<TITLE>10. Par 82-88</TITLE>L-82 You know, those slaves were so excited and under such anticipation, waiting for the hour that they would be free, until they tell me, that they gathered at the bottom of the hill, mothers and little children all gathered, and some of the old. And they climbed up to the top of the hill around midnight. They knowed when the day breaked and the sun come up, that they'd be free. It wouldn't take over one half of a minute to shine the sun from the top of the hill, but some of them was up on top the hill, watching, watching. "Oh, when the sun rises, we are free." That was the s-o-n--or, s-u-n.
But when the S-o-n rises one of these days... And when the S-o-n rose some nineteen hundred years ago, He broke every slave belt; He set every captive free; He healed every sickness; He gave freedom to those who are in bondage. How we ought to climb and watch.

L-84 And when the sun peeped up first, the man was at the highest, saw it, and he shouted down to the next man, "We are free!" And the next man shouted to the man farther down the hill, "We are free!" Until it come to the camp, "We are free!" For the sun was arising, they were waiting, waiting, waiting for that hour.
How much more ought we to be waiting today for the S-o-n of God. We are free from sin. We are free from the shackles. We are free from habits. We are free from smoking, drinking, carousing, because the S-o-n of God has raised from the grave and has broke every fetter. All condemnation is gone. The debt has been paid. The penalty's paid. The sins are washed away, and we are free. Oh, we are free, people. Slavery... Freedom, when the Son of God rises with healing in His wings...
Someday He'll rise from the throne, come back to the earth. And then we'll be free from all pains and all temptations, free from all mortal aches and whatever goes with mortal life, to live with Him forever. We'll be free. "Go tell," that's the thing to do.

L-87 In the Bible time there was a jubilee year come. People that were sold out for debts that they owed... They owed a debt and they could not pay it, so they went and sold themselves to people for slaves. And they had to be their slave, their bond slave, all their life. But ever so often there come a day of grace, what was known as jubilee year. And when the jubilee year was come, then there went a priest out and sounded a trumpet. And that trumpet denoted to the--every slave, no matter how long he had been serving, how much longer he had to serve, when that trumpet sounded, that slave was made free. He could lay down the hoe and go home to his children. He didn't have to work any longer, because he was free when the jubilee sounded. That trumpet gave a--not an uncertain sound, but it gave a certain sound. And the man could lay down his instrument, go home free from slavery.

L-88 This morning, the Bible said, "And if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will know what to do?" If the Bible has preached that Jesus Christ has raised from the dead, He is the same yesterday, today and forever, and the trumpets that we're hearing sounded today say, "the days of miracles is passed, there's no such a-thing as Divine healing," who will know how to prepare themselves?
What we need today is anointed messengers from God. "He has raised from the dead. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." That's the message of the day.
Oh, there has been great messages, but Easter capped them all. Great messages; Easter was all of it. When the dead, was made preparation, that the last enemy... We'd seen sickness healed in the Old Testament. We'd seen miracles performed in the Old Testament. There were visions come in the Old Testament. But every man went right to the grave, wondering would he ever rise again. But on Easter morning when these disciples got the greatest message that any man could ever get, what did they get? "Go tell My disciples, I am risen from the dead." Death had been conquered.


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