Speckled Bird Fellowship

Mathew 24 vs 24

"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect."

65-0218 - The Seed Is Not Heir With The Shuck

112 Just reminds me. As I was coming from Phoenix the other day, coming to Tucson, from the meeting, the Spirit of God called my attention to something; as wife and I were going along, talking, and the children were asleep in the back of the car, getting late. Called my attention to a hawk, and I watched that hawk a little bit and studied him. He’s a very type of the church today. 

113 Now, the hawk, as we all know, has lost his identification of his original creation. That’s exactly right. Once he was similar to an eagle, his greater brother; a hawk was. But now he doesn’t fly in the skies no more, to hunt his heavenly manna, but he has gotten soft. He don’t fly in the skies anymore. He hops on the ground, like a vulture; sets upon a telephone post; hops along, hunting for dead rabbits. The hawk wasn’t made to do that. No, he was made to be a similar to an eagle. Now, that’s just like the church. It was made similar to the eagle. 

It should take the place in the Heavenlies. But, instead of that, it’s got soft. It don’t fly into the unknown no more, into the blue. No, sir. It’s depending on its modern ways, of adoption, of education, and theology, in some man-made denomination; looking for a bunch of dead rabbits, half rotten, that something else had. That’s right. Hopping along on the ground now, you see, that’s right, a hawk. See, that’s what tells. 

The eagle hasn’t changed a bit. He stays a eagle. 

114 He doesn’t soar into the skies, a hawk doesn’t, any more, to catch his fresh manna up there, but he depends on what he can find already dead. A hawk don’t hardly…say he’s supposed to get on the ground. But watch an old hawk today. Go down along the road, you see the telephone wires setting full of hawks, see if he can find something—something is killed, some rotten something. He’s got so he hasn’t got wings enough to fly. He’s…The first thing you know, he’ll be on the ground, altogether, grounded because he’s got soft. He don’t use his strength, no more, that God give him. 

115 His special identification was to sail into the skies and watch down from below, but now he gets down below and can’t even look up. He’s got his mind on dead rabbits, to find out what he can find on the road; some skunk, opossum, or something somebody has run over. He’s not an eagle, but he’s something like it. 

Just like the church depending on its food for education and so forth, a dead diet that died years ago, through Luther, and Wesley, and the Pentecostals, and gone on, he ate. It’s looking back for some man-made creed; instead of flying up into the Heavenlies of the Word, where, 

“All things are possible to them that believe.”

Scripture:  

Genesis 3 vs 3

"But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die."

Revelation 12 vs 7-9

7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

57-0115 - God Keeps His Word

39 That’s the way the devil does. He shows you the bright side. And that kind of a bright side, if it doesn’t tally with God’s Word, is a mirage. You know what a mirage is. It’s “something that looks like it is”; it’s an “optical illusion.” So it isn’t there when you get there. You know, go down the road, it looks like water; when you get there, there’s no water. That’s the way the devil does you. He’s always promising something out yonder, out yonder, showing you something bright. When you get there, it’s never that way.

Stay with the Word, you’re on the line then. You’re in God’s Blueprint. Stay right there. What God says, no matter what it looks like, you don’t…Faith—faith is not what you see; it’s things you don’t see. You confess the things that you don’t see.

Scripture reading: 

Luke 1 vs 36-38 

Inspiration sermon of Mal 4 vs 5-6 : Jehovah of Miracles.  WMB: 59-1126

 Joel 1:4 "That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten."

Unfortunately, we did not manage to record the first inspirational sermon on Planting the Vine and Where to Plant? Part One (1). 

Scripture Reading:

 Luke 8:5-15:

5A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.

6And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.

7And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.

8And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

9And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?

10And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

11Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

12Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

13They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

14And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

15But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Scripture Reading:

 Joel 1:4 "That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten." 

 Joel 2:25 "And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you." 

Unfortunate we did not record the first inspirational subject sermon of 'Planting the Vine and Where to Plant it? Part One (1)'