<TITLE>12. Par -</TITLE>L-16-4 So a few days... How I've watched them so many times. A few days before the nest-stirring time comes, the old mother eagle would get up there on the side of that nest. I've laid a many a day in the warm sunshine watching them and just cry like a baby. See that big mother eagle, they're large. The mother eagle's bigger than the father eagle. Some of their wings spread fourteen feet from tip to tip.
And she'll get up there; she'll strut around over that nest like that, and she'll go up to these little ones; she'll spread her great big wings and scream. And when she does, sometimes the little eagles will fall on their backs. She wants them to. That's what she wants them to do. Then they'll get up. And she'll scream. Why? She's training them to her voice.
"And My sheep know My voice." She wants them to know what it is when "screaming-time" comes. And she's screaming. Oh, my. "I want you to catch every note of my voice," she says. "Because there's a lot of scavengers. I want you to know you're eagles. And I want you to know eagle voice." Amen. Hallelujah. "I want you to know what a eagle sound is. And then she spreads her great wing, said, "Looky here, I'm fixing to give you your first solo flight. But first I want you to look how big I am."
Oh, how sweet it is. Maybe sometimes sickness knocks us on our back, maybe something else, when we can look up and take them two big Wings of Jehovah, the Old and New Testament, and say, "How great Thou art, how great Thou art, Lord."

L-17-1 Oh, she likes to show them. "Looky here how strong I am." She screams, "This is my voice." And how could a preacher say then that that Eagle don't scream the same in every day, every time it screams. Sure, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
The Old Testament said, "I am Jehovah. I opened up the Red Sea. I brought the Hebrew children out of the fiery furnace. I'm the One that raised up the Son of God." Hallelujah. "I'm the One that sent the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost."
Looking through her great wings, don't you like to see that? Doesn't it thrill your heart? Them little eagles, say, "Oh, mama, we sure trust you. You're powerful and big."

L-17-4 Go out some night and look up at the solar system? Here some time ago I was taken up to Mount Palomar, and there through a glass you could see a hundred and twenty million years of light space. Figure it up, how many miles it is, how many, how fast does light travel? And a hundred and twenty million years of light space. and beyond that was still moons and stars and worlds. How great Thou art. How great Thou art.

L-17-5 These little eagles begin to look around, "How great Thou art."
Here's a flower. It died; it went into the ground. But here it comes back again. How great Thou art.
Here's a poor old cancer-ridden man, just a shadow, and a prayer is made over him. Next thing, you see him a great big red-faced man. How great Thou art, how great Thou art.
See a little old woman out on the street, out there, not fit for the dogs to look at; let the power of God catch her attention one time, she'll scream, "How great Thou art." She'll lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily beset her. The first thing you know she's a sainted-looking person. She's out with a Gospel tract under her arm, doing something.
Let that bootlegger down on the corner, that foul man, let him one time look up and see, "How great Thou art." Watch him quit selling his whiskey, quit drinking, and smoking his cigarettes and cigars, quit telling his lies and so forth; and out on the street with a Bible in his hand, testifying to the glory of God. How great Thou art.
Let God spread forth that New and Old Testament over you one time. Look through Its pages and see what it is. You'll hear a voice screaming from there, saying, "The same yesterday, today, and forever. What I did for them, I'll do for you. I'm--I am the same. I'm Jehovah; I change not." I feel real religious right now. Oh, my. How well I know it is the truth.


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