<TITLE>06. Par 21-24</TITLE>L-21 Now, in the beginning man had fellowship. First, we realize if we can have fellowship with God, then don't worry, God will take care of the rest of it. The main thing I want to speak on... I've got it in four parts here, how to have fellowship with God, fellowship with one another, and so forth; but we want to talk only on the one phase of it, is the fellowship with God. And now, I'm going to watch that clock there, to be sure that I get the prayer line started in time.
But fellowship with God is what... The first and original fellowship that human beings had was with God. There wasn't even another--another living creature on the earth that He could fellowship with, Adam, but God. Then God made him a helpmate, a wife, which is part of him.

L-22 And could you imagine in the evenings when the sun had gone down, going, setting way back in the west, and that streaks of light coming down through those great evergreen trees, God's great cathedral, and hear the roar of one of those blowing through the tops of those trees, and Adam and Eve setting out there in the garden in God's great cathedral having fellowship with God. Everybody longs to do that. Every Christian longs to have fellowship, isn't that right?
I've read stories of men who spent a lifetime nearly, going high into the hills, going down by the lakeside, just hunting for a spot for fellowship. But after all, you don't have to go anywhere but to Calvary; that's the only way. There's a way, there's only one way that you can go to fellowship.

L-23 And notice, then not way... It hasn't only been in this age; it's been in all ages. Just think, Job, way--the oldest Book in the Bible, he longed for fellowship. He knowed there was a Creator. And he believed Him with all of his heart. And he said, in a child way of saying it, "Oh, if I could only get to Him? If I only knew where He lived at, I could go up and knock on His door and talk to Him just a little while." Wouldn't we all love to do that?
But think, He's closer to you than His door. His door is your heart. And He's so close tonight, He's closer to you then your right arm is. He's part of you. And if we can only realize that He's here, and how He wants to have fellowship with us... His heart is greater for fellowship than ours are. And the reason He makes us that way because we're offsprings of His. That's what makes us long for fellowship.

L-24 That's what makes a mother would die for her baby. Why? That's what makes a father would give his life for his wife. A husband, a true husband would give his life for his wife. Why? Because Christ gave His Life for the Church, His Wife. It's a strain in you. And it'd make a mother dash through a burning fire, not thinking about her own self, and her hair on fire, and her clothes on fire, to grab her baby, and run out with it. Why? It's love of a parent. And God is the first and original Parent. And there's where that strain comes through. Because the woman gave birth to the child.
And that's the reason God come down, manifested in the flesh, and went to the very flames, the hottest of suffering, that He might bring us into fellowship with Him, taking no thought of His own. "Not My will, Thine be done." How that wonderful fellowship that we have with each other and with God...


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