<TITLE>12. Par 137-149</TITLE>L-137 That's what's the matter with the Christian church today. It's tried to accept some manufactured way, in the stead of beating its way through, to the Kingdom of God. It's tried some other way, and it won't work. You kill your patient. You kill your--your--your baby, God's baby, by trying to manufacture some way. "Oh, there's no need of this here boo-hoo and crying. There's no need of all this, all this." Oh, yes, there is. "There's no need of this dying."

L-138   Unless there's death, there cannot be birth. Birth only comes by the substance of death. "Lest a corn of wheat falls in the ground and dies, it abides alone." It must rot, and get into corruption, and then from that corruption springs forth life. No other way it will work. It must first corrupt, and be corrupted. And that's the way we must be; die to ourselves and be born anew of the Holy Spirit.

L-139 No, they haven't found any better way for a chicken to get out of a shell, than to peck his way through. That's God's provided way for him, and he's equipped to do it. God wouldn't provide a way without providing a instrument for it. So He provided the way, and provided the instrument for the chicken to free hisself. Amen.

L-140   Now, neither have they ever found any better idea for ducks and geese to come south, from the north, than to swarm and then fly their way down. No other way. You see, before they fly down south, or fly from the south back north, they swarm, first. Before they leave their grounds or homes, to a new home, they swarm. Bees does the same thing. They swarm. That's a nature. What is it? They have a revival. They all swarm and get together. You never heard such a noise in your life.

L-141 And before we can ever leave this habitation, to a new one, we got to swarm in a revival.

L-142 Oh, you get around a bunch of ducks and geese, you never heard so much jabber in all your life. What are they having? A revival. They're fixing to take to the air. Amen.

L-143 That's what we need today, is a swarming revival. No other way; not membership. God doesn't count majorities. He counts sincerity in His provided way.

L-144   Now, they have never found anything else to take its place. There could not be a better way. Now, for instance what if science would say, "Poor little duckies. We just don't want them to swarm any more. And we're going to throw a net over them, before they get ready to swarm. And we're going to herd them right into a coop, and we're going to carry them down south."

L-145 That's like, run them into some organization or something, you know, cooping him up somewhere. That's on his way to a slaughter. He knows he's going to a slaughterhouse when he gets in a coop. But when he's going God's provided way, he's far away from that. So, maybe oughtn't to have said that. I didn't mean it in--in the way of being a slander against an organization. But you know what I mean. Maybe that's all...

L-146 That ain't the way to do it. You can't run into an organization, and coop yourself up and say, "I'm Methodist, or Baptist," or some more. That isn't it. No, no.

L-147 You got to swarm. That's right. You got to come to a place you can peck yourself through.

L-148 These, they get together, and they get into this coop. And--and when they... If they do that, they know they're on the road to the slaughterhouse.

L-149   But, now, what if you could put them all, herd them and put them into a cage, and pack them down south, turn them loose. Then, before they get ready to swarm, then throw a net over them. "We don't believe in days of miracles." See? "You little ducks, you can't fly no more. That used to be for ducks of another age." As long as God makes a duck, He makes them all the same. And if God makes a way for a duck to go, that's the way all the ducks go.


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