As An Eagle So The Lord Deuteronomy 32: 9-14 (vs 11a, 12a) Deuteronomy 32:9-14 For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape. Introduction A. What we have here is a comparison. As the mother eagle works with her young is the way the Lord works with His people. I. He Found Him (v 10) A. The mother eagle builds her nest, lays her eggs, hatches them, and tenderly watches over them. B. None of the glory for this goes to the little eagle, but all the glory goes to the mother eagle. She is responsible for the very life and existence of the little eagle. C. So it is with us. God gets all the glory for our salvation: 1. He found us. 2. He loved us. 3. He drew us. 4. He saved us. D. Let us look at the scriptures that substantiate this truth.      1 Jn. 4:10,19 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us. We love him, because he first loved us.      Jn. 15:16a Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.      Phil. 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.      Eph. 2:1 And you hath he be quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. II. Stirreth Up Her Nest (v 11) A. This is after the egg has hatched, and the little eagle has grown and developed enough to fly. B. What is that mother eagle doing? She is making a life of ease come to an end. She is making life uncomfortable. If she leaves her young alone they would stay in the nest and take it easy all their lives. But the mother will not allow that. She has other plans for them. They are to fly. C. God has plans for you and for me. He is too good, and loves us too much to let us be at ease in Zion all our lives.      Jn. 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit.      Eph. 2:10 For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works.      2 Pet. 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. III. Fluttereth Over Her Young (v 11) A. She begins gently by stirring the nest. If that doesn't get them out to fly, then she proceeds to "flutter over them." B. "Fluttering" is when she shakes her big wings, ruffles her feathers, and looks at them with an eye of displeasure. It is telling them that something is going to be done to get them to fly. Illustration: A man married a wife. For the first week or so of their marriage he got up and fixed breakfast while she continued to sleep. When he would go back into the bed room and call her to come and eat, she would say, "Am I daddy's birdie?" He would always say, "Yes. You are my birdie." But, after about a week of this he went in to call her and she said, "Am I your little sweet bird?"  He picked up a chair, drew it back and said, "I am fixing to find out if you are a bird. If you are a bird you had better fly while you can." IV. Spreadeth Abroad Her Wings (v11) A. She has been patient with her little ones. All her efforts to get them to fly have been in vain. Now the time has come for drastic action. She spreads out her wing, flies up above the nest, then swoops down, and knocks the nest out from under the little eagle, and the little eagle falls off the high rocky cliff toward certain death. Its end has come. It is all over for it. V. Beareth Them (v 11) A. Just before it hits bottom she rescues it.