<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>62-0129, Explaining The Ministry, Ramada Inn, Phoenix, AZ, 29 min
L-1 Thank you Brother Demos. I haven't got no business up here, taking up Brother Brown's time and others. But I do appreciate the opportunity to be at Phoenix, and--and it's... No way for me to express how I feel towards the people here in Phoenix, that's gathered in (like I do people everywhere), and the fellowship that we have had this week--or last week, rather, among those churches out there.
I got to visit ten different churches, three or four different organizations. And the fellowship among the brethren certainly was tremendous. I remember when Brother Williams came by. I believe he was just coming down from Mayo's, and we had some time together.
Now, speaking of this convention... And I've spoke many times with the Business Men. Someone said one time to me, said, "Hey, you're a preacher. What business you got with a businessman?"
I said, "I am a businessman."
And said, "What kind of a business are you in?"
I said, "Insurance--assurance. Life insurance." If anybody's interested in a policy, I'd like to talk it over with you after the service.

L-2 An insurance agent, one time he come to my house. And we were good friends together, went to school. His name is Wilbur Snyder; he may be setting here tonight. So he said to me; he said, "Billy, I would like to interest you in an insurance policy."
Well, I had a little funny feeling about it. And I... Not about him, but just that insuring my life. It's already insured. So I said, "Wilbur," I said, "I don't have any insurance like that, I don't think." I said, "I have one policy," and I said, "I believe that'll be enough."
And he said, "Oh, you already have insurance, Billy?"
And I said, "Yes, uh-huh."
And my wife looked around at me as if to say, "What's happened to him?"
And said, "Have a... What kind of a insurance do you have, Billy?"
I said, "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine."
And he said, "Billy, that won't put you up here in the graveyard."
I said, "It'll get me out. I'm not worried about getting there. I'm never worried about getting there. I'll be there. It's just getting out."
So this policy that I speak of... So I'm a businessman. So happy to be affiliated with these people who have--is carrying the same policy; Eternal Life insurance.

L-3 And now, yesterday was the first time I ever tried to see that the Holy Spirit would speak in one of these conventions. And I will tell you, why, we're there just relaxed, and shouting, and carrying on with the rest of them, having a good time. And it's kind of hard then. Usually in services like that, I don't eat maybe for a day or two, come in to the service and stand there. It is a mysterious thing, yet, I know it comes from God. I'm assured of that, that it comes from God.

L-4 As a little boy, when I was first born... You've read my story, how that Light was hanging over the little bed where I was born. My mother, father, they knowed nothing of what it was. And later, when I was just a little fellow, It spoke to me, and said, "Don't never drink, (It just... ) or smoke, or defile yourself in any way. There's a work to do when you get older." It went on.
And my people thought maybe... When visions first started breaking before me, why, I'd go tell my mother, "You know, I--I saw a certain-certain thing happen."
She'd say, "Billy, you went to sleep."
"No, mother, I did not go to sleep." And we'd find out it happened just exactly that way.


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