<TITLE>06. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 When I think of the word, it reminds me of a good friend of mine. Now, I hope if there's an insurance agent in here, that he won't think hard of me. But they... One time my father had taken out insurance on us children when we were little bitty tots, and it was supposed some kind that'd pay off in ten years. Well, the poor old fellow, worked seventy-five cents a day, till his shirt was burned to his back to pay that policy up. And when he got through, the agent had read it wrong to him; it was only worth two dollars and seventy-five cents, when it was supposed to be worth five hundred dollars. Well, that soured me on insurance. So I just never would have it. So then, when the agent come to my house, he said, a good friend of mine, I went to school with the boy. He said, "Billy, what about insurance now?" Said, "I tell you, there's no need of you feeling that way about that." He said, "There's not a bit of need of it." He said, "Now, look. You got your family here."
I said, "They're all right."
He said, "Now, you need insurance."
I said, "I have it."
"Oh," he said, "you have insurance?"
I said, "Yes, sure, I have insurance." So he turned around and looked at me, and my wife looked at me.
He said, "Well, Billy, what kind of assurance you got?"
I said, "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God, borned of His Spirit, washed in His Blood."
He said, "Now, Billy, that's all right. But that won't put you over here in the graveyard."
I said, "I know, but it'll get me out. I'm not worried about getting in there." I said, "I don't want... I'll get in there all right, but the thing, I want out. That's the main thing."

L-21 So that what's we have to look forward to, and this is the assurance. Jesus died in our stead, was made sin for us, and He raised up before day. God raised Him up for our justification, that we are just in His sight when we accept Him and believe on His Name. Amen. That's the insurance. My, how wonderful it is to have it, and have the policy signed by the Holy Spirit, as a Witness that it's all, all right.
The Bible said, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30.)... Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until the day of your redemption." Think of it. How long? Until the day of your redemption. All done packed up, the seal on the car, she's bound for her eternal destination. Oh, I hope each one has that policy tonight with that Seal of God's approval upon it and moving on towards your destination; knowing this, that He Who promised is faithful and will come someday, and we'll see Him face to face. Then, now we see through a glass darkly, but when we see Him face to face, then we'll--we'll be known as we're known.

L-22 Now, we find out, last night we left Abraham on the 17th chapter of--of Genesis, when God appeared to him in the name of El Shaddai. "Shaddai," some of them pronounce it. I don't know just exactly the term of it. But I always pronounce it "Shaddai." And the word, I looked it up and searched it, and I come to find out, that it means, "the breast." And God appeared to Abraham in the name of "the Breasted One." Isn't that a marvelous name to appear to a man a hundred years old now? It's gone, his strength the blood steam has dried up; his body is practically dead. And Sarah, his wife, her womb was dead. And all this, and then God appears in that name, as the Nourisher, or the Life-giver, the Strength-giver.
"Abraham, I am your strength." Oh, sick folks, can you believe that tonight? That ought to make a man rise from a cot under the strength of the Holy Spirit, walk right out. It'll make him when he's crippled, the arms come straight, or legs straight, and walk right away, when you feel and know by assurance by the revelation of God, that God is your Strength.


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