<TITLE>07. Par 21-23</TITLE>L-21 There was a lady in a ten cent store not long ago, in Louisville. She was attracting the attention of the people. She had about a two year old lad in her arm, and she was going from counter to counter, picking up little things.
And saying, "Look, dearie; looky here. Just look at this, baby."
And she got more nervous all the time. From counter to counter, picking up little things to see what the baby... to attract its attention, things that ought to attract the attention of a child of that age.
And finally, she come to a little bell. And she picked the little bell up; nervously, she rang it; she said, "Look, honey. Look, mama's darling, look." But the little lad just stared.
Then she fell across the counter, crying, "Oh, no, no; it can't be so."
The people run to her to see what was wrong. She said, "I've had my little baby to the doctor." Said, "Some weeks ago, he just like went into a--an--a coma, a daze." And said, "He won't pay any attention to anything that should attract his attention of a child that age. There's something wrong with him. The doctor says he's better, but he isn't."
I wonder if that ain't the estate of the church tonight. After two thousand years that God has showed everything in front of the church, they ought to be old enough to know these things. We've had a Billy Graham, an Oral Roberts, a Jack Shuler, a Tommy Hicks. The Holy Spirit moving, showing signs and wonders of His coming, and the church seems to set dazed, not noticing... Oh, if we could only realize, if we could only come to ourself and wake up that it's the hand of God.

L-22 The largest crowd I ever had the privilege of preaching to was in Bombay, India, about three years ago--five hundred thousand. And when we got there, I read the newspaper, as the--many of the bishops and so forth come out to the airport to greet us and piles of garlands (you know how they do) as a salute. And I picked up a paper, and it said, "Well, the earthquake must be done."
A few days before there, there was something mysteriously happened. All the little birds that lived in the crevices of the big rock fences and the big towers... They don't have fences there, many like we have. They're poor--pick up the rocks on the field. There's four hundred and seventy million of them in India, and perhaps over two-thirds of them are beggars. So they pick up the rocks and make the fences. And little birds make their nests and live in these rocks. And when it comes evening time, and the sun is hot in the tropics, the cattle stand around the side of these fences to get in the shade. But a strange thing happened.

L-23 One day (Nobody knows why at that time.) all the little birds took away from the rocks; they went out into the trees. All the cattle run away from the fences and stood in the field. And they wouldn't come back. Hours passed, and they didn't know what caused this strange emotion. Then an earthquake hit, shook the walls down. The little birds had been there, they'd have been perished. If the cattle would have stood there, they'd have been killed.
If those animals by instinct, the same they had in the days of Noah... The Spirit of God through instinct could run them from danger, what ought the church of God to do, filled with the Holy Spirit, to flee the wrath that is to come, unto the safe place in Christ? "Sirs, we would see Jesus."


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