<TITLE>08. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 Another thing, the chicken is unconcerned about the brood. He builds his nest on the ground. And the rats, the mice, the weasels, the snakes can get them.
That's what loose preaching does, letting people go to the rock-and-rolls, and wear--women wearing these immoral clothes, deacons smoking cigarettes. It takes them into the rats and the mice of hell that scrams their souls and condemns them. A preacher, or a denomination, or a church that would try to build a congregation on anything less than the solid Rock of God's Word, you're wrong, and your members will perish, and you'll perish with them.

L-30 But the eagle's going to see different to that. He goes so high, that if a rat tried to climb it, he'd break his neck. I love that. God takes he's children so high above the things of the world, the rats can't climb to it. It's a different bird. And he's made different. He protects his little ones.
And a true pastor of the living God will never stand still in a pulpit, but what he will preach the unadulterated truth of God. If he has to run all the chickens out, he will stand on the unadulterated Word, not on the rock of Gibraltar, but the Rock of Ages. Then it's faith. Faith cannot rest upon the shifting sands of man's theology. But faith takes its eternal stand upon the unchangeable and unshakable Rock of Ages, and can stand there while the waves is beating the bottom of it out. And the grave is open, and look across the sea to Him that said, "I'm the Resurrection and Life," saith God. Stand there.
Notice, the chicken is different. His habits are different. His diet is different.

L-31 Then this eagle, before he builds this nest, he first he finds a place to build it. And then when he goes to build it, he carries great big heavy sticks. Because sometimes he goes into a cleft in the rock. The eagle usually hunts a cleft.
And the true Church of the living God will get into the cleft of the side of Jesus, the Rock of Ages. "Where upon this rock I'll build My Church, and the gates of hell cannot prevail against It," or no rats of the world will touch it, scalawags and so forth of the world that brings in and draws back. God sanctifies His people, and fills them with the Holy Ghost, and places them up. You're different.

L-32 And then the eagle, when he gets all these big sticks gathered around... Oh, they're architects. You should see one build his nest. How he takes the ends of them, and pushes them down into the little crevices. And then when he gets that done, he goes out and gets long briars, great big thorns, and he weaves through that nest, so them sticks won't move. But of course, then it's full of stickers. Then he goes out and gets rabbit skins, that he had eaten; the rabbit. Gets lamb's skin were he had eaten the lambs. And he takes it up there, and takes his beak, and he pushes it down. And he makes it real cozy.
That's the why God does for His people. You remember when you were first coming to the living God. I remember the night when I received Christ as my personal Saviour. It was so soft; I thought I was walking on air. I was converted in an old coal shed. And when I come in, I didn't know nothing about shouting or praising the Lord. So, I felt so good I--I didn't even touch a board coming up from the shed to the house. I grabbed a song book and begin to look at it, and then--and my Bible, and begin to read.
And Mother said, "What you so nervous about?"
I said, "Nothing."


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