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We have a home of all.
People that breathe.
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I'd like to share a blessing.
From the Bible reading we just had.
And uh.
The heading of this gathering says, as the Lord thy rips.
So that doesn't make me too fast, but.
I talked to the Lord about it.
And then a word came to me which has given me proudness.
To share this blessing with you.
Was it your passport? Says we believe.
And therefore we speak.
So as if the Holy Spirit would say to me, do you really believe?
What you want to share with the Saints?
I couldn't say no.
So therefore, I'd like to share a tremendous blessing across from the last Bible reading.
And I like what what I said in the beginning.
That the the essence of heaven.
Is the fact.
But we are going to be with him.
And I like that.
Because that's really the point. The point.
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But then my attention.
Both directives to verse 23 and it has already been mentioned and elaborated on.
But it says if anyone.
Loves me.
I will keep my word.
And my father will love him.
And we will come to him and make our home.
With him.
You know some are saying to me, I know we are many here or some here.
With different national backgrounds and I represent that Danish minority.
And some of you would say to me.
You are very far away from home.
But in a way I'm not.
Because according to this word in verse 23.
Which speaks about relationship.
And obedience to this word.
And taking his words seriously.
In our lives, in other words, apply the words in our life and in our walk.
Then we have the promise there. You need not be thousands of miles away from home because he makes his home with you right wherever you are. It's not beautiful.
So that's one of the blessings I got from the Bible reading.
And, uh, we just have.
And so we have a home in heaven, and those of us who travel a little bit, we are not so far away from home as long as we stick to the Word of God and apply it to our consciences and our inner peace and walk.
We have this powerful promise that he will make his home with us. And secondly.
He also makes his home.
With the assembly.
With a thing, as long as we take His word seriously and obediently.
That means.
He makes his home with me and with the Saints.
Who has that relationship to God as verse 23 talks about?
I'm very much at home also with the things.
So praise the Lord for that.
I love you because my home is also with the same.
Then.
Also, there is a beautiful thought about home.
And I'm thinking of the rest in 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 8.
And that I support my godly grandfather taught me.
When I asked him as a new believer.
I said Grand Town. What about those who have died in the Lord? What happens to them?
And then grandfather said Second Corinthians 5.
H And then it's 85 and it says away from the party and the home of the Lord at home of the Lord.
So when I believe he leaves his body, we're going to do that. If not, the Lord comes.
Remove.
When I have a few years ago.
Was operated on my heart, so I'm a heart patient really.
So you know, you still, you still there.
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And the 13 came to my room in the hospital in Denmark.
And explain what that surgery was about.
I really didn't like to hear that. I thought that was pretty tough.
To hear him describe how he put his my heart out of my body and see this and that with the heart. But then I said to him.
That's one thing I like to say to you, which is very important for me to say.
At this time.
I said to him if the surgery goes wrong.
Don't worry because it only means I've got a new address.
And he left. We are good healthy laughter.
And he says that must be wonderful.
To be that clarified in your life? Most wonderful.
So.
That's home in heaven in your daily walk.
And if you're about to leave the body in Germany, they have a wonderful expression about a believer.
Who goes to the right, they say.
He or she is Haim Tegan.
Can home is not what you are saying in Germany. That's that's what they say in my in my German.
Hi, go on home.
And you know what's the Salvation Army says?
He or she has been promoted to glory.
So thank you for listening to me and I see as what I wanted to show.
Yeah, with you, I mean.
Do you mind singing? My favorite song is you know this wonderful song? Praise the Lord ye sing to know him. I don't know the number 256. Could you sing that?
Mm-hmm. Oh, great.
So far in my spirit, my dream aside.
Love you for God's word. It's a hard time, but I'll take the Lord and God's dream life.
Long Island City, Florida.
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Could you please turn with me to 1St John chapter 2?
First John chapter 2 and.
Umm, verse 14.
I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him, that is from the beginning.
I have written unto you young men.
Because you are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and you have overcome the wicked one. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father.
Buddies of the world, and the world passes away, and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abideth.
Forever.
Want to continue on with what the Lord has been bringing before us today?
And connect it with.
The verse that our brother has just spoken of in John 14.
You notice in.
The end of verse 15. The expression, the love.
Of the Father.
The love of the Father.
We're all familiar with the verse John 316 for God so loved the world.
That's not what's brought out here.
It's not that.
The love of the Father is a specific.
Aspect of his love.
And here we see how it is in US.
Or it's not.
The Father's love.
Is that love?
Which is concentrated in his son.
The father loves the son.
Of all loves that exist.
The greatest of all loves.
Is the love of the Father.
For the sun there is no greater love, never will be a greater love in all eternity.
Than the love that the father has for the son.
A father.
Finds great satisfaction.
In all who share with him.
In his love for his son.
It's a tremendous privilege given of us.
Part of his creation, now his children.
And in fact, that's part of why he's brought us into a family with himself.
That we might be enabled.
To share with him.
In his love.
With his of his son, the father's love.
So it's brought out here.
The love of the Father.
But it's brought out here in addressing young men.
And the negative.
It says.
If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
The world.
Hates the sun.
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And cast him out.
The father loves the son.
The world says we will not have this man.
And cast him out.
The one that is the object, the joy, the center of the Father's heart and affection was here.
And the world said to him.
We don't want you away with this man.
Does it not make the statement easy to understand?
Are we going to join with the father in his love for the Son?
Or is our life and our affections and our activities going to side with the world?
That cast him out.
If any man love the world.
The love of the Father.
It's not in him.
It has this very practical effect, doesn't it?
Lest we say, oh, I don't love the world.
No, no, no, I don't love the world, but I have to live in it.
We have here a very practical.
Addition, if you will, to the statement of just the world is a system of things, it says.
Love not the world, neither the things.
That are in the world.
Neither the things that are in the world.
From God's side of it, when this world crucified the Lord Jesus Christ.
God condemned it to judgment.
He passed his judgment upon the whole system.
And said now is the judgment of this world.
We live in a world that has been judged by God for the treatment of His Son.
The center of his heart and his object.
And it's not only.
Do.
Does the system.
Been condemned. Judged.
Even though the actual carrying out of it hasn't taken place yet.
It's on death row.
It's on death row.
And so it says to us, to guard our hearts.
Neither the things that are in the world.
Neither are the things that are in the world.
Oh, but I have to have a house, I have to have clothes, I have to have a car, I have to have a job.
Yes, we do.
And God doesn't condemn that.
But.
Commented this morning, your home is where your house. I'm sorry, your home is where your heart is.
And the home and the house are not the same.
Your house is where you live.
But it doesn't have to be your home in that sense, in the moral sense of it.
Helpfully brought home to me many years ago that difference. I love to go to my grandparents home.
My grandparents lived in Toledo, OH at that point when as a boy I was growing up in Columbus, OH.
And I love to go to that home, that house.
And spend a week or so at a time with my grandparents.
I was I had the privilege of sitting with my grandmother.
As the two of us in the room with my grandfather.
When he was absent, taken absent from the body to be present with the Lord.
Very pleasant positive memory in my heart with my grandmother.
But the time came when my grandmother died.
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And all that she had was divided equally among her three sons.
And in my heart, I didn't want them to sell the house.
Because of what it meant to me.
And.
But they did.
They did.
So later on, when there was an opportunity to go by with my children.
We went back.
By the home.
We drove in front of it. I looked at it.
Wasn't a home anymore.
It had lost all its character.
Because the one who was loved, the ones who were loved, weren't there anymore.
The Lord Jesus in John 17.
In his prayer to the Father, he says, I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified.
And he's speaking to his father. What is he saying? He's saying as it were.
Those who love me will be separated in heart from everything down here because of where I am.
So for their sake, I set myself apart.
And it will have the effect upon their hearts and lives of setting them apart.
Because I'm not there.
Holmes Heaven.
Because it's where our heart is. It's where he is.
But here it's very practical. It's to young men.
And I'd like to make some practical remarks about it to you, all of us, because some of us, not sure, it's not chronological age, but some of us can go all the way through life and we're still children.
And never quite get to young men and fathers.
Two things here.
For us to notice.
It says.
The word of God abideth in you.
And ye have overcome the wicked one.
We're gonna talk about the wicked one first.
You've overcome the wicked one. Of course we know that, Satan.
Just because. Let's go back to John 14.
You can keep your place where you are if you want, because we're going to come back there in a moment or.
Close to there.
John's Gospel.
Chapter 14.
Inverse.
29 John 1429.
And now I have told you before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, you might believe hereafter I will not talk much with you, for the Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me.
Expression that I want you to hold on to as we turn to another scripture is and.
Half nothing in me.
I'll turn over back to First John chapter 5.
First John chapter 5 and verse 19.
And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know Him that is true, and are in him, and that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ.
I should have started a little earlier, so I'm going to start over again. Verse 18.
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We know that whatsoever is born of God sinneth not, but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and the wicked one toucheth Him not. In John 14 it was half nothing in me Speaking of the Lord Jesus.
Everything that was of Satan.
The wicked one.
Found no response in the heart of the Lord Jesus.
When Satan tempted him, as he did, to try to step out of his place of obedience.
Or even act in deity instead of as a man.
Which is part of what he tried to tempt him to do.
There was a temptation, there was an effort of Satan to draw him.
Out of obedience to His Father.
But there was nothing in him that responded in it. He was holy.
Pure.
In every way he was the Son of God, the Son of man.
In first John Five, it talks about us. We can't say we're like that.
As to our natures.
So how can it say to us he that is born of God sinneth not?
The father loves the son.
The Father wants to enter into an enjoyment with us for eternity, to share with Him in that love.
And in order to enable us to do it, one of the works that he's accomplished is to give us the life of Christ.
Christ, who is our life.
And that life cannot sin.
That life is perfectly responsive to the Father's love.
And so Satan has nothing that can touch that true fountain of life.
It can touch the flesh.
And that's where the young man in First John Two was was being exhorted.
The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, the plight of life.
It's not of the father, it's of the world.
So what is the preservative that we live in fellowship with the Father?
In that enjoyment.
That is the center of his heart.
He abides in that love.
There are multiple aspects to that and not wanting to or feeling is even the Lord to to take too much more time.
I'd just like to speak about the other aspect though that is connected here. It says.
Of that word.
Your strong.
The word of God abideth in you.
And you have overcome the wicked one.
The word of God abideth in you.
We all got up this morning.
We all did what we do.
Did we all treat the Word of God?
Is more important than any other thing that we did this morning.
Man shall not live by bread alone.
But by every word that proceedeth.
Out of the mouth of God.
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To see how the Lord Jesus would apply it to us, go back to John 14.
The chapter that we have before us.
And see how it's connected.
Before I get to it.
Just to show the practical, if you will.
On occasion recently to be out in the city of Denver.
That what many of us would call the Denver meeting room or Englewood meeting room. And I went outside the meeting room and, uh, noticed the man watering in his backyard and I went over, went into the yard and had a conversation with him.
And in the course of the conversation, he pointed to us. It was really hot at that time. And he in August, I guess, and and he looked at a a set of flowers that were kind of drooping.
He said to me, you know, those flowers are like Christians that haven't been receiving the water of the word of God.
Are there some droopy flowers in the room this afternoon? You may not be aware of it. I don't know that those flowers knew they were droopy, but they were.
Because they didn't have the necessary nutrition for their lives, they depend on it, and without it, they drooped.
So here, he says.
And John 14.
Verse 23.
Jesus answered and said unto him, If any man loved me.
He will keep my words, and my father will love him, and we will come unto him and make her abode with him.
If the love of the Father is in US in its practical sense.
What will it produce in US?
First priority.
To please the son.
To keep his words.
Does that give pleasure to the Father's heart?
What could give more?
And So what does he say as a result of it?
My father will love him.
There's the love of fellowship, there's a love of relationship here.
When two people love the same thing, they enjoy one another's company.
When two people have separate interests.
Separate things that are important to them. They'll seek someone that has common interest with them.
You and I have common interests with the father.
If we do, we will seek fellowship with him.
In that which he finds his joy in.
And so.
The practical result of it here is my father will love him.
We will come and make our abode with him.
We will dwell together in that common enjoyment, that fellowship.
With one another that we share.
So we put the opposite to us, so that we can get our consciences involved in it, not just our hearts, He says. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings.
It's the other side, isn't it?
If I do my own thing, go my own way, find my own interests.
Not shared with the father? Well then what? What he says isn't so important. It isn't necessary for my life. I have something else I'm occupied with.
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Is most important to me.
So he that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings. Then he goes on to say, And the word which you hear is not mine, but the fathers with which sent me.
Verse 21.
He that half my commandments and keepeth them, it is that loveth me. Ye that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
The proof?
That you love the Lord Jesus.
Disobedience.
To his will, his commandments, his word.
I think each one of us has some sense of whether we are obedient children.
Or whether.
Where, as Bob said, in the matter of marriage, we're 99 percenters.
Or 95 percenters. Or some weeks were 25 percenters or 30 percenters. That is 50% for the world and me and 50% for the Lord. I'm for the Lord on Lord's Day, and I've got other things on other days, whatever it is.
We're not here to judge one another.
Where he let the word take care of the judging. And so the Lord Jesus says, if any man love me, he will keep my words.
Well, the reason I commented on the word of God and reading it this morning is how can I keep his words if I don't know what they are?
Live in the book.
Some of us remember a brother that.
I used to say at times like this, he said. Read the word of God until your very thoughts are formed by it.
Read the Word of God until your very thoughts are formed by it. It's God's word. It's a living word.
And he'll make it in his time and way.
Comprehensible.
Not everything, but what you need to know.
And certainly he will make his heart known.
I think those of us that have been along the path of life can safely say.
We have greater reason to have confidence in the heart of God.
Than our own heart.
In fact, we can say we know the heart of God better than our own heart.
God's heart is.
No complicity in it, no deceit in it.
Know anything that's corrupted in it? It's clear, it's straightforward, it's pure, it's holy, it's knowable.
Can't say that about my heart.
Succeedful hasn't changed since I was born. This is deceitful. It deceives me.
Beyond that, the loler we get, the more we realize it's desperately wicked. We probably will in our lives, never get to the bottom of that truth.
But not God's word, not God's heart. We want it.
We want to enjoy and enter in with the father's love for his son.
In John 5.
God talks about honoring the sun.
Every single person who lives on Earth is going to honor the sun.
We have the privilege of honoring him now.
God says yes, and if you leave this world having rejected Him, you will honor him because he'll be your judge.
And he will have to say to you, you didn't want me. You didn't want my father.
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You made the choice to live without me, and you're going to have that.
Results forever.
Without me, that was your choice.
To live without me, and you'll spend eternity by that choice. May it not be true of anybody in this room, but may we each desire more and more to have fellowship with the Father in his love for His Son.
Couldn't help but think.
Of the droopy flower example.
That her brother shared with us.
And I was very much encouraged by what her brother previously spoke of.
I don't know about you.
But I couldn't hardly finish singing.
Then we shall be where we should be.
Then we shall be what we should.
We've enjoyed thoughts of the abode.
Of the mansion above.
The Palace.
What do we think of?
It's beyond what this world is expressions.
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Things that are not now or could be.
Soon shall be our own.
The glories.
Of God.
The love of the sun toward us.
The love of the Father.
Toward the sun.
We shall be.
May I say in that coming day?
Viewers of that very love.
We cannot take it in.
As her brother Don was Speaking of the love of Christ.
Pure. Full.
Noble.
We shall know, even as we are known.
He was speaking with.
A sister before this meeting.
And a verse that.
I thought about this past week.
And was brought to.
To light and.
A meeting.
Going back to the flowers that droop.
And in light of the time in which we live.
We always think about as I was growing up, I remember my parents and others always Speaking of the time in which we live.
What is that time but wickedness, evilness, hate?
We see it all around us.
And even.
We can certainly be discouraged.
It's easy to get discouraged.
There's even books in the Bible.
That.
Or somewhat may we say discouraging when we consider the things of what it speaks of.
The wickedness, the hate.
But we can be encouraged, can't we?
And in some of those books.
That speak of the hate, the evil.
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There we find.
Alight that overcomes that discouragement.
Jude verse 20.
But ye.
Beloved.
Who is that beloved?
May I say Crystal?
And what does it tell us?
Building up.
Building up yourselves.
On your most holy faith.
Right. And the Holy Ghost.
Keep ourselves.
In the love of God.
Looking for the mercy?
With our Lord Jesus Christ.
Unto.
Eternal life.
A life without end.
And where will that life be?
Our heaven, our abode.
With Christ himself.
Jump down to verse 24.
Now under him that is able.
To keep you from falling.
Then to present you faultless.
Before the presence.
Of his glory with exceeding joy.
We all have our faults, none of us are perfect.
I speak to myself.
To the only.
Wise God.
Our Savior.
He loved us, loved us, He gave himself for us.
What does it say of him?
The glory and majesty.
Dominion and power.
Both now.
He can say even now in this scene because of Christ our Savior.
But now and ever.
Amen.
Verse 21 Do not touch.
Do not taste.
Do not handle.
Which is all concerned things.
According to the Commandments and the Doctrine of Men, Chapter 3.
That's part of the first verse seat Dole team.
Which are above.
For Christ is.
Sitting at the right hand of God, set your mind on these things above.
Not on things on Earth.
Or if you die.
Your life is hidden with Christ and God.
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Christ, who is our life, appears.
Then you also.
Will Pierce with him in glory.
Number 19 in the appendix.
In heavenly love abiding.
No change my heart shall fear.
The last verse, the Lord himself being Jesus.
Mid the ransom throng, its glory, joy and beauty, Its never ending song.
A day of wondrous promise. The bridegroom and the bride are seen in glory, ever, forever satisfied #19 in the appendix.
In heavenly love, abide in.
Amazing things and here.
God may roar without me. My heart failure.
Verizon Wireless on the railroad.
Spring of Sun, Art. From confidence.
Monterey.
All right, how crowded does it have?
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Assured verse 3. Assured the Father's time is best.
Jesus will convey us home.
262.
To wait for that important day when praise is glorious.
Being the father of one's creation to.
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