<TITLE>16. Par 49-51</TITLE>L-49 So I watched these sheep, and one amazing thing that I noticed about them, about the sheep, was this. That when they went down through the street, they was all kind of dainties laying out. The--the Eastern countries are not like the Western. We put all of our things under all kind of a--a dehydration and has it laying up in a great frosted counters and so forth, but in the East, they lay them right out on the streets, right like that. And here come this shepherd with about a string of sheep almost a city block long, walking right down, not ten feet on either side, was dainty things to eat, like pears, and--and papayas, and everything laying out on the street; and he walked right down the street and not one sheep turned right or left to take a thing. Amen.
I said, "What about that, fellow?"
He said, "Them sheep is so devoted to the shepherd till way pay no attention to nothing but they follow him."
I thought, "O God, Your Church should be so devoted to You that the temptations of the world has nothing to do with them. They keep their mind on the Shepherd." That shepherd could make one step this way, they'd go back this way. Every sheep coming right behind the other one, make that same kind of a step, and follow the shepherd. Oh, to follow the footsteps of the Shepherd, that's it. Don't be tempted, tossed about, worried, tempted here and down here, and today you got the victory and tomorrow you're out of the victory. Follow the Shepherd. He's a leading.

L-50 "So My sheep know My voice," He said, "and a stranger..." Said, "They get accustomed to hearing."
I said, "Well if another shepherd would come in and give that little "o'de'le'lee" call that he gives there, would them sheep, if they were out in the field, come?"
Said, "Oh, no. No, those sheep know the very sound to every tone of that shepherd's voice."
I thought, "Well, this is the land of the Bible. Now, no matter, another shepherd could stand up and try to impersonate that, them sheep would just keep on grazing. But just let that little certain voice speak, every sheep would stand up in here. They'd line up, come marching. Oh, my. Some glorious day that King Shepherd will scream from the skies, and we'll take and march to Zion City, in that great unbreaking branch of the armies of the Lord, when we rise triumph over death and hell.

L-51 The great Shepherd of the flock. Oh, don't you love Him? I'll never forget it. Way back on the south sides of Africa, in those great sheep countries, I was going up over a hill. I was watching a little lamb getting real nervous. I said, "Wonder what's the matter with the little fellow." And, oh, he was just... He'd bleat; he'd look down; he'd eat a little bit and look around. I thought, "Well, what's the matter with the little fellow." I picked up my binoculars and I combed everywhere. Way back down behind him was a big, yellow mane lion slipping up real easy, coming to this little fellow. He couldn't see it, the animal.
Now, the deer or the bear can smell a human being, because of the musk glands under the arms. They smell that. And they can pick you up. Elk can pick you up sometimes nearly a half a mile away or more, if the wind's just right. That musk gland, that's what they smell, under your arm. And they--they can pick it up, but a sheep doesn't. And it doesn't smell the danger, the animal. But the instinct of the little lamb, he was nervous. He knew something was fixing to happen.
And how many tonight of poor little sheep out into the field today, at that great line of death a slipping right up on them and they're nervous. And the world's all tore up. They don't know what's the matter. When they know hanging yonder is an atomic bombs, and cobalts, and hydrogen bombs that might set this world to a total annihilation in twenty-four hours.
It's slipping upon us, friends. Be ready. Know the voice of the Shepherd.


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