March 24, 2024

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Good morning. Y’all are a good looking crowd out there and I can’t even see you. Y’all looking good. All I see is dots but you sure look good, alright? Gator in the sound booth back there has already…

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hurt my feelings. He did. Big Bird. See, he called me Big Bird. You’ll hear that. Because of my shirt. Hey, I got that in Oklahoma for a deal this week. So I’m going to tell you something about messing with old people in just a minute.

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If you have Luke chapter 19, if you want to turn there, I do want to say real quick and ask you to pray for Helen. She normally be here taking care of Mike and she’s not. You pray for her this morning. She’s recovering from a procedure. Ronnie right here on the front row, pray for his dad. His dad has cancer and…

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I haven’t mentioned that the last few weeks and really meant to, but I want to ask you to pray for just Ronnie Mons Sr. Because whether you know this, the Ronnie Mons we got sitting here is a junior. But pray for his dad.

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And then pray for Miranda, who’s normally in the sound booth. OK? And Miranda is sick. Y’all all know Miranda. As of about right now, when I last heard, she was at home tossing cookies. Y’all get that? Y’all just give her a big cheer. I know she’s watching right now. Just cheer her on. Let her know we’re praying for her. She’ll get a smile out of that. Yeah.

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we love Miranda and praying for her. And she’s usually back there, faithful. She missed last week, but she had to go on a call. She’s the dog sheriff now. I mean, matter of fact, when she said she wasn’t going to be, I texted her and said, are you arresting a dog? Ha. No. We love her and praying for her. Well, in your Bible, Luke chapter 19, I don’t know how many of you know that today,

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is what we as Christians celebrate as Palm Sunday. And you may, well, what is Palm Sunday? I’m gonna tell you a little bit about it in just a moment because it’s the beginning of what we as Christians call a holy week when we remember that it was historically around this day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem, and that would be the last week of his life. By approximately Friday, he would go

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to the cross and die on Saturday it would seem like the devil won but by Sunday he had risen and he’s still alive today and so I want you to be sure and mark your calendars your phone whatever you do make a notch in your truck something and remember this Friday this Friday is Good Friday and we as Christians remember that day as the day that our Lord and Savior Jesus

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Christ went to the cross. And so we’re going to have a Good Friday service at seven o’clock here and you don’t want to miss that service. I promise you it’s going to be powerful. We will conclude the service by taking communion together. In my opinion there’s no better day of the year. Every day is a good year to take communion but I think Good Fridays especially

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impactful when you take communion together as a church family on that day because we’re remembering the Lord’s death and when we come back in here next Sunday, it’s not just Easter, it’s resurrection day. It’s the day Jesus rose from the grave. So be sure to invite somebody. I’ve always found it’s pretty easy to get people to come to church that have never come to church

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Here’s your opportunity to get some folks, maybe that you’ve been trying to invite to come to church with you next Sunday, Easter Sunday. And I promise they come Good Friday service. They’re going to be blown away. It’s going to be powerful. OK, so I was mentioned in before I get my sermon here and get too far. Don’t start your watch yet. I hadn’t started preaching. OK. Gator was back there giving me.

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hurting my feelings about my shirt, called me Big Bird. Man, I’ve been called Papa Smurf before, but never Big Bird. Tell me you all get that in a minute. Papa Smurf with a small guy, Big Bird. I’ve never been called Big Bird. But the other day, I was driving to the drive-through at McDonald’s, and as I went through…

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As you know, number one, I don’t like drive-thrus. How many of you in here do not like going through the drive-thrus? I had rather go inside because they’re going to mess it up. Like when I, and I don’t really eat McDonald’s much because when my kids were growing up and we were rodeoing or going places, you know, it was always, I want McDonald’s, I want McDonald’s. So we’d go to McDonald’s.

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And now that my kids are grown, I really don’t eat McDonald’s anymore, you know. But I have it, I go through McDonald’s and the drive through and, and I’m, don’t like the, you know, drive through because they have the better chance to not hear you and maybe mess up your order and, and without my glasses on, I can’t read the sign very well. And it’s kind of in a hurry anyway. And you got to think, you know, which, which indigestion diarrhea do I want? I shouldn’t say that.

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And so, and this girl behind me is laying on her horn honking, honk honk, just because I’m taking too long, I guess. I’m trying to get my order right. And she’s just in a hurry. There’s another one you can go through, but it over to other people there. And this girl just laying on her horn, just honk honk honk. And obviously, I’m taking too long, but I’m old. And so,

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I did the Christian thing. When you get to the first window to pay, I said, and she was already ordering, I said, ma’am, I want to pay for my meal, I’ll pay for that girl back there that was honking at me.

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And so as I went to pull forward to, and she had already, you know, honk, honk, and was saying some things out the window to me, I won’t repeat here, I get to the second window and I guess the lady said, the man in front of you just paid for your meal. So then she starts honk, you know, toot, toot, toot, and she’s waving, thank you, thank you.

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And I’m like, great, you know. And so I get up to the second window, I show the lady my receipt and the other receipt, and I took both meals.

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and I began to drive off and I honk, honk, and just wait. The moral to that story is don’t honk at old people. We’ve been around a long time. We might be smarter than you.

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You…

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You’ll remember that next time. Alright, Luke chapter 19.

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Luke chapter 19. I was hoping I could keep a straight face when I was doing that.

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Luke 19 and verse 28. And this is the story in the Bible. So I actually recorded it in a couple of the other gospels. But it’s.

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I love Luke’s account. You’ve heard me tell you why I love Luke I love all the books about but I like Luke because Luke was a doctor and Doctors are normally very thorough in what they do and what they write and so Luke always gives us very good descriptions of what was going on in the events unfolding in the Bible and So Luke writes this and it’s about Jesus coming into Jerusalem on what we would call Palm Sunday and

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He’s entering in and some would call it his triumphant entry. And when he comes in, it says in verse 28, and when he had said this, he went on ahead going up to Jerusalem. And it came to pass as he drew near to Bethany and the mountain called Olivet, that he sent two of his disciples saying, get this, and I’ve heard a lot of preachers

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Over the years and I’ve actually preached this before and some of you may have heard me touch on this passage But I hear a lot of preachers preach this Text and they do it accurately not not being critical in any way other than they’re not Cowboys So I don’t think they get the full jest of this story

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And I’m about to give it to you from a Cabal preacher. And you’ll understand when I’m done of why I think I understand a little bit more than maybe even they do about this passage. And some of you will with me. Jesus says to his disciples, he says, go into the village opposite of you and where as you enter, you will find a, and I want you to underline this, a cult tide, a cult tide on which no one has ever set.

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loose it and bring it here. And if anyone asks you, why are you loosing it? Thus say to the person or you should say to them, because the Lord has need of it. And those who were sent went their way and found it just as he had said to them. But as they were loosing the colt, the owners of it said, why are you loosening the colt? And they said the Lord has need of him.

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And they brought him to Jesus, and they threw their own clothes on the colt, and they set Jesus on him. And as he went, many spread their clothes on the road. And as, then as he now was drawing near,

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the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began rejoicing and praising God in a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen, saying, Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord, or Hosanna, Hosanna, the King James says. Blessed is he who comes, the King who comes in the name of the Lord, peace in heaven and glory in the highest. And some of the Pharisees called to him from the crowd, Teacher, rebuke your disciples.

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disciples there weren’t just the 12 disciples. See, we always think of just 12 disciples. Jesus had many disciples. There were actually multitudes of disciples, lots of people. So the word disciple just means one who learns from another. And so Jesus was often teaching very large crowds. So there’s a large crowd.

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of disciples gathered here and they’re crying out to him that day as he comes in. Matter of fact, when we read in Matthew, they’re laying down palm branches as a symbol of peace and they’re welcoming Jesus into Jerusalem as he enters there and the Pharisees say, teacher, rabbi, rebuke your disciples. Tell them to shut up. And he answered and said to them, I tell you that if these should keep silent,

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the stones would immediately cry out. So that very statement.

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I guarantee you, made the Pharisees angry because in the Psalms it tells us that if we won’t praise the Lord that even the stones, the rocks will cry out and praise Him. And so when He makes that statement, He says something to them, and these were religious guys, they knew the Bible, they knew the Old Testament, so when He says that, He’s making a declaration, I am God.

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And you remember hearing me, if you’ve been around very long, you hear me preach, hey, who do you think Jesus is? And that very answer, or your answer to that very question, matters a lot. And do you believe, like Peter declared, that thou art the Son of the Living God? Jesus is the Christ. He’s the Messiah. He was God in the flesh, entering in Jerusalem. And so they’re praising him, and they’re hollering,

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God in the highest there they’re welcoming him in this moment, but here’s the sad reality those Disciples that were welcoming him that day in just a few short days Would be standing in a crowd before pilot when it was Barabbas that would be released or Jesus that would be released And you know what they did they cried release them to us Barabbas and Crucify Jesus these very same people

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You gotta ask yourself, what in the world changed? What made the difference? Well, when Jesus goes into Jerusalem that week, some of his hardest teachings, or toughest teachings, I would say, came that week he was in Jerusalem. I mean, he really begins to lay down the stuff. He begins to teach about the end times. He begins to talk about the temple, and that it will be destroyed, and talks about the fact that he was about to go and…

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be crucified or he would die. And he makes some of the boldest declarations that he is God. And that really made the religious crowd mad. And so in that moment, in those last days, those people who followed him so intently and praised him when he came in were cursing him and crying out for his death. Even those elite 12, even those closest 12 that we call disciples or apostles, you’ve got to remember.

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of them betrayed him and then goes out and hangs himself. The other one, you know, Peter, he denies him three times within a night before the rooster crows in the morning. All of those disciples, they forsook him except one who was John who was sitting at the cross. So just everybody there welcoming him for the most part left him and turned against him. And by the time he gets to the cross, there’s only his mother and a few women and John who’s

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even in support of him and they’re crying but they’re not crying this out they’re crying with with broken hearts because of what they see happening but there’s a character in this story that you’ve probably never thought much about and and being somebody from the country and growing up as a cowboy I kind of always look every time God mentions an animal

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I love animals. I’ve always had a good relationship with animals and I’ve learned a lot about I’ve told you I learned more about being a pastor owning sheep than I ever did in seminary. In other words, God has given me the chance to learn a lot from animals. And so when you read this story, there’s a character here, a real life character, that I think most people overlook and they call him a colt. He’s a donkey.

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And I want to just for a moment this morning, I want you to look to this donkey and look at what he did. Look at the characteristic of the donkey. Look what what happened with this donkey, because see, I believe if God recorded it in scripture, it wasn’t by accident. It’s not there just to fill space and pages. God could have recorded anything he wanted in his word. So I think that everything he records in his word is very important and very powerful. And so back up in Luke chapter 19 with me and look at those first few verses.

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especially around verse number 30. So Jesus is getting ready to go in to Jerusalem and he tells his disciples, he says, he says, go over here and you’re going to find a guy that has a cult donkey tied up. And when you find it

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You take it, you loose it, you bring it to me. And if the owner says anything, you tell him the Lord has need of it. Tell him the Lord has need of it. And I want you to notice a few things about that. And I’m not going to preach long this morning. And this is what I want you to get. They go in and get this donkey. They untie him. They bring him to Jesus. And there’s some very interesting facts here. The first fact is, this is a colt donkey, a male donkey.

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We would call him a jack today. But I don’t know how many of you have ever ridden a donkey. I know I got some bull riders in here, but you ain’t a cowboy until you’ve ridden a donkey. Am I right? Some of y’all, I see some smiles out there. I mean, you’ve never really got into cowboy until you’ve ridden a donkey.

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You want to be, as Dale Brizby say it, you ain’t no cowboy, I can assure you. You ain’t no cowboy till you tried to ride a donkey. You ain’t no cowboy till you put a bareback rigging on a donkey. How do I know? I’m glad you asked. So when I was growing up,

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We always had a lot of animals. And we had some donkeys. I don’t know where my dad got them. I don’t know if they were just strays or somebody dumped them off. I’m not sure where we got the donkeys. We got them. We always had donkeys. And my mom and dad had gone out of town. Now my brother and I rode bareback horses and bulls. My brother rode bareback horses alone. He wasn’t crazy enough to get on a bull.

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They had gone out of town. My cousin came over. My cousin, he was bareback riding also. And we were really bored. And we didn’t have our chutes finished at the house. We later built an arena where we could have our own horses, our own bulls, and we had bucked. At this particular time, we didn’t have that. And so I was probably 16, maybe 17. My brother had been about 15. Mom and dad’s gone out of town. My uncle and aunt lived next door. They kind of kept watch on us.

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It was a Saturday. I think mom and dad might have been gone for their anniversary or something like that. We’re at home alone. I mean, they need to make it a home alone four with us. Okay, I mean, it was good. We’re home alone and we’re bored. We’ve got all the chores done and we’re wanting to practice. And I’m thinking, man, we got this donkey out here and he’s in a pen, we can catch him. And so I go get a bareback rigging and we put this bareback rigging on this donkey.

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And I get on him and I get my hand in there and I’m doing like Bear Bear Grotters doing. And I said, alright, turn him loose. And I went to mark him out like I’m going to spur him and that donkey just sold up. Now you may think donkeys are dumb but they’re actually pretty smart. And if you think your kids are stubborn you need to own a donkey. The only thing more stubborn you’ll ever own a donkey and more dumber than a donkey in my opinion is a llama or an emu.

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Yeah, if you want to get into some ranching, just start llama ranching. Them are the dumbest animals you ever, but I’m not kicking animals. So we get on this, and they turn him loose, and then when they do, I’m sitting there and the donkey don’t move.

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And I’m streets up and I spur him, you know, and I’m ready at any moment. He’s going to just blow up and just donkey just start sullen up. You know, he and he ain’t going to do nothing. And I spurred him a little bit and I finally hit him in the side. Nothing in there over there poking him and he just, you know, he just doing nothing. And so I thought, well, this ain’t working. And so I was the brightest one of the bunch, smartest one of the bunch. So I turn around on this donkey.

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I’m thinking this donkey is gonna buck and I’m gonna practice. So I turn around backwards on the donkey and I grabbed his tail and told my brother, I said, you go get the hot shot out of the barn. When he runs to the barn, he grabs the hot shot and he comes back and I’m sitting on this donkey backwards with his tail lifted up. And I said, now hit him right there in that brown eye. Okay. He he.

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And he says, okay, and when he hit that donkey that donkey come uncorked. I mean he blew straight up I went I had to go ten feet I’m not exaggerating in the air and as I was coming down head first This donkey kicks and boom right in both of my eyes And I hit the ground on my head and I thought the donkey by that time attacked me because I felt something jump on The back of my head, but it was my own feet My feet hit me in the back of it, so I roll over I have no breath in me

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I can’t move. I’m just I thought I broke my neck. I thought this is it I’m just got killed by donkey and I roll over like this You know look at my brother and my cousin they’re over on the ground and they’re flopping around I thought that donkey attacked them, too And the last thing I’m gonna see is my brother and my cousin dying from the donkey that just killed me and Then I realized they weren’t

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They weren’t hurt. They were on the ground laughing. The moral of that story, and it’s a true story, don’t ever get on a donkey backwards and lift his tail and tell somebody to hit him with a hot shot. That didn’t work out very well for me, OK? So I’m telling you, if you ain’t ever been on something in the book, do you get on a donkey backwards and have somebody hot shot him? Now, I didn’t say I was the smartest person in the world. I was just the smartest of the three of us, OK? And that’s arguable, but.

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So what I know about a donkey is they can be extraordinarily stubborn. And believe me, they can be mean.

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I had a donkey one time, I hope he does not watch it, but I had a donkey one time, and he got out on the road. And so I went up the road, and rather than get a horse, I just grabbed a rope and went up there, and I roped this donkey on the road. He was just standing there eating grass, and about the time that rope went around his neck, he took off back down the driveway, and drugs started dragging me, and I’m trying to pull it, and it dragged me right into a barbed wire fence, and boy, I mean, I was hot. I couldn’t stop him, couldn’t do nothing, so I go storming in the house, I’m going to shoot him.

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I’m looking for my deer. I go find my 3030 and I literally I know my wife had been inside. She was watching me come. She knew what I was doing. She couldn’t stop me from getting the gun, but she did hide the bullets. So, I didn’t get the donkey shot. I was mad. Alright, I didn’t shoot him. What I’m telling you is donkeys can be stubborn. I mean, they can be tough. But the very fact that Jesus says, y’all go get this colt donkey.

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And the Bible clearly says, and if you’ll read with me, he says, go into the village up at you, where you will enter and you will find a cold tide on which no one has ever sat. So this dude’s not broke. Nobody’s ever sat on this donkey. He’s not trained. Now, in those days, you’ve got to remember, they did use donkeys. They rode donkeys. They worked donkeys. They used donkeys to carry carts. But this donkey ain’t never had nobody sit on him.

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Now I know how many of y’all got horses, but you go get a colt out of the pasture that nobody’s set on, you’re just going to throw a saddle on him and take off riding. You’re about to have a rodeo. You’re about to get killed. Possibly. Notice I said killed, not killed. That’s not probably going to work out well if this thing’s never had a hand on it.

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And the fact that this donkey, this colt, had never been ridden, they go get it, that tells me one of two things. Jesus was one heck of a cowboy. Or, this donkey knew who he was and was willing to submit to him. You remember the song we just sang at the end, I Surrender All? When we were singing that, I thought, they didn’t even know what I was going to preach on, but I was thinking about that donkey. That donkey.

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I am convinced that even animals know their creator. Most animals are smarter than most people. They know their creator and they know the creative order. And they know that God gave man dominion over animals. Except for cats. But they don’t, they hadn’t figured that out. But think about what I’m saying. This cult donkey had never been ridden. Jesus sins for him.

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And this donkey, he gets on it, they put clothes on it, and Jesus gets on him, and for what we read in the scripture, he rides him all the way into Jerusalem. And he doesn’t buck, he doesn’t have a fit, there’s no issue with him. He rides him all the way, and the donkey fulfills the purpose of God’s word.

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You say, how do you know he fulfilled the purpose of God’s word? If you take your Bible and go back in the Old Testament to Zachariah, chapter nine, verse nine, the Bible prophesied that Jesus, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lord, God in the flesh, would come riding into Jerusalem, the Messiah. He would be a sign that the Jews would know, here’s your Messiah. He would come riding in on a colt donkey.

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Let me tell you something else about that donkey real quick. I preach from the New King James version of the Bible. That’s the version I can most accurately read and understand. I started preaching and went to seminary where I was taught that you had to read from the King James version only, the old King James. And the New King James changes some, you know, the words to more, a little more modern instead of these and thou’s, use and they’s or something like that.

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And so if you’re reading from a King James today, you know as I was reading through there, it calls the donkey what? An ass. And using that as a curse word, that’s a animal. That’s what donkeys were called. And if you ever sit on one backwards and lift his tail and have somebody in the hot shot, you’ll call him that too, okay? But I’m sure you’ll get that. But that’s what they were called. But the word ass literally means burden bearer.

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You remember I shared a message not long ago about eagles with you and I told you how the eagle in the Old Testament was a type and picture of God the Father. And then a lamb in the Bible we studied last week about John the Baptist declaring, look Jesus behold the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. The lamb in the Old Testament was always a symbolic picture of Jesus, the lamb who would take away, who would be the final sacrifice for our sin.

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The dove if you read of the dove in the Old Testament it’s always pointing to the Holy Spirit of the New Testament and So whenever you read of a donkey every time in the Old Testament It’s always a type a picture of burden bearer and guess who’s the burden bearer you and I We that we are burden bearers of sin We we bear the burden from birth of sin

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If you don’t believe me, you, I know we got some young families here and you have young children. And I know we have older families here who have older grown children. So all of you can understand what I’m about to say. You have a little baby born and they look like an angel. They are an angel for a time. Until they start walking and talking. And then what happens? They get selfish.

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They will do things just to get their own way. Not that baby over there, but all the other babies I know. That little baby over there, she’s sleeping. They will do, babies, you have siblings that are close, two children close together, and they will be little, and you can give them both brand new toys, and before long, they will begin to fight over what? Over one toy.

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You know why? Because they are human and have a sin nature. Those little angels will become demons by the time they’re five years old. They become demon possessed by the time they’re teenagers, I promise you. All the older parents in here say, amen. No, I’m kidding.

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You understand what I’m talking about. It’s like personality’s changed. We were talking about maybe even yesterday, they were going to put her in a car and go home. I thought she would be asleep before to get to the railroad track. I said, you should enjoy that because time, they’re teenagers, they’ll never shut up. Trust me. My youngest one’s sitting over there and she’s going, don’t say that about me. Her sister talked more than her. No, but what I’m telling you is, see, we are born with a sin nature.

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We are born into sin. We are born bearing the burden of sin. Now let me tell you something else. I said that donkey fulfilled the purpose and the will of God in what God created him to do. A moment ago I heard Melissa up here saying, she goes, Lord, we want your will and your way. I wonder how many of us are willing to say that.

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really and mean it in our life. Lord, your will, your way in my life. Because let me tell you what the nature of that cult donkey would have been. It would have been to blow up and throw a fit the minute they put clothes on him, especially when they put a man on him. But that donkey realized that that wasn’t an ordinary man. That man sitting on him was his creator. And that man sitting on him was there to accomplish his purpose and will

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If you say does God do that go back in the Old Testament You’ll find out there was a prophet and that prophet would not speak the word of God and God used a donkey to speak the word Of God when that prophet wouldn’t declare what God said the donkey literally started speaking to him and Prophecying the word of God. Let me tell you something. I think this animal understood that the person Setting on him was his creator

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And that that person sitting on him was God in the flesh. And that that person in there that sat on him was fulfilling even that donkey’s very purpose on this earth. How do you know that? Well, Zechariah 9, I mentioned a moment ago, prophesied that the Messiah would ride into Jerusalem on a colt donkey. This donkey was destined and purposed for that moment. How many of you understand that while God may use a donkey in the Bible,

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in our lives. God used a donkey to fulfill his purpose and Jesus even said if his disciples didn’t cry out and praise him that the rocks would cry out and praise him. But how many of you realize today that God has a purpose and a plan for your life, for you to be… Think about this. God knew you before he formed you. Can you imagine that? God… that’s why…

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I don’t care what political party you affiliate with. That’s why I will go to my grave saying, I will go to my grave saying, abortion is murder. Why? Because I know the Word of God. And the Word of God says, number one, we were fearfully and wonderfully made, meaning we were fearfully and wonderfully uniquely made by a Creator that is God. But furthermore than that, the Bible declares that God knew us before He formed us.

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In other words, you were known by God before you ever got here on earth. You were known by God before you were ever put in your mother’s womb. That tells me that nobody is an accident with God. Nobody.

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Well, maybe we should terminate the pregnancy because we don’t know what’s going to happen. No, you don’t, but God already knew. There’s nobody born useless to God. There’s no life that is useless to God. And so this little donkey is born. But let me tell you something else about this donkey. This is in Israel. This donkey is owned by a Jew.

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And so what you may not understand is that this little burden bearing animal whose life and purpose was to be loaded with cargo or loaded with a person, this particular donkey, his purpose in life was to carry God himself into Jerusalem. And this little donkey, you may not realize it, had had a sacrifice made so that it could live. In other words, its life wasn’t just its own.

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owner decided to keep him because he looked good. No, his owner had to make a sacrifice in order for that little donkey to even have life. You see, how do you know that? Go to Exodus chapter 13 verse 13.

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Exodus 13 verse 13 God was given Moses the law and he was saying to Israel He said and by the way when we look at the law in the Bible in the Old Testament You know the the law some of the law there’s 613 if I’m not mistaken and Of 613 we most famously know ten of them and we call those the ten commandments, but they were actually 603 more

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Not all of them would apply to you and I. You would think of the Ten Commandments. Those ten laws were moral laws. Those laws do still apply even to us today. There were ceremonial laws and then there were laws of citizenship and there were laws of civilization and things like that. And some of those would be for the Jewish people only. But this particular law was for the Jewish people. But you’ve got to understand that in God’s laws that he made, it was always to do

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to show man his own sinfulness and to show man the price for redemption from that sinfulness. Okay? So in Exodus chapter 13, you turn over there for a second, and I want you to read this with me. In verse number 12, it says, I’m going to begin, I told you 13, we’ll get to 13, let’s look at 12. He says that you shall set apart to the Lord all

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that open the wound, in other words, everything, every animal that is a female, that is, every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have, the males shall be the lords. So, when you hear a preacher talk about tithing, where does that come from? Comes from the Old Testament. They literally were to tithe everything. So, when you read, for instance, in the book of Job,

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Job, it doesn’t ever tell us Job had one billion, 14,000, you know, whatever one dollars in the bank. No, it says that Job had this many donkeys, he had this many oxen or cattle, he had this many sheep. In other words, in those days, wealth was measured by how much livestock you had. And so, to own a donkey in biblical days, they were actually something very valuable.

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But God had said whether it be your donkeys, whether it be your cattle, whatever, especially the animals that you use for work, He said the firstborn of every genie, female donkey, you’re to concentrate the firstborn male to the Lord. And here’s how you do it, verse 13. He says, but every firstborn of a donkey,

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Now remember, if remember what the word donkey or ass means, it literally means one who bears a burden, burden bearer. Okay, so every first born of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb. Wow, that’s a weird, does it not sound weird? Like a lot, okay, I’m going to keep this little cult donkey, gives a little jack donkey.