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The person of June verse 5.
I will therefore put you in remembrance. Though you once knew this, how did the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterwards, destroyed them as belief? Now the angels were kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation. He has preserved an everlasting change under darkness.
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Under this judgment of the great day, even a Sodom and Gomorrah, and if it is about them, in like manner giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flash, are set forth for an example suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. White my rules of these filthy dreamers to file the flash despite the minions, and speak evil of dignity.
Yet Michael the Archangel.
Where disputing would continue with the 70 disputed about the body of Moses, there is not bringing gas in a railing accusation, but that the Lord reviewed thee.
But they seek evil, as all seen for say. No, not So what. They know naturally as brute beach, and those things they corrupt themselves, woe unto them. But they have gone in the way of pain, and run greedily after the error of Balaam, for rewards for reward and parish in the game saying authorities.
These are thoughts in your faces, Charity when they feast with you feeding themselves.
Without fear found the oil without water carried about. A wind freezes good weather without fruit. White deaths ****** ** by the roof. Razing waves of the sea forming out their own shame. Wandering stars to humans. Reserves of blackness constructions forever.
An inaugural disturbance of that, and prophesied of these things. Behold, the Lord cometh with 10 thousands of his Saints to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all of the ungodly among them, of all the ungodly beings which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hearts, feet which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
These are murmuring complainers, walking up with old bluff and the mouth, speaking great falling words, having mended persons and its admiration because of advantage.
But beloved, remember ye the words spoken before of the apostles of our Lord.
Is in the last time who should walk after their own ungodly love?
These be they who separate themselves sensual, having not the spirit.
But do you, beloved?
Building up yourselves on your most holy praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life and if some have compassion, making a difference.
Another day with severe pulling them out of the fire, hating you in the garments spotted by the flag.
Unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you fallen before the presence of its glory, with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Savior, a glory, majesty, dominion, and power, both now and ever. Amen.
To the Red Sea and 1St Corinthians, 10 is used as a figure of baptism, as our fathers were all baptized, and the Moses and the clouds and the sea, and saw this deliverance out of Egypt is used in that way. And there are thousands of people in Christendom who have been baptized and had the name of Christ placed upon them, and in that sense been brought into the outward place of privilege.
But they don't all have faith, and this is brought before us here as a warning.
Because it pictures christened them to us, christened them a great baptized mass. But how few have real living faith, and that doesn't save the soul just to be in a place of privilege and favor? Israel had that position in the past and in the general Sanskritism has it today.
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But what a warning even to any who like to hear who might be brought up in a Christian home but perhaps have never personally received the Lord Jesus.
Different solemn warnings given here the angels.
Which kept off their first state, but left their own habitation. I thought that the Angel that sinned as timeless.
Before the flood we read out in jealousy 6 because there are other fallen angels that are not in change of darkness, waiting for the judgement of the Greek city, those demons that suppose the Lords that he cast out.
They even before him that he was, he would not send them into the bed. That is the legion that possessed the demoniac, the faces of faithful class of fallen angels that kept not their first estates, but our pains of darkness.
Of the judgment of the great city. And this was a rather solemn subject when you consider that when angels fell there was no Savior provided for this, although they were a higher order of creation.
The man but when man fell.
And all the sins and ruins within this world.
God's Son half angels by and came into this world and became a savior to lift fallen sinners out of this guilt and misery that disobedience had brought them into.
And to bring them into higher favor of our brother just and bringing before us to be accepted in the beloved.
If we are to ask ourselves why the difference, why God chose to save a ruined race of of mankind and the only confine the fallen angels in chains of darkness with nothing but judgment ahead, we can only say if his sovereign grace that God has a right to do as he pleases.
And if he chose you and me in Christ before the foundation of the world, it fills our hearts with praise. But it takes all opportunity for boasting and reasoning, and everything of the kind of way.
That Bob raises confirmed in the fact that even the angels themselves who didn't fall are referred to as elects angels. Is that perhaps the meaning of that that state elects angels?
It was the goodness of God that they didn't all fall.
Suppose there is a smash of angels that fell and faithful to get in the 28th of Ezekiel when he was lifted up because of his beauty.
And.
That was his form lifted up with Christ, and there was a whole army of immense multitude of angels that fell along with.
Faith. So we read of the devil.
Of angels.
It's very significant to notice how God takes each and every, each and every class as we have the apple state and in moral people and the severity of the judgment of God against them to bear upon the future and control. And Christianity I also call Christendom.
I know, especially in connection with Solomon Gomorrah, it is true that they suffer physical disruptions, didn't they? But you notice the hearsay in the last part of the verse seven, that they are suffering the eternal vengeance of a fire. So that means that Nender only suffer physical destruction, but they suffer and determined of eternal fire for eternity. Isn't that solemn to those who deny hell and the hereafter Israeli presence?
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Following things to notice too that in connection with apostrophe we get man falling into a most depraved habit.
You get in the first chapter Romans, because they did not like to glorify God. He gave them up to over to reprobate mind to work all uncleanness with greeting us.
So an article not long ago written by a man of the world.
The subject of his article was Is there any substitute for golf? He just pointed out that these countries that are giving up God and his words are becoming more debased than the and the outlook is so terrible that.
Fairly men of the world fairly trembled to think of what is before these countries.
Well, it just follows that pattern, doesn't they? Give up God, and then they give up all moral restraint, and man is just becoming a great bottle and Gamora.
It is the sixth verse that it says they kept not their first at date but left their own habitation. We know that angels are spirit, but they do have power from God to take bodies. And in the Old Testament on various occasions we find angels appearing as men and taking bodies. And so in the 6th chapter of Genesis it tells us that they came down and married the daughters of men.
Their habitation was not intended to be the earth. Their habitation was intended to be in the presence of God. But they came down here and because of this God judged them. I think, brethren, this is quite an answer to what is taking place in men going to the moon.
God has made man for the earth, it tells us in First Corinthians 15. There are bodies celestial and bodies terrestrial, and man has a body that's suited to the earth. He's not suited, He's not satisfied with that, and he himself desires to leave his habitation and go up to that which doesn't belong to him. Now many thought that they would never succeed. The angels succeeded in leaving their habitation and coming down.
Marrying the daughters of men. And this was followed by God's judgment. So the scripture does not at all tell us that man wouldn't succeed in his attempts in this direction. But it shows us very clearly at this portion here that God judged that attitude of leaving their habitation. And it tells us in the Psalms that the heavens, even the heavens of the Lord and the earth had been given to the sons of men.
That verse has been used to say beforehand that man would not reach the moans. But the scripture doesn't tell us that. It just simply tells us that it's not given to him. And so God allows man in the end to go beyond what is properly given to him, and he allowed the angels to go beyond what was properly given to them. But it's the same thing to go beyond what God has given to us. God is given to us certain things when he plays Adam in the garden.
How richly he blessed him. But he did place one restraint upon him, which was an acknowledgement of God's grace over him. And I feel that these are solemn days, when men, according to the second Psalm, are not satisfied to recognize certain restraints that God is placed upon Mass. And it says in the second Psalm that the cry is let us break their bands of Thunder and castaway their cords from us.
He that sitteth in the heaven shall laugh. The Lord shall have them in derision. That is when man thinks that he can throw aside the restraints that God has placed upon him. God says how foolish man is, He still has to answer to God. This is Adam did, this is the angels did. And I believe these things are a warning to us. Goddess place certain restraints upon that upon us personally in our lives.
As we have in the 7th chapter in the seventh verse here, in connection with fornication and so on, God has placed certain restraints in connection with the use of our bodies. All these things, if we fail to recognize them, are going to bring the judgment of God.
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I was thinking over the 14th chapter of Isaiah in connection with what you say of man Brother Gordon. I like to read 2-3 verses there in the 14th chapter of Isaiah. I think that's where very clear about the subject of a man sticking to his soul control.
In verse 12 state our war fallen from heaven or Roosevelt one of the morning. I suppose this refers to Satan himself.
But then in verse 18 say for thou hast said in thine heart.
This is Satan again. I will ascend into heaven. I will exhaust my throne above the stars of God. I will see it also upon the mountains of the congregation in the size of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will be like the Most High, yet thou shall be brought down to hell to the sides of the fifth. Well, isn't that what many time to do, brother Golden imitation, Satan.
I believe it's my honor, Satan. I believe it refers to Babylon in the last days. Certainly Satan is the one who leaves man on. But as you say, man is wanting to do this very thing. His present attempts not only to the moon, but to go beyond it.
Partly show the Spirit, but it definitely referred to a man by the 16th verse. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble and did shake Kingdom? It's the Spirit of Babylon.
That pride that exalts itself no doubt LED on of Satan, but it's it's man. It's an awful thing to see how Satan fell through pride and he seeks to lead man on to the same thing that caused his own fall.
Do the same thing in in the book of Obadiah concerning Edom. Is that right? I'd like to read a couple of verses there in connection with all our brother was read. We know it's Speaking of Edom in its pride, but how how this brings up to date some of these things, man, man. And his pride hasn't changed. He gets worse. And so today.
We have all of this in connection with this moon mission.
In the Obadiah the third verse, the pride of thine heart have to see thee as all that dwelleth in the cleft of the rock, whose habitation is high. That Seth in his heart, who shall bring me down to the ground? Well, this is man in his pride. He thinks he he's going to rise to the greatest height. But then notice the next verse, though thou exalt thyself as the eagle.
And though thou set thy nest among the stars, since will I bring thee downs at the Lord, he will too.
There's also a person in Isaiah 45 in connection with the subject.
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So Thou said the law that created the heavens. God Himself that formed the earth and made it. He have established it. He created it. Not in vain. He formed it to be inhabited. He didn't form the moon to be inhabited. Man thinks he's going up there to sell real estate, but that's not his place at all.
He formed the earth to be inhabited. We should be satisfied with being here until the Lord comes.
Eighth verse shows the working of the human mind away from God, and you've given over to his his evil way. Likewise also these filthy dreamers to file a slave to 5 dominion and speak evil of dignitaries.
So a man abandons himself to.
Sinful life. Then his mind begins to work, and he tries to ease his constants so that he can go on and his corruption wicked ways. And that becomes the invention of all these false doctrines. Firstly, those doctrines that.
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Deny eternal punishment the working of the human mind to try to.
Is the conscience as all they were, knowing that man needs to fear ahead so he can go on and corrupt himself.
As he continues in his wicked ways.
Suppose that will culminate in what we read of in Revelations, the plague of Darkness. This is what man seems to wish for, although he doesn't use that word, but he does seem to get want to get rid of the light.
Man love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil and they want to get rid of everything that would remind them of that which is wrong in their concepts.
And they really seem to wish to go on in darkness. And it would seem that when that awful place finally falls upon man, that by that time he will have a tease what he's striving for right now. And yet when that flag comes.
It seems to produce the most awful result of any play, for it says that when the flag of darkness fell, they gnawed their tongues for pain that's not used in any other place. And it seems to to tell it unspeakable anguish that when man finally achieved that which he boasts of today.
When all light is removed and all restraint is gone.
The darkness of the man's are given into this, I believe, will be the result. Darkness such as will cause men to know their tongues for pain. They'll feel the result of their own wicked ways.
Another evidence of the.
The end of the apostasy is speaking evil of dignitaries.
The way that people more expressed and show pictures of him with horns and the long tail, and to weaken the frost in the minds of men that there is but being in existence.
Well, that's another evidence.
Man's departure from God, of course, now the the thing to have no restraint, saying everything disarring and insulting about God and his Son and the Holy Spirit.
And then we get Michael the Archangel when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses. There's not thing against him a reeling accusation, but that the Lord reduced. These are facing although a foreign being.
Is great dignitaries. He was the most exhausted of all the angels.
I know he is a fallen being and is bent, bent on corrupting the human race. It's honoring God, especially his son. Yet he has built looked at as a dignitary even. So much so that although Michael of the Archangel, he wouldn't bring against him a reeling accusation.
And simply said, the Lord rebuked thee.
Then we get the occasion when this place rather remarkable. It was at the burial of Moses, and I wonder if we've all considered why it was that the devil contended with.
The Angel at the burial of Moses. I believe the answer to this is that.
That faith wanted to get hold of that body if he could only have to defeat it in getting the body of Moses or he would have had all the children of Israel around the world itself to worship him. So God didn't allow even the burial place of of Moses be known. Or just like Mohammed and Confucius they would have raised the monument.
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Through his shrine and his burial place will go foresaw if there was this terrible tendency to idolatry and work with man. So God wouldn't allow Satan to have his way on this occasion.
Moses went up at the end of his journey here instead of down.
Stands in 34th chapter of Deuteronomy and Moses went up from the plains of Moab under the mountain knee boats on top of his car that is over against Jericho. So Moses the servant of the Lord died there.
And Aaron too went up and died. And we're going up soon too, aren't we?
Through Grace, I think it's nice to see that these two wonderful servants went up at the end of my pathway.
Unless stuff will walk. We're waiting for everyone of us who know the Lords our favor.
Instead of the undertaker brother.
I was thinking that oftentimes you hear people saying the Lord rebuked these Satan.
But I don't think that it's in the power of the believer to say that. I believe that the best thing that the believer can do is rectify himself with the death of Christ and cleansing his precious blood and alive with Christ. I think it's the best power that he has against Satan. This is our blessing.
Just the devil and he will flee from you of the Apostle Peter So and it was weird to resist him and they and the faith aren't we. That is when when Satan comes and meets the believer that is in communion with Christ and join Christ and his soul, he meets the very one who defeated him so long ago and he powerless and all he can do is to get out of his presence.
Quickly and as fast as possible, walking in communion is the sure deceit of Satan, who is ever busy to entrap us in some way in his devices.
The false chapter of Revelation. Perhaps he could just read this Revelation chapter 12 and the 10th verse, and I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now it comes salvation and strength in the Kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ.
For the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they love not their lives unto the death. I believe we have three things here that are very important in connection with overcoming. First, the blood of the Lamb. The Lord Jesus is the one who met, says Satan, and defeated him.
First, in the temptation in the wilderness we find him binding Satan. He answered every temptation by saying it is written. But to overcome him for us he must go unto death. And so he died, bearing our sins in his own body on the tree. And going into death he accomplished that word by which Satan was defeated, as we have in Hebrews 2, that through death he might destroy or annull him that had the power of death.
That is the devil and deliver them, who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to ******* and then the next by the word of their testimony Satan is a defeated fall. But in a practical sense, there needs to be that using the word of God in connection with our testimony, and we meet him in this way. He brings temptations constantly to us if we don't.
Answer those temptations by the word of God.
We can never be lost. He can never drive us into hell. But he certainly can get power over us, even as Christians. So they overcame him by the word of their testimony. And then the third thing it says They love not their lives unto the death.
Because that is, there may be such a test that the only way to overcome is to let Satan power triumph, to put us to death. And what does that do? Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. And this is mentioned in the second chapter of Revelation. Behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, and you shall be put to death. So the enemy is brought before us as being.
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Behind the fact that he would like to even put God people to death. Well, if that God allows him to go that far, he still hasn't triumphed because he has only sent us into the presence of the Lord. So that while Satan is a defeated fall in a practical sense, I believe we need to remember those other things not only by the blood of the Lamb, but the word of their testimony. And they love not their lives under the deaths, I believe.
Have rather than if the Lord leaves us here longer.
We may find more difficult opposition than seeking to walk in the truth. It may cost us more than it cost us before. There have been noises laid down their life. There are those, no doubt in our very time who are suffering, is a brother been coming, a Christian man been coming to the meetings in Ottawa? He told us there were some provinces in India where it was against the law to be baptized. Oh, it just shows us how even in our time there are those.
That are really facing difficulties, and perhaps even having to die for Christ. Well may the Lord give us grace to walk close to the Lord, not only knowing that faith has been defeated, but in a practical sense meeting these temptations in the Word and by the power of the Spirit, we are no match in ourselves.
We are no match at ourselves for Satan power.
The Lord gives us that wisdom and strength to go on.
No doubt, as our brother stated, not only here but in other in other lands the Saints of God will be tested.
More perhaps?
Of the character of Satan as a roaring lion. We are being tested now. Satan and the character as a servant and.
Angel of Light, we have that roundabout today. We cannot deny it, but if the Lord leaves us here much longer, we may see the character of the Roaring Lion. I know of no scripture that would exempt us.
Followed.
Tell us that those who speak evil of dignitaries, the next thing is.
But what they know naturally a roots beast in these they corrupt themselves. That is, if you take away from man the fear of God, the fear of any judgement, there are any punishments for his ways.
If you teach a man that he is nothing after all but.
A more insolvent beast. What? He's going to have butter beast till man, he's the beast. He's going to live like a beast. And that is what you see increasing the whole world over. The communists have succeeded in persuading a large portion of the world that there is no God, there is no hereafter is.
That man is just.
Just a more developed form of life. Evolution has brought that in well.
As natural group feast, they corrupt themselves on an awful state received as this, and it should really exercise as less. We in any way have any thoughts with the unfruitful work of darkness that we see on every half as a result of this. That's the invaded, the schools and the.
Colleges.
Getting the year. So many people.
Oh, we need to be on our guard against the thing to take a firm stance, and we will not be in any way corrupted fire by all the teaching that man has in bringing in these last days.
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The question was raised on some some time ago at the Woodbridge Fellowship meeting about the ways of okays, and I believe, if I remember correctly, the answer that was given was that the way of a can is the religion of the natural man that denies the fall of man, that man is lost and that he needs the blood of Christ to be redeemed. They deny this thing as the religion of the natural man, isn't it?
Yes, you got three things here. Woolen to them, for they've gone in the way of aid and ran greedily after the air of Pelham for reward, and perished in the game thing, of course, and as you say, Brother, pure father, the the way of Cain as a religion of good works.
And that has prevailed the whole world, That man by his own efforts is good deeds and provide a way of salvation for himself. Remember talking to an East Indian from Calcutta years ago, And I questioned him about how he thought it was necessary to to be saved. Well, he said you have to be good. Said you mustn't cheat. He told me a lot of good things you must do.
Well, there is war in India. That's fair believer, that's their belief.
And you take care all these heathen countries, they must feed their God by some form of good work. So the whole world has been invaded by that level of good work for salvation. And that is the way of Cain is. And it isn't confined to India and China. It's right here in America, and all the Christianized countries have fallen under that area.
Is really what the Lord describes in the parable of the woman who took 11 and hit it in three majors of meals till the whole was 11. So just to wear little gospel light finds its way here and there. The whole Mass of Christendom has been corrupted by that leaven of of good work or the way of Cain.
What do you think? Perhaps that in the three things that are mentioned here?
There might be Satans counter but for the three things that the Lord Jesus mentions of himself in the 14th of John, where the Lord Jesus says I am the way, the truth and the light. Well if this were accepted what a very blessed thing it would be. But Satan has come along with this counter foot and we find the way of Cain, the error of Balaam.
And parroting.
In the gainsaying of Cora, so instead of the Lord Jesus as the way, we have the way of Cain instead of the Lord Jesus as the truth, we have the error of Balaam. Instead of the Lord Jesus as the life we have the perishing in the game saying, of course.
I wasn't going to say.
We running greedily after the era of failing for reward is hired ministry. Isn't this man preaching anything for his own, his own game?
And that has introduced in Christendom the giving up of the true gospel because the world isn't willing to accept God's plan of salvation. Remember years ago being in Woodbridge and man came in and sat back and he informed us after the meeting that he was a pastor of a large church. He says. I haven't any place to go to on Sunday night.
He found that where I preached. He felt they won't have a Sunday night meeting because the preachers are to blame for it, he says. They fill these churches with unconverted people. Now, he says they won't have the gospel. Well, that's just one little example of what has happened all over Christmas.
And also mix them the truth with Arrow, isn't it?
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This is what you have encrypted them today.
And the gains, say of.
Core some brother mentioned That is the denial of the **** wood of every believer and threaten themselves on the place that belongs to each and every believer.
I suppose the error of veiler would be seeing that.
There was evil in Israel. He supposed that a righteous God would curse them, but he lost sight of the fact that he's a merciful God through the work of Christ of Calvary.
That's all.
They aren't really designed to hurt the people of God. He wanted that reward. And the very solemn thing too, that when Salem found that he couldn't hurt the people of God, well then he corrupted the people of God.
So we get the fin of veil PR where the awful spin fornication. So that's the way the enemy works, isn't it? He would gladly have hurt the people of God of any corrupted.
Brings the sound of commercializing the gospel or the truth and the game saying of Cora, displacing Christ and as well as the Holy Spirit and man taking or seeking to take their place.
I suppose the reward here would not necessarily be money, would it but popularity or applause?
That was all included in that or the veil only was offered a great reward. I suppose it was more money than before he died.
This must be a very.
Important thing for the people of God to be reminded of this, I was thinking the error of Salem.
In second Peter.
Two you get.
In second Peter 215.
Speaking there about the those that are the.
It says, which have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Salem, the son of Moser, who loved the wages of unrighteousness. Well, you have the the way of they'll have mentioned here in Second Fear, and then in our chapter you have rang greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and then in Revelation.
2.
You have.
In the 14th verse you have I have a few things against thee, because thou has spare them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast assembly blocks. Well, it's a solemn thing, isn't it? As God has brought before us a very solemn truth here, that this is a we should take note. Three times over this individual is brought before us his way, his error, and his doctrine. We we need to be exhorted on this, don't we? Careful.
I don't see soon as the phenomena brings bath in the second chapter, the second epistle.
In verse two he speaks of the way of truth.
And.
Verse 15 The Right Way.
And in the 21St verse, the way of righteousness as much as they there is a right way in five at all.
Oh, brilliant thing of course, is when core Nathan and Nebuchadnezzar themselves up against Moses. He fell in #16 three and he gathered themselves.
Together against Moses, and against error, and said unto them, Yeah, you take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and the Lord is among them. Wherefore then lift up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord.
We see an error on the type of Christ our great High Priest, and Moses, I would say, and see the head hypocrite head over all things to the Church which is His body. And those who set themselves up, they want to put themselves right on the level where the Blessed Lord and His faithful prerogative.
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Well, we know bringing man in between the center and and God the Father has resulted in the whole the whole system of priesthood. Well, that's that's just one phase of the destiny. And then?
They leaving the authority of the Blessed Lord completely out, and a man setting himself up to take that authority which belongs.
Christ himself, well, that is the final crowning, thin, encrypted them and brings down the the judgment of God in the in a special way where you know that these wicked men Corrine dating the barn were swallowed up the oaks, the earth opened up her mouth, he went right down into the pit, and he goes right on to that subject to what's the end of those who.
Who corrupt the testimony of the Lord.
And the the.
The corruption.
Starts off gradually, doesn't it?
The they have gone in, the wave came. Well that was slow to begin with, but as the evil increases then it says they ran greedily. Oh, that was increasing and that's what we're seeing now today, the corruption rapidly increasing, but then the third one as they perished and this they don't see yet.
But this will be the end the whole of this.
Great system that we're seeing around us. It will be just at its highest when it is.
Plunges down to hell.
So that's all patient of mine, the Antichrist. It says he has God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God, and that's the climax of sin, which finally brings down the judgment of God.
Your reference to numbers, brother, in connection that solemn matter I was looking. It also speaks of the 250 Princess. It's.
A famous in the congregation men have renowned. What a solemn thing. If they were consumed, they belong to the congregation. Men of renown. And yet they were consumed. Why they were false. What a solemn thing that is to empty professors of today. They might belong to a congregation, might be a person of renown, but without Christ they'll perish. Here's a very, very solemn example of it. 250 Princess of the congregation was burned to death.
The 12 words that says these are spots in your piece of charity. You know in the beginning they had what they call the love piece.
You have that specially mentioned in the 11Th chapter of First Corinthians where they came together with their meals and their wines, where they even got drunk if if.
This lofty And then they was great bread and remembrance of the Lord. Well, we know how the Apostle says that you cannot.
It couldn't go on that way if the God wouldn't allow it.
Well here, these six up here are spots in your love piece when they faced with you feeding themselves without fear. It doesn't say they were they were breaking bread and remembrance of the Lord, but they were free and active at their love keys.
They got in among the Christians state of things where they had this meal together became.
Large and and popular. And then these these men crept in among them, and feasted with them, and got to be very important and real accepted among them.
So all this is a warning, you know, even though there may be those that are not gathered to Lord's name if we accept them.
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And they they're going on with evil practices.
So there must be a fixed line of separation, or else the enemy will soon get in with his disastrous work.
Twice dead by nature and by apostasy, will that be?
Call him described here ranging waves of the sea foaming out their own chains, wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. Remember Brother Potter saying that that's the only place where you get that spoke about as the blackness, the darkness forever? I believe it's the word Taurus, isn't it?
One of the words that speaks of eternal hell or judgment.
He said he believed it was a special judgment to those apartheid who have.
Let people astray in a doctrinal way. There's nothing so soft, so terrible As for anyone to deceive and and lead astray those who might have accepted the true gospel. Someone comes in with something false and get followers and get people persuaded to take up with his.
His own, his terrible, wicked doctrine.
There's nothing in God's sight, I believe, as quite as serious and solemn as that.
Leaders, perhaps?
Leaders in in a prophecy there are brought here before us.
With me without reverence to God, is that what would be the thought There without fear, without any fear, the consequences of their wicked deeds wave moral lesson.
But it says there that the wandering stars, they give the appearance of great light, don't they? Temporary, but very exhausted wandering stars. Well, that's amazing.
But it's going to end in just the opposite Utter dark.
I think this is all very good enough for our young people this afternoon to hear these things and not to be deceived by the apparent conviction that men, wicked men, are speaking instructors today.
Talking with such arrogance and assurance, this whole corrupt system is going to be cast into hell.
The modernist preachers would be certainly.
Described here in this way, I'm not an awful doom and gutman, and yet there are men you know that are looked up to and their names are in print and.
They're popular speakers and they're given a great place in Britain, demands many of God's children.
There's no harm in going. That's one of the sad thing about popular evangelists that they will allow these.
These men that deny the virgin birth of Christ and.
Deny the inspiration of scriptures and have them up on the platform, even praying for the for the Godful meeting that's about to take place.
That's a pretty serious thing. Refers to them as dressing themselves as Angel of light, don't they? Angels of light. And they come in with countenance, beautiful philosophy, nice language, but they deceive us because they have not. The truth is a Chopra. Some will say, you know that people are converted. It's under that kind of preaching where this is allowed. Well, God is sovereign.
And he can use His word wherever He pleases, and in the most unexpected ways. But the path forward, one who seeks to honor Christ, is to have no relatives with the unsuitable work from dark, but rather improve them. And those, surely, are the unfruitful works of darkness. We're to have nothing to do with it and keep strictly.
01:10:16
Apart from it.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly. I think when we read verses like these we need that verse more and more.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly. There's a great deal of ungodliness spoken of in this little epistle, and here were leaders in ungodliness who have been brought before us here.
And I'm sure we realize that among the most honored things today in religious circles and philosophy as well, there are ungodly men. I'm not speaking at all of these evangelists. I'm Speaking of these ungodly mass who have honored names in the realm of philosophy and religion. And you're not considered at all up to date unless you've read or heard of what they have to say.
But they have never been born again. They're ungodly man, and I sometimes feel perhaps a little text would be in order on which those two things would be brought together. His name shall be called Counselor, and along with it the other verse. Blessed is a man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly, and that the dearly beloved young people would look at that.
Little combination of text every day. We have a wise counselor. His very name is Counselor, and to him we concern, and from him we can learn the wisdom that we need. But the council of the Ungodly.
Is plainly brought before us in this little epistle, and the outcome of it too, and I believe that the beloved young people who are facing the challenge of education today.
There's so much of the.
Council of the Ungodly. If they would take a look at the name on the front of that textbook, they find it to be the name of a man who doesn't know the Lord Jesus as his savior. And if there are certain things in that book that are necessary for their schooling, let them always remember that they're not to walk in the council of the ungodly. May the Lord preserve His promise, because I know at the beginning of his little official we find God's courage and God's commendation.
Earnestly to contend for the faith once delivered to the Saints, Is that going to make us popular? Is that going to make our names known in the world? Not at all. In a day, in an age like it, it's going to be considered rightfully outdated. But it's what God commands and God approves. And here is that with God condemns and that with God warns against. And yet it's extremely popular all around.
Those who listen to such counselors should read this verse and Micah, the 4th chapter of Micah verse 9.
Why dost thou cry out alone? Is that no king in thee is by Councillor Parish?
Is he parish? Is our councillor Perished? No. Thank God you're still a counselor. He's never lost the case yet, and never will. He's one to whom we can turn under all circumstances and receive counsel from him and from his precious words. So the verse is here. I think it's very important.
Perish if he is not, why always anxiety?
Have a remarkable year that Heck is introduced.
The 7th grommet of these things, behold, the Lord cometh with 10,000 of his faith to execute judgment. I for the Enoch's day he was seeing the world getting bright for the judgment of the Flood.
But he says that this character or condition that existed where the earth was being filled with corruption and violence well were conditions that would continue right on to the end until the Lord himself.
Would come in judgment upon those guilty world.
01:15:10
Going back to the thought of the marks placed upon.
Certain ones, I'm sure most of us have heard this expression.
But they have so much proof that they've got a lot of truth.
Well, the question is arises then, but do they have one of these marks upon them? Well, if they have, then they don't have all the truth. They may have a little spattering of it. I speak of one that I know particularly who is really the Lords. And we spoke to him about these things, thinking of the gainsaying of Korah, usurping the place that the Holy Spirit should have in the assembly.
And we ask him this question. He's a man who's been in this.
Category of a minister for 35 years. We ask him this question. We said we came to your little church and the Lord gave us something to say. If the Spirit of God lay something upon our hearts, would we be able to give it out? He said. That would be up to me to determine whether it was of the Spirit or not.
Now, this is a man who's been a preacher for 35 years. I think he's the Lords.
And so we find here them man taking a place that the Holy Spirit should have.
Is as we have in Cora, that is.
Usurping that place.
There may be a lot of truth in what some of these men say, mixed with a little poison, but our difficulties just to filter out that poison.
Put a little poison in your meal at the table and eat what is good. How are you going to keep the poison out of it?
Good answer to this question. I visited a man and he had quite a a collection of books.
I won't mention the name of them, but there was quite a quite a collection. Large volumes on On the Bible tells you all about the Bible.
Well, not knowing too much what to say, I looked up to the Lord for an answer to this. I didn't want to read these books. I wanted to talk to him about the Lord Jesus.
So I said, well, I would ask you one question before we even discuss these books. Was this man who wrote all these books? Was he gathered to the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ? Well, he didn't know what to say. I said if he wasn't, I'm not interested in the books.
Interested in the truth that some have written that have walked in it, and I think this is a good word for each one of the young people to remember to.
Uh, not waste time with with the various.
Writings on the scriptures that have not been written by men who walked in the truth. I mean, this is an important thing for us, isn't it?
All right, the muscle king. The weight of our brother this morning before us to rule.
Hear thou not, my daughter, go now to another field so great.
It's very special indeed, isn't it?
Might give the impression that we think that we're better than that is the natural reaction. And I think, well, do we have a corner on the truth? Well, these these verses that we've been contemplating this afternoon why, they surely speak to our conscience that here is the warning.
Is that a little compromise is going to end in and utter failure. This is where the compromise will end. And if we are taken up with these things and think, well, it's only a little compromise, what's the harm in this?
These verses bring before us the end, then understood, either end. When I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I therein.
01:20:01
From a little of a verse in connection with Ruth again and connect connection with what you just said, says and she spats beside the reapers.
Doesn't say she read all kinds of writings from different ones, but she sat beside the reapers, those who had been reaping, and she received a portion, didn't she?
That's the beauty of the Bible reading. And let's sit with the Reapers, those who spend time on the Word before the Lord and gathered something from it to pass on to others.
Likely welcomes all of the infection with this expression wandering stars that I believe these stars were not really stars at all. But this is the expression among early astronomers that was using connections of planet and the the thing that marks the metal is different from the stars. Our vacancy was simply that their core they differed from the courts and the two stars they wandered in and out amongst them.
But they didn't know that there was any difference. When they looked at them, they seemed to be giving off, like like the stars did. But they wandered erratic courts, so they were burdened with the quantum stars. And the miles told us remarks to the spirit of God, the use of expression like this, because now we understand that these wandering stars are not two sorts of light at all. They they get the appearance of these? No. They walk through in and out, apparently.
Amongst those true source of light, but they aren't true, sort of light and tall, they're completely false, the sources of light wandering in another once we have the car.
Being open with a little while the Lord will come, and that takes place before what in a processor. The Lord coming with 10,000 of his faith.
That the Jude speaks of that looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
When you get down to the 21St verse.
So that those who were passing through the time of trial and testing, and being the coming judgment of God, about to be poured out on this apostate world by those who are the Lord, will have them taken away, caught up to meet the Lord in the airport. Jude didn't have the revelation of the Lord coming in the air as we have it, but He saw very clearly the coming of the Lord in judgment, and He saw that.
The faith would come back with him, but how those Saints would be with him so they could come back with him, Waited till.
Gave it to the Apostle Paul. Then we get the full revelation, the mystery that that the Lord will have already come and taken all His blood for people home to himself. Then they come back with it.
Beautiful thoughts in those verses you just mentioned, brother in the 21St, 20th, 1St, the 21St and the 22nd.
20th 1St But she beloved, building up yourselves. I believe this speaks of edification, and says in the same verse, praying in the Holy Ghost supplication, And then in the 21St verse keep yourselves in the love of God.
Preservation and looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ and eternal life anticipation.
These are the four anchor gum tree that will keep the Christians of the 27th chapter of Acts. I think I mentioned once before, but these are really wonderful anchors to cast to keep us there. In the 27th chapter of Act we find that that they cast the four anchor serve and they wish for the day they wish for the coming of the Lord listening and then the 5th anchor is that He is able to keep us from fallen.
That's the stronger one. Listen.
I didn't notice that before, but I noticed tonight and verse 24 you have the 5th and to him that he's able to keep your football. This is a good anchor isn't?
The Lord himself keeps his anger.
As we're exceeding joy, you want to be a joy to falling.
01:25:04
Singing the 21St verse, we have the lowest charge to the Saints. In the 24th verse we have God's power over the Saints.
Now under him is able to keep you from falling.
In charge till the Saints keep yourselves and the love of God and His power over the Saints.
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Lord Jesus, come, nor let us longer roam far from thee. And that bright place where we shall see thee face to face. Lord Jesus, come.
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