<TITLE>03. Par 8-10</TITLE>L-8 A friend of mine, Wilmer Snider, he's got a Baptist brother out here somewhere, preaching, Courtney, if he's here, I'd like to shake your hands again, Court. And Wilmer and I were very good chums in school, and he said... One day he got to selling insurance. So he come up to my house, and he said, "Billy, I'd like to talk to you about insurance."
Now, insurance is all right, but I don't have any of that kind. We're always paying to the undertaker, why not give some to the Uptaker, instead of the undertaker. So--so I... Insurance is all right, you understand that. I care nothing about...
He said, "Billy, I'd like to talk to you about some a--insurance."
And I said, "Oh, I have it, Wilmer."
"Oh," he said, "pardon me."
"My brother's an insurance agent."
So he said, "Oh, I'm sorry," Said, "I wouldn't butt in around Jeff your brother."
I said, "No." I said, "I have assurance."
And he said a... And my wife looked at me standing there as if I was a hypocrite. See? She looked over, and thought, "Well, what's this?"
And he said, "A--what a--company are you with?"
I said, "The Eternal Life."
And he said, "A--oh." He said, "That's very good, Billy. But I'm going to tell you something; that won't put you in the graveyard out here."
I said, "No, but it'll get me out. And I'm not interested in getting in." But said, "I'm interested in getting out."

L-9 So if anybody's interested in such a policy, and don't have one, well we'd like... Is that right, brother? We're agents here for that tonight. Yes, sir. I'm not worried about getting in the graveyard; the thing is getting out. So I... That's what I'm trying to sell you: it's the way out; and Christ is that way. And I'm so glad I have the assurance.
And right before us, each one of us, sets a great, big, dark door. I know it sets before me. Every time my heart beats, I'm one beat closer to that door that's called death. And when I come to that place to where I know my last beat is beating, and I have to go into that place, I don't want to go screaming like a coward. I want to wrap myself in the robe of His righteousness, and go into my death, knowing this: that I know Him and the power of His resurrection, that when He calls I'll come out from among the dead one day. And that's our privilege of being here is for that.

L-10 Now, we're... I'll try to finish my text tonight of Jehovah-jireh if possible. We just got carried away last night, so innocent. So we left Abraham, last night, in the journey as an old man of seventy-five years old, that God had called him, and had called a total separation. And we learned in our lesson last night that God requires a complete separation from all the world. And the Scripture says, "If you love the world, or the things of the world (that's Abraham's seed), the love of God is not in you." So we must get to a spot in God, a place in His grace, until the things and pleasures of the world... I--I don't mean the physical pleasures like you'd go out and set under a tree to keep cool, or take a little ride in your car, but I mean the worldly pleasures, drinking, gambling, and evil things. If you still love those, the love of God isn't in it. That's how we can check ourself to see whether we got the faith or not when the things of the world is dead and gone from us.


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