Jesus The Good Shepherd

He is my present Shepherd Lord.

The word Lord means Bread-provider, Shield and Protector. He is all that a husband can mean to his wife. He is all that a lover can mean to his beloved. The Father wants me to be rooted and grounded and built up this blessed Truth. He wants my faith to rest upon absolute certainty of the Lordship of Jesus over me. Then my heart will be full of abounding joy and thanksgiving.

You see, until we know about the Lordship of Jesus at the right hand of the Father, there will never be that quiet restfulness in our spirit. You can find that practically all the believers that are living beneath their privileges, are having a hard time in their spiritual
life. They have never been instructed in the ministry of Jesus at the right hand of the Father. Years ago I held a blessed campaign in Moncton, N. B., Canada. Months afterwards I returned for another campaign, and I asked the congregation, “What truth helped you the most?”

Many voices answered back, “Your teaching about Jesus’ ministry at the right hand of the Father.” Jesus, the Surety of the New Covenant. He is not only our High Priest, Savior, Intercessor, Advocate and Lord, but there is another priceless ministry of my seated Lord.
He is the “Surety of the New Covenant.” Heb. 7:18, “For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.”

By a single stroke, He has cleared up the issue of that First Covenant and the Law.
Because of their weakness, they could not make men Righteous; they could not make men holy; they could not give Eternal Life. Heb. 10:1-3 will throw much light on this. “For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh. “Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

“But in those sacrifices, there is a remembrance made of sin year by year. “For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.” But there has come a New Covenant, and on the basis of that New Covenant, we may be Born Again, born of Heaven, born of God, receive the Nature and Life of the Father God. We may become the very Righteousness of God in Him. Can anyone overestimate the value of such a Covenant. This is a Covenant of Love, a Covenant of Life, a Covenant of the New Creation.

Heb. 7:20-24, “And inasmuch as it is not without the taking of an oath (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath; but he with an oath by him that saith of him, The Lord sware and will not repent himself, Thou art a priest for, ever).” You see, Jesus was outside of the priestly family. They became priests by being born into the priesthood naturally. The oldest son was always the High Priest. But Jesus was a Priest by an oath of Jehovah. “The Lord sware and will not repent himself, Thou art a priest forever.”

Now notice this great sentence: “By so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant. And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing; but he, because he abideth forever, hath his priesthood unchangeable.” There is a priest who abideth forever as the surety of this New Covenant. Back of this New Covenant then, what we call the New Testament, we have Jesus as its Surety. From Matt. I to Rev. 22, Jesus and His throne are the back of every word.
“No word from God can be void of fulfilment.”

Now you can quote Jer. 1:12: “1 watch over my word to fulfil it.” Jesus can say, “Heaven and earth can pass away, but my word can never pass away.” That is the Word of the New Covenant. His blood is the red seal upon the document of this Covenant. On the ground of the integrity of that indissoluble covenant, you and I can build a Faith that cannot be shaken. “He Sat Down” Now you can understand what this beautiful expression means
that is used so many times in Hebrews-“He sat down.”

We go back to Heb. 1:3 and feast our spirits upon it. “Who, being the effulgence of his glory (or the very outshining of his glory), and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his ability.” The word translated power means “ability. All the ability of Deity is back of that Covenant. Now notice carefully: “When he had made purification (or substitution) for sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.”
He is in the highest seat in the universe and holds the highest office in the universe, and He is my Lord.

He is the head of the Body, and “of His fullness have we all received, and grace upon grace.” How rich we are. We can never again talk of our lack, of our weakness, of our unworthiness because that great Substitutionary sacrifice that He wrought for us has guaranteed to us Eternal Life, and a standing with the Father, victory over our enemies, peace passeth all understanding, joy beyond words. All are ours because of what He is for us now at the right hand of the Majesty on High.

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