Des Moines Conference: 1967
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The Lamb Without Blemish
John 3:16
Gospel—C. Lunden
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#7.
God loved the world of sinners lost and ruined by the fall.
Salvation full at highest cost. He offers free to all.
All to his loved was wondrous love, the love of God to me.
It brought my savior from above to die on Calvary #7.
What's my last breath?
Why is there anything in the world?
Breaking down.
Come on.
His life.
By my way.
The Gospel of John and the third chapter.
I shall have to confess that I have what, one verse before me tonight.
Particularly.
And so that will have to suffice.
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John, 316.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
You know, we're living in a land where I suppose that almost every.
Child.
And grown up can quote this verse.
We're living in a Christian land, so-called.
And yet we find that men who know this verse well are still rejecting the Savior.
Children, Young people who can quote these verses in Sunday school.
Are still rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. What a solemn thing.
You know there's going to be differences in judgment in that coming day.
We are told in the Word of God that he that knew his master's will, did it not, shall be beaten with many Skypes.
But he that knew not his master's will shall be beaten with few strikes.
And So what a solemn thing it is, my friend, to sit under the sound of the word of God and not bow to it.
There are two things you know particularly that harden men's hearts.
And one of them is sin.
And the other is to hear the word of God who refused to act on it.
And we've been sitting in these meetings now, most of us here, and we've heard many things.
May God give us the grace to act on the truth we've heard, otherwise it may harden our hearts.
And especially the gospel of the grace of God.
What a solemn thing it is to see souls come in.
Week after week.
Never confess that precious name of Jesus.
And So what do we have in this verse then? The first word is for. What does that refer to? Oh, I'm sure it refers to the previous verses in some way.
And what do they say?
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, Even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Oh my friend, what a message for our hearts.
Yes. So turn with me to Numbers now, the book of numbers in the 21St chapter.
This is a part of the history of the people of God, the children of Israel.
The fourth verse and the journey from Mount Horror by the way of the Red Sea to compass the land of Edom.
And the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
And the people spake against God and against Moses.
Wherefore have he brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water, and our soul loatheth this light bread.
And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, and much people of Israel died.
Therefore the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against thee.
Pray unto the Lord that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee A fiery serpent.
Set it upon a pole, and it shall come to pass that everyone that is bitten.
When he looked at the Pirates of the left.
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole.
And it came to pass that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
Well, this account then tells us.
Of a case of those who have been bitten by the serpent.
Now, my friend.
God never hides anything. He tells us the truth.
Have we learned from Scripture that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God?
It was not only the people of Israel that spake against God and spake against Moses the leader.
No, it's true of all men.
Because man's heart is at enmity against God.
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He doesn't want God.
And it is only when God by His grace, can breakthrough.
And reach man's heart.
That there is any blessing at all.
And we find here that it's God who provided the remedy for those who were bitten by the serpent.
You know man loves to cater to himself and his abilities.
And that may be all right in the things of this life, but my friend, it will never do.
When it comes to salvation.
No, there is not one thing that you have that can bring you into the presence of God in righteousness.
And should you have righteousness, my friend, which you do not have, it still would not be that divine righteousness, the righteousness of God, which only comes by faith in Christ Jesus and through that redemption which is in Christ Jesus.
And so we find that these four Israelites who had sinned against God.
There was a simple provision made. I say simple for them.
But all what it means to us as we read the truth of it in the New Testament.
To them, all they had to do was to look.
Live Oh my friend, tonight we want to present to you Jesus as the Savior.
All you have to do is look and live.
Look and live.
Yes, and all your sins. There that man lay bitten by that serpent.
Perhaps swelled up with the poison and someone raises his head and he sees that serpent, Raisin serpent on the pole.
Yes, and he looked and he lived.
Oh, how simple for you the gospel of God's grace is.
Received it. It's just that simple.
And so this word for, what does it mean?
Oh, God was moved.
We learned that in Exodus. I have seen.
I've seen the affliction of my people and them come to deliver them.
If it hadn't been God who had come to deliver my friend, there would never be one soul ever saved.
No, God himself came.
Came down in the person of Jesus.
And now it's simply for you to look.
And to live.
But we have more truth than the Gospel of John than we have in Numbers 21.
Because we learn in the Gospel of John that it isn't simply living.
In the wilderness a little while longer.
But what we read in those verses previous to John 316 was eternal life.
And you know, eternal life comes through the work of Jesus on the cross of Calvary.
And it's when the Lord Jesus, the serpent on the pole, gives us a picture.
Of the Lord Jesus having been made sin for us.
That's the picture.
He was made sin for us, the one who knew no sin.
That we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
So you see, my friend, it's a question of substitution.
It's a question of that blessed Savior taking your place in mind before a holy God, because this is what was necessary.
God can never compromise with sin. Sin must be dealt with.
Either you must be the victim, and you will if you reject Jesus.
Or another will have to take your place.
This Jesus did for all who believe as we have been having in the meanings, He is the probitiation for our sins.
And for the whole world.
And so the gospel goes out tonight to the whole world, whosoever will may come.
Four, that's the reason God was moved, when he saw the need of his people.
And the next word is God.
God.
I would like to ask you, my friend, do you know God?
And you say he is my God?
Turn with me to the 43rd Psalm.
And see if this can be the language of your heart.
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Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation.
All deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man, for thou art the God of my strength.
Why dost thou cast me off? Why go? I am mourning because of the oppression of the enemy.
All send out thy light and thy truth. Let them lead me, Let them bring me under thy holy hill into thy tabernacles. Then will I go into the altar of God.
Unto God.
My exceeding joy, yeah, upon the heartful, I praise Thee, O God.
By God.
Where art thou cast down on my soul, and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope Indiana God, for I shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance. And my God, is this your language tonight?
Oh dear friend, can you say he is my God?
Or do you sit there tonight with terror as you think of the coming judgment?
When you will have to stand before God to give an account of all the deeds done in the body?
Turn with me to the 23rd chapter of Luke for a verse.
The 40th verse a part of it.
But the other answering rebuked him saying dost not.
Thou fear God.
Oh my friend, tonight, do you not fear God?
Do you know that you will have to do with God either as your savior?
Or your judge.
Tonight you can have the Savior, God and the Person of Jesus.
Tomorrow he may be your judge.
God would have always had to be a judge, my friend, unless Jesus came and died and shed his precious blood.
But now that Jesus has died, there's a way.
Of life.
So that the vilest Sinner might come to God, have all his sins forgiven.
Because of what Jesus has done, all my friends, it's God.
For God.
So loved the world.
It is the God, the one who is going to judge.
All unrighteousness, the throne of God and what it stands for, that great white throne.
It's before that throne you'll have to stand, my friend, unless you know God.
In the way of this 43rd Psalm.
And you can say, my God.
My exceeding joy. You sit there in that chair tonight and say he's my exceeding joy.
What's the matter? All your soul is estranged from God.
You're in your sins.
Don't you know the?
In the book of Isaiah says it's your sins that are separated between you and your God.
That he cannot hear.
Are you still in your sins?
All my friends tonight.
Are you in your sins without God?
Are you going to die in your sins without God? Or you say I hope not?
That you will.
Yes, you will if you don't accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior.
For God.
So love.
Now what do we have?
We have a measure brought in so loved and what is this measure? Can you measure this measure?
God so long.
How did they laugh?
Oh, my friend, you know the story well. You live in a land where you've heard these things over and over again. The truth is literally fallen in the streets.
God so loved, and what's the measure of it?
Yes, as we look at that cross of Jesus, we see him hanging there.
The one who was forsaken of God.
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God's only son.
There we see the measure of that love.
Yes.
And why did he do it? Oh, it is for your precious soul and mind.
God.
You know, in this creation of gods.
One might have thought that he could have found something.
In which his heart could delight in. I am speaking now of the creation.
We know his heart always delighted in his son.
But one would have thought possibly that there might be something in that creation that was good.
That his heart could delight in.
But no, there's only one thing it seems that God can find his delight in.
In this creation, what is it? I'm Speaking of the creation now.
It's for vile man in all his.
Wretchedness. That's what God finds delight in.
There is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over 1 Sinner that repents.
All my friends tonight, are you going to make heaven happy?
By repassing.
By turning around and owning the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior. Are you going to take that place tonight?
Yes, God binds his delight.
In the repentance of his creature.
When his creature turns around and owns God.
As his God.
Through that precious blood of Christ, that's the only way back.
Yes, my friend, God has provided a way.
As the writer says in the Old Testament, we must all die.
God has provided a way whereby is banished.
Be not expelled from his sight.
And we like to speak of that way my friend tonight that you might to find that way.
Yes, there is a way.
It's not found by natural intelligence.
Not by works of righteousness, which we have done, no. There is a way, though.
God has provided that way.
And it says so love God so loved.
And there we see the way provided when the Lord Jesus could say.
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
And now, my dear friend, have you come in that way?
So that God might be your exceeding joy.
Or are you still in your sins on your way to a lost eternity, and this knight may decide it for you?
Yes, it may.
I suppose as we hear the the sad report of one and another taken.
We inwardly say, well, it couldn't be me.
But my friend, it could be you this very moment.
Pass from time until eternity.
This very moment as you sit there in your chair.
Yes, there have been many already that I know of Indiana, the little meeting rooms that have left this world sitting in their chairs.
In the meeting rooms.
You can leave too, in just that way.
But my friend, how will you leave?
Will you leave with a savior or will you leave lost without a savior?
You're going to look and live tonight.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent Me hath everlasting life, shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death unto light.
God sought for God so loved the world.
Or you may say, well, I know he came to the Jews.
And I know the Gospels are written to the Jews. Oh yes, that's true. One would not deny that.
Determines me to the 16th chapter of John and we'll see.
The 28th.
I came forth from the Father and am come into the world.
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There you have it my friend.
Now what? Again I leave the world.
Go to the father.
And so we have that circuit.
Of the Son of God.
Leaving that place on high positionally leaving it.
Coming down into this sad world.
This world.
Not just among the Jews who came into the world. If she says so.
And that is how he can say whosoever, because he came into the world.
But then he left the world.
He went back to the fox.
And now what does that tell the believer? Oh, this is a precious truth, that we won't dwell on it.
Simply this.
That when Jesus went back into the glory, he went back as a man.
Of precious truth.
And that's the assurance for our hearts, each one, that you and I as men will be found in the glory of God with Jesus, because he went back as a man.
Yes, he went back as a man and he said I go to prepare a place for you.
For God.
So loved the world.
But now we noticed in that verse that we read in the 16th chapter of John.
The father's name.
If you'll turn with me to Proverbs 30, reverse.
The fourth verse.
Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended?
Who hath gathered the wind in his fists?
Who hath bound the waters in a garment?
Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name?
And what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
Yes, my friend. What is his name?
It was not known in the Old Testament.
This is a new revelation that God has given you in this very age in which you lived, and He's going to hold your responsible for it. What is His name?
And what is his son's name?
Or you say, yes, I know his name was Jehovah in the Old Testament.
Yes, indeed it was.
But what is his name?
What is the ultimate purpose of God to reveal Himself?
His father isn't that.
Oh how precious the truth we have with this. Oh, and how it brings us to the very heart of God.
And this is so important in connection with John 316.
Because it is here, beloved, that he reveals himself as Father.
Father.
Turn to the 17th of John.
In the fifth verse.
And now, O Father.
Glorify thou Me with thine own Self, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.
I have manifested thy name unto the man which thou gavest me out of the world.
There we have it.
The Lord Jesus manifested the name of the Father.
When he came into this world.
Are my friend, and he sealed the truth of it with his own precious blood.
When he died in the Cross of Calvary.
The eternal Son of God.
Yes. Then what is his son's name?
Turneth me to the first chapter of Luke's gospel.
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And the 35th verse.
And the Angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee.
And the power of the Highest shall over shadow thee. Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
That's his name, my friends.
The Son of God.
But now turn also on the same page to verse 31.
And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth the Son.
Shall call his name Jesus.
Oh, my friend, there's never been a more precious name on human lips than the name of Jesus.
Yes, that's his name.
His name is the Son of God.
Yes, and we better keep the 2000 faces too.
The 2000 faces He is the Son of God. He is the eternal Son of God.
And of him and of Him alone it was said, that holy thing.
Never of Adam. Never. Or of any man.
The just the Son of God.
But when He is revealed to us as the Savior, His name is given to us as Jesus.
Jesus.
Yes, that's the name that he took down here in manhood.
Jesus, and that means Jehovah.
Savior, Oh my friend.
What is his name? What is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
Thou tell it, Have you confessed that precious name on your lips of Jesus?
Because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus.
Believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead. Thou shalt be saved.
Oh, my friend, are you safe tonight?
If you confess that precious name.
What is his name? What is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
Are you willing to confess it tonight? Your own savior?
Where God so loved the world.
That he gave.
Big game, you know we have in this verse.
That he gave, and then we have later on shall have.
Have.
All, my friend, I trust that these two things might be brought together in your life and your heart tonight.
What God gave and now what you have.
Because if you receive what God gave, you will have a seat.
He gave. Yes, God gave.
Yes. What is the gift?
You know when the Lord Jesus stood there at the well Sicar's well in the 4th chapter of John.
And they were speaking together of the water.
The Lord Jesus could say, if thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that spake to thee.
Yes, if thou knewest the gift of God.
Oh, what a precious gift.
And the apostle as he writes about that gift in the book of Corinthians.
He stops and he says, Thanks be unto God.
For his unspeakable gift.
Oh my friend, there's no way to measure this what God gave.
Now God so loved the world that he gave.
The game. And here we see the heart of God reaching out to the center.
As we read the Old Testament and we see the law and all that it demands.
We think of the people who are under it and unless they got the spirit of David.
Or of Daniel, or of others. And they could see through the myths by faith, and could see that God was a God who was a giving God.
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Poor souls never understood what it meant to be saved or to have any light whatsoever.
But now, in a day when we have the full revealed Word of God for us.
The truth of God. We see God's heart opened as the Father.
Because the Lord Jesus came from heaven to reveal what was in the bosom.
God yes to reveal it to the poor center.
And so now he's Speaking of what God gave.
Game. This is not natural to man.
Man wants to do something to get credit for what he does.
But my friend, if you will come to God, you must come God's way, and you will have to accept what God gave.
And who wouldn't want to accept this, my friend?
Would you not want to accept what God gave?
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.
Oh, what a gift.
And you know this gift. Sometimes gifts are given between friends.
And they're remembered for years, and they're brought out from time to time to remember that friend.
And Oh my friend, this gift that God gave will be the central theme.
For all eternity.
God so loved the world that He gave His only begun Son.
Is that going to be the theme of your delight for all the coming ages?
What God gave.
Yes.
God gave.
His only begotten Son.
You know.
This is a special term of endearment, but connected with his coming into this world.
His only son.
His only son. Think of it.
In the 12Th chapter of John we have one part of wheat.
Just one.
Upon that corn of wheat hangs the destiny, my friend of every living soul that will be saved.
That that carnival wheat. Unless that corn of wheat fell in the ground and died, it would abide alone forever.
It is said in Luke's gospel of the Lord Jesus that the time came for him to go up.
And that blessed Savior, the Lord Jesus, could have gone into the heavens a man alone.
What did he do? Turn his face Flint to go to Jerusalem?
Is there he was to die?
He might be the savior. He would not go alone.
No, my friend, if you look and live tonight, you're going to be with Jesus in those courts of glory.
Because of that precious blood that was shed on Calvary's cross.
But if you reject the Lord Jesus, you will never see light.
Nothing but the blackness of the darkness forever.
Go, friend.
Do you know the Lord Jesus?
As your savior.
Only begotten Son.
This is the means that God used to bring salvation to you and me.
Was there no other way?
No, there was no other way.
There was number other man.
Joel said. Is there no man? No, there's no man.
I looked and there was number man. Scripture says no man.
And then mine arm wrought salvation.
All blessed Savior.
He looked and there was number Man.
So he came down and became man.
He took a place down here as man so that he might go into death.
To pay that penalty that you and I owe.
All blessed and Savior.
He identified himself with Abraham's seed, seed of faith.
Yes, he came into this world.
The Savior.
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That whosoever.
Oh, what a marvelous expression this is.
My friend, there's no one here this evening, but what comes under this?
Not one.
It doesn't matter how vile you are, it doesn't matter how many sins are piled in your history. It makes no difference.
No. Oh, this precious, precious word, whosoever.
Yes, you can come tonight in all your defilement, all your sins.
And the Lord Jesus will receive you.
In fact, he says, I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
And the apostle could say, when he was old, and he knew something of his heart, he could say that he was the chief of sinners.
And yet Jesus not only died for him, but he raised him up to be a pattern.
For those who afterwards should live godly in Christ Jesus.
The Apostle Paul, who's.
Who is the bitter enemy of the Son of God?
And an enemy of the Church of God.
Speaks of himself as the chief of sinners, and yet the grace of God saves him.
Yes, the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth from all sin, and it can be the vilest Sinner, but it will cleanse from all sin.
What's your case tonight, my friend? Are you the vilest Sinner?
Well, God knows your heart.
Whatever it may be.
There's room for you within within that door of salvation tonight.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever.
Whosoever.
And now what's the way that you can't all you say you told me to Through the blood. Yes, it is through the blood of Christ.
Because without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.
But what does this verse say?
Believe us, have you?
Yes, for with a hard man believeth unto righteousness.
With the mouth, confession is made to salvation.
That's simple, isn't it?
There's nothing complicated about this friend with the hard man. Believeth unto righteousness, righteousness.
Fit for the presence of a holy God.
And the word of God tells us that he is my righteousness.
Yes, Jesus is that.
The righteousness of God which is found in Christ Jesus. You have that.
Don't come to God and say I want to bring my righteousness.
Just come to God and say nothing in my hand. I bring simply to thy cross, I think.
That's all.
All the cross of Jesus.
The work that was finished there on the cross when he hung there as my substitute, was he yours?
Yes, you can confess his name tonight.
And have that same salvation.
Believeth in him, it's a person.
It's a person. Oh how this excludes all the reasonings of man.
When God speaks of believing, he adds in him.
There's only one that you can believe in for salvation.
It isn't a question of doctrines, no.
I suppose literally it's on him.
But just casting your soul upon the Lord Jesus himself.
Believe it.
In him.
Should not perish.
Oh, how faithful God is.
And you know when we get a part of a verse like this, shall not perish. Oh, how it stirs the soul. What does it mean to perish?
Does it mean annihilation?
No, it doesn't mean annihilation, my friend.
Because you have a soul that's going to live forever.
Yes, and you will have to give an account to God for everyone of the deeds done in the body.
Besides that, the word of God says God requires that which is passed.
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That long list of sins.
Guilt before holy God that you will have to give an account for in that day.
Oh, my friend, have you thought of it, Aries? What does it mean? It means the change of state. That's what it means.
Here you are sitting in prosperity. I'll give you an example, the 16th of Luke.
There's a man who fared sumptuously every day.
As he sat to his table each day, there was spread everything his heart desired.
But one thing one day everything changed.
And the next picture we see the man in hell.
In Hell.
Now what does he want? He wants some water to cool his tongue.
Is that going to happen to you to this very night?
There was a brother in Canada.
Who was crippled?
And a relative of his came to see him, who was a Hale and hearty man.
In the prime of his youth.
And as I understand the story.
This man who was under who was unsaved.
Hale and hearty, but unsaved, as he stood in the presence of his cousin who was saved and his cousin was giving him the gospel, he dropped dead with a heart attack.
He had everything here.
In hell, He lifted up, his eyes being in torments.
Is that going to be your case, my friend?
And the very thing his heart desired here he lost it all for all eternity.
The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Shall not perish. Do you want to perish? Do you want to perish? Friend shall not perish.
Jesus and His precious blood is the only way that can stand between to keep you from perishing.
Marriage.
Some years ago.
There was a ship built.
You all know the story of the Titanic.
It is supposed to be an unsinkable ship as far as man could make it.
And people rushed for reservations. The wealthy.
The people who are in.
In places of position they were going to have the first ride on that unsinkable ship.
Little did they think that that ship would ever sink.
Oh, how foolish man is with his soul, his precious soul.
But you know that ship had not gone far into the icy northern waters when it struck an iceberg.
And then tore the bottom out of the ship.
And all these various compartments were flooded with water.
And as that ship sunk under the waves with the hundreds, perhaps thousands, I don't recall the Lord.
There those people stood, terror stricken with their gold and their silver and their jewels on their dresser tables and their statements.
Now they were all They're well.
What good did it do them in that day, my friend?
And what good will it do, my friend of the day, when the men will call for the rocks to hide them from the presence of a holy God?
Oh, it's true that as that ship went under the waves, the band was playing. Mirror my thought to me.
And all how near our souls were brought into the presence of God that night.
Yes, but I wonder how many of them?
Savior as they went under those cold waves of death.
You say it can't happen to me.
Friend can happen to you this very night. Do you have a savior? Are you sheltered under that precious blood?
Are you going to a priceless raid?
Shall not perish, shall not perish.
Some years ago.
In South America and Chile.
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There was an earthquake, perhaps in the 20s.
You can read the history of it.
It was a mighty earthquake.
And after the earthquake, a tidal wave.
The tidal wave was so great that it took a ship, a battleship, 2 miles inland and left it on the shore.
And as that wave swept in through the city, it uncovered the graves.
Of the those who had been buried on the side of the mountain.
The mountains were made of limestone and they've been cut out.
In seats, as it were, and the people were buried in sitting fashion.
And as the waves washed away.
All of this ashes in which these bodies were left.
It left the people sitting as though they were sitting before the Great White Throne.
And the officer of the ship who was in the harbor described this, and in his language he said it looked as though doomsday had come Doomsday.
We know what he means.
We know what men mean when they speak about doomsday.
Because that's all they know of the wrath of God that's coming when they'll have to stand before God to give an account of their sins.
Oh, a terror that struck the heart of those officers as they view that.
That scene where the waves had washed everything away from those bodies. And my friend, there's a day coming when every soul has died. Their bodies will be raised from the grave and death will be destroyed.
And every soul will stand before God to perish.
To perish because it will be the last resurrection.
Blessed and holy is he that part of the first resurrection on him the second death can have no power.
Friend, do you have part in the first resurrection? Are you going to perish? Are you going to be there at the last one, when death will be destroyed? Passed in the lake of fire in you too?
Read with me in the Book of Revelation.
The 20th chapter.
There we have the next whosoever, my friend.
The first one we have in John 316. For God so loved the world.
He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish.
Here we have the 15 first and whosoever.
Was not found written in the Book of Life. Was cast into the Lake of Fire.
Friend, we're preaching tonight the truth of God.
Are you going to have a part in the first resurrection?
Or are you going to have a part in the second one?
Are you going to perish because you've rejected Jesus Christ as your Savior?
Oh, the marvelous truth of God, that he sent a Savior, a loving Savior.
Reveal the heart of the Father.
You know the Lord Jesus when he he died.
It was said then restored I that which I took not away.
And you know the Lord Jesus could have restored man just to the place like he had been in the Garden of Eden.
That is where man as creature would be surrounded with temporal blessings down here.
And happiness on the earth.
But you know, according to the law, there was a little clause added that anyone who had stolen.
If he was found out, he not only would have to restore all that he took away, but he would have to have the 5th part to it.
And that blessed Savior, he added the 5th part.
Not only did he restore that which he took not away, but he added the 5th part.
And now He can reveal to us the heart of the Father.
He's made known the father.
And you won't be placed in the Garden of Eden if you're saved, my friend. No, you'll be in the paradise.
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You will be where Jesus is, in the Father's house.
Where there will be no more.
Opportunity.
There will be no more nature.
Ever to dishonor God again.
No, because man has sinned and fallen from the glory of God. Never again will that occur because we're found in Jesus and Him alone.
That precious Savior who is everything our life is hid with Christ in God.
About your life tonight.
And so in closing, we have in this verse.
But have eternal life? And what kind of life is this, friend?
Do you know something of eternal life? Oh, you say, I know something of this life. Yes, you may know plenty of it.
You may know about his joys and sorrows.
But up there, there will be no sorrows, my friend.
But this life that we have spoken of in this verse.
Revealed, I suppose, for the first time in John 3, because it's only when the serpent is seen.
Raising Serpent le pole.
Then when you have eternal life opened up.
And what kind of life is this?
Oh my friends, God gathering his children to his bosom. That's it.
Is that where you want to spend your eternity?
In the Father's bosom we can lavish upon you all that we're told about in the 22nd, the the 15th of Luke in the Father's house. Bring forth the best role. Put it on him, Ring on his finger, shoes on his feet.
Everything provided.
There are the prodigal son. No, it's so dishonored. His father brought back in the blessing, and now his father's lavishes upon him all the blessings, but in the place where himself lives.
In the glory.
To be associated with the Son, the Lord Jesus himself. Oh my friend, is that where you want to spend your eternity?
Or do you want the blackness of darkness forever? All my friends do not have plead with you. You're unsaved. Don't go out of this room tonight. Unsafe.
Take Jesus, your Savior.
I remember once.
A sister coming home from a gospel meeting, 60 years old or more.
She'd been coming to the gospel meetings for at least 40 years.
She said to her husband. I'm lost. I want to be sick.
There may be someone here tonight who's been coming to gospel meetings year after year.
Never yet confess that precious name of Jesus.
Won't you confess that name tonight?
Perhaps is your companions that's keeping you. Perhaps it's your habits. Whatever it is, my friend.
Do you want to spend your eternity?
With God.
And his son, Jesus Christ.
Or do you want to spend your eternity?
Where you'll perish.
For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten Son.
Whosoever believeth in him should not perish.
Have your last.
Same #2.
Come till Jesus gently calling.
Ye with care and toilet press.
With your guilt, however, falling, come and I will give you rest #2.
And.
God bless me.
And praise you.
Forever.
And.
Why don't we start God? Happy birthday.
What Shall I Do With Jesus
Gospel—P. Glading
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14.
Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing palms?
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? What a challenge, dear friends.
Can we all answer this in the presence of God and say yes, thank God I'm washed in the blood of the Lamb. If not, my friends were exposed to the judgment of God. How solemn the thought. Well may we sing this hymn #14.
Are you walking down in my life?
All you want.
In my life.
And my soul will rain.
Why you don't know?
How you want in the world?
A dry grown government will go around creating a life. You're right.
In my life.
And we'll be ready for the man to come, right? And we want to sit in the light.
We look to the Lord for His help and blessing.
May we sing just another short hymn #13.
#13 Man of Sorrows, what a name.
For the Son of God, who came ruined sinners to reclaim.
Hallelujah, what a savior #13.
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Yeah.
May we read first of all.
The verse in the 19 of Luke. Luke 19.
And verse 10.
You will notice in this chapter, every verse prior to this one begins with and.
But this verse begins in a different way altogether.
For the Son of Man is come.
Friends, I know of no better news than this.
The Son of Man is come.
The blessed Lord Jesus has been down into this very scene in which you and I live. Yes, he has.
And this fact is recorded by him, by his own blessed lips in John 638.
He says, For I came down from heaven.
Well, what did he come for?
Have you ever thought of this? What was his mission to this earth?
The Son of Man is come.
What thought to abolish poverty and clean up politics?
To set the world right. No Friends 1000 times No.
This verse that we're reading here gives the answer why he came.
For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save.
That which was lost.
Who are the last ones?
Well, by nature, friends.
We're all lost by nature.
We are born in sin and shape and in iniquity.
And the scripture says in sin did my mother conceive me?
Yes, everyone of us here tonight, by nature lost.
But many of us here tonight, through infinite grace, are saved.
And friend is either that with you, you're either lost or you're saying, which is it? Answer it in the presence of God who knows your heart.
Ask yourself this question, Am I lost? What Me lost without hope, without Christ? Without a Savior? Yes, friend, that's your solemn position. If you haven't received Christ, you're lost.
Not only born lost, but you're still lost, and if you reject Christ, you'll be lost forever.
Indeed you will.
But all, how precious to read here. The Son of Man is come, our brother said in his prayer this afternoon. Jesus has come and gone.
Yes, Why did he come?
To manifest the love of His Father's heart. It's because God loved the world that Jesus came.
That's why he came. Why did he go?
Because man hated Jesus and they wouldn't have him, this world rejected him.
And this world, my friend, is charged with the deliberate rejection and murder of the Son of God. Think of it, how solemn this very world. Are you part of the world?
Remember, dear Sinner friend, if you have not truly repented and have not believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, you are part of that world and you lie under the full guilt of that terrible act, the murder of Christ. Yes you do.
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You will come under the full guilt of it and the punishment due to it if you are without Christ. What a solemn position.
We've just been reading of that Blessed One who is condemned.
Yes, condemned for you and me. But let me remind you to your Sinner friend, that if you are without Christ, you are condemned.
The scripture tells us that very plainly. John Three is at 17.
John 316 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. Now it's the 18th person. He that believeth not is condemned already.
Is there an unbeliever here tonight?
Do you disbelieve the story of God's grace through the person of Christ? Are you an unbeliever? If so, my friend, you are condemned.
Obama told me a little while ago that his minister said we should not condemn sinners. God doesn't. Is that true? No, it's a lie of Satan. God tells us in that 18th verse of the third of John. The one who believes not is condemned.
I am not condemning the Sinner. God condemns the Sinner who rejects Christ who does not believe on Him.
And that Barber now is in eternity.
I was in the Barber shop the other day before coming here.
And the prior to that there were two barbers and every time I went in I gave them a track each.
This time I went in there was 1 Barber. I said where is your friend?
Dead and buried, dies suddenly.
Oh, my friend, how solemn God is speaking loudly today. He's taking this one off and that one off.
I was in the tailor shop recently, well, maybe three or four weeks ago.
To have this jacket shortened a little.
And I gave the Taylor a track.
He said, you know, I've never seen God yet. I said no, but you're going to see him, my friend. You're going to see him. Why not see him now in the person of Christ and be saved? Well, he said, I'm going down to Jamaica for two weeks vacation. And off he went, feeling happy, you know, and jolly in his own way.
About 3 weeks later I went in the tailor shop again. A strange man was in.
I said where's the tailor?
Is he back from Jamaica? He said no, he's not coming back. Oh, I said, has he decided to stay there?
He said my friend is dead and buried in his grave in Jamaica. I said what happened?
He said he was cut off.
And then I spoke very solemnly to the man in the shop, I can assure you.
But think of it, maybe you do. Young people think you have a long life before you may be the tailor thought that. Maybe the Barber thought so. They're both in eternity now. But where? Where? I don't know. I'm not the judge.
I am not the judge friend, but I do tell you this and I can tell you of a third case happened. One of our neighbors that's near home to us, my wife and I, one of our neighbors sat on the veranda with his wife one Saturday just recently. He said I think I'll get up and wash the car. The car was in the driveway. He got up from the veranda to wash the car in 2 minutes. He's a lifeless corpse on the driveway.
Yes my friend, he went into eternity in 2 minutes.
A man in good health, apparently.
All friends, do not think you can have a lease on life. You have no lease on life. You may be called into eternity tonight. And where will you go? Oh, friend, now it's settled. Have it settled now.
Where you will spend eternity, it must be in one of two places, either with Christ in the glory.
Over the damned in hell. Yes, in hell.
How solemn will we have this glorious message? The Son of Man is come. Thank God he's been here. How did the world treat him?
Ah, it's spitting in his face.
Tells us that in the 26th of Matthew.
The chief priests, Senator, people, may I just read it?
It's the most solemn scripture. Makes me tremble to read it.
The 6050 first of the 26th chapter of Matthew.
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Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, hath spoken blasphemy. What further need have we witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy. What thinking? Now listen to their answer.
They answered and said he is guilty of death.
What follows this statement? The hatred and enmity of their hearts is shown in a much worse degree. It says then that they spit in his face. Oh, friends, think of it.
Then do they spit in his face, My precious Saviour, the one who died for my sins on the cross, the one who was condemned in my place, the one who took my place in death and judgment.
They spit in his face. What have you done with him, my friend?
You know what? Pilate said. What shall I do then with Jesus? His wife said. Have nothing to do with that just man. I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him. Have nothing to do with him, my friend, That's an impossible situation.
You and I, every one of us here, will have to have something to do with Jesus. We're going to meet him, and we either meet him as a Savior tonight or as a judge in the coming day. The choice is yours. Have you met him as a Savior yet?
If not, you'll meet him as a judge in the coming day, my friend. Sure as you're sitting there.
So how solemn it is.
And we have these words of Pilate, he says, what shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ?
They all said unto him, Let him be crucified.
Now we have the testimony of four inspired witnesses concerning this terrible act.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all their record to the solemn truth.
The Jew and Gentile, kings and governors, priests and people, all classes.
Agree to murder the Son of God. Yes they did.
And the whole world is guilty.
And God is going to judge this world, yes.
And those who reject Christ will be judged too. It's not that he's going to judge the earth.
He's going to judge the people in it, the rejecters of Christ.
Is there a rejecter of Christ the other night?
Friends, challenge your hearts. What shall I do then with Jesus? What shall I do with Him?
You've got to do something with him.
You're either going to receive him tonight or you're going out of the door rejecting him now. Be careful.
The Lord may call you into eternity tonight. Yes he may. Three men I know of went like that into eternity, apparently well and strong, but have gone now.
Yes, it makes my heart ache to see the poor widow coming down the road.
Of this year, man.
Solomon is.
Well, what about it, friends? How do you stand before God? Have you ever put that question to yourself? What shall I do then with Jesus?
What have you done with him?
You say, well, I was not present when they all said away with him. Crucify him? No. But have you received him?
If you haven't, you might just as well.
Add to that number and say let him be crucified.
If you haven't received him friends, you'll rejected him.
Isn't that right? We either reject Christ or we receive Him, which isn't.
How do you stand tonight?
Dear young people, you've been prayed for in the room upstairs. The brothers have been pleading with God on your behalf. You, dear children of the Saints.
That you might be saved tonight.
But you might turn to that blessed one.
Owning a lost and ruined and helpless condition and receive him as your Lord and Savior.
Are you going to turn a deaf ear to the prayers of the brethren on your behalf? You're going to turn a deaf ear to that blessed One who says, come unto me.
All ye that labor in a heavy lane and I will give you rest. You're going to turn a deaf ear to his voice.
Be careful my friend, this may be your last opportunity of preceding him. You may be called into eternity tonight.
And I ask you again, where will you spend eternity? Where have you thought of it? You should think of it right now, seriously, because you may be the next one.
I might be the next one. Thank God for me through grace. It's absent from the body present with my precious Savior. I'd gladly welcome that moment. Indeed I would. I long to see the One who has redeemed me at such a cost.
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Yes, he gave his life's blooded Calvary to redeem a rebel like me.
That I might be eternally saved and my sins put away.
He has cast behind his back, as we reminded this afternoon. I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. What precious words for his name's sake. Yes, God Forgives us on the ground. And what Christ has done and the sacrifice he made, and the life laid down, the precious bloodshed.
Well, this is a glorious word, isn't it? The Son of Man is come.
I asked you again, What did he come for?
He came to seek and to save the lust, Aberdeen's mission to this earth.
Do we not read of Mary? She said she supposed him to be the gardener after his resurrection. Isn't that what many people think today, that Jesus was the gardener? In other words, he came down here to beautify this world, to make it a better place to live in. Friends, He did not come for that purpose.
John 638 tells us why he came. He says, For I came down from heaven. What for not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
Well, you might question this and say, well, what's the will of the Father who sent him? And thank God we have the answer in verse 40. He says, and this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone would see of the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up again at the last day.
Now we know the will of the Father. It is, friends, that you should be saved. That's the Father's will for you, that you should be saved. Have you seen the Son by faith, hanging on that accursed tree, bearing the judgment due to your sins? I say, have you seen that awful sight? And yet a blessed sight?
I have my faith. I've seen that precious savior hanging there between 2 Thieves. Yes, that's how the world treated him when he came. They spit in his face and nailed him to a tree between 2 Thieves.
And we find in that 27th chapter, the world had its choice. There was Baramus. There was Jesus.
Whether the twain will either I release unto you, Pilate said they all said Barabbas.
Now Barabbas was a murderer, A robber. Oh, what a choice. Do we wonder at the police records today? Do we wonder the terrible happenings in this world? The murders, wholesale murders? It's the world's choice, my friend. The world choose a murder instead of Christ, who came to bring peace and love. He could say in Luke 9, I believe he believe it is. I came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. That was his mission to this earth.
To save men's lives, not to murder them. What a difference. Barabbas was a murderer. Worlds that we'll have him. What is your choice, my friend? Tonight? That's what they all said.
We will have Barabbas, not this man. No, no, we will not have him to reign over us. What is your choice?
Friends, be honest in the presence of God. What do you say? You have heard what they said?
We will not have this man. Is that the language of anybody's heart here tonight? We will not have this man give us Barabbas. That's why the world is in the state it is tonight, my friends. The world made a wrong choice, the wrong valuation.
They considered Barabbas was the man for them away with Christ. And so Jesus has come and he is gone. Yes, he's gone. Gone where?
Back to the Father. The world rejected him. The Father received him back into the glory. Thank God he's there tonight.
As a living man on the throne.
Well, what a blessed message that says the Son of Man has come. Now may we just look at that word in John 6.
Verse 38.
What a glorious statement this is, for I came down from heaven. Would anybody here dispute this glorious truth that the Lord Jesus Christ came down from heaven? I do not believe you would.
Well, what did he come for? Here we have the answer again.
Glorious answer.
I came down from heaven not to do mine own will, thank God for that, but the will of him, the Father who sent him. That's why he came. And we've read what the Father's will is.
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That everyone which seeth the Son and believeth on Him may have everlasting life.
What a precious statement this is.
And then we have in First Timothy 115, Christ Jesus came into the world.
What for? Again to save sinners? Who are the sinners? The drunkards?
Would you class them as sinners only? Well, God gives the answer to this.
Who are the sinners? All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. All without exception.
There is only one blessed person ever walked this earth who never sinned.
And we have a four fold testimony to the perfection of Christ.
In one John 35 we find there.
He knew no sin in him was no sin. 2 Corinthians 5 he did no sin. I believe it's how it's reached and in First Peter 2/22 he maybe read them because I'm so sorry to discrote them First John 3/5.
It's a wonderful testimony to the perfection of Christ.
One John 3/5.
And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him is no sin.
That could never be said of anybody else. In him is no sin. What a statement and what a truth. 2nd Corinthians 5.
And verse 21 For he God hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin.
In him was no sin. He knew no sin.
Now first Peter 2/22.
Who did no sin?
How wonderfully statements are now Hebrews 4.
Verse 15. The end of verse 15.
If all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
And yet we read. I believe it's Hebrews 9.
Where he appeared to put a waste in by the sacrifice of himself.
What a blessed fourfold testimony to the perfection of Christ. In him was number sin. He knew no sin. He did no sin.
And he was without sin, and yet he was made sin. Yes, God made him the sinless 1 to be sin for you and for me, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
And he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Oh, what a wonder story this is of the wondrous love and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And then we read, He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Who are the sinners?
I was standing on the waterfront in Shanghai.
Giving tracks to the British sailors as they went back to their warship.
And two young men came up staggering along. One was absolutely drunk.
The other young man was quite drunk enough, but he could walk. He was trying to hold the other young fellow up.
A sad, pitiful sight, I can tell you, if their dear mothers can only have seen them.
It undoubtedly would have broken their hearts, but away from home, let's have our fling. You know that's the language of many of these young men. When they get away from home, let's see the world.
And have fun. You often hear that expression, do you not? When people are partying on the railway station. We'll have plenty of fun.
Plenty of fun. I remember standing in my corpse.
In the funeral parlour, Brother Walker and I.
And he knew the man who was in the coffin there, and his son and wife stood by the coffin.
And we are asking a little about the man who died.
And the only thing the son could say was, well, you know, he had plenty of fun in life. That's all he could say about his father in in death. Well, he had plenty of fun in life. I said it. It's it's worthless now, though, friend, isn't it? There's no fun in hell if that's where he's gone. No fun in hell, my friend.
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You may think, dear young people, you're going to have plenty of fun, but let me solemnly warn you, this is the only place you'll get it.
If you reject Christ and you're seeking fun.
Or if you're seeking to follow The Beatles.
And not Christ. You are going to have a sad awakening in the coming day.
Well, that's all the poor man could say. Father had plenty of fun in life.
And there he was, dead, gone into eternity, and that's the only record the sun could give. Think of it. Plenty of fun in life.
But I solemnly warn anybody here.
Who is the rejecter of Christ? There'll be no fun in hell and there'll be no water in hell either, my friend.
There'll be no precious blood in hell to wash your sins away. There'll be no savior there. And there'll be no Christians there. No, not one.
The blackness of darkness forever.
How solemn the thought away from God forever.
I often think of the Lord's words most touching to Jerusalem's He wept over it. He says I would. That shows the heart of the Lord. I would.
But he says ye would not. That shows the heart of Israel and your friends. It shows your heart too. If you will not take Him tonight as your Savior. It shows your heart. It exposes you before a holy God.
As lost, guilty, ruined and undone on the road to hell. Oh how solemn the thought. Oh dear friends, let me plead with you tonight.
Those of you who do not know Christ, who turn to Him this very moment before it's forever too late, fly to the shelter of His precious blood, for it is only the blood of Christ that can wash your sins away.
And fly to that precious blood before it's forever too late. Tomorrow may be too late for you.
Yes, that which overtook the Barber, the tailor and my neighbor might overtake you tonight.
Who so? I solemnly warn you, friend, not to trifle with the patience and grace of God.
No, He offers you mercy, salvation, forgiveness of sins right now.
Thank God the precious blood of Christ is available at this moment to wash all your sins away and make you fit for God's holy presence. And nothing else will do it, friends, nothing else whatever.
We hear sometimes when I'm going to turn over a new leaf.
Well, that proves that people who say that do not know how bad they are.
We read in Ecclesiastes God required that which is passed. How can you obliterate the past by turning over new leaf? Will that take you to heaven? You might turn over 1000 leaves and still go to hell.
Yes.
It is in the case of turning over a new leaf, my friends Tisha. It's a case of taking a place before a holy God is lost and guilty and undone.
Crying to God for mercy, to salvation, and you'll get it.
That's the way I got it. Yes, I did.
I'll never forget that I either.
I'll tell you, it's a very simple thing that stirred me up to a sense of my guilt and need. Very simple thing. I was going home from the gospel meeting one night. They're just a little company of people on the sidewalk with a tiny little organ. A lady sat at the organ she was playing.
Your reap whatsoever you sow The harvest is certainly coming, and you will reap whatsoever you sow. And just those few words went home to my heart like a knife. I went away from that little company as miserable as I could be. I knew that if I were to reap what I'd sown, it'd be an eternity in hell. Away from Christ. Yes, an eternity in hell. And those few words God used to stir me up to a sense of my need and my guilt.
And thank God it was the means of bringing me to Christ. Yes, well, how do you stand? Dear young people, how do you stand tonight?
You stand in your sins before a holy God.
Or have you been washed in the blood of the lamb?
If so, you are ready for the glory.
If you are in your sins, you are ready for hell.
My brother quoted that verse in John 8 and the very solemn one too, if ye believe not. And these are the words of the Lord Jesus, not our words.
If he believed not that I am.
And that great I am is the one the world crucified and spit in his face, the beloved of the Father.
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And God has a controversy with this world, my friends. And if you haven't received Christ, you are part of the world.
And you will come under the awful judgment of God for it.
Do you think the world is going to get away with the murder of God's beloved Son? Indeed not.
No.
Oh, I think of this in a very solemn way.
We got the two aspects of the death of Christ.
Presented in Psalm 69 and Psalm 22.
In Psalm 69, I believe we have there Christ's suffering as a martyr for righteousness.
At the hands of wicked men.
And what we read in that Psalm, the blessed Lord calling for vengeance from God to vengeance upon his enemies as a solemn thought, isn't it? And yet on the cross he says, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. Why? I believe it's simply this. God has two sides.
Is characterized by grace and judgment. Yes, two things. And if you reject the grace of God, my friend, you'll have the judgment of God, you will.
I don't trouble what you think of what you're saying.
If you reject the grace of God, you're going to come under the judgment of God, and perhaps sooner than you realize. Yes, you will, my friend, but there is a way of escape from the judgment of God, and it's Christ. Yes, that blessed one brother repeated this wonderful truth in the room upstairs tonight.
Christ died for our sins.
According to the scriptures. Thank God for that and that he was buried and that he rose again the 3rd day according to the scriptures.
What a glorious statement, if Christ may not raise you yet in your sins, and your faith is vain.
Yes, but oh thank God, we know that Christ is risen. Yes, He is a living Savior to the Father's right hand.
And he's available tonight to meet you, dear Sinner friend, and all your need and ruin.
Abolish the thought abandoned the thought of turning over new leaf. Get down on your knees tonight and own yourself as the last guilty Sinner before a holy God. That's the first step to eternal blessing, to acknowledge that you're a Sinner.
I believe myself, I'm open to correction. I believe that's why the Lord sent those fiery serpents among the children of Israel.
Not merely to bite them that many might die, but to produce from their lips these words. We have sinned, yes.
And that was the way the Lord produced that confession, by sending those fiery serpents among the children of Israel.
To produce that, that statement, that confession. We have sinned, and so have you, and so have I. But thank God mine are forgiven, washed away in the precious blood of Christ. What about yours, friends?
You're either in Christ or you're in your sins. Yes, you are. There's no middle ground, you know. No, there isn't. Well, this is a glorious statement. I came down from heaven not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
That was the Lord's primary object, to do the will of His Father, to glorify His Father here upon earth. And He did, and the only one that ever did.
Perfectly glorify God and every step of His pathway He could say with truth and the only one. I do always those things that please the Father. No one else could say that with truth. Could you say that? Indeed not, neither could I. I bow my head in shame and say perhaps I do very little to please the Father.
To solemn thought, and how true, or what failures we are miserable failures. But let us not be occupied to that side of it. Let us be occupied with the risen Christ in the glory, the one who was there for you, dear Sinner friend.
Who has gone to be to the cross for you? And God has raised him from the dead.
Yes, he was delivered for our offenses.
But God raised him again for our justification.
Well, we have then in the 22nd Psalm, I believe.
There Christ suffered as a victim for sin, not under the hand of men, under the hand of a holy God.
And Christ's suffering is a martyr for righteousness under the hand of man brings down judgment upon this Christ rejecting world.
But Christ's suffering, A victim for sin under the hand of God, opens up the well strings of blessing, eternal blessing, to those who will receive Him by faith. Yes, there's no crying for vengeance there upon His enemies, but there is in Psalm 69, and not one word will fall to the ground. Can you imagine, dear Sinner friend, what it will be when God draws the sword of judgment to execute judgment on this world which is rejected? His Son crucified Him.
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Can you imagine what the judgment will be?
When that cry from the Son's heart will be met with a sword of judgment upon his enemies, yes, it will. All. Friends, I tremble to think there may be some here who will come under the judgment of God for their sins. And I tell you again, if you haven't received Christ, you're part of this world, and you'll come under its full guilt of that terrible act of crucifying the Lord of glory.
The children of Israel were told to take the lamb and to kill it it. And yet there were thousands of lambs undoubtedly slain on that Passover night. But we read thou shalt take the lamb and kill it it. Yes, there's only one lamb before the eye of God, and there's the Lamb of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. And the very fact that the children of Israel had to kill the lamb would make them responsible for the death of the lamb. Yes. And my dear friends, you and I are responsible for the death of Christ.
For whom did he die if that's not the case?
Did he die for the fellow across the road, the drunkard in the gutter? Or did he die for you? Let's be honest about it. Christ died for you. He died for me. So then I say in this respect I am responsible for the death of Christ. How solemn the thought. Yes, because he died for me. He died for you to put your sins away and to make you fit for God's holy presence. Are you fit for God's holy presence?
Or you say, I'd like to know that the remission of sins is for me. I cannot even take it in that this means me, that I'm included in this.
Well, one of our John 316 we have two words there, 1A general term, and the other a particular term whosoever.
The world and whosoever.
Whosoever speaks of the individual does it not.
The world at large speaks and includes everybody. So there we have everybody, included the world and whosoever.
How can you say?
That the application of this word does not mean you, the world, or whosoever. How can you exclude yourself from the application of this statement and say it does not include me? I do not come under the title of whosoever. I do not belong to this world. It's impossible for anybody here to say that.
And then we have in the 24th of Luke, another glorious statement, bringing in the same truth. May we look at it.
To convict the Sinner that the remission of sins is for him or her.
The 24th of Luke.
Beginning at verse 2646, rather 46. And said unto them, Thus it is written, And thus it behold Christ to suffer and arise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations.
Beginning at Jerusalem.
Here we have some wonderful statements.
We have the basis, 3 special thoughts I believe here, the basis, the authority and the sphere. What is the basis here?
The remission in the 46 verse it behold Christ to suffer.
Without the shedding of blood, my friend, there's no remission of sins. No, there isn't it. Behold, Christ, to suffer. To suffer for whom? For you and for me.
It behold Christ to suffer, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission, and his precious blood was shed at Calvary. To wash your sins away in mine. Have yours been washed away?
Or you say, but wait a minute, where is the authority for this?
Blessed be God, thus it is written. Precious, indisputable authority. Nothing can change it, nothing can alter it. Thus it is written. Yes, it's written in the Word of God, by the hand of God, that Christ died for our sins. His blood was shed on the cross to wash them away.
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And God says, thus it is written, ah, that's a blessed authority. And the basis of the forgiveness of sins is the suffering of Christ, the death of Christ, the precious blood of Christ.
The sacrifice of Christ, yes, that's the basis of blessing for the Sinner.
And the authorities thank God, I do of my own heart. Thus it is written.
Had it not been written, you and I would be in doubt for all eternity. I wouldn't know how he stood. Oh, thank God for these words. Thus it is written. Who has written it? Some poet know God himself. Thus it is written. Precious news, isn't it?
It behold Christ to suffer, and that's not all, is it? And to rise from the dead. Thank God for the resurrection of Christ. I repeat, if Christ be not raised, my friend, you're yet in your sins.
And so am I. But oh how glorious the truth in Ephesians 2. But now is Christ risen?
And become the first fruits of them that slept precious, glorious truth. We cannot separate them. The death and resurrection of Christ.
No, the gospel. That's the gospel. The death of Christ and the resurrection of Christ.
Two of the greatest events this world has ever seen. I shouldn't say two of the greatest. They are the greatest events this world has ever seen. The death of the Son of God and his resurrection, although the world didn't witness that.
But his own witnessed his him in resurrection.
But there are two glorious events. And then it says then that repentance and remission of sins.
Should be preached in His name among all nations.
Can you escape the application of that word? All nations?
Do you belong to a nation? Of course you do. You cannot escape the application of that word, can you? To all nations, yes. So the gospel then is to all nations. To you.
Whoever you may be, wherever you may have come from, the gospel is for you, my friend. The gospel of the grace of God, the gospel of God concerning his Son. That's the gospel. It's not something we have made-up, you know.
We haven't written books and come here to preach it now. It's the Gospel of God concerning His Son the Lord Jesus Christ and is to be preached to all nations. Thank God for that. How? That reminds us of that blessed verse in Isaiah 4522.
The blessed Lord says, Look unto me and be saved all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else, all the ends of the earth. The gospel is not for any particular tribe or nation. No, it goes out to all the ends of the earth, and the people to all the ends of the earth are invited to look to Christ with the eye of faith and receive him and their Savior. Have you done that tonight?
When are you going to do it, my friend?
Are you going to wait till death knocks at your door and takes you into eternity? Too late? Then you know no second chance is no chance after death. Do not be deceived by thinking there is, there is not.
As far as you're concerned, death ends your history here on Earth.
But that's not the end of you now God breathed into man's nostrils of breath of life, and man became a living soul.
And as the tree falls, social it like you die in your sins, my friend, you're going to be raised in them.
Whatever you might think or say or disbelieve, that's the truth of God, and that's what we're here tonight to proclaim. God's precious truth. Yes, and after death, the judgment. How solemn. Oh, makes 1 tremble to think of it.
Man says very often I'm not afraid to die. That's the end of everything. Oh, what a terrible lie of Satan. Dear Sinner friend, do not believe it for a moment.
The devil is a deceiver. He will deceive you into hell if he can.
Believe the truth of God's Word after death, the judgment for those who die in their sins.
Would you die in your sins tonight?
Or which is I trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ if death knocked at your door?
Must be one or the other.
And then we get here, something else very precious and that repentance. Yes, repentance. This is what God commands from you. Sin a friend, repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. It's a command of God and dare you to ignore it and see what you get.
You ignore the divine command of God, my friend. You do so at your own eternal peril. You will find yourself in the lost eternity in hell if you disregard God's command. God. God, not the preacher. God now commanded all men everywhere to repent. Why? Because.
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Yes, God doesn't leave us in the dark, you know, because God has a point of the day in which you will judge this world in righteousness by that man. Which man? The Lord Jesus Christ. Did you know He's appointed to be the judge in the coming day. Read the 5th chapter of John verse 22 and verse 27 and see then read what the judge says in verse 24. Bless the truth.
The one who's appointed to be the judge, he turns to the Sinner and says, Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me.
Hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death and delight. What a glorious statement, friends, just in a friend. Listen to it from the lips of the judge, the one who was appointed with the judge in the coming day, the one to whom the Father had committed all the judgment and the power to execute it, and the authority to execute it. Now the judge turns to the poor Sinner and says, Verily, verily, I say unto you.
Precious words. Thank God for those words.
He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, hath present possession.
In the Sunday School of Bermuda, I asked the children what that word meant. Half.
Little collar boy, said Sir, it means got it.
Good answer. Wasn't it? Got it. It's true. Half means got it. Not will have or may have got it. Have you got it?
If you haven't got it friend, you're without it. And if you're without Christ, I wouldn't change places with you for 1000 worlds now. I wouldn't know all the gold in the world.
Because if I left the scene, I wouldn't take any of it with me. If I did, I couldn't spend it.
I was let profit a man if he gained the whole world and lose his own soul. What shall a man give an exchange for his soul? Can you answer that question? Well, listen to this, this is precious.
That repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. Why beginning at Jerusalem? Why Jerusalem was a very guilty spot on His earth.
Yes, Jerusalem was responsible for the murder of the Son of God.
And yet the blessed ambassadors were to begin at Jerusalem.
The first office of pardon would have resented the very murders of the Son of God, all friends, the grace of God. Think of it all. It makes me rejoice and thank God when I read that beginning at Jerusalem, the guiltiest spot on earth was the very place the Lord sent them to 1St.
And to present the glorious message of a free and full pardon because Christ has suffered. Think of it. Isn't that grace? Where would you find more grace than this? The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the grace of God, to send those blessed ambassadors, ambassadors to the very guiltiest spot on earth and present the office of pardon to them, the murderers of the Son of God.
I know of no grace like this, my friend. If that doesn't reach your poor heart, I don't know what will.
And to know that God is love. What does the cross of Christ prove?
Does it prove that God is love? Yes, thank God it does. It proves to that Christ gave his precious life to save you and me from the flames of an eternal hell. Thank God for that. But what is the cross of Christ proved to this world? That his guilt is consummated and his judgment sealed?
Yes, solemn thought, isn't it? Yes, this world, friend, is coming under the judgment of God for rejection and crucifixion of His beloved Son. God holds this world responsible for the treatment that afforded His beloved Son when He sent Him down here to seek Him to save the lost and to do the Father's will. Well, friends, our time is up, and the time may be up for you at any moment.
Yes, the day of grace may be gone tonight, my friend. The door of mercy will be shut forever.
Think of what the foolish virgin says. Lord, Lord, open to us. Haven't you made a mistake?
Or how awful the crime Lord Lord open to us. How withering the response. I know you're not. Yes. Oh, I trust you'll never hear these words because I have called and ye have refused. I've stretched out my hand and no man regarded.
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I also will laugh at your calamity and mock when your fear cometh. Oh, I trust, and no one here will hear those solemn words. The blessed Lord is available tonight to save you from your sins and to give you the assurance and gift of eternal life, and to assure you of a home in the glory. But I say to your friends that if you reject Him and despise the office of God's grace and mercy, you will have the judgment of God and you'll deserve it, and that will be your choice.
Yes, God has done everything for you. Christ has given his life for you, his life blood to wash your sins away. He invites you to come to him tonight. He says him that cometh to me, I will in no way is cast out. Won't you come on the strength of that you're going out of the door and your sins condemned already awaiting the execution of God's judgment upon you. Oh friend, I plead with you not to do so. Get on your knees this very moment and acknowledge yourself a lost guilty Sinner and say I have sinned.
And I accept Christ as my Savior. Do it now, my friend, before it's too late.
Being the first hymn, almost persuaded now to believe.
Number one.
The Good Shepherd Giveth His Life
Children—P. Geveden
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Open your sheet to #25.
25.
Life at best was very brief, like the falling of a leaf, like the binding of a sheath being time. Fleeting days are telling fast that the dye will soon be cast and the fatal line be passed be in time.
Fairest flowers soon decay.
Youth and beauty pass away.
Oh, you have not long to stay.
Be in time while God's Spirit bid you come Sinner. Do not longer roam.
Unless you seal your hopeless doom, be in time. Time is gliding swiftly by.
Death and judgment both draw an eye to the arms of Jesus. Fly, be in time.
Oh I pray you count the cost here. The fatal line be crossed and your Christ list so be lost be in time #25.
Life at thirsty.
Life.
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And.
We can cry.
Too much.
In the sheets.
#40.
Jesus loves me.
Jesus loves me.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Have a choice.
A number would you like to sing?
Any of the boys. Any of the girls.
You.
#2.
From tis Jesus gently calling, is that it #2?
My brother started please.
I will give you.
Whatever you want.
Oh my God.
Please.
Have your legs?
You will.
Join interest your way.
And life at best, is very brief.
Jesus loves me. The Bible tells me so.
Under this beautiful hymn.
Come tis Jesus gently calling.
Shall we sing another?
41 This takes us out of this world.
And we sing about that bright and blessed scene where sin can never come #41 on the backside of the sheet.
Around the throne of God in heaven, well, many children sing.
A round out.
And for all Morgan will deadly unconstrained.
Glory.
Glory, glory.
Enchining roads on spiral. That's white fish. One will be our way.
And ever.
Last day you might.
And joy.
Glory, glory.
Oh no.
Why bring down to the Southwest?
When all lives in joy and love.
Our God.
I'm singing.
Glory.
Glory.
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Glory, glory.
Glory.
Charlie Reed.
From John 10.
And then from John 20.
John 10, verse 11.
I am the Good Shepherd.
The Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
Verse 16 Another sheep I have which are not of this fold.
Them also I must bring.
And they shall hear my voice.
And there shall be 1 folder flock and one shepherd.
Therefore doth my father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay down of myself.
I power to lay it down.
My power to take it again.
This commandment have I received of my father John 20.
John 20, verse 19.
Then the same day at evening being the first day of the week.
When the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews.
Came Jesus and stood in the midst.
And says unto them, Peace be unto you.
And when you get so sad?
He showed unto them.
His hands.
And his side?
Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord?
And John 10 we read about.
The Good Shepherd.
The Lord Jesus speaking and you know his words.
As we read them.
And likely you can see the verse with which we begin. I am the Good Shepherd.
The Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
We have much in common here this morning. You have life.
I have life.
We're in the same place.
Des Moines, IA.
USA, North America.
This world.
But there are differences. You're young.
They're those older.
And there are those that are still older.
You're not my age.
But you know, we have the same word.
And you can have the same savior.
Where there's but one.
And he's the Good Shepherd.
Who was willing to give his life for you?
Isn't it wonderful to know that?
He was willing to do that.
Or there are those that do much for us.
Yes, a brother can stay by brother a long time.
A sister, a mother, a father, they can do much for us.
But the Lord Jesus can go farther than anyone. He has gone farther than anyone.
Praise the Good Shepherd.
Who came to give his life for us.
I am the Good Shepherd.
The Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
That tells us that he loves us, doesn't it? And that's why we sing together. Jesus loves me.
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The Bible tells me so.
And listen to his voice.
As we hear him speak from his precious word.
Oh, it's here that we find the voice of the Good Shepherd calling the sheep, calling the lambs. He called them when he was here.
And he's still calling today, and he's calling for you. He wants you now.
Oh, what a sweet call.
What a lovely message he's left with us.
Come to Jesus gently calling.
Ye with care and toil oppressed.
Perhaps you don't feel that so much.
As a little boy or little girl.
But childhood in news, after all, Or vanity?
Do you tie your shoes?
There was a time when you didn't.
But you've accepted responsibility, you know, you're growing up and you're getting, you're becoming more responsible all the time. Do you go to school?
Do you have lessons to do?
Do you have chores at home?
Oh, there are those things, you know.
Now we need to.
But after all.
It seems empty. Oh yes, life is empty. It comes to nothing.
Without the Savior.
All the Lord Jesus came and he's calling for us this morning and he wants us today, He wants us now and this is another first day of the week, the day of our Lords resurrection.
He gave his life for the sheep. You know, David must have been somewhat of a Good Shepherd himself.
And he protected the sheep.
And no doubt he would stand between the sheep and the wolves, between the sheep and the enemy.
But you know he couldn't give his life for them as the Lord Jesus did.
Because he gave his life, he laid down his life and he took it up again.
All that's the beauty of that story.
There's one who has laid down his life and has taken his life up again. He's really given his life for us.
The Good Shepherd.
Giving his life for the sheep.
How do we respond to that?
What have we done about it?
You know, we're much the same here. However, you're young.
As we were saying.
Would it be all right to wait a long time, you know, before we looked up to the Lord Jesus?
You wouldn't want to wait, would you?
Oh, it's nice to do that now. It's best to do it now or it may be too late tomorrow.
You know this world is coming to a sad day.
Oh, it's getting worse all the time.
The problems are being multiplied. There's all men are not able to take care of the ugly things that develop in this world. Or wars. You know what war is, don't you? You heard about it.
War is a terrible thing and that has been the choice of this world because they refused the Prince of Peace as the Lord Jesus.
They couldn't have peace without him.
So there's been trouble ever since, but you know, you can have peace right inside here.
And we need it inside, don't we?
If you need a new shoe.
Do you get the Polish? Put Polish on it.
Will that make an old shoe new?
Or it might look nicer.
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But if your shoe is worn out, you must get another one.
And you know, this life that we have is the old Adam life.
And we need a new life from the Good Shepherd that gave his life for the sheep that came, that we might have that abundant life, eternal life.
So he must be born again. Have you heard that?
He must be born again.
Do you hear it from your mother, your father, or did your sister tell her, your brother tell you? Where did you find it? Where did it come from? Came from this book, didn't it, John Three, same gospel that we read from.
You must be born again.
Oh, you need to be made new inside.
And to have that new life.
I only turned to John 20.
John 20.
Verses 19 and 20.
The same day and evening.
The Day of the Resurrection.
The first day of the week.
When the doors were shut.
Where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews.
King Jesus.
And stood in the midst.
This is after he'd been crucified.
This is after he'd been nailed to the cross.
He's risen now.
He's alive for evermore.
And the disciples were in that room.
And they had the doors fastened because they were afraid of those outside.
And Jesus knew that they were afraid.
And He came right into their midst.
With a message of peace.
Oh, he wanted them to have peace.
That's why we need to, isn't it? We need life. We need peace.
We need the Lord Jesus, the Good Shepherd. We need His Word. We need to hear his voice.
Jesus stood in the midst Jesus.
Right among his disciples.
That same one that they had known before, now risen from among the dead.
Standing in their midst.
Jesus stood in the midst.
And he spoke to them, and he speaks to you.
And the message that he gave them, he gives to us today.
Peace unto you.
And that's the message that he sent to you.
Today.
From that time on, that message of peace.
You read about it in the next verses.
Is the message that we have in the gospel.
You listen to the gospel, don't you?
You know John 316.
But do you know the Savior?
Godson of John 316.
It's one thing to know the verse.
That's another thing to know, the one that gave us the verse.
We need to know the Savior, don't we? We need to know Jesus, who stood in the midst and said, Peace unto you.
When he's so sad.
He showed unto them his hands.
And his side?
Did he have something in his hand?
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In his hands were those Natal prints.
And those nail prints in the Savior's hands tell us that man didn't like him.
That men nailed him to the cross.
He was rejected.
They didn't want it.
But he loved sinners just the same.
He showed unto them his hands.
And his side?
What was in his side?
Oh, they're in his side.
Was that earmark?
For the Roman soldier had thrust a spear in the savior side.
And forthwith came there out blood and water.
Or that mark in the Savior side tells us of His love to us.
Of his workforce.
What he did at that cross.
To save us from our sins.
Boy, you don't need to wear a cross.
You need his word.
You need to hear his voice.
And you need to be reminded of what he's done for you.
He was mistreated, nailed to that cross, rejected, despised, hated, lifted up, crucified.
He gave his life.
He dismissed his spirit and then not spear with thrust into his side.
And his precious blood was shed for the remission of our sins.
And the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all or everything.
That's the Savior's voice.
That's his message to you. Do you believe it?
Oh, trust in that seed and you'll never be confounded or disappointed in you. You may be disappointed in me.
But you will never be disappointed in him.
It hasn't been that way with me.
As a boy at the age of 9.
I confessed Jesus.
And I haven't been sorry. Oh, I regret that I hadn't used this book as I ought to use it. I should have used it.
Or we need to use it more and more?
And there's an old brother from Chicago who said to me in Kentucky, he said, you know, the more you rub this book, the private shines.
So it does. Oh, this morning, boys and girls.
Hear the voice of the Good Shepherd calling you.
And remember how he was in the midst of his own and showed him.
Showed them his hands in his sight, telling of his love to his workforce.
And he's calling you today, and he'll give you that same piece that he gave them.
If you will trust in him.
And trust in him now.
43.
#43 the one door, only one.
Inside and outside, On which side of you are you?
You started, brother.
1.
Youth
Address—E. Smith
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Sing together #46 in the appendix #46 in the appendix.
Have I an object?
Lord below, which would divide my heart with Thee.
Which would divert its even flow in answer to thy constancy.
Or teach me quickly to return.
And cause my heart a break to burn 46 in the appendix.
May we read a portion from Psalm 119?
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Psalm 119.
Beginning at verse one.
We shall just read a few verses.
From this wonderful Psalm verse one.
Blessed are the undefiled.
In the way.
To walk in the law, the Lord.
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies.
And that seek Him with a whole heart. They also do no iniquity. They walk in his ways.
Thou has commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
Oh, that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes.
Then shall I not be ashamed?
When I have respect unto all thy commandments.
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart.
When I shall have learned I righteous judgments?
I will keep thy statutes.
All forsake me. Not utterly.
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?
By taking heed thereto, according to thy word.
With my whole heart have I sought thee.
Oh, let me not wander from thy commandments. Thy word have I hid in my heart mine hop, that I might not sin against thee.
Particularly this afternoon, we would dwell on just certain words of this portion.
Like the word young men, young men cleanse.
Way and word.
Notice that this.
Psalm is divided. I would like to draw your attention.
To the way this Psalm is divided.
And you'll notice that at the end of every 8 verses you'll find.
The beginning and the ending of.
The rather the beginning of the heat of the Hebrew alphabet.
Now this is no place to speak about that.
But I'd like to draw the attention of the young people here this afternoon to the meanings of these words.
The reason why is that it is because.
In reading this Psalm, you will find that every verse contains either the word.
Or statutes or testimonies, so that every verse of these 176 verses.
Speak. Every verse speaks of the word of God.
The word, and therefore it, has a special import for us today as young people and older people too.
That first word there is aleph.
And it means an ox head. Now I'm mentioning this, some of the young people might like to jot them down.
Because the Hebrew alphabet is the simplest alphabet of the six languages that it has been my privilege to work in.
And.
You'll enjoy this, I believe this afternoon. The Hebrew alphabet is the simplest. I say the simplest alphabet.
And an easy and easy language to learn. So that aleph there appears at the heading of the salmon. It just means an ox head.
The simplicity of these words. And when you come to Beth, of course you know that that just means a house.
And thus you have Bethel. Bethel or the House of God.
Now the third word is a simple word and it just means a camel. A camel.
Dallas looked down. At the end of every 8 verses, you'll find another letter of the hell out of it.
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Any door, door of any dwell.
And that's though.
Vow is a tent peg. Notice, beloved, how these words are so simple and have to do with everyday life.
Everyday life.
A dog, a tent peg, a window and sign is a weapon that may be used to.
Kill some animal to eat cheaply. It could also speak of something to fight with, which we trust that won't be the case.
Chef is a fence, a fence. And so we have around our sheep and goats in in in Bolivia fences. We have fences there made just of.
Thorns planted in the earth to keep the sheep in and to keep the wolf out. So it's a fence fence. Just a simple fence. And test, of course, is a serpent.
We have lots of them around us and believe you all kinds. A servant now, John noticed. There, That's the 10th word. It's just the hand that grasps, a hand that takes hold of anything at all. It's just the hand that grasps something.
But calf is the palm of your hand. How simple. These words are just the palm of your hand.
And Lamid is a goat. And you would be surprised, beloved, how many of these words appear in the Inca tongue. So I'm more than convinced that I found myself those 42 years among some of the lost tribes.
I really believe that.
A gold. And we use the gold, you know, to poke the bullets along to keep them straight, keep them in the furrow.
You poke 1 fellow and poke the other and you keep them straight and take a make a straight furrow long that's a gold lemon. Mem is just simple water to drink.
Water to drink. And none, of course, is a fish, but it's a live fish. A live fish, you know, it's easy to go with the current. You young dear, you young soul, young folk. It's easy to go with the current of this godless age, but it's difficult to come up against the current. The dead fish can go with the current, but the live fish can go up against it. And this is what it means.
A live fish.
Lamech is a star or a stick to lean upon.
And I'm sure you can guess what iron is. It means an eye. An eye.
Pays the mouth the mouth.
And sadly, is your side that you sleep upon, whether it's the right hand side or the left side just means the side.
And coffee is the whole ox head.
I notice some of you are jotting it down. You may not have ever jotted these down all your lives, and neither did I until I had an old Hebrew. Teach me something of the language. Resh is ahead your head.
Skin is a tooth.
And Tau is just a mark some of our Indians can't put, can't sign their names. There are not many of the young people because we've had a school functioning now for over 40 years.
And a lot of those hundreds of those of those Indians now can read and write and speak Spanish very nicely. But before they had to put their fingerprint on a document, and that was Tau.
And so we have these wonderful.
Words that this bespeak the simplicity of everything around us and into every verse something of these truths are intertwined in this wonderful language called Hebrew. Now this Psalm, we're just we've just mentioned that. By the way, it may have been of interest to some of the young Christians, but I want to dwell particularly.
On that verse 9 wherewithal shall a young man.
Now as you may know.
Young men there is really in the original youth youth, and so the feminine gender is not excluded from this verse.
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With a masculine or gender gender or the feminine gender, we have youth mentioned here.
You might not feel very happy if I tell you what youth means.
In the book of Jeremiah it means to yell. And have you seen the children coming out of the school?
I have taught school, taught school in colleges sometimes, and you know how the young people come out of school and yell?
Of course they do. They blow off steam when they come out, you know, and that's good for them and.
That's what it means you.
But it also has another meaning.
Did you ever see a lion with his mane all up in the area though?
That's the meaning of youth. Youth.
A lion that carried over something is working and his mane comes up.
Well, that's the meaning of you.
Of the meaning too, and privilege to bring into this world children.
God has never blessed me with any children of my own, but I've really can no children in South America and know something of what it means.
Did you ever see your little child throw itself on the floor and kick?
I'm sure you have and father and mother have been so concerned about they've used a switch which possibly on the child to birth up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Her mother used to give us the father was a big strong man. I'm the weed of the fact and father was such a children, but mother, he'd stand by with those piercing blue eyes of his. He's a real Scotsman, you know, and that was enough. He watched there that we got it.
We thank God for it.
But fling themselves on the floor, of course in evident you will remember that, Mister Potter, how old my child is before the child corrected, he said Mr. Old is your child sister. She said six months, you are 6 of you now these this is the meaning of you.
Throwing yourself on the floor.
And.
Like a lion extended as if it were in some particular humor that you wouldn't like. That way, now that's the meaning of you.
The nectar is.
Cleanse.
Flange.
Two forms of cleansing, dear young person, and I want unburden my heart a bit this afternoon. I feel it in my soul. But there is.
Cleansing not only from defilement.
Of every form and this poor hell going world is crammed full of it.
But also cleanse from ecclesiastical iniquity.
You know, beloved.
That I was at one time a young clergyman mixed up.
In those early days in Australia, preaching for the Baptist affiliated for a few years and.
Trained in an institution that was ranked modernistic.
So much so beloved, that my faith almost failed because of that.
Modernistic teachings and the Lord Jesus delivered me in a wonderful way from it all.
And he delivered me from what we call ecclesiastical defilement. Yes, there's the ecclesiastical defilement.
Do you really believe, you young people, that there is such a thing?
As ecclesiastical defilement. I was talking to a young lady the other day.
And she said. But Mr. Smith, they're a nice Christian people there.
And.
You know, she says. I get along very nicely with them.
I said I don't doubt that.
But I said to her, did you ever contemplate the system?
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Which she is linked up. You are linked up with.
And I told her how that when I was in that same system in which she has unfortunately drifted into, I told her how that I was taught in that same system that this book here contained the word of God.
But if that it wasn't all the word of God.
And that was my great battle.
Dear young man, Dear young woman.
This is the word of the living God.
And if you remember nothing else this afternoon.
But that that this blessed book that is open in your hands. And as dear old Mr. Walter Scott, I used to hear him preach in Scotland with his long white beard and the tears running down his face, and he used to say, young men and young women, this is the word of the living God.
It is open in our hands this afternoon and will be open in heaven for forever.
It is the word of the living God.
He is long since with the with the Lord. He didn't go on with us all the way, but I do remember his godly counsel as a young man.
This is the word of the living God.
And this book will put you out if you'll obey it.
Out of every system.
That does not acknowledge the full authenticity and divine stamp of God upon every page. If you will obey this book, you will find yourself out of everything.
Would savor of the world and its sin and its systems.
It will put you out of everything one day.
A Bolivian believer brought me a translation of the word of God.
Into Greek and Spanish.
He said, Brother, I've got a wonderful translation here and as you know it, I want you to read and enjoy it. Well, I said, brother, let's look at John One.
And this is how it read. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.
And the word was a God.
Now you young people, you may not hear that exactly, but listen, it translated the word of God falsely, and the word was a God.
And I said to that dear man, I said, would you sell that to me? He said, well, no, I think a good deal of that book. And I said, I'll pay you anything you ask. He said, what do you want it for? I said to burn it in God's presence and in the presence of yourself, and thank God together that it's burned up.
Well, he said. Why? I said the man who translated that was either a scoundrel or an ignorant man, because there's no just thing as an indefinite article in the Greek tongue, the Greek language. He was either a scoundrel or an ignorant man.
And we burned that book.
You know to whom that belonged to those known as.
Jehovah's Witnesses.
One day I took this book to one of them. I don't discuss with them anything with them generally, but I took this book to this man who denied that the Lord Jesus was God over all things, blessed forever. And I read to him from John 8.
If you believe not that I am, you shall die in your sins.
And I never saw a man tremble like that man.
That the Lord Jesus Old Testament glorious title the great I am of Exodus 3.
That man tremble if you believe not that I am not he, but I am.
Ye shall die in your sins.
Well, may he tremble.
Forever. If ever a man will drop into the depths of hell, it will be that man who denied.
The Christ, the Son of the living God.
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Wherewithal shall youth?
Cleanse this cleansing from defilement and we used to sing years ago.
Make or make me clean without within, or purge with power, that I might be a vessel clean to bear thy name who make me clean.
Who make me clean? Thank God, as we read this morning, the precious blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin. But there's a cleansing tool from defilement. Defilement.
I would like to read a portion back here in the Psalms from 74.
Psalm.
Verse 5.
The man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
But now they breakdown the carb work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary. They have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name.
To the ground. The link here is found in Second Kings 16. You'll remember where King A has that wicked king cut off the basis of the borders and remove the labor from office bases.
What was that for? It was for cleansing. Cleansing.
And they have defiled.
By casting down the dwelling place of my name, there is defilement, beloved. Defilement from evil, from wickedness, and from ecclesiastical error. The defilement.
Whether you believe it or not.
Pouring of moral gradual loans and beloved, you know matters, for I've lived very much alone during those long years.
Without seeing the face of a white man.
And I come to these lands and I feel in my soul distressed when I see town of morals and the breakdown of demanding truth and the breakdown of governments and the breakdown of true profess to be gathered those gathered to the.
Name of Christ, These are tendencies.
Which we need to stand grace.
I was astounded. Something that I jotted down here.
Concerning the teenager States and I've never lived in such a land in my life, beloved the things and such a land of liberty, such a land.
But all this astounded when I read this.
From it says here and I jotted it down to hundred teenagers. Contact venereal disease.
Every year in this land.
1/4 of all these.
Occurs in teenagers.
Under 20 years.
No action that, but here we're speaking to a group of God's dear people.
Are we going to follow the customs of this scene, of this world? We're in it, beloved, and we feel it well, but we're not of it.
And if any man would love it and all that goes with it, you'd be an enemy of God.
The world passes away with its must thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abideth for, and there's a general breaking down.
And you know it, beloved, as well as I do. And we feel it. And we should feel it as God's dear people who belong to heaven.
What about youth? We pray for them in this godless scene.
I spent years until 25 years of age inside of schools of colleges and I never saw such a breaking down as I've seen of late years, late years, a breaking general breaking down.
Who may the Lord deliver us, beloved?
You know the Lord is coming.
He is at the very door.
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We really fail to see this. The Lord Jesus is at the very door. We were having a reading concerning the watchers, and the Lord Jesus came to them, the disciples on that rough lake.
At the close of the 4th watch, what does it mean? You remember the watches?
The old Hebrew watch was from 6 to 9, six to 10 rather 1:50 and 2:00 to six periods of four hours. 3 watches to cover the night but after the captivity.
The Hebrew watch was changed to the Roman and the Greek watch and thus we have the those watches 6 to 99 to 12:12 to 3:00 and 3:00 to 6:00.
The midnight crow, the midnight going forth, or shall we say the, the, the, the acclamation that behold, the bridegroom cometh. That's passed and never to be repeated. The **** crow is passed too, beloved. So where are we? We're at the close of the 4th watch. Dear old Mr. Dunlop used to speak about that in his time. You could see the streaks of dawn in the in the sky.
What would he say if he could come to life from the grave and see what's going on today?
Oh, I never thought I would live to see things that are happening just now, beloved. I never thought I would be alive to see such wonderful things.
The Lords at hand.
Cleanse.
And there's another word here. Weigh.
I notice in the word of God.
That there are two ways 2 forms of the word way.
You may have noticed it, but we notice it as translators of the scriptures. There's the trampled way, that is to say where the feet of everyone goes along the street.
You know as you go to work, there's a trampled way. You go along that same way to your work, you come back over the same pathway. That's the trample way of the word of God.
And there is another form too.
There is a.
That is divine. It is not the human pathway, it is a divine way and I want to just explain that a little bit.
When we were coming up on a ship, my late wife and I.
From South America.
We the ship anchored temporarily off the coast of.
Ecuador.
Of the port several miles out across the river that leads up from the out from the sea to the port of Guayaquil. That's the port of Ecuador. And it was a stormy night.
And I said to Trudy, I said, honey, I wonder how that pilot boat will ever come out so far into the stormy water.
And.
Lord and behold, just while we were contemplating how He would get there, there was a light turned on the last head which shone across the way to where that pilot boat came out.
And he followed the gleam across the way until he got to the ship. And he learned he got to the ship safe and sound.
Now there is a word here that's very interesting.
The.
There is a word in the dictionary that says translucent that explains the little.
Trends across Luke's looks a light a light across the way and.
I said to my late wife, honey, this is a wonderful picture here of the way. There's a it's a light across a light across this scene and I got out the Bible and I said, this is tells us all about the way and the Lord Jesus says there in John's gospel, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh to me.
Unto me but my cometh to the Father, but by me I am the way. And I thought of this blessed book. This is a light across the way for you young people sitting here to Christ. This is the way. This is the way. Christ is the way. This is the book that leads you even as that light led the pilot across the stormy sea to the ship. This is the book that leads you.
To the blessed Savior, the Son of God.
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A light.
Across the way.
Do you really believe that?
We trust you do this blessed book that liveth the word of God, that liveth and abideth forever.
Now there is another thought that comes to me concerning this.
In this Psalm you will find, look for instance, at verse 50, that my ways were directed to keep thy statute. Well, there's the way, the desire of the psalmist. Oh, that my ways were directed. That's a good thought there. And then further over, it speaks in verse 30, the way of truth.
I have chosen the way of truth.
Then in verse 37 it says, Quicken me thou in thy way, so that there are two forms of the trample way, man's way and God's way, and this blessed book will lead you to Himself, the way, the truth and the like.
Two, concerning the Word of God. I would like to add a few more thoughts here concerning the Word of God.
May we look at the verse in Psalm 12.
Psalm 12.
Then verse 6.
The words of the Lord.
Are pure words.
As silver tried in the furnace of earth.
Purified 7 times.
His words says, are pure.
Words.
The very dots and the strokes or the dots and the Pickles speak of that. You know, a job is really a Greek word, as you know, I suppose, and title is a Hebrew word, so that the jobs and the Pickles are imperishable. That's one fact here are imperishable.
The writings of this blessed book are God breathed. That's the next point.
The doctrine is complete that you get that in Colossians 1.
And the Canon is perfect. Oh thank God for that. Incomplete and complete this blessed book. The Johnson, the titles.
And not one it says here till heaven and earth. I think that's in Matthew 8. In heaven and earth, till heaven and earth pass, not one jot or title shall in no wise pass from the law, until all be fulfilled. Not one jot or title, these, even these little points will pass away until all be fulfilled.
How blessed this is.
The doctor notes is complete.
Its writings are imperishable, and the writings of ungodly sceptical men.
Why their hammers have been worn out.
On this angle of divine truth, it lives and abides forever.
Concerning this word cleanse, you do get that word again in Psalm 51, but I'd like you to turn back again for a while to Second Samuel. Turn to Samuel if you please.
I would like to bring in something there as the Lord leads along.
Second Samuel.
Here we have in Chapter 11 and 12.
The story of David's failure.
And.
Uriah.
The one whom he put into the battle, we might read a little portion there. It's very pungent, very real.
Verse two of Chapter 11, for instance. And it came to pass in an even time that David rose from office bed and walked upon the roof of the King's house, and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself, and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
And David sent and inquired after the woman, and one said, Is not this Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers and took her, and she came in unto him. He lay with her, for she was purified from her uncleanness, and she returned under her house.
The sin deepened.
And so David to cover up his guilt sins for Uriah.
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And he wrote a letter, but look at verse 15 saying, set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten and died.
17 And the men of the city went out and fought with Joab, and they failed some of the people of the servants of David and Uriah, and hit the Hittite died also.
Verse 26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that your husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
Now then.
The question comes up. Nathan the Prophet comes into the sea.
The Lord sent Nathan unto David, chapter 12, Verse one. He came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city, the one rich and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds, and the poor man had nothing save 1 little you lamb, which had brought, bought, and nourished up, and it grew up together with him and with his children. It did eat of its own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
And there came a traveller unto the rich man he spared to take of his own flock, and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him, but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. And Davids anger was greatly kindled against the man. And he said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die.
And he shall rest all the lamb forefold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity. Now verse 7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man.
His guilt was uncovered before God. God's servant was there, and his guilt was uncovered.
And he feeling the depth of his iniquity. If you turn to Psalm 51.
You'll see the repentant of this poor man.
David, the man after God's own heart.
This Psalm is the confession of one who had not only defiled himself before God, but he had defiled this poor woman, this wife of Uriah, and was the immediate cause of Uriah's death. Oh how sad in the history of this man of whom God could speak.
A man after his own heart.
Have mercy upon me, O God, He says, according to thy loving kindness, according to the multitude of my tender mercies, blot out my transgressions, wash me thoroughly or thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Purge me with hissal and I shall be clean. Wash me.
And I shall be whiter than snow. This is the real confession of David, King David. Because of his sin. His sin.
God did cleanse him from his iniquity.
He did.
Now, if you will turn over to Second Timothy 2 for a moment, just the other side of it.
Second Timothy 2.
This is the other side of iniquity of defilement.
Verse 19 The foundation nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are his.
And let everyone that nameth the name of the Lord there depart from iniquity.
So that we have here ecclesiastical sin.
Defilement.
Let everyone that nameth the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.
Do you know that these verses put me clean outside of system, beloved? Absolutely.
The foundation of God standeth here. Nothing can change that. It's it's sure.
The Lord knoweth them that are His. That's the Church in its universal aspect.
And let everyone that name of the name of the Lord depart from iniquity. They had come home to the local meeting. Depart from iniquity.
Yes, there's a there's ecclesiastical iniquity and it goes on. The apostle goes on to speak of the great house, this system, religious system that permeates everything. And I want you to pray for the Bolivian Saints. They've been harassed with this ecumenical movement for months now.
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And as ironical as it may seem, beloved.
They're not persecuted so much by Rome as they are from evangelical missionaries.
Evangelical Message.
But thank God, those dear souls have remained steadfast. They have nothing to do with it. They know where it's tending and where it's tending. They have had nothing to it. 150 of them have recently gotten together to decide what to do in spite of the persecution. And they wrote me a letter saying, dear brother, we have written one word across the whole business, Separation, separation from everything. Thank God those dear souls have seen the need, beloved.
Of separating from it all. Pray for them, it's not easy. Some of them are finding difficult to even get work because of the stand they've taken.
But.
It speaks here of the great house.
And very soon all these weak need, Protestant section, all the rest are going to drop into the lap of Mr. Pope. That's where they're all tending. And the worship of the beast later on, the Antichrist, Oh beloved, we shall be gone, though even as the swallows, the Lord is going to take us out of it very soon.
And it says here.
In this great house there are not only vessels or areas of Gold speaks of glory as it speaks of deity and righteousness. Silver would speak of redemption.
But also of wood and of earth, cheaper things, and some to honor and some to dishonor.
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel, and to honor sanctified meet for the masterpiece, and prepared or thoroughly prepared unto every good work. That's the position, that's our stand that we must take, beloved, if we're going to escape the the trouble and the pollution that's around us. This ecclesiastical iniquity, this is the stand that we must take to honor Christ, to honor the Lord.
If any man, purge himself from thee.
I was talking to a Baptist minister and he said, Mr. Smith, that is the truth of God's Word. But he says I have six children to keep.
And I have six children to keep and I said, can't the Lord look after six children?
And I told him what God had done for me in his sovereign grace, and he went away a sad man, worried, worried.
If any man purge himself, you know what that means you young people. Any man purge himself from these, he should be a best learn to honor sanctified.
And thoroughly meet for the masters use, and thoroughly prepared unto every good work. And now I close with this last quotation. Flee youthful lust.
And follow righteousness, faith, love, and peace as the product of it all.
With those that call upon the Lord out of a clean heart, a pure heart, a clean heart, beloved. With such we are can walk and have sweet fellowship. With such we can have sweet fellowship.
May we close by singing him.
174.
1740 Patient Spotless 1.
Our hearts in meekness trained to bear thy yoke and learn of thee.
That we may rest, obtain Jesus. Thou art enough the mind and heart to fill thy patient life, to calm the soul, Thy love, its fear to spell. O fix our earnest gaze, so holy Lord, on Thee, that with thy beauty occupied.
Wheels where none may see 174.
Wholly Following the Lord
Address—A. Barry
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M number 278.
Savior, we long to follow Thee.
Daily thy cross the bear.
And count all else but here it be unworthy of our care.
We are not now our own, but dying the purchase of thy blood.
Made by grace and love divine the sons and the heirs of God.
278.
Savior.
We love.
You.
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This afternoon.
They're young friends and all.
Is a subject of following Christ.
And we all turn both to Old Testament.
Always been possible, no matter what the state of the world has been.
For God's people to follow Him.
There's never been a day, nor will there ever be a day.
When we.
Are not enabled.
Follow the Lord.
What a marvelous.
Fact that is the state that with all the opposition, with all the efforts of Satan, still it's your privilege and God has fully provided, fully equipped you.
As you go through this dark scene to follow the Lord.
All the 1St.
Subject that comes before me is the bottom line.
Of whom we are told that he wholly followed the Lord. That man was Caleb.
And the first mention I believe we have of Caleb is in the 14th chapter of the Book of Numbers.
No, it's the 13th chapter of Numbers.
I'll just give a little account of what leads up to.
The story of Caleb.
The children of Israel had gone out of Egypt with a high hand, and the Lord had led them right to the borders of the Promised Land.
An unbelief led to their ascending spies to spy out the land, so they spent 12 men, one of each tribe, and Caleb and Joshua were among the numbers.
And when they came back from.
Traveling through the different parts of the land of Canaan.
Where they came and reported what they had seen and if you look at the 13th chapter on the 29th, 1St.
Or the 28th verse, it says nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land.
The cities are walled and very great.
Moreover, we saw the children of Sanic there. The Malachi dwell in the land of the South, and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites dwell in the mountains, and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and by the coast of Jordan.
And Caleb killed the people before Moses and said, let us go up at once and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it.
But we will not go on to tell about the sad results of the unbelief.
Of ten of these spies.
They told the people that.
These anakims they saw, there were such giants that they looked like grasshoppers.
In comparison.
To these great giants that possess the part of the land.
And they they call the whole congregation of Israel.
To rebel against the word of the Lord.
And to refuse to go up and take possession of the land. Now look at the sixth verse of the 14th chapters.
And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Japanese, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes.
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And they speak unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed through the search, it is an exceeding good land.
I'll take special attention in reading the next verse.
If the Lord delighted us, then He will bring us into this land, and will give it us a land which flows with milk and honey. Only rebels not here against the Lord, neither fury the people of the land.
For they are bread for us.
Well, instead of listening to the advice of these men of God.
They rebelled against the Lord and talked about having a captain to lead them back into Egypt.
Not a sad story.
Well, because of their unbelief, the Lord told them that they'd have to turn back into the wilderness.
And all this great congregation that had come.
To possess that good land that flowed with milk and honey.
Were to wander in that wilderness.
Until they were all dead, like a lot of lot of disciplines for if we were reminded yesterday, the government of God for his people is very solid If they wouldn't believe what Caleb told them that they were abundantly able to go up and possess the land.
There was nothing but to spend the rest of their days.
In a sad wandering in that vast and terrible wilderness, until light came to within.
But here's what we're told about Caleb. Here's what the Lord says. But my servant Caleb?
Because he hath another spirit with him.
And have I noticed this have followed have followed me fully?
Him will I bring into the land wherein he went, and his seed shall possess it.
What a lovely report of a young man at the beginning of his history that he had fully followed the Lord.
Well, he had a long sad experience ahead of him from this time on.
Because he had to go along with that unbelieving congregation.
And spend those 40 years.
There in the wilderness.
Wandering here and there.
But what do we find? Beloved young people.
At the end of that 40 years journey.
Turn to the first chapter of Deuteronomy.
Notice this chapter begins.
In the third verse it says, when it came to pass in the 40th year and the 11Th month, on the first day of the month, that Moses bake unto the children of Israel.
So you see, this was 40 years.
After they had come into the wilderness.
And it was only 11 days journey to Katie's barnea, whereas it required 40 years.
Of wilderness life.
To reach the promised land. But here's something lovely to call attention to in this chapter. What Moses says about Caleb in the 30 sections, 36 verse.
Well, the 35th verse you read, surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land which I swear to give unto their fathers.
Saving Caleb the son of Japanese, he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon unto the children of Israel.
Because he.
Have wholly followed the Lord.
Now, after 40 years, it Phyllis says that he.
Wholly follows the Lord.
My wife and I were talking about the years we have attended.
General meetings in Des Moines.
And we look back over 40 years.
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Can we think of many that we knew that have gone on and are now in our Father's house?
Waiting for that glorious day when the Lord returns and wakes the sleeping faint and takes us home with Himself.
Well, we think of some.
Who are still following the Lord? Isn't that a wonderful testimony?
Some we know and some ways faces we look into that.
That we're here 40 years ago.
We're still following the Lord.
I don't expect, dear young friends, that the Lord is going to leave his church here for another 40 years. Things are.
Hasting on and things are are.
Showing every indication the Lord's coming must be very, very near indeed. But if the Lord left us here for another 40 years, who, dear young people, would you be found among that number?
Who are still following the Lord is possible.
God, as we already said, has fully provided so you can follow along.
And not turn aside to the right hand or to the left hand.
And I'm sure that Caleb.
Acknowledge this that the fact that he followed on.
And holy was still following the Lord was because of his wonderful keeping grace during all those years.
What a sad experience he must have had of seeing 600,000 people go down to their grace.
To see people destroyed by.
By judgments and plagues and plagues and fiery serpents. And kill that whole congregation.
West consumed.
If you return with me to the 14th chapter of Joshua.
Now we're looking at a subject.
Where?
The the Children of Israel have taken position for the promised Lands.
The wars of Canaan are about reached their clothes, and this good land is being partialed out to the different tribes.
Here Caleb appears again.
In the sixth verse Then the children of Israel came unto Joshua and Gilgal, and tale of the son of Gifani, the Kenneth light said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the Lord said unto Moses, the man of God concerning me.
And thee and Katie Barnier, 40 years old, was I when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from.
Katie Barnier to spy out the land, and I brought him word again, as it was in my heart. Nevertheless, my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people milks.
But I fully solid the Lord my God.
And lovers swear on that day, saying, Surely the land where on thy feet have problems shall be thine inheritance.
And thy children's forever.
Because thou has wholly followed the Lord.
Doesn't that beautiful?
We're extending.
Our subject a number of years later after the Wars of Cadence. But here's Caleb again. What does it say about it? What does the Lord say about it?
That he wholly follows the Lord.
And what a great reward he received. You know, these other spies frightened the people by telling of these giants. It made them look like grasshoppers. They were the Anakin's.
But the very mountain of the Anakins that so frightened the congregation became the possession of Caleb.
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And the Lord said he was going to give that to him and to his feet forever. And why?
Finally, he gets such a marvelous reward. Was it because he had a stronger character than other people?
Was it because he had a more wonderful personality than some others?
Was it because he had an iron wheel? I'm a very determined man, Man. You couldn't swear. Couldn't.
Deceive easily. No, it wasn't bad at all.
Might have been naturally a weak character we don't we're not told but the reason is more if I could press upon our hearts this afternoon beloved dress. The only reason that he came into this reward was because.
He fully followed the Lord.
The very reason that you can.
Gain a reward that will be worth more.
And all that this world has to offer is because.
You wholly follow the law.
Now we know, dear young friends, that.
Our portion is not earthly.
The portion of God's people of Israel was an earthly portion, an earthly position.
An inheritance in this world.
That our portion is in the heavens above.
As Peter tells us, an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that faith is not of waste.
And for those who go on through the difficulties and through the trials and through the dangers of the way, our promise that there are rich rewards waiting for them.
At the end of the journey.
A lot of young friends is worthwhile following the Lord.
You know, when Barnabas went and saw that that happy work there at Antioch, how did he do?
He exhorted them that they should, that they should cleave to the Lord.
With purpose of heart.
Now, I'm sure that Joshua had his ups and downs.
And his his many trials.
In his pathway of faith.
And he discouragements along the way. But he kept on long.
Although he didn't surrender the the promise that had been made him, the Lord told him he was going to give him that for his possession, and he had that ever before him. And that was his encouragement to press on and to not surrender when everything would lead him to fall in with the unbelieving congregation.
No, he continued on and on until he gained the prize that was held out before his soul.
Well, we have promised to us, beloved.
These great and precious promises.
That Peter tells us about.
And if we look at the Book of Revelation.
We'll we'll consider just.
Reward or two and the and the second chapter of Book of Revelation.
In the seventh verse.
He that happened here, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches. To him that overcometh will I get to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Battery of life is Christ.
And it speaks of a special enjoyment of that glorious scene when Christ is going to be the center of all that paradise, where God's glory will be revealed, and where Christ will be seen in all his glorious majesty.
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Well, we just get a little glimpse of the Father's game, you see.
By going on and following a blessed one. For remember, beloved, that the day that we're living is the day when our blessed Lord has been rejected.
This world has spit in the face of our savior. Did you ever stop to think of that?
That the world that would attack you away into its empty pleasures.
Fit in the face of your Redeemer.
Well, that's one bright reward that's held out.
As a reward to the overcomers, you know there's only two classes among God's people. They are those who are overcome and they are the overcomers.
You can belong to either class friends.
Go on carelessly and.
Take up with the world and its ideas and.
And the thing to get a place and give importance and get the highest positions in this world, If the world is holding out its attractions and you're deceived by it, you can end your course among those who are overcome.
By these present things, but you can be among the overcomers, and we find in each of these addresses to the seven churches that the Lord has his overcomers.
In every stage of the Church of God.
Well, in this same third chapter in the address to.
The Nicolaitans.
In the 17th verse he says he that happened here let him hear what the spirits up onto the churches to him that overcometh will I give to each of the hidden Mama?
And I will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name.
Written which no man knoweth, saving he that receiveth it, you know, that takes us something into something deeper and sweeter, perhaps than even.
We are eating of a tree of life.
Because here is what expresses.
A deep communion of heart and soul.
With a person of Christ himself.
You know Christ is the manna. He says I am the bread which came down from heaven to give life on the world. Oh, we think of that blessed, rejected one that the world refused.
And if you go on and are despised by the world?
Your promise?
A special fellowship.
That is an individual enjoyment for your soul, so that it speaks of it as he's giving a name which.
No man knows saving he that receiveth it.
3 Little.
Enter into the immensity, the marvels of that fellowship in that coming day, to have for all eternity a special nearness to Christ as a result of a walk.
Of faithfulness and going on in communion with himself.
Well, those are just two illustrations we read of crowns, you know, that are promised to the overcomers.
But now.
One's mind turns to someone in the New Testament.
And that one I'm thinking of is a man named Simon Peter that we hear so much about.
And you know, the Lord said to Peter one time, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. How may we turn to Luke chapter 5?
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But before the Lord ever said to Peter.
Follow me and I'll make you fishers of men.
Peter had to find out in this 5th chapter of Luke while a poor miserable.
Worthless.
Hellbound Center he actually was.
And a lot of friends. I trust that no one is deceived as so many are in this world today and thinking that by by your efforts to follow Christ, you can become a Christian. You have to become a Christian first. You have to be born again.
Your soul has to be saved before you can follow the blessed Lord.
The last many are trying to follow the Lord as a pattern example.
And they're actually on their way to a lost eternity.
Well, in this 5th chapter of Luke.
The Lord goes to the Sea of Galilee one morning because he knew there'd be a crowd of people there. The boats came in with their fish in the morning, and the people came to do their shopping. And it was a gathering center. And the Lord took advantage, just like some of you, dear brothers, go to Newfoundland. You find some or you find some places where the people congregate on the streets perhaps, and take advantage of it, the Lord.
But just a pattern for us in looking for opportunities wherever he went.
And it tells us in the third verse. And he entered into one of the ships which was Simons, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land, and he sat down and taught the people out of the ship.
I wasn't that wonderful that the Lord selected a certain boat.
That he used, we might say, as his focus or place from which he could talk to the crowds on the shore.
Well, if you ever think of it, dear young friend, that your being here together is specially ordered of the Lord.
Or maybe I better say there's something more definitely ordered of the Lord that you were.
Brought into a little meeting back there at home.
Or it may be that you were saved in a Christian family.
In other words, the Lord selected your little bolt because He wanted to have an opportunity of getting in company with yourself. The Lord chose that boat so he could be in company with Simon Peter. Not only did he take advantage to speak to all out Strong there, but he wanted to be near Peter, get his eye on Peter in a special way.
And after they had.
The Lord has spoken to the taught the people.
Then he says in the fourth verse.
Launch out into the deep, and let down your Nets for a draft. And Simon answered and said unto him, Master, we have toiled all night and have taken nothing. Nevertheless, if I word, I will let down the nest.
And when they had done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes and their net break.
Peter had normally not about the Lord.
To believe his word in the animator not fully as he might have, because the Lord said let down the Nets, and he says we let down the net.
But he knew that it was.
Humanly speaking, useless to fish.
After in the day after the fish couldn't be caught at night. He was an old time fisherman. He knew that Lake of Galilee better than anyone else, I suppose.
When he listened to the Lord.
Friends, are you listening to the Lord this afternoon?
The Lord is speaking right directly to your soul.
You fully trust his blessed words.
Well, when Peter, who lived down the net, he got such a hall of fish.
That he filled the boat, and then he called to James and John, and they came, and they filled both. Both so they began to sink.
And then Peter just fell down at Jesus knees.
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And we hear Peter saying, Depart from me, O, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
There the Lord was still in Peters Bolt, and we see this beautiful sight.
Here this old.
Weather beaten fisherman falling down before that blessed one.
And owning that he is nothing but a poor, sinful man.
What has wrought such a work in his soul?
Ah, he knew he was in the presence of one that was more than man. He knew it was only the one who was God manifest in the place who could bring the wealth of the lake into his nap.
He was just overcome with the majesty and glory of that person.
And there's a remarkable thing that while he is saying, depart from me, O Lord, he felt it was so unworthy to be near such a blessed holy.
Person.
It is. He's getting just as near as he possibly can at the same time.
And that's the way grace ever works in the hearts of sinners. It makes them feel how guilty and how wretched and how sinful they are in it. Yet the same time it awakens in the soul such a desire and such a love for that Blessed One.
That their hearts cannot do without them, and when anyone reaches that, that state in their souls history.
They're going to hear the very words that Jesus spoke here when he said to Simon Fearnon, from henceforth thou shalt catch men.
All beloved, if you have found out you're a poor sinners and that Christ is your All in all, that he is a Savior, that you can fully trust him.
You need never fear as to all the questions of your eternal salvation.
Now we find, you know that Peter had his ups and downs that we were talking about and I'll have to be brief now as our time is running out.
But we find on one side occasion that Peter followed Jesus.
Afar off, he got into company with the enemies of Christ.
Hello. Let's be careful that we don't follow the Lord of far off. Are there any here that it could be said of them? Yes. Oh yes. He comes to meeting. He's a bread breaker. We see him once in a while. What about the prayer meeting? What about the reading meeting? You see him there?
Oh, how cold our heart can soon become if we're not watchful.
Well, you know how wonderfully the Lord restored dear Peter.
And I just call your attention to the last chapter of John's Gospel, where the Lord fully restores Peter in the presence of his disciples.
The Lord probed Peter until Peter has said.
Lord, thou knowest all things.
Thou knowest that I love thee. And now when the Lord has said that.
In the 18th verse.
Read verily, verily I say unto thee, When thou was young, thou girdeth thyself, and walketh whither thou wouldest. But when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest. Not this fake he signifying by what deaths he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he said unto him, Follow me.
What marvelous grace, the very thing that Peter had so sadly failed in.
He was now to honor his blessed Lord at last.
He had said, you know in his own strength, that he was ready to go with his blessed Master to prison and to death.
Though he broke down because he was trusting himself. But now the Lord says you're going to honor me at last.
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And the very thing in which you have failed.
But all there were years ahead of Peter, years of service were before him. And so the Lord says, follow me.
Oh, what a lovely hand it was to Peter's life.
Follow the Lord and if you read his beautiful epistles as he was nearing his end and he said he soon to lay aside this his Tabernacle. So he says as long as I'm here, he says I'm going to I'll just turn to it for a moment in second Peter one.
He says in the 13th verse, Yeah, I think it meet as long as I'm in this Tabernacle to stir you up by putting you in remembrance, knowing that shortly I must put off this my Tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has showed me.
How would we feel love it if we knew that we were going to be nailed to a cross in a short time?
Could we talk to God's people in this way? It humbled us to think of what poorer, unworthy servants we are when we view ourselves and the light of the faithfulness of these men of God.
But if Kale of the Holy follow the Lord, we find Peter holy following the Lord now that he didn't make mistakes, not that he didn't follow the Lord afar off at one time.
We've all made mistakes, but let's get back to Him as quickly as possible. Let's not allow time to go by out of communion. God granted, we may keep close to His, to His blessed side and all. Beloved Father, reward awaits those who follow the Lord with purpose of heart.
Let's sing hymn #42 in the appendix.
Savior, lead us by thy power, save into the promised rest to the path the way, whatever seems to be. O Lord, the best Ye our guide in every terror, watch and keep us night and day.
Elsa Pulley's heart will wander and straighten their way.
Save your early.
And they did have a few more thoughts on this subject and ask we should extend it a little longer.
In fact, once the Lord says to Peter.
After he has says follow me in this 21St chapter 19 first.
It says then Peter turning about, see if the disciples whom Jesus loved following, which also leaned on his breast at supper and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?
Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, Lord, And what shall this man do? Jesus said on him, If I will that he carried till I come, What is that to thee? Follow thou me.
I believe that the.
Important words for older ones as well as younger ones.
What is that to thee?
We've been seeing the importance of following the Lord.
But remember this, beloved, if you get occupied with the failures of your brothers or how well they're walking.
You may get your eye completely awful. Christ.
And it can end in a sad, sorrowful departure.
Many one who started out most useful.
Got occupied with the shortcomings of his presence, got in an unhappy state of soul, and went off, and has never returned to follow the Lord. I think of a dear brother who was so useful, so gifted.
And he got where he was spending his time criticizing.
And talking about the shortcomings of his brethren. Many things true, and many things fair to, but he allowed himself to get under.
A flat state of things.
And he has gone off many years ago and never returned.
So let's remember the word to Peter when he looked at John. What's this man to do?
I remember the Lord has advice for each one of his own.
He says to each one here in his presence who knows his love and grace. He says follow me.
If you get occupied with others and their shortcomings, just take to heart these words. What is that to thee? Follow thou need.
And I was thinking to allow the Apostle Paul connection with the way he followed the Lord and all the dear Apostle Paul was the pattern St.
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He's the only one of the apostles that says follow me even as I also follow Christ. And I believe the reason why Paul could say that was because he'd seen Christ in glory and counted all things that lost for him.
But here we can in our people, measure the use of God in connection with a pathway of others. I remember one of the first copies of the messages of love that came out.
There was an article in that, one of the early copies written by brother Alec Flex, and he told about an experience he had in visiting a farmer who was trying to get his sheep into an enclosure. And there was a big pile of snow by the gate. And when the sheep got out toward the gate, they saw this pile of snow and it frightened them and they ran in every direction.
He tried to coax them through the gate and he couldn't succeed. And then he tried to drive them through the gates, and that failed. At last he fought upon the plan. He took one of the sheep and he petted that sheep, and he dumped that sheep very friendly to himself. And then he started toward the gate, and this she trotted right behind his heels. And when the other he saw this sheep falling so closely, they fell in line.
And when he got to the gate, they didn't. The flock didn't see this, the scary pile of snow. They just followed the shepherd with a cheap stone here, right where the shepherd desired to have it.
Well, remember, beloved young friend, that no man liveth unto himself, no man dieth unto himself.
Are we helping others to follow Christ, or are we discouraging others from following Christ? And you know this subject, following Christ?
Takes off every affair that we have to do with in this scene.
Now the Blessed One that said to Peter, follow me.
Is now in the glory above, but he sends a blessed Holy Spirit here to guide us through this angle scene and if it's the place where the Lord would have you gather with other Christians you have.
Guidance right from your blessed Master about it.
One thinks for all those two that the Lord sent to find the place.
Where the Lord first spread the table and gave the emerald of his death, that they were to yours, who remember Him all through their Christian history.
And you remember the story, and it was Peter and John again.
That were the ones that were told to follow a man bearing a pitcher water. They followed that man, and they found the very place where the Lord ate the Passover and instituted the Lord's Supper that day.
And then in closing, one thinks of a beautiful illustration in the Old Testament.
Just what we're talking about now that our blessed Lord is no longer here, we can't go to Him. And the way that Peter and John unburden our hearts right in His visible presence.
Hello, how marvelous to have the Spirit of God guiding us and instructing us along the way through His precious words.
And one thinks of.
Of the time that Abraham sent his servant across the desert to find the bride for his son Isaac. And you know when Rebecca was told the story of Isaac and the question was raised as to whether it was best for her to go on this long.
Unknown journey with the camels.
With far off lands they they brought her and they asked her this question.
Will thou go with this man?
You remember her reply, she says. I will go.
Well, the Lover is that the answer of your heart, of the Spirit of God brings home to your soul the blessedness, the following Christ.
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Through this dark scene.
The answer to the question yours this afternoon.
I will go. I want to follow that blessed one. All I know friends, it means a path of trial, of rejection. Been reading lately as some of the sufferings of the martyrs of old and it makes one exchange to think how little we really suffer for Christ.
Because of the same world that's nailed into the cross of the world to which we're passing and through which we're called upon to follow that one we're following, beloved, our rejected Christ.
May the Lord keep us, and may we like the dear apostles of whom we mentioned, the dear Apostle Paul. There was another like Caleb.
Wholly followed the Lord, and at the end of the journey he was able to say, I fought a good fight, I finished my course, I kept the faith, and now henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me in that day.
Then to our encouragement, he says, And not the meals only, but unto all them, if love is appearing.
1 John 2:1-6
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Deuteronomy 31.
Deuteronomy 31.
Verse 12.
Gather the people together.
Men and women and children.
And thy stranger, that is within my gate.
That they may hear.
And that they may learn.
And fear the Lord your God.
And observe to do all the words.
This law and that their children, which have not known anything male earth.
And learn to fear the Lord your God.
You look at first gun too.
The word of the rest of the children of God, and all the various places of progress.
And in a day when the.
The world is putting its attractions before these young people in particular.
Well, possibly, it might be nice to look at that chapter.
Professional Chapters.
My little children, these things right I unto you, that you sin not.
Any man's sin, we have a habit cake with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteousness.
He is the propitiation from our sin.
Hereby we do know that we know that he was knowledge is not in his liar, and him there is the love of God.
He's in love with his brother, of stumbling and knoweth not whether he's going to die forgiving me for his name saying.
Young man, because he have overcome the wicked one.
I ride on these little children because you know the father.
I have written on you, Father, because you have known him, that is from the beginning. I have written unto a young man because you're strong, the word of God, either than you.
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We have overcome the window fly.
What? Not the world. These are the things that are in the world.
If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all over the world the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the side of life is not with the Father of the world.
And the world passes away in the lesser of.
He that doeth the will of God by them forever.
Another children, it is the last time, and as we have heard that every time should come, even now are there many antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time.
They went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us.
They would no doubt convenient with it.
But they went out, and they might be made manifest if they were not all of us.
But you have an option from the Holy One. You know all things.
I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
Who is the liar that neither denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is advertised and denies the Father to his Son.
Whosoever denies the Son.
The same that's not the Father. So he that acknowledges the Son hath the Father also.
Let that therefore abide in you, which we have heard from the beginning.
That which we have heard from the beginning shall remain in you.
Ye also shall continue in the Son and in the Father.
And this is the promise that He has promised us his eternal life.
These things have I written not you concerning them that he gives you.
But the anointing which you have received of them abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teaches you of all things and the truth.
And with no lie, and even as it has thoughts with you, shall abide in him.
And now little children abide in him, that when he shall appear, he may have confidence to not be stained before that his coming.
If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone that doeth righteousness is born again.
The whole silent song.
You'll find later on this afternoon whenever you.
13 first.
There, there, Little Joe running our big.
There is dividing the sound.
And the tree is.
Babe, young man and the father.
But in the in the first verse of this chapter is also in 12 verse.
It's children.
Whole family, God.
The wonderful address surely is.
Know that.
Each believer has an advocate with the father.
And those are the connections that are failures.
So, and even though sin may come into the life of the believers.
And in no way changes his relationship.
The very fact that says, and that's the case of the Father of God in that place for the Father.
Truly a problem exception that suits of our relationship.
That God is still our Father.
We may have failed.
And communion be brought.
Our father and he has provided for his children.
And giving that advocate.
If you are so restoration.
My brother, hail Jesus Christ, right?
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Well, I suppose the fact would be that if any man's sin, it requires one through his rightness, if that's true, to deserve.
That which perhaps we ourselves cannot fully deserve that song.
Oh, it's certainly my contain this is thought, but it also gets that the one who is car has already taken up the question of our things before God and racing as at the flaws.
Say Jesus Christ for mercy, Jesus Christ for righteous.
Without sin is already a stone for information of at the cost of gallery.
I was reading a footnote here in the new translation concerning that word and it's really very interesting. I'm sure it's well known the most.
But it says here concerning that word.
Same as comforter dumb 14 Christ.
Manages all our affairs for us above. The Holy Spirit below.
He uses the word patron in the brother of the Roman patron who maintained the interest of his clients in every way.
Those rights on my the spirit here or things. I remember some time ago visiting a man named Ralph Samurai. He's a converted Hindu priest.
Who have recently been brought to know the Lord in Trinidad and he was reading to me from the 15th chapter of John in his Hindi Bible.
Of course, I couldn't understand the words that he read them in Hindi, but he paused after he sent to turn them into English.
When he came to that word comforter in the 26th verse, he falls quite a long time. He said now read it in Hindi and then he said now this word means someone who takes special care over you and everything that concerns your affairs.
I thought it was very interesting to think that even in that Hindi Bible read by a Hindu priest.
That thought was expressed in such a lovely way. Someone who takes care over you in all your affairs.
So what we see here, brother, to be more sustained to enough.
So much righteousness here. We need to be sustained.
A question without in our reading in Peru. How? How is my intercourse with God to be maintained?
Well, my brother said, I think it's maintained because of what I am in Christ.
Well, I thought that was a good answer.
And.
I'd rather have her. Tom carried his arms and say he said that.
We need to be sustained.
And that's what we have here, don't we?
If I fail resume then I have.
And this comes in in his interest for me at the top.
Do you need to judge myself?
And so on.
I suppose in the thought Jesus Christ the righteous too. If I should break one of the laws of the land and I get a lawyer to take my case, how could he possibly get me off in a righteous way?
But here we sin, we've done something that is against the holiness of God, and yet we have one before the Father who maintains our cause righteously because of our brother Barry remark that's been fully taken up and settled. The whole question of righteousness was settled at the cross.
And now God can come up, we can take care of all our interests through his son, because the question of sin has been settled and the my own heart is very lovely that it comes in and John's epistle here, because in John the pistol we had to carry through the two families brought together the character of the the ones who are not the children of God is darkness and hatred and unrighteousness.
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But the character, the family of God is holding us and righteousness and love, and before bringing before us these characteristics that ought to display themselves and do display themselves on the axis children of God.
God graciously shows us that provision has been made for our failure, and I think this is false crisis. The standing property for us in the first chapter and the blood of Jesus Christ and God's Son cleanses us from all sins.
Bringing us into the light and fit for us, and then provision for failure. And then he goes on to bring out the character of the family which we have a right to look for in the children of God contrasted to those who are not in the family and who don't have those characteristics.
The first word for us though, is our little children. These things right, And I hung you that the sin not.
There is no Father any and Craig to go wrong and Sinner to be indifferent about sin.
The first concern, their possible health, is the danger of business.
And the first chapter will say Mother Hale has ripped so that they might not sin.
In the 1St 4 verses we get the subject of communion.
Introduces that one. That was from the beginning.
Faith being which they heard that they looked upon their hands handles of the word of life.
And then he says, that which we have seen and heard, declare we unto you, that he may have fellowship with us.
That is when the very one who are with the Lord in His pathway down here.
And the writer himself was the one who leaned on the Lord's breast.
And have known a special nearness to His blessed heart.
Now he wants the children of God to be enjoying the same elements that they enjoy. And indeed.
That is.
A provision not only for some special advice from 12,000. Some mature crystals of its a provision for the whole family of God.
And it's really not the affiliate for that community that will keep us from sin.
If we're battling them, we're soon become the prey of the enemy if we're in communion with the North. Satan realizes that he asked that he was in the presence of the very one who has defeated him long ago at the cross.
So how important it is? How equal?
As I often hear our brother Smith behind me say that we keep short accounts of God and not allow any distance to come between our souls and gifts so that we might be enjoying that philosophy.
Of the father in this town, so that that the enemy hasn't the opportunity to take advantage.
Preventing something of the world or making use of the poor fallen nature within us to dishonor the Lord by bringing spin into our lives.
Those are the names mentioned later on in the chapter, are they not?
Things in this world that would have returned a society.
I was thinking in connection with Peter.
The Lord anticipated what He was going to do.
And we told him that Satan had desired to happen.
But he also said, I pray for thee and thy faith. Fail not.
Now there was a definite lesson, of course, in this for Peter.
And it was allowed because of no doubt that was crying with him.
But what a practical, blessed result there was on the day of Pentecost.
I suppose we see both in the 21St of John and the 24th of Luke the means that the Lord used in bringing, restoring not only Peter, but all of his silence.
Because during those 40 days, the large remaining here.
To serve his own.
That he might bring their hearts up to the good.
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Of what they were just about to enter into in the Day of Pentecost.
And I believe that was the advocacy of Christ. I believe it is his work and in restoring their soul. And he was taking it on personally before he left this world.
All of the Father.
So we see, I believe the the Lord His eyes upon each of his own, just like it was on Peter.
And even before.
We actually may commit something, some act that's wrong. The Lord has already gone to work and intersections for our souls.
First day was because of Peter's self-confidence.
Have the need of advocacy to begin with, the full restoration of teachers and the full self-confidence.
That all and shall for safety yet for my eyes.
Oh, the Lord, warns Peter.
He tells him that he had already paid for him. He falls last week. All that self-confidence.
He prayed for him.
All that when Superior actually takes place.
Largest turns and looks of Peter that breaks the power.
What would it be? A son of the Lord looked to Peter. He died up immediately, right out. He was in company with the enemies of of his blessed Lord, that we're going to condemn it to the cross of an awful company for one of God's own to be connected with.
Peter gets out of that company as fast as he can.
Broken hearted, weeping over his terrible sin and failure. Never find it in company with those men again. But it's for restoration takes place, as you say, after the Lord resurrection.
He has a special interview with Peter alone.
Why as soon as the Lord left the two, and he may have, He left, He had an interview with leaders.
It didn't mean we're not told that. Talk to large fantasy here. That was necessary.
There are matters between an individual soul and the Lord that no one else needs to enter into.
As we see a result of that because.
When those children Emmaus arrived back in Jerusalem and find the disciples together, they're saying the Lord is risen indeed and has appeared to find. So Peter had gone to his president and told him and he had had this interview with the Lord and they were all rejoicing. Or the fact that Peter could say the Lord is risen indeed.
So that the Sea of Galilee where the large folks here with Simon son of Jonas lover saw me more than the get right to the woods before.
Of course appear led to his failures and that was his self-confidence in thinking that he loved the Lord more than all the other disciples.
And when Finger has been so humiliated that he was able to say, Lord, I know it's all things others may not be able to see that I love you, I know I failed too badly for anyone to even propose that I really love this. But he said, Lord, you know that I love when Peter is up to that.
Broken config and the Lord can reinstate Peter in the presence of his departments.
The work is done, Peter is fully restored in his own soul and he judged the roof and he can be restored in the presence of his brother. I believe we do have those two things brought out to me, not the the.
Case of of one doing something that is between him and the Lord personally that others do not know about.
And.
To be restored in his presence, that's one thing.
But what we've been Speaking of, I believe, was something that was public. Peter had publicly denied the Lord.
And.
Beside that, he had publicly manifested the Spirit of God.
Now those things were success publicly.
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In the 21St of Jobs and now Peter was his own heart was restored and was refreshed.
We do learn too, though, I believe in 24th loop, that when the Lord restored the hearts of His disciples, that was all He opened to them the Scriptures and He opened their eyes and He opened their understanding and there was something that in His grace He added.
Not necessarily called for, but something in his grace that he added those they might go on rejoicing in those good things not simply restored, but.
Something fresh for their hearts to enter into. Of His person because He opened and all the strength and things concerning himself.
Interesting. You know, that's helpful. I think that the understanding of the epistle.
When we read later on that he that doeth not righteousness is not of God, and again in the third chapter, but whose celebrity is born of God, does not commit sin, and his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God. We must bear in mind that in this epistle the Christian is looked at as a child of God, and as a child of God he cannot stand. But when we act as men, well then we sin, and that's why this verse says not.
If any son of God's children's sin, But if any man sins.
If any man, he's not acting like a child of God, he's acting like a man because he is displaying that nature.
But then God graciously brings in and the rest of the verse we haven't advocated with the Father. He was acting like a man, but he's still on God's children.
We see this, I think we see how consistently the Spirit of God sets before us the true character is a child of God, while also showing that sometimes we act inconsistently with that place and we have to be restored to the Lord and the communion. That is the usefulness.
As our brother has just been mentioning.
It's interesting too, to notice in the first chapter of John Senior Peter.
Find him addressed as Simon, son of Jonah.
In the very last chapter of John, the Lord addresses him in the same way. Simon, son of Jonas, loveth thou me?
Well, this is his name before his conversions, and this was his name the Lord addressed him after his conversion, which showed, I believe, that Peter Simon retained the same old nation after his conversion that he had before his conversion, that all nature which was capable of even denying his blessed Lord.
So we need to remember doing not as children of God, that when we are saved we haven't got rid of the old nature, it's still there.
We have to keep it in the face of death.
Will never get rid of that until the Lord comes to take his toes.
Then it will be gone forever.
That old nature never changes the most, never can be reformed, never can be regenerated.
It's the same old nature.
First of all, comes to me and Joshua Pence. They are concerned.
Victorious over the High Kingdom as they hide away in the peak.
And he gives an order for them to be brought out.
And the captains of the army associates themselves with those 5 kings by coming their papers on the next, on their next on who flew them through them. So we have that pleasure one that everything God.
And whether it's the world or the flesh, or the devil or sin or self.
And turning back to normal sick, we have to recognize ourselves. And he said unto them.
And alive unto God.
Satan shall not have dominion over you. I'll conflict through the lovers of that shipwrecked wall.
From the sea.
And shivering there, they going down the state.
And in that bustle sticks in the hands of the apostle with the with the snake there.
All the naked snake and with the wall of the fire comes the lights hold upon his bridge. But what we do he shakes the least thing with the fire and feels so hard.
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Beloved, that's Romans.
Romans 6.
Things shall not have to make it over.
Well, concerning this question of communion, I was thinking as we were hesitating.
I just need two things as a believer I need.
Grace to sustain burglary? Step in the way.
And I need nothing.
To restore me to community.
I need master to restore me and I need grace.
It's the same, is there not so, brother.
Well.
Well, it sounds correct for me. I'm never.
Heard it expressed that way, I'm always glad to learn.
This works for appreciation on the second verse.
That gives us thoughts that we get at the.
In the Tabernacle, was it not the blood of life with the mercy seat? That's the that's the foundation of blessing. It's in the in the most holy place.
And now that's the basis of our blessing, our restoration as well. It's on that ground that all can be made good.
In righteousness, because God all means.
Just does God bring us into a place?
Of righteousness giving us His righteousness, but these righteous in doing it because of the word. And that this blood sets for the mercy seat. The blood of life of the mercy seat. However, I suppose that this version can be read better.
But also.
Also for the.
Whole world not for the sins of the whole world.
It's only those who by faith and all of it, this is not.
But that there is the.
The invitation to all.
The sons of all. But it's upon those that believe. Now there must be faith. There's no such thing as salvation without faith. There is no salvation without the blood. Thoughts.
I read a statement once the.
Threat, but this way. That's both. 58 It is that aspect of the death of Christ.
Which has vindicated the holy and righteous character of God, and in virtually He can be merciful to the whole world.
How is it that a gospel creature can get up and tell sinners wherever he goes?
That there is no reason waiting for it because of that. For 5018 that has taken place and God has been so fully glorified about the question of sin and the death of Christ.
That God behave, and the chief of sinners.
Ireland, they had committed murder. This creature if I had a number of the story preaching. You said this is one in the audience whose hands are red with the flood of it on the hand he says the blood of Jesus Christ for attending from that sin. You tell the rest of the story both.
Well, tell me a bit of mind about that. And you and I are. In fact, I used to stand the same. And repeats the gospel.
On the streets of our hometown.
And when a very wild character, is that a man, a very powerful man.
A man that could carry a quarter of a ton of coal in his back and a good big sack from the whole of a ship right up the gangway and the costs the gangplanks and throw them his wagon. It was looked upon as the strongest man in the city of Belfast City, half a million people.
And I spoke to a police captain.
A Christian police captain of Belfast and I said to him, did you know Billy Horton?
When you were police captain in Belfast City as a young man.
Oh yes, he said. I knew him well, actually. He was the terror of the Belfast police force.
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Half a dozen of them behind.
Well, he killed a man on a face and was sent to prison for eight or ten years. Penitentiary.
And while he was in prison one day, that water came around to examine the sales.
He came into belly sail. See how things were. And Billy is a thing old plan. And Billy drew out of his fish and his stroke and bailed to the ground and unconsciousness. He took his keys, locked them in the cell and went around and let out almost 100 prisoners.
And nearly 100 of them escaped, and he himself escaped with them.
But he was caught along with a lot of others. But someone ever caught somebody skitten with off the foreign countries? Never caught. But Billy was caught and had to go back and finish his sentence.
After we get back home, he was going on the street one day.
And he saw a group of people standing around and a man talking, and he went over to listen and was a gospel preacher preaching the gospel on the street corner.
And after the servants of Dover he stopped and listened to him. After servants over he announced he was going to have a gospel meeting and a big building nearby on on large day evening if it was.
And so very went home, they told his wife wife, I heard a man facing the street.
Today and he says, I, I like what he said and he's going to pitch tomorrow night over in this certain building and they're going to go in here.
Well.
There was a well known character not neighborhood of the city so he went but 1000 people and then he slipped into the back seat but he wouldn't be seen by the people that knew Mr. Well sat down the back seat.
Pretty sex, The blood of Jesus Christ.
On God's Son learns a lot from all sins.
And then a pasta de market along with each other species other words. And he didn't know if there's any about Billy, but he made this statement no doubt that God-given if there's a man in this in this hall tonight.
Whose hands are died in the blood of his fellow man.
Their salvation for you.
For God says God's word, says the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son.
Cleanses up from all sins, and that all sin takes and yours. There's salvation for you.
My valid or three speakers in the back seat there.
And he cried out over the head of all that audience.
As that true creature. Is that true?
And the preacher says yes, it's hearing God's word.
Then Billy Kaiser I'm coming up to see.
And he claimed they walked off the aisle of that great audience who climbed up on the blood forms. He said, show them a man. Show to me the peace is short of the verse.
The blood of Jesus Christ, your Son, cleans up from all sins.
Said Weller cleanses me and Billy got saved that night.
And then although he was a man, that his work was hauling and delivering coal.
He spent the rest of his life.
Even driving on in his Co wagon if a picture of the gospel on the streets as he was driving along.
And when he came to a corner where the Street car was stopped, he fixed the wagon and he threw from the seat car there through there was a double Decker over there and the side pulling in full on top the side steers on top of that Street car and he stopped next piece to them. Given the gospel call him to free from the last to come, and then the seat car will go on and he's gone.
Forever he is the captain what how the Lord saved her when after his wicked ungodly life and that man became a wonderful testimony that hope you should be all around used to drive on Saturday nights.
Metaphorian buggy used to drive to the neighboring town. Used to come to our hometown which was 8 miles away.
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Used to come a Saturday night and we used to get a borrow a box from one of the grocery stores nearby and but I would get up in this box and preach the gospel.
Through large coats which and he was a wonderful testimony for God and that shows the power of gorgeous blood of sights.
9:00 because of the work of that righteous one, the Lord Jesus, righteously paying the whole bill.
I mean, it is finished, the work is done and all the center half assessed just received that dressed saviors and eternal empathy. Well, that explains for the for the whole world, for the creature, but ever.
They they bought the whole field, the decision, the field. It didn't just go in the station and they don't feel well now I'd like to buy it at the corner and feel that I that I like and I'll buy it in the corner when they give you a good price for it. No, he bought the whole field and in order to get the treasure is the price for the whole world.
Appreciation for the whole world is is paid a price that they're so great his own life that anybody in the whole world.
Mother bodies have been come to the blessed Savior. The Lord can say I learned no wise cast out.
The great day of the women.
Women.
They both on board the Apollo spell was carried right into the cabinet.
Into the holy, of course. See that before the mercy speaks 11 Times? Well, that's really propitiation.
Then there's another problem in connection with the death of Christ, which is substitution.
And in that we feel the type and the scapegoat that was less free because before that.
It made my success on him the sins of all the people, and then he was led by a children of this man into the wilderness.
And was never seen again. Well, that's a line of truth just war believers. It was when the authorities was on the 5th calendar. He was fearing the very familiar and we have committed Jehovah have weighed on him the iniquities not of every possible we look at the cost we say all my sins were God who knew my sins with his 11Th pounds.
And substitution.
And let's go into a land not inhabited. And then when the 5th man returns, why then the the atonement is made?
For the the the two goats are both types of Christ.
The priests who offers the sacrifice of the type of Christ, and the man who leads the resort into the wilderness is another type of Christ, and when he comes back, it's like Christ's returning after.
The published one of his work at Calvary.
Then you get the full result and blessings.
Of the Atonement.
It isn't simply that there is a propitiation. This verse reads that He is the propitiation. I believe Christianity in all its various aspects bring us to the person of Christ. It isn't simply something He's done which is precious, but it's the person himself and what He is to us that the Spirit of God will bring before us.
In another place, He is our peace. See, it's what He is, and in person now that everything rests there.
Brother was just reminding us that Jesus bought the whole field. I was thinking another another one who bought the field. It was Judas. In the first chapter of the axe it says now this man purchased a field what with with the reward of iniquity.
He purchased a field with the reward of his own iniquity. The blessed Lord purchased a field with the reward of our iniquity. They both fought the field with the price of Jesus blood.
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Thomas brings up a very solemn side, though, does it not? That, that every knee will have to bow to Jesus again? He's the one who was Lord of all.
I'm Judas died resound sins, but the blessed Lord died for the sins of others, ours.
Judith hanged himself, unless the Lord was hanged by us.
It's a verse in Psalm 88. Shall I wonders the golden radar, and my righteousness, and the land of the.
Where that takes back to the April 16.
There was no other voice of the priest, and the first girl claimed to voice everyone, but performance of the gentleman is when I came Home from the ghosts of the wilderness.
Once in the dark.
Divorce them from the sacrifice Christians cross.
And thy righteousness from the back of the wells have been born and buried. I have blonde.
Everything the depth of the team fire these from the rest, so we might have to remove our.
Transgressions.
So we have that beautiful many other town. That was wonderful.
And my right.
In the third verse we have a line of things that we notice in this epistle particularly, and that is that there are certain tests.
It begins. And hereby we do know that we know him if we keep His commandments.
And he, and he that says I know him, and he says not his commandments is the liar, and the truth is not in him.
Now this is the manifestation in the heart of love for Him. But also it does. It's a question of knowing Him.
In the Gospel of John's, the question of loving him, we keep him out. But here's the question of knowing in the society, and that's an inward conscious knowledge. There is such a thing as intellectual knowledge.
Like we read on the section of John where it says many believe in his name and they follow a miracle which he did, but Jesus did not commit himself unto them because he knew all men.
Within men and he did not have any to testify as man. They were convinced intellectual, they love the Lord must be the Messiah. But in the next chapter, the third chapter, it should be a but there, but there's no break in the end of the second chapter. Down South, the third chapter, but there was a man of the Pharisee named Nicodemus. Now there was a man whose consciousness.
Our scripture makes difference between those two ways of knowing if you look at the 8th chapter.
Of First Corinthians.
The difference is brought out very clearly there.
Being from the middle of the earth, where we know that we all have knowledge, knowledge pops up.
The charity edifies if any man thinks that he knows anything.
There intellectual knowledge he knoweth nothing as the order knowledge.
And you have.
Yeah, but if any man loves all the same as no one of him, now there is that.
Inward story might say subjective knowledge and that's what he possibly have in this verse.
I know that we get those words three times and be that set first four, verse 16, that's seven and verse nine he that says.
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Not sufficient merely to say these things, but they should be the accurate evidence of the inward faithful enough. Our walk and waves should correspond to our left testimony.
Such as nothing cakes, Well, it's just an empty profession. I might say I'm saying yes, but I'm a show fruit to correspond to that statement. And that's true.
The test he is rather the test here and for the younger Christian who might fix them by keeping the commandments is all relevant. This doesn't mean to happen here to meet the words if you're supposed to talk about in the constant or even people.
This word that this is really one of the best.
Union that we are walking in the Union on mountains.
Repeat his words, which is the first thing of his chapter to prove whether we are walking into that lesson or not. We keep the word. Are we keeping his words?
It's a very bunch of question, man, in these days of hatefulness in these areas of denial.
Of truth.
He's versus 2.
In that third verse, hereby we know that we do know Him. And again in the third chapter, in the 14th verse, we know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. I believe it would answer to that passage. The Spirit beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.
As our brother remarked, there's an inward consciousness of obedience and love in the soul. This is in every child of God.
There's that which others see, and he speaks of that in the next words and the Lord Jesus said.
Their fruits ye shall know them, that His others can tell by what they see in our lives. But it's a precious thing that God has given us His Spirit so that we have the consciousness in our own souls, have a desire to please Him and love for those that love Him. And this is giving us the proof that one as a child of God, I say this because there might be a unbeliever here and he might say, well, how do I know? I believe in my heart.
I know that it's not in my head. Perhaps that is perplexed. Many a young believer did me well. I believe these verses are given for such to show that it was really in the heart. The heart goes out to the Lord, The heart goes out to His people. The heart desires to please them. And if there is no desire to please them, there's no pleasure in meeting a child of God. And then we might well question as to whether it's only in the heads.
That's the 20th verse. Is not the anointing of the Spirit to speak of.
Yes, the commandments here are. How can you?
Tell the man that the man was crying.
And the Lord says his commands are Johnson and his commands are not leaving. I believe this would go a little further though, wouldn't it? Rather very as to for this remark about communion. It's because this leads up to the subject of the Antichrist. I was thinking of what we have in Jew. They walk after their own lungs. Now that's the depth that marked that they do not. They may be leaders in the religious world, but they do not know.
Christ because of their walk. I believe there's the principle in this chapter. Did not ask for that as well.
Because before the chapter is finished, we lead up to the subject of that which is Antichrist.
I asked Brother Carter one time what are the commandments of President and I never forgot his answer. He says the commandments of Christ are doing those things which we know are pleasing to the Lord.
Has learned from his word.
In old medium family dependence.
Well, that's quite comprehensive, isn't it?
Have learned from his words to merely just reading the word textbooks, but it's one voice sitting to know what is meaning to the Lord and going to His Word and being disrupted by the Spirit of God through the Word. Independence and obedience.
We have more of those commandments in John's ministry, both in the Gospel and in the epistles from anywhere else, because being children of God, everything that He desires us to do has the power of a command over the heart, and that is the new nature looks upon it as an impelling thing you must do. The Lord Jesus spoke of He kept his Father's commandments. Did the Lord Jesus, that blessed perfect one, ever think of joy, anything but what was pleasing to His Father?
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No, everything that his father desired him to do was done as that which he must do and which he desired to do well with that major displays itself and also children have gone. It's just one that's the important thing to bear in mind in this chapter comes on union leave. The important thing is my last of God took us so much soul that it isn't the blood of his emphasized that one who's not lost God away is not walking as a child of God at all.
And there's a mark. It doesn't seem up as you did. One knows in his own title. Please the Lord, you know he's not right Able.
To.
His commandments of Grievous.
Well, the verse that lets you look Satan commandments were grievous.
Just being sub rabbits.
The Jewish.
Very, very professional going around health under law.
Let me keeping it below or the necessary or the ovation besides trusting Christ and the fossil falls earth before the apostles there you're saying and we have Peter saying in the 15th chapter of excellent as they consider this my 10th verse.
Speaking of what the better disciples which neither fathers nor we were able to bear that is a grieve as yours and then the rest of brotherhood. His commandments are very clearly that that the world of Christ, the desire of Christ heart from his own.
That it was not a great mistake, but a joyful thing.
In the reason McMillan they got they they demanded of Christ are addressed to the new nation, and they set the new nation the.
Old forces were addressed to the old nation. That's the old nation. So when the law of the Thou shalt take care of me today, all nature immediately desire to do the very thing that the law prohibited.
Right stirs up that new nature that loves to watch him, and I found this light delight and joy and following him and doing His will. And so it becomes an unspeakable favorite to the soul, to be directed by a commandment that shows how we can honor and please that blessed One.
Were you going to say something for the mentions that it was six months? That's another proof of whether we're walking into the building or not. He would say he arrived in him or himself also, so to walk.
Well, that is in the way he walks, even as he walks. Now that's a big challenge to us.
So it says here all people.
That blessed one wall, you know, sick. There's no sick what made sense for us to do, No sense that we might be made the righteousness of God in peace. But what a challenge it is to us.
As those who belong to strength, to walk through this thing walks in such a tremendous challenge.
With all.
And yet it's one of the groups here that we are working in producing.
That.
They passing down to the eighth verse, that's really the spot and that eighth verse, isn't it? Again, a new command that I write unto you, Which thing is true in him and in you?
The Lord gave us as he walked here, he always displayed that divine light. We possessed it. Now it's true. It was true in him. It's true in us when we Christ himself is our way and so on the end of the 12Th of John, the Lord Jesus said that and I know that his commandment is life everlasting. That is the the new man now delays and obedience. His commandment is life everlasting. And so when we speak of this.
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We might say, well, it's not a difficult thing to walk a sea walk. It's the very thing to do nature wants to do. The only reason that's otherwise, it's because of mine. We are not walking in the power of that new life by the Spirit.
What? The brother said. I can't hear what you say to the way you walk.
Well, that's truly a challenge to us all. We are this.
And how long we do.
And the same tears tumble some of our weaker one. Brethren, by the way, we walk more than we take. This. Indeed, this is the second group here. I believe in this and this one in this chapter.
Whether we are walking with that blessed one or not.
We hear so much today about keeping the 10 commandments, but there are two commandments the Sinner must keep in order to be safe and that is Acts 1730. God now commander all and everywhere to repent. And here in the third chapter, first John verse 23.
And this is his commandment, that we should believe on the name of his Son, Jesus Christ.
There we have two commandments, repentance and beliefs.
The word commandment then doesn't need to have a pricing sound to the believer. I know sometimes perhaps we avoid it used a little bit because of the way which is so often applied. But as we have enjoyed this morning, to the one who has that new nature and who loves the Lord, very sound of the word commandment is a very precious thing.
Direct bus into those things which would be pleasing to him. I don't know whether this would be a suitable illustration of it or not, but.
Some years ago, the young people here gave my wife, before we were married, some dishes that were made in California desert. Desert rose, they were called.
Well, in the course of the years one of the cups and saucers was broken and why I was out in California, she wrote and asked me if I would please try to get another one.
Well, as soon as I read that request in the letter, it became a command for me.
I thought one hour, this is something that would please her, and it became to me because of affection, the command. And I immediately went to the plant where this pottery is made, and I bought not one, but two, and dropped them all. And I thought, well, now here in Scripture, when we read of that which would be pleasing to the Lord, and which would direct our conduct and our footsteps in ways that would.
Would please him do these things not become a command?
To the heart that truly loves.
I believe in the Church of Smyrna in the second chapter.
Of Revelation.
And also the book of the Psalm, where we see the suffering of the Saints in the coming days.
We haven't proved that the new nature would rather die.
And this man would rather die, give up his life here. One was a new danger then.
To to disobey the word of God.
We see that in the Lord Jesus that he died rather than to set aside anything that God has desired. That's what fear means where he says but.
As much as Christ has suffered in the place, armed yourself.
Yes, covered him in the place.
For as much as Christ also has covered them, say arm yourselves likewise with the same minds. That is just what you were bringing out, rather than to allow our sins to go on without any remesence or those sins.
The Lord will suffer all the same.
Thinking of God on the cross now, he says Army herself with the same mind.
If he suffered so much to put those hands away, we should.
Be zealous and concerns that in any way we allow those things to have a faith in our lives.
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And it says to he that has suffered in the flat.
That simply means that if we left the old nature suffering.
Then they have ceased to sin, as the old age would like to do some very ugly and very unbecoming things.
That's why I have a bad temper and someone says something very unkind to me. The old nature says, well get him the same thing back in his own point.
But if I come with a yell and say nothing.
The very thing the oldness would like to do is make fueling anchor separate, but he doesn't have his own way.
But in that way I think.
That's first finger 4/1.
I was thinking that.
One that's really a child of God.
That when it when he does something that's wrong.
To speak into the Lord.
He could see it immediately.
And give the Lord special, and as him before me, I when I was a young man in Ireland.
Quite a long time ago.
A young Christian brother and I were together.
And a whole group. And this young Christian brother was quite a happy, lucky sort of a fella.
And trying to be joking.
And one time when we were standing together, he.
Starts to sing a hymn.
And he introduced into that hymn, as he was singing, a gospel name it was.
He introduced the line of his own manufacturer.
That was was rather harsh.
Honda had revealed all.
And he caught himself immediately.
And took his cap off my presence. He looked up to heaven.
Lord, forgive me.
For this awful thing that I said.
And clear it up right away.
He he he realized that what he had said.
Was was contract the word of God?
And of course, an expression that I wouldn't I wouldn't dare use.
At the soul. To my mind, that was really blasphemous.
The way he put the expression.
But just caught him right away and he didn't go stacking my crusade without calling on the Lord and confessing it the wrong that he had done the thing he had said. Well, that showed a tender concert. And I believe that when when a Christian dodges anything grievous, grievous to the Lord and contradict his word.
It ought to be. Let me give the German of what he had done.
Anointing to the Lord.
As raw and keep short accounts everything that's a good short account pay pay off right away. You're ready for the Lord right away. Remember our brother will call you, pass through him out of song.
Man, that was the scene that looked up to a very real Christian.
One time he was working on the roof of a house with a number of men.
And he struck his his finger with a hammer.
And of course there's some inverted daisies lose bad lanes.
Before he stopped him because stopping that boy, he said a bad word.
Well, without his head right there before all those men working on the barn made a humble complaint to the Lord, I was helping to one of the men that was working with it. But you know, that made a far deeper impression on the governance of this man.
Than anything else because he realized that your brother's car, with all his testimony, had silly old **** and it could see him.
He was willing to humbly confess and not to all and continue in that way.
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So the Lord used to have the testimony to his, all his neighbors among whom he was working, he told the council. I was thinking just.
I'm all in wrong.
Concerning the landing of the flame in Lima, we have to go through a Bank of all 500 feet safe well above that form line of sun shining brightly. And when we got down to earth, we couldn't see the sun was still kind of below us. But I thought that as an illustration of this brave community of the law cases, the moment we failed.
We teach our accounts of the Lord and put birth of arms, and put it right to couple ourselves and fetch it.
And their palm banks anticipated.
Wool the thoughts away from the soul and the.
Great naked in the Christmas lives in the past. I found it so during the 62 years I know the Lord Jesus and my friends and Savior.
It's a wonderful thing to keep, in fact.
I know also married couples, you know, all this devour against one another, both Christians. But there was a specific case came to my notice and I noticed that he's not seriousable with his wife and as his brother, don't you think it would have been better to consent your failure to your dear wife instead of stopping out going out to the office?
All day long she was bolting so you won't be in your office.
That is all that he did by the grace of God, whenever he snaps his wife to the world like that, he could say nothing just because it makes courage to do that takes really.
Who want to be vegan to do it, and that's a happy home today.
What is up?
I believe that brings up the other point too, and that is the scripture says that we should be able that we might be able to admonish one another. The Lord told his disciples and the 12Th of the 13th of John after he'd washed their feet, but they were to wash one anothers feet.
And so I believe that restoration often comes through the means.
Perhaps a brother or a sister bringing to our attention something in our lives that's wrong and that shows real grace to function and bow to this.
Because sometimes it may come from a source that we don't exactly like, but if we can bow to it, it shows the Spirit of Christ.
I can send one in mind the next.
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My first epistle of John.
Second chapter.
Verse 7.
Brethren, I write all new commandments unto you, but an old commandment which he had from the beginning.
The old commandment is the word which he have heard from the beginning.
Again a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past, and the true light now shining.
Either self he is in the light, and Hateth his brother is in darkness even until now.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
He that hated his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, knoweth not whether he goes, because that darkness has blinded his eyes.
I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his namesake.
Right unto you, fathers, because you have known him, that is, from the beginning.
I write unto you, young man, because you have overcome the wicked one.
I ride on your little children because you have known the father.
I have written unto you, Fathers, because you have known him, that is from the beginning.
I have written on you young man, because you're strong. The word of God abideth in you. You have overcome the wicked one. Love not the world. These are the things that are in the world.
If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all of us in the world, the lust of the flesh.
And the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father, but it's of the world.
The world passes away, and the less thereof.
But he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.
Little children, it is the last time, and as you've heard that Antichrist should come even now are there many antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time.
They went out from us, but they were not of us, or if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us.
But they went out that they might be made manifest, that they were not all of us. But you have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things.
I have not written on you, but because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lies of the truth.
Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ. He is Antichrist that denies the Father and the Son.
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father.
But he that acknowledges the Son hath the Father also.
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Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning.
If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you.
Ye also shall continue in the sun and in the father.
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
But the anointing which you have received of Him abideth in you, and you need not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teaches you all things and his truth, and is no lie, and even as He it hath taught you, you shall abide in Him.
And now little children, abide in his, that when he shall appear we may have confidence not be ashamed before him when he's coming.
If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone that doeth righteousness is born of Him.
Oh.
Brother, hey, hope you were saying something this morning about the old commandments and the new commandments. Maybe it would be good to repeat that now.
I don't just remember what I said, but I I believe the old commandment that's referring to here is the fact that.
This divine life manifested itself in the Lord Jesus.
And so it wasn't something new in us. And yet in another sense it is a new thing, that here upon earth there are those who have life in a risen Christ and who can manifest that life. So he can say which thing is true in him and in you.
That is that light that manifested itself in the Lord Jesus. They knew that they had happened with the Lord. It says in the first chapter, our eyes have seen, we've looked upon and our hands have handled of the word of life. They had seen that perfectly manifested. Well, as I say now it's new because.
As the Lord Jesus said in the 10th of John, I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
That is, now we have life abundantly, and it's a blessed thing to think that the family of God can display the very life of Christ down here. And so I might call attention to the fact that in the end of the eighth verse it says the darkness is past, or the new translation is the darkness is passing and the true light now shining.
And the Old Testament God dwelled in the thick darkness. He was not fully revealed when the Lord Jesus was here by the glory of God, shown out in the face of Jesus Christ. And now the Holy Ghost has come down, put in heaven. We have life in him, but now and here this world, shining His true life in some measure in the believer.
Yeah, yeah. Don't you think it means the darkness is passing? A Sinner is converted to the Lord slip. There's just not much left of the moral darkness in the world.
That sense because now I do like to say the light trifle and.
Where they've never had any light of the possible.
Someone get saved there through the gospel being that country.
So your God enlarged on that where error.
Dark happened and that since was here, he said. I am the light of the world.
Rather than little man, as it were.
Far certified the let's say right now you might say that this world's funny said that the cross tells the curve has and so unfortunately at the start that dark plates ever since.
All that all the true life this world has in the right on those who know the Lord and who are managed of major is life down here. And don't you think that when the Lord in the 13th of John.
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Gave a new command affair that puts you in a way.
Turn to it in a minute.
A new commandment I give to you that he loved one another.
As I have loved you.
That he also loved one another. So it's the same commandment that is spoken out in the epistle that was from the beginning.
And we need to remember that in the epistle of John the Beginning he constantly refers to.
As the incarnation, he starts out with that which was from the beginning.
The coming into this being of God's beloved Son marks the new beginning for all things.
Well, in the light of ministry of the Lord Jesus, when he was here, He gave us.
Then new command.
And a wonderful commander that surely was that he should love one another. And what is the major of that love?
As I have loved you.
It's been said that the Lord is leaving his own.
Leaving them.
In a hostile world.
They had depended on him for everything, for guidance and health and instructions. Now he was about to be taken away.
And it has been likened to the building of a dorm. You know, they put a framework inside.
To hold all the structure together, and after it's complete, it takes the structure out and then the zone is held by each part, each stone fitting tight together to the next door, and that way it contains its position.
So the Lord was like the sensible pillar that held everything.
In place while he was here. He's about to be taken away. He's going back to the father.
Now their protection, the way they were to be kept, was by loving one another. They would hold together.
Have a dream Love that he had shown them was to be manifested among themselves.
Now it becomes, as you say, a new command, because the very life of the risen, glorified Christ.
As in as people down here.
This is divine love, and it's true of every believer. It may not always be manifested though, with us, but still there is that love with every believer with, is there not his very nature? Is that? Well, if there isn't that life, it's that that nature, right? He's not a believer at all. That's the next two verses, yeah.
Because if there's the manifestation of just the opposite, which we see in this next verse.
Hated his brother. Well, he's in darkness still. He's not in that light that has come in, but he's still back in darkness. But if there is no love.
He's abiding in the light which he just found.
When the law was given in Israel, God said that.
They would be looked up to by the nations around because they had these commandments from God, but alas, instead of keeping them, they broke them. And so it tells us the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you.
Because the law asked them for something, but did not provide a new life. It tells us in Galatians if there had been a law given which could have given light, then verily righteousness had been by the law. And in a future day, when God's people are blessed, it says, I I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will I write them. Well, that will be a wonderful time in Israel will be a testimony to the whole world as the.
New life that God gives them then will be manifested.
Well, in measure it's to be so, and it is so now because we possess a new life and we have the power now to shine in this world. In that sense, it's something new, I believe, a new commandment. And as our brother very remarked, that that law not only to the Lord, but to one another, so that that is the proof given. And that's the pistol that we have passed from death and delight because we love the veterans.
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In the lower case of the right, the manifestation of divine life was perfect.
But that same divine life is in us. But why isn't it the perfect manifestation in US? Oh, there's so much injury.
And it's because we have the old sinful nation. So that's why we're going to correct yourself. Dead indeed on the city.
That we might be able to be a light here in this scene.
Sometimes they the lab gets dirty all smoked up. I remember when I was on the farm with the boy we all the light we had was a kerosene Lantern.
After using it a few nights, why the chimney or the glass would get all dirty and smoking and it would hardly give off any light.
Well, the light inside was just as bright as it ever was, but it just couldn't get through. There was too much interest. And so it is with us. We get defied, whether we're Speaking of defiance in the previous meeting. We get the fire and there's those things that prevent the light from shining out.
And here's where we need self judgment and all. How we need to look to the Lord for grace to judge ourselves that we might be cleansed from that defilement so the light can shine a little brighter.
In the book of Numbers.
In that progressive teaching of numbers.
We have them declaring their genealogy and rallying to the banner.
And so on until there are offering certain offerings made by the Princess Cleansing also.
Leprosy from the camp.
But until the Levites could be.
Separated onto the law and they had to appear in the sanctuary.
Well, that was the light. The light was there. We are children of the day, beloved. We are children of late. But as our brother says, there are things that prevent the shining fault. But with the Levites, they, they had to come into the light of the sanctuary. Well, we know what that means.
Come right into his very presence. I was struck. You know, for years we used just candles in Bolivia to light our dwellings and the little halls. But one day I got a water Coleman lamp.
And we lit it. And I said to my late wife Trudy, I said, honey, did you sweep the floor? She says, of course I did. Well, you see, with the extra light, things showed up there.
That didn't stop with a candle and of course she swept the floor and I'm sure she meant to get it clean, but the extra light showed showed up the defects. Oh, I love to think of this brother present. And we are children of the day children of late.
But there are some things that don't allow the light to shine out.
And.
That doesn't affect the fact that we are children of light, does it? We know that, but there are things that prevent the light from shining when we get into the light of the sanctuary.
Everything is revealed there in its true light because He's there. I suppose you could say that the lamps there speak of the Spirit of God shining fall from the chemistry itself would speak of Himself.
It does speak the Apostle.
Paul speaks in the 1St Thessalonians 5 of the fact that ye are the children of the day, children of late.
Life. But again we repeat that there are things that have to be brought into the light of the sanctuary, into His presence, that we might.
Have them removed so the light can shine.
The darkness can never provide the light heaven, but it will come upon the soul that refuses the light.
Help me very much to the young man.
In understanding the way.
That John writes this festival as to see he has an abstract way of expressing himself.
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Until I follow that line, couldn't understand some of his states.
Perhaps if we gave a little help on that word abstract.
It might.
Enable us to grasp some of these thoughts we have before us, like the one night first.
Is in the life eight of his brother is in darkness even until now.
Well, sometimes.
Define thanks, Brian. Hatred towards each other. Well, does that tool that they're not really believers at all. No, that is what John is bringing out.
But if I understand it, an abstract statement is taking one view of the subject and separating it from every other.
Subjects. So you're looking at it just in that one way.
John calls that all through his epistle.
Like the ninth verse of the third chapter, whatsoever is born and gone does not commit sin.
Remain a penny and he cannot them because we born a dog such an abstract thing. He is looking at the believer and the new nature and of course the new nature cannot fit.
So looking at the believer from that one deals point.
It's impossible for him to sin because he has a new nature. That is the very nature of Christ himself.
So in this world, he that 50 is in the light.
And he does his brothers in darkness.
I heard of a case of one brother saying to another, I hate you.
And a brother promptly replied, no, he says, you love me and you can't help.
Well, he was, yeah, he was a real believer, but he allowed the old nature to express himself and just right or really hatred towards this project. But I remember one time.
There was a man that had a dark.
Here are how they're or the lots were built up. He was to stop my head in the garden and we talked over the garden.
So we got my friend with and one day I spoke to him about the Lord. His face darkened and he got on his bicycle and he rode off in the temple.
Because I spoke to him about my savior, it shows the bad hatred was not just the war of somebody that was breathing the garden, but.
Speak to him about his Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ to show that the enmity was really against Christ. And so those who possess that divine life and there is an enmity and a hatred towards them. And if you follow up the persecutions all through the history of the church, it was really a great hatred to Christ that led them to format last hardware their victims.
Look like Stephen, Why does the?
Right upon Him with their teeth, because he witnesses for Christ, and the natural part of the map is an enmity against God and His beloved Son, and there is that deep hatred towards Him, and whenever it's manifested in any of His peace, last hatred is going to manifest Himself.
I remember a case in Bolivian brethren there. There were two brethren that loggerheads there for a long time.
With some real cause of exercise soul. One day it came out he said Robert Smith, I just hate the sight of man. Brother, I said, do you you belong to Christ? Yes, he says, indeed, I've known in several years. Well, I said, you go back and have a look at that dear brother through the eyes of the Lord Jesus.
But you know, he did.
And he and I asked him how he got along with him. Well, he said that's the best brother ever I've ever seen in my life. He looked at him through the eyes of the Lord Jesus and brethren.
Concerning ourselves, God sees each believer here.
In through he looks at each believer through the eyes of Christ and sees him as their perfection, that without a flaw. Well, here were two brethren who belong to Christ. He looked at him through the eyes of his blessed Savior and saw in his brother one who was lovely indeed. And I'm so happy to tell you that those two brethren today are serving the Lord in Bolivia.
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Thank God that that was a real change in his life.
All that we might do that before it's nice your explanation of the abstract teaching of John brother.
If we look just at one side of it, it becomes difficult. But when we look at this matter in John as those who prove who possess divine life, who are possesses of the Spirit of God, then we do understand John's teaching.
Of course, the father here and his children, you know.
We do well sleep that before.
Mr. Derby was the strike of an abstract statement.
Say quinine curious a dealer too. I lived in Mount Kentucky on the.
Malaria everywhere.
And they all, they remember they was finance.
Well, that's Facebook that it cures Ed viewers. You know, there's an abstract table. It doesn't tell all the fine.
Because I knew some people that took it to such an example this it made them death and did a lot of harm to their body because they took too much of it but that's one statement they see here health certain facts about this medicine so John has that way of just looking at.
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It's the character of the family, isn't it? If I heard a Christian tell a lie, I wouldn't say, oh, that man's acting like a child of God, how he might be, but he's not acting like it. And that's the way the Scripture speaks too. And so, and that's a pistol of John. We see the manifest character of the family. And when someone acts otherwise, then he said, well, that's not the character of the family. He doesn't look upon him as in the family he might be.
But he's not acting like it. And I believe if we see that, it helps us to see these, the meaning of these statements, doesn't it?
We would say that here is the third proof that we're walking in communion in this chapter. Brother, we love our brethren.
We sometimes don't love their ways, neither do they love ours, but we love them. We love our brethren. We can't always walk with them.
That is true, and we do well to keep clear of compromise.
Less trouble comes upon the meetings, but we can love them.
One day a missionary said to me, Why is it that you hate me?
Why? I said, brother, do you belong to Christ? He said yes. Well, I said, I've only met you once.
Why is it that you speak that way about me? Always says you're too tight, you're too exploding. Well, I said I didn't know. And so he turned round to the Adasser who's just now with the Lord First fruits. Professor Dasa was saved in 24 and he's gone home to speak to the Lord, the age of 76 years.
And he's turned around the dash and he said, you know, Brother Smith is an exclusive. He says, I don't believe it straight out to him. He said the only thing that he's trying to exclude from the meeting is Saint Nicholas.
Well, there's a lot of there's another. This is another proof that we are walking in communion. If we love our breath, yes, we can love them, but we can't walk with them. They don't walk out of the book.
Is that what Peter means when he says see that he loved one another with a pure heart fervently? There's a little guard in there, although I believe we should remember that it does say see that he loved one another fervently, but there is a guard placed in between the two. See that he loved one another with a pure heart perfectly. That would make us careful as to how we displayed that love, perhaps.
Although it would leave us with no excuse for looking around, as we sometimes do, and recognizing some as being more loving than others. We see this, of course, in nature, and perhaps we expect to see it among the people of God and consider it as being normal.
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But I don't think it should be. If we're all possessors of the divine nature, there ought to be in each heart that measure of love towards all the Lord's people.
I sometimes even think of the the Lord servant John, who is so often spoken of as being such a loving.
Apostles, as though he had that special qualification of love that was not found to such an extent in others. But when the Lord first picked him up, he called him Bonergy, which is a son of Thunder.
I don't know just what that means, but to me it suggests that there was something in the natural man Dawn that was described his old words, the Son of Thunder. But what we see in Dawn as we follow his pathway is a lovely reflection of the beauty and love of Christ. It was Dawn who said, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them. Perhaps that was a little of the sun of Thunder that was showing out.
But it should exercise us to remember that by the grace of God, we are part of this family.
And is characterized by love.
Conversion didn't change one natural disposition, but it gave him grace to overcome it. He bet Peter would have been a leader wherever you put him. If you live in communions. There were the spirits. God could mightily use Peter, but if he was following himself like he was an Antioch man, he.
The question of eating was a gentile came up, while he went practically the whole assembly astray.
The Paul had to publicly rebuild. You see, there's nothing wrong this position either be a leader and he might really naturally.
To have the the praise of man that was his snare. A fall wasn't served by the price of mountain fall. He was.
He was a long compromising man even before he was converted. He was going to block the name of Christ out of the earth because he didn't believe that Christ was the truth aside. But as soon as he saw that he was the Christ while them, he was preserving that he wouldn't suffer for his name.
But it says here in connection with the ninth verse.
Eight of his brother is in darkness and in the end of the tenth verse he in love with his brothers and miles in the light, and there's not occasion of stumbling in him. This is the place where the believer is seen as that is a believer is looked upon as being in the lake. It isn't that we're in the light sometime just when we're in the Union.
But were brought there were the children of life. And so we're told in the first chapter in the seventh verse. If we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another in the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. Now we're exhorted in another place to walk as children of light. But the very fact that we're brought into the light and fitted for the light. Now there's to be a character scene.
As our brother just mentioned about the flight brought into the room.
Showed up everything. And so the believer is in the light. If he walks in consistently with it, it shows up because that's where he is. The believer is in darkness. And that is actually why people find so much fault with the failure of a Christian. They don't find fault with the very same failure in an unsaved man. Because the unsaved man is the darkness. They don't expect anything particular from him. But other Christian do the same thing.
And they'll find false. Well, this is because the Christian is really in the light, and what he does shows up. And I think it's helpful in reading these to see that the believers place is in the light, the unbelievers places in the darkness.
And that's a very important word there. And there is not occasion of stumbling in it. That's an exercise with Constance of everyone to think that I might be a stumbling to some of God, dear people and cause 1 to get away from Christ because of some inconsistency in my life because.
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They're looking at us, they're watching our ways, they see that we're not consistent and we do something that is shady or underhanded.
Well then, the world instead of blaming the poor.
Failing Christian places, What kind of religion is that? What kind of belief, what kind of a meeting is that that he's going to? That's why the apostle says, let's say.
That the.
That's the testimony, the gospel be our blame.
And blame the truth that you hold because of your inconsistency.
So we can't be too careful to others. We can assemble people of the world and we can assemble Gods, dear children, by our inconsistencies. Joy. That brings us right back again to the importance of self judgment.
And not allowing things that are inconsistent, they're dishonor the Lord's name because it's going to do.
Harm to our soul is going to hinder the blessing of others.
Then that introduces us to the family of God in his three parts, the days and young men and fathers. For I think this is important when we're Speaking of this character being manifested, that everyone is not a father, and so when one is first saved.
God doesn't lower the standard. You must realize that that life will display itself in a very simple way in the knowledge of sins forgiven and rejoicing in that there may be much more that can be seen and will be seen as the Bay grows.
But it's very nice to see this because sometimes because of what we have here, we expect everything from a person when he's first saved and we don't need room for growth. We're not as intelligent as Samuels parents. To realize that he wasn't going to wear a full grown man's coat when he was first in the House of the Lord there with Eli took some years before he required a full grown man coat.
Mother make them and do it every year.
And that's good too, is the rest of your parents realize that respect growth in our children.
Thinking of this 12 verse two in connection with the remarks have been made as to love.
The reason given here for the forgiveness of sins is for His name's sake.
Now.
There was nothing in us that would merit that action. By God, forgive our sins.
And so we have divine love upon those who did not marry us.
This divine love manifested to the center, and that's the kind of love that is mentioned here in this chapter. It's divine love that every believer has that. And and so in Ephesians we have the same line of things touched on in this way, that we're to forgive one another even as Christ, a God for Christ's sake had forgiven us.
It's the same it's the same pattern the same basis so here we have that set before us connection with these is subject of light and darkness and the the affections or love manifested and I write over you children. I think it all the children of God because.
Your sins are forgiven you for His name's sake.
Now, there might be someone here this afternoon that is puzzled about the question of forgiveness of sins.
And there still may lurk in the heart the sense that possibly.
Someone can.
Fall away from this because some something they may do now. That's the current thing in Christendom that men think that they have to keep themselves.
But I believe this verse is very clear to the believer.
It says, I write unto you, children, because your sins are forgiven you.
For his namesake, the basis of forgiveness of sins is not what you and I do, but what the Lord Jesus did on the cross. And the Father's forgiving God is forgiving because.
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The price has been paid for appreciation, as we've noticed before.
He is that it's taken care of at the cross, and so your sins are forgiven you for His namesake.
You have a similar thought in Isaiah 43 and verse 25. I even I am he that block of outside transgressions. For my own sake, I will not remember my Sinner.
For my own face.
That's especially noticeable, is it not, in reading that the coming blessings of Israel and how they're going to be brought back?
In blessing, but on the ground of that shed blood and that moment at the Feast of Atonement, when he finally shows him his hands and his feet. For today that will be.
Then they'll realize what it is that brought them back in the blessing. Because the whole nation really, in one sense, except for the promises.
Were under the curse.
They're under the judgment of God, but the promises of God provide us that through the bicycle would come in from the seed of Abraham.
That is, one seed was Christ, that that nation would be brought into blessing.
So it'll be in that day that they'll see the real meaning of what?
And Jehovah Savior.
And Jesus, it really means Jehovah Savior, doesn't it? When they recognize that name, that is when they recognize that Joseph that went down into death for them, as it were, the figure, then they'll get their vengeance.
The son of my right hand.
A verse right before that, one that her brother gliding crossed into.
Says about them what they've been doing. Dollars made me to serve with life, since dollars wearied me with thine iniquity.
What grace says on the side of God when he says.
I, I and he that flooded outside transgressions.
For my own sake, and will not remember thy sins. All this magnifies the grace of God.
God knows all of those things.
And he has comprehended everything, every offense.
They've been an awful offense to God, all of this, and yet he says he forgives. He blocks it out. What breaks it might define the grace of God.
The subject of the verse that you're considering. 12Th verse of large chapters. Really. Judicial forgiveness.
That is, it's our sins forgiven before a holy God.
All that those things will never come against us.
They were all home for the death of Christ. It varies in the depth of the sea.
But in the first chapter of the 9th 1St, if we confess our sins, He is faithful injustice, forgive us our sins and defend us from all on the right.
There is restore his forgiveness. Forgiveness.
That's another line of things.
Entirely.
It's just like say a boy was passing someones house, he throws stones at man's house and breaks his windows. Well he'd be like calling the police and having the boy arrested. I suppose instead of that why he invites the boy into the home and streets in kind winds. That would be very gracious. But before he does more, I suppose he enopsis more into his family.
I suppose the boys naughty after you just still will wonder if the kindness that this man is shown to it and he does something normally.
And.
So disrespect for the one who has taken him into his home, why he would deal with it an entirely different way when he first accepted him, when he first forgives him and tells a boy of had no connection with him and also boy out of the street.
He becomes a member of his family. Now it becomes.
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A matter of relationship, of course. John takes up the subjects of adoption, but the subject of new birth, born into dogs family.
So we can't make all these illustrations, especially every.
Subject before us because one who has saved is born again, become a child of self by Christ salvation and he is has eternal life and can never Perry.
So that he is a child forever, but if he is not who I he breaks his chameleon by his naughty ways.
I like an illustration very much, but George Clooney uses. He supposes the fallen son who are enjoying.
A happy time talking together.
Right in the midst of the conversation, another boy comes in who has been out on a hike.
And yes, and he has picked some wild berries when he's brought to him with him. So does his father see those berries? He says some hope berries are foiled. You eat them, they'll make you sick. So this song, who has been enjoying his father's company, he disagrees with his police. There's no problem.
There is perfectly possible they're all right, So what happens? And he seems to be as strong, but he's not enjoying fellowship with his father because.
Is contradicting his call, his words. You don't believe what his father says? Well, suppose he goes around, hates on the berries and makes himself deaf. Mistake.
Of any guns and his father. You are right. I'm very sorry. I didn't listen. I'm very sorry for my disobedience. Well, let me restore. And that's the subject of this first chapter. Ninth verse. We confess our sins.
It is just a general way of saying pardon and forgive us our sins and save us. Heaven is laughs and it's the very thing that has broken the souls communion that is to be confessed and then immediately the restoration takes place.
I was singing Brother Smith when you were talking about David and his family.
So terrible we need to remember another side of things. Although as soon as he said I have seen and we see his deep conviction and the 51St song, but yet Nathan the Prophet said the sword shall never depart from my house.
That was the governmental dealings of God. He had to see his own family fall into the same sin and all the heartaches and the sorrows.
That his sin brought upon him through this light and had nothing to do with eternity or his soul salvation. And we need to remember the love, the importance of that sign of governmental.
Dealings of God.
Sometimes we see a young person marry an unbeliever.
God, sometimes when grace comes in and saves the unconverted partners, it's something rather exceptional.
But how many we see that reap our whole life?
Of the deepest sorrow and and.
Broken hearted affairs because of other failure.
What a very dozen. Numbers 19.
One is stored.
It's nuts doesn't occur so quickly. I'm taking it to two applications in the water and separation.
You give us a word on that.
You know what I mean? Just *** **** the settler day of the 7th day.
I don't know if I have anything special. It seems that there's a deeper.
Exercise of soul, like in the case of David.
After the Lord smoked the child, by then you know he led to the Lord, and finally after the child was dead, he washed himself.
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Went into the House of the Lord and sat on the Lord Presence. I heard it said that that's really the 7th day.
You suppose that is when he was going through the experience as recorded in the 51St Psalm.
And when he is gone through those exercises, then it comes to the 7th day.
And he is cleanse them from his safe from the department.
To be connected with the last phrase of that night verse. First Epistle of John in the first chapter in the ninth verse. If we confess our sin via faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
That's really the 7th day, the last clause of that verse, and I believe that when we have failed, unless we really get before the Lord about it, there is not the true restoration, there isn't the cleansing from all unrighteousness. I have thought of her third day as being connected with the.
Cost to God and put away sin. Supposing I do the same as a believer, and I owe it to the Lord, but I own it sort of in this spot that well, every believer fails sometimes, and I look upon it rather lately.
When I if I were to kneel down the woman to the Lord.
Then I think of the Lord having to suffer in those hours of darkness for that spin that very sin laid upon him, and the judgment of God against that sin that the Lord Jesus bore when He cried, My God, my God, why is thou forsaken me? Then I believe there's a real abhorrence of the sin, and that leads to a real restoration. Then I believe, as our brother is remarked, that.
David went through that.
When Nathan spoke to him and he said that he had sent Nathan said the Lord has forgiven my sins but not until he went into the House of the Lord and it was really the 7th day because.
No doubt the the thought of all that Sam meant before God when he cried out those words in the 51St Psalm which our brother remarked.
Deepen the work and it brought about a real restoration. And I feel very often that when we fail, we look upon it too lightly. We say, well, I've owned it to the Lord, but it hasn't been the true sense of numbers 19. It hasn't been in the sense of what that sin was before God. The result is it continues to break out. There is not the cleansing from all unrighteousness. There is not the victory over the sin in that believers life.
If you say yes, I, I appreciate your remarks very much indeed. I believe they're very helpful and we all need them. We don't want to just.
Give us just for the young people or David was a man up in years when this has been his life and we're all in danger at any time that we're careless in any way.
We neglect the Lord's things in our lives, neglect prayers, the words.
Yet occupied with present things.
And we can any of us have a sad start from digital salt three is often connected as a dot with the completing of something that God has undertaken down here and that would possibly bring in the restoration of the soul. And I'm sure that theater when the Lord looked on him.
He was sorry for his sin.
But he didn't know what the Lord knew about it.
The Lord knew the roots.
And I believe that's connected to the 7th day.
Because I believe that even though we may fail.
And.
Like David.
Sin is a way that brings the sword upon his house. I believe that David's experience as the result of a true grace was richer.
At the end in in certain sense, because it brought him into the presence of God in a in a new and a special way. We see that also in connection with the numbering of the people.
And we see David brought into a blessing there that possibly he wouldn't have realized his soul hadn't been exercising. And perhaps that's the 7th day as well, because it brings the soul that the believer into a richer experience than before.
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God doesn't just leave us there, He brings us into something new that was true at the beginning when man's sin.
It's been the history of God's ways with man that even though man will have to suffer and whatsoever man shows he reaps, yet brothers faith God will bring in that which is rewarding for that faith.
I believe faith.
Yes, in the 19th of numbers which has been referred to, it was not only the ashes of the heifer that were sprinkled on the man with the water.
But in the ashes of the heifer was the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, which had also been reduced to ashes. So that goes to the root, as you were saying, because the cedar wood would speak of man greatness and the scarlet of man's glory, and then the disciples of the band's littleness. All these things come to an end in the death of Christ. It isn't only that. The Lord Jesus for our sins.
But it was the end of what we were before God. We've allowed some cedar in our life, some scarlet or a lot of self occupation, which is the HIPAA. Why all these things need to be seen as coming to an end. And so there was really four things. There was the actions of the heifer, the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop altogether in the ashes and then mixed with water would show the word of God applies these things to the soul.
And that's what brings about a real respiration. 7th day would suggest spiritual perfection, perhaps the understanding in the soul of these things in a life of never known before to the experience. Would it be right then to look upon John 21 as what answers to the 7th day and Tuesday? I would say so.
Today's would have a nice illustration that he used to use as to getting to the root of things.
It was the Miller, and one day he discovered one of these old fashioned water wheels, discovered that his wheel wasn't running, just a little trickle of flour from that.
Sorry, one out of five to see what happened and he finds with scarcely any water going over the fields.
Toy says something must have gone wrong up the screen. It always takes the shovel and stick.
And he walks up the street until he finds where the tree has fallen across the stream and turned the water in another direction. So it's not going down to the mill at all.
Where he gets to work.
Cuts the tree off and stands up where the water has been turned in the wrong direction and when he comes back while I hear the water is going over the wheel and goes into the mill and the flowers pouring out again.
Well.
The illustration is this and until you get to the root of the thing.
By this why we're unfitful in our lives of maybe some failure is often received time and time against.
The route itself has not been judged and as we've been mentioning Peter, we just say again.
The real rules in Peter's failure was his self-confidence that the Lord spoke of when he warned him to begin with. Well, when that self-confidence was thoroughly judged in the Lord presence, and before his brother too heard it.
We saw the self-confidence, but then the Lord can't can't help Peter. He's going to honor him in the very way that he had completely failed. He would go with him to prison and to death as he said he would in his own energy at one time failed completely.
But.
Go to lacrosse.
And he comes one of the number of the martyrs for Christ.
But we say there are two ways then, that we learn.
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At least, and that is first of all, we learn through the Word, and that's connected with our great High Priest in the 4th chapter of Hebrews.
He causes the word to search the heart.
But if we don't learn that way, we may have experiences that will teach us. Here in the wilderness. We see that the history of the children of Israel and it's been the history of the same time, but not been. And we have to confess in our own lives that many a thing we've had to learn by experience because we didn't listen to the Word or we didn't read the Word, we weren't diligent in searching the Scriptures.
But we haven't spoken of the high priest, not in this chapter. But I believe there is that side of it.
To preserve the Saints so that they will not fall into these errors and sin. It's the word of God as we have this afternoon, because to preserve us.
By the Spirit.
Could we say that the confession of David sin not only brought blessing to his own soul?
To get in Psalm 51, he says, I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sinners ever before Thee. And then he says, Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and I call me with my free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy way, and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
Simply there there's a suggestion that not only the blessing come to his own soul by professionally sin and failure, but blessing and come to others.
Through this.
That's all please.
I'm glad of what Brother London said, because it does seem to me from some of the comments as though there was a benefit to be gained from failure and restoration.
We need not learn that way. Isn't that true? We need not learn that way.
So that we find the wilderness can be in Western.
The children of Israel I could go through the world.
Yes, for Joshua and Caleb went with them in it and they learned a great deal.
Because they went with the people of God, although they were willing to live the land. But it shows that we all need these lessons, don't we? No matter who it is, no matter whether person may feel that that he sees truth, that doesn't mean that he sees that in the sense God wants him to see it. And we need thee to go on as someone has said of Elijah, that he either had to go on with the people of God and all their weakness or.
Well, in the spiritual wilderness alone.
And I believe there's the benefit of going on with God's people, even though one may not see at the time the the vast clear that may feel that they could step ahead. We have to learn that God is leading his people as one, especially in the sense of the church.
That we might come. I believe it's synthesis, but it might all come. That's the sense of the whole church coming to that end, of the of the learning of the truth, the precious things of Christ together.
Well, it's better to learn through a fall and not to learn at all. But God doesn't want to teach us that way. He would teach us in communion, wouldn't He? That's his desire. But alas, in practical fact, many of us have to learn the other way. But there is a certain loss also there. There is a gain in the soul in the sense that when we have failed, the Lord brings us back and.
Much better than that, he should have left us to go our own way.
However, there is also a loss, but David lost.
Not only in his own family and reaping, but also it tells us that through through his fall he gave occasion to the enemies of the Lord. This last theme and so sin in the believers life.
Dishonors the Lord publicly after he is restored by the Lord made him again, but the loss won't be fully restored.
The children of Israel, they crossed over Jordan.
And they showed up, but soon because of the lack of separation.
They were driven out from those fat pastures to the mountain areas, to a place called Bokim. Well, Bokim means the place of tears, beloved, and there they wept before Jehovah.
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Will this mercy in Bokin? We know that.
These long years, we found that there's mercy there, beloved. But what about the wasted years? The wasted years? Oh, that is sad, isn't it? Wrong. Yes. Sad indeed.
So how careful our brother has mentioned the government of God, one trembles concerning.
Concerning our walk.
This mercy, yes, this mercy, beloved, but all that governmental, this government, the government has gone through and how sad it is to see some of these cases with the same. It's very sad indeed.
I think it's important.
It's about 3000 years old.
Since David, sin that is so vividly described in God's word that made the enemies of the Lord of last fame.
Under still blossoming.
After 3000, years are still blossoming.
The Lord and using David's sin are the reason why the blasphemy.
When I was a boy, in fact, the new work and the fact they knew work on drink.
One of the bosses in the factory.
Was a man of upright life.
But a man who's opposed to conversion when he when he heard of some wicked man getting saved.
He was scarred and say, oh, there you keep your eye on him. He's he's got something up his sleeve. He's he's he's intended to do something pretty mean because he's putting on a show of religion and he was not at the at the conversion of which an ungodly man.
And I heard them doing it at times.
Well, he he opposed conversion and went on his memory was but when all of these self righteousness.
And when I went back to visit the old country after we're gone in this country for nearly 20 years.
I found that this this man has comprehensive and had died.
I spoke to another woman in the back to whom I knew the Christian man.
And Speaking of this man, if I died.
His first name was Arthur.
And I said to this this Christian man.
I said, do you know?
If Arthur D had.
Turned the Lord and got salvation before he died.
He says no.
He didn't, he says. I want to visit him before he died. I visited him on his deathbed. I talked to him about his soul and need a stature.
And his answer was.
I'm just as good an Irish King David was.
He compared his own life with this circumstance in King Davids life.
And he had never done anything like a different.
An upright.
In every way I believe.
And with his family and a nice family, but they would sin had sought pressed himself upon him. And David was called the man after God's own hearts, the sweet Sabbath of Israel. Robert in the word.
But this man always fell back on David's misbehavior as an excuse.
To say I'm just as good a man as King David was and that's what he rested on.
And the effort of this very day, the emperor brings up David's life and failure.
As a ground of attack against the Word of God.
So it's the David Sinhaus house going on for 3000 years, causing the enemy of the Lord to blasphemy.
I believe the lesson crosses this.
Let's remember that if we turn aside.
I'm dishonor the Lord and anyway.
And the world sees it.
Has made one for years.
Are the means of causing the enemies of the Lord to blasphemy the blessed Savior through our best behavior.
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I believe that's one very vivid lesson. And so God said to to David through Nathan.
The last kill Uriah with a sword of Philistine.
Therefore, the sword shall not depart from 9 House.
And one of the different children fell by the source.
And on down in the history of Davidson descendants.
All they the sorrows that we see, and the kings of Judah and their failures.
Under inconsistencies and they they blasphemies that the Lord received.
Through the misbehavior of those who profess to be sins of God.
Whatever line, so not shall they also reap. David sowed the sword.
Unearth the store.
I was killed Uriah with a swordness of the Philistine.
Therefore the sword shall not depart Nine House. Let's remember that that we if we do that which is dishonouring to the Lord, we're going to cause the blessed Lord name to his last things in the world around us.
It happened the 13th verse with.
Shows that.
The fathers are those that have gone on the enjoyment of that one object more than in constancy.
It isn't because there's a great deal of learning necessarily, but it's the person.
Who has been the object of the heart?
You have known him that is from the beginning might have leave those two words might be left you've known him from the from the beginning. Either way, but that's good beginning. It's the constancy of spirit that as Christ is the object that makes maturity in the soul.
It doesn't say gathering simply of a lot of knowledge, although knowledge is good and communion isn't not.
It's mentioned in the 13th verse and the very same comment again as I have written unto you, Father. But is there a lesson for us right. But there is really no progress beyond this. Perhaps there's a danger as we get older of wanting to put out. Sometimes we find there have been through well churches, well taught men who have deep beginning. They've had some of the they wanted to tickle the years of their hearers and brought in something new.
They have ceased to be fathers in the family of God and done harm.
The the one who goes on in the things of God will never, never progress beyond, or rather having the word of the thought that we ought. And we have to be very careful about things that may sound very interesting and are different, So that which may be the beginnings of that which would lead the heart away from the solid truth of God's precious word. Heard you, brother Barry.
Make a remark about JC Bella.
He might have been a father.
Well, it was his book that I was Speaking of.
This this noon, the Son of God.
He's writing about the Lord of Jesus Christ, the sound God occupied with him.
Well, that's the characteristics of a father.
And Peter says.
Unto you, therefore, which believe he is friends, that's the characteristic of a father.
And this expression I write unto you, Father, is a proof of that eternal life. 17.
And verse and this is they might through God and Jesus, God and Jesus Christ from their sentence.
So the very fact that they're addressed as far as and knowing him, the proof they had his turn lightedness.
Remarks my brother Hazel has just been making remind me of something that I heard many years ago from her brother Potter, and I imagine it was in a meeting similar to this.
And he says if a brother introduces something new, it's false.
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If it's true, it's been on the word of God since it was written.
It's not new.
And so our good idea is to rest on this, that we can't get too young, the person of the Lord Jesus.
Also, could we just say that the expression Fathers is very instructive? The apostle said of those that.
They were perhaps quite well taught, it said. They came behind the no gift. He says though you have 10,000 instructors in Christ, yet having not many fathers.
Well, I believe that as we get older, the things of God, it's very important for us to keep that Father's heart for the Saints of God, that love for them. There's always a danger for us to want a certain position and so on. But I believe that for the apostle Paul writes, the end kept that freshness.
Of a father's heart for all the Saints he said in Christ Jesus I have I begotten you through the gospel and he loved them as a father did his own children. But let us be careful how how often it's been a great encouragement to see someone who is older who has a love for the Saints of God. What a blessing it is. It often means more than a great deal of of truth revealed.
That love that enters into and understands what the Saints of God are passing through and seeks their good.
Before I did say that the Fathers are those who have found out that the only true satisfied office is Christ himself.
Found out the emptiness of the world was where he says no real true satisfaction.
And they have.
Have enjoyed through the years through the time when their Christian life testimony at wrestling, so you just simply become everything to the head. Well, we might say that all that wild fathers.
Present to us are certainly passed among God's children. Yes, it's different to exclusively cost that we cannot any of us being.
Enjoying.
What is space we mentioned in connection with the father we can all be enjoying? Lots of Ballers enjoy all those. I'm sure not one gear would want to play. I'm alone. The problem that was to me that they proved that he wasn't among the fathers, Mr. Kelly said. He had known very few that he well it couldn't consider his father amongst people.
Surely one and all of these when young men and all and enjoy that wonderful from the beginning.
That way one really grows into that state and the more they know of him and enjoy him, the more.
The.
One is.
Finding out the worthlessness of everything else.
My father told Christ.
Here have known him that it's not the beginning of.
The Gospels reveal that next course concerning that present one for the evening. There they will find definite truth.
So.
The revelation of that message.
Who will come? They knew him from the beginning, though they got to know him through the Gospels.
1 John 2:13-17
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Him numbers 234.
I think well brother to keep on with this chapter.
If you would think so.
Seems to me to be a profitable portion.
Well, we can't seem to guess going on the top of the world.
We could stop the verse 15, brother, could we?
Lie above that would be just.
About the young man.
That's good.
Which verses 13? Where is John 2 and 13?
I right under your father because you have known him, that is from the beginning.
I write on you, young man, because you have overcome the wicked ones. I write unto you a little children, because you have no father.
I have written unto you, Father, because you have known Him, that is from the beginning.
I've written unto you, a young man, because you're strong, and the Word of God abides in you. You have overcome.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in you.
For all of us in the world, the lust of the flesh.
And the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the father of the world.
And the world passes away in the lust thereof. And you can do it, the will of God abide it forever.
Little children, it is the last time, and that as you have heard that Antichrist have come. Even now are there many antichrists, whereby we know that it is the last time.
They went out from us, but they were not others, for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us.
But they went out.
They might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
But you have an option from the Holy One that we know all things.
I've not written on you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it and have no lies of the truth.
Who is a liar, but he the denial of Jesus is the Christ, the amount of Christ that denies the Father, the Son.
Russo, who never denied the son.
Same as not the father, that he that acknowledges the son.
Have the father also.
Let's out there for abiding which you have heard from the beginning.
Is that what you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you. He also shall continue in the Son and in the Father.
This is the problem that He has promised us even eternal life. These things have I written. Have I written of you concerning them that seduce you?
But the anointing which you have received of Him abide within you, and He did not that any man teach you.
But as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, that is true, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, He shall abide in him.
And now our little children abide in him, that when he shall appear we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him that he's confidence.
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If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone that doeth righteousness is born at you.
I think our brother Barry mentioned yesterday that there were three classes of Christians here in this portion.
We have little children.
Whose sins are forgiven?
Well, that's judicial forgiveness, brethren, there and then we have fathers who know Christ.
And then we have young men.
Who have overcome Satan? So we have three classes of Christians here, don't we?
Little ones with little children.
Sins forgiven and fathers who have known him from the beginning. Of course there the Gospels reveal that beloved.
The Gospels reveal that Blessed One from the beginning.
And then we have young men.
And then we address the beginning of the 14th verse.
Three classes again.
And in addressing the young man.
Them through the 15th, 16th, and 17th verses.
Then beginning with the 17th verse.
Adjustments of faith again.
What we call intention Saturday the fact.
That little children is really children in the first person.
I believe in the 12Th.
But little children in the 13 verse and also in the 18th verse, there's another word in the Greek gold, and it's really little children are paid, that is the youngest members of the family.
Impossible, begins his address by.
Speaking to the oldest Americans of the family called the father.
And you're going to be there. But they have told him that is from the beginning.
That's the beginning of this person, because that was from the beginning that we have heard, that we have looked.
Which we have seen with our eyes and our hands have handled over the word of life.
It strangled before us. It falls.
The light of our best Lord, of His incarnation, to His exaltation and glory.
Now these fathers.
Have a special enjoyment and communion with that blessed one.
And maybe there are class that have found out the emptiness of the world.
There are plants that have just the place, because the place always hinders the injustice of Christ in the soul.
This has learned the emptiness of this world.
I suppose as we think of the apostles Paul, when he said, I count all things of course, for the Excellency of the knowledge in Christ Jesus my Lord, and gives us little description of the Father. What does the world mean to the apostle Paul?
Serving at all, he calls it.
Rubbish.
He's out of the account that I might win, Frank.
And having an importance himself for the double thinking that he was willing to be nothing.
Christ might be everything in his enjoyment of his soul. You don't see any self occupation in one who is indeed a Father.
And I would just like to say this, brethren too, that while I'm sure there isn't one in our midst that was presumed to call himself a father.
For if one did, that would be simply the proof he wasn't a father because he was picking some recognition stuff.
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But this is true.
That we can enjoy and be occupied with that which?
As belonging to the Father.
That is a big and enjoy him letters from the beginning.
As much as the father, he is a mature in his knowledge of that less of one hasn't experienced the emptiness of the scene.
And the house is perhaps counted all things along the price, but he can certainly enjoy him at the beginning.
Paul could say Brother Barry that I know. He didn't say I know.
What I have believed, but he could say, I know who whom I have believed. It was the realization of the person of Christ.
And he again says that I might know him.
And the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his suffering, being made conformable unto his death.
And so when we look at the case, this case of the fathers, we think of maturity, beloved.
In the knowledge of that blessed person.
I know whom I have believed.
I believe that it resolves itself as not into.
Are those two lines of thing here either it's price or self because when we come to the to the warnings left not the world.
We have all that pertains to the the desires of the natural man.
And it's to please self.
But there's only one thing that will keep us from it.
We can't. We can't keep ourselves in these, right? Wants to have an object.
Christ is the object will be preserved, and I believe that's the importance of that thought, knowing Him from the beginning.
The constancy of Spirit that would keep Christ before the eye of heart continually.
Because the world.
Is the way that the enemy uses to attract the heart, but he uses himself.
What is it that places myself that's the thought, in contrast to what is it that pleases the Lord?
And so when I think of the Lord Jesus.
I think of one never, never once deductively himself.
He proved that that love serves.
Serves others not sell.
I'm among you as one that served, and he's serving today as he got.
And in fact, he learned that he will serve for all eternity those that he loves. The moment we see him, he's going to come forth and serve his own. But that's just the opposite of the principle that we have here. You're worried about?
The the desires of the of the flesh and this reaches into every part of our life.
Because think of we get up in the morning, what do we think? The first thing ourselves, what we're going to do unless we have the day started with this better option.
That's what controlled their life itself.
I'll certainly important word for us as we get older that there should be this heart for the people of God with us and a desire that enough to take a position but rather have a heart for the family of God. I believe that's what Paul what meant when he said that so he have 10,000 structures in Christ yet have he not many fathers.
And so the father has a heart for the family.
Had the suspended remarks, there has been growth.
But it's not so much Sparkly takes the position as that he displays the love for the people of God and knowledge of the things of God that is a help to others and things that are very important. And it's right before us in the 13th of earth. And then again, the very same words. It's the only.
Instance that is.
When he's addressing the fathers, he says in the 13th verse I have written, I write up you fathers because you have all happened in from the beginning.
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And that is the 14th verse I have written unto you, Father, because you have known him. That is from the beginning when he is speaking to the young man and to the babe. There's quite a different message in the 13th verse and then in the 14th verse under saw that it shows that maturity. So let it be in a allow for the people of God. And I say again, I think that as we get older, we take these things to heart.
So that we might leave that example before our brethren, and that love for them that serves them, that seeks their blessing. But not a question here of progress, is not of a the Father's heart. I believe our brother London was keeping out of having Christ before us.
Well, if we have Christ before us and what to believe is and then we think about that all of Christ, our gears are different.
Well, surely we will think about them too, because if they're dear to Christ, we will want to be an encouragement to them enough and a help to them, and we will love them.
And so I believe the key is that brother 1 gene.
Breaking your cars is to have Christ before a desire to please Him, and surely this will regulate many other things.
Now the question arises, might just apply it practically.
Our hearts, what is it? Half Christ before us, what you say?
Well, it's safe to be everything you speak of. The Philippian epistle lies our life, our positives, our strengths, our.
Examples is everything to us, isn't they?
I was thinking too that putting it practically, that the way we can do it is to read the gospel. That someone had said that we want our hearts warm, we should redesign.
The instructor, we read the epistle that we have our hearts, Part 2, of course, but especially the gospel. We have the person before us and it works. And so if we want our heart to warm, we want to be filled with monopoly. We treat the gospel.
In this epistle.
We have, I suppose, for my today principally.
Dividing light set forth as it is in the believer.
In the Gospel of John is divine life as is seen in Christ, and it walked down here as the Son of God.
Well, the manifestation of divine life in the Lord Jesus Christ was perfect, but he not is not perfect. But that's why we need an epistle like this. We need these expectations. We need help.
That there might be a better manifestation of divine might than us.
And then they address to the young men, he says. I write on you young men.
Because you have overcome the wicked ones.
And you get the function from the holy or the nouns.
Unless in contrast with the wicked one, or see the Satan manifest his character in connection with his hatred to Christ.
The wickedness for all of faith.
Was showing us a cross where he lived the whole world.
Through the Cross of Calvary.
And.
He is opposing anything that will bring honor to that Lesson 1.
Now the young men are looked upon as those who have overcome that that wicked wise.
And if we want to Passover the base, but we might just touch on that and then continue with a four.
Description of the young man.
For his first addressing the faith, you know the 13th 1St says because he has known the Father.
That is, they know God is their Father.
And that shows that the ones who are looked upon as the base.
Have just a newborn soul but yet?
It can be said of those newborn souls that they have the Spirit of God indwelling.
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Because there's the Spirit that witnesses to our spirit that we are the children of souls. So the apostle takes them.
Apostle Paul takes up that up in the 8th chapter. Romans has sent forth the spirit of his Son into your heart crying, have a father.
My dear brother, close to the very emphatic man in a way of expressing himself, and he made this remark. He says if you can look up and hold God your Father, he says you've got the Holy Spirit.
Well everyone that can look up and say God is my Father, he doesn't have to be disturbed about whether or no he is his wealth of the spirit of all if he is.
For the Spirit of God witnesses through the soul.
That we're we're his children.
And we're brought into that relationship.
So it shows one who is born again and indwelt by the Holy Spirit.
Doesn't merely have some quick install as fastened through a lot of exercise.
How to get Job delivered? What is one who is really acquainted with God as his Father?
As a blessing thing, isn't that?
And the wireless address.
Where the the oldest believer in the Lord Jesus can rejoice in that and God is our Father.
Well then we can go on to the to the second address to the young men in the 14th 1St where he says, I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and you have overcome the wicked ones.
Now in the description of the young man in that verse, we get the reason why they abort the wicked one.
The first thing is that the word of God that you are strong.
Well, they're possible call and addressing the believers in the 6th chapter of Ephesians, he says he's strong in the Lord and the power of his mind. Then we read of those that are strong in faint and in glory to God.
Being fully persuaded the body of promise, he is able also to perform.
Describes those who are not.
Taking strength in their own efforts or occupied with their own.
For their own.
The apostle says when I am weak, then of my strong, that is when we feel our own weakness and help.
That's when the true strength of God is granted to us.
Well then, the word of God by the venue.
That's not just some portion of the word, some favorite vocal passage of the words, but it's the Word of God in its entirety.
And in order to overcome faith.
One must.
Be acquainted with all God precious words.
When was That means a lot of diligence and maybe much self sacrifice and self denial.
And not fill your time up with things that will crowd out the Word of God out of your life. Then the outcome of it all is the best wicked enemies faith who is seeking to rob your soul and spoil your testimony. You've overcome it.
But let's say rather marry that so the spin. So you go ahead, go ahead, you go ahead. Oh, I was just going to mention the the value of this is brought out in the temptations of the Lord Jesus in Luke 4.
There we have that marvelous reply to Satan. It is written.
It is written. That's all he would say to that great enemy of soul.
It is written full of value.
Of the written word, of God's Word. And I was thinking concerning young men, which we will hope to deal a little later when it comes to the question of the conflict of youth with Satan.
And the world. But how true it is, Beloved. There is a great need for youth to store in their hearts and minds the precious Word of God.
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And in that way we are.
Victor.
Victorious.
Don't you think so? Yeah, you mentioned the.
Those things in which the Lord Jesus seen in the wilderness of National. In the end I was thinking of the verses that he used. Brother Smith.
And.
He connects with what our brother Mary was saying, how we need the whole word of God.
And the heart used 2 verses not leaving one chapter and Deuteronomy.
And another from another person, another chapter. The point is this, that although we do need the whole word of God.
Yet will never be tried above what you're able and the youngest believer if he only knows one verse.
He can. He can use that verse against the enemy.
He doesn't need to use his reef.
I believe that we have that.
In the in the wilderness with the Lord Jesus was tried and we see him using that those verses out of that one book, possibly to show us that it isn't the largest of knowledge, but it's dependence and is using what we do have when he's given us. It might be the smallest thing who has only learned one verse.
Daily preserved if he uses the word of God against the other and not his reason, but you agree with that? Yeah, sure, that's true. Although there is the need of diligence in the word, Yes, all that will be fully equipped for the attacks of the enemy.
For instance, then what you're just speaking about the Lord quoting from the book of Deuteronomy. Well, there's a reason for that. You see, the Lord was in the land, the perfect man in the land of Israel. All right, you took the the book of Numbers, you get instructions.
For people journey through the wilderness, but Deuteronomy was specially instruction for dogs. People actually were settled in the land of Canaan.
Well, the Lord rightly divided the word of truth.
Against the hell, they have a special word.
More of a position that he occupied at that time. So we need to have the word as who are church position and responsibilities and going on to the people of God because faith and tribes divide and scattered of faith.
So we need to have the whole word of God, and then if we're independent, the Spirit of God will bring the various scripture that is needed for that particular occasion. Now, if we neglect reading the words, the Spirit of God is not going to perform a miracle and bring a word that we're not acquainted with for us to use at the time of need. It's a word that we have already.
Read and perhaps meditated upon.
And enjoy it. And suddenly here where faith will with a situation, I think the Spirit of God brings a scripture that we have read and thought about before, and He brings that to our mind in the divine way to meet the attack of the enemy. Yes, I was thinking of that too, brother. The great need of the whole Word of God to see. Satan can quote the Word of God too, but he doesn't finish it.
He shall give thee God, give God concerning thee, but he doesn't finish that to keep thee in all thy ways. And beloved for young men and women, especially those who are going through school.
We're not decrying education at all. We're not talking about that. We're talking about the dangers of modernistic teachings.
There are many books that are being published and I'm surprised when I see them on the bookshelf.
As one who has been a lone missionary for years, away from these libraries, you'll find books that are that do contain.
Wonderful portions of the Word of God.
But those portions are not rightly applied, and neither are they always.
Quoted in their context, according to the context. Oh yes, you'll find plenty of books, dear young people.
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That are crammed with the word of God, but twisted, not rightly applied, all for the need of discernment. There is a conflict with young men and Satan, young men and the world, young men and some problems that respond. It must be really it was really nowadays.
When we were young fellows, but how really must be today?
All you dear young men and women.
Be saturated as Mr.
Called Walter Scott used to say the saturated young men with the word of God read it.
Daily and meditate upon it.
Be saturated with a whole word of God. Well, I thought that rather, I trust that that's agreeable to you.
I just want to quote that word. Brother Smith and found who were in there funny. Water is clean.
That's the biggest.
The fountains where there's plenty of water clean. That was the test, but it not the.
The whole word of God being enjoyed in the soul.
I'm going to make a remark about the the book of Deuteronomy.
I believe it's been remarked that it's the Book of Obedience.
Of course, we do find a lot of instructions in connection with obedience. That is what the children of Israel were to do. What would be expected of them when they got into the land of Canaan?
And if they were obedient, that would show that they were dependent. Well, I think it's lovely to see that the Lord quoted from that book of obedience indicating His dependence, and He was not going to do anything and He did not have a word for.
And certainly this is good for opportunity. If there's if there's not a word as far as to do a thing, we better not do it.
And are thinking of the scripture.
As a sort of an arrangement like a housekeeper might have.
A housekeeper has various articles in the house.
In different places and a good housekeeper keep effort certain things in that place of God has done the same thing.
He has put certain things in certain places in the Word of God and perhaps.
When Paul was telling Timothy hold fast upon words, this is what he had in mind. Find out.
Where the different things belong, and when you need a certain portion, a certain teaching, a certain thought, you will know where to go and find it. Now, God hasn't given us a book that's all jumbled up. No, there's an outline of things there.
And this is something I believe we should be concerned about holding fast the form of sound words, you're getting an outline or scope of scripture.
I was impressed with the Barry too, what you mentioned about the book of Deuteronomy.
And numbers.
I would suggest a way of reading the scriptures. I don't want to impose myself at all, but during many years that the Lord has saved me.
I've sought to read Genesis with the Gospel.
And of course, Exodus goes beautifully with X and Romans.
Leviticus fits in perfectly with Hebrew.
And Numbers is the wilderness book of the Old Testament that goes beautifully.
With Philippians in the news.
But yesterday I was impressed when we read the book of Joshua. Well, it's nice to read Ephesians there. And it does unfold something of the wondrous unity and the perfection of divine rich.
Joshua lives defeat.
Judges reads perfectly with Galatians and what better combination than Ruth with my Diva and so on.
It is has been to me been a very specific toy to read in that way the whole scope of God's holy Word. Friends, so blessed or we cannot press this too much this morning, beloved, concerning young men who are strong.
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But when Timothy, when Paul writes to Timothy, says to Timothy, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
How?
How can we be strong, beloved, if we don't eat?
If we don't feed, how can we be strong? Beloved young men, how can you be strong if you don't feed upon God's precious words and get on your knees?
Before love.
In the morning and in the mid. In midday too, and in the evening.
A little outline that has been helping for me.
Is this?
In in the packages, that is, in the first five books of the Bible, we got the figures on the sufferings of Christ.
Then when you come to the Psalm, you get the feeling of the sufferings of Christ.
Then in the prophets you get the foretellings of the sufferings of Christ. In the gospel you Get the facts of the suffrage of Christ. In the epistles you get the proof of the sufferings of Christ.
Very good, good. And I love to think of the Psalms. Brother Anderson, you can have a, you can find the Pentateuch there.
Psalms 1 to 41 is the genesis of the Poms, and 42 on to 72 The exodus of the Psalms.
And 7289 Leviticus with the Psalms and 89 to 107 you get Deuteronomy of the Psalms and so on to the.
Numbers rather end Deuteronomy the final.
The last portion of the song I believe you get a Pentateuch there beloved, there in the *.
I've heard it said and I think it's helpful.
That all scripture is for us.
That all scripture is not written a service or directed to us.
So much in the Old Testament director who another people?
That God with blessing on earth.
And.
Then we find that.
It gave them instructions.
But just you guys bringing out all those beautiful pipes shadows, so they're most possible and constructive and excellently truth of the New Testament. But many of the things in the Old Testament if we tried to.
Take that *** address to ourselves at this time we go wrong. That is, we take up arms and go and fight our enemies.
Was entirely contrary to the teaching of our blessed Florida Savior.
When we come to the New Testament, and especially the instruction in the epistles, we have what the Spirit of God addresses through the Church of God and as we're members of the body of Christ, which is the church.
We have special instructions for ourselves living.
And this day and dispensation.
So we see that.
Part all through the word. For instance, when Peter and John would have called down fire, James and John would have called down fire heaven like Elijah. The Lord said you know not what spirit you are up. That will have stood into a day under the law, but it wouldn't do for a day.
Was manifesting grace for he says I came out to destroy men's life. But to say so the mix up 1 dispensation with another dispensation is very misleading. So all those things are helpful for all of us, especially young believers.
To recognize that we need the whole word of God, but we need.
For our day and time and the path that we're following position into which grace has brought us, we need faithful instruction for this very time.
In which our lot is kept in this 14th verse.
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And we have the expression overcome the wicked love. Now he doesn't always present himself to that character, does he? He may present himself in a way that seemed very pleasing. In Hebrews we find Moses.
Suffering the collection with the peace of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.
We're lost here. Could be translated desire.
It's the same word, is it not?
And it takes in all language to the flesh.
Loves to go out. It isn't just something like we speak of in the way of murder or that sort of thing. It's anything the flight takes up with the police itself.
And that's the the thing that's to be avoided. That's not here. We have it all included.
In the lust of the first love, not the world, neither the things that are in the world.
Any man loves the world, the love of the father is not in him. So everything that belongs to the old order of things that we have left, it's like the leaks in the garlic Sabine.
It belongs to another line of things. We've left it and the believer is seen in a new position now. And here's the young man he's.
Is overcome the wicked ones seen in his true life.
Being occupied with Christ, we see that it all belongs to the wicked one. No matter what character it comes in, it may be pleasing.
Now we think of Saw when he was told to slave the Amalekites.
And he brought him the best for an offering to the Lord, but it wasn't acceptable. Was it because he was not obeying the word of God?
It's a question of obedience to the Word of God, as we learn in the early part of this chapter.
Referring to the word world here, brother. It's not this wondrous creation world. Well, it hasn't. It doesn't deal with that question here, but it's this diabolical spirit, beloved, that pervades everything in this scene.
The marvels of God's creative works. Marvelous. I was reading an article in the National Geographic and I was surprised to see that the writer had begun with these words.
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows forth.
His handiwork or knowledge.
And I was surprised to read the account of the telescope.
In California, I think it's Hamilton.
And.
That particular telescope on Mount Wilson had been trained for a long time on that back spot in the wet in the Milky Way. And our Indians talk about their black spot and they say, I mean, puts a, they mean they said just to say God lives there. The Indians say that Amy couldn't say this, the real words of the one true gods.
So they know that word God is up there. But I was surprised when the writer said that.
While they could never discover any lights in that back box.
With the telescope on Mount Wilson, with the new telescope, when he turned that onto that black spot, he fell backwards because of the blaze of innumerable lights of stars. Well.
The world.
'S greatest world's perfect monstrous beyond all descriptions of here, beloved.
It has a different sense. It's this diabolical spirit that pervades everything in this scene, and that's what we're not to love.
Anything that would break that communion with his heart of love for our fellowship is indeed is with the Father.
Jesus Christ, anything that would disturb or cause to break that sweet communion.
Enough to love it.
Of our thinking and our lives.
This is the system, isn't it? Of which God or Satan is the God. He's the God of this world. It's just like Pharaoh was king in Egypt.
Saw Satan is the God of this world. It's a whole system that he is controlling.
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A young Christian in Bolivia said to me, Mr. Smith.
What am I to do, not to love it? And we turned over to Roman spells. May we just look there, friends.
First one, may we just read a few first two firsts there?
I beseech you, therefore, present by the mercies of God, and we have noticed in the translation work with the tense emergence of God, and how can we ever understand the 10 the Moses of God apart from Calgary.
That He present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, Which is your reason, Sir, and be not conformed to this world.
But the transformed by the renewing of your mind.
That he may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will God.
All dear young men.
If you will read carefully the first chapter of the Apostle Paul to the Athenians, you'll find in that first chapter series of.
Blessings which are all heavenly.
Not one is Earth.
Read them, underline them with your pencils, and among those seven specific blessings there that are all heavenly.
You find words like this.
Wisdom and Prudence, I remember asking one of our own brethren when I was a young man to explain those two words, and he said, Eric, Wisdom and prudence come in there as one of those heavenly blessings to think God's thoughts.
Never have forgotten it to think God's thoughts about it, and thus the apostle says concerning this world.
Don't be conformed to it. Don't go along with it.
In any of its aspects, its diabolical teachings and its diabolical practices don't go along with it.
But be transformed? Oh, that's a different word on it altogether.
Hands fall.
What shall we say about transport?
We read that Satan transforms himself into an Angel of light.
He used to be a running lion when I first went to Bolivia for the odd years ago, but today he transformed into an Angel of light.
And he's subtly working as such in this man too, and everywhere, as an Angel of light.
Oh, beloved young men.
He transformed just just the opposite to being conformed. You're transformed and how fast thinking God's thought, I obeying this word, I am solving this truth. There's no other way to transform your soul but by the living word of God with the power of His Holy Spirit.
Trust the need of diligence.
Diligent study the word of God. Well, I don't mention that, by the way.
It's the same diabolic spirit.
That pervades everything. I remember hearing our other flagging one time point of a contract that I thought was so very helpful in connection with the charms of this world and the glory of this world.
Imagine the encounter of Lord Visa in the temptation, how he was taken to an exceeding high often, that He saw all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them in a moment, and fine, but he had no time for him. He had come more from that external glory, and perhaps being a picture one must have been to him.
See the Kingdom of this world and the glory of that. He heard from them, and it only took a moment of time for him to beat them all. But then he turned up with me to sue. Where we read that in the ages of countless he might still the exceeding racism is great.
In his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. So I suppose that deliverance from this world and from the love of it, it is a measure in which we have the person of the Lord even before us and that major to us coming forward.
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Is there a different Brother Smith?
Between the world and the things of the world.
The diabolical spirits the same.
I think all can you get lost brothers? Well, I was thinking that one might be very unworthy, and yet they gone silently.
And the looks of the world. And they're not careful.
Or fill their homes in a way that.
Just because of the world.
So that not to tell us really what conformity to the world is in this world of Romans. And they third verse it says that for I say through the grace given unto me to every man is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. This is the whole principle of the world. That's what worldliness is. And when Satan came and appealed to Adam and Eve in the garden.
It would be a meal was he shall be of God knowing good and evil and himself makes salvation and in order to be exalted they yielded and cup of that tree that had been forbidden. That was disobedience that when Satan came to the Lord, he came with those same three things for the reason that he took of the tree. It says he saw that it was good for food. That was a lot of the flesh.
It was pleasant for the eyes that was the pride in life and that was the most of the eyes and a tree that he desired to make one wise ride of life and that's why she took of those things. Satan attempts at these three things with the Lord, but the Lord Jesus didn't seek his own exaltation.
He had come not to do his own will, but the will of him was sent him and so he overcame because there was nothing in the Lord that responded to that self exaltation. But unless there is something in us, President does respond to self exaltations. And so when we define what worldliness is and the things of the world, it's all that gives us a place before others.
And it can be used as much as spirit of conforming to the world to want to be a great fan among my brethren has to be a great man in the world. And this is the thing that we have to want to guess. That's the thing in which we fail. And so an exhorting children, the family he breaks at the very roots of those things. Both desires attend to govern our hearts and will govern them if we're not walking in communion with the Lord.
As always, speak out of clothes, we speak of our homes, we speak of these things. The great question is, why did I do it? Why did I get that thing? Was it to give myself a place to make a great man of myself? Or was it that I might behave in this world as one who belongs to Christ?
And so it applies to everything, even in our car that we take in the meeting. What an exercise to us when we speak in the meeting isn't doing all ourselves. Or is it to exalt Christ? So you see, the whole principle of worldliness can be very subtle. It can introduce itself into things that we don't realize. And so I'm sure it speaks to my heart that the only way we can overcome this is.
By occupation of that Blessed One, who met every temptation by the Word.
Facade only the glory of the one who has sent him. And so he overcame and now we have his life and we too can overcome because of that life that he has given to us.
Those three things you mentioned by the Gordon.
They, lost in the flesh, lust of the eyes, the pride of life, are developed even in an infinite family.
An infant. The first thing an infant does is put everything in his mouth.
The next thing it wants, everything it sees goes up to the eyes. Lastly, it says, look, I have a new dress, the pride of life. So you see those three things even in an infant. That right. Yeah. And you were speaking about the world. And I just thinking about the three things that should characterize us as believers. There should be a rigid separation from it. James 4/4 Nonconformity Tours is our brother, just reminded us in the Romans 12/2.
And strangership in its one being the two. I think the reason the young man is because.
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The president of base, they have known the father well. How we think of families, child just born and growing just a tiny one and how lonely it is and all of the father. But as it's very to develop, there is a danger of self setting itself forward. We see it develop as our children.
Develop and then how important it is that the word of God should be brought before them and that we should set before them godly principles to govern their lives. If we try and make certain rules and regulations, these things might break down, but if we set the godly principles before them, Why did you do that thing? Was it for self or was it for Christ? Then I believe that's the true government factor. They may argue with us if we try and bring some point as to why they shouldn't do this or that, but if we bring before the.
Is this done to please the Lord Jesus?
Is He the object or is it for self? I believe that this is the principle and how lovely it is to see if our young people develop to see these things that have their place in their lives, that what is done is done for Christ. And we often see Him that young people where this is the thing that is set before them and there is a certain amount of the flash that pieces display itself. But I was praised, except before their soul. These things become properly regulated.
And then they grow into the position of being strong. They overcome the wicked wise. I was very precious to see that this is brought before us in connection with the development stage of life.
I was thinking, brethren of my conversion, and the Lord saved me as a young fellow.
I was in the home of my grandma and that faithful woman read the scriptures to me daily. Pray for this fellow.
One morning I said Grandma accepted Christ.
Last night was my savior, she said to me. That's all she said.
And then she said two things. She said, boy, I want to tell you two things. And I was listening, she said.
The world hates your table.
That's why. And the world will hate you too. And I've never forgotten.
Of this order that we have the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life was the same order. I believe that we have Luke Gospel and it's been suggested that it's.
You were Speaking of progress in the soul.
It was suggested that that possibly the lust of the flesh would be more than which would be the.
Attraction for the younger.
One whereas the lust of the eyes when one gets older, and then the danger, the danger when one gets real old of being trapped by Satan, surprise.
And so it's quite possible that this order has that.
Purpose in it to warn us of these things.
He was thinking, good, that's good, brother. But Paul could say.
That mighty man of God, he could say, I know that in my flesh dwelleth no good thing, no good thing.
I was just.
Going to explain because perhaps all here didn't understand other.
Just speaking about.
Luke referring to the temptation in Luke and to make it clear, in the in the 4th chapter of Matthew you get the chronological order of the temptation that is first you get.
Mandy stones to be made bread.
Then you get.
The medical of the temple and lastly you get.
The devil taking the Lord up to the high mountain and showing him all the kingdoms of the world.
And then the Lord said get the hands fake so that shows up was the last temptation.
For Satan couldn't remain when the Lord told him to get the hint. But Luke, who gives the moral order all through his gospel, departs from the chronological order.
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And he makes the 2nd temptation, the temptation on the mountain where he showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and he mentions specially the glory.
Glory of the world. And then lastly, the temptation on the pinnacle of the temple. Well, that follows the order that's given here in this verse.
Where it says all that is in the world. The lust of the flake. They command these stones to be made. Prayer.
Nevertheless, of the the eyes are left showing them all the kingdoms of the world.
And lastly, the spine of life is the pinnacle of the temple, for that was the religious Center for the Jews and for the Lord. To have leap from that pinnacle and come floating down would have displayed a great tribe.
If he could have had tried and showing.
That he was the Messiah.
Well, the Lord rejected all, and that perhaps was the most subtle of all attempts taken.
Or after a Christian has become weary.
This godless world, perhaps this shows and.
It's sports and so on and so on have become distasteful to him. Yet Satan will come in and just his brother.
Vladimir was saying perhaps the last was the one that gets an older person the pride of life, wanting some place of importance even maybe it might be among God people.
For sad and safe. And it bows our heads in shame to think that some of the more gifted men and teachers that we have ever had among the people of God have been the leaders in division.
Knowing that there was a pride and unwillingness to submit to their brethren and to ever hold that they were wrong. And all times you will see very unworthy people and will be lifted up with.
A pride that will.
Given such stubbornness and unwillingness to yield, his rather wrecked the whole testimony, and perhaps land themselves out of fellowship with their presence, than to admit that they made a mistake.
I was noticing the the order here. Satan temptations.
Fights Satan, takes the Lord up.
Christ, he bit and cast himself down or fall down.
Unless that's just the opposite. God's ways are down first, then up. Even Hamlet himself shall be exhausted. He takes him up to a high point and fights his vision, cast himself down. But that's contrary to God's order. It's always contrary to that birthday that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strengths. They shall mount up with wings as Eagles, who they shall rather not be weary. They should walk.
About things.
Rather than.
Take one little wee step, beloved for Christ, we saw the mountain first.
It's just the opposite to what we think of to 1St.
To first salvation are in the order of the wild for Satan.
But the last temptation was the God, right? That's the character of the enemy was the enemy would take and in this year in our life mentioned here in our chapter.
It's it's direct wickedness. It's.
It's trying to.
Lost the believer who just shipwreck the whole thing.
You said Duluth.
Well, Luke and our chapter both have the same order of the thickness, I believe the last, the last.
The the last thing mentioned the pride of life.
It's it's with the eye open really. It isn't like there's a lot of the flash.
Lust of the eye. But it's something that's open, correct? Cast yourself down.
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If not, why Satan is called awakened one here and also an occasion wicked spirits in heavenly places, because they not made a fact of wickedness is not so much with their fellow man, although that's evil, a violence against Christ, that which would contest his rights of a God delight to honor his beloved sons.
And the weightlessness of Satan has displayed it and hindering us from giving the Lord Jesus the true place of exaltation that belongs to Him.
Draws A marvelous contrast at the end of this pistol. He says ye are of God and the whole world lies in wickedness, and should read him the wicked one, or the contrast that surely is, and how completely separate God sees the believers.
Thank the blessed Lord in his prayer to the Father 17th of John, he says here are not of this world. Can we think of separation than for a crack now in glory after this world sharply that isn't to say that.
We don't cater to the world and we're not defiled by the only way when we in any way turn to the kids or the kids.
It's important value, it's pride. Why? We're just acting contrary, inconsistently to what the Lord says. We're in the world, Brother Mary, but we're not always.
And.
It's the Lord's high priestly prayer. He prays there that these be not taken out of the world, but that they be kept from the wicked ones.
The wicked swamps or how wonderful and high Priestly prayer is my precious saving.
I read a town of a brother who was came in a little late into a meeting and putting out there. The rabbit said we're just waiting for you. He said that Sony put his hat on lockdown again.
He didn't want that place. I heard that Mister Darby came into a general meeting one time in England. I think it was all the bread and rose to their feet. He just walked out and left.
He wouldn't have the praise of his brother. They were going to make a idol out of him like that one. It better get along without him.
It's raised in the end of the 51St. If any man love the world, love of the Father is not in him.
This I believe even a true Christian. I love the world, but we cannot enjoy the world. We cannot go on with its principles and be enjoying the love of the Father at the same time, because the Lord Jesus, the one who was the object of the Father's law, was rejected and cast out here.
It was never governed by those principles that govern the natural heart. And so if we're going to enjoy the Father's love, we must occupy the place in the Spirit that the Lord Himself occupied here. And that's the only way in which we can really enjoy the Father's love. And that's why the Lord is before us with a blessed example.
That we desire to walk in communion and the enjoyment of it by the Lord Jesus walked in that perfectly. He said in John 15. If you keep my commandments, he shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandment and abide in his love. And as soon as we depart from that path of obedience and giving the Lord Jesus his rightful place.
By that measure.
The principles of the world come in and communion is broken by it. Well, I believe this is a special challenge to our hearts, isn't it? How much do we desire to walk in the enjoyment of the Father's love, even in a world like this?
Deeper our communion with the Father, the more we all realize what the world is.
You can't just give.
A definition of the world, and I believe the more one goes on and enjoys the Father's love.
While the more he realizes the character of the world and more and more he realizes what the world is.
I'm going to pass away, it says here.
He that doeth, he that doeth, the will of God abide is forever.
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That's the First Corinthians 7. All of the views of the world is not abusing it anymore. The fashion of this world passes away or as I believe the new translation is not disclosing of it as their own. And there is a certain sense in which we have to use this world and a certain matter, even its fashion than its means of transportation. But we have to be careful that our hearts are not set upon these things. We don't use them as something that we.
Use as going through this world. We don't disclose it as our own. We don't.
Know the streets that our hearts upon it, but we do have to use the world, otherwise it would be impossible for us to go through it. So we find the Lord Jesus.
Use the Ball team was mentioned to us about this. Have we mentioned about Peter running out his board and the Lord used his board well? It was a certain amount of the ingenuity of man to build that boat. Well, the Lord used that, but his heart was on the blessing of Peter, not on the 9th bullet.
Marvelous. Is that the way it's expressed here? That doeth the will of God, provided forever.
The life of the believer is looked at as the believer himself.
Well the language remains after we look over all the whole of life journey. If what has been done for the will of God, what has been done for self is something that's lost.
So as well as done for the will of God is something that abides.
When I put it this way, he was going through this world.
Takes for his.
For his desire, not the things of nature, but the will of God, such an one abides forever according to that desire and that will which he has followed.
The things of this, the desire, the lust of the world passes away too. I was thinking of how nature spends itself.
That poor woman in John Four. It was a sin. Sick soul.
And nature spends itself and gets nothing in.
And the lust, the desire, all that will pass away.
It's even in the engaging in these things.
The heart is never satisfied.
But the one who does the will of God abides forever. All that belongs to this presence, order, things, is going to pass away.
Is that why we get the entities and the Song of Solomon together?
Ecclesiastes tell us some shows there's nothing to satisfy the human Solomon quiet into me that I will tell not my heart from any joy.
So there we find a harvest to be, to be satisfied by everything here in this world.
And let me look at the Father Sullivan, because there the object is too big for the heart is trace. So there is a contrast that the bird has the system, the Spirit of God to show us, and there's nothing here to satisfy the human heart.
But there is everything to satisfy our heart in Christ.
I was struck by that, the verse that our brother Hale called her attention to the Romans.
In the reading of the translation of it.
It's Roman 12.
The third verse.
Yes, it's very first.
I believe that.
Where I say it through the grace which has been given me.
Every man, every man that is among you, not to have my thoughts above what he should think.
But to think so as to be wise, and God is dealt for each of measure of faith.
Think has to be wise. Well, that's divine wisdom, isn't it? If the Spirit of God is willing to believe her.
That that works soberly in there.
Think to be wise.
It's not the natural reasoning, mind.
Developing things, but it's the result of subjections at times.
Until the word of God immediate the result is the thing to be wise.
1 John 2:18-29
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Then we go on.
18 first or did we go back further?
I would say we very well cover the completing verses.
First John 2, verse 18.
Little children, it is the last time.
And as you heard, that Antichrist shall come, even now are there many?
Antichrist, whereby we know that it's the last time they went out from us, but they were not of us, or if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us, but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
But you have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things. I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
Who was a liar but he that denied that Jesus is the Christ. He is Antichrist that denies the Father to the Son. Whosoever denies the Son, the same have not the Father, but either acknowledge of the Son has the Father also.
Let that therefore abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the sun and in the Father.
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
But the anointing which you have received of him abide within you, and you need not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things.
And His truth, and there's no lie, and even as it hath taught you, you shall abide in Him.
And now little children, abide in Him, that when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before that is coming. If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone that doeth righteousness born appeal.
This was the second time the apostle addresses the little children of her face.
The addresses of three members of the family twice.
Three times when the 13th 1St.
And he addresses the.
Then he starts in the 14 first address of the fathers second time.
Saying the very same thing that he first said to them.
That is that they had known him, that is, from the beginning.
Just as though he says, now go on knowing him, there's nothing beyond that.
And he has a word beginning with the middle of the 14th verse with a young man.
That continues through the 17th verse. Now he gives the second graph to the base.
Their danger was being seduced.
Not by the Antichrist, but by the many Antichrist.
We know from 2nd Thessalonians 2 That there is a man coming called that, that wicked one that the Lord shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.
He's also called the Wicked King and the 11Th chapter of Daniel.
And his last mentioned as the false prophets.
Has worked miracles before the beast, and he meets his end in the ascent directly to the Lake of Fire.
In the end of the 19th of Revelation, well, that individual will not appear.
As long as the church is here.
You'll find that clearly and definitely brought out in the second chapter of Second Thessalonians.
So the impossible is not warning the babes as to the coming of this, this person. Who is he going for, who will exalt himself above all that is called God? Or is that his worship as God?
But he's warning against the many Antichrist.
And the world has been full of such Antichrist right from the days of the apostles.
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This is another evil that comes in beside the world. This is.
This is, I suppose we might say, please ask people.
That's different from the world because the frustration is behind this too, because he's not only the goddess or the Prince of this world, but he's the God of this world too. That's ecclesiastical side, isn't it?
Young men are are said to have the word of God Almighty in them, so they're prepared for the effects of these Antichrist and if you look at the.
4th chapter Ephesians. You'll show why they are prepared.
And not not ready to be deceived by the man in the second chapter of 4th chapter repeated.
Himself, and he henceforth be no more children, tossed to and pro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie and wait to deceive.
That's has to do with ministry, but it's the ministry of the Word of God, and that fortifies.
A believer from being deceived by these winds of doctrine.
That are so prevalent on every side.
I remember not so long ago a man came to the door.
And he had some books and I asked him, I said, do you believe that the Lord Jesus Christ came in place? He said no.
No. Well, this is what's happening. He was a Jehovah's Witness.
And beloved, we have to be careful not to receive these kind of people in the House.
In the second Epistle of John we have instructions concerning these fellows.
1St 9:00.
Both have many deceivers.
Are entered into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an Antichrist.
Look to yourself that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.
He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ.
He has both the Father and the sons, if they come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house.
Neither bid him God's speed, for he that biddeth him Godspeed is partaker of his evil deeds. We can do nothing with these kind of people, beloved.
To argue with them is futile and our business is to just shut the door.
And finish with them. It seems hard, but it's God's book. This blessed book tells us what to do. And I remember a sister.
And they generally come around when the man is not home.
And it's wonderful how this, his epistle, this is directed to an elect lady. We don't know who she was, but it's very convenient for these false teachers to come when the man is away. And you know that, dear sister.
Took long a long time to get away from that the evil doctrine that that fellow brought. You just have to obey this book. We beloved close the door.
There are many everywhere. There are many of them around.
And I suppose they will increase.
And the Lord takes us out of this sea.
The verse 9.
Well, there's a meaning there in the originalist that's concrete to the truth.
Going onward, you may have a marginal rendering there into the Inca morgue way to that, or going on with something that's not true.
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Do you think that's all right?
Beyond the truth, would that be included? Well, I think that's true. Yes, that's good.
And that's why I was thinking it was connected with what we have about the Father in some advance on what God is aware.
I was thinking this word, like this word addressed to the babes is very important because we find this continually in Christendom with all the confusion that there is today. And one is first saying he doesn't know where to turn and so he can hear from the Bible.
Buy is everything that he can get is written about the Bible and it only adds to his confusion and so this is a special word addressed to the base to detected once anything that attacks the person of Christ because false God can always attack you to the personal and find that even evangelical Christianity will often attack things that attack the person of Christ.
It's amazing to find that the man that are sometimes called evangelical.
And he's the doctrine being saved and lost and all these things that are attacked.
So that are established, are established, then perhaps the danger comes of the young man. The world comes in. We can become complacent. While we have the truth now, we we're not going to be LED astray by a false teacher.
But Alaska, the world and its and self and perhaps that's the reason why the Japan invitation to the young man who are strong about the world who rise to the missile love for the rational for the Lord. They're not careful to discern between what's false.
They went out from us. Would that be from the doctrine of the Apostles? And then?
These, yes, brother, these are apostates.
These are apostates.
You you get those, yes.
Yes, these are apostates and you get a sick list of them in Hebrew 6.
Apostates.
When this time, when there's a fear, would that be?
The apostle or the place for the apostles, they couldn't say that there wasn't any room for them.
No power. What's up today and I today? Well, these are the and the days of weakness. We must.
We might read that that you quoted Brother Mary from Jude. It's important.
They love it. Verse 3.
When I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation.
That means a salvation common to all Christians doesn't mean that it's a commonplace salvation. It's common to all Christians. It was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that he should.
Earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the Saints, for there are certain men.
And these are apostates.
Crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation.
Or judgment and godly men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God.
And our Lord Jesus Christ, as you said, Brother Mary, here they crept in.
In John they went out.
Well, I've heard some people minister from that not among us, but others.
Talking about using this text to prove of the divisions that are among that has nothing to do with it. Beloved, these are apostates.
That has nothing to do with the sad divisions among gods, dear people.
A very important thing, but was once delivered under the thing.
We have it all in the book, in our hands, you know, being no further revelation.
And we're to contend, earnestly so, that which God has given us.
Satan smiles are corrupted or add to it.
That Brother 13 too, isn't earnestly suspended for the faith in these places are so prevalent around us. It surfaces our hearts a little bit to be astonished this way, because are we evil earnestly to contend for the faith once delivered to the thing?
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We said in a meeting like this, and we hear the deity of Christ, of gold and such things, and we value them, we recognize them as true, but if we alone were confronted with someone who attempted to rob us of these things or to deny these things, are we really furnished?
Earnestly to contend for the faith requires.
A searching of the word all in order to be so equipped and it also I suppose, would expose us with charges of being contentious. I know I was visiting in Scranton a while back and.
They had in the city on a common platform these men who remain these attacks on the person of Christ, and they consider that it was a good occasion for as many denominational representatives as possible to be together for this very wonderful and broad minded.
Attitude. One dear man of God was urged to be present, but he would have nothing whatever to do with it, because he knew it was not a God, and they publicly accused him of being a contentious man.
Well, he says, do born thus earnestly to contend for the faith, and if that makes me contentious, I'm willing to be content.
There's the last times. Last hour I believe is between the new translation.
There is the the last time speaks of the character of the scene in which we're living, which has lot of violence which will eventually bring on the judgment of God, which is right in this Christ rejecting the world ever since the cross of Christ.
The judgment of this world has been pronounced.
The Lord said now is the judgment of this world. It's suspended because God in his infinite grace.
Is winning souls for Christ gathering in the members of the of the Bride until the character of this world in which we're living is a world that's under the judgment of God and things are frankly for that judgment?
It's all about it. Oh God is allowing things to go on and seeking their driven was going to eventually God will step in.
In a solemn way and bring the doom of this guilty scene.
Well, a lot of all these errors, the kind of the early church has given corrective ministry in his word and saw that while brides would carry, they all suffered and slept. Why is the foolish went to sleep, but now God has granted the recovery of the truth.
These same errors are coming in that came into the early Church, and we have in the Word the ministry necessary to meet these things. So it was the character of the last times when when the apostles were here. Now God has grounded the recovery of the truth. That same character comes again, and as we have in the 25th of Matthew, midnight cry has gone out. Britain has been awakened.
The next thing is.
Bright things going to come.
Mention this because the last time, then it is that same thing again today.
The Antichrist has denied as the Father and the Son. The spirit of Antichrist is to deny the deity of Christ. And when the Antichrist itself comes, it will be both the Father and the Son. God-given up all together and man worship.
That's why we're hearing some men when they're saying that God is dead. It's really preparing the world for the coming in of the Antichrist.
We live in very solemn times. We little realize how fast things are developing.
That it really belongs to the final state.
After the church is gone.
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Brother Armages to say that one dispensation lamps over another.
Before the Lord came, while there was a lapping over of dispensations, and now as we get near the coming of the Lord Jesus, there is again a lapping over of the two dispensations, so that many things that we see are taking place at this time.
Really remind us more of what belongs to the tribulation period than this day of grace. Still, we don't want to in any way insinuate.
That we're going to see annihilation. That will be all the break which is gone but the state of things.
That will be will take place.
And to appear events cast are scattered before.
Connection with his 20th verse. But she had an option from the Holy One, and he know all things. I think it's quite noticeable that this is addressed to the babes. It isn't because they were kind of so well established in the knowledge of the truth, but what enabled them believe these things was loyalty apart to Christ.
Many a person who is unable to answer from Scripture the attacks that deny the personal Christ and the work of Christ.
He has within him a sense that there's nothing wrong.
And this is necessary for us to answer these things the moment we detect with a person that there is an attack made on the person of Christ recalling uninstructed repository like this.
Supposing there's someone you love comes along and tells you a very person about this. Do you have to investigate that story to know whether it's true or not versus have confidence and love confidence in the person you say, oh, I wouldn't believe that about him. I know it too well. I have a baby whose heart is in the freshness of the love of Christ. He texts here is something, here's something that is laying something against him and he's the one who died permission.
And rest my salvation.
And so your results have at once and the freshness of heart for Christ was to him will enable us to meet these past. We're not even alone. Perhaps we're not the fathers to be able to bring but it only takes a base to realize there's something wrong. I can tell very nice illustration of what talks about years ago down Kentucky when brother Brown held his feelings. There was a man her guide my name was Eric Gibson Gifford.
Converted in that meeting.
And put him away and we knew very little about his wife and they moved over the park here to Olive Park Connection entirely.
I were driving with a horse and boogie through the country and saw to the house.
When we when we were greeted in the room by the lady, to my surprise, here was this Missus Gifford moved back.
And we hadn't been long in the house when she began to tell us from an experience she had. She said the lady came around selling books.
And she told her that these books would be very helpful to her family, even explained the Bible.
Well, she thought she survived that. Where is he? Where? Where She bought the whole set?
And she said I began to read them and they were, she said they were terrible.
I said, well, the wrong. He says I don't know that they were terrible folks. I said what did you do? She said I put them all in the fire and burnt them up. They were Jehovah Witnesses. Well, there was a soul and had no instruction to dogs. You never been in a reading meeting. They done away before. She had any teaching of the meetings or any instruction whatever, but she had the answer from the Holy Ghost and without anyone to tell her, she couldn't even explain it to herself.
But poor as they were, she turned the whole set of books up.
Cousin tonight and I heard we could say that if a believer knows the truth, he is able to defect anything that does not agree with it.
And that's.
There was also an end to the thing happened here in this very city.
Our brother Clifford Brown used to tell about it.
There was a sister who was not well taught, but her heart was for the Lord. She was in the hospital.
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And if you told her brother Brown that the janitor used to come around and visit with her and talk about the Lord?
For one day he left a little pamphlet with her to read, and he thought she would like it.
And she told brother Branches, I wish you'd look at his, and I just can't get interested in that.
It doesn't sound right to me.
Well attended, picked it up and found it to be the doctrine of these that we've just been talking about.
At that time, millennial dawn.
Well, I believe it's the.
What we have in this version the function from the Holy One that preserves his.
His little children.
From the attacks on the person of Christ.
And it's the Holy One that's sympathetic there. The more we have to do with the holiness of God.
The more clear discernment one will have.
As to what is wrong and the body is connected with air.
See, there is There's quite a contrast drawn here. Satan has looked at in this portion as the wicked one.
Here we have the Holy One.
And the the only one.
The Holy Spirit of God. He is the Holy Spirit.
Because he manifests that one who was always harmless, undefiled, and has now been made higher to him.
That the same thought in June, building yourself up on your most holy faith in contrast to what is spoken of in the rest of the Epistle. These doctrines really thrive in very unholy soil and I believe that that's a very important principle that that which will defend about his being built up in our most holy faith.
The fourth word of the 4th chapter.
Well, the Holy Spirit is in every believer. I believe that's an important point. You're referring to Year of God, little children. Is that the first? Yeah. And have overcome them. Because greater is He that is in you than He that is in the world.
Well, it's a wonderful truth. It's a job that every believer, no matter how young, has the Spirit of God and dwelling.
We learned that in Ephesians, one having believed you were sealed.
That Holy Spirit.
Promise. Now it's true that we were sealed by the Spirit.
And he is the earnest.
But we also have the anointing that was all given at the same time. It's all included in that same one, giving in the spirit.
So every labor has.
The Holy Spirit, however, I believe that our brother, glad he brought out a point that's the most important and that is you and I have the word of God.
And it's through the word of God.
The truth itself, we have had this chapter, we look further on He is the truth. I believe it's the only place we've spoken of quite that way. But it's the truth that here that God uses the word of God, does he not?
A preserved that way the Holy Spirit never leads concrete to this book, and that's one glorious fact belongs the Spirit of Rob never leads country to this blessed book.
Never.
And this is.
Opened up as an option.
Well, that's a special word.
And it seems to be a word that.
Pray before us power.
Energy, power.
And.
The Spirit has an option.
Is something that we should be careful to honor, That is, honor the presence of the Holy Spirit in us and the power for discernment.
But it seems that this is connection here with as being from the Holy One.
The thought of holiness is connected with it and we become careless.
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In our Christian life, palace after our holiness and go on with that which is not holiness.
And I cannot become defiled by sin in purely.
Within power.
Same way, same way in the assembly, wouldn't you say, brother? Yeah, agreed. Not the Holy Spirit to promise her by your steel God into the day of redemption. So Speaking of the Word of God and the Holy Spirit, we must honor both the word of Gospel to be honored. We cannot be careless in that.
And we were thought of the Spirit of God dwelt within it. We can't be killed as very.
What is following that brother?
Holiness is God's nature.
He's a holy God.
And it's God's hatred of everything that contrary to His Holiness.
I believe righteousness has more to do with the judgment of evil as a brother and.
Lord has been separated from evil.
Now.
Well, the name God used is in connection with what He is in His nature, but that includes holiness.
And God can delight only in that which is His holy. He cannot relate in any sin, and if you are of any kind.
And that's according to his nature.
You are speaking about.
The the auction and you also have the word anointing in this chapter. I understand that option and and anointing are the same word.
You have three thoughts of the Spirit of God. You have the ceiling of the Spirit.
You have the anointing of the Spirit, and you have the earnest of the Spirit.
And I got this from Brother Potter years ago, that the ceiling is for security.
The option is for power and the earnest is for enjoyment. That is the having the earnest we have.
That they promise.
Of what's yet to come.
When we enter into our blessings in the coming day.
Serve at the expansion the bills, Mr.
Pharaohs both kind of desperately filled, you tell.
Us whatever every believer has the whole experience who wouldn't be considered. Paul went into the Holy Spirit. If any man are not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his or he is not of him.
So that they believe it doesn't have to go and more cry and call on God to the face with a spirit and keep on crying in the morning until he gets what he thinks he getting the power something's called.
But every believer, when we having believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of God.
And then the other in First Corinthians spell believe that by one spirit I will ties into one God, whether it was your center or so on.
Everybody has a spirit of God, and the Spirit of God is a person.
We can't have a part of the spirit, and one person doesn't have more the spirit than another because it's a person running in the hearts.
Hear that your body is a temple, that the Holy Ghost who is dwelleth, and you shall of God and dwell in you.
What did they leave with? No, the Spirit, just to be completely yielded to His guidance.
And submissive to his leading.
To be, to be thoroughly, fully under his power.
I believe in that case of the day the filling of the Spirit revealed.
The thought of the applicable.
Fully he is a dude has been escaped, right? We're on this present. We might look back to Hatch 19.
In Acts 19 verse six, we have Paul made his hands upon this fruit.
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You'll notice that he's in Ephesus.
The Apostle.
And he laid his hands upon these, and they.
Recipients of the Holy Ghost in Acts 19, number six. Now over in Ephesians 5, we have the apostles speaking to the same group.
The same folks and in verse 18 he says here.
And be not drunk with wine within a success, but be filled with the spirit.
Here's the reception of the Spirit here, if you like to use that term in Acts 19.
And here the same group 8 years old afterwards.
Are enjoined upon to not get drunk with wine.
Wherein is excess or riot, but be filled with the spirit. So there is a difference.
What is the secret?
Well, this question was asked me down just recently in South America.
And the brother wanted to know the difference and I didn't know what to say for the moment. I said, brother, the Spirit of God when he enters your heart makes you a Christian and the filling makes you Christ like.
Oh, he said.
Thank you. And I believe that, beloved.
Well, he filled with the Spirit.
Is characterized by being occupied with Christ because the Holy Spirit would not occupy us with anything else or anyone else.
But only with him, and that's the market being filled with the Spirit occupied with fragments. Well, in that case.
The person that's occupied with the Spirit and getting the passengers with the money called the baptism of the Spirit certainly is not filled with the Spirit needs anything but filled with the Spirit because.
Spirit of God would never bring attention to Himself and occupy us with himself, but only with Christ.
I suppose you would say, beloved, that communion is one of the great secrets concerning the filling of the Spirit. And sometimes we're a little afraid lest we run riot like some dear Pentecostal folk and get mixed up between the difference between the baptism of the Spirit and the filling. That's where they are mixed up.
They're down in South America.
And they've made no proselytes, thank God. But.
It is true that communion has a lot to do with the filling, and it can be.
A daily experience.
And the blessed experience.
I believe that sometimes we fail to recognize this below in our Christian life.
No question what was filled for Spirit as he wrote those lovely epistles.
But if we think of where he was in the bottom of that dark dungeon.
And surrounded by everything that was opposed to the flesh.
And then we think of.
Tom, he was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day.
But where was he? He was banished to an Isle of Catholics.
I do not believe rather than.
Running after prosperity will fill us with the Spirit.
And I believe that's the danger today.
Of our being taken up, being overcharged with the things of this life.
Will not produce what we're Speaking of here, it'll only hinder and it was said of the children of Israel.
As to these things, He granted them their desire when he sent cleanness to their souls, and I believe that's just the opposite of being filled in the spirit.
Some exhortation isn't that it's something that is not so all the time. It might be so, perhaps.
Once, perhaps in 10 minutes, we might see how to communion again. And that's why we're exhorted to the village of the Spirit, and it's allowing the Spirit of God to occupy us with Christ and in this way to control our lives. However, I was just wondering if we should not distinguish between the baptism of the Spirit and the receiving of the Spirit.
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When one believes the gospel of his salvation, according to Ephesians one, he receives the Holy Spirit. But the baptism of the Holy Spirit does not take place today. It took place on the day of Pentecost from the Spirit of God came down and that company were baptized by 1 Spirit into one body.
The same word as you is again on the Gentiles were brought in, but the baptism of the Spirit is never in Scripture spoken of as an individual thing. It's always the collective thing. And it had to do with the beginning of the Church of God on earth. And then as I say, when the Gen. vows were brought in and a company of Gentiles, the House of Cornelius where we have the baptism of the Holy Spirit connected with the Gentiles. But to talk about today is really not to understand what it really is.
And it's a collective thing today is the quest of adding to the church and when one receives the Spirit of God upon believing the gospel is united to Christ in glory and to every other believer on earth, but not baptized with the Spirit. That's why in first Corinthians 12 is the apostle says by 1 Spirit are we all baptized as A1 body.
So when the Lord was here during the 40 days, he says He shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. Then you come to the second chapter in the day of Pentecost will fully come, you get the baptism and the body is formed. And now when a believer.
Is added why he just brought into that which the Spirit of God is already formed on earth.
Could we say that to be filled with the spirit? It remains the spirits complete control on the believer in his life and northern activity.
I was thinking what we have.
This chapter of Ephesians in verse 18.
He's not drunk with wine. We're in success, but it's all the spirit.
Well, I mean we have the previous 17 verses.
Hammond can take place, get rid of the trash and all these girls will fill the place. It gives us many warnings in that scaffold.
From chapter 5, verse one, verse 17.
Then that follows be filled with the spirits.
All these things should be thrown overboard, so to speak, and allow the spirit to think. Yes, and it's not only in the meeting and not only has to do with spiritual things, but as we read on, we see that it brings in the behavior of lives and husbands and servants and masters. And it's just as much being filled with the spirit to act properly as a husband or a wife as it is to be.
In connection with worship.
The sorrow of God, then, should guide us in everything, both in our natural relationships and in our business relationships and in our assembly relationship. The Spirit of God is the only one who is really to control the life of the Christian. Whenever it's otherwise, we're really out of communion. We find the beautiful examples of those who were filled with the Spirit and Book of Acts.
When they said to the apostles that were brought.
Before the San Diego by what power have.
Having performed this miracle, says Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost and brother, and he tells about the power of the name of Jesus. Well, the same man, Peter, the night of the Lord betrayal, he was full of himself. So a man that's full of himself has to be.
Has to be humbled that a man had full of the spirit so can use him and God can honor him as he did with Peter.
For the last one, Peter wouldn't eat with the Gentiles. He wasn't filled with the spirit. That was the selfish motive and.
Was not a God at all.
And you find Paul filled with the spirit, and yet when he and Barnabas had a contention about Mark, I thought was either bottomless or Paul were filled with the spirit of advocate, because Robert said was very sharp, although Paul was ranked, but the thing of him being filled with the spirit when he fed them.
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Have sharp things in reply to Barnabas.
So it shows that we know as far as he said he was a good man, and for the Holy Ghost that was characteristic of his.
Of his testimony.
But times when he acted just.
Was something personal before him. He was out of chameleon and it was not filled with the spirits.
Of the Spirit they call it priest. God shall slate thee, thou white water, if they whitewashed water.
Ask the question, just answer. It isn't Brother McNulty.
People of the recycling bone to workout to apologize. The Lord Jesus never had to apologize.
They were the only one who was ever filled with the Spirit of God. Wasn't he justified? In the spirit means that every act of the Lord's life, the Spirit of God.
Justified Him for it. Nothing was done without the guidance of leaning of the Holy Spirit.
Believing of the contention between the small carnivals doesn't the choice that we can do a right thing in the wrong way right right involved right and not wanting to take marvelous along or John Mark Williams, but to allow the place to get riled up about it with your home Muslim and this should exercise it's because sometimes when we.
Think we're doing the right thing? We excuse ourselves for the manner in which we do it, which may not be by the Spirit at all.
Because a lot of trouble and sorrow do we get in this 22nd version both Jewish and Christian apostasy.
The way I understand it, Brother Lundy and the 22nd verse, who is he who is the liar? But he that denies that Jesus is the Christ that was the Jewish heir, denying that Jesus was their Messiah. But then in the last part of that 22nd verse.
He is an Antichrist that denies the Father and the Son.
Has more of the gentile air.
Now that's what you see in Christmas today, isn't it, brother? Yes, Father would would give us Christianity, wouldn't it?
The Father.
And the son.
Know that we have the full revealed truth now of the Father, and the Son will be not. And that's what we've been denied.
By the apostates of Christianity.
But it's true that in the end, these two apostasies will join.
It's like the whole world joining once more.
As it was in the Book of Acts, kings of the earth cast themselves together.
Against God and his Christ. And so it will be in the last stage when the apostasy is full blown, but not to be the joining of these two apostasies. However, we have here the spirit of it, do we not?
It was translation in this 22nd verse it says he is the Antichrist that denies the father and his son.
Do not take that the but the enterprise actually does as the Second Thessalonians too, that he has God sent in the temple of God, showing himself he is God. That'll be a Jewish Antichrist in that day. You'll be a Jew who will, who will deny that Jesus is the Christ and we will presume to be that Christ, will he not?
Some of us ask the question about fearlessness.
When he denies the Lord.
But that's not what this is talking about. Peter denies that he knew the Lord. That's different from denying the Lord and His person, denying the son person.
This will be full blown apostasy when it takes place, but the chapter we have here particularly is the spirit of it. Is it not that we have to be careful of today spirit?
Of an airline.
Anything that would deny the truth concerning the person, when the work of Christ would be that, would it not?
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You can see how rapidly the world is preparing for us to the Antichrist and the denials of falling the sun, Unitarians and Universalists.
Your whole witnesses, 7th Day Adventists, Christian Scientists and Mormons, they're all agreed on one thing.
They they denial really of the Trinity of the Father on the front. So it shows that when the time comes, how all these different costs will quickly unite and accept the Antichrist and then modernism is just another form of the same thing.
Modernist denies the day of the event.
Even if some of the leading evangelists are going on and disregarding the fact of.
The of the teaching of these modernists going on to modernistic churches and so on.
Yes.
You made an interesting statement.
But certainly the repetition of things that took place even the time of the apostles.
I was interested in that statement because if you go back to Colossians where you get headship there, the heritage, you'll find that the heresy of Colossian, it was a heresy. It was the putting of the Lord Jesus on the same basis as the gods of the heathen.
And thus this matchless epistle of Paul to the Colossians of.
For by him in verse 16 of chapter one, he is the apostle coming out in all the power and unction of the Spirit of God.
For by him in verse 15, who is the image of the invisible God, the first born of every Greek heaven.
Invisible minions or principalities or powers.
All things were created by Him and for Him, and He, and by before all things and by Him, and He is the head of the body of the Church in England, spawn from the dead, and in all things He might have the preeminence, for it pleased the Father that in Him is a matchless defense on the part of the apostle against the modernistic. When I was a student we called it the rationalism of straws and that.
That.
Group 7.
The rational and it made shipwreck of many of the students of my day, and thank God the Lord and His mercy delivered me from it, for it was taught me every day during tears I was there.
All beloved.
It's the behind the door, and here we have it, right here in the days of the apostle.
And the apostle comes forth with this matchless description of our precious Savior.
Beloved, He is God over all things, blessed forever.
Our precious Savior.
And when I was delivered from sectarianism, I came across a group of people in the town where I was preaching, in a city called in Australia.
And I noticed a nice hall full of people willing to be, and they seem to be active in the things of God.
And I went to see them.
But some of them didn't have the language of that blessed shepherd. And one day I said to one of the leading men.
I said, Sir, do you appeal that the Son that Christ, and he says I believe he was sun in time.
And I discovered that that was a group of Raven brethren. Oh, beloved. And you know, Brother Brown made a statement to me one day, he said, Brother Smith.
When you were a young man like I was, they were the most numerous and the richest among us.
That's what he told me.
They're very numerous in Australia.
And they have a peculiar way of following up anyone who is interested in leaving sectarianism. And do you know that their literature followed me round all round New Zealand and even into Bolivia?
And I burnt the whole business. Beloved Satan is behind all this.
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This is the work of Satan and how subtle even in the days of the Apostle Paul.
But what a matchless epistle we have here.
What a wonderful official is. It's funny. Third verse is really very solemn, isn't it? Whosoever that I have the Son, the same hath not the Father.
But here that I acknowledge that the Son hath the Father also.
Some who have italics that the last phrase is all in italics, but I might mention that it's in the new translation.
The whole verse. And I say this because there are those who say, well we all believe in the same God.
But Isaiah, this version tells us that if a person does not believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, he does not have the same God that we have either. Acknowledges not the Son, the same hath not the Father. The true God of the Bible reveals in Christianity is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to deny his theories is not to have the true God Law. And they have a God of their own imagination.
One that they have made-up for themselves. And we have to bear this in mind because it's not so that we all have the same God. There must be a recognition of the deity of the Lord Jesus to have the Father read the last version of the 5th chapter of of first John or the 20th verse and 5th chapter.
And we know that the Son of God is found and have given us an understanding that we might know Him. That is true. We are in Him that is true, even in His Son Jesus Christ.
This is the true God and eternal life. Now, little children, keep yourself from idols.
Now this is seems to me very important because.
Looking on the time when the Church is gone from this world.
This world will be wholly given over its idolatry again.
Even even gone, when he comes down in the last attack, will be spoken of as an idolater.
As Israel as a nation will take up with idolatry far worse than they've ever known before.
This world will be given over to idolatry fleet gambling.
But we have this before us, this verse. Jesus, He's the true God.
Children, little children, keep yourself in mind. Anything that would turn our hearts away from Christ as the center.
Is idolatry.
Very interesting to notice it's John who said that must be there is a their little children and keep yourself to my noise. Mine is John said when he leaned upon Jesus bosom and there was certainly no room for an idol in between those two but feed and fallen afar on from a nine who came in between turning beside. That's very interesting for me to see that it could work John who said that the one who leans upon Jesus was no chance of the night had become between those two.
It's a very important word to it, the 24th word that's therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning.
There is a principle there that we can apply in different ways.
You know, lots of people say well.
Certain practices and certain groups of Christians have been carried on for years. Why shouldn't we continue with those?
Those practices have been continued maybe for hundreds of years.
But if we're going to be dying.
As to our assembly position, as to our meetings.
As an Assembly of God.
We can't look at the history of the Fathers or the Reformation or the days of.
Wesley, we have to go directly to that which is from the beginning. How did they meet at the beginning?
For what purpose did they gather together at the beginning?
Well, we read in the 20th of Acts that on the first day of the week the disciples came together to break bread. Well, when we meet together to bring bread on the first day of the week.
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We're not looking at the history of the church after the apostles or anything that was introduced in those times. We're going back to that which is from the beginning.
And then there's the ministry.
The meetings of God's people to turn to 1St Corinthians to get guidance as to assembly meetings and so on. So we continually must go back to that which is from the beginning.
Well, there's a very important principle that's contained in this verse. Although I now plot the apostles, primarily speaking now is the person of Christ.
Occupation with him.
And that is really what preserves the believers abiding.
With that which is from the beginning.
He's Speaking of what's in the first person. If this was.
Well, you can take it to you. In Christendom, there's a common expression.
Well, our church teaches so and so though I was talking to a Lutheran preacher one time, I believe he was a real Christian, but when it came to certain things that I pointed out to him in connection, one was with baptism as to whether.
They had anything to do with salvation. Well, he says our Church teaches so and so. Well here the Immaculate says go back to that which is from the beginning. That was our church teaches. So any innovation that comes in along the line from the days that the apostles were here and communicated to us the divine revelations that were given them is something that is not from the beginning.
So they're just endless errors that have been introduced. We have to avoid them. Always be careful to go back to that which is from the beginning.
All good to see, even in his day, the breakdown of what he was setting up in testimony on the earth as an apostle.
But John's ministry continues to the end and gives us that which would sustain us even in the days when everything is broken down.
When all the outward foundations are destroyed, we have still that John's ministry that preserves us in our souls, because he ministers the person of Christ to us, and that eternal life which we have is no one can take from us.
It's true that John wrote his books.
After the destruction of Jerusalem said regularly.
Paul and Peter wrote before the destruction.
Hebrews was written very shortly before Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans.
But after the even that center here on Earth was destroyed by the Romans.
After that's destroyed, then we get the person of Christ.
It was a breakup of what began on the day of Pentecost, that is as to Jerusalem as a center that was broken up with still prison of Christ abides.
How could this well to be together in this way and speak well and then blessed woman?
I remember when I started out in the work in 1915, on the 1St of August, an old brother with his white beard put his arms round me, a Scotsman, and he said, Eric, speak a good word for the Lord Jesus. And that has stayed with me all these years, Beloved, speak a good word for the Lord Jesus.
How? How it must please his heart to hear a few of poor sinners like we have saved by the grace of God, beloved, talking about that precious one.
The emergence of God's glory. Choose my brother.
Named the brother Smith.
That man, I was telling you the other day, but that belly button.
That's the converted man Slayer.
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Effect through the.
That's the comparison, the blood of Jesus Christ and more say that he was at the very energetic mind for the Lord, a fearless man.
And I remember being at the railway station one time.
And this man was there in the station, and several other young men along with myself that were the Lord, even with this man at the sailor station.
They were waiting for a train to pass through the little town. We're aware.
And they were looked at for 50 or 60 people standing on the platform outside waiting for the train.
Well, this man bully, when the heat gets up and he gets inspect the door, gets his back to the railroad tracks, the face of the crowd and he starts to sing a hymn.
But it's over 60 years ago since I heard him singing that hymn, and I've never forgotten that. And the words of them were he took my feet from the miry clay and set them on the Rock of Ages and they sang. That came through.
And then, and then when he got through, he turned to us. We were standing close by. He turned to us. And the other sense I've never forgotten, he says, Boys.
Never be ashamed of Jesus, He died for you.
I've never forgotten those words that at that very land and a pair of preach on the top of his name used to drive me. He increased and and his business a little bit after you said he went from the cool wagons to the furniture bar and he was having a furniture barn through my hometown sitting up on the box in the corner with not driving the horses down below the burn your car going through the Times Square and my own town.
And he was preaching the gospel all the way through the top of the furniture line is the horse were going along preaching Christ calling in the sinners to come to the seizure. I can always see him in that connection. Every opportunity he breaks from the top of his cold wagon goes in the streets of Belfast Today he went along.
And every opportunity reaching Christ.
Never made a shame voice. Never be ashamed of Jesus. He died for you.
Those words have been my rolling my heart so for over 60 years.
I'd like to tell a little story, beloved, if you pardon me.
I was talking to a skeptical Dr.
And he was telling me about his good bringing up.
Of his genealogy and his associations in life.
And extolling his genealogy. And he said to me, you know, Smith, you've had a good bringing up to, haven't you? I said, indeed I have. He brought me up out of one horrible bit.
And set my feet upon the rock, and put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto God.
And he said.
That's all he said.
Well, that's a good bringing up the love. And I was thinking of the children of Israel. They ate unleavened bread, and that's bread of affliction.
Why? I asked the Jew, an Orthodox Jew, on one day what it meant.
Unleavened bread, he said. Bread. Bread of reflection, I said. How he says it was terrific, but that the children of Israel might never forget their deliverance from the hand of Pharaoh. And may we never forget, beloved, from whence we've been digged in sovereign Greece.
Poor sinners, that we are saved by the grace of God.
Oh, may we never forget.
Was it cost that precious Saviour of ours to to purchase our full and free salvation?
It's for the Savior we have.
The story from the Maxillary reminds me of what we have in 13th chapter of Hebrews.
And verse 7.
Remember that.
That remember them which have the rule over who have spoken on you, the word of God.
Now that's not the man you've been Speaking of is now with the Lord.
And you remember what he said you say about 60 years ago?
Well, we're told to remember such.
And we've spoken on you the word of God. I suppose the apostle Paul is Speaking of those who had not only spoken the word of God, but had lived it out before them. But then they've gone. They've passed on.
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So what the contrast we get in the next verse? Jesus Christ?
The same yesterday and today and forever. He still remains, although we are remember those who have gone before.
Spoken untrust the word of God, but they're gone now we can remember them, but oh how precious that verse Jesus Christ.
He remains in all His love and grace, able to keep us until alone when He comes to take us home. And that's been very precious to my heart.
There are many we think God will pass on whom we love feeling spoken on once the word of God.
For instance.
Remember stops. But now that's passed on. But we have one who remains. But he remains. How precious.
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