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John10:12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

God is the righteous shepherd of his earthly children, but when Adam and Eve sinned death and destruction entered into the human race and every since misery has been their way. They have tried all forms of self-rule only to find generation after generation has sink into more hate and violence than the one before them.

Ps.90:10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away. 90:11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

They have setup one after another human shepherd's over them, only to end in a life of problems and destruction of others. Here Christ makes the point he has been appointed to be the substitute shepherd for his Father YHWH. What was lost will be restored by his sinless life, he perfectly obey his Father giving his life for what God is going to restore, the fallen human race from corruptions and sin. But the Jews whom Christ Jesus was speaking too thought there government was the shepherd over mankind and they would bring life to the Jews by the law.

1Cor.15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam was made a vivifying spirit

Rom.8:20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 8:21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

But as history testified it was a lie, the law led them to salvation found in Christ Jesus. He was the true shepherd, the promise messiah to come, the law did not prove to be salvation for that great nation, but instead the blood of lamb. What can a Christian's take away from Christ words here? They can take away a sobering thought, which is, mankind with sin has both good and evil in them much like a thorn bush, we always get bloody figures when we look too them as the fruit of life.

Rom.3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.
3:11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God. 3:12 They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."{Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Ecclesiastes 7:20}
3:13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit."{Psalm 5:9} "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"{Psalm 140:3} 3:14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."{Psalm 10:7} 3:15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood.
3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways. 3:17 The way of peace, they haven't known."{Isaiah 59:7-8} 3:18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."{Psalm 36:1}

We will always receive some form of abuse, because they have lost the true shepherd as Adam and Eve did ending in death and destruction in their very thoughts which hurts others no matter our very best intention.
James 3:8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 3:9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God. 3:10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 3:11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? 3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

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