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General meeting, Toronto, April 1965 Reading meeting Saturday PM.
189.
1, 119.
Think about breathing into the next chapter.
How far?
I thought of the 1St, 7th birthday.
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We're trying to.
In the body of his plan through them to prevent you fully monopoly and unapproved in his fight.
If you continue in the faith ground unsettled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel which she occurs, and her preached every preacher which is under heaven for all I fall and made a minister.
Now rejoice in my suffers for you. I'm still up after his behind of the affliction of Christ in my words for his body shape, which is the Church for all our maiden ministers, according to this temptation of God, which is given to me for you to fulfill the word of God.
In the mystery, which has been kids from ages and majorities.
But now it made manifest to his face his own God will make no What is the richest or withdrawing this mystery among the Gentiles were killed. Christ in you the hope of glory.
So we preach warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom to be represent every man person is in Christ Jesus.
Well do I also labor driving according to his work which worketh in need? Might be chapter 2.
For all word that you knew was great conflict I have for you, and available at this year, and as many as of not in my face, in the flesh, but their hearts make it comfortable. They live together in love under all riches of the foolish original understanding to the acknowledgement of the mysteries of all and of the Fathers and the Christ.
In whom I hid all the treasures of wisdom and promise.
From this library that any match of the God with enticing word for the Lord, the average in the flesh in the mind miss you of the Spirit.
Joy and the holier order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
As he has therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord.
So walking in brilliant and built up in him and established in the faith.
As they have been called a boundary with sanction.
Where is any mouth for you? True philosophy and vain deceit, as the tradition of nature after the element of the world, and not after Christ.
There's a myth. It's the question of human beings, even believers at the 23rd.
No, it was considering the Lord.
23rd.
Jennifer.
Is cutting off the work of Christ?
You have to remember their incentives between the work of Christ before us and the work of the Spirit of God in US. And it's the word right for us. So if whatever that's that's a complete final word. I'm thinking as you were reading this, brother Ginya.
How definitely the Spirit of God brings the death of Christ.
Over all the philosophies that we try to explain a way of whether no the Lord has a real human body or not.
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So I've had a visa here and even arithmetic these days well kept your shoulders, but he was a real man.
The body of his flesh had a body of flesh by killing me and through death showing that the one who became a real man, this seed, the one who died on the cross, in order to complete this work and to bring us.
Into all the souls of laughing.
That is spoken of unblameable and unrecoverable in his sight.
We decided that the death of Christ is the end of all that we were as natural men for in the 409 became irritated in his mind, and then artful. Going on in his sins, he got farther and farther away from God. The work of Christ not only took up the question of our sins, but this is beautiful in the body of His flash through death.
Because the death of Christ is the end of our standing in the first Adam. And so it says to present you wholly. That's the nature we have a nature now by which we can enjoy all that's in the heart of God and make sure that delights and holiness.
And unblameable and unrecovable not only our sins, God, you know the present, but how wonderful this thing that we will that we have a nature perfectly suited to that scene of glory which we are soon to enter. And so I believe the thought of holy has to do with the nature and then unbelievable and unrecovable. No charge can be laid against us because the work of Christ has.
Several sins too.
I like the way the little hen puts it, the look within and see no stains abroad, no curse to trade which had no tears to be a little pain, but see these face to face. I just like to say it all and I believe it. The truth of reconciliation.
Is so important for us, and if we get hold of us, we'll see that when we enter there, it will not be a strange place. We have already been reconciled. They were all strangers. God shall make faith.
The diary says we should never weaken the if the scripture.
We have an important.
California may be just a mere professor.
All of our young people brought up in the truth heard the gospel.
And.
They have gone through no exercise.
It might be just.
Rest in fall for faith, never having really accepted prices, their favor, never having really been thought present about their sins. well-being kids are intended to disturb those in such a condition.
I was told of a young lady of brother said to her.
That are you saved?
Why? I noticed it. Well, you said, can you quote John 316 to me? He quoted it right off. He learned some funny schools to play it perfectly because he didn't believe it. Why? Certainly, he says. Why then he says, you're saying.
Well it's all the brothers been meeting about this young lady that had accepted the Lord and the Baptizers to replace the Lords table. Later on she had a very severe illness, played low and this young woman got into the presence of God and discovered that she was a foreign Law Center and was truly.
Brought to respect Christ as her personal failure.
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Well, there may be money and not faith that's not at work as well as intended to exercise.
All we need to remember that the scripture never would exercise or form a doubt in the minds of anyone who is have truly come to Christ and is trusting in that blessed one will know the value of the shed blood of Christ. Shifter never was raised upon that was for a moment.
Bring up here for doubt, the mind is but but for any who are just mere professors, and they there may be many among us that means that have just a word to disturb their consequences. Have we ever really been in the presence of God? Have we ever really felt our needs of a failure?
If I just agree with that Brother Eric yes, the gift here then was the question of whether it was a real work of the Spirit of God or a mere profession. It would fly. One would just a mere profession. Why they would not continue, but where there was a real word for God, it wouldn't be any question answer.
Not the same thing in the beginning of the third chapter.
Are you riding of Christ? Well then you're going to seek those things that are above. But if you're not, but you see things on earth.
It isn't a question of the.
One who has really been born again continuing, but one who has not.
In this puppy third verse if he continued in the faith.
It doesn't say if they continue in faith with someone. Explain that to us for the sake of the art. I'm curious and I think you have in your mind that would be helpful.
Well, would it be the truth and the revelation to the?
That has been presented 2 hours in God words four things to lay hold of. Would that be in there?
Or is it the deeper than that? Wouldn't you say that when the?
But it's more of a the doctrine, but it's it's not just stopping health intellectually, but if a doctrine or the truth held in the world and faith. That's why I believe it's it's doctrine, but elderly.
Every hour they were gone.
There there's No 5 distinction between these faiths and faith. Faith is believing what God has shown in His Word.
That's all right. The first chance of Luke and the first verse.
Without help.
Or as much as many have taken in time to set forth an order of declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us.
Even if they delivered among us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the world.
On the Apostle Paul says, I have kept the faith, I bought the good fight. Well, that was what had been committed to him. He had conducted his life accordingly and practically laid down his life.
The footnote in the new translation is or in faith that is in full assurance of heart in the gospel. I believe it's important to that it's in the heart. It's not just in the head and how we know that it's in the heart. Well, one has enjoyed that little first and first Peter chapter 2 unto you, therefore, which believe he is precious.
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And if one has really believed in his heart, the Lord Jesus is precious to him. It says in First Corinthians 16, if any man loves not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be enough of Maranatha, that is, let him be a curse, the Lord cometh. I mentioned that because there might be a young believer here this afternoon and he wondered, do I believe in my head, or do I believe in my heart?
I confess that it bothered me as a young man, but that verse has been a great help to me. The way that we know whether it's in the heart is that the heart goes out in affection to the person of the Lord Jesus. And if you are really his, you have a nature that enjoys the presence of God. You have a nature that responds to the precious name of the Lord Jesus. He's precious to you.
And if not?
You only have profession and.
I might say to you that there's one thing that a real believer cannot do. He can never give up or deny Christ. And that's why it says if he continue in the faith, continue once is the proof of reality and a real Christian never forgive up Christ.
Is then part.
And then there elsewhere the obedience of faith, to read in the first chapter Rome, the obedience of faith to all nations. If there is true faith, there is a desire in the heart to do those things. That is our phasing to the one who stages.
For when all partners were sticking down on the road to the back at hater despisers.
Of the Lord Jesus, the first thing you said is, Lord, possible thou have me to do.
All there was a divine nature there desired to do the will of the Lord or when one is true is born again. Why you'll be let me have a desire now to please let me that have pleasant and you're not trusting in.
I have. I have thought it might be helpful.
You'll consider these kinds of tips because there there are other kinds of disks.
Where there's no uncertainty about it, but in these kinds of gifts that.
They belong to the wilderness testing.
And they do prove that you suggested that a hole the reality.
Now in the eighth of John, verse 32.
A word 31 I should say.
The Warriors said.
I believe he still.
Address things sound very questionable ones in this chapter eight of my yes verse 13 the Pharisees notice they were following him in the way and there were others that were following him.
No, he said to those Jews. That's the point right there, He said to those Jews which believed on him.
I believe that there's a mere outward profession. They're bleeding, he says. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed?
Chapter 6 shows that there are those that the Lord Jesus knew were not free for in verse 34.
And 64, he said. But there are some of you that believe not.
Or Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not and who should betray him.
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Verse 66. From that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.
Now that was proving that they were not continuing.
And that they were not real.
So the itch of that sort are testing that are here in the wilderness. Now to prove the reality again, let us look in Hebrews chapter 3.
And verse.
14.
For we are made partakers of Christ is we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast down to the end.
Now there's another of that sort that if we are to continually through that there is reality with us.
In the case of the Colossians, the apostles.
Knew the circumstances of these philosophies and fleshly religions that were around them.
And he assures them in verse 23 that if he continues in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away.
Like many philosophies from the hope of the gospel which you have heard and which is preached to every creature, and so on.
At first, bring them the First Ministry of.
I mentioned yesterday, I think it was.
As we get 3 double S in this first chapter of Colossians, we get 2 head ships. We get 2 reconciliations.
And then we get 2 ministries.
Well, we've been considering.
The two hedges today, the two reconciliations, and now we're coming to the two ministries.
And the end of this 23rd verse.
Be there with your earth and with you for free to every creature which is under heaven, whereof I, Paul, made a minister.
So all that man, a minister of the gospel.
To carry the precious message of foundation.
Wherever he found sinners in this world, no longer was God's grace in any way confined to one nation like Israel, but it was sent out to a whole world of lost sinners.
Paul had a special permission to carry that gospel, and we can see how mightily God used him in connection with the gospel for those cities in Asia, over in Europe, Macedonian, Greece.
For the four of the waivers of the Apostle Paul carrying the gospel to leave Heathen City.
In the fifth verse we have the truth of the Gospel.
In verse 23 we have the hope of the gospel. I'd like to discuss, given that I'm not appearance quite clear on it myself.
Well, here we finally get a naughty question. We ask whether errors when we get help.
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By far, that's going all, though.
Well, I would say the truth of the gospel in that sense word Robert, I would say that the truth of the gods when that fifth verse refers to what we have in Christ, in that he said, I am the truth, the way, and the light and the truth is the God who is set before all we might say the facts to the gospel.
Well, on the hope of the God, who would seem to me refer to more than that when she had awakened the fulfilling her, which goes beyond this scene.
It was a certain things that are for this life and that's what is yet to come.
Connection with this which is preached to every preacher which was preached to every preacher which is under heaven.
It is not the mind of God that there should be a special effort for one nation only either. Whatever the gospel is preached, it should be for all. The Lord Jesus said, 55 He lifted up from the earth, till it will draw all men unto me.
And I believe in these days where there is a tendency toward nationalism and efforts made in connection with one nation, we should never forget that the gospel is for whosoever will. And if you open the place to preach the gospel, don't make it out to be a mission to some particular nation, it's to whosoever will. In the end of the Acts, we see Paul.
Is that he received all. Amen unto him.
He had spoken to the Jews. They had rejected it. Now the door was open, and whosoever will, and I believe this is the present position of the testimony of the gospel in the world, it is for whosoever will, regardless of their nationality.
I don't have enjoyed the clothes in the second chapter of Mars about the the four that took that man that was sick of the policy for the Creek of the Lord Jesus is a type of the Holy Spirit going to the fore corner of the earth to bring full Sinner to the feet of the Lord Jesus. I have enjoyed that talk. You know the fall that took the man speak with the policy at the feet of the same. I believe that it's a type of the Holy Spirit.
Going to the forefront of the earth to bring forth sinners to the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ. We only want that is able to benefit.
Following connection with their being different nations.
Well, the different nations don't approach problems for Spain and it has been said for instance, that the Latins don't think like the Anglo-Saxon. In fact not long royal brother in South America he referred to that, but they were inclined to be a little more impulsive. Well the answer was that we have one by the law and we have one Teacher, the Holy Spirit.
Well, it's been marvelously proven that the gospel of the needs of every nation, every.
Every color, no matter what their circumstances may be.
God will have been carried in the way Isles of the Seas where they were cannibals from a low cannibals came straight forward of the Lord Jesus. I read in the light upon the heart thing upon a man that led him to a cave, where he showed him the tile of human born.
Any hope for a man like that?
Then he he assured him that Christ came to faith sinners the preach the gospel of that man. He was saved.
Or true that whether it's accountable or whether it's the, whether it's the king or the queen, it's the same gospel for one and all.
I think it was Prince Albert the wife, the husband of Queen Victoria, and he was on his deathbed, someone remarked to him what a mortal man was, what a fine life he lived.
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What a wonderful Prince he had been, he replied. I'm not paid because I'm a friend, but I'm paid because I'm a poor Sinner who accepted Christ as my faith.
Doesn't this also show, too, that there is no person or group of people that have a particular dialysis that which is under them? But here we see that an ascended Christ can raise up and send forth whomsoever he will, and the sphere of the Gospel parish or the dial says, is the whole world.
There wherever the whatever the gospel is.
Down the floor the Spirit of God may use different ones, and it doesn't come in under any particular person. Indeed, this is the more remarkable here because Paul had never visited colossi at all. And there he is ministering to them the truth of God, because they were part of that which those who had been saved by the energy of the Spirit of God, and he feels a burden for them.
The thinking Brother Barry, how wonderful and blessed it is, as we have in Revelations 5 and 10. For thou was slain and #deemed to God by thy blood, out of every injury and tongue, and people and nations hold the Spirit of God, and the Word of God has reached everywhere.
And bring dear ones to himself.
A new vaccine about When we sing the song with the redeemed, we'll see them and meet them all.
You now rejoice in my suffering, you, and fill up that with behind of the affliction of Christ in my place where his body's faked, in the Church, wherever I made a minister.
All we have brought before us the second ministry of the Apostle Paul, and that is the ministry to the church.
And that ministry caused the powerful the greatest suffering that he ever went through in his laborers and serving Christ down here.
But getting rejoiced and.
Because he falls with blessings, but happiness brought the soul, and he could rejoice even though it it falls in imprisonment and starts bombs and.
And being known and all around, still alarmed, rejoicing as he falls, made by grace, just filled his heart with delight. And the suffering meant.
The blessing of God for others.
Like to think of this fashion year, what he says Joyce and my suffering for you to fill up that which is behind of the affliction of Christ in my flesh for his body. The Lord when he was here on this earth is a man, he suffered and he glorified God in all his walks.
He was justified in the Spirit and everything that he did, but he's not on high. And he wanted someone to follow out that pattern, having Christ in glory before the church for his body stayed here in this world. And so he chose the apostle Paul for that service.
When you say then brother Aaron's life, the Lord Jesus.
Take all of my friends.
In connection with the blessing of God, the sinners in this world, but he left certain sufferings behind.
For His people and for those who serve in the law. But there was a special character of suffering that he left for the apostle Paul. That is, the Lord didn't suffer for the church's gulf when he was here.
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Because the church is God has not yet come into investment. That's true. That belongs to the church has not yet been revealed at that time.
Of course, when we think of the Lord's doctrine, they were beyond.
Any human suffering no one ever suffered as our blessed Lord, as you get in lamentations.
Come see if there be any sorrow like uncle my sorrow.
We don't intend in any way you'll diminish the thought of thought. Our blessed failure has endured suffering. For in His sufferings on the frog He put away our sins. But what we're speaking about at this moment is a faithful character of something that He left behind.
For the Apostle Paul.
Or when the bottle was raised up, why he was given this ministry to bring out the truth that Christ out of the body.
And that body is composed of both Jew and Gentile. That's a little roll. That separated Jew and Gentile. If you get in Ephesians 3 is broken down to make it himself of 11 Newman.
Be so, then Paul went up to Jerusalem.
And the end of the book of Acts. Why was it that there was this patron who are Tim and you don't find the same hatred toward the other Apollo. Well, the reason is simply this that all of the preaching the truth of the church and that offended the the proud Jews who wanted to have the first swing always wave weapons of thought.
That just how that he looked at it just as all would have just as many privileges and brought into justice honorable position as himself. Well last teared up the enmity and hatred of the Jews and led to the apostle being made appraiser nearly beaten to death there in Jerusalem and his year of suffering.
At home, where the results not of his preaching the gospel.
Preaching the truth of the Church.
Who would distinguish? Of course, and I know you are intending to distinguish between the anointing suffering of their complete There is nothing that can be added to that from the Lord Jesus said on the cross, it is finished. That was the work of redemption once and for all complete, whether it was for the redeemed of Israel.
Or the church, but it's not suffering connected with the telling forth of the truth. The Lord Jesus suffered in the telling 4th of the truth is man here those sufferings that he endured at the hands of man. Paul endured things at the hands of man too, and he speaks of that. I believe in this. I just wondered if we should make that point clear if we look at the 15th of Romans. I thought perhaps that.
Thanks this little spot clear Romans 15 and verse 8.
Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers. And now in the 16th verse, that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
The Lord Jesus that I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the House of Israel, but our brother remarked Christ now and glory. He raises up one to bring the truth to the Gentile all gospel and in telling about this he suffered, but it wasn't in that sense personal suffering, but he was filling up that which was behind the sufferings of Christ.
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But it was in his heart.
That church that blessed, he loved the Church and gave himself for it, but it was given to call to be the one who should tell us, Minister thy blessed truth. And he suffered 4 Christ in the coming out of this.
And it's a lovely thought that it was the afflictions of Christ in his body.
Dutch in 19 chapter of Max Thinking of that brother in the ninth of Acts.
And that's Ananias.
15th and 16th verses.
But the Lord said unto him, Throw thy way, for he is a chosen vessel unto me. Bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and children of Israel. Well, I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
That's not a phoning stuff. What is this at all? We also have a verse in Second Timothy chapter 2 and verse 10.
Second Timothy.
I.
After speaking about suffering for the word of God in the previous verse, it says, Therefore I endure all things.
For the elect sake, for the elect state, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus.
With eternal glory.
In the third of Philippians, the box of Paul says that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, the Felicity suffering being made conformable on his death.
Well, it's been said by that does not embrace the atoning success, but he would.
Go eat him on the Tesco or that part's concerned. He does fellowship with Christ in all his suffering but the Dome of the part. He would even go on a desk that I might know the power of his resurrection, the one who bring him out of that. And so he speaks of that, does he not in in the Second Corinthians in the 4th chapter.
Bearing about the Body, the dying of the Lord Jesus.
Nobody could witness the accounting substance of tries to think.
Jesus says he survived with no other language there by the witness of the stopping the crime. Well, he was here on earth, but he did witness some of the suffering of Christ. But when it's a question of the suffering of death and Hebrews 2, you do not find people there.
Well, God cast a veil of darkness over this world when his Son was suffering there on the cross or sin.
Of darkness which no human eye could penetrate. And my God was dealing with his beloved Son as the question of the sin allows sin. Nobody witnessed that scene. God himself, he wouldn't allow the world to see that.
Nor could he go on instead and thinking of the beautiful type that we have left the tip in the Old Testament or wherever him when he was commanded of God who partly stones. We read a very significant statement that went along the servants that were left behind that went along.
To the phrase.
Abraham was supposed to offer his son sacrifice.
These closing days of the Church's history, we who belong to the Lord are called to suffer with Him.
Let us look at Romans 8 and 17.
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And this children then heirs, heirs of God, joined heirs with Christ.
If so, be that we suffer with Him, that we may also, that we may be also glorified together. I remember you gave us something nice on that in Detroit.
I just recall what it was used kind of construction. So no one comes to God that says let's go on. If so be that we that we suffer with him into.
Explain that to her.
I don't recall I said that.
We suffer 4 crimes when we speak out and confess his name but we suffer with him even if we didn't say anything because we love him and when we hear his name spoken again it hurts inside whether we speak or not. When you love someone and you hear someone speak against that person by inwardly you suffer and in that way you suffer with them.
But if you speak out and say that it has hurt you, then you suffer for them. Elders both isn't there. Peter speaks of both suffering with Christ and suffering for Christ.
Well, I'm sure that the thought was called suffering for his friend who they attended for that third year. They please stand firm for the truth that caused him so much suffering. We'll find a character suffering ourselves to find prediction because the the religious world.
Or you might say Christmas.
Approval of the dirt, the gospel may become quite popular. You can even have a social gospel. They may be much that is intended to Ralph Cole bring them to a knowledge of Christ their Savior. But when you preach the truth of the church, what it is to be members of the body of Christ.
Knighted to the head of and headed glory to carry out.
Practically, the truth that has given us as to the way that hurts function. Battle the body of Christ and you'll find that in prison that will not be acceptable.
Just to kill our newest trick years ago.
Found near where I was raised, raising the Harlem.
Our brother, SP Brown flown health consensus meetings there.
Now people were thought would have more of life meeting an hour ahead, sit on a bench without a back to hear the dog. And when the meeting started, Pence was crowded the whole lot where he spoke, and people were on the street lifting to the gospel. Later on, he began to preach the truth of the jury.
People would walk across the street to hear you. Why was that different?
Along with.
Crowds not to say that dog wasn't blessing the dog.
But it showed when the truth of the Church is brought clearly and perfectly before so.
They don't want it.
All the people you know, they were all anxious to get their friends safe. All they were couldn't understand how anyone could attend those meetings would not hinder the birds. But when the things word of God was brought before them as to a place where the Lord has put his name, they were just as unwilling and even Christians were just as unwilling to expect the plain truth of dark words being.
Coming out five of the camps and being gathered, the Lord's name of the sinners they condemned were unwilling to accept the gospel, their salvation.
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The Congress meeting follow up work after the tech work is over.
Sometimes the Brother Albert Hales, Brother Wakefield and others have been down there. It's lovely to see the faces of dear ones that have been saved light up when you speak of the Lord coming. Perhaps they've never heard of it before.
And the truth that our life is hit with Christ and God, but when we get to the part of the truth that you've been Speaking of, gathered who are ejected Christ in separation from the world. Oh, there isn't in some cases thankful. There are some that go on, but in some cases you see a change.
The Flex doesn't like it.
Is it because of the notebook of manifestation there and testimony through the discourse?
All the enemy does all he can to hinder a Sinner from coming to Christ, but he also does all he can after we have been saved to hinder us from enjoying the blessedness of following Christ and obedience. Well, the truth of gathering is indeed important, but there are many things that I'm sure each one of us can apply to our own lives. Are we fully in submission to the Word of God?
If we are, why we're curving in a deeper measure the enjoyment of what we what is our portion in Christ? Well, May God grant them. We'll battle the gospel value, the privilege of being gathered to His precious name, but also walk in our own personal lives and the enjoyment of all that has been made known to us. For as He goes on, we see that that is brought before us in a practical way.
We we may be in the knowledge of being guided to the Lords name, but are we walking in the enjoyment of the back? Christ in you, the hope of glory.
In Hebrews 13 those familiar words. Let us go forth therefore unto Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach. For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Well, there is a reproach connected with following Christ the rejected 1 outside the camp. Well the camp I believe in scripture.
As it is especially brought to forest here is when men make the truth of God Poplar through the natural man. That becomes a camp, and the men don't like it if you don't go on with them in there. So there is a reproach connected with us. Well, that's been spoken out as a social gospel. Seems to me to fit in with what follows here we have no continuing city.
A continuing city.
Would be endeavor to make this world better and I should place the bed and all like that. The church is looked at as a continuing city. We are filled with the sojourners here in the scene. We're expecting the Lord to come and take us out of this state.
You know to take off. It's much easier to say when people ask you where you go. Oh, I go to Gospel Mall.
I know when I was young myself.
Got the coach, It was easy to say. Tell them I'm done with the name of Lord Jesus Christ.
The collection of the structure of the following 14th of Hebrews.
Three other scriptures which have been held for my trust and may be an helpful for the young people here.
As jealous as far as the imperative, we find man's first of all called a syllabus.
A wicked Sinner, and next to the 1313 we find that lattice be received with a laugh.
And Leviticus 1313 we find that the effort to now flee. So now where is the clean magic of Hebrews 1313?
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It's quite easy to remember.
1330 in each page, but in the last one we have let us go forth, therefore, under Him, without the can, bearing His reproach. We have 14 words in the verse, and He's in the dead center of it.
It has been very precious and I think it should have helped the young people.
Scriptures.
Well, we have another important word in the end of the 25th part, and that is to complete the word of God.
And might require one of that seed.
Now you notice that I quoted that as it is in the new prime place not to fulfill the Word of God, but to complete the Word of God.
When the truth of the mystery of Christ in the church was revealed to the Apostle Paul, the word of God, as far as the substance that God has in His word for man were complete. That doesn't mean that they were not other books to be written.
After Paul wrote the last because there's no doubt that John's writing.
And we have in the Book of Revelation.
What relate to events far beyond falls time and back beyond the first period. But that is not another subject, in fact, the revelation as to the judgment coming on the earth.
And the restoration of Israel, the setting up of the Kingdom here on earth and the blessing that will be connected with it.
As a subject that you'll find all the way through the prophets in the old death, but you'll not find the subject of the Church of God in the Old Testament. And to get any visions that it was hit from ages, from generations.
And is now made known through his only apostles and power.
That was a new revelation and when the truth of the Church was.
Given to the apostle Paul, the Word of God was complete. There's no further subject to ever be introduced in connection with God's ways.
In this world and his dealings with man, there will never be another revelation. The Word of God is absolutely and positively complete.
Would you say that the apostle Paul chemistry in.
Bringing in the truth of the church carried us right on down to the eternal state. As we get friends of First Corinthians, he brings in there the hope of the Lord's coming, carrying his own down to that, and then he in a few words there he speaks about.
The millennial state and he takes it on down to the eternal state. Well, then the other riding fell in detail, so to speak.
What goes in between?
You say it doesn't mean he wrote the last word of the trip.
So by you may see a word for young people about these headings and go testing the station right there here one here in the 33rd chapter says God comfort from church.
It's been said that there is also football heading and stricture. They gave all the curses to the Jews, took all the blessings for the church.
But that isn't fair, isn't it? Is a poor jewel. All the curses take all the blessings for ourselves. Absolutely inconsistent. They were fact, as we well know.
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And they're, they'll have it made clear to me. So the young.
You still not find the truth of the church in the Old Testament of the soul. It wasn't revealed at that time. But first, if you'd like to look at it and be it for yourself in the third chapter of Ephesians.
They accept first of you being free, which in other ages was not made known of the sons of men as it is now. What is that now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit? Oh, look, that the Gentile is the fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ for the daughter.
When he takes in the beginning of that third chapter about.
All that third person, all that by revelation he made known of me, the mystery as I wrote before, and few words. You just look back to the second chapter and you see there what he is speaking about.
Or he felt.
In the 14 the 14th, 1St.
For He is our peace, who have made both one and have broken down the middle wall partition.
Between us, that is, that war that separated you and Gentile was broken down.
So that all may become one body in Christ. Don't find nothing about in the Old Testament. It's made clear there that it was not revealed.
In those times and then again you get.
Farther down on the 3rd chapter.
We have the 9th person to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the world have been hitting dogs.
It was here we created all things by Jesus Christ.
That is meaning, I take it, of being hidden, God. That is, you do not get any property in the Old Testament about the church. We do find that it was hidden as far as pipe shuttles were concerned. Well, the very first Bible, the Bible is Adam taking heed for his pride and saying.
This is born of my bone and flesh of my flesh impossible uses that and the fossil decisions when he felt I showed a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church. So you do get all those beautiful types.
You've already mentioned in the 24th Genesis preservative went find the bride for Ivy. Well, there's the church, hidden and tight, but not in property.
Well, the flights of the of the broad and the flight flights of the house, but we don't have the place of the body.
That, I think is our brother Barry has said we do not have direct prophecy concerning the Church.
In the second chapter of our Colossians here I just would like to call attention to the second verse rated in the new translation. To the end that their hearts may be encouraged, being united together in love and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God in in which are hidden.
All the trainers of wisdom and knowledge, connecting that with what we have read to complete the Word of God. I believe it's well for us to see that one who does not understand the truth of the church is not able to put together the rest of God's Word.
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The picture is complete when the truth of the church is made known. It'd be just like you have a a jigsaw puzzle.
You only have part of the piece as well. You can't get the picture altogether. Then you get them all. Now you have the complete picture. And until the truth of the church was made known, the revelation, the divine Canon was not complete. But when Paul by the Spirit made known the truth of the church, now all the secrets that are in the heart of God have been told out and.
One who does not see this as we have in this second chapter, in which or wherein are his all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. And much of the confusion that is in the mind of Christians in connection with understanding the Bible is because they don't understand the truth of the church, and they're not able to put together the teachings of the Old Testament with the New.
A sometimes illustrated it's like this.
Dropped into someone's home and there's a man in right there, but I don't know they're mad and white. I can't understand the actions and all have gone in the home but as soon as I find out who they are, why, the whole manner of conduct and the way the home is run is immediately solved to me. And those who do not see the truth of the church never get an understanding of God's ways and the enemy will try to keep.
The faith of God from getting hold of this precious truth.
And they study the Bible and study the Bible and study the Bible, and they haven't got the great secret where in our head all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, and we can put together, as our brother Harrison remarked, all the counties of God right up to the eternal faith.
All of this precious truth because there are two circles of blessings. The heavenly blessings are the heavenly people of which the Church of the Center, and the earthly blessing of an earthly people of which Israel are the center. And these two distinct purposes of God are made known, but cannot be understood until we understand this wonderful secret of the truth of the Church.
What you say after the what we've been speaking about through the church, but the Lord only mentions it twice in his ministry and forget future and then he also said I have many things to stand here, but you cannot bear them now and then he speaks to the Holy Spirit come, but when he has come, he will show you the things to come guidance lawsuit and show you the things to come.
Well, then, we have the Spirit of God coming the day of Pentecost, but the time wasn't yet so for the revelation of the real truth of the Church, the mystery, the door was held open for the Jews, who still receives in the style he refers to, that a third of the acts that if they resented, he would send it. Well, then we find that it goes on.
Then in the 7th chapter of the act, Stephen is strong and he charges them with resisting the Holy Spirit.
Well then the door is closed, so to speak, for them as a nation. And then we do have in the 8th chapter the gospel going to Samaritan. Then in the 9th chapter, why the Lord raises up a new vessel, that is the Apostle Paul.
To learn and we find him find later then too, that the Lord sets aside Jerusalem as the center of these activities and he transfers it to Antioch. Gentiles that he from which the ministry, the apostle Paul went forth.
Perhaps one of the younger people might be helped by a word on the meaning of the word mystery.
It doesn't mean something mysterious that you can't ever understand.
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It simply means.
Secrets. But it's secret that is revealed.
Perhaps this is the best word but to be initiated.
Royal Masonry, They are the sacred placement.
Well, they only give me secret to move of a certain degree.
But those who are given these secrets, why they're nothing.
That they can't understand about it, but they have to be in a certain position, they have to be brought into the into this system.
These mysteries we get in structure are for those who really lay hold of the truth.
Doesn't call a man in the world.
The only man in the world got hold of it in the opinion you have no power to walk but those who really have the Lord, who desire to please the Lord for these things.
Become important and structural.
Well, I believe our brother Hazel used to say that the natural man could not get the truth.
As to God, as to Christ, as to church, from the Scriptures itself could not get it. It takes care of God really good. He said that he might read some book to somebody's written by and get the truth of that way in his head, but he could never get it from the Scripture itself.
I was enjoying the Kohl's brothers with what you say in connection with Abraham and indicated to save all the law of the hide from Abraham the things which I do.
Well, it's a wonderful day.
Call that it really is to find the Spirit of God, but must be a state of soul. That's your thoughtful and your thought, yeah.
Listen, connected with Abraham is not the revelation of the secret of the change, but whoever can reveal many things that others didn't know anything about it.
But this practice, truth is for all those who are children of God.
A state of soul is necessary to the understanding of it, but it's for all, as we see, and we come here, the 27th verse, to whom God would make known. What is the riches of the glory of this mystery or secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you? The hope of glory whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
The great desire of the heart of the apostle was not just that a few believers would lay hold of this, but he said this is for all, and he desired that they should all lay hold of it. As our brothers remarked, the state of soul is necessary before we can make these things our own, but how important it is that they're for all. And the apostle Paul mourned in the Hebrews 5.
That many of those believers remained babes.
He said he had fathom with milk, and he said when to the time he ought to be teachers. You have needs that one teach you again, but be the first principles of the oracles of God. And many dear Christians remain babes all their lives. But let us not think for the moment that it isn't that. It is because God doesn't want us to know these things and enjoy them. He wants us to be full grown Christians. He wants us as believers.
Boy should enjoy the album. And that was the whole burden of the heart of the apostles. Why were they getting carried away with philosophy and vain deceit? All they weren't in the enjoyment of what they had in Christ. Why would all them Laodicea growing lukewarm? All there weren't in the enjoyment of that which they had in Christ. I constantly to go buy me gold tried in the fire of the thalamus be rich.
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And all, beloved brethren, we have these precious things as gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus. They have been made known to us. But are we walking in them? Are we enjoying them? You are, brethren, see that we are walking with heavenly men. Israel hosted that they have the temple of the Lord. They said the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are these. And the Lord was free because they were occupied with the material thing, and they were exercised to walk before him.
In the enjoyment of lab which He had for them as a nation, And we can know what it is to be gathered to the Lord's name. But let us be practical, beloved brethren, and what as those who enjoy these things, and who have a real vision of this glory before our souls?
This was what burdened the heart of the apostle for these things. Well, if we're not enjoying the truth that we hold by and by, I believe it will slip promise. Doesn't that is that the meaning of second Peter, one where it says either lacking these things is blind and cannot see a bar off and has forgotten that he was first from his old stairs. That is, he moves.
The sense of.
Is security in Christ forgotten? Slip promise. And I don't know that there's anywhere else he's ever spoken of as a child of God being blind. That kind of is the world. But there it says he's blind, he cannot get far off. He's lost his heavenly vision.
I've been saying 24 years.
Nothing but trade is only trade. You can try for living there, to laugh at hand and speak well. Shore nothing good #24 in the end.
So we go through all the.