<TITLE>22. Par 284-297</TITLE>L-284   Now, a sheep will just lay and let you shear, forfeit his rights.

L-285 You're American. You can cut your hair. You can. You can. You can do anything you want to, in America. You can get drunk, lay on the streets. And--and you can be a prostitute. You can live with a man, or a man live with a woman, become a common law wife. You can have four, five, six, seven, eight, many as you want to. Don't make... Some of them have fifteen, twenty. Where is your pattern at? You don't have to do that. You say, "Well, if I'm American, haven't I got the rights?" Yes, sir. That's exactly right.

L-286 But you forfeit your rights if you're a sheep, God's lambs. That's right. You forfeit the rights that you have.

L-287 Now, think of this now as we close. Yeah. "Increased in goods." Yes, sir. Now we follow him just a little bit, and then we're going to close.

L-288   We find, the next place, that this rich young man had so much until he must have had something like a fleet of Cadillacs.

L-289 You know, they say, in California now, "Unless you have at least three or four Cadillacs, and--and own a great big place, you're not spiritual." It might be "spiritual of the world." Poor people; I know missionaries, preaching the Gospel, without even shoes on their feet.

L-290 I come by, the other day, and I noticed where it said, "This great big future home of So-and-so." Went over here, "This future home of So-and-so."
And I said, "God, what about me?"
He said, "Look up." Right.

L-291   When the income tax put me under a burden the other day, and for checks that people had signed in a meeting, to pay off the meeting. The income tax went back fifteen years, and--and made me pay to them forty thousand dollars. I had to get men with collateral and things. And they're setting right in this building now, to sign a ticket, that I could pay it off at four thousand dollars a year, or be brought in before the courts. I said, "I--I don't owe it. Here is my sheets, of my income tax."

L-292 Said, "Yeah. But when them people signed that check, they... You identified yourself when you signed it. It was yours. And then you turned it over, to pay the price of the meeting." See?

L-293 Is that justice? No, sir. No justice. I thought very bad about it. When, I looked over in the Bible, and seen that every man that ever have a spiritual office, in the Bible, was connected with the government. The government got him, 'cause it's the seat of the Devil. Take back, Moses, Jeremiah, Daniel, all the prophets, even to Jesus Christ, died under capital punishment by the government. They can't catch them in morals and anything else, so the Devil, his main seat, throws it on with the government. That's exactly right. Yeah.

L-294   This rich man had increased in goods, my, where somebody could...

L-295 Forty thousand dollars, what that meant to somebody, paid off like that. I got ten years to do it in, at four thousand a year. I draw a hundred dollars a week. I could have had it. That's exactly right. I'm not hitting myself on the shoulder. I'm telling you something, what I'm... Just an example or something, that you might understand.

L-296 I could have had it, if I took the money people had give me. I'd be more than a millionaire. I could have had straight, of buildings, you wouldn't have to rent this. I'd say, "Come on in, take it over." See?

L-297 But, my, I've tried to think that, make Jesus Christ my Pattern. He could have created fish. He could have created money. He could make wine from water. He could feed, with--with thousands, on two fishes and a--and a loaf or two of bread. But, yet, He didn't have a place to lay His head. He was our Example. Not something to shine, but something that glows, the Gospel.


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