<TITLE>26. Par 97-99</TITLE>L-97 And Pentecostal people, you're not immuned from it. I been around in your places that done it too. Now, don't think cause you belong to Pentecostal Church... God don't recognize the Pentecostal Church no more than He recognizes any of the rest of them. He recognizes an individual's faith in Him. That's all. No matter what it is. Don't call... Pot can't call kettle black.
Now, let me tell you. There when the... She laid these little eagles out there, they'd been in that old nest. They didn't know nothing but this hard life and all this, like the--the sinner does. But when just walking on this little soft grass, they were just chirping and tumbling, turning little tumbles over one another. I said, "If that ain't an old time meeting, I never seen one." Just carefree, a biting a little piece of grass here and a little piece there.
I thought, "Why are they so carefree?" Watch nature and you'll see God.
I noticed that old mother eagle, as soon as she left her little ones off, she soared way yonder into the skies to the highest rock that she could find. I turned my glasses on her. I looked at her. There she was setting up there, her big stately body framed, working those feathers looking around.
I thought, "You know what?" I thought, "That poor little eagle," and I watched her. Her eye was a watching them. I said, "Now, Lord, what's this to show me?"

L-98 Watching nature you can see God if you watch the way nature moves. I thought, "That's right. God taken His Church out of the old nest of the world. He's set them in Beulah land here, where's there's just shouting and praising God and having a good time and rejoicing in the old camp meeting."
I thought, "Well, what if a coyote would come up?" And I happened to turn my glasses back; I seen her eyes looking back. I thought, "That's right, Lord. You climbed the ramparts of glory. You set yonder on the right hand of God. And His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me." He watches you. Oh, His eye is to protect us.
Anyway, I thought, "If that coyote would get around there, he'd get his eye flogged out in a minute." That's right. So what you got to worry about as long as His eye is on you watching? Just have a good time and rejoice. Praise God, treat your neighbor right and live right, do right, act right, be a real Christian. And be not bound down with fear, wondering what's a coming. Don't make any difference to you, you're going in the rapture. That's right. Dead or alive you're going in the rapture anyhow. Even death can't separate us from the love of God that's in Christ.

L-99 Then after awhile... I laid there just an hour, laying across a log like this, watching. And the the first thing you know, I heard a little thunder in the distance; a northern had come up. A quick splash of rain come. And the skies turned green back there, and the thunders rapped. And I seen old mother, she raised that head; she scented that storm. And whenever she did, she let out a big scream, and here she come.
She screamed as loud as she could. Every one of them little eaglets run together like that. She spread forth her big wings, and each little eaglet put his foot right in her feathers like that. Took his little mouth and took a hold like that. That old mother lifted them eaglets like that on her wings, the storm coming down the mountain. She pierced her way through that wind blowing at sixty miles an hour, right into that rock to the cleft.
I thought, "O God, someday You're coming. Holding on to the wings of the cross, through the storms of life, oh, God, to safety yonder to the Rock."


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