<TITLE>12. Par 41-45</TITLE>L-41 One time I was at Cincinnati, Ohio. And I took little Sarah, that I was talking about a few minutes ago, and while mother was fixing the dinner on the picnic table there, we went down to look at the zoo, the... And I heard a noise, and I went over there, and there was a big eagle. And they'd just got him and put him in this cage.
And I've got great respects for eagles. You all have heard my sermon, "As The Eagle Stirreth Its Nest." And I always looked at that eagle, because God likened His heritage to an eagle, and Hisself is Jehovah Eagle, because an eagle can fly higher than any other bird. Why, if a hawk would try to follow him, he'd disintegrate. And then, what good does it do him to get up there if he hasn't got a eye to see when he gets there? He's a special built bird. God likens His prophets to eagles: go so high, they can see things before it gets here. See?

L-42 Now, I watched that eagle, that great big fellow. I felt so sorry for him. He--he was laying there on his back, rolled his big velvet eyes, looking around. He got up, get back over this way, and I noticed his head bleeding. I noticed his wings a-bleeding. And he'd look up there in the blue, over the cage. And he'd get back to start off, and here he'd come. And he'd hit his head against that cage and them big wings a-flopping, knock the feathers off, blood fly off his head like that. And he'd fall back on his head and look back up there.
See, he's a heavenly bird. He was built for the heavens. He was built to soar above. But the achievement of man had trapped him. There that fellow was, could look out, and could see where he belonged. But something had him caged in.

L-43 I thought that was the most... I'd have give them every penny of money I had to let me turn him loose. But what? He'd got caught by the devices of man, trapped. He could even see the heavenlies, and he was built for that, but he couldn't get to it. He was just beating his brains out.
I thought, "That's the saddest thing I ever seen." But then I turned around, tears in my eyes, and walked over, and put little Sarah on my lap, and I said, "Look, honey. You see that?" Then something come to me, said, "That's not the saddest, brother. Let me tell you. What about men and women that's born to be sons and daughters of God, that can look into this Bible and see a God that can deliver, and do all kinds of great miracles and things, and then some ecclesiastical cage, cage them in." And you can look out there and see that there's where you really--something in you pulling out.

L-44 But the ecclesiastic says, "No, don't do it. That--that's fanaticism. Don't believe that." Oh, brother, don't stay caged up like that. There's Somebody come by one day that paid the price for you to get out of there: Jesus Christ. When you see His works going on, His manifestation, His power, you believe that. It's for you. You just believe it with all your heart, because it's for you too: "Whosoever will." And there was a Good Man who came by one time, and bought you out, paid the price and took you out of that cage. If you want to come out, the door's open. And there's One stands in the door with bleeding hands, beckoning to you. And He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-45 And when those Jews, who--who thought and professed that they knowed God, and then seen the very Word of God made manifest, and still call it the work of the devil...
Lady set back there last night. Didn't know it was my daughter-in-law she was talking to. She said, "That guy's a fake." I hope that gets down good in you, lady. You come up here on the platform, stand here. If you walk off alive, then I am a fake. Now, come up. If I am a fake, let me die while I stand here in your Presence. You're more intelligent than I thought you were. However, back to my subject.
Not a fake... Think you could hide them thoughts? You couldn't do it if you had to. Church membership don't do nothing. Don't you trust in that. You'd better flee to Calvary.


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