<TITLE>03. Par 9-11</TITLE>L-9 Well, I noticed the eagle. He seemed to be that he was-- wasn't afraid. He was no coward. God cannot use cowards. No, sir. When you believe God, you've got to believe Him with all that's in you. God don't want anyone say in church, "Oh, yes. Praise the Lord. I believe it." And then on the outside, "I don't know, I still feel bad." He can't use that. You've got to be... You got to believe God in, out, everywhere you are, believe God just the same.
And so, I noticed the eagle was brave. He wasn't afraid. I wondered, "Why aren't you afraid? Do you know I could take my rifle and shoot you?" Well, if he could've read my mind, he'd knowed that I--I admired him. I admire anything that's not afraid. I hate a coward. And so then I--I noticed him how he... "What makes you so brave?" Well, I thought, "Now, he sees my rifle setting against the tree. And he knows before I could get that rifle and shoot him, he could be in that timber, and I'd never see him no more." He'd just fly through that timber and you'd never catch him then. And so, he knew that. And I kept notice him, taking his feathers, you know, and moving his feathers back and forth. I thought, "Oh, yes. I get the idea."

L-10 See, God made him an eagle, and He give him two wings to get away from danger. And he had perfect faith in those two God given wings. I thought, "What if the Church had that much faith in the two wings that God gave them, the New and Old Testament, how he could fly away from trouble, fly away from sickness, fly away from sorrow, get away with it.
I watched him there for a few moments. And oh, that little pine squirrel was just cursing him for all that was in him. And he never paid much attention to him. And after while, he got tired of it. So he just gave one great big jump, and made a one two big flops with his wings, and he was outside the timber. And then the amazing thing, he never bluffed any more. He just jumped and made a couple of flops and on with his wing to get out of the timber, and then he knew just how to set those wings. And every time the wind would come in, he'd ride up on it. And I stood and watched him till he got smaller and smaller, till he become a little speck.

L-11 I stood there crying like a baby. "That's it, Lord. It isn't running from place to place, joining the Methodist, joining the Baptists, joining the Pentecostals. It isn't that. It's just, get your feet off the ground and set your wings in the power. When the Holy Ghost comes in, ride up on It, just ride on away." He rode away from that chatter, chatter, chatter: "Days of miracles is past; no such thing as baptism of the Holy Ghost; that's for another age." That's chatter, chatter, chatter of the little earth bound pine squirrel. Just set your wings in the faith by faith out there and ride in the waves of the Holy Ghost when He comes in. Just ride on away, on away, on away, get plumb out of hearing distance of it.


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