5/8/22 – 4th Sunday of Easter - Our glorified Savior is our Good Shepherd - Ezekiel 34:25-31


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The Easter Season
The Resurrection of Christ is the essential truth of the Christian faith. We continue to celebrate the importance of the resurrection during the Sundays of Easter.


This Sunday
Our glorified Savior is our Good Shepherd.

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First Lesson: Ezekiel 34:25-31
See what it means to have God as a shepherd! Not just protection from wolves or finding plenty of pasture. God as Shepherd means peace and showers and fruit and crops! Security and broken yokes, safety and freedom from famine! Why would God do all this? Simply so that we might know that he is our God, and we are his people. See what it means to have God as a shepherd!

Second Lesson Revelation 7:9-17
The paradox of Christ is that he is both Lamb and Shepherd. He saves his flock, by shedding his blood as the Lamb sacrificed for sin. This is the Good Shepherd we needed: God in the flesh, sacrificed for our atonement. But now, washed in his blood, the white robed host is led by the Shepherd-Lamb to the springs of living water and a life where everything that once was wrong is made right forever.

Gospel: John 10:22-30
Christ’s words to his enemies were are simple as they were stark: You do not believe that I am the Christ because you are not my sheep. As a shepherd dividing goats from the sheep, Jesus drew a sharp distinction between these unbelievers questioning him and the believers who followed him. They did not know him, would not follow him, and would be lost forever. But for his disciples, for us, Christ said they knew him, they hear him, they follow him, and they will live forever. All this can only be true because our Good Shepherd is God in the flesh.

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