A MAN WAS driving a flock of sheep down the main street of a town to a farm in the country. Suddenly from a side street there emerged a brass band playing loudly. The beating of the drum and the playing of the band so frightened the sheep in front that one of them dashed against a shop window. Breaking the glass, the sheep ran into the shop; then the whole flock followed in an unbroken line. Seral people in the store were knocked about by the frantic sheep, and some of the sheep were so cut and crippled by their wild escapade, that they had to be killed.
This strange story about the silly flock rushing after their foolish leader, reminded me of a verse in God’s Word which many of you have often heard quoted: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way.” Isa. 53:66All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:6). Adam and Eve, our first parents in Eden, first left the path of obedience and went in the way which God had forbidden them to go in, thus becoming sinners. Along that same path the whole human race has followed. Some, convinced of their folly, have confessed, “I have gone astray like a lost sheep.” Psa. 119:176176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments. (Psalm 119:176). I wonder if you have discovered this about yourself — “A lost sheep,” perhaps not yet finally and forever lost to God and heaven, but truly lost and unable to find your way back. It is just here to those who know and own themselves to be lost sinners that the good news of the gospel comes in all its saving power.
“The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Luke 19:1010For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. (Luke 19:10). How many have found this to be exactly what they needed, and owning themselves to be lost sinners, have accepted the lost sisters’ Saviour. Have you confessed Jesus as your Saviour and Lord? Delay no longer; “Behold, now is the accepted time.” 2 Cor. 6:22(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) (2 Corinthians 6:2).
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