<TITLE>12. Par 119-127</TITLE>L-119 That's what the church has done all the way down through; staying after the Shepherd, the Holy Spirit that leads us into Eternal Life; not turning because this is a big flowerly church, and this one's got so-and-so many doctors and so-so like that, but stay right after the Shepherd. Wherever the Shepherd goes, the sheep follow, "My sheep know My voice, and a stranger they will not follow." That's right. He... That shepherd knows grunts and everything else that make those sheep behave.
Then when we got out of the city, it was an amazing thing, I seen a--a field out there and some men laying around; they had donkeys, and cows, and pigs, and sheep, and goats, and everything out there. And I said, "Well, what's them guys out there?"
He said, "Shepherds."
And I said, "A shepherd herding donkeys?"
And he said, "Yes, sir."
Well, I said, "I--I thought a shepherd just meant sheep."
He said, "No. 'Shepherd' is a 'herder, grazer.' And over in your country they call them cowboys and--and things like that."
I said, "Oh, I see, a shepherd is a herder."
"Yes."
"He watches the herd."
"That's right." He said, "The strange thing is at nighttime, where you--it's striking... You being a minister, and I might tell you something." He said, "When nighttime comes... It's true he pastors every one of them, leads them around and helps them and see that they get good things through the day. But when nighttime comes the--all the--the mules, and the donkeys, and the--the camels, and whatever he's got, is left out into the field. But he rounds up the sheep and takes them to the corral."

L-123 "Oh," I said, "Lord, make me a sheep, whatever You do." See? For when the nighttime comes, I want to go into the sheepfold. Enter in at the Door; come by the Door. John 17:7 here, or--or He said, "I am..." Or 10:7, rather, He said,
...I am the door to the sheepfold.
All that ever come before me is thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
I am the door: by me if any man enters in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture.
"Now, I have set before this church, between the Philadelphian age and the Laodicean age, a open door." Oh, do you get it now? And got your thinking caps on real good and tight? Listen now; this is good. I tell you; it's Honey in the Rock, just getting the nuggets out and shine them up.

L-125 "I am the Door to the sheepfold." What is that Door that was set now? Let's go back in our minds. And from that great missionary age of the Methodists, that swept through the country with the message of sanctification, Luther through justification; Wesley come along with the message of sanctification. And at the end of the Methodist age, the end, when it took roots and begin to come a great organization... And when any church...
Now, listen, that's strong. But I want someone to show me anywhere through the gleanings of history. Any church that God ever raised up, come up the Pentecostal way without any organization; and as soon as it organized, it died and never raised again. Oh, the membership went on, but they never had a revival. Luther's revival never raised, and neither did Methodist revival ever raise; and neither will the Pentecostal revival ever raise. No, sir. They organized it, which God said in the church ages He hates that thing, the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes.

L-127 Now, remember, we're not talking against anybody. The good people is scattered. God's sheep is in all them places out there. That is true. That's right. Methodists, Baptists, whatever they are, they're God's people if they are borned again of the Spirit of God, they're God's people; but the organizations has cramped them down. And packed letter from Methodist to Baptist to Campbellite, and so forth, till they--they wore their letters out just packing them from place to place.


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