Address—E. Pilkington
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In hope we left our wishful longing eyes.
Waiting to see the morning star lights. How bright out last some of his advent be before the sunshine or the backstreet #208 cents.
How are you?
Staying up with her.
Soul free joy.
Oh dear. Not fair enough. Now, now.
Along the way.
For heroes.
One day, I'm glad.
Turn to 1St Corinthians chapter 13.
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Versus the happy farming tonight are well on to one person, I'm sure.
Right. They never go old.
How good to we remain again?
And the hope that we've been singing about.
The First Corinthians 13 verse 12 we read.
For now.
Seen through a last document.
But then face to face.
Now I know in part.
But then till I know, you must also have known.
And how about us? They both charity these three, but the grace of these is charity, which is love.
And so there are many things in life today that we don't understand why the Lord allows certain things to happen.
And it's just like looking through a dark flash.
You just can't see left behind.
I sometimes tell the story of a little girl.
You're living through a store window at some toys.
And the gentleman will often buy knows how she was enjoying looking at these these toys on the window.
You know, get her clothes and her shoes.
He knows he came from a home where they didn't have those kind of toys.
There she was, looking through the window and enjoying them to the bull.
And so the time gentlemen went in.
Thought what those girls looking at?
And he brought about any given to her, and she humped it and said, Now there's no glass between, no glass between well, the Lord Jesus coming and be, no glass between them. We're going to see them face to face. And so today, perhaps, things may look darkly to us. We just don't see clearly why the Lord allow this to happen. And that can happen. But isn't it precious?
We're going to see him face to face. And so he says, Now I know in part. You get that repeated now and then. Now I see through glass, dark feet, then face to face. Now I know in part then, so I know he was also unknown. And we have a third now. And now I buy this faith, hope and love. These trees are great Jesus love.
Well, as we think of faith, faith sees the Lord Jesus and God's right hand down as our great High priest. What's he doing? He's there. God's right hand. He He's living in the sea for us. He knows all about our trials, our sorrows and difficulties, and there he's interested in the God for us, in that nice. And also he's touched with the feeling of Ryan furnitures he passed through this scene. He knew what sorrow was.
He knew what it was for his love to receive hatred.
And solo at the end of a perfect life.
Those of me love that nation that you took them.
Well, they see us about there now because I preach he's in the seat for us.
And then?
We have hope. Hope sings them as the one who is about to come.
And I think that was one of the last promises the Lord gave to his own before he went to the cross.
And then we have.
Chair your love, oh operation. To have his love in God in our hearts to encourage us. So I thought we speak on both.
No doubt.
Perhaps all are familiar with these verses they're going to read, but you know.
We had a lovely supper.
And I real good that I, you know, I've had those that kind of food that I had tonight, I don't know how many times last few weeks because asparagus coming up, you know just nice and fresh and enjoy it. And so these precious truths we made in our room perhaps and we've read it many times and it's still, you know we enjoy them.
And so how good it is to have an appetite for the word of God, like we do for our food, master.
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So I will speak about.
Faith. Faith is against of God. I know the love without faith is impossible to please God, Hebrews 11 tells. And that we really believe that all things work together for good for those who love him, well, that's a test for faith.
But some are tested more than others.
But we just have to trust the Lord. But there's one thing we know. Faith believes in the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, and he's up there. Faith believe that he's coming again.
Because he said so.
And how good it is to just rest on his hope, one of his promises that he is going to come.
Well, I like to speak about hope and what it does for us. We're still waiting. We still have the hope. It hasn't come yet.
We still have the comfort, the whole gift, and so return perhaps to a few scriptures. First of all, could be turned to the 15th chapter First Corinthians.
And.
1St.
If enough life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men, both visible. Yes, we would be if it was only for this life that was not only for this life, but it's for the next life for all eternity. And so we turned to 2nd Thessalonians.
Chapter 2.
Verse 16.
And our Lord Jesus Christ himself.
And God, even our Father, which hath loved us.
And has given us everlasting consolation and Good Hope through grace comfort your hearts and establish you with every good word and word. And you notice now the apostle speaks about the Lord Jesus. He says our Lord Jesus Christ. He gives him his full title in addressing the Lord. And I think that's a a perfect example for us.
When we address the Lord, he is.
Give this full time, our Lord Jesus Christ. You notice how often Paul does that in his right the address of kiss him, his full title.
Comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.
So the hope this coming does bring comfort, and it does establish this in the truth. Now if you turn to Titus Chapter 2.
This.
And read from verse 11.
For the grace of God.
That bringeth salvation hath appeared to or for all men teaching us.
That denying ungodliness and world illness.
We shall live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world.
Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior.
Jesus Christ who gave himself for us.
That he might redeem us from all iniquity A purify unto himself.
A peculiar people sells with good works.
And so here we have the hope again, the grace of God that bring us some ovation does not love them.
Think of the grace of God.
That goes on with this world, king of the grace of God, when the Lord gives with fear and earth.
Oh, be healed the sick He raised the dead He cleanse the leopard. He opened the ears and the eyes. The ears of those were deaf, and the eyes of those were blind. He fed the multitude. He comfort those who were insulted. And so he could weep at the grave of Lazarus. He could enter into the full symptom of love.
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For Meredith, Monster is a buried their brother, and then he could manifest his power and want to see where they had laid.
I know all the far manifested when he prayed and said Lazarus and forth either with dead came forth gone great hold the power of the Lord Jesus.
No man could take his life when he came to this world to give his life a ransom for us in order that we might have a hope to be with him forever.
Without his death for us, we could never enter His presence in the glory except to be judged for our sins. And so how gracious God is. And it's for all men too who do believe. That's why it says to all men, but it's for all we do believe. Unless you do this with a sinus verse. 12 again teaching us.
That denied ungodliness a worldly lest we should live soberly, righteously. And God in this present world you know they have the hope of the Lord's coming for us, We should do something for us all. His grace. And I believe when I say soberly, it has to do with ourselves, and it will cause us to judge ourselves if we have an actus already and in a way that speaks with the Lord and righteously.
Has to do with our fellow men. That's how we are to live down here. And the righteous way. That's what you characterize our whole life and our whole deals with our own man too righteously.
And then gladly is our responsibility to God. I just mentioned that connection at verse 12.
And we do have a responsibility to go on. And I believe the first responsibility after received the Lord as our Savior is to read His word and to find out what He wants us to do. And I also believe when we read His words and read more of His love, it should be a desire in our hearts to to please Him. And as I think of the Lord's request of His own before He went to the cross.
We hold our finger in this place and Titus and turn to Matthew 18.
There, he says.
Where tourists, we are gathered together in my name. First wedding. Jeremiah misses them.
And I like to think of that verse because for where is a divine place?
And two or three?
Not 2 or 300, two or three is divine testimony.
Our gathered is divine separation. We're called open this world to be separate from it together is to find oneness. And in my name is is the blind authority and thereby as His defined presence in the midst divine Sinner. And So what a privileged people we are to be able to gather together as you do here in this building and and we.
Where we live in our hometown.
We are privileged people. We have liberty to the rest of the Lord's desire and how we should never neglect that responsibility.
His last desire was Remember Me.
And then again he could say, if you love me, keep my words. And so he encourages us along the way, doesn't he? With the hope of his coming for us. And so if we go back to Titus.
It says.
Teaching us that denying ungodly less than worldly less, we should live soberly, rightly and godly in this present world looking for that blessing. Hope, so Paul calls it. I'm blessed hope. All is a blessing Hope we have.
And I don't know anything that brings joy and peace to others and soul.
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Let the Lord give us, and to be reminded of the blessed morning.
Well, I visited sick people on the dying day.
Jail is a special joy. We just picked what the Lord Jesus.
And I'll be still coming. A special joy for those who are about to leave the world to know when they depart. They're going to be with Christ. Yes, we are curious people that have such a hope and being with the Lord forever and like him. So we're to look for him to come. He hasn't come yet.
And no one except the day or the hour when he's going to come, he hasn't told us, but the end of the revelation tells us, he says, behold, I come quickly when he comes, he's going to come quick and that's a real punish. So faith-based holes of that and it should have effect in our lives.
So we're looking for that blessed hope.
I once talked to a question.
Speaking about the Lord's coming and I said I think he's coming soon.
And they looked at me a little startled, and they said, oh, you don't think he's coming Sunday? And I said yes, I do.
Oh, he said. I hope he doesn't come soon, because there's some things I want to do first before he comes. Well, I say this.
You know, the day was set when I was married and I went to get my wife. No way that I want to put that way out another day. I don't know.
Yeah. Why do I love her? And you love the Lord Jesus? There's a He loves us, and we should. Should We want him to wait a little longer so that we can do something in this life just to satisfy our own fleshly body? Well, we can all search our hearts.
Answer to the Lord for that.
And so we do have our classical.
And I like a quick look at some verses that tell us what folk does, for, you know, when you have a hope it does something for you. And so we turn to first of all the Hebrews chapter 6.
And verse 18.
And by two immutable things.
In which was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation who have pledged for refuge.
To lay hold upon the hope set before us.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul will sure and steadfast.
And which enters into that within the bill, within the forerunners for us entered. Even Jesus made a high priest forever after the order of antithetical, and so the whole beard looked at as an anchor for our souls. But who has to hope?
You notice verse 18, it's those who have pledged for records to lay hold upon the full, and I believe it means to lay hold of the hand of faith, receive the Lord Jesus for our life, and then to look for him to come. And so that's for those who affected for wreckage to him.
You know, I often tell the story of what a fisherman's wife is. I do and after a Gospel meeting in the way and the.
Gorgeous. He come up to me and he said.
Brother Barry has a 10th house summer. He used to have younger days and spent many a summer with him.
She said it's a Parkinson's. I'll tell you a story. I was not fishing with my husband.
And she said we were pushing the harbor.
And.
Sending them water stuff.
And she says we weren't concerned. Ahead of them lays the the rocks of black coastline and the wave just roaring there. And to land on those rocks, you'll be dashed to pieces.
But you said you weren't concerned. We had an anger in the boat.
And so we just picked up the anchor and shrewd overboard and down it went to the bottom of the ocean.
We're supposed to go?
But the boat kept on drifting.
And then they realized that the anchor wasn't attached to the boat. He was in the boat, but it wasn't attached to the boat. And so they're still drifting. And that's like many people today. They don't have an anchor for their soul. They've never laid full with the hand of faith who attracted each one here as and.
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You know that dear woman was saved in the past.
And I least and pray and God asked her prayers before the world land on the rocks. Her husband was able to get the boats in just started, and they steered away from those rocks into the heart. Well, that's God's goodness, but I often think of that.
And anger is no good. And this is the past liberal the author board you're going to keep on driven and so how good to have an anchor for our souls all there are many that have professed the name of Christ. They're dressing, drifting, drifting further away from the Lord. Why are they drinking? Because they don't have an Acrobat. So. So how good you know we have a an aggravate and the hope the Lord's coming. Oh, it's a real anger. It's a strong anchor And so that's what the apostle calls us which hope we have with an anchor for the soul.
Well, sure and steadfast, but as Peter call the hope, let's turn to first Peter one.
And verse 3.
He says, verse three, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively or a living hope, while the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Guys.
Yes of the Lord Jesus have written from the dead. We wouldn't have a whole good way.
While he rose.
Day The first day of the week.
There's an abundant testimony during those 40 days while he's still on earth, before he went back to heaven. There's that abundant testimony that he rose all that went to the to the supplier. But he was nothing. He agreed and he appeared and too many people before he went back to heaven. And so he was seeing November 40 days. I kind of like to read what it says in Acts.
Chapter one is it.
Lord in the first chapter of Acts.
He learned about Jerusalem.
And it said.
He's telling verse eight, he shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost come upon you.
And ye shall be witness unto me both in Jerusalem, and all Judea and Samaria, under the uttermost part of the earth. In fact, one thief, verse 9 And when he has spoken these things while they beheld, he was taken up in a cloud, received by their sight. And while it looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, 2 men stood by them, when apparel was also said, You made a valley. Why stand you gaze up into heaven. This same Jesus was taken up from you into heaven shall so come, And like matter you see them go into heaven.
Isn't that nice? Yes, that same Jesus.
And we're going to let us see the marks that the Oprah.
They saw, and I believe we're going to see, those marks, the proof of this love for us in that coming days. Yes, the Lord is coming. And so we have a wonderful.
And perhaps we can turn now to.
Under the 19th song.
And I think that's the first time 46.
You know it's verse 116.
This is a prayer of David.
Because, you know, when David had his little baby die, he could say.
I'm going to. He's not going to come to me, but I'm going to death. Yes, he had a whole resurrection, didn't he? We just notice what it says. Here is 119, verse 160. I pulled me according unto thy word that I may live and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
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I like that first light of my Bible. I think I saw a nice, a nice prayer for us all, he prayed. Uphold me.
With our words, according to thy word that I may live, And let me not be ashamed of my hope.
That night, are we ever ashamed of the Lord Jesus?
Oh, I remember the reason I thought of a farmer and this farmer worked hard.
And.
He saved enough money to put his son through university.
And so.
When they hear themselves.
One day he was in town.
And he saw his son coming down the street on the other side of the road, coming towards him. He was on one side and the sun was on the other side and all he just so glad.
Here's my son. And he looked for his son to come right over and talk to him. But the son turned his head the other way and kept on walking on the other side of the street past his father. He did not want his companions to know that that was his father. His father would press the old clothes, which is natural for a farmer because they get dirty and.
That father denied himself. Many luxuries were to put that son, and that son walked by the other side, ashamed to all that that man was his father. To wisdom happens.
Isn't that sad? Would that be true of anyone of us here? Are we ashamed of the Lord Jesus? Are we ashamed to confess His name to others? Oh, there's a He prays that you not be ashamed.
And he says in verse 117, Hold on me up, and I shall be safe, and I will have respect unto thy statues continually pulled on me up. And what does it mean to have respect on to the the Lord's status? What are the statues? Well, we have no brother in our house with our children growing up. And we had read this chapter. And he he said to my boys.
He says What are statues? Well, they didn't know what statues, so he told them what statues are. Decreed limitation. Well, they were worse off. That's a long word. Decreed limitations. But he didn't stop there. He illustrated what he pleased limitations were. And so he illustrated this way. Summertime there is a door open.
He says. You voice, you have liberty to go outside anywhere in the Ark. There's a fence around our big our yard that over that time and two gates.
And they had liberty to go anywhere inside the earth.
But they were not to go outside, yeah.
Liberty inside but not of.
And so there are those fears in the world today where we have, as children of God, liberty and gold. But there are other places where Satan is controlling things.
Or not to go.
There are those fears that will harm us if we venture into them. You know, we have an enemy. And Satan, he has fired us, fired us, and we go into that sphere where he is prevailing. And I don't need to tell you. You know where Satan is prevailing tonight. He's one of us, I'm sure. No where we should go, where we should be, whose country we should see.
And so I just mentioned that status.
Let me not be ashamed of my whole fold on behalf, and I shall be Steve, and I will have respect unto thy status. Continue.
And so I say this. We need to have respect to the word of God and to obey his statues too.
And that's very important, as I think the sum one it says, blessed is a man that walketh, not in the constant ungodly, must stand to West sinners for certain to see the scornful and so on. You know, if you don't walk with a person, you're not going to stand with it. If you don't stand with them, you're not going to sit with them. Let's say if you walk with an ungodly person and you stand with them, you sit with them, you're going to get money.
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You won't enjoy and show it how important it is the Lord Texas. We have his decreed limitations how far we can go.
And so the Lord can keep anyone of us. But I think the hope of his coming brother is a secret. Is the key to being able to to obey what the Lord wants us to do, and to be happy and doing it knowing we have His approval.
Turn back now to Romans.
Chapter 5.
Often labeled these verses.
Therefore be justified by faith, we have peace with God.
By whom we all have excess, by faith into this grace where we stand and rejoice and hope of the glory of God.
And we're not rejoicing in this hope is something wrong? There's something that's come in between us and the Lord people. And then he goes on verse 5. And hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Hope naked, not ship.
And how precious?
Full synthesized it down the 10th step.
Arizona.
All holy verses.
Although I stopped to memorize my little boy, everyone here has two.
But it says in verse nine, that if thou shalt invest with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God raised from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth on the righteousness, and with the most compression is made of the salvation. Or the scripture says, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Whosoever he is on him shall not be ashamed.
Another way I can find it.
Yes. And first, second Tennessee chapter one.
And if also speaking here.
He says.
Well, we from verse nine will save us and call us for the holy cons, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace which is given on the lesson Christ ease before the world began, but is now made manifest by the fearing of our Savior Jesus Christ who hath aboard death and brought life and immortality. Light through the gospel where I am appointed A preacher and Apostolic teacher is empty. Knows what he says when he writes in this series in prison.
For the Lord's sake for priests of this gospel.
Very strong for the witch 'cause I also suffered these things.
Nevertheless, I am not ashamed.
For I know whom I have believed an Amverse waited. That he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. Isn't that precious? Oh, the apostle, wasn't she? Yes, he's in prison. He knew what it was to be beefed with stripe St. time.
3 * 39 times.
Because I'm the Jewish law.
If one was beaten 40 times, he couldn't be beaten again and so they stopped at 39.
So he would beat the stripes 3 * 3 months. The single. He knew what it was to have his practice. He knew what it was to have his feet and stuff.
He despised 135.
Now he's at prison before.
Well, if you want to know, the reason he was in prison was because of his hope in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's why.
And ask them for ourselves.
Now we just go back to Romans again.
And the 13th chapter.
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And.
We read from verse 11 and that knowing that time.
Now it is high time to awake out of sleep, where now as our salvation nearer than when we believe.
The night is far spent, the days ahead. Let us therefore cast off the work of darkness, and let us put on the armor of them. And so all of the love. How well the time as you look around in the world today, do we not see?
The confusion of this world, the evil, the corruption.
Immorality and everything else.
Sin Cause interview.
We live in a legal day. The apostle says no the time.
I kind of witnessed it.
You know when you're asleep, you don't know what's going on.
You're asleep. You're unconscious. You're asleep.
And the only way you're going to hear what's going on is be awakening up and be awakening.
High time the way that sleep.
To load their unconscious sense.
And to realize that the Lord is here, and so the night is Marshall.
So it is high time to wake. I'll stay for now as our salvation near the when we believe.
You know when I was a little boy, I had AI was walking home from a a Bible lesson with a a sister and.
She was going to go, fell and she was walking, going my way and take me back in last week and I'll never forget to look up And we saw the Northern Lights. I don't know where they've ever seen the Northern Lights down here or not, but if you have, it's a wonderful site. And as we looked up there, why are you tough A little bit. It was a wonderful site and the more the sisters were going to talk to me, I can just remember talking to you about the last time.
Still remembered many versions of Keep talking.
Let the Lord know.
But my memory falls those things. Never forget the Northern Lights. That time I looked up, she spoke about the work. Well, he is doing.
The naughtiest bar sketch and what do you see with the Knight of Sparks?
Well, if they're going to see it at all, the Morning Star is just before the break of day.
And the only time I've ever seen the morning star is just before the break of day looking in the east.
But as I will probably remind me, you won't always see amongst them. No, that Morning Star beat us who had traveled on a circuit around us.
And so that morning stars, the evening star understand that you see it now and it's all.
But there's only certain times you can see it all. The Lord is a morning star. When we see Him as the morning stars that speaks in revelations we're going to be with.
We're going to be with Let's turn to Revelation 22.
They have verse 17.
The spirit of rise they come.
And let him that hearsay come well, verse 16 what I wanted.
I, Jesus, have sent my nasal to testify you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of Davis and the bright and morning star and the spirit of rise they come will let him live here, say, come and let him the thirst come, and whosoever will have taken a lot of my freedom, isn't that nothing?
Oh Lord, he's the morning stone and he's left on. We're going to speak up in all his brilliant what a wonderful day that will be. And the closest gooseberry whales. Whosoever wants let him take on the water of life greatly, without money and without price.
I gotta close with the last few verses of this Revelation 22.
I returned it and it repeated the same things over and over again, but I think it's worth repeating.
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In the first play you get the last promise in the Bible and the promises in verse 20. Surely I come quickly. Amen.
The last prayer is Amen. Even so come Lord Jesus.
And the last probation for us, brethren, while we wait is coming is the 21St verse. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all his Saints in the proper translation. And so is that lovely We still have to wait for the Lord holy. So gracious. Yes, he's still waiting for the last ones to be saved, but always so gracious the rest of our state, how many times we grieve him.
With all is he reject us.
Yeah, never really reject one will be done. You have received their thy grace.
Goes off. We like race. We can ask for as I sometimes tell the story.
It may be a purpose, but not repeat it.
In a certain assembly.
They had a cupboard in the meeting room and they kept the Bibles and handbooks in the cupboard and there was a table there and one brother, when he would come, he got there first. He put the levels and envelopes on the table.
On the bother, he come in while he put the mag in the cupboard.
And is all this. There's no reflection between them so.
It in Japan.
An unhappy state. The same young brother? No Japan.
And so there's another brother. Quietly, he went up to one of them.
**** brother. Why don't you forgive that, brother?
I don't have enough grace.
That's what says we plan well. How much do you want?
But James tells he give it more grace now he got in his basket, for he gives more how much he want. Just keep on asking. Well, the next time you saw those two brothers, they were shaking hands. The one that has to do. And so, brother, if you want to keep the Bibles in the covered, that's all right. Hello, brother. He says. The other one, you want the Bibles on the table, You just keep on the table. Well, you see what Grace does?
And how we all need grace. And so the Bible closes in Revelation in grace and our role of Jesus Christ be with all his Saints being down to transport.
We were saying 211.
Oh, Jesus Christ the Savior.
We only want to leave.
Is it thy love and favor our souls by liberty when Satan seeks to stiffness and shipwreck we might fear? Does this or all lift us that thou art ever here, #211?
Oh, Jesus Christ.
All day long.
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All our tears.
Our hearts with roster.
Burning love and we shall.
Pray.
Where our souls are learning.
A great chance of.
I ready.