<TITLE>15. Par 55-59</TITLE>L-55 Like the old colored fellow once said about heartfelt religion, he was always happy; his boss said, "Sambo, I'd like to know what that heartfelt religion is."
He said, "It's good, boss."
"Oh," he said, "I don't believe there's anything like heartfelt religion."
He said, "Just one mistake you made: you don't know there's anything about heartfelt religion, as far as you know." Well, that--he knowed different.

L-56 An experience. God wants His church to be experienced with trusting Him and taking His Word. They're eagles. If they are eagles, they'll eat eagle food.
Now, an eagle cannot eat a chicken's food. But a chicken can eat eagle's food. You see the hypocrite? That's right. A eagle can't eat what a chicken eats. But a chicken can eat what the eagle eats, and eats whats he eats too.
Like the crow and the dove in the ark. The crow can eat anything, but the dove can only eat grain. But the crow can eat grain, and eat off of a dead carcass too. That's the old hypocrite, that can go to church and pretend to be a Christian, go right out with world, and say, "It don't condemn my conscience." Well, they got no more conscience than a snake's got hips. They don't--they don't know nothing about--anything about conscience. How can they have it, when they ain't got it to start with?

L-57 My mama used to say, "You can't get blood from a turnip." And that's true. I don't say that for a joke. This is no joking place. This is the Word. Souls are at stake. I say that to make it a point, to drive it home to you in a simple way, so you'll understand it. Certainly. All right.
Then this little old eagle, he'd follow around, and the old mammy would get up there and scratch a little bit, and say, "We're going to have a soup supper tonight, just got have it to pay off the pastor."
Said, "What in the world's this?"
"Well, I'll tell you, if you're not a Presbyterian, or a Baptist, or so-and-so, you're just a..."
"What's this?" He just couldn't understand the clucking of the hen. He was a different bird.

L-58 "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws Him." Those who He foreknew, He's called. Those who He has called, He hath justified. Those He has justified, He hath already glorified.
What you scared about? Don't be afraid to take that solo flight. Don't be 'fraid to put God at a test. If you're a eagle, you're not scared. If you're Abraham's seed, which is the only one that gets the promise, is the seed of Abraham, you call those thing which were not as though they were, if God said so. Don't be scared, nothing to be scared of. You can't understand how all these socials, and parties, and picture show entertainments, and everything in the church, and ball games, and everything else to make money to pay the pastor. Never was intended. Certainly not. But you borrow some old rooster and sell it for about a dollar and a half a plate. You've turned the upper room into a supper room. That's right. You don't have to do that. Take God at His Word; He owns all things. Certainly.

L-59 But you can't do that on little creeds and loose feathers, a little sensations. You got to be absolutely the--a real made up eagle with something inside of you, that tells you that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, that knows that He's standing omnipresent, and He watches over you. Nothing can harm you. No coyote can get you. There's nothing can harm. The Angels of God are encamped about those who fear Him. Ten thousand may fall at your right hand, and a hundred thousand at your left hand, but it'll never come near you. He watches over His heritage day and night.
"I, the Lord, have planted it. I will water it day and night, 'less some should pluck it from My hand." God's heritage, an eagle.


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