Address—G.H. Hayhoe
DISCLAIMER: The following has been auto-transcribed. We hope it will help you to find the section of this audio file you are looking for.
From the home of joy and love came the Lord Himself to seek us. He would have us there above. Therefore that eternal brightness, having starts flowed forth in love, He and his great love would have us ever there with Him above 93.
From the power from his life.
While my joy and life.
Came out of himself to seek us.
He would have us there are all.
Forth in love.
He and his great love.
Where there was there my mom.
Probably we had a farmer say.
Some long place where? Let me start.
From the throne of the mansion.
Already love me for.
I'm in Afghanistan.
So bright and fair.
There we were once a result.
All the one with us to share.
That was great. God blessed God and our Father. And thank you for the words of this little hymn we have been singing together.
That we can look back into our past eternity and think of thy counsels of love and purposes toward us and grace. But we think of what it cost me that those purposes might be fulfilled. We think, Lord Jesus of Thyself coming here as a man walking here in this world, going to that cross of Calvary, and they are bearing the sin guilt that we so just He deserved. That wrath of judgment. Lord Jesus, we thank Thee and all those lifted us from all this.
And thou hast made us to be partakers of the glory that shall be revealed.
So we'll be with thee in that glory to share that with South One. He praised the insanity. Now we just pray this evening as we look into Thy word that our hearts might be encouraged. You know, these are difficult days in which we live, but we thank you, Lord, that thou are faithful and the end is bright and glorious. And we ask Jesus, Thou help us step by step You have our eyes upon thee, and to run with patients to raise that before us. Thank you for Thy mercy to dear John, and we ask for you. Thou discontinue to undertake for current human investors. Bless this little one that was given to them.
So we just command all now into thy hands and praise thee for the opportunity of being together.
Ask for thy health and guidance my worthy name, Lord Jesus. Amen.
I'd like to turn to the 44 song.
I'd like to read the 44th universes here at the end of the 44th Psalm and then the 45th and 6th.
Away quiet sleep of sour Lord arise has to cut off forever purple height is thou thy face, and forget us our affliction and our oppression. They also got fouled down to the dust our belly slave the front of the earth arise for our health and the demos for thy mercy sake.
My heart is indicting a good matter. I speak of the things which I have made touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Thou art fairer than the children of men. Grace is poured into thy lips. Therefore God hath blessed thee forever. Good thy sword upon thy thigh. Almost my ease, if I glory and thy majesty. And in my majesty lie prosperously because of truth and deepness and righteousness, And our right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
00:05:03
Fine arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemy, for by the people fall under the thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. The sceptile of thy Kingdom is a right chapter, our love of righteousness and heinous wickedness. Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. All thy garments smell of myrrh and mallows and ketchup out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made these glad King's daughters were among thy honorable women.
From thy right hand stand the queen, and go to bothers hearth and O daughter, and consider him inclined mine here forget all for thine own people. Thy father's house social looking, greatly desired thy beauty, For he is thy Lord, and worship thou him and the daughter of fire shall be there with a gift. Even the witch among the people shall entreat by favor. The King's daughter is all glorious within her clothing is of rock gold. She shall be brought unto the king.
You know, in the raiment of needlework the virgins are companions, that borrowers shall be brought unto thee.
With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought. They shall enter into the King's towel, until thy father shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make Princess in all the earth. I will make thine aim to be remembered in all generations. Therefore shall the people praise thee forever and ever. God is our refuge and strength, a very present health in trouble.
Therefore will not be feared or the earth be removed. And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, so the waters are a world be troubled while the mountains shake, but the swelling are out. See log There is a river that stream where else will make glad the city of God.
The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. God is in the midst of her. She shall not be moved. God shall help her in that right early the heathen roads, the Kingdom will move where the kingdoms were moved. He uttered his voice, The earth melted. The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Come, behold the works of the Lord. What desolations he hath made in the earth maketh worlds to cease under the end of the earth.
He breaketh the borough, cut off the spear and sundry furnace, a chariot in the fire. He still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the heathens. I will be exalted in the earth.
The Lord of both is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
I think perhaps we all know that very often the Psalms are in kind of series, and I believe there is a series here between these three Psalms and that's why I've read them together, because we find a subject taken up and more or less continued through these three songs. And I hope that the Lord tells that there will be something in US, the songs that we can learn for ourselves will be a blessing to our souls. Perhaps to put it very briefly, I think we see in the end of the 43rd Psalm.
A very disturbed soul, very much cast down because of conditions that he sees.
In the 45th we see you on listed above that discouragement and rejoicing, because he sees the hand of God in things, and he looks on to a glorious and bright future. And then in the 46th we see that song for and we can sing in the midst of trials and difficulties that come into our lives. And it's very beautiful. 46 is a song that I'm sure many of us have in Sodom, perhaps in Word God is our refuge and strength, a very present health and trouble.
Fell out and this is meant so much to us. What is this right to look at these Psalms? I just laid and mentioned these thoughts because it gives a general thought of what is brought out. I believe in these three sums.
Well, as I say, they're in the end of the 44th Psalm. We see one who's very cast down and discouraged because he's looking around that circumstances. And I'm sure that there are many of us that if we were to look around that circumstances, see what's going on in the world, see what's going on even among the people of God, we might well be cast down. We might well be discouraged if that was what we looked at. Remember dear sister that was having a very dark page and her Christian life.
And someone asked her how she was. Well, she says my outlook never was darker, but my outlook never was brighter. Well, surely it's true that if we have that uplook, even when the days grow dark, there can be that which brightens the horizon for us. Because it is bright brethren, what a glorious future is ahead of us. And God is not only the one who is going to bring us into that glorious future, He can bring us now into the present enjoyment of it. And that's what we have, I think, unfolded in the 45th.
00:10:12
There's a verse in the Proverbs that says.
Where no vision is the people perish, or Mr. Garden translates it for no vision is the people cast off restraint, that is, they say what to use. But there is use. And we don't cast off restraint if we know what is before us and if we also know that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are the cause according to his purpose. Well, here you can see very discouraged by what he is mentioning in the 40 in the 22nd verse of this 44th Psalm.
And then calls upon the Lord awake By sleepest thou, O Lord, arise, cast us not off forever May seem sometimes as if the Lord was asleep to what was going on, just like girls in the boat. When the storm came up, he thought, well, how could it be that the Lord was asleep In the midst of that, where we know that he was in control of everything physically, there he was as a man he was asleep, but he knew the whole situation.
That he himself raised the storm, and he himself made the calm. And so he is not asleep, brethren, does any one of us going through a special trial. At this time the Lord is not asleep. He sees everything that's going on, He knows every detail above it about it, and heals our feelings in the midst of it too. And so this is so sweetly brought out here. Wherefore high to style my face and forget us our affliction and our oppression.
He doesn't forget.
Now he knows we sometimes forget. We forget him too sometimes, but he never forgets up us. Our names are graven on the palms of his hands. He carries our names on his shoulders and our planet's heart of love, so we always count upon that. But there are times, perhaps, when we feel like this, and I'm very glad that we have these things recorded in Scripture. If God only painted the great side of things in Scripture.
We would say, well did the Saints of all ever go through those kind of things like we feel But God has faithfully recorded the feelings who went through these things and written them down. So whatsoever things were written before time were written for our learning that lead through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hoped. And then He calls upon the Lord in the 26th verse, Arise for our help and redeem us.
For thy mercy sake, there now we might have expected that the Lord would come in.
And Branch Ella runs. But the reason I read this is because in the 42nd song, it's not a record of deliverance coming in. What is brought before us in the 45th Psalm is a soul that leaves circumstances with God, that he's going to come in in his own time, and he's rejoicing in that place of blessing into which we have been brought and brought him. That's what we often need to do. We the Lord may not and often does not come in to take us out of the difficulty. It may be His mind to leave us in that situation.
And give us the strength that we might glorify him in the midst of it, that we might prove how he is sufficient for all these things. It has been said that you'll never learn to know about as the God of all comfort in heaven, because there's only difficulties up there. But it's down here that we learn those things. Will we remember them in heaven? Indeed we will. Thou shalt remember all the way the Lord thy God LED thee these 40 years in the wilderness, And there will be a remembrance.
Of all that we pass through up above and the feet from the cross won't have those experiences because he was saved in the 11Th hour. But by the grace of God, when you and I have been saved, and perhaps the Lord has left us here a few years, we can experience His grace, His love, His care. How can He be here with us in the midst of trials? Children never have any trials, never have any problems, don't know the hearts of their parents. In the same way as those who've gone through things and found other parents can enter into these things and share them.
And try to help them and encourage them in the midst of them. And so that's what we find is brought before us. And perhaps that explains why the 45th Psalm begins the way it does.
You know, normally I might have expected after reading those verses in the end of the 44th Psalm to find a story of deliverance in the 45th Psalm. But here we find the Psalm begins doesn't mention about deliverance at all. Deliverance is still in the future. But what does he say? My heart is inviting a good matter. I speak of the things which I have made touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
00:15:25
And who is the occupied with? Is he occupied with his troubles? Are they gone? No, I don't think they're gone. But what has lifted him above those troubles and given him to have this note of triumph? He's occupied with the one who is altogether lovely, who has all power in heaven and in earth. We have a beautiful little scene brought before us in the last chapter of Matthew. There were the disciples.
They were gathered in the appointed place, it says. They went to that mountain where Jesus had appointed.
And the Lord came and was there. And it says that when they saw him, they worshipped him. But it said some doubted and they saw him, they worshipped him. But some doubted. Wasn't the perfect company, you know? But the Lord knew what was in their hearts. And He knows what's in my heart and yours too. He knows just exactly our feelings at this very moment and all we may be passing through. And I think I won't turn to the passing, but you can read it for yourself in that 28th.
The Lord said, it says. And Jesus. Well, let's all turn to them because I'd like to get the exact words that I might not pull up in exactly as they are.
The last chapter of Matthew.
I'll just read from the 16th verse. Then the 11 disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them, and when they saw him, they worshipped him with that privilege yesterday. But some doubted, and the Lord knows the thoughts that went through our minds even yesterday. I don't say doubts about our salvation, but doubts about, well, where did this happen? What? Why does this problem come?
Why is our assembly a little different and all these kind of things could come into our minds?
And listen to these words. And Jesus came was the word. What does this mean? In Jesus came is already there. Well to me I think of it like this as if the word is a minute. He just came out here on the shoulder and said, Gordon, Gordon, All power is given unto me in heaven and earth. I could remove that problem if it was my will to do so. How easily I could straighten out that thing if it were my will. All power is given unto me, and have them and in earth.
How lovely this is. Well, that's what we have rather than I believe in little sense in this 45th Psalm.
The heart is indicting a good matter. He's Speaking of those things which he has made touching the king. And grace is thorough, fairer than the children of man. Grace is poured into thy lips. We all know what grace is. Grace allowed is one thing. You can love a person because they're lovable, but grace is the undeserved favor of God, Someone said. Why don't you preach more about love? That's what people need. Why do you preach praise?
Fell by them. He's grace, perhaps, we say. Might almost say we need it more than love.
Try much of it in the passages that we read together in God's Word. Because you didn't. I didn't deserve the love that's owned to us. It's praise. Praise is poured into thy lips.
Therefore God hath blessed thee forever because the Lord Jesus came down to tell us that grace that was in the heart of God, he was the full revelation of all that was in the heart of God. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
But then when we come to the 33rd verse and the third verse, rather, maybe that is the answer to what we have in the chapter before. That is, God is going to come in in his own time, In God's own time, everything is going to be straightened out.
There's a time coming when the rest places will be made smooth and the crooked place is made straight, and all flesh shall see the salvation of the Lord. And so he looks on to a day when everything is going to be set right present like you tonight, that you and I'd be there.
Will have any problems up. There will be anything to be set right up there. Now he'll set everything right And as far as this world is concerned it's getting worse and worse. Problems are increasing on every hand. But isn't it good that we know the one? And it says the kingdoms of this world are becoming the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ and He shall reign forever and ever. So from the 2nd Psalm fight of the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing.
00:20:24
Men think that they can set things right because they're very well and the only one who can do it, he's going to set everything right.
Going to set everything right too for us. And so we have a little picture of this because everything is going to be satellite in a righteous way.
You know that king shall reign in righteousness, for instance, shall rule in judgment. People won't get away with things on the Millennium. Now everything is going to be set right. But we're living in man's day. This is not the day of the Lord. Yet it's man's day started allowing man to bring out and show what is in his heart, but he's also showing her what is in his heart. He's given his beloved friend his offering to man his great salvation. Pardon.
So God is not willing that ownership, courage, that all should come to repentance. That's what the gospel is, is telling us the heart of God to man, desiring his good and his blessing. But we know that there is a time when everything will be set right. And so says bring this before us. And it says in the sixth verse, Thy globe, O God, is forever and ever the scepter of thy Kingdom is a right scepter.
And a love is righteousness and haters wickedness.
Therefore thy God, thy God, have anointed thee with the oil of gladness. Above thy fellows there is going to be the after all of righteousness that is going to be established. And how much God hated sin, how much he hated iniquity, was displayed at the cross. And we think of God pouring out an awful lot of sin and guilt, and all the punishment that was due to it upon that blessed Holy One, his own beloved Son.
The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. You and I are no better, but it's because the Lord Jesus for that judgment.
Health, love, righteousness and hate your iniquity. It's someone who said he loved righteousness so much he died that it might be established that it costs him very much at the question of Sam would be taken up and settled for the glory of God that was in Calvary, and it's going to be a righteous judgment to find that in the 11Th chapter of Revelation.
Tells us that the time comes from the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ. And it says the nations are angry she didn't want God to step into their affairs. Nation wrangling in the day of Thy laws is coming. So what were the redeemed in heaven doing the rejoicing to giving them thanks, but that I was coming. The price is going to have His rightful place over there. You and I get him in his rightful place.
In our hearts and lives. Now, he has a right to that. That's what owning him as Lord really means, giving him the place of authority to sometimes say there's one person who has a right to tell me what to do from the time I wake up in the morning. So I go to bed at night.
He has a right by all him as my Lord. He seeks my good, but sometimes the faster which he leaves us in order that we might learn. This may seem difficult, but it's for his glory. And in the coming day we'll praise him. We'll thank him for all his ways of wisdom and love.
Well, he is exhausted now. He is annoyed as that the oil of gladness, the end of the seventh verse. I believe this 11Th verse and this eighth verse rather, is a little millennial picture. I think it's very beautiful, far like almonds smell of myrrh and owls and cash out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made me glad. I know this has been taken up by him later Speaking of the Lord coming from the ivory palaces, the mayor suggests that the real thought and the worst is looking on.
Time when there will be a righteous judgment, a righteous government established in this earth. If you recall, in the reign of Solomon, which is a little picture of the millennial Kingdom, he had a throne of ivory. And so when the Lord Jesus takes that rightful place which he will in the coming days, it says all thy garments, smell of myrrh and of allows and cash. I believe that means that when we see him there.
00:25:00
On that throne, but everything is established. He is having his rightful place. You'll never forget the cross. He'll be there, The remarks in his hands to be a spear mark in his side sometimes said. In that coming day, there's only one person in our eternity that will have the marks of sin and it will be my precious Savior and forever he will bear it. close marks of Calvary. But it cost him so it says.
All I Garmin Smells of murder, of allergy and allergen and cashews.
We'll never forget the costs by which we will redeem. We'll never forget Calgary, and these garments were, so to speak, be the constant reminder of what he went through for us.
King's daughters or mom or among my honorable women?
Upon my right hand it stand the Queen in gold welfare. You know that Israel, or the one who will occupy the nearest place on earth, has sometimes spoken out with the bride, the earthly bride, because the thought is that the bride occupies the nearest place. The ones will occupy the nearest place. I say this because some people have said there are two brides. Scripture never speaks that way. The Church is the Bride of Christ, but the one who will occupy the nearest place to praise upon earth are those of Israel.
And they've spoken out, and they're recognizing the Lord, their bridegroom. In that sense, my right hand expand the Queen in gold local parking, old ladder, and consider an inclined 9 years. Forget all to my own people. And our father's house. Well, what it was necessary to do Abraham. When Abraham was called a fellow to Chaldees, you forgot to have to forget his own people and his father's house.
And the Lord said he would love a father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me. The Lord Jesus must have first place. Lord would teach us to love our parents and girls who are near and dear. We have a certain responsibility through them. But there's one who must have first place in all things. He must have a preemptive. And we can never love father another more than the Lord Jesus. And all these decisions that we have to make in life to say, well, that's my mother, that's my brother, that's somebody who's very dear to me. But the Lord has the right to that first place hasn't been forget all for thy own people.
Paul said so Lord separated him from his mother's womb.
Called by His grace. And how often must it cost those early believers a great deal, and took their sins for the Lord? But such a was and so he says, to get also thine own people.
And social The king greatly desired thy beauty, for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him nature very dear. But even when a person is married, we know that there's someone that comes closer than father or mother to them. So the one who occupies the place of life, or perhaps they'll have some, occupies a much nearer place than any other relationship on earth. God has found its own. We have a peer brought forward, and his advice is that you and I are going to occupy the very nearest place.
To the Lord Jesus you are loved as His bride and he'll display outside. I think that's so beautiful what we have in Second Thessalonians that says when he shall count to be glorified in His Saints and to be admired all in the blue, because our testimony among you is believed in that day. But a wedding takes place and the husband introduces his bride as it was accompanied and say, this is the person.
Is going to share with me, although I have, and that's what it's going to take place. Want to be a wonderful thing, isn't it? Humbling present to think of it. The Lord is going to come out of heaven and the Lord is going to introduce and say these are the people that I chose.
That's why I think the thought of being elected is so wonderful. We're the chosen one. She's not chosen me that I have chosen you. And he was going to show that the people in Denver, maybe we just buy those who confess the name of the Lord Jesus and say who are those people that he's going to come again? And the Lord Jesus listen to those words again. He shall come to be glorified in his Saints and to be admired and all in the belief because our testimony among you have believed in that day.
What's the most system contrast for the chapter?
Did you come in with a whole lot of burdens on your hearts? Feel what's described in the end of this.
00:30:03
44th Psalm or something. The way I feel at times rather than the Lord come in and help me. But here he finds you lifting him out of all this by occupying him by the portion that it is in the future that is ahead of him and brought him. That's what the only thing the world being used psychology and all those kind of things. But Gaurav sets before us a vision of coming, glory, the cultivars again, what a vision is.
The people, parents, were cast off their strength. You're going to say, what's the use? When everything goes wrong, you lose sight of the glory that wakes up. But this thing just brought girls. Well, when we look in, we're not all glorious within, are we?
Now Paul said in me that is in my flesh dwelleth other things. Every one of us who are truly saved and learned something of the truth of God know that when we look within we're not glorious within. But there's a day coming and this is what it's pictured here. When we can look within a little him express and I see to look within and see no strings abroad, no curse to trace. He shed no tears to feel no pain.
Some crazy place. Which place? So I think there's a lot like the King's daughter is all glorious with him and that's what's before us. And that her clothing is of rock gold. So we know girls speaks of divine righteousness and we're all well acquainted with that beautiful verse in such 2nd Corinthians 5, verse 21. He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. That's already true of us.
It's not a logical verse in John's epistle as he is. So are we in this world, as do our standing. We will not have a better standing when we get to glory than we have right now. We are already the righteousness of God in Christ. We have that all foul of nature within and belong to the diamond. It will be gone. But this is all going to be displayed in the coming day. The King's daughters are glorious within.
Her clothing is of rock gold.
That was a little practical thought, I believe, brought in in this 14th verse. She shall be brought under the king in raiment of needlework words, and her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee and return to Revelation, chapter 19. I think perhaps it helps to understand this portion.
Revelation Chapter 19.
07.
Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife hath made herself ready, and her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white. For the fine linen is the new translation after Darby's translation is the righteousness is. It's really a plural word. If you look up in the original, it's a plural word. The righteousness is of Saints.
He said unto thee, Blessed are they which are called under the married supper of the Lamb said unto me, These are the true sayings of God. Here we see.
Sir, shall I say the results of the judgment seat of Christ in display. You and I are going to be there because of what God through His beloved Son accomplished for us, were already made the righteousness of God in him. But there's going to be a manifestation of our lives, and that will be at the judgment seat of Christ.
I'd like to say perhaps you get the thought when a girl is being married, I don't think because of anything she's going to wear on the wedding day that she's going to be his bride. He isn't even thinking of what she's going to wear. He just loves her and has Charles and her wants her for his companion. What she's looking forward to that day, she spoke to a lot of work to get a nice bridal dress ready for that day and so she puts a lot of work into it and there is the fine linen.
The firemen and is the righteousness is the practical thing today comes from here. This girl from each chosen chosen to be his bride not because of anything he's going to wear on that day, but he loved. Theresa May be the bride of his choice. But the marriage day has come. Now you and I are the espoused bride of Christ. He could have put in the practical way. Stitch by stitch, we're preparing for that bottle garment that's going to be on display in that day.
00:35:12
Install the fine lemon is the righteousness of the plural word of the Saints. So he looked at her and says, Did you make that yourself, dear it myself, oh beautiful, all I wanted to do just for this day. Oh no, lovely to think that the Lord is taking note of everything that you and I do for Him. We have not one thing that we can do is going to make us more acceptable to him as far as our standing is concerned.
But everything that we do to praise Him is going to be manifested. I'd like to look at a few verses in the New Testament that speak of this. Perhaps something going to be inspired first of all.
There's there's nine worker with labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done.
Whether good or bad, So here we find.
In the verse, the eighth verse, we're confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. I say that because anything that we do has nothing to do with our fitness for that place. It's all because of what Christ was done on the cross. But there is going to be this manifestation of our lives. Impulsivity was laboring, but when his life passed into review at the judgment seat of Christ, It will have the Lord's approval, but it might be done in such a way that he would want.
To have the Lord's well done.
We read about this in the Gospels. Well done. Now good and faithful servant and so on. Melissa is brought out here. It says everyone shall receive. The thing is done in his body according to that he has done, whether it be good or bad. When we stand with the judgment seat of Christ, we're going to stand there, called in the very best, grow. We're already perfectly accepted in the below, but there is a manifestation of our lives. And you say, well, what does it say, whether it be good or bad?
Well, some of these illustrated it like this and I thought it was very nice.
Supposing I had a great death and I couldn't pay it. And a friend comes along and says, give me all of accounts and I'll look after them for you. So I hand them all to him and he goes and settles them and he hands them back to me, and they're all marked, paid in full, but I never have added them up. I never. I didn't realize. I knew I was pretty badly in debt, but I didn't know how much. Now I'm not afraid to do it because we're OK and so.
I start to have them up and I oh, I never realized I had so great a gift.
And did my friend have to pay all that debt? He may have to sell his house to pay all my bills, so I thank him once. I want to thank him 1000 times for what he did rather than you. And I will never realize how great our debt was until the judgment seated Christ.
I say that because somebody might say, well, that too. Yes. We will never, never know how much we owe to the Lord until we see in that day is marks. And we blessed His hands and feet inside. He hung there at Calvary and that's blood. That Club forest cleanses you also. It's all going to be manifested. And then after we have been saved, sometimes we might think they're pretty good Christians, but we'll find that the Lord soften things in our lives. We weren't very pleasing to Him, but He loved it, just to say.
And he crept around with us in spite of our mistakes and our failures.
He still was the same as lovely with an everlasting love. Some people say it's just all going to come out here. You'll never, never know. I'll create the debt like the Lord Jesus paid until that day. The judgment seat of Christ. And I believe it's presented in different thoughts that you just took a few minutes maybe in First Corinthians 3. Here we see it's the whole life. 1St Corinthians 3. I believe it talked about our service to the Lord.
There's 12 Corinthians 3 now any man build upon this foundation. Gold, silver, precious stones, wood, a subtle every bands works we made manifest. For the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire. And the fire shall try every man's worth of what sort it is. Then man's work abide which you have built there upon he shall receive a reward in man's work that we burn, he shall suffer loss.
00:40:06
But he himself shall be saved, yet soul is by fire.
Here we have the manifestation of our service to the Lord. If any man's work can burn. So there can be a lot done, but it's not according to the vines and will of God. There can be a lot of chat. If you remember David, he wanted to bring up the ark of the Lord and he planned the way. He copied the idea from the Philistines and he really did it with the heart of the Lord. But it wasn't according to the mind. The girl of God and the Lord stepped in and showed that he wasn't pleased with what he had done.
Did he have a good motive yet? He asked you what to do it for the Lord. But if he had only searched the word of God, he would have found that there was a way that should have been done.
He didn't do it that way. Happily, he recognized that he was wrong, and he said I should have gone to the Lord of God and found out the way that God planned that the arts should be carried, because the ark was to be carried not on a new cart, but on the shoulders of the priest. So he he became exercise, and he said, well, we must do it The way God has said first time was like all burned up. It wasn't pleasing to the Lord, but nevertheless.
You know, did it in a way that was pleasing to the Lord, and the Lord was pleased and honored with what he had done. So we may try to do something for the Lord. If you're going to do something to the Lord, search the scriptures. Be sure you're doing it in a way that's according to His word. There can be a lot of effort put in the wrong direction.
Remember when I was a young man, I was at a conference in Toronto many years ago and went to the road as a building where we were and.
I when I came to the door I was pulling door open up and the door wasn't opening and there was somebody standing by and he says it says push not pull. And he said you can put a lot of energy in the wrong direction can't you? And we can put a lot of energy and it was a lesson for me.
Put a lot of energy in the wrong direction. Well, every man's word can be made manifest. Better to do a little according to the word of God than the last that is not according to his mind. And will send another verse in First Corinthians chapter four that I'd like to notice.
Four, Chapter 4, verse four. I know nothing by myself, yet am I not hereby justified. But he that judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come. The wealth will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the councils of the hearts. And then shall every man listen to these words, And then shall every man have praise of God. It's not lovely. Can you hear from the most wonderful verses in the Bible?
That the Lord is going to pick out of the life of every Christian something that he can reward. Maybe we did a mess of a lot of things, but he's going to pick out those things where you say that this what is this, Missus Morris? And you know, we might have a right motive. David, in that case, had a right motive. Another case too. He wanted to build a host for the Lord. He had a good motive. But the Lord said, no, David, your motives good.
He even said this, that it was good, that it was in my heart, he said, I don't want you to do it. It's your son that's going to do it. He took notice of the model. Parents will understand this little illustration too. But sometimes when you were brought up some of your nice China or some nice dishes and one of your children volunteered to help and drop some of your nicest dishes on the floor.
Sorry. It is. You condemn the child. Perhaps you kept them and say you have to help. I know you intended to help. Isn't that one of the rest of the kind of the God we have? He's kind of a manifest, the councils of the heart. And then shall every man have praise to God of God. You see these different things that are going to know, he said. I would like them to know. I'm glad you're going to come out. Aren't you Glad. Wouldn't you want to know whether the Lord was taking some things out of your life? Would you want the things that were not according to his will to remain either to us, the will of God about it forever?
When the standard of the judgments we have, Christ, it's not to lay a charge against you. I often say in English, we use the word judgment in two ways. There's a judge in a court and he is there to impose fines or sending people to jail. He's what we might call a penal judge, but that's very nice. You might go to a craft show. That very judge was with a penal judge there and was impulsing fine and sending them to prison. And here he died in this, in this craft shelf.
00:45:13
There to punish anybody. No hope. You therefore to give rewards. He's going to get rewards And so the same man sits there and he's the judge too. But he's the judge of the character of the work that he's getting rewards for what will meet the reward. So you know, lovely the Lord never going to judge me for my sin. He bought my judgment but he's going to be the judge as to what abide for him. But just one other passage I'd like to turn to in Romans chapter.
Chapter.
14 Romans, chapter 14.
There's 10 So let us thou judge thy brother, or whitest thou said it, not thy brother? We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. There's 12. So that every one of us shall give account of himself to God. This isn't speaking here of assembly responsibilities, but these are Speaking of those things that we often form judgment of in life. You have to be pretty careful, Don't we bother him? Might be the brother that I thought was.
Not very spiritual or something. He should be standing right beside me.
How about seeing gotta get Gregory awarded me? I gotta be careful what I say. I'm not speaking as I say. Other scriptures show us the assembly has a responsibility and connection with judging sin in the Assembly of God. But here are these personal things. And so it says, Why does thou judge thy brother? Why does thou said it not thy brother? Isn't it good for us to remember that we're all going to be there? He's always going to manifest what has been for himself.
Love itself in our lives. And so everyone else shall give account of himself to God. Are you worried about what somebody else did? Well, and my dear father, he used to mention this verse to us. He said, remember, everyone shall have to give an account of himself. I would have to give an account for you. He won't have to give an account for me, but I will have to give an account for my son. Can I treat that brother rightly? Did I show him the spirit of Christ? Did I try to help him? All those things I'm going to have to give him an account for.
But the judgment is right, so I just went to me. So the whole life passed under you, our service.
Our motives and our attitude always come both but the judgment seat of faith. But then shall every man with praise of God tell me something in every believers right that the Lord will pick out that will receive a reward from Him? Well, this is very serious for us when we think of it, and I believe it comes in here, this chapter. Let's go back out of the 45th Psalm.
She shall be brought under the king and raiment of needlework. Have we looked the practical side of things that is brought before us with gladness and rejoicing? Verse 15 of the 45th Psalm shall she be brought. They shall enter into the King's pals. What a time of rejoicing. Nothing that has been of the flesh will abide, will all be burned up, but our water and blessed thing, that the Lord will take notice of those things. But I can see how practical it is.
This is the same person Bergman that was so cast out in the chapter before. He's about discouraged, he says. Why doesn't God come in?
Now the Lord has given him a view of himself. He says, everything going to be set right. Another day, and our own lives are going to be passing the review to the gladness and rejoicing shall it be brought. They shall enter into the King's house, he thought, I like to mention in this sixth verse, instead of thy father shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make Princess in all the earth.
I take a little comfort from this verse, you know, because those are bringing up children in this day. Say, my what an evil day to bring up children. And perhaps that might be the thought of the ones who are bringing up children. Even this terrible day of darkness and the tribulation period. It'll be an awful, dark day, an awful hard day for them as they see their children on the day when wickedness has reached, hate never reached before. What is the word of encouragement here?
He says. Instead of looking back to the days of your father's look on, you know, those children.
00:50:06
Who are born during the Tribulation or who are saved during the Tribulation? Perhaps they'll enter into the millennial age and they'll enter into our most wonderful time.
You know, I think it was in the practical way they apply it this way. We often say, oh, what a difficult day to bring up children. What a hard day for our children and young people. But they may be living in the most wonderful day, but every person would desire to be living in the very generation of the Lord God, the very generation of the Lord. Come her children may be greatly privileged growing up. I say in the generation, you boys and girls, you know, the Lord is your savior. You may be more favorite than your grandfather. Maybe he's already with the Lord, but.
He was waiting for the Lord's coming. But you may see the very moment from the Lord defense, instead of thy father shall be thy children. So they're going to be a Prince in all the earth. So children, from the dark days of the tribulation, they're going to be up in places of authority in the Kingdom when Christ faces rightful place. We're going to reign with strikes, but a future for us.
Dennis mentioned the importance of the Lord's family. Make thy name to be remembered in all generations.
Therefore, will the people praise thee forever and ever notice for 12. Have a few minutes here on this 46. This is a unique song. This is the only song that has this heading, says to the chief musician for the sons of Korah. A song upon element. The only song 150 that has this heading. And if you look it up, perhaps you have a little note If you look up in the cadarbies and you'll find that this was women's fingers.
Quite remarkable. There were one of the singers as we know in the temple and so these are mentioned. If you took the time to look it up, you'll see different instances of it. But I think it was very beautiful because you know, sisters can cannot be given the public place that God has given to the brother, a more responsible place, but they can have a tremendous influence, a tremendous influence. He had a bad influence and she influenced her husband.
If I gather abundance of records, that there are many women that had a wonderful influence through the scripture.
And so system songs, and may I say it to the sisters, here is this your song. When difficulties arise in the hat family, when difficulties arise in my home life, and when the assembly, What's your attitude toward them? Is this the way you talk to your husband, to your brother? God? Is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble? Therefore, will not we fear at all the earth be removed, all those mountains be carried into the midst of the sea?
So the letters are of long be troubled, so the mountains shake that the flowing around.
See my coffee. Everyone of the brothers in this room know what it means to have their wife give them a word of encouragement when they feel discouraged. What a word a sister can say. You read of a few instances of the Old Testament of feminine God used like Deborah and different ones who God used to be a help in dark days.
And so here we have this Earl sum, sung by the women singers, and to me it's just as if in the midst of all those about it been before us. In the 44 song in the 45th, just as if a forest is human, voices came back. Well, let's not be afraid, but instead of small, that the Lord is over. All the mountains may be cast into the midst of the sea, the waters may be swelling, but the Lord's the same. He's always a source of strain from health.
And so our sisters can be a marvelous help in this. And I think it's a beautiful sound. I'm sure. I'm sure all of us have enjoyed it.
Perhaps you never noticed that before you only wanted a whole 150 that we read out, which is sung by particularly women voices.
Fit Where is God is in the midst of her? She shall not be moved. God shall help her in that right early.
And then in the seventh verse, the Lord of Pulse is with us. So you say that there's only a few about the Lord of Hopes to do us. You know that they left that expression out of the new NIV. They said nobody would understand that expression. The Lord of both farming is the most wonderful expression, the Lord of both, because sometimes you do feel very much alone. But the Lord, a false, showed a great company. And so it says the Lord of folks is with us.
00:55:05
The God of Jacob, what do you say? He looked at the failures. And we've made a lot of mistakes. Yes, I have. But you have. And so the God of Jacob is our refuge. Jacob made many mistakes, but God made plentiful promise to Jacob and thinks of himself more as the God of Jacob than even the God of Abraham and Isaac. What a God we have. He never changes. He's faithful and we fail that. And then we see the the eighth verse and the back verse.
How the Lord comes in and he takes care of things and He settles things. Sometimes you just have to wait his time, he has been saying. We wait his time.
Both all about soon end in bliss. Today the time comes when he comes in very often. So I say it's just the day after our place has been exhausted, he said. Can't wait any longer, but if we just wait a little longer, he would have come in. Have you seen that? Oh, how wonderful. Israel's God is our problem and so.
Ten First he still and know that I am God, the hard thing for us, isn't it sometimes to be still.
Children of Israel came there by the Saints of the Red Sea. There was the enemy behind them, and the sea of the head of them was awfully hard to stand still. But Moses said, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Nothing stood still for a while. Then the Lord said, Now go forward. I go from delay. And he opened the way the waters were twelve of them in the right hand and the left. But that you can picture them there with that arm, here the.
Egyptians behind them and the rare sea in front of them is pretty hard to stand still, wasn't it? Well, sometimes it's like that, you know, behind it before. It seems difficult. He's still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among me. Even I will be exalted in the earth without the Lord of us. He isn't a kind of small company. When you reach heaven brought him, it's going to be a great company with no man can number. And sometimes it might be that two or three gathered to his name. But when we reach there, it's going to be a little company.
A tremendous company, the Lord false, is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge, the God of none of Abraham but the God of children.
Barely know we are isn't as fun as that. So may the Lord just give us no word of encourage that we're living in times when it may seem difficult to go on. Sometimes you might feel something like this 44 thumb but that is considered as 45th song. Let us think Hello Lord going to put in his own time. And I have a glorious future before me. And I have a glorious savior. He's altogether lovely, his garment smell of myrrh and olive and kashyap.
My tongue is the pan is our fares and the children of men. Grace is thought into thy love. What a, what a savior we have. How wonderful. Don't think the Lord granted we'll be more occupied with him and more difficulties to come. May we encourage one another in the Lord's? Just one little instance in the Bible.
For Jonathan, remember went out to fight the host of the Philistines and he went and his armor there and the host of the cell phone is up there in the Garrison and Jonathan felt very, very weak. He said doesn't matter to the Lord whether there's many or few, that he got a little bit closer and saw the difficulty that was ahead of him.
Gathered that, he turned around.
Well, it was too much for me and his servant that was with him. God hasn't even mentioned his name. I'll find out in heaven. But I don't hear you very much. But he said turn me. I'm with thee. You are. Listen my heart, Jonathan. His armor very long forward and one won a great victory. Maybe there's some time we'll use that. He got told his food, that's all. Like turning back And someone said don't get discouraged, the world is with him. He won't fail.
Let's know how to speak that little word of encouragement at the right time. Our God is the God of all, and courage and courage.
Wonder if we could sing that again, 312.
Lead on, Almighty Lord, lead on to victory. Encouraged by Thy blessed word with joy, we follow thee. 312.