<TITLE>05. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 Now, not... I'm not an educated person and I--I... You excuse that, if you will, but I know the Author of this Book real well, and I got a Message for the Church.
Now, in a few nights we'll just be continuing on for a few nights. And I want every sinner while we're speaking to take inventory of your own life and place it at the...?... of the Gospel and see how it comes out.
Over in Hebrews the 10th chapter I wish to read for a reading tonight in the Scripture just a few verses.
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which were offered year by year continually make the comer unto perfect.
For then would they have not ceased to be offered? but because that the worshipper once purged should have no more conscience of sins.
But in those sacrifices there's a remembrance again made of sin every year.
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and... goats could take away sin.
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offerings thou wouldest not, but a body has thou prepared me:
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou has had no pleasure.
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book as it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Above when he said, Sacrifice and offerings and burnt offerings... offerings for sin thou wouldest not, neither has pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
He said... Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
By the which... we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
May the Lord add His blessings to the Word, the reading.

L-18 Now, we're going to speak tonight as a text in here to try to find a context of this we have just read, upon the reconciliation to the fellowship of God. You know it's just the time when... I never thought of that until I come in the door just a few moments ago and this Brother here met me and shook my hand and told me about this great thing going on in the city. Then that come into my mind right quick, "Fellowship." I thought, "That's a wonderful thing. God willing, I wish to speak on that--the fellowship, tonight, what it means to have fellowship."
You know, in ever human heart there's something longs for a fellowship. Why are we here together tonight? You never come out on a night like this and standing around the walls and so forth just to show that you had on a new suit or a new skirt or something. You come because that the Church has gathered, and we desire that fellowship with the people. That's--that's why I come up through the snow to be up here, is because I love fellowship. There's something about Christians that they like to associate together.

L-19 Mother used to tell me. She said, "Birds of a feather flock together." Well, that's a whole lot of truth to that. And then if we have... You never see the crows and doves feeding together, because their appetites are not the same. Their--their diets cannot be the same; their talk isn't the same. And so is the man that's out of fellowship with God has no more--no desire to go to church or do right and those who are with God long for that fellowship, you just can't stand it.
Here sometime ago when I was pastoring a Baptist church, I was coming down a pole where... I've always worked to make my living, and I was working for the public service, and I was coming down a pole from reading a pole meter and taking some light fixtures up there, some things to fix the lights, rather, from place to place. And while I was come down, a minister of another very prominent church, he said, "Billy, you know what happened?"
I said, "No."


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