<TITLE>05. Par 14-17</TITLE>L-14 That doesn't mean you're a Christian. A lady said to me not long ago, said... Mr. Bosworth said, "Sister, are you a Christian?"
She said, "I burn a candle every night." That don't mean you're a Christian, no, no.
"Are you a Christian?"
"I belong to a certain-certain church." That don't mean you're a Christian. You're a Christian when you're borned again of the Spirit of God, then you become a Christian.

L-15 People has longed for this wonderful thing of fellowship. The world tonight is hungry for fellowship. The nations are hungry for fellowship; people are hungry for fellowship, but we go at it in the wrong way. Now, tonight we--we think of what makes man long for fellowship? What makes that in your heart, that you long to fellowship?
You've... my mother used to have an old proverb. She said, "Birds of a feather flock together." And that's a whole lot of truth. "Birds of a feather..." You don't see doves and crows together, because they have no fellowship; their--their diet is different. Their make-up is different. A crow's a scavenger, a dove couldn't eat that kind of food. He has no gall; he's not made up that way. And that's the way that the world and Christians cannot fellowship together. There's something different; you just can't do it. Because a man, when he once becomes a Christian, a borned again Christian, then the old things die, and all things become new again. He's becomes a new creature in Christ Jesus; old things pass away.

L-16 But this great strain of man longing for fellowship, we've tried to bring people together through the ages. Many times educational programs has tried to unite people together by education. And standing in this auditorium tonight, of this lovely school, I certainly wouldn't speak against education, but education is not the appropriated way for fellowship. You can't educate people to love one another. You think you can, but it takes a Divine order to do that. There's no way to do it through education.
And many times that we tried it through denominations of churches denominating it. And each denomination builds up. The first one started was the Roman Catholic church about A.D. 600, and--or 300 rather, and it started the Roman Catholic church. They started a denomination and to make everybody in one denomination. It wouldn't work. There come the Reformation, Martin Luther, then he brought all to Lutherans, tried to; it wouldn't work. Along come Wesley, he tried to make them all Methodists; it wouldn't work. Along come John Smith to make them all Baptists; it wouldn't work. Along come Alexander Campbell to make them all Campbellites, Christians; wouldn't work. Along come the others, the Presbyterians, and the--and down into the Pentecostals, and the Nazarenes, and Pilgrim Holiness, but it doesn't work.

L-17 Every nation is trying to get an atomic bomb now, over rule and power to say, "All nations will bow at my..." It can't do it. But God laid down a program in the beginning how that man can have fellowship one with another. And we'll have to come to God's terms on it; that's all.
In the beginning when man used to walk in the early age with God in the garden of Eden, when the first man was created in the great cathedrals, under the palms, he and his wife, when the cool of the evening come along, they come out and worshipped God, had a perfect fellowship. God longs for fellowship. He yearns, He wants people to speak with Him, to talk with Him. You might do one... You might sing too much, or you might preach too much, sometime, but there's one thing you'll never be able to overdo, that's pray.
The Bible said, "I would that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands."


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