Conference: 1995
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God The Great I AM
Address—C. Hendricks
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Psalm 48.
And verse 10.
According to thy name.
O God, so is thy praise.
Unto the ends of the earth, according to thy name.
Oh God, so is thy praise.
Onto the ends of the earth.
Now let's turn back to.
Genesis 1.
Genesis 1 and verse one.
In the beginning.
God created.
The heaven and the earth.
In the beginning, God created.
We must always begin with Him.
And that word God.
Elohim in the Hebrew.
Is the plural.
Noun for God.
And created is in the singular. I know these truths are familiar to most of us here, but not all.
We have a plural subject with a singular verb.
And right here at the very beginning, the very first verse in our Bible.
We have an intimation that God is a plurality.
Now, in the English language, plural means two or more.
Singular means one.
But in Hebrew.
They have a singular.
#1A dual number.
And a plural #3 or more.
So when anything is in the plural.
The minimum is 3.
Not 2 as in English.
They have a separate form.
In the Hebrew.
Language for the for the form for two.
And this is the Pearl.
In the beginning, God Elohim. It's God in the absolute.
God in the absolute, God created.
The heaven and the earth. And a little bit later in the 2nd chapter God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and so on. So God is a plurality, though you have the intimation in the Old Testament, not the revelation of it.
Of the Trinity.
The Lord Jesus, the Son came, and he's revealed to us the Trinity.
Matthew 28 in the very baptismal formula, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
It doesn't say names, it says name. God is 1 and yet three persons.
In Isaiah 6 the seraphim cry Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty.
A dual.
Indication of the Trinity, 3 Holies and Lord God Almighty, each one of those referring to God.
God is.
A plurality, a Trinity.
And here we have God in the absolute. In the beginning, God created.
The heaven and the earth.
This book.
Tells us about this wonderful God.
And how he has revealed himself to us.
In a number of ways.
Turned to the 17th chapter of Genesis.
According to thy name.
So as I praise.
He has praised, according to.
How those who are praising him know him?
And in Genesis 17 one, when Abraham was 90 years old and 9 the Lord appeared to Abram and said unto him, I am the Almighty God.
Walk before me and be Thou perfect.
Now that's a tremendous truth. He is the Almighty God.
He is omnipotent. He has all power.
There isn't anything he cannot do.
As far as power is concerned.
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There are some things he cannot do as far as morality is concerned. He cannot lie, he cannot deny himself.
He cannot do anything that would be contrary to his holy nature.
But he is almighty.
Tremendous truth.
There are those that went this morning when we remembered the Lord and worshiped Him, praised him.
I don't think.
His almightiness was expressed.
In any of the prayers and the praises.
Though that's certainly a wonderful truth, He is the Almighty God. Is anything too hard for the Lord?
No, he can do.
Everything.
He.
Just think of this being so mighty, so powerful, that he could speak.
The world's into existence.
In the 33rd Psalm it says he commanded.
And it was done, he spake, and it was done, he commanded, and it stood fast.
By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God.
God spoke them.
Into existence a being so mighty.
So all powerful that he can speak a word.
And it is.
We don't.
We don't pause. I think of the little word in the Psalms, sila.
Which means pause, stop, consider.
Meditate.
On these things.
We need to put many asilas in our lives and consider.
How great he is.
I am the almighty God.
Nothing too hard for me.
I can do.
Anything.
That is necessary to be done.
Created the world's.
Created everything that.
Has a beginning.
In the beginning, God.
The absolute.
Created and that God.
Is a Trinity.
Three persons.
One God.
Now.
In the.
I think it's in Genesis 30.
7 is it?
Let's turn over there.
We have the wrong reference.
Now I have the wrong reference. It's the passage, and I'll just refer to it. We don't have to actually turn to it.
Where he speaks of himself as the everlasting or the eternal God.
Wonderful truth.
I remember talking to a man once and he he said, well I can, I can, I can understand in my mind.
Being that.
That exists today and will live on forever.
Have no end.
But I cannot grasp or fathom.
In my mind of being, as you go back, you go back, you go back as far as you go back, there he is. He has no beginning. He's eternal.
No beginning.
No ending.
We have been created, we came into being when God brought us into this scene, and we will go on forever.
We have that which will not die.
The soul man won't die. The spirit won't die. We're going to receive a resurrection body that won't ever die.
Will go on forever, but we all had a beginning.
And it's just staggering to the mind. Try to conceive of a being God who had no beginning. He always was.
Always was.
Everything that was created in Genesis One had a beginning in the beginning, the beginning of creation. God created the heavens and the earth. Everything we see, each one in this room, everything that is within our sight or our hearing, our senses had a beginning.
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But here is this one that brought it all into a being.
Who is eternal?
Is eternal.
He's almighty.
And then?
In the 100 and.
47th Psalm.
The 147th Psalm.
I'll read from verse one. Praise ye the Lord.
For it is good.
To sing praises unto our God, for it is pleasant, and praise is comely.
The Lord doth build up Jerusalem. He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds.
He tell us the number of the stars in that. Isn't that beautiful? He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds. He comes right down to our needs down here. And then the next verse says He tell us the number of the stars.
Calleth them all by their names.
This is how great this this God is.
That he can he can interest himself in the in the very lowliest.
And those of insignificance.
As far as man's judgment is concerned, and and and Number the Stars. Count them all.
Call them all by name.
Great is our Lord, and of great power His understanding is infinite.
He is omniscient.
All knowing.
He can never know more than he knows, because he knows everything.
He can never know less than he knows because he is the same.
The unchanging God.
But we haven't looked at that yet.
We looked at him as God in the Absolute.
God Almighty, Omnipotent.
God eternal, from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Eternal God.
And here his understanding is infinite.
There's not anything that anyone, anyone can teach him.
He knows everything.
Perfect understanding.
Now let's turn back to Exodus Chapter 3.
According to thy name, so is thy praise.
Well, you know, these things that we're touching on, they're not known by the heathen.
They don't know a God that's infinite.
They don't know a God that knows everything that is almighty.
That is eternal.
They have created their own gods.
After their own minds.
And.
So these attributes of deity.
The praise and the worship that flows out to him.
Will be according to how we know him.
And how we understand him.
Now, in Exodus chapter 3 we have a very important passage.
In verse 10.
The Lord says to Moses, Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh.
That thou mayest bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.
And Moses said unto God, Who am I?
That I should go on to Pharaoh and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt.
And he said, certainly I will be with thee.
And this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee, when thou hast brought forth the people of Egypt.
The people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them.
The God of your Father's hath sent me unto you, and they shall say unto me, What is his name?
What shall I say unto them?
And God said unto Moses.
I am.
That I am.
And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am.
Hath sent me unto you. Now these are two distinct expressions. I am that I am, if you would translate that.
You would translate it. He is the same.
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He is who he is.
He does not change.
He's the unalterable, the unchangeable God.
Now the gods of the heathen, they were all changeable.
You remember the number of times that Balaam, who was that false prophet? He, he went and he went to a different vantage point and he looked at Israel. Perhaps I can curse them from here. And then God made him bless them. And then he went to another and he went to another. Why did he do that?
Well, he was laboring under the false idea that if I just try it from different positions, maybe God will change his mind.
Maybe I can convince him to curse Israel.
Maybe he'll allow me to do that.
He didn't know the true God. He didn't know the I am that I am.
He didn't know the God who does not change.
His purpose was to bless Israel and nothing could change that.
And God's purpose for you and for me this afternoon is to bless us, and nothing can change that.
Aren't you glad, aren't we happy, that we can worship Him in the absolute confidence and assurance that He is eternal, that He is almighty, that He is all knowing, and that He doesn't change?
Unchangeable the I am that I am the unalterable.
The unchangeable God it's. This is translated in other parts of the scriptures as the same.
He is the same.
And then he goes on to say, And that's the meaning of Jehovah.
He's giving the meaning of the name Jehovah.
Not Elohim.
Not the everlasting or eternal God help.
Olam it.
In Hebrew.
But Jehovah. Yahweh.
The unutterable name.
When the Hebrew scribes came to that word, they washed themselves.
Before they wrote that word.
And then they wash themselves again. I'm told this so meticulously. Did they transcribe the scriptures?
That the Hebrew manuscripts are far, far better, more accurate.
Far filled with They're filled with much less error than the Greek manuscripts.
Because they had such a reverence.
For the Word of God would to God that we had that today.
And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am.
Hath sent me unto you. Now if you would translate that word, those words I am, you'd have to translate it as the Eternal.
He is the I am the Eternal.
It's his name. It's the name for his.
Essential existence.
He is the I am. He lives in an eternal present.
There's an expression in the New Testament, and I'll turn you to it in a moment, that gives the New Testament equivalent to the Old Testament Word Jehovah.
And it's in Revelation One, verse 4, and I'll read it to you.
Revelation One and verse 4.
John to the seven churches which are in Asia.
Grace be unto you in peace from Him here it is from Him which is.
And which was?
And which is to come? That's the New Testament equivalent to Jehovah. That's what Jehovah means. He who is, who was, who is to come. He, He abides in an eternal present.
He is, he was, he is to come.
Jehovah Now going back to Exodus chapter 3, God said unto Moses, I am that I am.
He is who he is. He does not change. How wonderful to know that.
And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am.
I am.
The name that speaks of his essential existence.
Now.
Now and then and to come, He is the I am.
We can't.
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Grasp that.
In our minds.
We always think in terms of time.
Past, present and future. And so we have that put together in that one verse in Revelation 1/4.
There's a beautiful verse in Isaiah 50.
57 I believe it is.
Isaiah 57.
And verse.
15.
For thus saith the high and lofty 1.
That inhabiteth eternity.
Whose name is holy?
I dwell in the high and Holy place.
With him also, that is of a contrite.
And humble spirit.
To revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones, here's this infinite God.
Who dwells?
Who inhabits eternity?
We can we can understand if it said he inhabits heaven.
We can understand that he lives in heaven. That's a place. But eternity is not a place.
Eternity is.
Timeless.
He inhabits eternity. He is everywhere in time.
You cannot confine him by time.
He lives in an eternal present.
He inhabits eternity.
His name is Holy.
This holy God.
Now that's a moral quality.
Holy, but he inhabits eternity.
We always think in terms of past, present, future.
Here's a being our God.
Who inhabits eternity?
I dwell in the high and Holy place.
He dwells in the high and Holy place.
And then it says with him.
That is of a contrite and humble spirit.
This infinite God inhabiting eternity, dwelling in the high and holy place.
He dwells with the lowly.
The humble, the contrite in spirit.
To revive the heart of the contrite ones. I love the way scripture puts these two things together.
One verse beside another, or in the same verse, the thought of His Majesty.
His greatness.
And then?
How he loves to dwell with those.
That are humble.
And lowly.
Now let's turn to Psalm 102.
This Psalm.
Speaking about our Messiah, the Messiah, our Lord Jesus.
The first part of the Psalm.
Tells us of his.
Sufferings and.
His feelings.
His aloneness.
He says in verse 6, I am like a Pelican of the wilderness. I am like an owl of the desert.
I watching him as a Sparrow alone upon the housetop.
Mine enemies reproach me all the day, and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, because of thine indignation and thy wrath. For thou hast lifted me up and cast me down.
Says the Messiah speaking. My days are like a shadow that declineeth, and I am withered like grass.
But thou, O Lord, shall endure forever, and thy remembrance unto all generations, and so on.
And then we'll pass on.
To verse 23.
He weakened my strength in the way.
He shortened my gaze.
He was cut off right in the midst of his years, a young man, 33.
I said, Oh my God, take me not away in the midst of my days.
And then the divine answer comes to him.
Thy years.
Are throughout all generations.
Here is the man that was going to be cut off in the midst of his years, and now Jehovah speaks to him and says, thy years are throughout all generations.
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth.
The heavens are the work of thy hands.
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure. Yeah, all of them shall wax old like a garment.
As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.
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But thou art the same.
He's the I am that I am.
Thou art the same.
And thy years shall have no end.
He was cut off as a man on earth, but then the answer comes to him.
Thy years are forever, you are the same.
And that's the glorious person.
Of the Son of God.
We find that quoted in Hebrews one. Please turn there for a moment.
Hebrews, chapter 1.
Verse 8 But unto the Son he saith.
Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.
Here God the Father is addressing his Son as God.
He says, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy Kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows, and thou Lord in the beginning.
Has laid the foundation of the earth.
And the heavens are the works of thine hands.
The beauty of the poetical beauty of the Scriptures, the heavens are just the works of His hands.
They shall perish. Everything that we see here is going to cease. It's going to come to an end. It's not eternal.
They shall perish, but thou remainest.
They all show wax old as doth a garment.
And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up. The simile is just a.
Coat and one takes it off and he just folds it up and sets it aside. What a beautiful picture. This is the greatness of this person. He takes the universe, the creation that man thinks is so vast, and it is.
And he just folds it up and.
Sets it aside.
They wax old as doth A garment, and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed.
But thou art the same.
And thy years shall not fail.
Thou art the same.
The unchangeable one the I am.
That I am.
We get it again in Hebrews 13.
And we're talking now about the person of the Son, We call him oftentimes referred to as the second person of the Trinity.
I don't like that first, second and third as though one is higher in rank than the other. That's not the thought.
It's simply because we say it that way. Father, Son and Holy Spirit, we know this verse so well. Verse 8. Jesus Christ.
The same yesterday.
And today, and forever.
You know, I noticed just recently looking at that verse, I said that's not a complete sentence.
There is no verb in the sentence.
It's as though he was going to say something more.
And he says Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. And then he stops.
And he says there is no more.
There's nothing more to say.
He is everything.
He is the same.
Yesterday, today, and forever, Him who is and who was and who is to come.
Jehovah the I am.
The I am.
Eternal God.
Become a man.
Mystery of Mysteries.
God manifest in the flesh.
The I am.
Did he ever claim to be that? Well, we know he did. Turn back with me to John Chapter 8.
John's Gospel, chapter 8.
I'm not presenting this afternoon anything we don't know.
In our intellect.
What I'm trying to do is to present something we do know that we should consider more and more.
As we go on our way.
John's Gospel, chapter 8.
Verse 21.
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Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way.
And ye shall seek me.
And shall die in your sins. Whither I go, ye cannot come.
Then said the Jews, will he kill himself?
Because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.
He said unto them.
Ye are from beneath.
I am from above.
Ye are of this world.
I am not of this world.
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins.
For if you believe not that I am he.
Ye shall die in your sins.
And you'll notice that he is in italics. It's not in the original. What he says is if you believe not that I am.
Ye shall die.
In your sins.
He is Jehovah.
He is the self existent 1.
The one who has eternal being, who is unchangeable.
He said if you don't believe that I am.
He lived perfectly what he spoke.
For this, 'cause he said to Pilate, came I into the world to bear witness unto the truth.
And. Pilate said with a sneer and a scoff. What is truth? There's no such thing as truth.
Everything's relative, everything's negotiable.
He was a politician. He didn't deal with truth.
But here he was, standing in the presence of the truth himself.
The truth himself.
Who art thou altogether? And absolutely what I say to you. That's who he was.
The truth.
The perfect expression of God the Father. The very words that he spoke were the Father's words. The very works that he wrought were the Father's works.
His whole pathway was a manifestation of.
Revelation of the Father.
He says in John 15, He that hateth me, hateth my father also.
You can't hate me and love the Father.
And then he goes on to say.
I have many things to say and to judge of you.
But he that sent me.
Is true.
And I speak to the world, those things which I have heard of him.
They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
Then said Jesus unto them, When you have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am He.
And that I do nothing of myself.
But as my father hath taught me, I speak these things.
And he that sent me is with me.
The Father hath not left me alone.
For I do always those things that please him.
These statements are absolutely tremendous.
I often say to someone that says he doesn't believe the Bible, I said.
I say just read John's Gospel.
Just read the fourth book in the New Testament.
Just read it and see if it does not speak to you.
We were talking about this just the other day at the table.
That this book is just a bunch of fables and man has invented it.
That would have been an impossibility.
That the mind of corrupt, fallen, sinful man could ever have invented the life of Jesus.
That would have been as great a miracle as the truth.
That He came from heaven's glory to reveal God to us.
According to thy name, so as thy praise, and so the more that was learned and known of God.
The greater the praise ascended to him.
While he's revealed to us the father's name.
He's brought us into the nearest relationship possible.
For man.
And now we worship the Father.
We worship the Father.
The highest form of worship.
Let's go on.
He that sent me is with me. The Father hath not left me alone, for I do always those things that please Him.
As he spake these words, many believed on him.
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him. If he continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed?
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And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
They answered him. We be Abraham's seed. We're never in ******* to any man.
How sayest thou you should be made free?
Jesus answered them. Just think of it. These Jews said we were never in ******* to any man.
They were in ******* for many, many years in Egypt.
At this very time they were in ******* in Babylon, they were in ******* in Medo Persia, they were in ******* to the Grecians, they were in ******* to the Romans, and in this very time they were under the power of Rome. And we were never in ******* to any man. He completely ignores that.
And he goes to something that was far deeper than just ******* to another earthly power.
And he says, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin, And the servant abideth not in the house forever, but the Son abideth ever, if the Son therefore.
Shall make you free.
He shall be free indeed.
The Sun.
The Eternal.
If he makes you free.
You shall be free indeed. Well, we don't have time to cover all of these verses.
And let's start at verse 48. I want to touch on the end of the chapter then said the Jews.
Answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hasta devil?
Jesus answered I have not a devil.
But I honor my father, and ye do dishonor me.
And I seek not my own glory. There is one that seeketh and judgeth.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast the devil, Abraham is dead, and the prophets, and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
I thought greater than our father Abraham greater.
Infinitely greater.
But they didn't know who he was.
I thought greater than our father Abraham, which is dead, and the prophets are dead, who make us thou thyself.
Jesus answered. If I honor myself, my honor is nothing.
It is my Father that honoreth me, of whom ye say that he is your God.
He made it very clear whom he was speaking about. When he called him my father, he said he's your God.
Yet ye have not known him.
But I know him, and if I should say I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you.
But I know him and keep his saying.
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.
Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet 50 years old.
And hast thou seen Abraham?
And Jesus said unto them.
Verily, verily, I say unto you the most tremendous statement.
Before Abraham was. He doesn't say I was.
He says before Abraham was before he was born.
Before he even existed.
I am.
I am.
The Jehovah.
He is the I am.
The force of that.
The tremendous.
Power of his words.
How dare he say such a thing?
Then took the up stones to cast at him, and Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them.
And so passed by.
Before Abraham was.
I am and again in John 19.
18 Excuse me, John 18.
Turn to that briefly. John 18 when they went to take him.
Verse 3. Judas then having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees.
Comethither with lanterns, and torches, and weapons. Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth and said unto them, Whom seek ye?
They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus saith unto them.
I am he.
And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. As soon then, as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward and fell to the ground.
Then ask ye them again whom seek ye.
And they said Jesus of Nazareth.
Jesus answered. I have told you that I am He. You notice that he again is in italics. He's claiming to be the I am.
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If therefore, ye seek me, let these go their way.
And they went backward and fell to the ground. The power of that name.
The I am.
Now in the little time that is left, I want to.
Just look at the number.
A number of instances, they may not all come to my memory.
Where he speaks of himself as the I am going back to John 6.
John 6.
Verse 35.
And Jesus said unto them.
The bread of life.
These positive, succinct, short, terse statements from the Lord Jesus contain a volume of truth.
He says I am the bread of life. Think of a mere man saying such words as these. Every one of these I am expressions tell out who he is in one or other aspect of his.
Of his being the bread of life, the one who gives and sustains life, the giver of life, the sustainer of life, bread of life.
And then he says, He that cometh to me shall never hunger.
And he that believeth on me shall never thirst. What a sweeping statement.
We read through these verses so often, so quickly, without pondering them.
The immensity of the statement. There's no honest person that can read John's gospel.
Honestly, go through it carefully.
He will have to come to one of two conclusions.
Either he is everything that he claimed to be.
Or he's the greatest impostor ever, ever, ever.
There is no middle ground.
You can't take the ground of the Christian Scientist that says he was a good man, but he's not God.
You can't take that ground.
If he was a Goodman, he spoke the truth, and if he spoke the truth, he is God.
Because he claimed to be Jehovah, He claimed to be the Eternal. He claimed to be the I am the same.
Yesterday, today, and forever.
Here he says, I am the bread of life.
He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. One who fully satisfies the hunger and the thirst of the soul.
Verse 38 I came down from heaven.
Not to do mine own will.
But the will of him that sent me. How can someone hear words like this and say this man?
Who's uttering those words?
Is either the most unique person?
Or he's a madman.
I came down from heaven. I didn't come down from heaven. You didn't come down from heaven. We were born on earth. Here was one that could say I came down from heaven.
Not to do mine own will.
But the will of him that sent me?
This is the Father's will which hath sent me. That all which He hath given me I should lose nothing.
But should raise it up at the last day.
This is the will of him that sent me, that everyone that seeth the Son, seeth the Son by faith.
Who he is when it pleased God to reveal his Son in me, Paul says.
He revealed his son. He saw the son.
I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. He saw the Son and he preached. Paul preached that Jesus is the Son of God.
This is the will of him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son and believeth on him.
May have everlasting life, eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
I am the bread of life.
Now in the.
In the 8th chapter.
In the 8th chapter.
Verse 12 Jesus then spake Jesus again unto them, saying.
I am the light of the world.
He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness.
But shall have.
The light of life.
Ponder that verse. Ponder these verses. These I am statements of the Lord Jesus.
I am the bread of life. I am the light of the world.
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He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness.
But you'll have the light of life.
And in the 9th chapter.
We have again.
In verse 5, verse four, he says I must work the works of him that sent me. While it is day. The night cometh when no man can work as long as I am in the world.
I am.
The light of the world.
The light of the world.
And then we go to the 10th chapter.
And in verse.
9.
He says.
I am.
The door.
By me if any man enter in.
He shall be saved.
And shall go in and out.
And fine pasture I am the door.
The way of entrance.
Into the presence of God, The way of entrance into God's blessings.
The way of entrance into salvation.
I am the door.
Again, in chapter 10 he says in verse 14, I am the Good Shepherd.
And know my sheep.
And am known of mine.
Verse 11 I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd giveth his life.
For the sheep.
The Good Shepherd.
He is the bread of life.
He is the light, He is the door.
He is the Good Shepherd.
And in the 11TH chapter he says.
In verse 25, Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection.
And the life.
He that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and he that liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Believe us now this.
Now she was over her head in this statement was beyond her and so she answers.
She saith unto him, Ye Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God, the Son of God which should come into the world.
And then she calls.
Mary, Martha wasn't up to this.
The resurrection and the life.
He is the resurrection.
He's the one that could speak and Lazarus would come forth.
He's the one that will speak one day, and all that are in the grave shall come forth.
Those that have done good to the resurrection of life. Those that have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
Those two resurrections separated by 1000 years or so.
But he is the resurrection.
And he's the life.
And without him there is no life.
All of these statements.
Of his.
I am. I am.
The Eternal 1.
The self existent 1.
The Unchanging.
The infinite God.
The one that knows everything.
The one who is omnipotent. The one who can do anything.
The one who is omnipresent.
The one who is everywhere.
Can we hide from God?
No.
He understands our thoughts afar off.
We think in terms of.
Time and space and.
Distance and.
But here is a being.
That inhabits eternity.
The heaven is his throne, the earth is the footstool of his feet.
He is everywhere and knows all things. Satan is not omnipresent.
Satan doesn't know everything. We sometimes get the mistake that Satan is everywhere. Sometimes you read some of these stories that Satan sees each one of us. Whatever we're doing. Well, he's not. He's not everywhere. He's not omnipresent. He's not God. Only God does that.
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Only God has that attribute.
Satan doesn't. He's limited. He's just a creature.
And we're never told to fear him.
Only to fear God.
Well, we've just meditated a little this afternoon. I've.
Meditated some on these precious things.
How great he is.
Just close with a verse in Hebrews 7.
Hebrews, Chapter 7.
And verse 4.
Now consider.
How great this man was.
Consider how great he is.
Glory of that person.
He used the I am.
Here's everything.
All we need.
The Sustainer, the upholder of the universe, the one who is interested in the very minutest detail of your life and mine.
The one that loves you with an everlasting love.
The one who is, I am.
Eternal will.
The unchanging mind.
He'll never change his mind about you.
Set His love upon you today. That's forever.
No one can change his mind.
That's how God.
According to thy name, so as I praise.
We know him now in a fullness that they didn't know in the Old Testament.
And our worship should be deepest, deeper than the angels.
We are redeemed sinners.
He's the God of all grace.
The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory. After that ye have suffered a while perfect, establish strength and settle you to Him, the glory both now and forever. Amen.
The God of all grace.
You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich, yet for your sakes it became poor.
That we through his poverty might be rich. The I am the eternal one, the self existent. 1 He became poor.
To reach the likes of us.
Brother said to me once, why did he have to become just like us?
Why is that so important? I was stressing his humanity.
He had to be spirit, soul and body blameless.
Holy.
The only difference is was in the state of his humanity. It was holy. Ours is sinful, but he's just as human as you are.
Just as human as I am.
Without sin.
But that doesn't change his humanity.
That just changes the state of it.
Holiness.
And we're going to be just like him.
Without sin, the flesh will be forever gone. When we get to glory, we'll be just like Him, the one in whose presence will spend eternity.
Can you grasp that?
This eternal being.
A man.
Praise his name forever.
And ever and ever.
Let's give them thanks.
Christ in Humanity
Address—C. Hendricks
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Thursday night we spoke on the person of Christ.
In certain aspects, and this afternoon I'd like to continue that.
Especially I would like to look at his humanity.
Let's turn to Genesis chapter 3.
Genesis chapter 3.
We know the account. I'll start with verse 9. And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him.
Where art thou?
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself.
And he said, Who told thee that thou is naked?
Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
And the man said, the woman whom thou gave us to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done?
And the woman said the serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
The Lord God said unto the serpent.
Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman.
And between thy seed.
And her seed.
It that is the woman's seed shall bruise thy head.
And thou shalt bruise his heel.
Here we have the 1St.
Prediction in scripture as immediately upon sin coming in through the woman.
He was the one. She was the one that the serpent attacked.
And she listened to him and believed his lie.
And took of the fruit, and gave to her husband, and he took.
Of the fruit and sin entered into the world, though the woman was the leader in it, the scripture lays the blame on the man.
It puts the responsibility there by one man. Sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. It was Adam's responsibility to take the lead and to engage in any conversation, and he allowed his wife to do it. But the reason I've read this portion is what the Lord says to the serpent, verse 14.
Because thou hast done this.
Thou art cursed above all cattle and above every beast of the field. Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and thus shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. I don't believe the serpent crawled on his belly before this, and now he does.
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, the very one that you deceived and used to to be the one that introduced sin. I will put enmity between thee and the woman.
And between thy seed, that's the serpent seed.
And her seed.
Which is Christ?
It the woman's seed shall bruise thy head, or crush thy head, and thou shalt bruise or crush his heel.
But that took place on the cross.
When the Lord Jesus came, his heel was crushed, bruised or crushed by the serpent.
He was put to death, an apparent victory, but actually the victory, the victor was the one who died because it was through death that he destroyed him that had the power of death and delivered them, who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to *******.
By that apparent defeat.
The enemy that had introduced Sin was defeated.
It's interesting that Satan used the woman to introduce sin and the first, the first prediction from the Lord himself to the serpent is I'm going to use the woman to bring in the Redeemer. I'm going to use the woman to bring in the one that will crush your head and destroy your power.
The very one that you introduce sin through is the very one that I will use to bring about redemption.
And the putting away of sin.
First prediction in the Bible.
That the coming Redeemer would be, whatever that means, the seed of the woman. I turn to Isaiah.
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We will find out very quickly what it means.
Now everyone of us in this room is the seed of man.
Everyone of us is the seed of man.
Who could this be? That is called the seed of the woman?
Something unique and different.
Isaiah 7.
More verse 10. Moreover, the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying, Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God. Ask it either in the depth or in the height above.
But A has said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.
And he said, Here ye now, O House of David, is it a small thing for you to weary men? But will you weary my God also?
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign.
Behold, a virgin.
Shall conceive.
And bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel. God with us. That's what that means. And here we have the doctrine of Christ. We were looking at that the other night in a little different way. Here we have the doctrine of Christ. The virgin conceives and bears a son. That's his humanity.
But his name is Emmanuel, God with us. It was God that came here.
And entered his own creation by this unique means.
Through the womb of the virgin.
Thou shalt call his name Emmanuel. If you read this verse in some of the modern translations, it doesn't say a virgin, it says a young woman. Now there's nothing extraordinary about a young woman conceiving, that happens all the time. But a virgin conceiving? That's never happened before.
And here we have the prophetic pronouncement that that would be the way that God would enter this scene.
Through a virgin conceiving and having a son, and his name would be called Emmanuel.
Now let's turn to Matthew's Gospel, Matthews Gospel chapter 1.
I'm going to read this genealogy and you'll notice one word that I read over and over and over again.
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Abraham begat Isaac.
And Isaac begat Jacob, And Jacob begat Judas and his brethren, And Judas begat Pharaohs, And Zerah of Famar, And Pharaohs begat Esram, And Esram begat Aram, And Aram begat Aminadab, And Aminadab begat Niasin, and begat Salman. And Salman begat Boaz of Recap. And Boaz begat obit of Ruth, and obit begat Jesse. And Jesse begat David the king.
And David the king, begat Solomon of her. That had been the wife of Urias.
And Solomon begat Roboham, and Reboam begat Abaya, and Abaya begat ASA, and ASA begat Josephat, and Josephat begat Joram, and Joram begat Osaias, and Osius begat Jotham, and Joatham begat Akaz, and Akaz begat Hezekiahs.
And Ezekiel begat Manassas, and Manassas begat Ammon, and Ammon begat Josiah.
And Josiah begat Jaconius and his brethren about the time they were carried away to Babylon.
And after they were brought to Babylon, Jeconias begat Salathiol, and Salathiel begat Zerubbabel.
And Zerubbabel began Abayad, and Abayad began Eliakum, and Eliachim began Azor.
And Azar begat Zedek, and Sadak begat Achim, and Achim begat Elias, and Eliad begat Eliezer, And Eliezer begat Matthan, And Matthan begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Joseph.
The husband of Mary.
Whom was born Jesus?
Who is called Christ?
It did not say. It could not say Joseph begat Jesus could not say that.
Because then he wouldn't be the seed of the woman.
But Joseph is brought in. Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary.
Of whom was born Jesus, who was called Christ. So all the generations from Abraham to David are 14 generations, and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are 14 generations.
And from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ, or 14 generations now.
The birth of Jesus Christ was on this.
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When as his mother, Mary was espoused to Joseph.
Now notice the precision of scripture and the guard the scripture always brings before us before they came together.
She was found with Child of the Holy Ghost.
Child of the Holy Ghost, not child of Joseph.
It was before they came together.
She was found with Child of the Holy Ghost.
Then Joseph, her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David.
Fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in hers of the Holy Ghost.
I have a note on that word conceived in my Bible, and the margin correctly reads that which is begotten in her.
Is of the Holy Ghost.
In the normal.
Production of a child. The man the woman conceives.
Matthew's Gospel in the genealogy. And that's the reason I read it all.
That word begat appears over and over and over again.
But it does not say that Joseph begat Jesus.
It says Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus.
And we will find as we look at scripture that he is called.
Her son never.
Joseph's son.
Because he was only that legally.
But he was Mary's.
That's how he became the Son of Man.
That's how he derived his humanity. It was through his mother.
Through Mary.
The seed of the woman.
Everyone of us in this room is the seed of man, the Lord Jesus, a true man. His humanity was every bit as true as Mary's sin apart, with that one exception.
There was number sin transmitted to that baby, and we'll see how that was accomplished as Scripture sets it before us.
This ought to read That which is begotten in her is of the Holy Ghost. The one who was the Begetter was the Holy Spirit.
Not Joseph.
Not a man.
He was not the seed of man, he was the seed of the woman.
The Virgin conceived.
And bear a son, and this is quoted, And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shall call his name Jesus.
That word? Jesus.
Carries with it.
The doctrine of Christ.
Jehovah, the Savior. Jehovah is God, and the Savior is the one who became a man in order that he might save us.
He couldn't have saved us had he not come to where we were, had he not become one of us. Sin apart.
So in that very word, Jesus, we have the doctrine of Christ, if we understand the fullness of the word.
For he shall save his people from their sins.
The only way he could do that was to become a man.
And to die for our sins on the cross.
It was his death that we remembered this morning.
Wonderful, precious foundation of all blessing.
Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet saying, behold, a virgin shall be with child. Now that's a quote from Isaiah 7 where some translations render it a young woman. And I've looked the Hebrew word up and it's it's not the normal word for virgin.
It's a different word.
There's a question. Is that the right translation? Absolutely it is.
It was a sign, you know, as Isaiah 7, the sign that the Lord gave that a virgin would conceive and bear a son. And here you have it quoted in the New Testament from the Greek language, and the word doesn't bear. The word that's used here doesn't bear a double meaning. It means virgin.
And that's what it means in Isaiah 7 as well. Behold, a virgin or the virgin.
The article is there. I believe in Isaiah. The article is there. The virgin, there was one specific one that would bear the Messiah. She had to be on hand just at that precise time when he would come.
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Who came according to the time clock of God. In due time, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under law.
And so on.
Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Lord of the Lord, by the prophet saying, Behold, the virgins shall be with child.
And shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel.
Which being interpreted is God.
With us.
That's the doctrine of Christ, God with us, God to become a man entering this scene as man, as a baby, through.
The womb of the Virgin Mary.
Begat by the Holy Ghost.
Matthew presents the Holy Spirit as the beginner.
Luke especially presents Mary as the conceiver.
As the conceiver.
Then Joseph, being raised from sleep, did as the Angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife. And notice, here's the guard again.
And he knew her not.
Until she had brought forth.
Her first born son.
And he called his name Jesus.
Now in verse.
Verse 18 it says when as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
But she had a normal pregnancy.
The miracle was in the beginning.
The miracle was the one who begat that child, and it was the Holy Spirit.
Not Joseph.
But.
Time of.
Bearing the child until the child was born was normal.
And the birth was normal.
The miracle was not in the birth. The miracle was in the beginning.
Instead of a man begetting, it was the Holy Spirit. But it says in verse 25 S that there can be no question that Joseph had nothing whatsoever to do with that birth. He knew her not till she had brought forth her first born son. So when she bare her son.
She was a virgin.
Untouched by man.
A virgin.
And she bear the Christ Jesus, Jehovah, the Savior. He called his name Jesus.
Chapter 2 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the King, behold.
There came wise men from the East to Jerusalem.
Saying, Where is he that is born king of the Jews?
For we have seen his star in the East and are come to worship him.
When Herod the King had heard these things, he was troubled.
And all Jerusalem with him.
Isn't that striking?
The state of the whole city was such that to hear that the Christ had come.
Was troubling to them.
We can understand how it would be troubling to Herod.
Because that would be a challenge to his.
His authority?
But all of Jerusalem was troubled with him.
And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
And they said unto him in Bethlehem of Judea.
For thus it is written by the prophet in thou Bethlehem in the land of Judah, are not the least among the Princess of Judah.
For out of thee shall come a governor. Now that's his deity, the governor, the ruler of the universe.
That shall rule my people, Israel.
Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, inquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, go and search diligently for the young child. Now notice that expression.
He's always spoken of and singled out as the young child, the young child. This is the way the Spirit of God presents him to us in this account.
And they Herod says that go and search diligently for the young child, And when you have found him, bring me word again that I may come and worship Him also.
He had no intent of doing that. He wanted to kill him.
He wanted to get rid of his rival.
When they had heard the king, they departed, and lo, the star which they saw in the East went before them till it came, and stood over where the young child was.
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And when they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. There we have the young child once again.
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother. They are always put together, the young child, Mary, his mother. She was his mother. She was the mother of his humanity.
But you never have. Joseph called his father.
They saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down and worshipped him.
And when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts, gold, and frankincense and myrrh.
And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
And when they were departed, behold, notice the language again. The Angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise.
And take the young child and his mother.
And flee into Egypt.
He doesn't say take your wife and son.
Don't say that.
Take the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt. Joseph is looked upon as apart from this young child and his mother. They're the ones that are together. They're the ones whom the Spirit of God identifies and connects together.
He was her son.
Not Joseph's son.
So Joseph is the legal father, and he just takes them where the Angel directs.
Arise and take the young child in his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
And when he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night and departed into Egypt.
And was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet saying.
Out of Egypt have I called my son.
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wrath, and sent forth and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from 2 years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet saying in Rhema was there a voice heard lamentation and weeping and great morning Rachel weeping for her children.
And would not be comforted because they are not.
But when Herod was dead, behold, an Angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, Arise.
And here we have it again. And take the young child and his mother.
And go into the land of Israel, for they are dead which sought the young child's life.
And he arose and took the young child and his mother.
And came into the land of Israel.
And when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea, and the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither.
Notwithstanding being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee.
And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called.
A Nazarene.
He should be called the Nazarene. It was. It was a term of.
Contempt and derision. Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?
Was a city of bad reputation.
Our Lord Jesus.
Went there.
Dwelt in the city called Nazareth.
In those days came John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea.
And he tells them, Repent ye for the Kingdom of heaven.
Is at hand.
Verse 13.
Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
But John forbade him, saying I have a need to be baptized of thee and comest out to me.
And Jesus answering, said unto him, Suffered to be so now, for thus had becometh us to fulfill all righteousness.
And he suffered him.
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water.
And lo, the heavens were opened unto him.
And he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him.
And lo, a voice from heaven saying this.
Is my beloved son.
In whom I am well pleased. Now here the sun.
Mary's son, yes.
But now his father calls him.
This is my beloved son.
The Catholics speak of Mary as the Mother of God.
As to his deity, he had no mother.
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Only a father.
As to his humanity.
He had no father, only a mother.
Mary was his mother, the mother of his humanity, not his deity. That's ridiculous. Absurd.
As to his deity, God was his father.
From all eternity the eternal Son we had that before us the other night never became Son. He was always the Son.
He became a man, yes.
And he got a human mother in so doing, yes.
But that's the way Scripture presents it.
Now let's turn to Luke's gospel.
We'll read a passage from.
The 3rd chapter to start with and then we'll back up a little.
Verse 19.
But Herod the Tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, added this. Yet above all, that he shut up John in prison. Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also being baptized and praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him.
And a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved son.
In thee I am well pleased.
Now Luke presents moral order in his gospel and here we have God the Father proclaiming thou art my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. And then it immediately goes on to say in Jesus himself began to be about 30 years of age being and here's the guard being as was supposed.
The son of Joseph he was not really that being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, which was the son of Matt, that which was the son of Levi, and so on.
Now Luke gives us the genealogy of Mary, and Matthew gives us the genealogy of Joseph.
Well, you might you might wonder about that if Luke gives us the genealogy of Mary. How do you get it from that? It says Jesus himself began to be about 30 years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph.
Which was the son of Heli.
Actually.
Eli was.
Mary's father.
Not Josephs.
So Joseph was the son-in-law of Heli, and it's often presented just this way, whether it's the sun or the son-in-law. And so here we have the genealogy of Mary.
And it begins with.
When they it begins with Joseph and it goes back, goes back all the way.
To Adam.
I'll read the last verse, which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth? Which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God?
So the Lord's humanity in Luke, and that's what we have in Luke, the Lord's humanity.
Especially is traced back to Adam.
Who is called the Son of God? Now, in what sense was Adam the Son of God? Well, he was the Son of God by distinct and direct creation.
God took of the dust of the ground and he formed a man, and then he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. So Adam came directly as a created being from the hand of God.
So he by creation was the Son of God.
There are some blasphemers that talk about the Lord Jesus as being created. Never the scripture ever speak in those terms about Him. His humanity is never even spoken of as being created.
His body was prepared, him, Hebrews 10 tells us.
Never says it was created. He is the creator.
He is the creator.
But he did come into the creature's place. He became a man.
But never uses the word creature and applies it to him in any way, even as to his humanity.
But.
The genealogy here is traced right back to Adam.
Who is called the Son of God? The angels are called sons of God by distinct creation, each one an individual creation from God. Angels don't have families. They don't bigot like the human race do.
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So God created the first pair.
Adam and Eve.
And then from then on, it's a begetting and a conceiving process all the way down to the end.
It's a family.
The human family. That's not true of angels. So angels are called.
Those sons of God by creation as well. We're sons of God by redemption.
We've been brought into a place of sonship by the One who is the eternal Son. Become a man.
And he's brought us into a place that is nearer than that of creation.
We were looking last night at Brother Dan's house and Revelation a little bit in four and mostly in five. And in four he's worshipped as the Creator in chapter 5 as the Redeemer.
As the Redeemer by redemption, you and I are sons of God.
That's very, very precious. But he only has one son.
That is the only begotten Son.
The one who is of the same essence and substance as himself Co equal with himself, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 3 persons.
One God. But the marvel is that one of those persons became a man.
Sometimes we make the mistake and it's just human infirmity. We address God the Father and thank Him for dying on the cross. He did not die on the cross.
The son died on the cross. The son became a man. The son shed his blood.
So we should be more careful.
When we.
Address divine persons.
We thank the father for sending his son. We don't thank the son for sending his son. That doesn't make sense.
The Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
The son came as sent from the father.
And then they then the Son sent the Holy Spirit, and the Father sent the Holy Spirit to indwell us.
These are. This is the language of Scripture.
So here we have this genealogy and Luke traced back to Mary. It's her genealogy and in Matthew.
It's Joseph's.
He was the legal father, not the actual father, not the biological father.
The Holy Ghost functioned.
As the bigoter. Now let's turn back in Luke two, the first chapter.
We will pick up the story in verse.
24.
And after those days his wife Elizabeth conceived and hid herself five months, saying, Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
And in the sixth month, the Angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth.
To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph.
Of the House of David, the Virgin's name was Mary.
And the Angel came in unto her, and said, Hail thou that art highly favored, The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women.
And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
And the Angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God.
And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb. Now Luke talks about Mary conceiving. There's the right word. The word means conceived in Luke.
But in Matthew it means bigot. The Holy Ghost was the big.
Thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth the Son, and shall call his name Jesus.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest. When she brought forth that Son, that's his. That's the his humanity born of the Virgin, and he shall be called Son of the Highest, that's his deity. Those two truths make up the doctrine of Christ as we were looking the other day.
And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his Father David. As men he will occupy that throne.
And he shall reign over the House of Jacob Forever.
And of his Kingdom there shall be no end.
Then said Mary unto the Angel, How shall this be?
Seeing I know not a man. And now we have one of the most stupendous verses in all scripture.
Verse 35. We should all commit that to memory.
And the Angel answered, and said unto her, the Holy Ghost.
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Shall come upon thee.
And the power of the highest shall over shadow thee.
Therefore also that holy thing.
Which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
Now let's look at that very carefully.
The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee.
And the power of the highest shall over shadow thee.
It wasn't a man.
It wasn't Joseph, it was the power of the Holy Spirit.
That came upon Mary, the power of the highest.
And he preserved.
As holy.
That humanity.
That he was the begetter of.
That Mary conceived in her womb, yes, but none of the sin nature that she had was transmitted to that child by the power of the Highest.
God, the Holy Ghost preserved holy.
That birth.
The Roman Catholics have invented.
The Immaculate Conception idea that Mary was born without sin.
Because they saw the problem.
How could the Lord be without sin?
Mother wasn't without sin.
Well.
They just made another problem how it was Mary without sin. She had an earthly father and an earthly mother both.
Whereas the Lord Jesus only had an earthly mother.
So they've just made a much larger problem for themselves to explain her being born without sin, of course, which she was not.
He says My spirit rejoices in God, my Savior. He was without sin. She wouldn't have needed a savior.
She was a Sinner, just like we are.
But the Holy Ghost came upon her and preserved that child that was begotten by him and conceived in her womb, preserved it wholly prevented any transmission of sin, the sin nature to him.
And so it says therefore that holy thing.
Why doesn't it say that, holy one?
Well, many times in scripture the demons cry out, Thou art the Holy One of God.
But here it says the holy thing because I believe it's referring to the human nature.
Of the.
The Son that was to be born, it was holy, It was holy.
There's a pamphlet that's written, it's a very good pamphlet, and it says could God Incarnate sin?
Just to ask the question is to answer it. Of course not.
But there is more to it than that. That was God manifest in the flesh. And when we think of that truth, of course, that that person couldn't sin.
Because it was God manifest in the flesh. But there's more to that. Here we have the human nature of Christ itself was holy.
When Adam was created in the garden, he was created in innocency.
Without sin, but capable of sinning.
And then he fell, and then he's transmitted A sinful nature to all of his descendants. And so we're all born in sin and shape and in iniquity.
Born in sin? Well, the Lord was neither born in sin nor was he born innocent. He was born holy, with a holy nature. That's the only difference.
Between his humanity and ours, the state of it was different. It was holy.
And we're going to partake of that when we get home to glory. The sin nature will be forever left behind and will be there in the new nature which is holy.
We're told in first John three that he that is born of God.
Cannot sin. That's the new nature. If the new nature in us cannot sin, of course he couldn't.
Because that's.
What he had.
That was himself.
The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall over shadow thee. Therefore also that holy thing.
Which shall be born of thee.
Shall be called the Son of God.
Not shall become the Son of God. He never became the Son. He was always the Son, but he carried his sonship into time, it says. In Philippians 2 it says he emptied himself. Being in the form of God, he emptied himself.
We're not told what he emptied himself of. I believe he emptied himself of the outward form of Deity and took upon him the form of a servant.
He emptied himself of all that.
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That form of God that he had before he became a man, that's all that that's the only form he was in was the form of God. He emptied himself of that. He didn't empty himself of deity. He was still God. He could never cease to be God, but the form of it.
The glory of it.
And he took upon him the form of the servant.
And he carried his sonship into time. He didn't lay that aside. He didn't empty himself of his sonship. He didn't empty himself of His Holiness. He didn't empty himself of his compassion and love and goodness and all those moral features. They, they came with him.
And that perfect human life that he lived sinless.
Shows us what God's like.
We know what God is like.
Because we know him, we can read in the four Gospels. We can read that perfect, sinless holy life.
That was lived by that Blessed One for the glory of the Father.
The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee in the power of the Highest shall over shadow thee. Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
That little baby laid in a Manger, born in a stable laid in a Manger. That little baby, the Son of God.
No man would ever have thought of anything like this.
That God would enter this scene in that form.
That's the way he came.
And behold, thy cousin Elizabeth, she also hath conceived a son in her old age.
And this is the 6th month with her who was called Barren.
For with God, nothing should be impossible.
And Mary said, Behold, a handmaid of the Lord, be it unto me, according to thy word. And the Angel departed from her.
Beautiful to see how she submits.
She has been told that she is going to bear the Messiah.
And she said, so be it.
She accepted that.
She doesn't put up a lot of excuses and say I'm not worthy. She just accepts it. She submits to the divine plan.
She was to be that virgin. She was to be that one that would bear the seed of the woman.
Who would crush the Serpent's head? Destroy his power?
Beautiful to read.
We can read a little of it.
This account.
When it came to pass, verse 41, that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb, that was John the Baptist.
And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost.
And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
For lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
And blessed is she that believed.
That was true of Mary, she believed, for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
And Mary said, my soul doth magnify the Lord.
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior, God my Savior.
She was a Sinner just like we are, but she was so favored to be the bearer of the Christ.
For He hath regarded the lowest state of His handmaiden. For behold, from henceforth all generations you call Me blessed. For He that is mighty hath done to me great things, and wholly is His name, and His mercy is on them that fear Him from generation to generation. He had showed strength with His arm. He had scattered the proud and the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
He had filled a hungry with good things, and the rich he had sent empty away.
He had hope and His servant Israel in remembrance of His mercy, as he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to His seed forever.
And Mary abode with her about 3 months and returned to her own house.
And then Elizabeth's full time came.
And she bore.
John the Baptist.
The forerunner of Christ.
Now let's turn to the second chapter. We don't have time to go through all of these verses.
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The second chapter.
Verse 8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night, and lo, the Angel of the Lord came upon them.
In the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were so afraid. And the Angel said unto them, Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Rhonda you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a Manger. The sign of.
Humility, the sign of Lowliness, the sign of.
Not what you'd expect from a great king.
But just the opposite.
That was the sign that they were told.
You shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a Manger.
And suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace, goodwill toward men. And he came to pass as the angels were gone away from them into heaven. The shepherd said, one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which has come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. And they came with haste, and found Mary.
And Joseph and the babe lying in a Manger. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.
And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.
But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen as it was told unto them. And when 8 days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the Angel before he was conceived in the womb. And when the days of her purification according to the Law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem.
To present him to the Lord, as it is written in the law of the Lord. Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord.
And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord. A pair of turtledoves are two young pigeons. That shows how poor they were.
They were to offer a lamb, but if they didn't have enough for that, they were allowed this provision in the law. 2 turtle doves.
Are two young pigeons.
Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon.
And the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost that he should not see his the death, see death, before he had seen the Lords Christ. And he came by the Spirit into the temple. And when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him, after the custom of the law, then took him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now let us thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation.
Which thou has prepared before the face of all people, thy salvation in the form of this little child.
A light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of thy people, Israel. And notice this and Joseph.
And his mother marveled.
At those things which were spoken of him.
Joseph and his mother.
And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother.
Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel, and for a sign which shall be spoken against.
She's called his mother, and she was indeed.
Joseph is set off by himself.
And then Anna is mentioned.
Verse 38. She, coming in that instant, gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.
And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee to their own city, Nazareth, and the child grew and waxed strong in spirit.
Filled with wisdom.
He had a human spirit.
He was just as human as you and I are. Spirit, soul and body, he says. My soul.
Is exceeding sorrowful even unto death.
Peter says he bare our sins in his own body on the tree.
And here it was his spirit that waxed strong.
Filled with wisdom.
And the grace of God was upon him. Paul tells us that man, man is a spirit, a soul, and a body.
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And those that those that would deny.
His true humanity.
In fact, it came from a company of brethren, believe it or not.
That one man taught, and he was disciplined for it.
He taught that his deity was the spirit of his humanity.
That he didn't have a human spirit.
This verse says he waxed strong in spirit.
He grew in wisdom.
He rejoiced in spirit. We're told that a little later in Luke's gospel.
No, His deity was not the spirit of his humanity. His humanity was as complete as yours and mine. A spirit, a soul, and a body. Sinless, holy.
But all the compartments of man's being.
Were his.
Now verse 41. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover.
And when he was 12 years old, they went up to Jerusalem, after the custom of the feast and when they had fulfilled the days.
As they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem.
And here we have it again. Joseph and his mother knew not of it.
But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey.
And they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.
And it came to pass that after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions.
And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
And when they saw him, they were amazed, and his mother said unto him, She was a little bit irritated. You can tell it in her in what she says. Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?
Behold thy father.
And I have sought thee sorrowing.
Now, I don't know how else you could have said it.
I don't think she would have said Joseph and I, but she says thy father and I, and he administers a very mild rebuke to her.
And he said unto them, How is it that she sought me?
Wish thee not that I must be about my father's business.
Thou wasn't Joseph.
That was God.
And here, the first time he uses that expression, my father is when he was a boy of 12.
And then it says they understood not.
The saying which he spake unto them.
You'd think that.
Mary would have understood.
She knew that the Lord Jesus had no human father. She knew it. Joseph knew it too.
But they didn't understand the glory of this person.
And how slow we are to grasp who he is.
When he says, wish ye not that I must be about my father's business.
And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them, And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth.
And was subject unto them.
But his mother kept all these sayings in her heart, and Jesus increased.
In wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man, that's his humanity.
He grew, he increased. He learned more.
And yet as God, he.
Doesn't increase, doesn't learn more. He knows everything. Again, that's the mystery of his person.
Mystery of his person.
Well.
How beautiful.
To see how his humanity is guarded.
Joseph had nothing to do with it, and it is holy, not innocent, as Adams was.
Capable of sinning, but holy.
What is holiness? Holiness is delight in what is good and abhorrence of evil.
Holiness cannot sin. It abhors sin, it abhors evil.
And that was our Lord Jesus. The very suggestion to him that he sinned or do his own will and our act independently of the Father was painful.
Was abhorrent to him.
Get thee behind me, Satan, it is written again. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, if thou be the Son of God. Cast thyself down, and it is written as you will. Give his angels charge over thee to keep thee.
But he left out in all thy ways, and it wasn't one of the Lord's ways to act independently of the Father.
And so he says, it is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
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He never once he entered the path of subjection.
Dependence of subject man. He never got out of it. He was always the subject 1.
Always the subject 1.
There is much more.
But we don't have any more time.
May the Lord bless.
These few comments about our precious Lord Jesus. Let's close by singing.
2/19.
Lord, what is man?
He who died.
And all thy nature glorified.
Thy righteousness and grace displayed when he for sin atonement made, 219.
Lord, what is man Is he who died, and all thy name.
The Red Seas judgment flood is passed in him who bought us with his blood.
The Lord is risen. We stand beyond the doom of all our sins through Jesus, empty.
Let's turn to the book of Acts.
Chapter 1.
The former treatise Have I made O Theophilus.
Of all that Jesus began both to do and teach.
Until the day in which he was taken up.
After that he threw, the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen.
To whom also he showed himself alive.
After his passion, after his sufferings.
By many infallible proofs.
Being seen of them 40 days.
And Speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
And being assembled together with them, he commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father. Which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
For John, truly baptized with water.
But ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the Kingdom to Israel?
And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father hath put in his own power.
But ye shall receive power.
After that the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and ye shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
And when he had spoken these things while they beheld, he was taken up.
And a cloud received him out of their sight.
And while they look steadfastly toward heaven, as he went up, behold, 2 men stood by them.
In white apparel.
Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a Sabbath day's journey.
And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room.
Where abode both Peter and James and John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Altheus and Simon Zelotis, and Judas the brother of James.
These all continued with 1 accord in prayer and supplication with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus.
And with his brethren.
It's interesting that Luke, who wrote.
The Gospel of Luke and who wrote the book of Acts retains the same.
Expressions.
Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
But when he was, if you turn back to John 7 for a few minutes.
When he was here on earth.
His brethren didn't believe in him.
John 7. After these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Jewry because the Jews sought to kill him.
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Now the Jews Feast of Tabernacles was at hand. His brethren. That means his brothers after the flesh, his half brothers through his mother.
Therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
Now keep your place here and I just want to back you up to Matthew 13 and read a verse or two at the end of Matthew 13 about who these brothers are.
In Matthew 13.
Verse 54.
When he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue in so much that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom?
And these mighty works, is not this the carpenter's son?
Was he?
Well, that's what he was as far as the world was concerned. But we've just been noticing that he wasn't the son of Joseph. He was the son of Mary, but that was his reputation. Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary and his brethren? And here they're named James and Joseph and Simon and Judas. And two of those, James and Jude, wrote epistles.
The Epistle of James and the Epistle of Jude.
But he had four brothers, James and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas and his sisters. Are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? So we see that after the Lord was born, we can go back to Acts One now, after the Lord was born.
Mary and Joseph.
Lived a normal married life and had other children.
But not until the Lord was born.
So now we find them.
In verse 14 of Acts one, these all continued with 1 accord in prayer. These all being the apostles who are mentioned in verse 13.
And there were two of them that were named James. James.
Son of Zebedee, James and John, sons of Zebedee, and then James the son of Alpheus.
But there was also a James who was the Lord's half brother, and he was the one that was destined for a very important and prominent place in the early church.
He was not an apostle, but he was a chief man among the brethren, and we'll see him mentioned a number of times in the book of Acts, but it says in verse 14.
It says these all continue, that is the apostles with 1 accord in prayer and supplication with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
Now in John 7.
I didn't read that in John 7. Let's go back to John 7.
Skipped over it, thought I had read it. I started to read it.
Verse 3 of John 7 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
For there's no man that doeth anything in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, show thyself to the world. For neither did his brethren believe in him.
And Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come, but your time is away ready. The world cannot hate you but me. It hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Go ye up under this feast. I go not yet up under this feast, for my time is not yet full. Come. When He had said these things, these words unto them He abode still in Galilee. But when His brethren were gone, up then went He up also unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret, and so on.
Well, his brethren didn't believe in him when he was here, below in the flesh.
There he was, the oldest, of course, in the family.
But now they've come to faith. What is it that has changed them?
His resurrection.
His resurrection.
Says in Acts One they were there.
And then it says in those days.
Peter stood up in the midst and said.
The number of the names together are about 120.
Men and brethren, this Scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake.
Before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.
For he was numbered with us and had part had obtained part in this ministry.
Now this man, Judas.
Purchased a field with the reward of iniquity.
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And falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem, and so much as that field is called in their proper tongue a Seldomah, that is to say.
The field of blood.
Judas had seen the Lord repeatedly deliver himself.
Judas Iscariot.
He had seen him do that.
And so he contracted with the.
Leaders of Israel that he would betray him with a kiss.
If for 30 pieces of silver.
And there he did it, and he thought the Lord would deliver himself, as he had often seen him do, but he didn't this time.
He allowed them to take him.
But in the process and in a way, he allowed them to take him. He showed them that they couldn't touch him unless he permitted it.
When he was in the garden, they came with lanterns and torches and weapons.
And he said, Whom seek ye?
They said Jesus of Nazareth.
And he said I am he, or literally I am.
Those majestic words. I am.
And they all fell backward and went to the ground.
I told you that I am he if.
You seek me, let these go their way and take me.
And he allowed them to take him.
He had said earlier in the Gospel of John, he said, no man taketh my life from me. I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again.
This commandment have I received of my father.
That's so, that's so beautiful. Just as an aside comment. He speaks as though he has the power in himself, and he did, being who he was, but he didn't do it independently of obedience to the Father. He says this commandment have I received of my father. So he laid his life down in an act of obedience and devotedness to the will of the Father.
That's why he could say, therefore, doth my father love me because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. The father found a fresh motive of love in his heart for his beloved son, who laid his life down willingly, well knowing what it would cost him.
In order to have you and me in His presence for all eternity.
Well.
Saw him.
Taken.
And his own existence became intolerable to him.
He could no longer live with himself, having betrayed his master.
And he went out and hanged himself.
And that's what Peters referring to.
This man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity and falling headlong, and he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
The Lord said of that man, He said good word for that man that betrays me if he had never been born.
And I want to say to each one in the room this year, this afternoon, if you die without faith in Christ.
It were better for you that you've never been born.
Because you're going to spend eternity.
In Hell.
In the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death?
In the blackness of darkness forever.
If you die without Christ.
That need not be for anyone here. This is a gospel meeting.
It was so with Judas.
He had all the privileges and the favors of one of the 12. He saw all the miracles the Lord did. He even did them himself.
He was empowered to cast out demons, and he did it.
There was number difference between him and the others.
They didn't even know who it was, they said when he said one of you shall betray me, he said Is it I? They said, is it I?
John never said it is a die.
John says who is it?
He knew it wasn't he.
He's the one that lay on Jesus bosom.
He was intimate enough with the Lord to know that he was not the betrayer.
Some of the others didn't have that same confidence.
And they say this is it I.
But John says, who is it?
Who is it?
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He it is that dippeth his hand with me in the dish.
And it says in John 13, having done that, he went immediately out.
And it was night.
Not only a physical night, but night in that man's soul.
Satan entered into him.
He was not real. He's the one that had the bag, he was the treasurer, he's the one that kept the money.
He was the one that was specially privileged.
And yet.
He went to his own place.
What an awful place.
To be so near the Lord.
What an awful thing to be raised in a Christian assembly and in a Christian family and to have all the privileges that you have and being under the sound of the word of God and hearing it over and over and over again, and hearing your parents pray for you and read the Word to you and your brethren doing the same.
And to end up lost.
Awful. Terrible.
Is it possible that that can happen to you?
A latch between you and the Lord.
Your parents cannot save you. You can't walk in on their faith or on the faith of your brethren. You have to have it yourself. You have to reach out the hand of faith and lay hold upon what God has provided in Christ. You have to do that yourself.
It's a personal, individual transaction between your soul and God. No one else can do it for you. You have to get a loan between you and God.
And you have to make that transaction.
I'll never forget on the night of June 17th, 1947, as a young man, I knelt beside my bed.
I reached up the hand of faith.
I said Lord Jesus.
Accept thee.
As my Lord and Savior.
I've never doubted it since. Never doubted it.
I've failed him many times, yes, but I've never doubted that I was his.
He saved me that night.
Passed from death to life.
The power of Satan to God.
Has that happened in your soul?
It doesn't happen automatically. It doesn't happen because your parents are saved. It doesn't happen because you come to meeting every day, every week. It it has to be a personal transaction between you and God. Judas never had that.
He had all the outward privileges and favors.
Of the rest even more so.
He had the bag and bear what was put therein.
But there was number reality in his soul.
The reality?
Well, his brethren, the Lord's brethren, didn't believe in him when he was here below.
And they saw what happened to him, the cross.
The indescribable horror of the cross. The worst kind of death that man has devised to put another human being to death.
Impale him on a cross of ignominy and shame.
He cried with a loud voice.
It says in the Gospel of Matthew.
At the very end, and that's totally.
Contrary to what happens to someone that's crucified, because at the end they can't speak above a whisper, they can't draw enough air into their lungs to speak above a whisper. They die of suffocation.
Especially when their legs are broken, they don't have the legs to support them anymore, and they die of suffocation. The Lord cried with a loud voice. Finished. He said.
Finished.
Then he dismissed his spirit to the Father.
He died as a conqueror.
As a victor.
What a death.
What a death.
And then he rose.
He rose from the dead.
We read in the 1St chapter he was 40 days on earth, a risen man.
40 days.
After he rose, he didn't ascend right away. 40 days on Earth.
And by many infallible proofs he appeared to Peter.
To the.
To above 500 brethren at once, of whom the greater part remained. Paul said unto this present time at summer fallen asleep.
And then he appeared to James.
That was, that was.
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Lord's brother.
He appeared to James he was going to use him.
And then he appeared to.
To me, Paul says, the one born out of due time.
One born out of due time. He was saved before the nation.
The greatest persecutor of the Church.
And Paul was different from the others. They saw him a risen man on earth, but the Lord appeared to Paul from the glory.
The glory.
On the road to Damascus.
With letters from the chief priests to bind all that called on the name of Jesus. He had a hatred. His pharisaical spirit was out to snuff out the hated, despised name of Jesus. He was holding the clothes of those that stoned Stephen.
He heard Stephen. I see Jesus.
Standing on the right hand of God.
The Son of Man standing in the right hand of God.
And he heard Stephen cry. Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.
And then he fell asleep.
Saul was there.
And on the road to Damascus.
This light from heaven appears, and this voice Saul saw. Why persecutest thou me?
It is hard for thee to kick against the ******. Who art thou, Lord?
He knew it was the Lord, but he didn't know his name.
And then he learns I am Jesus.
Whom thou persecutest?
I am Jesus.
The very one that Stephen saw, the very one that Saul of Tarsus heard. Pray, Lord, lay not this into their charge. He saw the first Christian martyr, and now he sees the one that Stephen went to be with.
The Lord in glory and that closed. He became blind for three days and it closed. Saul of Tarsus desires after anything here.
And the man was changed. He was turned inside out, if you will.
It was the most remarkable conversion.
Would to God that all the conversions would be like that, that we'd all be.
Change like saw was.
To be totally on fire for the Lord.
When I see the indifference, the casual lackadaisical attitude of Christians nowadays, not on fire for the Lord, not taking the the things of the Lord seriously, not putting the things of the Lord first and foremost and prominent in our lives, all these other things are going to pass away and they have no lasting meaning and significance.
We're going to spend eternity with Christ.
Eternity with him.
That's what matters. Only one life.
It will soon be passed. Only what's done for Christ will last.
When was the last time you spoke to someone about their soul?
I don't want an answer you answer that between you and the Lord.
When was the last time you handed someone a gospel tract?
Or passed one out.
Why are we here?
Just to live comfortably.
No, we're here to be his witnesses.
That's what he says in this first chapter year. My witnesses.
His left is here to be a testimony.
To talk to people.
To tell them.
About the Lord Jesus.
You know, you young ones, you have those that you can talk to that we older ones can't talk to.
Those of your age group.
And we older ones have those we can talk to that the younger ones can't talk to.
Each one of us moves in a certain.
Group.
And we can speak to them.
Well.
We have the apostles in this book of Acts.
Witnessing.
To the resurrection, over and over again.
In Acts chapter 2, which was the day of Pentecost, let's look at it.
Peter is explaining what took place. The Holy Spirit had come. They had spoken in tongues.
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There was great power that had come upon them.
And in verse 29 Peter says men and brethren.
Let me freely speak unto you of the Patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us under this day.
Therefore, being a prophet, in knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne. He's seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul.
It was not left in hell or in Hades.
Neither his flesh did seek corruption.
This Jesus.
Hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted.
And having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost.
He hath shed forth this which he now see and hear.
He is explaining what had happened.
God had exalted his Son to his own right hand in heaven.
And from there he had received the Spirit and sent him down when he was here on earth. He received the Spirit the first time at the Jordan.
And the Spirit came upon him as a dove, and the Father's voice was heard from heaven. We read that this afternoon. This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. But now he receives the Spirit as the glorified man to send him down to.
Indwell us and to baptize the believers into one body.
So he says, therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this which he now see and hear.
In the 1St chapter he told them to remain at Jerusalem, for they would be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
And now it's taken place.
For David is not ascended into the heavens.
But he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thy foes thy footstool.
Therefore, let all the House of Israel know assuredly.
That God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. What a message to these Jews that were guilty.
Whose the blood of their Messiah was dripping from their hands?
They crucified him.
God had taken him, raised him from the dead, and exalted him to his own right hand in heaven.
Made him both Lord and Christ.
Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart.
And they said unto Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do?
Then Peter said unto them, Repent. Repentance is the door of escape from the awful judgment that lay upon them because of what they had done. Repent and be baptized everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Repentance is a change of mind.
Repentance.
Is the word means an afterthought upon reflection.
Repentance is the judgment we form.
Of ourselves.
When the word of God comes to us.
And tells us what we are.
That were lost in sinners.
Where all is an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.
Repent and soul says yes, that's true.
I'm guilty, I'm a Sinner, I'm vile.
And lost. I'm undone.
And all that God says I am.
And that's what they did. They repented of what they had done.
Lord Jesus.
And then they were identified with him by baptism.
They had his name named upon them, the name of the hated, despised Jesus.
Of Nazareth.
That showed the reality of their repentance.
And then they had the remission of sins.
And ye shall receive the Holy Ghost, the gift of the Holy Ghost.
For the promise is unto you, and to your children.
And to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call you. Remember in the in the Gospel of Matthew, Pilate took a basin and he washed his hands before the multitude and he said, I'm innocent of the blood of this just person. See ye to it.
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And they said his blood beyond us and on our children. And now Peter says.
The promises unto you and to your children.
There was mercy. There was mercy to them and to their children.
Whom they had brought under the curse, if you will.
Because of what they had done to their Messiah.
And to all that are afar off.
Even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Others are going to be brought into this blessing as well.
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying save yourselves.
From this untoward generation, disassociate yourselves from this wicked generation of Christ, rejecting Jews by being baptized to the name of Jesus, by repenting, by receiving Him.
Than they that gladly received his word were baptized, and the same day they were added unto them about 3000 souls.
That's striking that when the law was given.
3000 perished.
That's the effect of the law. The law kills. It's a ministry of death.
And condemnation, the first time the gospel was preached. 3000 were saved.
3000 were saved.
And they continued steadfastly in the Apostles doctrine.
And fellowship.
And in breaking of bread and in prayers, are you saved?
If you answer yes.
Are you continuing steadfastly in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship?
In breaking of bread and in prayers, do you break bread?
Are you at the prayer meeting?
Are you at the ministry meeting where the apostles doctrine is explained? Do you enjoy the fellowship of the apostles? And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, John says. And the hour is the apostles. Do you have that fellowship?
Do we enjoy the fellowship of the Saints? All of these four things are when we come together.
And that's what they continued steadfastly in.
Once you're saved, your life ought to change. It ought to show a difference.
And if you answered no to that question.
You're not saved.
You don't have much longer to decide.
We may not get out that door this afternoon. The Lord the shout may come and we'll all be gone. Would you be left behind?
We don't know what a moment will bring forth.
My daughter Jan left two of her children at the Recreation Center. She drove down to the school just to pick up a book for Timmy on her way back.
She was in a very serious accident.
And Kayleen, who was sitting in the back seat, went home to be with the Lord instantly.
Things can change just like that, just like that.
Thankfully Kayleen's with the Lord and the young man that fell asleep at the wheel that hit the truck and the truck flipped the car back and hit Jan, he went home to be with the Lord too.
He'd been working long, long hours and he just fell asleep at the wheel.
But he was the Lord's young man of 20.
Rose. She was only 18.
She failed to stop at a stop sign and that was it.
Just like that.
She was taken home.
Abraham
New Creation (Fragment)
Address—C. Hendricks
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Beth under her touched me not.
Don't hold me.
Don't cling to me, Mary.
For I am not yet ascended to my Father. Christianity begins on the other side of the cloud after the ascension, After he goes back to the Father, then he sends down the Holy Spirit, and that's the beginning of the new order of things.
That's what we had in John 10. That's the whole dispensational picture of the chapter. Now here we see it carried out with one of his sheep.
Touch me not I have not yet ascended to my father, but go to my brethren. Here's the message. He now calls his Jewish disciples my brethren.
Go to my brethren.
And say unto them.
I ascend unto my father, and your father.
And to my God and your God.
My father is your father.
My God is your God. You've been brought into that new place of intimacy. Our brother was talking about intimacy of relationship so that we can call God our Father.
And all of the epistles begin with blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Others 2 Prayers In Ephesians chapter 1, he prays to the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father, The Fountainhead of glory.
And in Ephesians 3, he prays to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And we've been blessed by the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, both blessed as God and as Father of our Lord Jesus, our blessings.
And so, he says to Mary, go to my brain.
Tell them, I ascend unto my Father, and to your Father, to my God, and to your God.
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord #1 truth.
#2 and that he had spoken these things unto her.
You see the Lord, it says in another place. They didn't believe it. The apostles didn't believe it.
Says in one place they believe not for joy. This news is too great. It's too good to be true.
Is risen.
Yet it's true.
And that he had spoken these things after her, and they say what? What say, say it again. What did he call us? He called us his brethren.
And he said, tell them, my father is your father, my God is your God. Tell them that.
And she told him that.
And what did that do? That gathered them together the next verse. Then the same day and evening, the same day, at evening being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus.
And stood in the mix, and saith unto them, Peace.
Be up to you.
Beautiful picture of the assembly.
This was on the 1St resurrection day before the Holy Spirit was sent down from heaven.
That was 50 days later, Day of Pentecost.
But it's a picture of the assembly.
With the knowledge that God is our Father.
The Father of the Lord Jesus is our Father. The God of the Lord Jesus is our God.
We are.
Express an intimacy anonymous never known before.
And it won't be the portion of Saints either, that follow us.
Only the Saints of this present dispensation.
From Pentecost to the Rapture are brought into this intimacy and nearness. Beloved, that's our push.
There is nothing higher.
There's nothing more blessed.
That to know that God was their father.
The Lord Jesus as the eternal Son.
Under her touch me now.
Don't hold me.
Don't cling to me, Mary.
For I am not yet ascended to my Father. Christianity begins on the other side of the cloud after the Ascension. After he goes back to the Father, then he sends down the Holy Spirit.
The beginning of the new order of things.
That's what we had in John 10. That's the whole dispensational picture of the chapter. Now here we see it carried out with one of his sheep.
Touch me not I have not yet ascended to my father, but go to my brethren. Here's the message. He now calls his Jewish disciples my brethren.
Go to my brethren.
And say unto them.
I ascend unto my father, and your father.
And to my God and your God.
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My father is your father.
My God is your God. You've been brought into that new place of intimacy. Our brother was talking about intimacy of relationship so that we can call God our Father.
And all of the epistles begin with blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Letters to prayers in Ephesians chapter 1. He prays to the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father, The Fountainhead of glory.
And in Ephesians 3, he prays to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And we've been blessed by the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, both blessed as God and as Father of our Lord Jesus, our blessings.
And so he says to Mary, Go to my breath.
Tell them, I ascend unto my Father, and to your Father, and to my God, and to your God.
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord #1 truth.
#2 and that he had spoken these things unto her.
You see the Lord, it says in another place. They didn't believe it. The apostles didn't believe it.
Says in one place they believe not for joy. This news is too great. It's too good to be true.
Is risen.
Yet it's true.
And that he had spoken these things after her. And they say what? What state say that again, what did he call us? He called us his brethren.
And he said, tell them, my father is your father, my God is your God. Tell them that.
And she told them that.
And what did that do? That gathered them together the next verse. Then the same day and evening, the same day, at evening being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus.
And stood in the midst, and sayeth unto them peace.
We are to you.
Beautiful picture of the assembly.
This was on the 1St resurrection day before the Holy Spirit was sent down from heaven.
That was 50 days later, Day of Pentecost.
But it's a picture of the assembly.
With the knowledge that God is our Father.
The Father of the Lord Jesus is our Father. The God of the Lord Jesus is our God.
We are, let's breath, an intimacy, A nearness never known before.
And it won't be the portion of Saints either, that follow us.
Only the Saints of this present dispensation.
From Pentecost to the Rapture are brought into this intimacy and nearness. Beloved, that's our push.
There is nothing higher.
There's nothing more less.
Than to know God as their father.
The Lord Jesus as the eternal Son.
But just these few thoughts.
Seven Steps for Believers - 1st Address
Seven Steps for Believers - 2nd Address
Eternal Sonship of Christ
Address—C. Hendricks
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Denied the eternal sonship of Christ.
Which is quite common today. There are those that teach this error, this terrible error.
In the camp.
There were those that were of brethren circles that introduced it.
Some years ago.
And.
Then there are other errors.
We will look at his person and what what constitutes the doctrine of Christ.
To begin with, let's turn to Matthew 22, Matthew chapter 22.
And verse 41.
While the Pharisees were gathered together.
Jesus asked them, saying, What think ye of Christ?
Whose son is he?
They say unto him, the son of David.
He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand.
Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him a word?
Neither dost any man from that day forth ask him any more questions while the Lord quoted. You can keep your place here, but I'm coming right back, He quoted from the 110th Psalm.
And I want to just read that first verse.
The 110th Psalm verse one a Psalm of David. So this is David speaking, the Lord said unto.
My Lord.
So here you have the Lord Jehovah speaking to Davidde Lord.
Sit down at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. This is the passage that the Lord Jesus coded. He asked them the question and He was addressing the Pharisees. He was addressing those who were of the strictest sect of the Jews religion, the fundamentalists of the day, those that should have known who Christ is.
And so he asks them what thinking of Christ? They were used to asking him questions and and he's silencing them with his answer. But this time he asked them a question. What think he of Christ? Whose son is he?
And they answered, The Son of David. You remember earlier in this gospel, the blind man cried out, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
That was the right answer. He was the son of David.
But then the Lord asks them.
How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit down at my right hand.
Till I make thine enemies Thy puts to it, David, call him Lord.
How is he his son?
Now this is the mystery of the person of Christ being able to answer that question. And the last verse of the chapter is very remarkable. No one, no man was able to answer him a word.
Neither dost any man from that day forth ask him anymore questions.
In John's Gospel, the Lord Jesus said, Except you believe that I am, you believe not that I am. You shall die in your sins.
I think of the poem I don't know at all, but I know the 1St 2 lines, 1St 2 stanzas.
What think you of Christ is the test to try both your state and your scheme? You cannot be right in the rest unless you think rightly of Him.
As Jesus appears to your view as he is beloved or not, so God is disposed to you.
And mercy or wrath is your mutt.
That states it very correctly, doesn't it?
If we're wrong as to who he is, If we're wrong as to that.
We have.
We have erred on the very foundation. The 11TH Psalm says, If the foundation be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?
Christ is the foundation. He is the rock.
So he asked them this question.
David called him Lord. How can he be his son?
Well, he's David's son is man. He's David's Lord as God.
And they didn't seem to know. These Pharisees should have known that the Christ who had come was God, God over all, blessed forever. They couldn't answer the question. You have it again in another 22nd chapter, and that's in Revelation. Turn to it, please. Revelation 22, last chapter.
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In the Bible.
Revelation 22, verse 16.
I, Jesus, have sent my Angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David the Bright and Morning Star. As the root of David, He was Davidde, Lord, as the offspring of David, David's son.
He is both the Son of God, David's Lord, and the Son of Man.
David's son. David's offspring.
As the root, he was David's Lord.
We find this truth all throughout Scripture. I will refer to one more passage, Romans 1.
Romans chapter 1 You can trace it through at your leisure. How many times this this doctrine of Christ?
Consisting of his Godhead and his manhood.
Are presented together Romans one Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God.
Which he had promised before by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures concerning His Son. I want to make this comment whenever the scripture speaks about his about the Lord Jesus as the Son of God.
It's always his personal glory.
As God, God the Son, the Son of God, yes, the Son of God became a man. He came into this world and he died.
The Son of God, Galatians 220 who loved me and gave himself for me. But the Son of God always sets before us the glory of his Person, a glory which was eternal, never became the Son, never became the Son. You see the temporal sonship doctrine.
That when he became a man, he became the son.
And when he became a man, God became the Father.
You see, this doctrine, this heresy, this awful teaching, denying the Eternal Sonship, involves striking at fundamental truth. Its fundamental error is what it is.
His Godhead, that he is God, the Son of God. You could ask at Jehovah's Witness who Jesus is and he will say he's the Son of God.
But he doesn't mean by that He is God the Son.
He doesn't mean by that.
He is God the Son. He means something else. He means He was the first created being and then He created everything else.
Does a brother in our Silver Springs assembly?
Greg Beneventis, his name. He was saved out of Jehovah's Witnesses.
And he loves to use their New World Translation in confounding them. He used to go around as one of their missionaries, propagating the errors of Jehovah's Witnesses. Now he defends the faith.
In John One, in our translation King James, it says all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made.
Mr. Darby's translation and the New World Translation of Jehovah's Witnesses, they read almost identically, and it reads, all things came into being through him.
And not one thing came into being without him that has come into being.
And then he would read that verse to them, and he'd say, did he create himself?
Because that verse says that nothing has come into being without him. And if he was the first created being, then God created him without him. And that's of course contradicted by the scriptures, their own scriptures, and it confounds them.
Well, the denial of the eternal sonship doesn't necessarily mean that those that do that deny that he is God, as the JW's do.
But they deny the relationship between the Father and the Son, that it's an eternal relationship, a very serious error.
All right, let's read this Romans 1/3 concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Which was made of the seed of David. That's his humanity, according to the flesh.
He is the son of man, son of David.
And declared this to be the Son of God with power. That's his deity, the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness.
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By resurrection from the dead, he raised, Lazarus. He raised.
Others in the Gospels.
And he said, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up, speaking as the sun.
The eternal Son, he raised himself from the dead.
Only God could do that, and so he was.
God and very men now turn to second John, if you will. Second Epistle of John.
Where we have the doctrine of Christ spoken of.
And it's striking that this epistle is addressed to a sister.
And her children the elder unto the elect lady, and her children whom I love in the truth he says.
3rd John was addressed to the well beloved Gaius the elder, unto the well beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth, and he commends Gaius in three John for being hospitable and opening his home to the travelling brothers that came around.
And he warns this sister in second John about.
Those that are deceivers and antichrists who don't bring the doctrine of Christ, and that she is responsible to know the difference.
To know who the Lord Jesus is and to reject those that are not true to Him.
It says in verse seven of second John many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. Now I want to correct this just a little bit. It sounds like in our King James translation that the confession is that.
Such a person named Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Now you can ask just about anyone out there, whether they're saved or not, if there was such a personage as Jesus Christ in this world, and they'll say yes. Our calendar is dated from his birth.
That's not what John is. That's not what John means. Let me read. Let me reread that verse. I'm going to leave out one or two words and you'll notice the difference. Many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not Jesus Christ.
Come in flesh.
The point that John is making is the confession of the person who came in flesh.
The person who came existed before he came in flesh.
It would be silly to talk about any of us coming in flesh. That's the only way we can come. We're simply creatures. We're simply men and women and boys and girls. We come in flesh. That's the only way we can come. But here's the confession of a person who existed before he came in flesh.
As God, it's the confession of his deity and his humanity that he is God the Son and man as well. He came in flesh.
While there are many deceivers, he says, entered into the world that do not make this confession.
That do not own his person. That He is very God and very man. That God was manifest in the flesh. That the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. John 114.
But he says in verse 9.
Whosoever he says at the end of verse 7, this is a deceiver and an Antichrist.
One who does not confess the full person of Christ, the full doctrine of Christ, The doctrine of Christ involves his deity. It involves his humanity. Attack him in either the one or the other, and you have.
Attack the doctrine of Christ. You don't hold it properly, which is the most serious thing, as we'll see as we read on here.
A very A brother from North Carolina told me this.
And when he told it to me, I said, Are you sure you heard him right? He said absolutely, I heard him right.
I won't mention the man's name, the very famous preacher in Atlanta, GA, I'll say that much.
And he has a very large congregation of thousands.
And he was dealing with the question, Could Jesus have sinned?
And he said.
I don't know, We'll have to wait and see. And he's the.
Is the leader of hundreds, More than hundreds? Thousands. I don't know. We'll have to wait and see. There's a man out here in California. You probably know whom I'm Speaking of.
That denies that he's the eternal Son.
That says that he didn't become son until he became a man.
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And this company of brethren, the Raven brethren, I will name them.
They have developed through James Taylor's heterodox teachings, that he wasn't son until he was born in time, nor was he the word until he was born in time. Nor did he.
Dwell in the Father's bosom until he was born in time.
Terrible errors and God wasn't the Father until Christ was born in time. These are all offshoots of the heterodox teachings of these men.
I was talking to a sister and a brother about this subject and the sister said how could they? How could such intelligent men not see the truth?
Christ's eternal sonship. How could they? She just couldn't understand. He couldn't grasp it. And I said to her, I said, well, maybe, maybe you don't know the treachery of your own heart.
Because we are all capable of falling into these mistakes and errors. These men that have fallen into these errors and that hold them even today are remarkable men and very gifted men.
But involved in very serious error and I know three young men that used to be with us and they've left us for the Raven Company. I think they're more spiritual than we are.
If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?
If we don't hold fast to the person of Christ, you can look at everything else and it really doesn't make that much difference.
If you don't hold the foundation of our faith.
Christ said to Peter, Well, he said to his disciples, Who do men say that I, the Son of Man AM? I'm quoting Matthew 16 And they said, Some say that thou are John the Baptist, or Elias, or Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. But whom say ye that I am?
Peter said Thou art the Christ.
That's his manhood, that's what he came to be, the Christ, the anointed, the prophet, the priest, the king, and then he says the Son of the living God, That's his deity.
That's the doctrine of Christ involving the confession of His manhood and His.
Deity, blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my father, which is in heaven.
Then he says he gives him a new name. He was Simon. Now he gives him the name Peter.
A still he says, Thou art Peter still. And on this rock he had just confessed the truth of Christ's person, the Christ, the Son of the living God.
And he says on this rock I will build my church. So the church is built upon that foundation.
The Church is the pillar and ground of the truth to uphold that foundation, to hold that uphold that truth beyond anything else.
Well, he holds this elect lady and her children, John the Apostle writing to her in second John. He holds her responsible for knowing who the Lord Jesus is. He says in verse 9.
Whosoever transgressive.
And abideth not in the doctrine of Christ. The doctrine of Christ is what we had in verse 7.
That Jesus Christ has come in flesh, the person God become a man. That's the doctrine of Christ. And he says whosoever transgresseth in the new translation.
It's not a translation difference.
Between Mr. Darby and the King James, it's a Greek text difference. I looked it up.
He renders it. It's a different Greek word, Whosoever goes forward.
And abides not in the doctrine of Christ.
Goes forward.
So let me explain what that means.
I was passing out tracts in Chicago a long time ago when I was a young man.
On the elevated platform Loyola right there, there's a theological seminary. It's turned modernistic now. They used to be sound, but they're not anymore. Like so many have gone that way. And I got to talking to this professor. He got on the train and he sat next to each other and he asked me what I believed. And I told him I believe in that. Jesus is God.
Part of the Trinity, Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.
That he became a man who was born of a virgin, died a vicarious sacrificial death on the cross, rose bodily from the dead lives, ascended and glorified in heaven. Spirit of God is down here forming the Church and the all sufficiency of the Bible. And I went over the fundamentals.
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Of what we believe and hold so dear.
And he smiled at me and he said that's nice, but now you have to go on to the deeper things. And that's what John is talking about in verse 9. Whosoever goes forward, it's what is called development.
And abides not in the doctrine of Christ.
Hath not God? That's a solemn word.
Hath not God now? I didn't say that John wrote it.
John wrote it under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Whosoever goes forward and abides, not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God, but he that abideth in the doctrine, he hath both the Father and the Son.
Both the father and the son.
So the test.
As to where we really stand is do we hold and abide in?
The doctrine of Christ, that he is very God.
And very man, the eternal Son.
And.
A holy man.
You can attack him either on the divine side of his person or the human side of his person.
Either one of those attacks.
Denies does not abide in the doctrine of Christ.
This man in Georgia that couldn't answer the question, could Jesus have sinned? He said. I don't know. We'll have to wait and see.
Does he really know who Jesus is?
When the Angel said to Mary, you are going to have a son, she said, how shall this be seeing I know not a man.
The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall over shadow thee. Wherefore also that holy thing.
Which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Notice the precision of scripture doesn't say shall become the Son of God.
He never became the Son of God. He was always the Son of God.
That's his eternal person.
God the Son, the Son of God.
And the father.
And from all eternity, the Trinity, Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Why did the Seraphim in Isaiah 6?
Cry holy, holy, holy. Why three times?
Because there's three persons in the Trinity, The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Why do we read so often? Lord God Almighty, there we have the Trinity again.
Trinity again in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. In the beginning, God Elohim. That's a Hebrew word for God in the plural.
Created as in the singular, a plural subject with a singular verb. It's not grammatically correct, but it sets forth the truth. God is 1 and yet consisting of three persons. In the English language, the singular is 1, the plural is 2 or more. Not so in Hebrew. In the Hebrew they have a singular 1A dual 2 and a plural three or more.
So Elohim being in the plural couldn't be just two.
And has to be at least three or more. And we know it's three, the father.
The Son and the Holy Spirit.
Well, verse 10, instruction to this elect lady and her children, the children in the family of God should know who Jesus is. This is foundation truth. If there come any unto you Christian teachers that come to your home purportedly under the guise of being a Christian teacher and bring not this doctrine. He's not talking about a worldling that's coming to her home. They don't bring the doctrine of Christ. They're not supposed to. They're not expected to.
Because they don't believe he's talking about a professing Christian here. A teacher can either come any unto you and bring that this doctrine, the doctrine of Christ. Receive him not into your house, neither bid him Godspeed. Don't greet him.
For he would biddeth him Godspeed, his partaker of his evil deeds.
If we are not true to His person and refuse, all that sullies His glory, either on the divine side or the human side.
Deny His eternal sonship you did you touch the divine side of His person?
Saying that Jesus could have sinned, you touch the human side of his person.
They argue, of course they have their arguments.
This man that teaches that in California, he teaches that sonship implies inferiority.
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Does it? Scripture teaches just the opposite. Scripture teaches that it implies equality, not inferiority, but equality. But he reasons from this false premise to the fact that he couldn't have been inferior in the Godhead. Therefore he couldn't have been Son in the Godhead.
Turn back to Mark 12 verse or two.
Gospel chapter 12.
He began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set in hedge about it, and digged a place for the wine fat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. And at the season he sent to the husband and a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. And they caught him and beat him, and sent him away empty.
And again he sent unto them another servant, and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
And again he sent another, and him they killed, and many others, beating some and killing some. Now notice this having yet therefore one son is well beloved.
He sent him also. He was the son before he sent him.
He didn't become sung on being sent.
This is the air, they said.
He sent him also last unto them, saying They were reverence, my son. But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir they know, they knew who he was.
Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours. And they took him.
And killed him and cast him.
Out of the vineyard. But he was the son before he was sent, not after he was sent as the error.
Would make it. I turned to John 5 please. John's Gospel, chapter 5.
Now this is a verse that shows that sonship does not imply inferiority. On the contrary, it implies equality.
In John 5.
We have the case of the impotent man at the pool of Bethesda.
And in verse 15, the man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus and sought to slay him because he had done these things on the Sabbath day?
Now notice verse 17 that Jesus answered them. My Father worketh hitherto.
And I work. That was a simple statement, but it was so to them. To the Jewish leaders, it was blasphemy.
A man on earth daring to call God my father.
And I check this out, I have a computer New Testament.
Many of you may have it, and I put in the expression my father.
And I went through the whole New Testament.
There's only one man that ever uses that expression.
That's the Lord Jesus.
No apostles ever speak of God as my Father.
He taught his disciples to pray our Father, which art in heaven.
Hallowed be thy name, but no mortal ever uses the expression my father.
Only the Lord Jesus, only the eternal Son.
And when he said my father, the Jews understood he was claiming.
To be equal with God.
And So what does it say?
Jesus answered them. My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his father. Mr. Darby reads that God was his own father.
Making himself equal with God.
Not inferior to God, but equal with God. To the Jewish mind, for a man to call God my father was blasphemy.
And so they sought to kill him because he was making himself equal.
With God.
In addressing him as my father.
No, sonship is not inferiority, it is equality. And when he claimed to be the son?
He was claiming equality with the father, as he does in Return to it in chapter 10.
Chapter 10.
Now here in these two passages, I'm going to look at now in the 10th chapter, and then we'll follow it with the 14th chapter. We have the doctrine of Christ when you put the two together.
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In verse 30 of chapter 10, he said I.
Verse 29 My father, which gave them me, is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand. I and my father.
Are one. And again the response was the same, that then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Because he said I and my father are one, There's only one meaning that you can attach to that, that sentence that he is claiming equality with the father.
I and my father are one, but that's only half of the doctrine of Christ. That's his deity. Turn to the 14th chapter.
Where you have the other side of the truth.
In Sean, 14.
Verse 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
You have heard how I said unto you, I go away.
And come again unto you.
If you loved me, you would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father.
For my father.
Is greater than I. That's his humanity.
As man, he could say my father is greater than I. He took a position when he became a man.
He laid aside his.
The form of God.
And assumed the form of a servant.
So he who could say as to his deity, as to his eternal sonship, I am my Father, are one.
Can say now as to the place that he took in humanity. My father is greater than I. I remember talking to a Hindu, a young man. His parents were Hindus and he was a professing Christian.
And the passage that troubled him the most.
Was in Mark's gospel. Let's look at it in Mark's gospel.
Chapter 13.
In Mark's Gospel chapter 13.
In verse 30, the Lord says, Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass till all these things be done. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
But of that day and that hour.
Knoweth no man.
No, not the angels which are in heaven.
Neither the son.
But the father?
And he couldn't understand.
How that could be there? How come? How can he know everything?
Because he is God.
And yet not know the day.
Nor the hour.
Well, this comes in the Gospel of Mark.
This is only found in the Gospel of Mark. Mark presents him as the perfect servant, and the scripture says the servant knoweth not what his master doeth, so it's in keeping with his being the servant in manhood.
Took upon him the form of a servant. He came down. It's in keeping with that position that he took that he doesn't know.
But in keeping with his eternal sonship, of course, he knows.
How can no and not know?
Well, this is the mystery of his person.
It's a mystery that you and I will never understand. We'll believe it. We rejoice in it, as the poet says to his darkness, to my intellect, to sunshine, to my heart.
I can enjoy what I cannot fathom.
How can it say in the 121St Psalm that of Jehovah he neither slumbers nor sleeps?
But in the Gospels there is the Lord Jesus asleep on a pillow in the boat, with the waves raging round about. And they awoke him and said, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he stood up, the sleeping man.
That's his proper humanity.
God doesn't sleep. He never slumbers nor sleeps. But that man who slept was indeed God and man in one person. Can we fathom that?
No, we can't.
Never be able to. I don't. That's a mystery, it says in John. In Matthew 11 it says no man knoweth the Son but the Father.
No qualifying clause to that. Neither know if any man. The Father, saved the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him. The Son reveals to us the Father. He is simply the adorable God.
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But the father only knows the son.
The father only.
Knows the son of the name of the son. Can comprehend. I can't remember just how it goes.
But he knows.
He only can understand how the divine inhuman are united in the person.
Of the sun.
So this.
Hindu boy, he couldn't understand.
How he didn't know the hour.
Well, I told him that was because he was man.
Perfect servant here. It was proper for him that way. There are many things. How could he hunger?
How could he grow weary?
Jehovah is neither weary. He never goes weary.
He doesn't hunger.
As God.
But man.
The man hungered.
He grew in wisdom and stature with God and men.
It says in the 147th Psalm about Jehovah God. His understanding is infinite. He doesn't have to learn anything, He knows everything.
But the Lord learned.
He acquired.
He grew.
He made progress because he was a true man. We may not be able to put these things together properly, Understand.
None of us can understand God manifest in the flesh.
The incarnation.
There's a pamphlet that I have.
And the title is very striking.
And it's a beautiful pamphlet refuting Taylorism.
And the title is.
Sonship by incarnation or the incarnation of the Sun?
It's one or the other.
The truth is the incarnation of the Sun.
Sonship by incarnation is the lie of Satan.
He never became the Son by being Incarnate.
But the Sun became Incarnate.
Son became man. The Son entered his own creation, and never does it say in scripture that he was created. Even as to his body, it says a body. Hast thou prepared me?
Not created.
He's the creator.
And the Spirit of God avoids using that.
With respect to him.
Let's turn to John's Gospel chapter 1 now. There's some beautiful expressions there.
John's Gospel, chapter 1.
We start with the first verse. In the beginning was the Word. Now these tailor brethren, they, they deny that the word was eternal. We have a hymn. We don't have it in our hymn book, but a beautiful hymn says Eternal Word, Eternal Son. The Father's constant joy. All that thou art, and all thou hast done shall all our tongues employ Eternal Word. Eternal Son, in the beginning was the Word.
The beginning of anything that had a beginning, the word was.
Never began. He never came into being. He was there.
He was there.
In the beginning was the word that speaks of His eternal being.
And the Word was with God that speaks of his distinct personality.
He was with God the Father.
And the word was God that speaks of his proper deity. So in that one short sentence, we have his eternal being, we have his distinct personality, and we have his proper deity.
And then it says the same he that won the word was in the beginning with God.
There were some that say yes, he was with God when he became a man, but this says no in the beginning. Back then in the eternal past, he was with God.
In the beginning.
With God and then that verse I've already commented on, all things were made by Him or all things came into being through Him.
And without him, not one thing has come into being which has come into being without him.
So he couldn't have been created. He was the creator. He brought everything into being. Now, as I speak to you, I'm using words.
The most remarkable thing I was out in the backyard before leaving for on this trip and some dogs were barking.
And I just said to myself, that's all you can do is bark. That's all you can do is bark. They can't form a word.
Can't express themselves except they wag their tail to show that they're happy. But all they can do is yap, yap yap and every creature.
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Except man.
Man knows how to talk, and when the first man was created, he was created with a full full vocabulary.
So that God could commune with him.
And so that he could commune with his wife.
The Curse of Tongues hadn't come in yet.
There was only one language.
And God gave them that language, and he gave them the ability.
I have thoughts in my mind.
My tongue forms the words.
Vocal cords are needed, a palate, tongue, teeth and all that to form the words, and they go forth and you hear those words.
Then they go into your mind, into your brain, and it translates them into an intelligent message.
What is in my mind is now in your mind. You understand what I'm saying, and I use words, and the Lord Jesus is called the Word.
He's the one that expressed who God is. He's the one that revealed the mind of God.
So that now we know what was in God's mind for us, because he came to make it known to us. He's called the Word.
That's talking to this one brother and he's he's bought this, this Raven Heresy. I call it Raven because it's a Raven company.
And he says, he said to me, I said you in, in my very presence when I was in your home, you denied that Jesus is the eternal Son. He said, no, I I believe that he is, he is an eternal person.
I said, Larry, that's not the issue.
It's not that he's an eternal person, but that he's the eternal Son, that his sonship is eternal, that the relationship that he had with the Father never began.
It was always there. He was always the son. He never became the son.
And.
That teaching of theirs.
They say.
That we can't define. This is what Mr. Taylor taught. We can't define the relationship between the persons of the Godhead.
Before time. They're inscrutable. They're unknowable.
And then he goes on to define them.
To define what's undefinable and I said to Larry.
I said.
You don't know God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. That's only the relations that they have, these persons of the Trinity.
After the Lord became a man.
You don't really know what God was like or who he is before that.
In other words, he said. But he it happened in time.
Yes, it happened in time. What else could it happen? What else could he reveal himself to his creatures except it be in time? His creatures didn't begin to exist until time started.
Before time started, there was only God. And who was that God?
Well, when Paul went to Athens, he saw an inscription to the unknown God, and I said to him, I said, you have an unknown God.
You don't know who God is.
The Lord came to earth in time to reveal to us who God is from all eternity past, not just in time.
He is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The baptismal formula in Matthew 28 says baptizing them in the name, not names, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. One name, one God, three persons. But we know who those persons are. Yes, revealed in time, but not revealed by the prophets, revealed by the Eternal.
Son.
Who lay in the Father's bosom from all eternity never left it. Never entered it either. He was always there.
Mr. Bell, it puts it so beautifully in his the Son of God, the hiding place of love.
The hiding place of love.
The Father's bosom. So we go to verse 14 of John 1. And the Word was made flesh, or became flesh, and dwelt among us.
This person, the Word, the eternal Word, became flesh, became a man, dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory.
Glory as of the only Begotten of the Father, as Misty did. Mr. Darby renders it more precisely, the glory as of an only Begotten with a Father.
The glory that He beheld was an eternal glory.
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A glory that never began in Psalm 2X13, Hebrews 1 and Hebrews 5.
And it says, Thou art my son.
This day have I begotten thee.
Whenever it points to a point in time, this day have I begotten thee. That was his being, becoming a man begotten in time.
Into manhood when he was born.
But when it speaks of the only begotten, it's a timeless expression.
It's an expression that refers to him as partaking of the same essence and substance.
As the father.
Did you understood this in Genesis 1? It said.
This animal will begat after his kind, this one begat after his kind, this one begat after his kind. You'll never find 2 cats getting together and producing a dog, or dogs producing a mouse or something like that. Dogs produce dogs and cats produce cats, and men produce men. Everyone produces after his kind. And if God has an only begotten Son, he is of the same substance and essence and kind.
As God Himself, and that's the force of only begotten.
Our modern translations only bring out the side of the love that was between the persons in it, certainly in the expression, by rendering it my only dear Son, or something like that. You can't get away that you can't eliminate that word begotten, because it brings out that He was of the same substance as the Father.
The only begotten Son.
And so this says we beheld his glory. The glory is of an only begotten with the Father.
A special, unique place that he had with the Father from all eternity past, Something he never entered into, but was always his full of grace and truth.
John bear witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake. He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me.
John was older than the Lord Jesus, six months older. He was born before he was, but he said he was before me.
He had a sense of the person that he was talking about here.
And of His fullness have all we received in grace for grace, or grace upon grace.
But the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Now verse 18, a very powerful verse. No man hath seen God at any time.
The only begotten Son.
Which is in the bosom of the Father.
He hath declared him. Now there's a problem in this verse that we don't see in English.
It's in that little word in.
The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father in the Greek I would have expected, and I wrestled with this for a long time, till the Lord gave light on it. I would have expected that it would have been the Greek word en.
In, that's what it means.
But it's not. It's ice EIS which means into or unto or for translated those three ways. And but you can't translate it that way in this passage. The only begotten Son which is into the bosom of the Father. That doesn't make any sense. Or the only begotten Son which is unto the bosom of the Father or for the bosom of the Father. You have to render it as our translators have render it.
In the bosom of the father, but it doesn't mean that he was in the father's bosom. Bosom stagnant.
But it's the it's the preposition that speaks of motion ice.
And it brings before us the beautiful thought.
Of the flow of affections.
Between the father and the son.
I think the hymn writer and the son to the Father, the hymn writer in the 127th hymn where it starts out, how blessed a home, the father's house.
Over to home, the son who knows talking about the father's house. But I like to think of this now in terms of the father's bosom.
Because that was his home from all eternity past.
And he never left it.
He only all His love, and brings us as His well beloved to that bright rest above, dwells in His bosom.
Know if all that in that bosom lies and came to earth to make it known that we might share his joys. And again the next verse.
Or at a home again. I'm thinking of it now. I'm making an application to the Son and the Father's bosom, their fullest love.
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Flows through its courts of light and that's why I believe ice is used, because it's the flow of affection.
Between the Father and the Son, and the son and the father.
Now the Ravens teach because it's ice. It says that he entered the father's bosom when he became a man.
Absolutely wrong.
Doesn't mean that at all. He never entered it. He was always there, as we sing in our hymn. 27 Son of God, thy Father's bosom ever was thy dwelling place.
His delight in him rejoicing one with him in power and grace.
Oh, that wondrous love and mercy thou its lay thy glory by and for us. It's come from heaven as the Lamb of God to die.
So it says their fullest love flows through its courts of light. The sun's divine affections flow throughout its depth and height. And I believe that though it's not written for the Father's bosom, but I believe it expresses what we have in verse 18 of our chapter, the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father.
He hath declared him.
The only one that could declare him, the only one that could really declare the Father, is the one that was there with the Father from all eternity.
How could he declare him if he just entered his bosom when he became a man?
That makes no sense.
It's a place that he knew.
Perfectly and infinitely perfectly from all eternity.
The Father's bosom. So you see, the denial of the eternal sonship is very serious.
It really involves denying the Trinity.
It involves the nine that we can really know who God is from all eternity past Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. If he wasn't the Son for all eternity, but God wasn't the Father from all eternity.
Very serious error. Turn to John 16. There's a beautiful verse there that proves again the eternal sonship of Christ.
John 16.
Verse 27.
For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came out from God.
Now notice verse 28. I came forth from the Father.
He was the father when he came forth from him.
And him come into the world.
Again, I leave the world and go to the Father. He came forth from the Father, came into the world. Now he's going to leave the world and go back to the Father.
That's clear. That's simple language.
These brethren have invented a way of interpreting Scripture.
Which is real heresy. We are to rightly divide the word of truth. I've got one minute, so let me turn to one more passage. Hebrews 5. Hebrews 5 is another beautiful passage that brings before us the force of sun.
In verse 8.
Verse 7. Who in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, This is when it was in the garden of Gethsemane. I take it with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard, and that He feared, though He were Son, though He were a Son.
The indefinite article A is not in the original. The Greek language doesn't have an indefinite article. It's added and supplied by the translator when needed.
Sometimes it's needed. I think it's better without it here, but it doesn't affect the teaching that I'm bringing. Before us, though, he were son, that's what he was.
Yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.
Now it doesn't say and nor does it mean because he became Son, he learned obedience. No, that's not what it says, says just the opposite. It says though he were Son, in spite of the fact that he was Son, he learned obedience. As Son he never obeyed.
He commanded and it stood fast. He spoke and it was done. He was the supreme Commander. Everyone obeyed him. But then he laid aside that form of God and took upon him the form of a servant. And now he learns the cost.
Of obedience.
By the things which he suffered though he were son is what he ever was.
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In spite of the fact that He was Son, the Eternal Son, he came into a new position and learned obedience.
By the things which he suffered. Well, there are many more scriptures we could turn to on this beautiful subject of the Eternal Sonship.
How wonderful to know who he is, how important to know who he is. The Church is founded. He is the rock.
If we go wrong there.
Then what else matters?
The foundations be destroyed.
What shall the righteous do?
Let's sing 301 in closing.
301.
Oh blessed Lord.
What hast thou done? How vast a ransom given? 302 Excuse me.
Thank you.
Thyself of God, the eternal Son.
The Lord of earth and heaven.
302.
Someone raised the tomb, please.
His gracious love.
Despaded from.
His soul.
And what it stood to bear.
When casing.
My thy face.
And.
And glory.
Come by grace.
How happy we.
Know thy name.
And trust thy faith over.
Just one comment before we pray. I was thinking of the how happy we who know thy name.
Trust thy faithful word to the Philadelphian.
I has kept my word and not denied my name.
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His name is the only begotten Son of God.
If we believe on the name of the only begotten Son of God, we have eternal life.
But Philadelphian does not deny.
His name? Spray.
To Whom Shall We Go
Christ Our Object and Joy
Sound Doctrine
Address—C. Hendricks
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Read a verse from Acts chapter 2.
Chapter 2 and verse 41.
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized, and the same day they were added unto them about 3000 souls.
And they continued steadfastly in the apostles, doctrine and fellowship.
And in breaking of bread.
And in prayers.
They continued steadfastly in the Apostles doctrine.
And fellowship, and in breaking of bread and in prayers.
Especially think of that first.
Expression. The Apostles doctrine.
Doctrine is what is becoming.
Less and less important in these days.
In the church world.
I was talking to one recently. The person used the expression to me.
Christian values.
And this seems to be more important.
To even but true believers today than doctrine. It's not so in the Word of God. In fact, Christian values come from doctrine.
And without doctrine, we don't have a sure foundation.
We don't really have that which establishes the truth of God in our souls.
So I'd like to trace a little turn with me to First Timothy.
Doctrine and how often it's used in Scripture and how important it is.
In as found in the writings of the Apostle.
One Timothy 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope.
Unto Timothy, my own son, in the faith, grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine.
I think we're familiar with the fact that doctrine means teaching.
So when he talks about teaching, he's really talking about establishing doctrine.
That they teach no other doctrine.
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions rather than.
Godly edifying, which is in faith.
Mr. Darby renders that rather than further God's dispensation, which is in faith.
Oftentimes when he talks about sound doctrine, godly.
Life that flows from sound doctrine.
He follows it with the.
The opposite fables and endless genealogies.
Endless genealogies would bring the thoughts back to Judaism.
Where they meant they made much of.
Uh, their heritage and genealogical register in Christianity, we don't have anything like that that we can trace back to. It's all grace.
It's grace that has saved us and brought us out of darkness. And we who are from the Gentiles, of course we have no genealogy that we can trace back. We can't go back to Abraham and say Abraham was our father like the Jews could.
But.
Not necessary in Christianity when one understands the doctrine of grace.
And what he's brought us into. So he says to Timothy, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine.
Timothy was well acquainted with Paul's doctrine and his teachings. He had been instructed by him and was under his ministry, he says in.
In second, I think it's Second Timothy chapter 3, he says.
In verse 14. But continue thou on the things which thou hast learned, and hast been assured of knowing of whom thou hast learned them.
And he was under probably the greatest teacher of the church period, the Apostle Paul. And so he charges him that they teach no other doctrine.
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Going down to.
Well, let me read on a little bit so we get the connection.
Now verse 5, the end of the commandment is charity or love out of a pure heart and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.
From which some, having swerved, have turned aside unto vain jangling. Notice how that fables and endless genealogies and vain jangling are all in contrast with sound doctrine.
Desiring to be teachers of the law. Understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm.
But we know that the law is good if a man uses it lawfully. There is a good use of the law, and that is to convict lawbreakers of their sins.
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient.
For the ungodly and for sinners, For the unholy and profane. For murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslaughters, For ************ For them that defile themselves with mankind or men, Steelers for liars, for perjured persons.
And if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel of the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
So he charges him that they teach no other doctrine, that he charges them him that anything contrary to sound doctrine.
I was thinking of.
Some of the movements which are so prominent in the Christian world today.
Where a doctrine is.
Is pretty much shelved and set aside and Christian values are promoted. That is, you can have.
Different groups of Christians that are against abortion.
And their doctrines may differ widely. They don't agree in doctrine and in their ecclesiastical associations, but they they they agree on certain things that Christians agree with. Abortion is bad, homosexuality is bad, and these are things that represent Christian values.
And if one starts to press that.
Rather than doctrine.
You can find yourself with some very strange bedfellows, those that may hold the same Christian values that you hold, but it's not founded upon sound doctrine.
And I want to make this strong statement at the beginning.
Conduct which is not founded on sound doctrine.
Even though it might seem right.
Has no value in the sight of God.
Sound doctrine, that which exalts and magnifies Christ.
There are movements today out there that are trying to get all Christians together under the umbrella of Christian values. But don't press doctrine, don't press sound teaching, because that would only divide us.
But if we can, if we can get together, if we can unite under the umbrella of Christian values.
Then we can find a common denominator, so to speak, to get together, and that's of course which will what will end up.
In Babylon the Great, it's amazing how those that have been known as evangelicals today can now extend.
The right hand of fellowship to those that are fundamentally.
Unsound on the person and work of Christ.
But it's happening right under our eyes.
And I don't know how many of us are aware of it.
Let's go to.
The second chapter.
We don't have.
Time to cover all of these verses.
He says. I exhort therefore, that first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks.
Be made for all men, for kings, and for all that are in authority.
That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
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Now what he is teaching here.
Is sound doctrine.
It is not for Christians to be joining in with movements that would rebel against God-given authority, but we are enjoying to pray for those that are in authority and that we might be able to go on quietly and peaceably.
You know godliness and honesty.
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior.
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth?
For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all.
To be testified in due time.
Whereunto I am ordained A preacher and an apostle, I speak the truth in Christ. And why not a teacher of the Gentiles in faith?
And Verity. So Paul was the primary.
Instrument in the hand of God to teach these Gentiles sound doctrine.
I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting.
Just one verse for a word to the men they are to be.
Up front in the warfare, praying everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting. And then he has several verses for the women. In like manner. Also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broided hair or gold or pearls or costly array.
Now what he's giving here is doctrine. What he's giving here is teaching.
For the man's place and the woman's place, and they're not the same. And God never made the 2 The same. He set Adam first. He was the head. And the reason that he gives for this instruction, this teaching, this doctrine as to the relative places of the man and the woman, the brother and the sister, the husband and the wife.
Is based upon the original creation. We'll find that out as we read on.
Verse 11.
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection, but I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man.
But to be in silence now here he gives the reason for his instruction.
It goes back to the original creation for Adam was first formed.
Then Eve. So Adam is the head, not Eve.
That's the first reason. The second reason is, and Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
So she is not to take the leadership.
But her place is in retirement, in the family, having children.
Raising them for the Lord in the home domestic circle.
These are instructions that we have, and this is sound doctrine, completely contrary to what is out there today and to the opinions of men and to the various movements that have developed in my lifetime.
Notwithstanding.
She shall be saved, preserved, preserved in her place in having children, in childbearing.
If they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety, I believe they as the Christian women.
And if they do that, what preserves the woman in her place?
In the home is having children.
And raising them for the Lord.
One of the most important.
Responsibilities that anyone can have and it falls upon.
The woman.
And then he gives instruction for leadership.
Locally in the Assembly, he says this is a true saying. If a man desire the office of a Bishop or an overseer, he desireth the good work.
A Bishop, an overseer, then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober.
Of good behavior given to hospitality, apartment to teach, not given to wine. No striker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient. Not a brawler, not covetous, one that ruleth well his own house.
Having his children in subjection with all gravity.
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For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the Church of God?
Not a novice, not one that has just recently come to the faith.
But lest being lifted up with pride, he falleth into the condemnation of the devil. It's quite the practice.
In Christian circles nowadays to put one who's just recently been saved to work.
And to get them occupied in teaching some class or so and they don't know anything yet.
But it's get them busy. Well, this instruction is.
That one that is in this place of responsibility in the Assembly, as an elder, as an overseer, is not to be a novice.
Moreover, he must have a good report of them which are without. That's the world.
Those who are without are the world.
Lest he fall into reproach in the snare of the devil.
And then he gives instruction for the deacons or the ministers, those that cared for the temporal needs of the Saints. Those have looked after the widows and and saw that they were properly cared for and fed, and so on. Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double tongue, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. And let these also first be proved.
Then let them use the office of the Deacon being found blameless.
So there was even with one that was a Deacon or a minister in that sense.
We use the word minister so differently today in Christian world than it really means. It means one who cares for the temporal needs of the Saints.
Let these be first proved so there was a proving time.
Then let them use the office of a Deacon, being found blameless in that proving time. Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children in their own houses. Well, notice that.
Given for both the overseer and the minister, or the Bishop and the Deacon.
They that have used the office of a Deacon well purchased to themselves a good degree and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly. Now all this instruction that Paul is giving to Timothy is sound doctrine, sound teaching.
And he says, If I tarry long, I am going to come shortly, but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou.
Artists to behave thyself in the House of God.
We're always in the House of God.
It's not. When you enter a church building, you enter the House of God. That's a totally Jewish thought.
The House of God is composed of the Saints of God, who are living stones being built up a spiritual house, Peter tells us.
And in Hebrews, whose house are we? All the Saints are the House of God. And so how to conduct ourselves in that sphere where God dwells?
It is the Church of the Living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Now, the way it upholds and maintains the truth is it is taught. It is taught by.
The gifts that the Lord gives.
And then the assembly is responsible, being taught by the Lord Himself through these gifts.
To uphold and maintain the truth.
Because they've been taught sound doctrine.
And the most vital and important truth he mentions in the next verse without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. You'll find that godliness and sound doctrine are often put together in this these epistles, Timothy and Titus.
Great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. There can be no true.
Godliness without sound doctrine.
If there is not sound doctrine.
There cannot be true godliness.
It will be an imitation.
And that's the way the Lord, that's the way the enemy deceives today. He deceives by imitation.
One of the one of the most prominent groups out there that have anything but sound doctrine. I remember reading a pamphlet once put out by the the Mormons and every scripture in that pamphlet was misapplied. Not one was applied properly. Sound doctrine they do not have, but they come forth as promoting.
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And being in favor of Christian values.
Having a nice home.
The children in subjection. The husband loving the wife.
All good things. All scriptural things.
Umm, but the doctrine.
Very faulty.
And this is the way the enemy imitates.
And if you just shift, it seems ever such a slight shift from doctrine as being so important to Christian values.
You have opened the door for fellowship with all kinds of groups, Roman Catholics.
Mormons and others that hold very unsound doctrine.
This passage says the secret of godliness is the doctrine of Christ.
God manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles.
Believed on in the world, received up into glory. If one does not hold that truth of God manifest in the flesh the doctrine of Christ, there can't be any true godliness in that person.
You can have a man.
A neighbor of yours that is one of the nicest citizens. He keeps the law, he doesn't break the law, his children are not rowdy and he is a very courteous.
And.
You can't really fault him for anything in his life.
And yet you talk to Him about Christ.
And he doesn't want to hear anything about the Lord Jesus.
So the value system that he is acting upon is something that.
Exalts himself as a good citizen.
People like to be known as church members. They often use that as a front to make them look like.
Good citizens, law abiding citizens, and so on.
And some are like take, take the Mormon group. They they don't smoke, they don't swear, they don't drink.
These are all good things.
What's wrong with them?
Well, have you ever looked at their doctrine?
It's terrible. It's blasphemous.
It's fundamentally unsound.
And so with the Romish system.
Doctrine. How important the word of God holds it as of prime importance. Chapter 4. Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, the faith the whole deposit of truth.
Giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.
Doctrines of demons.
Are there doctrines of demons out there in the Christian world? They're most assuredly are doctrines of demons.
He mentions some of them speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry. That's a doctrine of demons, saying that it's wrong to marry.
God never said that. He said it's good for a man not to be alone. Paul does say that if one has the gift from God to remain single, he will be able to serve the Lord without distraction, which he won't have that privilege so much if he gets a family and has all the problems that come in with families and children and so on. But he provided for that. In fact, he established it. So it's a doctrine of demons to.
That a certain class of priests and so on in a certain system can't marry.
That was never so in the early church. Nothing like that in Scripture, Old or New Testament.
And then commanding to abstain from meats. There are those that are strict.
Vegetarians.
That say it's evil. I've got a book entitled Back to Eden. Well, the titles wrong. It's it's a it's a book on health foods in that and there's a lot of good things in the book, by the way, but back to Eden is wrong.
We can't get back to Eden. Man has been expelled from Eden. Innocency, which was in the Garden of Eden, has been lost. It will never be regained. Thank God we've got something better than innocency. We have holiness in Christ, something far better than Eden. But the idea that we can go back to the conditions that existed before sin entered the world.
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Is wrong.
Satan wants us to adopt A lifestyle where we don't live on the death of another.
But that's the basis for our salvation, isn't it?
We live on the death of another, except ye eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, ye have no life in you, the Lord Jesus said.
And that was a hard saying for the Jews. They never, they were told never to drink blood. The Lord was talking about appropriating to 1's own soul the value of the death of Christ for himself and the fact that since sin has entered the world, we are told man is told to kill animals and eat their flesh.
Because.
That reminds us affect all of the Old Testament sacrifices, the death of an animal, a clean animal pointed forward to the death of Christ.
Well, Satan demons want to do away with everything that the Bible promotes and stands for.
And so it's called here a doctrine of demons, forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats.
That was never a command from God, even in the Old Testament.
Now it's true, before sin entered into the world, they didn't eat meat.
But that state of innocence, he didn't last very long. And we're not in Eden. And the idea that we can get back to Eden is totally, fundamentally unsound. It's not sound teaching.
Commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created, to be received with Thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Even in Judaism, they had meat.
There was a difference though. There was clean food and clean meat and unclean. But now in Christianity we have an advance on that verse. For every creature of God is good.
There is no such thing as unclean food in Christianity.
Every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with Thanksgiving.
For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
We give thanks for the food that we eat.
And so there's there's two things in this passage. There's the doctrine of demons, which forbids marriage and it forbids eating meat. And then there's the Judaistic idea that certain foods were unsuitable and unclean and we have to.
Be taught the sound doctrine that all things are pure.
And all things are clean. And as Paul says in Romans 14, I know and am persuaded.
By the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself. Nothing.
All things are pure.
All things are lawful.
But not all things are expedient.
But we're not under the law, we're under grace. And so the doctrine that flows from that.
Differs something somewhat from the Old Testament, and so some of these wrong doctrines that he deals with have to do with Judaistic notions.
Now he says after having said this in verse 6, If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things.
Thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine.
Whereunto thou hast attained.
Now having mentioned good doctrine, right away he mentions the bad he says, But refuse profane and old wives fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
For bodily exercise profited little, but godliness is profitable unto all things.
Having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.
We've never been in a day.
In the history of the world.
Where bodily exercise is being promoted, promoted.
Promoted. Promoted.
And Paul says, yes, bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but there's something that's profitable for all things, and that's.
The exercise of godliness. Godliness that flows from sound doctrine.
From good teaching.
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, for therefore we both labor and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God.
Who is the savior or the preserver of all men, especially of those that believe?
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These things command and teach. It was important that he teach these things. He even uses a stronger word command them.
Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the believers in Word, in conversation, in charity and spirit, in faith and purity. Till I come give attendance to reading. I think that was public reading. Not everyone could read. I suppose in those days very few could read.
And so he would read the scriptures to them.
Paul says to the Colossians cause that this epistle be read to those in Laodicea and Hierapolis.
And it was important that when the Scriptures were, when the letters, these letters from Paul were received, that they'd be read in the assembly where to which it was addressed, and also to the surrounding assemblies.
So he says, till I come, give attendance to reading.
To exhortation.
To doctrine.
To doctrine. How important that sound teaching doctrine?
Be upheld and maintained. Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy.
With the laying on of the hands of the presbytery the elder.
Meditates upon these things.
Give thyself holy to them.
That by profiting may appear to all, what a word to a young man, a young man in the faith. Meditate upon these things. Give thyself holy to them, that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed unto thyself.
As to how you are walking.
And unto the doctrine.
Continue in them.
For in doing this, thou shalt both save thyself.
And then that here they.
Again, the doctrine mentioned.
Rebuke not an elder. New Translation. Rebuke not an elder. Sharply.
But entreat him as a father, and the younger men as brethren.
The elder women as mothers. Now this is all teaching, sound teaching that Paul is giving to Timothy to teach.
The elder woman is mothers, the younger is sisters with all purity.
Honor widows that are widows indeed.
But if any widow, a widow indeed is one who is destitute, not able to support herself, she she doesn't have means, and if left alone she would she would starve.
Doesn't have anyone else to minister to or doesn't have relatives, sons or daughters.
Honor widows that are widows indeed, but if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn to 1St.
1St to show piety at home and to requite their parents for that is good and acceptable before God. This is good doctrine.
Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continue within supplications and prayers night and day.
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
And these things give in charge that they may be blameless.
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house.
He hath denied the Faith, and is worse.
Than an infidel. All of these teachings that Paul is giving of a very practical nature.
That Timothy was to pass on.
They didn't. They didn't have this instruction in paganism.
How important that one cares for his own.
And when parents become unable to care for themselves because of.
The children should.
Take care of them.
Let not a widow be taken into the number under 3 score years old, having been the wife of one man. Ruelle reported out for good works. If she had brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the Saints feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
But the younger widows refused. When they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry.
Having damnation or judgment because they've cast off their first faith.
And with all they learned to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle, but toddlers also in busy body, speaking things which they ought not.
I will therefore that the.
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Now, wandering about from house to house, we don't have to do that anymore. All we have to do is pick up the telephone.
And we can do all this cataloging and whispering and.
Sometimes these modern inventions are not a blessing.
And this is an instance when they can be used by the enemy.
Idle wandering about from house to house. Not only idle, but tattlers also, and busy bodies.
Speaking things which they ought not.
I will therefore that the younger women marry their children guide the house.
Children keep the younger women busy and at home where they belong.
And where they can guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
For some are already turned aside after Satan.
Any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the Church be charged that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine.
Word and doctrine for the Scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn, and the laborers worthy of his reward.
Against an elder received not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses all this.
Teaching given to this young man, Timothy.
That he might pass it on faithfully to others, as he says.
In chapter 2 of Two Timothy he says the things verse 2 The things thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men.
Who shall be able to teach others also. So there is to be the passing down.
To faithful men, these truths that Paul was giving to Timothy as his father in the faith.
Then that sin verse 20 rebuked before all and back in chapter 5 of 1 Timothy.
That others also may fear.
There's an instance of that in Scripture where in Galatians 2 The apostle Paul rebuked the apostle Peter because he did not walk uprightly, but when certain came from James, he stopped eating with the Gentiles and he he erected the wall of separation between Jew and Gentile, and he falsified the gospel of the grace of God.
If you read Acts 15, where that question was settled at Jerusalem.
Peter was the first to give the final pronouncement and then James, the Lord's brother gave the final. But Peter said we believe we Jews believe that we shall be saved even as they. And that was an amazing statement for a Jew to make because they would normally say it, they shall be saved even as we we're first. But he didn't put it that way. He says we Jews shall be saved even as they Gentiles. But then in Galatians 2 he has to be rebuked for falsifying.
That truth?
And re establishing a difference between Jew and Gentile, actually invalidating and negating the gospel of the grace of God, the truth of God's grace.
So how important that?
The doctrine is maintained and upheld.
Verse 21 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
It's instructive here, I think, that it says God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels and they're looking down.
We learn from Ephesians 3 that they are learning in the assembly the all various wisdom of God.
That God has called out of the nations steeped in idolatry and all kinds of sins.
A people for his name and He's. The angels are looking down, and they are beholding the manifold wisdom of God.
In this mystery of Christ in the church, the Church.
Composed of Jew and Gentile.
No distinction any longer. Grace has broken down.
The middle wall of partition between us.
Well.
The angels look on.
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And when we make a difference, when we play favorites, and when we act one way to our Jewish brethren and another way to our Gentile brethren, which would be the the tendency of our hearts, naturally speaking, showing partiality, and we can do it in many ways.
He says, I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without.
Referring one before another.
Doing nothing by partiality.
Don't show prejudice. Don't show favoritism.
But.
Judge, righteous judgment.
They hand suddenly unknown man neither be partaker of other men sins. We lay hands suddenly on someone we might be commending someone that turns out to be a scoundrel. I remember reading one of Mr. Darby's letters once He was a he was tremendous at explaining the scriptures. He was a teacher like no other and he could explain the word of God, but he wasn't a good judge of character. And he said once he said all my favorites turn out to be.
Scoundrels and this He wasn't a good judge of character, so he needed his brethren.
Another said, oh, I hope the first one he talks to gives them the truth because that's the one he's going to believe and that's a danger well.
Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins. Keep thyself.
Pure.
Drink no longer water only is the thought, but use a little wine for thy stomachs sake and thine often infirmities.
Evidently, Timothy had a nervous stomach.
And he was timid and he needed to be encouraged not to let anyone despise his youth, as he says in chapter.
4/12.
But to be an example of the believers.
And so he says here.
Take care of yourself.
And drink a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Some man's sins are opened beforehand, going before to judgment, their manifest to all, and some, and they follow after. You don't see it quite so clearly. Likewise, also the good works of some are manifest beforehand, and they that are otherwise cannot be hid. And then he goes on in chapter 6. Let as many servants as are under the yoke.
That is a slave count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. So even a slave who is a Christian, even one who is in in that menial position, he has an opportunity in the way he conducts himself towards his master.
To to commend the doctrine of God, or to.
Slighted to bring dishonor if any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words.
Even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the doctrine which is according to godliness.
He is proud.
Knowing nothing.
But doting about questions and stripes of words whereof cometh envy, strife, railings.
Evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men, of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth. Supposing that gain is godliness.
Verse 6 but godliness with contentment.
Is great game.
Supposing that gain is godliness is a Jewish notion.
The Jews were told in Deuteronomy that if they obeyed the law and kept it, God would bless them the fruit of the womb. He would bless them with health.
You would bless them with healthy children. You would bless them with good lands and good crops.
And there is a prosperity gospel which is preached today, founded upon.
The misunderstanding of dispensational truth. That sound doctrine. If you don't understand dispensational truth, you really don't understand sound doctrine.
In second Timothy one, we'll come to that in a moment. He says hold fast the form of sound words or heaven outline of sound words.
And that outline if we have it properly.
Will enable us to distinguish between what is Jewish and what is Christian and what is future in the Millennium and so on. Different dispensations, they are not the same and you cannot.
Act properly in the present day if you do not understand.
Present truth, present doctrine. Verse 3 again of chapter 6. If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, what does he say of such? He's proud.
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Knowing nothing so those that would.
Those that would come in conflict with.
The Word of God, the teachings of the Apostle.
Where he's giving sound doctrine the words of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Those that would teach contrary to that, they're proud.
They know nothing.
Doting about questions and stripes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men, of corrupt minds.
Destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness.
From such withdraw thyself is not in the new translation, and it seems as though that's doesn't have much authority behind it. So supposing that gain is godliness, but godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. Having food and raiment. Let us be there with content.
But they that will be rich, though, that those that have that as their purpose in life, fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition for the love of money, not money.
But the love of money, that could be that. Could a poor man could be guilty of that. He could be one who wants money.
It doesn't have to necessarily be a rich man. The love of money is the root of all evil, which while some coveted after they have heard from the faith and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows, Now it's this Jewish.
Idea that if you live right and godly, God will bless you with earthly riches.
And that's promoted by many a teacher in the Christian world today. And it's absolutely not sound doctrine.
So those that would.
Those that would arrange their lifestyle with that in mind.
As being good doctrine, they're not going to be arranging their life according to Christian principles.
They will push them through themselves through with many sorrows, but thou Verse 11. O man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness, fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called and has professed a good profession before many witnesses. I give thee charge in the sight of God who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate.
Good confession that thou keep this commandment without spot unrebukable.
Until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And then at the end of the chapter, verse 20, he says, Oh Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science falsely so-called.
Which some professing have heard concerning the faith.
Grace be with thee. Amen.
Now going on to second Timothy quickly.
In verse 11 he says whereunto I am appointed chapter one, verse 11, I am appointed A preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles.
He was one that gave the Gentile sound doctrine.
Now that verse I just referred to verse 13. Hold fast the form of sound words.
Which thou hast heard of me in faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus he had heard.
The words from Paul, the sound words from Paul, but he's exhorting Timothy here to have an outline of them.
To have them.
In their proper place and not to rightly divide the word of truth.
And this is where the knowledge of dispensational truth is so important, to know what is according to the mind of God today and what was.
In a previous dispensation.
For instance, as a for instance, in the Old Testament they had musical instruments.
And there was a choir.
David's time and so on.
And they played in the Psalms refer to musical instruments.
But it's never referred to, not once a musical instrument in the epistles.
The only musical instrument referred to as singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts. That's the only musical instrument. It comes from within the soul.
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Musical instrument does not have a soul, does not have a spirit, cannot worship God. And we worship God in the New Testament, in the Spirit and by the Spirit, and that's not by a musical instrument. We worship God because we are redeemed and have a new life and a new nature. It comes from within and it can sound very beautiful and we have to be careful.
That we don't get taken up emotionally.
With hymns that do not contain sound doctrine.
We should, no matter how much we may like him, if it's not sound doctrine, either correct the unsoundness of it or don't sing it, because we get attached to these things, and we will even have our thoughts formed by unsound expressions that are in some hymns.
Paul says in First Corinthians 14, I know it's a little different subject, but the principle is the same. He says I will sing.
With the Spirit and I will sing also with the understanding. So we should know what we are singing.
And we should understand what we're singing, and we should convey what we're singing to others in a way that they can understand it as the truth of God. How important. And this all flows from sound doctrine.
Chapter 2. Now verse 2. And the things that thou hast heard of me, among many witnesses.
The same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also. You've got 4 generations. It's often been pointed out Paul, Timothy, faithful men and those that they teach.
So this is the way the word of God is to be.
Propagated in these last days that we're in.
Not by the fiction of Apostolic succession.
There is no such thing.
Was talking about to a brother recently about some that come into the book room who are with the.
Watchman Knee Group.
I don't know what they're called now. Local church I think.
And they have apostles.
Well, it's just not sound doctrine at all. What's an apostle for? To lay the foundation.
The apostles laid the foundation. That was done back in the 1St century. You don't need apostles today and there are none.
And there's no such thing as Apostolic succession. How is the truth to be communicated?
The things thou has heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also.
And then later on in the chapter verse 15 study to show thyself approved unto God a Workman that needeth not to be ashamed.
Rightly dividing the word of truth.
How important sound doctrine is?
So that we can rightly divide and understand God's Word.
Verse 24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men.
Apartment to teach.
Patient in meekness, instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledgement, the acknowledging of the truth.
That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil.
Then in the third chapter.
He talks about those in verse 7 who are ever learning.
And never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Now, as Jannies and Jambres withstood Moses, these were the magicians in Egypt that.
Withstood Moses by duplicating, imitating what he was doing.
As Jannies and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth.
Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith.
But they shall proceed no further, for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
But thou hast fully known my doctrine.
Manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, charity, patience, and so on. Thou is fully known my doctrine, and that's why, Because he had fully known Paul's doctrine, he says in that first epistle.
He exhorts him to teach that they teach no other doctrine.
Than what Paul was teaching.
He says in verse 7, I have fought the good fight.
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Should read. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
The whole deposit of divine truth.
Paul had kept it now.
He says in chapter 4.
He says preach the word verse 2 The instant in season.
Out of season.
Reprove. Rebuke. Exhort.
With all long-suffering.
And doctrine.
For the time will come.
When they will not endure sound doctrine.
But after their own lust shall they heap to themselves teachers.
Having itching ears?
And they will turn away their ears from the truth.
And shall be turned unto fables.
You get fables often mentioned after the mentioning of.
Sound doctrine or the refusing of it?
Just before we close, I want to turn you to one more verse, and that's in Second John.
2nd Epistle of John.
Which is written to an elect lady and her children.
And he says in verse 9.
He says whosoever transgressive.
Or whosoever goes forward.
And divideth not him the doctrine of Christ.
Hath not God?
This is a doctrine of such importance that not not to hold it.
Is to not have God.
He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father.
And the Son, It's the truth of Christ's person.
That he is very God and very man.
And then he says to this elect lady, and her children, if there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine.
Receive him not into your house, neither bid him Godspeed.
For he that biddeth him, Godspeed is partaker.
Of his evil deeds.
I remember once I was in a store and I saw this on the television. In the store. I saw this huge auditorium, not auditorium, this huge.
Stadium.
That held maybe 100,000 people. Football stadium probably was, and it was filled with men.
And I didn't know the name of this. I said what is this?
Now watched a little bit and the camera played from one musical group to another. One group had the men had caps on hats. The next group they didn't. The next group they did, and then it played through the audience. Some men had coverings on their head, others didn't.
And I looked at that and I said that's a religious thing and it's not of God. It can't be because it's not. It's not following sound doctrine.
Men with heads covered, praising God, singing praises to the Lord.
That's not sound doctrine.
And I found out later the name of the movement was Promise Keepers.
Well, that's a movement that was started by the coach of a football team.
And his purpose was to get Christian fathers and parents to assume the role of leadership in their homes. Very good, Very good purpose.
And.
To be good Christian parents to children and so on.
These are Christian values. They have good Christian values. But what about the doctrine?
About the doctrine.
You listen.
I read articles on the belief system of the men that are called to speak at their conventions.
And they're all over the place. Some are sound in the faith, some are not sound at all. Some don't hold the doctrine of Christ even.
And.
And yet this is a movement to unify all Christians, regardless of what denominational affiliation 1 might be of truth and doctrine is not to be pressed, not to be insisted on, but rather Christian values. So the door is open to the Roman Catholics. The door is even open to the Mormons.
What is that is that of God? It's Satan's imitation as Janie's and Jamboree's withstood Moses.
These also withstand the truth. You can't press truth there.
You just love them because they are Christians and you extend the right-handed fellowship to your Roman Catholic brother even though he's connected with a system that is blasphemous.
Calls Mary the mother of God.
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And says that the Lord Jesus had to be sacrificed over and over and over again every time they sacrificed the doctrine of the Mass.
The Scripture says by one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.
Never to be repeated.
That denies the eternal efficacy of the work of Christ.
I remember stopping once I saw two Mormons coming down. This was up in Nova Scotia, I think was in Halifax.
In Nova Scotia and I saw these two young men, these elders.
Mormon elders with their suitcases, and I knew who they were, and I beat them to the punch, and I handed them some gospel tracts and we got to talking.
And one of them reached in, and he reached out, reached in for his Book of Mormon.
And I said, you show me, I asked him. I said tell me, is not your doctrine that as.
As God is, so we shall be.
As we are, so he once was, and they looked at each other. In other words, their teaching is that God was once a man like we are, and one day we will be gods.
And that's their teaching.
And I said, is that not your teaching? And they said.
They didn't know how I learned that, but they said yes. And I said show me that in the Bible.
Well, they reached into their satchel and brought out the Book of Mormon. I said, show me that in the Bible.
Not the Book of Mormon. Show me that in the Bible. This is the standard of truth.
Well, of course they couldn't. And I issued a very, very solemn warning to them and I said you win, are on your way to hell and you're propagating false and doctrine and evil teaching. And yet they promote Christian values.
Don't be deceived by Christian value promotion. Ask a person what do you believe?
I am the person of Christ and on the work of Christ. Do you believe in man's place and woman's place? And you can go all down the line.
Sound doctrine is what will keep us together, going on in the truth and nothing else. Nothing else.
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