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#212.
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All from above and heavenly man by birth.
The ones were about to suddenly as the birth children here we seek a heavenly home, our 40 and the ages. Yes, it comes.
Get to the 7th version.
My first epistle of John.
Second chapter.
Verse 7.
Brethren, I write all new commandments unto you, but an old commandment which he had from the beginning.
The old commandment is the word which he have heard from the beginning.
Again a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past, and the true light now shining.
Either self he is in the light, and Hateth his brother is in darkness even until now.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
He that hated his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, knoweth not whether he goes, because that darkness has blinded his eyes.
I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his namesake.
Right unto you, fathers, because you have known him, that is, from the beginning.
I write unto you, young man, because you have overcome the wicked one.
I ride on your little children because you have known the father.
I have written unto you, Fathers, because you have known him, that is from the beginning.
I have written on you young man, because you're strong. The word of God abideth in you. You have overcome the wicked one. Love not the world. These are the things that are in the world.
If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all of us in the world, the lust of the flesh.
And the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father, but it's of the world.
The world passes away, and the less thereof.
But he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.
Little children, it is the last time, and as you've heard that Antichrist should come even now are there many antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time.
They went out from us, but they were not of us, or if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us.
But they went out that they might be made manifest, that they were not all of us. But you have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things.
I have not written on you, but because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lies of the truth.
Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ. He is Antichrist that denies the Father and the Son.
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father.
But he that acknowledges the Son hath the Father also.
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Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning.
If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you.
Ye also shall continue in the sun and in the father.
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
But the anointing which you have received of Him abideth in you, and you need not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teaches you all things and his truth, and is no lie, and even as He it hath taught you, you shall abide in Him.
And now little children, abide in his, that when he shall appear we may have confidence not be ashamed before him when he's coming.
If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone that doeth righteousness is born of Him.
Oh.
Brother, hey, hope you were saying something this morning about the old commandments and the new commandments. Maybe it would be good to repeat that now.
I don't just remember what I said, but I I believe the old commandment that's referring to here is the fact that.
This divine life manifested itself in the Lord Jesus.
And so it wasn't something new in us. And yet in another sense it is a new thing, that here upon earth there are those who have life in a risen Christ and who can manifest that life. So he can say which thing is true in him and in you.
That is that light that manifested itself in the Lord Jesus. They knew that they had happened with the Lord. It says in the first chapter, our eyes have seen, we've looked upon and our hands have handled of the word of life. They had seen that perfectly manifested. Well, as I say now it's new because.
As the Lord Jesus said in the 10th of John, I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
That is, now we have life abundantly, and it's a blessed thing to think that the family of God can display the very life of Christ down here. And so I might call attention to the fact that in the end of the eighth verse it says the darkness is past, or the new translation is the darkness is passing and the true light now shining.
And the Old Testament God dwelled in the thick darkness. He was not fully revealed when the Lord Jesus was here by the glory of God, shown out in the face of Jesus Christ. And now the Holy Ghost has come down, put in heaven. We have life in him, but now and here this world, shining His true life in some measure in the believer.
Yeah, yeah. Don't you think it means the darkness is passing? A Sinner is converted to the Lord slip. There's just not much left of the moral darkness in the world.
That sense because now I do like to say the light trifle and.
Where they've never had any light of the possible.
Someone get saved there through the gospel being that country.
So your God enlarged on that where error.
Dark happened and that since was here, he said. I am the light of the world.
Rather than little man, as it were.
Far certified the let's say right now you might say that this world's funny said that the cross tells the curve has and so unfortunately at the start that dark plates ever since.
All that all the true life this world has in the right on those who know the Lord and who are managed of major is life down here. And don't you think that when the Lord in the 13th of John.
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Gave a new command affair that puts you in a way.
Turn to it in a minute.
A new commandment I give to you that he loved one another.
As I have loved you.
That he also loved one another. So it's the same commandment that is spoken out in the epistle that was from the beginning.
And we need to remember that in the epistle of John the Beginning he constantly refers to.
As the incarnation, he starts out with that which was from the beginning.
The coming into this being of God's beloved Son marks the new beginning for all things.
Well, in the light of ministry of the Lord Jesus, when he was here, He gave us.
Then new command.
And a wonderful commander that surely was that he should love one another. And what is the major of that love?
As I have loved you.
It's been said that the Lord is leaving his own.
Leaving them.
In a hostile world.
They had depended on him for everything, for guidance and health and instructions. Now he was about to be taken away.
And it has been likened to the building of a dorm. You know, they put a framework inside.
To hold all the structure together, and after it's complete, it takes the structure out and then the zone is held by each part, each stone fitting tight together to the next door, and that way it contains its position.
So the Lord was like the sensible pillar that held everything.
In place while he was here. He's about to be taken away. He's going back to the father.
Now their protection, the way they were to be kept, was by loving one another. They would hold together.
Have a dream Love that he had shown them was to be manifested among themselves.
Now it becomes, as you say, a new command, because the very life of the risen, glorified Christ.
As in as people down here.
This is divine love, and it's true of every believer. It may not always be manifested though, with us, but still there is that love with every believer with, is there not his very nature? Is that? Well, if there isn't that life, it's that that nature, right? He's not a believer at all. That's the next two verses, yeah.
Because if there's the manifestation of just the opposite, which we see in this next verse.
Hated his brother. Well, he's in darkness still. He's not in that light that has come in, but he's still back in darkness. But if there is no love.
He's abiding in the light which he just found.
When the law was given in Israel, God said that.
They would be looked up to by the nations around because they had these commandments from God, but alas, instead of keeping them, they broke them. And so it tells us the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you.
Because the law asked them for something, but did not provide a new life. It tells us in Galatians if there had been a law given which could have given light, then verily righteousness had been by the law. And in a future day, when God's people are blessed, it says, I I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will I write them. Well, that will be a wonderful time in Israel will be a testimony to the whole world as the.
New life that God gives them then will be manifested.
Well, in measure it's to be so, and it is so now because we possess a new life and we have the power now to shine in this world. In that sense, it's something new, I believe, a new commandment. And as our brother very remarked, that that law not only to the Lord, but to one another, so that that is the proof given. And that's the pistol that we have passed from death and delight because we love the veterans.
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In the lower case of the right, the manifestation of divine life was perfect.
But that same divine life is in us. But why isn't it the perfect manifestation in US? Oh, there's so much injury.
And it's because we have the old sinful nation. So that's why we're going to correct yourself. Dead indeed on the city.
That we might be able to be a light here in this scene.
Sometimes they the lab gets dirty all smoked up. I remember when I was on the farm with the boy we all the light we had was a kerosene Lantern.
After using it a few nights, why the chimney or the glass would get all dirty and smoking and it would hardly give off any light.
Well, the light inside was just as bright as it ever was, but it just couldn't get through. There was too much interest. And so it is with us. We get defied, whether we're Speaking of defiance in the previous meeting. We get the fire and there's those things that prevent the light from shining out.
And here's where we need self judgment and all. How we need to look to the Lord for grace to judge ourselves that we might be cleansed from that defilement so the light can shine a little brighter.
In the book of Numbers.
In that progressive teaching of numbers.
We have them declaring their genealogy and rallying to the banner.
And so on until there are offering certain offerings made by the Princess Cleansing also.
Leprosy from the camp.
But until the Levites could be.
Separated onto the law and they had to appear in the sanctuary.
Well, that was the light. The light was there. We are children of the day, beloved. We are children of late. But as our brother says, there are things that prevent the shining fault. But with the Levites, they, they had to come into the light of the sanctuary. Well, we know what that means.
Come right into his very presence. I was struck. You know, for years we used just candles in Bolivia to light our dwellings and the little halls. But one day I got a water Coleman lamp.
And we lit it. And I said to my late wife Trudy, I said, honey, did you sweep the floor? She says, of course I did. Well, you see, with the extra light, things showed up there.
That didn't stop with a candle and of course she swept the floor and I'm sure she meant to get it clean, but the extra light showed showed up the defects. Oh, I love to think of this brother present. And we are children of the day children of late.
But there are some things that don't allow the light to shine out.
And.
That doesn't affect the fact that we are children of light, does it? We know that, but there are things that prevent the light from shining when we get into the light of the sanctuary.
Everything is revealed there in its true light because He's there. I suppose you could say that the lamps there speak of the Spirit of God shining fall from the chemistry itself would speak of Himself.
It does speak the Apostle.
Paul speaks in the 1St Thessalonians 5 of the fact that ye are the children of the day, children of late.
Life. But again we repeat that there are things that have to be brought into the light of the sanctuary, into His presence, that we might.
Have them removed so the light can shine.
The darkness can never provide the light heaven, but it will come upon the soul that refuses the light.
Help me very much to the young man.
In understanding the way.
That John writes this festival as to see he has an abstract way of expressing himself.
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Until I follow that line, couldn't understand some of his states.
Perhaps if we gave a little help on that word abstract.
It might.
Enable us to grasp some of these thoughts we have before us, like the one night first.
Is in the life eight of his brother is in darkness even until now.
Well, sometimes.
Define thanks, Brian. Hatred towards each other. Well, does that tool that they're not really believers at all. No, that is what John is bringing out.
But if I understand it, an abstract statement is taking one view of the subject and separating it from every other.
Subjects. So you're looking at it just in that one way.
John calls that all through his epistle.
Like the ninth verse of the third chapter, whatsoever is born and gone does not commit sin.
Remain a penny and he cannot them because we born a dog such an abstract thing. He is looking at the believer and the new nature and of course the new nature cannot fit.
So looking at the believer from that one deals point.
It's impossible for him to sin because he has a new nature. That is the very nature of Christ himself.
So in this world, he that 50 is in the light.
And he does his brothers in darkness.
I heard of a case of one brother saying to another, I hate you.
And a brother promptly replied, no, he says, you love me and you can't help.
Well, he was, yeah, he was a real believer, but he allowed the old nature to express himself and just right or really hatred towards this project. But I remember one time.
There was a man that had a dark.
Here are how they're or the lots were built up. He was to stop my head in the garden and we talked over the garden.
So we got my friend with and one day I spoke to him about the Lord. His face darkened and he got on his bicycle and he rode off in the temple.
Because I spoke to him about my savior, it shows the bad hatred was not just the war of somebody that was breathing the garden, but.
Speak to him about his Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ to show that the enmity was really against Christ. And so those who possess that divine life and there is an enmity and a hatred towards them. And if you follow up the persecutions all through the history of the church, it was really a great hatred to Christ that led them to format last hardware their victims.
Look like Stephen, Why does the?
Right upon Him with their teeth, because he witnesses for Christ, and the natural part of the map is an enmity against God and His beloved Son, and there is that deep hatred towards Him, and whenever it's manifested in any of His peace, last hatred is going to manifest Himself.
I remember a case in Bolivian brethren there. There were two brethren that loggerheads there for a long time.
With some real cause of exercise soul. One day it came out he said Robert Smith, I just hate the sight of man. Brother, I said, do you you belong to Christ? Yes, he says, indeed, I've known in several years. Well, I said, you go back and have a look at that dear brother through the eyes of the Lord Jesus.
But you know, he did.
And he and I asked him how he got along with him. Well, he said that's the best brother ever I've ever seen in my life. He looked at him through the eyes of the Lord Jesus and brethren.
Concerning ourselves, God sees each believer here.
In through he looks at each believer through the eyes of Christ and sees him as their perfection, that without a flaw. Well, here were two brethren who belong to Christ. He looked at him through the eyes of his blessed Savior and saw in his brother one who was lovely indeed. And I'm so happy to tell you that those two brethren today are serving the Lord in Bolivia.
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Thank God that that was a real change in his life.
All that we might do that before it's nice your explanation of the abstract teaching of John brother.
If we look just at one side of it, it becomes difficult. But when we look at this matter in John as those who prove who possess divine life, who are possesses of the Spirit of God, then we do understand John's teaching.
Of course, the father here and his children, you know.
We do well sleep that before.
Mr. Derby was the strike of an abstract statement.
Say quinine curious a dealer too. I lived in Mount Kentucky on the.
Malaria everywhere.
And they all, they remember they was finance.
Well, that's Facebook that it cures Ed viewers. You know, there's an abstract table. It doesn't tell all the fine.
Because I knew some people that took it to such an example this it made them death and did a lot of harm to their body because they took too much of it but that's one statement they see here health certain facts about this medicine so John has that way of just looking at.
From 1:00.
It's the character of the family, isn't it? If I heard a Christian tell a lie, I wouldn't say, oh, that man's acting like a child of God, how he might be, but he's not acting like it. And that's the way the Scripture speaks too. And so, and that's a pistol of John. We see the manifest character of the family. And when someone acts otherwise, then he said, well, that's not the character of the family. He doesn't look upon him as in the family he might be.
But he's not acting like it. And I believe if we see that, it helps us to see these, the meaning of these statements, doesn't it?
We would say that here is the third proof that we're walking in communion in this chapter. Brother, we love our brethren.
We sometimes don't love their ways, neither do they love ours, but we love them. We love our brethren. We can't always walk with them.
That is true, and we do well to keep clear of compromise.
Less trouble comes upon the meetings, but we can love them.
One day a missionary said to me, Why is it that you hate me?
Why? I said, brother, do you belong to Christ? He said yes. Well, I said, I've only met you once.
Why is it that you speak that way about me? Always says you're too tight, you're too exploding. Well, I said I didn't know. And so he turned round to the Adasser who's just now with the Lord First fruits. Professor Dasa was saved in 24 and he's gone home to speak to the Lord, the age of 76 years.
And he's turned around the dash and he said, you know, Brother Smith is an exclusive. He says, I don't believe it straight out to him. He said the only thing that he's trying to exclude from the meeting is Saint Nicholas.
Well, there's a lot of there's another. This is another proof that we are walking in communion. If we love our breath, yes, we can love them, but we can't walk with them. They don't walk out of the book.
Is that what Peter means when he says see that he loved one another with a pure heart fervently? There's a little guard in there, although I believe we should remember that it does say see that he loved one another fervently, but there is a guard placed in between the two. See that he loved one another with a pure heart perfectly. That would make us careful as to how we displayed that love, perhaps.
Although it would leave us with no excuse for looking around, as we sometimes do, and recognizing some as being more loving than others. We see this, of course, in nature, and perhaps we expect to see it among the people of God and consider it as being normal.
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But I don't think it should be. If we're all possessors of the divine nature, there ought to be in each heart that measure of love towards all the Lord's people.
I sometimes even think of the the Lord servant John, who is so often spoken of as being such a loving.
Apostles, as though he had that special qualification of love that was not found to such an extent in others. But when the Lord first picked him up, he called him Bonergy, which is a son of Thunder.
I don't know just what that means, but to me it suggests that there was something in the natural man Dawn that was described his old words, the Son of Thunder. But what we see in Dawn as we follow his pathway is a lovely reflection of the beauty and love of Christ. It was Dawn who said, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them. Perhaps that was a little of the sun of Thunder that was showing out.
But it should exercise us to remember that by the grace of God, we are part of this family.
And is characterized by love.
Conversion didn't change one natural disposition, but it gave him grace to overcome it. He bet Peter would have been a leader wherever you put him. If you live in communions. There were the spirits. God could mightily use Peter, but if he was following himself like he was an Antioch man, he.
The question of eating was a gentile came up, while he went practically the whole assembly astray.
The Paul had to publicly rebuild. You see, there's nothing wrong this position either be a leader and he might really naturally.
To have the the praise of man that was his snare. A fall wasn't served by the price of mountain fall. He was.
He was a long compromising man even before he was converted. He was going to block the name of Christ out of the earth because he didn't believe that Christ was the truth aside. But as soon as he saw that he was the Christ while them, he was preserving that he wouldn't suffer for his name.
But it says here in connection with the ninth verse.
Eight of his brother is in darkness and in the end of the tenth verse he in love with his brothers and miles in the light, and there's not occasion of stumbling in him. This is the place where the believer is seen as that is a believer is looked upon as being in the lake. It isn't that we're in the light sometime just when we're in the Union.
But were brought there were the children of life. And so we're told in the first chapter in the seventh verse. If we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another in the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. Now we're exhorted in another place to walk as children of light. But the very fact that we're brought into the light and fitted for the light. Now there's to be a character scene.
As our brother just mentioned about the flight brought into the room.
Showed up everything. And so the believer is in the light. If he walks in consistently with it, it shows up because that's where he is. The believer is in darkness. And that is actually why people find so much fault with the failure of a Christian. They don't find fault with the very same failure in an unsaved man. Because the unsaved man is the darkness. They don't expect anything particular from him. But other Christian do the same thing.
And they'll find false. Well, this is because the Christian is really in the light, and what he does shows up. And I think it's helpful in reading these to see that the believers place is in the light, the unbelievers places in the darkness.
And that's a very important word there. And there is not occasion of stumbling in it. That's an exercise with Constance of everyone to think that I might be a stumbling to some of God, dear people and cause 1 to get away from Christ because of some inconsistency in my life because.
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They're looking at us, they're watching our ways, they see that we're not consistent and we do something that is shady or underhanded.
Well then, the world instead of blaming the poor.
Failing Christian places, What kind of religion is that? What kind of belief, what kind of a meeting is that that he's going to? That's why the apostle says, let's say.
That the.
That's the testimony, the gospel be our blame.
And blame the truth that you hold because of your inconsistency.
So we can't be too careful to others. We can assemble people of the world and we can assemble Gods, dear children, by our inconsistencies. Joy. That brings us right back again to the importance of self judgment.
And not allowing things that are inconsistent, they're dishonor the Lord's name because it's going to do.
Harm to our soul is going to hinder the blessing of others.
Then that introduces us to the family of God in his three parts, the days and young men and fathers. For I think this is important when we're Speaking of this character being manifested, that everyone is not a father, and so when one is first saved.
God doesn't lower the standard. You must realize that that life will display itself in a very simple way in the knowledge of sins forgiven and rejoicing in that there may be much more that can be seen and will be seen as the Bay grows.
But it's very nice to see this because sometimes because of what we have here, we expect everything from a person when he's first saved and we don't need room for growth. We're not as intelligent as Samuels parents. To realize that he wasn't going to wear a full grown man's coat when he was first in the House of the Lord there with Eli took some years before he required a full grown man coat.
Mother make them and do it every year.
And that's good too, is the rest of your parents realize that respect growth in our children.
Thinking of this 12 verse two in connection with the remarks have been made as to love.
The reason given here for the forgiveness of sins is for His name's sake.
Now.
There was nothing in us that would merit that action. By God, forgive our sins.
And so we have divine love upon those who did not marry us.
This divine love manifested to the center, and that's the kind of love that is mentioned here in this chapter. It's divine love that every believer has that. And and so in Ephesians we have the same line of things touched on in this way, that we're to forgive one another even as Christ, a God for Christ's sake had forgiven us.
It's the same it's the same pattern the same basis so here we have that set before us connection with these is subject of light and darkness and the the affections or love manifested and I write over you children. I think it all the children of God because.
Your sins are forgiven you for His name's sake.
Now, there might be someone here this afternoon that is puzzled about the question of forgiveness of sins.
And there still may lurk in the heart the sense that possibly.
Someone can.
Fall away from this because some something they may do now. That's the current thing in Christendom that men think that they have to keep themselves.
But I believe this verse is very clear to the believer.
It says, I write unto you, children, because your sins are forgiven you.
For his namesake, the basis of forgiveness of sins is not what you and I do, but what the Lord Jesus did on the cross. And the Father's forgiving God is forgiving because.
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The price has been paid for appreciation, as we've noticed before.
He is that it's taken care of at the cross, and so your sins are forgiven you for His namesake.
You have a similar thought in Isaiah 43 and verse 25. I even I am he that block of outside transgressions. For my own sake, I will not remember my Sinner.
For my own face.
That's especially noticeable, is it not, in reading that the coming blessings of Israel and how they're going to be brought back?
In blessing, but on the ground of that shed blood and that moment at the Feast of Atonement, when he finally shows him his hands and his feet. For today that will be.
Then they'll realize what it is that brought them back in the blessing. Because the whole nation really, in one sense, except for the promises.
Were under the curse.
They're under the judgment of God, but the promises of God provide us that through the bicycle would come in from the seed of Abraham.
That is, one seed was Christ, that that nation would be brought into blessing.
So it'll be in that day that they'll see the real meaning of what?
And Jehovah Savior.
And Jesus, it really means Jehovah Savior, doesn't it? When they recognize that name, that is when they recognize that Joseph that went down into death for them, as it were, the figure, then they'll get their vengeance.
The son of my right hand.
A verse right before that, one that her brother gliding crossed into.
Says about them what they've been doing. Dollars made me to serve with life, since dollars wearied me with thine iniquity.
What grace says on the side of God when he says.
I, I and he that flooded outside transgressions.
For my own sake, and will not remember thy sins. All this magnifies the grace of God.
God knows all of those things.
And he has comprehended everything, every offense.
They've been an awful offense to God, all of this, and yet he says he forgives. He blocks it out. What breaks it might define the grace of God.
The subject of the verse that you're considering. 12Th verse of large chapters. Really. Judicial forgiveness.
That is, it's our sins forgiven before a holy God.
All that those things will never come against us.
They were all home for the death of Christ. It varies in the depth of the sea.
But in the first chapter of the 9th 1St, if we confess our sins, He is faithful injustice, forgive us our sins and defend us from all on the right.
There is restore his forgiveness. Forgiveness.
That's another line of things.
Entirely.
It's just like say a boy was passing someones house, he throws stones at man's house and breaks his windows. Well he'd be like calling the police and having the boy arrested. I suppose instead of that why he invites the boy into the home and streets in kind winds. That would be very gracious. But before he does more, I suppose he enopsis more into his family.
I suppose the boys naughty after you just still will wonder if the kindness that this man is shown to it and he does something normally.
And.
So disrespect for the one who has taken him into his home, why he would deal with it an entirely different way when he first accepted him, when he first forgives him and tells a boy of had no connection with him and also boy out of the street.
He becomes a member of his family. Now it becomes.
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A matter of relationship, of course. John takes up the subjects of adoption, but the subject of new birth, born into dogs family.
So we can't make all these illustrations, especially every.
Subject before us because one who has saved is born again, become a child of self by Christ salvation and he is has eternal life and can never Perry.
So that he is a child forever, but if he is not who I he breaks his chameleon by his naughty ways.
I like an illustration very much, but George Clooney uses. He supposes the fallen son who are enjoying.
A happy time talking together.
Right in the midst of the conversation, another boy comes in who has been out on a hike.
And yes, and he has picked some wild berries when he's brought to him with him. So does his father see those berries? He says some hope berries are foiled. You eat them, they'll make you sick. So this song, who has been enjoying his father's company, he disagrees with his police. There's no problem.
There is perfectly possible they're all right, So what happens? And he seems to be as strong, but he's not enjoying fellowship with his father because.
Is contradicting his call, his words. You don't believe what his father says? Well, suppose he goes around, hates on the berries and makes himself deaf. Mistake.
Of any guns and his father. You are right. I'm very sorry. I didn't listen. I'm very sorry for my disobedience. Well, let me restore. And that's the subject of this first chapter. Ninth verse. We confess our sins.
It is just a general way of saying pardon and forgive us our sins and save us. Heaven is laughs and it's the very thing that has broken the souls communion that is to be confessed and then immediately the restoration takes place.
I was singing Brother Smith when you were talking about David and his family.
So terrible we need to remember another side of things. Although as soon as he said I have seen and we see his deep conviction and the 51St song, but yet Nathan the Prophet said the sword shall never depart from my house.
That was the governmental dealings of God. He had to see his own family fall into the same sin and all the heartaches and the sorrows.
That his sin brought upon him through this light and had nothing to do with eternity or his soul salvation. And we need to remember the love, the importance of that sign of governmental.
Dealings of God.
Sometimes we see a young person marry an unbeliever.
God, sometimes when grace comes in and saves the unconverted partners, it's something rather exceptional.
But how many we see that reap our whole life?
Of the deepest sorrow and and.
Broken hearted affairs because of other failure.
What a very dozen. Numbers 19.
One is stored.
It's nuts doesn't occur so quickly. I'm taking it to two applications in the water and separation.
You give us a word on that.
You know what I mean? Just *** **** the settler day of the 7th day.
I don't know if I have anything special. It seems that there's a deeper.
Exercise of soul, like in the case of David.
After the Lord smoked the child, by then you know he led to the Lord, and finally after the child was dead, he washed himself.
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Went into the House of the Lord and sat on the Lord Presence. I heard it said that that's really the 7th day.
You suppose that is when he was going through the experience as recorded in the 51St Psalm.
And when he is gone through those exercises, then it comes to the 7th day.
And he is cleanse them from his safe from the department.
To be connected with the last phrase of that night verse. First Epistle of John in the first chapter in the ninth verse. If we confess our sin via faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
That's really the 7th day, the last clause of that verse, and I believe that when we have failed, unless we really get before the Lord about it, there is not the true restoration, there isn't the cleansing from all unrighteousness. I have thought of her third day as being connected with the.
Cost to God and put away sin. Supposing I do the same as a believer, and I owe it to the Lord, but I own it sort of in this spot that well, every believer fails sometimes, and I look upon it rather lately.
When I if I were to kneel down the woman to the Lord.
Then I think of the Lord having to suffer in those hours of darkness for that spin that very sin laid upon him, and the judgment of God against that sin that the Lord Jesus bore when He cried, My God, my God, why is thou forsaken me? Then I believe there's a real abhorrence of the sin, and that leads to a real restoration. Then I believe, as our brother is remarked, that.
David went through that.
When Nathan spoke to him and he said that he had sent Nathan said the Lord has forgiven my sins but not until he went into the House of the Lord and it was really the 7th day because.
No doubt the the thought of all that Sam meant before God when he cried out those words in the 51St Psalm which our brother remarked.
Deepen the work and it brought about a real restoration. And I feel very often that when we fail, we look upon it too lightly. We say, well, I've owned it to the Lord, but it hasn't been the true sense of numbers 19. It hasn't been in the sense of what that sin was before God. The result is it continues to break out. There is not the cleansing from all unrighteousness. There is not the victory over the sin in that believers life.
If you say yes, I, I appreciate your remarks very much indeed. I believe they're very helpful and we all need them. We don't want to just.
Give us just for the young people or David was a man up in years when this has been his life and we're all in danger at any time that we're careless in any way.
We neglect the Lord's things in our lives, neglect prayers, the words.
Yet occupied with present things.
And we can any of us have a sad start from digital salt three is often connected as a dot with the completing of something that God has undertaken down here and that would possibly bring in the restoration of the soul. And I'm sure that theater when the Lord looked on him.
He was sorry for his sin.
But he didn't know what the Lord knew about it.
The Lord knew the roots.
And I believe that's connected to the 7th day.
Because I believe that even though we may fail.
And.
Like David.
Sin is a way that brings the sword upon his house. I believe that David's experience as the result of a true grace was richer.
At the end in in certain sense, because it brought him into the presence of God in a in a new and a special way. We see that also in connection with the numbering of the people.
And we see David brought into a blessing there that possibly he wouldn't have realized his soul hadn't been exercising. And perhaps that's the 7th day as well, because it brings the soul that the believer into a richer experience than before.
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God doesn't just leave us there, He brings us into something new that was true at the beginning when man's sin.
It's been the history of God's ways with man that even though man will have to suffer and whatsoever man shows he reaps, yet brothers faith God will bring in that which is rewarding for that faith.
I believe faith.
Yes, in the 19th of numbers which has been referred to, it was not only the ashes of the heifer that were sprinkled on the man with the water.
But in the ashes of the heifer was the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, which had also been reduced to ashes. So that goes to the root, as you were saying, because the cedar wood would speak of man greatness and the scarlet of man's glory, and then the disciples of the band's littleness. All these things come to an end in the death of Christ. It isn't only that. The Lord Jesus for our sins.
But it was the end of what we were before God. We've allowed some cedar in our life, some scarlet or a lot of self occupation, which is the HIPAA. Why all these things need to be seen as coming to an end. And so there was really four things. There was the actions of the heifer, the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop altogether in the ashes and then mixed with water would show the word of God applies these things to the soul.
And that's what brings about a real respiration. 7th day would suggest spiritual perfection, perhaps the understanding in the soul of these things in a life of never known before to the experience. Would it be right then to look upon John 21 as what answers to the 7th day and Tuesday? I would say so.
Today's would have a nice illustration that he used to use as to getting to the root of things.
It was the Miller, and one day he discovered one of these old fashioned water wheels, discovered that his wheel wasn't running, just a little trickle of flour from that.
Sorry, one out of five to see what happened and he finds with scarcely any water going over the fields.
Toy says something must have gone wrong up the screen. It always takes the shovel and stick.
And he walks up the street until he finds where the tree has fallen across the stream and turned the water in another direction. So it's not going down to the mill at all.
Where he gets to work.
Cuts the tree off and stands up where the water has been turned in the wrong direction and when he comes back while I hear the water is going over the wheel and goes into the mill and the flowers pouring out again.
Well.
The illustration is this and until you get to the root of the thing.
By this why we're unfitful in our lives of maybe some failure is often received time and time against.
The route itself has not been judged and as we've been mentioning Peter, we just say again.
The real rules in Peter's failure was his self-confidence that the Lord spoke of when he warned him to begin with. Well, when that self-confidence was thoroughly judged in the Lord presence, and before his brother too heard it.
We saw the self-confidence, but then the Lord can't can't help Peter. He's going to honor him in the very way that he had completely failed. He would go with him to prison and to death as he said he would in his own energy at one time failed completely.
But.
Go to lacrosse.
And he comes one of the number of the martyrs for Christ.
But we say there are two ways then, that we learn.
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At least, and that is first of all, we learn through the Word, and that's connected with our great High Priest in the 4th chapter of Hebrews.
He causes the word to search the heart.
But if we don't learn that way, we may have experiences that will teach us. Here in the wilderness. We see that the history of the children of Israel and it's been the history of the same time, but not been. And we have to confess in our own lives that many a thing we've had to learn by experience because we didn't listen to the Word or we didn't read the Word, we weren't diligent in searching the Scriptures.
But we haven't spoken of the high priest, not in this chapter. But I believe there is that side of it.
To preserve the Saints so that they will not fall into these errors and sin. It's the word of God as we have this afternoon, because to preserve us.
By the Spirit.
Could we say that the confession of David sin not only brought blessing to his own soul?
To get in Psalm 51, he says, I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sinners ever before Thee. And then he says, Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and I call me with my free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy way, and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
Simply there there's a suggestion that not only the blessing come to his own soul by professionally sin and failure, but blessing and come to others.
Through this.
That's all please.
I'm glad of what Brother London said, because it does seem to me from some of the comments as though there was a benefit to be gained from failure and restoration.
We need not learn that way. Isn't that true? We need not learn that way.
So that we find the wilderness can be in Western.
The children of Israel I could go through the world.
Yes, for Joshua and Caleb went with them in it and they learned a great deal.
Because they went with the people of God, although they were willing to live the land. But it shows that we all need these lessons, don't we? No matter who it is, no matter whether person may feel that that he sees truth, that doesn't mean that he sees that in the sense God wants him to see it. And we need thee to go on as someone has said of Elijah, that he either had to go on with the people of God and all their weakness or.
Well, in the spiritual wilderness alone.
And I believe there's the benefit of going on with God's people, even though one may not see at the time the the vast clear that may feel that they could step ahead. We have to learn that God is leading his people as one, especially in the sense of the church.
That we might come. I believe it's synthesis, but it might all come. That's the sense of the whole church coming to that end, of the of the learning of the truth, the precious things of Christ together.
Well, it's better to learn through a fall and not to learn at all. But God doesn't want to teach us that way. He would teach us in communion, wouldn't He? That's his desire. But alas, in practical fact, many of us have to learn the other way. But there is a certain loss also there. There is a gain in the soul in the sense that when we have failed, the Lord brings us back and.
Much better than that, he should have left us to go our own way.
However, there is also a loss, but David lost.
Not only in his own family and reaping, but also it tells us that through through his fall he gave occasion to the enemies of the Lord. This last theme and so sin in the believers life.
Dishonors the Lord publicly after he is restored by the Lord made him again, but the loss won't be fully restored.
The children of Israel, they crossed over Jordan.
And they showed up, but soon because of the lack of separation.
They were driven out from those fat pastures to the mountain areas, to a place called Bokim. Well, Bokim means the place of tears, beloved, and there they wept before Jehovah.
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Will this mercy in Bokin? We know that.
These long years, we found that there's mercy there, beloved. But what about the wasted years? The wasted years? Oh, that is sad, isn't it? Wrong. Yes. Sad indeed.
So how careful our brother has mentioned the government of God, one trembles concerning.
Concerning our walk.
This mercy, yes, this mercy, beloved, but all that governmental, this government, the government has gone through and how sad it is to see some of these cases with the same. It's very sad indeed.
I think it's important.
It's about 3000 years old.
Since David, sin that is so vividly described in God's word that made the enemies of the Lord of last fame.
Under still blossoming.
After 3000, years are still blossoming.
The Lord and using David's sin are the reason why the blasphemy.
When I was a boy, in fact, the new work and the fact they knew work on drink.
One of the bosses in the factory.
Was a man of upright life.
But a man who's opposed to conversion when he when he heard of some wicked man getting saved.
He was scarred and say, oh, there you keep your eye on him. He's he's got something up his sleeve. He's he's he's intended to do something pretty mean because he's putting on a show of religion and he was not at the at the conversion of which an ungodly man.
And I heard them doing it at times.
Well, he he opposed conversion and went on his memory was but when all of these self righteousness.
And when I went back to visit the old country after we're gone in this country for nearly 20 years.
I found that this this man has comprehensive and had died.
I spoke to another woman in the back to whom I knew the Christian man.
And Speaking of this man, if I died.
His first name was Arthur.
And I said to this this Christian man.
I said, do you know?
If Arthur D had.
Turned the Lord and got salvation before he died.
He says no.
He didn't, he says. I want to visit him before he died. I visited him on his deathbed. I talked to him about his soul and need a stature.
And his answer was.
I'm just as good an Irish King David was.
He compared his own life with this circumstance in King Davids life.
And he had never done anything like a different.
An upright.
In every way I believe.
And with his family and a nice family, but they would sin had sought pressed himself upon him. And David was called the man after God's own hearts, the sweet Sabbath of Israel. Robert in the word.
But this man always fell back on David's misbehavior as an excuse.
To say I'm just as good a man as King David was and that's what he rested on.
And the effort of this very day, the emperor brings up David's life and failure.
As a ground of attack against the Word of God.
So it's the David Sinhaus house going on for 3000 years, causing the enemy of the Lord to blasphemy.
I believe the lesson crosses this.
Let's remember that if we turn aside.
I'm dishonor the Lord and anyway.
And the world sees it.
Has made one for years.
Are the means of causing the enemies of the Lord to blasphemy the blessed Savior through our best behavior.
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I believe that's one very vivid lesson. And so God said to to David through Nathan.
The last kill Uriah with a sword of Philistine.
Therefore, the sword shall not depart from 9 House.
And one of the different children fell by the source.
And on down in the history of Davidson descendants.
All they the sorrows that we see, and the kings of Judah and their failures.
Under inconsistencies and they they blasphemies that the Lord received.
Through the misbehavior of those who profess to be sins of God.
Whatever line, so not shall they also reap. David sowed the sword.
Unearth the store.
I was killed Uriah with a swordness of the Philistine.
Therefore the sword shall not depart Nine House. Let's remember that that we if we do that which is dishonouring to the Lord, we're going to cause the blessed Lord name to his last things in the world around us.
It happened the 13th verse with.
Shows that.
The fathers are those that have gone on the enjoyment of that one object more than in constancy.
It isn't because there's a great deal of learning necessarily, but it's the person.
Who has been the object of the heart?
You have known him that is from the beginning might have leave those two words might be left you've known him from the from the beginning. Either way, but that's good beginning. It's the constancy of spirit that as Christ is the object that makes maturity in the soul.
It doesn't say gathering simply of a lot of knowledge, although knowledge is good and communion isn't not.
It's mentioned in the 13th verse and the very same comment again as I have written unto you, Father. But is there a lesson for us right. But there is really no progress beyond this. Perhaps there's a danger as we get older of wanting to put out. Sometimes we find there have been through well churches, well taught men who have deep beginning. They've had some of the they wanted to tickle the years of their hearers and brought in something new.
They have ceased to be fathers in the family of God and done harm.
The the one who goes on in the things of God will never, never progress beyond, or rather having the word of the thought that we ought. And we have to be very careful about things that may sound very interesting and are different, So that which may be the beginnings of that which would lead the heart away from the solid truth of God's precious word. Heard you, brother Barry.
Make a remark about JC Bella.
He might have been a father.
Well, it was his book that I was Speaking of.
This this noon, the Son of God.
He's writing about the Lord of Jesus Christ, the sound God occupied with him.
Well, that's the characteristics of a father.
And Peter says.
Unto you, therefore, which believe he is friends, that's the characteristic of a father.
And this expression I write unto you, Father, is a proof of that eternal life. 17.
And verse and this is they might through God and Jesus, God and Jesus Christ from their sentence.
So the very fact that they're addressed as far as and knowing him, the proof they had his turn lightedness.
Remarks my brother Hazel has just been making remind me of something that I heard many years ago from her brother Potter, and I imagine it was in a meeting similar to this.
And he says if a brother introduces something new, it's false.
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If it's true, it's been on the word of God since it was written.
It's not new.
And so our good idea is to rest on this, that we can't get too young, the person of the Lord Jesus.
Also, could we just say that the expression Fathers is very instructive? The apostle said of those that.
They were perhaps quite well taught, it said. They came behind the no gift. He says though you have 10,000 instructors in Christ, yet having not many fathers.
Well, I believe that as we get older, the things of God, it's very important for us to keep that Father's heart for the Saints of God, that love for them. There's always a danger for us to want a certain position and so on. But I believe that for the apostle Paul writes, the end kept that freshness.
Of a father's heart for all the Saints he said in Christ Jesus I have I begotten you through the gospel and he loved them as a father did his own children. But let us be careful how how often it's been a great encouragement to see someone who is older who has a love for the Saints of God. What a blessing it is. It often means more than a great deal of of truth revealed.
That love that enters into and understands what the Saints of God are passing through and seeks their good.
Before I did say that the Fathers are those who have found out that the only true satisfied office is Christ himself.
Found out the emptiness of the world was where he says no real true satisfaction.
And they have.
Have enjoyed through the years through the time when their Christian life testimony at wrestling, so you just simply become everything to the head. Well, we might say that all that wild fathers.
Present to us are certainly passed among God's children. Yes, it's different to exclusively cost that we cannot any of us being.
Enjoying.
What is space we mentioned in connection with the father we can all be enjoying? Lots of Ballers enjoy all those. I'm sure not one gear would want to play. I'm alone. The problem that was to me that they proved that he wasn't among the fathers, Mr. Kelly said. He had known very few that he well it couldn't consider his father amongst people.
Surely one and all of these when young men and all and enjoy that wonderful from the beginning.
That way one really grows into that state and the more they know of him and enjoy him, the more.
The.
One is.
Finding out the worthlessness of everything else.
My father told Christ.
Here have known him that it's not the beginning of.
The Gospels reveal that next course concerning that present one for the evening. There they will find definite truth.
So.
The revelation of that message.
Who will come? They knew him from the beginning, though they got to know him through the Gospels.