A. Barry
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Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord.
To write the same things to you, to me, indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
Beware of dogs. Beware of evil workers, beware of the circumcision.
For we are.
The circumcision which worship God in the Spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. So I might also have confidence in the flesh if any other man thinketh that he hath, or else he might custom the place I mourn.
Circumcised the.
The staff of the Israel.
The charge of Benjamin.
And Hebrew of the Hebrews as touching the law of Pharisees concerning zeal persecuting the Church.
Touching the righteousness which is in the law of plainness.
About things were gained in me.
Well, I promised love Christ.
Leave out this and I count all things of loss.
For the Excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus.
My Lord.
For whom I have suffered the loss of all things.
And we tell them.
And I may win press.
And we found in him not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ.
The righteousness which is of God by faith.
I may know him.
And the power of his resurrection.
And the fellowship of his suffer.
He may conform to more unto his death, if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Not as though I had already attained.
Either we're already person but our power curious that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended.
We are Christ Jesus, but in our not myself who have apprehended.
But that's one thing I do.
Forgetting those things which are behind.
And reaching forth under those things which are before.
I pressed towards.
For the prize.
Are the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Let us therefore as many as the perfect.
He was reminded.
And if in any venue, the otherwise minded.
God shall reveal even this unto you nevertheless.
Well, until we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule.
Let us mind the same thing, Let them be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as you have us for an example where many walk of whom I fool you often.
And I'll tell you even we can.
They are the enemies of the cross of Christ.
Was under destruction.
With God in their belly.
Whose glory is in their shame behind earthly things.
For our conversation of citizenship is in heaven.
For once also, we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Who shall change of our body, that it may be fashioned like that? His glorious body?
According to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
In our after last night, the 2nd chapter of Philippians.
We found their Christ.
Are examples.
Of Christ, of pattern.
In the chapter we have just read the 3rd chapter of Philippians.
We have priced our object.
Now that I would, we need both.
Christ for our patterns, and we also need Christ.
Or up.
When the children of Israel were in the wilderness.
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God said them with manna.
He rained bread from hell.
That they had to gather every morning.
And the Lord tells us that.
What manner was just a picture of himself?
For he said, I am the bread come down from heaven.
That a man made thorough and not dark.
Well then, after they had crossed the Jordan.
They on the other side of Georgia.
The old corner of the land.
Garden of the Titan of the Death of Christ.
And on the other side of death and judgment.
Now play.
Governs hopefully had not in the wilderness, and that was the old corn of the land.
And that whole corner of the land pictures what we have in the third of Philippians.
It's not object that God has provided.
In other words, Christ and glory. It opted for our souls.
So it was the old corner of the landfall. God's brightest flock from all eternity has been to have a glorified man, his own Son, at his right hand.
Well, we saw last night how needful it is.
To have a perfect pattern.
The ways of our blessed Lord, who humbled Himself.
Word 7 steps downward until he came to the cross.
Where he laid down his life.
One of the law was as it was possible to go.
Well, we need that instruction. We need to have his life and all. How wonderfully the Spirit of God has brought that light.
Why do our souls?
And the four gospels especially.
But we also need the love of an object for our souls.
And now everyone has some kind of an object.
Maybe a bum on the railroad you have the best object he has is counting the tires as he walks down the track, but still he has some kind of an object.
Variable and.
And the distressing as it is.
Well, what is our opportunity?
Not a question.
As we were singing.
Have I often Lord the Lord?
That would come between my soul.
And my blessed Lord.
God has given us friends a perfect object.
For the very object that satisfies his own heart.
Whenever on the mount of Transfiguration.
As a father's voice comes from the excellent glory, saying, This is my beloved son.
In whom I have found all my delight.
And then he says to the disciples, Hear him.
And much else to say that Blessed One has satisfied every desire and longing of my heart.
And surely that's enough to satisfy the desires of your heart. Then, my wonderful friends, not only to have a pure and poorly obvious, but to have an object.
That never disappoints us.
And all together that satisfies these hearts of ours supremely.
For our blessed Lord.
Are there Saints of God will never disappoint us?
We will never follow some needless gear and all have.
The Greenway. He loves us.
He loves us with a love that was stronger than death, that many waters could not drown.
I've asked the object.
The Spirit of God is gained before us.
In this third chapter of.
And it opens in this way. Finally, brethren, rejoice in the Lord.
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Now he has spoken in the 1St chapter of rejoicing that the Gospel was preached.
And he has mentioned that they could rejoice at the fall of his being released from prison and being among them again.
And then in the 2nd chapter we find rejoicing, because his labor was not in vain in the Lord, and he did them rejoice, and he would rejoice with him.
But now he goes a little farther here, and he says, Rejoice in the Lord.
Finally, brothers, my brother, rejoice in the Lord, and when you get to the 4th chapter, he says again, rejoice in the Lord always. And again I say rejoice.
There are times when we can't rejoice in our circumstances.
For times when we can't rejoice because we're well and healthy.
There are times when we can't even rejoice in some of our brethren.
They can disappoint us.
But I can assure you this.
As you can always with Jocelyn Lawson.
What a wonderful thing to have in times of sickness and times of trial and greed.
Are it's wonderful our minds?
With that peace, that satisfaction, God, deep repose.
So let's ever rejoice in the Lord.
He says to write the same thing to you, to me indeed, is not grievous.
But the urine is safe.
I heard Brother Hill tell one time about being in a place and rather be staying with Gallup another day. He was going to speak tonight. I'm not to hear him.
Man sat over the forest.
Has he not heard something new?
He turned to Reverend Hale. He said, telling no, that it will be the old, old story.
Says I'm not coming.
That's hard to say and not to be expected. That man was thrown away from the large table out in the world.
We don't want to be like those that are.
Where? At Athens, who spent their time with nothing but to hear or to tell some new things.
Oh, that's a Jesus world and.
And you could pay last this front age in which we're living.
Hanging out with something new, getting to the moon or doing some spectacular thing or telling your mind maybe someday we'll get to Mars some, you think.
Well, fans.
That which shall we learn of our blessed Lord and the hopes we have in Him.
There's not something that we haven't heard before. There isn't one in this company here that hasn't heard.
Over and over again about the personal returns of our blessed Lord through our hearts. Get tired of hearing of that wonderful event. You will get weary of hearing repeated. The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout.
I can say this in nature, never lose.
Of that wonderful event that is approaching so rapidly. And old thinker appears infinite love to us.
That wasn't letting him to a sufferer the awful judgment of a righteous God.
When he was forsaken there on Calvin.
Either tells us whom, having not seen He loved and won't allow, we see Him not yet believing He rejoiced with joy unspeakable.
And pull it below in.
So it didn't really be impossible to tell over and over again.
Things so well known among God's children, and he said that for you is saved, for the Lord of God does keep us.
That deserves us. It keeps us from here. It keeps us from turning aside and allowing our own thoughts and wisdom to carry us a straight those precious troops.
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As often as God allows those truths to come before us.
Very far. Beware of dogs.
The Goddess has the dogs.
Are rulers who stand around and bark at the inconsistencies of Christians.
Well, we'll always find just such dogs everywhere we go.
As the poor method will thing, isn't it? And all who have nothing better before them than to enlarge and magnify their failures and the inconsistencies of Christians.
With us all that.
All they have, we just as well act as the Apostle says here to avoid.
Beware of them.
Where of evil workers beware of a concealed and they said we are the circumcision.
Sorry, contrast between the conversation and the circumcision is this.
The conversation is turning up and tuning the old trees.
That is the old nature.
7 Assuring walk down, the Baptist said that now also the axes laid under the root of the tree. Every tree that bringeth not false good fruit is hewn down, cast into the fire.
Now, friends, where the trial of man of the old man is all over.
The the verdict is in and the sentences pronounced.
That that which is born of the flesh is place.
If God changes, you can't improve it.
All man will never learn every his lesson that it has been fully manifested and found wanting.
And was condemned the man everywhere and sad to see in many religious circles are trying to improve man in the place trying to get something out of the old nature that it doesn't hopelessly bad, but if you just give it the proper environment.
Yeah, give us the right education, the right culture, Well, sure, it'll come out and it'll be something worthwhile.
But friends, God has condemned the whole thing.
When man puts the Son of God on the cross of Calvary.
Land's moral history.
Was over.
And man is now condemned.
As absolutely faithlessly to poem.
And in irreparable condition.
So that all that God can accept.
As for the work of the Spirit and producing a new life and nature, that's why the Lord said so solemnly to Nicodemus, You must be born again.
So that circumcision here is brought before us in this wave.
For we are the circumcision which worship God. Now read that by the Spirit.
Alas, drawing the contrast to trying to produce her.
Or find something in Fallen Man.
He says we are the circumstances now. It is those who have no confidence in the faces don't trust the old nature at all.
Earlier March men used to tell about a man that had a well we call them dollar watches. In those days, English all watch.
But he said he never trusted that watch. It wasn't reliable.
He got me sure of leading a train if he depended on that watch. And so it's just that way with that old sinful nature. We can never, never trust him. And we've all got that old nature still, although the wondrous way Bob has imparted a new life and a new nature.
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And those who are looked at here as a circumcision.
There was that.
That worship God.
I'll read that by the Spirit.
In the Old Testament times they worship God with high sounding symbols.
And in one place you find that they had a.
Says that as David said sang with 4000.
Instruments that I have made. No. We never saw band that size, did we? 4000 men playing on instruments and all their voices uniting together. Well, that belonged to that dispensation of Lord.
But it doesn't wrong to our dispensation friends. And why?
Because God the Holy Spirit has come down to dwell in this season.
And we have the Holy Spirit not only dwelling in us individually, but we have in dwelling in the assembly to lead and to guide the worship of God's people.
Which worship God by the Spirit and all the Lord inform the woman at the wealth.
That neither in Jerusalem nor at this mountain shall be worshiped the province. God is the Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him.
In spirit and in truth, he said, the hour had come and now is.
When all that display of musical instruments and all that appeal to the place of man.
Well, the thing that is to be set aside.
And now a new order.
All well so.
Severe broken when God the Holy Spirit came down to lead unto God.
When the worship of his people.
You know, even in the Old Testament time you could say they worshipped, according to Pruitt, because they were given directions as to their sacrifices, as to offering incense for every detail was provided for.
Have given directions so they did worship according to coup. But since we now only can worship.
According to the truth of the Word, but the questions of the guidance of aggressive Holy Spirit of God.
And will come down from a glorified Christ.
And the Mercedes Lord is head of the body and as we sit in his presence.
He directs by the Spirit, so that perhaps one of these beautiful hymns of the Little Flower Kingdom.
Never stopped it since 11:00. What a work of God the collection of last little symbols actually was. Think about how devoted men selected those hymns and how it's been preserved for our assembly meetings. Thank God for that, I said one time to hold by the part of you think we'll have a little block in there in heaven? He said. Why not?
I don't doubt that we will have the little flock in heaven.
Or we have enjoyed is what?
How? How He has filled our hearts with praise. Isn't it wonderful to do that? We have the spirit that guides when we're together and brings to mind a hymn and loveth heaven.
It's the Lord definitely leaves a game of praise on your heart. Don't hesitate too long giving at Him.
To be sung together. And the same thing about prayer, offering praise sometimes, brother.
I never have it strongly laid on his heart to write and say a few words.
Thanksgiving and he hesitates and hesitates.
Well, the meeting suffers. There's a loss there because the Spirit of God is.
Encouraging him, exercising him to take part. And so if we meet together occupied with Christ, then he by the Spirit directs in connection with the praise and worship that is so good, who are blessed, Lord?
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Where you go around here go.
I might have confidence in the place. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof that well, he might custom the place. I.
And then he goes over all his credentials.
As a religious man.
And there was never anyone that.
Excels so far in human religion.
As follow Tarsus.
Before you met Christ.
He tells all the things here.
Weather, Kaiser is telling me recently, is something.
I thought was very interesting.
More than here in.
The city of Columbus.
And literally, they had some talks with this. Jewel knew he had. He had trusted the Lord.
And he moved down somewhere around.
Things are wrong. So when he was there one time, he looked him up.
Anybody in conversation and found out how this you got saved?
One time, for some reason, he went to hear the gospel, to hear a gospel preacher.
And he said there is this gospel preacher was preaching.
Around the subject or the conversion of solar tars.
Well, it said that.
Greatly interested me.
He said we had in our records about a wonderful young man that we expected will do great things for our nation and outstanding wonderful character in the great religious leaders, and he said he just suddenly dropped out of notice.
And I said I never knew what became of it until I heard that man tell about his conversion, and then I found out what changed his whole life.
Well, he found out that what changed the life of Soul Toxic.
Was the same savior.
That he could trust him and have to change his whole life's history.
Well, having obtained to such a.
Such a high religious importance.
He says that what things were given to me.
Though as I counted, lost for Christ.
Now there are those that gladly dismiss their lives connected with their faders.
They are shortcomings, they are mistakes that they have made.
That when?
Other words says that he powered these things lost.
It was things that were gained to him.
When he was on his way to be in the very leader of the whole Jewish nation. I suppose they never lived a man with a more remarkable mind.
Of an Saul of Tarsus.
He was a man of a dynamic personality, a tremendous leader.
And yet all that leadership over our importance, all that He has power to thee for a man in this world.
He counted it all lost because he met Christ.
On the road to Damascus.
And when he saw the face of that glorified one, when he heard his voice calling his very name, and inquiring, Why persecutest thou me?
That changed his whole course.
That what there's her connection with things down here completely from that day on.
He was.
As is known now as a true believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, so he says when I yell Davis and I count all things that lost.
Was there what he experienced then? Wasn't just uh.
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Passing excitement.
Some people go through a lot of excitement and emotion. I wasn't nearly some emotion that he experienced.
Like with all life.
Was carried onwards from that time off.
Are not yet seen in seeing Christ.
And the things of this world look strange within.
That man on that day on.
And so whereas his life history continued.
He not only counted all things, but lost, but he says, for which I have suffered the loss of all things.
And you count them but down.
That I may win Christ.
All see what he had considered James in this life.
Not only dismiss it as something worthless, but absolutely something that was affected so that he uses a very strong word to express.
And then it goes on to be found in him.
Not having my own righteousness.
Which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ.
The righteousness which is of God by faith.
Now I said if the solid parses had been.
People who have accomplished a righteousness.
That by his own works.
Which God could accept. Of course, that's impossible.
The man is the center.
And.
It's impossible for him, as a fallen creature, to live a life.
That God can accept as a way of salvation as impossible.
I suppose he thought, Suppose that he had lived such a righteous, such an upright life that it would have been accepted.
When he saw the righteousness of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Why? He said, if I could have made myself righteous enough for God, when I see what God is offering me in Christ?
Why, he is just like buying Barnumius. You remember when he heard the tramp of peace, the Loreals that were passing.
And he inquired what it meant, and they said Jesus of Nazareth passes by.
And it says the large stood steel.
And they said, rise, equality. And he, casting aside his garment, went to Jesus.
All the old Dharma that belongs to the.
More than life has a bigger he just threw that readily aside to go to Jesus, and I think the apostle was like that.
Have that righteousness that he bolted in as a Jew, he just passed it aside is something that was so unworthy of even considering that he had nothing further to do with it.
Well, this is that righteousness, a wonderful thing about it.
Well, let's look at a verse in Romans 3.
After telling us that by the deeds of the law there shall no place be justified.
In his side, that's the 20th verse for by the laws and knowledge of sin.
That is there, but now the righteousness of God without the law.
Is manifested being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets.
You live under righteousness of God, which is by the faith of Jesus Christ.
Under all and a tongue all, I believe for there's no difference.
Now that righteousness he speaks of, you have received by accepting the Lord Jesus Christ.
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As a personal savior.
Father man have like so far was driving at this.
When he put his faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, then he possessed that perfect righteousness.
That gave him a perfect standing before God.
And that's why we are in Christ.
For in the.
From the first.
Now First Corinthians and the.
1St chapter of First Corinthians and the 30th verse. For of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us, wisdom.
And righteousness.
Sanctification and redemption.
Of them are ye in Christ Jesus Often think of that, the loving friends.
In Christ.
Before God. And that's the way God sees the believer. That's the way we're righteous. But the party is to say that.
That.
God's righteousness was not anything that Christ did in life or death, He said. Christ is our righteousness. That is when you have accepted the Lord Jesus, He is your righteousness.
That's what you are, as you.
Stand before love now.
We're completing.
Who is the head of all principality and authority?
Something like the The Prodigal?
The prodigal returns from the far country over a bad wretched condition. He was in completing the spine in your dreads, and his poverty his wretchedness.
But the father says to his servants, bringing forth and put it on him, and put a ring on his hands, and shoes on his feet.
Until the patterns have and let us, we can be married for this. My son was dead in his alive again. He was lost in his family. Our loving friends, the prodigal didn't go into the father's house as a baby. He went into the father's house with the very best rope that the father could provide. And beloved Saints of God, when we go home to the glory, we will not go there.
As a miserable Sinner.
Addresses this world, but we'll go to glory and all the perfection.
Of the Lord Jesus Christ, and rather than that we are in Christ here and now, before we reach the glory. That's our spending. Now I know that we have to sit and make our state.
Wager up to our standing if that's my high and holy standing.
Is my walk on my ways, is my conversation as I go among men and sitting in agreement with such a high standing as long as in Christ, where all us were real, so exercise comes in.
Note here says.
That the count of the loss of the east verse of all things, and to count them but done that I may win Christ. What do you mean by winning Christ?
Well, he is lightening himself here.
A man in a race.
Northeast, forgetting the 13th verse, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth under those things which are before I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
How do I hear? He likened himself to one in a race, and the goal at the end of that race is Christ and glory.
That's what he means by winning Christ.
Was to win that prize that he has before it.
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Nor he also says.
In the 10th verse that I may know him.
And you know that he was his savior.
He is a lot of friends. We should not be satisfied with just knowing that Christ died for our sins, wonderful and important as that too surely is.
But we should desire supremely to know more and more of our blessed Lord, that I might know him here after many years. He's been a prisoner for four years.
And all the hardships that he had passed through, yet we find he was just as anxious at that time and no more.
Of Christ.
Where they know him.
And he says, and the power of his resurrection.
Well loved resurrection of Christ He had looked at in Ephesians one near the end of the chapter.
As a powerless soul from the conditions and.
Present things down here.
Into a fire and more blessed.
Where we canmore fully enter into the thoughts of His love.
The power of His resurrection even now, before the resurrection of the dead takes place, His glorious resurrection when he woe triumphant from the dead, when it becomes a power in the soul through occupation without risen man, brings us up into the enjoyment of those dead.
Cross of His love in this coming glory that separates our hearts.
From the from things down here.
So you see, the Lord, while I said at the beginning of the meeting, is surely the subject.
Of this chapter before us, that is Christ.
Are objects and we see one who.
For whom Christ?
Was here, published down here, and he got down there as I went on there in person. I didn't interfere in any way. With all his hardships. He had been hungry. When Epaphroditus came with provisions for him, he'd been neglected.
Northern Asia had forsaken him all of ourselves apart, he felt.
And still she was pressing.
Whereas I go Christ in glory before the soul.
That I might know him.
And the power of his resurrection.
And the fellowship of his sufferings.
There, and here's a Petrol speaks of being a witness.
Of the sufferings of Christ.
And a partaker of the glories that should be revealed.
The apostle Paul didn't see Christ in his sufferings. He didn't see him scourge.
And during a shameful cross to Calvary. But he's seen him and glory.
And so we get a little different.
A result for him.
That is, he was a witness of the glory of Christ and Israel in his succance down here.
For how much he had suffered in his pathway, stoned and given with rods.
3 * 40 strikes A1 in shipwrecks.
All the silence around the air, persecutions that he had experienced.
Separate that willingly.
Or his blessed Lord, in fact he he says here.
And the fellowship?
And his second?
Being flourishes with one who has suffered everything, the loss of everything.
Once again thought that God, as he saw humbling such as man, He brought him into sweet fellowship.
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With that one with one.
The absence of his heart now, the lot of fans we're living in times of years and times when we're not facing the persecution.
But I hear that there are many of gods, dear children, in communist countries.
That are already persecuted.
And some of these men are experiencing in a way that we are not here experiencing fellowship.
Of his sufferance.
But tomorrow is faithful for him.
And their testimony for him, the war will face the content and score of this world. But I believe that everyone that has.
Falsified for Christ in the face of the.
Early contempt of the world has proven a precious and blessed fellowship with his Lord and Master.
That fellowship of his sufferings being made comfortable, not of his death.
The Halo is hardly impossible while they can keep on like you're going where I they'll the Jesus will tell you what are they possible if they do, I'll just do that much more like my blessed Lord when he went into death for me and you know all those who have departed this life through the article of death have had a special experience.
Of being like Christ.
Special way.
That we are living for death. I should desire our our hope is His coming and taking us without time home to the Father's house.
Now he says in the 15th verse, Let us therefore as many as the perfect.
In last night, and if in anything we'd be otherwise reminded, God shall reveal even this.
Before that he has said not that we are already perfect, or have already obtained through Christ.
Provided the one verse tells us that were not perfect and in another verse he says as many of you as are deeper.
Well, it's literally the apostle is viewing the subject, the power of perfection in the body. Down here. We'll never attain that until we're in our glorified bodies.
But when I asked the subject of having what we're considering.
The true object before our souls.
Paul was one, as we have seen.
For our own Christ.
What is up?
Now those who have Christ.
As the obvious before them are in the state of soul that our hospital's in.
Any size of anything anyone be otherwise reminded. You know, brethren, the more we have Christ is our object, the more we'll be a one mind and go on happily together. Let's remember that all how we need to have Christ.
As we are just putting in there as we saw last night.
To have him in that blessed lowest pathway as our party.
But we equally need to.
As the options, but I don't know how many things will be settled in that shall we may be granted that true and supreme desire.
And crops.
The optics of our schools.