<TITLE>10. Par 94-104</TITLE>L-94   When this Business Men's organization gets to that place, when the minister of his organization gets to that place, then he's done. "Don't faint when you're rebuked." When you read something in the Scripture, and you know that you should humble yourself and follow the Word of God, in the path that He ordained for you to walk in, then you don't do it, then, first thing you know, it's over. Your influence is spoiled. Now, we must remember that.

L-95 And this young prophet, what a lesson that was to him! Then when he seen this king, by this very thing, Isaiah learned one of his greatest lessons. That, no matter how great a man might be, how much influence he might have, but when he fails to walk in Light, when he fails to obey God, then his influence is ruined, and he's took off the field.

L-96   Another thing Isaiah learned: he learned, by this, that God orders his man to his place. Not you putting yourself in that place, but God puts His man in place. We must recognize that.

L-97 I've often used this. I like to hunt, as you know. Up in the North, when--when the winter starts coming in. Little ducks is born up there, on the pond. And as soon as that first cold breeze tops the mountains, and a few flakes of snow falls... Now, that little duck was born in the Spring, up on that lake, and he never was off the lake. He knows nothing about anything else but that lake. But just as sure as that breeze blows, and he feels that breeze blow, he runs right out in the middle of that, swims out there, and raises his little nose up in the air, and honks a few times. And every duck on the pond will come right to him. And he'll raise up, with that instinct in him, knowing that soon that pond is going to be froze over, or lake. And he'll go just as straight to Louisiana as he can go. He will.

L-98 Why? There is something in him. It's a God-given instinct, and he uses it. It guides him. Now, what does it do? What if he went a... If that instinct led him farther north, then he would know there was something wrong. And those ducks wouldn't follow him, because he's going contrary to the regular path.

L-99 And when we get ourselves to a place that we try to lead people contrary, they say, "Well, we, the Methodists, has got it. We, the Baptists, has got it." That isn't it.

L-100 God has got it. See? That's right. "And in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And the Word still is God. So it's God that's got it. So let's lead that way, down the beaten path, and not try to lead some other way.

L-101   And then we find out that this little duck, being that he was... None of the rest of the ducks seemed to have any, anything but "amen." Because, there's something about that little fellow that they knew, the way, that honk, that bugle that he blowed. They--they knew that he had the truth.

L-102 And there is something about the Gospel, with the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Paul said, "If a trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will know how to prepare himself for battle?" Now, but when the Gospel gives a sound, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever," and we watch it and see that it's the Truth, and it's with the Word, that's the thing that influences a real duck.

L-103 Now, there is others on the pond, like water guineas and so forth. They have another way; mud hens and all such; but they stay their own way. But the real duck goes on. God placed that little duck there and give him that, because God placed him to be that.

L-104 And now, "God has set, in the Church..." "God," not the organization, not the achievement of man, to make bishops and so forth, presbyters. But, "God set, in the Church, first apostles," that's missionaries, "secondarily prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists." God set them in the Church, and every bugle will blow the same, the same Gospel. See? If he's a prophet, he blows the bugle of a prophet. He foretells the things that is to come, and hits every time.


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