<TITLE>07. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 I watched him for a few minutes. I walked over close to him. I said... Tears was streaming down his black cheeks. I said, "Pardon me, uncle (as we call them, mostly, the colored brethren 'uncle')," I said, "Pardon me, uncle, but I see you were praying." I said, "I'm a minister. I'm a Baptist minister, and I would like to ask you why you were so excited. What excited you?"
He looked at me, and wiped his eyes out, took me by the arm, said, "Look laying there." I looked over under a glass, and there was nothing but just a lady's dress, an old fashion dress.
And I said, "What's so strange about that would excite you?"
He said, "Sir, you see that stain on there?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "That's the stain of the blood of Abraham Lincoln." He said, "On my side is a mark of a slave belt. That blood freed me from that slave belt. Wouldn't that excite you?"
I thought, "If that would excite--the blood of Abraham Lincoln would excite a slave because he was taken off of a slave belt, what ought the Blood of Jesus Christ to do to the church? It ought to throw us to our knees in tears." We were Satan's slaves. He took the belt off of us.

L-27 One day on an old plantation, a buyer came by. There's many slaves, and they'd have to whip them because they were sad. They were brought from Africa by the Boers, and sold to the southern people for slaves. And then when they noticed that... Always that they were sad. They'd never be back home. They'd never be with papa, mama, and no more with the wife, with the children. They were... They were sad, and they'd have to whip them to make them work.
But this slave buyer... One day he noticed on there, there was one young man they didn't have to whip: chest sticking out, chin up, right on the dot at any time. And the buyer said, "I would like to buy that slave."
But the owner said, "He's not for sale."
He said, "What makes him so much different from the other slaves?" Said, "Is he the boss over the rest of them?"
Said "No, he's a slave. I bought him, and he's just a slave."
He said, "Well, maybe you feed him different from the rest of them."
He said, "No, no. He... I... They all eat out there in the galley just like the rest of the slaves."
He said, "Then what makes him so much different from the rest of them?"
And the owner said, "I wondered that for a long time, but one day I found out. Over in the homeland... He's an alien here, but over in the homeland where he came from, his father is the king of the tribe. And though he be an alien and in another land, he conducts himself as a king's son."

L-28 God have mercy upon us. If we are the sons and daughters of God, yet we're an alien in this life... God's looking for character from men and women who can conduct themselves as sons and daughters of the King. God have mercy on us, that we will do it.
That's what I'm after friends: character. That's what God's pulling for, character for that Bride that will be taken out. And as sons and daughters of God, let's act like it; be sons and daughters. God help us.

L-29 I want to say something. I want to announce my subject tonight. That's why I'm keeping it simple. Now, be real reverent, and listen just for a few moments. And remember my purpose, is to by prayer and faith, bring Jesus Christ, the God that you love and serve, right into your midst.
Why can't you accept Him and believe Him, when He's right here with you, with the Bible promises behind? That's the reason I made it the way it is, just real simple, so that you won't miss it. See?


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