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Detroit 1962 Reading meeting Saturday, November 24 AM.
How pleasant is the sound of praise. It well becomes a face of God. Should we refuse our souls to raise.
The stones like the 317.
Yeah.
Seems to me that the 4th chapter of Second Corinthians.
Somewhat follow up, obviously left off.
As to the effect of the judgment seat of Christ.
On our lives down here.
Before we stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
And all our words are their manifested.
The presence of the glory of Christ.
Now if anyone feels there is something else.
More suitable or imparted on oppressing this, but that came before me is falling up the subject.
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Thank you very much.
You use the whole chapter? I thought so, brother.
First Corinthians, chapter 4.
2nd Corinthians.
2nd Corinthians, chapter 4.
Therefore, here we have this ministry as we have received mercy. We think not.
Photo renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness. It's not handling the Word of God to speak solutions, but by manifestation of the truth, commanding ourselves for every man's conscience.
In the sight of God.
Some of our gospel be his. It is give to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world has blinded the mind of them which believe not less than life of the glorious daughter of Christ, where the image of God should shine under them.
Before we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord.
And I filled your servants for Jesus.
For God, who commanded the light to shine her darkness, have shined in our hearts to give the luck of the knowledge of the glory and love in the face of Jesus Christ.
What we have this treasure in earth investments at the Excellency of power may be of God, but not about.
Fear troubled on every side, yet not destroyed. We are perplexed but not in despair. Persecuted but not forsaken, cast down but not destroyed.
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus. And the rifle through Jesus might be made manifest in our bodies, For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus state.
That the life of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal place.
And death working enough the light in you we having to say it's fair to say according to written, I believe and therefore am I supposed we we also believe and therefore we.
Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also, my Jesus, and shall present us with you.
All things danger for your sake at the abundant faith might, through the Thanksgiving of many, redound to the glory of God.
For with God we think not that there are outward man's heads, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Poor light afflictions, which is but for a moment work for us, are far more exciting in the eternal weight of glory. Or we look not the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen.
Things that are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
I suppose the two ministries are counteracted in the previous chapter, are they not?
Are you referring to brother? Well, there was administration that had to do with death because the man was not able to meet the loss. But there's a new administration or ministry now which is of life because it depends on another, the Lord Jesus Himself putting assembly for our souls. It all depends on Christ now until the apostle has that blessed ministry.
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And he was the one, you know, who was so bitter against this precious truth, because I believe in Corinthians we have at least from the 10th chapter on of the first more and more subjects of the body is about and that was the ultimate purpose of God, to bring the children of God together.
And it's the it's the marvelous privilege today.
Expressing that truth here in this world, great, the truth of the body and all that's connected, I believe with this new administration that has to do with the Christ. Christ is ahead and that is members down here, Bill still that moment when we all talked up together to be with him. This marvelous news demonstration of life is all contrasted with what has gone before.
Not that the law wasn't good, but there was no means in the hands of man to to meet the requirements of it.
Now he's been brought into blessing on the grounds of sovereign grace.
God has said the soul that Jew ascend shall live in them, but they didn't do them, they didn't do the law, so it brought in death condemnation.
But Christ has brought in life, brought in a new order of things, and in fact we have before. This is the goal.
The 6th parts of the previous chapter contrast those two ministries, does it not?
Who also has made us able ministers of the New Testament for not of the letter, but of the spirit. For the letter kill us, but Spirit give us life. Well then you connect that with the 17th word or the 7th to the 16th versus parenthesis. Now the Lord is that spirit. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But we all was an open face, beholding is in a glass, and the glory of the Lord. Our change is the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
If Christ, that's before because.
The Spirit of all the types, the shadows and the Old Testament is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and He is the one we have before us now.
That's the importance of that 18th person is just read to us.
It's it's just the contrast of the law in the law.
Has been quoted. You do these things, you live in them. Now that wasn't eternal life. That was just the life down here in this world, we continued. If these commandments were kept.
The Prince of Beloved, I suppose, will be in the millennial day. But here we have.
The beholding occupation with Christ market. Well, it's occupation with Christ that makes the change here. It isn't the efforts of the flag.
And there's the one here in this room.
You would say that what could qualify for this? And that's what the young man was really asking the Lord when he said, what shall I do that I may inherit the eternal life? And the Lord gave him the commandments.
Would be perhaps a little puzzling if that were the answer to inherit eternal life as we now understand it was an eternal life here on earth that he was really thinking about. I think Brother Hale, that.
What the young man was looking for was just to live on and enjoy his wealth and position down here, the eternal life.
Isn't revealed in the Old Testament.
We do have mentioned I believe twice on some dangling 12 and months and 133rd farm, but it's more connected with the Kingdom. So here was the young man that had every advantage. He was at money and his position and honor and respect. Well, he'd just like to live on and enjoy those advantages and his wealth down here. So he wants to know what he can do.
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To inherit what he looked upon as eternal life. But now to get back to our subject here, my brother.
London has been speaking about in the 18th 1St we all now you notice it says open here but it should read as Brother Ericsson read it with unveiled faith.
If you look back in the chapter.
It says in the 13th verse, not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is the Bali we're taking.
To the second giving of the Law. The first time Moses came down with the two tables of toll, his face wasn't shiny.
Because he was greatly distressed about the making of the golden castle, he broke the tables and stone at foot of the mountain. But the second occasion, when he went up on the mountain and received again the French commandment.
He came down with his face shined, because God had revealed himself to him there as merciful and gracious. That is, God was not going to take the people through the wilderness on the ground of the law, that he was going to take the people through the wilderness on the ground of mercy.
Although law was still the requirements.
But till mercy came in and spared them, when they failed to teach the law well, That was why Moses faced with China. But all that the children of Israel could see in the dining face of Moses.
Was the glory of the law and that condemned or Moses put a veil over his face so they couldn't see that glory. Now they apart from draws the contrast. In this 18th verse we all will unveil faith beholding the glory of the Lord, that is the Lord Jesus now glorified on high.
Requires no glory to conceal.
That radiancy that times in his blessed face, there's nothing in his in his glorified face that condemns the Sinner, because the very one who is now glorified on high is the one that took all our sins upon himself on the cross and satisfied with the.
The demands of the Holy God.
Putting those fins away and rising triumphant beyond the power of death and all the judgment of God, taking his feet fair at the right hand of God. Now God made Christ responsible for every sin that I am that is against me. God heal Christ responsible for those sins.
Before my sins could be brought against me, all would have to deal with that man in the glory because he's responsible and he has settled the the the justice and the holiness of God about them. So instead of the mural of his glorified faith filling me with fear and dismay.
Why? It just fills the heart with unspeakable delights because we not only see the face of the ones who put those sins away.
But we see all the glory and perfection that in the heart of God.
Displayed in the radiant space of that one who was there glorified now on high and the further Lundeen says that the occupation with that glorified man settling every question of our sins for all eternities, so that the conscience.
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Is it red also fills our hearts with that object that God has to occupy our goals so that as we gaze upon Him, there is that transforming affect in our lives. We become more and more like that blessed one. So that you can see the contrast between what there's a law required. The law says this too.
For now, to live well, we couldn't come up to God's requirements at all. But instead of being under law, the rule of life, occupation will that glorified man. The very things that the righteousness which the law requires of man is fulfilled as Romans.
8000 are fulfilled in them who walk not after the flakes, but after the spirits.
So there is a light that fulfills the righteousness of God without our being in any way in ******* too. They demands of the law now in connection with the testimony.
The first verse here speaks of ministry.
Or has to do with testimony?
In the high priest breastplate there were 12 Stones.
I believe the first one was a Ruby, at least it was of that character was not clear.
It wasn't transparent. It did radiate light, however.
And it's a little picture to us of how that which was manifested in connection with the law, it was the glory of God. All right.
But it wasn't the full revealed glory of God as we have, for instance, in Revelation 21 where we have the foundation. Don't mention, turn to it just for a moment. We'll see the difference.
21St of Revelations and.
The 18 first and the building of the wall of it was of Jasper and the city was pure gold like under clear glass.
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones.
The first foundation was Jasper, the second Sapphire.
Now notice in the 11Th verse of the same chapter.
In connection with this city in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. And their light was like under a stone, most precious even like the Jasper stone, clear as crystal.
Have a testimony. But how different from that which was on the High Street breastplate?
Transmitting the light of the full display of the glory of God now as a result of this new ministry that has been brought in through the Lord Jesus.
How would you say Brother Harris?
Is this ministry to make it? I know it's been mentioned but to make it simple for all, I don't know what this ministry is so we can go on with our subjects.
Well, it's not this memory.
Christ and Church.
Our portion was in.
And wouldn't you say to that it's the the ministry of the Spirit of God?
Revealing to us.
The the glories of Christ.
That one who is now stated that God's right hand. You see, it's definitely spoken of in the third chapter.
In this way.
In the.
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The the eighth verse while reading before that, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the faith of Moses for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away, how shall not the administration of the Spirit?
The rather glorious.
So we have what is most wonderful, most precious for us to consider, that we have the ministry of the Holy Spirit of God come down from a glorified Christ, telling us of His finished work, telling us of all His glory that he has won.
Through his sacrifice and death and all that's connected with that. And so as you were saying, Brother Aaron, that brings in the fall of the church too, because it by the Spirit that believers are united together and form the body of Christ. So as we gaze into that glory to see that blessed one, we see the head of the church's body.
Now their seat is on high, and every believer below is a member of that body. So I'm sure that this ministry is picking up the Arizona takes in quite a range of truth, doesn't it?
Gives us the whole range of our, our, our Christian faith. That right? Yes, I'm sure does in John's Gospel, chapter 16.
So in the beginning with verse 12.
We read, I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now. How do you? When He the Spirit of Truth has come? He will guide you into all truth, for He shall not speak of Himself.
Whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak, and he will show you things to come.
He shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine and shall show it unto you. Well, it's Christ that's brought before us by the Holy Spirit, and it speaks of, of his things there. And I suppose when we are Speaking of the Church, that's something that's connected with Him.
And anything, all that is connected with the Lord Jesus Christ is now ministered to us by the Holy Spirit.
When we go back to the second chapter of our epistle, brethren, the.
18th verse.
But as God is true, our word towards you was not yay and nay, or the Son of God, Jesus Christ to us, preached among you by us, even by Sylvanus and Timotheus, was not yay and nay.
But in him it was yay for all the promises of God. In Him are yay, and in him Amen, under the glory of God by us.
Well, we know that when the law was given there was a year and there was a nay. And when the children of Israel entered the promised land, they stood on one mountain and pronounced blessings for obedience, and another they stood in the mounts curses for disobedience.
And so we know that's been remarked that they didn't learn the blessings. Instead they earned the curses because of their disobedience. Now he says it's not that way in Christianity. The work of Christ upon the cross has opened up the way of blessing and made it sure. And so in him everything is yay, the purposes of God embrace are going to be accomplished. And this is the ministry that has been committed to us.
I think it's nice to notice here, brethren, then that the I should have said the first chapter where I read in the second chapter we see the trouble that had come into the assembly. Or what is it that will encourage us when trouble comes into the assembly? All the knowledge that through the work of Christ all of God has purpose He is going to accomplish. He is going to see us through these difficulties and He is going to bring each one of His own safely home to glory.
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And then in the end of the second chapter, we see the ministry of the gospel. Well, perhaps it's rejected. Well, it's the Savior of life unto life, or a Savior of death unto death. But God is glorified in that the message of his grace is proclaimed in a world where he had, where his Son has been crucified and cast out. And I believe the reason it's introduced in this epistle is that the brethren were speaking against Paul.
They were saying his bodily presence is weak and his speech is contemptible.
Where these things tend to discourage us, do we? Do we see trouble in the assembly? Do we see little blessing in the gospel? Has something unkind and said about us? Occupation with Christ and glory, and what He has accomplished, and the sureness of all He has accomplished. Bringing about the purposes of God will give us faith and courage to go on, so we won't think.
And I believe perhaps, brethren, that's why it's introduced in the beginning of this chapter. How lovely it is where it says as we have received mercy. We think not. That is, we go on. And I'm sure that if we're looking at Christ and glory, no matter how many difficulties you set the path.
Be the courage to go on, and then the next verse comes in and shows the moral effect in the life of one who is occupied with Christ and is enjoying what you are thinking of. All the promises being gay in our men to the glory of God. If God is going to bring about His purposes, it has a definite effect.
We see especially in these verses opening this first, this 4th chapter, the effective cast on the light and on the ministry of the Apostle Paul for that he says in that second verse, but have renounced.
The hidden things are dishonesty or exchange, not walking in craftiness that's deceased, but.
Not handling, not handling the word of God distinctly, but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. It's lovely to see that.
The ministry of the Apostle himself.
What he is presenting to others.
Had a moral effect on his own life. I was just observing not long ago in the 15th chapter of First Corinthians.
Where they are, the apostle is speaking about.
The resurrection of Christ.
And whoever and that he was seen of people. So about 500 brethren at once. Then in the eighth verse 2000. Last of all, he was seen as me also as the one born out of due time. That is, Paul saw Christ in the glory. Well, now the very fight of Christ and glory, the remembrance of having seen him there.
And the practical effects on his life and ways. And what is the effect? Well, just read on, he says the ninth verse. For I am the least of the of the apostles.
That are not meant to be called an apostle because I persecuted the Church of God, but by the grace of God I am what I am.
As soon as Paul springs before the glorious resurrection of Christ and Helen that he has seen and glory. Why he just kept down to the lowest place who fell on the lease of all their problems, not me to be called the apostle. Well, the entering into the truth of God in the power of the Spirit of God is always to bring us to a look.
Place.
That is low, far from South, fitting, as the little hymn says, Proclaimers of His grace. And so here in this 4th test, here in this second verse.
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You see the effects this ministry has on the life of the Apollo.
For those who speak to go on and serve the Lord, there should be the spectacles.
Power of the truth and their own souls that they're giving out to others. Otherwise, if it's not that way, it does the content and.
Leads one into a path that may be very disastrous for themselves and for others.
The very solemn thing, isn't it, to hear truth and not act on it.
Seek faith to walk in the truth that we hear.
In connection with our chapter, the Apostle Paul.
The first thing that was mentioned to Ananias by the Lord.
Was.
I will show him what great things he must suffer for my faith. Now in our chapter we have just a very contrast of what was given in the Old Testament regards to those who served in Sebastian with the Law. There it was the outward display. There it was the ceremonial line of things that had to do with the people in relationship with God on the earth.
But with the Apostle Paul he sets before us.
Here in this chapter, the complete breaking down of the vessel that was necessary if the light was to shine out. What a contrast there is here then with the law now tripping them today is pursuing much in the lines of the old system of things, and we need these truths today especially because these things are vital in connection with.
Testimonial Service.
In the subject of breaking down the vessel, we noticed in Romans that the expectation is there to reckon yourself dead.
Now that's because in Romans, especially in the 7th chapter, the man has seen struggling.
There hasn't been the the complete understanding in the soul of what it means to be dead with Christ. I won't speak to these things, but the consciousness of how little one has entered into them oneself. Still in Romans, I believe we have the man struggling, and so it's the expectations. I reckon yourself to be dead indeed out of sin.
In clauses, there's a plain statement.
There the man has seen is written head on high and so the plain statement she are dead. That's a fact. That's the fact that we're to recognize. But then we have also here the apostle is seen as dying daily.
That is, he's applying this truth.
Practically in his life, because it's a question of the testimony. There's no testimony in the flag and it's the, the taking over the the vessel being allowed, allowing Christ to take over completely. If there's going to be any testimony, I believe we have the picture of it in the Old Testament. You know, Gideon's vessel there. There must be the breaking of the vessel because the light was inside.
The treasure in the earthen vessel. The vessel had to be broken.
Then we have one added saw here too that is delivered under death.
As though God was saying to the apostles, well you want to follow this path, then we'll go all the way.
It's still the Apostle Paul was the word delivered unto it, because he had a particular testimony to manifest, and we see those most blessed epistles written in the inner prison. He was, he went through all these things that are mentioned.
In Corinthians and the reducing of of the body.
Reducing everything that would hinder the going out of this marvelous life, this new testimony that had to do with Christ in glory and his members down here being formed into one body. The mystery that which has been hidden from before the foundation of the world is now being revealed through the apostle.
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Not merely in words, but it was the administration of the Spirit, and it had to do with his whole being, the demonstration of it down here.
What do you think Brother Harold is meant by not handling the word of God is faithful, but by manifestation of the truth? Go on. Well, I believe the Apostle Paul is answering the charges that were made against him. I believe the new translation speaks about making the trade out of the word of God and the pardon. Excuse me, but that's the that's where it comes in the 17th, 1St and the 2nd country, doesn't it?
Driving line hardly for interrupting you, but I just want to call attention to what you're talking about.
Notice there in the 17th verse where we are not as many which corrupted really make a trade for the word of God. So go on part of it. Well, I was thinking of the things that they said about him and he is seeking to answer that by showing that the the ministry that precious ministry was so real to his soul that he would go on. I was thinking in connection with Elijah.
Elijah went with him. Elijah's ministry was to call the people back to the law.
But Elijah's ministry, we know he has seen Elijah go up, and so his ministry is in the spirit of grace. Well, when he crossed the Jordan and came back and went into the land again, why they said the spirit of Elijah does rest upon Elijah.
Now he may be charged with things that are not true. The only way that we can answer it is by going on and loving and serving our brethren. There's no use trying to vindicate ourselves. We usually find we get into more trouble. But if we commit things to the Lord and our brethren see that we love them and serve them, our ministry will commend itself to their consciences. And so we don't have to twist the word of God. We don't have to try and make a peace certain things.
If we see Christ in the Scripture, that all fits in so beautifully, and we go on happily ministering that which occupies the heart with himself, our brother read to us in John about the He shall glorify me. Well, if the truth of God is given out in the power of the Spirit, souls will be attracted to Christ. Christ will be exalted and.
So I was thinking of that in connection what it says here.
Have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness nor handling the Word of God deceitfully. All false teaching and all that which would draw away disciples after ourselves as we were seeking out yesterday results in a twisting of the Word of God.
But there's always a personal gain that's to the object of it. True ministry doesn't twist the words. It turns the heart to Christ, occupies with him, and commends itself to the consciences of both saved and unsaved.
Very fine. There is a principle in the world. The end justifies the means. Well, that would be having the word of God to speak to, covering up and passing over certain things because they think that in the end, why it will be the glory of the Lord.
And in Galatians chapter 5.
Verse 16.
It says walk in the spirit and we shall not fulfill the loss of the plague.
Walking in the Spirit, what is it?
Well, I believe it's this allowing the Spirit of God to occupy it with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Not allowing anything else to come in to hinder that, it means that there will be things that will have to be judged.
Because if we're not judging these things, the Spirit of God is grieved. And you can't occupy us with Christ, but you'll have to occupy us with those sins, those things unjudged.
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So walking in the Spirit goes along with self judgment. But if we're walking in the Spirit, we'll be occupied with Christ because the Holy Spirit loves to occupy us with Him. And when our eyes are fixed upon the Lord Jesus Christ and our hearts filled with Him will not be fulfilling the loss of the black.
I believe this is a very important expression about commanding ourselves.
Every man's conscience and the sight of God, we see that so perfectly exemplified in the life of the Lord Jesus. Even though they rejected Him and despised Him, yet conscience always bore witness to who he was, because the loveliness of his person and the blessedness of his walk always spoke to the hearts and conscience of his tears. And I believe it's an important principle for us too.
So much of our difficulty comes by trying to vindicate ourselves.
But all if we were just have our eye upon Christ and go on with him before us, others would look on like they did at Elisha. Elijah didn't say I'm going to take Elijah place. No, he came back and when they saw him they said the spirit of Elijah.
Elijah death, rest upon Elijah, and if you and I are looking at the Lord, it will be like Moses. He didn't say my face is shining. The people who looked at him said it was shining. And so many God grants that we will have our eyes upon that one. Not so occupied with trying to make our brethren think right about us, but occupied with him, and leaving the rest with him. He'll see that the truth of God acts in the hearts and consciences of the hearers.
So Paul, that what we have in the second Timothy.
2 verses 24. That's what we have in Second Timothy.
To verses 24 and 25 instructing Timothy.
The servant of the Lord, the front drive of the temple under all at the speed space neatness is starting over the moment.
Will give them respect to the acknowledging of the truth.
Yes, I'm sure that's true, because if I have enough persuasive power, I might be able to persuade a person to think my way. But unless God works in His heart, there'll be nothing abiding accomplished. But if the truth is presented in love and in patience, I'm sure that it will commend itself to the conscience, and God can work repentance in the person's heart and cause them to acknowledge the truth.
You should say that Paul walked in the fear of God.
And.
In the suspense or looking on what we were.
Talking about yesterday, the time when everything will be manifested, the judgment seated Christ.
That is, Paul looked on, not to the way things look down here or how he might be criticized or condemned in this world, but what was the Lord say about it in that day when everything in his whole pathway would be brought under the searching light of the glory of Christ? How it how will it look there? And it's the most important principle for us to bear in mind.
That as we go on to adjust, look at things in this way, well, how will that look?
At the judgment seat of Christ, don't be too much concerned about the way it will react or what will be the result down here. Of course, we don't want to deliberately cause friction or a gift unnecessary offense.
Among our brethren, or even in the world.
Want to be careful and walk circumspectly as we go through this thing, but there are two of the outcome of all that engages us down here. We want to look on to that day where everything is going to be looked at in the light of the glory of Christ and everything that will not stand.
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The light of that glory will be just what we were saying yesterday. Wood hands double. Just so much material for the bonfire. It'll be burned up.
Alex. Blessedly true that all will be manifested, but I suppose here too the apostle Paul was thinking of the present effects of it. For notice he says in the third verse, If our gospel behead.
And then in the fourth verse, the glorious gospel Christ, and the fifth verse, we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord. And that's the thing, as our brother Lundeen has remarked, what he is bringing out is that.
The body is just the earthen vessel, but what God is seeking to bring out is the treasure that he has put in the vessel. And it doesn't matter so much what brethren think about us as long as they see Christ in us. That's the point. And so he says our gospel, and he says here, the glorious gospel of Christ we preach, not ourselves. He says, suppose you do run us down? Well, he said, we're not preaching ourselves anyway.
We want you to see Christ, and saw his whole desire was that this would be seen in his, in his ministry, that he was seeking to set Christ before Saul's. Perhaps some of us have heard the little incident in the life of Mr. Darby which condemned us. He was in a certain place, and some unkind remarks were being made, and untrue also, and.
He never replied at all.
And a brother was standing by and listening and said, Brother Darby, why don't you defend yourself? He has what he has said is not true. All he said he hasn't seen anything. He hasn't said anything against my Savior yet. Well, I believe that's the spirit that the apostle is showing here and one has been helped by this. Props. If someone says something about me that's unkind and untrue.
Supposing I just say like this, well, it could have been true and it would have been true but for the grace of God. Well, why should I be annoyed? If I get annoyed, I'm as good as saying, oh, I wouldn't do that but bread, and I would do that if the Lord didn't keep me.
Let us just think that God's purpose in all our ways is that the light that he has put in the vessel might be seen. And I think it's such a lovely manner in which the beloved apostle replies to the remarks of the Corinthians.
I don't think there's any epistle, let's call the flows, where the love for the Saints as the ones replied to the people that were speaking against them.
Eric on the third first it was called will be hit. It is hit to them that are lost.
You think anyone else could have could say that but the apology?
Our gospel is it really can be veiled. It is veiled to them that are lost.
Well, no, I don't believe anyone else could.
Why do you say that brother here? Well.
He was a special vessel called out by the Lord, and he seemed to always have the judgment fee of Christ before it.
He was walking.
Walking and living with that thought of everything was going to be manifested there.
So he would be deeply concerned then that that in his life was.
So to speak the gospel, it wouldn't be borne out his life.
So you and I couldn't say well after I preached in a certain place.
That those who refuse the dark for the thought of this world is planted their their minds in the way the apostles say it could be. No, we could.
There might be some self there that would bind their minds. That is, it would obscure the message was given. I've been thinking in connection of what we have been thinking of here. There's a verse in the first chapter of First Timothy.
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The fifth verse seems to me is very appropriate.
This and six words. Now the end of the commandment or what is enjoying is love out of a pure heart, a good conscience and a faith on faith which some having squirrels turned aside on the vain James. Well, there's love out of the pure heart. Heart not double purpose.
A good conscience? Well, a good conscience doesn't need vindication.
No, it says something about the about the Gentiles and the section of Romans.
There's their conscience is bearing witness in the meanwhile, either accusing or excusing one another. Well, if there is that going on in one in one's conscience of a certain matter that just keeps before them, they can't think of anything else and the.
Either accusing or excusing themselves. Well, that's not a good conscience. It's time to call a halt.
Well then of faith on faith. Well that's that's quite searching face on pain. The Lord was the only one who could say that all together that which I send you that I am.
Well, it seems to me those St. things are very important. And here Timothy was left at Ephesus, and this is written only a year or two later than the Epistles of the Ephesians. So the end of all is gone Before, so to speak, is these three things.
Would always suppose that everything is based on the word of God, wouldn't it? Because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
Yes, yes. And that we weren't trying to make out we had more than we really have.
Love out of a pure heart is also mentioned in first Peter one, and I wonder if that just a little word of caution to us, lest we might seek to be.
Occupied with love and gentleness and meekness and patience and.
Perhaps fail the love out of your heart. That is, perhaps there are times when, although love might be felt very, very deeply, there might be times when it would not be the mind of the Lord for us to show love in the way in which people would expect it of us.
You might be misunderstood for that, but I believe love out of a pure heart would cause us to love our brethren at all times and to love them unfeignedly, but to show that Bob in a way in which they might look for it and expect it to be governed with it, not by its expression. Lava of a pure heart, the Lord's glory first, Is that true? You're referring now to First Corinthians and then Second Corinthians where there was a sample of discipline.
One case the love could not be shown, but in the second epistle show your life to it because there's been repentance. Is that the thought? Yes, the same thing in first John 5. By this we know that we love the children of God when we.
Love God and keep His commandments. I don't believe we're showing true love if we disobey the wisdom of the Word of God in showing love where it ought not to be shown, although it ought to be felt.
Do you think Joseph Joseph couldn't show his love to his brother? And 1St after the repentance came, we are verily guilty. The Bradman said he could let his heart close. Yes, he had to reframe himself and go into his chamber and weep there. Well, we have that spirit. If we find it so hard to refrain that we have to weep about it, then the Lord will grant us, I believe, the joy of being able to show the love later on.
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Notice brother getting out of that into the first work of repentance in the brothers of yoga. So therefore he'd spoken roughly through them and put them in prison and then they he heard them say we are very guilty concerning our brother.
But I believe that was something like what Brother Wilson was bringing before us. And in connection with the 19th capture of numbers, there was a third day and there was a 7th day. The third day you see the the man that had.
At the cut the bone, or some way to pile himself where he has purified with the water of separation the axes of the red pepper.
Brought out in the remembrance.
Of the death of Christ that has put that sin away. But that wasn't sufficient. There was a seven days and again the water of purification is applied and then there's a man is fully cleansed and restored.
Well, that work had begun right then and there. Joseph in his wizard, in his faithfulness has been used of God to begin a work of repentance and his brother. But when they come back the second time, you know, and Joseph has the story puts the cup in the cracks and then they absorb.
In Benjamin's background.
Better than all returns stand before Joel. Well, you remember when Judas takes the lead, he he says to Joseph.
God has found out the iniquity of thy first. Now it's not merely a matter of being disturbed in the country because of the sin against their brothers, but of the sinners having to do.
Where the Queens and the holiness of God. And then another matter comes out after that.
Because.
When due to speak to Jordan.
He he, he tells about his poor old father, how that they would bring down the Gray hairs of thy servant, our fathers, with power to the grace that Benjamin didn't return.
Well, that was getting down farther into their sins, and to say we're very guilty concerning our brother, that was one thing. But here was another matter there sorrow they brought up from their father, in which they had so callously.
Despise.
And go on arms for those many years and disregard and their father is broken hearted sorrow over those sons that matter is just. But I believe while spring was a full restoration, they might say the 7th day of the 19th of Revelation when they really get into the presence of God about their sins. Well then when they have when Judas has spoken in that way.
Well then, the doors that have come near unto me.
He puts his arms around him and tests them, and he never once accuses them or scolds them or condemn them for the way they treated him. He chose nothing but love. The work of restoration was fully wrought out in their goals.
There has to be the recognition of Joseph before there can be a Benjamin, doesn't there? That was the whole point. It was the one who went down into death.
That had to be recognized before the son of my right hand.
Had to recognize the one who who took up the case of Israel and all their guilt.
The one who took it for them, they had to recognize.
Joseph and in that day Israel will.
When he says you're my people, they'll say Jehovah is our God. Then they'll come in the son of my right hand, the one who takes over in in the rule of authority.
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They have to recognize that Jesus.
Who bore all the guilt to the nation? That's the true repentance of that nation.
I'd like to hear Brother Harrison give us something on why this hospital says and whom the God of this world is blind in the mind of them that believe not. Why is it the God of this world, brother?
Well, it's not a Satanist.
Looked at as the in two ways, as the Prince of this world and as a God. Well, it is not. They have rejected Christ and so Satan has become their gods.
Reaffirm.
The plastic Why is it that the 13th, 13th.
Comes in there as a Princess.
I guess you heard it, said Brother Taylor. That's the 12Th chapter. First Corinthians is like the machine. The 14th chapter, First Corinthians is like the machine and operation on the 13th step through the oil that makes the king run smoothly. I think that was what we got from Brother Potter when he was with us. And it's a very.
It's a very nice illustration.
Satan's work is always to blind the eyes of the natural man, because if he once saw the glory that shone out in the face of Jesus Christ, not only is glory and light and holiness, but also the love that has been displayed at the cross, he couldn't help but accept Christ. So Satan blinds into that. And I suppose too, there's body camps lying to true believer.
He can bring in things that make us short sighted, as we have in Peter's epistle. He that lack of these things is blind. It says, but the the word and the thought there is he cannot see a far off. He's short sighted, so the devil can't.
Their eyes completely because God has opened them. We have seen beauty in the Lord Jesus. We know him as our Savior, but I'm sure he can bring in things that make us short sighted keep get us occupied with other things instead of with himself. So we need to have the veil that were taken away and look up and see has a little him puts it nicely.
Its clouds have dimmed my sight when past eternal lover toward me as air. Thou art right, He hasn't changed.
As Lily should read the Gospel of the glory of Christ. That was especially what Paul called my gospel.
There's two ways that the gospel is looked at as the gospel of the grace of God.
And the gospel of the glory of God, the gospel of the grace of God, teaches us that there's a man come down from heaven.
Covered and died in this world.
Public pretensions work on the cross, but the Gospel of the Glory teaches us that that one who accomplished that work has gone up and is seated on high, exalted and glorified and vindicated before.
Angels and principalities there. And that was the special line of things or ministry that was given to the apostle Paul. See, the other apostles had seen the Lord in his pathway down here. They saw him as far as the clouds Paul went, was carried up beyond the cloud and saw him in the glory. So his ministry.
Takes us to that glory, occupies us with that glorified man that shows us the worst.
Completed and accomplished, and God glorified about it.
Satan as the Prince of this world in Ephesians, but here he's the God of this world, and I suppose there are two ways in which he can hinder us from occupation. With Christ as the Prince of this world, I suppose it would be occupying us with all kinds of worldly and earthly things, but perhaps as the God of this world.
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How often it has happened that it is not something of the world, but it is something perhaps that has got the eye of Christ among our brethren that has caused us to lose sight of Him and we might look and see someone that's being carried away in the world.
And feel grieved about that. And well, He might. But rather, things that come up even in our assembly life that cause us to have our eyes off the Lord. Oh, May God grant that we may perceive that it tells us we're not ignorant of His devices we may perceive as working.
Surely loyalty to Christ is important. Faithfulness from the apostle wrote the first epistle with many tears.
But he he didn't want and he didn't want his brethren in it all to lose sight of the glorified one of God's right hand that's pretty facing his head of the world system as God of this world. He wants to give us anything to displace the Lord Jesus Christ, to give us another God besides the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the Prince of this world.
Politically or head of the world system?
And he wants to bring the world into our hearts and take us out into the world. But as the God of this world, he wants to give us another God besides the Lord Jesus Christ, displacing him.
Rather solid than to think that the devil himself is the head of the of all the religion of this world.
Who will follow them to consider that and why the Father scared is that part faking makes his faithful attack upon is the truth of a glorified Christ. If Satan can get people to believe that the life of Christ is all they need, but he cut out the light of that glorified man.
The prison can bring souls to believe that their good works will save them. Well then there's no need of the finished work of Christ. So again, he set out the light of the glory of Christ, so you can trace every false doctrine in the whole world, and it all shuts out the light of that glory. Glorified man at God's right hand.
Well, he's he's thinking in every way to keep that light from shining and the souls of men.
When you see again how?
The apostle, as it were, hit himself, so he would in no way hinder that glory reaching thee.
The souls of others, or we preach not ourselves, but praise Jesus the Lord and ourselves your servant for Jesus faith. That is the only place the apostle desired to occupy.
Well, just a servant, just a farm slave of Jesus Christ.
In these two verses.
In the 5th and 6th verses, don't we have the two things that Gideon men had in their hands? They had the trumpet and they had the picture with a light in it. Well, the trumpets, we preached not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord. They blew the trumpet, cried the sword of the Lord and the Gideon. They didn't speak about themselves.
And then the picture in which the light had been placed was broken so that the light could shine. Well, that's all we've got in our hands if we're really serving as we should. It just has the two things the trumpet control claim. Not themselves, but the fact that God had one whom He was going to use for a mighty victory over the enemy. And then all they were doing was holding up the light. All that we have also in Philippians.
Where it says, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, well, that's the light shining. And then it says, holding forth the word of light at the spoken testimony. Well, that's our whole testimony before the world, brethren.
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Is our the testimony we live and the testimony we speak a God granted will be of Christ. They learn to know they were to watch Gideon. He says what I do you do and then they were to cry the Lord of the Lord and of Gideon. Well the sword of the Lord might have been her down but Gideon type of Christ the Savior. Well that brings peace.
And light to the soul. So there is the two things that are used of God's.
In connection with his work was sold.
And the mother thought I recently enjoyed from that in the 7th chapter of Judges, in the 17th verse. That's what our brother quoted.
That is 7 verse 17.
And he said unto them, He, Gideon said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise. And behold, when I come to this is the part I just noticed recently. When I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that as I do, both shall he do the 19th verse. So Gideon and the hundred men that were with him came unto.
The outside of the camp. The 21St verse. And they stood, every man in his place round about the camp.
Lovely place to stand the stand there with our trumpets and with our battle outside the camp with Gideon.
I don't suppose Gideon would be referred to as a priest, but I believe that in the law. And if the priest was that, now he was to blow the trumpet or the son of the priest. And that is the consciousness of our relationship and position too.
Each one who takes the place is all. Every child of God, of course, is in that position of serving in any way.
That is the consciousness.
Being a priest with supervision as part of the new position is about.
Doesn't require a great army to fulfill his purposes.
Excuse me?
I would not require the Army to fulfill his purposes. Doesn't it requires empty vessels with lights in them, not 300?
Reference has been made to.
Gideon saying what I do you do every not the example of that in the 4th chapter of Matthew where the Lord is captured by patience that are in our position now.
We certainly his brother knew the Lord is indeed our patroness. Brother Anderson brought out. And where to?
Peter tells us the following his death to mark out the way for us he's given us.
The way to meet every attack of the enemy because he has met the enemy.
By the author of the world. So if we keep the Lord in his pathway for us, what we have.
That needed instruction to meet the the dangers and the temptations that are pathway.
I believe that in my fifth verse we preach not ourselves, but Jesus Christ Jesus.
Word is left out.
Christ Jesus Lord.
That's important both for Saint or sinners.
Because it's when the Sinner owns Jesus as Lord. As the apostle says, we are faith and for the time of God filled with owning his Lord in his authority.
And that's what the apostle thought the exercise. Every soul that he had, he had to do without to the rights and authority of this glorified man over his soul.
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Whole thought isn't this in Corinthians of his lordship even over the dead to He's in Florida both dead and living. New predictions. Thinking of those glories, the gospel of the glory, I believe we had it brought out most beautifully in the 9th of Luke, just to refer to it. That is, those who are called to follow him in his rejection.
And the 9th of Luke and the disciples were learning a new position.
It's a turning point. It looks gospel, and as a result of those who take up their cross daily and follow him in rejection, now he sets before them three glories.
And it's peculiar, I believe, to look gospel. They're all three heavenly glory. They're his own glory.
That is the glory that he wanted, the Son of Man and the Fathers.
It's the Father's glory.
That is the Father, the glory the Father gave him, but also.
If the glory in regard to the angels that is man now as the Lord Jesus passes through the heavens, he takes the place of supreme authority over the whole creation, and he associates his people with him. Luke sorry, those who take him up the path of rejection with him to be in founders associated with him now.
As a result, it answers all our rejections to be associated with it in these glory. Of course, it's only the glory that.
Thing in this man we will be associated with him, but we will behold His glory, will we not as well?
If you say Brother Anderson, the sixth verse takes us to the first chapter of Genesis, and the second verse I believe it is.
I believe.
We have something very significant there in Genesis chapter one.
We find a pattern of things. Genesis is a deep squad who put it through the Bible.
And there we have darkness.
The second verse of chapter one of Genesis.
And.
Then we get the light brought in verse three. God said let there be light and there was light.
Well, it's only God that can bring in the light. That's what we have here in our chapter. Only God can bring in the light.
And he brings it in right out of darkness, doesn't he?
That wasn't sunshine, was it brother? No, it was light. We don't see the the vessel of light until later on.
You say that's like the 4000 years between.
Adam's creator man, the coming of Christ.
Yeah, they had light in the Old Testament times.
But the one in whom is all light didn't come until then. He didn't come in, and he wasn't made manifest until he came down here as a man. What a lovely thing.
To have the light manifested in that way, Now we see the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
It has been mentioned that in the Old Testament they had light, the patriarchs. But when it comes to the New Testament, why we also needed warmth. So it's the only begotten Son who was in the bosom of the Father. He has declared Him we get light and warm.
The Lord hasn't yet charmed forth as the Sun of Righteousness, so that's in a future day. So it says the world knows us not because it knew Him not. So the light that was called to shine out of darkness was something that we don't know anything about. It was. It was something that we can't explain, although it is now. The world knoweth us not because it knew Him not. And that which enables us to shine in the midst of the darkness will not be understood by the world.
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But how wonderful it is that there was a life that shone in that darkness. The Lord Jesus was here, unknown, and now we have the treasure in us too. He was the light of the world when He was here, but they wouldn't have him now. He says here are the light of the world, the day when the sun will shine forth as yet future. But we shine in the darkness now, brethren, with a light that's heavenly, just as it was back there when God said, let there be light.
Someone who suggested that that third verse of Genesis would tell us that Christ was the first thought of God in connection with His purpose is down here. That is, as a man. It's going to be the wonderful building.
Everything #275.
Our God is light, and though we go across the practice wild, our Jesus whatsoever shall pass for every child. 275.