<TITLE>05. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 And this minister was pacing the floor, and someone knocked at the door, and he went to the door to see what was going on. And there was a, like a modern beatnik there, you know, with his whiskers all over his face and dirty, and he said, "I'd--I'd like to talk to you a little while." Said, "I'm a poet, and no one will buy my poetry, and you're an influential man in the city, and I feel if I--you'd go down and give me a little send off, why, people would buy my poetry."
And he said, "My dear man, won't you come in and set down just a moment?" He said, "I'm hearing the returns of the results of the Big Four Conference."
And the young fellow wasn't interested in a conference; he was only interested in his own poetry. And he wouldn't even listen to the minister, till the minister had to take him to the door, and make him set on the porch, until he had heard the returns, because he seen the only thing in life to him was to sell this poetry that he had written.

L-16 And then we can think of another conference, there was a Geneva Conference; we all remember the Geneva Conference, how that they selected that beautiful place. I've been there several times, and it's certainly a pretty place in Geneva. And the Geneva Conference, and the results of that conference...
And then recently, the Paris Conference... We remember the great Paris Conference, another great historical marker. And then now, our own beloved President Dwight Wisen--Eisenhower, he's visiting the free world, conference after conference after conference. Khrushchev, he's also out, conference after conference after conference.

L-17 Why? Because it looks like that there is a state of emergency coming on. The world is in such a shape till any little nation could destroy the whole earth. Men are--has achieved by his scientist--by his scientific researches, and he's got beyond gun powder and poison gas. He's got into hydrogen bombs, and nuclear weapons, and so forth, that they could rise as submarine up out of the ocean somewhere and destroy the world. And everyone's getting afraid. That's why they're holding conferences, trying to get together and find out what we must do.
God also has conference. God holds conferences when emergency arises. Let us look into some of those conferences. The first one that I can call when an emergency arose, was we would call it the Eden Conference. When word reached heaven that God's children had fallen, there were immediately something had to be done, because His own son and His own daughter had fallen from grace. And there was a case in the stage of emergency; if man ever existed, there had to be something done.

L-18 I can imagine God our Father down in the garden of Eden looking around to find a certain tree, to where He could call His children up into His Presence under this tree. He selected a place. And He called that conference. And He stood Adam and Eve and the serpent, and there was a conference held. They had trespassed His laws. And His laws were just and must--the penalty must be paid.
And how are they going to live after the death sentence hangs on them? And there was a conference held. And there was a propitiation made for that sin. And temporarily, until the woman's seed was to bruise the serpent's head, that would pay the full penalty of sin, there was a lamb sacrificed until that time to be fulfilled. And there was something that was achieved. There was something done that was great, a way that man could be saved again.


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