Des Moines Conference: 1961
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The Lost Axe, II Kings 6
Address—W. Smith
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Well, this gone high eternal word, Son of man, sovereign Lord, and now thy faith on thee we wrath, till all thy title have confessed. 264 Someone started, please.
Tired of work now?
Let me pray.
This meeting is.
For the young people.
One would not like the limit what he says to the young people.
The Word of God.
That which has been given to us by God himself.
And to give us instruction for our pathway.
It's a guide for us in the midst of a world.
That has expressed its hatred to God, and has told God, as it were, what the what the world thinks of Him crucifying.
The one that had gone, sent into this world the black.
Well, there are young people here and I would.
Oh, the most of the young people here.
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Are those that have godly parents.
That have been raised to know the truth.
Read the word of God.
Have it read daily in the home.
And as to such, one would like to address himself this afternoon.
But he turned with me.
The second King's chapter 6.
Sons of the prophet said unto Elijah.
Behold, now the place where we dwell with the is too straight for our.
Let us go. We pray the other Jordan, and take thence every man of being.
And that is negative place there where we may dwell.
When he answered, Go ye.
One said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.
And he answered, I will go.
So he went with them, and when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
But as one was selling a beam, the axe had fell into the water, and he cried into the last master, for it was borrowed.
Man of God said we're a fellow. He showed him the place.
And it cut down a stick and cast it in feather, and the iron did swell.
The airport said he take it up to the.
And put out his hand and took it.
One has read this portion of the Word of God many times.
Without understanding what it might mean.
We know that the word of God.
Is not given idly with every word of God is given to us for instruction.
And one believes that there is something in this portion for us.
Because those.
Who might be called the sons of the prophets?
The Prophet was.
Who gave out?
The mind of God.
One who was acquainted with John and knew him.
And these sons of the prophets.
Must have heard some of the words which were spoken by their fathers.
One has been raised in the truth himself.
And there's no.
From an early age, what it is to hear the word of God spoken and meditated upon in the home.
And perhaps it sold with most of those here this afternoon.
But you know, there's one thing.
To hear the word of God spoken.
One thing to hear it in the home.
And it's another thing to have it in the heart.
And to have its place there with us individually.
And to have to do.
With God.
Not only would God as a Savior God through the Lord Jesus Christ.
But also to have to do with him as A1.
Who sees us in all our ways and as his people, to walk in a path that is pleasing to him.
For here are the sons of the prophets.
And they say to Elijah the man of God.
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To hold the place where we dwell with these two straight forums.
Well, how is it with us?
How we learn what it is to grow in grace.
And in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus.
Are we like the sons of the prophets who have grown?
Yeah, the place where they were was too straight for them.
So they wanted another place.
Notice where they were dwelling, they were dwelling with the Prophet.
Yeah, some of the teaching of the man of God.
Have had its effect with them.
We've entered into the HARP and there was growth with these young men.
You know there's a verse.
Joshua, 17.
It might just turn here for a minute.
Joshua.
17.
Verse 14.
We find those there.
Who didn't have enough room?
The children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I'm the great people, for as much as the Lord blessed me hitherto?
Joshua answered them.
If I'll be a great people, then getting up to the wood country and cut down to thyself there in the land of the parasites, you know the giants Mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
Jillian, Joseph said. The hill is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites have dwell in the land of the valley of Chariots of iron, both of which are a best sham, and their towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
Joshua was speaking to the House of Joseph, even to Ethernet to Manasseh, saying, Thou were the great people and has great power, thou shall not have one lot only.
The mountains will be lined for it as a wooden, and I shall cut it down on the outgoing desert shall be thined, as I shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron Chariots, and though they be strong.
The children of Israel.
We're told that they were they were given the whole land, but they would only possess that which their feet brought upon.
And all young people.
You and I have the whole word of God.
And God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ.
But it's only that which we have taken as appropriated to ourselves that we can enjoy.
These young men.
They wanted to grow.
That's all they say. Let us go. We pray thee unto Jordan.
Let us go. All this fellowship there, they didn't want to go alone.
Oh, they wanted to go together.
That's another characteristic.
Of the Christian.
God is so constituted.
That new life that is given to you and me.
That we need fellowship one of another if we're going to prosper.
In God's thing.
Let us go. We praise thee.
Yes, they wanted to go in fellowship together.
You know, there's so many times.
Those who live on the farm, if they see a chicken going off by itself, they know there's something wrong.
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That chicken is sick.
Well.
Isn't it so with a Christian when we find one that wants to go off by himself?
Not enjoying the company of others of the Lord's people.
That we can say there must be something wrong spiritually with that person.
Yeah. Let us go.
Oh, how good it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
Or may we be found ever seeking the company of God's people.
And where were they desiring to go?
They wanted to go to Jordan.
You know the River Jordan.
Was that was the Israelites cross?
When they entered into the land of Canaan.
When the River Jordan.
There's a grand type.
Of the death of Christ, my having died with Christ.
The old nature going down into Jordan.
Than the new nature coming up.
Yeah, my association with the death of Christ.
That's where these young men wanted to go.
To replace.
For the death of Christ was a practical reality with them.
Oh, do we know what it is?
Render into the fact.
But I'm dead with Christ.
Yes.
And now?
We live.
By the grace of God in an unusual life.
That resurrection life.
Life that God has given to us.
You wanted to go to Jordan.
He associated there.
With A1.
Died and rose again.
They wanted to take each man a beam.
Yes, there were no sugars in that company.
Let us take.
Take thanks every man of being, make a place there.
We might refer to another verse.
Then Mark, I believe we won't turn to it.
Where every man was given his work.
Yeah, to every man his work is given.
So whatever these young men, every man.
How does work?
And dear young Christian.
The Lord and something for you to do.
The Lord is something for me to do.
As long as we're left here in this world.
Perhaps if they speak to our neighbor.
Or perhaps.
Mr. Barrett, The People of God in prayer.
We've been speaking about this morning.
Yeah, we can pray for one another.
So these young men.
Taking every man of being.
Make a place to dwell.
Now I'm good at war.
But then didn't go an independence of the man of Ghana, Elijah.
But they asked his approval after where they should go.
Yeah. They asked his approval.
Oh, do we have God's approval?
For what we do.
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Do we make up our minds of what we are going to do?
And you'll endure an independence of God.
Or do we seek his mind in it?
You know that they didn't go until after, Elijah said to them. Go ye.
Yes, go ye.
Nor that old.
One said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.
No, how blessed that is.
Not only do they ask his approval.
But they desired the company, the scholarship of the man of God with them.
Do we take God into our into account?
Wherever our footsteps take a.
Then we take God into account.
Wherever we go, whatever we do.
Or giving our own way.
I pray thee, go with thy servants.
He says I will go.
Yeah, he would go with them.
How blessed it is.
When we can go on and are possibly in this world with a consciousness.
God is with us.
Yeah, you know, there are times.
When the Lord goes with us.
Not because he is pleased with what we do.
But in restoring greatness?
To remember the two on the way to e-mail.
They have turned their backs on Jerusalem.
Discouragement passed down.
And they were leaving the place.
For the Lord had told them to stay.
Yes, they were headed for their own place in the mayor.
But Jesus himself drew near and went with them.
Why? In order to draw them back again to the place.
For he would have them.
Than his own greatest way he brought them back again to Jerusalem.
For they found him in the midst of his own.
Yeah, but how blessed are the other?
When we can go on in the enjoyment of the presence of God in all our pathways.
So were these young men.
The man of God says I will go.
So I went with them.
Almost a blessed thing.
To have the commendation.
As a man of God and I blessed the deals when we know that we have the approval of gum.
And all that we do.
Or whether it was soul, then all our steps.
Where we spoke this morning.
We all fail. We have to own them. We're humbled to think that we fail when God has made provision that we never need fail, but we do.
The answer failed.
Well.
The Prophet goes with his young man.
When they come to Jordan cut down water, they cut down water.
They're not. For this time everything was lovely.
Everything was as it should be.
But all we find here is 1 spelling of being.
The accent fell into the water.
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In all this, Axe speaks to me.
As a word of God.
You know the Word of God, Scripture tells us.
It was like a hammer.
Breaks in pieces of rocks.
Here's one using the axe.
To cut down water.
The accent falls into the water.
What does he have left?
All he has in his hand is a handle.
Yeah.
For many times we find that with us.
The failure comes in.
Failure.
And we have the word of God.
But has lost its power. All we have left is a handle.
Yeah.
Then you had come young.
Reaction.
Fell into the water.
You know the Apostle Paul wrote to a company of Christians.
Who are much like this?
He wrote two epistles to them.
When you could tell them ye are carnal.
And walk his memory. Oh, there was much gift amongst them, much wisdom.
Oh, the apostle has to tell a new Colonel.
For how fallen that is.
When the Word of God.
Has lost its power with us.
Oh, how easy it is to fall into the snare.
Losing the power.
The word of God has with us when we get our eyes on something else.
And along with it.
The joy is lost.
To join the knowledge of the presence of God with us is lost.
Until this young man cries out a laugh. Master Alaska.
It was borrowed.
This young man had a responsibility.
The act that he had was not his own. It belonged to someone else.
And dear young Christian.
That was you and I possessed. And the word of God is a responsibility that you and I have, if not our own. It's the word of God.
You and I have a responsibility as to how we use it.
How we use that which we possess, you know?
Yes.
The last master of the world.
Oh, you had to answer to the one Jehovah belongs.
What had happened to that act?
Dear Christians, you and I.
Have to answer the gong as to how we use or how we neglect it.
His precious word which he has given to us.
You and I live in a day when the Scriptures have been opened up to us in a way that they have never been before.
No, we live in a day.
The most precious time in which a trial of God when the Scriptures have been opened up.
And we have a heritage in the ministry that God has given to us.
Or how do we use it to use it for his glory?
Why we like this young man that would fail in our responsibility to God.
Oh, you have to come to the man of God and confess.
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To confirm that he has failed.
What's the answer?
All the answer is where fellow.
Where Phillip?
And if you and I, you're young Christians.
Are going to be restored.
When we fail in our pathway.
Where do we have to go?
Go on. My knees are gone, impression that we have failed.
And then?
Where Philip?
What was it called? Where did we fail?
Oh, we've got to go back to the beginning.
Yes.
To the beginning, where the fall started.
That's the place you and for me to go.
Back there.
At all. Sometimes it takes.
Searching of the soul, God's presence.
To go back to the place.
Where we failed at the beginning of our failure.
Well, how blessed it is when we do it, when we can get into the presence of God.
Find that if we confess our sin to your faithful and just to forgive us our sins.
And to cleanse us from all unlikely things.
Oh, that's a place for gold.
And compassion on our knees to him.
When were you afraid?
So we showed in the place.
Yes.
There's a bearing of the soul before God.
Here is where I failed.
Oh, have you ever done that?
The fumbling to have to own before God that we have failed and how we have failed. Sometimes these things have a little beginning.
Grow how they grow.
But if we're going to have our communion restored with God and our joy, it must be by going back to the beginning of our failure.
Find him sufficient for all things.
So it showed in the place.
And he cut down a stick.
Confident in Civil.
All when we bring ourselves face to face before God.
With the cross of Christ.
Find there that the Lord Jesus.
Who died for me?
And it's a cross of Christ.
Yeah, by which the world is crucified to me and I under the world.
Have they learned the reality of that?
Yeah, there's a cross of Christ which puts a separation between me and the world.
The world is on one side of the cross.
And the child of God.
Is on the resurrection side of the cross.
Oh, where are you living? Where am I living?
So when we bring in the cross of Christ.
Into our failures, dear young Christian.
What a difference it makes.
Yeah.
So the cross of Christ.
When I bring my failures face to face with that.
Go or flush it with drops your eyes.
Cut down a stick and cast it and feather in the iron dish. Swim.
All established beyond all of nature for the ironless weather.
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The cross of Christ.
His wrath.
Which can work in your soul and mind, your young Christian.
That with the world. Never, never click and see.
So he said take it up to the and put out his hand and took it.
So how blessed it is.
One, we can, in fellowship with the people of God, find ourselves.
In the enjoyment of the company John's people.
And in company, so to speak, with God himself.
And to find the restoring grace that God has for all our failures while we're down here. Oh, God knows our our weakness. He knows how prone we are to failure.
And God has made provision for us, yes.
So may we?
And all the pathway down here in this world, see by God's grace to go on with the cross of Christ ever before that which has separated me from this world.
I was saying number.
76.
Why is my soul my daughter actually stranger hands no more in fees pass along his hand protects his strength that has a captive freedom is a wilderness before the desert landbreak. Heavenly strange all their restore thee fresh from God's exhaustion.
Art thou weighing from Egypt? Pleasure, God, and secret? These shall keep their unfolders hidden. Treasures there is love and exhaust must be.
When the Canaan's long love, dwelling, love, divine life, what shall bring?
The early shelf of France while a giant storms and rats to sing. There are no stranger Gods won't be stranger thou in front of them.
He who do his rush or briefly, briefly with a well known bone number 76.
Colossians 2:15-17
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Hey, Cortana.
Repeat the last two verses.
What number?
Two.
And you with.
Thank you having forgiven you all trespasses, lotting up the handwriting and board members that was against us, which is contrary to us and took it out of the way and nailing it through this wrong. Having spoiled principalities followed may ensure them openly clamping over their men.
Let no man therefore judge you with me or in strength.
Further, respective and holy day, or the new moon or the Sabbath day, which are a shadow of things that come with the body of the throne, that nomadic childhood is working, voluntary utility and working arrangements. And trillion of those things that you have not seen mainly pops up by a flash of their mind and not holding their head, through which all the bodies are joint from the band.
Put together.
Work for us, we can strike an aluminum in the world. Why is all living in the world? Are you selective ordinances but not they do not handle enough.
There's all our comparison to us, that with commandments and doctrines of them, which things have indeed a soul of wisdom and will, worship and community, and neglecting of the body, not in any honor to the satisfying of his way.
If we then be ridden with Frank, seek those insecture above the planes instead of the right hand of dogs.
Sexual affections on technical problems, not on things on the earth.
We're dead, but now.
The quickness has made a lot.
The uncircumcision of the slaves mean that in the first man there's nothing.
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Checking the prophets, the inspire, it is pulled by the fire of the old nature.
And what is made by them to get the new nature? And it looks at the one who has circumcised.
That the plaintiff has been put into place That.
Suppose the 1St 5 verses of the two would bring that divorce clearly was not.
2 verses one through 5 and you had to be quicker who were dead.
We're in nine times you walked away part of this world according to the Christmas of the power of the air, the spirit. Certainly this would be it.
Among whom also we all had our conversation.
That's very not talking about physical death, but he's talking about spiritual death.
The man who?
As far as things in this life, things of this.
I think it's significant under that you know the word there is not killing some of this.
That is where children, we might related just to the fact that that is our inhabitants.
But when it sounds of disobedience, it involves the determined work of the will.
That's my choice, sons of the city.
Let's see the majority of yes, it's it's the will they they think that's like sons of disobedience, their manifested carriers. Yes, it's like a one year old child disobeying and a 21 year old boy being in rebellion against his scholars authority in the whole.
One will be a child, another son may both be sons, and a certain measure.
I could call a Canton to the fact that we're quickened together with him.
That that new life has brought the soul and associate us with a blessed person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Quickens us together because we all have the same life nature, but we're associated with God's beloved Son.
Quicken together with him, not any part of Christ.
Having forgiven us should be us all trespasses.
That enabled us to be happy in the enjoyment of the association we have with Christ and one another, because it's a matter of presence how much we have all transfers against the Lord. Against is the truth His authority.
So that could make us very unhappy and very uneasy.
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And our blessed, wonderful association now in this new life of this new position. But then all that we did against God, against Christ.
It's all forgiven so we can be happy, and as ease full enjoyment of the lots that brought us into such a faint nearness were brought into like the prodigal son when he came home.
I don't believe the Father told us in so many words that he forgave him, but the the way the Father associates the Son with himself, together with himself, made him know that he was forgiven.
And so the fact that we are associated together with the Lord Jesus Christ just as soon as we're for dinner.
You mentioned you saved your brother berries. Perhaps if you would kindly explain that a little for the sake of some young Christian, I'd like to hear you explain it, Brother Smith. Well, I would like.
But I was thinking that as you mentioned that it might be.
It is important that we fell on it. A little prayer.
The suburbs in Roman states that is sometimes suffering love for young Christians and we meet these problems across among the many Christians in South America.
Romans 65 First brother Smith, is that first dead indeed up to sin.
911 Leave that page, brother, while I lie my my tracking you all to yourself, to be dead indeed understood, but alive unto dross for Jesus Christ our Lord.
He can have problems with the young Christians and.
They sometimes come proper, you know, they get into us. The left, of course, is more.
Emotion level then for the zebra section, and they go along very nicely for quite a time, and then they come off their ladder of ecstasy right down from the ground and above, and they pick themselves up and they wonder if they've ever been saved at all. Then we have to take them very quietly and come into the question of the new nature and old nature.
The old man and the new man.
They didn't seem to get it until I took them to Joshua and Ted and I would like to read just a few verse. Not talking about Occupy, too much thought.
Joshua.
It will make it a little strong. We may just make sure that there are 5 kings mentioned there in 3-5 king.
The king of Janusa left, the king of Hebrew and the king of Jargon, the king of Lactic, and the king of Eglon. Five of the East are overcome by the intervention of Georgia and his captain. 31St 24 The latter portion of it we really come near. Put your feet upon the neck of these teeth.
And they came near, and put their feet upon the neck of them, that Joshua said unto them, Feel enough or be displayed. Be strong and of a good courage, for that shall the Lord do to all your enemies.
Against whom he fights, verse 26. And afterwards Joshua spoke them, and slew them, and hanged them off 5 trees, that they were hanging upon the trees until the evening. And at the end of verse 27.
Great stones were laid in The Cave mouth, which remained up until this very day.
It is noticeable for the young Christian that the captains were associated with these kings. He's defeated king, and their feet were put on their necks as a son as a note of conflict.
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Notice the young president who slaves these king.
Joshua slaves now that seems to send it for a lot of our daily. The young believe Joshua slew them.
And Joshua is a type of that heavenly Joshua.
The Lord Jesus Christ.
And so there is this reckoning of ourselves being indeed they don't say and the life of the God, because he never seen Joshua has. Now these 5 kings, we sometimes tell the Saints that they can be the world, the flesh, the devil and sin and self, which is one of the biggest. But they're all saying they love the Lord Jesus and believe.
And we reckon ourselves dead indeed on the way.
Through the login price there definitely Josh perhaps that might be a little help so some young Christian people just.
All life as a nature.
That a duck and a ducks life, but it has a ducks nature.
So all the nature of the duck is to want to be here in the water.
Our chicken has a chicken's nature. A chicken's nature is keep away from the water.
I'm all has the nature that wants to be in the dark whirling the drown. A bird has the nature. The nature of the bird is flying with sunny heaven.
Now as.
National men.
We are born with a nature.
That loves sin. We are far and rebel. We're far with our backs towards God.
And when that weaker acts, when that light acts, it acts according to the old nature.
The old man is the one that has this this old.
Stop. When we're born wrong, we get a new life.
Well, that new life is going to act. It's going to show a nature, and the nature of that new life is above the things of God.
The love and companionship of Christ, that new nature can't sin.
That you like can't sin, but it manifests itself. It must manifest itself as according to God, because we're born with God. So John, who is treating of that new life.
Doesn't leave the first Epistle of John.
Is occurring to it, just for a moment.
3rd chapter and the 9th 1St.
Whosoever.
Or God dog not commitment practicing.
Or intersea remain in it.
And we cannot sin.
If the boss is born God.
Well, that's the nature of the life that you have. Orange cloth.
He cannot sin.
Of that installations.
5th chapter.
We have a direct admission.
Up two opposing principles in the life heart of every Christian. No exceptions.
Regulation 5316 and 17 this I say that walk in the spirit.
The Spirit is the power of the new life, and he shall not hold down the lust of the flesh and the old thing.
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For now, here is a first.
That marks are fast. As long as we're here in this world, there's no discharge in this war.
The flesh lusteth against the spirit, spirit against life.
And these are contrary 1 to the other, so that you may not do the things that you would.
Well, I think it's that may not do to think of the children.
Would apply this to both parts.
By both the poor going parts in that verse.
That is the flash.
Says I want to. I want to go to the show.
The Spirit that comes in, I said no, that isn't for the honor of the Lord Jesus. And so we don't know.
The Spirit says I want to go to the meeting.
The white gentleman and said no, you better take it easy today. You worked hard yesterday and you need the rest.
And the result is they've got we listen to the flag, then we miss the mind of God. Now that conflict goes on as long as we're here.
The light of the flesh and the nature that's always against God. Life He has born of God, always an importance to the mind and will of God.
Romans 8 bring that out there. A carnal mind is enmity against God.
And it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
I don't think there never can be subject to God. A healthy doctor doesn't need to be pushed into the watermelon.
The Second Doctor.
Has been called Are we privileged to to identify ourselves with the desires of the new nature?
Puzzles me for some time that is someone would come with a suggestion and you turn around and say no thank you, I don't want to go. Something inside you said well, you hypocrite, you know very well you do want to go, but you're just not going. But then in the 7th of Romans we read, I delight in the law of God after the inward man. It would seem that we are privileged by the grace of God to identify the eye with the desires of the new nation. We are privileged to say in truth.
Thank you, I don't want to go. And that I, by the grace of God, is the expression of the new man. Is that true? That's the last verse of Chapter 7, Romans 7.
You made the statement, Robert.
That's important. You made a statement that the difference between the leading of the spirit and the Goddess operates all nature.
Now in Bolivia, we guide our bullets in the plowing with a gold that's a long stick with a pipe.
As we put the bullets to keep them in the plural.
We cannot distinguish between the leading of the Spirit of God as He acts upon our nature.
The Spirit of God deceived.
And who has told them?
Thing that the antiflex Cool, cool. It's a goal now. We've all experienced that.
See, constantly gives us a focus. Says do that, you do that.
And the Spirit of God says, don't you do that?
All we've all experienced that and we can serve the difference.
Well, that's important to take notice of that, don't you think? It's well to remember that.
7th of the Romans is not normal Christianity.
It's one finding its way into.
Galatians 5 is the normal experience of every believer as long as it appears.
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That battle that goes on.
Between black.
All.
And the leaking of the Spirit of God, which is according to the word of God.
Dollar is much teaching today's and in gaining ground to and fundamental service.
That you can have a certain experience.
Whereby you are more or less suddenly catapulted into a position of superiority where you become practically oblivious.
To any suggestions of flight and pause.
And to become a constantly triumphant fiscal.
So that that teaching is gaining ground.
Some believers who once were sound in the face.
Have given into it.
I I I mentioned one that used to be sound along got the lines.
His brother, Doctor Wilson.
Formerly of Kansas City.
He is clear and sounds any Christian autopsy on these things, but now he has surrendered to this higher life conception. Well dear young folks, don't be taken in by it's a delusion.
There's no such thing as a sudden promotion into a more or less sinless condition.
Am I right brother make the cost. Lady came to me and said, Mr. Smith, I've never said it my life. I said this is the you sin now you sold the life.
And she doesn't. She didn't say anymore. There was a question asked us in our readings in the culture, the brother said we were considering Galatians 5 and the brother said.
Rather, he said.
10 Christians practice this straight list.
Of carnality.
And brother Taylor is, of course, he said.
Rather.
I don't, I don't think we could call you a Christian if you went on the practice of those things.
Could we fall when a Christian, if he or she can think it off in the practice of those things?
Outlined and relationship.
And then we came back to the question of the new name and the old nature. Well, that was an interesting reading for three days.
In that place I might mention below that in 1926 we were put into prison. This is that area. Two of these dear brothers are with the Lord.
They were cast over in Logistics Border.
And I took a long time to get them back by going through the government.
1963 hundred almost year one came in for three days meeting.
And we sat down some whip over the sight of 300 believers. I didn't count them, but they told me there were 300 what God has lost. Those were happy days. I just mentioned that working at torture. Just pray for those who are there. They seem to do a lot of things.
Comfort in Scripture.
Are a professed Christian.
Right on deliberately living a life of sin.
I know no comfort for such a one.
Sometimes meet those that are living in a possible life and unchallenged and say, well, I'm a Christian, you know, I'm a Christian.
Well, I think have the right to see the sentence. Show me a word within the list of the book that gives you the writer title that claims to be a Christian when you're living the life that you do now.
One is not saying that they're not Christians.
But there's no consolation in the word of God that they can lay hold on to give them any comforts that they are as long as they're living that kind of a life.
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Every Christian has the Holy Spirit dwelling within him and that spirit of God gives his power to overcome well as they instead of being overcomers at they're constantly overcome by sin and living like the ungodly world around them. There's no evidence that a Christians thought and they may be deceived their foster John tells them that some who are in among the Christians.
And he says they went out promised.
Not of us, or if they were of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. But they went out because they were all not all of us there they were among the Christians and going on with them. And the Christians received perhaps that the thinking if they were real and they weren't real at all. And when they.
The time came. They turned their back on the truth.
And returned the back on the Lord's people and without and the apostle says they were all not all of us when Christians thought.
So one is going on in sin to better examine themselves. They may find themselves in the pit of hell.
And that ought to make a note. But I die on their sins and the loss, in spite of all their their knowing these things, in spite of all the profession, and I believe, of the many eternally lost.
That once associate themselves the people of God and profess the real Christians.
Do you ever have a problem in meeting people that once made a progression?
I've got into evil ways.
And tell you that they don't know if they're saved or not. They feel that they were saved once, but they couldn't say they're saved. Not asked how to help the souls of that.
I remember Miller Ryan, what's the brother told you one time about about seeking to get comfort to one that said, well, I I used to be saved.
I I was saved once, but I'm not sure now. And they're going on perhaps living in a sinful life, living a sinful ways. Well, one ought not to encourage them to think, oh, you're all right.
You've got eternal life. You can't lose it. And you once you're saved, then you're saved. You're all right.
Getting consolation the one that's going on and simple waves, I believe that's wrong. Brother Potter remarked about that many years ago that he believers the very wrong to console a person that's living a sinful life because solemn with a thought that well.
Effort. You are where saved. You are real after all.
I believe that the doctor, the broth and the presence of God to judge themselves and that might do them good to to be an an estate where they are uncertain and unhappy because the Spirit of God, I believe would make one who is real. It's going on badly. The Spirit of God would make that person unhappy. Well, what do you think of this person?
Well, you get on on your knees, get down before the Lord and judge yourself before the Lord and you'll make it clear to you get where you are really saved. Or if you're just a mirror empty professor and need to cry to God for the salvation of your soul.
I think have thought to get people before the Lord down on their knees, God would make it clear to them what their real say the soul was in case there's none of them reminded me of.
It's not exactly the case of what is going on.
What? You might call it a simple way, but it's a case of one who was visiting company.
With one that he had no right to keep something with at all.
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To her getting into the situation, she was very unhappy.
With it.
But she she became very much exercising.
She was wondering if she was really safe.
Well, I sucked and solar, the word of God is a few months late, she was always saying.
I told Mr. Potter about my interview with her.
And the old man shook his head. He said I I would have talked to her that way.
Senator, I have let that exercise go on and sought to bring her in, in the presence of God and Father.
To hold her sin and going on that evil association.
Well, I'm sure that my brother was right and I was wrong.
And I believe that it was a comfortable lesson doing well that the sequel was that that person continued on.
To cut her out of the meeting, out of the meeting to this day, and I'm talking in terms of 40 years ago.
Brother once said to me, you say that once saved, always saved. Now I can do what I like.
And I remember telling that Brother Hockley, I said, you won't like brother. And that's the difference, the new nature, whole nature life.
Most we have a word to that isn't there First Timothy 2?
Of course 19.
Several lots of foundation that's all defended sure having this field the Lord knoweth them that it is and that everyone in the name of the name of Christ. Department of liquidity.
One of my gets so far down in the path of sin that only the Lord knows who is.
This deal has two sides to it and we have a responsible side as well as a sign that the Lord see that everyone in name of the name of the Lord and iniquity.
Company index.
Recently when calling on A8 sister.
Her son came into the room.
To visit his mother and she was very quick to say, Oh my boy is is saved.
But I know it no longer comes a meeting for a long, long years.
And this path was an ungodly one. The next time I was back again, he happened to be visiting at the same time. And again she assured me in his presence that he was a child of God.
Well, I happened to meet him alone in another place and he took the occasion to tell me yes, but my mother told you is right. I said, brother, if you are a child of God.
I want to read you one version.
I read them that verse. By their fruits shall ye know.
By their fruits shall he know them. I said that all I can go by is the word of God. And if I am judged by your walking ways.
There are grave doubts in my mind as to whether you know that blessed Savior. So we who know the Lord shouldn't be ready to vouch for those that have confessed the Lord in time past and sort of smooth it over for them, and we should seek to exercise them as the Lord gives us.
The right opportunity to do so. That scripture is plain. By their fruits shall you know them.
In the next verse of our chapter and 2nd.
Ordinances, that was against us very easy.
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All that legal system of things that characterized the whole covenant.
And then completely broken down right from the start.
Because of what man was.
Literally said all of the Lord has commanded we will do.
Sound confident?
What about it?
Are we not under this handwriting of ordinances?
No, thank God we're not.
We're not under the thunders and threatens of Sinai. No, we're not.
Putting up the handwriting importances against us on treadmills took it out of the way, nailing it to the frost.
Law. That is the way we get right with God.
This is the way we become equipped to be in His presence. Enjoy His presence.
Long as that stood in the way, we were lost no more.
So the Lord has cared that too.
I've enjoyed the illustration regarding my situation by the Balance.
Of the Palestinian Market Square, where the crisis of the criminal were displayed publicly on a huge sheet of paper on her nails with three.
And the public agreed to blows message but when the criminal had been dealt with.
Then the magistrate would come on the mail that paper and stuff to the tree, and that bring out the thought having him.
Who is brought? Take it out of the way and over in Ephesians 2.
Verse Ephesians Verse 15.
Season 215 having abolished.
In his flesh even the law come out and the painted ordinances or to make himself afraid wonder man, or maybe Jesus, and that he might reconcile both of the God of one by the cross havoc lazy unto their by.
Wonderful transaction.
That's the moment law is practically South America.
And who has been accused of being guilty is cleared in the crop.
And the verdict of the judges mail to his door stuck on to his door so that all the passes by them free from themselves that this man is rolled on the guilt. That's the role of law. And if you've been placed to us what this means.
Isn't it nice to think Brother Smith that it was nailed to his cross that shows one that took the the guilt and poured himself and made the full penalty that was against the Center for the mile there there's no charge against him. All those ordinances that demanded that we live up to a certain.
Law and standards.
We are going to be right with God. We have to keep.
That's all been disposed of, failed, who is called, and now we're free to joy and preserve him and newness of spirit. Better than the oldest of the letters. As good as me. That one has rejoiced.
As better than being nailed to our doors.
Let's cross number one time my brother Larson.
But the young people meetings, wanting out, where is out?
Good question. Is that where is out?
And the 13th chapter of Acts, the apostle Peter speaks of those things that were commanded under the law.
That they were a yoke which neither we nor our father were able to bear. And the Gentiles were set free. Not you. They went to. They went put on the light yoke. If we go back to the 11Th chapter of Leviticus, we find that the ordinance is there, that we're.
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So they gone through under the law and that certainly was a yoke they had to.
If a farmer was working out in this field.
And it happened to touch a dead animal that had fallen dead in this field.
Why he had to wash his clothes and be on clean until evening?
And so that the touching, touching death in any way like that made the person unclean. Well, what a joke that was when the farmer died to go home and wash his clothes and be on clean until the evening. Or anyone that touched a dead body, or the board of a man, or a grave, or the bodies of.
Unclean. Well, even even the unclean.
Living things were debiling, but the dead body of any kind but on cleanness through thee person that was on her law. Well, we've been delivered from all those kinds of things, those ceremonies, those ordinances we're we're in liberty now stand fast. Therefore the apostles there for the Galatians. They were going back onto those things. The bosses are stand faster from the liberty, but with Christ that made you free your sinners free and be not entangled again.
With the yoke of ******* but people all around the stars, real Christians are going on with all kinds of ordinances.
They're going through penances, some of them they're, that's the Christians and all kinds of bridges, ceremonies, thinking that it's a part of the Christian life when we're set free from those things.
We are not under law. Oh, what a grand type of value.
It enjoys the very length we're talking about here, and it's free that it's troubled, but it finds itself in the presence that left it city violence. It isn't the life of bombs. It isn't well, I, I did pretty well today. I I didn't do this and I didn't do that and I didn't do the other thing. Oh, that's not it is incredible.
Are we enjoying the Lord in our lives?
So I found in the happiness of his approval. That's it. How about it, Brother Brown? Amen.
We.
Genital, I believe is looked at as in most of the 13th verse.
But if you mentioned in the last 13 verse, instead of reading you, it should read us so. But the gentile, what could be more positive than he was dead when when they were dead and you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh?
Have he that sovereign grace has quickened?
Given lies together with Him, and that's though where all the blessing comes, is being thus identified with Christ in life. Then he goes on to say.
Having forgiven us, that's the dude Paul writing all trespasses or offences.
Blotting out the handwriting, he spoke of it as being.
Publicly displayed and nailed to a tree.
Publicly displayed the guilt of these one.
That's all been blotted out, all these ordinance against us, against the Jew it is.
Which was against us, Paul says The do. Which was contrary to us.
And took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
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Then it makes me think of the Red Sea in verse 15.
And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly.
Triumphing over them.
In other fire, that's the cross. The cross has settled all.
Well, the principalities there are the same as you get in Ephesians 6 between wrestle against principalities, wicked spirits, the high places, that is the baton and all his wicked spirits were seeking to hold man.
And the power of thin under Satan, under Satan's offenders.
Our friends made and succeeded in putting the Lord on the cross.
You want a victory?
That is broken up fastly in this.
The 15th word having spoiled principalities.
That is all the purpose of state.
Was completely defeated when the Lord Jesus Moses again from the dead, because the very one that Satan had led the whole world to crucify rises beyond the power of death and the grain and makes us show them openly that is.
He's a plain I'll completely baton and all this post have been defeated for now. The one that went into death is now alive forevermore, proving that what he accomplished on the cross God has fully vindicated and dissatisfied with.
So that now Satan can no longer hold the feeblest believer in Christ.
Under his power he had a full and complete deliverance from that college. And would that be Hebrews 214?
As the children of our takers of flesh and blood, he also himself took part of the state that through death he might destroy him that had the power of them. That is the devil.
Then read the next part brother and deliver that move to fear of that were all their lifetime subjects and ******* that is thanks to it belong the same line as a deliverance of the believer from the fear of death that is in the Old Testament system.
A man lived in the dreaded fear of death.
Because this hasn't been confused then, and he had.
A faith of God had a very uncertainty as to what lay beyond this. So death have his fears and tears, horrors in his face and that dispensation. But now the Lord Jesus has taken away from faith to the keys of death to see in the first chapter of Revelation he says I am he that liveth and was dead.
Behold, I'm alive forevermore and have the keys of death and Hades. Satan had those keys up to the cross of Christ, but the Lord Jesus is going into death, took those keys away from his face, and he holds them now so that the believer in Christ.
Need to have No Fear of death at all.
It's a little task, and the truth for life and incorruptibility for life have been brought to light to the gospel. The gospel brings the fins of the third day that everything is settled in the death of Christ, so that all that death can do for the believers is to separate him from a world of children's sorrow and take him to that race where he's in the presence of his.
Savior and Redeemer.
I like to think of this.
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Morning principalities power making assure them openly friendly over their energy, as illustrated when Samson walked off with the gates of gates.
They had it recaptured, they had it found with bombs, but they snapped them.
Three games out, then as he left the city, he just showed up the gates. He took the gates along with him. Oh, what complete triumph it was.
And so in connection with our Lord's cross working the consequences triumphant and resurrection for I believe it's it goes beyond just death here.
The Mr. Darby needs this.
Adding wild principality to authorities.
Leading them in triumph by him.
It's on the basis of the crossword.
On the basis of that word right now in resurrection.
Is trauma over every enemy?
Death the Grave 80. He was in 80s.
He tried for that.
Over Satan and put him there.
He's descended on high. He's passed through the very realms of signal, passed through the heavens.
Just quite a concert believement regarding what Mother Mary was bringing for us between the Old Testament sins and the New Testament sin before and after the cross. The case of Hezekiah, who was a godly, one of the most godly kings of Judah.
The time came and he thought he was going to die. There was a great distress about it and he was mourning and a great sorrow and the Lord added 15 years to his life to remember. He didn't want to die.
The darkness no doubt lay before it isn't what it was all about. And we had a great try, a great sorrow to him. But then look at the apostle Paul. I desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better for me. To live is Christ, and to die is dead. But a contrast in those two men, both sins of God. 1A King.
In the New Old Testament.
And the other and apostles on your Testament.
Characteristically.
The old economy did not raise the question of the next fight.
Lightning flash across the dark sky.
Fashion here and there.
You are perhaps Nathan saying funny little boy that died and people are here, but that's not very curious because that revelation.
And his his promises were distinctly.
Blessings were hurt.
Question of Kevin and Patel was not great. That is, it's not characteristically.
Worse, life and incorruptibility are brought to light through the gospel. Now everything is in the light, and it's not a question of being blessed here on the earth, having good prophecy and lovely families and no sickness.
Escape from the consequences of occurs. That's not what we have in Christianity at all.
We're transferring a lot of around entirely. If we do get some of these mercies along the way, we thank God for them, but they are not characteristic of our promises.
Our blessings are, as Christians are, heavenly and not hurt. Mr. Brown would do at this point. Explain that first to us in Hebrews 11 and 16 in that connection.
Hebrews 11 and 16.
But now they desire a better country that is in heavenly, Wherefore God is not ashamed to call their God. We have prepared for them a city.
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Yes, these all died in faith. I never received the promises, and having seen them in parallel, and were persuaded of them in the trace of the Confederate, they restrained the dope on the earth.
Were they the same such things declared.
And truly, if they had been buying over that country.
The interpretation which God puts upon their faith, that is, as to how far they themselves entered into it, would be another thing.
Of that faith that they released, God gave them credit for perhaps more than they themselves actually alive or concurrently with the blessings that were promised in the 12Th chapter of Genesis.
We do not find these things magic.
Just look at that for a moment.
Jehovah's Get Me Out of that kindred into my brothers house under the land that I will show them.
Tyler Magazine. Brave names. I will bless thee and make thy name great. That will be a blessing, and I will bless them and bless thee. And 1St thou and 1St thee.
So Abraham departed, the Lord spoken unto him, lost Miss William.
Five years old when he did part of the parents.
But then later on you get the water renewing his public.
And the.
Chapter.
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abraham and the saying you're not Abraham. I am my shield and like seating great for more.
And so he goes on to.
Review the problem, but hardly not characteristics.
Are they not characteristics now?
In the Hebrews 11, God is giving his evaluation of the thing as to how far these individuals entered into, which is another question as you said before.
Here and there you'll get a bright lightning light across the sky. And when Joe says I know that my Redeemer liveth and my feet.
In the latter day of I shall stand from the earth, and so after this skin worms destroy this place, get in my plate till I see God, whom I shall see for myself, and not another, though my reigns be consumed within me.
Yes, well that certainly wasn't very good because Joel because sensor too after he doesn't darken better. Bob did get them and occasional right look into the future.
Statement that one is making his list. That was not characteristic of that economy. It was perfectly flatter. Now the expression here in this verse. And now does that refer to any particular discernment they have now?
In their spirits having died.
Well, Brother Martin, I never heard that question made before, so I heard it raised. That's the reason I'm asking. No, I've never heard from someone that.
Did Abraham then seek a heavenly country at all?
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God. God inherited his faithfulness in those terms.
He wasn't characteristic of the promises that were made. Promises. And now would this be correct, Brother Brown?
That that faith carried Abraham beyond his distinction, that is, he went into the land.
And with the call God, that God was giving him the country to possess for him and for his feet forever, when he was there in that land, he didn't possess the foot of ground, and he becomes a stranger and a children, and his faith in circles, his position that God must have something better than Canaan.
For him to look forward to.
And so faith he doesn't have a revelation of a heavenly city like you and I have for faith laid home, and there must be a city which can't foundation.
The building maker is dark and the same way with the resurrection of Isaac.
God has made all his promises and that the Son, and now God tells him to go and slay his son.
And Abraham by faith.
That God must be true to his promise, and if he takes the life of His Son, God will have to raise him from the dead. So faith enabled him really to go beyond the instructions of his dispensation, and he lays hold of resurrection.
I I think that's an improvement over my own explanation.
First of Hebrews 11 would perhaps cover the subject. Without faith it is impossible to please him. He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him, not saying that they understood how to be carried out.
They knew he was rewarded and verse 10 brother.
Where he looked for a city which had a foundation to choose, filter and make it his thought.
In the verse before it he dwells in tents, as it were, with Isaac and with Jacob. The next two generations intense, not settled down in the land that had been promised.
I didn't mean to draw away from Colossians, that is.
Concerning principalities and power, and it's found in the third chapter they we just went on at a moment, verse 10.
Ephesians 3, verse 10.
He's a conference here.
Through the intent of power to the principalities and powerful places, I be known by the Church, the manifold wisdom of God.
Brother Mary mentioned that Ephesians 6 has to do with demons.
Six ever series, but here we have Beloved Good Angel and this is not wonderful. We've translated this person to the English language in this way.
That in heavenly places might be known by the Church the many colored wisdom of God, the many colored wisdom of God. Now these are Angel 11, are they not? And.
They read in the Church the many coloured wisdom of God.
Angels do not sing because they've never been to the.
What do they say? They say, And I was thinking while we were dwelling on this question of principalities of power, and this word came to my soul. What do the angels say, beloved?
When they see a St. walking in the goods of the truth, do they not see in that the many colored wisdom of God and.
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Do they say when they see a St. not walking in the good of the truth as he or she may know it?
What do they say, beloved, when they hear us singing these little black hymns? I don't know.
But I always like to think of it. I don't think I'm taking up the study of angels. I've studied it, but I would reach out to Philippines. But it is interesting, this person.
That's the age of breathing your me.
Many colored wisdom of God.
All the love is something here that we should take heed to it with our structure.
What do they say?
And when our sisters take their passion on their parents, but with the Word, what do the angels say?
Now don't get affected. Below we talk straight, you know.
We believe.
What? What do the angels say?
Just think of them. I thought I would mention that before we left in questions of principalities or power. I think that's very helpful, brother. As long as we're satisfied with what is the bottom of the word about angels, it's a very happy and helpful country. But if we try to go beyond what the word tells us, you are in the 18th first of our chapter. Let no man be tired you.
Of your reward and voluntary humility and worshiping of angels.
Including into those things which he hath not seen. That's going beyond.
Will reveal word of God trying to find out more about angels that God has been pleased tell us or we could use that for many other subjects.
And we try to go beyond the word of God.
It puffs man up in the flame because he's wiser than God.
So the Lion of Man is ****** ** and becomes.
The target of Satan. Satan takes advantage to put in his ideas into his mind and lead him farther and farther astray.
So let's remember to be satisfied with what God has revealed in His Word, What He hasn't revealed and His Word, He has a reason for it.
Well, there's certainly abundance for our problems and help us we go on. It's a good word and it comes into our reading the love and that it's a timely word.
President Deuteronomy 2929 and did not.
Is that? Is that not substance of Deuteronomy 2929?
Good brother Myers.
The secret thing to Jehovah or the Lord our God. But those which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the work, all the work of his law.
God knows how to work annually.
See if any of these Saints at anytime.
And go a little bit of faith or faithful instead of speech is odd.
And Brother Barry is brought before us.
If faith in Abraham rose above.
Not in the art dispensation. And Richie Pilot thought recognizing presence and willing is that is that all right? That's very fine, very good.
It might be helpful to some a statement that is often been made concerning angels and that is this. The angels do have to do with us, but it is not our business to have to do with them.
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We none of us would be here, but hadn't been for the guardianship of angels.
They're watching over us as we travel on the highways.
The Angel of the Lord at campus around about them that ferries don't go over the 65 miles an hour and others when you go home.
Don't think you'll get the trust of the angels to take care if they do.
Verse 16 is rather a conclusion we're coming to. I don't say.
The only conclusion in the chapter, but it is a conclusion verse 16.
Let no man, therefore.
Got you In meat or in drink, or in respect of an holiday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days.
Which are a shadow, a mere shadow.
Maybe they may have been typical in their place and in their time.
But which are a shadow of things to come. But the body is of Christ. We now have the substance we need, not anything of the other. The all sufficiency of Christ is what our hearts need to learn more and more.
And drink and the holy day.
Those are all ceremonial things.
In other words, this particular verse is talking about what they're going to have on the table for dinner today.
Well, it's going to be popular. Clear lemonade.
Are electronically deeper lamp. That's not something that the 1St is. It's those things that have to do with Sarah polio.
There is a difference, is there not, between what we had as the traditions and what you speak on now is ceremonial?
This here has to do more with what was instituted at one time. Yes, it was good, but traditionally that which has been brought in for a new man's mind, Yes, that's right. But.
It's depression cleaning and public cleaning, eating and drinking under the ordinances and ceremonies and tradition.
This was better question as we whether the Adventist would only read it and believe it. Those who were keeping the Sabbath day and Christianity they're condemned for it. Showing the Spirit of God reigns Jesus of Christianity and justice. The type of Saint Paul and the Spirit to observe.
You have the Lord's name. That's the day the Lord rose from the dead.
That's the day that fell apart for him. That's a very different thing. One day I said to an Adventist. I said, you know, Sir, you're just like my dog that stole that leg of.
Gold that I had. He was crossing the river and it was ice cave water. He saw the shadow of his meat in the water. He grabbed the shadow and lost the meat. You know, there we have it, beloved.
That's what you're doing. That's because the shadow and you lose the substance.
Of the state.
So we're saying #317.
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That no man that guide you of your reward and the voluntary humility and worshipping of angels including the lowest synchrony of not seen vaguely popped up by his pleasure environment. I'm not walking ahead with all the body and fans having nervous ministers and live together increases with the inpatient job.
Everyone can get dead with Christ and a nunnament to the world. Why is all living in the world? Are you subject to ordinances? Let's not. They do not handle not with all of the Paris that you're using. That's the commandments and talking with them, which things happen here to show the wisdom and will work and humility and the collecting of the body of the many owner to the satisfying of the flesh.
If you then be really look bright, seek those researcher above the price and your right hand would go. Set your elections on things to fall, not on things on the earth where you are dead and your life is right through the door.
But practicals are alive.
Then shall be also a mere rest of his daughter.
Now you also put off all these angry filter communication out of your mouth.
Why not one to another see that you put off the old man with his feet, and I put all the new manure, the knowledge of everything in here, where there is neither Greek or due to certification nor uncertainty, they are buried.
At all and in all.
I'm saying it might be helpful before we go on.
Think he's first to speak of a new moon?
And for 16 first, to get better and respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath day, you turn to the 81St crown.
Read, sing aloud unto God. Our strength make a joyful noise under the God of Jacob.
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Take us down and bring hit her the timbrel with pleasant heart, with the fulfilling blow up the trumpet in the new moon and the appointed in the time appointed on our solemn faith day. This was a statue for it doesn't say the church doesn't.
Order carefully. This was a statute for Israel.
And the law of the God of Jacob.
The Christians, the early Christians waking up with these.
Jewish peace days. These holy days and one of the Jewish peace days was the Feast of the New Moon. Well, it doesn't refer to the blessings of the Church at all.
But it refers to the blessing of Israel.
In the coming millennial day.
You can see by the reading of those verses.
Of the day of glory and blessing. The blowing of trumpet, Well, the blowing of compass is calling together. Find in Matthew 24.
All the tribes of Israel, when the Lord comes in his glory and sets up His Kingdom here on earth, and we can see if we consider the new moon.
App type is of Israel.
To see the moon wanes and until it disappeared so fast, and then after a while you see a little Crescent on the western side. You see there is the new moon. The moon's returning. Well, Israel has disappeared in the ways of God.
Israel is not a science. She is.
Who am I? Not my people at the present time.
So, Israel, where is the dark side? But when this present dispensation of the Church is over?
God is going to take up Israel again, and then you'll have the new moon, Israel's return. So how out of faith it was to be celebrating Israel's peace?
In another dispensation, and I suppose we could say that if we want to use the moon at all of the type of the church, we should use the full moon, because the tongue representing Price and the moon representing the church in that figure, all the light that the moon give of what it reflects from the light of the sun.
So all the light that the church has, this Dark World.
Is its reflection of Christ.
And the only time you know that the the moon has eclipsed is when the world gets between the sun and the moon. Then she goes into an eclipse. And how true that is the connection with the.
With what we're going on with.
As long as we are in the enjoyment of Christ, He is shining upon us. We radiate the light of His glory. If we're walking in communion and enjoying Christ, there's something of Christ that's been in our lives. When we allow the world to come in by, then there is that.
That eclipse and we become a dark body giving no light at all.
Getting there.
18 verse the including the little things you have not seen. I think it's both about the Amos this morning.
Isn't that offensive?
Sound part is Christian to observe.
Keep away from anything on the alcohol metaphysics.
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Anything along that line give it a wide burst.
Those are the Sabbath and have lost their parents.
And come to be known personally have apostatize.
As a result of that, we get this kind of thing, Spirit.
Related Isms Causeway.
Just just have nothing to do with the weather, including those things that you have not seen.
That.
We use a military term. You see around military camps all over the country, you see a sign off limits.
Well, this this kind of thing is off limits.
The word of God.
Warn us not to listen to anything that is.
Erroneous that we need to be contrary to God's word and not even to listen to him. A little verse comes before me sees my son to hear the instruction that causes to air when the words of knowledge.
Cease my son to hear. Don't listen to. I will find this contrary to God's word. Turn away from.
Sometimes he could have curiosity, want to hear what it's all about. I remember a young man.
That I was.
Grandpa sending in Minneapolis many years ago he had been given a very wired on Gordon young fella. He came from England and he.
Became a cook. He was a cook on one of the big hotels in New York City, and they got to drinking and finally came down so low that he couldn't hold a job. And he became a tramp and he tramped over the whole country for for years was in prison in different places.
Picked up on, footlined the bars. A word of poor done. He came into a gospel meeting in Minneapolis many years ago.
And rags and then room and he heard the Gospel. In fact, it was a Roma even, but a Roman Catholic. He heard the gospel and wonderfully saved. We got to preach the gospel. He went to the same Bible school. It was the same classes that I was in there.
At that time and then he began to double in what was called the higher criticism, the books written by these, these false teachers, the best preachers of the gospel, the books denying the fundamental truths of God's Word.
He began to read those books and in conversation with him one time after we got through the school, he told me what books he was reading.
And by the way, this young man, his name was William Kelly.
And you sound never reading these books. I warned them. I said, William, you better leave them alone. You better not topple those things. Well, he said, I'm reading them source to find out just what they teach in order that I may be able to contest it and to overthrow them and refuse. I said, well, you better be careful.
The next thing I heard after I left town, some long a little while after that, was accepted those teachings.
And began to began to teach them themselves.
And it was with great sorrow we had that, but in about a year's time.
To my joy, I heard that it had been delivered. I thought the, the, the.
Critical books throwing them overboard and was restored to the Lord and restored to the truth. And I believe that the Lord did it because he was a genuinely converted soul saved her the death of sin. The Lord delivered him, but for a long time he was affected by those errors and they're so disturbed by them. Well, if they had needed that verse of God's Word, He had been delivered for all that.
There there's the word says save my son.
Here the instruction of cautious air, the words of knowledge.
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Who have been saved and gathered. Very true. We're not winning stuff. Definitely. Some of them are even needed.
Back.
I have saved from every.
That was a wonderful property and the very God of peace sanctified you both and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved places after coming. Our Lord needs to pray. That was a good word that Thomas Metoo Walsh and do it.
Place reminds in replacing our level is not.
And over here in Philippians 2, we have much concerning the minus price.
It tells us there in the second chapter of Philippians.
And first of all, the second verse.
The one part of one line.
Third version but it loaded in spy and the fifth verse let this mind see you, which was also in Christ Jesus and we get the protection and the 4th chapter Philippians.
And the first 7.
At the beach, of course, passing all over the sand and shall keep your hearts and minds.
Through faith, Jesus forget it for heart and mind since the dangerous thing.
Be going on in subjective manner.
Not sufficient to the truth, not obedience, right? Not having his mind going on as we're having an easy bird popped up, popped up.
My a flesh in mind as a dangerous thing, tracing of the enemy on this light, to see a conference go by without calling the attention, especially of the young people.
Corinthians 10.
And I believe the reason why we feel so strongly about this person is because he's he's felt the necessity of it in his own life.
Secondary and stem.
And in order to get the connection we will leave this 4th 1St following first one has in mind 2nd Corinthians 10 reading the fourth verse of weapons of our warfare are not carnal. That might be true thought of pulling down the strongholds. Now this is our first casting on imaginations. Read the March casting down release me and every high thing that exhausted itself against the knowledge of God.
And bringing into captivity every thought.
Do the obedience of Christ.
Robert we can't overcome assignment. Young people are being faced with unbelief all the way through their schooling, and it's increasing.
I'll simply give no place to leave thoughts of Uncle Lee, catch them violently down, casting down reason, every thought bringing in the captivity, every thought to the obedience of Christ. You may not understand all these things.
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May not be able to give a reason, you may not be able to satisfy the minds of those that challenge you about it, but simply take your stand on the word of God and say, I believe it and by the grace of God I'm going to live by it until the Lord takes me home. I have no ear, no ear whatsoever from what you're trying to tell me.
It's important to know the Shepherd's voice.
In the past of John.
Read about the Shepherd's voice.
Works 27.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
So important to know the shepherd's voice. It's not important to know all these other voices of imaginations or reasons and whatnot, but it is important to know the shepherd's voice.
It's like the the banker.
He doesn't have to know what all the counterfeit money looks like or feels like or sounds like, but he does have to know what good money feels like and sounds like. And when he knows the good money, he'll recognize the counterpart as soon as it comes along. And so if we know the shepherd's voice, we don't know the commonplace when it comes along. It means words.
That we have here.
Which you have not seen.
With that name, with the vision of faith.
No, it's it's trying to penetrate the unseen world.
It needs to be. It needs to be denied the privilege of getting through that curtain catalysed or don't try to get through. God has told us all of life on the other side that we need to know.
So we've been involved and don't go further than the faith leads us or the Word of God and it will be on safe ground.
And the 119 Psalm and verse 128 is another good verse to add to the one our brother McMillan gave us.
That was a wonderful verse in Proverbs 1927 that he gave us ceased my son to hear the instruction that caused it to her from the words of knowledge, but Psalm 119 verse 128 is.
I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right, and I hate every false way.
And then the Lord Jesus said in Mark 4 verse 24.
Take heed what you hear. Take heed what you hear. I believe that we know what it is to be saddened in our spirits.
When we discover some of the beloved Saints, the ought to know better when they are dabbling into questionable religious reading.
And what they're hearing.
Perhaps over the radio you discover that they're getting in confusion. They're coming to you and they say, is that true? Well, they're losing their berries, but dabbling in these days.
Will only spoil your spirit and your faith. It will not.
Minister Christ and keep you in communion.
Happy communion with him and his thoughts.
Don't we have enough good ministry without dabbling in these things? All we have enough to occupy them. First of all, the word itself. And that's so much good ministry. There's a lot of it back in the lounge. And if you don't have all you need, why you can get more there.
Another verse that is, I believe, very important. I know it's very helpful to me.
Remember that an unsafe college professor, no matter how many degrees you have.
Or her clever years, he cannot possibly give you the fruit of God because his mind is darkness. The God of the world as blamed the mind and then to believe not and he can't give it to you, so don't expect it. And when it ties to instruct you in spiritual things.
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Remember that he'll always be wrong. It can't be right. A verse in the 50th Psalm let us know that Psalm 50.
Verse 16.
But on to the wicked, God said, What hast thou to do to declare my subjects, or that thou should take my covenant in thy mouth?
Seeing thou hast description, and cast us my words behind thee. These men have refused. Gods were the hated gods instructions. They've reduced God's words.
That cast God's words behind their backs. And God said, what do you do to do to take my things into your mouth or to instruct people and my things you know nothing about them.
And God calls on the food. The fool had said in his heart, There's no God. He's a fool. God says. Bill denies God and his word. And why should we take our learning from fools?
Psalm 15, verse 16.
I'm 70. Add a word as to the dabbling in the modern translations.
There are many translations in the English language, but we're living in days when they're turning them out.
Several every year.
And the sum total.
Of the modern things itself so well.
Advertised so highly is this.
Everyone of them, no matter how many good renderings they do have.
They also have confusion.
They positively have confusion in that the translators are never able to rise any higher than their spiritual understanding of God's mind.
Translation doesn't take.
Scholarship only.
Very much of it requires God's mind and help and guidance and knowledge of His mind elsewhere in His Word to know how to translate correctly and.
I do believe I should say this too, that besides the Authorized Version, God has peculiarly given.
The most faithful translation.
To those that were gathered to his name.
In about 1881.
When Mr. Darby's translation was given and will not find.
A better translation for faithfulness or rendering. None other comes up.
Our equals are hard to compare with it, so why do we have to play around with a dabble in these other things? I'd advise you not to.
I think we'll find that those who have been.
Called fundamentalists in the past, and if there's still any left.
They have used the New translation and garbage translation. They may not have mentioned it, they may not have said where they got it, but that's where they got it. That's where they got the sound rendering of the Word of God. You take parentheses in the Schofield Bible. Why? The marginal readings there invariably follow the J&D translation.
Well, I'm sure that's where he got, that's where he got those notes was from the new translation.
Other than that 18th verse, that's no one. I'm reading it now. And this excellent translation that Brother Brown here as soon as encouraging us to respect, I'm gonna read this verse in that translation. Let no one fraudulently deprive you.
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Of your pride during his whole will and humility and worshiping of angels.
So what I wanted to call attention to?
Fraudulently deprived you of your pride doing his own will.
To be taking our own will and divine things.
Is a serious thing, it's a loss for our soul's mouth and it will be the.
Occasions you are losing our reward hereafter, you're going to lose your pride.
Yeah, I asked. Is there any other contribution to that question as to the pride, as to what our brother suggested? What do you have in mind?
Well, I.
Have always looked at it like our brother Barry has given it, but the question rises into my mind.
If in this epistle.
The main object all the way through is to preserve.
The keeping Christ, and Christ only before us, and He is everything to us.
Now I don't want to mislead you. I asked the question, what do you think about cries other than the remark of other days?
Well, isn't the cutting the truth is the price before the sword, and that's very far and narrow of the question of rewards.
Christ is the answer. So here the next verse. The opposite of that is not holding the head, not holding the head, that's the the opposite.
Probably all the bottom like joints of them that encourage ministers and sit together Christians. With the increase of God, God has normal growth for that body. That's normal version. It's provided for us and he wants it to increase with the increase of thought.
I don't want to be sure and our spiritual life and relationships.
That we hold ahead in such a way that we can get the benefit encourages.
The ascendant head is going to take care of the body, make full provision for it. It's for us to place ourselves in a position where we do not have conflicting influences constantly playing upon.
When the Samaritan mountain man to the side of the road.
And.
No place for your soul and life is going to be cared for as in that place where the head is acknowledged and where there's jealousy for him at every turn, or there's no compromise permitted. There is where our souls are going to be nourished up in truth because we can take the heaven with it. That's why we should be out to the reading meetings. So that's the behind the sound of the word.
The Lord is in the mix and the Spirit of God is there to direct these people and the understanding of the precious things of Christ.
And the truth is brought out there, error is exposed. And as the years go by, it's wonderful how much we can learn of God's things. And the meeting, the reading meetings especially. I went to a funeral of a friend.
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The father, The parents have been in the meeting.
And I heard a brother in Christ reach that funeral.
Question about being a brother and brother.
You ought to know a lot better than you did.
We didn't know a lot better than him.
But said publicly that everybody in this room will have to pass through the same experience as this one lying here in the public. Pass through everybody here. Remember that. Everybody here.
Oh how sad to get up preaching the funeral of a proposed Christian and make a statement like that.
Trevor, we are never liberty to play with God's truth. Never.
And be ashamed.
For Martin gathered his large name to get up and publicly make such a statement as that.
There are two versions of Ephesians 4.
Four Seasons 4, beginning in verse 12.
Season 412.
The purpose of the gift finds operative in the assembly.
Are for the perfecting of the state, for the work of the sinistry, for the identified of the body of Christ.
There was all of the unity of faith and of the knowledge of the Santa Claus under a perfect path onto the measure of the statue of opportunity that the next one, the no more children taught to have grown cared about with every witness. Doctrine requires a slight offense, and cutting traffic provided reliability, you see.
But seeking the truth in love they show up is to give in all things.
According to the effects of working the made of everybody can make an increase of the body constant antibiotic sound in love.
That's the word that gives us the practical.
Side of the holding of the head out of alike you get to see where the body is constantly in reference to.
The the headed glory, letting the the ministry, the nurse come down from a glorified Christ by the faith that God has given in the church. For that the whole church is ministered to.
Very filled up.
That Bible school we can get. This is the assembly coming together for the ministry of the Word, reading of the Word. That's where the Holy Spirit is present.
The Lord is present, still isn't for that's right.
Far from the Holy Spirit, but you couldn't claim back in the Bible school as we know them today.
The spirit might be with an individual, but we certainly wouldn't be there corporately. Regard would the Lord be there corporately?
So what man calls order is disorder and in the things of God and organizes everything as a man at the head of of what goes on.
Not there old believers, but God's order is recognizing Christ as they get and waiting on Him to guide by His Spirit.
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That's true.
Yeah, the Spirit of God is in the family cooperatively to his thing.
You have the two things. When the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost and filled all the place where they were assembled, and He sat upon each of them, they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. So you get those two things.
Indwelling the believer personally and then willing in the assembly there to to.
To be guided by the head and glory of to all the ministers.
Through the praise of the assembly, the functioning, in other words, of the assembly down here, that's what constitutes.
Life, life, life itself is is not unity. Unity is by the indwelling Spirit of God sent down from the ascended head. Those 120 in the upper room have life because the Spirit of Comprende, but it's not unity there to find the Holy Spirit came down to them. Pentecost. They were all baptized in one box.
It was instantaneous.
It was never repeated, though it did have a compliment.
When Peter carried out his Commission.
Was there Gentiles, perhaps in the Spirit came there, as he did on the Day of Pentecost. But it's only a component of Pentecost. There was only one Pentecost.
Five left baptism of the Spirit church explorer that farm to unit and it has never been repeated and there's no such thing in the word of God as individual being baptized through the Spirit of God. It's perfectly that they're baptized, they've been rolled out.
The problem is that multi pack zoo we have to use the keys. Yes, nothing was good. I mean that's eight. We have the.
And the next we have the Gentile, do we not? But how musically? It's all in one hole, is it?
How is this correct really, that when we are together they remember the Lord in his death? Or am I beating my kids?
Last, we wait on the Lord.
For he died by the Spirit. We're not waiting on the Spirit to move us. We're waiting on the Lord to direct the spider. Is that a correct statement? I believe it is not fair. Isn't it important? I do?
Because there are groups of people and all they say, well, the fair movement, they have all kinds of.
Of.
Things going on go on.
The table energized by the Spirit, the Spirit caused them to do this Wellness is waiting on the Lord to get his mind. The first him and him that the Lord would have fun this morning and most of the time when he would have to praise offer to the Lord.
Well then, he died by the Spirit.
And he always died in consistency with the words, have he not?
Is the reason why we should think of it that way. The Lord guided by the Spirit to become. In order to be guided by the Spirit, there must be submission to the law, and it was not submitted to the Lord and can't hope to be guided by the Spirit.
I had one of those groups of which.
One of them invited me to his meeting years ago.
That he wanted to tell the Army because we're having a wonderful time, because we don't even need to buy it, because we're getting our revelations direct from the Spirit.
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That's how far off center these things can be. Those that are not guided by the worst. Well then I felt that of all the assembly meeting, they were breaking the press.
Is not something to be disturbed by a quiet waiting on the Lord and precious, sometimes in silence, then the assembly meeting are the most precious.
Seasons of communion and worship that we have at right for the Smith.
There can be two properly school but I do find in a Muslim assessment.
That we ought to be guided to love and violence that's.
And then comes back to the question that we.
What there is to be designed to allegiance to the word rather than to be guided by the word. There is that absolute obedience without reason.
Don't you think that?
It's increase.
And this 91St increases.
The increase of God, is that not corporately? Is that not the assembly that can do? I was thinking of the figure that's used to.
13th of Matthew out of the other places. Revelation.
You have Pearl. You know that little Pearl is perfect, but it's also perfect when it's large.
But it's still perfect no matter how much it increases still.
The assembly is seen in the trial here.
We sometimes think of our blessings as being individual, and they are.
Said And we do have that which we enjoy, and we must, must always think of being.
Such foreign fears apart of the body.
Is it not? So keep that in mind. The increase is as well.
The simply does not teach, is taught, and it is a.
Well, brother.
Again.
He gave some apostle, some prophets, some evangelists, come pastors and teachers.
So we have the writing of the apostles of the prophet. It doesn't the Old Testament problem here. See the apostles proceed the the prophet. In Ephesians there were New Testament problems.
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And.
Then we have 3 gifts mentioned.
The evangelist, the pastor and the teacher and these three gifts will continue till we come to the major, the statue of furnace of Christ. That's when we're in glory with Christ. So no matter how how much confusion comes in or how busy the enemy is to rob the people of God, these three gifts will be.
Provided.
Or the church to the end of the distant faith, the evangelist in the past and the deepest. The evangelist goes out and brings in the material, and the pastor and the teacher takes use of it in the assembly. Things are in divine order.
So that's the way that the the church is taught through those gifts.
That are provided by an offended Christ and glory and no human ordination or no theological schools that provide these gifts. They might go through that system and be a real gift, but that isn't the way to give. It is bestowed and you notice that it's after Christ defends up on high that he bestows these gifts.
He sent out his well apostles during his ministry, but that wasn't for the church. It was only after he offended that he sold these gift. And we need to remember that the gift are the persons themselves, those who are teachers, pastors and so on.
Also need to remember that gifts are always universal, not local.
Office is logo.
There are elders and deacons, soldiers. Elders definitely chose ordained calls in every church, but they were only local.
A gift is always universal.
The Lord gives the gift of the vandals. Well, he's from the bathrooms for every vote. If he gets the gift as a pastor, given to the church as a pastor. He's a pastor wherever he is.
And the same was through the teacher. In other words, there's no such thing in scripture as the pastor of a church, but there is such a thing director as a pastor of the church.
All the transmensus difference most people.
And remember, wiser than Scripture.
So.
We can say well.
He's the *******.
Our assembly.
No, he may be at the present moment.
We'll see it Des Moines we're talking about. He may be here in the moment. We're thankful to have him, but we have no claim on him. The boy has no flame on that man as as their *******. He's a pastor wherever God may seem sent to sending.
They have numerous kids in the same center. You see that in the 13th of Acts if I turn to that for the moment.
Acts 13, verse one.
Now there were in the assembly that wasn't handy off certain profits.
The prophet, prophets and teachers, not the teacher, but teacher.
They were all at one meeting of this particular time.
They didn't all stay together very long because we find some of them.
Going forth on a mission for the next murder, as the minister to the Lord and fastest, the Holy Ghost said, separate me, Barnabas and Saul from the work.
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When the apaste.
They laid their hands on them and let them go.
Well, now we know from the scriptures that wrote Paul and Barnabas were apostles.
But here they are.
We find them here in this Church of Antioch and don't stay there. And when we went to the next place they were just as much as possible there as the word Antioch.
We're driving the prophet for the problem. Let's give this word off.
Well, I believe rather experience very simple.
You have a brother?
Give forth a word of prophecy, which is.
He can't say, well, I just I just had to speak. I just could not since till I had to get up. Oh no, he didn't. He didn't have to do the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. I could never say, well, I I just had to have my turn. I had to get up and see what I did. No, he didn't. The spirit that the prophets are subject to the prophets. How do you have to mean the problem?
Carried away with a with a frenzy.
What's my brother?
In the 13th of X, they lit their hands on them and they departed, being sent forth to the Holy Ghost. That's taken as a war for ordinations.
That packages of that kind, they did their harms on them. But in these cases that you've referred to, these are men that were preaching the gospel for years.
And I've been sent forth by the Lord years before this, so that they didn't need man's authority to enable them to go forth at all, and therefore letting on their hands was not the ordination of God.
Often times we.
We said goodbye to her brother.
And he is going to go forth on an heir to the Lord. What is gone for a few weeks visiting the Saints are going forward to get the gospel out.
Well, we may take our hand and put him on the shoulder.
As we sometimes do, give the pat in the back and say, well the Lord bless you, we will remember you before the Lord as you go forth, and we we show by that action.
That we are in fellowship with Him and not work for the Lord? Well, we're not. The meaning of these verses along that line.
I agree thoroughly with what you say about the fun.
I would see nothing wrong in it if you brothers, this is our brother Smith starting out on this trip and he's told us about. I haven't seen nothing wrong.
His brothers getting together with him privately and putting their hands on him. Not that he was he conferring anything, but just as a gesture of identification with him and his little mission for Christ. So I'm not advocating anything. I'm just telling you that I can see nothing inconsistent.
I had to turn my knees before an audience. I condone my knees on a large Bible, a big harmony Bible affair, you know, and three or four eminent ministers, titles had their degrees and so on. Men of many years of Christian ministry and really a man of God too. They stood around me and they flipped their hands on top of my head.
I sometimes speak as I was putting the empty hands in my empty head.
And they, they confared upon me.
I kind of an authorization or give me their fellowship and and what did it praying over me in the presence of that audience. I gave the impression before the audience that they were comparing upon me the privilege of going forth to be a minister of the gospel life preached for years before that.
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But that that wasn't the kind of.
When you want to find that, I believe the word depends to hear.
It might be helpful to some to observe that in the 14th chapter and verse 26 we see the end of this particular ministry.
For which the Holy Spirit had sent them forth.
14th of Act, 14th of Acts, verse 26.
And.
That sailed to Antioch.
From whence they had been recommended, to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled for the period.
Special ministry and it had accomplished it. Now they returned from where they started.
That next question is nice to move around.
Go ahead, brother.
And when they were come and had gathered the assembly together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them in our verse. In Colossians, it ends up with the increase of God.
It was of God.
I wanted to hear very nice to his next 15 brother.
Before.
And being walked on their way by the church, they passed business.
To come back on the bottle and we would love if he forgot, right?
Do we get a principle here of coming back to home base because it's a good thing come back to home Bay? Yes, that's it.
And chapter 14.
Every servant of the Lord, regardless of what his gift is and not only serve the Lord, but every time God according to the doctor scripture has a local identity. There's no such thing as within passengers law anyone miss just loose on his own and scripted. Everyone is locally identified somewhere.
That's important Scripture principle.
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Trying to evade that.
Position where any assembly would have the right to say if you kill them. But the scriptures all is wiser than we are, so let us ever remember that every brother and sister do.
Is scripturally identified somewhere?
The word of God, the word of God safeguard that very carefully.
That sends out the server, but it's good to see.
Scholarship, which is local assembly. We had a brother many years ago who took that stand in Montreal and he was told that the trouble is with you. You want to be superior to all and subject to none. Because if there's a matter that comes up in the pathways of one who seeks to serve the Lord, it's his local assembly are the ones that should be taken up with. And so if the Lord directs the servant into the path of faith.
Service.
Sees his direction from the Lord, but he shouldn't go out with the full fellowship of his brethren. He hasn't got that fellowship. He should wait until he does get it.
That's what I want to say, that and the Lord stands a servant. The Lord is the mixed of his assembly. The Spirit of God dwells in the hearts of each one of the redeemed and the assembly to guide and drag them. And as the Lord sends forth a servant, he will live upon the hearts of the veterans to accept the Lord's decision in regard to that service.
And.
A person that a servant, the Lord can never say rightfully.
Well, the Lord has sent me what my brethren don't want me to go.
Because as the Lord sends, the Lord will arrange it. The Lord will work in the hearts of the of His dear people.
Showing them that this is my servant and I'm sending a form. Now you command them and you encourage him to go. And I believe that's how the Lord would work, isn't it?
I believe that.
Do I have to have a fellowship with my president to go out?
What answer? No, you don't have to have the fellowship to be ready to go for it.
But we would warn you faithfully that it can go out without it. You're talking sorrow.
I believe once I feel free to give that sort of cash, it is commendable for.
You should do it, and he shouldn't go out without no liquor in which they have set.
Never their decision may be.
01:15:21
100% willingness.
As they suggest.
What are you waiting for?
Around the infantilated in all friends coming to.
Of course it's somehow.
I don't like this being held back.
And spirit, he never had the same kind of happy fellowship, but he enjoyed today.
Two simple brothers. We think it'd be a good thing to prove yourself at home before you seek to go and finish it to those elsewhere.
What are the rudiments of the world, Brother Brown?
Why are they called rudiments of the world?
Kindergarten.
That's what really needs to be very marginal. Marginal rigging and elements. Yeah, no.
Well, ceremony.
We got the sack. Love it.
And then it gets a little more holy and you say don't taste it.
And then you say don't handle it.
Where does all that?
Of buildings and anything in the building.
It's all the rudiments of the world.
All the elements, doctrines of men, there isn't any such thing on the face of the earth is the secret Britain or a sacrifice.
No or a holy bill isn't really good everything more than one really longer, but not that's how that's how attributable to the world pronounced and garbage metal make. So let's keep.
01:20:12
Completely away from Mr. Potter told the story.
Will remember to know.
A lot of brother up in Michigan. I think it was Michigan.
Or Wisconsin? Wisconsin. Thank you.
Baby, you're the brother to help.
Story How about a brother? What's your.
Little louder please. It was in connection with the spread of the Mars table with brother Potter went up there.
A place where they broke bread in this brothers home. He had been in the Roman church and I suppose there was.
Some kind of holiness to that bread that was on the table of which they thought so in remembrance of the Lord. And he had a, a closet there right where he had put that bread after the breaking the bread. And Mr. Potter was amazed.
See a whole lot of that bread in there stored away and he asked him about.
Where is your brother, Father? I don't know what to do with this.
He's not that holy bread.
What we learned from the 4th of.
The nations that.
The mall is.
Sometimes are the rudiments of the world and also that even idols come under the rudiment of the world.
What if we have the law in the?
Bird, birds and idols in the ninth verse.
That's definitely the law ended in the third version. So we when we were in where we were in the bottom of the agenda, the elements of the world.
Involve a huge and then in the eighth verse I'll be at the wind then when you do not talk and get service under them, which were by nature and no law that's behind those but now after you can have local water rather known of God. I'll turn it again in the weekend beggarly elements.
As if it were just as bad, as if they turned backside.
When we were using the neighborhood house.
Get some of the furniture.
And the big there we have to go to the church. But the best challenge is there's no to take off your high hat. Don't you take off your hat when you're in the House of God?
He thought there was something to see about that building. We shouldn't walk through there. Nothing at all.
But in Christianity, all that is done away.
Absolutely.
Nothing of that sanctity to the external left in your family or taking them off the Ridge of the Street car in Montreal. A Canadian barrel.
Have a similar experience with food but writing the speed car in Montreal years ago.
I'm going along. Suddenly I saw every man, practically every man in the car took off his hat on again.
Passing a Roman Catholic building, church building so-called at each time they passed that and a sick car off off when the hat reverence and respect for that building of stone and mortar. That's the principle.
It's reward against that kind of a thing.
Our deliverance from all that thing is the back system says ye are dead from Christ.
So we're dead. We're dead to the world. We're dead to ordinances.
So it doesn't going on with some human system and it's set up, but where belong to a new creation with Christ now with my head and glory and go back and take up those things.
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That we have died from under.
The very fast horrible that's why they're impossible to breathe there and say Galatians each other. Patrick Patrick from was bidding about.
We're really going back to their healing them again. They didn't realize it was by going under the back of the law.
Taking up the the law that were really that was the elements of the world because the law was suited to man in the place and in taking up the law while they were just taking another rule right back to their old Steven customs and waves because it even done the elements the elements of the world while so are religious systems, but it's Judaism is another.
As another system of that which belongs to the world. But we are dead. We have died out from under the whole thing. Now it's to live in Newnham spirit.
Going on with the rules in the fall. What word about the last verse?
Which things that we need to show wisdom and will, worship and humility.
The flexing of the body started in the honor, what more to the satisfying of the flag that is all of this fully called scientific of things and flavors persons.
What's the issue of it all? Why it does that side of the place, man's religious place? It has a very biased appearance, a show of wisdom and will worship and humility. But basically, basically it's to satisfy religious place in me. I took off my hat when I passed the building. Well, that satisfies the display.
And yet the whole thing is condensed in the word of God.
Oh, how merciful and blessed to be free by the words of all this kind of thing and to realize that Christ is all Christ is all. What's the meaning of the observe things like the body of them as that is it. Mr. Brown, don't you think that we should guard against that thing coming in to the Lord's table connections with.
The receptacle.
With the red and the wider place I have noticed in some places.
Silver and expensive, that kind it seems to contract. It can keep it as simple as it has been given to us. How blessed it would be.
We see #174 one.
John 19:28
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