Show Me Thy Ways – The Good Shepherd
“This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them” (John 10:6)
“I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine“. Then addressing certain Jews, he continued, “Ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; and I give unto them dispensational life, and they shall by no means perish in the age, and no one shall wrest them out of my hands. My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to wrest out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one” (John 10 ).
Paul, speaking of the “heady high-minded” class in the “last days” of the Mosaic dispensation, in which he ministered the gospel of the kingdom, says, that men, lovers of themselves, and covetous, having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it, and having great influence over silly women would, like Jannes and Jambres, who withstood Moses, themselves also resist the truth. He was much harassed by them, who spoiled much of the work he had done, and styles them “men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.” Men love themselves, and are covetous when they will not risk their present interests and social position for the naked truth. The minds of such are in a corrupt state, deceived by the deceitfulness of sin, and so long as this influence reigns they are reprobate, and cannot see the truth. Minds so unhappily beclouded will ever resist it. The study of the Bible for a lifetime will be of little benefit to them; while to those of an opposite or different mind, who become as little children, the Christianity of the Bible may be learned in a week, for it is therein “revealed unto babes.”
—Dr. Thomas, in the Herald of the Kingdom.
Hear Now These Words 