<TITLE>13. Par 133-144</TITLE>L-133   My crude little story about the farmer putting the egg under, or the eagle egg under the hen. See? That little eagle was, absolutely, he was a--he was a odd-looking, little creature. When this farmer had did that thing that he did, to put this eagle egg under this old hen. And she hatched out a funny-looking chicken, and it was a--it was a odd, little fellow. He didn't look like them. His feathers wasn't like the rest of them, and he--he just... He was an odd, little guy. And all the rest the chickens recognized him an odd fellow. And the hen went around...

L-134 He didn't even like the diet she was feeding him. He just didn't like that scratching in the barnyard. He, he didn't have nothing to do with that. So he wondered why he had to be the odd one around there, anyhow. See? And he never tasted anything that... He just eat enough to keep him alive, because he didn't like the taste of it, see. Cause, he wasn't a chicken, to begin with. See?

L-135   And the--the hen would cluck, and, you know, "The days of miracles is past. There is no such a thing. Join the church." It just didn't hit right, with the little guy. So he followed around the hen until one day his mammy...

L-136 The old eagle knowed she had laid so many eggs, and there was one missing. She knew that that eagle was somewhere, so she starts out on the hunt for him. And she circled over the mountaintop, and down in the valleys, and over in everywhere where he might be. By this time, he, it's time for him to be born. It's time for him to be hatched out. Said, "Maybe a crow come in and picked up my egg; maybe a vulture. I don't know. Something picked up my egg. But I know... That egg is in my mind. I got a son somewhere. I got to hunt him."

L-137   So does God. He is that Great Eagle. In His thoughts He knowed He'd have a Church. He knowed He'd have a people. No matter what's cuddled them, no matter what they was hatched out under, He is hunting. He is hunting for His Own.

L-138 And one day, the story goes, this old eagle flew over the barnyard. She was looking everywhere, and she found him. Oh, for that resurrection, to recognize that he really wasn't a chicken, after all. He was an eagle! And he was always taught to look down, look for a bug or something in the barnyard. But he heard a scream, that said, "Look up this way!" And he looked above him, and there was a creature with fourteen-feet wings, powerful-er than all the chickens there was in the barnyard, and claimed him to be her son.
He said, "Mama, how can I get to you?"

L-139 Said, "Just jump, start flopping your wings, for you're an eagle."

L-140 See, she knew she had a son somewhere. No matter what he's been raised up in, she's got a son somewhere.

L-141   And God knows! Hallelujah! He's got a predestinated, foreordained Church! He knowed He's got sons and daughters, and a Bride, waiting somewhere; when the Holy Spirit begins to fly over it, that wave Sheaf. Oh, my! He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Not some mythical story, but a reality!

L-142 No matter how many tried to tell him, "a eagle," he didn't know what a eagle was. Yet, he was a eagle. He would not understood it until he seen something that reflected him, that he reflected, rather.

L-143 And when we see, not a denomination, not a Ph.D., not a LL.D., not a good neighbor; but a son of God molded in the image of God, with the dynamic Power of God to answer the request of this day, that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, there ain't no hen going to hold you. He hunts for his Mama. He's an eagle, to begin with. He recognizes. This real eagle recognizes the call of God's Word. Why? He's an eagle. A eagle to a eagle! The Word before the foundation, the Word to the Word! The Word, predestinated, to the Word written for the hour. You realize your position. He hunts for It.

L-144   This then, this earthly body, is quickened and brought by the quickening Spirit of God to obedience to the Word of God.


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