Philip Anthony Mitchell explores Christ as our Good Shepherd. Discover how God's character is revealed through His care, guidance, protection, and unwavering love for His people. Be encouraged to trust the Shepherd who knows you, leads you, and faithfully watches over your life.
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| Philip Anthony Mitchell: Christ Our Shepherd | The Character of God | June 4, 2026
- I want to encourage you, my brother, my sister,
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- To give up trying to figure everything out on your own
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- And exercise humility and seeking
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- Christ who is a good shepherd.
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- That according to psalm 23, he leads us and guides us by
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- Still waters. he leads us to green pastures.
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- He leads us to valleys.
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- He leads us to mountains.
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- He leads us into everything he has called us to.
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- We, some of you are anxious about purpose.
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- And what am i supposed to be doing?
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- I wasn't supposed to be doing.
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- You know what
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- You know
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- We're supposed to be doing. developing
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- An intimate relationship with the lord jesus christ.
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- He will lead you into everything he has already called
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- For you to do
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- A tbn family.
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- I want to take a moment to talk to you about christ,
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- Our shepherd in november 2003 and a season of my life
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- When i was empty and hopeless and suicidal.
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- I crawled into a bathroom
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- On my hands and knees and i yelled at a god.
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- I did not know exist.
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- And god met me in that bathroom.
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- Saved me in that bathroom, transformed
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- My heart in that bathroom,
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- And i knew that i had passed from death to life.
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- It was just a couple months after that.
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- April 14th, 2004, i was sitting alone
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- In a room in my apartment in north carolina,
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- And i was reading
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- The book of proverbs, and i came to this passage.
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- Proverbs chapter three, verses five through six.
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- You know what some of you trust in the lord
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- With all of your heart and lean
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- Not on your own understanding, but in all of your ways.
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- Acknowledge me and i.
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- Here comes the promise i will direct your path.
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- That passage was the very first time
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- I sensed god was speaking to me for myself.
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- It was reading that passage on april 14th, 2004, when i first
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- Heard god speak to me about pastoral ministry,
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- Something i had no desire to do, no desire to be a part of.
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- But i heard god talking to me about pastoral ministry.
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- I had no dream
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- But to be an attorney and god had other plans for my life.
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- In some way i feel like i'm still an attorney.
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- I just argue in a different courtroom.
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- And, but i remember hearing god clearly, and i wrote down
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- Everything god told me on a piece of paper, folded in half,
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- And i tucked away in the back of a all picture frame.
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- I still have that picture frame to this day.
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- Many of you, if you have an iphone or android phone
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- Or you have an app on that phone, your gps
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- And, far gone are the days where you jump in a car,
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- You download mapquest, try to figure it out, know
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- You plug in the coordinates and the gps,
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- And you like that voice that talks.
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- You say, go three miles and make a right here,
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- And you come up to the light and make a left here.
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- And we like the feeling of being instructed on
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- Where we need to be.
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- And if we missed a turn,
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- The gps says to you, recalculating,
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- And we'll get you back on course.
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- You may be a little late for the destination,
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- But you will arrive.
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- My friends,
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- The greatest gps
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- You and i will ever know is not the app on your phone?
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- No. the greatest gps you and i will
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- Ever know is the power of the holy spirit.
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- The one who engineered the writing of the scriptures,
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- The one who moved on a man to write.
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- Trust in the lord with all of your heart
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- And lean not on your own understanding.
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- In all of your ways acknowledge him.
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- He will direct your path.
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- Listen to the text.
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- Trust god even when you can't trace him.
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- Trust him with all of your heart.
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- Don't try to figure everything out on your own.
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- There are some things you will go through in this life.
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- You cannot figure on your own. lean
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- Not on your own understanding, but in all of your ways.
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- Good ways, bad ways show ways.
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- Unsure. acknowledge him. pray. talk to him.
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- Ask him for help.
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- Here comes the promise and he will direct your path.
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- That passage has guided my life for over two decades
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- And i want to encourage it and guard.
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- I want to encourage you,
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- To guard your heart
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- From trying to figure out things for yourself.
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- But let that passage be a guide to you.
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- You and i serve the one who knows the end
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- From the beginning.
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- He called himself the first and the last, the author
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- And the finisher of our faith.
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- If he knows
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- The end from the beginning, why would you not seek him?
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- Why are you trying to figure everything out on your own?
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- When the person who saved you already knows everything
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- That you're supposed to be doing tomorrow,
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- Next year, the year after that,
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- I want to encourage you, my brother, my sister,
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- To give up trying to figure everything out on your own
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- And exercise humility and seeking
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- Christ who is a good shepherd.
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- That according to psalm 23, he leads us and guides us by
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- Still waters. he leads us to green pastures.
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- He leads us to valleys.
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- He leads us to mountains.
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- He leads us into everything he has called us to.
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- We, some of you are anxious about purpose.
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- And what am i supposed to be doing?
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- I wasn't supposed to be doing.
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- You know what
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- You know
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- We're supposed to be doing. developing
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- An intimate relationship with the lord jesus christ.
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- He will lead you into everything he has already called for you
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- To do and purpose for you to do.
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- Take the stress off of trying to figure out everything on life
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- For yourself, and trust in the one i call christ
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- The shepherd, the one who promised to lead you
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- And guide you in this life all the way to eternity.
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- May psalm 23 be a blessing to you, my brothers and my sisters.
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