Kentucky Conference: 1963

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1. Cain & Abel - God's Way of Approach

2. The Word of God to Direct Our Pathway

Cain & Abel - God's Way of Approach

Gospel—P. Wilson

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Blessed God.
Before I begin the subject.
That is primarily upon my heart tonight.
I want to turn first.
To the last chapter of Exodus.
The last chapter of Exodus.
And the 34th verse.
We will remember the account in the book of Exodus.
How God gave explicit and.
And minute directions for the constructing of the Tabernacle.
In the which he was to dwell.
And when we get to the last chapter.
The Tabernacle has been completed.
The 34th verse.
Then a cloud, and that's the cloud of Jehovah's presence.
That is often referred to as the Shekinah glory.
And a cloud covered the tent of the congregation.
And the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle.
And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord.
Fill the Tabernacle.
You know, in the rush.
And bustle of everyday life.
We sometimes forget.
The Holiness.
And the glory of God.
God is holy.
More holy than to behold iniquity.

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And when God took up his abode on earth in the Tabernacle among the children of Israel, whom He called himself out of Egypt.
He had the Tabernacle built according to his specific directions.
And Moses was warned not to depart from the directions.
Receive, said he, That thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mountain.
And then when the Tabernacle was completed.
The glory of the Lord.
Damn into it.
Even Moses, that honored servant of God, could not stay in them. He had to leave.
You know, people today think very little.
Of the glory of the person of God.
Four years and 40 years.
There's a common thought in the world.
That sort of.
Has taken over.
Giving God a grandfatherly character.
A sort of a loving, benign God.
Who would never put a soul in hell?
Who would never hinder his creature from enjoying anything?
But friends, that's not the God that the Word of God tells us about.
That's a figment of imagination.
Originated by the Father of Lies.
Here we see that even Moses can't stand in the presence there of the glory of God.
Now the first verse of the next book.
Lord called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the Tabernacle of the congregation, saying.
Speak under the children of Israel, and say unto them.
If any man of you.
Bring an offering unto the Lord.
Ye shall bring your offering and so forth.
And the next chapters are devoted.
To giving a description.
Of the offerings that could be offered to God.
Now when we find God in his glory, filling the Tabernacle.
We get a word out of that Tabernacle.
That specifically lays down the only ground of approach.
To God.
You know, that's lost sight of today.
That there is one way.
And only one way of approaching God.
You know, it's common practice today in this country to say that every man has a right to worship God after the dictates of his own conscience.
Now I beg to disagree.
Now if they mean by that, that no other man has the right to intervene.
And to circumscribe man's privilege of approaching God himself, that's another matter.
But nor that, nor woman. No boy or girl has the right to approach this twice. Holy God, for whom even angels veil their faces, according to Isaiah 6 No man.
No one has the right to approach that holy God except in the prescribed way.
I wonder.
If anybody here thinks.
That they could go to Washington, DC next week.
And barge right into the president's office and have an interview with the President of the United States.
Without having followed due protocol.
Without having approached according to the rules laid down for the odds.
He'd find himself missing.

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And what I say for the President of the United States is only.
Magnified and increased 1000 times where there's royalty.
But what is man compared with a mighty God?
The mighty God that sees true and through us. Remember that in Hebrews 4 it says all things.
All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
There isn't a person in this room.
That would want all that they have done printed on this wall.
The 139th Psalm says that God knows even our thoughts.
And that there is not a word in my tongue, but what he knows it.
Every word we've uttered.
Everything that goes through this mind, he knows.
And he's the holy God.
Before whom angels bail their faces.
Now this is just a preliminary to what I have before me.
And let us turn to Genesis 4.
Genesis 4.
And Adam knew Eve his wife, when she conceived, and bare Cain.
And said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
And she again bare his brother Abel.
And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground, and offering unto the Lord.
Enable he also brought of the firstlings of his flock.
And the fact thereof, and the Lord had respect unto.
Able and to his offering.
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Cain was very raw, and his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou Roth? And why is thy countenance squalen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted, and if thou doest not well?
Sin lieth at the door.
Unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
And Cain talked with Abel, his brother, and it came to pass.
When they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother?
And he said I know not.
What a lie.
Am I my brother's keeper?
An insinuation that if God thought so much of him as to accept him, he should have kept him.
Am I my brother's keeper?
And he said, What hast thou done?
The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
And now thou art cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth, to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.
Here we have an account of two men.
Two young men.
Two brothers.
The first two men that were ever born into this world.
Now, may we suggest.
That these two young men had the same parents.
They had the same opportunities. The one is the other.
They had the same knowledge the one is the other.
They both knew that they were expelled from the Garden of Eden.

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Their parents were. Perhaps it was there within sight.
They couldn't have helped, but no, the account of the fall of man.
And now these two young men were not infidels.
These two young men were believers in a certain sense. They believed that there was a God.
Do you believe that there is a God?
Only the fool doesn't.
Only the fool doesn't.
You believe there is a God. That's something.
But do you know that that God is holy?
Do you know that that God is a sin hating God?
And will never allow you.
Or anyone else in his presence with sins on them.
These two young men.
Decided.
Each of them that it would be a good thing to bring an offering to the Lord.
That it would be a good thing if they approached golf and they thought that they must offer him something.
The first man, the older one of the two, Cain, was his name.
He was a farmer. He was a tiller of the ground.
His brother Abel, the younger of the two.
With equal opportunity.
Was a shepherd. He kept sheep.
The owner of the two decided to bring an offering to God, and he, in keeping with his occupation, I suppose he thought, went out and selected fruit.
May I suggest?
That he probably chose the best fruit.
That the ground could raise.
He chose the best specimens of his agriculture.
Of his nourishing the things that he planted, and cultivating them. And then he came into due time, a set time, and he presented this fruit to God.
The other man. The other young man.
He brought the first links of his flock.
But did you notice something else that he brought?
Fourth verse. And Abel he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and the fact thereof.
In other words, he didn't bring a living lamb or living land.
The infidel likes to say, well, there's no difference except the one was a farmer and the other was a shepherd, and they naturally brought what came to hand.
But that isn't true.
That is not the answer.
Because Abel killed his lamb, and he presented a dead lamb.
Here's one that comes now to God with a sacrifice.
And he presents that to God.
Now the two men stand before God, the same God, the same holy God, and they're standing entirely on the basis of the offerings that they have presented.
And God had respect unto Abel into his offering.
But decaying into his offering, he had not respect.
I might say this.
Where the benefit of some of the young people here, maybe some older ones?
That there is a common fallacy in Christendom today.
And it's very widespread.
That relegates the 1St 11 Chapters of the Word of God, the 1St 11 Chapters of the Book of Genesis.

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To the myth category.
They say that the 1St 11 Chapters of Genesis.
Our only myth or allegory or parables.
It came into my hand just last week.
A Sunday School manual for the quarter.
Put off by a certain very large organization which said that very thing, and they put spent pages of it to explain what myth and allegory and parable met.
And in doing so, they explained away the very truth of the Word of God.
Now let God be true when every man a liar.
Furthermore.
They went to great lengths in this manual. It was for adult classes.
They went to great lengths to say that.
Abel was not received by God on the basis of the sacrifice he offered.
I'll hope to show later that that statement is a deliberate lie.
For Abel was received on the basis of his sacrifice.
They say that he was not received on that basis but merely man has received according to how he feels.
What his attitude is in making an offering to God.
Now let me return to my first premise.
That God is holy, and God lays down the rules of approach.
And this holy God says just exactly how a Sinner can approach him.
Now, early in the book, we get the account of these two boys in order that we may learn right there what God will accept and what he will reject.
Here's a man that comes and brings the best fruit he can find.
He presents it to God and is rejected forthwith.
Another young man comes and offers a dead lamb.
For he came and brought the firstlings of his flock with the factor of.
And God accepts him.
Now what we learn here is this.
That God must be approached on the ground of sacrifice.
If you're going to be accepted before a holy God, you have to be accepted on the basis of what you present to God for your acceptance.
Now I hope I won't get over the heads of the children who are here.
For I believe there are some children here, and probably some adults who are not saved.
It's most unlikely that you would find in an audience of this size that everybody is truly the Lords.
Remember, we're speaking about two men that were not infidels 2.
Two men that approached God.
But one of them was accepted and the other was not. Now this is for your learning and from for my learning and for yours.
Do you want to be accepted before a holy God? Do you want to have a righteous standing before him?
Well, there's a way, but you must come God's way, be it known unto you. Therefore the truth, this man, the Lord Jesus Christ, who died on Calvary's cross.
He has preached unto you the forgiveness of sins.
And buy him all believe are justified from all things. Is that plain enough?

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Through one man, the one the wall cast out.
The one whom the world set away with, you know there was there's an old tract that refers to an electioneering campaign in the city of Jerusalem almost 2000 years ago.
The city was filled. People were there in great numbers. It was a feast day, a religious feast, A feast that God himself had originated. And they were all there for this religious observance and these, this feast.
To Passover was that which looked forward to the death of Christ, the true Lamb of God.
And here was the true Lamb of God in the city. The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, had come down into this world.
Taken human form, was here among men, and now the election was on.
There were two men on the ballot that day.
Jesus.
And Barabbas?
Jesus and Barack.
Which would it be?
You say? Well, I'm sure if I had been there, I would have chosen Jesus.
But the mob didn't. They all cried out away with it.
Is that remonstrated?
Pilate says. Why? What evil have he got?
Pilate pleaded. He rendered the verdict of acquittal time and again.
They thought that they had pilot where he would render a verdict of guilty by saying he forbids to give tribute to Caesar, which was a deliberate lie.
Because he didn't forgive, forbid to give tribute to Caesar when they tried to get him to, he says. You render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's.
To God, the things that are gods. Pilate wasn't moved by it, he says. I find no quality.
Pilot's wife says it has nothing to do with this, just.
Even the man that betrayed him said I have sinned and that I have betrayed the innocent blood.
Witness after witness came forward to test his innocence.
Pilot says. Now I'm going to offer you a choice.
Barabbas, he was a murderer, he was a robber, he says. Now which will it be, Barabbas or Jesus?
They said all at once, away with Jesus.
Give us, Paramus. Do you wonder that this world has had nothing but wars and trouble since then?
And they try 1 expedient after another to get rid of war.
The United Nations is the last attempt.
What a poor thing that is.
The League of Nations was another. The World Court was another.
But they're having wars and problems and international troubles, one after another, and they're going to keep on having them because they rejected the Prince of Peace. They said give us Barack. They chose a robber to the Son of God.
They chose a murder to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now what's your choice, my friend? Maybe there are two boys that are in here tonight, brothers.
One of you is knows the Lord Jesus as his savior and the other doesn't.
I ask you to answer the question before God for yourself.
On whose side am I?
What is your standing before God, my young man?
Can you say I have accepted Jesus as my Savior?
I know that when he died on Calvary's cross and in those three hours of darkness.
He was. He stood there and received the judgment that my sins deserved. Can you say that?

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Maybe there are two people in here tonight, 1A husband and the other a wife.
Joined together in matrimony.
One destined for heaven and the other destined for hell.
I'm not making up imaginary cases. These things exist all around.
People linked together that are not going to be together in eternity.
How about you?
How about you?
Remember, it isn't enough to know about Jesus.
The devils also believe in tremble. What good does it do them?
Think of all the people that were in Jerusalem for that feast.
A religious feast or God in heaven, the true God, and yet rejecting the Son of God while they're there.
Many along the road to eternity tonight.
With the name of Christ on their lips.
That probably registered in some church rule on some church rule.
I don't ask you. Have you been baptized?
There's a word in Mark that says he that will believe is not.
Shall be damned.
I heard one man say that it might be might read this he that believeth not, even though he were baptized.
Should be down.
To believe not on the Lord Jesus Christ would be fatal.
Well, what else happened?
God received the little man that brought the one sacrifice.
The acceptable sacrifice He brought a sacrifice that was accepted, and he was identified with the sacrifice, and God accepted the sacrifice and he accepted him.
The other man brought an offering that wasn't accepted, and the result was he wasn't accepted.
So it isn't enough to know what God will accept.
You must be identified with that which he will accept.
You must be connected with.
You know that God will only accept the work of Christ as a basis for your salvation. He is the Holy God that hates sin, and He provided the Savior to put sin away. But He will not receive you unless you accept that Savior as yours.
God will never be so indifferent to the work of His beloved Son on Calvary's cross as to receive one Sinner.
Rejects Christ.
You say, oh, I wouldn't reject him, but let me ask you, did you accept it?
Have you accepted it?
Boys and girls here tonight.
Are you saying brother, in the other room this evening, praying for this meeting? And he made special prayer for the children that would be in this room? Bless when the Lord comes and he's coming soon. Don't need to think that things are going on always like they are now.
God's judgment hangs over this world for what they did to Christ.
And one of these days, he's going to take the Christians home and his judgment will fall.
And this rather prayed tonight earnestly.
Lest any be found here without Christ.
And go into a lost eternity.
To be left behind when Christ claims his own.
Well, these two men, one was accepted, the other was rejected.
Do you know that these two men are told of all through the book?
Do you realize that this whole book is joined together by indissoluble ties? This book is 1.

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Man says all. It was written by so many different authors.
I want to say that this book had one off.
The Spirit, Holy Spirit of God. And he used certain men to write certain parts. But really, it's the writing given by the Spirit of God. It's all one, it's all one story. What you'll find at the beginning, you'll find at the close.
Turn with me for a moment to Matthew 23.
Now here is the Lord Jesus speaking to those religious people that were in Jerusalem for that great electioneering campaign.
When they chose the devil's man, for Barabbas means the son of the father.
And Jesus was the true Son of the Father.
And here was Barabbas, Satan's man. Satan's counterfeit, if you will.
Now Matthew 23.
Verse 34 Wherefore, behold, I send you, send unto you prophets and wise men and scribes.
This is Jesus talking to this city that was just about to reject him.
Some of them you shall kill and crucify, and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city.
That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth.
From the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zacharias, the son of Varachius, whom he slew between the temple and the altar.
I said before that when man says this is only a myth or it's only an allegory.
That they lie.
Here the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God now.
Says the righteous blood of Abel.
To say that that is a myth or an allegory is to attribute to the Lord of Gore.
Either ignorance or worse.
Here we have the Lord Jesus substantiating the account of Genesis.
4 Upon this that generation, upon that people may come all the righteous bloodshed from the blood of righteous Abel.
You see how the Lord of Jesus, the Lord of glory, puts his sanction on Genesis 4?
If you reject Genesis 4 or Genesis 1 to 11, you reject what the Lord said in Matthew 23.
We won't stop there. Let's go to Hebrew.
Hebrews 11.
We'll see what the Apostle Paul says about the same subject. And he writes by the spirit of God too.
Hebrews 11.
Verse 4.
By faith, Abel offered them to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain.
By which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts.
And by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than take.
There's a modern.
Manual for adult classes say that it wasn't the difference in the offering.
That it was just the difference in how they viewed it.
Away with that trash.

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It says by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. He offered a dead land. He as much as says to God I deserve death.
But I bring for my acceptance a little victim that has died.
And God accepted him on the ground.
Of the offering he offered him to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain.
What you're offering on what do you stand before God, if you stand before God on any other ground?
And the work of the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary's cross your wall.
Doesn't make any difference how religious you are. Remember Cain was a very religious man.
He could put people to dare religious people today to shame. And I'll tell you what's more he was an industrious man. He built a city.
He introduced them to the city, the Arts and Sciences.
He had an industrious family. He was a good husband, he was a good provider.
And yet he is lost.
Lost.
Eternity because he brought a sacrifice that God wouldn't accept.
You wonder that people today are going on the road to eternity in the of the dam along with Tang, while many of them couldn't hold a candle to Cain.
As far as more uprightness?
Good husband.
Good Wife, Religious.
Mohammed Fidelity.
What? He was coming in the wrong way.
Are you going in the wrong way? Remember, there is only one right way and there may be a million wrongs.
People say it doesn't make any difference which way I come, just so I come.
Suppose you go to Chicago, go out to the International Airport there, oh, air airfield. Or one of you go out there and say it doesn't make any difference which airplane I get on, just so long as I go somewhere.
You believe that?
You might get on applying and not have a ticket for that plane.
You wouldn't even get they put you off before you got started.
Do you want to go to Tokyo?
Or Atlanta.
You are not going to get any direction unless you go the right way.
There is one way. There is a way that seems right unto a man with the anger over the ways of death.
All dear young person here tonight, if you don't have Christ as your savior now.
See that you do next the next minute.
Before you go to bed, shall we put it that way?
Suppose the Lord would come tonight. Would you want to wake up in a lost eternity? Or would you want to wake up with Father and mother gone, perhaps?
And you left behind. You get up in the morning, Mother's gone.
You knew she was a Christian.
Maybe Father was a Christian too, and he's gone.
Would you want to be left behind?
You know what's coming after the Christians are gone.
The worst troubles this world has ever seen.
The worst troubles this world has ever seen. You want to be here then?
Thank God we who know Christ as our Savior, you are going to be with Christ in glory.
Well, by faith he offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. So you see the story that's being told in Sunday schools today?
To the adult class itself, that this verse isn't true, that it doesn't make any difference what man offers.
But I say on the authority of the Word of God, that it does.
Now, who are you going to believe?
God or Man who lies?

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By which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and by it he being dead yet speaking.
There's a man that's been dead for.
Almost 6000 years. And he's speaking to you tonight. Did you ever hear a dead man speak?
The one speaking to you tonight.
His name was evil, he says. I brought a sacrifice that God accepted. Many accepted me.
If you want to be accepted, you do the same.
Now you don't have to find the sacrifice. God has done it. God has provided the sacrifice.
His own beloved son on Calvary Scott, Abel had to go get one.
By faith, he recognized that God was holy and he was a Sinner and God had to have something that would die.
If he would accept him.
He says I deserve death and Ioffer my acceptance something that has died. God accepted him.
Now let's turn the 12Th chapter of Hebrews.
24th verse.
And to Jesus, the mediator of the new Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling.
That speak of better things than not available.
Abel's blood cried unto the Gob from the earth for vengeance.
God said to Cain the earth that received thy brother's blood.
Cries for me.
But all another has died, his blood has been shed, and the blood of Christ that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
It's true that God is yet going to view that his son suffer for righteousness.
That he suffered at the hand of man. But tonight God is offering you salvation through that one that died.
When you have it.
Oh, I wouldn't take the risk if I were you. I wouldn't put it off another day.
You think what it might have been if the Lord had come yesterday and you weren't saved.
Now let's go. We've already seen what the Lord Jesus said in the New Testament, what the Apostle Paul has said twice.
Let's go to 1St John and see what John says about.
Again, it's the Spirit of God that gives it first John 3.
First John three and verse 12.
Not as king.
Who was of that wicked one and slew his brother?
Wherefore slow he him, because his own his own works were evil, and his brothers righteous.
Now what were Cain's evil works?
You know what God says about it here? He says. Cain's works were evil.
Abel's works for Righteous. You know what Cain's evil work was?
Offering the fruit of a cursed earth to God.
God, of course, the earth because of Adam's sin, and he says henceforth it will.
Yield its fruit at the sweat of your face. But he takes he who laborers, and he has the sweat of his face, and he gets his fruit, and he offers the fruit of a cursor to God.
God rejects.
It rejects A sacrifice, the offering. They reject scale.
Now he says his works were evil.
Did you ever stop to think of it That a religious mind, that is.
Working for his salvation has wicked works. Evil works.
If you're trusting to anything but the work of the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary's cross for your salvation, your works are evil.
And I'm talking about your works of religion.

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You may go to church every Sunday.
You may say your prayers and read your Bible, but if you haven't accepted Christ as your savior, as you're standing before God, your works are evil.
Wherefore slowly happened because his own works were evil.
Brother's righteous remember it isn't referring now here.
To Cain's slaying his brother, it says, Why did he slay him? This is work that preceded the murder.
And the work that preceded the murder was.
Offering the fruit of a cursor to God, which God rejected. Then he got angry and killed his brother. So when it speaks about his works being evil, it doesn't refer to his murdering his brother, It refers to his offering the fruit of a cursed earth to God.
Well, we've heard what the Lord said about it.
What Paul says about it.
By inspiration.
What John has said about it. Now let's see what Jude says about it.
My object in turning to all these different places.
Is to prove that what's going on today in Christendom is a lot.
And I don't want anybody here tonight to be deceived by it.
What does it say here?
Jude verse 11.
Woe unto them.
That's an awful word. Woe, isn't it? Woe unto them.
For they have gone in the way of Cain.
Woe unto them, for they've gone in the way of Cain. They have gone in the way of bringing to God their own evil words.
For anything less than Christ, as their offering before God for their acceptance is evil.
Anything less is evil.
By faith Abel offered him the God of all excellent sacrifice. He came.
What you're offering, How do you stand before a living God that sees all through us, knows our thoughts, our words are down, sitting in our uprising, everything.
Knows everything you and I have ever done. What's our standing before him?
The work of Christ on Calvary's cross, or some attempt of ourselves of our own, to improve our luck, make ourselves acceptable to God.
Tell you on the authority of the Word of God, that is war unto you, unless you have Christ as you see.
Whoa. There's a time coming that says in scripture, Whoa.
Whoa, whoa.
To the inhabiters of the Earth.
The people on Earth are going. It's going to be at three times over. Whoa.
Woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of cave.
But how about it?
What's the time to do?
We know there's a right way. We take God in His word. I trust everybody here. Tonight we'll say that we'll agree with that statement. Let's take God of his word. God is holy, and he must have payment for sin. He must have something that satisfies his holy.
And he's provided his savior that satisfied the claims of his home.
He says believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
But if we believe not, we're at all.
Woe to us now, I trust we are all agreed that there's only one way to stand before a holy God. That's on the work of Christ on Calvary's cross.
Where he suffered for sin that just for the unjust.
Where God poured out his whole Iraq against sin on him the sinless 1.
Again he gave up his spirit, and his side was pierced, and forthwith came their odd blood and water. Do you know that Savior is yours? Well, if your dog, when would be a good time to do it? Brings to mind a story.
Of a very rich man that had large holdings and he had many tenant farmers on the land.

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There were many of them in debt to him And load him large sums.
And he posted a sign in the place where they would congregate.
Where they would fast.
And he said anyone that would come to his office.
With the proof of his indebtedness between the hours of two and 3:00 on Tuesday.
Would have all his debts canceled.
Now somebody may say, well, now that goes back to the days of feudalism. That's not the point.
Is in the story.
He specified a way that all the deaths could be liquidated by the man to whom they were old, but he specified a time, and it was between 2:00 and 3:00 in his office on Tuesday.
Well, the crowd of people congregated outside of his office.
At noon.
It grew larger by one. It grew larger by two.
But no one went into the office. They knew the man was in there. They knew there was a man of his word.
After 231, old couple went in there with their old bills and proof of indebtedness and they went into the office.
And they sort of apologized when they went in. They said they hoped they didn't misunderstand what he said.
She said no, you didn't misunderstand it. Let's see what you owe.
They laid it all out, he said. Now do you owe anything more?
Not that they recollect well, he says. I want to be sure that it's everything.
So they satisfied him and themselves that that was all I'll and he wrote them a receipt in full.
And they rose to leave, thanked him most kindly, most heartily.
And they arose to leave. It was still 2:45.
The time was up at 3:00.
He said no, I don't want you to leave here yet. I want you to sit down in the adjoining room and wait there till 3:00.
He didn't want them to go out to the others and say he's as good as he's worked.
He wanted each act on his own faith.
Not one more of all those indebted people came in to claim his promise.
And at 3:00.
A rich man left and they were all arrested were left without their debt space.
Two to three was the time.
One old couple took advantage of.
Now I ask you, what is the time to accept Christ as your Savior?
I can tell you in 3 letters.
And all.
W.
And I want to ask you something. How long is now? How long is now?
Wasn't a minute ago.
It isn't tomorrow.
It isn't an hour from now.
Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. Now is the time that God is offering you salvation to have it now.
Don't put it off.
Go the one against Romeo's sin has a basis to forgive every sin that you've ever committed, and he's anxious to do it. He wants to do it.
My story of the rich man fall short because God is pleading with you to come.
Once more, he pleads tonight, Will you take Christ as your city?
Don't put it off.
Might tell you the story posing.
Of the man.
The young man who committed murder.

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It was a young man years ago in the state of Ohio.
He was sentenced to be executed.
Sentence to be put to death.
A certain time on a certain day for his murder.
His mother went to the governor. I think it was Cox who was governor at that time.
And pleaded with him.
To do something for her son.
He wouldn't promise or anything.
But he said he'd take the case under advice.
He went to the penitentiary where this young man was confined awaiting execution.
He took a Bible under his arm.
He went down, had the turnkey let him in and showed him down the corridors until he came to this man's cell.
They unlocked it and they let him in.
The governor stepped in with the Bible in his hand and he said, young man, I wanted to speak to you.
The young man says. But I don't want to speak to you and walked away from them.
Walk to the far corner of the cell.
The governor pleaded with him. He says. I came to talk with you.
And he was selling. Wouldn't say a word.
Finally, the governor left and the turnkey locked himself left the doomed man to his doom.
A little while later, the turnkey came down and he says, did you, How did you get along with the governor?
He says. I didn't see any governor.
Says, Oh yes, I let him in your cell.
He says. You mean that man with the Bible is the governor?
Because that's what I mean.
When in this Eric's says I threw away my last chance.
I threw away my last chance.
It wouldn't take up. He wouldn't see the map. They could pardon. They could give him luck.
Don't throw away your last chance.
How about the last two verses of #2?
Last two standards of #2.
Come.

The Word of God to Direct Our Pathway

Address—G.H. Hayhoe

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Fill in the appendix.
Savior, lead us by Thy power, faith into the promised rest.
Choose the path away whatever seems to thee, O Lord, the best.
Be our guide in every peril. Watch and keep us night and day, else our foolish hearts will wander from the straight and narrow way. 42 in the appendix.
Save your laid our.
Joy. Joy.
Yeah.
My friend.
Saw.
Play.
Sorry, and your.
And I pray presently.
Our way down.
Laundry from the way we are.

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Yeah.
Enough to the Lord for the last time.
I'd like to turn to Psalm 119.
Psalm 119.
Verse 9.
Well at all shall a young man cleanse his way.
By taking heed thereto, according to thy word, the 11Th verse, thy word, have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
And in the 105th verse of this same Psalm.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
And in the 17th Psalm.
And the fourth verse.
Concerning the works of man by the word of thy lips.
I have kept me from the powers of the Destroyer. Hold up my goings and thy paths that my footsteps Slipknot.
Well, I'd like to turn later to some other scriptures. While I was thinking this afternoon of the importance of the Word of God and also of guidance for our pathway as we go through this world. How often were confronted with certain matters and we have to make decisions? How often we find the need of wisdom for our pathway through this world, and especially those who are young because so often.
That path that we start in youth becomes part of us. We tread that path, and very often the if we could say the dye is cast while we're young, the position that we choose, the friends that we choose, the partner that we choose, how these things mold our lives, and how important dear young people that we should be guided by the precious word of God.
So the first one that we read said, Where at all shall a young man cleanse his way? And that question might well be asked by each one here, young man or young girl, wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? How are we going to know that which is pleasing to the Lord for our pathway? How are we going to send out? Well, God has given to us His precious and holy word.
He has given us this book and we haven't got a greater treasure anywhere, as we were remarking this morning.
Than this blessed book it says, His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness. And I believe that you will find in this wonderful book, dear young people, wisdom for every step of your pathway, not only the way of salvation. Thank God for that, that's the most important, but for our whole pathway. And while it's true, the word of God may not speak uncertain subject scientific subjects.
Nevertheless, whenever God does speak about any such matters, he always speaks with authority.
He speaks with accuracy because of who he is and so how wonderful it is. And I would like to say before I start, how important that you acquaint yourself well with what God has said in His word, how many young people, and I believe I can say, older people.
Have never read God's Word through. Never read it through even once.
Men are gone through from Genesis to Revelation. What would you think of me if I got a letter from my wife and I just picked out parts of it and this letter was conveying to me her whole mind and I just picked out the parts that I liked. You would say well, he doesn't have much concern about his wife's mind or will and anything. Lenny would just picked out the parts that he likes, you would say.

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Surely love would lead him to read.
All that she has been pleased to write well and dear young people, how much more when God has given to us in His Word, His revealed mind, all that we need to know for our pathway through this world God has given to us. In this blessed book there isn't a question that concerns life and godliness that we will not find the answer for in God's word God hasn't left us.
To our own wisdom, to our own discretion, he has been pleased to reveal his mind.
Millions of dollars are spent by men, the wise men in this world, to try and find out where this world came from, to try and find out what is at the end, where it's all going to end. And yet God has told us on a few simple words how in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. He's told us how it fell into a state of ruin, and if it concerned life and godliness how that came about, He would have been pleased to tell us that too.
But saying it wasn't necessary for us to know, he has not been pleased to tell us.
And it wouldn't gain anything for us to surmise to suppose, because he hasn't been pleased to let us know about those things. But it's what he has told us that is important, as one person said, that it wasn't the things that God hadn't told him that concerned him. It was the things that God had told him that he might know them, that he might walk in the good of them and in communion with the Lord. And so do your young people Again, I would say, if you have never read your Bible through.
If you've never really appointed yourself with God's revealed mind, isn't it a good time to start right now? Isn't it a fine thing if you should decide right now that you were at least going to read through what God has told us? Because how can you cleanse your way unless you know what God has said about your way and about His way at all? That he would have you to know, and then it says.
Thy word have I hid in my heart.
Now, that is, we don't read it. Just like a cold textbook, I suppose. When the time came in the spring when school was over, when everybody went on vacation, that everyone was glad to take their school books and put them on the shelf and say, glad to have them out of the way. Well, because what you learn in school doesn't find a place in your heart particularly. It's necessary for your education, It's necessary to pass those examinations.
But it doesn't find a place in your heart. But this blessed book tells you about one who loves you infinitely more.
Than father or mother or any person else in this world. It reveals a person to you. The God who made you, who gave you life and breath and all things, is looking down upon you this afternoon. And you're an individual before him and he knows you. He knows your whole family background. He knows your disposition. The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. There isn't a thing in your life or mine or a whole family background.
That he is not thoroughly acquainted with. And so it says Thy word of thy hid in my heart. A business letter may not mean very much to you, but a letter from someone who loves you, that is of great importance, reminds me of a young lady, and she had a book in her bookcase that she had bought some time just to read out of passing interest. As time went on, she met the young man who had written this book.
She fell in love with him and she was going to marry him. What do you think she did?
Why? She went to the bookcase and said, I must read that book through again. I have an interest in that book I never had before. Why our heart now was taken up with the young man who had written that book? Well, he hadn't written that book for her. But dear young people, God has written this book for you.
Isn't your heart touched by the fact that he should not only tell you that he loved you?
And that it costs far greater than you and I could ever know. He has redeemed us. God could speak worlds into being by just his his own power. He spake, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast. But when it was a question of your salvation and mine, the cost was no less than the giving up of his own beloved Son. Think of it. How much He loves us. Thy word have I hid in my heart.

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Dear young people, what place does the word of God have in your heart? Are there verses in the Bible that you say? Well, I don't like those verses. They they bother me. Oh, I want to tell you that God has written those very verses for your good and for your blessing. Every part of this blessed book ought to find a place in your heart and mind. They're written by one who loves us infinitely.
And whose love will never end. Having loved his own, which were in the world, he loved them on to the end. And then it says, Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And a light under my path around to my feet means that it gives light step by step. God doesn't just give light for your whole pathway from now until the moment of the Lord's return, and all until.
Death should come into your life. He hasn't been pleased to reveal all that's ahead of you in that time. We don't know what's ahead of us. It's a good thing we don't. But he does. He does, And he gives a lamp to our feet, one step at a time.
And as you take that step in communion with him to please him.
Then he gives life for more, just as the light of the car why it shines so many feet.
And then as you move forward, it keeps on shining, keeps on lights the whole way.
So God's word, it's a light to the feet, it's a lamp to the feet, and it's a light to the path. Some have trodden the pathway right to the end. They're at home in the glory with Christ, and they found that the light never failed all along the way, every step of the pathway.
There was light given until the very end. Yes, thy word is a lamb under my feet and a light unto my path. It'll give you wisdom. And that's another reason why it's so important to store your mind with it. Supposing when I was driving along with my car, I said, well, I've seen the light for quite a while, and then turn the lights off. Now see how I get along. Well, I wouldn't get along very well, would I?
We need it constantly. And so with God's Word. Read it, become acquainted with it. And as you go on step by step and turn to the Word of God, you'll find in it guidance for your pathway. And then the other verse that I read was in the 17th song. It says, concerning the works of men. By the words of thy lips have I kept me from the path of the Destroyer.
This is a warning because the word of God which gives us instruction at all, tells us that there is a destroyer. There is one who is seeking to ruin your life and testimony. That is Satan. He is the destroyer. He's speaking to ruin your life and testimony. He doesn't want you to go on for the Lord. He doesn't want you to have a path in which you have the blessing of the Lord.
And his sword says, by the words of thy lips, have I kept me? It reminds me of the that well known book called Pilgrims Progress. There was a certain point in the in the.
Travels of the Christian to Celestial City, where he came to a place where there was a lion, and when that lion roared at him, he became very afraid, but he looked up his chart.
And he found out that in the chart that was given him, telling him the way to the Celestial City.
There there was a place marked on it where the lions would come out against him. But he also found that there was a path that went right through and those lions could not touch him as long as he stayed on the path. As long as he stayed there, the lions were chained and the lions chain was not long enough to reach him. If he stayed on the path, perhaps you'd gone to a house to call on somebody and there was a dog there, the one you saw. The dog was chained. Why? You said well.
I'll stay at such a distance from that he can't get to me, he barked, and he made a big fuss. But you weren't afraid because he couldn't touch you as you walk down the path to the house.

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He was chained and dear young people, God has a path through this world where Satan cannot touch us. He has a path through this world, I say where Satan cannot touch us and we have that path marked out in the word. Do you think you can disobey God's word and say well he won't do anything to me. Satan can't touch me all Peter, he was so self confident, he boasted.
But he didn't realize that in that path of self-confidence the enemy.
Could get him, the enemy could get him and all. How many a young person in self-confidence has thought he could disobey the word of God? Young people have said, well I can go with that unconverted friend and perhaps you'll get saved. And then they've had to reach the rest of their lives married to an unconverted partner and they found out that if they had walked in obedience to the word of God.
They wouldn't have got into such a path. All dear young people, I warn you, there is a path and it's obedience to God's Word. And if you go in disobedience to God's word, there is a watchful foe. He's too clever for me. He's too clever for you. And he knows our weaknesses. He knows just exactly what each one of us are prone to. And he has a a trap laid for us.
But he can't touch us. We walk in obedience to the precious word of God. So it says, by the word concerning the works of man. By the words of thy lips have I kept me from the paths of the Destroyer, and the fifth verse hold up my goings in thy path, that my footsteps Slipknot. This tells us of dependence, not only knowing the path, but walking in at independence on the Lord.
Because only the Lord can preserve anyone of us, young or old. The Lord alone can keep us and preserve us. Do you look up and ask Him to preserve you? Did you ever ask him to keep you in the path of obedience to His word? All He delights to hear? A prayer like that?
He delights to hear one look up and say, preserve me, O God, for in Thee do I put my trust, and if we are seeking that of Him, He delights in our blessing. His word has been given that we might know His mind.
Now I'd like to turn to a couple of verses in the New Testament.
In acts, I think it's.
The 22nd chapter.
Acts 22 and verse 14.
And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that just one, and should just hear the voice of his mouth.
And in Ephesians chapter 5.
Verse 17.
Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is?
And in First Corinthians again in the.
Second chapter.
The 15th verse.
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. If you have a margin, it says, discerned for he For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him. But we have the mind of Christ.
Well, we're told that God has given to us His Word and the other passages that we had and the importance of that word.

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And how it keeps us now it speaks about the understanding of that word.
Perhaps some young person says, well that's my problem. I've read the Bible that I find in it so many verses.
But I just don't understand verses that I can't seem to realize what the Lord is seeking to tell me in those verses. Well, it tells us that when solid Tarsus was saved that Ananias said to him that thou mayest know his will. So the great question is, does God want us to know His will? Does it all depend on our intellect?
Does all depend on how clever we are? Or does God desire?
That we should know his will. Does he intend us to walk in uncertainty through this world?
Not knowing his mind and all these verses show us that one for all of Tarsus was saved and that his the desire of the heart of God was that he should know his will. And so God hasn't just written his word now just to give us many interesting stories.
And to leave a large part of it that we must expect never to understand in our lives, you young people. He wants us to know his will. That's the reason he has written it. And he would teach us, as we shall see in looking at some other verses. And I want to press first of all this thought that not only has he given us his word which reveals his will, but he wants us to know His will. And it says we're not to be unwise, but.
Understanding.
What the will of the Lord is, He would have us to have spiritual intelligence to understand what he has said in His word. Well, of course this is connected with growth and God doesn't teach us everything all at once. When God brought His people, Israel, into the Promised Land, I was just reading the other day and it struck me how he told them. He said I won't drive your enemies out all at once.
Lest the wild beasts multiply upon you, Bodies said little by little I'll drive out your enemies and give you to possess the land. All this showed that there was two things on their part. There was room for spiritual growth on the other part, that there was to be a continual conflict because the enemy would never desire that they should go ahead and possess this land more and more.
Of the land that God had given to them. So we don't expect, and we shouldn't expect, that we're going to understand everything of God's will all at once. It's little by little lying upon line, precept upon precept. But if we are walking in the my His mind, as it's been made known to us, then He will teach us more. And it was said to Saul of Tarsus, But thou mayest know His will.
And might just hear his voice. Oh, that's a precious thing to to know his well and to hear his voice, because it's a person that's brought before us in the word. It's a person. That person, the Lord Jesus, the one who died for us, the one who loves us.
And it was soon coming to claim us to be with himself. And so Paul, in exhorting the dear Ephesian believers, he said that not to be unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And then in this passage in First Corinthians chapter 2, it says, But he that is spiritual discerneth all things well. What does this mean to be spiritual, to discern his mind?
Well, I believe we could say it means walking in communion with God by the Spirit.
Perhaps to make it a little more simple, I might say at the word communion means common thoughts, Common thoughts. We know what it is to have common thoughts with a friend. Did you ever meet a new friend? And then you started talk things over and you were surprised to find out?
How you had common thoughts about many things. Well, God has made known His mind to us.
And he has given us His Holy Spirit so that we might enjoy common thoughts with him. I don't know that there's anything sweeter in this world than to go through life having common thoughts with God, common thoughts with God in connection with everything for your pathway. And he that is spiritual, or he that, if we could put it in this way, who walks in communion by the Spirit.

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Who has common thoughts with God, Why he deserves all things. He discerns the Lorde mind. He's able to discover his mind because he is seeking to be guided, not like the horse of the mule, it says in psalms. Be not as the horse of the mule, who have no understanding whose mouth must be kept in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. God doesn't want to use the bitten bridle of unpleasant circumstances to guide us.
He says, I will guide thee with mine. I will guide thee with mine eye. You have to be near a person to be guided by his eye. You have to be acquainted with the person too. And when you're acquainted with a person, you can just watch their eye. You can tell by the look in that person's eye, whether there's approval or disapproval. Immediately when you know the person, when you're in the habit of walking in that person's company.
You just watch their eyes. I'm sure all of us, if we have a very close friend, we've done that. When someone raised a question and we weren't just sure about what our friends attitude would be, we looked straight in that persons eye. And when we saw how they listened to that story being told, we knew it once, whether our friend approved or disapproved, guided by the eye, well we need to be close to the Lord to be guarded by his eye.
I'm sorry, he says.
He himself is discerned of no man. Others may not understand you too often. Too often the reason we make mistakes is because we're anxious to please everybody, and we can't please everybody if we're going to please the Lord.
We can't please everybody. We're going to displease somebody. And the question is, are you going to displease the Lord, or are you going to displease your friend? If you're putting your friends before the Lord in order to please them, you may displease the Lord. You may dishonor the Lord. But if you're seeking to please the Lord about everything else, if it's to please Him, then you're able to discern his mind. Even though others don't discern you, they don't understand why you do things.
Because it has been said that the motives that govern the heart of the Lord Jesus.
We're not the same motives as govern the heart of the natural man. Paul the natural man is governed by entirely different motives. Everything he does are to satisfy one of the three lusts or the whole 3. When Adam took of the tree, it was because it was pleasant to the eyes, good for food, and he wanted to be watched. That's why he did it. And when unsaved people do things, those are the controlling factors in their lives.
The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. Every advertisement that you see in magazines, newspapers, or anywhere appeal to 1-2 or three of those lusts. That's the the whole motivating principle of the natural man. But as a Christian, you and I are not to be motivated by such principles. We are to do what we do to please the Lord.
If you buy a new car.
I hope you don't just buy it because it's nice looking. I hope you buy it because you want to please the Lord with that car. If you build a house. I hope your thought in building the house is to honor the Lord in it, to please Him. In it, the Christian is delivered by the motives that govern the harm of the natural man. He has no motives at the world. Can't understand the Christians motives. If he is seeking to please the Lord, well if we understand His will, if we discern His will.
We must then expect, we must remember, that others may not understand us. And one of the greatest snares that I know for young people is that they want to be pleasing to everybody. And you'll hear this expression all Daddy, why can't I do it?
Everybody's doing it. Why can't I go here?

Gospel

Gospel—W. Smith

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Whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. #18 Someone started traders.

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Shall we pray?
There are few verses which were imposed upon one.
Being referred to both Saturday night.
From this platform.
And also last night the same scripture was referred to.
And we might turn to it again.
In the 13th chapter of the Acts.
Verse 38.
Be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins.
And by him all that believe are justified from all things from which he could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets.
Behold you despisers, and wonder and fear.
Well, worker work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Saturday night.
We heard of the great solemnity.
Are rejecting.
The Gospel of the grace of God.
It's a solemn thing.
To reject.
The message that God has for you here tonight.
The gospel of this grace.
Has been proclaimed from this.
Platform many times.
It went out in faithfulness last Saturday night.
Yes it did.
All how we were told by the one who spoke.
Of the danger, the solemnity of rejecting.
That gospel which has come down from God himself.
To the person of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Last night here.
We were told that God has a way by which he may be approached.
And God has one way whereby the Sinner.
May come to him.
One way, one way only.
I'm glad you.
Through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Warner died upon Calvary's cross.
In order to save your precious soul, there are many in this room.
Who have come to the Lord Jesus Christ in that way as sinners owning themselves as sinners before a Holy Ghost.
And have availed themselves.
Of that way of approach.
How precious it is.
That the way has been opened up.
Whereby sinners may come to God in their sins, no.
Not in their sins, but cleanse from their sins to come into the presence of God.
In all of value and the person of the person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So in these verses that we've read.
It's being proclaimed.
And the process in these verses.

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Is just as true today.
As in the day they were proclaimed.
Be it known unto you.
That through this man is priest unto you the forgiveness of sin.
What a wonderful thing it is.
To have the consciousness in one soul.
That his sins have been forgiven.
But all the soul that stands in the presence of God in his sin.
What a favorable thing it is.
To have to stand before gone.
Without.
The shelter of the work of Christ.
Or what will it be?
To stand before him.
And to hear him say, depart from me.
That's what it will be.
Because God cannot have sin in his presence.
But that God with whom we have to do is a God of love.
And he's proclaimed as love is manifested as love.
In that he ascend into this world.
His only begotten son.
Lord Jesus Christ.
That whosoever believeth in him should not bear, but have everlasting life.
Do you have everlasting life?
You can have it.
You can have it because God has promised it to those who put their faith.
In the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
God has presented the Lord Jesus Christ to this world as an object of faith.
And it's up to you if you're yet unsaved, my dear friend.
To come in faith, the leading.
That what God has said is true. God is faithful, and God cannot lie.
And what God has said in His precious word is true. Every word of it is true.
And when God says that there is forgiveness of sins to him who believes in Jesus.
God means exactly what he says.
All there are those who seek to alter it.
To change it a little bit.
And say yes, but I have to do my part.
Oh, my dear friend, there is nothing you can do toward the salvation of your soul. There is nothing you can do to that, the forgiveness of your sins.
The work has all been done in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
When he hung upon Calvary's cross.
He could say after those awful 3 hours of darkness.
He could say with a northern transit is finished.
And Bowers had him.
And dismisses spirit.
Yeah, he could do, though.
And so tonight.
In virtue of the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We say here.
With the one who spoke the words in this chapter.
They had known to you, therefore.
That through this man is priest unto you the forgiveness of sinners.
Do you know you're a Sinner?
Or it's true?
This trail that you're a Sinner.
You know the human flesh doesn't like to be told.
That is sinful, but it's true.
And if you're honest with yourself.
You'll have to admit.

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That you are a Sinner.
The word of God to close it all, had some. There is none left out.
All have sinned.
And you, my dear friend.
Are included in that word all that leaves none out.
There's nothing exclusive about it. It's all inclusive because all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
And nothing else will do for the presence of God.
Which meets his own glory.
So God is holy.
We cannot have sin in his presence.
So the center is left.
Hoppers in himself.
But all the grace of God comes in.
Yours is the grace of God.
That has worked out.
A plan of salvation.
How precious it is, God has worked out.
The forgiveness of sin.
We might just turn to the first chapter of Ephesians.
Verse seven, Chapter one.
The Ephesians Chapter One, verse 7.
In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace, Where any of the bonded tortoise in all wisdom and prudence.
Who amongst men could have devised?
The plan whereby a holy God could forgive sin.
I took the wisdom and the prudence of God.
To devise a plan.
Yes, it was a wisdom and prudence of God.
That formulated the plan whereby you may come to him.
Having the forgiveness of sin.
And as according to the riches of his grace.
There is nothing.
Then the speaker or anyone else here in this room tonight.
That would emerge.
God.
Presenting the forgiveness of sins to us. It was only his infinite his sovereign love.
And the riches of his grace that would do it.
Yes, it's that the riches of His grace.
That have brought your.
The forgiveness of sin.
Now let's turn to Colossians.
Chapter One.
We found almost the same words here.
In the 14th verse.
Speaking of the Son of God's love.
In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins.
Who is the image of the invisible gum?
First born of every creature.
Who is it through whom we have the forgiveness of sins?
Oh is the son of God's love.
The one who was the image of the invisible gum. Think of them.
God sent his own beloved Son down here, the very image of him who is invisible.

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And as we find in the first chapter of Hebrews.
The one who was a very expression of the being of God. Think of it.
That is the one who came down into this world.
In all humility.
He came down here having veiled his glory.
And presented himself to men.
As a savior.
He humbled himself and became obedient unto death.
And at that it was the death of the cross.
Why did he go there?
In order that tonight.
You may have offered to you.
The forgiveness of sin.
Oh, what a wonderful period you have tonight.
To close in with God's offer.
The forgiveness of sin.
The one who is the image of the invisible God, the first born.
Of every preacher, he's the one who's a ********. Yeah, he's above all.
Has the highest place of honor in heaven.
But they're one who tonight.
There were also the savior.
You may have him tonight. Yes, you may.
Let us turn to Hebrews 2.
Verse 3.
How shall we escape?
If we neglect so great salvation.
Which of the first began to be spoken by a long and was confirmed under lost by them that heard him?
The salvation.
Which we proclaim the night.
First began to be spoken by our Lord Himself when He was down here in this world.
And it's the same salvation which we proclaimed tonight.
Same thing, the forgiveness of sins.
Through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
John 316 which is the basis for the hymn we sang tonight.
Where the world took place by our Lord Jesus Christ Himself when he was down here.
And as a gospel in a nutshell.
And has been used much.
In the salvation of soul.
Now this verse in Hebrews tells us.
There is a warning.
How shall we escape if we neglect?
So great salvation.
No, it doesn't take very much.
To neglect.
There may be a willingness on the part of the hearer to accept the gospel of the grace of God.
But at a later date.
Tonight just are neglected.
The night to put it all until a more convenient time.
As one of those, I will hear thee at a more convenient time.
And as far as we know, that more convenient time never came.
For that man.
How many are who have passed into a loft? Eternity.
Fully untending and at some time to put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
But they never found their convenient time, They just neglected to do it.
All there is a warning, your house will be escape.
If we neglect so great salvation.
Is it true with you tonight?
Is that your attitude?
I don't think enough of it.
To accept it tonight.
Although some other time.
I have something more important to do now.

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All you know, God speaks once, you ate twice.
But man perceiveth it not.
The time comes when God ceases to speak to the soul.
That neglects and that puts off.
The offer of this great.
To solemn things, to neglect.
That word which is spoken of which is spoken down here by the very Lord of glory.
And he came down here for that very purpose.
To proclaim the gospel.
Came down here.
Went to Calvary's Cross in order that we might be able to portray the gospel tonight.
William is neglected.
Or if you do, be aware.
You might not escape.
How many there are that have gone out of a Gospel meeting?
Never to return because their lives had been taken away.
From them.
And you know, there is another reason.
A reason which is a joy to those who know the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior.
For one of great solemnity to the rejecter of the gospel of God.
That is, the Lord may come yet tonight.
And you have no other opportunity to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior.
Now we turn back.
To the Acts again 13th chapter.
By him all that believed.
Are justified in all things.
From which he could not be justified by the law of Moses.
We said earlier.
But a wholly gone cannot have sin in his presence.
The channel.
You will not have sin in His presence.
So how is it?
That a Sinner.
Can, No.
That he can come into the presence of God.
We were told last night of the way of approach to God.
That God himself has devised the way.
God himself has opened up that way.
Whereby a man may be justified.
Before gone.
Think of it.
The man may be just.
That is looked at in the sight of God as though he has no sins upon him.
Through the work of the Lord Jesus.
And for that we might turn to Romans, the third chapter.
Verse 23.
For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Whom God has sent forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that have passed through the forbearance of God to declare, I say at this time His righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
I'd like to speak for a minute.
First of all, on the 26th verse.
That God.
Is the one.
Who is the author?
Of justification.
God himself is the author.

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Of justification.
Now how can a Holy Garden?
Offer justification.
To a Sinner.
And God overlooks him.
Oh no, God cannot. He will not overlook sin.
But God in his wisdom and prudence.
Have devised a plan whereby he may be just.
And the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.
Oh, how precious, how wonderful it is.
To know that I can be justified.
In the sight of a Holy Ghost.
You know a man.
May stand before the bar of justice.
And he made the innocent and be acquitted.
If no charge against that man when he leaves, that court is acquitted.
Because he did not commit the crime of which he was accused.
Hello, here is 1 by way of illustration, who stands before the bar of justice?
His guilty.
He pleads us guilty enough.
And such may be the circumstances.
That the judge may forgive him.
That which has been committed.
That man can go out the Freeman.
From the presence of the court.
But against his name, there is a crime.
Will it be forgiven?
But a senior comes to God only going to self as a Sinner.
And coming.
The leading in the Lord Jesus Christ.
It comes as a Sinner.
That comes believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Or he's made just as though he had never committed one sin.
Perfectly just in the sight of a holy Gom, his sins are gone.
Yes.
Yes, the sins are gone.
So they can come into the presence of God.
Just as though he had never sinned.
How precious that is.
And God himself is the author of that plan.
Now in the 23rd verse.
It tells us that I have sinned.
And so you and I.
Stand guilty before.
The Holy Ghost.
For all it says in the 24th verse.
Being justified freely by his grace.
Through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Oh, what a wonderful thing it is.
Is the grace of God that has been manifested.
Grace is a very spring.
Of justification.
Being justified freely by his grace.
You know, sometimes when one comes to us.
Having offended.
Running forgiveness.
Or it may be given grudgingly.
Yes, I'll forgive you if you won't do it again.

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Or when a Sinner comes to God.
On the basis of the 23rd verse at all of sinned and come short of the glory of God.
The answer from God himself is being justified freely by His grace.
Show the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. What a wonderful thing it is to be justified freely.
Or can you think of anything more wonderful than that they can come from the heart of a God of love?
To be justifying and not freely.
This through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Yeah, it comes right back again.
To the man of Calvary.
Practice him who dried there upon a cross.
And her bore red judgment.
That was my just due.
Yes, God put upon him all my sins.
And he bore that judgment. He paid the debt.
So that now God can justify freely.
Or are all those that come to him as sinners?
How is it with you?
What about these boys and girls?
Course that week after week under the sound of the gospel.
Do you know yourself?
What are you to be justified? Freely biased grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Have you put your faith in him?
Have you come to the Lord Jesus Christ?
Owning your savior. You're a Sinner and you take him as a savior.
All your sinned. The word of God says that you've sinned and you've come short of the glory of God.
You can never in yourself measure up to that standard.
Is beyond the ability of man.
To raise himself to that standard and nothing less than that would do.
For God himself.
But now God comes out.
And all his grace in the riches of His grace.
And it justifies freely.
Do you want to know what it is to be justified freely by His Grace?
All at the very spring of God's justification for the Sinner.
Now let's look at the 5th chapter of Romans.
Verse 9 or verse 8 rather.
God commanded his love toward us.
You're not far over yet, Sinner. Christ died for us.
Much more than being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath.
Through him.
What we have read here tells us so much of the love of God.
God commanded his loved daughters in that war. Really. Yet sinners.
Christ died for him.
Was man beseeching God to send a savior down here?
Oh no.
It was God's plan. There was godly communities loved toward her.
And when the Savior came?
What kind of a reception did he get?
He came to his own, and his own received him not.
No, they wouldn't receive him.
But what they did do was to nail into a cross and set away with them.
There was man's reception of the blessed Son of God.
He came down here to offer himself as a savior to men.

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And then nailed him to the cross.
Will you take that savior tonight?
Or will you say no, I don't want him. I won't have him. Are you going to put yourself in the same class as those who nailed into the cross? They said I waited and they don't want him.
Do you want him or you can have him tonight?
You can take him as a savior now. You can have him right now, if you will.
All this world stands condemned for their treatment.
Of the Lord Jesus Christ.
But you know.
After the Lord Jesus had dismissed his spirit after he said it is finished, and then bowed his head and just missed his spirit, there came a soldier, and with a spear he pierced his side of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Forthwith came throughout blood in the water, the Scripture tells us.
The scripture also tells us without shedding of blood is no remission.
It's on the basis of the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That you and I can be justified.
And the ninth verse, which we read in this 5th chapter, tells us.
That our justification.
Is on the ground of the shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
That's a grand.
Grace is the spring of it.
Well, it must be on the basis or on the ground of that shed blood.
We were reminded last night.
That the whale approach to come all through the scripture is on the basis.
Of the shedding of blood, death must come in. Yes, death must come in.
And all those animals which were slain and all the accounts we have in the Old Testament.
All that pointed on to the time when the Lord Jesus Christ would hang upon Calvary's cross and his blood there would be shed.
God can justify freely by his grace.
But only on the ground.
Of the shedding of blood.
And that blood.
Of his own beloved Son.
The con man come down here into this world as a man.
In order that he might go to the cross and they're dry and his blood be shattered for the forgiveness of your sins.
Doesn't mean anything to you. Is there a response in your heart?
To hear about him as a one who came down here for your sake.
God, tremendous love to you.
Or while you're yet a Sinner.
God commanded love to you.
Yeah.
Christ died for you.
Will you have him? He is yours for the taking tonight, if you'll only have him as your savior.
Always say, how do you know? How do you know that this is true?
Let's look at the last verse.
Of the 4th chapter of this Epistle to the Romans.
For the last words of the 24th verse.
We believe in Him that raised up Jesus, our Lord from the dead who was delivered for our offenses.
And was raised again for our justification.
The Lord Jesus.
When it died upon Calvary cross.

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Was put into the tomb.
He was buried.
Yeah.
There was a death of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And the shedding of his blood that avails for the forgiveness of sins.
Or precious, that is, he will deliver for our offenses.
And the speaker can put himself into that alone. With many in this room. We can appropriate that for ourselves that he was delivered for our offenses.
But how about you?
Can you put your name in that three letter word? Owl. Oh, you are.
Did you put your name there? He was delivered for my offenses.
Hello. There's more than that.
He was raised again for our justification.
God has given us ample proof that he was fully satisfied with the work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He was raised by the joy of the Father out of death.
Yes, he was.
Death could not hold him.
He was a sinless 1.
Rory, for my sins upon the cross.
But those sins are all gone.
He was raised again for our justification.
Yeah, he's up on high on the glory of the proof that my sins are gone, that I'm just.
Before wholly gone.
Oh, how wonderful it is to have him up there as a proof.
But my sins are gone.
Oh, he bore my sins. He was made sin for me.
God cannot have sin in his presence.
Another work would not perfect. He could not have gone back to the glory.
He would have remained in the grave.
That all, thank God. So perfect, was at work that not one sin remains.
All have been justified in the sight of God, and the proof of it is a very fact that the Lord Jesus Christ, when the work was done, took his seat at the right hand of the majesty on high.
What more proof do you want than that that God is satisfied with the work of the Lord Jesus?
The Sinner can be justified in the sight of God.
Today, there is more than that.
The first verse of the 5th chapter tells us therefore being justified by faith.
We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Oh, it must be on the principle of faith.
If I want to be saved, and if you were to be saved, it must be on the principle of faith, putting your imposite trust in the word of God, that what God says is true, that the one who had delivered for our offenses and raised for our justification.
Here's the one in whom we put our trust and our faith. Or will you take him tonight?
Will you believe him? Will you believe God?
There's a verse in the third chapter of John's Gospel that says he that hath received this testimony of foot to his seal that God is true.
Do you believe that testimony that you have in the word of God?
But there is forgiveness of sin.
What there is justification for the Sinner? Do you believe it?
Have you put your seal upon that God is true?
Oh, it's true.
You may take guarded word.
Because God cannot lie.
And God offers to you tonight.
Forgiveness is sin the obvious to your justification in His sight.

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Yes it does.
Now let's turn back again to Acts 13.
Verse 40.
Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets.
Behold, you despisers, and wonder and perish for our worker work in your days.
A work register in no wise believe though a man declare it.
Under you.
See, our time is running out.
These meetings.
Are almost completed.
Yes, but more serious than that.
The Day of Grace.
Has almost run out.
We believe.
With all sincerity.
But the coming of the Lord is near.
And following that.
The time when God is going to work, They work.
Which he has proclaimed in his word.
A work of judgment.
Upon those who reject the gospel of the grace of God.
He gave warning.
In days of old, upcoming judgment.
And these words, which we have here, are a quotation from the Old Testament.
Warning the people in that game that judgment was coming.
And judgment came.
And after death that came.
The word proclaimed by the servant of God on that day was true.
He proclaimed the word of God.
And tonight we proclaim that judgment is coming.
Upon those who reject the gospel of the grace of God.
But God does not act without forewarning.
And if there's one here who does not yet know the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, the warning of going up to you, beware.
Because judgment is coming.
And is coming upon those.
Who are the rejectors of the Gospel?
We get turned to, but we won't take time of how gone.
Proclaims that the day is coming when God is going to send strong illusion in this world.
Yes, God is going to send a strong delusion in this world.
To whom?
To those who would not believe the truth.
They would not receive the truth.
And what are they left? If they reject the truth, what is their left but to believe a lie?
Then the result.
This judgment damnation from the hand of a holy God.
The guard who tonight seeks to justify the Sinner who proclaims himself as a God, who will justify him through the work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
But the day is coming.
When that one were proclaimed tonight as a savior.
Is going to sit as a judge.
Yeah, she's going to sit as a judge.
And in that day.
All those who have died outside of Christ.
Will stand before him.
And have to answer.
For their sins.
And they will be judged every man according to his work.
Where will you be in that day?
Will you be standing before that great white throne?

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You know they can't picture that scene.
What scene of the awful majesty?
Of a holy God.
Sitting upon his throne.
From his face.
The heaven and the earth.
Are going to flee away.
And you, my dear friend.
If you do not have the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, you will be there standing before that throne.
Maintained there by the power of God.
And to hear those awful words.
This part into the lake of fire.
Oh, it's real.
It's just as true.
There is a fact that the Lord Jesus Christ came down here into this world to die as a savior for sinners. It's just as true that he will sit at that time.
As the judge.
He is a judge both of the living and the dead.
All our awful idiots to depart out of this world.
Neglecting or rejecting.
God's offer of salvation. Or may you not go away from here without knowing what it is to have the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior.
Shall we sing #2?
Come just Jesus, gently calling me with care and toil oppressed with your guitar air falling. Come and I will give you rest for your sin. You once has suffered on the cross the work was done, and the word by God now uttered to each weary soul is come #2.

Enoch

Address—C.D. Andersen

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I'd like to say a little bit about Enoch this afternoon.
We were reading on the 13th of John's Gospel.
What we have before us Teeth washing.
And we were certainly impressed with the need of having clean feet.
And the purpose of it, of course, is that we might walk through this wilderness scene in a way pleasing to God.
It was important for people to have clean feet physically. It's much more important for us to have clean feet spiritually.
And there's much to define the walk here in this world. And certainly we need the cleansing of the large forest.
And since we were talking about clean sleep this morning, I thought we might say something about the walk here this afternoon. That's what brought the forest in connection with Enoch.
In the 5th chapter of Genesis.
Starting with verse 18.
And Jared lived in 160 and two years, and he begot enough.
And Jared lived after he began Enoch 800 years and begat sons and daughters.
And all the days of Jared were 960 and two years, and he died.
And we not lived 60 and five years and begot Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years and he got friends and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were 360 and five years.
And Enoch walked with God, and he was not.
For God took him.
Now, there's some references to Enoch in the New Testament.
And I believe I read them at this time. There's one in Hebrews.
11Th chapter.
Let's try.
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found because God had translated him, but before his translation at this testimony that he pleased God.
But without faith it is impossible to please him.
For he that cometh to God must believe that years, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him, and one is you.
I.
Verse 14.
And Enoch also the several from Adam from the side of the say.

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Behold, the Lord cometh with 10,000 of his Saints, or myriads of his Saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all the ungodly deeds, who said ungodly committed, and of all their heart species which ungodly sinners.
Have spoken against him.
There are two other references, at least made to Enoch in the Scripture.
But they're found. His name is found in the genealogy in the Old Testament and also in the New Testament in Luke's Gospel.
But these scriptures that we've read concerning Enoch are the ones that concern us this afternoon.
We find that Enoch, as Jude tells us, was the 7th from Adam, the 7th from Adam.
Coming down a ways in the history of this world.
And they lived a long time in those days.
So we found that Enoch comes down in time many years.
And.
Enoch.
Had had contact with Adam. In fact, Enoch lived most of his life.
I knew. Or it was possible, at least for him to have known, seen and talked without him.
Which is a remarkable thing. It's a very significant thing than Enoch could have had fellowship with Adam and they could have talked over the things that.
Took place in the very beginning of this earth's history, the history of mind. And Adam could have talked with Enoch about what God had told him about the sacrifices. How God.
Killed those animals and made coats of skin and clothe them.
This could have been told the Enoch by Adam. Well, it's not told us here in the scripture all of that detail, but it's very significant that Enoch had contact, could have had contact with Adam.
Well, perhaps there's a reason for that.
God's all wise, but what concerns us mostly this afternoon is just exactly what's said here about Enoch.
It says Enoch lived 60 and five years in the Jackmathus.
Now that was the first period of Enochs life. There were three. There were three periods in Enochs life. This is the 1St 165 years up until the time that he begotten Methuselah. Then it tells us that he lived 300 years after that and then God took it.
He was translated to heaven. So there's another period in Eunuch's life of 300 years.
And then when God took him.
That began another period, which we might call the eternal period.
3 periods and Enoch's life.
Now if you're saved here this afternoon.
You've gone through one period of your life, the unsaved part of it.
And I trust that there's no one in this room that still in that first period of your life in the unsaved park, I trust you've gotten out of that.
I trust, as you know, the Lord Jesus Christ is your Savior, and also that you're walking with God.
And if you know Christ as your Savior, and you are walking with God, and will be walking with God until the Lord comes.
You'll not only be saved and go to heaven, but you'll have an abundant entrance.
And then we'll come that third period of your life, eternal joy, with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, everyone comes into this world of scenery.
And you must need to enter into that first period.
Of his life.
But the Lord Jesus Christ said you must be born again.
And unless you're born again, you have not entered into the second period of life. May God be gracious to you this afternoon and help you to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior. That there might be a change from the old order of things into the new. That you might disconnect yourself from the old atom creation and become connected with the Lord Jesus Christ who is the head.

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Of new creation.
It's very necessary that you should be born again, the Lord said. He must be born again.
But it is enough simply to be born again.
To be saved? Is that all God wants? Is that his whole desire for us?
Well, I don't believe it was enough or enough. God wanted enough to have a change. There must come a change into his life, and he also wanted him to walk with him.
And because it's referred to in scripture twice.
That he walked with God, the Spirit of God, makes something of it. It's very important to walk with God.
It says that he walked with God after he begat Methuselah.
Now when he begat Methuselah.
The law had ordered things in such a way that Enoch became exercised.
He evidently got some word from the Lord, some revelation from the Lord that stirred him up.
Stir them up to walk with God from that point on.
Where we understand the name Methuselah means when when he dies, I'll send it.
Well, not least up with what we have in Jews.
Enoch knew something about judgment to karma.
And he prophesied, so evidently he was a prophet. And he said.
Behold the Lord come up.
We hold the Lord coming way back in those days.
A word had gone out about the coming of the Lord.
And he said he's coming with mirrors of his Saints. Let's thank our the revelation that had been given way back then, the days of Enoch. And he said he's coming with his Saints to execute judgment. But we have more details about that now, don't we? We have details about that in the book of Thessalonians and over in Revelation.
And we know that we who know the Lord Jesus Christ the Savior, are going to be associated with Him in His glory. We're going to be with him when He comes back to this world, to judge this word as it tells us in Revelation 19, to smite the nation and to rule them with a rod of iron.
What a glorious thing for Enoch to know. Oh, no wonder something happened to him. He knew judgment was coming. Oh, he didn't have all the details of it. I suppose that that we have. Perhaps you wonder how Jude knew about this. How could Jude know that Enoch was a prophet? Because we don't read anything about it in the Old Testament.
Well, it was given to you by inspiration. And when Jude wrote that little epistle, he was writing by inspiration. It was God himself that was giving him that information, and he was writing it down. That's how we know it.
And that's how we know a lot of things. Take, for instance, the thoughts of people that are recorded in Scripture. How could the writers possibly know what anyone was thinking?
It was only by the Spirit of God that they could write this down. It was written by inspiration. And those are some of the marks in the word of God that tells us that it is the word of God. Oh, it's a book that's different from all other books.
Men are old, wrote as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Isn't it wonderful to have a book like that in our hand?
Last night our brother in the gospel was telling us about Abel and how Abel was referred to several places in the New Testament.

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And telling us that.
If the critics of the Word of God are going to throw out the 1St 11 Chapters of Genesis, they'll have a lot of other things to throw out.
And we find that this man Enoch.
Is referred to and spoken out here in these first few chapters of Genesis.
And he also is referred to in the New Testament and what's written of him in the New Testament. If the first few chapters of Genesis are not the truth, the word of God, we'll have to throw out these other Scriptures and say that they're not the word of God either. And you know, if you begin that kind of a thing, it's a process and you wind up sooner or later with other things.
Without one word of this book.
And that is, of course, what is behind all of this kind of a scheme to get rid of a whole word of God. If one part of this Bible can be discredited, you can discredit the whole house. And what a solemn faith. May God give us grace to cleave to His word, honor His Word.
How can we keep the word of God?
How will we be able to have it in our hands to be sure that it's our home? By practicing it? By walking it?
You know, we have only as much as the word of God, really, as we walk in.
And we need grace from God to put into practice the whole truth of God's word.
It's only as we practice the truth that we can hold the truth. And if we are reluctant about practicing the truth, the truth is going to slip away from us. It's a solemn thing.
And.
We're living in a day, I suppose something like Enoch's day. Enoch lived just before the days of Noah.
And just before the days when judgment came upon this world, the judgment of the Flood.
And we are living in the days just before the Son of Man is coming.
In judgment upon this world, the time in which we're living, I believe, is similar to the time in which Enoch was living.
Perhaps you say, while it was easier for Enoch to walk with God, or wasn't really, was it really easy for him to walk with God? Here's a man that singled out as walking with God in that period of time.
I don't believe it was easy for him to walk with God.
Well, it's not easy for us, but God gave enough grace to walk with him, and he can give us grace to walk with God too.
This matter of walking with God.
Is a matter of going along with him and sweet communion and fellowship with him, not allowing anything in our lives that will put us at a distance from Him. So often that's what happens to us. Something comes into our life we've allowed through carelessness or something else. And I think it has gotten in between US and God, and we're at a distance from him. And so in a way, it can be said that we're not walking with God.
We're walking afar off. Peter was following the Lord afar off. And then Peter sat outside with the woolies and warned them South of the world's fire. What a sad thing it was for Peter to be as far off following the Lord afar off, not walking with the Lord, not being near to him. Well, I believe walking with God means that we're near to God.
And close fellowship and communion with Him without anything, without any cloud between US and Him.
Well, we heard this morning that full provision has been made for us that there shouldn't be any cloud between US and God so that we could go on in happy communion and fellowship with Him. Now God wants us to be happy for him, and the devil sees to it that we are unhappy.
Satan doesn't want us to walk with God. Satan doesn't want us to have happy fellowship and communion with God. He's not interested in that at power. He wants us to draw us away from him, But God wants us to be close to himself. He wants us to be happy because it's the only place of true happiness.

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She would like to see us walking a crooked pathway, moving from side to side and getting off into a bipath.
Wants us to make straight times for our feet.
That we might want a straight path for ourselves, and then that, and also that that which is lame be not turned out of the way we walk a straight path. We can be a help to others, but if we walk a crooked path.
We might be a hindrance to others.
It makes me think of what our brother Alicorn was talking about.
And when he told it, I remembered about my visits to Saint Vincent.
And he was telling us that when the donkey walks down the road, he goes from side to side. And when I stop to think about that, I remembered watching the donkeys down in Saint Vincent, how they were going to the field, down the path, down the road. They just wander off from side to side down the road. They couldn't walk a straight path.
Well, the scripture tells us not to be like the mule.
Or the donkey.
God wants us to walk a straight path, not be wandering from sight to sight.
Now it tells us here in verse 24.
God took it. He was not.
God took it.
It's not wonderful to be taken right to heaven. That might happen to us here today.
If the Lord should descend from heaven with Archangel voice, the trump of God, the dead in Christ should rise. We that are living here would be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air.
And it could be said of us, then, that we're not.
God has taken.
Would not be a precious thing. The Lord would take us right up through this ceiling on up to glory.
I wonder if everyone would go up.
Would you go along?
Or would you stay behind?
Thinking about the coming of the Lord does something to us, John tells us in his epistle. He that hath this hope in him purifies himself.
Well, I believe that's what worked in Enoch's life. He got the Lord before him, the coming of the Lord, even though it was a matter of judgment that he was talking about. Yet he got the Lord's coming before him.
And it did something to his life Keep the Lord's coming before you. May God give us grace to do that, because it's a purifying hope.
If I'm thinking about the Lord coming right now, I'm going to be careful about my walk, what I'm doing, what I'm saying, where I'm going, what A and what I'm going on with.
All. There are many things that.
Satan has provided in this world of his.
For people, the large people to go on with and to be taken up with, to be occupied with all our statements provided many things to take up our time and our attention and our energy.
Oh, may the Lord give us grace to be occupied with him, and he's coming again.
And if it's a matter of judgment, we're thinking about the Lord coming in judgment, remember, and all of this, this scene is going to be judged. The Lord says now is the judgment of this world, now is the Prince of this world cast out. And that was just before he went to the crown.
This world is set for judgment. Judgment is coming.
And the Lord will take us home, and then you'll come back here to judge this world.
And what a solemn thing that will be for those who are left behind. What a solemn thing it was for those who were left behind in Enoch's day and went on into judgment of that flood.
The Lord was gracious to Methuselah. He died just before the flood came. He wasn't taken away by that judgment.
And there were others that weren't taken away by that judgment. But there were those multitudes that were taken away by that judgment of the flow. Or what a solemn piece.

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Now let's look at the scripture over in.
In Hebrews that we read.
Hebrews Chapter 11 and verse 5. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death.
By faith, Enoch was translated.
Was it because of anything in himself that Enoch was translated?
Up to heaven? No. It was by faith. Faith in what? Faith in the word of God. Faith in whom? faith in God himself. His eyes were upon God. His confidence was in God. He was trusting in him. He wasn't trusting in himself all. There are many people today who are trusting in themselves and they think by by their own Ways and Means they're going to get to heaven. No Enoch was thrust in God by faith. He was translated.
That he should not see death.
And those of us who are going to be in the glory, we're going to praise him.
Because he is the one that has saved us and brought us there.
And we thank God that he's given us the faith to trust him.
And was not found to say.
They must have been looking around for Enoch.
I suppose when we're gone, there will be those that will be looking around for us.
What a glorious thing it will be for us to be with him, but what a sad thing for those who would be left down here looking around for me.
I suppose we might say that Enoch was the mystery man of that time. What happened to Enoch? Where'd he go?
Something like you like.
There were those who wanted to go out and look for him, but they had to come back without finding him. They didn't find Elijah.
It's a privilege for us to belong to that company.
That might be considered the mystery company.
Were not understood in this world now, and I believe the closer we walk with God, the more we'll be misunderstood and people won't be able to understand it. And maybe you're a little bit ashamed of that. Maybe that affects you.
And you don't want somebody to think that you're queer, strange. You want to be just an ordinary person in this world like everybody else.
All the pressures being put on today to make us conform, conform to the world in its ways, and we certainly need much grace from the law and wisdom.
That we might take our stand. That we might not be pressured into conforming, conforming to this world.
God is translated here.
It's been wonderful that we can leave all of this with God.
Knew how to take units to heaven, and God knows how to take us to heaven too. And we don't have to be worried about the details of this. We try to analyze it, look into it, but just trust the one who's going to take us home. Just keep our eyes fixed upon him. The occupied with him. He's taking care of our salvation. He'll take care of our translation too.
Now tells us in the end of verse 5, For before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God.
Would you like to have a testimony like that? Would you like to have God say that about you? Just think this is in the in the word of God. And God has said heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall never pass away on this record here. This witness that God has given will never pass away. It will always be there.
Certainly we want that kind of a witness too, and we wanted record that we please God.
He pleased God.
Do you want to please draw? Is that your desire?

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But how did he please God? It says. But without faith it is impossible to please him.
With our faith, it is impossible to please him.
And what is faith?
Faith sets to its seal that God is true. In other words, it rests upon what God has said. You say you have faith. It means you're resting on what God has said. What God has said means everything to you.
You're all wrapped up and what God has said, that's the foundation on which you're standing. You've got. You have confidence in that.
You have faith in God and in his words.
But it tells us, for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.
He is Faith is a personal faith. Faith is confidence in the word of God, and faith is confident is confidence in the person himself and leaving that he is a person who loves them and cares for.
What's wrong with the world today, generally speaking?
They don't believe in God. They don't come to God.
If they had faith, they would come to God, frosting in him and in what he says.
You have to have to do with God.
In the Garden of Eden, doubt came in. Satan brought in doubt.
And said to Eve, ye hath God said.
Putting doubt into her mind as to the truth of the word of God. And then she said, You know that in the day you eat of this tree, you'll be like gods to no good and evil.
Next, he threw doubt into her mind as to the portion of God his goodness.
First doubting the word, then doubting his goodness.
Well, that's what's going on today. The enemy is still busy seeking to get you to doubt dark words and seeking to get you to doubt God himself, His person, His goodness.
And even after we're saved, perhaps we have believed the goodness of God in sending his Son to die for.
We received him as our savior, but Satan is still busy trying to make us God's goodness.
God wants you to walk a certain pathway down here, the pathway of faith. He wants you to please him.
And you know that in order to please God, it means that you have to be occupied with with certain things, and you have to give up certain other things.
And.
Perhaps there's something that comes before you and you, your conscience tells you and you feel that it's according to the word of God that this thing that you're going on with you ought to give up. But there's a battle there and you don't like to give it up. And perhaps you even go so far as to find a little fault with God and and expecting you to walk a straight path down here and wondering why God wouldn't allow you to deviate a little this way and go a little bit that way.
You're doubting God's gluten.
And that's a solemn thing to doubt God's goodness.
Don't you suppose that God desires the very best for you? Yes, you don't. He desires the very best for us as we're going through this world. And what is the very best for us to walk pleasing to Him?
It's a pathway of happiness, obedience, and happiness altogether. And if you obey the word of God and walk that straight path to please the Lord.
You will be supremely happy.
And if you if you're not happy.
Well then God's not true, but his Word is true, and you will be happy and you prove that God is good. Oh how good He is. But we're prone to doubt God's goodness to say, Oh well.
If I have to do this and walk this straight path, God's just expecting too much of me.

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Why? God surely doesn't expect us to just walk that straight and narrow path.
He wanted to have a good time, doesn't he?
What do you mean by having a good time?
Indulging the flesh, going in for the desires of the flesh, satisfying them. Is that really a good time? When you come right down to it and think about it, meditate upon Is that really having a good time?
Well, what happens after you've indulged the flesh? You've done those things that please yourself. You feel really happy? No, you don't.
If you're honest with yourself, you have to admit, well, no, that isn't the way of happiness. That isn't the way of peace and joy.
He that cometh to God was believed that he is and not he is a rewarder of them that diligently shake it diligently seek him out, or make him the object of their hearts. Affection. He is rewarded of this, as that tells us that God is good.
There's going to be a reward for those that diligently seek him out and make him the object of their heart's affection.
You know your conscience.
Peace because you believed and the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that puts away sin.
As far as your conscience is concerned, all is well.
But is that all God is interested in? Just giving a piece of conscience?
No, God wants us to have a satisfied heart too.
And you can't have a satisfied heart unless the Lord Jesus Christ is the object of your heart. He's the only one that can fill it. He's the only one that can satisfy.
Now let us look at that scripture over in June.
Now we were saying that Enoch lived in the days preceding the days of Noah, the days of the flood, the days of coming judgment.
And we're living in the same kind of days.
And the Lord said, as it was in the days of no, so shall it also be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man. So the days are similar, and we find it right here in June. Well, that that's the reason the Spirit of God is brought in there. This end here in the book of Jude, because Jude brings before us apostasy, and especially apostasy, as connected with holiness. A departure from holiness, not only departure from faith, but the holiness of faith.
And all dear young people.
Satan is attacking.
Not only the young people, but the older ones too. He's attacking us these days and he wants to drive us down and cause us to walk on unholy path through this world.
We find that there are two things in the book of Jude that are mentioned.
In verse 4.
Speaks of certain men who crept in, unaware, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness.
Turning the grace of our God into a seriousness.
Well, simply, I believe it means this.
All we say God is so good, He's not going to bring us into account.
For any sin that we commit.
Illusionist coming in an indifference as to to evil, sin, moral evil.
The thought is while God is not going to be too hard on us and we can go ahead and do as we please and indulge the flesh, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness.
But Titus tells us a different story about grace. Grace teaches us holiness.
Grace teacheth us to go on pleasing to him. Just because God is gracious doesn't mean that he's not going to judge siege. Perhaps we think about the unsaved when we think about God judging sin.

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Yes, we know they're going to be judged.
But a child of God if he's close and goes on with sin?
You'll be judged too.
Well, it's a solemn thing that sin must be judged.
Oh, May God give us grace, that we might be kept from walking an unholy path, turning the grace of God into vessel, abusing the grace of God, thinking, oh God is gracious, He, he won't make us give a count for what we've done. Well, yes he will. All things are naked and opened under the eyes of him.
With whom we have to do. And the next thing is denying the Lord, the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. That's another thing that's characteristic of this time, denying the authority of the law, not submitting to authority.
Well, if you're if you think it over, you can see just exactly what's going on today. That's what's going on, going on in an unholy way, disregardless of of of God and his goodness thinking, well, God is good, he won't, he won't judge it. And then on the other hand, not submitting to the accord of the Lord Jesus Christ, perhaps saying with the mouth that Jesus is lost.
But not really owning it down in the heart.
All important to this for us.
To watch these two things because we are living in days similar to the days in which Enoch lived, and we need grace to walk with God as he walked with God.
And remember.
That what Enoch said is still true. Behold, the Lord cometh with 10 thousands of His Saints to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all ungodly deeds which they've ungodly committed, and of all our heart speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Or perhaps you say, well, everybody is doing it, That's all right for me to do it.
Notice that expression in verse 15 among them.
We are among those in Christendom. We are part of Christendom.
We're among them.
But we're not to go on with what they're going on with. If they're going on with moral evil, it's not for us to go on with it. If they're going on with an insubmissive attitude toward the Lord Jesus Christ, we're not to go on that way. We're to be subject to the law and we're to have purpose of harping that will not allow ourselves to defeated, fired with the things of this world.
And.
Become entangled in the moral corruption that's ransomed on every hand today.
Now let us turn to 1St Thessalonians Chapter 4.
1St Thessalonians 4 This chapter has been called the Enoch chapter.
First of all, in the first part of the chapter we get what mentioned and how we ought to please God.
And then in the last part of the chapter we get the coming of the Lord. I suppose that's the reason it's called the Enoch charity. First there's the walk, and then there's the translation to glory, to be with Christ, as we see with the case of Enoch.
So in verse one of chapter 41, Thessalonians, we read. Furthermore, then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how you ought to walk, and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
We were singing in our hymn about advancing.
Are we satisfied that we've reached a certain stage, a certain point in our Christian growth? Are we satisfied with that and think, well, I would just stay there should we ever be satisfied.
That we have reached as far as God wants us to reach in this seat. Never should we be satisfied.
To advance should be in our hearts and minds continually.

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Peter says grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
God doesn't want us to come to a certain point and stop there. He wants us to grow, continue to grow. And there's a lot of room for growth.
Well, Paul had already told these Thessalonians how they ought to walk and to please God.
It's a very necessary part of the Christian life.
Wonderful to be saved, nor our sins forgiven that we're on our way to heaven.
But how about walking to please God?
He says that he wants them to abound more and more, more and more. That's the exercise of our hearts. It should be to abound more and more in walking to please God.
How are you walking? How am I walking?
It says how you ought to walk, how you ought to walk.
And it's a good thing for us to ask ourselves, how am I walking? Am I wanting to please God?
That should be the exercise of our hearts every day. Every morning we get up and ask the Lord for grace and wisdom as to how to walk and that we might have strength to walk.
Now it goes on further down in this chapter.
And we might say that it brings before some shocking things.
And I'd like to connect this up with you that we've already referred to.
Because there seems to be something.
Some connection between the wall and these moral evils that are coming in today and dear young people.
You're going to have to look to the Lord for grace.
That you might stand aloof from these moral evils that are sweeping in.
Oh, the enemy is coming in like a flood. But it tells us in Isaiah that when that's the case, the Spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against him. And if you cry to the Lord to keep you, He'll keep you. But if you become careless in your life and don't feel that you need to pray and ask the Lord for keeping you, don't express your dependence upon the Lord. Look out. You may have a fault. We can't keep ourselves. We can't trust ourselves.
Proverbs tells us he that trusteth in his own heart is a fool.
He, that trusteth in his own heart, is a tool. We can't trust ourselves. There's only one that we can trust. And as the Blessed One, the Lord Jesus Christ who has saved us.
We'll just read on down in that chapter and you'll be shocked to see what's there. And I trust the spirit of God will take it and apply it to your heart, and apply it to my heart too, because we're living in a wicked, evil world and we're not. We don't want to be disillusioned as to this. And the closer we get to the end, the more pressure state is going to put on us and he's he'll try his utmost.
To.
To work it out some way that there might be a fall into Sid in our lives, May God help us, but we might be kept in these last days.
We might look at another scripture that.
Brings before us the thought of pleasing the Lord.
Over in Second Timothy chapter 2.
Verse 4.
No man at war.
And tangled himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soul.
Has the Lord chosen you to be a soldier? Well, if you're a child of God, you've been chosen to be a soldier.
And we're in a warfare down here.
And if you've been chosen to be a soldier, you know how it is in the army of this world.
The armies of the country in which you happen to live.

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When you're inducted into the Army, you're expected to stay there, and you're expected to to just give your whole time to the Army Service.
There's no thought that you can be in the army one week and back home the next week and so on. No, they want to you to sever your connections with things back whole.
And we know how some of the boys that went into the service, they, if they were farmers, well, they just had to have a sale and sell out everything and go off to the service. They couldn't be encumbered. They couldn't be entangled with those duties at home.
And so it is the Lord has chosen us to be soldiers, and He doesn't want us to be entangled with the affairs of this life.
With the affairs of this life, and I'm afraid that it's easier for us to get so taken up with the affairs of this life and things of ordinary living. I'm not talking about bad things now, but ordinary things. We get so tangled up in them that we don't have time for the law. We don't have time for his business. We don't have time to be occupied with him. We don't have time to read his word. We don't have time for prayer.
May the Lord give us grace.
To order our lives in such a way that there will be time for healing, time to please heal. Certainly prayer is something that pleases Him. Spending time with him in prayer, reading his word, is something that pleases him. Being at the meetings is something that pleases Him. We don't have to think about something difficult, perhaps going to a foreign field to do missionary work. That isn't what we're talking about. God wants us to please Him right here, where He has put us, and if we're pleasing Him, right where we are.
The Lord may open up other avenues for us to serve him, but the important thing is to please him, to be occupied with him in his state.
All that's what God wants.
And that's the way of happiness.
What a date was for Enoch. He walked with God, and he walked right into God's presence. And wouldn't it be wonderful for us to be walking with God, pleasing him, and all of a sudden be taken right into His presence, the one into the presence of the one that we've been trying to please down here? What an abundant entrance it would be for us. He not only wants us to have life, but he wants to have it abundantly. And may the Lord give us grace this afternoon.
To see that abundant entrance.

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