<TITLE>03. Par 17-28</TITLE>L-17   So, you see, if you were in the foreknowledge of God, then you are becoming a part of God. And the only way you can be a son of God or a daughter of God, you had to be a part of God, and God isn't complete without you. Has to be. That's right, 'cause there is One, only one resource of Eternal Life, and that is God, and Him alone has Eternal Life. See? Now, and you were a part of Him, insomuch that you're an attribute, or in His thinking in the beginning. And that, because He thought of you in the beginning, it gives that little tug towards Him. That's what has to be quickened. Some of them will never be quickened; they just don't have it, that's all.

L-18 Just like if you would put a grain of corn in the ground, didn't have... Ever how pretty it was, if it didn't have the germ of life in it, it can never be quickened. But the germ of life has to be there first.

L-19   And I got that little story about that eagle, walking with the hens and the chickens because he was hatched out and born there, but he never did feel just like them chickens. And, you know, when his mammy come by and hollered, he heard a voice that sounded awful good to him, because, remember, he was an eagle, to begin with. He just had to come to find himself, to find his place.

L-20 And that's the way every believer is. You wasn't born for this world. You was created in the image of God, to be a son of God. And you don't belong in this chicken yard out here. You're a eagle.

L-21 And you know, I got on that "eagle" and I couldn't get my feet back on the ground, so I just got... I went too long, and then I forget what my text was, and lost my notes and everything else. I was having an awful time. But that's what it was, it was just on that "eagle."

L-22   Now may that Eagle, God! You know, God likens His prophets to eagles. And He calls Himself an eagle; He is Jehovah Eagle, Papa Eagle.

L-23 And the reason He does that, an eagle can fly higher than any bird there is, and because he is made different from any other bird. Now, he does not build his nest on the ground like chickens and so forth, but he goes high to build his nest.

L-24 And another thing, that, he is a special built bird. Now if a--if a hawk, or a crow, or a buzzard, or any other bird would try to follow him up into heaven, he would disintegrate; he is not made for it. He has to be, a special person to go up there. His feathers are tighter than any other bird.

L-25 And--and his eye is sharper than any other bird. And the higher he goes, the further he can see. Well, some of them birds, when they get as high as they're supposed to be, they're as blind as a bat. And that's the way with... Well, when they leave that creed, they don't know nothing about It then. "Days of miracles is passed," why? They can't see It.

L-26 But eagles can go into the heavens, and heavens of Heaven up there. What good does it do to get up There if you can't see? Oh, I'm so glad to be one of them, and associated with a whole nestful of them now.

L-27   Let us turn in the Old Testament, to the Book of the Proverbs, written by Solomon, one of the wisest man in the world, outside of our Lord Jesus. But He wasn't exactly like Solomon, insomuch that Solomon was a man borned of a woman and was begotten by an earthly father, David. But Jesus was a virgin-born Son, and was not altogether a man; but He was God, the God-Man, and He was more than a man, He was a man plus. See? But Solomon was just a man like you and I, and he asked God for wisdom, to run his kingdom. And he had a gift of wisdom, the smartest man that we've ever known of outside of our Lord. He wrote the Proverbs, and I think they are very good.

L-28 And we're going to turn now to the Book of Proverbs, the 1st chapter, and, or the 2nd chapter, rather, and the first few verses of the Proverbs, of 2, beginning with 1. Proverbs 2, beginning with 1, the continuation of Solomon advising his sons, "My son, if thou will receive..." I am sorry.


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