Playlist: Goats, Characteristics of (topic)
Goats
Sermonette by Mike FordGoats are intelligent, sensitive, playful, and responsive to affection, but they are also capricious, impulsive, unpredictable, devious, and contrary. They are never content with what they have, stretching through fences or up trees for the greener grass beyond. They are expert at opening gates and squeezing through gaps, and …
Repentant Goats
Sermon by Bill OnisickGoats in the Parable of the Sheep and Goats are judged by the same criterion as the sheep: how they treated those in whom Christ lives, His brethren in the church, so sins of commission and omission toward them are sins against Christ. Since the church holds both wheat and tares, everyone must ask whether he has goat-like …
An Intimate Expanding Relationship
Sermon by Mark SchindlerGoats are intelligent, sensitive, playful, affectionate, and responsive to individual attention, yet they are also capricious, impulsive, unpredictable, devious, and contrary. They are never content with what they have, hate confinement, and work tirelessly to escape any restraint. They are poor followers, preferring to lead or …
Offerings (Part Two)
Sermon/Bible Study by John W. RitenbaughThe goat, one of the animals offered in the burnt offering, typifies stateliness, dignity, and leadership, along with singleness of purpose. Proverbs 30:29-31 describes the male goat as majestic in pace and stately in walk. In Jeremiah 50:8 the margin reads male goats ("be like the rams before the flocks"), which shows that the …
Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen (Part Twelve)
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsGoats are associated in Scripture with sin in one way or another. In the Day of Atonement ceremony, one goat is slaughtered and the other, the azazel (goat of removal), carries the people's sins far away, picturing Christ's substitutionary atonement. In Jesus' parable, the goats are those whose sin has not been forgiven. Goats …
Focus
Sermon by John O. ReidGoats have always been considered naturally quarrelsome and foul smelling, and they symbolize quarrelsome, stubborn people. In the judgment of Matthew 25:31-46, the King separates them from the sheep as a shepherd divides his flock. Sheep and goats shared the same pasture, received the same instruction, and had the same …
Pilgrim's Progress
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by Mark SchindlerGoats, as mentioned in the context of our spiritual journey, reflect a significant transformation relevant to our pilgrimage. During the Atonement sermon, the example of the apostle Peter was used to illustrate the conversion from a carnal goat leader to a leader goat in the image of Jesus Christ. This transformation is a …
Is God in All Our Thoughts?
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughGoats, as described in the context of the flock, are individuals who exert a contrary influence on the sheep. They are characterized by impurity, with nothing being pure to them, as their mind and conscience are defiled. This defilement extends to their intellect and moral sense, resulting in a lack of grasp on the basics of …