<TITLE>09. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 Oh, if Christians now who will fall away, and run back, and run out, and run in and out, and then you think, "Well, I--I can't make it." You couldn't make it in the first place. It's not your place to make it. God's already made it for you in Christ. The price is fully paid. The only thing you have to do is to accept God's provided way and stand in it, no matter what takes place. Don't move; rest. The Shepherd's watching over His sheep. He knows even a sparrow. How much more does He know about you?
I noticed another thing, if you'd excuse me for getting off my line of talk a moment, while I was thinking about shepherds. You know shepherd in them eastern countries has more respect than anybody else. Going down through the streets, all at once the whistle, the cars, and...?... and everything I wonder what's taking place. We was in a little old British Jeep, and the first thing you know, it was a shepherd crossing the street with his sheep, and the--all the traffic held up, give him the right of way.

L-34 That's the way our Shepherd is. Amen. He gets the right of way. He will lead His sheep. Nothing's going to harm or bother them...?... up on the mountain I noticed there was a lot of shepherds up there, and they was herding different kinds of animals. There was some donkeys they were herding, and some of them were camels, and--and some were just goats. I said, "Why, a shepherd means just a herder."
"Yes," he said, "that's right, Brother Branham. A shepherd is a grazeman or a herder." But he said, "You know the strange thing that the shepherd is a attached more to his sheep than anything else." He said, "Now, they both eat the same food, the same grass, but when nighttime comes, the mules, the goats, are all left out, and the shepherd calls his sheep and takes them into the sheepfold.

L-35 Thought, "O God, that's what I want to be, a sheep. Nighttime's going to fall one of these days. Just the sheep's a going in." God calling, if you're just a church member, if you know no more than just joining church, or if you don't know Christ by an experience...
"Oh," you say, "I know our creed. I know my catechism." To know the catechism isn't life. To know Christ is Life. Not to know your creeds, not to know your doctrine of your church, but to know Him, Him alone is Life: to know Him.
Another amazing thing I noticed. The shepherd will come right down through the street, and on the side the man with their produce laying out there, there'll be all kinds of appetizing things for the sheep, but the fellow that was driving me in the little jeep, he pulled over to one side, said, "Now, Brother Branham, watch this." Said, "See that shepherd entering that market street there?"
I said, "Yes, sir."

L-36 Said, "Now, watch him for a few minutes." And he walked down through that street and about fifty sheep following him, walked right down through where all them fine things: pears and vegetables and things laying there which would be very tempting to the sheep, but them sheep followed the shepherd and never looked right or left, just went right on through with the shepherd. That shepherd could step out of line like this and every one of them sheep would put the same line going right through. Oh, my.
I said, "Brother, you excuse me for a minute. I just got to praise the Lord." Following in the footsteps of the Shepherd, "My sheep know My Voice; a stranger they'll not follow," just move where He'd move. He'd go right there. He was tempted on every hand, everywhere. Keep your eyes on the Shepherd. Don't look to yourself. Look at the Shepherd and move on.


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