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General Meetings, Detroit, November 1962 Reading Meeting Friday AM.
2, 175.
I.
Chapter First Corinthians.
First Children. Chapter 3.
And our brethren could not speak of you as of the truth. But are the new carnal even that underbays in Christ? I have Sergeant Mills in Mount Richmond, Ferguson. You were not able to bear it neither yet no. Are you able?
Before you are yet on over, as it is among the endings and strikes.
And divisions are you not Carnal and Walt advanced for why one says I am appalled.
I am an appalling are you not Carnival who? That is all.
Then who is the problem that ministers by who we believe?
Of the Lord gave every man.
I have standard Apollo 4, but God gave the increase.
Seven, Neither is he the kind of enemy, neither he that walk with me, but God that's given the increase.
For he the planet and he that waters are one, and every man can receive his own reward according to his own lady.
Former leaders together miss doll your dog hustling he our dogs will.
The court of the grace of God is given unto are going to arise master building. I have laid the foundation and another bill on the 3rd upon and another bill that's there on, so that every man takes heed how he builds it there upon for other foundation can no man lean then that is laid through Jesus Christ.
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Not if any man build the lift foundation, gold, silver, precious stone, wood, space double every man's words of demerit manifest for the days will declare that the college you'll be revealed by fire and the fire should try every man's work of what sort of kids?
If any man's worth abide which is built there upon, he shall receive a reward.
Any man's work should be blessed, he should suffer loss, but he himself will be saved.
Yet stored by fire. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God? And the fear of God dwells in me. Is any man to fire the temple of God until God destroyed? For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Let no man defeat himself, but any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world.
Let him become a fool, that he may be wise, for the wisdom of this world is foolishness is God forge is written. He taketh the wise in their own passionate. And again the Lord knows the fault of the wise that they are they.
Therefore let no man glory of man in men, for all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollo or FIFA or the world, or light, or or things present, or things to come. All are you in your Christ, and Christ is God, God.
You have something set to foil Brother London and.
Yes, I believe that we have in Corinthians.
At the beginning of that line of things.
That we see so prominent around us today.
And that is the the outward profession of Christianity.
Which today, in many cases, there's no life at all.
We have the beginnings of it in First Corinthians, so the apostle is warning.
As to the position he takes, and in the end of in the Second Corinthians we have the development of it, which finally ends in the book of Jews, that is the the corruption of the whole thing itself. Now at the very beginning of First Corinthians.
We seek those who were gifted and no doubt some wealthy.
And some having a position.
And these are the things that have become prominent in Christendom.
Spirit of God is left out.
And we must remember as Christians, that there are two things that preserve it. One is obedience to the Word of God, and the other is complete dependence upon him. We see those marks very prominent and set forth in the captain of our salvation in the 5th chapter of Hebrews.
But here we see the beginning in the first of Corinthians of a spirit.
That would Elephant Man, and it will end in that awful apostrophe, the corruption of that which has the highest blessings and privileges.
And the apostle Paul was the one who was given to set forth this mystery Christ in the church, and before he passed out of the scene.
You just saw that very thing began to crumble as to its outward.
Aspect here in this world.
Now let's see what the apostle expected dealing with.
The wisdom of this world.
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Part of it in the country where?
There was so much human way and he joined the college at all. And one thing that was very humiliating through these Corinthians was to be told that he couldn't.
Admit it to that.
The higher wisdom of God.
They were in such a state that they were not ready to receive it.
So that he takes care of this first. First, my friend, I could not speak unto you as under spiritual, but as under carnal, even as under days in Christ.
There, there where they will them only made them Colonel Christians. All that though they were real Christians.
Real, born and gone soul. Yet they were only carnal Christians and spoken of as they've been Christ.
See, you'll get three times of people mentioned here.
At the end of the second chapter.
The second, there are various pairs as the clerk resource, but the natural brand receivers not the things of God, for they are foolishness. And again there is a natural man.
Now this the first verse of the third chapter. So carnal Christian.
And it also speaks all the spiritual Christians. So we find that the whole world.
Divided into those three classes.
An actual man. It was the man that only has the mind of the plague. He isn't born again, he only looks at things from a natural sense and therefore he cannot receive the things of God. Impossible because he hasn't experienced a new birth.
The carnal Christian is a real Christian.
But a child of God who has not made the spiritual growth of coverage, it's something that has hindered his role, something that the war is spiritual life.
So we have that class mentioned here.
And we also have.
3rd old man you you look back in the second chapter of the Christine Birds.
15th, first of the second chapter. But he that is spiritual discern us all, or judges all things, but He himself is judged or discerned of no man.
Word is burned is a better word.
All right, give us the question of the spiritual man.
And he was able to discern and they're into the things of God. And yet no one can understand in the natural man can't understand him because he has motives.
That are entirely outside of this world altogether.
Be a man going on in faith, waiting for the Lord to come, and satisfied with having Christ and his objects, while he is a puzzle to the world. What does that man live for the man of the world says about it.
Does this show here?
Oh, great, dependence is needed in connection with the Ministry of the Word. It wasn't simply a question of giving out the truth, but the time for it and the state of soul. Well, he says here that.
He could not speak unto them as spiritual.
But as I'm the carnal.
Well, he said you weren't. They were not able to bear it, neither were they now able to bear it. So it isn't a question simply of the truth, but the time and place and state forest. Is that something important to be borne in mind?
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I'm sure it is.
There's no use the harmful to give a soul a line of ministry that is not in here with his walk as a Christian. The minister had their things to a man that's going on in in in a court that's just gone into the Lord would be.
That is enough.
For his girl, he needs something to allow this conference waking him up here to stay.
Wouldn't even encourage him after his salvation with it.
It means all that, brother. Well, the brothers going on badly and going on in the world, you wouldn't.
Speak, reminding him of the fact that it's all right, he saved anyhow. You bring something before his conscience, wouldn't you? I'm sure that's right and very important.
So just to just to give him something that encourages him to think that he paid and he's trying to get to heaven regardless of his walking ways, only harden them in the in the wrong time. And then there is the possibility that you will never save at all. You have to bear that in mind.
I remember our brother part telling one time about the.
A woman who had been in fellowship changed the scene. Well, ** *** was under the influence of grace, and he read that.
Striptease or in the 6th of.
This book for granted about work mentioned several and are going on in sin and one of them was Drunkard. Drunkard did not inherit the Kingdom of God. Well, she says, don't you believe I'm a Christian?
Well, he simply said no drunkards to inherit the Kingdom and he wouldn't budget from that.
The mind is only a channel whereby the truth of God gets down into the heart.
Well, if our heart is not right with the Lord, if the state of soul is not what it ought to be, the truth can't get down into the heart. And after a while, if much truth is taken in that which could be the channel only to bring it into our soul is clogged up. And that is a disastrous thing. It's a solemn thing.
And the person may get stopped heavy. And if there's a bad state, then it certainly won't make it any better. It'll make it worse.
The 12Th chapter of Luke, the 4040 second verse.
And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise cured, whom his Lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of being in due season? So we see that there are two things needed in connection with the ministry of the Word.
Faithfulness and wisdom, and it's only out of communion with the Lord that that will be solved. Now that that's what a spiritual man is. I don't suppose any of us would like to take the place of saying, I'm curious. Well, it's not carnal, but if we're walking into communion by the Spirit, the Spirit of God will lead and direct and it's really very important. Sometimes faithfulness is needed.
Wisdom and discerning the means. But there are two things that always could be reached in ministry, isn't there? The constant and the heart. Don't you think true sometimes, brethren, that a person must be built up with the love of Christ before they can even receive that which touches the conscience?
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Just like a person who needs an operation, the doctor might say, well, this person has to be built up before we can give them the operations. He's not well enough to receive it. And isn't it often so that when the ministry of Christ has warned the heart, and it always will, whether divine light, then there will be a readiness to see that ministry that touches the conscience and the things that are a hindrance will drop off because the heart is filled with Christ.
I believe that's very important to notice.
Brothers Halo especially. I was brought out with Peter.
In the first of John, Deere learned to go the love of Christ, but it was later that Peter discovered in the 5th of Luke, arm of sinful man, O Lord.
He learned to know something of the love of Christ first.
Blue Dog. And then the Parsons would read.
And I believe that is a very important principle to notice in the word of God, and also a new passage that has been alluded to in in the 12Th of Louis.
We notice that there's a there's a word for the conscience of Peter here. Who there? He says. Who there?
Is that faithful and wide tour? So the question of stewardship, it's a question of exercise on the part of the individual.
Not to take place of prominence, but to fulfill that ministry that God has given him. And if Peter is a man, better fulfill it because it's all coming out as a judgment seat of Christ. As we see in the Second of Corinthians, the whole thing is coming out.
Now the difficulty here in this first part of our chapter was that there were factions among them.
And that's the beginning of trouble in an assembly.
The the having regard to one person more than another.
It's it's an evil.
That there there's bitter fruit of the end, there should be the affection for all the things that the apostle tells us without partiality.
Without our salary, some may divide over some particular things separate from other Christians. It might have been in Torrance over a matter of some having more than others.
Some may have been following some particular petty doctrine that they love, but it's all wrong dividing the things if the heart of the Saints is attached to Christ.
The ministry will be accepted no matter who gives it.
Who say brother Eric on my I expect you with milk and not with meat is the dog.
In the beginning of the second capture, determined to know nothing among you, say Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Well, it would change though.
Then they know that he fixed out here and his mom was.
Instrumental.
And bringing them to Christ as a Savior.
Owner offenders were driven all that they were state and on their way to heaven.
But that will remain.
Knowing nothing but.
A lot of given us as the gospel, Speaking of the gospel, now we're Speaking of that with God.
Right as a failure before the soul, they must be see that river lost.
We're on our way, we're lost, we kind of thing and the price met our needs is definitely and now.
He has offered as a savior to all who will accept him Well, who?
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That's golf balls with the beginning of the old Christian license tested, but if we only.
Faith to God, have no peace. Give me. In other words, have no Bible readings, have nothing but gossip. Christmas.
We wouldn't make problems with Christmas at the milk, but again we are reminded that the reason why every apostles would only give them the milk and this was the apostle himself here that says that that he kept them with milk and not was me because.
Because they were in. They were not in a state of troll to enter into the.
Deeper things of God.
And as you mentioned, rather.
Mundane that one thing was that that characterized their carnality. Was those divisions among them a lack of the unity of the spirit?
And the first thing you had mentioned that.
Christ crucified what to do, or to the Greek fully well, when He came among them, the Spirit of God, no doubt.
Gave him to realize how that their natural tendency was to.
Look at things from an intellectual standpoint. Well, he was determined that he wouldn't do that.
He would bring Jesus Christ and Him crucified before them.
Connection with the eternal failure. I was thinking of the verse in James that says for ending and strife is there is confusion and every evil works. And one is often found that ending in place is what is on the surface, but there's always something else behind it. There's carelessness in our lives that causes this sort of thing. And when you can be exercised, sometimes we try to correct what's on the surface, the ending and the stripes.
That maybe there are things underneath, that there's a real cause.
That are not judged in our lives and when we get before the Lord and our hearts are refreshed in his love and were drawn back to him. I believe love goes out to the same not by being cold that it should go out, but it says he yourselves are proud of God to love one another. So I believe brethren that very often in what is appearing on the surface is not the real thing.
And with thoroughly thought, Carl, for when we come to the fifth chapter, we find that there were other things underlying all this. There never been a third judgment of that way that they walked before they were saved. The practice of the Gospel had been brought before them, as our brother has remarked, and they had been saved, but there hadn't been a fair separation from those things they went on with, and they were still looking to man, and occupied with man, and not growing in their souls.
This conviction here at Corn, which he calls the carnal condition, really means that these things were swarmed. They had never grown. Well, I does not think it is to see a dwarf. And sometimes babies remain. They could hear.
Well, it's a sad thing to see and not condition and maybe two of our two spiritually.
Still dwarf haven't ever thrown with the Hebrews. It seems to be a different thing with them as we read of it in Hebrews 5.
It was a kind of a second childhood. They've gone back again and they were acting like children.
Again.
In the 11Th verse of Hebrews 5 it says, of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered. For when for the time you ought to be teachers, we have made that one teach you again, which be the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of prawns meat.
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Become such. They had gone back on what they had retained. They had become such and have made of milk. They were in need of the first principles of things again, the elementary things.
And the apartment wall speaks to them to exercise their hearts, even as he's speaking to the Corinthians to exercise their hearts. Or why are these things in the Word? They're to exercise our hearts too.
Don't you think, Anderson, the first first for the 4th chapter of Galatians, explains the conditions of those in the 5th chapter of Hebrews by which you're just reading?
Late and four and one you read now I say that the air as long as he is a child. If there is nothing from the service, there will be the Lord of all, but he is under cooters and government until the time appointed of the fathers. Even so, we when we were children were in ******* under the elements of the world. I believe that those in Hebrews.
Has gone back to the law.
Through the ceremonies and temple worship and so on of the Jews, and having thoroughly broken with Julian. And so they were just in the states of the Old Testament faith, who are like children, the apostle, life and friends who haven't reached their maturity.
Underage.
Haven't entered into their rights yet.
But the apartment was thinking to bring before the installation.
The the.
The Christian now who has entered into here the privileges.
Why he is like a grown up man centered into his inheritance and all his blessings that belong to him now as a has a sun and an air and one who was the best of all spiritual blessings. So there's that little difference. I believe in the.
Really impossible.
Thinking about.
They're needing just some milk there and and Hebrews 5 and and here in in First Corinthians 3. Definitely carnality.
We're all liable to be affected by our environment and what we have been brought up in, and these Corinthians have been brought up to make a great deal of the human mind and philosophy and that sort of thing after they were saved and they were seeking to bring that kind of thing into the things of God.
And that was carnality. It was fleshly with the with the Hebrews. They had these ritual and ceremonial Judaism. They had a tendency to go back to that or introduce it into Christianity. Well, I suppose, brethren, is a lesson for us all. We all have a background of something. And if we're not going on with the Lord, these things will affect our Christian progress. They'll hinder us.
Unless we get before the Lord about them. If any man be in Christ, there is a new creation. All things are passed away. Behold, all things have become new. And if he has to bring out in the second Epistle, it was necessary that we're to bear about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus. That is the end of what we were as men in the flesh, that the lakes are also Jesus.
Might be made manifest enough to ensure that this has the word for us all. The more we get into His presence and occupied with Him, the more we'll see the need. And God sees the need, and we see it too if we're in His presence of the self being judged.
But it will appear different ways in each one of us according to what our background has been.
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I like what you spoke, I've just been ourselves wanting to judge something wrong that we have done. It's another thing to judge the self who is guilty of that wrong thing and there isn't real restoration until felt as good.
In the 11Th chapter of First Corinthians.
In the 31St, 1St, 1St instance of letters.
Or if we would judge ourselves to notice that of the some failures. But if we would judge ourselves.
We could not be done.
Judge, there means the justice on the case of the Lord upon his children, because of their their way.
But when we are judged, we are cases of the Lord that we should not be condemned to the world.
Showing that the one he is Speaking of, there are two children of God, will not be condemned to the world that it is, will not be at the great white strong judgment and have their ten thread out into a lost eternity.
Now they get their their.
Just run down here. There's judgment, right? That's why God builds old strictly with his children, because they're not afraid. That awful judgment that awaits.
Those that are in their sins without strength, but I love their emphasis, that point there that you made and it's very important. We would judge ourselves. We couldn't help the we couldn't help the judge.
There's a much deeper thing, just like.
In the case of Joel, well, Job was such a man that said God pulled even faith and that he had none light. The perfect man, no Christ man.
But still, George has never discerned himself.
Never seen what he was in the presence of God, although a true child of God, but after the child he went through.
By the consulate where he says, I've heard of thee, by the hearing of the years, and now mine eyes see it, and I have for myself.
Don't say I warned myself. And repentant destinations.
I suppose the apostle Paul was given grace at the very beginning of things to to see the the light after that and the judge the whole thing, and that's what gave him liberty as he went on in service for the Lord. It wasn't just judging little things merely as they came along, which was true, but he saw the whole thing as opposed to God the flesh, and we judged it from the start.
And that's what gave him the power and life, I believe.
I believe you ever get the arms.
Habits and associations, it's only great that gives us to rise above them, and these are the things that that cripple us spiritually.
Is swinging through our old habits and our associations.
There has to be that break if we're going to go on with God.
And then they're asked to be the constant self judgment.
This is something that we can go through and be done with.
And never return to those things.
But it's the daily exercise for daily matter of self judgment, constant self judgment.
As we go on every day and every moment we have to be the exercise and things are allowed. Even thoughts come into our minds that are unseen are disarming to the Lord and the need of media self judgment.
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Rather than have come in.
Nice to to leave time for progress too, because in this part consider too, you were not able, that is, may have been saved for some time, and there was time that there should have been more progress than there was. And in the passage that our brother read to us in Hebrews, it says when for the time he ought to be confused. We ought to make a mistake, I believe, rather than investing too much when people are first raised.
It takes time.
Samuel's mother made him a new coat each year. And so if we're going on with the Lord, there will be progress. But too rapid growth is not always a sign of spirituality. It may be just what we're talking about, head knowledge. But if the Lord Jesus is before us, he's the object. These things will gradually drop off, and it's nice to watch our president just like we watch our children.
We like to see them grow naturally. That is, we like to see them get taller and stronger. Well, that's what we should look for in our brethren, that progress in the things of the God, of what pleased the heart of the apostle here and Hebrews or the Baptist growth didn't take place.
And he thought that you're that ministry that was necessary so that the growth might be resumed, that it might go on. And we ought to be exercise too. But I say this because young believers might get the series. God is taken, but is Christ becoming more precious to us?
Is there in us a deeper desire to know His will and to walk in it?
How would you explain the difference to the way Peter used the word melt in the second chapter of the first epistle and way the apostles?
And for you that here.
Well, I believe the.
Depends on the you might say the sense in which faith is used Lord faith in First Corinthians or bathe reviews why it's in a in a bad sense that is, there have not been.
Spiritual growth problems Peter is taking know of the natural growth.
As.
They there in the natural growth, why they desire the sincere milk of the word. They grow thereby. That's the natural thing for me to do, as far as quite a different thing, you know.
If your child is older and still claims that, why there's something wrong.
That's the way it seems to me.
I was just going to ask you.
In connection with judgment about First Peter 4.
17 and 18.
I'm going to reassign her.
For the time has come that judgment must begin at or. I believe it's from the House of God. And if it first begins from us, what shall end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall we ungodly and the sinners appear?
That word carefully should be difficulties in this year to be a difficult. Well, I believe that's just the line of things talking about basically what's before us in the 11Th chapter.
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Apartheid training, the bread that we could not be condemned with the world that God is. God deals with his family before he grew over.
This guilty world, oh God how people, all the living stones needed help.
A second to capture Mr. President, we also live in stones are built up of spiritual power. Well, if there's any place that one would fit to have one of the system and what it is according to his.
Desire and thoughts is what goes on in his home and can't keep all the neighborhood children going on and we were we think they did, but you know, give his own house in order and so so that's the way it was gone.
First thing he has to deal with is his house.
All that.
We often see here man of the world that will do something terrible things one in the fifth honor ungodly wicked way and live a whole life.
And when they get in, no trouble over it. And the child of God maybe just takes one step in that direction and immediately he's in trouble.
God is dealing with it well. The very fact he is in trouble, He is being dealt with so that he is a child of God. Judgment must begin at the House of God.
You know an individual day when?
The prophet was told and taken to.
Play the souls that Jerusalem, he said. And begin it at my sanctuary.
So he began. And there the elders, the ones that were most prominent and most responsible for the state of things.
They're in connection with the work, they're in connection with the work of Jehovah were the first ones that were were struck down.
Well, let's just carrying out of that same principle. And then he says if the race was difficult in his face.
Well, it's a difficult task. Every child of God is following through this.
This guilty world and the enemy of our souls is busy and the world is speaking to deceive us. Everything, so to speak, is is opposing our problem. Or it is a difficult path for a child of God to wend his way through such a corruption and evil world that we're living in. Well, if it's a difficult path for the child of God.
Will the envy of those that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, Those of heaven Christ stand naked before the Greek Christ thrown on a lawful.
For the novel Thing away friends, is that something of the false brotherhood? Yes, I think so. I wish that friend 9. Perhaps you had something more on the subject.
No.
I believe it has been remarked, the difficulty, the righteous, the difficulty, say the difficulty is the care that God uses over His own and their passage through their wilderness. That is a great care that He exercised.
Going on, according to his lawyers.
There's a verse and a month. Amen. Chapter 3 and verse 2.
That brings out this principle.
Too.
I'll start with verse one.
Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you or children of Israel.
Against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt stage.
You only have unknown of all the families.
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On the Earth.
Therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.
He doesn't say now, because you're my family, you're my people, I'll pass over all those iniquities. Your fault. Your kids, No Jesus.
You're my family.
How fun is you brought your iniquities?
And we certainly need to have that kept before us. As well as knowing the grace of God, we need to remember that God is the God of government.
Get the same thought to don't we? In the 30th of Jeremiah I was thinking of the of course the care for these people in Jeremiah 30 and the 11Th verse.
And then for I am with thee, that's the Lord to save me, So I make the full end of all nations, whether I have scattered bees.
Yet, well, I am not made the full end of these, but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether on money.
That's lovely. I've enjoyed that verse that's been lying.
With that bird whom the whom the Lord loveth is taken, encourage that every son whom we receive, it's always done love.
Just like those when we spoke roughly to his brother because he saw there wasn't repentance in their lives. He had to be faithful. And yet his heart was burning in love while he was speaking so severely to them. He went off and wet, you know?
Because he couldn't reveal himself to them at that time.
These two scriptures that were read in the Old Testament have no doubt their fulfillment in the day when.
When the Lord will deal with Israel again before he sets them up and blessed him as a nation, and no doubt the principal is in this first theater. Could we could we not say that first Peter will give us the government of God's house, where the second Peter would be more in regard to.
Outside in the world, would that be the the thought of things?
Let's watch your friend, Mr. Garvey says.
I'm thinking of.
Peter and.
And growth has been mentioned, a thinking of Peter when he came to the end of himself, that he saw himself before the Lord, and at the very end of his epistle.
That is the 2nd and fiscal, he says. But yo in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I said lovely. The last part with Peter was Grove.
Regarding this responsibility.
Does this.
Orson and Luke 1247 and 48 apply.
As regards responsibility.
We certainly are thankful to the Lord for the truth which we have.
And for his manifold race of love and wardens.
I was just wondering about Luke 1247 and 48.
Or does this have some other applications and that service which knew his Lords will?
And preferred not himself, neither did according to his will shall be beaten with many sights. But he that knew not. And did cement have been worthy of stripes. They'll be deep in a few strikes.
For unto whomsoever must be heaven of him shall be much required, and to whom men have committed much of him, they will add more. I believe they have 47 minutes to retire the 1St to a man that takes the place in the 1St place that is not saved at all, and he will be meeting with many stripes.
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And it shows the principles to and connect them with the judgment of the law, that all will not be together the same. Some will be two stripes, and so many tribes. But.
Is the principal a general principle there?
Being in connection with God, dealing with his people now.
Those who haven't been sucking, haven't been taught the truth, no one having but maybe some system of men. Well they're not as responsible as those that are brought up in the truth and have heard the full wonderful truth all their lives. They found who are responsible and God will.
Deal with them and connect them with his ways in government more severely. But I've never had those privileges.
Most times as we actually are in danger of even thinking of spiritual growth and the understanding of the scripture as a matter of gift.
I wonder if I'm the only one that's ever been guilty of thinking of it that way. We'll see a brother and sister who perhaps is growing in his soul and in the understanding of scriptures. And we rather excuse ourselves by saying, well, that's against the brother and it's to be expected that he would grow and understand the scriptures well. But not being gifted, I'm not expected to grow as he does. I'm not expected to understand the sister that he does.
I wonder if I'm the only one that's ever been guilty of feeling that way. I think in scripture we do see that giving out of the truth as a gift, but the taking in of the truth and spiritual growth is certainly not a gift. I suppose it would be the result of.
Diligence and submission. And if we feel that we have known the Lord and are not growing in our souls and are not growing in the world, we can't put it down to lack of gifts. I believe within the exercise before the Lord by what you've just been hearing.
All these people, all men. She's a man's name. Philosophy.
I wonder why?
Now the Lord has given us any knowledge of these things that can be a blessing to our brethren and considered us to give it out for responsible to do it. Aren't we the same thought to be 10? So perhaps our articles had the ability in reducing that ability for other things instead of for the glory of the Lord and for the blessing of His people. And I believe it's still true today.
But there are those in the Lord could use very much and ministering to and blessing his people. But we can use what we have for ourselves. We can hide our town and the earth is at work and get occupied getting along in this world. Well, I'm sure there's a little word of exercise to us all. Are we teaching to give out the word in the measure in which it's been made precious in our own souls in the measure of the Lord has enabled us to do it.
And one gift that mentions in Romans 12, along with the other gifts getting with the apology of the prophet, that's the gift of a health.
Well, everyone can be a help and I'll be a gift to gospel preacher. May not have a gift as a teacher, but we can all help.
And I believe that appeal to the young people.
That occurred in the tables or something they could do for the Lord. Well, they're helping and maybe ask the judge repeat of Christ and that some of these young people that are seeking to help their brethren in this way.
Get more of a reward than those that are taking the lead and administering the word the Lord.
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Measures everything according to whether.
Christ is the arm.
I was just thinking of work in the 17th chapter.
John Gospel, where the Lord is prayer to his Father, expresses his thoughts.
And the transfer all mine are thine and mine are mine and I am glorified in them.
Mother Potter made this remark one time.
Had a bedridden sink might be glorifying gloss more than a brother that cooking the gospel because the sister, the bedridden sister is submitting to the Lords will in the trial he is going through. Whereas perhaps the brothers are preaching the gospel might be occupied with himself and his gift and his ability and much of self.
The.
Their in connection with his, his service. So it's something to remember. The Lord looks at the heart, you know, And then there's another thing Brother Potter said about that verse.
In terms of.
That it's not what the disciples say about themselves, it's what the Lord says about them. I am glorified in them.
Ever since, we're anything, and we're essential to the Lord's glory.
It's early in a bad state, but it's lovely when the Lord can say that and said about for disciples that had been.
Been only a short time before in an argument among themselves who should be the greatest? And yet the Lord looks far deeper.
Brother among us, Lord sees wherever there's a real heart and a desire to please him, the Lord sees that. And all of these, he says I'm glorified in them.
Would you say that Apollo?
We have a policy here in the next two verses to say Apollo's with more alignment with in the work of an evangelist.
Paul says here I have planted the fall of water. It seems that in this festival with their thoughts that.
Paul had preached the gospel, and through his.
Labors in the Gospel.
Sinners have been saved in the assembly. There has been formed. Then the parcel. Paula comes along later.
It doesn't seem that it was so much the preaching of the South in this case for the pause, but establishing those things and.
That was we expressed that my water in there watering the sea just like to put a little seed in the ground and then the Lord makes it come up and grow, but then it must have the water to moisten the soil so that plant and develop and grow.
And that's a very needed work that any the Lord zone can do for him. And I think we need to remember until the love of that we're instigating about any gift whatever that we're not limiting the thought of of kids to adjust those who go about in the Lord's work.
And a gift is divorce.
Time and lives may not be a very.
Very much ability, but it's it can be used even if in a feeble way, to help our brothers go in saying this, we want to encourage.
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All here in their local meetings to help strengthen one another and the things of the Lord.
Does the word I'm not word help?
Was an encouragement to me one time what was pointed out that there is such a thing on on the ship called health. It's the band that are underwater, out of sights that hold the ship together.
And to think of our sisters and our young people who are the Lord. They can be helped. Perhaps they're not on the platform, but they're on the knees in prayer. Or there might be during a quiet work in the home.
Is not known by many, that's by a number of the Lord, but it's not help and it's very, very essential that we be willing to take those little places of humidity and serve the Lord as health.
Remember the reason why I mentioned the followers was not necessarily that he was given over to vandalistic work, but I believe in the book of Acts is the references are not to to praise the city of the gospel. Wasn't that a policy?
Hello, going off for work doesn't necessarily mean you just the freaking like would be preaching on the corner or in the hall, but possibly.
The the work that would establish gold, and at least there was a distinction, was there not between the work of the Apostle Paul in some respects no matter Apollo, and some were clinging to Apollo.
And making a center around the palace and some are making it better around the fall. And that was the difficulty was here at Torrance with the Doctor.
In the case of Paul the Polish, don't we read about them in the 4th chapter first thing please?
And these things, brethren, I have been a figure transferred to myself, and to apologize for your faith.
Was not really anything else in front of the.
Railroad and corn, and certain ones who tell me, or I think it is probably is a very fine speaker and others would know. I think the 5th brother is very, very much before the Lord, and there was a forming of parties in the court.
But Paul wouldn't give the names of these brothers, but he would just give the thought that he and the tallest might be followed by a person number of people. And they did.
Talk of one brother against another woman. Come on.
That's a different thought, isn't it, brothers India, from what you have here in the third chapter. I have planted Nepalis water that were.
The work of God.
And going on to get in the first chapter.
The difference between the apostles.
And the first chapter were 12. And I think in that verse it's the same as this verse. They were making parties really. I'll be apostle. But there were also men among themselves leaders and were forming.
Sex on their own, so release that in this fourth step.
Well, we're having sex.
I was thinking that perhaps that sixth verse in the 4th chapter might be connected with the fifth verse in our third chapter where he says, and who then is Paul and who is the power? Well, it has been remarked, I believe, that dear Paul didn't bring out these leaders who are causing the trouble, but he demolished himself first.
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Who then is Paul? So he used those terms. So the names of all the pollets, Justice figures.
But he demolished himself first. Who is Paul?
Something like John the Baptist brother heirs them around the disciples of John.
Were in Galleria their leader?
And they came and said, told Jesus that John was baptizing more to power. Jesus was baptizing more disciples than John. Well, the way John needs that.
That cause of division. He does just what Paul does here.
He makes the Rodney just smashes himself to pieces.
So I'm he must increase, I must decrease.
Other words, if there's going to be any spirit of rivalry among the disciples where John would just go into the background and disappear entirely, for in no way that he would hinder the eggs all cave of the person of Christ, there never be any division of all God's service of action in that spirit.
Willing to be nothing so that Christ would be everything.
Nor our service puts us in the public eye, the more danger there is of self coming in. So we have to be get back to Guildhall. If there's a special victory, however, in connection with what the Lord would have us do. When Saul of Parsis was saved on the road to Damascus, he said, Lord, what will thou have me to do? And it isn't just for us to find something ourselves.
We're not all trying to do the same thing, and maybe the Lord doesn't intend out at all, but if we ask him, Lord that will God have me to do? And in his presence we find what he wants us to do, then He'll enable us to go on with that.
Quietly and humbly, and be willing, as it's been remarked, to be made nothing of, because it's the approval of the wander we serve that is before us. But I believe there's a danger with our poor heart that if some service obtained a certain amount of prominence and popularity, we want to do that kind of thing. Well, we have to be before the Lord and ask Him, what do you want us to do?
And it may be that that thing that is not seen and is hidden from the public eye, as the Lord said.
Their father would see us in secret. Himself shall reward thee openly.
So let us eat to other brothers, especially young old, ask the Lord what He wants us to do, and then also find from Him the great to do it.
The 2nd Corinthian 11 / 2. Is that her 20?
Jealous over you with godly jealous I have exposed to the 100 and I may present you as a big worth of surprise.
And the gospel fall, there's a peaceful effect. Soul to himself start to affect the first gloss. Is that the principle? Yes.
Too reminds me of the summer dates and I had not too long ago a couple of brothers in an assembly team to be concerned, I believe with a godly exercise about the assembly Bible reading which was not too well attended.
And I simply ask them if they both spend a little time in prayer before they came to the assembly Bible reading. Neither of them were brothers who took any part in the local Bible reading. But I asked them if they and their wives look to the Lord in prayer before they came to the Bible reading.
And it seemed to me that the destiny that I certainly felt I needed personally, that if each one of us.
We're really personally concerned about these things, that we would be found in that way, a hidden hell, and that if we really were desirous of the blessing of the Lord and the growth of the Lord's people, and we would be found in that way in prayer. I think perhaps those of us who made from time to time be in the public eye a little, shall we say, we realize how very peaceful it is.
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To be before the Lord. But then perhaps the next evening when someone else is going to have the responsibility, we take it much more indifferently and sometimes we're made to feel how very, very sad that is. Why am I so much more concerned about one evening and not so concerned about another? If I really have the glory of the Lord and the blessing of its people, I believe we would be in prayer at home in our local assembly.
That the blessing of the Lord might be found in the assembly. Bible reading. I was going out the door after a Bible reading the evening.
And I think perhaps there were a number of us that felt there was some hindrance. There seemed to be a sort of Baroness that evening and a sister turned to me on the way out and she said there must have been something wrong with my appetite tonight or the Lord would have given better food.
Well, I thought that was a very lovely and personal way to take the feeling that all of us seem to determine there must have been something wrong with my appetite. Didn't point a bit to that brother when she felt could have explained things a little better and rather pointed to herself as perhaps being.
And kill me before the Lord. And if we each one, and that certainly would apply to brothers and sisters were prayerfully concerned about the welfare of the Lord and people, we would be in prayer.
No.
Responsibility a while ago.
Possible to use the words of illegal strength regardless of strength.
Well, there's always a danger of falling legality.
We're doing a thing just.
Of Arabic or though we were forced to do it loses its power, but it's it's guns or union with the Lord where maybe the very same thing that state of the union with the Lord.
Our blessing was done in a legal way. My caused further trouble and or irritation and maybe just embittered with another.
So. So is the spirit in which anything is done.
There is a sense of corresponding to the Baylor that if the Lord gives us something to do, it becomes our responsibility to do it, Paul said. War with me if I preach, not the gospel.
And so that in another place he said, But so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I accept thee to be a light to the Gentiles. So if we have discovered what the Lord wants us to do, love causes it to have the power of a command over our hearts. We feel we must do it. But it's by the constraint of love. It isn't like under law.
An old brother, Blount said one time that he got.
A legal state and he felt that he had to do certain things. He said that he felt one time you should go through a factory and speak to everybody in that factory about their souls.
Depressed about it and spent hours on his knees and finally got up and went and it was a noon on. There wasn't anyone there.
It was just legal urge.
Was behind it all. Well, he found there, he said he had to learn some lessons. You know, not getting into that legal state.
46 in the back of the book.
Have I and obviously floors with all which would divide my heart to be which would be hurt even though and after July concentration.
#46 in the back of the book.