<TITLE>16. Par -</TITLE>L-22-4 If one of them little eagles get out of balance, she sweeps right down with them big wings and picks him up and bears him up into grace again. (Now, that's not Baptist teaching; that's the Bible.) So brings him right back up, shakes him off again, let him start anew. Amen.
Them eagles has got confidence in their mother, supreme confidence that that mother will help them and bear them up again. Bear them up on the wings of an eagle, and take them up there and shake them off again, let him start again, "If... If I fall or if I fail, let me rise and try again, O Lord."
Go on again. God will lift you right back up--take you up there and shake you off again. Try to balance yourself. You just keep going. Just keep flopping till you learn to fly. Oh, my. Poor old chicken don't know anything about that. He don't know a thing about that, because he's never been up there, none of his ancestors up there. All he knows is join church and set down in the barnyard. He don't know much about it.

L-22-7 One time a man was setting a hen, and he couldn't find enough eggs; so he found an eagle's nest, and climbed up and got the eagle's egg, and put it under the hen. And when that bunch of brood hatched, that eagle was a funny looking little fellow from the rest of them chickens.
That's just about the way it comes: one out of every setting, just about the way it happens. That's true.
And here he was, a funny looking little fellow; he couldn't understand the clucking of the hen. The old hen out there in the manure piles and the yards, "We're going to have a social supper tonight. We're going to do all this," like that. "Cluck, cluck, cluck. The days of miracles has passed. There is no such a-thing as Divine healing. Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck," eating that dirty stuff with old bunco parties and games, stripped off clothes, and everything like that, televisions, and all that kind of nonsense. That little fellow was an eagle. That didn't set with him. It made him vomit to smell it. And he'd, "My, I'd never make that." Walking around, my, he was a funny looking little guy.
She said, "Oh, come on, honey, we're going to have a great big party tonight, and we're going to serve..."
He didn't want none of that stuff. He walked around and thought, "What? Why, I'm an odd-looking duck here."

L-23-4 And I tell you one thing brother, when a man is born to be a child of God, old creeds and denominations will never satisfy him. No, sir. The things of the world: basketball games, and parties, and--and bunco games, and all these kind of entertainments that the modern churches do today in our day, no wonder they've grieved, "Where is God?" They've grieved God away from them. That's exactly the right. Yes, sir.
Chickens like that kind of stuff, but eagles don't. That's not eagle food.

L-23-6 Here he walked around there and, my, all the--all of them looking around; they'd all run over to this place and just... She'd scratch out some of the dirtiest looking stuff, and they'd run over and eat it. Humph. "Oh, come on, come on. Join with us." But he's a separated person. Yes, sir. He didn't want none of that stuff. Didn't look right to him; didn't smell right; didn't have the right kind of a atmosphere around there. He didn't like that at all. He said, "No, no."


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