<TITLE>12. Par 613-626</TITLE>L-613   And now we have the earnest of our salvation, as we accept Him as our personal Saviour, as our healer. All these other remunerations are the dividends that's paid on the insurance policy. Amen. You know what an insurance policy is. You can draw dividends on it till the face value comes. Certainly. You can draw dividends. And we're drawing dividends now. Only, the thing, as soon as we draw dividends, the remuneration is built up again.

L-614   An insurance agent, one time, said to me, "Billy, I'd like to sell you some insurance."
I said, "I have some." My wife looked around at me.

L-615 Now, nothing against insurance. But some people are "insurance poor." So, they turned around. He said...

L-616 My wife looked at me, strange, "You got insurance?"

L-617 I said, "Sure." She didn't know nothing about it.

L-618 He said, "Well, Billy, what kind of an insurance have you got?"

L-619 I said:
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory Divine!
An heir of salvation, purchased of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His Blood.

L-620 He said, "That's very good, Billy," he said, "but it won't put you up here in the graveyard."

L-621 I said, "But It'll take me out. That's the main thing." I'm not worried about getting there; I'm worried about getting out.

L-622   And since I have the assurance, by the sworn God of Eternity, that He will raise me up again in the likeness of His Son, in the last day, I'll walk boldly and have a consolation and an anchor of the soul, that, while I'm in this veil there is some unseen Something got me anchored against the Rock of ages yonder. When the waters jump and blast, it doesn't make any difference. If death, perils, or anything, separates us not from the love of God. My anchor holds within the veil. Let the floods rise. Let her dash. Let infidels come. The born-again believer has an anchor. You can't see through this veil yet. But I know my anchor holds yonder against the Rock of the ages, Who is a sworn promise that He will raise me up at the last day.

L-623   No wonder you can look death in the face, and say, "Where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory? But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." We're in the Forerunner. Oh, my! (We ain't going to get to the lesson.) We had a Forerunner for us.

L-624 A forerunner. Did you ever notice in the old western days. Many times I've went across the old trails. A forerunner, or scout? When the wagon train was perishing, for water, the scout run ahead. And he seen the tribes of Indians; he bypassed them. And he seen where there was a fountain of water. He rushed back to tell the boss of the wagon train, "Step up the horses, everybody take good courage, for just over the mountain there's a big fountain of water." He's a forerunner.

L-625   And here, the Forerunner. Man was once pinned down by the Devil, under rapid fire, but Somebody took the machine-gun nest. That was Jesus. The Forerunner has gone before us. And Satan standing there with a machine gun, pinning us down, always in bondage and scared of death. He was guarding that Fountain. Sure, he was. He was given the commission, because we had sinned and been drove away from It. But the Forerunner, Christ, come in and took the nest.

L-626 You've heard that old song, "Hold the fort, for I am coming"? Hold the fort, nothing; let's take it. We don't want to hold it any longer. Christ took the fort. Hallelujah! The door is open. "There is a Fountain open in the house of God, in the city of David, for to clean, for cleanliness of the unclean." Our Forerunner has done entered in for us.


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