<TITLE>04. Par 11-14</TITLE>L-11 Waiting and else--inside and out, and around the walls, we are--know what it means to stand cramped. And have, maybe stand a long time before the services start, so each night I'll try to hurry just quick as I can. But yet, I want to give ample time for the Holy Spirit, to let the Word work, take Its place in the heart, so that... You know, eternity's a long time. It never did begin or it never will end. We drop down in time, but we'll be lifted into eternity one of these days or nights. And it will determine what stage of that, how we live here, what our--our outcome will be there. So let us be real deeply and sincerely of every moment, that this would be the last message we'd ever hear in our lives.

L-12 I have chosen for a text tonight found in the Book of Isaiah, the 1st chapter, the 18th verse. And just for a while, after I read it, I pray the Holy Spirit give us the context of the Word.
Come now,... let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be white as wool.
I thought that would be a very appropriate thing to start out the service with tonight. And I want to take the text, if I should call it a text, of: "Conferences."
The prophet here has been called to God said, "Come, and let us reason together. Let us just have a conference."

L-13 We've heard so much lately, in the last few years about conferences. And what are conferences for? What's the reason for conference? Now, usually, a conference is held in a time of an emergency. When an emergency arises, that they... the armies, or whatever is, if it's a conference of that type, that the big men, the leaders could get together and--and swap their ideas and reason out things, and work the best that they could for their--for the--what they were working for, the cause, the purpose.
Many in here can remember a conference that I have in mind tonight, was a few years ago, when they had what they called, the Big Four Conference. The free nations was come together and held a conference, because that they was an emergency. At that time Germany was just about to take England and the--the world, as it was. There was a state of emergency.
And the Big Four powers of the free world met together, and--and they was trying to come upon some idea, something that they could put their hands on, that they could change the strategy to--to know how to win that war.

L-14 I remember a--a minister friend of mine was in Louisville, and he was listening to the returns. Usually when they have a conference of that type, the whole world was focused upon the outcome of that conference, because the whole world was involved in it. Usually, if there's not anything to your interest involved in the conference, why, you don't care about it. But let you have some interest in it, then you want to hear the returns, to hear what taken place.
This minister friend of mine was listening to the radio, and he was just walking the floors, listening at the speech. And he said, "Someone knocked at the door, and it was during the time that when we were having rough times." You couldn't have sugar in the coffee, and well, we complained about that. And had to boil the coffee the second time, and we complained about that.
Sometimes I wonder if we don't do a little bit too much complaining. When we think of having to boil the coffee twice and complaining about it, and men dying on the field... Young American blood being shed on the field, and blood of the nations poured out, and then we complain about some little sacrifice that we have to make. It--it seems like that... I hope this doesn't seem wrong, but we seem to be more or less an ungrateful people for the things that we do have. We don't put the valuation to the things that we do have.


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