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Gospel chapter 10 and verse 7.
Then, Sir Jesus, one of them again, burly, burly. I say it to you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door by me. If any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pastures.
That he cometh not both for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am calm that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the Good Shepherd, The Good Shepherd given his life for the sheep. But he that is in hireling, and not the shepherd whose home the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leave with the sheep, and flee it and the wolf.
Scatter at the sheep a hireling fleet, because he is an Harley and careth not for the sheep. I am the Good Shepherd, and know my sheep, and unknown of mine, as the Father knoweth me. Even so know I the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. Another sheep I have which are none of this fold.
Then also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, And there should be one block or false, and one shepherd.
Therefore does my father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man take it from me, and I lay it down of myself.
I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment I received in my father. It was the division, therefore among the Jews for these things, and many of them said he had the devil and his mad. Why hear ye him?
Others said, These are not the words of him that hath the devil, and the devil opened the eyes of the blind. And it was at Jerusalem, and the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. And Jesus walked the temple in Solomon's porch. Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long does thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believe not.
The works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness in me. But ye believe not, because you're not of my sheep. As I said unto you, My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
My father, which gave them me, is greater than all. No man is able to pluck them out of my father's hands.
I and my father are one.
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father, For which of these works do you stole me? The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stole Milan, but for blasphemy, and because that thou being a man, make us thyself God. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law? I said, your God?
If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken, say ye of him whom the Father hath sanctified?
And sent him to the world, thou blasphemous, because I said I am the Son of God.
I do not the worst of my father, believe me not.
But if I do, though you believe not me, believe the worst, that he may know, and believe that the Father is in me, and I in him. Therefore they sought again to take Him, but he escaped out of their hand, and went away again beyond Jordan, into the place where John at first baptized. And there he evolved. And many resorted unto him, and said John did no miracle, but all things that John's think of this man were true. And.
Believed on him there.
I suggest we try to move along in this chapter. We haven't covered many verses.
Stick to the passage.
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Commented on 7th, didn't we?
Yes, we can. We can really go beyond that.
Shall go in and out.
It's very interesting that in is mentioned 1St and then going out and then it says and shall find pasture. I don't think that that is so much connected with going out. There are three things to meet anyway presented here and.
They're going in. It has sometimes been used in this way. We go into the presence of God.
You know, as worshippers and and priests.
And this is of utmost importance, the order. And then they're going out, you know, with the gospel and ministry, whatever. But it has to come from the place of having been with Christ, having been in. And what we find in Christendom service is stressed.
Faiths that have just been converted are pushed into service.
I always associate that with him used to point out that that you was not expected to go to war when he had built a house or when he had gotten married. You know, for years he was extended. He had to come into the enjoyment of his possession before he was to go out to fight. But then also.
To find pasture to feed our souls. These three things worship service.
And then feeding our own souls how important these things are, and feeding in the pasture that the Lord has taught His people.
You know, like in the book of Ruth, Ruth was instructed not to go through another field. You know, there was a place where she was to bleed and where she was in a place of protection.
That ninth verse, I am the door. He's really the door of entrance now into the full blessings of Christianity. He said these words, of course, before he had done the work which would be the basis for the for this all to be accomplished, which was across his death and resurrection.
Finance a picture of what would follow his death and resurrection.
So he says by me, if any man enter in, enter in through that door into the into the new position. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. There's a new creation, old things are passed away. All things have become new. So that's what we have in in Christianity, all things becoming new. It says he shall be saved.
He understand he shall be saved. He comes into the full blessing of salvation.
Which is far more than just a new birth getting born again. We have the common expression to that's used throughout Christendom to determine that the person is is saved but.
You're very, very rarely hear them say is he saved? Why they don't use that expression. That's what's used in Scripture so often. He shall be saved. That's something far beyond just having a new life that's being brought into a new place and a new standing, a new position.
In Christ then it says he should go in and out and find the pastor. So once he's brought into the new order of things in Christ and then he amplifies that in the next verse. He says defeat cometh not before the steel and to kill and to destroy I am come that they might have life and that they might have it abundantly. Take the word more out that implies that the Old Testament Saints had.
Life and we just have it more abundantly. But that's not the truth here is that they have life and we have abundant life. They have life in the power of the Holy Spirit and in a new position in Christ, risen from the dead.
Which is what saved refers to. How did he save us? Titus three says by the washing of regeneration. That's a change of position, taking us out of Adam and putting us in Christ. By the washing of regeneration. Just like when the children of Israel went through the Red Sea, they were saved. They weren't saved in Egypt. They were saved in Egypt under the blood. And they weren't saved until they crossed the Red Sea and they could look back and see all their.
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Dead on the seashore, Pharaoh and all his hosts destroyed. Hebrews 2 Says that through death he destroyed him and had the power of death that is the devil, and delivered them, set them free, save them that through poor death were all their lifetime subject to *******. So there weren't really a saved people in Egypt, and they were safe under the blood, but not until they crossed the sea. And that's what the Washington regeneration speaks of, isn't it?
He saved us by the Washington regeneration. They were delivered out of the old and brought into the news. And then it says, and by the renewing of the Holy Ghost. So there's a new life that goes with that. And then it says which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior. That's the abundant life that he's talking about here. The Spirit of God's being shed upon us. Not just that we're renewed by the Spirit, which was Old Testament truth, but we have.
And were renewed by the Spirit and then he's been given to us abundantly to be the the spring John Thor. There should be a fountain of water springing up the dual lasting life. That's life in the Spirit, isn't it? The Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the loss in death.
That's full Christian position.
Springing up in worship in chapter 4 and the source of power in service in Chapter 7. How to put belly shall flow rivers of living water. This is not understood. Unfortunately, some among together things do not understand the difference between new birth and eternal life and the 10th of Acts.
Chose a man who was obviously born again.
But he needed to hear words by which he was to be saved. You find that in Chapter 11. And what ought to occur when you read Peters message to him? He presents the person and work of the Lord Jesus.
You know, and when that is received by faith, the Spirit comes and it dwells. Now people ask the question to make it sound complicated.
Didn't they have life before the Spirit of God came through them? Yes, but the life takes on a new character when the Spirit comes to indwell that person. Because eternal life does not just mean that it is a life that never ends.
But it's a quality of life and that is associated with knowing God is Father, this is life eternal. That they might not be the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent. Salvation in the New Testament sense goes way beyond New earth. You could never refer to any Old Testament saying as a Christian.
But they were all born again. But a Christian is one who is indwelled with the Spirit of God. What constitutes you and me a Christian?
Is not only that we have life. Sure we couldn't be a Christian without having new birth first of all, but what constitutes you and me a Christian is that the divine guest in drought is Bobby and that's the Holy Ghost. And that makes me a Christian and that makes me different from every St. that ever lived before the Spirit of God came to indwell the church collectively and the individual believer individually.
You get that thought and just look at it in Galatians 4.
And I'll read from verse one. Now I say that the air as long as he is a child, give her nothing from a servant, though he be Lord of all that he has. He has title to everything, but he's just a child. So he doesn't differ from a servant. Now that's really a picture of the of the status of Old Testament Saints. They were in the position of children.
But he's under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the Father. Even so, we we Jews, when we were children, were in ******* under the elements of the world.
They were under the law, but when the fullness of the time was come, God set forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them. That were under the law that we agree to might receive the adoption of sons. Now we're now replaced as sons before himself. We're not just children.
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Under tutors and governors differing nothing from the servant, but now in the place of sonship adoption and then he says in verse six, bringing in the Gentiles and because you indeed referring to the Gentiles our sons God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying have a father.
Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son stalking. Now the Jewish believers that you're not a servant for the son. And if the son America through Christ. So that's the that's the difference. It's the same light. It's not a different light. It's the same life that we got when we were born again that the Old Testament Saints had. It's the same life. It's divine life.
But it's life now, in the fullness and power of the Holy Spirit.
And in association with Christ in resurrection and in his ascension, redemption being accomplished.
As was said, being able to call God our Father. And that was all new, That was all.
Christianity, isn't it?
Might get an example in John one of.
Going out, go in and out.
Verse 14.
And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.
And we beheld this glory, you know, the glory as of and only begotten from with the Father.
The only begotten of the Father, that is.
He comes out.
And he, he veils over his glories as we speak. You know, their glories is intrinsic glories he built. But here is something you can't bail over with the elders, Laura.
And the expression, as I understand it, Lens thought that he brought with him and exhibited.
Savor and tone in the presence of the Muslim Father.
That's what they saw in him, as one who had just says it were stepped out of the bosom of the fall. He couldn't veil that.
Didn't bail that.
Now in our chapter.
Again, it was mentioned earlier versus 14 and 15.
I believe it's this way in the new test. In the new translation, the end of verse 14 says and am known of mine as the Father knoweth me.
That is, we are brought in then this new position.
Into the very heart.
Was McDonald's? Well, it was in Christ.
And our Christianity should find its home, Larry, should. Our souls should be at home, say.
And it exceeds all that ever was contemplated in the Old Testament.
Not only of life. Do you like that? It is.
Is a life that was with the Father.
All his desires to go back there.
And going in into that for my own soul that is enjoying what I have in Christ.
In the coming out will be in the same sense as he came out and it would be something you can't hide, you can't bail it over a glory of his.
That he couldn't bail over that they saw.
Well see, that's what he would bring you and me into.
Everything that God is manifested, we see God manifest in flesh. There's no reservations with God for you and me. He opens out his whole heart, all his thoughts, everything he feels and thinks open to you and me.
And gives us that interest. And what do I think I've got to go work my way or buy my way in or something? No, it's in Christ. And the power of the Spirit of God is not only to set me free from sin that it is.
But always to fill my heart, all that fine. I'm very hard at God. That's my place now. I'm accepted in the beloved and going in there now and coming out.
Coming out there like the Lord Jesus seen the Word made flesh, he comes out.
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And he sets forth those things well, in contrast to this one liberty, we have an access to know our God.
We have.
Hirelings.
We have sheep foes. See some places bucket the sheep off so they don't get into the heart of God.
Just remember, you know, if you're reading ministry and it comes in the camp, it's ministry to keep the sheep quiet away from heart of God because it will lead a milder fold if it doesn't. It gives them the truth and the liver that we have is being Christians is for every believer, every believer who has that nothing special.
Has that access.
And whenever we're gone, the Spirit of God goes with us. He won't be indwelling those things in the Tribulation period. They won't have this inference in access.
They won't be in wealth of the Spirit of God. I think that right.
Right, so only us. This day of grace, this church is pride.
As his entrance right into everything that he has there is man it says he shares with us. But brother Bill, that passage you put it in John, one that could be held his glory, the glory as as of an only begotten from with a father.
We'll let me share that's a unique glory which only he has. He is the only he got him son and he's alone. He's alone. We will not show. Thank you. It's the it's the it's the pictured example you get of of something couldn't hide when he came out. If we go in, we will come out with that which can be here. We can say it this way. We will share everything that is possible.
To share.
But that's beyond the creature. Amen. That's right. That's the portion of the eternal Son of God.
You would certainly agree that there is some food for the sheep even in the camp, don't you think so? Oh, I would certainly agree. There's food for the sheep in the camp, food to leave them in the in the fold. Yeah, that's true. But I'm sure that the Lord in a sovereign way and there are faithful men there.
Who do feed the sheep according to the measure of understanding that they have. And so I just thought that remember when Joshua was complaining that they were both assigned in the camp, you know, and Moses, the answer was we wish they all would cause the side. So let's be thankful for whatever faithfulness there is.
Out there, and God sees to it.
That his sheep are fed and maybe we sometimes have to hang our head in shame that there is very little food for the sheep among those gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus. But I'm not trying to do away with the danger of staying there because they're attracted to those men who do have something to offer.
Which is indeed feeding their souls, but it must not be made.
It must be Christ you know and I enjoy too. Let me share with you this God and tell me if I'm wrong, that the thief comes and his purpose is to steal and to kill.
Is he Ely permitted to kill? The Lord won't allow him to kill, right? But then we see the wall.
He comes and he catches them and scathers them. But again, the language used assures that he's not going to destroy them, you know, but he can scatter them. And we have seen the effects of the wolf.
Gathering the sheep.
We see it all the time.
But to me, it is encouragement, encouraging to see he is not committed to kill. You know, he's not committed to really destroy the souls of the sheep, even if he succeeds to scatter them. That's what he would do if he could. Those are the things that he's striving for. But he can't stand this.
You're going to ice days old if we're near enough to Christ, He cannot accomplish any of his evil designs.
He has no power to the Christian at all if we stay close enough to Christ and.
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You don't have to fear him if you walk close to the earth.
You know the.
Hireling and the thief. Two different things, yes.
God and His sovereignty will take care of me if you He will never let us.
Has nothing to do. It does not weaken the character of a hireling, nor of a Pope.
The Devil finds opposed a very happy thing. He knows right where to go.
It's a very, it's a very convenient thing. A bowl is for a thief. You know where the sheep.
The character the foe. The character the hireling.
Is not weakened or change any form by the sovereignty of God that features aren't sheep. He's gonna be fighting anything.
But again, to view these things.
I view a hiring of someone who is entrapped, deceived by a hireling. What is he missing? He's my brother.
Christ has died to open everything out in glory to this one.
And there's somebody who's got him in a fold and he's not without his responsibilities.
To see that Fold should have its true character to my soul as the damage is doing to my brother who is in traffic there.
I'd like to ask you a question, a picture of one of these Harleys.
21 after name and the leper, and he took a reward. Would that relate to what you're telling us? Would that be a picture of it? I don't know.
Because it says that he was the.
The judgment that Elijah gave him was that he would be a leper, white as snow, and Leviticus 13 tells me that the man that was elaborated snow was pronounced clean.
And I've always thought that this is a character, a character that's displayed of covetousness on the part of that man. And if I missed the path of faith, I may be like a servant of Elijah who would represent Christ. But go about.
Increase general and I don't think that that is characteristic of all those who hire themselves out to preach. You know, there are those who indeed preach free salvation and salvation by grace, but in his eye.
Spoiled the picture that salvation was free. That's what was the wicked, but that's the character what's in the camp around us in many places. Thank God it's exceptional, but I think we had that earlier, but it says the ironically it because he's entirely and careth not to the sheep and John tells us that if we don't love the children of God, we're not his.
That would imply to me that the person doesn't have nature.
The hireling doesn't care for the sheep. If you have a divine nature, you're going to care for the sheep. I know a man that pastors a small church in our area. He earned a living by laying park. You know he isn't in what he is in to make money.
No, I admire the man. You know he's wrong in accepting the position of a pastor over a church, but I believe he laborers for the law and he's not out for the buck.
He won't be where he is. Can be what the in the garbage translation. The hiring was translated search for wages. He's not searching for wages. He's serving the Saints and making his money elsewhere.
Would money be the only way?
To whom we all honor, Oh no, many things say to love, to honor, honor, respect, respect.
There are wages that it's a place. He wants a place.
But in this passage, the hiring is one that's serving for the money.
Places but his money the only way he did that.
In this passage, yes.
To get his weekly picture.
Wait, what? I made it though. I want to give him the give him a drink of water.
Regardless, I want to exalt Christ.
If I tell of Christ I'm giving a drink of water, I don't know.
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I think we're a very dangerous ground that we try to determine who out there to save and who is the septimity 2 Says the Lord is. Our responsibility is not to try to dissect and determine if he's saved or not. I've been asked like, is Jimmy Baker saved you? I don't know. The word knows that.
And these other men, they, they have to answer to him, not to me. In my opinion, it doesn't mean anything anyway, because I don't know. Neither do you. God knows. But what is our responsibility? That everyone in the name of the name of Lord, depart from an injury that we can't do. And if the Saint of God is involved in what is unrighteous and iniquity, they depart from it. I don't have to say, well, he's saying to God, I can't depart from him. No, I don't have to determine that. I just separate from either. That's very simple, isn't it, you know?
Pray for Mr. Spurgeon and his ministry. They were thankful for his ministers.
So let's be careful. Every servant standard falls to his own master, and I personally believe there are many who truly love the Lord and want to serve the Lord and they're in the wrong position and they don't understand the truth. It's a different thing. We met a man in California after the conference.
Boston, Germany. And we were relaxing at the Hot Springs and he was there. His wife is from California. He gave him Bruce's book on God's Order, and he read in it for five hours and he came out and he said that he was a man that was preaching in the Bible schools. You know, he was going around the freelancers and he said, I agree, I agree. That's the truth of Scripture, but people don't want it.
But I said to me, brother, can't we practice it?
Is it still not possible to be practiced? But you see, the man would lose his job if he were. There's a different situation. The man acknowledges the truth yet is not willing to practice it. Now many out there who do not understand it and they truly love the Lord. And I'm thankful that there are doors that feed those people, although they might be in a wrong position. Well, that's what the Jews said about the word Jesus. They said if we let this man alone.
He will take away both our place.
And our nation.
Actually their nation is under the color of Rome, and if they let him alone and he had gained the.
The the leadership was king then he would have set them free, but they weren't in a moral state to receive them. But their first concern was he'll take away our place.
Bread and truth, truth of God, it really is. It's not our truth. It's the truth of Scripture was accepted by the clergy. They would lose their jobs. They lose their jobs.
And the system is a result of the enemies work.
Systems of men are not God's work.
Devil's work.
And he would have us kept out of our true portion.
We're talking about principles that can affect you and me if if wages do not only mean money.
But they mean something else that I'm looking for from my brethren, or from being gathered, or from some level of knowledge of truth, some recognition of some sort.
It's the same principle that entrapped them. We're not exempt from these things. Let us go forth unto him without Him. Then when we get there, he's outside there. There was a place right in the center of the camp of Israel.
Right in the pure sin of the camp that was outside the camp. It was a little cute inside the oldest ball. No one can go there.
Outside the camp.
And for you and me outside, the camp is inside the same The blood that was offered inside the bodies were burned outside.
And this being outside is inside. We have an in and an out. We have an indigo in.
All that God is manifested in Christ.
And the systems that exist around.
They have a negative effect on our brethren who were there.
And I once said to a man.
Can't have love without hate.
I love you. I'm going to hate whatever is against you.
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God says the works of Nicolaitans I hate.
We can't let the presence of our brethren water down the real truth about what these systems are, and they ride on the back of hire links.
Save your loss is not my question to determine whether saved or lost. Actually rewarding them is not my problem either. I can't say he's a faithful servant insofar as he is. Like, I don't know.
But the truth of the matter is isolating the work of the enemy from the work of God.
We need to honor the work of God, and all that we've got is His.
Set aside completely the work of the deaf and don't let them get confused in our understanding.
That's good, but you just said.
The you have to make a distinction between wonders of God and what is of the enemy, the constant reformation.
As it came by the spirit of God recovering the truth of the all sufficiency of this book justification by faith, apart from works that was worth the Spirit of God. That was the word of the spirit of God. May I say in as much as yes.
But to just make a blanket statement that that whole thing was a word of the devil is going way too far. It started out by a work of the Spirit of God recovering 2 precious truths. Bible is the all sufficiency for our faith and for our salvation. Justification like they applied for words both of which.
The Council of Trent by the Roman Catholic Church rejected and became apostate body from that time forward.
They are in a ***** but because they have rejected the truth that was recovered at the Reformation, let's not call the truth that was recovered the Reformation were decision. It was not. It was the work of God. It's interesting that to note that historically the Protestants were as much against John Wesley as the Catholics when he was preaching the gospel of salvation by grace. They both were trying to kill him in his day.
That is, it had dropped right back to where it started from.
But the truth is the truth wherever you find it. A Christian is a Christian wherever you find it.
Presence or what he says, make wrong right no more than the right can make.
Wrong. It won't work.
I hope we're getting down to say this.
We need to hold the truth in love.
That is, I got it. It'll only be there in love.
I must love my bread and wherever they are. I can't love them truly if I'm going to be.
Not hating those things that are against them.
They're holding them out of what their true portion is. Christ is the definition of their fortune. It's like it is for me and you. And if I think that they're the only ones in danger of not entering into our portion.
Deceived. I am in danger, Let.
US go forth without the camp, let us have Christ as our portion and not go back, as we heard this morning, to the things that belong to a veil over the presence of God, because that is characterized as Judaism is available.
Over the entrance to the presence of God here in our chapter going in I have enjoyed the thought that going in is stated for us as and have known of mine as the Father knows me is a power of light that belongs there. That's his home, eternal life. It was with your Father. There's a power in the God himself, the Holy Spirit dwelling in us to bring us into that as our place of life.
It's possible because they are Citizenship is in heaven to bring us there, to live, to draw our life from there, to shape our lives from that place, that the glories of that place should form our character, form our lives as we walk down here. Nothing less than that will make us.
Like Christ, we with open face, behold one room are transformed.
Now the camp you mentioned.
And figures that we should go outside here. We have read about the old. It's really the same thing.
And what you find in prison them is that people have really not followed the leading of the Good Shepherd outside of this legal fold or outside the camp. You know, because that fold was not only illegal closure, the law of Moses, there was also a system where they were a select group of people that were servants in the sanctuary and the rest of them could not enter.
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You know, the clergy system was taken from that.
System so really when you extend carefully where our president Christ fail in the systems of men is that they have not turned their back on what is being Jewish in origin and nevertheless.
The practices that they have maintained or reintroduced in their origin in the legal Jewish system and people ought to come out now. It has been on my mind. Is is verse in Hebrews 13 we have an altar of which day they served the Tabernacle have no right to eat. That's quite a strong statement, isn't it?
You know, in other words, there was a time when the Lord walked graciously with the Jewish believers who had difficulty seeing there was no more value in the Jewish system, but after it had all been proven in Hebrews that whatever they considered valuable.
And precious in that system had no more value, because they had that of which these things were attacked, and that's Christ.
Now, after this is all brought before them, they are told, if you continue to remain at the altar in Jerusalem, you have no right to meet of the feet of the order from which we.
I think this is something that should be weighted. The Lord expects people to believe that just like he leads the sheep out of the pole, he also wants his own to leave the camp, the Jewish camp, and go on to him. He's an Indian, you know, he's a part of it.
If he would be part of it, we would have to be there, you know. But he's outside of it. Therefore we go on to him.
Bearing his growth, there is still reports connected with walking in the truth and turning our back on that which is unscriptural, which has its origin and Judaism, you know, and they will call us proud and conceited and all these kinds of things. There's no time connected with following to the word of God.
There is pride connected with thinking that we can act contrary to the Word of God.
And adhere to a system that is not supportable in scripture. That is prime because the man says he knows better than God.
You put that verse in the 13th of Hebrews, brother. I think it's good to be very emphatic about the beginning of what you quoted it the 10th verse it says we have an altar.
Now the question to the young. So what's that?
Well, on Sunday morning we have the ambulance of the death of Christ. Christ in death is what we're gathered to. Will you call that the altar that we have for the position that we take as being gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ? But what do we have? The Lord says as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you show my death till I come. Now is that the counterpart to what that verse is about?
Because we have an altar, Isn't Christ the altar?
He's the sacrifice, He's the priest, he's the author, he's everything that's recited. In one sense, we have an empty altar because the work is already finished. And what corresponds to that is what we have in the following verses. But by him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifices of praise to God continually. That is the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. That corresponds to the golden.
It was found in the Tabernacle, not the brazen altar. And then it also says, but to do good, and to communicate and forget not. But with such sacrifices. God is wealthy. In Hebrews 10, He offered Himself once for sin, and put away our sins completely. In contrast to the many, many, many, many offerings of the Old Testament and the many authors that they had multiplied to sin. We have one altar of Christ, one word.
You stand before God and the value of that and it will never be repeated. Chuck, would you agree with this, that the altar also in one sense stands for the principles of conviction sacrifices?
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Can you elaborate on that as well? See the.
Jewish altar because the Jews became.
Or came in contact with that author if he wasn't decreased to the fees off right and the peace offering there speaks of the fellowship that exists between Jews that brought sacrifices and so the altar.
Speaks of the fellowship that exists, you know.
In connection with our fellowship with Christ, you know so.
Someone might be more eloquently expressed, but that's very similar to what Ernie was saying. Yeah. By him, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually. By him, He's he's our altar. And it's, it's the principles of Christianity now that govern our worship and not principles of Judaism. But we also know that the Lord's table, of which the peace offering is the closest in the Old Testament.
Speaks of the Lord's Table, you know, the unity that exists. Think of the altar of 12 Stones, you know, Speaking of the 12 tribes of the nation of Israel, although they were divided, he didn't accept it. You know, He brought and set up an altar that spoke of the unity of the people of God.
And in that sense?
And helps us to understand that there is more.
Than just the Lord Jesus himself that it speaks of it speaks also of the unity of God's people now as Christians united in one you know we come together to not only express the truth that the Lord Jesus died for us we at the Lords Cable express the truth there is one body you know and.
So the principles upon which we come together, even when we remember the law that is connected with the truth, there is one body.
And then somewhat like when you get to before close, they get to the thought of out.
Go in.
Come out, go in.
And we come out, there won't be anything that we have brought out. Everything here will have to fall in place according to what we saw in in the presence of God.
So going in there and enjoying the thoughts of God there in Christ, enjoying God in the intimacy of the being in Christ Jesus, then coming out, I won't be holding principles that don't suit that place.
Those principles will be established based on where is it all leading to go to him.
And won't be pastured. That's not related to that place or it's going in and out and find the pasture they're all connected to what feeds us along the way is that which is going to take me all the way up to glory. It's it's characterized by the end. It was mentioned earlier that's mentioned first go in then coming out to where I walk down here.
And my testimony in, as we mentioned the Gospel, but it's also.
In all my wealth down here is a testimony that is related to that it takes its character and its form of what's in.
That is seen in my life out and the food I have is food all the way home and find passenger life abundantly. It's that life that finds it has no limit except God Himself. It's still very life of Christ. It's eternal life. I give unto them eternal life and nothing less.
Would suit his heart a lot less would suit my heart, but nothing less than that would suit the heart of God.
Going to be there to his joy, not only to mine. And if he had withheld anything from you and me, he'd never be happy about it because love isn't happy to hold it. So being in the presence of God according to his delights and his joys that should form my life belt here in my my pathway. And then if there's a principle that someone would suggest that would have some limit lasting than a believer being in Christ in the presence of God.
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I see. By the way, it won't it it doesn't give me my access there.
But the problem is not going in, you see, to have something that can encourage believers and help them along and give a lot of things that are truth to the life and the path down here and praise the Lord if they get played by. But the truth portion for every Christian is the very presence of God and St. intimacy.
That the Lord Jesus had said.
Now the time is up, but we should make records to the fact that he laid down his life and he took it again.
Now, there's a tremendous truth connected with that, and that is that the Word of God presents the resurrection in two ways.
Was raised by the glory of the Father, and then as we have it here in John 10, that He takes that life again. Why is that? Because He's presented to you as the Son of God. You know, He lays down His life. He takes it again and triumphantly.
Support from the grave because he's the Son of God and all justification is connected.
With him being raised by the glorious of Father.
You know, God has given proof that the work has been accepted, but what a wonderful person the Lord Jesus is that he can lay down his life for the sheep, and that he can, in his own power, in virtue of him being the Son of God, take that life.
That's the blessed Lord, our state.
Say no, man, Take it. That's from me. I'll lay it down on myself. I have power to lay it down, a power to take it again. But who did he have and view what he did?
She and I love to think of a little chorus that says she laid down his life for the sheep. His shepherd, so kind, had me in his mind when he laid down his life for the sheep. It's nice to be able to think about it sometimes too.
Let's sing. We'll sing it with Shepherd. Good night.
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