<TITLE>13. Par 39-41</TITLE>L-39 He never did say, "If I do the teaching of My Father..." He said, "If I do not the works of My Father." That--the teaching, anybody could teach it, but let's see the works be done. You can say, "Oh, He's a great God." Sure. We go into Bible schools, not that I'm condemning them, but I'm trying to--I hope you don't understand me wrong. I'm not condemning Bible schools. But I'm condemning it, what you say that you--you teach these things, and then knock the whole foundation out to say it was in some other age. It's just like giving your canary bird vitamins to build him up good strong wings and put him in a cage. What good does it do to do that? Why build his wings up if you're going to keep him caged up? What the church needs today is the opening up of these barriers that's holding them and some Pentecostal Holy Ghost vitamins poured back into the church, then it'll change the atmosphere. That's right. They'll hatch. It'll bring forth eagles instead of chickens.

L-40 Chicken...?... He's a bird, but he's a half brother, he don't know about the heavenlies. He don't know what it means to be up there. One of the most pitiful sights I ever seen was... I went down to a cage one time. My little Sarah and I, we were walking around it. And there was a--I heard a noise and a big eagle, someone had caught him, and he'd just beat all the feathers off of his head and the ends of his wings. And he'd get back across the cage, and he'd come flopping, and he'd hit his head against his wings and the feathers a flying, he'd fall back. I seen him laying there and them big gray eyes looking around. Why? He was a heavenly bird. He lives in the heavens. That's where his heart is. But through the cunningness of man, had trapped him and put him in this cage. And he was trying to beat hisself out with his own power, beat right against the side. I thought, "That's pitiful." I walked away from there almost crying. I thought, "I wish they'd sell it to me." I hate to see anything caged up.
I hate to see the church caged up. Yeah. Just beating yourself to death, and everything else, with all kinds of soup suppers, and dinners, and there's classes in societies and things like that. My, you wasn't born to be like that. No, no.

L-41 And I noticed the old fellow, I thought, "If I could get..." I thought, "Well, that's a pitiful sight."
Sarah said, "Daddy, that poor bird."
I said, "Yes, honey."
Said, "What's he's beating his head and..."
I said, "He's trying to get out of them bars."
Said, "What makes him want to get--why don't he just set down and be satisfied?"
I said, "He can't. See, honey, his nature is up there. That's where he ought to be. Them big wings was give him to hold hisself up there in the air, to look down, fly high."
And I turned away from there; I thought, "That's a pitiful thing, but I know something more pitiful. To see a church that calls itself the church of God, the church of Jesus Christ, caged up in a cage. When actually they can read the Bible and found out they're not born to be caged chickens in a barnyard. They're supposed to be eagles that can set their wings in the rushing mighty wind that comes down. They don't have to flop; they just know how to hold their wings and fly away up into where all things are possible, into a place that takes them out of this caged in places we set. "Days of miracles is past, there's no such a thing as Divine healing, there's no Holy Spirit." Oh, it's pitiful. What can you do?


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