圣经故事:The good shepherd好牧人
【汇总贴】英语圣经故事(mp3) 少儿英语圣经故事26:The good shepherd好牧人 Do you know anything about sheep?If you do, then you know that is not the animal you would choose to be like! Sheep are pretty dumb and helpless. They get lost easily, they can't defend themselves against other animals. They cannot take care of themselves and find their own food. Sheep are easily frightened. That's why sheep need a shepherd. Today, we read about a shepherd. The Bible says that once when the Lord Jesus was here on earth, He was looking at a crowd of people walking around in the wilderness. Do you think Jesus saw them as rich and poor, old and young, sick and well, pretty or ugly, smart or dumb? No. The Bible says Jesus had compassion on them for He saw them as sheep without a shepherd. They were like lost sheep, lost in their sin. How the Lord Jesus loved them! He knew they were helpless and needed a shepherd. And the Good Shepherd knew He had come to help them. But not just the people way back then. For the Lord Jesus knows all about you, and loves you too, and wants to help you! John 10:11 tells how the Lord Jesus helps us."I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep." John 10:11. Let's read it together now. We know the good shepherd means Jesus. Let's say his name where it says ?the good shepherd." JESUS is the good shepherd. JESUS gives his life for the sheep. And who are the sheep?Yes! Us! Jesus was really saying, "I will take YOUR punishment for sin. And that means I will die in your place." Even though Jesus proved He was the Good Shepherd by His love for people, still some in that very crowd hated Him. They did not believe He was the Son of God, even though they saw the wonderful miracles He did, and heard His wonderful words. They did not want to follow the Lord Jesus, and kept on going their own way."Why do you listen to Him?" they asked the rest of the crowd. Do you know what some of them did?John 10:31, 39 tells us:"Then the Jews took up stones?to stone him.?" " they tried again to take him:but he escaped out of their hand." Later, however, they arrested the Lord Jesus and brought Him to trial. Do you think Jesus' enemies gave Him a fair trial?When Pilate, the Roman governor, questioned Jesus, he could find no fault in Him. Why couldn't he?Because Jesus is the perfect Son of God, and He had done nothing wrong. Evil men came as false witnesses to lie to Pilate. Although Jesus knew they were lying, He did not open His mouth to defend Himself. The angry people shouted out, "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!" Finally Pilate was persuaded to let the crowd have their way, and they led Jesus out to crucify Him. Do you think Jesus could have stopped all this? After all, He is the Son of God Who has the power to do ANYTHING. Yes, and Let's just read how Jesus used His power. John 10:17-18 tells us:"" my Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and have power to take it again." It was the power of love Jesus was showing now. Soldiers took the Lord Jesus to a hill called Mount Calvary to crucify Him. To die by crucifixion meant they nailed the Lord Jesus by His hands and feet to a rough wooden cross. It was a slow and very painful death to die. There was a crowd gathered ?round to watch His death. Most were enemies of the Lord Jesus and in Matthew 27:40-42 we read that they cried out, "If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. The chief priests mocked him, with the scribes and elders, saying, "He saved others; but he cannot save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him." They didn't understand, did they, boys and girls, that Jesus was not trying to save Himself. He was willing to die to save you and me. Let's say our Bible verse again, John 10:11. Jesus used His power to stay on that cross. He knew the blood that came from His head, His hands and His feet would be the payment for your sin. Leviticus 17:11 says, ?" for it is the blood that makes an atonement (or payment) for your souls." Finally Jesus cried out, "It is finished!" and He gave up His life. The Good Shepherd had given His life for you and me. Later friends came and took Jesus' body down from the cross and buried Him in a rich man's burial place, called a sepulchre, or tomb. It was a cave-like place, and instead of a door, a big stone was rolled in front of the opening. Jesus' enemies again went to Pilate. In Matthew (27:63; 20:19) we read their words to Pilate:"Sir, we remember that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, "After three days I will rise again." Command that the tomb be guarded until the third day, because his disciples may try to come by night and steal his body and tell all the people that he is risen from the dead." Was Jesus a deceiver?Was he lying when He said, "I have the power to lay down my life and I have the power to take it again?" We will see! Pilate sent guards to watch the tomb day and night. Did they have the power to keep Jesus from coming back to life?Perhaps everyone thought they did, but the Bible says very early on the 3rd day there was a great earthquake, and a mighty angel came from Heaven and rolled the stone away from the door of the tomb. There was no one in the tomb!! Jesus was risen from the dead! The frightened soldiers ran into the city to tell the news. Jesus WAS alive, for He DID have the power to come back to life! 40 days later the Lord Jesus went back to Heaven, to His special place of honor at the right hand of God. He is still the Good Shepherd! If you have received the Lord Jesus as your Savior, He is your Good Shepherd! He has saved you from your sin and He is caring for you every day. One day you will be with Him in Heaven But maybe you never knew you needed Jesus to be your Shepherd. You are that sheep that is still lost and going his own way, far away from God. Without the Lord Jesus, you will be lost forever in your sin, never able to be with God in Heaven. Jesus came to give His life to save you from that sin. I Corinthians 15:3 says, "Christ died for our sin." The Lord Jesus is alive in Heaven now, waiting to save you from sin, waiting to become YOUR Good Shepherd. omans 10:9 says, "If you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Like a little lost sheep, you can call out to Jesus and ask Him to save you right now. Will you go right now to ?How to Be a Child of God?" If you have believed on the Lord Jesus and asked Him to save you, He is already yourGood Shepherd forever! Jesus says in John 10:27-28:"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." Let's remember that wonderful truth by using our hand. Open your hand out wide. Think of this hand as being the Lord Jesus' hand. The thumb can be you. Now bend your thumb toward the middle of your hand, and close all the other fingers over it. Think of how you are SAFE FOREVER in the hand of your Good Shepherd. Can anyone remove you from the hand of Jesus' No! But now open your other hand out wide. Imagine your OTHER hand is God the Father. Now place your other hand over the first one as you listen to this verse from John 10:29:"My Father, which gave them to me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand." You're in Jesus' hand and the Father's! You are double safe FOREVER! Can Satan pull you out of those wonderful hands?When you are afraid, or feel lonely, when others make fun of you as a Christian, remember Jesus' promise. He also says in Hebrews 13:5 "I will never leave thee." Talk to your Good Shepherd all through the day. That's called prayer. And when you read your Bible, That's called ?listening?to your Good Shepherd, for He speaks to you through His Word. Most of all, OBEY your Good Shepherd, for He knows what's best for you! Aren't you glad you have a Good Shepherd Who loves and cares for you every day?Let's thank Him right now for all His goodness to us. 【汇总贴】英语圣经故事(mp3) |