<TITLE>06. Par 16-18</TITLE>L-16 In the--this text tonight of "Conferences," we lately have heard so much about conferences. Wherever you pick up a paper you almost see where some diplomat or some official had a conference at certain places, and--and certain things taken place. And we wonder, what is conferences for? Why--why do we hold conferences? What are they to do? They are to get together, and reason out different things. Where we come into a conference, we are to reason things together.
And I think this is one of the most beautiful Scriptures, when God said, "Come, and let's you and I have a conference. Let's us get together, and kindy reason things out. But though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be white like wool. If you'll only come, and let's reason it out together."
And we find tonight (as everyone knows) that we are really losing ground. We are losing ground as a people. The world is creeping in among us some way. You can see it, feel it, and can tell it. The world is moving in among us. So I think this would be a wonderful time for us to have a conference, and come talk it over with God, and find out what's the matter.

L-17 I was reading the autobiography of Charles G. Finney, of how him being an attorney, and he... There's many of our laws that's based upon the Bible, which caused him to--to study the Bible. And in there he was reading of wh--where that God made these promises, and he seen the church, so many of them praying for a revival and defeated in their prayer. It was because they lacked faith.
When you ask God anything, call Him down, and talk to Him, and don't leave until you get the answer. Then you know how to work from then on.
And how that he, simple childlike way he went about it, and made that conference with God, and talked it over, and was one of the greatest warriors of the age that's been since Saint Paul. Because that he talked it over with God, and got his grounds, and got where he was standing, and how he stood with God, and then went on.
That's what we need to do. That's what could be done right here on this ground, and it would accomplish more then five hundred gatherings outside of it.

L-18 So you say, "Let's let the preacher do it." This is a individual affair; it's with every one of us. The preacher might do it himself. He might pray and get his soul blessed, and stay all afternoon under the anointing of the Holy Spirit to walk into the presence of his congregation anointed, feeling the power of God, but unless that congregation has stayed in the same way... See, it makes a difference. He's got to get it, the congregation under condition. But then if the congregation is ready to meet the Holy Spirit, then I'll tell you: Sinners will weep their way to Calvary. If we can just take it as an individual... You're just as responsible as any of these ministers. God's going to hold you as an individual responsible.


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