Address—P. Glading
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Our Lord, our life, our hope, our all, for we have nowhere else to please. No sanctuary, Lord will be.
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With that he therefore any consolation in Christ.
If any comfort of love.
If any fellowship of the suburb.
If any bowels and verses.
For building my joy that ye be like minded.
Having the same love, being of 1 Core of one mind, let nothing be done through strife, obey the glory.
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Body, loneliness of mind that each esteem are much better than themselves.
Look, not every man on his own thing.
Of every man also on the things of others.
Let this mind be in this.
Which was also in Christ Jesus.
Who being the foolish God fought against God is not the operating to me over God.
Made himself of no reputation.
And took upon him the form to serve is made in the likeness of men.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name.
Of the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven, things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every town should confess that Jesus Christ is law, that the glory of God the Father.
Wherefore, my father and she have always obeyed my best in my presence only, but now much more in my absence.
Workout your own salvation with fear and tramping.
For his thought, which worketh in you both will, and to do of his good pleasure.
To all things without murmurings and disputing.
And he may be blameless and harmless, and harmless, the sons of God without regroup, in the midst of a crooked and reversed nation.
Amongst whom he shot his life in the world.
Holding forth a word of life, the binary choice, in the day of Christ. But I have not run in vain either, laden in vain.
And if I be offered among the sacrifices and service of your faith, I enjoy and rejoice with you all.
For the same call also do ye joy and rejoice with me.
But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send to Mobius shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort when I know your state.
For I am of no man, like minded, who will naturally care for your state.
The whole sea, Pharaoh, not the things which are Jesus Christ.
But you know the proof of him that is the Son of the Father. He has served with me in the gospel.
Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
But I trust in the law that I also myself shall come shortly.
Yet I suppose, if necessary to send you a cathodicist, my brother.
Companion in labor and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and neither minister to my wants.
For the long love you all.
And it was full of happiness. It.
'Cause that she had heard that he had been sick.
For indeed he was sick, and I am to death, and God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, lest I did as sorrow upon sorrow.
I sent him there for the more carefully. That's when he seen him again. He married choice.
And the lion may be a less horrible.
Christine and therefore in long ball gladness.
I'm told such a reputation because for the work of Christ he was lying to death, Mumford.
Not regarding his life to supply your lack of service toward me.
Have been the main theme of this epistle is Christ himself, for he is mentioned nearly 40 times in this one pistol.
So we can see very plainly that the Spirit of God will bring the person of Christ before us yet.
I'm not an artist for our hearts.
And we find that Christ is presented in each chapter.
In various aspects and in beautiful ways.
In the first chapter.
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In verse 21.
The apostle can say, for to me to live is Christ, and to die is gay.
Here we have, I believe, Christ, the purpose.
The Apostle Paul had a purpose.
He says.
For to me, to live is Christ.
It's a wonderful statement, isn't it?
It shows the desire of his heart to live for the glory of Christ.
And to manifest in a practical way with graces of Christ.
And so I believe we can say in this verse we have Christ the purpose.
What is your purpose? What is my purpose? Is my purpose Christ alone or do I have other purposes in life?
Do you have a purpose to get on in the world?
What can you say and can I say with truth?
Christ is my purpose. Where is the lesson? Things we can and it should be So the Apostle Paul could say that the truth. And sure none of us here would ever doubt the truth of what he said He designed to live for Christ and to manifest Christ in his walking ways as he went through the scene. And in the second chapter that we read together in verse five, Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
Here I believe we have Christ the pattern.
You and I leave the pattern.
As we travel through this wild of the sea, we come out and find a suitable pattern in men.
Know that we have a perfect pattern in the Lord Jesus Christ.
That blessed man who now adorns the throne of God, the one who will glorify his Father here on earth.
The one who finished that grace, that mighty work of redemption, is the one whom his father has delighted one and exalted with Earl right-handed glory.
These are fathom or he should be. The apostle Paul should say, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. We get much in the scripture about this mind, a letters being one mind and so on. And perhaps the question might be raised well, whose mind? There are many members of the body of Christ. Whose mind are we to follow? Well, the apostle Paul tells, yeah, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ. Teeth. This is the mind we need to.
Manifest and exhibit the mind of Christ.
The same by His Grace to manifest something, at least of him and his love. His grace.
Of his beauty. And we walked through the scene, and so in his first we have Christ the pattern that this mind being you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
In the next chapter.
And verse 14.
The Apostles say I fresh of the high falling of God in Christ Jesus.
He says in verse 13.
From getting those things which are behind him.
And reaching forth under those things which are before.
I pressed toward the mouth to the prize of a high forming of God in Christ. Peace.
Here absolutely we can save. Christ is the price. What a price for love.
Is the evil Christ and see my Christ, or do we seek other Christ?
Are our mass affections divided?
Or is Christ.
Are all you see my price? Do I consider him as the only prize worthwhile?
Well, I believe we should. The Apostle Paul could die pressed toward the mark of the price of a high volume of God in Christ. Jesus Christ surprised. What a prize. The eternal Son of God, the Lord of glory, the Lamb of God. Blessed, loving, Redeemer, the one who went to Calvary because he loved one who gained his life a ransom.
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Beyond me, he is the pride of what a prize and her thing that we are soon going to see this blessed prize, if I may put it that way. The storm going to look right into his blessed face, soon going to be forever with him to spend the nameless eternity in the glory with this wonderful prize before you know, when we run a race at school and get a prize.
Why we show the prize to all the other boys and say, look, I won this prize.
We exhibit the pride with prior knowledge. Well, to think that we are soon going to see that pride, the Lord Jesus Christ.
But one who is worthy of eternal praise, the one whom God has delighted to honor, is the one we are soon going to see and be forever with.
Moments to anticipate and we do not love. How soon, perhaps sooner than we realized that we may hear a shout and see this blessed one, the Lord Jesus Christ, face to face in the 4th chapter.
And the 13th verse.
The apostle says I can do all things.
He doesn't stop there mercifully.
He says I can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me. Here we have Christ the power. I can do all things through Christ, not in any other way.
About a remarked in his prayer that we will ask him, we can do nothing, have a true good to realize it isn't good to realize our utter weakness and account upon him, where all the apostle Paul says I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens thee.
Christ, the power of service for life.
And a little further down in verse 19.
But my God, he said, shall supply all your needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus.
Here I believe we can say in this 4th chapter we have the Philippians program and Christ the past.
And Christ the provision to carry it out. Christ the power.
I can know all things through Christ, and my God shall supply all of your needs. Here is the provision.
To carry it out, found one of the impressions, Christ the power, Christ the provision. So everything we need is found in that blessed one to now go on to the throne of God.
And I think it's very beautiful.
Through the note the setting of this epistle we get in Ephesians. The main theme I believe there is the body of Christ the Church.
And perhaps you'll notice in the very dead center of the epistle to a very verse, we get the body mentioned.
And in Colossians we get the main theme. There is the head of the body, the church, and in the very dead center of that official you get the head mansion. In between we get the Philippians and it brings sex fall, the ideal life of the leader as.
Filled by the Spirit of God.
The spirit of God and dwells of Elena. And that's why I believe in this epistle we do not get sin mentioned once.
Maybe not random at all in this epistle and politics.
And so I believe we can save them, that Christ is the main theme of the attraction, and we find through that this official sets forth the ideal life of the believer as in dwelled by spirit.
And then there's official tells us how we should live. We might expect to find, either express or inclined the lion properties comprising the fruit of the Spirit Mansion. And that's just what we do get, not only in Galatians, but we get them here too. And they're worth noticing. If you turn to the first chapter, we got the first thing mentioned.
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And.
The list given us the fruits of the Spirit and Galatians. Now in the ninth verse of the first chapter, Philippines, we get love mentioned.
Personality and this I pray that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment. That's the first thing mentioned. I leave in the list in Galatians after the 18th verse, the first chapter.
What then, Notwithstanding every way, whether in pretend or in truth, Christ is preached, Am I there in? Do rejoice, ye will rejoice.
You will have joy, which is the next one mentioned in Galatians, now the 4th charter and verse 7.
And the peace of God.
Lovejoy, Peace.
The peace of God which passes all understanding.
Chapter 4, Verse seven shall eat your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
And back to the first chapter in verse 29.
For unto you it is given in the far right, not only to believe on him, but to suffer for his sake.
Just a connection that we might read with this in the third chapter.
With this 29th verse, the third chapter in verse 10.
That I may know of him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings.
Being made compulsible under his death, the next thing is long-suffering mentioned I believe in Galatians system.
Now if you turn the 4th chapter and verse 5.
Metro moderation be known unto all men, or gentleness, which has the same immediately. And that's another one mentioned in Galatians, that your moderation or gentleness be made known, be known unto all men, the Lord is at hand.
And the 18th verse.
Our Wolf Charter.
I have all and found I am full having received of his Aphrodite is the things which were sent from you, and out of a sweet smell that sacrifice acceptable well, pleading to God, here we have goodness mansion.
And in 125.
And having this confidence I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your fathers and joy of faith.
Transmission from the 2nd chapters in verse 15.
That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God without reboot, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom he shines his lights in the world.
Here we have the sons of Bath displaying their relationship by their conduct in such a way as to leave no room or a beautiful after shine that lights in the world, lights in a dark place where light is needed, holding forth the word of light and this word blameless. And these two words blameless and poundless, I think we interpret them as meanness.
Very similar and I do have the same meaning.
And then the audience chapter, the 14th verse and the second chapter.
Do all things without murmurings and disputants.
Here we have the word temperance. All the meaning of it all self-control.
There, I mean, we have a lion.
Properties of the fruit of the Spirit in this epistle. And this epistle does set forth the ideal life of the believer and grown by the Spirit.
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Who is evil by the Spirit of God to produce these fruits?
Which will glorify God.
Now, as this second chapter of this epistle was raised to the Philippians for the first time.
Impression produced upon their minds, on that they would be found narrow the path their feet had entered.
How hard the task and how difficult the client?
And something of this perhaps might have been on the apostle's mind as he defeated this matter. He favored his letter.
For this.
Difficulty is met.
With a six fold whatsoever in the 4th chapter.
And the Earth's faith. The parking hall here and give brings before the Bolivian Saints a list of legitimate occupations for the mind.
Instead of them being occupied with a narrow path that feet had entered and all the difficulties of the pathway, if Marcel seeks to bring before them this list on legitimate occupations for their mind that they might have something good to be occupied with and not to be occupied with, the difficulties of the way and faith would have asked, you know, occupying the difficulties of the pathway.
And all our weaknesses and failures of the Spirit of God will bring before us a novelty.
The officer is Christ, and that's the object we have in this epistle. And so the apostle he brings before them here in the 4th chapter.
And verse 8. And you notice preceding these lists of legitimate occupations for the lion, we get the word peace.
In the first seven And the peace of God which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
I believe that if we speak by God's grace to have these things enumerated in verse 8.
Constantly before us we would know more the peace of God, which passeth all understands. We wouldn't be occupying with all the difficulties and trials of the way and the disappointments and face, whether of others or ourselves.
And you'll notice in the following verse, verse 9 And he says, and the God of peace shall be with you the peace of God from Garrison Rohan.
And the God of peace shall be with you how precious that is. And in between him he presents a mounted pause, and he says, finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true.
Well, truth is a representation of things as they are.
Yes it is. And we read in Psalm 100 and 31160 verse 160. Thine word is true from the beginning. Now what better object would we have than the word of God? Because the word of God points us to Christ.
And now he says once other things are true, he wants them to be occupied with true things.
Real things.
And true things are the reverse of falsehood.
And where we find true things in God's precious work, here we get the truth, and the Lord Jesus himself is the truth.
I will say what is truth?
There stood truth before him and the person of Christ and all his precious points. The Lord Jesus could say I am the way, the truth, and the life. The apostle says he occupies his true things, true things. How often we are occupied with false things. Perhaps we hear a false report with terribly disturbed by it.
And doing the other truth well, how blessed it is to the occupied with true things were not disturbed by true things, or we shouldn't be.
Especially when they come from God's Word, because His Word is for our encouragement, for our comfort, for our guidance, for our instruction and for our correction. And we read that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable.
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And so he points them down to true things, He says what sort of things are true? Whatsoever things are true, be occupied with them, he said.
And the previous version, the peace of God responsible understanding, shall keep your nuts.
And the following verse. And the God of peace shall be refused, we.
Read those two verses in connection with everything mentioned in the 8th and how beautiful the connection.
And he says whatsoever things are honest.
Whatever things are honest.
The Philippine Saints were to manifest uninterrupted.
Integrity in all their dealings if they were to attract others to their faith.
There to maintain honest things and it tells us in the.
Crystals and the corresponding Chapter 8.
In verse 21, providing for honest things, the apostles said to the Corinthian Saints not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. How important is it? Not only in the sight of the Lord, he says, but also in the sight of men.
That's very important, isn't it? And so the apartment will bring them back before them. And to attract others for their faith, they must be honest in all their dealings. How important that is. I'm not only toward God, but toward men, and he speaks of just things.
Well, the blessed Lord Jesus was the just one who dying across the unjust that takes us to Christ and just things. Where do we find just things in Him?
In the Lord Jesus Christ this world is unjust in all its demons.
We find that the message one is the just one, Yes, the one who died for you and me, the unjust to bring us to God. Well, He is a Gnostic force and the just one and just things.
Two and be bringing this according then speaks of what's on the things are pure.
Pure awareness.
Reminds me of a horse and Psalm 119 again.
I believe the 1St 140.
Yes, 100 verse 104 is Psalm 119. Thy word is very few up.
Very sure.
And to another verse I can get him alone is in the farm is in the words of the Lord are pure words as still the tribe in the furnace of earth Fury hide 7 diners, perhaps one. The brothers may know that he's not forgotten alone and from the early sounds the words of the Lord are pure words.
Still, the pride in the furnace of earth purifies 7 times. That's how pure. The word of God is. Absolutely pure. Everything around us is impure. But here's something pure.
And it says in Psalm 119, verse four is, I worry very few of therefore thy servant love of it. And the apostle brings before them then these pure things. He wants them to be occupied with pure things.
Not using first two that we might look at in proverbs chapter 30 I think.
Yes. Proverbs 13, verse five. Every word of God is pure. He's a shield of the member. Put that trust in him. Every word of God is pure. How precious. This is good to realize a business, and it's the very thing that man wants to destroy.
And always seek to discredit the word of God. And yet every word is pure oil, precious that he comes from a pure sauce comes from God himself. That's why it's pure. Many things come from impure sources, and we cannot expect them to be pure.
But here is something which is very pure. Then he says. Whatsoever things are lovely.
The Apostle Paul, one of the Philippian Saints, to be occupied with lovely things, Lovely things. Where are we to find it again? In the word of God?
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I'm not only in the world by then the person of Christ He did the altogether lovely one. You see that to you. And being he should be the cheapest among 10,000 altogether lovely. 1 The apostles said, think about lovely things. Not think about the pathway with all this trials, but think about these things. And he says, the peace of God will Harrison your heart, and the God of peace will be with you.
How precious is it, and how simple, yet how important. So then you and I had to be taken up of the lovely things, and that blessed one, the Lord Jesus Christ, is altogether lovely.
And we soon to realize the truth of that in all its perfection and fullness, when we see him face to face.
All the love at one moment to anticipate didn't to see the Lord Jesus face to face.
The one that we have read about so often and have expressed these words. He is the altogether loving one, soon to see him and all his loveless and beauty. The man of Calvary, the rejected Son of God, and yet highly exalted by his power, and still rejected by so many. But all of them object. He is for our mouth now.
I'm He'll be the only opposite for all eternity. So I feel the love of Saints of God that if he's not sufficient as an object now.
Do you think you'll be sufficient out there? Well, he will. But he should be now. He should be now. He will be there, but he should be now.
And I think it's not the so logic of our house. Our house is divided.
Where turn some other out here?
And to me, you know, it's a backhanded blow in the face of the blessed Savior if we turn from that satisfying object of Christ to this whole world. What a wound in the House of His friends, the one who went on the desk and walked us with His blood, to turn from him and turn to the things of the world as much as the same. Lord, if you do not sacrifice fully, I must have another object. I want a little bit of the world.
How Stalin has Santa Fe is, and yet we see it all around us today is going on.
Many women openly say that.
But their actions would convey the thought that they're not fully satisfied with the Christmas. He's altogether lovely, you see that to you and me. Well, he should be, and he will be in eternal. But I say again that lovely should be now, to me and to you.
And so he brings with all of these lovely things and then the 6th one he says things of good report.
Upon they were to think upon them and to give them their attention, and they are to practice them because of the influence they would have to others. They are to think about them and practice them. And so he says here, what sort of things are good report where we have things of good reform?
From the word of God, can we have a better report on this one? The Blessed Lord says, I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there he may be altered. Is that a good report?
I don't know a better one. I'm sure you do. Not either. That's the best report I've ever heard of in my life.
Report from the midst of my blessed, loving Savior that he's gone to prepare a place for me and he's soon coming for me to take me there to enjoy it. If pastor says think about things of good report.
How willing we are often to turn a listening ear to evil reports and to and to circulate and repeat them. It's sad that we have to admit it's true often.
But the Apostle said, if you think about things of good recall, and I am sure not only should the Philippians Saints think about these things, but God wants us to think about them too, and will have the same lesson, experience that they would enjoy The peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through thy Jesus, and in God a feature shall be with you. I feel sure that's the only way to enjoy the peace of God and all its fullness.
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To be occupied with Christ and all these good things. And you're right in here.
And these are the things that the Apostle brought before the Philippians.
He said. You think about the evil.
Good report all their lots of glory thoughts in the word of God. Mountain. The good recall to was when God sent his beloved Son down into this world to seek and to save the last. What a report, John through 16 and many others Are they good reports? Indeed they are. And there are many reports in connection with the Lord's coming for us to take us home. They're all good reports and these reports would lift us for love at about the circumstances of the pathway.
And they would encourage our hearts to press on toward thee goal. Yes, towards the goal. How precious to know that there is a goal before it. Yes, one time, everyone of us here.
Were hillbound worthy. But now thank God we have home without home with thou, and whilst we are homeward bound, we need an object to lift on humps about the circumstances and the trying hard way. And so God in his infinite love has given us an argument.
And I love to think of it. And I've said it so many times, and I say again, I trust you, bear with me.
God gives us the same object as the one who satisfies his heart.
His obvious Christ is Beloved Son.
Yes, a blessed one, whoever dwelt in the bosom of power.
He is God's office. The Father's outlook is Christ, and God the Father has given you and me the same argument for our house as we journey through this wilderness, and not only as we journey through here, but He will be our object for all eternity.
What an artist. The love Christian.
That less of loving precious savings who loves us even unto death. We can never, never know what we can do to Calvary on our behalf. We can never know he stumbled on a kind of our sin and sinners.
We can never know any suffered of the hands of wicked men. We can never know he suffered at the hands of a holy God.
When God made him Jesus to be sin for us, who knew no Sinner that we might be, made the righteousness of God in him.
Or have one of the faith. I love the fingers. I know. Usual too. But we're so enjoy the scene as of being with him, not to hear those awful solemn words with us from thee. I never knew you. No, the whole line of children which thou hast given me is soon going both and more to be with the one who loved us so much, and the one who will satisfy us then.
Throughout eternity.
And I sang again, He should be the soul of it now.
And so then I believe from much more in the chapter we could look at but might spread one of the larger to speak much more time is good.
Just like we dwell from our numbers through aspects of Christ again, they're so good.
In the first chapter of Christ the 1St.
Verse 21.
We all have a progress in life.
Bobby's My car was in life. Christ.
Prevents the challenge to my own heart.
And the second chapter, Christ the pattern, Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ's Jesus. This is the mind of falsest, the mind that within Christ Jesus, let it be in your truth manifest that yourselves. Did the apostle Paul do that? Yes, he did.
He manifested many of the graces of Christ.
And then the third chapter.
41St Christ, the prize.
Pride. I pressed toward the mark of the cries of the high form entirely. Christ Jesus.
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Lesson 11 Whose our Fridays now and we'll be all eternity, will be on display there in the glory. Think of it, our prides and the glory of Christ and Siri. How wonderful.
And then to the 4th chapter, verse 13, Christ of Power.
And in the 19th verse, Christ of revision, the power of the provision, how wonderful. And they're all found in Christ Jesus, our blessed Lord, well beloved. May the Lord oblige His word to our house that we too not only the Bolivian Saints, but that we too might be occupied with these lovely things.
What sort of things are true? What sort of things are honest? Whatsoever things are just whatsoever. Things are pure. Whatsoever things are lovely. Whatsoever things are good. Report if there be any virtue, if there be any praise. Think on these things.
And undoubtedly there are other things, too. With the apostle Paul hadn't exhausted the list by any means, but he gives them enough to think upon, and he has plenty for you and me to think upon, too. And you enjoy as we journey on toward our.
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Lonely Lord.