Lost Church Members — Ralph Sexton

The Wheat and the Tares as a Warning About False Profession

Ashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the son in the kingdom of their father who hath ears to hear. Let him hear. Anytime the Word of God says if you have an ear to hear let him hear.

It's God saying sit up. Take a deep breath and pay attention. I have something to tell you. Now I really believe tonight That if we're going to go and have revival and if many of you that are gathered under this gospel pit tonight Are going to spend eternity in heaven.

Examining Salvation Rather Than Trusting Religious Exercise

Then you have to examine your salvation. You have to know whether or not you've been saved that you have been washed in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm afraid that all across America Many people are trusting in religious exercise for salvation.

Stained glass. Carpet padded pews and pipe organ is not salvation. Salvation my friend is not in bricks and mortar. Salvation is not in a cathedral roof or in an a-frame building. Salvation is not in catechisms.

Salvation is not in ritual. Salvation is not in water baptism or sprinkling or Holy Communion or Eucharist. None of those things can produce salvation. You need to know tonight by the authority of this blessed book.

That the only way that a human being can go see God is to know the Lord Jesus Christ. There's no way to the father. Except through the son. Now the Bible teaches very clearly in this passage of scripture and verse number 24.

It teaches clearly that the wheat and the tares are planted together. Verse 24 says a man sowed and Notice what he was sowing. He was sowing good seed. Notice that that seed rooted in the earth. Then notice what is an illustration of it's an example or an illustration of a man's experience with God in verse number 25 we notice that his enemy came and his enemy sowed tares and that tear also rooted in the earth and we know that this is symbolic of this man's experience with the devil.

Verse 24 is symbolic of an experience with God. Verse 25 symbolic of an experience with the devil. One is wheat one is tears. I Happen to think that this verse of scripture is a frightening passage in the Word of God.

You say brother Sexton. It's only a parable. Oh, yes, it is only a parable, but what a powerful parable that it is. Because this parable teaches that there are people that are going to look right. Talk right dress right and be right everywhere but in their soul and they're going to die and they're going to go meet God and Brother Sammy, they're going to step out into eternity and be lost for time and for eternity.

“Lord, Lord”: The Danger of a False Profession

You say brother Sexton, how could that be? I don't know. I have I have a hard time with some verses. One verse I find very difficult is when I read where a man walks into God and says Lord Lord. Have we not done many body works in thy name and that man?

Gets an answer from God and God says depart. I Never knew you that's a powerful passage of Scripture. I really think that we ought to have faith my friend in the Lord Jesus Christ and his blessed book and I really believe that there's nothing wrong with us searching our heart and Searching our beings and say God do I really know that I have been birthed into the family of God?

I'm afraid that a lot of people listen to me now, please listen closely tonight. This message could be life and death. There are thousands of people here tonight. But it could be life and death for someone sitting next to you.

Do you realize tonight that someone could be? Listening to the radio or watching on television or on satellite uplink tonight or. Someone could be under this tent tonight and they could be trusting in their experience.

Rather than trusting in their Christ. They could be trusting in something. They've been doing rather than what God has already done. It would be a frightful thing if someone would be under the tent tonight.

Trusting in a feeling rather than trusting in what God has done. Do you know what God said in his Holy Word. How do you become a tear? How does someone become a tear? Well, I mentioned on the Friday night about our trips to Israel where we study and how we take every day the Word of God and every day's a laboratory of studying and applying the book and One of the things that we've studied there in the Holy Land is the wheat and the tare.

They grow together. I'm going to tell you something. I can't tell them apart. I've looked at them. I can't tell them apart. Now those farmers can tell but they say the real way to know is that harvest time.

One bears fruit and the other one doesn't now. I want to know something tonight. I don't know about you. But I don't want to wait till harvest time to have assurance of my salvation. I don't want to wait till the trumpet sounds and find out whether I got to go or I didn't get to go and then say.

Well now since I'm left behind, I guess I better pray. It's going to be too late then my friend. How do you become a tear? Now, please I want you to listen very closely. Because if you don't listen to me closely some are going to go out and they're going to misquote me and you're going to tell People that I said something that I didn't really say so you've got to listen closely to what I'm saying.

False Conversion at the Altar

Some people became a tear at a church altar. Please listen to what I'm about to say. Some people were made a tear at a church altar. Someone knelt down and they felt like God was dealing with them and Another person knelt down beside them and In love, but in ignorance they dealt with this person and they said something like this.

Do you believe there's a God in heaven? Yes, I believe that. Do you believe he had a son his name was Jesus? Oh, yes, I believe that. Do you believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross of Calvary for your sins?

Yes, sir I believe that. Well then stand up you're saved because you believe but my friend that's not salvation. You say but I believe there's a God in heaven. I believe God's got a son his name is Jesus.

I believe he died on the cross for my sins. The demons in hell Believe that God's got a son and his name Jesus. The demons in hell believe that Jesus died for the sins of mankind. But they're not saved and they know who Jesus is.

While when he met them up on the north shore of Galilee They started accusing him and said have you come to torment us before our time? You say the demons in hell believe that that's right. Well, then how do I get saved?

Well, I'm telling you some people were made tears at an altar. Because someone didn't deal with them properly from the Word of God. Some people were made tears in a service. Because their emotions or their feelings Overwhelmed them and they trusted their feelings for salvation.

Emotion, Morality, and Works Cannot Save

Now listen to me very closely here I'm getting ready to teach a series of messages at my home church on what is worship and Many times we confuse worship with sentiment or we confuse worship with Nostalgia and there's a big difference an emotion and feeling is not Salvation.

You can be saved and not have any thunder and lightning. You can be saved and have thunder and lightning. We're all individuals. But you cannot trust an emotion or a feeling as whether or not that's the Criteria that you've been saved and washed in the blood of the Lamb.

Some people have been made tears. Because they have trusted a feeling rather than the personal knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some people are trusting moral works for salvation. Some people believe that if they keep the golden rule, then they're saved.

Some people believe if they do kind charitable deeds, then that is salvation. But salvation is not in kind charitable deeds. Salvation is not in doing good works. Salvation is not something you can earn or work up my friend.

It has to do with a gift from a thrice. Holy God. One of the reasons we're not having revival in America is because we no longer fear God. There's no fear of God. There's no fear of grieving the Holy Ghost.

There's no fear of injuring the blessed third person of the Godhead. We go in the church anymore smacking our gum talking about the ball games and the races. There's no reverence. There's no knowledge of God.

There's no spirit of God and if we don't like what we're hearing we get turn it off or we get up and walk out. Because we just don't want to get involved and because of that we've got people going to hell of church abuse.

That's right. Some people are made chairs because they believe their works will get them in. They think that God's something like an Emily Post and Santa Claus hybrid and that God has provided salvation on Christmas and that Emily Post is keeping the record of the good deeds and one day will add up the total and if I get enough points I get To go in but this isn't a point system.

You don't go in on your works. You go in through and by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and there's no other way for salvation. How do you become a tear. You become a tear at an altar or by emotions or feelings or by?

Trying to be a good moral person or by trying to keep the golden rule or by your own works. But none of those things can work. None of them will work. How is a tear then produced? I've told you how you can become one.

How is a tear produced? Tears are produced by church membership. Sad to say that a lot of churches across America. The only thing you have to do to be a member is to walk an aisle and sign a card. And that's all there is to it.

There's no examination. There's no pastoral inquiry. There's no conversation about do you know your name's been recorded in the Lamb's Book of Life? Do you just walk the aisle sign a banana and become one of the bunch and that's all there is to salvation.

Baptism, Law Keeping, and Religious Membership

I'm going to tell you something tonight. You say brother Ralph. We wish you to close last night, but we didn't listen. We need to know if we're saved and why we're saved. A tear is produced by taking someone and making them believe that putting them underwater and Bringing them back up will save them.

I want you to know I can baptize you to the tadpoles know your social security number and you can die and go to hell. I Can sprinkle you. Do you think it's raining on your face and you can die and go to hell?

Salvation is not in a religious exercise. You can produce a tear by keeping the law. Many people believe if they'll keep the Ten Commandments or attempt to keep them or if they'll keep certain Dietary laws or if they'll observe certain days that they will earn favor with God and purchase Salvation, but that is not salvation.

Law didn't get me here. Grace got me here. Mercy got me here. Hey, I've never been good enough to keep a man's law. Let alone God's law and if I get into heaven It'll be through and by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and by his marvelous grace.

You need to know what you believe in why you believe it. Another way that tears are produced is by carelessness. Men and women that handle the holy things of God in a careless way. Men and women that are not trained or not handling the things of God in a careful way.

By telling someone that you've saved them instead of God saving them. Oh What a dainty danger dangerous situation it is because then that person Believes they're all right when the truth of the matter is you told them they were all right instead of God.

Telling them they're all right. Easy believe ism can put people in hell. You say do you believe it's that bad? I was in a southern city not many months ago. Conducting a crusade like this. At service time a big limo pulled up the wind that came down.

They were two or three occupants in there. A couple of those occupants were women. They asked what was going on. There were four or five of us preachers standing at the edge of the tent before the service began.

One of the preachers stayed up to the edge of the car. I could hear the conversation. I was about four feet away. He said we're having an old-fashioned Revival meeting. We would like to invite you folks to come back in about an hour for service time.

We'll be starting up and you're welcome to come and to hear the singing and the preaching and. The lady that was on the the woman that was on the other side of the car. Responded she said sir. I've tried that.

She said I've walked the aisle seven times in. And she named the church and she said I've been baptized. Seven times. She said I really think all they wanted was to count my head as a baptism. Or to say that I was a number there, but I don't think anybody really cared about my soul.

She said I'm a nude dancer at a nightclub just about a mile from this tent. She said we're on our way to work. I Stepped up and I said look if that's true if you've walked an aisle seven times if you've been baptized seven times.

Then you know enough about God that whether someone dealt with you right or not. You can know tonight that your sins can be forgiven and what you're going to do is wrong. And I said you can accept Jesus tonight, or you can reject him.

And she said I don't know maybe. Some other time and hit the button and the window went up. I'm telling you my friend. We can be careless and we can cost souls. Easy-believe ism can damn people. No. I'm not saying that we don't care.

We don't go on so winning. I'm not saying don't have bus visitation. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying don't you save them. Incident of God saving them. You can make someone a pair. You can make someone a pair with religious education.

You can convince someone because they know about God and the triune Godhead and they can know about the books of the Bible and the construction of the penitent. You can Educate them and tell them and they can be so educated that they can read the Old Testament in Hebrew.

And they can read the New Testament in Greek. But they can die and go to hell if they don't know the Lord Jesus Christ. You say brother Ralph. I don't believe it's that bad. I was preaching a revival meeting outside of Washington DC and I didn't know the pastor.

I'd never been to the church. I'd only had a letter of invitation. I Received my letter and I was leaving another city to go to this city to preach and I had a quite a distance to drive. I got in town just at church time.

Just as church was beginning. I Didn't even have time to go to the hotel and I just grabbed this shirt in the parking lot got ready and went inside the thing and had already started as I came in. I Came around on the left side of the building turn around and I said on the front row.

They finished the song service the pastor looked my way and he said from the photograph we have on our revival posters. I Assume that this is our evangelist said brother Sexton. Would you come to the platform and preach tonight?

I came that night God burdened me to preach on sin in the church. While I was preaching someone in the center section stood up and made an obvious gesture to slam their Bible. Slammed it shut put it under their arm turned and walked out.

I didn't know that was the chairman of the Deacon board. Another one stood up. Angrily walked out and then another one to make a long story short. Over seven people got up and walked out while I was preaching.

I didn't know what was going on. I just know what God burdened me to preach and I was preaching as I was preaching came down to invitation time. I called on someone to pray and I felt an urgent burden in my heart just to slip out of the building.

I went back down to the pew got my overcoat my briefcase. Headed out to the door to the car. I got in the vest of you and I heard someone whisper. I turned it was the pastor. He said could you see me in my office?

Confronting Sin in the Church

We walked down the corner of the educational wing went into his office sat down. He said Reverend Sexton. We have a great problem. We have a serious problem. I said sir, what is it? He said you have insulted my people tonight.

You have you come in here on the opening night of this meeting and preached on sin in the church and said we don't Appreciate it. This is a good church. These are great people. You've insulted them said we didn't hire you to come in here and preach on sin.

We hired you to preach on the deeper depths and the higher heights and I said pastor. We do have a problem, but it's not the same problem. You think we have I said First of all, you didn't hire me. God call me and I said I work for God and I said I'm a lot more afraid of God than I am you.

I said he feeds me. He rides around with me. He lives with me and I said look I said I've only got one gear since he called me to preach. I only know to preach what he lays on my heart. That's all I know what to do.

I said, I don't know a lot about homiletics or hermeneutics. I don't know a lot about the ins and outs. I said all I really know is when he's around and when he's not around. That's about all I know about preaching and I said all I know to do is go to my room.

I said it's been several weeks since I've been home for a meal with my little family. I said you won't make me mad. You won't even hurt my feelings. I said, I'll go back to the room. I'll pray. I'll fast if you call me, I'll get my car.

I'll drive home. I said this time tomorrow night I'll have my feet under my table. I'll be my wife's cooking and I said when it's dark, I'll go sleep in my bed. I said I've never found them. A restaurant cooks like my wife.

I've never found a motel bed sleeps like my bed and I said you won't make me mad. But I said sir, I'm gonna warn you. I said if you don't call me I'm coming back tomorrow night and I'm gonna preach just exactly what God lays on my heart.

I said that's all I know to do. Nothing happened. No phone call came. I wait in the parking lot while they sang. I didn't want to talk to anyone came in sit on that same front pew pastor wouldn't even look my way.

Had they turn this way and listen, he'd turn his head wouldn't even look wouldn't even speak wouldn't shake my hand. And when they finished the last special he turned over to the wall said I guess it's time for the man's turn.

Walked off. The building was filled. They were standing up. They wanted to see the nut from the mountains. They had heard about this hillbilly. They had called mama. Grandpa's ain't uncles. They brought him in.

They thought there's going to have a knife in the hand and shooting and a gut ripping at the same time. And you know what? I didn't know what to do. I pray and God burdened me that night to preach on the sovereignty of God in salvation.

The Sovereignty of God in Salvation

I don't let that make you nervous. That just means that God does the saving and man's the one that needs to be saved. Amen, it just means God's man. God has no no other choice but to offer us salvation because he's merciful and holy and true in all things and Man, listen if we reject him God will still be God.

He'll still be high. He'll still be holy and he's high and holy and man's low and lowly. There's no way around it. Who he is. And as I preached that night all of a sudden what I was preaching on that a man stood up in the middle.

And boy here it went again. Slammed that Bible shut he hit the aisle, but instead of a right turn He made a left turn and headed towards Alder a little while. Another one got up and went to the Alder and then another one and then another one and while I was walking back and preaching I heard him crying out old God save a hypocrite like me.

Oh God. Would you save a lost church member like me? Hey that night the chairman of the Deacon board got saved. The Sunday school superintendent got saved. Hey the Deacons wife got saved all over that building.

God began to deal the Alder filled up and church members started getting saved. I started out during the invitation to go pray got back in the best of you. I heard. And that's it. Oh, no. He said could you come back to my office again.

Walk back down the hallway went back into his office and he said brother Sexton. We have a problem. I said yes, sir. I know I know you told me last night. He said but you don't understand brother Sexton tonight's problem is different from last night's problem.

He said you know what you were preaching about inside a few moments ago. I said yes pastor. He said let me tell you something. He said I don't know anything about what you were talking about. He said would you look on this wall?

This is where I've graduated from college. This is where I went to university. That's where I went for seminary. He said I can read Hebrew and Greek like you can read a newspaper. He said but I don't know anything about what you're talking about in there tonight.

He said do you think God would save me. I said pastor, that's just exactly what he came to do. Hey, he crawled up under that big old bed and like a little baby. He said Jesus folded his hands like you're playing great.

Did Jesus save me? I don't want to go to hell from behind the pulpit. Hey, and God saved him by his marvelous grace. Hey tonight folks, it doesn't matter if you're the pastor it doesn't matter if you're the associate pastor.

It doesn't matter if you're the deacon Sunday school teacher choir member. You need to know that you can go to hell out of church. John Wesley Got saved on the boat back to England after he'd been preaching in America had 100 ,000 converts and was never saved.

Till he got saved on the boat going home. You said brother Ralph. I don't understand that that confuses me. How could John Wesley preach and a hundred thousands be saved and he wasn't saved. I'll tell you why God honors his word.

If I donkey can preach then the man can preach the word and God can honor his divine Holy Word. Salvation is not in the power of a man's lungs or in a man's degrees or in a man's Vocabulary, it's in the inerrant infallible.

Holy inspired Word of God. Set on fire from heaven by the anointing of the Holy Ghost of God. That's the power for salvation. That's what this generation needs to see is the power and the demonstration of God's anointing one more time before the trumpet sounds.

Church Activity as Religious Inoculation

God says if you don't know tonight, you could be a pair at the house of God. You say but wait preacher. I'm a good person. I've got a good family. I'm going to tell you something. It doesn't matter who you are.

Dr. Billy Graham was the president of his youth group in his church when he got saved. Huh? It doesn't matter how big your name is and who you are. I want you to know when God comes by you better know that you've been washed in the blood of the Lamb.

Brother David as long as I preach and live I'll never forget Leona Barnett. Kannapolis tip meeting. Brother David and I listen she spoiled us rotten every other night. She'd bring us a coconut cake a box of cookies a pie.

Listen, she loved on us. Week after week her and her husband came her husband was on crutches. They had little old lawn chairs they'd set up on the right hand side of the tent and Every night they were there if I'd have had to pick a saint in Kannapolis I'd have picked out.

Leona Barnett always had a smile always there and brother David I guess it was about the sixth or seventh week of that meeting. I don't remember exactly but one night brother David tried to start this on service and As he stood the same got through halfway through the first verse alters filled up.

We couldn't have weeping wailing. God was made moving in with already had seven saved in the parking lot. Hey I mean that drive up get out of the car and God the Holy Ghost was so on that ground. Said weep and wail and say I can't wait for church to start.

Hey, that's what happened was when God shows up. Boy, there was a brokenness brother David trying to start the music again here came in another way. He tried to start again and now it's about eight o 'clock.

He tried to start service again. We still hadn't started and here comes another way weepin and wailing their way to Jesus and all of a sudden I saw miss Barnett get out of that chair and come and kneel over on the right side by the piano.

And I thought boy she looks funny. Her face was ashen gray and I looked at her and I said she's under a tremendous burden for someone. Miss Barnett's heart must be broken for someone lost under the pit tonight.

Maybe there's a family member She's burdened for and I walked by her because we were just walking through the alders praying and dealing with people. And when I walked by her you could have knocked me down with a feather.

She was crying out. Oh God I'm a hypocrite God. I'm a show God. I'm ashamed. You know, I've never been saved God I don't want to go to hell out of a tip meeting save me. God have mercy on me. She got up the next night and testified.

She stood up and said I'm 73 years old. She said I joined the church when I was 13. She said for 60 years. I've been a hypocrite. For 60 years. I've been playing church. She said I was such a good teenager.

They made me the president of the youth group. She said I sang in the choir. She said I played the piano when I was in my 20s said I was on the mission society. I was on the ladies board. She said I taught a Sunday school class.

She said I was faithful and said I got in my 20s. I knew I was lost. She said I knew I had never really been that bad. But she said I knew I'd never been saying and she said we'd have a good service. And I'd feel God deal with me and I'd tell him to go away.

But what would people think they think I'm such a good Christian and yet I know that if I died right now I'd go to hell and she said I'd push God away and I'd push God away and she said I did it in my 40s and in my 50s and in my 60s and she said I'm 73 but she said last night God came by my lawn chair and God said Leona.

This is the last time I'm going to talk to you. This is the last time I'm going to speak to you and said if you don't get right tonight I'm going to leave you alone and you'll die and go to hell out of this place in the middle of a revival meeting.

And she said I got so I thought my heart was going to stop. She said I thought I was going to die. She said I was afraid I was going to go to hell before I could get say and she said I've been a hypocrite For 60 years, but she said last night God saved me.

God covered my sins by his precious blood and she said now I'm going to serve him for the rest of my life. Let me tell you something about a year later. She called me and she said brother Ralph. She said I've got some good news.

And I said sister Leona. What's your good news? She said I just left the doctor and the doctor just told me I've got less than a year to live. I've got bone cancer and she said I just found out I'm going to go get to see Jesus before the rest of you guys.

She said isn't that wonderful? I said sister Leona you're calling me telling me you got cancer and you're shouting. She said over from the house, don't you remember he could have left me down there under that.

He had a lost church member and let me go to hell and I would have never he would have never spoken to me Again, but said I'm so happy. He came by my chair and saved my soul. Now I'm going to get to see Jesus.

Good Works Cannot Substitute for the New Birth

Let me help you understand this problem a little more tonight. Have you ever played in a ball game? Have you ever. I got a couple of men in my church rusty Pulliam and and Donnie McKenzie they played pro baseball and they one played for the.

I believe Cincinnati doesn't play for the Mariners and You know what? They have some real hard rules in baseball. If you get a hit. You got to tag the bases, right? Now, let me illustrate something for you.

You can go to church. You can carry a King James Bible. You can be a good person and you can go and boy hit and Think look at what I've done. I Will look at this. I'm going to church. I'm paying my tithes.

I'm raising my children up in church. Oh, look now. I'm going from third and I'm heading home and get in home. And then you get in home and somebody says Depart, I never knew you. What do you mean? You never knew me?

Did I do many mighty works in thy name? I tithe I went to church. I had my kids in the youth activity. We went to a prayer meeting when folks stayed home. I went Sunday night. I went to mission conference.

What do you mean? You never knew me and God say you never tagged first. When you started around the basis. And there's a lot of people going to church with you and with me every Sunday. There's men in the pulpit.

There's missionaries on the field. There's folks out there and they never tag first. They've never been saved by the grace of God. There's people sitting under this tent tonight under the sound of my voice.

You're growing in a wheat field. But if the trumpets sounded tonight, you'd go to hell out of a revival meeting and your pride is going to hold you in your seat. I'm telling you tonight. You need to know that if you don't tag the basis you will be called out.

The umpire of life will cry out. I never knew you out. Church membership can't save you. You did works and you gave but you're not saved by the grace of God. Listen among the wheat is where the tares grow.

The most effective arsenal that the devil has is that if he can get you to look religious. Talk religious and act religious. Then you're almost certain of being damned in religious activity. Now follow me preachers listen to what I'm saying.

You follow what I'm telling you tonight. How does the medical doctor treat you with an inoculation for the flu? What does the doctor do to keep you from catching the bad? Flu the kind of flu that can kill you and cause you to get pneumonia.

What does he do he takes you and he injects you with a small dose of that virus? He actually gives you a mild taste of the flu. He gives you enough flu to keep you from catching the bad flu. You know what the devil's doing.

He's going from church to church. Giving you enough religion to keep you from getting saved so you'll go to hell or the church pews. He's inoculated you with religious activity. Right now while I'm preaching your old palms are sweaty.

There's a knot in your throat. Your heart's racing because you know and God knows you're not ready to meet God. You know right now That if the trumpet sounded You'd be left behind. You see if the devil can get you to sit in a church and hold a Bible and say amen and say praise the Lord.

And you can go through the motions of walking and talking the Christian walk. But you never have been to Calvary. You walk the aisle when you were in vacation Bible school. And you let somebody tell you what you did rather than you knowing what you did.

Making Your Calling and Election Sure

Listen to me now I'm trying to save your your eternal never-dying soul. But causing you to do what the Bible says make your election and calling Salvation. Salvation is a personal experience. It's not in someone telling you what you did.

It's in you knowing what God did. The devil would like to give you enough religion to inoculate you so that you look right talk right and act right. But in your heart, it's never been to Calvary. It's never been convicted and broken of God.

It's never been pulled out and washed in that fountain filled with the royal red blood of Calvary and you've never looked up and said God be merciful unto me a sinner forgive me. Do you see what the devil's doing all across America now?

I'm going to tell you I'm going to leave the book for a moment. I'm going to give you some Ralph ology when I leave the book. I'll let you know I'm leaving the book. My personal conviction and belief is the reason that churches are so weak and we're doing So little for God it's because we have such a large percentage of unsaved people in the house of God.

How could we be having the fusses and the heights that we have in the house of God if our people were saved? How could we have the bitterness and the jealousy and the anger if our people were saved? How could we have preachers knifing each other if preachers were saved when listen the Bible says that you know.

You pass from death and to life because you love the brethren. I'm afraid that we've got a multitude of people over at the house of God that are still Wolves and we brought them in and we put sheepskin on their back and we got them together and we orchestrated Them and taught them to say bad bad and we call them sheep.