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The Good Shepherd
Part 6: The House of the Lord



Psalm 23:1 (NIV) – The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.



John 10:14 (NLT) – “I am the good shepherd…



Psalm 23:6 (NLT) – Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will live in the house of the Lord forever.


Two Ways to Describe “the House of the Lord”:



1. Spiritual Family



“What is referred to by ‘house’ is the family or household or flock of the Good Shepherd. The sheep is so deeply satisfied with the flock to which it belongs, with the ownership of this particular shepherd that it has no wish to change whatever.”
—Phillip Keller




John 10:14 (NLT) – “I am the good shepherd…



John 10:7b-9a (NLT) – “I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. 8 All who came before me were thieves and robbers. But the true sheep did not listen to them. 9 Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved…


John 14:6 (NLT) – Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.”



Ephesians 2:19 (TLB) – “Now you are no longer strangers to God and foreigners to heaven, but you are members of God’s very own family, citizens of God’s country, and you belong in God’s household with every other Christian.”


2. Spiritual Community



“Our enemy’s most successful strategy is to isolate us so he can attack and destroy us. Sheep are never attacked in herds. Sheep are attacked when they become isolated from the rest of the flock.”
—Andy Stanley and Bill Willits



Acts 2:46 (TLB) – “They worshiped together regularly at the Temple each day…


Hebrews 10:24-25 (NIV) – And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.



“When I first became a Christian, about fourteen years ago, I thought that I could do it on my own, by retiring to my rooms and reading theology, and I wouldn’t go to the churches and Gospel Halls….I disliked very much their hymns, which I considered to be fifth-rate poems set to sixth-rate music. But as I went on I saw the great merit in it. I came up against different people of quite different outlooks and different education, and then gradually my conceit just began peeling off. I realized that the hymns (which were just sixth-rate music) were, nevertheless, being sung with devotion and benefit by an old saint in elastic-side boots in the opposite pew, and then you realize that you aren’t fit to clean those boots. It gets you out of your solitary conceit.”
—C. S. Lewis



Acts 2:46 (TLB) – “They worshiped together regularly at the Temple each day, met in small groups in homes for communion, and shared their meals with great joy and thankfulness,”