<TITLE>06. Par 62-73</TITLE>L-62   Many years ago, when they used to have slavery in the South, they down in Kentucky and Alabama, and down where I come from. They used to take the colored and auction them off, at the--at the auction block, just like if you'd have used cars or something. I believe no man is to be a slave. "God made man, and man made slaves." And they used to come by and buy them, just like you would buy a used car, get a bill of sales, and so forth. That was a terrible thing.

L-63 So they, one day, there was a buyer come by to... a broker, to an old plantation that had many slaves. And he said, "How many slaves you got?"
"Oh," said, "around a hundred and fifty out there, I guess."
Said, "Could I go out and look over them?"
He said, "Sure, help yourself."

L-64 So he went out to look over the--the slaves. And when he looked around, he noticed them fellows, always they were sad. They, the Boers, brought them over from Africa and unloaded them in Cuba out there, and then sent them over here in the South and sold them for slaves. And they knowed they'd never go back home. They know that they'd never see their father and mother, no more, or their children, husband, wives, and so forth. They were--they were a victim of circumstance that they didn't make themselves. And here they was, away from home, and sad. And sometimes they'd have to take whips and whip them, just like they do a beast, cattle, and oxen, horses, and things, and then they--they make them work.

L-65   And this they noticed, this young broker noticed there was one of those young slaves they didn't have to whip him. My, he had his chin up, his shoulders back, and he was really right on the mark all the time. They didn't have to be doing anything to him. [Brother Branham snaps his finger--Ed.] He had the job done. So the owner of the slaves said... The broker said to this owner, said, "I'd like to buy that slave."
He said, "Oh, no." Said, "He's not for sale."

L-66 He said, "Well, why ain't he for sale?" Said, "What you," said, "what do you... What makes him that way?" Said, "Is he the boss over the rest of them?"
Said, "Oh, no. He's a slave."
Said, "Do you feed him different than you do the rest of them?"

L-67 He said, "No, they all ate out in the galley, together." Said, "He's just a slave."

L-68 He said, "Well, what makes him act different than the rest of them?"

L-69 Said, "You know, I often wondered that, too, till I found out that over in the homeland, in Africa where they come from, his father is the king of a tribe. And, yet, he's an alien, far from home, but he knows he's the son of a king, and he acts like it." Oh, my!

L-70 What ought Christians to do? We're sons and daughters of the King. Though we're an aliens, let's act like sons and daughters. Women, let your hair grow out. Quit wearing them clothes that you wear, immoral and things. Man, get back to where a man ought to be. Don't... Act like sons and daughters of God. You're an alien here, but, remember, we are sons of the King.

L-71 See the influence that the man had upon the rest of them, his moral kept the rest of them's hopes high.

L-72   We find out that this king, Uzziah, was a shepherd boy in the days of Isaiah, the prophet. Isaiah was a prophet.

L-73 Prophets are born. They just not laying their hands on them, and making them prophets. They are born, foreordained of God. "Gifts and callings are without repentance." There is a--a gift of prophesy in the church, and it must be judged by three people before the voice should ever be heard amongst the congregation, but that's just a gift of prophesy. But a prophet is absolutely ordained with THUS SAITH THE LORD, from childhood up.


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