Love-Portrait of Christ and the Christian — Leonard Ravenhill

Okay, we're going to read from the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians and chapter 13 the Apostle John. Let me step back a minute. Often preachers refer to the four Gospels. Well, there aren't four Gospels.

The Apostle John and the Gospel of Love

There's one gospel told by four people asked Johnny agrees with me. I Like John to come because he nods he agrees with me. I Like all the people who agree with me and the rest of you. I just put up with you.

But John the Apostle. You know, he was one that they snooty people in acts was it actually said, you know when those men came from the upper room, they Kind of religious superstars look down their noses and they say concerning Peter and John they're what unlearned and ignorant.

They were. I can prove that to you. One of the unlearned was John. He wrote the gospel As we say the gospel according to John. Then he wrote the first epistle of John. Then he wrote the second epistle of John and they read the third epistle and to prove his ignorance.

He wrote the book of the revelation which baffles everybody. I'm after that kind of ignorance. I've got a good share of it, but I'm still after the other part. But John is usually called the Apostle of love.

I read carefully not turning the pages were looking in a concordance today that in his gospel and It's three epistles. He mentions the word love No less than 24 times. And we speak of him usually as the Apostle of love we think of.

Usually we identify I think best with the Apostle Paul as a man going down the road with fire coming out of his nostrils. Breathing out nostrils burning everybody up and yet it was he that wrote this the most superb hymn of love.

That's ever been written or ever will be written. Somebody once said concerning the Apostle boy, I read this 50 years and and I still remember it. He said the Apostle Paul's mind was so steeped in dogma.

It was a mere machine for grinding out metaphysics. Now if you don't know what metaphysics are see any schoolteacher or see John or anybody that works in a bank. They'll be able to help you know Paul the Apostle was a poet.

And he was a pragmatist. He was very very much down-to-earth. I Led you into a trap so nicely tonight if you weren't here the first hymn. Be sure you're here for the first in next week. But anyhow We sang a wonderful old salvation army him.

It's in the cover. Don't look just now, but It's in the cover at the front of the book now that also share and let thy praises what this is what this. This man who was married to one of the booths in the salvation army booth Cliburn.

He was a very I was gonna say strange. You might get that the wrong way a very excitable Pentecostal some of them are you know? Many of them lost the fire. Anyhow, that is dry as Presbyterian. It's very how.

Forget that and He wrote that him bow the roles of share and let thy praises look. What he says about it about love divine love. Waters cannot quench it floods can never drown. Substance cannot buy it loves a priceless crown.

Oh the wondrous story mystery divine I am my beloved. Does it ever thrill you? Oh the first time a fellow holds your hand. Yeah, boy, he's so excited. He almost dropped it electrified. Then when you be married ten years he touched it feels like the tail of a dead fish.

Some of you know, that's true. But to say he's my beloved. That one day I'm going to be part of the bride. The king of kings the Lord of Lords is gonna have the bride of all brides. It's breathtaking.

You see so much of our love is sloppy mushy stuff. You cannot have true love either physical or spiritual without sacrifice without pain. Waters cannot quench it floods can never drown. That set sounds like trouble to me.

But there's another him here. I wanted to quote you, you know, John Wesley wrote that other him that beautiful him. We sang love divine all love excelling. You can talk about all the other love stories in the Bible and they're all diminished.

When you think of the love. And when you think of the Apostle Paul saying in Romans 5 the love of God is shed abroad in our heart by the Holy Ghost. That's justification. But John says in his epistle Not only the love of God is shed abroad in our heart by the Holy.

It says be made perfect in love. Perfect love. What does he say? Perfect love casteth out all fear. Herein is our love made perfect. This is 1 John chapter 4 and verse 17 herein is our love made perfect.

That we may have boldness when? To come to his throne sure. But dear God, I need more than that. I Have boldness to stand in his judgment seat with a billion eyes looking on. With the Apostle Paul looking at me with Saints Apostles and martyrs and all the Saints of the ages.

The thousands who were burned at the stake in the massacre of st. Bartholomew any other massacre all the bloody history. History is not written with ink. It's written with blood. It's not written on paper it's written on the skins of people and Part of our insanity is today.

We're building bigger war machines. Here's the situation there have never been more decisions For Christ than today and nevertheless disciples never more talk about peace and never more armaments. A brother stabbed me tonight.

He said there was a a poll taken recently somewhere in the country. Who do you think they voted to be the president of the United States? You never guess Gorbachev. He came up top of the list in one section.

He came with his smiles. He's a murderer at heart. He's a sworn communist is anti-god anti-american anti-christ. And we're gonna have a collision with these damnable systems before very long and your theology won't stand the test.

You can't love a theology you can only love a person and usually you love the person the most that loves you the most. And this is the extravagance of the Apostle Paul. He out preached everybody out suffered everybody.

Love, Sacrifice, and the Christian Life

You know some people think if you get a church full of really spirit-filled people that solves all your problem. It doesn't it starts them. There's nobody more troublesome than Pentecostals. Well, anyhow, there you are.

And I mean that. You see we say if we all got together and were united wouldn't be wonderful. Listen, they were all of one accord before Pentecost. They were dispersed after Pentecost. They didn't sit in a lump in the upper room.

Dear God, we'd have got extra chairs new carpets a new stained-glass window and so did with a new mouth organ or something. They were scattered abroad everywhere. What preaching it wasn't the miraculous only though they did that I Told some preachers this week.

I said listen if you talk about restoration I'm all for it if you mean restoration to the Stude Bible standard if you mean restoration to deacons as they were in Acts 6 who did signs and wonders and miracles.

I'm for it. If you're talking about joining all the thought together just because they love Jesus forget it. Oh Jesus had a gap in love. Well, why didn't he kiss the Pharisees? Why did he put his arm around the Sadducees?

He hated them. He blistered them and boy, I'll blister them if I get the chance I'm gonna preach Sunday night in Fort Worth. They're gonna be a lot of students there. I understand boy. They learn a lot.

So you pray we have a good meeting in In in Gilmore was it Gilmore? Oh Kill your it killed somebody. You know the only two classes of people in the world asked by the John two classes of people not black and white not Intellectuals and ignorant not rich and poor two kinds of people in the world only.

Those who are dead in sin and those who are dead to sin. You can tempt a miser a man who died with pockets full of gold and rattled gold. He won't move a finger. I look at you and if you and I get really crucified with Christ.

This word won't have that much pull on us you see one of the one of the most forgotten emphases if I'm put it that way about the cross. You have a traditional cross. Let me put it this way. You know what a traditional cross is this way and there's a cross just like a letter T In which a man's head was allowed to go back.

There's a cross like a letter X where you spread your members out and you're crucified and then there's a most hideous of all. Was they would take the body of the man that you killed and they would lay you lay him on the floor.

Then lay you on that dead man and strap wrist to wrist neck to neck legs to legs and you had to carry that body. Wherever you went they stood you up and said get going. So every morning you woke up. You saw those glassy eyes the stench of that body came to you.

If I came along and said I want to cut that. Those ropes off that man. The law said you can do it on one condition. What is it that we tie that body on to you? Do you love that money? No, forget it. Let him take the stinking corpse.

And it's a lie. It's a damnable lie of the preachers that the Apostle Paul finished in Romans 7. He did not in Romans 7 he said it's not I it's sin that dwelleth in me that further up the road. He said it's not I it's Christ that liveth in me.

You see it's easy to get a man loaded with guilt and condemnation and sin and fear of God and judgment and hell. It's easy to get that man to the cross comparatively. It's getting him on the cross. That's a problem.

And then when you get him on the cross, he's tempted. Come down from the cross and save yourself. What are you fasting for? Other Christians are feasting. Oh, they're always having suppers. If you want to make a church go have chicken suppers two or three times a week.

Have a prayer meeting. You'll pray alone have a chicken supper you get crowds. But you see once that man was cut free. He didn't want to go back to that corpse. Paul says Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death.

I heard G. Campbell Morgan preach a marvelous message on holiness. There were about 300 preachers there English preachers. They were the colors backwards way because most of them are going backwards way but I Think it lifting us to high heaven.

He said, you know, even the saintly apostle finished at the end of Romans saying Oh wretched man. It's a libel on the cross. He didn't. Listen, if there isn't deliverance from sin as well as sins, we're like Roman Catholics.

Oh, we're like Mormons. Oh, we're like Muslims. The hindrance to revival in America is not humanism. I believe that. The danger in America or England tonight is not the reason we've digressed and corrupted is not because of the strength of Humanism, but because of the weakness of evangelism.

We don't know the power of the blood. I Love Roman Hebrews 725. He's able to save to the uttermost. I don't care how deep your depravity is. Tell me about your malady. I'll tell you about the remedy. We sing a hymn.

Sometimes we should have sang it tonight. Maybe. It is well, it is well with my soul. The second stanza you may remember says though Satan should buffet and trial should come then the next time that says my sin.

Not my sins my sin or the bliss of this glorious thought my sin not in part. But the whole is God gonna save me 980 percent and say work out your salvation for the other 20 knowing not. When Jesus said it is finished all hell went into panic all heaven went into jubilation.

Because whatever sin you may have the foulest vilest sin that blood can cleanse. Whatever bondage you have whatever you're fettered to he's able to do an amazing thing as I hinted in prayer. I love that phrase not because it's Charles Wesley.

He was a man of impeccable morality. His family was next to the royal family in England one day. He had a wonderful mother mrs. Susanna Wesley. Sure, she's a wonderful mother. She's 17 children. You have to be wonderful to have 17 children.

But one day she got a copy of a book that was written in about the 1500s. What was it called? Life of God in the soul of man, there's my prompter Life of God in the soul of man, and she gave it to Charles and Charles read it.

Then he went into Christ Church, Oxford and sitting in the windowsill was a young man that was going to turn the world upside down a Registered Church of England minister. He knew his Hebrew he knew his Greek.

He was blatant with God in human zeal and then God got all of them sanctified him. Justified him sanctified him edified him. Electrified him because that young man read that and it says on the cover of the present issue of that book.

I never knew what true religion was until I read this book and that was George Whitfield. George Whitfield he was the first of the street preachers in England. So much so did he move the Bishop of Gloucester locked his doors against him and said you can't preach in the Church of England.

Who cares a hill of beans about it, but you don't the name of the Bishop of Gloucester of that year. Do you. I don't. I don't want to. I know the man that was emancipated. I Know the man like Charles Wesley who said long my imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin and nature's night.

He was frozen in orthodoxy. He was bound with ritualism. He was bound with convention and suddenly God illuminated him. And like the Apostle he says I'm a debtor. Get that in your mind preacher boy, or if you anticipate the mission feet, you're a debtor as long as you live.

You don't have a beat of your heart. That's your own. You don't have a cell in your body about what is it. 30 billion and every one of them belong to Jesus Christ. You don't have a dime of money your own.

You don't have a thing the scripture lays it down. You're not your own you're bought with a price. We talk to people as old today. They're doing God a favor to get saved. You know, we live in such a wretched day.

But you know, they make these film star die die of AIDS and they publish it as all they've accomplished something. Dear God, you don't need much character to go to hell. There's nothing smart about sin.

There's no sin that isn't bondage. And yet the church sits dumb. We're debtors to this whole community. I Was glad Tuesday night some preachers came back Wednesday to the church and confessed they were broken up wept.

And once I said to them Tuesday night, you don't need a vacation. What you need is a cave get one and be still with God and so this fellow popular fellow in town Went off for three days to fast and pray and seek God.

But listen, you say preachers should wait a minute. God has elevated you to the priesthood. You're as responsible for the lost as I am Priester of all believers then make intercession. You was much rights to sweat as I have as much right to fast as I have the obligations upon us.

Well, what do you want me to want me to preach or go on talking? Here's madam. Madam, but ignore this is a this is a him that changed Wesley's life. She was a sweet little petite little French lady, she lived a hundred years before John Wesley.

And she wrote this him come Savior Jesus from above. Assist me with with I heavenly grace empty my heart of earthly love. That's where it starts. You can't row football you can't spend Sunday watching football and Professing you love Jesus you don't you love that damn little TV thing.

It's become your God. If you'd rather watch TV than pray then that's your God. What does she say? Come Savior Jesus from above assist me with I heavenly grace Empty my heart of earthly love and for thyself prepare a place.

Or let thy sacred presence fill and set my longing spirit free which pants to have no other will. But day or night to feast on thee. While in this region here below no other good will I pursue. Empty my heart.

I'll bid this world of noise and show with all its glittering snares. Adieu that path with humble speed. I'll seek where in my saviors footsteps shine. Nor will I hear nor will I speak of any other love, but thine henceforth may no profane delight.

Henceforth may no profane delight divide this consecrated soul. Possess it thou who has the right as Lord and master of the whole. Now listen Wesley not many believe that he lived it. What's the last answer.

And this is a wealthy lady? And this is a young man that might have become the Archbishop of Canterbury and he stayed in religion. He might have been the Prime Minister of England. He got into politics.

He had a genius of a mind. He read his Bible most days in French or Spanish. He read his Hebrew read his Greek, but God got over every fiber of his being and sanctified him. So he says henceforth may no profane delight divide this consecrated soul.

Possess it thou who has the right as Lord and master of the all of the whole. Now look what he does. He kisses the world goodbye wealth honor pleasure and what else this short enduring world can give.

Tempters ye will my soul rebels for Christ alone is all to leave thee. Will I love and be alone with pure delight and inward. Bliss to know thou takes me for thine own. That's the miracle of miracles.

I can understand. God loving you you weren't as rotten and self-righteous this little method this guy was but The dear old Scotch was a man that was in prison so long. Rutherford couldn't thank you Martha.

I give you a treat tomorrow. She has a treat every day she lives with me, but what did Rutherford say? In the sands of time of singing he said he would a well-spent journey from here to heaven it if I had to die seven Times it will be still worth it.

It'd be worth if you had a million lives to lay at his feet a Million minds to think of him a million hearts to love him with a million tongues to sing our great Redeemer's praise. I Used to think that the the secret of Paul's life is in is it one Corinthians 7 7 where he says the love of Christ constrains me at 1 Corinthians 5.

But I changed my opinion on that. I believe that the motivating force in the life of the Apostle Paul was this. He said I give him my body. I give my soul. What is it is Philippians 1? The Philippians 119 who remembers it.

I've got my finger on it anyhow. Oh, it doesn't matter oh I'll tell you what it is that Christ may be magnified by my body. How in God's name do you do that? Well soon you'll see some little flowers. Nobody bothers about them.

They're called dandelions. You don't make a Collection of dandelions to present anybody except your mother-in-law maybe. But when they come up you take a dandelion and take a magnifying glass and look through it.

It's about the most beautiful flowering creation. It's so marvelously constructed, but you need the aid of a magnifying glass. Your 20 -20 vision won't do it and you take the flower and look through it and suddenly the whole world comes out of it and Paul says this world is short-sighted.

But let my body. Let them look through my body and see Christ. Is that how you live before your children? There was a principal at the little college. I went to before I went by the name of Thomas Cook and the the pastors the local pastors Help in the house went down to the butcher's shop.

That's when the butcher used to sell nothing but meat. No, he sells everything and She was restless and the butcher said to her Annie a name was Annie. You're so restless today. What's the problem? Oh?

She said sir, they're taking up the rugs and they're taking out the furniture. They're making such a fuss up at the pastor's house. You think Jesus was coming and he smiled he said that's sweet of you to say that Annie.

The next week she went to the butchers again on Saturday. And he said Annie dear. Oh, I'm so glad to see you. I keep thinking about what you said that. They were making so much fuss up at the mansion at the pastor's house.

You'd think Jesus was coming. She said sir he came. Hmm that man was in a house for a week and impressed a little girl not with his theology. The way he lived he conducted himself like Jesus would conduct himself.

That's why Wesley says nothing on earth wealth on a pleasure and what else? He was saved at 35 turn it around is 53 53 and 35 make 88 in case you don't know and that's when he died at 88. What did he have?

I've told you before he left six English pound notes six silver spoons a Handful of books a Geneva gown he preached on. Yes, I'd say six silver spoons six pound notes a Geneva gown or there's something else.

Oh, I know. I know now the Methodist Church. I knew there was something He could have driven around the country in a chariot. He rode horseback Dear God in the middle of the night in the moonlight. He was on the back of the horse reading a Greek primer Studying the Word of God.

He rode more miles than any man in history except an American. You know that was Asbury. Asbury became the American Wesley. Outdid John Wesley by about I think 25 ,000 miles. It was a consuming passion.

It wasn't something they put on on Sundays. They lived and moved and had their being in God. Wesley Wesley cries day by day refining fire go through my heart illuminate my soul. Scatter thy life through every part and sanctify the whole my steadfast soul from falling free.

First Corinthians 13 as a Portrait of Christ

Shall then no longer rove while Christ is all the world to me and all my heart is love. Okay, let's get on with this little while. A Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and Have not was in the King James Version.

Oh, I I call this way in one meeting I said the sleepy Elizabethan English boy a man was ready to crucify me after that. But that's what it was. Wasn't it sleepy Elizabethan English. You know we don't treasure this word as we should.

We don't treasure the martyrs who were burned at the stake and. And they smuggled Bibles into England at one period from Holland in bales of cloth. And now you can buy the thing anyway and find it in a junk store for almost nothing.

This is not a book. You say what is. It's a library. It's got 66 books in 66 most amazing books that ever came to mankind. It has the answer to all our problems, but we're so arrogant. We won't embrace it.

The sermon on the mount is the greatest someone ever preached by the greatest man who ever lived. It answers all our problems. A natural Man can't live the sermon on the mount. You may as well. Tell him to fly up in the air.

He can't do that but it can be done by the grace of God. A man can love God with all his heart and soul and mind and strength. And His neighbors himself you know one of the I think one of the tragic things about the day in which we live.

We don't know the difference between love and lust. We don't know the difference did you hear me between love and lust? Lust demands. Love gives. Lust brings bitterness. Love brings joyfulness. Love brings rejoicing.

Lust brings remorse. Love brings happiness. Lust brings sorrow. And yet the world loves its own. It will honor its own. You know I'm amazed at the discipline p .o. You can't get young people to discipline.

That's a dirty word. What's the news been saying this week. One of the girls that hopes to win a gold medal. Is it next month or whatever? It is a Calgary. For over a year. She's been rising at half-past four in the morning.

Her mother drives at a hundred and fifty miles to a skating rink that's there and back. Every day of her life. She's up at half-past four in the morning. Somebody said can you put your life in into a phrase.

I can put it in one word. What is it? She said invincible? I'm gonna get that thing. I live for it. I dream about it. I pray about it. I practice for it and as Paul says they do it for a corruptible crown and we for an eternal crown.

Dear God what kind of crowns we're going to have in eternity. Salvation is free rewards are not free. All you'll get up there is what you sent up from here. Oh People say about money. I can't take it with you.

You can send it ahead of you. I'll help you you tell me you've got some money I don't want and I'll give it to mysteries who don't buy automobiles and fancy style and in fancy style. They live on the verge of poverty joyfully for Jesus sake.

You see the young people these days. Speaking generally, I'm no role models. Oh also, so he's a hypocrite. He works in the bank. He tells dirty stories to the girls all so-and-so that there's no role models.

Do you know when Wesley really got rolling in England a woman would go in and say to a man would go in rather and Say to his wife darling. I've got good news for you. What is it? Mr. Wesley is I accept?

Oh, she bursted at it. What do you mean? Mr. Wesley accepted you to be a preacher, you know very well, but no preacher that mr Wesley has lips to be on 32 years of age. They were burned out 32 years of age.

Wesley was a genius. There's a series of books. I Have the old English edition a hardback edition called Wesley's veterans in America. It's read publishes Wesley's What's it called in England. Wesley's veterans schmooze sells it anyhow you better find her.

No, I can't as I tell ya, I'm not losing my mind. I just lose my memory now and again. I've got a plug for myself. Nobody else does but any I when those those men. Wesley was a genius and you know what he drew men around him.

They were not his intellectual equal. They were a spiritual equal. They wouldn't pray if he prayed and fasted. They prayed and fasted. They never asked any questions and he never exacted in upon them for his own sake.

He was consumed with a passion for the Lord Jesus Christ. He wasn't there to raise up Methodism. God doesn't raise up denominations. He raises up men and first. First, what are they? What they say first there are movement and Next the one no, it begins with M.

You've got to illiterate it first the movement. But then it but then it ends a monument. But no God is trying to find men today. He'll find up some women too. Because he's promised you put out this spirit your sons and your daughters shall prophesy.

Again I'm pushing the Pentecostals because they say we believe they do not believe the Word of God. If they did you'd have to every deacon out of it tested to see if it was full of faith that the Holy Ghost if you do signs and wonders.

Christianity is either supernatural or superficial and the glory has to come back. You see we haven't won on the mission fields. Why. Because we've taken a list of doctrines and one day Youngsters go to a school and they hear about the Quran and they teach their doctrine and the mystery goes and teach out.

There's no life in it. There's no power. There's no authority. There's nothing that stirs the conscience and awakens people up. I remember reading 50 years ago a statement by John Ruskin. He was a famous art critic and he said he said I don't know if you heard that John.

But but he said preaching is 30 minutes to raise the dead. I thought I was facetious, but it isn't when I go in church now every role that I see is death. Oh, they're dead in trespasses and in sin and my job under God as I said Tuesday night when the woman saw the barrel of Meal didn't fail when she saw the oil spurting out.

She said nothing about it other miracles. Huh, but when Elijah raised the dead she said by this I know thou art a man of God that the dead are living and that's our job. People are dead in trespasses and in sin.

They may be rich. They may be smart. They may be intellectual, but they've got a space in there that only God can fill. Philosophy won't fill it education won't fill it and Paul knew. What do you say here?

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels. No, let's go to the last verse of the previous chapter. What do you say cup? It's honestly the best gifts, but I show unto you a more excellent way.

You know the holiness people kiss the whole thing. Goodbye there. They say the Apostle said forget about gifts. I show you more excellent way and then they go and they say you see. Paul says though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and if you don't and and they say The Apostle says tongues are nothing miracle.

It doesn't say that he says I may speak with the tongues of men of angels. But if I don't have love I'm nothing. The tongues are valid from here to eternity. These smart boys in Dallas will tell you the Old Testament is a dispensation of the Father the New Testament Dispensation of the Son and today the dispensation of the Holy Ghost.

Then they want to give the Holy Ghost directions. He can come. But he doesn't come with miracles. He mustn't come with signs and wonders. He must go down the track and the Holy Ghost says goodbye. The greatest sin in America tonight is not adultery.

It's not this damnable herpes and all these other sex. Combinations of the killing people. The greatest hindrance to revival in America tonight is unbelief. We're unbelieving believers. As I've said somebody one day is going to get this book and read it and believe it.

When they do will all be embarrassed. I had a dear black boy in my office the other day and I asked him where he was from. He told me I Said what's it like in your country? What church you he said our pastor is 20 years of age.

He's what? 20 years of age. He's the official pastor. He's not the leader though boy the past has to be everything that here. Doesn't he janitor electrician? Wash the dishes buy the chicken for the chicken suppers.

Clean the chickens. He's just about to do everything. You know this fellow said he said our pastor is 20 years of age, but the leader of the church is 19 years of age. I said what he said he goes in the meeting see somebody twisted out the beautiful gates of the temple.

And he says Jesus doesn't want you like that rise and walk. They get up and walk. She's a man with a swollen jaw. Something he said be healed in the name of Christ. The man's delivered. Somebody else has some other disease and he speaks with authority.

You know nobody said about the Holy Ghost revival under the Pentecostals of the book. Everybody should read seven Pentecostal pioneers. And that was in my period in England nobody said sarcastically. Faith healing is fake healing.

They didn't when you saw a twisted deformed man go in church and saw him walk out. You didn't have to tell people to come to church a storm to get there. They went outside the church and lined up to get in the service next afternoon at 3 o 'clock.

English people doing that. Boy, I was in a meeting where a man got healed. You know those English people forget all the starch. Forgot their modesty. They threw books in there threw their hats in there a man was miraculously healed.

And somebody told him it doesn't happen. Boy, I'm you glad God doesn't read Christianity today. It's Christianity every day if we really were obeying God. So here we have it here in the authorized version though.

I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity. You know Tyndale. Translated from the original create original Greek. I need translated. He translated that. What was it. Latin word?

Cardian. I think from which you get charity. You see and I'm right through this reading of the King James Version charity suffers on into this kind charity envious not charity bond. That's not itself.

What do you mean by charity. By charity give away your surplus your old clothes near surplus cash? We had a little lady came to a church. I passed it in Sheffield England. She was about 80 pounds went through.

At paler's death her husband was three times that weight and boy he punched her around she'd come with black face black mouths. I Never never once disturbed. She was gorgeous. One day she came in a new coat.

Going out of the church. She went in a foyer and She always said mr. Amy look. Who I said what a gorgeous dress and what a lovely coat she used to come in with a coat. You know somebody gave her another lady.

The only reason the lady gave it was charity. She'd worn the fur off her back, you know. It wears off so this sanctified lady can go to church if the color look like a cat that's been scolded. Hardly any fur on it.

So she took the old coat and gave it to this little woman. Listen would you give Jesus an old coat like that in as much as you do it to the least you do it unto him so this rich lady Was praying one day saying my Jesus.