Address—A.M. Barry
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We'll turn to the 13th chapter of Hebrews. 13th chapter of Hebrews.
That brotherly love continued.
Do not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Remember them that are in bonds as bound with them, and then which suffer adversity as being yourselves also in the body.
Marriage is honorable in all, and the dead undefiled, but ************ and you know for us God will judge. Let your conversation be without covetousness and be content with such things as you have.
For he are said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee, so that we may boldly say, the Lord is my helpful.
And I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God, whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation. Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and forever.
He not carried about with divers and strange doctrines.
For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace.
Not with needs which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. We have an altar where all they have no right to weep, which serve the Tabernacle.
For the body of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sins burned without the camp.
Wherefore Jesus also.
That He might sanctify the people with His own blood suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
By Him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually.
That is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
But to do good and to communicate forget not or with such sacrifices.
While it is well pleased, obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves.
For they watch for your souls, as they that must give an account that they may do it with joy.
And not with grief, for that is uncomfortable for you.
Pray for us or we trust we have a good conscience in all things.
Willing to live honestly.
But I beseech you the rather to do this.
That I may be restored to you the sooner.
Now the God of peace had brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus.
That great shepherd of the sheep.
Through the blood of the everlasting covenant make you perfect.
In every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ.
To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation, where I have written a letter unto you in few words.
Knowing that our brother Timothy is set at liberty with whom? If he comes shortly, I will see you flute all them that have the rule over you and all the faith they have. Italy salute you. Grace be with you all, I mean.
It's interesting to notice the dates if you have a Bible like my Oxford.
Giving us the date the special was written.
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And the margin of my Bible it says AD 64.
Well, in 8070 it was.
When Jerusalem?
Was taken by the Romans.
One of the most solemn events in history.
When, after a long siege, finally the city was broken up.
Through through their own.
Disagreements within the city, they finally let the gates open to the enemy.
And then the most awful carnage followed.
And Josephus in his history records.
That a million Jews were killed, and that in that siege and the Jews were sold as slaves into the whole world for the world's markets, was the slaves, the Jews who were made slaves at that time.
And the records that the all the wood around the.
The city was used for crosses to crucify.
The varied Jews.
That not so long before had crucified their Messiah and Lord.
Now the Lord had forewarned a lack coming judgment.
And he wept over the city as he thought of its calamities that were coming upon them. And you know, when he was on the way to the cross, and the daughters of Jerusalem were weeping, he says, Weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
Now that solemn events of a city.
Last crucified.
The Son of God is just a foreshadowing of the coming judgment.
As the great tribulation that's coming on the earth, which we're fast hastening in our days.
We know through great wonderful it is to be instructed.
Before the judgment Thunder roll that the Lord will have taken his people home.
But everything is leading up.
Through that judgment.
In fact, the two judgments fathers passed what took place in 8070 and what will take place in Palestine.
And that terrible day such as was not on the face of the earth are very similar when you read Matthew's account and when you read Mark's account, and then when you read Luke's account, you find the difference Luke, Carol and Luke's gospel. In Luke's gospel we have the Lord saying when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies.
Then know that the desolation thereof is nice in Matthew, and Mark is when you see the abomination which maketh desolate set up in the holy place where it's often off, then let them which be in Judea please, of the moon that's future.
Will give us the judgment that has passed, which took place, as we said, in 1870.
While the writers of these different epistles, knowing what the Lord had forewarned of, we're conscious of the impending judgment that was about to fall on the city that I had been more favored.
In any city in the world and you notice that it was only six years when.
Paul was writing. I believe Paul wrote Hebrews, although he does not mention his name. But I'm quite sure it was Paul who wrote this official only six years before that. Terrible.
Destruction and misery came upon that marvelous city with his beautiful temple.
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Now I understand from the history that.
Has been reserved.
That the Christians, knowing the Lord's words, were spared from the sufferings that the unbelieving Jew went through. They fled just as the Lord told them to flee to the mountains.
And I have read the top of the.
The Jordan scrolls. Some authorities think that.
These Christians who fled Jerusalem were the ones that hid those schools in jars to keep the Roman army from getting possession of it.
It sounds as though it might be the most probable explanation of why they put those schools and him and seal them in those jars.
We know God was preserving His Word for a special purpose for these closing days of the history of the Church on earth.
But that isn't our subject.
This afternoon, but the reason I call attention to it is because we see how.
Those writers were seeking to instruct God's people as to the uncertainty of everything that they were trusting.
In this world that had crucified God's Son.
We find that Peter was very much aware of what was coming and so he says the end of all things is at hand.
As he went among his Jewish brethren and for the favorite things, he realized that it was not going to continue, that Jerusalem was not always to be the Center for the going out of the of the blessing of the gospel as it was in the beginning.
Of the Cherokee area era.
So all these things, you know have.
Special importance in connection with the subject.
We're about to consider.
The time had come there among the Hebrews to whom this epistle is addressed, when they were to make a definite break.
With a Jewish system, you say, they had gone on more or less together.
But now.
The Spirit of God through the apostles was leading them to break with our system.
And the Christians were no longer.
In the freshness of the Pentecostal days, when they when they were all together and no man called anything his own, there had been departure and and some were.
Going back to the Jewish forms and ceremonies, so the Christians there and perhaps this epistle was addressed to the Church of Jerusalem.
Well, neither had them. Both encouragement and they needed warnings as to the character of the day they were living and as to that which would keep them.
From being LED astray by their the enemy of their souls. So with that, we'll just notice the line of things.
That would be especially helpful to Christians then.
And equally helpful to Christians now and especially as we near the end and as we see the.
The judgment of this world approaching so rapidly.
The first word is let brother little love continue.
How important that is, beloved.
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Where there's everything in the world and around it to bring coldness in our hearts. And we find that the more love there is in the heart for the person of Christ, the more love they'll be in the heart.
For those that are dear to him. So we get this in the writings of John. He that loveth him, that begath loveth him also that is begotten of him.
So I love to our brethren will be more or less guided by how much.
Our love is going out to our precious Lord and Savior, for we would not in any way encourage our brethren to go on, of course, for dishonors our blessed Savior.
Who's in whose name we meet, and whose glory we must maintain at all costs to ourselves.
So if we are, if we have the person of Christ.
There is definitely before us. If He is increasingly our object in our pattern, there will be the corresponding desire to help and in any way the Lord.
Guides those that are dear to him.
Well, we are dear to the heart. Oh, that blessed one.
And you know, beloved, we should consider it in this way just the same as a parent would consider this matter. Suppose.
Well there's someone left their children for you to to care for while they were away for a time and you wanted to please those parents. How could you please? They're way off of the distance. Well, it would be what you could do for their children.
You wouldn't want to see them grow up, I mean develop unbecoming, disobedient ways. You want to be sure that.
There was no development of self will or disobedience and anything you could do for those children of your dear friends, you know what you did for them.
Would be surely what would be pleasing to their parents who are away A lot of blessed Lord is in glory beloved, and anything that we can do for those that are dear to Him is one way we can prove and show our love to the one who has full of this that He gave himself for us.
Now the next word has to do with.
Hospitality Be not forgetful to entertain strangers.
For thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Hospitality is an evidence of Christian grace.
And the fact of entertaining of angels.
Would take us back to the time when Abraham was sitting in his tent door in the heat of the day, and three strangers, three men appeared and he showed them such lovely hospitality, went out and got a calf tender and good. And Sarah needed cakes for these strangers, and they ate with Abraham under the tree.
And one of those?
Strangers at first Abraham addressed as Lord.
That is with the small letters, except the 1St. And lastly he addresses him as Jehovah. And finally he says, Shall not the judge of all the earth you write, who is the judge of all the earth? All judgment is committed unto the sun. Marvelous to think that one of that number was the blessed Lord before the incarnation.
Had taken the human form just for that visit so he could sit with Abraham.
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And under the tree and either of his of his benefits. Beloved, isn't it wonderful that in entertaining the Saints of God that we're following in the pattern of a man that entertains the blessed Lord?
Now back there in the Old Testament days.
Remember them that are in bombs as bound with them then which suffer adversities, adversity as being yourself also in the body.
Of the.
The Spirit of God instructs us, and never go indifferent and hardened towards any of those.
Were passing through affliction, if we know of any that are in bonds.
There should be a special tenderness to such.
They have known in times past of many of God's dear children who were prisoners and Communist China or prisoners in Communist Russia and.
Why trials they were passing through? Well, the dear apostle who was writing these words for our learning was a prisoner there.
He's a how God used his imprisonment for the blessing of his people.
And he would have them feel in tenderness towards any who they were experiencing what he was passing through. So you see, we get brotherly love, we get hospitality, and then we get a tenderness towards those maybe that are unable to be entertained in our homes.
Next we get the the marriage relationship.
But before us, marriage is honorable in all the dead, undefiled that ************ and the daughters God will judge.
We're living in an age as we get near the end, when marriage is being just.
To have Thrones of the Wind and.
Immorality is on the increase, and the very fact that we see such corruption in the very institution that God has set up for man, it should make those who have the truth more careful.
And no way to bring any reproach on with important relationship to allow nothing that would even give the appearance of departure from the from that holy relationship. And it's a solemn thing that.
We have this address to Christians.
And are warned against the ************ and adulterers.
The very solemn it just show.
What a terrible.
Character, the old nature within us actually, is that it could fall into the grossest of sins.
So the the word of God.
Although giving us the highest truth.
Take us right into the heaven itself. Yet it never slices or in any way.
Would.
Give the license.
To a departure from what God has set up in of the relationship.
Of his people in this.
Institution of marriage.
Now the next thing has to do with our temporal affairs.
Let your conversation and I'll read this or quote it as it is in the better translation. Let your manner of life be without.
The love of money and be content with such things as you have.
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Conversation is far more than our talk, it's our whole manner of life.
So our whole manner of life shouldn't be like we see the ungodly around us. The one thing is to is to get more money, to get a higher position and to consider every matter that comes up in life is how much is in it and we're going to make more money.
Am I going to have a higher job that will pay?
Now, we're not in any way discouraging.
Those who want to make an honest.
Living and get along in this world.
And we wouldn't say anything that.
Would bring in a legal feeling about one going in debt for a home.
I don't know, it's like very few today that are able to buy home without.
Going in debt?
Buying it on time.
We have to, we have to just seek to get the spirit of what is taught us in the Word, in connection with the content, with such things as you have now. There is the pattern for us.
Beloved.
Don't go or live beyond your means. I believe that that is one of the most important practical lessons that we can convey to one another not to try to live beyond your means. That is in the world of days. They they speak of it as keeping up with the Joneses. That is someone have have a house with better furniture.
When I have had well, I almost.
Keep in line and although it brings a heavy burden, still I can't be outstripped in my home life. Well, how many dear people of God have burdened themselves with cares and worries and unnecessary trials that it would never have taken place?
If there's one, scripture had just been observed.
To be content with such things as you have or the better translation is with your present circumstances.
And when we think of the apostle writing to Christians at Jerusalem who were soon to see their whole city burned up, you can see how really how worthless.
The things actually were when they were assumed to be just material for the bonfire.
And while a comforting word, this is for us no matter what may take place.
Or you know, we're only promised in this life tribulation. I know some say that we're promised our bread and water.
But that may not always be the although I believe in the normal condition that we will always have food and raiment and we are told having food and raiment, let us fare with be content.
But God does, definitely.
Assure us that in the world he shall have tribulation.
Now we may live to see the time, should the Lord tarry a few years, when the present prosperity of this land takes a reverse, and some are here to remember the time during the depression.
How there were those that were losing everything out of jobs and in sore trial. But isn't it lovely?
No matter what the trials may be, should the Communists overthrow the government on which we're living, yes, we would not be deprived of this promise of the blessed Lord. For he says, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
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So that we may boldly say, the Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. What a promise that is for our souls.
We needn't fear man. We're never told to fear the devil.
But we are told of fear of the Lord, and the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
He will transgress any word of instruction He is given for our souls.
And we can boldly say, no matter what takes place.
That the Lord is my helper. And hasn't it often been proved in our lives that instead of prosperity and success.
Being the means of our spiritual growth and blessing.
It has been the very opposite that it's been in times of trial when we were wholly cast on the Lord that we got closer to our blessed Savior and learned lessons that we could never have learned had we always had a smooth passage as we went along. This this scene. Now the next, the seventh verse is remember them.
Which have the rule over you.
Again, we all quote from a better translation.
Remember your leaders. And you notice the leaders here are not the ones who were living when the apostle was writing.
But those who had passed off of the scene, who have spoken unto you the word of God.
Well, at the time when the Spirit of God came.
Into the world at Pentecost.
Where there was a mighty movement and in the days of the persecution of Stephen, why they went everywhere preaching the words they went as far as Antiochum doesn't tell us who those creatures were, but God had numerous servants in those days that went from country to country spreading.
The Gospel and now.
Paul writes his old writes as old.
Many of those had passed off of the scene.
But he says remember.
Your leaders, those who spoke unto you the word of God, because left behind like Luke, you know who?
The writer of Acts and the Gospel bears his name. He remained behind to establish the Saints.
Has Paul and Silas and Timothy went on and their missionary journeys. Well, as these were taken away, impossible now tells them to remember these who have spoken unto you, but.
Have they spoken to them about the Word of God? All, beloved, last remember those who have taught us sincerely and humbly from the Word of God. We could think of Brother Sheldrake. We don't forget his instruction, do we?
We thank God for it and many others that have gone on that instructed us years ago.
What I was thinking of.
Special work that began It will be 140 years ago this year when Christians first began to meet in the Lord's name. Who separated from the systems of men and found that when they met in just the Lord's name.
And waited on him to instruct them from His priceless word that the Holy Spirit guided them.
What we're connected with that which began so many years ago.
And at that time, God raised up.
Once he's spoken of here as your leaders.
Man that gave us the truth of God.
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We think especially of Jay and Darby and JG Billet and GV Wigram and then.
Many others who followed on developing the truth with these who 1St.
Saw the path of separation and we have their writings in our libraries. Most of us, if we have them, we can soon purchase them.
And you'll get the the most marvelous unfolding of the truth of God in the writers of those who were given the people of God at that time. They've never been improved on. And those who have departed from the original teachings of those that were called out at that time have have gone into air.
And into things that are not to be dependent upon.
So the Lord raised up Chapter Macintosh to simplify what the more difficult riders had given.
Well, we can get surely much blessing to our souls if we remember what these.
And to remember what they have given us, it necessitates taking time and.
And.
Getting help from these valuable writings that have been left us really as a legacy to the Church of God.
Now what was the end of their faith?
Whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation.
He doesn't tell us to follow their mistakes.
We've all made mistakes throughout it.
And if we just are occupied with the mistakes of those that God has raised up.
We can go far astray, but if we follow the faith.
Although.
There have sincerely and faithfully served the Lord. What is the end of that conversation or manner of life the next verse tells us?
Jesus Christ, the same yesterday.
And today, and forever.
The end or the issue was it was all leading up to in spite of shortcomings they had before them.
That blessed person.
Have a one who was in the bosom of the Father.
Who was with the Father, and from all eternity was the delight of the Father.
And that very one came into this poor world of ours. So is Jesus Christ the same yesterday? That's the past and today?
Oh, the love. I think of his pathway through this sad world of ours. That's the day that we're living in. He has proud. He is proud Earth.
Roadway in this trouble scene that we're treading ourselves today, but marvelous that oneness to be our our center, our bridegroom.
Our enjoyment for all the ages of eternity. Who was the same yesterday to pass the day and forever.
Whatever that is a word to exercise us because the more we know Him as the one that's today, the more we will enjoy Him in heaven as the One who is forever. This is the time through grace when we're getting personally acquainted with our Savior. That isn't to say that we've got to know a lot of about Christ to get.
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Of our souls, one verse setting Christ as the Savior who died on the cross for sinners is enough to save the most Richard Godless.
Creature that ever lived one look at Christ dying for sinners is enough, but all the getting acquainted with that blessed One as we go on our way and that's one reason why God has leaving us.
In this world.
Of trouble and trial.
Now I believe that this eighth verse.
Is connected both with the verse preceding and the verse that follows.
Be now carried away with divers and strange doctrines.
That is, if if your heart is filled with Christ, you won't be looking for some new.
Doctrine or teaching something to.
To.
Thrill your fancy or your imagination. You'll be satisfied.
With that one who?
Has who has the same yesterday and today and forever. That's our deliverance. The enjoyment of Christ that we are Speaking of is the way that the Spirit of God would protect our soul.
From being deceived and misled into the harmful teaching that could rob us of our spiritual blessings.
Divers and strange doctrines I I knew a brother that was telling this, that one time he was visiting a place, and the brother at whose house he was entertained.
Called up another brother and he says we're having a meeting tonight.
The brother on the other end of the telephone says. Is he going to tell us something new?
He turns with a brother. He said, what shall I tell him? He tell. I said tell him no, that what he'll hear will be the old, old story of Jesus and his love. He says I'm not going. Wasn't long before that man was out of the meeting and out into the world.
Oh no, if we're like the Ephesians who spent their time in nothing else but telling or hearing some new thing, it shows a very.
Critical and very sad and maybe serious state of soul.
Let's enjoy the things, beloved, that we've heard from our youth and.
And get deeper enjoyment of these precious things.
So he says, For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with me.
A heart established with grace is a heart that is the in the enjoyment of the unmerited favor of God in connection with what it has done and what it is doing and what it will do for sinners.
Marvelous thing to have our hearts established in a way like that, isn't it?
And then when he says not with meats, that simply means of.
Taking up with forms and ceremonies, that was the danger for these Hebrew believers.
And so there's always that danger confronting the people of God.
Of merely making a form out of things that should be most real and important to us in our Christian lives, well, we see the terrible result in Christendom.
The precious remembrance of the Lord has become a mass, a sacrifice to get salvation.
But we're always in danger of following the natural bent of the human mind away from the Lord, and so we could make even.
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Our remembrance of the Lord as just a form.
It's rather.
Distressing thing to observe.
That the last meeting, that Christians.
Gathereth, the Lord's name will give up as the breaking of bread.
They give up the prayer meeting first, then they give up the reading meeting.
Maybe getting different about the gospel meeting.
And then?
They are ready to give up even the remembrance of the Lord.
And why? Because they've made it just to form.
That's what it is the apostle has to say to the to the church in Ephesus on his left. Thy first love you find that they were going on. They refuted evil. I know, beloved, because we stand firm for the ground of gathering. Isn't this?
That we're in the state that God can.
Can command? Oh no, we might be going on very correctly.
Standing very firm for the truth of the one body and yet if we're allowing these things that are given to.
For for our blessing and for the honor of Christ, and to get closer to him if we make merely a form of remembering the Lord and coming to meeting and being at the prayer meeting. If all these things have just become.
Formal habit in our lives.
I assess while the apostle is.
Warning about here in this verse.
Meets with have not profited them that are occupied therein. Then he says we have an altar where they have no right to eat, which serve the Tabernacle.
Do we have an order, beloved?
Was the table in the middle of the room an altar?
It was not.
North it has.
Become a part of christendom's corruption to say there's an altar where.
The holy sacraments is raised. What is the altar of the Christian? It's Christ.
Marvelous that Christ is our altar and Christ is our sacrifice.
The apostle says in the 5th chapter of First Corinthians. Corinthians even Christ.
Our Passover is sacrificed for us.
Our only holder is Christ, our only sacrifice is Christ, and then the one who offers the sacrifice again is Christ. For a read Who by himself?
Offered who? Who by the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God?
Now he says that that alter the Christian has that those who serve the Tabernacle had no right to that altar.
You see, the Apostle is drawing the line between.
The Jewish professors who were going on with the Temple or the Tabernacle service.
That Moses set up and he says they have no right.
To that altar that belongs to us.
See, there had come a time when there must be a stand taken as to those that were connected with that, that sacrifice, that one who is himself blessedly our altar.
For the body of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp. Turn with me to the 16th chapter of Leviticus.
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Look at the 14th verse.
Now this is in this chapter is giving us the great Day of Atonement.
And they were There was a Bullock offered for the family of Aaron, and there was a goat offered for the sins of the people of Israel. And here's what he says about the Bullock. And he shall take of the blood of the Bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward.
And before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood.
With His fingers seven times he shall kill the gold of the sin offering, that is, for the people, and bring His blood within the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the Bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat. Now look on down to the 27th verse.
And the bullet for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood are brought in to make a torment in the holy place.
Shall one carry forth without the camp, and they shall burn it in the fire?
Their skins and their flesh and their dumb.
Now Paul is making use of that type to show Christians their position here in this world.
For our blessed Lord is just like Aaron, who carried the blood of the Atonement into the Holy of Holies and there sprinkled it on and before the mercy seat.
That's a figure of heaven itself.
Our glorious substitute.
After his work on the cross.
Has gone into the Holy of Holies, as it were.
Into the presence of God.
Now we don't ever want to accept the teaching that he literally took his blood there.
Us all the imagination of man, and it's not true. Oh no, that blood stained the ground.
And just as the blood of Abel spoke from the ground.
But marvelous when Paul speaks of the blood of Christ in the same way, instead of bringing a curse, as the blood of Abel brought upon Cain and his descendants his cells, which speak of better things than that of evil. All the blood of Christ, beloved, has stained this poor world that has has brought better things.
For your soul and for my soul through that wondrous offering. But we can say this.
That he has carried the value of that blood into the very presence of God Himself.
And that's what we have before us.
Whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by by the high priests, for sins are burned without the camps.
Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood.
Suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp during his reproach.
That is the the.
The fact that Christ is up there.
Presenting to God all the Father, all the infinite value of His work on the cross.
Marks our place out down here in this world.
That is, the one who is up there is the very one who suffered without the gate of Jerusalem.
There was that marvelous city. I think sometimes we think that we have the only wonderful cities that ever existed on the earth, but Jerusalem must have been an amazing city.
And that temple was the wonder of the world, even Titus, who destroyed Jerusalem.
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He was so amazed at the beauty of the temple that he gave orders that it should not be destroyed.
But the Lord had said, talking to his disciples, that one stone should not be left upon another whose words were going to stand.
The great general of the Roman army, or the blessed Lord? Well, a drunken soldier threw a firebrand into the temple.
It was burned to the ground, and the temple was thrown down, so that the words of Christ came true, that what one stone was left upon another.
Well, that city of solemn, that is, with all its service.
And I am sure there was never a grander service here on earth. And the temple service you read in the 23rd chapter of First Chronicles where David speaks of of 200 that praise the Lord with instruments that he had made. No, it was 4000 who praise the Lord with instruments that he had made.
You ever see a band like that?
4000 people playing on instruments and praising the Lord.
They had gown choirs.
And at the very time the sacrifices were being offered there in Jerusalem, all that service that had been set up was still going on When?
When the apostle was writing and continued right up to the time, and God's judgment fell upon it.
Well, there's a there's a lesson for us in that, but our place?
Is a place that our blessed Lord took in making atonement for our souls, and it's outside all of this world values.
As as a system of forms and ceremonies and.
All that goes with the music and entertainment and Christendom.
The blessed Lord is outside of that whole thing.
Now our time is up, that perhaps if the Lord soul leads and I continue with the.
Hound in this chapter, which we seem to be unable to fill in for this one hour, so may the Lord guide us to that perhaps?
We just got about half the chapter.
The thing that him, Lord, Thou has drawn us after Thee. Thank you. 166 Now let us run, and never tire. Thy present shall our comfort be thyself, our hope, our soul desire, our present Savior, while nor fear nor sin can come, if our work near.
Lord, thou hast.
Comforting.
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