<TITLE>08. Par 29-33</TITLE>L-29 Father, we pray that You'll bless Brother Moore, Sister Moore, and all that's connected with this tabernacle. Guide and direct them. Every minister, missionary, or what in this building tonight, or has been in here, may they have received something that will inspire them to move on swiftly, for the hour is approaching.
Then the time will come where there will be no more work that we can do, soon it will be cut off from us, as we see the fruit a dwindling, the vine being purged. I pray, Father, that You will grant these blessings through Jesus Christ our Lord; we ask it in His Name. Amen.
I want to use five words for a text, "The Queen Of The South."
Someone might say, "Well, isn't that kind of small text for your closing service?"
Yes, it's kind of a small text; that is true. But it's out of the Bible that's what makes it good. See, it isn't the size of it; it's the quality of it. Not the quantity, it's quality.

L-30 As I've often said, a little friend one time searching in an attic got in an old trunk, and found a little postage stamp that, and he thought he'd get a nickel out of it for ice cream. And he was taking it to the stamp collector, and he gave him a dollar. That satisfied the little boy, and so the stamp collector sold if for hundreds of dollars, and now I think it goes into hundreds, times hundreds of dollars: a little old yellow stamp. Now, as far as the paper, it wasn't worth nothing, but it's what was on the paper that means.

L-31 Now, the queen of the south is just five words, and it isn't the paper it's written on; it's the value of the word that's written on the paper. The whole Bible was give to be by Brother Kidd many years ago. And a Bible would probably cost about twenty-five dollars, a Scofield Bible. But it's... This here will expel either Life or death to us. And in that is a pardon for every man that will hear it. And it's a condemnation to those who does not hear it.
One time the great Abraham Lincoln was called to a act. A man was sentenced to death to die under a firing squad for a military desertment or something. He'd what they called "run over the hill," or done some military offense, and he was sentenced to die. And the man was just nervous and afraid, and he was sentenced though by some cruel generals, or something that he was to die.

L-32 A good friend of his rushed to Mr. Lincoln. And as he was going from his carriage into his room, he told him, "This man is a good man; he's even a Christian man. And he--he... Mr. Lincoln, you are a Christian, and he's going to die. He's going to die tomorrow morning before a firing squad. Sir, you being a Christian, and know this man's condition. He didn't mean to violate any laws; he was afraid when he got in battle. You're the only one that can save him."
Mr. Lincoln just jerked up a piece of paper, and wrote on there, "Pardoned. Abraham Lincoln," sent it back.
And so when he come to the prison cells where his friend was waiting, he said, "Oh, thanks be to God. You are pardoned. Mr. Lincoln pardoned you."

L-33 So, he looks around; he looks at the paper; he said, "Why would you make fun of me now, when I'm fixing to die under a firing squad?" Said, "That isn't Abraham Lincoln." Said, "That isn't his--his signature. If I had a pardon from Abraham Lincoln," said, "it would, why, it would be written, and sealed, and everything." He said, "No, that ain't on the right kind of paper." Said, "I--I won't receive that."
The next morning the man died as it was sentenced to die. Now, here this man holds a pardon by Abraham Lincoln not to shoot him, and then he was shot. It was tried in Federal Courts, and here was their decision: A pardon is not a pardon unless it be received as a pardon.
That's the Word of God. It's healing to those who can receive it as healing, but not healing to those who cannot receive it as healing. It's a pardon of sin to those who believe that they are forgiven of sin, but it's no good to those who won't receive it that way.


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