The One Shepherd

 The One Shepherd

April 30, 2025

Psalms 23:1

1 The LORD is my shepherd,

I shall not want.

The Lord is my shepherd… This harkens back to the prophecy of Ezekie of David becoming the shepherd of all Israel.

Ezekiel 37:24-28 - The Davidic Kingdom

24“My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them. 25 They will live on the land that I gave to Jacob My servant, in which your fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons and their sons’ sons, forever; and David My servant will be their prince forever. 26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever. 27 My dwelling place also will be with them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people. 28 And the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever.”’”

This prophecy was only partially fulfilled in the reign of King David but will be fulfilled in its entirety by the Son of David who is King of Kings for all time. As it says in Corinthians, “now we see in part”, but soon we will see the entire fulfillment when Jesus returns and brings the Kingdom of God to earth. As we were discussing yesterday, Jesus power was declared at His resurrection, but it will not be fully visible to all the world until He returns again in power. But even now He is our God and we are His people and His sanctuary dwells within us. In truth, the Kingdom of God is real and has power, but the fullness of that power is not manifest to the people of the world. But one day soon, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Then all the nations will know that He is the Lord who sanctifies His people and His sanctuary is in their midst forever.