Pastor Walter Pearson~The Eagle

father we are at the day that ends a great feast from the mouths of men and women have come jewels and yet we dare lift our cups again i thank god that men and women are able to be used with their personalities and so i offer mine but i recognize that without the guidance of the holy spirit it is ineffective so i bring my five loaves and my two fishes and tremble at the thought that the crowd is too large multiply it father in the name of jesus amen my first responsibility is to disabuse us of the thought that the only thing that the serpent lost in eden was wings ellen white says and i assume that we believe still ellen and white story of redemption page 32 the serpent was a beautiful creature with wings and while flying through the air his appearance was bright resembling burnished gold he did not go up on the ground but went from place to place through the air and ate fruit like a man satan entered into the serpent and took his position in the tree of knowledge and commenced leisurely eating of the fruit can you see this creature of gold this creature who evidently had complicity with the arch enemy and allowed him to take charge up the bible says in genesis chapter 3 1 that the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field the translation is clear the smartest creature after man was the serpent give the devil credit he does not choose to use dummies i don't have time [Applause] he chose the most outstanding creation after mankind the most subtle the most crafty the most beautiful of them all and evidently asked for access the problem with the serpent was that he granted it and so for his agreement to be used he is included in a curse and so god says to him having heard the remonstrance of adam and eve adam saying she did it eve saying that serpent did it so god began in reverse order to give the curse if he's the cause then i'll curse him but let me pick you up sister eve for you shall have pain in childbirth and shall be inclined to mankind even when they mistreat you you adam will have to till the soil and it will have thorns and thistles and in the sweat of your brow you'll eat bread for the rest of your days but you snake after all i did for you you fly you're smart you chew like a man you can speak in conversation for why would the devil choose a creature that could not speak there were many animals that had a voice box he would never have chosen the serpent had he not won yet god with all of that beautiful creation wasted said to him you you will crawl on your belly give me your wings you will fly no more i suggest to you that that was only the beginning for you must understand that if a creature can fly the scientists say that it must have lungs or ballasts it must have something to help it rise in the ethereal mist and so it must have begun with two lungs but herpetologists suggest that if you look at snakes now if they have lungs at all they only have one in some cases in others the left lung has shrunken and pushed to the side so now the ballast is gone for when god took back the wings he took back the power to fly this creature no longer needed to rise it would crawl on its belly any creature that can fly must have legs for if you fly you must be able to land and therefore have landing gear there is every reason to believe that snakes had legs not only wings but legs when the scientists look at the larger snakes now they see spurs near the end of the tail that are remnants vestiges of what used to be legs but when god says i will curse you his curse is encompassing so there are no more legs if a creature flies it must be able to see you can't go through the air that quickly and not be able to see where you're going and so it is evident that a snake at one point could see long distances the snake could see clearly everything that was before it but when the curse came the snake's eyes could no longer close but while they were open there was a scale over it and it became discolored if they went by day so god took back the eyesight so that even now a snake can see things that move but if it stays still he can't i don't want you to test your life on that but that's what i read so if a frog is jumping the snake can see it but if the frog sits still the snake can't see it anymore a snake has eyes that are pushed out to long distances but but can't see things right where he is because the eyesight is no longer needed give me back the wings give me back the eyes the snake no longer has ears what when it was in the tree of knowledge it had a conversation with eve you can't have a conversation if you can't hear you can give a soliloquy but you cannot respond unless you can hear the snake still has ears say the scientists but they are buried under that thick scaly skin there is no opening for the ears so the snake can barely make out what's going on if you can't fly if you can't see you don't need to hear then the snake no longer had a voice and we know he could talk but god said you fly but you stop now and there's no more voice box in the serpent so if a serpent makes a noise at all it opens its ugly mouth and says the snake was more subtle the snake was more intelligent but now when scientists try to measure the intelligence of a snake they get a flat line usually the way they try to measure it is by offering the snake something to eat but since the snake can't see what's up close it cannot be measured and for all we know though a snake is feared it seems to be less intelligent than the other creatures it fell on the iq quotient the reputation of the snake is ruined and all of this happened because god cursed it and i suggest to you that god could have been merciful and made the snake go away he could have destroyed snakes but i posit to you that the reason why god didn't destroy snakes is because he wanted to leave us a message when you let the devil use you you can't fly anymore when you let the devil use you your mind is not what it used to be when you let the devil use you you can take in the truths of god's word but you have no longer teeth to masticate it when you let the devil use you you cannot hear the voice of god anymore it's there but you don't know it's there because your ears are buried under your skin if you let the devil use you you can't see clearly anymore you can see things far away but your bible in front of your face you can't even understand that's what happens when you let the devil use you when you let the devil use you your legs are taken so you can't walk in the ways of righteousness and most of all when you let the devil use you you can't have lungs you and i know as evangelists that one of the most befuddling texts is the one that says the spirit of god was in my nostrils the fact is that inspiration is akin to breathing in when you let the devil use you god will cut down your lung capacity so that your spiritual capacity to take in power is reduced and you can no longer be inspired when you let the devil use you but if you think a snake frightens you you got to know that the devil is more frightened when he sees a snake than you are [Applause] for the the reputation of the snake has been moved over a little the devil started this he started this symbol thing he could have come in the garden as himself he could have inhabited a dunking but he started this symbolic one-upsmanship came into the garden as the most subtle creature that god had ever created and thought that he would be the last word but he doesn't understand god god loves challenges like this and so when the devil chose the serpent god said i will take you and up you i will take you and beat you at your own symbol you took a creature that could fly you took a creature that could breathe with two lungs you took a creature that could hear and speak and chew like a man you took a creature that had landing gear i will repossess them all and then in summary fashion before the curse to adam and eve praise god before if you read very carefully the genus rendish genesis rendition you will discover that before god ever told adam and eve what their curse would be he put the promise in what he said to the snake before the penalty came the gospel before they knew that they would have pain and they would eat bread and sorrow before they knew that they could no longer come back into eden before they knew what their penalty would ever be god let them hear the promise he let them hear the gospel from genesis and he said to that snake i will put hatred between you and the church and between your followers and her followers and he shall bruise your head and you shall only bruise his heel the snake slithered away but satan had heard what was to face him now let me suggest to you my brothers and my sisters you and i had better pay attention to the snake i bet you the devil does i would believe that when the devil and ellen white describes him in amazing detail though he used to be a proud creature sin has been him down some of us in this room know that it will his skin hangs from his face and his arms his face is twisted strangely by the evil that he conjures up and so while he reminds you of who he used to be there is a different creature now but when he sees a snake he must get the jitters because he knows that he made the wrong choice by going symbolic with god for the symbol that he chose god would not destroy that would have been easy god said no i'm going to let snakes stay around and every time you see one crawling and eating dust you'll know what i'm gonna do to you every day you see a snake poked back in some hole you'll know that your day is coming and so instead of taking the serpent away god chose to make the serpent a warning and i suggest to you that the snake ought to be a warning to us because the fact is that you and i if we let the devil use us we'll find ourselves no longer possessed of any of the tools that god has given us it is no normal thing to stand in a pulpit and have the holy spirit tell you what to say there is nothing on the face of the earth that is more special than that there is no thrill higher there is no blessing greater than to stand up with your human frailties and have on a god who is infallible whisper words that are full of power into your ears and then empower your tongue to cough them out in a fashion that changes the hearts of men and women and if you let the devil use you he'll tell you the same thing give me my wings get on your belly and crawl some of us who've been disturbed went in the pulpit we could no longer do what we used to do but if you let the devil use you you'll crawl oh god is merciful there have been days when you preached your best sermon in your worst spiritual state pause for effect and you think that you have risen high but when you get up there and then try to come down you'll discover that your landing gear is gone and the height of your own flight becomes your destiny for you fall under the power of your own altitude and crush out your life because when you play with god he repossesses but you must understand that god was not through playing the cymbal game but not only did he take away the wings from the very animal that satan chose but then he reflected himself as another creature the woman of revelation 12 is about to give birth to a child oh what a child some people still see him a babe in bethlehem's manger some still believe that he is the vulnerable child of that strange open atmosphere with animals around some have him locked on the cross as though he can't come down you and i know that the babe has left the manger and come down from the cross and stands now at the right hand of god and ministers even the heavenly sanctuary the child but as this woman is about to give birth to the child you will discover in revelation chapter 12 and verse 14 that jesus brings his own symbols he said what was that you chose the serpent well i've taken his wings back but look in there and find out who i am the bible says that when this woman was under attack by the serpent the dragon that god gave to the woman eagle's wings [Applause] let the devil use you he says give me my wings but if you are a woman about to give birth to a goodly child who is the son of god he gives you wings eagles wings the bible says that when moses came to his final sermon god had told him you're gonna die but i want you to write me a song if god had given me a terminal sentence that told me that i was about to die my song would not have been worth listening to for in its verses i would have tried to justify myself and make it seem that god had been a little too strict on me but moses instead accepted the punishment and began to write about the goodness of god and in the middle of his song he came forth with this verse as an eagle staring for nest carrick for a young flutters over her children some of you know that i've got a sermon now that i can't preach because of cassettes those terrible ubiquitous cassettes but but be it known that god sees himself as an eagle took away the wings from the serpent but in this text with the woman says i'm eagle's wings then describes himself as a female eagle some of your brothers may have a hard time with that but you must understand that the same god who put a strength in the man put the caring in a mother's breast god is all that is love god constitutes the generation of love and so god is all that we have come to know in that fashion and he says as an eagle sterethenest i don't want to go through all of it because some of you have heard it before it would bore you to tears but understand that when the eagle cares for her young she is so careful that she builds a nest before the young or even in the nest before any egg is hatched there's a house there's a home god says just like the eagle takes care of her children i take care of you while you were still in your mother's womb before you were a twinkle in your father's eye god had already planned the destiny for you and all you've got to do is do what god says when he says do it the fact is that god is like an eagle he said i found israel in a waste-howling wilderness i found them there but i i've cared for israel while i was doing the research on that particular sermon i came across one of those things that gives you shivers and and and goosebumps i was sitting in a library when it came to my attention that in 1962 over the chesapeake bay when there were people who were studying the behavior of eagles they took a helicopter to get up high enough to look at them and when they got in the helicopter and came too close to the area where a mother eagle had one chick just one that eagle spotted the helicopter 100 yards away thought it was gonna come and attack her baby she left the nest took off and flew towards the helicopter the the helicopter operator had to do maneuvers to keep from killing the eagle because that mother tried to dive into the rotor dry dive into the propeller of that helicopter to keep it from getting to her baby the bible says that in the fullness of time jesus was willing to dive into the helicopter blade [Applause] there may have been only one egret left but if i had been the only one he still would have flown into golgotha and there lost his life for he careth for his children as an eagle stir as a nest so he says i am not a serpent you chose the wrong symbol don't play with me i made all of them i know all of them to be sure i made the serpent more subtle than the rest but if you choose that symbol i will take away all of the power from that symbol but leave it to remind you of who you are then i will take up eagle's wings and so when i read in the scripture it says that when israel was down in egypt about to be stung with the venom of the serpent of oppression when she was about to be pushed out and and cast aside and her life snuffed away when when the viper of punishment poised itself in the air to strike when israel was almost gone but i would add while moses was down at the university of cairo one scholar probably overstating the case suggests that god takes curses and makes blessings of them israel probably should never have had to go into egyptian slavery or bondage but since they had to go somewhere it was providential that they went to one of the greatest culture cultures that the world has ever known that moses who scholars now admit probably had negroid features was able to go and matriculate at the finest schools on the face of the earth was able to learn not only all of the wealth according to acts chapter 7 the wealth of knowledge that was in this african culture but also able to learn how to lead armies and pull the phalanx around in the right way but god allowed them to stay just long enough to learn everything they needed to know from this african culture and when the serpent was poised to strike he said i brought you out on eagle's wings exodus 19. eagles so god takes for himself the eagle now let me give to you something from another culture more than 900 years ago a group of migrants left what is now northern arizona on a religious pilgrimage to find what they thought of as the promised land they traveled the colorado river and its tributaries and in 1325 arrived at the marsh land of mexico city where they founded the aztec culture but they were religious people and they believed that man has two natures one carnal represented by the snake and one spiritual or heavenly represented by the eagle check the history book and so these faithful sojourners decided that the way that they would know when they found their land was when they would see an eagle killing a snake because that would represent a land where righteousness overcame wickedness so if you had asked them where are you headed they would have declined to answer for it sounds silly to go somewhere looking for that kind of sign but faithfully they moved on until finally when they came to those swamps where mexico city is is located somebody peered out into the distance and said look there was an eagle with a snake subdued on the ground those people rejoiced and put down their wares and decided this is the place and so if you go to the pyramids of mexico you will climb staircases that are in the shapes of serpent's heads and you will see eagles wings hither thither and yawn for they recognize that the land that they wanted as home would have to be a land where righteousness wins and wickedness loses in fact even the mexican flag has on it the imprimatur of an eagle subduing a serpent these people recognize that if you want to find home i dislike preaching to preachers because they are always ahead of you if you want to find home find a place where the eagle subdues the serpent find a place where righteousness has power over wickedness where heaven controls the carnal nature find a place where you can see it happening before your eyes and i suggest to you that this applies first of all in a personal way because you shall not have found home my sister you shall not have found home my brother until you recognize that you preacher have within you a serpent and an eagle before you get too self-righteous and look pontifically down your nose at some saint who has fallen into ill repute remember that lurking in your heart there's not only an eagle oh on sabbath i too have spread out my wings there is a wonderful feeling when god arranges it so that a thermal appears over the pulpit eagles must themselves not be too low on the intellectual scale for they are able to spread out those broad wings and look for those invisible columns of heated air that rise and no one else can see there are times say ornithologists when an eagle will fly out in the midst of the desert and find a place where nobody else can detect but the eagle detects that there's a rising column of air and so the eagle spreads out without even moving the wing and just rises if you're looking you think there's an invisible elevator but all it is is god empowering a creature to know how to rise without effort perhaps the problem in our pulpits now is that most of us try to get up this way but you get tired before you get high enough the ornithologist says that if you want to get high without wearing yourself out find the thermal up your bible and look for a heated column of air get in the pulpit and ride the heated column of air don't ride your own intellect it may be good but it won't take you high enough you cannot ride the newspaper it's relevant but it won't take you high enough don't get on some hobby horse that you've been preaching for the last 30 years get something new ride on a new column of heated air and for god's sake don't go to the musicians who take secondhand thoughts and turn them into first play music ride on something that god said let it carry you up the saints will wonder how's he going up there when's he coming down [Applause] ornithologists say that eagles while they are powerful also playful sometimes they just ride up until they are black speck in the air then fold their arms they eat their wings next to their bodies and dive you can't keep the gospel that high always you got to bring it down to earth after a while [Applause] the eagle will dive dive dive and if you were looking you would say ah he's gonna get killed but the eagle is only playing with your mind because he knows that just before he plummets into the earth he will spread his wings again and turn in an artful curve [Applause] we we have got to understand that god is capable of taking us up on wiggles wings but don't forget that there's a serpent there the pauline analysis is carefully put it is clear there is a warring in my members i have felt it in the pulpit it happened for moses when he was at the red dirt of edom almost there could look over and see and then the wrong deacon came in caught moses on the way to the pulpit me moses i know you've got to preach but could i have a minute [Applause] be careful you talk to when you're getting ready to preach the people want to know what they're going to drink what they didn't know says ellen white is that if god ever cuts off your natural supply that means that he has created a supernatural supply or conversely if he ever cuts off a supernatural supply that means he's about to guide you to a natural supply the old man on the radio said if he opens if he closes a door he opens a window when when says ellen white when the water that gushed out of the rock stopped israel should have shouted i challenge you on that one because most of us have been to the place where the water stopped coming from the rock and most of us did not shout we cried we played we went to the conference office we called the credit union but very seldom did we shout but one day before you make it to the streets of gold you got to learn to trust god so much that when your natural supply is shut off you say hallelujah i wonder what god just opened because whenever he allows something to close that means that he's opened something else whenever a trial comes a blessing has opened up somewhere are you still with me when they got down there and told moses we need water he said must we fed what every now and then we get the the divinity complex begin to think that we can fetch water you may be able to fetch something but you can't make water flow through a rock in the desert there is no water but the one who at the beginning separated air from earth from water built in channels underneath the ground and since he knows topography having formed it he can call to the earth in a dry place try my best to help some preacher in a bad district [Applause] he can call to the earth in a dry place and say what i want you right here some of us don't stop to realize that god did not do that just once but every time israel moved the camp there was another rock and more water i don't care where the committee moves you just find a rock and don't ever get confused while you're standing in a pulpit while you're praying in a hospital while you're visiting in a home don't you do everything while all that power is flowing through you and i know what it feels [Music] when you know that that's not you don't you ever confuse yourself you are not fetching water you can't fetch water i don't care how mad you get at the saints you can't turn it off i'll tell you what you do one sabbath turn it off god will bring a choir that can't even get on to and fetch water [Applause] bring a deacon to the pulpit who does not know syntax who does not realize that subjects and verbs ought to agree [Applause] and fetch water bring a little kid up during the children's story and fetch water let some old saint who has to cover her mouth to cover the places sweat teeth used to be and sings the same song every time you call her but if you won't let water come through you he'll bring her up to the front and fetch water are you with me you've got to understand that water cannot be fetched by us recognize who you are we have two natures the apostle paul says the good that i would do can't do it the evil that i want to stop okay oh wretched man the warring the eagle is still searching for the serpent in my life and if you don't realize that you have a serpent you will overstep your bounds you will get yourself in places that you cannot extricate yourself from you've got to recognize the whole time that you are ministering that just because power flows through you does not mean that power flows to you for god can make even a donkey talk he uses imperfect creatures because he has no choice the only perfect servant he ever had ministers in the heavenly sanctuary in the most holy place so he is locked in to imperfect servants don't ever confuse yourself that because god gives you the wings of eagles that there is no serpent lurking underneath some tree then let me suggest that the paradigm also fits the things of this earth i am angry as i travel because my grandmother who was not a great theologian but then again maybe so in her wheelchair early in the morning would teach theology she would sit there with arthritis wrinkling through her joints and talk about the goodness of god while i thank god for the formal experience that god has allowed me to have none supersedes grandmother's wisdom my brother and i would look through the spokes of her wheelchair and she would wake up with tears in her eyes pain in her joints and sing trust and obey you don't even know that song anymore it rests unused in the hymnal but the fact is that while we sing the new song somebody every now and then ought to reach back and grab one of those i will not beguile you i believe in afrocentric worship in fact let me pause to say i think too much is made of style it's time for us to stop fighting over small things if you can sing a song that was put to a tomb conjured up in europe in some bar then why can't you sing a song that was conjured up in the heart of an african-american who came from the diaspora all from africa is not good but all from africa certainly is not bad why then do we split hairs and pick nits when we could be preaching the word of god we must understand that the time has come you may think that there's no hope you look at the white house and while those religious right people who declare themselves so holy look down at bill clinton understand that he is imperfect but his accusers cannot carry a stone but god puts up kings and takes them down when god gets ready for william jefferson clinton to come out of the white house he'll come out and god will determine who goes in after him if you believe it can i hear you say amen i am so tired of seventh-day adventists who ring their hands and act like they haven't read the bible lately if you read this book from kibber to kiva as the old folk used to say you'll discover that god is in control at calvary youths instructor june 28 1900 ellen white uses the words when he grasped hold of his prey you thought he was dying he was grasping his prey last night i contacted i went over to the oakwood college library and dr baker accosted one of the scholars i did not know it was not however serendipitous that i encountered him in the midnight seasons god had said to me you must bring in this element and i responded i will go as soon as the day breaks and and i tarried long at meetings but at length i took myself to the library and as i was there looking for what i needed i needed to know how an eagle kills a snake and and i i came upon a gentleman who knew me i didn't particularly remember him but he knew me i said do you work here he said yes i do i said man i'm running out of time and i need something very specific he said i am a zoologist i said hallelujah i said find me if you will my brother how does an eagle kill a snake for the snake is poisonous the snake's muscular coils are capable of taking the eagle now but god has made himself an eagle and the devil a snake and i believe that the aztecs were on point righteousness eagle wickedness snake the only time the notable time i should say when christ allows himself to be put as a snake is one that we ought to pay attention to [Applause] when the old boy has bitten you yes sir when your eagle has not been in place and your serpent had stung must remember that god told moses make a serpent for he came in the likeness of sinful flesh and condemned he sinned in the flesh so jesus said make me like a snake justice once and put me up on a pole and tell him if the devil bites look and live [Applause] and so i say to you my brother and you my sister if you think your ministry is over cause the serpent has stung and i know you got to keep on saying amen now and don't let your face change because nobody can know but your ministry is not over for the fact is that even if you've been bitten by the serpent god restores people in whom the venom flows god will bring you back to his kingdom and his connection and his consciousness if you just look at jesus so that the salvation we preach to others is applicable to us also but i suggest to you that i i had to find it so the brother brought me last night as i was departing on a scribbled on a piece of paper here's what it says an eagle who feeds on birds and mammals has feathery lower legs you know small stuff go pick up some little creature eagle and and a mile up in the air caesar mouse you know you've heard this before he can't go down where the mouse is he's got to calculate the trajectory of the mouse's movements because by the time he gets down there the mouse will not be where he is he will be where he's going to be [Applause] and dives there scoops up the mouse so he doesn't need any protection on his legs but the serpent in the wilderness and the desert who must subsist on reptilian fair has tough scales on its bottom legs and horny protected toes because it must pin down the squirmy creature and even if it turns its head about for a moment can't do anything to delay so here's what the book said an eagle sees the serpent lands on the ground and spreads its wings just a little to show the snake who he's dealing with because if you haven't seen my wings you haven't seen me all suppress them just a little bit and while the snake is beguiled by the curve of the eagle's wing the eagle must jump once and accurately and so it jumps quickly and grabs the snake by the head pins the head down the serpent eagle takes the head of the snake in its bill and crushes [Applause] between me and the woman and between thy seed and heresy and he shall bruise thy head you

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