<TITLE>08. Par 33-37</TITLE>L-33 And they went to the bank, and they rested till the storm was over. Got under some trees and back under the big maples and so forth, until the storm had passed.
And then after the storm was over, they pushed the boat out and started down the river. And the little waves... And only an oar-man know what it is to feel that music of the tipping of the oars as... against the waves, the little clatter of the waves. And the sun was setting in the west. And back in the east from which they had come from, the little boy was setting in the stern of the boat. And there was a rainbow, comes out across the sky, as God made a promise that the world would no more be destroyed with water. And the old fisherman as he begin pulling these oars, kept watching that rainbow.

L-34 And after while, they noticed great big glistening white tears running down his cheeks, over his gray-tipped beard. And the little boy watched the old man for just a few moments. He got so enthused; he ran up into the center of the boat, fell down by the old fisherman's lap, and he said, "Sir, I'm going to ask you something that my mother, or Sunday school teacher, or pastor can answer." He said, "Can anybody see God?"
The old fisherman, overcome by the question of the little lad, pulled his oars into the boat, throwed his arms around the little lad, and held him into his bosom and weeping, he said, "God, bless your little heart, honey. All I've seen for the past fifty years has been God." He had so much God on the inside of him, he could see Him everywhere.
That's the way you see God, is get God inside of you. If you got skeptic, and--and wonders, and flusterations, and doubt, you'll never see God. You've got to let God come into you. Then He will open your eyes.

L-35 Now, for instance, I noticed coming up the other day, that all of our ducks, from down in Indiana, come up here to visit you people in Canada. They're a sociable sort of a creature. And they come up here for one reasons, to make the nest. They will be back down in Indiana again, so... down in Texas and Georgia. They come down to winter with us. They come up here to--in springtime to visit you all.
And then when they (I know that's an awful word, 'you all,' you remember I'm a--I'm a rebel, so... ) And when they come up here, they go out in the slime here, in your little ponds and on your lakes, and they make their little nests. They hatch their little baby ducklings and--and their... they swim around on this lake. Until after while there comes a snow and--comes over the top of the mountains.

L-36 And along about September, when that first cold breeze sweeps down across these prairies here... Now remember, them little ducks has never been off that pond. They were borned right there. And they're good-sized ducks now, matured. And there's one among them that was borned a leader. God made him a leader. And the first time that breeze blows, he's never felt that before; but he knows there's something wrong.
What does he do? He runs right out in the middle of that pond with them little paddles, sticks that little honker up in the air and, "Honk-honk, honk-honk." And every duck on the pond will come right to him.
What will he do? Raise right up off of that pond with every duck there, and go just as straight to Louisiana as he can go. How does he know to go? Why?

L-37 We say, "Instinct, instinct leads him." Well, if instinct can lead a duck from a frozen country to safety, how much more ought the Holy Spirit lead the Church of the living God? The trouble of it is that we don't recognize. We listen to our leaders, that man-made leaders, instead of a God-given Leader, which is the Holy Spirit.
We listen to bishops and archbishops and cardinals and priests, when we ought to be listening to the Holy Spirit. For that was what was given to lead the Church.


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