<TITLE>04. Par 9-11</TITLE>L-9 Here sometime ago (I don't whether I've ever told you about it or not, it was in a certain city.), a little boy was up in the attic looking around. And he--he found in an old trunk a little postage stamp, just about one-half inch square. Well, he knowed where there was a stamp collector down the street, so he run down the street, thought maybe the stamp collector would give him five cents for the postage stamp to go in his album, and it would--he would get him a cone of ice cream.
And he ran down the street real quick to the stamp collector, and he said, "Look at this stamp, I have just found." And called him by his given name, said, "How much will you give me for it?"
And the stamp collector looked at it through his glass. It was old and turned yellow. He said, "Oh, I--I'll give you a dollar for it."

L-10 Oh, the bargain was made right quick, and the business was on. That was about twenty cones of ice cream. Oh, he sold the stamp right quick. I may have the over or under estimation, but I believe that stamp was sold about two weeks later for around five hundred dollars. And then later on, it was sold for a enormous amount, and has went on and on, till I just don't know how much that stamp's worth. It's one of the most valuable stamps there is in the collector's album. What made it so valuable? It wasn't because of the size of it. It wasn't because of the paper that it was written on, because it'd already turned yellow. But it's what was on it that counted.
That's the way it is with this text tonight or any Scripture. It isn't the size of it, or the paper it's written on; it's what it is written on it. It is the Word of the living God which is just as eternal as the Author of the Writing. Great, and every promise is true. It's unusual too, because it draws a picture of someone knocking at the door.

L-11 I just not able at this time to call the name of the artist that wrote that famous picture or drawed it, rather, painted it. That he stood and painted a picture of Jesus coming and knocking at the door... I think he was a Greek artist. Wasn't Angelo, I don't think. But I'm not sure just what his name was. But all famous pictures, before they can become famous, they have to go through the hall of critics.
I've often thought that about the church. Before God can ever take His Church in the rapture, it has to go through the hall of critics, the world, to criticize it, make fun of it, call it...?... names.
But then, when it's finally passed through that hall of critics, then the picture or painting can be hung in the hall of fame. That's what God will do with His Church. He will let it go through the criticism and persecution of the world, but someday He will take it up in the air and put it in the hall of fame, seat it at His right side.


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