Address—C.H. Brown
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Burbank, January 1961, Addressed by Chapter Brown.
The Song of Songs which is Solomon's.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.
For thy love is better than wine.
Because of the Savior of Thy good ointments.
Thy name is as ointment poured forth, Therefore do the virgins love thee.
Draw me, we will run after thee.
The King hath brought me into his chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in thee.
We will remember thy love more than wine, the upright love thee seventh verse.
Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where are thou, fetus? Where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon?
For why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
If thou know not for thou fairest among women.
Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock.
And feed thy kids beside the shepherd's tents.
That's as far as we'll read at this time.
I have it before me this afternoon to.
Speak on the subject of.
Virgins has found in their typical meaning in four different scriptures virgins.
I believe that.
The Virgin in Scripture brings before us holy separation.
Purity, wholly separation.
And here in our third verse.
We get brought before us.
The person of Christ.
And the response on the part of those who possess that virgin character that belongs to the Saints of God.
One is pleased to see.
In spite of the blundering of the.
Those who gave us our King James Bible.
That they did discern in the Song of Solomon.
A picture or a site or a foreshadowing.
Of the precious blessed mystery of Christ and the Church.
Now, perhaps primarily.
It was the earthly bride that was before the mind of the Spirit of God.
But that doesn't detract from the fact.
That those of us who know the truth.
Of Christ and the Church.
We can find in the same portion much.
That delights our soul much for which we can praise the one who gave us this choice, fortune.
In that third verse.
Because of the savour of thy good appointments.
Thy name is as ointment poured forth, Therefore do the virgins love thee.
I would desire to emphasize the importance and the blessedness.
Of the name and the person of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The name is that that represents the person.
It's used so constantly and we understand it in everyday life.
If I go to the bank with a check.
Signed by.
Some reputable.
Businessman.
I present that check at the bank.
Now the check itself is absolutely worthless. It's only a scrap of paper.
Writing on it.
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The check itself is worthless.
The only value it has is the name that's signed to it.
The moment the cashier catches sight of that name.
It calls up in his memory.
The dignity, the standing, the uprightness, the capital, all the qualifications.
That make up the signer of that check as one that's absolutely dependable. His name is to be honored in that bank.
In other words, that signature is as if the man was standing right there behind me.
And telling that cashier to give me $10.
So the name represents the person.
Because of the savour of thy good ointment.
Thy name is as ointment toward forth.
We remember that lovely story in the 12Th of John where Mary.
Anointed the Lord's feet with that precious ointment. And we read that the whole house was filled with the odor of the ointment.
Well, isn't it something like that when we spend an hour together as we did this morning?
Around the Lord Jesus in the midst.
The hymns were about him, about the Lord Jesus.
The excellencies of his person were brought before us over and over again.
Wasn't not likewise true.
In the scriptures that were read to us, it was Christ from beginning to end.
And in the praises that were offered, it was Christ, the loveliness of His person, so again in connection with the remembrance of Him.
It was Christ in the bread. It was Christ and his life given.
In the cup that was before us, Christ, from beginning to end, the the savers of that good ointment were poured forth.
In the 30th chapter of Exodus.
We find there that provision was made for the compounding.
Of a very precious material, perhaps it might be just as well to read the portion.
The end of Exodus 30.
34th verse.
The Lord said unto Moses.
Take under these sweet spices.
Stacking Hanukkah GAIL bound.
These sweet spices with pure frankincense of each shall there be a lightweight.
And thou shalt make a perfume. A perfume.
A confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy.
And thou shall beat some of it very small, and put it before the testimony in the Tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee, It shall be under the most Holy.
As for the perfume which thou shalt make.
Ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof. It shall be under the holy for the Lord.
Whosoever shall make like under that, the smell thereof shall be cut off from his people.
Oh, what a solemn pronouncement.
I would judge from that, beloved.
That is the mind of the Spirit of God.
That we ever remember.
That the person of the Lord Jesus.
Was absolutely unique.
That in him was holiness personified, holiness Incarnate.
He is the Holy One and the True One.
The best that can be expected of the greatest St. that ever lived.
Is just a humble attempt to be imitators of that Blessed One who left us an example that we should follow in His steps.
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Who did?
No sin.
Oh, how wonderful it is.
To seek to be imitators of him in our life and walk.
But if there's one person in this audience this afternoon?
That can stand up here and say.
I have done no sin.
I believe the rest of us would feel heartily sorry for him.
All we would say all that he might get just for for one moment, into the presence of the holiness of the Blessed Lord Jesus Christ.
And realize how the end himself in his flesh dwelleth no good thing.
That by nature.
Were sinners.
But oh, there's been one in this world.
And angels have looked upon him, They've seen him. Heaven has observed him. Man has observed him, Demons have observed him.
And even the demons themselves pronounced in the Holy One.
All beloved, absolute holiness has been here among us in this world.
And that's the pattern that's left for us.
When his name is mentioned, When the loveliness of his person is spoken upon.
When all that goes to make up the grandeur of his work, and word is brought before us.
It's like the pouring out of this lovely ointment.
So in that passage we just read in the 30th chapter.
Of Exodus.
What wonderful perfume that was.
For the lovely odor it must have given as it was poured out.
Yet the solemn pronouncement was.
You make any like it, you'll have to be put to death.
None must be compared to Christ.
It's contrast, not comparison.
He is the one God said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him.
We're living in a day-to-day when there's a definite effort to lower the person of Christ to the level of other great teachers.
I was told by a young man just recently that.
His one time, Pastor told him, in fact, he pronounced it from the pulpit.
That Christ was another Buddha, another Muhammad, another Confucius. That's all he was. Just another one. Perhaps another Gandhi.
Oh, how solemn is the judgment to be upon those that take a ground like that, he shall be cut off from among his people. Thou shalt not make any like unto it.
All let us never forget that the one with whom we have to do.
Is that one before whom seraphim veiled their faces and their feet and cried wholly holy, holy, Holy. Is the Lord God Almighty? Yes, that's the one that's brought before us the holiness, the perfection, the loveliness that's in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now when we mix anything else? Any other conception?
When we try to bring that person down to the level of what is purely and only human.
We're doing violence to the truth of God, and it becomes a thing most obnoxious to God himself.
All let us remember the holiness of that perfume.
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God is jealous about it. He will have no compromise.
You've read this little verse, haven't you?
But the flies of death and the apothecaries ointment causes it to send forth a stinking smell.
The moment you begin.
To mingle with the holy person of Christ.
That which is purely of man, a fallen man.
That that's according to man.
In nature, in his fallen condition, in any way. When you attribute that to Christ, it becomes a hateful conception to him.
The moment you begin to teach that the Lord Jesus Christ.
Had a nature that could sin.
That he was actually tempted to send the way you and I would be tempted to sin.
You're causing the apothecaries ointment to send forth a stinking smell that's abhorrent to the mind of God.
Oh, how jealous we must be in these days of compromise and confusion and frustration in divine things.
How jealous we must be to guard the person of Christ.
Thy name is this ointment poured forth. Therefore do the virgins love thee.
Oh beloved, there's a word there for our consciences.
When do we enjoy Christ?
When we're walking in communion with the mind of Goth.
When we're walking in fellowship with him.
When we're giving him His place, when we're walking in our true virgin character as the redeemed of the Lord, then we enjoy the Lord Jesus Christ.
Did you enjoy the meeting this morning?
As you were gathered around the Lord, did you enjoy it, or was it a board to you?
Did you keep looking at the clock?
And wondering how soon the meeting would be over.
Were you there as a matter of sufferance? Were you there because somebody else wanted you to be there?
I fear if that was true.
That you'd lost your virgin character.
Thy name is this ointment poured forth. Therefore do the virgins love thee.
If you and are going on with God and our souls, and someone is ministering the truth as to the preciousness of Christ.
We're so thankful we're there. We're so happy to be where he is exalted.
In that seventh verse, tell me, O thou who my soul loveth.
Where thou fetus?
Whereas thou make us die, flock to rest at noon.
Oh dear Saints of God, young and old, here is that the language of our hearts.
Do we want him to tell us?
That one whom our soul loveth.
I want him to tell us where he's been, where he feeds, where he makes his flock to rest at noon.
Is that where we want to be? Is that the companionship we're seeking?
And then that question that's asked in the close of that verse, why should I be as one that Turneth aside?
Why should I be? Why should I be as one that Turneth aside?
Oh, there must be a reason.
It would be a good idea just to get on in his presence alone.
And have this out with him.
What's happened, Lord? Why should I be as one that's turning aside?
By the flocks of thy companions.
If thou knowest not all thou fairest among women.
Go thy way by the footsteps of the flocks, and feed thy kids beside the shepherd's fence.
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Beloved, if you want restoration if you want to get this thing straightened out.
Here's the program that's given us by the spirit of God.
Go thy way by the footsteps of the flock. Well, what is the Flock?
Clock is the redeemed of the Lord and those gathered by the Spirit.
Those that are occupied with Christ, where he's the object.
We find our companionship there and there's where he feeds his own beside the shepherd's fence.
You know God gives shepherds. Yes, he does.
The Lord Jesus hasn't left his people without shepherd care.
And in this little assembly here at Fullerton, or whether it's Los Angeles or whether it's.
Sarah Madrid Burbank or Pasadena?
Shepherd care.
To be sure it's failing, yes, it was into the hands of a failing man that the Lord committed, shepherding the sheep, feeding the lambs.
Feeding the sheep, it was into the hands of a failing man.
The Blessed Lord committed that responsibility.
But there is Shepherd Care.
Are you going in your daily life and associations?
Are you are you going where the shepherds are feeding the flock?
Or are you finding your companionship and your association in places utterly foreign to such a spirit? These are searching questions, but they're asked in the chapter that's before.
Now, if we're to get on with our subject.
We'll leave this precious portion and we'll turn over to the 25th of Matthew.
A chapter that's often taken in gospel addresses.
But it's not our thought to approach it from that angle now.
Then shall the Kingdom of heaven.
Be likened under 10 virgins, which took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
And five of them are wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them.
But the Wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
Now this is the present period that we're reading about here.
The Kingdom of heaven is like and under 10 virgins.
10 is the number of human responsibility. It's the responsibility side of things that's brought before us here.
These 10 professed to have that virgin character, that separated character.
They took their lamps profession and they went forth to meet the bridegroom.
That's what every baptized Christian has done. He's taken a lamp.
He's professed to go for to meet the bridegroom.
The professors of virgin character.
Five of them are wise, five were foolish.
Let's not miss this point.
They didn't become foolish. They didn't become careless and drift into a foolish attitude.
They were foolish when they started out. Why were they foolish? They had no oil in their vessels with their lamps.
There was number work of the Spirit of God and their souls at all.
They had an empty vessel.
No oil. And that's what we learned further down in the chapter. No oil. Our lamps are going out. No oil.
Well, I suppose that everybody here in this room this afternoon has a lamp.
I suppose you've made a profession.
I suppose you've been baptized.
But what about it?
Five of them are wise and five were foolish.
They all profess the virgin character.
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But did their lives manifest the virgin character? Oh no, no. There can be a certain amount of invitation, outward conformity to rules and customs.
But after all this matter of being a real virgin?
Of being one truly separated to Christ, of having him as the chief object of the soul's affections.
That can't be imitated.
That's a matter of the heart, and you know the Lord reads the heart. It isn't how we rate among our brethren.
But he knoweth the heart. His word is powerful. It's searching and divides asunder of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It goes right into the inside of everyone of us.
Oh, how good it is just to ask God, as the Psalmist did. Search me all God.
And try me and see if there be any evil way in me and lead me in the way everlasting or to get into His presence for the searching if there's any doubt as to the way that we're going on in our Christian lives.
They went forth.
Meet the bridegroom. It was a life of action of decision.
The taking of the lamb the profession meant that they went into action. They went forth to meet the bridegroom.
Is that what we're doing?
You are live. Show it.
Do we have the character of pilgrims and strangers? I beseech you as pilgrims and strangers abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul? That's the word of God.
New allies manifest that character, new people that observe us from day-to-day seeing us, The Pilgrim character, the stranger character of those that are on the way to heaven.
All that sweet little poem that someone has written about Gershom. That means a stranger, doesn't it? A stranger with such strange ways, a peculiar light in his eyes, a far off look, a kind of a daze unheeding. What round him lies when I ask if he'll now settle down and make for himself a home, he replies he's but waiting each moment for one he expects to come.
I can't put any more of it but.
The theme of it is lovely Gershom, a stranger, not one who settled down to be a part of this poor condemned scene through which we're going at the present time. You know, brethren, it's all ripening up for judgment. You know that, don't you?
You've heard of the Sword of Damocles, haven't you?
It hangs by what? The thread?
And when it drops, it cuts the head off, just a thread holding it there.
That's where this world is.
Sword of Damocles hanging over at the Sword of Judgment. Things are ripening up.
Just this morning.
My brother handed me a clipping from the paper.
Made by.
The Right Reverend Bishop, if I'll use the title that was in the article. The Right Reverend Bishop of the Church.
Making the most blasphemous statements.
As to the truth of God and the person of Christ.
One wonders when he reads such things quietly.
The grace of God permits that man to live another day. These are the days in which we're living, the swords about to fall.
All that we might do, as we find here in the 25th of Matthew.
Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from among the dead.
Christ shall shine upon you.
Oh the sorrow, the path.
Of a spiritual slumber.
At the present time on the part of the Saints of God.
A spiritual slumber?
Gone to sleep.
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The Lord's coming no more before the soul lost all its attraction, just occupied with what's down here. Just going on like the world. How sad that is. Well, the call came when out here these all went to sleep.
But at midnight there was a cry mid but at midnight there was a cry made. Behold, the bridegroom cometh, though. Were you forced to meet him?
That cry has gone forth.
You know, when it went forth.
I believe that the crisis of it, the climax of it, was about 135 years ago.
When the truth of the Lord's imminent coming was recovered.
And for the first time since the days of the apostle Paul.
There was a clear cut, ringing message.
The bridegroom is coming.
Go. You have to meet him. He's coming any moment.
The truth of the Lord's imminent coming was recovered. The truth of the rapture of the Saints was recovered.
And what a mighty effect it had upon the dear children of God.
When you read about those early days of that revival movement.
Your heart is touched, and you feel to acknowledge how far you yourself come from experiencing that same joy that seemed to fill the hearts of those early Saints. Oh, it was a real thing to them, brethren.
They were going forth afresh to meet the bridegroom and they expected him any moments.
They had a right to.
Well, in the 10th verse we find that.
The foolish When the bridegroom came, the door was shut.
They weren't able to enter in. No, they had no oil.
What a rude awakening.
Is awaiting those that have the lamp and have no oil.
A profession without Christ.
Now we can go on to 2nd Corinthians, the 11Th chapter.
Would to God, you could bear with me a little in my folly.
And indeed, bear with me, for I'm jealous over you and godly jealousy.
For I have espoused you to one husband.
That I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
But I fear lest by any means as certain beguiled he through his subtlety.
So your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that's in Christ.
Or if he that cometh preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, Or if you receive another Spirit whom you have not received, or another gospel which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him.
Now the apostle is here.
Pouring out his spirit onto these Corinthian Saints.
And he says I'm jealous over you with a godly jealousy.
You know dear brother and sister here this afternoon.
When an older brother or sister approaches you.
With a kindly word of exhortation.
Or perhaps cause your attention to something in your life that gives him exercise.
You're not just to turn the cold shoulder.
You're not to say. Well, you look after your affairs and I look after mine.
That's not the Spirit of Christ.
Paul was telling these Corinthians Saints that he was jealous over them with a godly jealousy.
Do you know why that brother or sister has an interest in your soul?
It's for the glory of Christ. He has Christ before him. He wants you to enjoy Christ. He doesn't want you to grieve the Holy Spirit.
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And he's come to you in love. He hasn't come to you to pick you to pieces. He's not out trying to defame your character. He's come to you out of an honest and good heart.
And he wants to draw your back into the happy fellowship that perhaps your soul once experienced. Godly jealousy is a wonderful thing. Oh, I don't ever resent it. Don't ever resent it.
When your brethren come to you with burdened hearts.
And they want you to come back into the happy fellowship with the Lord Jesus.
I have espoused you to one husband.
What a sacred thing the spousal is. What a sacred thing it is.
I don't know for sure, but there may be someone in this room here this afternoon that's wearing.
They ring.
On that third finger of the left hand.
And I wonder.
If you are, if you're betrothed.
I wonder what we would think.
If you if we saw you the one wearing such a ring.
Receiving attentions from other young men, keeping company with them, going here and there with them, How would we feel about it?
Why we feel well, that's a strange kind of an espousal. That's a queer kind of love.
We would instinctively condemn it.
But all beloved, if we feel that way about one another.
How do you think the Lord feels when we've been espoused to Him as chaste virgins? We've given our word that we belong to Him, our Savior, the object, the one that's saved us from from hell and judgment to come.
We profess to receive him.
And then he has to look down upon us day after day, and see us flirting with the world.
Having our companionship and our enjoyment was the very ones that crucified him and spat on his face.
Or remember, God holds this world just as responsible.
For crucifying his Son.
For heaping every indignity and ignominy upon him, he holds them just as responsible, as though we were the ones that were there and did the deep.
We have said yes to those that did it. We have applauded them. We've taken sides with them, away with this man.
Until you receive Christ as your Savior.
That's where you are. You were there by proxy.
The whole world was there by proxy. The issues of good and evil came to 1 Grand Conflict and Climax at Calvary's Cross.
Supreme overflowing goodness was there, and the height of man's wickedness through all the ages was there.
And goodness triumphed over evil.
The love of God rose above that awful tide of wickedness that man chose.
God gave his blessed beloved Son to triumph in that hour.
The non beloved, you and I have heard the gospel.
And I suppose the most of us here about the knee we have accepted the fact that we belong to Christ. We have accepted our espousal to Him.
How are we behaving?
Are we true to that espousal? I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ, but I fear.
But I fear.
O heart must have pained the Apostle to pen those words.
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I fear lest by any means.
Oh yes, by any means.
As the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety.
While Satan's had much experience with the human race, he knows man. He knows how to lead us astray.
If you've had any experience in fishing?
I haven't for many years, but I did as a boy.
You don't bake the hook. The same if your feet if you're seeking to catch mountain trout.
That you would if you were seeking to catch the kind of fish that I used to catch in the little Creek that ran through the back of our farm.
No, you bait your hook differently.
Satan's an experienced fisherman. He knows the human heart. He knows what will tempt you and lead you away from Christ.
It may not be the base or loss.
No, It may not be drunkenness or immorality with you. It may not.
But there are other things that he can use to lead you away from Christ and away from the joy of the Lord and get your heart centered in this world. He doesn't make any difference to him if he can rob you Christ, and rob Christ of you.
When he does that, he's working at his profession. He's the deceiver. He's the accuser.
Oh, what a creature he is. And remember, he's real. Don't try to laugh him away.
Or he's real. Satan is a real personality and he has his underlings.
He has his ambassadors, and this world shows that Satan today is in the saddle. It shows that look around you. Oh, what conditions are bound all around us today?
You know, beloved Saints of God.
If we sitting here in this room this afternoon.
Could see thrown.
On the wall behind us in a picture record.
All the awful, horrible wickedness that's gone on in the past 24 hours.
In Southern California, the site would be so sickening, so stupendous, so awful.
That it would be difficult for us to sit here without falling on our faces on the floor, to think that that's the kind of a world we live in.
All there's a matter of awkward respectability.
There is a measure in which the outside of the cup is kept clean, but all within. What a world it is. God knows all about it. Well, you and I have been delivered. We've been espoused to Christ, but all through his subtlety your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that's in Christ.
I want to emphasize that expression, this simplicity that's in Christ.
You young folks here?
Remember that word, the simplicity. That's in Christ.
I feel for you as you're in school these days.
I realize in some little measure what you're up against.
And the only thing I know that's going to save you, that's going to keep you, that's going to deliver you, is the simplicity that's in Christ.
What is that simplicity? Well, I believe it's something like this.
God says it.
I believe it. That's true. God says it. I believe it. That settles it.
Now I believe that program.
Well, enable you to find your way through, regardless of what people try to bring before you that denies the truth is to Christ and the word of God.
Just with the simplicity of a little child, say I believe God's word.
I believe that God says it.
That settles it.
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Or don't try to solve these hard problems.
Don't try to argue with the devil.
No, you'll get nowhere. He loves that. He loves to have you. Argue with him, but just accept the word of God and you'll be kept.
For if he that cometh preaches another Jesus.
Oh, what a day we're living in.
You meet them everywhere.
Professing to preach another Jesus.
Well, there's only one Jesus. There's only one savior.
That name had its origin in heaven. Thou shalt call his name Jesus.
Yes, there's only one, but Satan would like to persuade you there are others.
Now let's go to the 14th chapter of Revelation.
And I looked, and loyal Lamb stood on Mount Zion, and with him in 144,000 having his father's name written in their foreheads.
And I heard a voice out of heaven as a voice of many waters, as a voice of a great Thunder. And I heard the voice of Harper's harping with their harps.
And they sang, as it were, a new song before the throne and before the four living preachers and the elders. And no man could learn that song with 144,000 which were redeemed from the earth.
Now the fourth verse is the one I have before me.
These are they which are not defiled with women.
For they are virgins. These are they that follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.
These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits under God, and to the Lamb.
And in their mouth was found no guile, for they are without fault. Beautiful scene. It's a double scene.
Here in heaven, above, are the voice of Harpers harping with our harps and singing a song of salvation. That's a heavenly scene.
Down on this earth.
Believe our 144,000.
And if I may use the metaphor.
They are tuned in on the same frequency with what's going on above, and they only can learn that beautiful song that's being sung in heaven above.
All beloved Saints of God, what a privilege to be in tune with the music of heaven.
You know, we sang some hymns out of the Little clock hymn book this morning.
But I don't say that we'll take the little flock him look to heaven with us. But I do say we'll take the lovely sentiments.
That we find in that book will take them to heaven with us, that will form the theme of heaven itself, the loveliness, and the beauty and the excellence of Christ.
Oh, that's what's going to fill heaven. Christianity is Christ.
It's not a philosophy. It's not a way of life. It's not a set of rules. Oh no. Christianity is Christ. Come unto me all that labor in their heavy laden. I'll give you rest. Come to me. I'm the light. I'm the way, I'm the truth. Christ Incarnate, personally.
Christ. Well, here are these virgins.
They are not defiled.
They are they that follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.
All, beloved, is that true of us.
I believe that you could safely say that you followed the lamb when you went to meeting this morning.
I believe you've fallen him. I believe was pleased to have you there. They follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.
But all, isn't it? Isn't it tragic? Isn't it sad when you see Saints of God?
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Flocking around the tracks. The miserable trash of this world.
Finding their joy and delight in that, that the ungodly world turns to to drown their guilty consciences and put them to sleep. The opiates that they're trying one after another to help them to forget God, forget eternity, forget death and judgment.
And then Christians the redeemed of the Lord.
Turn the side to this sort of thing.
Oh, how sad it is, how tragic it is. What it's enough to make heaven weep to see such sights as this. But this deer Company here, this virgin company, these are they that follow the lamb whithersoever he goeth.
They were redeemed from among men. Brother, sister, we've been brought out from among men.
We don't belong among them anymore.
The Lord has taken us out out of the world.
We're a heavenly people. We don't belong to the scene around here. We can't join in with its nonsense, with its jargon.
Well, it's infatuation. No, we're a heavenly people. Oh yes, the Lord has called us out of the world. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Well, if we're not in the world, where do we belong?
We're heavenly citizens.
Redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God, and to the Lamb.
Heaven.
Is jealous over every dear St. of God.
You know that heaven?
God, Christ has been thinking about you today. Think of.
Why he He bears all his people on his shoulders and on his heart.
The names are all their equalities. Own sheep by name. And whether your name is Charles or James or George or Dan or whatever it is, he knows your name. He bears all these people's name upon his heart. He never forgets. He never slumbers nor sleeps.
And in their mouth was found no guile.
Double talk. They were simple believers, trusting and loving their blessed Lord.
Oh, how wonderful to belong to a company like that.