<TITLE>10. Par 96-106</TITLE>L-96 Job, when he seen this... And Abraham saw it; he buried Sarah near Job, purchased the field, bought it with his money so that it would be assured, put witnesses before it, that he was assured he bought this field for a burying place. And then Abraham himself, when he died, he was buried with them also in the same field.
Abraham begot Isaac. And when Isaac died, he was buried with Abraham, under the same vision, the same thought, the same deep calling to the deep, the same "I know my Redeemer liveth," the same thing, the same evidence.
And then when Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob died way down in Egypt, way away from this land... And he was a crippled man. He walked different what he used to walk, because one night he come in contact with an Angel of God. And the Lord touched his hip and made him walk different. He had an evidence that he had been a hold of God, and God had been a hold of him. And that's the way, when he got that evidence, that old crippled hip that he walked on there, making him walk straight...
One side, a great boaster, a great... Well, what he was really called, he was a deceiver. It was called "deceiver." The very word Jacob means "deceiver." And when he was on this side, a deceiver, a great, healthy, strong, deceiver, on the other side, a limping prince that had been with God, touched, different, had that blessed hope within him. He walked different. He acted different. He lived different.
And when he was getting ready to die, way down in Egypt... Think of it now. With that inspiration before the resurrection, give to him in a measure before the resurrection, he said, "I know something's going to happen up yonder in Egypt, one... Not in Egypt, but up in the promised land one of these days. So upon the very place that this inspiration... "Come here, my boy, Joseph," which was a prophet. He said, "Come here and lay your hand on this, wrestled, the place where I have been. And swear to me, by the God of heaven, that you'll not bury me down here. Swear that you won't bury me here." For he knowed it was essential that he was gathered with them people.

L-103 That's the reason today we want to sing as we put our hand upon the old rugged cross, "I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few; though it be criticized, though it be made fun of, though I may be a great, popular guy here..."
Like that one day, as was, a little old boy run around town here, and kind of popular among the, so forth, the young folks. But I seen something one day that come down in here. And I took the place of the limping side, on the other side.
Aren't you glad this morning, you took your position over there? For there was something in--in you.

L-106 A young lady... When I was just a boy preacher, over here at a place I was preaching, she... I taken her to church one night. And she said, "Billy, we'll... After the church, can we go to the show? "
I said, "I don't go to shows."
She said, "Well," said, "could we--could we have a--an appointment or date to go out to some dance that was going to have?" And the girl was a Sunday school teacher.
And I said, "Why, no." Her brother was a minister. He don't live very far from right here. And he said, "Can we go to a--a--a dance? "
I said, "I don't dance."
And she said, "You don't?" Said, "Where do you ever have any fun?"
I said, "Come down to the church, I'll show you." Amen.


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