Glendale Conference: 1961
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Object of Service
Address—G.H. Hayhoe
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I'd like to read in First Samuel chapter 13.
First Samuel chapter 13 and beginning at the 17th verse.
And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines and three companies.
One company turned under the way that leadeth to Oprah, under the land of Shuo.
And another company turned the way to Beth Horn, and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zebulun for the wilderness.
Now there was number Smith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, lest the Hebrews make them swords or Spears.
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen every man his share.
And his colder in his acts and his matter.
Yet they had a file for the Maddox, and for the colders, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the golds. So it came to pass in the day of battle that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan. But with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found, and the Garrison of the Philistines went over to the passage of Mick Smash.
Now it came to pass upon a day that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said unto the young man that bare his armor.
Come and let us go over to the Philistines Garrison that is on the other side. But he told not his father and soul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron. And the people that were with him were about 600 men on a high of the son of a Heub Ichabod brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the Lord's priest in Shiloh, wearing an effort.
And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
And between the passages by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines Garrison.
There was a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side, and the name of the one was Bo's As and the name of the other Cena. The forefront of the one was situated northward over against Mick Mash, and the other southward over against.
Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armor. Come and let us go over under the Garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the Lord will work for us, for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many.
Or by few. And his armor bearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart.
Turn thee, Behold, I am with thee according to thy heart. Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will Passover unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.
If they say thus unto us, carry until we come to you, then we will stand still in our place.
And we will not go up under them, but if they say thus come up unto us, then we will go up, for the Lord hath delivered them into our hand, and this shall be a sign unto us. And both of them discovered themselves under the Garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said that behold, Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves. And the men of the Garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you.
And Jonathan said unto his armor bearer, Come up after me, but the Lord hath delivered them into the hand of Israel. And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands, and upon his feet, and his armor bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan, and his armor bearers flew after him.
And that first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor bearer made was about 20 men within, as it were, 1/2 acre of land which a yoke of oxen might plow.
And there was a trembling in the horse, in the field, and among all the people.
The Garrison and the spoilers. They also trembled, and the earthquake saw it was a very great trembling. And the Watchmen of Saul and Gibeah of Benjamin looked. And behold, a multitude melded away, and they went on beating down one another. Then said Saul unto the people that were with him. Number now, and see who has gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.
And Saul said unto Ohio.
Bring hit her the ark of God, for the Ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.
And it came to pass, while the while Saul talked unto the priest at the noise that was in the host of the Philistines went on and increased.
And Saul said unto the priest, Will draw thine hand, and saw in all the people that were with him assembled together themselves.
And they came to the battle, and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow. And there was a very great discomfiture. Moreover, the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them under the into the camp from the country roundabout even. They also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan, likewise all the men of Israel.
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Which had hid themselves in Mount Ephraim heard that the Philistines fled even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
Saw the Lord saved Israel that day, and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.
I thought in reading this passage, dear young people, is that we find here.
A dear young man and his armor bearer, whom God used for the blessing of his people.
We can we know that it was a very dark day in which these in which this event took place.
When all of Israel were in a sad condition, they had rejected the Lord and had chosen the king. And we know that the Philistines had power over them and that Saul was unable to meet the power of the Philistines. But isn't it lovely to see here a young man and his armor bearer who were exercised for the blessing and good of the people of God?
And with whom, we might say, there was personal devotedness in an evil day.
And that's what one feels is so important at a time like this. Oh, it's very easy to get caught in the current of things.
Go along with the proud, but it takes grace and purpose of heart to go on to the Lord.
To seek to live for him and yet also to be a blessing among the people of God.
In such a day as this, and whatever failures there may afterwards have been.
In the life of Jonathan, we can at least say in this instance that there was real purpose of heart and devotedness, and God has been pleased to record it, not only that we might know that He hasn't forgotten this in the life of Jonathan, but also that we might be encouraged in the same path.
But it surely also teaches another lesson to your young people, and that is that we can't live on past victories.
We can't live on past experiences and it seems sad to think that this man.
Who was so mightily used of God should afterwards be the very one who chose to turn back and remain in the court of Saul, and not to accompany David in his rejection. And so perhaps there has been a time of devotedness in your life or mine. Perhaps as we come to these meetings, our hearts are stirred as we think of the privilege of living in this world for Christ. But all, let us remember that we need.
Strength from the Lord for the situations that we meet along the pathway of life.
Well, Philistines represent to us the power of the enemy within among God's people. We know that on another occasion Sam. Saul was able to overcome the Ammonites because they were the enemies power from without. But when the enemy's power came within, he was not able. It took real devotedness, It took purpose of heart.
Yeah, it took love for the people of God.
Which I believe we could say was never seen in the life of Saul. He was more concerned with his own honors.
Than having at heart the good and the blessing of God's people and all dear young people.
May you be one who has in your heart a desire to be a help among the people of God. It's easy to be. It's easy to just drift along with the crowd. It's easy to find fault. But it takes much courage. It takes occupation of heart with Christ to be able to go on in a day when things seem to be breaking down.
When surely the spoilers are at work to go on in faithfulness.
And in love and be used of God. And who can tell the blessing that one or two young people who seek to go on for the Lord can be among his people? But here we find just two against a vast host of the enemy. And yet used of God in such a mighty way for their deliverance and.
So that the people of God could rejoice.
And being set free from the Philistines.
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Well, we noticed too, that at the end, in the 14th chapter, there were those of the Children of Israel who had gone over and identified themselves with the Philistines, and there were others who had hid themselves.
In the in the holes of the earth. Well, I suppose those are two ways in which we can meet.
The difficulties of the way we can say it's no use and we can drift along with the current of things.
Sort of join hands with those who want to go on with things of the world.
And who want to find your pleasure and happiness here? Or we can.
Take another attitude of saying, well, there's nothing to do because no one will cooperate, no one will help.
You might as well not try to do anything. Well, those are the two extremes. Either go along with the world. Those are the ones that went and joined with the Philistines, or you can go, as it were, down to the holes in the earth and say, well, I can't do anything because I'm just one person and so I can't be a help well.
Jonathan didn't do one or the other. He didn't join hands with the Philistines.
Now did he go down into the holes of the rocks? But he knew what was taking place.
He saw that the spoilers were at work, but his heart looked up to God for the blessing and the deliverance of the people of God.
Well, it was at this time that the spoilers went out to do their deadly work. And we noticed too, in reading further down, that before these spoilers went out, they had already accomplished something very quietly, very unsuspected among the people of God. And what was it?
Well, they had seen to it that there was no Smith in the land of Israel, lest the Hebrews, as they called them, that's the name given to them in the flesh. Faith looked upon them as Israel, nature looked upon them as Hebrews. Well, they looked upon them in this way as Hebrews, and so they saw to it that there was no Smith.
They were very willing to help the people.
Of God, they were willing to help the Israelites not to sharpen their swords and Spears.
No, what were they willing to help them to do? All to sharpen their tools?
To have such good tools that they could be good, successful farmers.
That they could get along well in developing the earth and bringing out some of the good things that were in that land that God had given to them, to the neglect of their swords and their Spears. All dear young people, sometimes one feels that that is what the enemy is doing in a day like this. How often we find that the enemy is so willing.
To help us get along in the world, we can get scholarships, we can get help of all kinds.
To make a success of this life, we can get loans and we can do everything.
To have the finest education in the best homes and the nicest cars and just get along so well and the world won't turn us down. They're ready to help. The Philistines were glad to sharpen the tools of the Israelites so that they could be good farmers so long as they neglected their swords and their Spears. And one is not saying this because.
I am against the necessity of education in connection with your calling in life, but all I do say to your young people, don't make that your object.
Don't neglect the things of God to get along in this world, because if you do and the day of battle, there will be no sword and spear in your hand and all What a sad thing it is in the day of battle is going to come in your life and mine. It's going to come in our private life. It's going to come in our assembly life. It's going to come in our business life.
That is a time when God is going to test us as to whether we really want to.
Put his claims 1St and acknowledge the Lord Jesus as the one who has a rightful claim.
Over our hearts and over us. And can it not be that while we're so busy?
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Getting these things of so-called necessary necessities of life.
That we can neglect the sword and the spear. All dear young people.
I beg of you not to neglect the private reading of the Word of God in prayer.
I beg of you not to neglect the meaning. I beg of you not to allow the things that might be called important in this life to hinder you from giving time in your private life for the Lord Jesus.
And so we find here that the Philistines had worked this plan.
And then when the plan was complete, when there was number sword in the hands of any of the people, only in the hand of Saul and Jonathan, then the spoilers went out to work. Then they started to do their work. And there was no power to combat it. There was no spiritual energy to stand against it because.
Of the sword and the spear had been neglected.
And so it tells us here about these three companies. I looked up a little bit about the names of the places where these companies went, and I was quite struck to notice that the one that went to Oprah was the place where Gideon Fresh Sweets by the Winepress. That's where he was. All the spoilers. Don't want to see you and I have that private time.
Over God's precious word, they don't want to see us taking that time.
That we should be spending over God's Word. And so the spoilers went out.
And the first place they went to us Ultra, that is the beginning of getting away from the Lord.
Is neglecting His word in our lives.
Then it says another company turned the way to Beth Horn. Well, that was the place.
When they went up from Gilda, they went to Beth Horan in the battle against the five kings of Canaan.
Book of Joshua It was, perhaps we might say, the decisive battle of the possession of Canaan.
And this was the place where, when they left the Old hall, they went up to Beth Horan. All the enemy doesn't want you and I.
To live in practical self judgment so that we can go on the victory.
And all dear young people, are there little things allowed in your life and mine?
That are hindering fruit bearing that are hindering what we might speak of as victory. And because we are allowing those things and we know they're wrong. Our conscience as well as the word of God tells us that they're wrong. But we still go on with them. We we argue that there's nothing very wrong with them but the children of Israel.
They had to come from Guildhall up to Beth Horan.
So we see the enemy. That was where the second company of spoilers went, that was the place where they went from Guildhall to victory. And so he attacked that place, Beth Horan.
And the third company, it says they went the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zebulun, toward the wilderness.
Well, I was thinking of that as those who are discouraged, you know, the enemy.
Yours is discouragement. That's one of his great tools. He might be neglecting the word.
But perhaps we're reading the word. We might even feel that we're practicing self judgment.
But we might be very discouraged. There are a lot of young people who are discouraged.
They feel it's no use, they feel it's difficult, it's uphill work to follow Christ and one of the enemies greatest tools is discouragement. Indeed one has been impressed in noticing in first Peter chapter 5 it says casting all your care upon him, for he cares for you. The next verse says be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the devil has a roaring lion.
Walketh about seeking whom he may devour. A discouraged Christian is open to the definite attack of the enemy.
And here, young people, if we're not casting our cares upon the Lord, if we're not leaving Him to order our lives and to plan them according to His perfect wisdom and love, by then we're probably discouraged. And the devil is right there ready to upset one who is discouraged. He just knows when to get in and to turn us aside.
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So here were the three companies of spoilers.
Went out. The Garrison of the Philistines moved up into Mick Mash, and the people went to look for their swords, and nobody had one. The enemy was so clever. He had worked this all out. He had secret intelligence. He knew that they were neglecting their swords and their Spears, and in the day of battle there was no one.
But Saul and Jonathan, who had a spear or a sword in their hands?
And perhaps we could say that in the case of Saul, seems to me it would picture to us.
Having the knowledge of the word without the power to walk in it. And so there is another danger in that direction. We can get the truth intellectually.
So that we can answer the questions intellectually and still be tearing under a pomegranate tree. That is no spiritual energy in our lives, no love for the people of God, no desire for their good and for their blessings. Yet having a fine knowledge of the Word. So sorry to say, Saul's sword, with little help in the day of battle and knowledge will never keep us, dear young people.
But Christ will the enjoyment of himself, of his love, that will keep us.
That will give us strength in the day of battle. So there wasn't only knowledge with Jonathan. He had the sword, but he also had a love for the people of God. He had a desire for their deliverance. And he had to a confidence in God that he was able to deliver his people and that he loved his people. And that if Jonathan felt in his heart the sorrow of seeing them.
The Lord felt it still more and that He loved the people of God. But all we also see it coupled with a very sweet humility. Oh, I think it's lovely in reading this portion to see the humility that characterized Jonathan at this time. And oh it's so important. This is a day when self importance and pride is a great thing.
Push oneself forward and think.
That were able to accomplish things, self-confidence. But all we see with Jonathan, there wasn't that self-confidence, but there was confidence in the law. There was the knowledge of his love and of his faithfulness. Though it came to pass upon a day upon a day. Well, it might be today in your life or mine.
Might be this very day that the Lord stirs us up.
It might be that he brought us to this very general meeting, dear young people, so that this would be the day.
What our hearts would be stirred up, and when we would have a renewed and fresh desire.
To live for the Lord Jesus and to be a blessing among his people. So on this particular day, Jonathan said to the young man that bears armor, come and let us go over to the Philistines Garrison that is on the other side.
Yes, that day came. He didn't look at the difficulties. They were insurmountable. He didn't say the spoilers are too busy, there's too much trouble here. You couldn't do anything in a condition like this. And perhaps you might say there was a lot of trouble in the little assembly where I come from. There's some spoilers that work there. We'll have to wait until that's over before we can do anything.
Here, young people, you'll wait forever if you wait till the spoilers stop their work.
The enemy is always busy, but faith looks to God. Faith counts upon him.
Faith knows what man is, but it also knows what God is. That God is able to do more than we can ask or think.
Another thing that I think is very beautiful here is the kind of companion that Jonathan.
Had chosen? What kind of a companion did he choose? Did he choose one?
Who would tend to discourage him and would say, oh, it's no use.
Don't try Jonathan, the odds are all against you. But instead he had chosen.
A companion, an armor bearer who had the same godly exercises and who was a help to him. And dear young people, these are very important occasions. Many friendships start at such times as this. It's quite often that you meet a boy or a girl who may afterwards be your life companion. But all I ask you, do you want one who will be an armor bearer?
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Do you want one who will help you? You want one who will be an encouragement to you in the past of following Christ? A boy can be a drag to a girl.
Or a girl can be a drag to a boy and hinder in the path of following Christ.
Oh, may we know what it is due to your young people when you go out together during these meetings, try and encourage one another.
Try and encourage one another to follow Christ and be a help instead of a discouragement in that path and it'll be a blessing to you and a blessing to the one whom you choose to be your partner. And if you find that the one who is going around with you is not really one you could call an armor bearer, an armor bearer, the better the better. Stop it now.
Better stop now before it's too late, because.
To have a spiritual drive in your life as a sad, sad thing.
Well, Jonathan had an armor bearer. His partner was an armor bearer.
And when he said to him, come and let's go, his armor bearer could say, as he did later on the whole, I am with thee, behold, I am with thee. Oh how lovely that was. To see helpers together remind you of dear Aquila and Priscilla, whose noble names in the scripture shows how a young couple together can serve the Lord.
Amid the hardships and difficulties of going on in the day.
When there's weakness and failure and ruin, perhaps.
Well, why does it say he told not his father? Why not take his father into this confidence?
Well, his father was not a man of faith.
Father was a man who was in a higher position among the people of God, but he didn't have faith.
They remember how Abraham on one occasion when God called him.
To come out from all the Chaldees, he talked it over with his father. He allowed his father to take the lead.
And when they started out for the land of Canaan, his father caught his father was the influence.
That caused them to settle down in Heron instead of going into God's land.
And they stayed there for some time, too, because he told his father. He told his father.
We remember another occasion. How?
Moses, father-in-law discouraged him to Moses father-in-law said you're not able to bear the burden of this people alone. That's too heavy.
As one brother said, the Lord never asked him to bear it alone. He said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. He never asked us to do a thing alone. His promise to be with us is our encouragement and our health.
Well, he didn't tell his father. And dear young people if there's someone.
Whom you know will discourage you, even a loved one in the path of following Christ.
Sometimes you have to look beyond that loved one, sometimes you have to look beyond that person and not allow them to influence you. Gideon would never have pulled down the altar that was in Abia, in the in the country of the Abias rights if he had asked his father, because his father had built it. But when he acted in faith, God undertook.
And so I say again how important it is that we act before God.
In our exercises to follow Him and for the blessing of His people.
Well, Saul had a large number with him. He had 600.
He tied under a pomegranate tree. He had the Lord's priest there.
As I say, all the awkward things, but not that devotedness and spiritual energy.
And that's what we need in a day like this. It's true that God still recognizes people.
And we must recognize the people of God too, and love them. We must recognize the fact that God has a Center for his people.
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But what I'm Speaking of, particularly this afternoon, dear young people, is devotedness to Christ.
Personal devotedness to Christ following him.
According to his mind and to his word.
Well, it tells us to in the end of the third verse that the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
Oh, how was that? They didn't notice that Jonathan was gone. Oh, I think this is very beautiful too. Jonathan wasn't the man that attracted attention to himself. He didn't try to attract any attention to himself. No, he went on quietly, unnoticed. But he had a large heart. He loved the people of God. He couldn't bear to see them in *******. But he sought no prominence for himself.
Moses thought to deliver the people of God one time.
But he sought to do it in a way that gave prominence to himself as a ruler and a judge.
But God had to teach him many lessons before he could finally use him.
And may I say to your young people, some is often seen, dear young people, with a real zeal, real desire to be a blessing among the people of God, but were perhaps content to go by unnoticed, content to go in and out among the people of God and not to be noticed. But that's the great secret here, Jonathan told. Not his father. And the other 600 didn't even know that he had gone.
Well, he goes out and there were two sharp rocks.
On one side there was a sharp rock by the Philistines were on the other side there was a sharp rock.
Where the Garrison was with with Saul and we often find tea that there are sharp rocks to pass.
We see in front of us the Garrison of the Philistines. We see the sharp rocks.
And it seems it's impossible, it's too difficult. And Jonathan said to the young man, he said.
Come, let us go over under the Garrison of these men. It may be that the Lord will work for us, for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few business. Lovely, He said. The Lord may use this. There's no boasting here, is there? There's no saying He's going to use us. We're great people.
We've got courage now, he said. The Lord may use it, and if he, if he does want to use us.
Why? He doesn't need to have a large company, he just needs to have a heart that looks to him.
So he said that he may use this, but then it seems to me I'm leading the incident here, that Jonathan must have looked at those shad rocks.
And I believe he turned around. I believe he turned his back and he's just going to go back.
Because his armor bearer said, turn me. Behold, I am with thee.
Well, hasn't that time come? Sometimes, perhaps.
We wanted to do something to the Lord and we're all ready. And then the difficulty just seemed so intermodal.
Seems so impossible and we just felt like turning back was number use.
And that's just the point where we find Jonathan here. Why does God record that? All dear young people, I believe this is important.
God will never let us do any boasting. He'll never let us do any boasting.
And Peter walked on the water, but he could never boast about it. He began to sink.
David became king, but he could never say I was so faithful through all those years.
That God gave me the throne because when the time came he was to get the throne, He had fled from the face of Saul and was down with the Philistines.
All God will always let us see our own helplessness, our own nothingness.
But that's a good thing for us. It's necessary because He would only have us to boast in Christ.
He would only have us to boast in him. So it seems to me that the armors are here.
Was the means and this occasion of calling causing Jonathan to turn around.
And go forward in this battle. So they went up. We haven't time to speak of it in detail, but we know how they went forward there. They called up to the host of the Philistines and they said, come up, we'll show you a thing. In other words, they just look down with disdain. Two men coming up to meet them.
Two men able to face the whole Garrison of the Philistines.
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They look with disdain, but then what does it tell us? Oh, it tells us that they got down on their hands and feet.
We've got to get down before we can go up. And so sometimes when we feel disdain, when people look and say, Oh no, you think they're going to do something, well, take it down in their hands and their feet and they climbed up and when they came up to the top.
There was the Philistine Garrison, but when they got there and the courage and confidence that the Lord gives, Jonathan set forward.
And his armor bearer after them, after him. And what was the result?
All complete victory. God granted a complete victory. And what about the spoilers?
All they trembled. What about the people that were afraid of the Philistines?
While they tremble, to the Philistines the whole situation is all changed, and the people who seem so many, so innumerable.
By the whole earth trembled, and Jonathan and his armor bearer went forward.
And God through them delivered the people of God. And what about these ones that have gone down, hid themselves in the hole? What about the ones that have gone over to the fellow signs? Did Jonathan get ahold of them and give them a shaking and say you shouldn't be there with the Philistines and you people in the halls, you come up all he didn't. Isn't this lovely?
Why, in the courage and confidence of faith, he goes forward?
And these people came out of the holes, and the ones that were with the Philistines came back.
And what a great deliverance God wrought. And then after all this, then Saul comes forward and he joins the crowd. He brings his army into the battle. And Saul got all the credit. As far as outward things were concerned. It looked as if in the end it was all salt victory. And we don't hear one word from Jonathan to defend himself.
Hold your young people. This is perhaps the hardest.
And most difficult point of all, when you try to do something and then perhaps the Lord does.
Given the privilege of doing some little thing for him and somebody else comes ahead.
And as it were, they take the credit.
And the devil says, oh, you were the one, somebody else got the credit. It's properly recorded up there.
It's properly recorded up in God's book. This shows God tested Jonathan about whether he was really doing this out of love for him and love for his people. And God tests us too. And sometimes criticism and things that happen are God's way of showing us.
The wretchedness of our own hearts. We like to get credit. We like to set self forward.
We like to be noticed, but here we find that they went unnoticed.
They didn't even know that they were gone, but all the results of it all were the deliverance of God's people. Thus the Lord saved Israel that day, and the battle passed over on the Beth Haven at the end of the chapter. They were going to put Jonathan to death that God undertook. Isn't it lovely? Isn't it beautiful to see this devotedness? All dear young people, I say again.
The close of this little meeting.
God has brought you here. It may be that He's brought you here because He wants to encourage your heart. It's easy to get discouraged.
It's easy to see the odds against you and say it's no use but all. May God grant that each one of us fear. Young people, be sure you keep your sword sharp, and be sure that you not only keep it sharp, but also that you seek to walk in that communion with the Lord that gives moral courage and strength, which will be characterized with love for the people of God.
A desire for their deliverance. And if you and I seek this, it may be.
The Lord will use us. It may be what a privilege to be used of Him.
What a privilege to do something for the One who did more than we can ever tell for us. May God grant our hearts will be encouraged to live not unto ourselves, but unto Him who died for us and rose again.
Hold Fast
Address—C.H. Brown
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Ezekiel.
The part of the 14th chapter.
Of Ezekiel 12 verse. Ezekiel 14 verse 12.
Word of the Lord came again to me, saying, Send a man.
When the land sinneth against me by transgressing grievously, then will I stretch out my hand upon it, and will break the staff of bread below.
And will send a family upon it.
And will cut off man and he's from it.
Though these three men.
Nor Daniel and Joe.
We're in it. They should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness.
Seth the Lord well.
If I cause noise and reach the pass through the land.
And they spoil it so that they desolate that no man can pass through because of the beast.
These three men were in it as I lived, that the Lord God they should deliver neither sons nor daughters.
They only shall be delivered.
The land shall be desolate.
What if I bring you sword upon that land and say sword go through the land so that I cut off man and beast from it?
All these three men, then it as I left, saith the Lord God, They shall deliver me the sons nor daughters.
But they only shall be delivered themselves.
Or if I send the pestilence into that land.
And pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it, man and beast.
Both Noah, Daniel and Joe were innocent. As I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter. They shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
For thus that the Lord God, how much more when I send my four sword judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, the famine, the noise and beast, the pestilence, to cut off from McMahon and beast, yet behold therein shall be left to remnant.
This gives us a starting place for our little meditation this afternoon.
I think we're just a bit ambitious.
In trying to summarize.
Of the lives of these three men.
But when the word of God lakes.
Names together in this way, I think we're not going to go amiss by.
Linking them together. No meditations.
Ezekiel.
Lived toward the end of the history of the Jews before their captivity. In fact, he himself was carried into captivity, and a good share of his prophecy was written while he was in captivity.
He was a faithful man.
He wasn't afraid to tell the truth made him unpopular.
But he was willing to suffer from the.
And is bringing before the consciences of the guilty people who were so careless.
The fact that though three of the most remarkable men.
That we have recorded in biblical history.
Although they were there at the present time, Speaking of his day.
And the judgments came.
Their righteousness would only deliver their own souls.
Think of singling out three men that way.
They're separated in history by a matter of 2000 years.
Well, Daniel and Joe.
It's all the more remarkable the ordering which they're given.
It is more Job and Daniel.
No, Daniel was a contemporary of Ezekiel.
They must have known each other.
Must have loved each other.
And I think it's so nice to see Ezekiel Speaking of a contemporary labour and profit.
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In such remarkable terms.
All those down through history, there has been a tendency.
Of those rules that God become jealous one of another.
That's the suddenly of our natural hearts.
What did you find? Where grace rises above it, and it's so sweet to see it. And it's so.
Remember that, Paul?
We did hit her to his face because he was to be blamed.
He had what marvelous grace on Peters Park later on to speak of our beloved brother Paul.
Well, there's nothing like the working of the Spirit of Christ in our hearts, beloved.
In giving us to have the reaction that our blessed Lord would have had.
Under similar circumstances.
Now I have it before me just to give the barest outline of the distinguishing features.
Of these three books, these three men rather.
This man, Noah.
Was a man who believed that the world was boon together.
And he acted accordingly, both for himself and his family.
Now I suppose we better turn back to the 6th of Genesis.
5th Ghost, Genesis 6.
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth.
And that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Eighth verse. But Noah found grace.
In the eyes of the Lord.
Think of how rapidly the earth had deteriorated from the time that.
God started man on this fair earth with everything in his favor.
When God looked upon that finished creation and pronounced it very good.
And yet now we're only 1500 years down the corridor of time.
And God has to write in His Word.
That he saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continuing.
I do not see how you could go any further than that verse.
If it's every imagination, you're accepted.
And the thoughts of his heart were only.
Only.
But evil.
But that isn't that isn't enough. One more word.
Continually.
Think of getting up in the morning.
Starting your day with thinking.
All your thoughts were corrupt, wicked evil.
Not one good thing ever passed through your mind.
You go on through the day after that manner, you lie down at night.
The last thought at night is the thought of wickedness.
That that is contrary to the mind of God.
That's the condition to which the world had fallen in the days of Noah.
But God always has someone.
For whom he can look.
He can acknowledge always.
So here we find in that eighth verse that God, that Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.
The name Noah means rest.
You found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.
I believe that we all sense that we're living in a day.
When we're rapidly approximating the conditions that prevailed in Noah's time.
I've lived quite a few years in this world myself.
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And I can testify personally that I have seen a distinct degeneration.
All along the line in the standards of humanity around us.
Everything is on the down green.
And, we're told in the Gospel of Matthew.
That, in the end, time is just going to be like it was in the days of Moore.
Things aren't getting one bit better, in fact.
The emphasis is all in the opposite direction.
Things are getting worse. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse this evening. And being deceived.
Well, yes, the time comes when.
Even in professed personal male will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lust shall they heat themselves. Teachers having itching ears, and shall turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned on the fables.
Let's not expect things to get better.
No, things are not going to get better.
We're getting ready.
For the judgment of God to overwhelm this scene. The judgment of God.
On mankind in his alienation and enmity to God and the judgment of God upon an apostate Christendom that's denied their only Lord and Savior. Word of God is full of testimony to bear out this statement.
Noah lived in a day like that, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
All beloved Saints of God.
The older I get, the more I see and am convinced that all is of grace.
Free on Merited Haven, or how grateful we ought to be.
Every day how we should drop on our knees and bless God for His goodness.
That we're not out in the current of wickedness, in the vortex of iniquity that's raging around us today. What a mercy to be kept in the sense of God's goodness, to seek to live in fellowship by the Spirit with the Lord Jesus Christ.
To recognize our link with that man in heaven that's coming any moment to take us out of this scene of defilement, to usher us into His glorious presence forever.
Laura found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Are you a Christian? Are you all right? You found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
All get down every day on your knees and bless God.
That you found Grace in his eyes.
Now the ninth verse.
These are the generations.
Ignore nor was a just man and perfect in his generations.
And Noah walked with God.
Remarkable man, wasn't he? No wonder he gets into the 18th into the 14th chapter of Ezekiel.
Was a just man perfect in his generations? Noah walked with God. How wonderful in the day of declension and a day of wickedness to have the mind of Christ and thread our way through this world apart from.
Dear brother AH Rule, whom some of us knew personally.
Used to say it's the path of the Christian.
To slip through this world as quietly as possible.
And I believe it was right.
No, we're not to be blinking ourselves with high ambitions.
No, we're not going to go through this world unsung.
Unheralded, unnoticed. It need be. Go through it quietly.
With a rejected Christ.
Will I walk with God?
You know, there's another man that walked with God, that was Enoch.
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Enoch lived.
Not too long before this.
He walked with God. 300 and.
300 years.
He walked with God.
And then God took him. He went to heaven without dying.
Wouldn't it be nice?
For you, for me to be walking with God.
And suddenly hear the call like Enoch and be taken to be with our blessed Lord.
He walked with Gaw.
Little how sad it would be, would it not, beloved?
If that call came.
And found us in a path of disobedience.
World confinity of seeking after the poor. Perishing things of time.
If we're restraining our every nerve and energy to make good in this world.
How sad it would be to be interrupted with a call to meet our Lord.
But if we were walking with God.
As Enid did and as Noah did.
How welcome, how glad we'd be for that call. Noah walked with God.
The next chapter.
And the first verse.
And Jehovah said unto Noah.
Come down all thy house into the ark that we have. I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Come thou all thy house into the ark.
We don't want to leave our loved ones outside, do we?
God addresses the call to us. Come down.
And all thy house into the ark.
Well, beloved, that Ark is Christ.
The arc is Christ and oh how good if we can see our loved ones safely house with us.
In that faith, that pure, unadulterated, unadulterated faith.
In our Lord Jesus Christ.
Not an empty farm. It isn't just getting someone to put their name on the dotted line.
It isn't just trying to induce people to join this or join that.
It isn't even just souls to break bread. That isn't the answer, but all it's to have them attracted.
Blessed person of the Lord Jesus Christ, come down all thy house into the ark. Are you burdened for your dear ones? You pray for them.
Do you you speak to them about the Lord?
All Noah was concerned about his family.
And he invited the mall to go into the ark with him, and thank God they all went in.
I will go down to 16th place.
And they went in.
Male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him.
And the Lord shut him in, all as a sense of security.
The Lord shut him in.
Well, if the Lord did it, it was well done.
No danger of any leak springing and the boat going to the bottom of the waters. No, no, the Lord shut him in.
They.
Once you get into the hand of our blessed Lord Jesus Christ.
No power in heaven or in earth can ever take you up.
Have his own word for it. I give unto my sheep eternal life, and they shall never vary, neither shall any pluck them out of my hand. And my Father which gave them to me, is greater than all, and none can pluck them out of my Father's hands. I and my Father are one.
Only wonderful to think there won't be one soul in hell.
That will be able to look up and say once I was safe in your hand, not once.
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That blessed Pierce of the hand of our Lord Jesus Christ has never lost a man.
Never, never.
Will never can.
The Lord shut him in.
Good work and you will finish it until the day of Jesus Christ.
That's emphatic.
But it's not overemphasis, it's the simple, plain truth of God.
In the 8th chapter in the first verse.
And God remembered Noah.
He's not going to forget you.
He remembered Noah.
And beloved, don't ever think.
Today is forgotten, regardless of the circumstances.
Supposing you are passing through something comparable to a great flood.
Adverse circumstances of some kind.
God is going to remember you. You're not going to forget just.
20th verse.
And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord.
And took of every clean beast and of every clean power.
And offered burnt offerings on the altar.
And the Lord smelled a sweet savor.
What's that?
All in that offering that Noah made of the clean animals.
After he came out of the ark.
God smelled the Savior of Christ and his sacrifice.
For that was what was typified in that offering of Noah.
And on the ground of that offering, God is no more going to destroy the earth by a flood.
God smelled a sweet savor. Noah, that dear man, Noah.
Is now a worshipper on a new Earth, a renewed Earth.
He is a worshiper.
You know there's a difference between worship and service.
Service isn't worship.
And worship isn't service in that sense.
And you know, in Scripture, worship comes first.
We go in as holy priests into His presence to worship.
Then we go out as royal priests to serve.
But the two things are not confounded in Scripture.
And so by Him, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually. That is the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. That's working.
To be good and to communicate forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
That service.
So Noah, we find him here on the renewed earth.
A worshiper.
No wonder that Ezekiel was led of the Spirit of God to summon Noah as an example.
Of a righteous man.
Our time is slipping by.
So we go to Daniel next. We'll take these men in the order.
That they're given.
In our chapter.
The name Daniel means.
God is my judge.
Daniel lived round numbers about 2000 years after Noah.
Might read the third verse.
The king spake under ash Pinas, the master of his units, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel.
And of the King's seed.
Notice that expression, the King's seed and of the Princess.
Children in whom is no blemish.
But well favored, skillful in all wisdom, cunning, and knowledge.
Understanding science such as had ability in them to stand in the King's palace.
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And whom they might teach the learning and tongue of the Chaldeans.
Now, Daniel was a man who absolutely refused the path of compromise.
He saw the truth of God and he went right down the line. No compromise with Daniel.
Six verse.
Among these were the children of Judah.
Daniel, Hananiah, Mitchell and Azariah.
Now notice he was at a King's seed.
He was of Judah, he was of the royal line.
And here he is, a captive, a captive in Babylon.
Seventh verse. Unto whom the Prince of the eunuchs gave names for.
He gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar Hananiah Shadrach.
And to Michel Misha and Azariah Abednego.
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the King's meat, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the Prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Now God had brought Daniel into favor and tender love with the Prince of the eunuchs.
If we're willing to take the path of separation as Daniel did.
God is going to work for us.
Here was Daniel in the strange land.
He was a captive.
He was under the absolute power of the monarch, who could have beheaded him at will.
That is with apart from God.
And yet that man knew nothing.
Of bowing to the will of that king if it transgressed the will of God.
If he had stayed back home and lived up to his privileges as of the seed royal.
He might eventually have had a place in this world.
That it all passed by as a thing not to be sought by Daniel.
He purposed in his heart that he had not defiled himself with the portion.
Of the King's meat.
If you will honor God in your life.
He'll honor you. Them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Oh, how often we've seen.
This man who dared defy the king.
Was made the highest ruler in the Kingdom under that king.
Them that honor me.
I will honor.
All you dear young people here.
I wish that you might get something from that eighth verse this afternoon. Daniel purpose in his heart. He would not defile himself.
With a King's meeting.
The King was a man of this world. All he knew was the feast on what this world had to give.
What Daniel wanted? None of it.
He wanted to be in communion with his God and all. How richly God blessed him.
Verse 17.
As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding and all visions and dreams.
20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding that the king inquired of them.
He found them 10 times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.
Daniel continued even under the first year of King Cyrus.
God has not given us the spirit of fear.
But of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
So it was here with Daniel.
He wasn't living in constant fear when the time came to say his prayers.
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He opened the window and he prayed toward his beloved Jerusalem.
He wasn't ashamed to do it.
No, God hasn't given us the spirit of fear, but of power.
You have in you by the fact of your being a Christian, you have the potential.
To overcome any and every temptation that may come your way while you're here.
That's the truth of God.
Not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love, and of a sound mind.
Isn't it wonderful to have a sound judgment? That's what that verse means.
Gives the Christian the ability to analyze the various figurines and schemes and plans and hopes and ambitions and movements of this world, and to save them and see the folly of them. And he's the only one that does.
He's given us the power and he's given us a sound mind that means a sound judgment.
You remember when the First World War was on?
That President Wilson.
Created that little slogan that this is a war to end war. Remember that some of you at least do this. War is a war to end war.
Now do you think any simple hearted believer that knew his Bible?
Was the least bit impressed by that slogan of President Wilson.
Why no, it wasn't impressed at one bit.
He knew that according to the word of God.
That wars are to continue in conflict and violence and corruption as long as man is left here on this earth.
Apart from the delivering power of the returning Son of God.
And so were the various movements that are on foot today.
Man is convinced.
That is going to breakthrough and sail out into outer space.
And there's no stopping place.
They're all mapped out what he's going to do.
Now the Christian that knows his Bible.
Knows it's fallen.
God is going to keep man right here on this earth.
He put him here and he's going to stay here.
Is being able to get out into two or three.
100 miles of the earth.
Is a simple matter compared to his ambitions. The heaven and the heaven of heavens are the Lord.
But the earth has been given to the children of men.
And here's where he's going to keep him.
And when I see all these plans that are being made, the various major measure of achievement.
I think of that verse in the second Psalm. He that sitteth in the heaven shall laugh.
He shall have them in stronger reason.
Oh, how foolish man is, and it's because he's given up God.
God is not in all his thoughts.
So he cast the knowledge of God behind his back, and he starts out on his path of insane folly.
Well, with Daniel.
God gave him wisdom and understanding and he found him 10 times better than all the magicians and astrologers that burn all his realm.
Now look at the third chapter.
The King is bringing forth now his.
Threatenings.
And he's.
Going to be cast into the burning fiery furnace.
16th Verse Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego answered and said to the king.
Or, Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer you on this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O King.
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But if not, get known unto you that we will not serve thy gods.
Nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. Verse 25.
He answered and said, lo, I see four men loose walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt. And the form of the 4th is likened to the Son of God.
I'll go down to the 28th verse.
Then Nebuchadnezzar spake and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his Angel and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the King's word and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any God except their own God. Now these are the associates of Daniel. They've been in his companionship, they've been under his influence.
There's a verse that says make straight paths for your feet.
Lest that which is lame be turned out of the way.
Tell me, dear young Christian.
Is it easier for the other young Christians?
In the meeting where you are.
Is it easier for them to walk with God?
Because they're watching your life.
Are you making straight paths for your feet?
So that others.
Deserve in you and acceptable example.
And they're seeking to imitate your faith.
Oh, what a tremendous influence this man Daniel must have had on these three companions of his.
They yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any God except their own God.
Are you yielding your body?
To him, what are you doing with your body?
All we read where besought that we present our bodies.
A living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our intelligence service.
You have only this one opportunity. Give only this one body to you.
Are you using it just to gratify the lust of the flesh?
Are you just living from day-to-day in pleasure, thinking up the next good time you can have apart from the will of God?
Or how different it was with these three men. They wielded their bodies that they might not serve nor worship any God but their own God.
Now the 6th chapter.
And the third verse.
Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and Princess because of excellent spirit.
Was in him and the king taught him to set over his whole realm.
An excellent spirit was in him.
You know, dear fellow Christian.
It's no credit to us.
To be of an unhappy critical fault finding spirit.
No, the Word of God would have the Spirit of Christ to be with us.
He would have us go in and out among our brethren as those that radiate.
Encouragement and cheer, not at the expense of truth. Never.
But all that we might have something of that spirit that was found here in Daniel, an excellent spirit was found in him. But the 23rd verse.
Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den. In no manner of hurt was found upon him, because it believed in his God.
Well, that's when they put the poor man and the lion's den.
But nothing frightened him. Nothing turned him back.
He was determined that he might be faithful even unto death.
Now going on down toward the end of Daniel.
And the 9th chapter.
23rd verse.
At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to show thee, for thou art greatly beloved.
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Thou art greatly beloved.
Now the 10th chapter.
And the 11Th verse.
And he said unto me, Oh, Daniel, a man greatly beloved.
Understand the words that I speak unto thee.
19th verse.
And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not peace be under thee.
Be strong may be strong, sweet, precious, comforting words, but he was worthy of it. Now the 12Th chapter.
And the ninth verse.
And he said, Go thy way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed at the time of the end.
Now the last verse.
Go thou thy way till the end be, for thou shalt rest.
And stand in thy lock at the end of days.
No wonder Daniel was summoned by Ezekiel to encourage the hearts of the remnant.
In those terrible days of declension.
But what about poor job? Well, we'll go back to job now, Now job.
Lived about 600 years after Noah.
And we have just stayed a few of the salient points.
As to Joe?
The word job probably means persecuted.
There was a man in the land of Oz whose name was Job. That man was perfect and upright.
One that feared God and eschewed evil.
Job was an upright St.
And he learned in God's presence they worthlessness.
Of human goodness.
And thus he came into the humble knowledge of Jehovah's love for it.
He started out as we read here in the eighth verse.
The Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? There's none like him in the earth. A perfect and an upright man, and one that fears God and his cheweth evil.
A model. A model man.
He'd be a good neighbor.
He was a kind man.
If we read on in the book, he rehearses many of his own virtues farther on.
Now God is going to test him.
The point in job is this job was good.
Saint of God.
But he never really learned himself in God's presence.
And perhaps it takes a lifetime to do that.
But the point is this.
Just because a child of God is living a correct.
Blameless Christian life.
Is no sign in itself that he is in the good, in his soul of what God has thought.
There must be that discovery in God's presence of the absolute, utter worthlessness.
Of all its of self.
And the finding out that all the grace and all is of God.
I suppose that Job's experience is somewhat like the 7th of Romans.
Where Paul depicts what supposedly he had passed through.
The struggle of the renewed man. A man who's born again.
To find settled peace.
When he makes the discovery that he has so much on the inside.
That's contrary to the mind and will of God.
Job hadn't found that out.
God turns Job over to Satan to sift.
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To prove he's going to let Satan be his agent, to help that man discover what he is.
Now God says to Satan just so far no further.
He says that the mighty waves of the ocean.
And he says it through all the circumstances in your life.
Don't ever think for a moment that everything is out of control and you're just being overwhelmed and there's no one that's looking after you. Don't ever think that, dear St. of God.
Nothing is overlooked by God.
Here was Satan ready enough to take up the task of showing the emptiness of Job, so-called uprightness and faithfulness.
He's allowed to rob him of his property.
And on the 21St verse.
Here's Jobs reaction. Naked came out of my mother's womb. Naked shall I return? The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord in all this Job sin not, nor charge God foolishly.
Well, that was noble. We can't find any fault with that.
Then in the second chapter.
His wife.
Sad thing to have a wife that acts like this, Dan said his wife unto him, the Dost thou still retain thine integrity, curse God and die.
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women, What shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not also?
Receive evil.
And all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Going to take more than that to bring this man to see where he is on the inside.
Now the next chapter, 25th verse.
For the thing which I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come upon me.
Down beneath all his self complacency.
There was a lingering uncertainty.
Underneath it all, he didn't have the right foundation.
And you know, beloved.
If you're just resting on your correct life.
On the Christian testimony that you've been able to render.
And you're imagining that?
You're a pretty fine individual.
Wrapped down underneath it all.
There's a restlessness and an uncertainty.
You're afraid of what's going to happen.
What Job needed was to come to the end of himself.
Paul did the 7th of Romans.
And when he came to the end of himself, he said, Thanks be unto God that giveth us the victory.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God. Yes, by faith.
Now the 33rd chapter.
The ninth verse.
One's almost ashamed to read this verse.
Job speaking.
At least.
It's what it was, the thought of his heart.
I am clean without transgression. I am innocent. Neither is there iniquity in me.
Oh, how sad.
How sad Eli, who is giving him the truth of what was going on in his heart.
Job is saying I'm clean without transgression, I'm innocent, neither is there any iniquity in me.
Now turn to the 40th chapter. Keep that in mind and turn to the 40th chapter.
And the fourth verse.
Now we're getting on more solid ground.
Then Job answered the Lord, and said, Behold, I am vile.
Shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
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Once have I spoken.
But I will not answer yet twice, but I will proceed no further.
Now he's making progress.
Thank God for that discovery. You're not boasting about there being no iniquity.
And him, he's not boasting of his blameless life.
All dear brother and sister in Christ.
You and I really get into God's presence.
All this beautifulness of what we are or what we've done for him.
Is just going to wither into dust.
And the little thing in your life or mine that's been for God is all of grace.
Jonah learned his lesson in the belly of the whale in the bottom of the sea. Salvation is of the Lord.
42nd chapter.
And the fifth verse.
This is the climax.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I am for myself, and repent, and dust and ashes.
Can't get lower than that. I abhor myself.
In me, that is, in my flesh dwelleth no good thing.
Oh, how good if we can learn that lesson.
Job learned it. He got right down in the dust he threw away.
All pretends to self righteousness and they told out the truth.
Now in the next verse, and it was so after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to eliphize the team. And I my wrath is kindled against thee and against thy two friends. We have not spoken of me, the thing that is right as my servant. Job half ninth verse. So elophiles the Temonite and Bildad the shuite and Zofar, the name of that went.
And did according as the Lord commanded them.
The law accepted job. The new job.
The Lord accepted him. He didn't accept the old one, but He accepts the new one.
10th verse And the Lord turned the captivity of Joel when he prayed for his friends also.
The Lord gave job twice as much as he had before.
Oh, you're not going to be the loser spiritually because you give your life over to his claims. You're not going to be the loser or how richly he blesses any little measure of surrender that we make to him.
And as the result of that experience of Joel, he got his name linked along with that marvelous servant of God, Daniel.
And that marvelous man of God.
Got his name linked with them.
And that wonderful chapter there any Zuki?
Why did Ezekiel bring those names together?
Because he wanted to encourage the little feeble remnant in the day of Rome.
He wanted to tell him don't forget.
God has had men like that. He's had, I know he's had a Daniel. He's had a Joan or Beloved. Can we learn lessons from these things, remnant days to be sure that God's standards don't change? There's all the truth for you and me that there was for the disciples in those early days, those blessed days that we read about.
In the early chapters of the Acts, oh, may the Lord stir us up, set our faces afraid.
Glory, let's buy the truth and sell it. Not is coming is so near.