Address—C. Lunden
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99 On Christ salvation we are secure. The Rock of Ages must endure, or cannot face the overthrow which rest upon the living stone.
We turn to the second book of Kings.
Second day is the 4th chapter.
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On the 1St 7 verses.
Now they're cried, a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets under Elijah saying.
Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and now know us as thy servant, and fear the Lord, and the creditors come to take unto him my two sons to be bondsman.
And Elijah said unto her, What shall I do for thee? Tell me what? Asked her in the house.
He said thine, handmade, if not anything in the house save a pot of oil.
Then, he said, go borrow the vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels. Borrow not a few.
And when I come in, I shall shut the door upon me and upon my sons, and shall pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
So she went from him, and shut the door upon her, and upon her son, who brought the vessels to her.
So she poured out.
And it came to pass when the vessels were full. And she said unto her son, bring me out a vessel. And he said under her there's not a vessel more, and the oil stays. Then she came and told the man of God, And he said, Go sell the oil, and pay thy debt. Live thou and thy children of the rest.
I'd like to turn to First Timothy, the third chapter.
Let's think a little of First Timothy first.
First Timothy 3.
On the 14th 1St.
These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly.
But if I carry long, thou mayst know how thou Artest to behave thyself in the House of God.
Which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
And without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit scene of angels preached under the Gentiles sleep down in the world.
Received up into glory.
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.
Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meat which God has created to be received with Thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it be received with Thanksgiving.
For it is sanctified by the word of God in prayer. If outputs the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ.
Nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, for unto thou hast detained.
The 16th verse.
Take thee unto thyself, and unto the doctrine.
Continue in them, For in doing this thou shalt both say thyself, and then let hear thee.
I suppose some would wonder why we would connect the passage way over in the Old Testament and 2nd King.
With such a package, is there in Timothy?
I suppose, though, that those who have been at these meetings can already recognize that they didn't before, that there is a similarity between the two lines.
Because in the book of the Kings we have that which has to do with responsibility.
And so we have in Timothy.
The Book of Timothy, you know, was not written to the church. It was written to an individual.
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But the instruction was that thou mayest know how they ought to behave thyself in the Church of God.
And so we have responsibility Now that is the responsibility, you know, the old nature that can't please God.
Because that old nature is to be reckoned, is gone entirely where new creatures in Christ Jesus.
And the believer now has new desires, new purpose, everything.
All things have become new.
And so now the responsibility that we speak of is that which, having the ability and the power, the Spirit dwelling in us all we need now is the direction which way to go.
The flesh profits nothing.
The God by his Spirit has given us power.
To walk in a world like this to the glory of God.
In taking up the ministry of Elijah.
And Elijah, which was first, we were saying that we have the key to that ministry in the 4th chapter of Luke, where the Lord himself upon his rejection, he tells them.
Of two characters of Ministry.
Now he doesn't just come out and say, well, now there's going to be a change and there's going to be two kinds of ministry. God doesn't do that way. He puts things in a form, like in pictures or parables, so that.
Now spiritual mind is the only one that can discern it. One is born again.
But besides that, what you have is you can't forget it.
You see, because you have an association with something else there. And so he he brings before us the ministry of Elijah and the ministry of Elijah.
Now how do these how are these ministries?
It has spoken out here to teach us anything for our souls, for the present. Well, simply that the ministry of Elijah was that which had to do with the Lord's ministry on earth before he went up, and it had to do with the preparation of the heart and conscience.
It's the ministry of repentance, and we noticed that there were seven pictures of repentance in the ministry of He liked it.
And so in that ministry we have the vessel. Man is seen as a vessel.
We read in our chapter tonight in Elijah. He's seen as a vessel which has to be emptied.
It has to be cleansed and it has to be fitted.
You know, we think of the work of Christ.
In the way that.
He came down to die for us, to put all our sins away and give us a new life. Which is correct. Marvelous truth. Think of it. Four sentences we were. But how seldom we think of that side of things in which now there's a work going on in our souls.
Bringing us up to it in appreciation more of it.
So that we will be able to enter into and appreciate the things of God.
And so there has to be first the cleansing of the vessel.
And then there has to be emptying and cleansing. Then there has to be the fitting of it.
For what's coming.
What's coming there? Why, it's going to be filled with the oil. That's what we have on our chastier tonight.
Fire. Now we don't have to read very far in the Bible to discover what the oil is.
It's the Spirit of God, of course, but in a particular sense.
We have the oil mentioned with the virgins, you know.
In the Gospel of Matthew, some had oil in their vessels with their lands, some had just their lands with no oil.
Well, what is the oil lamp? Well, the oil is the present ministry of the Spirit of God and our soul. That's the oil.
It's the whole present day that's characterized by the Spirit of God.
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The Lord should say when he went away. It is expedient for you that I go away, for when I go away the Comforter will come.
And in the 16th chapter of John, we learned that he will lead you into all these truths that should read.
Who is He speaking to His disciples that were following him?
Now in the 14th chapter of John.
Remember, John's ministry in the Gospel is individual. It's not the corporate thing like the church, but it's the individual Christian. It's bringing us up to that individually.
And so on the 14th chapter, we learned that when.
The Lord goes away. We find the Father is going to send the Spirit.
In the 15th chapter, when the Lord goes on high, he is going to send the Spirit, and in the 16th chapter the Spirit comes of his own.
What does that take them? Ah, that all the persons of the Godhead are interested in this thing. Each one or one mind that is this. So what? What is it that's in view?
Is it to have a people individually in the enjoyment of their blessings? Yes, indeed, there's that.
But you get the whole thing in Ephesians 1.
Now, some of you here are reading Galatians if you continue, maybe in Ephesians if you want to notice this. When you read Ephesians, in the very first chapter where you usually get the key, you'll find these three things.
1St is adoption.
Now that brings in the thought of children. We have the sons there too, but it's adoption now that's individual blessing and blessedness individually.
But you get something else.
You get after you believed you were sealed. Now that's corporate letting.
You get the three things in the. In the first chapter you get, I should have said, the inheritance. You get the adoption first, then you get the inheritance in whom you have received the inheritance, and then you get after you believe you received. Those are the three things.
The individual blessing comes first, the corporate blessing comes second, and the house character comes last.
Now what is the house character? It's the Spirit of God indwelling the believer now, as we find on the day of Pentecost.
The believer is entwelled by the Holy Spirit, but something else takes place.
There's a company formed and it's called The House of God.
He'll turn for a moment to the second chapter of Ephesians.
Just a verse which may help us believe this is a very important subject.
Where do I hold them, especially in days like this?
In the second chapter of season.
The 19 first Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the Saints and of the household of God.
And you're built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone.
In whom all the buildings that they framed together grows into a holy temple in the Lord. That's the ultimate thing. It's growing now. It isn't complete yet until the church is caught whole.
There's not a vessel. More we read tonight. That's it. Not about the Lord. And then the whole church is caught home to glory. But now notice the 22nd verse.
Whom ye also are builded together. That's right now.
Or a habitation of God through the Spirit.
That's the problem we are billed as it's together. One more for habitation of God. Now we have the Spirit mentioned here.
Well, that connects with our subject tonight then.
Habitation of God right here in this world now.
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But we'll notice a few things in Timothy before we go to the ministry of Elijah again.
We were saying the other evening that there is no use of reading the Old Testament and trying to understand it except in the light of the news.
Because the prophets who wrote it perhaps didn't understand it themselves, they searched their own scriptures.
See what they meant? The ones that God had used to write them.
But you see now the Spirit of God has come, and in that verse in the 16th of John, he's going to open to us all the truth.
That is, if we want to want to have it open to it.
It depends on how much we want, but I mean, he's there to open it all if we want.
All the truth.
But then there is something else. And there is a place where he's pleased to open it. Nowhere else. Be sure of that.
There's a place where he's pleased to open it to us.
Now, both the passages we read tonight give us this picture.
As to how it's done, what is the exact doctrine in Timothy and the other is a picture in the Old Testament?
But we'll notice the doctrine first and then I think we can understand the thing better.
In that third chapter of First Timothy, the apostle says these things right eye under the heel, hoping to come under these shortly. But if I carry laws.
Now what he does, if I carry long, he's Speaking of that 2000 years in which the Church has been here on earth.
Because the Apostle Paul is setting before us.
Not himself, but his ministry.
His minister. And so the Church has been on earth now almost 2000 years.
But now then, he's going to carry long. There's certain things that are necessary as to how we should behave ourselves.
In the House of God.
And so it says here.
The House of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Well, this is rather remarkable, isn't it?
What is the House of God?
Well, this scripture says it's the Church of God.
What else is it?
It's a filler and ground of the truth.
Is he Speaking of something that's going to take place in the distant future when we're caught home into heaven? I think not.
He's Speaking of that which is taking place right now and that which God has set up as a habitation, His habitation on the earth. Why?
Well, turn to the second of Ephesians. The third of Ephesians will see why.
The dead burst.
We read the ninth verse.
And to make all men see what is the administration of the ministry which from the beginning of the world has been hidden, God, who created all things by Jesus Christ to the end, stand up now under the Prince of families and powers in heavenly places might be known by the Church, the manifold wisdom of God.
Well, that's now then, not only to the men everywhere, but to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly.
And I believe it's Peter that tells us which things the angels desire to look into. And have you studied the Tabernacle of old? You would see on the mercy seat to cherubim, with their faces inward and downward as they spread their wings over that mercy seat. What are they looking at? What they're looking at? That precious blood that's on the mercy. Which things the angels desire to look into. What is it? What's the marvelous wisdom of God? What is that?
It takes 4 wretched sinners that are on their way to hell.
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And form them into one body first to be the testimony of God on the earth.
And then to be with Christ wherevers his companion, for all he can.
Now that's marvelous.
Well then, back to Timothy.
But if I very long that thou mayst know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the House of God we stand the line of truth that we have, and the king just responsibility. And so it isn't Timothy.
Do you think God wrote this just so we can take and read it lightly? No, my friend. This is going to be a record at the judgment seat of Christ as your behavior in life. How we treated the scripture like this.
To say there's just ordering Christendom. Why?
Because the scripture has been violated.
Men have no regard for that which God set up. He sets up his own things. He has no regard for the Spirit of God. He sets himself up to take the place of the Spirit of God.
God gives us order His old order. Adult is the Church of God.
The Church of the Living God. Contrast idols.
Contrast everything that man has set up. It's the living God. Not men and their dead works, but it's the living God. And now this Church of the living God is found to be the pillar.
And the ground of the truth.
Now is this is this Church of the living God composed of those who are on the earth here, and then some of diving God to heaven? He doesn't speak of it that way here.
It's being of an actual thing on the earth that represents God down here in this world.
And it represents this represents God as the pillar and the ground of the truth.
Would that be the case? But then unless the place represents God in truth.
You can't be the Church of God.
Get it or it can't be the house and stuff in that sense.
Because what characterized the House of God and the Church of God is that it's the pillar and ground of the truth.
Now these things are solemn because if God in olden days set up Jerusalem as a center where the truth was given out.
Well then all the nations of the earth who wanted the truth would have to come Jerusalem together.
Now this is God's doing, you know.
It's remarkable we don't have much here about.
The the things that we have in Ephesians, one that we're Speaking of.
That is the side of truth were were accepted in the beloved in that line of things. We don't have that here, because what he's bringing before us here is that side of responsibility, you see, not the other side. The other side is true. But that isn't the subject here. It's a question of how you and I are going to behave in the face of all the truth that God has given us in this day.
Are we going to recognize the truth center that God himself has set up?
Where the truth is known, and only where the truth is known in this entirety.
Now we have in connection with that the truth itself.
Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. It's a mystery to everyone except those who have been brought into the good of it.
God is manifest in the flesh.
That was in the first one that he's done.
You hold that through.
Is that the center of the truth? If I would, you stand God was manifest in the flesh and the person is Jesus.
Justified in the spirit.
There was only one man that ever walked through this world.
That could say, if I had not done among you the works that none other man did, she did not have sin.
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Justify the spirit.
How the manifestation of the Spirit in his works down there.
He was the only one who can say which of you convinces me instead, That was the Lord Jesus Christ.
No other could say that.
Justified in the spirit.
Behold that truth.
Do you? Do you hold that truth? He's the only one. He's the only one. My friend. If you if you rest your soul on any other, you'll be disappointed because of that sacrifice that's put away all your sins was not made by the Son of God himself, the Holy One. You have no savior.
Sea of Angels. Oh, think of it.
In the second chapter of Luke, we find the whole heavenly host coming down, worshipping their creator. Saw him for the first time. It's a little babe in a Manger.
First time that they ever saw their creator.
And this one, who was known in relationship to Israel is the Jehovah bold. And now he's made himself known to the Gentiles.
In the fulfillment of God's promises to Abraham.
See, this takes in the whole scope of truth. It doesn't give us the details of it, but it gives us the scope of it.
Received the lay down in the world. Oh, thank God. Don't have to leave Donnie And my dear friend tonight. Are you trusting in the precious blood of Christ? Can you say He's my savior? Can you believe down in the world Because all those who believed on him in this world.
It's all away now.
He's coming. He's going to take us home to the father's house. Will be his companion forever, those who believed on him in the world.
Received up in the glory.
God and he speaks it God's right hand.
You know, some people today have a dead savior. They don't know any Christ any further than that. He went into the grave for them. That's all I know.
You're surrounded by them and my friend, he's gone on high and he's coming back again.
He's coming to take his own home and then he's coming back to judge this world.
Now, what we read in the 4th chapter is a warning to us that unless you and I find ourselves at the plate of God's appointment holding these truths, we're going to find ourselves probably in difficulties.
The connection of what set before us in the next chapter.
You and I are either under the control of the Spirit of God over life, or to get under the control of another spirit.
As we have in the next chapter.
The dooping spirit, and this is a warning aggressive them because my friend, the way Christian demands is that it's been fellow with delusion. After the true church is taken out, the great apostrophe is coming on.
And will envelope Christendom all those who refuse to take their place, but the truth of God, and the truth held in the place where Christ's name is death.
Now on the 16th verse again we say this is individual.
As to his expectation here.
Is that take heed unto thyself.
And under the doctrine teaching.
Just what we've had in the 16th verse.
You take aid onto it. Why should we take heed? He wouldn't tell him to take heed if there wasn't a danger.
And they're coming, wrapping on your doors every day. And if you don't take heed, if you don't go on in the truth that you know, vow to it and act upon it, you'll find yourself in trouble.
Take heed unto thyself. He's talking to Timothy of beloved servants. He's warning him, continuing them. Or in doing this I shall both say thyself. Does he mean he'll save himself from hell? No, he's not talking about that. He's talking about the testimony of God on the earth.
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He invited himself outside of us, under delusion. If he's a real believer, he won't lose his soul because my sheep shall never bury, but he'll lose his sight like Samson did.
Below the spiritual sight, and probably his reward, which he might have had if he walked in the path of faith.
Don't take heed to the doctor.
During that basketball save thyself and them that hear them, because there's somebody watching you all the time. And whether you're preaching the gospel or whether you're simply walking in the path of faith, there are eyes upon you and you're guiding someone either a right or you're guarding them in the wrong path.
Well then there is a standard.
That God is set up, and in that center there is the truth that he is placed there.
I know men say well to talk that way. That's pride. Is this pride? If it's in God's word and he tells us whose pride is it?
The point is, are you and I'm going to find ourselves on the place where God himself has set? The truth is that the House of God is the Church of the living God.
The pillar in the face of the truth.
Now are we going to find our place there?
For God himself has said it.
Might save herself from these seducing spirits, my friend.
It will eventually envelope the whole thing. What about the 11 and the three measures of meals?
And what about the?
What we had the other evening what was shred into the pot.
The food that was prepared for the people of God. Someone shred the wild doors in and they cry out.
There's death in the past.
Oh yeah, And now, as we were noticing in real life's ministry, we bind first the repentance of Elijah, and he determines he's going to follow Elijah with all his heart. He follows him down through Jordans, and he sees him going to heaven. He comes back over Jordan in the power of the Holy Spirit and the spirit of his master, and he goes back in this reverse order, following those four different places where his master has been.
Until he comes to Gilda.
We've seen the path of the individual believers, the purpose of heart, following Christ. At the same time, we saw the picture of that extended over the whole period of these 2000 years. We saw the picture of Jordan, Jericho, Bethel and Gilgal. But now the Spirit of God is bringing us right down close to see a picture of the assembly. The truth is.
And so I'm turning back then to the ministry of Elijah in the 4th chapter.
Perhaps we can have a picture of just what we've been speaking.
Second Kings 4.
Now, those of you who may have another translation, I want to call your attention to the fact that.
In the first verse, it should be children. I don't know why the translators reversed it.
Should be children and in the seventh verse it should be done.
I don't know why, but that's the way it is in this translation. It is not that way another.
The first thought we have here is children.
Children.
Adoption, isn't it?
If the first thing we know and the things of God, the children of God by faith in Christ.
It's the Barney we were Speaking of the other day. It's the first perceptions in the soul of dividing things. The little 1 cries out ABBA father. Oh, how precious. And you know, my friend, everyone that can cry have a father is one of the children of God.
While I was right at the Lord's table too.
Who cry of the Father.
No, it isn't a question of intelligence. It's a question of nature.
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Because new creation isn't a question of time or place, but kind. But kind are you? What nature do you have? Are you in the place? Are you in Christ? Are you an atom? Or are you one of the children of God? Can you cry on the Father? You can if you have the Spirit indwelling.
That's the first thing.
We said that Elijah was a picture.
After Elijah borne in the picture to us.
A price was on high, sending a spirit down and working through his servants down here. That's the picture we have in the ministry of Elijah Christ having now gone on high, He sent down his spirit.
And works through his servants down here.
So we see like Elijah brought into this picture.
Now you notice carefully that this woman is not a widow. It doesn't say she's a widow, but she she has lost her husband.
Well, you say, Well, if she's lost her husband, she's away, isn't she? But it doesn't say so.
Now here's all seen as a widow, but the church is never seen as a widow, seen as a merchant.
And in the 25th chapter of Matthew you'll find that.
It's the virgins who have the oil.
It's a picture of the present day for those who carry the oil and their vessels.
But here is just a woman and son in scripture is whole.
Christ was the home of Israel, the Son they were looking for.
So we have in this first verse and children.
But.
If this woman comes to cry to Elijah.
Why? She says I serve it, My husband is dead.
And I know it's a tight serve, and despair The Lord and the creditors come to take unto him my two sons or children to be bottomed.
Well the second verse, Elijah said unto her, What shall I do for thee? Tell me, what hath thou in the house?
She said thine hand may not anything in the house save a pot of oil.
There are the case where.
This woman cries to the prophet of God.
And in these first two verses, she sets before us her knee.
And we see also the resources for that need, although she doesn't herself recognize them.
When you and I are first born again, little did we realize either Our Calling or the resources that God is placed here to bring us all the way through.
But you know Price died once and you'll never die again.
And when he died, the whole work was completed.
There will be no more work done. Except, of course, he's coming to take the food, raise our bodies.
To be like his own body and glory. But as to the work itself, it's all done on the cross.
There doesn't need to be any more work done because he said it was finished, It's all finished.
And the Apostle fall in the first chapter of Ephesians, if you'll notice it carefully. He's not praying for anything, but he just prayed to have their eyes open. But they might understand and see what would happen when Christ rose from the back.
He doesn't pray that they might have power. He prays that their eyes may be open.
In other words, you and I have to have faith, simple childlike faith, to lay hold of the things of God. Now here's the poor woman. She has no resources, she thinks, and yet in her house are all resources she needs in these 7 verses proven.
What are they? The pot of oil?
Now you notice that he asked her a question and he doesn't let her answer it.
What shall I do for these? Tell me, what has thou in the house because he's speaking to her conscience? You and I never get any truth except through the conscience. And we never get any new truth until God comes in and awakens us and gives us that truth.
Neither will we get anymore truth until we acted on the truth he's already given us and open our eyes to see.
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And my dear friend, if you're going on year after year, not going in any way, and the things of God, remember there's something there that's wrong.
You're either not acting on the truth that you know, or you're allowing sin in your life. One of the two.
If you and I act on the truth that God has given us, you'll give us more to over the solemn thing it is to pray for life.
So God has given us all, right?
And if you and I walk in the light we have, we'll just get some more because it's all there. You won't get the next step until you take this one.
So now this woman is seen as a picture of the assembly here on earth. God's people. Just what we had in Timothy, only in a far different way.
Which I believe will give us the seed a picture.
That if we want to see it, we'll be absolutely clear as to the truth what God means First Timothy, the House of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and the face of the truth.
She said that I had made us not anything in the house.
Save a pot of oil. Little does he know that that pot of oil is not only going to.
Deliver her son.
From the creditor.
For hope everything. But she and her house are going to live on that oil. Little does she know that.
So that's what's going to take place.
You know, when I read this verse, what happened on the House?
It comes over to my own conscience. What do I have in the house? Oh brethren, what are we allowing our houses? What do we allow in our houses? Do we have just what this widow has in and nothing more? Because the oil speaks of the Spirit of God, the present testimony of that Spirit.
And as the King speaks the responsibilities it teaches us of our responsibility in connection with that truth. You know, the Lord told his people of old that when he walked through their camp, he didn't want to see anything that he filed if there was anything dead, and they walked through the camp and saw they were to bury it.
Because when he walked through their camp, he didn't want to see anything that he filed.
Oh my friend, what do we have in our house? What do we allow in our house? Is it hindering our spiritual growth? This widow had a pot of oil, that's all.
Is Christ enough for us, ministered by the Spirit, or do we have to have all the things of that this world would offer to entangle our souls until we lose our spiritual sight entirely? Isn't it so?
Then he said, now we have the instructions, the 1St 2 verses are the need.
And the remedy? The next two are the instructions. Then he said to bar the vessels abroad of all our neighbors, even empty vessels. Borrowing out a few now you see the connection with Elijah's ministry. In Elijah's ministry, the answer the vessel is emptied and planned and prepared. And he likes his ministry.
The ventil is ready now to fill with the oil. It's an empty vessel.
And you know, brother, when souls are received in among the Saints as vessels, and then I received this empty vessel.
There's a lot of difficulty sometimes.
The priest that is in those days should be able to discern whether the vessel was empty or not.
If it isn't empty, it isn't ready to be filled with the oil.
The oil is the spirit of God that's ministered in the bosom of the assembly.
The present ministry of the Spirit of God.
Now the gold bar of the Vessels of All My Neighbors is really the gospel going out bringing in the vessel.
But going out from the midst of the assembly, outside the assembly that God set up on the earth.
Burn out of fields whosoever will make up, but when they're brought in, they should be empty.
It should be empty.
How can you fill a vessel with two things at once?
Can you fill it with the world in Christ too?
When I come in now we have another truth, separation. We have an inside and we have an outside and in the true Church of God as to representing Christ on the earth.
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There is a within and there is a without.
Now within another.
When I come in now, just shut the door upon me and upon my son. Now you notice that, sons.
Because it's the dignity of the new position and.
Those that are empty vessels to be filled with the spirit of God. It's a lovely picture, Anthony. Vessel inside of the closed door now ready to be filled with the oil.
Shut the door by me.
All I have done is you shall pour out into all those vessels.
And thou shall set aside that with his flow.
Well, our time is slipping away, but.
Just there there shall be deserved in the assembly to know when a vessel is closed.
All this should be discernment.
And when God raises up one to go out to gather other vessels, then there should be discernment. Could be a help to such a one. You know the natural heart, how we like to pick one another to pieces. I might as well be friends. It is natural to us, isn't it? And we allow the flesh to act instead of the Spirit. And we are looking for lots of growth sometimes. And we should look for a heart for Christ and these things.
And so we should encourage that when we see that the vessel is full.
And we should encourage that service of going out to gather another vessel.
If the vessel has been first empty.
Well, these are many lessons we have here. We must carry on.
So she went from him. Now she's obeying the instructions.
The first two verses are the need and the remedy. The next two are the instructions and now the obedience of faith. It takes them up. And so we learn new truth.
God double repeat himself.
So he went from him, and he shut the door upon her, That space. Are you inside of the closed door, or you say, well, I can just meet with any of the people of God and it's all right?
No, it isn't. All right, you know why? Because maybe they're not holding the truth without controversy. Great is the mystery of God in this.
Thought is manifest in the flesh and so on.
It's where that truth is held, the pillar in the base of the truth. If you're not there, why you're not behind the the closed door? You can't expect the vessel to be filled with the last.
God tells us that where he is, the place must be holy and if there's allowance of doctrinal.
Or moral evil.
Is not holy, is not clean.
And so there's the, she shot through the door.
Upon her.
Those, and only those, who are in the enjoyment of the new position.
At this position, brain.
That these truths bring to us that we have in First Timothy 3.
She went from him, and shut the door upon her, and upon her son, who brought the vessels to her now who brought the vessel to her.
And I started to remember both of them and the assembly went out and they brought the vessels back into the assembly.
The ministry of the gospel is always in view of the center that God set up. Why? Because if she don't have a home, they'll just get scattered again.
And their case will be worse than the 1St.
Because it's there. They're established in the truth. It can't be established unless they're inside both the closed doors, separation from evil, doctrinal and moral evil, with one pure object before them, ministered by the Spirit. That's Christ.
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And she poured out.
And she bored out.
These guns go out, and they gather the vessels in empty vessels, many as they can, and in the bosom of the assembly. The Spirit of God is freedom, ministers, the things of Christ that makes them grow.
And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son.
Now we have individual, not the collective testimony 2 and 3 going out. It's still the dignity of that new position. It's done, but it's individual, It's responsibility.
Bring me out a vessel.
Royal National There's not a vessel more.
Not about the Lord. And the oil stayed. Now does it say the oil stayed and then there were no more vessels brought in? No, it didn't say that. No God waits until the last one is brought in, Then the oil state. You get the rest of the picture.
Both in the 25th of Matthew and in the second chapter of Second Thessalonians.
In two Thessalonians, the Spirit of God is taken away from the earth at the same time that the assemblies taken away.
Because, my friend, remember when the Spirit of God comes out and dwell, you'll never leave you forever.
Never leave you forever. The Scripture teaches us that.
Forever.
Oh, what a blessed truth. And we're going to be taken home at the same time as the Spirit leaves.
So the next verse is the judgment seat of Christ.
No, I don't want you to misunderstand me tonight. As we said before, we're just drawing a picture here. There's a moral line of truth that runs all the way through it. Elijah's ministry and Elijah and no doubt a prophetical line as well. And I'm not trying tonight to bring out either one of those lines.
All we're trying to do is as we read the New Testament, we're trying to just go back and pick up a little picture. You see, we can't even call her the site. It's just a little picture that gives an outline. How many times when one speaks, one may draw a picture from the world, even some happening that happened. But how much better when we draw out a picture that God himself placed in his words years before.
Hundreds of years ago.
Just to give us a little glimpse, A clearer glimpse of the truth of God that we have in the New Testament.
And so now we have then just a picture here.
Then she came and told the man of God.
It's a little picture of what's going to take place.
After the oil space.
Now what is discovered in his presence after that's all over?
And he said go sell the oil to pay thy debt. Now buying and selling in scripture does not necessarily refer to the fact of your making a purchase.
It's the evaluating of it, the discovery of what it's worth.
At that time of buying or selling, you discover what it's worth, don't you?
Now what they are worth. You know what the oil is worth. Do you know what it's worth to have the spirit of God come down from heaven to indwell each believer and the assembly on earth? What is it worth?
What's the value of it today? The world says nothing. In fact, Christendom says nothing. They put a man in place of the spirit.
They set the spirit of the size not only grieving, but quenching the spirit of God.
And so the Church will know on that day the value of the coming of the Spirit of God.
Hey, like that.
All the present testimony of the Spirit of God. In it we find that the the death of the believers, all faith, the word of Christ, is covering everything.
And now what else? Live thou like children of the wrath?
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Thy sons should read in this verse.
That's everlasting life in connection with that new position that we have in Christ, once beggars of the dumbbell, now to inherit the throne of glory, to be associated with Christ forever.
In his own home, the eternal Son, we're accepted in the beloved one, that's the ministry of the Spirit of God. For today we're children by adoption, in whom you have received an inheritance and a part of the household of God.
Oh, what truth the spirit of God has brought us in these laughter days. Revive force again. Do we value them? We'll know them only in the measure in which we walk, in the good of them as we hear them. And we'll learn them only where God is pleased to place His testimony.
And the Spirit in the midst to teach the things of Christ to us. And that's the place where he's chosen to set the name of Christ.
In the midst of the House of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar, and the base of the truth.
Now it's up to you and me to discover what that is.
Because there's only one body, and there's only the representation of that one body.
God has not set up anything else.
The public representation for God has made a place where he should dwell right now, here in this world, in the midst of his people.
It's the place behind the closed doors, separated from evil, where the truth of God are made known by the Spirit, and all we need there is what the Spirit himself brings.
Do we value when the spirit is brought, or do we push to the side so we introduce men's traditions and the thoughts of man? Or are we just subject as we have here?
Subjection to what God himself by the Spirit would bring to us in peace are the precious things of Christ.
Until you have a known virgin, so also add oil their vessels of their land.
And they stood beside the path, waiting for the bridegroom. They with all of them went to sleep. All of them went to sleep. But there was a midnight cry made. And those who had oil and their vessels with their last one into the merits, but those who had no oil, they went to buy when it was too late. And they were the ones who stood outside the door, And they knocked Lord open to us.
But it was too late. I know you're not far from me. Workers of beneficiary.
Oh, what a marvelous thing to know something of the present testimony of the Spirit of God in the place where the Spirit of God is to open up the truth of God through our hearts for God himself, except the name of Jesus.
It's up for up to you and me to discover where that place is.
The bout of the truth of God, or to be in danger of all the seductions and delusions of the enemy.
Little by little he wears away those who want and taken their place for the truth. And then he scattered them far, far away, until they're lost and delusion. The end of this age will be one of Duluth. Shall we sing #72 in the back of the book?
The path of knowledge, that dear love of dying, My Jesus, Savior, you have to soul. The mind would have thy love and all its breadth and length and height and depth and everlasting strength no more and more.
My.
Friend.
Everything hard.
Of mine, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Brave.
When?