Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Sermon given by our visiting preacher Archdeacon Dave Middlebrook on the 25/4/21.
Sermon starts at 3:27
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Psalm 23
1 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
2 He makes me lie down in green
pastures; he leads me beside still waters;
3 he restores my soul. He leads me in right
paths for his name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no
evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff—they comfort me.
5 You prepare a
table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup
overflows.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I
shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long.
John 10.11-18
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the
sheep.
12 The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees
the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away—and the wolf snatches them
and scatters them.
13 The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care
for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know
me,
15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for
the sheep.
16 I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them
also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
17 For
this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up
again.
18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power
to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. I have received this command
from my Father.”