<TITLE>04. Par 14-16</TITLE>L-14 The dove, he is a very unusual bird. A dove is the only bird that we know of, that doesn't have a gall. A dove has no gall at all. All the other birds have gall. But he has no gall, so in the dove, is no bitterness. And in God is no bitterness, or in the one that the dove lives in, and leads, there's no bitterness. Now, the dove, the reason he's made like that, it's because of his diet. Now, he could not eat the things that a vulture eats, because it would kill him right away.
And another thing, I'd like to speak about the dove, right here, is that a dove is one of the most cleanest birds there is that flies the heavens. There's nothing as clean as a dove, and he doesn't have to watch about it. His body puts out a oil that goes to his feathers and constantly keeps him clean. Oh, what a symbol, that the believer has got a oil of the Spirit that lives in him. Keeps his feathers clean, the dust and things doesn't bother a dove. His little body is oily, and it keeps the dust and things away. It just constantly flows, and as he flies, the dust flies away from him. It cannot stick on him, because this certain oil comes from him for that purpose, and dirt cannot stick on him. What a symbol.
Oh, God fill my lamp tonight, with that kind of oil, that the world with all of it's pleasures, and it's riches, and it's great glamour will not stick to us, that we'll be able to throw it off through a oil that comes from the inside working out to keep the church clean.

L-15 As the old song used to go, "Give me oil in my lamp, keep me shining." God puts Holy oil inside. Oil in the Bible represents the Spirit keeping the church clean.
And yet, a dove is a fowl, he's a--just a bird. And the dove is represented in the Bible all the way from Genesis to Revelations.
I've studied the bird very much. In our country, and most all of the states in the Union, he's a sacred bird. We're not allowed to hunt him, but in some states they are allowed to hunt him. I could never shoot one. But he's a sacred bird in our state. They'd give you a hundred dollars fine just as soon as you kill one. He's a sacred bird.

L-16 Now, in the ark the dove and the crow set on the same roost. Both of them were birds, one could fly where the other one flew. One could do just anything the other one could do. But when they were turned loose to take their choice, they turned the dove loose first, and the little fellow flew about, and the Bible said, "She could find no rest for the soles of her feet." Every time she could find something to set on, it was a dead carcass, an old dead something of the world, and she could not light on that. Why, it was against her nature.
And if a man is ever born with that Spirit of the Dove in him, I don't say he won't leave, something might happen he'd fly loose somewhere, but if he really had that Dove Spirit, he will find no rest for the soul that's in him. Backslider, you're the most miserable person in the world. You can't find pleasure anywhere. You'll sound like you're testimony like Peter said, "To whom should we go? Where can we go? You're the only One that has the Words of Eternal Life."
And a real borned again Christian sometimes might get angry at something done in the church; it'll poison his system. But if he's a real dove, he will come back, just as sure as God's in heaven, he will do it, because there's something in him that won't let him light on them old dead carcasses, out to a rock-and-roll party, or a beer joint, they simply stink to him. To any borned again Christian, they just can't stand it, because he has no gall in him to digest such a thing.


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