<TITLE>04. Par 14-16</TITLE>L-14 And there was a certain broker came by an old plantation that had many slaves on it. And so, the slaves were away from home. They would... They was stoled out of Africa and was brought over here and sold. And they knowed they'd never go back to the homeland no more. They were sad. They--they didn't want to work. They had no ambition. And so they would sometimes take whips and whip those people to make them work, just like you would a--a horse or an animal.
And this slave buyer came by and he looked over his slaves to see how many he could buy. And he found there was one young fellow there; they didn't have to whip him. He had his chest out, his chin up. He was right up-and-at-it all the time.
And so, the broker said to the owner, "Say, I would like to buy that slave."
But the owner said, "He's not for sale."
"Well," said, "what makes him so much different from the rest of the slaves?" Said, "Perhaps, maybe he's a boss, you've made him boss over the rest of them."
And the owner said, "No, I never made him boss. He's just a slave."
"Well, said, "maybe you feed him better than you feed the rest of the slaves."
He said, "No. They all eat over there in the galley, all of them together."
Then the broker said, "What makes this young fellow so much different from the rest of them?"
And the owner said, "I wondered about that for some time." But said, "You know, one day, I found out. Over in the homeland where they came from, this young fellow's father is a king of the tribe. And though he's an alien and away from home, still he knows he's a king's son, and he conducts himself as a king's son."

L-15 And I thought, if a slave being away from home, knowing that he was a son of a tribal king, how much more ought the children of God to conduct themselves like sons and daughters of God while we're in this alienated world. How we ought to embrace these promises of God. How we ought to cherish those things and hold them dear. It doesn't become a Christian to operate hisself around unbelief. A Christian should have his chin up. He should be ready to believe anything that God says; matter what it is. It'll keep the morale of the rest of them up. It'll... We are sons and daughters of God. And we ought to conduct ourselves like that.
Some people think that life only lays in how much money you can get while you're here on earth. That's not life. And some of them has 'lotted it to pleasure, how much big time they can see, what's company they--society they can join, or what lodge, or--or something they can do. They figure that that's life. If you could join the--the Four Hundred, or get in the book of Who's Who. So many people try to get into that book of Who's Who.

L-16 I... My name will never be there. But I've got it on a better book, the Book of Life in glory where God--in God's Who's Who. I was borned again one day, then my name was put on God's Who's Who.
Now, I know that setting before us is a great dark chamber. And every time our heart beats, we get one beat closer to that chamber. And it's called death. And someday it'll take it's last beat, and I got to go in there. But there's one glorious hope that I have, that this: I know Him in the power of His resurrection, that when He calls, I'll come out from among the dead, that great day.
I don't want to go like a coward. I want to wrap myself in the robes of His righteousness, entering in there, knowing that I know Him as a personal experience and been borned again of Eternal Life. If I never have a friend on earth, I want to know Him. If I don't know His Word too well, I want to know Him.


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