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Jesus, gracious Savior on the Father's throne.
Who wonders love and risk and beat our cause, I know.
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All right, people, do the error for great cultural fair.
Their greets to share, oh Lord, through tribulation our children journey life.
The score and sore and facement and what? Colonialism 187.
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We didn't get very far along this morning, did we?
But the 11Th verse wasn't it?
11 first.
Second chapter of Ephesians verse 11.
4/4 Remembered that ye be in time past. Gentiles in the flesh were called on circumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hand.
Through that time.
Life being early into the Commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
But now in Christ Jesus.
Ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
For he is our peace who have made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us.
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandment contained in ordinances.
For to make in himself of Twain 1 Newman.
Soul making peace, and that he might reconcile both under God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby, and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
For through him we both have access by 1 Spirit unto the Father.
Now therefore, you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the Saints and of the household of God, and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone.
In whom all the buildings fitly framed together growing unto a holy temple in the Lord, in whom he also are builded together.
For inhabitation of God through the spirit.
11Th and 12Th verses taken together.
Would answer the heresy that's commonly called the larger hope of the heathen. Let it not.
That is the Gentiles and before they were brought to God through Christ.
Where? Where Heathen.
Idol worshippers.
But the word says that they were not only without Christ, but they were without hope.
So it's important to see that.
The so-called larger whole for the heathen is a delusion, not important, Brother Hale. And indeed it is.
All the truth of God that has made Christ so precious is by revelation.
Man would never discover it.
By any brilliancy of mind.
For every man's mind.
Is the placing of the devil.
Until he is subject to God's revelation.
The reason we speak of it is because.
We've known of some who fell into the air as saying, well, the the heathen who wouldn't believe the gospel if they had a chance.
If they had a chance, they would believe it, but they'll be saved.
We've run into that error.
But of course that.
That's right along the line of what we are having this morning.
No one will come under God, no one except the Father, which has sent me drawing.
So we mustn't expect that the heathen are like some of the pictures we've seen on the back of.
Missionary magazines where they all have their arms outstretched waiting for the gospel.
Ask some real missionary that's been over there.
Brother Whitaker, Brother Anderson, did you find the heathen all anxious and just? All I wanted to do is to hear about Christ and accepted him. Was that the way it was, brother?
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They were curious to hear what we had to say, and of course the first few times they would listen to it. But after they really found out what the message was, most of them wouldn't listen anymore.
However.
We did find perhaps one or two that seemed to be hungry for something.
I'm thinking of a boy about 10 years of age.
He came to us after we've been there a few months.
He came from a village about 50 miles away.
It took him two days.
To get to us two days walking.
And he had heard that we had come with the words of God.
When he told us that while he was in his village.
There was something in him that made him unhappy.
About idolatry.
That the fetishes in China.
That his parents had.
And he felt that there was something more.
And when you heard that, we come with the words of God. And he said, I've come to hear what you have to say.
And as soon as we heard the gospel, we accepted Christ as His lady. But we didn't find multitudes of them reaching out their hands for the gospel. But I believe God had begun to work in that boy's heart. That's just the point if there is a sincere soul anywhere on the face of the earth today in this dispensation or administration.
That really wants to know the true God. He'll do just what he did with that boy. He'll send somebody there to tell him with Christ.
This is the work of God.
But you believe on him whom he has sent.
No one natural mind never seeks after God. God is the seeker. This is the work of God that you believe on humanity. Assembly.
It's God active in love.
The carnal mind is enmity against God.
That's true of everyone of Adam's race.
But Kyle, that's Romans 8.
The carnal mind that's so when you preach the gospel.
Try to reach the conscience.
And the love of God displayed in the gift of his Son.
But.
Not reason the mind into it. Conscience never turns into No, that's true.
Conscience never turns into a man's head turns into over not his conscience in this day of the broad theology.
Man says, well, everybody is seeking after God in his own way.
They are not.
Romans 3 Yes, none. Let's take it after God is God's verdict.
And there again it comes in that God must draw one.
I'd add to that, brother to that there's no right thought of God or his ways apart from his revelation of himself.
Every time you say this is an old statement of mine. Every time you say, I think you think wrong on every moral and spiritual subject except your thoughts.
Are governed by the word of God. You won't know how to bring up your family. You won't know how to conduct your business. You won't know where to remember the Lord in his death.
The thoughts of the man are vain or empty.
He needs the word of God, and so it is true.
That by every word that proceedeth out of his mouth shall man live.
That 12Th verse is a triple indictment, isn't it?
Without Christ, without hope, and without God.
There's where we were. All of us.
And strangers from the Commonwealth of Israel. There was a blessing at one time connected with being an Israelite.
But the Gentile didn't even have that.
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Now what was the chief blessing of being an Israelite? They had the oracles of God. They had the Old Testament.
A little word cut makes the greatest change, doesn't it? But.
Now in Christ Jesus he who sometimes were far off.
As the Gentiles, positionally they were far off.
Are made 9 by the blood of Christ.
The Jews were near. They had the Arkansas God said. They had the knowledge of the true God.
And they were in the land, and God had given to Abraham. They had his temple, his priesthood.
And all that his prophets.
They were a wonderfully favored people.
But the Gentiles outside of Israel?
Had no connection with that at all.
They were far away.
What a wonderful change when the gospel.
And brought them to.
Knowledge of Christ or the acceptable failure, and those who are far off have been brought. Not so when your major the distance and then you measure the nearness.
Wonderful and precious constructed.
And now is in Christianity.
And not merely brought to Israel, but into a place that Israel never dreamed of.
It makes me think of what I one time read about Graham.
I enjoyed it.
William Kelly on the historical books.
He said that impossible.
For the Ephesians, the 18th verse, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God.
Answer is inland because of the blindness of their heart. Would that be natural darkness?
Yes.
And then Satan is increasing.
Then in in the third of John I take it we get will pull darkness there in the 19th verse. And this is the condemnation.
That light is commissioned. The world and men love darkness rather than light because these were evil.
Willfully artless leads on the judicial darkness as we get in Jeremiah 13. Is that it? They cast the light out.
They cast the light out.
But speaking now of.
Greyhound.
Mr. Kelly's remarks were something to the effect of him. The Book of Joshua and the Epistle to the Ephesians more or less coincide.
The book of Joshua brings Israel into the land, into the land of Canaan.
And they get possession of there. They had enemies.
Epistle to the Ephesians brings us into the heavenly land, and there we get the conflict with heavenly, with wicked spirits and heavenly places. But he commented about rehab, this poor outcast gentile without hope, without God, all outside of everything she's brought in when.
Brought in among Israel, not in the wilderness, but when they possessed the land of Canaan.
And so she is brought into all the blessings of the land.
Well, if you compare Joshua and Ephesians, that's the Gentiles. We Gentiles of this second chapter we're brought in not into Israeli blessings, but in all the blessings of that which Canaan was a typo, the heavenlies. Like I enjoyed it when I noticed it. Well, that's good. But the grace of God will bring back Israel when they have forfeited every right to blessing on two points.
The law, they broke it.
But blessing to us through the promised sea, but they crucified the promised seed.
So that they're brought back into blessing on the ground of pure grace.
Is not the end of the 11Th of Romans, and he might have mercy upon all, yes.
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And that's why Paul breaks out into that doxology, because God has increased glory in their blessing.
When they forfeited every right to it on the ground of their own walk and waves.
They'll get to have a greater blessing in that day than they ever knew of old, yes. But you've got a better one, Yes. Where will they find that?
Turn to Hebrews 11.
For the whole Epistle to the Hebrews.
Is written to bring the Hebrew believers onto the ground of fall doctrine.
I repeat that now the whole epistle to the Hebrew is written to bring the Hebrew Hebrew believers onto the ground of the truth, Paul's doctrine that was given to him by revelation.
So in Hebrews 11.
Verse 39.
The chapter is of the Old Testament Saints blessed on the ground of faith.
And these, all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise, that is, they didn't get the land of Palestine.
God having provided some better thing for us, now you have the Church.
That they That's the Old Testament Saints without us.
That's the church now, and those brought onto the ground of Paul's doctrine.
Should not without us should not be made perfect. Now if you want to know what made perfect means, just blanch your eye to the next chapter, the 12Th chapter.
And the last part of the 23rd verse.
Unto the spirits of just men made perfect.
That is.
The Old Testament Saints that died in faith.
They are absent from the body and present with the Lord. I am Speaking of those who died in this dispensation.
But their salvation hasn't been perfected yet.
It will not be perfected until the Lord comes and they have their resurrection bodies. So when the Lord comes, the Old Testament Saints will be raised at the same time we are.
Well, not all the Old Testament Saints be raised, yes.
I meant that if I didn't say it, well you qualified it. But though since the since the.
Descended the Spirit, Or in this age? Well, if I did, I shouldn't have done so if the Old Testament Saints Olive in the 32nd of Deuteronomy.
It's a long chapter and we wouldn't think of trying to read it all at this time.
But in the 32nd of Deuteronomy in the ninth verse.
We read that the Lord's portion, our Jehovah's portion, is its people.
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in the desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He led him about, instructed him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
Now down down to the 15th verse, but to sure and wax fat and kicked.
Dark wax and fat dark growing thick. They're covered with fatness. Then he forsook God which made him unlikely esteem the rock of his salvation. 18th verse.
Of the rock that begat thee are unmindful, and his forgotten God that formed thee.
And when the Lord sought him hard because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters.
And he said, I will hide my face from I will see what their end shall be.
They are a very proven generation, children and who is no faith.
That word? Faith.
Is only used twice in the Old Testament. Here is one place and the other.
Is, I believe, in the second of Hebrews, in the in the second of.
Micah, I believe it is, but that's not the point I have in mind.
Yes, thank you. That's right now going on down.
Talking about these same people.
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Oh, 29th verse all that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end.
Then the 35th verse.
To me belong with vengeance and recompense.
Therefore shall slide in due time.
36 Verse The Lord shall judge his people and repent himself for his servants when he sees that their power is gone.
Then.
The 43rd verse.
Rejoice, ye nations, with his people.
For he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land and to his people.
Think of that.
God, in that same chapter where he outlines their complete apostasy, ends up by stating that he's going to take them back into favor and avenge all their enemies.
Made merciful to his land and to his people. That's the sovereignty of God and brethren. He's going to do it. Nothing could stop it.
In Zachariah, he says that he's going to pour out the spirit of grace and supplication. Well, until he does that, they're just the dead bones, that valley of dry bones. Really not. We don't see that spirit of grace and supplication now.
But the time is coming when he will pour it out.
The veil is upon their hearts today.
You need to remember.
Because this tells us we've been brought tonight.
What it cost God and what it cost is fun to bring us now that touches our hearts.
To realize that it was nothing short of life can't bless the eternal Son of God that could bring us.
In the last place of nearness, so great was the distance, so often was our state, so careful where our sins before God, that his Son had believed the soul of glory.
Become an outcast in this world and suffer a little shame. He fooled that from the cross and his wife's bloody sheds, and that's for me. And that should keep us humble and it should keep us.
With affections our hearts warm and tender.
Towards that one, when such love accomplished the work to bring us into such a marvelous strength of nearness, where those blessings that are found in this book are portioned now, and shall be our portion hereafter and for eternity.
He is our peace, he a person.
Christ himself, he is our peace. What does that mean, Brother Brown? I think it means just what it says, that the end of all question of controversy between man and God's Christ.
Mr. Potter used to put it this way in connection with the question of righteousness.
He said Nothing that Christ ever did in life or in death is our righteousness but he himself.
And so it is with the question of peace. He is our peace. Well, I agree with you. Only I you correct being. You think I'm wrong. He is our peace is the bringing together of Jew and Gentile, one in Christ and the middle wall of partition broken down.
And our peace is the converted dew and the converted Gentile, if I'm going to be simple.
And he's broken down the middle wall of partition. It'll be up again after we're gone and during the whole of the Millennium, Israel will be the center of glory and government for the earth.
I had thought, Brother Hale, that the 17th verse brings out.
What you're presenting to us and came and freaked, peace to them, To you which were far off, and to them which denial that's definitely brings that in. Well, what about the end of the 14th, 1St brother?
We've broken down the middle wall. A partition between us was the middle wall, a partition between Brother Barry and Brother Hayhoe.
Who's it between?
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Well, that's between Jew and Gentile.
He is our peace. And if a jewel gets converted here in Chicago.
And really has accepted Christ. You receive him into fellowship, and his hope is not to go back to Palestine or to enjoy the blessing of the Lord's reign in the millennial day, but he's a member of the body of Christ and can break bread with you and look for Christ as the head of Israel. No, the head of the Church.
The Epistle to the Ephesians is the bringing out of that truth.
And the Jew and Gentile are all one interest. And in this chapter for the sake of the young the Ye or the Gentiles and the we are the Jews, Yes, And in the early verse take the second verse.
Wherein in time past ye walked, it's the Gentiles and their ungodliness. Yes, the third verse, among which also we all had our conversation. That was the Jewish Depravity.
Yes. And then the ye and the we are both brought into blessing in Christ. Yes, If we do not keep the distinction between the ye and the we in Ephesians we will we will not understand the mind of God. That's true, brother. I was just saying that for the young people.
Can I ask a question? Yeah, that also includes relations.
3.
The Jeff he does use in Galatians the same.
24th verse of Galatians 3.
Therefore, the law was our school manager.
To bring us on the price, or on your face that really might be justified by faith. But after the faith is come, we are we are no longer under a schoolmaster, for ye are all the children of God by faith in thy feet.
Our schoolmaster until Christ, that was Israel, wasn't it?
Ventile has never underlined.
It's really fun there because it's it's bringing into a place of privilege and.
The Jew under the law has The next chapter unfolding was just like a service. But now he looked at it as a son because he's no longer under the school master. School days are over.
And now he is in all the privileges.
That belong to sonship. So nice to notice. Mr. Darby looked at his son's there by faith in Christ Jesus. Back to our 14th verse again.
Mr. Hayhoe may be right on his interpretation of this verse. I do not say that he's not, but the point that one was making is this.
That it's it's himself. That's the peace. He is our peace.
Here isn't what he's done.
But it's himself. It's on the basis of what he's done.
13th verse now in Christ Jesus, he who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
That's the way, that's the basis of it. But he is the peace.
Well, how good that is for the soul to realize.
Christianity is Christ. If I have Christ, all is well. If I don't have Christ, nothing is well. All of my religion, my churchianity, my good works, they all go into the discard. They're no good. But if I have Christ, all is well. We have a given in our little clock funeral book based on three verses here.
It's 15 in the appendix.
And the third verse on this team.
Is based on the 14th verse here.
And.
The the first standard of the him is based on the 15 verse and the second standard based on the 71St.
Well, in the third standard of the Hume.
It says, Behold, him now is gone, and high upon the throne who took his seat all wondrous grace that we brought 9 And in him seated are complete.
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He is our peace.
For light divine peace may cost me.
And then in the first dance, it says he has made peace.
And then the second standard he preached his feet.
Rather brown you were speaking about.
Mr. Potter's remark that nothing that Christ did in life or in death is our righteousness.
Is there not? Is that not generally misunderstood in Krishna? Yes, definitely. Does not christen them generally talk about imputed righteousness? Yes, they do.
We are made the righteousness of God in Him, and Christ himself is our righteousness.
And where it says faith was imputed to Abraham for righteousness, it merely means his faith was found as a righteous thing, which does.
Isn't it blessed, brethren? Every believer stands before God in a life that never sinned at all.
I remember well as a young man.
Getting that at a conference in Toronto must be.
Oh brother, it must be over 50 years ago.
I went home rejoicing in spirit. What?
IA Sinner stand before God.
In a life that never sinned at all, the thought thrilled my soul for days.
And that's true of every believer, every believer.
You're standing before God. Could not be more perfect than it is, and it cost God.
The giving up of his son into death, and the judgment that he bore to bring that about.
And Paul is the only one that unfolds that doctrine for us.
Now notice we don't know I'd help me, so I'll pass it on to you. Will you turn to Acts 10 and we'll hear Peter preaching?
I'm thankful to have got this when I was a young man.
We hear Peter preaching in the 10th of Acts.
And the 42nd verse.
And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the judge of quick, or the living and dead. To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
Now that's Peter preaching. That's as far as he goes. Peter never gives you Pauls doctrine. Now let's turn over to the 13th chapter near Paul preaching.
Verse 38.
You'll never get it from any other but Paul. Be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. That's as far as Peter goes now and by him should read, and in him.
And in him all that believe are justified from all things from which he could not be justified by the law of Moses, you never get Peter giving you justification. So Romans 8 and one there is now therefore no condemnation or judgment to them that have their sins forgiven, no to them that are in Christ Jesus.
Oh, how precious.
Oh, how wonderful. I went home from that meeting with a thrill in my soul, but I was not only forgiven.
But I stood before God in Christ. He was my righteousness.
Justified from all things.
That every blessing in the heart of God could flow out.
My enjoyment of it and your enjoyment of it depends upon your walk.
It's all yours, as I've tried to emphasize in these meetings.
That every Christian blessing.
Is unto all, all are equally blessed before God.
But your enjoyment of it depends upon your wall and all our failures, whether as sinners or Saints, springs from unbelief of the goodness that's in the heart of God.
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And if you lose your temper or do anything, that's grieving to the Holy Spirit of God.
And he'll have to speak to your conscience instead of speaking to your heart.
And if he's not speaking to your heart right now, you're at the communion. You're out of communion.
Because he dwells in you. And if I were asked what characterized the present day?
In Contra distinction from the past and even the future.
I would say it is the presence of the Holy Spirit of God come down to give us a taste of heaven and the enjoyment of these things before we get there.
They'll not be in doubt by the Holy Spirit even in the Millennium, and they were not in the Old Testament. That is peculiar and distinctive of this present day. And why has he given us the Holy Ghost?
Why did he give it to us? Turn to John 7 and the dancers.
37th verse.
In the last day, that great day of the feast that was the feast of Tabernacles, the only feast that had an eighth day connected with it, and the 8th day brings to new creation.
Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. Why do you want to be at these reading meetings? And is it simply to have a better knowledge of the Bible?
I hope not. I hope it's the night. Enjoy Christ, his person and his work more and more.
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying of any man thirst. Let him come unto me and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. In other words, there's two things I want to bring before you.
Out of his belly.
Is instructive, It's truth taken in and digested.
No Old Testament St. was even in the good spiritually of that which was given.
He'd have waited the coming of the Holy Spirit to give him the intelligent good of it. Now it's out of his belly because the Spirit has come to give us the intelligent good.
Of all the precious river of grace that flows from the person and work of Christ, In other words, is to give you a taste of heaven before you get there.
Flow rivers of living water.
And that's the normal condition of every healthy St. of God.
That true?
Down to the 21St version.
I have a little together.
Then says Jesus doesn't engage. He's beyond the youth, as my father has sent me, Even so send are you you and I think for you.
This morning I think I referred. I thought, you know, it'd be nice if you had spoken of the following verb, because I think it's much misunderstood or something.
And when he had said this, he breathed on that and stepped on the ring, received the Holy Ghost. Let's not the indwelling. No, leave out the TH E there.
It's when Adam was created, God breathed into their nostrils the breath of life.
Man became a living soul.
Here in John, it's a risen Christ breathing upon them and receive its life.
In blessing from a risen Christ, and you and I have right now the same life that we'll have in heaven.
And.
That new life desires new food.
And in the measure in which we feed upon Christ through the Word, that new life is seen in our daily walk, But receive ye the Holy Ghost, is not the same as Pentecost here.
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It's life in resurrection, fullness and blessing. Leave out the word thing.
Receive the Holy Spirit.
In the end of.
The first chapter in First Corinthians.
One calls attention to this to enlarge a little upon the.
What has been before us? He is our peace. That is that Christ is everything.
In the end of First Corinthians 1.
30th verse.
Of him, that's of God.
Are ye in Christ Jesus?
Christ is made of God.
Unto us now here's what Christ is made.
Wisdom.
He's my wisdom.
And righteousness. He is my righteousness.
And sanctification. He is my sanctification.
And redemption, He is my redemption. That is, it's intimately personal. It's the person of the Christ that's looked at here.
As being the one that God looks upon.
And if it's a question of wisdom, he's my wisdom. If it's a question of righteousness, he's my righteousness. He is my righteousness.
Oh, what a rest that is to the soul. Nothing that he did but he himself is my righteousness.
Supposing any challenge were raised in heaven above.
As to my title to be there now, I know it never will be, but supposing it were I simply point to Christ, I say there's my answer.
He is my righteousness, and I have no other. I have no other.
He is my righteousness. Do you have Christ? Do you All right? You have righteousness. And God says so. God says he's made him to be our righteousness. So that's why does wisdom come first, brother?
Why does wisdom come first? You tell us.
Because you you'll never know the blessedness of the truth until you listen to his voice.
And not only.
This is much on my heart what I'm about to say.
And that is that we listen to his voice in order to be saved, to become children of God.
But do you listen to his voice as how to govern your home and your business?
Oh, wisdom is found in the Word of God, not simply to know that your sins are forgiven, but for your daily walk at ways man shall not live by bread only.
But by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God shall man live.
Your cat Walker right in any circle of life without the wisdom of God to govern your thoughts.
Then He is our righteousness. We're not seeking after it, But Christ is our life and righteousness, and that's how we stand before God.
And sanctification? What does that mean?
Oh, we are called upon to walk even as he walked.
Separate sanctification is separated, and the Lord separated from every motive that governed the unsaved man.
For every unsaved man in this world is governed by self pleasing.
Self pleasing.
What you and I are to be governed by pleasing the Lord, isn't it?
Sanctification is to be set apart from every motive that governs the human heart and mind.
And redemption. Why is that put at the end? Because we haven't received the fullness of the blessing yet. I've still got Gray hairs, and I see others have two.
When the redemption is complete.
With the light Christ in glory morally.
And physically and be a temple as we'll have in the Second of Ephesians.
A temple to Jehovah's praise. And every one of us will realize, in a way we don't know, that we owe it to the grace of God that brought us there. Sometimes you young folks will have others get hold of you and try to sway away from these things that we're hearing.
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And when you protest, they'll say, well, you're not open to conviction. Well, just tell them frankly, no, I'm not. I'm not open to conviction. The thing has been settled.
Supposing someone were to ask you, if you were open to conviction as to the virtue of your wife, would you be open to conviction? Of course you wouldn't.
So in in connection with what we have received of God, we're not open to conviction. We've settled it. That thing is settled. We don't open up the subject at all.
Possibly someone comes along and says I I'd like to go into this question with you as to the deity of Christ.
If you're open to conviction, I think I can show you some things.
Well, the moment he opens his mouth, if you see that the line of truth that he's bringing before you is something to lure that truth or to take it from you, just close him off right there. Say that's settled. I'm not open to conviction. That thing settled forever. Isn't that right, brother Neil?
To know that's what characterizes Christianity. I remember when I was in the hospital.
And.
Doctor said to me.
When Are you sure?
Why? I said. I'm just as sure of being with my savior and glory as if I was already there right now.
God has said it. I have believed it, and thank God that I know it to be the truth.
I know it. Oh, isn't it lovely to be a Christian?
Isn't it lovely to think of all you, dear brethren? There isn't one of you should go away from these meetings with any doubt?
And don't forget, your enjoyment of the truth of God depends upon your walk.
God would occupy you with Christ. He is a satisfying portion and no one ever lived to please the Lord Jesus and live to regret it.
Live to regret it, and you can order your home, right? Or your business life, alright, Or your associations with your neighbors are right, except you have the wisdom of God to guide you.
In your thoughts and words and deeds.
That reaches the conscience of man.
And.
Happiness is the portion of every child of God that walks that path. So Paul and Silas could sing in jail.
Didn't they sing in jail?
Was it because they had a Turkey dinner?
No, Isn't that a song on the woods and searching the word too that we get.
Those glad thrushes, of course. Corinthians. Six or four teams add there the summer time. One is it. Know you love that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. We just Hindu, if you have of God and you are not your own aboard from the sun.
That's a certain word not only for young people by the hill, but for his own brother.
Or precious is the word of God, I think divided may tell us.
Old brother Sobek and I and Scranton went to see a lady and her husband there.
And they were holiness people.
Oh, she said to me as we sat there. God won't dwell in a defiled temple, and he'll leave you if you if you fail or sin.
Oh, I said. Lady, I think I'll have to change the Bible to search your doctrine.
For it says Grieve, not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed until you do something wrong.
No sealed until the day of redemption. Lady, He never leave you, but you lose your joy in the Lord, for he'll have to occupy you with your failure. But thank God he won't leave you.
You're sealed until the day of rejection, she said. I've never thought of that.
All wrong doctrine is a contradiction of scriptures somewhere.
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Word God is perfect.
That everyone of you dear Christians, in this afternoon here in this meeting, I'm going to meet you in glory. Sure, but your happiness depends upon your walk. Be careful to do nothing that will grieve the Holy Spirit of God that dwells in you. He won't leave you, but he can't give you the joy of your salvation while you walk carelessly.
Is that right?
Mr. Brown has, in keeping with what you've been giving us.
About being in Christ. Christ is our righteousness.
And you could point to Christ in glory and say there's he's my righteousness.
I have recently encountered a number of Christians, no question about it now breaking break.
Who have at different times been plunged into doubt and despair.
As to whether their sins were forgiven.
They brought about largely through bad teaching.
Having them look inward to see if they had repented enough.
And such like things.
Do you not think that if a Christian laid hold of this truth?
Of what Christ is to it. Now he's seen in Christ that it would be the end of all that.
I suppose it's the sevens of Romans, is what it is the state of that kind.
Well, they get in perspective. And you know, there is a line of gospel teaching today.
By real gospel preachers too, that says that you have to know the moment when and the manner in which in the place where you were saved and given account of it.
And if you didn't repent enough, perhaps you're not saved at all.
I find that that has done untold damage to souls.
Long after they get peace, they revert to inward looks.
And then begin to wonder, where was it deep enough? Did I repent enough? You remember Mr. Potter's scripture to answer that, don't you? No, I do not.
Well, look at John's Gospel, the third chapter.
The reason I bring it up, I've had so much of it lately that I believe it must be more prevalent than we think.
John 3. This is Mr. Potter's answer to that.
The eighth verse, the wind bloweth where it listens.
Thou hearest the sound thereof that can't not tell.
Wednesday cometh, and whither it goeth, so is everyone that's born of the Spirit, he says. That's something nobody can tell. And that was his first point right there. That is, no one can pray when one is born again. They may be able to say when they got peace with God when that new light entered.
That gave the exercise that resulted.
Down there, believing the gospel, That's another thing, isn't it? Entirely. I had a variance with a dear soul that had spent most of her life.
The very unhappy state and she was facing death and she said, well, she was told when she was a young woman that she had to know the time on the plate where she was saved and she said I didn't know the time and the place and so she said I just decided I wasn't safe, she went on.
She was getting along in years. Well, I said that's true. Then I'm not saved either. I said that's a sad thing after enjoying the Lord for many years to find out at last or not clean. Why? She said. I never heard anybody talk like that before. Well, I said, your trouble is you're looking inside.
To get peace, I said faith, look is always an outcome. Look. Faith looks at the cross of Christ and things that work completed and accomplished there. Well, I didn't know the results until later and she said she told me afterwards. Before you left, she says I knew that I was saved. It was all severed. She went under the operation happy, rejoicing in the Lord. She's been rejoicing ever since.
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I just got her eyes off of that inward inspection about that time and place and got her.
And got her thoughts onto the the work of Christ away from herself, and she got peace.
The best illustration I've ever read on that point. I don't know where I picked it up.
But the man was telling about.
Being on the ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and going to South America.
Now he said that we were in our bunks.
And none of us knew when we crossed the equator. None of us knew we had no instruments. We didn't know when we crossed the equator. He was just a passenger.
But then he said that.
One night we looked up in the sky and we saw the Southern Cross.
Oh, we said. Why, we've crossed the equator.
There's the Southern Cross. We can see it.
Well, I think that's a lovely illustration. You may not know as to pinpoint the moment when you pass from death to life. This verse we read in John says no man can. But when you see beauty in Christ, when you love to be with God's people, when you love to read His word, why something's happened along the way. Somewhere you've crossed the equator.
That's the point. Make that you think your brother aired in Montreal. He went to see his sister in the meeting and she was doubting her salvation and quite unhappy.
He looked at her and he said, well, sister, why not give up Christ and die without him? We shall long member, she said. I'll never do that.
Of course you won't, sister, because you're going to be with him and she went home happy. There's one sin that no Christian can commit.
And that is to deny Christ from his heart.
Charles E Finney, the Great Evangelist. Probably the the most God used evangelist that ever was in the history of this country. Charles G Finney. He was coming back from a preaching trip in England on the boat, and the devil attacked him.
And got him into despair.
Got him into despair about his own soul, and he had been used in the salvation of thousands.
And finally he got out on his knees in his cabin.
And he said, Lord.
If it's more for your glory, if it's more for your glory that I spend eternity in hell, that's where I want to go.
And you got peace immediately.
And God, Peace right? Thanks.
Well, if we get back to our chapter now.
Speaking about the middle wall of partition being broken down perhaps?
The 49th chapter of Genesis on the 22nd verse.
Would give us a helpful illustration as to what is meant by that wall between you and Gentile that was broken down.
49th chapter of Genesis.
And the 22nd verse.
Joseph is a fruitful bow, even a fruitful bow by a wall.
Branches run over the wall.
Well, that was the position of the Jews.
Up to this time when the gospel was free.
If Israel was surrounded by a wall separation that separated them from all the other nations.
And the Gentiles are blessing it was because.
A branch ran over the wall and poor gentile got some of the brakes on the other side of the wall. We get an example like that in rules.
You got some of those grapes, for the vine ran over the wall and the Moabites got saved. So it was all through the Old Testament time that was the only way that they could get blessings, was in some way to come in contact with God's earthly people to do.
But now there's another discrimination.
That has been brought in and as we saw, the Gentiles hearing the gospel preached receiving it, and then the Jews hearing the same gospel.
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While that little wall is broken down and as he tells us here in this chapter before us.
And has broken down the middle wall of partition between us.
Having abolished in his place, placed the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances.
The Jews had the law and they had ordinances.
That a Jew celebrated and in order to be in the economy of Israel.
A stranger had to be circumcised and virtually become a Jew to enjoy those privileges.
But now that intimately has been taken away in the cross of Christ.
All that as it tells us here.
Broken down the middle wall of partitions between us and so on.
Or to make in himself a twain, there's the two doing that top one new man, so making peace. So now consider the separation instead of a wall.
Why? They looked at as one body, and that's where the truth of the Church is. The one body is introduced. It's composed of both Jew and Gentile.
And in the 18 verse both have access to the fathers.
You're lovely, isn't it? Our same father don't. Same father in the same. They're under the same condition. I suppose there's never been a time in the history of the Church when some Jews haven't been in it. There was a time at the beginning when no Gentiles were in.
But we say them both, one not. Is that right? Yes, I suppose at the start there were those that had been Gentiles that were in it, proselytes, but but no others.
We have exactly the same title whether we're Jew and Gentile come in, There's no priority now.
It's no longer what the Jewish Mission people are constantly putting out in their magazines.
Most, almost any Jewish mission magazine.
You see somewhere in it. To the Jew first, to the Jew first.
O brother, that Julia, that kind of thing is increasing in wickedness. They're sending it to me, and I wouldn't like to even tell you how far they've departed from the truth.
It's serious and solemn, and again I say Ephesians one and 10 is the key to the whole Bible, and I never met a person in my life who could keep scripture in order.
Unless they saw the truth of that verse, that in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things interest, both which are in heaven and that comes first, and which are on earth, even in him will I tell you what may be simple in a way.
My own dear, beloved wife was in system in her early childhood days.
I said to her, I knew her for years before we were married. I said to you. Or do you ever pray that God will knockout the teeth of the ungodly?
She says no for ourself, she says. I'll ask our minister. So she went to the minister. She was in the Anglican Church in the city of Toronto.
And he said, you've been talking to those brethren. I never talked to them. You have no answer, of course.
Well, but I said, is it wrong? It's in the Bible. It's the word of God. Is it wrong?
No, she had enough reverence, she said. It can't be wrong, but I don't understand it.
When the moment we go to heaven, it'll be the mind of God to go back to Saturday. There'll be no Sunday or Lords Day according to the mind of God after we're gone. Sunday or the first day of the week is the new creation.
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And they'll go back to Saturday and it'll be right for those that are born of God, of the nation of Israel, after we're gone to pray for the destruction of their enemies.
Why? Because their inheritance is down here, and they cannot get it in peaceful possession until God comes in in power and judgment. Turn to the 144th Psalm and you'll see it.
Oh, and numbers of scriptures. But that 144th Psalm will give it to you.
I never met a Christian in my life. Could keep the Bible straight and nuts and off.
144th South.
Blessed be the Lord, my strength, which teacheth my hands toward you. You pray that.
And my fingers to fight.
My goodness and my fortress, my high tower, my delivery, my shield, And he in whom I trust, who subdueth my people under me, Do you pray that?
Lord, what is man now? This is the contrast with Psalm 8.
Here in Psalm 8, what is man?
He is there. It's Christ here. It is man in his weakness. It's the very antithesis of the 8th Psalm.
Lord, what is man, that thou takeest knowledge of him, or the son of man, that thou makest account of him? Man is like to vanity. His days are as a shadow that passeth away. Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke, cast forth lightning, and scatter them. Shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Send thine hand from above. Rid me, and deliver me out of great waters from the hand of strange children whose mouths speaketh vanity. In their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. That's the Spirit of God, giving the godly Remnant the very language to use in prayer.
But.
Can't only face can lay hold of the truth, can understand why God doesn't do it and do it in a wholesale fashion.
Where God can destroy all the wicked in a moment if you wished. And this Psalm is that saying that God isn't going to destroy the wicked in a moment.
Why? Why? Because it's a principle all through the ways of God always that he gives space and time to repent and the Great White Throne evil isn't set up until man has been tried and tested.
And God waiting in patience, in a patience that is divine. And the great white throne doesn't come until after the the millennial reign when they see all the goodness of God. Whether hail could I interrupt just a minute, I'd like to hear you give us something on the difference between the the body of Christ and the House of God. That's more or less what completes this chapter.
Would you give us something on that?
Will the body of Christ is formed by the Holy Spirit coming down. So we see that in First Corinthians 12.
I think Brother Brown spoke of it correctly too. 1St Corinthians 12.
For in the 12Th verse, for as the body is 1 and that many members and all the members of that one body being many, are one body, so also is the Christ really that's the head of the members spoken of as one Justice, Adam and Eve are spoken of as Adam.
Or by 1 Spirit, are we all baptized into one body?
Whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free, and have been all made to drink into one spirit.
There the body was formed. On the day of Pentecost, it exists.
And will be caught up when the Lord comes. And that's why we have one loaf on the table.
But the House of God?
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Is that which we enter by profession and.
In a house, there are vessels to honor and dishonor.
Everyone that professes the name of Christ is in the house.
Those that are real.
Are manifested by their fruit. So by their fruit you shall know, and when it's the House of God.
It is the thought of conduct.
So first Peter, Chapter 3.
Peter speaks of the house. He never speaks of the body.
That was given to Paul, not Peter.
First Peter 4 verse 17 is the key to the Epistle. So the time has come that judgment must begin at the House of God. And if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
With the righteous scarcely should be, if the righteous with difficulty be saved.
Where shall the ungodly and Sinner appear?
All that profess Christ are in the house, whether he or the where Peter speaks of his living stones are built up. A spiritual house to offer a spiritual sacrifice is acceptable to God. By Jesus Christ there is a stone.
Are all living stones in there then a view of the house?
That where it's a vital thing, where it isn't just profession. Well, the subject here before.
How therefore you're no more strangers and partners, but fellow citizens with a Saint of the household of God, and are built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. Now is that the same thought as Peter gives us in the second chapter of his first Epistle after the living Stones?
Aren't there? Aren't there 2 views of the House of God?
One where God is the builder and the other where man is building. Thank you for that truth and where man is building failures come comes in.
You can. You can have profession. You have souls brought in that are not real. But where God is looked at as the builder, all is vital. Good. That's right. Now it's here. That's here. Brother Brown. I'm. I'm well. I have taken. I had taken this as vital. The end of this chapter is vital. But.
Behavior in the House of God, as Brother Hajo says.
Behavior is connected with the house, not with the body. So that in the house aspect and it in the house and it's broader aspect.
Where behavior is connected with it, we may have that. That's not real.
So in the builders that you have in the third chapter of First Corinthians.
You have those that bring in good material and those that bring in bad material, and then you have another class that defile the temple.
Well, be careful. But in its broad aspect, the house is its brother. Hill was just saying it's all a profession. They're all in the house in that way.
So it's likened, though it's not called a Great House, but in Timothy second Timothy.
It's likened to a great house. They're all in the house and we have to purge ourselves from the unclean vessels.
In the house, all in the house, good and bad, and we purge ourselves from the unclean vessels in the house. That's in its broad aspect, but in its vital aspect, where God is the builder, all the material is good. Well, in the last verse of the chapter is whom also young are building together for a habitation of God through the Spirit. Is that another thought? Now I think it that's the the dwelling place of God.
Is not the second last verse.
Taken from the assembly of the Tabernacle and the last verse from the temple.
I thought the 21St verse was the temple and the last verse was the Tabernacle. Oh yes, just reverse the Tabernacle, I looked up.
But the last, the last verse is the Tabernacle. That's what it's what's going on now.
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Isn't it that the Spirit of God is dwelling in that now? Well, in that sense, it need not to be vital.
No, according to Hebrews, it would. Even unbelievers were in that spirit. Won't it be lovely, brethren, when we look at one another in glory?
I'll see nothing but Christ in you, and you'll see nothing but Christ in me. We won't even have to bear with one another.
God will never be satisfied.
Until we're at home in the father's house.
Every one of us, children of God, with the old nature gone forever, not an evil thought will ever enter our minds in Yonder. Loving the future that awaits us should make us.
All just burst into praise. But we ought all to his grace, and thank God, I say again.
Every believer in this company is going to be there.
I'm with Christ and like him forever. What a future to gladden your heart. Then the last verse is what is here now?
Yeah, God willing has any particular time in the history of the Church Spirit of God has had it well in place since the Spirit came down and united that.
That 120.
The House of God was here immediately because it was a plumbing place from God in this world, and that's always true, and that's always complete in that sense. But then the other view, where the temple is like Solomon's temple, the material was all brought there.
A temple ground, but then it had to be built up. So every time a thinner is saved while the stone is added in the light building. But the other view is it's always looked at as a complete thing. That's where I think.
Him Number 99.
Number 99.
His glory and his graceful he gave himself so letting his stone.
Oh my God.
They're also saying 248.
And forward.
Illness.