<TITLE>08. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 Yesterday, standing in the backyard of--of my sister that lives next door to us, Sister Wood, we was noticing a little cocoon that had formed on a tree. And the wind was a blowing it back and forth. And she was telling me that in the "Streams of the Deserts," I believe that she was reading an article about the cocoon. It's a little worm that goes in there and forms a little shell around him to keep him through the cold, and...
But when it comes time, this person who was dealing with the little fellow, they seen the little cocoon a moving and wiggling around, and they felt so sorry for the little fellow, so they thought they would just cut the end of it off and let the little bug out. Because when he come out of there, he was going to have wings. He went in as a bug or a little worm; he comes out with wings in a more like a glorified state.
And as he was wiggling, and pulling, and tugging, and beating, and biting, and trying to get out of the cocoon, they felt sorry for him, so they thought they would just give him a short cut. So they go get the scissors and cut the end off. And when they cut the end off, the little bug come out, but he never was right, because he didn't have any strength in his body. he had no... He couldn't use his wings.

L-23 And I think that's the way we try to duplicate, to get down to the altar, and say this, that, or the other, and try to get the people back to God, or into the church, or to come to Christ. Just let them boo-hoo it out; that's all. Just work your way out of it; that's all. If you try to give them a short cut, they're never able to stand. I just like to see them struggle and work at it, till God gives them a real birth in the natural way. Just give them the real birth, just...
People say, "Well, honey, I think you've prayed enough."
You just stay there until you're ready to fly. That's the only thing. God has a way of doing it.
"Oh well, if you want to be good, just go over to join the church. Mama went to the same church."
That might be just fine, but you know, it takes a death to bring a life. And we got to die until then we are so dead, that they can be a new life come in. Then our wings will be valuable and our--our experience that we have will be valuable to others and to ourselves.

L-24 Israel wasn't ready, but God was ready. And He had--had a little baby born by the name of Moses. And he was right there at the age of forty to take the children out. But Israel wasn't ready, and by the reason they wasn't ready. Then they had to labor twenty years longer, or forty years longer, it was. Forty years longer they had to--to toil down in Egypt, when they would've been able to have come out forty years before that, if they had only been ready. God was ready, because the time of the promise drew nigh. God sent an Angel down to the earth to make ready the people to fulfill His Word. For God always keeps His Word.
He said to Moses, "I have seen the afflictions of My people. And I have heard their groans and their cries, because of the taskmasters. And I have remembered, I have remembered My Word, My promise." Four hundred years had past, but God still remembered His Word.

L-25 Almost two thousand years has past, but God still remembers His Word. "I will come again and receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there ye maybe also." And I believe the time of the promise is drawing nigh.
Notice, as He was speaking and getting ready, and four hundred years had past, and God was on time with His Word... Then we find out: that after forty years longer... And I might stop here just to say these words. Now, you can quote me, because I know it's going on tape back there. I believe that we are... The coming of the Lord Jesus is way past due. I believe it was due a long time ago, but it's because of the church is not ready to meet Him.


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