<TITLE>09. Par 31-34</TITLE>L-31 For "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed." You don't have to die before you time comes. 'Cause He lives, you live also. When death shall smother out my breath, I'll still be living. "He that heareth my words and believeth on Him that sent Me has Everlasting Life and shall never come to the judgment, but's passed from death unto Life. "I am the Resurrection and Life," saith God. "He that believeth in Me, though He were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." Whew, I anchor my soul right there. No wonder the poet wrote,
 On that bright and cloudless morning
 when the dead in Christ shall rise,
 And the glory of His resurrection share;
 When His chosen ones shall gather to their homes beyond the sky,
 When the roll's called up yonder, I'll be there.
Why?
 Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
 Buried, He carried my sins far away;
 Rising, He justified freely forever:
 Someday He's coming--oh, glorious day!

L-32 I can see my shoulders stooping. My arms, where there used to be muscles, are getting fat. And--and I... Oh, I'm... See, I'm--I'm dying. I don't know how long it'll be before He will call me. But I've got Eternal Life in here, because He died for me, that He might redeem this that I've offered to Him. Some glorious day He's coming. I believe it with all my heart.
I'll stay at the battlefield by His grace. I'll preach, pray for the sick until death shall set me free, and then go home, a crown to wear. For He paid for it, and gave it freely. God justified my belief when He raised up Jesus. Then I have a crown waiting.

L-33 Forty days after He had visited His disciples, He's standing there on a mountain. You know, gravitation is what's holds us on the earth. When we're on the earth here, it's gravitation holds us. But you know what. God took a notion for Him to come up a little higher. Gravitation begin to lose its hold.
God, I--I hope that I can be that way some of these days, don't you? When this old earthbound condition... Sometimes I been in meetings, I thought it was going to take place at any time, just feel it breaking loose around you. One of these days it'll do it.
No matter. They could put you in a grave, and put a tombstone on top of you, and seal you up. That won't have one thing to do with it. "The trumpet of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise." Someday He's coming--oh, glorious day. Yes, He's coming.

L-34 Gravitation begin to lose its hold. His feet begin to rise, earth begin to peek through. But beyond that, "I will come again," He said, "and receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there you may be also." I'm so glad, that I can sing that song with a true heart tonight.
 Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
 Buried, He carried my sins far away;
 Rising, He justified freely forever:
 Someday He's coming--oh, glorious day!


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