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Beside our long spirit wings from earth, where yes, we roam, And can we call our homes on the ice, on high, The best of God are rest to come, Our place of liberty 64.
Why don't we reopen to?
Romans chapter 10 again together, please.
For a few moments.
I would like to.
Continue a little bit on sanctification.
And I'd like to take up a third part of the topic.
That would be the consummation of our sanctification.
Please bear with me in my speech.
Hebrews 10 and 10.
By which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
The book of Hebrews is a a book of positional.
Sanctification.
And there's been much talk about it this weekend, and I wasn't here for all of it.
It's a beautiful topic to enjoy.
And in this passage.
It is a superiority.
Of the sacrifice.
Of God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And I had read from Isaiah 53.
And verse 10.
It pleased the Lord to bruise him.
He hath put him to grief, when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin.
And I had compared it to verse 6.
Of Hebrews 10 and burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin, thou hast had no pleasure.
The one offering.
That was so far superior.
Completely and fully pleased the Lord, pleased God the Father.
It's perfect and spotless sun.
Shedding that precious blood on Calvary St. for your sins and for mine.
And so we see positionally.
This passage in Hebrews 10 and 10.
And throughout the book of Hebrews it is a position, except for chapter 12 and verse 14.
And we also heard about the eternal.
Positioning.
And in the book of Ephesians.
Chapter 5.
And verse.
Excuse me, chapter 3 and verse 10 to the intent that now and to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be known by the Church, the manifold wisdom of God.
According to the eternal purposes which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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And sometimes referred to as an eternal plan. I believe that's how it was referred to my middle brother.
We see the foreknowledge. We see the wisdom.
And we see the eternal plan.
And they're in Revel, in the book of Isaiah. When we read that, it pleased.
God to bruise him.
The depth of the verse.
And it relies and hinges upon.
The perfection and the superiority of the sacrifice.
You can take that and you can read it and you can study it in many a different ways.
The same way in Hebrews.
10 and 10.
We are positionally sanctified by God.
We are positionally sanctified to God, and we are positionally sanctified for God.
And you can look it in each one of the ways.
I can remember studying Isaiah.
And that verse and what led me to that was two very elder gentlemen standing in a hallway and discussing the verse. And I had utmost respect for those two elders. I was a young man in Christ.
And the one made a comment about the depth of that verse.
And I went home and I studied.
I studied and then I leave for a while and then a month or two later I'd come back.
Now leave it for a while and come back again.
One day I read that after Jesus had dived out his head and gave up the Spirit.
Along came the soldier and.
Pierced into the side that sword.
And I said.
And then I started to wonder, did God give him the power to push that spirit aside?
And then I started to study things that said God allows things.
And then I started looking at different ways and looking at that verse.
And then I started studying that Moses smoked the rock and water gushed forth.
And there was the sight of Jesus sitting there with that blood in it.
That blood had to flow.
It wanted to come out.
With power, it gushed.
Every last drop that it needed to cleanse you and cleanse me.
So that we could be sanctified and set apart.
Otherwise it would have been impossible.
His eternal purposes, his eternal plans had to be fulfilled. And then I'd go back to that study and I'd look at another angle at that verse.
And the beauty of it would just come out.
About the love.
And Jesus hanging on the cross and saying Father forgive them for they know not what they do.
And the low of Calvary to set me apart.
He bled and he died for you and for me.
And it's an eternal position.
And we're going to see that because it's in Revelations 22 as my last little reference, OK?
We're going to see that.
Internal positioning.
So then our brother next spoke about the Holy Spirit.
And his work in the position?
And if we go to 2nd Corinthians.
2nd Corinthians, chapter 3.
And verse 18.
But we all.
With an open face, an unveiled face, beholding as in a glass, in other words a mirror, the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory.
Even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Go back to Ephesians in chapter 5.
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Verse 25. The latter part, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it, that he might sanctify it and cleanse it with the worship of water.
By the word.
We see that there is a part there.
Where the Holy Spirit is involved in the sanctification.
In the Old Testament, the word sanctification.
Has various.
Different words.
Various rendering of one Hebrew word.
And some of those renderings are.
Consecration.
Some of them are dedication.
Sometimes it's sanctification.
And sometimes it's holiness.
And in the Old Testament, it's not always of a person, it's sometimes of a thing.
Turn with me to Zachariah.
Chapter 8.
Look at verse 3, Zechariah chapter 8 and look at there where this is a passage where the Lord will restore Israel and the Kingdom, by the way.
Verse three of chapter 8. And thus the Lord, I am returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth.
And the mountain of the Lord of the Host, the most Holy.
Mountain.
A sanctified mountain, Matthew, chapter 4.
Matthew chapter 4 and verse 5.
Then the devil taketh him.
Up into the Holy City.
And setteth him upon a pinnacle of the temple, a holy mountain, and a holy city.
So we see that that was before Christ died on the cross.
We see there we see.
Set apart by God and called a holy mountain and a holy city.
And so in the Old Testament, we can see, and I read from the New Testament there, but when the first part of it there, we can see that sometimes it's things that are sanctified.
So it's either a person or a thing.
Now I'd like to look together.
At the Book of Daniel.
Daniel.
Chapter 4.
Verse 13.
I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and behold a watcher.
A holy one came down from heaven.
And Anne, holy one came down from heaven. Verse 23 and whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven.
I can remember the first time that I read about a watcher.
And I wondered what it meant.
Not in the New Testament. I found that the angels are watching this meeting.
We generally think of the Angel as a messenger.
But the angels are watching.
When you go to.
The little book.
Right before Revelations.
The little Book of Jude.
And the little book of Jude in verse 14.
Speaks about Enoch.
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Anirudh also the 7th from Adam prophesied to these saying, Behold the Lord cometh with 10 thousands of his Saints.
And I had read in the Bible about other books that were quoted from that were not in our Bible.
And so I wanted to extend my knowledge and read some on them.
And so I picked up a paperback book of the Book of Enoch.
And I started reading from it.
And finally I found the verse that this quote comes from.
This quoted right from the book he prophesized it. See behold the Lord cometh with 10,000 of his Saints. That means as many as 10 thousands of 10 thousands of 10 thousands of 10,010 thousand that could pass by. He could call upon all of them if he wanted to. And our Lord when he was going to Calvary, he could have called upon as many of them as he wanted to.
And when we go to Song of Solomon, we say, my beloved, he is fairer than all of the 10 thousands of 10 thousands of 10 thousands of 10,000, no matter how many there is. And I was enjoying it. But all of a sudden, boom, there was the watchers in that book of Enoch all over in there referencing the angels as the watchers. So I started to understand.
A little bit about the watchers.
An unholy one in Daniel four and verse 13 and 23.
Now I'm going to switch this and I'll put the two together.
This good little Leviticus, Chapter 11.
Leviticus Chapter 11 and look at verse 45.
For I am the Lord who bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God.
And ye shall therefore be holy.
For I am holy.
The Holy One in Daniel.
And this one here.
About God himself.
For I am holy.
They have an inward.
Moral quality.
About them. That makes them holy.
An inward moral quality that makes them holy.
When it was used of us in Hebrews 10 and 10, it was set apart.
Yes.
We are a St. therefore we are holy from the moment we were saved.
When I look at my Lord, when I look at the Triune Godhead, God the Father, Jesus the Son, the Holy Spirit, I look at myself and I read that I'm body, soul and spirit.
And I put the Spirit with the Holy Spirit.
And I put.
My soul with God the Father in the seat of affection.
He is love.
And when I come over here to my body.
And Jesus Christ became a man and took on the body, didn't he?
He came down and became the Man of Sorrows, acquainted with grief.
You know, we can experience a progression in our lives where there is a detachment from evil.
But here we have.
God saying I am holy.
And the angels, the watchers, coming down with an holy one.
And the inward of them.
Is wholly.
Amoral quality.
And so I'm looking at my body.
And I need the consummation of my body.
Be changed.
You know, salvation has three things in it. I was saved the minute I trusted and I believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm currently being saved now.
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And in the future will be the completion of my salvation.
Our sanctification is in three in a triune also.
I was set apart the moment I was saved and the Holy Spirit works a part in me.
Where I progress.
And move away from evil.
And the consummation of my sanctification.
Is going to be.
In the coming days, soon, we hope, don't we? And we look for it, and we pray. First. John, chapter 3.
First John chapter 3 and verse 2.
Beloved now, are we the sons or the children of God?
And it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear.
We shall be like him.
Holdy.
In a body that's changed, likened to him, for we shall see him as he is.
No, I said that I would touch and I would sit down. I've taken right at half the time. Exactly. It's just about Revelations 22.
Verse 11.
At the end of verse 11, for the sake of time, I was going to read it, and he that is holy.
Let him be holy still.
We're in the last chapter, the last part of the Word of God.
The destiny is fixed.
The moment we were saved and we were sanctified, our destiny was fixed. Let him.
That is holy, the holy still, meaning forever and forever and forever and forever and forever and forever. We will be holy, spotless, undefiled.
In a body like unto his.
The consummation.
Of our sanctification, let him that is holy be holy still.
Beloved to the Lord.
Listening to the brother just spoke about the holiness and the glory of holiness of God, the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That made me think.
Of a portion that's been on my mind for a long time. Kind of a question.
And that portion is.
About the Lord Jesus.
Where he speaks, I believe.
Is it is.
Where he speaks.
And that place is in the.
Psalm 8.
No, it's in Proverbs 8.
Verse 23.
I was set up from Everlasting.
From the beginning.
However, the Earth was.
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When there were no debts, I was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with water.
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth.
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
When he prepared the heavens, I was there.
When he set a compass upon the face of the depth.
When he established the clouds above.
When he strengthened the Fountain of the Deep.
When he gave to the sea his decree that the water should not pass his commandment.
When He appointed the foundations of the earth, then I was with was by him, or with him as one brought up with him.
And I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth and mighty lights. Where were the sons of man?
Now this last statement.
Has always made me glad when I read it because I was thinking.
About this portion of Scripture, we read that quite often, every once in a while in the worship meeting.
And why do we read it in the worship meeting? A thought.
There must be pur uh, purpose for that.
And.
We probably could say it is because it speaks about the Lord Jesus.
And I often think.
Uh, where? Where was the Lord Jesus actually in heaven? And what did he do before He came in to this world to do His great work?
Appointed to him by the Father.
And every time I think, well, we have a portion of scriptures or several portions in scriptures that speak about it because we use them at the breaking of bread.
May I also think of Psalm 19, verse one. The heavens declare the great glory of God.
And the firmament?
I have to read it. I have to read it before.
Making about the making of his hands he made. That's what I wanted to bring out.
And then I think.
This portion I just read.
That must be the Lord Jesus before he came into this world.
Because it fits so well.
With what he did also.
In Hebrews.
Oh in John one in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God also speaks about the Lord Jesus and when it we read here.
That fits so well. I was set up from everlasting. We often say they're God. The Lord Jesus was with God.
From time.
By the beginning of time and before the beginning of time.
From Everlasting.
And he was appointed there.
That's what we can say, set up by God.
To do what he did.
And then also the beginning.
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When God made a beginning.
And that's when he.
Started to make the earth the world.
However the earth was, there was a beginning of it.
When there and then he describes these things.
There's no place in Scripture that I know who better describes.
What the Lord Jesus?
Was occupied with before he came to this earth.
He says I was set up from everlasting from the beginning, or ever the earth's worth, and then when there were no debts.
I was brought forth.
When we think of deaths, we think usually of deep waters.
Well, there were. There was nothing else. There was nothing of that. But the Lord Jesus was there.
I saw that the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean supposed to be 6 miles deep.
There wasn't there yet.
But the Lord Jesus was there.
He was brought forth.
To see it, to make it, to be with God when he made it.
And when there was no fountain abounding with abine abounding with water.
The Lord Jesus was there. The earth wasn't made yet. There were no fountains of water like we know them today in the mountains when they come down. Freshwater springing up there wasn't there yet. But the Lord Jesus was there.
Before the mountains were settled.
Well, we all may have thought, well, how did the mountains come to pass? How did they be so high and so widespread?
Before the mountains were settled now they must have been settled at that time put up.
The Lord Jesus was there.
And he was himself working with God, putting him up, balancing them.
I often thought, well, how could that be, that the earth turned so precisely and there so so great high mountains? How come it doesn't get out of balance? Look at the Hamilton Hemalian mountains, so heavy and so high.
And then the Alps and the mountains in the United States.
The Lord Jesus was there. He made all that with God.
When we fly from Europe to the States.
It's exactly a certain time that it takes, and it's about two hours faster than the Earth's Earth turns.
And it's all in balance it.
It comes exactly a fraction.
A millionth of a second accurate. It turns. I can't look at my watch. It's always on time. It's guided by.
Erase which are.
Coming from a certain mountain.
And it's always on time.
And the Lord settled. That was God the Father. Before the hills was I brought forth.
Well, they had to be hills to balance out. They were there, but there were no mountains.
To make the Earth's Tor turn just in the right speed all the time.
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And we go unlike that while as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Where we all know where the fields are.
When he prepared the heavens. When we look up into the heavens.
We see clouds.
And we know that from there the earth is watered. They are full of water.
And it all prepared by the Lord Jesus when he prepared the heavens.
Him, God and Father, God the Father and him, they prepared all these things.
And the Lord Jesus was there when he said, a compass upon the face of the earth. There we have the earth's magnetism.
One time I went skiing, I took a compass with me.
And I piled the house.
On from where I left and I, I knew.
And I set the compass in that direction. I find the way exactly home again. And I did. I went there for a couple hours. It was time. I looked at the compass, pointed it to where I left, and I got exactly to that house where I came from.
Well, all this is made by him, by God the Father and the Lord Jesus.
When he gave to the sea his degree, we are thinking of the great seas, the Mediterranean, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Oceans. They have all lots of waters in it, and they have.
Exactly been appointed to how big they are, how deep they are, how far they can go and when the winds.
Steer them up. What they can do is what they cannot do.
They should not pass his commandments, and they don't.
When he appointed the fountains of the earth the foundations of the earth.
We sometimes things were Where does the earth have a foundation? Where is it?
Where we have to think that out more in a spiritual way, because the earth is.
Set in a certain place in the universe and it stays there.
Is there a certain distance to the moon? There's a certain distance to the sun.
If men have already been able to measure that.
If I race, which they have produced.
And then measure the time it took those rays to get there.
And they found out.
The Earth is always in their place, the moon is always in their place, although they do move.
Well, at a certain time of the year, there will be right back in that same place where they are supposed to be.
When he appointed the foundation of the Oz, it just as sure as the foundation of a building that man builds and they know where it is.
And they know how much it took to build it, to make it.
God knows the places.
Of the planets exactly.
Where they are and where they should be all the time.
And then he says something that rejoices my heart. I was daily his delight.
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So the Lord Jesus.
Was in the presence of the Father, and he was the Father's delight, and he still is the Father's delight today.
He was his Father's delight when he did that great work, and the earth when he died on the cross, because he did exactly the will of God the Father.
And he was rejoicing before God the Father, like we know our children do.
At least at a certain age, when they the father takes them out on an outing, takes them on a picnic, takes takes them somewhere.
The Father delighted to do that, to make him happy. Well, the Lord Jesus was always perfectly.
In line with the thoughts of the Father God.
And later on, when we have the habitable part of his earth, when man was made, and where men were put.
In the different places, different nations.
Although they were often.
Doing things that I'm not delightful and in generally failed.
But the Lord Jesus never did fail.
He he was a delight of God the Father and his He could even say my delights were with the sons of man, God.
Himself was God the Father. They made men.
Man failed.
But they are still patient.
They still are delighted in those.
Who put their trust in the beloved Son of God in the Lord Jesus, and that way they can be the delights of God.
And the delights of the Lord Jesus.
Well I could mention a few scriptures yet like John one the first verses they speak about these things.
I can't think of it right now anymore. I haven't written it down and my memory isn't that good, but I just wanted to share with you these few sorts where the Lord Jesus might have been.
In.
Heaven before he came here and the things he did.
Because sometimes people ask, well, what did Jesus Christ do in heaven before he came here? Well, there are many other places in Scripture we might be able to put out, put up and read and look at and we will find out.
That.
He did many things and ran real with him in heaven. We won't be idle. Some people say, well, we have nothing to do there. We will be idle, no.
We will be the Lord Jesus.
And we will be his daylight and we will rework for him and with him.
Let us all rejoice at the time when that will happen. We spoke a lot in these meetings about these things and we praise His name. We thank their God and Father there about those few.
4.
Like him, oh grace supreme.
Like him?
Before thy face.
Like him to know that glory beam.
Unhindered.
Face to face.
Everything wonderful in these words.
Want to leave with our hearts as we come to the end of this time together?
Something that is common to everyone in our hearts is.
There's a deep desire in every one of us.
To know him better.
I don't believe there's a single redeemed soul in this room that doesn't have a thirst.
To know him personally, individually better.
Then we know him now.
It's a great desire.
But in Proverbs 8 that we have a little bit.
He says my delights were with the sons of men.
His desire matches ours in that way. He wants us to know Him.
As His delight is is with us, His delight will be with us when these it has been from a past eternity, but it will continue to be so.
And so I just want to make this remark about knowing him.
How can we know him better?
Well, it's primarily his work.
If you wanna know an aunt, you've gotta have the nature of an Ant.
Nobody in this room knows an Ant. You don't have an ant's nature, and you can't say you really know an Ant in an intimate way.
For Jesus and God's desire that we might have this.
Desire in our souls to know him better, he said.
Give you the nature, I will give you my nature.
And in that way you may know me.
Life as a character to it.
That I might know him as the Apostle Paul expresses the desire, he says.
In order that we might truly enter in to the fullness that is possible for us to know him, he says, well, to know me you have to have my life.
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My delights are in you, so I give you my life.
And we share that common life, and by having a common life and having a common nature, it gives us common interests.
Common feelings.
Even common thoughts.
And so this little hymn like him.
It's this has already been quoted or read in in this meeting going back the 1St.
Well, I'm gonna read it just to get it correctly stated but and you don't have to turn to it in view of the time, but it says in first John chapter 3.