<TITLE>08. Par 72-79</TITLE>L-72   Now, a tobacco auctioneer, somebody said, maybe seventy-five years from today, if the world should stand that long, "Garnett, he was a great auctioneer." Maybe that's all the minister could have said at his funeral, "He was a great auctioneer."

L-73 But what can we say today? "He's a Christian." As an auctioneer, without the germ of Life, just a memory of that generation, he'd be gone, among--among a few men. Now he's amongst the immortals. He's got to come forth in the resurrection. There's no way keep it from it. He has to come, for he served his purpose. He was germitized with the Holy Spirit of God, of Eternal Life that laid within the boy. Insomuch, that if he said, "If I knowed..."

L-74 The last time I spoke to him, he said, "If I knew that I had... could be well, strong like these other boys, running up-and-down the roads here with my hot-rod, running up-and-down the roads, and drinking, and would not know This that I know," he said, "I wouldn't swap this for ten thousand lives like that." A young eighteen-year-old boy, fine handsome-looking young man, would probably been a regular target for the Devil.

L-75   But God had to throw him in that stage, to get out of him, to serve the purpose. Look at his patience, his testimonies among you neighbors. Look what he was, what, how his little life has spoke to many of you, that at the Day of Judgment, without that, his life will testify right back against you. He was an example of what God wanted with him. He served God's purpose.

L-76   Now, if he served God's purpose and been germitized, as all nature has to be germitized, with a promise that he will rise again, how could we ever doubt the resurrection, of seeing Garnett again? Why, it would be totally insane to say that he cannot come up. If Garnett doesn't come up, there never was a sun ever rose and set, and come up again. If Garnett doesn't come up, the flower never dies and lives again. It met God's purpose. It served God's purpose. It was germitized with life, and it come up again. Well, we--we would be a--a--a horrible thing, a rashel thing, to say there's no resurrection, when we look right out, on in, and see the--the purpose of resurrection and what we must be to have a resurrection.

L-77   Garnett will live again. He's alive now. He's in another world. And he'll rise again just as sure as the flower rises again. He'll rise just as sure--sure as the moon, sun or stars rise again. He'll rise. But, see, they only rise to another mortal life, to give testimony to another age. When he rises, it'll be at the end of the age, there'll be no more testimony. He has Eternal Life. That had perpetual life; it must be germitized for--for perpetual life, to make it rise again for--for perpetual life. He is germitized with Eternal Life. And when he rises again, there's no more death, he lives forevermore.

L-78   I've preached thousands of funerals in my days, around the world. I wish I could say, over the many funerals that I have preached, I would... I wish I could say the words that I could say about Garnett, and the hopes that I have in Garnett. And knowing that God will raise him up, because he met every requirement that I know of, that God required. And his life showed the flower of the Holy Spirit was in him, that God lived within him. That boy was a changed boy. There's no doubt at all. His life bore record of it. He was changed.

L-79 Now, if we would say that, "There's no more resurrection, and this is the end of Garnett. Garnett, all we'll ever see is when we cover him up out there, this afternoon." Then what speaks for him? If someone would say, "Oh, I don't know about that. I don't know. Now, I've--I've never seen it done." Certainly, the end of time hasn't come yet. But when you say that, the first thing you'll have to do...


<A HREF="P9">Next Page</A>