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General Meetings Wheaton, August 1974. Fourth reading meeting.
Couldn't say how others feel about going on in the 12Th of John.
But it impresses me.
That in the last part of the chapter, there isn't too much material there to develop.
So as I had suggested in chapter.
I was just wondering if.
One of the brothers had some other subject where there would be more material to develop for the reading.
But if anything opposite from me and think there is the material there to develop, I don't want to.
I would need to read the rest of this chapter and then go on into chapter 13 a little way.
How far in chapter 13?
Well, it's hard to know just where to stop, but.
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I suppose.
We could read down to.
The end of.
Verse 12.
John 12 verse 37.
But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believe not on him, that the saying of Isaiah the prophet, might be fulfilled, which he spake Lord, who has believed our report, and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? Therefore they could not believe, because of events, that again He had blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts.
That they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them these things that is there when he saw his glory, and spake off him. Nevertheless, among the chief rulers also many believed on him.
But because of the Pharisees, they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue, But they love the praise of man more than the praise of God. Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me, and he defeeth me, seeeth him that sent me, I am comma light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him, mom, For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejected me and receiveth not my word hath won the judge of him the word that I have spoken the same shall judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken of myself, but the father which sent me.
Gave me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting. Whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak Chapter 13.
Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his power was come, that he should be part out of this world under the Father, having loved his own which were in the world.
He loved them unto the end, and suffer being ended.
The Devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon son to betray him, Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hand, and that he was come from God and went to God, he rideth from supper, and later signed his garment.
And took a towel, and birded himself. After that he poured water into a basement, and began to wash the disciples feet, and to wipe them with the towel where Whitney was girded. Then Timothy to Simon Peters. And Peter said unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? Jesus answered, and said unto him, What I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shalt.
Hereafter Peter says unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet.
Jesus answered him, If I want thee not, thou hast no part with me. Simon Peter says unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. Jesus said to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whip, And ye are clean but not all. For he knew who should betray him, Therefore said he, Ye are not all flames.
So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done for you?
We might mention rather than Chapter 12 really ends the second section of this matchless gospel.
The First Division of John would take us to the end of chapter 6, and that deals with the question of life.
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Life.
Now the second question deals with the second section deals with the question of light.
And up to Tap 20, we get love. These are the divisions of this gospel.
We notice in our readings among the left and Saints the 1St 6 verses Life, The Next Light and the last Love. And I really believe that chapter 21. I wonder if my brethren will go along with me there that chapter 21 is really millennial. I just mentioned that, by the way. And it might help some of the younger Christians to read with more intelligence, perhaps this wonderful gospel.
I all that I'm not.
Bringing out something that hasn't been mentioned and perhaps most heard in her acquainted with, but since they have brought in the 13th chapter.
The thought is that in the 12Th chapter we get the brazen altar, for there we get the Lord's death.
The lifting up of the Son of Man, which would be.
In tight.
We sit and offering the victim on the brazen of.
Then are those who have studied the Tabernacle. Between the brazen altar and the entrance to the Tabernacle there was the brazen labor where the priests washed their hands and their feet.
In connection with their service.
So it would seem that the 13th chapter does give us the brazen labor, of course.
In the 13th of John it's only the feet that are washed, whereas in.
And the Tabernacles.
Service. It was also the hands as well as the feet. And that gives us character, the character of the gospel, of the what we have in the Old Testament economy. That is, it's had to do with the service because the full work and of the cross was not yet accomplished.
Now that the Lord has brought His death before us, there's no work for.
To add in in any way because the work called the cross is complete and finished.
And so it's only our feet.
That in which we come in contact with this defiled world.
That we need this cleansing. Then we go on to the 14th chapter.
Maybe on through the 17th chapter were brought into the holy place, and maybe in the 17th chapter into the Holy of Holies, because there we hear the blessed Son in prayer with the Father about those he had given him to bring safe home at last.
Before going into the 13th chapter, I can hardly hold that telling of an experience I had in connection with five verses in the chapter 12 many years ago.
I had come from the East and took a letter from.
Sectarian institution.
And I found that the preacher had formerly been a roommate to a beloved cousin who was once found in the gospel.
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Long ago with the Lord.
The fact that this Charles A born in Seattle, had been a roommate and also my letter was put into that church in those days before I was saved.
Well, I had withdrawn the letter and the meantime I served three years as a blind leader of the blind.
And another.
Big institution.
I met Charles A born on the.
3rd Ave. in Seattle.
And I said brother born.
I now know the Lord Jesus Christ as my savior, praise the Lord, he said. We drove it to the side, to the curb to talk, and after a while he spoke about, she says. You know there are two Isaiah's.
Well, my heart dropped, but God had prepared me for this moment just the day before.
In reading an article.
A faithful article.
So my wife had sewed a little piece of lining in my coat pocket. I could carry a little Bible there in my work.
I just threw it out.
And I said.
Read these verses.
Now watch verses 37 to 41.
Of chapter 12.
But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believe not on him, that the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled which he speak Lord, who hath believed our report. Where do you find that?
Isaiah 53.
Now that's the last part of Isaiah, isn't it?
And to whom have the arm of the Lord been revealed? Therefore they could not believe, because that Isaiah said again, it's the same Isaiah.
He.
Has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart.
That they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart and be converted, and I should heal them.
These things that Isaiah, when he saw his glory and speak of him in chapter six. Well, the modernist, the higher critics in those days.
They divided.
Because in Isaiah, the 1St 39 chapters do have a different character from chapter 40 on, but here we have from the last half and here we have from the first half, I said. So he read these things out loud to me. I said, now am I going to believe you?
Or the Lord.
The Lord shows that all of Isaiah was written by one Isaiah. I couldn't refrain from telling you that, brother. Let's go on to chapter 13.
Don't you think, Brother Brown, that the fact that the Lord brings these two portions of Isaiah together?
As for very definite reason, you read what is said in the 6th chapter.
Of Isaiah He have blinded their eyes and hardened their heart that they should not see with their eyes.
Well, that might strike one with a spirit of uncertainty. Why would God blind the eyes so that the creature could not see?
Well, the fact that he has given us that quotation from the 53rd of Isaiah.
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Show why God has blinded their eyes, for it says Who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
It shows that those whose hearts were blinded.
Are darkened and their eyes were blinded.
For those who had heard the report, and we only have to read the gospel.
In fact, in this very connection, in the 12Th or the 11Th chapter, where the Lord had called ladders out of the grave.
Well, would we not think that any human being would have been convinced that the Lord was all that He said He was the Son of God and the king of Israel?
But no, they took counsel to put him to death.
Saw that when you get.
This song very about it, as it tells us here he hath blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they should not see with their eyes.
Or understand with their heart and be converted in our healing. That is judicial blindness and that has happened to Israel nationally and that judicial.
Government of God.
Is still upon the nation until the veil is lifted for the remnants in the coming days.
God does.
In in a solemn way.
When the truth, such as they had heard the opportunity that they had when the arm of the Lord was revealed, had rejected it by then, God blinds one.
While it may be doubtful if just the same character of judicial government would, God would carry that out today.
But it is friends are very, very solemn warning when one resists.
The gospel having heard a time after time.
And seeing the change in the lives of those who have accepted the Savior. But.
To resistantly go on as a Christ rejecter.
Is a very, very solemn thing. And while I wouldn't like to say that God will bring.
Judicial blindness upon such. Yet we should certainly heed the warning that if God dealt with the people of old in that way with the Jewish nations, let's be careful that we do not resist.
The truth of God when he has given such favor as to give a full gospel.
For our souls.
We noticed that there is a wonderful change.
And the scriptures which are quoted here in our chapter against that in Isaiah because.
The end of verse 40 in Isaiah doesn't read the same as it does in John 13 in Isaiah.
Six The ninth verse I should say. It says.
And understand where their heart and convert and be healed.
Well, in John's Gospel, as well as Matthew and Mark, it says then I should heal them. I think we spoke before in the.
When the former meeting of the.
Change sometimes that the Holy Spirit effects.
By quoting a verse in the New Testament and adjusting it to the moment that had then arrived. And here was the one whom it could be said, I will heal them or I should heal them. The Jews were looking into the very blessed face of the very one that now was the fulfillment of that scripture. Was he not there, standing with his open arms? I will heal you.
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Another thing, another thing that we could notice.
This last part of the chapter you'll notice in the 36th verse, while that wasn't read.
The Lord, or rather the 35th verse, then said Jesus unto them a little while.
Is the light with you more while you have the light?
Lest darkness come upon you. For he that walketh in darkness knoweth not, whither he goeth. Why did he have the light? Believe in the light, that she may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed.
Did hide himself from them. Brother Smith was Speaking of the divisions of John.
The very first chapter tells us in him was life.
And the light was the light of men. He showed that these two characters of the Lord are developed.
And the chapters.
That follow on so especially here the Lord.
As the one who was the light of the world.
And he gives that warning to walk while they have the life, and then you notice that.
These things speak Jesus and departed and did hide himself from them. It's just as though as the sunset.
In darkness one who was the light had disappeared, hidden in South from him. But isn't it lovely as we go on in the chapter? When you get to the 46 verse, I am come a light into the world that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. It's like the sunset. And then the sun rises.
For a day of blessing, as he says.
There, that whosoever.
Oh, I love it. That word is and his characteristic of the Gospel of John isn't whosoever.
That is for Israel, those who had all the opportunities that they'd had, and his ministry and his testimony there in their land.
As it were the sunset for them, although it rises only.
To display a wider.
Have range of glory and blessing, for it brings in the full so ever.
Now the light shines so that any poor sitter.
Can come in his lost condition.
You are Gentile.
And accept the Savior of sinners.
I was enthusiastic at the time of Hitler. The president of the Republic of the Libya permitted 2000 Jews to enter. And by the way, that was the most progressive time that Bolivia went through.
The president of the presence of those Jews. Well, I got in touch with quite a number of them. And this very verse that you read, brother, I've read to many scores of them and I've asked them, what is it that you don't understand this verse?
Well, I found that over 60% were agnostics. They didn't believe.
There was one man said, Can you explain what light is, Smith? I said no, I don't know what light is. I don't think the scientists can tell you what light is.
But I said, I know one thing about it, that God is light, and that's his very nature. And the one I'm talking to you about is God over all things, blessed forever. But brother Barry, there was not one episode and I was months with them.
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All that.
Their eyes were blinded, veil over their eyes. What a day that will be when they really.
And truly.
See that blessed one? What a day that will be. And I asked those Jews, I said, what is the dream of your life? There were 2000 of them in the state of potassium.
And I got to know so many of them and they all said without exception, we are returning to Palestine. I said what for?
We are waiting for the Messiah to see the Messiah.
Well, I said. He's already come, and he's my blessed savior.
But it didn't register Brother Barry. How sad that is.
Government lovely too, when such a solemn word the Lord has spoken about blinding their eyes and hardening their hearts.
Oh, what an awful judicial judgment that was. But when we read the 42nd verse, we get a word there that we can, well, pay attention to.
Nevertheless among the chief rulers, although many believed on him.
But because of the Pharisees, they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue, or they love the praise of men more than the praise of God.
There were those that really believed in him.
But all what an awful thing the fear of man is. Or, as we were hearing in one of our meetings, the fear of man work at the snare. I suppose. Perhaps Nicodemus was among this number.
Has he only spoke up one little word in the 7th chapter and he was immediately condemned?
Our Lord doth our Lord judge any man before it, see and hear.
Our brother.
Doctor Wilson has spoken of the.
Experience that Nicodemus passed through that in the third chapter where the.
Where he comes by night.
To question Jesus.
It was midnight in his soul in the 7th chapter, where in the presence of the elders and the high priest.
Scribes. He has a little word to say, a little timid word.
But oh, at the end, when all the disciples had forsaken him, and the Lord had.
Expired there on the cross. Nicodemus came with Joseph of Arimathea to honor him in his death. And sometimes it happens this way. It surely happened in that case.
That when some tremendous.
Circumstances.
Has developed like the death of Christ, so that there is no middle ground to take. You see their for him or against him.
It brought out a timid man like Nicodemus to boldly come out there, where all that mocking and deriding had taken place.
There to honor that one that had suffered there on the cross in his burial.
Is better? Is verse 41 not approved that Jehovah of the Old Testament and the person of the Lord Jesus are one and the same person?
I think it is brother. It says these things said, he says when he saw his glory, but it's more especially the sun.
In that 6th chapter as you remember that.
Isaiah was taken into the temple, and he saw the Lord of Hosts high and lifted up.
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And his throne filled the temple, and before him were the Seraphims, and so on. And he cried.
And I'm a man of unclean lips, so I may not be quoting all just correctly. I didn't want to take time to turn to it.
But.
I believe that while the Lord and Jehovah are often spoken of together, for.
Their their one in Godhead but I think that the prophet there.
As this very chapter would tell us, it was Christ war. It says here these things said he's there.
He saw his glory. And who is the one of Isaiah 53? Why, it's the One who.
Have.
Who?
As you get in in the 5th and 6th verses.
That Jehovah hath made him.
Well, I'm not getting just the verses correctly. All we like sheep have gone astray, and so on, but Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. So when the 53rd chapter, who have believed our report, And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed, is certainly Christ. And so here again that one whose throne filled the temple, whose glory is displayed there while the.
The Lord tells us that it was when Isaiah saw his glory and speak of him.
I was wondering about these that it speaks of here that believed on him but they didn't confess him. I was wondering if these did not confess the Lord on the day of Pentecost.
The way to confess the Lord at that time was to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
That would be taking an open stand in identification with the Lord Jesus Christ.
And there's nothing I suppose to indicate that that these that it speaks of here in chapter 12 were among those that it speaks of in Acts chapter 2.
But still, it's surely a possibility that they took an open stand at that time, because if they had really believed in the Lord, they would have to take an open stand sooner or later, it seems to me.
Boss For Peters says, separate yourselves from this untoward generation, and he says repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of of the Lord Jesus. For the remission of sins, that is.
In that place, baptism has a special character.
As a complete break.
For the Jews with Judaism.
They couldn't receive the Holy Ghost until they had been baptized, because that was taking a definite stand against that untoward generation that had crucified their Messiah and King.
Even to this day, going through the the right of baptism, being baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, for a Jew isolates him completely from his people, and they his family regards him as dead.
In fact, some of them even have a funeral for him. Well.
It's a very difficult thing for you today to confess the Lord Jesus Christ. It means terrible persecution.
I was looking at John one verse 9 that was the true life.
Which light of every man that cometh into the world? Here we have the light revealed.
Have we not? And in verse 11 he came unto his own, His own received him, not the light rejected.
In verse 12 But as many as received him to them gave me the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name the light received in Johnny verse 12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world.
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He then followeth me, shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. Well, we know that light has been rejected and cast out.
But how precious to realize. And I'm coming eternal scene that says the lamb will be the light thereof.
Used to be the light again in the glory scene about we no need for created lights, the sun and the moon, but the lamb will be the light thereof. Now very precious to realize he's going to have that place again.
I'm sure we all need to take heed to the warning.
As given here, Or they love the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Well, we need to take heed to that.
For we have the old nature that loves to get praise from man.
The new translation seems to make it even stronger, rather than, instead of more than.
This might seem to suggest that they love the praise of God a little bit, but they love the praise of men more. But the way it's translated in the new translation just absolutely eliminates any thought whatever of appreciating the praise of God, rather than they have no use whatever.
For the praise of God, all they want is the praise of men. Well, do you think, Brother Hale, that these were converted men or just had a head belief?
Well, until, as our brother remarked, until there was a confession and a public stand for the Lord.
It would seem to me that we would have no right to consider them as the Lord until they took that stand. What do you think? I agree with that We might notice a couple of verses in Acts to bear out some of these things which have been said concerning these people. I believe in Acts 6 and verse 7.
At six and verse 7 says, the word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith that says now obedient to the faith now in chapter 21.
And the 20th Verse Act 2120.
And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou Feist brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe. But it does say, they are all jealous of the law. Is not this also historically?
The companies to whom James, Peter, and James and Peter in particular, wrote Jewish Christian.
It seems that it was a slow.
Way that those Jews at Jerusalem and in Judea were completely delivered from Judaism.
They still clung to their old forms.
And it's only it seems to me, when Paul wrote the book of Hebrews, that they were called upon to take a deafness stand outside the camp that is the system that they have been clinging to and which genes were more or less a leader of. And this is our brother was quoting a reading there that that.
They're all zealous of the law.
Many other priests believe, but the time came when they were called upon to completely break with Judaism. Now, I don't want to get off onto another subject, but those who are familiar with the book of Hebrews can see how the apostles prepared those people to take that final step and how did he prepare it.
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By just presenting Christ in giving him a place for every.
One prophet throughout the Old Testament.
Showing how all that system there was one person who took the place of Tabernacle altar of Moses, of Aaron, of Joshua. And when he gets to the last chapter he says, Therefore let us go, let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp I presented to you this blessed one. Now let's leave the whole system and go out to a rejected Christ.
6 They're really apostates. There are they're not brother apostates. This is very typical of them.
As I've had so much to do with them, I remember one man was saved in London, England years ago. He was the only son of the Chief Rabbi of the city. His name is Cargan Leahmark and I was with him by the lot and I said, Mark, tell me one thing, what about your father?
He says I'm already dead. They've had a big burial service over me long ago.
Is I don't live any longer, but, he said.
The preciousness of the Lord Jesus, he says. My eyes have been open and they really were open, He.
Rule in the north? Well, his father had a big burial service, being the chief rabbi and mother chief. Tremendous affair was made of it.
There we won't get into Hebrews too much.
I believe six to six months.
Any man here, man?
But to save the world, he that rejected me and receiveth not my words have one that judges him. The word that I have spoken the same shall judge him in the last day. So there's a solemn warning there. We know it says.
In in Revelation 20 that the books were opened.
And once the book of life, that's to show that their names are not there.
There's a book of works, that's what they have done. But this blessed book is going to be opened there too. And the way words of Christ will be the condemnation of those who are judged there.
At that solemn judgment, where the lake of fire.
Has the destiny of all who are judged.
At that time.
Like to mention our old brother, but I knew some of the old brother in England and I remember Mr. Walter Scott holding up the Bible he was in old.
And he said they love that this book is open in our hands this evening and will be open in heaven forever.
I always remember that, but I don't care to mention too much names of those old red line who so well because they left the divine center. And it was sad. But I do remember that this book is open in our hands, beloved. Tonight we will be open in heaven forever. It will never pass away.
Rather, make your comments. Funeral for the dear Jew who had accepted the Lord.
Has made us wonder. Perhaps they're not too far out after all, in recognizing that the position that this young man has taken called for a funeral. I don't want to prolong this, but I remember hearing of 1 occasion and you will forgive me, I hope, for passing it on. A man who had accepted the Lord Jesus as his Savior was about to be baptized. He stood by the edge of the water. He removed his glasses.
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Them on a rock. Remove his watch and set them on a rock. Took his pipe out of his pocket and set it on the rock.
And prepared himself for baptism. And when he came back up out of the water and was ready to go on his way, he put on his glasses. He retrieved his watch and went away. And someone noticed that he left his fight behind. And they picked it up and ran after him and said, Sir, you forgot your pipe. He said, that's not mine. Yes it is, Sir. I saw you said it on the rock, he said.
That doesn't belong to me. But Sir, you remember you put your glasses and your watch and your pipe there, he said. That belongs to the man that went under the water. I'm the man that came up out of the water. I think perhaps we can take this to heart if we belong to the Lord Jesus Christ.
If the world even looks on, think it calls for a burial. Let us remember, dear Saints of God, that there's something exceedingly practical about belonging to the One who is wholly and true. We bear His name. His name has been placed upon us in the waters of baptism, and we should never forget it.
Brother Albert, I said. You're dead, eh?
And we'd looked up the Scripture, dead indeed unto sin, and alive unto God. Then we went on sin shall not have dominion over you. Well, he says, I I saw that. All right. He says I'm dead, all right. And I believe he was really under in the good of that you know. Now it puts me in mind of a of a dear man I led to Christ, and a lady and wife to Christ of a German Pope.
And I said, cardless. When I come along, I notice you hide your bike behind you.
Well, I I'm nobody. Why do you do that?
Well, I said. I didn't know you were a high cap and high high churchman.
I didn't know you were a high judgment. Well, then he went back home and he said, Mother, give me that tightened debate. What are you going to do with it? Burned it. He never smoked again, never smoked again. Now he was never gathered, but he sent a little note before he died. He said, Brother Smith, would you marry me? As if the Lord doesn't come, I'll bury you. And he says, sing a little hymn over my grave. Come to the come to the Savior. Make no delay.
And I went to the service, buried the old brother there in that old 7.
Well, he never smoked again. He was a high judgment. I was rather naughty, I said. I could smell your block away, brother.
There's a high judgment.
Well, I believe there's a lot of truth, That mad brother Albert Gravy. Great deal of truth there.
Get this talk to you at Saint Peter's Writings. I think it's the third chapter where he speaks up.
The baptism, not the.
I better read it to washing away of the place.
First Peter.
Chapter 3.
Well, it's about Noah going through the ark. He went in the ark through the flood. He he went from one world to another world, a world that was entirely cleansed for the flood. And Peter speaks in the 21St verse, the like figure. Notice that?
Black figure baptism is has no saving power in itself.
But it is a figure of that which does save, because it's a figure of the death of Christ and our burial with him. Where unto even baptism does now also save us, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
That is, one could be baptized and go clear to the river Jordan and be baptized as some are baptized, and yet go on in their old ways. But it does give a conscience, and that's what is intended. That is, it exercises the conscience the baptism as a right has.
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Not change the individual, but it has given him an exercise conscience, just like this man, he had an exercise conscience to leave that pipe behind as something that didn't belong to the new life.
We have this statement last verse of chapter 12. I know that his commandment his life everlasting.
Could you develop that force, Brother Barry? I I have heard.
Something on it, but it doesn't seem to be too clear to me.
Well, my everlasting is looked at, as we saw yesterday, in different ways.
And I would take it here that.
I know that his commandment is life everlasting. That is, the new life feeds on the word of God, words of Christ and his subject of Christ, and thus is obedient to him. Sometimes they thought of life.
That divine life is looked at more in its practical, in a practical way, as the going on in the things of the Lord.
There is another verse that is somewhat in line with that in second Peter one.
Second Peter One and the fourth verse, whereby are given unto us, exceeding great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through less.
I don't think that.
The Apostle Peter is teaching how we get the divine nature.
Now in the first chapter of John we get the subject of being born 1/4 and of the Spirit. But Peter is looking at the subject here more in its practical application.
And the feeding of that divine nature on these great.
What does it say?
Exceeding great and precious promises.
Well, one who is enjoying those exceeding great and precious promises. Why the divine nature that we have from God is in exercise, and that all nature that is deceitful according.
Is corrupt according to the deceitful less hasn't any place that's just crowded completely out, so I would rather take it, brother.
Anderson.
There's more looked at more in that way in the practical.
Exercise of that divine life. Does that commend itself to you? I have thought that it probably meant that it's the new life.
Characterized by obedience and the desires for those new things.
I'm glad to get it developed.
While I have taken more words to express you as expressed in fewer words.
Favorite commandments in First John 2. But it's not the commandments of Moses there, it's his word. Read the context it says, but whoso keepeth his word in him, verily, is the love of God Perfect.
He by know we that we are in him. I suppose this is one of the tests here, is it not, dear brother? No, walking in communion with him.
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Test. I know there are certain section of the Adventists that always say that the commandments here the commandments of Moses, but have to do anything to do with that at all, for the context makes it clear.
Who so keep his word.
In Him, Verily is the love of God perfect. Hereby know we that we are in Him.
Well, it's a good test of whether we're walking in communion beloved with him or not. And then there are four which we shall not have. Might be well, just to mention it. Now we're on this point, if you don't mind.
The in verse six we have another there he that says he abideth him off himself also to walk even as he warned.
This is a very, very solemn verse, isn't it? Can we walk in the way? And just as he walked, we're going to walk in the way he walked by his grace? Well, that's the second there. And I was noticing too, verse 10, he that loveth his brother.
A budget in the light, and there is not occasion of stumbling in him.
He that hateth his brothers, and darkness warpeth in darkness knoweth not, whither he God, because that darkness has blinded his eyes.
Well, how sad it is that we're not fulfilling that that new commandment.
But there's one more here.
Love not the world.
Paul #4. Love not the world. It's not this created world, beloved, that we sometimes think of and which we admire so much. It's this diabolical spirit that pervades everything. Beloved, this is it, Love it not. And if we would love it, we would be an enemy of God. It's a very practical thing, 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, Lust of the flesh in you, lust of the eyes, middle age, and the pride of life in older persons.
Then the apostle goes on to say, and the world passes away, and the lust that all but he that doeth the will of God.
Forever. These are very solemn portions, aren't they? And the commandment there would you say Brother Barry, It's his words you've been mentioned. It's worth.
The order of this subject we're considering the trial chapter, begins in six days before the Passover.
When we have subjects leading up to the Passover, we have the Lord going up to Jerusalem.
And the corzanas.
At that time.
And the various things the Lord had taught them about the lifting up of the Son of Man.
Now there seems to be, when we come to the 13th chapter, a complete break.
See most of the Gospel of John. You find the Lord in association more with Israel and not with His disciples. You take Matthew and Mark and Luther, and we have much of the Lord's time and His ministry with His disciples.
You don't find so much the Lord having to do with his disciples in John.
Until you get to the close of the gospel, it seems it's more his testimony to Israel.
And now the testimony in the 12Th chapter closes.
And from the 13th chapter on, we find the Lord exclusively with His disciples.
For his departure. And that goes on, except when they come and take him in the garden.
The Lord we don't find him.
Testifying to the Jews. But it's slowly here. How this.
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Art has often been called the upper room, Ministry begins.
I believe that the better translation is during the feast of the Passover or the worsening of the feet was a way of preparing the guests.
To sit.
And enjoy.
The Feast of the Passover. So we find the Lord rising from the table, laying aside his garments, and then.
Pouring water into a basin, and he began to wash the disciples feet.
You spoke of this, brother, as being a picture of the labor which stood between the brazen altar and the privilege of the interior of the Tabernacle itself. It seems to me rather remarkable, as far as I know, that the labor is the only article of furniture that we're told where the material came from.
The labor was made of the melted down looking glasses.
I suppose they were polished brass, and it would seem to me to suggest that in order that at any time we might ever.
Enter into the responsibility of washing anyone's feet. It would require very, very real self judgment on our part. Someone takes a look in the in the looking glass we see what we are, and then a very looking glass itself is melted down.
And used as a labor to contain this water. And brethren, if at any anytime we ever feel the challenge of washing the feet of a brother or sister, let us remember that it was melted down looking glasses that held the water. And we ourselves would certainly need to be much before the Lord that we might realize our own utter nothingness in His presence, and yet not too sure the challenge and the responsibility.
Of washing one another speech. Of course there was no need of this with the Lord Jesus. I want to make that very clear, but I do believe that in the measure in which some of us have experienced this from the hands of our brethren.
I think we ought to appreciate how much it has cost them to come to us.
And try to wash our feet. I Perhaps you have read this statement in the 6th chapter of Galatians. Ye that are spiritual, restore such in one that the spiritual brother is the brother who habitually judges the place in himself.
One who is ever judging any appearance of the flesh.
No matter how humbling it may be to him.
Is one who is qualified to go and restore another, which would be much in the same line as the has the labor being made of the looking glasses, wouldn't it?
The looking glass would reveal the define and the water and the labor would remove it since.
Well, that's the self judgment of the one who.
Brother Hill is brought out who is used in the recovery of another. He judges himself. Then he can apply the water of the word to restore the one who is out of the way.
It helps us if we ever have the responsibility to help another brother. It helps us to look at what the Lord does and how He does it.
We notice that it begins this passage by Speaking of his love. Having loved his own, which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
His heart is filled with love for his disciples and.
He's designed the very best for them, and the Lord desires the very best for everyone of us. His heart is so full of love for us, and if we are approached, the Lord uses someone to approach us, to help us or to set us straight, or to restore our soul. Let's remember.
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That it's the Spirit of the Lord behind it.
The Lord himself loving us and wanting our restoration and something else.
In the third verse it says knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands.
And that he was come from God and went to God. This speaks of the place of dignity that the Lord Jesus has.
And even though he knew that place of dignity, yet immediately it says, he rises from supper and he washes their feet.
He takes this low place that he might help them, that he might restore them.
And what for? That he might make them comfortable and at ease?
As they were eating with him. Well, this is the Lord's heart. This is the Lord's desire. I think we have an example of it in Joseph down in Egypt, the 2nd ruler in Egypt. Joseph knew his place. He realized the dignity of that place. And when his brethren came down to Egypt.
He had it within his power to do to them anything that he wished.
But look at the way he dealt with them.
And what was the purpose of it? What was the end of it? What was he looking for?
Well, he put them through the different trials and testings to bring them to the point where they would own that mistake, own their wrong and judge it, and then they could be at ease in his presence. This is what Joseph wanted. He wanted their restoration, that they might be comfortable and at ease in his presence.
Isn't that what the Lord wants? He wants us to be at ease in his presence because sometimes we go on with a bad conscience.
And we just don't seem to be in touch with the Lord. And we start out the day and we haven't really gotten in touch with the Lord because there's that that's bothering our conscience. And we go on through the day and things are confused. And when we come to the end of the day, it seems like it's just a bunch of threads that is the result.
But the Lord deals with us to get us to judge ourselves and confess to Him.
And then it's all taken care of. Because he says, if we confess our sins, He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And we can depend upon that word. That if if we've judged ourselves in His presence and confessed it to him, that it's all finished and we don't have to think about it anymore. And we become more at ease in His presence. And we feel comfortable to be in the presence of the Lord, and we want to get into His presence, to talk to Him, have communion with Him and fellowship with Him, we want to read His Word.
Oh, how blessed it is that we have this, what is called the advocacy of the Lord Jesus Christ, restoring our souls when we need it.
32 Do we not connection with David?
Verse 3 When I kept silence, he said. My bones, my soul, through my roaring all the day long.
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me.
Moisture is turned in the drought of summer. Apparently now he hadn't yet confessed his sin, But the next verse he says, I acknowledge my sin under thee and mine iniquity. Am I not kid? I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, and thou forgave it the iniquity of my sin.
Sorry.
Just going to say while he kept silent, before he had exercised self judgment, he was in a miserable state. But as soon as he confessed that, he had the assurance that the Lord had forgiven him.
To mention in their translation of the Scriptures that word.
In in the word end in verse one.
Having loved his own, which were in the world.
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He loved them. Unto the end we discovered a nice translation of that word.
And its uttermost, uttermost.
Coming across the Atlantic years ago.
I tried to testify to the captain of the boat. He was a very hard boiled Scotsman. He didn't want to believe in anything. And I said captain, tell me one thing.
How far is the east from the West? You're a captain. Tell me how far the East is from the West.
Now, he says I don't want you to be preaching to me, but I said I just asked a simple question.
Tell me how far the East is from the West. Well, of course he couldn't. And I said, you know, that's as far as my sins have been removed so far. Had he removed my transgressions from me that he says, there you go preaching again. And it was interesting because we were off the coast of Africa.
And there's a point there called Sao Paulo justice. The point of a continent, really.
And I said to the captain.
Why don't they put a lighthouse on that place?
He says because there's a vibration there, Smith. He says you can't build a light, a lighthouse there. I said how unfortunate. Well, I said, how deep is the water here, Captain?
He said between 5:00 and 6:00, miles deep. He said, That's where my sins of God. He buried them in the depths of the sea. There you go again. Well, that word, uttermost is really beautiful. He loved the month of the uttermost. Oh, beloved, what a love is this.
And to the antimony immeasurable you can measure it.
As far as the East is from the West so far has been removed and transgressions from what a savior we have.
A way of approaching God here in these attacks, just recalling briefly that we had before us the praise and altar which was by the door of the court of the Tabernacle and the next piece of furniture, the labor. Well, we've noticed these two things. And then when you come to the 14th chapter, you have the Father's house. Very nice to see that. And one has enjoyed.
That in the 14th he is preparing the place for us.
But here he is preparing us for the place and will soon be there.
Claim Once we were mentioning that the first thing that the Jew saw when he came to the door was the brazen altar.
But what else does he see? The blood?
He recognized that he was a Sinner. The blood was there. That's the first thing he saw. Oh, how solemn that was, remember?
Yeah.
Touching, though, having loved his own.
Stop and meditate upon being his own.
He has special possession in the world, for we're surely in a world of sin, and we have an old nature that loves the world and it's lust. But he says he loved them unto the end. I believe the thought of the end here is not merely the thought that.
Of the end of the journey. But he loves his own through all the dangers and trials and temptations that nothing ever chills the love of his heart towards them.
Loves us on through everything in connection with the perilous journey that we're taking to this lost world.
Four or five months.
The difference between the restoration, which has already been mentioned, and the cleansing from defilement that this chapter takes up.
Is there a shade of difference between?
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Restoration where Phaedra has come in, and cleansing from the filament that our chapter takes up here.
Dad at Brother Thomas now they define under Christian.
In his getting depiled on his journey through this world, Well, if you take what the Lord says to Peter.
Peter objected to the Lord Washington speech.
And the Lord said, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part not in me, but with me.
It's a matter of broken communion and restoration to fellowship.
And so the the Lord washed the disciples feet, and when Peter said not my feet only, but also my head and my hands, it was as much as saying I want you to wash me all over.
Well, that would be a new birther regeneration. So that's why the Lord says he That is faith. There are two words that I understand.
He that his bees needeth, not saved to wash his feet. The illustration is so simple that we all can.
Class, but young and old that when one has.
Taken a dip in the river or the lake and you come out.
Grain from head to foot. As soon as you step on the shore, immediately you pick up the sand or the dust, and your feet are departed. Well, you don't. You're it's not necessary to go out for another bath at all that's necessary is to wash your feet so the Lord makes it very clear that you're that we're clean every whip.
The blood of Jesus Christ has cleansed us from all sins. Although the subject of the blood of Christ doesn't enter into the 13th of John, it's more the subject of moral cleansing and there is a more cleansing in connection with new birth.
So that now we continually need the basin and the pitcher.
I don't know if I answered your question, brother Tom.
In the Old Testament, there was the contracted pilot, which was not necessarily.
A transgression on the part of the Jew, but coming in contact with that which was unclean.
The Jew was depiled and I think this is Brother Thomas.
Mind the connection with this chapter. The practical lesson for us is that as we walk through this world, while we might not necessarily fall into sin, we nevertheless get defiled, and we need the application of the water of the word to be cleansed. So how important is that, that we are in the world that we read the word? That we go to the meetings where the word is presented?
So as to.
Have this application of the water as a counteraction of that which decides us as we rub elbows with the world from day-to-day.
But the Lord said, Am IA, Lord a master? Wash your feet. Ye ought also to wash one another's feet. Well, the Lord could say his disciples in the 15th chapter. Now are you clean through the word which I have spoken unto you?
And the 119 salmon says wherewithal, till a young man fend his ways, but by taking heed thereto to thy word.
I believe it was Mr. Darby that made this comment. To watch one another's feet. It would be to bring the word of Christ before the heart in the communion and gentleness of Christ.
To wash one another's feet. You know, our feet are very sensitive to someone else's touch, and it's quite easy to wash one another's feet. What can we do it without offending? Can we do it in law? It was love that led the Lord wash their feet, was it not? And I believe that we're living in days when each one of us, young and old alike, we do get defiled by the things around us.
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One of the things that we see by the things that we hear, oh, how we need the work.
If we.
Haste.
I think it's 200.