<TITLE>13. Par 45-48</TITLE>L-45 One day, a boyfriend of mine, Wilmer Snyder, a very good buddy, we chummed together. He's selling Prudential Life Insurance, and he came to my house, and he said, "Billy, I'd like to talk to you on some insurance."
And I said, "Oh, I have in--assurance."
And he said, "Uh, oh, pardon me." Said, "I didn't know that, Billy." Said, "I believe your wife told me that you didn't have any."
"Oh," I said, "I have."
My wife looked at me as if, "What's happened to him?" And that... She said, looked at me, said, "Billy."
I said, "Why sure, honey, I got assurance." I never said insurance; I said assurance. I said, "I got assurance."
And Wilmer Snyder said to me; he said, "What insurance do you have, Billy?"
I said, "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine; oh what a foretaste of glory divine. I'm an heir of salvation, purchase of God, borned of His Spirit, washed in His Blood."
"Oh," he said, "Billy, that's very nice. I appreciate that." Said, "I got a brother that's a preacher. You know Howard?"
And I said, "Yes."
He said, "But, Billy, that won't put you out here in the graveyard."
I said, "I know it, but it will get me out. I'm not worried about getting in there, I'm just..." I'm not a bit interested in getting in there. The thing I want to know is how to get out. That's right. That Christ is the only Assurance.

L-46 Yes sir, we pay so much to the undertaker, let's give some thoughts about the Uptaker once in a while, that'll take us up some of these days, the only Translation, the only One Who can bring us from the grave, the only One Who can present us before the Father without a fault, without a spot, without a wrinkle. Hallelujah! Sure, Baptists shout. Yes, sir. Anybody that's got good religion shouts. Got something to shout about.
An old, colored man used to talk to me down the lane. He said, "You believe in that shoutin' religion, don't you Billy?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
And I--he said, "You know what?" Next morning he come by; he was about ninety years old. He said, "I want to tell you something."
I said, "All right. What is it, Reb?"
And he said, "Well, I tell you." He said, "You take an old rooster, you can tie his feet, nail him down into the box, and any way you want to. But," said, "when it starts to get daylight, he will turn over and crow."
I said, "That's right."
He said, "What makes him do that, Billy?"
I said, "He's a rooster and it's breakin' day." That's right. It's his nature. And when a man is borned of the Spirit of God and has this Eternal Life in him, when the Holy Ghost comes, you've got to scream out. Something has to happen.

L-47 Do believe the good, old-time, heartfelt salvation brings tears of joy and happiness, and peace that passes all understanding? For He's the River, and He's the... Oh, He's my everything. I just can't praise Him enough and say enough about Him of what He means to me. Certainly, no wonder we... It's a nature in you. When you're borned of the Spirit of God, you got a nature in you to make you scream out.
Why Jesus said, one time, to those Pharisees, and said, "Them people, they're the ones make chills run up my back. Make them hold their peace." when He was riding in on the--this little mule. He said, "Why don't You make them hold their peace?"
Said, "If they hold their peace, the rocks will immediately cry out."

L-48 Something had to take place. Hallelujah! When we see Him coming down out of heaven, riding on that white charger, you talk about some noise. Oh, there's going to be something happening then when we see all these things that we talked about brought into reality. Certainly He's the only hope that we have.
Nations are breaking; all nations are failing; every help is failing; the world's a failing; sickness is on the increase; sin is overriding; but there's one thing that cannot fail; that's Jesus Christ and His precious Word. He's the only security. He's the only hope, the Life. He's all that we have to look to, our only Translation.


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