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I'd like to share a few thoughts.
We've been singing about being led on.
We've had a wonderful conference. Lord has given us good ministry.
My own soul has been encouraged.
And, uh, there's.
It's been said, well said, that.
The most the time we're in danger, the most vulnerable is right after we've had a victory.
And I would like to look at 2 portions in scripture that would, uh, give us a contrast.
In the life of Samson and then our Lord Jesus as a contrast. So if we turn to Judges chapter 14.
Judges, chapter 14, verse 8.
This is speaking about Sampson.
And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion. And behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion.
And he took thereof in his hands and went on eating.
And came to his father and mother, and he gave them.
They did eat, but he told them not. He told not them, that he had taken the honey out of the carcass of the lion.
Now let's go on and read in John's Gospel, and then we'll come back to this.
Chapter 4.
And verse 31.
In the meanwhile, this is the Lord Jesus. His disciples prayed him, saying Master eat.
But he said unto them, I have meat to eat, that ye know not of.
Therefore said the disciples, 1 to another, hath anyone brought him aught to eat?
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Say not ye, there are yet four months, and then cometh harvest. Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white, are ready to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathers fruit unto eternal life, life eternal.
That both he that soweth and he.
That reapeth may rejoice together.
We have here.
Two occasions where we might say there was a victory.
Samson had had a victory.
A lion had had come at him in the way, and he had been victorious, and he had slain the lion.
But afterwards we see that he went back to check it out.
And when he did that?
He found something there, and he took it. It was honey. It was sweetness.
And I would look, I would look at this as an example of after we've had a victory.
And then we go back and contemplate it and feed on it.
As a source of enjoyment.
Our victory.
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It's a dangerous thing to do that.
It was unclean for him to do that.
He should not have done that.
In fact, if he'd have kept his Nazarite ship, he would not have done that.
He was separated to serve the Lord.
It's a wonderful thing to enjoy the victories that the Lord has given us, but to go back and to feed on them as a source of strength or a source of sweetness is dangerous.
Enjoyment with the Lord's different matter, but to feed on something that you've had a part in.
A success story or a or a victory that the Lord has wrought in your life.
We ought to lay it at the Savior's feet and thank Him.
And not let it become a source.
Of feeding and strength.
The result of Samson doing this was he went down and he gradually lost his Nazarite ship, his separation to Jehovah and his strength.
And his heart was enticed in other things. This was the beginning of a pathway.
That started out, you might say, in such a simple matter.
But what a contrast we have in John's Gospel with the Lord Jesus.
Let's turn over and notice it.
The Lord Jesus in this chapter.
I just finished a conversation with the woman that said when he sat on the well of Samaria.
A soul had been delivered.
And brought into a relationship with himself.
And that this dear woman had just gone into the city and said, come see a man, which told me all things at ever I did.
It was the beginning of a work. We might say it was a victory.
Deliverance.
In that city.
And now that now it's over and the Lord Jesus is sitting alone there.
His disciples come along and they have bought food.
And if we might look at it like this.
These disciples are saying it's time to celebrate.
I know it doesn't say that there, but I'm reading this into it. At least they're saying it's a time to eat.
And the Lord Jesus uses these, it might seem, strange words. And what does he mean by them? He says, I have to, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
I believe his soul was rejoicing in that moment.
But he wasn't feeding on a victory.
Himself, his meat to eat. Wasn't just that a woman.
Had been converted. I believe he's referring to his enjoyment of the joy with his father in seeing that blessing there.
And that was his meat to feed on.
And he would refuse the natural food. He wouldn't feed on natural sweetness.
There was nothing natural sweetness for him there. He was a man of a stranger. He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
This world had no natural sweetness for him. He couldn't find a bride here on Earth in that condition.
He's going to get a bride, but the natural sweetness for him was not to be obtained at that moment.
What his soul would feed on is.
Rejoicing with his father in doing his will.
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The will of the Father, his soul was completely taken up with that.
This could have been a snare to many a man at this moment when a soul had just been delivered and brought into a relationship as a worshipper even, and going out and telling the men of the city.
But how guarded and how holy is the Lord Jesus? How perfect he is at this moment, a victory. And so he says these words with that thought.
The disciples don't understand this communion and enjoyment he had with his Father at this time, and they asked about the food and anybody.
Brought him food. But he wasn't referring to natural food. He was referring to spiritual food. He was referring to the enjoyment he had with his father.
In seeing blessing, yes.
But not that his soul would lower himself down to that act and appropriate it to himself as a as independent of God, the source of of a of a dependent man in action here.
In service to his fellow men, and so the Lord Jesus.
It is food for his soul.
I suppose you could say it on in a sense it took away his appetite for natural food. I think all of us have ex experienced occasions like that when we're so, so rejoicing with the Lord that the things of Nat of nature, they lose their their attraction. Not that we can live our life without eating. We do have to eat, the Lord knows that. But we don't eat bread unless the Lord gives it to us. You know, that was one of the temptations.
At the very beginning of the ministry of the Lord.
And the Lord answered in perfection when he was presented with the hunger, and he was presented with making stones into bread by Satan. And so and so beautifully he he, he soul is perfect, and holy and obedient.
Man shall not live by bread alone.
Just because you can make stones into bread doesn't mean you should do it, neither because you're hungry doesn't mean that you must eat right now. God will give you bread when you need bread. God will give you joy in your heart when you need joy, God will sustain you. This is perfection of obedience and the time that it's we're most susceptible to it is right when we've had a reason to celebrate and a victory and.
We're apartment to go for it. We're apartment to let down our guard. We're apartment to imbibe something without saying. Lord is it for me now?
He did and so that's the perfection that the Lord Jesus here.
Well, the uh, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work.
Every one of us has a work to do.
We're, we've, we've as we're ahead, our batteries recharged here spiritually, we've been energized, we've been blessed. We are encouraged and we felt, uh, the Lord's blessing upon us in many, many ways. We're thanked for it. May the Lord help us now as we go on our home, on our ways to, to remember this, that.
Our delight is not in just seeing the blessing.
But our delight ought to be with the blesser.
The Lord Jesus in that sense never departed from the bosom of the Father in this Gospel. He always remained there. He was always consciously aware of his Father and his relationship with him as showing the Father what the Father was like, so we would know, and so he so in.
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For him to take and imbibe that victory at that moment without going back and rejoicing for the Father would have been a wrong action for him.
I delight to do thy will.
And to finish his work, it wasn't finished yet.
He wasn't finished till he was hanging on the cross.
Then he said it's finished.
It's a hard path.
Wasn't an easy path. It wasn't full of always seeing victories, apparently.
Souls blessed and our life may not be that way either. We don't know what the Lord has things come along and test our faith and those difficulties prove themselves to be opportunities to show these kind of things that the Lord puts in our pathway. And so I just, I just woke up this morning thinking about this.
Uh, portion something happened here that brought it before me here at these conference and, uh.
I enjoy thinking about the Savior doing the will of the Father and his heart rejoicing in that. And then it goes on and it brings out one more point there and that was this, that the Lord Jesus recognized that he wasn't the only one in the participating in this ministry and he told the disciples.
I sent you.
Umm, well, I'm skipping over verse 35, but verse 36?
He that reapeth receive his wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal.
That both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
In in this I thought, I see that the Lord Jesus recognized even in all his perfection, he wasn't the only one used on this day to bring fruit to God to reap souls here for blessing. Others had labored and what he did was a fulfillment of that and what he was sending out his disciples to do. You know, every one of us were just a little piece of the big, the whole picture, a small piece.
And when there is blessing, remember there are others that have participated in it too. And so it would be wrong for us to claim all this for ourselves as our work, that we've had such an important part in it.
Now, if the Lord gives us to see a part in it, yes, there's there's a place to rejoice with the Father in it. But don't claim the whole thing as your home. Others have labored John the Baptist. Think of him how he sowed.
And labored and, uh, his life was taken from him. He didn't see all the fruit The Lord Jesus and his disciples can carried it on and finished the work. And so it is in our day too. Well, this these, those two little thoughts that might carry with us.
Just like to turn to Luke's Gospel Chapter 9 and just read the 1St 6 verses.
Luke Chapter 9 and verse one.
Then he called his 12 disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases. And he sent them to preach the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick. And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves nor script, neither bread, neither money, neither have two coats apiece. And whatsoever house you enter into there abide, and thence depart. And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust.
From your feet for a testimony against them and they departed and went through the towns preaching the gospel and healing everywhere. While we know that the disciples were sent to preach the gospel of the Kingdom. And here in this little passage of scripture of just enjoyed in connection with the Lord Jesus and his love for his disciples love for his earthly people that there was a divine choice that he made in that was that he called.
His 12 disciples and then a little further, the second line here, it says and gave them power and then it says he sent, then it says he said. And then when they were fully fitted, it says they departed. And I think this is a lovely order here because the Lord Jesus in his grace, in his wonderful desire to have companions in the work, chose these different ones. I just want to refer to, uh.
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Uh, Mark's gospel chapter, uh, I think it's uh, chapter 3 in verse 14, we have a similar, the similar account here. And it Mark is often is the case, he adds a little bit of detail, something that, uh, Luke doesn't add, but umm, Mark chapter 3, verse 13, he goeth up into a mountain and call us unto him whom he would. And they came unto him, and he ordained 12 or he appointed 12.
That they should be with him.
Lovely. You know, the Lord Jesus as we've just had before us, a perfect example in his work and his will to do the will of the Father, uh, one man, God's man that never had a desire that was out of communion with his Father. And here the Lord desired that there would be those that would accompany him in the work. And uh, you know, it says in the 102nd Psalm, it says that I am alone.
I'm not gonna quote it right, so I'm gonna have to turn to it.
102nd Psalm verse six. I am like a Pelican of the wilderness. I'm like an owl of the desert. I watch and am as a Sparrow alone upon the house talk. Mine enemies reproach me all the day, and they that are mad against me are sworn against me. Oh, how the Lord delighted to have the companionship of those disciples. And if you and I and I just want to say as a word of encouragement.
To those particularly a burden on my heart is those of you that are younger, younger men, younger sisters in the Lord. It's a worthy thing to, uh, desire to be a companion of the Lord and that these twelve, they had been with him before. They knew what it was to be in the presence of the Lord and the Lord desired their companionship. The Lord really does desire your companionship and if we have any desire at all, to walk in communion with himself.
To be in his presence, why he's going to perhaps if we make ourselves available to him, there may be that opportunity that he will take to use us in some small way. But here it says in Chapter 9 and verse one that he called his 12 disciples together. And so there was a a divine choice, a call that he made. And we just read in the reading meetings in connection with the apostle Paul, we know that Moses, it was the same thing.
And, uh, Joseph and others of the Old Testament Saints, and they were called of God right at the right time, prepared of him to do just a little work for him. And then it says he gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases. And so, you know, he gives not only the authority for the work that goes out and for the gospel of the grace of God that is preached and for the ministry of the truth of God in the assembly.
And in different places, but he gives the ability to do that work.
And it's of himself. And so the apostle Paul could say, what hast thou that thou hast not received of him? Let's just look at that. It's First Corinthians chapter 4 and it's in, I believe, in this context.
And.
Chapter 4. First Corinthians 4.
And.
Verse seven For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it widest, thou glory as if thou hast not received it. And so when the Lord gives a gift, he gives the ability, he gives the authority, and he gives us a heart desire to to go and to do a little work for himself. And then it says, he sent them to preach the Kingdom of God. He sent them. There was a divine Commission.
And we read of how Paul saw when he was Saul. I think I was looking at the meaning of those names recently. And Saul means little. It also means unrestrained, unrestrained Saul. And he lived in unrestrained desire of the flesh to persecute the church. But then, you know, once he became a believer and was.
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Fitted, fully fitted by the Savior for the work that he was going to carry out. The Lord changes that one letter and his name. It means Paul means restrained. So he went from being unrestrained to restrained by the Spirit of God and your life and mind. How we need the restraint of the Spirit of God, how we need the restraint and to go as it was in the Old Testament. They went to Gilgal after the victory and there was a cutting off of the flesh.
And we know that, uh, in Mark's gospel chapter six, I think it is after this event, this calling, we have umm, in verse 30, Mark chapter 6, verse 30, it says the apostles gathered them together, themselves together unto Jesus and told them all things, both what they had done and what they had taught. Isn't that lovely to, uh, go and just perhaps to a little something that you had on your heart to do for the Lord?
And umm, and then get along with him, tell him about it, tell him what you said, tell him what you did. And it's lovely here that, uh, in the record of scripture, as we see this, uh, little event take place, we don't have any record of what they actually did. We don't have any record of what they actually all the things that took place in Luke Chapter 9, it's, uh, it says, umm, in verse 10, the same event, he says he took them and went aside privately into the desert place. And so we need to get along with the Lord.
Even though there is a little work that might have been done for himself. But then it says in verse three that he said unto them, he gave them instructions. And this is so important too, isn't it, that the Word of God gives us instruction as to how we should conduct ourselves in what we do and how we do it. And so in the Christian era it's a little bit different and we have instruction that's given to us in the epistles as to how our work might be acceptable unto the Lord.
And we need to go to the word of God and receive that instruction. I believe that this is really what Paul was getting. Or Saul, when he was two years in Tarsus, he was, uh, over the word of God And, uh, he learned what it was in the presence of God, how to serve in a right way. And then he went to serve and he went to Antioch. And he wasn't as prominent at the beginning of that work among the Gentiles as Barnabas was. And so Barnabas.
Took the lead and he labored with the apostle.
And so how necessary it is for us to take note of the words of the Lord Jesus and the instruction that's given in the Word of God, that we might not labor in a way that is unfit for the holiness of God and might not be productive. I'll just point out one little scripture.
In umm, uh, I think it's Deuteronomy chapter 22 in this connection.
As being mentioned earlier, that it's nice to have the fellowship of our brethren and our laborers. And umm, he says, umm, here in this Old Testament passage, Deuteronomy chapter 22, he gives instruction. He says in verse 9, Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds or two different kinds of seeds, lest the fruit of ice seed which thou has sown and the seed, the fruit of thy vineyard be defiled.
Or in a new translation it says 4 footed.
And so the fruit and the seed ought to be pure.
And so we need to sew. And the vineyard speaks of a private little work, perhaps a little work in the Lord's vineyard and a place of fruitfulness for the Lord. But it's to be with the seed of faith and in obedience to the Word of God. It's not to be mixed with the energy of the flesh and the ways of the natural man, how he does things. And then it says, if we use the flesh fleshly means to try to accomplish a spiritual end. Why? It says.
The seed which less the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard be defiled, are forfeited.
And so we might go, and we might preach the gospel and involve ourselves and.
And umm, in a mixed work, if I could use that terminology and preach with those that maybe are not sound in doctrine and so on. And so souls might get saved. But if we do something in a mixed way, not according to the truth of the word of God, the wisdom of God, why the fruit might be forfeited. We might not get that reward at the end of the journey. But then it says in verse six, they departed and it takes spiritual energy. We had that word before us in the passages that we had in the.
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New Testament in, in the book of Acts, Paul arose and when you have that term given in the New Testament, oftentimes it means spiritual energy arose with spiritual energy and energy that he didn't have before. And there is a time to arise up into, uh, begin that work. And so I just want to encourage you that our young men in the assemblies that you are in, we need to be very careful not to rise up and try to usurp the, uh, place that our older brethren that God has given our older brethren. But there is a time when we begin to take up.
The responsibility in the assembly and to seek to, umm, offer a prayer to the Lord in uh, in weakness, but independence upon the Lord and try to do it for him and uh, perhaps give out to him, uh, perhaps read a scripture and it says in the book of the Proverbs, the fear of man bringeth a snare. And so often times, uh, I've in my own soul sat in the presence of the Lord, perhaps on the Lord's Day morning or something, and still do it. And, uh, just.
Speak with the Lord and say just how weak I feel. But if it was, I will that I take any little part at all. Give me the strength and not me not be afraid of man. And so we need to encourage, encourage you in that way. But here we need to feed upon Christ and remember the instructions that he's given and labor in a right way. Now I just want to very briefly mention that there were four things that, uh, in connection with Moses when he was called of God to do a little work.
And he offered as our brother Don mentioned some umm, objections. So Exodus chapter 3 and, uh, verse one or verse 11, it says, Moses said unto God, who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt. And he said, the Lord said, certainly I will be with thee, and this shall be a token unto thee, well, that I have sent thee.
When thou has brought forth the people of the out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. While the first objection that he has is really in connection with humility. And he learned his lesson in the wilderness, that he really was nothing, and he still perhaps had to learn that God was everything, but it was an objection. And he said, Who am I? Well, this is a good attitude that Moses had. I believe the Lord respected this, but he answered Moses, and he said really that he would be sufficient for the.
Journey and that umm, there would be a time when they would come and they would serve God on that very mountain. And so he answers the objection and love and kindness. And you might have an objection and think that you're just so weak. It's a wonderful thing to have a sense of our weakness and the sense of the strength of the Lord. But then he has a second objection and he says in verse 13, Moses said unto God, Behold, when I am come unto the children of Israel and shall say unto them.
The God of your Father's hath sent me unto you, and they say unto me, What is his name?
What shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I am that I am. And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am hath sent me unto you. And so Moses says, What authority do I have to go and to speak to the children of Israel? They won't hear me because they won't. They won't think that I have the authority to speak to them on this lovely. The Lord just says, I am that I am. And he says, I've given you the authority. And that's not an objection, you just need to go.
Encourage and mention my name before my people and then you have the third objection in chapter 4.
Of Exodus verse one he says, Moses answered and said, But behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice, for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee. And the Lord said unto him, What is in thine hand. And he said, Iran. And then he gives them three signs. We don't have time to go over those 3 signs. But I just say this, that you know Moses distrusted the ones that he was going to be sent to. He distrusted man.
And he said, umm, they will not believe me nor hearken unto my voice. And sometimes that's how we are. You know, we think the Lord has given us a little something that we desire to just, you know, simple affection for Christ and obedience to his word, a love for the people of God, just to seek to do a little work for him, perhaps just in the little assembly or in the Sunday school work, whatever it might be. And umm, we distrust how others will react. And this is how Moses was he distressed, distrusted men, destroyed, distrusted the heart of those that were his brethren, and when he went to them and how they would react to the message.
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That they wouldn't believe him and that those that were he was being sent to Pharaoh and so on wouldn't believe him. And umm, why God says he answers this objection and he gave him these three signs that would be a testimony of the power of God and that would overcome this objection. Well, the 4th objection that he had in verse 10, it says Moses said unto the Lord, Oh my Lord, I am not eloquent.
Neither heretofore nor since thou has spoken unto thy servant, but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? Who who maketh? The dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have not I the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. And he said, Oh, my Lord, I send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, while we know the end of that, that Aaron was called to go with Moses.
But this 4th objection, you know, it's, he tested the patience of the Lord and the Lord got angry with Moses. He called him to do a work. He gave him the authority for that work. And he knew that he didn't trust the ones that he was going to be sent to. And he answers that objection, gives him the three signs to show to those that he was going to be sent to. But he just didn't have the courage. And I just say this to those of us.
That are younger in the faith and those perhaps that are a little bit older and haven't really, uh, put their hand to the plow, if I could use that term. And the Lord, perhaps you have a sense that he just wants you to do a little something for him. Maybe teach that Sunday school class, maybe just, uh, uh, just a little work somewhere.
And he's, uh, perhaps you feel a special call of the Lord to do it and, umm, it's there is such a thing as dragging our feet and, uh.
Not trusting the Lord for how he's fitted us to do that work. And so these four objections Moses gives and then he, the Lord gives them Aaron to go with him as a companion. Well, we know that there was failure because Aaron was one that fell into idolatry along with the children of Israel. But I just thought that we had it on my heart to just look at these four things in connection with the Lord Jesus and how he called I just.
Look at them again, Chapter 9.
Of loop to just summarize that he called, He gave, he sent, he said, and they departed. What a lovely spirit. They departed. They went in obedience and submission to as well. Well may the Lord give us to have a desire to be used and himself and tell Him that we want to be used in this day of weakness and that we have affection for Him and do do want to.
Build up the little testimony and just be a help to our brethren and help in the gospel work.
Yeah.
Turn with me, please, to Isaiah chapter 50.
Hmm.
Well, I think first let's turn to Hebrews chapter 10.
Hold your place there in Isaiah.
Stop.
Hebrews 10 and verse 8.
Well, no, I guess it's verse five. Sorry. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not.
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But a body as thou prepared need.
Verse 7.
Then said I lo, I come.
To do thy will, O God.
Verse 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
In Psalm 40.
In verse.
6.
He reads sacrifice and offering. Thou didst not desire my nearest, hast thou opened?
Burnt offering and sin offering, hast thou not required? Then said I lo, I come.
In the volume of the book it is written of me. I delight to do thy will. Oh my God, yeah, Thy law is within my heart.
In Isaiah 50.
We see this body.
As we have a body in Hebrews and we have.
Ears opened verse 4.
The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary.
He wakeneth morning by morning he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned or instructed.
Instructed the Lord God hath opened mine ear.
And I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
One of the beautiful things we view in our Lord is the evenness.
Of his character.
Brother Doug mentioned.
That communion with the father.
And I've enjoyed meditating on this portion.
Let's look again and we'll hold our place there at John Chapter 8.
And he is speaking.
To Pharisees.
Verse 21.
Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sins. Whither I go, you cannot come.
Then said the Jews, will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.
And he said unto them.
Ye are from beneath.
I am from above.
Ye are of this world.
I am not of this world.
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins, For if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
Yesterday we had a word.
From a brother about lukewarmness.
And we see here.
Stark contrast, don't we?
You're from beneath, I am from above.
You're this world. I'm not of this world.
Oh, before them is a person.
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Who dwells, as was mentioned earlier, in the bosom of the Father?
And they have no idea.
Who is speaking to them?
If he believed not that I am he, he shall die in your sins.
Verse 25 Then said They unto him, Who art thou?
And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
Well.
Verse 28.
Then said Jesus unto them, When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then shall you know that I am He, and that I do nothing of myself.
But as my father hath taught me, I speak these things.
He that sent me is with me.
The Father hath not left me alone.
For I do always those things that please you.
Back to Isaiah 50.
When we think of our Lord Jesus dwelling in the bosom of the Father, those ears opened. I've enjoyed meditating on that, precious.
Instantaneous communion between Father and Son as we get in verse 6.
Can I think of that? Can you and I think of that.
As the father and the son in communion said today, son.
They're gonna smite your back.
I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to the neck, plucked off the hair.
Oh dear St. of God, think of the Lord Jesus.
That day, as in communion, he faced ever so many adversities.
From his creature as he dwelt in the bosom.
Of the Father.
Amazing evenness in his character, he is never surprised by anything.
In the Gospels is he?
You can hear the most awful things out of man, the most awful actions.
And yet our Lord Jesus.
Goes on.
With the perfect will.
Of God the bosom he dwelt in, sustained him in every step.
Verse six I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Think of those last days as they wended their way to the cross, the sun in the bosom of the Father.
Sun today.
Tell the women, weep not for me.
Wait for your children.
If they do these things in a green tree, what will they do in the dry?
Speaking the words the Father gave him.
Verse 7.
For the Lord God will help me, therefore shall I not be confounded.
Therefore have I set my face like a Flint. I know I shall not be ashamed.
He is near that justifieth me.
Oh, think of that blessed one, precious child of God.
As you think of these words.
The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back verse 5.
As your.
I scan that verse and see the things your blessed Savior goes through.
Oh, let's a heart.
Go out in affection to that blessed man.
Very soon we're going to see beloved brethren.
No wonder he set his face as a Flint.
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They refused him. In one city the disciples would call down fire from heaven says you don't know what spirit you're out.
He must go to the cross.
He must have you.
And I and there's only one way it can happen.
Those ears digged.
That heart.
Doing the perfect will of God.
Walking in perfect communion.
Being nailed to that cross, all those things measured in communion.
For the one who was the light of the world.
Knowing that it had.
You would hang.
In darkness.
Judged by God.
But on the way to that cross.
I am not alone.
The Father's with me.
John 14, we read.
He that hath seen me.
Has seen the father.
All this Blessed One is worthy to win every affection of every heart.
In this world.
Is there someone here that doesn't yet know the Savior?
Can you say this afternoon? Oh gaw.
I know I'm a Sinner.
Please.
Dig my ears.
To hear your will for me.
Help me to see by faith that blessed Savior who was obedient unto death.
Because he loved me.
MMM.
Our time is past gone.
There's so much you can pursue on your own.
In thinking.
The things the father shared with the son.
And the.
Went on in perfect obedience and confidence.
To the very end, and then in Hebrews, who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross.
Despising the shame, oh what it was to enter.
The Father's presence, His perfect will accomplished.
Each one of you here.
Who knows the Lord Jesus as your Savior?
I was included.
In that will praise God.
Praise.
The Lord Jesus.
Can we just close in prayer?
Blessed Father and our God.
What a site.
When we look on thy blessed son.