<TITLE>03. Par 20-32</TITLE>L-20 "Oh," I said, "thank you, Wilmer, but I've got a--a paid-up policy."

L-21 And he said, "Oh, I'm sorry," he said, "what kind of a policy do you have, Billy?"
And I said, "Eternal Life."

L-22 And believe it or not, the boy said, "I don't believe I'm acquainted with the Company." Says, "Where is its headquarters?"
I said, "Glory."
"Oh," he said.
I said,    "It's blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
   Oh, what a foretaste of glory Divine!
   I'm an heir of salvation, purchased by God,
   Born of His Spirit, and washed in His Blood."

L-23 "Oh," he said, "that's very nice, Billy, but that don't put you up here in the graveyard."

L-24 "But," I said, "it'll get me out." I'm not worried about getting in. Yeah. Amen. I'm not worried about getting in. It's, getting out.

L-25 So I--I'm so glad to have this assurance that I will come out. Because, He Who made the policy, that we could all come out, I have received that assurance in my heart, that I've passed from death unto Life. And I know, someday, that He'll bring me out.

L-26   Now just before we approach the Word, I'd like for us to bow our heads and speak to the Author, just a moment, if you will.

L-27 And while we have our heads bowed and your eyes closed, and I trust our hearts are bowed, too, in His Presence. I wonder, right now, if there is anyone in here that really doesn't hold such an assurance of the resurrection, hid away in the safety box of your heart, this morning, and you would like to be remembered in prayer? Would you just, without anyone looking, just raise up your hands, and say, "Include me, brother." Thank you, thank you. The Lord bless you. Dozens of hands while we pray.

L-28   Most Gracious God, Eternal Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who raised Him up on the third day after His crucifixion, for our justification, has presented Him to us in the form of the Holy Ghost that now comes blessing our hearts and ministering to us the things that we have need of in this life's journey.

L-29 Realizing and seeing these hands go up, Lord, there is a great need among us, this morning. And I pray, God, that You will not let one of those people go out of here without having this assurance, that their sins are under the Blood, and they have been born again, and sealed into the Kingdom of God, by the Holy Ghost. Grant it, Father.

L-30   Bless us then as we listen to Thy Word. We know Thy Word is Truth, and there is no other Truth outside of That. And we pray, Father, that Thy Word will become a reality to us, today. For it is written, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. The same yesterday, today, and forever!"

L-31 And He has told us that the "works" that He did, we would do also, because His Life is in us. And we pray, Father, that this will be a clear understanding with all of us, this morning. And if we should profess this morning that the Shakespeare lived in us, we know we would do his works, composing poems. If the works, or the life, rather, of Beethoven lived in us, we would be a Beethoven, we would compose songs. But when we confess that the Life of Jesus Christ is in us, Eternal Life, then the Life itself will testify what we are. And as the brother has spoke of--of the "bearing of the fruit," we know Christ's Life in us will bear evidence that He is there. So we pray that You will grant that experience to each of us, this morning, as we wait.

L-32 Opening Thy Word, we cannot open It. We can turn the page back and read, but only the Holy Spirit can take the Word and divide It to our hearts as we have need of. And we'll humbly praise Thee, for we ask it in Jesus' Name, Thy beloved Son. Amen.


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