<TITLE>05. Par -</TITLE>L-6-2 How that humbles my heart. Deuteronomy 32:11,
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[Two prophecies are given--Ed.] Amen. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. [Another prophecy is given--Ed.] How we thank the Lord to have His Spirit working among us, in the midst of us.
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
That's not very much of a Scripture reading, but It's the Word of the Lord. It's enough there that maybe God will give us a context from this for the next twenty or thirty minutes that'll cause people to wake up and to think of the Lord Jesus.

L-6-4 You know, sometime... I read a story a few years ago in the life of Abraham Lincoln. There was a man in prison, and he was under a federal charge. And he was going to be shot, and a good friend of his went to the President, Abraham Lincoln, a wonderful Christian man. And he said, "Mr. Lincoln, I know that you are a good man, that you are a Christian; and under this federal indictment, that this man has trespassed a law of the regulation of the army. He is my friend. He didn't mean to do that. He's guilty of doing it. He didn't mean to do it. Won't you please--you're the only man who can spare his life. Won't you spare his life?" And the courtesy of Mr. Lincoln picked up his quill and wrote across the piece of paper (because he wasn't at his desk at that time to make an official stamp) and so he wrote across it: "I pardon this man," and signed his name: Abraham Lincoln.

L-6-5 The precious friend of this man run just as hard as he could to the prison and said, "Oh, my friend, you are free! You are free! Here is the President's name on this piece of paper. You are pardoned."
And the man said, "Do not mock me, for I'm ready now to die, because I am sentenced to death; and here you come to mock me with a piece of paper. If that piece of paper was Abraham Lincoln's pardon, it would be all decorated up with seals and so forth."
He said, "Sir, this is the President's name. You are pardoned." And the man turned his back on it and would not listen to it. The next morning at daylight the man was shot before a firing squad.
Now, here's a pardon from the President that says, "Do not kill the man" signed on one day; the next day the man was shot. Then the case was tried in federal courts; and when the court, the Federal Court of the United States of America tried the case, and here was the decision of the court: A pardon is not a pardon unless it be received as a pardon.

L-7-2 And that's the way that the Word of God is. It's healing to you if you receive It as healing. It's a pardon to you if you receive It as a pardon. Every blessing in here is yours if you receive It in the way that God has wrote It, "As the eagle stirreth her nest, fluttereth over her young, taketh them on her wings and beareth them..."
How many times have I thought what God likened His heritage to eagles. And I find in the Bible that God calls Himself an Eagle. He's Jehovah Eagle. And how would He do that?
So I am a naturalist, so I... My first Bible was nature. If you'll just watch the way nature works, you can find God. Anywhere you look, you'll see God, if you get God in the heart and watch it.
Now, when they talk of reincarnation and stuff, that's foolish; it cannot be. We find out that a plant dies, goes into the ground; the seed rots; it lives again: it's resurrection. And all Christianity is based upon resurrection. And we can see that that's true: death, burial, resurrection. The summers, the winters, all nature blends right in.

L-7-5 My first Bible was watching how those trees died, how the sprouts come up again, how the wind would blow it over; it would come back again; how the little flower died, lived again. And all those different things, it made me know that there was a power of resurrection somewhere.
Now, the tree has perpetual life; we have Immortal Life. The tree will come to its final end; we never can. We have Immortal Life.


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