<TITLE>07. Par 19-23</TITLE>L-19 So that's the way many people try to climb so high, and they're blind after they get there. So what good does it do to get up there? See? You think you'll get your Ph.D., double L.D., D.D.D., Q.S.D., and all the other kind of a--of degrees. But what if you got up there and you're not qualified, you'd be blind to the very thing you climbed on. It wouldn't do no good; you can't see back no more. As the brother said about the key, the other day, he left, or the man left.
So an eagle, in order to go up he has to be a special built bird. And a man, to be a servant of the Lord, is a special person. He has to be changed on the inside, and made over again. That's the reason God calls His children, His prophets, the eagles. He has to climb up. His eye.

L-20 And another thing, if that eagle tried to climb up there with just an ordinary feathers, likes in a crow, or like in--in a pigeon, why, every feather would come out of him.
Did you ever try to pull a feather out of an eagle? You'd better get a pair of pliers and put your feet on him, because them feathers really stay there. If they didn't he--it would drop the eagle when he got up there in those spheres where the other birds. So you see, he has to be a special bird.

L-21 Another thing about an eagle, an eagle is a--a special bird, because he will never build his nest on the ground. He builds his nest way high.
He likens that to His church. You are a city that sets on a hill, not in a valley. You're a city that sets on a hill, that can be seen far off. A lighted candle, it can be seen far out. The church setting high, with high expectations, high ambitions...

L-22 I haven't got much hopes for a pastor's church that hasn't got ambitions to better themselves day by day, and year by year. A church that's really a church of the living God will never stop, say, "Well, I just come in, I guess it's all right now." That ain't the church of God. He's got an ambition to press on.
"Well, I've done my part; I brought one sinner in this year, and he got saved." Brother, that's not the ambition of the church of God. If he brings one, he wants another, another, another, another, another. There's no end to it. It just keeps on climbing up. See? We want to have an ambition and expectations. God wants us to be that way.

L-23 Then, I want you to notice another thing. A eagle renews his youth. Did you know that? A eagle actually renews his youth. Now, he will get so old till he can't hardly fly, and then all at once something happens to him. Now, he's just the same age, but he gets a--a youthful feeling about him, and he just restores himself. He's a good eagle again. Now, the Bible said that the eagle renews his youth.
And I remember the first time I was in a Pentecostal meeting, it was in Mishawaka. I was a young Baptist preacher, and I... up there... And I heard these people. They had signs on the back of their cars, and I thought, "I believe I'll just go in; it's a religious meeting." And I set down in the back of the meeting, and I heard them up there preaching. Oh, my, I never heard such preaching in all my life. And that night, I thought, "I believe I'll get on the platform."
They said, "All preachers come to the platform." There was hundreds of them. And so I... That day I'd been noticing all the young preachers preaching about what Jesus had done and all about it, and--and, oh, I thought, "They had a wonderful message. I never heard of such before."
And they'd speak in tongues, and shout, and dance, and run all around. I thought, "Whew. They've got poor manners, but they--but they're sure having good time with it, so I--I guess that's all right."
So that night, on the platform, he said, "I want each minister just raise up and say where he's from, what's his name."
So it come to my time, I said, "William Branham, evangelist, Jeffersonville, Indiana. Baptist," set down.


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