<TITLE>09. Par 93-109</TITLE>L-93 But there's one thing that you just don't inherit. You've got to accept It. That's Eternal Life. And you'll only do that by following Jesus, by a born-again experience. Don't neglect that.

L-94   Little story one time I heard, of a man who was, oh, he was poor. And he--he always wanted to... It's a little fairy story, like. It always stuck with me, though. And one day he picked a flower. And the flower was magic, and the flower answered to him, and said, "You've been poor all your life." He said, "Now ask what you will, and it'll be given to you."

L-95 He said, "That yonder's mountain would open up, and I could go therein and find the gold in the mountain."

L-96 "Well," he said, "you will have to take me with you wherever you go. See? You'll have to take me with you. So, wherever I am, then you can ask what you will."

L-97   He walked to the mountain, and the mountain opened up, and he went in. The shelves was full of gold and diamonds, as the little fairy story goes. He laid the flower down on a--on a table or a rock. And he run, he grabbed a great big gem, and he said, "I must go show this to my friends. And now I'm a rich man. I have everything now. I must show this."

L-98 And so the flower spoke, "But," said, "you have forgot the main thing."

L-99 So he runs back and picks up, said, "Well, maybe I'll--I'll get a piece of gold. I'll get a piece of silver." And so he said, "I'll--I'll hurry out, to tell the people how rich I am, and what all I've got."

L-100 And he got to the door, and the flower said, "But you forgot the main thing."

L-101 So he runs back again. He said, "In here we find all kinds of materials." So, he picked up a stone. He said, "I'll go, take this stone and show the people what kind of a stone this mountain is made out of, so I can find my way back to it." See?

L-102 And he started out the door, and the flower said, for the... its final time, "You have forgot the main thing."
"Oh," he said, "oh, shut up."

L-103 See, he didn't want to hear it any more, "Forgot the main thing," and he ran out the door. And when he did, the door closed behind him, with the flower on the inside. The main thing was the flower. See? The main thing was the flower.

L-104   Years ago, as a kid, as you all are, here, cattle ranch above here, above Phoenix. I was reading a piece, of prospect, a paper about a prospector. Then, there was no roads through here then, just little sand paths. They still do a lot of prospecting in here, you know.

L-105 But this prospector had come in, and he had found a lot of money, and struck a lot of gold. And on his road in, he stayed in a cabin he had found. And he had a dog with him, and, the--the dog, tied up on the outside. And that night, there had been an outlaw following him, to get this gold. He had picked it up in the old Spanish mines, and he was coming in with it. And the dog started barking.

L-106 And the man didn't want to be bothered with that dog. He said, "Shut up." He said, "Tomorrow, I'll take this in, to--to the city." And I'll... The morals of the story was this. "And I'll have it weighed up, and I'll be a rich man. And I'll buy great cars. And I'll have all kinds of women and big parties. And I'll be a rich man, because I've already struck the claim. I've got the gold here, much of it." And said, "I'll..."

L-107 And while he was trying to go to sleep, the dog kept barking, because the dog seen the outlaw coming up, slipping up, waiting for the prospector to go to sleep.

L-108 He raised up again, and screamed at the dog again, said, "Shut up." And the poor dog whined and tried to warn his master that danger was lurking--lurking. And when he...

L-109 The next time, when the dog started barking, the prospector had a shotgun. He didn't want to be bothered, so he just raised up and shot the dog. And the prospector was killed that night, by the outlaw. All of his fancy dreams done him no good. Why? He stilled the voice that was warning him.


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