<TITLE>09. Par 31-33</TITLE>L-31 And I noticed that shepherd stepped out, going like this. If he made a step out like this and come back, every sheep followed him, went right straight in the same step. They come right up there and go in and go out, every one following right along these others.
Oh, brother, it's not a sheep that gets out of order; it's a goat that'll go aside for the temptation. It's a goat that'll go out and grab a pear, or whatever he can get a hold of, not the sheep; it's the goat. The only thing that falls out is those who are tottering and waving.
Then not one day before I left the country, I was watching along the road, and there was a man out, and he was herding a big bunch of animals. And I noticed there were mules, and also there were cattle; there were goats; and there were sheep. And I said, "What do you determine that man to be?"
And the man who was with me said, "He is a shepherd."
"Oh," I said, "a shepherd?"
"Yes."
"Well," I said, "a shepherd don't only mean for sheep then?"
He said, "No, 'shepherd' means 'a feeder.'"
And I said, "Well, did you notice, the sheep, the goats, the mules, and everything is eating off of the same pasture."
Said, "That's right."
"Well," I said, "then the shepherd is good hearted."

L-32 "Yes." But he said, "The way to tell which is his, when the nighttime comes and it gets dark," he said, "the shepherd will make a call, and every sheep on the field will come to him, and he will take those sheep into the barn, or the corral, lay down in the front of them. But the mules, the cattle, and the goats will stay in the field."
I said, "Excuse me, brother, I just want to speak a word to my Shepherd right now."
I don't care about any theology, any great degree, or great person. All I want to be is a humble sheep, that when the nighttime begins to strike across my brow, I want Him to call me in. They can be mules and goats and everything else eat this same food, but only a shepherd takes in his sheep only at nighttime.
Brother, if you're impersonating Christianity, if you got the spirit like unto the mule, or the spirit like the goat that dibbles and dabbles around in the world, one of these days it's coming night, and you won't know the Shepherds voice. Why don't you get acquainted with It tonight, and know what it means to be a sheep. Let us bow our heads while we're thinking seriously over this.

L-33 I want you to think. You say, "Oh, Brother Branham, I enjoy the Word of God." Yes, brother, the rain falls on the just and the unjust. The weed out here is just as good, rejoices just as much to get that water that falls down from heaven and rejoices with it just as much as your cotton does, just as much as your garden does. It's the same water. But at the end time, what happens? He sends forth the Angels and gathers all the briars, all the bad weeds, the foul things, and they're cast into the fire.
But what happens to the wheat and the grain? It's taken to the garner. Mules, donkeys, camels, all other animals that grazed upon the ground, certainly they eat the same kind of food every man that goes to church. But it's just the sheep that's called when the sun's going down. Are you a sheep tonight, brother?
Sister dear, are you one of God's little lambs? If you're not sure of that, let's make it sure just now. Will you raise up your hand to Christ and say, "By this, Christ, I'm now accepting You as my Saviour; be merciful to me"?


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