What do you really want this year, really?

Someone Who Cares

People without a Shepherd “…my people are wandering like lost sheep; they are attacked because they have no shepherd. “My anger burns against your shepherds, and I will punish these leaders. For the L ORD of Heaven’s Armies has arrived to look after Judah, his flock.” (Zechariah 10:2–3, NLT)

HE CALLS US PERSONALLY Someone Who Cares

He Knows Your Name He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out, (John 10:3 NLT)

When He Calls Us… We Belong – 4 After he has gathered his own flock, He Goes Before Us –he walks ahead of them, We Learn His Voice –and they follow him because they know his voice, (John 10:4 NLT)

When He Calls Us… We Are Protected –They won’t follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don’t know his voice, (John 10:5 NLT)

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HE PROTECTS US SACRIFICIALLY Someone Who Cares

Why Jesus Came My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life, (John 10:10 NLT)

The Wolf Among Us The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy, (John 10:10, NLT)

Arab Proverb If into the land of claws and fangs one sets to graze his bleating fold, and o’er them does not keep his watch, he hands the wolf his crook to hold.

He Sacrificed… His Life for Ours –“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep, (John 10:11 NLT)

He Sacrificed… Because We Are His –A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep because they don’t belong to him and he isn’t their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock, (John 10:12 NLT)

He Sacrificed… Because He Truly Cares –The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep, (John 10:13 NLT)

1 John 3:16 (NLT) We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us.

HE KNOWS US COMPLETELY Someone Who Cares

John 10:14–15 (NLT) 14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me, 15 just as my Father knows me and I know the Father.

Ezekiel 34:11–12, (NLT) “For this is what the Sovereign L ORD says: I myself will search and find my sheep. I will be like a shepherd looking for his scattered flock. I will find my sheep and rescue them from all the places where they were scattered...”