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The Gospel & Your Identity [i] Incredibly Wealthy Slave In Colonial US the story is told of a wealthy plantation owner who died and left an exorbitant inheritance of $50K to his chief of slaves.  The money was deposited in the local bank in the slave’s name, and several months passed without the slave making any draw on the money. Finally the banker called the slave to remind him that this huge wealth of money was available to him in his own account at the bank, and when he finally convinced the man that this wealth was indeed legally his… the slave meekly asked, “Then do you think it possible for me to have 50 cents to purchase a bag of cornmeal?”  This man was living in severe poverty while at the same time possessing a great fortune beyond his understanding! The Blessed Beggar I got off at the Pennsylvania depot as a tramp, and for a year I begged on the streets for a living.  One day I touched a man on the shoulder and said, “Hey, mist...