<TITLE>03. Par 23-38</TITLE>L-23   But back in the slave time, they were selling slaves, human beings, like an auction block, like they would a used car lot. There was a buyer come forth, through the country, and he would buy them up, and go sell them and make money on them, just like you would on a used car or something.

L-24 Never was God's program! God made man; man made slaves. One is not to rule over the other. We're to live together in unity and peace.

L-25   And this man come to an old plantation. He--he wants. "How many slaves you got?"
Said, "A hundred or more."

L-26 He was looking them over, and he happened to notice, there was one slave among those people...

L-27 The slaves were sad. The Boers of Africa had caught the slaves, brought them over here and made, and sold them. And they knowed they'd never go back to the homeland. They knowed they were here for the rest of their life. They'd never see their children again. They'd never see papa and mama. They were here for all the time, and they were sad. And they'd even carry whips, and whip them, to make them work. And so they had to make them work, because they didn't want to work. They were just all broke down.

L-28   This slave buyer looked over there. And he found among these slaves, there was one young fellow. They didn't have to whip him; chest up, chin up, right on the job. And the broker said to the owner of the slaves, said, "I want to buy that slave."
Said, "He is not for sale."
He said, "He seems to be different from the other slaves."
Said, "He is."

L-29 Said, "What makes the difference? Is he a boss over the rest of them?"
He said, "No, no. He's just a slave."

L-30 Said, "Maybe you feed him different than you do the rest of them."

L-31 He said, "No, he eats in the galley with the rest of the slaves."
Said, "What makes him so much different?"

L-32 He said, "I always wondered that, myself, till I found out. Over in the homeland, in Africa where he come from, his father is the king of the tribe. And regardless of where he's at, he still knows he's the son of a king, and he acts like one."

L-33 Hallelujah! If you're a daughter of a King, then don't act like the world. If you're a son of the King, don't act like the world. We are, we know that we are sons and daughters of God. Though we're here in a dark world of death and sorrow, yet we know where our heritage is. We are sons and daughters of a King; not a king, but the King. Let's act like it.

L-34   A few moments ago, reason I was late, a little Ethiopian girl making up the room, and I noticed she was doing something. I was trying to write out some Scripture text for something I wanted to speak on. Don't come to speak just to be heard; I come to say something that'll help the church, to do some help. And then I studying, and this little lady kept kind of holding around. Directly she said, "Would you pardon me, sir?"
And I said, "Yes, ma'am."

L-35 And she said, "They tell me that you is the man who did got favor before God, that when you pray for the sick, that God answers your prayer."

L-36 I said, "He don't only answer mine, but He answers anybody that will believe Him."

L-37 She said, "I am sick, sir. Would it be out of the way that if I ask you to have a little prayer for me?"
Said, "Not at all."

L-38 I stepped up to her. I prayed something like this. "Lord Jesus, many years ago, when You were dragging an old rugged cross up a sandy hill, and dragging out the footprints of the Blood that was trailing down off Your back. Your little, frail body got so weak that You fell beneath the load. There was one standing by, by the name of Simon, a Negro, he picked up the cross and help You bear it. Here is one of his children, this morning, sick." About that time, it happened. See? He is God of the whole human race.


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