Gospel—A. Barry
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We are on the planet. He's a bothering me, and I him again. The flame bringeth forth. Much proof or without me you can do nothing.
If a man abides knocking, he is cast for it as a branch and is withered. A man gathered and cast them into the fire as they are birds.
If you abide in me, and my word abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done on you.
Is my father Norfolk? Let's be very much fruit. So should he be my disciples?
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As a baller in love, So I Love You continue in My mouth.
If you keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, even if I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in His love.
These things have spoken on these that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
This is my commandment that you love one another and I have loved you.
Straight around hath no man in this, but a man laid out his life for his friends.
We are live friends, if you do whatsoever I command you.
That's what I call you. Not servants, but the servant knoweth not what his Lord doing. But I have called you friends. For all things that I have heard of my father, I have made known unto you.
He has not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you that he should go and bring forth fruit. Amateur fruit should remain that whatsoever he shall ask of the Father in my name.
He may give it you. These things I command you that you love one another.
If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.
If you were in the world, the world would love his own.
But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
Therefore, the world hates you.
Remember the word that I said on you?
Not greater than his, more if they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
But are these things we do unto you for my namesake? Because they know not in the sentence.
If I had not come and spoken under there, they have not had sins, but now they have no hope for their skin. He has hated me, hated my father also.
If I had not done among them the words which none other man did, they have not had since.
But now are they both seen and hated both me and my father?
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled, which is written in their law. They hated me without a call.
Plus, when the Comforter is come, whom I will send of you to the Father, he is the Spirit of truth.
Quit proceeding from the Father. He shall testify of me, and he also shall bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.
Mention was made of it this morning that is inadvertently.
That.
The Lord Jesus in the first verse of the chapter presents himself as a true mind.
And for the sake of some of the younger ones, it might be well to turn up the scripture that our brother referred to and his remark in the 5th of Isaiah.
Our Lord says that He is the true vine, one of their if he was the true vine, there must have been one that wasn't true.
And I believe we get it.
The first two or three verses.
Of Isaiah 5.
Some brother read the 1St.
Oh the 1St 5 verses just to get the idea.
As they are 5.
Or if I have 5.
Now will I sing to my well beloved? A song of my beloved topic is dangerous.
My well beloved have a vineyard and a very fruitful hill, and he fenced it and gathered the stones along and planted her the choices flying and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine pressed area.
And he looked at It should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
And now in heavens in Jerusalem, and man of Judah George, I pray you betrayed me and my vineyards.
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What could have been done more to my vineyards that I have not done in it? Wherefore when I look, they should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes.
And now go to I will tell you what I will do in my opinion. I will take away the heads if they are, and it shall be eaten up.
And breakdown the wall. They're all, And it should be trodden down. And I will lay it waste. It will not be true, nor did but this will come up briars and thorns. I will also command the clouds. But they rain. No rain is an hour. For the venue to the Lord of Hosts is the House of Israel and the man of Judah to his pleasant plank. And he looked for righteousness.
But behold, oppression, and they look for judgment, But behold a pressure.
For righteousness, but behold a cry.
So they find Israel was a total failure.
No fruit there for God.
I only have a true vine.
And in our fifth verse, if we started with this afternoon, I am the vine.
So our largest presentative is presented to us here.
As the one that takes the place of Israel, which was a failure.
It brought forth wild grapes, It brought forth thorns and briars.
But now here is the one who is a fruitful vine.
And we see the evidence of that proof in this lovely company that is gathered around him.
So that he can look upon them as those that have been given to him of the Father.
God has delight now in this vineyard of which Christ is the true bond.
How would you answer brother from anyone that uses picture to try to teach that one could be saved and then lost together, often used by a certain class?
And what how how could you answer that I I?
I've had to meet it and others I pulled out too. I'd like to help them.
Well, I remember a remark Mr. Potter's to make. He said don't bring the question of life into the chapter. It's not a question of life, it's a question of fruit barrier.
But in connection with those that are mentioned in the sixth verse.
I think it is helpful to see that the.
The pronoun ye is not there.
He doesn't say if ye abide not in me, but it says, If a man abides not in need, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered, and men gathered them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. Now he goes back to his own, and he says, if ye abide in me.
So I believe there's instruction in that change there.
You get the transfer in Isaiah.
I think it's chapter 49.
1St St. Isaiah 49, verse 3.
And he said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, and whom I will be glorified.
Then I said, I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength for north, and in vain. Yet surely my judgment is with the Lord and my work with my God.
The change from Israel to Christ.
Thou art my servant, O Israel.
Now Israel will bring forth fruit in the coming day, but it will be the result.
Of them being born of God.
For the earthly Saints will be born of God.
And the fruit will be the grace of God and the work of God.
Now, the first time in the Bible.
Did you get the expression?
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The act is made to the root of the trees is in Matthew.
In the Old Testament, man was under probation and trial. Would he produce fruit?
But in Matthew, the axe is made to the root of the trees.
And there can be no fruit bearing for God except.
Through Christ.
Another remark one would like to make in connection with our chapter.
For brethren, it's exceedingly precious. Is this.
That in John's ministry.
What is unfolded to us is that we are children of God by actual life imparted.
Turn for the moment of first John, First Epistle of John, and the Second Challenge.
Before I go on.
First Epistle of John, the Second chapter.
On the eighth verse.
Again, the new commandment, I reckon to you, which thing is true in him and in you.
Paul gives us the truth of the church.
Peter gives us the government of God in the House of God.
But John unfolds in his ministry.
The blessed, wonderful truth.
That were children of God.
By actual life, impartial and pride, did God give us this life?
In order that we might never perish.
No.
That is true, but it is not the fullness of the ministry of John.
Will you turn now to John?
17.
And verse 3.
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God.
And Jesus Christ whom our sin.
That is, in John's ministry, we get a life that enables us to think as God thinks, to enjoy what God enjoys.
And all precious truth, I wish I could say it better.
The Father will be eternally satisfied.
In the communion of his redeemed as children.
He'll find his eternal joy.
In the family that he has brought around himself partakers of the divine nature, and I want to add to that place.
That He sent down the Holy Spirit to dwell in us, that we may have the joy of that blessedness.
Before we're up there with him in the glory. Now if you turn to John 7, you'll see that.
The 7th chapter of John and the 37th verse.
In the last day, that great day of the feast, it was the only feast that had an eighth day, because the feast of Tabernacles.
Which of course figures the Millennial Day but the 8th day for us.
Is the heavenly thing.
And the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying if any man thirst.
Let him come under me and drink.
Oh, before I read the next verse, brethren.
What a thirsty world it is man is seeking after that which will satisfy him.
O brethren, to enjoy God in the conscious sense that you're one of these children.
Loved as the Son is loved.
Is to have a taste of heaven before you get there.
Now notice the next verse.
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He that believeth on me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Oh, when we meet you on the street or in your home.
Is it rivers of living water? Is your conversation and mind of Christ?
If we were enjoying him.
How much more of our conversation would be of the preciousness of that blessed man in the glory?
Now read the next verse.
But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive.
For the Holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified.
All think of it, the Holy Spirit has come down.
What for? To give us the conscious sense that we're saved and going to heaven when we die.
No, to give us a taste of heaven before we get there.
If any man thirst, is there anyone in this company thirsting? Are you really satisfied?
Of the Spirit of God has come down into this world.
What for? To dwell in your body. What for? To simply give you the knowledge of eternal life that you'll never perish.
No, that is true, but it's not the fullness of the truth.
The fullness of the truth is this.
Turned to the 16th of John. It'll say it in better language than I can say.
Verse 13 of the 16th of John.
How be it? When he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth, for he shall not speak all himself.
But whatsoever he shall hear that till he speak, and he will show you things to come.
He shall glorify me, for he shall receive mine, and shall show it unto you.
He will show you things to come.
Ah, the Spirit of God will occupy us with the coming glory into which we shall be ushered, had not the Lord said.
I'll come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye shall be also.
In other words.
God would have us to be living in heaven before we get there.
Living in heaven before we get there.
And to walk through this world in the conscious sense.
That God is your father and he loves you as he loves his own Son. That is exactly what John is seeking to bring us into brethren. And that was on my heart when I suggested John 15.
It's enjoying himself.
In one soul down here, before you get into the home up there.
And the Spirit is given to us to occupy us with the vanity of this world.
The Vainglory of it.
Oh no. If you and I are walking with God in communion when we meet our brethren, we're talking of the loveliness of Jesus, the preciousness of who he is, and of the home that awaits us, That, I believe, our brethren. May I be pardoned for saying I don't want our hearts to miss.
The preciousness of that blessed truth as we read together. John 15.
Eternal life is far more than a question of the extent of that life.
Sometimes we limit the thought.
Eternal life, that is, we have a life that doesn't end, but it's far more than that. It's a kind of life.
If the life that had no beginning.
And it has no ending, that's true.
It's the life that belongs to heaven.
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This is eternal life.
Not that you are never going to die.
That would simply be that we've gone on, but a kind of life, this is eternal life that they might know thee.
The only true God and Jesus Christ will not have sinned.
No one can be spoken of.
As possessing eternal life, at least scripture doesn't speak of it. So unless he knows the Father and knows the Son is sent of the Father, that's the reason that eternal life as presented in John.
Is not found in the Old Testament.
We do get the expression, the eternal life or everlasting life twice in the Old Testament.
But there it's in a very limited sense and has reference to the millennial life here on the earth. We just have the two cases I believe.
In the 12Th of Daniel.
Add in the 133rd Psalm. I believe it is. You get the expectation twice in the Old Testament, but it has no connection.
With what we are Speaking of here.
That they may know the the only true God in Jesus Christ, whom not has sinned, That is a Christian revelation. It's a kind of life, not just merely the extent of the life.
Just think, brother, beloved brethren.
But God is satisfying his own heart.
In having us as children before him.
Possessing a life.
That enables us to enjoy what God enjoys.
And that's the great point in John's ministry.
You might learn the truth of Christ in the Church.
As in Paul's ministry, but in John's ministry it links together and it's the blessed fact.
That we possess a life now that enables us to enjoy what God enjoys. Will you turn the first John 3?
First Epistle of John.
The third chapter.
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed the Panasonic that we should be called. It's really the children of God.
Therefore the world knoweth not, because it knew him not.
Why does it say that?
Because every motive that governs the unsaved man.
Should be dismissed from our minds.
And the world cannot understand.
A man who walks as a child of God.
For the motives that govern his conduct are distinctly different from the man of the world.
Therefore the world knoweth us not.
We've got a life.
That has for its object Christ.
Our walking to please him.
At every unsafe person you meet.
Has before them pleasing self and being popular in the world.
That thought should never enter the Christian's mind now, as you'll turn in connection with it to John 12.
A verse that's not generally understood.
The last verse of the 12Th of John.
And I know that his commandment is life everlasting.
What does that mean?
I know that his commandment is life everlasting means this.
That the possession of that life.
Gives character, so that obedience.
To the will and mind of God is the fruit of possessing that life.
For every exhortation in Scripture.
Is founded upon what you possess.
Never is it getting the thing by your own effort.
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We've got a life that delights in obedience.
And then he can say, if you love me, keep my commandments.
But your first possessor life that is characterized in that way.
I'm just going to say that that remark of yours is quite in line with the password. I don't want to go back to return to what we went over.
But abide in me, and I in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself.
Except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except divide in me.
You find in Galatians 5 the work of the place.
And the fruit of the Spirit.
And what the Father is seeking in this chapter.
Is fruits not work? And in order to produce food you have a beautiful illustration in the vine. The vine doesn't, the branch doesn't go all over the.
Air the vineyard to do something. It just simply contains its place.
The vine and in maintaining that place without working, without laboring, the fruit is there, and so it will be in the Christian life, but we were having before us in connection with that continuity of association of heart with Christ in the path of dependence and obedience.
Going on consistently, faithfully with the Lord.
Occupied with him thinking to please him, and your ways fly, nothing to hinder you from that enjoyment of himself by the fruit will be there as a consequence.
So it's truth that God is looking for in the Christian life.
I think what our brother Hayhoe was saying.
Is so important.
If your friends, your associates and business, in the factory, in the shop, in the school, your neighbors.
I'm speaking now of the unsaved.
If they can understand you, you're not living.
A spiritual life?
A Christian that's going on with God and his soul will never be understood by the world.
Never. The Lord Jesus was constantly misunderstood.
And if that same life is operative in US in a practical way, we will not be understood.
Well, sometimes we feel the smart of it.
We we blush. We we sense the hurt of it.
But when we seek the remedy in trying to.
Trim down our confession.
When we seek the remedy and trying to live a 5050 life and conform to what's around us, we lose every prone, but at the same time we lose the sense in the soul of the Lord's approval.
No spiritual minded Christian going on with God and his soul is ever going to be understood by a whirling.
Add to that, I agree with exactly with what you've said.
But you notice that what it says here in this very chapter.
The 11Th verse, but we have to connect it with the 10th to get the thought. If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love.
Now a remark here.
The new nature is characterized by obedience.
Keeping His commandments is the manifested character of the new man, even as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in His love.
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
What would emphasize that?
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The enjoyment of the love of the Father in the conscious sense where his children.
Is true happiness in this world?
And no one ever walked with God, and then at the end of their life, said, I wish I hadn't done it.
Of what I feel is so precious, we're getting near the end and the Lord's coming is very near.
To walk with God in the path of obedience, in the consciousness that we're children.
Loved as the son is loved to walk down the street.
With the consciousness in your soul.
That the Father's heart is toward you.
This guidance is for you in your path, and that is the destiny that He has promised his eternity in. That home above is to walk through this world with real, true happiness.
All the preciousness of it, The blessedness of it, brethren, may I say as I get older.
The preciousness of it fills my soul with praise and Thanksgiving to God.
A child of God by actual life possessed.
Loved as the Son is loved.
Followed to go through this world in the consciousness of it. That's a taste of heaven before you get there.
You get abiding in Christ.
As a protest result, then you get in the seventh verse. If you abide in me, and my word abide in you, he shall ask what you will seem to me. There was. The Lord gives us progress here.
Occupies his first without abiding in himself.
And then we have the importance of his word abiding in it, and I'm sure that if there is that continuity that we were speaking about this morning.
It creates in the in the soul.
A desire to know more of himself, and that, as a result, leads us to.
Searching his word, or reading it, meditating upon it.
Finding our pleasure and our enjoyment in His word.
Lord, you know, and answering Satan when he came with the temptation about.
The turning the stones to bread. His answer was, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
See, it's not only just one scripture, but it's every word.
And the Spirit of God would give us to understand that God's word come so directly from himself.
That is out of the mouth of God, just as though God himself was visible so we could see his farm and hear him speak to us. That's the way the Spirit of God would have us to understand.
How the word of God by?
That we have right before us that we're reading and getting instruction from at this time come so directly from God himself.
Well.
That's the way that Satan is defeated when he comes with his temptation. Gillard left us an example in that way.
So in connection with answered prayer.
Abide in me and my words abide in you. You shall ask what you will, and it's be done unto you.
There's no such thing I believe in The word is an unconditional promise to answer prayer.
In other words, we use a bigger speech. God just doesn't turn us loose.
With a sign blank check that we can fill in whatever we think we'd like to have.
No, there's always that if.
All of the promises of answered prayer are prefaced with some sort of condition.
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So it is here.
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, shall ask what you will, and be done unto you.
Well, one in whom those conditions are fulfilled.
Is not going to be asking for something that's outside the will of God.
That's precious, Brother Brown.
And with it, let us remember.
It isn't a question of gift here as an evangelist or a pastor or a teacher.
This is bearing fruit, and much fruit without any gift at all.
Isn't it lovely to see a brother or a sister?
That desires the mind of the Lord.
In every step that he or he takes, it may not be with any gift whatever, but just living to please the Lord.
A little boy can do that. A girl can do that.
A brother or a sister without any gift can do that. Just living to please the Lord that's bearing much fruit.
Isn't that lovely?
Oh, you say? I wish I had the gift of brother so and so that you can do. Why do you want the gift?
Perhaps for display before your brethren.
But just living daily to please God in the path of obedience is bearing much, much fruit. Oh, I think that's precious, brethren. And that should be an encouragement to everyone here, young or old.
What a grand reversal of things is going to be at the judgment seat of Christ.
There, everything will be adjudicated.
In view of the truth that's laid down for us in the Word.
And I am sure that there will be some simple souls like Ruby McKenzie down here at Hamilton and some of us knew Hamilton ON.
Other dear, simple, unknown, unsung, unheralded children of God.
That's radiated the joy of the Lord.
Well, have so much higher place and better acknowledgement than some that have been out active in ministry.
That we'll we'll just be amazed as we see that what God was looking for was the formation of Christ in the heart, not how much we could lay down at his feet as a result of what we hadn't done.
Or I believe that's important. I I do.
And one has met dear souls like that.
Through the course of his life.
And his heart went out in actual envy of them.
For their newness to Christ in their enjoyment of it. Shall I tell a little story of Ruby Mackenzie?
A brother and I went to see her in the home.
This convalescent home where she was.
And it was a beautiful spring day, and the sun was shining and the leaves were bursting out in the trees.
And the brother looked out the window and he oh, he was enjoying it. And he said, oh Robbie, what a lovely view out this window.
And then he turned around and he said, oh, you'll have a better view than that, haven't you?
And I'll never forget I was in the room. I'll never forget her, looking up with a smile.
And she said, Oh yes, brother, I see Jesus, that we driven anything of nature.
I'll never forget it because I was there and heard it myself.
Blind, wasn't she? So she couldn't see out the window.
Glad you had that. I've forgotten that for the moment she was blind and couldn't see and that's why he turned to her and said. But Ruby, you can't see that, but you can see something better. Thank you for bringing that in.
But her expression as she said, Oh yes brother, I see Jesus and her face lit up.
I'll never forget it. Down in Kentucky, some of us used to go and visit Johnny McDaniel.
Well, he had a free fall on him and paralyzed him. It was a wheelchair invalid.
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But oh, the nearer he got to the end of the journey.
They're more warm and.
Bright he was, and his affections for Christ.
And he just loved to talk about these things.
He used to sell a few purses on the side as he had opportunity. Those that came along and I got hold of one of them and tucked away in it where lovely things about the Lord.
In this new merchandise he was putting out, he inserted in everyone of them something about Christ.
Well, most of us, apart from the grace of God in a similar position, would have said well.
The lights just gone out of my life. Here I am, a young man.
I'm hopeless and helpless.
And he would lie and bemoan his life.
But dear Johnny has left a happy memory with us and we look forward with joy.
To seeing him receive from the Lord Jesus in that coming day, the Lord's acknowledgement about that dear boy did for Christ.
Is that the thought which we have in the 6th chapter of John on the 57th verse?
The 54th verse you have.
Are appropriating.
The work of our Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary's cross for ourselves.
As a result, we have eternal life.
And the 56th verse.
He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood.
That's appropriating at work, as we said in the 54th verse.
Dwelleth in me and I in him. That's a continual feeding.
And then on the 57th verse, the Father, as a living Father, have sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that he just needs even he shall live by me.
Life displayed.
Yes, dude.
That's lovely tool to remember it.
Oh, what a wonderful thing it is.
You and I.
Will not have a new life in heaven.
We have the same life down here that will have up there.
Eternal life and eternal life is Christ our life.
All how precious that is.
I suppose we should consider the 8th part here it is my Father glorified that he bear much proof.
So it isn't for the glory of the thing, but it's the glory of the Father that the Lord would bring before us.
We know that when the Lord was in the 12Th chapter of John, where the cross was before him.
We find.
We find there.
In the 27th verse of John 12.
Lord says, there now is my throat trouble, but what shall I say, Father, Save me from this hour? And he says, but for this cause came out of this hour.
Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven saying, I am both glorified it and will glorify it again.
The cross was before the Blessed Lord. And there's a man, a real man.
Why he drank from that cross? And he even inquired, save me from this arm? But then as a divine person he knew that it was for that very purpose, but he came into this scene.
Then he just says, Father, glorify thy name, and immediately the Father's voice.
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Answers I have both glorified and will glorify it again. I'm sure there's a lesson for us all in that is, instead of thinking of our own interests.
That we, like the Blessed Lord, settle the matter as to what is before us, because the weather is for the glorious of the Father, Know that it will bring up peace and rest of souls in knowing that whatever takes place.
That means our King Bob is that God might be glorified there by.
The Lord has just said, accept the corn of wheat falls to the ground and die it. Abide at the Lord.
In connection with the eighth verse here, And my father glorified that she bear much fruit socially, be my disciples.
There can only be the bearing of fruit.
When it's in the path of obedience.
Sometimes we.
You've taken up with some activity that's going on.
Perhaps we're getting carried away with it.
And when it's examined in the light of the Word of God.
We see that there's much connected with it That doesn't stand the test of the word at all.
The man strived for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully.
Where never the gainers are thinking, well, I know the word says that, but in this case.
In this particular case, I believe we can leave that out. We can shortcut that I think the circumstances warranted.
Well, brethren, I I believe that we're never wiser than Scripture. We're never wiser than Scripture.
And departed and if in order to accomplish what someone else seems to be able to accomplish.
If it is, at the cost.
Of going contrary to precepts that we have in the word.
I believe we're far wiser to let it pass.
So here shall bear much fruit. So shall he be my disciples, my disciples.
Discipleship involves following him.
It's taking up his cross. It's the denial of self.
It's not seeking a place, promise, or whatever it may be. Neither is it seeking results. It's seeking to do the will of God and glorify the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, God is the one that has a right to define what much fruit is, but you'll never find the world agrees with God's decision as to what constitutes much fruit.
They have other standards, so let us not be swayed.
By the standards that are accepted around us as to what constitutes successful, at least so the world turns at successful Christian testimony.
That word? Success.
Is only used once in the Bible, I believe.
And there it's In connection with doing the will of God has expressed in his words.
Length and speaking.
What was the verse, Brothers Elder First Four Isaiah 5949. Thank you.
Words have their meaning from the sentence in which they are found.
And he's rejected.
By Israel.
Their religious leaders, the nation as such, rejected him. And that's the prophetic.
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For shadowing of that fact.
And when Israel rejected him nationally.
Then the grace of God over leaps over and brings blessing to the gentile.
And that's very important.
And precious, the only time that is recorded that Jesus rejoiced in spirit is on that very occasion. You'll find it in Luke.
11/10/31 yes, Luke, 10/21. Thank you.
And that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit.
And said I thank the old Father, Lord of heaven and earth.
Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and that's revealed them under babies. Even so, Father.
For so it seemed good in thy sight.
And the only time in which it is recorded that the Lord rejoiced in spirit.
Because he took the rejection of Israel from the hands of the Father.
And the blessing leaped over the bounce of Israel to the Gentile.
That's why it says intimidate. Turn over to Timothy.
I'll give you the chapter in a moment.
First, there's Timothy.
On the 3rd chapter and the 16th verse.
And without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. God will manifest in the flesh.
Justified in the spirit scene of angels preached unto the Gentiles.
Now the point is this. It's how Timothy was to behave in the House of God.
And he was to take the rejection of the truth for all Asia.
Had departed from Paul's ministry.
And if we take our circumstances from His hand, who orders all things?
There will be.
Increase of blessing and proof to the praise and glory of Christ, for it's a privilege.
To stand fast for the Lord.
In the day of ruin.
To make the thought that's on my mind more distinctive.
You will remember in the Psalms it says whoso offereth praise glorifies me.
But where is that found?
Is found in the 55th Psalm.
And that's the last week, Prophetically.
When Israel is cast out and the beast and the Antichrist are reigning.
And thus it is whosoever praised glorifieth me.
To praise God amidst difficulty and trial, taking it from his hand.
And never doubting the wisdom of all that he does.
Has a special commendation in Scripture.
It adds this remark. Brethren, it's important when you read Scripture to notice.
Where, when and under what circumstances the verse is written?
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me, Shall I be very precise? It's easy to offer praise and glorify the Lord when you get an increase in salary.
But it isn't quite so easy to offer praise when you're persecuted and perhaps lose your job because of faithfulness.
Well, that's why it's in the 55th Psalm, the day when there's martyrdom for Christ.
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And the one that's in the midst of that awful darkness.
Offers praise as a special commendation from the Lord.
You've got them described in the end of Zechariah 13.
Very sweet and precious way.
And the Zechariah 13 seventh verse the Waco sword against my shepherd.
Against the man that is my fellow.
That Jehovah hosts might the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered.
And I will turn mine hands upon the little ones. That's the little remnant.
And to come to pass that in all the lands that Jehovah.
Who part therein to be cut off and die.
But the third part shall be left therein, and I will bring the third part through the fire.
And will refine them as silver's refined and try them as gold is tried.
And they shall call on my name.
And I will hear them, I will say it is my people, and they shall say Jehovah is my God.
Oh, what wonderful days lie ahead for that little faithful remnant, faithful in the day of ruin.
Well, the same principle can apply to us now.
Though that scripture, of course, is looking forward to a future day for Israel.
I'll add this remark. I enjoy what you say.
That John's Gospel was written about the year 1890.
After Paul's ministry had been given and given up.
And this in John you get the secret.
Of of true happiness and fruit bearing in a day of ruin.
True, I repeat. True happiness and fruit bearing in a day of ruin.
Peter Preached and 3000 were saved.
Oh, you say. I can't do that today, but you can bear much fruit, not by the conversion of 3000, but being faithful to God and keeping His word in a day of ruins is bearing fruit to His praise.
Brother Hale, isn't it lovely that God has arranged this matter?
So that a poor, helpless invalid.
Flattened his back in the hospital, unable to lift his head from the pillow.
Can bear just as much fruit for God as a rugged young man out on the street, creating the gospel with all his power.
How true that is. Now I'll add to that, for I thoroughly agree with your remark. My own dear, beloved wife is not in the hospital. She's home now, but right across from her bed was a missus cardigan.
No doubt from speaking to Earth that she's a Christian, a babe in Christ.
She's had a stroke.
And I judge from what I heard from the doctor, that she'll never walk again.
Oh, she's possibly a woman, about 60 years old.
I believe she's a Christian, but there's no joy in her soul.
No joy at all.
She just mourns over it. And if I can only be healed and only walk, and every day is spent on that dead mourning the fact that she can't look forward to the day when she'll walk again.
She's abandoned Christ.
The minister came to see her while I was there, and I believe he's a Christian, but there was no comforting message for that poor dear soul except the fact that she was going to heaven when she died.
But John's ministry gives you the enjoyment of heaven before you get there.
Well, I've been visiting a place and.
This is therefore.
This this patient now for three years and 1/2.
And she radiates the opposite. She says. I've already been in heaven, and I hated to come back good.
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Well, that's nice, isn't it? It is nice. Well, that's John's ministry, and I believe that's the kind of ministry we need, brethren. And as I I often think of that poor, dear woman in the hospital where my wife was, I believe she's a Christian.
Which he said, In whom can we trust but in him?
I believe she's got eternal life, but there's no joy in her, in her soul.
To her, the thought of going to heaven is simply a nice, comfortable place at the end of the journey.
But the joy of the Lord is lacking.
Oh, brethren, we may have to go through more tribulation before the Lord comes. We may not always have the liberty in Canada and United States that we have now, may not always.
But all there isn't a time or or circumstances where we cannot be in the good of this chapter.
Lower, they thought We have there in the 9th. 1St as a father hath loved me, so have I loved you.
Meditate on that. Think of how the father loved his son.
And his baptism, And also on the mount of Transfiguration his Father exclaimed from heaven, that is, baptism in the open heaven, to say this word.
The Lord my beloved honor. This is my beloved Son, in whom I found all my delight. Just think of God the Father looking down into this world and finding his full delight and satisfaction. And that's Blessed One. Think how the Father loved it as he was occupied with him down here. Now, that same love that we seized in the Father for his Son.
He has now towards you and me from the sun himself.
Well, we should enjoy that, and I believe it's most helpful to the soul again, occupied with the Lords love to love sometime when we're just lying still. Maybe just before we drop off the sleep, or maybe when we're sitting a few minutes, nothing, especially before us. Just get that on our minds to think of how the Lord loves us.
As we go through this thing through which we're passing and he enters into all our trials and loves us as we go through those trials.
Now the Lord says, Continue ye and my love. Now you know how much I love you all. Go on and enjoy. Continue in it.
Well, that has to be in the path of obedience, doesn't it? Yes, if you keep my commandments.
He shall abide in my love.
Even as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in His love.
Impossible, apart from keeping his commandments.
Well, his commandments are not just.
Certain definite things. It's the whole express will of God as we find it in the Word.
It's being in communion with the mind of God is expressed in the Word.
You shall abide in my love.
Even as I kept my father's commandments, that is, he was always right in the middle.
Of the Father's will every moment of his life.
And so he ever abode in the Father's love.
Just noticing the other day that the Lord wouldn't turn stone to bread in the wilderness.
But on the cross he said I30 Well, in both cases the Lord was keeping his father's commence. He had no commandment to make the.
The stone in the bread. But he did have the word of God.
When he said I first.
So his very last words on the cross.
After having gone through the awful suffering of being forsaken of God.
But still to do the will of the Father who had sent it.
I'd like to add this brother.
When you think of the cross of Christ.
Always think of two things.
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One is.
The work of atonement and glorifying God about the whole question of sin.
Perfectly accomplished. The other is that.
That in no other way.
Could the depth of the divine bosom be displayed?
And all through eternity, we'll never forget.
How much the Lord loved us, for he went through every form and kind of suffering it was possible for a righteous man to go through. What for? To put your sins away. All that was only part of it.
But for to show the heart of God for us.
God commendeth his love toward us in that why we were yet sinners. Christ died for us here in His love, not that we love God, but He loved us.
And sent his son to be a propitiation for our sins.
We will never forget in all eternity.
Heart of God.
Told us in the sufferings of Christ.
There is a verse in the Bible that is indicates.
The pleasant fact that God gave his Son.
A life able to suffer.
He could easily have given them a body with a life unable to suffer, but he gave him a body with a light.
And able to suffer.
That verse is in Acts 26.
It isn't.
Very accurately translated in our King James.
The 23rd verse.
Of the 26th of Acts.
That Christ should suffer.
The meaning of that is that he had a body able to suffer.
Why is there so much of the sufferings of Christ in scripture?
The sufferings of Christ, do not put your sins away.
It was the judgment he bore, but the sufferings of Christ showed the heart of God that would go through it in order to have you and me.
Before him in love.
I'm wondering if we could sing a part of the 19th in the opinion.
My thing, the 1St and the 2nd and the last version first, second and 5th verses of the 19th of the attendees.