{"id":9305,"date":"2026-01-05T04:27:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/?p=9305"},"modified":"2026-01-05T05:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:07:03","slug":"the-good-shepherd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/the-good-shepherd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Shepherd"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mk0nt5xv-038e69efcfb59f35d48cf5085dfd0c79 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Good Shepherd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ransom and Redeemer of this world, our Good Shepherd Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, is one Who leads us in life. It is in scripted as \u201c<strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd give His life for the sheep.\u201d (John 10:11)<\/p>\n<p>Human race refrained from the globe\u2019s tribulation, distress, misery and agony along its impediments and be endowed soul rest for his inheritance is through the true shepherd. The Lord told us Himself, \u201cMost assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.\u00a0<strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>All who\u00a0ever\u00a0came\u00a0before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.<strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.\u00a0The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have\u00a0it\u00a0more abundantly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.<strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>But a\u00a0hireling,\u00a0he who is\u00a0not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and\u00a0leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.\u00a0The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.\u00a0I am the good shepherd; and\u00a0I know My\u00a0sheep,\u00a0and\u00a0am known by My own.\u00a0As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father;\u00a0and I lay down My life for the sheep.\u00a0And\u00a0other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice;\u00a0and there will be one flock\u00a0and\u00a0one shepherd.\u201d (John 10:7-16)<\/p>\n<p>May The Redeemer of this world, The Good Shepherd refrain us from the sinking of the vain world, preserving mankind from any sorts of predicaments, thru the leadership on the peaceful path, in attaining soul rest, fructify spiritually and inherit the kingdom of God: Amen!<\/p>\n<p>Glory be to God!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ransom and Redeemer of this world, our Good Shepherd Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, is one Who leads us in life. It is in scripted as \u201c\u00a0I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd give His life for the sheep.\u201d (John 10:11)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sermon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9313,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305\/revisions\/9313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}