<TITLE>10. Par 32-35</TITLE>L-32 Now, life is the greatest thing that we could achieve. There's nothing no greater than life. If I could go to glory this morning, and we could all go up there, and I could meet Abraham.
"What's the greatest thing there is Abraham?"
He'd say, "Life." There... no matter what anything else is, life is the greatest thing that anyone can achieve--is life. What would you give for life?
I've got a book at home. And I--I believe it was wrote by Brother Nugent, a chaplain from the prisons. And he gives the testimonies in this book of the great people that's died on earth and from the time of Christ down. And he gives the testimony of the wicked great, and the testimony of the spiritual great on the other side of the book. And I was reading there, I believe it was bloody Mary of England, where she said, "If I could... I'd give my kingdom for five minutes more life," the kingdom that she'd put so many to death because--and so forth, and yet, she would give that kingdom for five more minutes of life.

L-33 I still remember the testimony of Paul Rader right out here, when he died there in the tabernacle or where they had the tabernacle, when he said... When he was dying, he called Luke, his brother. They kinda chummed together like Billy Paul, my son, and I.
And as I understand it from the--the Moody school, that they had a quartet in there, singing. And Paul had a sense of humor. They was singing, "Nearer my God to Thee," and he said, "Say, who's dying here, me or you?" And said, "Raise up them shades, and sing me some snappy Gospel songs." And they started singing, "Down at the Cross," something like that, the quartet. And he said, "Where's Luke?"
He was in the next room. They brought him in. He took a hold of Luke's hand. He said, "Luke, think of it. In five minutes from now, I'll be standing in the Presence of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness." Let me go like that.

L-34 Dwight Moody, you know what his testimony was, when he raised up, and said, "This is death?" Said, "This is my coronation day." That's the way I'd like to go.
I held the hand of my precious mother just recently, going. I held the hand of my wife when she went. I've watched them when they come to the end of the road. Life is the greatest thing there is. And those who have no hope after this is over, it's a terrible thing. We walk down the paths of life.
So many people say, "What is life? Where can find it?" Why, it's just all around us. God has made it so much...

L-35 Even like in Job, we find out in the--the, in Job he asked about it. All the--all down through life we hear it, asking about it.
Reminds me of a little boy that lived in Jeffersonville, where I live. One day, they said he was--went to his mother, and he said, "Mother? God, this God that you talk about, He's such a great person. Could anybody see Him?"
She said, "Ask the pastor."
So, went to the pastor and asked him, and he said... No, Sunday school teacher. And the Sunday school teacher said, "You'd better ask the pastor." She didn't know.
So went to the pastor. He said, "No, no, son." He said, "No man can see God and live." Said, "You don't see God." Well, it kinda disappointed the little fellow.


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