<TITLE>05. Par 16-19</TITLE>L-16 One time, they was a farmer; crows were in his field; they were going south. And the crows was getting in his field, picking up the corn, and so forth. And he set a trap, and he caught a crow. So he tied the old fellow by the foot, tied him up there, said, "I'll just scare the rest of them away."
And the other crows would fly across, and say, "Come on, Johnny crow; let's go south, quickly. The storms and winter's are coming."
And Johnny crow would try to crawl, and he could not. He's tied. So one day, there was a kind hearted person passed by. Poor, old crow there, he's about starved to death, couldn't hardly get up. And he said, "I feel sorry for that poor bird." So he just goes over, and cuts the band, and let the crow loose. But you know, he'd been bound so long, till he still thought he was tied.
The crows would go across, hollering, "Johnny crow, come on, let's go south. Hurry up; the north winds are blowing."
The old crow would call back, "I can't, because I'm still bound." See, he was free and didn't know it.

L-17 And that's the way many people are tonight. Them ladies, or whoever it was setting here last night in wheelchairs, they heard the good news. Tonight their wheelchairs are not here. They're probably setting out there in the audience somewhere. See? They were free; they were free all the time. Jesus cut them loose at Calvary, when the Blood stream came from His body to free every person from sickness.
The sinners that accepted Christ last night, was setting bound, last night under the chain of sin, and tonight is enjoying the freedom of the Lord Jesus, after they heard of the emancipation of the proclamation; they are free.

L-18 And during the time of the slavery, before the Emancipation of the Proclamation was signed, why, they tell me that the slaves in the south, would climb up the hill. They's--they's going to be free at sunrise. Some could tr--climb a little higher than the others. The older ones couldn't get up, the younger went on to the top of the hill. For as soon as they seen the sun, they were free. So the ones that got the highest, just as soon as the sun peeped up, they said, "We are free!" Hollered it to the next group, the next one hollered, "We are free!" On down the hill passing the news, "We are free!" And every man that sees the Son is free. You know what I mean.
You see the Son, see Him in the way of the revelation that God has revealed Him to you. The only way you'll ever know it, is when God has revealed Him to you. That's the basis of all the Scriptures.
"Flesh and blood has not revealed it to thee, but My Father which is in heaven. Upon this rock I'll build My church." Is that right? So it's spiritual revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ, is where He built His Church.

L-19 Now, little did the old-timers back in there maybe realize that it would be in this way. If they, by faith, saw the complete time of redemption, and they'd see people who would be absolutely introduced to the infallible proofs of redemption, and turn around and leave it... That's the sad part, the fellow that's loose, and don't want to be free.
Now, Adam in the garden of Eden, when he first sinned, God had a way of redemption for him, right quick, just as soon as he sinned. God made a way of redemption. And before Adam could ever approach back to fellowship with the Father, God had to slay an innocent lamb, or sheep, and make him a cloth to go around him, and throw out the welcome carpet for Adam to walk back on the carpet of redemption, to come into His Presence again. God always had a plan of redemption, and that's been through blood, ever since the very beginning and dawn of time, perceived in the mind of God, before the world ever come into existence.


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