<TITLE>08. Par 32-35</TITLE>L-32 The astonishing thing today is the behavior, the spiritual behavior of the Christian church. How can we have faith; how can we trust God when one wants to be above the other, when one wants to be a ruler over the other, when one wants to be a little greater than the other, have a little bigger campaign than the other? Have something... How... Jesus said, "How can you have faith when you seek honor one from another?" How can you have faith when you're trying your best to pull with your strength to be the state presbyter, or the bishop, or some kind of an overseer?
Oh, the conduct of the church is terrible... And trying to keep people away from the real thing of God, how can we...?... It's after we have an experience with God, then we become conducted as Christians, as brethren, as men and women who know God.

L-33 Sometime ago way in the southland, they used to buy slaves and they would sell these people for... They'll have them just like a used car lot. It was in the days of the slavery. And they would take those slaves and sell them. And--and brokers would come by, and they would buy so many slaves, and take them over here and make a little money out of them, and--and so forth. And that's the way they made their living, by selling slaves. And there was a broker came by a certain plantation one day. And he said to this man. He had a great bunch of slaves, so he said, "I would like to look your slaves over." Said, "Very well, you may do it." And he watched all the slaves to see..." He said, "I'll take this one, that one, and this one at such price."

L-34 And the slaves, of course, they were away from their homeland. They would never go back again. They'd been brought over by the Boers and had been sold to the southern people for slaves. They was away from papa and mama; they were away from sweetheart; they were away from wife; they were away from their babies. They would never go home again. They had to remain a slave until they fell into the dust of the earth, gone. They were sad. They had to whip them to make them work. They didn't have no courage, just sluggish we would call it; and they had to make them work.
But they noticed one certain young man; they didn't have to whip him. He had his shoulders back, his head up. He was right at the moment. They didn't have to scold him; he was a real worker. So the--the buyer of the slaves, he said, "I'd like to buy that slave."
He said, "He's not for sale."
He said, "Well, I notice he's so much different from the rest of them. His character and his conduct seems to be so much different." Said, "What makes the difference in him? Is he a boss over the rest of them?"
He said, "No. He's just a slave."
"Well," said, "maybe you feed him a little better then you do the rest of them."
He said, "No. He eats out in the galley with the rest of the slaves."
"Well," said, "then tell me what makes him so much different than the rest of the slaves."
He said, "I...?... All the others..." Said, "I wondered myself for a long time, but finally I found out." He said, "You know what makes him different? I found out that overseas his father is the king of the tribe. And though He's an alien, away from his people, yet, he knows he's a king's son. And he conducts himself like a king's son."

L-35 And, brother, if we're living in the end time, we're alien here to this formalism and all kinds of things that's in the world, and we're in a world's slavery and darkness. The Christian church should conduct itself like real genuine borned again sons and daughters of God. We should have that characteristic about us, for our Father is the King of glory, and we are His subjects though we are in a sinful world. He is the King of glory.


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