<TITLE>06. Par 21-25</TITLE>L-21 What makes people do that? Just a minute. What makes people do that? It's because that you are giving vent to the very thing that God placed in you. You're thirsting for something, and you're trying to satisfy it with the pleasures of this world.
God made a man to thirst. When He made his heart, He made him to thirst because He made him to thirst after Him. And dare anybody to try to--to satisfy that holy thirst with the things of the world. That was put in you to thirst after Him. "As a hart panteth for the water brook, my soul thirsts after Thee, O God."

L-22 It's not that I'm angry with the church; I'm in love with the church. And I know that--that something's fixing to happen. And that's why I--I say, "Get ready, people. You can't do those things. Your outward expression shows the inward work of grace hasn't been done yet."
No matter how much you shouted, how much you spoke in tongues, danced in the Spirit, whatever you might've called your emotions, unless that life copes with this Word... And you hear that Word, and turn away from it, something's wrong. The Holy Spirit in you will always punctuate the Word with, "Amen." It's the truth. See? It's right.
So that's what I'm trying to do, trying to cast everything I can. It's in love.

L-23 When Eliezer was sent from Abraham to find a bride for his son, Isaac (a type of the Father, and the Son, and the servant, and so forth), Eliezer sweated it out until he found character. And when he found character, he had it. And that's what the Holy Spirit's trying to find today, is character. You can't have character until you got faith. And faith produces character.
And when he found the beautiful Rebekah... Notice. When she come to Isaac, she veiled her face. Why? She had no more head. The man was the head. When a woman gets married, she puts a veil over her face. Why? She's coming to her head.
And the church, when the Holy Spirit finds the church, She veils Herself. Christ is Her Head, and Christ is the Word. She cares no more about Her traditions and things. Christ is Her Head. Character...

L-24 Many years ago they used to have the slaves down in the south, and those slaves were sad. And they sold them like you would a used car out here on the lot: auction them off, get a bill of sales with them: human beings. That's not right, never was right. I'm a southerner, but it wasn't right.
God made man, and man made slaves. No race is to rule over the other. We are brothers, off of the same tree, Adam. And we are brothers. We can give one another a transfusion, a red man, black man, brown man, whatever it might be. We're human beings, and we should not make slaves of one another.
But they'd come along, auction off. And they'd take the big heavy slave away from his little spindly wife. Set him over here, and breed him to another woman that was bigger, to bring forth bigger slaves. That was ungodly, never was right.

L-25 Some time ago I was in a certain museum. I was noticing, going through the museum there was an old colored man, and he had just a white rim of hair around his head. It's been about twenty-five years ago, I guess, maybe thirty. I was looking at this fellow, and he was looking all around.
I was wondering, "What's the old darkie looking for?" He was watching everywhere as he went along.
And after while he come to a certain place, and he stopped all at once, stepped back, bowed his head, and begin praying.


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