<TITLE>32. Par 116-117</TITLE>L-116  Way back up on the side of the hill was some big cedar trees. I heard the wind whistling through there. It seemed like the song said,
 There's a land beyond the river,
 That they call the sweet forever.
 And we only reach that shore by faith's decree.
 One by one they gain the portals,
 There to dwell with the immortals,
 Someday they'll ring those golden bells for you and me.
Last Easter a year ago, her little son there, Billy and I, we'd go to the grave early of a morning, I had a little bundle of flowers under his arms, I said, "Let's go visit mama's grave."
We were going along there with the flowers, coming day. I took off my hat, and the little old fellow took off his hat. I heard...?... I said, "Don't cry, sonny." I put my arm around him. We set it down by the side of the grave. I read it: "Right there lays Hope Amelia Branham and darling daughter, Sharon Rose." I said, "Sweetheart, the re--re--reason we're kneeling here Billy, in Jerusalem there's an empty grave this morning. That's right. And your mother died in Him Who rose again." I said, "Someday, we'll see mama and sissy again in a better land."

L-117  After my wife, they'd buried her, I went home. I tried to go to work. I had thousands of dollars in debt, and frankly on that till just recently got out of it.
...?... father had died, no insurance. We couldn't afford insurance or nothing and there he was. By the way I'm not an insurance person.
Buy insurance... One guy come to me the other day, said, "I want to sell you some insurance."
I said, "I... Listen, don't talk to me about that." I said, "I have insurance."
Said, "Oh, you have insurance?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
Said, "What is it?"
I said, "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine."
He said, "That'll not put you in the grave up here."
I said, "I'm not worried about getting in there. That'll bring me out." I said, "I'm worried about coming out, not going in." I said, "That's right." I ain't got nothing against insurance, it's all right. You see? That's all right. And some people's insurance poor. That's right. But I tell you of an insurance you can collect on it right now: Just now the Holy Spirit of God. Is right. The assurance of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, and we'll come out again.


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