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lifestyle. daughter that she wasn't home. She'd gone to a meeting to preach. "How old is she now?" Brother Hagin asked. "She's 90," her daughter said, adding that she was still driving and had driven to the meeting all by herself. When Grandma Jethcoat did eventually decide the time had come for her to make her departure, she did it on her terms. She said, "I'm going home," and just sat down and left! I saw my dear friend Morris Cerullo do much the same thing. A powerful evangelist and man of God, some years ago he contracted a virus that opened a wound on his shin. The doctors tried to treat it, but it kept getting worse until the situation became extremely serious. At the time, I was preaching in his meeting in San Diego, so he called me to his room to minister to him according to James 5:14-15. "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save You make living according to God's prescription for divine health a the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up." After praying for Brother Cerullo, it suddenly rose up on the inside of me to ask him, "Are you finished? Is it time for you to go home?" Given his age and his many years of fruitful ministry, I knew the answer could be yes. So when he indicated to me that it was, I said, "Let Jesus heal you. Then you can go on to heaven if you want." He agreed, and sometime later sent me a videotape of himself standing out in front of his airplane. The video was taken just a week or two after we prayed together. The wound on his leg had completely healed up, and he was heading back overseas to preach the gospel. He went right on in good health doing what he was called by God to do until eventually he said, "I'm done! I've finished my course and I'm leaving." His wife and I both tried to talk him into staying, but he said, "No," and just went home to be with The LORD. He didn't die because he was sick. He didn't die at the hand of that devilish virus that had come against him. He died the same way he'd received his healing from that virus. He died the same way he lived—by faith! The Easiest Thing You Ever Did "But Brother Copeland," somebody might say, "the reason Brother Cerullo could do that was because he was a great evangelist." No, the reason he could do it is because of what Jesus did. Jesus conquered sin, sickness and death once and for all, and gave everyone who believes on Him the right to walk in His victory. He bore our sicknesses and carried our diseases; and by His stripes we were healed, so we can live in health all the days of our life (Isaiah 53:4; 1 Peter 2:24). It doesn't matter how old we are, we don't have to let death in any form dominate us, because Jesus defeated it. He "was made a 2 8 : B V O V