<TITLE>17. Par 63-65</TITLE>L-63 A eagle can go where no other bird can think of going. If he'd try to follow him, he'd disintegrate. He's a special built bird, yes indeed. I will tell you, a man that's borned of the Spirit of God is a special built man or woman. Hallelujah. They're born by the Spirit in them and knows how to act and to do and to be a son of God. Amen. It's true. You know that's the truth.
Yes, sir, we don't have to have... Our women, it used to be a shame for our women to cut their hair. They're doing it. It used to be wrong for women to wear makeup, they do it: Pentecostals.
I went here not long ago to one of our famous Pentecostal churches. They knowed what was coming, so I just go preach the Word. And I've been preaching it... Every one of them got up and went out almost. They didn't have hardly enough to have a Sunday school. There went bobbed hair women, Rickies and Elvises, and all of them taking off one way and this way, that way, and was Sunday school teachers. I said, "That bunch of chickens, they can't stand good fresh meat." That's right.
We need a Holy Ghost. Eagles eat eagle food. Eagles don't live off of creeds. They live off of the Holy Ghost. They live off of Christ. God's real eagles, they're had to be born special.

L-64 Chicken say, "I'm a bird too." I know you're a bird. That's right, but not an eagle. They don't hear it. They can't stand it. They can't get--fill up. They just can't take it. Why? They can't take it; they don't know nothing about it.
Solemnized our assemblies, paralyzed them. Our assemblies has been paralyzed by modernism. We've got great big fine churches, great big fine organizations, great big fine doctors of divinity.
I ever had a respect for a little woman one time, was named Mrs. McPherson, Rolph McPherson's wife, a lovely little Christian. And I was setting, talking, at a breakfast with the--one of the Christian business men and we were setting there talking, having... It was a dinner, it was. And so Brother Teeford said to me, he said, "Brother Branham, I wonder why you haven't come out to see us." A long time ago. And Sister McPherson, she come out of an old fashion Pentecostal home. Her father and mother, one of the old pioneers of Pentecost.

L-65 And I said, "Well..." We got to talking about another brother who established a big church and take pretty near all they had from the temple, and all they... it done like this. I said, "Well, that's a very poor compliment to the church here, if they're going over there to build a million dollar church and got one already built here." I said, "Hungry children eat out of a garbage can; they're hungry. That's all."
And when we got to talking about it, Sister McPherson raised up and she said, "Rolph, that's true." She said, "What have we got here but a million dollar white elephant?"
I said, "If you'd get back to that Gospel that Mrs. McPherson stood for, for the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the power of God instead of Doctor, Ph.D., LL.D., all that kind of schooling here..."We need a return to Pentecost. Back to the Gospel. Back to the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Yes, sir. Go out there and see them women preachers, short cut hair, all kind... You know how they do.
You know what it does? I went the other day up here in the country, and I never seen... I seen a woman over here in Los Angeles; I was going over to pray for her. I thought she had leprosy. But I'd seen leprosy, didn't look like that, green under the eyes and everything like that. I... What... I never... I started to walk up and say, "Lady, I'm a missionary. I've seen leprosy. I've seen pellagra. I've seen everything. I never seen anything like that. I'm a minister, would you let me pray for you?" Here come another one up, looked just like her. I thought, "Wait a minute."


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