<TITLE>08. Par 21-23</TITLE>L-21 I remember a minister in Louisville, Kentucky (a friend of mine) during the time of that conference. People wait to find out what the returns are going to be, what kind of a decision was going to be made. And this minister was--had his radio on, and he was hearing the returns from the conference. And--and that's when Mussolini or Hitler and them was making such great progress. And while he was listening with all that was in him, to hear, to see what would be the outcome (what they had decided to do) some fellow knocked on the door. And he went to the door, and there stood a man with a bunch of papers under his arm, some kid, long hair down his neck, and some kind of a overalls pulled down on his hips like a modern beatnik.
And he said, "Say, preacher, you're the pastor of this church here; you have a great influence in this city." Said, "I'm a--I'm a writer of poetry." Said, "I--I want you to come down and give me a recommendation, so I can get my poetry out."
And this minister said, "Son, step in just a moment. I'm trying to hear the returns of this conference to see about our nation, see what they've decided to do." And he said, "Won't you come in and set down till this is over."
"Oh," he said. "this is more important then listening to that."
Oh, to a person... If we are real Americans, there's nothing more importance then hearing a conference like that to see where we stand. That's the way people act tonight about church. They get out here, and run around, and carry on with the world; and they haven't got time to go to church to hear, or set in a conference to hear the Gospel preached. Oh, we ought to be interested in every meeting and every conference where God's people meets together; we should be interested in it.

L-22 Find out, there's a crucial moment. Then they had the Big Four Conference, and God gave them the leading. Then we had the Geneva Conference, and there was another one called the Paris Conference. And our own beloved President, Dwight Eisenhower, has recently been around all the free world, having conferences and so forth.
But you know, God has conferences too. And when there is a crucial time happens, some great urgency, and the church is in a state of emergency, God calls a conference. And let's us go back now for a few minutes, and put all of our heart right into the Word now, and listen for a few minutes. Let's look in on some of God's conferences. We see the world conferences, and we hear the results from that. Now, let's go back to some of God conferences.

L-23 I want to start tonight from the Eden conference. There was... When God made man in His image, and took from his side a rib and made a woman, made a helpmate to him, and placed them in the garden of Eden to be His beloved children... When His children be--got lost, that shocking news struck heaven: "Your children is lost!" God brushed aside everything there was in heaven. He wouldn't send an Angel to hunt them up; He wouldn't send a legion of Angels. God come Himself to hunt His own lost child, because there was a state of emergency.
What a beautiful picture for somebody that don't believe in the deity of Jesus Christ. How that God was manifested in the flesh in Jesus Christ to come to the earth, not trust it in the hands of an Angel or some church authority; but He came Himself, made flesh and dwelt among us, hunt out His lost child.


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