<TITLE>05. Par 13-15</TITLE>L-13 And as we begin to get older, and the hair is turning gray, shoulders stooping, that just means more to us than ever. You see? Because a kid looks forward: who's he going to marry? how's he going to educate his children? When that's all over, then it's just about done then. You see? Then you're facing the setting of the sun. But just think, brethren, there isn't nothing but what we have. We got love; we got joy; we got peace; we got Life; we got... We possess death. That's right. The Bible said we do. We possess death; it belongs to us. We don't belong to it; it belongs to us.
Say, "What are you going to do with death?"
Just like Paul said when it come knocking at the door. Said, "Have you come to escort me across the river?"
A writer once said, "God hooked death to a buggy. The only thing it can do is pull you in the Presence of God." That's all. Can't die. They hitched up death to a buggy, and the only thing it can do is pull you right up in the Presence of God. It's just a mascot come to pull you across the river. That's all it is. So there's nothing can bother us any more.
Paul said, when death come rolling down through the--the time for him, he said, "Oh, death, where is your sting?"
Said, "Well, I'm going to take you out to the grave."
He said, "Then, grave, where is your victory? I possess you too." Then he turned around and said, "Thanks be to God Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." Then we got it, Brother Temple. That's it. It's all over.

L-14 Well, Sister Snelling used to sing an old song. I don't guess any of you probably remember Sister Snelling. I was over at her grave the other day. She used to sing a little Pentecostal jubilee about:
 Let's go on, let's go on
 Talking about this good old Way,
 Let's go on, let's go on
 Talking about the Lord.
(Did you ever hear it?)
 Feeling so much better
 Just talking about this good old Way,
 I'm feeling so much better,
 I'm talking about the Lord.
That's it. All right. Let's talk to Him just a minute now in a word of prayer before we start in reading His Word.
While we have our heads bowed and our eyes closed, and the cares of the day passing by now, we've assembled in His Name and in His Presence. Would there be some here could remember something that you'd like to be remembered before God? Just raise up your hand and by that, "God just remember me."

L-15 Our heavenly Father, the infinite God Who knowed before the world was ever formed that we'd be standing here tonight, You seen those hands. You know what's behind each of them, what laid beneath the heart that that hand was raised over. I pray for them, Father, that You'll answer according to Your great riches in glory and Your power.
We thank thee for this church, for its pastor, its board, its trustees, deacons, all the members, and for all those precious souls that are sojourning down here in Clarksville--pilgrims, strangers, don't belong to the world any more. They gave up everything of the world, sold all they had and bought this great Pearl of great price, the Lord Jesus Who gives us Eternal Life. We thank you for it, Lord.
Thank you for these precious souls, and I pray for each and every one. I think of Brother Jackson and how he's labored, tried, strove, trying to feed the sheep, and to make a meeting place for the pilgrims to gather at, keeping them together waiting for the coming of the Lord, he and his wife and family. Sitting here behind me tonight is Brother Ruddell, and he also is keeping them together, the little group that's sojourning up on '62; Brother Neville and the group up at the Tabernacle sojourning; and the others, Lord, that's present may be here from other places. We are looking for the coming of the Lord.


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