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November 1929
The Security o f the Believer B y D r . W . P. W h ite (Address delivered at the Summer School of the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles)
“But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. 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. My Father who gave them unto me is greater than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one ."—John 10:26-30. UR Lord was speaking to a company of unbe lieving Jews. He tells them they are not His sheep because they do not believe Him. Only those who believe in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ are called “sheep” in His Word, and only such have a right to claim the promise of the text. “M y ” I like t h a t
upon us with the love of complacency saying : “My sheep” We talk much about our possession in Him. He talks much about His possession in us.
“Can I tell the wondrous fulness Of His love so rich and free? Or measure the priceless value Of the blood He shed for me? No, ’tis beyond my telling, ’Tis deeper than thought can go, And my heart it fails to measure The depth of the love I owe.” “ S h ee p ”
The possessive pronoun “my’
suggests specialty of possession. The w o r d “sheep”
in the text sug ges t s specialty of disposition. I was not born a sheep. I had to be b o r n again. I was born again when I believed in my Lord and Saviour J e s u s Christ. A sheep follows a shep herd. A sheep loves the things t h e s he phe r d loves and hates the things t h e shepherd hates. E v e î •y bo rn- again one loves the T w e n t y - Third P s a !1m, w h i c h is the P s a 1m of the sheep. “The Lord’s my shepherd : I’ ll not want. He m a k e s me down to lie In pastures green He leadeth m( The quiet waters by. “My soul He doth restore again, And me to wall doth make Within the paths of righteousness E’en for His own name’s sake."
possessive pro noun “my” on the lips of Christ w h e n He is looking at m e! I have seen t h e young husband turn from the marriage a l t a r a n d introduce his wife to some old friends and there was music in h i s v o i c e w h e n he said: “My w i f e.” I have s e e n the y o u n g mother start o u t with her baby in the new baby buggy with all the fine covers and pil lows and things made by the sis ters, cousins, and aunts. The babe was asleep but she met an old college c h u m and t he b a b e w a s n ’t asleep any more! She turned down the covers and with all the pride of a mother’s h e a r t she s a i d : “My baby.” Up yon
“He leadeth me beside the still waters.” —Psalm 23:2.
der in the Glory right now my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ sits at the right hand of the Father looking down
I am so glad that I have the Shepherd’s care. “He calleth his own sheep by name and leadeth them out.”
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