<TITLE>04. Par 32-42</TITLE>L-32   You have to die. You have to die before you can be reborn. Any seed has to die before it's regenerated again. Unless it dies, it abides alone. A man has got to die to his own thinking. He's got to die to the thinking of anything but God's Word, and come His way. That's God's ground. We don't meet Him on our thoughts; we meet Him on what He said do. That's God's provided way for it. People dodge it; they don't want it. But it's true, just the same. It'll, it produces death, and you have to die, die to your thinking.

L-33 "Well, I know the Bible says it, but I can't understand it." Then stay there till God reveals it. That's right. It's got... That's the new Birth.

L-34   Ducks and geese, they've never found a better way for them to go South, than to swarm first. And that's right. You'll see them all get together and they'll come themselves, some kind of an instinct draws them together, and they get together and swarm before they fly, before they go South. What is it? It's revival time, when they all get together. Did you ever hear such a chattering in your life, as to hear them geese get together, or them ducks? I never heard such! And they have... There is no other, better way for them to do it.

L-35   Many a times, up in the north woods, I watch the first beginning of the cold weather, in Canada. A bunch of ducks born right there on that lake, they've never been off that lake, this little fellow hasn't. And the first thing you know, a cold breeze comes down from the North. This little, little old drake, he is just born a leader, gets right out there in the middle of that pond, sticks his little honker up in the air, honks four or five times, and every duck on the pond comes right to him. And he rises from there, and goes just as straight to Louisiana as he can go, to the rice paddies.

L-36 Why? They've never found a better way for him to get there. You can't herd them together. You put them in a cook and... a coop, and truck them down there. That duck has got better sense than that. And you put him in that coop, to take him down there, he knows he's headed for the slaughter pen. That's exactly right. He goes God's provided way.

L-37   That's the way man ought to do today, not be herded in by some denominational coop. But come in the way God said come in, by the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the new Birth, swarming revival. Not church joining, soliciting from door to door, and passing magazines; but a Birth, being born again, filled with the Holy Ghost, God's way, freeing himself from the world. Right! Believing God's Word! The hour is here. That's what we must believe.

L-38   Man, you can never... I don't care how many man would try to go to that duck pond up there and say, "Now wait a minute, you little ducks, got something to talk to you. We got an educated duck here. He's got a Ph.D. and an LL.D. I'm telling you, he can lead you."

L-39 Them ducks got better sense than that. Yes, sir. They don't care about his better education, whatever it is. They can tell the certain honk he gives. It's an instinct. Oh, my! The church ought to know that much about the Word of God!

L-40 It's a certain uncertain sound. The Bible said, Paul said, "If the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who can prepare himself for battle?" That's right, if the church--if the church give an uncertain sound of "joining."

L-41   God said, "Birth!" What the Birth did there, the Birth does the same today, because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. What He was then, He is today. What they did then, is the same thing we do today. The way they got It there, is the same thing they do today. Same thing they got today, is what they had back there. If It comes at all, It comes that way. That's the way, God's provided way. It never changes.

L-42 Ducks never change. They completely swarm, each year, go north, south, and whichever way they go. They swarm first.


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