If you missed last weekend, you missed something that we have never done before at the Fellowship Church. We brought on this stage a live sheep. And the sheep bahhhhed at the right time. The sheep was really cool. I had never been that close to a sheep before. It was a lot of fun. But you should have seen what happened back stage. Pastor Owen Goff had this sheep on a leash. He said, “Pastor Ed, I am going to walk this sheep before the service so he can do his business.” So he had the sheep was walking back and forth outside. Then Owen let him inside and the sheep tried to eat some electrical cords. He got him away from the cords but then he tried to eat some plants. Then one of our staff members gave the sheep an Altoid. The sheep looked up and said, “curiously strong.” No, he didn’t speak. But a sheep will eat anything.
Human beings will try anything. “Oh, I had better taste this. I have got to experience this. I have got to check this out.” Even though we know that doing some things one time can be addictive, destructive or even deadly. Yet, we serve a Shepherd, a God who has been there, a God who has paved our paths, who has forged our future. He is a God who is preparing diligently some pastures so that we may experience amazing grazing.
I thank God for all the times that I have seen Him protect me. But I also thank God for those times that I don’t even know about. I thank Him for all of those times when He has gone ahead of me and gotten all of those plants out of the way so Ed Young can have amazing grazing without any poisonous grasses or weeds around.
I love what the writer of Hebrews said. Hebrews 4:15. “We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses but we have one who has been tempted in every way just as we are yet was without sin.” You never know the full force of temptation until you resist it. Christ knows the full force of temptation like we will never know it.
Dr. Ed Young – I ran a marathon, in my early twenties, and I was mindful of the marathon this Friday as I looked at a picture of myself and two of my friends who ran it with me.
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