He Leadeth Me (1 of 3)
Series: The Lord Is My Shepherd
Jeff Strite
Psalms 23:1-3
(I started the sermon by singing the first verse of ''He Leadeth Me'' and then asked the congregation to join me in the chorus)
''He leadeth me, O blessed thought!
O words with heav'nly comfort fraught!
Whate'er I do, where'er I be,
still 'tis God's hand that leadeth me.'
(CHORUS) He leadeth me, He leadeth me, by His own hand He leadeth me;
His faithful foll'wer I would be, for by His hand He leadeth me.''
The 23rd Psalm is one of the best-known passages in Scripture. It's only 6 verses long, and yet in those short 6 verses David describes God with such depth and power that entire books of theology couldn't even begin to touch it. In those verses David tells us truths about what God meant to him and what He can mean to us.
And the one of the most important Biblical truths he declared was this: The Lord Is My Shepherd!
Until you understand that simple truth nothing else in Scripture makes any difference. What David was describing here was a God who really cared for him. He said, ''the Lord is MY shepherd.'' He's not A shepherd and He's not THE shepherd... the Lord IS MY SHEPHERD.
ILLUS: Years ago, someone told of a dream he had. In his dream he moved among the temples of ancient Greece. Near one of them he met a priest and began to talk to him. Pointing to people approaching the temple, the dreamer said to the priest: ''I suppose these people honor and love their god.'' And the priest just laughed ''Honor? Love? What do you mean? They fear him because he may destroy them, but love ....'' 'Whoever loved a god?' '
''But,'' said the dreamer, ''don't these people seek to know the will of their god?'' And the priest said. ''He does not work by will, but by whim, by caprice. He may smite with illness, curse with barrenness, blight with disaster. No one can know the mind of a god. One may only appease his anger.'' (from a book by James Black).
You see... ...
Series: The Lord Is My Shepherd
Jeff Strite
Psalms 23:1-3
(I started the sermon by singing the first verse of ''He Leadeth Me'' and then asked the congregation to join me in the chorus)
''He leadeth me, O blessed thought!
O words with heav'nly comfort fraught!
Whate'er I do, where'er I be,
still 'tis God's hand that leadeth me.'
(CHORUS) He leadeth me, He leadeth me, by His own hand He leadeth me;
His faithful foll'wer I would be, for by His hand He leadeth me.''
The 23rd Psalm is one of the best-known passages in Scripture. It's only 6 verses long, and yet in those short 6 verses David describes God with such depth and power that entire books of theology couldn't even begin to touch it. In those verses David tells us truths about what God meant to him and what He can mean to us.
And the one of the most important Biblical truths he declared was this: The Lord Is My Shepherd!
Until you understand that simple truth nothing else in Scripture makes any difference. What David was describing here was a God who really cared for him. He said, ''the Lord is MY shepherd.'' He's not A shepherd and He's not THE shepherd... the Lord IS MY SHEPHERD.
ILLUS: Years ago, someone told of a dream he had. In his dream he moved among the temples of ancient Greece. Near one of them he met a priest and began to talk to him. Pointing to people approaching the temple, the dreamer said to the priest: ''I suppose these people honor and love their god.'' And the priest just laughed ''Honor? Love? What do you mean? They fear him because he may destroy them, but love ....'' 'Whoever loved a god?' '
''But,'' said the dreamer, ''don't these people seek to know the will of their god?'' And the priest said. ''He does not work by will, but by whim, by caprice. He may smite with illness, curse with barrenness, blight with disaster. No one can know the mind of a god. One may only appease his anger.'' (from a book by James Black).
You see... ...
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