<TITLE>07. Par 22-24</TITLE>L-22 I like the word, "redemption." "Redeemed," means "to be brought back, redeemed." As I said this morning at the Christian Business Men's talking on reconciliation, I said, "Redemption means that the devil put you in the pawn shop, and Jesus come, taken you out." That's right.
I love nature, and I seen one time a little story of a--a man that had caught a crow in a trap, and he tied him up to scare the rest of the crows away. He was jumping up-and-down. Well, the poor old crow, he--he stood there and jumped up-and-down. And the farmer didn't feed him or anything; he got so poor, he--he just couldn't hardly stand up any longer. So there was a good man came by one day, and seen the old crow looking so poor and thin. He just untied him. And all the crows would fly over hollering, "Come on, Johnny Crow. Winter's coming. Let's go South. Get out of this cold weather coming." But you know what? The old crow had been tied up so long, till he still thought he was tied. He didn't know that somebody had redeemed him.

L-23 And that's the way a lot of people are tonight, friends. You just been in sin so long, serving the enemy, till you think you're still tied when really you're loose.
Let's go to Calvary tonight, get out of the things of the world. Oh, He's wonderful. Know that we are free: He who the Son has made free, is free indeed. And you was freed to Calvary when Jesus paid the all sufficient price to God the Father when He suffered in flesh and died, and re--paid the price of your redemption, that you could be redeemed back to God.
Many of you know the story of redemption in the Bible, many of you scholars here, students, ministers, teachers. And many times little housewives, that's not teachers, really read the Bible, how that God's plan of redemption...
I used to tell, when I was at my Tabernacle, the story speaking on redemption, about a... On the law of redemption... That gets out of Exodus, of course, and Leviticus, to the Levitical laws. So I used to say, "If an old mother horse gave birth to the little mule, and when the little fellow was born, and his ears was broke down... Now, that's a bad mule to begin with. He was crossed-eyed, knock-kneed; his tail stuck right straight up. What a horrible looking mule. If the mother could look around to the little fellow, and he could see himself, he's say, 'Oh-oh. They'll never feed me.' Said, 'As soon as the master comes out and finds me, they'll probably just kill me, 'cause I'm not worth feeding.'"

L-24 Well, that's just about the way we sinners are (did you know that?), just not worth very much to God's Kingdom. But, you know, if that old mother understood and could speak back to her little colt, she could say, "But wait a minute, son. You were borned under a birthright. You are my first. You were borned under a birthright. And just because that you're born that way, you know, the priest will never see you. The only thing that will happen, they'll... The man of the house will have to go out into the flock, and get a lamb that's perfect and without a blemish on it, and take it over; and the priest will never look at the mule; he'll examine the lamb. Because the mule is borned under the birthright, so the lamb without a blemish has to die for the mule that's so disfigured. And the--the lamb dies. A perfect lamb dies so the disfigured mule can live.
What a beautiful picture of redemption. Oh, my. The perfect Lamb of God died that we poor, alienated, disfigured human beings could live again. What a picture of redemption. Why that little mule could just kick his little old heels up in the air, and jump around, have a big time. Why? Because he's redeemed.


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