Text: John10:11

Title: ‘HE IS COMMITTED TO YOU’

1. The Strength of his Commitment is seen in His Covenant.

# John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep”.

# Genesis 9:9-17 The Covenant with Noah.

# Genesis 17:7-8 The Covenant with Abram

# Luke 22:20 The New Covenant.

2. The Strength of His Commitment is seen in His Love.

# John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep”.

# John 3:16

# 1 John 3:16

# The hymn ‘Yes Jesus loves me’. (Karl Barth)

3. The Strength of His Commitment is seen in His Forgiveness.

# John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep”.

# The Cross is the extent that God will go to forgive.

# Ephesians 1:7-8

# Those who gathered at the cross what did they see?

4. The Strength of His Commitment is seen in His Humility.

# John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep”.

# Philippians 2:6-11

# The Gentle Saviour in the Gospels

# Willing surrender of the shepherds life, He gives it away freely and voluntarily, for the sake of the sheep; His life becomes a ransom, that the sheep might have eternal life.