<TITLE>08. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 The ark has rot years ago; the tombs of the prophets has fallen in. And all the different memorials have decayed with, hoary time had washed away the stone, but God's Word remains just the same, beautiful forever and forever, just as lively and fresh tonight to the believers of this day, as It was the days that It was spoke.
No wonder Elijah, this morning in our--the message that our brother gave us, when they wanted to build a great school for the prophet as a memorial, but Elijah chose a better thing: a miracle of God to rise up a fallen instrument and make it swim on the water. It was the Word of the Lord. And much better is he tonight who will receive the Word of the Lord in his heart for a memorial, than those who would try to erect some great memorial.

L-30 Not long ago when I heard, when I was in Italy, I heard of Mussolini, and that great statue of forty something feet high, that he'd built as a memorial to athletics, as he was an athlete. And I wanted to find that memorial. And you know, it had been blown into powder by a big blockbuster.
I stood at about two, three years ago on the place where pharaohs of Egypt had raised up great shrines and idols, and I... They tell me that you'd have to dig twenty feet under the earth to find even the ground where those memorials stood. I stood where Caesar Augustus, where the Herods and the great of Rome, and I went on the street and were he used to go down the street from the palace, and it's about twenty-five feet beneath the earth. Them memorials is gone. But that living Word of God still remains just the same and just as valuable. That's a memorial.

L-31 So I say today, brother, the things that you do, the words that you say, how you treat your neighbor, and what you do about Christ, will be a everlasting memorial. You might have a fine home to leave to your children; you might be working for some livelihood to leave to your children. But I'd rather leave them the Word of God than anything else. Those houses will vanish. That's perfectly all right; that's good. I have nothing against it. But don't do those minor things and leave the great things undone (You see?), because the Word will--the house will perish, and the people will perish with it; but the Word of God will raise them up in the last days and give them Eternal and Immortal Life again.

L-32 And now, in order to make an estate like this, God's eternal Word... I think of this old song we used to sing here years ago.
Time is filled with swift translation,
Naught of earth unmoved shall stand,
Build your hopes on things eternal,
Hold to God's unchanging hand.
When our journey is completed,
If to God we have been true,
Fair and bright our home in glory,
Our enraptured soul shall view.
How much better it is to look out in the face of the setting sun when your veins are cooling in your body and your children standing around the bed, to know that you got a memorial built that, "Honey, someday daddy will meet you on the other side."
I'd rather have that when the doctor says, "Billy, there's nothing more can be done for you."
And I see my kiddies and I kiss them good-bye. I say, "But daddy's not dying, he's going to a rest, to a place. For if this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, I have one already waiting."
What a memorial to speak out of. I'd rather do that in the face of my children than to say, "Honey, I've got a million dollars in this bank and a million over here in this one for you." I'd rather leave that testimony.
With partings leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing over life's solemn main,
For a forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
seeing, shall take heart again.
Absolutely, leave them for a memorial, your testimony.


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