<TITLE>09. Par 35-38</TITLE>L-35 You know a ship sometime... Servicemen and so forth know it, and you who been on the sea... When really the waves gets to dashing too hard for the boat, they anchor it. And it's got a line that lets down that holds it. It may flip it around this a way and around that way, but that anchor holds it. The anchor... They cannot see land anywhere, but they drop the anchor beyond the veil, which is the water. And that anchor goes down into the bottom of the sea pot... top of some big mountain somewhere, and drags till it catches on that mountain, holds into that crevasse there, and all the sea can't move it no more. It's anchored out of sight.
And every person that has received Jesus Christ as personal Saviour, been borned again with the Holy Spirit, you've dropped anchor. If you're sick and your hope is built on Christ, you've dropped your anchor. The doctor may say this, that, or other, but as sure as your faith looks yonder, the waves, sick spells, fever, may rise, and everything like that, but your anchor holds within the veil.

L-36 Somewhere out yonder in the mystic land say, "What have you got your hopes built on? The doctor said it's gone. The medicine says it can't do nothing. The surgery has failed." But my hopes is not built in that. We have our hope within the veil. What veil? Through the shedding of His Blood that tore His Spirit from His body. And in between that veil there, the anchor has caught a hold of something.
I seen a ship one time when it was tossed out there, and I thought, "What's holding that ship in that same spot?" I couldn't understand, setting out there in the sea. And I noticed the waves had carried around this way and back around this way, but it didn't move from that place. I could not see nothing. But there was a little wire rope that run down from the bow of that ship onto an anchor that had caught onto something beneath my--where I could not see, beyond the water, and it was a holding there. And I said, "Praise be to God. Yes. One day I found an anchor."

L-37 I read down here, it said, "Whosoever will, let him come..." I cast that anchor beyond something I couldn't see; something caught a hold. And when the battles are raging, the anchor holds within the veil. When infidels rise, and troubles arise, and all around me gives away, our anchor holds within the veil. "Where's it at?" I don't know, but it's beyond the veil, somewhere yonder anchored into the Rock of Ages. Our anchor is steadfast, unmovable; it holds in, within the veil. "Which hope we have as a anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast." Sure and steadfast! Oh, if we only had a little more time to get what assurance means. "Surance," something that you know in your assurance... What's assurance? God swore by oath He'd do it. That's the assurance.

L-38 Here some time ago a man come to me and he said, "Billy, I want to sell you an insurance policy." Now, I... Insurance is all right. I don't have any myself. I guess I went to extremes with it.
A--a company beat my poor old dad, one time, out of a lot, and 'cause he was too illiterate to read the policy. And a Philadelphian lawyer couldn't read one straight anyhow. So he said... He sold him this policy, and he paid for it for my brother and I for twenty years. Come to... said it'd be worth five hundred dollars at the end of the time. And through the depression and things, the poor old fellow working... At the end of it they told us they'd read the policy wrong; it was worth seven dollars and fifty cents. So it kind of bittered me.


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