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202 What will it be as well about?
Florida glory, rain since the blessed and all.
Forward to their gloves so brightens all this very exclaimed. No heart can think, no tongue can tell what joy it will be with Christ.
What will it be?
True, I am happy that I love all the water being in the rain.
Oh, I don't have everything else in the journey. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No.
It's umm.
When I read it, Switching things I don't want to break, How to control our pain, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
If anything, anything no more. But I can't do anything about something.
That's why it's wherever you're So you're going to make anything bad blah, blah, blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
I will be in the rest of my life. The Patriots, the beginning of the whole day.
I have to go back and roll my heart and swear to God.
And fall on the kids I had to treat. I did get an antibiotic with Brexit. I I know.
Airlines.
Could we read, uh, one verse in?
In the first uh, Thessalonians chapter 4.
1St Thessalonians 4. Read verse 16.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout.
With the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore.
Uh, comfort one another.
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With these words, uh, you'll pardon me brother and if I make a few comments before we pray, but.
I have enjoyed the fact that.
That the Lord wants us to live in that joy and expectation of that hope.
Why? Because he could come even today and take us home together.
He wants us to live in the expectation and in the joy of it.
And I have enjoyed being here with you.
There's nothing better than being with those a blood pressure spades who have the same enjoyment and have the same hope.
And I thank you for inviting us to come here and to share in that privilege. It's been enjoyable. So may we live in the expectation of it. Let's pray.
Our God and our Father, how thankfully, how thankful we are for Thy well beloved Son, our Lord Jesus, and for the happy, glad hope that we can have of Thy Son's return, which could be this day.
We thank the Lord that in the meantime Thou hast given us all things.
That pertain.
I need to be Lord Jesus, we pray this uh, time may be a time of encouragement and hope toward the coming of our Lord Jesus. We pray for the young people and each one Lord, that that you admit to the hearts toward heaven that they may live in the joy and the expectation will not come in. Thank you for the president's invitation. We pray to continue to bless them and delete them on and the truth which thou hast given them.
We, uh, commit this time to the Lord and ask your blessing only in our need. Father, we give thanks in your own Son's worthy and precious holy name. Amen. Amen. Amen.
Does the brethren want to go on with the first Peter wine or, uh, some other exercise?
What version would you like to start with, Sir John? Umm.
So you read from verse 7 to the.
In the chapter level we have coconuts in of the 7 by 6, the connection 7:00 or 8:00 and.
On the way to the end.
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise, and honor, and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ, and having not seen the lost.
In whom, though now ye see him not yet believing, He rejoiced with joy unspeakable and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls, of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently. Uh, who prophesied in the grace that should come unto 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 follow?
On to whom it was revealed, the not unto themselves, but unto us, uh, they administer the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the uh, Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, which things the angels desire to look into. Wherefore, Bert, up your the alloyance 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, as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts and your ignorance, but as he which has called you is holy, Be ye holy in all manner of conversation.
Because it is written, the E holy is for I am holy. And if ye call on the Father, who was without respect, the persons judges according to every man's work past the time of year, so journeying here in fear. For as much as you know, you are not redeemed with corruptible things, with silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot.
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Who, verily, was foreordained before the foundation of the world?
But was manifested, uh, manifest in these last times for years. Who by him do believe in God that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory? But your faith and hope might be in God, seeing ye hath purified yourself, your souls in obeying the truth of the Spirit unto unseen laws of the bread. And she that she loved 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 as grass, and all the glory of man is the flower of grass. The grass Withers, and the flower thereof falls away, but the Word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.
Well, we think of that.
The, uh, the occasion when that Thomas, uh.
What's with the?
Reward and uh, have that, uh review from the ward reaches, I think or and you hold my hands and re tither thy hand and thrust it into my side, not faithless, but believing.
Comments and.
That's quite the Lord and God. And the Lord said to him, Promise, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Blessed are they that have not seen.
Yet have believed and that is the position that we Gentiles are in now.
Between the Lord.
In person we shall, but uh.
Our connection is by faith with the Lord. Now you see that.
And the Holy Spirit of God came.
In the sense of, uh, acts.
The House of Cornelius. It was a special.
It was a descent of the Holy Spirit there. It was part of the baptism, you might say another installment of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which you know there when it was in connection with the Gentiles, it was before baptism or laying on of hands. It was just by faith that the Gentiles were joined into the body there. It wasn't by any outward sign. And that is our position now.
Particularly.
Nation is going to believe in their Messiah when they see him. They see the wounds in his hand and decide. But with the Gentiles, and we are all Gentiles here I think.
The coming of the Holy Spirit there in Acts is not associated with either baptism, laying on of hands, or anything like that. It's simple. It's simply by faith that they were brought into that blessing and that speaks to us.
So the apostle says here. I'm having not seen the log.
Lymphoma. Now you see him not yet believing, rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, because the person of Christ bought brought before us, but it's now by faith that he apprehend these things.
Faith is the hand that appropriates what God provides and that is the position now that we have We love the Lord that we have never seen Him. Umm.
But we uh, have joy, but sometimes our lives are not characterized by this joy unspeakable and full of glory. Afraid my life is not always characterized by that could be the fault is always with us, never with the warrant and this should characterize us more in our pathway down here is that what the apostle describes here drawing unspeakable full of glory to see that in Paul and saw this when they were in the.
In the dungeon, they certainly had joy, unspeakable and full of glory, with their backs bleeding and death.
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Uh, there in the, uh.
Incarcerated there, but they had Christ before them there for the Lord, the Lord's, uh, testimony in the day. What joy until their hearts and was sounded out through the prison. Is that right, Steve?
Certainly do in very adverse circumstances.
The uh, appearing at the end in the end of verse 7.
I think we really mentioned that yesterday.
I remember right. Umm, and that would. Am I correct please that that would be the?
What you had on the chart yesterday, it's marked as the second coming, I believe so.
Give us a little the appearing is the time of, of manifestation of Christ to this world that is Saints living. And so it's the day of reward, the day of manifestation before the world of faithfulness of his own. And so it's, uh, looked at, at the Aaron verse seven, that it'll be the day when the preciousness of faith tribe that is honored God.
And glorified God is going to be manifest before this world.
So the praise and honor and glory.
Uh, that eventually there.
Umm, really? But it really is a. It would be the.
The result of the trial of our faith at the beginning of the verse, that it might be that that praise and honor and glory should be.
What we're ready to give him. Is that right?
I think it's going to glorify God, Yeah, in the end.
Yeah.
And anything that we any praise and honor and worry that we.
Would be able to give to the Lord Jesus unto God. Father would be the result of the faith.
That he has given us in order to for us to believe.
And so that space is, as it says in the middle of verse seven, much more precious than gold.
I have thought myself also in connection with this verse and a couple of other verses that.
The expression there, the trial of your feet, Umm.
Sometimes we hear of things that are passing through deep waters.
And for some reason I find a tendency in my heart and I think perhaps others may have feel this as well. But we.
We connect that or we correlate it perhaps with something that they've done that is wrong in their life, and then God is coming in in this government.
But this, this verse here speaks of the trial of your faith.
God tested Abraham in connection with the promise that he that he said that he was going to give him a son and make up his son a great nation.
And, and so I think it's something that when I we hear of others that are passing through difficulties, we need to be careful with that spirit that that is there to pray for them in the circumstances to us, the Lord to undertake for them and not try to, to, uh.
Examine or or or say why it is the Lord allows things.
Uh, there's a verse in the 34 Psalm that was quoted to me one time in connection with this. Many are the afflictions of the righteous.
But the more deliberate than out of them all, many are the officials of the gracious so a more gain he he allows things in our in our lives. You may want to learn from why the board allows things, but to be careful about about trying to judge as to why he's allowed.
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Overground.
I was thinking how that, uh, the trial through which we passed, uh, reap the reward believe we have that in the book of James, even the crown of life is given to those that endure testings. And, uh, and before me, Second Corinthians chapter 4, verse 17.
It speaks about our life affliction.
You know, while we're passing through this world or one of our collections don't seem to be very light, but let me compare it to what's to follow. No matter how bad it is for us, it is what life afflicts. And one of the reasons given in this verse is that it's a full moment. It's only in time. So reading the whole verse.
Our light affliction is but for a moment work it for us, a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
You know, we're gonna be glorified. Remember in, uh, Romans chapter 8, we have that expression we're gonna be glorified. So, umm, I'm sure that's what has been commented on in our burst in the 7th honor and glory at the hearing of Jesus Christ.
UMM is really going to rebound back to him, but uh, it's glory for us as well, and it's the trials that Peter is talking about here.
It says beyond the trials is the glory is the glory. But I reminded you of Revelation chapter 4. It's interesting there in the heavenly scene that the four and 20 elders will cast their crowns at the feet of the local. In other words, I believe the picture there tells us that, you know, we're going to realize that everything that, uh, could glorify.
To us has been given to us.
And goes back again. And the words are worthy. Art thou?
Where do I stand?
The backward look uh girl will all be praised once it.
Yeah, I could judge and see what Christ everything will will be revealed.
In various aspects to look at the judge and see the Christ one is the reward.
This way reviewing.
Rewarding rejoicing.
But one of the, uh, aspects we might say, will be looking back over our pathway and seeing the wisdom of God in all his ways with us, things that we could not understand here. Uh, we will see the purpose of God and we'll, uh, praise him for all the way that he's LED us in this wilderness of Deuteronomy chapter 8, uh.
Look back and see the wisdom of the, the Lord with us. Now we may have questions, no doubt many of us do, but uh, the Lord is going to show us, uh, there when we are after adjusting the seat of Christ is perfect plan for our lives and how he was working things out for his own glory. Uh, I guess we often have heard the illustration of the.
Table map to it that has been voided and uh turned it over and uh, it looks just a massive tangled confusion they've got doesn't seem to be any order in it whatever turn it over on the other side and it's a beautiful design. Well, umm, I'm sure at the judgment seat of price, uh, we will see umm.
How God was working behind the scenes.
Perhaps keeping us from, uh, from falling in many cases, Uh.
Teaching us, uh, things that, uh, we needed to learn and, uh, it will be all to the praise and honor and glory of, of our Lord.
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What about this expression at the start of her speech whom having not seen without?
Is it possible to love somebody you've never seen?
I believe so, Dave.
I believe that's true because we believe God's testimony of His Son.
That's why we can love him, because it is by him, of course, that we have redemption. We've been saved for destruction.
And he's not only so, but we need sons of God, and we didn't do a thing.
And So what the Lord himself says, such as in John 15, John 17, and see right coming very mouth the words of love toward us, and in first job it says we love Him to be perfect.
We we don't see her or physically.
We were unable to do that, but we do see him spiritually.
Hebrews children too. The first Niners is we see me.
He was made so old to the angels, and the suffering of death drowned with glory and honor.
That he, by the grace of God, should take death for every man this morning.
Very slowly we can see our Lord back those 2000 years on Calvary's cross, dying for our sins there.
And the Holy Spirit makes it fresh to our souls, as if it should happen.
Uh, something that we look at as being 2000 years old, it's something that it's in our hearts that's real and it'll be there for all eternity with them. We'll remember what he has done for us. But we do see him spiritually and we see him now seated at the Father's right hand. We see him there, Steven, when he was stoned, he could look up. You can see the Lord's very Lord.
Yeah, we had that today. Every polymer has this ability.
C or Jesus spiritual.
Peter could say I've seen them.
But he said to these Jews, whom having not seen ye love, they had not seen him.
But they loved him.
And I think of the verse over I it means so much to my own soul and Jo in Romans chapter 5, the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us, everyone who has accepted Christ as Savior, as the indwelling of the Spirit of God, and he he.
He just, He just indwells and points to Christ constantly in our lives.
It reminds me of the story of Rebecca when she, when it was said to her, wilt thou go with this man? And all the way across the desert she was with, uh, what was his name Elijah? Was it the, uh, the, uh, steward of Abraham? And what was he telling her about, about the man that she was going to marry, marry and be with?
And, uh, and, uh, so onward we go through this life to the moment when we are going to be with them. And then it says that she went into ice expense and he loved her and.
And umm, so we go on through this life whom having not seen.
Above. Very, very special, isn't it?
The face that we need to exercise.
Uh, continually, of course, there is a saving base when we, uh, receive Christ, uh, it's by faith, by grace, by these faith, through faith and saving faith, but we need a faith, uh, that is ongoing in our, in our lives. We live by the faith of the Son of God.
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Well, the faith has an object, and that object is quite, and in Ephesians it's spoken of as the shield of faith. And, uh, it's something that needs to be exercised continually.
Even though we may have known the Lord for many years.
There must be that faith in the Son of God that is active and exercised day by day. Umm, the end of our faith is the salvation of our souls. But uh, believing still there's that dependence and that looking to the Lord, umm.
In our daily password.
Mm-hmm. It's the same John, I think as, uh, we could, to use an example would be where Peter walked on water and, uh, the only way that he could walk on water was being obedient to the Lord and keeping his eye on the Lord because the Lord said, first of all, to come. That's obedience being brought in.
And then it tells us when he looked over and looked at the waves in regard to the exact expression there. And to me that is his eye and our eyes getting off the Lord. In order to go on in this life, the Christian needs faith to in exercise on a constant basis. And I love that verse you quoted in Ephesians 6. Above all, taking the shield of faith, there you have all of those various pieces of armor.
That are mentioned and then the the apostle Paul says above all to me, it's like this. He says all the other pieces of armor are important, but there's one armor piece that is very, very important and that is the shield of faith whereby you're able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. May the Lord give us to look to him to trust him in the circumstances that he allows in our lives.
Well, the profits here I've spoken of as, uh, inquiring and searching diligently, uh.
Uh, who prophesied with the rates of to come unto you? And he's going back into the Old Testament. There were holy men of God.
That, uh, prophesied and, uh, they did not understand, uh, what they were writing, uh.
As has been said by someone else that if they weren't inspired by the Spirit of God, they would have made complete mud of it.
My brother used to say, how would you like to write a book on astronomy?
You know, uh, nothing about the science or very little, but these men of God, they searched wonder what manner of time the spirit of Christ, a remarkable expression, the spirit of Christ which was in them did signify it was their writings were under inspiration of the Spirit of God and uh, they were revealing.
Not to them at that particular time, but they were written for us. They looked on to, uh, a future day. The sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow. Notice the sufferings come first and then the glory follow.
They prophesied of these of the Messiah, but they didn't really enter into it themselves.
The way we can enter into it now.
But it shows the marvelous interpretation, revelation that God had given to these prophets. But they were interested, the angels were interested. They desired to look into those things. I wonder if we have as much desire as the angels do. They desire to look into these things. But now we have the full revelation. You see, they, they learn that they administer these things which are now reported unto you.
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By them that have preached the gospel unto you, with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, they were foretelling of the blessings that we would have.
But they, uh, they, they entered, they, they desired to know what these prophecies meant. Now we have the full revelation in the, in the word of God, in the person of Christ.
I have been helped UMM by a couple of verses, if you don't mind turning to it in Second Samuel chapter 23 in connection with this.
Second Samuel 23 and verse one.
We see the last words of David.
Now notice verse 2.
The Spirit of the Lord.
They buy me.
No one has pointed out that that's inspiration.
The Spirit of the Lord speak by me, God.
By the Holy Spirit using David as his instrument, this.
Spirit of the Lord, speak by me now verse.
Umm. There's uh.
Let's see, there's three.
Yes, verse 3.
The God of Israel.
Speak to me, God, Virgil said. The rock of Israel, speak to me. Someone has pointed out the difference between these two expressions in this way. In the second verse, the God, the Spirit of the Lord spake by me. That is the the inspiration holy men of God speak as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. And then in verse three, it's the word of God revealed to David.
Rather than inspiration, it's revelation. So it says in verse three the God of Israel said the rock of Israel speak to me. So David felt this in two different ways. The first was can I say it's like him saying I must write this down and because God is inspiring me to take and write it now for the revelation of what it means.
He says, the God of Israel spake to me, I think it's nice, you know, just to see these touches in the word of God that that even in that day, some things were revealed to the to the holy men of God as they spoke. But now we, as you say, John, we have the full revelation of of, of of the word of God when we open this book in our homes.
In our private lives and so on, it's good to bow down and ask the Lord to reveal his mind as to what it means, isn't it?
Not my thoughts to bring to the Word of God, but rather to learn what He would have me. Learn. That right, Brother Gordon?
Yes, I was thinking the other day that, uh, Psalm 45 was one. I think the same is what you're saying.
Go ahead.
This one is in my heart is inviting a good man. I speak of the things which I have made touching the king. My tongue is a pan of a ready writer.
Ready writer with the Spirit of God.
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As a beautiful thought because, uh, you know, we can range through the Old Testament scriptures that.
And find Christ and revealed in all those types and shadows take the Tabernacle. It's just that sometimes we're we're put it in mundane terms we're lazy and we don't put forth the energy to understand the Old Testament types and shadows and prophecies these prophets were searching they were in earnest are we really in earnest to study the Old Testament scriptures because.
As our brother read and it was this morning, all scripture is given by inspiration of God.
And uh, recently in Regal Ferry, uh.
Near Ottawa, we, uh, our brother David Mearns had, uh, two lectures on the Tabernacle. It was most refreshing. Of course, you could only touch, uh, a few points, but uh, it really was very helpful to us as he unfolded the meaning of the articles of the Tabernacle. They all spoke of Christ and, uh, we can go back into the Old Testament Scriptures.
And we should be diligent in our study of them with, uh, perhaps some help that we might see the glories of Christ and the sufferings of Christ delineated or prophesied in the glory that you're following.
That's what the Lord Jesus did himself with the two on the way to a Luke 24. He, uh, beginning of Moses and all the prophets he founded under them. The same concerning himself.
Their heart burned within them. Yeah.
So when it speaks in this verse here about the verse 11, when it says it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ.
Uh, would you say that, uh, it, it, it, it would be difficult for you to think of the Messiah coming and going to be suffering? Is that really, uh, uh, the thought here, Why would he come and be comfortable?
He was wounded for our transgression.
They'd be wondering, am I right in that?
And the disciples, uh, couldn't understand the Lord going through sufferings, but it was all foretold is the number of scriptures that foretell some 69 that our brothers standard read this morning and many other songs are all messianic and all pointing to the sufferings of Christ and the glory. But now with the light of the New Testament shining upon those Old Testament scriptures, we can go back there and we can receive.
Much profit for our souls. We have to be diligent.
In the, in studying these, uh, these prostitutes, but it all speaks of the, uh, personal crisis this Lawrence.
I always like, uh, well, one of my favorite, uh, characters in the, uh, Old Testament is uh, in uh, Exodus chapter 31 and.
And umm, I was just thinking of umm.
Yeah, you're in church. Uh, they didn't have the, the new Pacena. They, they only had, uh, the Old Testament And uh, even today when a, when a Jew turns to Christ, the New Testament just, uh, it's opened up then in such a way that it's, uh, it's just miraculous because they see all the Old Testament, uh, like you've heard about all the, all their lives. I never even read the New Testament. And then when they.
The Old Testament.
All these types of shadows and pictures, they all come out so brilliantly, you know, But Bezalel, you know, he was the Candlestick, he was the Goldsmith and, uh.
Chapter 31 The north say I'm with most of the time. See, I have called by, uh, by name Bezale, the son of Yuri, the son of Yori of the tribe of Judah. And I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom and in understanding and in knowledge and all manner of workmanship to devise cunning works to work in gold and silver. There we have the divine righteousness of God. And silver is the salvation, rejection and brass. I think that would be.
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The.
The author Umm and uh.
You know, he, he went to the altar and, uh.
We, uh, drank that, uh, bitter cup and we took the judgment of God and the cutting of stones to set them and carving of timber. Well, there's the cross there too, and to work in all manner of workmanship. And then, uh, it's, it's interesting because Bezalel named his name means, uh, under his protection, uh, and under the shade of God. And, uh, his father was always watching him and was looking after him.
And uh, until he went back off and then he still wasn't forsaken of his father, but he was forsaken of God and then he was the son of Yuri. Yuri means you can see the Trinity, Garrett as well. Urine means light of the Lord. It means my life and fiery. So we can see God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, that one name and the place that he goes from earth.
From the tribe of Judah, which means praise and.
Yes praise and uh, your, umm, it means uh, free, Immaculate and noble and uh, it just can't help thinking of the father in that situation there or that name, umm, but Bezel, you know, you know uh.
Kind of a funny name, New Thing Age, but it's such a beautiful name.
Carries so much, uh, so much with it.
And of course, the New Testament, uh.
Early thanks. They, they read this and, uh, issues are being perverted and, uh, they, they do all of those things. You know, they knew who, who was, who he was a picture of I, I believe, you know, and, uh, it's just wonderful to see in the middle test awards on every page.
Move on in our truck here it says in verse 13 that gird up the loins of your mind what an important expectation that is.
It says in Colossians here you got I think in our version etcetera heart, but it's actually set your mind on things that are above, not on things that are on the earth. So the loins, you know are the place of strengthening individual in these countries that I have visited. The women often have these long fairies but.
Uh, or long gowns of some sort. And when they're going to work, they pull them up, uh.
So that they don't thread upon that well, the epochal uses the figure here gird up the lungs of your mind.
The place of strength, what we think about, what we allow our minds to be occupied with is going to affect our conduct sooner or later. Umm, man cannot live without an object, and what we think about and what we pursue after as an object to will certainly control our lives. The apostles people say they want something for their minds. Well, God gives us something here, not on the earth, but.
In in the glory.
And the word of God in silver, both to the end, to the grace of His, to be brought on to you as a revelation of Jesus Christ.
It has been said that this grace open up here would would be similar to what we have in Jude's epistle where he speaks of the mercy.
The 4th answer there looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Umm.
The grace, uh, open up here, uh, the grace that needs to be brought on to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
It has been said that, uh.
It would be the grace of God to simply come and lift us out of this scene, uh, into the glory that would be, uh, the grace of God revealed to us that if someone else have another thought on that.
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The second what you said, it was the first part of the verse. We have an example there in the second famous war.
It's umm.
They're turning to his eye. That will send.
To a house where the the dead child was and.
And umm and sending them.
In the 29 first, then he said the Hayside gird up by going take thy staff in my hand, go right away like don't need any man salute him not.
And if any salute the answer, I'm not a game and laid my staff upon the face of the child.
And the mother of the child said of the Lord liveth and the soul of I will not leave the erosion. I'm just looking mainly at the 29th verse there where he had a.
The other commissioner run to do this indeed with the staff with this young child and he had a gird up a blame to tell us his brother pointed out it had a robe on. It's not very easy to run. The strike has been the in Des Moines. I tell you, I'm thinking of the staff here. So it's something that wasn't of his own strength. Something was given to him and.
For us and running too, and the race that we're in, we have to lean on the board string.
Is that not something that we have strengthened ourselves to do? But we need strength of the Lord to think of Jacob leading but doses two children. He leaned on the staff, something that wasn't on his own devising.
So inhaler chapter, I believe the soberness and so on, running a race here as I was in the look for the right to the left. He wasn't to be interrupted in his journey. He was to go straight on and fulfill the mission. In a way, that's what we have to do.
Percent to fulfill a mission for the board of some sort, but we know that we get distracted and we do get turned side many times.
So I think because we're not leading.
Using the staff that's the Lord and strength to help us with these people through you have the same expression that you know can be uh sex of uh evasions, uh, wherefore, umm taken through the whole armor of God and it keeps in verse 14 stand therefore having your loins girt about the truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness. Well, there's a loins again mentions the place of the.
Strength, you might say, uh, annoying Gert about with truth are those emotions?
Uh, and uh, those desires, are they brought under the, under the control of the word of God, You know, they're living in a day of license and freedom, so-called, uh, as never before. And it's going to affect our young people. It affects all of us, this whole permissiveness that is rampant, but it's contrary to the word of God. And we have to gird up the loins of our minds or they're going to travel into these areas.
You're going to be affected and defiled by them. We know that only too well. New stands are filled with it. And we need to burn gird up our, the loins of our mind with the word of God to be occupied with the scriptures, uh, to have them, as Michael mentioned further on in our third year, well, I guess it's in the next chapter, we these comments on the value of the word of God.
So much here, uh, in the second chapter on of the first feeder there, umm, newborn babe desire, the sincere note of the word. And then at the end of the first chapter, uh, the word of the Lord endures forever how he magnifies the importance of the word of God. And so that's what we need to control those, uh, emotions and so on that.
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Perhaps especially in youth, but it's, uh, a danger at anytime that we have our minds, uh, filled with the word of God and not allow them to go hit her and thither into the, uh, the things of this world and, uh, the character of this world that we live in.
Just a thought about that grace you asked about and hope to the end for the grace that it could be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Umm, if you go back to John 17.
And verse 23.
We talked about the in our in our verse 13, we talked about the revelation of Jesus Christ and when the Lord Jesus comes in in the at the appearing and is revealed to the world and all his glory will be with him and he wants us to have a full reward. And if you look in John chapter 17 verse 23 says I and them and thou and me that they may be made perfect in one.
And as the world may know, that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. And so I think that part of it is glorification with Christ. But then if you go to the Second Epistle of Thessalonians in chapter one.
And it talks about the revelation of Jesus Christ.
And when he comes at the appearing in verse 10, he says when he shall come to be glorified in his things and to be admired in all them that believe, because our testimony was among you, our testimony among you was believed in that day. So he's going to be glorified in the Saints when he returns and.
Not only glorified, but can be admired by all of them that believe. And so there's an admiration there. Umm, like to think of the example of a, a, a father. He's at work. Maybe he's going to different, going around as a salesman, going to different businesses. And they, they see this man come and they enjoy him. They like this man and then they buy from him. But when he leaves, they forget about him.
He's not that important to their existence. But when the man comes home to his family, maybe he's been on a business trip for 3-4 days, he comes home and his family looks at him. They're waiting for him and they admire him and, and they, they are happy to see him. Well, when we, when the Lord comes, he's going to be admired in his Saints. And, and I think we're part of that grace that's in our chapter. And Peter is being identified with Christ when he, when he's glorified in his sins. I wonder if it might have that thought.
I'm sure that's right. There's, uh, Paul had the end in the view. The Lord had the end in view.
And in the, uh, in that example, I like that example, he escaped in connection with Gaza. He was given a sense of purpose with an end in view of that child that had died. And he was going and he girded up his blowings in view of the fact of the mission that was, uh, put before him. And so it says receiving the end here. And like you refer to here, uh, in that 13th verse, him gird up the ones your mind, be sober and hope to the end.
What's the end? What's the end for us? It's the glory of God, isn't it?
That's where we're going.
I think that's, uh, part of what the profits we're searching diligently about. Israel look forward to a temporal deliverance. They look forward to their enemies being put down and being delivered from their oppressors. But when the profits grow, they look back at the very things that they wrote, not understanding them, but they perceived there was something more here than that.
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You think of how the Ethiopian eunuch, uh, that Philips, uh, uh, brought to Christ, he's in his chariot there and he's reading in Isaiah 53rd chapter, he says, is the prophet Speaking of himself or some other man. And from that very scripture, he preached to him Christ. And so those scriptures and those things just seemed close to even the ones who penned them. They looked at them.
And they wondered what is this speaking about and there is a salvation here that's beyond just the temporal deliverance of Israel, but at weight it it waited until the Holy Ghost was sent down. And that's what we get in these scriptures. The gospel preached by the Holy Ghost sent down. Now they're opened up. Daniel said Lord, one of these things going to be says it's sealed up till the time of the end. Well were those that Paul says upon whom the end of the age is have come.
The anger of the ages, of the testing of the first man were done at the cross. Now the Spirit of God sat down. Now all those things are unfolded. Now that salvation that they could perceive, there's something more here comes out in all its clearness. And he says to them, your hope is in a temporal deliverance anymore. You're going to suffer here.
And I sent them into our team that really is we don't have any evidence that.
That the disciples understood anything the Lord said while he was here. Why was that? We know they, uh, often had questions and doubts and made mistakes. We would have done the same. But the Spirit of God was not here as the divine person. Contrast, uh, Peter preaching the gospel there to the Jews in Acts, the early part of Acts and the power that he had in the.
Insight that he had.
To the scriptures, it was all a result of the Spirit of God who had come and who, uh, at that point was indwelling them with the power. And so we have that, uh, that divine guest and we might, uh, ask the question, how are we treating the divine guest that is, uh, that is within us because he is the one that will give us the understanding of the scriptures.
But if he's grieved as sometimes he is in our lives, he's not going to leave you. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. But if he's grieved in my life, he's not going to minister these things to me. But you'll have to speak to my conscience about my walking waves. So it's a good point that our brother Steven brought out there that the Old Testament prophets did not have the Spirit of God as we.
As we now possession.
So going on to Brother Tim's comment about that grace, and when the Lord appears and the blessing the Saints are going to be brought into, manifested before the whole world, all these that were persecuted and despised, persecuted by the Gentiles, cast out by their Jewish brethren are going to appear with the Messiah and glory. What grace? And he says you were looking for a temporal deliverance. You put your trust in Messiah, but you still have those thoughts of a temporal deliverance, no?
No, we look for something beyond the same thought. You have received the end of your faith.
You've got the salvation of your souls now.
You've got the salvation of your souls now that you already possessed, but we're looking on to another day when you're gonna appear in the revelation of Jesus Christ and that wonderful grace that is yet to have that you're going to be brought into. So it was such a hard thing to turn away from Jewish hopes and Jewish expectations for these believers. And that's really what what Peter is just so working with them and their souls and the temptation to give up.
Being being, just having lost everything and, and being persecuted by their brother and, and just to let go back into the world. You know, when we give up, we just let go and the lines of our minds, you know, they just let it down. And he says, no, gird him up. Gird him up and, and look on beyond this scene that you're passing through.
This isn't where deliverance is. It wasn't for Christ. All the sufferings of Christ came first. The glory was to fall. It's no different for you. That was Peter's own experience, wasn't it? He was looking for a temporal deliverance. Lord, we've got two swords before we're ready. Put them up, Peter. That's not for now. Not for now. The sufferings of Christ and the glory we should follow.
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Our time is nearly over here and, uh, we're just thinking that we might make a comment on this.
17 Before we finish, if you call on the father, who without respect of person.
Judges according to every man's work past the time of your soul journey here in here.
That verse does not refer to the.
The, umm, great white throne, of course, the believer is never going to appear before the great white drawn. Only unbelievers will be there. And it doesn't refer to the judgment seat of Christ here, but it is the moral government of God that is in question here. And it's salutary for us to consider this proof here. Uh, I can remember.
Times of outnumber as our brother Stan will also cooperate. When I was young, uh, your brother Ahold, who is known to us and whose teaching remains with us to this day, he said. You get off with nothing.
Because you're a believer, it doesn't mean that God is going to Passover sin in my life. You get off with nothing. What what you sow, you reap the moral government of God does not change with dispensation and that's the thought in our verse 17 here the Father's eye is upon us every day watching what we do the way we act he he he's got a father's heart, but.
I'm not a father, but there are many fathers here. They have to takedown the rod of correction often as well as the kiss of the love. They have to take down the rod of correction. And uh, we all come under that government of God, Chastisement. We're of all our partakers. We need child training. And God's eye is upon us. We judge us according to every man's work.
Again, I say that's not the fear of eternal judgment.
We're not going to come under internal judgment, but it's the thought, I believe, of the the eye of God watching over us in his, in his moral government, in our lives. So how careful we should be.
As to our walk, we don't get off with anything and because we're believers still, that principle applies. What we sow we reap. Brother Tim mentioned last night the life of David. He had some bitter reapings in his life, very governed. The wheels of God's government grind slowly, but they grind very fine and David suffered much under because of the.
The indulgence of the flexibility and so will we. So I think, uh, that they, that is the thought here. Maybe a brother has another, another, something else to add on that. I was just going to ask the question, Umm, I don't know what it means by, uh, and if you can call him father, what does that mean if you call on my father, umm.
I always took him to scheme in prayer. Uh, maybe somebody could speak with that.
Brother Bill, could I read it in the new translation or love it? It says if he invoked as Father him who without regards a person who judges according to the work of each pass your time of sojourn and fear. Does it not mean that, umm, if we recognize God as our Father, then we come under his authority and, uh, he will chastise us as, uh, needs be. Uh, in other words, we just can't flippantly refer to him as Father without recognizing the authority he has over us as our Father.
It seems to me that's what it means.
And the fear there, as John was, uh, mentioning is not being afraid of, of some judgment in the future, but but, uh, fear of dishonouring the Lord now, in other words, having a, having a, a fully respectful.
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Worth of thought as our Father.
It's the father's occupation with his children, isn't it? There's schooling and training or discipline and it's in love. And so he always, I think see that in the New Testament, my father is the husband and he said when it comes to pruning the vine, and we get that in Hebrews as well, that, uh, if we're without chastening from our father, then then we're illegitimate. We're not really sons. So it's always the father in connection with discipline and training.
And correction, but it's nice that it says father, not, uh, there's no distance there is there? There's, uh, the closeness of the relationship is always maintained in that and it's with love and real interest in US.
Very lovely.
#216.
Lord, now we wait for thee to come and take us to Thy Father's home. But what ecstatic choice will be to spend eternity #216?
Lord, we rejoice.
Umm, I don't know whether it's really anything. Uh, no, I'm done. What's great to say bye.
Let's go forever.
Go a little way like that, 1000.
900 And we stand to the left.
They were cleaning them to around $7000 from large accommodation.
When he said he comes to the moon.
And enjoy your beginnings during the beginning of the beginning and then we're continuing with anything.