SUNDAY SCHOOL continued the door of the fold. The shepherd oft- times sits down in the opening to the fold after the sheep have been led there in and thus keeps any intruders from entering or any sheep from going out except by his permission. Thus the same individual becomes both shepherd and door. How like Christ! He is both the way to salvation and Salvation itself. Memory Verse: "I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine" (John 10:14). Many times the Lord Jesus told stories to help the people to understand God’s love fpr them. These were earthly stories with heavenly meanings. One day the Saviour compared Himself to a good shepherd, one who was willing to give His life for His sheep. He also called Himself the door. In the land where Jesus lived the sheepfolds had no door—the shepherd himself lay across the opening so that no sheep could go out nor any enemy come in unless they stepped over his body. The Lord Jesus is the only Door through which we may enter heaven. All others who claim to be the way to God are liars. Those who try to come in by another way are thieves and robbers in God’s sight. The Lord Jesus likened Christians to sheep. He said that they will not follow the voice of a stranger as many today who call themselves Christians are doing. He knows each one of His sheep and never loses them. Once a sheep — always a sheep. After we have truly received the Lord Jesus as Saviour we can never be lost again. We may sin and grieve Him, but we are still His child. He said, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand?’ (John 10:27,28).- Is Jesus your Shepherd today? END. Helps For the Children Jesus' Story of a Shepherd John 10:1-30
expect great things from God. Moses argued with the Almighty in such terms as these: “Yes, but I am not eloquent; yes, but they will not listen to me.” God answered, “Say . . . I AM hath sent me unto you.” In oth er words, it is as if the Lord said, “ It is not a matter1of who you are but who I AM.” So in our unwor thiness, let us, like Amos of old, say, “ I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit: And the Lord took me.” Nothing in myself . . . but God! To the sinner, let this picture re veal your lost condition. Read these Free Calendars
B U T G O D from page 14 is perished; the rulers are in sinful collusion, not even friends, not even wives, may be trusted. Then he turns upward with, “Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.” All else fails . . . but God! As you look back over your life, I am sure that you have occasion to thank God for the unnumbered times when everything else had failed, but God came to the rescue. Health had broken— but God! Your friends had deceived you— but God! Business had failed —• but God! Loved ones had passed away— but God! And right there is the shame of our lives today, that when God has proved Himself again and again a very present help in time of trouble, we should leave Him out of our calculations and measure our undertakings, without reckoning on that unseen factor— But God. Too often He is a last re sort, and prayer is a final expedient, as with the elderly woman who in her illness was told, “You must trust God,” and who replied, “Has it come to that?” We “reason” among ourselves “be cause we have no bread,” and forget Him who spreads a table in the wil derness. We measure the situations by the size of the enemy and forget to say, as did King Asa, “Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power.” We decide just about how much we can or cannot do and be, and we limit it all vvith the old ali bis, “Yes, but my family . . .” ; “Yes, but my nerves . . .” ; “Yes, but my circumstances . . .” Why not put it the other way, “ Yes, but God! If God be for us, who can be against us?” What if everybody has failed us so that we must say with Paul, “No man stood with me, but all men forsook me” ? Let us move on with him and say, “Notwithstanding, the Lord stood with me” ! What if men do conspire against us? Let us say to them as did Joseph ' to his brethren: “Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it for good” ! So may our ex periences begin like the Negro spir itual, “Nobody knows de trouble I see,” but end as it ends with, “Glory, glory, hallelujah.” Adoniram Judson caught a vision of evangelizing Burma. “ Impossible,” you say. Certainly, if you leave out God. Moody, starting to England on his first evangelistic mission, said, “ I go to win ten thousand souls to Jesus Christ.” “ Impossible,” do you say? Yes, . . . but God! Why do we today not follow in the train of these giants of old? We are afraid—afraid to attempt great things for God and
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