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Diligently we prophesied of the grace that should come under you, searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them, did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should fall. Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but under watch they'd administer the things which are now reported unto you by then that have preached the gospel unto you.
With the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, which things the angels desire to look into. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, and be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ, as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former, lost in your ignorance, but as He would have called you as holy, so be holy in all manner of conversation.
Because it is written, Be holy, for I am holy. And if ye call on the Father, who without respect a person judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here and here. For as much as you know that you are not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold, in the vain conversation received by tradition from your farmers, both depressed blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world.
Those manifest in these last times for you, who by him to believe in God, that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God, that you love one another with a pure heart, fervently being born again, not a corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. For all fleshes is grass, and all the glory of man is the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.
But the word of the Lord endureth forever, and this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
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Well, there's an awful lot to cover in one meeting here. The rest of this chapter, which is very helpful to us, but where we started here, verse 10, it shows the marvelous inspiration of the scriptures.
And death. And, uh, resurrection.
And here they prophesied of these wonderful blessings that would come not only to the nation of Israel, but, uh, even to those outside that, uh, sphere. And they searched to know what the meaning of these prophecies were if they and they, they did not really know what they referred to.
They, uh, were the sole under the power and the.
Direction of the Spirit of God that they have to search their own prophecies to know what they referred to. Uh, and the Spirit read.
Showed them that it was not unto themselves all these blessings, but.
There was UH-4 scheduling there, uh, of what would come.
To, uh, bring forth the truth of God centuries before the Lord's incarnation.
Join the authenticity of the Word of God the the inspiration of the Spirit of God in the Old Testament Scriptures which speak of Christ from Genesis to Malachi.
And we can range through those scriptures and receive much longer. That speaks of the sufferings of Christ, not only his sufferings. That came first of all, and then the glory that should follow.
Well, we, uh, remember the sufferings of the Lord this morning were not yet in the glory, but it's going to follow.
And we have these, this wonderful hope now as believers with the full revelation of the hearts of God to us.
I wonder if we, uh, I was gonna ask where we started from here as to, uh, an example in the Old Testament where the Lord gave a prophecy and the, and the one who gave who, who gave it to didn't understand. And I'd like to ask if we have an example of it in Second Samuel chapter 23.
Second Samuel.
23 and verse one. Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse.
And uh said and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel said.
The Spirit of the Lord speak by me.
I take at that, Speaking of inspiration, the Spirit of the Lord speak by me and His Word within my tongue.
The God of Israel.
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Said the rock of Israel speak to me. He that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of God. Now verse 4.
And he shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds, as a tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Now does that a is that a a verse of inspiration that God gave to David telling of the future when the Lord would come, that he shall be of the brightness of the morning? And would that be an example of what we have in in our verses here and verses 10 and 11? I ask this as a question.
It's not the sufferings here so much, it's more the glory that you'll follow.
Brother Stan, how do you feel about that?
Yes, I would agree. I was thinking too, umm, it says in that tenth verse of the of which salvation the prophets have inquired, uh, and searched diligently, Who prophesied the grace unto you. I was thinking of Isaiah 55 where it says, umm, pull everyone that thirsted come to the water. He that has no money come by and eat. He come by wine and milk without money and without price.
And so on. The wonderful prophecy of really the grace of God was going to be revealed in the coming days.
Umm, I've enjoyed that.
Is lovely the placing of it too, isn't it? Pardon. I say it's lovely the placing of it because it's after Isaiah 53 where we have a picture of the sufferings of Christ. It's, it's just beautiful, isn't it? To think of how God has arranged his word that way and so open up the fountain to heaven through words like that in the 55th chapter.
I've enjoyed two Brother days in the end of the 11Th verse that talks about the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow. Do we not have a wonderful picture of that? In connection with the story of Joseph, we find that it's sold by his brethren in Egypt. He found himself in prison for years and everything seemed to be wrong.
But it all ended in Him being exalted to that place of supremacy in Egypt. A good example, is it not, of the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow.
I wonder too about an Ethiopian unit. He reached Isaiah 53. Who is he talking about? I wonder? When Isaiah Roller does he know who he was writing about?
David It pierced my hands and my feet. Never happened to David. He must have had a clock. Why is this? Why? Why is he not doing the Spirit of God? Bring that before.
The thoughts were the thoughts of God.
But man's hand was used to, uh, indict them.
For the boys and girls, we, I mean we.
On the earth the illustration, we have a piece of chalk in the hand of the teacher.
Or in the hands of the boy, but the teacher is uh.
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Guiding the hand. So, uh, of all, the child does the actual writing.
The hand is controlled and directed by an another force. So holy men of God were fake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
If, if not, they would have made a complete mess of it.
We couldn't write a book on astronomy. We didn't know anything about the heavens. But God ordered me.
Controlled the indicting the writing.
The Scriptures, although they had little intelligence of what the their prophecies referred to.
I believe that there were collections of light that did.
That it was Speaking of of the suffering of the Messiah.
And we have many scriptures that speak of the glory of the follow that our brother referred to as a 53. And there are other scriptures the number that refer to the suffering of the Messiah.
What do you think, Brother Darryl?
I was thinking of the case David a portion was read about the spear thinking how in First Chronicles the moment you can find it. But when he was giving a charge to Solomon about the building of the temple. It's interesting what he what he says First Chronicles 28.
In verse 11.
David, Keith, and Solomon his son, The pattern of the Fort, she never houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner harlars thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat, and the pattern of all that he had, by the spirit of the courts of the House of the Lord. And then in verse 19. All this, said David, the Lord may be understanding, writing by his hand upon me.
Even all the works of this pattern.
So we see the working.
In the Old Testament, and I believe we understand that the Spirit of God lean upon those in the Old Testament but did not remain, which is quite different than this day in which we live. The Lord has found us that upon believing we're sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise and He will indwell us forever.
But.
We see too that there was inspiration, no doubt, in the Old Testament Scriptures and.
A lot of those prophecies.
They wrote down and probably had little understanding in many cases what they were really writing.
It's wonderful, isn't it, that, uh, the Lord could point out to those going to Emmaus in Luke 24?
All those things in the scriptures concerning himself.
But there's another expression there.
In Luke 24 and 25.
He says unto them, O fools and slow heart, to believe all that the prophets have spoken. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
There is always that order of suffering and then the glory. And that's true also for us. There is a suffering of of this time and this world with this glory to all. And so we we have that here in Peter.
Where it talks about the sufferings of Christ and the glory that you follow. And we have to believe also in Hebrews 12.
Where it says for the joy that was set before him, he endured the crowd. So there was a suffering first and then the glory that followed.
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Also in the 69th Psalm would be some 93. It speaks there of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ in a very vivid way. We had read this morning some of those things. I just read a couple of verses in the 20th verse there it says reproaches broken my heart, and full of heaviness, and I look for something to take pity, but there was none. And for comforters, but I found none.
They gave me also golf for my meat and my thirst. They gave me vinegar to drink.
Speak to the sufferings that the Lord suffered there for us on the cross.
And uh.
Is glory we read in the 29th verse of that song. Song. But I am poor and sorrowful. Let life thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. I will praise the name of God with the song, and will magnify him with Thanksgiving.
And so on. So we.
Not sure the psalmist knew knew he was writing about or not, but we know now that it was the Lord Jesus.
I think Psalm 22 Compares that out so vividly. It's a graphic description of crucifixion. There's no doubt about it really. And uh, it would be something I, I'm sure that David did not experience or even know about, but he could say they pierced my hands, my feet, and uh, and so on. Understand that a lot of these expressions would apply to one who is crucified.
And the great thirst and so on. And, uh, David was writing, no doubt, uh, about his own experiences to some extent.
But in such a way that they're prophetic of what the Lord was going to go through and the very words that he said on the cross. My God, my God, why is thou forsaken me?
Do you think, uh Darrell, that uh, David ever experienced even those first few words in the song?
Forsaking himself, being forsaken of God.
There were times when he was discouraged and he went to the Philistines, you know, uh, times like that, but, and maybe he felt that, uh, he was forsaken of God. He didn't know exactly what to do. Where were like that, Of course, Umm, but uh, I believe that in most of the Psalms you see, uh, David in his affliction.
But rejoicing at the end.
And, uh, so I think here in Psalm 22, it's the same kind of thing. He, he felt forsaken at least.
Not to the extent, of course, that the Lord did after those dark hours, but he maybe felt that way. But at the end, uh, he gives praise to God in that same song.
Well brother, we can apply this to ourselves as we look at, uh, Romans chapter 8.
The well known verse Romans chapter 8.
Verse 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in US. It applies to us today. We can apply that as we did to them.
Just one person, uh, job, uh, chapter 23.
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But you know what? The way that we take.
Wednesday, Friday, I shall come forward and go away.
The only US is that.
He speaks of David, of Moses, doesn't it?
Suffering from a broach of Christ rather than enjoying the pleasures of the Finn.
So there was that.
Some understanding of that.
Of the truth in the Old Testament. But it was partial because God was not revealed fully. It was a partial revelation.
But there were, uh, there were, as it were, flashes of light. You know, at, at night, you'll suddenly see a, a flash of light, lightning, which brightens things, brightens things up for a few seconds.
Calling to, uh, really, they looked on to the establishment of the Kingdom and the Messiah coming as, as the one who would deliver them from their enemies and establish the Kingdom and all its glory and power. That's why the disciples had such a problem during, uh, the Lord's ministry here on earth when he spoke of, uh, being rejected and suffering. They looked upon him and the Messiah, of course, and expected him to establish the Kingdom.
That comes out in different scriptures. We thought it was he that would bring in blessing to Israel.
But, uh, they were disappointed in that regard.
And God, God had purposes of blessing for us, the Gentiles, who had no claim upon that.
The promises at all, but we are brought into this wonderful place of privilege and blessings and how much do we enjoy it? The angels want to look into these things. They're spectators. They're looking on and seeing the truth. Wonderful blessing that the Church of God now has. They desire to enter into these things. They they cannot, they don't have a divine life. They're not redeemed. They can.
Look on with wonder in the basement.
Umm, they're even in the looking on in the order of the assembly. They desire to look into these things. Sometimes when it's been said, they have more interest than some of us have in, uh, in understanding these wonderful deep things of, of golf, like the apostle. Then it goes on to exhort, gird up the loins of your mind and be sober and hope to the end. You need to watch, uh, our minds because they can travel into.
All sorts of.
Evil things and that.
And get away from the war. And what we think about controls our lives. What we pursue after is an object. So the apostle exhorts us to gird up the loins of our minds.
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Someone is coming at Bill in connection with those verses, that it is the greatest light that is broken through in the whole of the Old Testament.
The job in the midst of his trial that he suddenly breaks out in this, that that God reveals this to him. It's a marvelous statement there in that 19th chapter of Jude.
I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.
Whom I shall see for myself and not another.
Uh, and mine shall behold, and not another, though my rains be consumed within me.
Sometimes we think that, uh, those in the Old Testament had very little light as to some of the things that, uh, we now know from writings of Paul and so on.
Uh, I was thinking how that David could say I'll be satisfied when I awake with my likeness.
And that had to be revealed to him by the Spirit of God. And I was thinking of Hebrews 11. It was mentioned there about Moses and how he endured the sufferings of Christ.
But there's a little passage in that same chapter about Abraham in verse 8.
Hebrews 11, verse 8, By faith. Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should have to receive for an inheritance, obeyed, and he went out, not knowing whether he went by faith. His sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
Look at verse 10. For he looked for the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
He was promised the land, but he was looking for heavenly portion I believe.
And, uh, so even though the promise was, uh, an earthly one, uh, he realized that there was more, more than that. And, uh, so he was looking for that city that was heavenly.
So we wonder sometimes, uh, how much was revealed to some of these Old Testament worthies, Uh.
Maybe more than we realize.
We have that corroborated also in that same chapter in verse 16.
But now they desire a better country that is in heaven.
So yeah.
Apparently had access to writing of the profit prior to 97 verse two of Daniel mines in 3rd year as it ran I Daniel understood by books the number of years.
Jeremiah the prophet that he would accomplish 70 years of desolation of Jerusalem.
You go on later verse 25.
The board is very clear and providing Daniel with a description of time and Avaya, the Prince would enter Jerusalem and cut off and send to the people.
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So would it be fair to say that Daniel and Kanye existed, would have had access to the other profit ratings and and therefore a clear issue to UMM, the revelation that would come with the UMM incarnation of the Lord Jesus?
I think that's very interesting that, that prophecy because, uh, the 483 years from going forth with the commandment to rebuild Jerusalem, surely those, uh, at Jerusalem when the wise men arrived must have realized that that time was up.
And not only should they have known where the Messiah was going to be born by the land.
Because, uh, it's pretty clear here as to when he would be, uh, on the scene.
I was thinking about another Old Testament St. that had knowledge to, uh, of things coming in the future, uh, in June, the work, you know, off our record, it says it's been used up Circuit 1St 14 and, and eating off also the 7th and five of these things. Behold, the Lord comes to the 10th outfit of the Saints to execute judgment upon all and convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds that they have ungodly committed.
And of all their hearts and beaches, which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
That's one of the first prophecies in the Scriptures and.
It's one of the first cursed prophecies that we have in the, I think the first one of the scriptures.
There was a a foretelling of.
Of the blessing of the nation.
And in some cases there was some, some, uh, intelligence, but, uh.
When we think of the revelation that we have now.
And the Spirit of God is dwelling within.
Your God works in the in the lives of these Old Testament worthies. He had revealed things to them, but he didn't abide in the believer, as now is the case in Christianity.
So we are greatly privileged.
The divine life and the Spirit of God to abide in it.
So up to this part we are now with really is bringing before us the position and portion of the believer and then and the rest of the chapter is green before us the conduct associated with those who occupy the position.
So we have verse 13. Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. You can see that Peter wants to encourage those scattered Saints to go on.
And expecting the Lord's coming, the revelation.
Of Jesus Christ.
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts and your ignorance.
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy.
In all matter of conversation, because it is written, be holy, for I am holy.
I've enjoyed thinking about this a little bit and.
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This is written here. It says that the verse 16 it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy.
How are we to do that?
It is written in the Old Testament, which the Jewish, uh, people of God were to be holy. Did they? No, they didn't. So on what ground is it that the Spirit of God can take and address it in the New Testament here to be holy? If it didn't work in the Old Testament, how is it to work in this age you and I live in? How is it that you and I can walk?
Holy before God. Well, I enjoy thinking of it the way that Peter brings it out in verse 14.
As obedient children.
Not fashioning yourselves according to former lusts in your ignorance.
I think of it just uh, this is a little example as obedient.
You think of uh, uh, a young boy or girl being brought into this world and raised in a family.
Uh, what do you see that the the child tried to do? They tried to imitate the parent they try to.
Teach me back to my own children when they were young. I remember taking and having a push more and pushing them. And then you can buy these little plastic mowers and they want to do exactly what Daddy was doing. There it was as obedient children, they wanted to do it because they had a nature inside them that wanted to do exactly what the parent was doing now.
What happened?
To us, well, we got a new nature and we have the Spirit of God indwelling us. So on that ground and that ground alone, can we live a holy life before God. Seems to me that that's that's what God would bring before us with these verses.
Usually, very often wore a long row and if you wanted to, uh, engage in any energetic activity, you had to pull that up and tuck it in around your waist so that it didn't interfere with running or, or other kinds of activity like that. And so it has to do with getting rid of hindrances. If we're going to run, it's, uh, we're going to be obedient. We have to get rid of that, which would hinder us to be able be in and soberness.
Has to do with not allowing that which would interfere with judgment. Good judgment and good judgment is guided by the Word of God and the Spirit of God. So we want to be not allow that which would in our lives which would interfere with with that activity of the Spirit of God to guide by His Word.
These are things that would help the scattered Saints and indeed help us now if they reference back to verse 7, the trial of our faith, to, uh, get through these trials of our faith. Their apostle now in this part of the chapter is giving us no tools which would help us in our pathway in, in the trial of our faith. As you said, brother, learn to gird up the loins of her mind to, uh, raise up those things. Get those things out of the way. They're going to hinder us.
And so on that we've had and being holy separated under the Lord.
And so on would help us to, in the pathway in the trial of our faith. It will certainly help the brethren that were scattered abroad and the reference to the prophets, they didn't have the Canada New Testament that we have. So these things would, uh, and they hadn't seen Christ. The Apostle Peter had seen him, but he said, you know, who are we having not seen? He loved. So it was really, umm, loving in, in faith, wasn't it? So the trial of our faith.
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We have this thing that would help us.
Will there be a connection in the 1St 13 where it'll be in your mind? Come back to Exodus 12 and the password.
Select me to 12 and 1St 11.
Construction given fulfillment of Israel regarding how to shoot the Passover vector 12 verse 11 and thus shall be needed with your going period, your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hands and you'll eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover. So would Peter be referring back to that in Berks 13. That is the having yourself ready for the coming of the board and and and being repaired to the parts at all times looking forward to that coming.
Replacing of the devil unless it is governed by scripture.
And.
To, umm, control what we think about.
By the word of God, to have everything coming under the uh.
The the umm.
Authority of God's word. We live in a a dishonest age and and immoral age and, uh, everything is calculated to appeal. Much is calculated to appeal to the old nature.
And if we're not careful, our minds will go in that direction. The news stands and everything is filled with it.
So we have to be careful what we think about that. It's going to format a habit and, uh, a character. Finally, uh, I think that's a good reference, uh, brother to the, uh, the Passover lamb there. Sometimes I think that on the Lord's Day morning, the enemy makes a special attack, umm.
To draw our minds away from the remembrance of the Lord. I guess Mr. Garvey had that problem because he said no infants changing pleasures like my wandering mind. But just a point on uh, uh, evil thoughts, umm, unbidden and uh, detested. We all have this uh, uh, being this problem of being a sailor like evil thoughts.
And.
It's not a question of *******. I don't think we can stalk and judge every evil thought that might go through our minds. Don't need to allow the birds to build their nests in your in your hair when? Mr. Darby said.
By turning away from that thought and not indulging it, turning it over in our minds and savoring it and so on, then it becomes sin. But by turning away from it and being occupied with the Word of God, or a hymn, uh, that we, uh, should be that we know in that way we are judging it. Mr. Downey makes that remark. By turning away from it, we are judging. I thought that was very good.
Uh, because we all are a sale by these, uh, evil intruders into our, uh, into our minds.
That's why we need the word of God. Is not that brought out and, uh.
The open meeting to meditate on it each day, to commit some time to the Lord.
Uh, looking at verse there in John's Gospel chapter 16.
We're unique in this day that we live in this Christian, uh, period.
That we are involved with the Holy Spirit. It's, uh, God has poured out to us all his blessings, you might say the Old Testament Saints, uh, they didn't have, but through the work of Christ, uh, our life is resurrection life. We're, we're with Christ on the other side of death. Death has put a end to.
Everything connected with the, the old Adam creation and God has poured out to us the blessings that we have because we are in him in Christ. And uh, here in John's Gospel chapter 16 and verse 13 and it says how be it when he, the spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever.
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He shall hear that shall he speak, and he will show you things to come.
One thing I noticed in the for us in the New Testament that we see that word all mentioned quite a bit. It says guide you into all truth. We have all the word of God today and the Holy Spirit is able to take any part of it and reveal it to us. It's a marvelous thing. And then it tells us in Ephesians that we're blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.
God has poured out every blessing that he could pour out to us in Christ. And then in second Peter chapter one.
We have there in verse three, according as His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain on to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him that has called us to glory and virtue.
Whereby are given unto us exceeding grace and precious promises, that by these he might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
And and so we have a divine nature given to us by God, and the Holy Spirit works through that divine nature that we have to conform us more to the image of Christ is to take the precious things of of the word of God and reveal them to us. But it's been pointed out the failure comes in giving place to the old nature, the old man that has been put away by Christ in the cross. But we haven't has been mentioned before until.
We're taken from this scene, it's with us and our problems arise from that, and Satan knows that and so we have inner chapter there, but girding up the loins of our mind, he works through our minds to get us occupied with other things besides what we have in the Word of God, things that we are faced with day by day often times.
Not only become a care to us, they can become an obstacle to us.
If we allow them to occupy our minds to the point where we are perhaps missing out on the reading of the Word of God or prayer, they can become an obstacle. And so we need to cast those gears upon the Lord and keep our minds, you might say, swept out so that Holy Spirit can work.
There's a word that I have.
Remember, I, I think I read it somewhere in some ministry before of the number of times in this this book of first Peter, we have the word conversation. And if I may just point them out, umm, some of them. Anyway, it starts with our verse 15.
But as he which has called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.
Then verse 18, for as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your father's. Perhaps that's referring to the old Jewish system. Now going on to the second chapter and the 12Th verse, having your conversation honest.
Among the Gentiles.
Chapter 3.
It says likewise, ye wise be in subjection to your own husbands, if any, if any, obey not the word, they also may be may without the word be won by the conversation of the wise, while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
And.
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The third chapter in the 16th verse having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you as of evil doers, they may be ashamed that falsely accused your good conversation.
There may be one or two others, I'm not sure, but.
Umm, I sometimes it's hard to talk about versus that kind of hit home to us, but I take this for myself anyway, is just in general conversation that we have. We say speak one way when we come to meeting, but we speak another way when we, when we're away from meeting, when we're, we, we talk different ways, you know.
You hear the expression about talking out of both sides of your mouth and.
But here it says in our 15th verse of our chapter, But as he which hath called you is holy, so be holy in all manner a conversation. And there's such loose talk that goes on in the world in general today, that it really beholds us, I feel, to be careful when we're in the world as to how we speak.
I had always understood that that word conversation in this context is perhaps even a little broader than that. I don't mean to suggest that it doesn't include what you have mentioned, but it's our whole way of life or our conduct, and of course our conversation is part of it, definitely.
We look in Psalm chapter 93 and verse five. It reads, Thy testimonies are very sure, holiness becometh thine house, O Lord forever.
System owners are very sure, aren't they?
And the holiness?
Should be in the House of the Lord.
It's rather shameful sometimes when you are into breaking a bread meeting.
How sometimes we get caught eye contact with somebody, uh, maybe a woman with a woman or a man with a man or husband and wife or husband and children. How much we can be distracted even in any of the meetings, especially the breaking of bread and.
It it it does my heart. I feel sorrowful when.
There is this laxness of holiness.
In the House of the Lord.
I'm speaking for myself. I'm not wholly by any means.
But.
Let's be attracted to the Lord.
Let's not, you know, look at each other or giggle or try to communicate in some way. Let's just be occupied with him.
I see it in the meetings and I'm probably guilty of it too, but we must be serious in these things.
Because we are meaning the Lord, we are in the holy place.
And something that we should consider.
There is a sense in which we are made wholly because of the work of Calvary and, uh, that pertains to our standing Ephesians one and uh.
Verses there and verse three must be the godfather of the Lord Jesus Christ who have blessed us with all spirits and blessings in heavenly places in Christ according at he had chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. That's God's work. That's something that is true of each and every believer.
But I think what we have brought before us here in our chapter is the practical side of that where we should, uh, make that effort to be holy because the Lord is holy. And our conversation, our manner of life is brought out, uh, in, uh, Second Timothy 2, for example, it says, uh, but everyone that name it the name of Christ for the Lord.
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Depart from Nicolas.
Where it says, uh, ifti, then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Set your affection for mind on things above, not on things on the earth. So there is that practical side, uh, to holiness, which I think, uh, is what we had before us here in our chapter, particularly that, uh, there's a responsibility, isn't it, uh, to.
That is the very point, General, I think that we had in verse 17 that uh.
You call on the father who don't respect his persons judge of according to every man's work pass at the time of your sort of leaves here in fear while we don't.
We don't.
Come under eternal judgment, the judicial dealing of the Lord with us that has been settled in Calgary once put off, but now we belong to a Holy Father where were children of of the Father were in a relationship that we never had before.
And every father knows that not only does he plant the kiss of affection, but sometimes he has to take the rod of correction down.
Uh, and uh, so our father does the same in love. Of course, it's always in wonderful love. But the point in verse 17, I think it speaks to all of us is really the fact that, uh, God is watching over what we do every day. I was upon that just because we have a, we've been brought up to in a Christian factory as we're gathered to the Lord's man.
We've been used in the work service. There's no guarantee that we're, that we're going to be kept. We need dependence on the Lord and, uh, that daily self judgment.
So here it is really I believe the government of God that sometimes has to be umm.
But sometimes we have to come under that, that discipline, that government of God, uh, because of our careless ways.
And so the judge is reporting to every man's work. That's not the judgment. See the price here. And it's not the eternal judgment, of course, but it is that day-to-day, uh.
Overview of the Lord in our walk and wait we get off with nothing and our brother standing can remember our late brothers hayhole Times without numbers this would be Gordon hale's father times without number he would press that upon us young people and.
It's got embraced into our souls. We get off with nothing. We get off with nothing because we're believers. Every African in our lives has its present and eternal consequences.
It's not something that we should be.
Grade of the board, but we should have a whole irreverent uh dear non upcoming judgment, but fear of displays in the Lord and uh.
Knowing that we have an old nature and knowing our weakness walking in the descendants upon the Lord.
You said I've been gone there, girl.
Very much so.
Our time's up.
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Rebrands, I'm sure I have known when you don't play it long, you're sure I'll drive as long as.