<TITLE>17. Par 66-69</TITLE>L-66 May the Lord bless you as you raise your heads. Now, how many feels better, all scoured out? Just put your hand... Oh, my, feel better... The Word comes down and purges my sins away. It purges all my indifference away, makes me new. Oh, how many times do I love to go back, when I go home, and go back around the old creek bend, way back up to a cross over a certain logs and so forth, and up the little canyons, go back up into the side of the hill there and raise up my hands before Him. Oh, how to bathe in His beauty, how to adore Him, not ask Him for nothing, just admire Him. Like the...
How I like to go about trying to help somebody, to do something.

L-67 Not long ago, down in the south they... I don't know whether I ever told you this little thing that I read one time or not.
They used to buy slaves, the--the African people, when the Boers settled in the far south, down in southern tip of Africa, they begin to bring the colored up here and sell them for slaves, and make slaves out of them. Poor people away from their home, they were weary. They knowed they never was going to get to go back home no more and see mother and dad. And they--the--the owners would whip them with whips, and they were mistreated terribly. And how they would--they would go around crying and they were so sad away from home.

L-68 And they'd have--they would have brokers that go by and buy different ones. They'd go to this slave owner and maybe he had three hundred slaves. They'd buy a hundred slaves off of him. Take him over here and maybe they'd buy him for fifty dollars apiece, and sell them for seventy-five dollars apiece, just like they do automobiles, or something like that, buying those human beings.
And one day a broker come by, and they found a young slave there. My, how he was always up and at it, didn't have to whip him. Brother, I mean he was right now at the job; he done everything just right. And the broker said, "Let me buy that one."
He said, "No, no, he's not for sale. We don't sell him."
Said, "Why is it he's so much different from the rest of them?" Said, "Maybe he's the boss over them all."
Said, "Nope, he's not a boss." Said, "He's just a slave."
He said, "Well, well, do you feed him any different?"
Said, "No, they all eat out there in the galley together." Said, "I don't feed him any different; he's no boss."

L-69 "Well," said, "why is it, he's got his head up, his chest out?" Said, "You don't... You just say something to him; he's ready to do it. How's his conduct so much greater than the rest of them?"
He said, "I'll tell you why." Said, "I didn't know for a long time myself," but said, "you know, I found out." Said, "His father is the king of the tribe. And though he's an alien away from home, he keeps the morale of the rest of them up, knowing that his father is a king and he's the son of a king."
Men and women, let's conduct ourselves, though we be slaves on this earth to the things of this world, but let us know that our Father is a King. Let's take His Word. That's right. We may be aliens, but let's conduct ourselves like sons and daughters of the King. Be up and going. When God speaks a Word, let's snap to it. That's it. He said, "I'm the Lord that healeth thee."
"Amen! That's right. I'm a son of the King. I believe it. Hallelujah."
"Ask and you shall receive."
"I believe it."


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