<TITLE>10. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 Did you ever hear a goat bleat? A goat and a sheep's almost the same thing. And I've heard goats crying, when they act like sheep. It takes a real shepherd to know the difference. You hear a goat squealing, it sounds just exactly like a sheep. But a shepherd knows the voice. That's right.
Now, but something happened. And we find out that this Jehoshaphat, oh, every spell of emotion before praying over it.
Before you cut your hair, sister, did you get down and pray over it, see what the Lord said about it? Before you wore those little old sinful, ungodly-looking clothes that you wear, did you get down and pray before the Lord, and ask the Lord what to do about that? And He didn't condemn you? I'm afraid you didn't. You had your mind already made up what you was going to do, before you prayed. That's right.
Are you willing to let, as I said the other night, God shear those things off of you, take all your--your rights. You say, "This is my rights. I'm American. I do what I want to." That's right, but are you're willing to forfeit them to the Kingdom of God? If you're a lamb, you are. If you're a goat, you won't. So there you are.

L-34 So now, you might bleat and cry, and you might act like it. You might eat the same grass that the goat and the sheep does, and way over in the Holy Lands here not long ago I seen a shepherd. And he was herding sheep, goats, donkeys, and camels, all on the same grass. And I said, "What does a 'shepherd' mean?"
He said, "The shepherd is a grazer." Said, "Like you call in America your cowboy."
And I said, "Well then, why is it that he's herding the goats and everything?"
He said, "That's right."
"Oh," I said, "I see."
He said, "But, Brother Branham, when nighttime comes, the... Everything is left on the pasture except the sheep, and the sheep's took to the fold. And he lays down at the door to see that nothing bothers them."
I said, "I see." You can set in the same church, shout by the same Gospel. But if your nature isn't tempered, you'll never be recognized as a genuine son. That's right. It's got to be in your heart, not in your head.

L-35 You say, "I like to do that, but I better not do it, because the church wouldn't like it." I... Don't make any difference what the church says. It's what God says, what your conscience says, what the Holy Spirit says in you. Right. He said, "You love the world, or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you." So don't be a borderline. Come out and be one side or the other. Let your colors shine.
Now, I want you to notice. Jehoshaphat got messing around, and he got with that crowd. They said, "Will you go up with us? Will you come over and join our church?"
He said, "Well, I guess I might as well go into the association. I imagine it's all right. I felt a little independent more up here. Maybe if I join the association, I--I'd be better off. I'd have the fellowship then of Israel down here, and I'll... Now, these old fellows over here, maybe if I can just join the association."
Sometimes you make a mistake by doing that. I ain't got nothing against the association, but just stay the way you are with God.

L-36 Now, the first thing you know, he goes up there. And after awhile, why, he said, "Would you go with me to battle?"
Said, "Sure. We're all Christians anyhow. We're all believers anyhow...?... there." He wanted to be a mixer.
And that's what the world's looking for today is a mixer. But God wants separators.


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