00:04:51,540 That's why God made podcasts for fishing. 115 00:04:51,540 --> 00:04:53,400 So I can at least get something out of it 116 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,380 because I'm not getting fish out of it, I can tell you. 117 00:04:55,380 --> 00:04:59,480 Okay, so he fishes all night, they don't get anything, 118 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:03,680 and what happens, then Jesus is on the shore. 119 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,220 Children, have you any meat? 120 00:05:05,220 --> 00:05:07,420 In fact, let's just read it. 121 00:05:08,260 --> 00:05:10,460 Simon Peter, saith unto them, I go fishing, 122 00:05:10,460 --> 00:05:12,360 they say unto him, we also go with thee, 123 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:16,600 they went forth, entered into a ship immediately, 124 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:20,200 and that night they caught nothing. 125 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,600 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore, 126 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,640 but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. 127 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:31,180 Then Jesus saith unto them, children, have you any meat? 128 00:05:31,180 --> 00:05:32,720 They answered him, no. 129 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,320 And he said unto them, cast the net on the right side 130 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:37,480 of the ship, and ye shall find, 131 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:39,320 this is almost exactly what happened 132 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,420 when he called Peter the first time, 133 00:05:41,420 --> 00:05:44,360 they cast there for, and now they were not able to draw it 134 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,860 for the multitude of fishes. 135 00:05:46,860 --> 00:05:49,160 Who got to fish like that? 136 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,800 If I'm fishing, I want to catch a bunch, 137 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,600 and then I want to fry them almost immediately, 138 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:57,340 and eat them right after that, right? 139 00:05:59,140 --> 00:05:59,980 Nobody else? 140 00:05:59,980 --> 00:06:01,140 You're not into that? 141 00:06:01,140 --> 00:06:02,880 You're not into that? 142 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:08,420 We're going to Captain D's afterwards, let's do it, okay. 143 00:06:08,420 --> 00:06:12,820 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved, who's that? 144 00:06:12,820 --> 00:06:13,860 John. 145 00:06:13,860 --> 00:06:15,360 Sayeth unto Peter, it's the Lord. 146 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,620 Now when Simon Peter heard that it was him, 147 00:06:17,620 --> 00:06:20,900 now it was the Lord, he girded his fishers coat unto him 148 00:06:20,900 --> 00:06:23,500 for he was naked, and he cast himself into the sea. 149 00:06:23,500 --> 00:06:26,500 He's not even waiting to bring the fish back. 150 00:06:26,500 --> 00:06:31,500 He jumps in and swims to Jesus. 151 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,680 Go down to verse number 12. 152 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,520 Well, verse 11, Simon Peter went up and drew the net 153 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:42,080 to the land of the great fishes in 150 and three, 154 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,720 and for all there were so many, it was not the net broken. 155 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,820 Jesus sent unto them, come and dine. 156 00:06:50,500 --> 00:06:54,500 He had already caught fish, which is hilarious. 157 00:06:54,500 --> 00:06:56,500 Don't you think that's funny? 158 00:06:56,500 --> 00:06:58,060 He's better than them at fishing. 159 00:06:58,060 --> 00:07:00,740 That's all they're good at, and he's better anyway. 160 00:07:02,940 --> 00:07:05,300 Verse 12, come and dine, and none of the disciples 161 00:07:05,300 --> 00:07:06,640 was asked him, who art thou, Lord, 162 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,240 knowing that it was the Lord? 163 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:09,380 Who art thou, knowing as the Lord? 164 00:07:09,380 --> 00:07:11,040 Jesus then cometh and taketh the bread 165 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,380 and giveth them and the fish like white. 166 00:07:13,380 --> 00:07:15,340 This is now the third time that Jesus showed himself 167 00:07:15,340 --> 00:07:17,760 to his disciples after he was risen from the dead. 168 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:21,720 So when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, 169 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:26,720 Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, love is thou me more than these. 170 00:07:29,300 --> 00:07:32,340 He said unto him, yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. 171 00:07:32,340 --> 00:07:36,740 He said unto him, feed my, what does he call it? 172 00:07:36,740 --> 00:07:38,740 Lambs, feed my lambs. 173 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:41,300 He said to him again the second time, 174 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:45,120 Simon, son of Jonas, love is thou me. 175 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,820 He said unto him, yea, Lord, you know that I love you. 176 00:07:47,820 --> 00:07:52,820 He said unto him, feed my sheep. 177 00:07:53,340 --> 00:07:55,060 You guys got it. 178 00:07:55,060 --> 00:07:57,180 He said unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, 179 00:07:57,180 --> 00:07:58,460 love is thou me. 180 00:07:58,460 --> 00:08:00,900 Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, 181 00:08:00,900 --> 00:08:02,620 love is thou me. 182 00:08:02,620 --> 00:08:04,860 And he said unto him, Lord, knowest all things, 183 00:08:04,860 --> 00:08:08,220 thou knowest that I love thee. 184 00:08:08,220 --> 00:08:12,060 Jesus said unto him, feed my sheep. 185 00:08:12,060 --> 00:08:17,060 Peter had said to the Lord, 186 00:08:20,420 --> 00:08:22,420 I'm gonna go to death for you. 187 00:08:23,700 --> 00:08:27,740 And Jesus had told him, you're gonna deny me three times. 188 00:08:27,740 --> 00:08:30,140 And then Peter did do that. 189 00:08:30,140 --> 00:08:32,620 Peter did deny Jesus three times. 190 00:08:32,620 --> 00:08:34,220 I believe with all my heart. 191 00:08:34,220 --> 00:08:36,140 You read between the lines, but I believe with all my heart 192 00:08:36,140 --> 00:08:38,940 that this was Jesus restoring Peter. 193 00:08:38,940 --> 00:08:42,460 This is Jesus giving Peter another chance. 194 00:08:43,980 --> 00:08:46,700 He asked him three times, do you love me? 195 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:48,340 Do you love me? 196 00:08:48,340 --> 00:08:49,780 Do you love me? 197 00:08:49,780 --> 00:08:52,660 And the response that Peter had every time to do you love me 198 00:08:52,660 --> 00:08:56,900 is feed my sheep. 199 00:08:56,900 --> 00:08:59,820 And then he said this, verily, verily, I say to thee, 200 00:08:59,820 --> 00:09:02,260 when thou was young, thou girdest thyself 201 00:09:02,260 --> 00:09:04,500 and walk with thy woodess, but when thou shall be old, 202 00:09:04,500 --> 00:09:06,460 thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, 203 00:09:06,460 --> 00:09:08,140 and another shall gird thee and carry thee 204 00:09:08,140 --> 00:09:10,300 whether thou wouldest not. 205 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:14,780 This fate, he signifying by what death he should glorify God. 206 00:09:15,780 --> 00:09:19,500 And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, 207 00:09:20,420 --> 00:09:21,260 what did he say? 208 00:09:22,500 --> 00:09:24,820 The same thing he said the last time he got him 209 00:09:24,820 --> 00:09:26,380 a boat full of fish. 210 00:09:28,060 --> 00:09:31,180 From that time until this time, God had prepared, 211 00:09:31,180 --> 00:09:35,820 Jesus had prepared Peter to do what God had called Peter to do. 212 00:09:35,820 --> 00:09:38,940 That is to give his life for Jesus 213 00:09:38,940 --> 00:09:43,740 in service to Jesus by doing something very specific. 214 00:09:43,740 --> 00:09:47,780 And that is feed my sheep. 215 00:09:49,140 --> 00:09:52,220 That same Peter wrote a letter. 216 00:09:54,020 --> 00:09:57,820 We call it first Peter, there's also second Peter. 217 00:09:58,740 --> 00:10:03,740 And in that letter, with that language about feeding my sheep 218 00:10:03,740 --> 00:10:07,620 with Peter having that from the Lord 219 00:10:07,620 --> 00:10:10,140 and knowing that Jesus called himself the great shepherd 220 00:10:10,140 --> 00:10:12,660 and having all that knowledge of the Old Testament 221 00:10:12,660 --> 00:10:14,940 and what it means to be a sheep. 222 00:10:14,940 --> 00:10:17,780 He said this, and I think he's specifically talking about, 223 00:10:17,780 --> 00:10:20,340 as we're gonna read, the church. 224 00:10:20,340 --> 00:10:25,340 The church is a flock, the church as the sheep of Jesus. 225 00:10:26,460 --> 00:10:29,620 And this is what he says. 226 00:10:29,620 --> 00:10:32,940 This is getting into the fifth chapter of first Peter, 227 00:10:32,940 --> 00:10:36,860 here's what it says, I'm gonna read it right here. 228 00:10:36,860 --> 00:10:37,940 Instead of reading on my screen, 229 00:10:37,940 --> 00:10:40,300 I wanna read it from my Bible. 230 00:10:41,740 --> 00:10:46,740 First Peter chapter five, verses one, 231 00:10:48,980 --> 00:10:51,060 we're gonna cover more than to verse seven, 232 00:10:51,060 --> 00:10:53,900 but I'm gonna read now to verse seven. 233 00:10:55,140 --> 00:11:00,140 He says this, the elders which are among you, 234 00:11:00,140 --> 00:11:05,140 I exhort, who am also an elder and a witness 235 00:11:05,820 --> 00:11:10,260 of the sufferings of Christ and also a partaker 236 00:11:10,260 --> 00:11:12,660 of the glory that shall be revealed. 237 00:11:12,660 --> 00:11:17,660 Feed the flock of God, which is among you, 238 00:11:18,380 --> 00:11:22,140 taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, 239 00:11:22,140 --> 00:11:27,140 but willingly, not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind, 240 00:11:27,140 --> 00:11:30,300 neither as being lords over God's heritage, 241 00:11:30,300 --> 00:11:33,700 but being examples to the flock and samples to the flock. 242 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:36,220 And when the chief shepherd shall appear, 243 00:11:36,220 --> 00:11:38,940 you shall receive a crown of glory that fatheth not away. 244 00:11:38,940 --> 00:11:43,620 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder, 245 00:11:43,620 --> 00:11:46,500 ye all of you be subject one to another 246 00:11:46,500 --> 00:11:50,700 and be clothed with humility for God resisted the proud 247 00:11:50,700 --> 00:11:53,780 and give grace to the humble, give us grace to the humble. 248 00:11:53,780 --> 00:11:58,780 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God 249 00:11:58,780 --> 00:12:02,900 that he may exalt you in due time, 250 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:07,900 casting all your care upon him for he careeth for you. 251 00:12:08,740 --> 00:12:11,180 What a beautiful passage, isn't that beautiful? 252 00:12:12,060 --> 00:12:14,700 Let's pray now, God, I love you so much. 253 00:12:14,700 --> 00:12:16,780 I pray that you bless the reading of your word. 254 00:12:16,780 --> 00:12:20,340 I pray that you'd help me to help it make sense 255 00:12:20,340 --> 00:12:25,300 and that we as a body of believers, a church, a flock, 256 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:29,380 that we would be even more ready to be unified, 257 00:12:29,380 --> 00:12:33,660 to be kind, to be humble, 258 00:12:33,660 --> 00:12:37,140 to all work together towards the same end. 259 00:12:37,140 --> 00:12:39,660 That is to be the kind of church that you'd like us to be, 260 00:12:39,660 --> 00:12:42,620 the kind of church that you want us to be, 261 00:12:42,620 --> 00:12:44,660 on mission for you here in Finley, 262 00:12:45,900 --> 00:12:49,340 for as long as we ought to be. 263 00:12:49,340 --> 00:12:51,940 And to glorify and honor you, 264 00:12:52,940 --> 00:12:56,780 even so quickly come Jesus in Jesus' name, amen. 265 00:12:58,180 --> 00:13:00,260 In this particular text, 266 00:13:01,380 --> 00:13:06,380 I believe Peter is talking about the local church. 267 00:13:07,340 --> 00:13:08,820 And he's talking about, 268 00:13:08,820 --> 00:13:11,660 he's writing to a bunch of churches actually, 269 00:13:11,660 --> 00:13:14,940 but he's talking to the pastors and others 270 00:13:14,940 --> 00:13:16,620 in that local church. 271 00:13:16,620 --> 00:13:21,140 And he's using this illustration of the flock. 272 00:13:21,140 --> 00:13:24,380 And I think it says something to us, 273 00:13:24,380 --> 00:13:27,420 and I think this is just an extended illustration 274 00:13:27,420 --> 00:13:28,940 of how we ought to be as a church 275 00:13:28,940 --> 00:13:30,940 and how we ought to function together. 276 00:13:30,940 --> 00:13:33,260 We can understand God's plan for believers 277 00:13:33,260 --> 00:13:35,540 to live life in the assembly. 278 00:13:35,540 --> 00:13:37,460 You know, the word I call, I see a means assembly. 279 00:13:37,460 --> 00:13:40,260 That's the word we call, say church. 280 00:13:40,260 --> 00:13:42,620 It's all talking about the same thing. 281 00:13:42,620 --> 00:13:44,540 We live life, doing life together. 282 00:13:44,540 --> 00:13:46,900 I'm glad to see you guys, I see you more 283 00:13:46,900 --> 00:13:48,500 than I see my own family. 284 00:13:48,500 --> 00:13:49,740 That's awesome. 285 00:13:49,740 --> 00:13:52,020 We become a church family in that way. 286 00:13:52,020 --> 00:13:54,260 And we live life in the assembly 287 00:13:54,260 --> 00:13:57,780 by understanding four roles associated with the church. 288 00:13:57,780 --> 00:13:59,700 Here's the first role that we see. 289 00:13:59,700 --> 00:14:01,940 The first role we see is the shepherds. 290 00:14:01,940 --> 00:14:05,100 The shepherds, we see that in verses one to three. 291 00:14:05,100 --> 00:14:08,300 He says, the elders which are among you I exhort, 292 00:14:08,300 --> 00:14:10,860 whom also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ 293 00:14:10,860 --> 00:14:12,460 and particularly the glory that shall be revealed, 294 00:14:12,460 --> 00:14:15,620 feed the flock of God, which is among you, 295 00:14:15,620 --> 00:14:17,860 taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, 296 00:14:17,860 --> 00:14:21,140 but willingly, not a filthy leoker, but of a ready mind, 297 00:14:21,140 --> 00:14:22,980 neither is being lords over God's heritage, 298 00:14:22,980 --> 00:14:25,380 but being examples to the flock. 299 00:14:25,380 --> 00:14:28,980 Now in this particular passage, you see three terms 300 00:14:28,980 --> 00:14:31,340 that speak to the shepherds and what they're supposed to be 301 00:14:31,340 --> 00:14:33,020 and what they're supposed to do. 302 00:14:33,020 --> 00:14:34,460 The first term that you're gonna see, 303 00:14:34,460 --> 00:14:36,260 and I think there are three terms 304 00:14:36,260 --> 00:14:38,780 that are used interchangeably throughout the scriptures 305 00:14:38,780 --> 00:14:42,060 and they're all showing up in this one passage 306 00:14:42,060 --> 00:14:45,700 here in 1 Peter that all are referring to one office 307 00:14:45,700 --> 00:14:47,900 and that's the office of the pastor. 308 00:14:47,900 --> 00:14:51,780 You see the word elder, the word elder is the word 309 00:14:51,780 --> 00:14:53,900 presbuteras, presbuteras. 310 00:14:53,900 --> 00:14:58,660 It's where certain denomination got the name presbyterian. 311 00:14:58,660 --> 00:15:01,020 It's the same idea, presbuteras, okay? 312 00:15:01,020 --> 00:15:03,220 And it means elder, it means mature one. 313 00:15:03,220 --> 00:15:08,220 It speaks to a person's lack of maturity, 314 00:15:09,260 --> 00:15:10,980 meaning that they don't lack maturity, 315 00:15:10,980 --> 00:15:12,580 that they are mature in the Lord. 316 00:15:12,580 --> 00:15:16,540 That doesn't necessarily mean that they're old, okay? 317 00:15:17,580 --> 00:15:20,700 You can be mature without being old. 318 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:23,580 You can be old and not be mature. 319 00:15:23,580 --> 00:15:26,020 Anybody know people like that, right? 320 00:15:26,020 --> 00:15:29,020 Being some, and not always bad. 321 00:15:29,020 --> 00:15:33,980 Do we want to see people of all ages getting saved? 322 00:15:33,980 --> 00:15:34,820 We absolutely do. 323 00:15:34,820 --> 00:15:36,500 Hey, I was thrilled today to find out 324 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:38,580 that Pastor Corey got to lead a young lady 325 00:15:38,580 --> 00:15:40,900 to the Christ today after church. 326 00:15:40,900 --> 00:15:42,140 Isn't that awesome? 327 00:15:42,140 --> 00:15:47,140 And she understood what it meant to be a sinner 328 00:15:47,140 --> 00:15:49,620 and what it meant for Jesus to die for her sins 329 00:15:49,620 --> 00:15:51,100 and she called in the name of the Lord to save her. 330 00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:53,140 I'm pumped about that. 331 00:15:53,140 --> 00:15:57,700 And so the idea here though is elder being presbuteras. 332 00:15:57,700 --> 00:16:00,420 Then there's another word that says feed. 333 00:16:00,420 --> 00:16:05,420 That word is the word poimino, it's in Greek, 334 00:16:05,420 --> 00:16:09,540 but it's the idea of feed. 335 00:16:09,540 --> 00:16:14,540 It's really the verb form of the word pastor. 336 00:16:16,460 --> 00:16:21,460 So the word poimino is, I'm messing up tonight, 337 00:16:23,100 --> 00:16:25,060 is the word pastor, poimon. 338 00:16:25,060 --> 00:16:26,540 That's the word pastor. 339 00:16:26,540 --> 00:16:29,940 It's shepherd, the idea of shepherding. 340 00:16:29,940 --> 00:16:33,540 Have you ever heard of somebody calling a, 341 00:16:33,540 --> 00:16:37,020 you can even look at this particular picture up here, 342 00:16:37,020 --> 00:16:40,660 a painting that is a hillside with flocks and trees. 343 00:16:40,660 --> 00:16:42,740 They call that a pastoral scene. 344 00:16:42,740 --> 00:16:47,100 Have you guys ever heard somebody use that way? 345 00:16:47,100 --> 00:16:49,500 It comes from this same kind of idea 346 00:16:49,500 --> 00:16:50,700 of the word history here. 347 00:16:50,700 --> 00:16:54,380 So the idea of feeding the flock is the idea 348 00:16:54,380 --> 00:16:57,140 of shepherding the flock, providing for the flock. 349 00:16:57,140 --> 00:17:00,820 So you have elders, then you have literally 350 00:17:00,820 --> 00:17:02,380 the verb form of the word pastor. 351 00:17:02,380 --> 00:17:06,300 We even use the English way that way too. 352 00:17:06,300 --> 00:17:11,140 Sometimes the pastor pastors, he shepherds, 353 00:17:11,140 --> 00:17:14,700 he leads, he cares. 354 00:17:14,700 --> 00:17:15,660 Are you with me? 355 00:17:15,660 --> 00:17:18,460 That's what it, hey, what are you just doing? 356 00:17:18,460 --> 00:17:19,460 My pastoring duty. 357 00:17:19,460 --> 00:17:21,340 So that's what that idea is. 358 00:17:21,340 --> 00:17:23,900 Then you see this other term where it says, 359 00:17:23,900 --> 00:17:27,900 he says in verse four, I'm sorry, verse two, 360 00:17:29,580 --> 00:17:31,540 feed the flock of God which is among you, 361 00:17:31,540 --> 00:17:34,700 taking the oversight thereof. 362 00:17:34,700 --> 00:17:39,700 That word oversight is episcopio. 363 00:17:39,860 --> 00:17:43,940 It's where we get this word episcopos, 364 00:17:43,940 --> 00:17:46,380 there's some churches called the Episcopal church. 365 00:17:46,380 --> 00:17:48,620 It comes from this Greek word 366 00:17:48,620 --> 00:17:53,620 and it's literally translated in the noun form of it 367 00:17:54,900 --> 00:17:58,300 as bishop, it's the word bishop. 368 00:17:58,300 --> 00:18:02,780 So literally a way you could say this particular passage is, 369 00:18:02,780 --> 00:18:06,060 hey elders, I want you to pastor the flock, 370 00:18:06,060 --> 00:18:07,260 bishops them. 371 00:18:08,380 --> 00:18:09,860 That's basically what he's saying. 372 00:18:09,860 --> 00:18:14,220 Three terms, all talking about the same office. 373 00:18:14,220 --> 00:18:17,060 It's talking about these undershepherds. 374 00:18:17,060 --> 00:18:18,500 So what is the idea? 375 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:22,060 What does the elder, what does the pastor, 376 00:18:22,060 --> 00:18:25,660 what does the bishop, all three terms for the same office? 377 00:18:25,660 --> 00:18:29,060 What is his job to do? 378 00:18:29,060 --> 00:18:34,060 Feed the flock, feed the flock, pastor the flock, 379 00:18:34,140 --> 00:18:35,940 give them food. 380 00:18:35,940 --> 00:18:40,620 Now, what a literally a shepherd doesn't literally take the 381 00:18:40,620 --> 00:18:43,740 grass and shove it in their faces, right? 382 00:18:43,740 --> 00:18:47,420 He takes them where they can graze and teaches them to feed. 383 00:18:47,420 --> 00:18:49,020 And that's what he's telling them to do here. 384 00:18:49,020 --> 00:18:50,940 Hey, your job is to feed. 385 00:18:50,940 --> 00:18:53,200 Where did Peter get that idea? 386 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,200 Hey Peter, do you love me? 387 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:58,680 Feed my sheep, right? 388 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,640 And what Peter's saying to these other elders is, hey, 389 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,680 what I want you to do, I'm an elder too, what do we do? 390 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,120 We feed the sheep. 391 00:19:07,120 --> 00:19:11,480 Now, if the only time you eat on the word of God is here at 392 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,480 church, you're not gonna have enough, right? 393 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,080 And that's why we're doing things. 394 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,720 That's why I preach expositionally, taking verse by verse. 395 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:21,320 I wanna teach you how to do that even when I preach. 396 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,920 When we do discipleship groups in Sunday school class, 397 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:24,760 what are we doing? 398 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:26,160 We're going through the Bible verse by verse, 399 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,960 because this is the authority, right here. 400 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:30,360 This is what it is. 401 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:32,600 And this is where you eat from, right? 402 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,240 And this is what I, this is what I as a pastor, 403 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:40,080 Miles in the youth group, Cory in the family ministry, 404 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:41,720 all of our Sunday school teachers, what are we doing? 405 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:43,720 We're getting into the word of God. 406 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,920 This is where we eat from, amen? 407 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,960 And this is what we try to understand and try to put into 408 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:50,800 practice. 409 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:54,280 So he says, hey, I encourage you elders, 410 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,680 I encourage you who are leading the flock of God, 411 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,320 I want you to feed the flock of God, 412 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,240 and I want you to take the oversight. 413 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,040 Now, when you think about a shepherd, 414 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,920 what does it mean for a shepherd to oversee? 415 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:12,000 Think about that picture, right? 416 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,320 What is a shepherd oversee? 417 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:15,720 He is looking out over to the flock. 418 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,880 And he's looking, what does a shepherd wanna make sure the 419 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,800 sheep are able to do? 420 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:27,800 Eat, drink, be safe from people outside of the flock, 421 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:36,160 from thieves and from wolves, who's with me, right? 422 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:40,160 And sometimes from each other, from cranky sheep. 423 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,000 Anybody know any cranky sheep? 424 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,280 Do not point at them, okay? 425 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,900 No elbowing each other, right? 426 00:20:51,900 --> 00:20:54,380 You know sheep bite each other sometimes? 427 00:20:54,380 --> 00:20:57,140 It's not smart, not good, right? 428 00:20:57,140 --> 00:21:01,900 And so, and sheep wander, that's what they do. 429 00:21:01,900 --> 00:21:05,060 And so, yeah, he's feeding the flock of God, 430 00:21:05,060 --> 00:21:08,020 he's overseeing the flock of God, 431 00:21:08,020 --> 00:21:09,340 and then it says they protect him. 432 00:21:09,340 --> 00:21:12,180 If you go to taking the oversight, what does he do? 433 00:21:12,180 --> 00:21:15,260 So if you're taking notes on the lesson, 434 00:21:15,260 --> 00:21:18,380 three, you know, you have the shepherds, 435 00:21:18,380 --> 00:21:21,300 they feed the flock, they lead the flock, AB, 436 00:21:21,300 --> 00:21:23,500 and then see they protect the flock. 437 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:25,260 He even tells them how to do it, 438 00:21:25,260 --> 00:21:28,780 like what's the motivation and what's the flavor 439 00:21:28,780 --> 00:21:31,660 by which the shepherd does this? 440 00:21:31,660 --> 00:21:36,140 He says in verse two, not out of duty, but willingly. 441 00:21:37,020 --> 00:21:40,620 Not just cause you have to, but because you're called to, 442 00:21:40,620 --> 00:21:43,420 because you want to, and that what he says in verse two? 443 00:21:43,420 --> 00:21:44,260 Are you with me? 444 00:21:44,260 --> 00:21:45,860 And verse two, feed the flock of God 445 00:21:45,860 --> 00:21:47,420 which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, 446 00:21:47,420 --> 00:21:51,260 not by constraint, not out of just sheer guilt 447 00:21:51,260 --> 00:21:53,100 cause somebody forced you to do it. 448 00:21:54,980 --> 00:21:56,700 You've ever been served by somebody, 449 00:21:56,700 --> 00:21:59,340 let's talk about restaurant or maybe in retail, 450 00:21:59,340 --> 00:22:03,140 and you can tell they don't want to be there, right? 451 00:22:04,020 --> 00:22:05,740 The pizza just doesn't taste as good 452 00:22:05,740 --> 00:22:07,900 when the guy making the pizza doesn't care. 453 00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:11,220 I want the Italian guy whose name is attached to the pizza, 454 00:22:11,220 --> 00:22:14,780 making my pizza, and all God's people said, 455 00:22:14,780 --> 00:22:18,300 I'm sure that if Captain D was down at Captain D's, 456 00:22:18,300 --> 00:22:20,940 the fish would taste better, amen? 457 00:22:20,940 --> 00:22:21,780 Who is Captain D? 458 00:22:21,780 --> 00:22:22,620 Is he real? 459 00:22:22,620 --> 00:22:23,980 Is that a real person? 460 00:22:23,980 --> 00:22:25,100 I don't know. 461 00:22:25,100 --> 00:22:28,780 If Wendy is making my frosty, it's gonna be way better. 462 00:22:31,220 --> 00:22:32,460 I have no idea. 463 00:22:32,460 --> 00:22:34,940 Okay, can you tell I'm hungry? 464 00:22:34,940 --> 00:22:35,780 Okay. 465 00:22:38,220 --> 00:22:40,460 You want people that want to do it. 466 00:22:40,460 --> 00:22:43,060 You want people that care about what they're doing. 467 00:22:43,060 --> 00:22:47,580 And so if you're gonna lead, you wanna do it willingly. 468 00:22:47,580 --> 00:22:50,620 He says another thing, A, is not out of duty but willingly. 469 00:22:50,620 --> 00:22:52,980 B, is not for mere money but readily. 470 00:22:53,980 --> 00:22:58,820 He says it not for filthy, lucre but of a ready mind. 471 00:22:58,820 --> 00:23:03,420 Like if your desire is to be a pastor 472 00:23:03,420 --> 00:23:05,820 and you wanna do it cause you wanna make money, 473 00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:09,260 that is a bad idea. 474 00:23:09,260 --> 00:23:13,300 We know those guys and they give Jesus a bad name. 475 00:23:14,860 --> 00:23:19,020 And then he says, not by Lordship, but by example, 476 00:23:19,020 --> 00:23:22,460 in verse three he says, neither is being Lord's over God's 477 00:23:22,460 --> 00:23:26,260 heritage but in samples to the flock. 478 00:23:26,260 --> 00:23:29,460 Literally a shepherd in Jesus' day, 479 00:23:29,460 --> 00:23:31,020 and he even says, my sheep hear my voice 480 00:23:31,020 --> 00:23:33,180 and they know me and they follow me, 481 00:23:33,180 --> 00:23:36,220 there's this leading aspect that says, hey, come go this way. 482 00:23:36,220 --> 00:23:41,140 One person said, the shepherd leads the sheep, 483 00:23:41,140 --> 00:23:43,140 he doesn't drive the sheep. 484 00:23:43,140 --> 00:23:44,820 It's better to lead the sheep than drive the sheep. 485 00:23:44,820 --> 00:23:48,620 Now I've had people in my ministry say, 486 00:23:48,620 --> 00:23:50,900 when I'm holding them accountable for things, 487 00:23:50,900 --> 00:23:52,260 not that I'm the only one that does that, 488 00:23:52,260 --> 00:23:53,940 but in church discipline situations, 489 00:23:53,940 --> 00:23:56,620 I've had people when I'm going, you can't do that. 490 00:23:57,620 --> 00:24:00,500 You can be here but you can't cause division. 491 00:24:00,500 --> 00:24:04,140 And they called that driving the sheep, okay? 492 00:24:04,140 --> 00:24:06,380 And I'm saying, that's not driving the sheep. 493 00:24:08,060 --> 00:24:11,460 It's, I can't tell if you're a sheep or a wolf right now. 494 00:24:13,780 --> 00:24:14,900 That's kind of where you're at. 495 00:24:14,900 --> 00:24:16,900 If you're creating that kind of division, 496 00:24:19,140 --> 00:24:21,220 we go after the sheep, we help feed the sheep, 497 00:24:21,220 --> 00:24:23,580 we protect the sheep, we shoot at the wolves. 498 00:24:24,860 --> 00:24:27,860 And that's kind of how you have to deal with it. 499 00:24:27,860 --> 00:24:31,460 David had a slingshot for a reason, amen. 500 00:24:31,460 --> 00:24:36,140 And so that's the idea here, not by Lordship, 501 00:24:36,140 --> 00:24:39,260 not like, but the idea here is not that like, 502 00:24:39,260 --> 00:24:42,220 you're in this position to be served, 503 00:24:42,220 --> 00:24:43,580 no, you're in the position to serve. 504 00:24:43,580 --> 00:24:46,860 That's what Jesus also taught Peter, isn't it? 505 00:24:46,860 --> 00:24:49,380 Jesus taught Peter, hey, the greatest among you, 506 00:24:49,380 --> 00:24:51,900 let him be your servant. 507 00:24:53,700 --> 00:24:55,860 And so that's the idea. 508 00:24:55,860 --> 00:25:00,860 So how is the under shepherd supposed to lead, 509 00:25:00,860 --> 00:25:04,300 not out of duty, but willingly not for filthy lucre, 510 00:25:04,300 --> 00:25:08,660 from your money, but readily, not by Lordship, but by example. 511 00:25:08,660 --> 00:25:11,340 So that first role is the role of the shepherd. 512 00:25:11,340 --> 00:25:15,460 The second role is the flock, the flock, okay? 513 00:25:17,100 --> 00:25:18,940 The flock, verse three, he says, 514 00:25:18,940 --> 00:25:20,220 not being lords over God's heritage, 515 00:25:20,220 --> 00:25:22,420 but in samples to the, what is it? 516 00:25:23,380 --> 00:25:25,140 Examples to the who? 517 00:25:25,140 --> 00:25:28,060 The flock, down verse five, he talks to the flock, 518 00:25:28,060 --> 00:25:32,260 he says, likewise ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. 519 00:25:32,260 --> 00:25:34,660 He says, hey, you people who are young, 520 00:25:34,660 --> 00:25:36,700 it's good for you to follow leadership. 521 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:41,340 Submit to leadership, follow leadership. 522 00:25:41,340 --> 00:25:42,780 He also says in verse five, 523 00:25:42,780 --> 00:25:45,300 ye all of you be subject one to another. 524 00:25:45,300 --> 00:25:46,620 You know what that means? 525 00:25:47,340 --> 00:25:50,180 If everybody in the church is putting each other first, 526 00:25:50,180 --> 00:25:52,820 that's a great thing for the church. 527 00:25:52,820 --> 00:25:55,060 The church that's fighting because they want their way, 528 00:25:55,060 --> 00:25:58,980 that's a bunch of sheep biting each other, 529 00:25:58,980 --> 00:26:01,260 wandering all off together, does that make sense? 530 00:26:01,260 --> 00:26:02,940 That's not good. 531 00:26:02,940 --> 00:26:06,980 So he says, be subject one to another. 532 00:26:06,980 --> 00:26:10,140 He says, clothe with, what does it say? 533 00:26:10,140 --> 00:26:11,260 Clothe of what? 534 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:15,100 Humility, humility. 535 00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:16,660 You know what humility means? 536 00:26:16,660 --> 00:26:20,100 You can't be subject one to another 537 00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:23,700 without putting other people ahead of yourself. 538 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:26,420 Everybody wants to be in a relationship where it's you first, 539 00:26:26,420 --> 00:26:29,060 no you first, no you first, no you first, why? 540 00:26:29,060 --> 00:26:31,820 Because you know each other, have your back. 541 00:26:31,820 --> 00:26:34,020 So what does the flock do? 542 00:26:34,020 --> 00:26:37,820 Well, verse five, it submits to leaders as unto the Lord. 543 00:26:37,820 --> 00:26:41,620 A, if you're taking an outline, this is under number two, 544 00:26:41,620 --> 00:26:45,700 the flock ought to submit to leaders as unto the Lord. 545 00:26:45,700 --> 00:26:46,700 They submit to leaders. 546 00:26:46,700 --> 00:26:50,020 They also submit to each other. 547 00:26:50,020 --> 00:26:51,780 Do you see that in the text? 548 00:26:51,780 --> 00:26:54,580 Be subject one to another, be clothe with humility. 549 00:26:56,100 --> 00:27:01,100 And then thirdly, in verse six, they submit to who? 550 00:27:02,100 --> 00:27:06,100 Humbra yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God 551 00:27:07,380 --> 00:27:10,060 that he may exalt you into due time. 552 00:27:10,060 --> 00:27:12,740 So the flock ought to submit to God. 553 00:27:12,740 --> 00:27:15,740 Hopefully when they're submitting to their leaders 554 00:27:15,740 --> 00:27:17,980 and to each other, they're submitting to the Lord 555 00:27:17,980 --> 00:27:21,700 because God puts leaders in and God acts as unto them. 556 00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:24,220 God adds to the church, right? 557 00:27:24,220 --> 00:27:25,860 People here because God adds to it 558 00:27:25,860 --> 00:27:29,060 and we're also submitting to God. 559 00:27:29,060 --> 00:27:32,180 And then lastly, the flock ought to depend on God. 560 00:27:32,180 --> 00:27:37,180 Look at verse seven, casting all your care upon who's him? 561 00:27:39,620 --> 00:27:40,980 Who's him? 562 00:27:40,980 --> 00:27:44,340 God, because God cares for you. 563 00:27:44,340 --> 00:27:46,420 Not casting all your care on the pastor 564 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:48,340 because he cares for you. 565 00:27:48,340 --> 00:27:51,780 Not casting all your care on each other. 566 00:27:51,780 --> 00:27:54,220 Now, should we care for each other? 567 00:27:54,220 --> 00:27:56,100 Should the pastor care for the flock? 568 00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:57,060 The flock care for each other? 569 00:27:57,060 --> 00:27:58,260 Absolutely. 570 00:27:58,260 --> 00:28:01,420 But ultimately, God's the one that's gotta do this thing. 571 00:28:01,420 --> 00:28:05,220 And we cast all our care on him for he cares for us. 572 00:28:05,220 --> 00:28:07,860 That leads us to this third role 573 00:28:07,860 --> 00:28:10,820 that's mentioned in verses four and then 10 and 11. 574 00:28:10,820 --> 00:28:12,780 Look at verse four. 575 00:28:12,780 --> 00:28:13,980 It says in verse four, 576 00:28:13,980 --> 00:28:18,460 And when the chief shepherd shall appear. 577 00:28:18,460 --> 00:28:19,980 Who is the chief shepherd? 578 00:28:21,060 --> 00:28:24,060 Jesus Christ, is he coming back? 579 00:28:24,060 --> 00:28:26,220 He is coming back. 580 00:28:26,220 --> 00:28:30,260 And when he appears, he talks here to the elders, 581 00:28:30,260 --> 00:28:33,820 you shall receive a crown of glory that fatedeth not away. 582 00:28:33,820 --> 00:28:36,100 This chief shepherd, verse 10, 583 00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:39,140 he go down to verse 10 and see 584 00:28:39,140 --> 00:28:42,380 as he begins to talk about this God of all grace. 585 00:28:42,380 --> 00:28:43,500 Verse 10, but the God of all grace 586 00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:45,220 that called us into his eternal glory 587 00:28:45,220 --> 00:28:48,300 by Christ Jesus after that you have suffered a while, 588 00:28:49,180 --> 00:28:50,220 what does this God do? 589 00:28:50,220 --> 00:28:52,020 He makes you perfect, 590 00:28:52,020 --> 00:28:55,260 establish, strengthen and settle you. 591 00:28:55,260 --> 00:29:00,260 To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. 592 00:29:02,620 --> 00:29:04,420 What does the chief shepherd do? 593 00:29:04,420 --> 00:29:06,540 What does God do for us? 594 00:29:06,540 --> 00:29:09,620 Well, quickly going through this outline, 595 00:29:09,620 --> 00:29:10,460 what does he do? 596 00:29:10,460 --> 00:29:12,540 He rewards us, right? 597 00:29:12,540 --> 00:29:14,460 When we live for him and we serve for him 598 00:29:14,460 --> 00:29:16,620 and we're doing it with the right motivation, 599 00:29:16,620 --> 00:29:17,820 he's gonna reward us. 600 00:29:17,820 --> 00:29:20,060 Anybody looking forward to heaven 601 00:29:20,060 --> 00:29:22,620 and the rewards that are gonna be there? 602 00:29:22,620 --> 00:29:24,100 Like what did Jesus say? 603 00:29:24,100 --> 00:29:27,500 Don't lay up for yourselves treasures on earth. 604 00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:29,460 Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven 605 00:29:29,460 --> 00:29:32,420 where rust is in that, where thieves aren't. 606 00:29:32,420 --> 00:29:34,380 They're not up there, right? 607 00:29:34,380 --> 00:29:36,700 Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven 608 00:29:36,700 --> 00:29:38,660 and God's gonna reward us. 609 00:29:38,660 --> 00:29:42,140 What does God do when he shepherds? 610 00:29:42,140 --> 00:29:43,660 God rewards the great shepherd, 611 00:29:43,660 --> 00:29:45,940 rewards the great shepherd, shepherds. 612 00:29:45,940 --> 00:29:50,940 It says here, using suffering, he makes us perfect. 613 00:29:51,220 --> 00:29:53,500 That idea for perfect there is not that you are 614 00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:55,220 without sin or free from sin. 615 00:29:55,220 --> 00:29:56,740 Although one day we will be. 616 00:29:56,740 --> 00:29:58,740 One day he'll do that for us. 617 00:29:58,740 --> 00:30:01,020 Anybody looking forward to no sin? 618 00:30:01,020 --> 00:30:01,860 He's gonna do that, 619 00:30:01,860 --> 00:30:04,220 but make you perfect there as he matures us. 620 00:30:05,260 --> 00:30:08,500 This great shepherd is the one who helps us go from 621 00:30:08,500 --> 00:30:10,540 being an infant to being a toddler, 622 00:30:10,540 --> 00:30:14,100 to being young, to being mature, reproducing. 623 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:16,900 That's what God does for us. 624 00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:19,380 He establishes us. 625 00:30:19,380 --> 00:30:21,500 Think about this in the context of the passage 626 00:30:21,500 --> 00:30:24,700 talking about this great shepherd and the sheep. 627 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:26,980 Do sheep need to be matured? 628 00:30:27,860 --> 00:30:28,700 They need to grow. 629 00:30:28,700 --> 00:30:31,340 Do sheep need to be established? 630 00:30:31,340 --> 00:30:33,060 Yes, do they need to be strengthened? 631 00:30:33,060 --> 00:30:34,580 That's what he does. 632 00:30:34,580 --> 00:30:36,580 Do sheep ever need to be settled? 633 00:30:37,980 --> 00:30:39,300 Yeah? 634 00:30:39,300 --> 00:30:40,660 Do sheep ever need to be settled? 635 00:30:40,660 --> 00:30:43,700 Do you ever see sheep get skittish and run off? 636 00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:46,060 That's what the sheep do. 637 00:30:46,060 --> 00:30:48,620 And at the end, what's all of this for? 638 00:30:48,620 --> 00:30:50,700 What's all of this for? 639 00:30:50,700 --> 00:30:51,820 Who's it for? 640 00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:56,500 It's for his glory and his honor and his dominion. 641 00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:59,420 That's what we're trying to do. 642 00:30:59,420 --> 00:31:02,060 We wanna be what God wants it to be so he gets the honor. 643 00:31:02,060 --> 00:31:05,140 So we've got the shepherd, we've got the flock, 644 00:31:05,140 --> 00:31:07,100 we've got this great shepherd. 645 00:31:07,100 --> 00:31:09,540 What's the fourth role I'm talking about? 646 00:31:09,540 --> 00:31:13,380 Well, there's one more that's associated with the church. 647 00:31:14,460 --> 00:31:16,420 This one doesn't like the church. 648 00:31:17,380 --> 00:31:21,660 This one likes sheep, but for the wrong reasons. 649 00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:24,500 It's the roaring lion. 650 00:31:25,420 --> 00:31:26,420 Look at verse eight. 651 00:31:28,060 --> 00:31:29,260 Be sober. 652 00:31:30,580 --> 00:31:32,540 Be vigilant. 653 00:31:32,540 --> 00:31:35,820 Because your adversary, the devil, 654 00:31:35,820 --> 00:31:40,820 as a roaring lion, walketh about, 655 00:31:41,060 --> 00:31:44,940 seeking whom he may, what's the word? 656 00:31:46,020 --> 00:31:48,660 What do lions like to do to sheep? 657 00:31:48,660 --> 00:31:49,620 Eat them. 658 00:31:53,180 --> 00:31:55,180 What do we do with that? 659 00:31:56,540 --> 00:31:59,940 The flock and the shepherd must be aware. 660 00:32:00,820 --> 00:32:04,020 The flock and the shepherd must be aware. 661 00:32:04,020 --> 00:32:07,780 Why? Because a roaring lion does two things. 662 00:32:07,780 --> 00:32:09,740 A roaring lion prowls. 663 00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:12,100 Do you see that in the verse? 664 00:32:12,100 --> 00:32:15,100 He walketh about, he prowls. 665 00:32:15,100 --> 00:32:17,860 I was watching, Zeke, was that today? 666 00:32:17,860 --> 00:32:22,220 Where we were watching a video and we saw the Impala 667 00:32:22,220 --> 00:32:23,980 and you saw the cheetah. 668 00:32:23,980 --> 00:32:24,980 Were you with me? 669 00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:27,700 You remember that? 670 00:32:27,700 --> 00:32:29,780 And that cheetah was stalking. 671 00:32:29,780 --> 00:32:34,780 And that thing was grazing and it had no idea. 672 00:32:36,380 --> 00:32:39,940 Closer and closer and closer and closer. 673 00:32:39,940 --> 00:32:43,940 And then took off. 674 00:32:43,940 --> 00:32:47,860 And the Impala did not get away. 675 00:32:47,860 --> 00:32:48,860 The cheetah got him. 676 00:32:50,220 --> 00:32:52,380 That's kind of the picture here. 677 00:32:52,380 --> 00:32:54,140 You need to be sober and vigilant. 678 00:32:54,140 --> 00:32:56,300 Why? You've got an enemy. 679 00:32:56,300 --> 00:32:58,900 The church has an enemy. 680 00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:01,860 The church has an enemy. 681 00:33:03,180 --> 00:33:08,180 And this enemy prowls and this enemy devours. 682 00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:14,580 So what is the attitude of the flock? 683 00:33:14,580 --> 00:33:17,900 What is the attitude of the shepherds of the flock? 684 00:33:17,900 --> 00:33:20,380 What is the attitude of the people in the flock? 685 00:33:20,380 --> 00:33:21,500 Three things. 686 00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:23,900 How do shepherds and sheep respond? 687 00:33:23,900 --> 00:33:25,780 Number one, sobriety. 688 00:33:25,780 --> 00:33:26,620 Subriety. 689 00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:28,740 Subriety. 690 00:33:30,780 --> 00:33:32,940 Church family, I want to tell you this, okay? 691 00:33:35,020 --> 00:33:38,060 We're not just getting together three times a week 692 00:33:38,060 --> 00:33:39,020 to have fun. 693 00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:45,700 We're not getting together to do a religious club here. 694 00:33:49,220 --> 00:33:50,780 Souls are at stake. 695 00:33:50,780 --> 00:33:54,420 God's glory is at stake. 696 00:33:57,180 --> 00:34:00,420 What would Finley be like without Trinity Baptist Church? 697 00:34:02,660 --> 00:34:03,900 I think it'd be worse. 698 00:34:05,020 --> 00:34:05,860 I really do. 699 00:34:07,620 --> 00:34:09,940 I think how would your Christian life be 700 00:34:09,940 --> 00:34:11,700 if there wasn't Trinity Baptist Church? 701 00:34:11,700 --> 00:34:14,020 I'm not saying this is the only church God uses. 702 00:34:14,020 --> 00:34:16,740 I'm glad there's other churches in town God uses, amen. 703 00:34:16,740 --> 00:34:21,740 But we've got an enemy and he's prowling 704 00:34:25,580 --> 00:34:26,980 and he wants to devour us. 705 00:34:26,980 --> 00:34:31,420 He wants to cause us to not be unified. 706 00:34:31,420 --> 00:34:34,020 And so what we need to do is understand 707 00:34:34,020 --> 00:34:36,180 that this isn't just about having fun together. 708 00:34:36,180 --> 00:34:38,980 This isn't just about enjoying one another. 709 00:34:38,980 --> 00:34:43,300 We got to grow and mature so that we can go out, 710 00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:48,300 not dismissed, but sent to make disciples of all nations, 711 00:34:50,700 --> 00:34:54,180 starting in Jerusalem, then to Judea, then to Samaria, 712 00:34:54,180 --> 00:34:55,780 and then to the other most part of the earth. 713 00:34:55,780 --> 00:34:57,340 Not so that we'll be famous, 714 00:34:57,340 --> 00:34:59,180 not so that we're gonna be better, 715 00:34:59,180 --> 00:35:02,260 not so that everybody knows how great a church we are, 716 00:35:02,260 --> 00:35:05,380 why, it's for his honor and for his glory. 717 00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:08,700 And so people will know and love 718 00:35:08,700 --> 00:35:11,860 and follow the great shepherd Jesus Christ. 719 00:35:11,860 --> 00:35:14,500 We gotta take what we're doing seriously. 720 00:35:14,500 --> 00:35:16,180 You know what's cool next week? 721 00:35:16,180 --> 00:35:17,900 I'm praying, you gotta pray. 722 00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:20,060 There's some people that have recently got saved 723 00:35:21,300 --> 00:35:23,500 that are gonna get baptized. 724 00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:26,260 And these people don't know much about Jesus 725 00:35:26,260 --> 00:35:28,460 except they know that they're saved 726 00:35:28,460 --> 00:35:30,780 and we're trying to disciple them. 727 00:35:30,780 --> 00:35:32,100 People that are being discipled 728 00:35:32,100 --> 00:35:34,620 are not winning people to Jesus 729 00:35:34,620 --> 00:35:36,620 and they're starting to disciple others. 730 00:35:36,620 --> 00:35:38,420 And as that gets started going, 731 00:35:38,420 --> 00:35:40,060 you know who's excited about that? 732 00:35:40,060 --> 00:35:42,460 Your pastor's excited about that. 733 00:35:42,460 --> 00:35:43,700 I'm excited about that. 734 00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:46,100 I hope you're excited about that. 735 00:35:46,100 --> 00:35:48,060 Like, well, I really like the new carpet, 736 00:35:48,060 --> 00:35:49,140 I really like the new gym. 737 00:35:49,140 --> 00:35:50,420 What about new Christians? 738 00:35:50,420 --> 00:35:51,420 How about that? 739 00:35:53,140 --> 00:35:54,660 The carpet's going away. 740 00:35:56,140 --> 00:35:57,420 I really like this song. 741 00:35:57,420 --> 00:36:00,620 Okay, cool, we'll sing a new song in heaven. 742 00:36:00,620 --> 00:36:03,780 What about people that weren't going to heaven, 743 00:36:03,780 --> 00:36:06,460 who were going to hell, going to heaven? 744 00:36:06,460 --> 00:36:07,300 That's pretty amazing. 745 00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:09,300 You know who done like that? 746 00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:12,900 This roaring lion that's prowling, 747 00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:14,380 seeking whom he made of ours. 748 00:36:14,380 --> 00:36:15,620 So let's be very serious. 749 00:36:15,620 --> 00:36:18,300 We've got a mission that we gotta do. 750 00:36:19,300 --> 00:36:20,940 We gotta be serious. 751 00:36:20,940 --> 00:36:22,340 We gotta be vigilant. 752 00:36:22,340 --> 00:36:24,660 He said be sober, be vigilant. 753 00:36:24,660 --> 00:36:29,180 Vigilant means not quitting easily, 754 00:36:29,180 --> 00:36:34,180 resilient, courageous, moving forward. 755 00:36:34,180 --> 00:36:36,180 Your adversary, the devil, he says, 756 00:36:36,180 --> 00:36:37,780 walk at the bout like a roaring lion, 757 00:36:37,780 --> 00:36:38,620 seeking whom he made of ours. 758 00:36:38,620 --> 00:36:40,020 He says in verse nine, 759 00:36:40,020 --> 00:36:42,100 whom, talking about the devil, 760 00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:47,100 resist steadfast in the faith, 761 00:36:48,660 --> 00:36:51,340 knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished 762 00:36:51,340 --> 00:36:53,780 in your brethren that are in the world. 763 00:36:53,780 --> 00:36:55,380 What he's saying is this, 764 00:36:56,660 --> 00:36:59,300 the devil's not just trying to take out Christians. 765 00:37:00,500 --> 00:37:02,900 He's trying to take out Christians. 766 00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:05,420 He's trying to take out everybody. 767 00:37:06,980 --> 00:37:09,060 Satan hates people. 768 00:37:13,620 --> 00:37:15,260 Satan hates people. 769 00:37:16,580 --> 00:37:18,340 People are made in the image of God. 770 00:37:18,340 --> 00:37:19,660 And if he can't destroy God, 771 00:37:19,660 --> 00:37:22,580 he destroys people who are in the God's image. 772 00:37:25,700 --> 00:37:27,220 We gotta love people. 773 00:37:28,820 --> 00:37:30,060 We gotta love people. 774 00:37:30,060 --> 00:37:33,260 And we gotta fight him for every soul we can. 775 00:37:34,460 --> 00:37:35,300 Right? 776 00:37:36,220 --> 00:37:37,980 We have an enemy. 777 00:37:37,980 --> 00:37:40,580 But the good news is we have a great shepherd 778 00:37:40,580 --> 00:37:42,860 who loves us and cares for us. 779 00:37:42,860 --> 00:37:46,460 He matures us, he establishes us, 780 00:37:46,460 --> 00:37:49,940 he strengthens us, and he settles us 781 00:37:49,940 --> 00:37:51,260 so that at the end of the day, 782 00:37:51,260 --> 00:37:54,060 he can get the glory and he can get the honor. 783 00:37:55,260 --> 00:37:57,660 And everybody that needs to get saved gets saved. 784 00:37:57,660 --> 00:38:02,660 And that's a cool illustration that Peter gives us. 785 00:38:04,340 --> 00:38:06,540 There's shepherds, there's flocks, 786 00:38:06,540 --> 00:38:09,580 there's the great shepherd, but there is that roaring lion. 787 00:38:09,580 --> 00:38:11,780 And we gotta be careful for that. 788 00:38:11,780 --> 00:38:30,780 Would you bow your heads and close your eyes with me tonight?