<TITLE>04. Par 14-18</TITLE>L-14 Now, let's go back to some of God's way and in simple form that people would know. Did you ever notice a little chicken trying to get to this earth? What does he do? On the inside of that shell he stands there and beats away at that shell until he gets hisself free. What is it? God's provided way. He had a bill. Before he was ever able to peep on the shell he had a bill, 'cause God provided him a bill to work in God's provided way. See?
Oh, He's a lovely Father. See, He makes everything just right. First He had to grow a bill on the bird, the fowl, that's borned inside of an egg. He's got to make a way for him to follow the provided way to get out. See how God does? He makes a provided way. The only thing we have to do is follow His instructions and we come out just exactly right, always, every time. Yes, sir. He picks his way out, because he's coming God's provided way.

L-15 I've often wondered, when I come up here in the fall of the year on a hunting trip... And I admire going up in the high mountains here and watching the ducks, just about swarming time, and the geese. Now, they come from the south, come up here and get in these marshy, mucky, swamps, and make them a nest, lay their eggs, and hatch their little ones.
Well, them little ducks that was raised on that pond, or lake, and he knows nothing else but that lake. He was born there last spring. He's lived there all summer long. He's got his livelihood. And somehow or another, when the long... And last of August or September, when there comes a snow up in the mountains, and that cold wind breezes down across that prairie country there where that little duck's at, he knows there's something fixing to happen.
Now, what does he do? They all begin to get together. And out in the middle of that pond will come a little drake that was born that spring on the pond. He will go right out in the middle of that pond, stick that little honker up in the air, and go, "Honk, honk. Honk, honk," and every duck on the pond will come right to him. See?

L-16 Now, God has provided an instinct--instinct in the duck to tell him that that thing's going to freeze over, and he will die there. So he cannot stay here; and he's never been nowhere but here. But God has another place for him to go to, so he... If he's got another place provided down in Louisiana and Texas in the rice fields, after he eat all the oats from you all he could, then he's going down now in the rice fields to--to live on the Texans, and down there.
Well, now, he's born here on this lake. He knows nothing about it, but he's got a God-given instinct, God's provided way that tells him that trouble is near, and he begins to feel the air.

L-17 And not only... If they have to swarm, one would go this way and one would go that way. God provided them a leader. It's a shame that human hasn't, with their Holy Spirit, got as much gumption as a duck has with instinct. I just can't tell...
Of course, the duck believes in his God's provision, but the man doesn't. See? We try to take some man-made achievement to get away from trouble, when God give us the Holy Ghost to get away from trouble. See? That's right. And now, when we feel trouble in the air, there's only one thing to do: that's listen to the Leader. And the Holy Ghost is the Leader. He was sent to lead the church.

L-18 And now, remember, this little duck has never been off that pond, but every duck in the pond knows that he's the leader. And when that little fellow, one morning that instinct rises in him in such a way he lets out another honk, leaves the pond, says, "good-bye," and every duck follows him.
He's up in the air. He don't know which way to go up there, but some kind of a God-provided way, he sets that little face towards Louisiana, and away he goes. And he gets there. Why? He trusts in God's provided way for him. That's the reason he can make it. He's trusted in God's provided way. Notice, how good it is.


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