<TITLE>16. Par 58-61</TITLE>L-58 Job being a prophet caught the vision. When the washing of the water by the sprinkling of the blood, or the sprinkling of the water of separation upon him. When he heard the Word coming from Elihu, his heart caught it because he was a prophet. He stood up. The thunders roared; the lightning begin to flash across the skies; the prophet got into the Spirit. That's the only way the Church is ever going to catch a vision of what to do, when they get in the Spirit of it.
What we need today is a good, old fashion revival times again. You go to dances and kick your feet, and do all kinds of ungodly looking things, and swing the girls over top of their heads, and--on televisions and things, which ought to be censored and put off the television program... Right. And you carry on all kind of nonsense in the name of civilization. It's going back to beyond pagans, what they would do. You know that's truth. That's right. But you think it's civilization. It's the mark of--of--of not civilization; it's a mark of--of deterioration, instead of civilization. Sure it is. The minds of men have become deteriorating. Things are happening.

L-59 But with Job being a--in the Spirit, he caught the vision of the coming just One. And he shook himself and stood up and said: "I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He will stand on this earth: though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh I'll see God; Whom I shall see for myself, mine eyes shall behold and not another. We've brought nothing into the world, and it's certain we take nothing out." How that God watered that man.
Then he seen the coming of the Lord Jesus and recognized it. By... Why? He stood firm and pat on the shed blood of the innocent sacrifice, knowing that there's nothing good in him, but he knowed Who he had believed. As Paul said, "I know Who I have believed, and persuaded that He's able to keep that which I've committed to Him against that day."

L-60 Out yonder sets a big channel before each one of us. It's a great, dark channel hanging yonder. Each time our heart beats we go one step closer to it all the time. After while it'll take its last beat, and we've got to go in there. It's a place called death; it's set before every mortal. I got to go too. I don't know when my last beat will be here. But when it comes, I want to do this. I want to go in knowing this: that I know Him in the power of His resurrection, that when He calls from among the dead, I'll be called out from there.

L-61 Not long ago, an insurance agent was at my house. Nothing against insurance. But he said, "Billy, I want to sell you a policy."
I said, "I got insurance." He knowed I didn't have any insurance, earthly. I said, "I got insurance."
My wife looked around at me as if to say, "What--what's that?"
I said, "I have insurance."
He said, "Billy, what kind insurance you got?"
I said.
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchased of God,
Borned of His Spirit, washed in His Blood.
He said, "Billy, that's all right. I recognize that, and that's good. I--I don't... That--that's all right," but said, "Billy, that'll not put you in the graveyard up here."
I said, "But it'll take me out, brother." I ain't worried about getting there. I'm worried about getting out of there is the main thing. I'll get there somehow, and I'll come out because of this blessed assurance. Jesus made the promise. I believe it with all my heart.


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