Fullerton Conference: 1960
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Acts 10:16-end
Address—C.H. Brown
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Following an address by our brother Ch Brown at Fullerton, January the 3rd, 1916.
Kindly read Acts 20 starting with the 16th verse to the end of the chapter. Stop the teeth while the word is being read. Thanks.
Rather an ambitious portion for.
Just an hour of meditation.
So we can only hope to send reception about it.
Just as the apocalypse farewell message.
Through the decision, Elder, he tells us in this chapter, they labored among them for three years.
Some of us were speaking at the dinner table today of the.
Precious tender relationship, affections that exist among the members of Christ where we're thrown together.
In the associations that become us as the Lord's redeemed.
The longer these associations continue.
The more precious they become.
Become most intimately associated in the bonds of Christ.
We have the picture to ourselves, the dear apostle hastening to get to Jerusalem for this piece of Pentecost.
We can't take the time to go up to episodes.
He feels that he did. He'd be delayed too much.
The next arrangements ahead of time that he might have the elders sundown.
And he done burgeoning talk to them, and they can take the messages back to the beloved brethren at Ephesians.
Some my leaders who sent to emphasis that my leaders will support.
The occasion but.
My latest you sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church.
Would it be out of place to stop a moment there and ask what does that mean? The elders of the church?
In those days.
We take it for advantage and I think rightly so.
That the apostle had seen to it that wherever he ministered.
Elders were ordained by himself or one of his representatives.
In every place where they live now keeping.
Chapter in hand. Look at the 14th chapter of this act here.
21St verse.
At 1421.
And when they had took the gospel to that, that in the top many they returned, began to Lisha, and to Akonium, and to Antioch.
Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the space.
And that we must do much stipulation enter into the Kingdom of God.
And when they had ordained them, elders in every church.
And it paid the fasting They recommended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed when they had ordained them elders and every church.
Ordained elders in every church.
That is the order.
Day of the Apostle.
Now we may draw wrong conclusions at this point.
When they say if that's the case.
Let us have the same today. Let us have ordained elders and all our family.
Well, beloved, there are two reasons why we don't have them.
And why they can't have them?
In the first place, we haven't any.
Apostles, you haven't any properly constituted authority to place them in our meeting. That's the first reason.
For on no occasion, as far as the word of God tells us, that the church itself ever hold an election and elect or choose their elders.
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That was left to the apostles or to those with delegated authority.
We have no apostles today.
The only Testament apostles and the New Testament prophets were occupied with laying the foundation of the Church of God.
We have built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the truth cornerstone.
They belong to the foundation. The foundation is laid.
Apostleship was not passed on in succession.
We've got that very distinctly brought out in Peters epistle.
Of course, was one of the cheapest of the apostles.
And he reminds us to whom he wrote that after his decease.
They were to keep in mind not what his successors should tell them, but they were to keep in mind what he had written to them.
In other words, the only succession they were to have on his demise.
Would be the written word itself. He made no provisions to have someone take his place when he was flew down here.
Nor was any such provision made, as far as we can learn from stitches for the Church of God down to the ocean, your position made for a continuation of the Apostolate.
That's the run route.
Now the second reason is this.
The person we had the Apostle Paul here today.
And we could say to him, well, brother Paul, you know, we in Fullerton here would like to have some ardained elders.
And will it suggest that since he was here, that he should appoint them?
You know what I surmise would be the apostles reaction to that?
What these are selling us with another question and say, well, if I ordained elders for the Church of God in Fullerton, where shall I put them?
As we pass that question on to us, what would we say?
Would we say this is the tips of God in Fullerton?
We would not if we were taught of God.
No, we wouldn't be getting of a misinterpretation or a misunderstanding of the mind of God to say a thing like that.
What is the Church of God in Fullerton? The Church of God in Fullerton is composed of every blood, box, spirit, indwelt, soul in politics. The Church of God in Orange County is composed of every blood bought it still stores or still engraved souls.
Composite the sessions are.
If the apostle were to say, well, I'm going to put them all here in this little group.
Or how inflated we would become. But he couldn't do it. He couldn't consistently do it.
Because we cannot rightfully put a sign out in front of any building where we may be privileged to meet and say the Church of God will meet here at such and such a time. Why can't we?
Because we're only just a poor little remnant.
A poor feeble little remnant trying in these last days.
To maintain the truth as we find it in the Word of God.
But let us none of us ever become intoxicated with the idea that we are the Church of God.
Your brethren was just a poor little remnant.
The Word of God has much to say about Remnants. You know, they have a lovely place in scripture. It's a friendly to be identified with the believing Remnants. But the Remnants must never get the idea that.
That they represent the whole thing? Never. And God thought.
Any members of the Body of Christ in Orange County is just as dear to the heart of the Savior as any one of us here in this room this afternoon.
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God doesn't believe in favoritism in that way.
Every dear blood box soul is present.
Through the heart of God, to the heart of Christ. And if you and I have the thought of God, if we think his thoughts after him, we're going to have a section for the members of Christ as we meet them here and there.
The apostle calls for the elders.
How many were they?
We're not told. I don't believe you can find anywhere.
Sending your testimony.
Well, we're given anything, any description that we can pin down that eldership and say every church had 7 elders, 5 elders, 3 elders.
But there's one thing we absolutely can pin down, and that is that there was no church that just had one.
There's no such thing in the New Testament as the elder of the church that's out.
No, the elders were always more than one.
Now another question.
We ruled out ordained others because we don't have the proper authority to ordain them.
Let's ask ourselves this question.
Does that mean that we have no elders?
No, I do not think it means that we're without elders, but we are without all facial elders.
But in the goodness of God.
In his mercy and his kindness, in His consideration forest in our remnant character.
Who does raise up of those among us that function in the capacity of elders? Thank God for such.
And I believe that things recognizes such not losing our place here. Look at first Thessalonians.
The 5th chapter.
Last chapter, first Thessalonians and the 11Th verse.
Therefore comfort yourselves together.
And edify one another even as also you do.
And we beseech you, brethren.
The No Lamb.
Which labor among you and are over you in the Lord, handed money, and to have seen them very highly in love for their work sake, and be at peace among yourself.
There is an excitation to faith to give recognition to those.
From the Lord is praised to raise up among us. Let's take the lead among us.
I turned a little further to the last chapter of Hebrews and we get a similar thought.
The last chapter of Hebrews and the 17th verse.
Obey them or submit to them that have the rule among you are better translated that takes the lead among you.
Submit themselves for they watch for your soul.
As though that must give account.
That they may do it with joy and not with juice, for that is untouchable for you.
Now if we're taught of God.
We are going to have that spirit of submission to those whom the Lord may place in a position of godly leadership among us. There are such in the wings of God among us wherever we go.
Submit yourselves under them, those that take the lead among you, for they watch for your soul.
I presume some of us in our younger days.
Had little idea of the exercise of soul to which some of our older brothers passed.
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In their desire to see us go on with the law, how much time is spent in prayer? How often they mentioned our news before the throne of grace as they sought to lead us on in the truth and she is preserved, and the snares that were laid for our feet.
I would say to you, younger Christians that are here today don't despise the leadership that God has been pleased to set.
In the meeting with which you are identified.
When a brother in the assembly comes to you, and since to speak with you in separate care for your soul.
If you resist him, it isn't that you're just in rebellion against that particular brother, but you're in rebellion against the law because the Lord has placed those in the meetings that have on their hearts the welfare, the Saints of God, and they signed out of an honest and good heart, a shepherd and care for the flock of God.
You know this word, Elder?
Synonymous with another word and secure. That's the word business. Look at the first chapter of Titus and we'll see that.
Write us the first chapter.
And the fifth verse.
For this cause, let's Ivy increase.
The 1007 orders, the things that are wanting.
And ordained elders in every city. I had a point of view, if any, blameless. The husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly for a Bishop. Now these things are terminologies. We're still talking about the same man. Well, these things are terminology. Now he's a Bishop. A Bishop must be blameless as a steward of God.
Not self will not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker not given to selfie losers.
Love of hospitality, a lover of Goodman, stobers, just holy, temperate, holding fast the faithful word, as he has been taught that he will be able by sound doctrine both to exhaust and convince the game Sayers.
Now there we see that an elder and a business.
I have a thing.
Why use the 2 words?
Well, the elder is the name of the office.
And I would take from the original word that used for elders that it suggests that it's an older brother.
All that time older, of course, is a relative term.
In a country such as the United States of America.
Where the ordinary lifespan seems to be around 60 or 70.
We look for the older brothers, the Big Brothers with Gray hairs, Expect them to be well on in years. Let our brother Alexander telling me that down there, and that's part of Mexico where he's been laboring that they don't live that long. And our brother Eric Smith told us to Down on the plateau there's a northern Bolivia.
The lifespan down there comparatively short, so we can't pin this thing down and say you've got to have 60 birthdays before you can be an elder, maybe only have to have 50 or maybe 40.
In a way, it's a relative matter, so we mustn't be legal in these things. But we do see that one thing was requisite, that they should be those of ripened experience, both in their personal life and in the assembly, in their family life. They were not to be novelty.
I've met with some cases in my day and I suppose you have food. I've met young men around, unmarried young men around.
2122 years of age that would tell me was considerable prize. Yes, I'm an elder in the church and unmarried young man in his twenty. Well, we don't find anything like that in the word of God is false. Those that are going to assume the place of leadership in the Assembly of God are those that are right and inexperienced and remember this.
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That there is no substitute for ripen the experience and the things of God. That's the reason the word of God says not a novice, not one really come to the faith.
Sometimes we have those brought to the Lord energetic.
Flashes born to leadership.
And being really saved, they want to do things and they immediately strive to take over.
They need to wait. They need to be part of God. They need to ripen up in the school of God.
For in the ways of God, he hasn't seen fit to put rural in the church, or leadership in the church in the hands of such.
I remember old brother Willis that kiss Tipper Willis, father.
Giving an address. Just design. Getting here today. This was at the conference in Chicago.
He was speaking along this line.
He says all my children have a better education than I have.
Says, There's one thing that none of my children have. They don't have my experience. Let us not discount the fact that some of our brethren have been in the past few years. They've raised the problems that believers meet along the way.
They start to get God's mind about the various situations that arise in the church is gone and had a privilege. It is to have those to whom we can go that are able to give us helpful advice along the way.
Now I went to that in its last analysis, the authority of the Word of God takes two things over anybody's advice that goes without question. None of us are ever wiser beyond the word of God. None of us are going to be guilty of putting forth any dog. No, the word of God in this reign supreme. But let us beware.
When we resist the greatest careful leadership oversight.
Of some brother or sister in the mood who's trying to help us.
Let us see to it that we're not resisting the voice of God through our conscience. If we do, it'll be to our loss.
It's an excellent false presenting himself here in the plaintiff of the acts of these elders.
782 first.
You know, from the first day that I came into Asia.
After what manner I have been among you at all seasons. After what manner?
At all food.
Sometimes brothers.
Wonder why?
They don't seem to have more weight. Why the brethren don't listen to them better than they do.
Do you think we might have the answer to it here?
It also reminds us of season elders after what manner he had been among them at all seasons.
And then as we read that chapter, defining a Bishop and Titus.
Notice the qualification.
Are you complaining that your brother don't listen to you?
You feel hurt and slighted because you don't have more weight in your meeting.
You think, brother, that you might have some of the answer to it?
In this deception of the Bishop.
Not South Wales, not seen. Angered.
Dear brother, look at yourself Will. Do you lose your temper?
If you do, if yourself will lose your temper.
If you're a stressor, that means one thundering all the time.
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You can't wonder if the veterans do not pay you the respect when you speak to them, if you'd like them.
This thing went both ways. I said. He, my brethren, when they come to me, But on the other hand.
That brother who assumes a place of leadership in the Church of God.
See to it. And he has a manner of life that corresponds to that place of leadership.
And the brother who's constantly losing his pain.
She's constantly trying to have his own way, resting himself through.
Is not wrong. Is going to command the respect in the confidence of the state.
After what manner I've been with you at all season, serving the Lord with all criminality of mind, humility of mind.
There's nothing more.
Cut back to little extreme, they'll turn that down.
There are few things.
More unbeknownst.
In a servant.
Then to become pompous and overbearing.
The Apostle was not that.
No, Serve the Lord with all humility of mind.
And as many people.
Our ministry for him never became a soft, easy pursuit.
No, he wasn't leaning back in the lap of luxury and his service for Christ. It was a rugged reality for him wherever it went.
Said the Lord with many tears and cries.
I remember dear old brother father saying more than once. He said if you want a happy service for Christ, go out and preach the gospel.
But he says if you want style hot, serve the sentence off.
11 It's true. The one that's going to serve the Church of God is going to bear on his heart.
All the trials and troubles would affect the same.
And that is not true. That the trials and troubles that may be in our local assemblies at present moment, our new thing in the history of the Church of God here on earth, They have always been here.
Certain states the truth of the church. Satan is the enemy of God and of Christ. Satan doesn't want to see anyone going on with the Lord in this world.
He wants the flowers. In the confusion he's ever casting in the apple of this part among us, that we may get it out with one another. When he's doing that, he's working at his place.
Let's never get discouraged because things are not going as smoothly as it may.
But let's research into the closet and get on our knees and try to God for wisdom and help through the difficulty that may be present at that time.
Or I've seen.
Some situations.
Wedlock situation and impasse that it seemed that nothing could break.
God came in and answered.
Some deep, earnest, long class sinks on their knees, crying out in united prayer from God to come in.
And I seen those situations clear up and dissipate and disappear, and Saints go on again and happy harmony all. Let's remember that we have a living God in heaven that's interested in the welfare of these people. Don't give up, don't succumb.
To these old stores that will exist.
If you all know tired, baby.
He wasn't out.
And they bring them, God help them to.
Just looking for the next month steps.
And leading us now.
He was there to represent God.
Is there to speak for us a mind of faith. And he says. I stepped back. Nothing is possible underneath.
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Do we want 2276?
Anything to it?
Do it. We desire to keep to ourselves. Grow that will.
All that's been saying, the things that took a lot is.
What we do, we're not in the mind of the spirit of God.
We were there in the 2nd 10 minutes as the time is coming.
Whenever nothing doers sound option.
But they'll heat to themselves to keep having this in years and turn away that way from the truth.
Well, what's the penalty for that? They should be turned undestable.
If we resist the truth of God, if we say I won't have it, then we're going to have certain substances, we're going to be turned aside to something that's not the truth of God.
Well, the dear faithful apostle Paul.
Wherever he went.
He gained hold back anything.
We're living in a rare compromise.
The desire for good things.
Besides, they said hi.
And there's others. The truth suffers.
Passes in the groups because men have set certain goals and they say they're going to listen to.
At what price? All sad to say, at the price of the surrender.
Of much of the present truth of God's Word.
60 value more.
And good, good powerful assembly.
100 getting together.
Or the train crisis on the decorated trees of gas. In all experience, which will be prepared?
You know it costs something to walk in the truth of God.
And read it does. Where that will limit Godling, Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
The devil was always ludicrous into the path of compromise.
We say, well, why do you have to do some differently from everybody else?
Why does it fall in with the pattern, the accepted pattern around?
What do you know how that works?
Why do you do it? Why do you say? Well, things aren't too far off center. Let's do it. Let's fall in with accepted panic.
Is accepted pattern 25 years from now what it is today? No, it's just gone that much further off centers. And so if you try to keep up with accepted patterns, you're just gifting, gifting gifts and generation to generation and you know where you'll end up. You're going to end up and layer this year. That's for your end layer to see us. What is Laurie Lucia? It's the last of the seven cities.
As recorded in the second and third chapter of Revelation.
And it's the professional Church of God.
Become such a naughty thing that the Lord Jesus Christ.
The head of the church has to say I'm going to steal you out of my mouth.
As a hateful A rejected testimony.
And that's exactly what's going to come.
All this build up that's growing around it that's going on around us today.
Yes, build up for world power, whether it seems a policy from or whether it's in Protestant news.
It's all heading for the same.
And it isn't far off when the whole thing is going to collapse under the governmental hand of God.
It's a day at present from the Lord, lower than you hear, and thank God he has them here and there.
Two more of them. They're not lost in the crowd. He has his eye on it.
One of these days in here, the South and everything one will be caught out of this world that needs the Lord in the air.
But all is not a sad thing to say. And then can still go on functioning as though nothing had happened.
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Representation Be there next Sunday to give these sermons.
The people can be there to hear it, the elders in the distance can be there, and the thing can go on, functioning as all the Lord has never come.
Because it's a non save proofage.
And unsaved distance and unsaved elders and unsaved members.
Now that may be an external location, but it shows the point.
The Lord is going to take out all the mediums long ago.
Those that have a vital link to the living Christ and glory, he's going to take them out and this dead, lifeless profession is going to be left behind.
All beloved. They can't afford to take the load of compaments.
Paul says. I set back nothing it was possible to do. You want to have gospel?
We want the pitching of a line of truth that's constantly dodging 50.
All Rd. into the moon and he's trying to make God around here and there to escape the significance of birthday that he comes across in God's word.
Every word of God is healing, and you and I have no right to discount one person in the lives of the books. It's Paul, written for our instruction and our learning.
Well, what was the burden of Paul's ministry? Well, as far as the gospel.
It was testifying both the Jews and the Greeks.
Repentance towards us and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
You can never improve on that.
If you haven't started with repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, you just haven't started.
That's fundamental. That lies at the foundation of all.
Have you taken sides of God against yourself?
That you're taking your place in the just.
And his Christ become your All in all.
Have you said yes to the pleadings of the Spirit of God had returned to the Lord Jesus Christ?
Repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ah, the one in whom you'll have to put your face is God Christ.
Many talk strikes today, they put them at the front door.
Yes, they do. Your doorbell rings, you go there and somebody wants to give you some medicine. Maybe, the magazine says, oh wait.
You know that magazine would be better named Go To Sleep.
It's an opiate to put you to sleep. It's a denial of the truth of God.
Yes, Satan is busy. He robbed of God's price. Or be sure.
That the Christ whom your question is God's Christ.
Where the world is full of any Christ today.
And their number is increasing and one of these days in a different power.
The Antichrist is going to appear on the thing, and the world that has turned its back on God's sight is going to welcome Satan's Antichrist. Oh what a world it is. No wonder the heart of the Christian says Even so. Come, Lord Jesus.
Now a little further down.
26 verse.
Wherefore I take you to record this day that I am pure from the blood of all men.
When I have not done to declare all the council of God.
People say, well, why do you have to go into all those things? Why aren't you satisfied just to pick the gospel?
Just get people saved. Let it go at that.
Or, brethren, what a misrepresentation of the heart of Christ that is.
That isn't God's truth.
Why the Apostle Paul bore upon his heart and his ministers to present every man's perfect.
Inside every man. Perfect, So long, mature.
Don't ever be satisfied with the attainment of the system or their vast heights. Yet to be still, we never stand down here. That's long gone wrong.
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Someday we're going to be welcomed into the perfection of His presence. Then there's no more progress to be made in that way. The ground here you can always have more of Christ. You can search the Word, and if you live to be 100 years old and your mind's clear enough to think, you'd be discovering new and blessed truth in the Word of God that you haven't seen before.
I had that little Mr. Potter stay at my home.
In 19 years in succession, during the time of the morning country, sometimes it'd say two weeks, sometimes it's basically.
And the thing that I often notice.
But the way that old gentleman ready by.
And he'd get up early too easy.
Anything crap to me. You know, I saw something in there, in the script, in that scripture this morning I never saw before in my life. And I think to myself, well, I don't understand that. I thought she knew everything in that book.
And yet he was mentioned new discovery. And there was, with his patriarchal old way heaven and his white beard looking the very picture of heavenly wisdom. Yet he was still finding new discoveries in the word of God. Well, that's wholesome.
I took your direction to this day, that I am cured from the blood of all men. What does he mean by that?
Ah, he means that no one could ever accuse him.
Of having misled them after the truth of God doesn't ever say pause and never told us that.
You never ministered that truth.
So he accept himself and they're responsible for the blood of any. I'm not trying to declare unto you all the council of God. Do you want left?
You want less. You want to live by less?
I was about to go to some company where they're quite satisfied. There's 75% of 50% and 25%. You got any, any percentage you want that 5 or 10%, five percent, 1%?
How much do you want?
I'm not stunned to declare you all the council of God that was called minister.
Well, the dear man comes down now to the end of his address to the elders.
And the kids no doubt ran down the street.
As you told in a sad news.
That he knew that after he was gone.
Satan is going to get busy and divide them and scatter them.
And that scattering is going to take place in two ways.
Jehovah Witnesses in the 7th Day Adventists and the Christian Scientists were going to come along that drew this world and scatter the flock.
I don't believe that hurts the apostles.
I don't believe that the success that he touched things like the next.
Also of your own style shall men arise.
This is perverse things to draw away disciples after James.
That's what made him lose.
That's the reason, he said. Therefore, Watson, remember that by the space of three years.
I seek not to warn everyone. They are not.
Oh, how sad it is.
When a brother.
Assumes the responsibility.
Of dividing the Saints of God, of your own self shall men arise, looking for birth things. Headstrong things determine things.
What for the jaw away disciples after themselves?
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All the Saints of God is suffering under that light for all of history.
The thing had already started and stirred in Paul's getting everything. I'm a Paul. I'm stupid. I'm a Polish. I'm Christ, it's driving way back there.
But it's just as heinous in God's sight for there as it was then.
God stops having things a bit.
And you know, beloved things in God, I believe I can say it with with true humility and heart. I'd rather just quit.
I'd rather die right here standing Vic.
And ever be left in this team to divide the Church of God? I think that is one of the saddest tragedies that could ever possibly come into the life of a of a servant in law. The guilty of leading away a person of the Church of God can Christ to send his destiny might have a personal following.
Or how contrary to the heart of sight that is.
The Good Shepherd gathers, who sits together.
The Good Shepherd wants to see them step together as one flock he loves in every woman.
You know, Mr. Potter said. That has been helpful to me down through the years.
It's kind of.
He said, Brethren.
Remember the Lord has settled. Remember the Lord has shepherds.
But it has no separate laws.
All that stuff been off topful thought for me.
In what spirit do I do I yearn after those whom I may?
Is it a self-righteous of Paris or the Spirit?
Or do I have the heart of Christ? It bears them upon my heart is belonging to him. And though I long to see them gather, Christ is the center, it will not be happy in His presence again.
And our brethren.
I come in with a God, and to the word of his grace.
Notice he didn't say. I commend you to the apostles.
We didn't say I commend you to the elders or the deacons.
We commend them to no earthly authority whatsoever.
We commanded them to do unchangeable objects, God and the Word. And God seems no God that changes not.
Ever Thy word is settled in heaven.
He commanded them to God.
And the word of His grace.
Which is able to build you up.
And to give you an inheritance among all remittance sanctified, God wanted to be built up in our most holy things.
And we do that.
And he wants us to have an inheritance among all them is sanctified. Bethan God's people are sanctified people, have separated people and gathered out people.
And so Paul is commanding into that job and to that word that would bring them into the realization that God wants us separated in the holy people.
All when we see things of God.
Signs of Tom noodle.
The holy things of God, when the price of this world got an insult, it is for the blessed Lord Jesus.
Oh beloved must wake up.
Let's remember how near we are to the end.
Is our association that?
God can recognize as a sanctified association.
Is our fellowship was sanctified fellowship?
Our our relaxation from time to time are they strengthified? Relaxation somewhere in the desert and the reservoir. God has no objection to people coming apart and resting a while. But are they sanctified? Relaxation.
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Now the 36th verse.
When he had just spoken, he kneeled down and prayed with them all.
Played with them all.
Said wisdom not absent.
No, not over them.
They all knelt down together and he prayed with them all.
On the left shore and fell on Paul Smith. The system. How lovely are the affections of the people of God.
Don't ever seek for anything like that in the world. You'll never find this.
Going join this or that, but you'll pay your way, and you'll pay as long as you're there.
All that you have is a mercenary is a mercenary return. It's all on the basis of what you've got.
That all beloved, this fellowship in the which you and I are brought by the grace of God, is the fruit of Calvary.
It comes down from a bell from the head of the church. Such lovely affections you see displayed here.
All wept sore and fell on Paul's neck and how they loved them.
Will be an unfaithful shepherd. Had he always smoked, spoken smooth things to them.
Just the way they wanted it. Absolutely no. And when it's been today farewell time, their hearts and sanctions is told them that that dear man of God had told them the truth.
And to serve God, talking to their arms around them, and their tears and tears and mingles as they pardon for the last time here on this earth.
Styling most of all to the words that he spoke.
That they should see his face no more.
And they accompanied him to the ships. Yes, there they go, down to the shore. They watch him get on the boat.
And I can see them moving as the boat pulls out.
You know, we had a little brother among us, namely William George Hughes of Ottawa.
Is there drifted? Settlement starts.
He was instrumental in my being at the Vancouver conference.
My wife and I both in 1913.
And we took boats from there down to Seattle.
And that old man continue. The last time I ever saw him, I both pulled out. And there's your old Gray hair section. That faithful servant. Really. Thank you. Where they had to see the book pulled out the end of the day. That was our last night of the ministry.
All beloved. Hallelujah. The acceptance of Christ. Let's not betray them. Let's not seek a substitute. Let's go on the job. The Lord is coming. Let's go closer together. We need each other. I need your encouragement. I know I'd love to be a little encouragement to you. The Lord's coming is so near. Double quote.
Continue in Prayer
Address—C.H. Brown
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Acts 114. These all continued with one accord and prayer and supplication.
With the women, Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
2nd chapter.
41St verse.
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized.
And the same day they were added unto them about 3000 souls.
And they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine, and fellowship, and in breaking of bread and in prayers.
It's my thought this afternoon to group.
The remarks that may be made.
More or less under these headings that we find in this.
42nd verse.
Continuance.
The Apostles doctrine.
The Apostles Fellowship.
The breaking of bread and prayers.
That verse.
Is one of the very important verses in our New Testament.
Because it gives us the pattern of the early church.
The church has it met under the guidance of the Spirit of God.
In the days before failure.
And come in.
And everything at this point.
Was still under the control of the Spirit of God.
And the Saints of God were functioning.
In.
Full fellowship with the mind of the Ascended Head.
The thing that marked them was continuing steadfastly.
We want to stop and speak briefly about that element.
Continuing steadfastly.
We're living in a day of extremes.
And some of us, perhaps, are in danger.
Of becoming like an alternating curve.
We're on and off again, On and off again.
But this is not according to the mind of God.
God desires that we continue in the faith rooted and grounded.
As did these early believers.
We read about various characters.
In the word of God, who started out well.
But later on in life, there was major failure came in.
And really, it's sorry reading.
To see the close of their lives, how much there was, that dishonored the Lord.
Take a man like Solomon.
What a wonderful man he was. How blessed of God.
Wisdom above all others.
His course at the start was most promising.
And yet further on in his life.
When you read how he turns aside the heathen worship.
It makes you almost wonder.
Why it was?
That God permitted such.
Terrific failure to come into the life of a man so gifted as the Solomon.
But I think we have the answer.
These men are recorded not, as we would like it, a retouched photograph.
But every detail is given that we may see just what a failure man is.
Unless he goes on with God and his life and any soul.
Well, you Solomon feels miserably and dear believer here this afternoon.
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You and I will do the same if we do not.
Go on independence and obedience.
We have no assurance.
Apart from dependence and obedience that we're going to finish our course with joy.
What a wonderful man Gideon was in the days of the judges.
I love to read about Gideon. In fact, I love to think about Gideon. Have done it many times.
But it's with reluctance that I read the clothes of Gideon's life.
That man that had been so marvelously used of God.
And yet.
He turns aside and becomes a leader.
And that that.
Hindered the children of Israel from going on with God.
He actually put that before them that led them into idolatry.
Or how sad it was ASA was one of the good kings.
A dear man he was, but in his old age he became diseased in his feet.
It's a sad thing that we've seen it that sometimes Saints go on fairly well.
In their younger years.
And as they mature in life.
Their spirituality declines when they get away from the Lord.
And in the old age it became diseased in his feet.
These things are sad, are they not?
Well, we could.
Trace others of the same character, Jehoshaphat.
Joseph, that was a dear man.
He ran well.
But the time came when he linked up where they have.
And Ohio, How humiliating the whole thing was.
God doesn't want us to be like the sky rockets that we boys used to play with when we were young.
Go up with a zoom.
Noise. Fireworks.
Just come down a dead stick.
And we've seen Saints of God, especially among those that are younger, become very enthusiastic.
Very active.
Very dynamic in their Christian testimony.
Then days of testing came along.
And they eased off.
It gradually accommodated themselves to what they found around them in the world.
And they ended up just plain worldly.
Well now dear Saints of God, and especially you here that are younger.
When God has recorded these things in His Word for us, they are given for our warning.
These things are given for our learning.
Shall we not take heed?
There is one day of your life as a Christian.
That you can afford.
To be careless in the matter of your going on with the Lord.
With a good conscience.
Don't ever allow.
A bad conscience to persist in your life.
All do seek by the grace of God, to keep a good conscience.
But the only way you can keep it is in the path of dependence and obedience.
They continued steadfastly.
Does that mark you and your local assembly?
Are you numbered among those that are steadfast?
Or do you come and go?
Do you blow hot and cold?
Where do you stand?
Or in these days, it pays to take inventory along these lines.
There's a verse.
In Galatians I want to read.
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Because it expresses something of what we have here.
It's the 5th chapter of Galatians and it's the.
Seven verse.
He did.
Run well.
Who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?
This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
A little leaven leaveneth a whole lump.
That would be a rather sad epitaph.
To have.
He did run well. That's what Paul says to these Galatians.
He did run well.
We are now putting the verb in that tense. What does it mean?
It means, beloved, that they were not running well at that time.
Does that prove you you did run well?
Who did hinder you?
Why not go on and run well?
That you should not obey.
Be in the path of obedience.
This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. That didn't come from up there, did it? Oh no. That persuasion to turn aside to the road of compromise.
Came from the enemy of our souls.
It came from the tempter.
Something was whispered into our ear.
That told us that there was something to be gained by departing from the path of obedience.
It's sad when that happens.
But these that we read about here in this second chapter of the Acts, they continued.
Then fastly.
Now the first thing that's mentioned is.
They continued in the Apostles doctrine.
We're living in the day of.
Easy going Christianity when people are saying on every hand.
Well, it doesn't make so much difference what you believe.
Anything is all right.
We are all working for the same place. We are all headed for the same goal.
And it doesn't make so much difference what you believe.
I believe that.
That is the accepted pattern around us today.
Well, brethren, it makes the difference between heaven and hell.
As to what you believe?
Indeed it does.
We can only reach heaven through faith.
And faith is that that sets to a seal that God is true.
And every man a liar.
Faith thinks God's side.
Of every circumstance.
And.
If you and I are not willing to go on and the apostles doctrine.
There is something sadly wrong. Satan has gotten the victory somewhere along the line.
If we were to go out on a.
On the search throughout this territory.
We could find almost every conceivable doctrine of darkness and demons.
That professed Christianity presents today. We could find it in this locality, I think, out here in California.
You're perhaps more cursed than that than we are in our part of the country.
It seems to be a rendezvous for the.
The Agents of the Evil 1.
The Word of God calls them doctrines of demons.
So here we are told that these early disciples continued steadfastly in the apostles.
Doctrine.
Where does Doctrine rate in your thinking?
How do you react to that word? Does it irritate you?
Or is it a word that your value?
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You will find much about it.
In Scripture.
I have encountered but I would just venture a guess that you could find that word 50 times.
In your New Testament, it makes a tremendous difference.
What your doctrine is?
Is it the doctrine of God?
The doctrine of Christ, Or is it the doctrine of demons?
We might turn for a few moments.
The first epistle of Timothy because.
Timothy speaks repeatedly of this question of doctrine.
1St chapter and the third verse. One Timothy.
1/3 I besought thee to abide.
Still an emphasis when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some.
That they teach no other doctrine.
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies which minister questions rather than godly edifying, which is in faith. So do.
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience, and of faith untamed.
From which some, having turned aside, swerved aside, have turned to vain.
Jangling, desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say.
Nor whereof they affirm. Notice the emphasis.
Charge some that they teach no other doctrine.
That shows the importance, beloved.
Of knowing what our Bibles have to say.
We are living in the day of gospel testimony and the emphasis is on the gospel.
Would to God that we were more energetic than we are, I wouldn't discount the gospel for a moment.
But let us not forget.
That the gospel is but introductory to a position in which we're capacitated to learn the will of God.
The apostle, as he went around among the various assemblies, was constantly taking to them.
The establishing truths that would build them up in their most holy faith.
And when he found a company of believers that were still in the infant stage.
He reproached them that at such a late date in their Christian life.
They were in need of milk, had to be fed on the bottle.
Rather than being able to take in the strong meat, the mature food that the Spirit of God would gladly have given them.
Oh, it's to our reproach, beloved, that we know so little about our Bibles.
You know the only way.
We'll ever learn about this book.
Is to diligently apply ourselves.
Read it, Independence. Read it continuously.
Read it every day. Read it with the thought in mind. I want to know the will of my blessed Savior. I want to know what He wants me to do. And so we search the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation to find out what the mind of God is for us.
So that's what the words given for.
It's our food. Man shall not live by bread only.
No doubt we all had our breakfast today.
We all had our dinner. And what about our Bibles?
Are we just as meticulous about seeing that we read the word every day and meditate in it?
Do we get our portion from God as we read His words?
And kneel in prayer in our various homes and seek His blessing upon us as we take up the day.
All if we don't, we're going to run into poverty of souls.
Well then, in the next chapter of Timothy, the 2nd chapter.
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And the fourth verse, First Timothy 24.
God, who will have all men to be saved.
And to come under the knowledge of the truth.
Now it's God's will of desire.
That all men should be saved.
If a man comes to you who don't care who he is.
Don't care how vile he is.
How low down he is.
If he comes to you and says, Do you think that God would save a poor Wretch like me?
What are you going to tell him?
Why just read this verse to him?
God will have all men to be saved.
Oh yes, the gates are wide open.
Wide open.
That's God's will of desire.
If you're saved here today.
If you're saved, it's because God desired that you shouldn't be.
And so you thank him for it. You thank him for the open door.
But the will of God, the desire of God, didn't stop with your salvation.
Who will have all men to be saved and.
Don't leave out the end.
And come on to the knowledge of the truth.
Oh yes, there is more to it than salvation.
Salvation is a glorious, marvelous thing.
But God has something more for you than salvation.
He wants you to come to the knowledge of the truth.
That's a big word.
The knowledge of the truth.
What is the truth?
Well, it's all that has to do with the person.
And the work and the glory of God's beloved Son.
Christianity Is Christ the only reason we have this book?
Is that God is trying to bring Christ before our souls.
And you and I are to search this book from Genesis to Revelation.
That we may find Christ there. God wants us to become rooted and grounded in the truth is to Christ.
Will have all men to be saved and to come into the knowledge of the truth.
But when we go to the 4th chapter, I Timothy 4.
We find ourselves introduced to a sad condition of things.
The Spirit seeketh expressly than in the latter times first verse.
One Timothy 41.
The spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils or demons.
Speaking lies and hypocrisy. Having their consciences seared with a hot iron.
Don't forget.
That we are surrounded today with that very thing.
Those that have departed from the faith.
They have given an ear to doctrines of demons.
To have them coming to your door.
You have them soliciting your interest, they'd like to come in and open their Bibles and talk to you.
For what purpose?
To lead you into midnight darkness.
To lead your souls away from God and away from his Christ.
All some of these things are tragic, you know.
I don't remember whether I told it here or not. If I did, you'll pardon me for repeating it.
But recently we had a dear sweet appearing 12 year old girl that appeared at our house.
And she wanted to talk to us about the Bible.
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I suspicioned as soon as she began to talk that she was a Jehovah Witness.
So I.
Ask her a question, a leading question about the Lord Jesus Christ.
I said my Bible says in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
I said the Christ that I worship was God.
And that dear little girl, without any hesitation.
And with they decided attitude, she said no, he was not God.
He was a God.
I talked some further with the poor child and she said, well I can't answer those questions, but Mama can.
Or think of the tragedy of it.
What an awful thing that mother is guilty of.
Indoctrinating that young soul.
With that enmity to God's Son, until she is going about from door to door, peddling her blasphemy against God's eternal Son.
Oh yes, we're living in these last days and I warn everyone here.
Oh, watch your step. Don't be taken in by these doctrines. They're becoming more and more aggressive.
And not only are they becoming aggressive, but their successful.
All over the world their numbers are increasing. Some of them are building vast temples, beautiful multi $1,000,000 buildings.
Oh yes, Satan's on the March. Beware young folks, all keep close to your blessed Lord.
Value of the Word of God. Let it speak to your heart and conscience and never try.
In any way whatsoever to turn aside the edge of God's Word.
Now the last verse of the 4th chapter. One Timothy, take heed unto thyself.
And unto the doctrine.
Continue in them.
For in doing this, I shall both save thyself and them, and hear thee.
Now, that's not a question of saving yourself in the sense of getting to heaven.
It's a question of preserving yourself from getting into some of the shipwrecks that are going on all around us today.
It's going to preserve you from a breakdown in your Christian life and testimony.
How are you going to do it?
Take heed unto thyself.
And to the doctrine. Don't divorce your conduct from the doctrine.
They go together.
What God has joined together, let no man put asunder.
God joins conduct and doctrine together, and if you and I are going to walk rightly.
We will have to think rightly according to the thoughts of God as we find them in His words.
For in doing this, thou shall both save thyself.
And them that hear thee, do you want others to be LED or right?
Do you want them to be in the path of God's will? All right.
See to it that your own feet are in that path.
Make straight paths for your feet.
Less than which is lame be turned out of the way.
Are you misleading anybody?
If they're following you.
Are you saying to them, come with me?
And you're leading them into sin.
In the darkness.
Or it's a solemn thing.
There's going to be a catastrophe, a calamity at the end of that kind of a pathway.
It's going to end in ruin.
Take heed to thyself and to the doctrine.
Continue in them.
For doing this thus shall both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
The 6th chapter in the third verse if any man teach otherwise and sent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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And to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he is proud knowing.
Nothing but doting about questions and stripes of words.
Whereof cometh in the strife, railings, and evils surmising?
Perverse disputing of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth.
Supposing that gain is godliness from such, withdraw thyself.
If you find that you're associating with those who will not submit to the word of God.
They want to twist it, they want to water it down. They say, well, I don't believe that we are supposed to take that.
I don't, I don't agree with that. And so they take an eclectic attitude towards the word of God. They pick out what they like and they reject what they don't like. What are you going to do?
In regard to such people from such withdrawal thyself, that's what Scripture says, and we're never wiser than Scripture.
All beloved doctrine counts.
God puts a high value on it and you and I need to be indoctrinated.
In the Word of God, in the leading of the Spirit of God. Now going back to our verse in Acts 2.
They continued in the Apostles Fellowship.
We, all of us, enjoy fellowship, don't we?
One of the nicest verses.
That I know of in Acts isn't this.
4th chapter.
Acts 4, verse 23.
And being let go, they went to their own company.
Being let go, they went to their own company.
Who do you think those folks were?
Their own company.
They were those that knew and loved the Lord Jesus Christ.
When you're let go, when you're free, you have a little time off, so to speak.
Where do you seek your company?
Oh, what an important question that is.
These dear disciples in this early day.
The moment they found themselves at liberty.
They sought out their own company.
Oh, how wonderful it is.
In this defiled, wicked world that God has those that he looks on with delight.
They have been washed in the precious blood of Christ. They have been sealed with the Holy Spirit.
God has claimed them for his own. They are members of the body of Christ.
They are awaiting the Lord's return here. They are a redeemed people in the midst of this world.
Brethren, those are the ones with whom you and I.
Are to find our association and our delight.
Now I'm not speaking.
About going forth with the gospel to the ungodly.
That's another thing entirely, but I'm speaking about this question of fellowship.
Of association being let go, they went to their own company.
Where are you by choice seeking your association?
Turn to 1St Corinthians, the 1St chapter.
And the ninth verse.
One Corinthians 1.
Nine, God is faithful by whom you are called unto the fellowship.
Of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
How marvelous.
That's the fellowship to which recall the fellowship.
Of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
What is fellowship?
By its close association. And you and I are called out of this world.
To be associated with the rejected Son of God.
He was here in the world, man gave him the cross, man threw him back in the face of God and said we don't want him.
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God took him back to heaven, and he sent down the Holy Spirit to gather out a people for his name.
And those that have been saved are formed together into one happy fellowship.
The body of Christ.
And so here God has called us under the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Can we associate by any possibility?
Any thought of carelessness?
Or unholiness.
Or profanity.
With a name so holy.
And so blessed as that of our Lord Jesus Christ.
That's the fellowship to which we're called beloved.
Get the similar thought in Ephesians, the third chapter.
Ephesians 3, verse 9.
And to make all men see.
What is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God?
Who created all things by Jesus Christ, to the intent that now, and to the principalities and powers and heavenly places, might be known by the Church, the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The fellowship of the mystery that from the beginning of the world ascending.
Here in God, Oh dear Saints of God, here today.
You and I are initiate. We have been taken into God's confidence.
He's let us know now what was in His heart from all past eternity.
That Christ was to have a church. That Christ was to come into the world.
And diet, calories, crops that Christ was to be raised from the dead.
Did he just go back into heaven that he was to send down the Spirit of God?
And gather out of the world up people for himself.
That mystery was hid in God from eternity.
The mystery of Christ and the Church.
That the fellowship to which we're called.
And that is what is brought before us in these wonderful verses here in the third of Ephesians.
Now first John and the first chapter.
One John, the 1St chapter.
And the third verse, that which we have seen and heard, declare we unto you.
That you also may have fellowship with us, and truly our fellowship is with the Father.
And with his son Jesus Christ.
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Now there is a fellowship that God himself is ordained.
It's a fellowship of God the Father, and it's a fellowship with his Son.
How do I have fellowship with God the Father?
By thinking.
God's thoughts about his Son. That's the way I have fellowship with God the Father.
How do I have fellowship with his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ?
By thinking the thoughts of the Son about the Father.
That brings us into fellowship with the Father and with the Son.
Well, that's the fellowship which would then call that's the Apostles fellowship.
And we dare own no other when our if we turn to the 6th chapter.
Of Second Corinthians we see something just the opposite.
Two Corinthians 6, verse 14.
2nd Corinthians 6, verse 14.
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Being not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness, and what communion hath light with darkness?
And what Concorde hath Christ with delial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an envelope?
God does not want.
That you and I should be yoked up together in any way whatsoever.
Was unbelievable.
I was talking to a man just recently.
He told me he'd been out getting some new members for his church. I said, were they saved? No, they said, we don't bother about that. We get them in and we get them saved afterwards.
Well, is that in accordance with this verse?
This fourteenth verse be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
You have no right if you're a Christian.
To be in any sort of fellowship.
Religious or otherwise.
With those that make no confession of Christ.
God tells you not to.
He says in the 17th verse of that 6th chapter come out from among them.
And the separate, saith the Lord. And touch, not the unclean thing, and I will receive you.
Had a man doing some work for him in one day in Des Moines.
I asked him if he was a Christian. No, he says, I'm not.
He says I'm not interested in religion at all.
Well, I said, man, you have a soul, don't you? Yes, he said. I'm supposed to do. But.
Religion, those things just don't interest me.
Well, I said, don't you? Don't you realize that there's a God and you've got to meet him? And this is a solemn, important matter.
Well, he said. I'm religious, if you mean if that's what you mean, I belong to church.
Well, I said, perhaps you'd tell me what church you belong to.
And I was. I was utterly shocked.
When he named one of the most.
Fundamental of the denominations in the town where I live.
And the local the local congregation where he was a member.
Has the reputation of being outstandingly fundamental.
And yet the man violently protested against me, thinking.
That he personally was a Christian.
Oh, what a day of mixture.
How solemn it is, how sad it is.
Brethren, the Word of God tells us that we are not to be yoked up with anyone who doesn't profess to be a child of God.
You know that's not only.
In our fellowship in the Assembly.
What it has to do with our fellowship and other matters too.
If you're going to go into business.
With somebody in a partnership, be sure that the one.
With whom you link up as a Christian, don't ever link up with an unsaved man.
In a business partnership.
And if you're a young person contemplating marriage?
I warn you with all solemnity. I warn you solemnly.
Don't ever marry an unsaved person if you are a Christian.
Don't do it.
You're just asking for sorrow and trouble.
I'll tell you a safe rule.
If you're a Christian, don't ever go with an unsaved person the first time.
You're just disobedient to the Word of God, and you may have to reap the rest of your life.
Don't do it.
Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
What Communion hath light with darkness?
What concord hath Christ with Belial?
What part of he that believeth was an infinite? Now back to Ephesians the 5th chapter again.
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Ephesians 5.
Eight verse.
Or you were sometimes darkness.
But now are you light in the Lord?
Walk as children of light.
11Th verse and have no fellowship.
With the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
For it's a shame even to speak of those things that are done of them.
In secret, but all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light.
For whatsoever doth make manifest His light.
16th verse Redeeming the time because the days are evil.
On that 11Th verse I have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
How is that in your life?
Are you allowing yourself to have one little bit of fellowship for the unfruitful works of darkness?
Or when it is presented to you, do you reprove?
Rebuke. Avoid. Shun. Turn away.
Oh beloved, we can take no chances. We can't play with fire and not be burned.
Let's hear the warning of God's Word today.
No fellowship.
Were they unfruitful works of darkness?
Now back to our second of acts again.
They weren't about the breaking of bread.
Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The night in which he was betrayed instituted the Lord's Supper.
And he said, do this in remembrance of me.
And we find that the early believers in our chapter here.
Did that they broke bread from house to house.
It formed an important and important part of their assembly life.
Later on, the Apostle Paul was converted.
And the Spirit of God knowing.
How prone we are to get.
Strange ideas and get out of line saw to it.
That the apostle Paul received a Commission direct from an ascended Christ.
Telling him that Christians that profess the heavenly truth.
That knew the mystery that were initiated into all the truth of this wonderful mystery of Christ and the Church.
In all its fullness as it came out through Paul.
That they were to go on with the breaking of bread.
In remembrance of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now there are some today that tell you that that is belonged to the Jewish church.
And it's no longer applicable to us. Well, the Spirit of God took care of that in the 11Th chapter, First Corinthians.
By giving that truth to Paul and he passed it on to us.
And if you're a Christian, if you're converted, if you belong to Christ.
He expects you to remember him in the breaking of bread.
He expects you to be at the Lord's table.
In other words.
I can't find two classes of believers in the Bible.
Some that were breaking bread and some that weren't, unless it be one under discipline.
Put away from some bad action.
If you know the Lord Jesus Christ.
And assure of your salvation.
And your life?
Is consistent.
That is, if you are living a Christian life.
Your place is at the Lord's Table.
You can't excuse yourself. You can't say well.
I want to have a good time first. If I take my place at the table, the brethren will say something to me about my way.
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Well, that's a shocking attitude to take.
I trust no one here is guilty of an attitude like that.
But in the 20th chapter of the Acts, in the seventh verse, we find that on the first day of the week.
The disciples came together to break bread.
They did not come together to hear Paul preach. They came together to break bread.
Do you come together on the first day of the week to break bread?
Or do you come together to hear a sermon in the Bible? They came together on the first day of the week to break bread.
That was an institution in the early church.
As far as I know, it's never been discontinued.
How wonderful it is.
The Lord knows our hearts.
He knows how forgetful we are and how careless we are, and brethren, there is nothing that touches our hearts.
Like that hour we spend in his presence once a week.
And we think about his sufferings, his love, his infinite compassion.
We think upon His glory. Our hearts are moved.
And we go out from his presence refreshed. We go out to testify in this world of sin and sadness all around us.
Oh, how important is the breaking of bread in God's schedule for the Christian?
Are we indifferent or careless about it? May God exercise us this afternoon.
What he is going to say on that coming day when you face the Lord Jesus.
And he asked you if you ever remembered him in his death.
Oh, how sad to think of facing the Lord Jesus Christ and never once in your life did you do what He asked you to do.
You want to go on that way.
Can you go to sleep tonight with a good conscience, knowing if never once answered to his request, oh, May God stir us up on these things.
Then we read here that they continued in prayers.
A prayerless life is a powerless life.
Satan trembles when he sees the feeble St. upon his knees.
I suppose the major reason why you and I do not spend more time on our knees is because we have a subtle enemy.
That makes it his business to see to it that we don't bow them here in prayer.
I don't know of anything more easy to neglect.
Than prayer do you. There is always something else to do, maybe something for the Lord.
Maybe it's a meeting and appointment, a letter to Ryan, a call to make, but it's anything and everything and everything but prayer, getting on our knees before God and pouring out our wants and our needs to Him.
Oh yes, prayer formed a great part of the story of the early church.
In this.
Just turn the page.
To the 4th chapter in the 31St verse.
And when they had prayed.
The place was shaken where they were assembled, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.
And they speak the word of God with boldness.
And multitudes of them believed were of one heart and one soul.
Wouldn't you have loved to be there?
What a lovely place to be.
But as one they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled.
I doubt if there ever has been a great work of the Spirit of God.
On this earth, in the history of the Church.
That wasn't preceded.
By some man or some men, some woman or some women.
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Praying to God, crying to him in secret, coming together for united prayers. Somebody.
Was on their knees.
And in answer to that prayer.
God sent revival. That's his way.
Don't neglect the prayer meeting.
Don't leave your seat empty at the primary.
Oh, it forms in the Central Park.
Of our Christian life and testimony, well beloved.
Shall we continue? Shall we go on in the doctrine? Shall we seek a sound fellowship? Shall we find our place at the Lord's Table? Shall we be found at the prayer meeting? Oh God bless this thing. The first hymn of the book.
Elders
Address—C.H. Brown
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Rather than this person or.
That's an hour meditation, so they can only help you send the surface of it.
What is your proper farewell message?
Through the season, Elders who tells us in this chapter that he labored among them for three years.
Some of us were speaking at the dinner table today of the precious, tender relationship.
Affections that exist among the members of Christ where we're thrown together.
And the associations that become us is the large redeemed.
The lands of these associations continued.
And that precious label comes they become less intimately associated in the bounds of Christ.
You have to put the two out rounds. The deer Apache hastening to get to Jerusalem Brothers 8% across.
You can't take the time to go up to episodes.
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The next arrangements ahead of time, we might have the elders come down.
And he don't burden me. Talk to them and they can take the message back to the beloved brethren of Epic.
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Hey, Cortana.
And my ladies be sent to appetite and child the elders of the church.
What is the artifacts, the number there and asked what does that mean the elderly of the church?
In those days.
We take it for granted and I think that we go.
That the apostle had seen to it that wherever he ministered.
Elders were ordained by himself or one of his representatives in every place where they live.
Happy to.
Chapter in hand, look at the 14th chapter of this hat here.
21St verse.
At 1321.
And when they got in many they returned again to Mishra, and to Athenian, and to Antioch.
Concerning the souls of the disciples and exotic them to continue in the faith, and that we must do much stipulation enter into the Kingdom of God, and when they had ordained them elders in every church.
And it played the fasting, they recommended them to the Lord, and who may have belief when they had ordained them elders in every church.
Ordained elders in every church.
That is his argument in the day of the Apostles.
Now we may drive around conclusions at this point.
You may say, if that's the case, let us have the same today. Let us have ordained elders and all our assemblies.
Yeah, beloved, there are two reasons why we don't have them and why we can't have them.
In the first place, we're having any apostles.
We're having any properly constituted authority to place them in our meeting. That's the first reason.
There are no occasion as far as the word of God tells us, but the church itself ever hold an election and elect or choose their elders. That was left to the apostles or to those who have delegated as far as family.
We have no package today.
Can you test me the password on the New Testament traffic we're occupied with laying the foundation of the Church of Dust?
We had better find the foundation of the apocryphal Jesus Christ and stop being the truth for His soul.
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They belong to the foundation. The foundation is laid.
Apostleship was not passed on in the treasure.
You get that very distinctly Black Hat and Peter's epistle.
The first is one of the teachers of the apostles.
And he reminds us of whom he looked at after his decision.
They were to keep in mind, not what his successor should tell them.
But they were to keep in mind what he had written to them.
In other words, the only especially that has on his demise would be the written word itself. He made no provision to have someone take his face when he was flew down here.
Why was any such provision made? As far as we can learn from Scriptures for the Church of God down to the ages, your provision made for a continuation of their postulates.
That's the one route. Now the second reason is this.
The person will have the Apostle Paul here today.
And we could say to him, well, Brother Paul, you know, we in the Fullerton here would like to have some Arduino.
And we would suggest that since he was here, that he should depart him.
You know how I surmise would be the apostles reaction to that?
What those are Sally's up was another question.
And say, well, if I ordained elders for the Church of God in silicon, where shall I put them?
I just asked that question on to ask what would we say?
Would we say this is the Church of God in Fullerton?
We would not if we were taught of God.
No, he wouldn't be justice have a misinterpretation or a misunderstanding of the mind of God to say anything like that.
That is the Church of God in Fullerton. The Church of God in Fullerton is composed of every blood vapor spirit in that soul.
In politics, the sense of God in Orange County is composed of every blood that will feel so our spirit in black souls, and 30% of that.
If your pastor wouldn't say, well, I'm going to put them all here in this little group.
Or how inflated we would become. But he couldn't do it. He couldn't consistently do it.
Because we cannot rightfully put a sign out in front of any building where we descended to meet and save the Church of God when we hear it such and such a time. Why gently? Because we're only just a poor little women. A poor evil little women spying in these last days.
To maintain the truth as you find it in the word of death. But let us, none of us ever become incapacitated with the idea.
Can you ask him back? Your brethren was just a poor little woman.
Where the God has much to say about remnants, you know they have a lovely place and scripture. It's a permanent to be identified with the believing remnants, but the remnants must never get the idea, but they represent the whole thing never and God that any member.
Of the body of Christ.
When are included?
Ears in the heart of the Savior, as anyone of us here in this room this afternoon.
God doesn't believe in favoritism in that way.
Every dear bloodbath soul is precious to the heart of God, to the heart of faith, and if you and I have the stress of God, which we think we strapped after Him, we're going to have affection for the members of Christ as we move them here in both.
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We're passing calls to the elders.
How many were they?
When I told you.
I don't believe you can find anywhere.
And in the testament.
Well, we're given anything, any, any description that we can pin down that elderly ship and say everything had 7 elders, 5 elders, 3 elders.
But there's one thing we absolutely can turn back, and that is that there was no church that just had one.
There's no such thing in the New Testament as the elder of the church that's out. No, the elders were always more than one.
Now another question.
We do that ordained out of it because we don't have the proper authority to ordain it.
Let's ask ourselves this question.
Does that mean that they have no elders?
No, I do not think it means that we live out early, but we are without official elders.
That in the goodness of God.
In His mercy and His shame. In his consideration. Paris, in our remnant church.
He does raise up with those among us that function in the capacity of elders. Thanks God for such.
And I believe that faith recognizes such.
Not losing our place here. Look at first. That's the name.
The first chapter.
Last chapter, First Thessalonians and the 11Th verse.
Wherefore trumpet ourselves together.
And edify one another even as also you do.
And we beseech you, brethren.
To know them.
Which labor among you, and are over you in the Lord?
Handed money and to assume them very highly in love for their work state.
Andrea Teak among yourself.
There is an extra safety to faith that gives recognition to those.
Whom the Lord is praised, the rays of America that take the lead a month. That's only this further to the last chapter of Hebrews. You got a similar set.
The last chapter of Hebrews on the 17th verse.
Although then I submit to them that have the rule among us better translated, that take the leader on you.
Submit yourself.
For they watch for your soul, as they that must give account that they may do it with joy and not with dreams, for that is uncomfortable for you.
I wish we'd heard of that.
We are going to have that spirit of submission to those whom the Lord may place in a position as badly leadership among us. There are such in the rings of God among us wherever we go.
Submit yourselves under them. Where is it? Take the lead among us, where they watch these souls.
I presume some of us in our younger days had little idea of the exercise of soul through which some of our older brothers passed in their desire to see us. Go on with the left. How much time is spent in prayer?
How often they mentioned our news because a friend of Grace as they sat the leaders and in the proof and she is preserved.
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And I would say to these younger Christians that are here today.
Don't despise the leadership that God has been pleased, success and the meeting with which you are identified.
When a brother in the assembly comes to you and seeks to speak with you.
In Shepherd's care for your soul.
If you resist him, it isn't that you're just in rebellion against that particular damage, but you're rebelling against the law because the Lord has faithful in the meetings, it has on their hats, the welfare, the things of that.
And they sound out of an honest and good half a shepherd and chair for the flap of death.
You know this word elder is synonymous with another word and secure. That's the word business. Look at the 1St chapter of Titus and you'll see that.
What is the first chapter?
And the fifth word.
While this has left Ivy and Creek without its seven orders, the things that are wanting and ordained elders in every city by the point of these, if any be blameless. The husband of one wife having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly for a Bishop.
Now, these things are terminologies. We're still talking about the same man.
There's things that terminology.
Now he's a Bishop. A Bishop must be blameless as a cured of God, not self will not seem angry, not given behind, no striker, not given to self remover.
Of hospitality, a lover of Goodman, sober death, holy, temperate, holding fast to faithful words. He has been fast. But if you'd be able by sound doctrine both to exert and convinced the game players.
I rarely see that Alder and a business.
I have the same.
If I use the two words.
There is the elderly, the name of the Raptor.
I don't have a pic from the original word accused or elders that it suggests that it's an old brother.
When I turn older person to relatives turn.
In a country such as the United States of America.
Where the ordinary lifespan seems to be around 60 or 70.
We looked for the older brothers, the Big Brothers with grey hairs, expecting to be well on in years. But our brother Alexander was telling me that down there, and that's part of Mexico where he's been living, but he don't live that long.
Brother, Brother Eric Smith told me to sit down on the platform. There's a northern Bolivia.
That the lifespan down there is comparatively good.
Servicetitan pin this thing down and say you've got to have 60 birthdays before you can be an elder. They'd be only have to have 50 or maybe 30.
In a way it's a relative matter, so we must be legal in these things. But we do see that one thing was replicated, that they should be those of life and experience, both in their personal life and in the assembly and their family life. They were not to be novices.
I've met with some characters in my day, and I suppose you have two.
I've met young men around unmarried young men around 2122 years of age. That would tell me the considerable price. Yes, I'm an elder in the church, an unmarried young man in his twenty. Well, we don't find anything like that in the Word of God.
Those that are going to assume the place of leadership in the Assembly of God are those that are ripened and experienced. And remember this, that that is so substitute.
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For life and experience and the things of death. That's the reason the word of God says not a novice, not one unit comes to the faith.
Sometimes we have those back to the Lord energetic services.
During the leadership.
Then didn't really say that they had to do things and they immediately tried to take over.
I need to wait, I need to be part of that. They need to ripen up in the school of breath.
Or in the ways of God, he hasn't seen fit to put whirl in the church, our leadership in the church in the hands of such.
I remember old brother Willis. That's first Super Willow. She's fat.
What was that at the conference in Chicago?
With a speaking language line.
Because all my children have a better education than I have.
But he says there's one thing that none of my children have. They don't have my experience. Let us not discount the fact that some of our brethren have been in the past few years.
Has raised the problem that believers meet along the way.
They start to get God's mind about the various situations that arise in the Church of that and what a privilege is to have those diseases and goals that are able to give us actual advice along the way.
No, I've been to that. In its last analysis, the authority of the Word of God takes two things over anybody's advice. That goes without question. None of us are ever worried at the end the Word of God. None of us are going to be guilty of putting forth any drugs, nor the Word of God in the trains of food. But let us see where.
And we resist the greatest careful leadership.
Other sites have some brother or sister in the middle who trying to help us.
Let us see to it, but they're not interesting. The voice of God the our country. If they do it would be to our left.
Can I send a call presenting himself here? An apprentice of the axe to Belden?
The 2nd 18th verse.
You know from the first day that I came into Egypt.
After what manner I have been among you at all things?
After that manner.
At all three.
Sometimes that is wonderful.
They don't seem to have more weight.
Why the brothers don't listen to them better than they do?
You think you might have an answer to it here?
It also reminds Jesus and elders after what manner he had been among them of all seasons.
And then as we read that chapter, we finally a Bishop and Titus, if you notice the qualifications.
Are you complaining if your brother don't listen to you?
You feel a hurt and slighted because you don't have more weight in your meeting.
Without problem that you might have some of the answer to it.
And this deception of the Bishop not S world.
Not soon ended.
Dear brother, look at the South Wales we'll lose your temper.
If you do, it's in South Wales. Lose your temper if you're a stressor. At least 100 all the time.
It felt wonder.
That the veterans do not tell you the respect and they speak to them if you'd like.
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Now the things work both ways. I said he my brethren, when they come to me. But on the other hand, that brother who assumes the place of leadership in the Church of God can speak to it, that he has a manner of life that corresponds to that place of leadership and a brother who's constantly losing his tent.
It's constantly trying to have his own way.
Resting in chakras.
Not one that's going to command the respect in the confidence of the base.
After what murder? I've been Redwood all season, serving the Lord with all.
Good melody of mind, humility of mind.
Is nothing more.
Except that the limit little extremists turn that down.
There are few things more unbecoming and a servant.
Then to become pompous and over business.
The apostle was not that.
No, He served the Lord with all humility of mind.
And with many kids.
Administration, for him, never became a fast, easy pursuit.
Yeah, he wasn't cleaning back in the lap of luxury and his services, right? It was a rugged reality for him. Wherever he went. He served the Lord with many tools and trials. I remember dear old brother father saying more than once he said if you want a happy service besides go out and fix it up.
Then he says if you want style cats, serve the church and pass.
And venomous food. But I'm just going to serve the church that God is going to bear on his path.
All the trials and troubles in a six or eight and that is not true that the 1000 troubles that may be in our local assemblies at present moment.
Are you saying in the history of the Church of God here on earth, they have all they said here?
Certainly takes the truth of the church. Satan is the enemy of God and the Christ. Satan doesn't want to see anyone going on with the Lord in this world.
He wants the swears in the confusion he's ever casting in the apple of discard among us that we need get us out with one another. And he's doing that. He's working at his place.
But never got discouraged because things are not going as smoothly as a name. So let's increase into the closet. And then on our news we tried to God to wisdom and help with the difficulty that may be present at that time.
Or I've seen.
Some situations.
Deadlocked situations and impact days that had seen that nothing to break.
God came in and answered.
To eat and long prayer sinks underneath firing of the United prayers and got the community and I've seen those situations clear up and dissipate and disappear. He came down again and happy harmony Alex. Remember that we have a living God in heaven that's interested in the World Heritage people just with a bunch of terms.
Will be all stories that we exist.
If your man is hired so.
Who was his out and they they were in a bad company just looking for the next month, but.
The lady was not.
We deserve to represent.
Is there to see first combined itself and he says I have kept back nothing underneath.
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If they do, they're not in the mind of the spirit of dust.
Will you be there in the 2nd 10 minutes as the time is coming?
But they'll hit for themselves preaching having the two years and turn away in their years in the truth.
They'll have the penalty for that. They should be turned on the table.
The dream is just the truth of God. If you say I won't have it.
Then you're going to have certain substitutes. We're going to be turned aside. There's something that's not the truth of that.
There are the dear faithful apostles.
Wherever he went, he didn't hold back anything.
We're living in the air compromise.
The desires for something.
If I said hi.
And that is the two suffers.
Those characters in the mood.
Because man has set certain goals and you say the.
At that price.
All, sad to say, at the price of the surrender of much of the precious fruit of God's Word.
16 value more.
Assembly.
Upenders getting together.
Or the plain places and the graduated trees of death, and all experience which could be the first.
Lord has something he wraps and the truth of God.
Indeed it does.
There, that will commit.
The devil was always looted into the apartment. Broken life.
Is there? Well, how do you have to be so different from everybody else?
What is your father in the town the accepted pattern around?
Don't you know how that works?
What do you do? So you do well, things aren't too far offenders.
Let's do it. Let's file in your accepted pen.
His acceptance pattern 25 years from now, how to do it today? No, it's just gone that much further offended. And so it could try to keep up with acceptance. You're just drifting, drifting, drifting and generation to generation. And you know where you're going to end up. We're going to end up in layer to see us.
Where you'll end layer to see it. What is layer is layer to see It's the last of the 750 as it started in the second and third captions of Revelations.
And it's a professional Church of that.
It turned such a massive thing that the large easy place the head of the church.
Has to say I'm going to steal you out of my mouth.
As a Facebook a rejected customer.
That's exactly what's going to come.
All this filled up that drawing around it was going on around us today.
We're build up the world's house, whether it be the paracetamol, whether it's interesting.
It's all heading for the same precipice, but it isn't far up and the whole thing is going to collapse under the government or hand of death.
It's a day at present in the Lord lower than it is.
And thank God he has been doing this. He knows it. They're not messing the crowd. He has his eye on it.
One of these days you'll hear this guy, whatever he deems under the crowd out of this world, and he's the Lord in the earth.
But there is something sad things to think, but all around suspended themselves and spills around functioning as though nothing had happened.
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Representation design.
That people can be there to work, the elders in the building can be there, and the thing can go on functioning as well. The Lord has never found where.
Because it's an unsold truth and unsaved distance an unsaved elders and unsaved members.
And that may be an extreme illustration, but it shows the points.
The Lord is going to take out all the mediums and again those that have a cycle linked with a Living Tyson glory going to take them out and this shared life is so fighting is going to be left behind.
Royal Dulles, they can't afford to take it over.
Paul says I said that nothing that is possible to do. You want a half gospel.
Without the preaching of the line of truth, but constantly dodging 50.
And it's going to be dragging around here and there to the street that he comes across in God's Word.
Or the Word of God's healing. And you and I have no right to discount one church within the midst of the book. It's proud. Looking for our instructions and our learning.
Well, that was a burden of cause ministry. That was far as the gospel of the testifying both the Jews and the Greeks.
The attendant served us.
And faith, Lord our Lord Jesus Christ.
Can never improve on that.
If you haven't started with repentance toward that and faith in our Lord, the strike, we just haven't started.
That's fundamental. That lies at the foundation of all.
Have you taken sides of God against yourself? Have you taken your place in the press?
And it tries to come your All in all.
As you said, W is a pleadings of the Spirit of God had returned to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Kentucky, Florida, and faith in our lives in the faith.
And the one in whom you'll have to put your face in God, but.
Many o'clock sights today. No trouble, Mr. Fox Noah.
Yes, it is. Your doorbell rings. You go there and somebody wants to give you some medicine, maybe, the magazine says. Oh, wait.
You know that magazine would be better named better Please.
It's an opiate that puts you asleep. It's a denial of defeated God.
Yes, Britney's busy. Who do I be? Of God's price, I'll be sure.
That the price when you're trusting is God's price for the world is full of any price today.
And their number is increasing and one of these days in a different.
Plan B 295 it's going to be a pure on the truth and the world that has turned its back on website is going to weapons taking anything. Oh what a world it's been.
Part of the Christian says Even so, some Lord Jesus.
We're a little further down.
26 third.
Therefore I took you to record this day, but I am sure from the blood of all men.
When I have not done to declare to all personal death.
People say, well, how do I have to go into all those things? Parents are satisfied just to pick the gas.
Just that people save another girl that.
I'd rather not a misrepresentation of the heart of Scratch, that is.
Where is he, Godfrey?
Learning a passive power board upon his part in his ministry to present.
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Perfect in five feet, every man perfect. Firm ground mature.
Don't ever be satisfied with your attainment is sufficient or their vast heights kept. He never returned down here, but ground ground ground.
Some days they're going to be weaponed into the perfection of his presence, then there's no more progress to be made in that place but down here.
We can always have more of Christ. We can search the word and if you live to be 100 years old.
Mind clearing up the sink? You be discovered you and blessed truth in the word of God that you haven't seen before.
I had that bill, Mr. Patterson, at my home.
In 19 years in success and during this time of the morning Country, sometimes it's very two weeks, sometimes it's very six weeks.
And the thing that I haven't noticed.
And to wear that old gentleman ready back. And he got up early too, he decided.
And he said crap to me. You know, I saw something in me in the stripped in that scripture this morning I never saw before in my life. And I think to myself, well, I don't understand that. I thought she knew everything was in that book.
And yet she was making new discoveries, and there was with his patriarchal old way ahead of his, and his white beard, looking the very pictures of heavenly wisdom.
Yet it is still finding new discoveries in the Word of God. Well, that's open.
I take redirected to this day that I am cured from the blood of almond. How's your name below?
Oh, he needs it. No one can ever tease him.
Of having mislead them. After the truth of God, they can never say. Children never told us that.
You never ministered that truth.
I'm not done to declare you all the pain you won't let.
You're not left. You wanna live by left.
I would rather go to some company where they're quite satisfied with 75% of 50% and 25% and 30% of, you know, 75 or 10%, five percent, 1%.
How much do you want?
I'm not going to declare you all that is 12 minutes.
Well, the good man comes down now to the end of his address to the elders.
And the clear load up running down the street.
As you told them, a sad move.
After he was gone, Satan was going to get business.
And devoured them, swapper them.
And that Saturday was going to take place in two ways.
The Jehovah Witnesses and the 7th Day Adventists and the Christian Scientists were going to come along.
That Jesus was shatter the flesh.
I don't believe that hurts the apathy.
I don't believe that was a mess.
Also of your own selves shall men arise.
This intervention should draw a little disciples after them.
That's made in new.
Absolutely sat there for what? To remember that by the space of three years.
I think not the one everyone doing that for sure.
Oh how sad he when a brother.
Assumes a responsibility.
Of devouting the things of God, Of your own self shall men arise.
Seeking her birthday? Flip something, experimenting. What's her?
There are a world of scrambled after himself.
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The thing has already started and stirred and tired doing anything on the paradise which is either paralyzed by this.
But it's just as soon as in God's sight today as it was once. God threats haven't changed a bit.
And you know, beloved things in God, I believe I can say it that that true humility impact. I'd rather just.
Sit. I'd rather death right here. And Victoria.
Ever be left in this thing to divide the Church of God?
Aashiqui is one of the saddest prejudices ever possibly comes into the light of a of a servant of the Lord. The majority of leading away a person of the Church of God who decides to say he just put him out of personal following or have concurred in the heart of Christ that is.
The Good Shepherd gathers his feet together.
The good separate Kingdom set together as one glass. He lives in everyone.
He wasn't, and Mr. Carter said that has been helpful to me down through the years.
Extended.
We have driven.
Remember the Lord has shepherds. Remember the Lord has shepherds, but he has no shepherd's blood.
All that that's been off, that takes up to me.
In what spirit do I do I yearn after?
Going whom? I'm a cheap train.
Is it a stuff like these experiences and spirit or do I have a heart of strength?
Which bears them upon my heart is allowing you. And there are long deceiving gathered backwards like this ascended, but they might be happy in His presence again.
And our brethren.
I come in with a job and to the word of His grace.
Notice he didn't say. I commend you to the apostles.
He didn't say I commended to the elders or the deacons.
We commanded them to know as the authority whatsoever.
It amended them to two unchangeable objects.
That and the Word and God things no God that change. It's not forever. Thy word is settled in heaven.
He commended them to God and the word of His faith, which is able to build you up.
And to good you, and in the Spirit, and amongst all them in the sanctified.
God wanted to be built up in our most Politico.
And who wants us to have it in the paradise? Among all them, the expenses are 7.
That people are sanctified people. They separated people, they gathered out people.
I'm so proud of commanding into that job and to that word that would bring them into the realization that God wants us separated in the holy people.
Well, when you see things like that.
Signs of Tom Noodle.
The holy things of that in the space of this world, but an insight. It is a blessed large peace.
What's up? But remember how near we are to the early.
Is our association that.
God can recognize as a sanctified association.
Is our fellowship of sanctified intelligence.
I would like something from time to time. Are they trying to find relaxation?
Somewhere in the desert and the rest of us that are no objection to people coming apart and resting as high, but are they sanctified relaxation?
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When he had best person, he kneeled down and prayed with the man. Prayed with the man.
So Jason not happen.
Well, not permanent.
All knelt down together and he prayed with them all.
And I left SO and fell on child's nest decision.
I love it as your sexy as the people of that.
Don't ever speak to anything like that in the world. You'll never find it.
John this or that, But you'll pay your way in and you'll pay as long as you're there.
And all that you have is a mercenary and is a mercenary returns it's on the basis of your breath.
And all, beloved, this fellowship in the Jew and I are brought by the Jason Shot is the food of Calvary. It comes down from a belt on the head of the church. Such lovely affections as he displayed here.
Your weapon fell on his neck and have a lovely.
Will be an unfaithful shepherd. Have you always spoken new things to them?
Just the way they handed it. Absolutely no when it came to the farewell time. Their hearts and conscience is full. And that that dear man of God had told him the truth.
And the third spoken to show their arms around them and their tears and jeans fears mingle as a pardon for the last time here on this earth.
Darling, most of all for the words that he spoke.
That they should see his face no more.
And they accepted into the ship, yes, there they go down to the shore and watch them get on the boat.
And I can see them waving as the boat turns out.
You know, we're having their old brother among us, namely William George Sooner of Otter.
He was insane, Never in my being at the Vancouver conference.
My wife and I both 1913.
And we took both and there down to Seattle.
In that old manner, ensuring that last time I ever saw him, I broke, pulled out, and there's the old Gray head vector. That faithful servant didn't really have a feasibility food out there into the Bay. That was our last side of the ministry.
All, beloved, how real are the attractions of Christ must not be president.
That's not super substitutes. Let's surround the job. The Lord is coming. Let's go closer together, meet each other. I need your encouragement, and though I'd love to be a little encouragement to you.
The Lord's coming is so near. Double quote.