<TITLE>03. Par 8-10</TITLE>L-8 Today on the plane, coming from Louisville down here, I--taken me two and a half hours of flying and take me all day to make it: delayed planes. And a maybe God had a hand in it. When I got on at Louisville, there was a young lady got on the plane, and set down by me, and she said, "Do you mind if I set here?"
I said, "Not at all."
And as we went on, they was serving lunch on the plane. And I prayed when... And she said, "Are you a minister?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am, I am."
And she said, "I am a believer too." And she told me of her certain denomination.
I said, "That's nice."
And I noticed we had a little package of cigarettes on the plane, and I watched to see what she would do about it. So as soon as the dinner was over, she begin undoing that package of cigarettes. And she fumbled one a little bit, and she stuck it towards her mouth. And she took it down again. And after while she lit it up. She said, "You don't mind if I smoke?"
I said, "You don't mind if I tell you I do?" I said--I said, "I--I--I do, because..."
She said, "Why?"
I said, "I can't understand why a nice little lady with a personality that you've got, would have to do a thing like that."
She said, "Oh, I get satisfaction out of it."
I said, "That's only a substitutionary satisfaction. If you would just take what I tell you, and would turn your life completely to God, there's something that you're missing, and you're trying to make cigarettes fill up that longing that's in your heart... give you a false satisfaction which will soon give you cancer or degrade your body and you'll be gone." And I said, "God made a person to thirst, to thirst after Him. And then if they do not accept that, then the devil gives them a false conception of pleasure and they try to satisfy it with the things of the world."
She'd made about two little draws off the cigarette, and she said, "I'm twenty-two years old." She said, "My engaged boyfriend is thirty-two." Said, "He told me (I've been overseas for three months.)--he begged me to smoke no more." And she said, "This is the first time that I have smoked--missing the plane." And she said, "Sir, I take this promise now." She put the cigarette out, got... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Man...

L-9 God loves to fellowship with His creature. In the garden of Eden we are told, that when man walked in the uprightness of God, God came down in the cool of the evening and fellowshipped with His children. Then, one day there was a voice came up in the Presence of God and said, "Those Your loved ones, Your children, has fallen, and they have sinned and have did that which was wrong." You know what...?... God didn't just select some Angel to go down and look it over, to see if it was so or not, or a certain Cherubim of the heavens, but God came Hisself, crying, "Adam, where art Thou?" God, Himself, come crying for His lost child.
When He found Him hiding in the bushes, behind sewed fig leaves, He said, "Who told you you were naked?" And he could not come out and have fellowship no more with God.

L-10 Now, if there is a true fellowship... And God is love, and love demands a fellowship, like the young couple. When the boy meets the girl, and he says to her... He thinks she's so pretty, and--and she's fond of him, they want to have fellowship, a real fellowship. But before they can have this fellowship, there has to be an agreement. Before they can enter into wedding, wedlock, there has to an agreement for this certain fellowship. And it's based upon the truces or their pledges to each other, and then holy wedlock. And then we enter into a life-long fellowship. But before we can enter into that fellowship, there has to be a--an agreement first.
And when fellowship was broken between God and man, there had to be some sort of an agreement, some sort of an arrangements to restore again that lost fellowship. And God found the plan; and it was through the blood of an innocent victim, that God restored man back to fellowship with Him again.


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