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Denver conference, September 3, 1994, Second reading meeting.
John 4.
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First John 4 verse 7.
Beloved love one another for love is absorbed, and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God. For God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because the God sent his only begotten Son into the world.
That we might live through him herein is love.
Not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in US, and His love is perfectness in US.
Thereby know we that we dwell in Him and heal us, because He have given us all His Spirit, and we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelt in him, and he in God, and we have known and believed.
That God hath to us, God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment, because as he is, so are we in this world. There is No Fear in love, but perfect love cast without fear.
Because fear hath torment he that Feareth is not made perfect in love.
We love him because he first loved us. If a man say I love God, and he is his brother, he is a liar, for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen?
And this commandment have we from him, that he who loves God love his brother also.
This morning.
Bill made mention of areas and he didn't equate. It's a lot of us in this room don't know who he was. The Aryan doctrine is Jehovah's Witnesses today. So I just thought it would be good to clear that. So you know what? And they they deny the Lord's deity, but that's really the area of Doctor is what they hold. So it's good to know who we're talking about today.
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Another let us love one another. We get this same simple.
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Exhibition.
Over and over John's Gospel and in this epistle And the reason to get it is because.
We need to love one another. The law commanded us to love God with our heart and able to fail, they couldn't produce.
That when God gives us an age of the very nature of God, we can love Agra. In fact, we do not want them glad, brotherly love continued in the book of Hebrews.
Well, the way the Revelation comes out in this epistle, God is light in the first chapter.
God is love in this chapter.
The way it comes out in John's Gospel is the same.
Light and the light was the light of men in the first chapter of John's Gospel, and God shall live the world in the third chapter.
That his weight makes manifest him. When God chose to reveal himself, he must operate that way, bring him to the lake. Now we have the light of God's word, and if we want to know God, we just go to this church. We find that life makes manifest, and then what does it make manifest Is that God is love all the heart of God to come down and love us when we were dead in dress, passes and sins, unjogly sinners, enemies of God.
Now Divine Love flows out.
But ours is drawn as we get in this chapter. We love because he first loved us, but just let us love one another for love is a problem.
What our brother told us about the law.
Not being able to produce that love that is commanded is the reason the Lord Jesus said to his own in that upper room a new commandment I give unto you.
As our brothers indicated, he has not only given us a new nature that has the capacity and desire to love.
But He has given us a Holy Spirit to empower that nature, to love even the unloved, so that now we can love according to.
Nature that God has given us.
I'd like to read verse 14 and 15 of chapter 3.
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. Whosoever hated his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer have eternal life abiding in him.
That verse follows the discussion of Cain, who was of that wicked one and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous. So the.
The attitude of the heart it comes out in in Cain and actually murdering his brother. So what verse 15 is telling us is if we have that attitude of heart, God sees us in that way as a murderer, whether we've carried it out or not.
One of the early brethren has made this statement as to light God be light, God being loved, and it says that God is light.
It expresses the holiness of his nature.
And love is the activity of his nature. And that's beautiful to say.
God in his love.
Meets us in the condition that is life. Exposes now the light exposes us to be sinful or exposes anything in our life that is not according to God. And then in His love He needs us in that condition.
The activity of this nature. And when we only consider the truth that God is like without dwelling on and coming into the good of the knowledge that God is love, you know this is devastating.
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You know, how do we tremble at the very thought of having to face God without guilt upon us? And we find that Adam and Eve when they realized their unfitness for the presence of God.
They made thick leave aprons, but in spite of that they realized they were unfit to face the Holy God. And how wonderful. In his love he finds a covering and.
The covering skins require their blood needed to be shed, and we find in this chapter, do we not, that this is how God in His love has met us to not need.
Light addresses itself to the conscience. Just I love to the heart. Man's not all conscious, he's got a heart too. And wonderful to think of God.
Working and seeking and seeking to bring back into communion.
Immediately when sin came in, as you brought before us, God made.
Coats of skin to cover their negatives. It was a blood sacrifice from the very first provision to cover sin. It's like first John 17 if we walk in the light as he is in the light, the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from Alton. That is the light made manifest. Man went to his eye from God that God came along with a covenant desire to bring.
Man back into fellowship with him and it's fully produced.
In having our sins covered with the precious blood of Christ and no more conscience of sins now.
It might be good to remind us.
Someone mentioned the law.
That the New Testament is not.
Just another law for us. It's not another law for us. When I read these verses, it's been said let us love one another.
It's not a command, as the law of Moses was given for me to produce this love.
But it's light, and what it does is, well, look at this way several the epistles. In the first part of the pistol we get the doctrinal instructions and the truth set out as God would unfold his false to us. And then the latter part of it we get the results of that the light that flows from understanding and living in the good of the first part of this.
It was like school, you know, you go to school and.
Teacher, Professor will lead through a lesson and then he'll give you a quiz. Did you get it? Did you understand it? What's the way God is in His word? In some places you can always read the instructions in the first part of the epistle and the ones that thoughts of God and the latter part, he says. Now, did you get it? Did you understand it? Are you enjoying it? And instead of giving us a bunch of questions that we can answer on a piece of paper, he exposes the life that flows from the enjoyment of the doctrine.
And I measure myself by that.
And if I see any contrary, I have to call it what it is.
Sin if I'm not loving my brother.
Sin. And I see what that is. The light has brought that out to me, and I see what it is, and that's sin. And I can judge the sin for what it is and let the love flow out that God has already put there and a new nature. And then with power in the believer.
That it be true. The commandment we have received is not only true in him, it is true in us, because power has come in to make good to each one of us the new nature that we have. And I'm telling us love my brethren. If I look across the room and there's a brother that rubs me the wrong way, or he irritates me something I need to look inside and see me inside of me and see why. Something that's interfering.
With the outflow of that new life that I have in trust.
But it's not a law for me to say, well, I mean I have to go somewhere and come up with enough love to love this brother.
That be just another law and for us and be terrible law, be a terrible thing. Suppose we were sitting here this afternoon and all we had to minister was the 10 commandments.
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Well, we'll be big, brother. We'd be hiding on the chairs.
But that's what it would be if we go back to law, any law, it would just be ministering condemnation to us that we're ministering like grace, God's desire to have us in fellowship with himself for his joy. Let's look at this for his joy. I'll be joyful to certain, but the joy of God.
Who all this was his own fault to bring us to his own presence and make us likely to save you. And he's the one that's doing it, has done it, and will do it for us.
Some brothers said a long time ago, you know, we can't make flowers grow, but we can pull weeds. In that sense, whatever there is, it is I can recognize about me and inside of me that is interfering with these verses, because these verses set before us the light that flows from the understanding of truth and God. Isn't that bill what we have in James? He turns things around in a wonderful way to see it. He speaks about a law, and it's the kind of law we want to let flow out.
It's the law of liberty. Let's look at James One and see if it doesn't follow the education we're getting here because, you know, we have.
By grace through faith, a new nature, which is God's nature and it does love. And the activity of that nature is perfect liberty to let it go out. I think that's what it means in James 125, who So look this into the perfect law of liberty. What a statement that is.
The liberty of the new nature to act according to what it is and continue it therein. Go round here on in that new Nature.
He being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed.
There's two others that I think of. Romans 82 Says the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death there. It means the fixed principle or the constant tendency of the Spirit. We talk about the law of gravity. Apples always fall down. They never fall up. That's the law of gravity pulls apples down. So there's the Spirit of God working in the new nature. You've given us that one. In James, the law of liberty is the the new nature acting by the Spirit. And we have the law of the spirit. And then I think of another one in First Corinthians 9.
Verse 21 To them that are without law as without law being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ, and it shouldn't, the article shouldn't be there under law to Christ or I think Mr. Darby renders it legitimately subject to Christ. There's nothing wrong with law. It's the principle of getting into right relationship with God on the principle of law is what we're not under.
We're not under that. Our relationship with God is established by his grace, not by anything that we do. But we're we're subject to the to the law of Christ, if you will. That is, we're under Christ. We're to take our orders from Him. And there's nothing wrong with that. The law of the Spirit is operating in the new life. He produces fruit for God and righteousness. So there's there's a sense in which law is used in the New Testament in a very favorable way, too.
But you're not also allowed Romans 5.
The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy gold which is given unto us. I believe there is more in connection with what we might have to pass through, yet we're in the conscious enjoyment of the love of God. But I believe this is also what is the basis in a practical way. How can we really?
Reflect what is perfectly seen in God.
Well, it is that we ourselves are in the enjoyment of the love of God and we all have heard having not, the veterans say it's not a question that we try to love God more, but we enjoy the love of God, you know, think on all that he has done. That is what.
Causes a response in us. It isn't something that we work at, so to speak.
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And bring it about, but by enjoying the love of God manifested to us.
That will produce in US what it takes to show love, imitators of God as beloved children. In Ephesians, you know, there's another scripture that shows that we can. Of course, who would dare to think that we could ever?
Demonstrate things as perfectly as we see it in God as we see it in the Lord Jesus.
But that is nevertheless what will happen, that there will be two limited extent in our lives, that which was perfectly seen in him. Second Corinthians 5 verse 14. For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge that if one died for all, then we're all dead, and that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. What is the?
Motive that the God provides us.
We're living for him is the love of Christ.
It's a wonderful motive for the servant there. There's a couple others. There's a judge in chief of sight and there's the glory. What movies God has given us that we go forth with the ministry He's given us. I thought here, the way these verses read is so simple and beautiful. I'm looking at 9:00 and 10:00. If God was going to manifest his love, how is he going to do it? And we go back in the principle of the thing for the first time. Love is mentioned in the Bible, you know, well.
In Genesis 22.
Not addressed, Abraham said. Take now thy son, thine only son. I get you in the land of Moriah, and offer him there on one of the mountains to the child. Now that is the cross figured as it relates especially to the father. It was the love of the father.
That was the trial of the father, Those of us who have sons, we couldn't think of offering one of them up for anybody.
But God has done it not just for good people, but the last time we were enemies, when we were ungodly, and so on. Well then.
We come to the New Testament. We've already heard the country 16. I think there's the first place.
Where love comes in the New Testament fully and there it is, the love of God. And you don't have to vote the worst of anybody. Tell my it's it's the way God was going to manifest the love that was in him. That's really what he is, to know God. God is light and God is love.
It might be of some interest to notice that love in these verses is brought before us in three different ways.
I'll just touch on them just to develop that the verses that we're looking at just now versus 9 and 10 in this way and this was manifest the love of God toward us because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. That's the first place brought before us.
Love toward us as sinners. The 2nd way is brought before us is in verse 12. No man hath seen God at anytime if we love one another God as well as in US and his love is perfected in US. This is the outworking of that love to become but was toward us, that loves them out working in US or others. And the 3rd way if I could just have a interview to read from Mr. Darby's translation.
In verse 17 it says here in Has love been perfected with us? And that has to do or just read on that we may have boldness in the day of judgment. So God has thought of everything His love touched us in the past as soon as.
Love being worked out as Saints, he must, and that love will be manifest also in that coming day.
That love with us.
The dad and what you said about the 17th verse, you finish it because as he is, so are we in this world. Well how is Jesus as to the judgment people?
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He's passed and he's in the glory. How do we as to the judgment that belong to us? The same place we're here in the world, but we're in the same position as the judgment.
That Jesus is Jesus will never ever suffer again. You and I shall never come into justice. So that's the reason you have boldness when we talk about judgment. You already mentioned no more conscience of sin in Hebrews statement in Scripture. I might hear the guilty conscience sometimes, even after I have come into the good of the truth that he has put away sin by the sacrifice of himself and all my sins are atoned for. I might still have a guilty conscience sometime because I've done something wrong.
But that is not what Paul speaks of. The same question as such is settled, and I know it because God's Word says it and I have a purged conscience. I know that I never have to again face the same question. It was faced for me by the Lord Jesus.
But a tremendous truth. But maybe we can yet refer to another scripture in connection with service and love being the motive for service. Remember, Peter had sinned, had denied the Lord, and then he was restored. The Lord had a meeting with Peter alone, and no doubt at that point he was the Lord. But he also needed to be restored in the midst of his president.
And what is the question that the Lord asked him again and again, lovers down me more than these?
Well, he had to deal with what was the reason of the downfall of fear that if they would all deny thee, I wouldn't. Or he might say, we can do better in our brethren, our fathers. Same spirit. That's the reason of fetus ball.
And so the Lord has to deal with that Love is telling me more than these, but at the same time we see that love for the Lord Jesus is the motive for sirs, not reward. You know many times this is how it is presented, as if we have a motive for service. Thinking of the revolt. Well, again, what I've learned from another, we do find in scripture that encouragement is given to those.
In Trials and Difficulties in the service of the Lord by rewards being mentioned. But it is not a motive for service. Love for the Lord Jesus is the motive for service, and that will enable the servant to go on in spite of abuse and whatever else he might have to take in the course of seeking to serve the Lord Jesus. But if he is in the enjoyment of his love, then he has a motive.
You know the Lord will help him to carry on and continue faithfully till he is brought to his rest, and that will be where we will be with him.
Sometimes we hurt. Here it said that John presents abstract truth, and I don't know a better verse to to illustrate that in verse eight we passed it over. I just want to read it. He that loveth not knoweth not God or God is love, and that's an abstract statement. It's not any particular application to any particular situation, but it's an absolute.
Abstract statement of truth.
He that loveth not.
Knoweth not God. Everyone that knows God loves. He has a nature that loves. But if it's absolutely true of a person that he does not love, he doesn't know God. It's not the respect of any particular application. We know of times when we don't have the feeling of love towards someone, it might be almost a feeling of hatred.
We're very angry with them, and we have that it comes from the flesh. This is an abstract statement of truth that applies.
Everywhere. And it's kind of hard to get ahold of abstract truth. But he that loveth not, knoweth not God. For God is love. That's what God is. You can't know God who is love and not love. You can't do that. That's that's a that's a moral impossibility.
I used that to illustrate when we talk about abstract truth. I was thinking of the verse in chapter three that says verse 20.
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For if our heart condemn us.
Now I live in the atmosphere of no condemnation.
As he is, so are we in his works, and I live under the shelter of that. I will never be condemned.
But there's something inside of Maine.
That leaves the heart. He refers to something inner workings and it's the conscience here in this first.
Condemn me.
That is, I'm brought into the good of all these things.
And now something inside of me condemns me.
You see, though these things are abstract truths, they are truths of the life seem perfectly in the Lord Jesus, the life that we have.
Because the light we have his life, the life that was with the Father is the life that we had.
Well, we know that if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our heart. And if you think our hearts condemn us, oh, if He were to condemn us, it'd be thousands of times worse than what our hearts condemn us about. He knows the whole story. He knows it from from the the height of glory. But He will never condemn us.
God is great in our hearts and knows everything. He knows really how bad it was, how bad The thing is, or whatever it is.
But he'll never condemn.
Now if my hearts condemn us not.
The beloved. That's what we should seek, living in the good of a new life.
That our hearts condemn us nothing. We have confidence.
It's not that I'll lose my life, I may lose my confidence.
But God is for us.
The grace of God. We live in the good of the grace of God, but to live where our hearts condemn us not, and to have confidence and to just understand that whatever comes, it's all right. God will handle that.
Whatever ups or downs, it's OK. Confidence settles the issue. God will take care of it. And then we go on and and grow.
Grow in the good of those things that we have now, and I can make one other thing about abstract that has impressed me.
We have life apart from experience.
The day we believe we got a life, it was a gift.
And I had no experience in that life. It was a gift of God on the spot. Bang, I got it.
By the grace of God.
Now that's an abstract thing. I have that light. It was lived out in Christ. I can lookout to Christ and see it. You're perfect. But I have that life.
That The Surge is apart from my experience. Abstract is out there and subjective is in here. We use that. If I'm writing that that definition, what aspects of my see, I think I look out at Jesus and see my life.
There is the light on me. The Lord Jesus is the light. He turns on me because I have that light.
In him is viewed perfectly. He's a major by which we would measure ourselves and anything that would be inside of me that would condemn me. I know God will never condemn me, but.
I should seek to walk, but my heart does not condemn. Then I walked steadily and peacefully, trusting God, I have confidence. I'd like to make a few more comments on what you just said.
If our heart condemn us, that means we are aware of something in our life that was wrong, that we did wrong, that we sinned. But it says God is greater than our heart. Now the thing we're aware of, there may be many other things that we're not aware of.
That we've passed over, glossed over, and so on. But if we're aware of something, if our heart condemn us, he's greater. He knows everything. And can I couple that with First John 19? If we confess our sins, That is we we can't confess sins we don't know that we've committed. But if we confess the sins that we know we've committed, what does it say? He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins. Notice the hours in italics, It really isn't there. The sins. The thought is he's faithful and just to forgive us the sins governmentally that we've confessed.
And then to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. That is, if if we're upright enough and he loves an upright soul. And what is an upright soul in Scripture? An upright soul in Scripture is one that owns his sins when he's aware of them. Now if you if you are aware of your sins and confess them, God is aware of far more than you're aware of. But he will do more than just forgive those things governmentally that you've confessed who claimed you from all unrighteousness because you've been upright.
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You come to him saying, Lord, I did this which which was wrong. He doesn't thrash us and say that you did this and this and this and this and this which we did, but we weren't even aware of. But he comes in and cleanses us from all unrighteousness, which means the very state that led us into the sin. That's our God. He He knows far more than we know about our failures. He knows far more than you know about your wicked heart, and about my wicked heart. I don't know 110th of what he knows, and yet he's forgiven me.
Everything but what you not also agree that?
We know that forgiveness is instantaneous, but the cleansing might be a process, and many cannot understand, for instance, that let's say I fall into sin. I'm unfaithful to my wife. The assembly removes me and puts me outside.
And then now I confess this, and I ask my wife to forgive me, and I ask the President to forgive me. And they say, yes, we forgive you, the Lord has forgiven you, and so on. But I cannot pick up where I left off. What I mean today mean by that. If I have been active amongst the Saints, it takes time before.
The Lord can really use me again. I believe this is something that that is not understood and has caused problems.
You know, we had it happen where a man had several times committed adultery, and the moment that very day that we give us received back to the Lord's table, he gave thanks for the emblems, that very Lord's day. And in the evening he proposed a passage for the reading, a child, a spirit of insensitivity to the evil, and a dishonor that he had brought upon the name of the Lord and the defilement that he had even brought into the assembly. So I believe that it's a process.
That takes time and.
This is good for us to realize and it ought to make us cautious because we can't pick up where we left off. And he cleanses us from all our righteousness. We have again an abstract statement. He that is born of God said it's not we already quoted it. That's an objective statement. But NBC, in the verses that we had just been referred to, that it is possible for a believer to sin but the scriptures in John never anticipate.
That this is characteristic of a believer. That sinning and living in a state of sin is characteristic of a believer, He's overtaken by a fault, and it is far more serious to.
Bad enough to fall into an evil deed, but to pursue it and to continue in the course, it's far more serious. But how wonderful. There is cleansing, and it's the law that can cleanse us. Now we know other scriptures that shows that we can contribute towards the cleansing.
Of our fellow believers. And the love is really that which will enable us even there to be of help. The Lord might use us in the cleansing process, but really in the final analysis, Him that will do the cleansing. So I'd like to add to your comments. I believe that I think that's true what you say. I believe, though, that in the case of Peter, who had failed so grievously, denying the Lord three times the Lord appeared to Him personally.
And then he appeared to him collectively with his brethren and said, feed my sheep, feed my lambs, feed my sheep, get my sheep. So they heard that they knew he was commissioned to this so that they they wouldn't say what you just said about someone that did what you said they'd say. Well, on the day of Pentecost, he preached with power, didn't he? I mean, he had power and and all the way through the book of Acts.
Peter was mightily used of God, and that was right away after the Lord rose from the dead. But he was not under restored privately, He was restored publicly. And so he he acted. In order to really heal that place, confidence had to be restored, and Peter and the disciples would have to have confidence in him in order to do that. And this is what is part of the public restoration that is many times not understood.
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The Saints in the assembly have to get into the position that they themselves come into a state that they can really fall in line, if I may use them with what the Lord has done and is doing for that person. So we would just make one simple statement as to abstract truth is the statement of what we see in the word of God, unmodified by our experience.
Did you get that in Ephesians? One, this will be what we're talking about and modify it. Ephesians one and four it says according as he had chosen us in him before the foundation of the world. So that's the purpose of God and this is what the kind of people that he wants there and what kind of people he's going to have there and he has to do that. We should be holy. That's life. God is light. Everyone there is going to be, absolutely.
Falling.
Be able to walk into a holy heaven, kick off your shoes, and feel absolutely at home. Absolutely at home, in the presence of a thrice holy God.
Went holy and without blames be falling in love. And the love that's expressed there will be the very same love that God exists. He's not going to have any disgruntled people there. And so in his purpose as He's purpose to have us there and He's purpose to have us there like this and he's going to it. What a wonderful place it's going to be. Those verse that verse you just quoted, Ephesians 1/4 is according to his nature, the nature of God.
The next verse brings in the relationship of Father having predestinated as the adoption of children. So verse four is God's nature. And what is his nature? He is light. We're going to be holy and without blame. That's according to the fact that he is light and he's also loved. We're going to be there in the atmosphere of love. God is love. So that verse we have to be holy and without blame. We have to be there in love if we're going to be in the presence of Him who is light in love, it must be So what a place.
Isn't it that these verses back in our chapter?
Bring before faith, those very things, for us now.
That we should be living in the good of them. They should have their effect.
My life now.
First, Panama chapter hearing his love, not that we love God, but that He loves us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Now they referred to 2nd Corinthians 5 The love of Christ constraineth us if we could only dwell more and more and more.
On the wondrous love of God toward us, I believe other things and our love to others would fall into the right place, but it could dwell on His love to us.
There are two things that are essential for the center to have. He has to have life. That's verse nine. God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him, that we might have life and we then the other is to have our sins. The sin question suddenly, and that's verse 10, is the propitiation for our sins. That question has been settled. Those two questions have been settled. We have life, and we can be in His presence in that new nature. But all that was against us has been removed.
Through the propitiatory work of Christ. So the two essential absolute needs of the Sinner are met there, aren't they?
Propitiation is north side of things. Always. All sin is against God.
That was Adam Sandler.
United to us, he said, against his brother.
Who might?
Sin against our brother, our neighbor too. But the first thing is to have lunches.
He is the most important. When we learn it, Christ is the propitiation for our sins, then we can have peace with God. He's also the expiation puts them away. That's our scientific But here's propitiation for our sins.
To be sure that our young people understand, appreciation is the Lord Jesus Christ paying to God the debt of sin and the offense of sin against His holy nature. It is His having met all the claims of God against sin that's propitiation. We have an illustration in Numbers Chapter 5.
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#5 verse Five And the Lord's faith of the Moses saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin, that men commit to do a trespass against the Lord, and that person be guilty, then they shall confess their sin, which they have done, and he shall recompense his trespass with the principle thereof, and add on with the 5th part thereof, and give it unto him against whom the oppressive.
But if the man have no children to recompense the best of unto.
Let the president be recompensed unto the Lord, even to the priests.
Beside the arrival of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him, it sinned against his neighbor. That had to be made right. But the sin was against God, beside the realm of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him. Now he should probably add that atonement has really two sides to it. We have Propitiation and substitution.
And as our brother Clem has said, appreciation is God side and then expiation or substitution is the Sinner side, and we see that demonstrated in.
The two animals that were brought on the Day of Atonement, the first was slain, you know, that's a propitiation. And the second, the sins were confessed upon it also a death of a picture of the death of Christ, and it was sent into the wilderness to die.
And I think when it is a question of appreciation, it is not just that the sins that you and I have committed replicated any insult, any dishonour against God that was ever committed by anybody was taken care of in the cross of Christ. But substitution, the sins were confessed, The sins of the people confessed on the head of the animal, and then animal bore these.
Sins and.
That is only the sins of the redeemed. Would you agree with that so?
That's important to say that there are these two sides, and although here I believe he refers to you and me that are Christians, but I think officiation has a larger view than only for us, the believers. Any sin and dishonor done ever against God was appreciated in the death of Christ. That's chapter 22. He is the propitiation for our sins. That's what we have in our chapter.
And not for hours only, but also for the whole world, the sins of it's been added.
Is really what it really says is also for the whole world, at least the proficient for the whole world. And that's why God is has been able righteously to act in grace for 2000 years to this world. It deserves nothing but judgment. And he's been acting in grace because Christ is a propitiation for the whole world. The blood has been placed on the mercy seat and then Leviticus.
16 They were to sprinkle with the blood works on the.
Mercy eastward. Now that's God. God never forgets the cost. We need to be reminded of it. That's Lavender 1614. The rest of our says. But before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle with the blood of his finger 7 times. You and I need to be reminded of the mercy seat and the blood upon it. Continually. Continually. Every Lord. See, it's good to have that thought before acceptance. The work is all done and God is officiated.
That's where God meets with and communes with us, as we had an Exodus 25 from above upon the mercy seats, because the work is all done and that's where Communion is.
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Might be good to as an illustration.
When they Devin Abhay Hugh entered.
God's presence. We got 3 minutes.
The fire came out from God and destroyed.
But when Christ died on the cross, the bell was ripped. Where's the blank?
On God's side, there have been self.
But now the veil was rent and history. I think somebody was saying, wish you said man just sewed it back up.
Fast he could, He closed it back up. He didn't want to do it. That's the other side. That's man. So the substitution is that truth of the that aspect of the work of Christ. It has to do with our side of the Veda. Propitiation is that which has to do with the insider God's side of the league. But the door is open. And God said, whosoever will come, what they do, they sewed it back up. They want to go ahead.
We don't do that. We'll do it.
No lights there. Don't come out with the lightning thought that's in in peace into the light. The time of God goes right into the holy school. The God comes out to us, the Bay of Israel. I know Christian does try to sort that but they they can't. If you get in that he entered with his own blood.
Or in the power of His blood and opened the way for us. We'd be there and we can't be there without fear. Isn't that amazing? The sanctuary of His presence, being in the presence of a holy God without fear.
Verse 12 No man has seen God at any time. There's a verse in the Gospel starts out just that way. I'll finish it. The only begotten Son who's in the bosom of the Father He hath declared him. But this verse says no man had seen God at any time, if we love one another.
God dwelleth in US and his love is perfected in us. If that's true in a very practical way, that others will see God in us too.
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You can sing 47 in the appendix.
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Gracious God our Father.
We hold in Thy holy presence that we could hardly have a clear statement of proof, and in this hymn that we have just song together, and in the ministry that Thou has given in answer to our prayers for that which would feed our souls. Now we commit this word that we have had to Thee, that, as has been suggested in this reading, that it might have an effect upon our life.
In other, in order that others might see a little of the life of our Lord Jesus Christ reflected in our love, one to another, we hear our blessed Savior's voice. If by this shall all men know that you are my disciples. If you have love one or another, so that thou art for us, being proved by the gift of my love, we bow glad, acknowledgement, and praise and honor to the our God and to the Lord Jesus Christ Thou is given in this precious name you pray. Amen.