<TITLE>03. Par 11-14</TITLE>L-11 And John was one of those men that did not hold back any punches. He just let her fly. It made no difference to him. If it was a head off, it was a head off. That all. Just like Elijah. He was right out forward with what he had to say. What was right, was right. If it was wrong, it was wrong.
God, we need more like that today, men who will stand on real genuine convictions of the Word of God. Speak it and don't hold your peace. Speak it out.
And then we find there that John, down in this little old, musty, dirty jail, with some dirty bread they'd probably throw in to him once in a while. He'd probably gotten thin and no way to read his Bible. And he would... got kind of... he's... As one writer wrote about him one time, said, "His eagle eye got filmed over."

L-12 You know the prophets are likened unto eagles. And God calls His prophets eagles. Is because an eagle is a most powerful of all the birds. And the eagle can go higher, soar higher than any other bird. And he's got a better eye than any other bird.
They talk about a hawk having an eye or--and a hawk being able to fly up in the air. Why, if a hawk would try to follow an eagle, he'd disintegrate in the air. He sure would. And now, what good is it going to do the eagle to get up there if he hasn't got enough eye to see where... back down to the earth again?
It's just like if, what are we doing jumping high if we don't know what we're jumping about? See? And what are we testifying high, or making a lot of noise if we haven't got nothing to make a noise about? See? And it's different now; the noise is fine if you got something to make a noise about. But wait till that comes first, and it will be a noise all your life then.

L-13 But we find that this eagle eye had got filmed over, because they had taken him out of his habitation from the wilderness, and had put him down into an old dirty, musty jail. And this great man who could be an eagle to soar up in the air. Now, higher you get, further away you can see.
They get up now in these balloons and things, so they can... So high in the air, that they can take a picture of the entire earth, in it's curvature.
And I suppose, in this new gadget that Russia's got, can cross around the world in about a hour and forty-five minutes. Why, they can take the entire movie of it turning. But the higher you get, more you can see. Therefore, prophets in the Bible, were those eagles who could soar way up and above the congregation. And find out what THUS SAITH THE LORD was. Then come back down and bring the news. See?
Therefore, the Word of the Lord came to the prophets. And John being caged off, why, it'd had filmed that eagle eye over.

L-14 I felt so sorry one time for a big eagle. And I just can't stand to go to a zoo. To see them poor things caged up. Lions and... How it's just in prison for life. And little Sarah and I, one time at the Cincinnati Zoo over here, was walking around. And mother was getting our dinner ready. We was up with the children, up there. They like to take the little boat rides and see the monkeys and whatmore.
So we were walking around while mother was fixing the dinner. And I heard a noise, and I went down at the bottom of the hill to see what it was. And they'd just caught a big eagle and had put him in a cage.


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