<TITLE>04. Par 29-41</TITLE>L-29   Before I forget it, my son told me a while ago, some little lady, and her husband from Arkansas, baked me a birthday cake and give it to me. Many of you has give me cards and things. I haven't even had time to get into yet. Thank you, very much. God bless you. And I hope you have a... we all spend an Eternal birthday over yonder, where we'll sit down, and I want a--I want a ten thousand years with each one of you, just sit down and talk. And we won't have any less time, to talk, than we did when we began. That's the Truth. Now I thank you for all that you've done.

L-30   Now just for about ten minutes, or fifteen at the most, maybe, if the Lord willing, to just pass a few comments.

L-31 I want to say this, that I trust that my feeling, leading to come; you pastors feeling led to sponsor me to come, that give me an open door; you people were loyal to come out; and Jesus has not failed but what He's appeared to us each time, in the sign of the hour that we're living in. And I trust that His resurrection, everlasting, Eternal Being, and His Presence, has influenced you to love Him and serve Him more than you ever did in all your life, to purpose in your heart to live true to Him, and live closer, better.

L-32   I heard a story once that was told me, about when they had the slaves here in the South.

L-33 They used to sell them on markets, and so forth, like they did when in the time of the slaves. They, the Boers, brought them in, out here at Jamaica Island. Then the people over here, they smuggled them in. And they bought them for slaves, which was legal in them days. And they would go by and buy them, and they'd find good heavy slaves, why, they would... They would breed that big heavy slave to a heavy woman; that would make a better man. That's the reason they're champions of the world today, in things, in their fighting. They're just had a bred in, like cattle, and so forth.

L-34   But then we find a buyer, one time, a broker came by to buy on a plantation where they had about a hundred slaves.

L-35 And those slaves, were, they were sad. They would have to whip them, to make them work, because they was away from home. They were smuggled away, captured, went into captivity and was smuggled away. And they would have to whip them, to make them work, because they were discouraged; they're away from home. They'll never see papa and mama no more. They'll never see their wife or children. It was a sad affair.

L-36 And this broker, one day, come by a plantation, said, "How many slaves you got?"
Said, "About a hundred." Said, "Look them over."

L-37 And he went out there, and he noticed them, how they was all... But one young fellow, they didn't have to whip him. His chest was out. His chin was up, right on the dot. And so the broker, the buyer, said to the owner, he said, "Say, I'd like to buy that slave."
He said, "Oh, no. He's not for sale."

L-38 He said, "Well," said, "is that slave, is he the boss over the rest of them?"
He said, "No, no, he's not a boss."
Said, "Do you feed him different?"

L-39 Said, "No. They all eat out there in the galley, together. He's just a slave."
Said, "What makes him so much different from the others?"

L-40 He said, "I wondered a long time, myself, what made him different. But one day I found out. Over in the homeland, where they come from, Africa, his father is the king of the tribe. And yet, being an alien, he knows he's a son of a king, and he acts like one."

L-41   Oh, what ought that to do to us! Though we be alienated, though we're in a dark world of unbelief, and sorrow and sickness and death, yet let's act like sons and daughters of God. We are the sons and daughters of the King. It ought to change our attitude, everything. No matter what the rest of the world is, we must hold up the rights of God. We remember that this is not our home. We are not of this country. We're not of this world. We're born of the Spirit of God, which is Above.


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