Address—N. Berry
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General Meetings, Toledo, November 1978, addressed by Norman Berry.
I just have one word that I would like to speak out this afternoon and it is a nine letter word.
And that is the word encourage, encourage.
You is the central word letter of that nine letter word encourage all beloved young people. We are living in a dark, dark day, and as we just survey the horizon, we see that it is becoming more and more.
And I distrust now this afternoon.
That it may be a message from the Lord, a message to encourage you to go on.
And as I meet the dear young people are so dear in my heart I see some sat there saying.
Allowing the world to creep into their thoughts, their ambitions, their aspirations.
Some of us have tried what the world has to offer and as I so often say, we end up with nothing but a handful of ashes.
And there may be some here this afternoon that are undecided. Many, I suppose, undecided as to the path to fall. On the one hand, hearing in the meetings and at home much of the Lord on the other side, in school and college and at work, anything but Satan in all his work, subtlety, violence and corruption, those winds are blowing stronger and stronger.
Well, I trust that this may be awarded for you today that will cause you from the Lord itself wrong. For the Lord. You know there may be some, and I believe there are.
We desire to go on below.
Who have sought the Lord?
I was watching a young person. I think she's about 9 or 10 years of age. I've noticed something about that girl. Why?
Starting into the meeting the other day, I watched.
She sat down.
Was 10 to the hour what she do? She opened up her bridal right away. She started to read the.
Those are the ones that I trust will be encouraged today. Are you? Is there someone here this afternoon, this morning, this afternoon that desires now to have the Lord before you to go on to be strengthened by His blessed word? Oh, may this word encourage now to be yours this afternoon, Director from local Now there are, as I said, 9.
Letters in that word.
And I would just like to take up those nine threads, as it were, and the trace through the scriptures. Just a few of this, the places where this word appears in the Old Testament and the. So let's turn now to Deuteronomy 3 first of all.
Deuteronomy 3.
Verse 28.
Now we don't have time to spend on each one of these verses, but I'd just like to give it a word pipeline.
Moses is just.
A young man has been wood for a long time. My name is Joshua.
And it's interesting, just in passing, to notice how often young and old, or I should say older brothers and younger ones are grouped together. We find Moses and Joshua.
We find David and his son Selam encouraging his son Salam.
And we find in the New Testament, we find Paul encouraging a young man, Timothy. It's nice to see these couples group together, all dear young people.
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And after they're looking at the older ones. But if you know some of those who are the older ones, who are desiring to go on faithfully in their walk, you cultivate their friendship. You'll you'll learn, you'll be blessed through your close contact, as it were, with those older ones, you'll be the last.
Here was Moses about, as I said, just at the end of his life.
He asked the Lord, Can I go into that land? The Lord says no, I don't ask me again.
I wasn't going to hear his prayer well. This would be enough to discourage Moses. This would be enough to say, well, if I'm not going to go in, I'm not going to be concerned about anybody else but oh, eleven dear young people.
Moses was told by the Lord to encourage this young child Joshua. Now let's read this verse 1328 verse.
In spite of the fact that Moses was told not that he wasn't going to the land, This is why I believe this word. But is there? 28 That's John Deuteronomy. 328 But charge, Joshua.
And encourage is our word him, and strengthen him, For he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which.
Thou shalt see. Well, there are three things there. One was to charge Joshua he was going to speak directly to. Second thing is that he was to encourage our dear young people. This is what I want to do by God's grace this afternoon to encourage you to go on. You may be like this man. It may be that the Lord has a work for you to do, you dear young men that are here this afternoon.
See some of them. I just had a letter the other day from one of the young men. Or he may be a Joshua. You know, it's a It was a dark day. Joshua was taking over. And it may be if the Lord doesn't come in the immediate future, you may be called on to stand in difficult days. You may be a Joshua. Oh, I would encourage you, as the Lord here instructed Moses, and encourage him to go on. He was going to be the one that was going to leave Israel into that land.
All they love at once wasn't it? Feel wonderful experience for us if we're alive when the blessed Lord Jesus comes. And then maybe he may come this very afternoon and to be faithful right to the end. Well, here was Joshua getting this word up. Encouragement for Moses. He was one that was going to be. He knew it. We may not know it, but he moved in. Joshua knew that he was going to.
Leave these people off.
Well, it's a nice position to be in, isn't it? And we're going to be seeing different situations and circumstances, some not nearly as lovely as this, but it may be that this is your portion. It may be that the Lord has.
Giving you certain abilities to be able to be used by him. Oh dear young people, if the Lord has equipped you that way or be faithful to him, don't waste those early years of your life.
Go on, for the Lord You may be a Joshua, and in that case the Lord will encourage you. And the Lord gave death instructions here to Moses and courage in.
Now then, let's go on into First Samuel.
Chapter 13.
Now the precious word of God is so full it doesn't always have nice circumstances.
It sees through the wisdom of God every circumstance. And here may be your situation now for the of which we're going to read in the 30th chapter, now of First Samuel.
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Here's David.
David also had a calling. He knew what his destiny was going to be to be the king of Israel.
But here was a testing time now.
He had had a friend and his name was.
The one that was.
With Saul's son John.
Jonathan had been pledging his faithfulness and his love to David, but here we're going to see a very difficult situation now and there's no gentleman around it.
And their young people that may be that. This would describe a condition in which you find yourself. Difficulties, difficulties, difficulties in your life, difficulties in your in the assembly. There may be those things that would be really tested. You look around and you see behavior.
Disputes. Difference of opinion. Enough to discourage you? Oh dear young people. Here is the message for you, David. David finds himself in such a condition. No gentleman around. Now let's read First Samuel, Chapter 3.
Verse 3 So David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters were taken captives. Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep. That was a dark day, wasn't it? And David's two wives were taken captives, you know, the Jesuits, and Abigail the wife of Nabal, the Carmelite.
And David was greatly distressed. Or the people stayed up stoning you because the soul of all the people was aggrieved or embittered. Mr. Garvey's translation quiz every man for his sons and for his daughters.
But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God I was not a remarkable country.
To Joshua's mouth, everything was just looking right there. And here's a dark day now. Everything is gone. Now he's lost his family.
Are taken captives.
Not only so, but the people that were around him, they're so distressed that they are just waiting. So until there's no more strength to lead, that'll be enough to shape his confidence with him.
And then the people turn against him and start that stone. They want this stone, it almost totally invented against David. What's he going to do? Is there somebody to look around to see if there's anybody to encourage him? No, there's nobody. There's no one.
Oh dear young people, as I said, it may be your lot. You may be called upon to stand alone. And I believe, as the days get darker, that this is going to be the experience of the Lord's people. I believe that we're going to be called to stand more and more alone. You may be amongst young people in your little assembly. Some of them may not want to be people not desire to go on for the Lord.
They may stop at you.
They may try to discourage you, to turn you away, to try to occupy you in the world, whatever it may be There is, David.
And it may be you. And what does it say but.
Whoa, glorious bottles there. David encouraged himself in the Lord. Nobody else. That turned what is a beautiful expression. This is David and courage himself in the world. Is the Lord ever going to let you down? Never. The difficulties may be around. They may be just as bad as this. The Lord knows all about them. The Lord has recorded all these circumstances to encourage you this afternoon.
Oh dear young people.
Those of you who desire to go on now, though, that day may become dark and perilous.
The Lord is there. The Lord turned. The Lord seek him. Well, David didn't know what to do. Let's just read a verse or two to get the connection.
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Verse 7 And David said to Avaya Far the priest of the molecular son, I pray thee bring me, hit her the ephod.
And the bio star brought thither the ephod to David. And David inquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this truth? Shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue, for thou shalt hurt him, surely, overtake him, and without fail recover all. Or isn't this a nice little word? What does he do now?
Is he just encourage himself in the Lord and say, well, I don't know what to do now he turns to the Lord for God.
He speaks to the Lord. All you have this door open, Beloved, young people turn to the Lord. Seek him His guidance, he'll hear you. You can pray with a good conscience. First, John 321. The love of our heart condemn us. Not then that we confidence our God, and whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things which are pleasing in His sight. Or it's a great thing to have the good conscience in prayer, But then to have that blessed confidence, to know that the Lord will hear you, It says there that the Lord heard Him.
Oh dear young people, the Lord loves you. He wants to encourage you. This is a whispering word. Now to you. And here was that word from the Lord directly to David. In spite of all those difficulties, I shall recover. All. Let's turn over the page. And yes, the end of the 19th verse. Just about. Just read 3 words.
David recovered all.
God said that he would recover it all. He didn't recover it all. Don't lose your confidence in the Lord though. The days are getting so dark. The Lord will sustain you and he would encourage you to go on. So there we have to extremes. We have a man that has is surrounded by them with the confidence that everything is going to go on. Well there is David and the other extreme so it discouraged and distressed. He doesn't know what to do. The Lord know all of them and the Lord sustained. Now let's go on into a second Chronicles chapter.
31 I think it is.
Verse 4. Second Chronicles 13 One Verse 4. Here's our third little threat now that can be woven into this step.
Third one, here is a dark day now another dark day. 10 tribes had gone off into in rebellion under Jeroboam and had gone down and down and down to tribes remained faithful to the Lord Judith and Benjamin. The days came when those 10 tribes were taken off into captivity by Assyrians never found since around the year 600 BC or so. And here was this little group 2 tribes elected and Benjamin.
And it had got darker and darker, and they were about to be swept away too. But here's a man, Hezekiah, whom the Lord raised up now, and here is what it says about him.
This is second. Chronicles 31 and verse two were just read a few parts there, and Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses. Every man according to his service, the priestly writes for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister and to give thanks and to praise in the gates of the tents of the Lord. So now don't forget that this was a very dark day.
But Hezekiah wanted to return and to carry it now this Passover, according to God's Word, now then our fourth horse.
Moral He commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites that they might be encouraged in the law of the Lord.
That's not there's a little word and courage. You know what wasn't? Who was it for? The priest or the priest? They were the ones that had access into God's house, all of their young people. If you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ, you're one of God's presence. Now you have access into God's worry presence. As a priest, everyone of us young are old. We as according to first theater.
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Two and five. There it is. We are a a, a people, and we are priests now with access into God's presence.
Well, here was a little word now for those priests, and this is a word again for each one of you young ones, to realize your position and your privileges and to go on now in that priestly world. But I did say that it was an encouragement in the law of the Lord, right in the Old Testament. Now we'll see it also born out of the New Testament, but here it is in the Old Testament.
To encourage those priests to go on now, encourage them in the law of the Lord. Or I ask you, dear young people, are you reading God's word for yourself?
Is the only thing that you and I have in these dark, dark days. The word of God is going to go on forever. And this is the book from which you and I can draw our experience. We don't get it out of life. That's what people say in all experiences, The Great teacher. But that's not true here. Is the great Teacher, the blessed word of God. Are you reading? Are you saturating yourself in?
Your mothers that are here this afternoon, that have your sons and daughters growing up.
What kind of an atmosphere are those boys and girls growing up in? Some of us have had mothers that have had those open Bibles on the counter in the kitchen. That's my memory of my childhood.
Oh dear mothers and fathers, are you feeding your children on the precious word of God? Are you putting into them a foundation that will cause them to be strong in the Lord?
Leaning on Christ yourself, feeding your dear children.
On Christ and through the blessed Word of God. This is paramount. This is first, and this is what the priests were encouraged, now would be encouraged him to go on in the word of the Lord. Now then, let's go on to the 35th chapter.
We will see another.
Encouragement.
35 and verse 2.
Right Day, Know and Thee, Josiah's time. Another restoration.
Hezekiah's restoration has often been compared to the Reformation days of the 17th century around there. But Josiah's day, the Restoration under Josiah has often been compared with the restoration of the truth in the 1830s and so on around that time. The difference between Hezekiah is time and Josiah's was this that Josiah's was much more.
According to.
The word wonderful day of Hezekiah's restoration of the truth, but nothing in comparison with Josiah as far as the word was concerned. Yet we saw how that they were encouraged in the word. But here now and there has been an interval between of dark days, but Josiah is on the throne and Josiah is a faithful king.
Dark days. The Lord said that the judgment was coming, and Oh dear young people is just like today. We know that judgment is just about to fall on this poor world.
Those boys and girls that you're at university with or at at school, if they don't know the Lord, they're on their way to hell. Are we being faithful to them, witnessing to them? There was a dark day now, Josiah's day, and let's read what it says there.
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Second Chronicles 35 and verse one. Moreover, Josiah kept the Passover under the Lord in Jerusalem, and they killed the Passover on the 14th day of the first month. That was exactly as it should have been according to Moses word, and he set the priests in their charges and encouraged them to.
The service of the House of the area. Now here's another encouragement. This time it was beyond the word. There was an encouragement now in the service of the House of the Lord. Now I'd just like to point out this, that the priests were different from the Levites. The Levites were in connection with the service of carrying the Tabernacle to the wilderness. But when they camped.
Stopped and when the Tabernacle was set up, the Levites were just around the Tabernacle as guards.
But they didn't have any service in the House of the Lord. But here was a privilege people, the priests now, and they as it working into being when the Tabernacle stood still in connection with the approach or the worship of God.
I was a chance. Oh, it's telling us dear young people that no matter how difficult that is.
Are you and I growing in our souls? Are we reading God's Word according to the encouragement of Hezekiah? But are we realizing that, as gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that it is the greatest privilege on the face of this earth?
Oh, what a glorious privilege this is. I would seek to encourage you now to go on. I believe this word service is not in connection with Levitical service, but it is in connection with priests service.
Missing the meetings.
Are you one of those ones that is there?
Can we grow if we're missing the reading meetings? I don't believe so.
I believe that it is very important for everyone of us to be at the Lord's when we remember the Lord. That is a paradigm. I see all the meetings are much larger on that day. Then I see the reading meetings halfway between, possibly for the prayer meetings. Small. Or is that neglecting the service of the Lord? I believe so are we. Oh, here is a word now of encouragement to go on in these two things.
In the Word of the Lord, and in that which is in connection with the worship of the law, he belonged to the Lord.
Yes, you might say, you pray to the Lord. Oh yes, that's a good reply, isn't it?
Are you remembering the Lord?
It's dropped, you know. But you still pray to the Lord to ask the Lord to help you and to get encouragement from the Lord? Yes. Is there is a response in your heart, in our hearts to the Lord, the service of the Lord, or how little he asked of us just merely to remember Him? I shouldn't say merely what a glorious privilege, but we're not going to have a heart for it, dear young people, unless the Lord is precious to us.
Oh, I would just encourage you taste and see that the Lord is good. And so here were those two encouragements, one for the word and the other for the service of the House of the Lord. Now then, let's look at an interesting one in Isaiah chapter 41.
The Darfur threat.
Like the reading, of course.
To give you a little bit of a background in the previous chapter, last verse, but they that that's Isaiah 40 and 31. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as Eagles, they shall run and not be wearied, and they shall walk and not think. Now here's the horse. Verse six of the next chapter, Isaiah 41, verse 6, right.
Verse 6 Now here is our threat and our word. They helped everyone, his neighbor and everyone said to his brother.
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Be of good courage, or, as Mr. Darkest Translation was a tape courage, so the Carpenter encouraged the Goldsmith, and he that smoothed with the hammer.
Inlet smoking the anvil or on the animal saying it is ready for the Saturn. And he fastened it with nails that it should not be moved. Now that a lot of interesting things, I highly recommend you to meditate on this wonderful verse. What did it say? They helped everyone. His name? Oh isn't that a wonderful thing? Are you? Am I? Are we encouraging others to go on now? Everyone. He didn't just have his special favorites, but it says.
They encourage everyone his neighbor. There wasn't any difference so often, and we're liable to drift toward those with whom we are especially friendly because of social conditions or whatever it might be. But here is a lovely word, isn't it?
And they help. Everyone is encouraging those who desire to go on, well that is the word now then and everyone said to his brother, take courage.
Are you a discourager where you are in your own assembly, or are you one who is saying take courage? Or can we say that today, dear young people, yes we can, indeed we can.
Is the Lord with us? Yes, he is. Is he going to be with us all the way through? Yes. Would he desire to be the object of our life? Yes, indeed. Is he sufficient to satisfy every longing over your heart and mind? Yes, he certainly is. Oh, take courage. That is the first thing.
And then what? So the Carpenter encouraged the ghost. He said, well, what's the Carpenter do? Carpenter works in wood. And wood in the Scripture, you know, is a picture of humanity. The Lord Jesus, Son of God, he became a man. He took on the human, the body of a man, although he didn't have a sinful nature, but he was in all ways, as we are, as men, as a man.
Well, here's the man that worked in the wood that was, we could say, the humanity side. Now this verse is very instructive, I believe in contrast to what we've had before us, because in the previous verses, because they are more having to do with the spiritual light. But here now is a word of encouragement for all aspects of our life, not only the assembly like our own life.
And here is the man that is engaged in the work of the Carpenter dealing, as I said in the humanity side. And what does he do? Or he is encouraging the Goldsmith. Now it's the Goldsmith. Well, I believe no. The gold is in the picture in the scriptures is a picture of the divine righteousness or the righteousness of God. All here was a man that was engaged in that court. They were quite contrast, weren't they? The Carpenter and the Goldsmith the Carpenter might have been.
Heavier work and the Goldsmith. He might have the more delicate work to do.
But here they're encouraging one another. Oh, isn't that enough? They were encouraging each other. What else? And he that smoothed with the hammer, encouraged by there that smoke on the handle. Well, there was another set. Here was a man that was a smoother with the hammer. Well, he would have to have a delicate touch, and there he would be, smoothing out that which was.
Had been spoiled.
And there is the other man. He's got the great big sledgehammer, and here he is, hammering out on the end. Now, you know, beloved dear young people, each one of us has a job to do. It may be your job to do a certain work for the Lord, and it may be someone else's opportunity to be working in another way. And there are in the assembly.
Occasions when it is the nice little tap of the hammer.
That helps. I can look back in my life and can remember years and years ago when an old brother sidled up to me as a young fellow.
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No, they even. I don't think it was saved at the time, but I can well remember the day he just passed me on the shoulder and quoted me a verse of scripture that's well over 50 years, 55 years ago. He was just giving me a little tap with a hammer, but I appreciated that. It was an encouragement to me. And if some of the older ones just give you a little bit of a tap with that hammer, just say that's an encouragement from the Lord, I'm going to go on. But sometimes there has to be the hammer, the great big mallet, and there is the heavy hand, and it may be that on the occasion in the assembly, there may have to be.
That every hand laid well, there was one that was engaged in the more delicate side, and there he was in encouraging the the one who had to lay the heavy hand. And so there they were, encouraging each other. Now on the last one.
Saying at the middle of the seven years sing and notice in your margin saying of the soldering. Soldering it is good. Now here's a soldering man. What's the soldering man? He's the man that slows over the the rocket.
He puts on the solder and then he has to grind it down. Well, it may be so too. This is Grace, I believe that would cover those things that need covering and smoothing over. I don't mean to say to condone the evil, but I do mean that I believe that there are times when we need to be good soderers. And so here was the sadere and what was sent to about his work is really didn't say it was bad and didn't discourage that sadder it was good.
Well, a little word of encouragement or how long, how much we remember those things. I'm sure that I look into your faces. You remember days when somebody has just said a little bit of a word of encouraging, You know that word encourage is very close to cheer. Now, I don't need to talk to you about cheerleaders and all this kind of a thing and all the the sports, why they're you hear the great cheers. What are they doing?
Trying to encourage the competitors to go on. Ah, beloved ones, this is what the Lord wants to do to you today. To encourage you to go on for him. He will bless you. He will become more precious to you. Now there are 5 threads from the Old Testament. Let's go on now into the new to see how the fabric is all one. Let's turn now to Rome.
Chapter 15.
Romans 15 and verse 4/4 Whatsoever things were written aforetime, now there is the fabric drawn together. Old Testament, New Testament, All those things that are written in the Old Testament that we have been reading of whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, Mr. Gargi's translation says instruction.
Or are you getting this instruction from the Lord, from His word?
That we through endurance, patience and comfort. Well, here's that word. Encouragement.
Of the scriptures might have hope as I said earlier Old Testament encouragement in the word of God, New Testament. Now here is the only book that is going to encourage you. Dear friends I often.
And speak of a young student that was came into one of the meetings. He was a student of psychology and he told me he said I've had three years of psychology and he said three years of questions and not one answer.
Wasn't a believer. He was honest though. Or dear young people. This is where you're going to get your encouragement from. They encouragement of the Scriptures, you might say. Well, nobody's encouraging me around where I live. My assembly. Oh, you have the word of God to encourage you see through the encouragement of the scripture. Are you availing yourselves of it? It's yours. God has written for you to encourage you, Old Testament. Oh yes. I highly recommend your.
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Reading of the Old Testament, the one that was instrumental in leading me to the Lord, they used to call him the Old Testament prophet.
He gave me a love for the Old Testament stories. Oh, saturate yourself in them, dear young people. They will be the encouragement and the examples that will, will, will encourage you to go on. So now the next verse, beautiful verse, verse 5. Now that God of endures our patience, endurance Mr. Gartley puts in and consolation. Or here's our word again, encouragement.
Oh, isn't this wonderful?
God, it says, he is the God of encouragement.
Now the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to be like minded, one toward another, according to Christ Jesus, that he may with one accord and one mouth glorify God.
Even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ah, here it is the God of encouragement.
Are you availing yourselves of that blessing, glorious person, God?
Encouraging. Now then, let's go on to 2nd Corinthians chapter one.
Two Corinthians chapter one.
Now here we have a real cluster.
Cluster of threads.
There are ten of them. We just group them all together as one wonderful words. I have to read from Mr. Darby's translation in order to for us to see you. It's interesting, just in passing, that the King James translation sometimes has the word comfort, sometimes it has the word.
Encourage. And sometimes it is translated to strengthen. Isn't that nice? And courage strengthen comfort.
Now let's read these verses. I'll read them right through now and you will see the 10 threads.
Blessed be the God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all encouragement, who encourages us.
In all our tribulation that we may be able to encourage them.
Which are in any trouble by the encouragement wherewith we ourselves are encouraged of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound toward us, so our constantly, so our encouragement also abounded by Christ. And whether we be afflicted, it is for your encouragement and salvation which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
Or whether he be encouraged, it is for your encouragement and salvation, And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing that as ye are partakers of the suffering, so shall he be also of the encouraging.
John, I believe they're tender. Oh, it's not a lovely little group. God would direct you dear young people to what he wants to do. God would desire that he would be encouraged by himself. He opened up his hand and satisfy the longing soul. What's in his hand? Himself.
You notice. You notice as we read on there that the encouragement was interwoven with.
The trials and the difficulties. Is God not acquainted with the troubles, the difficulties of your particular life? Oh, yes, He is. That's why we find those words there of tribulation and suffering. He knows what you and I may be called on to endure, but in the midst of all those, He would comfort you and encourage you and strengthen you. Oh.
Larger encourages there and in this way now then the last one in the last verses of the same book, Second Corinthians.
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Chapter 13.
13 and 11.
Finally.
Revenue farewell.
Be perfect.
Being encouraged.
We have one mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be. You'll never find me.
But the Lord would direct your thoughts above all the difficulties, Just that little word finally, or for the rest. In other words, it's going to go on. Oh, dear young people, you have the blessed word of God. If you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ, you have the Holy Spirit in your heart. You have the God of all encouragement.
All then, may you take these words.
To your own heart now, finally, brethren, farewell or rejoice be perfected. That's in connection with unity.
Is there a desire in your heart to go on now in that unity or are we happy when we find troubles in the assembly? I find that once in a while it's really sad, you know, when there is a rejoicing over troubles.
I heard that some that are away from the Lord's table and when there were troubles in an assembly, why they just took a great delight in finding all the details and I wanted to know that all these difficulties.
Oh, is that? Is that drawing from the Lord?
No, I don't believe it is. Finally, brethren, Farewell. Be perfected, Be encouraged. Oh, may the Lord then just encourage you and me be online. How can we have that? By going on with a good conscience with the Lord. Then the Lord will give you and need the sermon. And then, beloved ones, you and I.
Will be encouraged in Him. Well, may the Lord just encourage us now, as the days grow dark, as the coming of the Lord. Just as about to come to know, may we go on now, and may we be encouraged by the Lord itself through His word like that.
Our loving father we do thank.