<TITLE>04. Par 33-43</TITLE>L-33 The Lord add His blessings to the reading of the Word.

L-34   I'll have had a little, kind of a little saying that I... around the Full Gospel Business Men. Some of them, as we ministers know, they'd say to me, "Say, you're a preacher, what are you what are you doing around them businessmen?"
I said, "I am a businessman."
They said, "What kind of business you in?"

L-35 And I said, "Eternal Life assurance." See, not insurance, now. Assurance!
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory Divine!
Heir of salvation, purchased of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His Blood.

L-36 And I would like to, being that this is businessmen, and businessmen like to talk on business terms. And I want to say to the businessmen, and businesswomen also, that's setting here, I want to take this text, first, and call it: Investments.

L-37   Now most any businessperson is interested in good, sound investments. If you're a businessman, that's, you're interested in that. And a--and a businessman is always looking for some good, sound investment. You know, it's--it's a good thing that we are. And I'm going to speak to you this morning on the--the best investment that I know of. And I want you to listen close, on: Investments.

L-38   Now it's not a--it's not a good policy at all for a businessman to take chances. After all, taking a chance is gambling, and gambling is wrong. We don't want to gamble on nothing, because it's--it's not right. Some of these here, "get rich overnight," you know, some broker or something that's not even established very well, but he can present something to you that sounds so good, you'd say, "Oh, my," and you just fly into it. And when you do, the first thing you know, you find yourself broke. But if a man is a good, sensible businessman, he must first try to find a business that's been established, an old reliable firm.

L-39 And, then, it's not a good thing for a businessman to keep his money in his pocket. If you don't... If you keep your money in your pocket, it won't earn you anything. But you've got to get it to working somewhere, put it out. And, then, watch what you do with it.

L-40   Now, I think that's kind of business terms, that we would. I think it's a good logical thing that we think of it in that way, of what I'm going to say. Now we find that if you... We got so many in the world today, is a short-cuts, and "get rich overnight," and they spring up here and there.

L-41 And I just had a friend that was taken for all of his life savings, on such a--a--a thing as that, that someone told him, "You invest your money here. This is just it. This is it." And the man looked at the painted picture which was before him, and invested his--his life's savings in that, and lost everything he had, overnight, just in a few days. And the firm closed up, and there they went. Now, a man is a most foolish, to do a trick like that. A good, sound thinker won't do business on them kind of a terms, see.

L-42   First, you ought to investigate the--the--the firm that you're going to deal with. And if the firm is no good, no matter how good a proposition they offer you, you wouldn't do it. If you're a good businessman, you wouldn't take such a chance as that, of your life's earnings, to invest in such.

L-43 And now speaking that, parallel like, there is a lot of these religious things that's come up in the last day, that's a "do it overnight." And tonight you're a--a barroom singer, and tomorrow you're preaching the Gospel. I--I don't go for such stuff as that. No. I think a person has got to be proved, first.


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