Lawrenceville Conference: 1963
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Mephibosheth
Gospel—W. Smith
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Brother was speaking this afternoon.
About Jonathan.
And it suggested to 1.
That we might look.
The second Samuel 9.
Yeah.
And David said.
Is there yet any that is left of the House of Saul that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
And there was of the House of Saul a servant whose name was Zaiba.
And when they had called him under David, the king said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he?
And the king said, Is there not yet any of the House of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God unto him?
Zyber said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son which is lame on his feet.
And the king said unto him, Where is he?
Driver said unto the king. Behold, he is in the House of Maker, the son of Emil in Lodibar.
Then King Davis sent and fetched him out of the House of Maker, the son of Emil, from Lodi Bar.
Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was coming to David, he fell on his face and did reverence.
And Davis, said Mephibosheth.
And he answered, Behold thy servant.
And Davis said unto him, Fear not, for I will surely show thee kindness, for Jonathan thy Father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul, thy father, and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually. And he bowed himself.
Said What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am.
Then the king called, as I saw servant, and said unto him, I have given unto thy master son all that pertain to Saul, and all his house.
Thou therefore thy sons, and thy servants shall till the land for him.
And thou shall bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have food to eat, but Mephibosheth, thy master's son shall eat bread all the way at my table. Now Zaiba had fifteen sons and 20 servants.
Then said Ziba under the king, according to all that my Lord the king has commanded his servant, So shall thy servant do As for Mephibosheth, said the king, He shall eat at my table as one of the King's sons.
And the fibers had a young son whose name was Micah, and all that dwelled in the houses either were servants under Mephibosheth.
So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem, for he did eat continually at the King's table.
And was lame on both his feet.
The story told.
I was servant of God many years ago.
Who read this chapter?
And he wondered what there was in it.
He read it and read it over and over again.
And finally.
We saw what was in it.
That wonderful picture of the love of God to a poor, helpless Sinner.
And what a marvelous picture it is.
The love of God.
To those.
Who never sought after God, who had no claim on God, and who were at a distance from him?
And as I was with David.
So with God, the work was all his.
There was God that sent his Son down here into this world.
It was God that manifested His love in the giving of his only begotten Son.
And through him.
To open up the way that you and I by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Might have eternal life.
So we have pictured here.
Centuries before the Lord Jesus came.
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We have pictured what was in the heart of God.
You know the coming of the Lord Jesus down here into this world.
Was not just an afterthought with God.
It was not done on the spur of the moment.
God and His eternal counsels had planned.
That the Lord Jesus was to come into this world to die.
If you and I, as sinners, might have a savior, that we might be justified.
From all things.
That we might be brought into the family of God as his children.
And so we have in the Old Testament picture after picture.
Of the love of God in sending the Lord Jesus, type after type, given to us. And how precious it is to think that was in the heart of God.
From a past eternity.
And we have given to us the record of what was in the councils of God the Lord Jesus, saying, Lo, I come to do thy will, oh God.
And I was just thinking this afternoon.
As our brother was speaking about Jonathan.
And how he had failed to give David his shoes.
His walk was not such.
Patrick go along with David and his rejection.
And he suffered for it.
He was found among the slain on Mount Gilboa.
Yes, that was his end.
He missed the sharing of the throne with David.
He missed out.
And I'm afraid of something else that he missed too.
I'm speaking. I'm thinking of a dear young parents.
Here this evening. Just a word for them.
If we go back just a little bit in the life of Mephibosheth.
We find that when David was brought to the throne.
That refurbishes.
Had to flee.
His nurse took him up.
And carried him out, and on the way out she dropped him so that he fell and he was crippled.
But you know Jonathan, if he had been faithful to David, I'm sure he would have told John, he told Mephibosheth.
What kind of a man David was? He would have told him of the love of David.
He would have told him of the promise that had been made between the two, that there would be kindness shown.
Amongst their seed.
That verse in the 20th of the first book of Samuel was referred to this afternoon.
How did they made a promise to each other?
But refurbishes apparently knew nothing about it.
How about our children?
Have they been told of the love of God?
Have they been told of the desire of the Lord Jesus to have the little children come to him?
Have they heard from your lips?
The story of the Lord Jesus come down here saying, Supper the children to come unto me.
Well, you know, Mephibosheth.
In fleeing.
At the news that David was about to take the throne.
He has a fall.
He became a cripple.
Know what a story it is?
Here is a man.
You've grown to manhood now.
He is unable to help himself.
Is hiding from David.
Yes, he is helpless.
And is hiding from the one whom he thinks hates him and is seeking his life.
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Oh, how like, man, that is.
Man at a distance from God, helpless.
In a simple condition.
Man, you know, has a fallen nature.
Man, apart from the work of Christ, can do nothing to please God.
No man has a conscience.
Just like Mephibosheth, all Mephibosheth knew how that his grandfather saw had persecuted David.
And I'm sure that his thoughts of David were that he was an austere man seeking revenge.
You and I.
Have sinned before a holy God.
And you know, like Adam in the Garden of Eden.
When he heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the cool of the day, he hid himself.
He was afraid, he said. He was afraid.
And God had to call him.
Said Adam. Where art thou?
Oh, he said. I was afraid and I hid myself.
Man would like to do that today to hide himself.
From the presence of a holy garden? Or he would fain do that?
But his conscience tells him that he can't.
Now his conscience tells him.
And its conscience is that which gnaws at the heart.
But oh, we find in the record we have in the Word of God.
That wonderful story.
Does the love of God.
And we have here in our chapters it starts out.
David.
He settled on the throne now.
Penny says. Is there yet any of this left of the House of Saul, that I might show him kindness for Jonathans sake?
Then it brings to mind that verse we have in Romans 5. God commendeth his love in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Oh, it's the love of God. Come out, manifested.
In the Lord Jesus Christ coming down here into this world as a man.
There was thus that God expressed his love.
To poor sinful men.
If he had come down in all his divine glory.
It would only have been to drive man away from him in terror.
But he humbled himself.
He veiled his glory, and he came down here as a poor, humble man.
It came down into this world.
Speaking words of comfort and healing.
And going to the cross.
In order to manifest to the full.
The love of God.
To sinful men.
None deserving the love of God, but God in his sovereign grace and love.
Coming out.
There is now beseeching men.
Women and children to come to him.
And so, David?
Is there yet any that is left of the House of Saul that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
So they call Zaiba.
Zyber knows about Amphibious.
Yes, Jonathan has a son.
The furniture.
He has a son, but his lame.
On his feet.
Oh, what a picture that is lame on his feet.
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All he couldn't come to King David. He couldn't come there.
No, no more than you and I could come to God in our natural state.
We're helpless.
Impossible to come to God as we are by nature.
Because God is a holy garden.
And you and I, sinners. And how could we come into the presence of God?
Because God is holy, cannot have sin in His presence.
My favorite other was lame on his feet.
Told a story of how he had gotten away.
He told the story of his fleeing when David.
Would have shown kindness to him.
No, Jonathan and David had made that promise.
And David was intending to keep that promise.
Just as God has made promises to you and to me.
And God will keep those promises.
And the Lord Jesus says him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out.
The invitation is yours tonight.
By faith.
To lay hold upon the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That you?
May enjoy the love the grace of God in receiving Sinner.
And putting away their sinners in order they may be fit for his own holy presence.
He gives that nature that is fitted and suited to his own presence.
So that there may be the coming without fear.
So the King asked Ziba, where is he?
Zyber, Saturn to the King.
The whole he is in the House of Maker.
Son of Emil in Lodibar.
You know many of the names in Scripture.
Have a meaning. A wonderful meeting.
Maker was the son of Emil.
The people of God. Emil means the people of God.
Here is one who had been raised with the people of God.
The words he found.
Always down on loader bar.
A place of no pasture.
What a story that tells.
Here is 1 raised.
Were the people of God.
And he's in a place where there's no pasture.
He's gone out into that place where there's nothing to satisfy.
Nothing to enjoy.
Oh, how is it with us?
I'm sure that most, if not all here in this room.
Now the young people.
Have been raised in Christian homes.
Where do you find your pleasure?
Where do you feed?
Upon what do you feed?
Are you out in that world?
Where there is nothing to satisfy.
The soul.
In that place where there's no food.
And where there's nothing to refresh.
You know, this world is a place of no pasture.
We sometimes sing this world as a wilderness wide and all it is.
It's a wilderness.
It's a place where there's nothing to satisfy.
For eternity not one single thing, and that was the world has to offer, is only that which you have to go back, and again, and again and again.
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Define any kind of pleasure.
Ernest, like the Lord told the woman on Sychar's well.
She had come here to draw water.
And the Lord told her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again.
You have to keep coming back and back and back.
To find any kind of refreshment.
And is only fleeting. It's only for the moment.
But he also told her that he had wanted to give.
That if she would drink, she would never thirst.
And that is the kind of refreshment that Lord himself gives.
A refreshment that satisfies not only for this world, not only for time.
But for eternity.
To satisfy the soul, to find enjoyment.
And it'll be with singing forever and ever in the presence of our blessed Savior. Are you going to be there?
Are you going to be there singing, or are you down in the place of no pasture?
Are you in the place where you have to go back and back and back in order to be to keep occupied and to find any bit of pleasure at all here in this world?
Oh, you know, Satan would like to keep you there. He'd like to keep you occupied with that which is down here.
But it doesn't satisfy, and if you've tried it, I'm sure you're going to agree with me that there's nothing to satisfy for eternity down here in this world.
Well, David.
Does he send word to Mephibosheth to come up?
You see them? Oh no.
Davis, Simmons to fetch my Bishop.
Oh, how precious that is.
He knew Mephibosheth's condition. He knew he couldn't come.
And so he sends down for him.
So the apostle John writes that the Father sent the Son to be the savior of the world.
There was a father gone.
That sent the sun down here.
To be the savior of the world.
Yes, the work that the Lord Jesus did at Calvary.
Is there such magnitude for such infinite magnitude?
That is available for everyone in the whole world, if they'd only come to him in faith.
But you know.
It takes faith on the part of the individual to lay hold of the promise of God. To lay hold upon his precious word, then it must be from the heart.
Yes, it's faith that lays hold upon the word of God.
And trust him.
Well, David sends down.
To Loadibar.
They guess my fibership out of the House of Maker, the son of Emil from Loadebar.
So my fibrous has ushered into the presence of the king.
So he comes.
And I'm sure that along the way he must have trembled.
He must have had thoughts as to the purpose of David's sending for him.
He hadn't yet made the acquaintance of David. He hadn't learned the heart of David.
No. So it must have been with fear and trembling.
And as like the poor Sinner.
Awakened to a sense of his need before God.
And the trembling Sinner fear that God can never forget.
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No. Oh, but there's more to that. One full payment clears his memory of all debt.
Well, when, David?
Brings Mephibosheth into his presence.
The furniture falls on his face.
And he owns the claims of David over him, he says. Behold thy servant.
And you know that's precious.
He didn't know the heart of David.
But he knew that he had claims over him.
And how many sinners have come to God?
And owned that they were sinners.
And that they had a responsibility to God.
Yes, they've owned his claims over them, and they've found God as good as it were. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Thomas Fibbage says, Behold thy servant.
May it be that there's one here tonight?
That will own the claims of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Over you.
He came down here and died as you might be saved.
He has a claim upon you.
Are you going to bow to him?
You know the day is coming.
When every knee.
Not only in this world.
But angelic beings?
Infernal beings.
Are going to own that his Lord is going to be to the glory of God the Father. Let it be so.
Everyone is going to bow the knee to him.
Oh, may it be with you in this, the day of grace, that your bother need him now, today, tonight.
For Miss Levish's vows before David, and he says, Behold thy servant.
And our prices of words of David, Fear not.
I'm sure there was a fear and trembling that Mephibosheth was there.
But how precious their words Fear not.
Have you heard those words?
From the lips of the Lord Jesus, Fear not.
Oh, he doesn't desire to condemn the Sinner. He didn't come down here for that purpose.
No, he came down here that you and I might know him as a savior.
So the word is fear not.
Oh, he's opened up the floodgates of the love of God.
And the shedding of his own precious blood that cleanses from sin.
Is made available to you tonight that you may come.
There's no need for fear.
Oh, the perfect love of God casts out all fear.
All they hold upon the fact that God loves you.
Lay hold upon the fact that it's perfect love.
When you see that that God is nothing but love for the poor Sinner, oh, it takes away all those fears in order that you may come and avail yourself of that infinite work at Calvary.
Fear not.
I will surely show the kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake.
Oh, what a thing that is. I will show thee kindness.
Then you know God.
Is showing kindness and.
Love tonight.
For the sake of his own beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Yes, it was his work.
That has opened up and manifested the love of God.
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I will surely show the kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake.
Oh, would you come tonight?
God loves you, the Lord Jesus Christ loves you, and he came down here.
To express.
The love of God.
To you tonight. To each one of you, he is expressing his love to you.
Is there no response in your heart?
Oh, he says. John Mephibosheth.
Not only.
Will I show kindness here for Jonathan's sake?
I will restore the all the land of Saul thy father, and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.
Oh, what a thing that is.
Oh, he didn't say. Well, I'm going to see that you're comfortable for the rest of your life. No, that isn't what he wanted to do.
He wanted to bring mathematics right into his own family.
And that's what God wants to do to you tonight, my dear young friend.
He will only come.
By faith tonight to the Lord Jesus.
You'll find that God desires to make you one of his own children.
Oh, how precious that is.
To be brought into the conscious relationship that God is my father.
Can there be any greater expression of love than that?
God, the guest whom I sinned, the God whom I have offended.
Is the one who desires to bring me into his own family.
And gives me a nature.
Suited to his house.
And he clothed me with a robe of righteousness.
With a garment of salvation that I may be properly attired.
For that home of glory.
All my fibrous You're going to eat bread at my table continually.
What a wonderful place. What a privilege.
And Ohio, if you come to the Lord Jesus, then you'll receive him by faith tonight.
You can be brought into that relationship too.
Wilmer fibership is overcome by this.
Yes. Did he deserve such love as that?
No, His family were the mortal enemies of David. David had been sought for years. He'd lived in exile.
He was haunted, he says, like a Partridge on the hills, haunted by Saul. You sought to kill him at every opportunity.
And here is his grandson.
Who deserve nothing but the same kind.
And here is the one whom his grandfather persecuted and hated.
Show him kindness, bringing him into his own family.
You know God.
There's one, I guess, to whom we've sinned.
And you only need to go out into the world.
And possibly look at your own heart too, and see the hatred for God that has been there, hatred for him.
Talk to your neighbors. Talk to your companions about the Lord Jesus Christ. Talk about the love of God. You'll find out what's in the heart of man.
Will have nothing to do with it.
Oh, here's Mephibosheth.
He thought that David had hated him, that now he finds it nothing but love in the heart of David for him.
And he bows himself again.
Just as a poor Sinner coming to the Lord Jesus Christ and finding.
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That the Lord is a gracious Savior seeking sinners to come to him.
Oh, what a revelation to the heart to find that all that God has for us is love.
Oh, how it bows our heart and Thanksgiving and praise to him.
When we find that out.
Then is humbling till you know.
When we think of what we are by nature, to think that gone would have in his heart love for such as we are.
Oh, it humbles us.
It breathes upon our faces before him like it did in a fibbusha.
Then he says, What is thy servant? That thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
That's the expression, I think, that we often fail to realize the.
Depth of it.
There are no dogs in those days.
We're scavengers. They threw out the refuse into the street and the dogs ate what they threw out. That's all the dogs were for.
Yeah, they didn't have them as pets like we have now.
They were only the scavengers of the neighborhood.
And they were in very ill repute.
John Deere Mephibosheth didn't say that thou should look upon such a dog as I am. No, but here's a dead dog.
And of what worth is a dead dog?
Oh, it's only fit to be taken away, Disposed of.
The furniture takes that place.
And at the right place, it's the only place of blessing.
You know there were two men that went up into the temple to pray.
And one went up there, the Pharisee, and he prayed with himself.
They told God what a wonderful man he was. He told him of all his good deeds.
The other.
He didn't come very far into the temple. He stood afar off.
This poor man Republican.
They recognized Sinner in the city.
He stands afar off.
Now I suppose he hung his head because the Scripture says he would not so much as lift his eyes to heaven.
Smiled upon his breast and said, God be merciful to me, the Sinner.
He took his true place before God, and the testimony of the Lord Jesus is that this man went down to his house justified rather than the other.
Mathematics took his right place before David.
Of not being deserving.
Of the mercy of David.
You know, when we get into the presence of God and see ourselves in the light of His holy word.
Oh, how it brings before us our own worthlessness.
And all that magnifies the grace of God to think of such as we are that he was stoop.
To pick us up.
We only need to turn to the Scripture to find God's thoughts about us.
Many places in the scripture.
We have the record of what we are by nature.
But all we have to along with it.
The fact that God in his sovereign love.
That desire to pick us up and make us his own.
Sommerfelygoth takes his right place before David.
And now he's in the place of blessing.
No longer is he done in a loaded bar. No longer is he in the place of no pasture. No, he's not far off from David now, no longer fearing David.
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But he has found out.
That all this time that he was down there, he had missed.
The enjoyment of the love of David.
And how many there are?
Who have come to the Lord Jesus when they have gotten up in years.
And they have lamented the fact that they have put off so long.
Coming to know the Lord Jesus as savior. Oh what we've missed, what we've lost all this time.
But oh, thank God that Mephibosheth was brought to David.
And now he has a promise sitting at the King's table.
Yes, I shall eat bread at my table continually. Oh, what a wonderful thing that is.
To feed upon the King's body.
And not only that.
The king calls his eyebrow now.
And he says, I have given unto thy master son all that pertain to Saul unto all his house.
Thou therefore, thy sons, and thy servants shall kill the land, for and thou shalt bring in the fruits that thy master son may have food to eat.
Yes. Not only was Mephibosheth brought into the King's house and made us one of his sons.
But he has now 36 servants.
Just to wait upon him.
Oh, how he's blessed.
You know, we've been reading today in the Epistle to the Ephesians.
And we find in the first chapter that God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.
Every spiritual blessing that God can give, he has given.
To those.
Who know him as father. Is he your father? Is the Lord Jesus your savior?
Oh, if not.
How much you're missing? Think of it every spiritual blessing in heavenly places.
God has given her to those who have put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Do you have those blessings? Can you claim them for yourself?
Mephibosheth now could claim the place at the King's table.
He could claim 36 servants to wait upon him.
All the bounty of the king.
And all that you and I have by grace as children of God, is from the hand of a bountiful God.
As for Mephibosheth, said the king in the 11Th verse, he shall eat at my table as one of the King's sons.
Oh, how precious it is.
To sit down as one of the King's sons, to eat at his table.
And enjoy the fellowship.
Of those who were seated there at that same table.
I know how precious it is when some can come together in a meeting like this.
Or even as we come together in our own little meetings where we live, we can come together and enjoy.
Feasting upon that which is the King's table.
Feasting upon the precious word of God and enjoying it together.
Where the people of God. Oh how precious it is. And so Mephibosheth.
Eating at the King's table.
As one of the King's sons.
And I suppose as they sat around the table.
Look at them all.
All suitably attired for the feast.
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Yeah, there was number difference between them to be seen.
But you know the end.
Now this chapter tells us.
That he dwelled in Jerusalem, for he did eat continually the King's table, and was lame on both his feet.
Well, it told us that before that he was lame on his feet.
Another word of God does not repeat needlessly.
We don't find repetitions in the word of God.
And this is put in here at the end of this chapter for a very good reason.
You and I who believe in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We've been brought to the King's table.
We enjoy what is set before us. We enjoy the feast.
That is prepared for us and the fellowship of the King's Son's.
But like Mephibosheth, let us never forget that we're lame on both feet.
There is a continual dependence.
Upon that same one who brought us to himself.
We can never walk in our own strength. We can never go our own way. Or if we do, we'll only stumble and fall.
No, we need to be kept by the power of God.
And like refurbishes who had to be moved around by others, so you and I, dear fellow Christian, must never forget that we cannot take one step in our own strength.
But God has made provision for us.
Yeah, she has made a wonderful provision for us.
And all he knows how weak we are. David knew the Mephibosheth was a cripple. He knew he could never walk.
But he made him one of the King's sons in spite of it all.
And in spite of what you and I are by nature as helpless God has brought us into His family.
And he's made us such.
That we can depend upon him? Yes, he has.
The same one who saved us.
The same one who brought us to himself is now on high on our behalf.
Oh, how precious it is.
Though one trusts none here tonight.
But what like Mephibosheth?
They brought to know the Lord Jesus Christ as savior. Oh, there's one here. Would you come tonight and find out what a God of love is beseeching you to come to him?
Shall we sing #38?
I know not why God's wondrous race to me hath made known, nor why unworthy as I am, He claimed me for his own. But I know whom I have believed, and I'm persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day #38.
2.
Jesus Takes a Boy's Lunch and Feeds 5000.
Children
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After these things, you know many things were taking place when Jesus was here.
Because he was so wonderful, he was doing great things for the people.
He was able to do wonderful things for them.
Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee.
Which is the Sea of Tiberias.
And the great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles, which He did on them that were diseased.
And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he slept with his disciples.
And the Passover feast of the Jewish die.
When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he said unto Philip, When shall we buy bread, that these may eat?
And this he said to prove him for himself, knew what he would do.
Philip answered him, 200 penny worth of bread is not sufficient for them.
That everyone of them may take a little bit.
One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him. There's a lad here.
Which have 5 barley loaves and two small fishes, but what are they among so many?
Well, we stopped there just now.
Here was Jesus.
Among the people doing many wonderful things for them.
And he goes over this sea.
This lake old was about 12 miles long.
And about 6 miles wide.
That was rather large, wasn't it? Or not into the ocean.
Not big is one of the Great Lakes around Chicago.
No, it wasn't that big.
But it was.
About that many miles long where you know, and about 6 miles wide. It's just about twice as long as wide was. It was a nice lake too. The waters were pretty. They were clear and blue.
As you could look down into those waters and you could see fishes in there.
The water was so clean.
And around the lake on the hills.
There was much vegetation. What does that mean?
Vegetation. That means grass, doesn't it? Plants that grow things that are green using green things. You see them now, aren't you? They're just coming out. But little leaves and little blooms coming out, aren't they?
And that's what could be seen here.
But a great multitude quality.
Now is that few or many? What would it be, boys? Great multitude followed? How many would that be? Would it be a great number? How many would it be a great multitude? What is a multitude?
Are you going to tell me? Don't be afraid, All right? Yes, That's a crowd. That's another word to use. A crowd following.
And you know, it's nice to follow the Lord Jesus, isn't it?
And they followed him because they saw his miracles and what he was doing for the sick people.
And that's the reason they were going over there.
And he sits down there on this mountain side.
And he lifts up his eyes and he sees all these people, and they've been there all day long. And you know, if you go somewhere and stay all day long and you don't have something to eat, you become hungry, don't you? Did you have some dinner?
Oh yes, you. You've eaten dinner already, haven't you?
And my dinner was good, we enjoyed it and we thank the Lord for it, didn't we? That was right too.
And all these people are there, been there all day long. We've been speaking to them, no doubt. And you know, when Jesus speaks to us, we need to listen. And this is the way he speaks to us now, right through this book, right through his Word. He's not here anymore, but His Word is still here. And we can still hear His voice when we read the Bible, His precious word.
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He wants us to stay here. He wants us to know all about you. He wants us to know that he loves us, and he wants us to know what he's done for us. And here He does something for these people. They were hungry and what could be done way out there in just some little towns and all around the age of that lake. Just small places, not big as Lawrenceville.
No, just small places around that lake. Oh, there were so many people there. Or 5000 besides the women and children.
And there they were. And he has compassion on them. He feels for them because they're hungry.
And he wants to supply their need. He wants to provide for them. He wants to do something for them. He wants to make them happy. And he's able to feed them.
But the disciples didn't know that.
And he lifts up his eyes, and sees this great company come unto him, and he sends to Phil.
One of his disciples.
When shall we buy bread that these maids?
Now that's a question.
Where can we get bread or what? When shall we buy bread that these may eat?
And he said this, you know, just to prove Filipino what he would do.
Oh yes, he knew what he would do. That he could.
Supply their needs. He didn't have to run down to the village and go into a big town to supply the needs of these people that had come out there to be with him.
Oh, the Lord Jesus is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask for things. He's able because He made the world and everything is in it and He sustains it. He provides for us and here we find the need does something for these people. Why? Philip said 200 pennies worth of bread wouldn't be enough, that each one would just have a little.
That must have been about 200 days of wages. You know, a man works 200 days. That's a whole lot, isn't it?
I think they worked for about a penny a day at that time and a man would have to work 200 days or more to get enough bread to buy enough bread to feed these people.
That was a big job, wasn't it? Just so much that they needed them and.
How could they do that? They just looked impossible.
But we read a little further that one of his disciples, Andrew, was there.
Simon Peters, brother.
Know he likes us to come along with our brothers and our sisters doesn't. That's nice when we can bring someone to the to the Lord Jesus like Andrew did. He brought Peter his brother.
To the Lord, he says, we found the Messiah, we found the Christ.
And Andrew says there's a lad here. No, we're not told much about this boy. There's a land here. You know what a land is, don't you, LED?
As a boy, just a little boy, there's a land here.
And yes of it.
And we've had dinner, but this boy didn't have a big dinner with him. But he had a lunch, didn't he?
There's a lad here which have 5 barley bows and two small fishes.
5 barley rolls. They're not very big, you know, barley loaves in that time. They're just little boilers.
5 barley loaves and two small fishes. That was just the boys lunch.
Just what would be enough? Perhaps, for him, But he brought it along.
And whom do you suppose to pack that lunch for that little boy?
You think it's Mama Dean?
That must be about right, because she's the one who does the lunch packaging, and it's nice that she did.
And do you think that boy made a mistake that day by walking out there on those heels you wanted to see Jesus do?
Suppose he stayed at home, but he didn't and you know he killed his mom. He says, mother, I think they'll need lunch, better take it along. And so she fixes her lunch for him. She packs a nice lunch. 5 barlows and two little fishes has all wrapped up nicely. And there he goes along with his lunch.
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You know, Mother does many nice things for you. Father does too.
Yes, he works and there's the food for violence, and mother works in the kitchen and she makes something nice and sandwiches and so on as she packs it up for you. And you can have a little tea party or something, a little picnic somewhere and enjoy being together in that way. Listen to the boy now having his lunch.
His mother packed his form, fixed it up and.
You know your mother's doing other things for you too, or she'd like for you to have something that's better than lunch.
She'd like for you to have the true bread that came down from heaven.
You know a lunch is good for now.
What we ate in there today is good for today. Tomorrow we'll need to eat again.
But you know, if we eat the true bread that comes down from heaven.
And the true bread from heaven would be the Lord Jesus, wouldn't it? He's the true bread, isn't he? He came down into this world that we might have the true brave from heaven. That's the reason he was born here as a little child.
And who is a boy?
And then went to the cross to die. But this land is there with his lunch.
And the question is.
Raised. But what are they amongst the men? Just seems nothing.
That wouldn't fit 5000 people with five little barley loaves.
All him just just if you keep it in that little packet, it wouldn't feed 5000.
Or not till is given to the Lord Jesus.
And that's what they did. There's a lad here. Now we don't know if he, he took the lunch up to the Lord Jesus and gave it to him, or if the disciples reached over and got it and passed it up to him. But anyway, he gave his lunch to the Lord Jesus. Would you like to give your lunch away?
Oh, we like to keep our lunches still, but this boy didn't make a mistake.
Or he gave it to the Lord Jesus, and that was all right.
And now we notice.
That Jesus make the men sit down.
There's much grass in the place. It must have been springtime.
Or summer.
And there were about 5000 of them. And Jesus took the loaves, and when he'd given thanks.
He distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were sat down, and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
Oh my, that was wonderful.
Oh, he abundantly provided for them. There was plenty and didn't run out. Let's see what happened. Did they run out of people or run out of bread? Which happened, you know, right?
Ran out of people because they were all filled 5000 besides the women and the children.
And they were all filled. It was just taking a little. They got all that they needed. And was there any leftover?
Oh yes, that's right, you. Your mom has been and Daddy's no doubt has been telling you about some of these precious things.
All they want you to know the true bread to eat of the true bread that came down from heaven, the Lord Jesus.
So there was plenty for everyone.
Now, there's nothing much said about this board.
There's a light and he had a simple lunch. 5 barley dough's barley and owes the cheap grain. It was just the common cream.
But you know, the Lord could take nothing and multiply it and use it, and in his hands it's multiplied blessing, so that all of them had something to eat and went away satisfied and happy.
And afterwards.
We gathered up the scraps, the fragments. How many baskets were leftover, do you remember? In this case, 12 baskets leftover. So there's more for another day, isn't it?
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I know the Lord Jesus.
Has 20 fours now and.
The same tomorrow.
It will have come to it, you know, and that's what happened. There's a lad here.
Are you here?
And this land was where the Lord Jesus was. And you know, that's the way.
To get blessing for your soul, isn't it?
The way to have blessing, to receive blessing, is to be where the Lord Jesus is. There's a lad here, that doesn't mean that he was over there in the next town. Doesn't.
That doesn't mean that he was on the other side of the mountain, does he? Here, right here.
And that's how it is if.
You come to the Lord Jesus, I mean, you're right there, and he's always ready to bless you and make you happy, and he wants you to eat that true bread that came out from heaven. And then perhaps before we go further, there's a story that comes to mind about a boy that didn't have much. This boy had lost it.
But there's a boy down South that didn't have lunch.
And he was going to school.
And the other boys didn't have lunches and they would bring their lunches to school and those days.
No, you don't because you've got cafeteria on the school lecture.
And was prepared riding the school laps, but we used to bring our lunches to school.
And there was a lunch case out in the hallway.
Sometimes, you know, it would have screen doors on it and we could put the lunches in there, but this little boy didn't have any garbage.
When he came to school.
If you don't have a lunch, you're hungry, aren't you?
He didn't have his mother, didn't have enough to make a lunch for him when he came away.
But he had to come to school and he wanted to learn, and he came along and always so humbling. Our recess time came and he was just so hungry that his little stomach was gnawing away. Wanted something inside. Just like we are sometimes, we're telling me.
And this little boy passed along by the north shells and smells good.
All those lunches, you know, have just been made at breakfast time and two or three hours now and we're still smelling fresh and good. And, you know, he went around, there's nobody there, and there's no one over there. He reaches in.
When you get something because he's hungry.
And he goes outside and sits away, you know, And when we do something wrong, we want to hide, don't we?
Guess when we do something wrong? Why would we say we don't like to look at mother father and perhaps we run away and don't like to look right and brought her sister either. Perhaps because we feel bad about it. We've got a conscience that tells us right and wrong and we feel feel bad about it. And this year the boy ran off either way and one had lunch was so good.
And then then lunchtime came and the boy came out reaching.
Where was his pale, much pale? Where he opened up was all empty.
Everything's gone.
Did you know? The teacher wanted to know who did was right to know? So I wanted to take a lunch. It wasn't his. And they began to ask on that. They inquired and they found out.
Because you know what? We do something wrong. Why it's found out usually, maybe a long time, but be sure you're saying we'll find you out. Oh yes, and he was found out. And this little boy was, but wasn't very strong.
And he says, yes, teacher, I took the lunch. I was hungry.
My teacher says, well Johnny, you'll have to take 10 heavy strikes with this big whip here.
And you'll have to pull your shirt off.
And you'll just have to take what is due you because we made a rule and.
Those that take a lunch that doesn't belong to them have to pay the price.
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That was. That was awful, wasn't it? That was.
Just sad little boy, hungry and he was going to be whipped that way and he would cry.
But you know there was someone there when that big boy saw the little fellow come up to the teachers desk. He was so young and so thin, he says. Teacher.
Stuff. Just may I speak, he says.
Let me take the punishment that is due that boy. I know the rule is made and we have to punish those that do wrong, but he says I'll bear the punishment for that little boy.
I missed my lunch. He got it and he owns it. He confesses it. He says he's he stole it. But I want to take this punishment.
Teacher said, well, what about it children? And they said, all right, do you think it would do all right? Just so the price of paid and then the big boy comes up and he gets those two heavy stripes and a little boy goes free. You know, that's the way it is for us. The Lord Jesus came in between us and our sins and he took the stripes that we deserved, and with his stripes we're healed.
He has become our substitute destiny.
That is what we learn in the precious word about the Lord Jesus died on the cross and save us from our sins, to save us from the judgment that is due. Isn't he a wonderful thing?
Doesn't he love us to do that much for us?
Always. Not just a little nonsense we've taken, why we've been doing things, you know, naughty things.
We're all come shortly. We've sinned. Oh yes, we've got natures that are bad. We need to stay here.
We need the Lord Jesus to save us. We need Him to provide for us, and He will. He wants to, and He's been to that cross. And that's what we learn about here in this very same chapter.
That he would go to the cross and die.
And if we?
To believe in Him, then we would be free from our sins.
And enjoy that true bread that came down from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ.
People didn't like that very much or they said we don't like this.
And some of them turned back at that time wouldn't go along with it anymore because he spoke about giving his flesh.
The life of the world and because he told them that they would have to eat his flesh and drink his blood.
We couldn't actually do that, but we can believe in the Lord Jesus that he died for us on the cross, and that's what it means.
That he there shed his precious blood for the remission of our sins. That's the only way we can have our sins forgiven, washed away. Cleanse the way.
No, dear children, remember that the blood of the Lord Jesus shed on Calvary's crosses the precious love of God's land.
And in the world, you know, they don't like it.
As you grew up, you'll find those that don't like the story of the cross. They don't like to hear about the precious blood.
But that's the way we give life, isn't it?
Yes, it is because we had some ham for dinner, didn't we? And we had some meatloaf for dinner.
And an animal died.
Oh yes, a pig died. Well, ice fat pig and grown up and all. Had to give it some money so that we could have that nice juicy hand for our dentist today.
Oh yes, people believe in the blood when you come to the dinner table.
And they believe in the blood when they go to the hospital. You heard about people getting blood in the hospital and put a needle in their arm and they put something up here on the pole. But they understand blood trickles down. And maybe you haven't seen that because it won't let you come into the hospital very much, will you? But you know what it is. Yes, people believe in the blood and that way.
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And then, you know, they get into the army and the government expects the boys to shed their blood for the country.
Yes, they have a great deal to do with the blood, but when it comes to the precious blood of Christ, all they say that's no good.
And they laugh at that.
But we're not going to laugh at it. We believe in that precious faith, don't we? We believe in the Lord Jesus and let us trust in children because he came down here to die for us. And going back up there, yes, He is indeed. And there's no other one to whom we can go. Just where could you go or anything like that? Why is nothing like it? There's no one like the Lord Jesus.
He's the only one.
Thou hast the words of eternal life.
That's what Peter said in this. Shall we say that together?
Thou hast the words of eternal life. We didn't say it strong enough. Let's say it again. This is what Peter said about the Lord Jesus.
Thou has the words of eternal life. Do you think you could remember that?
In the end of John 6, let's say it again.
Thou hast the words, and turn the light.
Ephesians 4
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General Meeting, St. Francisville, March 30, 1963 Reading meeting Decisions for.
What's the location?
With all evolving and weakness is not present, the barrier is one another as well.
What's your father's name?
All and you.
I don't know everyone about us getting bored falling in the Mazda's Mr.
Secondly, what's wrong with the power of the?
And therefore it's learning and the merit of the struggle in the exposure, of course.
The police called a normal children, for children, for employers, about everyone's daughter.
Do you need anything from the bar before you go?
With all.
What do you?
But with not so much fun.
But he put off his training performance from the station ruler in the end of the club, according to the peaceful life.
And they were doing the best part of your mind.
And just the draw of the noise and substitute for it.
And also he was lying because a man took seven years. They were immune to one of the ************.
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There's no corruption.
There is no experience on doing this.
One day is not a whole whereby in this field.
But all different work from ancient explorers unlimited city to the world to use with all night.
I need to find one another member's brother.
Did you take the water using the drawer of the plastic?
My posts were, well, faster.
Apostle Paul that writing this.
And the eye refers to him.
And the word therefore.
Must refer back to something he has already written.
And I suppose that brings before us the fact that there is a decision.
In the epistle the 1St 3 chapters spring before the heavenly position.
Of a child of God.
In faith.
In the last three chapters, bring before us our responsibilities in view of that.
Child of a kid.
A child is made to know that he is the child of a king.
Made to see his wonderful position in this world as being as a child of a king.
But then after he's made the nose out and responsibilities are sort of put before him to show him how he ought to behave as being the child of the sea.
Well, we have a wonderful position in the heavens in faith.
That's brought before in Mr. Crystal.
But then their responsibilities connected with that truth.
Now the position is in the heavenly.
But the responsibility is down here on earth.
And I say that because there are many impressions on this today. Who will accept the fact that we have heavenly blessings and we have a heavenly calling? We're in Christ, in the heavenly, but they won't accept the fact that we have an earthly responsibility in connecting with that.
It's not like Brother Ellison.
Yeah, I suppose.
We are saying about the therefore that this first verse really to make to the first verse of the service actually for the third chapter is to eliminate the parentheses in the new tribulation. So it was first back to what was taught and brought out in the first and 2nd chapter.
But in the first verse of the third chapter says this cause I call the prison of Jesus Christ the Gentiles, and here I therefore the praise of the Lord.
Well, it was because it has a Jew. He was saying the truth.
Through the Gentiles and putting them on the same plane as the Jews. It is all in one plane, so to speak. Not really on the same plane as you believe the Bulls have brought together in a new position.
What was the cause of that? A testimony of Jesus Christ for David and Gentiles made him a prudent.
Law. I often enjoyed this. What says in this first verse but the prisoner of the Lord?
That is large. So the Lord of hell in there in prison. It wasn't a young, just an evil authorities and the Roman Empire that the Lord is the one who's out of it. I am. So he would bring them these things before he was responsible to the Lord that has been speaking about responsibility.
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Well, there is a responsibility to walk in the truth of what's been brought before in the 1St and 2nd chapter. And he goes on and develops a little more in this chapter as to the function, so to speak, of the body of Christ.
That word lock was used several times.
And his last thoughts of the assistance?
He saw the news from the 5th chapter.
Two walk in love.
And in verse 8, lost his children's life.
And verse 15 walked circumstances.
The response from God for empathy to form what?
The secret walking.
If you using our feet doesn't it and.
You have to be careful when we allow our people.
What picked up her behavior?
I will go on.
In this world as those who belong to the Lord's Peace Society.
Both several times.
What did that speak of? Faith.
This was my defendant.
I.
Regarding how those do not call.
But the increases are majority of the higher form of.
But that's what it is. It's just eat my everything. It's set up and shut out the Lord Jesus Christ of work and everything that precisely truth of having to walk.
I suppose we get something of the apostles attitude here.
When he speaks to himself as a Queen of the Lord, he should have said the prison of Europe.
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That wasn't what he was thinking about.
He was occupied with the Lord.
And the blessed truth revelation that he's gotten from the Lord.
But that seems to be what he was thinking about. Encourage people himself as approaches the Lord.
My supporters belong the same lines of soul chemicals when he was speaking to him about the truth. Give myself wholly to them.
And font of all the human holy to this blessed truth with Heavenly Father.
To his lawyer.
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
And for his dispute of himself as a prisoner of the Lord. Once we find ourselves in circumstances sometimes of life and.
All we can see is our relationship.
To those circumstances then.
Not we might speak of ourselves as we in ******* developed circumstances aside by those circumstances or.
Perhaps even say we were held down, we're in prison to be circumstances.
And somebody that has allowed all of this.
Lord allowed the apostle Paul to be put in prison.
By the end of it.
But the uncle started it with the Lord's time.
In the prison of the Lord.
Was mentioned here about the managing going on with the Lord setting the sports himself and the object.
But it's not the energy of nature and.
I believe in just many so-called training programs, missionary training programs, a great deal is made of of the natural energy well here, the very fact, he said. We're all willing to meet and wrong questions. The light isn't the energy of nature going like that, we say if we.
Exercise or heart?
I was thinking how we have a good for one body brought the forest really.
The body of Christ, and you know what? He has an experience. He's spoken about the book of members of the body. Harris.
Different members couldn't say one to another. I have no need to be. No one was thinking about our bodies. What are we really?
Sensitive thing there are delicate or we can go around pretty well for a while, but something comes in we don't know where it came from and and my body was 50 laid low when they were functioning.
Well what is brought before here since community that started cleaning you it's all over meetings and long trusting to burying one another in love. It wouldn't be that it would irritate and.
There another town.
Boy.
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On the purpose of these things with a bar that's perfect part of Ireland.
We would talk about it.
At this point.
The wind of the second structure was already referred to as.
A little more aware of the dream now.
Not only the suddenly falling.
Also in the last verse of the 2nd sculpture was builded together inhabitation of God through the church.
What a wonderful criminal here.
The go to the government.
Habitation of golfing to his daughter's rolling.
In the mysterious people down there from the place where he may dwell.
My brother is Speaking of the responsibility, Jordan.
Goes to whom he was running to walk away with negotiations wherewith they were called.
Well, when we get this last birth of the 2nd structures.
In the interview, in our thoughts.
What a responsibility we have.
Calling for life in the third party.
We heard something brought out in the sooner.
What we haven't received before.
Martin slapped the three and worked 12.
But on therefore he licked his lawn, pulling beloved bowels of mercy.
Let the peace of God rule in your heart, to which all you call in one body.
With Mike, he said, well, we're heavenly people. We're seeing as seated in the heavens and you have no earth and responsibility. But it couldn't be said of philosophy because in philosophies we're seeing down here.
Although connected with their heads up there and so.
The emphasis is put here in Colossians on the responsibility of being down here.
But it's still in connection with the calling and called in one body and connected with faith that flip up and explore.
I think that this is really important.
I remember a brother one time saying no longer with us, but he remarked that he had any places he never came down. Well, I don't believe that is true. In the heavenly places we get when they brought the course in the season, we have the heavenly viewpoint and heavenly association.
We have God's purpose and counselors laid out for us until we see the the scope and all of what he's doing had all things up inside only get down to.
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Fry's food Flyers in the watermelon and you cannot see there far ahead.
Get the straight narrow way. That is a significant way, but having those purposes and countries before.
While there is much better equipped them but spread our way through the world.
The doctor's delivery and whatever birthdays you've met the Flipkart.
Know what it was in second chance to win and referred to him.
Build a form of foundation. Your father can profit.
There we have the Word of God-given to us by the responses and prophets over the misfortune.
And you have just you have just your mentioned in our CAP suggestions further.
In Hebrews 7.
13-7 tells us to remember those who have spoken to me the word of God past meetings. Ladies you know over here, but God raised up such a gift and church well on the thinking of that illustration of a.
And Samuel and neither saw and told gave him three sons and one of them was there was kill of God. There was Garrison the Clifton. The Christians were the enemy of the treatment future. Well when it's thought, however, it's a crazy time.
We can flood, so to speak, with new translations in the scripture. Well, it's from the cholesterol back in their hand at the present time. Not really. Man of faith. Well, they're doing their best to undermine the truth itself.
Well, with me, you know what we are saying. As new as we can. Find out how it is and get that.
In the works of those who've gone before, and I don't believe there's a better translation in the society translation that way.
The American revised same place in far better than what we have the first time.
Well, at least he's worked it out so that the children of this didn't have any weapons, and so they're trying to take our weapons away from the sea. Well, this is our weapons here.
And if we don't have the word of God in its consistency.
And the whole proof of the word of God we're not able to carry on. And so thanks for what we have the word of the Lord and our parents to do. Let's read it unusually.
And the best scholar in the world, when you're out of those ancient minds, could not give a faithful translation of scripture if you were not the Lord and walking in the path of preparation.
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I cannot understand that the natural man understandeth not the things that your God and understanding of a church is a journey. So these new translations can tell by the very phraseology elements not go to a walking in the simple path of state.
It is all true in the Arab.
Now we can fix the space in that method.
On the.
Both of the faith and barely brought their work.
Hello.
Well, I think that is very true. What you're saying is very important and.
That 10th work of the.
3rd chapter is referred to it shows that there is a testimony going up from this thing at these unseen beings and unseen world. While I look down here and they see demonstrated they.
Manifold wisdom of God. You see that by the Church.
Sometimes people make a great play on about testimony and someone said about the.
Like renaming the Lord, it's a testimony to this world, and the world should know about it.
Well there are those long high that are looking down and they feel and when the early church met together and had to meet together and hideaway places.
Why the world? They didn't know anything about their money in the Lord that they thought they felt the power of it all.
And the church that's going on in that way would be more powerful today.
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Hello.
All.
As for everyone, at the moment, you're better than me, you're a personal and also.
I don't know what.
That's.
Well, I think that's very important.
There the way in which they were going on.
And.
Where they say about neither said any of them are the things in me, but also the things that you possess for his own and had all things common. Well, that is the generally applied material things that I believe there's also spiritual application there.
I don't think there is any among the different apostles as to who should give out the best.
Thought or the best lecture or something, the right time where there was submission and going on together. And so then it was in his day in the 33rd grade and with great power.
Gave the apostles looking for the resurrection Lord Jesus. It wasn't simply their pop college power. There was that, but it really struck together there. It's the way the church is going on.
That was the cause of what they were doing.
Power but.
By the May of our Lord.
That's all. It's the same thing.
Service.
No evidence of decision of the truth of God.
There is a huge.
Philips knife BBQ.
Follow.
Going on in that way.
Facing conflicting depends on the Lord.
There is a language that this world knows nothing about, and you might be in a foreign country or.
Far off from the native land and the among the Lord's people, while there is that same language being spoken, language of faith, world of life, anybody.
Of a different nationality that doesn't enter into the language of faith complex on the Lord, but very encouraging to the heart to experience it.
There was insane is really brought out and I was second and third voices of chapter is all oldness and meetings and long-suffering for burying one another in knowledge and rolling a meekness among customers.
To bearing one another in love well, we get to know that the.
Infirmity. The Church is spoken of the Assembly as the pillar and support of the truth, the Senior Assembly where the support is.
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And we gave them crazy interest to the way in which the assembly operates. Prophets, pictures 3 and another judge. It's in the assembly where the truth is learned and maintained well and questioned them in general. That was not correct. They depend upon individuals, men that adopt the Lord is raised up, but with what they put out, they're not subject to the correction of these things.
I was thinking about that.
The thought of suggestions in connection with this.
There are those expressions in verse two certainly bring before us an attitude of technicians of suggestion.
And where we're going to remember the Lord Jesus Christ and see the Lord in the midst.
Especially we want to be submitted and subject to hear the head of the Church.
It's a very important part of being gathered in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, but here the Lord himself.
And that's why we see a stream of.
Flesh begins to work in any hour without difficulty. Comes into the assembly.
I just came from Too Bad and began with a swimming example of the classic work.
Now it seems to me that.
The brother in general was seeking to go on in loneliness.
Long stopping.
I bearing one another, waiting on the Lord, going on quietly.
And I didn't know that she got me what to do with this one man causing difficulty.
The boxer as time went on.
The price became more and more monoclonal.
And I believe that it's just for you and going on that way and admission to the Lord awakening going on quietly together.
They may not be able to deal with something.
May not be anything to do with that place and maybe hasn't been manifest enough so it can be dealt with.
But a lot of them in wonderful to see how the Lord works. People just acknowledge this presence in the midst and are subject to him, one on loyal information, long-suffering or another in love. Now that can be done as a brother, as we said, in search for energy that has to be dominant with spiritual energy and the only place we can get spiritual energy when waiting upon the Lord.
And community like in ourselves.
What we were saying, I said, is in mind with what we have in first drinking five of the thoughtful.
Gulping about the escapes in the assembly there or it wasn't power to judges, but he says you haven't mourned that such one might be taken away. That is the Lord that could come in if it was mourning before him over the nation that he would come in.
And he moves like the one there was a waving on him. Well, it's all from line and what he says there in relation 5.
5:00 and 12:00.
There in Galatia, there were those Judaizing teachers trying to bring in something.
That was not a faith, It was not what had been committed to.
Now we are possible the whole epistle he's riding and showing up what that line of things is and where it leads to. Well, letting me 12Th verse he says I would that they would even cut themselves off and throw you into confusion.
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Or you can call liberty building only do not turn liberty and opportunity to place my love serve one another.
Well, I think you've seen that over the years.
Where things have been like that and the Lord has come in and actually.
I.
And the bond of truth.
There is a unity that will have brought the cause in verse 4.
Of a community of the body.
Do not pull the focal the feet.
The unity of the body.
There is one body. That is what the Lord is for me.
I suppose you might say that there is an attempt and certain them today repeat as it were the unity of the body, and now say that in the way of what it is when they're seeking to form federation of all the various groups between Christian Dundas.
I just wondered why they do that. They must have a conscience about the fact that Christendom is all divided up.
And perhaps they feel that all those who name the name of Christ.
And here they also all be together.
Nor they form these federation.
But when they try to get together and not wait, they're actually not endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit to promise her.
The unity that the Spirit of God forms is a holy unity that is the community according to holiness. And you could see the truthful for unity according to truth. And we just couldn't go on with those who don't hold the truth, and we couldn't go on with those who are not going on beholding it.
If they're looking for earthly power, worldly power that is Francisca. They want to have an influence on certain laws being enacted wise if there's a representative of all the churches put together while ever have a radio more influence that is just one five of them.
So if the world is hard they're looking for, but this year here was referred to is the power of the Spirit of God going on.
In instructed to hear the way these people and daring to keep the wounds of spirit and mind bond the peace the Spirit of God has made communicate and he is the one that teaches but there is a uniting bond of peace that you and I have responsibility for God. For instance, if I was wanting to put out something and I know that my brother didn't agree with me on and I said well I'll put it out anywhere, I'm going to put that out.
Would not be in bed in to keep nearly a spirit united bond chief that very thing has caused raisins among the Lord's people over the country.
Well, I believe the 13th verse is the end of the journey, end of the 13th history during this world, whereas what we have in the third course, that's.
Takes place day by day, so to speak.
How do you feel about that?
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Well, the the assembly was the color and support of the truth. That's not a true well. We can see in the history of our own country how it's originally this country was settled by people largely on account of their faith. They were given out of other land exchange here.
Whenever God fearing people and they established rules, theological seminaries, dwellers and one of those that was established.
100 a hundred and especially 200 years ago that are Orthodox today.
No, but at one time was killed.
Talking with the president of the Wheaton College.
And I was several years ago, and at that time, he said he only considered two theological senators in the country were asked about.
But the record has been that.
If we depend on human beings, we depart from the faith.
Important to see that there is one body.
One body.
And it took before so simply.
And Step 2.
Apostle Paul led by the school to use the example of the one body.
By coming before the human body.
We have a vertical Latin.
LinkedIn up to 12.
12.
Whereas the body is one. I'm referring to the human body.
And have many members and all the members of that one body. That's the human body and many and one body.
So also is.
All these translation happened. I believe this life.
Referring to this mystical body, the body of Christ that made-up of all these members here on earth, drawing beside the head in the glory, and this unity is called a Christ.
And Paul used the human body as an example of God. And so as we want, a picture.
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Of the body. The body size is expensive to human body. The human body has a head.
And then it has all the members attached to one another and to the world.
Here we have what the Spirit of God brings before of the body, the body of the faith. Well, it's one. It's a unit. The human body is a human. It's one.
You don't think of our our body in the terms of separate members. We we know. So what do you think of the body as one unit and.
If we're going to do this job.
He doesn't think about running on my hand. I have to go out and move that long, and my feet have to carry me out to move that long. No, he's got the whole body just goes out there and sets the work to do that job. And there's no thought that parts of the body have to do that work and that other parts of the body can remain behind me. No, it's just taken for granted. It's a whole man.
Go to work, get the whole lot lawn mower and move along.
So it's the same way that the Bible crisis one unit, and to think of the body's praise as as separated, divided into different groups, as bodies of and members off by themselves.
Not according to the word of God.
In the middle, bloody sheep presented as one unit and backed the ground upon which were gathered. And if we have really seen the truth of the one body and he has been truly gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we'll see the responsibility to go on on that ground on that basis that we are one and I see you, that you just never just keep learning.
This blessed truth that believes one God, but the body is one that's really easy.
The expression here the body is one is not to read a new translation as it is.
The body is one.
And pull forward.
Whether or not it should be.
How do you think that important members of the public are?
All the instructions and finding the place to teach the Passover was a large upper room that that large.
Of course, our brother Anderson was first in the season 4/4.
Says there is one body and one spirit, as you also can call one hopefully call. There's a note for all that says it may be translated. The body is young soil. It's in the time to leave out. There is, of course, to be only so much supportive.
While keeping the community here.
It really acting on the fact that we are one body.
And you can't see anything else, I suppose, but an endeavor without it.
We don't do it perfectly.
But at least we can be exercised about them. That can be that endeavor. And let us never claim that you're acting up completely, perfectly to the truth that it's brought before the truth that we have one body. All right, the grown one should say that altogether. That's what I say unto you, that I am.
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And what's the place?
That.
Controls.
Acts 9, verse 4.
I cannot work for the better that we have in first time.
Verse 17 for the first year.
15 The supper blessing which they blood is not a communion of the blood of Christ.
The budget is breaking the communion of the body of Christ where we do many of one's most.
And one body, they're all participated in that one look.
Why he might have electric?
Goodbye. And so when we break spread and we remember the Lord and Jeffrey of one motion, the freedom of taking every believer in the faith of the earth.
All representative.
To the fact that all in our view.
The failures of water.
According to what we have in the third verse of obstruction and bugging, the people's unity of the third of the United ******* the flesh of community.
We have been brought to Christ.
With the funding power of the blood that is made of silk.
Present together around him at a surgery.
And then the next step through Chapter 11 is just drinking behind the lace mentioned 1St, and that's in connection with the eating of the surface. And so when we come together, we need to stop. It must be on the ground. And we have the most Spanish for that's the first thing that comes before us is the most. And for any, if anyone comes instead of the Lord of the table, we certainly must see that blessed truth if you're all members one or another.
01:05:02
You must see the truth of each the last two and not common in grace. Well as a member of some organization, some part of the set, some simply the members of the body of Christ and remember the Lord of our committee.
Why is it not referring to what we have in Christ?
I don't believe a fear necessarily to the hope of the sun, but.
All things that have hit up in him.
There's one body there.
And fight the prohibited party and lemons is one material.
Form the body and then with the 1/5 of the calling.
And the phones of blessings and connection with being a member of the body of Christ, being united to fight the heavens law, and having the Holy Spirit willing in my heart, what more could you have?
One body, one feet, one so barely up inside, right from the very center which the Lord Jesus Christ leads to peace.
Everything in that relationship is vital at the top.
When you come to the next verse, why that wouldn't be solved?
When Lord elder, those who confess.
In this Lord, and Lord Lord of them not being loved.
Not everyone that says Lord Lord is the one.
They could try to face my face. iTunes necessarily always reality.
And with that reason, but that doesn't bring you into anything budget.
Yes, there was one large long face, one baptism.
There are roses the Lord sees that possess that, and it's real. But on the other hand though it does take in.
All professional. Something like that.
The second verse of this chapter comes the Church of God and his time for them that is sanctified and chi who's called things live all landed in every place qualifying the name of Jesus Christ our Lord both there is now.
In all areas, the Church of God, this is his crown.
And there was reality there, where there may have been some slightly a full of ours, and all in every place called upon the name of Jesus our Lord, both days and hours.
Where is the wider circle.
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I thought it was not bad by way of contrast.
One Lord, not many Lords. 1 Lord, just one.
Who do you submit your suggestion?
As one says, many faiths with one faith. Faith and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Faith in his, in his work.
It's not a huge space. Perhaps we could bring that in you. It's not a Jewish faith, but it's Christian faith-based from a lot of people. Which one got to him That is, It's not too bad to think that he's young baptism. He's too bad physics. It's just one bad season.
There was this place wasn't wasn't safe.
Oh yeah, I I think, you know, thought he's writing that he speaks generally and enjoy possibly turns into things about time. Frankly, trying to use the word gospel. Well, I think it is generally in a much broader sense that is it improvable all the truth such that we have here as well as it's what we've done to speak of or something gossip.
So generally it includes the whole part of the new world.
With the toilet received his feet when he dreams that way. It's not the expression of confidence that we have in this body because if you're sending it to put the comfortable. It's got whole body of truth that's in the word of God and that kind of faith.
Includes everything that's not included.
Until when we see God, we're keeping your faith.
It's keeping the body.
Truth to death and continue for the faith once for all the rivers to the Saints. While he's not talking about that, I'm defending my faith in the way that God. That is my personal confidence in it, but I'm just taking my family, the word of God, the whole thing, the whole body of it is the truth.
What might be called these faces, pressing them would be quite different from these faces revealed in the system.
Now.
Faith of Deepavali.
I'm not enjoy trip with one rod and father of all.
I am supposed to charge Bob and my father needs to blame her and get a modification of the term father.
It was his own father who takes that good.
You would be getting a fire only on the children, but they need to bring in a wider honeymoon and let's do the father of those who have been going during.
A wider president, and that's because it's one job and father.
Who is above all or through all, and whom you all are in fact all? Who should read? Who is in front of all? Right, wouldn't that take you easy?
01:15:02
Those whole things of God is crazy.
Well, I would think so on the contract. That would be inhumane. Well, I suppose there are factor on the money. It says in God we trust that shows a professional area.
There may not be a miserable reality that doesn't want to read that by the reader themselves. Why it wouldn't be facing the lawsuit of Christ.
But there is a vast business between where the.
Truth or diesel known in God in those landfills they know or in those land she worked and kept down by the fact like Roman Catholicism.
Whenever we find them again acknowledging draws.
We may not always agree with everything that I really do and say, but if there's any acknowledgement of God, a call on their part, why we're thankful for it.
Last resort and the roof that we referred to, that's the thing before, but we've already intimated.
Which brings reports of contrast between He's an idol and you know very much.
And bringing out the fact that an item is nothing.
And there's only one job, the one that's the father.
Of all.
We're not in the sense of relationship.
They can think of God is probably the stuff thinking of him and think of a creator at least before everything, the whole situation. So I call him, I think, I feel.
Beneficial. That's really what we have in in what we sometimes call the Lord said when the disciples were taught to say our Father, he thought from heaven and all this was nothing to Father's Father, the beneficiary.
There's nothing that she's been very farther.
But when it comes to being acquisition, being a child of God by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Do you think of God as our Father in manipulation skills and because your children are the sense of spirit of his son who are lifestyle.
Relationships that we have as being children of God. One of the schools, one is the word of God.
General meeting, St. Francisville, March 1963. Reading meeting, Saturday at the end.
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Yes, I can be very.
From which voice drawing the deal?
07.
4/7.
But under, everyone of us has given grace, according to the measure of the District Judge.
Wherefore he said that he was painted up on high, he led captivity, captured and gave this on the moon.
More than he attended, What was it about that he also descended first under the lower parts of the world?
See that this standard is the same also, and the candidates for above all heaven, and we might kill all things.
And it goes down a pathway and some traffic and some of them and some pastors and teachers.
For the perfect thing of the strength, for the work of the Ministry, for the edifying of the body of crime.
The long term, and the energy of the stage, and the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the statue of the bones of Christ.
Suddenly him scores a no more children's class two and four and cared about whatever in the garden by the flight of moon and cunning cracking up their body lying waits to the sea.
But taking the truth of love may go up into Him, and all things may take the heads within Christ.
From whom the whole Bible settled, joined together, and contracted by that whichever joined the flag, according to their sexual working in the measure of other class, may have increased at the border into the other side of itself and left.
This aren't very small and justifying the Lord that he him support Walt and others ever been to his world and the vanity of their minds having the understanding gotten being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is a man because of the blindness of their heart.
Moving past soon have driven themselves over over the last business to work all on blameless receding.
It will not turn. Learn from it.
The full day that you had heard him, had been taught by him, and secured prison. Jesus.
That consider us concerning the former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful life.
I'm being renewed in the third of your mind.
Let you put on the new moon, which after God received and righteousness and true holy.
2014 way line speaking around the case that is maybe.
So we are members one another.
Let not the sun go down upon your life, neither get blessed with the garden.
Let him destroy it, but rather let him later working in his home as the thing that was good. But he may have to give the end of me.
Let no corrupt communication to see language or not, but that much is good for the use of other violence that made them to grace under the heroes.
And agreed not to go through the flood and in the day of adventure.
But all bitterness and life and rendering and climbing and we were speaking, we put away from you with all life.
These kind one to another in the heart of the living running mother even as well as a Christmas forgiving me.
01:25:34
I suppose if the.
I've been fully aware of that.
That anything is that I mentioned here.
And unless the fans is not yet, he keeps that soaring is amazing was not a success.
I believe that Mister William had a say and he says the part. They never need to fear that the hammer will take credit for the work that he said.
And Muhammad's daughter saw the book of the country.
Let's move on.
There is no yet support.
Well supplied.
It's a magnification.
But I see the one and two raised on the key to multiplied under you.
Through a look at the monitor called and Jesus our Lord according as his divine power.
Have given unto us all, but I tell them to light and garden.
And every time about I have a gift and every time the dog.
So that's just freezed out, but I don't know.
He would have helped her there.
Has been in the third, but he can't seem anything else. Doesn't get help.
And help my my dream taking in all those parties though.
01:30:02
Stated that helped on a tip.
Those bands are out of sight underwater that hold the ship together.
It might be funny.
They're saying the sisters that are behind the scenes in prayer.
By the Black Sea.
Looking for the Lord.
And and not not maybe.
And look into the law that included extent might be checked.
In the earlier part of that got to the 1St Corinthians 12.
Instead of those very things we're talking about.
In the government, very.
But the manifestation of the Spirit was given to every land of thought. It was always for the One is driven by the Spirit, the Word of Wisdom.
Remember the Word acknowledged by faith to another, faith to the same Spirit.
We know that this is even a hardest thing, Sir the Mother, the working of miracles, another prophecy to another deserving spirit, and so on.
Many of these things that are behind the scenes.
What type of real is that? The very humble member of the body of Christ as a function.
And invest in the Lord, one who is a heavenly Father, taking care of his bodies.
Without a ground deal.
The runner is still here for them and it could be good money.
A lot of people that is also.
Something like the way your father is supposed to.
And the second of last, the 1St across the goal of containing the Holy Spirit.
Refers to the various shared operators in the.
And accept the medicine. I'm waiting for him.
Well, he doesn't finish the fulfillment of that. They should. But she said the operation is for himself. So listen to me from No, it's not the list or filming. That's why it was of that origin.
I hope the company should not represent.
But the law of our minds during money.
I'm sorry for that in the man, I suppose.
It failed to start in the.
The place the Lord has now, Man on Fire, doesn't it into heaven, but he's just found this thing.
01:35:01
So the address for the parcel.
Occurred to not confirm have that.
Lovely love here here.
One, now that he offended, what is the fact that he also be offended first and the lower parts of Europe he became?
Son of man, I reject someone by his work in the car.
He he put her on, just got off the final.
They're on high and it's all men and the glory that contains them. He's just.
What is the question?
I'd like to do something like that.
But it wasn't until he went up on high that he could get important.
When they done, he writes, the door came down.
And then?
I.
Ephesians 4
Jonathan - One Thing Lacking