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Exactly our God and Father, that we can have one more meeting, reading Thy precious words and about the Lord Jesus to be together under His teaching and influence. We thank you for the time that we have had here in this meeting, and we thank you for the Saints here who have.
Made everything possible to be comfortable with them.
So all the.
Work they did faithfully for all the guests that have come replace their name. The sawdust open doors like this and we also pray for the people that were here yesterday to hear the gospel and being taught about the thing of the Lord Jesus. We ask I have said as many as thou hast chosen would be.
Touched in their hearts that some got saved, we asked that.
This would be done by the Word of God.
And by the Spirit of God.
Whose influence?
We have all the time we have.
Thy blessing for the time together rest for today. We praise the name the Lord Jesus. Amen. Amen.
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And the flow on the green highest, I think it's finished in the middle of all of us and we're going to create new things in life one second.
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Rise the Lord.
Word will come again, so maybe we should start at verse 15.
Or 14? Excuse me.
Jude to pull up Jude beginning at verse 14.
June 14th, And Enoch also the 7th, from Adam prophesied of these things, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with 10 thousands of his sinks, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all, that our ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed.
And of all their hard speeches, which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
These are murmurers, complainers walking after their own lusts, and their mouths speaketh Gray swelling words, having man's persons in admiration because of advantage. But beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
How that they told you there should be markers in the last time who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves sensual, having not the Spirit, but ye beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.
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Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And of some have compassion making a difference, and others save with fear, following them out of the fire, hating even the government spotted by the flesh now unto Him.
That is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory and exceeding joy. To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.
And birth is uh, 1415 indicate that.
A form of Christianity, though it wouldn't be Christianity, will persist after the Lord comes the same.
To be a future judgment? I think so. It's empty shell.
To Jude, say, similar to that which we get in the ninth verse in respect of Michael the Archangel, I don't think we resent elsewhere in Scripture.
But uh, the the Enoch prophesied these things. Is that something that was revealed direct to Jude?
Which would have been a direct revelation to Enoch. I don't know if any have noticed before but it says here Enoch is the 7th from Adam. If you go back to Genesis chapter 4 you find in the line of Cain that the 7th from Adam was lame who established the world system.
But when you come to the line of the 7th from Adam is Enoch, and in both cases the Spirit of God seems to stop and give a a wider description of those two men, one who was in the line of faith Enoch, and the other who was in the line of Umm of that of Cain. I might mention too that in Hebrews Chapter 11.
It says there in connection with Enoch and verse five that he was translated that he should not see death and was not found.
It's rather unusual that the Spirit of God says he should not see death because.
He died. I shouldn't say he died, but he was caught up to heaven at a reasonably young age. When you consider the others, he could have lived to be 900 years old.
But he didn't. He was taken up to the glory long before that. And the thought has been given that because he prophesied that that the Lord comes with 10,000 of his Saints to execute judgment, he was prophesying against the wickedness in the world at that particular time and that the people were actually plotting to kill him. And so and so the Spirit of God that he wouldn't see death caught him up to the glory.
And of course, they tried to find them and they weren't able to. I just mentioned that in passing. I thought it was rather an interesting thing.
Could I make one more comment or?
A few that we were talking to, uh, here at the conference and they were saying, I think they were mainly young people. They were saying, I hope they spend most of their time looking at verses 20 to the end of the chapter. And I think we have spent quite a bit of time speaking about, can I say, the solemn, umm, events that are taking place around us. But we need to be encouraged, particularly with these verses.
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UH-20 to the end, I just make that comment.
Verses 18 and 19 certainly indicates the.
Type of spirit we have around us.
And the challenge in the verses that you mentioned, Stan, would be?
Are we gonna be different than that?
It's it's astonishing to me.
That the, uh, the Christian system has become so incredibly worldly. Thankfully I don't have lots of interaction, but.
Uh, the interaction that I've noticed is is sometimes very.
Shocking. And, uh, we're gonna be faced with that.
Uh, in the world around us is what is called Christianity.
The Spirit of God still pleads with us to go back to the basics and the reality of what being a Christian is all about.
And to live that way until, uh, I guess, uh.
Thought that the rapture is Nessa mentioned here. But until the Lord comes we have a role, a very important role as the light play.
I was thinking that.
Jude said at the beginning of this book that we are to earnestly contend for the faith. How can we contend for the faith if we're not building ourselves up in the faith? It seems to me that the devil is very, uh, clever today and stealing away our time that we don't spend.
Uh, our time digging into the word like we should, and I think it's very important, isn't it? To, as it says here, to build ourselves up in our most holy faith.
I know it's been said many times, but in these verses that we have verse 20 and 21, we really have 4 anchors, don't we? That can keep us in these last days. Go ahead brother.
Go ahead.
Well, building up ourselves in our most holy faith would bring before us the importance of reading the word of God, doesn't it? And not only reading the word of God individually, but also to make it our habit to get to the, uh, weeknight meetings. I think there's a tendency today, well, to think if we get to the breaking of bread, that's good enough, but we really need the assembly meetings, I believe to.
Umm encourage us and to build this up, uh, as well as the umm, the umm, importance of our private reading at home. The 2nd umm, the second anchor here, of course, is praying in the Holy Ghost and in the day we're living in. It's so important, isn't it, to umm ex to feel our dependence on the Lord to start each day by.
Uh, acknowledging that we're helpless without him. And, uh, we need to spend that time in prayer, uh, alone with the Lord, uh, pouring out our hearts to him. And it's often been said here that we don't pray to the Holy Ghost, do we? We pray in the Holy Ghost. So we want to pray according to the mind of God. And then of course, the third anchor is keeping ourselves in the love of God.
Uh re reminding ourselves how much the Lord loves us. I remember Albert Hale giving an interesting.
Umm, uh, illustration Many years ago he said when he went to work, umm, he used to walk along Beckwith St. in the winter time and he always made sure that in the morning he walked on the West side of the street and in the evening on the way home he walked on the east side.
And he said the reason was that the sun was shining on that side. And, uh, he, he illustrated with the fact that we need to keep ourselves in the love of God, enjoying his love to us. And then, of course, the, uh, fourth anchor is, uh, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ. And it's been often said, hasn't it, that, uh, it will be a real mercy when the Lord catches us out of this world.
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The world is growing so corrupt and evil, it will be a real mercy when we're taken out and so I believe these are 4 anchors that can preserve us in these last days. I'm sure that other brethren have other thoughts on this.
I've heard it mentioned that way too. Uh, you mentioned the both the reading meeting, building ourselves up and praying in the Holy Ghost is referred to as our prayer meeting. Collectively too, as well as individually. We need to come together collectively for prayer as much to pray about.
And then, uh, the third one that you had mentioned, keep yourselves in the love of God reminds us of the breaking of bread on Sunday morning. Where are we brought before, before God and his love so much as on Sunday morning when we remember the cross, what God gave and what the Lord Jesus gave for us dying on the cross and, and we come together to remember him and his death that keeps us in the love of God.
And it should reserve us through the week and of course, looking up, waiting for his return.
And besides all that, all four anchors can be easily related together to the presentation of the Gospel.
Someone has said that what marks this dispensation above every other dispensation is that there is a man in the glory and there is the abiding of the Spirit of God here in this earth.
He indwells every believer and he collectively would seek to gather to the name of the name of the Lord Jesus.
I'd like in connection with the keep yourself and the love of God to think of that verse over in Romans, I think it's chapter 5. It says the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost that is given unto us. And umm, it's, it's he's a guest. He's a divine person that indwells us. And it says grieve not the Spirit of God. And it says quench not the spirit.
And the to leave room for him in our lives it to me it it it it will develops an overflow in our lives. You know, we got the new life which is being born again. But the Spirit of God is the power of the new life and he seeks to direct us to Christ.
And we have the word of God to guide us.
And this epistle with all the warnings that are in it.
Why having verses like this that it closes, it opens and it closes where there's a message to the Saints of God that there's a pathway for the believer right to the end.
And it takes faith to trust the Lord in difficult circumstances, and we need each other in the assembly to help us to go on.
And the prayer meeting is a blessed thing to go to. Sometimes we feel our weakness in connection with.
Where so few in number these days to where to for getting together, But again, I'll quote umm, Ernie Wakefield. He says it's a powerhouse of the, uh, of the assembly and to think of God in heaven as he listens to us.
As we ask him, it's a it's a wonderful thing and he does come in for us.
Both individually and collectively.
And his family.
Brother Lauren, you, you mentioned that, uh, these four anchors are also related to the gospel, but you didn't tell us how.
Well, to me it's, it's pretty obvious, but I will, uh, say what was in my mind at the time. I, I think that, umm, bankers, first of all, it's based on the word of God. The gospel is that's what we have to present. Second of all.
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We want to accompany that with prayer because the power, there's power in prayer and it works effectively in watering the, the seed that's planted towards salvation of souls and the umm, keep yourselves in the love of God. Well, that's a the love of God is a foundation of the Gospels, what we present every time. And when we talked about that being related to the breaking of bread.
Then it brings in all the remembrance of what the Lord has done at, at the cross. And that, of course, is absolutely fundamental to, uh, uh, to the, uh, presentation of the gospel. And we also want to allude, uh, clearly to what comes beyond and the hope that the believer has, the sure and certain hope of a place in glory through believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. So there's four anchors.
It seems like with enough and new age started.
Because those people that all perished in the floods.
They left a bad.
It has smelled about everything.
And now he speaks through enough. Now the Lord speaks through Enoch.
And addressing it.
And these people that now grow up.
So that they don't keep on doing the evil things that they did before the flood.
I think the difference being made is between those who are apostates and those who have been LED astray or affected by the spirit of apostasy.
But unless we're in the right state of soul ourselves.
In connection with the previous verse we won't be able to be of any help, so we have to be in the right state of soul first I think especially in connection with the praying in the Holy Ghost.
Not all prayer is in the Holy Ghost. He hears all our prayers, but we don't necessarily always pray in an intelligent way according to the revealed mind of God.
As the Spirit of God would be ordering things, He hears our prayers. The Spirit of God intercedes. Sometimes we don't know how we should pray, but it's really being in a in a state of soul prayer for watchfulness that's perceiving his mind.
And, uh, in that right state of Seoul, then we can make a difference. We can have a discernment between those who are apostates and those that the Lord might recover being affected by them. Apostates are not given any hope of recovery in Jude. The Lord is going to execute judgment. His unmitigated wrath is going to fall on them. He's going to convince them.
Of their ungodly deeds. But he's not going to convince them to repent. They had opportunity to repent and they didn't. But there are some who are affected by them and it's spiritual discernment, dependence on the Lord. We can discern that difference and be a help to those who there is opportunity for repentance and recovery.
I had a couple of questions similar to add on to what Bernie asked and I'd, I'd like to ask him to kind of tease out some practical application that we can take away from this chapter. And the first question I had was, umm, related to that. We read through the middle of this chapter about the apostates and we've connected those back to those in Hebrews 6 that were once enlightened by the Holy Spirit. Sorry, you're once enlightened tastes of the heavenly gifts from a part taker to the Holy Spirit.
If they fall away, it's almost impossible to renew them again onto repentance.
Seeing as they crucify themselves, the son of God of grass and put him in over shame. So my question is similar to what, uh, brother Stewart just spoke about is we have apostates that are destined for the blackness and darkness forever. And then we have this group of people that have been impacted by their teaching and there's still hope for them. So how do we identify between those two groups? We want to identify the apostates so they can be labeled and identified so they don't lead more astray. And yet we don't want to push out those that have just been corrupted by them. So what are the key differences between the two?
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So one is the discernment that we've just spoken of through the Holy Spirit.
Having the discernment, umm, being able to distinguish. But one of the key things practically, I think is that the apostates, if you go back to verse, uh, verse four of our chapter have actively denied the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. And they're an unbelief. Whereas those that are impacted by their reaching have kind of skipped that part and have fallen into sin. They have not rejected God and denied him. That'd be one way, I guess you could determine between the two. And my other question I had was in relation to 1St 22 and 23.
How do how do you practically bring someone back using compassion? What's that look like And how do you pract practically bring someone back as we haven't Verse 23, saving them with beer, pulling them out of the fire. And let's get the sense in that verse that.
If you wanna contaminate yourself in with the smoke or the fire and you wanna pull them out quickly without contaminating yourself. And before I throw that question over the floor, I have a couple of thoughts on it and I'll look for correction or something to expound on it. So how do we practically use compassion to bring somebody back? And how do we save someone with a fears? And I was thinking of from a compassion standpoint, if you look back at the account of the profit needs and we brought Davidson before him. Umm, Davidson professional. So second annual.
Chapter 12.
David had submitted his Timothashiva yet Uriah Gillespie comes to David and second Samuel chapter 12 and he gives him a story of a rich man and a poor man who had blocked and and sheets. And he tells the story of how the rich man in the end steals from foreman. And David is upset by that story and wants to umm take recompense against the man that has stolen from the poor man. And in verse 7.
Here's how Nathan responds to David. Nathan said to David, thou our command.
So he he gave to David.
I'm parable to bring out David's gill. David responds to that shareable Nathan says, you are that man. And what does David respond to? How does David respond to that first 13 David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord.
And Nathan said, son to David, Lord also has put away thy sin. Maybe that's an example of how you can reach somebody who's in sin with compassion and bring them back. And what's an example of how you might bring someone back with gear? And I was thinking of Jonah when he was sent to Nineveh.
The Attorney. The Book of Jonah.
Chapter 3 again, to get the sense in June that those that are gonna be saved by fear are being plucked out of that fire, that the person plucking them out are not, are not gonna be com contaminated with the sin that they're in.
I was thinking about Jonah when finally UMM came back from fleeing from the Lord and he actually went to the city of Nineveh in verse in chapter 3.
Start reading verse one of Jonah chapter 3. It says the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time saying arise and go into Nineveh that great city and creep onto it the preaching that I did thee so Jonah rose is 1009 of us according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great journey of three days. Sorry, it's an exceeding great city.
A three days journey.
Jonah began to enter into the city, a day's journey and he cried and said yet 40 days and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So what I first note here is that Nintendo is a large city took three days to get across it and Ninva was a very violent country. They did some important things in the eyes of God. We don't see Jonah entering fully into that city. He only went a mile into it. So I might suggest the picture there that we don't need to go into in the depth of someone's sin unless we become contaminated.
Jonas didn't fully enter into Nineveh nor did he yell out a list of the evils that they were doing instead. What did he do? He prompted them with fear he could yelled out cried out yet 40 days and then of us shall be overgrown so we didn't Contana himself with the city. We didn't list their sins he whether the word used fear to pull them back to where they were headed and we read in the rest of the chapter that worked that the continued and God bears on their judgment.
So I guess I'll ask the question again. That's how I would place it. But how do we practically use compassion? How do we practically use fear to save someone from the type of situation that we read out into?
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Call.
Well, the next question and we heard that like, uh, what first came to mind was, uh, the, the man that fell among thieves and the Samaritan went down to where he was and took him to the end. That would be showing compassion and making a difference.
I don't think it's necessarily uh and I don't I'm not disagreeing with spelling everything got acquired just learning with their their apostate or not, but I think having compassion for a fellow manner in a difficult situation and you have the means to help them, whatever it may be.
Well, isn't there a verse that says for those who are spiritual?
To, uh, help these ones in need to go. There's definitely a person that.
Am I right?
Galatians 6 and verse one, brethren of a man, be overtaken in a fault, ye withdraw our spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Spiritual man is one who is habitually in self judgment before God, seeing his own weakness where his own flesh is, and consequently.
Able to help others considering himself because he has the same flesh and so I think the fear.
Perhaps as really the thought saved with fear that I don't fall in a fire.
And uh.
But All in all, I think the main thought to draw from it, we're over in Bermuda a little while back in a reading meeting, have the same verse. Older brother was there named Mr. Smith, Clarence Smith. And uh, he said we need to get down in there and, uh, help him out.
And I said to him, brother, I said, why does it say pull him out and not push him out?
Said, well, if you push them out, you get them hurt, right? Pull them out. Don't leave your elevated place in a wholly separated walk with God.
Pull them up to that place. The Scripture never encourages us to get down in the ditch, but pull them up.
Mr. Garrett renders that first, snatching them out of the fire.
Part of that right state of soul is that the faith we're building ourselves up in is a holy faith.
It's a faith that leads us to a separated walk.
In such activity, if the Lord leads one across our path that we might be able to be a help to in that way, we don't want to ever lose our sense of the awfulness and the blasphemy.
Of the doctrines that those apostates hold and promote, should we find one entangled by those things, that we might be a help to hating even the garment spotted by the flesh?
We might get into a situation like that and tend to, in seeking to be a help, want to water down the true awfulness of what they're involved in. Don't. You'll get dull to it in your own soul.
Save them with fear.
It's a slippery path that they've fallen down into. Don't get on it yourself.
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Hating even that garment spotted by the flesh.
That's helpful. Thank you. I uh.
I had in mind what happened in the book of Ruth.
When?
They go out from the House of bread and praise because there's a famine.
Of the false step.
And there's consequences in that family.
But then it says that Naomi heard that the Lord had visited his people and giving them bread.
I said she went out from where she was and her daughter-in-law with her and there's a process there and one of them goes and one of them stays back.
The end of the chapter. I think this is very moving.
So. So they went. They too went until they came halfway back and called it good enough. Is that what it says? It says they went until they came to Bethlehem.
And it came to pass when they came to Bethlehem that all the city told them, get lost. We don't need your kind of attitude around here. They have enough bitterness in our assembly. Buzz off.
Is that what it says? No, it doesn't, brother. And it says the whole city was moved about them. Is that nice?
I appreciated what you said, Steve, about not compromising God's standards. That's so important. Pull them out, not push them out.
There was marks of Moab on these women, no doubt.
But here it says the whole city was moved about them. I love that.
Reminds me of what the Lord's had in Matthew 9 when it says verse 36. When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them because they fainted and were scattered abroad as sheep, having no shepherd.
That beautiful thing and we don't have time to get into this. So this is a good private study for you young people. Study, umm, what shepherds do in Ezekiel 34.
So helpful.
Bringing back that which was lost, binding up that which is broken, healing that which is sick and so on. There's such a need for that. But like you say, Steve, not compromising or watering down or giving up God's standard, but to go alongside one that has fallen off, if you will, and have that compassion. So I don't want to take all the time, but I, I found what was said here to be very helpful.
We only have a few minutes, Can someone give us something on verse 24 and five?
I was just gonna make the comments, umm, connecting verse 14 and 15 with verse 24 and 25, and at the end of verse 14 it says, behold, the Lord comes with 10 thousands of his Saints.
And we see that. And then it goes on to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds, and so on.
And so the Lord is coming back and he's looking at a verse in two Timothy chapter 4 and verse 8. There's several other area verses that talk about the Lord coming with his Saints. That's coming with you and I. So this coming here is not the Lord's coming at the rapture, but it's his coming with his Saints when he comes back with his Saints and in in, uh.
OK, let's read verse 8.
Of Two Timothy 4 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but to all them that love.
And so I believe these verses in verse fourteen of our chapter in Jude to be the appearing of the Lord Jesus and the looking forward. Are we looking forward to that day? Do we love that day when the Lord is going to come back and to take his rightful place as a king? And we can say as it says in verse 25.
To the only wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power.
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Both now and ever. And so it's a it's a joy to think of that day when the Lord Jesus is going to take his rightful place that belongs to him.
That's nice, Tim. I'd never connected that to the, uh, appearing. It's it's.
Good translation doesn't have falling but stumbling to keep you from stumbling.
You know the path for the believer is seen here, that it's possible to walk all the way till the Lord comes without one stumble.
Without one.
He's able.
We get off and out of dependence on him. We might tumble, but you know he's able.
He has provision for the pathway to bring us all the way home without one stumble.
Would any other path be worthy of him? Who's called us? No.
No.
He's made provision. We can walk all the way to glory. Enoch went for a walk one day with God.
And he kept walking till he walked right into heaven.
To keep you without stumbling.
All the way home.
In the past us, we're not just saved, we're preserved.
And so, uh.
We have that eternal salvation and uh, umm, I was just thinking in respect of, uh.
Verse 21 Looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, which I believe is the rapture.
And he says unto eternal life, I have the present possession of eternal life, that there are certain benefits of eternal life that I will not come into the enjoyment of till the Lord comes. It's more immortality. That's just one of them. It's been in the presence of the Lord, isn't it, that we look for? It will be the fulfillment of all that God has promised us.
And so we have that, uh.
The time when we will be presented faultless before the presence of his glory with existing joy. I kind of noticed what Tim said. And, and, and of course, we look forward to the, uh, the display when the Lord will indeed have his rightful place of King of Kings and Lord of Lords. But before then, there's that blessing for us, isn't there? There's the rapture that the Lord's gonna come and we'll present this to himself.
In the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.
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Praise the Savior.
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