<TITLE>11. Par 118-125</TITLE>L-118 They always do. "Where the carcase is, the eagles will be gathered." Not the chickens, the earth-bound bird. The heavenly eagle will gather with the carcase. A chicken is his cousin, you know, he is down here where rats and everything else can eat him. But the eagle puts her nest way up there in a tree, nobody can get to that. The parasites don't bother them; they fly too high. Now, the predators and rodents and things is not going to bother them, he is an eagle. They like eagle Food. This is It.

L-119   You know, Jehovah is an eagle, Himself, and He calls us eaglets. His prophets are eagles, seers.

L-120 An eagle goes so high, there is no other bird can follow him. Why, if the hawk try to follow him, he'd disintegrate. That's right. That's what's the matter today, so many trying to impersonate. It'll soon find out. You let it rise a little higher, all the feathers will fly out. They soon come out. Right. They'll be grounded. Remember, he has to be a special-built bird. And the man can follow this Word has to be special built, built of God, not a seminary. We find when he... higher he goes, if his feathers won't stay in, what good will it do him.

L-121 And another thing, when he gets up there, what if he gets up there and he is blind and can't see nothing? See, he has got to have eyes, to see, to know what he is doing when he is up there. So is God's eagles. Higher you go, further off you can see, come back and predict what is fixing to happen. You understand? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] I think that colored brother back there could understand that pretty well this morning, see. Now notice.

L-122   Then we find that he said, "If I stand here, that same group of noise, He'll never hear my voice. They're screaming and carrying on so, my rebuke to Him would never mean anything." That's good. So then said, "But you know what I'll do? I'll tell you what I'll do. There is a sycomore tree standing here. And I'll get up in that sycomore tree, and when He comes by, I'll see Him. Then I'll step right out there on one of the limbs, and I'll tell Him what I've got to tell Him. And He'll know that I am Zacchaeus, the member of this fine denomination down here. I'll tell Him where I belong and what my priest thinks about Him." Well, that might be alright.

L-123   He looks around, and he thought "Now, the next thing, the first limb is about--about ten-feet high." And he is only about four-foot high, so how is he going to get the next six feet? See? So he wonders how he could get up in there. There is no other way for him to get to it, and he'd have to get up in this tree. So he looks all around, and there is nothing but... You know, the garbage exposal hadn't been by yet this morning, and the garbage cans was sitting in the corner. He thought, "If I could only get that garbage can over here, then I... that would make me high enough to get up there and get a hold of that first limb. But I am determined to see Him. I am going to see Him."

L-124 You know, there is something about it, when a man wants to see Jesus, he goes through some of the most radical things. See? But, see, God was dealing with him. What was it? Rebekah's prayers being answered, see.

L-125   Well, he goes over there. And the collector hadn't been by yet this morning, and the can was pretty heavy, so he couldn't lift it. He was too small. So he tried, and he couldn't do it. There was only one way he could do it, that's get a hold of it with his arms, pick it up. But he's got on his best robe.


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