<TITLE>03. Par 10-13</TITLE>L-10 And the eagle was a type of the prophet. Now, the eagle is a mighty bird. And one of the saddest sights I ever seen in my life was one day at the Cincinnati Zoo. My boy was telling me a few moments ago, they've got one just across the lake here, and some kind of a--a little place where they got some animals over there, like a little zoo. And I don't even want to see. If anything I hate to see, is anything caged up. And I hate to see Christians caged up. If you give your canary bird all the orthodox food you could give him, and then keep him in a cage, what good's it going to do him, give him good food, make him strong wings, if you won't give him room to fly? So that's what I think the Christian has been as caged up. We ought to be free. If we study the Word, and believe the Word, give us room. Sure. Let's get out and get moving; exercising our faith.

L-11 Then I noticed this great, mighty bird, the eagle, and how he would take his great wings and he'd beat against the--the cage; and he'd fall backwards, and he'd look up towards the sky. And he would beat again till all of the feathers was off of his wings, and--and his head was all beat up, and he would lay on his back. When he hit them great bars and fly back, he would look up; and his eyes, weary, would look at the skies, because he's a heavenly bird. He can fly higher than any other bird there is. Why, the hawk's not a match for him in no manner. Not a bird on earth can fly with the eagle. He goes way in the air. No other bird could stand it; he's not built for that kind of an altitude. He would die if he went up there. The air's so thin, he couldn't breathe it; he'd perish and drop to the earth. But the eagle is made a heaven soaring bird.

L-12 Now, if you'll get what I mean this afternoon, I intend it to be a lesson to the people, as the Lord will let me speak. You see, gifts and callings are without repentance. We have need of a mockingbird. We have need of the wrens. We have need of all the other birds and of the eagles. But the eagle can't help it because he's an eagle; God made him an eagle. And there's no need of any other bird trying to come up with him, because they just can't go that far. And neither could the eagle be quick and sharp like the little hummingbird. But everything has its place. And every gift of the church has its place. Just because one's an eagle, and one's something else, and one's something else, it's all working together in God's great economy for the good, everything. But now, if the hummingbird tried to be an eagle, he would ruin himself. And if the eagle tried to be a hummingbird, he would ruin himself. See? And if the dove tried to be a crow, he would die. See? And the crow can't be a dove. So there you are. We just different, and God makes us this way.

L-13 But the eagle... We're talking about him now. God likened His prophets to eagles. Now, the reason He likened that, because higher you go the further you can see. If you could get up so high above the earth, you could see the entire earth as it's round. And higher you get the further you can see. And God had His prophets of the Old Testament, which, "God in sundry times, divers manners spake to the fathers by the prophets. But in this last day has spoke to us through His son, Jesus Christ." And I... As the Old Testament prophets would raise way up in the Spirit, way high, they could look far off and would see things that were coming. God would raise them up.
And now, if the eagle could go ever so high, and his eye wasn't according to his---his ability of his flying, then it wouldn't do him any good to fly up there if he was blind when he got there. But he--his eye is made to compare with the rest of his body. And when he gets up, he sees, and he can look way off.


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