<TITLE>04. Par 11-13</TITLE>L-11 Now, before we open His Book, let's speak to the Author of this Book, while we bow our heads, just a moment, if you will.
Our kind and beloved Father, we come to Thee humbly tonight, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, Thy beloved Child. We thank Thee from the depths of our heart for ever sending Him to the earth to--to die in our stead, to take away our sins, and to give us this wonderful fellowship one with another, while the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleansing us from all sin.
And we pray, dear heavenly Father, that tonight that You'll meet with us here and bless us together, for that's our effort, is to come together and have this time with You.
We ask You to be merciful, to save the--the unsaved, and to those who are backslidden and away from God, may they come home to Thee, sweetly, humbly, confessing their wrongs, and accept the Lord Jesus, and say, "Father, be merciful to me," like the prodigal that returned to the father. And we're sure that He will meet him halfway down the road, and kiss him on the neck, put a ring upon his finger, and a robe on him, and bring him in, and kill the fatted calf, and a great jubilee there'll be in that broken home, when they come back to God. Grant it, Lord.

L-12 Heal the sick and the afflicted. Help us all to be Your servants. And now, grant these things to us, Father, for we humbly ask them in God's appropriated way. Jesus said while here on earth to us, "Ask the Father anything in My Name, I'll do it." Now, that's just all we need to do, Lord, is to believe that. We know that we don't have much confidence in earthly things, but this is heavenly things. A great blessing give us by the Lord Jesus to ask whatever we would in His Name, and we'd be recognized in heaven, and what we ask would be given to us. And we do this, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
There's so many good things and places in the Bible to start from to read, a person, almost, in a meeting is just at wits end, almost to find out where to start form. Tonight let's turn in the Gospel of Saint, or I John, and read the--the first--the 5, the 5th and the 6th verse, I believe we'll take. And, aw, let's make it the 6th and 7th verse, and then we'll--we'll speak a little on this subject. Just thinking tonight while we were speaking on fellowship, this reads of fellowship.
If we say... (Well listen closely to the Word. For...) If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

L-13 What a wonderful Scripture we have here tonight under consideration. And this time of fellowship... That's why our meeting's here tonight. I met with Brother Jackson, I didn't know him too well, but his little church has been faithful about every month, I believe, to send in down to the church, a little missionary offering to go overseas to the people. And that's where my heart yearns, is to get the--the meetings, the message to the people overseas. Did you know there's two-thirds of the people in the world tonight, never once heard the Name of Jesus Christ? Did you realize that?
And a few weeks ago, a city, in New Albany, Indiana, about a population of about thirty-seven, thirty-eight thousand people, that almost one-third of that population had never been in a church in their life? Think of that. One-third of the population, not--not overseas in Africa, here in the United States. Oh, it's a terrible thing to think of how that we have wandered away, and taken things under consideration. Sometimes you ask a person, "Are you a Christian?"
Say, "Well, I'm American. Sure, I'm a Christian."


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