<TITLE>04. Par 38-52</TITLE>L-38 And I said, "The assurance business." I said it fast so he wouldn't catch it, you see. He didn't get what I said. I never said "insurance," I said "assurance."

L-39 He said, "Well, I'm--I'm glad to--to know that." He said, "What, where is the headquarters of this company?" Said, "What kind of insurance is it?"
I said, "The Eternal Life."
He said, "I never heard of it. Where is the headquarters?"
I said, "Glory."

L-40 So any of you fellows are interested, I'd like to talk the policy over to you after the service is over.

L-41   And I remember, sometime ago, on insurance. I hope there is not an insurance man here. My brother is an insurance salesman, by the way, with Prudential. So I was told I got a little dull deal on an insurance one time. And they didn't read the policy to us just right, and dad worked for ten years for a twenty-year, paid-out endowment, we thought. When it was ready to be cashed in, it was worth seven dollars and fifty cents, and we thought it worth hundreds of dollars. But, and I--I don't know. It's alright, insurance is okay, now; not downing that. It's perfectly alright.

L-42   So I had an insurance friend, or sold insurance, rather, a fellow I went to school with; his brother, writes in The Upper Room, it's a very fine Baptist minister. So Wilmer came up to talk to me, one day, said, "Billy, I come to talk to you about some insurance."

L-43 I said, "Well, Wilmer," I said, "I'll tell you, we're always been good friends," I said, "and everything." I said, "If you want to talk about the weather, or--or about something else, alright, but about going fishing or something. I'm willing to talk about that. But..."
Now he said, "Well," said, "you really need some insurance."
And I said, "I have assurance."

L-44 And he said, "Oh excu-... Then I guess Jesse," that's my brother, "has already sold you a policy?"

L-45 I said, "No." And my wife looked at me like I was a hypocrite, see, 'cause she knowed I had no insurance. So she looked at me. And I said, "Yeah," I said, "I have assurance."

L-46 Said, "What is it?" And I said:
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory Divine!
I'm an heir of salvation, purchased of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His Blood.

L-47 He said, "Billy, that's very good, but that won't put you up here in the graveyard."

L-48 I said, "But it'll get me out. I'm not--I'm not worried about getting in; I'm worried about getting out."

L-49 Businessmen, I'm still in the business. If you want to talk some of this over with me, I'll be glad to do it with you.

L-50   But it's a great thing to have fellowship. I believe it was written in the Scripture, "How sweet and pleasant it is that brethren can dwell together in unity. It's like the anointing oil that was on Aaron's beard, that run down to the hems of his garment skirts." There is something about a fellowship!
51 God alone, in the beginning, He was only God... He wasn't even God, at the beginning. Did you know that? He couldn't. God is an "object of worship," the English word. See? As He was Elohim, the self-existing One; He wasn't even God. But in Him was attributes, such as your thought. See? Your thought have to see something, and then... I think of it, and then speaking. And a word is a thought expressed. So, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word with God, and the Word was expressed," see, brought forth.

L-52   And now all is the same. Same as we are, born again, we got Eternal Life. If we have Eternal Life, there is only one form of Eternal Life, that's God. And we are attributes of Him. Now I can talk amongst Christians this way. We are attributes. And Jesus came as a Redeemer. How many believes that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Redeem, is not create something new. Redeem is to bring back that which has already been. See? So what are you scared about? See? It's all--it's all in His hands, the clock is not ticking wrong. Everything has to be this way, and it brings us to this spot now.


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