<TITLE>15. Par 146-154</TITLE>L-146   We want our wants supplied, but He supplies our needs. That, that's the difference. We want our wants, and He gives us our needs. But He knows what we have need of. And we would most surely, the world would today, accept It if It come according to our tradition. Oh, the Baptists would like to say, "It's according to what we believed It. You see, you were all wrong." The Methodists say, "Now you Baptists are wrong, It's according to what... It come the way we believed It." But I imagine It'll come different from what any of us think about It. That's right. It's going to come the way God has ordained It to come, and it's just not in man to be able to cut this thing out and say it's that way. Now would you...

L-147   We wonder today, what, why the gifts and things are not in the church, operating the way they should be. Why, the gifts are put in the church, to separate and take sin out, to keep the church clean. It's--it's God's toxin that's given to the church. It's God's... also His disinfect that He puts into the church, to kill out all the--the parasites that--that tear up the church. And--and--and God sprays His church over, with His Word. And that keeps all the--the termites out, you know, so the church can grow, a plant. And God knows what it takes to do it. Well, you say...

L-148   It's just like a--a little baby crying for your razor, when you were shaving. And your--your little baby was hollering, "Give me that razor, Daddy! Give me that razor!" Your little son, two or three years old, just scream, and jumping up-and-down on the floor, "Give the razor!" Well, you know better than to do that. Well, you wouldn't give that baby that razor. He doesn't know how to handle it.

L-149 And that's the reason we don't find no more Divine gifts than what we do. They push it off on some kind of a tradition, over in some denomination. They don't know how to handle it. God knows what to do with it. Well, you might say...

L-150 The little boy might say to you, you refused him the razor, say, "I see you handling it, Daddy." But, see, you're older, you know what to do with it.

L-151 And that's the way when the church becomes from a--a little baby toddling around, to a real virtue of--of sons and daughters of God, then things are going to be different. Yes, sir. The church ought to be acting as sons and daughters. When we ought to be teachers, we have to be taught.

L-152   Reminds me. If my colored friends here tonight, my brothers and sisters, will excuse this expression. Years ago, down in the South, they used to sell people, when the slavery was going on down in the South. And they took those poor people, and would take them out and auction them off, like some kind of a used car lot. You would have a bill of sale.

L-153 The human life. It never was God's will to have no man rule over another. Man made... God made man, and man made slaves. We're all off the same tree. One can give the other one a blood transfusion, whether we're yellow, black, brown, red, or whatever we are. We're all Adam's race. The country we lived in, it had changed our colors, has nothing to do with it, not at all. Jesus died to save the sinner, no matter who it was.

L-154   And there used to be brokers came, come by and would buy them people. Just like you would buy a--a car, come by and buy so many used car; take it, sell it somewhere else. They would come by the plantations and find these poor people out there, and look around, and find out which one was good workers, and big strong men and women. And they would sell them, take the big strong men and breed them to big strong women, like you would cattle or something, to get a bigger, heavy slave. I wonder what... Hell will be full of that kind, a--a thing like that! And here they was, little old mother with her babies, crying, her husband auctioned off. It was terrible.


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