<TITLE>07. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 And someone had captured this big eagle, and had put him in a cage. And that poor fellow, I never felt so sorry. If I could have bought him, I'd have bought him. And he had no feathers on his face or on his head. On the ends of his wings was all beat off, and he was bleeding. And the big fellow, was laying on the floor. And he got up, walked back the other side the cage, and he run and lifted those big wings, and threw himself against those bars only to beat his head and his wings. Fell back in the floor again, rolled his head and went back again... Here he come again, and he flew upward, and he beat his head and wings flying, till the blood was running out. He fell back to the floor, laid.
And I looked at his weary eyes, as he rolled his eyes and looked around towards the skies. I thought, "What a pity. He's a heavenly bird. He was built, and made, and borned, and generated to fly in the heavens. But he's caged." Some smart intelligent trapper had caged him and caught him. I thought, "That's the most pitiful sight that I ever seen." I could--I could take weeks of wages, and buy that poor fellow and turn him loose, 'cause he wasn't made for a cage. He was made to be free in the air. I thought that was horrible.

L-26 Then my mind changed, when I stood and looked at the sons and daughters of God, who were borned to be sons and daughters of God, walking around dressed immorally, smoking cigarettes, drinking. It's more pitiful to see a son of God, that was borned to be a son or a daughter of God, slaved by the world, than it is to see the eagle in the cage.
The world has caged people up. Denominational barriers keeping them from the thing that God put them on earth to be: sons and daughters of God. And that's a pitiful sight, to see human being that's helpless, seemingly, bound by sin, and merely beating their brains out flopping around from beer parlor to beer parlor, from place to place, and from amusement to amusement, trying to find satisfaction, when God alone has the satisfaction that can satisfy them.
God made a man to thirst after Him. There... The reason man has something in him to thirst, God put that thirst in you. But you can't satisfy it with the things of the world. You'll never be satisfied till God takes that place.

L-27 God likened His eagles--or His heritage to His eagles. Let's take what the eagle does. Another thing the eagle does... And when he builds his nest, he builds it way high. I've watched them when they get to the highest point that they can get to to built their nest.
That's likened unto the Church of the living God. It makes its stand for the highest ambitions, and the highest thoughts, and the holiest things, away from the earthbound thing. That's where the Church takes her stand, on the highest pinnacle she can stand on: That's on Calvary, the Cross of the Lord Jesus.

L-28 The eagle puts his nest up there. How different from his denominational brother, the chicken. The chicken builds his nest anywhere. Yet, you can't say he's not a bird; he is. But he don't know nothing about the heavenlies; he's never been up there. He don't know nothing about it.
There's men and women who profess to be Christians, who walk around in the scratching of the barnyard of some cold, formal indifferent place. And they don't know what it is to be lifted up into the Spirit of God by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It would kill him. He isn't built for it. He can't take it. He's got to be borned again by the Holy Spirit, that changes his whole make-up, and makes him a new creature in Christ Jesus. You're changed from the creature that you are, when you are borned again of the Spirit of God.


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