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An unblameable and unreprovable in his fight, if you continue in the face grounded and settled, and do not move the way from the hope of the God which he had heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven for all. I called and made a minister, who now rejoiced in my sufferings for you.
And fill up passages behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's faith, which is the Church.
For all, if I am made, administered the coins, the dispensation of God, which is given to me for you to fulfill the word of God.
Even the mystery which has been hid from the ages and from generations, but now it may manifest to its Saints.
To whom God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles? Which is Christ in you the hope of glory whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all rhythm, that when they present every man's person in Christ Jesus.
For unto I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Would you read the 1St 3 verses of the next chapter? It belongs to the chapter one.
For I would that He knew what great conflict I have for you and for them at Legacy, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh as their hearts might be comforted.
Being knit together in life and under all riches, are the full assures of understanding through the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
This chapter, brethren, is the widest scene of glory in the whole Bible.
Unless if you've seen the distinct difference between the mystery of Christ and the Church.
And the mystery of God, it will not be apprehended.
The mystery of Christ and the Church is the truth.
Particularly given to Paul that Christ and we are one the mystery of God.
Is the secret purpose of God that there should be a new creation where everything is suited to God as God?
And the last verse our brother read is a kind of a key. It's not in boom, but in which not in.
Our hidden all the treasures.
Of wisdom and knowledge, that is.
New creation will display all the wisdom and knowledge of God.
I'm tarnished.
By all the ruins that sinners brought into creation.
The end of that second verse in the second chapter should not be there, Not the last thought, the end of the Father and of Christ. It's the way it is written there. Why? It's would seem to connect the third verse with Christ. But the Godhead, That's right, that's right.
Some passengers of Scripture are greatly illuminated by the new translation, yes.
Now in the chapter before us.
We get 2 head chips, 2 reconciliations, and two ministries.
So where we began?
In the 14th verse, in whom we have redemption leave out through his blood.
Of course it is through His blood, but it's left out in order to give striking emphasis to the mind of the Spirit in the passage. So it's we have in whom we have redemption means we have redemption in the Son of God's love.
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Even the forgiveness of sins. Then the 15th verse begins the headship.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation?
That is.
Christ is their scene as the head of the full scene of creation. Heaven was somewhat in that place, but he failed. Yes, that's right. Not in the way that Christ is no head over the creation. Man is in the image and likeness of God and he is still.
Only in a fallen condition.
It will all be made good in Christ. The.
2nd man and last Adam.
For God is never frustrated in his purposes and.
All the room that sin had brought into the world will be removed and tired.
And the new creation will display all the wisdom and knowledge of God. Ah yes, but we will enjoy.
The love of God that brought us there and the cost by which we have been redeemed will never be forgotten.
That's what we have by the Hero and Ephesians 3.
Or does that have another? You know what? Verse 4, Verse 9 and 10.
Especially verse 10 to the intent that now under the principality and powers in heaven expression might be known by the Church, the manifold wisdom of God.
Well, yes, only that's very deep. Shall we go back to it?
Ephesians 3. There are others called attention.
I'll begin at verse 8.
And to me, who, unless the least of all things is this race, given, that is the grace of the revelation of the mystery, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all leave out the word men.
And it isn't fellowship either to make all see what is the administration of the mystery.
Now yesterday we broke bread, and when we broke bread, the angels looked down and they saw the administration of the mystery, not the fellowship, but the administration. What did they say?
Men of different nationalities altogether praising the same savior.
Man can make a union, but he can never make a unity.
And when we broke bread, the angels saw the administration of the mystery, while we enjoyed the fellowship of it. And that was meant.
To make all see, not men, but all see. What is the administration of the mystery which from the beginning of the world had been hidden? God, that is God purpose that Adam and Eve should be in headship over the whole creation.
Creation suited to himself in his own nature.
Who have created all things by leave out by Jesus Christ. Who have created all things to the intent that now and to the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known through the Church, not the manifold, but the all various wisdom of God.
What does that mean? It means this.
That the enemy of God promised that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpents head. All the enemy says I'll spoil that the king slays able well. How can God bring about blessing through the seed of the woman when the seed was a murder?
Oh God, raised up another seat.
Then the devil caused the whole world to be in utter corruption. How could the promise of God be fulfilled? Oh, God brought a flood, but he saw Noah righteous and preserved the sea. And all the way through, as you read through the Old Testament, God was preserving the sea.
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Why, Haman would have destroyed it as though, and so would that woman at the last. But Joyce was hid under a bed. That's what's meant in Ephesians 3. The all various wisdom of God is traced in the Old Testament as God preserved the seed and the Satan sought to destroy it.
And that's the thought. And then when he sees you come together and break bread.
The angels look down and see the administration of the mystery. We enjoy the fellowship of it and in spite of all the enemies subtlety, God is going to display it in all its perfections up there. That's what meant.
Our mother, brother, yes. And that is an encouragement, isn't it? In the days of weakness that and remembering the Lord chances now and principalities and college and heavenly places might be known by the church. The manifold that is in the 11Th of Corinthians that says the show is there. Well, there's those who see it sometimes, maybe cottages all by the world and say, well, who sees it?
Well, and some seem to put want to put the word show for did that or 4th is there the world I want to see you doing that?
But that is the portfolio.
My brother, is it limited to the being gathered to his name on like the Lords day when we are there remembering in his death, Is it limited to that this administration of the mystery? Oh, I don't think it is not larger. Oh yeah, including all the truth.
Of the grace of God in bringing the Gentiles into one joint body.
And God's own wisdom in these operations.
And all of his entire dealings with it as such. Yes. Only that's in the breaking of bread. There's a special occasion when it is in more prominent display. That's all. I sometimes said that I consider the remembering the Lord in his death.
The central institution of Christianity.
It is Christ and remembering Him and his death, His work in connection with those He's redeemed, and there by the Spirit they are unitedly having to do as they were with Him and enjoying it all together. The central institution, Christianity. That bad thought? No, I lived at the highest privilege.
In this city, yes, it is.
Often thinking that you mentioned Brother Togasaki and Brother Yanamaki. Well, I've broken bread with them both. Well, the world tries to form a brotherhood.
They never succeed, but when we break red and all come together in that way, and we sing the same hymn and enjoy the same pressure Savior together.
In a special way that is manifested.
And that's precious. And it will be in its full display up there in the blood.
I will not be remembered. There'll be the Lord Himself to go out together around while I was Speaking of the Oneness in this place.
I remember a young man, that older brother, one time, what was the most important thing we could do? At least just remember the Lord. And he said what wasn't quite the answer. I expected this, but I was glad to get it. And the reason I mentioned that about tremendous Gerard, because in the weakness of things we might become very much disturbed.
As another has put it.
Fellowship fellows together in the same ship, and it's worldwide. Think of Daniel as Plain, his wife there in Spain when they meet.
It's why the curtains have to all be drawn. They have to sing softly so those around won't know what they're doing because they can be thrown in jail for doing that. And so it's not a nice simple way because they're going to be a wonderful.
Increase and all those powers and powers see the man full wisdom of God in that.
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Joy. The Lord receives joy, the joy of the Lord what is taking place in His own heart as he looks down, as it works through those curtains and faeces, few simple, obedient ones attracted in their hearts to Himself.
That gives him joy and the joy of the Lord gives interest. I understand there in Spain that a person can be thrown into jail for a thing of that kind and maybe after two or three months while the case will come up and they be dismissed, but in the meantime know that I'd be in jail. That's right. And those you speak of difficulties. His children go to school.
I'm being a Roman Catholic school. They have their the children all.
Sing the songs and worship Mary, our brother Swing goes to the school.
Just before that service begins, that's at the end of the school period and he takes his two children out, goes right to that school, mind you, and takes his two children out so that they won't have to do it. And the only children that leave the school rather than go through it. So you talk about being persecuted or having to bear the reproach of Christ.
Daniel exclaimed. And those two, and those two children of his.
Why? And they come out of the school and they have to bear a lot of reproach and scorn for it.
We cannot realize what it really is.
My own son told me that.
He was there.
Statement I was about.
Well, you have two headships here.
The first born of every creature is the Adam creation, that is, he was the head of it.
Or by Him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be Thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created by Him and for Him.
The most wonderful truth I've ever discovered in the Bible in all my life is this.
That God has become a man in the person of Christ.
Took a body able to suffer.
Went through every form and kind of suffering it was possible for a righteous man to go through. Bore the wrath and judgment of God.
And then has gone back into glory and remains a man for all eternity.
What for in order to have our company?
And this is the only planet that God has ever visited in that way. And God will never take another family, and Christ will never take another breath.
Revelation 119 if you turn to it.
Alright, 118 I should say.
Read it is in the new translation.
I am the living one which became dead, and behold, I am alive unto the ages of ages. Amen.
I am the living one which became dead tells you that never before.
In the whole of eternity did Christ become a man? I am the living one which became dead.
And behold, I am alive to the ages of ages.
He never goes into another planet or anywhere else. This is the only planet he ever visited, and he's visited this one to take out of it a bride to share his blood.
And when it's a bride, it's her beauty, but it's this beauty that he hath put upon us.
And another point.
It is this in no other way but the cross could we learn the depth of the divine bosom. Creation couldn't display the sufferings and death of Christ. On the cross will be our theme, our occupation in glory, and never in all eternity will we ever forget.
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That he suffered, bled and died in heaven.
Is that right, brother? That's it. As to there being any previous race of men.
Or there being any after race of men. First Corinthians 1545, I think settled.
And so it is written, the 1St man, Adam.
None ever preceded him. The 1St man, Adam was made a living soul.
The last Adam at the Lord Jesus Christ, any humanity, and the head of the new race.
A mankind and the last.
Was made a quickening spirit.
That's true.
And there couldn't be any other man on any other planet. That's right.
Isn't that marvelous?
That is indeed, and would that be Hebrews 213. Behold, I and discovered from God-given that's the thought there. We're with him in the glory and like him, yes.
That's when the shelf comes and we're called up to meet the Lord in the air.
That's how he introduces us into the Father's house.
Behold I and the children which God has given.
And he will, when we meet him, he will leave the singing, and he escorts us home to the Father's house, a singing, redeemed, molified company. And he introduces us to the Father's house with the word you quoted. Behold, I and the children which God had given me.
That's all future.
Little figure of all of that in the.
21St election story of the Hebrew Service.
Love my Master, my wife and my children. I will not go and buy a certain for you.
Yes, in service forever.
All things were created by Him and for Him. Think of that when you see creation, only it's been ruined by sin. It'll be restored to its pristine glory.
And no place of decay or death in the new creature.
And he is before all things, and by Him all things not consist, but by him all things subsist.
I sometimes say to the farmers around here, you know, I forgot that cow you're looking for one minute and robbed it.
I've got scripture for that.
1St chapter.
Hebrews Joe. How about Joe?
Is that the difference between consent subsets? That's always been my mind, is just exactly.
Helpful to get a definition or what substance has more than continuity? Preservation. Yes, continuity or preservation.
You find it in the 34th of Job and the 14th verse.
I'll read it as in the new translation, and here I will make this remark. I know of no book in the Bible that's so illuminated by Mr. Darby's translation as the Book of Job. Many passages that are quite ambiguous are clarified.
His translation. They were coming on that this morning reading jokes on the 14th verse. It should read if God thought only of Himself, and gather unto himself His Spirit and His bread.
All flesh should perish together, and man shall turn again onto the dust.
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He not only gives life, but he sustains the life that he gives.
All flesh compared together, and man turn again under the dust. Turn to a verse now in the Psalm.
100 and.
104th song.
The 29th verse.
Thou hide this thy face. They are troubled at Speaking of the creatures of creation. They'll take us to away their breath. They die and return to their dust. They'll send us forth thy students. They are created, and thou renew us, the face of the earth.
Very Speaking of the creation.
I'll take us away. Their breath, they die. Return to their dust. They'll send us forth. Eyes, fitters. They are created.
Understand it, I do not believe it. I do.
That's 34th chapter of Job and verse 14 that you gave us that translation, if you allow me just to emphasize, it's so very precious, that translation.
And.
It reads FP only thought of himself.
Going to not be put on a gravestone of many.
He only thought of himself. That's what you and I are beneath.
He only thought of himself.
But of God.
Oh, how best so he says. If he only thought of himself, all flesh would expire, all would perish.
No, God so loved the world.
That He gave His only begotten Son, that who started breathing in Him should not care. Now I like to put along with it the 136th Psalm and verse 23 especially.
136 thumbs, especially verse 23. But let's read verse one.
Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good now, verse 23.
Who remembers us? He thought of us. Who remembered us in our loyal estate?
The concluding song.
Is the backward look of Israel.
Consequent from their deliverance.
Seeing the ways of God in wisdom.
Celebrating their deliverance in praise.
And that's what you and I will do in the glory. But when we get home.
We will all own the perfectness of God's ways with each one of us. Now you've called attention to it. I'll give you a little verse in Revelation 5 that's not generally understood either.
Revelation 5.
Of the 14th verse.
And the four beasts said Amen.
Now that's not generally understood. The four beasts is the cherubim.
And the cherubim is the righteousness of God in government.
And so when it says the four be said, Amen means this, that when we're in Yonder glory, we will say Amen to all the ways of God with us in his government as we pass through.
Our life history down here.
We say Amen.
Not a bit of rebellion against any of the ways of God with us. We'd see that wisdom and love ordered all the circumstances, and we'll say Amen to his ways. And that's what meant that.
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Good to begin. Not here, isn't it? Yes. Judging ourselves and justifying God. That's right, brother, that's right. But we'll all say it up there.
I.
It says some of you take notes if you'll remember.
That gold is divine righteousness, the inherent nature of God.
Brass is right for justice in in judgment of sin.
Time linen is practical righteousness.
In our daily ways, the Cherium is the righteousness of God in government. The Seraphim is the righteous wrath of God according to the holiness of His nature. Can you keep those?
That runs all through the Bible.
And he's helpful if you get older.
Marvelously accuracy of scripture then because Isaiah said the tariff him.
God never acted in Salafi judgment until you come to the cross.
And the seraphim.
Which the sword that turned every way to take the keep the way of the Tree of Life brings that before you. There's a cellophane and the cherubim together there, and they're never brought together again until you come to the 4th of Revelation. Why?
This is why because all the ways of God with man have been cherubic.
They will not be serrated until the Greek white throne, and then it will be the righteous judgment of God according to the holiness of His nature, that must vanish sin under His wrath.
So the set of him and the 6th of Isaiah.
Refers to the cross. There you have selaphic judgment because Christ was bearing it, but none other could, and He sustained that judgment.
That you and I might not fall under it, as did it carry them in connection with the the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve had been driven out.
There it is, God's righteousness in protecting, as it were, himself in this matter of sin. But in the Tabernacle, that is, that they've instructed in the wilderness, there were the there was the carrier band connection with the emergency seat where the blood was.
Displaced would be.
Through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Meeting this situation, he has made a way of the center approaching God righteously.
I'll ask you a question. Why is it 2IN Exodus and four in Ezekiel?
But I'll tell you what.
Israel was said to be the platform for the manifestation of the ways of God in government. That's two that's testimony. Man had the testimony of God weighed in government and every transgression received it just recompensive reward. It's for an Ezekiel because the times of the Gentiles begin and now it's universal testimony.
4/4 and another is the wheels were dragged through the earth and underneath was the appearance of the man's hands. That means.
No longer would the government of God be in open display, but God would now be behind the scenes, moving all the scenes that he was behind but.
Either leaves room for the fact that now we're living in the day of grace and every transgression does not receive the just recompensive reward, though God is behind the scenes acting in righteous government.
But not not in open display now that's why.
How about it's been?
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For the times of the Gentiles begin in Egypt.
Oh, the Bible is a marvel.
Marvel, you mentioned by the hell about a great white throne. Is it correct to say that it's like because there's no blood there, no mercy there? It's quite as judgment surrounding. I wouldn't object to it. The thought is of course, a purity.
Yes, purity, hold it.
God judging the flooding. The one who sits on that throne is not God the Father.
God the Son committed all judgment unto the Son, and they're judged according to their works, because there's degrees of reward in heaven, and there's degrees of punishment in heaven.
Is that his title as Son of Man? Yes.
A Son of God, he gives life. A Son of man he judges and you'll find when you read the gospel.
It is not until he's rejected as the Messiah that he takes the title of Son of Man.
That's the 8th Psalm, of course.
For a son of man.
His judgment will be over all the Adam race.
Brother Ginyard referred to a verse in Hebrews one about verse three or four there refer where it speaks about by him all he opposed all things but word of his power does not that fit in with this first year by him all things subsist. Yes, yes, when I go under some some dangerous and some dangerous position that may be there constructing a.
You have to walk on the boardwalk with a few boards over your head, and they may drop things on you. I like to think of these two verses by Him. All things subsist, and He upholdeth all things, but where did His power? And I walked confidently that He was over at all.
In the sleep rather.
Refer back to the 14th 1St in whom we have renewed even the forgiveness of sins, in whom?
In reading every one of these.
Glory.
Here in five persons.
Good to remind ourselves that it's the one whom we've had. We have redemption that it's Speaking of.
Needs this glorious power and the power of his glory. The thought is Brother Patrick, and we have redemption in the Son of his love. Disconnected with the voice that went before.
Others or 13.
Whom we have redemption. Whom the son of his love. Let me give us another illustration. I believe Brother Woodram gave the same illustration.
Suppose my shoes are shined.
Well, I went to pay $0.15 or 1/4 for it, but supposing I was staying in Buckingham Palace and His Majesty the King sent them.
Oh, I'd say, do you know who shined those shoes?
I wouldn't call so much attention to the shine as who did it.
Oh I see. I stayed in Buckingham Palace last night and the King himself died by.
Who was it that died for you? Who was the creator of the universe?
They upholder of all things, but the way of his power. That's the point. We have redemption in the Son of his love. Could God show His love in a deeper way, a richer way, brethren?
We'll never forget the cross in all eclenities.
I believe the first thought that will rush into our minds when we meet the Lord in the air will be when we see Him in His Lord.
This man for me to die.
Well, so let me give an illustration. Supposing somebody to be hung for some murder he's committed in Regina.
And the Queen sends out Prince Charles to take his place.
The whole every newspaper would be full of the fact that it was the Queens old son that took his place if some man in England did it and be a wonderful thing, but for the Queen to send out our own son to do it.
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Who did God send to die for you?
The son of his love. The son of his love. Could he show you love in deeper measure than that brother license? No, I believe that. Done it all. They've not only done it, but look at it. Well, he did it all.
The Son of his life. And in no other way could we know the depth of the divine food.
And we reminded that too. Are we not going to get them in these gardens?
Lord is there, and anguish is so, and he slept like gods of blood falling to the ground. Oh my father. Is there any other way? If it be possible but another way. But he should miss.
That's my thank you.
Now, when we're Speaking of that, turn to a verse in Romans 8.
That is awesome.
The word is put in the wrong place.
By quite a few brothers when they speak.
I read it wrong. You watch verse 32.
He that spared not his own son, but freely delivered him up for us all. I read it wrong on purpose.
How shall he not with him also freely give us all things put?
The word freely as it is in Scripture in the last blog, but not in the first. Why?
Because God could have no joy in delivering up His Son today. He spared not his own Son, but He could have no joy in doing it.
His love.
Indeed, give up his Son to die. But what did it cost God to forsake his Son? We forget that.
Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou love us.
You know, love, that's the Mr. Potter used to say. That's the first time in the Bible that you get a little picture of what it costs God to give up his son.
How about that expression in the 53rd of Isaiah? Please Jehovah to bruise him. Well, I can't do any better than his brother Harris when he can check me out, because he knew brother Powder well, of course.
I'm pretty sick, brother. When you read that verse, don't put the emphasis on the word, please.
The thought is that his love would go that far, but it gave him no pleasure to be to deliver up his side.
I pray for the conversation. He put it this way. Never. When you read that verse, put the emphasis on the Word, please.
You ever hear him say that Yes, yes, well, I was thinking that expression in the him. I think it's 111 nine own book of free to give gays is really not correct. No, well, there's lots of our humans we we've got to leave a room for.
Poetic license, as they call it. He'll give these bodies vile a fashion like his own. He just signed up to him #316.
The survive will never cause your body a bile. It's your own nature to file.
Body of humiliation in clippings too. Well, why is it called the body of humiliation?
I'll tell you because when you walk down St. everybody can see your Gray hair.
You don't look like a child of God at all. That's your body. But when you're up in heaven, Michael the architect Angel will look at you and say there's a child of golf because your body will look like it. It is a body of the old creation with all the Marks and characteristics, the bodies humiliation.
But it's a different thing, as you say, from a Yeah, just because it's subject to death. Yes, decay. You're wearing glasses. That's a tells me that you're body is decaying a bit.
But you won't wear any inhabitants.
And that first, the 53rd by Isaiah speaking, that is the Father bruising him, and he says Jehovah. One of those cases in a sense, Jehovah is the Lord Jesus.
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Will other braces like that?
Never speak of the Father golf God.
Forsook his son, never of Abraham.
Jehovah, No, I'm not a scholar. I owe what I know lightly to a man with the name of John Nelson. Daddy.
He was reckoned to be the best Hebrew scholar in All England.
And Jehovah means the ever existing one. That's the meaning of the word in the Hebrew.
Mr. Dunlap used to tell us, and I liked his thought.
He says I always like to think of Jehovah as the ever existing covenant keeping God. Mr. Dunlop used to tell us, and I liked his thought. He says I always like to think of Jehovah as the ever existing covenant keeping God.
And I thoroughly agree with his remarks. But the first time God is mentioned in the Bible is God in the plural.
In the Hebrew language you get singular, dural, and plural. The first time God in the singular is mentioned in the Bible is Deuteronomy 32.
It's God in the plural.
In the singular is ELOAH.
God in the dual is ELOHAIM.
God in the plural leave the A out ELOHIM and the first time God is mentioned in the Bible, it's gone in the plural. In the beginning God created.
Let us make that for it runs all through the Bible.
That every activity are of the Godhead is always Infinity, and this is the order.
It's guarding council, the Lord Jesus, the one who carries out those councils, and the Holy Spirit, the power by which they are carried out. And you can't think of an activity of God in the whole Bible.
Whether it's creation or redemption or resurrection.
It's always God Infinity.
For instance, I'll give you an illustration and take the resurrection. It tells you in the book of the Acts that God raised him from the dead. It tells you and John, the Lord says, I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again.
It tells you in Romans 8 that drew by the Spirit.
Now that's not unimportant, for I read a book teaching that doctrine in which it said that the work of Newberg as in, was a work of the Holy Spirit. Not a work of God, not a work of the Son, but a work of the Holy Spirit. I've got the book written by a Baptist minister, but it's wrong. In John 3, New Birth is the work of the Spirit.
In John five it's the work of the Lord Jesus. In John six, it's the work of God.
You want to see that?
We all know John Three, so I'll turn to John 5.
And the 21St verse, whereas the Father reasoned up the dead and quickeneth him, Even so, the sun thickened.
Whom he will.
At the work of the sun. Now turn to John 6, verse 29.
This is the work of God that you believe on him whom he had sent.
So in John three it's the work of the Spirit, in John five it's the work of the Son, and John six it's the work of God.
And yet I've got a book written by a Baptist minister.
His name was Jemison, as I remember correctly. I have it in my library. By the way, brethren, I have some of those books and I write in the first on the front of them. This book is kept only for reference and teaches bad doctrine. And sign my name, so that if the Lord should Take Me Home. You'll find a few of those books, but look in the beginning and see.
Put that there so if anybody gets the library after I'm done, they'll know why I kept the book.
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I think our brother raised the question as to the application of Jehovah to the Lord Jesus Christ. I thought I'd be interested in we might all prophecy just some further words on this.
I had in my early days of most beloved brother and a very faithful under shepherd. But one thing I think he oversight he overstated. He said that whenever it's Jehovah in the Old Testament, it's the Lord Jesus Christ and I had to unlearn that through my years or I'm inclined to believe that Jehovah is the general term of God.
Which would include the Godhead, but not in all instances would have that application.
Or in some of the prophetic scriptures in the Old Testament, it does definitely refer to the Lord Jesus Christ, limiting to Him. Now you might amplify that. Well, what you say is true.
One is often made through the month that words have their meaning from the sentence in which they are found.
And thus it is the spiritual mind.
Reads the chapter.
And it's only and by the Spirit that we lay hold of what is the teaching of God in the in the chapter.
So we need to be watched. Now I'll make another remark, brother.
God has purposely written the Bible.
Purposely written so that the natural man can't understand it. Purposely written it so that the natural man can't understand it. This is the only book in the world that requires a spiritual mind, and God wrote it with that very purpose. You want to see a verse in Matthew 13?
Verse 10.
And the disciples came and said unto him, Why speaketh thou unto them in parables?
He answered and said unto them, Because, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
God has purposely written the Word so that it requires a spiritual mind. Well, now another remark. You might try that too far.
God has made the way of salvation so simple that, as Isaiah tells you, a wayfaring man or a fool need not earn.
The way of salvation is so simple that he hasn't got to be spiritual to accept him. He need not her therein. But after he is saved, he'll have to walk with God in communion to get the magnet God from the scriptures. How? Motors brothers. Yes, I'd rather Potter used to say in regards to meaning of words. The context must show you what the meaning is.
That's right. Do you synthesize that part of the deal? And so we have to be careful about tracing the word true.
Because the context was very well in everyday language we don't use the same word.
For just one individual thing. Why the same word might mean one thing one time and something else another time. Now after Jehovah, she'll turn to a verse in the Psalms that the 7th day Adventist you.
It'll be helpful in just what we're talking about.
The 146 songs.
And the third verse. Now this is the favorite verse with the 7th Day Adventists.
Put not your trust in Princess, nor in the Son of Man, in whom there is no help. Listen. The next verse is the verse they use. His breath goeth forth. He returned to his earth in that very day. His thoughts. Perry.
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob, not the God of Israel now, but the God of Jacob. Why? Because Jacob speaks of Israel as a failure, for his health includes hope he's in now. When you read Lord in capital letters, it's Jehovah always.
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Hope is in Jehovah is God. Now I'll give you an illustration.
Supposing are going to foreclose a mortgage on my house and we'll say here that brother Patterson says, well, I'll pay it off. Oh, I said that's fine, brother. That really it takes a load off my mind. But tonight you you die in your bed.
Oh, I said Brother Patterson offered to pay the mortgage, but he's gone. I can't do it. Oh, putting out your trust in Princess, as it says here.
His his breath going forth returning to his earth in that very day, his thoughts is really his purpose is better. You purpose to do it all right, but you died until it didn't what put your trust in Jehovah and there you get the real meaning of Jehovah for the Hebrew meaning of Jehovah is the ever existing one.
Oh, but Brother Patterson is never going to die, and he's never going to lose his wealth. Oh, I said trust him. I can have solid confidence. Well, the one that is our savior, he's never going to die.
He's never going to lose his riches. He's that's the point.
And that's the meaning of Jehovah primarily.
In scripture, the ever existing covenant keeping God.
In French, the word for Jehovah is just simply eternal. Let her name the same word as in English, just as if we say the eternal said demors.
Yes, but it's a good translation, a good way to put it. The one that's ever lived, yes. Well, the only difference is, brother genius, that Jehovah has that specific meaning. The word eternal hasn't that specific meaning, although it it embraces it.
And embraces him, but it hasn't that specific meaning. The specific meaning of Jehovah is the ever existing one.
And also isn't where Jehovah's use is generally in relationship with man? Yes, in all regard to the what you were saying about Elohim, the first match of God in the Bible being in the plural. Our brother Jackson told about that.
His father was a minister and he knew a rabbi very well. And so he asked him one day, how do you explain that? The fact that the first mention of God in the Bible in the plural? Well, he says, Mr. Jackson, I wish you hadn't asked me that question.
And when you turn while we're talking about to a verse in Deuteronomy.
I think it's a 6th chapter.
And the.
Fourth verse.
Hear O Israel.
Jehovah, our God. He is 1 Jehovah.
Hear O Israel, Jehovah, our God.
Oh, you see the plural right there, Because the Jew will turn off them and say, well, we have only one God, but Jehovah our God.
Is 1 Jehovah? There you get the the plural.
I'm telling you that the whole three are one.
That's why I turned to that first. The whole three are one.
God, then, you say, is in the plural here below him, yes.
The Lord our God is Elohim.
Lord, our Elohim is 1 Jehovah.
Well, now we've come to heads. We haven't gone.
The 18th verse begins another headship.
And he is the head of the body, the church.
Who is the beginning, the first born from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence?
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That means this.
That Christ in resurrection is the beginning of the new creation.
As you've turned to revelation.
It will help to clarify.
Revelation 3.
Verse 14.
And unto the Angel of the Church of the Laodiceans, right these things that the Amen.
Amen means let it be established, the faithful and true witness. That's because the Church has failed to be done. But it's the last clause I had referenced to the beginning of the creation of God.
In what sense is Christ the beginning of the creation of God?
Exactly as you have in Colossians 118.
It's Christ in resurrection that is the beginning of that new creation.
For in all things he must have the preeminence simply means that he has already raised.
And none other. He's alone up there in the glory, the head of the Body, the Church. But when the rapture takes place in the shelf, then we're called up. And He, in resurrection and in manhood, is the beginning of that new creation.
And we await the the Rapture when we join them up there.
And then the new creation will flood and burst forth and blossom and fill the whole scene with the glory that is his direct.
And the majesty of his person and his work accomplished, coming out victoriously in resurrection as the beginning. He is really setting aside all of the first an old order, Adam, behold, I make all things new. And the word for news in the Greek. No, I'm not a scholar, you know.
I'm indebted to Mr. Death, the word for new.
Is what we would say in the English language brand new.
Not an article of the old, not a particle of the old. And now that's where our hymns fall a little short. When it says trace, our precious dust will take and freshly mold, well, it'll be resurrection, but the body will be changed. It will not be a body made of dust in there.
This could be distinctly new in connection to John Three about being born again. That we hear different translations of that I think Mr. Darby gives a significance of being born anew is that it is born that again. It is born anew in a distinctly fresh new, entirely differently than what was before.
Take Ephesians.
4.
And verse.
24.
And that you put on the Newman, or having put on the Newman, well, the word for new there is what we would say in the English language.
Brand new, something you've never had before, Not a practical of the old.
He put on the Newman, which after God means after the true nature of God, it's created in righteousness and true holiness.
Holiness is the nature, righteousness is the character manifested. It is not true, brother. Hey ho, that is still the same body.
Change, change. We must never get away from that fact. It's still the same body, but it's changed in that sense because there's no annihilation. No, no, no, no.
But there are some things, brother, beyond reason. We can't figure it out. Your body in heaven won't be made of dust. If you want to see that, turn to 1St Corinthians 15.
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47th verse.
The first man is of the earth earthy, or Mr. Debbie translates that the 1St man is of the dust, dusty.
The second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the dusty. Such are they also that are dusty, and as is the heavenly, such are they also that that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy or dusty, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
That is, it's the same body chain. How God does it, I don't know, brethren, but He doesn't. He'll do it in the glint of an eye too. Yes, in the second chapter of the Gospel of John, the Lord Jesus says in verse.
Verse 19, he says.
Under them destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
But he speak of the temple of his body. Destroy this body, and I'll raise it up.
There are things in Scripture beyond reason.
I heard the little boy say to his father.
Father, how can I go to heaven when the Lord comes? There's a ceiling mirror and there's another ceiling on the roof on top. Father, how can I go up? Do you think that Father could explain to his boy?
No. Could you explain it? No. Do you believe it? Of course you do.
The end of flipping 3 that tells you plainly that he's able to do it.
Go on something like that at school about the force of gravity.
There's lots of things you can't explain.
In connection with the what we were considering about the Lord, the beginning of the creation of God.
Is called attention that Jehovah's Witnesses use that scripture to show the Christ and the creature as they refer to the old Creator.
He was first created and then he created everything in the beginning, but it's the new creation.
Riders call attention when they use that nice way.
You know our brother Alfred Walker to Montreal.
Well offered was in our house in Ottawa. His own brother was one of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
I had a talk with him one day.
And I said to him, you believe that when Jesus died, his body evaporated in the gases and is preserved by God in some mysterious part of the universe. Isn't that right? Yes, that's what we believe. Well, I said I knew you couldn't deny it because you teach it in your books. But I said the Lord said I have power to lay my life down and I power to take it again. How could he have power to take it again if he's bodies evaporated into gases?
And he he wasn't God himself. How could he do it?
He says I don't know, Sir. I didn't expect you to know because everyone of you are a blanket of Satan.
That was Southern Walkford zone brother Peter Walford was his name actually.
Their doctrine isn't even logical sense.
I power to lay it down, and I power to take it again.
This commandment that I received of my heart.
Remind, if I ask her question, we're talking about new creation, whether the ace of Rome, the 29th verse, you know.
Turn good.
Where boom, he did far no, he also did predestinate that he conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the first born among many brothers.
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Well, what does that mean?
He did predestinate.
Election is marking out beforehand. Predestination is what you're marked out for.
And it's to be conformed to the image of his son.
Find a good many Donuts grasp.
It means this image is representative and when God looks at his children in heaven.
He'll see nothing.
But full conformity to Christ, the image of his Son. And when it's the Son, it's always what he is to the Father's heart, the son of his mother. It's what he is to the Father's heart. An image is representative. And when he sends trouble into your life and mine, as in as it speaks of it in Romans 8, just there.
All things work together for good. It's because He was watching you in your life, and your life was not displaying the nature of God as one of His children.
And he sent the trial. What for? That the fruit of the trial might be that the nature of God is one of his children might be seen in your waves. And that was his purpose in the trial that was sent.
It will be fully manifested in resurrection, but God would have it manifested in our daily life down here. And that's why He passes us from form to form in His school, you know, in order that the image of His Son might be seen in our daily walk. That's the meaning.
That's his purpose.
70 Finder of silver.
And that thought is similar, only that it doesn't go as far as Romans 8.
Silver is redemption. He would have us as redeemed, but Romans 8 is as His Son. And I repeat, let you miss it when it is sunny.
It is what He is to the Father's heart, and He would have us walking and displaying the true nature of God in our daily life. And when He doesn't see it, He passes us through some trial. But the object of it is just what one has said.
That's the key thought of that last.
Part of the 2nd Corinthians 4.
Where it is having the treasure in spirit and vessel, that the light do might shine out, shine forth, and the Christ might be manifesting our mortal body. So he passes us through circumstances that will bring this about at this object.
Be the feasible fruits of righteousness, Brother Brown of Hebrews 12.
The end this casing is, I guess I signed it up again. The Gideon vessels had to be broken for the light to shine out. That's right, yeah.
We sing the 64th hymn and the long hymn.
Sing the latter part of it, but it is in keeping with what we've been talking about in last verses.
Now notice in the eighth verse, like Jesus, in that place of light and love supreme, once man of sorrows, full of grace, heavens blessed and endless theme like him. Just think of it. You and I are going to be like crap.
Not only like him physically, but morally like him all great supreme, like him before thy face, like Him. To know that glory being unhindered face to face. Begin at verse 5.