<TITLE>04. Par 12-14</TITLE>L-12 Now, we found out that how that the power of death could reign through Satan, but he... at death, he can only... That's as far as he can go. And we just take a little bit for a background now, to get to our--the thought that we want to speak on, just for a few moments, and try to be ready for the prayer line within the next twenty to thirty minutes, so we can give the biggest time now into the--the prayer line.
And you have fine ministers all through here who--who are preachers, and they can preach the Gospel to you, but this... just going back as it was like a Sunday school lesson. And I'm a prospector. You didn't know that, did you? Yeah, I go down in the Bible, and dig up these gems, and clean them off a little, you know, look at them. They... And I like to dig in the Book of Exodus, 'cause you find plenty gems in there. And if you happen to look, every one of them was chipped off of the Lord Jesus, point right back to Him again.
So that in Him dwells all the fullness, and all the blessings, all the redemption, all the healing. All that there is lays right in Christ Jesus. And you, in Him you have a right to ask the Father anything you will in His Name. He said, "I'll give it; I'll do it." What a promise.

L-13 Now, Satan does... We do not want to be mistaken. Satan has a power. And that power is death. And he can.. He has the--a power of death. Satan is the one who takes your life when God will let him do it. But God can hold your life, and Satan cannot take it until God lets him do it. He can only use that power as God will let him use it. Isn't that wonderful? Death... You know, someone said one time, "What is death?"
He said, "God harnessed death up to a buggy, and the only thing death can do is pull the believer in the Presence of his Maker." So it ain't a bad thing after all, is it?
You know, I wouldn't want to live in this old pest house all the time. Would you? Well, looky here what forty-six years has done for me. Hmmm. I was thinking, not long ago I was a little chubby handed boy playing marbles. Hasn't been, look like, just two changes of the moon since I was a young fellow and straight in the shoulders; and I'd won the Bantam Weight Championship in the Golden Gloves, and went out in professional fighting, and I--I thought I was a big fellow.

L-14 I used to stand and comb a big shock of black wavy hair. And I'd sure have a time doing that tonight. The other day I was combing my hair, not the other day, sometime ago, and my wife said to me, she said, "Billy, you know you're getting all the way bald-headed."
I said, "Well, honey, but praise God, I haven't lost a one of them."
And she said, "Well, where you think they are?"
I said, "You tell me where they was before I got them; they was somewhere; they had to come on here. And now, ever where they are now, they are where they was 'fore I got them; they're waiting for me to come to them." Amen. Amen. [Congregation applauds--Ed.] Isn't that the truth?
There was one time they was not, and then they was, and then are not. One time I was, and I am; I was not, I am now, and I will be again. God just takes that old petroleum, and moisture, and--and lights--cosmic light, and whatever we're made with. And when He gets through with this soul here and takes it into His Presence, then when that King of Spirit leaves glory some of these days, the Lord Jesus Christ, He will turn my spirit loose from glory. And when it screams, all the cosmic light, and the calcium and the... all that I'm made up of, and the moisture and the petroleum, will come together in a young healthy man, and I'll never change no more. Hallelujah. Yes, sir.


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