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That unblameable and unruh provable in his sight, if he continue in the faith grounded and settled, and did 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 by Paul, and made a minister who now rejoice in my suffering for you.
And fill up sandwiches behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh.
For his body's faith, which is the church for all, If I am made a minister according to 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 ages, from generations, but now it may manifest to its Saints, to whom God would make known. What is the richest 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 wisdom, that when we present every man perfect 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 belong to the chapter One true.
For I would that he knew what great conflict I have for you and for them, at least here, and for as many as I've not seen my face in the flesh.
As their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love 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 hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
This chapter, brethren, is the widest scene of glory in the whole Bible.
And 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.
Kind of a key not in boom, but in which?
All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge that is new creation will display all the wisdom and knowledge of God.
Untymish, but all the ruin of sins brought into creation.
The end of that second verse in the second chapter should not be there is not the last clause at 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 it's the Godhead. That's right, That's right.
Some passages of Scripture are greatly illuminated by the new translation, yes.
Now in the chapter before.
US you 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 creations? That is, Christ is there, seen as the head of the full scene of creation. Adam was somewhat in that place, but he failed, yes.
That's right, not in the way that Christ is. No. He was set his 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 ruin that sin has brought into the world will be removed and tired.
And the new creation will display all the wisdom and knowledge of God.
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.
Is that what we have by the hill and Jesus three? Or does that have another? What verse 9?
10.
Especially verse 10 to the intent that now under the principality of powers in heaven, and 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 that our brothers called Ascension.
I'll begin at verse 8.
And to me, who I'm left with, 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 man.
And it isn't fellowship either to make all see what is the administration of the mystery.
You know, 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 all together 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's what meant.
To make all seem, not men, but all. See what is the administration of the mystery which from the beginning of the world have been hidden? God. That is God's 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 to 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 serpent's head.
All the enemy says I'll spoil that the fruit lays Abel well. How can God bring about blessing through the seed of the woman, when the seed was a murder?
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Oh God raised up another seed.
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 seed.
Why Haman would have destroyed it. I'm so would that woman at the last, but Joyce was hit under a bed. That's what's meant in Ephesians 3. The all various wisdom of God is placed in the Old Testament as God preserved the seed and the Satan sought to destroy him.
And that's the thought. And then when he sees you come together and break bread.
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 perfection up there.
That's what's meant our voter brother yes and that is an encouragement business in the days of weakness that.
In remembering the Lord chance that now in principalities and powers and heavenly places might be known by the church. The manifold looking God that is in the 11Th of Trenton says to show his death. Well, there's over there sometimes maybe cottage, you know, but the world would say well who sees it well and some seem to put want to put the word show forward is that.
The world.
The brother, is it limited to the being gathered to his name on like the Lord's Day when we are there remembering in his death, Is it the limited to that, this administration of the mystery? Oh, I don't think is it 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 his operations.
In all of his entire dealings with it as such, Yes. Only that 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 in His death, His work in connection with those He redeemed, and there by the Spirit they are unitedly having to do as it were with Him, and enjoying it all together. The central institution of Christianity. That bad thought. No, Elizabeth, the highest privilege.
In this team, yes it is.
Often thinking that you mentioned Brother Togasaki and Brother Yanamaki. Well, I've broken bread with them both.
The world tries to form a brotherhood.
They never succeed, but when we break bread and all come together in that way, and we sing the same hymn and enjoy the same precious Savior together in a special way, that is manifested.
Precious. And it will be in its full display up there in the blood.
I will not be the remembrance.
There'll be the Lord himself. She's glad to gather around. While I was Speaking of the oneness of this place. Iron member a young man at older brother. One time. What was the most important thing we could do? Police. Just remember the Lord and his death. 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, this precious fellowship fellows together in the same ship, and it's worldwide. Think of Daniel explain his wife there in Spain when they meet.
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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 done in that simple way well today and be a wonderful.
Encouragement and all those principalities and powers. See the manifold wisdom of God in that.
Joy.
The Lord received joy, the joy of the Lord what is taking place in His own heart as He looks down, as it were, through those curtains and sees these few simple, obedient ones attracted in their hearts to Himself.
That gives him joy, and the joy of the Lord gives them strength. 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 though that they'd be in jail. That's right. And those you speak of difficulties, these children go to school.
I'm being a Roman Catholic school.
They have their 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 and goes right to that school, mind you, and takes these 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.
For by Him were all things created, that art 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.
Or 1:18 I should say.
Read it as a new translation.
I am the living one which became dead. And behold, I am alive under the ages of ages. Amen. Now notice that 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 go 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.
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And when it's a bride, it's her beauty, but it's the 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 it. 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.
But he suffered, bled and died in heaven.
Is that right, brother, as to as do there being any previous race of men?
Or there being any actor 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 of 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. That's the thought there. We're with him in the glory, and like him, yes.
That's when the shout 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 hath given me.
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, glorified company. And he introduces us to the Father's house with the words you quoted. Behold, I and the children which God had given me.
That's our future.
Little figure of all of that in the.
21St of excellence, the story of the Hebrew Service.
Love my Master, my wife and my children. I will not go through and abide a certain forever, 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 trace of decay or death in the new creation.
And he is before all things, and by Him all things not consist, but by him all things subsist.
And sometimes say to the farmers around here, you know, God forgot that cow you're looking for one minute and drop dead.
Have I got scripture for that?
The first chapter.
Of Hebrews Job, How about Joe?
Is that the difference between consist that's always been here? In my mind is just exactly perhaps?
Helpful to get a definition or what subconscious has more than thought of continuity preservation. Yeah, continuity or preservation.
You find it in the 34th of Joel 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.
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Are clarified by his translation. We were coming on that this morning when 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 unto the dust.
He not only gives life, but he sustains the life that he gives.
And man turn again under the dust, turn to a verse now in the Psalm.
100 and.
104th song.
The 29th verse.
The Alchidis thye feast. They are troubled at Speaking of the creatures of creation. Thou take us away their breath. They die and return to their dust. Now send us forth thy spirit. They are created, and thou reneweth the face of the earth.
Very Speaking of the creation.
About take us away their breath they die, returning to their daughter. Thou send us forth eyes to us they are created.
Understand it, I do not believe it. I do.
That's 34th chapter of Job in verse 14 that you gave us that translation. If you allow me just to emphasize, it's so very precious, that translation.
And.
It raised its key, only thought of himself.
Could it not be put on a gravestone of many?
The only God of himself. That's what you and I are beneath you. He only thought of himself.
But of God.
How vastly different. So he says, if he only thought of himself, all flesh would expire, all would perish.
No, God so loved the world they gave His only begotten Son. The Who started breathing in him should not perish. 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 10. 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 Psalm.
Is the backward look of Israel.
Consequently, from their deliverance.
Seeing the ways of God in wisdom.
And celebrating their deliverance in praise.
And that's what you and I will do in the glory 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 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 beasts 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 light mystery down here.
We say Amen.
Not a bit of rebellion against any of the ways of God with us. We see that wisdom and love ordered all the circumstances, and we say Amen to his ways. And that's what meant that.
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Good to begin. Not here, is it not? Yes. Judging ourselves and justifying God. That's right, brother, that's right. But we'll all say it up there.
It's just some of you. Take notes if you'll remember.
That gold is divine righteousness, the inherent nature of God.
Brass is righteousness in in judgment of sin.
Fine linen is practical righteousness.
In our daily ways, the cherubim 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.
Marvelous the accuracy of scripture then, because I Isaiah said the terrorism.
God never acted in Salathic 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 the 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 calibrated, and they will not be seraphic until the great 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 Celtic judgment because Christ was bearing it, but none other could, and he sustained that judgment in order that you and I might not fall under.
As to the chariot in the 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 instructed in the wilderness, there were the there was the carrier ban in connection with the emergency seat where the blood was displaced would be.
Through the Lord Jesus Christ meeting this situation.
He is made a way of the center, approaching God righteously.
I'll ask you a question. Why is it 2IN Exodus and four in Ezekiel?
I.
Well, I'll tell you what.
Israel was set to be the platform for the manifestation of the ways of God in government. That's true. That's testimony. Man had the testimony of God's waging government in every transgression received a just recompense of 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 that.
That 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.
It relieves 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.
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How about his brother?
For the times of the Gentiles begin in Egypt.
Oh, the Bible is a marvelous book.
You mentioned by the hell about the Great White Throne. Is it correct to say that it's like because there's no blood there, no mercy there, it's quite in judgment surrounding I wouldn't object to it. The thought is of course a purity, call it 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 under the sun, and they are judged according to their works.
But there's degrees of reward in heaven, and there's degrees of punishment in heaven.
Is that his title is 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 Gospels that it's 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 verse three or four there refer where it speaks about. By Him all he upholds, all things power. Does not that fit in with this first year? By Him all things subsist.
When I go.
Under some some dangerous and some dangerous position that may be there constructing a skyscraper and you have to walk on the boardwalk with a few boards over your head and they may drop some things on you. I'd like to think of these two verses.
By him all things subsist and he upholds all things, but where did his power? And I walked confidently that he is over it all.
Refer back to the 14 first, in whom we have redemption, even the forgiveness of the sin in whom?
In meeting everyone of these glory.
Good.
Good to remind ourselves that it's the one whom we've had. We have redemption that is Speaking of.
These this glorious power and this 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.
That is verse 13.
In whom we have redemption, whom the son of his love. Let me give a simple illustration. I believe Brother Woodbrum gave the same illustration.
Suppose my shoes are shined. Well, I went through the shine, probably paid $0.15 or 1/4 for it. But supposing I was staying in Buckingham Palace and His Majesty the King sent them.
Oh, I said. 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 shined by shoes.
Who was it that died for you?
Who are the creator of the universe?
The upholder of all things, by the word 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?
Will never forget the Cross in all eternity.
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 life.
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.
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And the Queen sends out Prince Charles to take his place.
Before, every newspaper would be full of the fact that it was the Queen's old son that took his place. If some man in England did it, it'd be a wonderful thing. But for the Queen to send out our own son to do it? Who did God send and die for you?
And the son of his love. The son of his love, Could he show you love in deeper measure than that? Brother Larson No. I believe that. Done it all. It's not only done it, but who did it? Well, he did it all.
For some of these love I need no other way could we know the depth of the divine business.
And we reminded that, too. Are we not gonna get them in these gardens?
When the Lord is there an anguish of soul, and he slept like drops 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 savior.
Now when we're Speaking of that turn into a verse in Romans 8.
That is often.
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 dog, but not in the first. Why?
Because God could have no joy in delivering up His Son in the day. He spared not his own son, but he could have no joy in doing it.
His love would be.
Indeed, give up his Son to die. But what did it cost God to persecute his Son? We forget that.
Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou love us.
No 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 from God to give up his Son.
How about that expression in the 53rd of Isaiah? Please Jehovah the bruise him. Well, I can't do any better than his brother who can check me out. The season, Brother Potter. 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 do it.
Stop.
I heard will their Father say he put it this way Never. When you read that verse, put the emphasis on the Word, please.
You ever hear him say that?
Well, I think that expression in the him, I think it's 111. I know book of pretty kids gay is really not correct, you know, Well, there's lots of arguments we've got to leave a room for.
Poetic license, as they call it. He'll give these bodies vile, a passion like his own. He just signed that hymn #316 But the bad 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 the street, everybody can see your Gray hairs.
You don't look like a child of God at all. That's your body. But when you're up in heaven, Michael the arthritic Angel will look at you and say there's a child of 12 because your body will look like it. It is a body of the old creation with all the Marks and characteristics that the body of humiliation.
But it's a different thing, as you say, from.
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Just because it's subject to death? Yes, and decay. You're wearing glasses. That's.
Tells me that you're body is decaying a bit.
But you won't wear any in heaven.
That first the 53rd by his eye speaking, whether the Father bruising him, and it says Jehovah. One of those cases in a sense, Jehovah is the Lord Jesus.
Will other verses like that?
Never speak of the Father.
Golf God.
Forsook his son.
Jehovah, no, I'm not a scholar. I owe what I know lightly to a man by the name of John Nelson Darling.
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. 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.
Mr. Dunlap used to tell us, and I liked his thought, he says. I always like to think of Jehovah as the ever existing government keeping God.
And I solemnly 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. God in the singular is ELOAH.
God in the dual is ELOHAIM.
What 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 4. It runs all through the Bible.
But every activity of the Godhead is always Infinity.
And this is the order.
It's God in 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.
Is always God Infinity?
For instance, I'll give you an illustration and take the resurrection. It tells you in the book of.
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 eight that is true by the Spirit.
That's not unimportant, for I read a book teaching that doctrine in which it said that the work of Newburgh 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 five and the 21St verse. Or as the Father reasoned up, the dead and quickeneth them, Even so, the Son.
Quicker whom he will.
The work of the Sun. I'll 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. In John six it's the work of God. And yet I've got a book written by a Baptist minister.
I think 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 seek.
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That there, so if anybody gets the library after I'm done, they'll know why I kept the book.
I think our brother raised the question as to the application of Jehovah to the Lord Jesus Christ. I thought I'd be interested and 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 over said 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 in which it includes the Godhead, but not in all instances would have that application.
Or in some of the prophetic scriptures in the Old Testament, it does death not refer to the Lord Jesus Christ, limiting to Him. Now you might amplify that. Well, what you say is true.
Runners often make their demands.
That words have their meaning from the sentence in which they are found.
And thus it is a spiritual mind.
Reads the chapter.
And it's only 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?
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 nor a fool need not earn everything. The way of salvation is so simple.
Got to be spiritual to accept him though a fool. 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 about it, brother? Yes, I'd rather Father used to say. And in regard to the meaning of word, the context must show you what the meaning is. That's right.
He used to emphasize that part of the deal. And so we have to be careful about tracing a 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 I said Jehovah, if you'll turn to a verse in the Psalms that the 7th Day Adventists used.
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 Adventist.
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 heavy. 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.
As a failure for his health, whose hope is in now? When you read Lord in capital letters, it's Jehovah always.
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Whose hope is in Jehovah is God. Now I'll give you an illustration. Supposing I'm 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 all. Putting out your trust in Princess, as it says here.
His his breath goes forth and he returned it 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 in children. What puts 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. 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 words in English, just as if we say the eternal said tomorrow.
Yes, but the good translation is a good way to put it. The one that's ever lived, yes. Well the only difference is brother genial, that Jehovah has that specific meaning. The word eternal hasn't that specific meaning, although it it embraces it.
And embraces it, but it hasn't that specific meaning. The specific meaning of Jehovah is the ever existing one.
And also isn't where Jehovah's used it's generally in relationship with man. Yes, in all regards to the what you were saying about Elohim, the first mention 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 flora, Well, he says, Mr. Jackson, I wish you hadn't asked me that question.
And when you turn, while we're talking to that, to a verse in Deuteronomy.
I think it's the 6th chapter.
And the fourth verse.
Hear O Israel.
Jehovah, our God is 1 Jehovah.
Hear O Israel, Jehovah, our God.
Oh, you see the plural right there, because the jewels are awesome and say well we have only one dog, but Jehovah, our God.
Is 1 Jehovah? There you get the the plural and telling you that they whole three are one.
That's why I turned to that verse. 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 headphones, 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.
If 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.
The Amen means let it be established.
The faithful and true witness. That's because the Church has failed to be sacked. 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 rapture when we join them up there.
And then the new creation gloom.
On 1St floor and blossom and fill the whole scene with the blood that is his direct in the majesty of his person and his work accomplished coming out victoriously in resurrection. At the beginning, He is really setting aside all of the 1St.
An old order, Adam. Behold, I make all things new.
And the word for news in the Greek. Now, 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.
Body will be changed. It will not be a body made of dust in heaven.
Which can be distinctly new in connection at John three about being born again and 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 when the word for new there is what we would say in the English language, brand new, something you've never had before, not a particle of the old.
He put on the Newman, which after God means after the true nature of God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Holiness is the nature, righteousness is the character manifested. It is not true, brother. Hey. Oh, that is still the same body.
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 rather beyond reason we can't can't figure it out.
Your body in heaven won't be made of dust. 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. Dabby 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 heavens.
That is, it's the same body change how God does it. I don't know, brethren, but he doesn't. He's doing the grin of an eye too. Yes, in the second chapter of the Gospel, John the Lord Jesus says.
In verse.
Verse.
19, he says.
Unto them destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
But he state of the temple of his body, Destroy this body, and I'll raise it up.
There are things in Scripture beyond reason.
I heard a little boy say to his father.
Father, how can I go to heaven when the Lord comes? There's a ceiling there, and there's another ceiling in 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.
You end the flipping 3. That tells you plainly that he's able to do it.
Gravity.
There's lots of things you can't explain.
In connection with the what we're 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 as a 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 is called attention that they use that that way.
You know our brother Alfred Walker to Montreal.
Well, 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 into gases and is preserved by God in some mysterious part of the universe. Isn't that right? Yes, that's what we believe. I said I knew you couldn't deny it because you teach it in your book. But I said the Lord said I have power to lay my life down and I powered take it again. How could he have power to take it again if he's body to evaporated into gases?
And he wasn't God himself. How can he do it? He says. I don't know, Sir.
I didn't expect you to know because every one of you are blinded of Satan.
That was Brother Walker's own brother. Peter Walford was his name.
Their doctrine isn't even logical sense.
Power to lay it down and I power to take it again.
This commandment that I received of my heart.
It's reminded how I asked the question. We're talking about new creation, whether the 8th of Rome, the 29th verse, you know.
That was turned good.
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For whom he did for know, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the first born among many brothers.
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 the good money, Don't grasp it. It means this image is representative. And when God looks at his children in heaven.
You'll see nothing.
But full conformity to Christ, the image of His Son, and when it's the Son, is 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.
Such as a reminder of silver.
And that thought is similar, only that it doesn't go as far as Roman be.
Silver is redemption.
He would have us as redeemed but Romans 8 years as his son. And I repeat, lest you miss it when it is started.
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 earth and vessel.
Too might shine out, shine forth, and Christ might be manifest in our mortal body. So he passes us through circumstances that will bring us about at this object. That'll be the peaceable fruits of righteousness. Brother Brown of Hebrews 12.
The end of this casing. Yes, I signed it up again. The Gideon vessel had to be broken for the light to shine out.
We've seen the 64th hymn and the long hymn.
We're seeing the latter part of it, but it is in keeping with what we've been talking about in the last verses.
Now notice in the eighth verse Mike, Jesus in that place of might and love, supreme once man of sorrows, full of grace.
In heaven's blessed and endless thing like him. Just think of it. You and I are going to be like Craig, not only making physically, but morally.
Like him all grace supreme, like him before thy face. Like Him to know that glory, being unhindered face to face, begin at verse 5.