<TITLE>21. Par 74-78</TITLE>L-74 When they were testifying... Wouldn't you of liked to been setting on that ship listening at them? Oh, my. But we can listen at them too (You see?), we just got their testimony. What--what they'd say. So that testimony meeting going on, and all... They'd had a great time that day, you know, a great meeting. He was getting...
You know what? Satan must've peeped up over the realms of hell and saw them out there on the water having a testimony meeting without His Presence. And when they did... You know, they had went off without Him.
And they... Satan said, "Here's my chance. They've gone off without Him." Right. And that's the same thing's happened now. Satan has seen the church go off on a big building spree, and a big modern spree, and has left Jesus. That's right.

L-75 All we think about is how many we can get in out organization, how much bigger church we can build than the rest of them. That has nothing to do with it. What we need is back to the Bible.
Look the way our people are. Where church is weak, and the faith is weak, and the people are just, you can't tell them from no one else. And their testimony is weak. And--and they stay home on Wednesday night to watch some kind of a television program instead of going to church. And--and they tell jokes, and they also, many of them started doing things that isn't right.

L-76 And the women's begin to dress like the things of the world, and bobbing off their hair, and wearing paint and stuff all over them and--and things, and men smoking cigarettes, cigars, and things like that. Living in a church, taking a little sociable drink with their boss, having a little clean fun, going out with the next man's wife, and all things like that, flirting with girls on the street, turning their necks watching women half dressed. Sure. That's right. I know that hurts, but that's truth, brother.
The Word of God's a Circumciser, that's cut off surplus flesh. That's exactly what's right.
Just having a little clean, American fun: that don't go with the Kingdom of God, not associated with the Kingdom of God, not at all. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. We ought to conduct ourselves like servants of God. We ought...

L-77 Here sometime ago, when they had slavery here in the south. They used to take the slaves and sell them out on a market just like you would with a horse or something. Never was right. 
God--God made man. Man made slaves.
And then when they would do that, they'd come by and get a bill of sales on a human being, and take them out and sell them, and sell them...?...
One day as a broker came by to buy some slaves; he said, "How many you got?"
Said, "About one hundred out there."
He went out to look at them. They were sad. They'd come... The Boers brought them from Africa and put them in down here around Cuba. And then brought them over and sold them to the Americans here for slaves.
And then, they'd never go back home again. They'd die here. They was away from papa, away from mama, away from children, separated. It was a horrible thing. And they wouldn't work. They'd have to whip them make them work because they were so sad.

L-78 But this broker noticed this one young man. Brother, didn't have to whip him. He was right at it, right up and at it, chest back and his head up.
That buyer said, that broker said, "Say, I want to buy that slave."
But the owner said, "He's not for sale."
Said, "Well, why isn't he for sale?"
Said, "Because, I don't sell him."
He said, "Is--is he the boss over the rest of them?"
Said, "No, he's just a slave."
Said, "I bet you feed him different than the rest of them."
Said, "No, sir. He eats in the galley with the rest of them. He's just a slave."
Said, "Well, what him so much different from the rest of them?"


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