Address—G.H. Hayhoe
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Romans, chapter 12.
Verse One. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that she prevents your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reason. For I say, through the grace given unto me to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think.
To think so delay according, as God has built to every man the measure of faith.
How shall we turn back to the Psalms, the 144th Psalms?
Psalm 144. Beginning of the ninth verse.
I will sing a new song unto thee, O God upon us all tree, and an instrument of 10 strings will I sing praises unto thee. Is he that give us salvation on the king who delivered David his servants from the hateful sword.
Lead me and deliver me from the hand of strange children.
His mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
That our sons may be as plants growing up in their youth. That our daughters may be as cornerstones.
After the similitude of a palace that our dinners may be full, affording all manner of precious, all manner of store, when our sheep may bring forth thousands and 10 thousands in our streets, when our oxen may be strong to labor.
What there be no break in no going out that there be no complaining in our streets copy is that people that is in such a case very happy with that people whose God is the Lord. I had particularly before me and their young people to speak on this 144th.
But I read those verses in the 12Th chapter of Romans.
Because we have two particular words brought before us there. The word conformed and the word transformed conform to this world we are living in, a world of our system of things that has been built up of man.
Elimination from God.
A system of things where men and women.
Young people and children are sitting to find happiness through the efforts of their own hands, through their own planning.
And then we have that transforming process, and I believe us into the knowledge of the will of God.
And it brings us into that blessing which is found in walking in His well.
And this 144 some we had a little millennial picture black before us, a picture of the blessing that God will bring upon his people, Israel in a future day. But in a moral way we can apply it to ourselves, because it brings before us that which should characterize us.
If we have been in a practical way transformed, and so each one of us in this room, the speaker as well as the heels, is either being conformed to this world.
Being transformed by the renewal of our mind to prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. I say again that this world is of vast system.
And the whole principle upon which the world operates is.
To have a good opinion on yourself. That's why, when exhorting us not to be conformed to this world, it doesn't mention here willingness in the sense that we often speak of it, that it strikes at the very use of what worldliness is by saying not to think of ourselves more highly than we ought to think, you know.
It's self importance and it's that desire. It is in our hearts by nature.
To how the attraction to ourselves that brings so much sorrow and trouble into our lives. But when we are occupied with the Lord Jesus, when we are transformed into His likeness, then the great desire of our hearts and lives is that Christ might be seen in us when I walk and in our ways.
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Instead of thinking highly of ourselves, we think so highly of our blessed, precious Savior who has saved us and who has done so much for us, that we desire that in every aspect of our lives, Christ should be seen.
And so it says about presenting our bodies a living sacrifice.
But that is, we belong to Christ, we have been redeemed at such a tremendous cost, and now we would seek to acknowledge his claims over us.
And to live for him and these young people. What a blessing this is when we discover it in our youth, as it says there. But we may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God? How do we prove it?
We prove it as we walk in it. We may listen to these things ministered in the meetings, but unless we walk in it, we will never prove the blessedness of it.
You may hear of a very good highway, but if you never drive over it, you'll never know by experience what the highway is like.
You may have it by report, but you'll have to say when someone asks you about it. Well, I've heard it's very good, but I've never been over it myself. But all how different when you've been over that highway yourself and when you can speak of it as something that you know in a personal way.
Well, God would have us not only to know the truth of God as we learn it in His precious world, best of His, that is, but you know it in a practical way in our daily lives. In other words, dear young people, to walk in it, to prove the blessing of it as we walk in it.
For everyone who has walked in my path can speak well of that highway of holiness, can speak well of that pathway in which the Lord Jesus walked into perfection when he was down here.
Well, it all depends on what kind of company we keep. If we keep the company of the world, if we listen to all their ideas, if we follow all our reasonings, it won't be long until our thoughts and then our lives will be conformed to the world. We'll talk like them, we'll sleep like them, we'll dress like them. In every way we'll be like them.
But if we're occupied with the Lord Jesus.
We will find that our thoughts are changed our walking ways.
Even although appearance is that which bears testimony to the fact not we belong to Christ. And so going to this 144th Psalm, it says, here I will sing a new song unto thee, oh God.
What have you learned? That new song? Is there an unsaved person here this afternoon and you have never yet received the Lord Jesus as your Savior? All the songs you know are the world's songs, the songs of Christ, of Zion. They have no interest for you because your heart has never been tuned to sing His praise.
Doctor Wilson was a great singer before his conversion to God.
And he had a believed to sing at some entertainment being provided by the world, but God interrupted his plan and played Doctor Wilson soul. And when he told his friends that he had accepted Christ as their Savior, they said, well, are you going to sing at that entertainment for us? Well, he said, I'll have to sing a new song if I do.
He said if I come, I'll have to sing about my savior.
God had put a new song into his mouth, even praise unto his under his God honest side. Your head is turned. Always said, my heart has been turned. And your friends that's true. Dear young people, I hope you can sing this new song.
Because it begins down here. You will never be among the white robes company that will sing the Savior's praises above unless you have learned to sing the new song down here. Is the Lord Jesus your personal favor? Oh, it's not. There's no better time than this very day to receive Christ as your Savior. There's no more wonderful place to receive Him than right here.
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When the hearts of hundreds would rejoice.
That you had found Christ, and you could join in the song wisdom to sing unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood. Then it says he is an instrument of 10 strings. Will I sing poses unto thee? You know the children have a little song about two little eyes to look to God.
Two little ears to hear his words.
Cleaning his face to walk his ways, two hands to work for him all my days.
One little son to speak his truth, one little heart for him now in my youth. And if you're careful in your addition, you'll find that those four twos and two ones, they add up to 10, don't they?
Two eyes, two hands, 2 feet, two ears, one heart and one tongue. That makes time, doesn't it? So I like to think of that as the 10 stringed instruments.
Not only knowing Christ as your Savior, but sure. And this is presenting our bodies or letting you sacrifice so that our hands would now desire to do the will of the one who has won our hearts. Our feet would desire to walk in His ways.
Our years would like to listen to those things that are pleasing to him.
And indeed, our eyes would like to behold the things that we know please Him. Or how wonderful it is. When is that yielding of the whole life to Him? All dear young people, don't be afraid to do it. Don't be afraid to yield your whole life to the Lord Jesus. There's no one that desires your happiness like He does.
You may have friends who love you and who are interested in your happiness.
Who would sacrifice their own pleasure to make you happy? But you will never have one who loves you like the Lord Jesus. You'll never have one when you can yield undesirably and find in Him and in His will.
Unhindered blessing all. He who has prepared that home for you above and is waiting to welcome you there, is the one who wants to make you supremely happy down here. Oh, not only to know the new song, but also to sing it on 10 strings. And not only to know that Christ has saved you, but also to say Lord.
You won my heart.
I belong to thee. Or how lovely this is. Well, this is the beginning.
The introduction of this wonderful thing that is brought before us in this 144 Psalm. And the only way that this can be solved is in the measure in which this is true in our lives as a daily thing.
Then you notice in the 10th verse it says it is he that giveth salvation in the kings who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword. We're passing through an enemies lamb. We're passing through a world where the forces of darkness.
Gathered against us and we have no strength of our own. How often we find the conflict very strict. And I know the young people in this age in which you live, the conflict is really stiff. It is difficult. It's not easy to follow Christ because never was the world more organized to keep your heart away from the Lord Jesus.
And to hinder you can follow him fully. But all how wonderful.
But there is one who can, as it says he will give salvation on the kings, as one who knows every attack that the enemy brings against you, who knows to the weakness of your frame, as he knows the weakness of mine.
Each one of us has particular weaknesses. What might be a temptation to you might not be a temptation to me.
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And what might be a temptation to me might not be particularly to you. We all have different tendencies that all the the one who has saved us is able to deliver us from those temptations and snails. And isn't it precious, as we pass through an enemies land and know only too well the weaknesses of our own hearts, to look up daily and say control?
God friendly do I put my trust? All the Lord Jesus is able to help you.
He's able to deliver you, the little song says. Ask the Savior to help you. All the young people make it the constant habit of your lives just to look up every step of the way and ask His help. Because there are snails, there are difficulties. Evil is becoming more and more open.
You are surrounded with it in a way that perhaps.
Soul are pronounced in you've gone by, but thank God it still says greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
And if you take your stand upon this precious book and turn to the Lord, as our brother remarks in the meeting this morning.
And in all thy ways acknowledge him.
In all thy ways, we can talk about it in connection with salvation and stop there. We can talk about it in connection with finding the place where the Lord would have us gather and stop there. But in all thy ways there is not a detail in your life or mine too small.
Or too great, but we cannot bring to him.
And he hasn't. He has a positive will about that matter and if you and I are close enough to him.
He says I will guide thee with mine eyes all He wants to guide us, He wants to bless us, and He give us salvation on the kings He delivers from the hurtful sword.
These are able to teach you depend upon him. Look to him in confidence.
Walk in obedience to His word, and you'll find blessing in the next verse with me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and the right hand is a right hand of falsehood. Well, this, I believe, brings before us separation. Separation.
Delivery from the hand of strange children.
And their mouth speaketh vanity, Their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. All I want to tell you.
That the company of the world is dangerous.
It says whosoever therefore will be the friend of the world is the enemy of God. And how many are promising young person who has started out so well?
Has formed the friendship with someone who was of the world.
And that friend LED that young person away into the world, because you know your world.
Can lead you down because you have a fallen nature like they have. I have a fallen nature like they have.
But the world can't lead you up, and you can't lead them up to if they're not saved, because there's no point of contact except through the fallen nature. That's all. And if you're going to enjoy things with them, you have to enjoy it as a natural man or a natural goal. And so here we find the psalmist saying.
With me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children.
Oh, dear young people, have you ever asked the Lord to keep you from those temptations? They're very real. There are some awfully nice young people who are not saved. I mean, lovely dispositions, kind. They do a kindness to you if they could. They're courteous, they're thoughtful, and yet they may be haters of Christ. I don't say that they're not nice.
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Young people, I don't say that you wouldn't enjoy the kindness and good things that you see in them, but I say have their strange children if they don't love the Lord Jesus and if you can't speak with them about the Lord Jesus.
Then what do you have in common with them all the psalmist here realizing the particular snare that this is, he says ridden me and deliver me. And I believe every one of us, even those of us who are older here this afternoon.
Know how the friendship of the world was a snare to us at different times in our lives and we needed to cry. Lord lively and deliver me.
All through the young person here and you're slipping away into the world.
May this be your cry this afternoon.
Leave me and deliver me, it says. Their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. Falsehood. The world walks in a vain show.
They have nothing less wild to offer you, those very people. When they link up with them and become friends with them in an intimate way, you'll find they have no heart for your saviors and they have no true sense of spiritual values.
They townhouse, they, they wait everything in a false bounce. And the Bible says that a false balance is an abomination to the Lord or you weighing things in a true balance. But when the children of Israel paid the redemption money, it was to be after the shekel of the sanctuary. These had to be weighed in the right balances.
And things that may look very important to you in your youth.
Saying, well, that friend is helping me to get along. He's helping me to get pause, He's helping me to get this, He's helping me to get that. Perhaps in the values of faith in this world, it may be. So what is he helping you to follow Christ?
Did he make you conform to the world to buy? Poured some Jelly into a mold and then I put that bowl in the refrigerator. What's going to happen?
Why this Jelly is going to take the mold. It's going to turn just exactly like it. And if you turn it out of the mall, there it is.
That's out of a mold, but it's exactly the same as the mold. It's taken on its sheep. And if you and I go along with the world we're going to take on and shape, we're going to become like it, the transformed by the renewal of your mind.
That he may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
So may we not weigh things in a false balance, May we weigh things in a true balance and value that which God values, appreciate that which God appreciates. Going to leave the new translation of it. Fashion sculptured after the fashion of a palace, sculptured after the fashion of a power.
Well, here we find a word for our sons and for our daughters.
And may I pause here to call attention to the fact that before this it must have been talking to parents, because here it says that our sons and our daughters. And I want to say a word to myself and to the parents who are here this afternoon.
We think we wish that our young people had a heart for Christ, we wish they followed Him more. But all can we not say something to ourselves as parents? What kind of an example are we giving them?
That we are enjoying the Lord to be seeing us, That we think in terms of eternity. That we measure things as God measures them and values them as God values them. As an area has written, written in a little poem. It was a sheep, not a ram that went astray, but the lambs follow the sheep. And pardon me when I speak to myself as well as to those of us who.
Knowing his parents be exercised, if we want our sons and our daughters to belong to the Lord, perhaps we too could be before the Lord for our own pathways, that they might look at us and find what things we enjoy. Are we enjoying the Lord? Are we walking in the power?
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Of this truth that we speak about, no notice of them.
Maybe it's plant grown up in their youth. You know, we hear an expression sometimes only a lot person grow up. When will that person grow up? Well, I like to see people grow up in their youth.
Sometimes, you know, dear young people, there's a thought of an idea that you have to store your walled up, you have to have your slave face. But here the desire of the stone school that our son may be as planned, grown up in their youth. And I like to see young people have a happy time. It's only normal.
That they should desire young companies.
Fellowship, healthful exercise, but you don't have to sell your wildest. You don't have to go out and have a fling in the world because there's many a young person that has gone out to have a fling in the world and has roots that all the rest of his life has rooted with sorrow. All your young people. We desire that you should be grown up into your in your youth.
In the chapter that we were reading this morning, it says that we may grow up unto him.
In all things, when I can't stand anymore blessed motive before your heart than to grow up unto Christ, grow up under Christ. I know as I say, when you're young, you have a young outlook and I don't believe that the Scripture condemns this that I say, is it in keeping with the mind of God?
Are you speaking?
Know the Lord's planes over you, but our sons may be its plants grown up in their youth. And I want to say a particular word to the young boys here.
Because the Spirit of God in this verse separates the sun and the daughters, and it's the balls that give the example. It's the balls that give the example. And it's those of us. You young boys, let me speak to you. Are you giving an example to the others? Are you seeking to walk in such a way that others look at you? I'm seeing you. The quality that ought to characterize.
God made you a man. God has committed public ministry to man.
He has committed leadership to men on what we lack today, his young men who have the quality of godly leadership in the Assemblies of God on a God grant that there will be an exercise that our young people, our young men may be grown up in their youth.
Plants of the Lord's planting going on for him, and then notice the word to the daughters.
And our brothers may be a cornerstone.
Captured after the fashion of a power, you know it's natural for a girl.
At this weekend, there is going to be a fashion show and there is going to be a lot of people that are going to watch the fashions go by well as a fashion show right here there's a fashion show on each one of you are showing what kind of fashion you desire to follow.
And isn't it lovely here, sculptured after the fashion of a palace, we belong to the household of God.
You are being build of his inhabitation of God through the Spirit. And isn't it lovely than our daughters?
Our fashion structured after the fashion of a power so that others looking at them will see without which characterizes a godly Christian girl and our desire to please him. All this is sure of the world, first for the sun to be grown up in their youth, and then a word for the daughters that they might be fashioned.
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Sculptured after the fashion of a palace.
Oh how lovely this is. Wouldn't it be grand if each one of us feel young people had such an exercise as this? There are meetings then would be as we have further on here. Happy is that people that is in such a case. Oh how lovely it would be. What a blessing it would be if we were parents heeded the warning that's given to us.
If our young boys heeded the warnings that's given to them.
And if our daughters, in seeking to follow the fashions, would think of the fashions of a similaritude, of a power, thou which is pleasing to the One who loved us and gave them so forth.
Then the 14th verse.
What are garners may be full affording them all manner of store. Know how lovely this is the garners may be full of that is there would be about feeding upon Christ.
Feeding upon Christ? How often does it drive in the meetings?
Because there is something of conformity to the world instead of conformity to Christ.
But I believe, dear brethren and dear young people, but if we were all exercised in this way.
How that there would be as we have here, our garners would be full, that the meanings would be bright, happy places. Christ would be ministered in power. We've come to the meeting and sit down and really be refreshed in our souls.
Only God grant that there may be this exercise with us, that we might be before the Lord for our pathway, so that the meetings might be as we have here, affording all manner of stars at the dear Saints of God might receive refreshments and blessings for their souls.
That our sheep may bring forth thousands and 10 thousands in our streets.
Father speaks of fruitfulness. Fruitfulness, daughter would be more blessing from the result of our activities. More blessings. Why is it that we don't see more blessings? Well, I believe it's partly because we ourselves are not walking close enough to the Lord.
I believe the Lord would use us more than he dies if there was more exercise with each one of us.
To walk in a way pleasing to the Lord so that an outsider coming into the meeting, as it says in Fourth Corinthians chapter 14, when he comes in, he would fall on his face and confess that God is in you of a truth.
So my sheep, they bring forth thousands and 10 thousands in our streets.
That our oxen may be strong to labor. That there may be no breaking in nor going out. All what a what a word this is. No breaking in, no going out.
All what God has to do to break some of us down, what he has to do.
All those stubborn wills of ours. Dear young people, I'm looking into your faces.
And if you don't go on with the Lord, the Lord loves you too much to let you go your own way. And he has his own way of breaking the thin. He has his own love breaking the thin. And it's not a very pleasant process. Sometimes we read in the Bible of a little animal that didn't have to be broken in or didn't have to be broken in. Why didn't it have to be broken in?
Because it let Jesus sit on it.
On that little animal, it didn't have to be broken in. It was brought into false objection to the one who took its place upon its back. It didn't rear. It didn't jump. It didn't say I love my own way. That was fully.
Give an end to the world of the Lord Jesus. All dear young people.
May God grant about your let the Lord give us take its place upon your back, as it were. And I said for you, I say it for myself, all God has to break us down sometimes in a very hard way. He loves us too much to let us go our own way.
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But all he doesn't want to have to break up in that way. I say again, that little animal didn't have to be broken in Jesus Sodom. When you let the Lord Jesus have his rightful place, then he won't have to pass you through some heartbreaking experience to break the heart to break your heart to break the heart of your parents, to break the heart of your brethren because.
The Lord loves you, and He wants to break down that will and draw you to Himself.
But there may be no breaking him and notice, nor going out, nor going out.
All this is fabulousness.
I've talked to a lot of young people. I've watched a lot of young people grow up. And I'm I'm sorry to say I've seen quite a few of them go out. Go out. Yes, they were brought up in the meeting. They heard the truth that was ministered to them. Their brethren prayed for them, their parents prayed for them. They loved them. They pleaded with them. But they've gone.
But there may be no going out here, young people, if you get before the Lord.
And ask him to keep you he will keep you. He wants to keep you. He wants the blushes that there may be no going out, no baking in that then they no complaining in our streets. What would this tell us of submission to the will of God in our life submissions.
Are you and I going about complaining it's not the way a Christian should act? Who ought to be a happy people?
Anyone who has a right to be happy. If the Christian, there's anyone who has a cause for thankfulness, it's the Christian.
But there will be no complaining in our streets. Oh, how much complaining there is. And why? Is it because we want our own way? We're not submissive to the will of God, and so we complain. We grumble, always grumbling about somebody or something. Somebody didn't treat us the way they should. The meetings aren't what they should be.
The other young people aren't what they should be. Well, the Lord would have each one of us to be exercised.
That we might be going on to please the Lord and accepting our circumstances from Him. That there be no complaining in our streets. That complaining ever bring you any happiness itself, will bring you any real lasting happiness. No, it brings souls, brings grease.
Copy is the people that is in such a case.
Happy is that people whose God is the Lord?
Do you want to have happiness? You want to have the blessing of God? Friends can come to you and shake your hand and say.
Wish you the blessing of God, but they can't give it to you, but the Lord can.
The Lord can give you and He wants to give it to you. He wants to fill your life with happiness and blessings.
He's marked out the pathway in his precious words and all. How lovely this is. Happy is that people that is in such a case. Yay. Happy is that people whose God is the Lord? Nor may I say again how we conform to this world.
Or as it all desire, that we should be transformed, that our minds should be removed.
But our thoughts might be formed by the word of God, and that our lives might be fashioned in a way that's pleasing to the Lord.
God speak to each one of our hearts. Bear with this little Psalm that brings before us A millennial picture may also be a voice to us so that we may have something of the joys of heaven upon earth. All dear young people, again I say, I speak these words in love. I desire Your happiness and your blessing. Nothing makes my heart more happy than to see dear young people.
Really want to follow Christ. We want to belong for Him. We want to live for Him.
For my God granted, it will be so as the Lord's coming draws near.