<TITLE>07. Par -</TITLE>L-308-605 Well, look. The colored man is... He's--he's a... He's got a--he's got a disposition about him that the white man never does have. He's got a happy-go-lucky, a "trust God, and just let the rest of it go." Whether he's got it or whether he hasn't, he's happy anyhow. I'd like to have a whole lot of that tonight; I sure would. Well, he's got it, and that's his possession. He don't want to mix it up with some other race and break it out either. That's exactly right.
I think the lady down there at Shreveport made one of the best--best comments I ever heard in my life. She made a comment, and they put it in the paper. She walked up; she said, "The way these things are going in here in this segregation, I don't want my children going to school over at that white school." Said, "They won't get the attention they'd have if they had a colored teacher." That woman's a smart woman. She knowed what she was talking about; they get a better education. That's exactly right. So I think the people do wrong by doing that.
And then they say, "Cain and Abel..." and so forth like that. No, sir. The color had nothing to do with it. It's the spirit inside of there that has something to do with it. That's exactly right.

L-308-607 So Cain knew his wife, and that was his sister. And they... He took her to the land of Nod, and there come forth the great tribes of the earth: the religionists and worshippers.
And just think today, friend, just stop and think just for a moment, that there are tens of thousands times tens of thousands and thousands of thousands of absolutely church going people, just as sincere and consecrated to that church they can be, that's just as far lost as Cain was. See? It's God Who chooses. It's God Who elects (See?), God Who gives mercy. The clay can't say to the potter; it's the potter over the clay. That's right.

L-308-610 Now, here's a beautiful one, the next one here.
In II Peter 2:4--2:4...
Somebody got a Bible, want to turn to these Scriptures right quick while I'm reading them, if you want to, and kind of help me along here, while we get this question.
Now, on this Cain and--and so forth, if that don't satisfy it now, you just let us have it. We'll be glad...

L-308-Q-66 Now, II Peter 2:4. All right, sir, here we are.
66. II Peter 2:4, For if God has... For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down into hell, then why did Christ preach to the spirits in prison in I Peter 3:19?
Now, we got Peter 2:4, first. All right.
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down--down to hell, and--and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto the judgment;
Now, now, let's find out in I Peter (that's II Peter), I Peter 3:19, listen at this. Here we are right here. These just come in, the reason I didn't have them wrote out.
... which also... went and preached to the spirits in prison;
Oh, yes, here we are. Let's begin a little before that, the 18th verse.
For Christ also... once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
By which also He went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
Which sometime were disobedient,... (My dear friend, if you'd just read the next verse, it'd explained it. See?)... Which were sometimes disobedient, which once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark being prepared, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. See?
Now, if you'll notice in here, I think this preacher's got another one on the--something on the same line, will be answered a little later.


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