<TITLE>13. Par 150-160</TITLE>L-150 And you know what it would do? It would finally kill that duck. He'd be so soft, his wings wouldn't grow out right. He couldn't fly no more. Just like his barnyard cousin, all belly and no duck. See? He ain't got no wings to pick hisself up with. That's right. See? He would become a softie like his barnyard cousin, his denominational brethern that don't go nowhere. See? That's right. See? That's right. That's all he would be, an old softie. He wouldn't know nothing about flying free. Amen.

L-151   That's what's the matter today. We try to coop them up, and tell them, "The days of miracles is past. And he couldn't trust hisself, his feet off the ground. It would kill him. He wouldn't live very long."

L-152 But, you know, that little duck would say, if he could talk back, "No, thank you."

L-153 "Oh, it's easy. You haven't got a thing to do. You can just act the way you want to."

L-154 He'd say, "Thank you. I do act the way I want to, because there is something in me, moving. Amen. And I must act the way I want to." And every man that's born of the Spirit of God, there is something moving in him. He's got to fly into the heavenlies, some emotion, something another that makes it real.

L-155 The little fellow would finally become like a chicken, a domesticated bird. He just couldn't get his feet off the ground anymore. So if the chicken would always continue to fly in the air, why, he could go all right. He could go east, west, north, and south, and see things.

L-156   And another thing, you see, he just wouldn't make it. Because, on the road down from Canada, he picks up different kinds of materials, food that he wouldn't get if you had him in a cage, just feeding him corn all the time. Can you read between the lines? You put him over there, so he just knows the Apostles' Creed, so-called, and how to go to Sunday school, and that's just about all there is to it; pay the preacher, and live the way he wants to.

L-157   But, oh, when you're in flight, amen, when you're in flight, you pick up more than your denominational creed. You pick up the vitamins, the spiritual vitamin that builds a body that's solid, full of muscles, with wing feathers that can lift you up off your feet and show you things that is to come. The Holy Spirit, "When He, the Holy Ghost is come, He will show these things to you, reveal these things to you that I've told you; and will show you things that is to come." Yes. No, you couldn't coop him up and take him. It wouldn't work. No. If you coop him, he's headed for the slaughter.

L-158   Neither could man ever choose a better route than what he can. You might go and say, "Now, Mr. Duck, I'll tell you something. You're going the wrong route. You must go over here, reroute yourself. Go down the coast over here, it goes. It's better than going the way you go." It just won't work. No. No. They think they know a better route than God's provided route for them. But, they know.

L-159 Or, could you choose a better leader for them than the God-provided leader God has given them? And man will never be able to choose a bishop, or an organization, or anything else that'll take the place of the leadership of the Holy Ghost to the Church. There's not another thing could do it. God's provided way! God provided a way for them, a Leader, an inspired Leader.

L-160 And that leader is inspired. Why, I've watched them a many time, when I take an early hunting trip, going for sheep or something when you have to go early, up in the mountains. Haven't had even frost. Maybe, up there, that little snow will cap the mountain. That cold wind will sweep down across the mountain. There's a natural born leader among them. He'll run right out on that lake like that, and honk four or five times, and there the swarm comes. Yes, sir. They all know him. They know him by the way he honks. Oh, my!


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