<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 And here's what it was. I might pass it on to you just for a minute. I was talking about we are possessors of all things; everything's ours. They say that we're the crazy bunch, you know. But yet, after all, it all belongs to us. And we might... That's the reason we act a little funny. You see? We're heirs of all things. You see?
And I was thinking of we possess love, joy, courage; we possess faith, and long-suffering, gentleness, patience, meekness. You couldn't buy that with no kind of money. No matter, there's not a... Go down and buy me a quarter's worth of patience. You see? Just couldn't do it, and--but yet God gives us that. We possess that; that's our possession. And then buy us a little faith. We'd be willing to give all we had for a little faith. You see? But it's give to us, and everything is free coming from the Lord. Isn't that wonderful?

L-5 Then I thought of this: when Israel, once a slave, God's children in bondage down in Egypt... Now, that was God's heritage, just as we are today. And then... Would probably bring them something to eat, a bunch of molded bread, and throw it out, and anything they could get a hold of. Kill one, it was just like killing a dog or anything else. And they longed for a deliverance out of there. They'd been in there four hundred years.
Then one day, come stomping down out of the wilderness come a prophet with a--a Light following him, and he told them there's a land that's flowing with milk and honey, and God had give it to them. And He done signs and wonders to show them that he was not a bogus, a false something, but he was actually commissioned of God to take those people to that land.

L-6 Now, think of it. Their children... Slave drivers come by, if they wanted to kill one that was just all right. Nothing could be said. Go and take your young daughter over for some havoc, why, nothing could be said. You'd just have to stand there and let her go off. See? Your boy kind of got--didn't work just right and they wanted to kill him for it, kill him. That's all right, nothing can be said.
But now, they're told that they're coming out of this bondage, and they're going to a land that's flowing with milk and honey, and they can have their own farm. They can raise their own stuff, feed their own children, send them to school, live in peace. And the great land... And it belongs to them. You know, that was a great promise. Think of what that meant. Well, this prophet done so many miracles among them till they seen that--that he really was God's sent man. Well, out they went, out into the wilderness.


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