![]() ![]() Not in a general way, as devils and external professors may know him, but with a special, spiritual, and saving knowledge: Christ's own approve of him, as their shepherd and their Saviour, and desire no other they love him above all, in the sincerity of their souls, and with a love as strong as death they trust in him as their shepherd, believing they shall not want and appropriate him to themselves, as their own and care for him, his cause and interest, his Gospel, ordinances, and ministers and are not ashamed to own him as theirs, in the most public manner. ![]() 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. Instead, He says: My sheep hear my voice, and I know. 15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. In todays Gospel passage, Jesus did not say all those who come to gather around me are my sheep. So as to call them all by their names: Christ has an universal, special, distinct, and exact knowledge of all his sheep, as they are the choice of his Father, as his Father's gift to him and as his own purchase he bears an affectionate love to them, and takes special care of them indulges them with intimate communion with himself and owns and acknowledges them as his, both here and hereafter: 14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. Dear heavenly Father, bless me with the strength and determination to always put. I am the good shepherd ( See Gill on John 10:11).
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