Address—E. Tonn
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Greetings began to beloved.
Righteous name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Who himself alone is worthy.
Of armed praise and glory.
Who by Manchester, Greece, that suited you and me?
Remembers that force.
And shall join in his praise for all eternity.
Or delightful thought.
That we have been delivered from the authority of darkness, the Kingdom of darkness translated into the Kingdom of the Son of His love.
All for mercy, no love of God that reached us in our deep need, bound us when we were lost, as long as three take us some out of that horrible pit, set our feet upon it off.
The song in her heart and the praise of our God.
Shall we begin with 107?
Oh Jesus, Lord is joined though by path or shame, and woe for us so we can talk all finished. As I work at home, thou reap us now the fruit and spoil. Exhausted by our God, our blessed saves entered into the very arsenal of a strongman.
Defused his.
Arch weapon, and by death destroying him who had the power of death, that is the devil, and set us free so that we now can sing.
Only had once bound before the crown. Glory now.
See all the stroke, Lordy Now we sing Thy please ours eternal songs please word let alone M 107.1 rather than like to begin at 14.
Lazy.
God we save you. Praise God.
Save There are no flies.
Worthy.
And thy name?
Believe me.
We cry a man like cry on flower.
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Like.
Your name?
Love. Love me, love you.
Know what I was far away from?
So yes, don't tell us.
I was at Los Angeles conference in 19 and 69 and 70. That's a long time ago, isn't it?
And our brother, Paul Jabadon.
Only probably the most in the room, not all.
Add the responsibility for the gospel on the evening.
And I can still hear in my soul the echo of his solemn voice. I've had a sense of responsibility on my soul all day.
And I can certainly tell you, beloved, that in exercising my soul before God.
What could I give to my beloved brother, who so kindly take another evening to come and hear the word? What can I give them that would be of eternal value? I recall another dear servant of Christ, who was given the responsibility just for a few minutes.
At a young people saying.
20 minutes, he said. He prepared. His words were something like this, I thought.
What could I speak about in 20 minutes? He said. The thought came to my soul. I'll speak with Christ. That made an indelible impression on my soul and soul. Beloved, tonight I would seek to speak to you of place and to magnify the blessed man that loved you and loved me, gave himself for me die, that you and I might be eternally blessed.
He made members of his body, members one of another, to wait together for his return. So would you please look with me for a few minutes? The 13th of John.
John, Chapter 13.
There are some very broad principles and a few details. As the Lord leads and enables, we would like to speak of the precious Son of God. Eternal song became a man owned as some in manhood owned as some in resurrection, so that that having gone to the cross as a man raised as a man seated at God's right hand.
As a man coming as a man to receive us unto himself, the human manhood with us for all eternity. What a blessed all and our blessed Savior being a man. Jimmy Wigramus, deported to have said that not the Son of God become a man, be ashamed of the one. But how blessed it is that we can be occupied with one like ourselves, who is holy, harmless.
Undefiled separate from Synergy.
And made higher than the heavens. Such is our blessed Savior, as He sits at the right hand of the majesty on heart, the right hand of strength and power, to bring us all the way through this wilderness unto himself. John chapter 13. Please now before the peace of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come, that he should be part of this world. And with 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 hands, and that he was come from cause, and what to God he rises from supper like aside his garments, and took the towel, and girded himself.
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And after that he poured water into a basin, began to wash his disciples feet, and to wipe them to the towel. Or with his girded then cometh he to Simon Peter. And Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? Jesus answered him, 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 on, thou hast no part with me.
Simon Peter said him again.
Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands, my head, Jesus Heaven. And he does wash. He's not safe. Wash his feet, but it's clean. Everything and ye are clean but not all. Or he knew he should betray him. Therefore he said, you're not all clean.
So after he had washed their feet and had taken his guns and sat down again, he said to them, Know you what I have done to you? You called me master Lord, and you say, well, so I'm so I am dividend. Your Lord and master have washed your feet. Ye also ought to want one another to deeply give an example. He should do this I have done to you. Very, very. I say to you, the servant is not greater than his Lord Ethan, is he?
That's the cent greater than he that sent him. Did he therefore know these things? Happier he if you do them.
I speak not of you all. I know whom I have chosen, but that the Scripture may be fulfilled. Even eateth bread with me hath lifted up his eel against me. Now I tell you, before it comes fast. Before that, when it comes to fast, you may believe that I am he very, very, I say to you, He that perceiveth whomsoever I send, receiveth me. He that receiveth me, receiveth and sent me. When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified and said.
I say to you that one of you shall betray me. Then the disciples looked one to one another, doubting of whom he split. Now there was leaning on Jesus bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
Simon Peter therefore beckoned him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake. And then he then lying on Jesus breast, said unto the Lord, Who is it? Jesus entered he It is with whom I shall give a salt, when I have dipped it.
Q Jesus answered, It is to whom I shall give this up when I have dicted, and when he addicted off, he gave it to Judas's character for some assignment.
And after the stop Satan entered into him, then set Jesus unto him that thou doest do quickly and oh man.
At the table new or what entities speak this to it? Or some of them thought because you just had a bag of Jesus said unto him, by those things that were we have need against the feast, but that he should give something to the poor.
And then having received the stop, he.
He then, having received the soft, went immediately out, and it was night. Therefore when he was going out, Jesus said, Now as a Son of man glorified, and God glorified in him, If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straight away glorify him. Look at children. Get a little while on my with you.
And I said unto you, unto the Jews, whether I go, you cannot come. So now I say to you a new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Unless you, all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.
Peter said unto him, Lord, whether to go spell. Jesus answered him, Whether I go, thou canst not follow me out, thou shalt follow me afterwards. He just said unto him, Lord, why can't I? Why cannot I call it be? Now I lay down my life as I see Jesus answered him, What? I'll lay down my life for my sake, Very, very last name to thee the **** shall not prove till thou has denied me race.
Believe me, you love him.
There is far more than can be taken up.
And a little while together in this 13th chapter, so I'm going to, with the Lords, help take out a few.
Instances that we have read and seek to give to you what the Lord has made very, very precious to my soul. From this chapter I spoke briefly about the Lord Jesus Christ having loved us until the end. I would just like to add to what I said as to that having loved us through all of the hours of darkness, He still loves us unto him that loveth us we get in the first chapter of the Revelation chapter, verse 5, unto Him that loveth us.
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And hath washed us from our sins in his own blood.
We He loved us until the end, and he loves us in the glory. And so the love of the Lord Jesus Christ is that with which the Apostle John by the Holy Spirit would occupy us at the very outset of this very vital chapter in John's Gospel.
Jesus knowing verse three, that the Father had given all things into his hands.
When the Lord Jesus Christ came into this scene and took his place publicly as a servant of God, servant of Jehovah and his baptism, the Holy Spirit having come upon him in the form of a dove, giving us absolute certainty that the Lord Jesus Christ needed no redemption because of his sinless holy character, he.
Was aware that the Father committed all claims unto his hands.
Now as we read of him in First Peter chapter 3.
Having been exalted angels and authorities and powers.
To him. And so we see the Lord Jesus Christ.
Conscious of all things, having been delivered into his hands and aware.
That all things are now.
Put under him now the book of Hebrews tells us that we do not yet see.
All things put under him, but we see Jesus crowned with glory and honor.
Until his enemies He made their footstool of his feet. Chapter 2, verse nine. So the Lord Jesus Christ passed through this scene in the consciousness that all things were his hands, all things had been committed to him of the Father. And does not that magnify his grace? And going on with those wicked Jews that were rejected and cast him out, going on with this poor man's Judas Iscariot, who was himself an imposter?
And a liar and a thief. And so we see the Lord Jesus Christ, conscious of having received all things from the Father, going on in grace and grace with all of that, because he said he came not to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. And this is just a feeling that I have, but I'll pass it on for your meditation and see what you make of it. But I really feel that even Judas.
Until what we read here, when the enemy entered into him, had he in simple faith embraced the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of God, he still could have been saving, but that we we don't like to deal. In hypothesis or what we might say in what might have been in Scripture, we know that the Psalmist prophesied that one would betray the Lord because one brother has said there had to be a Judas, but the Judas Iscariot did not have to be healed.
It could have been any impostor, but Judas, having been in company of the disciples, put himself in a situation as being there, unreal, so that he could be chosen to be the one who would betray the Lord Jesus Christ. So he rises and supper and lays aside his garments and took a town.
And in poured water to basically began to wash the disciples feet.
Well, I have felt this in my own soul and I trust that each one of you can relate to this expression. There are two things we may say without controversy about the basin. One is that it is empty and another is that it was clean.
And all beloved, if you or if I are to be you.
Of the Lord Jesus Christ. To minister Christ to his Saints, we are going to have to be empty vessels. There is no room in God's house for any man save the Lord Jesus Christ. And there is absolute necessity that holiness becomes the House of God forever and all. How we have to hang our head in shame that we are not as pure as we might be if we walk a little more closely.
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With the Lord Jesus Christ, I cannot impress upon my own soul the necessity, as I should, of keeping oneself cure. Paul said to Timothy that he should be an example of the believers in a number of things, one of which was in purity and one of the cleansing elements dear parts of for us is a constant reminder that the Lord Jesus Christ may appear at any moment.
He that hath his hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. If I am conscious of the Lord Jesus Christ momentary return, what is going to be my attitude for all of the defining elements with which I come in contact in this scene? Oh, it's going to be to avoid those so I'll not be found in contact with them when that breasted man appears. I just point up this thought for you for your consideration.
When the wicked servant.
Said in his heart the Lord delayeth his coming.
He began to eat and drink with the drunk and to beat the maid servants and then servants. It is when we lose the expectancy of the Lord Jesus Christ in our soul that he could momentarily return. What happened to the Church of God the arms when they lost the hope of the return of the Lord Jesus Christ? The world came in with the flow like a flood.
And settle down in this scene, Pergamos Price wedding once joined the Grace and brought the world in to its bosom. And so when the hope of the return.
Of the Lord Jesus Christ. So the basin gives us a picture of you and me.
If we're going to be used of Christ to minister himself to one another.
We must be careful as to our conduct and be careful as to our doctrine.
And be pleading for himself and be emptied of self. Oh, how much of self we have to judge. And God grant us grace to judge ourselves. I've often said there is a simple formula for going on in peace with my brethren.
Forgive you, brethren, all you can, and judge yourself.
And what we go?
And that's as simple as that. Forgive your brother, judge yourself and walk with God and there will be peace in the assembly. So we have this basin to remind us of the necessity of personal purity and self abnegation. I have a beautiful little article at home that I wish I could hand out to each of you, The title of which is The Moral Security of the Low Place.
Though I've resisted the proud, God sets himself against the proud.
And he giveth grace to the Lord. So if we're going to be used of God and oh how we do covet those better gifts are being used minister Christ to his beloved people. We need to have that personal purity and that emptiness itself. And of course we see the loving care of the Lord Jesus Christ for his own.
He washed his safety.
Now the Lord said to Peter, what I do now you do not know, but you shall know hereafter. We know there are sects, and Christendom is actually still practiced literal foot washing. But obviously what the Lord says to Peter that you don't know what I'm doing now, but you will know. We remember from the 14th chapter of John and the 16th chapter of John where the Spirit of God is.
Announced as coming that said that when he, the Spirit of Truth is come, he will guide you into all truth that tells us There's believers. That the Epistles are the completion of the revelation of God, the Holy Spirit coming and bringing the Church into existence on the day of Pentecost, giving us the apostles and prophets of the New Testament on which the assembly is built.
There from the apostles and prophets, the Lord Jesus Christ himself, the cornerstone, we have the complete revelation of God, nothing more to be revealed. And when various sects and various so-called prophets come up with novel ideas as new revelation, we can go to Colossians chapter one and verse 25 and see. For it is given unto me to complete the word of God when the apostle went back to Jerusalem.
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In the second chapter of Galatians he said those that seemed to be somewhat added nothing to me. That is to say that the revelation of the gospel and the Church that the Apostle Paul received had nothing added to it by Peter and James and those who were with the Lord while I was here. And so we can be confident that.
Afterwards means simply when the Holy Spirit has come to guide us into all truth, we would understand something above the Lord Jesus Christ meant and refreshing the Saints and the souls.
In the washing of the feet. And I'm going to give you what I have felt in my own soul to be the washing of the feet. It's simply this. It is the ministry of Christ in the new place where he is gone.
By one another to one another, the Spirit of God, taking the precious word of God in you, and ministering Christ to my soul to enable me to pass through this seed with my beloved brethren in fellowship and communion with God, the Lord Jesus Christ, said to Peter In this we've noticed in the chapter that.
When Peter.
Was told, If I washed thee not, thou hast no part with me. It means simply this, Beloved, if the defilement of this scene is not removed by the ministry of Christ through the word of God, we cannot have fellowship with Christ.
So if my matchless grace God has brought you and me together in the Assembly of God, so that every joint of supply functions in that assembly for the building of self building up one of another, then we can minister Christ in the new position where he's gone through the precious word of God by the Spirit.
And so, refresh our souls to enable us to walk through this scene. It's more than priesthood, it's more than advocacy. It does not deal with failure. It deals with the removement, removal of the filament from the contracted bill for this scene just by virtue of being in it, the ministry of Christ to take away those things that were hindered communion. So Peter is told that if we do not, if the Lord Jesus doesn't wash the feet, there can be no heart with him, no fellowship.
No communion with Christ if the defilement of the scene is allowed to remain and that defilement is removed through the ministry of Himself from the glory. You see, the whole position of the Lord Jesus Christ in this so-called upper room discourse is that the work is done, he's gone back to the Father and he is now at the right hand of God and ministering to his own from that place. And so when we speak of Himself.
We the Apostle Paul, says that if a man knew Christ after the flesh, yet henceforth know be him no more, he is not here. What did they say? The angels when they came to the tomb. Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here. He's risen, Christ has gone on high. And there it is where we put the Saints in touch with him, and minister himself in that position where he's gone. So we see that.
If we don't have that cleansing from the word of God, minister to one another of Christ where he is.
There is no fellowship with him. Well, the Lord, Peters then said. You know Peter and his impetuosity, his eagerness to have what the Lord could give him, while he says, not my hand, my feet only, but my hands and my head wash me all over when the Lord says no need for that Peter.
They they're washed, need not save. But they have they that are cleansed, need not have save, their feet washed. And that tells us this, beloved.
Turn to 1St Corinthians chapter 6.
They that are washed need not say have their feet washed either. Cleanse chapter 6 verse.
9.
No ye not.
In righteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God, be not deceived, and there is the list of all these ungodly people or thieves, nor covenants, and versed in or Bronchards and revelers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the king of the law. Now listen and such.
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Were some of you?
That you're washed.
But you're washed.
You are sanctified that you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our bones. What were we when He picked us up?
Centers of the Gentiles, some extortioners, some blasphemers.
Sound worse, such for some of you. And, beloved, if you think for a moment that your heart and mind is not as capable of any of those sins, we need seriously together into the presence of God as of what we were. But such were some of you. But now are you watching? And so we have been washed. We read in Titus that the operation of God is the.
Washing of regeneration.
And renewal by the Holy Spirit, and so that what is enjoined on us in a practical way from the second verse of Romans chapter 12 phenomenon third verse be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind and.
All to memory, a 65 year old memory doesn't work like it once did. I'm sorry chapter 12 and verse 3.
Verse 2. Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is a good and acceptable and perfect by the renewing of your mind. The Holy Spirit is coming into our souls to give us new life, a pure life, a holy life, having therefore received, exceeding great and precious promises, that by these you become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Peter tells us in his first epistle.
And so we have the Lord Jesus Christ telling us he that is washed needeth not saved to wash his feet, but is clean everywhere, and ye are clean.
The Holy Spirit, beginning divine life by the word of God, gives us a divine nature. But ye have the mind of Christ.
But the Apostle Paul tells the Corinthians old things were in bad shape at corn, and you know what they are.
I mean denying that the resurrection is passed and drunkenness and immorality and brother, taking brother to law and one saying I'm appalled these are bad things, but what does he say?
And you have a mind of grace.
Colossians tells us that when Christ who is our life, we have the light of Christ. I am crucified with, Christ falls. As to the Galatians, nevertheless I live yet not I, The Christ liveth in me. And the life that I now live. This life that you and I now are exhibiting to everyone around us, is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ, which we live not.
According to the old man, but in the energy and power of the Newman by the Spirit of God, so that the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, that is, a faith that has the Son of God as its object, enables me to pass this scene now to the honor and glory of God by the mercy and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. So you're clean.
Oh, the perfect wisdom and knowledge of God. Proverbs tell us that there is no wisdom or counsel or understanding against the whole.
And here we see the Lord Jesus Christ exhibiting attributes of God's head as a man and say not all clean. Can you look on your fellow man and read the state of his soul?
Oh, there are indications in my life and yours that give our brethren evidence of what we might be. But how perfect was Judas behavior? Why, he deceived every one of them, even as we noticed he was it was thought that he was going to buy something for the knee of the peace or to give something to the poor. Such an imposter with such perfect behavior, such entering in out related to the life of a disciple that even the disciples himself didn't know of whom the Lord Jesus Christ faith when he said one of you as a betrayer.
And so we see attributes of Godhead in this blessed man, because he was gone. The Jews, the Jews and the John fired were ready to kill him, because he made himself equal to God.
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In saying that God was his father and that he was the Father's son. So we see the blessed man knowing the very betrayer, you're clean, but not all. So after you'd wash their feet and taking the garments and sit down again.
He said no, you know what I've done. So we have talked about what he did and refreshing them and moving the department from them while they were in his seam.
Now verse 14, because this is where we get a practical application. It says it then your Lord and master. If I then your Lord and master, have watched your people, ye also ought to watch one another sleep.
What was the posture of the Lord Jesus Christ as he engaged in this very mundane operation?
He was on his knees before his disciples.
Having taken off the towel with which he was girded, so I have often said beloved, and I wish I could say I have done it. Never fear to bear yourself in humility before your brother.
That him that is least among you, the servant of all the Gentiles lorded over their wars, it shall not be so with you. Of he that shall be greatest among you shall be servant of all. That is how it is amongst us, brethren. And if I do not have grace from God to humble myself before you, and to walk quietly and softly before you, then I will not be able to serve you in the ministry of the word, if I have not served you.
In humility, submitting ourselves one to another. If our Lord and Master has taken that little place at the feet of his disciples, what in the world should become us as those who seek to serve one another?
I've given you an example that you should do as I have done unto you. This is a delightful blessed privilege to go to your brethren and minister Christ through the word to encourage them in the pathway. What does Paul say of Elissa for us? He awe refresh me. There was a foot washing he off refreshment. May God give the House of omniscience mercy.
Reward at his coming long as he sought him out and the office depression now here too. And I want to make mention of this because those of us that have the public responsibility sometimes often relegate our beloved sisters to a place.
That is beneath the dignity that belongs to them in the assembly.
A widow was not to be put on the assembly roll.
Who had not met certain qualifications, one of which was having watched Saints Feet.
Having refreshed the people of Rome, the ministry of ministry, Christ to one another.
Is not exclusive to granted to men. Turn to the Book of Philippians, chapter 4.
9 have been guilty in my own dear wife and thinking.
Florida of her on occasion, as we all have failed in this respect. The Philippians Chapter 4.
Verse 3.
And I am freak thee also true yoke fellow.
Help those women which labored with me in the gospel.
Women who labored with me in the gospel.
Plymouth also, and with other my fellow laborers, whose names are in the book of life.
I'm almost ashamed to tell you this. I've heard ministry of this verse.
That referred to this help in the gospel as going with the apostle to do his laundry.
I reject that category.
Philip had, who was an evangelist, had four daughters who brought the same.
And so we have.
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Dear sisters, I know of one personally who went for years with messages of God's love every week and gave out hundreds of copies of the messages to dear children, and I have no doubt that we will see many precious souls and glory as a result of that faithful testimony.
Stand on the street by the school day, week after week, give out hundreds of the messages of God's love helping in the gospel.
How, then, is that ministry that sometimes only a beloved sister can give? Think of Lydia, the first convert in Europe. You and I, being blessed, belong to that dear woman, as it were, as our mother, because she is the first convert from the gospel of the grace of God going into Europe, from Europe to Britain to North America.
That's of course, how wonderful. So we do not relegate this ministry of Christ in the position that he has gone.
To those of us who have public responsibility.
9 verse 16.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his Lord, neither is he that is he sent greater than he that sent him, If you know these things, happier than you if you do.
Dear brother, whose name I could call and you would recognize, has preceded us into the faith and preceded us to glory, once said, Your salvation does not depend on your obedience.
But your happiness does.
If you know these things, happy are ye. If you do them, oh, how blessed it is. Isn't it to be occupied in the things that we know to be that which pleases our God and Father, that which pleases the Lord happy? Or the point I wanted to express also is that the servant is not greater than his Lord.
I was walking out of the store one night.
And a man that I didn't know too well. I knew he worked in the store with me.
Said to me, How is the world treating you?
And that's one of those rare occasions that the Lord enabled me to speak faithfully.
And I said with animosity I trust.
What he said. I said, when I seek to serve the Lord Jesus Christ, and I fear if the world treats me well, I am not being faithful to him that the world rejected the servant is not greater than his Lord.
We cannot expect.
Good treatment from the world. And I'm sorry to say to you, dear ones, sometimes we do not receive good treatment from our brother, sometimes we make.
A world out of the approval of our brethren, and so we sometimes have to bear.
Lots of things, even from those who are fellow companions.
In this path of suffering here below. But we are in the suffering time. We are not in the reigning time. That's one of the things that the apostle charged the Corinthians.
Uranium is cage. I will let you get rain. You could say, well, he'd be raining too. But this is a suffering time. This is a time when we have to accept the indignities, the injustices, the things that are not right, we suffer them.
And we defer them to that day.
When the Lord Jesus Christ will set it right, He himself did not retaliate. When he suffered, He threatened not, but committed himself to Him, the judges righteously. How long must you endure some of the trials in which you find yourself?
Maybe to a gentleman seat there are little bit of it. Think of this that every trial, every circumstance, that's uncomfortable in this scene for you. Born for his name will receive full recompense in that day. And I think of the judgment seat and that doesn't come out of this, but I just mentioned it in the passing as the captain of our salvation.
Looking over the victorious truth, everybody at that place is a victory. You know none of the wicked will be at the judgment seat of Christ. They appear at the great white throne. And so here is the captain surveying his victorious truths.
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Each one getting the battle rhythm on his chest for display in that day when he will ring and set things right in this scene. Are you aware of dear ones that every morning?
Everything that offends shall be removed from the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. We can, we, we can. We, as He would fall, admonishes. The Thessalonians, prays for them that they should be directed into the patience of the Christ. That is, they should wait in patience and endurance for the setting. Things right here. Behold, as he waits to receive the fruit of the purveyor of his soul, he sees it now and is satisfied. But ah, when he possesses, that's when he will.
Set things right.
Well, we're not above the master, so we don't expect any better treatment than he got. If we do, we'll be disappointed.
And he speaks of Judas not upset about him.
But there is this much I would like to point out about this.
And I think it instructs us in the way that we ourselves should deal with evil. If you read what we did read together, it would appear that it was almost as though the Lord.
Could not bring himself.
To reveal the wickedness of fortunes.
But I get we do get this, that the Lord Jesus couched his words in such a manner as to challenge every heart and conscience. Is it? I, one of you will be pleased on how I feel it in my soul.
No, there is a demon, Nothing of that sort. And how slow we should be. We love it, you and us, in the assembly.
To point out the false.
All we hope have them, and some of them may be really wrong.
But until the wrong becomes wickedness.
We have to bear many things. Love that is divine we get in the 13th and 1St Corinthians endure of all things and parable things. How long must I bear a room that has been done to me?
Well, I think we follow the example of our Lord Jesus Christ here. We be very, very slow to divulge anything of bad behavior of our brethren.
Because it appears that it's like having to pull it out of there, so to speak. And so he puts it in language that would challenge your heart and mind.
Now there's another delightful thought that I would like to pass on here before our time is completely gone.
There was 1 leaning on the bosom of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And he refers to himself as a disciple that Jesus loved.
If the Lord Jesus touched his words as to Judas in such a manner.
As to challenge the conscience of each one present.
In this expression, the disciple whom Jesus loved.
We see the word of God being couched in terms that each one of us, by faith, can apply it to ourselves. Oh, I'm a disciple that Jesus loved.
It's not merely an example of humility on John's fire. It is that it's nice to see humility in another. But it's the word of God being put into language, beloved, that you and I can apply it to ourselves and make it good to our own soul. I'm a disciple. Everyone that you say that I'm a disciple whom Jesus loved. We were speaking today. Or maybe it was last evening about the love of the Lord Jesus the Sinner, and I made the comment to somebody that I had read before.
Not a Sinner in hell that will be there unloved.
The poor rich young ruler, That's kind of the paradox, isn't poor rich young ruler went away.
That Jesus left while he was departed. He loved him So beloved we can say that we are that disciple or a disciple that Jesus loved. I noticed this in reading another translation of this portion. It said of that disciple leaning on The Who is in the bosom of Jesus. And immediately my mind proves John 118 of the Lord Jesus Christ that says who is in the bosom of the Father.
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And so the thought came to me to thrill my soul that we enjoy that same intimate relationship with our blessed Savior that he enjoys with his Father, who is in the bosom of the Father, who is in the bosom of Jesus. All that the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ might be made real in my heart, so that my heart might be attached to Him.
Where we could speak on and on, especially as to the own familiar friend lifting up his heel against him, but I would just like to skip down to the 31St verse after fortune went out and it was met.
Think of it because it was night eternally for that poor man who was an impostor and would betray the Lord Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver. But now this is Son of Man glorified.
Now is the Son of Man glorified? That means simply this, beloved.
The only glory of man is obedience to God. And now here is 1 obedient of the death, the glory of that man displayed in his perfect obedience, and going in obedience to death. And that the author, death of the cross now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him every footstep that the Lord Jesus Christ took in his seed.
The story to go.
Every breath he breathed was glory to God, glorified him in death, He glorified him in life.
And so if the Son of man is obedient to death, he is glorified God, Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. And if that's the case, if the Lord Jesus Christ in obedience with glory, thy God in his death as to sins and sin, says in God will strictly glorify him. If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straight away glorify himself.
Immediately.
After the On the third day, the tomb was opened and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Touch me not, I have not yet ascended into my Father, and your Father, my God and your God. So the Lord Jesus Christ was glorified by God in an added glory to the glory that he had before he came into the scene. He had gone, had glory then. He has now the added glory of a perfect man, having gone in perfect obedience to the death of the cross and been exalted for a work well done. So God the Lord Jesus now has added glory of a Lord man, and he shall be a man for all eternity.
And finally, just remarked as to Peter's failure, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Said that the cop shall not grow unto wowness. Denied me race, but not you have been trouble. Here is Judas Iscariot betraying the Lord Jesus Christ. Here is one of his own, denying that he knew him in the world. He shall have tribulation that nods your heart. Be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. And so we have the delightful privilege of resting solidly in the occupation with the Lord Jesus Christ. In that place that he's gone. We have the precious, priceless privilege.
Of ministering Christ to one another.
So as to enable us to pass through this scene the glory honor of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ. Shall we sing that in 156, I think?
Praise ye the Lord again. Again the Spirit strikes. The Lord touches thee our hearts, in vain we praise. We praise the Lord. Clean every whip, thou saidst it. Lord shall want suspicion. Work thine surely as a faithful word thine. The finished work. 1:56, please.
Appreciate the Lord.
And the Spirit.
Where?
Horses and make me pray.
We pray.
Our hearts in place, me brave.
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Rejoicing.
The word.
Now is bringing our joy.
In there.