<TITLE>15. Par 52-55</TITLE>L-52 And one day, this buyer noticed a fine young man with his chest out, his head up. You didn't have to whip him. He was an alert. Every time anything was to be done, he'd hit it.
And this slave buyer said, "I--I want to buy him."
And the owner said, "He's not for sale."
He said, "What makes him so up-and-at-it?" Said, "Is he a boss over the rest of them?"
Said, "No, he's just a slave."
Said, "Do you feed him better than you do the rest of them?"
Said, "No, eats out in the galley with the rest of them."
"Then what makes him so much different and so up. His morale seems to be so high, his morale. So what makes him so much different from the others?"
He said, "I didn't know myself, till I found out recently that his father is a king of the tribe. And though he's an alien in another land, he knows his daddy's a king. And he acts like and conducts himself as a king's son."

L-53 What ought a Christian to do then? We're pilgrims and strangers, but our Father is a King. How ought we to act and live in this present world? Not like this world, not to be drove around, and sign a ticket we'll come to church, and--and we'll try our best to do this, and we'll go to the next prayer meeting. Brother, sister, we should conduct ourselves like sons and daughters of God. We shouldn't back up when the devil trys to smear over God's Word. That's our Father's Word. Let's stand by it till we die. Yes, sir. Conduct yourself.
Though all the way in another country, maybe in another land, you may be in another country that's a way away, an alien. But it makes no difference how far away you are, how much trouble you're in, God's still your Father. Hallelujah. Where did you come from?

L-54 Way back yonder in the beginning when God sent the Logos, which was the Son of God from the bosom of the Father, He begin to brood over the earth the Bible said.
What is the word "brood"? What does it mean? Like mothering, like the hen, her brood is called her chickens, her offspring. And the Holy Spirit, as it was, with His arms or His wings brooding over a bleak earth, where there never had been life... And as He begin to brood, the waters begin to separate, and the land came up. Your body was laying here on the earth then. You're made out of sixteen elements of this earth. Your body was here then. Notice, if it wasn't, where did it come from? You live by dead substance.

L-55 When you eat beef, the cow died. If you eat bread, the wheat died. You can only live by dead substance. Now I asked the doctor this recently. I said, "Doctor, is it true that when I eat, I renew my life."
He said, "That's true."
I said, "Then Doctor, why is it when I was sixteen years old I eat the same food I eat now; I was getting bigger and stronger, and my life being renewed; and I eat the same food now, and I'm getting older and weaker in strength and shrinking away. Scientifically prove to me that here is a container and here's a jug of water, and you're pouring water into it, and it fills to a certain place, then more you pour the farther it goes down. There's only one answer. God has appointed." Death sets in when you're about twenty-two to twenty-five years old, gray hair starts coming, wrinkles in the face. And you're eating the same food, renewing your life, but you're dying. God has appointed.


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