<TITLE>08. Par 31-34</TITLE>L-31 And while the storm was going on, he had... The storm had forced a big eagle down in this blow down. And that's what he was afraid of, was that eagle. The big eagle jumps up on the log, and took those big velvet eyes and looked at me and looked at the little squirrel.
I thought, "This is strange. I hear God all out there, then when would this interrupt me. Why was my sacred worship interrupted? Why did you do it, Lord, let it happen?" And I begin to notice the big eagle. "Now, God, could You be in that eagle?"
And I noticed him, he wasn't afraid. God don't like cowards. God give him two wings. And he had confidence in his God-given gift. He knew that he could be in that timber 'fore I could grab that gun. But I wondered why he wasn't afraid. He kept feeling, you know, with his feathers. You know how they do with their wings, see if they was all in working order.
I think if the church come together, and--and got their spiritual wings all working order...

L-32 And he kept watching me. And after while, he wasn't afraid of me, but he didn't like all that chatter, chatter. So he made one big jump, and he flopped his wings about two or three times. He was beyond the timber.
And then it come to pass that I seen what God was trying to show me. This great big mammoth master of the sky, he just spread forth his big wings like that; he never flopped one more time. He just knowed how to set his wings in those wind waves, and he just lifted up, up, up, until he became just a little spot.
I said, "O God, I'm about to have a spell again. That's right. It isn't join the Methodist, and then leave them and go to the Baptist and over to the Nazarene. It's just knowing how to set your faith in the power of the Holy Spirit and be lifted up. Just ride the waves as it comes in, on up above the shadow. Give me fellowship with Thee, for in the light I see the fountain, and the Blood that cleanseth me."
He left that little old earthbound squirrel setting there saying, "Days of miracles is past. No such a thing as the Holy Ghost. Can't get well if you had...?..." all these things like that. He just set his wings and flew away from it. God, give us wings like an eagle. "Days of miracles is past. No such thing as Divine healing, nothing but holy-rollers." Chatter, chatter here, and a chatter, chatter there, just as earthbound as they could be.

L-33 He never paid any attention, then he got sick and tired of it. I hope this church does the same thing. Just set your great wings in God's promise; let the Holy Spirit pack you out of sight of it, till it'll just become like a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.
In nature, God lives in nature. David was a great man of nature. He studied it. He found God there. He knowed how God could help him kill a bear, could kill a lion with his slingshot. And that's why he could write these songs.
But the strange part of the song is this. "Thy lovekindness is better than life." Did you notice the setting of the Scripture? "Thy lovekindness is better than life to me, so I will praise Thee. And my soul thirsts for Thee in a dry land where no water is."

L-34 Then I couldn't understand what David was talking about. When I first read that, I thought, "What was the prophet meaning? 'That Your lovekindness is better than life'?" What could be better than life? Nothing. So I drew this conception. That there must be two different kinds of life. Life has a compound meaning. It means more than one thing.
Now, many people think that drinking, smoking, gambling, running around, dancing, they call that life. But that is perverted life. That's death. It certainly is. The devil has perverted that life, and you think it's life, but it's death. That life gets so miserable. What the people call today life, it gets so miserable until they take a pistol and blow their brains out. That couldn't be life, what God was speaking of.


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