THE TRUE NATURE AND NEED OF SHEEP (4)
Scripture: Psalms 23:3
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The True Nature and Need of Sheep (4)
Series: Psalms 23
Donald Cantrell
Psalms 23: 3
Psa 23:3 KJV - He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
I - The Tender Turning that we Experience (3a)
II - The Proven Path that we Explore (3b)
III - The Spectacular Shepherd that we Exalt (3c)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: ''Thankfully our shepherd turns us when needed''
Sheep Gone Astray
Somewhere about the year 1842, a young Scottish lad, George Clephane, stepped ashore in Canada to try and begin life anew. Although only in his early twenties, George had fallen a victim to drink. The change of country did not solve George's problem, and he got mixed up with the wrong kind of people in Canada. He spent his substance on riotous living.
One cold morning he was picked up on the roadside in a state of complete collapse, the result of a drunken carousal and exposure to the elements. Shortly afterwards he died and was buried in the town of Fergus, Ontario.
The news of his death stirred great sorrow in his old home in Fife, but most of all in the heart of his youngest sister, Elizabeth Cecilia. She had been born in Edinburgh, and the news of her brother's death arrived shortly before she was due to celebrate her twenty-first birthday.
Through good report and evil report she had never ceased to love the black sheep of the family, and never wavered in her conviction that God loved him too. The thought burned itself into her mind that somehow in his dying hours, her brother had come to Jesus and been saved. The conviction shaped itself into an immortal hymn. She wrote it down to comfort her own soul:
''There were ninety and nine that safely lay, in the shelter of the fold.''
She locked the poem away in her desk. She died in 1869, her poem still unpublished. It was not the only one she had written.
The poem-`There were ninety and nine'-found its way in ...
Series: Psalms 23
Donald Cantrell
Psalms 23: 3
Psa 23:3 KJV - He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
I - The Tender Turning that we Experience (3a)
II - The Proven Path that we Explore (3b)
III - The Spectacular Shepherd that we Exalt (3c)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: ''Thankfully our shepherd turns us when needed''
Sheep Gone Astray
Somewhere about the year 1842, a young Scottish lad, George Clephane, stepped ashore in Canada to try and begin life anew. Although only in his early twenties, George had fallen a victim to drink. The change of country did not solve George's problem, and he got mixed up with the wrong kind of people in Canada. He spent his substance on riotous living.
One cold morning he was picked up on the roadside in a state of complete collapse, the result of a drunken carousal and exposure to the elements. Shortly afterwards he died and was buried in the town of Fergus, Ontario.
The news of his death stirred great sorrow in his old home in Fife, but most of all in the heart of his youngest sister, Elizabeth Cecilia. She had been born in Edinburgh, and the news of her brother's death arrived shortly before she was due to celebrate her twenty-first birthday.
Through good report and evil report she had never ceased to love the black sheep of the family, and never wavered in her conviction that God loved him too. The thought burned itself into her mind that somehow in his dying hours, her brother had come to Jesus and been saved. The conviction shaped itself into an immortal hymn. She wrote it down to comfort her own soul:
''There were ninety and nine that safely lay, in the shelter of the fold.''
She locked the poem away in her desk. She died in 1869, her poem still unpublished. It was not the only one she had written.
The poem-`There were ninety and nine'-found its way in ...
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