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Show The Good Shepherd. Lesson for February 28: John 10: l-ll. Golden Text: John 10: 16. In contrast with the proud leaders lead-ers of religion among the people who had cast the man born blind out of the synagogue. Jesus, as we And in the day's lesson, spoke of himself as the Good Shepherd. What we have learned of ancient shepherds of Palestine enables us to learn much of the nature and mission of Jesus as the Good Shepherd. It was usual for several ! shepherds to use a common fold for their sheep during the , night. With the morning, each shepherd came and called forth his sheep I by name. The sheep belonging to ' i him knew his voice and would follow no one but him as he led them out to their grazing. Thus Jesus reveals the wonder of his love in calling each re- deemed person by name and leading lead-ing them forth in security along life's pathway and through all the scenes of their every-day. Jesus shows the sacrificial spirit of the shepherd, who will lay down his life for the sheep. Jesus gives himself freely for men that they may find safety and joy through all the days and eternal life In the great hereafter. All others who vie for the souls of men are as thieves and robbers who would scale the wall of the fold and steal sway the sheep. While what Jesus 1 said was a rebuke to the scribes and Pharisees, it will also apply to anything that men follow today other than the Goai Shepherd. |