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Round 15.
Verse 18.
50 and verse 18.
If the world hates you, you know what it hated me before it hated you.
If you were on the world, the world would love to know, but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hated you.
Remember the word that I tend unto you. The servant is not greater than his Lord.
As they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you.
If they have just my faith, they will keep yours also.
And all these things who are doing to you, for my name's Satan.
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They know not in the testing if I have not come and spoken unto them. They have not had sex, but now they have no close politics.
He inevitably hated my father also.
If I have not done among them your work that none other man did, they had not had sins, but now they both clean and hasten both me and my father.
But this cometh to pass that the word makes you go still that is written in their laws.
They hated me without a call.
But on the comforter it comes, who will I will stand under you from the Father, even the spirit of truth, but for deals and the fathers he shall testify of Jesus and the all those will bear with us, because you have been with me from the beginning.
Chapter 17. Verse 11.
And now I have no more in the world. But these are in the world, and I come to these. Holy Father, keep to thine own name, those who must give me.
As we are.
While I was with them in the world, I kept in my name. Those that I gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost but the summer traditions that the scripture might be fulfilled.
And now come I to be.
And these things like speak in the world that they might have my joy both building.
Somehow you may not have been here this morning to her brother Mary on our attention to the fact that Mister Potter administering on this chapter.
Often reminded us that he divided himself in the three sections.
Throat bearing lost to the president and the hatred from the work.
So, our first this afternoon, Doctor, the third section of the chapter hated some more.
Brother Brown was his First Division abiding in Christmas.
Providing in Christ is really the subject isn't yes, and truth bearing is the result yes, It's all good carrying apart from almighty Christ. That's right. I just remember that's the way I remembered his. I think you're right.
I never Sigma than the meeting going stage, but I believe that N was seated more than any man that ever lived in this world. Is that right?
I remember dear old Mrs. Smith in Japanese. It was from her house that Lord Sheeper was buried.
I used to go and see her.
She said to me.
I believe.
If the world saw mortal Christ in us in our daily walks, we would know more of the persecution.
Because the world is stressed.
It was the best part of it.
In regard to what you were saying, Brother Hanover?
As for his being the most heated man?
One has enjoyed the contrast here in this 15th verse.
Of our chapter.
Hated me without a cause. That's the 25th verse. They hated me without a cause.
And then going to the third chapter of Romans.
And the 24th 1St.
Being justified freely by history. Freely.
It's the same word that's used here and hated me without a call.
Being justified and really without a call that is that was.
There was nothing enters. It was brought out such love, such marvel, love and goodness, tortoise, which is without a cause. That was love coming out without a cause. Here was hatred coming out without a God.
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Is loud. They gave him pictures.
That verse enrollment in connection therewith the carnal mind is enmity against God.
It is not subject to the law of God during these candidates.
We have minds that are.
Enmity against God.
In John's Gospel, those rejected Christ looked at as an irrecoverable flats.
And emphasize the blessedness. There's only two passages of the Old Testament that carry you back into eternity.
The first one is in the 40th Psalm and it's Christ as the burnt offering.
There's only two packages and the whole of the Old Testament.
Verse 6. Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not desire mine ears have thou opened their knee burnt offering and sin offering as thou not required.
Then said I low eye covenant the volume of the book, it is written on me.
Now I read the next verse as in Mr. Davies translation.
The good pleasure of thy will, O God, is my delight.
That's John's ministry too, and this is the first time in the Bible that you're carried back into a past eternity. In the volume of the book, it is written of me. Or he was ordained as a lamb before the foundation of the world.
The next one is in the Proverbs 22.
I'm the.
30th verse Then I was by him. That is wisdom.
And one brought up with him, and I was dealing his delight, rejoicing always before him.
Rejoicing in that habitable parts.
Of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.
The first one is traced as the burnt offerings glorifying God.
Why?
Well, cook the last verse of the 16th Psalm.
We quoted in my presence is fullness of joy, but the proper translation is Thy countenance is fullness of joy, and a thy right hand their pleasures forevermore. Why? Because it's the sun going back.
As fulfilling the purposes of the of the Father's heart. And when he went back into glory, the Father, as it were said, now I can have my family up here.
By it's the sum addressing the farm.
Like countenance is fullness and joy.
Brethren.
The marvelous truth is this.
That God had his joy in forgiving you and me.
And there was absolutely nothing in us to draw his love.
He loved me. I cannot tell why.
And when we go home to glory.
The Father's countenance thus expresses that bonus of joy.
For eternity will roll arm and arms.
God will never take another family.
Christ never take another bride. At the heart of God the Father is satisfied forever.
The heart of the sun satisfies forever.
And that in the companionship of those for whom he suffered, bled and died.
Always to one soul is wonderful.
Its practice when he says in this 19th verse that he were of the world, the world he loved his own.
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But because we are not of the world, but I told you about the world, therefore the world Peters you.
Now that's taking things normally. That is that those are who is speaking.
Are manifesting their character.
As those that have been called out of the world.
Where a Christian.
Gets out of communion.
And goes on with the world, denying his character as a Christian in a practical way. He escapes very much of this hatred. The Lord talking about here it finally manifest his character as one that's taken out of the world. That's when the hatred comes.
Shall I say yes and no to that brother?
Well, I'll give you an illustrator while making a statement.
The world is so selfish that it loves Christian fruit, but it doesn't want the Christ that produces the fruit.
I said another story about my brother People night when we were little boys. We were going to High Park.
We stopped at a candy store and bought some candy. The man gave us too much change. I said to my brother over there. I said he's given us too much change, we better go back and give it to him. So we went back and given the extra change.
And he patted us on the back and told us what nice boys we were.
But we didn't act scripturally.
Why, Scripture says, let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father, which is in heaven. But we went away with the glory. Now what we should have said to that man, we're giving you that back because we belong to Christ and he wouldn't have patted us on the back. Brother Brown.
The world is so selfish that it loves Christian growth, but it will not have the trace that produces the fruit. That's what I meant. Yes, that's.
Your point is and you are not manifesting really.
The life and nature that you shouldn't when you took the credit, is that it? Yes.
But Islam is manifesting the life and nature that we have as Christ uses the earth thinking out of the world.
That's what brings the hatred of the world.
I have a friend.
Because I know very well I've known him for.
Nearly. I've known him well over 50 years.
And he has a very high position enthusiastically.
Congratulations.
He's a child of God. I have many daughters.
Well, he's accepted and his name is quoted in the papers and magazines and.
Honored by the work.
Well, I happen to know something the way he got up there. It was not my walking as the Pilgrim of the stranger in this world far from.
The Lord takes us out of the world.
And then he sends us back into the world as those that have been taken out of us, not to be a part of it, but to read testimony to it. And we have to be taken out first before we can be sent back in.
Well, that poor boy, part of me, although he's in his 70s, he's still a boy.
I don't think he ever realized that he'd been taken out of the world.
Say the word that's used here.
For World is a whole organized system of Manhattan.
The whole thing, that man has it in his hand.
Satan, the God of it religiously and the Prince of it politically.
And man his willing to and everything is harmonized after the will and pattern and man down here below now you and I have taken out of it and building our heavenly citizenship.
We become as if we're out of tunes with every popular movement that comes along.
Well, no wonder. Let the world hate us because they they say, well, he just pours cold water on everything.
Well, cold water on it is that we don't have anything to do with it. I'll give an example. I think examples are helpful.
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A lady came to my home one day.
And then he said I want to decide a decision.
They're going to put a table in the block here.
And we don't want it in there in this box. It's going to ruin the residence district and we want to keep it out. And I want you to sign this invitation.
Well, we just told her that.
It was that he did not sign petitions for anything. That that wasn't Our Calling in this world. I don't remember just exactly how we put it, but we refuse.
Well, she she flew into more or less of a range and she said, I thought of all people in the block, a few folks would certainly sign up to keep a Tavern on the block.
Well, now if I find that, I do it as a citizen of his words.
I'm at my part of trying to keep this world cleaned up, Mr. Carmen used to say. I think some of us present here will remember his saying these things.
He said why should we Christians?
Try to keep the world from having the only Blazers that will ever have. Why should we try to keep them from their liquor and their tobacco and their and their cars and and the various things? Why should we interfere with their places and they all the places they'll ever have?
Remember that I remember his other arm. Yes, I do now.
With my KRB illustration what you're talking about one hour of school with everything around.
All the false prophets said to have to go down to Ramos Gilead, you're going to prosper.
For my day, I.
Had to give a true testimony.
While the false prophets put him in the face, there was a man that was really not in the world.
Without approval, everything you had to cover for it. And he sent back the jail for it. And yet he was right, wasn't it? And the only man on the scene that was right.
Was was a child of God and and the King that did much to please the Lord, but he was out of place.
He was in tune with everything there.
While a sad and sorrowful.
Part that brought him into more discipline upon him too. But there was one man that was out of it all Facebook testimony at that time.
I think it's well worth reading through Separation.
There's a teaching abroad.
We Christians should join up with these things that are going on around.
We can do them good way to getting that for people and these are the crisis to join up in these various things. Well, it's the direction denial of the line of truth that we have in our chapters. Rather remarkable is the word Ecclesiastes.
Means called out, called over the word other words, yes. We don't think of the fascination. The view is now.
I might mention that I was in a space college where the large manufacturers and there were two targets in there and I knew one of them very well.
Then there I knew one of them very well and he said that the finished the ball game, we had the ball game. I said no, I never did the ball game in my life. Thank God for that. Well, the book turned on, you know, they got really mad at me, you know, how are you going to help these fellows again?
Don't go where they go and go with them. How are you going to help? Well, I said if you thought I was wanting to go to the ball again and tell them about the Lord Jesus faith and how he died by on the cross and gave his life for him and coming again to take care of this world and going to take you to heaven. I said all the right, you go to the ball game. All right, that'll be fine. You switch to them at the ball game. I said either you get out of the ball game or or they'll get out of the balls. So I think that's the way to do it if you want to go to these places.
Tell them about the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now I think you have been on the train sometimes and we speak the people on the plane about the Lord and sometimes they'll say well it's too stuffy and this quote, I think I'm going to do everything well. Why? Because they don't want to talk about the more Jesus face.
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So that's the best way to get rid of them if you want to get rid of business.
Microsoft Richard Weaver. Someone invited him to a dance.
Why does he go? Oh, he went. And when everything was tuned up for the dance, why he said friends, he says I never do anything without praying about it first.
Let's let's look to the Lord about it. So we got down on his knees with card his brain. When his prayer was over, he had to dance floor all to himself.
Everybody got out in a hurry.
John 663 gives you the whole, the keys of the whole and of which we've been speaking.
The flesh profited nothing.
What does that mean?
It means just what we have in our chapter. The Lord Jesus came into the world.
And the bud opened into the flower.
All his garments were murdered, and aloes and captions.
The fragrance and loveliness of heaven shone out in that blessed man.
And so it says here they hated me without a call.
Brethren, the world is not king.
Do not forget.
That you and I have talked like that. My nature.
That you and I have talked like that. My nature.
And God loved us when there wasn't a thing lovable in us.
And sent his Son to battle for us. And not only so, but every Christian blessing is a mountain peak beyond which God could not go. And the great point in the gospel will be lost.
If we do not see that the path we're talking about of strangership and separation is the path of two things.
Happiness in your soul at the message of the Lord in your life.
I'm going to repeat that because we'll miss the very point if we don't get it.
The path that we're Marco and John is the path of blessings from the hands of the Lord, and the path of true joy in a world that is just.
Vanity itself.
Vanity itself. True joy.
And the blessing of the Lord is found in that path.
For yourself individually.
And for your family?
Keep out of your home.
Everything.
That savers of this world.
Let your home be there, a place where Christ is the object of His word is that which governs your thoughts.
And if what you have in your home doesn't minister Christ to your heart, get rid of it. Get rid of it.
All what presses on my soul when I have a reading meeting like this is just this. Again, I say it's the path of blessing.
It's the path of joy. It's the path of happiness.
And any other path.
Oh, it only brings sorrow even into Christians homes.
That presses on my soul, brethren.
No one ever lived to please God in his life.
And end in his life and sorrow.
There's a moral principle. Take the verse in the book of the Psalm. It's not exactly what I've been saying, but the principle.
I think I can find it.
Somebody help me find a sentence.
Mark the path of the perfect and the upright man, for the end of that is peace.
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You remember it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. That's the one I was looking for.
Mark that verse in your Bible if you do any marking.
Mark the perfect.
Man and behold the upright. What's an upright man?
An upright man.
Is a man that when he fails, he owns it to the Lord, he doesn't cover it up.
An upright man holds his failure.
Mark the perfect, and the behold the upright. When the end of that man is trouble. Is that what it means?
No, it's peace. It's peace now that's not going to heaven. Exactly. That's not the thought.
But the road he walks on and the end of the road is peace.
All pure Saints of God that we walk with God in our lives will never live to regret and what you're saying to be summed up in that word, If you know these things happily are you, if you do good.
Thank you for the words.
What I have in mind?
It's one thing, as Brother Dunlop used to say.
To get those tools in your head and another in your heart. But the best thing he always used to tell us was to get it into your legs and walk in it. Now I'll tell you a story about that dear old man, and I've never forgotten.
He was sick in Ottawa, where I live.
And I I was on the way to the prayer meeting.
So I went to the house where he was saying he wasn't the, but I went to the house to see him. But I thought I'd like to tell the brethren.
His condition that we might pray for. And I'll tell you what he said to me. He said now, hey, oh, you're on the way to the prayer meeting.
You tell the brethren I don't want them to pray that I'll get better.
You asked the brethren to pray.
That the Lord will show me why I got sick, and that I may get the blessing the Lord intends for me out of the sickness. And if I get those two things from the Lord, I'll trust him for my poor old body.
Now he told me that himself, and I went to the prayer meeting and gave his message. Do you think that's good? Yes.
Well, so often when we pray for the sick, we pray for their return to help. Well, that's all right in its ways.
But I never forgot that dear man's desire. He says. You pray at our fellow things.
Ask the Lord to show me where I got sick and ask the Lord to give me the blessing that he intends for me out of the sickness. And if I get those two things from the Lord, I'll trust him, he said. People from my poor old body.
Well, that dear man lived a happy life.
I knew him well for years.
And I never, never met him in an unhappy state of soul.
I'm thinking in connection with that 20th work. Remember the word that I admit unto you, The servant is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you.
They have kept my thing. They will keep your goal.
Lord was preparing his disciples.
To go on in testimony on service for him.
After he was departed after his departure.
And he points out how closely the service.
Is associated with his blessed Mass. I passed the experiment is greater than his mind. Oh no, we're always to hold.
Him as our Lord is subject to Him.
Read of his grace, we think of His perfection.
And what for? Unfaithful service we are indeed, when we place any service for him alongside the last perfect service we see and the one who made no mistake.
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But I was thinking too in connection with this.
In the 12Th, 1St, 12Th chapter.
On the 26th 1St.
There the Lord says, if any man's clarity.
Doesn't say to go to a Bible school early if any man's therapy, what are the qualifications or what is the third and blessed Lord there. There's that very simply before us. If any man spur me, let him follow me. That's what other tale was saying and get the truth in your face. You're thinking about brother Dunlop by a member of brother telling me that when he was a young man.
And he asked for the Dunlop, he said, What books did I read?
And the answer of this old brother was, he said, young man, he says.
Get the truth in books, not in books. Lord wants those to follow Him. And then how lovely that is that we read on Him that first.
If any man spurred me and where I am there to hopeful my currency.
Heard the millions there's been in his company. And then he says if any man serve me, then will my father honor? That's not the honor of the world. That's not getting your picture and your name in the paper and being heralded all over the country, isn't it?
All our lovely it is to get the honor that comes from God only.
When the Samaritans.
Found this more arrested woman man by the wayside and put him on his feet and took him to the kin.
Said to the innkeeper. Now you take care of it until I come again.
I believe in that.
We have the richest care of the Lord for the soul that finds Christ.
The place where it's going to be properly cared for in the assembly.
There's nothing, absolutely nothing in this world takes the place.
Of being associated a mob assembly according to his thoughts. And there is where I will be cared for, my needs will be met, and I will find that nourishment for my soul that I need until he comes back.
Back again.
Now I I have no doubt but God has used Bible schools and blessings in business.
God is suffering and He blesses in many, many ways.
But I really don't believe young folks.
That the Bible school and God has for you that little meeting where you are.
And going on with God in that place and availing yourself an opportunity for ministry as they present themselves.
I believe you'll get a far more normal.
Well-rounded growth in your goal, then you can get in the finest four or five year course in the finest finest school in the United States. I believe that's with all my heart. You get the truth and it's living connections.
It isn't divorced from the background where God put it. God put it into the assembly. Now it's true the assembly doesn't teach. That's true. But the assembly judges want his talk and evil is is caught up with.
And error instead of dying does the Liam is reading. From time to time we correct one another.
Little errors or mistakes, whatever they are, that's what it's called. That's the reason we're here, that we might together get the minds of the Lord from His worst. I'm the assembly where you get it. Some of us that are older have seen those from our midst that have gone away to Bible schools. We know different issues.
And personally, I don't know the case.
Where it bends to the spiritual advantage of the Wanda did it. So that's my own personal testimony.
When we were in Africa.
We have experiences along that line. We would bring the native Christians in from the villages to the mission state to a central place.
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And set up a school for them there.
Well, they got their training and their experience in a place that was unlike their village. In other words, the life of the mission station was was different from the lights in the village. And after they received their training at that central place and then went back to the village.
Found time after time that they could not stand the test in village, they say.
What the Bible through the.
Considered a counterfeit, that's too strong in terms.
Well, the best. I wasn't working for the wedding last time, but that's been happening since. I have a good morning and thank God.
From the standpoint of fiction about us, we can thank God Person for places that still exist.
Where they still contend for the truth as to South salvation by grace without works, and where they keep the coming of the Lord and where there is a desire for the salvation of souls. I'm not saying the word against it from that viewpoint. What I'm talking about is gathered Saints that know the truth.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you're going to get something by going away to a Bible school that you'll not get if you stay in the middle meeting and go on with the truth where God has placed it. In the end, you'll be far ahead just to go on with a little meeting and defend yourself at minutes of the victory that comes along from time to time. And then his brother Barry was saying the precious written ministry.
Some of us have known of souls that live that largely in isolation, but they kept in touch with their friends. They read the little the little periodicals that are gotten out by those gathered. They read the book Sound Ministry.
They corresponded back and forth with those would be helpful to them and perhaps those who they could help, and they kept fresh and bright and ripened in their souls.
Against the Lord hasn't called us to a pattern.
And said, now this is the way walk thee in it that I know you'll be lean and soul and you won't be taken care of the way you'd be if you went in the system around, but just make the best of it. That isn't the kind of the Lord we have.
He's called an indelible path and every spiritual need is going to be met in that path where he's called.
Isn't it true that what we have is not merely a system of teaching, but it's a life? That's why it has to be gotten in connection with living in our circumstances, where we are.
John, the 7th and the 7th game was a good verse to listen to. Yeah, we were Speaking of that yesterday. That will consume my will if you want to do the Lord's will when you stand up in the morning.
And doing their work well, the Lord was it is that what to do is the opportunity to search and bring this mixture to the for you for your blessings that we want to do his wealth he may know.
By his spirit, that's how he's gonna do these words. Repeat the word and then throw it open to that. Is that right?
Often times when.
Things that are not the truth.
Get into the scriptural associations and set up.
They not only are unhappy themselves.
Because they're going against their conscience, against the life.
What they're really?
Born in the sides of those of whom they're associated. I've heard that over and over again.
I know of one Bible school where it has told me that they didn't want anymore children coming there from from meetings because they're always raising embarrassing questions.
They were, they were asking things that they learned in the word. Well, how can those questions be answered when the whole system is opposed to the very instruction of the word? And there's a very important principle in Second Timothy.
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First Timothy.
The 4th chapter.
Coming up in the last verse.
Now we make read it and then make a remark.
Take heed unto thyself and unto the doctrine. Continue in them. But in doing this I shall both save thyself and them that hear thee.
I make this reminder our school teacher. She goes to college and becomes a teacher.
And can teach algebra and arithmetic and whatever it may be that she's learned.
That she had a quarrel with her mother before she went to school, but she can still teach arithmetic and algebra and compositions, but in the things of God.
Learn not to minister.
When you're not walking with God in communion.
It's a dangerous thing to minister the truth, even though you know it, if you're not walking in it.
Take heed unto myself.
And under the doctrine continue in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself. Wasn't Timothy saved? Yes, but this is another thought.
This is that his ministry might be owned.
God in the coming day.
And then the hearing.
That power in what you say to your neighbor.
Or in your home, or in your business, or in the assembly, in the measure in which you walk in it yourself. And so the first exhortation is, Take heed unto thyself.
How You go to a Bible school and you get your degree and now you step out.
As teaching, you may even be correct, but that's not sufficient.
Brethren, it exercises my own soul deeply. Deeply.
Take heed unto thyself.
Unto thyself.
I must apply the Word of God to myself before I do it to my brethren.
That habit?
Would some brother give us a word on Jeremiah 616 please?
Jeremiah 6, verse 16.
Might be helpful at this time.
Brother Brown is written on something on that, so we'll leave him to tell him.
That's the Lord waves, and see and ask for the old path where it's in this way, and walk therein, and you shall find rest your soul.
No one here presented this meeting this afternoon, but.
Doesn't have a desire such as is expressed.
We don't want anything else.
But the path is according to the mind of God, the one that he called the good way. Well, where are we going to find it? Find the Word of God.
It's here in the word.
And we have a right to examine everything that's presented to us in the light of God's Word.
For the law and to the testimony. And they speak not according to my words, because there's no light in them.
If we submit ourselves for the will of God that we find it in, the Word will never have to retrace our steps.
We'll never have to.
Feel that we've made a complete failure because we've struck out on the path of our own chooses.
And then following within the limits that are set down, the word of God.
We know that is approved. There have been known necessities for apology. That's it. I'll turn to the 7th of Jeremiah.
On the 21St verse.
Jeremiah 721.
Thus that the Lord of hosts the Lord of Israel.
Put your burnt offerings under your sacrifices and eat. Now put a little word in there. Eat the flesh.
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I'll tell you why before I read the next verse. Because God didn't accept them. He didn't accept them. Why did He accept their burnt offerings?
And sacrifices. The next verse tells you why.
For I stick not unto your Father's, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices, but this thing commanded I them saying.
Obey my voice and I will be your God, and you shall be my people and walk me and all the ways that I have commanded you.
That you may go to heaven, know that it may be well read unto you.
Brethren, do not forget.
While every believer will be with Christ and glory.
God wants.
Us to walk with him as his children. And that brings us to John 17.
The verses that were read.
So shall we turn to witness.
Versus 11?
And now I am no more in the world. But these are in the world.
And I come to thee, Holy Father. Now holy is a nature.
Righteousness is a character.
Holy Father.
That is, holiness is the importance of evil, with delight in that which is good.
Holy Father, keep to thine own name.
That means.
To be kept in the conscious sense.
That God is our Father and we are his children, and that God, who is our Father is holy. That's the point.
Keep to thine own meaning, those who must given me that they may be one as we are.
That's wonders in Communion.
And communion means this.
That you can talk with God your Father, at any hour of the day or night.
Without a cloud in your conscience, and if there's anything on your conscience right now.
Judges have done with it, for you can never enjoy communion as we have it here.
Unless The thing is just.
People mistake communion with peace.
Say.
Well, I haven't lost my communion. Well, but they really mean they haven't lost the sense that they're children of God and going to heaven. But that isn't communion.
Communion means.
That I can talk with God as my Father in the conscious sense of His love as a child.
There's nothing sweeter on earth, friends. There's nothing sweeter on earth. This is the mountain peak in John 17.
That the Lord's ministry was bringing Ubuntu. There's nothing richer or higher in the Bible.
Paul gives you the counsels of God.
God gives you the person and the loveliness of the person in whom those counsels.
Work purpose.
And so he says.
The 13th phrase. I don't want to talk too long.
Now come I to me, and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy.
Filled full full fields are filled full in themselves.
There's nothing richer that the soul can enjoy.
Oh, it's precious. Did you ever go to a deathbed and see the person enjoying the Lord? Will I tell you a story about Ruby Mackenzie?
I went to see her in that hole there in Hamilton with another brother and it was a beautiful day and the sun was shining. It was just springtime and the leaves were coming out in the trees. And the brother went to the window and he said, oh, Ruby, what a lovely view you have out that window.
And Ruby was nearly blind.
I was there and I heard it. I went to the bedside.
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And we came back from the window with the brother said to her, you see something better than that? Oh yes, she said, Brother, I see Jesus.
And he's made my soul happy now. That dear girl couldn't look out the window. You were near factually blind.
But her soul was in the good of what we have here.
The happiness on their feet.
Told the story and I've never forgotten it. It's made an impression on my mind.
That's what I hope these meetings will bring us to, and then our hearts will say, as John says.
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
That's how it'll end work. We burst out into the desire to see his face and hear his voice.
I'm spending Kennedy with him. Is that right for the gas?
That was one more scripture rather hey, on connection to the box, you're reading from Jeremiah among the goal. It's very familiar.
The functions of these dear young people.
And Chris Samuel.
The 15th chapter.
This is after the failure King Saul.
On the 22nd verse.
Brother Hale told us yesterday that the moral principles of God do not change the dimensions.
Well, here's a sample of it.
First Samuel, 1522.
Samuel said.
Ask the Lord, great delight and burnt offerings and sacrifices.
As in obeying the voice of the Lord.
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice.
And to hearten than the fatten.
Divine abiding principles.
There's nothing that takes the place of obedience.
Find out Mr. Bull is adopted.
And the expression Holy Father. So the first verse brings the besting Father.
It's just Father.
And in the 5th bird, there's no father that running committing with dogs.
To the Father, to the safekeeping, then his holy Father's God.
I'm about to say Friday, Monday. Well, that's good, that's righteous. Father is God.
That's the basis that not upon which.
Well, that's in connection with the judgment of the world isn't all right to follow, but the world has not known me. I understand it's right.
Big judgment all in us bits of dogs character that other, Hale said just.
Horns of evil but righteous speaks of God judgment against evil.
I suppose we've all noticed that many times sin is met and John's Gospel and also the official.
5th Is that because of the divine person that's required?
Yes, you do not get forgiveness of sins in John's Gospel at all, except governmentally. Why?
The great subject of the ministry and the Gospel of John his life.
1St We must be born again. Perceive.
Ireland to enter the Kingdom.
Then possessing that light, we have now a nature capable of enjoying what God enjoys, entering into His thoughts, being in the good of them, and then when the Holy Spirit comes, He comes to bring us into the present, good at it while we're still in the world.
So that's the subject of John's ministry and in the Gospel.
This eternal life is seen in the presence of the Son of God. In the epistles the same life is seen in US.
And we repeat.
Every Christian exhortation.
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Is found in the past what you possess.
And as we remark the other day, you're not only possessed the life and nature of God.
But the power by the Spirit to live in the good of it.
And I repeat what I said yesterday, Mr. Derby made this remark that hit me and I never forgot.
He said, do you want to know why you're in? He says I'll tell you why, because you want to or you say I don't want to.
But you have the life and the power.
Why didn't you at that moment when you got irritated, why didn't you look up and say, Lord, give me victory, help me to show patience.
But instead of looking to the Lord for victory, you let it.
Display itself in some naughty words.
When we have the life and nature of God and the power to keep that in the place of death.
And what is the purpose of God? Or I wish I could tell it as my heart being.
Whether it is so rich?
God is going to find His eternal rest and joy.
In creation.
No in the companionship of these children, but God's going to have a family in heaven that will think of he sits and enjoy what he enjoys in perfect communion for all eternity. That will satisfy his heart as well as ours. But don't forget it satisfies his heart.
Did you spend yesterday talking with the Lord?
Or you say it was a happy day. Did you think of it that the Father in heaven found His happiness in your communion with him?
He found his happiness.
Always marvelous. It's marvelous. God will turn over to it. You know the verse so well. Zephaniah 3.
I'm sure everybody here knows the words.
The 17th verse.
The Lord thy God in the midst of these mighty He will save. Now of course, the reason it says that is because their deliverance will be by power subduing their enemies. But.
Here's the moral principle. He will rejoice over thee with joy.
He will rest in his love.
He was joy over thee with singing.
I like to meditate on. That's better.
He will rest in his love.
He will die over me with singing. What a future to encourage our hearts.
What a future.
On the Baptist future, the right room's voice, yes.
Would you say, brother hell, that these prices that we have before us give us?
The Lord present service now that he's going back to the Father.
And he is interceding for us.
In heaven and the Father's presence that you get in the 8th chapter of Romans I just turned to.
8 Captain Romans after a moment.
In the 34th.
Church will it be that condemneth it is right beside Gay rather than his president again, who is even at the right hand of God?
Who also make his intercession for us.
See, the only one that could condemn the Center for Christ to know is the Judge. Father has put all judgment in the hands of the Son, but the only one that could condemn this is the one that died for us and bore the judgment himself.
And he says.
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It is Christ and God gay rather than his resident again.
All the one that bore our sins is now in the glory. And then what about our our journey down here?
In a world of spin, a world where Satan is so busy, well, we have an answer to that too. That one who died and born of a judgment rose for our justification is up there on high, interceding for us as we go through this thing. Where?
Sin and Satan are so busy and the enemy is making all his attacks upon it.
Lovely. The Lord really in this portion in the 17th of John, take the positions as though he was already inhabited. Now I'm no more in the world. That's his position now.
He's done with this thing, been through it. He's fully glorified God in it.
How is place on high report?
All the industry for us to live for. So he praying the Father here that those of the Father had given him might be kept from the world, and he was going to decide to start with things to think that one would despise, but love as a blessed Lord is exercising the work. The wound is hard, and to go into the things of the world.
When the Lord is up there interceding with the Father to teach from all these, world is there that the enemy is seeking to draw off in.
A heart and will of God is the source of every blessing that our souls nor ever shall know.
And all our failures, whether as sinners or Saints.
Springs from unbelief of the goodness that's in the heart of God.
For.
The whole work of redemption.
Emanated from his own heart and glory, and the Lord Jesus went through every form and kind of suffering it was possible for a righteous man to go through.
And man hated him without a call.
And so when you preach the gospel.
If you can only get into the heart of the Sinner.
That God's desire is his blessing.
Why no Sinner could stay away if he got that thought into his soul that God was seeking his blessing. Take the prodigal on the 15th of Luke.
Why he didn't know the Father's hop till he returned and then?
How he found the devil.
Somewhere they the Saint of God. Why do we not walk closer to the Lord?
Everybody wants happiness. You ever meet anybody that didn't want happiness? I never did.
Where they find it?
The world will tell you. You'll find it in the pleasures of this world, but where will you find true happiness?
Why in communion as children with the father?
And if we realize it, we've never started a day without that little prayer. In principle at least, teach me to do thy will. O God, unite my hearts to fear thy name. When you get up in the morning now you're going to get up tomorrow morning.
Who are you going to start off to please?
You get down on your knees by your bed when you get up in the morning and say, Lord, teach me to do thy will.
When something is presented to you during the day, you ask yourself, is this the will of God for me?
If we stop to do His will and walk in such a path, the blessing would be so full that our hearts couldn't contain it.
Oh, he loves to glass.
I think of that him.
In the appendix of our hymn books, and I love that verse. It is the Father's joy to bless his love was found for me addressed a robe of spotless righteousness, all Lamb of God in thee. I never seen that verse that why I enjoy it.
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Or I'll say it again.
Don't forget that verse. It is the Father's joy to bless.
Now with the turning connection of that to a verse in Jeremiah 5.
Our brother Brown.
Read it to us in the 81St Psalm, and I'm glad he read it to us.
But in Jeremiah 5 and 25.
He says your iniquities have turned away these things.
And your sins that withhold them good things from you.
Brethren, let's judge what is hindering.
Now when you turn to another verse in connection with that.
2nd Corinthians.
9th chapter and eighth verse.
Oh, this is a precious verse.
2nd Corinthians 9 and eight. Please turn to it and read it.
God is able to make all grace abound towards you.
That ye.
Always having all sufficiency in all things.
May abound to every good work.
He's able, he's willing. What's the hindrance?
All how often it is our own state of soul that hinders the outflowing of the river of His Grace.
For that, right, brother, Brother, hang on, would you give us the word? And we enjoyed in Toronto.
From second Pentagon, first four and the third pistol verse four, please. I was very precious and in keeping with what we've had concerning the Father rejoicing and we're walking in the truth.
Second attempt was John verse four and the third epistle and the 4th, 1St all of those two versions.
2nd Epistle of John and the Verse 4I rejoice greatly.
That I found the five children walking in truth, as we have received the commandment from the fallen.
The third Epistle and the fourth verse.
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk.
In truth.
Yeah, I'm gonna have any gifts. Do that. Have you?
You haven't got to be a great gospel preacher to do that.
And every Christian walked that path.
What do you say, Brother Brown? He asked.
The second John, Third John is walking in the beetroot, yes.
I'm a threatened, as we remarked in Toronto.
It's written after all Asia have turned away from Paul.
For the epistles were written late, very late after Pauls ministry.
I remember, don't forget, a remarkable year old captain triggered Hamilton. There is a British officer in the army.
He said what pleases the general is to see a group.
That stand fast.
When he says the battle is going against against them, but to see a little group standing firm that won't give up, he says that pleases the general. And he says we're in that condition of things now, brother.
Were just a little group in Christendom, that God in these graces recovered the truth to us, and the enemy is attacking it on every side. But there's nothing pleases the man in the glory more than to see a faithfulness that will not give up the truth in the day of declension.
I remember the Bureau captain triggered.
And we have that before us over here when they're reading First Thessalonians.
Yes, First Thessalonians 3 and verse 7.
Therefore, Brandon weeds that Paul himself.
Were comforted over in all our fiction and distance by your faith.
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For now we live if you stand fast in the Lord.
I think referring to 2nd and 3rd jump.
#3 in the left hand width starting the right three.
It is the Father's joy to bless.