Address—R. Bauman
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For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that he through his poverty might be rich. I want to sing #27.
#27 Son of God, thy Father's bosom ever was thy dwelling place, his delight in him, rejoicing one with him in power and grace.
All what wondrous love and mercy thou didst leave, lay thy glory by and for us It's come from heaven as the Lamb of God to die. We'll sing from the second verse on of #27.
Wandering around.
All must praise her.
In the world.
I have that day.
Where everything?
I cry.
When we see.
Our.
Plan What's all the way through the air gun?
Wandering as a homeless stranger in the world by hand had made let's look to God and speak. So look at John's Gospel.
God last night and I just feel like staying in John's Gospel tonight. Well, look at the 8th chapter of John's Gospel.
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That I'm going to read the last verse of the seven and then the first verse of the eighth, more or less to present what's on my heart here about this Blessed One.
And every man went unto his own house.
But Jesus went under the Mount of Olives. You know those two verses are quite striking when you read them together.
Every man went on to his own house. God emphasizes this, you know?
In John 2010, when Peter and John ran to the Sepulchre after hearing from Mary that he's not there, they looked in and afterwards we agreed that the disciples each went on to their own house, their own home. I believe it says their own home in John 1927, when the Lord Jesus on the cross looked at John the Apostle and asked him to take care of his mother.
It says John took her unto his own hope, emphasizing that fact.
You know when the Lord Jesus looked up into that Sycamore tree and saw Zacchaeus up there, he said, Zacchaeus, they taste and come down this day. I must apply this thy house.
He went into Simon's house too. Remember that? Healed his mother and Martha invited him or received Jesus into her own home. I was thinking of Levi too. What does it say? He made the Lord a great feast.
In his old house. Well, we could go on. God emphasizes this. We have a house, We have a home, We have what we need for comfort here. But there was not wherewith for the Lord to lay his head.
You know we have that. I want to read the first chapter of John. Just a verse or two to get the thought. Here in the first chapter of John, verse three, first chapter of John, verse 3, all things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. Verse 10 he was in the world. The world was made by him. The world knew him not. He came under his own and his own.
Received him not.
Sad words, aren't they? When you think about that in Luke 27, we find there wasn't any room for him when he was born.
And there wasn't any room for him either when he died. He was a borrowed too.
You have no place where they came into this world. He had no place when he went out. But how wonderful the grace is. A place for us for eternity and his holy heaven. It's a wonderful truth. But here's the point I want to get at. If we look at Luke 21, Luke 21, and I believe that's the thought we have here, Luke 21.
And it's towards the last of it.
37 Luke 21 verse 37 And in the daytime he Jesus was teaching in the temple, and at night he went out and opposed in the mouth that is called the Mount of Olives. And all the people came early in the morning to hear him in the temple or to hear him he abode in the mount that is called the monobolics.
That's our first verse here. One more verse. Luke Chapter 9. I ought to read it. Luke Chapter 9. In Luke Chapter 9 and verse 58. I believe the Lord brings it in the most clearest sense. Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes.
And birds of the air have nests, but the son of man hath not where to lay his head.
He abode all night in the Mount of Olives and he prayed. Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives. Chapter 8, verse one.
And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him, and he sat down and taught them.
You know we read at Luke 5I think it's verse one. They came to him to hear the word of God.
Marvelous thought when you realize he is the Word. And then in another place in Luke it says he treats the glad tidings to them the gospel. He is the gospel he preached himself. I am the way there is no other gospel. Would have been marvelous to hear him, wouldn't it? Hear him preach the word of God, and hear him preach the glad tidings, the gospel? Well, the people came and sat down, and he sat down and taught them.
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Verse three of the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in a dull tree, and they set her in the midst.
This proof by just what I mentioned for a second, I want to turn to Matthew 23. In Matthew 23 we have them described. I believe the Lord has his worst words for them. It's the religious leaders of that day, the ones that took the lead in the authority, in the things of God. But notice at the end of verse three they say and do not verse five with all their works they do for to be seen of men.
They may prod their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feast, and the chief seats in the synagogue and greetings in the markets, to be called the men, rabbi, Rabbi.
They may prod their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments.
Both of these things were lovely things in Deuteronomy, and in Numbers you find they were to have phylacteries. They were half to have phylacteries along their arm and wrist, their hands and wrist. It was the law in leather. They wore it so they wouldn't forget the word, but now they had such broad ones and enlarged ones that they went up all the way to their shoulders and both arms, showing how holy they were.
And then they they brought their borders of their garments. And you remember, they told them to put borders on your garments, but on the borders and ribbons of blue.
It was to speak that they belonged to the Lord. They were heavenly, they belong. They weren't really of this world, they were his. They were heavenly minded and so they made them broad so people would see them and the blue was very noticeable. This is what they were the religious people who say and do not. And the Lord said, Woe unto you, woe unto you. Well, these are the ones that verse three of chapter 8 that were coming to Jesus with this woman taken in adultery and placing her in this.
Verse four they say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned. What sayeth thou this? They said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.
You know the hardness of the heart of these people. They use the law anyway they wanted for themselves.
You know the Lord says that these Pharisees and scribes and the others that were in the religious positions you do make the word of God is not affected by your traditions and by the way they use the law.
Here they were using the law against this woman and it was the law we could look up back at Luke chapter, Leviticus chapters 20 I believe, where it was given Leviticus chapter 20, but they were using it in a wrong way, Leviticus chapter 20.
Thank.
And verse 510 I believe Leviticus chapter 20, verse 10.
And the man that committed adultery with another man's wife, even he that committed adultery with his wife, neighbors, wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.
Now if you turn the Deuteronomy 22, this is the other part that they're bringing out shooter enemy 22.
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Verse 23 and 24 If a damsel that is a virgin, be betrothed unto a husband and a man Finder of the city, and lie with her, then he shall bring them both out under the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stone, that they die. You notice the way the commandment was given, and the law the adult to her, and the adult to us. We shall bring them both out and stone them.
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But though she was plot in the act, they only brought her all the deceit of their hearts. They only brought the woman before the Lord. And they wanted to tempt him. They wanted to trip him, they wanted to accuse him. They wanted to see what he would say. Is he really that man of compassion and grace and love, or he's going to order her to be stolen? Well, it's wonderful to see how the Lord handles these situations.
In the heart of man is buried in its wickedness and its hatred. At the middle of verse 6 Jesus too, challenged and with his finger wrote on the ground. You notice the last part of that verse is in italics, and it ought not be there.
He knew and wanted them to know that he heard them. He wanted them to know he was going to reach their conscience.
I believe when you read the Lord with his finger, right, it's great. When you read the finger of God, it's judgment. That's what Belshazzar saw, the finger of God, It was judgment. But the Lord here didn't come for judgment. It came for grace. Not to condemn, but that they may be saved. He wrote with his finger. But for them, the same word that saves is a word that's going to judge and convict them.
And so it says he wrote with his finger on the ground. And, you know, many have asked and thought what did he write? Well, we don't go beyond scripture. Some did think, and I read that they felt it was the 10 commandments against them, which could have been. But I think when we're reading something like this, I sort of applied Jeremiah 17. I think this tells us just about what he was writing in Jeremiah.
Chapter 17.
And in verse 13, Jeremiah 1713.
Oh Lord, the hope of Israel, all that for safety shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord.
The fountain of living water. They shall be written in the earth. I believe this is I would feel, but I'm not suppressing it, that he wrote their names on the ground.
I feel they were the ones that should be written in the earth. You know, dust. We were dust. Shall we return but for the grace of God? That's Genesis 314. And in Revelations 8, if you look at it, Revelation chapter 8, we have this thought. I believe this is what the Lord is bringing upon their conscience. Revelation the 8th chapter.
We have in verse one judgment. When he opened the 7th seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Hard to imagine this, isn't it? Absolute silence while the space 1/2 hour. I don't believe any of us have ever experienced a minute of absolute fighting.
Can't do that. Absolute silence. Why? Judgment. Judgment. How awful to think about it And notice that silence was broken in the last verse. 13 words here by 1 Angel flying in the midst of heaven and with a loud voice saying notice woe.
Whoa, whoa. To the inhabiters of the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trauma. Woe to the earth dwellings. I believe that's what we have in Jeremiah here. 17 They that depart from me shall be written in the earth as they forsaken the Lord.
He knew what was in man, so the Lord wrote in our chapter 8, verse six, with his finger on the ground.
I feel it might have been their name to believe that, but he wanted them to know he heard them verse 7 So when they continued asking you, he lifted up himself and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him cast a stone at her.
This is what they needed. Their conscience needed to be here. I want to turn to Romans 2 on this because it's a wonderful body brings into their hearts. In Romans chapter two he that is without sin, let him judge this woman and cast that first stone and and in Romans 2.
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Verse one, Therefore thou art inexcusable. Old man, Whosoever thou art, that judges for, wherein thou judges another, thou condemn us thyself. For thou that judges do with the same things, we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. And thinketh thou this old man that judges them which do such things, and doeth the save that thou shall escape?
The judgment of God, or despises how the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance, but after thy hardness and repentance and heart. Treasure is under thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to every man according to his deeds.
And they continued asking him, and he said he that without sin among you, let him first cast the stone at her. And again he stooped down and wrote on the graph.
You know, it's beautiful the way Scripture is always carried out by the Lord and all his actions, not just signs and wonders and prophecies and who he is, but according to God's mind, always, because he always perfectly performed God's will. Here he stooped down the gate. Why did he do it? But I think we've got that too in Deuteronomy 19, and we can look at it just for a minute. I believe that's the reason.
Deuteronomy 19.
And verse 15 Deuteronomy 19 And verse 15 One witness shall not rise up against the man for any iniquity or for any sin. In any sin that he sinned at the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
This is a principle in the word of God, brother, and we ought to abide by it ourselves always.
You know two witnesses is confident testimony. 3 witnesses is ample testimony. It speaks of not him. It speaks of the holiness and divinity as the President as the proof of God himself. So two or three witnesses are needed here. The Lord is giving the second witness. He's giving the 2nd testimony against them. You notice in the 17th verse of our chapter 8 of John, it is also written in your law.
That's a testimony. That word ought to be witness of two men is true. So we see here the Lord writing the second time. I believe their names again against them, and notice the effect. Now verse nine. They which heard being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even under the last, and Jesus was left alone with the woman.
Standing in the midst.
You know, this is sort of beautiful. He's the only one that temple that didn't have to leave the citizens son of God.
Have to leave.
And she was standing there with nothing to hide. It was all out. She didn't even have to confess. It was clear that she was a Sinner that needed to be saved by praise. And there she was in the midst. I like the expression because it means as though the only one, the preeminent 1, the prominent one. That's this woman now. And Jesus, What a beautiful picture this is.
And you know, unless.
You have that sense of yourself. You can't be saved. You can't say yes, I'm a Sinner. Aren't we all? That is not the same. You have to be like the publican who was in the temple and spoke upon his breast. And he said, God be merciful to me, the Sinner he was in the midst. It was just him as far as he was concerned. And God, Jesus said justified. Unless one is in that position, you can't be saved.
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You can't speak one of them all, the truth of sinners. It has to be you, your sins and your peril, and your way on the way to hell that God will reach out for and you confess it. She was there, and the Lord was there, and the rest were gone. And Jesus had lifted when he lifted up himself and saw none but their wolves. He said under her woman. Where are those on accusers? Hath no man condemned it?
She said. No man, Lord, isn't that lovely? If thou shalt infest with my mouth, Jesus is Lord. But even thy heart God raises from the dead, thou shalt be saved she can.
Festive as Lord. It's wonderful, isn't it, when you admit your need as a Sinner.
And early Jesus as Lord.
Something that's so wonderful this woman is heading for it now. And notice the rest of verse 11, Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more.
It's a beautiful thing. Neither do I condemn these.
I want to just turn to the third chapter of John because This is why he came the first chapter of John and verse 17.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. He did not come to condemn. She was there in a position to be saved. She confessed it all. It was all out.
And she owed him his war, and he said sin no more.
She was saved. The Lord never asked anyone to do anything, but he gives them the power to do it. She had a life that would not sin. Oh, she's not in love with the Spirit of God yet. That couldn't be till after Pentecost. But Brethren, we have that life, and he could say that to us. I want to turn to the first epistle of John just for that verse instead of just saying it. John's first epistle.
And chapter 5. John One, Chapter 5 and if you'll look at verse.
Looking for the verse that says.
We cannot sin was chapter 3. I'm sorry. First John chapter 3, verse 9. Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him. He cannot him because he is born of God. We have a life brethren, that can assist. It's the life of Christ. It can only do one thing and that please Lord.
Do one thing and that's please God, and it's wonderful. We can allow that life to be manifested. We can allow that life to be what governs us till he comes. And that's barely what he's telling her. If he said don't sin no more, He gave her what is needed not to do it. And how wonderful it is to see this woman saved here and now. Notice in verse 12. Then spake Jesus again unto them.
Saved. I am the light of the world, the end of the earth, the light of life. This is what those religious leaders needed. This is what every Sinner in the world needs. The light, because the light manifests what they are, and they needed this. They really couldn't confess like she did, that she was lost and that she needed him and owned him as loyal.
So he said, I'm the light of the world, the light of life. Once again I'll turn to John Three. I want to read this point, but I think this is what happened. The light shined upon them at that moment. And in chapter 3 of John and verse 19. This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil and everyone that doeth evil hateth the light.
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Neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
This is what happened. The Lord cast upon them himself the light of life, the light of the world that manifest. And they needed it. But you know, there's something very sad here now. The carnal mind is at enmity against God. They hate him. And when Jesus revealed himself who he is to these religious leaders, that hatred came out.
It's the carnal crime that's at entity with God. Romans 870 coming out Now notice verse 13. The Pharisees therefore said unto him, The Lord thou bearest. And this word record, by the way, is witness. Truly, I believe J&D would have it that way, but beginning down in verse 18 and on its witness the same word. And I'm going to read it that way.
Witness of thyself Thy witness is not true. It could also be testimony, just because that's the way it ends in this chapter. Thy witness is not true. Verse 14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear witness of myself, yet my witness is true. Well, I know whence I came, and whither I go, But she could not tell when I come, and whither I go.
He judged. After the flesh I judge the man. And yet if I judge by judgment is true. For I'm not alone, but I am the Father which sent me.
They are one, you know. In John chapter 10 verse 30, the Lord said I and the father are one and they took stones to stone him again. That's the final mind. Whenever he revealed himself as the son of God or as deity, they tried to kill him. His hour has not yet come, but they tried to kill him when he said before Abraham was I am, they took stones again to kill him. And this is the same hatred that comes out here.
They're contesting this blessed one. So then he says in verse 18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me. Now we have 2 witnesses. Remember verse 17 is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true. The Lord Jesus is so faithful. He's so wonderful, I often think.
Preach the gospel, and as they go around, the Lord is so wonderful that there's not one going to be at the judgment seat of Christ that says they didn't have an opportunity. He brings out Himself and manifest Himself in creation itself. Psalm 19 very clearly to all creatures, everyone in this world, and He's manifested himself by His precious word, and He has the witness to everyone.
Of who he is. I have yet to find anyone as I go around the world. He doesn't know who Jesus is. They may not know the whole gospel, but they know the way by talking about Jesus, who he is. Wonderful, isn't it what you think about it? He's made himself know he's going to make himself known to these hateful ones of religious leaders now. And he says I'll give you 2 witnesses, the double witness which must be first Jesus himself and then the Father himself.
And it's beautiful to see this. You know, you have it in Corinthians, I think in Second Corinthians chapter 120, all the promises of God are in him. Christ. Yeah. And in him. Amen. Isn't that a wonderful place? That's the two witnesses. All the promises are. And in him. Amen. And oh, how many promises has he made to us, brethren? And they're all true. And yeah. And Amen.
I often think it's as though the Lord Jesus at the right hand of God takes every promise and says yeah, and God says Amen, that's it, 2 witnesses and what we have in Christ. And so he says you have two witnesses and you know that's that is competent testimony according to the test, the Old Testament. And you know two is confident but 10 is testimony.
Is makes 1 individually responsible And I was thinking here he gave the two and now we do look at the 10. If we have time very quickly, how the Lord gives them all 10 witnesses of himself so that they're responsible, they're responsible to God. And I'm going to turn to chapter 5 for the rest of the witnesses as we begin here in chapter 5.
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Verse 32 Now from 32 down to the end we have 5 witnesses. You know the Lord is so wonderful this way. 2 prophets and then the Godhead 3 belt are in the middle. But the one prophet is John the Baptist.
Who was?
Exalted by God, exalted by the Lord Himself.
There was not a prophet like John among those born among women, said John, said the Lord. There's none great, none greater than John. That's the one problem, One example by the Lord. And then the other is Moses, the one exalted by the people. Moses so exalted by the people. And in between we have the works, which is the Spirit of God in activity here, the Father and the Word, which is Christ himself. Let's look at it for a minute.
And there is another verse 32 of chapter 5. There is another that parents witness of me. And I know that the witness he witnesses of me is true. He sent John, and he bear witness. Under the truth will I receive not testimony from man, but these things I say that he might be saved. He was a burning and a shining light, and you were willing for a season to rejoice in his life.
That's the first witness here of these fights, John the Baptist himself.
It's beautiful to see he perfectly performed his mission perfectly. I want to look at chapter one of John again. Chapter one of John again for this. And first of all, verse 6 to 8, verse 6 to 8 there was a man sent from God.
Whose name was John? The same came for a witness to bear witness of the life that all men through him might believe. He was not that light, but he was sent to bear witness of that life. And now if we would just look at verse 27.
He it is who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoes latch it, are not worthy to unloose. These things were done in Bethpower Avara, beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and sayeth behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. This is he of whom I said, after me cometh a man which is preferred before me.
For he was before me, and I knew him not, but that he should be made manifest to Israel. Therefore am I come baptizing with water, and John bear record or witness, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
And I knew him not, but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me.
Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descended, and remaining on him the same is he which baptizes with the Holy Ghost. And I saw and bear witness that this is the Son of God again. The next day after John stood two of his disciples, and looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God back in John five. That's the first witness of the Lord brings out here What a wonderful witness.
You know John was a voice right in the wilderness. John ate locusts and wild honey, and you know they all speak greatly, do they not? The locust tells us that John was a true disciple as the Nazarene of Jesus the Lord.
Locust swaddle. That's a disciple. Locusts have no leader, it says. Visible God controls the locust.
The wind takes the locusts where they go. That's the way it is with one who belongs to the Lord. The Lord controls him, but while honey is very precious, while honey and scripture speaks of enlightenment.
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God had that enlightenment. He could look at that one walking towards him, and he could say the Lamb of God. That's it. So that's the first run of profit and the last one of profit. I should read that next down to verse 45. Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that accuses you Moses, in whom ye trust. For have you believed Moses? You would have believed me.
For he wrote of me. And if you believe not his writings, how shall you believe my words? If you believe Moses, he wrote of me, you would have believed me. You know, I'd like to just turn to Luke 16 for a minute. Luke 16 for a minute. This is a very important principle, and we know from Moses writings we have beautiful types, beautiful pictures.
Of the Lord Jesus Christ in many ways of his life. In in Luke 16 at the end.
Verse 29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophet, Let them hear that. And he said, They father Abraham, But if one went under them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses.
And the prowess? Neither will they we be persuaded, though 1 rose from the dead. This is the second one. Two crowds. 2 men that were witnesses in John. 5 Here it is both. And what did the Lord say in Luke? 24 When he was restoring those disciples and his apostles? He spoke to them.
I better turn to it. Luke 24. I want to say it right It's so beautiful. Luke 24.
And verse 20 Luke 24 And verse 27 And beginning at Moses, and all the problems he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures, the things concerning himself, Moses wrote of me. Notice verse 44.
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Mozart, and in the prophets, and in the sounds concerning me. So first it was John the Baptist, that disciple, of whom Jesus said, there's none other like John the greatest, and Moses, who the people exalted so both.
Witnesses of Jesus.
And now we look at the three others here. Notice in verse 36. But I have greater witness than that of John For the works which the Father has given me to finish, the same works that I do bear witness of me that the Father has sent me. I believe this speaks of the Spirit of God who worked through the Lord Jesus. That's why the only unforgivable or unpardonable sin was blaspheming in the Holy Spirit.
It was the Spirit of God working with Christ here, the Eternal Sonic, and that was a terrible thing if they didn't believe that testimony. So he speaks here of the works, the worst. I think it'd be nice. Just look at John 10 for this John 10 in one verse, I think it's 25.
John 10.
And verse 25. Jesus answered that I told you and you believe not the works that I do in my Father's name. They bear witness of me. It's beautiful to see this. So the first one would be the works that he did through the power of the Spirit of God, right here. The next one was verse 37.
And the Father himself, which has sent me, hath borne witness of me. He has neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. As you have not his word of biting in you for whom he has sent him, he believes not. The Father himself has borne witness of me, said Jesus. So you have the works of the Spirit, and the Father himself is never we read in Matthew.
Chapter 3, verse 17. I believe a buckle to turn to it. But the voice of heaven came out. It was the voice of God. This is my beloved Son.
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Here, here, and on the mount of Transfiguration, the same voice giving the 2nd testimony or witness also by God Himself, the Father of the Son. This is what Jesus is bringing out and how beautiful that is. The Father Himself that sets me has borne witness of me. Now the last is verse 39. It's the Word. Search the scriptures for them. You think you have eternal life.
They are they which witness or testify of me. And we've just mentioned they had the Old Testament Scriptures and we heard what the Lord said in Luke 24 that he spoke to them from those scriptures things concerning himself. How precious it is the faithfulness of the Lord to the loss of this world, the witness that he brings out. And you know, it's beautiful to see that this precious word is what speaks of me, the scriptures themselves.
The Apostle Paul said in Romans 33 seeing so many Gentiles being saved and so many Jews rejecting. And he said what advantage did that you have there? The answer is itself. Every advantage for under them was committed the oracles of God. They had these scriptures that were talking about the witness to the Savior, the witness to the Messiah, the witness to the Son of God himself.
These five, he added. And then as I said, 10 is the number of responsibilities. So we have ten others. I may not have time to go into all of them, but as I mentioned, the Spirit is one who still here as a witness, and I believe it's John 16. And we look at it in a minute to show how he testifies and convicts and convinces. John 16. First I look at verse just for one or two verses, 8:00 and 9:00.
And when he that is the Spirit, the Comforter is calm. He will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment of sin. Because they believe not on me. I could go on. This is the witness of the Spirit that's here right now. And then the 7th would be the science. Oh, how wonderful the witness of the science. And there are so many. Maternity Matthew 12 For this the signs themselves.
That point only to one That's the Son of God. In Matthew 12 we have verse 28, Matthew 1228. I'm sorry I I turned to a mark. I go back.
Mark there, Matthew 1238, Matthew 1238. Then certain of the scribes and the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
You know, I watch, I don't know Bible. I got into goodwill for that purpose. And I was going to mark in the Old Testament all the signs that pointed to Jesus. And I got a little bit discouraged with so many. But I can say this, the Lord in his birth and his life, his death and resurrection, fulfilled every sign in the Old Testament. And they all pointed to him and they asked for a sign. And you know, if we just look for a minute, Isaiah 7 It's sort of beautiful to see how faithful God is in this.
In Isaiah Chapter 7 I'll read this quickly. The Lord spanked under the king and said verse 11 Ask assign of the Lord thy God. Ask it either in the depth or in the height above. Don't. Doesn't matter how hard it is, how deep the sign would be. The Lord would give it. Just ask and the King would not ask verse 30, verse 14. Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign.
Behold, a virgin shall conceive.
And shall call his name Emmanuel, God with us. Well, you know how many signs I could go to in the Old Testament, But here in Matthew 12 They come these religious leaders, and say, we would see a sign from thee. Verse 39 He answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a son, and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of the prophet Joan.
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For as Jonah was 3 days and three nights.
In the whale's belly or the great fish, so shall the son of man be 3 days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, shall condemn it, because they reprinted at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, a greater than Jonah is here. The Queen of the South shall rise up in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon.
And behold, our greater than Solomon is here.
Who could be greater than the prophet Jonah as a testimony in a spying? The one of whom Jonah typified 3 days and three nights in the earth? That's the Lord in his death and resurrection. How beautiful that sign is. The cross is His word for sinners. And who could be greater than the sign or the wisdom I should say of Solomon?
One who gave Solomon that wisdom the wisest man ever lived with Solomon white from here, but Christ. The one Solomon was a type of so we have his glory there. Representatives Solomon and the Lord Jesus and his person, and his work and his word.
Fulfill these signs beautifully. So we have signs. That's the 7th of of the witnesses. And then the 8th is yourself. Sort of nice, isn't it? Yourself. I think it's rather beautiful. Look at first John chapter 5. First John chapter 5 is every believer is a sign and a witness. Now today in chapter 5.
And verse.
10.
He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself, and he that believeth not God hath made him alive because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. You have that witness in yourself. We are walking epistles of Christ known and read of all men. That's a wonderful thought, isn't it? The 8th witness is ourselves. We are heavenly people. We're going to have that new beginning. But it says he said plethora from the Son of God has to witness.
In itself. And there's a beautiful verse there. I'm not going to turn to a John 333. All that have believed on him has set to the seal that God is true for witnesses. I think it's a beautiful thought, isn't it? That's just ambassadors, but epistles of Christ, known in red of all men. But one last verse might be nice upon you as a witness. John 15. I think it is John 15. And this witness is so precious because it's you and I.
The last verse of John 15 speaking to the disciples. And he also shall bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning, or how precious this witness is, have just set to your seal that God is truth. If you believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you set to your seal that God is true. You're the witness. And then the Knights are the apostles themselves. Again first John apostles themselves.
In first John chapter one. This is very lovely to see it and what a witness this is.
A John one verse, one that which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and our hands have handled, of the word of life. For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness.
And show unto you that eternal life which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us. The Apostles bear witness that.
There was an Incarnate dance, humility and humanity. Jesus Christ, the Son of God become male. And notice in the 4th chapter just this precious verse 14 And we have seen and do testify or witness that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. What a witness. This is the apostles themselves. And now I would just mention for this last one with 10 is the Lord Himself.
I must turn back to the 8th chapter of John and verse 25. Eighth chapter John and verse 25.
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Once said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus sayeth unto them.
Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning. I believe JND has it this way altogether that which I said to you from the beginning.
Everything he said was a witness of who he is, the Lord himself, and I just would like to end with the last one. And it's God himself.
Will look back again to 1St John God himself and in first John and and again in chapter 5. I want to just read those verses. This is not the 10th. This is the overall witness of the of the Savior first John and chapter 5.
Already taking the time here.
Verse 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater, for this is the witness of God, which he has testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself, and he that believeth not God has made him a liar, because he believeth not the witness that God gave of his Son. And this is the witness that God has given to us, eternal life.
And this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that she may know that she had eternal life. We have set to our seal that God is true, that wonderful witness of God himself.
And finally, I just mentioned that last thought. We are epistles of Christ, President Logan Red and all that. What a witness the Lord has given to this world, first two, then 10 and finally God himself. And we here as witness of that blessed life, let's say number.
198 #198.
Florida.
And break and make me wrong. I pray. Pray for her.
Holy, holy, holy.
Lord.
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End up going with those other brethren, Mr. Darby answered back. He said don't criticize RC, he said. We talk about the Heavenlies he dwells there.
And you know, we see how a backup was able to raise above these problems and say, speak with like hind speed and he could dwell in high places. And yes, how much greater. Those of us who are now know the Lord and were part of the Church, the Bride of Christ, and receded in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, we should be rejoicing in the Lord. We should be happy, hopefully, when we meet one another. We don't greet one another like the sour looks on our faces, and it looks like we've been baptized in pickle juice.
Juice or something. But then we can have the joy of the Lord that will be ****** in our lives, that we're not controlled by outward circumstances, that we have found a fountain of living waters that can satisfy in the way that all the other broken systems can. And that's the person of the word, Jesus Christ. And may the Lord help us to keep our eyes on him. And the little time is left till he promised to take us to be with himself. And now that we have a little bit of an outline in this book of Habakkuk.
Maybe when you get to glory, one of the persons no doubt you're going to meet there is the prophet Habakkuk. And he may say to you, have you ever read my book? And you can go home tonight and you can read it and see how it goes together a little bit with what we've given tonight. And you can say yes to back if I read your book and I enjoyed it and there was some helpful things for me there that were blessing to my soul, well, all scripture is possible. May the Lord bless that book to us.
Perhaps there are time we've done. We could just close.
A little prayer they intimately associated with the Lord Jesus. Isn't it important that we understand the direction we're in? We can, dear brother.
It may be a gift of God to.