<TITLE>16. Par 155-162</TITLE>L-155   Then the first thing you know, this one broker came by a plantation he was told, one day, and he was looking over the slaves. And he said, "How many you got?"
Said, "Oh, we got about two hundred out there."

L-156 And so he watched him, and the people were sad. They were away from their home, their loved ones. They brought from Africa here, and brought in by the Boers, and sold down here in the South, and they--they knowed they'd never go back home. They--they were finished. They'd never get to go back. And they were sad. And you... They couldn't make them work, hardly. They didn't. They'd have to whip them, and everything else, to make them work, because they know they'd never get back home. Their daddy was over there, maybe mother here and daddy over there, and maybe the children here and their father somewhere. Oh, it's terrible.

L-157   And one day this broker came by and looking at this bunch of slaves, and he noticed there was one of those young slaves out there that they didn't have to whip him. He had his chest out, and his chin up; he walked around, he was right on the spot. And the broker said, "Say, I want to buy that one."
The owner said, "But he is not for sale."
Said, "Why?"
Said, "I have to keep him."
He said, "He must be the boss over the rest of them."
He said, "No, no. He ain't the boss."
"Well," said, "maybe you feed him better."
Said, "No, they all eat out there in the galley, together."

L-158 He said, "Well, what makes him so much different from the rest of the slaves?"

L-159 He said, "I often wondered that myself, till one day I found out." Said, "Over in the homeland where he come from, his father is the king of a tribe. And though he is an alien, he still knows he's a king's son. He conducts himself like one."

L-160   Oh, if we are the sons and daughters of the King, the King of kings, let's conduct our character as Christians. That's right. Yes, we are aliens, we are pilgrims and we're strangers here. This is not our world. We are seeking a Kingdom that is to come. This is not our home. Though we be tossed about and made fun of, by the world, and called this, that, and the other, and "old fashion," and all like that, what do you care? You don't want to be patterning yourself after some kind of a movie star, or some television star, or something. You're a daughter of God. You're a son of God. Let's act like God. We are the children of God, we know, and we are sons and daughters of the King. Let our character reflect His Presence, no matter how rough it gets.
A tent or a cottage, why should I care?
They are building a palace for me over There!
With rubies and diamonds, of silver and gold,
His coffers are full, He has riches untold.
We're the children of the King!
With Jesus our Saviour,
I'm a child of the King!

L-161 Let's conduct ourselves like our Father. Knowing, someday, we will go home to be with Him. Yes. Yes.

L-162   They, they want a Messiah, but they want it under their own conditions. Yea, they want a Saviour, they did, and want it now the same way, for the same reason, for the denominationals and politics has taken the place of the Holy Spirit. The ministers, instead of being... Too many of them are led by the--the religious politics, instead of letting the Holy Spirit lead them. See? Some church will give them a little better offering, or something another, and away they go, to get a feather in their hat, or something like that. But, that, that's too bad. We ought to be led by the Holy Spirit. God sent the real Leader of the Church, and that's the Holy Ghost.


<A HREF="P17">Next Page</A>