Same God - The Shepard Who Came Close
Text: Exodus 3 | Psalm 23 | Ezekiel 34 | John 10 | Luke 2
Big Idea: God didn’t send someone else—He came Himself.
Key Phrase: The Shepherd knows your name and comes looking for you.
📖 Highlights from the Message:
▶ God chose shepherds—outsiders, night-shift workers, the overlooked—to receive heaven’s biggest announcement.
▶ The Christmas story isn’t sentimental; it’s the climax of a long Shepherd story God had been telling all along.
▶ From Exodus to the Psalms to the prophets, God consistently reveals Himself as a Shepherd who leads, protects, and stays close.
▶ Ezekiel foretold a day when God Himself would come to search for, rescue, and care for His scattered sheep.
▶ Jesus fulfills that promise when He declares, “I AM the Good Shepherd.”
▶ The Shepherd doesn’t point the way—He walks it with us, even through death itself.
▶ The cross wasn’t an accident; it was intentional Shepherding.
▶ The same Shepherd who was born in Bethlehem still calls us by name today.
🙏 Challenge for This Week:
Choose one area of your life where fear has been leading instead of faith. Practice staying close to the Shepherd by listening for His voice in Scripture, prayer, and daily moments. When fear rises, choose to follow the Shepherd instead.
💡 Closing Hope:
The Shepherd David trusted. The Shepherd Ezekiel longed for. The Shepherd announced to the shepherds in Bethlehem. Is the same Shepherd calling your name today. Same God. Same Shepherd. Same goodness.
❓ Questions to Consider: