Detroit Conference: 1961
Table of Contents
Revelation 2 & 3
Prov. 11:1, Rom. 8:18, Ezra 8:15
Genesis 26
John 14
John 14 & 15
John 5:19-29
Zechariah 3
Address—P. Wilson
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Detroit, October 1961 address by Paul Wilson.
Second last book Zechariah.
Chapter 3.
Might read the last two verses of chapter 2.
And the Lord shall inherit Judah.
His portion in the Holy Land.
And shall choose Jerusalem again.
Be silent, O all flesh before the Lord.
Where he has raised up out of his holy habitation.
And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing on his right hand to resist him.
The Lord said unto Satan. The Lord rebuked the old Satan. Even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuked thee.
Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the Angel.
And he answered, and spake unto those that stood before him, saying.
Take away the filthy garments from him.
And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to fast from thee.
And I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
And I said, let them set a fair minder upon his head, So they set a fair miter upon his head.
The clothing with garments.
The Angel of the Lord stood by.
The Angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua, saying.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, If thou wilt walk in my ways, if thou will keep his my charge.
Then thou shalt also judge my house.
And shall also keep my court.
And I will give thee places to walk in among them that stand by.
Here now, O Joshua, the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee, for they are men wandered at.
Bold I will bring forth my servant, the branch.
For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua, upon one stone shall be seven eyes.
The whole I will engrave, the engraving thereof saith the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.
This may sound like a strange chapter for the gospel.
But I believe we'll find it's here.
In the same form, on the same basis.
The same principle in which we know it.
Now when we come to the end of the second chapter of Zechariah.
We find that God is going to inherit.
Judah. His portion in the Holy Land.
If anyone comes to you and tells you that God is true with Israel.
You can tell them that that is not true.
I've had people, Christians do that insist that God will never again take up the seed of Abraham.
Israel on Earth?
Such a statement is illogical, and it's untrue.
God has promised to do it.
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And he will keep his word.
When once his word is passed, said the poet, when he has said, I will.
The thing shall come at last. God keeps his promise still.
Man may break his promises. God never.
God has promised Abraham that his seed should possess that land.
And that in him all nations of the earth should be blessed, not merely people out of the nation.
That hasn't taken place yet.
God's promises to Abraham have not been fulfilled in that sense.
That they are going to be.
He's going to fulfill them.
Is going to rise up and he's going to give Israel the land of Palestine. Oh, you say, But they have it.
Let me ask you this.
How do they have it?
Do they have it as God's portion in the Holy Land?
I've seen plain bold statements by Israeli leaders.
That they no longer look upon Palestine as a Holy Land.
They look upon it as a national act.
Holiness isn't what concerns them.
National pride and integrity.
They are there to get their land that they believe is there.
But do they have it?
They have a part of it.
May I make this statement?
That the part they want most they don't have.
The part that is valued most by the Jew is the old temple site.
On Zion.
And they don't have it now why do they not have it?
You know, it's a strange thing.
The that spot, that Old City of Jerusalem that's in the hands of the era.
That spot is claimed by the Jews.
Held by the Muslim by the Muhammadan.
And the Christian wants to claim.
3 Religions on Earth, Christianity, Judaism, Mohammedanism.
The three great religions of the world.
All want that spot.
And the Mohammedan has it, and he intends to keep it.
And on the site on which David's temple was built.
Correction God's temple.
David supplied the materials and Solomon built it.
But on that site now stands the Dome of the Rock.
Correct name for it.
That the mall is a mosque.
And you know, the Jews have enough money scattered around the world.
To pay a million times what that spot's worth.
But it wouldn't make any difference how much money was offered for it. The Mohammedans wouldn't accept it.
And to keep it, you know, their old story is that Mohammed descended from that spot to heaven.
That false prophet.
Came into power.
Not by a teaching of grace by the sword.
I've had occasion to look a little into some of the the Garys of Mohammedanism.
And my my, how anybody can read the Koran and think that it has any divine sanction is a mystery to me.
Think of a story like this.
That the bridge to this scene, this heavenly Mecca that they're talking about.
Is as thin as a saber's edge.
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And you walk over that to get there.
When you get there, everybody is going to, each person is going to have his own bowl of milk.
And a lot of Fair maidens.
Utter nonsense.
Oh God, let God be true in every man life.
But when God rises up, he's going to give that people his land, the Holy Land, and he's going to inherit Judah, his portion in the Holy Land.
Coming.
Of course we know that.
Mohammed and hoses, that is, he holds the old city of truth. May I also make this remark from Luke 21 The Lord himself said, Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Jenga until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Well, what do we mean by the term the times of the Gentiles? The times of the Gentiles began when he turned, when God turned the Jew over to Nebuchadnezzar.
In BC 606.
It's been it has been Gentile supremacy over the Jew ever since.
And the Jew has been in their land part of the time.
Under the protection of gentiles.
When the remnant went back, they went back under the power of the Persian government.
When the Lord came into the world, the Jews were there by sufferance of the Romans.
They're back. They're back there now.
By the aid of the West.
But they don't have Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled, you say. Well, didn't they just make Jerusalem their capital?
Not the Old City, Not the Old City. There's a new city they call Jerusalem. The Old City is the Old City of Jerusalem. And that's what the Lord talked about. Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. Well, we know when they began. When will the times of the Gentiles terminate? When the Lord Jesus comes out of heaven to execute judgment.
And according to Daniel Two, he will come out as a stone cut out of the mountain without hand.
And will spite the image. That's Gentile sovereignty at the time.
On its feet.
And the whole image will be broken to shred.
Broken to pieces and will become like chaff, and the wind will carry it away.
And then the Lord Jesus will inherit his portion, Judah his portion in the Holy Land.
But then I want what I want to bring out tonight about the gospel is this.
While God can do these things, He will never do these things unless he has a moral race in it.
His moral nature, his moral carrier.
Must be maintained at all costs.
Now God may change his ways of dealing with men from time to time.
But his moral character, his nature, doesn't change.
And if he's going to give the Jew that city?
The old City. And he's going to allow them to have a temple again, and he's going to dwell in their midst. There must be a moral cleansing of the Jew.
For the Jew has gone on away from God, seeking the mammon of unrighteousness generally.
With no thought of God.
Well, the time approaches when God is about to do great things for Israel.
But first, they're going to pass through the time of Jacob's trouble.
They're going to pass through a time of affliction where God has said in their affliction they will seek me early.
He says I will go and return them to my place.
Now when he says I will go and return to my place.
He means he came from there and he's going back.
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I will go and return to my place until they acknowledge their offense.
In their affliction they will seek me early.
Now here we find.
And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord.
And Jock and Satan, Satan standing at his right hand to resist.
Whatever God purposes to bless a people.
Satan is there to resist.
If a Sinner came in here tonight without Christ.
Satan and his followers had his emissaries follow you in here.
To resist your acceptance of Christ.
He stands at man's right hand to resist.
Here he's standing at the right hand to resist God's blessing, Israel.
And.
Read the third verse before we're going to 30 now. Joshua was clothed with filthy garments.
And stood before the Angel.
Now the Angel of the Lord so often appearing in the Old Testament.
Is more than an Angel.
I believe we're brought into the immediate presence of God here in figures.
Now why is Joshua standing before Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord?
Is Joshua there? The high priest interceding for Israel? No, not at all.
Joshua doesn't say a word.
Never read of a thing that Joshua says.
But Joshua thy freezes, standing there as the representative of the people.
And as the representative of the people, he stands there clothed in filthy garments.
Depicting.
Here Israel's condition before God.
Clothed with filthy garments.
That's why I say that when God rises up to bless Israel.
He's going to have to have a moral basis for doing it.
He is going to do it in keeping with his career.
Now God loves the poor guilty Sinner today.
But he will never save him short of the work of Christ, because the work of Christ has glorified God in respect of sin.
This idea, you know that God is too good to punish sin and he just the sort of man's idea today he's a sort of a grandfatherly type person who is going to overlook sin.
That's the devil's lie.
God is more holy than to behold iniquity.
God is going to punish sin.
And he will either punish it in the Sinner or in the Sinner substitute.
God must maintain his career, and he'll never bless the Sinner at the expense of that.
You know the reason so few people are saying.
They don't know what it is to be lost.
Some years ago, I said to a brother in Los Angeles concerning a young man who was coming to the meetings with some regularity. That is, at least to the gospel means.
I said, you know the brother I spoke to, I it was Mr. James Ryan. I said, Brother Ryan, tell me.
Is that young man saved?
I haven't been able to figure it out.
He says no, he's not safe.
And I'll tell you why he's not sick.
He was never lost.
What do you mean by that?
It meant that that young man never knew what it was to see himself guilty before God.
Young man was a moral, clean, upright young man, and he was proud of.
And he sort of felt that that would satisfy golf.
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The devil has all sorts of such lies abroad, you see in just the new turn on an old lie.
In the Garden of Eden, he said to Eve.
You will not surely die.
Now, he says, God won't put the Sinner in hell.
God is too good. Then he was telling you that God was keeping back something that was for their good. Now he's saying God is too good to do it, but it's just the old lie with a new twist, telling people that God won't do what he said.
Now if you go through scripture, time, place after place, you'll see the same truth brought out.
That when a man gets into the presence of God and sees what he is, he sees that he's guilty.
He sees that he's lost.
To go to Isaiah 6.
Isaiah the prophet.
Call my God to issue a pronouncement of judgment on the people of Israel for their wicked for their sins.
But before Isaiah can carry the message, he needs preparation.
And so he sees the Lord high and lifted up, and his crane filled the temple, and the Seraphim The Seraphim are there.
And they cry holy, holy, holy, as the Lord of hope.
When Isaiah gets a glimpse of the loftiness of that person and of that glory.
Just a little glimpse of the holiness.
He says War is me.
For I'm a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. Now, God hadn't said one word to Isaiah about his unclean lips.
He would only given him a glimpse of his own glory.
Holiness of majesty of that person, don't forget.
That John's gospel tells us when Isaiah said that he saw the glory of Christ. These things said Isaiah's when he saw his glory and spake of him.
That brought Isaiah down. And then Isaiah finds that when he cries out that he's lost. He's undone. He's unclean dwells in the midst of a people of unclean lips.
Then flew one of the cerebellum and took the live coal from the altar with the thong, and it touched his lips.
Oh yes, it was a cold from off the altar.
Spoke of the sacrifice.
And God had to cleanse him.
Then flew.
That didn't say. Then came one of the.
Then flew one of those Arabs. As soon as the Sinner is ready to say I'm vile, I'm lost, I'm undone, God is ready to come in and save him in a hurry.
Said to somebody, to two young men a week ago tonight.
Who wanted to talk about getting saved after the meeting?
I said remember this, that God is more ready to save you than you are to be saved.
Well, one of them felt he was pretty much ready, but God is still the one that wants to bless.
Then flew under the sun.
15th of Luke What is it? Tell us.
There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over 1 Sinner that repented.
That doesn't say over 1 Sinner that believes, but merely over 1 Sinner that repents.
When Isaiah said, woe is me, for I'm undone of a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, it was repentance.
Joy in heaven, joy in the presence of the angels of God over 1 Sinner that repenteth.
Or think of the joy in heaven tonight over sinners on earth that are owning to God, that they're sinners willing to accept threats.
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We sometimes sing, you know, joy is among the angels and the heart of God.
Some people read the 15th of Luke as though it said the angels were rejoicing.
Put his joy in the presence of the angels of God.
It's the joy that begins in the heart of God.
And echoes out in his presence with the heavenly beings.
Ever been with a soul that was broken down about his sins and he wept before God and only he was a Sinner?
Didn't you? Didn't you feel some of the joy that began in the heart of God?
All we share is joy when we see such an experience as that.
Take another case.
Yo, perfect and upright man whose dude evil.
Broadco says that about him.
And they lead him through all those 40 some chapters to let him see his need and see how God can bless him when he sees it, and finally goes to the place and he says I'm flying.
All of them God's ready to flip? Job asked to learn that there's no good in joy.
When he gets in, what brought it to him? When he got into the presence of God?
When he saw God something A glimpse of God's holding. Take Peter.
The Lord didn't say anything Peter about his sins.
No, he just put some some of the fishes to see into his boat.
You know what he saw? He saw the glory of the one that the 8th Psalm says he has control over whatsoever passes through the paths of the sea.
If you take it out of the sea and put it in the Simons bowl.
He saw the glory of the one that brought it to him.
And he fell down at his feet, and he says, report from me, from a sinful man, O Lord.
The Lord didn't say one word to him about his sin.
But he just let him get a little glimpse of the glory of his person, and Simon felt his sin.
But Simon knew there was goodness in his heart, for he fell down at his feet and asked the Lord of the Park.
As much as said, well, if anybody goes away, you will have to.
I'm going to get as close to you as I can. Falls down in these streets.
Well, do you think you got blessed?
Here we find it.
The representative of the Jewish people, the representative of the Jerusalem, stand before the Lord here.
And his clothes and filthy garments.
Do you think God will take a Sinner into heaven and filthy garments?
I think God will bless Israel on earth in filthy garments.
We sometimes sing about the prodigal. Though clothed in rags by sin defiled, the father did embrace his child.
I suppose that seems correct, although we never read in the 15th of Luke about his clothing.
But it came from the poor country.
He came back. He'd been out in the fields.
Outness, cleanness to feeding, feeding this wine.
Wanting to eat what the pigs ate.
What a place for the father's son.
Father that had a house and a lot of servants and had every goodness in it. And here's his son often that feels feeding foul from the foreign fields feeding swamp.
What do you think of a Sinner today?
All. There are lots of them here in Detroit tonight.
That are eating what the swine would be.
They're degrading themselves lower than the swine.
That's a fact.
But when the father takes him into the house, does he take him in and his rags? No.
It tells the servants to put the best robe on it.
What's the best?
It won't take. He might. He might receive him in his in his defilement. He might welcome him in his defilement.
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They never received him into the house that way.
He puts on him, he puts the best robe on him before he takes him into the house. He's going to be suited to the house before he gets there. And you and I are going to be fully suited and fitted for the presence of God. This morning we had a taste of it. We were able to draw near into the holiest, into the very presence of God, with every right and title to be there.
So the work was all done that fitted this book.
We didn't approach on any merit of our own. We didn't approach on our on our faithfulness or on our on the basis of our faith.
But purely on the basis of what Christ has brought.
Well, now here is the Lord. Is the Lord going to allow Satan to resist this?
Satan would like to keep Israel from ever being blessed, Keep Jerusalem in ruins.
The Lord sent him to Satan. The Lord reveals thee.
O Satan.
You know, people don't know the glory, do not know the glory of Satan.
The greatest creature, probably, that God ever created.
Worried of it in the 28th of Ezekiel.
The glory of that person.
Michael the Archangel, when he contended with the devil, disputed disputing about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation.
Michael didn't dare tell Satan what to do.
He couldn't say, Get thee behind me, Satan, And yet people try to use that language.
No, we do not know the power and the greatness of Satan if we try that.
The Lord rebuked thee, O Satan. The Lord rebuked the O Satan.
Even the Lord that has chosen Jerusalem.
Now there are several points about this God's dealings with.
Joshua as a representative of the people.
First of all, we see him in his filthy garments. Now a high priest certainly had no business being clothed with filthy garments, but as the representative of the people he was so.
He represented the condition of the people. Now Satan says you to God. Is it where you can't bless him? You can bless that people look at him.
God says the Lord would.
The Word says the Lord rebuked the old Satan.
The Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuked thee.
What about chosen?
I like that word.
Chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world.
It's not a precious word chosen.
People say I don't understand why God chose me. I remember talking with a man in Denver one time.
And he says, why? You make it sound like a mystery why I'm saved.
I said it is. I don't know why.
He's trying to tell me that he was saved by faith, and I said yes, you were, but where did you get the faith? He said I had it.
I said you contradict scripture that says that faith is the gift of God.
And he argued and argued about what he had and how how he did it.
I said, all I can say to you is if you ever get to heaven, you will make a lot of discord there.
Because they're singing there about the lamb that redeemed us. And you're going to have to sing about your good sense and your faith and all you did.
You'll be out of harmony there.
He says. You make make it sound like a mystery why I'm safe.
Well, never worry about this in preaching the gospel. If somebody said, well now am I chosen?
The answer is simple.
Will you accept Christ as your Savior?
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You accept Christ now tell you definitely your chosen.
And you just turn this subject right around and put the issue right on him. Will you accept Christ?
If you'll accept Christ, you can say yes. You're one of the chosen.
The Lord that has chosen Jerusalem rebuked thee.
Is Satan going to frustrate the purposes of God? He.
Never. Never.
Fourth Verse. And he answered, and spake unto those that stood before him.
Saying take away the filthy garments from him.
Oh, he's going to get rid of all that filth now.
The Lord has ordered it so.
One thing you will not find in this chapter is the explanation of how it's done as we find it in the New Testament.
But the facts are stated here, not the how take away the filthy garments.
Suppose a man were to say, well, now I have done this and I have done that. I kept the law. I have done. I have gone to church. I paid the tithe. I have done everything. I don't owe any man anything. I've never defrauded any man. I read the Bible regularly and it just gives you a list like that.
Well, that saving no.
Not a thing he can name that he does will save.
Built his arms.
All our righteousnesses are as filthy rats.
I said to someone the other day they were talking about.
Armstrong ISM.
One of the worst of the coats.
Growing rapidly. Of course, you can expect anything that's bad to grow in this world, because Satan is a God and Prince of it. It's a natural habitat.
For things like that to grow, Mr. Brown came out to California 1 Winter and he says, my he says if we have a geranium and a pop and it'll bloom while we carry it from window to window and water it and do all kinds of things to it to get up one room on it. And he says you treat them out like weeds out here, they grow up along your fences as high as your fences, and you knock them down, You treat them like weeds.
He says this must this is the natural habitat for geranium.
Morning.
Well, that's the way in this world. It's the natural habitat for everything that's evil to say. Because Satan is his God and Prince. That's why all the evil doctrines grow apace and the truth of God has to run against difficulties. It has to grow under obstacles adverse climate to know the light.
Take away the filthy garment.
And I said, and I think this is beautiful, Zechariah says. And I said.
And he said, behold, I've 'cause I'm nicked repairs No, it's I was looking at the fifth verse and I said, there is Zechariah comes into the picture as in heart and soul with what he sees and what's going on.
But going back to the fourth verse, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from.
How is it done?
How is our iniquity caused to pass from?
The sin is laid on Jesus head, tis in his blood sends devis fate. God's justice can demand no more and mercy can dispense her story.
Here was a perfect substitute. Here was one who had never sinned, one who never knew sin. Sin was no part of his being. He was never tempted by sin.
Holy. Harmless. Undefined.
And he takes the guilty sinner's place and suffers in his step.
All a perfect substitute.
I have caused thine iniquity to pass from the interview and I know our sins forgiven and the.
We must have necessarily know the Lord Jesus Christ is our Savior. We have to know the one who did it.
The work is accomplished, It's been accomplished on calories crossed, and we come in on all the benefits of it as the recipients of it on the basis of pure grace.
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What was Joshua to do?
He said before he doesn't open his mouth. He doesn't say a word in self-defense. He doesn't do his thing.
He says to the others. Take the filthy garment.
He says I caused I iniquity to pass.
Do you have anything to do with it? No. God did it all. All to him I owe.
Sin love left its scribbling stained.
Brothers watch them watch them white as snow.
Now and I will close it.
With that change of rain, is God satisfied that Joshua, the representative of the Jewish people, should have The Dirty garments, the filthy garments removed?
There is iniquity should pass, no? He says all closely with a change of ring.
Like the prodigal Again, he gets the best strobe.
It's like the guests at the marriage sufferer at the marriage for the King's son in Matthew 22.
Everything was provided, including again, the robe that they were to wear, the wedding, everything was provided.
And I will close it with a change of rain.
And I said, here's Zechariah entering into it. And I said, let them set a fair miter upon his head. He was speaking this morning about the mitre that the high priest was.
Oh, here's the high priest representative of the people now needs to have a fair major upon his family.
And so they said, a fair miter upon his head, and clothed him with garments, and the Angel of the Lord.
God is a witness to the whole transaction, the guilty people.
Chosen.
Cleansed.
Cool. And now Crown?
There are 4 seas here.
Chosen.
Planned, clothes, ground and all done for it. All done. But remember that what is a picture here of what God will do for Jerusalem in the future day is what's true of every Sinner that saved now.
He's deceived his guilt. He sees the guilt removed. He finds out he's clothed with the best robe he's seen before God in Christ.
He's been chosen in the first place.
And the Spirit of God comes and dwells in him the assurance of the glory that is yet to get.
What is in the Kingdom?
Oh made us kings and priests unto God and his Father, Kingdom of priests.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts.
If thou will walk in my ways, if thou will keep my charge, then thou shall judge my house, thou shalt keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among them that stand by, here is a responsibility place to farm. Joshua Thye, priest.
Used to walk in keeping.
Not only with what has been done for him, but in accordance with the place that he's been brought into.
Now the eighth verse.
Here now, O Joshua.
The High priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee.
For they are men wandered at.
The margin, says men of wonder, are a sign.
Oh, they're going to be a sign of what God can do.
Thou and thy fellows.
Oh, he's going to have fellows Joshua, the high priest representative of the people. He's going to have the whole people brought in there.
Incidentally.
I might mention this fact that there are four, three songs in the Books of Songs.
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They bring 3 words before us.
The 16 Sound Saints, 22nd Psalm Brethren, and the 45th Sound Fellows.
Now if you would take those 3 words and juggle them a bit, you'd miss the mind of God and mess up all three songs.
The 16th Psalm is the Lord Jesus on earth as a man.
Identifying himself with that remnant of Israel that were confessing their sins by baptism to John.
In the river Georgia.
And the Lord Jesus in the 16th Psalm, He calls them the Saints, holy ones. Who were they, Those confessing their sins. It's our moral condition. It's repentance again. And so the Lord identifies himself with that remnant by being baptized with them.
Suffered to be so now, for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness.
And the Lord Jesus identified himself with that repentant remnant of Israel when he came.
By being baptized at John and Jordan, and he calls them Saints.
And he says my delight is in them.
The excellent of the earth man would have walked by and said, look at those sinners confessing their sins.
Christ identified himself with them as a man, and he calls them the X-Men of the earth.
Supposedly, the great and wise and noble of this world were to come in here tonight.
You think they look over the crowd and say.
The Excellent of the Earth.
I'm afraid some of them would go out and say of whom they're not fit to live.
But the 11Th of Hebrew says of whom the world was not worthy.
Of whom the world was not worthy, the Lord says the excellent of the earth.
That man says Look at the company of Sinners.
Confessing their sins. Well, that's the 16th time. The 22nd Psalm is one of the few places in the Old Testament where you get the sufferings of Christ in Atonement.
Begins with.
My God, my God, why is thou forsaken me, that cry of abandonment that the Lord uttered on the cross, the end of the three hours of darkness?
David was never forsaken of God.
He was a prophet, and he gave that word prophetically of the Lord Jesus that was uttered on the cross in the three hours of darkness in that same Psalm, David says. They pierced my hands on my feet.
David wasn't crucified.
But in that Psalm when the Lord Jesus comes forth in resurrection.
What is the first thing He says. I will declare thy name unto my brethren.
He says to Mary, Go to my brother and tell them I send to my Father and your Father, my God, and your and your God.
Brethren, He never called them back until after his death and resurrection, for that was necessary to bring them into the relationship.
The 45th Psalm.
My heart is indicted. A good matter if I speak concerning the King.
And there you find the king in his glory. He's going to reign, and he's going to reign here in Jerusalem.
The Lord had chosen Jerusalem.
He's going to reign and what does it say about the Saints there?
He says he calls them fellows in the 45th Psalm. He's going to have associates that will reign with him.
When it rains according to the 45th Psalm. So never mix those 3 words and those 3 songs.
Banks in the 16th, Brethren in the 22nd and Fellows in the 45th.
What brought it to mind is here you have fellows connected with the reigning.
For they are men wondered at or a men of a sign. For behold, I will bring forth my servant the branch.
I was speaking where some of us were speaking last night about this verse.
There are four places in the Old Testament where you find the word branch used.
And each time in a different connection and each time.
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Designating some character of the foregone.
Here I will bring forth my servant the branch.
That's the character of the Lord Jesus.
In Mark's Gospel.
My servant the branch.
Turn to the 6th of Zechariah.
And the 12Th verse.
And speak unto him, saying thus 12Th verse of the 6th of Zechariah. Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold, the man whose name is the branch.
Shall grow out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the law. Even he shall build the temples of the Lord, and he shall bear the glory.
And Joseph and ruled upon his throne. He shall be a priest upon his throne.
Now here is the Lord Jesus as presented in Luke's Golf.
The man whose name is the branch.
And as the man Christ Jesus, he was rejected here as the Son of Man, he's going to rule.
And he shall bear the glory.
And he shall sit upon his throne a priest upon his throne he combines priesthood and kingship.
And you know David clothed with the Linenet airport.
David dancing before the Lord.
As the king when the Ark came into Jerusalem is a type of this.
Or he had an A priestly garment, and he was king. He combines kingship and priesthood, and here we get the two combined. And when the Lord Jesus reigns gloriously in Jerusalem, he shall be a priest upon his throne.
Now I'll turn. I'm going to tell you in advance.
I can't recall.
At this moment, the 4th one with the third one is Isaiah 11.
The third one that comes to my mind. There's a fourth one. I'll let you look it up at your leisure.
Isaiah 11.
Yes, Isaiah 11 verse one. And there shall come for the rod out of the stem of Jesse.
And a branch shall go out of his roots. Now I don't think that's the exact same word for branch, but you'll get it in the 4th chapter. I think it's the fourth.
If I just had some notes in this book.
But.
I don't have any.
And my memory.
Will not bring it to me. The 11Th chapter is the pre, is the stem of Jesse and a branch out of his roots.
One of the early chapters of Isaiah also speaks of the branch of Jesse.
And that's Matthew's Gospel.
That is, it's a Messiah, the son of David, the son of Jesse.
And is named the branch. It spews 4 times and every time concerns Christ.
And it's.
This my servant the branch, the man whose name is the branch.
And the third time is this branch out of Jesse?
David.
And the fourth time is.
And this one you'll have to look up for yourself.
A branch of Jehovah shall be glorious.
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And that's John's Gospel, the Son of God, the branch of Jehovah. Did you have it?
Thank you. I thought it was Jeremiah, but and I looked at that chapter before I got up there right. I couldn't find it.
Well, that's the yeah, that's the one I was looking for, For the branch of David. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch, And the king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment.
I thought the other one was in Jeremiah 2 also, but I can't tell you where it is. You'll have to find it with your crutch.
Important.
Thank you, brother.
Isaiah 42.
Yes, that's it. In that day shall the branch of Joel will be beautiful.
And glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
That's John's Gospel, the branch of Jehovah That's the Son of God.
Four times you get it, answering to the four gospels.
Oh, I see our time is up, but.
Here in Zechariah 3.
We get something about the stone yet, and then the last verse in that day shall the Lord of hosts.
Saith the Lord of hosts, He shall call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.
Someone has told us that we cannot tell definitely what will be in the Millennium. It's easier to tell what will not be there.
Well, what will not be there is big business.
Man is going to sit under his own vine in these figures.
Many things will not be there.
Now, before I close, may I make one reference to what we had this afternoon?
I forgot to make one statement and I think it should be made.
And that is, we followed the genealogy of the Lord Jesus, the genealogy that led up to the birth of Jesus Christ.
And Matthew 1.
Remember that God ordained that the Jews should keep an acrid genealogy.
And even though they were captive in Babylon and under the heel of the Persians, under the heel of the Romans.
They kept that genealogy with exactness.
Until after the birth of Christ.
They probably kept it up until the destruction Destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 by Titus.
But there was no longer any need for it.
But God saw to it that that genealogy should be preserved.
From Abraham from Adam on through as in Luke, from David and Abraham on through as in Matthew 1, coming down through David and and Solomon, the other coming down through David and Nathan.
So that you get the two lines Mary's genealogy and Joseph's genealogy.
But the Lord saw to it that that genealogy was preserved until He was presented.
No longer any need for it, but we can see the wisdom of God in having that carefully preserved through all those years.
Well.
I trust all of us here know the Lord Jesus Christ is our Savior.
If there's one here that doesn't.
I warn you, God is holy.
And he will never.
Have you in heaven with your sins on you?
He is too holy, more holy, than to behold iniquity.
He loves you, and He's given His Son to die for you. And if you own your sin before him and accept the Lord Jesus as your Savior, He'll clear you of every chart.
It will be true of you as with this representative of Israel, the Lord has put away thine iniquity.
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And the Clothie with her garment garment of salvation, the Bastrop.
So it will be true of you then, as with those of us who know the Lord is our Savior now.
Where chosen, we're cleansed, we're clothed, we're crowned.
And all by his grace not of ourselves.
The perfect number 264.
Walking in Truth
His Presence Individually and Collectively
Address—G.H. Hayhoe
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Exodus chapter 15, verse 17. Thou shalt bring them in and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the sanctuary, oh Lord, which thy hands have established. And then let's turn over to Exodus 25. Exodus chapter 25, the first verse.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying.
Speak unto the children of Israel that they bring me an offering. Every man that giveth it willingly with his heart, he shall take my offering in the eighth verse, and let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show thee, After the pattern of the Tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, Even so shall ye make it, and then in.
96 I believe it is Psalm 96 and the sixth verse. Honor and honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. Give unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord, glory and strength. Give unto the Lord the glory. Do unto his name, bring an offering and come into his.
Well, as I said, I'd like to speak a little bit about the sanctuary. I believe in the Scripture. It's something like Shiloh. Shiloh was a person and Shiloh was also a place in Genesis. It speaks of that the lawgiver would not depart from Judah, nor the ruler from that that tribe until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
And then when they entered the land, there was a certain city that was called Shiloh. Directions were given in the end of Joshua, showing us that it was a place, a geographical place that had to be found. And so we know that there is a person and there is a way that we can gather. That's according to His precious word. What a blessed thing it is for us, brethren.
To enjoy individually his presence.
And also to know that we can gather in a way that is pleasing and honoring to him. I believe it's the most wonderful portion that we can have. As one is often said, to have the enjoyment of His presence individually and collectively is really the sweetest thing that we can have.
If we lose, if we lose that, we've really lost everything that is worthwhile. Christian fellowship is very lovely. We read in the second chapter of Luke about when the Lord Jesus was here upon earth and was a boy, that it was the habit of his parents to go up from year to year to Jerusalem. That was the place where the Lord had put his name. And we read of how and the Lord Jesus was 12 years of age that he.
Behind and was talking to the doctors and it says that his father and his mother went a day's journey and found that he wasn't among the company. And sometimes when I read that, I think how easy it is for us to come up with two occasions like this and have a nice happy time and really enjoy fellowship together.
And go away and take a day's journey without him. Maybe just thinking about how nice it had been. If I can picture them as they traveled home.
They talked to one another of how wonderful it was to have been up there at Jerusalem, how they had seen that temple so glorious that even the disciples showed it to the Lord. And they could have talked about all those whom they had met, the nice conversations they had had. But they took a day's journey without Him. And I say we can enjoy the fellowship which many of us have enjoyed here together.
And yet we can go on without him.
And so they turned back and it took three days before they found him, and they found him just where they had left him. There he was. He was in the temple, and there they found him. And so if we find that we have been going along without him, perhaps just satisfied to say, well, I'm in the meeting and I enjoy fellowship with the Lord's people, but there isn't that personal communion with the Lord. It's worth.
Three days journey back to find out where the point was, where we missed him, where we got so occupied with the nice times that we could have and the good fellowship that we actually lost sight of the Lord. Well, I just mentioned this because I hope it's in context with what we're going to speak about. It was a little mentioned about this this morning, our brother.
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Brother Buchanan brought this a little bit before us about the sanctuary and so on, but I'd like to speak of it in this way and then look at some of the Psalms that have to do with this.
Side of things to going back to that passage that we read in Exodus chapter.
15 We know the story very well, how the children of Israel were in slavery in the land of Egypt. There they were under the cruel taskmasters. There they were, and they cried out to the Lord, and the Lord in his goodness provided deliverance for them. He sheltered them from the judgment by the blood that was sprinkled on the lentil and the two side posts. I hope each one.
Here this afternoon has taken shelter.
Under the precious blood, For nothing else will shelter from judgment, nothing else will cleanse from sin.
The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin. There's no other shelter. There's no other way of escape from judgment. And He not only sheltered them from judgment, but He also provided a feast for them in their homes. He gave them assurance so that they didn't have to wait till the moment the destroyer passed through. They knew beforehand that they were safe. They could just rest in those homes and say we're safe.
Because Jehovah said when I see the blood, I will Passover you. Is there a doubting Christian here? God doesn't want you to doubt. He wants you to rest upon his word. If you're if you've received them as your Savior, you're safe, but he wants you also to be sure he wants you to have peace. But then too, there was a feast and there was provision how they could enjoy that feast.
Brethren, he wants us to be happy Christians, Mr. Darby once said. Our testimony to the world is our joy in the Lord.
This world is full of misery and sorrow, and they're looking for somebody that has found happiness and found a way of getting it. And they ought to see in us that we have. They ought to see in us that we have a portion that really fills and satisfies our hearts. A glorious person, the person that we talked about this morning, in whom all the fullness of the Godhead is pleased to dwell, is the one who is our Savior, the one who Danes to fill our hearts.
With peace and joy. And so there was also this feast. And then there was the deliverance out of Egypt. They went through the Red Sea.
And it tells us in Galatians chapter 2 That the Lord Jesus died, that he might.
Deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father.
He didn't intend to leave them back there in Egypt. He intended that they should be outside of that. But as they crossed the Red Sea, they could rejoice and sing. And then there was the wilderness path before them. There were those 40 years, 40 years, as one is often said, to learn the two great lessons of Christian life.
Our own weakness and helplessness, and the all sufficiency of Christ.
That's what God told them as they look back upon the wilderness. They were to remember all the way the Lord had LED them to humble them and to prove them and to show them what was in their hearts. And also he said that they would prove that the Lord would provide. He did provide the mana how he provided the water your clothes didn't wear out, took care of them all the way and rather than the two things that God teaches us.
In our wilderness pathway, our own helplessness were slow to learn this, but His own all sufficiency and how blessed this is. I don't say we have learned it, but these are the lessons that He is seeking to teach us along the way. But at the point where we read here, they have just crossed the Red Sea. They look back, they see all their enemies dead upon the seashore, and they break out in song.
And surely we ought to be singing too. We have the little hymn that says this is the my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long. He's given us every reason to praise him and thank him. And it's very interesting as we read through this, how they.
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As it were passed over the whole wilderness, notice the 13th verse. Thou in thy mercy has LED forth the people whom thou hast redeemed.
Thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation. 40 years of experiences were ahead, but this is in the past tense. And the captain of our salvation is not going to let one of his own fall by the way. He's going to bring many sons home to glory. And so in this triumphant song here in the 15th chapter of Exodus.
They're singing as though the wilderness were all past.
A lot of experiences followed, experiences that were very humbling, experiences that were very wonderful too, as they proved God's goodness. But now we come to this verse that we read the 17th verse. Thou shalt bring them in and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
What is a sanctuary? Well, they have bird sanctuaries. They have animal sanctuaries, and in those sanctuaries the birds or animals are protected. It's a place of security for them. Well, we go through a world that's full of enemies, but there is a place of security for us, and that is in the Lord Jesus. He is our strength and our song. He's become our salvation. He's.
Everything to us. And so He is our sanctuary, and we know that it speaks here of them coming into that promised land. And that is what is referred to the place for thee to dwell in the sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established. That's Canaan that it's talking about. And how wonderful that for us we look forward to a time of eternal rest.
A time when.
God Himself shall wipe away all tears of all faces when we, as it says, His servants shall serve Him and they shall see His face and His name shall be in their foreheads. That's what it's going to be at the end of the journey. That's how glorious it will be when, as you notice the word sanctuaries here in the capital, and I believe the thought is that.
The Lord Himself wanted to bring them in and plant them there.
He wanted them to enjoy his full provision for them, we know that.
They placed themselves under conditions that they couldn't keep and they spoiled it. But that was his purpose for them. That's what he wanted to do for them.
And in the coming day He's going to fulfill that, and his people will lie down safely, and they will all be blessed and know how blessed for us to look on to that time, brethren, when we'll be there and when we'll enjoy those things. It's all of himself. Thou shalt bring them in and plant them which thou hast made for thee, for thee to dwell in, notice for thee to dwell in, because He wants the company of His people.
He came down to have the company of Adam and Eve, but they hid from him. But he has provided for us something even more glorious than a rest on earth. He's provided, as we sang in the hymn, the rest of God, our rest to come, our place of liberty. Sometimes I like to think of it like this, as though God looked down when man spoiled it by sin and said, You've spoiled the rest that I wanted you.
Enjoy the place where I could walk in the garden and commune with you. You've spoiled it by your rebellion and sin, but I'm going to invite you to a place you can't spoil, and I'm going to pay the price so you can be there over Ethan. If we just get hold of these thoughts, they'll fill our hearts. They'll make us realize what our portion really is.
And so this was what the Lord desired for his people.
And he wants us to live in the constant enjoyment of that glorious future that awaits us, but he also wants us to be in a present enjoyment of himself and of his company. So if you turn over to this 25th chapter of Exodus, here we find that the people have been redeemed. They have been brought out. In the meantime, they had asked for the law and placed themselves under it. But.
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If they had been under pure allied would have been certain judgment. No, when Moses came down from the mount with the tables of stone in his hand, by the people had broken the first commandment. They were worshipping the golden calf. And so Moses broke the stones at the foot of the mount. Because if those commandments had been brought into the camp, it would have been judgment on everyone.
And are not into judgment with thy servant, For in thy sight shall no flesh living be justified.
So he broke them, and he went up, and he said, Peradventure, I shall make an atonement for you. Well, Lord told Moses he couldn't make an atonement, but he did give him the whole pattern of things in the heavens, because out of the Tabernacle is spoken of as a pattern of things in the heavens. And so Moses went back and God provided a way that he could go on with the guilty people.
And.
He gave him the pattern for the Tabernacle. He gave them all the instructions and said to him, See that thou make it according to the pattern which is showed thee on the mount. So when Moses came down the second time, his face was shining. He had other tables of stone, exactly the same as the ones that had been broken, but they were placed in the ark, and on top of the ark was the mercy seat, where the blood was sprinkled.
God hadn't changed. His standard was exactly the same.
God's holy law could not be changed, but grace had provided a way that he could go on with him, a picture of his provision, and so Moses face could shine. And so this is the instruction given here in this 25th chapter of Exodus where it tells us that those who those that says speak unto the children of Israel.
That they bring me an offering. Every of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart, he shall take my offering.
Anywhere, as I say, a redeemed people, they were brought out. God made provision now to go on with them. And now doesn't this produce something in your heart? You and I, brethren, are not under law. We're under grace. We didn't come to these meetings because we had to, but because we wanted to be over the word to learn more about our blessed Lord and Savior. It's a Christianity is liberty, holy liberty.
And so they would offer willingly.
And we often sing in that little hymn, love that transcends our highest powers, demands our soul, our life, our all. Can you stop for 5 minutes and think of what the Lord has done for you? And that feels something tugging at your heart that you want to give willingly to the Lord? Are you saying, oh, it's hard to be a Christian? It's hard to let him be Lord in your life? Not if you think of how much he loves you. Not if you think of what he's done.
For you, thou and Thy mercy has LED forth thy people, whom thou hast redeemed. Oh, just think of the cost, the cost we spoke of a little this morning, the forsaking the bearing of sin, and the place of nearness that we have been brought into. And so knowing this now, it tells us here that these people were to bring an offer willingly. And then it says, And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
He wants your company. He feels grieved when he doesn't have our company and he it's going to be his enjoyment. Tells us that in that coming day he shall joy over thee with singing. He shall rest in his love.
I like the way the little hymn puts it. He and I and that bright glory 1 deep joy shall share mine to be forever with Him. His that I am there when we love our children, our families and those dear to us. How we just enjoy it so much to be in their company. Oh, they're coming home. We're going to have a nice time. What are they going to do? Well, I don't know just. But we're just going to have a nice time because they're there.
And how wonderful. That's why God.
In describing, heaven gives very, very brief description about it. But rather his servant shall serve him, and they shall see his face, and his joy is going to exceed ours, that I may dwell among them. But there was a pattern, and the pattern was to be followed exactly.
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Says in another place that God said to Moses, See thou make it according to the pattern which I showed to thee on the mount.
And I want to ask you, are you just patterning your life according to your own plan, or is the expression of your heart like with Saul of Tarsus? Lord, what will thou have me to do? I need to ask myself that when we make our plans for the day, even as to how we gather, because this was to be the gathering place.
And the Tabernacle was pitched. It says everyone that sought the Lord went out unto the Tabernacle of the congregation.
Which was without the Cam. And so it's the it's the person.
And so they weren't to do their own planning. It was to be exactly according to God's plan. What you say that would make it kind of hard? You think the person that loved you enough to die for you is trying to deprive you of something that's for your good. Why? Everything that he gives is a positive apex. It's the best that heaven can give. Even when we look at this world, how wonderful God's creation.
Get up in the morning and see the beautiful sunrise and all the wonders of God's creation. Don't you often stop sometimes and marvel how everything is so wonderful in the creation, Everything is lovely. Man has spoiled it, but as God made it, how how beautiful and the plan that He has made for salvation, how glorious, costs us nothing.
Salvation is a gift, and then to that.
He's made a plan how his people could gather, he said, How they were due pitch their tents around this Tabernacle when it was set up. Did they plan themselves? No, it was all planned of God.
You know, it's rather strange sometimes that many Christians, and I believe many of them have a real desire to please the Lord, have never really asked the Lord how he would have them to assemble.
There's a common expression in Christendom. Go to the Church of your choice as though you followed God's plan up to the time you get saved, and then from then on you kind of take over with your own ideas about how you're to serve the Lord and how you're to gather. It was your planning then, no, In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and he shall direct thy paths. So we find them the sanctuary after they.
The Red Sea, he says that he would guide them to the sanctuary, and I believe it's a picture of the blessing that God has in store for Israel in a coming day when he finally brings them into blessing. And when they'll have to say we have not brought any deliverance in the earth, that's what they'll say. And they'll just have to thank the Lord that he's done it all.
And so with us too, We have been redeemed.
Are we making the sanctuary for the Lord?
Are we enjoying His company and walking in such a way that He can walk with us and that we can hold sweet communion with Him? What a great privilege that is. And turn over to that verse that we looked at in the Psalms, the 96th Psalm again, Psalm 96.
Honor and verse 6. Honor and majesty are before him.
Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. Give unto the Lord.
O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength, Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts, says Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. We often feel pretty helpless in the pathway of life, but here we have the sanctuary now.
And it says honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
And don't we often find that renewed strength? I can remember when I was employed how sometimes the pressure of work would get pretty difficult. And then I just go to the meeting and you just seem to get a lift. You seem to get a fresh supply of strength. Just perhaps it wasn't anything special. It was said, but you just sat there in the Lord's presence saying some of the hymns that give glory to Him. You got to relift. You got strength. You got a fresh view of the.
Because He's altogether lovely, strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. And then when you get that, then it says, give, give unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord, glory and strength. God told his people, Israel, none shall appear before me empty. I've heard Christians say, well, I've come to the meeting, but I didn't get anything. Well, there are times perhaps.
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Plan. Perhaps there are times when we come together and there does seem little food in God's house, but we ought to come, brethren, as givers. We ought to come as givers. That's the way Mary came. There were a lot of people that had many wrong thoughts when Mary came because they found fault with her for what she did. But she wasn't occupied with all those people that were finding fault. She wasn't occupied with things about her, but she was just thoroughly taken up with the Lord.
And she broke that alabaster box appointment and poured it upon the feet of the Lord Jesus upon his head. Oh, how wonderful. It says the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. And sometimes it just takes one person in the assembly was really enjoying the Lord to bring a blessing to the whole assembly. And it doesn't have to be a brother because Mary didn't say a word, not a single word.
She just did that and I believe that there is something that each one of us can bring.
Like the Israelite who brought his basket of firstfruits and presented it before the Lord.
He reminded himself of how he was Assyrian ready to perish, told the Lord how he had brought him out from Egypt, and his heart was just full of praise. How can you and I sit in His presence and receive what we receive, and not want to make some return, some return? Give unto the Lord, ye kindreds of the people. Give unto the Lord glory and strength.
Mary might have said, well, it's a kind of a fault finding group. You try to do something and they find fault, but she didn't say a word.
She didn't say a word, she just left it all because the Lord knew her heart. And that ought to be a joy to us. The Lord knows our hearts. We do things sometimes and maybe they're not appreciated. Maybe sometimes we do. And I'm sure we all do make mistakes. But isn't it good that the Lord makes a right appraisal of everything and so.
They found fault with Mary, but she didn't say a word, and then the Lord spoke up.
And he said, Let her alone, she hath wrought a good work on me. She had the Lords approval. Well, I believe in her soul she was in the sanctuary. She was in the enjoyment of His presence, and so she was there as a giver. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name, bring an offering, and come into His courts. Well, here we have the thought of the sanctuary. I think particularly except.
Associated with the Lord Himself and because, as I say, I believe the sanctuary.
Is a place and it's also a person. A place wouldn't mean anything apart from the person. There's an empty house back in where we live, but if I went home and none of my loved ones entered there, it's just an empty house to me. But when the person whom I love is there, but then it becomes a home, becomes a place where I like to be. It's the person that makes it's true. It's a.
Address, and I could tell you what the address is, but it's the person that makes the place, and that's what it is in the Scripture. It's the person who makes the place. Well, I'd like to turn to a few Psalms here. First of all, Psalm 73. I'd like to look at 3 psalms here, 707374 and 77, and I'd like to look at them in different ways. What is disturbing the psalmist is the prosperity of the wicked.
In the 74th it's trouble in the sanctuary, in the assembly, and then in the 77th it's infirmity. I find many, many Christians get discouraged. Sometimes I get discouraged and I guess we all do at times get discouraged. And I think sometimes these three things bring before us. We see people that seem to get away with things as we say, and that bothers us. How could?
Person get away with something so wrong and that upsets us and we get discouraged and it seems the Lord doesn't intervene. That's the 73rd. The 74th is they'd burned up. They've done wickedly in the sanctuary and they burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. In other words, there was an attack that spoiled the place where God's people assembled. And then last of all.
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Infirmities, perhaps physical infirmities that come upon us.
We get discouraged because of these things that come into our personal lives, but we find that the answer is getting into the Lorde presence and I believe it's important that we do. And if there are some who are in situations like this, uh.
If you would just get into the Lord's presence, I believe that you would have the answer and that He would give you peace because.
The sanctuary, as I said, is a place of peace and rest and protection. A bird sanctuary is where the birds are protected and where they know that the enemy can't intrude in that particular spot. And isn't it wonderful here that God has provided such a place for us? So let's read the first part of the 73rd Psalm. Truly, God is good to Israel.
Even to such as are of a clean heart.
But As for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had well nice slipped, for I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. There are no bands in their death, but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued like other men.
Therefore pride encompasses them about as a chain violence covered at them as a garment. Their eyes stand out with fatness. They have more than heart would could wish. They are corrupt and speak wickedly concerning oppression. They speak loftily. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. Therefore his people return, hit her, and waters of a full cup are run out to them.
And they say, How doth God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High? Behold, these are the ungodly who prosper in the world. They increase in riches. Verily, I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency, For all the day long have I been plagued and chastened every morning when I say, I will speak thus, Behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me, until I went into the sanctuary of God, Then understood I their end. The 22nd verse. So foolish was I an ignorant. I was as a beast before Thee. Nevertheless I am continually with Thee. Thou hast told in me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Perhaps you felt like this sometime. Jeremiah felt like this. He tried to be faithful to the Lord. The Lord gave him a message, and he tried to be faithful in delivering it. And he said Lord.
Noah said it would be well with the Remnant, but everybody hates me.
They just don't like the things that I'm saying, and I'm trying to speak a message from thee. And he felt very discouraged. He even went as far as to say, wilt thou be unto me altogether as a liar and as waters that failed. Just think how discouraged poor Jeremiah got John the Baptist when God let the wicked triumph over him and he got into prison.
He even went so far as to send a message and say, art thou he that should come or do we look for another?
And there may be somebody just like that, somebody that was doing what was wrong and mean and everything. They seemed to be prospering. And your feet are just about slipping because it upsets you so much and you're allowing it to spoil your joy in the Lord. You're letting it come between you and the Lord. I guess many of us have experienced things like this.
We're ashamed of ourselves about some of the things that come into our minds when things like this happen.
But here God has put it right down in his Word and let us know in words inspired by the Holy Ghost, exactly how David felt when he looked at the prosperity of the wicked. He said my foot will not slip. He said they don't seem to have trouble. Things seem to go well for them. But I have cleansed my hands, I've tried to do what was right, and I've had nothing but problems and trouble.
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Know the enemy.
Comes in on times like that and he tries to get us discouraged and we ask the reason why. But God doesn't always answer everything here. In that coming day, brethren, we shall know as also we are known. There are many, many things that happen in life that will never get the answer for down here.
Many times. Think of Uriah the Hittite, murdered through the unkindness of David.
And he never understood in his whole lifetime why God would allow that. But he's.
Mentioned among God's mighty man and so there are things that happen that we have to wait for the answer what did the psalmist do here? Did he find the answer to it all He says I went into the sanctuary of God then understood I therein what is the sanctuary Oh just like it says in the.
4th chapter of Philippians it says be careful for nothing.
But in everything by prayer and supplication, with Thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. That's the answer God gives. You can't understand it. He gives you a peace. Nothing has been set right. Nothing was set right for Uriah the Hittite.
And sometimes things are set right, and sometimes there aren't.
But when you go into the sanctuary of God, then you just leave it all to the coming day. And Paul said that he committed everything to the Lord. He said, I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. Many apply that to salvation, and very blessedly it is true of salvation. I've committed my soul and my eternal destiny to the Lord. But you can commit more than that.
You can commit all the things that happen in life hard to understand. All those in Asia turned away from Paul. He was hurt. But he says I just come at it to the Lord. My responsibility is to go on and leave matters with the Lord. And that's the conclusion that he comes to in the end I just mentioned here.
They it says here in this.
15th verse. Well, the 14th verse.
For all day long have I been plagued and chastened every morning. If I say I will speak thus I should offend against the generation of thy children, he said. I feel that way, but I don't say it because a lot of people be offended if I said it. But that was the way he felt. He couldn't understand it. And it says in the 10th verse. Therefore his people return hit her, and waters of a full cup rung out to them.
Remember the case of Jehoshaphat? He decided that he would step from a path of devotedness to his Lord and join affinity with Ahab at all. Ahab made a big feast. Oh, he said, that's grand. Come on, we'll have a great time. And so he goes along with it.
Sad consequences came out of that. But the world will always welcome you when you step down to their level. They'll make a big fuss over you. They'll tell you you're a great person. But what about the Lord? What does he think of it? It's his approval that counts. It's what he thinks about it that counts. But now passing on down to the.
22nd verse he says, So foolish was I, and ignorant I was.
As a beast before thee, that is, an animal just lives for time. And he said, when you and I don't look beyond this world, we're just living like a beast. A beast lives for time. But he says, these words are so beautiful and touching. Nevertheless, I am continually with thee. Thou hast told in me by my right hand.
Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
Doesn't sound like the same person who's talking in the first part of the Psalm, does it? An entirely different tune now. Why he got into the sanctuary, got into the place of rest, peace of God is flooding his soul. And now he can say, Lords, holding my hand, He's holding my hand. And he said, I want his counsel, I want his plan.
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Even if I do have to suffer, I'm going to say.
Lord, thy name is wonderful counselor, and he said.
And afterward received me to glory, he said, Whom have I in heaven but thee?
And there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. What a change. The same person, but he got into the sanctuary. Is there a discouraged person here? And somebody seems to be doing wrong and getting away with it, as you say. You only think they're getting away with it in view of eternity. It's loss if it's not the will of God, but just to go on and made misunderstanding. Think of our precious Savior at the end of His.
All his disciples for succumb and fled. The people that he'd healed weren't there to speak a word for him at the cross.
But he died that we might live. What an example for us, he says.
There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. Oh, may I say to anyone who is discouraged like this, don't give up the sanctuary. Go into the sanctuary of God. The Lord will meet you there. It's a place of protection. It's a place of rest. Make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. What touching words strength is in His sanctuary?
Strength to meet those problems and difficulties, that's where it is.
For now, on the 74th Psalm, oh God, why hast thou cast us off forever? Why doth thou anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased of old, the rod of thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed, this Mount Zion wherein thou hast dwelt, lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations.
Even unto all that the enemy hath done wickedly.
In the sanctuary then it says in the seventh verse, they have cast fire into thy sanctuary. They have defiled.
By casting down the dwelling place of Thy name to the ground, they say in their hearts, let us destroy them together. They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. We see not our signs. There is no more any prophet, neither is there any among us that knoweth how long.
In passing on in this 16th verse, the day is thine, the night also is thine.
Thou has prepared the light in the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth.
Thou hast made summer and winter.
Then the 19th verse O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked.
Forget not the congregation of thy poor forever. Perhaps in a practical way I could speak of this as troubles that come into the assembly. I meet a number of people and they are so discouraged at the problems and how busy the enemy is coming into the assembly trying to destroy it. Burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. The synagogue was the assembling place for the people.
The temple, as we know, was the sanctuary, the place where the Lord had put his name. So we actually have the two figures here, the meeting place in the synagogue, and then the sanctuary, the place where you could find rest. And I've had brethren say to me, well, I come to the meeting, but I don't seem to get rest and refreshment for my soul. Here's one that's feeling this way.
Is there any answer?
Yes, God's in control. He's in control. The day is thine.
The knight is thine. Why is it say the knight is thine? There are times when it just seems like that.
But it is He is in control, brethren. He puts us to the test. Every one of us gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus, sooner or later are going to be put to test as to why we're there. Are we there because we enjoy the ministry? Because we like the people? Well, it's awfully encouraging when you go and your soul is fed, when you can have sweet communion with the Saints. But we're put to the test as to whether we're there because the Lord is there.
Because it's His sanctuary and the enemy is doing his best, I believe in these last days to destroy a testimony to the truth of God and to the precious truth of the one body, and to be gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus. He's busy in so many places, and He's trying to make it so that when you come, you don't seem to get the rest and refreshment and enjoyment that He intends us to get in His presence and in the.
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Where he has placed his name. But all don't get discouraged. God is faithful and so I think it's nice how he speaks there. He says in the 16th verse, the day is thine, the night also is thine. Yes, He's in control when everything's sweet and lovely. We've enjoyed these meetings. Our souls have been refreshed. It's been like the day, but the night is thine too.
The night is thine when darkness seems to come in, when problems be set. The assembly. He's still there and he's still in control, and so he says.
In the 19th verse, O deliver not the soul of thy turtle, thou unto the multitude of the wicked.
The enemy would like to get us down, like to get us discouraged. He must have triumphed greatly when he got Jeremiah, that faithful prophet, to get so discouraged. He must have been triumphing when he saw, as our brother Lundeen brought before us yesterday, Elijah, that mighty servant of God, hiding down under a tree, and get it, letting his service come between him and the Lord.
And blaming the people of God. Oh how he must have triumphed. The day is thine. The night is thine.
The Lord is in control. These things can be something used of God to draw us nearer to Himself.
Because in the night when everything's dark, very often, as a psalmist could say that we can commune with him upon our bed and be still. And have we often found that some of the sweetest times where when we're perhaps alone on our bed, there's no distractions at all, we could have that sweet communion with the Lord. Are there trials? Lord wants to draw you nearer to himself by this. So here we have.
In the 73rd Psalm, person who's discouraged because he sees the prosperity of the wicked, sees people getting away with things and he can't understand that his Peter, well, nice slipping, he goes into the sanctuary of God and he says, Lord, just hold my hand, hold my hand, thou art my portion forever. We need that sometimes when trouble comes in the assembly.
He says.
Don't let the soul of thy turtle dove be turned over to the hands of the wicked. In other words, you say, well, I'm just one, but the Lord can hold your hand, He can give you peace. He can fill your heart just like He filled Mary's When she came, it says everyone found fault with her, but she herself was in sweet communion with the Lord, and she didn't say a word. She just left everything with the Lord.
So here we find perhaps a little picture of problems in the assembly where the enemy is trying to destroy it, trying to spoil our meeting places so that we can't come and enjoy the fellowship that we should The Lord's faithful. There's still the sanctuary, there's still the enemy. The enemy may try to intrude, but there still is the sanctuary.
Now the 77 some Let's look at this.
I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice, and he gave ear unto me.
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My soul ran in the night and ceased not. My soul refused to be comfort. I remembered God and was troubled. I complained and my spirit was overwhelmed. Thou holdest mine eyes waking. I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. I called her remembrance, my song in the night.
Commune with mine own heart, and my spirit made diligent search. Will the Lord cast off forever? Will He be favorable no more? This is mercy clean gone forever. Doth his promise fail forevermore. God forgotten to be gracious? Hath He in anger shut up his tender mercies? And I said, This is my infirmity, but I will remember the years.
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Of the right hand of the Most High, I will remember the works of the Lord.
Surely I will remember thy works, thy wonders of old. I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings. Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary.
Who is so great of God as thou art a 19th verse thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and I footsteps are not known. Thou leadest thy flock like thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. Here he says in this in this tenth verse, This is my infirmity. Her brother was talking to us too about.
Infirmities.
He says this is my infirmity. In other words, he is some infirmity has come into his life. He thought calling to the Lord, the Lord would grant deliverance. But he said, I remembered God and was troubled. Instead of really feeling relief, he turned to the Lord. But the Lord didn't take the problem, the trouble away. And he says.
I complained and my spirit was overwhelmed, he says.
He couldn't sleep in the fourth verse and he looks back. He said it wasn't always like this. The sixth verse I called remembrance, my song in the night I commune with mine own heart and my spirit made diligent search, search. It's something like Job, you know. He just couldn't understand why God allowed him to lose his.
Wealth, his family, his health is his health and his friends, just everything seemed to be.
Kind of wiped out. It was a real trial. And this is and then he accepts it. He says this is my infirmity. Maybe the Lord has allowed something. He allowed it with Paul. Paul had a thorn in the flesh. He calls it an infirmity. He asked the Lord three times to take it away. And the Lord's answer was, my grace is sufficient for thee. My strength is made.
Perfect in weakness to me. It's as though the Lord said Paul, you're going to have it the rest of your life. It's going to be there. But you're going to learn through this to lean on me and be a dependent person. And Paul said most gladly, I rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me. He said this infirmity has been a blessing to me.
It's taught me dependence. It's taught me to lean on the Lord.
It's taught me to find my support and my help in Him, His ways in the sanctuary, brethren, He's leading our souls not to find rest in circumstances, in health, in what goes on about us, but in Himself.
In himself Come unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly, and harden ye shall find rest unto your souls. There are situations that won't be clear this side of the glory. There are things that may remain, but the Lord will always be a sanctuary.
He'll always be there and maybe if those things.
'Cause us to turn to him and find our sanctuary, and we may not understand them. He says Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
We don't. There's some things we'll never understand until we get home to glory, but we can understand that they have been made a blessing to our souls. They've brought us to the sanctuary. They've brought us into His presence, and that's where He wants us to be. And He's going to find his eternal rest in that sanctuary that awaits us, when he'll wipe away all tears, when He'll explain everything, When we shall know even.
Are known. He doesn't want us to wait until we get to glory, He wants to get into the sanctuary down here and I just like to close a little verse in Ezekiel Chapter 11, Ezekiel Chapter 11 in the 16th verse. Therefore, say thus saith the Lord God. Although I have cast them far off among the heathen alloy have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them.
Has a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come, yes.
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We've spoken about the sanctuary being a place, but we've also spoken of this being a person. And here things had come to the point in the history of Israel when they were scattered. Must they say, well, there's no sanctuary now because we're scattered. We can't go to the temple. We can't go to the spot where the Lord has put his name.
I will be to them a little sanctuary in all places where I have driven them. And no matter what your circumstance or mine is this afternoon or what awaits you when you get home, because you may like those who came down from the Mount after that glorious time on the Mount of Transfiguration, there was a man.
A situation there, a man and his child was in trouble and the disciples couldn't handle the problem.
And there may be something awaiting you that's quite beyond you. But I want to tell you this, no matter what, I will be a little sanctuary. I will be a little sanctuary. Thank God He gives us the privilege of being in His presence collectively, but sickness problems may even hinder that. But oh, how wonderful, He never fails. I will be a little sanctuary.
Well, brethren, these difficulties do come.
In our lives, as we're saying, there are times when our feet well eyes slip. There are times when we get discouraged things that happen in the assembly. You get discouraged over sicknesses and infirmities that really get us down. But he still a sanctuary and in that coming day, as I say, when we're brought to our sanctuary in the glory above.
His servants shall serve him, and they shall see his face.
And his name shall be in their forehead, and God himself.
God Himself shall wipe away all tears, mouth all faces. May He give us to enjoy more of this sanctuary now, that peace, that joy that He delights to give us even in the midst of situations that may never change, difficulties that may not be removed, situations that can't be explained, But He's always the same. He never fails, Jesus Christ the same yesterday.
And today, and forever.
The Geneology of Jesus
Address—P. Wilson
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Matthew 1 The book.
Of the generation.
Jesus Christ.
The son of David.
The son of Abraham.
Abraham begat Isaac.
And Isaac begat Jacob.
And Jacob begat Judas and his brethren.
And Judas begat berries, and Zara of Tamar.
Fairies, we got Ezraim.
And Ezra begat Aaron.
Aaron begat a Minute Ave.
A minute ABBA got Nessa.
Begat sound shaman, begat boys of Reykjavik.
Boy, as we got. Oh better, Ruth.
Obed, began Jesse.
Jesse begat David the King.
And David the king, begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Uriah.
And Solomon begat robe long.
Robo get abaya.
Abaya begat ASA.
Mesa begat Joshua, and Joshua begat Joram, and Joram begat Isaias.
Mosiah begat Jotham, Jotham begat Akaz and Akaz begat is a chaos. There's a guys baguette Manassas and Manassas began Ammon Ammon the gap Josias.
When Josiah's begap Jaconius and his brethren about the time that they were carried away to Babylon.
And after they were brought to Babylon, Zechinius, Begatilathiel, and Celathial begat Zerubbabel. Zerubbabel began to Bayou, and the Bayou began to Lyacum, and the Lyacum begat Azor, Mazar begat Zadok, and Sadak begat Akum, and Akum begat Elijah.
The Lion began at Eliezer, and Eliezer begat Manton.
Mapped and begat Jacob. Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus was called Christ.
So all the generations from Abraham to David are 14 generations, and from David until the carrying away into Babylon or 14 generations.
And the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ of 14 generations.
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise.
When, as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came together, she was found with Child of the Holy Ghost.
Then Joe, then Joseph, her husband, being a just man and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
But while he thought on these things, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying.
Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife.
For that which is conceived in hers of the Holy Ghost.
She shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus.
For he shall save his people from their sins.
Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet saying.
The Holy Virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel.
Which is being interpreted.
God with us.
Then Joseph, being raised from his sleep, did as the Angel of the Lord had been him, and took unto him his wife.
Nor not till she had brought forth her first born son, and he called his name.
Jesus.
You know when man wants to emphasize something.
He brings forth the preponderance of words.
God brings. God sets forth His truth in few words.
In the simplicity of it.
Now the most important event.
In the history of this world, aside from the crucifixion.
Is found here in this chapter, and yet it's not.
Gone into in great detail.
But there is a wonderful amount in it for our profit.
How do we begin the New Testament?
First of all, let's ask God. It would begin the Old Testament.
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The Old Testament begins with, in the beginning, God.
That is, when you open the word of God, the first thing you meet is God Himself.
They're introduced.
To a person.
When you open the New Testament, how does it begin?
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ.
You're introduced to a person, Son of God.
So many people think that.
Christianity is a system of ideals.
A Christian system of Christian ethics.
And even so-called fundamentalists today are veering toward that view.
I've just been.
Reviewing.
Book of a book and some literature by a man.
By the name of Bass.
And he wants Christianity to just take over the world and improve it.
Instilling the ideals.
The ethics and the teachings of Jesus.
Now I insist that that is not not Christianity.
Christianity brings you to a person.
And a person that will meet our needs.
A person that will satisfy our hearts.
For time and eternity.
So we begin the New Testament with an introduction to.
Jesus Christ.
Now, if we go back to the Old Testament for a moment, how does the Old Testament conclude?
The Old Testament concludes.
By looking for a person to come.
Whom it calls the son of righteousness.
The sun to come in its full orb light.
Shine upon this Dark World.
And when the sun does shine in its strength?
It will burn up the chaff.
Unquenchable fire.
So Malachi concludes the Old Testament Canon.
Looking for the sunrise?
And shine in its strength.
How does the New Testament conclude?
Looking for the Morning Star to appear?
Looking for the Lord Jesus to come as the morning star.
Now, what's the What's the significance of the morning star in the sun?
We have no difficulty with it in nature. We know that the sun doesn't appear first, the morning star appears.
Therefore, we conclude.
That the old, the New Testament, the closing part of the New Testament is to be fulfilled before the closing part of Malachi.
For the sun appeared this morning, Star appears while it's shipped dark and only to those who are waiting, those who are looking for it.
However, I want to guard that statement by saying that every Christian, everyone that knows the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior, is going to be taken when the Lord Jesus comes for his own. Even if he doesn't believe in the truth of the Lord's coming, he's going to be taken anyway.
And I venture to make this statement that he will not be disappointed even though he found his beliefs wrong.
The Old Testament closes looking for the sun, so therefore it will follow.
When the sun shines.
It'll wake up sleeping people. In fact, the sleeping man can feel the warmth.
Of the son.
I merely make these few statements to show that the fabric of the book is one.
And while God has used many different writers.
Many different times over a period of about 1500 years.
To write the several sections of this book.
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It's evident that one person.
Designed it all because you never could get so many people to write the same things.
So that when you finish it, when you read, when you read the whole book, you realize that there's been one designer, one planner, and that the whole thing is one fabric that cannot be taken apart without mutilation.
Therefore, we come now to the New Testament, the book of the generation of Jesus Christ.
Oh, it's a wonderful thing to come to a person.
Doctrine won't satisfy your soul.
The creeds of Christianity won't satisfy your soul.
If you do not know Christ as your savior, we were just singing Jesus. How much thine name unfolds to every open deer. What a precious name Jesus is.
The name that God decreed.
Should be the name given to his beloved son on Earth.
Please, you know he only has two names.
Jesus and Emmanuel.
Jesus means Jehovah the Savior.
Manual means God with us.
The other type, the other words like Lord and Christ King and.
Various other things are just titles.
But his personal name was Jesus.
And thou shalt call his name a man.
Wonderful thing you think of a manual that God has actually been here on this earth.
I'm not going to be occupied with.
Other celestial bodies.
The word of God would occupy me with.
The one that came into this work.
The Lord Jesus Christ.
Now what does it say?
Abraham begat Isaac.
And Isaac begat Jacob.
This book presents the Lord Jesus Christ to us as the Messiah, the King of Israel.
Therefore, it was very fitting.
That we should that his genealogy here should begin with Abraham.
And David?
Abraham and David. Why? Because it was well known in the Old Testament Scriptures that the Messiah was to come.
And that he was to come through Abraham and through David.
So if you're going to present the Lord Jesus as the Messiah of Israel, and this was written for the Jew in that day, really, but it was written for our prophet, for our learning.
For our enjoyment too.
It was necessary to prove that he came according to the prophecies.
Now we would turn to the 10th chapter of John. We would read there that he came in by the door into the sheepfold.
By coming into the door, by the door into the sheepfold, the sheeple was Israel.
And by coming in at the door, he came according to all the Old Testament prophecies concerning him.
Therefore, Matthew's Gospel begins showing that he came as the Messiah, the Son of Abraham, and the son of David.
May I also make?
Another aside here.
Man would like to make the four gospels into one.
Many attempts have been made at they call it harmonizing the gospel.
I want to ask you how you can harmonize what was never in disharmony.
I want to know how you can harmonize something that would never lack harmony.
Well, if the Spirit of God indicted these four, these four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, there must be perfect harmony.
What did you say? Why did they give us four and why did he repeat some things and some gospels and not give them another?
I think the answer to that is quite simple.
Suppose you went outside to give A and you were told to write a description of this building.
You might write about the north side and the South side and the West side and east side. You might give us four different viewpoints of this building.
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Well, you might mention several things in common.
You might mention that there's a chimney.
For recruiting above the roof that could be seen from all four sides and so you might mention it in all four, in all four descriptions of the building.
So there would be things in common.
And yet there are things that you wouldn't have in common if you were doing that.
There's another way to illustrate why there are 4 gospels.
Some years ago they had a king in England, King George the 6th.
Let's suppose the case about His Majesty King George 6.
The royal family sent for a portrait painter and called him to the.
Main headquarters.
Now we want you to come in on certain dates.
And make a portrait of His Majesty the King.
Well, he said. I'll be happy to do it.
But before we proceed any further, I would like to know what you wish.
Would you like to portray the King, His Majesty?
As the sovereign, the King with his crown.
Or would you like to portray him as a family man at home with his family?
Or would you like to portray him perhaps as the Admiral of the fleet?
Are the General of the Armies.
Suppose somebody in the royal family says, well, just make a composite.
Picture. Just blend it all together. We want just a composite picture. We want a harmony here.
I submit that you'd have the worst disharmony.
How in the world would you mix an Admiral and a general and a king and a family man all in one picture?
Just be foolishness.
Well, these four gospels give us just that. They give us 4 portraits.
Given by divine inspiration of the Lord Jesus Christ first as the Messiah, the King of Israel, according to the prophecies.
And rejected by them according to the prophecies, going away and coming back again.
Paul and Matt.
Therefore you get his genealogy in Matthew and it's traced up to Abraham and David.
Mark didn't know genealogy.
Mark could be described according to a verse in Isaiah.
Behold, my servant.
I one time saw a book written as an exposition of the Gospel of Mark, and it was entitled to hold my servant.
Well, that's a good title for a book written on Mark.
For in the Gospel of Mark, the Lord Jesus is presented as the God's servant.
The prophet who came to do God's will came to speak for him.
And you find one characteristic of the gospel of Mark is and forthwith.
And immediately.
The busy servant, always in his father's business.
And you find him going from one thing to another with rapidity that's not marked anywhere else.
Well, you don't need a genealogy for a servant. Therefore there's no genealogy given in Mark.
Luke gives us his genealogy not back to Abraham and David, but back to Adam.
Why?
Luke presents him as the seed of the woman.
Adam was told the seed of the woman should groove the serpent's head.
He presents him as the Son of Man.
And though all the teachings in Luke are in keeping with it.
You'll find a much broader aspect of things and Luke than you do in Matthew. In Matthew, he says to the 12 go not into the way of the Gentiles and into any of the villages of the Samaritans. Enter Enoch.
In Luke he sends out the 12 with no such restriction, Memory serves me right. And then he sends forth the other seventy with no such restriction.
He sends forth other 70.
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And they go farther afield. Well, you find the broader character of things in Luke's gospel, and you'll find.
The Lord.
In a wider sphere, not only to Jew but to Gentile.
John's Gospel you get no genealogy.
Now, why should you have a genealogy in John's Gospel? Or why should you not have it? The answer is very simple. In John's Gospel, he's presented as the Son of God.
It would be all together out of place to try to give a genealogy of the Son of God.
Therefore you find none in John's Gospel.
In John's gospel, he is rejected from the very first chapter. The other three gospels give you a point in each gospel where he's finally rejected by Israel, but John's gospel gives it to you. In the first chapter. He came onto his own, and his own received him not. And so in the third chapter you'll find him leaving Israel and going to Samaria.
And then coming back to Israel after two days.
So even in the crucifixion.
Everything isn't in keeping with those four characters of the four Gospels and John's gospel. He's he's supreme. He's master of it all.
He sees one thing yet to be done, and he says I thirst.
He pronounces on the whole thing and says it is finished.
In Luke's gospel, you get another character and you'll find that.
The thief converted.
You might even mention here that the Luke's Gospel gives us the character, the peace offering where God gets his part.
The Lord gets his, the thief gets his, Or it's a communion office in Luke's Gospel.
Matthew is the sinoff.
We won't go into that phase of it, but I fully believe that the four chapters of Leviticus 123 and four are supplanted by.
The four Gospels.
For you see, in the 40th Psalm he says sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not.
Are we getting the 10th of Hebrews 2? I'll just read it.
Hearing a might miss quoted.
Well, when he said, they were sacrificed and offering, and burnt, offering and offering for sin, thou wouldest not which are offered by the law, neither has pleasure therein which are offered by the law. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.
And so he takes the place of that which was characterized in the first four chapters of Leviticus. And if you will analyze it in the 40th Psalm, you'll find that the the 4th offerings, the burnt offerings, the the meat offering, the peace offering, and the sin offering are all mentioned.
The oblation is given and new translation in the 40th Psalm, I think.
Definitely marking out the meet up.
That the burnt offering, the peace offering, the meal offering and the sin off.
But he comes to take this place then said, I'll, Oh, I come to do thy will, God.
Now let's go back to our first chapter of math. It is not my point to.
Bring out our great detail here in this chapter so much as to show the part that the chapter plays in the whole book of God.
Abraham would get Isaac. Isaac would get Jacob.
Jacob begat Judas and his brethren.
Judas begat fairies and Zara tamer.
Now there are four women mentioned in the genealogy.
Four and only four.
And if a Jew with his national pride.
Had been writing this gospel, the genealogy of the Messiah, He would have hidden everyone of them.
He would not have mentioned one of them.
So that while this gospel presents the Lord Jesus to Israel as their Messiah, along with it, he's showing out that the Messiah came to Israel on the ground of pure grace.
They didn't deserve, didn't deserve to have him come. Grace is preeminent in this chapter.
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Judas becapped fairies and Zara of Tamer.
Now that was a most wicked act.
If you go back to Genesis, you'd find that it was a revolting thing.
Why did God mention it?
He shows that the grace of God was abounding over the sin of man, and Israel with their high privilege was no exception to sin.
Therefore, he brings in Tamer.
And Aaron began a minute AB and a minute AB got Naus, and Nausen begat Selma.
Some of the gab Boaz.
Of Rahab.
The reason it has the.
Sea in there, Reykjavik.
Is due to the fact that there's a difference in the languages, one having it and the other not having it.
So it's rehab?
Who was Rahab?
We hear of Rahab, we read of Rahab in the book of Joshua, we read of her in the list of those that had faith, and they 11Th of Hebrew.
But it is under faith that the Spirit of God would emphasize here now.
But it's her character and her nationality, for she was a woman of Canaan. She was a Canaanite. She was one of the accursed grace that was to be exterminated.
Cast out to make room for God's people.
But here is Rahab, not only of the accursed race.
But an immoral woman?
And now the Spirit of God brings her in and mentions her.
Salmon begat Boaz of Rahab.
I might make make mention of something.
We have to be careful what we read. I went to see a brother one time long ways from here, and he was a brother that didn't believe in Sunday school. I learned anathema to him. The chief object and the chief objection he had was that sisters might instruct the little children in the word of God.
When I was in his home, I picked up a book.
And it was a Bible story for children. He had some small children.
And it was written by a woman.
All consistency in our diversity.
He had this book by this woman, by this sister, giving the account of the doings of the Lord Jesus.
And the Old Testament accounts here, there and John.
So he said this woman said that when they brought rehab over to Israel after they took her out of out of.
Jericho.
The seeds taken.
That they brought her into Israel.
And gave her the best tent in Israel and she married one of the spies.
One of those that went to spy out the lab.
I asked this brother if he could give me chapter and verse for those assertions.
He said no, he couldn't.
We need to be careful that we do not introduce things that speculate.
And I do warn young preachers.
Do not speculate.
Do not go beyond what's written.
And the case not long ago one of them.
Who came and preached and said Samson met the lion and that the lion was a type of Christ and he spun a great big theory out of it. The lion was a type of Christ because he was of the lion. He was the lion of the tribe of Judah. Well, you can make anything fit if you want to twist it here and twist it there.
But it's just the reverse. Samson is the type of Christ.
And he goes down in the line, roars against him.
Did not Satan, as the roaring lion roar against him in the Garden of Gethsemane, he.
Surely did.
And they're not. Did not the Lord overcome Satan?
And did he not go down into his domain, as it were, and come forth with the victory? Yes.
And he brought forth meat out of the eater.
It brought forth sweetness to overcoming Satan as the roaring lion. I just mentioned this as a sample for young preachers. What I mean by speculating and getting beyond scripture. Now we go on Boaz. I don't know that he was one of the spies spied out the land and Obed begat Jesse. No boy has begat Obed a Ruth.
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No, they wouldn't have. The Jew wouldn't have put Rahab in the list.
In their chronology.
He'd rather put in Sarah Rebecca.
Honorable figures of honorable women in their past.
But God brings in that that makes nothing of man and shows his grace. So he brings in Raya. Now the next woman is brought in is rude.
Now you say, what was wrong with Ruth?
Not a thing. Morally, she was a virtuous woman.
She was an upright woman. She was a God fearing woman.
But she was a foreigner. She was a stranger.
She had no right or title in the land of Israel. She was not to come into the congregation of the Lord, and I think it was till the 10th generation.
What? But he brings her in.
Now, you know, Israel boasts they've been having quite an argument over in Palestine about who's a Jew.
Prisoner upset the government of the country about who was a Jew.
Decided that.
A Jew is one who had as his mother was a Jewish, even if his father was.
They had to. They had to settle the argument some way.
But here a Jew rightly is one whose father and mother were both Jews.
They were not supposed to intermingle. God had put a wall around them, separated them.
Now here we find a woman brought in.
Amor Biden and when she came in to Israel and married Boaz, who was her mother-in-law.
Rahab, the Canaanite.
I want to ask you just how much Jewish, true Jewish, blood there was in the strain at that time.
Here we find.
Salmon begat Boaz of rehab.
One's Jew, one's Gentile, now the Son.
Mary is a Moabitess.
Ruth and has Obed.
Now, how much Jewish blood is there?
Oh, the picture here is very humiliating with the Jewish mind, but that's what it's intended to do.
And then furthermore thinking not only grace to bring bring all this into the line of the Messiah, but next and Obed.
Jesse and Jesse begat David the king, he began. He becomes the grandfather of the king.
All through him, through him through whom the promises came, through whom the Messiah must come.
Here is a woman brought in that shouldn't get into the congregation till the 10th generation and her son of the second generation sits on the throne.
Although make the grace of God.
And that's why we find in the 11Th chapter of Romans that when Israel comes into blessing again.
It's going to they're going to come into blessing on the ground of pure mercy that he might have mercy upon all.
And that's why Ruth is the type of the Jewish remnant. She's a Gentile, and she's a type of the Jewish remnant who embraces the God of Israel.
And the kinsman, the Redeemer, brings her in. She's a type of the Jewish remnant of the future.
Because the Jewish remnant will come in in the future on the ground of pure mercy, just like a Gentile.
While we go on.
And David begat Solomon of her. That had been the wife of Uriah. This wasn't necessary to add that was it?
Oh, what is one of the saddest blocks on Israel's history was David's sin in the matter of Uriah's wife.
David and David.
Jesse, we get David and David the king begat Solomon of her. That had been the wife of your eyes.
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Marvelous grace of God that would bear with that people and through the royal line that had been so interspersed with Gentile blood.
So many foul blocks.
Very, very line comes the Messiah.
So therefore women mentioned and the Jew would have hit everyone, hidden everyone of them, if he could.
The grace of God by the Spirit of God brings it all out. Now we go on and Solomon begatrobaum and Robom begat Abaya and Abaya begat ASA. ASA begat Joshua that Joshua that begat Joram. Joram begat his *** Isaias begat Jotham and Joseph Megetic has and Ikaz begatta Ezekiel and Ezzy. Guys forget Manassas and Manassas forget Ammon and Ammon to get Josiah.
Well if you would go back and check this with the Old Testament you will find.
That there's a there are about four or five kings left out. Remember, I haven't checked it just recently as to how many were left out, but they're all the descendants.
Of that unholy alliance.
Between the King of Judah.
And the king and King Ahab and his wife Jezebel, they all come down from that unholy alliance through Athaliah coming into the royal family. And God just eliminates each other.
Oh, they're about four generations missing them.
But the Spirit of God has done it for a purpose, that he might show us his displeasure.
With the seed royal of the House of Judah mingling with the House of Israel in all their idolatry. And so here's a, here's a family that's left out might say when it says all the generations or 14 generations from here to here and here to here and so on. That's an arbitrary 14. But the Lord has done that. It's two sevens in each cases. But in order to do it, he left out those.
Persons that were.
Of that unholy alliance. Or you might bring somebody in and grace into the line. But that which is an unholy alliance with Ahab's house Jezebel.
Eliminate.
From the record.
And Josiah's begat Jacinias and his brethren about the time they were carried to Babylon.
Now Jekyll is called by various names.
I want to have you turn with me to the 23rd chapter of Jeremiah.
Jeremiah. No, it's the 22nd of Jeremiah, verse 28.
Is this man Kanaya?
To the same man.
A despised, broken idol.
Is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure?
Wherefore are they cast out? He and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not.
Oh, uh, uh.
Hear the word of the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord.
Right ye this man childless.
A man who shall not prosper in his days.
No man of his seed shall prosper sitting upon the throne of David and ruling anymore in Judah.
Now that's a strange verb.
Here is the one that is in the royal line. Here Jack and IAS.
And no one of his seed was ever to sit on the throne of Judah again.
That's strange, isn't it?
Here's a decree against this man, this profane man. I think he was the man of.
Remember correctly.
Who made an oath the king of Babylon in the name of Jehovah and broke?
No man of his seed was ever to sit on the throne of Jupiter.
Now why does that happen? Where does it fit in here? It fits in here simply this way.
That in the royal line through which Joseph came for Joseph was the direct lineage of David through Solomon, as we see here.
He was of that line, but no actual descendant of his was ever to sit on the throne.
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Now how do we count for?
If you go back.
If you go to the Luke's Gospel and the Lord's genealogy and the Gospel of Luke.
You will find that Mary who is of the royal line for Mary's genealogy in loop.
Begins with going back to Adam and it comes on down and.
After David, it divides.
One Matthew goes down through Solomon. Luke's genealogy goes down through Nathan.
So that the genealogy divides David and goes down through.
One through Solomon through Jeconius for the legal right to the throne. But there was a decree against anyone of the actual blood relation sitting on the throne. Remember that the Lord was not a a direct descendant of Joseph, but by his mother's engagement espousal to Joseph, he had the legal right to the throne.
But in the Gospel of Luke, you get Mary's genealogy and he.
It was her seed, the seed of the woman, and there's no Jekyll Senate for it came down through Nathan. And so the the prescription against the descendant of Jack and I are sitting on the throne anymore is taken care of carefully in Mary's genealogy and Luke.
The accuracy of scripture is marvelous.
The accuracy of scripture, the intricate details that all fit together is better than anything the archaeologists Spade can uncover.
And the scripture is better than any argument you can give the unsaved man, either, because if he'll let it, it'll reach his conscience. It'll give him a probe sometimes. Say if I if I gave you a big argument about how sharp my knife was and gave you a big long dissertation about how sharp this knife was, it wouldn't be half as convincing as a jab, would it?
And so the Word of God gives that jab to the conscience. The man that spelled its keen edge doesn't need an argument.
So we go down.
Josiah Begetcheck and Iasen his brethren about the time they were carried away to Babylon. And after they were brought to Babylon, Jack and I used to get Selatheon Celestial get the rubble. The rubble begat a Bayou, and a Bayou begat a liar. Him and like him begat Hazel, and Hazel begets Adoc and Sadoc begat Akim, and Akim begat Eliyu. Eliyu begat Eliezer, and Eliezer begat Mathem, and Mathen begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary.
Now that's where the Lord had his legal right to the throne.
Here was Joseph.
Reputed father of Jesus.
The royal heir to the throne of Israel working as a Carpenter.
It said, you know, that Herod called for those that the Lords, brothers and sisters and that at a later time and.
And he asked them about their claim to the throne.
And he looked at their hands and saw their rough hands from hard work. He dismissed them. He didn't think they were looking for any throne.
So all the generations here we get this 14 generations are summed up here. Now we go to the 18th verse. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise when as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband being a just man and not willing to make her a public example was minded to put her away privately.
But while he thought on these things, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David.
Fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, or that which is conceived in hers of the Holy Ghost.
Ah, anew.
Element has entered the genealogy now.
It's not merely the son of David now.
But that which is bought was to be born is of the Holy Ghost.
And she shall bring forth his Son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus.
More exactly, Jehovah the Savior.
For he shall save his people from their sins. His people are Jehovah's people.
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Jehovah his people to save them, not from their enemies, for which the Jew was looking, but from their sins. They were looking for a deliverer to save them from their enemies. But no, he shall save his people from their sins.
Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Now he quotes from Isaiah, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and they shall, and she shall bring forth his Son, and thou shall call his name Emmanuel, which is being interpreted, God with us.
Now there are three scriptures in the Old Testament.
That same irreconcilable.
And if you would take these three thoughts from the Old Testament and put them down one side by side, you'd say they couldn't be reconciled.
It was prophesied that the Messiah was to be the direct. He was to be the of the royal line of David.
It was prophesied that he was to be the Son of the Virgin.
Seed of the womb, and it was prophesied that he was to be the Son of God, or God with us, Emmanuel.
Meaning God with us. Now you would say, how is it possible that those three things can be put together?
The son of David, the son of the Virgin.
Son of God.
Matthew's Gospel takes the three of them and puts them together and brings them together into one.
And to me, it's marvelous. Legally, he was the heir to the throne of David through Joseph.
But he was actually the son of Mary, the son of the Virgin.
And really?
He was the Son of God.
All three things are brought together in a way that there is perfect harmony now between the three, seemingly.
Irreconcilable statements from the Old Testament.
Son of David, the Son of the Virgin, the Son of God. Oh, he's all that, brethren, He's all that.
It was the son of David, legally. That is, he was the son, the son of David through the royal line, down through Solomon, and as such he had a right, right entitled to the throne.
But he was the son of the Virgin through Mary.
And He fulfilled Scripture in that, but He was also the Son of God. He was God manifest in flesh. He was Emmanuel, God with us. And so we see all that was prophesied of him as to who he was put together into one chapter, one short chapter here in the first of Matthew.
To me it is. It is marvelous and it's beautiful.
And.
She gave birth to the Son and they called his name Jesus.
Well, may we sing, Jesus, how much thy name unfold.
Every open day the pardon sinner's memory holds none other half so did.
Oh, I know that the name of Jesus is more often heard in blasphemy.
Than in reverence. I hope none of us ever become so callous that we can hear the name of the Lord Jesus taken in vain and not feel it.
Not be cut by.
I heard of one Christian who said to one who whom he heard taking the name of Jesus in vain, he says, You speak against a friend of mine.
I was in a Barber chair one day.
The man in the next chair was.
Very profane.
Very good thing. And he just kept his mouth going all the time.
I called out to him. I was tired of listening to it.
I called out to him and I said, Mr. would you please tell me one thing?
Why is that when you must?
Speak blasphemy when you must say something and add somebody's name, that you have to add the blessed name of Jesus.
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Or you speak of God.
Or hell.
I said, why don't you? Why don't people use the name of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln or something like that?
He says Mr. you got something there? Never said another word while I was in the shop.
May we can't stop it, I recognize that. But may we never become so callous that it becomes common to us that we fail to feel it as a slight.
On one whom we love.
Well, I just hurriedly gone through the chapter and in its relation to the other four gossip, the other of the four Gospels.
But may it be for our.
Looking to Jesus
Address—C. Kohler
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Shall we turn to the 9th chapter of Mark's gospel and beginning with the second verse, And after six days Jesus take it with him? Peter.
James and John.
I'll leave the lock into our high mountain apart by themselves.
And he was transferred.
And this river became shining and sitting white snow, so as no fuller on earth can wipe them.
And there appeared on the dam alliance with mortars.
And they were talking with Jesus.
Peter answered the sentences. Master, it is good for us to be here.
And let us make the Tabernacles once a week, and one promotes, and one for life.
For you is not what to say, for they were sore afraid.
And the cloud will be shattered on The Voice came out, the cloud said This is my beloved son, hear him. And suddenly when they have looked round about, they saw no man anymore.
Save Jesus, holy with themselves.
And as he came down from the mountain, children, they should tell no man what things they have seen, till the son of man who risen from his head. And he kept that saying with themselves Question, mark one with another, what arising from the dead could leave.
Here 1 little move in the service of our blessed Lord as he went about.
Ministering the Word, the Gospel of the Kingdom.
Under healing the sick and the distress.
And blessing on the right hand and on the left.
Then we find all this interlude comes in.
He goes up into a mountain apart from the people and from his activities.
And.
He is transfigured before her, that is to say.
He is suddenly no longer seen as a man.
Who would wear it with a spoil?
As a man who labored unceasingly.
Day and night was given to the service of his father.
Doing his blessed will.
And no doubt, as he felt so, his mouth and rose.
On the desolated places.
That's a great deal.
To be seen. Are they weariness?
On that and also the many things he did and the feeling of people himself, there are sicknesses and carried, or there are prominence and carried out sicknesses.
By then I understand that he felt keenly just as though he himself were the one that was sick, as though he himself were the one that was in trouble.
He felt with the troubled one just what they were passing through. That's really what we are called upon to feel in the same way we're supposed as being in the body, to feel concerned about those wrong about us.
Under the field, as though we ourselves were the ones in cover. For the blessed Lord can tell these things. I was concerned about our salvation of those roundabouts who we spoke.
But now, as I said in this interlude.
Is no longer seen in that way. For just a brief moment the glory which was inheriting His shines for under of the apostles who knew him in his other ways are amazed to cut this off.
They saw his Cummins shining like the sun.
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Besides garments way into life.
Or as described here, so white as though 4 on earth with white one he was transfigured.
Was this the same man? Yes, this is the same man, but it's a different glory.
Instead of the glory of the suffering One, one who came a humbling stuff and who was obedient for the death, even the death of the cross.
Are not so much that angle of it as the fact of that term. There's a glory to come, and that Peter brings much of that before us, the sufferings of Christ and the glory which should follow.
So in this 9th chapter mark which we've just read this part of.
He stands figured before them, and they see Him shining in something of the glory that is to be his when his Kingdom is set up.
Because God has ordered the fact that the man that they cast out.
On whom they denied in his own. I'm so shamefully treated. He's the man of God's counsels. He's the man that God is interested in.
He's the man that is going to rise supreme above all others and as we have been in Philippians 2 already.
He is now exhausted. At God's right hand is given a name above every name in the name of Jesus. Every knee should follow.
On every country confessing Lord to the glory of God the Father.
And as the disciples are awakened up and listen for I could look how you said they fell asleep.
And.
They're awakened out of this deep, and suddenly this wonderful vision appears to have it was nothing that they had understood before or that they contemplated.
About here, His own glory is allowed to shine off for just a little while.
On the On the Marble Life.
Plus we see the failure in connection with it because Peter Ration wishes to make 3 tabernacles, one for Moses, one for Elijah, and one for Jesus, putting them all on one common level. God will stand for that at all.
The consequently takes Moses and Elijah already and now.
Out of the cloud he speaks and says this is my beloved son.
To ye him.
And now they look about.
Where all these other men that appeared in glory with Jesus?
Get on.
Jesus is alone.
His glory shines on and God says, This is my beloved Son.
There's no comparison.
There's no way in which God will allow these others who were servants in His house to be put on the same level with His own Son. This is my beloved son. Hear him.
I'm thinking this wonderful vision that they saw. I'm thinking of what appeared to them on how when they looked around they found no man save Jesus only.
A blessed thing for us when we get our eye upon the blessed Savior.
And when no one else can by any means be put in his company.
He alone, He has a place alone of his own. We read of him that God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son. Now He has many sons, but there's always this one only begotten Son.
Has a glory which is altogether his own that nobody else can share with it. Now let's turn to Hebrews.
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Hebrews 12.
In the 11Th chapter, we find notable men.
Who performed wonderful things on the principle of faith. They believe God.
And having believed God, they were strengthened and blessed.
Are unable to do things that were far beyond their ability.
And now having given us all this wonderful picture of what these were, these endured, then he brings us down to the Smoke chapter. And he says, wherefore see, we also are confident about with so great a power of witnesses.
That is his company in the 11Th chapter, without referred to the great power of witnesses.
It's not as some people have thought, that those who have gone on before are occupied looking at us and seeing how we're going on and they're they're witnessing our pathways here. No, that's not the thought at all.
As far as I can see.
So the thought is that these witnesses were witnesses of the blessed resolve of faith in operation. And now here we are with all this evidence before us in the 11Th chapter of what faith has accomplished in others.
It tells us here, seeing we also accomplished the thoughtless, so greater power of witnesses let us lay aside every week.
Every hindrance is awake, let us see aside every week, and the sin which got so either this sentence, it may be anything at all in our pathway down here which would descend us. The sin which God so he will beset us, may not be something very wicked.
It may be just occupation in excess.
I thought they should be.
With.
But these things are easily distracted and draws away from occupation with Christ, and God wants us to understand all that we're to lay aside every weight on everything that by any means.
Would occupy us with something less than his own dear son.
So he says here, let us lay aside every week.
And the sin which does so easily to set us.
And let us run with pace of the race.
That is set before us.
And how important it is for us to bear in mind that we are running in a race, the apostle tells us in First Corinthians laughter. They that run in a race. They all run, but only one win the prize.
But he would have us all run and all receive the prize.
Why you say pop in that beat?
Settle it off because there are enough prizes to go all around. God will withhold any from anyone who deserves anything, but He wants us to run with patience. The race is set before us.
And he wants us to do so with having our eye set upon the only one who can be an example to us, the only one who can.
Show us exactly what would be pleasing to God. That's the Lord Jesus himself.
Remember.
Reading about some farmer who ploughed very crooked forest.
And another farmer.
Hereby they just burrowed quite straight. So he asked this farmer how he got his forest so straight. Why he said that? I set my eye on an object before me and I fell straight toward that object in the forest. He said I'll get straight forward.
This father thought that was a good idea.
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So the next clawing, he looked at Oscar, an object. He saw a coop in the distance, and he ploughed straight toward that cow. When he got through, he looked and loved. His fur was just as crooked as ever could be. Why was this? The cow was a moving object.
It shifted about as it felt that there was something here more tender to graze upon. Why? It shifted over that way and then, or shifted over this other way, and by and by. The man had a very crooked volume altogether.
If we want to plow a space, first if we want to.
Mop out our path and be sure that we're not wasting a lot of time and energy and getting crooked results. We want to keep our eye upon the one object that God has set before us, and that's what we have here.
So it tells us after we run the patient's eraser set before us.
Then it says looking.
Under Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, which I think should read a little differently. I understand it should read rather like this, looking more earnestly under Jesus the author and finisher of faith. That is, the whole path of faith from beginning to end was taught by this Blessed One to the glory of God, and you make no mistakes if you follow.
In his steps.
So then it tells us looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher faith that is the beginner little creeper of the path and looking for birthday again, and that's what I had before me. More particularly that is the looking.
Now we saw in the 9th chapter of Moth how when God took away.
Moses and Elijah, how the disciples, they look around.
And they saw no object.
And then they lost again on the saw Jesus only, no man, but Jesus only.
All the wonderful thing to get ones eye upon that blessed farm. Jesus only.
I saw they saw no man save Jesus only now, here in our 12Th chapter of Hebrews, we are. I thought it to look more earnestly.
Order him earnestly. Look off under him. We have a good many difficulties in our life down here.
I'm saving is going to make her path just as hard as you can.
And oftentimes we wonder whether we have God's mind or not. And, well, the thing that we're doing, what I have done was British glory.
Well, the secret of the whole thing we want to have his mind is to be so occupied with the Lord Jesus.
And the soul walk, and looking off earnestly under Jesus the computer and finisher of faith.
Under them we think are quite motivated again, because here we read also who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross.
Despising the shame on the set down with the right hand of the greatest on heart.
Well.
I've often thought that perhaps as good an illustration we have in structure of what it was that can move to joy to endure all this is what we have in David.
Today, as you remember, went down at his father's request to see how his brethren appeared in the battle.
Undertake with them are these 10 cheeses under whatever other things that were.
For the addresses and for the capital host. And when David got down there, David saw, to his surprise, something he hadn't counted on.
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There was a massive man, a monster.
That came forth of the camp of listeners and he challenged the armies of Israel to French, a man that could fight with him.
Well, we know of course from the scriptural interpretation of this portion.
All that, all this monster representative, that great enemy of ours who wielded such power that we all were terrified.
So that.
Who through fear of death.
Brought us into *******.
We needed a delivery.
Well, nobody dared to go to meet that great giant.
And none of the president of David saw the.
Man who was most outstanding among all the other men there. They all fled from before this monster.
On David is astonished at it. Why? Who is this uncircumcised Protestant that he should defy the armies of the living God?
And then someone said, David, do you know what will take place? The man that dares to go down and fight that giant and slaves him, he's going to have three things.
He's going to have his father's house set free in Israel.
He's going to bring great wealth.
But he's going to have a bride. Now, if you take those three things, I think they bring you before you a picture of what this joy that the Lord has. That is to say, there is a wealthy thing to bring to the fame and glory of God by going to the cross.
Them selling this family of his father's house free in Israel.
And he was the church, the drive and all, he said. These three things are such importance to me.
I'll gladly go down and I'll give my life.
To secure her, so we're told as to the in the 5th chapter of Ephesians. As to the church, he loved the church and gave himself for it. He didn't keep anything back.
Christ also loved the Church and gave himself for him.
He loved us, but He gave himself for us and each individual one of us can say about me, I'm gave himself for me. Yes, the bless the Lord Jesus went down and meet that great foe and whatever cost it might be to him, he was going to deliver our souls and it's going to bring glory to God.
And he was going to have it.
In that glory, share with him all the glories that God was apostle created.
And so, proof of the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising his cave, when he sat down with the right hand of the majesty of God.
But now you and I have him before us as an example.
Applicable of earnestly to him.
We're to seek in every way to be more like the blessed Lord Jesus and God who knows the motive of each of our hearts and who knows what our daily lives are.
Desires us indeed to be so taken over his son that we become more like him. Or if we have it.
In Corinthians.
That's a violent RI stage upon him in glory. We've changed into the same image from glory to glory, and that's what God purposes concerning us as Christians is not merely that we already come to meetings which are very important.
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It's not merely that we should be spending a very little time in prayer, which is very important.
Not merely that we should be occupied a great deal with greedy, which is also very important, but the heart is to be occupied with Christ, nothing less.
Nothing less. 110 five Gravy and reading become critical.
One can by lacking in prayer become terrorists and indefinitely. What God wants us occupied with Christ, He wants our heart. Just feeling with the loveliness of that blessed man. He worked all hearts to drink in of that wonderful love of His.
On soul, or to be able to show that same law, on that same grace unto others.
So looking off Wednesday under Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, is the way in which we gather the energy and the strength.
To go on with himself, running patience, the race which is set before us.
I'm looking at another version of the 34th song and the first verse.
Says they look.
Under him and were lightened, and their fingers were not ashamed.
No, what was that first thing? They looked at his pin and were lightened.
That's the best English word that they could find to express this thought, but the marginal reading gives you another thought.
And that is, they looked at him and they closed under there. In other words, there is something about looking at the term that just made a heart.
Alive in its activity.
And as the Elderfeld Bible puts it, they were her language. That is to say, they were.
Not only.
Cheers and confident, but they were exhilarated. It was a spirit that was all. Left it off above the things of time. How unbecoming it is for a Christian to walk along with a long face.
What would say? Is that the kind of a Christ you have?
Is it a long ways that God wants to see in his children or is it a glad that happened faith?
I'm sure to glad and a happy face she wants on his children. He wants them to show the whole world how good God has been to him and you don't do that when you have a long face.
Knowing me, I will remember an older brother saying many years ago, you have a Christian with a long face. That doesn't mean he's a godly man. It may mean he has a structure and how true that is. Instead of him being a godly man, maybe he's just a crack.
If we are really going on with the Lord, why our souls would flow altogether?
We'd be lifted up above the circumstances here, below we being living as it were in the 7th heaven, someone said.
I don't know whether is a 7th heaven or not, but the point is simply not that it will lift you right up above everything else down here. What a comfort, what a joy it is.
Just to be going on happy, rejoicing before the Lord for this praise. So the psalmist over and over again speak about them being full of his praise, praising Jehovah all the day.
The first verse says I'll bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth, and that's for God's glory. That's how God is glorified in US. He wants us to be, said happy witnesses of Himself that the whirling says He's got something I'd like to have.
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But they don't care about.
A person who just simply said I've got my religion is that all a person has? Is religion all? How much better it is to have Christ have Christ before us? Looking for fantasy under Jesus.
And here they look to him, and they were lifted up in their spirits, and they were just filled with rejoicing.
Well, that's what we want. We want little of that. We want to know something about it.
We have a dear brother in Brooklyn who labored a great deal in the gospel.
And somebody describing him said he had the faith of every Christian should have a happy looking faith.
That brother really enjoys the gospel and he wants others to enjoy it with him.
So he has a face that every Christian should have, a happy face rejoicing in the Lord.
All how blessed is it?
And so they looked at him, and they called to him, that is to quicken their whole sensibilities.
It made them rejoice, it lifted them up above all the difficulties down here.
And occupy them with the glory.
And so they're recalibrated, there's strength and they were impressed. They would cheer and they would cheer onto all of us.
Yes, I looked at it here.
And were like.
Don't help us to know more about looking.
Up in? Yes indeed.
Looking on extent under Jesus now in the 9th chapter of Hebrews.
You have 3 appearances, 24 verse.
For Christ is not evident, for holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the truth, but in heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us.
And then in the 26th verse, but now once in the end of the world, have he appeared to put a wish in by the sacrifice of himself.
That is quite a time should be before the adversity. 24 verse. But then there's another verse here also in the 28th verse. So Price was once offered to bear the sins of many, and other than the look for him, shall he appear the second time?
Without sin or the salvation.
Now there's another girl, there's a look at the coming one and to look at the one who is about to come and establish himself that what is rightfully his his Kingdom. But before he does that, he's going to catch away his church. However, if we love his appearing.
As we have mentality.
A reward that is to be given to all them in love is appearing just the same as when he had bought himself.
Or he could speak of having thought it would fight and having finished the course and having kept the faith.
Hence what he says is made-up of mere crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day, or not to the only, but on the far limit. He loved his period, that is to say.
Loving is occurring to me means all, that they so walk with him and so live with him, that things out here mean nothing to them.
They're not interested in schemes and ambitions of men.
They're not interested in making a name for themselves or a place or making their future secure in the world.
They're not interested in that what they are interested in.
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Is in helping to bring them all the early return of all Lord Jesus. So then, and all the alternate love is appearing. What a test these scriptures are to our hearts. Are we in the good of them? Are we living as we should?
Here alone is Christ as much to us as He should be. Are we as full of praise to God our Father for all His loving kindness and goodness to us?
As we should be.
All these things will test us.
Not how much we know. Not how much we may be able to preach. Not how well we might be able to say things. No, indeed. But how well we can walk in this blessed car. Now there isn't much said about Phoenix.
But what love is said is so significant.
In it for 65 years old when he had a little family.
And Leonard tells us that for 300 years she walked with God. Now I don't believe that he just learned.
You stop and walk with God, but I believe he's walking with God all those years before too. But God wants us to know the question is a family man whose responsibilities and cares, just as you and I have, that he still walked with God?
And he walked with God under one day. He was not for God took it. But before this translation he had this testimony to the accused God.
Now that testimony, without doubt, was in his own soul.
Doubt at all, but he knew that God was pleased that having walked with him.
And so we find him working with God. 300 years now. Sometimes we get weary walking a little while. Matter of a few years we begin to feed her off. What's the matter?
There's something wrong there, isn't it?
300 years 7 without diminishing at all.
The fiber is, what with God? What was the secret of it? I believe the secret of the class. And he looked beyond this world, and he looked at the goodness of God and the majesty.
Under the splendor of God is revealed in creation, but also as He hadn't handed down him from Adam all the way down.
Surprisingly, only to stop and think of it.
That.
Three men spanned that whole period of time from the Garden of Eden to the Flood.
Three men lies, one to the other, and the third man still living after the flood.
A matter of 16146 years, Nearly as we can figure it, three men's lives spanned all that period of time. How to beat it was in the midst of it.
And Phoenix heard the words of faith that came down to him.
In that line of those who were to be the.
Line of blessings.
Quick stay on the Messiah to come.
And all these years he walked through God, 300 years. I think it's in the enjoyment of much of the precious truth that was intimated in the Old Testament. As a matter of fact, I think a great deal was intimated fail that we don't know much about.
Water these Old Testament, whereas they have something.
That fill their souls and make them sure of what God had decreed for them. And so it walked to God 300 years. We find also that dealing with a prophet and being prophesied of the coming of the Lord with 10 thousands of his Saints.
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Venues upon those that were ungodly, but when you get them there like that, it makes you wonder why you and I are so cherry with our daily affairs.
Are we keeping something back from the board or we not to be exercised about it?
Peanut, walk with God, if we walk with God, bless the Lord Jesus.
In our daily pilgrimage knowledge, what a difference is with making with a lot of things about which we're not so terrorists.
And we will be well pleasing unto God.
All that what is meant by looking more famously under Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, to pass the faith, whereas one object was to please his Father.
Are very blessed in reading to know that that he is coming again, Lord Jesus is.
And very shortly he's going to catch away this pride. I'm convinced that we're on the very eve of this wonderful event that's about to take place.
And at any moment now, it may expect.
And we be caught away from this world. Everything indicates how confused and upset and disturbed mankind is. He doesn't know. Where is that?
I know that there's something coming and he can't understand what.
I filled with more or less the stress because he doesn't know how to handle the situation. It's beyond. It's only the Lord Jesus that's able to set things right.
And his coming is assured and is very close and we will look for his appearing.
Are really anxiously desirous that he should come.
Not because we would escape the dangers that threaten this race, but because we wondered. We love it, we just feel it. We can't be happy away from him.
As is true that he will be satisfied.
When it has all his own home with him and that bright glory, it is equally true that we shall be satisfied.
When we awaken this life, when everything that is converted to Him will be gone, and when we shall be just like the blessed Lord who loved us and gave us that, the ultimate joy, That's the great thing that is set before us. And if you want us to be occupied with it, all these other trivial things.
Only help to make it harder for us in the program.
The Lord has given grace so we may have our eyes fixed upon Him.
And may rejoice in his goodness.
To us.
Gospel
Gospel—G. Thomson
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Shall we turn together through the 5th chapter of the Gospel of John?
John Gospel sanctified and we'll read from verse 19.
Then answered Jesus, and said unto them.
Verily, verily, I pray unto you, the sun can be nothing of himself. But what you see, if the Father do for what things forever he doeth, these also doeth the sun likewise.
For the Father loveth the Son, and so with him all things that himself doeth, and he will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father waveth up the dead and quickeneth them, Even so the sun quicken us whom he will. For the Father judgeth no man.
But hath committed all judgment unto the sun, that all men should honor the sons.
Even as they honor the Father, he that honors not the Son, honors not the Father which hath sent Him. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent Me.
Last everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation or judgment, but is passed from death. Underlined. Verily, verily, I say unto you, the owl is coming, and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live.
For as the Father hath life in himself.
So happy given to the Son to have life in himself, and he hath given him authority.
To execute judgment also, because he is the son of man. Marvel Naruto. For the hour is coming in which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that have gone evil.
Unto the resurrection of them nations, or judgment.
Verse 39.
For inland you think you have eternal life, and they are very which testify of me, and that you will not come to me that you might have life.
Now shall we turn to the What is chapter of the Book of Revelation?
On verse 11.
And I saw a great.
White throne and him that sat on it, from whose faith the earth and the heaven sled away, and it was found no place for them.
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life, And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their work.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hell delivered up to dead which were in them, and they were judged, every man.
According to their work.
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second mess.
And whosoever was not found written in the book of Life was passed into the latest fire.
Solemn versus these beloved friends that we have just read together.
Words that have been recorded in God's book.
Words that cannot be altered.
None had tried to alter them, but they found they have stood through the means and they will stand for having a mariscal pathway. But my word shall not pass away.
And I trust as we read these verses together that our hearts were solemnized, because one cannot help but feel the gravity.
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Of a meeting like this, considering the lateness of the hour in this world's history, I'm considering the fact that there may be some in our audience tonight who have been brought up in a Christian home, who have come up through the Sunday school, and who have a knowledge of God's way of salvation.
In their hand, but still.
Have not yet made Christ their own personal failure. Is it possible that there could be such a one in this audience tonight? A boy or a girl, A man or a woman?
Or what issues are paid tonight? Eternal issues?
For beloved friends, as you listen to the Word of God.
Live in your presence.
You are placed in a position.
While you must make 87, you must decide for Christ as your own personal failure, or you must reject them. There's no other choice. There's no other position that you can take. But how wonderful that the Day of grace is still with us.
How wonderful that God is still lingering.
And long-suffering blades over this present evil world. How wonderful that God is still deceiving sinners be reconciled to Himself through the death of His Son.
Now in these verses which is read in the 5th chapter, the Gospel of John.
The Lord Jesus is presented under new titles.
As you will have observed as we read it together, he's presented as the Son of God who quickeneth or giveth life to whom he will, and then he presented as the Son of man, the one who has been given authority to execute judgment.
Now, to put it on the simplest terms, the Lord Jesus is presented to us here tonight.
On the one hand, as a failure he was able to give life, and on the other hand as a judge before whom you must stand if you refuse him as your favorite.
Then we have two hours spoken of in this chapter.
We have one hour.
In verse.
25 The owl is coming, and now is that all is still with us, and that hour, shall we call, is the hour of salvation, and then we have another hour, which is spoken of in verse 28.
For the hour is coming.
That owl is still eating that hour when the graves will be opened and when the dead shall come forth.
Then we have two days presented to us in the Word of God in Second Corinthians chapter 6, the apostle Paul right into the Saints of torrents. Behold now.
Is the expected time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
And then in the 17th chapter of that, he reminds us that God has a point of the day in the which he will judge this world in righteousness, by that man whom yet our gain, wherein he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him.
From the dead nowadays, and an hour is a unit of time that is at the beginning, and it has an ending.
This day has a beginning. This day will have an ending. And all beloved friends, that day of salvation began when the Lord Jesus was in this world.
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Four, says the apostle and Hebrews Capitals, how shall we escape?
If he neglects to a great salvation, which at first began to be spoken by the Lord, at first began to be spoken by the Lord, Yes, the Lord Jesus is the man that came from heaven as we had in our chapter this afternoon. He's the one that came from God and went back to God.
He came into this world.
Our beloved friends and he brought with him.
That wonderful, wonderful message of salvation.
But the day of salvation is drawing near to the close. The shadows are lengthening. The days are darkening.
Tunes we shall hear the shouts of that same blessed man who walked the pies of this world. Bring salvation to all who would have it. Whom will heal that doubt that will close this day of salvation, and then for all who are filling their sins.
It will be forever too late. All of my friends, one cannot impress you sufficiently tonight with the fact that it's getting late in this world history, this world in which we live is under the judgment of God. It's no longer on salvation. The trial of man ended at the cross.
God tried man in every conceivable way.
Last of all, he spent his son, his own beloved son, and they said, this is here, come, let us kill him, that the inheritance might be ours. They cried. Away with him, away with him, will not have this man to reign over us.
Yes. The trial of mine ended at the cross. The world in which he lives is under the judgment of God, and whom that judgment is going to fall soon, that judgment is going to be executed, and that judgment will be executed.
By the thy man that came into this world, not to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. Now one would like to ask the question before going any further into our chapter. Is there one?
In our audience tonight, who knows not the Lord Jesus as Savior, all our hearts are concerned about you tonight. We realize that you're standing in jeopardy. We realize that for you tomorrow sun may never rise. And we realize on the authority of God's word.
That if you could die in your sins, the doors of heaven shall be forever flows against you.
For the Lord Jesus said, if you die in your sins, whether I go, you cannot come. Oh, what a solemn word that is, beloved friends, if you die in your.
We lead enrollment stop to 12 by 1 man then added into the world.
And death by him. So death is passed upon all men.
In that all have in and again God's word declares the soul. That's enough, it's all God. And again the wages of sin is that, and still again it is appointed as a man once above, and after this the judgment.
All that form versus these are beloved friends.
You and I have no claim to life. We have sensitive every plane to life or we have sinned. We were born into this world with a fallen sinful nature. And besides that you're guilty of sinning against us. Holy God, we have no claim to life, but yet the Son of God.
Has come into this world.
That you and I might live through him for in this was manifested the love of God toward us in that he said he's only gotten son into the world that we might live through him. Yes, we were dead in press passage and him is that much but our first teachers are here tonight.
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Verily, verily I can't you. The hour is coming on now is.
When the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear thou live dead. Dead in first classes and things. That's the state of every unsaved soul here tonight in the sight of God. You are dead, seriously dead. Not as part of life, Godward. And what does a dead man need?
He needs life.
And the Lord Jesus came into this world as the Kitchener of dead souls. He came that you might live, but not only will it be guilty hearing His love, not that we love God, but that He loved us and spent his Son to see the propreciation for our sins.
Yes, beloved friends, all that we needed as guilty sinners in this world.
Oh, but when you need our dead souls, God has provided for us in the gist of His only begotten Son.
Oh, you'll notice that little word that appears in our chapter's life.
He that honoured not the son on earth, not the father which sent him. And again.
He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sets me.
He was sent into this world. Sent by whom? Sent by God the Father sent that you and I might live, You and I who deserve to die, you and I who deserve the wages of sin. God in His infinite love has provided failure for US1 Who is able and willing to pay to the uttermost?
All who will come, all one thinks of the poor lepers.
Who came to the Lord Jesus, and he says, If thou wilt, thou can make me feel, if thou wilt all. He didn't question for one moment the Lord's ability to plant him. He didn't crash into one moment the power that was there for him. But what did he question? He said, as it were.
Lord, are you willing? Are you willing to cleanse me?
Oh, dear friend, see you question tonight the willingness of the blessed Savior to quicken your dead soul. Do you question His willingness to give you life tonight, eternal life in the place of eternal death, that you deserve all. There's no question about His power. There's no question about His ability.
He expressed his willingness.
All of these words settle it for you tonight.
Beloved friends, as he spoke to those Jews, he could say you search the pictures, for in them you think you have eternal life.
And they are they which testify of me. That is, they wanted this eternal life. The very fact that they were first in the Scriptures to find it proved that they wanted it. But here was the one, the only one.
In whom this life to be had standings in their very pleasant. And he had to say, He will not come unto me all with what feelings he must have uttered those words, as he beheld those poor sinful men.
He will not come unto me that you might have life. He was willing.
But they were not willing. Is that your case tonight? Dear friends, the Lord Jesus is willing to save you tonight. He's willing to give you life. Are you willing to let Him save you? Are you willing to reach out the hand that they and accept the pride that He offers to you?
Eternal life. Foresee what our birthdays Verily, verily I fail to you. He that heareth my words, and believeth on him except Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death unto life.
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What wonderful words these are, and when we think that they came from the lips of the eternal Son of God, the one who came in this world is that you and I might have life. Let's pawn to these words. Let's weigh them tonight. Let's go over them slowly, truly. Well, that's the meaning of those words. Verily, verily.
Truly, truly, I pray unto you just as if you had come near to us tonight, just as if He was standing in our very midst and addressing each one personally, individually, or you must have to do with Him as individuals. And what are we saying to you tonight?
You that hear us my word?
That's the first thing, He that heareth my word. Now, if I were going to some remote corner of the globe tonight, I might find myself confronted with an audience who had never heard this word. But I'm sure that this is not the case tonight. I'm sure that everyone here has heard the word at the front of God.
As the apostle Paul is writing to Timothy could say.
And that from a child thou hast known the Holy Sisters, which are able to make it wise onto salvation. That's true of most of you here tonight. You young people, you've been brought up in Christian homes, that from a child you have known the Holy Scriptures.
Which are able to make you wise on the salvation but.
Have you really made them your very own? For the Lord Jesus says in the very next chapter, except to eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you. Oh, you're dead without life, without a part of life unless.
You have appropriated to yourself thou values of your toning death of Christ. For the Lord Jesus through the eternal Spirit offered himself without boxing on. He has glorified God in regard to the whole question of sins. He has 30 gold precious blood on the altar of cow before.
And now God in righteousness can come out to each one of us.
And he's gonna authorize salvation.
Full, I'm free, without money and without price. All that these words sink down into your heart tonight, dear friends, except you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you, no life in you, No life. What a song I'm saying it would be to pass out of time.
Ending eternity with no life to stand. Eternity and the blackness of darkness forever. Oh, when the rays of the sunshine of God's love can never penetrate. No life, no life, no life. Is that the case of any year tonight? 01 would earn a sample return to him tonight.
Who is able to quicken your dead souls?
And bring load of vastness into God's marvelous, marvelous light. He that heareth my words, and believeth on him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, everlasting life.
The following kind of life that the Lord gave us all. What did you like to have life like that for the life is in him, in him as with source, and he did it.
All who put their trust in him. A life that has gone down the door. A life that has risen triumphantly out of the grave. A life that has gone back into the glory beyond the reach of thins and death and judgment. That, beloved friend, is the life that is offered to you tonight. Life everlasting.
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Does that appeal to your heart? He longed to say. Oh, I wish.
That that life of mine. I wish that I knew I had it. Oh, I'm sure there are some here tonight in that very position. I can look back to the times in my life when as a boy, I used to go to the meeting with my parents and as I sat there and listened to the gospel, pulled out in all its fullness.
I used to say to myself, oh, if I only knew that I was saved.
If I only knew that I had life a long to have the matter settled and settled eternity. Thank God that they came when my lips were opened. You can start with thy mouth, leave with our Lord. And to believe in my heart that God had raised him from the dead. And from that moment on I could say I am saved, I have eternal life.
And you can be the same thing tonight, beloved friends.
Or have you ever confessed?
Either have Lord, did you ever have that desire in your heart to confession? Will you not take this opportunity that presents itself to you tonight? Will you not confess the Lord Jesus as your own personal sages and beholden in the past that you've been threatened by divine power, that you've been stayed by divine grace?
Would you not like to go home tonight rejoicing in that knowledge? Oh, you may, you may.
Get twice lies with me half everlasting life. Is it possible I've everlasting life? Yes, that's what God's word says and we have every right to believe that God says hath everlasting life.
If there had been a period there, that would have been grand. But all God doesn't stop there because he means that these parts of ours might still be a little bit troubled about that judgment that is yet to come. And so he sets us up perfectly at perfectly in regard to the whole matter. And he goes on to say.
But and shall not come into judgment.
But it passed from death unto life. All this is too wonderful.
How grand shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death unto life. And yet this is what the Son of God offers to you tonight.
Beloved friends, if you will Simply put your trust in him.
In the first chapter we have the case of a man, Nicodemus by name, a Pharisee, a ruler that he who came to Jesus by night.
He had observed, no doubt, some of the miracles that the Lord Jesus had performed, perhaps that he had heard of others.
Change Jesus by night and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that our teacher come from God, for no man can't do these miracles. Praise God, be with him. Ah, he realized, heal the man that had power that was beyond any human power that had evidence or that it was possible to feed.
And he drew the right conclusion. He was a man that had come down from God.
But what does the Lord say to him?
Ah, he fell to him, Nicodemus, except the man be born again. He cannot see the Kingdom of God, or how the Lord could read his heart, just as he can read your heart tonight.
And he says, at the worst, Nicodemus, I know that you're considered a good man. I know that you're respected by your ceremony. But Nicodemus, that will never fit you for my presence. If you're going to be in heaven, you must have a life and a nature seated to heaven. You must be born again.
Again, we must be born again.
We must have a new life. All beloved friends, has that lesson ever been learned by you? There's no patching up of that old natural life that you have received for that which is flashy flesh and that which is spirit of spirit. No, you must be born again.
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If you're going to be in the glory, you must have a life suited to God's presence. How about it? How have you been born again?
If not, you're still in your sin, you're still dead in her body in sin. You're still groping in the darkness, the darkness of nature. Well, then it goes on. In our chapter, we've been speaking about our when the Lord Jesus was here as a man.
Imparting life to their souls. And then he tells us.
Of another hour it is soon to come. Verse 28. Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming. In the witch all within the grave thou hear his voice.
No, death doesn't end all.
How many persons having gotten themselves into such a terrible mess in this life that they have thought the easy way out and they have committed suicide thinking that that would close their history? Little did they realize that there's coming a day when they must stand before God, this coming a day when they must respond.
To that voice of power.
We're going to the front of God, and they shall come forth. Notice what it says.
In the West, all within the grave shall come forth, not one exception, all that in the grave, but not all at the same time. No, there is a difference, not all at the same time, for everyone who has died in faith, when the Lord Jesus descends from heaven with his house, with the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.
Now he with that voice.
It would be a selective voice. It will only be heard by those who have died and faith, and they shall come forth out of the grave. Their bodies shall be changed, and they shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. Those child will ever be with the Lord. What a wonderful process that is. What a wonderful triumph that will be.
When those graves heal up their praise.
But all our beloved friends, that does not end all. For our multitudes left behind that call will be a selective voice. It will cause a great separation.
One remembers a number of years ago.
During the last World War, he went down to the railway station to meet a friend. He was coming into town.
And once saw a fight that has left a lasting impression on one's mind. For there was a young man in uniform. He had gotten his call, evidently, to go to camp. And from there on across the seas to the battlefield, and he was saying goodbye.
And his mother embraced him on his place, a goodbye cast upon his feet, and the young man boarded the train. And he knows sooner than on the train when the whistle blew and it rolled out of the station. And I will remember the expression on that mother's face as she turned.
And buried her hands in her face, in her hands.
And he wept and wailed aloud.
As that fun of her departed out of the station, all one thought there was a hope that that young man might return again. But all beloved friends, if you die in your sins, there's no hope for you. You will be eternally lost. Eternally lost. You will lift up your eyes in hell, only the fallen words.
These are true words.
For God's Word is truth.
Yes, the owl is coming, when all in the graves thou hear the voice.
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All the shall hear his voice, and shall come forth.
Well then, we learn from the 20th chapter of Revelation that between these two resurrections.
We're tired of here. There will be at least 1000 years, but at that time, after the 1000 years.
Has finished. Then what? That same voice will once again be heard, and it will call by its power.
Every dead soul out of the grave.
Yes, the sea was healed up, its dead. What for?
It stands before the great white throne, great piece of vastness, white piece of maturity. And who is the one who will sit upon that pole? None other than he who is the Son of Man.
For our Son of Man all judgment has been committed into his arm. For a follow moment this will be see how it's put in our verses. I saw great white Thrones, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away, and there was no place.
For them no sustained by divine power.
They will stand before that judgment roll and the book will be opened and they will be judged. Every man according to his work. My friend, are you going to find yourself in this company? It's possible, It's possible.
If you continue to neglect your great salvation, it's possible.
That you will find yourselves among this company of whom we're reading tonight. I saw the bed, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the book according to their work.
And the sea gave up the bed which were in it.
I'm just on hell delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged every man according.
According to their work.
I'm deaf and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second, yeah.
And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was passed into the Lake of Fire.
All could one read more solemn words than he beloved them.
Can you sit in your feet?
Now you listen to words like these, or these words are the words of God. Can you listen to them and take them lightly? Can you listen to them and smile at the one next to you? Can you listen to them and talk to the one next to you? Oh my friend, how can it be when eternal issues are fake? How can it be when it's a matter of life or death?
How can it be when it's a matter of eternity in the pedophiles or eternity in the presence of the Lord?
How can it be that you can take these issues so lightly? All one would plead with you tonight if you're stealing your sins, if you have not yet heard the voice of the Son of God. Oh, that your ears might be opened. So here tonight.
And if you might receive this message in your heart and that you might be able to say, thank God I have eternal life tonight.
Will you do that? Will you accept the Lord Jesus tonight, right when you sit in your feet? Oh, there must be what? I'm sure He is still in his sin. Will you not settle the matter now? For remember, the day of grace is practically gone.
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And God is still offering to you once more, perhaps for the last time.
This method of violation, and then the things we have in almost the very last words of our Bible, that wonderful invitation.
Whosoever will let him take the water of life freely, let him that is a first come. Let him that is a first come. What is it to be thirsty? Oh, it's a half a long unsatisfied.
Desire, is there such one? Did you come into this room tonight with a first and unsatisfied desire? Did you come into this room tonight seeking salvation, seeking eternal life? Oh, God is awesome to you. One more invitation and it says.
Let him through first come, and whosoever will let him face the water of life, really observe the terms on which this water of life is offered. Let him take it. Take it and how take it. Really, really. Oh, don't you see? That brings it right down within your lease.
Have there been some flights attached yet? Perhaps I might not have been able to meet that fight. But God is asking no prize tonight. He's offering to you, this author, Really. Really. He says take it, take it, really.
I don't take the water of life is oh, my son does that OfferUp here tonight.
Come and receive from his hands that one little offer, everlasting life.
John 13
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I suggest the job here.
Well, it has been on my heart.
Because there we have the Lord's promise three years ago.
It isn't a doctrine so much there as it is statement himself.
And use the whole step. I think so.
John Gospel, chapter 14.
Work not your heart to trouble you. believe in God, believe all through Indians in my Father's House of many men.
If it were not so, I would have told you I go to prepare the place for you.
I will come again and receive you all to myself. That's where I am. There you may be all day. And whether I go, you know, underway, you know.
Lord, we know not within our Lord, And how can we know the way?
These are 7 to him. I am the way, sister and the Light. No man cometh unto the Father, but find me. If he had known me, he should have known my Father.
And henceforth you know him and have seen him.
Unto him Lord joyeth the Father, and the surprise of us.
Tune into him about him for a long time with you. And yet have thou not known me, silly? He never seen me, have seen how to play yourself. Then show us apart.
Believe the song off that I am in the Father, and the Father in me. The word is that I think unto you. I speak not in myself, but the Father has thrown me. He doeth the work.
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me oil. Believe me for The Dirty work. Verily, verily I stand to you. He that believeth on me the words that I do till he do also, And greater works of being shall he do, because I go on to my Father, and whatsoever and you shall ask in my name.
That will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. But you love me. Keep my commandments.
And I will pray the Father and He shall give you another comforter, that He may abide with you forever.
He was filled with truth whom the world cannot misuse because it's teeth in them even though of it, but he knows him for it. Well with you and tell the Indians.
I will not leave you comfortable. I will come to you.
In a little while and the world gave me no more, but he seemed.
Because I live, need to live also. But that day you should know that I am in my father and me and me and I and me.
Even half much men and people. And he that loveth me shall be loved my father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
You deserve not hysteria.
Lord, how is this without manifest ourselves underwater and talk under the world?
If a man love me, he will keep my word, and my father will love him, and he will come, and we will come under him and make our bones.
He that loves me not leave us, not my face. And the word with me here is not mine, but the power is with them.
He says, Have I spoken unto you?
Being your president.
But the confidence which is the Holy Ghost from the Father of can in my name He shall teach you all things and bring all things, your amendment, whatsoever I have said unto me.
I leave with you by please, I give up. None of the world give us, give I of you. Let not your heart in trouble, neither let it be afraid.
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Be afraid How I said unto you, I go away.
And come again unto you, If you love me, you would rejoice, because I said I go under the Father, for my Father is greater than I.
And now I have told you before it's come to pass that when it comes, but when it is come to pass, we might believe.
Thereafter I will not talk much when the printer this world comes and have nothing in me but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me command, even though I.
Let us go in the last. The last verse of this chapter calls for a word of explanation.
Yesterday we remarked that the Lord Jesus, after his public chemistry, took his own apart into the Upper Room.
For that last Passover supper. And when he had them there, he communicated to them. They didn't become the 13th chapter he was telling them.
Of his present office for it.
On us to keep us in communion while we're here. And he was there.
The 14th chapter tells us that he's coming back for us.
But the last verse of this chapter says, arise, let us go ahead, I take it from the next clause.
This is 50 and 16th chapters are spoken on the way between the Upper Room and the Garden of Gethsemane.
Or in the 18th chapter he comes to the garden. I am not so clear.
About the 17th chapter, that prayer of the Lord Jesus to His Father concerning His own He would leave here as to where it was uttered, But suffice it to say that it comes in admirably at the close of the Lord's instruction to them concerning His absence and His coming for them, and there we are permitted to hear His.
Bart told out to his father concerning his own downhill. I wouldn't say where it was us, but from this last, 'cause I think the 15th and 16th were probably uttered on the way to get them. Do you agree with that brother's children? Doesn't the 17th chapter give us, as we might say on sample of the Lord's intercession for us daily? Yeah, it's a high priestly prayer.
Men talk about the Lord's Prayer.
And refer to that which he gave to his disciples. That was suited to the condition then. But that's not the Lord's Prayer, the 17th of John.
And the reason so many Christians pray what's known as the Lord's Prayer is that they're in a state of soul comparable to that of the disciples at that time. That is, deliverance is not known. Forgiveness is not known.
It's not in the it's not just praying by the Spirit, not in the name of the Lord Jesus, but it was ideally students to the disciples at that time before the cross and many Christians who prayed in all sincerity to change do so because they are practically in the states in which the disciples were then, but all on a precious subject we have before us in the 14th. I suppose their hearts were troubled because their hopes were earthly they.
For the Kingdom to be established on earth, just like in the Lord's Prayer, Thy Kingdom come. But now the Lord Jesus is seeking to bring before them something that was going to be their portion instead of the Kingdom. And it's our portion too, through grace. But isn't it all that fast in our hearts are troubled because we have looked for something down here. They look for the Kingdom.
But it's something that we have looked for down here that we didn't receive in our hearts or troubles. But what does the Lord do?
Well, He points our hearts upward, shows us that our real portion is nuts out here. But up there, He's going to come and bring us there, but not your heart. Be troubled. And as our brother AO says, their hearts work up. They have a right to me. They thought that it was He who should have redeemed Israel at that time. Not only that, but their hearts were attached to him personally.
And Harry's talking about leaving them.
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Well, if all you they'd left all to follow him.
And now he was telling them that he was going to leave them. Where did that leave them?
In a hostile world.
They sell this hostility now, he says, I'm going to leave while your heart is troubled. He says, because I've said these things, sorrow, it fills your heart. Brethren, what is he set before he's coming back? He did not leave the orphans any brothers. But no, I will not leave you comfortable. I will come to you. And the margin there is, or he wasn't. He isn't letting us make our own way down here.
But not isn't, but our hope is the coming of the Lord. Our hope is himself. I don't know any portion of the word of God much more manual than this 14th of John General. Well, perhaps so voters showed it. On the other hand, the third is when it comes to the second verse. I go to repair a place for you. It certainly wasn't just meters.
I noticed in this place, first of all, Chester, that the blessed Lord linked himself with the living God in the first chapter. We have him presented before us as one of the Godhead. Listen. And here again in this 21St, he linked himself with the eternal God. He said he's an evil God to believe all for me.
Wonderful destiny. Yes brother. Therapeutic. Isn't this before 7?
You have believed in God whom you have not seen. You believed in God as an object of faith. Now you're going to have to believe in me the same way because I'm going away and you won't see me. You believe in God, You're going to have to believe in me now the same way.
Well, isn't any less precious to us because he isn't here.
When did the disciples ever enter into his mind?
Well, I think we have a a higher place than that we can enter into his truck, for we have the Spirit of God to open up the word. Would that be Hebrews 1139 and 40?
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise. God, having provided some better thing for us, that they without us, should not be made perfect.
Yes, that's referring to the old testing thing. Now they're not getting their portion yet.
Your Testament Saints went for theirs till we get out. They without us should not be made first.
In Hebrews 6 where he speaks about going on the perfection, he says not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and a faith toward God wasn't a Jewish face to believe in God has revealed in contrast with idols hero Israel, the Lord thy God is one God. But in the Old Testament God dwells in the thick darkness. He wasn't really made known, was he?
But it tells us in John one, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. And so now the God who has been dwelt in the thick darkness in the Old Testament was made known in the sun, And so the Lord should say, Believe also in me. And now what He wanted them to know was the heart of God sold out, and He was the one who had come to reveal it.
Believe also in me, but a blessed thing when they laid hold of that horses couldn't be fully till the coming of the Spirit.
Their remarks from the chapter show that. But that's what he would have us to know, isn't he?
And so the precious things are in the pathway here has revealed the heart of God. But I think it's important because we hear a great deal today about faith in God and everywhere where we hear the mention of God and leaving out the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. But it says in John's epistle, he that acknowledges not the Son, the same hath not the Father.
And since God has now been revealed in the Son, to reject the Son is to reject God himself.
You've been revealed in that way. That's all. Yeah. Well, here in this chapter, he's in his same media, being the father. He was the revelation of the father.
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Man is indebted to Revelation for every set of knowledge of God.
The creature could not know God unless the Creator were pleased to reveal Himself, and then only in so far and in the and the manner in which the Creator is pleased to reveal himself.
And so Hebrews tells us, and their Old Testament times, he did so in various ways.
But when you come to Christianity, we see God revealed in Son, not merely that the Son came to speak for the Father, but all that he did, all that he was with God, being made manifest to men.
God comes so near the man to take him in the burst of the sun.
But oh, it's just faces. Leave them.
53rd of Isaiah is the language that the Jewish remnant will use in the future day. They're going to say he was despised and rejected of them.
We'll see him now.
He was a man.
God with us, Emmanuel.
In connection with that Revelation might return to Deuteronomy 2929, brother.
Precious verse to retreat into us to.
God, secret faith.
Deuteronomy 2929 The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.
But those things which are revealed, which are revealed, belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. God has revealed Himself in His Son. We ought to be more occupied with him.
Then my father's house about as high as some people ever get to talk about heaven. But isn't this better?
And my father's house.
Came forth from that he knew it. The one that came from America testified or what is there then my father's house are many of both. That is, there were places for seraphim and cherubim and whatever creatures there may be, what is it whom every family in heaven and the nurses name.
Oh, God has his place in his house. And of course the the stock here is far from Solomon's temple.
Where there were the opposed of the priests about the house.
In my father's house are many of them, but there was number place for man. So he says I go to prepare a place for you.
What right does a man have there? But the Lord Jesus Christ has gone back there as a man, and going back there as a man has prepared the place for us.
It's not that some people mistakenly say that he's there working to prepare the place for it.
No, the fact that he's gone, there is a man. We have a right entitled there in him.
I go to prepare a place for you.
We're going to question that, whether the forerunner is for us, entered even Jesus. He's there for us, with me, and because he has entered there as man, passed the angels by, He's there for us. Someone has said that he passed angels twice, when he came down and when he went back.
It came down and was made in the likeness of men passing. You've gone back there as a man and he stated that God's right hand over God could be seen as there and in the first chapter of me losing stated himself there. He had no racist hypers to do it well in as much as he's there and he's there for us. We have every right there.
He has prepared us for the place. When he went to the club, he got it back and if he failed enough today too, but the work that he's doing there in heaven, we can take over. Well, he's he's occupied with us now as we have in the 13th chapter.
That we might not be defiled, that might be maintained in communion while we're here where there is everything to do but.
In the 15th chapter, the next chapter is occupied with this heir, that we might bear fruit.
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Connection with my mark about the president. That's nice to connect this second verse with the 22nd and 23rd Judas sat unto him, not hysteria. Lord, how is this a fellow's manifest by itself unto us and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man loved me, he will keep my words, and my Father will love him.
And we will come unto Him and make our abode with Him. That word translated abode in the 23rd verse is the very same word translated mansion, the second verse. So there's a place prepared for us up there, and we'll be there with the Father in the Father's house and the Son fully revealing the Father. But brethren, we can pay something of that joy now. That's what the Lord's present worth is for now.
Saw that thy faith we might enjoy this blessed truth that the Father and Son make sure of old goodness. Well, the whole Godhead was interested in the work of redemption.
The whole godhead is experienced was involved in his resurrection. Oh God it was interested in the bringing a horror vile center back 15th of Luke.
Rejoicing in heaven over three times.
Rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God.
One of them says joy is among the angels and in the heart of God.
Well, it's joy that comes from himself and seeing the repentance.
But no doubt they they know that joy, joy is in the presence of the angels of God over one Sinner. It doesn't even say one Sinner that gets saved comes to attention.
They're often jealous beings, aren't they? They look down and see the very creatures that crucify their Creator, and they see that brought up into a place of blessing greater than themselves, and they rejoice over it. Oh, how lovely it is to see that. Yeah, well, when they come to this word, the thought of having a boat there or both there.
Place for us.
Perhaps it might be well to make a comment or two on an error that's often thought, and that is that each one of us is going to have a separate abode up there.
We're going to have a special place that isn't the thought. There's going to be a place there for us as redeemed men.
You know the old story that often didn't go about the wealthy woman that had a dream she was transported to heaven and she saw a beautiful home up there? I remember before I go any further that this is wrong.
But she saw this beautiful home up there and she said, now who is this for the guy? Oh, she they said, that's for your gardener.
Saw another beautiful home and she says the new is this for that's for your cook. Well, she thought, well what will mine be like? Took her down the side street and showed her a little bit of a place says and she says, and who is this for? She says he says the guy said this is for you.
Well, she says, there must be some mistake about it. No, he says, our architects do the very best with the material is set up.
But now that's the wrong idea, because it has us by our works down here, fitting our place for ourselves in heaven. That isn't the point at all. We're going there and search you, the work of Christ, and we'll have a place there in Him.
And while talking to him, the Lord will reward us for our faithfulness down here. We're not going to be raided up there according to that. We're not going to have a place up there that we built.
With material we set up, I'm not saying now that there isn't a thought, you know that you can spend monthly, that you can send material ahead, you can send things ahead.
Make yourself friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails, he may be received into everlasting habitation. Quoting from the new translation there the thought there is that you change.
Our transmit the mammoth here, the earthly good pair into the coin of heaven that is using what we have down here for the Lord's glory, and we'll find that we'll get a reward for it.
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I think that's the 4th of that in the 16th of loop. The money will fail but the way we used it will abide.
Doesn't it say we've cast our crowns anything? Yes.
Yes, indeed.
All that we have there will be to Him from from himself and seen as such, and be to His glory and in connection with not being any different different places. I think in the case of the 24th, we have a very well before us that they said altogether.
And didn't have different mansions and houses, one different from the other than we see them all together. And I suppose that they represented the case. I didn't. I didn't just get what your your reference was being connected to what you say that people they have an idea that people in heaven will have a different places and one better than the other. Well, we see in revelations of the 24 priests that said all together in one place around the tone.
Don't you think that that you have to have priests on throne, Sir?
But there I believe the 24 elders comprise all the regime gold and New Testament Saints in heaven. He just mentioned Noah president get his Socrates that there is no distinction between the 24 as to their place around the throne. They're there as the trophies of grace through redemption.
Yeah, I met her brother one time. I guess he was a brother. I trust he was.
He told me that he wasn't invented to the work of the work of the Spirit of God drawing him after Christ. I said, where did you get your faith?
Oh, he said I had it. I said, but it says not a works, lest any man should boast and the faith is from God. I said you're taking credit for something God gave you. Well, you wouldn't have it. I said all I understand you after a while. I said you're going to, if you get there, you're going to be one of those that will make discord in heaven. While the rest are praising the Lamb, you're going to be praising yourself.
For the sense you have.
Well, it will all be out of place and when we put it in that light, it's easily seen. I went to correct my statement is not decreased, but the 24 L that God had a month, but their their Kingdom of priest too, but there's a elder Claire this expression if it were not so I would have told you I think is very touching because the Lord knew about their earthly hopes and how they were looking for the Kingdom.
And to be always said to them, I wouldn't have called you to walk in the path of suffering and reproach.
If I didn't have something better for you than what you anticipated it, isn't that a lovely thought for us? Sometimes we may be going through a very difficult path and seeking to follow the Lord. Well, the Lord has something better for us than the very highest expectation of our heart. I'm sure that when we get there to glory and see how the Lord values any little thing that was done for Him.
Will marvel and worship at his wondrous grace, so that that expression if it were not so.
I would have told you time hadn't come until here when He could mention to them about the heavenly side of things, because He was presenting himself to them as the Messiah to Israel. But now when rejected, He shows the better thing, doesn't He? That would be across the forest concerning the Queen of Sheba. But it's not. The house has not been told or beyond.
Yes, is precious too, to think that they just couldn't have gone on without telling them.
And even though I'm now without telling them what was there either, we can count on his heart of love.
We can. God on is leaving us as friends, not as servants, but his friends. That is, they were brought into the secret. Well, if there's someone here who has got to go on to the Lord and is passing through trial and difficulty in that way, this is all the Lord would save you. Why don't you cast down if I didn't have something better for you than what you have?
Thought of why I would have told you about it, and that teaches some discouragement, doesn't it?
Yes, and the Lord does not mislead it. He wasn't doing He let us know when we begin the journey that there is it's going to have its difficulties as trial because in the world we shall have tribulation.
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She is good cheer. I have overcome the world. The world rejected our Lord and Savior, and the world is still guilty as far as within their power of his murder. And God looks down on this world and he sees the world and cast his son out of it.
The question that was asked, you know that God asked of Cain when he flew his brother, he said, where is Abel thy brother?
But still will require that of this world. Where is my son? Well, God sent him into this world that put him out.
You wonder that the world is having trouble, but the Christian must remember if he's going to get on in the Christian pathway, then he's identified with the lost in the world. Rejected.
And what is he saying in the 17th chapter? Bar will not if the world hates you.
Don't be surprised if the world hates you.
Is there any surprise that they would hate those that are identified with the one that hated?
And hated him and were faithful to him. We'll get the same thing.
All they may say, well, he's a good neighbor. He's a good Workman.
And I give him a job to do. I can trust him to do it.
But sometimes they hate us anyway. You know, it's like Daniel, they wanted to get something against him because they hated it. But they said there's one thing we can't do. We can't find anything against him concerning his work. If we find anything against him, we've got to get it on him. Concerned the law of his thought. So they set up a law to get him on that point.
John 14:13
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John Fortune, verse 13 Whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do. Father may be glorified in the Son. Do you ask anything in my name? I will do it.
Me keep my commandments, and I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another comforter, that He may abide with you forever. Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him, but you know Him, for He dwelleth with you and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless. I will come get a little while, and the world seeth me no more. But you see me because I live.
Also at that day he shall know that I am in my father, and ye, and me, and I, and you. He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me, and he that loveth me shall be loved of my father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Judas saith unto him, not the scariest Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man loved me, he will keep my words, and my Father will love him.
And we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not, keepeth not my sayings.
And the world which is the world which he hear, is not mine, but the Father which sent me. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I've said unto you.
Peace I live, leave with you I give unto peace I give unto you.
Not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Give heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If you love me, you would rejoice, because I said I go unto the Father, for my Father is greater than I. And now I've told you before, come to pass, that when it has come to pass, you might believe.
Hereafter I will not talk much with you, for the Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me.
But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment.
Even so, I do arise. Let us go. Hence help me greatly to understand the.
Subject of prayer, a remark that I read, Mr. Darby, he said.
Prayer is based on the privilege of having common interests with God, and I think that's very important in connection with prayer, that God brings our souls into communion with Himself so that we want the very things that are His desire and that are His mind for us.
I often say, we understand that in natural things, you want to give somebody a gift and you think of something they would enjoy. And then after a few days they come to you and say, if you ever want to do something for me, this is what I'd like. They ask for the very thing that you had already.
In your mind to give to them, and you feel very, very happy. You're now in common thoughts and you have great joy. The person who asked is so pleased that that was the thing that you already had saw that you plan to give to them. It isn't a marvelous thing rather than that you and I, as we've had this subject of fellowship before us, can have those common interests with God. But this is only the result of communion. So if we're out of communion.
We don't ask the things that are really for His glory, His mind and will, and properly speaking, how could they be in His name if they're not according to His will? I wouldn't want somebody to use my name for something that was contrary to what I would desire and saw the thought of in my name.
Is a similar thought to be according to thy will through minds?
And there we have the word of God forming our thoughts. That has been expressed a common thought with God, and God is faithful and cannot deny himself. So we have power in prayer when we ask in communion with the mind of God the word of God forming our thoughts.
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Abraham had the same mind. God and God had the same kind of saved I have no child. God was thinking about the time when heaven would be filled with children and Abraham was thinking about having a son complete all those promises that God had given him. They had kindred thought the same time he added into God's thoughts.
And God was in that position where he fully understood what.
Abraham was thinking. But Abraham was the kind of a man, you know, that lived alone.
Separate from Sodom and separate from the cities about He lived in the country, and that's what we get in the Song of Solomon, too. That is, the bride was very much out of place when she got into the city. That's where the troubles began.
But the one who lives alone with God in separation from the world, He might be in the very midst of the world, but he lives alone with God in spite of it.
Because he's given grace to go through it and that's what you're going to. You'll find, I suppose here and civilization, which were found that.
The righteous soul is is aggrieved continually is what we have about us, but we're able to walk with God because we can not only speak our mind to Him.
So he will answer and meet us in our needs, but also he reveals his mind to us at the same time. And I'm sure that if there is the practice, and I speak for young people, especially if there is the practice of when you get home from school, just drop your needs for a moment. The rest of the day will be a lot brighter.
And sometimes when you get home from school, you'll find there's a lot of burdens.
Troubles, things you don't understand that's been going on during the day will, will all pass through your mind. You'll be happy and the enjoyment of the things of Christ even though you're playing football, whatever you're doing. And so there's such a thing as communion no matter what you're doing, communion with the Lord. I think it was remarked Saturday that.
We have a preparation for the church in John's Gospel.
And I believe it's so. If we look at the 16th chapter, in the 23rd, 24th verses, we have related verses about prayer. We see how they fit to the disciples the Lord was talking to. Now they continue to fit during this whole age in which we live.
In that day he shall ask me nothing.
They had been asking from the Lord as they walked with Him those 3 1/2 years of His ministry and anything they needed. He was going away. This is a new day, and that day He shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, He will give it you. Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name.
Ask He shall receive that your joy.
May be full and now that fit the disciples perfectly.
To supply for them, giving them a resource to pray to God the Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it fits us all through this age. It was a new thing that was just beginning. He was going up to be intercessor as we heard.
In the address yesterday too, so he is there now.
And the disciples could ask as soon as he went up and.
I like to add what James tells us according to his will.
Where I don't always have confidence for myself that I have the will of God.
And it protects one. You think of the children of Israel. They got hungry for flesh. They loathe the mana.
That bread from heaven. And they asked, and God gave it to them.
But he sent leanness into their soul. They made a mistake, and I might make a mistake, but I should be in communion and know the will of God. But I think it's good to add the other according to thy will. Yes, I believe it's very important.
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The Lord can give us a peace in our souls that we have asked according to His will.
But I believe that we have to be humble. And if we start telling other people what we're really saying is.
We're so sure that we're in communion with the Lord that we couldn't miss His mind. That would be spiritual pride.
We should never ask for anything that's contrary to his word. But when we ask for something that we don't have specific direction in the word of God, then we should always say, if it's thy will, he can give us a piece about it that he's going to come in. But to tell others is a boast. And so Paul says in in First Corinthians 4.
In the fourth verse, for I know nothing by myself.
Yet am I not hereby justified? But he that judgeth May is the Lord. So that Paul sought to maintain a good conscience between himself and God, but he didn't go around boasting to other people because the Lord might see something in him that he didn't see himself. That was what Eli who said to Job. And I'm sure it's often true of myself. The Lord sees motives and things.
In our hearts that we're not fully aware of, and that's why we should ask according to His will. But I do believe on the other hand, that He can give us a piece about these things.
But that verse comes in. In that case, hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God?
We should never boast of our spirituality or how near we walk to the Lord. That's a secret between the soul and the Lord. There can be peace about it.
Such a thing is praying the Lord of the harvest, that is, the missionary, or the one who is giving out the gospel. He prays directly to the Lord of the harvest, Lord himself.
Because the word, the Lord's work that he's in, and it's a direct communication with the Lord as to the work he's in order.
Follow them here. 15th verse. If you love me, keep my commandments so we don't.
Do work. We don't do things in order to, to, to gain anything. We do things because we love Him. The new order is worked by love and by we love him, we trust him, we have faith in Him.
Escalation.
Says by love serve one another too. Very important to have that Moody, that heartfelt desire for others and love for God.
There isn't much in it. I would like to ask a question that has been a real burden on my own part and a test in many ways, and probably some others have had the same difficulty when we have asked what we sincerely believe and even know from the Word of God to be His will.
And we see little response in terms of blessing for cold possibly. How do we cope with asking what still so evidently according to God's will, and see apparently no answer for how do we handle that in our own soul?
You base that on God our Savior, who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Yeah, we ask for blessing for our children for instance, or for someones salvation as we prayed this morning for Mr. Razor. How do we cope with the fact that we go on for days and days and see no apparent answer?
We can do it because of our 30 four days.
An old brother, Morris Smith. I'll mention him because his grandfather took Alan Morris here. He used to tell us God has three answers for prayer. Yes, no, and wait a while. Sometimes we don't catch on to the answer right away.
Isn't necessarily that the prayer be answered as we desire it because the person.
May be in this affliction for a very definite reason, for their own soul, and for the soul of the Saints as well.
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And it wouldn't do for that person to be healed at that moment.
There's an interesting verse.
In Zechariah chapter 10.
I'd like to read.
Zechariah, Chapter 10.
Verse one.
Zechariah 10/1.
Ask ye of the Lord.
Reign in the time of the latter rain.
So the Lord shall make bright clouds and give them showers of rain.
To everyone grass in the field.
The Lord supposes that we have some intelligence as to His ways and His purposes.
And so it says, ask your reign in the time of the latter rain, and if we were more in tune with God's purposes and plans.
And his precious word, then we would ask for the rain at the proper time that scripture replies that believe does not brother to the time when the two tribes will come back.
And the Lords feet was monobolic. And he will restore to them again their blessing. So they're asking in something they know is coming. They know that He had come to bring you there first in the latter rain again to them.
So they asked for it, but I think it's nice to see that that.
We can say, oh, the Lord is going to bring my blessing to my house because I belong to him, but no, we're to ask.
As you pointed out, we should ask as well.
Because that brings in communion.
Worn out.
Thanks chapter chapter 15 and verse 7.
Really.
It's very challenging. It says if ye abide in me and my words abide in you.
You shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.
And so really, that's the highest calling of all, isn't it, that we abide in Him, and His word abides in us. Now we are intelligent as to what His will is, and so we ask according to His will.
Connection with our brother's question. I think we have to take in the whole revealed mind of God.
It does say the will of all men to be saved. That's God's desire and will. But the Lord Jesus also said straight is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Why does the gate that leadeth to destruction and many there be that go in there at so we find that.
As far as God's desire is, it's for the blessing of all. As far if we could speak in this way, As for the.
Blessing of His people is that we should all walk in the truth, that we should be fully yielded to the Lord. But there are also verses that show us that there are those who will not walk in that. And that's where intelligence in the mind of God comes in. And I believe in asking the Lord, we cast ourselves upon His grace. If it's a question of the household, we know that.
God's desire is the blessing for not only every Christian household, but for all mankind.
But I believe we have to cast ourselves upon God's grace because we know from the record given to us in the Word of God.
That there were some that didn't walk in the ways of their parents, even although their parents were devoted people.
And we cast ourselves on the grace of God to come in, not because we've been good parents, not because we deserved it, but we just.
Count upon His grace to come into His according to His perfect wisdom and love. So I think we need not just one scripture. We know that often scriptures such as responsibility are taken out of and taken to prove that sovereignty isn't in the Word of God. But those verses that are very clear about sovereignty do not in any way change the verses that speak of responsibility.
So no scripture is of any private interpretation.
Does not mean that I don't have a right to a private interpretation about a verse. That's not the thought in it. But no Scripture is isolated from the rest of Scripture. It's all one harmonious and complete whole, and we need to take it all together. Well, I believe that's very important for us. There's so much error in Christendom by not rightly dividing the word of truth, taking some verse out of its context, or building on.
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Verse and leaving out another that has a bearing on the same subject and I believe that that comes in in intelligence and understanding the word of God and then in being near the Lord laying hold of his will and that's why I believe hastile faith have it to thyself before God. None of us want to bolst down here we are to the Lord, but if we are near him he does make his mind and will known to us like.
To Abraham and not to Lot. I know Abraham that he'll command his household after him.
And shall I hide from Abraham the thing that I purpose to do? So both were believers, both will be in heaven, but one walk nearer to the Lord than the other.
And entered into his mind in a much fuller way.
There was a.
Person that was praying for their child to be saved.
And.
He complained that the Lord didn't answer the prayer, so the.
Why? His brother said.
Are you praying that it's the Lord's will, or it's because you want your child saved to maintain a reputation for the family?
And she got the point, and she asked the Lord to pray, to deal with according to his will in your child to save.
So sometimes we're hindering our own prayers in this next verse we have.
Verse 16 The Lord is praying.
Or will pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter.
I take that to be the Holy Spirit.
The Christ, the first Comforter, himself, and He that he may abide with you forever.
This is one of the points of security for the believer, even the spirit of truth.
Now this expression, spirit of truth, occurs three times in John and John's Gospel as the person.
Of the Spirit himself it occurs once in the Epistle. But as to the truth itself more than the person, so it says here.
Even the spirit of truth from the world cannot see.
Receive, because it's It seeth him not, neither knoweth him, but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
This is the spirit of truth. Now turn to the end of the next chapter. It says in the verse 26, But when the comforters come, whom I will send unto you, what did we have before?
Praise the Father that he might send, but now we find the Lord Jesus.
I will send unto you from the Father even the spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father. He shall testify of me. Now the 13th verse of the.
16th chapter.
I'll be it when He, the Spirit of truth is come, and as He comes on His own, He will guide you into all truth, but He shall not speak of Himself.
That is from himself. He's always under the direction.
Of God.
But he shall not not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak, and he will show you things to come.
He will show you things to come. Now we have the spirit of truth mentioned in three ways here. First, the.
Father sends him because they'll be left as orphans the next time.
The Lord Himself, who is Lord over all, Pardon me, He sends the Spirit.
And finally the Spirit comes on his own. We see the the activity of the whole Godhead.
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
In connection with the blessing for the people of God.
Now this is true in everything that happens for the people of God, the whole Trinity is involved. You get that largely in John's Gospel too, that the the whole Trinity is involved in the blessing of the Saints of God.
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One of the great comforts, I think, is these words. He shall abide with you forever. You know, the first time we get the Holy Spirit is when we believe to the Ephesians, who are Gentiles, it says, in whom after that he believed you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise. And we'll always have the Holy Spirit. We have him now.
He stays here until we go, and he goes with us.
So much so that in the end of the book when it's the thought of the Lord's coming, it says the Spirit and the Bride say, come, He is down here. He abides with us forever. When we leave, He leaves. He goes with us. He understands from.
Pressure in the end of 17 For he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. A distinction between the character of the Spirit as to Old Testament Saints and the character that he takes with New Testament things. Well, there's a new order of things now, and it's it's, it's applied to the future here, is it not? That's when the Spirit comes.
Today we can say he's here, but at the time of this writing.
Spirit of God had not come in the sense that He speaks of it. That was on the day of Pentecost.
Is that your thought?
I was wondering if the Spirit of God dwelling with you might have been the character of coming upon Saul, as it were, so that he would be among the prophets, and then departing in a sovereign way after a specific work had been completed, and then shall be in you as a coming to indwell as a result of the redemption accomplished in Christ glorified.
I was really asking if there these this expression should give us.
The difference between the two operations, to me it's 12 and with you or among you is the collective sense that we have now. It's dwelling. He dwells in the house.
Now something it wasn't in the Old Testament, so I say this applies now in my thought.
And in you applies now as individual, whereas when the Spirit of God came.
In the manifestations in the Old Testament, it was only a visit, it wasn't a dwelling.
He just came and visited. The 63rd of Isaiah will tell a little bit about the Spirit of God looking down and coming to visit. As a beast goes down in the valley, so the Spirit of God came down. Of course, it was true that when the Lord Jesus was with them, the Spirit of God was dwelling with them in that sense, because every action in the pathway of the blessed Lord Jesus.
Was always by the power of the Spirit of God.
So I, by the Spirit of God, cast out devils. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and saw that there was one with them, whose every action was a perfect display of one.
Led and guided in everything by the Spirit of God, because He was the Son.
In this world the Father had sent him, and He was here manifesting by the Spirit.
All that the father is, I thought of it in connection with that. They had experienced this, they had seen one.
Who worked perfectly, did everything by the Spirit of God, but the marvel was that when he went away.
He was going to send a comforter, that is another comforter, because while he was with them, he was their comforter, and John the Baptist was slain. Why? They went and told Jesus and he was there meeting every need for them. But he was going to be taken away and another comforter would come, very one who was the life and energy of everything in His blessed pathway was now going to come and indwell them.
Shall I say of like the Samaritan, he took up the man and put him on his own beast.
Had a very power that led the Lord Jesus through this world is now the very power that he indwells us the Spirit of God. So it tells us in John's epistle. He that saith he abideth in him on himself also. So to walk even as he walked God is no different standard for us as believers as adding for his own blessed son and in first Timothy chapter 3.
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He says the secret of godliness.
Is the pathway of the Lord Jesus is not the secret of God, brethren, it's the secret of godliness. Do we want to know what a path that is perfectly pleasing to God is? We see the pathway of the Lord Jesus, whose every thought, whose every action, cone of his voice, everything was always by the Spirit of God and how wonderful it was for these disciples to think that this one whom they had seen and been with.
Now he was going away and that he was going to send that power.
The Holy Spirit of God to be in them so that they could walk here. As He walked, they would no longer be orphans in this world. He was with them now. He was going away, but the Spirit of God would come so they wouldn't be orphans. They would have that comfort, that support, that health.
For the pathway, but in that 19 first says because I live, you shall live also.
He was going away, but he was comforting their hearts. The fact that because he lives, he was going through death. That's true, but it's because he lives.
They would live so that our life not only is Christ, but our life is in Christ, and it's because He lives as a man that we live in verse 18.
In verse 18 the Lord Jesus said, I will come to you.
Now does that mean that?
He would see them again after his resurrection.
Or does that mean he would come to them by the Spirit? I'd like to have a clarification.
Of what is meant by verse 18, I really believe it is coming by the Spirit because of the 20th verse.
At that day he shall know that I am in my Father, and ye, and me and I and you. They only partially laid hold of what He was saying. He said that He had many things to tell them, that they couldn't bear them, but when the spirit of truth was come, He would lead them into all truth.
And so he would come, and he has come by the Spirit of God. Christ in you the hope of glory.
But he dwells in us by the Spirit, doesn't He? And so I believe that's the what is referred to there is of course what we have in the first part of the chapter is bodily coming again to receive us to the Father's house. But.
In that spiritual sense we can enjoy it now. We enjoy His presence in the midst by the Spirit as we gather around Him.
These are all blessed things associated with Christianity. I believe and elect be diverse in Acts 2 to have a statement about the Spirit of God coming because it's so definite on what we've been speaking about in the second of Acts.
And the 32nd verse. This Jesus hath God raised up, where we are all our witnesses. Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he Jesus has shed forth this which he now see and hear. So he did.
Send.
The Spirit of God after he was exultant and he came and he is here, but it's the glorified Christ now. It is so that because He's glorified and received the Spirit in that way from the Father of those now who believe on Him have the Spirit that is glorified Saints.
Whatever he has, whatever he is, might say.
As man belongs to the believer, he's there for us.
He became man for us, and so he is.
He's there and we are in a new position. There are now not just as men that are saved, but.
Really. In God's counsels already.
We're glorified.
What is meant the verse 19?
But you see me read the whole verse yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more. But you see me. What does he mean when he says, But ye see me? Well, I believe it's really by faith that we see him. We speak often about seeing Him in the mids. Hebrews chapter 2 Says, But we see Jesus, who has made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death.
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Crowned with glory and honor, and so.
Sees Him, sees Him exalted there, sees him in our midst. Not like the world. As far as the world was concerned, there was a man here in this world. He was the Son of God. They saw him. They crucified him. Far as they're concerned, they don't see him anymore. But we see him. We see him by faith. We see him there at the right hand of God. We see him by faith in our midst.
We're very conscious of him and of his presence.
And as you go on here, I think this is confirmed by verses 21, two and three.
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, He it is that loveth me, neither loveth me shall.
He loved my Father and I will love him, will manifest myself to him. Judas saith unto him, not Ascariot. Lord, how is it that thou will manifest thyself unto us and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, The man loved me, He will keep my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him.
This is Christianity, this is how we can enjoy it now, by the Spirit of God.
And so the Lord is going away. Tremendous loss to them. They look for Him as their Messiah who had at that time established the Kingdom, and he's going away. But something more wonderful was going to take place after he had accomplished that work of redemption.
That they would have the Holy Spirit in dwelling them, who would make the very presence of the Father and the Son real to them.
So again, in the nine, in the last chapter of Matthew, he says, and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
Judas tried to understand this. It's something that we all need to understand by faith, but I'm sure every one of us who know the Lord often have a very real sense of His presence and we see Him not in a vision, but we see Him by faith.
I I had had this thought and I don't want to debate the issue, but the thought had occurred to me that the Lord Jesus is saying yet a little while and the world will not see me any longer. But you will see me because I will rise again and I will meet you on the way to Galilee. Now that's not really a wrong thought, is it?
That he told his disciples that they would see him again.
It's an interesting thing to me that no unbeliever ever saw the Lord Jesus after his resurrection. No unbeliever saw the Lord Jesus after his resurrection.
Only believers saw him after he was raised again. And so that had been the thought that I had brought with me to this meeting and I suggested as something to think about I.
I think that the truth is there that He said the world is not going to see me any longer. I'm going to go into a grave and they won't see me after that. But you will, because I'll be raised again and you'll see me and I'll meet you in Galilee. And we know that He did. I certainly believe that is correct thought. But the expression goes beyond it, doesn't it?
Because I it seems to me that he is Speaking of the Spirit making Him known us in living reality and as a glorified man.
Get that in the 16th chapter you shall see me, because I go to my father.
Well, I think they He could very well refer to Himself in resurrection as being seen of Him. But the thought of the spirits coming and indwelling believers, the spirit taking the things of Christ and showing them to us, and teaching us all things, and bringing to remembrance that which He has spoken, would reveal Him to us as a glorified man, and we would see Him as we saw in Hebrews 2 many times.
Reading in connection with the breaking of bread, we see Jesus.
But if in the 24th version been brought out that not only will we go to see him.
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That is, he's coming for us.
But in the meantime, both the father and the son.
Will come down here, that is in spirit so that we can enjoy His presence in the meantime. In other words, we're going to see Him, but now he's coming down to see us, as it were.
By the Spirit, so we can enjoy that communion that we're going to have forever.
Right here and now. I believe that's what we have in the 24th verse.
A 23rd verse.
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man loved me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him.
And we, we will come unto him, and make our abode with Him. There was a time when David sat before the Lord.
And he told him about his house for a long time to come, and that was just before.
David committed one of his worst sins when Peter was just before Peter denied the Lord or was told he was going to deny the Lord. The Lord told Peter I've appointed you a Kingdom. I'm telling he was telling him what he was going to give him and then he says Satan has desired to have him sift to his weak. The point is that.
Let's not miss the presence of the Lord, because we'll get discouraged down here.
We do of the trials and difficulties we're going to go through still while we're here, we're going to have trials and difficulties. That's part of the pathway by these things men live. But remember that if we're in his presence, we'll have that encouragement beforehand carry us through.
Well, it's wonderful that God has given us his whole revealed mind and His word, hasn't He? As so he says, He'll teach you all things, and then bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. So it's the voice of a glorified Christ from heaven. There's what he said on earth brought back to our remembrance. But Paul was caught up to the 3rd heaven and received those precious revelations.
And so how wonderful that all these things here.
Are made good in our souls by the Spirit of God. The Canon of Revelation is complete, isn't it?
And the Spirit of God would lead us into all truth. It's very beautiful to see that.
The Seven Churches - Rev. 2-3
Address—P. Wilson
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It is my thought.
Brethren, to give a brief.
Outline of Revelation 2:00 and 3:00 this afternoon. The Lord helping.
I realized it's a tremendous subject to try to bring into an hour or an hour and a few minutes.
But I feel led to turn to it. But first, a verse or two in the first chapter of the Book of Revelation might read from the ninth verse of the first chapter.
I, John, who also am your brother and companion in tribulation and the Kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ.
Was in the aisle which is that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit on the Lords day and heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet saying.
I am Alpha and Omega, the 1St and the last.
And what thou seest, write in a book and send it under the seven churches which are in Asia.
Unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamus, and unto Thyatira, and under Sardis, and under Philadelphia, and under Laodicea.
And I turned to see the voice that spake with me, and being turned I saw 7 golden candlesticks, and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like on the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire, and his feet like undefined brass, as if they burned in a furnace, and his voice as the sound of many waters.
And he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went a sharp 2 edged sword, and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not, I am the 1St and the last. I am he that liveth and was dead.
Or the living one who became dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And have the keys of hell and of death.
Thou has seen and the things which are, and the things which shall be after thee. Few words are necessary as introductory to the two following chapters.
First of all, let's notice that 19th verse.
That nineteenth verse.
Is an index Book of Revelation.
Write the things which thou hast seen.
That's what John saw in this first chapter, The seven golden candlesticks.
And the Lord Jesus himself in judicial roles, judging in the midst of the seven golden candles that covers the first point, the things which thou hast seen.
And the things which are.
Now the things which are refers to the second and third chapter.
That is, it covers the entire period of the church history.
Church of God on earth and the things which after these things begins with the 4th chapter and goes on through the rest of the book. I might add this that in the first verse of the 4th chapter.
We read this statement.
After this I looked, and behold, the door was opened in heaven.
And treat it differently here according to the better translation.
And the voice which I heard at the 1St.
Which was, as it were, a trumpet speaking with me.
Which said come up Hitler.
That introduces the church into the Father's house.
That is the moment for which we are waiting.
That is the moment that thou that is now so near at hand, when the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout.
The voice of the Archangel and the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
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Which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord. This is what we were referring to yesterday in the Bible readings where the Lord himself said, I will come again and receive you unto myself. He has gone away. He's left us a promise that he's coming back for us. And when he does, He's going to take us to be with.
So that introduces the church into the heavenly scene. The church is seen on earth in these second and third chapters, but never after the third chapter.
The scene has changed to heaven. The church is seen in heaven.
As the 24 elders in the 4th chapter, you come down to the end of the book.
And you bind the 24 elders divided into two classes, 2 groups.
The bride and the friends of the bridegroom. Those that are invited to the marriage feast.
In the 19th chapter marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Then blessed are those that are invited to that scene, the marriage supper of the lamb.
But the Church is still on earth.
The church period began on the day of Pentecost, according to the second chapter of Acts.
That was the birthday of the church. Now, when I say the church, I'm not talking about a building.
I'm not talking about some man made organization. I speak of every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ.
For every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, from the day of Pentecost till the Rapture, is indwelt by the Spirit of God.
In whom, having believed, ye were sealed by that Holy Spirit of promise. Every believer in the Lord Jesus has the Spirit of God abiding in him. And that's what makes the Church the Spirit of God dwelling in a body of believers on earth, uniting them together and to the Lord the Head in heaven.
That began on the day of Pentecost as recorded in Acts 2. It will terminate with that shall come up hit her.
Now of course, in this 4th chapter Book of Revelation, John is called to come hit her.
And he's given visions in heaven from there on.
But it's figurative language.
In that word, come up, hit her, we see the Lord's call to the church. For you never find the church on earth after John receives that call in the 4th chapter.
Another thing referring to the first chapter.
There we find the Lord Jesus.
In judicial robes in His Majesty, and John the beloved Apostle falls at his feet as death.
The one that leaned on Jesus breast at supper time falls at his feet, is dead when he sees him so irate.
Let us not forget that the Blessed One who came down and went to Calvary's cross.
To become our Savior is the Holy One and true.
He is the mighty God. That language is used of Him you know.
There is a familiarity today in Christendom when speaking about the name of Jesus.
That I dislike. I think it's contrary to the thought in Scripture.
We forget the glory, the dignity, the majesty of His person.
Well, now, in this first chapter we find him standing where? In the midst of seven candlesticks.
What are candlesticks for? They are to hold candles that give light.
Light in darkness. We were reading yesterday afternoon. The night as far as spent in the day is at hand.
It was night when Judas went out to betray the Lord. It's been night ever since.
The Lord Jesus said as long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. But they cast the light out. It's been more early night ever since.
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Well.
He stands in the midst of those 7 golden candlesticks, judging. A Candlestick is supposed to bear light.
And if it doesn't give light, if it doesn't bear light, it's useless. And here is the Lord judging. Now a Candlestick, I believe, represents to us the thought that the Church of God on earth is supposed to be his witness. It's supposed to bear light in this Dark World during this long dark night.
You know, in Old Testament times if a heathen wanted to find out about the true God.
He had to go to Jerusalem or to Judaism to get it.
But if he wants, if one wants to find out the truth of God today, he's to turn to Christianity.
Suppose a case, though, of a man who takes an airplane in.
China and comes across the water and lands in San Francisco.
And he makes the trek in order to find out about the true God.
And he wanders up and down the streets in San Francisco thinking, now this is a God fearing nation. This is a place where they know God. Come here to find out about the true God and about Jesus Christ.
What do you think he would find?
If he walked up and down the streets in San Francisco as I know them, he'd probably have the feeling like Paul had when he was in Athens. I saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
He'd find the city wholly given the pleasure and to the things of this world. But suppose he turned in and asked people about God and about the Lord Jesus.
Well, he's apartment to fall into the hands of any number of cults that deny the deity of Christ and his atoning blood.
What would he find?
Confusion rampant.
Of course now I believe if he looked to the God to direct him, God would direct him to someone that could tell him about the Lord Jesus.
But just humanly speaking, he'd have a hard time in San Francisco.
Our Los Angeles, either.
I suppose we met Detroit.
But.
Here is the church represented by 7 golden candles sticks.
Now the Lord is judging, and He is judging all professions. Remember that these lamps are a symbol of profession.
Could be rendered limestone lamps are a symbol of profession.
Now he addresses himself to these seven churches, the seven assemblies.
And may I add awareness to that? He says the seven assemblies which are in Asia.
Now, that does not mean the continent of Asia.
That's a province in the old Roman Empire called Asia.
It was one part of Asia Money, just a province.
And there were seven assemblies there, these seven mentioned, and I believe there were others in it. But the Lord hears singles out seven because seven is a complete number. Scripture always used in seven as a complete number, either in good or in evil.
Now there were seven.
No, there's seven days to one week.
There's a complete cycle, and God instituted that.
Man in his infidelity and atheism for years has talked about it in day week.
But here it's 77 assemblies.
Under Ephesus, and under Smyrna, and under Pergamus, and under Thyatira, and under Sardis, and under Philadelphia, and under Laodicea.
Now the reason that these seven were chosen is that in these seven assemblies at the time.
Existed conditions that the Lord wanted to use as representatives.
And they are taken in a certain order. Remember that this book is given by God.
It's God breathed and everything in it is for a purpose and we need to vow in reverence before it and seek his mind about it. Seven churches, a complete number now a complete cycle. I believe in this case is.
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The history of the Church of God on earth from the days of the Apostles.
On to the end.
And the Lord in giving us these 7 letters, and they're addressed to us, blessed is he that readeth. And the Lord addresses us in each of these letters. Therefore our learning. And there's three ways we can look at these churches.
We can look at them as the state of these seven local assemblies in the province of Asia and Asia Minor, or we can look at them and see them as representing the state of an individual, or seven individuals perhaps.
Or we can look at them as progressive states in the history of the Church of God on earth.
And I believe that's the primary importance of it.
God has told us at the beginning how it would end. He's told us it's history from the beginning now when man starts out to sell you something.
He draws up a prospectus and he uses the most glowing words that the dictionary has.
To tell you what a wonderful investment this is going to be and how it's going to go on and grow and increase and abound. And he never allows for a failure.
In his prospectus.
But God from the beginning told us what the history of the church would be.
And he told us that failure would come in, that is, into the professing church. We must distinguish that there are two things. There is that which is real and vital, those that are connected with the Lord Jesus Christ by ties that cannot be broken.
And then there is that which is a mere profession of Christianity, that is the outward thing, and in which there is real and false.
Now let's go down to second Chaplain.
We'll have to hurry along and I'm not going to read it all and then go back and go over it. We save time by not doing it that way.
The Angel in the Church of the Church of Ephesus, right?
The Angel in each of these seven churches is the responsible witness or the responsible ones in the assembly.
Its representative. And so the Lord addresses the Angel as the representative of the assembly.
In the city of Ephesus. Now remember, Ephesus has a great part in the New Testament.
Paul was there a long time in the city of Ephesus, and he's preached the word till all in the province of Asia heard about it.
And there is a bright conversion. In the beginning. They brought out their books. They sold them.
I mean, they brought out their books, counted the value of them, and they burned them. They were works of magic. The things that they had occupied them as pagans. They got rid of the whole thing. They didn't put them in the corner hoping that they'd have them if they ever needed them. They got rid of the whole thing. There was a real change took place in those Ephesians when they took Christ as their Savior.
And then we find Paul later writes the epistle to the Ephesians, and they had gone on and grown.
Was able to expound unto them the highest truths that he gives anywhere to the Ephesian Saints.
Why They made a clean break with the world when they got saved. They were marked by it.
And they made progress.
If you want to make progress, dear young Christian, you're going to have to make a break with the work.
Remember, you belong to Christ and this world hates Christ. Make the break though, and you're in a position to go on and make progress.
Well, the Ephesians Saints were going on well at that time, but when Paul was in prison, he says all in the province of Asia have turned away from me.
They didn't want the reproach of being connected with an apostle who was in prison.
Now second verse, I know thy works here is that one in those judicial robes. It's addressing the church in the city of Ephesus. And if we view it.
As a representative Church of a certain period, it's that that followed the days of the apostles.
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John wrote later than any of the others. He probably wrote this about the year 1896.
Somewhere in there.
Now the Lord says, I know thy works, and thy labor, and thy patience.
Oh, you say, what a wonderful church that was, what a wonderful assembly. I wish I could find One South well going on today. They had works and they had labor, and they had patience or endurance. But as was remarked yesterday, when the Thessalonians got saved, it was a work of faith, a labor of love, and a patience of hope.
Here the labor. Here the you'll find works, labor and patience, but no works of faith, Faith lacking, no labor of love loves lacking, and no patience of hope, hopes lacking.
They were going on by rote after the springs had dried up. If possible. For a Christian to get cold in his soul, get away from the Lord, get out of communion, and yet go on by rope, just doing the things that he used to do. But it's a sad state to be in if one is there because he's in danger of slipping further.
Now he says, I know that thou canst not bear them which are evil, and has tried them, which say they are apostles and are not, and has found a mire.
That was commendable. Sometimes people say we shouldn't judge anything. Well, there is judgment in the House of God. Do you not judge them that are within?
There is judgment that needs to be exercised in the House of God.
And here they are commended for judging those that claim to be apostles but were apostasy imposters.
Nevertheless, I have the fourth verse and you notice that word somewhat is an Italian leave. The somewhat out was added by the translator thinking it helped it, but it detracts from it. I have against thee. I think the word somewhat there softened it.
I have against thee.
That thou hast left thy first love.
We sometimes quote that as though it said your look, we had lost the first love. No, he says, you've left it. What the Lord is saying to these Saints in the city of Ephesus.
You do not love me like you used to.
And the Lord feels it. Now you see a young person get converted, or an older one either. He finds Christ as his Savior and his heart just go is all aglow with love to Christ.
But after a while it.
Other things dim that glow, and it gets a little cold, little cold, and there isn't the same ardor of affection that there used to be. Well, the Lord notices it, and that is the beginning of declension. We were saying yesterday that there's probably one thing that precedes it, and that's the lack of enjoying Christ's love to us. Then the result is, and our love to Him wanes and he feels. Don't ever think that He doesn't.
Or how he spoke to Israel about their not remembering that he loved them.
Remember, therefore, from whence thou art fought.
It's the Lord speaks of it in this language. It's your fault if you do not love the Lord like you used to.
Now, I'm not saying that there's always the same exuberance that there is that there was at the beginning. One may go on more calmly, more quietly, after he's saved without any loss of affection.
One of our hymns says yet deeper if a calmer joy.
There is such a thing as a deeper and a calmer joy, but you know and I know that it is easy for us to lose the order of affection.
Well, the Lord calls it fallen.
Now this is the beginning of the downfall of the whole Church of God on earth.
Giving up first love.
Remember, therefore, from whence thou had fallen. Suppose the case. Suppose a man has.
Happily married.
His wife loved each other very much.
And everything goes on well for a time.
And she continues to be a good housekeeper, have everything.
***** and span and have everything done that's required but one day, he says to her.
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Well, Mabel?
You know, I think that you don't love me like you used to.
Do you suppose the tidiness of the house or the good meals that are cooked would make up for it?
Oh, I don't mean that only the wife could.
Have our love being.
Incidentally, it's the husband that stole to love his wife.
Brother went to Mr. Potter one time and he said, Mr. Potter, will you speak to my wife and tell her that she's to be subject to me?
Mr. Potter said that didn't say that to you.
It says to you to love your wife.
And he cut him off with it.
Wise man.
Six verse. But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
Now I believe.
That the only way we'll find a clue to who the Nicolaitans were is to understand a little of the meaning of the name, and it means conquer the laity.
It's what you found in John's epistle where he says diastrophes who loveth to be have the preeminence.
Diatrophism was the first of that class.
But lo and behold, their name is legion to death.
They ride herd over the sheep. They treat them as though they were their flock.
Thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolae.
It wasn't. It wasn't the doctrine, it wasn't a practice. It was certain deeds that they were coming in here and there. Well, they hated that.
And the Lord commends them.
Now the seventh verse, He that hath ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
In everyone of these 7 letters is a word of address to the overcomer.
What is an overcomer?
One who lives for God in spite of the difficulties of the day.
One who lives for God in spite of the special obstacles of his time.
He calls them overcomers and he says, I'll give him to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. Well, we know from other scriptures that this is for all the heavenlies, but here it's held out as a special encouragement for those that go on in first love in the day when coldness was rampant.
And what is the tree of life? Oh, it speaks of Christ.
The Tree of Life in the midst of the paradise of God.
Man may dream of paradise restored.
No, no, no. What would that be compared with the paradise of God?
Suppose Eden could be restored. That couldn't compare with the portion that awaits us who are children of God.
Paradise of God.
Now we go on.
Eighth verse under the Angel of the Church in Smyrna. Write these things. Set the 1St and the last.
Which was dead and is alive is the Conqueror of death.
I know thy works in tribulation and poverty parentheses.
And I know the blasphemy of them would say they are Jews and are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan.
None of those things which thou shalt suffer.
What did the Lord do after the days of the apostles to recall the Church to her early love?
He let the church fall into tribulation.
After the days when Christianity first blossomed.
Pagan Rome got up in arms about this new religion that was displacing the idols.
They wanted to keep idolatry as the enforced religion of the Roman Empire.
And so they started him to persecute the Christians.
You know that the story of Nero fiddling while Rome burned.
And then he blamed it on the Christians and the Roman Empire, that the city of Rome had been burned. Everything was blamed on the Christians. Everything that went wrong was blamed on them.
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They were the **** of all the criticism and.
Persecution after persecution followed. Notice here.
Fear none of those things, the 10th verse which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison.
That ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation. 10 days.
There were 10 distinct separate persecutions under the Roman emperors. Persecutions of Christians.
So he says, Thou shalt have tribulation 10 days.
But be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Oh how that warm would warm the hearts of those dear Saints that were passing through tribulation, through persecution. We were saying yesterday that many of them went singing to the stake or to be the headed in those days.
One of the worst persecution forms of execution the world has ever known.
Was religious persecution.
Millions of Christians in those early days were martyred for their faith in Christ.
Maybe it was quickly over. Maybe they were challenged to deny Christ one day and.
Burned the suspect the next.
Ours is more of a living, constant opposition.
That which wears the Spirit down. And finally, perhaps we are.
Inclined to give way and say what to you.
No, brethren.
We live in this day. They lived in that day, and their Lord had a word of encouragement for them, and He has a word of encouragement for us. They were to be faithful unto death. He'd give them a crown of life.
And who was taught who was speaking?
The one who was a conqueror over death, he could say be faithful in the death. The one who was dead and is alive again was speaking. He came for some mighty victor over death. Could he not offer them something beyond death then?
I will give thee a crown of life.
Notice too, we passed up the ninth verse. I know thy works and tribulation and poverty.
He says that right along. I know thy work. Do you know the Lord knows all our works too?
He knows what we're doing. He's conscious of our faithfulness or our lack of it. I know thy word.
Tribulation you suffer for Christ's sake. He knows all about it. He's the one that knows and He's going to reward it to every bit of it.
And poverty all they were poor.
These were like those we read of Indiana Hebrews 10. They took joyfully the spoiling of their goods.
But he says thou art rich. The world saw them as poor. They lost everything through faithfulness to Christ. But he says you're rich.
All they had riches that the world couldn't touch.
Of 11 verse He that hath here let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches, He that overcometh shall not be heard of the second death.
Or he might he might suffer the first death for faithfulness to Christ with that second death.
That separation of man, body, soul and spirit from God for all eternity will never touch them.
Now the third.
And to the Angel of the Church and Pergamus write these things, that he which hath a sharp sword with two edges.
The way the Lord addresses each church is indicative of what you find there.
He writes to encourage them in.
The previous church.
Here, he writes because he is going to challenge them.
These things says he which hath a sharp sword with two edges, I know thy works.
Where thou dwellest, even where Satan seated.
All he knew, all about them, and he knew the troubles they were having too, for they dwelt where Satan's throne was. Where was that?
The world? What kind of a world? Pagan world now? Yes, a Pagan world. Christianized.
This period of the church history begins with Constantine about 313.
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Constantine thought it would be a wonderful stroke, a masterstroke.
To gain the power of the Roman Empire. So he took the cross as his banner, and he went forth and conquered under the name of the cross.
It was just a masterstroke of politics.
But what happened? As soon as Konstantin comes to the throne, as soon as he gets the full power of the Roman Empire behind him, he puts down idolatry and and raises Christianity.
Oh, he makes Christianity the official religion of the world.
Of the Roman Empire.
You say, wasn't that a good thing? No, that was where Satan's seat was. It was paganism, Christianized. He took the Pagan feast and he made gave them Christian names. He let them go on with all their Pagan ****** and put the name of Christ on it.
Incidentally.
One of the worst beasts in the calendar, The Pagan feast on the calendar was what Christendom calls Christmas.
Oh, he just turned it around and made it a Christian festival.
That's what Constantine did with the whole thing. He just switched it around.
I know where thou dwellest, even where Satan seated. This was the day for the Christians to be wary. This was the Christian day when Christians were honored in the previous church, in the previous period of the churches history. The leaders of the church were in dungeon, they were in hideouts, they were in forests.
They were now scouring of all things. Constantine comes to the throne and makes.
Christianity, the religion of the empire, and they are called in. Now they come out of their hiding.
Their their sought after.
And.
They're brought into the court.
Yes, they're giving a place of honor.
If there is anything that will pull the Christian down, it's to have the world patronizing, to have the world flattering.
Well, that's what happened and and Satan tried to crush Christianity in the days of Pergamon, in the days of Smyrna.
He tried to crush it through Roman Empire opposition, but it didn't work. The more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew.
And what was there was real. It was sincere. A man didn't join the Christian group in those days if he wasn't sincere because he didn't want a court death.
But if he really didn't mind it, he came out boldly for Christ. But as soon as it became popular to be a Christian, then they all got in on it. In fact, Constantine offered a certain sum of money in a white robe to everyone that would be baptized. He made Christians in a hurry. He paid them to be Christians.
Oh, that was the downfall of the church.
313 adaptism date is memory. Serves me right.
And you know that all the time that Constantine reigned over the Roman Empire.
He assumed the authority over the Church. When the officials, the great men in the Church of God on earth at that time, would come together to discuss something, they Constantine, would appear and they'd all have to stand up and wait till he'd be seated before they could sit down. And all the time he was the high priest of the heathen, too.
Water mixture. And that's the very kind of thing that's being advocated in ecumenicalism today.
I read an article.
I read a book. Rather I reviewed a book.
This girl is attack on dispensationalism called the background to dispensationalism.
And this author says, let us forsake this idea that the Church is in the world, but not of it.
What did the Lord Himself say in the 17th of John?
I pray not for the world, but for them whom now has given me out of the world, he says. You're not of it.
Oh, he says, not. I don't pray to take them out of the world, but keep them from the evil. The Church of God was to be in, but not of the world. This man, a Christian minister, boldly says, let's forsake the idea of in, but not of, and join in the whole big movement to improve the world.
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We have to be make a church that's relevant to the space age or the church has no mission here.
All this is nothing in the world but another attempt to go back to the days of Pergamus.
Now we go down.
14th Verse. I have a few things against thee, that thou hast them there, that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast the stumbling block before the children of Israel, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and decrement fornication.
That's in a spiritual sense here, but Balak did that.
He not only attacked them, he not only prophesied against them, but when God wouldn't let his prophecies avail anything, he taught the Balaam, taught the king Balak how to pull them down. He says go and mingle with them, intermarry with them, get them to your feet.
That's the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare before the children of Israel.
And so he pulled them down through his wild when God wouldn't let him attack them.
And that's the thing that's being proposed today and the end of Christianity on the earth.
Now go down 15 verse. Oh, hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaus?
If not now, only a few deeds, isolated deeds, but it has become a doctrine.
1St it's the deeds and then a doctrine is formed to support IT support the deed.
Repent her, I will come unto thee quickly, and I will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, that's Christ in hidden away glory. I will give to eat of the hidden man, and I will give him a whitestone.
And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth, saving he that receiveth it.
In the days of Pergamus.
There was quiet, had to be quiet, going on in Communion.
It couldn't be, it couldn't be outward. Now every, the whole outward thing was mixed up with the world, as the poet said. I looked for the world and I found it in the church. I looked for the church and I found it in the world. You couldn't tell one from the other, they were so mixed up together. But then if one went on faithful to Christ in seclusion always, as I'll give him a white stone, and then that stone a new name written that no one will know but the one that receives it.
It's going to be some special act of favor of the Lord, and He's going to recompense the faithfulness.
Is going to recommend.
We're going on down to the 18th verse and under the Angel of the church in Thyatira, right? These things, Seth, the Son of God.
Who hath eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet like fine brass? I.
Know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works, and the last to be more than the first. Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman, Jezebel.
Is already named Balaam. Now he mentions Jezebel, the most wicked woman in the Old Testament, as a sample of something woman, Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess. To teach and to seduce my servants, to commit fornication and eat things sacrificed to idols.
Here is a system. Now he calls by the name of Jezebel.
What could that be?
Does this mean anything?
Calling herself a prophetess and she teaches.
There is one organization on earth that claims the right to teach.
Now remember that according to Scripture, the Church is taught. It doesn't teach.
But here is an organization represented by a most wicked woman of the Old Testament, Jezebel, and she attempts to teach. The church teaches. Oh, how well we hear those claims today and are growing. They're getting more bold all the time.
Jezebel here.
I say it with caution.
With reservations.
Jezebel here is that thing that dominated the church after.
A certain period of time, that is, after the Pergamus period, there came a period in which the Church of Rome became the dominating factor.
And that went on from about the 6th century to about the 16th century, almost 1000 years of church history in which Rome dominated everything.
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I gave her space to repent of her fornication and she repented. Not now. That's the principle with God, that He always warns and gives face to repent.
But she wouldn't repent.
All I will cast her into a bed and so on.
24th Verse On the You I say, leave out, and unto unto you I say, Thee rest in Thyatira. As many as have not known this doctrine.
And which have not known the depths of Satan as they speak, I will put upon you none other burden.
Oh, there were some in those days that were in that that sphere that we're still faithful.
That still were true to God, he says. I'll put upon you no other burden. Hold fast what you have.
25th Verse. But that would she have already hold fast till I come now, Thyatira.
This church has this word from the Lord to it. Hold fast till I come. And that's the first time that he mentions his coming.
In other words, this organization or this sphere in which Rome dominates?
This thing is to go on unto the end, till the Lord comes.
Let's go down to the next chapter. And under the angels of the Church and Sardis, right. These things have he that hath the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know thy works, that thou hast the name that thou livest in our debt. What followed the Thyatira theory? the Reformation?
The Reformation, now the Reformers, Martin Luther and the others, did not intend to leave the Church of Rome.
They set out, as the name implies, merely to reform it, to correct its abuses, to improve it. But Rome wouldn't have it, and they were forced out. They were excommunicated.
Now what happened?
Oh, we all know the history. If we don't know the history of the Reformation, we might. We better read it.
Want terrible blood shedding there was in order that the truth of God might be maintained.
And what came out of the Reformation, the Bible and the language of the people?
The Bible had been kept out of the hands of the people. The Word of God was held back. The great thing that came out of the Reformation was the open Bible.
And the truth of justification by faith.
Now that came out of the Reformation.
But what has come out of the Reformation since then? Has it all gone on brightly, as when Martin Luther stood firm and fast against obstacles almost insurmountable?
Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain that are ready to die. For I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Now I think that in this Sardis we have brought before us a period following the Reformation, that which came out of the Reformation represented by the state churches.
There are still many countries that have state churches.
England has. Scandinavian countries have.
Various countries have state churches. They came out of the reparation. And you know what the reference at the before the Reformation, the Church of Rome ruled over the governor, the Princess over the king.
But with the Reformation, the reformers nestled down under the wing of the government, it was reversed.
But he says, I know thy works, that thou hast the name, that thou art liveth and are dead.
It's possible to have cold formality and no heart for Christ.
And there is a growing desire today.
For ritualism.
I saw a letter written by one man who a young man in the States who had been in the army.
And he returned back home after a couple of years to his local church.
And he said I found it just filled with ritualism. When I left it, there was none of it.
Or they want ritualism. Well, why not?
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If the reality of faith in Christ and the saved by the precious blood of Christ is gone.
Let's have a church anyway, but then we will have to introduce ritualism. We'll have to have form and ceremony pumped and all that goes with it to make up for the vitals that have been thrown out the window.
I don't think I'm extravagant, my friend.
Because I I know where I would speak.
Think of one of the leaders in Christendom today saying the precious name of Jesus, the precious blood of Christ coming under the blood, and things like that have no meaning today.
And he's not an obscure man, either. He's one of the leaders, one of the leaders of ecumenicalism.
Well, if the precious blood of Christ and salvation by blood in the precious name of Jesus have no meaning, all right, bring in ceremony and form.
The empty ceremonies will take the place for some people, but they won't satisfy God now, he says.
Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain as are ready to die, for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Thou hast the name that thou liveth. Oh yes, the open Bible is still here, although that's being corrupted every day.
Every few months we get a new translation and everyone gets worse than the one before. The new English Bible is just off the press recently is the worst yet.
And I know what I'm speaking about.
I reviewed it.
Fourth Verse. Thou hast a few names even in Sardis, which have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
Don't forget that God has these people here and there all over in Christmas.
And he knows everyone of them, and he knows them by name, and the Lord is going to reward each one for his faithfulness.
According to his life.
Let's not forget that the Lord's people are in all parts of the world and in all things except the apostate cult.
I don't say they should be there now, that isn't the point. But they are. They're there. The Lord knows them.
He that overcometh the same shall be clothed in white raiment. Oh, that's different too, The mixture that's found there.
They shall walk with me and wait, for they are worthy.
Previous verse while we go down seventh verse under the Angel in the church in Philadelphia writes these things that he that is holy and he that is true.
Notice how this one, who judges in this midst of the Candlestick, addresses the the church in Philadelphia, He that is holy and he that is true.
The greater the light, the nearer to Christ.
The more the holiness of his person is insisted upon.
The Lord said to Israel, you know, or to the man with the destroying weapon in his hand, when he saw the idolatries in the House of God in Jerusalem, he says, go in and slay them and begin at my house. The Book of Revelation is a book of judgment, and judgment begins at the House of God. That's what we have in Revelation 2 and three. And here we find that there are some.
Here this is another period of time following the Reformation.
He that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth.
And shutteth to no man openness. I know thy works. Behold, I have set before thee and opened door, and no man can shut it. For thou hast leave out the A here thou hast little strength.
And has not denied my name.
Kept my word and not denied my name. Three things that go together. Little strength. Keeping his word, not denying his name. Now doesn't this take you back to Malachi 316?
Oh, remember how Malachi 316 begins with the Word? Then, then what? What then? Why then when the proud were called happy, they that tempt God were set up as models to be copied when everything was at its blackest in Israel's history. Then they that feared the Lord spake off in one to another. The Lord hearkened and heard it. Book of Remembrance was written before Him for them that feared the Lord and the thought upon His name.
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The Lord, his name, His word. Oh, here it is at the closing of this day, at the close of the Church's history.
The Lord still has a path, and He still has a place.
Now, lest anyone say that I'm misrepresenting things, let me make this statement.
I am not claiming to be Philadelphia.
But the characteristics of Philadelphia are little strength.
Keeping his word and not denying his name, not our name, not denying his name, the name of Christ.
Do we answer to that, brethren?
All to be Philadelphian in spirit. To be Philadelphian in heart.
But there is such a thing that the Lord has revived a certain amount of truth. We were speaking about it day before yesterday, that the Lord did revive the truth of the Lords coming that was lost for centuries, never mentioned over 1000 years, 1500 or more years in church history.
The Lord revived the truth of His coming. The heavenly calling of the Church reminded us again that we were in, but not of the world. And now there's attempt to overthrow all that was recovered.
But thank God it will go on to the end in each of these last four churches. It speaks of something of the Lord's coming, so they go down to the end.
I have set before thee an open door. The MCC officials should stop it.
They would close such avenues. I mean, the National Council of Churches let's anybody misunderstand me.
Whole I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews and are not, but do lie. I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
Always, as you may be, despised and little thought of now.
But I'm going to publicly acknowledge you another day.
I'm going to have them know that I loved you and then I was in accord with your stand, even though you were faithful, even though you were had little strength.
Thought little love brother, knew we craved the Lord's approval.
Willing to go on in a little path, you say, oh, we're so weak.
Only a few is where I come from.
Only a handbook.
Didn't the Lord say, I know that you have little strength?
Doesn't he know it?
Well, go on faithfully anyway. He's going to repay it. He's going to reward it.
But remember that the one to whom were gathered is represented here as holy and true. Let's not forget it, brethren. There is a danger in the day, in these days of falling, rapidly falling morality, that we're apartment to think lightly of moral sin. We're apt to think well.
It isn't so serious.
Things do not need to be judged and put away.
Condition in the world and the thoughts of men have nothing to do with the Church of God.
He that is holy and He that is true. Let us keep that in mind.
Now he says, Because thou hast kept the word of my patience. Oh, Christ is waiting.
He's waiting there he seated at God's right hand until his enemies are made his foot to now God said to him, sit down at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy foot to he's waiting. He's as you've kept the word of my patience. Are you waiting and patience for him? You say it's a long way. Well, go on a little more patience a little more endured.
Because I have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation or the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world to try them to dwell on the earth.
Now I want to call your attention to the language of this verse. I will keep thee from the hour of temptation.
People argue about Greek till they're blue in the face, trying to prove that the church has to go through the coming great tribulation.
But here it's plain and unmistakable. I'm going to keep you out of the hour of it. Jacob is going to be saved through it. The remnant of Israel will be saved through the great tribulation. But here he says to the church, I will keep thee from the hour of it, the very time in which it will take place.
This is absolutely conclusive, as well as many other scriptures, that the Church of God will not go through the tribulation. We're not waiting for the tribulation, we're waiting for the Lord to come, and that may happen today. The big thing for us to remember is that we're gathered to Him that is holy and Him that is true, and to walk accordingly and faithfully until that moment.
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Now then, the last.
14th verse.
Under the Angel of the Church of the Laodiceans write these things set the Amen of faithful and true witness. Notice that the Lord represents Himself as a faithful and true witness here, in contrast to what the Church of God has been in her responsibility.
In her responsibility, she's been an unfaithful witness, he says. I'm the faithful and true witness.
The beginning of the creation of God. The creation of God is new creation.
The first one that rose from the dead.
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would thou Wert cold or hot. So then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot.
I will spew the out of my mouth.
What's the characteristic of the last stage of Christmas? Lukewarm.
Indifference.
You can say anything you want in many places of Christians to say about the name of Christ, about the person of Christ, about the blood of Christ, and go on as a good fellow member. Indifference to Christ.
But don't say anything about ecumenicalism or else you go.
Some of the biggest places.
Oh, lukewarm.
The Lord says, I would thou Wert colder or hot. So then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will feel the out of my mouth. Is that the end of Christendom? Yes, in its responsibility, in its outward profession.
Is going to spew the whole profession out of his mouth. But first he's going to come and come and take the Christians home. But the whole great conglomerate is going to be spewed out of his mouth as something nauseous to him. That's coming. But there is not far off. And iniquities rising to new heights every day. Lukewarmness is characteristic of the day rather than remember.
Philadelphia is not gone, but Laodicea is here.
And we're all more or less influenced by the things that are around us. We're apartment to be influenced by the lukewarmness of the day.
We always seem to get the backwash from these things rather than let us beware.
Many we desire to go on.
Impressedness of first love, Faithfulness to Christ, holding fast His Word and not denying His name.
Waiting for him to take us out. And how about these others?
Because thou sayest I am rich.
And increased with good.
And In need of nothing, if you want to read, if you want to see something about that, read the account that was given to the Assembly of the National Council of Churches just a year ago in San Francisco, or almost a year ago.
And they told about the increase in numbers, the increase in giving, the increase in church buildings.
Everything was up and up and up.
Rich and increased with goods and of need of nothing. And when they get the Grand Ecumenical Church going, they'll boast it better than ever. Nothing to stop them, but.
The Lord is going to spew the whole thing out of his mouth.
That's the end of the professing church on earth. Christ's utter rejection of it. The thing is obnoxious to it. Think of indifference to Christ. Think of tolerating blasphemers in the pulpit. Think of tolerating men that deny the virgin birth, the inspiration of Scripture.
And yet everything go on together. All is well. Hail fellow well men. Build a bigger organization, get more collections, send out more missionaries to teach more heathen about the apostate church.
Tell them all about modernism.
Oh, that's what's here.
I counseled. Notice this 18th verse. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire. Gold is divine righteousness. They don't have it.
This is the thing at large in the main.
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That thou may us be rich and white, raiment the righteousness.
The kind that the Church, the bride, will be arranged in, that thou mayest be clothed, that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear to be unclothed, is to be devoid of Christ.
And anoint thine and thine eyes have to anoint thine eyes with it should read they don't have anything to see with.
They need to get that from Christ in order to see.
As many as I loathe, I rebuke and chase and be zealous therefore, and repent. Now notice in this 20th verse, behold, I stand at the door and knock.
At the close of these addresses to the seven churches, the Lord takes the place on the outside of it all. He says. I'm on the outside and I'm knocking.
And he doesn't say I want to get into that cold, lifeless, lukewarm thing either. He says if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come into him and will Sup with him and he with me. He says that there's an individual in that that wants personal communion. I'll I'll give it to him. I'll come into him. Not in to play this here, not into the lukewarm mess today.
No, it's a call to individuals in.
There are a few with whom he may have personal communion.
When all brethren, who wants to be in a mass of lukewarm?
How long can something red hot stay in the midst of something cool?
Won't it all be cool too before long?
Doesn't attend that way.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and am sat down it with my father and himself. He's reached the end of of the goal. He's seated at God's right hand. He says, Oh, if you best be faithful, I'll give you a place with me on my throne.
Brethren, there is warning in this chapter, in these two chapters, There is instruction in these two chapters, and there is encouragement too. Let us go on. Let us seek to maintain warmth of affection to our blessed Lord, faithfulness to His name, true to His word, and going on in faithfulness to that blessed moment.
Dependence
Address—G.H. Hayhoe
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I'd like to turn to First Chronicles. First Chronicles chapter 12, verse 22.
For at that time, day by day, there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God.
A little farther down in the chapter.
And the.
38 verse.
All these men of war that could keep rank came with a perfect heart to Hebron to make David king over all Israel.
And all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking, for their brethren had prepared for them.
Moreover, they that were nigh them, even unto Isakar and Zebulun and Nabtalei, brought bread on ***** and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen and meat meal, cakes of figs and bunches of raisins and wine and oil and oxen and sheep abundantly. Or there was joy in Israel. And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
David said unto all the congregation of Israel.
If it seemed good unto you, and that it be of the Lord our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren everywhere that are left in all the land of Israel.
And with them also to the priests and Levites, which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us, and let us bring again the ark of our God to us. For we inquired not at it in the days of Saul, nor the congregation said that they would do so. But the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
So David gathered all Israel together, from shy ***** of Egypt, even unto the entering of Hema.
To bring the ark of God from courageous Jerome, David went up, and all Israel to Bala, that is to, that is, to Kerja Durham, which belongs to Judah. To bring up fence the ark of God, the Lord that dwelleth between the cherry bems, whose name is called on it.
They carried the ark of God and a new card out of the House of Abinadab, and Ozan Ohio drayed the cart, and David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with sultries, and with timbrels, and with symbols and with trumpets.
When they were come to the threshing floor of Chaidun, Aza put forth his hand to hold the ark. For the oxen stumbled. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against us, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark, and there he died before God. And David was displeased because the Lord had made a breach upon us. Therefore that place is called Perez Aza to this day.
David was afraid of God that day, saying.
How shall I bring the ark of God home to me? So David brought not the ark home to himself, to the city of David, but carried it aside into the House of Obed Edom the Gittite. The Ark of God remained with the family of Obed Edom in his house three months. And the Lord blessed the House of Obed Edom and all he had.
On the 14th chapter.
Eighth Verse. When the Philistines heard heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David, and David heard of it and went out against them. The Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Refium. David inquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines, and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand?
The Lord said unto him, Go up, for I will deliver them into thine hand.
So they came up to bail Perazim, and David smoked them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand, like the breaking forth of waters. Therefore they call the name of that place Bail Parasm. And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
And the Philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in the valley.
Therefore David inquired again of God, and God said unto him, going on up after them.
Turn away from them and come upon them over against the Mulberry trees, and it shall be when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the Mulberry trees. But then thou shalt go up to battle, for God has gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.
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The 15th chapter. And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared an ark for a place for the ark of God, and pitched for the tent. Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites, For them hath the Lord chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him forever.
David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem to bring up the Ark of the Lord.
Unto his place which he had prepared for it.
The 12Th verse And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites, Sanctify yourselves, both he and your brethren, that she may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel into the place that I have prepared for it for because you did it not. At the 1St the Lord our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the Jew order so David, and the so the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of.
Israel and the children of the Levites bear the ark of God upon their shoulders, with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded. According to the word of the Lord, David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be singers, with instruments of music, sultries and harps, and symbols, sounding by lifting up the voice with joy and.
The 24th verse in Shepherd and Jehoshaphat and Nathaniel and a Messiah.
And Zechariah and Benny, Ayah and Eliezer the priest did blow the trumpets before the Ark of God.
And all that Edom and Jay, Ayah, Jehiah, or doorkeepers for the ark. So David and the elders of Israel and the captains over thousands went to bring up the ark of the Covenant of the Lord out of the House of Obed. Edom with joy came to pass when God helped the Levites that bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that they offered seven bullets and seven Rams.
David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bear the ark and the singers.
And Chenanaya, the master of the song, with the singers David. I also had upon him an affidavit of linen. Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
Was shouting him with the sound of the coronet and with trumpets and with cymbals, making a noise with sultries and harps. And it came to pass as the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord came to the city of David. And Michael, the daughter of Saul, looking out at a window, saw King David dancing and playing, and she despised him in her heart.
Well, I thought to in reading this portion tonight. Is that.
We cannot, we must always bear in mind that no time of happiness, or no time of triumph or special blessing in our lives has any assurance that thereafter we will have the mind of the Lord, our guidance for our pathway, or His blessing upon us.
Unless there is continual dependence upon the Lord and looking to Him, Oh, how easy it is for us, especially after some time when God has used us in any particular way or blessed us in any particular way, to rejoice in the blessing, to rest in the blessing, and to get our eyes off the Lord, to forget the need of.
Constant dependence upon him. We remember how the Lord took the disciples up onto that mount of Transfiguration.
And there they saw the Lord transfigured before them. There they saw perhaps what we might say.
Was one of the most wonderful scenes in their whole experience in the Lord's pathway here. But when they came down from the mountain and a child was brought there, possessed with an evil spirit, they were not able to cast out the unclean spirit.
And they asked the Lord, why could not we cast him out? And the Lorde answer was this kind goeth not out, but by prayer and fasting. Oh surely if they had been up in the mountaintop they would now be full of power to be able to meet this difficult situation. But no, they needed to be.
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Independence upon the Lord. The thought of fasting brings in the thought of self judgment.
And on the in that state could they overcome this attack of the enemy? So we find it over and over again on the day of Pentecost. What rejoicing. There was 3000 souls saved saved. But it wasn't long until we find Ananias and Sapphira. They lied about the price of their land and God had to deal.
Oh, how important I say it is.
Brethren, that we should go on continually in the path of dependence upon the Lord, and in obedience to His word. It says in the 16th Psalm the first verse, Preserve me, O God, for in Thee do I put my trust.
And we need this every step of the way.
Well, this portion that we have before us in First Corinthians 12 is a very happy occasion. For a long time David had been haunted by Saul. Those who had followed David had been in a place of rejection. They had been down there in The Cave of Dalam. They had been identified with a despised leader. But now God's time had come when David should be exalted.
When He should be given the place of headship over the whole Kingdom. And so we find the great numbers here come out to make David king. And isn't it true that it's very easy for us when there are large crowds, when there is happy ministry, when Christ is brought before us in power, that is very easy for us.
To all come and enjoy such occasions, and just like these who came there was great joy in Israel.
Their hearts were lifted up. This wasn't any pretense or sham either. And one doesn't say or even think of that when great numbers of the Lords people come together for happy occasions over His word that is the sham or anything of that nature. The heart does respond to the precious ministry of Christ. The heart of the Christian, no matter how cold it may be, does respond to that precious name.
In fact, that's the proof that one is a Christian, for it says in first Peter 2.
Unto you therefore, which believe he is.
Precious, I've often said that that's the verse God gives us for ourselves.
To show us how that we have believed in the right way. I can remember when I was a a boy hearing the preacher say, have you believed in your head or in your heart? And I must confess it perplexed me quite a bit. Did I believe in my head or had it really got down into my heart? Well this verse was a great help to me.
You therefore which believe He is precious, and when you believe in your heart, your heart goes out to the person. When it's only in the head, there's no affection for the person. But if you believed in your heart, you love that precious Savior. We love Him because He first loved us. If you were walking down the street here in Detroit, someone comes up to you and speaks well of the Lord Jesus.
Doesn't your heart respond to the mention of that precious name? Oh, I'm sure that that is so in every Christian I know. Christians that are filled with doubts, doubt their salvation, but the mention of the precious name of the Lord Jesus fills their hearts with rejoicing. All the enemy has succeeded in making them very unhappy by filling them with doubts, and yet God has given to them that precious assurance.
That the thought that their heart responds to that name shows they have believed in their hearts. So I quote the verse again unto you, therefore, which believe He is precious. And I have no doubt that when all these people came together with a perfect hearts, as they were not of double heart, they came there. They rejoice to see David in his place of authority. They delighted to see him in the.
Belong to him. But they hadn't had the courage to identify themselves with him and his rejection. And David rejoiced to see them come too. And David welcomed them. If we had read the whole chapter, we would have seen that. And he welcomed them all. But there was a special place given to those who had shared his rejection.
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When he chronicles his mighty man.
He talks of those who were faithful to him in his rejection, and dear fellow Christian, the Lord.
Values every little bit of desire in your heart and mind to please him.
But I do believe that, believe that it gives special joy to his heart, and when we seek to follow Him in the path of rejection. And so when we come together to the meetings, and there are only a few there, just a feeble few, and the ministry perhaps is not bright and happy as at other occasions. When is our brother brought before us in the conference? There might be a famine in the land.
There might be a famine in the assembly when we still sodgern in that land, when we still seek to go on with the people of God. That gives special joy to the heart of the Lord. It gives special joy to Him. Oh, may we have the privilege of giving joy to the heart of the one to whom we once caused such sorrow. It was our sins that caused in that untold sorrow and suffering.
That he endured upon Calvary's cross, and now we have the privilege of doing something.
That will give him joy, that will cause his heart to rejoice, for he delights to have his own with him, just like Davidde men down there when one when they heard him say that he longed for a drink of the water by the well of Bethlehem. Oh, how he appreciated the devotedness of those men who broke through the host of the Philistines and went out and drew water for him. He valued them.
Well to return to this chapter tells us that in the 39th verse and they were with David three days eating and drinking, for their brethren had prepared for them. The next verse tells us of the different tribes of Israel and how they all helped in this and there was joy in Israel.
Well, it came to me because of the three days that we had had together.
And how the Lord had granted us such a happy time and fellowship one with another over His word, And how our brethren had prepared for us, and the oneness of heart that was displayed. And so, as we come to the end of this 12Th chapter, we would say, what a happy occasion, what joy.
There was in Israel, but when we open the next chapter, we find them acting on the joy.
Instead of turning to the Lord, we find them turning to one another.
And acting in their own wisdom instead of turning to the law that isn't that very natural to our hearts. When there's a time of great joy, we look at one another, we rejoice to look into one anothers faces, we speak of these things and we forget.
The need of dependence upon the Lord we forget the need of looking into His word for guidance.
Every step of our pathway and also what we find in this 13th chapter was a right thing done in a wrong way. Wasn't it a very fine desire to bring up the ark of God? All that was a very fine desire. God was pleased with that desire. He was pleased that David should desire to bring up the ark of God for.
Neglected in the days of Saul and now, David valued that place. That was the meeting place between God and his people.
God said there I will meet with thee, and there I will commune with thee. It was above the ark upon the mercy seat where God said He would meet with His people. And David valued that. David valued it. Do you And I value the fact that we have the privilege of meeting with the Lord, that we have the privilege of coming around him in the place that he has marked out in His word and they're meeting with.
Him while David valued that, but it says in the first verse, David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds and with every leader that he turned to the word of God. Did he ask the Lord what he should do? No, He consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds and every leader. Weren't there men of understanding there? Yes.
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Us that there were says in the 32nd verse of the 12Th chapter.
In the and the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were 200 and all their brethren were at their commandment.
The next verse of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, so on. Well, surely they could depend on these men of understanding. They had the understanding. They knew what Israel ought to do. But no matter how much understanding we have, no matter how much God may have used this in the past, no matter how much we have been blessed by Him in the past.
We need Him for each day, we need His wisdom, His guidance, His strength, and we need His precious word. For man shall not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God shall man live so. Because the fact that these were here, such men of understanding and some that were expert in war, and they were not of a double heart, surely.
Could depend on them, and there was such a happy state among them. So he turns to the captains.
He asks them. He says it's in my heart to bring up the ark of the Lord.
And notice what he says here, the 12Th verse at the third verse of the 13th chapter.
And let us bring again the ark of our God to us. For he inquired, not added in the days of Saul. He didn't say to bring it into his place. He didn't say to bring it into the place that the Lord had appointed, nor did he say that they would seek the Lord's mind as to how this should be done. No, there was there was an occupation with.
This joy and with all of the was going on among them.
There wasn't a turning to the law.
Well, it says in the fourth verse, and all the congregations said that they would do so.
For the thing was right in the eyes of all the people. Yes, they they were all agreed about this. And not one of them said, let us turn to God's word and let us ask the Lord about this matter. No, they were all agreed, so surely they must be right if they were all agreed. Well, I say what they wish to do was right, but the manner in which.
Doing it was not right. It wasn't according to the Word of God. It wasn't according to that which He had marked out in His Word. And where did they get this idea at all of using a cart and having oxen drive it? All this idea had come from the Philistines. Well, they might have said that, but God put His blessing upon it.
When the Philistines sent back the ark and it was placed in that cart.
Why the oxen went ahead and brought it right back to the land of Israel.
God manifestly put His blessing on it when the Philistines did it. But the Philistines didn't have this book. The Philistines didn't have the word of God and Israel did. They were more responsible and brethren, we may look around and christen them and say, well, isn't God putting His blessing on them there? And isn't he putting his blessing on them there?
Well, they're not as responsible as you and I are, God said to his people.
You only have I known of all the families of the earth, therefore will I punish you.
Another verse said, Unto whom much is given, of the same shall be much required. And so Israel were much more responsible, because they had the oracles of God they knew. And God did bless the Philistines for the measure in which they acknowledge the true God of Israel.
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And I say this, that wherever in Christendom we find a measure in which people acknowledge the Lord, God blesses according to that measure, but where you and I have the word of God and the truth of God when we're gathered out to the precious name of the Lord Jesus.
In separation from all its of man to give the Lord Jesus his place of honor and obedience to His Word, we are more responsible.
And things that may seem to pass among those who are outside will not pass among those who are gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it didn't pass here at all.
Well they all came together. What a wonderful gathering this was fifth verse. So David gathered all Israel together from shy ***** of Egypt, even unto the entering of Hema to bring the ark of God from Kurja Durham. Wasn't this a wonderful gathering all Israel come together and.
All the instruments of music all the same, all this wonderful.
This wonderful display, and yet it was not according to the mind of God. Oh, brethren, surely we can see that there may be that which puts on quite a nice exterior which looks quite impressive. But all God is jealous for the glory of His Son. God wants to have his blessed Son exalted. He wants to have him honored and.
The way it strikes me is this that when this.
CART was built and Aza and Ohio were driving the car. Why the the Ark was down behind them and here they were out in front and they were getting the honors.
The ark was more, shall I say, down little lower, and these men were in a place of honor, driving the cart along. And I believe that that's the tendency of our natural heart to want to get honors for ourselves. I've often thought of a remark by our brother Brown. He said Christendom has become a vast arena where men strive for honors for themselves.
And you and I are not in communion with the mind of God.
Unless we're honoring Christ.
You remember how, as you were said, what shall be done unto the man whom the King delighteth to honor. And great honors were to be brought to such a one, And those honors were given to the despised Jew more to chaos. And God delights to honor his Son. O brethren, are you and I in our lives?
Seeking the honor and the glory of Christ.
If we are, then we'll be turning to His word, and we'll be in conscious dependence before Him. But if we're seeking honors for ourselves, we'll seize every opportunity to be out in front, to be noticed, to put forward our opinions, to be, to be, to have everyone look up to us, the body for seeking the honor and the glory of Christ.
Will be will be willing to be hidden.
The Lord Jesus might be exalted. I often think of the story that was told of dear.
Mr. Darby one time when he was visiting Auburn in France and.
Someone came and was saying some things that were very unkind and untrue to that dear servant of God. And another brother was standing by and heard these insults given to Mr. Darby. And Mr. Darby remained silent. He didn't answer. He didn't say a word.
A law. He was really being insulted. And this brother said to him, he said, Mr. Darby, why don't you speak up and defend yourself? What he's saying is not true. And the answer of that dear servant of God was.
He hasn't said anything against my Savior yet. Oh, what a sweet answer. Well, there was one who was seeking the honor and the glory of Christ.
All brethren, how many difficulties would be saved amongst us in our homes?
And in our business life and in our assembly life, if this was before us, that Christ alone might be honored. I've sometimes said this, if a brother says something that's untrue about me, if I just stop and say to myself, well, it could have been true, and but for the grace of God, it would have been true.
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Then I wouldn't get angry about it, because it was quite possible that I could have done the thing if God hadn't preserved me.
But the reason we get angry is this. We're as good as saying, oh, I wouldn't do a thing like that.
I'm not so mean that I would do a thing like that and so we really have high thoughts about ourselves, but all how needful that we say that the Lord Jesus is the one whom God delights to honor that in all things he might have the preeminence Wellness was a very impressive thing.
To see all the singing and these instruments of music and this cart and the.
Hawks and driving it and other and a higher out in front.
In a place of honor and prominence, surely everything looked very beautiful to the eye of the natural man. But God was not pleased. They hadn't asked Him, they hadn't looked into His word, and they had given honor to men instead of giving honor to his presence in the midst of his people, of which the ark was a symbol. And so.
The oxen stumbled and the ark began to shake, and as A and a higher out in front, driving it as a put forth his hand to steady the ark because the oxen stumbled.
Perhaps I shouldn't say that the Ark shook. The Bible doesn't say here that it did, but it does say that Aza put forth his hand to steady it. At least, he thought perhaps it would have.
I don't believe it did, actually, because I believe God's eye was upon that ark and it wasn't necessary for us to put forth His hand. God was taking care of that ark just as He had taken care of it when it was down in the country of the Philistines, and the gods of the Philistines fell on their faces in the presence of that ark.
God saw to it, and God will ever guard the glory of His Son. And if you and I are in community.
With his thoughts, why we only need to acknowledge him?
In his rightful place, well, Aza was smitten down as a was smitten den.
And it tells us here that David was displeased because the Lord had made a breach upon us. Therefore that place is called Perez Aza to this day. And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me? While I say David was afraid of God, David was exercised.
Why had this happened and all if there is anything that ever happens?
Among the people of God we ought to be exercised by it.
We find that David discovered later why this had happened.
They hadn't asked the Lord, and they hadn't gone to his word about it.
They had done this according to their own plan. And so sometimes when we try to put through some plan or do something in human wisdom, we get a little displeased when God doesn't prosper our plan. But if God thwarts our plan, if he frustrates us in some purpose in life, should we not be exercised as to why God has allowed it? Should we not see?
Has a purpose in it. And we might say, well, that was us fault. He was the one that was wrong. Well, he was wrong, but the whole circumstance was wrong. The whole thing was displeasing to God. And as a was the one who put forth his hand, He was the one who did the, shall I say, the overt act. But the whole circumstance was not according to the mind of God.
So when they can send God didn't say Akan has sinned.
Said Israel hath standing, we ought to be exercised and not say, Well it's that persons fault, it's what that person did. But let us each be exercised. David was exercised, he said, How shall I do it? How shall I do it? Oh, let us look up as our brother brought before us yesterday. Let us look up and say.
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Lord, what wilt thou?
Have me to do?
And I think there's a very sweet little point here in the end of this chapter.
That when David at this time was not permitted to bring up the ark of God to his place, that it was carried into the House of Obed Edom and remained in his house for three months. To me this is a very touching little incident. That is.
God had made known his displeasure.
And the fact that as it was smitten, but we find here this man valued the presence of God, he valued that ark. And so when this plan was frustrated, why he allowed his house to be opened and the ark of God was carried in. Well, my thought in connection with it is just this.
That when difficulties arise and when troubles arise.
Isn't it grand that we can still keep our homes for the Lord, that we can still give Him His rightful place in our homes, and if we do, the Lord will bless us for it? How often one has found that when difficulties come among the people of God, a whole home will be affected.
The family will become discouraged and turned aside. And why is it?
Well, I believe it's because there wasn't what was done here. There isn't the fact that if there has been failure, we can still seek to honor the Lord in our own homes. We can still seek to keep our homes as a place where the Lord Jesus is given His rightful place. We can still have a heart for God and for His people, for as they kept that ark, it wasn't.
Say it wasn't that they themselves boasted to be anything.
But it was simply that they themselves enjoyed the Lord's presence there in their home, while this time of exercise, shall I say, went on until David learned what was the mind of God in connection with the carrying up of the ark.
May God grant that no difficulty in our lives.
May be allowed to hinder us in our homes from seeking to give the Lord Jesus.
The place that he has, he rightfully deserves. And if we do as it says here, the Lord blessed the Lord blessed the House of the Obed Edom and all he had, he didn't say to his children, well, look what other did. And look at David. He didn't know what to do. Look, he he consulted the captions instead of turning to the Lord.
Now we find no mention of that ol bet Edom value the ark in his own home.
He valued the article. Let us not speak of the failures of one another, but let us speak of the worthiness of Christ. I was thinking this evening fact, I wasn't just sure what the Lord would have me to speak about tonight, but I was thinking a little bit of the 45th Psalm. And in that beautiful Psalm it says my heart is indicting a good matter.
I speak of the things which I have made touching the king. My heart is the tongue.
My, my tongue, rather, is the pen of a ready writer. Thou art fairer than the children of men. Grace is poured into thy lips, brethren. I always enjoy that salmon, especially because of this, that it's in the second book of the Psalms, when God's people were driven out from Jerusalem when it was in the possession of the enemy.
The heart could still be kept.
Fresh and happy in his life and the world may be in a condition of turmoil.
We are living in days of declension, but Christ is always the same.
And you and I can always be Speaking of and thinking of a good matter. We can be occupied with the things that we have made touching the king, that precious one, that worthy one, whose garments smell of myrrh and owls and kasha, who's ever beautiful to the one who sees in him.
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The altogether lovely one.
Only come to the 14th chapter. The reason I read this is because in the eighth verse we find here that the Philistines at this time came out again David.
You know, seems to me the devil always comes when we're discouraged. Did you ever feel discouraged? I have. I suppose everyone has, and it always seems the devil.
Gathers together a great force against us when we get a little bit discouraged, doesn't he? He just brings such an army that it looks altogether hopeless.
And he makes the outlook look so dark, so impossible that we say.
What shall I do? What shall I do? Well, that's the condition of things that we find here in this 14th chapter. And David was displaced. He had made a mistake, and the ark hadn't reached Jerusalem. And now the Philistines gather together their armies and come out. Well, David's going through an exercise through all this. And so it tells us in the 10th verse.
And David inquired of God and David.
And choir of God, he could have got all together cast down said it's all hopeless. I tried to do the right thing and I thought everyone agreed with what I was doing too, because they all said that it was the right thing to do. But he said he might have said, well it's it's useless. But when he saw the enemy, he turned to the Lord. He inquired of the Lord, oh how beautiful this is.
And.
And it says here.
I go up against the Philistines, and wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said unto him, Go up, for I will deliver them into my hand.
And God did. And David didn't forget to thank the Lord. He didn't forget to thank him.
We often forget to thank the Lord. We think about our disappointments, we think about our troubles, we pray about them, but we often forget to thank Him for the many blessings that we receive, the little hymn says.
Unnumbered comforts to my soul, Thy tender care bestow before my infant heart conceived from whom those comforts flow.
Isn't it true that we forget? Well, David here didn't forget, he said the Lord.
Has broken forth upon mine enemies. Well, did the enemy leave them alone then did he say, well, Davidde in a such a nice state of soul, I won't attack him now. Oh no, he comes with a second attack. He comes again next time. But David perhaps had learned something of the futility of the uselessness of depending on past circumstances or experiences or on human wisdom.
Anything. And so he didn't say, well, I attacked them the other time and I had a complete victory. I'll do the same again.
Now notice.
It says here.
The 13th verse in the Philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in the valley. Therefore David inquired a gain of God. And God said unto him, going on up after them, turn away from them, and come upon them over against the Mulberry trees.
He didn't act here upon what had happened in the past. He acted upon the special wisdom given to him of God for this circumstance.
And all, brethren, every circumstance that rises in your life or mine.
Is a different 1 from 1 we have ever met before. As dear Mr. Darby said. And he said in one sense, in one sense, experience is not what we need in the things of God, it's God himself we need. Well, one doesn't mean that experience, and he didn't mean that experience wasn't valuable. But if we rest on it, we can make some great mistakes.
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It's God we need, it's the one who alone can undertake for us. And so in this second instance, he asked the Lord again. And the Lord says this time go around another way. And so David did that and the Lord gave him a victory. This time. David was learning. What was he learning? Not to depend on his own wisdom, not to depend upon man.
Not to depend upon past experience, but to defend upon the Lord. And so the Lord did come in and deliver him. And let me say again, before we speak of this next chapter, if there are any of us here that should be discouraged or cast down, and the Philistines seem to be gathered together against us, let us remember that God is always sufficient for every.
From staff and if we look to him, he will not fail. He knows the situation fully, he's allowed it.
In I want to sometimes said in first Peter chapter 5, it says casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you. The next verse says, be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil is a roaring lion. Walk at the boat, seeking whom he may devour.
I used to think that Satan was a roaring lion in connection with persecution, but I believed that Satan is a roaring lion in connection with discouragement. Discouragement when you get discouraged, or that's when the enemy seeks to come in.
You know, a Christian that's being persecuted for the name of Christ is happy, but a discouraged Christian is open for the attacks of the enemy.
And if you and I don't cast our cares upon the Lord, then we better watch because.
The enemy is going to be right there, and we surely can't meet him in our own wisdom or strength. David must learn that. You and I must learn it too.
Well, now David desires to bring back the ark of God. All this exercise has been good for him. And everything that God passes us through in our lives, brethren, is good for us. All that Edom got a blessing by the mistake of David. And you and I have got many blessings from the mistakes of Peter. And so if if others have made mistakes, let's profit by them. God's written these things.
We might profit by their mistakes, and He teaches us even through our own mistakes, if we turn to Him.
And seek his face in them. And so David profited by all this.
And so now over Edom have got a blessing. David had got a blessing. And so he said, well, I'm going to bring back the ark of God to his place. That is, he didn't say I'm going to do it according to my plan or bring it to my place, but he was going to bring it to the place where God would have it and he was going to do it in the way.
That was pleasing to God. And where would he find that out as he called together the captains of thousands and hundreds and every leader?
Does he say, I think this, or I think that? No. Notice this in the second verse. Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites, for them hath the Lord chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him forever. Where did he learn that?
How he learned that in God's Word.
Searched the word.
We need those two things, prayer, the reading of the Word, the chapter before we find them, independence, asking the Lord's mind.
And in this instance, when it was a question of bringing up the ark, he turns to the captains, he turns to all these men of understanding, and he says, I know God has told us how in his word, it's the Levites that are to carry the ark of God. That wasn't human wisdom. That was from the word of God. And I believe, brethren, that there's either a principle or a direct Scripture.
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To govern our conduct in every circumstance of life. I'd like to encourage you, dear young people, you boys and girls here.
To read the Old Testament and store your mind with these lovely stories.
You will find that God will use them in blessing in your life later. These stories are written to teach us lessons in our lives. We see David discouraged. We see David making a mistake, and we see him going to the Word of God. Isn't it nice to have your mind stored with these things and see how God comes in? You know when you buy a part for your car and you're going to put it on, there's written instructions and then there's.
A picture. Well, I like to look at the picture. I read the instructions too, but the picture means quite a bit to me. And God's got the written instructions in His Word, and He's got the pictures too. And you and I have got both, if we acquaint ourselves with the Old Testament, with his beautiful pictures and all the instructions written down for us in the New Testament.
Oh how lovely it is. It's all here for us.
Well, David found out from the word of God that the Levites were to carry the ark.
They were. They didn't copy the Philistines this time.
Staves were already in the ark. They didn't have to make anything. There was number new carp to be made. The ark had been made long ago according to the pattern that Moses had seen on the mount. The staves were already in it. They didn't have to do anything but just to lift up that arc. And I like to think of it in this way, that now the men were hidden. God doesn't tell us the names of the men that carried the arc at all. That didn't matter.
And as far as I can see, the men were probably quite hidden underneath the ark. They cause that beautiful ark with the cherry bins and it's shining gold was lifted up far above their heads. And the person of Christ, the glory of Christ is above our understanding. It's, it's something that we can't understand.
When others tried to steady the ark it was. It seems to me it's a picture of 1.
Who perhaps might even try to explain the person of Christ?
We can't do it, brethren, but we can lift that Blessed One up.
And give them a place of exaltation above our understanding.
High above our praise, the little hymn says, Worthy of homage and of praise worthy by all to be adored. Other hymns says, no place too high for him is found, no place too high in heaven. Well, here they start now to bring up the ark. And now there's a scene of real rejoicing.
And notice what David says in the 15th verse, the 12Th verse rather. And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both he and your brethren, that he may bear up the bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel, under the place that I have prepared for it. For because you did it not. At the 1St, the Lord our God made a breach upon us.
Or that we sought him not after the due order?
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.
David acknowledges his mistake here. And David says to the Levites.
Sanctify yourselves, and how important this is. If we have made a mistake to own it, to own it and the next thing is to set us set ourselves apart. The word sanctified means to set to be set apart, and we ought to set ourselves apart, for the Lord says in the 17th of John.
Sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth.
So you and I ought to be set apart for the Lord. So what a beautiful scene we have here. How this exercise has resulted now in blessing.
And here they start out to carry the ark up to Jerusalem, to the place where God had appointed. And it's a scene of great rejoicing. There was singing, there was rejoicing.
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David danced before the Lord. He was so happy over this. And if you and I would have a rejoicing that abides, we need to go on the path of obedience and dependence to the law.
Find Michael, Saul's daughter, despising David when he was bringing up the ark on the new car. She didn't despise him at all for that, because that was an idea that came from the natural man. She didn't despise him, but when the ark was being brought up in God's way, then this woman who was a picture of of nature.
She looked down, despised.
Maintaining the Truth
Address—G.H. Hayhoe
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I'd like to read one verse in Proverbs Chapter 11. Proverbs Chapter 11, first verse. A false balance. This abomination to the Lord, but a just wait is his delight. And Romans chapter 8, Romans chapter 8 and verse 18.
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time.
Are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in US. Now I'd like to turn to the book of Ezra the 8th chapter, Ezra chapter 8 and verse 15. And I gathered them together to the river that run us to a hava, and there aboard we intense 3 days. And I viewed the people and the priests and found there none of the sons of Levi.
Now the 21St verse. Then I proclaim the class there at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way.
Because we had spoken unto the King, saying.
The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek Him, but His power and his wrath is against all them to forsake him. So He fasted and besought our God for this, and He wasn't treated of us. Then I separated 12 of the chief of the priests, Cherubaya Hashibaya, and ten of their brethren with them, and wait unto them the silver and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering.
House of our God, which the King and his counselors, and his Lords, and all Israel their present had offered.
I even wade into their hands 650 lbs of silver and silver vessels, and 100 towns, and of gold and 100 talons, also 20 basins of gold of 1000 grams, and two vessels of fine copper, precious of gold. And I said unto them, Ye are wholly unto the Lord.
The vessels are wholly also, and the silver and the gold are a free will, offering unto the Lord God of your Father's.
Watch she and keep them until you weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites.
And the Chief of the Fathers of Israel at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the House of the Lord.
So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them up to Jerusalem under the House of our God.
Then we departed from the river of the Hava on the 12Th day of the first month.
To go on to Jerusalem in the hand of our God was upon us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
We came to Jerusalem and above there three days. Now on the 4th day it was the silver and the gold, and the vessels weighed in the hand and the House of our God.
By the hand of Miramar the son of Uriah the priest, and with him was Eliezer the son of Phinehas.
And with them was Josephabad, the son of Joshua Noah Dia, the son of Benui Levites.
By number and by weight of everyone and all the weight was written at that time.
All saw the children of those that were had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity.
Offered burnt offerings under the God of Israel. 12 books for all Israel.
90 and six Rams. 70 and seven lambs. Well, he goes for the sin offering.
All this was a burnt offering unto the Lord, and they delivered the King's commissions unto the King's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river.
And they furthered the people and the House of God. But I believe the character of the book of Ezra is well known to most of us. But there may be some here who have not thought of what we have specially before us in this book. We know that God brought his people Israel up from the land of Egypt, and gave them the promised land, Canaan.
A land flowing with milk and honey. He blasts them, and yet the possession of the land was made conditional on their obedience.
If they walked in obedience, God promised that He would bless them in their land.
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If there was disobedience, he told them that he would roost them out of their land.
And we know that that's what happened. They failed to carry out that which God had made known to them. They were disobedient, self willed. So they were carried away captive. First the 10 tribes and then the two tribes carried away into captivity. Then we remember how the God and His faithfulness gathered back a little remnant back to Jerusalem, His center, the place where He had chosen to put.
Name there, And I believe that we have an analogy in that way with what has taken place in the church's history. That is, we go back to the day of Pentecost and we see there the church's birthday. We see how the God began that wonderful work gathering out of people for heavenly glory, and yet we know that the church is a Candlestick in the earth.
Failed to maintain her testimony.
We know how that she went in hand in hand with the world and how.
As we trace the history of the Church as a Candlestick in the earth, there was departure.
Until the Church grew as a system to be as something great in the earth, but having lost her true heavenly character, no longer displaying the fact that she was espoused to Christ, but settling down to the level of the world. But then how we can see to that perhaps 125 years ago God in his goodness granted the recovery.
And the truth that was spoken out in the meeting this morning was recovered.
The truth of the Church and its heavenly calling. The precious privilege of being gathered to the name.
Of the Lord Jesus Christ, separated from this world, not part of it, not part of its improvement, not part of its religious system, but separated, waiting for God's Son from heaven. Just as that little remnant in Israel gathered back to the land, were gathered there to wait for the coming of Christ the first time. That is when he would be presented to them as the Messiah to Israel.
So I believe that the exercises that these went through Indiana, the book of Ezra.
Are of great importance to us and also that they form a very definite analogy with what's taken place today and the lessons that we see in this have a message for our hearts, I am sure and one thinks especially dear young people of you.
Because, as I remarked, it was 125 years ago perhaps, that God granted this recovery, the older ones whom God specially used.
To value and to be the means in the recovery of this truth. They've passed on. The Lord has called them home, but He has left His church here. He has left us here a little longer still waiting for that blessed moment.
The Lord Jesus will come. And isn't it important then, dear young people?
That we should know the privilege that is ours as gathered to the Lord's name. That we should value this privilege and that what has been committed to us that we might keep it. It's so easy for us to let it slip. It's so easy for us to lose sight of our position and privilege and responsibility.
And in our efforts to make ourselves comfortable in the world.
To put in second place the important things of God, to allow the thought of a calling in life, an occupation, friends, and that sort of thing, to occupy such an important place that we lose sight of the real purpose that God has left us here for. And that's why I read in Proverbs Chapter 11.
It says a false weight is an abomination to the Lord.
And then how the apostle Paul could say, I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared?
Where the glory that shall reveal be revealed in US, We need to have a proper sense of values.
We know it in life if we don't consider things as to their proper and relative value.
Why? How can we expect to be able to make a proper living and get along with the means that we have? Life is made-up of knowing values and placing a proper value on things, and if we have that sense of values, it's a great assistance in getting along in life. But in spiritual things, there needs to be a proper sense of values too.
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Isn't it very easy for us to hear young people?
But place a great and high value upon the passing things of time, and the place of relatively small value upon those eternal things. Paul could say, I reckon, that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in all. Paul's life was one of suffering. It was one of being deprived of hardship, of giving up.
He said we have no certain dwelling place by his occupation. He was a tent maker.
And his life was one of hardship, but all he ever had before him.
The manifestation, the time when all that had been committed to him.
Was going to finally be weighed in in the chambers of the House of God.
And so he valued everything in relation to the eternal glory that was ahead of him. All dear young people, how important for us, how important that we should know how to value things. And as our brother brought before us yesterday, ambition is brought to before us in the school life to get along in this world, to make a success of life.
Someone was just mentioning to me the other day.
All that it was said the very the best time in life, the time when you were most retentive and able to remember things was the age of 20. And when the person remade that remark, I thought, oh, how many of our dear young people are letting that important age slide by and they haven't valued, they haven't filled their minds with those things that really are worthwhile.
I know how.
In school life today, you are just pressed and pressed, and I don't belittle the fact that the homework is almost so much that it takes up every minute of your time and that you're whole, your whole energy is passed into getting an education to get along. But young people don't really have to have perceived the fact that there is a power that's behind this.
Satan is the God and Prince of this world. He doesn't want to see a group of young people grow up who would value the precious truth of God. He doesn't want to see those growing up who would have a knowledge of the things of God and a desire to go on faithfully for him in these last days.
And if one might speak plainly, I believe that the eye of the enemy of our souls is always specially.
Upon that which is the purpose of God at any given time, and we find that.
When the Lord Jesus was born, the whole energy of Herod and of the people in in Jerusalem was directed against that one who was the center of God's counsels, the Lord Jesus Christ. After the church is gone, the devil's great rage.
Against the little remnant who will finally possess the earthly Kingdom. And what is Satan's great effort against today?
Those who seek to give expression to the truth of the Church and its heavenly calling.
And if the enemy can only succeed to get us like that woman whom the Lord Jesus healed.
It says.
This man rather, and it says he bowed himself down and put in all eyes left up himself. What was he looking at? He couldn't see anything but the earth. And it wasn't until the Lord Jesus came along that he could look up. And isn't it very easy to hear young people, for us to have the same spirit of infirmity, not to be able to see anything but earth, just looking down all the time?
As if everything that we lived for was down here. Well, there needs to be an energy of faith in these things. And the reason I read in that 15th verse, it says here that he gathered these people together and now that we're going to return back to Jerusalem. This was lovely back to God center.
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Valuing that place where the Lord had put his name there.
And the person whose name dwelt there, but as Ezra looked over the company.
He found that there was none of the sons of Levi. Why does it mention that?
Well, the sons of Levi were the ones who were given to Aaron to minister in the House of God, to bear the burdens. They were the ones whose service was particularly connected with their youth from the age of 30 to 50. They were the ones who were carrying the burden. And if you read in numbers, you'll see that Aaron appointed to everyone his service and his burden.
If I might speak plainly, I believe that the tendency today is to sort of shell the responsibility unto the older ones. And as we look around, we long to see the sons of Levi, the children of the Saints, who are willing to devote themselves energetically to the things of God and to seek in their youth to be a blessing among his people.
And wasn't it lovely to see this company going back? But what a heartbreak. When Ezra looked the mall over, there wasn't any Levites there. There were no Levites. And so he sent for them. And I didn't read the verses, but we would find that he, he found some men of understanding and quite a number were brought and they came and accompanied this group who were going back from Babylon back to God.
And would it be lovely to your young people if the result of your coming here would be that you too became exercised as to the importance of spending your youth, your youth, I say these formative years of your life.
In getting the knowledge of God's precious word and to seek to throw yourself devotedly into following this precious Savior all there were far, far more natural opportunities in Babylon. Why they could look at Daniel and say.
Daniel has risen to a high position and he's in Babylon. And there's the Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. They have high offices. There's far better opportunities down here in Babylon, but that city of Jerusalem is just lying in ruins. There's nothing for us up there. We're young. We've got to make a start down here. We'll perhaps go up when we get a little older. It's the older ones that are going up. When we get a bit older, then we'll go along.
Ah, but here we find that Ezra was concerned that these Levites might come along too.
Dear young people, I say again as I look into your faces, May God in his grace and in his goodness.
Stir you up with a desire while you're young to put the Lord Jesus first, to truly live for Him, To seek while your mind is retentive and while you can get a knowledge of these things, to read the precious ministry of the Word, to get out to the meetings. And don't allow the pressure of your education to hinder you from getting these precious.
Of God into your heart, and in your soul, and your mind filled with them.
So that you could have these things stored up, shall I say.
In your memory how often I have had people say to me all I just can't seem to remember when I read.
I enjoy things when I read them, but I can't remember them. But there was a time when they could. There was a time when they could remember them. There was a time when they were able to read things and remember them. But what was occupying their mind at that time? Well, May God grant that there may be a voice to us all. This meaning is especially for young people.
I don't speak in any way as not understanding the difficulties.
I know, as our brother mentioned in his prayer this morning, that you are faced with situations that many of us who are older were not faced with in the same way. The homework in my days wasn't as heavy as it is for you young people. I know that things are things are different, more education is required, but we have the same faithful God, Jesus Christ.
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The same yesterday and today.
And forever, and you know, it says in Ecclesiastes the wisest man that ever lived, he said.
Not to inquire why the former days were better than these.
Thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
That just means this, that you could say, well, if I had been living 25 years ago, it would have been all right.
But today I can't. But don't inquire about the former days. David served his own generation according to the will of God. And you and I have the privilege of serving our own generation according to the will of God. I'm not trying to bring you young people back 25 or 50 years. We can't turn back the clock of time, but we can serve our own generation.
According to the will of God. Well, I say again, it is beautiful to my soul.
To see that when Ezra saw there were none of the sons of Levi, that when he sent and called for them.
That they responded and they came and they accompanied.
This little remnant that went back amidst much privation and hardship.
Shall I say, giving up earthly hopes which they might have had in Babylon?
To identify themselves with a few people living in tents. Yes, they were living in tents.
And it is rather remarkable too, isn't it, that it says?
They remained in the tents 3 days, like our three days meeting here, isn't it? And the result of this, these three days was that a number of Levites came and joined the company going back up to Jerusalem. And isn't this lovely that we're here for three days and we have this wonderful privilege of dwelling in tents. We can leave our business.
And other things out of our minds for this little time together. We can sit in these chairs and we can go to our meals.
We can go home at night and we're living in tents, as it were. We're just away from the world and its activities to be occupied with the Lord Jesus. What a blessed privilege we have in these occasions. Now the 21St verse. Then I proclaim the fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God to seek of Him a right way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.
It was because the brother mentioned this verse in his prayer this morning. It came to my mind.
In praying, he mentioned this 21St verse.
About seeking a right way for us and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Notice what Ezra first did. I proclaim the fast there.
He didn't say now we're going to have a good time. This is a lovely journey we're going to take. It's very scenic country and I'm sure you'll enjoy this little trip as we go up to Jerusalem now that it's going to be a difficult one.
They're going to be enemies in the way. It's going to be hardships and when we get there, not going to be so easy either. It's going to be a path of faith. So he set before them this fact and it's fair. They proclaimed a fast there now in the Old Testament, no doubt, and also in the New Testament.
There was fasting and prayer.
The fasting, I believe means that they abstain from food, but I believe that there is an application that in fact things, it's the things that are proper and right in their place that are given up and devoting this to God. Food is something that we consider an imperative necessity to our existence, but.
If a person sought to be before the Lord, he might give up.
Those things in order that he might have the Lord's mind for his path. So they fasted and prayed.
Well, perhaps there are things. It may not be a good meal, but there are things that the flash desires and things not wrong in themselves. Food isn't wrong in itself, it's necessary for the human body, and education isn't wrong in itself. But dear young people, if there's anything that is hindering us from having the mind of the Lord for our past, it's better to set it aside.
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So they fasted. They fasted.
They set aside even what was necessary because they recognized that this journey.
Was not going to be an easy one and if they were going to.
Really go there and devoted this to God. Why? They must be humbling themselves before Him and looking up to Him for grace for every step so they thought of Him. We can go around and ask the advice of others.
I remember, I remember reading this little comment about the waste in Hebrews chapter 12 Says let us lay aside every weight and the sin which does so easily beset us. And someone gave this explanation of what a weight really is. That there were it was had three signs. First, we are uneasy about it.
2nd we argue for it.
Against conscience and thirdly, we go about asking people's advice.
If we may keep it without harm, well, I thought that was a very good definition of what a weight really is. We're uneasy and gently say, I don't see anything wrong in it. But conscience says not for the glory of God. For then we try and find somebody who will tell us it's all right. If we can only find somebody who patches on the back and says, oh, it's all right.
I wouldn't. I think it's all right, all how relieved we feel, but we haven't thought of the Lord.
A right way This little company didn't ask the king of Babylon.
They didn't ask one another. They thought of the Lord a right way.
For themselves and for their little ones, and for all their substance.
Are you and I seeking the right way for ourselves? I'll pause here to address myself to those who are perhaps a little bit older, those who may be parents. Are we seeking for ourselves our right way? Our example means far more than what we say others who see us.
Know where our hearts really are. They know what we're really living for.
Oh, May God grant that our lives will show where we have found what satisfies.
Like our brother John brought before us yesterday when Isaac was enjoying.
Precious things of God and others came to him, and if others see and I that we're enjoying the things of God, they may be attracted. So a right way for us and for our little one, our little one, we may say, oh, they're young. They have to learn all. They need the right way. They need the right way.
And I say for those of us who are parents.
The the problems of the day out with us. They are more than we can meet as parents.
No situations arise, every day difficulties. And I'm sure every godly parent has almost wrung his hands and said, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. God brings us to that point, dear fellow parents, that we might speak of him a right way and we might look up and say, Lord, I'm not sufficient for this situation, but Lord, show me the right way.
The right way for ourselves, for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Our brother mentioned this morning that it's a day of prosperity such as never, I suppose, known in this country before. There's plenty there's It's a day of wonderful prosperity. But isn't there a danger in this too? And as we receive more than our parents ever received and have more that we have to handle.
And to take care of. Isn't it very easy for us to introduce into our home those things?
That make our children earthly minded. Oh I feel the snare as apparent to.
How easy it is. So it's for ourselves and for our little ones and for all our substance. The way we spend our money, the way we use our cars, the way we use our homes. It's all to be as directed of him.
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Those little companies feeling the difficulties of the way they were much concerned before God.
And they thought a right way. And it says, for I was ashamed to require the king a band of soldiers and horsemen.
To help us against the enemy in the way, because we have spoken unto the King, saying, The hand of our God is upon all of them for good that seek him.
But his power and his rises against all them that forsake him.
Another danger that I feel that in this present day where there's so much.
So much of man's solution to the various problems, and there's all kinds of articles coming out of the press trying to give us wisdom about how to conduct ourselves, how to bring up our children, how to train our children. We don't even have to subscribe to them. They're thrown in the door free of charge.
All kinds of things just pour into our home, giving the world's advice about how we should meet the situation.
Of growing families in these difficult days and.
It says here that these people had thought of the Lord.
Oh, may I commend you, dear young people and parents. This precious book, as our dear brother Brown says, we never can be wiser than God. And this precious book, that book that God has given to us, gives us his wisdom for every step of the pathway. And we ought to be ashamed to have to go to the world.
For wisdom and guidance we ought to be ashamed.
It's an approach to us as Christians when we have to go to the world and say, what should I do?
And we have to talk over the fence to our next door neighbor and ask them how we should do with our children.
And we have to buy a book put out by the psychologists of the world telling us about these things.
And the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.
We're not bringing up our children to be part of Babylon Babylon's under judgment.
I am sure that Babylon at that time was the most beautiful city.
In fact, it is one of the wonders of the ancient world, that city of Babylon, with its beautiful hanging gardens and all those things so much so that never could measure full of his hands and said, is not this great babbling that I have built by the might of my power and for the glory of my Kingdom all the time a wonderful natural progress, and those children dwelling in badly saw that.
Much to attract them and now to take their children away.
And bring them in a path of hardship and say we're going to Jerusalem, or what Jerusalem, like while it's in ruins, the gates are burned with fire, there are no houses that are going to have to dwell there in tents for a time. Oh, you see, there were many things that wouldn't appeal to the natural desire of children and certainly wouldn't appeal to young people, certainly wouldn't appeal to parents in a certain sense either. But they didn't ask.
Of the soul of the king. A band of soldiers and horsemen. They besought the law. They besought the law and all. I say again, dear young people, this precious book, it'll never fail you. It'll never fail you. There's an answer in this book.
For every situation that you and I have to meet, whether it's our pathway as individuals in connection with daily life.
Our education or whether it's in connection with the assembly and the situations we beat. Oh, how wonderful, this precious book of God. And more than that, how needful that we bow often in prayer for we have those two things so often brought together, the reading of the Word and prayer, and we have them here thinking of the Lord.
A right way and then counting upon him.
So he had said to the King, I at the hand of our God is for good to them that seek him.
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All this brings in another point, and that is that before this time Ezra had spoken to the king about his faith in God. And may I say to you, for those of us, for those of us who are in contact with the world in a special way.
Let us be sure that we speak for the law, and you know the more we speak for the Lord.
The last tendency there will be to go to the world for wisdom. You know, if you don't talk about the Lord.
Well, in the world has got plenty of wisdom for you, but it's surprising. It really is surprising. I found that.
Even in dealing with neighbors, they'll give you some advice or something. And if you bring in the Lord, why they just seem to drop their advice to the ground. You just seem to drop to the ground. They know that you've got something better when you've got the word of God. And so if you and I would do like these did just speak about the Lord, tell about what we have in him. Somebody wants to put some great ambition before us. I remember when I was a younger man.
Some person wanted to set something before me of that nature.
And I said, well, you know, I've been saved and I want to live to please the Lord Jesus. And it may be that perhaps you'll want me to give up my work sometime and go and serve him. You know, I can just see that color yet. His mouth dropped open. He dropped his whole proposition and he he went away and left me. I didn't need much explanation anymore.
Because he saw that the things that he was presenting for me.
You'd have to have a plan for your life down here. And immediately he saw that I had a plan to live as though my life were up there. Why? He said, well, my plan wouldn't interest you. He made some remark like that. He said, I can see it wouldn't interest you very much. Well, dear young Christian, if you and I speak about the Lord and what He's done for us.
Our real purpose in life will soon find that we have a wisdom.
Far as superior to all that the world has to offer.
Well, now.
We find in the 24th verse I separated 12 of the chief of the priests, Sharabaya Heshabaya, and ten of their brethren with them.
And waved to them the silver and the gold and the vessels.
Well, you see that these men were given the responsibility of carrying these gold and silver and blazing vessels from Babylon up to Jerusalem. And when these vessels were given to them, they were written down by number and by weight. I think that's an important expression.
By number and by weight.
You know, a man might get a vessel of gold and will say that that vessel of gold weighed so many ounces.
But in the journey up, he decides that he is going to take off part of the goals for himself.
And so he shaves off part of the gold for himself. When he gets there, he presents the vessel looks the same, but it doesn't weigh the same. Doesn't weigh the same. What has he done? Well, he hasn't preserved the thing in its proper weight. And so when it's weighed in, it's short. Our brothers spoke this morning about the truth of the Lord's coming.
But this thought has come to me. What weight does it have with us?
I might say, yes, I believe that the Lord is coming. I believe that perhaps before this day is over.
The Lord Jesus is going to come and call his own home to be with Himself.
But what weight does this have in my life? What effect does it have upon me?
Am I planning my life as if I were going to be here for 25 years to come?
And yet at the same time saying that I believe the Lord might come at any moment.
Well, then, I have the truth of the Lord's coming, but I haven't got it in its proper weight. I've shaved off part of it, as it were. I have the truth, but not in His power.
Oh, how important are often think of a dear brother said to me, you and I was a young man.
Now someone had come to an older servant of God and said to him, He said, I wish that I had the knowledge of the truth that you do, or I wish I could get hold of the truth like you seem to have got hold of it. And this older brother looked at him and said, oh, he said, I wish the truth would get hold of me more.
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Oh, what a sweet answer. That's what we need, dear young people. It's not only to get hold of the truth. That's precious.
But all that the truth might get hold of us. It might still get hold of us.
The that which has been committed to us might not only be held in its form.
But that it might also have its proper weight, its proper power over us. And it seems to me that in these three articles, I shouldn't say three articles, but the three types of metal that are brought before us in these vessels, that perhaps we have three important things in connection with the truth of God.
The silver peaks of redemption, and the gold speaks of the divine righteous character of God Himself, and then the copper speaks to us of God's righteousness and judgment. And so we have these different metals brought before us in the vessels, and I believe that they would bring before us the thought of redemption.
Were redeemed people.
We belong to Christ, just like the leopard. When he was cleansed with the blood put upon him, He was no longer his own. He was a redeemed man. And there as he looked upon his right hand when he put it down to do anything, the right hand, the hand of power, when he put it down here he saw the blood on his thumb when he went to take a step forward.
He saw the blood on his great toe.
When he went to listen to anything, the blood was there upon his ear. Early Dean people, as Paul says, you're not your own, you're bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which are God, and then the divine. The gold would perhaps speak to us of all His concerns, the glory of Christ in connection with His person.
Because this is a day when the person in Christ is being attacked.
We find false doctrine coming in. I was very much surprised.
To hear of a certain group of Christians, prophecy gathered to the Lord's name.
I just heard last weekend how they had a brother in that meeting, professedly gathered to the Lord's name, who was teaching that the Lord Jesus Christ could send. What a strong thing had a solemn thing, yet professedly gathered to the Lord's name. All dear young people, how important it is that we guard the person and the work of Christ.
From all the attacks of the enemy, from all that the enemy would speak to bring against the truth of God.
And then?
These two vessels of copper.
Precious as gold seems to me to speak of the Lord's work upon Calvary's cross, that redemption worth that He accomplished when he was made thin for us all. How we need to ever guard the preciousness.
How that worked, the completeness of that work that has met all the claims of God against sin.
And has brought in such blessings as our brother remarked, even such a little thing. We find the man that says, oh, but I had to have the face to believe I taken away something. He had to have something in himself. How important. Oh.
God, the work of Christ alone is the ground of our eternal salvation. Police were the things that were weighed into the hands of these people. And it says in the 28th verse. And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the Lord. The vessels are holy also, and the strovers, and the gold or free will offering under the Lord God of your Father's, we are holy.
Of bathrooms are holy and the God says be holy.
For I am holy. We have been brought into such a position apart from this world calling us means the abhorrence of evil. And so he said, ye are holy, the vessels are holy. That is, we are holy and the truth committed to us. It's holy. The 29th verse. What she and keep them until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the chief of the fathers of Israel.
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In the chambers of the House of the Lord, yes, there's going to be a weighing in that will take place. There's going to be a manifestation, as Paul said in Romans, 8I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in US. And when Paul speaks of that day, that day, he doesn't refer to the moment when the Lord.
Jesus will come and take us home primarily, but it's the manifestation. The manifestation.
And your young people. He spoke often of that day. And it's an important thing.
For us to have before us that day, that day, whenever you're tempted to do anything, whenever there's anything any prospects in life brought before you, whenever there's anything that would appeal to you naturally as to success and progress in this world.
Let us pause and say that day, how is it going to appear?
When it is finally weighed in the scales of the sanctuary, my life, your life is going to someday be weighed in. God is going to someday manifest that which has been for Christ in your life and mine. And we may be misunderstood down here.
And in some instances, God may not even vindicate us.
In this world it has struck me that Uriah the Hipite is among the names names of David's mighty men. But God never vindicated Uriah in his lifetime. He died and he wasn't vindicated. But when David spoke of his mighty man, he leaves out the name of such a an important general of Job.
And tells the name of Uriah the Hittite.
And he seemed to die under such very sad circumstances. Oh, it's a grand thing to be able to commit the keeping of our souls to Him in well doing as under well faithful Creator, let us go on dear young people, let us speak to please the Lord. Let us on Him, and daily to have that review before us.
Perhaps this may seem like a little strange analogy.
But sometimes things come to your mind in a special way, and I have sometimes thought of the judgment seat of Christ as if I was sitting down. There was a there was a film passing in front of me and it was my life and the Lord was there and he was making comments about everything that happened. He was telling me what pleased him and what displeased him, as if I was sitting there and the life was passing before me.
He was saying, but he thought about the different things that passed by there. Well, perhaps it's a little view. I don't want to give any thought as that how that whether that's going to be what it is when we reach there. But I do know that your life in mind is going to passenger review and the precious failure with the marks in his hands and the marks in his face and in his sides.
Will lift his hand and say well done and place your reward.
Every little thing that's been done for him and everything that was not pleasing to him.
I believe He will tell us how grieved he was, but we will see that it's all gone in the death of Christ.
Not charged against us, everything displeasing to him. I believe he'll show us how it grieves his heart. And then he'll say, But my precious blood atone for all that. My precious blood atone for all that but all the joy.
That was common to His blessed face, as there is in that record those things that were for His glory and His prey, and will be His joy, as it tells us in Peter, that they might be found in the praise and honor and glory.
At the appearing of Jesus Christ. So it was here the time came that these vessels were to be weighed in. The whole record was brought out. So many vessels were committed to Hashibaya, so many vessels committed to Sharabiya, so many committed to the others. And now they present these vessels and they're weighed in. And the Chamber of the House of the Law and it says.
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In the 34th verse.
By number and by weight of everyone, all the weight was written at that time. It's all written there. How they'd handle these vessels, the difficulties of the way through which the Lord had delivered them, how he cared for them, and then how they finally reached Jerusalem and the manifestation notice they they got there and then they waited.
And I I like to think that when we get home to glory, the first scene that's brought before us is not the judgment seat of Christ.
The first scene that's got before us is the three days in Revelation 5. The first scene of the redeemed in glory is the singing.
Solidworthy, they cast their crowns of his faith. The judgment seat of Christ in its figurative sense doesn't come into the 19th chapter. It says his wife has made herself ready. That's relative to the judgment seat of Christ. And so here they got there and for three days.
That wasn't the mention of their of how they handled the vessels at all, just the rejoicing to be there rather than when we get home, what rejoicing will be to be there.
God rejoicing. That's why the Lord is coming, for His church is always connected with comfort and joy.
But if the judgment seat of Christ, which will take place after we get there, is a manifestation, a manifestation? And then what did they do when everything was manifested? All the offerings are so lovely here, aren't there? It says here.
35th Verse. Also All the children of those have been carried away, that were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel.
12 bullets for all Israel.
90 and six ram. 70 and seven goats for a Sinner. 70 and seven lambs. 12 He goats for a sin offering.
All this was a burnt offering under the law. Did they take any credit for anything they'd done? No. They just did what those four and 20 elders did. They cast their crowns. It will not take any glory to ourselves up there, brethren. Your young people will not take any glory. We'll thank him. And isn't it lovely here? This little remnant was just from the two tribes, you know.
When they got there, they offered 12 bullets for all Israel.
For all Israel. And we're just a little company gathered out to bear testimony to the church.
And its heavenly calling, waiting for God's Son from heaven. These vessels have been committed to us. And when we get to glory, all the redeemed will be there. They'll all be there. But all I don't believe dear young people that will ever know till we get home to glory.
How the Lord valued any obedience and devotedness in our lives until then.
I believe when we get there and see how precious it was to him.
To see those who acknowledged that they were the bride of Christ in his rejection.
I believe it will be our joy up there in His presence when it's all manifested. But the 12 bullets were for all Israel, and what a rejoicing company when we all get there and give Him His rightful place. Well, the result at the end of the chapter was they furthered the work in connection with the House of God.
And again, I say as I close, we've been here for our three days, or we will be if the Lord leaves us here and.
Then we're going to return home. May we return home realizing this precious responsibility and privilege. And when we get home, we'll further the work of God, we'll encourage our brethren, and we'll be blessed and made a blessing in the little assemblies that we come from.