Isaiah describes, in his great prophecy of chapter 53, two different type of sheep: the disobedient sheep who have gone astray, and that Lamb who went in perfect obedience to the slaughter.
God describes His people as wandering sheep who have gone their own way. He describes His Son the Lord Jesus as a perfect, spotless, obedient Lamb who was sacrificed at Calvery for the sake of the disobedient sheep.
God has made His Son like unto His brethren, and in comparing Christ and Believers all as sheep, the incarnation of Christ is prefigured.
But not only has Christ been made like us yet without sin, but also Christ has made us like Him, obedient judicially, and by sanctification obedient one day in fact as well.
That is why, unlike the lost sheep of Isaiah, we who trust in Christ do hear His voice and do follow Him as newly-obedient sheep. Or as Peter wrote, we had formerly gone astray, but are now returned to the Shepherd of our souls.
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...