<TITLE>08. Par 75-81</TITLE>L-75   There is such grain that's in the ponds and in the fields, weeds and things that they have to get, in order to give them strength to be what they are when they get there. They, if they didn't get that, they wouldn't be... they couldn't raise their young ones. They wouldn't be genuine ducks. They would be hybrids like we are, you see, if they had to take that. But God has got a way of--of doing it.

L-76 Put them in a coop, you know what them ducks would know right now? Put them in a denomination like that, they knowed that they were ready for the slaughter. That's all. That's what you do when you put them together in a coop, they're going for the slaughter. The ducks got better sense than we got, on that. When you go to cooping them all up together in a man-made prison, well, then, you see, the duck knows he hasn't got his freedom to fly in the air, and do as God provided for him to do. And put him in a coop, then he--he is gone. That's all. You coop them when they're slaughtering. And the duck knows better. We ought to know.

L-77   Neither can you choose them a better route to go. Route, if you want to call it, up here, I think. Down home, in the South, it's still route, but up here I think they call it a route. Do you think, if you could say, "Now listen, I'll tell you what you ought to do. You ought to go back a certain way and come down another way, and down over this way." Do you think you could choose a better way for them to go, than God's provided way for them to go? Well, you would get them in some kind of a--a something, you would draw them across here with some magnetic or something. They would never... You would draw them through storms, and through everything else, half of them would be lost.

L-78 Well, you can't give them a better way. They, they go God's provided way. They can scent those storms, miles away, and know how to ground themselves and get ready for the storm, and rise again. God has got a provided way for them, and they got duck sense enough to follow God's provided way. We don't. We try to make a better way than God made for us. See, we want to have something into it, ourself. A duck don't pay no attention to what; he just goes the way God wants him to go, the way his ancestors did, the way his great-great-great-great-great-grandmother did, and on like that.

L-79   If we would just take our ancestry on back, to Pentecost, we'd know how to get there. God had a provided way, by His Word and by His Holy Spirit. But we want to go some other way that Doctor So-and-so said, or a certain group of man got together and said. That's way off of God's provided way. The church sailed good in God's provided way, to the council at Nicaea, Rome, and there is where they made their fatal mistake. What if you could take...

L-80 And now you think about finding them a better way, or could you find them a better leader than God's provided leader for them? Now maybe you would take an old gander out here somewhere, and take him out there and feed him on certain vitamins, and so forth, and give him a special call, you know. Send him out there, and put a little honker on his mouth, that you might have a--a--a melody that he could almost yodel with that, and you might write it up in all the papers, "A--a duck that can yodel. And, oh, all the ducks is bound to find him. He'll know which way to take them, because he is really cultured and educated, and he is fixed up. He can do it." You might... He might set out there and yodel, all afternoon, there would never be a duck come around him.

L-81 "My sheep know My Voice, a stranger they will not follow."


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