Burbank Conference: 1967
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The Christian & the World #1
The Christian & the World #2
Address—C.H. Brown
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Address to Young People Chapter Brown, July 31St, 1967 Burbank Meeting Room Shall we open our Bibles to the 22nd chapter of Deuteronomy?
Now if this loudspeaker here is not pairing to the further corners of the room, just let me know and.
Put forth more effort.
If it's working all right, then you'll just go on as we are.
Deuteronomy 22.
Eighth verse.
But now build us a new house.
Then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roots.
That thou bring not blood upon thine house.
If any man fall from thence.
We hope to read further, but.
Shall we stop there and make a few remarks?
In the prayer meeting that just preceded our meeting tonight.
A brother prayed very appropriately.
To the Lord that we might not point the finger.
At one another.
But rather think of ourselves in connection with the message tonight.
And I would desire before I.
Start on this subject.
To assure my dear brethren here tonight that.
I have in mind no certain people that I'm trying to correct.
I hope to speak fearlessly of some things that I believe the Word of God would have us think about.
But I'm not personalizing it in the sense of picking up someone to find fault with such.
So will you be assured in connection with the remarks that I made, that they are impersonal?
Just to take it as a general.
Exhortation.
And encouragement to all of us in these last days.
To go on with the Lord in separation from a deceitful world.
And many of us here are younger.
When they'll build us the new house.
Perhaps some of you are doing that now. Perhaps some of you contemplate doing it soon.
And now build us to new house.
Then thou shalt make a battlement for thy root.
This is Deuteronomy 22 verse 8.
That thou bring not blood upon thine house.
If any man falls from sense.
Now that's a solemn principle, isn't it?
Building a new house, be sure that.
We think about those who might have an accident by having an open roof with no.
With no banister there no protection.
So that they were exhorted to see to it that that was taken care of, that it was anticipated.
Where to anticipate these things, not to do them after somebody falls.
When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement for thy root.
That thou bring not blood upon thine house.
Now that'll be a solemn thing, Linda.
Bring blood upon your house for me to bring blood upon my house.
How?
By failing to take precautions.
That no one would be stumbled.
That no one would be offended by what they find in my house.
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It's my house I'm responsible for.
That.
Thou bring that blood upon thine house if any man fall from fence.
Now let us turn keep this place, because we'll be turning to it often, to the 14th chapter of Romans.
Romans 14.
And verse 13.
Let us not therefore.
Romans 1413.
Let us not therefore judge one another anymore, but judge this rather.
That no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brothers way.
Now, doesn't that fit in exactly with what we have there in the 22nd of Deuteronomy?
God's basic principles do not change.
We're always held responsible for our influence upon others.
Not to put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall.
In his brother's way.
Now a verse in Hebrews, the 12Th chapter.
And Hebrews 12.
Plenty of seats up here to.
Take them.
We're reading now a verse in Hebrews 12.
And verse 12.
Wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down.
And the feeble needs.
And make straight paths for your feet.
Lest that which is lame be turned out of the way.
But let it rather be healed. Follow peace with all, and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord.
Now the 13th verse is the one I would emphasize.
Make straight paths for your feet.
Lest that which is lame be turned out of the way.
But let it rather be healed.
Well, the figure of speech there is.
If I'm walking a certain path and someone is planting his feet in my footsteps.
If I'm going wrong, he'll go wrong.
So there's an exhortation to see to it.
That we make straight paths for our feet lest.
That which is lame, that is the weak brother.
Attempting to follow us.
Will put his feet in our steps, and if our steps are wrong, we will lead him in a wrong way. Now that's a solemn responsibility.
So that fits in very nicely with what we have in that 22nd of Deuteronomy. If we build a house, we're to have a balustrade there that no one may fall from that roof and be injured. We'll bring blood upon ourselves if we do it.
We are responsible.
The way we personally walk.
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Now you know, brethren, it's natural to the flesh.
To say, well, I'll live my life and I'll let him live his.
That's the flight stop.
That certainly isn't the way the Word of God talks. That's not the language of the Spirit of God.
That's the old man, the flesh. That's indeed. And then you.
No, we are responsible for our brethren.
Lest anyone fall.
And solely being bring blood upon our house.
Now we'll go to some other scriptures that.
Bring this thing down a little more.
Carefully, particularly.
Second Kings, the 4th chapter.
And the second verse.
And Elijah said unto her.
What shall I do for thee? Tell me?
What hast thou in the house?
What hast thou in the house?
And she said, Thine Handmaid hath not anything in the house save a pot of oil.
Then, he said, go borrow the vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels. Borrow not a few.
When are coming in, thou shalt shut the door upon the inn upon thy sons and.
And shall pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
Notice the question that was put to her by Elijah. What hast thou in the house?
And she answered very promptly, without any sense of shame or embarrassment.
Thine handmaid hath not anything in the house. They were pot of oil. Well, oil is the type of the Holy Spirit.
Had that inside her home that answered to the sanction of the Spirit of God.
Well, Elijah was able to use that, so he immediately tells her to go and borrow vessels and he'll see that she has plenty when he got through.
Well, you know the story. She bought vessels and they filled them all up and she had nothing to spare.
Now in Isaiah 39 we look for a verse.
39th of Isaiah.
This comes a little closer home still.
Isaiah 39.
And.
Verse 4.
Then said he.
What have they seen in thine house?
What have they seen in thine house?
That's a searching question, isn't it?
What have they seen in Nine House?
Well, brethren.
You know, if we were going to have a call made at our home.
By the Blessed Lord in person, I trust I'm speaking reverently.
Would there be considerable shuffling around and changing of things in anticipation of his visit?
Are our homes so discordant?
With what would meet with his approval that that would necessitate a complete renovation before we would be in a position to receive a call from the Blessed Lord? What have they seen in that house?
Isn't that a searching question for you please?
Now the 119th Psalm.
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And remember now, in all these scriptures we're speaking in an impersonal way.
Are not pointing the finger at anybody.
We're just reading the word of God.
That's what we're here for, the word of God.
The 119th song.
Verse 37.
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken thou me in thy way.
Let's read it again.
Turn away mine eyes.
From beholding vanity.
And quicken thou me in thy way.
Do you think that that is a prayer that would be appropriate each day of our lives?
We're trying to confine our thoughts tonight to the home when our builders a new home, a new house.
Have a battlement around the roof that no one fall and thus bring blood upon our house.
Well, here's a prayer. Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity.
That's a rather researching scripture, isn't it?
Now look at the 101St Psalm.
And the third verse.
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes.
I hate the work of them that turn aside, it shall not plead to me.
I will set no wicked thing before mine.
Isn't this rather searching?
Remember, now we're thinking about our home that we're building and.
Whether anyone might fall from the roof because of a lack of protection.
What have they seen in our house? What hast thou in the house?
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity.
In the 4th of March a verse.
We've just been talking about what they.
We see now a little different idea Here Mark 4, verse 24.
And he said unto them, Take heed what she hear.
Not only what you see, but what you hear. Take heed what you hear.
Now Deuteronomy 7.
Remember that this is not what the speaker is saying.
We're reading Scripture. This is God speaking in his word. He's speaking to every child of God in this room here tonight.
Deuteronomy 7.
And verse 26.
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house.
Lest that lest thou be a cursed thing like it.
But thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it, for it is a cursed thing.
Notice that bringing it into thine house, God holds us responsible for what we bring in our homes.
Now I have made bold to.
With me two or three little pamphlets tonight.
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The first one, from which I will read a paragraph, was written by our late and esteemed brother Paul Wilson.
I just read a paragraph or two.
A question once put to King Hezekiah by the prophet Isaiah may be appropriate in this connection.
What have they seen in Nine House, Second Kings, 2015.
The modern medium of communication will bring an assortment of sites into the home for the mental fare of its occupants and its guests.
Will it be to God's glory?
Will it further occupation with heavenly things?
Will it be a means to help us grow in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?
Or will it be one more thing to distract us from the only one who is worthy of being our chief occupation?
You think our brother Wilson is sorry right now that he ever wrote that paragraph?
Perhaps the greatest challenge.
Video makes concerning the welfare of children.
In areas where it is already available.
The children in the world have become Sir devotees of this form of amusement.
It has a special appeal to the young and their plastic minds are very easily influenced.
By it.
And what are they seeing with such evident delight?
Bali madness, crime, moral corruption, among other things.
The same things that have poisoned the youth of the country in the picture shows and brought about much of the juvenile delinquency and lawlessness are now being served hour upon hour, day in and day out, in many homes.
This influence will accelerate the coming of the moral conditions in the world, similar to those in the days of Noah.
And of love as foretold by our Lord in Luke 17.
A survey in Los Angeles.
Counted 127 murders, 101 justifiable killings, 357 attempted murders, 93 kidnappings, 11 jailbreaks and many other crimes in just one week.
And the program seen in that city.
A Chicago survey in December 1952, counting four days, 77 murders, 7 kidnappings, 53 shootings and a total of 216 crimes of violence on so-called children's programs, children saw almost every conceivable method of killing demonstrated the results of such crimes being enacted constantly before the youth of the land.
Will produce either a frightened, unhealthy state or a cold, callous indifference.
A cheapening of the value of human life and a reckless disregard for all virtue.
Will anyone dare to say that Satan is not behind all this? He is leading the so-called Christian nations down the road once trodden by the depraved Roman Empire.
Now I have.
Another bit here.
That is written.
I'll only read just.
Paragraph here and there. This was written by Oswald J Smith, one of the greatest fundamental teachers and preachers in Canada. He's known all over Canada as one of their outstanding fundamentalist creatures. He has a big a big place in Toronto.
He's speaking along this same line, if you want to know how serious it is.
Read the article on page 103 of the Reader's Digest for April 1956.
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The other day, a Salvation Army officer warned parents to turn off their television sets between the hours of four and seven. These hours, which are devoted to shows for children, are filled with the most brutal crimes imaginable, and it is those scenes that inspire our teenagers to go out in gangs to commit acts of violence.
A polluted diet of crime, violence, brutality, and sadism, sponsored by cigarette companies, breweries and distilleries, is now the daily menu for millions of boys and girls. The theater, with all its filth that we as Christians wouldn't dream of patronizing, is now brought into our living room. Television may well be the final step in the complete collapse of the moral and spiritual life of our nation.
Children will do what they see others do.
These are the last days and we're going to the bottom. Soon we will be on the lowest rung of the ladder and judgment will fall.
Alcoholism has almost doubled since television began to feature liquor ads.
Robbery with violence is increasing by leaps and bounds 30 killings a day.
Have been shown on television one city and in another 48 and 20 scenes of violence in a single hour, according to the Readers Digest. What kind of a harvest can we expect?
I was going through the train one day.
Giving out some gospel tracts.
And a passenger sitting there.
Well, my friend who said I'd like to give you a track.
So he handed me this. This is just one one little piece of it.
But I thought it was very expressive. Seemed to hit the point.
Television is arrival of schools and churches.
The feeder of lust. A perverter of morals, a tool of greed.
A school of crime. A betrayal of innocence. It glorifies impurity as love.
Pictures murder as entertainment, exalts nakedness and indecency as beauty shows, drink reveling, gambling, revenge and gunfights is proper and legitimate. Television ruins the influence of a Christian. Debauchers the mind of children and claims the lust of youth glamorizes all types of sin and hardens the hearts of sinners.
One little personal incident and we'll leave this subject.
I went to see a sister in a nursing home in Des Moines and.
The man that had charge of the place said. It'll be a little bit before I can have her ready.
He said. I'll just turn this on for you so you'll have something to look at.
While you're waiting. So he put the button and I found myself in a Bowery saloon.
Whether a man behind the bar.
And a wretched, horrible character standing in front of him. And they were about to.
Some kind of an altercation that would end in perhaps violence.
And so I just kindly, just quietly got up and walked out because I'm not accustomed to go to the Bowery salons.
It's it's not the environment that I would cover.
I'm just bringing these things out, brethren, that we.
We might get a bar relief.
Of this thing just brought out in a rather staggering way.
So let us pass on now. And Joshua go to Joshua.
24th chapter.
And the.
15th verse.
Joshua 2415.
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And if it seemed evil unto you to serve the Lord.
Choose you this day whom he will serve.
Whether the gods which your father served that were on the other side of the flood.
Are the gods of the Amorites in whose lands he dwell?
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Would you like that up on the wall in your home?
That last clause there. But As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Shouldn't that be the aspiration, the desire, the purpose of everyone of us that call upon the name of the Blessed Lord Jesus?
As for me, in my house we will serve the Lord.
Now Genesis 35.
Genesis 35 first verse.
God said unto Jacob. Arise.
To Bethel and dwell there. Bethel means the House of God.
And make there an altar under God, that appeared unto thee, when thou fledest from the face of east all thy brother.
Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him.
Put away the strange gods that are among you and be clean and change your garments.
And let us arise and go to Bethel.
And I will make there an order unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress.
And was with me in the way which I went. And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which are in their ears.
And Jacob hid them under the oak which was in Shechem. And they journeyed. And the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. So Jacob came to laws, which is in the land of Canaan, that is Bethel.
He and all the people that were with him.
And he built there, and altered and called the place.
El Bethel.
The God of Bethel, because there God appeared unto him when he fled from the face of his brothers.
Arise. Let us go up to Bethel and dwell there. Well, what a happy decision that was.
Now Deuteronomy 6.
We've been speaking somewhat along the negative line. Now we can turn a little more of a positive.
The fourth verse.
Deuteronomy 6.
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is 1 Lord.
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart.
Now notice this seventh verse is special.
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children.
And shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house.
And when thou walkest, by the way.
When thou liest down and when thou risest up.
And thou shall bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Don't miss that frontlets between the eyes.
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
And it shall be when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which he swear unto thy fathers Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities which thou build us not, and so on.
One hour notice.
That when they arrived and were in their homes, they were to gather the family around and teach them.
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These things that they had just been hearing from Moses, Thou shalt talk of them when our sittest in thine house.
You know, sometimes you go in homes and.
There's so much racket going on.
That you can hardly hear one another talk.
When thou walkest, by the way, And when thou liest down, When thou risest up.
Oh, how good to have the things of God before us.
And bind them for a sign upon thy hand.
If that hand is sanctified by the Spirit of God.
You know, there's just a lot of things that that hand won't do.
If it's sanctified by the Spirit of God.
And frontlets between thine eyes.
If I have.
Here this sign that he's talking about.
If it's going to be according to the will of God, I'll be very careful what I'm looking at, Will I not frontless between thine eyes?
Now.
Deuteronomy 7 The next chapter.
The sixth verse.
Thou art and holy people.
Unto the Lord thy God, the Lord thy God, hath chosen me to be a special people unto himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Now we're applying this the Saints of God.
That's the way the Lord looks down and sees it.
We have a special place. There are no people on the face of the earth. So dear to the heart of God is the Saints that have been redeemed by the Precious Blood.
Above all, people are upon the face of the earth.
The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor.
Choose you because you were more in number than any people, for you were the fewest of all people.
But because the Lord loves you.
Because the Lord loved you.
Our dear Saints of God, remember everyone of us here tonight. That's a child of God.
Is so because of that infinite absolute love of God.
That menace brought us to himself.
Gave us that new life. It's the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. It isn't something we earn, but God loved us and He brought us to Christ, and all the least that we can do is to yield these poor lives of ours to His will in these last days.
Now in the.
11Th chapter of Deuteronomy.
18th verse.
Therefore shall you lay up these words.
In your heart and in your soul, bind them for a sign upon your hand that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
And you shall teach them your children, Speaking of them, when our Citizen Thine House.
And when thou walkest, by the way, when thou liest down, when thou risest dust.
And thou shalt write them upon the doorposts of thine house, and upon thy gates.
You know, it's it's been a disappointment.
And going about among God's dear people.
To go into some lovely homes. We're talking about the home, you know.
Lovely home.
And you know, you just look for something like this.
Something like this?
And you don't find it.
Yeah, you don't find any recognition.
It would. It would spoil. The looks of the furniture is so lovely and the wall is so nice and everything is so beautiful that.
Verses of the Word of God up would spoil the looks of things.
And you don't see it.
Well, our verse here says I shall write them upon the doorpost of Thine house.
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A doorpost. That's where you come in.
Declare who we are right at the very entrance so that people know when they come into our home that they're coming into a home that professes to be a Christian home.
The doorposts of thine house and upon thy gates.
That your days may be multiplied and the days of your children.
In the land which the Lord, swear unto your fathers to give them as the days of heaven upon earth.
Not trying to make us unhappy.
Is he trying to rob us of all our good times and our pleasure by taking these things away from us?
All beloved, we're never wiser than the word of God. Why not let God decide these things for us, Take Him at His word and prove that it's the truth?
Now perhaps we can go over Deuteronomy 22 again.
Ninth verse Thou shall not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds.
Lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast stoned, and the fruit of thy vineyard be defiled.
Now here's the vineyard.
Then you dragged close to the house.
There's the field we're not to sort with divers seeds, lest the fruit of thy seed, which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard be defiled.
Well, what is the seed? Edward and soul?
Well, the word of God tells us. Let's turn over to Luke 8.
See About the Sea.
Luke 8.
And the 11Th verse.
Luke 8 verse 11.
Now the parable is this.
The seed is the word of God.
Now here we have in our chapter here in Deuteronomy, thou shalt not so thye in here with divers seeds.
Lest I've entered be defiled.
The seed that we need to sow is the word of God.
I wonder, are we?
Exercise before God about what we might call a family altar about having the reading of the word.
Are our children growing up?
The memory that will stay with them as long as they live.
Of how we opened the day with the word of God, how we read it, talked about it.
And then Howie Nelson prayed. Is that the memory that'll fill their lives as they go from these homes that we're building, these homes where we're living, is at the seed of the word?
Or are they being filled with that seed that will not stand the test so that the the vineyard?
The vineyard is defiled, nor the seed is the word of God.
First Peter, the first chapter.
First Peter, the first chapter in the 22nd verse.
Seeing if purified your souls.
And obeying the truth through the spirit.
Unto unfeigned love of the brethren.
See that you love one another with a pure heart, permanently.
23rd verse is the one I want to emphasize.
Being born again, not a corruptible seed.
But of incorruptible seed.
The Word of God which liveth and abideth forever.
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For all flashes of grass, and all the glory of manners of flower grass.
The grass withereth, the flower of falleth away but the word of the Lord.
Endurance forever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Born again, not of corruptible seeds.
There's no.
Lack.
Our seed, if we're willing to use it.
We don't need to, according to the 22nd of Deuteronomy.
So our vineyard with divers seeds.
No, that will defile the venue.
But we have an abundance of that incorruptible scene.
Which is the word of God.
All that our children.
Might be accustomed to hear the word of God, that they might be acquainted with it.
That it might form part of their thinking daily.
Now I'm going to go back to Deuteronomy 22 again.
A tenth verse.
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an *** together.
Now God tells us that.
He has a right to tell us.
What it chooses to.
And when we go over to the New Testament, we can understand it very easily.
Turn to 2nd Corinthians, the 6th chapter.
An oxen and *** together. An ox was a clean animal.
An *** was an unclean animal according to the Levitical law.
Now we're over in the 6th chapter of Two Corinthians.
2nd Corinthians 6 and verse 14.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
Or what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? What communion have light with darkness?
What concord have Christ with Belial? Or what part have he that believeth?
With an infinite And what agreement has the temple of God was idols? For ye are the temple of the living God, as God has said. I will dwell in them and walk in them, and I will be their gods, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be his separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean, and I will receive you, and be a father unto you.
And you shall be my sons and daughters, that the Lord Almighty.
Now that's the opposite of buying with an ox and an *** together.
There's no unequal yoke. There is giving God his place in our lives.
And all you dear young people.
I'm not limiting this scripture here to the marriage question at all, because I don't think the Spirit of God means to limit it.
But just remember that one of the greatest mistakes you can ever make in your life.
Is to seek companionship for someone that doesn't know the Lord. Or how can two walk together?
Except they be agreed. Only God keep you.
Sometimes, given young folks this simple little rule.
That will really stand you.
And it's really what you'll need.
All along them, all along the way. And that's it.
If you don't start dating an unsafe person.
You'll never get married to 1.
If you don't start dating an unsafe person, you'll never get married to 1.
Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
Now back to your Army 22.
Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts as a woolen and linen together.
Now, keeping that verse in mind is one verse that throws some light on it in the 44th of Ezekiel.
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Ezekiel 44.
This chapter is speaking about the priests going into the court to minister.
Ezekiel 44 verse 17.
And it shall come to pass that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court.
They shall be clothed with linen garments and no wool.
Come upon them whilst they Minister in the gates of the Inner Court, and within they shall have linen, linen bonnets upon their head, and linen britches upon their lines.
They shall not gird themselves with anything that causeth sweat, and that's the point the woolen garment would cause sweat.
And a typical meaning of it is, I believe, the flash. It causes activity of the flame.
They were to be closed with pure white linens.
That causes no sweat, but if they went and clothed with bullen, it would cause sweat, which speaks of the activity.
Of the flesh.
Now one more verse, and then we're done.
Numbers 15.
And 1St.
37.
And the Lord's taken, the Moses saying.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments.
Throughout their generations.
And that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribbon of blue.
Blue.
And it should be under you for a friend, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them.
And that you seek not after your own heart and your own eyes.
Notice there the eyes again.
After which he used to go a hoarding pouring.
That you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.
A ribbon of blue, a friend around the lower part.
Of the garment they wore flowing garments, You remember that?
Well, at the bottom of this flowing garment was this blue fringe heavenly color. It speaks of heaven.
And, brethren, you and I, by the grace of God, are citizens of heaven. Our citizenship is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And every time that that priest or that Levi looked at that garment, he would be reminded that he belonged to a separate class.
He was not in the world. That blue fringe at the bottom of his garment came between him and the earth.
It separated it and it was to remind him as long as he lives and he was not in this world.
So you and I have been called to a path of separation.
I have a few lines here from Mr. Darby, written 1842.
May God give us to see the sea and mark the course which this world is running.
Now he wrote this over 100 years ago.
And enable us to avoid all its influences when one knows what will be the end of a thing.
One avoid that which would lead to it.
The end of Christendom is awful. God makes us acquainted with it, in order that we may avoid it. The more I see what is taking place, the more I discover that things are hastening on that evil. Hastening on that evil may have the upper hand.
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And be judged that God may judge it and purify the earth. The iniquity must be full before God strikes.
We are in the last days in this respect, man believed there's a great progress taking place. Yet they feel great uneasiness and the expectation of what is going to happen. Christians must keep apart, living according to the principles of their heavenly calling. J&D in 1842.
Let's sing just either a little short hymn or a verse or two.
You have one in mind. Just speak out.
Well, let's try 313. That's just two stanzas soon righteousness shall rule all Satans. Power is strange. Jehovah Jesus be the king or Jews, and Gentiles reign.
Someone start please?
Let Us Go Forth Unto Him
Address—C.H. Brown
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I can't say how orderly.
This address tonight will be because I hope we'll be turning to a number of scriptures.
Perhaps not too well connected.
But I believe that it would be well to start with the 13th chapter of Hebrews.
Now these verses are well known to us.
I'm sure there's no one present here that is not familiar with them.
Hebrews 13.
Reading verse 12.
Wherefore Jesus also.
That he might sanctify the people.
With his own blood suffered outside the gate.
Let us go forth therefore unto him.
Outside the camp bearing his reproach.
For here have we no continuing say, but we seek one to count.
I will meditate for a few moments on those words.
Notice that it's the person of Christ that's brought before us.
Jesus.
Might sanctify the people with his own blood.
Suffered outside the gate.
Oh, may we be very clear in our minds, and you younger people, let it sink well into your soul.
That Christianity is Christ. It's a person. It's Jesus.
We had some lovely thoughts brought before us by different ones yesterday morning in connection with two or three being gathered to his name that he was in the midst.
That's what gives meaning to our gathering, when we come together with a sense that He is keeping His promise and He's in the midst of those gathered to His name.
So he sanctifies us. He sets us apart with his own blood.
Let us never minimize the blood.
Let us remember that Scripture speaks of it over and over again, and in this book of Hebrews the blood is mentioned 19 times in this one book.
19 times.
And the blood of Christ.
The blood of Christ is mentioned seven times in this book. Blood.
That he might sanctify us with his own blood.
He gave his life. He suffered unto death.
His side was pierced, and forthwith came there out blood, water, blood to expiate, water to cleanse, and God's word testifies to both.
Now the exhortation based on that fact is this.
Let us go forth therefore unto him.
Unto him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.
Oh, what an exhortation that is. Let us go forth, therefore unto him.
Have we done it?
And we just united with the meeting and we just decided that we'd like to be in fellowship.
Have we just joined the brethren?
Or have we been concerned in our own souls about going forth unto him unto Christ?
Outside the camp.
You know we're living in solemn days.
Some of us that are older have seen tremendous changes in Christendom around us in our lifetime, and right now we're living in the ecumenical age from the great pressure is toward the One World Church.
And it's not only the Protestants that are caught in this move, but the Catholics too. And Catholics and Protestants are striving toward that one world church.
Well, they're going to get it. There's no question about that. They'll get it.
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But all how different is the admonition that's given to us here in this verse? Let us, That's you, that's me, let us.
Go forth therefore unto him.
Unto him.
Unto the person outside the camp.
Outside all this high ecumenical pressure.
Outside all this effort to build a world church.
Let's keep clear of it. Let's have none of it. Let's be found, beloved, following a rejected Christ.
Bearing his reproach.
His reproach You know the effort today is to make Jesus Christ popular.
To reduce him to a stature where he can be acceptable to men in general.
So a a new approach is made and the old fashioned gospel of the cross of Christ, the blood of Christ, salvation through coming is poor lost sinners coming to a Savior.
Is being buried. It's being forgotten.
It's being given up all around us.
But beloved, God's Word has not changed. Not one whip.
Let us go forth therefore unto him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.
He was rejected when he was here. They crucified him. They said we don't want him. And remember in John's Gospel I perhaps it's the 6th chapter.
Let's turn to it for a moment.
It's in connection with the miracle of feeding the 5000.
That was a wonderful thing. You know, 5000 men beside women and children. Tremendous miracle.
By the way, it's soon a miracle related in all four gospels.
14 Then those men, when they have seen the miracle that Jesus did, said This is a the truth, that prophet that should come into the world.
When Jesus therefore perceived that, they would come and take him by force.
Take him by force to make him the king. He departed again into a mountain, himself alone.
They were going to take and make him a king. Why? Why? Because he'd performed that wonderful miracle. He'd fed 5000, perhaps 10,000 people.
Because the number of women and children is not recorded. He gives them a nice big meal. And why not? This is the kind of a man we want. And they were going to hoist him as a word of their shoulders and make a hero of him and have him for their king.
No, he didn't want that. He slipped away. He betook himself to other parts. He didn't come here for that.
Let us go forth there unto him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.
You know if you follow a rejected Christ, and that's what is meant by his reproach.
His approach was that he would not join himself with this world.
He wouldn't link himself up with it. He didn't try to straighten out its wrongs. He came here to save 4 lost sinners.
He came definitely on a mission. God sent him into this world.
That he might say, poor lost sinners such as you and I were by nature. That was his mission. He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Bearing his reproach, For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Oh, thank God, beloved. We're not LED into the delusions of the day thinking we're going to build a wonderful new world.
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We're not intoxicated with the idea of a new society.
We're not deceived by the notion that we're going to build a world where everybody has plenty and everybody's happy and there'd be no more war and we'll all go along together. Oh, what a delusion. It's of the enemy. It's of Satan. That's not the picture that God's Word gives.
Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come, our cities, to come our joy, our goal, the Acme of all that of which we look forward, is to be with Christ in the glory above. And here, through this scene we go as pilgrims and strangers.
The Pilgrim is journeying on to his goal. The stranger is one who doesn't belong here.
And so you and I have that place in this world, pilgrims and strangers. We're not of it. Or else you can let that sink into your soul. It'll be good for you all your Christian life. Keep from becoming Indigo and to any of the world's schemes and plans to have a better world.
Avoid all appearances that would seek to reform man. He can be reformed. He needs to be born again. He needs salvation.
In the 24th of Luke, we won't turn to it.
The Lord spoke to those two that were that He came in contact with. He opened the word to them and He told them about the things concerning Himself in the scriptures.
You know the Bible is full of Christ. You can find Christ all the way through from the first chapter in the Bible to the last chapter.
Christ is the center of all.
And so the Lord just took the time and trouble to inform those two of some of the things in the Scriptures concerning Himself.
When you read your Bible, look for Christ.
See where you can see Him in the Word. He's there if you look for Him. All the Word of God is full of testimony to that wonderful person, the second person of the Godhead, the one who is the God man, the One who's been in this world, has let us see into the heart of God by presenting Himself as God manifest in flesh.
Now in Second Timothy, the third chapter, we'll turn to that for a few moments.
Second Timothy. Third chapter.
This know also that in the last days.
Perilous times shall come.
And then we get a long list.
Of the characteristics of those perilous times.
And it's a sad list, and it's a description of what we see around us today.
In the fifth verse.
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof from such turn away.
Seventh verse, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Oh, how thankful you can be, you dear young people.
How thankful you can be that God has in his mercy legend of Christ the center, and you're in a place where you can learn the truth about your blessed Lord. You're not going to be misled. You're not going to be indoctrinated.
With the fables of men, you're not going to see the dignity, the deity of our blessed Lord, Lord one knot.
You're going to find them exalted in the doctrine that you find in that place. Oh, how thankful we ought to be in a day like this, that there's a positive refusal to lower the standard as to the person of God's Christ.
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Well, these people have a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof and learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Then going on down.
To the 12Th verse, Ye and all that will live godly, or all that will to live godly, all that have a desire and a purpose to live godly.
In Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Do you have a desire in your heart?
To live godly in Christ Jesus.
Have you ever personally thought that through?
Gotten down on your knees and told the Lord that it's your desire to live godly.
But not.
Just as a general principle, but in Christ Jesus, don't forget the person. It isn't just a pious life. Or there are multitudes of people that live what they call pious lives and there's very little of Christ about it. In fact, perhaps they're the enemies of Christ and yet living what they call pious life.
But here all that will to live godly.
Their purpose in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Don't ever expect to be accepted by the world. If you make Christ your object, don't expect it.
There isn't a spiritual minded Christian in this world, a spiritual minded Christian who's living in the presence of Christ, who is acceptable to the world.
Know, regardless of what title he may have or how famous may be his name, if he is following a rejected Christ, living a godly life according to the mind of God is revealed in His Word, he's not going to be accepted by the world.
Was the Apostle Paul accepted? I know he wasn't. They killed him.
Was Peter accepted? No, he wasn't. They killed him. Was Steven accepted? No, they killed him.
All the world just can't bear the presence in their midst of a godly minded Christian.
They that will deliver godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But now here's a word for us. Continue, thou in the things that thou hast learned and been assured of knowing, of whom now has learned them. Don't give up, young folks. Don't let that teacher at school, whether it's the grade school or whether it's in college or university.
Don't let them rob you. Don't let them take one bit.
Away from you of what you've learned as to the blessed person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Remember, this word is the word of God.
And this word is going to stand when all the proud institutions of men have disintegrated and disappeared forever.
This word is eternal, It's abiding, it's God breathed.
15th verse. What a lovely verse for you young folks that from a child that has known the Holy Scriptures.
But you're able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. Now salvation is a real thing, and the Scriptures are those that tell us the way. And from a child of us known the Holy Scriptures. Have you known them from childhood?
When I was a little fellow growing up.
My parents.
Sent me or let me go at least to Sunday school and I learned something about the Lord Jesus.
But I didn't have a Christian home. I don't believe we had a Bible in the house when I was a little fellow.
No, it was not a Christian home.
But most of you here have grown up in a Christian home. Oh, you don't know how much you have for which to praise God. Don't be a traitor to it. Don't betray that upbringing. Oh, how sad to be brought up in a Christian home with an open Bible.
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Prayer. Attending the meetings.
And then throw it all aside and go into the world. What tragedy. But also reaping well, remember.
He that saw it to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption.
Always a matter solemnly.
From a child are known the Holy Scriptures.
And these holy scriptures in the 16th verse.
All scriptures given by inspiration of God and is profitable.
For doctrine, you need doctrine. You need to read your Bible.
You can't be helped by a scripture that you don't know.
You can't get yourself in an exigency where you need a little help. You need the word of God and you don't have it.
The verse isn't there. You don't know where it is, you don't know what you need. But if you've been diligent in searching your Bible, it's wonderful how the Spirit of God will bring to you the very verse that you need to carry you through that crisis.
The Holy Scriptures, all scriptures given by inspiration of God. Literally, that is all scriptures. God breathed. That's the literal of it.
And is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God.
May be perfect now. Perfect means mature, full grown, not staggering around the shifted about by every wind of doctrine.
Knows his way. He knows where he is going. He has this. He has this book and he has confidence in it. And it's his guidebook. And so he walks on Independence Day by day and he loves to read the Word and be grounded and settled in the truth.
Now in the I don't think we'll turn to it, but in the 11Th of Leviticus you get the clean and the unclean animals and a clean and unclean birds.
And the clean and unclean fish.
Well, those were instructions for the children of Israel.
And we don't go over there to learn what to eat and what not to eat.
But we can pick up some lovely lessons from it.
And I'm just thinking of one verse there.
Perhaps I should turn to it. Leviticus 11.
Second verse. Leviticus 11/2.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, these are the beasts.
Which he shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth, whatsoever part of The Who and his cloven footage.
And chew us a cup among the beast.
These shall he eat third verse whatsoever part of the proof.
That is cloven footed and choose the cut on the beach that should eat.
They had to have those two qualifications.
And I believe in that we see this.
That if you and I.
Are going to go through this scene.
We want to be sure that.
The walk is related to our spiritual life.
Chewing the cud to apply it spiritually is meditating in the Word of God.
As another has said, let's try and saturate ourselves with scripture.
But in order to do that, it takes time.
You have time to read your Bible.
Or do you just take a glance at it once in a while? Or do you wait till Sunday and see what you got at Sunday school? Or is this blessed book a part of your life?
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You feed on it. You saturate yourself with it.
That's chewing the cut. When you really think on it and go over it, try to understand it.
But now that beast that chewed the cud was clean if.
It was 12 and footed.
Yes there are animals that took that 11Th of Leviticus goes on to show us there are animals that chew the **** that are not cloven footed.
Quite a bit said about it. Well, what's it all about?
Oh, beloved.
Your walk.
Should match your doctor.
Our walk through this world should be in keeping with what we profess.
And don't forget, the world is watching.
They are. They're watching you. They're taking notice. They're taking inventory of your life far more than you realize.
Let's be sure.
That we represent those.
Golden hook and chewing the ****.
The clean animals that that God said they could use and sacrifice, they could be eaten.
Make straight paths for your feet. That's the walk.
Make straight paths for your feet.
But that which is weak be turn not out of the way. Somebody's watching it.
Everyone of us is being watched, and we're going to make straight paths for our feet, lest that which is lame he turned out of the way. Somebody's watching you. They're seeking to pattern their life after your life. Make straight paths for your feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way.
Now in the cross of Romans.
Romans 12, verse one.
I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies.
A living sacrifice, holy.
Acceptable unto God, which is your intelligent service.
And be not conformed to this world.
But be it transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good.
And acceptable and perfect will of God.
Present your bodies a living sacrifice.
Now that word means just what it said. Your bodies. That's part of you. Your bodies.
Are we using them?
Just to gratify our own lusts.
Does our life consist in the next physical pleasure that we can have?
Or by the mercies of God, are we presenting our bodies a living, sacrificed, wholly holy?
Acceptable unto God your body.
Our hands.
Our feet, our eye, our ears.
Oh, it's, it's sad the things that people are listening to today.
It is. It's sad the things people are seeing today.
A sister in the meeting was telling me.
About being at home, not among those gathered.
But she was in the room for a minute or two.
And the two young people listening to the program that was on the TV.
And these two young people were professed workers for Christ in some youth group.
There they were, sitting, listening.
To something that, as this sister put it to me, she said it was frightful, it was nauseating, it was filthy.
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She could see nothing in it but that was contaminating, wicked, aboundable.
Present your bodies.
Our eyes.
Part of our bodies and our ears, what we hear.
Take heed what you hear. Yes, our hands, what we do, our feet, where we go the walk.
Present your bodies now. Remember, this is not Brother Brown talking.
This is Scripture. This is God's word. I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies.
A living sacrifice wholly acceptable to God, which is your intelligent search. Now that applies to everyone on this roof. If you're a child of God, you're responsible to do that.
No compromise, No compromise. We must go right down the line with what the Word of God says.
Now let's go over to Isaiah.
For a verse.
Isaiah 5.
We're going to get on to a little different line of things here.
Isaiah 5.
And verse 20. Verse 20.
Woe unto them that call evil good.
And good, evil.
That put darkness for light and light for darkness.
That put bitter for sweet, sweet for bitter. What a verse.
And you know, that very thing is going on today.
Woe unto them that call evil good.
And good, evil, that's going on right all around us.
Wouldn't have to go very far to prove it.
That put darkness for light, and light for darkness. That put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Ah, we're living in an age that's doing that very thing. And what does God's Word say about it? Word with them. Oh yes, payday is coming.
Have you heard this expression that's being used nowadays?
The new morality.
I suppose most of us here have.
The world around us in this enlightened nation is professing to have found new standards.
Of morality.
And I'm going to take the liberty just to read very briefly.
Three or four statements from a paper that came into my hands.
It's from a brother in Christ over here in Glendale. I don't know him, I've never met him, but I want to read just a few statements from this article.
America is either going to rise or fall.
Due to its relationship with Almighty God and its adherence to His commandments of righteousness.
And morality.
Unbridled immorality is spreading.
And its final result will be the destruction of our country.
America must repent or feel the wrath of God.
Christians have a responsibility to God, to their family.
And to their nation to hold the principles of the Bible.
Now here's something shocking the National Council of Churches.
Gave an award Gave an award to a recent motion picture.
The National Council of Churches held a banquet and awarded the producers for the styling Glass star.
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Operation Moral Upgrade cited this film as.
Two hours of vicious brutality.
Immorality, nakedness, invitations.
Suggestions. Murder, violence depicted throughout.
Shocking.
National Council of Churches.
Now a new term that's.
Come to be used is this situation Essex situation ethics.
That's a new angle.
In order to.
Say the question of ethics.
Now here's the new Here's the new approach. Situation Ethics.
Just as he made choice on the basis of the particular person and circumstances.
Says Doctor Fletcher. Must we any act, even lying, immorality, murder.
Could be right within a given situation.
Now I've softened that just a little because it's a little too crude to read out loud in a situation like this. I've softened it a little.
But that's bad enough, isn't it? Now that situation, ethics.
What's the point?
Well, that in certain situations you can transgress everyone of God's commandments and get by with it. It'll be all right if the situation justifies it.
Does the end justify the means? No. Paul was very clear on this matter in Romans chapter 3.
Christian ethics are always up to date, for the Bible is our only rule of faith and practice, no matter in what year we live.
Do you believe Jesus Christ is really the same yesterday and today and forever? Amen, So do I.
The cure for this moral decline is to let men know that a living God has spoken in the Bible. We have not left. We have not been left to wonder what we should or should not do. God has given us a record of Himself and what He requires us to do. Secondly, there's a living God who sees all things and to whom each man will give an account.
That was just a few short excerpts.
Oh, how solemn, if we can ever reach a place where God's standards are pushed aside and man comes forward with what he calls situation average.
I don't know whether you've read the little pamphlet that can be secured from the Bible Truth publishers.
Or you can get it through brother Jimmy Scar on the moral content of the 10 Commandments.
And the point in this pamphlet is this.
That everyone of those 10 commandments as to its moral content.
Is reproduced in Christianity. You'll find it in your New Testament. You'll find it among the admonitions and the prohibitions of God. It's there with a solemn pronouncement.
God's authority.
God hasn't wakened himself one bit in Christianity.
He's no less holy. They was on Mount Sinai. No, the only commandment that is omitted in Christianity is the one that has to do with observing the Sabbath. But that's not a moral commandment. They're all, they're all repeated in various ways in the New Testament. God's standards do not change.
Now in Ephesians 6.
And verse.
Well, we might read verse 12 to get the connection.
Vision 612. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities. Now these are.
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These are not earthly matters. These have to do with satanic powers, satanic things. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. The devil and all his hosts are against us.
Wherefore.
Take unto you the whole armor of God.
Have we done it?
That you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Stand therefore, are we doing it or are we giving up? Are we compromising? Are we making turns of the world?
Stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth.
Having on the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation.
The gospel of peace above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith we shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked, and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Now here's where dependence comes in. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit. Oh, how necessary that is, dear young folks. Have you been exercised about it? Are you standing? Have you taken the whole armor of God?
Or are you on the road of compromise? Oh, may the Lord wake us up about these things.
Now, first Peter.
The third chapter.
Here's a word to the to the wives, the women.
Second verse while it behold your chaste conversation, that word conversation means manner of life deployment.
You're chaste deportment coupled with fear.
Whose adorning? Let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, wearing of gold, or putting on of apparel, but let it be the hidden man of the heart, and that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit.
Which is in the sight of God, a great price of great price. For after this manner, in old time, the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves.
No. In connection with that, let's turn to First Timothy 2.
And the ninth verse.
First Timothy 2, verse 9.
In like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly array, but which becometh women professing godliness with good works.
Now remember, I'm reading this from the Bible. This is scripture.
And the word that I would emphasize in that ninth verse is modest, modest apparel.
I've often wondered if you got up before a high school group today and gave them a blank piece of paper and a pen and said, I have a word in the dictionary here, I want you to write the definition of it.
And then asked them if they would please write a definition of the word modesty. What does it mean?
Well, beloved, it's in the Word of God.
And it's certainly a word that's being despised today.
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We want to, we want to talk right down to where we are.
That's the reason we're here tonight, that we might look into these things, because they're all interrelated. All interrelated.
First Peter one.
They first Peter three, first Peter 3.
And the 15th verse.
Well, perhaps you should read the 14th.
Button, If you suffer for righteousness sake, happy are you be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled, but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that's within you, and meekness and fear having a good conscience, that whereas they speak against his evildoers, they may be ashamed.
That falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
For it is better if the will of God be so that you suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
For Christ has once suffered for sins, and just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God.
Now, isn't that good sound advice? Having a good conscience?
That whereas they speak evil of you as evil doers. Well, if you know the accusation is false, you can have a good conscience. But how sad if the accusation is true.
Now Romans 6 and verse 4.
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed or annulled, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Now Romans 8.
First verse.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus. Second verse. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Fourth verse. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in US who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
For they that are after the flesh to mind the things of the flesh.
But they thereafter the Spirit, the things that are of the spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Now Ephesians 2.
Second verse.
Where in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the Prince of the power of the air.
The spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all had our conversation.
In times past notice in times past, not now, but in times past before, we were saved in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. Now Colossians 3.
5 Mortify, therefore, your members, which are upon the earth fornication.
Uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil, concupiscence, covetousness, which is idolatry, for the which things sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience, in the which he also walked sometime, not now when you lived in them, that's the past, but now.
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He also put off all these.
Now Ephesians 417, No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Philippians Philippians 318.
For many walked, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you, even weeping, they are the enemies of the cross of Christ.
2nd Thessalonians, 3/6.
2nd Thessalonians, 3/6.
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourself from every brother that walketh disorderly.
One more reference first Peter 4.
Verse 3.
The time passed of our life. Now get that the time passed, not the present, but the time passed of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excessive wine, reveling, banqueting and abominable idolatries. Wherein you think it's strange that they think it's strange that you run not with them to the same excessive riot.
Speaking evil of you.
Who shall give an account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead?
The time past of our life. Oh brother, let's have a difference between the time past of our life and the life we're living now. Oh, let it be Christ. For me to live is Christ, the apostle said. For me to live is Christ, and then he could say to die. This game let us sing.
Day 7 #57.
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