<TITLE>19. Par 71-74</TITLE>L-71 Did you ever see a bee? A bee stinging at Him--at Him like that, but... Insects of the earth has stingers, but we're taught that if a bee ever stings you real deeply once, that settles it forever with that bee. When he flies away he leaves his stinger there; he can't sting no more. And the bee of death who had held man in captivity for four thousand years under fear, was stinging around Him. He was just about ready to be stung. And after while that--that bee anchored his stinger down in there, but when he went away he pulled his stinger out.
And today a believer can walk right in the face of death, saying, "O death, where is thy sting? And grave, where is thy victory? But thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."

L-72 Death has no sting no more to the believer. No, sir. He walks right straight into the Presence of God. When they was building a block out there... I was in that little old chamber there, where they cut Saint Paul's head off, here about a year ago, pitched him over there in the sewer, but never wash out that great power of God. Standing there, writing those epistles... I couldn't help from my heart trembling. And right down there where they said Peter was buried in, my, such tommyrot. And there in that place where Saint Paul was beheaded, where I was in there, and they said, "All right, Paul, you've--you... at the end of the road."
He said, "O death, where is your sting?"
Said, "There's a grave waiting."
"But--but grave, where is thy victory? But thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. I have fought a good fight; I've finished the course; I've kept the faith: Henceforth, there's laid up for me a crown of righteousness, the Lord, the righteous Judge will give me at that day: not only me, but all those who love His appearing."

L-73 Why did he know it--why did he know it? He'd followed those bloody footprints as a murderer himself; as a persecutor of the Church, he walked up, as a religious man, and renounced everything that he had ever done. All of his righteousness he throwed to each side, like that, and fell at the cross, and recognized the Blood of Jesus Christ, the only appropriate way for sinners to reach God, and there was reconciled to God through faith. And God give him the Holy Spirit when he's baptized there, at the river of Damascus. Went down into Egypt for three years, and then come back preaching the faith that he once locked up. That why? He'd come God's provided way.

L-74 And tonight, my friend, there is a provided way for you. There's a provided way for these sick people setting here, that's come. May be the members of my brother's church that's... Maybe he's prayed for them. I don't know. I can't tell you. But they--there was a way provided for you and your sickness also. There's a way provided for you here that's sick and afflicted. There's a way provided for you sinners, for you backsliders. For you lukewarm, there's a way provided. And that's the Blood of Jesus Christ, that brings us into full fellowship with God. And you talk about a old fashion revival breaking out through this city here, you'd have a real revival, if you'd only recognize that for everything you have need of tonight. It's all finished at Calvary.


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