<TITLE>09. Par 34-38</TITLE>L-34 There was another man I'd like--a policy holder--to introduce to you this morning. No doubt but what you've heard of him. His name was Daniel. He took this life assurance policy, and he was carried away down into Babylon in his days. But Daniel, because he was a holder of the policy, he purposed in his heart not to defile his policy. He wasn't going to defile his investment.
Now, I'll get to what you said. You have the policy, but don't defile it. If you've got it, quit teeter tottering around with the world. Keep away from it.
And Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile his inheritance with the king's meats.

L-35 Now, some of you women let your hair start growing...?... Some of you men, start doing something. Shame on you preachers who are ashamed to say it. God have mercy upon you. You're scared you'd be put out of your organization. How about put out of the ark? Remember, brother, it's God's Word that says that.
Don't defile your investment. If you've made the investment, then hold with it, and keep it in a safe place inside your heart, in your soul. Stay with it. Don't defile it with the things of the world.
Church, come back to God. Get away from these little old things you're running after. The Oneness kick you out, you join the--the Assemblies. The Assemblies kick you out, go to the Church of God. Quit defiling your--your inheritance. Quit defiling your investment, I should've said. Go back. Keep it clean. Work for God.

L-36 I might call, and let you know that Daniel, it saved his life. Then they throwed him into the lion's den, the lions couldn't eat him. There was something wrong, 'cause the Angel of the Lord was sent to protect him. And it saved his life. And if there's anything that's great to any mortal, it's life. What's greater than life?
Which one... Could a doctor stand here this morning, and speak of a capsule that he had invented by science to make you live a hundred years, or a thousand years, why, you would--you'd sell everything you had to get it. Sure, you would. Life is dear. But I'm trying to tell you of a policy, of an assurance, that you don't live for a hundred years, you don't live for a thousand years; you live eternally, because it's an Eternal Life assurance. And we want that.

L-37 The Hebrew children, they also had the same policy and the assurance. And they certainly wasn't going to bow down to anything contrary to God's Word, no matter how many things they tried to put before them ("You have to join this, or we'll throw you out."), they stayed true to the Word. They didn't bow before any idols. And when the judgment come, their life was saved, because they was a holder of the policy that I'm talking about.

L-38 Simon Peter--we might speak of him a moment, because he was mentioned this morning. And he's the--one of the apostles, and the one that had the keys to the Kingdom, in other words the knowledge, how to unlock the doors to the Kingdom, and we spoke of that last night. The key locked the door and unlocked it, and we heard of that last night, the original foundation. There's no way to come back, only go back exactly where you started from.
The brother said this morning, speaking of Simon Peter, and what he did, look where he started from. He started from Acts. There's where the church started from, and that's where the church has got to go back to. Go back to that same prescription, that same Word of God and follow it through. If we've left it, then go back to it. The only way to come out right is head back, get straightened out.


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