<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 And this bird was made... No other bird could stand it up there. The eagle's eye is the sharpest eye of any bird. Why, he can outdo the hawk in any way. 'Cause the hawk has a sharp eye, but just for a certain distance. But the eagle is more powerful, because he goes higher than the hawk. He goes up to where the hawk would die if he'd try to come to him. His body is not made like that.
Oh, how I could stop right here, by the help of God, and show you how some people try to climb to places where others stand. You just wasn't made that way. You just can't stand it.

L-10 And these eagles would go up. Could King Hezekiah ever climb where Elijah was? Though he was the greatest man in the kingdom, the king, but when he turned his face to the wall and wept bitterly, God spoke to Isaiah to go tell him. Isaiah could climb where Hezekiah could not, though Hezekiah could speak a word here on earth, as a hawk, and everything bowed at his feet... Isaiah couldn't do that, but Isaiah could climb into a place where Hezekiah couldn't climb. All these things are for purposes.
So God's eagle, Ezekiel, climbed up into a place to where he could see some fifteen, eighteen, yes two thousand five hundred years ahead, seeing things.
If you could go high enough above the earth, you could see night and day at the same time, dark on one side and light on the other. So you could see the world over, if you could get high enough and your eyes could focus to that. So Ezekiel climbed up so high, that he saw our day, God's eagle. And he told us what would take place in this day.

L-11 Now, I want to ask you something. The Church seems to be out of cater somewhere.
Now, we've got at least a good hour here, so let's just set down, and take our helmets off, and listen just for a few minutes.
Now, notice, if God intended His Church to be run upon intellectuals, then it doesn't take the Holy Spirit to do anything in the Church. We do not need the Holy Spirit if the Church is to be run upon intellectuals. Then we should find the smartest man we could find to be our pastor. And the biggest buildings that we could build, and the more members we could get into our church, and root out the illiterate, and bring in the intellectual, better the church would be, if that is the program. If that's the program, the smarter the preacher, the smarter the congregation, the more intellectual they are, the better the church will be.
But I can't find one place in all the Holy Scriptures where God's Church is to be run upon the wisdom of men. And as long as we try to run it upon the intellectual of man, we are absolutely fighting the air.

L-12 God's Church is to be run up by the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Then if we have the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is going to run the Church, then it doesn't take too much intellectual. It doesn't take education. It takes the Holy Spirit; that's God's program.
Now, we know that. We don't have to find the smartest people in the city to make our church better. We don't have to find the best dressed people in the city to make our church better. We don't need the biggest crowds in the city to make our church better. We need the guidance of the Holy Spirit to make our church better.


<A HREF="P4">Next Page</A>