1Peter 2:25
Joy’s Notes:
1 Peter 2:25
“1. Once you were like sheep who wandered away.
2. But now you have TURNED/ RETURNED/ COME BACK to your Shepherd,
3. the Guardian of your soul.”
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Free will 🤍 to wander away— this is LOVE!!!
⁃ Free to wander grazing away :(
⁃ “TURNED” to my shepherd BECAUSE He found Me! And called out for me!!
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⁃ epestraphēte= Greek word in 1 Peter 2:25 for “turn” /“return”
⁃ Definition of epestraphēte= to turn towards; to turn round; to bring back,
⁃ the sheep does not “RETURN” on its own!
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• sheep HUNKER down & cry out for Shepherd & the Shepherd finds the sheep!
AND….
⁃ when “He leaves” the 99 to find the ONE— he JOYFULLY carrys it home on his shoulders.
⁃ When he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors, saying, “rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep! (-Luke 15:4)
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Put on our middle eastern glasses : in Jesus‘ day, shepherds and sheep are common sights!
Jesus is described as as The Good Shepherd:
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Old Testament:
Ez 34:11-12, 15-16
“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for MY sheep and look after them.
12 As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.
(15) I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign Lord.
16 I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak…”
“ I am the good shepherd. The good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. “
⁃ John 10:11
“I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep and my sheep know my voice. Just as my father knows me and I know the father, I lay down my life for the sheep.” - John 10:14
“My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.”
⁃ John 10:27
“ The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.”
⁃ psalm 23:1
We’re called sheep
400 x in bible
God called Shepherd over 100x
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Words from a shepherd:
• “Once you have found a lost a sheep, they will relax if you have control over their head. By putting a hand under their chin and lifting their nose up a little in the air, they will relax. They also REST & relax when placed on their bum, off their feet.
• humility brings rest!!!
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Psalm 3:3 “you are the one who holds my head high.”
“The GUARDIAN/ OVERSEER/ BISHOP of my soul.”
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EPISKOPON- the greek word for: guardian/ overseerer/ bishop
(1 Peter 2:25)
EPISKOPON def= “guardian”
GUARDIAN def=
“a defender, protector, a keeper.”
• The shepherd would lie down at the entrance of the pen & become a human gate protecting the sheep from intruders.
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John 10:11-15
“11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me—
15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep.”
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