<TITLE>09. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 An insurance agent here some time ago, come to me and said, "Billy, I want to sell you some insurance."
I said... I haven't got any of that kind. So I said to him, "I've got insurance." And my wife stopped and looked around at me. She knowed I didn't have any insurance, especially what he was selling.
She said, "Billy."
And I said, "Well, I've got insurance."
He said, "Who you... What is your insurance? What policy is it? Who you hold it with?"
I said, "With the Lord Jesus." 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, "That's good, Billy. I'm glad to hear that," but said, "that won't put me in the graveyard."
I said, "But it'll take me out. I'm not worrying about getting in there. It'll take me out of there...?..." That's right. It sure... I ain't worried about getting in the graveyard; it's getting out.

L-26 And I know one thing, brother, that when the good old fashion baptism of the Holy Ghost and every time when the heart beats we're going one step closer to that great place called death.
Now, I want to say this, when I come to the end of the road I know Him in the power of His resurrection, that when He calls from among the dead, He will know my name, like He did Lazarus.
That's what we're striving for tonight. To honestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints. Then we'll know Him in the power of His resurrection, not in a dead God, not a God in the manger, but a God that reigns among His people tonight working signs and wonders, showing forth His great power.

L-27 This poor maniac out there in the graveyard. That's where a lot of churches go, right to the graveyard.
Then when he got out of there, cutting himself. When they get away from Lord Jesus, they do. And Jesus crossed the sea to bring deliverance to this one poor man. And as soon as this maniac saw Him, he run to Him and fell down, and he was so submitted to the devil till the devil used his tongue.
You can be submitted to the devil, and he will use your tongue. If you'd be submitted to God, God will use your tongue. And He can get control of you. But you first you have to let Him get control of you.
Now if you're cursing and damning and going on like the sinners does, the devil's got you in complete sway. Let God have a hold of you one time and watch what you're going to say.

L-28 Oh, how wonderful. Then this maniac run down to Him and the Lord Jesus rebuked them spirits. And a lot of people say that religion will run you crazy, not the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ won't. It'll give you your right mind. And you're not in your right mind until you have met the Lord Jesus. That's true.
Why, some people that call themselves gentleman, but so beastly till they'd throw a baby out of the mother's arms to ravish her or beast brute lust in his heart. Maybe weigh two hundred and fifty pounds of muscles like some kind of an animal; that ain't a man. That's a beast. Certainly. Man is not measured by his muscles or by his statue. A man is measured by his character. Whatever he is, he is by character.
There was no beauty that as I said, we should desire Jesus but what a character. It's never been duplicated in all the world. That's right.
So a Bible even said when we looked upon Him, they... He wasn't no beauty we should desire Him. We all turned our heads from Him and everything, but a character has never been measured to Him. What a wonder.


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