Burbank Conference: 1963
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In the Beginning, God
Address—P. Wilson
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Gather.
So we sing together #61.
If you feel it helps, you can tell the language.
#61
How wondrous the glories that meet.
In Jesus and from his face shine His love is eternal and sweet.
It is human. It is also divine.
His glory. Not only God's son in manhood, he had his full park.
And the union of both joined and won.
Form the fountain of love in his heart #61.
Some brothers started.
Jesus stand around his face.
I would like to make a comment before starting.
That is my thought.
To refer to quite a number of scriptures.
And if anyone here is in mind to make a note of the scripture references.
It might be well to do so at the beginning or from the beginning.
Just the scripture references so you can turn back to them and read them again at your leisure.
And I would like to make this remark quoting a scripture.
Canst thou by searching, find out God?
All the searching.
Above the earth.
And in the earth.
Has never enabled man to find out God.
Can't sow by searching. Find out, God.
You know the man. The creature could not know his creator.
Unless the creator were pleased to reveal himself.
To the creature.
And then the creature can only know the creator.
In the measure and in the manner in which the Creator has been pleased to reveal himself.
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Now, in Old Testament times, God spoke in various ways.
To the prophets.
By dreams.
My visions.
We find that recorded for us in Hebrews.
How God spoke in time passed unto the Father is by the prophets.
But we who live in this era have had God reveal himself in the person of his Son.
And we would not know God.
If it had not been for this.
All the Old Testament has many types and shadows.
But until we come to the New Testament and see the mall made good in Christ.
We do not know God.
First, I want to turn to the first book in the Bible and the first verse.
In fact, I will read the 1St 2 verses of Genesis.
In the beginning.
Created the heaven.
And the earth.
And the earth was without form.
And void or empty?
Darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God then began to act.
You will not find any other book.
In this world.
On the subject of religion.
I don't care what kind of religion it may be.
That begins with this book.
In the beginning, God.
This isn't something to satisfy the curiosity of men.
This is something directed to the heart and the conscience of man.
He is first directed to God, with whom he has to do.
You know, there is a prevalent idea in the world today.
That all religions are good.
And that man can be saved or blessed by anyone of them.
That is the devil's life.
May I make a further comment?
And say that only in Judaism.
And in Christianity?
Do you have the true God presented to you?
It is only through the Old and New Testaments.
That you meet God.
Now who is this God?
In the beginning.
When was that?
Way, way back.
To go back as far as you choose, he was there.
You dear young people that are in college.
You hear all sorts of theories advance these days.
They tell you.
That this religion and the other presents a wonderful cold.
But does it bring you into contact with the Supreme Being?
The one, the creator.
The sustainer of all things.
And they'll tell you.
That man has to prove these things.
May I make this suggestion as an adjunct to what I've already said, that man could not know the creator unless the creator chose to reveal himself.
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And only in the manner.
To the measure in which the Creator chose to reveal himself.
God created.
The heavens and the earth.
Young people, do you believe that?
I know that there are places where you go to school.
That they plainly tell you they do not believe it.
And there are some sophisticated professors that would look down upon you if you told them you believed.
But who are you going to believe if you do not accept this? You are at sea without a charter compass. You are out without any guy.
This is the only book.
It will tell you how it all came into being.
Now, Man says.
It came about thus and so.
You believe that? Do you believe there are varied theories?
Are you willing to believe this sublime statement?
God created.
You know I'm not credulous enough to believe these theories.
I read a book. I reviewed a book that was sent to me.
The brother is sitting here who sent it to me to review.
On evolution.
Written by a very intelligent man.
It's entitled The Unleashing of Evolutionary Thought.
And he ridicules anybody.
And anything.
That says that God created it.
And he goes into four or 500 pages to tell you how it didn't happen and how it did happen.
But finally he ends up with a conjecture.
He ends up with this.
He says. I have read lots of thoughts of how it all came about and I may as well express mine.
My thought is that originally there was a great monoblock.
And this block exploded.
And that is what formed the creation.
Now if that makes sense to you.
It doesn't to me.
He's been trying and been late. He was laboring for 400 or more pages to prove that there was number God.
And that the sooner this nation got rid of a God and all the idea of a God.
The better it would be.
I don't know why he didn't go to Russia.
But then, after trying to prove that God, there isn't a God.
And God didn't create it then, he says. But there was a monoblock.
He has to come back to something that existed in the beginning.
And that explodes.
Now all you have to do is ask him where the mono block came from and he's back in the same puzzle he started with.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
I believe that exactly as it said. And if you don't believe that, you have no basis.
For any kind of belief, the foundations out from under you.
Now then, and the earth was without form, shapeless.
Boyd Empty darkness was upon the face of the deep.
Water covered it.
The Spirit of God brooded over this scene.
In that condition.
Now we would go to Isaiah. We would learn there that God did not create a divorce.
He did not create it in the condition in which it is in the second verse.
Let us say this.
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It doesn't make any difference when God created it.
And you can put as many millions of years between the 1St and 2nd verses of this chapter.
As the most blatant inferior can conjecture.
I know they like to talk in big numbers.
They say, oh, we just found a skull and we believe that this skull.
Is 50,000,100 million, 200 million years old.
And if that won't do, we'll test it with Carbon 14, or we'll test it with some of the newest ones.
There is a man in this audience, I think.
He was here this morning, at any rate.
Went to the University of Michigan.
He lived on a farm in Michigan.
And they had a place on this farm where they carried the dead animals. They just dragged them out and left them in the back of the farm.
They decay.
One dime. This man was home on vacation, young man. Then he was wandering around through the boneyard.
He found a bone, a tooth back there. He picked it up and.
Rubbed it off, put it in his pocket.
Went back to college and he put this tooth on his desk.
Professor came along and saw that tooth, he says. May I have it?
He said, well, you can borrow it.
So the professor took this bone that came from the boneyard.
He examined it and he came back and told him he had a real find.
That born with so many millions of years old.
Well, he let him go on and tell all about how old it was, and he told him where it came from.
Let's believe the word of God and not be ridiculous.
Now whatever happened between the 1St and 2nd verses of Genesis?
We are not told, but suffice it to say that something came in.
And upset the order of creation.
It wasn't created without form or void.
When the God began to work, and to form it, and to shape it for man.
And if I am not misinformed?
Intelligent biologists.
Will admit that human life appeared.
Rather suddenly on this earth.
And not too many too far back either.
Was when God chafed this earth, when God put it into the condition which it is now.
And people, the visitors now.
I'm not saying that it's in the condition that God fixed it and made it in those days.
For sin soon came in and marred his fair creation.
But now this word God, I'd like to say a word about that.
That word? God.
Represents the creator.
In the majesty of his being.
The creator.
In the Hebrew, it's a loyal.
It is a plural word.
And when it's put together here, it's put together with a singular verb, with singular adjectives.
How can you account for using you students now in English?
How can you account for using a plural noun?
And the singular verb was singular adjectives.
In other words, couched away in this version verse of the Bible.
Is the interest of the Trinity.
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God the Father.
God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Go down in the chapter and you will find the Godhead saying, let us.
What does US mean one person?
Let us make man in our image.
The God God had took counsel with itself about the creation of man.
I ran across a statement made by an old writer.
And he remarked about the Areum doctrine.
You know, Arias was a man early in church history.
Who brought in a terrible heresy. He denied the Deity of Christ.
He denied the Trinity.
I think he was from Alexandria, Egypt. Is that right, Brother Rome?
He upset the church. It was a direct blow of the enemy to spoil the truth of God.
Well, this writer said that one thing that he marveled about in all the controversy about Arianism was that this fact had not come out.
That God was a plural word in the Hebrews.
He felt that those that answered Arias had missed them.
Arianism is today prevalent in this country under the name and guise of Jehovah's Witnesses.
It's nothing new. It's Arianism.
Denial of the Deity of Christ and the denial of the Trinity.
I went to see a man one day.
I believe the dear old man.
Knew Christ.
But very untalked.
And he said a man had just been there and brought him a book.
And he said he enjoyed it. There was so much good in it.
So he went back into the house. We were already outside, and he went back into the house and brought the book out.
He says. I want you to see this and I was in a hurry to leave.
There was one of Pastor Russell's books, one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Books.
I opened the book at random and I read there. To him, Jesus is just the highest creature that God ever created.
I said, Mr. Del Mar, if I brought you a box of luscious candy.
And you said to me there are some good things in this box. It would be true, but if I put enough stricken in a few of those pieces of candy to kill, you'd be too bad.
And I said, I've just read to you the strict men that's in this book.
If this statement is true, you're lost. You're damned. You have no savior, and neither do I.
Jesus was not a created being. It was God manifest in flesh.
So this is alarm when you go through the book and you find the Lord.
God, if you would look into the reference Bible you would find that in the Hebrew it is alarm.
Generally speaking, but now I want to go on.
To another portion.
Turn to Genesis.
19 I think it is.
Yes, 17, Genesis 17 and verse one.
And when Abram was 90 years old and 9:00.
The Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God.
Walk before me and be thou perfect.
Now God has chosen at this point to introduce another name.
Along with God.
Almighty.
And God had called Abraham to depart from her of the Chaldees.
To leave his home, his father's house, and all the associations of childhood.
And go out and become a stranger in a strange land.
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And God had promised to take care of it.
And he promised him his son.
But you know Abram, while he's a great example of one who had faith.
In some things he lacked faith or he was weak in faith, shall we say.
And he was listening to the voice of his wife Sarah, and God rebukes him. And he said, I am the Almighty God, Walk before me and be thou perfect. You've been walking before, Sarah.
I am the Almighty God. He had called Abraham out and promised him this blessing, and the other blessing, and so on and so forth.
And he says I am able to do what I have promised. I am the Almighty God.
Now you only find that combination Almighty God about three times in the book.
You go right through to the 19 chapter of Revelation and you will find that the Lord and He is coming back to execute judgment.
Is going to tread the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
In Genesis 17, it's Almighty God Almighty.
To fulfill every promise he had made.
In Genesis 19, he's the almighty God who is going to be able to.
Execute judgment.
Man thinks that judgment isn't coming.
But it is on its way, and nothing man can do can avert it.
Are delayed. It's on its way.
There's another time that you get almighty and that's in.
Corinthians 2 Corinthians 6. I think that's where it is.
God calls.
Pardon me. The Lord calls on the Christians to walk in the path of separation.
As he called Abraham to a path of separation.
And he said, be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
That's the same call to separation.
Come out from among them.
Touch not the unclean thing. I will be a father to you, saith the Lord Almighty. Now that doesn't mean that we will know. Christian will know God in the relationship of Almighty God.
But the God whom we now know as our Father will take care of us.
He'll do a father's part for us. He's called us to walk in the path of separation and he says you do that.
And I am able to take care of them. Did you ever get tested like this?
That you were offered a good job.
That would cause you to compromise the truth of God if you took it.
And then you gave it up, for Christ's sake. Do you think that you're going to be the loser for it?
The Lord says I want you to walk in the path of separation.
People don't like that word separation, but, he says. I want you to walk in the path of separation.
I will do a father's part for you. What more do you want?
What more did Abram need than the Almighty God and his sure work?
Want to turn now to Exodus?
Verse Chapter 3.
Now go at the time had come.
By which God had promised to Abraham.
That he was going to.
Deliver the seed of Abraham from Egypt.
And he calls Moses.
To be the leader of the children of Israel. Exodus 3.
11 Verse 11 Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh?
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That I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt. And he said, Certainly I will be with thee.
God promised to be with him, but Moses was still reluctant.
13 Verse And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and say unto them.
The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you, and they say to me.
What is his name? What shall I say unto them?
And God said unto Moses.
I am that I am.
I heard one person say that could be rendered. I am that I will be.
I am that I am.
And he said, Thou shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am has sent me.
Did you know that I am as one of the names of God?
And yet we have the effrontery to see a man of flesh and blood.
Take the name of I am in the city of Los Angeles.
To appropriate the name of deity for himself.
Go to the 6th chapter.
Third verse And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God almighty.
But by my name Jehovah was I not known to them.
And here it is that God introduces himself to the children of Israel by the name of Jehovah.
And that is the force of I am.
Jehovah means the self existent one, the self existing one, the one who is who was who is to come.
The one who always wasn't, who always would be.
Jehovah, Remember that it's frequently put in all capital letters, Lord, in your Bible.
It's mostly there in all capital letters, Jehovah.
It was just a capital L with a small Ord.
It's usually from the word adanya.
If it's just all small Lord like Sarah called Abram Lord.
It's Adam.
Now don't think that I'm splitting hairs.
I am merely calling your attention to the facts of Scripture.
And remember that the facts of Scripture are the things that we should enjoy.
If these things are new to you, I trust that you'll make a note of it. Mental note.
And be able to remember them and enjoy them.
Hasn't put anything in his word for no reason.
We should desire to know why, what he has given us and why.
Now, Jehovah.
As I said before, is frequently translated with all capitals.
Lord.
You would turn to. I know of one place that comes to mind. It's in the 110th Psalm. I won't turn to it.
Where Jehovah said unto Adana.
There you get all capitals Lord and a capital L.
Small Ord, it's Jehovah's speaking to the Messiah.
Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
I think that's probably the best, most quoted verse of the Old Testament in the New.
For that Psalm at least 110th Psalm.
Now Jehovah God revealed himself to Israel.
And why did he do it? Why he was entering into a relationship, into a covenant with that people?
And if you want to make a contract with somebody and they're going to guarantee something for 10 years?
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You would like to know, for instance, that they would be there in 10 years to fulfill their guarantee.
But here is one who was, who is, who always will be, and he enters into a covenant relationship with Israel.
What bitters authority did they have? The now one who always wasn't, always would be.
Therefore we read I Jehovah change not.
Therefore ye sons of Israel, or sons of Jacob are not consumed.
It was just his faithfulness that he hadn't changed that saved them.
All the meaning of these words is important for us.
Now I want to go back and then I want to leave this subject Genesis 14.
Many people are quite at sea about the use of the different names of God.
But Scripture is very precise.
In their use.
In Genesis 14.
Verse 19.
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abraham of the Most High God.
The Most High God you will find in Genesis 14 with connection with.
God.
As he will be known in the coming millennial age on Earth.
And here we find Melchizedek as.
Priest and King.
And the Lord Jesus will be a priest upon his throne according to Zechariah in that coming day.
He will combine kingship and priesthood.
And here we have it. The Most High God. Now you will find that expression frequently in the book of Daniel that looks forward to the coming age. You'll find it in the last verse, I think it is of the 83rd Psalm.
But wherever you'll find the expression the Most High God, it's God's title as it will be known as He will be known in the Millennium.
Now I wish to leave this part of the subject.
One return now to Genesis 22.
We all know the story of Genesis 22.
How God did tempt or test Abraham.
How he told him to take his son, his only son Isaac, whom he loved, and offer him up for a burnt offering.
It was all done in a way calculated to tear the very heart strings of Abraham.
Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and offer him.
It's a type of what it would cost God.
To give his beloved son to die on cow.
It isn't so much the thought in Genesis 20 through 22 of the death of Christ as it is the point of showing what it would cost God to give him.
Now then.
Seventh verse of our chapter Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, my father, And he said, Here am I my son.
And he said, Behold the fire and the wood. But where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.
So they went both of them together.
Father and son going together.
The son says, Father, where is the lamb?
The Father said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb.
Our brother Gladding referred to this verse yesterday afternoon in the reading.
It was a lamb for God. God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.
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Remember that God's holy nature had been outraged by sin.
And God had to provide a burnt offering.
One who would go and offer himself without spot to God, not particularly now as the sin offering, but in the place where sin was.
And Christ was that burnt offering, the One who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God.
And he so fully glorified God about the subject of sin.
That God is glorified, not merely satisfied, my friend.
But Gloria.
God is so thoroughly honored in respect of sin by the death of his beloved Son as the burnt offering, that he would be righteous and forgiving every Sinner on earth if that Sinner would just accept Christ.
He won't do it. Apart from that, he won't save you unless you own your sin and accept Christ.
But if you do accept Christ, he has a righteous basis to forgive you.
My son God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.
Now go down to the 14th verse and Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Jireh.
As it is said to this day, in the mount of the Lord, it shall be seen.
Now I want to cover a few points where you have Jehovah in a compound name.
Where you have Jehovah linked with another name, and I believe that we should be interested to know them and know why.
Joel and Jairo, God will provide is what it means.
And God would provide. God did provide himself a lamb for a bird offering.
I like the expression that I read recently somewhere.
God and my conscience.
Are satisfied through the work of Christ.
God is satisfied with Jesus. I am satisfied as well, says the Pope.
But I understand that that hymn was originally written in German and something was lost in translation.
In the German it said, Where God rests with delight, there I rest.
Oh, how sweet it is, where God rests with delight. They're Irish.
God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. Do you know what Jehovah Jireh means?
It means that God has provided that Blessed One Himself.
And he's satisfied with the work. He's glorified by the work.
And everyone of us who are saved by the precious blood of Christ today.
Everyone of us here who knows the Lord Jesus as our Savior can trace back all that blessing.
To the work of Christ on town, wherein God was glorified.
Are you satisfied? Do you rest with delight in that which God delights him?
And you know about the burnt offering. It was all burnt, everything, the skin and all.
It was all burned on the offering. There was number dross. It was all acceptable to God. It went up as a sweet savour to God.
There was nothing in Christ that didn't please God, and he was never so pleasing to God as when he died on calories crop.
Although in those three hours of darkness he poured out his holy wrath against sin.
But that's not the burnt offering garage. That's the sin offering carriage.
And the way we learn it as Christians is we learn about the sin offering first. Later on, we find that God had his fortune in it.
And God had his delight.
Well, I want to go on now to the book of Exodus.
The 17th chapter of Exodus.
We could spend considerably more time on these various points.
But it's my thought not to develop them in all their detail, but rather to point them out.
And have you enjoy them by meditation?
Now in Exodus 17 we find the children of Israel in the wilderness.
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And in the 17th chapter of Exodus, they have embarked on this journey.
And they didn't have any water.
They were thirsty, and God told Moses to take the rod and strike the rock, and out of that rock would come forth water, and we read that it ran down like a river.
Oh yes, there's much said about the water that flowed from that rock and the sands.
Sometimes we sing at river of Thy grace through righteousness applied is flowing o'er the barren place where Jesus died.
The barren place.
But you know, there's another thing about this water. They drank of that water.
Now if we were to go to the 7th chapter of John's Gospel, we would read there.
That the Lord said, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.
What's thirst?
You say it's a desire for water. No, it's more than a desire for water.
If you have ever been where you couldn't get any water, you know what I mean.
It's a felt need of water. It's more than a desire.
If any man thirst, where was the Lord saying that on the greatest day of the greatest feast in the city of Jerusalem?
The city that had more religion per square foot than any other place on earth.
You say they were pouring out the water on that last day, they said they used to say that. He who hasn't seen the joy of the pouring of the water on that day?
Hasn't tasted joy.
But the Lord says, If any man thirst, if this doesn't satisfy you, this outward form and ceremony come unto me and drink. Now that his belly shall flow rivers of living water, Then what does it say? And out of his belly shall flow. Out of his belly shall flow these rivers of living water. He drinks for himself. He's satisfied, and then it blows out to others. It becomes a channel of blessing.
Then it says this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive. For the Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Rather, we are in the wilderness.
And when we know the Lord Jesus as our Savior, as we were speaking yesterday, the Spirit of God has taken up His abode in US.
We are sealed by the Spirit until the day of the redemption of our bodies.
So we're at home with Christ in glory.
Now that's what this means.
And they got water and as soon as they got the water.
Notice this verse.
Eighth verse. Then came Amalek and fought with Israel in referendum.
Amalek, you know, was a descendant of Esau, the man after the flesh.
Amalek is the tape of the flesh.
But you didn't have any conflict with Amalek until they drank of the water.
And an unbeliever doesn't have any conflict until he knows Christ as his savior in the spirit of God takes up his voting.
We were saying yesterday in one of the Reading meetings.
That some people put forth the gospel on this basis that you accept Christ and then you just rest on your oars and it's all easy sailing from then on.
No, it is just a reverse when you know Christ as your Savior and the Spirit takes up His abode in you.
Then the conflict begins. The flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. I'm quoting from Galatians 5.
And these are contrary the one to the other, so that you should not do the things that you would.
It says.
The last verse of our chapter for he said because the Lord has sworn that he will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
And in Galatians 5 we read that the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the spirit against the flesh.
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And I'd like to make this remark too, dear young people.
You who know the Lord Jesus as your savior, since the Spirit of God dwells in you.
Have the Spirit of God dwelling in you, but you will now have a conflict that you couldn't know as an unbeliever.
You have the Spirit of God desiring to do the things that are pleasing to God, and you have an old nature that wants to please itself.
And that conflict will go with you as long as you're in this world and if you live to be 100 years old and the Lord hasn't come.
Still have that conflict. The flesh will never get any better, and flesh never becomes spirit and spirit never becomes flesh.
Now what about it? We're in this conflict.
What happens?
Now when it came to crossing the Red Sea, it said stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.
It came to your salvation. You had nothing to do with it. Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.
But now look at this.
10th verse.
No, it's the ninth verse, Moses said unto Joshua chooses out men and go out fight with Amelie.
There's conflict. That's Galatians 5. Have you ever experienced it?
I'm afraid if people have never experienced the conflict between the old nature and the new, they don't have any new.
You only have the olds, you won't have any conflict.
Go out and bike. The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
And then we find Moses going up onto the top of the mountain, and he holds up his hands. And when he holds up his hands, Israel prevails.
But he lets him down. Alma like prevails, so Aaron and her hold up his hands.
And Amalek was defeated, but now that the second last verse, 15th verse, and Moses built there and Alder and called the name of the Jehovah Nissi.
Here is Jehovah now in combination with the word our banner.
In other words, it wasn't their battle after all. Their success in the battle depended upon the one on high with his hands uplifted.
Dear young people, it is a battle.
It isn't all easy sailing, but if you seek the Lord's help and you tell the Lord about your problem, you don't have to fight this battle in your own strength. In fact, you can't fight it in your own strength.
The Lord is our banner. Be strong in the Lord, the power of His money.
Or I like these combinations of the word Jehovah. With these other words, Jehovah, the one who never changes, the one who is with us, is our banner.
Are you able to meet the enemy Aqua? You couldn't in your own health, in your own strength, But you can. This way the Lord is our best.
Now I'd like to turn to judges.
6.
The book of Judges in chapter 6.
Now here we get another case.
Little different gates. The days of the judges have come on.
Days of weakness in Israel. Days when every man was doing what was right in his own eyes and everything was wrong.
I'd like to make this statement that I've often heard Brother Jackson make. When every man does what's right in his own eyes, everything's wrong.
He says. Remember, it doesn't say when every man does what's wrong in his own life, but when he does what's right in his own eyes.
Everything's wrong.
Well, that was the days of the judges. And in these days of the judges, we have these judges. This one is Gideon, and he's afraid. He's afraid to go out and lead Israel to the attack.
I am Judges Chapter 6.
Verse 22.
And when Gideon perceived that he was an Angel of the Lord, Gideon said.
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Alas, O Lord God, where? Because I have seen an Angel of the Lord face to face.
Now he is afraid.
He was fearful. Now he is afraid.
Is not merely afraid to meet the enemy, but he is afraid that seeing the Angel face to face meant something bad for it.
23rd verse in the Lord said unto him, Peace be unto thee.
Fear not, thou shalt not die.
Then Gideon built an altar there unto the Lord, and called it Jehovah's Shalom.
And to this day, it is yet an offer of the Ezraites.
Peace. Oh, when I read these words, it makes me think of the 20th chapter of John's Gospel, where the Lord Jesus comes forth out of resurrection, as our brothers said this morning, with the fruits of victory and the marks on his side and his hands, the proof of where he'd been and what he'd done.
He comes forth and he stands in the midst of the 12, the 11 rounds.
And he says, peace unto you.
All the one that conquered the enemy, the one that came forth in triumph, in victory, he could hold up his hands and show them his hands and his feet.
Show them that it was he himself who had been in death, who was risen, mighty Victor.
And you could say please.
Does that Blessed One spoken peace to your soul?
Do you read those words in John 20 and enjoy them?
As words spoken to you by the Lord himself, the one who conquered your enemy. He's like David, you know. When he came forth after slaying Goliath to his ID, came forth with the head of Goliath, and he's never more. Could that man trouble them?
He had the proof of victory with him.
Taken off his head with his own sword. And did not the Lord do that?
Satan says if I can get him on the cross, if I can get rid of him. He went down into death and he came forth a victor with the evidence, the trophies that he passed.
Of living Jesus, peace be unto you, Jehovah Shalom.
Do you know that one?
He is our peace.
You have peace with God.
If you're a Christian, you should have.
If you don't have, I don't know that I can call you a Christian.
You may say you believe, but if you believe, you should enjoy this peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jehovah, Charlotte.
I want to turn to Jeremiah 23.
Jeremiah 23 and verse 5.
Behold the days come, saith the Lord.
Jehovah.
Then I will raise unto David a righteous branch.
And a king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
In his days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely.
And this is the name whereby he shall be called.
The Lord our righteousness.
Now if you have a margin in your Bible, look up your margin to that.
And you will find that it should be, Jehovah said. Can you?
Now what I mean by should be.
The Lord our righteousness is a translation.
She always said. Can you as a transliteration.
The difference being this that the transliteration is merely the Hebrew word.
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With spelt with English letters. Now that's what we had with Jehovah.
Shalom, Jehovah, Jireh Jehovah nissi. And if they follow the same order, we would have it, Jehovah said. Can you hear?
We have a hymn written to Jehovah said Can you? I think it was 1 stanza of it that isn't in our book.
My tears from the daughters of Zion, which rolled. I wept when the sorrows went over his soul.
Getting thought not my sins had nailed to the tree, Jehovah said. Can you was nothing to me.
Oh, how many people there are that no religion talk about Christ?
And yet, Jehovah said, Can you as nothing to them.
What does it mean? The Lord our righteousness?
Now this will be true of Israel in the coming day of the Millennium, the Lord our righteousness.
Was it true when the Lord was here before? No, He willing to justify himself, said. And who is my neighbor? They wanted to justify themselves.
If you turn to the 10th chapter of Romans, you would find there that Israel have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.
Would have gone about to establish their own righteousness. That's what Israel did when the Lord was here.
But in the day that's coming, Israel is going to pass through the Great Tribulation.
They're going to go through terrible sorrow and they're going to look on him whom they pierced and mourn and be in heaviness for him.
They're going to admit that that was their Messiah whom they crucified.
And the sorrow and the agony will be so intense that it will be individual.
Zechariah says every family apart in their wives apart intensely individual, but after that they're going to refer to the Lord as their righteousness. And dear fellow Christian, do you know the Lord as your righteousness? We read in First Corinthians who of God is made unto us wisdom? Is he your wisdom or the wisdom of this world?
Hope God is made unto us wisdom.
Righteousness.
Sanctification and redemption, We have it all in Him.
Righteousness. The Lord, our righteousness. Some people's attitude is in Christendom that we do our part and we believe and then we believe in Christ, but we add our part and we do certain things. Or maybe that the Lord makes up what we couldn't do and His righteousness is added to us. It's wrong. I heard our brother Brown make this statement numerous times. Nothing that Christ ever did in life or in death.
Is my righteousness, but He himself is my righteousness.
I stand before God in Christ. He is my righteousness.
Jehovah said. Can you? Oh dear fellow Christians?
What a savior we have. What more do we need? Jehovah said. Can you?
Is all things to me.
May we be able to say that now I want one more and that's the last verse of Ezekiel.
We have trouble finding. It's just the last verse before you come to Daniel.
Now you know in the prophet Ezekiel, we get the prophecy of the coming of Christ to reign.
And all the end of the book of Ezekiel tell you about the glories of the temple of that day.
Not only the glories of the temple, but all that will be true.
Of Israel then. But the grand climax? The grand finale.
Is the last verse of Ezekiel.
And it was round about 18,000 measures. And the name of the city from that day shall be.
Here is another case where they translated instead of transliterating.
If they had translated it, transliterated it, they would have said Jehovah Shama.
The name of the place shall be The Lord Is There. That's the grand climax of Israel's future blessing.
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Not that they will have their cities. Not that they will have the temple again. Not that their enemies will be subdued, but that the Lord is there. That's how that place of Jerusalem is going to be known in that day. The Lord Jehovah Shama. This morning we were gathered together here to remember the Lord and death.
Did it enter your thoughts?
The Lord is here.
You want anything finer than that?
I've seen better buildings in this, not disparaging this place.
But what more could we have had?
If we had the most grand and eloquent building that man could make, what more could we have had?
What less could we have had? Well, if we hadn't had Christ in our midst this morning, we wouldn't have had much.
If we'd had all the elegance of Earth.
The Lord is there. Jehovah Shammath.
Brethren, it's going to be Israel's Christ. It's going to be the key to Israel's blessing and glory in that day.
And that's the key to your blessing and mine, as Saints gather to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
You remember when the Lord rose from the dead and came into his own in the upper room?
The first time one of them was missing, Thomas was missing.
Thomas said. Oh, I don't believe his wisdom. And if I don't see the Prince in his hands, and put my finger into the Prince, and put my.
Hand into his side, I will not believe.
Well, you know, during the week.
Those disciples that were there met Thomas.
You know what they said to Thomas. We have seen the Lord.
They didn't say we had a good meeting last Lord's Day and you should have been there.
They said we saw the Lord.
That's what filled their soul. That's what filled their minds.
We have seen the Lord, you know, if you weren't to the breaking of bread this morning.
And you could have been. You missed something. The Lord was here this morning and you weren't.
How are you going to explain that? The judgment seat of Christ?
The Lord says Well, I asked you to be there where I'd be in the midst.
I ask you to Remember Me in death, and I told you how to do it and where to do it.
You didn't do it.
Oh, brethren, sometimes we need to check ourselves in this way.
What excuse would we give to him who was asked us to do it?
Jehovah Shama, the Lord is there if you are looking at men.
All you'll find men are failing lot and it won't make any difference whether you're here or somewhere else. You'll find men are failing.
People.
If you would follow, if you followed David down to The Cave of Dullum, you'd find a 400.
Malcontents.
You wonder how two sets could get along in peace in a cave with 400 of them got along there.
Because they were subject to taste.
Or if I'm going to carry with me my pet ideas and I'm going to try to assert them on everybody else, I'm going, I'm going right into trouble.
With all to lay hold of the fact.
What will it be to dwell above and with the Lord of glory reign?
Since the blessed knowledge of His love so brightens all this dreary plain.
No heart, didn't think. No tongue can tell what Joyce will be with brightness as well.
#202.
I overlooked one point and it's so important that I must mention it.
In Speaking of the Old Testament, Elohim.
Jehovah.
And Most High.
And in my hurry to get on to the compound names using Jehovah.
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I overlooked the name by which God is revealed to us in this age.
And that's father.
The Lord Jesus, when he was here as a man, could address God as his father.
But after the work of atonement was over.
And he arose that mighty victor.
He sent Mary first.
To convey the most blessed message ever carried by human lives.
Go to my bread, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father in you, my God and you.
He brings us into relationship with himself to know God as our Father.
An hour ago. I don't know which one of the two is the more one that God should have us know Him as our father and address him as such. We were speaking yesterday that that is the privilege of the youngest child in Christ, the one just saved to know God as his Father.
But all to know that God is our God and have No Fear before.
That one before whom sin is sin and all is hideousness.
And yet address him as our God, that one that knows it all and sees it all.
Hates him and yet address him as our God and.
I merely add that because I didn't mean to.
Mess it and I wouldn't miss it.
Let's pray.
Oh blessed God, our Father, we thank thee that we who were once strangers.
Aliens.
Even thine enemies.
Have been reconciled to thee by the death of thy son.
And all that stood against us before thee, a holy God.
Has been fully and forever removed.
And that that which is glorified thee in respect of sins has cleared our guilty conscience.
And so thou art flees, and our consciences are satisfied.
Always, thankfully, we thank thee that thou didst provide.
That lamb, Roberto.
We thank thee too, that most of us here this afternoon in this room know him as our savior.
We thank thee too, that while Israel knew thee, but in part.
At different times.
In different ways.
All that thou work to them is to us.
And beside all that thou art our father.
We thank Thee that we know Thee. Thus we ask thee too, that the meditation on Thy grace, thy goodness, Thy blessings to us.
May so enrich our souls.
That we may have a little have more strength and courage to go on a little longer in a wicked world.
The right block. We ask it for thy glory and the glory of Christ in his precious name.
Hey.
Luke 2
Children—W. Gill
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And for the children who don't read yet, this is that little song in which we spell some words glad TIDINGSI suppose we all know that hymn #46.
Glad TI DIMGF IBRING.
My way I feel.
Baby and he calls and he calls all the TIRLS and he wants to be always to to.
Key Are you asking him and have all their sins now washed, All washed away?
What's a GIRLS? What is it?
Girl, what's a BOY? What is it?
Boy, so this is for boys and girls, for girls and boys. And it's about tidings. And tidings means news. And I'm sure it can only mean the glad tidings, the good news about the Lord Jesus. But before we go on our meeting, we're going to ask God's blessing. And before we do that, I want to tell you children, but I sometimes tell our children at home.
In Oakland.
That it's good to bow our heads when we pray because God is so great.
It's good to bow our heads and then it's good. It's so important that we close our eyes because we might see other things around us. So while we're praying, let's close our eyes and Bower him.
No, I wonder about hymn #42. And the reason I wonder is that here we have only the chorus.
I suppose we can all sing the whole the whole of one verse which starts out and remember I claim for my own a king on a throne, the maker of land and sea. And then we have the chorus here. So let's sing that one verse #42 in the hymn sheet.
I am the heavens of all.
Name be family.
***** and my savior love, I'm also unworthy. Still am a child of his care.
For his work teaches me that his love reaches me hungry.
Wow.
Let's sing #447 too. That's when he coming to make up his June.
Jesus loves me. That's I know for the Bible kills me. So let I want to hear me long play on week my hair. Jesus loves me.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
My mom tells me so Jesus must me. He will stay lost me, sign me all my way. If I trust him, should I die, he will Take Me Home on time.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
No, I wondered what I should talk about.
And of course we want to talk about the Lord Jesus. But then I thought, what do little children like? And then I thought, well, girls like to talk about babies. I suppose all girls do, even when they get to be kind of old. But boys don't care about babies, do they?
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No. So I thought, well, we can talk about an old man.
And at least that's what we want to start talking about. So if you have your Bible open to.
The Gospel by Luke in chapter 2.
Because the baby that I want to talk to you about.
As the Lord Jesus.
Well, you know, the Lord Jesus really was born. He really came to this earth, and he was born here. It's nice to see these little babies here at the conference. And I wondered how old the youngest baby might be. I didn't ask anybody, but I suppose it isn't very old. Well, in the second chapter of Luke, we'll just read a little bit about it.
And.
The sixth verse. And so it was that while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered, and she brought forth her first born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a Manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Now going down to the 21St verse.
And when 8 days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named to the Angel before he was conceived in the womb. And when the days of her purification, according to the law of Moses, were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord.
The 24th verse, and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons.
Now that's about the baby. Now we're going to read about the old man.
And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost that he should not see death before he had seen the Lorde Christ.
And he came by the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him after the custom of the law.
Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now let us thou thy servant, depart in peace according to thy word.
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou has prepared before the face of all people.
A light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel.
And also we're going to read here.
Children, like I said, the Lord Jesus really came to this earth. He was born just like children were born, except I suppose all of your children were born in the hospital, worked nice and clean, and the doctors there and the nurses to take care of your mother and to take care of you when you were born. But the Lord Jesus wasn't born in a hospital, no, when Mary and Joseph came there to Bethlehem.
And they looked around for a place to be. Nobody had any room for them.
Nobody wanted them, I suppose, but the Lord Jesus was going to be born in Bethlehem.
And so they had they. They found a place to stay in a barn. And the Lord Jesus was born in a Manger. And a Manger, I think, is where the horses live, and I'm sure it was nice and clean and strong and so on. But anyway, the Lord Jesus was born as a baby there and then.
After a few days, they gave him a name. No. Maybe your parents had a name already for you when you were born. I know we did when our children were born. And then when we got through, we had one name over.
So sometimes we call our little girl Johnny, because if it had been a boy, it was going to be Jonathan. So we kind of tease her sometimes like that.
But the Lord Jesus, you know had his name before, well, quite a while before he was born, because God spoke to Mary and to Joseph and said, now this baby that's going to be born, he called his name Jesus.
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And God had a very special reason for that, because the name Jesus means.
Jehovah the Savior. Yet God. God sent the Lord Jesus here.
To save lost sinners. And when the Lord Jesus was born, God had a name for him all picked up. And so as we read in one of those verses.
That after eight days the Lord Jesus was eight days old. Then Joseph and Mary said his name is Jesus.
And so it's about the Lord Jesus that we want to talk now, boys, I said I was going to talk about an old man, too. Now that man was Simeon. And in one way.
I envy him so much, not in every way, but in one way. And that was because when the Lord Jesus came there or was brought there to that temple.
And by now he was six weeks old. He was eight days old when they named him Jesus. But now he was six weeks old. And Mary and Joseph came into Jerusalem to the temple. This would be something like where we're meeting. I suppose it is where the believers of that day gathered, and they came there to the temple. And then old Mr. Simeon, he came in.
And I was thinking about Mr. Simeon. He must have been quite old and somehow God had spoken to him and said Simeon.
You're not going to die until you have seen the Lord Jesus Christ. He didn't tell Simeon that name.
But God told Simeon something about that. And then I was thinking about Simeon.
Some just six months before that, you know, there was another baby born and his name was John. And I just wondered if Simeon went around when he heard of something like that and looked at that baby and said, I wonder if this is the one. I wonder if this is the Savior that God is going to send. Well, there came the day anyway, that we read about when Joseph and Mary were there in the temple of Jerusalem.
And there was the Lord Jesus, just a little baby. And Simeon came in and he must have known immediately. This is the one. And then old Simeon, he went over there and he took that baby up in his arms. And this is what I think would have been so wonderful. Just think, if we could have held the Lord Jesus in our arm, wouldn't that be a wonderful, wonderful thing? You know, my girls are babysitters.
And I hear them sometimes, and they say, oh, there's a little baby there and it's the Darlings dearest, sweetest little thing. And they just love to take care of little babies.
Well, old Simeon, he helped the Lord Jesus in his arms.
And then he looked up to heaven, and we better read it because he looked up to heaven.
And he said, Lord, now let us thou thy servant, depart in peace. That is the.
Lord, now I'm ready to die. Now I'm ready to die. For mine eyes have seen thy salvation. Oh, I think that would have been wonderful. And I suppose it wasn't long after that that old Mr. Simeon died. Well, now, that's really all I wanted to tell you about a baby and an old man. But I do want to talk to you some more. So now let's turn to the 10th chapter. Mark.
The 10th chapter mark in the 13th verse.
Now this. This is some years after what we've been talking about now the Lord Jesus has grown to be a man.
And he's going around that country. They're doing good to folks and telling them about God.
And he was healing the sick and he helped blind folks to see and he did all so many kind things. So now in the 10th chapter of Marks Gospel in the 13th verse, I'm not sure where he was now, but anyway, it says they brought young children to him that he should touch them.
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And his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.
No, I said that I envied Simeon.
But I also envy those little children and those mothers that brought their children to the Lord Jesus.
Because wouldn't it have been wonderful if we could know the Lord Jesus today like that? Just suppose some of you children here that are kind of small, just suppose that your mother or your father brought you to a place like this and instead of me being here, it was the Lord Jesus. And that then the Lord Jesus would would take you and hug you in his arms like this. Wouldn't that be nice? Wouldn't you like to do that?
Oh, how about you? Do you like that? Yes. You know, big as I am, I'd like to have him do that right now. Wouldn't that be a wonderful boy? Just to think, the Lord Jesus, he took those little children and he put his arms around them, and then he put his hand on them and he blessed them all. That wonderful Lord Jesus. Now, why do you suppose he did that? You know why.
To save us. Yes, that's exactly right. He did it so he can save us. And that's what we're here for today. To talk about being saved. Because all children, I hope every one of you loves the Lord Jesus and knows that the Lord Jesus loves you. I didn't look at every one of you, but I think it must have been every one of you was singing that song. Jesus loves me. And I thought that was so nice that you know that Jesus loves me.
Now we get right here why the Lord Jesus did what he did.
Why he wants to save us and why he wants children and.
If you could put your finger right on it.
The last part of the 14th verse says for of such is the Kingdom of God.
Now, children.
Few months ago I was in New York.
And my wife and I, we went out to the Statue of Liberty. I suppose many of your children have seen the Statue of Liberty, but maybe you've seen pictures because the Statue of Liberty is there's a lady standing like this and she's holding a book, but written on that statue, I think is something like this. Give me your poor, your downtrodden and so on. Well, what it's saying is, and it's facing towards Europe and what the United States is saying is.
You poor folks from Europe, why don't you come to America? We want folks like you. But all the Lord, Jesus says right here in his book, I want.
Children just like you, boys and girls, because I'm going to have a Kingdom and everybody that's in my Kingdom has to be just like a little child has to become a little child. Now there's nothing easier then.
For somebody to be saved than for a child to be saved, because you're already a child.
You know, up and open. There was a man saved just recently. His name was Carl Eisenberg, and I think he must be about 35 years old. But, you know, that man had to be just like a little child. He got down on his knees and he said, Lord Jesus, as a needy Sinner, I take you as my savior. And he got saved right then. He had to get down just like a little child.
And say I can't do anything but Lord Jesus, you did everything for me. And so right here, children, the Lord Jesus says it's folks just like you folks, all you boys and girls here. It's just folks like you that I want in my Kingdom. And so we're here to tell you that the Lord Jesus died to save you and that he wants you for himself.
Now there was another thing here though, children, and that is in the 16th verse.
He says he took them up in his arms. We were just talking now about Simeon and how he took the Lord Jesus in his arms, and that was wonderful. But more wonderful than that was that the Lord Jesus? Maybe he stooped down and he took some of those children, or maybe he reached out to the mothers and they put the little child in his arms. But he took those children in his arms and we get in a verse somewhere else, I think, in the Gospel of John.
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That says we're in his hands, kept there safely, both hands. Oh, how wonderful it is to be saved and to just say Lord Jesus, I take you as my savior and boys and girls, you can do that right now. But now I want to tell you one other thing, and that is that when the Lord Jesus did that, his hands were just like mine. Now I have maybe some little bit of scars on my hands, but they aren't very many.
And you know when the Lord Jesus did this, what we're reading about right here?
His hands were just like mine.
But children, if you come to the Lord Jesus now, and if you could see his hands, what would you find there? You know what you'd see in the game? What would it be?
A big scar. I wonder how many scars there might be. We don't really know, but there's there's several scars there. I don't know how many, but there are several scars. Now let's put the scars in. Do you know?
He got nailed onto the cross, and that's the next thing I wanted to talk to you about. Let's look at the 22nd chapter of Luke's Gospel.
Now the Lord Jesus, he came as a baby to this world.
And then he grew up, and he'd find things just like we said about there.
And how he took those babies in his arm and he loved them and he blessed them. But then the Lord Jesus went on and there came a day when he's back in Jerusalem. And if we look at the 22nd chapter of Luke, just a few little verses. I want to talk to you about if the 50th verse of Luke 22 Says one of them smote the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear. Now I just mentioned this for a moment that the Lord Jesus.
Told his disciples, I'm going to Jerusalem, I'm going to die there. And dear old Peter, you know, he went and he got a sword. And I suppose he said they're never going to hurt the Lord Jesus, I'll protect him. And then poor old Peter, he made a mistake.
No, the Lord Jesus had to say to Peter, Peter, I'm going to go and die, and I'm going to die for you. And Peter couldn't change the Lord's mind, and I'm so glad he didn't. But now, children, if you have your Bibles open there, look at the 64th verse.
Now the 63rd verse and the men that held Jesus mocked him and smote him, and when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, saying prophecy, Who is it that smoked thee?
And many other things blasphemously spake thee against him.
All children, you know, I think about when I was a little boy, we used to play Blind Man's Buff, and I do boys and girls still play them?
I'd forgotten just how we played it, but I know we used to put something around our eyes and we couldn't see. And then we played a game. But you know, Jerusalem? Oh, that was no game. Those wicked men.
They blindfolded the Lord Jesus and I think they tied his hands too.
And then they took a stick and they hit the Lord Jesus. Wasn't that awful to do that?
They blindfolded the Lord Jesus and then they hit him and then they said.
You can tell everything. So you tell us who did that, and the Lord Jesus knew who it was that had done.
But the dear Lord Jesus, he didn't say anything.
All children just think of what they did.
There in Jerusalem to the dear Lord Jesus, when he went there to die for you and for me.
You know, if we go on.
And in the next chapter, the 33rd verse and says when they were come to the place which is called Calvary there they crucified him.
The 34th verse then said Jesus, Father, forgive them.
For they know not what they do.
Yes, children.
The Lord Jesus had walked up to Jerusalem, and then those wicked men took them.
And after a while, they walked outside of Jerusalem, out to a hill.
That was called Calvary's Hill.
And there they had a crawl.
And that's where the Lord Jesus got those nail prints in his hands.
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Because there, the Lord Jesus was put on a cross like this and they put nails through his hands. Oh girls, when you've been sewing, do you ever stick a needle in your finger? Did you ever do that? It hurts, doesn't it?
And boys, did you ever drive a nail into your finger or just hurt a little bit like that? Oh yes, it hurt. But the Lord Jesus, they pounded nails through his hands and through his feet, and they let him hang on that cross. And then they did some awful things to the dear Lord Jesus. Why did they do that? Because they hated them. But why did God allow them to do it? Because God loves you, children.
God let them do that. But then something more happened.
Something more happened, and after a little while it was just as though God turned a switch. I think it must have been this way and the sun didn't shine.
And for three hours the Lord Jesus hung there on that cross.
And it's as though.
It's as though God said.
Jesus.
If you want boys and girls to be saved, you're going to have to pay for their sin.
And the Lord Jesus as he hung there on that crawl.
We know that he knew that he was suffering for your sins and for mine.
But in that darkness, nobody could see what was going on.
But God knew, and God was punishing the Lord Jesus for you and for me.
And you know, boys and girls, sometimes maybe you think, well, I'm not so bad. I'm not the Sinner. The Lord Jesus surely didn't have to die for me. If you're a little girl, you know, you might say, well, my mother hugs me and loves me and kisses me and says I'm a wonderful girl. I'm not a Sinner, am I? And you boys might say my father hardly ever has to spank me. I'm not a bad boy. Am IA Sinner? Yes, boys and girls. Every one of us is a Sinner.
Everyone of us is a Sinner.
The Lord Jesus hung on Calvary's cross like that, and God punished him for your sins. If you'll just take him now, how does a boy or a girl get saved?
All by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, just to quietly say, Lord Jesus, I'm a Sinner, but you've died from me. And then the Lord Jesus, you know what he takes.
I mean, we think of it. He takes a pen or a pencil. A pen and he writes your name in the book. Isn't that wonderful? And the Lord Jesus can do that because he died for you. Ah, children.
I hope you'll take the Lord Jesus as your savior right now, and we could even kneel down right here and pray and ask the Lord Jesus to save you. But if you don't do it here, oh, I hope tonight the Lord leaves us here before you go to bed tonight.
Tell your mother or your father I want to be Satan and I'm sure they'll be happy just to kneel down.
And you can see a little prayer like that. Lord Jesus, I want to be saved. And you died for me, and I take you as my savior. Oh, I hope your children will do that. Well, now the Lord Jesus, you know, after a little while, he died there on the cross.
And then we were talking about somebody holding the Lord Jesus and then the Lord Jesus holding little children. We'll just barely mention it. That in the 53rd verse, 52nd verse, this man, Missus Luke, 2352, this man, and that's Joseph of Arimathea. This man won an undue pilot and begged the body of Jesus, and he took it down and wrapped it in linen.
And laid in a sepulchre.
That is Joseph the guaranteed. Pull those nails out and he took the Lord Jesus from the cross.
And he buried them. Now when we have a funeral, you know, we go and we sing some hymns and somebody preaches the gospel. And then we go out to the cemetery and there maybe we sing another hymn and somebody says, because the Lord Jesus died and because he's coming again, we know that this person that is if this person, the one that died, was a blue fever, we say, we know that this grave is going to be open.
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And we're going to be caught away to heaven. But when the Lord Jesus died, there was nothing like that. No Joseph of Arimathea came and carefully took the Lord Jesus body and buried it, and I'm glad that Joseph did that. Well. Then on the Lord's day morning, we know that the Lord Jesus rose again, and now he's up there on the blowing up there in heaven, and he's waiting for the moment when he can come back, because when God says to the Lord Jesus.
Now is the time.
Now you can go back down to the clouds and call your people home. Then all of us who believe the Lord Jesus believe in him.
We're going to be caught away and go to heaven never to leave that wonderful place. But children, don't forget, the only way to be safe is to take the Lord Jesus as your savior. And again, I'll tell you what I'd like to tell our children at Oakland, that the Lord Jesus now stands like this with his hands stretched out. And if you were to look, and if you could see the Lord Jesus as you can see me, you'd look in his hand there, you'd see those nail prints.
And you'd have to say, oh, that was because of me.
But the Lord Jesus wouldn't say anything like that to you. All the Lord Jesus says is, Come, little children, won't you come and take the Lord Jesus as your saviour, or if you will?
Now I want to tell you talking about one other little thing.
And that's in the Gospel of Luke, the 19th chapter.
Because now I want to talk to you, children who do know the Lord Jesus.
Who've taken him as your savior? Because I know many of you have. I'm sure you have.
So you dear children that do know the Lord Jesus, this is especially for you, the 19th chapter of Luke.
The 28th verse. And when he had thus spoken, he went before ascending up to Jerusalem, and it came to pass, When he was come nigh to Betha G and Bethany at the mount called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples saying, Go ye into the village over against you in the which that you're entering you shall find a coat tide whereon yet never man sat loose him.
And bring him hit her. And if any man asks you why do ye loose him, thus shall ye say unto him, because the Lord hath need of him.
Now, children, I'm talking to you boys and girls.
Who love them or Jesus who have already taken him as your Savior.
Now I want to ask you, even though you belong to the Lord Jesus, does your mother sometimes say something like this? You're just as stubborn as imbue.
I wonder if somebody, I suppose you children, you've heard your mother say that and maybe some time you were listening and your mother was talking to your father and she said that child of mine is just as stubborn as a mule. I don't know what to do.
When you know this story here is about a donkey, an *** or a donkey. But those of us that weren't raised on farms, we think about donkeys and mules as being something alike. So let's think about this.
This donkey as a mule. That was a stubborn mule.
And I just want to save children that the Lord Jesus needs you.
Did you ever hear that before? The Lord Jesus needs you. I think there's only one thing the Lord Jesus needs, and that's you. You that love the Lord Jesus. And you may be stubborn as a mule, but the Lord Jesus maybe says that's just exactly the one I want. Because the Lord Jesus sent for this little mule, and it was a baby mule, apparently, and the Lord Jesus sent for that one. And when that mule came.
The Lord Jesus rode into Jerusalem and now the Lord Jesus has gone back to heaven. He's not here and he doesn't need a mule here, but he needs little children to do something for him. Now the mule carried the Lord Jesus into the city, and I think the Lord Jesus now wants little children, maybe to tell others about the Lord Jesus. Now I'm going to tell you something that happened the other day. There was a young man and he's here.
But nobody, almost nobody, knows who I'm talking about. But when we were driving down here, there were there's another family in ourselves, and we were almost here when we had a flat tire. And I thought, why did it have to happen here? Why, before we left home, we got down on our knees and we prayed and the Lord was so good to us. But I was almost here. Then we had a flat tire. Well, we just pulled off to the side of the road and another car came along and his.
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Radiator was steaming and this young man, you know, he ran over there to see what he could do.
And he found out what he needed and he ran, and he got a sort of a bucket of drinking water and he gave it to the man. And then I noticed him pull out a little tract and he handed it to him. Know that boy I'm speaking about? I don't. I don't know that he's like a mule. I don't know very well. But I was just thinking of how just like the deal in our story right here carried the Lord Jesus.
Here was a boy who carried the word of God, and he gave it to that man. And I thought maybe that's why we had the flat tire, so that that boy could serve him. Now there's one little thing, children, you who love the Lord Jesus, there's one way at least that you can serve the Lord Jesus and make them happy.
But now, children, if I have your permission, I want to talk something to the old folks that we have to go back into the gospel by Matthew in the 21St chapter.
And this is the same story.
The 21St chapter of Matthew in the second verse where the first verse when they drew nigh under Jerusalem missus. Matthew 21 in the first verse when they drew an eye into Jerusalem and were come to Betha G under the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus 2 disciples saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway you shall find an *** tide and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them unto me.
And if any man say ought unto you, he shall say, the Lord hath need of them.
And straightway he will send them all children. What I wanted to tell the old folks was this.
That it isn't just young, stubborn, mulish people that the Lord wants. He wants stubborn old people too, to serve him. And sometimes, you know, when we get old like me, we can be pretty stubborn and want to do things in our own way. Let the Lord Jesus says, you come to me, you stubborn old mule. And when you come to the Lord Jesus. And then I think when we see the nail prints in his hand and we see the wondrous beauty that there is in the Lord Jesus and what a wonderful, wonderful person he is.
And then I'm not going to be stubborn and mugish anymore.
So boys and girls, the Lord wants young mules and He wants old mules too, because the Lord says I have need of both of them. So I hope that the old folks will think about this verse too, that as they have been holding out on the Lord Jesus, not wanting to serve Him and not wanting to help, Oh I hope that they'll think about this in Matthew. Now Luke is just we think that the Lord only wanted the young one.
But in Matthew says he really wanted both of them, and then they both came.
And they serve the Lord now, children. They talk about the Lord Jesus. He really was born as a baby and he old Simeon, he's in heaven now. And he held the Lord Jesus in his hands, in his arms. And then the Lord Jesus went and he took children just like you, boys and girls. And he held them in his arms. And he wants to hold you in his arms too. And he stands with his arms out like this and says, come.
Oh, I want you come to me and be saved, and then if you are already saved.
The Lord Jesus says you can help me out. I need you to do a little work for me. I hope you remember this, children. Now I want to sing a song.
And I will tell you this.
Want to sing #5 and this is all Happy day.
There is No Difference, Rom 3:23
Abraham and Hagar
All things are opened to His eyes
Hezekiah
Psalm 23
1 John 2:17
"Acts 15:1-35, Galations 2:1-10"