Des Moines Conference: 1959
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Hebrews 11:3-6
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Hey bro, Doctor Lavin first thing.
For not saying it is impossible to please live for even Thomas to God, but believe that he is and that he is rewarded them the diligence to see him.
I made Noah, being warned of God a thing not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
By faith, Abraham when he was called out.
To go out into a place which after receive or inheritance obey and we went out not knowing whether he went.
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same province. For he looked for a city which has foundations with builder and Maker of God.
Through faith also, Sarah herself received strength from C&C.
And was delivered of a job when he was past age because she just get faithful who had problems, therefore trying to even US1. And came as good as dead. So many of the stars of the sky and multitude, and as a band which is by the shore innumerable. These all died in faith, not having received the process, but having deemed them a bar on. And were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and children on the earth.
The name that say such things declare plainly that making the countries and truly if they have been mindful of that country whence they came out, and they might have had opportunity to have returned, but now they desire a better country that is in heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed, because their God, for He has prepared for them to see.
And I was not being well.
Before going any further.
To call attention to the fact that.
These different ones that have been brought forward here were not brought forward in London.
Now the 5th chapter of Genesis lets us know there were more in the line of faith than we have here recorded.
Sentences mentioned. Quite a few others are not mentioned, and yet they're in the line of faith in Genesis 5.
But God has chosen certain ones to bring before us to present a general line of truth.
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We have a statement of what faith does.
Not what faith is.
They believe God, then they believe God enables us to lay hold of that which is incomprehensible, except toothpaste.
Then we have faith in the God of creation.
We believe and we understand more about creation than the.
Best scientists are the wildest guests of any evolution.
And then we have faith is able.
Long that he was fallen on that he couldn't approach God without a substitute.
That he had to come in an appointed way to be accepted.
Then we have faith in Enoch that enables him to live and work evil worlds of God's glory. And in the end, this translation.
Taken out of it, without doubt.
And the last one in the series is Noah.
Who goes through the plot as a type of the Jewish remnant in the Tribulation?
So we have creation, we have a substitute.
And we have a godly walk and translation and then.
After the translation, a godly remnant left on earth that goes through the tribulation.
That's the order, yes.
Without faith, it is impossible to please him.
Praise His last that honors God and puts man in these proper place.
We believe it enough because we understand it, but because God says so.
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The word to understanding the third verse, I believe, is apprehensive.
Comprehend means that you take it all in.
African means that you get your hand full but can't take it all in.
And so we asked him, but we never can really comfort him.
Say so would be to say that we have minds Co equal with God.
Man is a creature.
And he is finite. God is infinite.
We believe it because God says so, and that's why the enemy attacks Scripture today.
Andrews wooden, put into those thoughts, into the mind.
Just believe it, but your God says so.
And that is really safe.
Put God in His place and put you and I in our place. And if you have any difficulty about some special verse, don't try to solve it up here.
Not one right thought of God ever enters man through his intellect.
It never does.
It's the word of God is addressed to the conscience.
Man must judge of the Word of God in one sense, but his judgment reveals his state.
And what is his state?
Romans 8 and 9/1.
Very important statement.
I say this because I met her at the Lady and Doctor Dashwood in the Post in Atlanta.
She said the mind is the God enough. Oh, I said maybe. Where did you get that?
She said.
Why? The Bible says with the mind, I myself serve the law of God.
Oh, I said maybe why did you stop reading the Bible when you came to that verse? Why didn't you go on a level and let me the very next chapter, the 8th and the 9th verse it says?
Or rather the seventh verse, because the carnal mind is enmity against God.
Where it is not subject to the law of God.
That's the real mind of God. Neither indeed can be.
That's why this whole Bible ends with the statement, Behold, I make all things new.
This whole creation has been ruined and as children of God.
2nd Corinthians 5 answers the questions.
Let me first.
Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. It should be.
All things are passed away. The whole all a double F All things have become new.
And all things are of God that carries you into the eternal states.
It's a new creation.
And to bring in new creation, you must bring in the power of God.
But think of what it cost God to bring us into new creation.
01 has sometimes put it this way, brother.
The blood of Christ puts our sins away.
The death of Christ puts me away.
The cross of faith separates us from the world.
If you'll watch as you read.
The course of Christ is always the same side of the sufferings of Christ.
And it is the cross of Christ that has separated me from the world, while the death of Christ.
Has ended our Adam's history and brought us into new creation.
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The blood of Christ is the ground of it. But.
The blood of Christ is that which puts our sins away.
Now there are some people.
That they get there, nor didn't actually get out and preach.
But that's the way nor preach was when in building that arm.
Tells us here that he prepared an arm for the fading of his house.
By to which he condemned the world and behave heir of the righteousness, which is my faith. I can't say that I'm actually clear whether.
God actually got out and preached, but I'm sure some of the antediluvian came and asked N what he was doing. That tip for that he surely would have told him about the flesh.
Peter call him a preacher. Yeah, but you know his brother, He didn't like that idea, nor pretty, but but his thought was this, that the building of the Ark was the way North Creek. But we can say this.
That I suppose the greatest famine that was ever preached in this world was all building that are because no matter how much the people boil the floods mocks it north or building an immense hip on dry land.
There wasn't one that dispute the fact that nor believed what he was doing and what he was telling that there was a blood coming.
His work proved that he believed.
What he was telling others.
That's very important for us, isn't it? Our actions and our ways.
To prove that we believe.
What we're telling sinners about the Lord and about the fact that judgment is coming on this world.
Well I'm no doubt just nor I've been preaching to then the first Peter 3.
Verse 18.
For Christ also has once suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, was written by the Spirit, by which also He went and preached under the spirits in prison.
I have always held and taught that it was the Spirit of Christ in North that did the preaching.
Are repeated because the spirit of Christ in north. That is the preaching. Then in the 20th verse you get why.
They came under judgment, and when they come into under judgment, why was because they were disobedient and when was in the days of Noah?
And it's not Christ going down in person.
So these spirits in prison, which some have taught.
Why? Because it distinctly tells you right here that there was only 8 souls saved and that's all that were in the Ark.
But it is the Spirit of Christ. I judge brethren in north. What do you think, brother? Oh absolutely. I don't think for any question about it. And if we look at the first chapter of first Peter.
We can see how the key.
Solving of this question is troublesome. That is right here.
And they didn't work with salvation. The prophets have inquired in certain diligently, and prophesied with the graces will come unto you.
Dripping what or what matter of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them? The Spirit of Christ was in them, that Old Testament prophets. Now here in our verse we get Noah preaching.
But it's the spirit of Christ in law, preaching in his day, the people that were alive.
He didn't preach the dead people.
The people that were alive, he preached to them while they were on the earth, but it was the spirit of Christ in the dead. So you get in the.
In the next chapter, the 4th chapter of first Peter and the sixth verse.
For this cause also was the gospel also preached, and preached the Lamb that are dead.
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It wasn't preached to them after they were dead, but they're dead now.
And why was it reached to them I when they were live on the earth, they were given the choice of two destinies.
One one that is, they rejected the gospel that restricts make me judged according to what they have done and reflect. On the other hand, if they accepted the message, they should live according to God in the Spirit. But the preaching was done while they were alive here on the earth, not after they were dead.
Among them, they've been in prison, Brother Brown.
And a defense of the Cincinnati, Pennsylvania.
1300 years approximately.
The margins were down and unlocked Mystical door and when he went back to heaven. Think a lot of loosened prisoners with it. Not a bit.
So I I don't know whether it's true now or not. I don't think it is, but.
I think it's one time even.
Here Mr. Schofield has a note like that, and he Scofield notes.
I think maybe later editions expunged it remembering you have that any notes at one time.
Two things are going to help to me.
In this strange passage is, as you say, troublesome man.
A lot has been written about the Greek.
Mr. Kelly has a whole book on on the Greek art.
And Mr. Tory wrote a book of answers.
He said. I'll have to admit Mr. Kelly's learning in Greek, but I don't think he made his point.
But two things would be necessary for the proper understanding of. One is.
That the epistles of James speak of the Spirit of Christ speaking in the Old Testament times, and by which all by the Spirit he went free, and the other would be not the customer. Peter, Peter accident. Thank you. That the epistles of Peter bold speak of the Spirit speaking in Old Testament times through service.
And nor was a preacher. Now the second epistle and the second chapter.
Fort Worth for a God spared not the angels of sin, but cast them down to hell and delivered them in the chains of darkness. And we reserved them to judgments. And spare not the old world that saved Noah, the 8th person or one of eight, a preacher of righteousness.
Now Peter states of faith of no preaching and it's based on the Spirit of Christ speaking through servants at that time. So you have it right in the scope of Peter statistics to answer the question.
How ridiculous would have been.
Breaking the big place?
Just the last group that were in prison at that time. And what about all the rest since that day? Millions of people.
Have gone into death. Millions of people have gone into the unseen world since that. Why the favoritism? No, Brennan is it's just a river.
It will. It will let scripture interpret itself.
Will not be LED away by these strange doctrines and generally.
Those who are associated with cops, with cops that sees on scriptures like this.
To substantiate their evil pieces. Pardon your brother Barry. Pardon raised. I want to interrupt you, but there's just one more scripture before we leave the subject I think we could call attention to in the 6th past year of Genesis.
Next chapter 10 over the 3rd 1St.
And the Lord passed my spirit.
Shall not always strive with man, for that he also is placed.
Yet his day shall be 120 years.
When we're at old 120 years.
The flutter after the flood, Well, it was before the flood.
And he says, My spirit, well, the Spirit of God, which is the spirit of Christ.
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As we know from the New Testament, what's driving with old and alluvian during that 120 years?
When Noah was building the ark. So there's another.
Stroke of the.
The way that.
The gospel was breached, the Rose before the flood.
You were mentioning about Tokyo Bible, I know about the same three of those who were held captive, but well, the results are unknown in our margin reading in our authorized version in the course of Ephesians that would probably.
Give that thought. Where do they have captivity high or the marginal reading says or a mother who captivity. I think that's where Mr. Schofield has to know was on on that verse. But I believe the thought is he lent captivity. That's that's the thought in the past. He Lance captain he captain the first question, the longitude of captain when he led the captionivity captain.
That's your thoughts? Yeah, they all the race. I mentioned the clause that it's been our authorized word too. Oh yes, I I don't think that was a thought in the scripture elsewhere thought.
Certain that was held in camp Give way, Yes, let the jailer prison.
Walking off the gates of gate.
Supposedly he just walked off to the very gate that was supposed to hold.
So try this.
He broke the bars of death and six year old and walked off.
It is a principled brethren in the ways of God, running all through the bank.
God never brings judgment without warning at once.
The other is without providing a way of escaping. That's the other.
Until the finality of his ways and the eternal state, then all is fixed.
Another thing Mr. Potter used to bring the forth and remember Brother Hayhoe.
He says God doesn't wait until a thing begins to fizzle out and then judgment. He judges it at his height.
Yes, well, you get that principle in Genesis 15.
Would like to have the scripture for us.
Genesis 15 and verse 16 substantiate what was stated.
But in the 4th generation they shall come hit her again. For the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet both.
And there's two reasons for it. One is.
To show the righteousness of God's judgment and the other is to make apparent the evil that's in man's heart.
He doesn't realize.
The wickedness of his heart.
And when we are gone, when the rapture takes place, God is going to lift the lake.
And then iniquity will ripen.
That will show the righteousness of God's judgment, but Even so.
Until the finality.
Judgment is gradual. There's seven seals broken, 7 trumpets prone, 7 vile corridos. It's a principle in the ways of God. I gave her space to repentance.
At the principle in the ways of God.
And today man is abusing that now trender Hebrews and others passage.
The 10th of Hebrew.
And the 28th 1St.
He despised Moses. Law died out mercy under two of the witnesses.
That's the ways of God with these people in the Old Testament. Now the 29th verse.
Of how much sorrow punishment suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who had trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the brother the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing?
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Now notice the last clause, and have done despite unto the spirit of grace. Now the Old Testament was the government.
To substantiate that through the Hebrews too.
1St 2:00.
Things well, even for a gospel preacher to remember this Hebrews 2 verse 2. But if the word spoken by angels was set back, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of rewards.
The government of God.
Was with Israel.
Now from the times of the Gentiles began.
There is not the open manifestation of His government. God is behind the scenes, moving all the scenes that He is behind.
But this is the point.
The coming judgment upon Christendom is going to be more severe.
Than ever occurred in the Old Testament of how much story judgment.
Well, for gospel preachers.
To remind the hearers of that of how much sorrow, judgment, supposing to these be counted worthy. We've done death fights under the spirit of grace now the general ways of God today.
The general ways to grace. I do not mean that he doesn't come in and judge in judgment, but.
If you'll turn to first Peter 4.
Verse 17. It will follow what one has said.
Before.
For the time has come that judgment must begin at the House of God.
You got children.
Well, I profess to be converted, and you are saved and breaking bread. Judgment must begin 1000.
House of God.
And He first begin with us.
What shall the end be of them that that they not the gospel of God?
There's going to be a more severe judgment take place upon christen them the world has ever recorded in history before.
Let's make some verses in the close of Second Chronicles right along this line.
Coming in in judgment. How loathe he is do it.
Second Chronicles, 36.
And 14.
Moreover, all the chief of the priests and the people.
Transgressed very much.
After all the abominations of the heathen.
And polluted the House of the Lord in Jerusalem.
How in spirit?
The same thing is taking place in Kristen today.
And spiritually applied.
And the Lord God of their Father, sent to them by his messengers, rising up behind and sending.
Because.
He had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.
But they lost the messengers of God and despised his words and misused His promise.
Until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people.
Till there was no remedy.
On the last of the seven churches in the Book of Revelation, the Church of the Laodicea.
Just before the concern.
There the Lord stands and knocks.
At the door of the heart.
If any man open under me.
His last Bible God but.
There comes the times when grace is exercised no more until there was no remedy, and that is filling up takes place.
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Courts of solemn day in which we live.
Just on the threshold of the Lord's coming, and ye are the salt of the earth.
What preserves this world about us from the prophesied judgments that are so severe is the presence of the Church of God on earth.
When we're gone, when that ship may come, while we're talking here, when we're gone, the salt of the earth will be gone.
The only thing that preserves the mind or any other place.
From the awful judgments of God is the fact that the Church of God, so dear to Him, is here.
I was told that in the in the war when they were using gas in the trenches.
Gas is a means of warfare that the soldiers took the Canary birds with them into the trenches.
And as long as they saw the birds hopping around and lively, they knew there was no gas.
But if they saw those birds roll over dead, they knew it was time to put on their gas masks and get ready.
Well, I've thought of that as an illustration.
As long as the Church is here on this earth.
The judgments can't break on the earth. You can. That's that's the world's guarantee that the judges are not here. But as soon as the church is taken out, the judgments begin to fall.
Isn't that important though, And talking about the awful judgments that are coming on the earth to remember that there's an arc of safety today.
Just as it was in the days of North.
And I say this basically for all the young people.
That the art is a type of the Lord Jesus Christ, and just as the ark was the only place of safety when the blood changed.
Christ is the only place of safety for any Sinner who is any sin. And if there's any unfaith here in this this room this afternoon, the sooner you'll get to Christ and accept Him as you're a spager, the better for you. Because should the Lord come and take the church away as we've been hearing these brothers things, they are at the door of the ark will close forever and you'll never have another opportunity to get paid.
You'll be doing for the the greater and more awful judgment that's coming on the earth.
For the unpaved, all those who were in the sight of the ark were saved. The Lord shut the door, and then the flood came. I think it's nice to observe Brother Mary too, that.
Noah was not only concerned for his own salvation, but for the salvation of his house. I say this as.
A little louder. Yes, I will. I will repeat, I think it's very nice to see that Noel was not only concerned for his own salvation.
But for the salvation of his house, I say this is having a responsibility myself as a head of that house. And I I would urge that here's a word for older ones. There's some that are moving into that place of responsibility. All lay hold of this that God has salvation not only for Noah, but for his house. Now I know that this is a non eternal salvation, but that's mentioned here. But certainly it is a picture.
Of that too, and would bring the same the same principle with applause. Certainly we want not only to be saved ourselves, but to see our houses saved. What a blessing thing to lay hold of and faith upon God. God would have household say he was an oppressive consolation that Noah had.
That they were all with him. Satan in the office.
So you might say good or always during the young people.
That while Noah built that ark for the failing of his house, yet they have their individual responsibility to get into the house.
Remember one time ruler Brown for their clothes speaking in Saint Louis.
He made this remark. He said that everyone that went into that arc went up that gang flank under his own speed. I remember trying to think.
They're very impressive because Noah built the heart. Heart becomes we're not saved in the classes because they took that place of faith before themselves. Oh, there's the two sides, isn't there?
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I remember a man saying to me, you know, and said I wouldn't vote. And he said, what would I in the world of innocent? Don't take any politics or anything like that. I have a lot of good in this world and you only knew it. I said, God said this works like getting out of it. So you ought to remain thankful that I'm here.
Well, that's that's what we get in the second testimony.
And second chapter.
And 7th verse Second Thessalonians 27.
Oh, we read the six thirds and get the connection and now we know what's with all them.
And he might be revealed in his time for them necessarily.
That's already worked.
Only he who now left our tears, he who now hinders, will hinder until he be taken out of the way.
That's the Spirit of God running in the church. That's what's holding back the floodgates of the judgment of God. That's what you meant, wasn't Brother Hale.
Ask you a question. What's the mystery of iniquity?
You tell us about any of this.
Well.
The mystery of iniquity is just this in its prevalent and growing. It's the exaltation of man.
And anything that exalts, man is not absorbed, and it's going to end just as you have in Second Thessalonians.
Two. So in the fourth verse, that's the mystery of iniquity. That's working now.
Turn to the second of Isaiah.
And I'll say this, you that are Christians, if you look up, it's rather a large subject to take up.
If you look up the course of Batman from the tension of Genesis to the.
18th, 17th, and 18th of Revelation. You'll get some very.
Good and light from God.
The second of Isaiah.
The 12 first or the 11Th verse. The lofty looks of man should be humble, the haughtiness of men should be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon everyone that is proud and lucky, and upon everyone that is lifted up, and he shall Debra close, and upon all the Cedars of Lebanon.
That are high and lifted up and upon all the oaks of vision. That's of course figurative language. And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills. That are lifted up, and upon every high tower, and up in every fenced wall, And upon all the ships of tactics, And upon all present pictures. And the loftiness of man should be bowed down from the haughtiness of men should be made low, and the Lord.
Alone shall be exalted in that day.
All the schools and colleges.
Are doing that very same thing today.
Exalting man.
His progress, his inventions.
What he has achieved and what he has discovered.
But all the modern discoveries.
That have made life a little more pleasant for man.
Has only deceived him, that's all.
No amount of education, no achievement in science.
That ever improve the moral nature of man.
Often said the most brilliant professor in college may be a hard man for great to live with.
All his education doesn't make him thoughtful and kind and God fearing him. When man fell, he fell all the way down. Good. He didn't fall halfway and then gradually through the sentence, finished the design, but he went all the way down when he left. Well, now you've called my attention to that, I'll make this statement.
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Man fell to the highest part of his created being. For instance, the temptation was you shall be as God, knowing good and evil. You can test a cow.
With its natural.
Desires.
But you couldn't tempt an animal in that way.
He shall be as God's knowing good and evil, with a temptation thrust at the highest part of man's creative being. And as you have rightly said, he fell from the top story down.
And that runs all the way through Scripture until at the end man is going to sit in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
And he, God, is going to allow him to even give.
Breath unto the beast at the end of the 13th of Revelation.
And the intentions of today?
Just deceiving man and to think of him that he could bring a paradise down here.
All teach your children and remember that the whole principle of the Word of God is.
As we should exalt Christ.
And praise his glorious and pleasant name, And anything that exalts man is not absorbed.
I'm sure of that present. I saw a statement by some prominent scientist.
Not not too long ago.
He's Speaking of.
The navigation of space, he says. Man has a right to go anywhere in this universe it wants to go.
Have to be close. And we learn from the Book of Revelation that the time is coming when man will be so bold that he'll actually step in a ray of battle against the returning Son of God. That's that's how old he's going to get. And I suppose it will be his inventions that after you.
With the supposed conquering his faith to put him in a position to do it.
No one, statement Brother Brown. That was made when they were shooting the missiles up into space, he said. They said we're going to open the gates of heaven.
Think of the defiance that there is in such statements as that.
Thinking of your marking about the soul of the earth.
Thinking of how that the world around us, they think that is this western type of civilization, that the soul of the earth.
But it's only what man has taken out of that which the grace of God has brought into this world, is what has given this Western type of civilization. But they left out the real substance.
That is faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and giving God the glory to Him. Oh man.
There are always secondary reflective benefits wherever the Word of God goes. It isn't only that people get saved.
But the very fact is the word of God being there, being read, and that they're being Christians.
And secondary effects.
And souls are brought into a manner of blessing through that. Now, that's always been so.
Even when Paul was shipwrecked on the island of Molina.
Well, we don't read about anybody getting converted.
But they got certain benefits from the fact that that man and his companions being there on that island, may they reap benefit from them. Second, Peter 2 Corroborates what you've said.
20th verse of Second Peter 2.
Just corroborate with our mother round the center.
Or it's after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome the matter in this worst with them than the beginning.
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That's just what will take Mason prison.
And then just corroborate your things.
And there's a special judgment, and now we're Speaking of it.
In connection with those that teachers.
War in Second Peter 2.
The word hell in verse 4 is a word that's only used once in the Bible.
It's not babies, it's not Gehenna, which is patteras.
It is that place that speaks of our brother, Potter used to say of the mist of darkness.
A special judgment upon those.
That teach error.
They're not spared, not angels that pin, but cast them down to hell and delivered them under chains of darkness to be reserved under judgment.
And spared not the old world, but save nor thee.
The printer of righteousness, bringing in the blood upon the world of the ungodly.
There's a special judgment that will fall upon and Christendom who has.
Have had the light and the truth of God, and have turned aside from it into utter infidelity and atheism.
And this so followed next month that the Lord leads us here where to have an invasion in Des Moines.
Supposedly #12,000 people.
They're going to Kansas City from door to north.
To enlist people and the worst of all blasphemies that are on foot today.
I refer to the Jehovah Witnesses and the maintenance of their beliefs and doctrines is that Christ is a preacher.
And that he was not God manifested the place, and that he did not rise from the dead.
12,000 will be here in this city to propagate their wicked doctrine and the sad part about it is when they get through.
There are probably the hundreds added to their numbers.
A solemn Brother Brown, but that's what's coming. But we can rejoice in this way.
That there are five different marks of the imminence of the Lords coming in Scripture.
Shall I give the five?
Well, they give them money as rapidly as we can.
There are 10 similitudes of the Kingdom in Matthew.
Seven in historical and chronological orders and we're in the last half of the last similitude now. None to follow. That's number one.
There are 7 churches in Revelation 2 and three, and I'm sure all you brethren have agreed that we're in clear to see. And now the last stage of the church's history has the responsible Candlestick on the earth.
Then there is a the third one and that is the woman is to ride the beast.
And we see that woman increasing in power everywhere.
In the very lands that have leaked are called Protestants.
Woman has arrived the beast for 42 months, I judged. After we were gone, we see a rising. That's the third.
The 4th, 1:00.
Is that there's a coming apostrophe?
You'll find the Jewish apostasy in Matthew 12.
The Gentile one in Second Thessalonians 2.
Just turn to it for a moment.
Jewish apostasy is Matthew 12.
Versus 43?
44 and 45 I won't need it to save time.
But there's the Jewish apostrophe.
The Gentile apostasy is Second Thessalonians 2.
Give you the verse in a moment.
Rapid News.
From the seventh verse down to the end of the 12Th verse, that's Gentile apostasy. That's the 4th. And the fifth one is the national resurrection of Israel. That's the 18th of Isaiah.
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And they're to be brought back into the man through a maritime power under the protection of the kingdoms of the West.
I'd really be that in progress right now.
There's you. You have your five months.
From Scripture that we're near the end in this second Thessalonians 2 might be well to call attention to the fact that into the third verse.
Except there shall come away. I believe it's the falling away. And the word for falling away is apostasy.
Have to work the apostles.
That's right.
What you say in connection with the statement you are making now you want us to go about the?
State of Des Moines by these representatives of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Made the statement that they would be.
Numbers added to them.
Is not bad in fuel of what we have here.
It's not that the Lord judgment in connection with the address which is the binding of them in bundles for that day. I'm thinking as you were speaking.
Binding and bundles to burn.
Is there not something in this tenth verse of the 2nd Thessalonians 2?
Last clause there mother in the whole birth and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved. It doesn't say they just tell the truth, but they never saw God acting in love in the truth. Well, there's we live in a so-called Christian land and these things are more or less common knowledge.
But the love of the truth is not commonality.
OK, there is.
An increasing profession. Christianity Professionals.
And after the church is gone.
There will be the honor turning away from even the professionals.
Again in Second Thessalonians.
We're going to try to obliterate from this thing every thought and every mention of God.
And it's going to be done to in Palestine, the man that makes the deal with the Western man that makes the deal with the Jewels to protect them for seven years.
In the middle of those seven years, he's going to break his contract, he's going to stop the worship of God. He's going to there's going to be an idol set up.
And they'll go back to worse than that ever before those verses. Your red brother ain't no one. Matthew 12.
And take up 7 spirits more wicked than himself. Better in as well. It'll be worse than Israel. Ever difficult. And the same thing is true of the Gentiles.
So that's the thing that the important for us to get onto our strangerships. You are what's coming on the earth.
Because we have to go on through this thing that's awful corruption and increasing evil and apostasy. Well, what is the pass for the believer through it? Would Abraham not give us that line of thing? And that was called out and became the 13 first and advanced that they were strangers and children's on the earth.
It's quite the difference is the difference, rather very between a stranger and a children. Well, I heard it broken Island this way that a stranger is one who is away from home. The Pilgrim is one who is on his way to his home.
And we're both, aren't we? We're away from home.
But there's that other side that's important to we have a homely forest, a home from all.
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Imagine which the eternal love prepared our rest to be.
Abraham went out not knowing where he was going. No such thing with us. We're sometimes prompted by others with this line of things.
All you people, you don't have any, any program.
You're you're not just trying to accomplish a definite program in the world.
Well, beloved, we have a wonderful program. Don't really. Not yes. We're waiting for the planet from heaven.
We're seasoned by the grace of God with the embellishments of the mind of Christ and who's taking out of this world people for His name.
And we have his program before our souls, and we know what it's going to be. And we say Amen.
To every plant in his platform.
John, 1231.
Is the first time in the Bible.
That is true. That comes up.
Now is the judgment of this world.
Now shall the Prince of this world be cast as and I, as I've been lifted up from or out of the earth, will draw all men under me.
God is now by his Spirit gathering around a rejected Christ, not Christ in glorious. That will be a paraptis, not Christ on earth. That will be in the coming millennial days.
But now is the judgment of this world. The world's trial is over.
He has crucified as a malefactor the only Goodman that ever lived in it, whose garments were murdered. Aloes and captions.
The grace of God and all its loveliness shone out in Christ, and his world was in heaven. The world's trial is over. What he, God, is doing now is gathering out of this world.
He wants her heart out of it now.
When he comes, you take your body over it.
Watch your heart out of it.
And he's done everything that Grace can do to win your affections.
For every Christian message is an apex beyond which God could not go.
And all the promises of God in humor, yeah, and in him. Amen.
And brethren, we can walk in turning peace.
Our only exercise should be that our own personal walk is in godliness and that we do not contribute.
To.
The.
Moral character of the world about us.
That we manifest Christ in our ways, but take your circumstances from the Lord.
And your difficulties to the Lord? It may be more difficult in the middle assembly you come from.
But.
Always remember what we have in first Peter, our first epistle of John.
This is the principle that will keep you, not keep me. I need it, Brethren, first John 4.
I read verse 13.
Hereby know we that we will or abide in Him and He and us.
Because He has given us all his spirit now. That's the only time in the Bible.
That's not the Spirit of God dwelling in you. That's not the thought He's given us all His Spirit means.
That the new life is characterized by the moral excellencies of faith. That's the only time it's put that way in the Bible.
Given us and we have seen them do testify that the Father, not God now, but the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God adviseth in him and he in God now. The next verse is a test as to whether that's true or not.
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And we have known and believed the love that God had to us. God is love.
And he that abideth is the Word is in love, abideth in God, and God in him.
So many of our actions are the result of personal feelings. We like this brother. We like this sister.
But if we walk with God.
We love every member of the body of Christ.
Abiding in love.
Is the truth.
A manifestation of the true nature of God and will enable us to go on in faithfulness, happy in our souls to the end. We're going to say, brother, hail that.
Faith manifests itself in obedience.
Yes, you notice here it says I paid Abraham when he was called to go out into a place which he said after receipt for imperative, he obeyed. Well, there's the obedience of faith and small big problems.
That in the first enrollment of all nations.
And when there's vague well in the sets repeat in motion because if we have something.
Real before our souls. If we laid hold of that coming glory, well, it makes the strangers down here.
You have something better than the world's best. So we get in the 5th chapter of the First Epistle of John. This is the victory that overcometh the world.
Even faith that is give something better than the world so well.
You go on in the enjoyment what is so far more excellent than anything that the world could offer.
And in that sense, we're looked at as the children of Abraham and the epistles of the Galatians.
Because there's two heads in scripture.
I'm not speaking now of Christ, but that's a.
The definite fact. But Adam was the head of this Adamic race.
Abraham is looked at as the father of the household of faith.
And spoken of and in that way as being left father of that family.
And in that sense, we are the children of Abraham.
What? What impelled Abraham to start?
Is it not answered in the God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham?
Did you ever notice this?
First, God promised told him that he would join the land.
And afterwards he said he'd give him the land. And afterwards he said I'll give it to you forever.
You follow that and some of you are in the meeting after the meetings over you follow that in Genesis. The first thing he said he would show him the land. Then when he stepped out in faith, he says God says I'll give you the land and then when there was the energy of faith to lay hold of it. God says our guilty of prayer. That's something that a hair like in in first chapter Second Thessalonians.
The apostle says your faith groweth exceedingly.
Tomorrow one goes on in the class of faith, or the more faith can understand and lay hold of an enjoyment.
Yes.
But there he would. He possessed the land, but not in the sense we have it here. That is the drug in it as a stranger and a children.
But God rewarded him by telling him, as he had in his celebrity drew.
We look for a city that have foundations whose builder and maker is God.
I believe that Jobs revealed that to Abraham, and don't say that he was thoroughly intelligent about it, but at least his faith rejoicing that had an effect on his son and his grandson was in there with that. The fact that he enjoyed it, that he really looked at it as something that was real. Like Caleb. Caleb went through the wilderness.
For 40 years he knew where he was going. He had seen.
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But he patiently went through for 40 years. But it didn't, he didn't lose the same bias. He was just as strong when he got there. And besides that, he had a daughter that asked, she wasn't satisfied with just a portion, but she asked for some strings and he was able to give her the the free. Isn't it lovely when our children asked us for not only what we have, but how to enjoy it?
Natalie yes, the upper leather string speaks of of the naturally the heavenly of the earth intake.
The remarkable thing is that a man with all the wealth that Abraham possessed.
Cattle was heard servant that he never departed from the path of a stranger.
Well, in temple with Isaac and Jacob heirs with him.
Of the same prompt, we think a man with all those servants will have built a mansion down here in this world and settle down and make use of some of his possessions to have something he could show in this world. But he was willing to go on all through those years and years when he was there.
In the promised land.
Ever got away from his cat and his altar?
We don't read about a tent in an altar and an altar when he was down in Egypt though.
What does that mean?
Not to be sphere.
Hey, he gets attack of the world, isn't it, when we get in any way contaminated by the world?
We lose the we lose the enjoyment of those heavenly things, and then we cease to walk a stranger down here.
That right Brother McMillan and I supposed to speak of our strangers kept our telegram. Me and the author of the Union.
A happy fellowship with the Lord.
And we can enjoy that if we're living here at the level of its poor world going on like the world we get out of our tents. Then a day of our tent pegs we we gather up the big storm inside the big school house for the Pebble down.
It's the world.
Can understand the Christian, The world can understand him.
He's not walking with God.
The world will never understand the spiritual mighty Christian.
They can understand him that he talks their language.
And lives and associates as they did.
But they never can understand the man that's maintaining his pilgrimage and his strangerships in this world. That's First Corinthians 2.
The 15th 1St. But either is spiritual judgment. Now the Word should be designed that designed all things. Yet He himself is discerned, not judged. He himself is discerned of no man.
Now I thought here in connection what has been said?
Abraham went down into Egypt in a time of famine.
Now there will always be in every assembly.
A time of family when there isn't happy, precious elevating ministers.
God tests everything that he sets up in responsibility. Have you come to the Lords Table? Thank God for it. But as you go on, you'll find testing time to be a famine. In Abraham's day there was a famine in the land. He went down into Egypt. Don't go into the world when there's a famine in the assembly.
You'll find you've got no altar down there.
Naomi or Elimelech?
Later on.
We find that he went down into the land of moral.
And through the time of famine too, that he went down into religious corruption.
And what did the Naomi say? She said I went out full, full and came back empty. Oh, I said no man, you went down in a time of family and you talk about going out full.
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Well, the poorest meeting I would ever have among my brethren is better than the than the world can offer. And when there's a famine in the little assembly where you are.
And the ministry isn't bright and happy and you're tested. Don't go down into the world that's Egypt. And don't go down into religious corruption, that's more.
Or afterwards you may not be restored, but if you are, you'll have to say, like Naomi, I went out full and I came back empty. The good thing is the Lord answered and she came back together to come back.
Or we might come back to like Abraham.
With the thorn bird many years in his house, Yeah. Bring Edgar with him, Yes.
What a trial she was.
Of course we know it's all that has its typical meaning.
But practically.
It's a fruit of getting away and going down the beach and business. Every act in your life and mine has its fruity.
We get away with nothing, be not deceived. God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth that should be also reached is true.
Of saved and unsaved.
Immense blessing for you, dear young people.
To be saved when you're young. To be gathered when you're young.
And never take a step in your life without.
Consulting the Word of God for wisdom and getting down on your knees and asking the guidance of the Lord.
For a Christian may take a step in his life that will put him in trouble all the rest of his life.
And God doesn't take him out of the trouble.
He'll be with him in it, but he'll not take it. Often doesn't take him out of it, and many Christians have to reap years of sorrow.
Because they didn't consult the word of God and get down on their knees and ask for guidance.
Is there anybody in this company contemplating a step in your life?
Don't take that step.
Unless you have light from God about it and then get down on your knees and ask God's guidance for your path.
Or.
The light is sold for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart.
You'll be with that brother. Yes, I do. I was thinking in the 126th stop, it speaks there of the children of Israel coming back from the bathroom and.
When the Lord turned captivity, his name was our mouth filled with laughter. Seen they had no song down there in that they couldn't sing the song design there. But when he's on the way back though, but then they're about to fill the glass and things.
I was thinking there was a good person last Christmas chapter.
Not having provided some better things.
And if we got it finished like Abraham did of the city?
The heavenly alone his blessings, the blessings of Israel were earthly, but he has been said that Abraham no doubt God's a little later to his being a heavenly horses. Well, it's it's so much better than anything that this world had to offer.
That it led Abraham to walk that path. The States and separation from the world, and I'm sure it would be the same with us if we got a little site and picture of the drawings as as it were. This world is not good enough for it in the state of God. We want something far better for us than the world's got to up and for return.
I've heard it said, Brother Hale, that you've been put over the whole book of People Better Things.
That's what the Spirit of God is occupying us, this.
Go on to this assistance. Better things something better than the Tabernacle, better than the priesthood, all the offerings giving, something better singing Brother Barry one verse in there we didn't touch on. If they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
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The wicked longing after the things of the world, we may find an opportunity to return.
That they didn't, that they haven't forgotten the way back, is evidence from Genesis 24.
On that occasion, the servant was sent for the bride. They knew the way back.
There was something that kept them from going back.
That is the portion of the Gothic revealed himself to Abraham.
Now, as we get occupied with the world, we may find the opportunity to go back very easily.
If we lack those in our last day, it says, but now they desire a better country that is in heavenly. Therefore God is not a change because they're God, for he has prepared for them the city.
That's what held them there, and their path was strangerships. There was something better. They had that heavenly sitting out before them.
Mr. Garland makes a remark about Abrahams not knowing where he was going. He says there's nothing that so tries the spirit as uncertain. He says there's even a relief to the certainty of vagners.
He went out in uncertainty. He didn't know where he was going, but he knew with whom he was going to.
Hebrews 11:6
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241 Savior through the desert. Lead us now. See, we cannot go.
Down from school James and freedom and has laid the siren low. Let my friends hear us all our journey through.
241.
Maybe I'll go through the.
Now we won the 11Th of Hebrews.
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They begin with the third. I don't think it's like that third verse.
Hebrews 11.
Verse three Through faith we understand that the world was playing by the word of God.
That things which are saved were not made, things which will appear.
By faith Abel offer them who brought a more excellent sacrifice than cave. I wouldn't be paying witness that he was righteous, not testifying with gifts, and by it he being and yet speaking my faith. Humans were translated that he should not be dead and was not found because God has translated him.
But before it says translation on this testimony that he believes God, but without faith it is impossible to please him. For he that cometh to God and believe that he is and that he is rewarded, then the diligence we see him.
By faith N Be warned of God, a thing not seen yet moved with fear, prepared an argument. Saving on his house violently, he condemned the Word, and became heir of the righteousness which is my faith.
By faith Abraham, when he was gone throughout into a place which he should have to receive for an inheritance, obey, and he went out not knowing whether he went by faith, sojourned in the land of gospel, as in a strange country dwelling Pepperonis with Ivy and Jacob. The heirs with him are the same promise, for he looked for a city which has foundations, whose filter and nature to his God.
Through faith, lost ceremony doesn't receive strength to conceive speed and was delivered of a child when he was past age because he got him faithful who had promised.
Therefore sprang their even up one, and him as good as dead, for many of the stars of the sky and multitudes, and the times which is by the seashore innumerable, these all dying, not having been seen, the promises having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them.
And embrace them and confess that they were strangers and children's on the earth.
They that say such things declare plainly than they see your country.
And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunities to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is an heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for you have prepared for them and city.
If you have something special on that.
Yes.
I don't think there was anything said on the last clause of that word, which I believe is very important.
These things are connections are brought before our young people in the schools, other places.
Touching away as seeking to overwhelm.
And there is a simple statement being among creation.
So that the things which are seen were not made of things which will appear.
A man in all his theory.
He attempts to say that they were made of the things which do appear, that if he can look at the things that are friends and he stands on the side and that's exactly how long they've been there and.
How they came in.
A very simple statement so that the things which are seen were not made. Other things are still here.
Man is a discoverer, never a creator.
And creation is the fruit of God's whole wisdom and power.
Always remember that there are many things in Scripture beyond reason.
There's nothing in Scripture contrary to reading.
Man as a creature is not able to grasp.
The thoughts of power that can create.
And he believes he accepts it by faith.
Christianity.
Is the only religion of faith in the world.
What is often said, if you're going to have a happy deathbed, you'll have to have the faith of a little child.
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And the more brilliant your mind, the deeper the pocket you trust.
God has given us these things.
To accept them by faith, but of another .1 faith.
Brother Barry emphasized it a little yesterday.
In Hebrews it's here, lived by faith.
Every editorial you read in any magazine.
Will make the horizon of your thoughts the world in which you live, and the energy of your life to possess it.
The Bible is the only book in the world.
That will tell you to lay up your treasure in heaven.
And to walk by faith.
By faith and another point.
It's not what we know that controls our lives, it's what we enjoy.
And the revelation of God is given that we might enjoy.
In our souls.
The glory of his present and the excellence of his work.
Is that so present?
Well, that's what you get in the next first the war. Excellent sacrifice.
That Christ himself.
Felt there in that verse, by faith offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than he, by which he obtained with us that he was righteous.
God testifying of his gift.
Notice that mature Why is he being dead? Yet Spicer says he offered a lamb and the fat thereof?
That was the Excellency of Christ that was offered up for the Father Himself.
That right for the.
And the three first types of death in the in Genesis.
Carry you from the beginning of creation into eternity.
The first one is coats of skin. That's atonement.
The next one is what we have here, Abel. That's acceptance.
The third one.
Just turned to it. It's the 8th of Genesis.
And the 21St verse.
O brethren, who but God can write such a book?
The 21St and the Lord smelled not a sweet savour, but a saver of rest.
That carries you right on into eternity. The Lord smelled a savour of rest, and the Lord said in his heart.
I will not again curse the ground anymore for man's sake for them. Why? Because man had changed. No, the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I against might anymore every living thing as I have done.
A favor of rest.
God is going to find his eternal rest.
In the work of His Son and the blessing that it is brought not only to you and to me.
But the whole creation will witness the blessed brother of that redemption work now turn to another in Colossians.
Which is the key to the whole Epistle to the Colossians?
The third chapter.
And the at least I should say brother in the second chapter and the third verse.
In whom should read?
In which?
In which I get all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
The reason it says it's hidden is because it's not.
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On display yet?
But this is new creation.
Where every trace of sin and the results of sin will be gone.
All the fruit of the precious work of grace on the cross. And God, oh brethren, this is lovely. God will find his eternal rest.
In the fruit of that work that was accomplished by his son on the cross.
Repeat The three first types in the Bible of the death of Christ carry you from the beginning of creation into eternity.
Connect in a way that the more excellent sacrifice contained with the third chapter Philippians.
After the Apostle Paul and the third of Philippians.
Have given us the things that were gained unto him.
And there were, there were not evil things that we mentioned, but there were things that had to do with with religion.
Good works and so on.
His position has the jewel, that's why he belongs to things that God had favored man.
Whether among his people?
But when he saw that righteousness that was in Christ Jesus, he says, yeah, godless in the seventh verse. Or rather, what things were gain unto me, those I counted lost for Christ.
And I count all the football for the Excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have covered the loss of all things. And this happened. But done that I may win Christ, that is, if all could by his own righteousness.
Have fitted himself for the presence of God, when he compared that righteousness, human righteousness.
The very best of man in himself.
When he saw what it was to be clothed in the righteousness of God in Christ, why he counted the whole thing there to call it him in a religious way as lost, and the more he learned of that righteousness.
That he saw in Christ. I counted it, but down. It was worth nothing at all to it. I just thought we might compare that with the more excellent sacrifice of King, because Kings offering was not a contemptible thing.
It was the very best that he could produce the fruit of the ground and I'm sure it must have been an excellent sacrifice as far as.
Man is concerned what he can produce out of this earth.
But when Abel offer that lamb, it spoke of Christ and the great sacrifice that he would make, and he would lay down his precious life, die on the cross for our sins.
Mary, it's not a question. And a good boy and a bad boy.
In in our first the 4th 1St visit, our question of a good boy and a bad boy.
It isn't comparing the two in that way.
But.
God has seen the table writers.
Stop testifying a table.
He's testifying A dispute. It isn't that weird. Better than the worst.
Our standing before God is acknowledged how bad we are.
We take that place, we make God true and every man of life.
We subscribe to what God says about us.
We submit to his indictment.
And then having done that.
We accept five things, what God has presided for us in Christ.
I think it I'm thinking of our young people when I say these things.
Do the same with such a wicked boy and able to such a good boy and isn't that?
God testified in his gifts there was that an able to offerings that home this only death and judgment, but put away sin that is typically speaking and he was accepted of God because of the gift that he brought that spoke of the work of Christ.
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Our only standing now and for all eternity.
Is not on anything we've ever known or ever will do.
But on the work done once and for all. Calvin Cross, and now our acceptance in our God.
Is in Him we are accepted in the beloved.
In connection with these two names that are two men that are brought of course, in this forest first able and game.
It's well, I think, to consider how here they were. They were children of the same parents. They had heard the same teaching. They were in the same environment. They had seen the same display of God in creation.
Well, the difference between the two is that that ministry that they had been under would not mix with faith as regards kings, but it was faith in age.
I remember the other place coming to our house when my daughter was a little baby.
And she said to to us that the total amount how bad she is.
We baptized her, you know.
And he said that he had told to learn how bad she is, only can forget.
That's what baptism system does.
And how many of us were picked for wasn't death and judgment for our abortions?
The very best man that God had on the earth.
And the days of job, the job himself, he said there was none lacking.
A perfect man, one that beard God with two diesel and yet when that same man got in the presence of saw God booked him out of whirlwind. He said I have heard of thee by the hearing of the year, but now mine I hear see, and I poor myself and repentance does the neighbor not merely that he abhorred something bad and simply done.
But I for myself.
What we are as sinners in the presence of God, that God would teach them, in order that we might know the Excellency of the sacrifice of Christ.
Would stand very high in the religious world today.
He would be accounted a model Christian.
That man worship God, He brought us sacrifice to God, and in the eyes of man he bought a good one. And the posterity of Cain have been whipped from that day to this. That is man going in the way of Cain. That's what you speak of. Woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain.
Man approaching God without a suitable sacrifice.
And man will either be accepted or rejected on the basis of his standing before God, on the basis of what he presents to God.
If the sacrifice is acceptable, the man will be accepted, and if only acceptable sacrifice to God that his own son is dead.
Mentioned this before.
At least now I'm not present.
I have a sister out of the West Coast.
There's a pension and then call of Norman Vincent Fields writing magazines.
He noticed there was never any message of the blood of Christ in any of them.
So on herself to write to him, and ask him why he never referred to the blood of Christ in any of his writings.
He wrote back a very smooth and amazing letter and said, well the great thing is love. Love is a great thing.
But not words. I understand. It's not a word that you say about John 316 that God so loved and he gave.
But he didn't give that son just as a mentor, as a teacher.
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As an example.
He gave him his death. Not only so.
But God gave him in judgment, and judgment that only God could measure.
And Christ himself, being God, should measure it, And he measured it in Gethsemane.
You have that wonderful verse in Hebrews yesterday.
How, as he was agonizing there in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Wing heart of that judgment, the hand of a righteous God against sin.
It speaks of deep crying tears.
I suppose to other Saints of God.
To happen with them.
For those disciples that accompanied him into that garden.
We could have heard that crime deep crying. We could have heard the cries of sobs.
From that, Holy One wrestled there with the prospect.
Of that awful ordeal, that Lady morning.
But brother Wilson was saying.
Living in a day of religion. Smooth words.
But the one essential thing is definitely sidestep.
The man is thoroughly focused and bad and only remedy is going to only come to Christ as a Sinner.
On the 7th of Luke.
They kept contrasting those who took that place and those who refused it. I don't know a plainer scripture anywhere that lasted the 7th and Louis.
On the 29th 1St.
And all the people that hurt him and Republicans.
Justified God being baptized to the baptism of John.
They took God's side against themselves.
But the Pharisees and lawyers, that's the religionists of our day.
Very class that Brother Wilson is Speaking of.
The Pharisees and lawyers rejected.
The counsel of God against themselves.
Absolutely rejected it.
Being not baptized of it, they would not take the place of death.
But the only ones regardless blessing to remove the own where they work and what they're stateless that is what yes and I would make another statement for any one that might be unsafe in the room.
That it's not enough.
To know about the sacrifice that God will accept.
You must be personally definitely identified with Cain, knew all about and God even stopped to reason with him about.
But yet he didn't come that way and he was rejected.
Many many brought up in the truth and have a knowledge of these things.
That have never made a their own.
I must be personally identified with the death of Christ. Christ is my personal savior or I will not be accepted.
Turn to 1 version.
Chapter 4.
Verse 24.
And that he put on or having put on.
The new man of the word for new there what we would speak.
Brand new, not renewed.
The Newman.
Which afterthought is created?
Righteousness and true holiness.
Holiness is a nature, righteousness is a character, but it's an entirely new man. Make another comment.
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You never find this line of truth in the Old Testament, saving in tightened shadow.
Notice it?
Romans 7.
On the 18th verse.
For I know that in me that is, in my flesh, you will have no good thing.
Perhaps to make it clearer, and before 1 makes a comment, you turn to Matthew.
Matthew.
Chapter 3 and verse 10.
And now also the axe is made under the root of the tree.
In the Old Testament, God was dealing with man as a Sinner.
But at the cross.
It was dealing with man as to his nature.
The actions lead to the root of the tree. We don't get that in the Old Testament.
In me, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing.
Why? Because the reflections of that precious blessed Son of God coming grace.
Prove that man was not only a Sinner.
It proved that the town of mind is enmity against God.
And.
That he had no heart for God revealed in grace. And it's the first time in the Bible when the root of man's nature was under judgment was at the cross, and Christianity and its teaching is the fruit of that doctrine.
And may help because in the Old Testament man was under trial.
God was dealing with man as to his sins, but at the cross the root is under judgment, every believer.
Going to make a statement.
Every believer now.
Stands before God in a light that never sinned the dog.
And that life is characterized by holiness, that the nature and if you do not abhor evil and delight in Massachusetts, which is good, there's no evidence that you're a Christian.
That is the new nature received. It's well to keep scripture.
In its likeness before us.
For the truth of this book, it ends up with the whole Bible, ends up before I make all things new.
And every believer.
Will be like grace in glory, morally and physically.
Every believer.
And God will find his eternal rest.
In the fruit of the work of his son at the Cross.
When the first man was entirely set aside.
Is that right?
Is there any scripture Brother Hayholman?
What comfort? Is there any scripture with comfort? The heart of a professed Christian who is going on with known and allowed evil in his life, No.
Never weaken me its subscription.
I put it plain it's quite true that a Christian might tell alive, but God doesn't say you can tell a lie and be a Christian.
The inks of scripture are put there purposely to exercise even the believer that is walking carelessly.
God never comforts in these words. A careless, walking Christian.
It's intended to reach his conscience while our standing is perfect.
These ifs of scripture are put there exercises that we might confess.
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Is that true?
I thought it was.
Brother Potter gave me a preserved review.
Years and years ago.
They were asked to go and talk to a sister that was not going on well and she lost the sense of assurance in her soul.
Well, we went over the scriptures and showed her the truth. And the believers can never be lost.
Brought before her, that is. Assure her that if she were ever a child of God, she still was. So I was telling Mr. Potter and bottom December I certainly would never ruffle scriptures before that sisters.
He said God was using those scriptures exercises and I would have sought to get her to judge those things that might continue wrong.
I thoroughly agree with you. May I take the time to tell a little story that corroborates which is better?
Our brother, George Carr of Bezon took me to see a sister that was in the hospital for the Age and I think it was petroleum.
I was having a nice talk with her and I made me come up the hall and she said there's a lady in the backroom here.
And she hears you talking, and she wants you to come back and talk to her.
So I went back and as I sat by her bedside, this is what she said.
He said when I was a little girl, I accepted grace, but I'm afraid I'm lost.
Tell me, can a Christian be lost?
Well, I began like you, to give her the scriptures of assurance.
Presently, a lady on another bed spoke up and asked a question.
Done wrong, he said. Set your butting in. You're always putting in when I begin to talk.
I stopped talking about the assurance of the believer and I said to brother George Carr that's why she's lost the assurance with her. She hasn't done their bad temper.
There is a government of God, and the enjoyment of the things of God depends upon your walk.
I'm going to say that again.
The enjoyment of the things of God in your soul depends upon your walk. Your standing is secured by the work of Christ. But could you imagine Mr. Darby doubting his salvation on his deathbed? Could you? I'm sure you couldn't.
Brethren, if doubts come into your mind, get exercised as to why God allows it.
He would speak to our consciences that we might walk within.
Precious little incidents in connection with it, he said to his service one morning. Mind Janelle, his service, all the North Country service preserves.
He said James.
I spoke unbecomingly to you last night.
I didn't show the patience of Christ.
I think of a man of Mr. Darby's caliber apologizing to his service when that lovely.
We ought to get the habit, when we fail, of owning it at once.
Mr. Hale, may I ask you questions? What does it mean to speak about the assault and lost his favor?
That means this.
If my life doesn't savor the truth, then it will not be preserved. It will have to be burned up. Strong is the preservative principle of holiness.
My life doesn't savor of faith, there's nothing for God in it and it must be lost in that coming day.
That's what it means.
That's that's a Christian that.
He put off the old man like you have.
Romans.
In this place that's not seen that part Northeast, that's the place and he doesn't.
Yes, the old nature is still there.
We need to keep it in the place of death.
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If you're not enjoying Christ right now as you're sitting on that seat, then you're out of communion.
Putting off the old man, putting on the new. Is that external?
Well, it's having good off is the scripture meaning because that's how you're to begin your Christian life. We put it this way, Brother Wilson.
In the 6th of Romans it reckon yourselves to be dead.
That's how you're to begin your Christian life.
In 2nd Corinthians 4 is the continuous application of that truth to our daily life. Turn to it.
2nd Corinthians 4.
Verse 10.
Always bearing about in the body the dying. Leave the word Lord out the dying of Jesus. It's his pathway of man.
That the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
God has saved us. Why didn't he take you to heaven as soon as he saved us? What they need you here for?
To make money and have plenty of picnics and good times. Why didn't God take you to heaven the moment he saved you? What do you need you here for?
He left us here to savor of Christ.
And if we're not doing that?
We've lost the sense of why he has left us here. Then the next phrase.
Is God doing it for us when we fail to do it for ourselves?
For we which live are always delivered on the dead.
That is, we all need everyone of us, myself included.
Once you get said about if you're not enjoying Christ, you're out of community. You mean by that, that we have to be thinking of Christ all the time and in that way?
Enjoying Christ in order to be in communion.
Well, in the sense not of obligation, but in the sense of the truth of it characterizing our daily lives.
Much of our time.
We're we're sad to say, I know.
In my own life, why I'm not thinking about right, but over hours and hours and everything of Christ, all my out of communion all the time, but I'm not thinking of Christ.
Well, it's this way I find people. Sometimes they call me Mr. Illustrated. Well, never mind, I can get the thought across better by Illustrator. I've got to wait back in Ottawa.
Will.
Constantly.
As my mind is free, it goes back to Ottawa and the affection of relationship is there.
It is a continuity in my life. Well, that's just what it means.
With this illustration.
Be helpful.
Somewhere I read, I believe, and I will say, that a father has given his son.
Some some work to do. Well, we could say that it's some Carpenter jobs.
For his some cabinet work he's doing, he's working there with his father, Father John go on with it, everything that he has to do.
Well, the boy is not thinking about the cabinet. All the I mean by his father, every minute that he's working on the cabinet, he's occupied with his job and the work he is doing.
But still he is in.
Happy communion with his father because he's doing just exactly what his father would have him to do.
And then he is enjoying his father's presence, even finding that his mind has wandered through other things. His father is right there by his side, and they're happy together.
And enjoying this work together that perhaps illustrates.
Because there are many you know that are working a very.
Job that require all their cost and attention like an accountant. Well, he he has to be occupied with his figures when he's worked, but still he can be in happy communion with the Lord at the same time.
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I remember one time being with Brother Potter and there was a brother asking about the subject of prayer.
Whether one could?
Pray to the Lord and just not get down on his knees and pray.
And Brother Carters reply with this, he said we should be in communion all the time.
And when we're in communion, we can talk to the Lord as our nearest and dearest friends. This man was an engineer.
And the laundry. And he was filling a bottle. Well, he's often up there working, you know, turning valves and so on. Well, he couldn't.
Get down, take his hat off and get down and pray if he wanted to.
You had something in between that he wanted to speak to the Lord about. Well, Brother Paul explained that that he could speak to the Lord wherever he was. But then when it comes to.
Formal prayer or.
Really getting before the Lord? Well, that's a different thing. Then there should be a proper attitude of prayer, like going into the closet and closing the door and praying to your Father. Which season?
Well, that was helpful to me.
Someone that said that the test of our conjunction or spirituality is what we do with our leisure times.
When we are through with our work, our mind is not occupied with secular things. It's ours. Our mind gravitates back to those spiritual things. Think about the Lord in His things.
I just like her, and this I believe that some of us have. I think most of us have learned this, that we can bring the Lord into our actual work much more than we can perhaps first realize. I I speak this to my own shame that it was a long time before I learned to bring the Lord in on every possible occasion, and I and I had some bad moments when I left him out.
I'm going into some conferences that were difficult, but I granted that some of us are very busy and pressed hard, but as we walk down a hall we can look to God because we're dealing sometimes with ungodly men.
And with things that are beyond our strength, and I believe much more, we can a great deal bring God into our everyday lives much more than we do. And I especially commend this to any young one to learn that habit. Took me a long time to learn it, and I'm still trying to learn it because I forget so easily. I go in my own strength.
But as we meet more and more with and things are increasingly difficult. I don't care what your occupation is. It's extremely difficult. Likely today, both dealing with ungodly men who who just believe God out of all their thoughts, All that we might see is those just those fleeting moments. God will honor us. And also I, I think we just add this that it's such an important principle to learn that we serve the Lord's Christ and whatever we do, that's the language of Scripture. He served the Lord Christ. And if we're not doing it in that spirit, we're not we're missing the mind in our work and we haven't got the skill that we'll have either. I believe we'll do better.
It isn't a question now seeking honor for men, but that would be a snare. If we if we want to do better. It's not for the reward here below, but for in the coming day, the Lord will commend us not only for those leisure moments, which I hardly agree we should seize with all opportunities, but the Lord is going to commend for that faithful service, even though it isn't appreciated at all where we were. I say a deep Amen to what you've said, adding this, it's the happiest life possible.
Natural claims, material things or against things? No, no, not sure if you let them take the freedom in your life.
Let them have the preeminence you ever seen that him in the 46 in the appendix?
Am I an object, Lord below, which would divide my heart with thee? You know who wrote that?
George W Appraiser. Why did he write it? Because he got married and he was making an idol of his wife, and that's what caused him to rest at him.
And business getting to be a kind of a personal testimony, meaning I just want to have this little word.
Many a time, many a time, but I've been driving my car.
And through my folly and like the presence of mine, I almost get into trouble. I just stay out of a full heart. Thank you, Lord, thank you.
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There he is, that first in Titus 314.
That speaks about that hours learn good works.
For necessary uses to be not unfruitful well connection what has been said about bringing the Lord into your life and as to.
Whether that would be your next, your ordinary affairs of life with the million, well, the question is, is this the one necessary uses?
Orange is for my own glory. We have a family where to provide for so we're to learn a marvel reading is there profession put on a strange that.
We're necessary to be not uncritical. They're uncomfortable and negatively providing for one's own.
That's a good scripture to remind this up to may we may I be permitted to state an experience?
I say it I believe advisory.
When I first went to work.
As a young man.
I came under some influence that that was urging me to speak to everybody about Christ, speak to everyone I met about yourself.
And I look back today with regret.
That I failed at times to give my boss what was due to him.
Now there is a danger of getting lopsided and failing to do our work properly. We can do it as under the Lord, but if the boss hires me for 8 hours, it's his and I shouldn't neglect. You agree with him or I do. I just mentioned there's a word of caution because I hope it bothered me for years that I didn't. I know they're going to vote for them.
Of the boy and the factory that the Lord with our testimony, you know.
After I got saved, I was going to be going here now my work let me all those days.
And sometimes again, talking to his wife with her soul. And then I will be like this at the top. Again they look at his job.
And maybe your husband, maybe I had some work or not before these things, you know who are in the work. But I would like to suffer, the business boss says.
But that is the law.
Well, I I couldn't find that those I was written for certain things that I was looking to find the where I went to get them.
And he said you're a liar. He says you've been spending your time talking religion these days. I consider you might as well just put your hand in your master's pocket. He says, and and take his pocket and be done with him. That's that's that's how those men felt the bedrooms about a Christian.
Stopping his work without somebody, even with the Lord thing that you honestly a man took.
Well, I learned. I learned some lessons from those witnesses on Godly man.
And lessons they are equal as you were saying to learn that lose 8 hours belonging to 10 hours.
And I had to learn that those 10 hours belonged to my boss, even though I was holding her $0.16 for those 10 hours worth.
I want, I want to understood that I'm not saying anything against what's been said.
But I merely mentioned the other for counterbalance.
That's all right.
So whatever he do, whether in Word, your team involves for this glory of God and you can't do it for the majority of God, but you shouldn't be doing it. And if we teach and glorify the North, the north can make it up to it. All right. Myself, I've been traveling myself for 59 years.
And oftentimes I run in the small towns and only had a short time in these towns, maybe spoken for 20 minutes to a man about the Lord. And then I find out afterwards, I said with the store after store instead of a family been ahead of me, why there'd been nobody there. And I guess my work all about. And just the same, even though I spent the 20 minutes to 1/2 an hour talking about the noise. And I believe the Lord can make the best to you.
You know if you do it for his armor and sorry.
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I remember in London one time a man was going to open up the store and he wanted to see me. Of course he is opening orders and it was the meeting night in London and I said well, I can see after 9:30. He said that's too late, he said.
And I said, what about Thursday morning? He said, well, I'm going away Thursday morning. Well, I said, I'm sorry, I don't want to lose the food. And I, I missed the doping order. But I always figured that the north could, I could work all evening maybe and sell $1000 worth of stuff. But the next week the Lord can lend me on the back and take $5000 worth of business away from me if you like. And I believe they honor me. I belong and if you want as a Lord.
Like you cannot amuse, but you, you were more or less free to to judge your own work and how to do it. I couldn't do it for the for the.
That's true.
I was spending as a man that punches the clock and has 8 hours to do his work, but if he's doing it for the night and the my group be able to make it up to him given the extra wisdom and all that.
There's some occasion to the adversary who speak reproachful a small season, if not occasionally, if non occasion to the atmosphere, the secret prosperity that is given on a game.
The adversary is going to speak reproachfully many times. You can't do anything about that. But given an occasion to the adversarial secret, that's your point.
And the Apostle dog in the clear instructions Martin St. where he speaks the bond men, slaves, who belong every moment of the time to their masters.
On the 22nd verse, servant, Sir, bond men the slave, obey in all things, your lapses according to the flesh.
Not with I service is mentally good, but in singleness of hearts, fearing gods. And whatsoever ye do, do it as to the Lord, not on the men, knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance.
For ye serve the Lord Christ. Now he's telling me, bond servants, how to lay up treasure in heaven, even though they have no time as their own. Is that right?
Yes.
And what about?
The Bay Salina.
6 5.
Be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling in the singleness of your heart.
And undue Christ.
Not with our services and players, but as a servant and Christ doing the will of God from the heart, the goodwill.
Doing service as to the Lord, not to mention, and then over in first Peter, one of the birds.
218.
Servants, please subject to your masters with all fear.
Not only to the good and gentle, but also to the thrower, for this is thank worthy.
If a man for conscience to work God endure griefs suffering wrongfully by means I like to refer to one other verse and take us a step further.
Max 4 verse 23 release date principles and thought brought reports connection with Peter and John.
Acts 4, verse 23.
And being let go.
Being let go, they went. They went to their own company.
Being let go, they went to their own company. They went to those.
They can have one cost, one, mind the connections, the things of God, and have sweet fellowship together regardless of the circumstances in which they passed through.
They let go. They went to their own company.
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That the dog returning to the ark.
In principle, yeah. I was thinking Brother Barry wanted to get onto this fourth of fifth verse.
The last clause of the fourth verse. There's a dead man speaking.
By yet he being dead, yet sleep is, what does the dead man say?
I brought an acceptable sacrifice and I was accepted.
At his testimony.
And what about the next person?
There's a man that translated that he should not be there. So we have the testimony of another man and if and if God did it the way it says God had translated him before his translation, He had this testimony that he pleased God.
Oh, here's the testimony from heaven of a man that pleased God. What kind of a day did he live in?
Well, he lived in a wickedest.
He lived in the day just before the flood. He lived when wickedness was rising to his heights, just before God had the clans, the earth with a flat. And yet we we're told that he walked with God and that he pleased us.
What a wonderful thing that a man could do that essential day, and I often wonder how he did it. He did it, you know, for 365 years lately.
How did he manage to do it so long? I've often thought he did it just the day at a time, one step at a time.
He didn't have to think I'm going to have to do this for 365 years. And so we have just today.
Before us each day we walked with the pleased God, and I'd like to connect it with First Thessalonians 4.
1St Thessalonians 4 has often been called the Enoch chapters.
Furthermore, then, we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us, how you ought to walk.
And to please God.
There's a there is a path that Enoch took in an evil day.
Now we're encouraged how to walk and to please vote. Well then, what does the chapter go on with? Goes on with our being taken to heaven.
Goes on to tell about the wreck welling off with the type of that taken to heaven before the judgment came. And then what was Enoch's testimony?
We get that from you. The Lord comes with 10,000 of His Saints to execute judges on the ungodly. Well, in First Thessalonians 4 you have His testimony too.
Yes, the 1St.
14 First for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, Even so them also would sleep in Jesus will not bring with him.
Then he stops to tell us how we're going to get to be with Him so we can come back, come back with him. All it says about the Lord's coming to take us home. Enoch Life tells the bodies coming back with his Saints and Phoenix prophecy.
And it tells us to walk like an Aqua. Only we have a lot more reason for it. We have the Word of God for our guide, Spirit of God dwelling in US, directed. Will you have much more than me on that?
God has a right being that He is God.
To make any exception that he chooses in his feelings.
You know, was the center just like all the rest of it?
But God was pleased to take him to heaven without dying. God had a right to do that.
And historical team in connection with the thanks to God.
And we were saying yesterday, no child of God knows it is going to die.
No one.
Some of these days the Lord is going to give a shout and he's going to take.
Some of us, the heaven was out dying.
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That because we're better than other people. No, he has the right to do it. He has the right to do money well to his own.
So heaven is going to be populated not only with people that have passed through this and then range again.
But there's there are going to be a goodly number there.
Never saw them, never saw them even liveth, even liveth and believeth in me shall never see them.
He delivered and believeth one is living because when he comes, the believers is living. He'll never have to go through it, will never have to taste it. So Enoch is a blessing assurance to it.
God has given us that tank showing us might certainly God can make a man to heaven without none. That is no effort for God. That's why he's going to do the church is one of these days.
Do you think he not was a happy man?
Well, we John 14.
The 15 first.
If you love me, preach the gospel, no.
If you love me.
Eat my commandment now the 15 chapters. November.
I'm adding this because, brethren, we've been talking a bit about testimony and why.
Make this statement before I read this in divine thing.
You only prove the good of it as you walk in it. I'm going to say that again.
I'm going to say it slowly.
In Divine thing.
You only prove the good of it by walking in it.
Now turning back before I read John 15 to John 12.
A verse that's not understood generally.
The last verse of John 12 is a verse that's not understood, generally speaking.
And I know that his commandment is life everlasting.
That means this.
That eternal life, or life everlasting, is characterized by the spirit of obedience.
God isn't asking you to bring the old nature into obedience. You can't do it. But His commandment is life. Everlasting means that the new life is characterized by obedience. Now John 15.
The 10th verse If you keep my commandments, we shall go to heaven when you die. No, no, no, no.
Maybe keep my commandments. She shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments and abiding His love. These things are by spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be half full, because I read that correct.
Did I bother you? Trust you know no.
All brethren, get into your souls that the enjoyment of Christ is the sweetest joy you can know down here.
We'll have it up there, but what is joy down here? What do our young people need to know?
Your cat walk with God without having a light of peace and joy and happiness.
But the devil will tell you it's a hard path.
No, he's a deceiver.
He's a deceiver. This is not the way to be saved, but it's the way to have a happy Christian life, giving what you're saying by the hail.
The first place was 119 psalms.
Describes the the walk of Enoch.
Old Testament scripture that's returning to.
Is very instructive for us in this present time.
Or where and just as evil the world as in a walk through.
Job. Here's the secret.
Of the walk that's pleasing to God, Look at the first verse of Psalm 119.
Lifted are the undefiled in the way.
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Who walk in the law of the Lord? Well, in the 119th Psalms, law is simply the word of God.
Word of God is used in some way and every verse of this problem that contains 176 versus I believe except 2 some way the word of God is brought before and it starts out with a blessedness of what you are saying. The happiness for blessings is happiness. There is the happiness of a man like Enoch and it isn't confined to Enoch of old.
If blessed are the undefiled in the way that every at the path that every believer in the Lord Jesus can can walk in down here and it's an undefiled way marvelous, isn't it in a world of such evil and increasing wickedness on every hand that God has an undefiled way for his children to walk you but.
It's in obedience to His Word, but that way.
They'll mark out before us now. Just notice the next verse, The second verse.
Clifford are they that keep his temple now? First thing is walking in in his word, the next bird is keeping his testimony.
That is, we have to, we have to keep it as something that is of great importance. Something that concerns us comes from him. We can't compromise or surrender at any time or occasion.
And now notice the next expression in that second verse. And I think him how you see from the written word, we turn to the the living word, him that is the for us. It's the person of Christ where the Old Testament painted with Jehovah.
Think him with all poor heart. I was looking up in 119 LB the other day and I found that expression whole heart as you six times.
Well, that's what God wants. He wants your whole heart and undelighted heart.
Then 19 the numbers I believe it is.
We have a verse there that fits in so nicely with what you've been bringing to forest.
Every open vessel.
That has no covering bound. The bonnet is unclean.
So the word of God.
Is uncovering this to be over our lives at every step?
My word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee every open vessel.
Covering bounds upon it unclean.
The same 2IN connection with this before we get away from this verse, he had this testimony that he pleased God. Now that wasn't something his test that wasn't his preaching.
That was the consciousness of his own soul, that God was pleased with his walk.
Where I was to go on with God and walk in communion that was inherited.
We'll have the sense in our own souls that God is pleased He had. I am delivered from evil by occupation with good and the Christian.
Only man in the world.
As a pure optic brief man.
And a pure motive for his heart, and wisdom for his feet.
Now he's saying #46.
In the.
First person for 190.
46 in the back of the floor.
Have I?
Addr.
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