<TITLE>29. Par -</TITLE>L-47-3 He said, "Billy, I want to ask you something." He said, "What does Christ mean to you now? What does Christ mean to you?"
I said, "He's my Life, my All. He's all that I have, Mr. Isler. He's my--my Ultimate; He's all that I can to hold to." Why? There would've been something happened.
"Upon this rock..."
Said, "I've seen you stand here on the corner and preach till you looked like you was going to drop dead. I seen you all hours of the night, up and down the streets making sick calls. And after He took your own wife and your own baby, you still serve Him?"
I said, "If He slays me, yet I trust Him."
Why? My Anchor holds within the veil; I had a Absolute. I'd tied myself to His Word, and His Word was holding. He is my Absolute. I found out that all these other things may fail, but Christ can never fail.

L-48-3 The Catholic church has the pope for an absolute; the Protestant has their bishops, and their creeds, and their general overseers. But I, like Paul...
Got your pencil? Set down something. In... Paul said in Acts the 20th chapter and the 24th verse, "None of these things move me."
Oh, they can have the creeds; you can have whatever you want to, but them things don't move me.
I've anchored my soul in a haven of rest,
To sail the wild seas (I don't know where you're at, this way, that way.) no more;
The tempest may sweep over the wild stormy deep, (All may turn down.)
But in Jesus I'm safe evermore.
Yeah. None of these things move me, for I'm tied to an Anchor.
"Oh, since I met Him," Paul said, "on that road, I been tied to an Anchor. He turned me around; He started me back right." You remember, Paul belonged to an organization too, the biggest in the land, but he got tied to the absolute.

L-48-7 Listen. I want to tell you something. He had a purpose in saving me; He had a purpose in saving you. And I am determined by His will to do it; not to add to It or take away from It (Revelations 22:19, if you want to put that down). All right. "Whosoever take away..." I'm determined... I'm fixing to leave the church, and you know that. And so, I'm determined just to remain with this Gospel as long as I live, by the help of God.
Remember. Here's grace. There were millions dying in sin when He saved me. Who was I that He should save? He had a purpose in saving me, and I'm determined to carry out that purpose. I don't care; it may be my end may be pretty soon now. But whatever it is, I'm still anchored, never changed it.

L-49-2 Mr. Isler said to me that day, going up the road; he said, "Billy, in all this trouble did you keep your religion?"
I said, "No, sir, it kept me." See, see? My Anchor held. That's right. I never kept it; it kept me. I can't keep it; there's no way for me to do it, but it keeps me. Yes, sir.
He had a purpose in saving me. There were millions in sin when I come to Him, but He saved me. He had a purpose in doing so. Christ's death was an absolute to the fear of it.


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