Address—A. Barry
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Thy love we own, Lord Jesus. For though thy toils are ended, thy tender heart does take its part. With those thy grace befriended thy sympathy. How precious thou sufferest in sorrow, and bid this cheer while pilgrims here, and haste the hopeful morals thy love we own, Lord Jesus.
Thy way is traced before thee, the 167.
Their love will.
Grow.
In the beginning.
Let us turn to the 13th chapter of John.
Now before the beast of the Passover.
When Jesus knew that his hour was come, that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own, which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariots Simon's son, to betray him.
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands.
And that he was come from God, and went to God, He rises from supper, and laid aside his garments, and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poured water into a basin, and began to voice the disciples feet, and to wipe them with a towel, wherewith he was girded. Then cometh he to Simon Peter.
And Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know Hereafter Peter said unto him,
Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
Simon Peter sat on the unto him, Lord.
Not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.
Jesus said to him, he that is white needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whip. And you are clean but not all. For he knew who should betray him, Therefore, said he, he are not all clean.
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 to you? Ye call me master and Lord, And he say, well, for so I am. If I then your Lord and master have washed your feet, he also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, the servant.
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Is not greater than the Lord, neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
If he know these things, happy are ye if he do them.
I speak not of you all. I know whom I have chosen, but that the Scripture may be fulfilled. He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. Now I tell you before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, he may believe that I am he.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I sinned, receiveth me.
And he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake. Now there was leaning on Jesus bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter, therefore beckoned to him.
That he should ask who it should be, of whom he spake, he then lying on Jesus breath, said unto him, Lord, who is it? Jesus answered, He It is to whom I forgive us, Stop when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped us up, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, and after the soft Satan entered into him.
Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest do quickly.
An old man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him. For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him by those things that we have need of against the feast.
Or that he should give something to the poor. He then, having received the soft, went immediately out, and it was night.
In our reading meeting yesterday.
I called attention to.
That word home, we found it in the 10th chapter, where the Lord says that he put us forth his own sheep, and he goeth before them, and the sheep following.
And though I mentioned this in connection with.
What we have in the 13th chapter, I believe it's worth repeating, for the Lord here says It tells us of the Lord that having loved his own.
Which were in the world He loved them unto the end.
What volume is that word own speaks to our hearts. He doesn't say his disciples. He doesn't speak of his apostles here, his children or his brother, but his old.
You know there's.
A desire with.
Everyone here to have in position what he can call his own.
It belongs to.
Our human desires and thoughts no one can speak of. His own wife, his own children, his own home, Things that we delight in and take pleasure in.
Without thought that belongs to me.
But when we consider Beloved the Lord's thoughts here in connection with those that were so dear to Him, it goes far deeper than any thought of what we possess ourselves because those that were dear to Him.
He purchased or on this occasion.
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Was about to purchase at infinite costs.
Say that lay hold of our hearts and affections.
That we belong to Christ.
And his interest and his desires and thoughts about us are in connection.
Where that word his own.
It says his own which were in the world.
The Lord was about to go back to the Father, and he knew what this poor world surely was, the world that hated him and was about to crucify Him, and he was leaving those.
So near to him, so precious to his heart in a scene like this.
His own which were in the world.
And beloved, all those centuries have rolled by. It's the same world that we live in today. But thank God there is one in the glory now.
Who owns us in the same precious way as we find Him owning those disciples that pass overnight?
As his own, which were in the world.
Just to think, the Lord looking down on a company like this saying.
There are my old they belong to me.
I have purchased them at the cost of the blood which I shed at Calvary's Cross.
Well, we find that the Lord is going back to the Father here, and He is preparing his own for.
Their departure, which was before him and you notice it says.
Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he was come from God and went to God.
It was his going back to that bright scene above that introduces this marvelous, instructive chapter as to the Lord washing the feet of the disciples.
I'm sure that we all are agreed in this thought that.
Restoration of soul is the prominent thought all through the portion.
Just as you get in the 23rd Psalm, he restoreth my soul, so that was spoken by David long before the Lord came and died on the cross.
And went back to glory.
So God's people have always.
Then in the need of that which restores and brings them back into communion. So like in a couple, they might walk with God.
In a scene like this, but when we consider beloved that the Lord is taking his place on high and identifying his own with that scene into which he is.
Now entered the restoration that is before us here bears a special and very important character. That is, the Lord would have us in communion with that scene into which He has entered where He is now, waiting till the moment comes when we will receive us to Himself.
And that cloudless sea of glory above. Now the Lord would have us in communion with that scene. And that's why I believe it opens with the truth of his having come from the Father and his going back to the Father.
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You notice it says here, Having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
What does that end refer to?
Oh, I'm sure it refers to the end of our sojourn in the sea.
And though where we have failed much and we have sorely.
Broad reproach on the name of that one.
In whose presence we meet?
Yet.
His love will not cease.
Until He has us up there in that bright and blessed sea where sin can never come.
All the end is to the journey, beloved.
And his love goes right on through all the dangers.
Through all the difficulties.
Trials, disappointments and sorrows of the way that love goes right on.
Until we reach the end and.
We're in his presence in that glory above.
We have something that jars as it were on the.
Preciousness of this occasion for it says.
Satan having put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him. It was solemn lessons.
And there are things that we find beloved sufficient to solemnize our hearts, even though it may, and is an occasion of profit and blessings.
Our souls.
There are things that may well solemnize our hearts.
For when we consider.
What these hearts of ours are capable of Just think Satan put it in the heart.
Of one lovely 12 apostles.
To our betrayal, his Lord and master.
And that.
Was how deep.
Sorrow to the heart of that blessed one. But oh how the Lord arises above evenly things that grieved his loving heart at this time.
The chapters beginning with the 13th chapter.
On through the 17th chapter of John have often been called the Upper Room Ministry.
And it's one of the most precious, blessed portions of the word of God.
You know John's Gospel differs from the other gospels.
And in one way that in the other gospel.
Find the Lord instructing His disciples all through His ministry, sending them out, and so on.
But in John the Lord up till the 13th chapter is more out.
With the swirl that was.
Rejecting him. But after his testimony to this world is over, he closes his ministry.
Alone with his disciples.
And what touches?
I'm sure your heart as well as mine, how the Lord, although his sorrows were so near, how he, his interest, and his words are all for comfort and for the establishment of those that he calls his own.
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Wonderful, isn't it? Once in a while, you know the sorrows seem to.
Almost overwhelming Brown in the preceding chapter. He says Now is my soul troubled, but immediately rises above it.
For our precious beloved to get this ministry from the heart of Christ, just before he went to the cross to bear our load of sin and to see how His.
Factions is interest rise above his own sorrows.
So that he can enter into our sorrows and prepare us for every trial that we shall ever pass through in this dark scene.
So we're told that he rises from supper and laid aside his garment and took a towel and girded himself.
After that, he poured water into a basin and began to voice.
The disciples feet, though those little details strike us.
The Lord didn't have a valet to gird him, girds himself after laying aside his garments, everything that would speak of what is official or would be of.
Distinction or honoring As a man he lays out all aside, in order that he may get down to the feet of his disciples.
And it tells us here that he began to watch the disciples feet.
It never tells us that he has ceased to wash.
The feet of his own, and the love of the very fact that you and I are here this afternoon, is a proof of that very statement that he began a work that he is carried on for in the glory he is carrying on that work just as truly, just as perfectly, just as wonderfully.
As he washed the disciples feet there in that upper room at the Passover.
You know the foot washing was.
The service of a slave.
Nor the Lord reproached, Simon the Pharisee, thou gave us me no water for my feet.
He doesn't consider the Lord isn't worthy of the common courtesies of his day.
His little heart, perhaps for us to.
Put ourselves in the circumstances of those with Our Lord. They didn't travel on paved roads or walk on.
On concrete sidewalks they walk through.
Dirty roads and paths. So it was a very real need and the need that.
No one would, naturally.
Desire to exercise, to get down and wash.
The Dirty feet of the disciples.
But how wonderful beloved our Lord, teaching us of His precious service, to see Him there at the feet of His disciples.
Where the basin and the towel to wash their feet.
You know the water area is a picture of the word of God and.
We get in who might just turn to it, to Ephesians.
5.
The 25th verse, the middle of the verse. Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify it and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word.
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The Word of God.
That's what the Lord uses. And beloved, if we are out of communion, it's this priceless book that he will use.
To.
Restore us to communion again.
I remember when I was a boy attending a we called it a conference, but it was a very small conference compared to what you're enjoying. Here were several hundred are together, just a very few. But Brother Heaney was with us.
And I only remember one expression that he he gave in that conference.
He was talking on this chapter and when he got to the Lord using the towel, he said that the water was grace, but the towel was grace upon grace.
Oh, how lovely that is, beloved. The Lord, in his wondrous way, uses the Word to lay barely sad failures.
Of our disobedience it is not very pleasant, you know, to have everything exposed and to.
Go into those things that are so truly wrong, but he not only.
Uses the word, but he uses the towel, leaving us so that we can be at ease and comfortable in his presence.
Then there cometh he to Simon Peter, and Peter set unto him, Lord.
Dost thou wash my feet?
Or plea Peter thought that he was superior to any such need as that, and then to see his Blessed Lord humbling himself, and there before him to perform this service.
Was a deep trial Peter's heart.
You know Peter wanted to see the Lord. He loved the Lord. He wanted to see the Lord always in the highest place of esteem and importance. On another occasion we see the same air when.
In the 16th of Matthew, when the Lord was telling how he was to be spit upon and how he was to be betrayed and crucified.
Oh, Peter couldn't bear the thought of seeing his Lord insulted in such a way as that, he says. Be it far from the Lord.
Well, the Lord had to rebuke him in a very stern way. And get thee behind me, Satan.
There's a word there. So again, Peter wanted to see his Lord.
In a place of dignity and honor, not in the place that he had taken at the feet of his disciples.
And beloved, I am sure that.
If we laid hold of this.
More in our souls.
That in order that we might be restored when we have got out of communion.
There's there's nothing short of the humiliation of the Lord Jesus that could ever accomplish that workforce.
Don't you feel, beloved, if we had that more before us that it took the humiliation of the Lord Jesus to save us and then to restore us, that we'd be more careful and watchful of our walking ways.
Well, while a statement of Peters, thou shalt never wash my feet.
That gracious that the Lord doesn't always take us at what we we say if Peter had been taken for his.
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Wrong statement. It would have been the end of Peter's life as a Christian.
But the Lord is very gracious. Or we don't realize, beloved, how gracious our Blessed Lord really is, and going on with us through this scene of where we so often.
Slight in man, and dishonor his name.
Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now?
But thou shalt know hereafter those words were said to Simon Peter. What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter, and it was not very long.
Before Peter was to learn.
In a very practical or very sad way, the meaning of his Lord's words.
For in this very chapter, the Lord tells Peter that the Cox would not crawl before he'd deny him thrice.
And then when Peter?
Has gone on in self-confidence. self-confidence always leads to a fall. You know beloved Peter's no different from the rest of us. We have self-confidence controlling our ways. We're headed towards that and dismal fall.
Well, in the and the High Priest house.
When Peter has denied his Lord, he turned and looked at him.
Oh, what I looked. That must have been for it broke Peter's heart. I'm sure that that look told Peter that he was forgiven, but still he wasn't restored.
And it was after the Lord had suffered for those various sins of Peters on the cross, you know.
Now the Lord had risen triumphant over all the power of sin, that he sends a message. Go tell my disciples and Peter.
Form that must have touched Peters heart, that the Lord still loved him, although his has dishonor to him had been so sad.
We read this morning about the Lord.
With those two.
On the way to Emmaus.
And you know, he was made known to them in the breaking of bread, and immediately he disappeared. Brother Wolsten thinks that after those two started back to Jerusalem, the Lord's next service was to restore Peter. For we find that when they reached Jerusalem, they found 11 gathered together, saying the Lord is risen indeed.
And hath appeared unto Simon.
There they were together, mourning and weeping over the loss of their master. And in comes Peter.
With this word, the Lord is risen indeed.
All beloved, what a precious lesson in that, that as soon as Peter is restored in his soul, he goes right to his brother, and I believe that that is.
One of the effects.
Of the soul's restoration that we want to be with our president. We want to be right with our brethren. We want to be happy with our brethren. We want to go on in fellowship with our brethren. So Peter can't get back fast enough to his brethren again. But still there were roots that had not even then been judged. So Peter goes back to his old occupation.
The Lord had said, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men, and he had forsaken his net and his occupation to follow Christ. Now he's going back to the old life there on the Sea of Galilee.
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With all the lovely way, the Lord follows them to that place where.
He has. He see he has.
Departure.
And we might call attention to this, for it's a familiar subject, I'm sure, for us all, that before the Lord restores Peter, he warms and feeds him, and then when he's comfortable, then the Lord probes his conscience with these words.
Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?
No, Peter Bose was the old man shall forsake thee, yet will I never forsake thee. That was the root of the cause of Peter's failure, and the Lord has to probe the root in order to bring about a full restoration of soul.
And when Peter so humbled that he says, Lord, thou knowest all things.
Thou knowest that I love thee. It was just as though Peter said, I know, Lord, that no one else can see any love in my heart for you, but you know that I love you. And when Peter had got to that place where he was willing to admit that the Lord was the only one that could recognize that there was love in his heart for his Lord, after he had so sadly.
Have denied him. Then the Lord can say Peter, someday you're going to go into prison and death for me.
You know the Lord has nothing to offer his own down here in this scene but the the shame and the cross and the and the rejection that He had in this world. When Peter and when James and John would have sat or asked the Lord, they might sit at his right hand and his left hand the Lord told that wasn't his to give.
But he would give them a share in his rejection.
All the love that there is nothing so precious as we go on through this scene to be among those that are sharing the rejection of our blessed Lord. It costs something. It costs a lot to be a testimony for Christ in your school life, young folks.
At your In your office, among your neighbors.
To speak for Christ and to let those that you have to do with know that that you're standing in testimony, or that blessed man that this world has cast out and rejected.
You notice that Jesus?
In reply to Peter.
He says, and rather in the ninth verse.
Peter said unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. For Peter had just uh, Or Jesus had just said, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. Now notice carefully it doesn't say no part in me.
That would be like.
Where Judas, he had no part in Christ. He wasn't a believer at all.
But no part with me speaks about communion.
And we can have no part with our blessed Lord apart from this service that he so graciously and so humbly carries on in behalf of his own. Well Peter so loved the Lord to think of having no part with that blessed one.
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That he makes another mistake.
He says, the Lord not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. In other words, Peter wanted to have a bath all over. If it was necessary to wash his feet, why not give him a complete cleansing from head to foot?
And that brings out a most practical and important subject for Jesus, said he that is oysters really the correct word is bathed needeth not saved to wash his feet, but is clean every whip.
You see the bath or the washing all over is what we see a new birth.
The washing of regeneration as we get in Titus Three and the renewing of the Holy Ghost.
Oh you dear friends here, if you have really from your heart, accepted Christ as your savior.
There's something has taken place.
Which has given you a new life and a new nature.
You're you're born again, and as we read in the third chapter of John, born of water and of the Spirit.
So when a verse of Scripture reaches your conscience.
They were The Spirit of God applies that word in such a way to your soul that a new life begins.
We were just speaking about the Lord using the water to voice the disciples feet.
And the same word that has been used for our salvation is the same word that's used.
For our restoration.
The same power of the spirit of God, too. I remember when I was a young man, I got in company one Saturday afternoon with some of my schoolmates and I went along with them and they were using coarse language and profanity, and I tried to be one of the crowds that afternoon.
That night when I went to bed, a scripture came to my mind, and it's in the first Psalm. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. There standeth a way of sinners and her citizen, the seat of the scornful. And I said to myself, that's exactly what I've been doing today. I've been walking in the council of the ungodly and sitting in the seat of the scornful.
Well, God used that word to cleanse me from going on with those companions. I want to tell you that one of those young men afterwards killed a man so you can see what kind of company I was in.
And how the Word of God can use that scripture. But suppose I hadn't been in a home or hadn't read the word for myself. You think I would have had that first that the Spirit of God could use?
That's why, dear friends, it's so important to daily read the word of God. Because you lay up a storehouse that the spirit of God can use when the time of need for your soul.
Has.
Has been brought about.
So we can't read the word too much.
Don't let a day go by, dear young man. I just enjoyed seeing so many young brothers here remembering the Lord this morning. May the Lord keep each one and dear young sisters as well, but store your minds with the word of God.
And then you have a provision that God's Holy Spirit can make use of in times of greatest need in your life.
Our Princess, That word to her.
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Clean every whip. As we sometimes sing, clean every whip. Thou says that Lord, should one suspicion alert, thine, surely is a faithful word.
And thine of finished work well when speaking about our.
Our needs as believers, we can rejoice in this, beloved.
That the famous believer of the Lord Jesus, the one who just accepted him yesterday or even today.
Is just as fit a subject for heaven as the most devoted godly brother that has walked.
And with Christ for 50 years, clean every whipped.
You are clean. Every whip says the Lord to his disciples, but not all All he thought of Judas that betrayer. Or if we love a trends in a crowd like this, there may be those listening to my voice that have never really from the heart accepted Christ.
As a personal savior that have never seen their lost conditions, never really been in the presence of God about their guilt and their need, And if there be such here, may this be the occasion when this all important matter is settled between your soul and a holy God, put your trust in that precious Savior.
Who died there at Calvary? Who shed his precious blood? That your sins might be forever put out of God's sight. And when you have from your heart accepted him as the one that died on the cross to redeem you, then you can know that you're clean every whip.
So after he had washed their feet and taken his garments.
Was sat down again. Then the Lord begins again to instruct His disciples.
And I believe, beloved, that this subject takes in.
More than.
Than the restoration that is so important, and I believe the the important subject of the whole chapter, the Lord restoring his own washing their feet. You know it's been illustrated in this way.
That when you take a plunge in lake or river you come out perfectly clean but as soon as you step on the shore whether it's.
Hamad or whether it's sand, immediately your feet pick up the the farm well. You don't need to go back to get the complete cleansing. What you need then is to have your feet.
Plans. And so in some of these bath houses, maybe most of the bath houses they have, they have.
A provision for that, where you can wash your feet when you dress so that you come out perfectly clean. So as soon as we're saved, as we have said, we're clean every whip, but oh, how easy it is to.
To become defiled in our walk and ways.
We are passing through a world of definement, where there is everything evil and corrupt and dishonouring to the name of the Lord, and so we.
We get defiled in our souls.
And then we have the Lord as our Advocate. And I believe in this chapter that the the Lord has looked at specially as the Advocate. As the High Priest, He is serving us to keep us from failure. But as they advocate, He is serving us to restore us when we're out of communion.
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You know in speaking about the advocacy of Christ, which you find in the second chapter.
Of the first epistle of John, the ninth verse of the first chapter you get if we confess our sins. He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Now that is the fruit, the result of the advocacy of Christ.
When we are brought to our knees and see that we have failed, it's because that service on high has been going on and then we're brought to our knees and we confess the failure.
But I believe that we see in this service that keeps us in the pathway all down through this scene through which we are passing, for the Lord would have us walking in a clean path.
And so he is. He is instructing us, warning us.
To keep us from any turning aside in any way whatever.
Someone has spoken in this subject in this way.
About having your feet in the Masters hands, you know Peter didn't want to have his feet in the masters.
He shrank from that, and there may be with US1 and all are shrinking.
From having our feet in the master's hand.
There is a always the danger.
Of following the Lord like Peter, did you know, which led to his fall afar off?
To get into a state of soul where we prefer not to be going on in in any way near the Lord, but kind of a careless.
Indifferent, sort of a way, as someone spoke of a brother, he said.
His state is that he doesn't want anyone to get too near him.
And I suppose that's the same is true as to his attitude towards the Lord. He doesn't want to be too near the Lord.
Oh, how dangerous that state of soul is, beloved, to be going on and be satisfied and content to be in a state of indifference.
Your young sister said she didn't want anyone to suggest that she got down before the Lord. She'd rather go on in a careless way.
And to get down and get into the Lord's presence, well, the Lord wants our company, beloved. He's going to have us with him and like him for all eternity, but he desires our companionship along the way, for this world is a scene of heartache and sadness to his heart. Just to think of the awful condition this poor world is in and all the comfort He has in this scene of his marvelous creation.
Evolves in connection with those that love him and seek to walk in his ways.
I believe we have in.
John, one who was indeed like the expression I I mentioned.
One whose feet were in the master's hand.
You know, John was known to the high priest. When he went out and brought Peter in, he went boldly and although he was known and at the risk of his life.
So we don't get.
John failing in the way that Peter failed, although at one time sad to say, because there is none of us, that the pop has in some way grieve the heart of our blessed Lord. They all forsook him at one time, you know. But all at the cross we find John standing by his by his blessed Lord.
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So that the Savior could commit his dear mother to the cure of that disciples open up as a disciple whom Jesus loved.
Well, we find that.
In the 21St verse, when Jesus had thus said he was troubled in spirit, and testified, verily, verily, I say unto you that one of you shall betray me, It wasn't merely that he was to be betrayed, so long and sad as that word, and that Judas was to be.
The traitor about that one of that group had gone along with him was to be.
The betrayer of his blessed Lord, one of you shall betray him.
All the Lord was troubled at that very thought.
Well, we're told that now there was leaning on Jesus bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, Simon Peter, therefore beckoned to him that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake. He then lying on Jesus breath, said unto him, Lord, who is it?
You see the one who?
Alone had the mind of Christ. At that moment when the heart of Christ with his disciples was distressed, was the one who was leaning on Jesus bosom. Peter had to ask John. He doesn't know he couldn't get the word from Christ.
Well, that speaks to our hearts, beloved of communion.
The one who was in communion.
Gains the mind of Christ himself and the only one who could have the mind of Christ.
You may, beloved friends, read the synopsis from cover to cover. You may read all of Bella's books, all the other excellent ministry we have, and which I would thoroughly encourage you to read.
But I can carry this that that in itself will not keep you from being LED astray, the thing that's going to keep our hearts beloved in these days of departure and in the Clinton where the enemy is so active.
Is just what you see in John Nearness to Christ.
Being on the bosom.
A lap blessed one. Now all the disciples have a claim on the bosom of Jesus.
But John took that for himself.
We might say, but it's a difference situation that we find ourselves in at this time. Christ isn't here. We haven't seen him. He's up in the glory, Was another thing for John, who was actually.
In company with his Lord as a man down here.
Ah, the lovers.
There the privilege of being on the bosom of Christ.
Or enjoying that nearness of communion is just as much for us now, and perhaps in a more wonderful, marvelous way than it was when John chose that place where he had where he got the mind of Christ.
Look at the 14th chapter.
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And the 18th were.
The 18th verse, he says I will not leave you comfortless or orphans, I will come to you.
Yet old, while in the world, seeth me no more. But ye see me, because I live, he shall live also.
What does the Lord mean There I will come to you.
He is talking in this portion about the coming of the comforter that was up to abide with them forever.
And now that the Comforter has come.
Oh, think of it, beloved.
John didn't have that experience that you and I can enjoy at this moment, having God, the Holy Spirit, the other Comforter, dwelling in our hearts at this very moment.
They didn't have that, but we have it. And by the power and presence of the Spirit of God, he hasn't left his orphans, but he comes to us so that we can enjoy that very nearness that we are told about here in connection.
With John leaning on Jesus.
Bosom at the Supper. Well, there is much more that we could go into of Beloved in this chapter.
No, we can never exhaust the word of God.
But I feel that perhaps I have given enough for one occasion, enough for our meditation, and perhaps that's the time now to just leave the message and seek the Lord's blessing upon it, that he may keep US1 and all very near to His blessed side because he's coming so soon.
The next event is his voice to be heard in the air and our being caught out of this scene to medium to be forever with him. All beloved are we to be found in the enjoyment of his love going on.
In communion with him, How will it be with us to that moment come, as it will come, as one has said, the moment for which all other moments remain?
When we see his face.
We'll sing number six in the back of the book.
Gracious Lord, my heart is fixed. Sing, I will, and sing of thee, since the cup that justice mixed, thou hast drained drunk and drained drunk for me.
Gracious Lord, my heart is.
All everything in the world.
Hey, Cortana.