<TITLE>23. Par 86-89</TITLE>L-86 Now, I knowed when He come back, my body would be resurrected. I know that I'd have a body; all the old age will be gone away. You'll never be old there. No, sir. Every symbol of sin will be taken away, and old age is a symbol of sin. So, everything that represented sin will be taken away, because from the curse... Not that you sinned, but you're one of Adam's race, and you--you turn back to the dust.
And I thought, "If I could just live to see Jesus coming."

L-87 I said to Brother Gene here, and Brother Leo and them many times, Brother Fred, many of my friends, I'd say, "Oh, I hope I live to see Jesus come. 'Cause when He comes, I'll be changed, and I won't have to be that spook. I don't want to be that. No, sir." I--I said, "I'd be... Death's all right, but I--I want to shake hands. I love human beings. I don't love...?... human beings, so I--I'd like to be that."
And the other morning (about five weeks ago now) I'd been out on a meeting and come in. I was tired, and I woke up in the room about seven o'clock. And I said, "We'll go down to the Tabernacle this morning... or in the morning," to my wife. And she was still sleeping, and I kinda raised up the head of the bed and put my hands back like this. And I was just laying there thinking. I said, "Hey, I'm fifty years old. I haven't done nothing for the Lord yet. I got to hurry up and do something." And I said, "Or I got... I--I'll be old after while." I said, "I--I got to hurry and do something; I ain't done nothing for the Lord."
And I said, "But you know, I'd sure hate to... I hate the idea of having to die before He comes." I said, "If He'd just come..." I said, "I--I dread that thought, if I have to go if He tarries for a few years yet, and maybe I don't live to see it, and I'll have to die and become a spirit." Mmm, I didn't like that at all.

L-88 And while I was laying there thinking that, I heard something just as plain as you hear my voice, as I was telling you last night, said, "Keep pressing on."
Well, I--I... first I... It comes in such a way, just like these visions here: You say it, and you don't know you said it. You're speaking, talking; you don't know you're talking. When I see a vision before somebody, I don't know what I said. Only the way I know it, go back to the tape here and find it. See? I don't know what I said, 'cause you're somewhere else in another place, maybe forty, fifty years back down somebody's life or way yonder ahead in somebody's life. See? You don't know; you just don't know you say it.
And I--I said, "I am pressing on."
Said, "Keep pressing on; keep pressing on." Said, "The great reward is at the end of the road."

L-89 Now, I asked permission of the--the chairmen and so forth to say this. I believe it was a vision, but if it was, I've never seen anything like it. I've seen visions since I was about three years old, maybe younger than that. And I've never seen anything like this, never had such an experience to happen to me. I'm reading a book, that the pastor here gave me, of someone else who had a similar experience. I read it, for it said Brother (What was that? Wigglesworth? Or... ) Price--Brother Price had an experience something like that; I wanted to get his book and see what it was. I--I want to find out.
I do not want to say translation, because it would look like (if you would) it was trying to copy of Saint Paul. No, I want to--I want to be just what I am. See? Just... I can't be Saint Paul, but I serve the same God he did. And so...


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