<TITLE>06. Par 22-24</TITLE>L-22 I thought that was one of the saddest sights I nearly ever seen. And walking away from there, the Holy Spirit seem to say to me that afternoon, setting in the park where I couldn't get it off of my mind... I wanted to buy the bird. Well, they wouldn't let me have him. I felt so sorry for him, but then the Lord spoke to me in this matter, "Here's a worse sight than that. There's men and women walking the streets, that was born to be sons and daughters of God, living below their privilege, beating their brains out in nightclubs and everything else, when they should be soaring the skies of God's great pleasure and power."
How they go from church to church, and from place to place, trying to join this, and say this creed, and repeat this prayer, be baptized this a way, just beating your brains out. And they were born to be sons and daughters of God.
What a sad sight to see a man, made in the image of God, to be a servant of God, to live as a son of God, walking down the street, staggering under the influence of whiskey, to see a young man in his splendor and his graceful looks, to see him down on the street with a cigarette in his hand, with his arm around a half dressed girl somewhere, a man born to be a son of God and living under His privileges, his soul bound in a cage of the devil's torment.
A young woman half-dressed, beautiful as she is, oh, all fixed up, and enough paint on her to paint a barn, out somewhere laying around in a roadhouse, when she was born to be a daughter of the most high God, and she's living under her privilege...

L-23 There's something in you that calls out. There's something in you that longs for God. And you try to satisfy that thirst that's in you, as David said, "As the hart thirst after the waterbrook, so my soul thirst after Thee, oh, God." And you try to satisfy that blessed holy thirst that God put in you, to thirst after Him, and you try to satisfy it with the things of this world. The devil is trying to make you quench that thirst by serving him, when you're a eagle. You was born to be an eagle. And you have no right to try to quench that thirst with the things of the world. God gave you that holy thirst to thirst after Him. "Blessed are they, that do hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled."

L-24 Now, let's take notice to the eagle. The reason she doesn't build her nest on the ground, is because that's she's a heavenly bird, and she takes care of her young. She don't want them in danger. So she builds her nest just as high as she can go.
Last summer, I was going to Tacoma for a meeting. I passed through Yellowstone, watching, way up in the top of the canyon, I saw something up there, and it was right on a little short peak. And an eagle had her nest built.
And I called my wife, and my children, and give them the binoculars. I'd went down into the woods a piece, following a little old bear. And I said, "Look up here now at this. There is the eagle with her nest." What could get to her? Nothing. No serpent could crawl up that rock. No coyote could ever destroy that nest.
That's the way God builds His church for His eaglets, high above the ambitions of this world. She's got a high ambition, not to please men, but to please God. She's built high and safe.
Oh, how that mother eagle watches that nest. Oh, His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. He watches you. She watches that nest.


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