The Disciple as an Eagle. Part Four

WHAT THE EAGLE EATS

We have already said that there are two types of eagles- the royal eagle and the golden eagle. Talking about eagles in general, we find that the disciple is to be just like both the golden and the royal eagle merged. Now, whether the eagle is royal or golden, they have certain things in common. For example, they eat the same kind of food. What does the eagle eat? The eagle will never eat any dead animal that it did not kill itself. It does not eat anything that dies itself. It eats something that is living, something that it kills itself. For example, the eagle eats little chicks, so if the eagle is flying above and a little chick observes that an eagle is up there, it pretends to be dead, refuses to move, and remains completely motionless, the eagle will fly past it because it would think that the chick is dead. The eagle does not eat any animal that dies of itself. It does not eat carcasses. It eats only something alive, and it kills itself.

So, what should we eat as disciples?

The disciples are also to eat living food. And what do we mean by living food? It is the word of God. It is the only food that is alive.

in John 6:63, Jesus Christ says,

“It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are life”.

So the word of God is full of life. Hebrews 4:12, the Bible says,

“For the word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

The word of God is not just alive, it is vigorously alive. The word of God is not alive and sickly, but it is alive and powerful, energetic and full of life.

We also discover that the word of God can conquer death. For example, in Mark 5:39-42, the Bible says that when Jesus got to the House of Jairus , people were already weeping because the daughter of Jairus was dead. But when Jesus said,

“The child is not dead but sleeping.”

And the moment He spoke, the word ‘death’ was changed to sleep so that when He entered into the room where the child was, all He had to say now was,

“Daughter, I say to you, arise”.

And what happened, the girl arose, because the One who was dead had received the Word and the Word has changed death to sleep, because the Word of God is quick and powerful, and it can conquer death.

In Luke 7:11-15, the Bible tells us that there was a widow in a town called Nain, who was going to bury her son. When Jesus Christ got there, He touched the bier and asked everybody to stand still. He then spoke to the young man and said,

“Lazarus, come forth”.

That was all he said, and the powerful Word went into the tomb, entered into the man who had been dead for four days, put right every part of his body that had gone rotten and brought him back to life. And then the man who was dead came forth. Why are we telling you all this? When you begin to eat the Word of God and you begin to memorise it, you will suddenly begin to discover that the life of God begins to come unto you. For example, there is a young man who is a little over seventy years old, but there is not a single grey hair on his head and no wrinkles. So somebody asked him how he did it, and he said in their convention, they have a Bible memory verse competition, which they do every year,a nd you cannot join the competition unless you know at least one thousand bible passages off hand. He had been in this competition for years, memorising the Bible more and more. And the miracle is that the more he memorised the scriptures, the younger he became, because the Word entering into him began to make him young.

Even if you feel dead inside, maybe your brain is dead, or there is a particular part of your body that is inactive, and you begin to eat the word of God, You begin to memorise the word of God, you will suddenly discover that life will come into you.

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