<TITLE>06. Par 18-22</TITLE>L-18 You'll never be able to have too much fellowship with God. And God longs for His creature, who He created in His image to fellowship with Him.
Wouldn't you love to have lived in that time when the great fellowship God had with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, to come down in the cool of the evening and talk with them and fellowship with them? Wouldn't that be marvelous? We all would like to have that time. Now, I believe, by God's Word I can prove to you that we can come right back on them terms again with God tonight, right straight back to that kind of fellowship.

L-19 In this meeting I have thought of doing this. Many people has watched my life in the healing campaign, how that the things would take place, and the prophetic gifts and so forth, just like to tell you how that's done. That's done through fellowship with Jesus Christ, that's the... No other way, no other plan, no trick to it, just simply plain fellowship: taking God at His Word, what He said was truth, believing it. That just settles it. Then talk to Him, love Him, and thank Him for it, and that does it.
Now, one day sin came along, and it separated man from fellowship with his Maker. Sin is the reason tonight that man doesn't fellowship with his Creator. Sin has separated him from his Maker. As soon as Adam sinned, and Eve sinned, the fellowship line was cut off, and they could no more fellowship. Adam hid hisself out in the bushes, he and Eve, realizing that they were naked, not caring no more to fellowship, because sin made the difference.

L-20 That's what makes the difference tonight, the reason that people walk the streets and the church bells ring, and a dozen people setting in the front part of the pews, or in the back part, rather. Today, the reason that we're deteriorating, and church members, and the reason today that even the whole world's deteriorating, is because sin has separated us from God. That's right.
A man... They have different programs, and sign cards, and pledges that they'll be loyal to this denomination, to that church, or come to Sunday school so many times in a year; that'll never work.
I say, them acoustics seems to be pretty strong. If some of the engineer on that, if they'll cut it down just a little bit, we... that's a really a--a good acoustic, all right, in this building.

L-21 So we find out that man must come back to his Maker. Then when Adam realized that sin had separated him, he became an alien, a wanderer away from God, without hope, wandering around in the--the garden, knowing that he was separated from God, knew that he didn't have fellowship no more; it made him a wanderer. And man to this day, when the sin problem, he still becomes a wanderer. He will go to one church awhile; he longs to have fellowship. He will join the Methodists, or the Baptists, or the Pentecostal, or some church. He will--he will go in there, and he will find imperfection in the church among the people; he will leave this church and take his letter and go to another church. He will go from church to church; he's a wanderer yet, away from God.

L-22 Now, there's surely there's some way, on some basis, that we can come back to God. God introduced it in the beginning through the--not through joining church, not through membership, not through national relationship, but through the shedding of Blood God brought man back into fellowship with Himself. God laid out the welcome mat home to every sinner in the beginning in the garden of Eden, through the shed blood of an innocent beast. An innocent dying for the guilty, which was in a shadow of the coming of the Lord Jesus in the days that when we would really come back to the real, pure, Divine fellowship again with Father. What a wonderful plan. That was the welcome mat that laid at the door.


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