<TITLE>07. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 Now, today we find, and know, and can watch upon the audiences and the moving... And which we're grateful for our friends, and our loved ones, and our fellow brethren and sisters in Christ... But in the face of all of it, we must admit there is a great falling away.
When I stood there this morning and added another little piece of paper behind here... When I heard this gracious brother speak I--I added something else. You see, to prove there is a falling away, there's not hardly any comparison today to what there was then. See, see? Oh, we maybe have greater numbers. We have better buildings. My, sure. But that real something, there's a dropping away from it. Yet, we--we don't want to think that.
But maybe if God has taken some of us (as maybe as we'd say, speakers, or something, that we would...), He lifts us up. And He comp... He likened in the testament His--His prophets, He called them eagles, and He called Himself an eagle. He's Jehovah-eagle. And I believe I preached here down to you here, a sermon once on "The Eagle Stirring Up Its Nest," and that's what needs to be done. But the Eagle has to do it Himself. You see?

L-21 But see, there's no bird can follow an eagle. Oh, you say, "hawkeye." That hawk try to follow an eagle, he'd disintegrate in the air. He couldn't follow that eagle if he had to (See?), 'cause that eagle can go so far that that hawk can't even get to it. And before he can go there, he has to be built so he can stand it.
But the higher you go, the further away you can see, like the astronauts, and so forth now. See? Higher you go, further you can see, if you are equipped to see.
Now, what good would it do the eagle to go way up there, if he couldn't see after he got up there? So I think that's the way many of us trying today to lift up into something, when we're not first equipped. "Oh, God, give me the gift of this, and do this, that, there." You don't get it. Why? You're not equipped for it. You wouldn't do no good after you got up there. And when you do... And if you did try to lift yourself up, you'd only bring what I call today, what's hurt our church more than anything else, a carnal comparison.

L-22 Last night I stood on the--the steps of my place, a little woman standing there crying. About three years ago in the Chicago meeting, she was setting there, and had just had a complete hysterectomy, had all her organs move, and the cancer had spread on up into her body. Doctor had given her up. And they're good old Arkansas'ers, your neighbors up here, and so... Lovely little woman, and her husband is a--is a Pentecost... No, her husband's father is a Pentecostal preacher. I believe that's the way it was, her husband's father.
And they'd heard of the meetings, and I think through Brother G. H. Brown or something, and had come up to Chicago and had come in and was setting in the back in a desperate condition.
The Holy Spirit, like you seen it working last night, moved right over the audience and went back and told her. There it was. And how many ever heard me say, "I see a dark shadow over you, to death?" Now, we have the picture, just as we do of the Angel of the Lord, of that. We have a picture of that. It was just taken. Spoke to a woman shadowed for death. They snapped it. And when they did, in the picture over the woman was a dark hood of black smoke whirling around, just as light as it could be. At Southern Pines, North Carolina. And there that... You all, the church from the Tabernacle, you saw it on the bulletin board, didn't you? All right. There it is. See?


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