<TITLE>11. Par 111-116</TITLE>L-111 The reason I'm saying this this way, so you can see what I mean by the lapover. See? It's from the missionary age of the door. But, you see, He'd--He had told them He had the key of David and so forth. But here He said He had set before the church now, after that age of missionaring, and Whitfield, and--and all those others, and Finney, and Sankey, and Moody on down (Moody being one of the last), come down to now He set a open door before the church. Oh, here's where you have to watch now. It's just in between the Philadelphian and the Laodicean age, lapover.

L-112 Jesus is the Door. Now, if you'll turn with me to John 10:17... Let's back this up now and be sure that many of you would believe. And then somebody would say, "Well, I--I never... He just said that." I'd like just to read it: John the 10th chapter and the 17th verse: John 10:17. All right, we read these Words. I beg your pardon, John 10:7, not 17.
Then said Jesus unto them... Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheepfold.
That's back into the blessing. How do we get into Christ? What is He? The sheepfold. I often wondered about that, "What? Could He be a Door, being a Man?" Now, over in the--over in the eastern countries there, I found out one day when I noticed that the shepherd, at nighttime he takes all the sheep inside of the corral, drives them through a door. And then when he gets all of them in there, he counts them all to see if they're every one in. Then he lays down in the door himself. Nothing can come in to the sheep, or any sheep can go out without crossing him. So Jesus is the Door (See?) to the sheepfold.

L-114 And I was riding in a little British jeep, and I said to the fellow; I said, "Those are..." The shepherds come down through the city, and a whistle blowed, and everybody slammed on their brakes, and I thought, "What's the matter?" And it was a shepherd going through the town with his sheep.
Now, over in the east, it isn't like here. They lay all their goodies out--out along side of the house in the market places. And there's apples and pears, and what kind of fruits, and grapes just piled up beautifully, piled up along on a rack like this, runs down. And each one of the sellers stands there and tries to pull you in to buy some of his fruits and things.

L-116 Well, this shepherd, he started right down that main street. I said, "Brother, here's where the riot comes in; I'll stand up and watch this."
And the brother with me said, "You'll be surprised, Brother Branham. Watch." Everything stopped. The shepherd walked along, paying no attention, every sheep following him exactly, following him. If he made a jot like this and turned, every--the sheep right behind him made a jot, the next one followed him, the next one followed him, right on out and made that turn.
Oh, that's the way we follow the Shepherd. That's right. Going right down through the middle of that street to get something down at the other end, and them sheep following him just like a dog. They'd look over and look at those goodies, but they followed the shepherd. Oh, I like that. See? I said, "Oh, brother, I wish I could just talk this language; I'd preach right now." There you are. Yeah, he--he'd not turned right or left, but stay right after the shepherd.


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