<TITLE>02. Par 7-10</TITLE>L-7 He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you that you'll set on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel." Oh, my. Now, you know, I don't want to do that. And really from the bottom of my heart, I don't want nothing great, classical. You know what I want? I just want to look at Him...?... I--I just want to see Him.
The old colored man, here sometime ago, he'd--he'd got saved in an old camp meeting, and so he went back over to where the old colored folks down in the south used to go down there to hymn singings at night.
So the next morning he was telling all the slaves that he was free. Yep. So the boss heard him say that, so he said, "What's this, Sambo? You said you was free?"
"Yep."
Said, "Come on over to the office, and I want to talk to you awhile."

L-8 So he went over to the office and he said, "Sam, I heard you said you was free." Said, "You know you're my slave."
And he said, "Yes, sir, boss. I know that, but said, "last night the Lord Jesus set me free from the penalty of sin and death." He said, "I'm free, boss. The Lord saved me."
He said, "You really mean that?"
He said, "Yes, sir. I do."
And he said, "What would... If you wasn't a slave what would you do?"
He said, "I'd spend the rest of my time telling my brethren."
Said, "All right. If you go with me down to court this morning, I'm going to sign the ticket, the emanci--proclamation. I'm going to set you free to preach the Gospel to your brethren."

L-9 After he preached for many years, his death come to him. He was laying sick to die, and a lot of his white brethren come in to look at him. So they looked at him, and he was laying like he was in a coma.
After while he woke up, and looked around, and seen them all, and said, "Well, haven't I went over yet?" He said, "I--I was dreaming or something that I just got in the door. They said to me, 'Now, Sam, come on. I want you to put on your robe and your crown.' Said, 'Don't talk to me about robes and crown.' Said, 'Just let me stand and look at Him a thousand years now.'"
I think that's just about the way we all feel, isn't it? We don't want no crowns, no--no great things. Only thing I want to do is just look at Him. That's all. If I could just look at His face, that--that would pay me for every effort, just to look upon Him, and see Him. So I--I'm trusting, believing, hoping, trying my best to someday I'll get to see Him.

L-10 Now, I've always thought how I would just love to just kneel down at the--at His feet and kind of pat His feet a little. Wouldn't you like to do that? Wouldn't that just make you... just pat His feet and just wonder which one... Same feet that woman washed with her tears and wiped with the hairs of her head, how--how I'd feel just to stand there and pat those feet a little bit. I believe I'd preach a hundred years to get to do that, wouldn't you? Yes, sir, and spend a lifetime...
Now, being that it's warm tonight, and we don't... Just beginning of the week now, and tomorrow night if there is someone here to be prayed for, well, we'll pray for the sick tomorrow night, the Lord willing.
And now, I don't blame the people for not coming out to church if it's this hot; I don't believe I would either. My, how hot.


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