<TITLE>17. Par 68-70</TITLE>L-68 Could you imagine that young king Abimelech--Abimelech, falling in love with an old woman that's well-stricken in age, shaking around like this? There comes grandma. And she said, "She's the most... Why, she's the beautifulest woman in the land." Nonsense. God had turned her back to a young woman. Abimelech took her over there.
And my, I want you to notice grace too here. Abimelech--Abimelech was a good man. I can imagine after taking his evening little nibs on some food, brushed his teeth real good, and laid down, and stretched out his toes after saying his night's prayer, said, "Tomorrow I'll marry that beautiful Hebrew woman come down here with her brother. And I'll marry her tomorrow." He fell asleep, and God appeared to him, said, "You're just as good as a dead man."
Why, he said, "Lord, why is that?"
Said, "You got a man's wife."
"Why," he said, "You know the integrity of my heart." Well, he said, "Didn't she say that that's my brother, and didn't he say, 'That's my sister?'"

L-69 Said, "Yes, I know the integrity of your heart, and that's the reason I kept you from sinning against Me," a good man now. Watch His grace. He said, "But her husband is a prophet. He's My servant. I'll not hear your prayers. But if you don't take him back his wife, and have him to pray for you, you're as good as a dead man, you and your kingdom."
Talk about amazing grace, how sweet the sound, God protecting His children. Mama, daddy, one of these days there's coming the other part of the Covenant. The Lord Jesus is going to be revealed from glory. And when He comes to unite with this Body that's used His Spirit here on earth as their Guide, you'll be changed one of these mornings, not back to a baby, but back to a young man.
Look, God was painting a picture, when you--He was painting you and mother. He brought you up to a certain picture; He said, "There it is. That's just what I like. I think that's beautiful. That's what I'll have in my Kingdom. All right death, come on. But you can't take them till I tell you to. You have to leave them right there till I tell." Why was it then they growed to that picture? God had them just at the beauty, just at the--the time that He thought they were their best, and then He painted the picture, and set it over in the Kingdom. And some glorious day, everything that death done to us will be taken away, and just what life give us we'll have. Amen.

L-70 What kind of men and women... Oh, my, my time's gone. What kind of men and women should we be? What kind of a person should we be? How will--should we conduct ourselves, ladies and gentlemen? How ought we to act in this present day? We ought to be real up and going Christians. We should stand out boldly for the testimony of the Lord Jesus. Do you believe that?
Here some time ago, down in the south lands, they come through, used to, many years, and buy Negro people and make slaves out of them. The Boers sold them over here from Africa, make slaves. And they go around and--and have buyers and buy up a bunch of Negroes and sell them like you do used cars today; human souls, and buy them and sell them.
And they would go around and have legal papers on them, and sell them like you would an automobile or anything else today, commercialize it. And they would go by and buy a bunch of slaves off this farm, take it over here, and sell them over here, and make some profit on them.


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