<TITLE>16. Par 184-199</TITLE>L-184 As I said last night about a--a king one time, down in the South when they had the colored down there was sold for slaves. Why, they was no more than just a--a used car market, you get a bill of sales on them. And I was alarmed, at a little place... I read one day where a--a broker come along to buy some, and he said, "Well, now, I'd like..." They was sad, you'd have to whip them, make them work because they was away from home. They was sold, slaves. And they in a foreign country they knowed nothing about, and they'd never be back home again, and they were sad. You had to whip them, make them work. But this broker come by a certain plantation.

L-185   One young fellow there with his chest out, his chin up, you didn't have to whip him. He was right up, and he kept the morals of the rest of them up.
The broker said, "I'll buy him."

L-186 He said, "He's not for sale. Ain't going to. You ain't going to buy him, because he's not for sale."

L-187 He said, "Well, what makes him so much different?" Said, "Is he the boss over the rest of them?"
Said, "No."
Said, "Do you feed him different?"

L-188 Said, "No. He's a slave, he eats out there in the galley with the rest of them."
Said, "What makes him so much difference?"

L-189 He said, "I wondered myself, till I found out. Over in Africa (where they come from, where the Boers bought them, and brought them over here and sold them for slaves), over there his father is a king of the tribe. And yet, an alien, away from home, he knows he's the son of a king. So he conducts himself that way."

L-190   What a rebuke to Christianity! We're supposed to represent God and Eternal Life. There's only one form of Eternal Life, and that's God. He alone has Eternal Life. And we are products of His, because we're genes of His Spirit. Then we should conduct ourself, women and men, like the Bible said for us to do. Not Jezebels of the street, and Rickies of the organization; but Christian gentlemen, sons and daughters of God, borned of the Spirit of God, manifesting the Light in our days and scattering It. That's exactly right.

L-191   How far we've drifted from It! Why? The same thing this boy did here. He rejected, refused Eternal Life, because It would cost him his social standing, It'd cost him his--his--his luxury of money, It'd cost him his fellowship in the church, It'd cost him a lot of things. He knowed what It was going to cost him, he was a sensible boy, and he felt that he couldn't pay the price. Yet he thought, "I'll just trust my religion and go on." But down in his heart he knowed there was something about Jesus Christ was different from them priests of that day.

L-192   And any Message that's come in, a genuine, borned Message of God, is different from the old trend. When a Divine healing went forth, not long ago, did you notice how the impersonators followed it? See? And every one of them went right in them organizations, staying there. Does anyone know that there had to be a Message follow that? Why, God don't entertain us! He attracts our attention with something, and when He attracts our attention, then He's got His Message.

L-193 Look when He was first come on the earth, and started His ministry, "O young Rabbi, we want You over here in our church. We... Come on down here." The young Prophet. "Oh, we want You over here. Come here."

L-194 But one day He stood up and said, "I and My Father are One."

L-195 "Oh, my! He makes Hisself God."

L-196 "Except you eat the Flesh of the Son of man and drink His Blood, you have no Life in you."

L-197 "He's a vampire! We have nothing to do with that."

L-198 Them apostles set right there; thousands left Him, but those apostles were ordained to Life. He said so. They couldn't explain It; they believed It. They stayed right with It because, said, "No man could do these works."

L-199   Even the priests knowed that. Nicodemus said, "We know" (the Sanhedrin council) "that no man could do these works except it be from God." See?


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