The Revelation of Jesus Christ
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things. They are like the man in Australia, with whom I talked one day as we stood, surveying his ranch. "It embraces more than 700,000 acres," he said to me. Arid as we looked out over the vast possessions which that man called his, we could not see to the end of the land which made up his ranch. In the course of our conversation, he began to take the name of God in vain. Then I said to him:- "You say that all of this land is yours? You may think so now; but the day is coming when the One who created it, the One who redeemed it, the One to whom God has given it, will return to the earth, and He will take possession of every thing which you so pridefully call your own!" One day there will be a great transfer of property, for the Son of God owns this earth. "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein" · (Psa. 24: 1). Thank God, there are still some folk in the world who hold what they own in trust for God, and use it as good stewards. You remember the account of how, when our Lord was upon the earth, He "sent two of his disciples, saying, Go ye into the village over against you; in the which at your entering ye shall find il colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring him hither. And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him" (Luke 19:30, 31). In the Greek, the words "owner" and "lord" are the same; and our Lord was, in effect, saying this: "If any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the owner hath need of him." We are owners of things, only providing the Son of God does not need them; but when He does need anything which you or I possess, then our right of possession ceases imme- diately, because His is the primary right. · This very afternoon, at the close of our Jewish meeting, a Hebrew Christian came up to me and said: "-Mr. Talbot, I own in this city of Los Angeles $70,000.00 worth of business property; yet in a sense I do not own it, for every square inch of it belongs to the Son of God. I want you to pray with me that I may be successful in disposing of it. If I sell it, I am
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