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| Sheila Walsh: The Lord Is Your Shepherd | 5 Minutes with Jesus | January 16, 2026
- But he was pierced
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- For our rebellion, crushed for our sins.
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- He was beaten so we could be whole.
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- He was whipped so we could be healed.
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- Everything.
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- Everything you'd need in your life right now.
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- God is.
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- He's your shepherd.
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- He's your provider.
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- He's your peace.
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- And he is your healer.
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- I love psalm 23.
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- Not only is it a beautiful psalm,
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- But it tells us so much about who god is, what his names are.
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- Do you know
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- There are four of
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- God's names described in just the first three verses?
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- Think about this.
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- The lord is my shepherd.
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- I have all that i need.
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- He lets me rest in green meadows.
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- He leads me beside peaceful streams.
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- He renews my strength.
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- So let's break it down.
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- The lord is my shepherd.
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- That's jehovah rah!
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- This is one of the most powerful and personal names of god.
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- And it's one of my very favorites because it's so,
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- So tender and so loving.
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- Shepherds in israel love their sheep.
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- They give each one a name, and each day
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- The shepherd would go ahead of his flock
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- To make sure
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- That the path was clear, that there was no danger ahead.
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- He would count each one at night as they came into
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- The pen to make sure no one was missing.
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- When they were all gathered
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- In, he would sleep in front of the opening
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- And the message was clear.
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- If you
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- Want to get to the sheep, you'll have to come through me.
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- That's who christ is for each one of us.
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- He knows your name and watches over you day and night.
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- So let's move on.
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- I have all that i need.
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- That's jehovah jireh.
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- The first time this name is used for god is in
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- Genesis chapter 22.
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- It's one of the hardest stories to read as a parent.
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- Abraham and sarah had longed for a child for so many years,
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- And it seemed absolutely impossible.
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- But then god intervened.
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- Sarah was 90 years old when she gave birth
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- To their promised son, isaac.
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- Then god asked abraham to sacrifice isaac.
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- I mean, can you even begin to imagine
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- How painful that must have been?
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- Now, we don't know exactly how old isaac was at the time,
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- But trusted
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- Biblical scholars agree that he wasn't a little boy,
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- That he was anywhere between 20 and 30 years old.
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- He had to be strong enough to carry the sufficient amount
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- Of wood up a mountain to fully consume a human body.
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- Abraham, by faith, trusted god.
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- He was being tested to see
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- If he truly trusted god's promise that through this
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- Young man,
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- Abraham's descendants would be as numerous as the stars.
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- And as abraham was about to plunge the knife
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- Into his son, god stopped him.
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- And then abraham saw a ram whose horns were caught
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- In the thicket, and the ram became the sacrifice.
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- You can read that in genesis chapter
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- 22, verse 14 says this abraham named the place
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- Which means the lord will provide.
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- This was a foreshadowing of the truth
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- That just as the ram took isaac's place,
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- Christ would be the provided
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- Lamb as the perfect sacrifice for us.
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- Moving on in the psalm, he lets me rest
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- In green meadows.
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- That's jehovah shalom.
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- And the first time this name appears in
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- The bible is in judges chapter six.
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- The angel of the lord appeared to a young man named gideon,
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- And told him
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- That he would be the one
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- To deliver his people from their enemies.
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- Well, gideon was terrified and asked for a sign
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- That the messenger was really from god.
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- He asked the angel to wait
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- Until he could come back with the meal.
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- Now, it wasn't a pizza he was making.
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- Had to cook a whole goat.
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- But when the angel of the lord touched the meal with the tip
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- Of his staff, fire consumed all and he disappeared.
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- But when gideon realized he'd been talking to
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- The angel of the lord, he was sure he was going to die.
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- But the lord told them he was not going to die.
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- So gideon built an altar and named it jehovah shalom.
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- The lord is peace.
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- Christ presence was peace to gideon that day,
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- But he offers that same peace to you today.
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- Then he renews my strength.
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- That's jehovah. ruffy.
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- The lord is my healer.
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- That name ruffy or rapha, means the lord is my healer.
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- Physically and spiritually.
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- The thing that's so
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- Fascinating about this name is unlike jehovah jireh
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- Or jehovah shalom, where god's people gave him a name.
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- It was god himself
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- Who revealed this name to the children of israel.
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- He told them that he is jehovah rapha.
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- After they'd crossed the red sea.
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- For i am the lord who heals you.
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- And on the cross that healing was perfected.
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- But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins.
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- He was beaten so we could be whole.
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- He was whipped so we could be healed.
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- Everything.
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- Everything you'd need in your life right now.
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- God is.
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- He's your shepherd.
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- He's your provider.
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- He's your peace.
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- And he is your healer.
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- Let's pray.
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- Father, thank you that we haven't even begun
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- To understand the majesty of who you are.
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- I thank you that you have given us pictures.
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- So we can begin to understand some of your heart
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- To shepherd us.
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- Do you heal us?
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- Do you promise us your peace?
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- Thank you for your word.
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- Thank you for the power of your word.
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- You rest in that today.
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- In jesus name. amen.
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