<TITLE>03. Par 10-13</TITLE>L-10 You know, a sheep is a very sensitive and odd animal. And you know, a sheep never was asked to manufacture wool. He was asked to bear wool, because he is a sheep. And as long as he is a sheep, he will bear wool, because that's his nature.
And so is it with the Christian church. We were never asked to manufacture fruits. We were asked to bear fruit.
Galatians 5 said, "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, faith, peace, long-suffering, meekness, gentleness, patience." These are not to be manufactured. They're to be products that comes from the inside out. The outside life, that we live, proves what's on the inside. Now, we have tried to manufacture this, to manufacture the fruits of the Spirit, and we always turn out hypocrisy, because you cannot manufacture Christianity. It's an experience by a Spirit that lives in you, and bears fruit of Itself. You cannot manufacture it.
We have tried to educate it, and denominate it, and when we do we turn out hypocrisy and failure. It's not to be done that way. It's to be done as God intended to be do--be done, the Spirit inside of us bearing fruits of It's Presence. That's God's program. It can never be changed.

L-11 And this, tonight, is an awful unusual text, but God is unusual, and He does things in an unusual way, at an unusual time, with unusual people. He's altogether unusual. And I think this is one of the most striking instance of all the Scriptures. When it so pleased God, that when He wanted to symbolize His Son on earth, it was called a Lamb, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. And then when He, God, was going to symbolize Himself, He was represented by a Dove.
Now, if you notice, of all the creatures that roam the earth, there's nothing as meek and gentle as a lamb. There's nothing so innocent as a lamb, meek, gentle. And of the dove, there's no fowl that flies the air of the heavens, as meek and as gentle as the dove. It's the most sensitive bird of all the birds. And the lamb is the most sensitive of all the animals.

L-12 Therefore, if you'll notice, the lamb and the dove has spirits alike and natures alike. If it would not been that way, if there would've been a crow flew down on the lamb, the lamb could've not have stood that. And if the--the dove would've flew down on a wolf, the dove could not have stood it. They're natures wasn't the same. So it had to be a lamb and a wolf--or a lamb and a dove symbolized together, God and His Son, so that they could live together.

L-13 Now, I've often wondered why God ever represented us as lambs. We are the sheep of His pasture. If you notice, a lamb is one of the most unusual animals. That lamb cannot find his way back when he's lost. I've raised sheep. And let a sheep get lost, he will stand there and bleat till he dies. He cannot find his way back. He's got to have the shepherd to lead him back. And we will never find our way back through any other way but though the Shepherd. The human race lost, it needs to be shepherded back.
We cannot find our way back through educational programs. We could not find our way back through science. We could not find our way back through religions. There's only one way back and that's by the Shepherd.


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