Do You Smell Like Sheep?

The title of my sermon today is, Do You Smell Like Sheep?

Now, before everybody starts sniffing on everybody, I must tell you my grandfather lived in Indiana, northern Indiana, cornfields as far as you could see, except for his farm. He raised pigs, and you could be driving through those beautiful cornfields and soybean fields as anyone's been in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio has seen. Very beautiful farms, and then you'd come across his, and you had to roll up your windows because it just smelled. As a matter of fact, the neighbors even asked him, he said, How do you take that smell? And he said, Smells like money to me. At least somebody was listening, William.

It's a really good book that was given to me by Sharon Hill. You might know her. And I found it to be so very interesting. As a matter of fact, there's even a second one she gave me, and the title of the book was Do You Smell Like Sheep? And it was a book that was written for pastors. But I found it intriguing even as an interest to sheep. And this being the metaphor for the church and for brethren and for pastors. But it brought you around the corner to, if you're a teacher, you're a leader, even in your families, wherever you are, can you relate to those you are working with? Just like shepherds, do you smell like sheep? Or do you like to stay above everyone? Think that you are one step above, which is exactly the opposite of what Jesus Christ told his disciples to do, to humble themselves. Shepherds are shepherding. It's mentioned over 200 times in the Bible. Yet sheep, lambs, are mentioned over 500 times. But not to leave them out, goats are mentioned 130 plus times in Scripture. And there's a big difference between sheep and goats. I think most of us realize that. I had the opportunity in my lifetime growing up on a farm to oversee both sheep and goats. And I can tell you there is a big difference between sheep and goats. One of those big differences is they smell. Goats smell bad. Different than sheep. Sheep do smell, but they tend to want to keep themselves out of the mud, the dirt, everything else they can do. Where goats, they don't care. They don't care. As a matter of fact, there's an old saying, why he smells like an old goat. Maybe you've heard that. Nobody smells like an old sheep, but an old goat. Christ was referred to as the Lamb of God by John the Baptist. I touched on that this morning about lambs. Well, I want to go in a little different direction this afternoon because I want to look at characteristics of goats. Any of you ever raised goats? I got one. She did. He did. Yes. Do you still raise goats? That's enough said. We raised goats for a while till we found we couldn't. There's a fence that couldn't keep them in and farmland they didn't love to tear up.

Characteristics of goats.

How many of you like goats? You like goat to eat. Anybody? Curried goat. I've had that. Third of the people here. How many people have never eaten goat? There's one, two, three, four. Okay. There we go. You just need to come down to Fort Lauderdale to one of our potlucks sometime. Have some curried goat. But I want to give you characteristics of a goat of goats. One, they're disobedient. They don't want to mind. They don't want to follow directions. They don't want to follow a guide at any time. The second, they're stubborn. Very stubborn. If they don't want to go somewhere, they're not going. They're not going. The other one is if they want to go somewhere, they're going to go. That's the way goats are. They're known to be rebellious, as you can imagine, being stubborn. They're destructive. They will eat or try to eat everything. I think they're one of the few animals that can eat poison oak and poison ivy and doesn't even faze them. It does not faze them a bit. In fact, I was talking to someone on the phone last night. Today, they picked up a couple of pygamy goats for a little while until they found out they were get out of their pens and jump right on the top of cars and scratch the cars and tear everything up. I noticed the last time I was there, I didn't ask him, but he does not have pygamy goats anymore.

They're also very curious. They will go where they're not supposed to go. They will go where it's dangerous. They will. If you have things blocked off where there might be electric wires, like we had, they'd tear it down just to find out what's behind there. As I said, they eat about anything in their their contrary in their whole being. They just are a real pain sometimes to be around, even raising them. Now, some people I know, Connie's watching and she has some goats and she has lamb. She has probably more patience than all of us combined in this room. I know Connie. It's interesting what is said about goats and sheep, because the Bible talks a lot about them. And the Bible compares them to us, to our actual personalities, to how we act, or lack of character in many ways. But there is one sin offering where Jesus Christ is pictured as a goat, as you remember the day of Atonement, later in the year. Even Alexander the Great was pictured as a ram, which was a sheep, in Daniel 8. So there are a lot of metaphors that the Bible uses.

The profound metaphor I'd like to look at this afternoon, because Christ gives us that illustration between sheep and goats, and us, and what He doesn't want us to be, and what we sometimes tend to be. And that is something this time of the year that I think we need to dwell on. We need to think about. And I appreciate Sharon giving me the book, because I actually conducted an entire year of classes for the Caribbean leadership on being shepherds. And I didn't realize there was so much in the Bible about sheep and shepherds. Neither today till we were done. I'd like you to go with me to Matthew 25. You may say, I know where you're going. Well, good. Meet me there. Matthew 25. 25. And let's go to verse 31, as Christ is talking about the end time, but He's also talking about sheep and goats. I think most of us realize the qualities of sheep. Do we? Do we? Do we want those qualities compared to the qualities I just read you about goats? Which one do you think God wants? I've raised both, and there's no question about it. I could see why He wants sheep. So, verse 31 says, when the Son of Man comes in His glory and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them, one from another as, that big word, if you could capitalize that, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And he, Jesus Christ, will set the sheep on His right hand. Over here. It's my right hand. More people are right-handed than left-handed. I hate it that I'm left-handed sometimes, but I am. I don't know whether it makes me a goat or not. My wife may have some input there.

But He said He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left, then the King, who is Jesus Christ, will say to those on His right hand, Come, you blessed my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundations of the world. You remember Revelation 13, 8 actually says that the Lamb of God was slain from the foundations of the world. So here we have the sheep are going to inherit the kingdom of God. And He says, prepared for you by Jesus Christ.

He says, For I was hungry, and you gave me food, you sheep. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink, you sheep. I was a stranger, and you took me in, you sheep. I was naked, and you clothed me, you sheep. I was sick, and you visited me, you sheep. I was in prison, and you came to me, you came and visited me in prison. So what are we looking at? The work of sheep.

The work of sheep. Verse 37, Then the righteous, the sheep, the ones on the right hand. The righteous will answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you or thirsty and we gave you drink? When did we see you a stranger and take you in naked and clothed you? Or when did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?

And the king answered and said to them, assuredly, I say to you, as much as you've done it to one of the least of these, my brethren, you did it to me. They didn't know. The sheep did not know. Why? Why not? Because it was second nature to them. It's second nature to a sheep, as he puts it, to help others, others, not self. You want to see that nature put in, put a sheep right here with food and put a goat. The goat will knock the sheep out in no time.

Just knock him out of the way because he's got food, but he wants his to. They're very selfish animals. It's part of their nature. Yet the sheep, it's not. The little lambs, if you saw my sermon this morning, you'll see how precious those lambs are if you've raised any of them.

That's why you could see the metaphor for Christ, the metaphor for us as sheep, as lambs of God. So I found this to be so intriguing because the sheep didn't know there was another way to live other than to help others. That interesting. Is that part of our nature? What are we examining in the coming weeks? Is it what is part of our nature?

Are we going to look out and go, well, do I smell like a sheep or goat? Are we really delving into something perhaps we haven't thought about in the days of Unleavened Bread and Passover? Are we typically thinking about ourselves as we should, the things we struggle with as we should? But are we also thinking about how God sees us when it's in accordance with his will for us?

What is God's will for us to be in his kingdom? Yes, I think we can all say that. He wants us to be in his kingdom. He desires for all men to have eternal life. But is there something deeper maybe we need to even look at is our nature. We have a sinful nature, as far as being a human, but even at our worst, people can be very giving.

Why? Because you feel things. God, the Father, and Jesus Christ, they feel things very deeply. So deeply, it sometimes makes me wonder how God put his finger off the button when they were torturing his son. But he did, thankfully, as I'm here. But as he talks about these wonderful sheep on his right hand, because that's where we need to be. That's where he wants us to be, because it's in here at the kingdom.

What did William just talk about? Matthew 6, 33, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and then everything else you'll have. Everything else will be there.

Go down to verse 41. Then he, Jesus Christ, will also say to those on the left hand, you'll goats out there. Goats, depart from me. You cursed into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels. It's not a lot of compassion for goats. There's a fire prepared for the devil and his angels. And guess where? And for goats. That's what it's saying. So do we have a lot of choice? Uh, baa, or somebody's going to burn.

Something's going to burn. To me, that's not a lot of choice to when we make decisions. Let's go on. For I was hungry, and you gave me no food. I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink. I was a stranger, and you did not take me in, naked, and you did not clothe me, and in prison, and you did not visit me. Because we know from history that if you were in a Roman prison, who was over this area at the time, Roman prisons, they kept you in there. But before then, they did not feed you. They had no obligation by their laws to feed you. Only obligation they have is to give you water twice a day. How do you think you'd like that? So if you had no family, you had no church, you had no friends, you had nothing, guess what? You're going to be awfully skinny. Because you're die of hunger. Unless they brought the case up. So this is a little background of why Christ talked about this, because he also knew he could see into the future. He knew they were going to be brethren, they were going to be leaders, there were men who were listening to that the very day that was going to end up in prison. And unless they got food from the brethren, they would die.

Let's go on, verse 44. Then they also will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or in prison, and did not minister or serve you?

What are we finding from the mindset of a goat? They're oblivious. I've got to take care of mine. It's about me. It's about what's good for me and mine, not others. He talks about strangers. How do we treat strangers? Not as good as I should.

You have entertained angels unaware. Makes you think. Makes you think. Should make us think of what we do, or people who can't help themselves. Somebody will feed them. Hmm, let's go on. Then he will answer them, saying, Surely, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to what? One of the least of these? You did not do it to me? That's crazy. He's equating himself to the poor, the naked, the hungry, in prison. He's equating himself to that?

Verse 46, And these will go away into everlasting punishment. He will punish you forever? No, but it's going to be over. Matter of fact, I'd like to do that sometime after spring holidays. I want to go into it, because everybody goes, Everlasting fire? What does that mean? That means they're going to burn forever? No, we need to. I want to explain the actual Greek in that, and you'll understand that. It means almost, I mean, it doesn't mean it's a burning, burning, burning, but you're done. You're done. You're burnt up. You're toast. Oh, yes, as Maria said, you're toast.

But the righteous... So here you get the goats, and you get fire. Here you get what? You got the sheep, but the righteous sheep into eternal life. That's pretty clear to me. I mean, it doesn't take a large jump. Imagination go, well, I don't you don't see me going by around the house. But is it the mindset? Is that covered this morning? The mindset of sheep compared to the mindset of goats and that and that Jesus Christ would would use this for the last days. He uses it for when he returns. He's obviously serious about this. He's obviously serious about us having the mentality of sheep. That's why he was called the Lamb of God, not the goat of God. John the Baptist goes, here comes the goat of God. No. He said, Behold the Lamb of God. It's powerful, powerful teaching here.

But don't forget as you read these words, the word as, as, because that's us. As he separates as a as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, as Jesus Christ will do when he returns. You're going to end up on one side or the other. I think I'll stick to the right side. But let's go on. So I'm going to ask you a few questions here. You don't have to answer those since it might embarrass you where you sit. Do you smell like sheep? Because they do smell. And they have a certain smell. I wouldn't call it a stench, but they do smell. Okay. But my question is, do you smell like sheep enough? Because one of the things they talked about in the book that a shepherd, how can you how, how can they know you? How can you know them unless you spend time with them? Do we spend enough time with each other? Does someone sharpen our iron? Smooth our wool? Caress our heads? Because that's the thing that sheep love. And baby, they love for you to rub their heads.

And as soon as you get done stroking them and patting their heads for 10 or 15 minutes, they're nudging you because they want more. They love the relationship. With us, do we love the relationship or do we just tolerate them? Do we have the nature of sheep? Is it about others, as we read Christ's metaphor story there about the end time? Is it about others or is it about what we goats want?

I want to be a goat. I don't have to worry about anybody. I'm just taking care of myself. I remember a guy told me one time when he retired from work and he was just going to go live on this little place. He said, I don't want to see anybody. I don't want to talk to anybody. I just want to be by myself. Then we found out about three or four months after that, he showed up. He's the first one to show up at church and the last one to leave because he found he was a sheep, not a goat. And he really enjoyed talking to people and spending time. What is our nature? That is what we have to look at.

Finally, the question is, do you know the shepherd's voice? Do you know the voice of Jesus Christ? Have you read the Bible enough that you know when somebody is misquoting the shepherd? Do you know the Bible well enough that you know what is right and what is wrong in the way we are living? Or is it that little voice like Magnum P.I. used to say, that little voice is telling me, I need to beware because the little voice was given to us that last Pass overnight, told to his disciples, all you got to do is hold out a little over 40 days and that little helper, that little voice is going to show up.

And as we know from Pentecost, it does. It did, and it still does today. When was the last time you heard the voice of the shepherd? Because he said, they know me. They know my voice. We're going to touch on that just a little bit more. Do you know it? Or can you listen to other things and say, well, that sounds like good Christianity, but they are mostly right. Hmm. But what does the shepherd want from us?

Most sheep do not like to fight. They don't fight. Get an occasional one that will bully. You can take care of that, but they don't really like to fight over grass. They don't fight over feed that you put in troughs. But a goat? Oh boy, you'll fight. Why does a goat fight? Because he wants his way! Yes, he wants his way. Ever been a goat? Your pastor will raise his hand, but we only have two out there who raise their hands.

There we go. Four or five. Okay, we got at least five people have been goats. The rest of you magnificent, incredible sheep can just stay where you're at. You can feel good about yourself. But me, I have to make sure that I stay a sheep. Stay that mentality of a lamb. The thing is sheep need a shepherd. You want to know one thing? Ghosts don't need a shepherd. I tried. They won't listen to you. They won't follow you. They're going to do what they want to do.

And that is why Christ gave this incredible example to us for us to try to make sure which hand we're going to be on, which hand Christ is going to lay out to us. That's why this book was so incredible, and I recommend it to everybody in this room. I recommend it to everybody and even those who are on the webcast will watch us later. It's a book that everyone needs to read. Oh, I'm not saying it's the Bible, but I'm saying it could enhance our understanding and our working with people and actually help to change because someday, according to this book, according to the Bible, we're all going to be shepherding people.

And we're to have the mind of Christ, who is the Good Shepherd. We're to have that mind, and if we want that mind, we need to know more about it so we can adjust ourselves to become better prepared to be sheep and not goats. As your pastor, I am called in most references an under shepherd. Because I'm not your shepherd. Christ is your shepherd. All I do is assist him. I just get my orders from him and try to help you.

But he is the one you turn to night and day when we have health issues, when we have health problems, right Ann? Right Phil? You don't call me and go, I need you. Yep, they may call one to be anointed, but they turn to God first. They cry. Christ is that shepherd to them. And for many in here, cry out to him. Why? Because he loves his sheep. He loves his sheep. That's why he's called the Good Shepherd. And we need to have that relationship with him. And as an under shepherd, it's interesting because the word pastor. Pastor is a Latin word, meaning past fed, past fed.

It means that I'm a pastor because you've already been fed. It's my job to feed you, feed you the Word of God. And I have to get it from him. I don't want you getting it from me because he has the pure food. Pure food is the right food that you need. And it's interesting that the word to shepherd the verb is pasture. Pasture. And it means to lead to pasture. To lead to pasture. To cause to eat.

That amazing? I mean, that's what the word is. So my job is to get you to eat. To get you to eat this, eat his food. Man should not live by bread alone, but by wood. Every word. That's my job. It's not to get you to feed on my words, it's his words.

Lead to pasture. Anybody come to mind?

The Lord is my shall not want. It leads me to what kind of green pastures. It's the food. It's the food. And that's what's important because you see, we all need, we all need a good shepherd, don't we? We all need a good shepherd.

Do you have one?

Christ actually said he was the good shepherd 11 times. And he wasn't bragging. He was just telling the fact. Because a lot of people will look to a human being as this great shepherd. We're not it. We're not it. We don't have the qualifications. We don't have the goods that the good shepherd has.

Is Jesus Christ our good shepherd? Is there a relationship? Because that's what it takes. I realize that raising sheep and goats and goats didn't really want me around except for the food. But the sheep did. They wanted a relationship. They they looked towards me. They if I drove up, they would look up from the field. The goat be over there. What else can I tear up?

But that's that's that's what we need. And that's what God wants us to have as we reaffirm our relationship with him in just a couple of weeks.

Do you have a bond? If you don't, it's never too late to form one. Because that shepherd's waiting to bond with his sheep. He longs for it. He looks for it. He's anticipating just like the father whose son, the prodigal son ran off. Because we all run off a little bit sometimes. Remember, that's why we pray. Well, why did I go do that? God help me. Sometimes, just like sheep, we need help. We need big time help. Let's go. Let's go with another story. Go back to John 10 as we look into Christ's powerful words here. John 10. I found it so interesting because in chapter 9, matter of verse 40, he's actually talking to the Pharisees, you know, those religious leaders of the day that wanted to be the shepherds. Look towards me. Look what I teach. Look what I say. Look how pretty I am. That's them. Christ wasn't like that. Let's go to chapter 10 now, verse 1, because we know who he's talking to. He said, Most assuredly I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door. Who's the door? Uh-huh. He says he is. But climbs up by some other way, the same as a thief and a robber. How do you like that, Pharisees? Well, he didn't say that. I say that because I know what he was saying. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. He knows us by name. He knows everything. Psalm 139, if you have any doubt, just read it. And then he calls you out. He's going to guide your path. He's not going to take you down roads. You follow him. He's not going to take you down some terrible road. He's not going to take you to some part of town. And say, Oh, well, let's see if I can protect you here. No, no, that's not what a good shepherd does. Oh, here's a bunch of dogs out here. Come on, sheep. Let's go see what I can do. No, he's going to make sure because he knows who our enemy is. He's confronted him. He knows him. And he's going to take care of him. But right now, his big job is protecting us, taking care of us. That's his sheep. So let's go on. Verse 4, And when he brings his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him. Do we? Will we? Are we? That's all he wants. For they know his voice. You know it when you hear it? I got a kick out of the other day. I forget. Mary might have been with me. I can't remember. I had something on the radio station, and it was a religious program. And the guy goes, and the guy, there was a question and answer. And I like some of those sometimes because I like to see what answer I would give. And the person goes, is the rapture in the Bible? And he goes, it's all through the Bible. Yes. Let's go to verse 5. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him. Because something doesn't sound right. Where do we go? I'm not following somebody.

For they do not know the voice of strangers. Jesus used this illustration. But they did not understand the things which he spoke to them. Why? Because they were goats. They were goats. They didn't understand. They didn't care. They thought they were pretty important people. Verse 7. Then Jesus said to them again, Most assuredly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All whoever came before me are thieves and robbers. Hmm. Talking about somebody who just got a little greed in there, huh, William? A little greed. Thieves. Let me have my jet. Let me have my nice car. Let me have, I saw where some some minister got in trouble or whatever. And so they were taking his house back and it was 14,000 square feet. Hmm.

But the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture, that green grass, what we need to sustain us. Substance. That's from him. Sustenance.

The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. Was he telling us? Stay away from thieves. Stay away from them because they want to kill you spiritually. They want to drain you financially. Watch. It's Christ that must lead us. I have come that they may have life and live it more abundantly. I am the Good Shepherd. One time. The Good Shepherd, what? Two times. The Good Shepherd gives his life for his sheep, but a hireling who is not the shepherd and one who does not own the sheep sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The hireling flees because he is a hireling that does not care about the sheep. I am the Good Shepherd and I know my sheep and am known by my own. He knows us. Our only position is we've met to make sure we know him and we stay in contact with him because a shepherd must look at the sheep. There's this whole colloquialism, I guess you could call it, of counting your sheep. Are you even counting sheep before you go to sleep? Well, I think I'll count sheep. Why is it? Because shepherds always worried about their sheep. So when they were out there taking care of their sheep, they were always worried so they would start counting. And with us, God counts us. He knows where we are and he takes care of us. He wants to make sure we do our part. Verse of 15, As a father knows me, even so I know the father. And I lay down my life for the sheep. He certainly did.

For us. We sinned. He didn't. He died for us in our place. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold. He knows who his sheep are. Oh, wait a minute. They're not in my church. They're not in this church. He's saying, Shut up. I know mine. And they may not be in yours, but I know who they are. And that's that's what's important. He knows I don't have to know. I just have to be a sheep.

Not of this fold them also I must bring and they will hear my voice. So they're hearing his voice and there will be one flock and one shepherd. That is what he wants. One more. One more verse. I think I didn't give David anymore. Let's go over to say in chapter 10, verse 25. I read this this morning. Let's say Jesus answered them. I told you you do not believe the works that I do in my father's name. They bear witness of me, but you do not believe me because you're not in my shape. You bunch of goats. That's what he was saying to these spiritual leaders, these Pharisees who thought they they had God in a box. And unless you came to them to look find out what the box says, you aren't going to find out anything. You see that in the church today. Run. Run. It's our job. It's a new minister's job. It's any leader's job. Any of you speakers that speak here, it's your job. Point them to Christ. Point to God. Not to yourself. Because if not, you point to yourself, you're a goat. And we know what's going to happen to goats. Let's go on down. But you do not believe me because you are not of my sheep. And as I said to you, my sheep hear my voice, and I know them. And they follow me. And I will give them eternal life. And they shall never, ever, never had their parish. Isn't that a nice thought? If we stay close to the shepherd, we're never going to perish. Neither shall anyone snatch them out of my hand, and someone wants to snatch you. My father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. And no one is able to snatch them out of my father's hand. Hmm. Incredible. So sheep smell, but not like goats, as I said before. Sheep like being around other sheep. Do we? Are we like-minded, like-natured?

Goats are independent. Sometimes they just want to be left alone. Or they have their own theory. Why don't you come over and be a goat? Why do you want to be a sheep? You blind sheep?

We will gather as sheep in Vero on Passover. In this very hotel, straight over there, with the same mindset, with the same shepherd, looking to our shepherd with humility and knowing his voice. That voice is the Holy Spirit. When's the last time you were led by it? When's the last time you even heard it? When's the last time you say, I need more? I need more.

It's a time when we will come together, and we know that time because it came from him. A full moon last night. Anybody see it? Boy, wasn't it so red you just couldn't understand it? Blood moon. Yeah, I haven't seen much blood around me. I've been up three or four times, different times. It's going to be a blood moon. I look out there and go, why did I get up at two in the morning to look at this?

But it's a full moon. What happens the next full moon? Goats together! No, goats are not gathering. Sheep are gathering, aren't they? Sheep will be gathering at the next full moon because the shepherd said to.

Interesting final thoughts on smelling like sheep. We're going to have the opportunity, you will have the opportunity to spend together three days, basically Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Will you get tired of the smell? I hope not. You know, it's so interesting that Christ was born near sheep. Remember where he was a manger that in all probability were for sheep since sheep were mainly raised there? And he was actually in a sheep feeding trough. It's where they laid the baby. Do you think his parents could smell sheep? Oh yeah.

And that the first people that were led by God to see his son, who were they? Shepherds. Shepherds who took care of sheep. It's interesting that the Hebrew word for pastor is ra'a. Ra'a. R-A-A-H. Ra'a, which means what? To feed. To feed. It's what we should be doing, looking to our shepherd to feed us. So does your shepherd know you are his? What Passover you're going to proclaim it? Or not? He expects you to.

It's interesting because in Exodus 12 verse 5, last scripture, I guess I did give you that, didn't I? Yes. He tells them that your lamb shall be a blemish, a male of the first year. And you can take either sheep or from the goats. Don't you find that amazing after this? Why would he sacrifice goats? I thought it was a lamb of gun. But it can't be more than one year old. And if you ever raise sheep or you raise lamb, you know they are so precious when they're small. Even the goats haven't developed that character yet. They want to grow close to you. They want to be close to their. There's so much alike at that time. But then what happens? As by the second year, they can't stand you except for food. But here he said, you're going to have it. This was in Egypt. Imagine that they think that 2.5 million people, some say two, some say three, 2.5 million people that night in Egypt. He said, I want you to get together as a family and I want you to keep that lamb from the 10th day to the 14th day and then you're going to kill it and you're going to eat it. Right? If a lamb or goat. Think of that. If a family, they had bigger families, there were six. Let's say there were six in your family. Six in every family. You know how many goats and lambs that was? 333,333 lambs or goats killed that night. You think it was important? It was to them. And it's just as important for us today.

So I hope you can answer the question. Will God smell a sheep on Passover night in Vero Beach?