'Every person in this town will hate you!' .......'But I’m loved greatly at home by my people!'

I was reading a story sometime ago on a judge. He was a just man, a good man-he was loved. And there was a bunch of people in the city that thought they could get by with anything, so ... they had plenty. So they opened up a house of ill-fame, run a liquor store, liquor-everything like that, that was illegal. And they was caught by the law, the federal man, and was brought to court. And when all the people of the city, the little city, gathered in, they knowed this man had done a lot of things around there-the man that had run the ill-fame place. And they ... the jury found the man guilty, ‘cause he was caught open handed. And so then the judge found them guilty and sentenced them for so many years, without bond, without appeal, or anything, he sent them, because that’s what the law read.

The people outside the court raced him and said, “You know what? Every person in this town will hate you!” Said, “They hate you for making that decision on them men.” They was all gamblers themselves. And they said, “We’ll all hate you! We’ll never elect you again! We’ll never be a one of us vote for you!” booing him as he went down the street.

And he stood, “Just a minute!” said, “Let me have a word!” He said, “I’ve done exactly what was my duty.

The man was guilty, no matter who he was. And I had to sentence him according to the law that I swore I’d uphold!”

He said, “You’re hated in this town!”

He said, “But I’m loved greatly at home by my people!”

We might think the same thing, if you’ll pardon the expression. I’ve stood for what I have been saved to do, uphold this Word of God! I know the denominations hate me for the things that I say, but I’m greatly loved in his house, among his people.

WMB ~  Going Beyond The Camp - Jeffersonville, IN USA - July 19, 1964