SERMON V. CHRIST'S SHEEP
Mark vi. 34. And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was
moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not
having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.
This is a text full of comfort, if we will but remember one thing:
that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever; and,
therefore, what he did when he was upon earth, he is doing now, and
will do till the end of the world. If we will believe this, and
look at our Lord's doings upon earth as patterns and specimens, as
it were, of his eternal life and character, then every verse in the
gospels will teach us something, and be precious to us.
The people came to hear Jesus in a desert place; a wild forest
country, among the hills on the east side of the Lake of Gennesaret.
'And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with
compassion toward them, because they were as sheep having no
shepherd: and he taught them many things.'
And, what kind of people were these, who so moved our Lord's pity?
The text tells us, that they were like sheep. Now, in what way were
they like sheep?
A sheep is simple, and harmless, and tractable, and so, I suppose,
were these people. They may not have been very clever and shrewd;
not good scholars.
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