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Psalm 23, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me to lie down

in green pastures. He leads me besides still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of

righteousness. Man, we love this song. And I think part of the reason we love it is, one, is that we think

it's all about us, but it's not all about us at all um in fact it's

it's all about him and a lot of times the you know the christian bookstores have not done us a lot of

justice because when we think of the idea of sheep and shepherd we think it's awesome because you've

been into some christian bookstore before and you've seen, you know, that picture of Swedish Jesus.

Like he's, he's kind of Danish. He's got blonde hair, no split ends. He's got a bathrobe on Miss America Sash. And he's petting a big old fluffy white sheep. And when you see the Lord is my shepherd, you think, oh, that's cute. Jesus must really be into me. Well, it's not a good picture at all.

First of all, Jesus was a Middle Eastern carpenter.

So, sorry, no blonde hair, no blue eyes.

That's not how it would work, okay?

Dark skin in the Middle East.

I mean, just look up somebody from there today.

That's kind of what he looked like.

And when the Bible calls you and I sheep, that is not a compliment. I hope you realize that. That sheep are the dumbest animal who has ever

lived on the planet. I mean, pretty much every other animal on the planet has a fight or flight

mechanism. Like they can fly away or they can run fast or they can camouflage their body. Or they

can stand their ground and they could fight with claws

or fight with teeth or maybe have venom.

But not a sheep.

A sheep is helpless and defenseless.

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