Series: The Sheep and the Shepard
Title: He Guards Me
Text: Psalm 23:4 (Psalm 23 KJV, all others NASB95, unless specified)
Psalm 23:4
I. The Reality of the Valley
i. Gen 15:12, “and behold, [p]terror and great darkness fell upon him.”
b. God is with you in the darkness as much as he is with you in the light.
i. Timothy 6:15-16. “...He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King
of [k]kings and Lord of [l]lords, 16 who alone possesses immortality and
dwells in unapproachable light...”
ii. 1 Kings 8:12 (ESV) “The Lord[a] has said that he would dwell in thick
darkness.”
iii. Psalm 139:7, “Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from
Your presence?”
iv. Psalm 139:8, “If I ascend to heaven, You are there;”
v. Psalm 139:8, “If I make my bed in [f]Sheol, behold, You are there.”
vi. Psalm 139:9-10, “If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest
part of the sea, Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand
will lay hold of me.”
vii. Psalm 139:11-12, “If I say, 'Surely the darkness will [g]overwhelm me,
And the light around me will be night,’ Even the darkness is not dark [h]to
You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to
You.”
viii. 2 Corinthians 5:19, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world
to Himself,
II. The Shepherd in the Valley
a. Mark 10:45
b. Hebrews 12:2 that says, “who for the joy set before him endured the cross”
c. 1 Cor 15:55
d. Quote, Matthew Henry says, ‘The shadow of a snake cannot bite you. The shadow
of a sword cannot kill you.’ And the shadow of death will not destroy you.”
III. The Sheep in the Valley
a. Ps 23:4, “...thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”
