Corner Brook Conference: 2015
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Romans 5:1-3
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This world is a wilderness. Why We have nothing that we say before you do.
Think I'm, uh, today you consider you may be there.
Like every night.
For it is what I sat down my family's home.
And we found a very good day anyway.
Really. My knees wear these clothes and I'm getting brown.
More in the wild.
Staying with your friends, love.
All right.
In the deep breath.
Take up the 5th chapter of Romans Foundation Truth.
The others are happy about that.
Chapter 5.
Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into this grace, where we stand and rejoice in hope for the glory of God.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulation also.
Knowing the tribulation, work with patience.
And patience. Experience.
And experience hope, And hope maketh not ashamed.
Because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Were scarcely for a righteous man will one die.
Yet, per adventure for a good man, some would even dare to die.
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But God commendeth his love toward us, and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more than being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son.
Much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the Atonement.
Wherefore as by one man entered into the world, and death by sins, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned. After the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come?
But not as the offense. So also is the free gift.
Where if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift of by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many.
And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift.
Where the judgment was by 1 to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences under justification.
For if by one man's offence death reigned by one much more, they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ.
Therefore, as by the offense of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation.
Even so, by the righteousness of one, the free gift.
Came upon all men unto justification of life.
Whereas by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Moreover, the law entered that the offence might abound.
But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
It has sin also drained unto death. Even so, my grace reigned through righteousness.
Unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Gold 9, verse 2.
I know it is so of a truth.
But how should man be just with God?
The book of Romans is foundation truth, isn't it?
To build a house, you need a good foundation.
And God has brought before us in the book of Romans a whole state of man.
And he's taken it up.
The man in the flesh, the religious man, the Jew, the Gentile.
And he's made his conclusion as to you and me in our state.
Before God.
As we're born into this world.
And he's taken it up.
And how can man be just with God?
Is the theme.
That is what before us.
And before God could open up the way into the very, very present, that question had to be settled.
To the glory of God, to his satisfaction.
You notice how that the chapter 4 Romans 4 ends before you have the therefore in the 5th chapter.
It says to start with.
Verse 23.
Verse 22 Now therefore it was executed to him for righteousness. Now what was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him.
But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead.
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Who was delivered for our offenses?
And raised again for our justification.
Thinking particularly the last of the 24th verse.
Jesus our Lord, who was delivered for our offenses and raised again for our justification, and it is on that ground.
Oh God, there of the cross of Calvary taking up that whole question.
Of sin and our sins.
That we have the therefore, where we started in chapter 5, therefore.
Being justified.
Not by our works.
But by feet.
We have peace with God.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ.
They're very important statements that's made in the 7th chapter of Ecclesiastes. We look at the 20th verse.
This for there is not a just man upon earth that doeth good and sinneth not.
That shows us the need of justification, doesn't it?
If there were just persons upon the earth aside from the Lord Jesus.
There would not be that same need, would there?
But we see that.
Cinnamon's come into the world.
And has affected the whole creation.
And not only.
Mankind, but sin has had its effect upon the entire creation.
And so there is that need to justification, isn't there?
There are several.
Ways of looking at justification and I think both Paul and.
All right. And James?
View justification in slightly different way.
Here we have justification by faith.
And we see that the ground of that justification in verse 9.
It's justified by his blood.
But then James speaks about justification of works.
All I believe.
Speaks of what God sees.
And that.
Save.
James speaks about what man sees that works.
And that would be a visible evidence of faith.
They're not contradictory, but one is.
The showing out before man of what was accomplished through.
Justification by faith.
So.
Some would look at these two views as contradictory, but they complement one another.
And this comes first, doesn't it?
What'd you say, brother? Certainly don't. First we have here.
It's the justification spoken of in James is as a result of a look of faith, isn't it, that we have in this chapter.
The first few verses of chapter 4.
Tells us about Abraham that his justification before God wasn't by works.
It says, What shall we say then that Abraham or father is pertaining to the flesh have found?
For if Abraham were justified by works, he had wear off to glory, but not before God.
For what says the Scripture? Abraham believed God, who was accounted unto him for righteousness.
So we have. We have both. As been mentioned, we know that good works come after one is saved, and Abraham certainly had good works before God. But what came first was the justification by faith.
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You had to have the justification by 31St and we know that that is our faith as a gift from God, as I mentioned.
Here in in chapter in the chapter 5 and verse 2.
It says by whom also we have access, by faith into this grace for whom we stand.
So our whole standing before God.
Is through our faith.
But it's grace given by God, something that we did to earn it, that non merited favor of God.
Is how we stand for him.
Nothing to do with herself.
In our natural state, that's what you get. Uh, brother Enos, uh, isn't it in the third chapter of Roman?
And the 23rd and the 24th verse.
There we have the declaration made in the 23rd verse, the gain of the seed of man that all had sinned and come short of the glory of God, and then being justified, treated by His grace.
Which is in Christ Jesus, and here you have justified through faith.
And we have justified through blood.
It is not a worse.
It's a foundation how good to lay hold, isn't it?
Faith is needed on our part, on God's part. He had to have a, a foundation, a solid foundation in which he could, uh, justify us. And that was the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Yeah. He was delivered for our offenses and raised the game for justification. Without that work, God wouldn't have had. He wouldn't have had to. He wouldn't have, uh.
Uh, you might say, uh, a foundation which it bless us, we wouldn't be able to forgive us our sins. We wouldn't be able to enjoy what we have today without that work.
So we can we enter into it by faith. Good vape is needed.
On our part, you went her into it, but we know a lot. That is also a gift from God by grace. Are you saved through faith and not of yourselves? It is the gift of God, not of works, lest an imagined folks.
289.
Our brother Inus mentioned Abraham or Abram in the 15th chapter of Genesis. There's a very.
Short verse.
It refers to Abram and says and he believed in the Lord.
What was the result of that?
And he counted it to him for righteousness, that is God.
April believed.
And then God counted.
Into him for righteousness.
I believe in the 22nd chapter of Genesis where the Lord tries Abraham in connection with the offering of Isaac, we have the aspect.
Of what is brought before us in James, do you think?
Here the Lord is proving him, and it's outward, but he had that faith before with the faith that came.
And that enabled him to go through what we read in the 1St 19 verses of Genesis 22.
The Old Testament Saints.
They had a life given by God.
And uh, they believe God, what God said to them.
Either in the written word that they had, God spoke. Even in creation, they believed what God was speaking.
And through that faith, God can't put it through their accounts that they were righteous before Him.
But the day in Christianity.
Everything has been finished. You might say completed. Christ has died on the cross. He could say it is finished.
And today, we need faith in the finished work of Christ.
So the Romans there in chapter 3.
It says umm.
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And verse 30 seeing it as one God, which shall justify the circumcision.
That is, choose by thee and the answer condition through faith.
So today we're justified. Through the faith, everything has been accomplished.
And uh, we justified before God by faith, but it's faith to finish work in Christ.
Everything has been completed today and uh, in the Old Testament, they didn't have the faith working Christ to believe that if they hadn't had it, they would have believed in it, but they didn't have it. But they, what, uh, God gave to them, they believe God and uh, that's what faith is, taking God in his word. And he put it through their account that they were righteous before him and justified before him.
But, uh, today there's a further, you might say, requirement of God to believe in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ because all has been accomplished.
Today, to be justified before God, we need to have faith in that work of Christ on the cross.
In Acts chapter 27.
The Apostle Paul. It's impressive.
Uh, or makes a statement of faith and it's a very short.
Concise statement that he makes in verse 25.
In connection with the storm.
And the condition of those in the ship.
Verse 25. Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer.
For I believe God.
That it shall be, even as it was told me.
That's a very concise statement.
I believe God. He took God at his word.
And we have such.
Deep truths and the Word of God conveyed in simple words. It's not complicated.
And I'm thankful for that.
Not too long ago, uh, I was with brother Paul Hadley.
And we were in a a nursing home, speaking to some of the older folks and.
Our brother Paul made the statement that he was glad that God conveyed truth to us so that we could easily understand it.
And he made reference to.
Uh, a statue that was found on the grounds of the West Point Military Academy.
And there is apparently a statue of a general mounted on a horse. And apparently.
There are spurs on the boots of this general, it's General Sedgwick.
And before.
The final exams.
The Cadets go up to this statue and rotate the spurs.
Uh, on the books.
Supposedly for good luck.
Because this particular general had three horses shot from under him.
But there was another thing about this general that a lot of people don't know about.
We had a person in under his command that he relied upon.
He wasn't the swiftest person. It took him a long while to grasp fruits.
And before General Sedgwick issued an order, he called this man in and he said, I want to convey.
A message to my troops.
And I'm going to run it past you first to see if you understand.
And if you understand what I said, I'm going to have you deliver that message.
And so we sometimes are a little slow understanding too, but God has written it in a way that we understand it. And so the apostle Paul here says, I believe God, that it shall be, even as it was told me.
Could we have a word on the piece of peace, Peace with God in his first verse? Is this uh, we know that piece is used in different ways. Is this piece of conscience here that gives us.
Access that were is mentioned in verse two. Maybe we could have a word on that.
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Tell us your thought, brother.
I just enjoyed it that way as a piece of conscience, uh, if we're in someone's presence and we don't have a good conscience.
We really don't feel like being there, do we?
That God has given us.
Piece of contract so that we can come freely and boldly into his presence with the.
Holy boldness.
A look of faith is the beginning of a Christian life.
It takes one look.
PC.
After that, the whole principle of the life.
Of a person who's a child of God, even born first day. The whole principle is a base difference in the manner of the world.
Because we are the children of God, we belong to Him, and He's given us the book here that we hold in our hands to be our guide.
Given us this Holy Spirit to indwell us, to lead us.
And we have a father that we can turn to for everything in our lives.
It's faith that would lead us on to trust Him.
One look of faith could save a soul. And then, brethren, our lives are different. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth.
My word is truth.
The principle of this world, the way that it is going that changes the laws and all these things don't alter.
This relationship book we hold in our hands.
The one to whom we are accountable to isn't.
And every man is accountable.
Would you want to be anything but a Christian?
Somebody say somebody say that to, uh, strap a bomb onto one's chest and then detonate it. And it requires a lot of faith.
So what was what's different in the perfume we're talking about here? That kind of face?
One might be taking God of his word.
Rather than taking bananas word.
We have.
God's written Word before us.
And uh.
That is to believe the account that God gives has word.
The command to leave that account? You won't be strapping bombs on his waist.
You'll be rejoicing and the hope that he had before him.
Meeting the one that died on the cross to redeem them. But without, without God, man has just left to his own divisions.
Man's heart we know is is evil.
Deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, it tells us.
Then they put a state.
Like the man that built his house on the quicksand.
No foundation. It's not going to last.
This world is what it's building on, is building a quicksand.
Doesn't have a foundation.
Think the question that you asked there and I agree with what you said, right?
You know it's umm.
I think it's a little worse than men being just left to his own devices though, because.
Our minds can very quickly become the placing of the devil, and I think that a lot of false religions are a trap set up by Satan to deceive people.
And so, uh, we have, I think a, uh.
A definition of faith in John chapter 3 and verse 33.
It says there he that hath received his testimony has set to his seal.
That God is true.
And I just like to focus in terms of answering your question, Derek, uh, on the last part, God is true. And that's really, uh, the question that comes up to it, Uh.
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Brother in US mentioned the, uh, the fact that we have to believe the word of God, but between Islam and Christianity, A fundamental question which of those two books is.
Is the word of God.
And it comes down to, I believe understanding who God is. And is God true?
And if you look at some of the fundamental assumptions, for example, and how the Koran is written, where the things that were revealed later completely override the things that were written earlier, what kind of God is that is revealing? Whereas if you look in the Word of God.
That we have the Bible. You see, it may look superficially like Judaism has been replaced by Christianity, and in one sense it has.
But uh, in reality, what it is is that everything comes together in the Lord Jesus Christ. Everything.
That God has a purpose for earth in Israel and a purpose for heaven in the church, and both of them are documented in this book and they fit together perfectly and reveal a perfect, holy and true God.
And that's what your faith has to be in.
And God has put evidence here, as we've been having before us how God makes it simple. Through a look of faith, He can communicate to us that this is indeed the truth.
And as you've been seeing brother Dave, uh, it's fundamental.
And this book of Rebel, of, uh, enrollments really brings that together in a very organized way. It's like an essay where Paul begins at the beginning.
Of where man was and how helpless he was, answering Job's question, answering the question in the comment in Ecclesiastes, and then bringing us through dealing with the question of sin to the place where we are in our chapter where we started that God based on taking wretched helpless men.
Intervening with his son and giving him as a gift can bring us into a place where.
With John's question, how can we have peace, those of us who are at enmity?
So I can do it. And so that's, uh, I think, uh, the answer to the question, what is the, is the difference between those two faiths? Which God is it? The God of this world that's preaching lies and destruction.
Or the gods of all creation, the God of heaven.
The God of our Lord Jesus Christ can preach his peace and the forgiveness of sins and love, and that's what it means, right? The love of God is what we have revealed even in this chapter.
I say every false religion of man, every cult.
Is all based on works?
They all base blessing upon works.
The book that we have, with God blessing all, is based upon grace.
God's favor to us. We didn't do anything to earn what we have.
You didn't do any good works, didn't it? Good works would do us no good. Uh, before God?
We're saved solely on the on the good favor of God to bring us into where we are.
No other religion on on earth.
Holds that in the truth. You know it's all based on what you can do. You gain blessing.
We have everything in Christ. We don't have it in ourselves, but we have it in another one that has, uh, fully satisfied the heart of God.
For our justification that we have here. For our eternal blessing.
And.
Uh, you know, even the youngest child here that has put her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is seen here in this verse.
And and infusions for uh chapter uh.
Two, there's, there, there. There's therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.
Containing that first without condemnation.
Every child of God is seen there without one bit of condemnation upon him. Why? Because God has justified him.
Through the work of Price.
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Validation and supply faith. God recognizes and He stands. This is our standing. Every child of God can stand.
This very day before a holy God.
And the work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It's a wonderful thing.
You know, justification if, if somebody was to, uh, prepare before, uh, the judge.
And uh.
Had charges against them and.
He was found guilty of those charges. He he condemned and a judge according to the laws of the land, he would open up the law book.
He would be, uh, required to punish that person according to the crimes he committed.
But with us, we never reached the judge.
All our sins, everything that was against us, has been crucified with Christ on the cross.
And the youngest believer here has a standing.
There's no accusation can be brought against him.
No crimes can be brought against us. All has been paid for by Christ.
And so we have a perfect standing before God in Christ Jesus.
I say something else. My state changes all the time.
And perhaps yours does too, and everything can change her state. It'll be at a sad state. Happy state.
And so on, but are standing because it's based on what price has done, it's solid.
And when we appear before God and Christ, no accusation, no charges can be brought against us. That's how God can justify us and he and to prove that he's happy with the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, he, he raised them up.
He was, uh.
Says there he was, uh, delivered for our offenses and raised the game for a justification.
What can we? What can we say?
We're, uh, God's children. We're, we're, we've been redeemed. We've been brought into this great place of blessing, and we stand before God in the finished work of Christ.
What a position that we have.
Connection with our brother Derek's question.
Think of the Apostle Paul.
And he said that by all means, if I could save some.
And we think of what the apostle call went through.
To proclaim the gospel, that gospel that our brother Robert was speaking, proclaiming a God of.
And the 14th chapter of Acts we see.
That he has stoned the fossil fallen stoned in Lystra in the 19 first.
And they?
Uh, draw the Apostle Paul out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
Now.
Naturally speaking, you can say or you would think that the apostle Paul could say, look how they treated me.
I'll never come back to that same city again.
I'm going to have nothing to do with it or.
I'll come back and.
Uh, with an active retribution.
Was that in the Apostle Paul's heart? And verse 21 I find very remarkable.
It says that when they had preached the gospel to that city and had taught many.
They returned again to Mystra.
And to Oconium and Antioch.
It was love for their souls.
That brought the Apostle Paul back again.
And it's a remarkable incidence that we have.
And then there's another matter that we didn't touch upon in connection with your question and that deals with the sanctity of life.
Which would require quite a long uh.
Session 2 but.
That, again, is something that God looks upon.
Wonder if First Timothy after two might be another little.
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Wrong question.
Was Timothy.
I was thinking in verse umm 5.
For there is, umm, one God and one mediator between God and man to man, Christ Jesus.
Dimension. The enemy likes to assert the authority of the Lord Jesus and replace him with something else.
And so this will bring us the bring you for us again, the foundation. It's not the amount of our faith, is it? It's your faith is in.
Taking a lot of faith to believe that you believe. Thereafter, set that bottom on and detonated.
But my face is not in.
This one here the volume kind of says only one mediator between God and man and man Christ Jesus the enemy and man himself as a as a planet. Many other mediators could it be a virgin or you go back lessons chapter one.
In relations one we have. This is a false psychology, speaking in both places here.
And it says verse 8, verse 8 is chapter one as though we are an Angel from heaven.
Freaks. Any other bumps along here in which you have to treat every on you? Let them be a curse.
Three. If that is so, it's found. It's the foundational proof that there is only one mediator being God and man as the man Christie evil. They say the.
The enemy who motivates, whatever the error.
Have us replace that with something else that comes afterwards.
Important that we I'm sorry brother Jerry, I was gonna say it's important to define our terms, isn't it? Almost 10 tells us that faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. I may speak of my belief and my faith and I might simply be referencing my opinion from my opinion and your opinion. There really is no account in eternal things and takes us back to that fundamental question that Robert hit on is this book a revelation for God from God or is it not.
We don't have the word of God before us, then we have nothing. God is the only one that can declare what is eternal and what is truth. And so we want to build our faith on the word of God. That's where it comes from and where it's built. And uh, the result of this is so beautiful in these first two verses, there's three great blessings that we have as a result of the finished work of Christ.
That the first step it has to do with all that's gone before our past, our sins, our guilt before God.
God has declared to be righteous and we are declared to be unrighteous in this book. We know in the course of the law one may get off by an unrighteous judge that unless one off, maybe there is true guilt there or a or a a skewed jury. But God has declared those who are unrighteous as righteous and he has done it righteously in the work of another. And So what a wonderful thing it is to have peace with God. When we know we sinned against God, we know abroad him we're guilty before him.
And those sins demand his wrath, and demand his judgment.
How would we ever have before that one in the work of another of our Jesus Christ? But it's not only the past what we've done, but it's that present place of grace wherein we station, we stand by faith and God wants us to have rest and peace in our souls, not to be constantly striving. Said, yes, I once trusted in Jesus, but I've got to do my part and be filled with legal efforts trying to keep and win the favor of God. No, we brought, we've been brought.
Into his favor, and that's where we stand presently.
And more than that, we rejoice in hope of the glory of God, not only of peace as to what's past, not only that pleasant place of place of grace, but to look forward to rejoice and hope for the glory of God. Hope is the thought of future. And so in the third chapter we read that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Our destitute of it. But now to think of the very glory of God, we who are so far from him that would tremble at that, now we rejoice in the prospect of it.
But Oasis. And so it's all directly traced back to that wonderful work of the Lord Jesus as our substitute there, delivered for our offenses and raised again for our justification.
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I suppose UMM and Derek in regarding your question, and I don't want to drag this point on, but sometimes it's good to keep things simple and.
Space is only as is only a value. Uh.
Depending on what we have faith in.
And of course, our faith, as we see in this chapter, is grounded on the greatest.
A possible promise that we could ever imagine. And we have. We're going to have complete confidence in it.
It's not going to fail. I remember one day driving down the road.
Coming down a hill approaching the driveway where I was about to turn in.
And I had all the faith in the world in the braking system of that vehicle.
So I put my foot on the brake and it prompted me right to the floor and there was no reaction whatsoever in the car in the view.
Well, my faith was as strong as to be in break in that vehicle, but.
Very poorly grounded and the individual you spoke of placing a bomb in his chest, he may have a tremendous amount of faith in his own mind.
But what a sad experience, and what a sad result is going to be. It was certainly frightening, too.
Uh, be driving that vehicle and suddenly realizing that there was not an ounce of breaking the building in it.
But far worse for that individual that you mentioned. And so I think it's sometimes good to keep it simple. Umm, our faith is.
Her face is browner than anything else.
Trying to be disappoint.
The world would tell you that there's many roads that lead to heaven.
That Eric gave us adversaries, and that at First Timothy chapter 2, there's one God, one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
And just thinking about the scriptures here, uh, you know, in Hebrews chapter one, it says God who at sundry times and his divers manners.
Taken time, passed unto the Fathers by the prophets, passing these last days, spoken unto us by his tongue.
And that's what the Word of God is all about, the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's where you find salvation through Him.
And, umm, the one thing about Christianity is the exclusiveness of it. Umm.
Many other things believe we say that you can come together and you know we can find common ground, but one thing about the scriptures.
There's only one way. There's only one way to God, and that's through the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Bible gives the text there.
The results in the means are incredibly important to consider. If you think of the result of the phase here, it's the three things that Bill mentioned at Peace with God.
This incredible position of east or this incredible position of grace of stand in, and also this deferred certainty or this whole of the glory of God which two chapters earlier it says all is in the control of the glory of God. As believers, we have all three of these things as a present.
Incredible thing that we can enjoy now. When Adam was driven out of the Garden of Eden, the peace of God was gone. Umm.
Can't stroll for it but never got it. Man will go to incredible length to try and achieve these things, including dropping bombs on themselves to ensure a better position in eternity. And so the difference is is that we have this result now here in the present from God and the means of it is perfectly explainable through the one just person that ever lived and gave us life for us. It's an incredible, incredible thing to consider because.
I mean, you can look around the world and people will go to absolutely unbelievable lengths to.
Get something.
And uh, yet we have something through something that somebody else did.
And almost everyone of the epistles.
The Apostle Paul begins with grace and peace.
A brother, Albert Hayhoe, said many years ago, the more that I enter into what the grace of God is, the more I will enjoy the peace of God.
Grace and peace.
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Paid by Jesus Christ.
We are saved by grace and hear it stand in grace.
It's all the way.
We need him every step of the journey, don't we?
Grow in grace.
It's important to realize where we stand.
And how we stand stand fast in price.
Some years ago I was reading through the book of Judges and.
You have a.
Somewhat of a strange account that's written, and let's just turn to the proportion of judges.
The only chapter of Judges.
Uh gives the account of the king, Uh a donut visa.
Don't have the exact reference.
We see that they were gathered around this table, those that.
Had chapter one and verse 7, seven. OK chapter one and verse 7.
And a donut visit, said three score and 10 kings having their thumbs and great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table as I have done.
So God has requited me.
And they brought him to Jerusalem. There he died. But well, that's a strange.
Verse to appear gives us some information there. Why? Why is it giving us that information? Well, without a thumb we can't grasp anything, can we? So we think of the admonitions that are given in the Word of God, the whole sense.
Without a great toll, we can't stand. We don't have the balance, do we? And so we have those.
Admonitions to stand fast and it's good to see where we're standing as our brother, uh, Dave said, it's, uh, standing here in brakes business.
You can rejoice here in the hope of the glory of God. It's because our hope is a certainty.
Faith makes it certain. Oh, but uh, hope in the world is never certain or joyous because man may build his hopes on something and the next day everything can change and hopes are dashed in pieces and so on. But with God's Word, we, uh, like faith from waiting for the show, for the Lord Jesus to take us home. We know in our hearts that that's a certainty it's going to happen.
I have these believer here today. Are you you think the Lord will are you waiting for the Lord to come or do you believe in the Lord's coming from the Church and certainly everyone would say yes.
Most today, and so we can rejoice in this. It's, uh, something that we can rejoice in because we know by faith.
It's a future thing, but it's a certain thing. It's going to happen. This is something that the world knows nothing of, nothing certain in this world, and there's no hope that they can rejoice in, truly rejoice in, because they don't have any certainty.
I have a question in in connection with that Mark made reference to uh, that well known person enrollment chapter 3. Umm, all of them become short of the glory of God.
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Uh, my question is this expression rejoice and hope for the glory of God is.
Is maybe the thought here that we rejoice in the glory of God has to do in Romans 3 with.
God's standard, his holy character, and the fact that we can never.
We can never come up to that. We fall short of it, but we rejoice in the fact that.
God's standard is holy standard has been met perfectly in the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that's what we rejoice in because.
We, our salvation would not have been secured except for the fact that God's holy character demanded that that perfect sacrifice, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. So it's a question is, is that the thought of this expression, uh, hope of the glory of God.
Would you say, Sean, that because of that?
The God being so glorified in the death of his Son that we can now rejoice in hope of the glory of God that we're going, we're going to.
I like the, umm, the, uh, definition, if I can put it that way, uh, what Mr. Lundin said in connection with Glory.
That is excellence in display.
And there's coming a day when.
God is going to see that His Son is displayed in all his glory.
And that, uh, we have in the 17th of June.
Uh, that they may behold my glory. They may be with me.
Behold my glory.
I would say, Sean myself, that I'm glad to hear the thoughts of others who.
God's been glorified in the death of his Son, and here it's the hope that we.
Goes beyond to that deferred certainty. I think I'm going to use that expression.
Right to the time when we are going to be there and to be with him forever.
Like to read a verse in Revelation 21?
And umm, the end of verse 9.
The, uh, one of the angels says, did John come hit her? I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. So you know, that's the church or the assembly.
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.
Having the glory of God and her flight was like a new stone, most precious even like unto a Jasper stone, players crystal and so on.
We think of the, uh, cities of this world, and what do they boast of? The glory of man.
But this city gives index to the glory of God and I believe it looks on to the fullness of that work that we can, uh, we can go on and look to see the fulfillment, the fruit of the work of Christ. There is that which is yet future that we can rejoice in now present enjoyment. And here I don't see specifically that in Romans 5, it is in reference to the church. That's not Paul's line of thing in Romans per SE, but it, uh, we have the expression in Revelation 3 about the.
The beginning of the creation of God. We know that God has worked twice in creation. The first creation in the heavens and the earth was of God. He is the one or by God. He was the He is the one that brought it to be. But creation of God has to do with everything is according to God.
For His delight, His pleasure, His glory, and we can rejoice in that. What a wonderful day that will be when everything is of God, according to God, just as he would delight in it. And so we can look on to that day that have your day before us, that we can rejoice. And even now that will be all to the glory of God.
There are several ways of looking at the Lord's glory. There is the essential glory that He had with the Father.
From all eternity, and I think we have a little picture, a figure of that in connection with Joseph and the code of many colors.
But then in the 45th chapter, Joseph is sending word back to his father with his brethren.
And in verse 13 of that chapter, and it says, And you shall tell my father of all.
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My glory in Egypt.
All my glory.
And I'm sure that they spent a long time rehearsing that what they had seen.
We know that the glory of Solomon just took the breath away from.
The, uh, Queen of Sheba, and we have a description that she gives of Solomon's glory. And here we have all of my glory. That's the acquired glory.
Speaking to us figuratively of the Lord Jesus, isn't it? So there are these two aspects that we have to keep in mind.
I've enjoyed the thoughts of the Father and the Son, have had a glory from a past eternity like we have in John 17.
The word says.
In verse 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou Me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. So we know there was that glory between the Father and the Son from an eternity past.
The Lord was here in time on this earth, and He always did that which brought glory to His Father.
Then we have that first in First Timothy.
Where I think it's actually in Second Timothy.
Actually it is first Timothy at the end of chapter 3 says, and without verse, without controversy. Great is the mystery of godliness, godless, manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory. It should be. It was the manner in which he was received up.
And then there is a coming time when God is going to glorify Him before this world. And so I have just enjoyed that thought of this, you might say, continual glory between the Father and the Son.
Is there time boat up there?
1:45 should be stopping time.
We've seen number 69 in the appendix, 69 in the appendix.
Oh, the peace.
Forever.
Amazing for around your life.
So I don't want to be a.
Crazy baby.
Right here.
Really. Really.
You're making a.
Fun.
Night Seasons
Address—Bill Brockmeier
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Let's sing 117.
Not to ourselves. We owe that. We owe God our lying. Jesus the Lord our Knight broke through and gave us light Divine 117.
To ourselves.
We are all.
But we don't ride my heart.
Uh.
We shall begin.
Wherever my life.
Again.
Umm God bless you in prayer for God and our Father we.
I'd like to turn to a couple of verses to begin with. The 1St is in Psalm 16.
Like 3 three sets of two verses each.
To umm lead into the subject that I have before me, but the first verse of Psalm 16 and verse 7.
I will bless the Lord who hath given me counsel. My reigns also instruct me in the night seasons.
Next verse Psalm 17 and verse 3.
Thou has proved my heart, Thou has visited me in the night. Thou has tried me and shall find nothing. I am purpose that my mouth shall not transgress.
The Darby right, as if my thought goeth not beyond my word.
Like to consider a little this afternoon something of the night seasons.
And perhaps look at them, and particularly in in in one way. But I'd like to notice a few ways in which this expression is used as we have in verse 7.
My reigns also instruct me in the ninth season, the reigns of kidneys, the renal failure, and so on. The kidneys, my reigns also instruct me in the ninth seasons. And in that verse, and also in the verse in the 17th Psalm, they bring before us the Lord's, uh, working and his testing us.
And those private, uh, seasons in our lunch, you know, most of our life is, is, uh, strictly individual before God through there is that interaction with one another, with our brethren, with our family. And yet by and large, most of our, our life is intensely personal before God. For instance, how much of your thought life, uh, do your, do your, even those closest to you know, it's strictly that which is primarily that which is known and known entirely of God.
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And there are, there's that which is, as we say, off the radar. There's that which is not open to public view, but it's very important. Now the Lord Jesus, of course, is spoken of in the 16th song. He was the perfect dependent man.
And we know one of the marks of the new life that God has given us is dependence. And the Lord Jesus took that path of dependence, perfect dependence on his Father when he came into manslaughter. Now for us, the path of dependence is even more important.
Because we have a fallen nature within that can lead us into all sorts of mischief. So not only is the life that we have dependent upon God, we also have the danger of the flesh within us that will lead us into sin if we're not dependent upon the Lord. And yet in the ninth season, the psalmist could say, because we recognize these songs not only as messianic, as we say some of them in reference to the Lord Jesus himself, but they also apply practical application to the Saint of God. And he says.
My reins instruct me in the ninth seasons. You know what?
At the end of the day, you're in bed and you're waking up and, and the thoughts come to your mind and say, well, the way you spoke to so and so really wasn't, uh, characterized by meekness and gentleness.
You really didn't, you didn't really didn't mean to say that what you said, the tone you set it in. And you know, it's one thing to argue against somebody that may correct this, but it's another thing when the Lord lays something on your heart and there you are before the Lord. Since the Lord is speaking to you, there's no sense arguing because he knows it through and through. But how important it is that we have these this instruction of the night season.
And I'd like to focus a little bit on that subject of the ninth seasons.
In the way of what God would instruct us in those those those personal moments with himself. Some examples from Scripture and so on the 16th and 17th Psalm, I would describe it as the nine seasons of our personal inward life before the Lord. Now turn over to the 30th Psalm.
And the night is broke. This raw before a shear in a little different way. Psalm 30.
And verse 5.
For his anger endureth at a moment.
His favor is life leaping may endure for a night, for joy cometh in the morning. Permit me again when you do that in the Darby translation for a moment. His past in his anger, a life in his faith.
Turn over to Joel.
35 I believe it is for another verse to go along with that.
You know the story of Job. Unprecedented calamity came upon him. God himself allows Satan to touch Job.
In a tremendous way, perhaps none of suffered in so many ways within a short period of time as Job suffered. And through it all, Job and even makes claim that he retained his integrity. He did not curse God. He did not blasphemy God.
But he was a man. Job's problem was not sin, the problem was self. At the beginning of this chapter even says the lie view that one messenger among 1000 says you have said your righteousness is greater than God's.
And that ultimately was your problem, not his matter of integrity. He was a righteous man. And not only a righteous man. He was a good man. He was a man. He says. I made the widow's heart to sing. Think of it. What a man he must have been for that grieving widow.
The sense of loss and devastation, and here comes Joel and her heart is lifted up with joy because of that man and the comfort of solace that he would bring. That was the kind of man Joe was. Righteous man, a good man, an honorable man in every way.
And in this chapter, why you have to deal with Job and he operated from the premises that good things come to good people.
And when bad things came to a good person, he couldn't reconcile.
His friends couldn't reconcile it either.
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And so, his friend said, Joel must be a fraud.
There must be a double life here because if he was the man that we think he is and that we have seen him to be, he would not be in the mess that he's in now because God would reward one that lives right and does good.
And he is. He is being afflicted as none of it, so his three friends quote.
Which made him all the more angry because one thing he knew is he wasn't living his double life. He wasn't a hypocrite, he was true.
But a lie who comes and lays the problem? And Job was operating from the same premise as his friends. His friends said well, these bad things happen to this man, therefore he must be a hypocrite. And Toth knew that wasn't the case. What other conclusion could he come to? God must be unjust.
Based on all he knew, that's the only conclusion he could come to is it God is sovereign. God is all powerful. There's nothing I can do but accept it. He wants to throw me in the ditch there. I must lie because he's God and I'm man. But allow you puts his finger on and says he said you said your righteousness is greater than God's. And so the light begins to speak to him. I took a little more time on that than I intended, but it leads up to verse 9 talks about those that have run into trial and problems.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry, or the oppressed cry, they cry out. By reason of the arm of the mighty, but none set. Where is God my Maker, who giveth songs to the night? Now the psalmist said that weeping may endure for a night.
And sometimes maybe we focus on the fact that we can landure for the night, but joy comes in the morning. But it does say weeping endures for a night. That night may be decades. It may be a long night. And you know what night is. It brings before us the thought of trial, of suffering, of sorrow, of uncertainty, of doubt, of not being able to explain why this has happened. And that was her job was he couldn't explain what happened to him. Oh, his friends explained it fine, but they were wrong.
In their explanation, So job he, uh, he was in his real mind, but a lie. Who says if there's many that cry for oppression because they want the oppression lifted, but he says none say where is God my maker who give us songs in the night? This goes beyond just waiting for joy in the morning and for every believer we can say joy does come in the morning.
For the Lord's return to come and take us to be with himself. What joy that will be. But I think of those like Paul and Silas there as they were imprisoned for their preaching the gospel and their backs were beaten. And at midnight, the darkest point of the day, they lifted up their voices saying how could they do that? Because God can give songs in the night. And there are those times of sorrow. And in measure, I'm sure we all have that measure of the night seasons in our life.
This afternoon, so I'm greater than others. Maybe it's a real intense trial in a certain period of time. Others may be drawn out along and during trial. But night is very real, those nights of sorrow. But our God can give songs in the night. Now turn over to Romans chapter 13, and this will be the third set of the, uh, of the three I mentioned that bring before us tonight.
Again, the night that bring before us our inward personal walk before God, and our thoughts before God. Then the night of sorrow. But in Romans 13 we have the knight brought out a little different way.
Romans 1311 and then knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believe the night is far spent, the day is at hand, but is therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light. Let us walk honestly as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness is the thought of sexual sin. It's done in private and wanting this not in stride and ending, but put you on the Lord Jesus Christ to make not provision for the flesh.
To fulfill the lust thereof.
Night is far spent.
How soft works of darkness. And then one more person first John chapter 2.
First John chapter 2 and verse 8.
Again a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness has passed, For the darkness is passing, and the true light now shineth.
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The South is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now, but the darkness is passing the true light now shines well, what we have in Romans 13 is really moral and spiritual darkness. What is characterized by a life of sin is darkness, moral darkness. And as Paul writes the Romans there he says night is uh is far spent the day in Japan soon this night of unchecked.
Sin and wickedness in this world.
It's going to come to an end. The Lord is going to come to take his own, to be with himself, and then he's going to come back a day of the Lord and then righteousness will dwell in every high look will be brought low. The Lord alone will be exalted in that day. So the night of moral and spiritual darkness, and that's the night that we live in here, but we're to be characterized by those that.
Says here, let's put on the armor of life that are characterized by light and holiness to righteousness.
In a practical way, they also read there in first John that the darkness is passing. You know, first John, we are brought these for us. Uh, there is some of the great attributes of God. Chapter one, God is light. Chapter 4, God is love. But you know, it says in the first chapter, if we walk in the light as he is in the light. Think about that for a moment. Not only is God's light and love, God is in the light. And Solomon's day, God dwelt behind thick curtains.
I think the verse was quoted this morning that God didn't speak in times past and diverse ways and diverse manners and deposited by the prophets. They had a partial knowledge of God, a partial revelation of God.
And God was not made known, as Solomon says that God would dwell in thick curtains.
But after the veil has been rent, God has now come out in the light. God has now made himself fully known in the sun. The darkness is passing, the true light now shining. And so John writes here.
A new commandment I write into you. But he says if I read verse seven, I write no new commandment in you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. What's that? Mount Sinai? Oh, that's the beginning of the Lord's public ministry here on earth. We think of the commandments given the sign of the 10 commandments, but this old commandment that he's referring to is not. That commandment is what the Lord Jesus said there in John 13. This commandment I give you that you love one another. So John is saying I'm giving you a new commandment, but it's not new. We already heard it from the lips of our blessed Lord.
It's this new commandment I'm giving you, but as these things were true in him.
Now they're to be true in you, and that's as the darkness is passing, as the light of that life is lived out in the light of His people. God is in the light we know Him as revealed in His Son. So there are still three ways of darkness to mention that of that personal inward life, that of the night seasons of sorrow, and then a moral and spiritual darkness. And I would just add this too, I think of Judas Iscariot when he took that favorite salt from the hand of the blessed Lord Charlie. Before he betrayed him, the plans had already been laid and he took that favor.
Uh, favored gesture from the blessed Lord. And it says he went out and it was night. Literally it was night. But it's a picture of the moral and spiritual darkness. And for one like Judas Iscariot, a lost eternity forever in the language of the Thistle of Jude, the blackness and darkness forever, eternal judgment. But as I say, I'd like to spend the rest of the meeting this afternoon on looking at a few examples of those that the Lord worked with in private and in the nice seasons. So let's turn to First Samuel, chapter 2.
Or for Samuel chapter 3.
Samuel is the fruit of his mother Hannah's, his godly mother's, and his intercession.
And the Lord granted her the son that she devoted to the Lord.
Chapter 3 In the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli, and the word of the Lord was precious or rare in those days. It was infrequent. It doesn't mean, like he said, that's very precious, very valuable. It's true the word of the Lord is valuable, but that's not the meaning of the word here. God was not openly communicating with His people.
There was no open vision, and it came to pass at that time when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see, and there in the lamp of God went out of the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down asleep.
That the Lord called Samuel and he answered, Here am I, and you ran into Eli and said, Here am I, but I'll call us me. And he said, I called not lie down again, and he went and laid out.
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The Lord called yet again Samuel, and Samuel rose with EUI and said Jeremiah without his calming any answer that I called not my son, lie down again now. Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him.
Understand. And the Lord called Samuel again the third time, and he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I without his Coleman. And he life received that the Lord had called the child Deborah, Elizabeth and Samuel. Go lie down and shall be, if you call thee that thou shalt say, Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place, And the Lord came and stood, and called it at other times Samuel, Samuel and Samuel answers, Speak for thy servant heareth.
And the Lord said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of everyone that heareth that shall tingle that day. I will perform against the oil all things which I have spoken concerning this house, when I begin.
I'll also make an end drop down to verse 15.
Samuel lay until the morning and opened the doors of the House of the Lord, and Samuel feared to show Eli a division.
Stop there. What a tremendous.
Incident this was We know that this is the first time that the Lord appeared to Samuel. Certainly wasn't the last. God communicated frequently to His servant.
But this is what we might speak of is the call of God.
The call of God.
And it may be that.
And any here came to know the Lord Jesus as their Savior early in their days. Some of us really don't remember a time when we positively rejected the gospel, did not accept it, would not accept it, and finally God in His grace saved us.
There was a time when we came to peace, but we perhaps had received the gospel as soon as we heard it, never fought against it.
Samuel was raised in an up in a in a in a in a godly environment. But there is a coming a time in everyone's life. That is a question that not only owning the lordship of Christ and salvation where we can't know him as our savior, the one who delivered us from that coming wrath of eternal hell and eternal demon. But the question is, am I going to live my life for Christ? As many believers that have lived their lives for themselves, they're fine as far as eternity is concerned. They'll be with Christ or sheltered under the blood of Christ.
But the great question is the call of God comes for service and for devotedness to Him. And it's often in the nine seasons, I suppose if we went through the room and talked to different people as to what was it that really stirred your heart to follow the Lord Jesus, what was it? There will be many different ways. Perhaps it was a quiet word that someone said to us.
Perhaps it was not being able to sleep some night and you knew Brevard was speaking to you.
It may have been different things, but the Lord said I'm calling you and I'm calling you to serve you. And when I speak of service, I I the service of God is following God. I think one of the greatest services that one could render, which is excluded all brothers and that's that calling them a mother, but a great service that is to impact lives in a particular way. So I'm not Speaking of any any single thing in terms of the service of God, but it's how do we do what we do?
And the call of God now came to Samuel. Now there's a couple things that are very striking about this. Should the call of God come? Uh, should have, shouldn't have come to Samuel. Eli was the functioning priest.
And it must have been a very difficult thing when Samuel continues to interrupt this older man.
Getting to sleep and this kid comes in and wakes me up, get back to sleep and wakes me up again and finally he figures it out.
What a thought that must have been the Lord's not speaking to me.
But you know, Eli said, Eli recognizes now that God is not speaking to him. He's speaking to this young boy and tells him when he says speak Lord for thy servant here. That happened three times. And it was until Eli had that instruction, he gave it to Samuel, that Samuel responded in the way that he should. But I thought of this too, and.
You know, President Lincoln used to. He made the comment about one of his cabinet members that he would go around kicking over beehives.
You get the analogy. Some of us sometimes in our life have gone around kicking over beehives and the bee starts during getting worked up. But you know, sometimes when God works in the soul, we don't know how to respond to it.
Maybe you did, maybe I did. We didn't know how to handle a situation, saw something that wasn't right. So we go and ask about it. What's what's up with this? And uh, perhaps it unsettled some people just like Samuel unsettled Eli from the slumber. But yet the Lord was working. And again, Eli recognized here is a young man that God had called. And So what is the great advice that he gives me? Says speak Lord for thy servant here. Do we have a hearing here?
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Says in Proverbs at the C9 and the here and here. The Lord hath made even both of them, And we hear the Lord's voice, and as Lord calls us.
And then whatever form that may take, but we have a sense that God is speaking to us, speaking to us through his word. You read that verse 100 times before and now that verse comes like a lightning bolt in your soul and say, now God is speaking to me through that verse, that Scripture. May we have an attentive here to hear. Furthermore, what Samuel heard was tough news for a young boy to break for an old night. It was a message of judgment and he didn't want to say it. He wasn't running off. Say guess what, he lied.
Now He recognized the gravity of what he had to tell you by of the judgment of God coming upon His house. But this is the call of God. And may we have that that tender heart that would hear His voice when He speaks to us. I don't know how he's going to speak to you, but God is not incapable of communicating to your soul that He is speaking to you through His Word. He's speaking to me through His word.
Now let's turn over to.
First chronicles the call of God in those night seasons in our life.
First Chronicles.
Chapter UH-17.
Now we have this passage in the second sentence, seven. I think it is as well, but it's really just a little different here in Chronicles. That's right. I'm not suggesting we visit passage.
So we have the follow up on.
Now first Chronicle 17 and verse one. Now it came to pass as David said in his house, that David said to Nathan, the prophet low eyed well in the House of Cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord remaineth under curtains. And Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in my heart, for God is with me in the Kingdom. Pass the same night that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, Go and tell David, my servant, Thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not fill me in house to dwell.
So I have not dwelt in the house since the day, but I brought a visual unto this day, but have gone from 9:50 and from one Tabernacle to another.
Or so ever I have walked with all Israel speak I word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people sane. Why have you not built me in House of Cedars?
And, umm.
I'd I'd love to read this whole chapter over time. I will. Let's drop down to verse 11.
And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired, that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons, and I will establish his Kingdom. He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
This is the corruption of God, and I'm thinking in particularly, in particular of Nathan the prophet.
The relationship between Nathan and David is a remarkable little study.
No, Nathan was a true friend of David, his whole 40 years of being king. Actually a little bit beyond this was at the beginning.
You know, later on, when men went out to battle, David lingered behind.
So I saw on Bathsheba he lusted after in his heart, and he took her head of adultery with her.
Covered up everything.
That the Lord saw and the Lord sent his messenger, did Nathan, who was really a friend of David, to approve him. And we know the story, the parable.
Of the youth plans that David took or this man took and killed, and the anger with which David responded because of the the gross injustice of it all. The man that had done this thing shall restore portfolio.
You know, that's versus often struck me that David used the word of God that wasn't provisioned in the Old Testament. You kill, you restore fourfold. The only thing that David did wrong is he applied he was applying the verse to somebody else that has applied to him.
An agent says our food, but that was Nathan. That was one who was a friend of David that was used in his restoration. And later on, at the end, just before David dies, overthrow is in the air and Adonai is trying to take over. And who is it that delivers the Kingdom? It snakes in the prophet working with David. So Nathan was a lasting friend of David through thick and thin.
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But this is at the beginning and we find with Nathan here, he was a real encourager.
David has his thought.
He says it's not right. I dwell in the house and the ark of the Lord is in curtains. What's wrong with the picture here? I want to build the Lord a house and he shares that with Nathan and maybe Nathan. Nathan said to me they will not commence himself to me. That's a great idea. Go do all this in my heart.
What a nice to have someone that encourages you in the right way.
Well, that night, Nathan and Manigault that he was.
Large composition said anything you're going to go after and go go to day of tomorrow and reverse yourself and what you said go and do you're going to have to tell him don't build a hospital not to do it. But I find this not as a not as a review to Nathan. I find this something very charming. If I can use the word here was a man in so such close proximity to the Lord that the Lord could quietly come to midnight and just say no, you can have to reverse yourself on what you just said.
There are such things as mistakes and failures, but they're not all moral equivalent.
You know it says in Proverbs that reproofs of instruction or reproofs of correction are the way of life.
Correction, everybody needs it.
Most people don't want it.
And many people resent.
Do I love correction? Well, maybe I don't make a fuss if I'm corrected. That's not quite the same. The same. I love it. I love correction, I love instruction. But it's something we all need and we don't outgrow it. And we're so thankful that the Lord in his gracious ways here, it wasn't anybody else that corrected Nathan, it was the Lord himself. And again, those nine seasons, why it's so important that we just wait in quietness before the Lord, because the Lord might have something to say to us in the way of instruction, in the way of correction.
Nobody else comes and corrects us. It's the Lord himself with the correction of God. And so Nathan the next morning after the day before telling David, green light, go ahead, build the house, the Lord.
Now I need to have to say, you're not going to build the house. The Lord. Well, what does he say? Your son is going through that film.
In that almost a higher privilege.
You're not, but your son is.
You see what David's response to this, He's overwhelmed to think that my son, but we chosen to build the house, the Lord, the Father's in David's heart, but God said no, it's going to be solid. David, you're a man of war. I'm going to give it to Solomon, the man of peace. I think that's an instructive principle just there in terms of edifying the people of God. You need to be a man of peace and not a man of war.
I don't mean we don't earn a six intent for the faith delivered to the Saints, but that character of peace.
And as a result of that, you read the end of this book of First Chronicles. And what does it say? David prepared abundantly with all his might for the affection of the House of the Lord. We speak of Solomon's vast wealth, and how I used it to ordain that to ordore in the House of God. Where did he get it?
Most of it you got from his father who laid it up and stored up and said it's yours. Use it for the House of the Lord.
But it all hinges on this visit in the night that the Lord had with Nathan, he says.
Tell David he will not build the House of the Lord. So the correction of God, how important that is in our life. There are times we've come to and if we speak of the watershed moment, we can either accept correction and get the blessing or we can refuse it and it's a downed response, the correction of God. Now let's turn over if you go to Genesis chapter 20.
I'd like to read this entire chapter.
And uh, I will say I'm primarily reading it.
Not so much that the focus be on Abraham, but that we consider Abimelech in the 20th chapter of Genesis. So maybe a passing reference or two to Abraham.
Genesis 20.
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the S country as well, between Kadish and Shira sojourn. And Girar neighboram said, as Sarah's wife, she is my sister, and Abimelech king of Gerarsent. And to Sarah. But God deemed to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold our but a dead man for the woman which thou hast taken, for she is a man's wife. But Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation, said he Not unto me She is my sister.
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And she, even her, she herself said, He is my brother, and the integrity of my heart and infancy of my hands have I done this.
God said unto him in a dream, Yeah, I know that thou justice and the integrity of thy heart, for I also withheld thee from sinning against me. Therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is the prophet, and he shall live, and he shall pray for her, and thou shalt live. And if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die thou in all bit of money. Therefore Vimala grows early in the morning and called all his servants and told all these things in their ears, and the men were sore afraid.
And Abemoli called Abraham, and said to him, What hast thou done unto us, and what have I offended thee, that thou is brought on me, and on my Kingdom a great sin. Thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
Abemoloxide and Abraham, let's sauce thou, and thou hast done this thing.
Abram said, Because I thought surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will slay me for my wife's sake. Yet indeed she is my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
The king of powers, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, This is my kindness which thou shalt show unto me in every place, whether we shall come say of thee, He is my brother. And then looked at sheep and auction, and then servants and women's servants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him. Sarah his wife and abandoned, said, Behold, my land is before thee, dwell. We're pleased with thee.
Under Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother 1000 pieces of children. Behold, he used to be a covering of the eyes unto all that are with thee, and with all the other. Thus she was reproved, the thought of being set straight corrected.
So Abraham prayed unto God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, and they bear children. And the Lord had fast closed up all the wounds in the House of Aimwear because of Sheriff Abraham's wife.
But a story for the man who's spoken of as the father of the faithful.
This wasn't at the beginning of his life either.
Sounds more like Jacob in this chapter than he sounds like Abraham, and it wasn't the first time he made this mistake. Quote UN quote.
Remember in the, uh, the twelve 13th chapter, a little before he was in Egypt and he said the same thing about Sarah and uh said she's my sister. And the Lord stepped in there as well and Pharrell sent him away. There's not much detail as we have in his 20th chapter with respect to Abimelech.
Someone said that making mistakes is not the it's not the real problem. It's making the same mistakes. And some of us have made the same mistakes over and over and over again. Abraham made the same mistake, if we can call it that.
It does seem a little bit troubling. I don't know how it was for their marriage relationship.
When Abraham first floated the idea to Sarah, say you're my brother.
And the second time he says it again, you think there might have been a little whimper of protest.
And Abraham, we've gone down that path before and it didn't work out too well.
Seems like she was. She went along with it and so.
Share is taken by Abimelech and now they're focusing on what the Lord, says Abimola.
The Lord comes to Abimelech in a dream.
To think of the care that the Lord has for his servants and his and his people, even when they're not faithful, even when they're not stating the truth. He said I'm gonna protect Sarah. I'm gonna protect Abraham, he says development. You give that man his wife back or you're a dead man.
That's some kind of a dream then, like said, he said she's my sister and I asked her. She said he's my brother.
It's in the integrity of my heart. Have I done this? I wasn't. I wasn't trying to cause problems here. Lord says I know it. That's why I'm telling you now, because if you had that killed you.
But even the devil that spoke of the integrity of his heart.
And here we have the preservation of God.
Why is it, you know, it says in Ecclesiastes about that woman whose hands are like knits and and and and bands that, uh, would captivate and bring someone in that says he that pleaseth God shall escape from her?
You know, there's this matter of personal integrity. Why does the Lord allow some of us to fall? We don't know in every instance, but here's a case of man. He said he walked in the integrity of his heart. You know, you think of David and we know, uh, the sad failing in his life. I think I can find it only to turn into it. Umm.
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It just comes to mind.
I thought it was some 140.
One, I don't see it, but he speaks of UMM towards the end of the psalms about walking in his own house and the integrity of his heart.
I'm not fine. So some of them, why is it that's fine. Just go ahead and call it out. But I thought of this. David had come to that point where you walk in the integrity of his heart within his within his own house. That is that we're honest before golf.
You know, sometimes it's hard to come to terms with our own failures, but we need to do it.
And we need to do it in the nice seasons of our life. And so Abimelech is preserved of God because he acted and walked in the integrity of his heart. And furthermore, there we find that he, umm, he, he brings before Abraham said, why did you do this? And it was used to the Lord. I believe in real restoration to Abraham and in Sarah too, because what a zinger that must have been when he says thy brother in reference to her husband. So the preservation of God. Well, let's turn to one more in Nehemiah chapter 2.
Nehemiah, as we know, he lived in the days following the destruction of Jerusalem.
How that's city was ransacked ransacked cloud under in Ezra's day, the altar was put upon his bases, the temple, the House of the Lord was restored and the Nehemiah Davis city the wall and the environs were restored and Sonia Maya comes later than Ezra. You might say 2 just isn't aside Aggie I and Zachariah and their prophecies. They prophesied together as we read about in in Ezra, but umm we find that Hageai's ministry mainly focuses on.
Temple, the house, the Lord and Zechariah, His ministry more focuses on the city of Jerusalem, which is more in connection with Nehemiah. So Nehemiah has heard a report, umm, from one of the ones that had come from Jerusalem and speaks of the awful conditions that was Jerusalem. And we see Nehemiah just going about doing his everyday duties. What it what it burned this, this was laid upon him. And so we see the Providence of God.
And we're so thankful for the Providence of God because there's things we come to and we say, I don't see any solution here. I don't see any way out or through the situation. And we committed to the Lord and his providential way. Circumstances move, things change.
Perhaps people that we least expect it from come and provide some encouragement or some help in the way we can't explain it. Because God is sovereign, He will use who He would to accomplish His own purpose, and we see this with God working behind the scenes and bringing Nehemiah to Jerusalem.
And in verse 10 he arrives there when San Balat before night, and Tobiah the servant, his servant, the Ammonite.
Uh heard of it and greet them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of God.
Now we just say this too, that the Lord has laid something on your heart and you're stirred do what you know to be right before the Lord, whatever that might be recognized. There's someone that's not going to be happy, going to be grieved with it, and that's the enemy of our souls. And we find here, just as Nehemiah is engaged in LED of the Lord to begin a mighty work. There's a couple of men with their arms crossed, not happy about it at all. And so we do need to realize there will be opposition.
It's the enemy that's that's ultimately behind him. So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days, and I rose in the night, I and some human with me, neither told by any man but my God, and put in my heart to do with Jerusalem. Neither was there any beast with me save the beast that I wrote upon. And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well of the Jackal fountain, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates throughout were consumed with fire. Then it went on to the gate of the fountain, into the King's pool, but there was no place for the beast that was under me, the past.
And when I up in the night by the brook, and view the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned, and the rulers knew not whither I went or what I did, neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers.
Or the rest that did the work, and said I unto them, Ye see the distrust that we are in how Jerusalem Wyatt waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem. That would be no more of her approach. Then I told them of the hands of my God, which is good upon me is also the King's worth, that he has spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build, so they strengthen their hands for this good work.
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Just a couple of points here I think are destructive that Nehemiah went out to survey the situation. He heard the report and now he goes out at night. He's not making a splash. He's not making a show of it. He's going out at night to survey the devastation of Jerusalem. A few men with me. You know, it's something too, how important it is that we that we walk in personal and individual conviction.
You know, if if you begin to share too much what the Lord is working in your soul, it it, it can tend to get minimized to to act in his personal faith before the Lord. And so he went out at night to survey the situation.
Anyone else in the valley gate it says.
And he comes back by the valley game yeah verse, uh, verse 13 and I went out by night by the gate of the valley. This suggests humility and loneliness. It wasn't one that was looking down on his brethren. A man broke and going down to survey the havoc that had been wrought on Jerusalem and he sees no the Jackal found. I take it that's where the jackals went to get water. You see something seal. I mean, picture of a lion even in in a zebra and there's a hyenas and there's the jackals and they're the last ones to the.
Banquet to to fix up what's left. They hang around where there's death.
And that's Nehemiah speaks later on. They speak of the foxes push foxes and the wolves just roaming over Jerusalem. It's just a rubble. It's just a mass. And he sees always Jerusalem has become, you know, it says in Lamentations that.
The kings of the earth and all the nations would not have believed that the Adversary would have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
Was staggering Jeremiah the probably said if you would tell the cities the nations around Jerusalem that the enemy is going to breakthrough the gates of Jerusalem and destroy it. They will say we won't believe it. It's impregnable God is with them, God is for them won't happen, but it happened and now Nehemiah is coming back to size things up and as he sees this distress the wall he said he sees the wall lying down he comes back verse 17.
He doesn't sugarcoat things. He doesn't gloss over and say that things aren't as bad as you think they are. No, he he calls it out for what it is.
Gates burned with fire, but he said let us build up the wall. That's the rooster.
But he goes more than that. This wasn't just some.
Some unrealistic Daydream that he has. God has called this man.
And he says I told them of the hand of my God, brother read in the, uh, hermit in the other night. Or Paul could say that my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus, my God. What is the thought there? God is God, my God. It has to do with uh, we seem to him our God when we have known, well known in Jesus name. It's my God, it's the God I have known.
Is the God I've come to trust. It's the God I've found to be worthy of my trust. It's my God and that God that I know he will help you Philippians in your need or he tells you brethren, my God, which his hand was good upon me.
And from experience the empire knows I got from here to here. God has brought me the eye of the whole. All the King's horsemen carry me and bringing me here. And he sees it. He said He told them the hand of God that was upon him, and the King's words. And he said, let us. And they said, let us rise up and build. I believe here we have the encouragement of God. You know, when he went out and saw things, and the devastation and ruined, he waited up, he sized it.
But he knew the hand of his God and he was well able. And the people said, rise up and go. I like what they say, Let us not give up, but let us rise up and build. So they strengthen their hands for this good work. It was a good work in order to build up ourselves and our most holy faith to seek to encourage. You know, it says in Proverbs that death and life and the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the good thereof. What a what a great blessing that we can be with our thumbs, our mouths. Sometimes I think that all children's song, one little tongue.
Speak his truth. One little heartburn now in my youth.
One little time to speak His truth. How good that we can use our tongues for the encouragement of the people of God. And so here we see a man that had walked with God and had learned from God in those nine seasons, and now he comes out.
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And what happens, his encouragement, that which he knew from God in his own experience. Now the people of God rise to the occasion and they say, let us rise up and build smooth ceiling from there and on. Of course not the next verse we find San ballot, Tobiah and Gisha. Now you got three of them thereafter. And they're gonna, they're gonna be, uh, pestering them the whole way through. So it's not that there will not be trials and setbacks and things that will cast us on the Lord to help us, but it is a result of the blessing that we can, can have in hearing, uh, the voice of God in the night seasons.
So just a few considerations for us. You know, we're we don't outgrow these things that are older, but it's such a happy thing when we hear the call of God when we're young. And then two, we accept the correction of God.
Says veteran Ecclesiastes. Better as a foreign wise child in an old and foolish king that will no more be admonished.
To get to that point where I feel I'm beyond corrections is is not a good thing, but to own the correction of God and I'll have you can be too if the Lord can quietly correct us like my dad used to say to me says isn't it a nice little listen with a large idea rather than having to hit you between the eyes of the two by four. God is faith when sometimes he'll do that if it's needed, but it's not his first desire and then to realize the preservation of God and in order to do that to walk in integrity of heart to walk in self judgment.
Walk in honesty before the Lord, and if we have messed up, don't it to it, and then see grace to go on, and then the encouragement of God, that encouragement that we ever see from His hand directly, that we might take that and share that with others.
Perhaps you could just sing a little hymn and closing #15.
All that we are is Saints. Honor all that we hope to be.
When Jesus comes and glory to us, we owe it all to the number 15.
All that we were worn.
All right, that's all. I'm alone.
All around me I'm getting the old beginnings and all the pressure.
All the time. I appreciate you.
And thank you all the merrier. Uh-huh.
We'll go together.
And get it out of town. Now we're getting on.
God and Father, we do thank you for the encouragement of this.
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Romans chapter 5, beginning at verse 3.
Romans 5, verse 3.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulation also.
Knowing that tribulation worketh patience.
And patience. Experience.
And experience hope.
And hope make us not ashamed.
Because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
But when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Where scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more than being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the Atonement.
Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Over the last death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned. After the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come?
But not as the offense. So also is the free gift.
Rift through the offensive one many be dead. Much more the grace of God and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ at the bounded unto many.
And not as it was by one that's in.
So is the gift.
But the judgment was by 1 to condemnation. But the free gift is of many offenses under justification.
Where, if by one man's offence death reigned by one much more, they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ.
Therefore, as by the offensive one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation.
Even so, by the righteousness of one, the free gift, California came upon all men unto justification of of life.
Whereas by one man's disobedience.
Many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Wherever the law entered that the offense might abound.
But where it's in a bounded grace did much more abound.
But as sin hath reigned unto death, Even so might Grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Sample of this.
Third verse In this portion, I'd like to tell a little incident that took place, the connection with my own life when, uh, we were first married back in the 60s.
And uh, we read this chapter together before going to work. Go down our knees and pray.
And on the way, uh, to work, why I had an accident.
And I was responsible and I hit the car in front of me.
And it bothered me like everything.
And I thought to myself.
I started the day right. I thought thought everything was going the right way. Why did the Lord allow this accident to happen?
And uh, my wife said to me, do you remember when you prayed, you prayed for patients?
So the third verse says.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience.
So I learned it the hard way that day.
Uh, and so it is, don't you think that, umm, the, uh, the character of the book here in, in Philippians is a wilderness character book? I think we're going through the wilderness and, uh, and we're going to the Father's house, but while we're going through the wilderness, we pass through experiences like this where the Lord allows things to happen in our lives.
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And, uh, the Lord, uh, passes his people through things.
And I think we all can seem into that, that we've experienced that. So what is the purpose here?
We glory in Tribulation also knowing that Tribulation work as patients and patients experience.
And experience hope. Hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given us.
I read somewhere Brother Davis story that was similar to your experience where the younger brother focused an older brother because he was in need of patients and he's wanted to pray with him.
So they said to pray together and when the an older brother prayed.
He prayed and but the Lord would give this on matibulation.
Whereupon, of course, he altered them.
Says Oh no, no, no. I want to pray for patients.
Whether there's no other way?
Well, we asked the question, how many of us in the room have prayed for tribulation?
My mother was put our hands up, but if we say.
I would suggest maybe we all have.
Because we've all probably prayed for patients similarly.
So I'm praying for patients who really have to learn patients to fibrillation.
Remind me of that little story.
How can we make glory and tribulation?
They've done everything you think.
When did you start?
I wonder if, uh, we don't have at least a kindred thought in what Paul says in Second Corinthians chapter 12.
And verse 9.
We know earlier that he had besought the Lord, that the Lord might take away the thorn.
Umm, the medicine here of Satan's, uh, was sent to Buffett him and then he says in verse nine, My grace is sufficient for thee, the Lord saying this to Paul.
For my strength is made perfect in weakness. And then Paul says most gladly. Therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities.
Of the power of Christ may rest upon you all didn't want to miss out on.
The Lord coming in despite of his infirmities and, uh, being able to use him in such a way that Paul would have to acknowledge that that's the power of Christ. That's not me. Uh, I'm just a weak vessel, but he's pleased to use.
Umm, that the Lord would come in, in His circumstances, His tribulations, and manifest all the more to his heart how He can sustain and keep Him in them.
Just enjoy the comparison with his mentioning glorying and infirmity.
Is it not the, uh, the thought of the end in view that the Lord has in sending things and allowing things in our lives?
And if we if when the pain of going through things and we take it as from the Lord in that way, it's not pleasant for us to go through the pain, but we know that he makes no mistakes and he has a reason for allowing things and there's an end in view. And in that way we glory and tribulation, I would say.
I wonder, brother, if the glory comes later. The tribulation comes first. Obviously, we don't always see the end.
But we, we, we. Something happens to us and we we see the pain perhaps, or we see the sorrow.
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But later on we see the the patients and all these other things in the list and then we glory because we say, oh, the Lord did that.
And he allowed that, and look what it brought.
I think it's it is hindsight.
When it's nice in there, that tribulations.
Work patient sometimes, uh, we go through a trial, but it's after we go through it, it's, uh, we're able to persevere and go on because of, we look back at the trial, we see how God used that trial to make me stronger.
I can trust them more.
So we're able to look back and, uh, on what we went through and uh, we realized that the tribulation of the trial that we went through, it helps us with persons, help us persevere. It's really what patients need.
We need that.
Today we need to spend like with the talking about, uh, we've standing grace, but practically, uh too. We need, uh, need to be able to stand all the things we face day by day.
So in Ephesians we have the armor of God to put on.
But there's different things that we that we need as believers to be able to stand against the enemy and so on.
So the Lord, by putting us through the He, knows exactly what we need.
So when he puts it through something, we can look back in hindsight and see that was good job. When he went through his trial, he had twice as much at the end as he had at the beginning. He could look back and say, well, you know.
It was all worth, and what I learned through the trial was was worth it.
I think we can all say that to a certain degree that hopefully learns through the trial. We went through work going through it.
James confirmed that in the 5th chapter, but in the first chapter of James in verse 3, there's a very similar portion to what we have in our chapter which confirms what you're saying.
Knowing this that the trying of your faith work is patient. Let patients have our perfect work and so you may be perfect in entire wanting nothing.
For part of the reason for that is that the Lord is working in each of our lives to conform us to this image, to help us to be acceptable to Him, to make us in the kind of people He wants us to be, right.
It might be worthwhile looking at the end of the fifth verse of our chapter as well, where this string of cause and effect goes to.
And the result of the cause and effect is the love of God is shared. Broaden our hearts by the Holy Ghost.
And then?
That's a good experience. It's another level of God.
I could be wrong, but I believe that this is the first mention of love in this epistle.
Hearing this, uh, first by Robert just read and I I thought about in connection with being associated with tribulation.
Could you repeat that again?
So I was just mentioning that I believe that this is the first time that love is mentioned in this epistle, and it's interesting that it comes in here in connection with.
Tribulation.
It's us wrong. Someone correct that?
I think of the maximum, I can't find the worst, but where it says rejoice and if there will.
They were worthy.
Counterworthy for.
In your affliction.
Maybe someone find the verse. I was just thinking that part, you know it's but there's no fibrillation and there's no reviled.
And, uh, then we.
Probably a a sadder thing.
Tend to hear of those who are passing through affliction.
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And about the worthiness the Lord counted both worthy.
They did in the accident. They were under institution there.
Kind of where we can suffer a fiction.
Testimony or five or something?
The first you were looking for Brother Derek, is, uh, Acts 5, verse 41.
It's a tough understanding that.
I guess you've been saying that it was they rejoiced. They had that great privilege to suffer for the Lord's sake, wouldn't you say?
It's not a tribulation, is not something that we enjoy, is it? But uh, has been part brought out, umm, there's always a purpose of love on God's part in taking us through difficulties, isn't he, Uh, and it's for our blessing and for sometimes for the encouragement of others. I was thinking of second, uh, Corinthians chapter one.
There's one reason why we go through Tribulation.
It says there umm, in verse three, blessed be God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercy and the God of all comfort who comforts us in all our tribulation that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble. So sometimes the Lord passes through difficulties, uh, that we might be a blessing to others who are passing through similar situations.
And it's always with the purpose of love though on his part, isn't it?
You're saying that we would if the Lord told us in advance somebody's going to pass us through, which for the benefit of so and so.
We probably like Lori Morhan.
That's what he's telling you.
Some of every fibrillation we send is really for a purpose, because if there's someone else or for this bone glory.
For our blessing, we might have patience and.
And we took that from the Lord every time, and we could really a little glory in that tribulation.
Probably moan and growing a lot with.
Making myself anyway.
Remember one time this question came up, we used to have young people in our home and.
It reminded me of uh.
And a piece of steel may look like a worthless thing, but.
When a master gets hold of it.
And the fire is applied.
The heel steel is heated to tremendous heat.
And then the hammer is wide and it shaped.
And it's you might say a difficult thing, but at beacon steel beam is flat or shaped in whatever way and heat it again.
An end quenched in either oil or water, depending on the steel, but.
Goes through a lot.
And the result, but the result we need to look at the results.
Beautiful tool, beautiful piece of wrought iron work.
I realize that today things are done in factories, but really the same thing is done.
Heat is applied to a forging.
And it's stamped and hammered out and I kind of like hand tools and I think that.
There's a certain beauty and a well made wrench.
Strong. And how did it get that way? Well, it went through a lot.
And once it's hardened, it can be polished up to beauty.
Went through a lot.
Get to its point and to be.
Then those steps were left out. It wouldn't.
It would never work. Well, maybe the hammering, you know, you hammer on a piece of steel. Not only hammering steel shapes it, but it also.
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Aligns the molecular structure of that steel to give it strength.
So maybe it's a bit way the Lord works with it. Sometimes we don't understand maybe why, but.
We realize that whatever he's done is for our good.
And we may not be able to be useful to someone else. I had a tool in my toolbox that has not gone through the fire, not gone through the through the hammer, you might say, or the forge.
It'd be worth. It'd be useless. It might look nice, but you put it on a wrench or on a nut or a bowl that would probably bend OR break.
And so that's sometimes the way I think the Lord works with us.
May understand it is difficult to go through, but the result is going to.
Grace, Lori and will be a useful tool, you might say, in a school.
Not too long ago I was reading an account of a Christian.
That went through the communist regime.
And China?
And he said he said he never prayed that persecution would cease.
Because he felt that it strengthened the local church, the local believers, and.
We know that those times of tribulation do that.
And I was just looking in Revelation chapter 2 in connection with the Church of Smyrna.
And it says in verse 10 of that chapter, Fear none of these things which thou shalt suffer.
Behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried.
And he shall have tribulation 10 days.
Be thou faithful under death.
And I will give the a crown of life.
So there are those that have suffered in this way and there are those that are suffering for their faith. Today you read it in the newspapers. Christians being executed in many lands.
But they have reserved for them.
A crowd life. We know that this period spoken of in in Revelation chapter 2 refers to a particular time of very severe persecution under a ruler by the name of Diocletian, and that was severe persecution.
But I believe we were talking at the table this noon time that perhaps even in this land, we will not be immune.
From some of the persecution.
That, uh, we read about in Scripture.
And uh.
Again we read of those that have been called to give up their own life, but for them there is reserved that crown of life.
And there was to be an end of that through the Lord's mercy here, that period of persecution.
And uh, the Book of Revelation in chapter 2. But then when we come to the next church.
We see that there.
UMM is union with with the world.
My from the outward viewpoint say, well, we have progress.
We have uh, Constantine, King, uh, or Emperor Constantine.
Uh.
Giving approval to Christianity, but it's a union of the.
Church in the World.
And was there progress during that time, maybe outwardly in name, but not in substance?
I think it's interesting that the word patience in Romans 5 is translated by Mr. Garvey, I think as endurance.
And you were mentioning, Brother Bruce, that to the church at Smyrna says they would have tribulation 10 days.
I understand that means really that there was persecution, uh, under 10 different efforts, starting with Nero perhaps, and ending with Diocletian. So the Lord hasn't always promised to cut off the tribulation.
But I was thinking of the verse in First Corinthians 10 that says in verse 13.
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But will, with the temptation, also make a way of escape, that he may be able to bear it. So the Lord doesn't always take the the trouble away, but he gives us the, uh, strength to, umm, bear it, doesn't he?
Is there another Crown of Light Brother Bruce beside the one in Revelation 2 paren?
What's the gain?
Chapter One.
There's 12.
Blessed is a man that endureth temptation.
For when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
The Lord had promised to them that love him.
There are those that have given their lives to the Lord.
And they are to receive, as you say, the crown of light.
Recorded there in Revelation Chapter 2.
Here the crown of life is given to those who endure temptation.
Some have to go through death.
But it seems that the Lord gives the same crown to those who.
T.
The temptation and endure through the trial.
And they're going to receive the same crown.
Does the thought.
But the Lord can give peace and circumstances. We think of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
And they were faced with possible death. Uh, let's just go back to the book of Daniel.
And uh.
Here.
3rd 3rd chapter.
Yes, Verse UH-16 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter, you know.
The construction of English here is seems a little awkward.
Really what they're saying is we're being very careful how we are answering you. We're considering it and we get, we've given it a lot of thought.
And what have they given thought to says if the?
So our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us.
From the burning furnace.
And he will deliver us out of thine hand, O King.
But then it doesn't stop there, does it? They realize that there might be another outcome.
And they were content with whatever outcome the Lord had in mind for them. So they answered verse 18. But if not.
Be it known unto thee, O King, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
So may the Lord give us.
Uh, that.
Uh, in our lives where we're content.
To do whatever his will might be.
Isn't it nice to see Brother Bruce when we.
King looked in the furnace. He didn't see three men that were there. He saw four. So whatever the difficulty is, the Lord is there to be with us.
Is it so that both of both crowns of life associated with death?
One of the physical and revelations. I'll come with the other one.
And James speaking about it's really the death of the old, old man, that's my flesh that'd be put into the place of that. And this is what the tribulation truly is, A lot of messenger.
But I wouldn't.
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Learn to put that little man that provides it so quickly with every fibrillation he wants to.
Reacting.
Rebel complain.
That's the world that keeps the change. This is from me.
Don't let your flesh get involved in this. Put it in a place of death. Ryan Bailey.
Worrying about in the brothers, it's dry in the dry of the Lord Jesus. So I think to do that.
Why could take a case file at the world sends it because this is from the Lord and this is thank you for it, Sir Doctor mentioned to be thanks to all things.
Then here's the crown of life. It's not what it's going to receive after the That's the same it's received now as we.
Well into that plate.
Neither way it's associated with that.
It can't. These things are are linked together too. And, uh, experience. Experience, hope.
We know that there's a trial of her faith going on too, and this isn't here. We just look at that first, uh, Peter.
This is 6 or first Peter chapter one verse 6.
Ready greatly rejoice now perceive as need be. You're having heaviness through manifold temptations at the trial of your faith being much more precious.
And I'm told that perishes, though if we tried with fire, might be found onto the praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen beloved, and whom though now you see Him not yet believing.
You rejoiced with joy, unspeakable and full of glory. You see the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
I believe that the hope here is is linked. It's a practical experiences that we go through as believers.
That, uh, makes our hopes in Christ and in God more certain.
That is that the practical side to it. I believe it takes the hope takes in, uh.
The Lord coming for the Saints. It also takes in an appearing, but I believe here it's.
Do the practical experiences that we have along the way that the Lord is teaching us certain things and, uh, we should have a, have, uh, have those things certain.
Made certain in our souls that what God is speaking to us are are in fact true.
Experience in itself.
Uh, can't trust experience just in itself. You know in the Old Testament saying if they went up to battle.
Uh, the Lord may may have given them instruction how to go up the next time you up with battle. They couldn't, they couldn't trust their periods the first time they went up. They had to seek the Lord's again, find out whether they should go up or whether they should go up.
And, uh, so just experience alone doesn't, uh.
We need more than that. These things are linked together.
And so, umm.
We do need that practical.
Umm, the patients and the experience.
And, uh, that will increase our certainty about what God has written for us. You mentioned about God. The Lord wants us to be at, uh, we might say in the full enjoyment of what we have, but He has given to us through Christ. And we know that there are many Saints and many Christians that are not in the full enjoyment of these things.
And so often times trials are brought in that a believer may learn.
What God has done for him to bring him into the enjoyment of it, that's the position that's standing that we have in Christ, is where God wants us to see ourselves.
That's where He wants us to see it, the full enjoyment of what He has accomplished in Christ for us.
OK, so that, uh, I believe that hope is uh, like with the.
Practical block here in the same, uh, necessary the hope that we know there were and we're going to see the Lord. But also it's like the gods were here. We learned as believers, we walk through this scene.
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There's a progression in this chapter. Perhaps others have noticed this before, but there's five times we have the little expression much more.
Look at verse 9.
Much more than being now justified by his blood.
1St 10.
Much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Verse 15.
Or if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many.
Verse 17.
Or if by one man's offense, death reigned by one. Much more.
They would receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness. Shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ.
Then the last one in verse 20.
Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound, but where sin abounded.
Grace did much more about me.
You know, it's a progression right through the whole chapter. There's a danger for us as Christians to be satisfied that we're inside the door in connection with going to heaven.
But God wants us to.
To enjoy.
Umm.
His company and, uh, the preciousness of what he has in store for us.
For all eternity. And so the whole word is a is a revelation of who God is and and he wants us to enter into it before we get there.
You have a little glimpse of that. Don't be in the previous chapter of the Two Hopes there that, umm.
Abraham in the 18th verse who against hope, the natural hope that.
That would have been there. That would have been impossible for someone Sarah's aid to have a child.
Would be.
An impossible pulpy. Probably couldn't have looked at anybody else.
For an example, Abraham did see that this had ever happened before. Naturally speaking, it was against hope that this could ever happen.
And so there's things that we read about that God has for us in his Word.
That's that was something we may say, well, that's so.
Uh.
Magnificent or so great. I just can't, just can't believe that that could be true.
But, uh, Abraham says here that he, uh, who against the natural hope, believed in hope?
He believed that because God told him that Sarah would have a child.
And so even though it was against what could be naturally, uh, speaking.
Yet because God said that Abraham believed that, that was enough for Abraham.
So that should be the same with us, what we're reading. God says it in his word. We should believe it and I should settle it.
But often times we read something and then we question what we read and, uh, we question that hope.
Uh, what God has written it is where is a certain thing.
Shouldn't be questioning it, but sometimes we do.
Abraham. He didn't. Uh.
I don't think it's a slight against Abraham. It's written here, but it's just that it was, uh.
Who against the natural pulp that that a natural person would have. It would seem to be impossible. But because God said it, Abraham took it as a fact. And that's what we should be taking God's word as it's It's God's word, so it's true.
Factual that can be believed and, uh, it adds to our, our hope.
That's through our experience as to our uh.
Thoughts of God and and what He is toward us.
It helps us to grow.
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That are in order here.
It's interesting to see in verse, in verse four and five again there it says.
Patients experience, experience hope and hope.
Makes not ashamed.
Let's go down to the end of verse 10.
Enemies. We have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son. Much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in the power of his life.
And it's interesting, you know, we go through difficulties in our lives and.
Those difficulties.
They prove to us the Lord's working for us.
And we're saved, as it were, by the power of his wife. That's not a different sense of being saved. And what is the result of that? It makes us not ashamed. And I it's interesting to compare that just back in the first chapter, Roman chapter one of verse 16.
The same 2 words.
I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. It is the power.
Of God unto salvation.
I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ and it's the power of God and salvation.
And it's interesting too. Mr. Derry's translation in verse nine of our chapter speaks there. You read it says much rather therefore, having been now justified in the power of his blood.
It's beautiful to see that hope makes not a shame.
And perhaps it's because.
We see the power of.
What the Lord is doing for us now?
And it's also interesting here there's three times Paul mentioned a word that's the opposite of being ashamed, boasting again, you don't you don't see it in in the King James, but the end of verse two, it says we both in the hope of the glory of God.
And then, uh, it says there instead of verse 11, not only that, but we are making our boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. And verse 3, not only that, but we also quote in tribulation.
We have nothing to be ashamed of.
A beautiful thing to do.
I'm just thinking in connection with what we have in these verses and.
What we have in verse six, that expression in due time.
We know that.
God's time is always the right time.
Louise, when the fullness of time was come.
In the Old Testament in connection with lost.
Judgment didn't occur until.
Lost, Entered Zoar.
And then when he entered Zoar, judgment came.
So God's time is always the right time.
And I'd like to also connect this that with the 11Th chapter of John's Gospel in connection with Lazarus.
And the Lord was criticized for not getting on the scene before he did.
But uh, we see that the Lord makes a statement converts 15.
And I am glad, for your sakes that I was not there. That is a previous moment in time.
The time that everyone else thought was the opportune time.
But it wasn't the worst opportune time, was it?
And it says to the intent.
That you may believe.
And he said nevertheless.
Let us go.
Onto him.
And then we go back to verse 4.
Because when Jesus heard that, he said, this sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified.
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There by Let's just go back to the 9th chapter for a moment.
There's demand that's flying from his birth, that's spoken of in verse one.
And then the Lord's own disciples ask the Lord Master, who did sin, this man or his parents?
That he was born blind.
And then the Lord.
Replies in verse 3, Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents.
But that the works of God should be made manifest in Him.
Though all these things are avowed of the Lord in terms of the circumstances and in terms of the timing.
And uh, we're reminded also in the book of Job, I believe it's the 37th chapter of Job. I don't want to get too much of A on the side.
Why the Lord?
Allows things in our lives.
And this goes along with the reasoning, I believe, of the disciples. I think it's in the 37th chapter of Job.
And verse 13 where it says for he causes that to come.
Assessing a given time under given circumstances.
Whether for correction?
Or for his land.
More for mercy.
So it's not always punitive, is it?
It could be punitive, it could be purgitin, it can be preventative as well. So the word allows these things in our lives, these trials.
For these various purposes.
We're talking about Joe's friends before.
They didn't get it right in terms of why the board was allowing these circumstances in Job's life.
Right, God is in control.
Not only in terms of events and circumstances, but in terms of time as well.
We've all heard the expression that man's extremity is God's opportunity.
And, uh, the B should be that in these verses we've been considering.
We have in the first several verses of the chapter, the wonderful truths of salvation.
Now in verses six, true verse.
10 or so it seems to me that the Lord is bringing us back here and says, I want you to remember, Yes, you have your salvation, but remember where you were.
So notice in verse.
Inverse UH-6.
For when we were yet without strength.
That's powerless.
When we were in that condition.
In due time, Christ died for the ungodly.
Where is he?
God commanded his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners.
Christ died for us, powerless in our sins.
Notice.
Umm, notice umm.
Versus the 10?
If when we were enemies.
We were reconciled to God.
We were without strength, we were sinners, and we were enemies.
It doesn't make much good of man, does it?
That's a state that we were in.
Isn't it marvelous?
I think that a God would love us.
God commanded his love to us.
When we were sinners.
No hope compels us in letting efficient, I think without hope and without God in the world.
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Now in Christ Jesus.
It makes nothing of man and everything of God, doesn't it?
It was mentioned before that we have progression in these things.
And in verse three, we from I'm reading knowing that fibrillation work is patients and patients experience.
An experienced hope.
An oak make is not a shame.
I'm thinking of that good experience.
We all had.
Learn something in order to make a living in this world.
And many of us had a trade.
And after the formal introduction.
It didn't take long as the question came up. What experience do you have?
Ready to work and what did you produce? And so on.
So it just shows that.
There's also the experience that we gain in these things.
Sometimes I would take a a piece that I produce like, you know, I was, uh, I'm old. Like a plastic injection.
I took one or several of these pieces around and shoulder was.
Breathe, Lord, I had produced, but it would show.
But the kind of a mold I had to make to produce a piece which I brought along.
And that's the thing here that we have to learn too.
To help the patients in order to get the experience and then the experience bring us brings us hope. We hope that we get that job.
And in the end of it, we rejoice because.
Hope Baker's not ashamed.
And then again.
In verse 2 and rejoice in hope of the glorious God.
We do all things to gain the glory of God, to gain a place in heaven.
We don't gain it by good words, but we gain it by the experience.
That the weekend that we, uh.
Again, through knowledge and tribulation.
And patients.
I've enjoyed two thoughts in connection with verse six. One in connection with uh, John 15, verse 13, which says greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
And then just to connect what we have in our chapter that.
Christ died for the ungodly, and in verse 10 we considered ourselves enemies.
And so in contrast with the best love that man could have, dying for his friends, what is the love of God? Size for his enemies? And then the second thought in connection with that in first six.
Per SE, God commends his love toward us, in that while we are yet sinners, Christ died for us.
To me, it's an interesting evidence that Jesus Christ is God.
Because if Jesus Christ was not God, what sense is there?
And what this verse says that God commends his love by giving something that's not him.
A man can give his wife to prove his love for a friend.
God is his own Son, part of that Godhead.
To prove his love for us.
Lost room and sinners.
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Just a couple of thoughts here. Not very much, but uh.
It means you're talking about progression that says they're in the fifth verse because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts.
And how is the love of God showing to us? That's what we have in verses 6-7 and eight, isn't it?
Uh, God has shown His love not because we are righteous or deserved anything, but simply because we were sinners. I was thinking of the verse in Deuteronomy that says the Lord did not set His love upon you nor choose you because you were more in number than any people.
Uh, for you were the fewest of all people, but because the Lord loved you.
So there was nothing in us to attract His love, and yet he, uh, freely showed His love to each one of us.
One other comment, and that is that Brother Dave was saying that in the first few verses we have salvation brought before us.
And I think it's interesting that the first time I believe the Spirit of God is mentioned in the book of Romans is right here in the fifth verse.
Umm, where it says the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us. And isn't it appropriate that it comes in here because, umm, it tells us in Ephesians that once we heard the gospel of our salvation, we were sealed by the Holy Spirit. Now it's sort of interesting. The Spirit of God comes in here for the first time.
In connection with salvation.
And who does the Spirit of God direct us to?
We shall not speak of himself, but he shall glorify me. So like you mentioned their sins goes on to say in the 60s, turns it away completely from the Spirit of God to Christ himself.
So it says.
When we were yet for those strengths and due time, Christ died for the ungodly.
That Spirit of God is here in this world and here for both 2000 years, and he hides himself to point to Christ.
And to occupy man with himself and his sin, and turn him to Christ.
And you notice this little word enemies here.
Reconciliation is connected to enemies, it says. In Colossians we were enemies in our minds by wicked works.
Yet now hath he reconciled.
Reconciliation is connected in that way to the enmity of man against that man needs to be reconciled. I beseech you, in Christ's dead, be reconciled to God.
And the people that you and I meet every day who don't know Christ are enemies of God in one way or another. It is showing out, and it's going to be showing out when the Lord comes back.
I remember Chapter Brown talking about it this way years ago. He said that it's going to come out and that man is going to give pitched battle against the Lord when he comes out of heaven.
As an enemy.
The heart of man is going to be displayed in that way, but that's our heart by nature.
And Christ has reconciled us to God.
If when we were enemies we were reconciled to God, as it says, look at us there in that verse, there verse 10, If when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more being reconciled.
We shall be saved by his life. And Shawn was commenting on that verse about being saved by his life.
Brethren, it's a wonderful thing to think of salvation and what the Lord has done, but what would you and I do without Him?
There right now.
We shall be saved by his life. That's the present salvation.
Uh, you know, it's, it's marvelous to think of. There's three salvations. There's the salvation of our souls when we're saved. There's the salvation of our bodies, uh, through this world. Umm, perhaps I'm saying it wrong there, but, but there's the, the, the receiving the end of our salvation. Is that the end when we're going to be with them forever? And, uh, so we need them from beginning to end, don't we?
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Could, would it be proper to say that the salvation here, that's mentioned in our chapter, the second one, we know that as you say, we have salvation through his blood, are in the power of his blood. Uh, that's passed. That's the work that he did at Calvary's cross. And then we have his present salvation. Would it be both his intercessory work as a merciful and faithful high priest and also his advocacy when we fail as we have him?
In first John and then brother Dave, just to bring out the other one. It's in the 13th chapter of Romans.
And it's verse 11 and that's yet future.
And that knowing the time that it is now high time to awake out of sleep for now, is our salvation nearer than when we believe. Well, that's the redemption of our bodies, isn't it? And So what a wonderful Savior He's provided for us.
Uh, our sense, he's taking care of that. He's, uh, saving us now by his life and he's going to save us in.
In connection with our bodies and our bodies of redemption in the coming day. What a.
Full salvation. He is working.
And the end of verse nine. We shall be saved from wrath through him.
Not only the wrath and the tribulation, but eternal wrath prevents, keeps us out of what is coming. Beautiful to see the distinctions made on these different expressions, whether it's justification or saved or reconciliation.
Just not mixing and matching terms. But there's a special blessing connected with each one, isn't there?
And said that in Ephesians the man is dead in a sense. And so what's God's answer to it imparting life? And you have equipment who are dead.
And trespasses and sins. But in Romans, man is alive in his sins. This reads the 1St 3 chapters. And you see man, uh, in, in sins in life. And uh, we know the answer to that is, is death. But you see these three things. We had justification this morning. God reckoning the center right, just because he was unrighteous and the salvation were in need of deliverance from wrath. And we need in deliverance in the pathway here. So there's salvation, but that beautiful expression.
Of being reconciled to God by the death of his Son is not here even the death of Christ. It's the death of His Son, the dearest object of his heart, the Son of his love. His Colossians words it that that is the one that.
God has come out to reconcile enemies to the death of the One He loved the most, His Son.
I think I have a question about first five again and we're back like it says we're 5 is what we're saying.
Uh.
We are justified by faith and.
And, uh, to live in the smoke. And then it says that this, uh.
Five there.
That's a rubber thigh, the shattered bottom of my heart by the Holy Ghost, which is getting on to us. Holy Ghost is given onto us. Which one of us?
First John, we have the verses, you know with my Nan say I love God and his brother, he is a liar and so on.
Why is it?
Which we all have the gift of the Holy Ghost. What if we have it all the same month one for another show?
I think the answer are partially Derek is in season 4 and 30.
Ephesians 430.
Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed.
Under the day of redemption, let all bitterness and wrath and anger clamor and eagle speaking, to be put away from you with all malice, and be ye kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.
There's a divine guest.
That is inside each of us in this room here, but for those of us who belong to Christ.
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That divine guest is the spirit of the living God, God the Holy Spirit.
Lives inside you.
And the verse here is Grieve not the Spirit of God.
You know many of us here are married.
If I do something.
Good.
Is difficult for my wife.
It's it's it's love is tender.
And uh. And uh.
One can grieve another. Children can grieve their parents.
And.
Think of the Spirit of God that is inside it.
Grieve not the Spirit of God.
The Spirit of God there is to open up the love of God in our hearts so that there is the flow of the love of God to St. and Sinner alike.
And if I walk in a way that is pleasing to God, the Spirit of God is going to be free to let that love come out, come out and flow out to others.
And that's the expression in that verse there, because it says the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts.
There's no hindrance there.
It's it's closed. It's natural.
And you get it in the book of John 2, getting away a little bit. But uh, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. This he spake concerning the spirit.
And so there's, umm, it it speaks to us as to our state of soul before the Lord, doesn't it?
Like to comment on enemies and I want to bring it around in the discussion we've just been having and related to Derek's question about love.
You quoted the verse already, Brother Dave, about, uh, enemies. Enemies by what? By Wicked Works.
And it's in the grief of the Spirit of God right now in Isaiah chapter 59.
We have the verse verse one. Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot say either dear heavy that I cannot hear.
But the, uh, the lesson for me comes in the verse right after it says verse 2.
Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, your sins have hit his face from you that he will not hear, and it goes on.
And I think what I learned from that is that, uh, every time, like just to take a natural person.
Every time they commit an act against God, any kind of sin, be it small or large.
Is driving a wedge between them and God separating them. And that's what the wicked works do. And in our own minds we then perceive God.
As an enemy. So when it comes to reconciliation, it's us that need to be reconciled to God. Because God is loved. He provided his own Son to make that reconciliation. So the problem is entirely on our part caused by sins.
And this first part that we've been going through in Chapter 5 is wrapping up a discussion on sins, the things that we have done.
And so we are enemies because of those things that we've committed since. Now how does that relate to to Derek's question and luck?
Well, the Lord Jesus was once guessed at a person's house. The woman came in and.
He was a woman of poor reputation. She washed his feet and the host said doesn't he know what kind of woman she is? And the Lord Jesus said and gave the illustration about two debtors.
And UH-1 owed 500 pence and one owed a very large amount. And you asked the question which one loves more? And the host said, I suppose the one who has been forgiven the most.
And the Lord Jesus said that you've answered correctly.
And so when I come to this portion and and I ask the question to myself and answering your question there, why is it that some of us might love more than others?
Maybe I don't understand how bad I am.
And maybe that affects my ability to love other people, or maybe along the lines of grieving the Spirit. Maybe I am allowing something in my life that's caused a wedge between me and the Holy Spirit, between me and the Lord, between me and the Father, and I'm not enjoying that relationship. And the only thing that the Spirit of God is working to do is to make me uncomfortable and miserable. And I'm trying to ignore it.
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And under those circumstances, maybe it's hard to love somebody else.
So I think the answer is uh.
To come back to this portion and just meditate on what God has done for us and who we are and what we were and what he what place he's brought us into because we are in Christ. And this portion talking about justification, what that really means, I'm not sure I fully understand it, but God has taken me.
And I am in Christ. I'm a new creature.
He's put me in his son, and when he looks at me, he sees his son.
It doesn't find any following.
Maybe by God's grace, that's how I need to look at the people around me.
To some degree, you, I hope, as a believer, our living example of Jesus Christ.
I can see that that'll help me a lot.
Citizen, uh.
First Corinthians chapter four, that we also have that responsibility as you're mentioning there.
Uh, in verse six of chapter 4 it says uh.
Read the last part of that first six.
That you might learn in us not to think of men about that which is written.
Not that no one of you be popped up one for another against another.
For who make a seat is different from another, and what has helped that uh has not received.
Now if thou has just received it, why dost thou glory as if thou hast not received it?
I think that's a principle there that, uh, sometimes, uh, it's easy for us to think more highly of ourselves than what we should and, uh, if we portray that to others.
And, uh, may cause, uh, others to think, think that we don't love them.
So we should, uh, be willing to.
I'm not boasting anything here, failure in this too, but uh.
The Apostle Paul, they always, uh, try to take that slow place.
Uh, set an example.
Uh.
To his, to his brother.
And, uh, ought to be upped up one against another.
There's nothing that we have as believers that we haven't received. We can deserve anything to receive what we have.
Been given to us by the Lord freely, really heavy heavy gotten freely which would give and uh.
This is the principle there and, uh, first President chapter 4.
We're getting near the end of our time here and for this meeting and verse 11 is the end of a section.
And uh, verse, uh, verse 12 on carries on from here, but just a comment is still in connection with verse 11.
There's no higher truth that you can get to than verse 11.
Not only so.
But we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
To think that man can be brought back to God and put in a position.
Where we can actually joy in God.
Brethren, who were going to for all eternity.
You know, I like the way that Armstrong Barry put this years ago and.
He said. You know what joy is?
JOY. The young ones can pick this up.
J Is Jesus on one side?
Why is you on the other side?
An O is nothing in between.
That's joy.
We joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Spare time, It's almost up, but.
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Says remember that we seen in times past Gentiles, well the same.
Truth that's brought before us in Ephesians.
Uh, but I was just thinking of a verse that we have in Isaiah chapter 51.
And verse one it says, Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord.
Look.
There's another word, another action word.
We'll consider the rock when to your yoon and to the whole of the pit wince your day so.
Reminded of that pet pit, aren't we?
And, uh, Genesis, we read of the slime pits that were found in what's called siddum.
And it's not a very pleasant place to be.
That's where we were found. If we read Isaiah chapter one, we would see that there is no soundness.
And in US.
And.
Uh stands in contrast to.
What we have in in, uh.
Deuteronomy chapter 8.
Another thing to remember, and thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God.
So we can remember, we can look back at our past, but then we can look forward to and look back to the Lord's mercy too. And I don't think the Lord would have us dwell on our path.
We have to go back there at times, don't we? Uh, just thinking of what the prevalent view is in the world.
And that is the glorification of man.
Always think positive thoughts, but we're told to look back and remember.
You're saying 135?
1:35 We join our God, and we sing of that love so sovereign and free, which did his heart move. When lost, our condition are ruined, undone. He saw with compassion, and spared not his Son.
135.
Gospel 1
Gospel—Mark Allan
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Welcome everyone to the Gospel meeting.
Maybe we could open this evening by singing #9.
Come every soul wise.
Person.
I'm a native grass while I grind the thickening hidden hand of the bird.
Oh, the way I tell them all the way to drive Terminal Mall to May Drive. And now it was an idiot. It was a beautiful behavior in your mouth.
Uh.
No, no, no, no. They don't say drive to him all the way to drive.
Baby, here you go. Say he'll say he can give her anything. I don't say anything. Give her an alcohol.
Umm.
Where y'all is your mother's love.
Oh my God, she'll remember when we drive with him and someone may drive crying now.
And we can just pry it on the Lord for His help.
Oh, I'd like to start the, uh, meeting this evening with a question that struck me today as we were reading the Bible.
Noticed it in my prayer.
If you were alone in this room or any place tonight with just God.
New.
Would you have feet?
Exceedingly important question to answer.
You know, the whole message that we have today is about how you can have faith with God.
You know, from the very beginning, without anything, they no longer had news of God and they had to be driven out of that garden. They felt ashamed to be in God's presence and naked before him. And you know, that's where this meeting starts tonight. I don't know the individual hearts of everyone in this room. You know, you may only be.
Under 10 years old.
Have you ever asked yourself that question? Do I have peace with God?
Maybe you're a grandparent here tonight and you come to the gospel meeting many times before and you've heard it.
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Tonight I'd like to speak about.
Forgiveness.
And I've just been impressed with this in our readings in Rio Ferry and also UMM, just in my own.
About the importance of forgiveness, you know, there's a verse and it was quoted earlier today, it's in Isaiah 59, and it says your sins have separated between you and your God. Maybe just I'll just read it. You don't need to turn to it. It says there it says, but your iniquities have separated between you and your God and you your God and your sins have hid.
His face from you that he will not hear.
You know the only thing.
That can give you peace with God. You can have to have assurance of the forgiveness of your sins and.
Have your sins forgiven through what the Lord Jesus did. And that's what I want to talk about this evening. Forgiveness specifically, you don't forgiveness.
Is something that we all can appreciate. Maybe I've made a mistake. Maybe the hotel has didn't have this room quite ready. You know, we can forgive them for that, can't we? You know, there's a lot of marriages that are broken because of lack of forgiveness. Forgiveness, you know, there's a lot of loss.
Over maybe it's two against the cottage or how do you think it's split up because of lack of forgiveness and you know sometimes it barely didn't be upset with someone.
But tonight I want to consider.
God.
And me and God in you.
Because.
That has put a gulf between us that if it's not taken away, none of us can have the insurance that will be with them for all eternity. The first verse that I'd like to look at is our first verse is is in Exodus chapter 32.
So I wanted to talk specifically about forgiveness from sin.
You know in Exodus 32 Moses came down from the mountains with the 10 commandments.
And uh.
Just to back up a little bit.
The children of Israel said to the Lord, whatever you do will do it. God gave you 10 commandments. And we find out in this chapter, I'm going to talk a little bit later, that they just couldn't possibly keep it.
To sin, as I understand it, I heard this through another person. It's it's an A term that came from archery to miss the mark. If I clock on the wall over there with the target and I was to take an arrow and shoot at it and I missed the mark, that would mean that I where the term sin comes from. Well, God had given Moses.
These 10 commandments written on a table of stone.
And that was like the target, but, you know, before Moses even got down from the mountains.
They had broken the 1St and therefore all of the 10 commandments.
They had created a golden calf and they were working again, you know, Moses Wasab said. He took that those 10 grams and smashed them on the ground. And that's where I want to start at the end of Exodus 32.
Moses felt terrible about this.
Umm and he says, he says in verse 30, he says it came to pass on the moral that says 32 verse 30, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up unto the Lord, her adventure. I shall make an atonement for your sins. And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, all the people of sin, a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now if thou will forgive their sins, and if not.
Blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou was written.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out.
Therefore, now go and I'm just going to stop there. So Moses tried to intercede for the people here. And you know, Moses wasn't perfect either.
But the Lord said here it's a very remarkable statement. He says, Who, whoever ascend against me, Him will I blot out of my mind. It shows the seriousness.
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Ascend.
Seriousness and you know I'm a Sinner, I'll readily acknowledge that and you know I think everyone in this room there's a verse that says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God and the first says the wages of sin is death. This is a problem every single person here has and we.
You know, I'd like to flip over because the first thing I want to talk about is forgiveness in the Old Testament. You know, this was before Jesus had come and you're going to find out he's the glorious theme, the one who is able to forgive sin. So let's just go over to access to Leviticus chapter 4. You know, in the Old Testament, and this was given to the children of Israel just after what we just read.
So, you know, it's interesting, I just wanted to know what the common denominator in order to have forgiveness of sins was. So I'd just like to read in Leviticus, umm, chapter 4.
Verse one it says in the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord, concerning the things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them. If the priest that is anointed to do sin according to the sin of the people, then let him bring for his sin which he has sinned, a young bullet without blemish under the Lord, to bring the Bullock under the door of the Tabernacle, and the congregation before the Lord.
Shall lay his hand upon the bullet's head.
And kill the bullet before the Lord. And the priest is anointed. Shall take the bullet's blood, bring it to the Tabernacle of the congregation. The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and shall sprinkle the blood seven times before the Lord, before the veil of the sanctuary.
So this is if a soul send and it's referring here to a priest, but later on, I just want to read in every one of these examples. If they send, they had to take an animal recently to put his hand on the animal's head. And uh, that sin was the animal was, umm, killed. Blood was shedding and then they would have pain forgiveness. Let's just look at the verse 13 so that the whole congregation of Israel sinned through ignorance.
And the thing?
Be hid from the eyes of the assemblies. They have done whatsoever some somewhat against any of the commandments which were concerning things which should not be done. Are guilty. When the sin which they have sinned against it is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullet for the sins. Bring it before the Tabernacle of the congregation. It goes on and talks with the blood being shed. And then it says in verse 20, the end of the verse. And it shall be forgiven them. If you flip over to verse 22. So I was talking about if the congregation sentences when a ruler.
Passive and done somewhat through ignorance.
And then again there was an animal that had to die, his blood had to be shelved, shed. And then at the end of verse 26 it says and it shall be forgiven him. And then in verse 27 it says if anyone of the common people things.
Through ignorance and the blood had to be shed an animal. It isn't the end of verse 20. Sorry. 31 it shall be forgiven him.
Chapter ends up with the same color.
You know, in every one of these cases.
When they send this animal had to die and the blood would be shed. You know, I don't think until the people from Israel knew why that had to happen, but that was how they had forgiveness of sins with God.
Or forgiveness of sin. And this was not comprehensive. This was only if they accidentally sinned or they sinned through ignorance, as it says in this chapter. It wasn't if they deliberately did.
Well, you know, that's a little bit bleak because if I look at my own life, I realize that there have been times when I have deliberately.
Deliberately.
And you know, I'm separated from God, so I'd just like to read in the New Testament. I'd like to turn. So this was before the Lord Jesus was born during the Lord's life. I'd like to read a couple accounts there. So if we turn over to Luke.
Chapter 5.
So this was after the Lord Jesus, Lord, and you know those people in Israel knew.
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Those verses in the Old Testament vote forgiveness of sin.
So I'd like to read in Luke chapter 5 and actually start at verse 16. Thanks to get the context here says he withdrew himself into the wilderness and prayed. And it came to pass on a certain day as he was teaching that there were Pharisees and doctors of the lost sitting by which were come out of every town of Galilee, a Judea, Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
And behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy, and they thought means to bring him in, and to lay him before them, and when they could not find but what by what way they might bring him?
In because of the multitude that they went upon the housetop and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.
And when he saw their face, he said unto him, Man thy sins.
Our forgiveness.
In the strides and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blossoming? Who can forgive sin but God alone?
But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, the answering said unto them, What reason ye in your heart, whether is it easier to say that I since be forgiven thee, or say, Rise up the law, but that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth?
To forgive.
In 10 under the sick of a palsy and of the arrived take off night coats go into night, and immediately he rose up before them, took out that Ronnie lay and departed to his own house floor, and they were all amazed.
And they glorify God in their skills and fear, saying we have seen strange things and.
Well.
The Lord in his life brought to clarity.
Something that is remarkable.
And that was that he had the power to begin sin.
It explicitly says here it's his, but that ye may know that the sons may have a power upon the earth hearing.
Had a tremendous crowd of people. You have people from Judea, Galilee, Jerusalem, all the towns around. Yeah, the Pharisees, you, the doctors in law. They were so framed in a room nobody else could fit in.
He had a man who was sick.
Seen because of sin.
Let him down to the roof, and the Lord makes it clear.
You know, that's a very important thing for us to think of those things, because if you did not feel comfortable to be alone with God, there is one person who can give you.
He has power to forgive sins, and he let them know that here he hadn't died yet, but he let them know that he had power to forgive me. He has a beautiful, beautiful thing and I'd like to turn. This happens again a little bit later. Rob mentioned this earlier. We had it in our reading not too long ago in in the ferry in Luke Chapter 7.
Similar situation.
It gets a little bit different. One of the Pharisees invites the Lord over for dinner.
And someone comes to know whom they're separated from their God.
Verse 36 And one of the Pharisees desired him, that he would eat with him.
And he went into the Pharisees house and sat down to meet, and behold a woman in the city, which was a Sinner.
When she knew that Jesus had a Kingdom, Pharisees had brought an alabaster boxer boy again.
Stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Kiss his feet and anointed family. Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, his faith within himself, saying This man, if he were a frost, would have known who and what manner of woman this was. It touches him, for she's a Sinner.
Jesus answering, said unto him, Simon.
I have somewhat to say unto thee.
There is a certain creditor which had two debtors, 1 owed 500 pence.
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In the other fifty, and when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me, therefore, which of them will love him most?
I haven't answered, and said, I suppose he to whom he forgave the most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged. And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Simon, you saw this woman.
I entered into thine house, but thou gave us me no water for my feet. She can.
Wash my feet of tears and wipe them from the hair of her head. Thou gave me no kiss but this woman since the time that I came in my feet.
My head was oiled out. It's not annoying.
This woman has anointed my peaceful voice.
Wherefore I say unto these, For sin Germany are forbidden.
For she loved much, but to whom little is forgiven, the same loving little he say unto her, Thy sin are forgiven.
A day that sat at 8 with him began to say within themselves, who is this? The forgiveness is also.
And he said to the woman, Thy face, and same day go and eat.
Another remarkable story. Here you have this moment. She knew she was a Sinner. She knew. She was separated from God. She knew.
And you know, he openly says he forgiven and even talks to this parasite. You know that Pharisee needed to be forgiven too.
This is much as that Lady neither of them in the little story of the Lord Jesus told who painted that what they owe and you know I'm looking out tonight. You know, maybe there's somebody older here who doesn't really think they're that bad. Maybe they come to watch the golf tour meetings. Maybe they're.
Kids, umm, are, are saved. Maybe there's a child here who their their parents are saved. They just don't think that they quite need it.
You know, it's a very solid position to be in, this Pharisee Simon, he needed it just as badly.
Exactly. But you know this lady, what happened?
Necessity go he was in a better position. Time enough to decision, you know.
There wasn't anything that she had done. It was what the Lord had done.
The people sitting there realize in both of these stories, I think, because they knew what it took.
For sins to be forgiven, and that was the blessing.
And that 10 off frequency.
Recognized that it would have seemed almost blasphemous for the Lord to say he could forgive him like he was.
And God himself, you know.
Beautiful to realize that the Lord Jesus is pointing to himself as the one who forgives him. I'd like to turn over now to.
Luke 22.
Continuing with your forgiveness of sins during the Lord's life.
Sorry, loop 23.
You know the Lord Jesus.
Had the power to forgive sins. And he He made it known to those who would. Well, he made it known to everyone. There were only a few who really accepted it, but he knew.
That he would have to lay down his life.
To take the punishment for those in itself.
Any women had what, some people going? You know what's remarkable?
The Lord is falsely accused. He was the only one.
We never missed the target.
They got it, got standards.
Never miss it. And you know they cook them, and they crucified Him, and you know when he was on that cross.
What does he say? And I just want to note this with regards to forgiveness.
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Says verse 34 of Luke 23. Then said Jesus father, forgive them.
Here you have.
Only from the first person. And these people were treating him horribly. He was completely falsely accused. He was beaten to a pulp. He was going to be crucified.
And yet it hurt when I get, you know.
I can't comprehend that.
But the very one who could forgive him makes this statement here and you know it's been said that it took it from murder to manslaughter and you know Israel is safe dearly for crucified Lord. No, we're all guilty of what the Romans did everyone and in any problems. The same thing would happen today. But you know I just.
Think of how the Lord Jesus had not heard of love toward sinners even when He was in the middle of going to that cross. What does it say? Later in the chapter it says verse 44. It was about the 6th hour and there was darkness over all the earth until the 9th hour.
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was red.
You know, the sky went black.
God punished the Lord Jesus.
It is everyone who took their cups.
I can't comprehend what that was, but he did it. You know, in the Old Testament when there was no sacrifices were made. It was like a check that was written that would would post dated with dates when the work was going to lay down his life look forward to that day before.
Tonight, the Gospel, the whole purpose of this message.
How are you if there is forgiveness for you know, there is a man at the cross and I'll just mention this briefly.
But he knew that the Lord Jesus never missed the mark. He could say that a few verses later as you watch the Lord suffer and die and make those statements and time to go dark. But he said now in the centurion of the verse 47 of of Luke 23, when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God saying certainly this is right.
Now he recognized that. Thank you.
Not one of us.
You know, it's a remarkable thing. Well, I just want to go on that. And during the Lord's life, you know, the gospel hadn't really fully been understood by those at that point. The Lord made it clear that he could see his sin. But you know, the apostle Paul, he goes out to the whole, it used to be just Israel, but the gospel went over to the whole world. And you know, it's a beautiful verse. I love this verse. It's in Acts 13.
This is when the Gospel goes out for the first time in Antioch Obsidia, which is, uh, in Greece today, I guess.
And uh.
Black 13.
Verse 38, You know, Paul was so excited that he could go out with a message. Now that was different than anything that could have been preached earlier.
And he says, here in Acts 1338, he says, Be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, that through this man.
Is preached unto you the forgiveness of sin, and by him all the beliefs are justified from all things from which he could not be justified by the law.
This message.
That we now have as a result of the fact the Lord Jesus died on the cross and shed his blood.
Means that we can preach the forgiveness of sins, not just of those things that we do accidentally. But it says here all that believe that anybody are justified from all things which he could not be justified.
An incredible idiot.
A free office.
For us, that separation between US and God, to be removed so that we can.
That is tremendous, tremendous thing. If you turn over to Romans with Paul is unfolding the gospel.
Romans, chapter 4.
Verse seven, he said he recognized what a wonderful thing it was to have forgiven his sins, and he says in Romans 4, verse seven, he says blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven. Who?
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Sins are covered. Blessed it is to the man to whom the Lord will not impute.
You know if you turn over to.
Quickly.
In season we have all the wonderful things God has given those who have been forgiven. But what did he say there?
Says in a fusion one verse seven very similar verses in caution will turn to whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sin according to the riches.
Of his grace.
So here now, after the ****** he died and written again, gone to heaven. We have a message that Paul went and preached to the whole world about forgiveness and safety.
And you know, it is a tremendous, tremendous, it is a tremendous thing to know yourself together. You know, all it takes is.
You know.
I hope that every man, woman and child will destroy.
I can honestly say it is.
You know I go to work.
You know, I'd like to just read one more verse and solve or two more verses, one in Psalm 86 verse 5.
His lawyer is waiting.
This is on 86% for now. O Lord our do it and ready.
To begin and plenty of mercy and all that He is ready forgive you.
You know he's ready and he's waiting.
Have you taken him up on that? Such a gift.
You know we're gonna be talking with this later. Enrollment 5 and by one man hit that Sergeant in the world. That's a separated, but it also says that by one man.
Umm, the Lord is the most of that child is a beautiful chopper in this place. You know what? It's just. And the Lord is just waiting. He's waiting for the youngest child. He's waiting for the oldest battles in the world with us in the future.
I'd like to read another verse in First John.
And beautiful first.
For someone extremely well known.
Start at the end of her 7th.
Is the blood.
Of Jesus Christ.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves in the truth of God is we confess our sins.
Faithful and just forgive us.
Not only.
If we can pass our sins, is he faithful? He's also just to do it because our sins have been faithful and is a remarkable thing. Somebody else can't do it for me. Moses couldn't do it for the children of Israel because he wasn't.
You know you have all those beautiful verses in the Bible thou shalt pretend to sign out to your teeth, and thy hearts regard.
You know, we just confess to go that we are a Sinner, that our sins are separated from Him.
And we believe it's allergies. Aside from that is an incredible thing. And you know, I can't convey to you, you know, in your heart where you stand.
An even man in his desire didn't save you, you know. I hope everyone could.
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We're going to close shortly.
The implications of that are.
You know we now have access, our sins are forgiven, we have peace with God into the very presence.
Something that was impossible in the past.
Incredible, incredible thing. But if you don't know the idea.
Will be banned from the presence of the military, you know, says in Revelation when it talks there, it says there will be nothing that comes into the pilot. Sin is what has ruined this world. If we look around we see the wars, cancer and the fighting and the society heading in a direction that is.
Almost incomprehensible. You know, we can be thankful for what we have in this, but the consequences of turning our back on.
And here he has this wonderful offer to us. I hope that everyone here.
You know, if we're believers.
And we recognize I'm not going to go into this tonight, but if you read God forgiveness in 1918 or mercy kind of one to another and their heart is giving one another. Even thoughts of Christ they come to give you grasp it in our heart like that woman who is a Sinner.
It will change us. You know how we act towards other people.
Stealthy or something is different than I hope that everyone here tonight has has.
Up forward of the Savior and know that this things are forgiven. Maybe we could just send them clothing.
#10.
Bang Bang, bang, bang.
Bang, please don't surprise me.
Oh God.
Come here again because I didn't hear my name. Danger.
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Soul of the man's landing singing Kitty Kitty Kitty shower. I won't be able to drink in your eyes.
He is away to the best and pay me some flourishing and there's very drivers and magazines.
Tiring.
Part of the Flying Heart, the way all of her.
Uh, Rain City evening Friday and then there by everything.
Come down to every day.
And you've never heard anything. And then small woman's banging shall be crying.
Romans 5:12-21
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Isaiah 43.
Verse one that now thus saith the Lord that created the O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, fear not.
For I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name. Thou art men.
A loving father would just look up to the.
Romans chapter 5, beginning at verse 12.
Romans 5, verse 12.
Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned. After the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come?
But not as the offense, so also as the gift.
Rift through the offense of one many be dead. Much more. The grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many.
And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift.
Where the judgment was by 1 to condemnation. But the free gift is of many offenses unto justification.
But if by one man's offense death reigned by one, much more, they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ.
Therefore, as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation, Even so had the righteousness of one. The free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
Whereas by one man's disobedience many were made sinners.
So by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
We're over the law entered that your fence might abound.
But where sin abounded, raised it much more abound.
That as sin hath reigned unto death, Even so might grace reign through righteousness, but to eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Before now that the book of Romans.
The Foundation book it does.
First two chapters where God has taken up the question of our sins.
SINS.
And so we have been.
The question of the of the fruit of the old nature dealt with.
And that is taken up to the end of the 11Th verse of the 5th chapter that we have just, uh, enjoyed yesterday from the first.
11 verses of chapter 5, actually.
Go back to chapter 3 and chapter 4. It's all included together, isn't it?
When we come to this point.
Verse UH-12. On to the.
Above the end but.
Well I need help on these things from others as well.
By the boat at the end of chapter of Chapter 8.
God is dealing with the question of the nature. It's not so much the, the, the, the proof of the of the, uh, old nature, but the nature itself.
God has forgiven our sins when we receive Christ's Savior.
But he doesn't forgive the nature. He condemned the nature.
If you have a crabapple tree, the only thing you're going to get off of that tree is crab apple.
And you you can't get anything else. The nature of that tree is that it produces crab apples, and if you don't like it, you got to cut the tree down.
Well, here God is dealing with the nature where we started. So it starts out in verse 12.
As by one man's sin entered into the world, and death by sin.
Though death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
The nature that Adam received in the fall, when he partook of the fruit of the tree in the garden in disobedience, was the old nature, and when he had children, those children were.
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By one man sin entered into the world the nature.
He, he, uh, Adam sinned and he received through the fall the old nature. And Cain and Abel and Seth had that old nature. And so it is with every one of us born into this world. We're born with that old nature.
I think it's wonderful to see, you know?
Umm, When we preach the gospel, we preach the gospel to, umm, that God offers forgiveness of sins. And so that is dealt with particular, as we say in Romans 3-4 and five and in many other chapters.
And why is it that right after the question of the gospel and forgiveness of sin he brought before us that God brings this side in? I think it's wonderful and I've enjoyed it in this way. It's likely, you know, when a person gets saved, they're so happy in the Lord, you find somebody that is, is, uh, been taken out of darkness and brought into the marvelous light and they sometimes dramatic conversion.
Are so, you know, you see the person rejoicing so much in the Lord?
And then afterwards, they're surprised to find that they have the old desires that they had before.
And to me that is why that God takes up immediately after the question of our sins. He talks about the nature. And it's like to me, God saying this.
You have that nature. You are born again. But be careful, that old nature's still there. You have the new nature, but there's the old nature.
And and God tells us in these chapters how we can walk through this world for His glory and to keep the old nature in the place of death.
And so, umm, I've enjoyed it, thinking of it in that way. Or in verse 12 on the game for checkers hit seven and eight.
So when we came to know the Lord Jesus as our Savior?
We realized all that we had done against God. Our sins was removed, forgiven and, uh, cleansed. And our sins? We have them no more.
But our nature was not removed, and so while we understand the concept, the principle of substitution.
That Christ died for us and all that was against us was laid on him. He paid the penalty in full and it was raised again for our justification. And now we are in that new place of grace. But the real underlining principle of these chapters here that's so critical is deliverance from sin as the ruling principle in our life.
Because the nature is still here. So God is taking care of all that we have done through the death of Christ. What we have done against Him are sins. But now with the nature, how are we going to live for the glory of God with that sinful nature still within us?
And so I just briefly mentioned a few things in these chapters, certainly not new, but it's helpful. And nor do we have time to go through all of them through them all. But in chapter five, we we are under the headship of the old Adam and and Adam and now brought into the headship of Christ, which is chapter takes up in chapter six, we have two masters. We have sin and we have righteousness.
And in chapter seven we have two husbands really in the 7th chapter which says we should be married to another.
Really should be two another because while you have the law in Christ brought out, we're not the truth of the church is not really enrollment, but it, it gives us to see that there cannot be, umm, connection with them both. In the end of chapter seven, we find a very instructive, uh, passage there where we find a one that has life. He does not have power to do good and it's very frustrating to him what he wants to do good he can't do.
Because this indwelling sin within him. And so he says, I know that in me that is in my flesh. And verse 18 dwelleth no good thing. And we find in that 7th chapter that although we have a new light, that new light in and of itself has no power. And so there's just misery, a new nature. 2 natures, but there's no deliverance. And he ends up in the 7th chapter, Who shall deliver me? Because he can't deliver himself. A man that has life, but a man that does not have deliverance.
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And so then we come to the 8th chapter where we have the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. Yes, it is the Spirit of God, but the Spirit of God is positioned here as the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. The Spirit of God is the power of life, of a new nature that gives us the power to rise above the tendency of the flesh that will ever drag us down. That strength is not in ourselves, it is in the Spirit of God, here seen as the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
Getting way ahead of ourselves, but the illustration has often been given. If we have, uh, let's just say we have a book. I hold it in my hand and I drop it. What happens? The law of gravity brings it down and it hits the ground. Uh, the law of gravity brings it down, but I tie a ribbon around it and attach it to a very large helium balloon. And what happens? I don't change the law of gravity. The book would still go down, but now that book begins to rise because of a new law, a new principle.
And that's the principle of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
That causes that book to go contrary to the law of gravity. And so the presence of the Spirit of God gives the new nature, that power to rise above and live for the glory of God. The law of gravity hasn't changed. The law of sin and death has not changed. It's the same as it's ever been, but a new power comes in to bring deliverance. So there's just a few things, and it's just given a rough skeleton approach to it, but it is helpful to consider the two heads, the 2 masters, the two husbands, and the two laws, and then the two natures as well.
I think yourself will deceive 2 brother Bill at verses 13 through 17 are a parenthesis and so to get the connection it's good to read umm, the 12 first and then go down to verse 18.
Where it says therefore, as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men of condemnation, Even so by the righteousness of one, the pre guest came upon all men under justification of life. So in that 18 first you get the two heads. Is that right?
And I think Mr. Darby's translation of that verse is actually, uh, helpful. I'm talking about the 18th verse. I think it reads like this as by one offense.
Toward all men, the condemnation.
That's the one that so by 1 righteousness toward all men for justification of life. That's the other.
So I think it's been interesting to see that the connection goes from 12 to 18, and then there's that parenthesis, parenthesis in between.
September 11 of our chestnuts talking about the end of fruit.
No, we're looking at them, the roof and stop.
They've never lived.
Never committed sins.
I would explain that the colonoscopy was the unborn.
Dial Dial.
Maybe someone has another thought, but I've enjoyed 3 verses in Matthew 18 that give a little, uh, answer to that has given me peace. Or should one, a little one die in the womb and one never, never heard the story of Jesus and his love and uh, Matthew 18 just three verses. The 1St is verse 10.
It says, Take he that you despise not one of these little ones, For I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father, which is in heaven, They're angels.
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So you have the angelic care. We know that they're umm, Hebrews. One says to them, there shall be heirs of salvation.
Dodge protective care. But then verse 11 For the son of man has come to save that which was lost. And then he describes the cheapest lost. It's not in the case of Nicodemus to seek him to save that which was lost. A little child and the embryo. It never had, never set his will against God. It didn't wander away and rebel. But the son of man has come to save that which is lost. So you have the work of the sun. And then in verse 14.
Even so, it is not the will of your Father, which is in heaven, that one of these little.
One should perish. So we have not only the work of the sun, we have the will of the Father, that all-encompassing work of the cross. And that also brings in the truth of propitiation, doesn't it? It's God's side substitution. He was delivered through our offenses and raised again for our justification for those of us that have sinned against God. But the work of Christ is broader than that. It's the basis on which God has extended blessing to this world, to this present hour. A man may live in his sins.
For 80 years.
Never own Christ and die in his sins, but yet God has dealt with him in a righteous basis and extending mercy to him because of the work of Christ. And so in the same way these little ones come into blessing based on the work of Christ.
Just a little addition to that brother Bill. Umm, I've enjoyed contrasting Matthew 1811.
With Luke chapter 19 and verse.
Hand in connection with Zacchaeus.
When the Lord Jesus spoke to Zacchaeus, he said the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which is lost. He puts in the word seat there, and that's in connection with a man who has reached the age of responsibility. But in Matthew 18, when Speaking of children, it doesn't say seek, it just says the Son of Man has come to see that which is lost.
So I've enjoyed that contrast.
One of the 711%, isn't it?
Matthew percent. Matthew percent. Move percent.
The next thing, all I enjoyed is complete and visited the correct name. I've enjoyed it this way here in the.
Let's let's assume for a moment that.
No one committed sins after they were born.
Not one single commitment.
And with Christ we have done.
And the answer is yes.
Because the wages are thin, 23 is dead.
So because of the because of the skin came into Adam and death as one of an all nine months.
Because of the nature that the guru sin.
The required disk.
And when the death of Christ, that answers that question.
It takes care of them, but all those sinners that are still in the womb are sinners because not because they commit sins, but because they have a sin nature.
Airplane required bank payment debt and so price would have died and to take care of that question the depth of credit.
But for those who are of the age of responsibility against the blood of friends, the blood of Jesus Christ hands us all sin the sins of pride was supposed to prove.
They can't separate the two really, but inside it's already enjoyed it and that that's not true.
19 Seeking to save now he has to seek and to save us. And so the blood of Christ is applied to walk away our sins.
So for those who are beyond born, they needed a better price, but they never committed sins.
So in that sense, the blood is not applied that way, but it's a death of Christ.
It's in a sense one is substitution.
Which is for our sins to guide in our place. The other is an essential to which I see it as appreciation.
I have some verification on that so I make sense to him.
Eric, you mentioned the, uh, age of responsibility. There's two verses that highlight the portions that I like in connection with questions like yours and those related.
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The first one is a question that, uh, Abraham asked the Lord back in Genesis.
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And back in Genesis chapter 18.
He says to the Lord, he said, That shall not be uh.
Judge of all the earth you write as Genesis 1825 through at the end.
Shall not the judge of all the earth be right? And I have enjoyed that, because God.
Didn't contradict us.
And we know our God that he does.
And the foundation of God's sin is sure having this sail to the Lord, know of them that are his, every single one of them.
But then, in connection with the age of responsibility, the fortune that I enjoy at the end of Jonah, Jonah chapter 4.
And is that teaching us a little bit about our God as well? Because there he's dealing with Jonah and, uh, Ray at the end.
This is the word of the Lord in verse 11.
Says that and should not I spare Nineveh that great city?
When are more than six 4000 persons?
I'm not going to stop there. And I think this is where we learn about responsibility.
We're in our more than six 4000 persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left.
But uh, we recall the burst in, uh, Matthew, I think it is where the Lordhouse has said God pays attention to even the sparrows, whereas the end of Jonah he includes and also much cattle.
So our God is a loving God. He's very compassionate and caring and he knows how to discern, but in particular, he does what's right. And I agree with what uh, has been brought before us in connection with the, uh, with the young lore, but just enjoy that thought in terms of, uh, responsibility. And so I would expand that, not just for unborn or stillborn or young child children, but that to that point, as you mentioned, that point at which they can discern and understand that they're an open rebellion against God.
Tell the difference between your left hand and your right hand.
Very interesting in this portion that Robert has referred to in Genesis 18, and I was just noticing that also.
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There are numbers that are mentioned verse 28 to the per adventure there shall be five of the 50 righteous.
And the next number goes down to 40, then it goes down to 30, and then it goes down to 20.
And then in verse 32, and he said, oh, that not the Lord be angry and I will speak yet, but this one, her adventure 10 shall be found there. They said I will not destroy it for Ken's sake. Well, as her brother Robert was saying, the Lord is gracious. He's long-suffering and that shows out his heart here, doesn't it?
Those numbers kept reducing. Well, Abraham couldn't understand that, but the broad surface, was that a refresher?
And as Robert mentioned, uh Jonah rebelled against.
Uh, declaring that message to Nineveh at the Wardrobe last year.
Though all in this world are as born in this world are under that first headship of Adam.
And I heard an old story once, I don't remember the whole story, but uh, back in the days before, uh, big crushers, they made gravel by breaking rocks at the side of the road. And you may gravel that way. And the man went by and there's a fellow to tie the road with a big hammer breaking rock. Every time he swung that hammer down, he'd say, oh, Adam.
Macrago and hit that rock. Thou shalt earn my bread by the sport of thy ground.
Yes, he was under that headship, and you and I was born in this world or under that headship. But we can't blame Adam, for all have sinned and everyone of us stands in our own responsibility before God. Yes, the creation fell on its head and we were under that headship.
But we can't blame that.
For all their sins.
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Some years ago, the question was put to our President of the United States, John Quincy Adams. Now how? How are you, John Quincy Adams?
He said I'm fine.
But the house in which John Quincy Adams live is crumbling.
And he said I'm part of the old creation.
So now illustrates what we talked about President.
Many have criticized Christianity.
Because, umm, the initial sense I.
Oh, I don't understand.
That's not true.
There won't be one soul can have an elastic eternity because of Adam's skin.
Death of Christ said Death of Christ advanced that crunch an initial question Adams, Adams, Stanford who?
That there was no one. I committed sentence after that.
When the depth of rice meant that all would go to glory by all unborn children, because.
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Responsibility and umm, and so those will be an Alaska Eternity won't say.
Old Adam's computer, known to Denver Christ took care of them so they all may come.
Every single person in the world.
From that I went down to it may now come, because the death of Christ has been drawing. But those are the beautiful.
Their sins will begin. Fewer confidence.
And therefore there is a loss to turn to the top of your skin because of the truth and not because of the need. That's why I understand that's right.
First, John says he's the propitiation for the whole world, and that's, to your point, the death of Christ, infinitely glorified God.
Irrespective that one Sinner was ever saved. Now we can't look at it that way because it's it's one word towards all. But there's God's side and God was infinitely glorified. And it's the basis on which, as we had in the third chapter, He would extend the blessing to all. It's unto all, but it's only upon all them to believe.
And that substitution, that's what we found and that has, as you say, that addresses the sins, the acts, that it can be stunned against God. That's why we have the burnt offering mentioned first, isn't it, Leviticus?
We had.
The choice of selecting which offering should be mentioned first we could.
Probably selected this in offering, wouldn't we?
But it's that which is God for. It is that which day for is the God the Father. You think of the Lord's words in John's Gospel. I have finished the work that style has given me to do.
The wonderful work so did Eric. I was just thinking of your remarks there concerning.
Those that will be speechless someday When?
They are confronted with the Lord of glory.
Not too long ago I I uh.
Saw a documentary.
Uh, made and in this documentary.
There was a a man interviewing, uh, a noted atheist. His name is Richard Dawkins, and he's written a book called The Dog Delusion.
And demand that we're interviewing wasn't necessarily a believer.
But you could see the fact that there might have been.
Something more to the whole situation than that your dog was pretending, he said. Let us assume now that you get to the end of your life and you die.
And there is a God. What will you have to say to me?
Well, you said I, I just have a lot to say for.
But it would be speechless before God with me.
Interesting observation. If there is no God, why is he prepared to talk to him?
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Seems like a lot of effort expended to deny something to him.
The verse, you hear that?
Intervened in our endless parentheses.
Bring out, uh, something really that tells a little bit more of the nature, doesn't it? Because in verse 14 it says nevertheless deaf brain from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression.
Who is the figure of him that was to come?
How is it that Adam sinned? What was it that brought about his sin?
God had given a known command to Adam that there was a tree that with me were not to partake of.
And that was a known command, and he broke that command.
He transgressed against a known command.
And death reigned with him because he broke that command.
But there was no law that was given for another 2500 years.
The 10 commandments were given in Exodus, and that was approximately 2500 years later.
Is the people in between die? Yes, we know they did. Why did they die?
They didn't die because they had a known command, because there was no law that was given during those 2500 years. Why did they die?
Well, because they had a nature that produces sin, because sin is self will.
He didn't sin in the same way that Adam did in breaking a law. What They did their own thing.
End.
So, uh, that is, uh, what sin is. It is doing our own will. It's not just, if I can put it that way, breaking a known law.
But it is self will. So we have the scripture that says in in in Isaiah 53, all we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way.
It's our own way, our own will. And the Lord said, Ye will not come unto me that she might have life. So the nature produces this rebellious attitude.
And we all have it. We're born with it.
And then it produces the fruit, doesn't it?
I think that we see this rebellious attitude, uh, very clearly in the 42nd chapter of Genesis. Just turn to for a moment.
Reuben is speaking here in verse 21.
Well, that we see that before that they're speaking one to another.
They said one to another, we are verily guilty concerning our brothers.
That we saw the anguish of his soul.
When he besought us.
And we would not hear.
Therefore is this distress come upon us? There's woefulness there, isn't there? We would not hear.
And Reuben answered them, saying, Stake I not unto you, saying, do not sin against the child, and you would not hear.
Therefore, behold also that blood is required.
So.
Here we have mentioned a thin. Rubin realized that what had taken place was thin.
And, uh, that's again.
Without breaking a known wall.
Uh, wasn't the same as Adams transgression?
Wasn't the same as breaking one of the 10 commandments, yet sin was present here, wasn't it?
From, uh, from the flood.
From the time Adam was Ave. were put out of the garden until the flood.
The band was under dispensation of conscience.
Left one man who was conscious both the man through the conscience, but he also had, uh, the testimony of creation. So we go back to Romans chapter one. We see how man rebelled under that dispensation of conscience.
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The uh, it says the verse 20 of chapter one.
The invisible things of Him, the creation of the world, are thoroughly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
Because that when they knew God, they knew God in that way, through creation. They glorified him not as God. Neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations and their truly heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fooled and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like disruptible man and the birds and a creeping thief.
And so man digress downward, so the time that was put out of the garden to this that we have here in Romans 1, the heathen.
And, uh, God brought in the flood and destroyed that whole population except for no one's family.
And, uh, man has been, uh, rebellious.
Uh, his nature, a fallen nature is a rebellious nature, and it's no different today than it is here. We're reading about Romans one, It's the same rebellious nature that man has and rebel against God.
And, uh, today they're refusing something far greater and we have that in.
Uh, John's Gospel.
Gospel John, chapter 3.
It says there in verse 17, for God sent not a son into the world to condemn the world.
But that the world through him, might be saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned.
But he that believeth not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only, the only begotten Son of God.
Man is condemned because God has done everything possible.
To show the man today his love. All has been completed.
Because witness to this world in Christ, dying on the cross, showed out the love of God the man.
In such a powerful way that today man refusing.
Uh, this love?
That God has shown to him in Christ.
That condemnation, if he rejects us, hanging over his head. And this is a condemnation that light has come into the world and men love darkness rather than the light because their deeds are evil. This is my man doesn't come.
He has a witness of gospel going out today. He doesn't want it because his deeds are evil. He likes the darkness that he's in. He likes, he enjoys his sins. We were that way ourselves. That's what we were by nature. And it says, uh, they're in the 20th, 1St for everyone. That's true of evil. Hate us, the light.
Neither come. This is a light left to see. Should be reproved or corrected. Man doesn't want to be corrected. He wants to stay in a joyous sense. He doesn't wanna be bothered by any anybody. He's self oriented, he's self-centered and he enjoys what the darkness more than the light. And so that condemnation is hanging over his head.
Refusing the witness that God has given to him in Christ. In Romans one it was the witness that God gave to man in creation, and they rejected it.
Today, it's a far more serious thing.
It might be good to reference those verses in first John, because if we, uh, look at them, first John 3.
I It would appear to be a contradiction of what's been said, but it's due to, regrettably, a little bit of a deficient translation that we should acknowledge first. John three and verse 4.
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth all to the law, for sin is the transgression of the law.
More properly, it should read everyone that practices sin practices also lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
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Which has already brought out very clearly that there was sin in the world even when there wasn't transgression of the law, because there was no law to transgress. And so the consequences of sin still took effect, that is death.
But sin is lawlessness, it is the operation of self will without regard to God, Never mind not transgressional law, it still is the operation of self will. And the 5th chapter of first John we also did another expression, verse 17.
The first part it says all unrighteousness is sin.
And then it says and there is a sin on him to death. That would be a in a governmental way. But all unrighteousness is sin. So one can commit unrighteousness and one can act in self will without breaking any law, but the consequences are the same. And if he just had a verse in John 16 Brother Enos in regard to what you just said with respect to sin.
In this present day.
John 16.
The Lord acknowledges thee, and when the Comforter that is the Spirit of God comes.
In verse eight it says he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment. And here the word reprove is more the thought of bringing things to a demonstration of it. Not a matter so much of AA Center being convicted of his sin and being convicted of righteousness and being convicted of judgment, but rather a demonstration of these things. And it says in verse nine of sin because they believe not on me.
Not because the multitude of murders, the slaughter and wickedness and immorality, that's not the crowning sin of this world. It's because they believe not on me.
And so we live in a world that's far more guilty and responsible than King's world ever was, because God's Son has been revealed and sin has been demonstrated because they believe not on him. The crowning sin of this world is the rejection of God's Son.
That is because.
A wave.
That is because God has made that way of escape for man.
So man has no excuse for his sins. Here is your way of escape. Here's your pass in the glory, except Christ.
That's God's way for man to get the glory. He is made that way through his Son. And so there's so much huge left from that. God's saying whatever sins you have done, they can be cleansed away and you can be accepted and justified before me. But.
As you mentioned.
It's.
They rejected that way that that condemnation is hanging over their heads.
We see that Adam's disobedience to affected the whole creation, not only mankind as well.
And the 1St 14 and says nevertheless death range from Adam to Moses.
But we see a day when there will be a reversal that don't. That's in the 8th chapter of Romans.
And uh.
Theresa Burns, 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature awaited for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Where the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him.
Who have subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself so because ever from the ******* of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Where we know that the whole creation of grown up.
And Trivella and peeing together. Until now.
So the whole creation was affected by Adam's sin, wasn't it?
And, uh, we see a reversal that day ago.
I think the point is being made.
Umm.
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In these verses too, that God has been more glorified.
In Christ.
That after death.
The gloom of death was brought in.
Said he had brought in more glory to God and that. I don't know how to say this exactly but I think others can help me out.
That, umm.
Adam's skin. Look at verse uh.
15/16/17.
It says whereas through the offense of one many be dead, Speaking of what Adam did in the consequences.
Much more the grace of God and the gift by grace.
Which is by one man, Jesus Christ have abounded unto many.
The result of sin being brought in that God has found a way that more glory can be brought to the Lord Jesus because.
Of what he has done on the cross, so down in the next verse.
Not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift, for the judgment was by 1 The condemnation.
That came because of Adam, but under the headship of Christ. But the free gift is of many offenses.
Under justification of life, what has happened as a result of the sin of Adam?
That you and I have received.
This justification of life and so the contrast is being brought in and stolen. 17 if by the one man's offense that rain by 1.
Much more, they would receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness. Shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ.
I don't know how to say it, but I just enjoy those. There's a contrast, it seems to me.
That God has been more glorified through the Death Christmas. Marvelous truth, isn't it?
And no flesh for glory in his presence.
Sarah thought of universal salvation, that burst of the day.
Where it says.
Well, first of all, by one offense judgment came upon all nomination.
No man, don't accept it.
Sensitiveness.
Appreciation. In that sense, the mercy seat.
Tall man and outside, his arms walling up on all the receipts.
Versed as in the Darby's torso to your point, it's the you have the the bearing or the effect of those two acts, don't we? The act the 1X Yeah, two. You have two ones here. You have the one man Price and the one man Adam, and then you have one act Adam's one act of disobedience and then one righteousness is how it's worded here of the Lord Jesus.
See ultimately in that, that great work of, of, uh, of redemption.
And the bearing of that work. So we see to, uh, I was thinking, brother Dave, as you mentioned that to, uh, look at verse 16 to support what you bring out.
And I'll read it in the door before the judgment was of 1 to condemnation, but the act of favor of many offenses unto justification.
Those other versions that we can look at to support this, but if the work of Christ only brought us back to where we were before, it would be an act of favor unto innocence. That's where Adam was before he fell. But God's taken way beyond that. He's taken us under justification.
Where those that have come under the burying and effect of that work of Christ are now justified, accounted, righteous in the presence of God. And Adam never knew that.
You know, I was, I was thinking of this yesterday when we were taking up the, uh, first part of the chapter and umm, umm.
And then, uh, Mark brought out in the gospel last night about, uh, that verse in Acts 13, the difference between forgiveness and justification. I wonder if we could have some help on that. What is the difference?
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It says there it makes a difference. The Scripture makes a difference there in Acts 13, where it says, Be it known unto you, therefore, both men and brethren, that through this man has preached unto you the forgiveness of sins.
And by him all that believe are justified from all things.
What is the difference between forgiveness and justification?
I'm going to put this way one time that if a prisoner was sentenced by reports and certain like five or something that he did.
After he finished his sentence.
The state or country of courts would forgive him. We would be.
He served a sentence and he's forgiven, but he could never feel justified.
For what he'd done, those crimes would still be on his conscience.
But when the when the Lord Jesus.
The work that he has done.
And God has given to us a justification really that goes beyond forgiveness. That means there's no accusation or no no guilt can ever be bought against us because of the work of Christ.
That's we're totally forgiven.
Through the work of price and justify is that our standing before God like.
We have, we have peace.
And a conscience void of offense against God because of what Christ has done.
That's the difference I believe.
That, uh, a criminal, even though he might serve as a sentence and have forgiveness, he can never feel justified.
But because of the work of Christ, and because what he has done.
We do realize that we stand before God justified.
I I don't know if that makes it clear or not. Maybe somebody else can.
I don't know, this is a great illustration, but I guess going back to your the crab off the tree, umm, well, I've heard this statement and uh, I don't know if it's true or I, I really believe it is true that we, we sin because we're sinners. We're not sinners because we sin.
And think about the grand apple tree and the, uh, being forgiven and justified if you.
If you take it as the crabapples are like thin and being the crabapple tree is like a Sinner.
If you take all the crabapples off the tree, it's still a crabapples tree.
But if you change that tree from crabapple.
Then it's no longer a grab at one. That's like being justified. So if you change the tree from being a crab apple.
But you left to grab that movie on the tree.
Well, that's not right either, is it? But that's not what, what, uh, has happened with us, isn't it? We've been forgiven. So you take the crab apples off. But then also we're no longer we, umm.
Have that nature to talk about and they change and so we have been forgiven and, uh.
We will in the coming day have, uh, no longer, uh, old nature woman will have just that, uh, new nature. And so we'll be.
Umm, if you will will be almost like this crabapple with crab apples on it will be changed while all the crab apples will be gone and will change from Cherry Tree.
I don't know if that's, that's, uh, if it's $39.00, that's great.
My brother, Doctor Dodge, remember him years ago, he used to say justify, justify, never sin.
That's different than just being forgiven, isn't it?
The mistakes on the work of Christ isn't that like it uh, isn't more justified because of what price has done. That's how God could justify it. It's a it's a working price. It's.
It's uh.
Our old nature, as far as God sees our standing is gone, and he wants us to see us in the next chapter. It's crucified with Christ. Sin, the old man had held him crucified with Christ.
Citizen Romans 8 that sin He condemned sin in the flesh.
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So we put staff condemnation on it, Lord Jesus.
What do you do when something condemned is ready to be destroyed? Well then when he died on the cross, he crucified it. Those things condemned, it's been crucified. But we read there in the 6th chapter it's also been buried.
The old nature that we've had as far as our standing go, the gossip doesn't even see it.
It's it's condemned, crucified and buried.
And that's where God wants us to see that old nature and we have a news standing and a new federal head in Christ free from everything that was connected from that.
Even though we have the old nature, we're to reckon it in the place of death.
We're not going to be occupied with us so many believers and I was that way myself for a long time.
Occupied with that, with that whole nature and if you if we try to make our standing depend on our state, we're never gonna have.
Uh, settled peaks. We're never gonna really have all the things we're reading about yesterday, joy and happiness and all those things, if we don't really see our standing where prices close before God.
And we stand there without an old nature.
God sees us that way in Christ, and that's how he can justify it.
We're with no.
With no done umm, accusation, any kind of an accusation before God and Christ.
We're made the righteousness of God and hammeth elders.
Extend and then all the perfect, uh, work of Christ before God.
Wouldn't have a better standing.
The thing about that illustration of the crab apple tree too, And just to take it a little further, maybe.
Jackpot destroying or getting rid of that?
Another remedy too that is used in the food industry.
You can take that crab apple tree and cut it right off and braft in a perfectly good apple window. Give whatever variety of apples you like.
And it'll grow, it'll work wonderfully and produce that group that you want.
Scrap it in a new.
So that that new that new tree is grafted into the old crab after the snow.
Every apple tree and every orchard anywhere. And basically that's what happened because.
Apples don't grow from seeds, they grow. They have to be drafted in.
From an original stock.
So your graphics change your graphics when you grow your crab. Apple's still there.
And I have an apple tree like that at home.
It has a roof stock from 1 Bush, it's got a trunk cracked in from another, and it's got a good delicious apple on top.
Vascular brewed the fruit, however.
You have to be diligent with that tree because the.
Sprouts will come up with an old rat and shore up. And yet there has been an ineconomic effect. Now there's coming a day when.
We plan it to be a wonderful thing. There's no more old.
Nothing was metal stock. Well, I don't think that that's.
Possible, but.
When we get our new and glorified body, that old crab apples can be done away.
All that tree that produces nothing.
So it's grafted in and it's, I think it's a beautiful thing. Umm.
That, uh.
Is an increase in me. It's like a new tree but still that old Wiz there as we have anything as well.
However, it should be in a place of death and half Britain had three of mine. She was kept in the pleasant Dr. Hurting should be firm to office.
Feathers coming a day or a nap? Treason.
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Top my drill boost, nothing to put out.
Bottom should improve some bad stuff.
His connection with justification. I would say in some way that my question now is going to be one that is almost impossible to answer.
And that is that in the coming day, when the Lord looks at you and he looks at me.
Umm, he's going to look at it as if we had never seen. That is justification.
How is that possible?
It says in in Hebrew.
Their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
God has, can I say the capability?
Of, uh, when the question of sin was dealt with and when when we are taken to be with them, we are already justified if we are safe.
Are standing before God is in that way, that is that we have never sinned.
And when we get to glory.
And he looks at us.
It's as if we had never sinned.
So God who knows everything, how is that possible, you say?
Well, I don't know the answer to that question.
But because he says it.
I believe it.
And I rest in that.
To think that God looks at me as if I never sinned in my standing before Him is only by faith that I can believe them.
I can't reason that up.
So, umm, that to me is, uh, we're justified before him and I, uh, I leave it there.
From the Robert's computer of a comment that he wanted to make before on justification.
And it's related to the question that Brother Dave said that.
I might be wrong, but I think the scripture does answer that question.
Because justification is more than just as if I could, just as if I'd never sinned.
It also puts me in a position where God looks at me as a person who is not capable of saying.
How is that? I think the answer is in Romans chapter 8 verse one.
Why is it God will not condemn me?
There is therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.
And so when he looked at me, who did he see?
He teases beloved son.
Who has every right to glory?
And we'll sit on Nick's room.
And that's where it sees me.
And that's the incredible glory of what Christ has done in justifying us.
Brother Enoch has been talking about our standards. That's for God's books in price, what it is incredible place to be.
They think of it this way, brother.
Would God ever look at Christ and say.
I see you just as if you've ever been.
We are in Christ and in possession of a life to which they never attached, never will attach, and never could attach.
And the the judge has pronounced that seeing us in that position has clear and free from any blame or guilt.
Justify.
First down five times is a verse for that verse. Down to three is a verse for that brother.
Saying the same thing where we see uh, and Burnstone where they mentioned that northern at us is that they, we never sinned bring in the past with God is blotted out with a thick cloud. It's gone completely.
An example of brother Esteem escapes although his person serving time and then being forgiven the letter to prison.
You want to go and see what he was charged with. He's still on the record.
Three years now, he's free. He's still under record, as it were.
There is nothing that we have done is on the record white dose water though we can't find it, it's not there.
No one delay anything to the charge of God's election. It is God that justifies God for Noah's future. The first John 3.
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So verse 9, whosoever is born of God does not commit sin.
In the words and we cannot sin because he had born of God.
We have that nature. The same nature of the price of the question is, can Christ stand? The answer is all that.
Look at how we stand in that make sense, but it's not. There's no record being kept from here on about in the we may fail in so we can fail different topics altogether, but it's not as good as you want in that sense.
It's quite clean. Past, present, future.
So you cannot convince him because he is born of God. Isn't that beautiful?
I think we need a little clarification of that first verse of Romans chapter 8 because the first part doesn't seem to add up to the second part, so rather feel free to comment on that.
I'd like to take it back to the apple.
Brenda has to grab a tree gadget.
I guess it right from the ground.
Now he assessed pressure backed by the blood.
Your blood optimal increases.
That does not have.
A faster than strong.
Five times, but the apple tree had that attack from the ground.
The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ from heaven causes.
His seat was put into the woman by God.
They came directly from God.
So it is your blood of Jesus Christ with us from all things comes directly from God.
Has not been approved with her.
It is the seed of us, the seed of the Roman.
Might be nice too, just to look at a couple of verses.
That refer to our standing that we have in Christ.
Give us insurance.
Understanding.
Uh, first John chapter 4.
And verse 17.
It says there here in is our love made perfect.
And we may have oldest in the day of judgment.
You guys can see the price?
Because as he is.
Go away in the world.
How can God have anything to say to us in judgment?
When he looks at us and he sees us the same as his son.
As he is, so are you in this world.
God looks down upon each believer here, and he sees each one of us in Christ. Join to him that tells us in Ephesians that were part of the flesh and of his bones.
How could God have any, anything to say to us in judgment?
Nothing all has been accomplished by Christ finished, he said on the cross, And God sees us in his Son, and that's where we stand.
And, uh, Romans chapter.
UH-8 and verse one that, uh, brother Ruth mentioned, uh, the last part of that first verse doesn't belong there. And we know, uh, I don't think Jane, uh, Jane hasn't there.
It's referring to our state understanding.
And, uh, we have a perfect standing in Christ.
And our walk has nothing to do.
Standing that we have before God and Christ, it can affect our fellowship.
The vector communion vector our lives in a happy and A and a joyous way or a miserable way. Our state can.
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But the last part of that burst referring to our walk or our state as we go on as believers.
Has nothing to do with our standing the first part of the verse. That belongs down in verse 4 where it's mentioned again.
I say that in Paul's ministry, it's in Christ. That is our place before God is in Christ. That's our place before God, before the Father. But in John it's more.
It's more priced than us, but the life of Christ has been given to us. So as he is, so are we in the world. We have that very life of Christ in this. Now it's not so much our place before God in Christ, but His life in US. And 1St John brings before us and it helps us understand his expression. He is born of God, sinneth not. Well, if we look at our experience, you say, oh, I've been born of God as many times that I've seen. How do we reconcile that? Well, John's ministry brings before us the believer in the absolute blessedness of the new life.
And I believe that's the point of this expression that Steve brought us to there in the end of verse 18, the justification of life. God looks at us not only in Christ, but looks at us in that life that He has given us, the very life of Christ, He.
Use us in that light that life has never sinned and so beautiful that is that assurances it gives us as well as the the joy that it gives him, and seeing not only us in Christ, but Christ in us in that new life.
Rolling face London is therefore there is therefore now no condemnation. It doesn't say.
Therefore you haven't been condemned.
So there isn't even any condemnation that can attach to that place of being in Christ. Not just God hasn't condemned you.
There's no condemnation.
It isn't.
Even ever going to be could not be impossible to be attached to that. The last part would make it conditional, wouldn't it?
If it were there, but that was borrowed by the copyist who did not understand the truth that we're taking up. And they borrowed it from verse four and added it again to verse one because they just could not understand how that could be said of a believer unless they were walking in a right way. So they.
They said I it's got to belong here, so we'll just add it in. It doesn't belong there.
When do we have it?
When do we have this perfect standing?
The moment we believe that he believes the gospel of your salvation, then where you feel that Holy Spirit promise.
The verse says there is now.
Now, no condemnation.
We have it now, enjoy it now.
If we sing #289.
289.
No condemnation.
Precious.
Words.
Consider it right.
God Is True
Children—John Bilisoly
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We're going to start with a few hints out of this book, but there's a a young lady in the room here by the name of Abby that would like to have us sing Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam. It's #55 in this book.
So let's sing this for Abby, and maybe she'll join in a little bit with us, all right?
Jesus wants. Jesus wants before us on.
I'm sorry, let me start a little bit.
He didn't want me for a song.
For him, he stayed in.
Let's see here when you're trying to give it away.
I'm a child, he's made me take 1000 gigs and I'm not far away. At the end of the day, I don't know, I'm hearing you, I can't hear you, I can't drive. I'm going to be here. I'll be out thumbing for him.
We need notifying things if we make a lot of things, mankind to all right.
Now it's worth and thank God I've been able to get there. No one can be done.
In time and again see you in time of course meaningful where are you so I don't know what you're getting done and done give me time to stop and give me a game I'll be up one day in the morning here and I'm here I'm.
I will not hear you because we have to have a good day. Take a tasty flying heart from Sam throwing to life. There is the blessing of the lady shining blood again.
Alright, I was wondering if these boys right here, would you like to come over and sit in these two chairs? Would that be OK? You'd be a little closer to the rest of the.
Yes, dear. All right. Thanks guys.
Great. OK, how about another one then? Should you have one?
56.
Jesus.
What the truth is all the zoom Argentine.
Knee on some kind through your work people who don't work by and many threw extinct and many the disability and maneuvers raining.
We've been mad and knew that there was one against gentlemen, so I'm not gonna be getting themselves. They didn't matter about thy name, champions and.
One thigh giant grill while drowning baby thighs and he runs on top and grim they cry and those sighs and tattoos and throat the inhale them to my crops of blood.
And only guide them right again and thine thigh and thine hand swim and yell away friends on the ice round more than 400,000 and then thoracic Evans.
OK, maybe, maybe just a couple more. How about one of you boys or girls? You have one of your life.
All right. Right on there, 76. Thank you.
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Well, I'm not at the river no longer movement. No, I don't have no heart. And they didn't get anything to look at. All of those on the modern day go over these games from the area. You have to not have anything. So you're talking about my life.
Do you know how old they can turn that on?
OK, let's just have one more. Maybe the girl, which 188? All right?
There once.
Again they had to be tried to evacuate and he's outside the same thing. You have problems and things. I have got a light and bring him to me and one of them brought him in King time and will begin and that's her today man. And that grasslands that I will make alone something give me one by and a healthy and then go.
When I continue to unplug rising upon him and he was in eggs. Oh my God blah blah blah blah blah and give you something to pay for them. They're making everything he wants you to do anything, anything he's about to hear about him on his new identity.
He had a long time and he hasn't played in anything. OK, we're going to close our eyes, move our hands if we need to.
Or they ask for the Lord's help.
Our blessed God and our Father, and just thank you for this time together.
These two children here and for each one in this room, our father and we think of this hymn that we have found together about, uh, being a sunbeam for the age of the Lord. And our desire here this afternoon is that each one of these children will know these are the first Savior will seek to be a light in this Dark World for thee.
So we just pray for thy health now as we spend a few moments together.
Right, that's, uh, we might be able to understand what is being done. So we looked at the end. Good. Thanks to the wonderful gifts of Father, 'cause I don't give a my beloved son of Lord Jesus deny on the cross to throw away our strength to him and his precious and worthy name. Amen, Amen, Amen.
I have been thinking a little bit lately.
About, uh, you know how easy it is for?
People who just pretend to be something that they really aren't. And, uh, for us, we've all been guilty of doing that that.
Times trying to fit in or maybe just umm come across something that we really aren't. And my burden that I have this afternoon boys and girls, is that there might be someone who helps one of you. I sure hope not. That might be passing as a Christian but really doesn't know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior.
And that would be a bad thing. So my burden is particularly for you. I noticed that the meeting was scheduled as a children's meeting slash young people's meeting. And I've never had a meeting like that before. So I may have a few permits for those that are young people.
And perhaps for all of us. But my real burden this afternoon is for you boys and girls. You know, we've been enjoying some very precious and rich things in the reading meeting. And I know it's probably a little hard for some of you to take it in and to understand it. And maybe you get a little bit here or a little bit there. Maybe somebody says something that you say, oh, I can understand that. So I want this meeting to be simple.
I want you to, uh, to be able to help me out here. OK. So we're gonna, I've got a few little illustrations there. Just like with any illustration, like some of us were saying, uh, in the break, any illustration you use falls short of what you're trying to convey. But sometimes it helps us to have an illustration. And the Lord himself, as Brother Bruce mentioned to me, used parables, Sydney, or we might call him a word pictures.
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And the Lord would sometimes use these.
Tell a little story that he didn't have, maybe he didn't have an object unless and although he did sometimes use lessons, but he gave these work pictures to illustrate something that he was trying to teach now, something that they could understand that was important for them to know. And that's the way I'm looking at this this afternoon. So what I was thinking about was, you know, I think it was.
A brother.
John chapter 3 and indicated that this was an expression or a definition of faith perhaps that we have in John three and he emphasized the last part of this verse. So this is the verse John 333 he that hath received his testimony hath sent to his seal that God is true and he mentioned those last three words and sympathize that God is true, but I think it's in I'm going to look I have to drop down a few things here.
I'm going to refer to from time to time, and the verse that I'm also thinking in connection with that is in Romans chapter 3. You know, we've been reading in Romans quite a bit and I've really been enjoying it, but in Romans chapter 3 it says this.
OK, think of those 3 words. God is true.
Romans, chapter 3.
And.
First, umm.
4.
And then a little bit into the verse here it says gay or yes, let God be true, but every man a liar.
Well, you know, I, I thought about that a little bit. You know, it doesn't matter what kind of A twist man wants to put on something. It doesn't matter what man wants to try and appear as God desires truth in the inward parts. David could say that in Psalm 51. He could say of God that God requires truth or desireth truth in the inward parts. In other words, God looks on our heart. You know, there's a verse in the in the first Samuel or Samuel says that concerning.
Uh, Jesse's son, we're going to pick a king out of Jesse's son's. And Samuel thought that maybe that one, that oldest one, he looked handsome. He looked like the one that the people would choose. Maybe that's the one, but it wasn't that one. All of his sons past were made to pass before Samuel, and it wasn't until David came out of the field where he was keeping sheep that the Lord's anointed was standing before him.
And these words are said, they're man look upon the Albert appearance. The God looketh on the heart. I want you boys and girls to think about that, that the Lord can see right into our hearts. He knows what's inside. He knows that what we're talking about this afternoon doesn't mean a thing to us. Maybe we're thinking, you know, I don't I don't even want to be here. God knows what we're thinking. He can see what's in our heart and.
It says he requires truth.
So you know someone wants to.
Made this statement that God said it might believe it and that's subtle that someone else said Brexit that a little bit and said God said it. That settles it. And I like that because it doesn't matter what I believe. I mean it does matter what I believe. But if I don't believe what God has said, that doesn't change the truth of God's word. It still felt in heaven and he's magnified his word above all his name. So if you believe or not.
In God's sight as it stands still. So anyway, let's keep that in mind as we talk. Well, I've got a few things here and there's, there's going to be a similarity in these things that I, I have here.
First I want to.
Show you this and I wondered if there's a name on here. Well, do you like chocolate? I would like to give this to you.
Appear. Cheers. Is there anything wrong with that chunk of heart? No chocolate, no chocolate, but it looks like the chocolate. It looks like chocolate.
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Those old chocolate bars.
So what's wrong with this chunk of heart?
Boys and girls.
Let's check that out.
I wonder if there's anybody here that.
They can even say you're a Christian. Maybe you told your daddy or mommy that you're.
Are you like this?
Chocolate bars.
It looks like the the.
That's disappointing.
An empty chocolate bar.
I'm not going to leave you.
OK, so.
It's really disappointing. It doesn't matter. It doesn't do anything for us.
You know, this almost portrayed, umm, we should just turn into a few scriptures. Let's let's turn to.
100 and 19105.
Beautiful expression.
From 119.
10313.
How sweet are thy words?
For thy word unto my taste gaze sweeter than honey to myself, you know, boys and girls.
The Lord Jesus wants to fill it. You know that an empty chocolate bar with nothing in it doesn't satisfy at all. It's just. And if there's a boy or girl here that doesn't have life, that doesn't have the Lord Jesus as her Savior, God wants to hear you with the Holy Spirit. He wants to have you receive the Lord Jesus as Savior, and he wants you to enjoy Him, you know.
Yesterday our brother Bill brought before us how God works with us in the night season.
How he works with different ones that there might be, uh, something that would come from our hearts of him.
You know, umm, there's a burst in Hosea chapter 10. I think it is. I'll just read it because I think it's it's still sad here and it's it's kind of like this, this candy bar with no chocolate in it.
Chapter 10.
It says in verse one Israel is an empty vine. He bringeth forth fruit unto himself.
You know, the the condition of God's people, earthly people, had gotten so bad that he had to say that Israel is an empty bind. In other words, they should have produced fruit to God's glory, but instead they were produced producing fruit for themselves. Well, there's many men and women in this, and I'm afraid, boys and girls in this world.
That perhaps they act religious when they need to. Maybe they say the right things.
Maybe they try to look like something they really aren't. A dog is looking at on their hearts and you can see what's in their heart. Let's remember that, you know, umm, it also tells us in First Corinthians chapter 2 That I'll just read that, that the natural man, he can't really produce anything for God's glory. He can't really produce anything for God. And it tells us in, umm, I believe it's in the Proverbs.
That the even the plowing of the wicked is sin. Now back in that day, they used horses and plows and so on to plow their fields. And you would say, well, they, they have to do that to live because that's how they cultivated their fields to raise food to live. And God says if they do that without me, without thoughts of me, without reference to me, it's like sin. It's just, it's him. So it says here in First Corinthians.
Chapter 2 and verse 14, the natural man receiveth not the things with the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him. Neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. But there's someone here this afternoon, big or small, that is saying this, this is foolishness to me. Oh, I would ask you to consider because you if, if, if it's foolishness to you.
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Then it's because you're still in your natural condition. We've been talking about this in the reading meeting a little bit, aren't we? They're, they're still in their natural condition without God. What a sad condition to be in. So let's look at something else here. Umm, let's look at another.
Little object I brought here.
Hey, I think you all know what this is, don't you?
All right, what is it?
You're right, it is a flashlight, so this flashlight has a switch on it like most flashlights have, and if you push that switch.
It should turn that light on. Well, you do that for us.
Anything happening there?
What do you think might be wrong?
He pushed the switch. No light came on.
Anybody have any ideas what's that? Well, let's check. You know, I, I as soon as he pushed that switch, the next thing he did he he went for this cap right here. Pretty very smart there. All right, so I'm going to help you and you take a look in there. Maybe you can tip it upside down and shake it and see if any batteries come out.
Anything coming out?
So that flashlight is empty.
Just like that. Just like that candy bar, that chocolate bar this flashlight is in. It has no source of power.
This is like a center that doesn't have the Lord Jesus that needs salvation. They have no power to please God. Try as hard as they might, they cannot please God because they have no source of power.
So what this flashlight needs is a power source, doesn't it? Let's.
Put something in here.
All right.
Now, what's your name?
OK, trip, let's try it now. Don't look at it, just shine it on the ground maybe.
That a little better.
All right, here we can maybe make it a little.
I guess that's about as bright as it's going to be in this bright room.
So you put a power source in there and you turn the switch on. You can shut it off now and I'll take.
Thank you. We put a power source in there and the light comes on.
Boys and girls, and that's really simply salvation is that simple. God has provided a means whereby those of us that were dead in trespasses and dead and have life, life from him, life from above, and that life can respond to God, that life can do that which is pleasing to him. He can have fellowship with man because Christ has died on the cross.
And there is now a source of power.
That God can use for his glory, and so we have him in Romans chapter one.
Verse 16 The apostle Paul persists. I am not ashamed.
Of the Gospel of Christ. I think we can leave that out there. I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God and the salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew 1St and also to the Greek.
You know, it was amazing to me to to think of how Paul like to use that expression power. And so we have in in Ephesians chapter 3. We'll just look at a couple more verses in Ephesians chapter 3.
Concerning power.
All right, Visual Chapter 3 and verse.
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20.
And unto him that is able to do exceedingly, exceeding abundantly, above all that we ask for things according to the power that work within us.
And then umm, backing up to.
For seven, he says well.
That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ, by the Gospel whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God-given unto me by the effectual working of this power.
Well, you know, we can spend quite a bit of time talking about power and, uh.
To think of that which we have been given in Christ and you know, umm, it's amazing, isn't it? The glory that can be brought to God when we're living in the good of that power and if we're not?
How much damage can be done? So you and I that are believers that know the Lord as our Savior and the Lord help us to live in the good of the power. We have an unlimited supply. You know this, this life, this flashlight falls short because if we left this on over a long period of time, it would get weaker and weaker and it would finally go out and we would have to replace those batteries. But you and I have a source.
From God.
A source of power that never is to be exhausted is a limitless supply.
What a wonderful provision he has made for us.
And so, umm, let's look at another thing that kind of goes along the same line.
How would you like a water bottle?
So is that much good to you?
Absolutely. What if you, uh, took the lid off?
Any drugs or anything there shake out any?
Absolutely empty. Now you know if you're thirsty and someone gives you an empty water bottle.
Not going to be very satisfying, is it?
No, it's not breakdown. It's fine. Let's look at, uh, a little story of John's gospel chapter before.
John Dussell, chapter 4 weeks.
It's one of those, to me, it's a special little chapter because we get one of those touches in the Lord's life where we see him.
Umm, he said here he was weary with his journey, sat down on Jacob's well-being, weary with his journey. And then there's, there's this woman that comes along and she's, uh, Samaritan, she's from Samaria and she comes to draw water and she gets into conversation with the Lord.
But as she comes there to draw water, the Lord.
Says something to her.
Give me to drink.
So he asks for a drink, just like you and I when we're thirsty. Often times, especially when we're little, Hmm, young, we go and we ask for drinks like Mommy, can I have a drink?
And mommy gives us a drink. Well, we read, umm, as we read through the story. It's interesting to me, and I would ask this as a question maybe for one of our young people here. Umm, I'll ask Will, sorry to put you on the spot, Will. It's not really a trick question, but my question is, did this woman ever give the Lord a drink or the drink that he asked for?
If we ever read that, it's.
Good. So what were you thinking, Allie?
Yeah, I mean, uh, as you read through this portion, umm, we, we don't know for sure. Now, we can maybe assume that she did, but it doesn't really say that, umm, this woman actually ever gave him a drink. And I thought about that a little bit and it kind of touched my heart because, umm, you know, I thought of the Lord here. He was thirsty, he was weary with his journey. He was sitting by this well, and here was an opportunity.
To get a drink. And he asked this woman, umm, for a drink. And we don't know that she immediately starts raising objections because she can see that he's a Jew. And she says here.
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Umm.
She says, How is it that thou, being a Jew asked a drink of me to a malignant scenario, but the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Jesus answered and said unto her, if I knew it, the gift of God and who it is that passed thee, give me to drink a wisdom asked of him and he would have given me living water. You know, I think it's so beautiful here how the Lord just hurries on. He doesn't we don't read anything more about the strength that he he needed and I I thought of it this way. You know, it seems like the spirit of God usually has a purpose for leaving out.
Details and giving us in some instances giving us maybe more details and I don't know for sure why this is, uh, not why we're not told that she followed through because we, as we read more and more about this story, we see the wonderful blessing that this woman came into as a result of this meeting with the Lord Jesus said Jacob's well there and all that he gave her and.
Umm, he talks about.
In verse 14, Whosoever drinketh with the waters that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life, or a fountain of water.
That's a wonderful thing, boys and girls, that when you and I accept the Lord Jesus Christ as our savior, it's like we have that fountain of water welling up and, uh, inside of us. And you know, umm, I, I hope that she gave him a drink, umm, that she remembered to do that, but we're not told that. And I thought of it this way, that the Lord Jesus.
Set aside his own knee, his own desires. He he reached out in love as the one that was was seeking souls to bring them into blessing, to give them this water of life freely. And to me, it's just so umm, remarkable to think of him not concerned with his own needs, being willing. He was the one that didn't have a a place to lay his head. He could say the the.
Foxes have holes in the birds are there as nests for the Son of Man.
That's not where to leave me. Instead of he was the lonely one that came into this world, the the very one that created the world, the very one that gave us water to sustain life.
And confluence some of these to meet the needs of four lost men. And he wants to meet your lead this afternoon. If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus, if you, if you have not as a thirsty soul come and drank of that water of life that he offers freely, then do it and do that and.
He promises here that whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give hime shall be in the well of water, springing up and everlasting life. But she didn't really understand that.
Did she? And the Lord had to go through a process of exposing the fact that she was a Sinner and that she was carrying on in a sinful way? And the Lord graciously, tenderly works with this woman.
And brings her to the point where she will want this living water that he's talking about. Though it wasn't the water out of the well, but it was something that the Lord could only could give her that would be in her a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. Well, I've just enjoyed that, you know, a little later in this book.
We have in Chapter 7.
We help the Lord standing and crying and I again here to me this is another beautiful touch, uh, concerning the Lord in in verse 37 of John seven in the last day, that great day of the feast of have examples here with a 7 day feast. The last day of the feast Jesus stood and cried, saying any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. I I just picture the Lord here, if I will speaking.
Good speaking very reverently. But here the Lord is standing and he's crying out.
Umm, the only thing I can think of is, umm, the last time I was at this conference, we went and we did some St. preaching on, uh, Main Street on a piece of property that ceased alone and, uh, which since we sold and there's a house built on building on it. But we stood and we cried and we.
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Sought to warn souls of judgment that was coming and of God's offer of mercy and pardon and his gift, the Lord Jesus Christ. Here's the Lord standing at this last, on this last day of this peace, and he's lifting up his voice. He's crying out to these windy souls that were around him, and he's saying he's giving them this offer. The same you might say, offer that he offered to this poor woman. He said, if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers.
Of living water, but this spakey of the spirit which they that believe on him should receive for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because of Jesus. It was not yet your life. Well, it's beautiful to see the, the progression. We know that the Lord umm, is that water of life. Umm, he's that water that, that as the word came down from heaven and, and in the 4th chapter or the 3rd chapter of John.
Umm, the Lord said to Nicodemus and verse 5, verily, verily, I stand to be accepted man to be born in water and of the Spirit. He cannot enter in the Kingdom of God. So we see this, this order in John's gospel, don't we, that the water comes down from heaven in the form of Lord Jesus is a man. And then we have it springing up, uh, into a fountain of, of, of water springing up in the 4th chapter. And then we have the rivers of water flowing out. So we have that I, I would suggest that the 4th chapter where it's a fountain of water springing up.
That's more the thought of worship and that's what we did this morning in the morning meeting. It was that fountain of water welling up in our hearts and overflowing as praise and worship to the Lord. And then the rivers of water there at the feast that where the Lord stands in Christ is more the thought of that testimony that should go out to others. You know, boys and girls, if your heart is full, if you've accepted the Lord Jesus and you have the fountain of of water in your heart, if you.
Tasted of that water of light.
And drunk to the fall, you know, you can be a blessing to others. You can tell others, your friends about that water of life, just like the Lord told that woman. And so let's remember that when we're unsaved without the Lord Jesus, we're like this empty water bottle. It doesn't do any good. It can't satisfy. There's no water there. But I'm going to give what's your name?
Right reality. Great. OK, great. I'm going to give you a full one gravy. I don't want to leave you without thinking 10 therapy has a full.
And that's what the Lord wants to do with us. We're going to talk a little bit here in a few minutes about being filled. So let's, umm, let's go on now. Umm, one thing I did want to say, maybe this is a comment for the young people. This, this is something that was given to me that I found it helpful that, you know, water in Scripture is often a picture to us of something. Sometimes it pictures to us the word of God, the water of the word. And sometimes the pictures is a picture of, of the Spirit of God. And someone put it this way, if it's water in motion.
It's usually a picture of the Spirit of God at work. It's.
It's still water. It's the word of God. So you can tuck that away and, uh, check it out. Umm, I'll give you an example like, uh, umm, you know, like we have in the Psalms he lived with, besides the still waters, I think we have there and, and we, he brings us into green pastures where we can feed like sheep and enjoy him and his word. Umm, and then we have the, the time in when the children of Israel were going through the wilderness and.
All of this was told to smite the rock.
And what happened? He smoked the rock and what came out?
Remember.
That's right, he smoked the rock and the water came out. It says in one place that it gushed out. Well there it's the spirit of God. The picture too is the spirit of God and, and here like we have in uh.
And, and the Johnstone too, we, we have these pipes, uh, brought before us, We have the Spirit of God here in, in this 4th chapter, a well of water springing up to continue lives in the life.
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Well, may the Lord encourage you to umm, share with others and it.
It's not easy, but He can help us in that and we all need that encouragement though. OK, I've got one more.
Item here to illustrate.
What we're talking about.
All right.
So I've got something here.
Uh, looks like a tan.
But uh, what is it?
That's right. That's right.
There's a slot up there and they call it a money bank.
But did you buy anything with it, make any noise, shake it, anything there? Nothing. All right.
So let's.
Let's add a little something through here.
I was thinking about this. I was thinking about.
How about man in his sins without Christ is bankrupt. He has nothing. He has nothing but emptiness. He's like this empty can.
Worthless. I can't do anything with it.
But when we come to the Lord Jesus, we begin to enter into the riches that we've been enjoying the last day and a half year. And I thought of these coins here, all those digits, you know, help talks about the unsearchable riches of Christ. Look at a few scriptures.
So now we can hear there's something in here that we, you know, has.
Continue on in life. It's just like rich is being added. Do you enjoy something what the Lord gives you? It's like another coin in there. Pretty soon it starts getting cooler and cooler. So I'd like to give this to you if you'd like it. Would you like it? All right, you can add to that. Umm, I was going to write a scripture on the bottom and I forgot to do that, and I was going to write that one about Richard. Let's see.
In Second Corinthians, I'm sorry.
It's umm.
That verse about the unsearchable riches of Christ.
OK. Thank you.
Yes, Ephesians chapter 3 and verse 8. Paul says this and the baby whom less than the least of all things could just grace, given that I should preach among the gentiles and unsearchable riches of Christ.
Well, you know, it's beautiful why we're in adhesions. I just jotted down a few more. Paul loves to talk about riches, the riches that we have insight. Umm, look at umm, chapter one. We'll just pick up a few here. Ephesians chapter one and verse seven and whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace chapter 2 and verse 7.
That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of his grace and His kindness.
We're done with Jesus Christ or Christ Jesus.
Umm, also in chapter, uh, we read the one in verse eight. Also in that same chapter, verse 16.
That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with light by His Spirit.
Well, there's a lot more. You know, Paul loves to speak about those riches that he had in Christ. And I wonder about you boys and girls. Have you accepted him as your Savior?
If you do, he has there's tremendous riches that are in store for you and these are what are really true rituals. Umm, wonderful thing that is to enter into that and a little bit at a time. And we have that wonderful verse that we often produce quote. It says, I think 19 eight verse 9 where you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ who can finish you that though he is rich.
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Yet for.
Got you through his.
Property.
Might be rich. How did the Lord become poor?
Umm, he died. That's right. What's the calories process? He laid down his life. He didn't even fall.
That you and I might have those riches. So what we have in common with all of these things.
We have the chocolate bar that was empty.
Flashlight that was empty.
Have no power source. Had a bottle of water that was empty, no refreshment.
You know, I, I wanted to mention too, for, uh, each of our exercise, umm, I've kind of thought of that expression or that statement that the Lord made with that woman give you if you need to drink. And, uh, I, I would just like to challenge each of our hearts to the young people too.
Can we, can we give something to the Lord that would be refreshing to Him?
You know, going back to what our brother Bill had, uh, I didn't develop that very well, but with those night seasons.
And how he brought before that often the Lord would come, like in the life of Samuel, He came and spoke to him at night. And then with the prophet Nathan, David's prophet during his reign, and Abimelech. And I think the other one was Nehemiah. How about Nehemiah came to that destroyed city of Jerusalem, that city that says the Lord loved, the city which I love, and he looked at it and ruins them all, and he wanted to do something about it.
For the Lord, for Jehovah, his God. And I thought about that.
Can we take that statement that the Lord makes that woman as an exercise to our heart? Can we do something that the.
Would enjoy that would be refreshment to him. You know, I I thought of that as as Phil was taking that. I wonder sometimes if the Lord doesn't work in the night season because we are so busy. I'm talking to a a brother yesterday and we're commenting on how hard it is to find time to sit down and enjoy the word of God and you boys and girls are going to find as you get older more and more things crowd in and the enemy does that. He gets us so busy that we don't have any time.
And so sometimes the Lord comes to us and keeps us from bleeping. It could be not fellowship with Him.
He wants to us to enjoy him. He wants to share with him. And so he comes at night and he keeps us perhaps from sleeping and he wants to commune with us. He wants to think about things. And maybe sometimes, like Bill brought out, maybe there's things that we've allowed that we need to judge so that the Lord can have that free flow of community with us. And he might even have to lay us aside sometimes in the night season, you might say.
So that he can enjoy that fellowship. I just, uh, thought about that in connection with, uh, you know, in the, in the Song of Solomon, we have different expressions there where the Lord comes, uh, in the form of the, the bright wind there comes to the bride and he, he makes these appeals to her. He wants to hear her voice. He wants to her to enjoy him. And so I've just enjoyed that. OK, I talked a little bit.
Earlier about this thought of being filled, all these things were empty.
And this is, uh, this is something for you young people to, uh, to take out. Just go through the Apostle Paul's epistle. We can do it in other places as well and try and find all the times that it speaks of us being filled with something. And, uh, I've jotted down a few here just to get you started. Umm, we have enrollment 15 to be filled with all joy and peace.
Believe it. Umm, maybe that's a little more in the gospel sense.
We have in UMM also in the 14th 1St to be filled with all knowledge.
Best in Romans could see as well. Colossians. Paul talks about being being filled with the knowledge of his will. Brings in God's will, yeah.
And how does that relate to my will? What I want to do?
Well, we need to be filled with the knowledge of His will. If we know what His will is for us, then we want our wills. We should want our wills and our wills to be the performance you would do. Umm, we're told in Philippians 1 to be filled with.
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The fruits of righteousness.
I'm gonna stop there. There's more. Umm.
Take it up some time for yourself and, uh, enjoy all the things that he wants to fill us with. Uh, which would be filled with the spirit. It's a little different thought than having the Spirit of God come in and dwell us when we believe we are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise and Ephesians one, but also in Ephesians 3, we're told to be filled or execution 5 filled with the Spirit. Well.
There's many, many things that God wants to.
Uh, us to enjoy and he wants us to be filled up, if you will. So I just enjoy that, you know, he's, uh, we had this morning in the morning meeting that I felt like, uh, he was training before us this, yes, beloved son. What a gift he gave. He bestowed his sons and sometimes sang, umm.
So I'd like to ask this question and and maybe we could get a little participation here in the last few minutes.
And that is, what kind of a giver is God? What kind of gifts does he give?
I'll give one here and if you have a a burst that that helps solidify it. Umm.
It says in 2nd Corinthians 9 that God loveth a cheerful people.
So I think we can say that God is a Sherpa.
What other kind of giver is God? What other kind of gift?
Or the character against that.
Anyway, God is different, so anybody else?
Here's another one.
UMM James chapter one and verse 17.
Every good gift.
And every perfect gift.
Comes down from above, from the Father of life.
There is no variable, no, neither shadow attorney. So we have two characteristics of God's gift. They're perfect. God is a perfect giver. He's a good giver.
Uh yeah, Robert verse 5.
Of Sapirani. OK, James. Yeah, OK.
Whatever.
He's a liberal giver.
Alright.
And what versus that, Robert?
Change 1515 OK God give us all men liberally. Very good.
Along with that, Umm John 1010 I am come that they might have life and I they might have it more abundantly. God is an abundance giver.
All right. And then maybe one more, umm.
The ultimate has more. There's more than First Timothy 6.
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they do not high minded nor trusted on Sir merchants, but in the living God who giveth us richly all.
I thought of God as a rich giver.
So you can think about that. You put those claims in that we think God is a rich fever and he wants us to enjoy all the riches.
That we have to. It was unfriendable riches in Christ. We're never going to exhaust them. We're going to dwell on them for all eternity. We're going to dwell on Him and we're going to enter into those wonderful riches.
God is such an accountable giver.
OK, well, we're going to close I.
I did have something for all your kids. I don't know, umm, I kind of debated about this and maybe some of you shouldn't have this. These are little candy bars. Umm, they are.
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Were made in a peanut free factory or facility, but they do have sugar, they do have other things. So, umm, I think there's enough for two of you for you to all have two. But if, if you shouldn't have them, umm, see me and maybe I can substitute it with something else. Umm, and also please don't need them until we talk to your parents because we're going to be having a wonderful lunch together.
And I don't want to spoil your lungs. So after we pray, I'll ask some of you boys. Maybe you can do it.
Just go around and make sure everybody gets a couple of these little chip tests. If you like them, you don't have to take them. But I just want to leave you with the thought that God is a bountiful giver and umm, I don't know if I should do this or not, but I'll, I'll go ahead. Umm, there's a story behind this, but when, uh, my brother Dave, my brother-in-law Dave and I recently had the opportunity to work with.
Derek a little bit up in the meeting room and do a few things on the outside.
And Dairy brought this chocolate bar and he shared it with us.
And, uh, the story behind it was he said he was looking for something, remember that there he was looking for something else and he found his, his chocolate bar. And, uh, he said it was, it wasn't even looking for the chocolate bar. He said it was a bonus. So I don't know what he was looking for if they found this chocolate bar. So anyway, I thought as I was looking for a few of these items here to use the sends to like I saw something there that I thought, how can I convey?
God's abundance in some feeble way. And so I I my eyes plotted this.
This item here and I'm just gonna.
I thought this is.
But I saw this I I had never seen one this week. I thought. I thought of Jury when I.
Was able to see you.
Sharing with us.
All right, let's thank the word for all the systems.
Our blood is gone and our Father, it's just time for your your fondness to get about two months. We thank you for thy beloved comments, for Lord Jesus, we thank you for this love and going to Calvary's cross and land.
We look forward to being with him, to see him face to face. We pray that we might be exercised, umm, by those words that were uttered to that woman on the world. Give me, give me your secure. We pray that we might.
Each one of us in our lives umm be a refreshment to our city.
That's for my health. No, there are obstacles that help us compare to the souls of each one, especially these toys and girls that they might be trusting in the basket in Jesus worthy and precious man.
Amen.
Gospel 2
Gospel—David Hayhoe
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3rd Our meetings tonight with #15.
Oh, blessed gospel sound. Yes, there is room.
It tells to all around.
Yeah.
Joy, they now may hear. Yet there is room number 15.
All around.
Get out there and browse.
Right, everything hath done.
Yes, very thrilled.
From when it is for a thunderstorm birthday to save.
What I'm saying, I feel well to me.
I've never been running.
1000 fell away by the air. Terrorist room.
Someone that will pick all my heart.
He has never known.
Yeah, so many style of ration day.
Run near the well past our wagon is the sun breaks up more well than Do you have a merry spring?
Let us pray usually to sing to him tonight if you want to just one.
Do you like this because of the shorter job?
The one friend said Tonight I want to talk about the world.
What do you think about the world today? Where do you think the world's going?
And on what basis do you form your opinions about this world? And wait a moment.
What's your hope?
Suppose you were young, like some of these children are.
You were bringing them up in this world.
And you didn't have this book?
I know what your hopes would be for your children.
You would want them to be able to grow up and have a decent life, a full life.
Maybe a better life than what you've had.
What's your hope?
To the world and what do you think going to happen in this world? You know, I sometimes ask people that kind of a question of uh.
What do you, what's your opinion? Some older people that uh, when I say in their 50s, sixties, 70s, even 80s right now.
And they don't have too much in the way of good expectations of what they expect is going to happen in this world.
The surprises that are taking place in this world in in the in the halls of government today.
Umm and the the umm laws that are being loosened in this world. Surprise.
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I would say the majority of people in North America.
There's a sleeping that is taking place.
Tell me what's behind all of this.
Bruce's boy.
Oh friends, I'm so glad we have this book.
I don't know, uh, how many you folks get this little plug in for this, this little book called the Christian.
This is June 2015 issue.
And the I get it every month and it is title on it was taking its world.
And from that, I wasn't really, not that I didn't want to speak on exactly what's in it, but it helped me and my, my own thinking regarding, uh, the world. And I want to speak tonight about ways in which the world is spoken of in the word of God.
The world is spoken of in at least three different ways. Turn with me. First of all, you'll have your Bibles to John's Gospel chapter one.
John, Chapter one.
And verse 10.
Just the first couple lines of the birds.
He was in the world.
And the world was made by him.
Who do you think that speak to me?
You go back to the start, you'll find again to read for long a little bit further. It's peaking about in the beginning with the Word, and then it speaks of the Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst its Speaking of Jesus.
He was in the world, and the world was made by.
Think of it.
The very creator.
Of the world.
To the man he entered into his own creation.
Then what's the rest of the birds say?
The world knew him not.
This man Jesus.
Breather and such a danger of the universe.
Who made the world? It's the material world.
That is spoken of here.
He made it.
You know, there's many verses that come to mind.
And uh, I hardly know which ones to start with, but I'm going to go back to Genesis chapter one.
And verse 31 God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.
In the evening and the morning were the six days.
Now, in these six days, it tells us what God did.
6.
D in which?
He prepared the world for man to live in.
The material world.
So it says here in the in the next verse, the next chapter in the first verse. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished.
And all the host of them. And on the 7th day God ended his work which he had made, and he rested on the 7th day from all this work which he hath made. And God bless the 7th day and sanctified it.
I'd like to think of it this way. I've used this illustration before.
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Suppose you were a famous artist.
And you wanted you, uh, painted a fiction. You have this picture in your mind.
And you take it, and you spend your time designing it, and everything of beauty that you can think of you put into this picture.
And, uh, perhaps a day? Did it take perhaps a week?
Finally, after you inspect it over and over again.
That's what I want to convey.
What's the last thing? That's it Peter does.
Your friends God made this world and he signed his name.
The heavens declare the glory of God in the firmament.
How does that go heavy so shows it's handy for.
God's handiwork.
What happened?
Added in our first today, as by one man's sin entered into the world.
So death passed upon all men in the hand. It tells us here in this verse that God rested on the 7th day. There is no sin.
And then now turn with me, turn over to the Book of Jill, chapter 38.
Job Chapter 38.
Yes, 38 verse 4.
Where was thou when I leave the foundations of the earth? You notice the first verse says Then the Lord answered Joel, that says wherewith thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Declare if thou hast understand, Oh God, speak to the joke. And he says to Joe, Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Then he tell Joel a little bit about it. We're not going to get into that, but.
I like to look at, uh, they were six. Whereupon are the foundation?
They're all fastened, or who laid the cornerstone thereof. And this verse, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God showed her with joy. Do you know who they are?
This is before man was made who were the sons of God that are spoken of. You can find out if you turn back to the 6th chapter of Genesis and you tie it in with some verses in the New Testament.
It's good for the ambulance. You see, I believe what took place in the Friends is something like this, that God made this world way back whenever it was. It says in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
And I'm not going to get into a lot of discussion about this and create any arguments with some people that don't see it this way, but it says the earth was without form and void and then God visited as it were this world again and prepared it for man to live in.
And there's six days. That's what God did. He prepared this world for you and I for mankind to live in.
And so it says here, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God showed it with joy.
I'm going to use this as a feeble illustration. You know, sometimes in this day and age, why there are things that take place in this world where.
The company along with government, decide that they're going to put a great industry in a certain place, we'll see in the United States and Canada or wherever, and I'm going to take an example of a large car company and they choose a plot of ground that is, say I'm going to choose a place like Alabama.
They decide they're gonna buy all this land up and they're gonna have feeder plants and manufacturing plants, the whole works of it all together in this particular area today. And they they make the agreement with governments and everything else and roads that are going to go there and the next thing will happen. Rolls in a whole bunch of bulldozers and earth moving equipment and so on. And all the ground is prepared and the building starts to go up.
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And everybody watches to see what's happening.
They see all this that is that is going on, and they're looking and they're watching.
Dear friend, there was something that took place in this world long before that, when God was preparing this world in six days. And what does it say here that the sons of God shouted for joy?
When they saw what God was doing to prepare this world that you and I are living in today and when he finished it, it says they are back in that verse in Genesis.
It tells us that God rested on the 7th day from all his works.
Then, as we mentioned before, it makes man and he puts him in the garden to see her.
There's somebody else who was watching all that was going on.
Good angels if I can call them, not take children for joy. But Satan and his hosts were watching and they saw a man who thought foreign and put in the cart and Satan with his hatred against God, What does he do? He moves in. If God placed at him and needed them in the garden, he didn't place take them there, but they can move right in. He wasn't invited in, he just walked in.
And to God scour it. And that's what he's done. He walked into this world and sought to spoil God's creation. And he did it by introducing into man's heart that God, God wasn't good to him, that God was holding something back. And through that, why Adam, Adam and Eve fell and sin came in the world.
That is the material world that you and I are in.
Old friends, the results that have the the things that you see that are happening in the world had their origin had their beginning and the work of Satan in our our first parents.
In the garden.
So death passed upon all men for all his sins. Why do people die? Is it because of cancer? Is it because of heart attacks? Is it because of car accidents? And so on? Well, I suppose you could say so, but what's behind all that?
You see, when God made man, He made man forever, and you were made forever, and I was made forever, and we're going to live forever.
And the body dies. But this God made us in three parts, spirit, soul and body.
And you have a soul and you have a spirit and you have a body. And when people die and if you go to the to the Funeral Home, you see the bosses of his mind there, but the spirit and the soul have left the body and they're gone into eternity to one of two places forever.
You know, I believe of all my heart that most people believe in an afterlife.
And I believe as well that most people believe that there's two places and they hope that they're not going to the wrong one.
And I have said, and I'm sure many others have said this here, I said some.
Where are you going when you die?
Are you going to heaven? And the answer usually is, Well, I hope so. Well, I say you don't want to go to the other place.
They say no, I don't. We didn't even say how many places there were anything, but they know which place I'm referring to.
Nobody wants to go to hell.
But there's only the destiny at the end of life, of heaven or hell.
These are real fans, friends.
And you don't wanna go to hell.
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No one wants to go to hell.
This is the material world. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away.
That's the world. We could turn to several other structures in connection with the material world.
So let's go on to the next one. That's the material world now, the people world.
Can you think of a verse in the Bible?
This tells us about the world that is referring to the people in the world.
Somebody's nodding their head.
I wonder if these boys, can you tell me a verse in the Bible that tells us that talking about the people in the world, and it says the world in it.
I'll give you a hint. It starts out for God.
Who can help me?
This boy.
What's your? What's your name?
Jordan. Hi, Jordan.
See you, Jordan.
That's good to know.
For God so loves us.
What's that referring to? It's the people of the world.
You see, the world is a material world, but then there's the people world. And dear friends, there's no verse that I know of like that verse.
I don't know many how many 1000 verses there are in the Bible.
So that verse means so much to me and I know it does to almost to everybody here I trust.
Who said those words?
Jesus said that.
And Jesus knew the heart of God.
He said for God so loved the world.
He was there when the heavens were made.
He was there when God made man.
Then I was by him as one, brought up with him daily, his delight, rejoicing always before him, and my delights were with the sons of men.
You see, God made man forever and he needs to have man is his companion.
And he wants you, and he wants me forever.
And he doesn't only want you in eternity, He wants you now.
Forever. How long your life is in this world? Are you a Christian? Are you walking with them?
He wants your company.
Oh.
Think of it, the God of the universe.
At first means so much to me and I gain. I know it means so much to everyone here.
For God so loved the world.
This gaming was only begotten, Son and all.
Look up some time the expression only begotten.
You know the Bible explains itself.
You have to.
Jesus.
Was forgotten in this world.
He was born in this world, but that's not the meaning of that verse. He wasn't. It isn't the thought there of him being born in this world.
Take now thine only thy son, thine only son Isaac, and thou love of Jesus, thine only son whom thou lovest. And if you look up you will find there's about 5 or 6 or maybe a few more or less. Whatever the times where you have in the Bible the expression only begotten, put them up. Every word of God is pure and he puts them there for a purpose.
Let me turn to another one while we're here. Go with me to John chapter umm.
Oldies versus They mean so much.
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Yes, John 118.
No man has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared him. You may have realized what a wealth there is in that one verse alone.
No man has seen God at any time.
That's true. God is the Spirit.
The only begotten Son.
No, darling of heaven.
That's what it means.
The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father. Where was Jesus when he said these words? He was on earth.
The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father. Do you know what it means? He was in heaven and on earth at the same time. He's everywhere. It's Jesus The.
Oh God.
He's everything, friend.
You know how many people there are in the world? About 7 billion.
He fees 7 billion people every day.
Do you know him?
He died free.
For God so loved the world, the people, and the world.
God.
He gave his son.
He says here.
He walked here among men, despite rejected. That's the world you're living in.
And he said they hated me without a cause.
Never get a thing wrong in life.
And the world took a nailed.
The cross, you know. It wasn't the Roman way to nail pieces of frost.
Were thousands that died on how to cross.
You know what they did when they hung them up? They used ropes to hold them.
But when it came to Jesus.
Put nails in his hands. Why did he do that?
They hated him without a cause.
God is going to judge this world because of what they did to Jesus.
Because of sin.
And your sins are the only thing that will keep you out of heaven.
Only one thing will keep you to help.
You're sick, but your sins forgiven all. Our brother spoke last night.
Vote for gifts.
You know, in New York.
In the city of New York, I can't tell you where it is. I got a home. I haven't got it with me.
So somebody wrote a poem because they were walking through a cemetery one day and a small town in New York.
And they came across a tombstone in the cemetery, and all it was, was one word.
Do you still you know what it was?
Forgiven.
And so touch this person. I wish I had the phone here. I read it to you.
So how does the person?
But that man didn't even want his name for uncool.
Have you been forgiven for gift?
The only way you can be forgiven if somebody has to pay the price for their sins.
And Jesus died for sinners. He.
He died for you.
I see, and I accepted him. The wages of sin is death.
But the gift of God is the eternal life.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Did you ever?
Come to the point where that transaction took place.
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Brother Dave, I have the words about him written down here if you'd like me to read it. Yes, it would.
Not far from New York City.
In a cemetery loan.
Close guarding its grave stands a simple headstone.
And all the inscriptions is one word alone forgiven.
No sculptors fine art have embellished its form.
But constantly there through to calm and the storm.
Advair. This word from a poor bone worm forgiven.
It shows not the date.
Of the Silent One's birth.
Reveal is not his frailties nor lies of his work.
But speaks out the tail from a few feet of earth or given.
The death as unmentioned. His life is untold.
Here lies the body, corrupted and cold. Above rest his spirit at home in the fold, forgiven.
He went from the heavens. The Lord shall descend, this stranger shall rise, and to glory ascend.
Now known.
And befriended.
To sing without end or given.
Thank you brother.
Turn with me, please. Reverse it was read last night, Luke 23.
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I want to ask one of these boys if you will come up and read this verse for me. Which one of you two boys would like to come up and read this for me?
You could send, yeah, you could just stand up and read it. Hey, Luke 23 and verse 34. Just the one verse.
Find it. Yeah.
Jesus Father, forgive them so they they know not what they do and they parted his and cat flocks. Thank you.
You know when Jesus said those words?
They took them, they nailed them to the cross.
And I believe what they did is they dug the hole in the ground and they took them and stood it up. There he was hanging there.
Just just put up.
And he turned, and he lifts his eyes up to heaven.
And he says, father.
Yeah, have you had your sins you were given?
You know where you're going.
Have your sins forget.
I know where you're going.
You know the story of the thief on the cross? I supposedly heard Jesus say those words.
I think he heard Jesus say those words.
Amid all that was happening around and all the.
Tumult, confusion, madness of man.
The earth hears a man in the center cross say, Father, forgive them.
They know or not what they do.
And for a short time.
E.
You're there and he's thinking.
With all the pain Speaking of the thief, it was beside Jesus on the cross. And finally he turned to him near the very last of the three hours before the darkness and.
He said, Lord, Remember Me, and thou cometh into thy Kingdom.
You know what he I think he meant something like this.
Can you find me just a little place inside the Kingdom?
He said Lord, Remember Me.
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If thou shall confess with thy mouth.
Jesus is war.
And believe in thine heart that God have raised him from the dead. Thou shalt be saved.
And he said, Lord.
Remember Me?
That's what he said.
And Jesus says, Verily I say unto me, Today thou shalt be with me.
OK.
And it was about the six hour, and there was darkness over all the land to the moon. That worked. What happened, friends, during those three hours?
I'll never know forever what it cost my Savior to put away my sin. Never.
The deputy suffered for you.
Don't pass by.
The opportunity.
The scripture says whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Heard stories about people that have called at the very last, Whosoever shall call.
The name of the Lord.
Her time is almost gone.
Talked about the material world. We've talked about the people.
Our friends from 1:00 just for a few minutes about.
The whole world system.
Turn with me please to 1St John Chapter 2.
And verse 15.
Love not the world.
Neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
We just read The Burning back in John 316, for God so loved the world.
And now we read this verse here that it says love not the world.
What's the difference?
In the John 316, it's God's law that goes out to all the people that are in the world, to you and me and the 7 billion people and every man and woman that has been born into this world. For God so loved the world, and here it is love, not the world.
Neither the things that are in the world, dear friends. It's the world system that is referred to here.
It's the world that is going on to judgment.
When Cain killed his brother, he went out from the presence of the Lord, and he built a city, and he called it after the name of his son, and he lived in independence of God. And the result of the course of the human race was.
Then the flood took place nearly 1600 years later.
And they perished.
Because he went out from the presence of the Lord, and he formed this system. And dear friends, it's man's system. Do you belong to this world?
The Lord said in his prayer that those that belong to Him, they're not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through Thy truth. Thy word is free.
You want to belong to the world. Are you going to have the world? Are you going to have Jesus?
Which one friend your choice choose you this day, whom ye will serve?
I believe what this verse means. You know when John wrote this I believe he was about 90 years of age.
All of John's ministry but Josh pulled the epistles and the Book of Revelation were written as an old man. I believe I've been told that, and I believe it with all my heart. And here's this old man.
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Under the inspiration of God near the end of this light as he gives this out to to other Christians and people.
Of the world.
Man, spend time with Jesus.
He walked with them for three years through this world. He was a fisherman.
The total of the world.
And then he says, if any man love the world, belong to the Father is not in him. You know what it means. You can't enjoy the world and enjoy the Lord at the same time.
You were right as Christians if you're a Christian.
And you and I set our sights on just enjoying this, to leave this conference and go away and just make the best of it in this world and meet the Lord out. We're not going to enjoy the Lord. You won't enjoy the love of God. You can enjoy both. No man can serve.
Choose you this day whom you will serve. Will you accept Christ? Will you follow him? That thief on the cross he may have only had, I suppose.
Well, they had at least three hours and he had gotten worse because he wasn't dead when they when they when Jesus brought him.
They came and they broke his leg so that he would die. He suffered, but before that he accepted Christ.
Will you have them?
Choose you this day, whom you will serve. Let's pray.
Our daughter and our Father, we vow to worship thee and thank you.
For this wonderful story of calcium.
Father, we haven't mentioned the blood of Jesus that washes away all sin. Lord, we tell the gospel so imperfectly, and we ask thee, use the new blessing.
The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sins. Father, bless thy word, we pray, thanking Thee for this privilege. Bless to each of us, we pray in Thy name, Amen.
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On your scale.
At the beginning. Oh my God.
The.
Sure enough, at the second conference I didn't go to, the subject was the same, and by the 3rd conference it was the same subject. I thought the young boy, well, the Lord's coming is so near we'll probably never take up a different subject in any conference. Here we are many years later and I think the subject is probably all the more relevant.
A certain portion in that you wanted for.
Alright, I wonder, maybe we can start by at least reading the 1St 20 verses and yeah, that'll.
John chapter 14, verse one.
John 14 one.
Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me in.
My father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself. With where I am, there ye may be also, and whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest, and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way.
The truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If he had known me, he should have known my father also. And from henceforth ye know him and have seen him. Philip saith unto him.
Lord choice the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that seen me hath seen the Father.
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And how sayest thou then show us the Father?
Believeth thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself, but the Father that dwelleth in me. He doeth the worst. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me. Or else believe me for the very work's sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me the works that I do, shall He do also. In greater works than these shall he do.
Because I go on to my Father, and whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If you shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.
If you love me, keep my commandments.
And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another comforter, that He may abide with you forever. Even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him, but ye know Him, for He dwelleth with you.
And shall be in you.
I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to you yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more. But ye see me because I live, ye shall live also.
At that day ye shall know that I am in my father, and ye, and me, and I and you.
A little statement in the 12Th chapter of John that.
Contrast with how our this chapter opened in verse 27.
OK, now in my soul trouble.
While his soul was troubled as he anticipated going to the cross and.
Because his soul was troubled, he can say, He can say to his own. He can say to us today, let not your heart be troubled. We look around us in the world very much to be troubled about, and the world itself. The unsaved are troubled because they see things happening in this world.
Dangers terrorists.
Tax all kinds of upheaval and unrest and many uh.
Hearts are troubled.
The Lord says to us, let your heart love, not your heart be troubled.
This is addressed to those that have been redeemed business, and we have a similar word of encouragement in Isaiah chapter 43.
Where it starts out, but now the staff award that created the old Jacob and that formed the O Israel.
Fear not, for I have redeemed these.
I have called thee by thy name.
Thou art mine. When I'll pass us through the waters I will be with thee, and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee. When thou walkest through the fire. Thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame endow upon me.
Well, I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel.
Thy Savior.
And then in verse 14 they were spoken of as precious in this sight. And we too can be viewed in that same manner, can't we?
Think of the various times when the ward addresses his own and says fear not.
First time the word fear is used in the scriptures.
It's a genesis.
Heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid.
I remember brother Ernie Wakefield some years ago.
Speaking.
Umm, several words and one of the words that we spoke on was the word fear mentioned that that was the 1St.
Time that was mentioned.
But he said that.
As a result of the work of Christ.
Fear is gone. Perfect love.
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Cast this out, fear.
In chapter 13, there's three.
Things that the Lord brings up and the hearing of all the disciples. One is verse 21.
When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. The 2nd is verse 33. Little children, yet a little while I am with you, ye shall seek me. And as I said unto the Jews, whether I go, ye cannot come.
So now I say to you, and the third is verse 38. Jesus answered, and we'll tell, Lay down thy life for my sake. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, the **** shall not grow through without denied me Christ.
The things that tend to trouble us most are the things that affect us very personally most.
There are a lot of things that, uh, are troubling the world. Unless they come in and touch me personally, they tend to be held at a distance.
The things that come in and touch me personally, they tend to trouble me most. And so I just think of the things mentioned in chapter 13. They were going to touch the disciples very personally. Peter's betrayed, uh, Peter's denial of the Lord, Judas's betrayal of the Lord and the Lord's own departure, going to the cross, going home by way of the cross. They were going to vary personally affect each one of his own.
And would have the potential to really trouble them.
And so in light of that, he says, let not your heart be troubled. Well, it is the same with us. You know, sometimes it's things in the family, things in the assembly, things that are very close, very that's just very personally that really are the things that trouble us most. What does the Lord say? He says, I'm going to be in the glory and you keep your eye on me and I'll be your stay. I'll be the one that is able, if you're occupied with me in the glory, to settle you and keep you.
Through those things that will trouble you most.
I've enjoyed the sauce and expressed uh.
The little better translation is that they were to. I'll read it from Mr. Darby's. Let not in your heart be troubled. You believe on God, believe also on me. It's really a belief in a person as an object for our faith, not in something, but on a person. And I've enjoyed that thought. I think too, we see here that, uh, the Lord puts himself on an equality with the Father.
Uh, he believed on God.
Believe also on me. It's a little touch of his deity, isn't it?
He he was he had been, up to this point, their comforter.
Different occasions, no word rolling down. The Baptist was sweating, for example, when they came to the Lord.
And they were grieved about that and encompassed them over and over again. He had that blasphemous Martha and Mary and all the others. You know, they were comforted because he was raised again, but he was their comforter. So now he's going to leave. So now he can put the jumping again from verse 16. That was that.
I know faith to follow me shall send you another.
So you seem to believe in God, believe also I believe on God, believe also on me.
I'm telling you, I will not leave you comfortless.
We can appreciate that because we are the recipients of that other comforter.
And it's come in, and then dwelt the believers, and then dwells you and I, and.
Comfort he's given us over years, different trials and tribulations that have come in even to this present moment, right?
We should be in such a uncomfortable.
He kept his mind.
There weren't still some with the word, doesn't it?
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And I was just thinking of a contracting situation in the book of job.
Bon Jovi was in great distress.
The second chapter.
And verse 13 speaks of jokes, comforters.
So. So they sat down with him upon the ground, seven days and seven nights.
And none.
Fake a word unto him.
That's where they saw that his grief was very great.
Well, sometimes we.
Save or enter into a situation where there's great grief.
And where words would be inappropriate.
But the Lord.
Just knew what word to say.
With a timely word. It was a word in season, wasn't it?
But here, Joe's friends couldn't utter a word during the seven days and the seven nights to bring comfort to his soul.
But the Lord can't stand it.
It's another seven days that's mentioned in connection with Ezekiel.
And I believe Ezekiel came out in the third chapter.
Is trying to be a help to the people of God.
And uh.
Says in verse 12 of chapter 3. Then the Spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from this place. As I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that cussed one another in the noise of the wheels over against them, and the noise of great rushing. So the Spirit vested me off and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit.
With the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.
Then I came to them of the captivity of Taliban and dwelt there by the river T Bar, and I sat where they sat and remained there astonished with them seven days.
That and it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the word came unto me, saying.
Well, we see for one thing that.
Profit came with the wrong spirit. Another translation that says in the heat of my anger. So you couldn't be used at the Lord to bring comfort, could he? He had to be made to sit there that time and in some sense feel the trials that they were going through in order for him to be used. And in that sense it was appropriate for him to remain quiet for that seven days.
But again, we're just thankful that the board can, in a timely manner, administer, uh, comfort.
And, uh, say those words with with the spell fear.
I'm glad you mentioned that worse in the in the build about seven days and.
I couldn't.
And they couldn't say a word to him for seven days because he saw his face was so very great.
It was so often think about a job and the face of job.
And I want to read this first in the first chapter where it says we often know lean turn to it, he says. Umm.
Lord the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord lost all of his ten children in that one day and the substance and everything and often we we know that we hope that we hear the faith of Job and someone's think that.
Oh, you know, Joe took that, so I'm a storage place.
He didn't. He didn't. So the step is chapter 2.
Seven days. His grief was so very great.
He received it from the Lord and accepted it from the Lord, but it didn't mean that he didn't read.
Seven days.
They sat and could do nothing.
That's not the same thing. It's not. It's not.
Umm, refusing to accept it from the Lord. It's just that it's a natural thing. He lost his family and you're breathing. He's still accustomed to the Lord. The Lord gave the Lord was taken away. What is the name of the Lord? So it's a comfort to us to realize, you know what, even though it's all the great faith and drove a great suffering too. And he needed that comfortable. And at the end of the book, of course, we, we see the Lord himself shows up and comforts Joe.
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Sorry for getting off a little off the track there.
Is the center of our being, isn't it?
Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues.
And uh, I like where our brother John will sing in connection with the Lord.
He was here for 3 1/2 years with the disciples that he was leaving them.
And he was going to a place where they couldn't see him with the natural eye. They couldn't turn to him in the same way and look to him.
And the Lord knew this.
And, uh, he was preparing them for that moment with him.
Let not your heart be troubled. Why ye believed in God? Who believed in God before I was here in this world?
I've been here with you. Now you're going to have to believe me in a way that you haven't had to believe in me before, because I'm going to be a I'm going to the father's house.
That dodge your heart, be troubled. And they were troubled after they found out that he was going to be trusted. It should have been him. They should have delivered Israel.
Well, the Lord came down to me.
So, uh, there he is in the glory. He's in charge of all things.
And, uh, we turned to him.
And our faith gets weak. We go back to it, and our faith is strengthened by the book that we have. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. The principle of a Christian life is a life of faith, and having that object, it is before us, isn't it?
Any time we took out.
About God or anything about.
What do you promise we're going to. We're going to have troubled hearts.
And they had doubts about.
Where the Lord Jesus, what would happen to Him, where he was going?
They might ever see him again. And uh, he also has absolutely who he really was, even though he had told him over and over.
They had notes of what all he's saying, and so the Lord was always comforting them, telling them about about himself, what he would pass through.
But, uh, it's interesting there in Luke, uh, chapter 18.
When uh, when he took the 12 after 18 of Lutheran verse 31.
Sometimes it's him to fall and sit on to them. Behold, we've left to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man shall be accomplished.
Or he shall be delivered onto the Gentiles and shall be locked and spitefully entreated and spitted on.
The national spirit shows and put them to death, And the third day he shall rise again. And they understood none of these things, and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken they didn't really enter into.
The things that the Lord was speaking to, they spoke about his death and resurrection to them many times.
But they were not able to take it in. They had doubts, and so the Lord hid it from them until after His resurrection.
And then they could have their eyes open to see.
The things we both of them.
True here in our chapter they had done and the Lord was, he was, uh, speaking to them so that, uh, their heart wouldn't be troubled with the things that they had it about. So he told us very plainly, uh, uh.
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Where he was going to go and, uh.
All that they could get to the place of where he was going.
He told him very plainly, I am the way, the truth, and the life no man comes upon of the Father left by me.
And uh.
There's many things that they didn't understand, they didn't have.
The Holy Spirit is dwelling in them.
Says a little later on in that chapter.
Umm and verse 16.
I will pray the Father he will give you another comforter.
That he may kind of ride with you forever. Even the spirit of truth in the world cannot receive, because it seems of not. I don't know of him, but ye, but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you.
And she'll be in.
Well, the Holy Spirit lift them, but he wasn't, he said the indwelling person as we have today in the church. I Holy Spirit came down as the Lord promised, and that day of Pentecost that formed the church and 12 very believer.
And so we have opened up the box, the full revelation of the Word of God to us.
And uh.
The Holy Spirit is able to take those things of Christ, and He does, and make them known to us, and the Lord is no different today. He doesn't want anyone in this room or any believer to have any doubt or troubles in their heart about their salvation, about this life, about where they're going and how they're going to get there, and all these things, the word of God to make certain to it.
You read them.
Their gods were as God's word, and we believe it, and the Holy Spirit makes it good to us in our hearts, and so it disperses that trouble. If the truth shall make you free, he shall be free indeed.
And, uh, it's wonderful here that the Lord.
Takes his disciples here and encourages them.
And uh oh, He loved them and he wanted them to enter into those things that was before them. They they were going to have for all eternity. And he's the same Lord today for us. He wants us to enjoy them too as well.
I thought I have been, you brought it out, genius, particularly in connection with knowing, uh, the, uh, the Bible and the truth of the Bible and to know where we're going.
Uh, for to spend eternity. I have thought of this passage too as a as a passage there where the Lord is speaking to them in connection with direction for their lives while he is away.
And I know it's going ahead a little bit, but you notice in verse five that it says Thomas F Lord, we know not whither thou goeth, and how can we know the way?
Have you ever run into times in your life where you didn't know the way you didn't know what to do about decisions?
So what does the Lord say? The next verse using the gospel? But I think it goes beyond the gospel. It says Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
What is it that the Lord was saying?
I feel that what the Lord was saying is, Thomas, if you want to know direction for your life after I go back to heaven, you're going to have to stay close to me.
On the way I'm the truth, I'm the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by me. And we all run into these things, young people run into them when they're considering in connection with school as to what shall I do?
I'm finishing grade 12:00. I've got a umm. I've got to think of the future. How can I know the way?
If by being in the presence of the Lord to walk in communion.
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I was just thinking also of what we have in verse 29.
So now I have told you before it's come to pass.
That when it's come to pass, you might believe.
He he knew.
OK, wait, that's just Sydney.
And sometimes those have families, and we know that.
We're going to embark, or at least, uh, one of our children might be embarking on something new. Or you try to walk them through a situation first, don't you? Well, this is what you're going to expect. So they're not going to get a jolt at the end, are they? If they know what to expect, they can certainly get through it much easier. And, uh, I've been helped in my own life when that process has taken place. Well.
You might encounter this and then you might encounter this.
And this is what you can expect in this situation well.
This, I believe, is what the Lord did here, didn't it?
And it's a, it's, uh, encouraging to see that.
And again, in verse 27, it's the second time. It's not the third time in the chapter that the Lord uses those words. Let not your heart be troubled.
But it's.
Uh, preceded by the word peace, I leave with you. My peace. I give unto you. Not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
So we have the promise of the speed as well as the promise of the comforter, as our brother Enos was saying.
And I believe in the Greek, and I'm no student of Greek, but I believe that.
The word comforter has the thought of one called.
Uh, to walk beside us or alongside of us?
So that's what we have here, isn't it?
OK, I wonder if we could just have a couple of thoughts on this expression. The Lord uses the Lord too of my father. In my father's house are many mansions or abode. Why is this the I'm asking the question without really a thought. Why does he bring in the thought of those in his father's house?
Some of us, when we were younger perhaps were a little disappointed when we.
Where directed a new translation where it says abode seemed to be such a lower level than a mansion. Sometimes I'm seeing that him, don't we? There's a mansion in heaven for thee, for pleasures that none can conceive.
And eternally happy that I'll be at that little bit on Jesus. Believe we think of the mansion.
And so I think of an abode. It seems so moderate, so simple, so humble, but yet if we go across the page to verse 23, I believe we have a beautiful connection that really brings us to the essence of the passage.
He was answered, and said unto him.
If a man love me, he will keep my words, and my father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him.
And so it really is the thought of communion, isn't it? And of course, the Lord would be pointing their hearts out to him now that what characterizes the Father's house is communion. It's not the grandeur of the place. You don't want to stamp it with a material view, so to speak, as we think of the great places in this world. But the great thought is communion. And so as we anticipate that.
And the thought of communion with father and son forever.
The present enjoyment is that they will come and make their abode with us as the Word of God is brought before us. We just have this thought too, that.
First verse references you believe in God.
I I couldn't stand to be corrected. I haven't examined their reverse, but I believe this is the last reference in the chapter to God from here on out into the father. I think 21 Times in this chapter. And so it really brings them to the essence of John's ministry, its enjoyment of the father and the son or someone says it's the father and the son, the son making the father known and so the father's house rather than for us thinking of the.
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The, uh, they say the grandeur of the place, it's communion with the father. There's many of those, that is, there's fellowship for a seat.
Sometimes you wonder, well then what characterizes the Father's house? And the only place I know in Scripture that we get the Father's house is Luke 15. Maybe we could just look at a verse there to complete the fraud.
Well, you say, well, this is a gospel story. Well, it is, but it's also the Father's heart that's the essence of the gospel. And then?
Luke, chapter 15.
Verse 25 And now his elder son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
In the father's house seems to suggest the thought is where the father's heart.
Can be fully revealed, fully known and fully enjoyed. And what characterizes that place Music and dancing joy and so whatever the great uh.
Characteristics of heaven might be the Father's house brings before us fellowship with a father and that great joy that characterizes that blessed place. So I just thought of that, Brother John, rather than thinking of an abode as I was so disappointed years ago, as something so moderate, so insignificant. Some loan plays are some loan plays within the door, as you say. Rather, it emphasizes the thought of communion with the Father and Son forever.
I was just thinking of the words of David in Psalm 73.
Verse 24 is the Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, an afterward receive me the glory.
And the next few words are very encouraging. Whom have I and haven't but thee?
Uh, wasn't focused on heaven necessarily as a fight, but the person that was there. And that should be our focus, shouldn't it?
Then goes on to say there is none upon earth that I desire upon me. So that was his focus 12 year two and that was his anticipated.
Focus and work.
I was thinking too, Brother Bruce of the verse in Psalm 27 that David spoke. He says one thing, have I desired of the Lord, that I will, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the House of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.
The Lord, That's what we should desire, shouldn't it? To be there with him and in communion with Him.
That's pretty good.
What the Lord had in mind wasn't it they had enjoyed closeness with him for those three years. And I had gone through exactly the same experience as you described, Bill, with some mansions in the abodes. But if you look in Ezekiel, in the description of the, uh, that future temple, there are abodes for the priests right around where God's will. They're right next door, they're close, they're right in his house.
And as opposed to having a separate mansion where I live by myself, I live right in the father's name.
And, uh, referring to some, uh, one that I enjoy because it's the, uh, end of the 16th at the right hand, there are pleasures forevermore. And if you look in, uh, Nehemiah's time in the last chapter, you find out that what we're supposed to be in the, uh, in that temple, in those rooms around the temple is all the stores and the good and the blessing. And that's what the Lord had in mind for his disciples and why he was going to the cross was to enable him to come into that blessing and enjoy that relationship. And that's what he has for us to admit.
Going to talk too and and many of those that speak to the of God the Father, father of our Lord Jesus Christ and Ephesians that in him every family in heaven and earth is named and so there's more than one family, so to speak and and and that way of thinking of it in heaven. Spirits of just men made perfect. There's different things in Scripture. Friend of the bridegroom John the best is called himself.
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But he says I go to prepare a place for you. And so when he came into that, into the courts of glory, that place was prepared. What kind of a place?
In the place of a son, place that he has before the father.
A place that is specially olive.
On all the families, uh.
That are, uh, named after the father, so to speak. We have a very special place, many of those, but there's a place especially prepared for us, a place that is different and, uh, far beyond what spirits have just been made perfect or even a friend of the bride or in the past.
Want to go back to a moment, a moment to to refer to a scripture and EMIYA that Brother Robert refers to, but something very sad and solemn too that the counted afterwards we see that.
These chambers were made but.
In the 7th uh verse of the last chapter we see Nehemiah returning to Jerusalem for the second time, and we have an account of what he saw or beheld. Because when I came to Jerusalem and understood of the evil that Elijah did for Tobiah, preparing him a chamber in the course of the House of God.
Well, Plevia was one of the enemies of the people of God and a chamber.
In that close proximity.
Was prepared for one of the ones that initially withstood the work of Nehemiah, and this came about as a result of the high priest who should have known better, Elijah. And it's a Psalm scripture that we have here.
As we say, that part of this was accomplished through.
Uh, an alliance of marriage. And if we look at verse 28 of that chapter, it says one of the sons of uh, Joida, the son of Eliaship, the high priest was son-in-law in San Valley the war night. Therefore I chased him from me. So here there was the unequal yoke that came in and.
Caused a real blemish there.
And Jerusalem, that which was initially set aside.
Uh, as the Chamber of the Lord, now it's occupied by the very enemies.
And we see that cause grief on the part of Nehemiah and verse eight it says and grieve me soar. Therefore I task forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.
Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers, and thither brought I again the vessels of the House of God, with the meat offering and frankincense.
And there were other things that had fallen by the wayside too.
There was supposed to have been provision for the Levites, and during this time that provision was not made, and so we see again the restoration of God's order following this.
And following Nehemiah second visit.
Sure. A little thought, I don't have that on the Bose.
Uh speaking to his disciples here in this chapter. I want to connect 3 verses in UH in Masters Gospel, the first one in chapter 3.
Matthew 3.
And concerns God in the Baptist coming preaching in the wilderness and what he says.
Verse two and saying Repent thee, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Chapter 4.
In chapter 4, verse 17.
That time Jesus began to preach and to say repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
And kept his hands.
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We have.
Was 5.
These 12 he's the set forth and commanded them saying go not into the way of the Gentiles and into any of the city initiatives Samaritans and are he not all rather to the lost shape of the House of Israel and as you go preach saying the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. He was about to lead them his people into the Kingdom of heaven.
They were to go and bottle like this into the Kingdom of heaven, and the Kingdom will be set up and He would reign over for 1000 years will begin. But we know what transpired. He was refused. He came in and drew some lighting upon that donkey, fulfilling His prophecy as to who He was, but He was refused and cast out. And therefore there was to be no setting up of the Kingdom of Heaven. They couldn't go in.
So their abode is about to change.
For these individuals, they couldn't have that same abode so now urgently brought into the Kingdom of God.
Flesh and blood cannot hinder between them of God by faith the different thing altogether. So now they're abode is going to be with him who is enjoying in the Kingdom of God, not the Kingdom of heaven that's coming yet. And we, you and I have entered in that Kingdom. We're in the Kingdom of God.
We're not going to go bodily into the Kingdom of heaven because that's flushing blood in Aristotle.
But the Kingdom of God is by faith, so they came because of their faith that knock your heart be troubled. He believed in God, believes also on me, and so now they're going to be brought to him. In other words, he's telling him you haven't lost anything.
Because the nations refuse to receive means and the Kingdom of heaven will be set up in a sense, the Kingdom of God came into them, Spirit came down and it dwelled. So that's what the Lord meant, I believe, when he said the Kingdom of God is within you. So he's within us now. So we're it's both both ways. I think that next verse the Derek, there's that I was done.
In the third verse, I will come again.
And receive you under myself that where I am there may you be. And then in, in, uh, 17th of John, we look there, we find that, uh, same thought.
17th of John.
Verse 24.
Says Father, I will that they also whom Thou has given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory without giving me, and Thou lovest me before the foundation of the world.
So it's drinking of where He is and He is our object and when we get there we will behold His glory. He wants us to be there to share.
With him, all that he has won for us and we will enjoy.
Uh, all the, the sun, the Father has given to the sun to what he has accomplished, not only for our salvation, but for Israel and the glory that he will have when he appears at the end of that tribulation period with the church to rule, knowing the millennial reign, all of those things.
And so.
He was assuring, uh, his disciples here that they would, they would share that with him, that they would be with him there in glory. And that's a promise for us too as well. And that's the point he was making. I believe he was going to achieve their bones spiritually right then and the spirit of thought came down and then loved them. They were going to be with him. If you just indicated that also when they passed from the scene, they were going to be within the glory, within the vote, not on the earth and a blessed earth.
Does that ring through?
The thought I have enjoyed in connection with these things seemed to me sprinkled in many places in Scripture as that there is no personal distance that will be felt in the glory.
Umm and I and umm the uh verses that our brother Bill brought together there and then and John 14 was connecting the 23rd verse was it with the thought of opposed is that if they were walking with Commu in communion with the Lord in this world, they were going to experience that personal communion with the Lord. They will they feel his presence, his abode in that way with them.
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Well, it's going to be the same in heaven, the personal, uh, communion with the Lord. You know how in, uh, in uh, uh, the world when they have these great soccer games or football games or whatever and they have 100,000 people. How close do you think that any of the people that would go to those games get to the ones who are the heroes, shall I say? And in those games, they don't get to know them at all.
And in the glory there's going to be millions. So you say, how is it that I am going to experience that closeness with the Lord among the millions of the redeemed?
Well, I think that the, the, the, the verses that we're taking up when it speaks about the abode is, is, is not only, uh, the thought of, uh, of, of closeness, but actually of, uh, of personal communion with the Lord. And there's a couple of verses that have meant a lot to me in thinking of these things. And, uh, umm, one is in, in First Corinthians where it says now we see through a glass darkly.
But then face to face, you've got to be pretty close to somebody before you see their face. That is the experience I feel, brethren, that we're going to experience in heaven among the millions of the redeemed. You're not going to feel that you are far away from the Lord when you're in heaven among all the elders. It'll be the experience of face to face. And when you look at at Revelation 5, where you have the song of redemption, it gives this little expression.
Round about the throne.
It doesn't give the feeling of distance, it gives closeness of feeling round about the throne that we'll all be seen together.
Umm, you know, you're not looked upon as one of a billion people. We're, we're so close to the Lord and being members of his body and having a personal relationship with them while we're here. And the same thing carries on after we leave this world in the glory.
Uh, as the children grow up and, uh.
And we're happy that they do and.
Trying to help meet her husband and they, uh.
And move out and start their own home. It's, uh, it's hard for mom and dad. You know, you have your children all around the table. That's tougher. And there's a seat that might be.
And there's just nobody that can really fill that seat and make up for the conversation and the banter that goes back and forth across the supper table and all the interaction that takes place. And then another one gets married and there's another seat empty. And it's, it's difficult.
Uh, but I've enjoyed the thought that in the Father's house there won't be one empty seat.
Not one of the children are going to be missing.
Her four and 20 feet for.
24 seats around that throne. My brother just described that picture. Not one's empty. Not one.
There won't be any grandchildren. It's all first generation, all children, and we're all gonna be there and we're gonna sit down at that table and we're gonna say this is our family.
And this is our pharmacy.
And this is our house, His house. It's now our house too. And we're going to look around and there won't be a sense that one single family member here, we experience it. We long over those that we know that haven't come to Christ yet. We pray for them and we're concerned that.
If they're not saved, that, uh, momentum in heaven. But you know you won't miss anyone.
And the glory, because our family is all going to be there intact.
We'll have this deep sense this is our family. This is the only family.
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Breathing and no one. His father will have all his children around his table.
And Christ will be the center.
And that's like, and the full explain to us is all the Father's heart that he is already not.
I guess I thought in the 21St chapter of Revelation then and look at it for a moment in the UMM.
The eternal state plus is going to be like in the eternal state. So we see it there in cooperative retail all the 1St 3.
And I had a great voice of the heavens saying, Behold the Tabernacle of God.
Is with men and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God. And when the Lord came in to see manual with us, for this is the completion. It's Emmanuel with us forever.
And even on the earth and bursters with this new heaven and new earth says it has a little detail at the end and there is no more C.
I've been really sad with another on that one. There's AC right now.
Causes divides.
Distances between between people as well on the earth were separated by their bodies of water and.
It was permitted distance separated up until he went to the train. That said, most people in the world did not travel more than 50 miles from their home.
From the train onwards, it's he's been great, gradually and increasingly making the world smaller so that now it's, you know, the circumnavigated a plane 24 hours but.
There is no more C no more distance between them, nothing to separate whatsoever. So under your it's beautiful, isn't it, but God is going to Tabernacle with men. So I can just add to that Brother Derek, I I so enjoyed that that you bring out is the eternal state on the earth as God is dwelling with men for us in a heavenly portion we were going to we're going to dwell with him and it says here there's not going to be any more pain, no sorrow nor tears, but we're going to a place where there never was any tears. There never was anything there never was any sorrow. It's the Father's house and so.
At the heavenly scene. On the earthly scene.
Are all gonna be a wonderful, uh, scene of joy. And then just add this thought too, that sometimes we may tend to set one truth against another and that we never wanna do that. And uh, our chapter is primarily collective, isn't it? Every, every seat belt, as you say, brother Steve, But I've enjoyed this too in, umm, you know, as soon as later on in the chapter, if any man.
Uh, communion, and we take that up individually today. And then the promise to the overcomers there in Revelation 2 and three to at least three assemblies. The promise to the overcomer is to eat, eat of the tree of life, to eat of the hidden manna, and therein to see even where, if any man will open the door, I will come in and Sup with Kevin and he with me. So there are these wonderful joys to look forward to.
Not only the collective joint, but those individual joys, but how we take it up now it's wonderful to enjoy these things together, but it's it's a privilege for everyone of us to say if any man to take that out and personal communion with the father and the son in our pathway here.
Serotypes fairly up and uh.
Really encouraged by the world, her brother Steve had to say about empty seats and.
To think of that touching scene that we have in First Samuel chapter 20.
Connection with the parting of Jonathan and David.
And uh.
In verse 18, said then Jonathan. Jonathan said David.
Tomorrow is the new moon and now shall be mixed.
Because by C we'll be active.
Uh, we were.
Just talking earlier in our other days prayer.
And in our brother Sean's prayer.
Uh, there are pardons in the scene.
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There are part inches ourselves.
Saint Gerard Corner Brook will certainly miss sorely our sister Betty.
But we know that there is that time when we were off the United together.
But we, we, we do have these natural feelings, don't we?
What? What The Lord can come in and encourage us even through this?
Let me see one 27127.
Stop.
I'm bringing anything up.
But you're the 1St.
1.
You've done my.
And we're going to make it. I'm not going to play anything in my journey.
I don't know, but I don't blow.
It down.
And.
Hold your sunscreen.
By far.
No blood in his hair.
No, no, no, I'm thinking no longer.
There's no.
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All right. And is that so? I shall be your wife's eye, son. Is this the grace which he has one?
Father of Laurie thought beyond all songs.
It was on last five times a month #18 in the appendix.
Upon me and Thyroid day forever.
Now my word land. Today's grill happened to me.
Gloria, glory of whatever.
They can grow.
Light on the rise and crowd.
By a storm.
Yeah, right. It's all I love that. Now again for that we're in the library and beginning of the very beginning for anyone.
That gives love and so on. And all my chairs.
All is coming after the.
Long run.
Of the runs all friends greetings.
In the end of the round and deserve when you're going shopping.
Look on Spiritual Songs where all of his hymns are. There is 1/5 stanza to this hymn. I just have it with me just to read it. I don't know why it wasn't included.
The heart is satisfied, can ask no more.
All thought itself is now forever or Christ is unmingled object fills the heart and bless adoring love this endless part.
Spray.
I would think we got to the third verse, would you?
But I would suggest then that for continuity you start with verse one. It's nice to hear those words again from the Lord.
John chapter 14, verse one.
Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be.
Lord, we know not whither thou goest, and how can we know the way Jesus saith unto him?
I am the Way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If he had known me, he should have known my Father also.
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And from henceforth you know him and have seen him.
Philip saith unto him.
Lord Joyce, the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that have seen me hath seen the Father. And how sayest thou then Show us the Father, Believe us, thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me. The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself, but the Father that dwelleth in me. He doeth the work.
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very work's sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me the works that I shall I do, shall he do also in greater works than thee shall he do, because I go unto my Father.
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, if the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If he shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.
If you love me, keep my commandments.
And I will pray the Father and he will send, He will give you another comforter, that he may abide with you forever.
Even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him. But ye know him, for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you.
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more. But ye see me, because I live, ye shall live also.
At that day you shall know that I am in my father, and ye, and me and I in you.
Sure.
Caloric spoke. These were.
This is inside his last 24 hours.
And I think that what you had in mind before him and the verse two and in verse three was Calvert's cross.
You think of what price you pay to make a place for me in his father's house.
Setting his precious blood to wash my sins away.
To bring me into the place of last thing we had in Romans chapter 5 justified like that.
Put us in him close up with close up, close us with garments of salvation. It's incredible.
Just recently I finished reading a book called Lincoln's Last Day, and there were certainly momentous events that took place in connection with.
His death and assassination.
But it fails compared to what we have here, doesn't it?
Might pay the cross was going to prepare us for the place.
And the moment he stepped into the glory and prepared the place for us.
Sometimes, uh, the thought has been expressed that umm, the Lord went.
In the second verse in my father's house are many mansions. They were already prepared. So the preparation, as has been remarked, has been it, it, it speaks of it. And quite frankly, I think we've had a profit for us in two aspects right there, umm, Robert and Stephen. One is that the preparation and going to the cross, and the other was the Lord entering.
The glory himself.
There were two men that left this world and, uh, were taken to heaven without dying. One being Elijah and the other being Enoch.
I remember being at a funeral one time many years ago when John Burton took the funeral and he said what happened to those two men.
They didn't die here, they were taken off without dying.
And the expression he used in I feel is the right thought that God disposed of their bodies.
They entered the heaven like uh umm, their spirit and soul went like the the thief on the cross to be with the Lord in paradise. But the Lord is a man was the first one who entered the glory.
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Is that a correct thought?
And in her glory as a man, I mean.
So I think there's a question.
About what you mean by the glory.
But I thought I take to mean Philippians 3 verse 21.
We're looking right now for the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body, that it might be fastened like onto His glorious body.
He has today, as a man in heaven, a glorious body, doesn't he?
Is that what you meant?
By him entering heaven like that.
I believe so.
And he had that when he rose from the dead, right?
Yes.
The Spirit hath not flesh and bones, as he see me have.
Said the recycled.
And that's how he ascended into the glory.
Did the apostle pause, please happen of the glory when he went to the 3rd heaven and he could, he said he saw unspeakable things.
The Lord going to be with the Father.
That means I I've just been reading a pamphlet in the in the commentary is that the glory is.
The body is glorified.
Entered in His glory.
You're not being glorified. But where did he go? Did he go to the Father? Did he go to the throne?
Baby John, 17 and.
Verse 5.
And now, O Father, glorify me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.
And then John Chapter 7.
And verse 39.
But this fake key of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive for the Holy Ghost, was not yet given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified.
They said to those that looked in the tomb, He's not here, he's risen.
So he was.
Raised from the dead.
But it wasn't until he entered into.
Heaven that he was glorified I believe. I'd like to advice that needs to be corrected. Be happy if someone would say but I think.
Glorified is connected with.
His entrance into that place raised resurrection.
Umm, when he was here, but he was not yet glorified and.
Until he entered into that place, and that's when he sent the Spirit of God down from the dead. Pentecost when he was glorified.
But I think John 17 would tell us that.
It's uh.
With the father.
But you also get 110 palm.
We currently look at that.
From 1:10.
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand till I make thy enemies.
Thy footstool.
And so there is.
Another aspect to his entering into that place. Verse four Also the Lord hath sworn and will not repent. Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
And that's quoted again as.
And Hebrews are the subject of the Lord's high priesthood is taken up, Peter says, he being by the right hand of God exalted.
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So I wouldn't say it's just the father.
But uh, you see them in in the 110th Psalm at the right hand of Jehovah.
And you also have Peter Sandine by the right hand of God, exalted so.
Perhaps it it was narrowed a little bit to say just the father.
That's the subject here, though, isn't it and John brings the father before us just thinking also the 13th chapter. There's a couple verses there and when we come to that term glory or glorified we you can't have a one-size-fits-all because glories of Christ are are many and there there are different character, but just to notice these two verses here in the 13th chapter in verse 31. Therefore, when he was gone out that is due to his scary have left the room.
Jesus said Now is the Son of man glorified?
And God is glorified in him, if God be glorified in him.
God shall also glorify him in himself and shall straightway glorify Him. Well, here we have different expressions of being glorified, but it's not all in reference to the same incident. Now, is the Son of Man glorified? What is this in reference to? This is in reference to the cross. This is in reference to the Lord Jesus, the Son of Man. When, uh, we sang that hymn 39 Son of Man, His incarnation opened first, this pale of grace.
And we see in the life of the Lord Jesus, culminating in his death, everything that man should be. The moral glory is excellencies displayed so fully and completely there at the cross. But not only was he glorified in that sense, all of His moral beauty shining out, but God was glorified in him. And all that was displayed in his obedience to the Father's will, and even into death. And so consequent upon that death and his atoning sufferings, it says, if God be glorified in Him.
God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify Him. God's answer to the atoning sufferings is the immediate glorification of the Lord who glorified him here on this earth. And so, just to notice, he shall straightly glorify him if we can turn to second or first Peter rather.
Just to make a contrast here to clarify, if we may.
First Peter chapter one and uh, just verse 11 in reference to the prophet searching into the Scriptures, it says searching what or what manner applying the Spirit of Christ which was in them to signify when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow, or as the Darby renders it, and the glories that should follow.
Now those glories have not yet arrived. This looks on to his Kingdom glories. This looks on to that day when the Son of Man who was once rejected and scorned, when he comes back and he'll, he'll be displayed in glory. The multitude of glories, His Kingdom glories, His official glories, they have not yet arrived. And that's God's answer to his suffering at the hand of man. How he rejoiced to see and look on to that day when.
The heaven and earth will be valid before him. That's still future. It's an answer to his sufferings. But here in John, it's the glorification of God's Son in himself. And I take it here, it's an answer to his atoning suffering. There's not a weight 1000 of 1002 Thousand years. It's immediate and prompt. And so here it does bring before us, especially, uh, the relationship now as he brings us in, uh, to the Father.
Is that the same? Umm.
As in Luke at the end of Luke, where he says ought not Christ has suffered these things and entered in his glory. Now would that be the glory that's still coming, or is that?
As you already have here.
And you guys refer to the prophetic scriptures there.
I'll be praying brother. I've had the same question because.
Took from the context that it would be the glorious his Kingdom glory that are being referred to there, but I don't believe it says glories there so I.
Water. Maybe it is in reference to uh, to the glory we have here. I for myself, I can't say what was the reference in Luke?
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Luke 24.
26 first 26.
They questioned whether he was going to set up the Kingdom at this time. He thought that was going to happen immediately and.
So it almost seems that it may be connected, but I certainly wouldn't limit to that.
The Kingdom of the Son of Man.
Is when he returns, right? That's the that's the problem right now. The Lord is in glory, but he's not on the throne. He's he's on the right hand of the Father.
He's on the throne. His investment in the Earth will be realized one day when he returns.
And they become the Kingdom of the Son of Man thought.
In all the world, the oldest glory.
I remember being at a conference many years ago when.
I was maybe in my teenage years.
And a brother asks a question where he was trying to.
Get specific as to, uh, what the meaning was of a particular verse.
And brother, don't Roger, don't take this the wrong way, but another brother, an older brother who was kind of blunt, the way he said it, whose name was Harry Hayhoe, he said don't try to pigeonhole Scripture.
And umm, I umm, you know, I think you can, I welcome your thought and whether you want to think about it in terms of the Lord entering into his glory there now or his glory that his future, I think we can allow both thoughts and leave it there.
I think we get on to, uh, rather dangerous ground if we start trying to partition out this glory or that. There are some that's quite clear, no doubt that we need to be very careful as you say that.
Scripture said is what it says.
In Genesis chapter 45, there's a very.
Constructive words and verse 13 that you shall tell my father of all my Lord.
There's nothing limited. There is all my glory.
And I'm sure that takes in everything that we've talked about today.
Joseph was on the throne.
And.
That would include that, and it would include many other things too with.
I'm sure Joseph's brother.
Probably remember that coat of many colors too, that the father had made it provided for him.
And that foreshadow?
Sports.
I believe that that would bring before us the essential Boris of the Lord Jesus.
And basically, and again, I don't want to limit what we have in chapter 45 and verse 13 to be acquired glory.
But some have felt that.
This would correspond to that in the Lord's pathway which brought glory to God the Father, and it would correspond in a certain sense, but it not to the burnt offering that we have in Leviticus chapter one.
It went up to God first and.
Why don't we try to go on brethren? We only got 1/2 hour left in this meeting and we're not very far.
Just to stay with the same subject and share a thought for a second.
Spending time thinking about that coat of many colors and the glories and the things we've just thought about the kind of body the Lord has where he is right now.
It uh, puts me in mind of Song of Solomon chapter 5 and verse 10. I won't read the whole thing, but uh, just verse 10, the whole from there. Then the chapter is interesting, but it says my beloved is white and Ruddy the chiefest among 10,000.
Every one of those glories is worth meditating on. Thinking about place. God's brought him to parable.
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You know the disciples in this chapter asked some questions too that aren't real yet.
And uh.
But you know, they had a wonderful occupation in spite of their need of instruction and maybe the lack of understanding even in the question. They have a better occupation than Judah said that evening. They were occupied with Christ in the way He was out organizing. There were those who were organizing a band to come and take the Lord. Try to see.
When verse seven and eight there, what do we learn from this? If he had known me, he should have known my father also, and from henceforth ye know him and have seen him.
It was just free to gain the 8th and 9th Phillips death unto him. Lord show us the Father, and it suffices us. Jesus hath unto him. Have I been so long time with you, and yet has thou not known me, Phillip?
He that hath seen me had seen the Father.
And how say it Thou then show us the Father? What truth is it that the Lord is bringing out here?
Could I read one verse the other day and John one?
Verse 18.
No man hath seen God at any time. The only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. So. We only know the Father through the sons. Only He perfectly manifested the Father, didn't we?
The expression in verse 6 where the Lord said I am the way, the truth and the life.
That's a really fundamental to Christianity and it's really what makes the problem for the rest of the world and the rest of the world's religions that the Lord Jesus had said I am a way, I am a truth, I am a life. Nobody would have had any problems. But he claims to be the only way and he is the only way. He is the only truth.
And that, that, that doesn't go down well with that human nature, does it?
In a special reference to the Father. If I can just add comment where the standard that 18th verse.
And only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, sometimes we may say or may use the expression, He left the bosom of the Father. But that's not quite right, because it's perhaps not understanding what the bosom of the Father is. It's not here a physical thing that the Lord left when He came into this world. But is there an expression, the eternal dwelling place of love?
The sun was ever in the bosom of the Father before incarnation, and he did not leave that when he came into incarnation, which is in the bosom of the Father. The Son as ever the Father's delight, whether eternally or incarnation. And so it's that that dwelling place of love, and it's that one that dwells there that's declared the Father. Who but the Son could declare who the Father is?
We read in Hebrews one and there it's God. It's not the Father in Hebrews because it's not the subject of Hebrews, but it's only it's it's God the Son. If God reveals himself in the sun, who but God could reveal himself? And who but the Son could reveal the Father?
I thought of this too, and maybe just turn into a Matthew 12, not to take us too far afield.
But when the Lord Jesus came, God manifest in the flesh.
And then umm.
Matthew 12.
And, umm.
Verse 24.
And when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow does not cast out devils, but by the ills above the Prince of the devils.
Umm, it's going on to verse 20. But if I cast uh, double S by the Spirit of God, then the Kingdom of God has come unto you. I just a couple thoughts What?
When the world saw.
The Sun.
In the complete demonstration of the power of the Spirit of God, work miracles, they said. That's the power of the devil.
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So the Lord Jesus, the Son of God, he completely demonstrated the power of the Spirit of God and what he did, and he completely revealed, uh, the Father to us. And so the world, how far man was in darkness. And then we saw that. We saw the work of God and absolute form and said, that's the work of the devil. And then you think moving forward in that coming day, when the man of sin, the embodiment of sin, the Antichrist, he's worshipped as if he's God himself.
How far a man is from God. And again, I don't want to take us too far astray, but it's only the sun that can reveal the Father. And he revealed him perfectly, so much so that he could say he even have seen me, have seen the Father. So when the world rejected the Son, they likewise rejected the Father.
All in Colossians refers to him, the Lord Jesus, as the image of the invisible God.
Also in connection with being in the bosom of the Father.
Uh, to someone who want to comment on the fact that the Lord Jesus said on the cross, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me as opposed to my Father? My Father, why hast thou forsaken me?
Well, expressive thought by answering a little part of a John just brought up there about the kidneys at the invisible God.
Man Genesis 1 created in the image of God, right and.
And you failed. I'm representing God.
Are you seeing coming in corrupted that image of God so that the world could not see God through us anymore. We were we were spoiled as you sent out of the garden. You go to Hebrews chapter one and you get this about Christ, his Son, who being the brightness cursory of his glory, the brightness of the glory of God and the express image of this person when that sun came that man, he was the express image of God.
Representing an absolutely, totally perfect way.
He picked up where we failed as he picked up where Israel failed, he picked up Herman failed and the AMD. The ultimate expression of Sean.
And and so would this man knows all about God, the person of God, the entity of God, by looking at the sun in this chapter is brought a little closer because now he's speaking to his disciples. And so his relationship is now not just God, but his father. So he has revealed the Father in that beautiful relationship.
I've got that part and I forgot your question. My brother, I'm going to tie try to tie it in. He wasn't forsaken by the father, but.
Oh yes, it wasn't forsaken by the following, because that's I believe that relationship as a word was ever, ever there. He was never mistaken with the Father, but God himself, as it were, had to, had to.
Hide behind the darkness and allow Him to look at the cross in obedience.
Anyway, that's the only thought that I have. How much ingenious is 22?
In connection with Abraham and Isaac, it says they went both of them together. Wouldn't that illustrate that, umm, the Father never perceived the Son but as man? Uh, he was forsaken of God because he was a sin bearer, Is that correct?
Holy ground we get on and do when we discuss these things, isn't it?
I believe what you say is down.
There's a comment the Lord makes which I find interesting in verse 11 in connection with who he is, who he represented, the connection between himself and his Father. And that is he says believe for the very work's sake. And it's an interesting thing just to go through and see what the Lord Jesus did. So for example, the Lord Jesus healed and gave sight to a man that had never ever seen in his life before.
And absolutely incredible miracle.
That's that particular miracle reserve was reserved for him, and it's a prophetic connection to all the healings. You think about what he did for.
John the Baptist, when John the Baptist needed faith, encouraged that period of miracles that he did on that day for John the Baptist.
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And the all those things that just show who he was and reveal the heart of God to bring blessing to a people that had turned their hearts against them.
That's what he brings forward.
Believe, believe the work brings that as evidence.
That he and the father won.
Just before the Lord went to the cross, he could say.
John 16 and 32 Behold the hour cometh, yay is now come.
That you shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone.
Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
Abraham and Isaac were both together.
Thought that it had been the father. Never forsook.
God had to forsaken her our sins.
Pleasantly our sins upon the Lord Jesus.
Father ever for something, son?
Is that a thought you had bruised? Yes.
As always, and that father son relationship always in the bosom of the father.
It's directing us here onto the Father.
Just thinking of the the Lord Himself came as a man, and in John 316 you know the verse where the Holy Spirit came down and and dwelt upon him. And if you go to the book of the ads.
In the 10th or 11Th chapter.
And you'll notice this, maybe it's a little help as to what's behind the thought here. Introducing this other comforter that's going to come in and John Center 10 and verse again, this is holy ground, you might say.
Verse 37 That word I say you know which is published throughout all Judea and began from Galilee after the baptism of John, preached how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him. So question is why would God have to anoint the Lord Jesus with the Holy Ghost?
Another place you could stay. He said nothing and did nothing on us directed by God through the Holy Spirit. So in the sense we haven't see it as as as a man here. He had laid aside that ability also have knowing everything as if he had to be instructed. I believe that he did from God to follow through the Holy Spirit that was given him.
To do and go. Why did he rise early in the morning and pray? Why would the Lord Jesus have need to do that?
Renew everything. So he didn't. That's the thought. He said blade that's laid aside in that sense as a man. So he had to be totally dependent upon his father through the Holy Spirit. And so now he's about to leave and go back and he's saying.
I've been your comforter, but now I'm going back to the Father. My work is done to work at the cross is finished, but there's more work to be done. But it's not gonna be done by me. God is gonna stand. I'm gonna send the Holy Spirit in this world.
And just as he directed me and everything that I did and what I said, he can now direct you. He will indwell you, will fool you and direct you into into all that needs to be done. That's the comfort. I I think as soon as chapter he's trying to turn across, we have the same source, the same comforter that he had, the same one, the same power that was given to him is now given to me. I'm going to access it, but it's there. It's like someone give me a sweater and saying, you know, it's my comfort.
And I said put it on. It's got no comfort, right. So that's where you spoke earlier about stirring up the gift, the Holy Spirit. Why, why just begin dwelling doesn't work. It can be a stagnant thing unless there's exercise behind it that I have to exercise myself by the Spirit to love my brother, to see, not see your, you know, your frailties or your these things like the book past that and trust your mind too and and go on. It's an exercise.
So I believe we have the suspense. So we have these things now and the Holy Spirit is going to come. He's going to the same column that the Lord Jesus himself has many new that there's a work now, work the Lord Jesus was for us and that's complete. But now there's a work in us which is not complete and won't be complete until the day of redemption.
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That's some possible.
We should order too if the Godhead isn't there.
God the Father and counsel.
The Lord Jesus was the one that carried out the counsel of God and the Holy Spirit with the power by which they were carried out.
I know that we don't pray to the Holy Spirit without us to do that, so there's an order in the Godhead.
That we need to follow.
And, umm.
The Holy Spirit is sent down and He he is He is our guide, but He too takes direction from.
God the Father, and so He guides us into all truth. But.
He he waits upon.
Uh, you might say God who?
In his time.
The way that we learn things from scripture, we don't learn everything all at once.
The Holy Spirit at the right time.
Opens up our hearts.
For our minds to take in certain truth at the right time.
So I don't know.
We should be, uh, too liberal with talking about.
The Holy Spirit is.
In that way, I'm not uh, I don't know, maybe some other brother might have a thought on it, but.
That verse she referred to Derek in uh, in Acts chapter 10, umm, now God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power. I, I wonder if that isn't connected with Matthew 3 when, umm, when the Spirit of God came when the Lord was 30 years of age and he was anointed for the ministry? Really for the 3 1/2 years?
There's no.
In the Trinity there is three or one and one is 3.
And, uh, you can't say that that that, umm, the Holy Spirit is inferior to God the Father, can you?
Umm, just one again. I, uh, we need to stand back, I think a little, uh, when we discuss these things.
Again, that depression holy ground. I I think of any connection with Moses, you know, take off the shoes from off your feet to the place you stand is is holy ground.
He dwells in the street, tilts about the Lord, that He dwells in the light that no man can approach unto, nor can.
So that's referring to the Lord as the the.
Need to be careful I think a member of brother saying years ago there is that part of the Godhead that you'll never know for all eternity.
Maybe we could look at that verse if that'd be alright. And I think it's, uh, First Timothy 6.
Umm and uh, First Timothy 6 and verse umm.
14 that thou keep his command with those spot and rebukeable, until the occurring of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Which in his time he shall show, who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of kings and Lord of Lords, who only have immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach, undo whom no man hath seen, nor can see. To whom the honor and power everlasting.
Amen.
I always think of our brother Gordon commenting on that and saying that there is a that.
Uh, reverence, respect that we need to give to the Lord as the Son of God that we that he in, in knowing that he dwells with the Father and in that light that no man can approach under nor can throughout all eternity. We sing it really in the 100% of the 150th hymn, the higher mysteries of thy pain, the creatures grass transcends.
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The Father, only thy blessed name.
Of sun can comprehend.
Refer to one verse and the third of John.
Umm.
And the Lord speaking to Nicodemus.
And verse 11.
He said verily, I said to you, we speak what we do know, intensify what that we have seen and received, not our witness.
There is uh.
A beautiful illustration for us.
And the Lord's garment that they took from him at Calvary, it says it was woven from the top throughout. It didn't have any pain anywhere. And they couldn't pair it up like the other pieces of clothing. Umm, And divide it among themselves, between the soldiers until they catch loss for it to see who it would be, You know, that garment must have been, uh.
Quite a, a, a piece of handiwork and just, uh, not long before they took the Lord's garments, he had been in that house in Bethany and Mary had poured out that box of alabaster.
Alabaster box of white men upon him, and no doubt that ointment is refilled. The whole house with its odor ran upon that garment, and that garment must have smelled, uh, just wonderful.
And I was helped by, uh, an expression a reverse in the 45th Psalm. It says all thy garments smell of myrrh, and half in Alice.
And the Scripture presents the person of the Incarnate Son of God.
Both in his Vietnamese.
As well as in his manhood.
But in a way that you cannot.
Discern a scene, as it were, between the two.
And the only way we can take it up in the right way is just like taking up those garments.
We wouldn't rent it. The soldiers wouldn't rent it. They were crude men and they wouldn't even rent it. And how much more for us who are believers to take up that garment that speaks of the Incarnate Son of God, both God and man, woven together from the top throughout, without pain. We can take it up with holy hands and smell the fray.
And it's wonderful.
And we can see his mantra.
And we can see it and we can enjoy both aspects. That perfect dependent man who received all from the ball, fresh instruction every day for his past. And that one who said we know what we testify.
Perfectly new falsehoods and he received none of their services.
That man who walked in every step of the way.
The Spirit of God being the power of all that he did.
And yeah, he will call himself.
So if we look at each aspect and we just lift up those garments and we say just what a wonderful phrase.
But there's no sin. And if you try and render what did happen to the garment that's woven from the top throughout, if you run it, it just falls under little pieces.
Not any of them are worth anything. You know a regular piece of sauce? You can pair it up and you you get smaller pieces you could use for something. But a woven garment? If you rent it, all the threads fall out, all that weaving falls apart, and it's not good for him.
There can't be so I I've enjoyed that in connection with the way we take these ends up. Not that we say I we don't take them up because they're presented to us in the scripture for for our hearts, but to take up in reverence and to realize there's no discerning.
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And a seamless torment would be an even torment too, wouldn't it?
And I was thinking in connection with the the need or the meal offering that we have in Leviticus too.
Where since his offering shall be of fine power.
Well, that's fine. Four, I believe, would speak of the evenness.
And balance of the character of the Lord Jesus.
And.
There would be no one quality that would be in excess.
And at the same time, there was nothing that was lacking.
Perfect with this.
Sometimes when you have a scene, it creates an unevenness, doesn't it?
But it wasn't so.
Connection with the Lord Jesus.
We have often been instructed, and rightfully so, that each of the four Gospels has a distinct character. Matthew, of course, the Lord is presented primarily as the king, the king of the Jews rejected.
Mark brings the forest, him as the prophet's servant, the one who, uh, the details are always done in service of God perfectly. But I'm thinking of Luke and John in particular. Luke, of course, brings before us the Lord Jesus as the dependent man.
We, we find the beginning of that gospel, it doesn't begin with this genealogy or a servitude. It begins with conception and it takes us all the way to his ascension. The Lord Jesus is the dependent man. John, we have no, uh, it's, it's easy eternal one. There's no mention of his birth. There's no mention of his, his, uh, his ascension. He's the eternal one. But the, umm, the point I believe is important for us to see in some of these distinctions. Look, primarily gives us the Lord as the dependent man.
So we see him tempted with the devil, and how does he meet it? He meets it with the word of God, the very thing that we need to meet the temptations of the enemy with with the word of God. But in John, the glory of him as the Son of God from the first chapter, for he set forth, all things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. Who but God the Son could do this? And you have these different expressions throughout John's Gospel that emphasizes deity. And even when he says there's nothing I can do of myself.
It's not because he was helpless. It's not because he was, umm, he, he, he was in weakness, but because he was so linked with a father that for one to do with the other was to do it one with the father. Even in John's Gospel there when he goes to the cross and the other gospels, you find Simon Cyrenian carrying his cross. But in John he buried his cross, went forth. It's in John that you have the cry, it is finished. It's in John you have the bloodshed. And there are these beautiful nuances through this.
This gospel that that keep the preeminent glory of Jesus as the Son of God before us. I think it's just been helpful to me to consider the context or consider the book that it's in to help us to understand the portion because as all these glories wrapped up, he is the dependent man. But in Johnny's the Son and sonship is not connected with dependence. He was the one in the booze of the Father, one with the Father, and it was the son that became man and took the dependent place.
But his Son, there are those that when he said that the Spirit of God would write, they said God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
I hope that clarifies a little bit in in in reference to, uh, John's gospel versus Luke's gospel.
The verse in the First Epistle of John, chapter 2, verse 23. Just read it and Mr. Darby's translation.
Whoever denies the son has not the father either.
He confessed his son has the father also.
And the Lord said to the disciples here, no man cometh to the Father. But by means there's many today who will take up and speak of the man upstairs or speak of God as Father in some sort of a vague way and speak of God kind of in that character of things. But they have no use for the sun. They have no use for Jesus Christ.
They don't have the there's only one way to come to the father. There's only one who's revealed the father. There's only one way to have the father, and that's what you have, the son.
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Outside of the sun, you cannot have the father at home at all in any way.
Brother mentioned #150.
All right. And that I was thinking of, that person says.
In the most perfectly expressed.
The Father itself.
I wonder if we could just stand with the same suggestion like that.
And the Lord and see God. I'm on the Word who I'm who I'm bringing away.
Yeah, maybe change somewhere around every day.
Umm.
And not really there's got, it's not going to sound.
Dream and.
For a meal of God.
That everything is doing it.
Umm.
You love the name of the world and cause.
The bride.
Of God in the Lord.
And one and everything in your heart.
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Uh, and they were all there was no.
The eternal baby was great and then did they ever have anything on everyone who were hurting your life from God?
Every minute.
Gospel 3
Gospel—Roger Roossinck
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For 25 precious, precious blood of Jesus.
Shed on Calvary, shed for rebels, shed for sinners, sheds from everyone in the room and saying that.
Second line of that first verse in our heart and chest for me.
What's the number on that brother Roger? Sorry, 25. I'm sorry, 25 in the back.
We'll sing along here. Others are sitting downtown right now.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's better. Gracious, gracious. Love you, Christian.
All over everything.
Right, I just ran.
Umm yeah, I don't really mind the work and swimming for all I never knew it was done.
Whatever your chance are red white friends and kids and scarlet glowed.
I also like to sing #18 I think perhaps we sing this, umm, the other night, Maybe not. But it's a beautiful song and it does give the gospel stories so clearly and completely and so.
We've seen this long at the beginning of a gospel meeting. I know that I'm covered because the gospel is told out in this song and gives it leaves everyone in the room responsible. If you've never taken the Lord your Savior. And So what I say maybe stumbling and fumbling and difficult to follow and understand, but this song puts it out there clearly. And so I kind of like the gospel for that reason because the gospel story.
I can't really like the second verse.
For Jesus **** his precious blood rich blessings to bestow. Plunge now into that Crimson blood that washes white as snow. Only trust him, Only trust him.
Only trust Him now or save you. He will save you. He will save you now and #18.
I'm every soul by sin of breath and everything.
And he was driving.
Around the light or I'd say deliver.
Oh, sleep around him. I've only crossed him and all the blade crossed him.
Umm.
At his friend, just one Grinch. Whatever, Sainsbury's gone for one to end the delivery without crap and then while I'm glad, shell and blindly landing stone.
Oh my God.
We may drive again all the days, drive 10 hours.
They gave us a good day it will take to get a ruling around the grave. Never now.
Yes, I'm afraid of the way I'm putting you in your crown.
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Delight behind you are blowing in glass.
Holy crunch and on the tries again.
Only brought him out.
And he'll thank you. Thank you. You're saying you're good in front of me and everyone in the house.
Oh, enjoying this lonely time.
So you'll be proud of your entire life and you're alive. And where joy is your name, Lord? Hello.
Oh, and he trust him alone. They trust him and all the way drivers him now in the beginning, it's beginning to be the world's name here in the beginning of the beginning in the world saying he knew he gave you anywhere else, saying he knew how.
The Lord for his health.
Find gospel and things so.
Try and keep my reverse, uh, breathe.
One verse I'd like to read just part of the verse back.
Matthew, 2444.
Therefore.
VE also ready.
It's been a wonderful three days we've spent here, Cornbrook.
We've learned many things, our Lord Jesus and the gospel has gone out faithfully the last two evenings and I wonder if there's anyone in the room tonight who's listening to those meetings. Listen to the speakers that rough here, certainly more capable than I and gave a faithful message in the gospel telling of that wonderful love of the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who came into this world, the same sinners, the one who came into this world to save you.
And you made it your own.
Are you here passing as a Christian? I was impressed by what her brother John uh, told us yesterday.
And that empty chocolate bar he had.
You know, I could see a young man in that chocolate bar.
He grew up in a home where.
The Word of God was honored and read.
He heard the gospel time and again. He came to Sunday school, came to the meetings, came to the gospel meetings. He grew up.
In a young person.
Grow bread at the Lord's Table.
Then.
We decided that perhaps there were more exciting things than other things that he was interested in. He joined the army.
Through training and was transferred to Korea.
And in Korea, he saw things that.
Perhaps.
Most of us don't see mine in the Army.
And you have been sometime after he was there?
Called his dad and said dad just got saved. That's something.
He assumed he was saved. He passed his Christian all those years, all whom said, Dad, I just got saved. Can you send me some tracks and give them to my buddies?
It's something to think about.
Who was unsafe?
If there's anyone in the room like that this evening that has never really made it your own.
Or really put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus came into this world. He knew.
That from a past eternity that man were sinners. That we could never earn our way to heaven, we could never work our way.
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To be fit for the presence of God. He knew that man would be before he even created man, He knew.
Be destined for judgment. What a solemn thing to think of. But he made a plan and Lord Jesus came into this world, became a man, and we've learned much about him in these last two days. But what a gracious man He was. He came in this. He wanted the streets and roads of Israel dusty, hot. He was tired. He could sit on a well and ask for a drink.
Sharon and boxes of holes burst the air and this didn't have a place to lay his head.
He could weep at the grave, Lazarus.
He reached down and touched a leopard.
The world hated him.
Brought him, won't go into detail, but they brought him to Jerusalem or he went to Jerusalem. He's arrested.
He's scorched. He was.
Hanging on my boss.
Of suffering and painting.
That's not what. That's not what Purge. That's not what.
Pay the price for our sins. No three hours. God shut out the sun.
Laid on him.
The iniquity of the song.
Anyone, everyone has put their trust, their faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. How can you sit here this evening if you never put your trust in Him?
And not be touched you think of that less than one.
To quote a brother that maybe news along with the Lord. Now I remember any Wakefield saying there's only one whoever he's the only man whoever walked the face of this earth that deserve to live and man.
Mm-hmm.
Trust there's no one in the room would reject such a message.
Sydney, the theory was in the weight. All the weight of God's wrath fell on him those three hours of darkness at the end.
He said it is finished and he bowed his head.
Gave up those he gave his own wife.
You and for me.
And that soldier came.
Drove a spear into his side.
It says forthwith or flow down blood and water.
Show the work was finished.
Bloodshed was shed, Scripture tells us. Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission in the Lord. Jesus shed his precious blood there at Calvary. There was no other blood.
I could possibly atone for sin.
Thousands of animals and and slain.
Umm, unmeasurable quantities of blood have been shed, but none of it could really take away since it only quarter pointed forward to that perfect sacrifice and perfect blood that would shed their calendar.
I'm asking you tonight, has it affected your heart?
You entered into your heart.
You realize your need is a savior.
You realize your need is a lost Sinner tonight.
There's no question.
That we're all dinners and scriptures tells us that all of sin had come short of the glory of God. And I dare say that there is no one in the room here. I try it. If we went around and asked each one, have you ever seen, Have you ever sinned, Have you ever sinned? I would say no, I've never seen.
If you're honest with yourself, I'm not going to do that. But if you're honest with yourself, you'll have to agree that there is many, many times.
Certain things that you know would not be pleasing to a holy God.
Therefore he also ready.
We read this afternoon.
Are the greatest promises.
Ever found in the Word of God? I think many promises and I hate to say one is greater than another, but this is one of the great promises of the word of God, the Lord Jesus told his own.
I will come again.
I will come again, you know, I can tell. When I quoted those words about thrill went through many in the room. Perhaps everyone I trust, everyone thrilled. It gives me a thrill just to say it.
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And if you're here without the Lord Jesus Christ?
Those words should reap terror in your heart.
Because if the Lord Jesus were to come this night.
The Lord Jesus were come before this meeting is over. That trumpet that Trumpet's blast would be heard in all of his own would be taken up to meet him in the air. Oh, I trust this room would be empty. But oh, if you're here, if you were left behind in your seat this evening.
Left behind for judgment.
I can hardly imagine.
That were that feeling.
But I did experience it one time.
When I was a little boy, young boy.
I really think that I knew the Lord is my Savior, but you know, Satan comes in and tries to get us to doubt.
And anyway, I jumped on my bike and took a ride up the road and it was gone for a bit.
I came back to the old farmstead.
Pull onto the yard and I immediately realized something was not right.
It was quiet.
Very nice.
Well, a large family and there was usually several kids around and things going on around that place with a test of that.
I would drive and see anyone.
Her brothers, Sisters.
Ran in the house and couldn't find my mother.
My dad I knew was would be at work.
He's going there. I couldn't find anyone and it was quiet.
And suddenly the thought hit me.
Perhaps the Lord is.
I'm left behind.
Maybe I wasn't sincere. Maybe I didn't know for sure.
And the horror interior going through me.
His heart to describe.
But I remember sprinting through that farmstead, in and out of every building in the barn and all around it was quiet. I couldn't see. There was no one there. I couldn't find anything. I knew my brothers and sisters.
Were saved. I knew they knew in order to see her. I knew my mother would be gone when the child came. Couldn't mind me.
I also knew.
There was no use falling on the ground and falling on my knees and crying out for mercy because it was too late.
It's not an active.
I trust no one in the room ever has to feel that terror in that horror.
It's not fun if you're left behind. The Lord counts.
And I said.
No use crying for mercy now it's creating.
Well, as I was running around that armstead looking new buildings and whatever.
I heard the most wonderful sound I've ever heard.
Found that old two cylinder John Deere tractor coming around, coming around the hill and I knew it would be my older brother Paul who's with the Lord now.
He was still there and I knew he was saved and what a wonderful sound that was. And I've ever since I've had whenever I hear one of those little things at an antique chill or whatever it, but I kind of enjoy it in a special way. That old and cylinder coming around, come around into that hill. But I just tell you that little story because.
I wish to impress in your heart you do not know where Jesus Christ is your personal Savior.
And you're left behind, ah, the terror. Oh, you're left behind for judgment. And I believe that this North American countries where the Bible has been read, where the Scriptures have been opened and.
Where the gospel has been preached in so many ways, I believe.
These North American countries are going to be the worst place on earth to be. It will be absolutely awful.
In the United States and Canada.
After lower returns.
The terror that will and.
That's nothing.
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3rd Wet your face.
You will die.
And you'll be raised again.
1000 years to appear.
Before the Lord Jesus Christ.
We'll be a loving Savior as we can present him tonight.
Will be one whose arms are outstretched and saying, come unto me, oh, you're going to labor heavy late, and I'll give you a rest.
It won't be like it won't be the one who's saying I paid the price for your sins.
I shed my precious blood. Won't you just accept it? No, no. It'll be there. Who's judged?
Read no answers.
The books will be open. Your name won't be found there.
We cast for all eternity of the Lake of Fire. I don't mean I don't want to.
The gospel is a.
Kind of break people into getting saved. I I remember hearing someone say that one time. But yeah, someone so preached gospel and he scared my kids in heaven. Wow. Like, that's quite a right thought. But I do feel it's important that we realize.
The judgment is coming.
And there is no escape. You never put your trust in the Lord, business, Christ, but tonight.
I can say the Lord Jesus is reading for you now.
He's looking down on his little company and He knows your heart. He knows if you've ever put your faith and trust in Him.
He knows if you're on the way to heaven.
Or he knows if you're on the way to a lost attorney.
And that's the last thing you want.
But tonight you can take him as Savior. Oh, you can own your lost Sinner, say Lord Jesus, who paid the price. Save my soul.
We heard the other night simply. It's as simple as Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall we save.
Lord is coming as very soon.
Very near.
Some are amazed that we're still here when we look at the things that are going on in this world around us.
OK, my mother used to say that her father and she said this probably 50 years ago, 40 years ago.
Her father could have read a newspaper of that day, He would have said he raptured already for it. Because the things that were running on school, look how much farther in advance.
Brethren, when we wake up in the morning, we should be amazed.
She'd be amazing.
All looking forward. That's a wonderful thing to look forward to this evening.
And I trust that each one in the room is what their faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and know the same favor and is along with me looking forward with wonderful glorious anticipation to that moment.
He's going to appear and he's going to call us home to be with him, to leave this world behind. Or glorified bodies. Angie and I were talking about it just a few minutes ago. Have I glorified body? And that going to be a great intervention, a glorified body.
Everyone of us in the room.
So we have a wonderful, we have a wonderful thing. We look forward to you.
Let's see the old I would plead with you and I if you've ever taken the large you sleep.
Tonight may be your last opportunity to the last meeting these three days of special meetings.
The Last Gospel wants to press the last Gospel meeting ever.
The Campbells think that spend my responsibility.
Yep, here.
Please do not bring up.
If there's anyone in the room who has any doubts or anything like.
Speak to anyone of us more than you know. Talk with you for a few minutes.
Airport.
B also ready.
Just let go, Father God and our Father.
Thank you for this opportunity this evening to once again tell thy love and once again.
Tell of that Savior of sinners.
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One little guy for me, the one who died for each one in the room is for the faith and trust me. So we just commit these few words that they and as we go our way, we pray that there's anyone within the sound of our voice that we may know they may realize tonight their need and they get favor Lord Jesus. So we just commit that we're name of the evening to leave back here.
Help really and precious name Lord Jesus.
No, no. Anyway, umm, before we start seeing.
I'd like to address the local phone number further.
And I believe that I would.
Umm, I believe I can speak for your out of town guests. I've, I've been asking for permission, but I think I can speak for them. It's been a wonderful 3 days and we appreciate tremendously all you have done for us. You've been a wonderful host, has been a wonderful, encouraging time and we also know the Lord will bless you greatly for your efforts and for your work.
Yeah, putting on this conference, so.
To be happy with all of your out of town guests. Thank you very much. Hey man.
That's agreed.
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Oh Lord, a heart far away.
The honorary angels, heavenly standing, right?
Who is like the same comes away in the rain and to the brain that time when everything was gonna last landing.
You can only think anything else. You never gave up on why you want to rage and all. I like that's where.
Oh, I remembered it again.
Without his wage and driven by the night while the United States workout under and brought into the light Gran Ren when he heard completely there God.
We listen to the day.
Oh, our branches for I'm saying for what I'm brought to thee. So when I.
Do it. I don't know the way you need your hair, by your thyroid and by.
The mirror right? Sitting on the land pride does and never there. I want to buy my head to do.
By thy heart in the light came, and I started.
All the plastic running, staying in the joy of swords.
To which our hearts rings. Fall on the beginning, for everywhere the Lord.
For wherever with the exact name.
Color and water shall be.
Can be my father. Bless.
Me forever one will be.
It's something I've been enjoying recently. I don't know, it would be very long, but.
We've had two references today to the book of not today, but this conference, umm, on the book of Nehemiah and, uh, I was wondering if we could just look at that book for a few moments.
Something I sort of enjoyed just recently.
Umm, I'm going to speak, uh, I'm going to speak to the younger children, but I guess they've all gone. But it's very interesting if you go to the Book of Nehemiah to find out the number of times that the word great is mentioned.
If you just have some spare time, take out a pencil and a piece of paper.
And go through the book of Nehemiah and discover how many times the word great is mentioned.
And that's what I would like to sort of make my subject this afternoon, although it's not going to be too long, but I'd like to read a few verses first of all.
And uh, Nehemiah, chapter one.
And, uh, starting at verse, umm.
UH-3.
And they said unto me, The remnants that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down, and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.
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And I said, I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, the great and terrible God that keeps covenant and mercy for them, and love him, and observe his commandments. Let thine here now be attentive, and thine eyes open.
But thou mayest hear thy the prayer of Thy servant, which I pray before thee day and night for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee, both I and my Father's House of sins. We have dealt very corruptly against Thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the uh, judgments which thou commandest thy servant Moses. Remember, I beseech thee, the words that thou commandest thy servant, Moses saying.
If you transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations.
And then I'd like to turn to chapter 8.
And just read a couple of verses there.
Umm, verse 5.
And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people.
And when he opened it, all the people stood up, and Ezra blessed the Lord the Greek God, and all the people answered Amen, Amen with lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.
And then umm, on to chapter umm.
Nine Chapter 9.
And verse 31.
Nevertheless, for thy great mercy's sake, thou didst not utterly consume them nor forsake them, for thou art gracious and a merciful God. Now, therefore, our God the great, the mighty.
Come upon us, on our kings, and on our Princess, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on our all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day, albeit Thou art just in all that is brought upon us. For thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly. Neither have our kings and our Princess and priests, nor our fathers kept the law, Thy law, nor hearkened unto Thy commandments.
And then, umm, I'd like to look at, uh, chapter 4.
Nehemiah, chapter 4.
And, uh, this time, uh, starting at verse 19.
And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another. In what place thereof ye hear the sound of the trumpet? Resort ye sit there unto us, our God shall fight for us. So we labored in the work, and half of them held the Spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared. Likewise at the same time said I under the people.
Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and leave her on the day. So neither I nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that everyone put off for washing.
And then the 6th chapter.
And uh, verse 2.
San valid and send unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together, someone of us in some of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease? Uh, whilst I leave it and come down to you. And then just one other passage, the 12Th chapter.
And uh.
Just a few verses there. Verse 31 Then I brought up the Princess of Judah upon the wall and I'm going to read it, I think the way Mr. Garvey was it, and appointed 2 great choirs that gave thanks where up one went on the right hand up on the wall toward the down gate, and after them went hoshai and half the Princess of Judah and so on, and then down to verse umm.
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Uh.
40 So stood the two choirs of them that gave thanks in the House of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me.
Uh, verse 43 also that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced, for God has made them rejoice with great joy. The wise also and the children rejoiced so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off. Well, I know I have read quite a few scriptures there in the book of Nehemiah, but I've enjoyed this that we really have here.
The word great brought before us many times the 1St 3 passages I read it was the Great God.
And then the second two passages I read. It was a great work.
And, uh, in the last passage that we read, it was great joy and rejoicing.
And, you know, I was just thinking of this day in which Nehemiah lived. You'll notice it wasn't really a day that was very encouraging. Notice the way he speaks there, the third verse.
The first chapter.
Complexion and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem also was broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
Uh, I might just say before I start is why, why read about Nehemiah? What, what connection does that have with the day in which we're living? Well, I think that the day in which we're living is really very similar to what we had in the day of Nehemiah. And Nehemiah here he was mourning over the fact that the condition of things and how the walls were broken down the, the temple had fallen into disrepair, although we know what they were working on it. And it says here the gates were burned with fire.
It was really a day of discouragement in some ways. But you know, the wonderful thing is that Nehemiah here, he wasn't getting so occupied with the problems because we find here in the next verse.
That it says I sat down, I went, I mourned, I fasted, and I prayed.
Gmail was a man of prayer. In fact, it's very interesting to go through this book and see how many times it talks about Nehemiah praying. And you know, I think that's something that's really lacking amongst us today. I speak to myself. How much time do we spend in prayer? It's very easy to get occupied with the difficulties, the fact that the meetings are getting smaller and the truer young people and so on. And it's very easy to get occupied with these things. But how much time do we?
Uh, spend in prayer.
Looking to the Lord and what I think is so wonderful here that NIA Maya prays to the great God. And you know, that's something I think that we have to get a hold of in our souls, that we have a great God.
And of course, the Lord Jesus. Is there anyone greater than him?
He came down here in obedience to the Father's will and he went to the cross. This is a confident accomplished that mighty work of redemption. He's made the way of salvation. We know we're a very privileged people. We've been brought into this great, great place of blessing. And I wanted to say, if there's anyone here not saved this afternoon, you know, it says, how shall we escape that we neglect so great salvation. So we have a great Savior, uh, a great salvation and we have a great thought and he is just as evil today.
To look after us and to bless us as it was back in the, in the days when things were much different. You know, I remember when I was, uh.
A young person, I used to go to the Toronto conferences and I suppose there, there might have been 800 people. And then there was the Montreal conferences. I remember going to one where there was 1200 and uh, and we enjoyed so much fellowship and we went to a hymn saying the whole auditorium was full of young people. But you know, things have changed. But the wonderful thing is that we still have the great God. He's just the same today as he was back in the 60s, as he was back in the 1800s.
And uh, you know, Nehemiah, it's interesting to see how he was, uh, certainly burdened by the way things have turned out. But you know, he confessed the failure of, uh, Israel as his own failure. He knows how he talks There in the eighth verse, he says, I beseech thee, I beseech thee the words that thou commandest thy servant Moses saying, if he transgressed, I was, I'm sorry, that's not the verse I want verse seven. We have dealt very corruptly against thee.
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And have not kept the commandments nor the statutes nor the judgments. So he recognized that the reason why these things had happened, uh, to, umm, the children of Israel because of their failure. And you know, we have to look back and we have to say it's a heart failure that things have turned out the way it is. We can't point the finger at others. We can only point the finger at ourselves and myself. But you know, The thing is that Nehemiah want to encourage themselves.
So he spoke about the great God.
And so let's go on. I don't want to take too much time, but we went on to the 8th chapter.
And when we come to the 8th chapter, things have changed.
Uh, instead of the walls being broken down and the temple and disrepair and, uh, the children of Israel taken into captivity, what do we find? Well, umm, we find here that the, uh, walls have been, were, were repaired, umm.
The, uh, temple was, uh, rebuilt and uh, things were going along a lot better. And, uh, so it says here in the, uh, sixth verse, Ezra, bless the Lord, the great God and all the people answered Amen and Amen. You know, sometimes we can get so occupied with the failure and the condition of things that, uh, we forget the things that the Lord has done for us.
And uh, you know, we can look back and we can look and see what the Lord has done for us. What a wonderful privilege it is to be gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus to be able to meet together in this way. Just look what the Lord has done for us this past weekend.
Filling this room and giving this comfortable place for us to be. And, umm, many of us here or most of us here were brought up in Christian homes. We were brought up with the word of God was, uh, uh, was preached and, uh, where it was, uh, obeyed, uh, at least maybe not entirely, but certainly, uh, there wasn't a desire to walk in obedience to the word. These are things that we can be thankful for. And so instead of being occupied here with the difficulties, uh, that, that the, uh, children of Israel here and Nehemiah, they were thanking God.
For the place that, that he had brought them to. And uh, they said here, as I said, Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And that's what we need to do to thank the Lord for all that he has done for us and trust him for all that's become, uh, and so that's what we have here. And then when you go to the 9th chapter.
You, you'll have to forgive me if I don't just get this in exactly the way I want to put it. But in the 9th chapter, you find again, Nehemiah recounts all the things that the Lord had done for the, for the, the people of God, and yet how failure had come in over and over and over again. And umm, he comes then to the 30, uh, 31St verse and he says, nevertheless, for thy great mercy's sake.
Thou didst not utterly consumed nor forsake them, for thou art gracious and a merciful God. Now therefore our God, but great, the mighty and the terrible God, who keep us covenant of mercy. Let not all the trouble seem little before the IT just seems like Nehemiah is saying Lord.
I know the way things have gone, but you know, you are a merciful God and please keep us, Keep us going on, uh, in spite of the failure. And oh Lord it, isn't it true that that's what we want today, even though things aren't what they, we would like them to be still, how wonderful to think that the Lord is coming very, very soon, and he wants us to keep on and He'll keep us. He'll preserve us. If we have a desire to walk in obedience to His word, He will keep us until that moment when He gives the shout.
And we can trust him, He's the great God. And we can see the way the Lord has worked in the past by often I'm amazed at looking at history from God's viewpoint, as it were back in the, UH-16 hundreds. We think of a terrible state of things there, uh, and Christendom in Europe. And what happens, God raises up, uh, Martin Luther and, uh, he restores the truth of justification by faith. And one man is, is raised up of God to take on, you might say, the whole.
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Uh, church system and that truth is restored justification by faith. Then in the next century, what happens? God raises up gospel preachers, people like David Breinhardt and George Whitfield and others.
And the gospel is sounded out in England and in North America and many other places, and thousands of people are are brought to know the Lord as Savior.
Then you go to the 1800s and what do you find? God raises up man, the godly man who began to understand what it was that the truth of the one body and being gathered through the Lord's name. They were gathered out of systems and hundreds of, of uh, of umm, gatherings were, were raised up in England and in Europe and in North America. Again, we can see God working in spite of the failure.
And you know, I believe the Lord is still working today.
And He's the great God, and He's quite capable of preserving a testimony until He comes in spite of our failure. All He wants us to do is to walk in obedience to His Word and recognize that He is in control and He's the one that can keep us coming on for Him.
Well then, if you turn to the 4th chapter, the 4th chapter of Nehemiah.
Umm, Iran's old versus and here it's not so much the great God that is brought before us.
But it says here in the 19th verse I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one part from another. In what place thereof you hear the sound of the trumpet? Resort ye feather unto us, our God shall fight for us. So here is talking about a great work.
And you know.
It might not seem like a great work. Umm, perhaps you're in a little assembly and there's a, a little Sunday school work. There might be 10 or 12 Children that come. I think this isn't very much, but you know, if it's done for the Lord, it's a great work. And perhaps, umm, the Lord would have you to go and visit some shut insurance and seek to be an encouragement to them. It's a great work because we're serving a great God. And I think the primary thought here in these verses.
Is that it says that they were separated one for another, far from another. And you know, that's often the case. I know. I think of this little assembly here in Corner Brook. There's seven hours from, uh, St. John's and, uh, they're about the same distance to the skeleton. The meetings are not close together. I think of our brother John here and Carmen in Denver, and I think you feel how far away some of the assemblies are.
But you know, it says here, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us. Our God shall point for us. But I think the thought is of being together. You know, I think we need to do this more than ever today. I think the enemy just delights to keep us separated and how doing our own thing and forgetting that we're all members of that one body would have us to be together to help each other, to encourage one another. And I wanna say what a tremendous encouragement.
I'm not from this assembly, but I know what a tremendous encouragement is been, uh, for the Saints to feel the exercise to come here and to be an encouragement to that. You're saying it's not only in Corner Brook.
But in St. John's and the Maritime provinces.
We need to be together, we need to encourage one another. It's a great work that the Lord has given us to do and He wants us to continue until He comes. And so it talks here about a great work. And yet, you know, the enemy is always busy to try and stop this. And so when you come down to the 6th chapter and you know these things, I don't have to really go into them. We find here in the early part of the 6th chapter.
San Ballot and Geekshem. Umm.
They're opposed to what was going on in the building of the wall. And they say, here, let us meet together, uh, in some of the villages of the Plain of Ono. In other words, they didn't want that wall to be constructed. They wanted to hinder it. So they asked Nehemiah and the others to come down to the Plain of Ono. And it's often been said that, umm, it was the plane of Ono, the place where Nehemiah had to say, Oh no.
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We're not going to do that. We're not going to do it. How could they, umm, carry on the great work that the Lord had given them to do and go down and meet with these men? And yet, you know, that's what the enemy is always trying to do. He's trying to steal our hearts away, uh, towards the world and to get occupied with things that aren't important and, uh, to leave off the work. And, umm, I want to say that, you know, it's easy to do that.
It's easy to, umm, go to the meeting and say, well, I don't have to worry too much about thinking about the chapter tonight because brother so and so is there. He'll look after things and he'll, uh, carry on the meeting. I can just relax. It's easy to be like that, isn't it? Let somebody else do the work. But we need to be exercised. Each one of us. The Lord has given us something to do. It might be encouraging someone or, umm, helping in a physical way.
Umm, there's many little things the Lord would have us to do, and he doesn't want us to be distracted by the enemy who would seek to turn our hearts aside.
From doing that great work that he has given us to do.
Well.
I I don't want to take too much time here, but the last chapter or at least the 12Th chapter.
We've talked about a great God who was able to come in for us. We talked about a great work that the Lord has would have us to carry on for him. And what's next? I believe in this 12Th chapter. We have great results, great results. And I think what's so wonderful at the end of this book, we have the people coming together and it says they are in the 1St, 31St verse.
Then I brought up the Princess of Judah upon the wall and appointed 2 great choirs. I think that's the way Mr. Darby puts it. 2 great Flyers that gave thanks. And then as you go down, uh, in verse UH-30, it says from the gate of Ephraim and above the old gate and above the fish gate and the tower of Hannah Neil and the tower of Mia, even under the sheep gate, they stood still in the prison gates.
Umm, they so stood the two choirs that gave thanks to the House of God.
So here we have, umm, the results of what have been going on and how wonderful there were these great wires singing joyfulness.
And it's interesting that they stood in front of the prison gigs. It's just as if they remembered being captive back there in Babylon. Umm, you know, we often, uh, read those verses in the book of the Psalms. Umm, now just read it. I'm not good at quoting, but, uh, remember how they said in Psalm 137, how shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget the old Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning and so on.
They they couldn't sing in a strange lounge when they had been taking captive. Now they're back in the land and what can they do? They can sing, They can rejoice at what the Lord has done. And so we find that the case and it says there in verse 43 that the day and also that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced where God had made them rejoice with great joy. And so how wonderful.
That the Lord had worked in their lives and they had brought great blessings. And you know, we often sing that little hymn, don't we? We'll praise Him for all that is past and trust Him for all is to come. We can look back and we can see how the Lord has undertaken in so many different ways. We have so much to be thankful for, to rejoice over. And so we find that these people here, they were rejoicing.
And they were encouraging one another at what the Lord had done. So I want you just to think of these verses, Meditate on we have a great God, we're doing a great work, and we're doing an obedience to the word of God and there'll be great results and we're looking to him. May the Lord encourage us in these last days of small things to go on for him until he gets the ship.
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Encouraging words we've had from God's precious word. I'd just like to for a very few minutes, uh, continue looking at the book of Nehemiah.
And.
I'd like to refer to.
Two scriptures involving walls.
I'm not a stone make Mason, I'm not a brick player, but.
Uh, my mother had several brothers that were stonemason.
And brick layers.
And over the years, I had a chance to see their handiwork.
And some years ago, our brother Don Bella Sally came to our house and.
Help me put in a wood stove.
And uh.
Year or so after that was last somewhat unfinished, it was functional.
But I had an uncle, an unmarried uncle that came and lived with us. He was a bricklayer by professor.
And he helped me. I shouldn't say he helped me. I helped him a little bit.
Put up.
A very impressive brick wall on both sides of that fireplace.
Finally put it up.
Would have been straight.
You would have seen the results of my incompetence or my lack of training.
But everything was exact, straight, plump.
We're told.
In Scripture, not only to be careful what we build with, but how we build.
And in the book of Nehemiah.
There's concern with building a wall.
And.
It's warm around the city.
But if we go to the book of Deuteronomy, which occurs before Nehemiah.
There's instructions given when a new house is being constructed.
These homes have flat roofs.
And often a lot of the daily activities.
Took place.
Flatulence.
If there were vegetables and fruit to be dried, it was spread out on that roof.
If there were children that were sent out to play, they were sent out to play often on that flat roof. But there is specific instruction in the book of Deuteronomy about constructing battlements.
Or a wall around that house.
And.
It should be.
Something that we as parents and grandparents should be very concerned about.
Constructing battle mix.
Around the roofs or walls of our homes. But let's just look for a moment concerning some of the builders on the wall.
In chapter 3.
One of the first two days long expansion is a Lion ship, the High Street and.
We see that there was a failure.
On his part.
It seems that he was engaged in some aspects of the work and perhaps he did some work, but as we read further in verse 21.
It says after him repaired Merrimoth, the son of Urijah, the son of Cause, another piece from the door of the House of Eliaship, even to the end of the House of Eliaship. So it appears that Eliaship did not build the wall in front of his own house. And as we refer to this morning, we saw through intermarriage that that led to a very deplorable condition.
Found at the end of the book of Nehemiah.
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What is encouraging?
To see.
Some that are building adversary. But the fish gate to the sons of Pasanaya build, who also laid the beams thereof and set up the doors thereof and the locks thereof, and the bars are off, and these were necessary then.
And they're necessary now.
And again we see some that did not apply themselves. In verse five it says next unto them that the Koites repaired, but their nobles putting off their necks to the work.
No, at school we're always told to lead by example.
What were the nobles to have done? They were to have met by example, which they seemed to fail to do.
But we see another case mentioned here where since they built earnestly and we even see the daughters of an individual also engaged in the work and in the building. Now I'd like to just go over to the book of Proverbs, Proverbs for a moment.
And there's some very practical instruction given in Proverbs.
The wall fell under disrepair time of near Maya for a particular reason.
And we're gonna read now about another wall that.
Fell into a state, uh, state of disrepair for another reason. And if we look at verse 30, it says I went by the field of the Swaffle and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding and law was all grown over with thorns and nettles.
And covered the face thereof and the Stonewall thereof.
Was broken down with chapter brother. That's chapter 24 of Proverbs and verse 30.
So what are the horrible state this was?
The wall hardly could have been found.
And.
The stones were broken. Uh, the nettles had covered the face of the wall.
But then.
It goes on to say to verse 32. Then I saw and considered it. Well, I looked upon it and received instruction.
How often do we look upon things that are not right?
Some kind of gloss over them?
And we don't receive the instruction that we should get.
From looking at particular situation.
What a blessed state to be in to look at something.
And to receive instructions.
There's another way that a wall is viewed, and Proverbs chapter 25.
And it involves our own spirits. Verse 28. He that hath no rule over his own spirit.
Is like a city.
That is broken down.
And without this.
Walls were built for protection.
And I've had.
The privilege to travel quite a bit in Europe.
I've been to some.
All cities in Germany that were walled cities.
And in some cases, those walls were 10 or 12 feet thick.
To provide instruction.
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I've also been to some castles and cities.
In Romania that were wolves cities.
Even a number of the churches and monasteries had walls around them for fear of the Ottoman Turks or invaders.
But those walls were there to provide protection.
And so here we have another practical word concerning.
Having the rule over our own spirit. Not going to elaborate much on that, but.
It's, uh, something that we have each have to consider.
And let's also turn to the 8th chapter of Ezra.
Not not as Ezekiel, I'm sorry, Ezekiel.
Chapter 8.
We see beginning and verse five how the temple of the Lord was profaned and detached upon that at the end of Nehemiah.
And in verse six it says, He said Furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do, even the great abominations that the House of Israel committed here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary.
But turn me yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.
And he brought me to the door of the court, and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
Then he said unto me, Son of Man, dig now in the wall. And when I had digged in the wall to hold a door, he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do.
So I went in and saw, and we hold every form of creeping things and abominable beast, and all the idols of the House of Israel portrayed upon the wall round about.
And there stood before them seventy men, 70.
Number of responsibilities of the ancients of the House of Israel. In the midst of them stood.
Uh, jazz Andaya, the son of Shayfan, every man has censored in his hand. And a thick cloud of incense went up, said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the House of Israel do in the dark? Every man.
In the chambers of his imagery for the same. For they say, the ward seeth us not, and the Lord hath forsaken the earth. And he said unto me, turn thee again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. We don't have to look into those greater abominations. We see many of these things before us today, but there's something very solemn that we have in verse 16.
And.
It says between the porch and the altar were about 5 and 20 men.
With their backs towards the temple of the Lord and their faces towards the east.
Recently I I read a biography of a man who was converted in India. His name is Ravi Zacharias.
Some perhaps I've read some of his books.
But his biography is entitled Journey from the East to the West.
And he was brought up.
And the environment of the Buddhist Hinduism.
Every form of ISM. I guess that you can think of all these oriental religions.
He was well acquainted with them.
But he was wonderfully converted.
And still recall one statement that he makes in his book.
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He said it is so sorrowful to see.
Many in the United States and Canada that have been brought up.
In a privileged nation.
Looking to the East, Looking to Hinduism, Looking to Buddhism.
For all the answers, well, we're thankful for that diligence of Ezra, that diligence of Nehemiah to repair that which was fallen. And I'm sure our brother made reference to the fact that when Nehemiah went out to view that wall, who was in such a state of disrepair that.
The donkey could hardly go through the wall.
And I'm sure it brought so many fears to his eyes.
But.
It's also solemn to read the fact that after Nehemiah left that city for a period of time, a period of declension set in, and so in the last chapter, there had to be a lot of things set into order.
Thou may the Lord desire to keep us, each one going on faithfully and consistently for Him. How we failed in so many ways.
And I just wanna look.
Back at Nehemiah, for one.
One or two further versus.
Mm-hmm.
With one first. I'm just trying to locate it right now, but.
Nehemiah prays specifically to the ward.
To strengthen the knee.
One thing to ask the Lord to strengthen others.
But we each have to come to the point.
Where were each responsible.
And each of us have to seek his help.
And going on in our pathway for him.
Individually and then proactively.
OK, yeah, it's peak of one thing.
That needed to be done.
The the end we've done was speaking one thing that we all.
Expect to happen soon, and that's the Lord coming.
That's something which we expect expect next to happen.
Better I have some more scriptures I just.
Like to mention.
And the first one signed served with 27.
You already heard that.
List four. One thing have I desired? Absolutely.
That's where I see that.
Then I may dwell in the House of the Lord called the face of my life.
To behold the beauty of the Lord.
To enquire in this and through and through, enquire in this template.
Well, that's what we all want to do until the Lord comes.
There's in other words.
Delivery at 313 or the apostrophe S Apostle.
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Regimen I can't run myself to have apprehended.
But this one thing I do.
For getting those things which are behind and reaching for us until those things which are before.
Address through the mark on the price of the high quality of God Dream Christ Jesus.
Well, that's these are the things that we are pressing on today still.
At the apostrophe.
That we don't.
Do anything which is.
Not pleasing to the Lord Jesus. We have that high calling.
Not and there's another scripture that speaks about it. That is somebody, somebody who requires this.
1-6 and two defend with his head and.
John 925 So we know what that means of.
The blind man.
He said.
The aunt and said.
His parents were first asked.
I'll be a client inside.
Because usually impossible for anybody to apply it at all.
The Pharisees wanted to know details once again.
So his parents said therefore that his parents he is of age as 10.
Then again called the man that was blind, and said unto him.
Give God this praise. We know that this man is a Sinner, but how could they know that they could fail?
He answered and said.
Whether he feels sooner or no, I know not one thing I know.
That were as I was blind.
Now I see.
It reminds me of an incident in June and now in Chicago.
I had the lentil.
Quite a few months there and she room and board.
And I also had a man there who gave me some words when I first.
It came back from the army.
And but one time we my wife and I were visiting their friends lady and.
There came a man visiting, whom we knew I still.
And we knew him, that he was a believer.
So we all started talking about.
Salvation, the Sinner of the Lord.
Anne said this man gave a good testimony.
And that is something I have to explain. There's a word in German that means product.
And that, that, that says Pyrrhic. In German it means crazy.
And after he gave his testimony, she she said to him.
You are crazy and that same word means.
You have been moved like if I move this table. I have corrected it. I have moved it.
And this brother said you are right.
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I have been moved from darkness into light.
I thought that was the perfect thing.
And there's another.
Instant. I would like to read out and look again body to body please.
Stop.
Stop.
The incident is.
38 Now it's going to pass.
As they went that he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received them into her house.
And she had a sister called Mary, which also said that Jesus's speed.
Android didn't worry.
But Martha was stumbled about much serving and came to him and said.
Lord, that sound not fair that my sister has left me to serve alone.
With her, therefore.
That she asked me.
We would think that it was quite a boldness picked up the Lord Jesus.
But he answered very gently.
And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful about.
And troubles about many things.
But one thing is needed.
And for Mary has chosen that good which shall not be taken away from her.
Well, I would like to stop here.
They both of y'all have chose that good product to sit and eat the Lord Jesus, which we have done this conference actually, and we thank the Lord that you could do that.
That's great.
We thank dear God and that we have many instances which speak about things which encourage us.
And we thank thee that the Lord to his source is a great encourageous and.
Character for us.
Go on.
The steps which he has tried before.
That we go on in his steps and that we watch us that.
That we might be exercise always to please him.
And through that drove his right and his safe. He had the Lord Jesus that.
Down to campus and doing this replacement.