<TITLE>07. Par 16-17</TITLE>L-16 Notice, how it ought to be appreciated. Over in Illinois in a certain museum, here sometime ago I was passing through looking around. I like to look at different things of sights, and scenes, and arts. I like to see God in everything that I look at.
And I happened to notice, an old colored man, in there with just a little rim of hair around the back of his head. He had his hat over his chest like this, walking around, looking. And he looked over into a little glass cage like. And all at once he stepped back, jumped. And I notice him with his eyes closed, and he was saying a little prayer or something there.
I stood and looked at him for a few moments, amazed at the old darkie. He raised up his head; he said, "Thank You, Lord." He looked back down again; the tears just run off his cheek.
I thought, "Wonder what the old fellow's looking at." I walked over there to where he was. And I said, "Good evening, Uncle."
He said, "How do you do, sir."
And I said, "I want to ask you a question." I said, "I'm a minister. What made you jump back and say that prayer that you were praying?"
He said, "Just--just look down there."
And I looked down there; I said, "I don't see nothing but a dress."
He said,"You see that stain on there?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "There's a mark of a slave belt around me." He said, "That's the blood of Abraham Lincoln. And the blood of that man laying there took a slave belt off of me." Said, "Wouldn't it make you a little excited too?"
I raised my hand; I said, "God, how I thank You." If a colored man could jump at the thoughts of Abraham Lincoln's blood from taking a slave belt from him, what ought a Christian do to the Blood of Jesus Christ, Who taken him out of bondage and give him freedom? What it ought to be. Oh, my, when I think of it.

L-17 Then, God making a way, always a way of an escape... Then I see back there that the red heifer was red, and here's the scientific of red.
You take, red means sin to us. Red, "though your sins be like crimson," red. But you take red and look through red to red; it makes white. Did you ever know that? Look through red, at red, it turns white.
And that's what God did in Jesus Christ. He, the Blood of Jesus was shed, that God looking through His Blood at our red sins turns white as snow. Red, "Though your sins be like scarlet, yet they shall be white like snow."
Oh, when we think of it, that beautiful illustration how God, so that He could not, would not, see the sin of the people, made a preparation.


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