The True Shepherd

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Another illustration from the pen of Spurgeon:
“ ‘The sheep follow him, for they know his voice; and a stranger will they not follow, for they know not the voice of strangers’ (John 10:5). I remember hearing a brother tell how he disproved the notion that sheep only know the shepherd by his dress. When in Palestine he asked a shepherd to allow him to put on his clothes. Then he began to call the sheep, but never a one would come, not even a lamb. The most sheepish of the flock had sense enough left to know that he was not the shepherd, and even the youngest kept aloof, heedless of the stranger’s voice. He might have called till he was hoarse, but they would not come. So God’s people know their Lord, and they know the kind of food which he gives them.”

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