Chicago Conference: 1962
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Three Questions of Job 14
Gospel—P. Geveden
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Wheaton, IL, August 21St, 1962 Gospel Meeting, Paul Dividend.
Our meeting with #15.
#15
oh, blessed gospel sound. Yet there's room. It tells to all around, yet there's room.
The guilty may draw near, though vile. They need not fear with joy they now may hear. And yet there's room.
God's love in Christ we see. Yet there's room greater It could not be yet. There's room. His only Son He gave. He's willing now to save all who in him believe. Yet there's room.
All things are ready. Come.
But there's room. Christ, everything hath done yet. There's room. The work is now complete before the mercy seat of Savior. You will meet, yet there is room number 15.
Oh, blessed gospel.
Joey God's house is filling fast.
Yet there's room.
Some guests will be the last.
Yet there's room.
Yes, soon Salvation's day from you will pass away.
Then grace no more will say.
Yet there's room.
We are, generally.
Time conscious?
We like to look at the timetables as we travel.
To see just where we are along the journey.
And where we shall arrive at a certain time.
Let's begin with a scripture.
From Galatians.
Chapter 4.
Verse 4 But when the fullness of the time has come.
God sent forth his Son.
Native a woman.
Made under the law to redeem them that were under the law.
That we might receive the adoption of sons.
And because your sons God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, ABBA, Father.
When the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his Son.
Made of a woman made under the law.
You know it was through the woman.
That sin came into this world.
And at that very point.
God chose to send his son into this world, the promised seat of the woman.
To save sinners.
But more than all.
Glorifying God.
God sent forth his Son made of a woman.
Made under the law.
Now that's a little indication in the timetable.
That happened almost 2000 years ago.
And where are we tonight, as gathered here to listen again to the story of God's grace?
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The Marvelous Facts of the Gospel Just where are we tonight?
Are we in the beginning of the church age?
Are we halfway along?
Or would you judge according to the scriptures?
And the many things that we see about us.
That we're toward the very end of this day of grace.
Or if you read your bibles.
If you have listened to the word.
You're quite well convinced that the Day of Grace is about over.
We've come.
History of the Church to the very last stage.
Indicated by the seven addresses to the seven churches of Asia in the second and third chapters of the Book of Revelation.
We've come down to Laodicea.
Neither cold nor hot, but lukewarm.
Much to boast about, naturally, and in the flesh, according to man.
But very little that is approved by heaven.
That has the approval of Christ. So we're at the very close.
Of the Church's history on Earth.
We're right at the end of the Day of Grace.
And we find the parallel truth in the Word concerning the Kingdom of heaven and its present form.
As given to us in Matthew's Gospel.
Would you think that we're at the very beginning of that, when the seed of the word of God was first sown in the field, the world?
Oh no, you know that we're not back there in the early days.
Would you say then we're about halfway long?
Or you couldn't see that, could you?
You've heard the cry, the old bridegroom.
We are in the knowledge of the truth of the second coming of Christ.
And that cry was made.
150 years ago, perhaps?
And it's still being made. And let us make it here again tonight. Behold the bridegroom.
Go ye out to meet him.
Are you ready?
Are you ready for the coming of the Lord?
Are you ready to meet that one that is coming back to this world?
Oh, it's a bright and blessed prospect to the believer. Nowhere in the word is the coming of the Lord for his people associated with judgment.
But if you are unsaved, if you are not among those who believe in Christ.
Then judgment is connected with his return, and those judgments are severe.
Behold therefore, the goodness of God.
And also his severity. That may not be an exact quotation, but you can check on it.
In the eleven chapter Romans.
Or we could speak of the parable of the fig tree and the other trees in Luke's Gospel chapter 21.
And we know that a nation is budding across the sea.
And Israel is that nation.
That's the meaning of the fig tree.
That indicates a change.
That indicates that the Day of Grace is about over.
And that God is about to bring that people into their privileges once more and bless them.
Here on this earth.
Yes, God sent forth his Son.
Made of a woman.
Made under the law.
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You know, we think that we can do something about our salvation.
Men undertook to keep the law when it was given.
But he was unable to do it.
And the Apostle Paul, who was saved by God's grace, found out that the law made sin exceeding symbols.
All the commandments of the law came in and made the matter all the worse.
But aren't we glad tonight that we're sin? Abounded Grace? Did much more abound?
God sent forth his Son.
Does that mean anything to you? It does to me.
God sent forth his Son Jesus Savior.
And it's been my happy privilege to know him a number of years.
About 40 years ago we received the news of the home going of Mr. Blount.
That had quite an impact upon me.
Because in his meetings I had confessed the Lord as a boy.
But after that there was a getting away and then I was recalled.
And thrown into exercise before God, and things were made clear to me.
In considering what might be suitable for this Gospel hour tonight.
At the last moment of change was made.
We have heard of the homegoing of our beloved brother Aho.
And no doubt this will have an effect upon you.
And improperly it should.
And could we speak a little in response to some questions that are raised in the Old Testament?
And they wait a long time for an answer.
And we'll turn to several scriptures in the new.
As we answer these questions from the 14th chapter of Joel.
Verse four, question one.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
Not one verse 10.
Man dieth, and waste of the wave.
Yeah man giveth up the ghost and where is he?
Verse 14 If a man dies, shall he live again?
Now turning back to verse four. Question number one. Who can bring a clean thing out of a non clean? Man tries that.
Oh yes, he does. He thinks he's capable.
He thinks that he can produce that which is suitable and acceptable to God.
But basically he cannot.
It's impossible to bring a clean thing out of a unclean thing.
And that's the reason that the Lord Jesus told Nicodemus of the necessity of being born again.
A lady on the bus was referring to her social work among the people. Oh, she said they're like onions. The author of Skins. And you'll find some good in them.
But a better illustration would be that of the egg.
Which is bad. And did you ever see anyone try to improve a bad egg? It's necessary to get a new egg.
A fresh one, and it's absolutely necessary that we have a new life.
He must be born again.
We will turn to John Chapter 3 directly in connection with that question.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? John's Gospel, Chapter 3.
In connection with the history of Nicodemus that came to the Lord by night.
And inquired of him.
There, we read.
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In that conversation, verse six, that which is born of the flesh is flesh.
It remains that way.
Dress it up as you wish, it's still the same.
It won't do, won't do for God. And that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born.
Again.
Or the margin reads from above.
All We have natural life. We have the life of Adam.
But we need that life of Christ.
That comes through faith in Him. He communicates that life to us when we buy faith, accept him as Savior and Lord, and we become a new creature, a new creation.
Though if there's one here tonight that has not been born anew, why do you wait? What's simple, You don't understand it. It comes by faith. It comes through the word of God, by the Spirit of God, in this simple acceptance of the truth of the gospel of God's grace.
The only way to receive blessing to get that new life.
Is through Christ Christ the Savior of sinning.
Then we'll pass on to question #2, verse 10. Man dive and waste of the way, ye man giveth up the ghost and where is he?
Or people like to think that they die as the dog, that everything is finished at the last breath.
They go to great efforts to disprove.
Any future existence of man?
Or the infidel.
Tries to argue that there is no God.
But if there's no God, why does he continue his arguments?
The fact that he continues to resist is the proof of the existence of the eternal God. Man has a conscience. He's responsible to God. Every one of us here tonight is responsible to God.
We're responsible, responsible to go on for our sins.
We're responsible to God as to the way He has spoken to us in sending forth his Son.
Into this world made of a woman made under the law, or what grace?
He put himself under the obligation of that law that spelled out man's condemnation.
Oh, blessed Savior, He was able to accomplish Redemption's work.
And he did. It's finished. All things are now ready. Come. There's a mercy seat, and you can come simply into the presence of God and receive blessing in your soul instantaneously.
How long did it take the thief to get into the light of the blessing of eternity? You can read that account in less than 30 seconds. His confession to the man and his confession to the Lord, a request to the Lord, and the Lord's answer to him.
Less than 30 seconds. You can read that entire passage.
Of a man that got saved, and perhaps the first man that ever knew.
Exactly where he was going after death.
Well then, to this question, let's turn to other scriptures. Man dieth waste of the way, man giveth up the ghost.
And where is he?
Or we can turn to Luke 16.
Luke, Chapter 16. There we read of two men, one rich, another poor.
And their circumstances were quite different.
But relationship to God was also quite different. Verse 22 it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom.
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Oh, what would delight.
That you more than to be associated with the warmth of Abraham's bosom, that man of faith.
The father of the faithful, the father of all who believe Abraham is even our father as we believe the gospel.
Yes, we read here that the beggar died and he entered into satisfaction and happiness.
The rich man also died.
And was buried.
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments. This is not the final thing.
We can read it hades properly. We should.
But he was in torments.
Immediately, just as soon as breath had left the body, he lifted up his eyes.
Being in torments.
So we see there two side by side.
One taken to Abraham's bosom, the other lifting up his eyes. Now he's wide awake.
And he realizes that he is in torments.
Or his tongue was parched in that flame.
He was concerned about others.
He's the beggar. Just as soon as the curtain dropped upon his history here in this world, he fared sumptuously every day, he got along well.
But now it's reversed and he's the beggar wishing only a drop of water.
To cool his tongue in that awful place of torment.
Then let's turn to Philippians for a word of comfort.
For a word concerning those that believe in Christ, Philippians chapter one and verse 23.
There we read by the pen of inspiration the Apostle Paul writing.
Under the direct.
Control of the Spirit of God.
He speaks of his life, of how to live his Christ.
And that he was in the street betwixt 2 verse 23 of that chapter one.
Having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better? Which is very far better.
Or it goes to that length.
The Apostle having faith in Christ, knowing that his sins were forgiven, knowing that man in the glory was ready to go. He was anxious to go, but he had his responsibilities to fulfill here.
And he was in a straight betwixt the two. But he knew quite well, very well, certainly so that to depart and be with Christ was far better, very much better.
Oh, that's a word that we can rest upon.
My father, six months in the hospital, said.
It takes faith to say it.
But it's true.
It's good enough to die upon.
Oh yes, it gives you confidence in that last hour, that last moment.
And then it lets sin of this will not turn to it. Second Corinthians, chapter five. There we read of the believer that he is absent from the body present with the Lord.
That answers it, doesn't it? You don't have to reason about what takes place when a Christian dies.
Absent from the body is and present with the Lord.
Now let's notice something of those who do not believe, we've seen.
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In Luke 16, the case of a rich man that he lifts up his eyes in torments. Let's notice a verse in the first Peter Peter's first epistle.
And Chapter 3.
There, we read.
Of souls that lived a long time ago.
Verse 19.
Perhaps we ought to read verse 18. For Christ also hath suffered, have once suffered for sins, the justice for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit, by the Spirit.
By which also he went and preached under the spirits in prison the spirit of Christ in Noah warned those souls before the flood of the impending judgment. And now we find them here a long time afterwards shut up in the prison House of the damned.
Does that mean annihilation? Does that mean ceasing to exist when you die?
Never. Never.
And then let's turn over to the Book of Revelation, chapter 19.
And there we read of the damned, and of two that were especially damned.
And that were cast alive into the lake of fire, verse 20 of chapter 19, and the beast was taken.
And within the false prophet, these two wicked men.
In the end time.
The false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them, that had received the mark of the beast, and then that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Oh, what a terrible end to these men who assumed the greatness here in this world.
Won the head of the revived Roman Empire.
The other the head of.
Revived Judaism.
These two. This pair, This wicked.
Hair are taken and cast alive into the lake of fire.
Then we noticed something else too.
That an Angel came down from heaven, Chapter 20, having keyed the bottomless pit.
And a great chain in his hand, and he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent which is the devil and Satan, and bound him 1000 years.
And cast him into the bottomless pit. That's not the final thing for him yet, but he's restrained for 1000 years during the millennial reign of Christ.
And after that rain, that glorious time on the earth is loose to little season.
And he goes out to deceive the nations again.
And then we find something else in verse 10 of that 20th chapter.
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone.
Where the beast and the false prophet are They've been there 1000 years.
Does that spell Annihilation? Does that tell us that we cease to exist when we close our eyes in death when we leave this world? No, it doesn't. There they are, 1000 years later, tormented day and night, forever and ever.
Aren't you glad that we're not that far along?
That we haven't read that yet on the timetable, but it's on there. Oh yes, just turn it over a little bit and you'll see your destiny. You'll see the end of rejecting Christ.
You will see the consequences of not believing the gospel.
A solemn thing it is.
To get into the presence of God in that day of judgment, it's better, it's important, it's vital that you come into the presence of God now. While there's access to the throne of grace, the Great White Throne in the 20th chapter, there's no throne of grace there. There's no blood on that throne. Oh no, it's the time of judgment.
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Then let's notice the other question. If a man die, shall he live again?
John chapter 5 perhaps would answer that. Let's notice John's Gospel chapter 5.
Two or three verses there, as the Lord speaks and gives the word that is needed at the moment in connection with what had taken place. And here we read.
In verse 28, marvel not at this.
Marvel not at this, but the hour is coming, in which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice.
That's resurrection. That's hearing the voice.
And shall come forth.
They that have done good under the resurrection of life, that's the character of the first resurrection.
And they that have done evil under the resurrection of damnation or judgment. That's the character of the second. In Revelation, we learn that there's 1000 years between the two.
And let's notice also in connection with this, a statement in First Thessalonians Chapter 4. The dead in Christ shall rise.
We will not see all of it. It's true either way.
All wonderful is God's word. The dead in Christ shall rise.
First, that is, before the living are changed, the dead in Christ shall rise.
That's a statement of the scriptures, and let's turn now to the 15th chapter First Corinthians.
First Corinthians chapter 15 And there we read of the resurrection.
And Christ risen from the dead. Verse 19. If in this life only we have open Christ, we have all men most miserable.
Verse 20 But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept.
Verse 23 but every man in his own order.
Christ, the first fruit afterward, they that are Christ at his coming, verse 49. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we're in that image here tonight in our natural bodies.
But oh, in the resurrection we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
We'll be like our risen Lord.
Like him, fully conformed to the image of God's Son.
Oh, what a day. What a prospect lies ahead of those that believe in Christ.
Now what hinders us from getting into the presence of God?
Let's turn to the 32nd Psalm for a lesson. Psalms, Chapter 32.
There we read of one who had been in sole trouble.
And that's a good kind of trouble to have.
And tonight.
It would be a good thing if you could not sleep because of your soul trouble.
Because of your sins.
That you ought to be sensing and feeling their terror before a holy God.
Oh, let's notice this Just a glass of water has fallen here.
And justice? Think of what it will mean when the water of life is no more available.
It's all gone, none remaining. But now the invitation is whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely.
Oh, won't you drink of that life giving stream tonight, right now, at this moment here in this 32nd Psalm, This man is in trouble, he says. I kept silence. Verse three. My bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me.
My moisture is turned into the drum of summer and sealant.
That's a good punctuation word.
All We like periods and comments in the school room, but here's a word that punctuates this story.
Very importantly, Cela, stop. Think it over. Think about where your sin will carry you. It'll get no better. Why? This man couldn't improve. He couldn't contain his sins. He couldn't solve the sin problem.
Why? He had it with him, and it was heavy upon him, and he tried to contain it. He tried to cover it up. He tried to keep, but his bones waxed over through his roaring his groanings all day long. Sin makes you miserable, and all that you might feel the weight of it because of your responsibility to God.
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moistures turned into the drought of summer.
Oh, how barren now unfruitful.
How dissatisfying is sin and his final result is?
Death and after death, the judgment. So it's time to consider it. It's time to think of where your sins will take you. They'll take you into the pit. They'll take you into outer darkness. They'll take you into that lake of fire. Where the devil and where the false prophet and that beast off the devil and his angels.
Well, it takes a long time to get up to this point.
Oftentimes.
Because we resist it, we try to keep away from it. It's the last thing that we want to do.
We don't want to acknowledge our sins. That makes nothing of us, but it's the necessary thing that we should do.
And you'll never get blessing in your soul until you do acknowledge your sins, until you do confess those sins, until you come to the Lord.
And make a living personal contact with him about your sins.
All that's necessary.
And it doesn't take long to get into the light of the word, into the joy of his blessing.
Oh no, we find that woman.
In the 7th of John going to the Pharisee's house.
And though she bathe, the Saviors speak with her tears, tears of repentance.
She kissed his feet out of attachment to his person.
And she broke that expensive box of ointment and anointed.
Not merely his head, but the scripture there says that she anointed his feet.
Oh, she took that low place.
And there in the presence of that religious element.
There in that House of the self-righteous Pharisees.
This nameless, thinner woman confesses the Lord, perhaps not with words. She wasn't ashamed of him. There was attachment to the person of Christ. There was appreciation of the Savior.
Oh, it's a serious thing, my young friend, to fail in the appreciation of the Son of God.
The Lord of glory.
Jesus of Nazareth.
That lowly savior.
He was willing to go to the cross. God sent forth his son made of a woman made under the law, and he went to the cross and died.
So that you might have that invitation here tonight again come unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Oh yeah, that's the cost of that invitation.
And this woman responded to the person of the Savior.
Have you Have you slighted him? Are you going on in the pursuit of those vain pleasures?
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That you have in this short life.
And what about Peter in the 5th chapter of Luke?
Oh, he'd been at his work.
He was a fisherman and he knew the seas, he knew the Nets, he knew the boats, he knew his helpers and he knew everything about his occupation.
And perhaps you know a great deal about what you're doing, and about that with which you're occupied. And the Lord tells Simon to let down his Nets.
And he said we've toiled all night and have taken nothing. And you know, that's the result of our toils toil as we wish. We'll never take anything.
It's impossible.
The law came making requirements of man, but it didn't supply any strength and it did not supply an object.
Christ came. He required nothing. He.
Went to the cross and died for sinners. Oh, it's a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
To save them from the power of sin to we find in other scriptures.
But what brought Peter into the presence of the Lord? He was astonished.
And why did he say that he was a sinful man?
He said that because he hadn't believed the Lord, the Lord had told him to let down the Nets, and he let down one net. He didn't fully believe the Lord and unbelievers. An awful thing.
Or that's one of the sins that's great. Perhaps one of the greatest or the greatest sin is the unbelief that is in the human heart.
That is exercised in the rejection of Christ. Oh, do not reject that blessed one here tonight. But this man paused. He stopped. He said, Cela, And now he says, I acknowledge my sin unto thee.
And to mine iniquity have I not hid?
In the first part of the chapter, man is hiding from God.
He was covering up.
But now he comes to this point, he realizes his need and that he can do nothing for himself.
He comes to this point and he's ready to confess his sin.
As we read in the rest of the verse, I said, I will confess my transgression unto the Lord.
It comes to a happy moment, to a vital moment.
To that which was necessary, he made the decision. He found out his need. Now he decides to do something about it.
And he's ready to confess his transgression to the Lord.
Now, do you suppose it took him a long time to get the matter settled?
In the paper the other day, there was an article about a company that got an answer from the courts in this land after 18 years of litigation.
Waited 18 years to get an answer.
Do you suppose this man had to wait for a year? For a month? For a week? For a day? For an hour?
How does it read? The very next sentence reads thou forgave us the iniquity of my sin?
Sela, think about it.
Forgiveness without any strings attached. Forgiveness free and full.
Forgiveness from the Lord.
And he's thinking it over, saying see long.
And then he recommends it to others as we recommend it to you here tonight.
For this shall everyone that is godly pray unto thee, in a time when thou mayest be found, time when thou mayst be found, That's now he may be found tonight. Oh, yes, right now.
Or we may not be found tomorrow.
Tomorrow a sun may never rise for your blessing.
This is the time and for this.
Shall everyone that is godly pray? The only way to be godly, to be upright, to be without guile, is to get into the presence of the Lord about your sin.
That's the way. That's the only thing that you can do.
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Get into the presence of the Lord and then we see here.
Now he says in verse 7, Thou art my hiding place. Oh, he found a refuge.
He'd found a hiding place, a person, the person indicated in the 32nd of Isaiah. Thou art my hiding place.
And though we'd hear tonight, many of us know something of the sweetness of that hiding place.
That wonderful place of refuge and shelter from the storms of coming judgment. Thou shall preserve me from trouble. Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.
Sheila.
Oh, he thinks now he was in his troubles then he confessed. Now he sing. Can you really sing tonight?
Can you sing songs of Deliverance? Can you rejoice?
In the knowledge of the Savior's love, can you join God through the Lord Jesus Christ?
Can you rejoice in hope of the glory of God? Can you rejoice as the apostle and again rejoice? Oh, there's gladness in knowing the Savior. There's gladness, there's happiness when that burden is removed.
Why not have it removed now?
O Come to that blessed sea.
It won't come to him now and if you refuse to come to him.
And leave this world unprepared. You will be brought into His presence.
Oh yes, you must be brought into judgment, and Revelation 20 indicates that to which we shall refer. Revelation chapter 20. And I saw this dead, small and great stand before God.
There you'll be.
The dead, small and great, standing before God.
And no place to stand.
The heavens and the earth are fled away, and you're left there, exposed.
To the judgment of God throughout all eternity. Why? Because your name is not.
Found in the Lamb's Book of Life.
You fail to come to Christ. You did not respond. You resisted the gospel. You rejected Christ.
And your name was not enrolled in that book.
There you will find it omitted.
And you will have to pass away into outer darkness, and it'll be just like the man that came to the wedding without a wedding garment.
And he was asked why he was found in there without any wedding garment and he was speechless.
Speechlessness.
But all tonight, come to the Savior, come to that blessed one.
The door of Grace is open.
A year there is room.
Yet there's room.
And in closing.
A lettuce thing again.
That number, 12 as was sung last evening, just as I am.
O Lamb of God, I come.
Just as I am, thy love I own has broken every barrier down.
Now to be thine and thine alone. O Lamb of God, I come. Will you decide for Christ tonight? Why not respond? You see the seriousness of rejecting Christ, of sliding his person, of not believing him, and of being finally cast into the lake of fire.
All be sure that all is well with that soul of yours.
That inner man, that soul of you.
He wants to forgive you. Everything is done, and he's ready. Come to the Lamb of God #12.
Just as.
I am.
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We ignore.
Blood to.
Just.
As I am.
Oh boy.
Yeah. Oh, my name.
I'm a world crazy.
Will have gone far.
Gluing.
Because.
Just.
I am my Lord.
My Lord.
Revelation 19 & 20
Address—P. Wilson
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General Meetings Wheaton, August 19, 1962 Address Lodge Day by Paul Wilson.
The Book of Revelation.
19th chapter.
Revelation 19 and we begin with the 11Th verse.
And I saw heaven open.
And behold the White Horse.
Even sat upon him was called faithful and true and in righteousness He doesn't judge and make war.
His eyes were as a flame of fire. On his head were many frowned. He had a name written that no man knew that he himself.
And he will go to investor dipped in blood. His name is called the Word of God.
The armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses clothed and fine women.
And out of his mouth go with a sharks sword, and with it he should smite the nations.
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron, an incredible winding the rest of the fierceness and the wrath of Almighty God.
And he hath on his best turn on his thigh a name written, King of Kings, Lord of Lords.
Read more later.
My object tonight is to read.
Seven different visions given to John.
And then an 8.
Seven Beginning with the coming of the Lord out of heaven to execute judgment. That's where we begin at this 11Th verse tonight.
And each subject is introduced with these words.
And I saw.
John saw something here.
He saw what the Old Testament prophets prophesied.
We saw that what the Prophet said. For instance, June prophesied that the Lord cometh with 10 thousands of His Saints to execute judgment.
And the Lord my God shall come, and all his Saints with it.
The coming of the Lord with his Saints to execute judgment is a subject of prophetic prophecy in the Old Testament.
The Lords coming for His Saints is the subject of the prophetic word in the New Testament. We do not get His coming for the Saints in the Old Testament.
But what you do get is coming with a sense.
I'd add this remark to that the Old Testament closes.
With the prophetic statement that the Lord is coming back to this earth as the sunshine, as the sun to rule the day.
To shine forth in His Majesty and put down all his enemies.
Now in the.
New Testament The New Testament closes with the Lords coming broccoli forest not as the sun to rise to rule the day, but as the morning star to arise for his peoples blessed.
Now that all of them will tell us that the church has to go through the Tribulation and their not name is legion today.
They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the difference between the morning star and the sun.
On the morning star arises while it shifts dark.
Arises before the break of day, and it is seen by those who look.
Well, the Lord's coming is near behind, and how good it is to know that what the New Testament tells us will take place before that. Was the Old Testament closed for the morning star concedes the coming of the sun. He appears in the sun.
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Now I might make a few remarks.
About the Book of Revelation.
One thing about the Book of Revelation is this.
We must know. We must remember the Book of Revelation is not a continuous prophecy.
But it is a series of prophetic pictures.
And if we do not deserve that, we'll be all at sea.
As I was saying to a brother today.
The Book of Revelation is indeed a very important part of the inspired word.
Without the Book of Revelation, we wouldn't know how to put the truth of Scripture together.
The Old Testament closes, or the Old Testament prophecy tells us, of the coming Millennium on earth. The Old Testament, in my judgment, does not go beyond the Millennium.
Everlasting life is connected with the earth, the Millennium.
The eternal estate is not there that comes in in the Book of Revelation, unless you include something like the 8th day of the Feast of Tabernacles in Leviticus 23 which is a day figurative of a new beginning or take you onto the eternal state.
So the the prophetic word must be joined together. The Old Testament tells us of the coming millennial glory. The New Testament tells of the heavenly portion of the church transport you to heaven.
Well, if we didn't have the Book of Revelation, we would not know how to put those two things together.
Where how they would fit together and where they would come in. But the Book of Revelation, when properly understood, let's see the portion of the Saints of this heirs.
Have then He chose you the coming judgments to put to the day of the Lord and the and the Lord is coming to execute judgment, and it goes on to the eternal state. Saul of the Book of Revelation is somewhat constructed. I mean the whole book, The Canon of Scripture is somewhat constructed like a hammer. It's tied together. Both ends in the book of Genesis we have.
Practically every truth of scripture in type or in embryo in Genesis.
I might say, with the notable exceptions of redemption and God's willingness, man, they are reserved for the book of Exodus, but so much is contained in the book of Genesis in In Tight and Shadow.
Well, that's the whole book is tied together at the one end and it's tied together at the other end with the Book of Revelation taking the prophetic word of the Old Testament, the prophetic word of the New Testament, and joining them together so that we can have a proper understanding of their correlations.
Now where we began tonight we began with and I saw heaven open.
And we find the Lord Jesus coming out of heaven with his Saints to execute judgment.
Now the Book of Revelation gives you a series of pictures.
For instance, the first chapter you have the Lord Jesus presented as the one that's judging, judging of the profession of Christianity on earth. You find it carried out in the next two chapters. The 2nd and the third chapters where the prophetic where the profession of Christianity.
Is tested by him.
And his final.
Condition is described there in some detail. The 4th chapter begins with John spirit caught up into heaven.
He says the voice, which I heard at the 1St as of a trumpet speaking with me. I'm putting the correct translation of that.
Which said come up, hit. Her voice said John. Heard of the first chapter. He called John to come up into heaven in the 4th chapter.
And there, from then on you get the church seen in heaven. Never see the church on earth after the beginning of the 4th chapter.
Well, the 5th, the 4th and 5th chapters stand alone as we see the throne of God in heaven. Before the judgments begin to fall on this earth, you find the Lamb. Take the book God's title to this earth, and he alone has the authority to open those seals and pour out the judgments on this earth.
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Where is he now? God has said sit down at my right hand until I make thine enemies, thy whistle, First Corinthians tells us while he sits there. He's expecting until his enemies be made his whistle.
So he's there, then the 8th chapter.
The 8th chapter. And when he had opened the 7th seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
First verse of chapter 8. Now what that means? What that indicates is this, I believe the beginning of the last half of those seven years. Something momentous is about to take place.
Those awful threats that time of great tribulation such as was not before, never would be, never will be as bad going to fall on this earth saw a moment. There's silence in heaven about the space of happening now then we go down to.
The end of the 11Th chapter.
The 18th verse.
And the prophetic picture has run along.
With some notable exquisite, the exception of the 7th chapter.
Where it's an interlude while we see those seals that are going to inhabit the millennial earth. But the 18th verse of the 11Th chapter brings us up to the end of the tribulation period. Nations were angry, and my wrath is coming from the time of the dead, that they should be judged and thou should just give reward unto thy servants, the prophets.
And to the Saints, a man that fear thy name small and great, thou should destroy them that destroy the earth.
All that chapters should M write that the last verse of that chapter belongs to the next chapter. And as soon as you come up to the end in that 18th verse of the 11Th chapter, he goes back again and he goes back to the 12Th chapter. He goes back to the birth of Christ, even before the birth of Christ.
And.
There's a there's a woman that brings forth a man, child, or a male might who wish to rule all nations with a rod of iron. Now there can be no doubt about who this person is. The second son makes it clear.
And.
There is follow up to God and his throne might make this comment too that on in the 12Th chapter.
You'll find.
I wasn't told this in Matthew 2. In Matthew 2 you see Herod trying to destroy the child. But in the 12Th chapter of Revelation, we find that Satan was the instinct trying to destroy the child as soon as it was born, as soon as he was there. But he's caught up to God in his throne. His death isn't matching, but he's caught up to heaven and then it skips on down to the end of the seven years, that is the last 3 1/2 years.
Where Israel is prefigured as a woman that flees into the wilderness and she's hid for time times and appetizers. One year plus two years plus 1/2 year, 3 1/2 years, she's hit there from the face of the surf well.
Then the next chapter, the 13th chapter, takes up the enemies of Israel.
You have two beasts in that chapter, and they're the enemies of the godly remnant of Israel.
Particularly the enemies of Israel, but of the godly in Israel. For the beast of the first beast in Romans, in Revelation 13 will be the man of the 9th of Daniel, who will make an unholy alliance with the head of the Jews in Jerusalem for that for seven years, and in the middle of the seven years he breaks his cover.
Well, we go on.
And.
We can't go into all the detail. We won't get through to these seven points we go on down to the 19th chapter.
I think this comment though the 16 the 16th chapter the end of the 16th chapter brings it down to the time of the end again.
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End of the 16th brings it down to the time of the end.
And I am going to make a statement here that I firmly believe and the more I have studied it and waited presence of God trust, the more I am convinced that the 19th verse of the 16th chapter is not the battle and the grace of the 18th chapter. Not the city or the woman of the 17 chef woman of the 17th chapter of the city of the 18th.
It's a false religious system.
That will be here and exert A tremendous influence in the first half of those seven years. Then she'll be destroyed. And but in the end of the 16th chapter, the 19th verse, at the middle of the verse, and Gray Babylon came in remembrance before God to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. I firmly believe that great Babylon in that verse.
Is the Roman Empire. It's the political power, whereas battle in the great of the 17th, 18th chapters is a religious power.
That great Babylon came in remembrance before, and that brings you down to the time of the end again.
And you're down to the time at the end of the tribulation period.
I know some today at system are teaching.
Battle of the Great, the religious power of the 18th chapter, is a city over.
On the Euphrates that must be rebuilt and become the metropolis of the whole world. But it's all folly. I told a man that recently, man I know to be a Christian. They called me up and asked for permission to use some of our articles out of Christian truth.
In a publication of theirs while I had him on the phone, I said, why are you insist that the 18th chapter battling the greatest, the city of Babylon, over there on the Euphrates? It must be over there, I said. You realize it would take centuries to have that city be rebuilt and to make it the world Metropolis, Senator, Commerce and Industry. I said it is impossible I should delay the Lord's coming indefinitely.
And I said, I'll give you one verse that will settle it all for you and prove that you're wrong. Notice the 17th chapter in the last verse.
And the woman which thou sawest now there willing to admit that the woman that corrupted woman in the 17th chapters of all religious system. But I said, Now notice this. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
So you can't make the woman one thing and the city the other, because the last verse of the 17th chapter says that the same. They're the same parties. The only difference is the one presents her in her corruption, the other in her organization, her city.
Now the 17th and 18th chapters take you back to the beginning of the whole seven years ago, where you see that false religious system in the first half of those sentiments. Now I'd like to make this comment too about that verse in the 16th chapter, That 19th verse.
There are two babylons in the book of Isaiah.
The 13th and 14th chapters and the 47th or 40 and 48th I think it is.
Now those two baboons, one is the one is political and the other is religious.
The political Babylon is the 13th and 14th chapters and Lucifer of the 14th chapter is the head of the revived Roman Empire.
For Satan's back the Lucifer should be translated, thou son of the morning, but instead of translating it, they transliterated it and said Lucifer.
And I know it's taught that Lucifer the 14th of Isaiah, Satan, but the the Lord Jesus Christ who comes out of heaven.
Is the morning star. It comes for his Saints, but the Son of the morning of the 14th chapter, Lucifer. That's what Lucifer means. The Son of the Morning. He is the false morning star ahead of the revived Roman Empire will offer to usher in a new day for.
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And it's all false.
Basically, it's a dissection.
Now let's go to the 19th chapter.
Let me count. In the 19th chapter we see the we see the Saints in heaven.
And the marriage of the blandest common his wife hath made herself ready. Now she's gone through the judgment seat of Christ. Everything is up.
Clothed in fine linen, and clean and white in the fine linen of the righteousnesses of the Saints.
That's inhabit before he comes back with his Saints to execute judgment. Might also make this comment about the 19th chapter.
If you compare it with the 14th chapter, you'll find the 4th chapter.
You go back to four and five, you find 24 elders.
In heaven, those 24 elders represent all the redeemed in heaven.
Two twelfths, 2 Counts, and they represent the 24 courses of the priesthood.
And so their their heavenly priests, and priests to God made us kings and priests unto our God in heaven. That's the 4th and 5th job you should get the 24 elders. But when you come down to the 19th chapter, you never hear of an elderly.
The 24 elders have disappeared in the 19th chapter.
And what takes their place? Why, what takes their place? Is this the bride, the lamb's wife, and the invited guests to the marriage beast? And there you have your Old and New Testament say separate. The one that bribed, the other the friends of the bride. Now then we come down to where we began to read tonight. I barely wouldn't drop this other end as preliminary that we might get our barons. And I saw heaven over.
You know, the man of the world thinks that the world is going to go on this way forever.
They're going on planning and building and they're constructing great buildings today and they're doing it on 99 year leases.
It's my firm conviction that these 99 year leases will never be fulfilled. We're down at the very end and there'll be, there'll be a destruction long or that.
I saw Evernote.
And behold, a White Horse. This is not the writer on the White Horse from the 6th Jack. That's a man on earth in the 6th chapter, But here is the Lord Jesus Christ coming out of heaven. You want to be sure who he is.
And he that sat upon him was called Faithful and Truth. Remember, he was introduced as a faithful and true witness.
Church has been an unfaithful business, but here's the one that was faithful and true, and his eyes were as a flame of fire.
And on his head were many crowns, all the piercing discernment. I was a flame of fire. On his head were many crowns. The last time the world saw that blessed one, he had a crown of Florence. When I see him again, he'll have many problems. That is many glories when he is.
And.
Doesn't even begin doing on his head. There were many.
And he had a name written that no man knew but he himself.
Now there are two names mentioned here. The one speaks of his humanity, and the other of his dear humanity is faithful and true.
And as it do, is dearly as a name written that no man himself to go on again, and he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood.
Now this is not the blood that was shedded cowboy. This is the blood that speaks of vengeance on his enemies. Back to the book of Isaiah. And he says I brought the wine press alone.
Records that run at the blood of his enemies on all his garments. It's not the blood of Christ, it's the blood of his enemies.
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All the world set away with it, and he submitted it. He left.
Others get right to view this world as having murdered his son. You know there are two sides to the cross of Christ, the martyr sufferings and the sacrificial sufferings. You get the one in the 22nd Psalm and the other in the 69th Psalm. The 22nd sound begins with that cry of abandonment on the cross. My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?
Some ends with blessing. He comes forth in resurrection, declares his blood name unto his brother. He praises in the congregation and in the great congregation.
In all the nations of the world are going to come and even then there's going to be a people that shall be born. It will be always blessing and ever widening spirit. Like you would drop a kettle into them and it was still on your lake and you see those circles in the water increasing, increasing right up to it. Thanks.
Acts in 20 seconds. After the 69th time you get the martyr sufferings of Christ, and it closes with their table to make it a snare. Let their bow down their back always that one should have been, for their welfare be to their hurt.
God is going to fall on this world for what they did to His Son. The thing that makes me marvel is the patience and grace of God that is for and it has been marrying with this world for almost 2000 years after the cast is sent out.
Back and his name is called the Word of God.
I hear it speaks of each of you. His name is called the Word of God. Now we find all the word of God.
In John One, there you get his His creatorial power. We want an expression of God's power and creation. That blessed one was it. All things were created by Him.
Then you go.
In John One. Then he comes down and became flesh.
What a revelation of God and grace. You have to see it in Christ. There he reveals the heart of God. But the word of God here is going to be the perfect demonstration, the manifestation of God's righteous judgment.
Coming in judge of this matter.
And.
The armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, cleaned, clothed in fine linens, white and fling, and out of his mouth full of a sharp sword that we did, He should smite the nations, He shall rule them on the rod of our air. And he treaded the wine progress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty.
And he act on his best friend on the thigh On his thigh a name written King of Kings, Lord of Lords. Here we get his deity and his humanity again Deity. His name is called the Word of God, Humanity, King of Kings and the Lord of the Lord. We we seldom find the one without finding the other close by.
Well, the Lord is coming back, Coming back with his Saints to execute. All will be in his trailer at there.
He says, you know to the overcomer in the Book of Revelation. He says dim that overcometh will I grant to sit with me my throne.
Any promises too that they should be with him when he makes his enemies as much as attack them as a powdered vessel?
There will be enemies will be dashed in pieces.
Well, what's next? Seven years? Remember that what we're getting here is the beginning of the day of the Lord.
This is man's day. Man has usurped God's place on the earth and he's taken over everything.
Man and the culmination of man's day will be the man of sin.
Man exalting himself to be his God. That would be the culmination of man's day. But the day of the Lord is ushered in when he comes out of heaven with the arms and heavens will execute judgment. And what does Joel say about the day of the Lord? It's a day of darkness and not like.
It's going to be a terrible time.
Day of the Lord comes.
Now he says, And I saw an Angel standing in the sun, and he cried under the with a loud voice, saying to all the vows that fly in the midst of heaven. Come and gather yourselves together unto the great supper of God.
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How it should be that he made the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men both free and bond, both small and great.
Oh, what a carnage is going to be in the day when the Lord comes out of heaven to put down his enemies.
Here's a call to the power to come and eat their flesh. Great men, chief men, captains.
Today we have captains in all lines. We have captains of industry and we have captains in finance, and we have captains and all righteous of human endeavor. But it's all going to be level.
Haven't believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. They're going to meet the doom here mentioned here. Now the 19th person here is our third and our star each Each vision is separated by this. And I thought and I saw the beast that's the head of the revived Roman emperor.
Abandoned, Probably alive today, but there is no man on earth that can tell you for sure who he is, and all the speculation is useless.
No. It's one thing to interpret prophecy and another to become a prophet. Some of these prophetic teachers around the world became prophets, and they prophesied that Mussolini was the beast. Some of them went and told him so, but the litter, they got out on a lemon and then the limb broke. Then they were down.
I talked to our mail carrier one day and he was a Christian and I spoke to him about the nearness of the Lord's coming. Well, he said I used to enjoy those things and believe them, but he said I was spoiled. I only finished me when I said Mussolini was the beast and then he got killed. So.
In that kind of thing, men becoming prophets in their own right only brings the prophetic scriptures into disrepute.
I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse and against his arm.
Well, we learn elsewhere that God is going to send forth 3 unclean spirits to gather them together to the great jade of.
His wrath. It's not the battle of Armageddon it should be. It should read The War of Armageddon. That is a battle is 1 engagement, but the correct translation there is the war. When the Lord Jesus comes back to put down his enemies, he will not put them all down at an instant. There will be a series of engagements and every encounter will leave his foes dead.
And the beast and the kings of the earth were gathered together. Make war against it. Think of the dairy. You think they're daring now and trying to go to the moon?
But they're going to actually attempt to fight the Lord of Glory when he comes out of heaven.
But I want to ask you, what good will all their missiles and projectiles of one kind another do against one whose sword is in his mouth?
They won't fight the conventional war requirements. His sword is in his mouth.
Get a sample of it, you know, just a little sample of it. When they mob went to take him in the garden of Gethsemane and he says home and seek you, they said Jesus Nazareth. He said I am. They went backward and fell to the ground. Well, it could just as easily vanish them to hell at the time.
All power, but he lets them get up and take it. He submits. He goes with it. They couldn't have done it unless he permitted it. But here's one whose sword is in his mouth, and the beast was taken, and with him the false proud of the dwarf miracles before him.
This false prophet is a man that will be here in Jerusalem, the head of the Jewish nation.
And will be supported by the beast of the Roman Empire. And these two are working hand in glove. And when the Lord comes their clock in open handed rebellion against him, and these two were cast alive into the lake of fire, burning with brimstone.
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The lake of fire was made for the devil and his angels.
These two men will be there first.
Over 1000 years before the devil will ever be ever reached. These two men are given no trial. They're caught in open handed rebellion, actually trying to fight against Christ. They're taking alive and cast bodily into the liquor fight. Now I submit that there will be three men who will have the same faith, the beast, the head of the revived Roman Empire.
And the head of the Jewish nation in Jerusalem for false prophet that works lying mirrors and.
The head of the Confederated Arab states that will be the replacement will be the future day King of the North, those enemies north of Palestine. The 83rd Psalm gives you the list of the 83rd Psalm gives you the list.
Now, to prove what I'm Speaking of, turn to Isaiah 30.
Isaiah 30.
31St verse For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smoke with the rock.
Last words we're talking is ordained of all.
Yeah, for the king also reads it that way. For the king also it is prepared. It is prepared, that is this place. This lake of fire is prepared of gold for the Assyrian and for the king also. And the king also is the head of the Jewish nation, that apostate head king also he has made it deep and large, the pilot of his fire in much wood, the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone that came.
Now let's go back to the.
Local revelation, the last verse, the 19th chapter. And I saw the Rim and the remnant were slain with the sword of him and sat on the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth, and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. Plenty of jobs. And I saw an Angel come down from heaven having to heal the bottomless pit or the abyss, and a great chain in his hand.
And he laid hold of that dragon, the old the dragon, that old serpent which is the devil and Satan.
Found him 1000 years.
Here we find another thing that takes place with the advent of the Lord with the Saints. Satan who deceived the world is to be bound in the abyss for 1000 years. Now in the Old Testament we learned about the reign of Christ.
And we never get a key to how long it would be. We have to come to the 20th chapter of Revelation to find that it's 1000 years long.
In this chapter we get that repeated time and again, 1000 years Satan is bound for 1000 years. He's bound all during the millennial reign of practice.
But we find that wicked doers, those who commit over acts of with wickedness, will be destroyed every morning.
Instead of reading early, will I destroy the wicked of the land that should read every morning?
That is proof that man apart from new birth, man apart from a new life.
Is incorrigibly bad, even without the instigation of Satan, that there will be rebellion by man during the millennial reign of Christ. He won't be able to blame it on Satan. You know there are a lot of people who have to blame all their misdeeds on Satan, but it won't hold and the Millennium will be the proof that man is bad without.
Of course, all the jewels that go into the millennial earth will be.
Born again. There's no question about that.
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And he cast him into the bottomless, bitter, the abyss, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more till the 1000 years should be fulfilled.
After that he must be loosed a little season. He is to be loosed for a little seasonal, in order to try the last multitude that were born on earth during the Millennium, who never had a trial, and and to show how unregenerate a man can do, they will rise up against Christ and his beneficent reign after all those thousand years.
Now the forces.
And I saw Thrones, and they sat alone, and judgment was given unto them, and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God. Now read this next a little different.
And those which had not received, which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark, and therefore answered in their hands, they lived and reigned with Christ 1000 years.
This is the last installment of the first Resurrection.
When we say first resurrection, we're using a scriptural term.
It is variously called the first resurrection, the resurrection from among the dead, the resurrection of the just, and a better resurrection. The Lord Jesus came forth from the tomb as the first fruits of them had slept.
And we see some that came forth after His resurrection. The great body of the resurrected Saints will come forth when the Lord comes for His Church.
Christ was the first Bruce, but then they'll be the great gathering in that harvest when the Lord comes for His Church, all the dead, and with faith in Christ, all the living, with faith in Christ.
All changed together and caught up to be with him forever. Not for 1000 years, but forever.
Well, here are two groups that are raised from the dead at the close of the tribulation period at the beginning of the Millennium. Who are they? Why, there are some that have faith in God during the tribulation period, during the whole 7 year period who were martyred for their faith and faithless.
Now there are two classes that are to be raised at that time. Turn to Revelation 6 and you see the first class.
Revelation 6 And verse 9. And when he had opened the 5th seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, Oh Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given under every one of them. And it was said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season until their fellow servants also and their brethren that should be killed, as they worship people.
This is the first class mentioned in this fourth verse of the 19 the 20th of revolution those.
The souls of them which were beheaded for their witness of Jesus and for the word of God.
The other group are those that have not submitted to the beast and worship him nor his enemies, Find about them in 14 jackets and others. Now they're raised at the end.
Just as the Millennium begins and all those who died in faith are going to get a heavenly portion, they will not inherit the earth honor, but with Christ reigning over.
How we read again.
5th verse was the rest of the dead live? Not again until 1000 years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
That connection see with the last and start of the first resurrection. The first resurrection is a resurrection of character, not particularly of one time, but it's those that are raised from among the dead, those that are caught up for a heavenly force. The rest of the head, the unbelieving dead, live not again till 1000 years were finished.
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6th verse Blessed and holy is he that hath parking the first resurrection on such this second death hath no power, that they shall be priests to God and of Christ, and shall reign with him 1000 years.
The second death may require a little word.
There are different kinds of deaths spoken of in Scripture, and each one implies separation.
Dead and trespasses and sins. A man is dead morally, spiritually, before God, and he's separated from God spiritually. He has not a movement of his heart toward God.
Then there are those that die. And what is natural death? It's the as a body without the spirit is dead. It's separation of body from the spirit, the spirit from the body. But the second death will be the separation of the whole man, body, soul and spirit are reversible, right? Spirit, soul and body from God for all eternity. That's the second. Always keep in mind that the work death complies separation.
Whether it's the spiritual death of Ephesians 2 or the death of the body or detective.
And when the seven verse 100,000 years expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall go forth.
To deceive the nations which in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the battle. To battle the number of humans as the family decision, they went up on earth, the breath of the earth and the compass about the camp of the Saints and the beloved city of fire came down.
From God, out of heaven, and of our now. That's what will happen at the close of the millennial reign of the Christ. The millions and millions and millions born during the Millennium are going to be tested, and in spite of all the glorious rain of drugs, Satan will move many of them right up in Rebecca.
We go down.
In that chapter.
Lemongrass and I saw a great white drum.
And him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away, and there was found no place where. This is the dissolution of the whole system. And here is the great white Rd. seen in space.
And man right there.
With the gender to be raised and to be tried there Now the 12Th verse is your 7th, and I saw and I saw the dead small and greater different small standing for God.
And the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works.
Let me make this comment.
There is a false teaching brought in crystal, that the Lord, that the man, the man of the world, the man who dies in his sins, will not be judged for his sin.
Only for rejecting Christ. That is false. They're going to be judged according to their works, those things written to books.
Some popular men in Christendom, right at the top and evangelical circles are all on that point. They say that it isn't the same question. It's the same question you have to face. Now I granted when you reject Christ, that's the crown of sin. But man is going to be judged for his same sins. According to the books. God has a record. And as Ecclesiastes closes, God shall bring every work into judgment.
Secret thing?
So it's all they're going to be judged according to their works. And there are two kinds of evidence that we presented negative and positive. Negative that their names were not written in the book of life, and positive the black catalog of their sex.
So the psalmist could say, ever not into the judgment with thy servant Let for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. If man has to stand before God to be judged, he's due and they're not in the judgment. I say John 524 is a blessing assurance of the believer that he will not bring the judge.
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We go down to the well at the 13th verse yet. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and Death in Hades delivered up the dead which were in them Death, the being the confines of the body, and Hades the confines of the souls of the departed wicked people. And they were judged everyone, every man, according to his works. Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire.
That which held the departed bodies and the departed spirits of the unbelieving are needed no more.
Let it be, no way that whole contents are ended up entered into the.
Cast out into the lake of fire.
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire. Now that completes your seven. And I saw the seven vision, did not John got from the one of the coming of Christ to execute judgment right up until the eternal spin. Now the next one, the last one, is the 8th 1:00 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth rhythm.
Heaven and the first earth were fled away, and there was no more sea. Now we're introduced to the eternal state.
My, my dog here and we find.
A new evidence in the new earth where him dwelleth righteousness according to from second Peter you know the day of God is coming.
And 1St the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and there's going to be new heavens and new earth, and that will be known as the day of God.
Today is man's day when the Lord comes to execute judgment personally. It will be the day of the Lord, and that will run on and on through the Millennium and even the day of the Lord until He completes all judgment, for He is the judge at the Great White Throne. Incidentally, there's a statement here that should be corrected.
Well first, and I saw the dead, small and great, stand before the throne.
It's land, that one. The Son of Man is the judge in each case. Each.
Scene of Judgment.
Now then, we're introduced to the new heavens and the new earth, the day of God. And you could get very little in the scripture about the day of God. Turn with me to second Peter.
And the last chapter and the 12Th verse, looking for and hasting under the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for a new new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. We might say that today righteousness is preached and you might suffer for righteousness. In the day of the Millennium righteousness will reign. King shall rule in righteousness and Princess and children.
In judgment. But in the millennia wherein dwelleth righteousness, it will be the settled state. In the day of God that righteousness will dwell there. What a day that will be, and that will be the full conflict of what we read in John 129. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world, then all sinners.
All its fruit, all its had consequences, error, retrace of sin, will be removed from God's creation, and it will be the day of God wherein God shall dwell with men and he shall heal, dwell with men on earth in the church.
The Church will be that His dwelling place, but he will delight to dwell with men and never get nations in connection with the eternal state. It's men.
And then in First Corinthians 15.
You get the other mention of eternal state.
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Whoa, whoa.
The 28th Verse, And when all things shall be subdued unto him.
He's going to raise the law interest of you.
This then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him to put all things under him.
That God may be All in all. He retains his place in manhood, and he delivers up the Kingdom that he has exercised for God. That God may be all and all God. When you say God, it isn't the Father. Now it's God as God.
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and God may be all gone, and you see how that ties in with the day of God from second Peter. And I think these are the only references to the eternal state. The third verse of our chapter I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and evil dwell with them.
5th verse And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all that he knew. And he said unto me, right? For these words were true and faithful. Isn't it the remarkable thing that when God reveals his purpose to bring in this perfect settle mistake, that will be according to his own mind and his own thoughts, that he has to say these things are true and thing because math is so slow to believe, he also gets in the mixture.
Sayings are fake.
Why God should have to remind this attack when telling us of what such a glorious time is coming? Oh, what a solemn thing it will be for those that die in their sins and are raised to stand before the throne, the great white throne they judged for their wicked words, and they sent away bodies, soul and spirit into the lake of fire. The Outer Gods, that management from God for all eternity. What a time that would be.
Well, that's the 8th.
Just as you have in the.
23rd of Leviticus you have the seven days of the feast of Taverns, 7 being the complete cycle, and like seven days to the week, and then after the Millennium and seven days of the feast of the Great of the Tamarinds, the closing crowning beast. In Israel history it's supplemented by and on the eighth day, as though God would remind us back there that I'm going to go beyond the Millennium, I'm going to bring in a settle, a state that will last.
New beginning they hate and so.
Our.
Man of Sorrow, Patience, Joy
Address—P. Wilson
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General Meetings Wheaton, August 19, 1962 Address Large Day by Paul Wilson.
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Lord Jesus, come and take thy rightful place.
As son of man, of all the theme, come, Lord.
To reign or all supreme?
Lord Jesus, come, Lord Jesus, come.
The man of sorrows once.
The man of patience, waiting now.
A man of joy forever thou.
Come savior, come some brothers, started 260.
Right. We turn first to this afternoon to Isaiah 53 for a verse.
But before reading.
This verse.
I would like to make a comment or two.
It is not my thought.
To expound some ponderous truth.
This afternoon.
It is my thought.
That as we consider some portions of the word of God.
That our hearts may be refreshed.
That our affections may be drawn out to that Blessed One who loved us and gave himself for us.
And that the result of this meeting.
May be a strengthened life for Christ the little while we're here.
And that all may read down to his glory.
Now what is before me this afternoon was contained in the second stanza of the hymn we sang.
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The Man of sorrows.
The man of patience.
And the man of joy.
Now in Isaiah 53.
Well, we might read the second and third verses.
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground.
He hath no form.
Nor lordliness. Read it.
And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected of men.
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were our faces from him.
He was despised and we esteemed him not.
The 53rd chapter of Isaiah stands out in the Old Testament.
In my mind.
As that verse that brings the Lord Jesus before us in a most remarkable way.
That first, the second verse, the word one we read first.
He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground.
God had looked down on this earth.
For 4000 years.
The boldness of time had come.
Man had been tried and tested in every conceivable way.
And fallen man could not bring forth fruit for God.
If God spoke of bringing a vine out of Egypt and planting it, Speaking of Israel.
His comment was that it brought forth wild grapes.
No fruit for God.
And all this barren land for those 4000 years.
At last the Lord Jesus came, and God looked down on this scene, and he saw in this world a man in whom he delighted.
One of whom he could say in thee, I have found all my delight.
I like to quote the words of the a few words from the prophet of poet Gambled.
There has one object been revealed on Earth that might commend a place.
But now it is gone. Jesus is with the Father.
One object revealed on Earth that might have commended the place.
And what did men say about him?
No beauty that we should desire him.
This chapter could bear much meditation.
We find God's thoughts of Him. We find the Jews thoughts of him.
We find his own work in his lifetime. We find his work at Calvary's cross bearing of sins.
And you go on through the chapter and you'll see the glory at the end.
All the 53rd of Isaiah is a marvelous chapter.
But the point that's before me this afternoon is that one expression.
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
Who's who is this?
Why the Creator and the Sustainer of the universe?
Not merely the creator and sustainer of this little earth.
But all those orbs?
But the entire universe?
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And he came down into this world where sin had done its work.
Came down to show out the heart, the grace of God.
The poor fallen man. And they didn't want it.
Well, as the poet said, man of sorrows. What a name.
For the Son of God who came. What a name.
Well, if we want to see him as a man of sorrows.
Down here we read the Gospels.
And his whole life was one of rejection.
He came into this world and there was number room for him in the inn.
He was placed in the stable.
He was laid in a borrowed Manger.
If he wanted to use a boat, he was indebted to Simon for the use of it.
He had nowhere to lay his head.
The meanest, the smallest of his creatures.
The foxes and the birds had nests and holes. Son of Man had not where to lay his head.
Go on through the scene, follow his footsteps.
When he wanted to make a point why Caesar's coins were circulating in Emmanuel's land, he was indebted for another to show him a piece of money.
We never read of the Lord handling a piece of money.
He said Show your family.
He went on through and as we were remembering this morning.
He was nailed to a cross.
What an end. I'm not thinking of it now as to the atoning sufferings of Christ.
I'm thinking of the hatred of the human heart against him who came.
The Man of sorrows.
What an end to have his creatures the work of his hand.
All his very self sustained their breath.
Take him out and nail him to a cross.
To spit in his face.
Then we follow if we go back otherwise in this pathway, we see him entering into the sorrows that were down here.
He never healed a man without feeling for.
All he put forth his hand and touched the leper.
He didn't need to touch the leper.
But he sympathized with that poor man.
Take Mary and Martha at their grief when their brother died.
Jesus went there and he groaned in spirit.
He He saw Mary weeping, and the Jews weeping would come with her.
And next thing you know, you'll find that Jesus wept.
2 little words.
In a verse, Jesus wept when what volumes they tell he was the man of sorrow.
He was down here and he felt what had come into God's creation.
You felt it.
He wept with those that wept.
Think of him going to Jerusalem and weeping over that guilty city that was soon to cry out away with him.
He beheld Jerusalem and wept over it.
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Why did he weep over? Because of the things that were coming on it.
Because they knew not the time of their visitation.
Take the 11Th chapter of Matthew and he reviews those cities in Galilee wherein most of his mighty works were done.
For raising Bethsaida Capernaum.
He mentions one after the other and said whoa to them.
And then he says, I thank the old Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because I was hid these things from the wise and prudent, and has revealed them unto babes, Even so Father.
For so it seemed good and eyesight.
All he felt, the rejection.
But he he also recognized the father's will, the father's hand in it all, and says Even so father.
Even under those conditions.
There's another verse here in Isaiah 53.
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.
Sometimes that's applied to the cross.
That verse does not apply to the cross.
He bore their griefs and sorrows on his heart during his pathway.
Part of the reason he's called the man of sorrows.
If you go to the 8th chapter of Matthew, you will see that Borne outlet's turn to it.
So there will be no misunderstanding.
Matthew 8 and verse 16.
When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with demons.
And he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick.
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying.
Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses.
There in Matthew 8 that verse from Isaiah 53.
The fourth verse is applied to his bearing on his heart.
The sufferings of poor, fallen humanity as he went about doing good.
All brethren.
May our hearts be drawn out to that blessed one.
Who went through this scene to God's glory?
At every step of his path.
And yet touched with all that he saw about, You know, there is a sense in which we can have that too. There is such a thing as a Christian suffering with Christ. I'm not referring now to suffering for Christ.
If you give a testimony for Christ and you're rejected for it, that's suffering for Christ.
But suffering with Christ?
Would be entering into the sorrows that have come on into this world through sin.
And feeling for those that are so suffering.
Suppose to you hear the name, the blessed name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Taken in profanity.
Taken in vain.
Does it offend you? Do you feel that this world is under the power of Satan? Who is its God and Prince?
You see the world rushing headlong to doom.
Do you feel it? Do you feel for the poor priceless multitude pressing on?
On and on and over the precipice.
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Oh dear brethren, we need to enter into what the poor creature is suffering.
We need to enter into it when we hear his name taken in vain.
Spoken and blasted.
When we enter into those thoughts of Christ, we are suffering with Christ.
Now suppose you and I.
Pass through certain trials and difficulties down here.
And I suppose I'm Satan saying that there isn't a single person in this room.
That has not at some time or the other pass through severe trials.
God has not exempted his people from the sufferings that go with his creation.
Do you realize that the one who came down here and trod this scene?
Entering into its sorrows its difficulties and woes.
Is now at God's right hand.
As a great High Priest to succor you.
He passed through it all.
He went along the same pathway.
That he might be able to enter into what you and I endure.
No, he hasn't exempted us from the trials that go with this world.
But he is upon I now to encourage us to suffer us.
But let's pass on a little further with this thing.
Turn to the 69th Psalm for a moment.
We come now to the sufferings of Christ in his rejection.
At the cross.
69th Psalm, the ninth verse.
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
You remember, the disciples noted that Psalm, that statement.
In the days when he was here.
And he was jealous for God's name in this world.
It brought him suffering. It brought him reproach.
With the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
The reproaches of them that reproach thee fell on me.
Makes me think you know how, in a little way, Daniel knew something of the reproaches of God falling on him.
Daniel was an upright, godly Jew in his day, and his enemies were determined to get something against him.
And their comment was.
We shall not find anything against him unless we find it concerning the law of his God.
Do those with whom you work.
To those at school, recognize that you're a Christian, that you belong to Christ.
Do they recognize, too, that you do things differently than the unsaved man?
Or girl or boy about you.
That you walk and do it in the fear of God.
Your work is honest and upright.
And they can save you. The only thing we can get against him is the fact that he's a Christian.
He belongs to Christ.
All if you suffer for the name of Christ, happy are you?
Don't shine a little reproach, for Christ's sake.
Think what that one that saved us went through down here in his pathway that led to the cross.
Now this 69th Psalm 12 verse.
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They that sit in the gates speak against me, and I was the song of the drunkards.
Now what he means here and in the Psalms we get the heart of the book, and sometimes we go back to the Psalms and we find the expression of the Lord's soul under circumstances that are not meant. The circumstances are mentioned, but not the state of soul or the feeling he had. In the Gospels we go back to the Psalm and we find it.
They that sit in the gates speak against me.
The judges sat in the gate.
They spoke against him.
The judges of the people that should have stood for rectitude and righteousness.
Softballs witness to put him to death.
They that sit in the gate speak against me, and I was the song of the drunkard, high and low.
Moral and immoral.
United in one thing that they didn't like him.
Such a pathway.
Turn to the book of Lamentations.
Following Jeremiah.
The.
Lamentations, Chapter One.
12 Verse Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?
Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow.
Which is done unto me.
Wherewith the Lord is afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
All dear fellow Christian, that was not only the sufferings that he passed through, as he went on the way from from the Manger to the cross.
Not only the zeal of God's house eating him up.
Not only feeling what sin is brought into the creation.
A verse comes to mind in connection with what sin brought into the creation. They rebuked him.
For healing on the Sabbath day.
He gave many reasons why he healed on the Sabbath day, but there are outstanding one to me is this my father worketh hitherto, and I work.
When sin came into the world.
Creations Rest was broken and God began to work to clothe the guilty pair Adam and Eve with coats of skin.
And here was the Lord of Glory down in this scene, ruled by sin. And how could he not work on the Sabbath day?
There was need. There was suffering.
Man of sorrows. What an egg, He entered into it all as he passed along.
But here is the close of those three hours of darkness on calories cross the ultimate of all suffering.
The whole spotless Lamb of God was made sin.
There He bore our sins and his own body on the tree.
I wonder if there should be some here yet this afternoon that cannot say that.
I know him as my Savior. I know that He bore my sins in His own body on the truth.
Oh, I would. That everyone here could rejoice in Christ as his Savior.
Blessed abortion for those that accept it to know their sins are all forgiven.
And more than not to have him as an object.
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Have won him was 1 dissatisfied the heart.
All you don't have to go after the poor vain father, the follies of this world.
To have a good time.
I address these remarks particularly to the young people here.
The world bids for you. The world bids for your affection for your attention.
But you don't have to go after those things to find peace and joy if you have Christ.
One said I have Christ what want I more?
Well, he says, Behold, and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow.
And if we apply this as an expression of what the Lord suffered in the three hours of darkness, we must say.
Unequivocally, that he was alone.
All he suffered in the Garden of Gethsemane.
There he is suffering in anticipation of being made sin the following day, and so great was his sorrow that the sweat tinged with blood fell to the ground.
No one can do that.
Some people on this with mistaken ideas sing, I'll go with him to the cross, or I'll go with him to the garden.
3 disciples attempted that you know, and they had to stay back.
And one of them soon denied his Lord.
But when it comes to the cross itself and the suffering in those three hours of an honorable darkness and sorrow.
When his son refused to shine at noon, day, blackness covered the scene. He was alone.
The fire of God's judgment against sin burned itself out.
On him.
Those 3 hours were over during those three hours, he said. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, that 22nd Psalm where you'll find that expression of the Lord?
In The Sufferings of Atonement, quoted in Matthew and Mark.
Those precious words seldom found in the Old Testament the sufferings of the Atonement.
But there he was, alone.
The wrath of God poured out on his holy heaven.
And then the fire of God's judgment burned itself out, and then he comes out into the light.
Before he gives up his spirit, he looks up and he dresses God as Father again.
The judgment exhaust.
What I say?
And that judgment that God poured out upon him, when which burned itself out upon him.
Forever satisfied the claims of God's holiness against them.
And gave God a righteous foundation to come out to every poor Sinner on earth and say if you'll accept him as your savior, I'll forgive your sins, I'll give you eternal life.
And the home and globe.
Oh, isn't it strange how few will have it? One of our gospel hymns says.
Angels reviewing this strange sight.
God beseeching and man refusing.
To be made forever glad.
Well, so we go on. We find him suffering. He knows 3 hours of darkness, the climax of all.
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That means that they have to close. As was said this morning, he was placed in a borrowed 2.
God had the right man at hand, the rich man, it says. He was with the rich in his death to bury him in a rich man's tomb.
But that's the last the world saw.
God took him home. God took him back in righteousness.
He came down in grace and he's gone back in righteousness. 16th of John says the Spirit of God will think will speak of righteousness because I go to the Father.
It was a righteous thing that he should go back to the Father.
Well, where is he now? He's there. And if we would turn to the 110th Psalm, we would read this.
That God said unto him, Sit down at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
As an interesting sidelight, I might say that I believe.
The 110th Psalm is more quoted in the New Testament than other any other part of the Old Testament.
110,000.
We've got his seated at God's right path by God's command.
In Hebrews one, he seats himself there.
And I think it's the 15th of First Corinthians. We won't have time to turn to it. We read that he's seated there from henceforth, expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
Leave and tells us what he's thinking about up there.
That's one side of it, one part of it, from henceforth expecting until his enemies be made his footstool.
Want to turn to?
Revelation 3.
We come now to the man of patience.
The evidence is full as to his having been the man of sorrows here once.
He's sitting there at God's right hand.
You say. Does he need patience there?
All he's been there for 2000 years.
From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
As Revelation 3.
Seven verse.
We'll read this one section.
For some thoughts that might go along with it.
Seventh verse and to the Angel of the church in Philadelphia, right these things saith he that is holy.
That is true.
He that has the key of David.
He that openeth the no man shutteth.
And shudder the old man open it.
I know thy works.
Will all I have set before thee an open door?
And no man can shut it.
For thou hast leave out that little word a there.
Thou hast little strength.
And has kept my word.
Have not denied my name. Behold, I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews and are not.
But do lie.
Behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy speak, and to know that I have loved thee.
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience.
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I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them to dwell upon the earth.
Behold, I come quickly.
Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy ground.
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God.
And he shall go no more out, and I will write upon him the name of my God.
And the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem.
Which cometh down from my God, and I will write upon him my new name.
He's an atheneer. Let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
It's rather remarkable place in which we find this, the word of my patience.
This is an address from the Lord in glory.
To the Church on Earth, at the very end of the Church's history.
Very.
We're down at the end we're living in these days.
But all in the midst of these days when man is going his own way.
When the world is ripening for doom.
The Lord has some down here in this world.
That he delights to communicate these precious truths to.
What does he say?
To the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, you know, means brotherly love.
In Revelation 2 and three we have 7 addresses from the Lord in glory to seven churches on earth.
These seven literal assemblies existed in Asia Minor in the province of Asia.
And the Lord chose to send a letter to each one of the seven.
And each one was chosen with utmost precision and accuracy. They were chosen according to the state that existed in the individual assembly.
The Church in Ephesus, the very first state, gives us what was on earth among the profession of Christianity when the apostles left the sea.
Rick, they were faithful.
They tried those that were apostles and were not, and found them liars.
There are many things that he commended, the church or the assembly at Ephesus 4.
But he had this to say about them, that thou hast left thy first love.
You know, all failure of Christians begins there.
Giving up?
Leaving first love, May I ask this not only of you.
But for myself as well.
Has there been a time?
In our early Christian life.
When we found our hearts more going out to him than now.
Was there a time in our early Christian experience when our hearts were all aglow?
At the thought of the glories of Christ.
We sometimes speak of people in the freshness of First Law.
All Isn't it nice to find a young man or a young woman? Or an old man or an old woman, either?
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Who finds Christ as his savior, and his heart is booming over with what he's found in Christ.
All there is a freshness to that love.
But the trouble is that sometimes as we go on and we get pressed down with the trials or the troubles of the way, just ordinary duties perhaps.
That they love to Christ. While it's there, it isn't in the freshness and order of first days.
And the Lord says, I was left thy first love. That was the condition at the beginning.
We find the various stages and we come down to Philadelphia, one of the four that go on to the end.
And here's our company.
Honoring him? What does he say?
Thou hast little strength.
Would you like to be identified with a company that had little strength?
Suppose you were going to work.
For a business enterprise.
And the man that sought to enlist your services told you. Now we're a little company.
And we hardly have any strength to hold on and we're just trying to get by one day at a time.
Do you think you'd go to work for that kind of an outfit?
Well, suppose that somebody would come to you and tell you that they wanted you to join a certain Christian body of Christian.
And they would say now we're the largest body of Christians on earth.
You know, they're working it up now, but they'll have one of these great big ecumenical churches.
Everything in one Good, bad and indifferent. Get the mall together. The bigger the better.
Suppose they come to you and say, now I want you to get into this. This is going, this is a big thing. This has strength.
What would you say to it?
Would it appeal to you?
Not if you knew your Bible.
Not if you knew the word of God.
Thou hast little strength if you find any company of Christians boasting of great strength.
Shock it all.
Little strength.
Nothing to boast of there.
But he says.
Thou has kept my word.
You remember?
In the early chapters of Luke says of Mary that she kept all those things and pondered them in her heart.
Do we keep his word? I'm not speaking now of keeping it as an austere command.
I'm Speaking of it in the way that Mary treasured it. She kept all those things and pondered them in her heart.
I was kept my word.
And not denied my name.
All dear fellow Christians.
Are you satisfied not to have a name associated with you?
Are you satisfied to go on with a little company with little strength?
And not be able to boast of large things.
Not be able to even boast of a name or a handle that men would like.
All you know, people all have to have handles for things. They get a name for this and a name for that, and a reputation for this and a reputation for the other.
But thou has kept my word and not denied my name.
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Now I'm not saying here we are. Now find us, here we are. Little strength. Here we are. We keep his word.
Brethren, how far is it true of us?
Is there not a tendency?
To endeavor in some way.
To make a show of a little strength, just a little more.
Is there not also a letting go of keeping his word and treasuring it in our hearts?
Treasuring up that word from day-to-day, isn't there a danger with us?
Of not going on this way.
These things are not written to.
Make us complacent. They're written to encourage us, yes.
But let's not be so complacent and say here we are, We answer to that.
We better let the Lord answer that. We better leave that to the Lord's judgment.
We better seek to be in that state of soul that He's Speaking of. And now what does that Blessed One say?
Because thou has kept the word of my patience.
What does that mean?
We get the same thing in Thessalonians.
The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the.
Not the patient waiting for Christ, but the patience of the Christ.
The Lord direct your hearts into the patience of Christ.
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience.
Yesterday I talked with an agent brother.
92 years old.
His hearing is getting worse and worse.
His cataracts get worse and worse, and so he can read less and less.
Every day he gets more shut up.
He said. Well, I'm just waiting.
Just waiting.
But I said there's a blessed back to.
He's waiting.
That's the part we often neglect.
The patience of Christ.
Do you know he's waiting?
He's waited long.
He's still waiting.
The Lord direct your arts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.
Because thou has kept the word of my patience.
Are you willing to suffer reproach and shame and go on year after year, or probably just day after day, or come down hour after hour?
Remember, the Christian life is composed of justice living for Christ now.
Just doing it now.
We don't have to worry about.
The next hour, or the next day, or the next year? Just living for Christ now in the expectation that he was waiting there.
Is waiting till he can have us with himself.
All he waits patiently till his enemies be made his footstool.
But he waits too, worth receiving his bride. There's a day coming, according to Isaiah 53. Again, I quote from Isaiah 53.
He shall see of the fruit of the travel of his soul, and shall be satisfied.
You think he'll be satisfied till he has his redeemed ones with him.
We were reading yesterday, he says. I will come again and receive you to myself, that where I am there ye may be also with me.
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All brethren, the heart of Christ would never be satisfied to redeem you from hell.
And leave your hair unattended.
The heart of Christ would never be satisfied to leave the air with the attention of millions of angels.
The heart of Christ that caused him to give himself for us would never be satisfied till he has his with himself, enjoying us as the fruit of the works on Calvary's drug, He looks forward to it Now He says, I want you to the hearts to be directed into the patience of Christ.
Are you impatient? Sometimes people, when they get a little older, say, oh, if the Lord had only take me whole.
I know I've known of some who say I can't understand why others are taken and I'm left here. I'm no good.
Have you ever thought of it? The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.
You say. Oh, I've been very patient. I'm very old now.
How long has he waited?
2000 years roughly. The patience is right.
All is soon going to rise and take his people home. What a moment that will be, but the one that's the patient that wants us directed into the patience of Christ. He is the one that encourages us here in this address to the church in Philadelphia.
And he says.
Who is he?
He that is holy.
None but he.
He That is whole.
He that is true? Any difficulty identifying that one?
He that is holy, He that is true.
He is intact hath the key of David.
Oh, he's not only going to open the key of the House of David, he's not going to set it, only going to set up the House of David on Earth.
He that openeth an old man shutteth and shutteth an old man openeth. This one has all power.
That he's the one that speaks to us. He wants us just going on patiently.
And in the meantime keeping his word and not denying his name.
Brethren, is that too much?
Is that too much for us to do, to look back with joy?
And wonders we follow his footsteps as the Man of Sorrows.
We think of the one that was the man of sorrows is now the man of patience.
Is also our great High Priest feeling for us and all the difficulties of the way and suckliness, But he's a man of patience up there right now.
Can we have a little patience, the patience of Christ?
What does the Lord want you and me to do today?
Well, I know one thing and we did it this morning.
He says this do in remembrance of me.
He didn't leave us to conjecture what that meant.
He told us what to do.
Suppose that he had gone away and he said I'm going away. And there's only one thing I ask now that you Remember Me. What? I'm gone.
And said no more.
While everybody would have right had a right to his own idea of how to commemorate him.
Even at death.
Everybody would have had a different idea.
But he didn't leave it open to choice.
He says to take a law.
And break the law in remembrance of his body broken.
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To take the cup.
Speaks of his bloodshed.
I know there is a system on earth that says that in a way, for it's all combined bodies, souls, spirit and blood and all, which is a denial of the shed blood of Christ.
Nor the way the Lord gave it to us. The cup is separate from the Lord, and the blood separate from the body, was the proof of death.
Separated.
The Lord didn't leave us in any doubt as to how to do it. He asked us to do this in remembrance of him.
In remembrance of him, and what his life knowing.
The broken loaf from the cocktail of death.
There's due in remembrance of Maine, and the manner of it is in death.
Now the 10th verse, because all this kept the word of my patience.
Enduring along with him, I would take it to me.
Waiting while he waits. Waiting till he can have his place of glory and honor.
Because I was kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation.
Which shall come upon all the world.
To try them to dwell on the earth.
Now, brethren, there are those abroad today that denying the hope of the Lord's coming, the imminent coming of Christ.
Many of them, they're trying to undermine that blessed truth that has cheered the Saints for ages.
They say all kinds of things that are wrong.
They try to make us go through the tribulation and one thing and another. I am not waiting for the tribulation.
I'm not waiting for the beast. I'm waiting for Christ.
And he may come before this day is over. It's right at the door.
We have no assurance that we'll be here tomorrow.
I'm speaking now of the Lord's coming.
In all probability.
He could shout that shout tonight and take us home.
That moment is not far off. We see the world shaping up for that, which is to precipitate the great Tribulation.
This verse reads should read. I will keep thee out of the hour of it.
It isn't like Jacob and Israel to be saved through the great Tribulation.
The Church is promised here to be kept out of the hour of it from the very time in which it will take place.
Why we're to be all to be with Christ first. That's what we're awaiting.
We're awaiting that blessed moment when he that shall come will come.
For all I come quickly.
Hold that fast. Which thou hast that no man take thy clown. Are you going to give it up?
The thought isn't here that you'll lose your crown.
But that no man will take it from you.
If you do not go on faithfully.
The Lord will have someone else to step in and fill the ranks. The Lord will have a faithful remnant that honor him and keep his word to the end.
Now, he says, hold and fast what you have that you don't lose, don't lose your reward.
Now if we would give up, we'd lose the reward of having gone on faithfully to the end.
But that doesn't say he'll not have his own to the end. He will.
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Now, one other point we've seen. He's a man of patience now.
The man of joy. Let's turn to Psalm 45.
I'll read the from the first of it. I won't comment because we're getting along in time. My heart is indicting a good manner. I speak of the things which I have made touching the king. Now this is one of the messianic psalms that deals with the king.
The king that comes to reign. I speak of the things which I have made touching the king.
My tongue is a pen of a ready writer.
Thou art fairer than the children of men. Grace is poured into thy lips. Therefore God hath blessed thee forever.
Ger Dies sword upon thy thigh, almost mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty, and in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness, And thy right hand shall teach the terrible things.
Thine enemies are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies, whereby the people fall unto thee.
I thrown, Oh God is forever and ever this scepter of thy Kingdom is this is a right scepter.
Thou lovers, righteousness and hate us wickedness.
Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness or joy.
Above thy fellows.
Now this 45th Psalm deals with the subject of the Lord when he comes back to reign on earth.
Is going to put down his enemies.
He's going to dash them in pieces like a Potter's vessel.
He's going to rule them with a rod of iron.
But he's going to reign gloriously on Earth, in this very earth.
On this very earth, where he was once rejected, where they cried away with him, he's going to reign.
But what else does it say here?
Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.
Then the next 7 words. Therefore God thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness or joy.
Above thy fellows.
Is going to have companions in that day.
Fellows speaks of companions.
May I just make a little aside at this point?
There are three songs and three expressions in those songs that belong together.
In the 16th Psalm he refers to Saints on earth. They were the godly Remnant that were confessing their sins and being baptized of John when Jesus came. He calls them the Saints, the excellent of the earth, those confessing their sins. And he says in them is all my delight.
He calls them Saints. They were confessing their sins.
All that's the only proper thing for a Sinner to do, and he calls them Saints. Then the 22nd Psalm, he says.
He calls them.
Brethren, I will declare thy name unto my brethren.
Oh, in the 22nd Psalm he'd gone down into death.
The death of atonement.
The sacrificial sufferings of Christ, not merely the martyrs suffering.
And he comes forth in resurrection. And he says, I will declare thy name unto my brethren.
That's what the Commission he gave to Mary. Go tell my brethren, I ascend to my Father and your Father, my God and your God.
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He could do that in resurrection. He has it. He has brethren and resurrection.
But when it comes to reign in his glory, he's going to have companions here in the 45th Psalm called Fellows.
All the day of joy is coming for Christ in this world where he was rejected.
Rather than we're going on now in the scene where he was rejected.
And dear young people.
Do not be deceived by what this world has to offer.
All its glitter.
Is false.
The tinsel is soon gone.
It's effervescent. The fizz is soon gone.
It deceives people, though many a dear Christian has gone after the bubbles of this poor world.
To his own sorrow, heart, and dishonor, to the name of Christ.
Oh, let's not look back to this poor world. Let's look up and see him up there as a man of patience.
Look forward to him as the man of joy and he's going to have associates.
All is going not only to have or nervously earthly associates.
Joyce Brethren is going to have the church as his bride. The 19th of Revelation tells of the marriage supper of the Lamb.
What a wonderful time it will be when Christ takes his breath.
Yes, he loved the church and gave himself for it.
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word, that he might present it to himself a glorious Church.
Not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing.
All he's going to present us to himself a glorious church.
Brethren, he's a man of patience now.
He'll soon be the man of joy. He's going to see the fruit of the travel of his soul and be satisfied.
You'll never be satisfied in the glory without us. He gave himself for us, so he's going to have us there. May we live in the good of it. May we live in the looking back to the man of sorrows and marvel at his pathway.
May we find and reading the Gospel's fresh meditation, fresh enjoyment when we think of him who suffered thus for us.
Then may we press on day by day, not merely in human fortitude.
Not merely with a measure of human patience, but the patience of Christ.
Knowing that he's waiting for the same thing we're waiting for.
You remember back in Genesis 24?
The servant was sent to get a bride for Isaac and he brought her.
And she lighted off the camels.
When she saw the man coming to meet them.
She lifted up her eyes to hold. The camels were coming.
And he lifted up his eyes, and he saw her.
Their eyes met. What was he doing?
He was waiting.
What was she doing? Waiting. Waiting till the end of the journey? He was waiting for it to do. You get a little impatient down here with the trials of the scene, or it won't be long. Will be off. We've begun to be with him.
Then our joy will be complete. But let's not stop there. His joy will be complete.
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In closing, let's read the last verse of the Epistle of Jews.
Oh, it's the 24th verse, Second last.
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling or stumbling.
And to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.
With exceeding joy.
Is going to present the church to himself, a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing.
But it should be holy without blame before him. And love, oh, that's what we're waiting for. That's what he's waiting for. And when he come, when he gets his whole brethren, it's going to be with exceeding joy.
The 45th Psalm is the joy that he'll have when he reigns. Where once he was cast out, he's going to have associates with him when he's reign.
Yes, and he's going to have a bride with him. Do you think he'll ever be satisfied without that bride?
All he told about the Pearl of Great Christ.
He wanted that Pearl of great price, and he went and sold all that he.
Had all brethren he went down into death.
In order to have us.
He's going to have a soon just be a little more patient, brethren.
If you suffer for Christ, happy are you? And again I say in a measure, we all suffer with drugs.
And as we enter into the thoughts of Christ, it will be more and more so.
But let us not want to have joy that this poor world gives.
All what a sad story many dear young Christians have made of their lives.
By being tempted to go after the.
Little joys of this poor world and a dozen satisfies.
It will just rob you over your joy in Christ.
It'll Rob. You'll be reward in the coming day. I'm Speaking of to Christian young people and to all of us. May the man of sorrows, the man of patience and the man of joy captivate your heart and mind. Where we live as we look back on the one, we look up and see him there, waiting, and we look forward to the time when we'll have that joy of being with him.
And he'll have the joy of having.
And we sing some of #320.
Farewell to this world's fleeting joys. Our home is not below.
There was number home for Jesus here, and tis to him we go to him and Yonder home of love where he has gone before.
The only change for Calvary's cross were all our sins. He bore the 7th of stanza. The accursed tree was his the reward which this sad world did give.
To him who gave his precious life that this lost world might live.
And has this world a charm for us?
Where Jesus suffered thus, no.
We have died to all its charms through Jesus Wondrous Cross. The cross on which our Lord expired is 1, the crown for us and thankful fellowship with Him. We date. We bear our daily Cross, the last Stanton.
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Farewell, Farewell, Poor faithless world with all its boasted store.
We'd not have joy where he had woe.
Be rich where he was poor. We don't want this poor world's joy that gave him only wool.
We look forward to joy that will never be the 1St, 7th, 8th and 9th.
The first two 7th, 8th and 9th and the last stances.
No, I don't know where it's going to be everything.
Luke 9:1-17
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Brother Barry, you have something before you. No, I didn't, brother.
Well, I have thought something of lately of the ninth of Luke.
That's in that chapter. Of course, Luke ranges things according to moral order, and I believe there's three times in the chapter where the the apostles had to be rebuked.
For a zeal that was not of the Lord, yet they thought it was.
I think that something very important, but I.
Necessarily, I think we'd have to go on to that.
I would be happy to start with it.
Yeah, feels to me.
Very but.
There are so many young people here.
And perhaps we get lost in Docklands, some of the investors.
Someone read it please? Want to start with the first verse, yes?
9th chapter of Luke.
Then he called his 12 disciples together and gave them power and authority over all double s and to cure diseases, and sent them to preach the Kingdom of God and to heal the sacred. And he said unto them, take note, take nothing for your journey, be the stage, nor script, be the bread, neither money, neither have two coats of thieves. And whatsoever how she enter into.
Thereby and.
And then to depart, and whosoever will not receive you when you go out of that city, shake off the Gray dust from your feet for a testimony against them. And they departed and went through the town, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.
Now here are the Tetrarch heard of all that was done by him, and he was perplexed.
Because that it was said of some that John was risen from the dead, and as somebody Elias had appeared.
And of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again, and Herod said.
John have I beheaded, But who is that of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.
And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done, and it took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Macedon. And the people, when they knew it, followed him. And he received them, and spake unto them of the Kingdom of God, and healed them, and had need of healing. And when the day began to wear away, then came the 12 and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country roundabouts, and lodge, and get vittles.
Where we are here in a desert place.
But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but 5 loaves and two fishes, except we should go and buy meat for all these people. Well, they were about 5000 men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by 50s and accompanying. And they did so and made them all sit down.
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Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them and break, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude, and they did eat and were all filled.
When I was taken up with fragments that remained to them 12 baskets.
And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, His disciples were with him. And he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?
The answering said John the Baptist, but some say Elias and others say that one of the old prophets is risen again.
He said unto them, But what they do that I am Peter answering, said the Christ of God.
And he's greatly charged them, commanded them to tell no man that thing, saying, The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day. And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it. But whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save him.
For what is a man advantage if he gain the whole world and lose himself or be castaway?
For whosoever shall be ashamed of me, and of my words of him, shall the Son of Man be ashamed.
When he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels. But I tell you the truth, there be some standing here which will not taste of death till they see the Kingdom of God.
And it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings, he took Peter, and John, and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and blistering. And behold, they're taught with him two men, which were Moses and Elias, who appeared in glory and spake of his deceased, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem, but Peter.
And they that were with him were heavy with sleep.
But when they were awake, they saw His glory, and the two men stood with him.
And I came to pass. As it departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus.
Master, it is good for us to be here and let us make 3 tabernacles, one for thee and one for Moses and one for a life not knowing what he said.
Why thus spake there came a cloud and overshadowed them, and they feared as they entered into the cloud.
And there came a voice out of the cloud saying, This is my beloved son, Hear him.
And when the voices passed, Jesus was found alone, and they kept it close, and told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen.
And I came to pass that on the next day, when they were come down from the hill, most people met him. And behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I deceased thee, look upon my son, for he is my only child. And Lois spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out, and it tears him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departed from him. And I besought thy disciples to cast him out, and they could not.
When Jesus answering said, All faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and suffer? You bring my Son together.
And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down and tear him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his Father. And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God.
But while they wondered every one of the all things which Jesus didn't, he said unto his disciples, Let these things sink down into your ears, for the Son of Man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
But they understood not the same, and it was hidden from them that they perceived it now, and they feared to ask them of that saying.
Then there arose of reasoning among them which of them should be greatest.
And Jesus, receiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him, and said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me, and whosoever shall that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. For he that is the least among you, all the same shall be great.
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And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting our devils in thy name, and we forbade him.
Because he follows, not with us.
Jesus unto him forbid him not, for he that is not against us is for us. And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, and sent messengers before his face. And they went and entered into a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
When his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, will thou, they recommend fire to come down from heaven and consume them, even as Elias did.
But he turned and rebuked them and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit you're of, for the Son of Man has not come to destroy men's life, but to save them. And they went to another building.
And they came to pass, that as he went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee withersover thou go out.
And Jesus said unto him, Fontas have holes, and birds of the air have gnasses.
That the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.
You said I don't give another follow man.
He said Lord suffered me first to go and bury my father.
They listen to him, but the dead bury their dead. But go thou, and preach the Kingdom of God.
And another set Lord, I will follow thee, but let me first go and bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
And Jesus said unto him, No man having put his hand to the plow, and looking back.
Is fit for the Kingdom of God.
Before anything is said on the chapter.
I feel.
Explain a remark that I made earlier.
I certainly do not cast any aspersions on taking up the officials in our rivalry.
I hardly endorse it.
Lonely Times. True Church. Christian Truth. Indian Epistles.
To find the doctrine of Christianity there, and you'll find the walk that becomes the Christian there.
But some died. We're up to. I'm Speaking of now, we may serve.
After you give solid meat to those against the justice.
Solid meeting the Epistles.
And there are many among us.
That would like to have a little milk.
Now when it comes to the four Gospels to have the person of Christ preeminent people for us, I often think of that expression in John, one, John the Baptist looking on Jesus as he walked. He was overcoming. First he comes out and says, well, oh, the Lamb of God.
Nothing on Jesus as he walked. And if you want to save Jesus, every waltz down here is a man. You'll have to read the Gulf. And if you read the Gospels, you're aptitude, you're affected, your affections warm.
But there you'll find the person walking down here.
That right brother here.
Well, in giving out the truth, there is such a thing, is there not, of the time and the state part. And that's what we should be an exercise before the Lord about. The apostle Paul was one who was equipped to give strong meat.
But yet we find him saying to the Hebrew Saints and to the Corinthians, why I have to feed you with milk.
Sometimes we're apartment to come along and like to.
Demonstrate how much we know.
But the apostle Paul hid all that according to their sakes, and he had discernment of the state.
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We're exhorted to follow the Lord Jesus Christ, but we don't really know what that means until we know something about His walk down here. If we're to walk as He walked, we'll have to study his walk. And we find that in the Gospel. Don't sleep.
Free.
Take through the disciples you spoke of that in their sea only.
They they they made a mistake.
Drawing that just what you meant. That's seal and energy. It's not always.
But I think that is true, and I think it's very important. Well, I mean to skip over quite a bit in the chapter, but.
The first one would be on the Mount of Transfiguration.
There Peter witnesses this marvelous scene. There the heavenly scene on earth.
And.
He is overwhelmed by the glory that the these two characters from the Old Testament were in, and he makes a mistake of putting the Lord they on the same basis for the Lord. And so he said, Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us make 3 tabernacles, one for thee.
One for Moses, one for last, not knowing what he said. While he thus spake, there came a cloud and foreshadowed them, and they feared as they entered the cloud. And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved son, hear him.
Well, there Peter was overwhelmed by the glory that he witnessed.
And he didn't realize what he was saying, I believe. Is it in Mark where he says he wished not what to say? He thought he had to say something, so he said that.
Well, I think those things are important to notice.
That he spoke in that way.
And he thought he had though the glory of God before him, but it wasn't.
Placing these two distinguished characters on the same level of the Lord was far.
From having the mind of God about it. So there was.
The definite review This is my beloved son. Hear him.
Perhaps someone else has some thoughts on it?
The 49th verse.
And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and we were bad in because he followed not with us. Jesus said unto him, Forbid them not, for he that is not against us is for us.
Well, this man casting out devils, he had the glory of the Lord before him. He was doing it in the name of the Lord, and I don't doubt what he was a man of faith.
But the Lord hadn't called everyone to follow him like he had the 12. And I'm not aware that the Lord, as we see in the beginning of the chapter when he sent the 12 out, that he told him to make disciples and gather a company and come back to me. I'm not aware that he said anything of that kind, but it's noticeably followed, not with us.
Well, the Lord has his vessels that he uses.
And it was the time really for calling for followers in that way to come and follow with us.
Well, the Lord has to rebuke me, says forbid them not.
For he that is not against us is for us.
Well, it seemed to me that was important.
They thought it was the Lord's glory, but perhaps it's more of their own. He follows, not with us.
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What was the other?
No, I'm a local brother here and I shouldn't be taking up so much time. It's all right.
All right, we want to hear.
Well then following that.
51St Verse. And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he sent messengers before his face, and they went and entered into a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. And his disciples James and John saw this. They said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias dead?
But he turned and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirits you are of.
Well, I believe that.
Last clause there ye know not what manner of spirit you're of is something that we're a lifetime learning.
And we often make mistakes because we do not realize what manner spirit we're out. Well, here the Samaritans, they.
Were a people that were greatly.
Pretentious in their worship of God, but they didn't have the truth, as the Lord told the Samaritan woman. You worship, you know not what. But they had a prejudice against the Jews. And here was the Lord passing through, and his face was set to go to Jerusalem. Why they allowed that prejudice come in.
And they?
Would receive him.
Well, here these two disciples, James and John, why they think about it, Elias, they'd seen him on the Mount of Transfiguration and.
They say what thou we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them. He was, Elias did.
Well, whose glory were they really? They really had before them?
It evidently it wasn't a large glory.
So.
He has rebuked him well, the manner of spirit was the manner of which the Spirit which the Lord was manifesting here in His life on His way to the cross.
It wasn't judgment.
Or if He to let His glory shine forth, why all had been consumed?
Well, this verse often comes to me. You know not what manner of spirit you are of.
It's not the spirit of the natural energy of the flesh.
But it is, as we get in Ephesians, the truth as it is in Jesus, that lowly 1.
Well, I think there's great importance in meditating upon those three things.
That we do not mistake our zeal or really the leading of the Lord.
What about verse 46? Would you call that a mistake or does that tie in with the with the other?
There and there are no reasoning among them which of them should be the greatest.
Well, I it was a mistake really on their part. But because they didn't know the manner of spirit, there were they known the manner spirit derived? They never had that reasoning.
Well, one can't help but think, you know, in connection with these things when we consider the state of Christendom and how it's so divided up. Well, is it not because of these things here haven't had their weight with us?
Men seeking their own glory.
Have carved up Christendom into many, many parts.
I think it's generally true that it's men seeking their own glory that have caused the switch and.
Form the parties.
They thought they was doing it for the Lord, but there was a lot of self in them. Yes, I read something once on this passage and it brought out that in verse 46 its personal selfishness and in verse 49 its corporate selfishness.
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Well, that's very good.
We need to remember, do we not?
Something of the spirit of Moses when someone came to him, when he put the Tabernacle outside the camp in a far off from the camp.
He says My Lord Moses, Eldad and me Dad are prophesying in the camp.
He says I would to God that all the Lord's people did prophecy, and he put his spirit upon the mall.
It didn't condemn Eldad and Medak.
And let us not forget that God has his Eldads and his me dads in Christendom.
All saved people are a part of the Church.
They're a part of that which is dear to Christ, and he is caring for the church and he has some here and some there that have a measure of light and truth, and he is nourishing them through that.
And let us not.
Criticize that, That's one sided. But Moses didn't leave the Tabernacle afar off from the camp and rushed back into the camp to hear Elder me, Dad.
We are in danger of the two extremes. We are in danger of saying that anything that doesn't originate with us is all wrong.
And then there are others that would say, well God has blessed others and he has his elders and his me dads.
So whenever we find one, we should run an area.
If God has given us the truth, may we have grace to walk in it in all humility.
Without pride or position.
I trust we all.
Remember and we'll eat something, Brother Business said yesterday. I thought it was very important.
Thinking about Ruth leaning in the field of boys, I remember he said that it was where the authority of.
Boys, the Redeemer was found.
And then that. Lovely.
Record we have that our brothers so beautifully brought before us. You know, Ruth took the advice before as right from the beginning. And the first thing that Boaz ever said to Ruth was my daughter. Lean not in another field.
And if you remember, and I'm sure we all do, the story.
That when Boys came into the end of the field to his reapers.
They said the Lord blessed me and they replied much the same way that it was. It was lovely recognition by His service of His authority and He had His name. Everything was subject to boys.
And I believe it for our dear young folks in particular lay hold of this truth that our brother mentioned that we are to glean him the place where the authority of Christ is old. There are lots of places scattered over Christendom where you could go and hear the gospel and hear a lot of truth presented that perhaps without not in a much more attractive.
And a more eloquent way than what's appeared in our little meetings. But in that place, a place where the authority of Christ is old. Now will they all enjoy that? And if you have followed the whole subject now, Ruth never, she never turned aside from that first instructions he received from boys he never gleaned in another field.
And he mentioned, you know all that and.
Rather, her mother-in-law in the Omar. She gave the right instruction too, she says. My daughter.
You know I found where the maidens of another in another piece we see she went fast by the the the servants of boys in his field and among his maidens. She never left that field and that place.
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And the story ends, you know, and in our most beautiful climax of a story that could be told, how she comes into the fullest blessing. It becomes the wife of the uncle of boys. Well, I just felt that that was right in line with this, what you were saying about going to other places.
God bless. There were fields around Bethlehem where the barley on the wheat was just as rank and where they was as good bleeding as it was in Boersfield. But that was the place where she was to to glean and where she was promised blessing. But unless there is for us than that, I think that was very helpful a lot. Brother, as I said yesterday, you got a word in Deuteronomy.
Along that line and the thieves, Deuteronomy 12 and verse 13.
Take heed through thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou see it.
And over in John 2121.
Russell, Lord said, What is that? To leave Allah, thou me. Don't be occupied with what they're doing on the other side of the fence, so to speak, when you follow me. If you have seen me, I have had your affection stirred up toward me. Follow me. We can't follow in every time that we see. We can pray for those in that path, but we ought to be aware lest we are LED astray.
They're not two different things.
Might be profitable to mention.
One, it's the offering thy gift in any place.
That's going before to a place to give thanks to the Lord or to join in fellowship or worship.
But in Speaking of what Brother Barry was speaking.
Quoting from brother Miss.
It's the gleaning, the gleaning another.
How you can generally tell if you're with a Christian Ohio One of the gathered Saints Ohio.
In private conversation, you can pretty well find out where he's been gleaned.
It will soon become apparent in private conversation if the things of the Lord are mentioned.
There are certain things that mark the truth and there are certain things that mark other places.
And before long, the evidence of where you've been bleeding will be found.
Now for instance.
We have a case, We have many cases that come up. I don't know whether I should mention any or in particular or not, but there are certain things that have crept in with certain men that become a sort of a hallmark to them. Christians, I mean, in going their own ways, and they have certain hallmarks.
And they develop a line of things that attracts to them that is particularly theirs, and they are recognized by it.
Well, if we're gleaning in that particular field, the chances are that before long we will have picked up some of their sayings and we'll find them.
Just like.
Brother told me that in a certain place there was a brother listening to a certain radio preacher who was very fond of praying to the Spirit of God and praising the Spirit of God.
Before long, he was doing it in the meeting.
Now real intelligence in the mind of God will not have us pray to the Spirit of God.
We pray by the Spirit, but not to the Spirit.
And neither will we praise the Spirit of God. The doxology has an error in it.
Says praises to the to the Spirit, but there is a hymn in our book that is correct.
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Praises for the Holy Ghost sent from heaven at Pentecost.
Praise is for not two. I just mentioned this one thing, but there are. Their name is Legion.
We might mention too sometimes if you go around.
People will say, well, what do you think about this book or that book? Well, we pick it up and look at it. The author is unknown.
But we don't know.
But we have good sound ministry in books.
Written by men who have whose writings have been tested by the Word of God.
My brother told me, Speaking of that very thing of going into a home and a sister handing him a book to read, and she says I've enjoyed it. I've read it twice and I've bought some copies to give to some others.
And it was a book by Ellen G White, the founder of 7th Day Adventists.
Why don't we know what we're reading? Why don't we know who we're reading at?
Speaking of the authority of the Lord in the place.
There are many of these preachers that can give you much good truth. They may preach a good gospel.
But there is something lacking there.
They sometimes give out that which is not the truth, which is positive error and dangerous. And why is it that they go on with that which is error?
Because they are not in a place of subjection to the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And they are not in a place where that is recognized and there is no check.
On their ministry. And that's why it's a dangerous thing to listen.
To those who are not in the place where the authority of the Lord is, because they are not checked up on and all how we need that all the time. We're thankful when our brethren check us and they bring to our attention those things which are not according to the Word of God. It's not a free for all in these days. It should not be that, but it should be. We should have a sense of being subject to the Lord and subject to one another.
First Timothy 315 The church Oregon the assembly is the pillar and ground of the truth. So if one is going on an independency and not on that ground, why there's no checks at all?
And then Paul says, thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, and so on.
Paul was not afraid to present his credentials and so we should examine the credentials of a man that asked us to listen to him or read what he writes.
I picked up a book that our printers the other day.
There was a book they were printing for somebody else. Remember printing is done by a commercial apps and I picked up a book, he says take it, take it along with they just finished printing it and it was on.
First and Second Timothy.
And I opened the book and the first thing my eye fell on was speaking about the woman in childbearing. It says she shall be saved because of the childbearing, and explained that it was necessary that the woman should bear the very Christ as a man into this world, and she's saved by that act. Well, now that's flat denial of the truth.
It makes salvation the basis of works for somebody.
Wouldn't you say so?
Yes, I do.
Well, in our chapter here it's noticeable. It seems to me that there is a state of soul to go along with this truth. I thought it was quite striking in the first part of the chapter where the Lord sends out the 12 and he gives them power over all devils and to cure diseases.
Authority over him? Well then, after they come down from the Mount of Transfiguration.
Why here he finds that of course there was the other nine disciples that weren't up there, and here was a case where a man brought them his son and they couldn't cast out this devil.
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And so they prayed to the Lord.
Well, when the Lord says their old faith was in perverse generation, how shall long shall I be with you? Suffer and suffer you bring thy son hit her. Well, that really was a rebuke to all the disciples included, and.
And so the Lord rebuke the unclean spirit.
Well, I believe in Matthew's gospel. Why? They asked the Lord. Well, why couldn't we cast him out?
Well, he said, this kind cometh not out but by prayer and fast.
They hadn't continued in the spirit in which they were when he sent them out, and so here was something they couldn't do was because of their state of soul.
And you know the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
And our heart can deceive us as to our state of soul. I think our brother Hale used to remark by the vets that you don't need to impress. Seek to impress your brethren how spiritual you are. He says they don't know, and I believe that is true.
One of the things that Marx I believe getting away from the Lord and Spirit is increased activity.
That's been commented on by some of our older brethren and I think some of us have seen it and increased activity to make up for loss of communion.
Do you think so? Oh yes, it definitely fools the man himself and many others for a while.
It's an effort to cover up, maybe from himself.
Maybe unwittingly, he doesn't realize what he's trying to do. I think that's very true. It's it's he's been deceived.
All we can say that in the first verse.
That we need to rightly divide the word truth reading those words.
And seeking to carry out literally the instruction the Lord gave as 12 apostles pull out without stripped them, without purse and two together, and so on.
Well, this was.
This was for the disciples at that particular time before the cross, and it was a ministry that was just for his people, Israel that were not going into the cities of the Samaritans and the ways of the Gentiles turned up. So if we tried to carry the instruction out to see.
Completely all wrong. We might just give this word.
And it's very important for us all.
To rightly divide the word of truth all says in Second Timothy 2 and it's JMD translates that cutting in a straight line well the very remarks whether errors were made about the failure of James and John.
They would have called down fire from heaven. Well, that was in keeping with the dispensation in which He lied to live. Well, that was a day when God was acting in government connection with His people, Israel and the world. But now since.
The Lord has rejected and gone back to heaven during this interval before He returns.
It's definitely a dispensation of grace, that of God judging the world that crucified his Son. He's allowing this world to go on its course, and he sent the Holy Spirit into this world to gather a people out of this world.
To be associated.
With the one who is the king of kings when he comes back to reign.
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For now, if we mix up the different dispensation, we'll be just like James and John.
We'll be.
Some drastic mistakes see the Lord says you know not of what spirit here of.
And then the Lord.
Tells about the character of his mission here. He came not to destroy men's lives, but to save men's lives. Well after the Lord comes in the air and takes the church away.
While then it will be in keeping with the Kingdom dispensation for his earthly people to go out with a sword and fight their enemies.
Because that's the way the Kingdom will be set up. But that's another disposition.
That's all we need to rightly divide the word of truth. So all through this chapter we see the importance of knowing the dispensation in which our love is cast.
As you thought of connecting.
Hebrews 2 and four. With what you are saying about the miracles belonging to another dispensation, I have thought that well, in the Epistle of the Hebrews, evidently things were at a very low state there in Jerusalem, where there had been some, the mighty power of God had been manifested some 30 years earlier perhaps. Well, the apostle, he has to call their attention about the ministry of the Lord.
That and the apostles that God bore them witness with these signs and miracles.
Well, it seems to me that shows that there wasn't any such thing in their day, or you wouldn't have to mention it like he did.
Somebody asked someone while back, do you believe the Age of Miracles has passed? He said. No, I believe it's coming.
Well, they are the powers of the world to come, which is the Millennium.
But let's not try to resurrect the past or anticipate the future. God is not so working today.
But there is a growing amount of.
Of effort in Christendom to get all segments of it involved.
In fair theory.
Oh, God allows his people to pass through the trials and difficulties that are common to this world.
We never read of an apostle feeling himself or his friends.
These were signs to introduce Christianity. After it was introduced, they were no longer needed, but they will be prevalent in a greater degree in the Millennium. The signs of the world to come.
Prior to that there will be false signs and lying wonders during the tribulation period to deceive of the more possible the very elect, the elect being the elect Jew who will be here on earth, and maybe some Gentiles too, that look forward to the coming King. It's chiefly a work among the Jewish remnant at that time.
Here in Philippians chapter 2 we read about one that was sick.
Thacroditis.
Paul says in verse 27, For indeed he was sick nigh unto death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
Wasn't a matter of performing a miracle here to heal him.
But the Lord did undertake, but it was a matter of mercy, not a matter of God intervening in a miraculous way to heal him. And I believe it's our portion today to be cast upon the mercy of God.
It reminds us say this.
That in the 5th chapter of James, we got the fair face of faithful, faithful things.
Well, that's true at any time at the beginning on down through the dispensation, so that you can pray for those who are laid aside and were asked to affix your ways. And the apostle says to there that if you have committed sins, they shall be forgiven.
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That is, he's under the governmental dealings of God, governmentally is forgiven.
So they you'll find that those who profess to be healers.
Have at our say, they mix up.
With what you get in the 5th of James where the miracles that the apostles had formed in the book of Acts.
I love miracles that were deformed in the book of Acts were were real.
America, just like the man at this beautiful gate. Peter didn't pray over him, but he just said rise up and walk.
Of course, there were different ways that they were healed. These were kneeled down and prayed before darkness was restored to life. And they some seemed to have faith and others didn't have any faith. It was just like that. Man never walked, didn't even expect to be.
To be healed, but instantaneously he was healed, well, that's one thing.
A dog confused that with the teaching that you get in the 5th chapter of James might just turn to it so as to get.
Matters clear before us, we're constantly encountering this debate.
The 14th, 1St and 5th chapter of Jane.
If any thick among you, let him fall for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick of the Lord shall raise him up, and if you have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Well, that isn't a matter of being instantly healed.
The the elders of the church, of course we haven't.
Elders such as they had at that time, because they had apostles who ordained elders in every church they knew those old men and could call for, and they were to pray over the man, anointing him with oil.
But it doesn't say that the prayers of the elder should say to fix what it says. The prayer faith shall save the sick.
And we certainly have a prayer of faith today, just as much as we had in the days as we found. And the Lord does raise up in His grace many who are sick.
The prayers of the same.
Bring it out when you have something there I don't think I had thought of.
Great activity.
Although they're not official elders today.
It's rare state is effective.
I I believe what you say is true. The is the initiatives on the part of the one that's sick. But there has to be the faith too on the elder to go. I remember one time Brother Potter refused to go when he was called to go.
Here in Chicago, there was a young sister that.
She was really dying of tuberculosis. She was engaged to a young man who was not saved to be married.
And Brother Potter was incapacitated in those days. He wasn't able to get out very much unless somebody was going to get him. And she asked me if I would.
Speak to him about coming out and pray or that she might be healed well. He wanted to know why she wanted to be healed.
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She said she wanted to be healed so she could marry Jimmy. Well, brother, Potter says no, I can't go.
Well, her father was greatly incensed about to think that one had that power and wouldn't use it. Well, it isn't to be used like that. One has to have the faith. That's really the Lord's glory is there, buddy? After he got over he, he was that time, he wasn't in breaking bread, but he actually did come in to fellowship. But there has to be faith on both sides.
Would you connect that with what you get in John? There is a sin unto death. I do not pray to say that ye should pray for it. Yes, it I think so would be long that line that we could pass judgment in the case, but there is such a thing as God's hand being on one in government. Yes, you wouldn't feel free to pray for them. You wouldn't you wouldn't want to say that's a sin unto death. We would never have the authority to know.
X4.
There was mentioned next with the healing of the man that the beautiful gate.
These are not this outstanding difference between that case and what we're Speaking of at the present day, these who practice.
Or profess to practice the active healing today we have to enact the these that.
Call attention to their own name. Come to so and so for healing.
The Apostle Peter is speaking to those who called in question. His act said this name through faith in his name that's made this man whole.
It was the name of Jesus that was before the apostle Peter.
There's one other point that probably should be stressed before we leave the subject, and that is that in this faith healing goodness.
For it is a business.
There is a false doctrine that springs up with it, and that is that there was a.
Healing and the Atonement and.
Take that verse that we referred to yesterday, Isaiah 53, verse 4/5.
In case some may have forgotten what it is.
A fourth party, 30, half, four and a three carried out sorrows.
Yes, that verse is quoted in Matthew 8. We read it yesterday in connection with healing.
He bore the burdens of the people on his heart.
In his lifetime. And that verse, the fourth verse of Isaiah 53, has nothing to do with atonement.
Bearing them on his heart and his lifetime, just like bearing one anothers burden. Now it's it's not atonement. Atonement.
It was more sympathy, yes.
In connection with what has been said about miracles.
And they're not being.
The power part in this present time is not the place for it. Do we get sort of a summing up of that in First Corinthians 13/8?
13/8 charity. Their love never faileth.
Of whether they be prophecies, they shall fail. Well, is not that really?
The time would come when the prophecies would not be revealing the mind of God as they were at that time. That is when the New Testament scriptures were complete. Why there wasn't such a thing then as saying, Well, the Lord said unto me, we going to do this or do that? Well then it says, whether they be tongues, they shall cease.
That's never an expression there. They shall cease. Well, that's this present time. And then what follows?
Whether they be knowledge, it shall vanish away. Well, that's at the coming of the Lord, I believe That is, there won't be the diligence and to read the Word and all that kind of thing by the knowledge will vanish away.
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My brother-in-law, Roy Wagner.
Greek scholar. He told me that when it speaks about the.
The town based of faith. He said it was another Greek word and the meaning of the Greek word is something that slowly passes out to its no longer in existence. But he said the other word is something that have a meaning of it suddenly cut off. As you say, knowledge when the Lord comes in the air, but then we're done with the kind of knowledge it's necessary down here.
But as to the tongue, they gradually became less and less induced to finally become no longer.
But that kiss and tongues there is really a general summing up of all miraculous powers, I believe, the healing and all of that.
Some people, in their effort to explain when and why the miraculous gifts with which Christianity was introduced ceased to exist, ceased to be. You have gone off onto another tangent and say that the Christianity proper wasn't established until Paul was in prison, and they say that only the prison epistles are for the church. Now that's downright error.
The Church of God was formed on the day of Pentecost, and while we see it after that in the days of the Acts being worked out in development in the Epistles, all of the epistles are for the Church.
Yes, one of the advocates of that kind of thing. Why he was trying to make out there was a certain period in the Acts when the miracles ceased. He was, he wanted, he had before him, he wanted to stop Pentecostalism. So he was trying to work out a system whereby he could say deceased at a certain time. Well, he even went so far that in the last chapter of Romans where it speaks there of the the mystery.
That, that was added later, That's the way he got around that. But that was added later and might have been by another hand. It gets him into ridiculous positions, for instance, those people.
Try to make a different dispensation. Begin with the Apostle Paul in prison.
They deny the truth of the Lord, of the Lord's Supper for the Christian and baptism.
They say that they were only for a Jewish.
From Pentecostal Paul was in prison and that the Lord's Supper doesn't belong to us. Neither does baptism.
By one of those men, and I wondered what he would do with first Corinthians 11. Often yeapless bread. Drink this coffee to show the Lord's death till he comes. The way he got to that he let Paul made a mistake.
He he had in order to.
To area of his duck he had denied the word of God and if you read that Paul says I have received the Lord, so we have to deny her come directly from the Lord. Well, there was another one that was teaching that when he and he was teaching that baptism doesn't belong to the church. Now he was teaching on Colossians. Colossians is for the church he came to buried with him by baptism. He says I don't know why that's in here. It just shouldn't be.
Because Colossians was supposed to be one of the thistles that belonged to the church. It gets them into ridiculous places. Now you speak about what we were mentioning before, people listening to these people and gleaning where they have no business to glean. And the trouble is that most of the people that do that kind of cleaning are the least able to discern truth and error.
There was a man in the Los Angeles meeting that got carried away with that thing.
Yeah.
You know, they raised some other planet that I remember party. So it was because it was just a little exercise about this doctrine and I read it to try to help her out. I didn't just read it by choice or it wasn't mine, my regular reading, but sometimes it's necessary.
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For those who seek to help the large people to discern these things to go into it.
I'm glad you said that, Brother Barry.
Arthur Wilson, you could make the venture of your old sister in Los Angeles.
Who has been going on for more than 50 years?
Isolated now, more or less who's been listening to over the radio and she has been taken up with this very thing. I don't recall.
Mrs. Moore.
Well, that's what they get and they're going to listen to these things they're going to buy there. Or I thought of having connection with the young.
Can't afford to take up the beach things. Well, I went out to I and another brother went to see this man that said that the Lord Supper wasn't for Christians. And we read 1St Corinthians 11 to him, went over and compared it with Luke 22 and showed the difference between the Lord instituting it and the Lord giving it from heaven and what the difference was. And we went through it with some detail and he says, but it still is only for Jews. I said, well, I would, I would recommend that you care First Corinthians out of your Bible because you don't believe it.
For I turned the page from First Corinthians 11 and on the backside of it was the 12Th chapter.
And it says.
Ye were Gentiles, I said. This says they were Gentiles at Corinth. You say they were Jews. Tear it out. You don't believe it, but you couldn't do a thing with it.
Wouldn't it be nice before the meeting?
Feeding the 5000 with five loaves, 2 fishes.
And that girl showed the difference.
In the parts of the disciples.
And the blessed heart of Christ.
Notice the 10th, 1St and the apostles when they were returned before.
The 12Th course I should have read, and when the day began to wear away then came the 12Th and said on him send the multitude of ways that they may go into the town from the roundabout lost get fitted for we are here in a desert lake. I don't call those travel fossils where hard hearted men. I think they had they had sympathy and feel for anyone that lived in bubble or difficulty or indeed.
But how different the heart of the most?
The most useful, the most important of the large service when we compare.
Earhart and the heart of Christ itself. Here's what the blessed Lord says in the 13th verse. He said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And another another gospel that the Lord said, Send them now away, give he them to thee.
Oh the Lord, South Florida, those hungry people.
Have been there listening to his ministry. He wasn't sending them away hungry because one place you read he said they might faint all the way. The Lord thought of those four people sitting down from weakness, returning after having listened to His ministry there in the wilderness.
Don't you think that is taking them into the desert? There was a needed service for them. They just come back from a very successful trip where the demons have been subject to them and Isis coming to the desert. Well, then the multitude followed and they were looking at natural resources. Why send them into the villages? Well, that's what this world around speaks up. It's entertainments and things of that kind.
Send them out there. Well then he says give me them to eat. Well then someone has remarked when the Lord says give ye them to eat. Why? Says they started to count their loaves and they wasn't near enough. But what he takes what they have though, and it's sufficient for them. And I'm sure in many ways why we naturally do that. Look, the natural resources. I think if we look for our natural resources, we never went ahead with this meeting.
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I understand some people have wondered how where the multiplication came in.
Take this small amount and make food for all and have so much moreover when they're through than they started.
But I also understand that the word He gave unto them, He gave to the disciples to give to them.
The sense is that he kept on giving. The multiplication took place in his hand.
Just kept on giving. Well, he was the creator. Yes, he created the He could have started with nothing to give them to eat, but he chose to use that instrument to keep on adding multiple. In the 6th of John, it's a little boys lunch that's placed in his hands. But whatever it is, when it's placed in his hand, it's sufficient. And so we may feel that after all, what we have is just a little boy's lunch we have in progress very far.
Maybe just the thing that he can use.
Other Wilson is this development of Solomon 132.
I will abundantly provision I will satisfy her for with bread if they. I suppose we might say this brother Lawrence, that if they had had eyes to see it, he would have been fulfilling that food.
As much as he said if he will receive it, this is Elias which Mr. pick up.
But they they didn't see the John the Baptist was in the spirit and power of Elias.
They didn't recognize either the Forerunner or the King. Would you think that would be?
That is one of the signs reserved for the Messiah to feed the poor with bread. Then they would like to make the king out of him, and they liked his bread.
They'd like to have a king that would feed them without any energy on their own part.
As far as your mother in Matthew's God for the only Time Lord healing at the time.
That intensified power and Mark stops would only find the more teaching at that time and it looks often you find both hadn't noticed her keeping where the different gospels.
Happened wherever where the Lord is proving business bias.
Where he is the king by his miracles and then marks up for where he's a perfect service. It's only his teaching is server. Thank you good Lord, get the moral side, but both are are brought before us then, of course, and John's gospel and isn't that the only miracle that found in all four gospels.
There is in connection with the last year.
There is one of the places I have to check where after he fed them.
He sends the disciples away, while He dismissed the multitude.
He didn't trust it to their rude hand to dismiss the crowd after he said.
Have 14 He dismisses the disciples, while he sends the people.
Break the use of them to take the.
Very thing that they wanted to do, the Lord does itself. That has been the most good way where then they thought they couldn't do on the Lord uses friends in connection with the distribution of the law profession. All is great.
I believe here, in connection with the Transfiguration, that this is the only gospel word mentions that as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was.
Auburn.
Who cares about the defendant's mind, The only gospel where he finds the Lord and friend at his baptism, and the only God for him to say where he finds the Lord in prayer at his investigation.
And only Luke that tells us the Lord prayed all night before he told the 12 apostles.
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The perfect Son of man.
Well, I believe our time is up.
Luke 9:18
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70 8.
And we have a number again, 100, seventy, 178.
Our amount of service.
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That's right. So that's where you find the cream and you skim the milk.
Well within the 18th 1St.
Transfiguration.
Yes.
Look 9.
Verse 18.
I came to file as he was a lone train. His disciples were with him. He asked them saying, whom say the people that I am?
The answering said John the Baptist, as some say Elias, and some and others say that one of the old prophets is risen again, and said to them, But don't say thee that I am Peter answering said the Christ of God.
When he is greatly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing, saying, The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day. And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
For whosoever will save his life and lose it.
But those whoever will lose it might from 96 the same should save it. But what does a man advantage if you gain the whole world and lose himself, or be cast away? But who survives will be ashamed of me and of my words of Him Shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when He shall come in His own glory and in His Father's, and of the holy angels?
But I tell you the truth, there is some standing here which are not taste of death till they see the Kingdom of God.
The famous house about him. Eight days after these things he took Peter and John, and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the sanction of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and blistering. And to hold their torch with him. Two men with their Moses and their lives, who appeared in glory and spake of his deceased, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.
Our traders, and they they were with them, were heavy with sleep, and when they were awake they saw his glory in a few minutes, lived with him and came to pass. So they departed from him. Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here, and let us make 3 tabernacles, one for the and one for Moses, and one for Elias, not knowing what he said.
While he thus faked, there came the cloud and overshadowed them, and they feared as they entered into the cloud and became a voice out of the cloud, saying this, his mind, beloved son, hear him.
And when the voice was found, Jesus was found alone, and they kept it close, and told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen.
And it came across that on the next day when they were come down from the hill, most people met him.
And behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master Hyd, beseech thee look upon my son for you as my only child, And lowest fear taketh him. When he tried suddenly quiet thou, And it teareth him that he foameth again. And bruising him, armed him, took part from him, And I besought thy disciples to cast him out, and they could not.
And Jesus answering sadly, all faithless and fervent generations.
How long shall I be with you and suffer? You bring my Son together? And as it was yet a coming, the devil threw him down and tear him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his Father.
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And there were all ways of the mighty power of God, while they wondered everyone, that all the things which Jesus did and said unto his disciples, But these things think done under your ears, for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
But they understood not the same. They were hidden from them, but they perceived it not, and they feared to ask him of that saying.
Then there are a role of reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest. And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him, and said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me, and whosoever shall receive me. Receiver did this, sent me. For he that is least among you, all the same shall be great.
John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in my name, and you forbid him, because he followed not with us. And Jesus said unto him, forbidden not, for he that is not against us is for us.
Came to pass from the time of come that they should be received up. He steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem and sent messengers before his face. And they went and entered into a village of Samaritan to make ready for him. And they did not receive him to call. His face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. And when his disciples, they, James and John, saw this, they said, Lord grilled out of them, command fire to come down from heaven and consume them.
Even as Elias did.
But it turned into a gift then and said, you know not what money must bear here of for the Son of Man has not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another building.
And it came to pass that as he went in the way, a certain man suddenly in Lord, I will follow thee with us, whoever thou blows.
And Jesus turned to him. Foxes have rolls and birds of the air have met, but the Son of Manna cannot wear the latest heaven.
And it's certainly another follow me. But he said, Lord suffered me first go and bury my Father. Jesus said unto him, look at dead, bury their dead, and but go thou and treat the Kingdom of God. And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee to let me first go bid them farewell, which are opponent in my house. And Jesus said unto him, No man having put his hand to the plow, and looking back.
To sit for the Kingdom of God.
This morning we had before US1 Thought in connection with Christian activity, that we shouldn't allow it to be from a substitute for communion with the Lord.
In between the meetings, someone spoke to me about that.
And was concerned.
Last, there might be left in the minds of sounds thought that we were discouraging Christian activity.
An action with that, perhaps it might be well to make a statement something like this.
That Christian work should not be allowed to become a substitute for Communion, but it should flow out from communion.
We are not discouraging Christian work, Christian activity, but there is the order in Scripture where there must be that spending some time in the presence of the Lord first before there's a going out. I believe we have the principle of it in first Peter chapter 2, where we find ourselves in the in the holy place as holy priests offering up spiritual sacrifices. We're in the presence of the Lord there.
In the presence of the Lord for worship, prayer, communion.
And then later on in the chapter we have the view of ourselves there as.
At royal priests going out, going out to those outside.
Being a testimony to them.
Yes.
There is a danger.
Of making work serve as preeminent.
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And if service does not flow as a result of communion.
It will not have the Lord's approval. Now the Lord may use it, and no doubt the Lord uses much that's outward service that's even done contrary to the ways that He's laid down.
Being sovereign and he can use what he pleases.
I've heard of people getting saved through scoffing infidels.
Talking the Gospel to.
Man saved through the noted infidel in England was his name Bradford.
And God is sovereign and can use what he pleases.
But if it comes to our own service, we want to see that it proceeds from Communion.
For one thing, and that it's according to the rules for another.
If a man strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully?
Children know what it means and some game at school. Suppose it's a 50 yard dash.
And there to start the gun, but if they start ahead of time they they're disqualified.
And the Lord is not going to approve our disregard of the rules, even though He may be pleased to use something that was said to the salvation of some soul.
Don't you think that we have an illustration what you're talking about?
In the case of Martha, we read the 10th of movement that Marvel was cumbered about much service. Well, she had allowed her service to hinder her communion, so that she finds fault to Wisdom the Lord because he hadn't told her sister to her.
To bid her to help her, and the Lord reproves her by telling her that Mary had chosen that good part that was not to be taken from her, and that part was to sit at the feet of Jesus and to hear His word. That was more important at that time than service. And remember, that was service to the Lord. Well, on another occasion in the 12Th chapter of John.
We find where they prepared supper for the Lord, We find Martha serving again. But in that case our service was acceptable to the Lord, and the Lord doesn't have to reprove Martha at all. And when the very anointed defeat the Lord, speak with the ointment, so that the whole house was filled with the order of the ointment.
You find that all of his cycles are led by Judas to condemn Mary, but there's one on this occasion that didn't condemn Mary, and that was Marvel.
He had the mind of the Lord. Then she had learned her lesson. So you see when.
Service is the fruit of communion with the mind of the Lord.
Why it's acceptable and one might like Martha. You see how the mind of the Lord.
When even the most esteemed among the Lord's people are in the wrong.
Being misled by an evil man.
I like your connection there, bringing that into the subject. Of course, we have to remember that between those two occasions that Martha had learned through the death of her her brother.
What it was to to really get in the Lord's presence, but we don't want to just keep away from our our subject. We're not taking up more from married. We're taking up.
9th of Luke and we started out with and it came to pass as he was alone praying. I believe I'm right in saying that in Luke's gospel you have the Lord in prayer seven times.
Perfect number.
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The thought of Exodus 51 and Exodus 81 bring up.
Our worship and service.
Exodus 51 After Rick, Moses, and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may have hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
And eight months. And the Lord speak unto Moses, go on the Pharaoh, and stare to him. Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me. Is that the thought there, or is that something else?
I think that's along the same line, brother. Pretty curve, very nice.
Well, what was stated this morning was merely that Dawson been noticed where there's a loss of communion, there's a greater activity than tempting to make up for loss of communion by activity. That was merely what was stated. There is an activity that's of the Spirit of God. There is an activity that doesn't flash.
And might say two there is a danger in forcing young people.
Into activity that is beyond them and that sometimes proves disastrous.
I believe Mr. Wigram makes some comments about.
One's legs carrying them faster than their spiritual apprehension, and is liable to end in a moral fall.
I know it's customary and Christendom take young people and immediately layout a project for them and put them to work.
And they'd have them walk and walking and talking and long before they had digested him enough for their own sustainment.
I was the brother spoke to me at noon about this 13th verse.
They were there in a desert place.
You won't find food in the desert place.
They were needing nourishment. And he said unto them, Give thee them to eat.
Father said that verse always comes as a rebuke to me.
He says sometimes we fail to.
Minister, a little refreshment to those that need Well, there, there is a word and we can apply the word to ourselves as we read it. We should, in fact.
Many a time that this would come in appropriately.
See the Lord's people.
Hungry.
Well, what are we interested? You need them to eat.
At Wright Brothers.
Yes, the exultation is that feed the flock of God which is among you.
Peter was definitely committed to that worker, the work committed to him.
He and well, he says that to the others, But then he was to feed the flock, he was to feed the lambs, he was to feed the sheep. Now he says to the other, to the elders he says, beat the flock of God, which is upon him.
Even sisters have a place here in helping the younger sisters, don't they?
Yes, not taking the place of teaching, but giving them help instructing them. Well, we find to that expression, you know the whole that body by joints and bands having nourishment, minister.
Rather one time said that if you're at a meeting and you'll hear some truth that has warmed your own heart and you go tell somebody that wasn't there, you're one of the joints and fans.
Carrying the nourishing well, I think we can go away from these meetings and perhaps pass along the little that we've enjoyed for ourselves. If we haven't enjoyed it for ourselves, it won't be passed along with much enthusiasm or joy.
I thought that was the person who said 10th chapter is John was speaking about service. Remember rather really more rather William boss him what he used to say.
Lie on the door. Why me? That's a man instrument. He shall decide that shall go in and out and find past it. So he's decided to go African Union and out for service.
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Well, that is true, and what has been referred to in Peter's epistle? That is true in what is referred has been referred to in Peter's epistle. The holy praise goes in for worship. He goes out for service as a royal priest.
And I like it is.
Yes.
But I think Brother Barry was interested in seeing us get down to the 18th. Was the 18th where we started?
Yes, I hope we would get on to the transfigurations, such a precious subject.
But before that, we find the Lord in prayer here. In fact, we find the Lord in prayer twice in this chapter.
Find him in prayer on the occasion when he asked the question, whom say the people that that I am with the different answers.
And you find that when Peter makes his confessions our Christ, the Son of God, that he charged them and commanded them to tell no man this thing. Why was that?
Well, it's for this reason.
The Christ you see was the anointed One, the coming Messiah and Israel had rejected.
Their own Messiah, so now it was number longer in season to.
To proclaim the fact that the Messiah was there in the land of Israel, His people had rejected Him. And so instead of the Kingdom once before, the Lord is the cross and the shame it's suffering in making a coma and bringing in the purposes and counsels of God.
Why is it brother Wilson in Matthews Gospel you have on this occasion where?
The Lord brings in the Church.
While you get in Matthew's Gospel.
The church, the Kingdom, all the different things in different chapters, do you not?
But here it is the only references to the coming Kingdom.
And here it's the Son of Man. It's a wider aspect and even Matthew where you get him as the Messiah.
Because.
In the hall of Luke's Gospel, the general tenor is the Son of Man.
Doesn't that tell because in Matthew in Peter's confession, he says thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Well that takes us into a range of glorious smuck before us. Here you see his massage. If his being the Christ doesn't go beyond the Kingdom, but when you bring in.
The Son of the living God that brings in the glory that.
Occasions the Lord to bring in the fact that He was going to build a church, the gates of hell would not prevail against it.
The second song really is the basis of that.
That truth is generally mentioned in the Gospels. Thou art to Christ, the Son of God that should come into the world. The 2nd Psalm he's declared to be the Son of God. He saluted as such when he came into the world.
Thou art my son. This day have I begotten. Then you get up. I will set my king upon my holy hill of Zion, or his anointed.
And Mary, Martha says, thou art the Christ, the Son of God that should come into the world.
Well she didn't answer the Lords question, she merely stated another fact.
But they've never got beyond the 2nd Psalm. But when Peter in the 16th of Matthew refers to.
The Lord Jesus as the Son of the living God.
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He really goes beyond the 2nd Psalm.
He, the Lord says flesh and blood hasn't revealed it unto you, but my Father has revealed it to you. It took special revelation from the Father that looked for to see Him who He was when He was down here in humiliation.
And then he goes on to what you've just referred to and he says, I also say to you.
He had something more to the revelation that Peter had from the Father, and then he reveals the church.
Well, that's before us. Here is the large rejection.
The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected as the elders and the chief grace and strides of the slain, and be raised the third day. Then you see, the Lord marks out the path for His own in connection with His rejection, and that is.
That to follow a rejected Christ.
One will have to deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
Instead of the Kingdom and the place of honor and perspective and earthly Kingdom.
Now the king is rejected and his own are to share his rejection, and it requires picking up the cross.
So we could inquire as to just what is meant by taking up the cross.
We might say plainly what it isn't.
The general application of it is that you have a certain trouble that you're crossing. I have a certain trouble. That's my cross. And we all have to bear different crosses. But here it isn't any such thing. It's my cross, the cross, his cross. The cross in Scripture is the symbol of the world's formal rejection of Christ. You know, we're going to be identified with him. We're going to suffer reproach. We're going to have to be identified with him as a rejected Christ.
We don't. The flesh doesn't like that.
Christ that's being offered as a Savior today is not.
The Christ connected with the cross. But a popular Christ, the cross has become a symbol of religion today.
Constantine made it so when he used it to advance his armies. Rome 4th century went forth with the banner of the cross, but all he was doing was trying to use the symbol of Christianity to gain advantage over his enemies and today the cross is used as a symbol of religion.
Or most of it apart from Christ, but a symbol of religion.
To thwart the advance of the hammer and sickle.
Communism.
But to share the cross here, to take up our cross dailies, to be go forth knowing we're identified with the Christ the world rejected.
Across separation between US and the world. We have a word for that in Galatians 614.
But God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. That's a little different from the death of Christ or the blood of Christ. The blood of Christ puts my sins away and the death of Christ.
We might say puts me away that deals with the central nature, but the cross separates between the Christian and the world.
And taking up the cross daily.
Signify whether or not it has to be in the present. The Lord receive strength day by day. You can't say on a certain day I pick up the cross.
No, and that's what tries the Spirit to go on day after day.
Being despised by those with whom we work.
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Shunned by those with whom we go to school.
They'd rather not have us in their company and they let us know it.
Well, why? Why do they act that way towards? Because they see that we are identified with Christ and we go on in that path. Well, they couldn't tolerate it in Him and they're not going to like it in US.
Would you say that's right, brother? Yes, I would. It's a daily thing to try as a spirit. But let's not worry about that now. We don't have to do it for a year at a time. It's a daily thing. Don't we have grace for one day? Well, we can ask for grace for one day. Often think of.
You know, walk with God 300 years. Well, if he tried to walk with God for 300 years when he started out, he just said I'll never do it. I can't do it in this wicked world.
Just before the floodgate. Ah, but how did they do it? Just one day at a time. And that's all you and I have is today. Can we be faithful today?
God put it on that basis of being a daily thing, so we'll be kept dependent. Man got away from that in the beginning and back in the Garden of Eden from being dependent, and He brings us back to that point. He wants us to be daily dependent upon Him. That's what glorifies Him.
You and I think that we can make it on our own. We're going to signally fail.
I know the apostle Paul said I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Well, they did. He could say that. He could say it experimentally. He'd been through many, through the school of God to be able to say that. But if you and I say that's a verse for me, that's my motto.
We'll find out that we're going forth at our own charges.
I am very loath to appropriate any language of the Apostle Paul's that was his own experience as my experience.
Well, before we get picking up the cross instead of let him deny himself.
That's more than.
Denying some pleasure or some sin is denying self.
Help is always ready to adopt something.
For the flesh.
So there has to be that constant.
Denial of what we naturally like.
Please ourselves, settle down in this world, live like the world and leave the Lord and his interests all of our lives. So all that has to.
Has to be exercised about that continually too. And then the third thing is and follow me.
Right pleased, not himself, thought through all of those things. Please the Father.
And that comes in nicely. And where you'll find it.
Pleased his neighbor for his good, and so on. And then he says, even Christ please, not himself.
We are naturally selfish.
The human being is that.
And he'd like to do those things that please himself.
Folks back there hearing, I know there's complaints. You hear, do you? John? Didn't hear Brother Wilson more.
That person referring to Brother Wilson is in Romans 15, in case someone wonders where it is Romans 15.
Might read it together with verse one.
We then, that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification and then.
That perfect example is brought before us, for even Christ pleased not himself, but as it is written, the reproaches of them.
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That reproach thee fell on me.
In connection with the kicking up of a car.
Some little word you said about taking the yoke.
Matthew 11 you referred to.
Well, in Matthew 11, the Lord Jesus recounts the.
The rejection of the cities where in most of his mighty works were done.
There's a parent with campernium and then as a result of that, he says, I thank the old Father, Lord of heaven and earth.
Now he says, if you lack rest for your conscience, you come to me and I'll give it to you. But if you want rest in your circumstances, you take my yoke. And that was that yoke that he expressed when he could say, I thank the old Father, Lord of heaven and earth, He could accept rejection as the Father's will. And whatever crosses the path that we're able to take it from the Father's hand as the Father is ordering.
It's taking his yoke and that's the way we find rest in our circumstances. At least that's the way I understand.
That a heavy old brother. My oak is easy and my burden is light.
We'll find we'll never find comfort and difficulty in trial till we accept it as the Father's ordering for us, and then the burden is easy.
Well, some of us have had experience in connection with breaking horses. We've never, I've never seen anything like that in connection with breaking an ox. But I suppose it's the same thing. You put a young ox that's never had its head or neck in a yoke before and it doesn't like it. It won't submit to it. It'll squirm around and jump all over the place and maybe get itself into a lather, just like a horse will do. And it isn't until.
It has learned to submit to that yoke and go along with the old ox that's in the other side of the yoke, that it's really going to what we might say, have rest as long as it's jumping around, not submissive. There's certainly no rest there. And I suppose that's what this speaks to us out we humbly submit and go along with the Lord and that gives us rest.
What we can say Even so far? And so, so it seemed good in thy sight.
The sting, the burden is out of it.
For whosoever will save his life to lose it. But whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. I believe that that's found eight times in the Gospels.
Twice and Luke, I think I forget all these places, but the Lord certainly has put great importance on that statement.
Whosoever will save his life's lizard. I don't myself think that this refers to martyrdom.
Life, you know, was used in different ways in Scripture.
We speak about social life, business life, commercial life, political life and so on. It's character of life, the way you live well, the life that.
Is is valued by the world at which the world looks upon as a real life having a good time and and enjoying your money and enjoying your.
Your home and your pleasures down here. Well, of course I'm not condemning a home.
But what the world calls light and the all the magazines are just full of it today, just having a good time in this seat. Well, the one who who follows the Lord, he gives up what the world calls life. But in losing that life, why he gains a life that's going to last for all eternity.
Now let's not misunderstand the subject, because if it's a matter of the present position of eternal life, we have eternal life just as much now as we'll ever have it in heaven. That isn't the subject here, the one that believes in the Lord Jesus Christ as a Savior, as eternal life, and shall never perish. The Lord plainly says that, but here is it's connected with.
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Our reward and in order to.
Gain that character of life that goes on.
In in fullest joy and communion with Christ and with heaven, and all the happiness of the sanctioned glory, one has to give up.
What the world calls life down here.
Under Barry is that word lay hold on what is really life, The correct translation in the last verse, in the last chapter of Second Timothy, the 19th verse, I understand. That's why Mr. Darby translated I have it, I have it. I can tell you in Second Timothy 619.
There's no question. I mean First Timothy 619, yes, there is no Second Timothy 619.
Yeah, what is really like? What is really like? Now let's see the context of just what Brother Barry is bringing for us. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded nor trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God who giveth as richly all things to enjoy, that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute of their substance, willing to communicate.
Laying up in store a good foundation against the time to come.
That they may lay hold on what is really like Speaking of how the world considers life.
Well, God says I want you to lay hold on what is really like. That's different, isn't it? Well, let's.
The 24th verse is really, you might say, the opposite of what we have in the 23rd. That is, saving one life would be shielding oneself from the effects of denying himself and taking up his cross daily.
Finally getting the best out of this world.
Say the reproach be similar to second Peter one about the one that was there that.
Hasn't made any progress.
Gone back with his soul, forgotten his purge from his old sin, lost all his joy in.
Perhaps our brother Mizzen asked something to say now and then, and we don't give him much check. All right. We'd be glad to hear from you, brother.
After notice.
That little three letter expression there for my faith, that's why enables 1 to do it.
It's just merely a legal matter of of giving up something because it's harmful or wrong.
You won't have the right object before us, but if it's for my sake.
The Christ is filling the affections of the heart.
Well, then, it's easy to carry this out. I suppose it's something like the 12Th chapter of Hebrews.
It says there in the first verse, the 12Th of Hebrews. Wherefore, seeing ye also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Well, now, how can you run that race that is set before you? Next verse tells us looking unto Jesus.
The author and finisher of Faith Without the.
The eye on Christ. Nothing is harder. You could say more impossible, but nothing is easier or happier or simple when Christ is the object before the heart.
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Then the world, with all its offers only becomes Christ as you see something infinitely better.
And the delight of pleasing that blessed One who has now already crowned with honor, glory, and honor in that glory, the one to whom you go before your soul. But it's just like a man in a race, and his whole heart is set on winning that race. Well, he'd throw a bag of gold to one side as fast as he would throw a bag of pebbles to one side.
His object is to win that race and the bag of gold would only hinder him.
From reaching the goal and winning in the race.
Of course. How embarrassed. How embarrassed. How embarrassed. Yeah, I suppose this Turn around. See how you're Alexander was. We'd lose weight.
Right Brother Palin, There's a verse in Philippians chapter 3.
That, I suppose, would fit in with this too. Philippians, chapter 3.
Verse eight yeah, doubtless, and I count all things but lost for the Excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I suffer the loss of all things and do counting. But done that I may win Christ, win Christ. That is how Christ at the end of the road, Christ is my game. He's the object there at the end of the way, just like the runners run down the race track. Well, he has a goal before it.
And so we have a goal before us too, Christ at the end of the road.
You should be sitting up here where we can hear you.
Second verse, you brought the forest looking under teeth while they're running the race.
And then in the third Earth we have considered him.
That endure such contradiction of sins against himself lefty be made and pain in your mind while you're running the race.
I believe to say there is an object in the eyes and an object of a sound, and spiritualize the rest of one, lest we be weary in faint.
That's one of the things that we have to characterize everyone of us. You get plain by the way.
We need encouragement and we need.
For us.
Very helpful brother. And who has reached the goal?
You seated the God's right hand as the one that has attained the goal.
Or the one that ran the path of faith perfectly is already there.
Is that any encouragement to us?
Then you get in the next verse.
Our little value of the Lord puts upon all the glory that this world has to offer, for he says, what is a man advantage? If you gain the whole world and lose himself will be a castaway. Well, you did get it everything the world has to offer, and then lost your soul. But after all, is the whole thing worth?
No one I believe ever gained the whole world, but I believe there's been many that lost their own soul by just getting a part of it.
All the kings of the world were offered to the Lord, but he turned them down.
I rejected the kingdoms from man and he rejected them to Satan. He'll have them. Yet when he takes them from the hand of God, that was only showing him what he thought was a shortcut to them.
This is a verse that deals in profit and loss.
Suppose you gain all and lost your soul.
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You're the loser.
People sometimes hold back from accepting Christ, fearful of what it will cost them.
They don't know that if they don't accept Christ, what it will cost them. They don't stop to consider that.
God of this world has blinded the mind to them that believe not, he'd like to keep them in the world.
Well, is the 26th verse a warning to Christ's rejecter? For whosoever shall be ashamed of me, and of my words of him, shall the thought of man be the same, when he shall come in his own glory, and in the Father, and of the holy angels. I take that as the Christ rejected. He's a He's ashamed to take sides with Christ and accept him as his Savior.
I put that one in the class where those in the.
And the 21St of Revelation, where it says, with the fearful, and so on shall have their part, and the lake that burneth the fire and brimstone. Because I don't think the Lord will be ashamed of those who are his own.
Not ashamed to call my brother. Thank you brother.
But I tell you of the truth, that there be some standing here which shall not taste of death till they see the Kingdom of God.
Now that verse puzzles people.
But every time you'll find it, you'll find it just immediately preceding the transfiguration seat.
So the application is conclusive.
They were to see the Kingdom of God in a miniature.
Some of them standing there. Three of them standing there, to be exact.
Were to see the Kingdom of God in a miniature form, so Peter understood it. That's turned to Peters epistle.
2nd accessible and 1St chapter.
Yes.
16 First, thank you, brother, for we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His Majesty.
For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory.
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven, we heard when we were with him in the holy mountain.
We have also prophecy made more sure.
Or prophecy is confirmed to us by what we saw. We saw a miniature form of the Kingdom.
We've been eyewitnesses of His Majesty.
You want to get this from an eyewitness account? Here it is.
Men put great stock in an eyewitness account. Peter's one of them. He has seen the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He has been privileged to see the glory of Christ in his coming millennial Kingdom.
And now he says, we've had probably confirmed the Old Testament prophecies, told about it. Peter says we've had it all proved to us now we've seen it. It's not something we cunningly devised. We've seen it.
Of course you can tell us where it is today.
Yet with Christ ahead with God.
While the Kingdom of God is is a is another term, but the Kingdom of God may be.
Outward it may be inward.
Yeah, but the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. It's a moral thing.
Here it's coming in power. Yes, here it's coming in power.
In his own glory and his Father's another holy angels.
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Do you take it that?
Where he says there in that 27th verse about their standing there should not taste of death to see the Kingdom of God that the Lord expressed that thought differently. Each here is a little bit different as in Matthew and in Matthew at six days after they're transfigured. Here it's eight days after I take it the thought was expressed on different occasions, but each time was a little different.
While it is an absolutely 8 days here, it's about an 8 days 8 days of bringing a resurrection, was it not? Yes, it might bring bring in the eternal character. Yes, the Feast of Tabernacles had an eighth day. What does the eternal state?
We do not get the eternal state in the Old Testament except hidden like the 8th day of the Feast of Tabernacles.
Which means that the glory will go on into a new creation.
And I've often wondered about that very thing. Brother errors when? If after six days.
Doesn't prefigure the Millennium and this, the 8th day, carry us on to the 8th day of the Day of Tabernacle. Peace to Tabernacle takes us all the way through thy Kingdom, doesn't it? Yes. It's a new beginning anyway, isn't it?
A new, unknown kind of souls in the music.
Well, there will be some that enter the Kingdom on earth that will yield feigned obedience.
When they see His power, see Him coming in power, they're going to yield faint obedience. You get it twice in the Psalms, in the correct translation. As soon as they shall hear me, they shall obey me. It should yield vain no obedience.
There will be many that will submit themselves to him that are not born again in the Kingdom.
Yes, we get the expression that Sinner shall die being 100 years old. Well, that's one that was not saved. Get the proof of it too. At the end of the Millennium, when Satan's loosed, he deceives them, gathers them together. I look at those, Brother Anderson, as chiefly the younger people that are born during the Millennium, never been tested, but even of those that enter the Kingdom.
Which was brother Baylor's part in question. Many of them are not born again, but merely.
Yield vain obedience. Now that's among the nations, for the Lord will separate the children of Israel. He'll pass them through the fire is a refiner of silver, and he'll bring through that part that is real, the 20th of Ezekiel. He'll meet the 10 tribes in the wilderness and purge out the rebels among them. But among the nations there will be at the beginning of the Millennium a yielding of feigned obedience.
And then the millions and millions that will be born during the Millennium, never tested, are going to get a test in that little season at the close of the millennial period. You agree with that? Yes.
Lucas, the only gospel I believe that speaks about the Lord praying when he was transfigured. And as we've already stated that in Luke's gospel, you get the Lord as there as the perfect man and the perfect man was the dependent man. And so at his baptism, here again at his transfiguration.
We find the Lord in prayer.
And that is something for us to to weigh to that importance of prayer. Prayer keeps us defended.
Lord, what willst thou have me to do? There is the expression of defendants. What wilt thou have me to do? So although the Lord was the divine and eternal Son of God, the Creator, yet He so truly became a man that He was the dependent man, a man of prayer. And we see how on this occasion, when the Lord had been telling what is gained by.
Walking the path, his rejection going on Independence is.
All this glory unfolds before him right at the very time when the Lord was.
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And that most abandoned position.
Think what a wonderful resource, what a wonderful encouragement to those 3 apostles it was when they saw him rejected and cast off down here to know that he was the coming King.
I suppose the differences are not between the vision that the three had here and the one that the Apostle Paul had. Oh yes, he saw Christ up there. Yes, they saw the coming Kingdom on this earth, and the apostle Paul saw what was in heaven, the heavenly scene entirely, and the Lord.
And with the Lord up there, wasn't Paul's revelation more in keeping with Paul's ministry? Oh, I think so, yes.
He tells us of the churches, a heavenly body. He doesn't speak like Peter does. His power and coming Kingdom coming in power of the Kingdom. He doesn't speak of that. Someone has said that Peter never got over the mountain.
Ask you another question. Can I ask you another question?
Yes.
Well, he'll come back with the church, accompany him when he comes back as the Son of Man to reign. That's about as far as I could go.
And that's why you have two men in company with the Lord in his glory, Moses and Elias. His brother Wilson was saying that you get a minister picture of the whole Kingdom coming, Kingdom of Christ. But you'll see that there's an upper part of the Kingdom and there's a lower part of the Kingdom.
Lord is in the glory above. There are two men in company with Him.
In that glory, then, there are three men below looking up at the Lord, and those in company with Him. Well, I believe that those in company with Him above represent.
All that are translated to glory.
By the Lord calling them when he comes, gives a shout, and takes his people to heaven.
Because it will take in all the Old Testament Saints as well as those that are alive and remain all caught up together and meet the Lord in glory. And you notice there are two classes to that company. There's Elijah. Elijah went to heaven without dying. Well, you might say that he represents those that are alive and remain those that will never die at all.
We may never die, beloved, We shall not all sleep. The Lord would come this moment. There isn't a Saint of God sitting here that would ever, would ever go through the article of death. But then there's the other class. There was Moses, the man that died and the Lord buried, but he's there too. So we have this picture of all the redeemed and glory with Christ.
And then below, Peter, James and John would represent the earthly Saints like the godly remnant.
Who will be saved and have the blessings of the Kingdom here on earth? They'll be looking up and seeing this glorious sight of the Lord in company with His his glorified ones.
Brother Wilson, Her brother, tried to ask a question. Yes. I didn't know who it was or what was it.
The brother.
Oh.
Yes, and that they were men, They weren't angels. There appeared with him two men who were Moses and Elias. They weren't changed. They didn't become angels. They were men, but they were men in glorified bodies. Then there were three men on the representing the earthly scene, in natural bodies, in normal life, Peter, James and John.
And I take it that when the Lord and the two representing the heavenly company entered into the cloud, that was the the cloud, the Shekinah, the glory cloud of Jehovah's presence of old Peter, James and John feared when they saw those three enter the cloud. I don't think that Peter, James, and John were in the cloud. They were below it, and they heard the voice come out of the cloud. This is my beloved Son.
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Hear him. Why did he say hear him?
What Peter was trying to put Moses and Elias on the same level, but when we read that about Peter's account of it in the epistle, he doesn't add here him.
Why do you think, brother?
Well, I suppose he'd he'd learned his lesson and got the honest Yeah, he wasn't looking at Moses and alive. And it's remarkable to notice what their subject to their conversation. They weren't talking about the glories of the coming king, and they're talking about his deceased, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.
That was the basis of their being there.
That will be our conversation too in the Glory Rd. Not only ours will be the backward look while theirs was the foreword look.
This is not always the object of the cloud or separation. Anything and everything that we might see. Jesus only.
Even the clouds that come into our lives at trial and so on.
The bright cloud.
Bright cloud that they're withering everything that Jesus.
However, I really think that the specific thing here is the cloud, the symbol of Jehovah's presence, the Shekinah.
Boys came out of that cloud. That's where the Father dwelt. So that's the Father's house, isn't it? Heaven had come down to earth, as it were on this occasion. Something like the Lord speaking out of the Tabernacle, wasn't it?
Yes.
I suppose our time is up.
Now there's a receipt #14.
#40 in the appendix.
Right.
Now.
And praise.
Joy.
Time for anything.
Oh, great sunshine, Father all over him.
And try.
Ah, stress implied.
Young.
Oh my God.
Supper.
Will be served at 5:15, few minutes from now and the next meeting will be the gospel meeting at 7:45. Connection with that there is the open air preaching and it was omitted from these folders. There will be an open air preaching at the corner of Front and Main streets over by the railroad station. Clem Deer will have the details, transportation and so on.
Also, there is a prayer for the gospel meaning in this room at 7:15.
After the gospel, meaning there will be a hymn sing in this room.
And it's perhaps not too early to mention about the curfew hour at the campus here. Many have said that the facilities are very nice here for the conferences. We can put up so many people and feed them, house them so well. Along with that, there is the restrictions that they impose. And that is the 11:00 curfew. Everyone must be in the dormitory.
By 11:00 and we hope that there won't be any.
That the campus police will bring to us and tell us that they were not in when they should be. 11:00 is the curfew.
And another restriction or problem you might say here is the parking part of these streets are of the city of Wheaton and the rules are no parking. You know, again the best place to park is by the gymnasium that is north of us, the alumni the.
Centennial Gymnasium.
And again, we'd like to.
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Bring before you that the children should not be in the dormitories alone.
We assume that the parents are wanting to have their children here in the meetings, but.
Wish they had put the double effort to seeing that they are and that they're not left free to run in the dormitories. Can be some damage to property as in past years, and there can be some harm come to the children too. So please be sure that the children are in your care and they're not left free to run in the dormitory.
You've noticed that there's quite a rush to the meals here.
And I'm just wondering if some that finally rush over and then wait in line over.
At the cafeteria, might like to spend that time here, looking perhaps at the Bible truth publishers display.
It would save a little of the confusion. Some of the material there, I'm sure, would interest you. Glenn told me of The Christian Truth is on Hand, the bound copy for 1961, which is a new book. Some of the other material there too, you might like to take back home with you.
Well, shall we give thanks then for our supper?
Four Types of Forgiveness
YP Address
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It is, especially for the young people.
But I have on my heart dear friends.
A subject that is not only suited for the young people.
But I believe is important for everyone, young or old.
Who was here? And so I trust the young people will bear with me.
If the subject is something.
Let her speaks to the oldest.
As well as those that belong to their age.
The hymn that we have just been singing.
Forgiveness.
Is a glorious theme.
Is really what I have on my heart this afternoon.
And I desire beloved friends to take up this subject in four topics.
First, judicial forgiveness.
Then restorative forgiveness.
And then?
Governmental forgiveness and then administrative.
Forgiveness.
But before developing our subject under these 4 topics.
I'd like to read a verse in the 28th chapter of Proverbs.
Which I believe ties in with.
All the different views of the subject I have on my heart.
Where 28th chapter of the book of Proverbs.
And the 13th 1St is this.
Proverbs, 2813.
He that covereth his sin.
Shall not prosper.
But whoso confesseth and forsaken them shall have mercy.
Now that verse.
Has a solemn warning.
Both for St. and Sinner.
It also has a word.
Of comfort and encouragement.
For anyone.
Who acts upon?
The word before us.
The warning is this, that he that covereth his sins shall not prosper.
That is, if we are trying to cover up anything from God.
Or cover it up from our brethren if it's a matter that concerns them.
Or if it's a young person or a child that's seeking to cover up his naughtiness or his sins from his purse.
There the word death may well speak to your conscience that you will not prosper.
Oh no. You may think you will. You may think that you can get on. You can succeed.
But you can make a success in life. Cover up something that is wrong, but remember God's word. Never urge.
And there's a plain statement that he shall not prosper.
But oh, how lovely the other side of the verse before us. But whoso confesseth and forsakeeth them shall have mercy.
Now, as I said, I had those four ways of bringing our subject before us.
And I'm sure that as we go on that you'll see.
That that mercy applies in every case that comes before us where there is a confession, and not only that, but a forsaking.
Are going on.
After you have confessed in the same sin and failure.
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But a thorough judgment of the whole thing.
No matter how much trouble or trial or sorrow we may have brought upon ourselves, we have a sure promise, and we'll have the mercy of the Lord.
Our intaking of these three points. First, the subject of judicial forgiveness.
There's a verse I'll turn to now in the last chapter of Luke's gospel.
I remember these are the words of the Lord Jesus.
That risen man.
And it's on the resurrection day that he spoke these words. Now I turn to the 46th verse.
And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behold Christ to suffer.
And to rise from the dead the third day, that repentance.
And remission, you know, remission is just the same as forgiveness.
At repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations.
Beginning at Jerusalem.
Well, there was a Commission to the Lord's.
Servants as he went out to carry the good news.
To a world of lost sinners.
And you notice that it's It says that. Thus it behooves Christ.
The sufferer derives from the dead the third day.
Let's get that early in our hearts.
That in order, beloved friends, that we might have forgiveness of our sins.
The Lord Jesus had to suffer.
I know how he suffered. No tongue can tell what he suffered.
Alone there on that shameful cross.
Forsaken of God.
With that low of sin upon.
But there is this also to remember.
Now not only did he suffer, that we might.
Have repentance and remission of sins, but he says that he rose from the dead.
The third day.
So you see.
The forgiveness has to do.
Whether Christ, who suffered for our sins, and who was raised the third day?
So all that, beloved friends, we can go directly to the very one who suffered for those sins and received forgiveness from his blessed lips when the apostle Paul was preaching.
In Antioch and Presidio, as we read in the 13th chapter of Acts, he presented just what the Lord.
Commissioned his disciples to carry. He preached Christ and him crucified. But not only that, dear friends, he told about how he was raised and how He's in glory now and then. If you turn to that 13th of Acts.
After having presented Christ's life.
Death, burial, and resurrection. Here's what he says. 38 Verse Be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. And by him all, I believe, are justified from all things.
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From which she could not be justified by the law. Moses, you know that was a company.
There in that synodog at Antioch and Presidio, who had never heard the gospel until that day when Paul.
And Barnabas went into the synagogue and.
Paul proclaims the message, and having presented Christ, he says all that believe in him.
Whosoever through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins.
There's a verse that I will comment on a little later.
In the.
The first chapter of one John and the ninth verse.
Where you read this that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.
And to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Now that verse could be applied in different ways.
In a certain way it could be applied to a lost Sinner.
It can be applied, especially, as I trust, we shall see.
To an erring child of God. Or it may have to do with the governmental ways of God.
But one might inquire, how can?
A lost Sinner confess all his sins in order to get saved.
Well, I quite understand.
That that would simply be an impossibility, because who can remember all their sins?
I don't suppose any of us remember 9/10 of our sins.
Maybe only 99% of our sins and yet you hear people talking about.
Confessing all their sins and getting saved well.
It may be just a lack of proper expression or maybe a lack of instruction.
But I believe, beloved friends, that when it's a question of.
A poor lost Sinner confessing his sins.
It's just what brother Oscar Myers was giving the children on Sunday or yesterday morning.
And speaking on that poor thief that hung by the Savior's side, what does that man say? He said to the other. He says we indeed, justly.
Or we receive the due reward of our deeds.
Or else we can make that kind of a confession of our sins.
And the one that makes that kind of a confession? Beloved friends get saved just as quickly.
As a thief on the cross, and so perfectly saying, so fully forgiven, that he went that very day from that cross where he was dying for his sins in the paradise of God, to be a companion for all eternity of God's beloved Son.
So full and so wonderful and so amazing is the forgiveness.
That a Sinner receives when he comes humbly and owns.
There is nothing. What a poor, lost and guilty Sinner, very much like that woman that washed the feet of Jesus with her tears in the House of Simon the Pharisee.
The Lord said to that woman her sins, which are many.
Are all her given?
And why was it the Lord was able to say that to this troublesome? Well, he tells the reason.
Thy faith, thy faith has saved thee. Go in peace. Who could say your sins weren't forgiven? Could Simon?
Oh no.
You know what kind of a character she was that made no difference now.
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All sins that brought her to the feet of Jesus were forgiven. And the reason they were forgiven? The beloved friends.
Is the same reason that everyone here who is trusting in the Savior knows the forgiveness of his sins?
Because she came as a poor, lost Sinner and an accepted Christ as her Savior, the one who was able and willing to forgive the loss. And so if there should be one here this afternoon.
Who has never confessed to the Lord their lost condition, has never owned that they were a lost Sinner.
All beloved friends.
Let not this meeting go by without coming in that way. Like that woman, like that thief.
And then you will have that in your soul that will give you.
Such peace such assures that you can go on your way knowing that the whole sin question is settled for time and eternity.
But as I said, there was.
Another line of.
Forgiveness, which we called restorative forgiveness.
So we'll turn to the First Epistle of John.
The First Epistle of John and before I read the verse I have already quoted in the.
In the first chapter we look at a verse.
In the second chapter.
The 12Th verse. First John chapter 2.
And verse 12 I write unto you, little children.
Because your sins are forgiven you or His name's sake. Well, I said at the beginning that I was not just confining my talk to the young people.
Or the children either. So when we say little children, it really.
Should read children because whether you are 80 years old or whether you are five years old, if you are trusting in the Lord Jesus, you are in the same family. The little child that just confessed the Lord yesterday.
And that old patriarch of a brother are just as much children of God, one just as much as the other.
And what a grand thing to know, beloved friends.
And it's Christian truth, that.
Every child of God should know.
That your sins are all forgiven.
And that that's the kind of forgiveness we have been talking about and which we call judicial forgiveness.
And what I mean by judicial forgiveness is this, that is forgiveness before.
God is a judge.
So.
Those sins of every believer are all forgiven.
Before a holy and a righteous God, they'll never come up against us again.
So that as John tells us in the 4th chapter of his epistles.
That we have might have boldness in the Day of Judgment, because as he is, so are we in this world.
Oh yes, instead of the judgment day filling the heart with terror as we think of our sins and failure, we have boldness. Or a man that's caught stealing and is brought up for trial. He hasn't very much boldness as he hears the witnesses.
Who is guilt has it? Oh no, he has no boldness at all. Beloved friends, we have boldness and view of our awful day of judgment, when the guilty Sinner will quake before the one who is there, the judge in righteousness.
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Now we'll turn to the ninth verse of the first chapter, if we confess our sins.
He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
I've already stated that in a certain way we might apply this to.
The unsaved.
But I have it specially on my heart, beloved.
To apply it especially.
To God's dear children.
Now I know there many lads a day that seem to think they can straighten everything out in their Christian life and testimony.
By kneeling at their bed at night and before they close their eyes and sleep to ask the Lord to pardon and forgive all their sins.
In fact, you have doubtless known people and heard a prayer like this.
Even when the give thanks for the food on the table, it will say.
And pardon and forgive us our sins, and save us in heaven at last.
That's a popular prayer.
Spread all over Christmas.
Well, if you're making that prayer.
You're just asking God to give you something that He's already told you. You have. He tells you, as we've already read in the second chapter and 12Th verse, that our sins are forgiven.
On all, beloved.
It isn't in keeping with our.
Position as a child of God.
To be a daily asking the Lord to forgive all our sins.
But what we are instructed to do is this.
He says if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Well, As for God's children, and you know all the very fact, beloved.
That we are children of God gives us confidence.
In God is our Father, just like a little child.
He has been naughty. He's done something his parents told him not to do.
And he runs with his open arms to his father and says, Daddy, I did what you told me not to.
Why does he run to his daddy?
Is he because he's afraid that his daddy is going to throw him out the door and disown him?
Not at all the reason he runs into his father's arms.
Is because he knows his father's heart and he knows his father loves him.
So you see, it's not a matter of getting right with God.
It's a matter of getting right with God our Father. Because remember this, beloved.
That while the sin of a believer breaks his communion, it will never, never break his relationship any more than in the human family.
The relationship.
Of children to parents can ever be changed.
They are your children by birth and thank God that everyone.
Who knows? The Lord is a child of God by new birth, born into His blessed family.
And so that knowing that.
Why we run to get restored in our souls. Because we'll have.
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Sin, the sin of a child of God.
Does definitely break our communion.
The relationship is so strong you know that nothing can ever.
Rob us of our place in Christ. He tells us that He gives us eternal life. He tells us we can never perish. No man can ever pluck us out of his hand or the Father's hand.
But when there is the tie of communion, even a foolish thought can break our communion.
A very delicate thing.
But isn't it?
Isn't that precious, beloved?
That we can be so fully restored in our souls.
That no matter how far we may have strayed away from the Lord.
Or how badly we may have sinned and failed.
That we can be so fully restored.
That we can be happy enjoying the Lord.
And the fellowship of his beloved people.
One thinks this moment of David, you know, David committed two of the greatest sins, and he thought he had covered it up so that it would never be known. Very rudely he got rid of.
Of Uriah Hittite.
But as we said before, that he that covereth his sins shall not prosper.
And God brought it to light, and everything you know is someday to be brought into the light.
Glory of His presence, who used to hide it from Him.
You know, the world just goes on.
In the path of deceit.
The more the man of the world can cover up and deceive.
While greater, his chances are to make a success in the world.
But that will never do for those who are following the Lord.
After the apostle John has brought us into the wonderful.
The wonderful.
Fellowship of God's children. Fellowship with a father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
Marvelously beloved, the very fellowship of God, the Father of heaven itself is the portion of God's children down here. But as soon as He has brought us into that fellowship, then he says, And this is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you that God is light.
And in him is no darkness at all.
Honourable Lord, we have been brought into the light of His presence.
Where nothing can be hidden from his eye? Or should it be hidden from the eye of our?
Brethren, if it concerns the glory of Christ.
I was reading a track about.
A servant of the Lord who went into a saloon and was giving away some tracks.
And there is a.
Ungodly wicked man there, and seeing this Christian he took advantage to.
Remind him of David being one of God's chosen people.
And what a terrible sin that he committed. He told it in in a very.
Wretched, disgusting way.
Thus a servant of Christ turned to him. He says, you know about David's sin.
But he said, Did you ever read David's confession of his sin?
Well, he had to admit he never had, so he told him. He says you go back home and you read the 51St Psalm.
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And there you will find.
How this?
Man who sinned God doesn't cover up, nor he doesn't cover up, in his words, the sins of his people.
Might think a man that was so beloved and so much used as David that God would have covered that up, but he didn't.
He brought it right out into the light.
But all they love it when you read that.
51St Psalm where David cries out against.
Speaking to the Lord against thee, and the only have I sinned and committed this wickedness, and he says, Purge me with hesitant I shall be clean, wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
All their heart broken.
Penitent cries.
Of a true child of God, beloved, that just tells us what?
True restoration of soul for a child of God really is.
Well, David, as we are told.
Was a man after God's own heart? Why do you think that a man like David?
Who was guilty of such sin?
Was spoken of in that way. I think the reason is this is because that David was always willing to confess his sins.
When he had sinned when Nathan the prophet came to David, you know, and he said thou art the man David says I have sinned and then when he numbered the the people in disobedience to the word of God and thus remember, friends, that as long as he was carrying out his.
His ambitions, his self will. There was no.
Forms of conscience, but after all over and he had his own way.
Then his heart smiled and he went to the Prophet.
And I'll just read what he says in the.
I think it's the 24th chapter of Second Samuel.
24th chapter of Two Samuel.
So it's the 23rd chapter.
Oh, I was looking in for Simon.
That's the reason I wasn't finding it.
Looking in the wrong place.
It's the 24th chapter and the 10th verse.
Second, Samuel and David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned greatly, and that I have done. And now I beseech the old Lord, Take away the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done very foolishly. Well, he goes on to say, when he saw the people being.
Stricken down with a plague.
And when the Angel appeared with a drawn sword to destroy Jerusalem.
He says I have sinned. As for thee sheep, what have they done?
Nor trying to defend himself, nor saying that the children of Israel were not a disobedient people. It was nothing but thorough self judgment. Beloved. Self judgment is what leads to repentance and restoration of soul. And as we said before.
That's why I believe that David is called a man after God's own heart.
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And anyone of God's dear children can occupy the same place of favor with him if there is glad willingness.
To humble oneself and make full confession.
We think again, Peter, you know how he denied the Lord?
And how fairly the Lord restore dear Peter, so much so that he could commit to Peter's care the lamb and the sheep of his pasture. He says, feed my lambs, feed my sheep. But I want to tell you this, beloved.
And before the Lord so thoroughly.
Restored, Peter.
He had gone down to the very root of Peter's failure. Perhaps you notice when we read that verse in first John 1:00 and 9:00, if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity. You see, there's forgiveness and there's cleansing. I believe that that is where you go to the root of the matter.
Sometimes you always, sorry, judge ourselves, yet go back to the old habit or the old ways. The trouble is, the route hasn't been judged. There's something there that has never been really judged in God's presence.
I believe in Peter's case. What is the root of Peter's whole course and failure was his self-confidence. Oh you know Peter said the night of the Lord's betrayal. He says though all men shall forsake thee, yet will not I all Peter says I love the Lord so much.
That John even were to forsake the Lord, I wouldn't forsake him.
Well, when the Lord probes Peter, as he does at the lake of the gallery, he says to him these words, he says, Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?
That was his most Well, do you, Peter? Are you still going to boast as you did?
That night of my betrayal, what does Peter say? He says, Lord, thou knowest all things.
Thou knowest that I love thee just as much as Peter says, Lord, if there's any love in my heart at all, I know the others can't see it. You're the only one that can see it. So now he got down to the root of his trouble. And then the Lord, you see, could Commission Peter to the care of the flock, and he could also encourage Peter that though he had denied him the day.
When he would go with him.
To prison and to death, for he would have his hands stretched forth and been nailed to a cross.
Well beloved, the Lord is so gracious, so willing to forgive and to restore if there is real self judgment and confession in His presence.
Well, now I mentioned another kind of forgiveness.
And that we called governmental forgiveness.
And I last year returned to a verse in the 6th chapter of Matthew.
The 14th verse.
For if we forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses.
You see there's a condition in that verse if if we do so and so we'll get forgiveness if we don't, we don't get forgiveness when our beloved we have seen definitely that could not be judicial forgiveness. That's not a matter that effects our going to heaven, but it does affect.
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Our sojourn as we go through this world.
For you know, God is a holy God, and he must.
He must chasten his children. In fact, it tells us there is no son whom the Father chasing us not.
Let's courage every son whom he received. We're all subject to that scourge. I was speaking about David's true and wonderful restoration. But if you read in that 12Th chapter of Second Samuel, well, you'll get that account. You'll find that Nathan the prophet said to David.
He says the sword shall never depart from my house.
And yet he was forgiven. But there is.
The governmental side and as far as the government of God was concerned.
David was never forgiven until he left this world because.
Never departed from his house. Let me turn you to another scripture in the book of James. We touched on it this morning.
We'll see a little more about it.
We saw by this morning about the prayer of faith the 15th 1St. So save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if ye have committed sins, they shall be forgiven.
It doesn't say that the sickness is always occasioned by some sin, but it might be.
And perhaps that's the reason some of God's children are not cured.
Of some disease, because that sin governmentally isn't forgiven.
Now I'll turn you to another scripture in the 11 Chapter, one Corinthians, and if you'll remember in that chapter where we have the Lord's Supper.
We find that those Corinthians were going on in a most disorderly way, making gluttons and getting drunk when they came together to celebrate the Lord's Supper.
Knowing how low God's children can get if they're not watchful.
Well, here is what I wanted to bring out in this chapter.
27th verse.
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, they shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
That self examination is very important to love it and it shouldn't be something that characterizes us continually.
During the week, so that when we come to remember the Lord there is nothing on our conscience condemning us.
As we sit down in the presence of that one whose death is set forth.
By the emblems on the table.
Well, let's read a little farther. For he that he did have found drinketh unworthily, now unworthily there is in an unworthy manner.
They were, as we said, getting drunk, behaving most.
On a very wretched way.
Unworthily eateth and drinketh. Now that word should be.
Judgment.
Unto himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you.
And many asleep, or if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the law that we should not be condemned to the world.
Well, that verse, that last verse I read, makes it very plain that it couldn't mean the final eternal judgment of the loss, because the very fact that He judges us is. So we won't have to face that judgment at the great White Throne, but if we would judge ourselves.
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Instead of allowing some evil to go on in our lives unjudged if we judged ourselves.
God right with the Lord and restored in our souls.
God wouldn't have to.
Go on in his discipline upon us. And in this case in Corinth, you see, God's hand was so heavy.
On those Corinthians.
That some of their number had died. In fact, many sleep.
God just simply took those disobedient naughty children away by death, and some, many were sick among them too.
All that, friends, has to do with the governmental dealings of God.
And so there there is that forgiveness, so that in the case you see of one not forgiving his brother.
Well, he doesn't get governmental forgiveness from the Lord when he forgives. Why? Then the matter is cleared up and the Lord doesn't have to go on dealing with him as he had before. Take the case of a man that was 38 years at the at the pool of Bethesda.
Know the Lord healed him, and then he meets him, and he says, go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee.
A worse thing come upon me. So that shows that those 38 years.
Of suffering and weakness was the result of some failure in his life.
And let's not forget this, beloved, it's a so solemn word. But whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap, that word can be given both to St. and Sinner.
What we saw, someday we'll have to reap what we've sold. And God isn't mocked. We're not going to be able to say to God someday, well, you made a mistake. I went ahead and took my own course and I got by. My old friend. God is more he that soars to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption.
But remember this too, this is the positive fact that he that saw the Spirit shall have the Spirit wreath through life ever last. All the gain there is, beloved.
In walking in obedience to the Word of God, following the Lord, you'll reap an eternity of reward, of gain that will compensate for anything that you might deny yourself, that has a tendency even to lead you away from Christ and into the simple ways of this lost world.
Now there is one.
Subject.
Yet, And that's what I call administrative forgiveness.
And to give a thought on that, I'll ask you to turn to the 20th chapter of John.
I remember beloved the.
There were ten of the Lord's apostles together in an upper room, and Jesus appears in the midst and shows them his hands and his feet.
And says, Peace be unto you.
And then he says in the 23rd verse, Whosoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whosoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
No.
The enemy has taken advantage of that to give the idea that.
Certain men are still commissioned to forgive sins. That's all wrong. This was to the Lord's apostles.
And he did give them authority, but no one else has ever possessed.
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By having time to go into this subject, but I'll just remind you of what the apostle says.
In the second chapter of.
2nd Corinthians, he says, To whom ye forgive anything I forgive also.
While the assembly forgave and the apostle forgave, what? We have no apostles, so we have no one with that authority today, but we do have, beloved, that administrative forgiveness that is connected with the Assembly of God.
I just show you how that.
The Lord commissioned.
Peter as one of his disciples.
In the 16th of Matthew he tells Peter, Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
And in the 18th chapter where we get the second mention of the church.
In the New Testament.
You get this, tell it to the Church, and then you get in the 18 first. Whatsoever he shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.
And whatsoever ye shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.
That is the same authority the Lord committed to an apostle. He commits to the to the Church, and the Church may be composed of two or three gathered to His blessed name. Remember that gathered two hills.
Name because what is done is done in the authority.
Name Well, I see our time is up, beloved as much that.
You can.
Follow up when these connections.
Which will be most wholesome and healthy for your soul?
But let's just get this firmly fixed.
In our hearts and consciences.
That verse that I started out with.
That.
That he that covereth his sin shall not prosper, but he that confesseth and forsaken them shall find mercy. Or it's a dangerous thing, beloved, to be trying to cover up. It's the way of the world, it's the way of the transgressors, it's the way of the ungodly. And as we are speaking along the line.
Of administrative forgiveness, that which has to do.
With binding and losing in the assembly. Just remember this beloved.
That.
To merely cover things up and smooth things over.
So that there will be no appearance of.
What has taken place is not God's way. And remember this too, that the man who is restored in the second chapter of Second Corinthians, that man that was about to be overcome with much sorrow. Just remember this, that his sorrow was because of his sin, wasn't because he'd been far away and wanted to get back.
It was because of his sin. And I'll tell your beloved, when there is that real sorrow, heart over sin and failure, you can be sure of this, that there will be, just as there was in car.
A clear evidence that there has been repentance.
And a real work of God in the soul.
We will sing the.
Last him next to the appendix.
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241 was passed in ore that dreadful pain.
When forth the light blood flow that washed our sins from every state and paid the debt we owe.
Four hours far standard that.
Dreams.
Our God and Father.
Some Young Men - Paul, Joseph and Others
YP Address—C.D. Andersen
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This world is a wilderness wide. We have nothing to seek.
Choose. We've no thought in the ways to abide. We've not to regret nor to lose. The Lord is himself gone before He has marked out the path that we tread. It's as sure as the love we adore. We have nothing to fear, nor to dread. 139.
This world is a wilderness.
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Future nor to choose.
With all thoughts in the way.
We are not you.
Perhaps this hymn that we were just singing.
Goes over the heads of most of us.
Perhaps we don't know much about.
Looking at this world as a wilderness wide, it makes me think of a story of.
A brother who's in fellowship with us.
He said that when he was a young man.
This world looked very bright.
And there came a time when he got himself a new automobile.
As a young man and all when he got that automobile.
The world looked especially bright to him and he thought this world was a wonderful place.
In which to live.
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He went to meeting.
That night.
And this very hymn was given out.
This world is a wilderness wide and he said. I just couldn't sing it.
I couldn't sing it because it really wasn't a wilderness to me. It wasn't a desert bearing place to me.
It was a bright looking place.
I wonder.
How we feel about it this afternoon.
Does this world look like a bright place?
A place that we like to stay in. We like to stay here forever. Is that our thought?
There is so much that is attractive about this sea.
But when we get a glimpse of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The one we sing about hearing this hymn, the one who's been here, passed through this world and has gone to glory when we get occupied with Him and find our joy in him.
In the measure we find joy in him and we are attracted to him.
In that measure, this world becomes a wilderness. It becomes a dry, barren place.
And we can really say we have nothing to seek or to choose. We have no thought in the ways to abide.
We have not to regret or to lose.
Is there anyone here this afternoon that feels that there might really be something?
To lose in leaving this world, would you have any regrets?
What is God after?
He wants to wean us away from this scene and how is he doing it?
By occupying us with the Lord Jesus Christ, teaching us to find our joy.
And delight in him.
Now if your joy and the light is not in the Lord Jesus Christ, you will have to find your joy and delight somewhere, I know.
But when you find yourself drinking at that, well.
You will find that the cisterns of this earth are broken cisterns.
They can't hold any water. They can't hold any joy or satisfaction for you.
I thought this afternoon.
That we might look together.
At the accounts of several young men in Scripture.
I don't know how many of them we might be able to cover in the short time that we're together.
But I was thinking of 1A young man who got saved.
In the 9th of Acts.
I'm thinking of another young man in Ecclesiastes.
The thought only of serving the lusts of the flesh.
And then I was thinking about a young man in Genesis, Joseph.
Who had something before him, evidently a vision of reward.
And.
Perhaps a vision of glory?
And how devoted he was to God and how he got the reward.
At the end.
Shall return to Acts Chapter 9.
Now we know Saul was a young man.
Because back in the 7th chapter, at the end of the chapter.
He's mentioned there is a young man in verse 58.
And we have the record there.
That Stephen was being stolen and it seemed that Saul.
Was the leader in this?
And here in Chapter 9.
The story opens with that very thing and Saul yet breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord.
Went unto the high Priest, and desired of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues.
That if he found any of this way, or the way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
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And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven. And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul saw, Why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I'm Jesus, whom thou persecute us? It is hard for thee to kick against the brakes. And he trembling, an astonished said, Lord.
What will thou harm me to do? And the Lord said unto him.
Arise and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. And Saul arose from the earth. When his eyes were opened, he saw no man, but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. And there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. And to him the Lord said the Lord in a vision, Ananias.
And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord And the Lord said unto him.
Arise and go into the street, which is called straight, and inquire in the House of Judas. For one call Saul of Tarsus. For behold he prayeth, and I've seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight. Then Ananias answered, Lord, I've heard by many of this man how much evil he hath done to thy Saints at Jerusalem. And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel unto me.
To bear my name before the Gentiles and kings, and the children of Israel. For I will show him how great things he must suffer from my namesake. And Ananias went his way and entered into the house, and putting his hands on him, said Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way, as thou camest has sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. And immediately there fell from his eyes, as it had been scales.
And he received sight forthwith, and a rose, and was baptized.
And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples, which were Damascus, And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues that he is the Son of God.
Well, we know this was a young man.
And perhaps.
This young man might seem as though he were in another world.
And we might not be able to put ourselves in the same place as this young man, but remember, this young man was flesh and blood, just like any young person here this afternoon.
Here is a human being. He was not a super human being, but just an ordinary human being. And he was a Sinner like anyone else. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and Saul was included in that statement. He was one of the all.
And.
Paul himself, in his Epistle to the Romans, said.
There is no difference, and he includes himself in that there is no difference.
All have sinned. So don't look upon Saul this afternoon as somebody different from yourself.
Just try to fit yourself into the picture this afternoon.
And put yourself in Saul's place. Oh, I know that.
You haven't done the same things as Saul did, but you have the same kind of a heart as he had.
And that heart expresses itself in different ways.
But I believe if we meditate upon this portion of Scripture, trusting God to lead by His Spirit, that you will be able to fit yourself in here and perhaps get some profit from this account of Saul's conversion.
Now everyone needs to be saved. God wants all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.
Everyone needs salvation.
And if you haven't been saved.
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Remember, God is looking down upon you and he wants to save you. God's eye was on Saul. God's eye is on you.
And maybe you think you can hide from God, but you can't.
Saul couldn't hide from God. It's true that Saul was not really conscious of how terrible the thing was that he was doing.
But God had his eye on him, and maybe you don't realize how bad you are.
Maybe you think you are all right.
Maybe you think you are doing just what God wants you to do, just like Saul did.
But God has his eye on you, and he wants to do something for you.
He wants to save you because Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures. He was buried and he rose again the 3rd day according to the scriptures. That's the gospel and it's the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And he's the one that you must trust.
It says here in verse 2.
That if he found any of the way he was to bring them bound to Jerusalem, the way he was going after those who belonged to the Jesus way, after those who belonged to Christ, those who were known as being attached to Jesus.
And Saul thought that it was a worthy thing. It was his duty to go after these people.
Because here was something springing up that was contrary to Judaism.
And it was always.
In Israel that way that anything that was contrary to Israel must be destroyed. And so Saul was out to destroy that which he felt was against Israel.
But it says in verse three as he journeyed, that means as he was going his way, and we might think of Saul as going his own willful way.
What happened?
God is watching him as he's growing his own willful way.
And a light shines from heaven on saw.
That light shined on him, and it shined into his heart.
And he fell to the earth.
He is compelled to take the low place.
He is compelled to humble himself.
He falls to the earth.
I trust everyone of you has had.
A similar experience. I trust that you have had to do with God.
And you've come into the light of the gospel, of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that it shined into your heart.
And that you are saved this afternoon.
Well, the gospel has been.
Out here at these meetings three nights already and it's been referred to on other occasions.
The gospel light has been shining out. God has been speaking to hearts. I believe God was speaking last night.
And I trust you don't turn a deaf ear to the pleading of the Spirit of God.
But that you will fall down before God and own yourself a lost Sinner.
All your conscience tells you you are a Sinner, but the word of God tells you you are a lost Sinner.
And will you bow before God?
And before his Word, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
That you might be saved.
This voice from heaven says to him, Saul, Saul, why persecute us thou me?
Why persecute us down? Me. Perhaps that was the first thought Saul ever had, that what he was doing was persecution. He didn't know that. But that's what the Lord calls its persecution. You're persecuting these people that you're binding, putting in prison, beating.
And he says it's me you're persecuting. That voice from heaven says it's me.
Well, Saul knew what that voice was. He couldn't mistake that voice.
Men of all had heard that voice. Now Saul hears that voice.
And he knows it must be the voice of God.
And he says, Lord, who art thou? Lord says I am Jesus.
Whom thou persecutors. Now he finds out that Jesus, that he thought was still in the grave or dead somewhere.
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Is up there in the glory.
I am Jesus. He learns that Jesus is God. Jesus is in heaven. Jesus is divine.
Or what a revelation to him. Have you found that out?
That Jesus is the Son of the living God.
All necessary is to believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and in believing you might have life through his name.
No, Jesus is not a mere man. He is God. He is the Son of God.
That's why he's our savior. If he were a mere man, he couldn't be our savior.
But He is the divine Son of God become man, and it is because of what he is.
That gives value to his work because he is the Son of God.
That's why we believe in the precious work that he's done on Calvary's cross.
The person, what he is, gives value to his work.
All that you might get your eyes upon Christ and trust in him.
He trembles. He's astonished.
He says, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?
He's converted. Now he addresses Jesus as Lord.
He follows his own scripture in Romans which says if thou shalt confess with thy mouth.
The Lord Jesus and shall believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead. Thou shalt be saved. I believe that's exactly what he did here. He confessed Jesus as Lord and believed in his heart that he was actually risen from the dead, and there he is in the glory.
When you believe something, when you believe the gospel, you're believing.
Something that's real Christ died, was buried, Rose again, has gone to glory.
That precious story is made light of Indiana many places today, and you may come in contact with those people who make light of it.
Some of you are going to school. It used to be that only in the colleges.
Was Christ made light of and the gospel made light of?
And that talk, which is contrary to the word of God, but we find it's come down into the high schools and it's even coming way down to the grade schools and our dear children, even the young children.
Are faced with that kind of thing?
Oh, don't let anyone shake you from that simple faith you have.
In the Lord Jesus Christ and in a simple gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the inspired word of God that we have here in our hands.
Just trust simply in the word of God. Trust simply in the Lord Jesus Christ. Trust simply in that gospel of your salvation. Don't let anyone take it away from you.
Psalms says, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? There's submission there, he says. What do you want me to do, Lord? Here I am now I'm ready to do what you want me to do.
Well, the Lord tells him, I will show you what you are to do.
He didn't find out right away. And maybe you have asked that question to Lord. What wilt thou have me to do? But you haven't found out yet exactly what the Lord wants you to do. But I believe the Lord does show you day by day what you ought to do.
Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? Perhaps we ought to ask that every morning.
As we arise, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do today? I believe it's a good thing to make contact with the Lord every morning.
Not get up.
Like.
A brute beast.
As an animal, as soon as they're up, they're around.
Trying to find something to eat.
Would let us get up as human beings.
And have a soul.
And especially as those who have been saved through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and have divine life, let us arise as those who've been brought into God's presence, brought to God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and let us talk to that one who is saved us, who is our Father, talk to the Lord Jesus Christ who loved us and gave himself for us.
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Let us remember to seek His presence, that we might have His guidance.
And you know, he loves to have a stop, to have a little visit with him, a little talk with him.
It's good if we come into his presence and ask him for this and that.
But you know, God hasn't saved us to be simply beggars.
He has saved us that we might have fellowship with himself and he likes for us to have.
Communion with him. That is not only to have him talk to us.
But we should talk to him and thank him, thank him for what he has done for.
Don't forget that we can always thank Him for saving us, bring us to Himself, washing us in the precious blood of Christ.
That's that's what gives the heart of God joy to have us thank and praise Him for what He has done for us.
Down in verse seven we read that he's lost his sight. He doesn't see any man.
He saw no man.
Well, that might speak of getting his eyes off, man.
I'm sure that Saul was that kind of a person. He had his eyes on men.
And no doubt very much occupied with himself, but now he sees no man.
And in verse eight it adds, they led him by the hand, He's not dependent upon man now.
He loses sight of mine and he is the dependent 1.
He has to depend upon someone else to lead him.
That should be our experience as Christians, being cut off from seeing any man not being occupied with mind, cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils, and be completely dependent upon the Lord Jesus Christ, who has saved us, says in verse nine he was three days without sight.
And neither did eat nor drink.
He's cut off entirely. He's cut off from this earth.
He's cut off from the natural what he can see by sight.
Now he's not to walk by sight anymore. He's to walk by faith. That's what characterizes Christianity. Walking by faith, not by sight. Or we like to walk by sight. We like to plan and know just how everything is going to come out.
But Abraham is spoken of as a man of faith, and it says he went out knowing not whether he went.
It's irksome to the flesh when we can't plan our pathway through this sea and we can't see where we're going.
God wants us to walk by faith, not by sight. Maybe you don't know what you're going to do. You don't know what the future holds for you. You're trying to figure out what your life work should be.
I wouldn't be too concerned about it except in this way. Be before the Lord about it, and I'm sure in the Lord's time he'll show you what he wants you to do.
Or be dependent.
We need, that's the lesson. We need to learn, is dependence. In the Garden of Eden, man became independent.
Now we are saved, brought back to a point where we can learn dependence.
Upon God.
And in the measure we learned dependence upon God. In that measure we are going to be happy.
Man got away from God, became independent of God, and he became very unhappy and miserable.
But souls that come back to God through the Lord Jesus Christ and become dependent their happy souls.
All Saul had a wonderful life ahead of him now, a life of dependence.
And we're glad to see that there is much said about that dependence.
In other parts of the Word of God.
And Saul was one that imitated the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what his desire was, to imitate Christ. And he could even say, be followers of me as I am of Christ. Oh, that was his heart's longing to be an imitator of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it was all right for anyone to imitate Paul in the measure that he was imitating Christ. And if you find any of your brethren.
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And of the older brethren seeking to imitate Christ.
Well, it's alright to use them as a pattern, but oh, watch out that you don't get your eye upon them. In as much as they follow Christ, you follow them. But if they're not following Christ, you continue to follow Christ.
There is something in verse 11 That must be dear to the heart of God.
Otherwise it wouldn't have been put in here.
God says in his word.
Because it is by his Spirit that has been put here in the end of verse 11.
It says about Saul of Tarsus. Behold, he pray.
Behold, he prays the Spirit of God, indicted that be holy Praise that was precious to God.
The Lord Jesus Christ up there was looking down, and he saw Saul pray.
Does he see you on your knees praying?
Perhaps sometimes you pray in public to give the impression that you can pray.
But do you ever get along with the Lord, where the Lord alone sees you pray?
I believe that's the praying that counts.
Enter into your closet, be alone with the Lord, and pray. We need to know more about secret prayer. I find that Satan is trying to get us away from that all the time. He gets us so busy with things of this life that we forget about it. We don't intentionally forget to pray.
But we're so busy that we just don't do it. And it tells in our lives too.
I was talking to a young man not very long ago.
He was married and I asked him.
Do you and your wife read the word of God together?
He had once in a while.
I said, Do you ever pray together?
Noises. We never pray together, I asked him. How are you getting along in your life?
Well, he said. It just seems like I'm not making any progress. Instead of going forward, I'm going backward.
Well, I believe you can put these two things together, can't you? There's a reason for not making progress.
There was not the reading of the word. There ought to be. There was not the prayer life there ought to be.
And all how nice it is for young couples and older couples too, to read the word together and to pray together.
I like to see young folk just married, beginning to read the word together and pray together, and then when the little ones come.
To gradually bring them in on it, to have that family reading, family prayer, all how necessary it is to make a sanctuary out of our homes, that there might be some influence brought to bear upon the dear children.
And it's a way of edifying ourselves. Oh, how needful it is.
Behold, he prayed. Do you pray?
In verse 15, Ananias is told that he is a chosen vessel.
While you may not be the same kind of a vessel as the Apostle Paul.
We can't do that work. He was a vessel for a special work that God had for him.
But each of us is spoken of as a vessel over in Second Timothy Chapter 2.
That was referred to this morning in the reading there were spoken of as being vessels, and we can be a vessel unto honor meet for the master's use. Wouldn't you like to be a vessel meet for the master's use?
What's necessary or in that chapter it speaks of purging ourselves from the vessels to dishonor.
Are you fraternizing with the world? Are you keeping company with those who don't love the Lord Jesus Christ?
Are you intimate with them? Are you associated in a way with evil that's dishonouring to the Lord Jesus Christ? As long as you are, you can't be a vessel to honor and meet for the master's use. There will have to be separation from it. You'll have to judge that and then go on with the Lord to please the Lord. And you'll be a vessel. Meet for His use. He'll use you. Yes, the Lord wants to use every one of us.
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But we hinder that so much, and we are not meat for the master's use.
Down in verse 17 he is called brother Saul.
Well, everyone who belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ is a brother or a sister.
In the Lord, one big family, isn't it nice to belong to the family of God?
And to be brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ, Does that mean anything to you?
It should. It should mean something to you as young people. When you are together. Fellowship one with another. Think of your think of one and another.
As a brother or a sister in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Belonging to one big family. Not only that, we're members of the Body of Christ. If you really belong to the Lord this afternoon, you're a member of the Body of Christ too. There are two relationships there, your child and the family of the Father, and you're a member of the Body of Christ. No other St. in any other dispensation had such a wonderful dual relationship.
Now it tells us in the end of verse 17 that he got his sight.
And he was filled with the Holy Ghost. He got sight and got the Holy Ghost. He got the thing that is called sight or vision. But he also got the power of sight, the power of vision.
Now, if you belong to the Lord, you have sight. You have seen yourself as a Sinner. You have seen the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior.
You have that spiritual sight.
But you know, the power of that site can be hindered.
If you are the Lord this afternoon, nor your sins forgiven, you have the Holy Spirit dwelling in your heart.
Now he is a divine person dwelling in your heart.
The third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Ghost, is living in your heart.
And he is the power of that new life that you have.
And he is the power of that vision too, that spiritual sight that you have. But.
Paul tells us in his epistle to the Ephesians, grieve not the Holy Spirit.
Where by your shield until the day of redemption, don't grieve the Holy Spirit now if you grieve the Holy Spirit by carelessness in your life.
Sinning against him and going on with it, unjudged. You're grieving him and you lose the power.
You don't lose the sight, no. You may still know that you are a child of God and you are on your way to heaven.
But you lose spiritual power. You don't have the power of sight.
You lose discernment.
And the thing seems to get worse and worse. Oh, let's keep short accounts with the law, and let us seek grace to judge ourselves daily. As soon as it comes to our attention that we've done something to grieve the Lord, let's confess it. Because if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
And when we get the cleansing, let the Holy Spirit is free again to work in our hearts, and we'll find that we get the power of sight back again.
Says in verse 19, Well in verse 18 he was baptized, he submitted to baptism which is a symbol of death, and he recognized he had died with the Lord Jesus Christ. He recognized that identification with Christ in his death which is so important.
Dead to everything in this scene. Dead to sound. Dead to the world.
Dead to everything around, but alive only to God through the Lord Jesus Christ.
But in verse 19 it says he was with the disciples in the mouth. Are you with the Lord's people?
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Do you like to be with them? Have you taken your place at the Lord's table with the Lord's people?
If you're one in Christ with the Lord's own, you ought to be expressing it.
By taking your place at the Lord's table, where you express that fact by partaking of the one loaf.
Would you like to express that fact not only that you remember the Lord in death?
When you break bread, that's what the Lord has requested us to do.
And that's the one part of it. But the other part is that you express the fact that you.
Are a member of the body of Christ. When you partake with us of that loaf, that's on the table.
It's your privilege to express that.
Then we find he is preaching. He is giving forth a testimony that Jesus is the Son of God.
Or you see how many things in the life of Saul they are not something that.
Is foreign to us? No, That can be our experience too.
All of these things in our measure we can enter into, well, I want to go on to another.
Young man over in Ecclesiastes.
Ecclesiastes.
Next to the last chapter.
Ecclesiastes, Chapter 11.
Verse 9.
Rejoice.
O young man, and thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes.
All that seems to be strange instruction, and it would be strange if it were not for what follows now.
But know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Rejoice, O young man, in Thy youth, who is writing this.
Solomon.
And no doubt he did that very thing. He rejoiced in his youth.
And let his heart cheer him in the days of his youth, and he walked in the ways of his heart and at the sight of his eyes.
But he tells us it's all vanity and vexation of spirit.
And he says, the end of it is know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Serving the lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eyes.
Giving ourselves to those things, what will it lead to?
It will lead to that one thing, the judgment of God. We'll have to meet God about these things.
As was brought before us yesterday, whatsoever man soweth that shall he also reap.
He that saw to his flesh.
I lay emphasis on the word his.
Not just the flesh, but to his flesh, he that souls to his flesh.
Shall of the flesh reap corruption.
That's the government of God. He that souls to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Which kind of a sewing are you making?
May the Lord give us grace to sow correctly, sow to the Spirit, that we might have the Spirit reap life everlasting.
But how often we reap that other sowing, the sowing to our flesh?
Reaping corruption? Well, let's not forget it. May the Spirit of God impress that upon us.
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart. Oh, you think I am going after just what I want? I am going to please myself.
I'm going to get out of this world what I like.
But all God wants you to remove sorrow from your heart, put away evil from thy flesh.
For childhood and youth are vanity.
Well, it's hard for youth to enter into these things after we get older and have had some experience along these lines and we've had grievous experiences and things that have saddened us. Why?
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We can speak.
From experience in these matters, but young people haven't had much in the way of experience along these lines.
But here you have it in the word of God.
Listen to what God has to say about That's something of walking by faith. You say, well, I don't know anything about this. I haven't had any experience. You don't have to have experience in these things. Sometimes young people think that they ought to be allowed to go out into the world and have that experience of being in the world.
Well, perhaps that's the only way some of the young people.
Or any of us, for that matter, can learn being allowed to have our own way and go our own way.
But you know, there's another way we can learn, and that is by being submissive to the word of God.
David said, Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.
By the words of thy mouth have kept me from the paths of the Destroyer.
All of you would take heed to the word of God.
If all of us would do that.
Oh, how much sorrow we would save ourselves.
Now let's go back to Genesis.
In Genesis.
Chapter 37.
The first young man we considered was a young man that got saved.
We see how he went on.
The next young man we've considered is one thought only of serving the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and pleasing himself.
Now we come to a young man, a remarkable young man.
And this young man, dear young people, has been a challenge to myself.
For years when I was a boy.
I read this story of Joseph.
Know what a challenge the story of Joseph is? Have you read it?
Read it. Read it over again.
Here's a young man, we might say, that gets a vision.
Of a reward ahead.
Here is a young man that fears God.
Here is a young man that is afraid to sin against God.
Then you see the place he gets, he gets a place next to Pharaoh.
In Egypt, while Egypt speaks of the world.
That is where Joseph was taken down into Egypt, which speaks of the word.
Well, let's look at a few things about Joseph.
It tells us in the 37th chapter what we're not going to read any portion, but just to refer to a few things.
Verse three of chapter 37. Israel loved Joseph more than all his children. Now I like to think of that in this way, that the Lord loves you. He has a special love for you, a special concern for you young people.
Have you realized how the Lord loves you? All of you knew how the Lord loved you.
Why? You would find that the things of this world are just nothing.
Walk in the sunshine of the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. Be occupied with His love for you.
And you'll learn to love him more. And you'll learn to love the world less.
Another thing I notice further down in the chapter in verse 13.
Israel, his father tells him to do something.
He says, Do not thy brethren feed the flock? And Shechem, come, and I will send thee unto them.
Does Joseph say no, I don't want to go. I don't like to do that.
He said to him, Here am I.
Here am I simple obedience to his Father.
Well, we know some of the history of Jacob and how he carried on how he behaved himself.
And maybe some of these things.
Weren't hidden to Joseph.
Joseph was 17 years old now, and he could probably see plenty of things in his father to criticize.
But when his father says you go and do this, he says, Here am I.
That's obedience.
Doesn't that speak to your heart?
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We as parents have failures.
We make mistakes, but yet the Lord has put us in a place of authority.
Over our children, our households, and when we ask you to do something, there should be that submission there.
Just like with Joseph.
Oh, we admit our failures. We're not perfect, and you can you could shoot us.
Full of holes, it's true, but nevertheless God expects that obedience.
From those who are children.
Well, we could say much more about that, but I don't believe it's necessary. Just look at the example of Joseph.
Let us go over to Chapter 39.
We know how Joseph was sold into Egypt.
As a slave and he was brought down. It says he did not go down into Egypt.
Abraham went down into Egypt and got into trouble, but Joseph is brought down into Egypt.
And it isn't long until he's a prosperous man, we read in verse 2.
Tells us the Lord was with Joseph four times in this chapter Tells us the Lord was with Joseph.
Wouldn't you like to have that consciousness that the Lord is with you? But you can't have that consciousness if you're going on badly.
Doing things that dishonor the Lord.
But oh, it's precious to have that sense that the Lord is with us.
Well, he was a prosperous man, and his master saw that the Lord was with him. Wasn't that nice?
Does anybody see that the Lord is with you? Can they sense that the Lord is with you?
That you're walking with the Lord. You're in the presence of the Lord.
And then his master puts him over his goods, over all his house, everything that he has.
And the Lord says in verse five blessed the Egyptians house for Joseph's sake.
Now he's tested, he's a prosperous man.
He is having it comparatively easy. I take it things are coming his way.
Now he gets something that will test his nature, whether he's going to indulge it or not.
And this woman which is an Egyptian.
A woman that characterizes all who are in this world belong to the world.
Lays A snare before this dear young man.
Remember, he is not very old. I don't know exactly how old he is here, but when we start his history 17 years old.
I've, I've been told that.
When a young man gets to the age of 17, he's come to perhaps the most difficult age of his life.
And also that he knows more than than he will ever know.
Makes me think of a story of a young man that felt that way about his father.
About that age and about five years afterward, he said to his father.
You know, Father, it's amazing how much you have learned in the last five years.
Well, I say this in trying to be faithful. I'm not saying this.
To degrade young people, but I'm just saying it to help you because.
If you are made aware.
Of your false, your failures. I found that anyway, that when I've been made aware of my weakness, then I can go to the Lord about it and get victory.
You know you can't fight with an enemy unless you know where he is. They found that out.
In warfare, if they can only figure out just where the enemy is, they can do something about it. And if you know where your weakness is, your failure is just where the enemy is attacking you. You can take that very point to the Lord, and the Lord will give you help and grace to overcome.
And what does Joseph say in answer to this temptation? That's.
Rocked before him and dear young people, I know that these kind of temptations are coming.
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To you every day.
What does Joseph say in the end of verse nine? He says. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?
When any immoral act is committed.
That's not only a sin against yourself and a sin against.
Humanity, but it's a sin against God.
And God says in his word in the 13th of Hebrews.
************ and adulterers, God will judge.
That's God's word.
They are going to come in for judgment. Oh dear young people.
And I speak to my own heart, and I speak to everyone else. How careful we need to be.
In these matters that we might keep ourselves unspotted.
Without a blot.
May God give us grace.
Well, we notice over in.
In chapter 42.
Verse 43 or verse chapter 41 I should say.
And verse 43.
Joseph is made to ride in the second chariot.
And they cried before him, bowed the knee, and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Now Joseph in his dreams had visions of something like this.
And you and I, by means of the word of God, have put before us the coming glory when we're going to reign with the Lord Jesus Christ. And I I verily believe that that thing that Joseph had before him, the place that God was going to give him, not something that he was grasping for, but in God's time God gave it to him. He had that before.
And I believe that was part of what?
We're going to reign with Christ. If we suffer, we shall reign with Him.
It may mean suffering to the flesh to resist the temptations that come upon us.
To go on with the Lord in separation from the Word, it may mean suffering.
It costs something to be a child of God. It costs something to follow the Lord Jesus Christ.
But look at what's at the end. We're going to reign with Christ.
You want to miss out on the on the reward. The Lord is faithful and he's going to remember every little thing you have done for him. He won't forget it, and there's going to be a reward for it. Let's keep our eyes on the glory, looking off unto Jesus, seeing him there in the glory, knowing that soon we're going to be with him and we're going to reign with him. Shall we pray?
Our gracious daughter.
Gospel
Gospel—C. Whitaker
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May we also sing #20?
Behold the Savior at the door.
He gently knocks, has knocked before.
Has waited long, is waiting. Still, you use no other friend, so I'll he'll enter in and Sup with you and you with him #20.
Behold the same.
Oh.
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Where the Lord's help.
Tonight we want to read 2 portions.
Of the word of God, one that has to do with the past.
And one that has to do with the future. Very solemn portions of God's Word.
That have spoken to multitudes and we trust that the Holy Spirit of God.
Will see fit to use these portions tonight to exercise your heart regarding the briefness.
The brevity of time. Time is fast passing away.
And.
All your precious soul still lost, still outside the door of safety.
The first portion in Genesis chapter 6.
Beginning at verse 5.
Genesis 65.
Concerning the flood.
And God saw that the wickedness of man.
Was great in the earth, and that every imagination.
Of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have created from the face of the earth both man and beast, and the creeping thing.
And the fowls of the air for it repenteth me that I.
Have made them, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
These are the generations of Noah.
Nor was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt. For all flesh had corrupted his way up on the earth. And God said unto Noah.
The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them, and behold, I will destroy them with the earth, make thee an ark of Beaverwood rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shall pitch it within and without with pitch.
And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it up. The length of the ark shall be 300 cubits, the breadth of it 50 cubits, and the height of it 30 cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above, and the door of the ark shalt thou set, and the sides thereof with lore, Second and third stories shalt thou make it.
There and behold.
I even I do bring a flood of waters up on the earth to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and everything that is in the earth shall die. Verse 22. Thus did Noah according to all that God commanded him.
So did he.
And a few verses in Chapter 7 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark. For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation of every clean beast, thou shalt take to thee by sevens the male and his female, and a beast that are not clean by two.
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The male and his female, our powers also of the air by sevens, the male and the female to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth for yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain.
Upon the earth, 40 days and 40 nights. And every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him. And Noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. And Noah went in.
And Noah went in, And his sons and his wife.
And his sons wives with him into the ark, because.
Of the Waters of the Flood, verse 16.
And they went in, and they that went in went in, male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in.
And the flood was 40 days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and there up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth. And the ark went upon the face of the waters, and the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven.
Were covered.
15 cubits upward did the waters prevail and the mountains were covered.
And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of every creeping thing that creepeth up on the earth, and every man.
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land.
Died, and every living substance was destroyed, which was upon the face of the ground.
Both man and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven. And they were destroyed from the earth. And Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark and the waters prevailed upon the earth and 150 days.
Chapter 8 and verse 6 and it came to pass at the end of 40 days.
That Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made, and he sent forth a Raven, which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth. And he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the ground off the face of the ground. But the dove found no rest for the soul of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole.
Earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in under him.
Into the ark, and he stayed yet other seven days.
And again he sent forth the dog out of the ark, and the dove came in to him in the evening, And lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off, so no one knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him anymore. And it came to pass in the 601St year.
In the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked and behold, the face of the ground was dry.
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Luke Chapter one.
Luke Chapter one.
And verse 76.
Luke 176.
And thou, child, shall be called the prophet of the highest.
For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways to give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, through the tender mercy of our God, through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.
To guide our feet into the way of peace.
And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts, till the day of his showing unto Israel. Second Peter, Chapter 3.
This is that which is yet to come to pass.
And this speaks of fire.
Destruction.
Once by the flood and the next time by fire.
Second Peter 3 verse one.
This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you, in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance, that ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and by the commandments of us, the apostles.
Of the Lord and Savior, knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of that by the word of God.
The heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water.
And in the water whereby the world that then was.
Being overflowed with water, perished but the heavens and the earth which are now.
Which are now by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as 1000 years and 1000 years, as one day the Lord is not slack concerning His promise.
Some men count slackness, but his long-suffering to usward, not willing, not willing, that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.
The earth also, and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be designed, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire?
Shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt.
With fervent heat, nevertheless we according to his promise.
Look for new heavens and a new earth for an indwelleth righteousness.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless, and account that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation.
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May return back then to Genesis Chapter 6 please.
In this account.
We have here.
A wonderful.
Object Lesson. A wonderful illustration, we might call it.
And it is something that man could see.
And tonight we have that lovely verse in John one and 29. Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world, God's land, God's remedy for man's ruin, God's ark of safety for all who will enter therein.
The Ark was.
An illustration in that day it was a place of safety. It was that which man could behold, and which man had observed for the duration of the building of it, which was approximately 120 years. And they had God's warning, so plain, so very plainly, and they had God's love manifested so definitely.
And so in this scene tonight we have the Lord of glory held up before us in God's precious word. Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world. Well, here we have in the 6th chapter the awful.
Description of wickedness and violence which is rampant in the earth.
As it was in Noah's day, so is it today, at least in part. And a cup of iniquity is fast filling up. We have here in verse five God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth. Oh yes.
Man's state is put here very plainly, wicked. The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. Who can know it? And tonight?
Dear soul, outside of Christ, you come under that category. You are classified tonight as one of the wicked that God beholds still in your sins.
God loves you, and He would embrace you tonight if you would have His son as your savior. But God hates your sin.
You are.
Spoken of in Romans 6IN Romans 3 and 23 all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and the wage of sin is death, because God's word says so, but the gift of God.
Is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord, if you will enter.
That open door the Lord Jesus tells us in John 10 and 9 Behold, he tells us, I am the door by me. If any man enter in, he shall be saved. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door, your heart's door, I will come in and Sup with him, and he with me. Man is a Sinner by nature.
And a Sinner by practice, God's Word tells it so plainly in both Old and New Testaments.
All have sinned and it tells us there in Isaiah 53 and six.
Very plainly, that precious word that we had before us in part this morning, that is.
So plain that you need not mistake it, and it brings before us again that all we, like sheep, have gone astray.
All. And that includes you. Oh, we like sheep of Ganesh, for all have turned his own way.
But the Lord Jehovah has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Go in at the 1St all, and come out at the last. All and all will be well with your needy soul.
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I am a Sinner by nature and a Sinner by practice, so play, and we have a word in Ecclesiastes that is so positive along this same line.
There in the 7th chapter and verse 20 tells us this solemn word.
Ecclesiastes 7 and 20.
For there is not a just man upon the earth.
Not one, not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not.
Well, God has searched, and we have in His word in Psalm 14 this that bears testimony against every creature under the sun. The fool has said in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There's nothing to do with good. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men.
To see if there were any that did understand and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together, become filthy. There is none that doeth good. No, not one. God's word is so specific and plain that poor man is a Sinner by nature and a Sinner by practice.
So there isn't a soul that could stand up and boast that he doesn't need God's savior, he doesn't need God's remedy for sin because all have sinned and that includes you all, all under sin, that God might have mercy upon all well.
Those are just a few of the many, many indictments we might read that God has against this sinful creation. And since Calvary, God's indictment has been suspended over the scene, just as it were, by a thread awaiting the execution of it, The clipping of the thread, so to speak, and God judgment will fall.
Dear sinners friend, unsaved Sinner, friend, would you like to be in that position?
Under God's wrath and that wrath suspended over your guilty.
Head.
Your head that deserves judgment, that deserves God's wrath, it will come down and you'll be the victim of it. Unless.
You seek refuge in Christ, the ark of safety. God has provided him for you individually, that you might have a safe place to flee, that you might have a clear title to glory by the Precious Blood of Christ, which was shed on Calvary. Yes, this word that we read here in the 14th verse shall pitch it within and without with pitch.
That I understand in the original is speaks of the atonement. The atonement pitch it within and without a place of safety at one, a place of of God's remedy and and safety from the oncoming flood of God's ramp.
Not of water again, but of fire, as we read in two Peter, Three well.
This was a very long, very long account, A very long warning of about 120 years. And God tonight is pleading in mercy to you. And I would like to call your attention to those seven days God waited yet 7 more days.
God is still waiting for you tonight, and we can't say that you will see 10:00. We can't guarantee that. But we know that God is still waiting for you, senator friend. And you might be the last one that will receive the Lord Jesus Christ to complete the body of Christ, and the trumpet blast will sound and we'll be caught away.
To glory. You might be the last one in this room tonight.
Or realize how very, very near you are.
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To a place of safety and yet in a place of danger and despair.
So close.
And yet so far.
Because you haven't yet entered it.
It tells us here they went in with him, and it has the same precious word in Matthew 25 they went in with him, which speaks of safety, which speaks of refuge, and which speaks of fellowship with him and.
God shut the door.
Tonight, as was sung this morning in the children's meeting, one door and only one, and yet the sides are two. I am on the inside. On which side are you? Do you want to be on the wrong side of a closed door for all eternity?
Oh, what up? What a very solemn thought to be on the wrong side of a closed door for all eternity. Satan would have you forget all about that solemnity. He would have you to think that everything is going to go on, just like they said in in the second Epistle of Peter. They said, ah, things will continue as they have since the time of our fathers.
There were scoffers in those days tonight, would you consider?
That God's word is untrue and that God is a liar. And that.
You are going to go on and on and on, at your own, in your own pleasure and according to your own desires, without any termination of such.
Don't be Don't be so unfair to your soul. Don't be so stupid as to think that God's word isn't true. Oh, God's word is true. God's word is settled in heaven. Heaven and earth will pass away, but His word will not pass away.
He says there shall be a fire, there shall be judgment, and it's a fearful thing to have fall into the hands of a living God, for our God is a consuming fire, Speaking of His righteousness, His Holiness, and of His justice, and of His love, and of His wrath and power.
Or tonight that you might come to Christ while yet you may, and that you might find a place of shelter and refuge and safety in him airily, too too late, and forever too late.
Yes, and this we might take a look at Second Peter Two and Five. It was a righteous warning. We haven't had it. Haven't mentioned there in Second Peter chapter 2 and verse 5.
God's word is full of this wonderful subject.
Second Peter 2:00 and 5:00.
Well read verse 4 to get the connection for if God spared not the angels that sinned.
Cast them down to hell and deliver them into chains of darkness, to be reserved under judgment and spared not the old world, but saved. Noah the 8th person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example under those.
That after should live ungodly and deliver just lot. Thanks for the filthy conversation of the wicked.
For that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and hearing Bex's righteous soul from day-to-day, whether unlawful deeds. Ah, we can go on and on. Think of it our righteous warning, a warning given by one whom we have in verse 8, which speaks. But God found grace. A man in whom God found grace, but nor found grace rather in the eyes of the Lord, because why he was a righteous man.
Oh, tonight, you can't. You can't claim any place of safety outside of the Savior, or that you might realize the necessity of having him as your own precious Redeemer tonight. Don't wait. Don't delay, because it's so dangerous to delay procrastination of people. Time rejection is simply.
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That which we find in the Word of God.
As a result of neglect, neglect or neglect, how should it help Neglect not the day of salvation. This is God's time for you. And when you continue to neglect, it adds up to rejection. And if you reject, you have God's word that's going to stand before you, as it were. In that day. You'll be judged by His precious words and the Lord Jesus Christ on His own throne there, the great White throne, A place where there's no blood, a place where there's no, no, no love, no mercy.
God's righteousness and God's holiness. And you'll hear those words depart from me, you workers of iniquity. For I know you're not. That's the substance of this precious portion of God's word here and in verse 6 of this 6th chapter. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and agreed to met his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth both man and beast. And the creeping thing in the fought of the airport repenteth me.
That I have made them God is a God of love. Indeed, yes.
God of light.
But when man won't have God.
And turn God out they have turned out the light.
They have turned out love. The first death separates man from man, and the second death separates man from God. And where God is not, there will be no light and there'll be no love. It'll be darkness and hatred for all eternity. Do you want to be in such a place as that Senator friend, tonight beware, because there's wrath. Beware lest he take thee away with his stroke.
And then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. Beware, God's word has red lights all through it, and we praise God for His faithfulness to us. And so the first invitation is given here in the first verse of Chapter 7, the first invitation of the Word of God It's given. And the same invitation is given to you tonight, time and time again in the New Testament as well as in the old and.
Noah said, And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou.
And all thy house into the ark for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Come down. And he's given an invitation tonight. About 1900 times in his word. I've been told or have read it somewhere, and it is constantly come. Come unto me all they were in heaven laden. Come now, let us reason together. Think of it. A God of glory, a God of love and a God of grace and a God of power should look down and see poor wretched worms of the dust just as specks going about.
And yet he should say, come now and let us reason again God.
Would then to reason with poor sinful man. Let us reason together. Though your sins be a scarlet, they should be as white as snow, Though they'll be red like Crimson, they shall be as well. I'll come Now let us reason together and don't delay. God's time is not. And how are you going to escape if it neglects our greatest salvation? Think of these poor souls. Put your put yourself as well as you can in their position. And there they were. They're holding.
No, and his carpenters with him.
Preparing and and constructing and finishing the ark, for it says there that Noah did according to all the God commanded him. So he did. And then just think of the way that they ridicule North and the way that they ridicule his warning. And then when the door was shut, all those thoughts came back to them, and there they were, pounding on that closed door.
Oh no.
We didn't realize that it was going to be so terrible as this. And here we are. Please let us in. Oh no, I said. I can't help you. I can't do a thing about God. close the door. I didn't close and I can't open it.
Our golf was fixed. Indeed it was. And tonight for you. The Gulf hasn't yet been fixed. But if you reject Christ and go out of time into eternity without Him, without your heart cleansed by His precious blood, that Gough will forever be fixed for you.
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And there will be no way of getting across to help you, and no way of escape for you to receive help, Not so much as a drop of water, according to Luke 16.
Are tonight Realize the awfulness of your situation and realize that the Lord Jesus said an eye. If I be lifted up, we'll draw all men unto me. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. Even so must the Son of man be lifted up and he's the 1:00 tonight we would seek again to hold up before you as the only remedy for ruin, man.
The owner. They live on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.
For God so loved your soul, that he so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever and that takes you in believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.
All that you might know a place of safety. Take a look at Proverbs 22.
And verse 3.
Just to bear out some of these precious thoughts, and this is one that I hope you will remember. Proverbs 22 and 3A. Prudent man forced seeth the evil.
And hideeth himself.
But the simple pass on and are punished.
Or tonight, that you might be prudent, that you might be wise, that you might hide yourself.
That you might receive Christ as your Savior and be hidden in Him.
Ah, don't be among those that are that are simple the simple pass on and are punished. Ah, you say. I don't believe that word. I don't want. Just a week ago this afternoon we handed some gospel tracts to a lady in a Jeep and I never had a lady say what she said to me. She handed them back. She said I can't take these.
Because I'm not a Christian and I said, but these are gospel tracts. Read them.
And take the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior and he'll save you from hell.
I want to go to hell. All my relatives and friends are there. I want to go to hell. I said, my lady, you know what you said? That's a terrible place. And then she said some other things I won't even repeat. And she just smiled A cynical smile. And I gave her John 316 and she smiled again, just like it wasn't having any effect. I never had a woman tell me that before. Never.
Sometimes a man, very seldom Even so, but.
Think of Do you want to be among that number that will be lost forever in a place of eternal torment and torture?
And that's where you're headed. That's exactly the direction you're going. If you receive price, if you don't receive Christ as your savior, if you go on believing Satan's lie. Oh, the Lord Jesus said him that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out, just come to him. Believe on him. Trust in him. Have him as your savior before you go out that door tonight and you can rejoice in sin, forgiven, Rejoice that your name is written in heaven.
And rejoice that you have a clear title to a home in the glory with and like the Lord Jesus Christ forevermore this precious precious ark of gods providing was a voice to the people. And we have in Hebrews one and two that God has spoken unto us in his Son He spoke then in the ark He's speaking tonight in his Son, and he wants you to hearken and heed before it's forever too late.
For your needy soul, because God is not willing at any should perish, but all that you might repent repentance toward God.
And faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ, I believe and receive him, for as many as receive him. To them he gave the power to become children of God, even to them that believe on His name. Well, these are some of the precious things that we read about here in God's wonderful word. And there's something else here for us tonight. And.
That is, this arc endured the star.
Ah, it endured. The star we think of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Our loving sate who endured the storm, the wrath of man from below.
And the wrath of God from above.
And he said, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
His face marked and not even having the appearance of man, because of the buffeting and brutality of of wicked man and God, judgment upon him, the righteous and holy judgment of God against sin upon it. And He bore my penalty, my guilt, and I go free tonight. You want to go free. He wants to be your substitute. He wants to be your Savior. He wants to be your refuge, your place.
Of eternal safety, yes. It tells us that we have been blessed with all blessings in heavenly places in Christ. And if you're not in Christ, you're out. You see, you're out. Those of us who are hissing that are in Christ and we have these, these multiple blessings in the heavenlies in Christ. Where are you? Are you in Christ or are you out? Oh, it's so sad to hear some young people say, well, I I think I'm saved, you know?
I think so.
To the father said. I'll say, but I'm just not sure. Just this summer I had a young lady say, and I've taken it for a Christian for many years, which is sometimes I don't know, sometimes I doubt, sometimes I wonder And I tried to comfort and try to bring her the word not to console her that if she was going on in the wrong way, but I believe she's the law. But Satan comes in and tries to bring him down. Or tonight that you might know for sure because God's word is written that you might know.
You don't have to guess about it. You don't have to hope so. Perhaps so. Maybe so. You can know, as we have in first John five, we read last Saturday afternoon, verses 9 to 13, and that lovely verse that Charles Stanley used so often when precious souls were saved on five and 24. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death.
Unto life Have you made that transaction? Do you know for certain that you have passed from death and delight? Oh, if our gospel be hidden, is hid to them that are lost? Are you still lost? Are you still blind in your sins? Are the blind man said in John 9 and 25.
One thing I know her as I was blind. Now I see. Oh, tonight. Can you say that? Can you say that you have seen the Savior as your substitute, as your refuge, as your place of safety from the oncoming judgment of God's wrath? That's our desire. That's the purpose of this gospel, meaning that you might have a clear understanding of God's way of salvation, all in Christ.
All purchased by His Precious Blood on Calvary, All prepared and made ready for you. God's gospel supper spread. And tonight the next thing on the scene after supper time comes midnight. And it'll be dark. It'll be dark. We read about it in Exodus 12 and 29. At midnight, our great cry went up out of Egypt because death had come in.
And that was only a small matter, so to speak, in contrast to what God is going to bring on this sinful scene when His judgment comes over the whole world.
Oh, take a look at it in Revelation 6, a few verses. There are very pathetic time of anarchy there in the 12Th verse, Revelation 6 and 12. And I beheld when he had opened the 6th seal. And lo, there was a great earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became his blood.
And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree cast their untimely figs, when she's shaken of a mighty wind. And heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together. And every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth and great men and rich men, and the chief captains and the mighty men, and every bomb and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains, because they had no hiding place in Christ, hid themselves The dens and rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains of rocks fall on us.
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And hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great Davis wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand Second Thessalonians, Chapter One.
I had a Sunday school Superintendent one time over me. She said, you know, God is too good to send anybody to hell. I looked at her. I never heard that before. I believe there was a hell. And I believe that a just God would send me there and send anyone else there who didn't take Christ at his savings. Or she said he's too good.
Now I could see well enough, even as a baby in crisis. She was wrong.
Because God loves us. Yes, He does. We wouldn't want to minimize His love. Oh, he loves you, He loves you. And we could continue all night Speaking of His wonderful love, but all remember that same God is a God of justice. In Second Thessalonians, chapter one, verse seven, In the middle of the verse, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel, have you obeyed the gospel?
Have you obeyed the gospel yet, dear boy, dear girl, have you surrendered to Christ?
Have you taken him as your Savior, who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord?
And from the glorious power.
Ah, that's an indictment against your sinful soul. If you refuse Christ as your savior, that's where you'll have to terminate from the presence of God, where God is not, where they're nothing but darkness and hatred, forevermore, weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.
But his arms are spread tonight. Come unto me, come unto me. God and mercy sent his Son to this world by sin under come unto me.
And he will have. He is inviting him. He is the one that gave the first invitation of the word in that 7th chapter. Verse one, come down all thy children into the ark. Ah, listen.
Tonight, you, dear Father, dear mother, How is it with your son, your daughter, when God judgment has fallen and we are caught away to glory, Will you be looking around? Wonder where John is? Where's Mary? Oh, no. I didn't have to wonder where Ham was. He didn't have to wonder where Shem was, He said. They're all here. Here's Shem. All three of my dear sons are here. They're in the Ark. They're safe. And they're wives.
How will it be with you in that solemn day, in that sad day?
Will will you think of it more seriously and make one more effort to win them to Christ? Pray once again, Plead with it? Present the claims of Christ before them, that they might be born again before it's forever too late. If there's somewhere on the high seas in a distant land, write another letter.
Write another letter and put the claims of Christ solemnly and certainly before that they might know for sure that their sins are forgiven and all that. You might get a reply. Ah, Mother, Father, I've taken the Lord Jesus as my Savior and all is well with my soul. Ah, that's that's wonderful. We see the last invitation in Genesis 20 in Revelation 22 and verse 17, the last invitation of the word of God.
Tonight it's so plentiful, and verse 17 of Revelation 22 and the Spirit and the bride say come.
And him that heareth, and let him that heareth say come, and let him that is athirst come.
And whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely, isn't that lovely? Ah, there are two sides, the inside and the outside. Which side are you great great grace of God? It's not a works, lest any man should boast, it's God's great gracious free grace. And he says, Cough. All that you might enter in the Lord Jesus would have you do so. He has told us so plainly. He's the door by me. If any man enter in, said, I am the way, the fruit of my life.
No man cometh unto the Father, but by me you have to come God's way. There isn't any other way.
Any other way is a way of the thief in the rough, and there's no way, no way you must come. The Lord Jesus Christ is the door, the door to God's glory, the door to God's.
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House the the door to a place of safety and refuge forevermore.
Here's the way. He is the one who gave his life on the cross. And you notice in the 22nd verses, there's Noah.
Finish the work. And the Lord Jesus said, Father, I've finished the work which thou gave me to do. And he said in John 19 it is finished. And tonight many of us in this room are resting in that finished work. How about you? Do you know anything about rest in the finished work of Calvary? Oh, I trust that you're resting that work tonight. You don't have to tell me about it, but all that you might speak to someone about it, and you might say yes.
I see myself as a poor, lost, hell, deserving, hell bound, guilty Sinner. And I see that the Lord Jesus is a refuge for sin and for sinners rather. And he's the one that wants me tonight to take him. And I do take him. And I'm confessing Christ to you. They've been praying for you tonight. Dear young people, dear boys and girls, still going on in your sins. They've been praying for you tonight. Oh, that you might confess Christ, believe in your heart and confess with your mouth.
Under salvation, all that you might know for sure that all as well be their soul, their names written there, and that you won't have to hear those words depart from me, you workers of iniquity.
Whosoever name is not written in the land, book of life will be cast into emptied into the lake of fire. Fire. God's word has a lot to say about it and tonight the warning is given again. And tonight what are you going to do about it?
Those dear souls and Noah's day, they disregard.
And they were lost. They perished 15 cubits and about 22 1/2 feet of water.
Over the over the tallest mountain top and treetop. There they were, climbing up into the hills, climbing up into the trees.
No place of escape, no place of safety because they weren't entering into God's heart.
They weren't entering into the place that God had prepared for them through his servant Noah. Tonight, this is the finished work, and we praise God for it, and we rejoice tonight that we have the wonderful invitation. And God is the one who has been giving it, and he would have us hearken to it and really enjoy it. And so we just know that there's someone here tonight that's going on.
And thinking, well, I'd like to have a good time first. You know, I want to. I want to sew my wild oats first. And then and then I'll. I'll take care of this matter of eternal salvation. Ah, you heard the illustrations last night. And it reminds me of those souls that I told you about down in Saint Vincent.
That day when oh brother Edwards walked around, the island of Saint Vincent warned all those souls.
He said there is going to be an earth, there is going to be a volcanic eruption again, and I have heard the rumblings for a week and I have seen the ashes spitting out. I've told you before about it, the people on the Leeward side, the windward side, they said, ah and Mr. You don't know what you're talking about. In our day it never did anything like that. We have our coconut steak out, we're not going to run away, he said. Please go to the other end of the aisle and quickly.
They laughed at it, kept on with their coconuts.
But on the on the Leeward side of the island, they fled when he won. And one night, just a few hours after that, that volcano broke open and poured its molten lava, molten lava, red hot lava boulders, biggest barrels rolling down the mountainside out to sea. About 6 miles and 2200 souls were snapped into eternity in a matter of moments.
Why? Because they would not heed the warning and they wouldn't heed Noah's warning. And so tonight the warning is going out again as it went out last night. Oh, what are you going to do with this warning? Are you going to turn your back on God's red lights and say I don't care, I don't care. I'm going to have my own good time about this like some dear souls in Walla Walla. They came up last year to the front after the gospel was preached. Young man and his girlfriend.
They said we want to get saved.
And we talked with him, about six of us there for 1/2 hour. We want to get saved, but we don't want to get saved tonight and we don't want to get saved here.
Well, I said, how about waiting six months? You want to wait that long? Oh, no, no, no. We don't want to wait six months. And how about how about two months? No, we don't want to wait that long. Well, how about two weeks? No, we don't want to wait that long. But we don't want to get saved now. We don't want to get saved here. We want to go home and get saved on our own.
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Haven't heard anything about them, excepting Christ.
Poor souls. We're concerned about them. Have inquired about them again this summer or tonight.
How about you? Do you want to just go on stubbornly in your own wicked way and die in your sins tonight? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. It says you in verse 16. And they that went in went in with him. Oh, tonight that you might go in with your father, with your mother, You might go into this place of safety and rejoice forevermore that your soul is eternally safe, that you have.
A clear title to Glory that your name is written in the land book of life, and that.
You're realizing, as you're never thought were possible before, that He is your savior, He is your substitute, your refuge, and that you have a desire to go on with Him and worship and praise. Here's that little poem that I like concerning this arc. They dream not of danger. Perhaps you don't either. Satan got your hoodwinked. You know, got you blinded.
Dream of danger. They are those sinners of old whom nor was chosen to warn by frequent transgressions. Their hearts had grown cold. They lacked his entreaties to score. Yet daily he called him. Oh come, sinners, come believe and prepare to embark.
Receive you the message and know there's room for all who will enter the Ark. He could not arouse him unheeding. They stood unmoved by his warning and prayer. The Prophet passed in from the oncoming flood and left them to hopeless despair. The floodgates were open. The deluge came up. The heavens as midnight grew dark. Too late. Then they cried. They turned. Every foothold was gone.
They perish inside of the ark, right there, the ark before them.
Oh Sinner, the heralds of God's mercy implore. They cry like the paper Come, the Ark of Salvation is moored to your shore. Oh, enter while yet there's rule.
The storm kind of justice rolls dock or your head, and when by its furrier touch a lacks of your perishing souls will be said.
They hurt, they refused and were lost.
Oh, tonight, May God help you to do what you know you should do, and do it now because you may never have another opportunity. May we sing that precious hymn #11. Will your anchor hold?
In the storms of life, when the clouds unfold, their wings of strike, when the strong tides lift and the cable strayed, will your anchor drift or firm remain?
Will your anchor.
Your Soul
Gospel—R. Rule
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Commence our meeting by singing together.
Hymn #10.
There is a savior on high in the glory.
The Savior who suffered on Calvary's tree.
A savior is willing to save. Now as ever, his arm is almighty, his love great and free.
Oh come now to Jesus. That dear loving savior receive him this moment.
And peace shall be thine.
There is a savior.
I woke up in the middle of the night last night. I had been asked early in the evening to.
If I would give the message of the gospel.
I woke up during the night.
And it seemed like the Lord.
Brought before one's heart a few scriptures that speak about a four letter word.
4 letters, but those 4 letters make up a word. That's very important.
To each of us, those 4 letters are SOUL.
Friends, I'd like to speak tonight to you about your soul.
You have a soul. It's an immortal soul.
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And it's very important that you give consideration to the eternal destiny of your soul.
And so I would like to look at the Lord's help, but a few scriptures that speak to us.
Of our soul turning to the first place that I believe it occurs in the word of God in the second chapter of Genesis.
Genesis Chapter 2.
And verse 7.
The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground.
And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
It doesn't say a dying soul, a living soul.
And it's made very clear in other portions of this word of God.
That you, my friend, have a soul. That's an immortal soul.
A soul that will exist for eternity.
He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living soul.
Shall we turn now?
To the 8th chapter of Mark's Gospel for a verse or two.
Mark's Gospel chapter 8.
And verse 36.
For what shall it profit a man?
If he shall gain the whole world.
And lose his own soul.
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
And now to the next gospel, Luke's Gospel.
Chapter 12.
And verse 13 or no, before we read the 13th verse, I'd like to read two earlier ones.
Verse 4.
Be not afraid of them, but kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I forewarn you.
Whom ye shall fear?
Fear him which after he hath killed.
Hath power to cast into hell? Yeah, I say unto you.
Fear him.
Without turning to it, there's a verse in the Old Testament that says the fear of the Lord.
Is the beginning of wisdom.
Let us turn now to the 13th verse of our chapter in Luke here, Luke 1213.
And one of the companies said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divided the inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you.
And he said unto them, Take heed and beware of covetousness.
For a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
And they speak a parable unto them, saying.
The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully, and he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do?
Because I have no room where to bestow my fruits. And he said, this will I do. I will pull down my barns and build greater and there I will bestow all my fruits and my goods, and I will say to my soul.
Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy knees, eat, drink, and be merry.
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But God said unto him.
Fool, this night shall I soul be required of thee.
Then who shall those things be which thou hast provided?
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.
Now I hope to look at a few other scriptures, but that's all we'll read for the minute.
You know, dear friends.
It's quite a solemn responsibility for one to be asked to address an audience like this.
We've been reminded a little bit of the value of a soul.
And we've also called your attention to the fact that you have a soul, a living soul, an immortal soul, and of the fact that eternity lies before you.
And all it solemn to speak to honor, have the privilege of speaking to 1.
About such an important matter, May God give you to feel the importance of the subject that we're speaking about tonight.
We're not talking about something that's of casual interest. We're talking of something that's vital.
We read that verse in Genesis 2. God breathed into Adam the breath of life, and he became a living soul.
All my friend, I would say again, you have a soul and it's going to spend eternity somewhere.
Do you know what your destiny is?
Do you know where you are going to spend eternity? Eternity is a long time, you know. I could talk all evening and couldn't begin to tell you or give you any real ideas to how long eternity is. I remember hearing one brother once say that if a bird could fly from here to one of the stars and took one of the sands from the seashore and took a million years to fly to one of the stars.
And back again. And he kept coming back, taking one grain of sand and taking a million years to deliver it.
That at the end of the time when he'd taken all the sand from the oceans, eternity would have just begun.
Friend, that's serious to think in terms of eternity.
And oh May God, if you've never thought seriously about this matter, give you to realize the importance.
Of what we're speaking about tonight.
Now, I'd like to say this. Before I turn to an OR to speak of any of the other scriptures that I've read, I'd like to say this. This has been announced as a gospel meeting. Gospel speaks of glad tidings or good news. You may say what you've read doesn't sound very much like good news. Well, I hope before I get through, I've brought out in a measure before your soul something of the good news that God tells us in this book.
But the problem is so many souls don't realize their need. And it's hard to give soul or hard to bring before our souls and get them aroused to their need. But let me tell you this before we seek to go further as to your need, Thank God we're here to tell you tonight about a savior. There is good news for you. Christ died for you. He's a living savior in the glory.
And you may know him as your savior before you walk out that room or that door. And May God grant that you do know Him as your savior before you go out that door. Yes, there's a living, loving savior as we sang together in the hymn. He loves you, friend. He died for you.
And he wants to make you one of his own, an heir of glory. And so if the verses that I'm going to speak on are rather solemn.
I would like to introduce them by telling you that we do have good news for you, but oh, you know, we find in the parable of the sower in Matthew 13 that it was only when the word fell into prepared ground, good ground that had sprung up and brought forth fruit. Has God made God prepare the ground as it were. Prepare your soul to realize your need of a savior. So many are going on carelessly and indifferent.
Like this rich man that we read about.
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Thinking in terms as he said, I will take my knees.
Our brother yesterday in speaking about Ruth.
Brought before us the fact that that's what characterized the day we're living in. Man going on at ease and indifferent to God and his claims All my friend, don't go on an indifference. May God wake you up tonight. If you're still in your sins, you need a savior. There's a savior for you, but all you must first realize your need now in the third in the 12Th chapter of Luke.
Where I read.
In the fifth verse, we'll turn to that now.
Our fourth verse, the Lord said, I say unto you, my friends.
Be not afraid of them that kill the body. And after that I have no more that they can do. But I forewarn you whom you shall fear. Fear him, which after you have killed, hath power to cast into hell. You know, that's a word that often isn't used in sermons today, and many churches around it isn't too popular a subject, is it? No, it isn't popular. It isn't popular.
But God is found in the Word of God. This is God's Word.
And because God is seen fit to speak of hell, those who seek to proclaim faithfully the gospel must needs war and soul of coming judgment because there is judgment ahead.
I remember very well. I don't think I'll ever forget it over 30 years ago.
I was My health wasn't very good and I was spending a few days in the sanitarium near Mount Pocono, PA.
And I ran into a young man I was only.
Hadn't been out of my teens very long that time.
And I met another young man. I think he was probably a little over 20 years old.
And he told me I got into a little talk with him and he told me he said, you know, Ralph?
It wasn't very long ago I climbed to the highest building in Newark, NJ.
I think he said it was 11 stories high.
He said. I went up on the roof.
I was going to commit suicide.
I was going to jump down and take my life.
But he said, you know, I got to the edge of that building and I was afraid. Thank God he was afraid, I was afraid, he said, You know, I wasn't afraid of death in itself, but I was afraid of what follows death.
Friend, you know what this book says about what follows death.
It's appointed unto men once to die, but after death. What's after death, friend?
After death, the judgment.
All how how we can. How thankful that man could be that he didn't jump. If Satan had had his way, he would have ended it, and it would have been the judgment.
But no, he said. I was afraid.
Well, I had the privilege of bringing the gospel before him. I'm not sure whether he received the Lord or not. I hope I see him in the glory.
But my reason for mentioning the incident is the reason he didn't jump off that building. All of a sudden, he realized after death the judgment. Have you stopped to think about what follows death?
Now thank God there is no judgment for the Christian for the believer. You may not be a believer at this minute, but as I said before, I hope you will be before you walk out that door, friend.
For the believer, it says, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me half everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death unto life.
No friend. There's no mystery, no secret as to what follows death. There are two destinies.
And your lot is to be in one place or the other. I don't need to tell you what those two are, do I?
I'm sure that most know the answer.
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You're either going to be with Christ in glory. Heaven is your portion, your home, Oregon. You're going to be spend eternity in the lake of fire and hell with the devil and his angels.
No, there's no mystery as to what follows death. I remember. The reason I have the word mystery on my tongue, I suppose, is the fact that just recently I read a note that I had clipped out of our local paper, That Toledo Blade. That's the main newspaper in Toledo.
Ohio.
And I just read this so that I feel sure I can quote it correctly. It was taken from an issue of December 22, 1928.
And the quotation that had to do with a man, a young man who had killed himself accidentally.
He hadn't died yet. He had. I should have stated it this way. He had shot himself accidentally.
But it was obvious from the nature of the injury that he was going to die.
And the newspaper made this comment. We hope that he will live.
Until Christmas. That's three days later. Hope that he will live until Christmas so that he can receive his presence.
Before he passes on into the eternal mystery.
Ah, my friend, if you have three days to live only, what would a few Christmas presents mean or anything else down here? The question is your soul. Have you settled a question as to your eternal soul? Well, the paper said before he passes into the eternal mystery. Friend, there's no mystery as to what happens after death. You're either going to spend eternity with my savior, the man that died for me and the one that died for you, if you'll have him.
Or you're going to spend eternity in hell. Which is it? Have you thought about it? Have you thought about it? Seriously, Have you waived the question? May God give you to do it tonight if you haven't. Tomorrow may be too late. You have no assurance you'll be here tomorrow.
No, there isn't one that can say for sure. They'll be here tomorrow.
No, there's no mystery about death and what happens after it. God has told us in great detail.
Oh my friend, may you, if you're still outside of Christ, be brought to know the Lord Jesus.
As your savior, the one who says, come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. I will give you rest, rest for that guilty conscience. I hope if you're not saved, you have a guilty conscience.
I hope your conscience isn't a seared conscience. May God give you to realize that you are a Sinner if you've never taken, if you are a Sinner, and if you've never taken Christ, you're a lost Sinner at this minute. But friend, you can be a saved Sinner when you walk out the door, saved by God's grace. For the word of God says by grace are ye saved, and through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.
Not of works. Lest any man should boast God is offering you salvation as a gift. It's without money. It's without price. You receive it by just owning your need to God and taking Christ as your Savior. Will you do that? Will you have him? He wants to receive you tonight as you as his own. Will you have him?
Well, the natural man is so inclined to be thinking of material things, or ease, or.
Merry making down here pleasure whatever it may be, but not thinking in terms of eternal things.
Satan tends to blind man's eyes to the realities of eternal issues. We were reading of one of those issues in the 8th of March. You don't need to turn to it again, I'll just quote it.
What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or watch a man give an exchange for his soul friend? What price, What value do you put on your soul? What value have you put on your soul?
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Have you ever thought about it? Seriously, I know you've thought about what you're going to do a few years from now. If you're in your grade school or high school, you're thinking, what am I going to do next and what subjects am I going to take up? And how much schooling am I going to?
Uh, continue with and then what am I going to do after I get out of school and all that sort of thing? I'm sure you've given thought to those issues.
But they're trivial as compared to your soul. It's the Lord Himself who says watch shall a man give in exchange for his soul.
I ask you how much thought have you given about that question?
What value do you place on your soul? God says. What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Oh, how much man strives just to gain a real, insignificant little piece of this world and yet indifferent as to the claims of God and his immortal soul?
Friend, will you weigh that question that God has raised, weigh it earnestly in God's presence?
Determine what value you place on your soul.
And then ask yourself the question, What can you play? What can you value greater than that? What is more important than that? Nothing, my friend. Nothing.
Well, here in our chapter in the 12Th of Luke, shall we read on in connection with the man?
We read about he was a rich man.
But first, the occasion of this.
What this parable? It starts with the 16th verse. The occasion of it was that one came to the Lord and said, speak to my brother, that he divided the inheritance with me. And the Lord said unto him, man, who made me a judge and a divider over you. Now first he said, First he said, make my brother divide the inheritance with me. Apparently someone had died.
And this man didn't feel he'd got his fair share. He hadn't been taken care of properly. He wanted to have his portion.
We were reminded of the 15th of Luke recently, the other evening, I think, where the prodigal son said, give me the portion that falleth to me. You know, that's very characteristic of the natural man. Give me. He's got his hand out. He wants something. He's interested in what he's going to get. And so is this man here.
Well, he was putting the Lord Jesus in the position of being a judge in the matter.
The Lord said, Man who made me a judge or a divider over you. Thank God he didn't come here to be a judge. He's coming as a judge. For God hath appointed a day in the which he that's the Lord Jesus will judge the world in righteousness.
By that man whom he hath ordained, whereab he has given assurance unto all men, and that he has raised him from the dead. There's a risen man in the glory. He's coming back as judge.
And all it will be very sad for all that have to stand before him, whether it's the at the judgment seat of the judgment of the living nations or whether it's at the great white throne judgment. But thank God he came here the first time as a savior. My friend, we're telling you tonight about a savior. He's coming back as judge. But I hope you never have to stand before him at that great white throne because you know.
All that stand before him there are going to be cast into that word that we said is very unpopular. Be cast into hell, into the lake of fire, that place where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched. May that not be your portion, but the Lord didn't come as a judge the first time he came here as a savior. He came to give his life to die, that you might have life for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. Yes, God sent him, friend, that you might be saved. Will you have him as your savior tonight? Will you receive him? He's calling you as we said before. He says, Come unto me, all ye that labor, I will give you rest.
Well, he told this man, he said.
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Who has made me a judge? Or a divider over a judge or a divider over you?
And then he said, take heed and beware of covetousness, for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
And he spoke a parable unto them, saying the ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully. And he thought within himself, What shall I do, because I have no room where I shall bestow my fruits?
He said. This will I do. I will pull down my barns and build greater and there I will bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Notice the next verse, and I will say unto my soul, soul as much goods laid up for many years.
Take thy knees, eat, drink and be merry.
You know, I have no doubt that this man or I would, you would gather that this man was one who had a good standing in his community. There's nothing to indicate that he wasn't respected of men.
In fact, the scripture says that men will praise thee when thou doest. Well, by thyself he had prospered through the goodness of God.
You know, I don't know of anyone that's more dependent on God for material blessing than a farmer. Do you? If God doesn't send the rain and the sunshine, there'll be no blessing on the crops. God had been good to him in that way, but he had no thoughts about the goodness of God. He's just like those all about us, thinking only of self.
Sels. Did you notice how he often uses the word I and my?
My fruits this I will do. I will pull down my barns and so forth. I will say it's all I and my thoroughly self-centered.
No thoughts about God.
Oh, how many there are on that line about us today?
Taking only himself, their pleasure, their comforts, their ease down here.
Do you by any chance fall into that category, friend? Are you primarily concerned, or have you been primarily concerned with yourself and your interests and leaving God out, He left God out all that he had had come from God, but he had no thoughts of God.
How about you?
You know, it's a serious thing to leave God out of our thoughts.
Take thy knees, is what he said.
Eat, drink, be merry.
Oh, yes. For the average man in the world, he'll fit in somewhere. Into there. It's either pleasure, be merry or just taking his ease and just drifting along. Indifferent. Yes. Are you drifting? Are you drifting? You know, it's a serious thing to drift, friend, if you just keep on drifting.
You'll wind up in a lost eternity. May God waken you to your need. This man was never awakened to realize his need before God. Time went by and finally he came to the end of the journey. The journey for him came a lot sooner than he had expected. He talked about building bigger barns, built bigger barns to have all this substance, and then when he figured he had enough to just take care of him the rest of his days.
Take it easy and enjoy life.
He didn't enjoy life near as long as he thought he was going to.
What is that 20th verse say? God said unto him.
Full this night shall I soul be required of thee. Then who shall those things be? You know, friend, God doesn't call a man full lightly. This is the Lord speaking here. It was God that sat unto him full.
I wonder if you're in that category. I wonder if God would say that of you. If you've been forgetting his claims, indifferent to his savior, thinking of this life, enjoying life, then that's just where God would put you, my friend.
This night shall I soul be required of thee, let me ask you.
If God required your soul of you tonight, friend, where would you be?
I ask you in all earnestness, where would you spend eternity?
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That's the question before us tonight.
You know, I'm reminded of a story that a brother told. I think I remember most of the details. I'll tell as much as I can because it came to mind in connection with the words. This night, a servant of the Lord had been preaching the gospel in a hall. I don't know where.
I If I heard that detail, it got away. But he was preaching the gospel.
And in the middle of his address.
He spoke very seriously to his audience.
And he said to him, friends, we've been talking about a very important question.
When you get home tonight, I want you to take a piece of paper, each of you and those that have children. I suggest the mother of the father takes the piece of paper, one for each member of the family. And on that piece of paper, I'd like you to write these words.
If I die tonight, I will spend eternity in and then, he said.
Leave a blank until one has been prepared. A little piece of paper for every member of the family. Pass them around to the members of the family and.
Ask each to fill in one of two words and sign their name.
Now he says take that piece of paper. If I die tonight, I will spend eternity in and, he said.
Everyone fill in one of two words, heaven or hell.
Well, the particular family that our brother was speaking about, when they got home, the mother did just what this servant of the Lord had suggested.
She got five pieces of paper, and on all of them she wrote, If I die tonight, I will spend eternity in And she left the blank and a place for the signature.
These were handed to those in the room.
The mother on hers, she wrote in the word heaven and sign your name. The oldest daughter, if I remember right, her name was Mary.
She took the pencil and wrote in that word. Same word, heaven.
And.
The other two children.
Did the same thing, but the father he'd been handed a piece of paper.
But he was reading his magazine.
Indifferent. And he just went on reading. He didn't fill anything in on his.
And finally one of the children said Daddy, the man said you were to fill in a word there at the end, and he kept on reading, but the child insisted, and finally I suppose to.
Quiet her down so he could go on with his reading. Finally he took up a pencil and he wrote the four letter words. If I die tonight, I will spend eternity in hell.
Well, the child took one of the children, took the paper to the mother and she broke out in tears.
And the mother looked at him and she broke out of tears. And everyone of the children, they broke out in tears and were sobbing. And the mother knelt down on her knees and started praying to God for her husband, friend, You know, probably people are praying for you. There are many here, I'm sure, whose mother, father has been praying for one of their boys or girls while a mother broke down. But she cried to God on her knees. And you know, God and his grace touched that father's heart.
And he came over to the circle, and he knelt down to.
And he took the Lord as his savior, and he asked for another piece of paper.
And this time he could spell out on that paper. If I die tonight, I will spend eternity in heaven. Friend, how about you? What if you die tonight? You may. As we said, you have no lease on life. Not a bit. Are you prepared? Are you ready? Where will you spend eternity? Is it heaven?
Or is it hell? Oh, May God give you to feel the seriousness of what we're talking about.
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You know, I was speaking at a I was asked to take the gospel once, not too long ago, and I heard afterward that a woman in the audience had made this comment. She didn't know it would get back to my ears, but she made the comment, she said, you know.
If one speaks that way the way he did, I'm afraid it might tend to drive souls away.
You know the scripture that came to mind. In the book of Jeremiah, there's a word that says something like this curse should be he.
But doeth the work of the Lord negligently and cursed, behave it, withdraw his sword from blood.
Now friend, this is the sword of the Spirit. I would like to use it tonight to bring before you the seriousness of what we're talking about. As I said, you have an immortal soul and oh May God awaken you to your need, but you realize the importance of what we're talking about. Yes, the word of God it says, is living and powerful and quicker than any two edged sword dividing to the piercing asunder of soul and spirit.
And is the discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. May God use His word to show you, my friend, what's in your heart if you're outside of Christ, and to give you to realize that without Christ you're lost and on the way to a lost eternity.
Oh, my friend, as I said before, Christ died for you. He loves you. He wants you to be a companion with Him in the glory, but you must own your need of him as Savior and and put your trust in Him.
Oh, May God give you to feel the reality of what we're speaking about.
Perhaps there's one here that has some question as to whether the Lord would receive them if they were to come.
Friend, I can assure you the door is open wide for you. The Lord Jesus is inviting you, but all that you might feel your need of coming.
Speaking of feeling the need, you know I the other night our brother read a poem and I went to him.
Just after the last meeting this afternoon, it seemed to tie in so with a verse that the Lord had put on my heart. Watch a man. Watch what profit a man if he gained the whole world and lose his own soul. But I asked him if I could borrow it and read it again tonight. I know most of you have heard it, but I'm sure there's some in the room that didn't hear it last night.
And if you happen to have fewer one that heard it, perhaps gods can still use it for blessing to your heart.
It says Have you counted the cost? That's the title. There is a line that is drawn by rejecting Our Lord where the call of His spirit is lost and you hurry along with the pleasure mad throng. Have you counted? Have you counted the cost?
Are you hurrying along with a pleasure mad throng, friend? Oh, May God arrest you if you are. The next stanza says you may barter your hope of eternities born for a moment of joy at the most, for the glitter of sin and the things that will cost. Have you counted? Have you counted the cost? Yes, a moment of joy, as it says here in the glitter of sin.
Oh, how Satan draws his dupes along in sin.
Few weeks ago, I don't remember how long in our Toledo newspapers, and I suppose they were in on the headlines of most of the papers in the United States, the toll of a movie actress that had died.
One that was very popular from conversation I've heard amongst others. Some of those at work I heard commenting.
She died. She was one that was paid from 500 to $1,000,000 on some of the the films that she helped to make.
Films that.
Probably answered to this poem with a Speaking of the glitter of sin.
She hadn't counted the cost. And I'll tell you friend, she might have made a half $1,000,000 on a movie, but it didn't make her happy.
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And I'll tell you something more. Nothing can make you truly happy apart from faith in Christ. Yes, I know there is pleasure for a moment, as it were. The word of God speaks of the pleasures of sin, but they're only for a moment. They're passing. Are you trying to find your pleasures down here and the pleasures of sin? If so, have you counted the cost? How about your soul, my friend?
This one.
That I'm Speaking of, they indicated in the paper. I understand that she's thought to have committed suicide. She had money, popularity, but she didn't have Christ and so there was no happiness there. Oh friend, how Satan leaves his dupes along. I repeat it. I remember when I was about just passing out of my teens. I remember at that time one of the a young man who had recently inherited millions.
He happened to be a son of the Reynolds family, of the Reynolds Tobacco Company, multimillionaires, and he inherited the 21 had turned over to him millions.
Not long after, he committed suicide.
Ah, there's nothing here can make you happy, my friend. But Christ.
Not give you any real happiness and joy.
Do you have Christ as your Savior? Is He your portion?
The last fans on here says, while the door of his mercy is open to you, ere the depths of his love, you exhaust. Won't you come? Won't you whisper? I yield. I have counted. I have counted the cost. Oh, I say to your friend, Won't that be the language of your heart tonight I yield. Won't you yield your heart to the Lord Jesus?
Won't you open your heart to receive him? And then you can truly say I have counted. I have counted the cost. Oh, my friend, he died for you. He wants to receive you. Will you have him? Don't be like that rich man. You know he was a rich man in life. But what was he in? Death?
He was an eternal bankrupt. He had nothing.
The word of God that we read says spoke of that. At the end of that portion spoke of those that are not rich toward God. The one that has Christ as savior. He's rich toward God. He's an air of glory. Oh, it's a wonderful thing to be a Christian, to have the Lord as one savior and to have the assurance of being with that man and the glory for eternity.
That scene where sin can ever come, we sometimes sing, O bright and blessed scenes where sin can ever come, whose sight our longing spirit wings from earth, where yet we roam.
Oh, my friend, I can offer you that blessing and salvation to the Lord because he paid an awful price. You know, the price was too great for any man to pay, no matter how wealthy he might be. Would you like a verse for that? Turn with me to the 49th Psalm.
Psalm 49.
And verse 6.
None of them are. Yes, verse six. They that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. Now notice the next verse. None of them can by any means redeem his brother nor give to God a ransom for him. You know, if somebody is stolen down here or taken away, kidnapped is a better word.
Usually if one can put up a big enough ransom some why, they can get the kidnapped 1 back again. But when it comes to God, there's no ransom that man can pay. That would be great enough to settle a question of the need of your soul my friend.
It says none can by any means redeem his brother and give to God a ransom for him for.
The redemption of their soul is precious.
Oh, my friend, you have a precious.
Soul. And it's because of that that we are seeking, urging you tonight to receive the Savior, that you might have the redemption of that soul. The redemption of His soul is precious.
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Turn with me to another scripture that speaks of a ransom. I think it's in the 33rd chapter of Job, the book just before Psalms.
Job 33.
In the 13th verse.
14th verse It says God speaketh once ye twice a man perceiveth it not. Perhaps God has spoken to you, my friend, in the past, and you didn't heed the warning. Maybe he's speaking tonight. I trust he is if you're not saved. Sometimes God speaks through trials, as God allowed some trial in your life and you wondered why. Perhaps God was speaking to you to arouse you.
As to spiritual matters, the need of your soul.
You'll notice it says there. It says in the.
14th verse, Yet man perceiveth it not, but then it goes on to say.
In verse 19 he is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and with a multitude of his bones with strong pain.
There's a soul that God has spoken through trial to. He doesn't always do it in that way.
Up above it speaks of in a dream. There are different ways that God speaks to souls.
In this day, I think it's more through his precious word, but it goes on to say here.
In the 23rd verse, if there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among 1000 to show on a man is uprightness, old friend that you might learn what's spoken of here when it speaks of uprightness. Do you want to know who the upright Sinner is? I'll tell you. Look on down to the 27th verse.
He looketh upon men, and if any say I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not, he will deliver his soul from going down into the pit. Oh, that God might deliver your soul from going into the pit, but you have to be upright and own your sin to God. If a man say I have sinned, have you ever got down before God? And says, oh Lord, I'm a Sinner.
I have sinned.
And perverted that which is right. You do that, and you turn to Christ, and it says he will deliver his soul from going down into the pit. Oh, May God give you to be upright in this respect. Own your sin that he might deliver you from the pit of destruction.
It goes on to say, and that 24th verse after one, after there's that uprightness, it says, Then he is gracious unto him.
And saith unto him, and saith.
Deliver him.
From going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.
Oh, I don't need to tell you that Ransom is in the book of Second Timothy. It says for there is one mediator between God and men.
The man Christ Jesus, who gave his life a ransom for many.
Yes, my friend. He gave his life for you. If you go to hell, it isn't because it isn't because God didn't love you. God sent his own Son from the glory down to Calvary's cross. He went to that cross of shame where they nailed him to that accursed tree, where they spit in his face, where they put a crown of thorns upon his blessed holy head.
Where they mocked him and taunted him.
God sent that blessed one here. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.
That whosoever believeth on him should not perish, friend, if you perish.
It's because you don't take advantage of what God and love has done for your soul, but whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Sometimes, I repeat, when it comes to that word, perish. Cursed be he that withdraweth a sword from blood we read.
I'm going to close with a warning and then another invitation I'll be through.
A brother from out West came to Toledo some years ago and he said I'm going to give you a definition.
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I'm going to tell you a little bit about what it means to perish, and I often repeat it because I I think it's good to be brought to realize the reality of what's ahead for the one that dies without Christ, he said There are 6 letters in the word perish, and I'm going to use each of them the 1St letter for a word.
P pass E eternally R ruined I into S sinners H hell.
Pass eternally ruling into a sinner's hell. Oh friend, May God spare you from that. You need a savior, I plead with you. Don't go out that door turning your back on the Lord Jesus. He died for you. He died for you. Will you have him? Will you receive him?
He wants you. He's calling to you. Will you open your heart and receive him?
Tomorrow may be too late. This man in the 12Th of Luke, it says tonight, fool, Tonight shall I soul be required of thee. Make it tonight, friend. Don't wait till you go out the door. Take the Lord now and be saved. May God bless his word.
Together the 12Th verse of the 12Th hymn and I hope that someone here.
That this is the expression of some heart or some hearts here tonight, just as I am without one plea. But that thy blood was shed for me, and that thou bids me come to thee. O Lamb of God, I come. Yes, the word of God says that the blood of Jesus Christ.
God's son cleanseth us from all sin.
Just as I am.
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