<TITLE>06. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 Some time ago there was a story told about an old colored man down here in the south who, one day during the time of slavery, he had a, he got saved in, at an old plantation singing, and on his... Next morning he was going around telling all the slaves that he was saved and he was free. And the owner of this plantation said, "Mose, I hear you say that you're free."
He said, "Yes, boss." He said, "The Lord Jesus has made me free from the--the penalty of death and sin."
And he said, "You come to my office, Mose." And he went to his office, and he said, "Tell me that story again."
He said, "Last night, we was over playing the banjo and singing some songs." And he said, "Boss, the Lord Jesus saved my soul. And I's a free today from the law of death."
He said, "Mose, if you really mean that, I'm going down today and sign the proclamation, and make you free so you can preach the Gospel to your brethren."

L-24 After many years of service, the old darky was dying. Many of his white brethren come to see him. And when they thought he was gone... He'd been laying in--in a coma for quite a few hours. He woke up, and he looked around in the room; and he said, "Oh, you don't mean that I'm back on this old cruel earth again."
And they said, "Yes, Mose, did you go over?"
He said, "Oh, I just got in the door."
Said, "Mose, did you get your crown and your robe?"
He said, "There was one come up with such a--a thing, and He said to me, 'Mose, you can now have your crown and your robe.'"
He said, "Don't talk to me about crowns and robes."
Said, "What do you want for your reward?"
Said, "Just let me look at Him for a million years; that'll be a reward enough for me." And I think that well expresses the way we feel. "Just let me see Him and look at Him. It's good enough for me."

L-25 Why is He so great? I live on the Ohio River. A little boy here some time ago, who lives in the city where I was raised up, he went and asked his mommy; he said, "Mommy, God is so great, can anyone see Him?"
She said, "Ask your Sunday school teacher."
And she said, "I can't tell you," the Sunday school teacher said. Said, "You should ask the pastor."
The pastor said, "Why, sonny, certainly not. No man can see God."
And he used to stay down on the river, so he went up the river one day with the old fisherman, and there come up a storm. And after the storm was over, the old fisherman was rowing his boat back down the river, and he noticed a rainbow in the sky. And the stillness after the storm, and the larks a singing, and all the birds, and the old fisherman begin to weep. And as the tears rolled off of his bearded face, the little lad, setting in the stern of the boat, become so enthused that he run to the middle of the boat and knelt down by the side of the old fisherman. And he said, "Sir, I'm going to ask you a question that my Sunday school teacher, neither the pastor, or my mother can answer." Said, "Could anybody see God?"
And he grabbed the little lad in his arms, and he hugged him, and he said, "Honey, God bless your little heart; all I've seen for the past forty years has been God." See, He has to be in here. If He's in the heart, you can see Him. You'll look through a different eye, not a critic eye, but an eye that's looking to see Him.


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