Sheeps are funny little creatures

Sheeps are funny little creatures in one way. Here’s another thing we might learn of sheep tonight. When the weather is real hot, did you ever see sheep? They won’t separate themselves, and one be at one place, and one at another. But right in the heat of the day, the sheep will all stand together. You know what they’re doing? They’re making shade one for the other. They’re having fellowship.

Psalm 23:1

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

We learn a lot of things by sheep. If we would just notice them and watch their actions… And a sheep is a sacrificial animal. Little innocent fellow, and he is totally helpless when he’s lost. I think that’s why Jesus likened us unto sheep, because they just can’t seem to find their way around. They have to depend on someone leading them. And they cannot lead one another. They just won’t do it. And that goes to show me one thing; if we are likened to sheep in God’s heritage, then we cannot lead one another. We are helpless. And we’ve got to depend on the great Shepherd of the sheep, the Lord Jesus.

And I noticed at a slaughterhouse once… Someone was speaking to me about how they slaughtered the sheep. And when they want the sheep to come out of the corral and go up the chute where they kill the sheep, a goat leads them up there. They’ll follow the goat. And this goat will lead them up to the place where the killing takes place, and then he will jump over the side and let the sheep go right on to their death. That’s just the nature of the goat. And if a fellow doesn’t know his sheep real well, it’s hard to tell the difference between the bleating of a goat and of a sheep. They’re a whole lot alike. But the nature of them proves what they are. That’s the way with confessed Christians and real Christians. The goat represents the world. They’ll lead you right down the wrong road to your eternal separation from God. They’ll lead you into trouble. So if we are sheep, we better watch what kind of shepherd we got.

Sheep are funny little creatures in one way. Here’s another thing we might learn of sheep tonight. When the weather is real hot, did you ever see sheep? They won’t separate themselves, and one be at one place, and one at another. But right in the heat of the day, the sheep will all stand together. You know what they’re doing? They’re making shade one for the other. They’re having fellowship. And wouldn’t it be good if all God’s sheep, when the heat was on, would stand together. When the trials are real hard, and the heat is on, and everything going on everywhere, if all of God’s little sheep would just stand together, we’d have the coolness of the shade of each other, the comfort, to lean upon each other.

Now, someone said, “Is that necessary, Brother Branham?” It certainly is. There’s nothing like having a real good dependable friend, that when the troubles are blazing, the heat’s on, you can go to this friend, and set down, and just explain it to them, talk it over in personal confidence, and then kneel down and pray together, and know that this person is a good God-saved man or woman that you can put confidence in. Oh, it’s good to do that. “Come, let us reason together,” saith the Scripture. Or, “Come, let us stand together.”