<TITLE>07. Par 64-74</TITLE>L-64 Have they ever, do you think they could find a better way for a chicken to be born, than to peck its way out of the shell? I just wonder if you could find any better way. No, sir. He is born with a little pip on the end of his little bill. And every time his little head nods back and forth, "Amen, Amen, Amen," he scratches that shell till he scratches hisself out. Yes, sir. You will never find a better way, because that is God's provided way.

L-65   Now, what if he had the little pip on his bill, and you said, "Poor little chicky; you know, I'm going to get a better way for you, I'm just going to crack the shell and pick you out"? It would kill him. That's right. He would die. He wouldn't live.

L-66 He has got to do that in order to build his strength enough to receive the air and things when he comes out. If he... He is provided with a tool. He has got that little pip. You've seen it, little birds and chickens. And as he nods his little head, he scratches that egg back and forth until he peeps his way out.

L-67 If you'll take that as an example, or in a way of making a point, that's God's way for Christians to be born. Not walk up to the altar and give a man your right hand, and put your name on the book. But get down there and peep and cry and beg and plead until God gives you strength, then you come forth out of the shell of the world.

L-68 If somebody, pastor, just cracks the shell and takes you out, say, "Oh, well, that's all right, we'll take you in anyhow," you're dead. That's all there is to it.

L-69 You've got to come God's provided way. And that's the way the rest of them had to come, by being born of the Spirit of God. Stay there until! How long? Until! He told them first groups of pentecostals to "tarry in the city of Jerusalem, until." Don't make any difference, one day, five days, nine days, or whatever it was, stay there until they are filled with the Spirit, till they're born again.

L-70   Ducks and geese, they have never found a way for ducks and geese to--to get ready to come South, from the North here, than God's provided way for them to swarm. Some time ago, I had a great lesson on that. I was down in Texas, and I noticed, we was going down a road, and traffic was stopped for most a half a mile. And I said to some of them, "What's the matter?"   
He said, "The geese is all across the road."

L-71 Well, finally, when I got up there, you couldn't hear yourself think. They were having a revival. They were all getting ready for a flight. They were going home, going up North to their house, where they could raise some little ones. And they were having a revival, swarming, before going.

L-72 Now, that's God's provided way, a swarm, all of them get together. One was way over here, and one way over there, and one way over somewhere else, one in one rice paddy, and one in a wheat field; but something another, some way, on a certain day, (I don't know why, how), but on a certain day, here they all come together, just looked like something drawed them. We call it "instinct." It's a God-given instinct, a gettogether before the flight.

L-73   You see what God is trying to do now? Pull His Church from one side to the other, to get the revival, old-time revival like the geese has always done.

L-74 Now what if they tried another way, said, "Well, now we'll just take it another way"? They would never get there. No, sir. What if you'd say, "Well, now I'll tell you what, we'll make a better way for them. We'll herd them all into a coop and take them up in a coop, put them in a little chicken coop, or make it a duck coop or a goose coop, or whatever, you want to do it, and put them into that and then take them up there"? You think that would be a better way, say, "Oh, we can give them... Oh, I tell you, we could feed them better, along the road"? No, you couldn't.


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