<TITLE>05. Par 17-20</TITLE>L-17 Now. They put Him out of their denominations. They didn't want Him. The rich young ruler went away sad, although you notice that it says here in the Scripture, "Jesus holding him loved him. And He loved these people in these organizations. They're God's people. He loved them, and He's offered, and has offered for the last fifty years, the opportunity to make another investment in Him, not in a building of a church, but in the power and the resurrection of Christ, and receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
It's not popular. Certainly not. It's never been popular. Anything that God ever done on earth never was popular from the beginning. Very much unpopular, it's purposed to be that way. Did not Jesus call the Pharisees the whited walls? Said, "Which of your fathers has not persecuted the prophets? You whiten their tombs now, but you was the one that put them in there."
They build it upon some great thing, the Methodist upon John Wesley, a great man; the Lutheran upon Martin Luther, and so forth. And now, the Pentecostals is trying to build a tomb to something was fifty years ago, that brought them out of this kind of a chaos. And now, they're taking it right back in again, polishing the--the tomb of the ones that we actually put in. That's right.

L-18 Now, this great assurance policy that I'm asking each to invest in today, let us look back. And all things should be like any other business. Before we make our investment, we should find out about the--about the company, or about the thing that we're trying to buy. And I think it would be good this morning, in these next few minutes, if we investigated some of the holders of this policy to find out just what taken place. That's the only way to do when you're going to make a business investment.
You'll usually go over and say to your fellow man, "Have... what about this Such-and-such-a company? What about this Such-and-such-a business?"
"Well, it did this for So-and-so. It did this for So-and-so. And it paid off with this. And this bonds, these coupons, government bank coupons, and they paid off at twenty-five percent," and so forth.
That... It's good to invest it--investigate it, and find out before you make your investments.

L-19 So as not exactly an assurance salesman this morning, but I'm talking for one, let's go back and investigate, and find some of its holders, some of the holders that it--held the thing that I have been trying to tell you to hold to: that's God's Word, the Word of His promise regardless of denomination or creed. Men and women who took God at His Word regardless of what anybody else thought about it, we want to find some of their holders and investigate them.

L-20 Let's start back with an old holder I could think of a long years ago. His name was Noah. He was a rich farmer. And we find out that while he had good possessions upon the earth, one day God spoke to him. And usually when God speaks, it's so contrary to the earthly thoughts of the thing, it's so different from the modern trend of the day, until the person that receives the policy... The other people that don't have the policy, or know nothing about it, has never talked it over, think the man's crazy by accepting it. It's always been that way.
God told Noah by promise, "I'm going to destroy the world, and I want you to build an ark. Take the wood off your farm, and--and don't make shade trees any more, but I want you to build an ark. It's for the saving of your life."
And Noah obedient to that... It did not cope with their modern scientific thoughts. You know, we're taught that we had a greater civilization then than we have now. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man," a modern civilization.


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