Open—H. Brinkmann, W. Warr, L. Judd
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Auto September 4, 1994 Open meeting Brother Heinz Springwood speaks on the meat offering. Brother War speaks on the fact that we are being conformed to the image of his son, and Brother Judd speaks on the fact that there is a pathway.
Hymn #88-O Blessed Savior, is thy love so great, so full, so free Spain would we have our thoughts, our hearts, our lives engaged with thee like being faith in meekness, love in every beauteous grace from glory into glory change till we behold Thy face, the Lord we treasure in our souls.
The memory of thy love, and ever shall thy name to us a grateful odor.
Approved Hymn #88.
I trust the hymn that was suggested.
Was of the Lord.
And the thoughts that have come to my mind.
Is to think especially of the expression in that him.
That we, as like him, might become as we unlike.
Had been How is that accomplished in our lives?
And I thought that perhaps in reading Leviticus chapter 2.
The Lord could bring things before us.
That would accomplish that.
We know that in Leviticus.
We have voluntary sacrifices.
And we have sacrifices that were not of a voluntary nature, but especially the 1St 3.
A voluntary sacrifices and they speak of the Lord Jesus.
And it's remarkable that it begins with that which the Lord Jesus was for God.
You know, we so often think of what he has done for us, what we got out of it. I thought this morning, while we were being occupied with the love of the Lord Jesus, we read that verse.
One brother read it in John chapter 13. Having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them to the end. But there isn't a 14th chapter, a beautiful verse.
That the world might know that I love the Father, and as the Father has commanded me, this is the side, beloved, that we do not think of enough of his portion, that what he received in his Son, the burnt offering, is Speaking of that, and it begins with that.
Of course, it still has to do with an offering for sin, but it was wholly.
Brought to God.
Was all for him. The only thing the priest got out of it was the skin.
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But isn't it wonderful to think?
That we who have dishonored God insulted His Holiness.
If there was a man in this world who was here for the glory of God.
Who could say I have glorified beyond the earth? I finished the work that thou hast given me to do.
What you and I were unable to do, as a matter of fact, we didn't do. We did the opposite.
You know, we were created for his pleasure.
But did we give to him, even as preachers, what he could expect of us? No, we dishonored him, but.
The meal offering which is presented in the second chapter speaks of the perfect life of the Lord Jesus. And isn't that beloved what brings about a change in us when we occupied with that wonderful person? We view his path through the scene for the glory of God.
And we will notice that the biggest share of that which was brought.
As a Mela, thing was for the priests to feed on.
Is it remarkable, I believe, by feeding on the Lord Jesus?
Something is taking place.
You know we are transformed. We are changed from glory to glory. By looking at that wonderful person, the Lord Jesus Christ. We are changed. Let's read that second chapter.
And when any will offer a mere offering unto the Lord, his offering shall be a fine flower, and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon. And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priests, and he shall take there out his hand full of the flower thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof, the priests are burned a memorial of it upon the altar.
To be an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord, and to remnant of the meat offing shall be Aaron's and his sons.
It is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire. And if thou bring an ablation of the meat offering bacon in an oven, it shall be unleavened cakes.
A fine flour mingled with oil.
Or unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and if thy ablation be a meat offering.
A meat offering bacon in a pan. It shall be a fine flower, unleavened, mingled with oil. Thou shalt part it in pieces and pour oil thereon. It is a meat offering, And if thy oblation be a meat offering, bacon in a frying pan.
It shall be made of fine flour with oil. Thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these things unto the Lord. And when it is presented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the altar. And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar. Altar. It is an offering made by fire of a sweet saver unto the Lord. And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons.
It is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire. New meat offering which ye shall bring unto the Lord, shall be made with leaven, for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey in any offering of the Lord made by fire. As for the oblation of the first fruits, he shall offer them unto the Lord, but they shall not be burned on an altar for a sweet saver.
And every ablation of the meat offering shalt thou season with salt, neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from the meat offering. With all thine offerings, thou shalt offer salt. And if thou offer a meat offering of thy first fruit unto the Lord, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy first fruits green ears of corn.
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Dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.
And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon. That is a meat offering, And the priest shall burn the meat offering of it part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof. It is an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
I believe if we carefully look into the Old Testament, we find that the meat offering was presented many times along with the Burndorf ring.
And.
Why is it so important? Because the meat offering speaks.
Of the perfect, sinless life of the Lord Jesus.
And this perfect, sinless life.
Is really to prove that he and he alone could be that sacrifice with satisfied all God's holy claims.
But we find that it was mingled with oil and it was anointed with oil.
And what does it speak of?
Mingled with Oil speaks of his incarnation, begotten by the Holy Ghost.
And anointed with oil. You know, when He began his service on earth, the Holy Spirit descended upon him in form of a dove. And this Holy One subjected himself perfectly to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and was subject to His Father's will. How wonderful.
An example The Lord Jesus is should you and I?
Who have this new nature within?
Should we not also be governed by the Spirit of God in all that we do?
That he should control our lives. That has often been said. This spirit is not just a resident, he should be the president, you know. He should control our lives. And we readily admit, do we not, that what was perfectly seen in the Lord Jesus is very poorly seen in US, but that's why we have to feast on him.
You know, isn't it remarkable when he was tempted in the wilderness 40 days and he was hungry, he would not even do, although he had the power to do it, anything to satisfy his hunger without having direction from his father.
Perfectly subject in everything, but we find that frankincense.
Was also brought in connection with.
That is meat offering.
But this frankincense was all to be brought. There was nothing of that for the priest. There is something in the life of the Lord Jesus which is only for God, which only he can fully evaluate. I think that as to anything that we find the sacrifice, could you and I ever pretend that we would be able to?
Evaluate the work of the Lord Jesus and appraise it all the way only God can.
No, we could not. And how wonderful.
We're not saved according to our feeble apprehension of the work of the Lord Jesus. We saved according to what He sees in it, And Him that we used to sing this little we can today can show of all that he has done. But thou dost all the virtues know of thy beloved Son. I believe that is seen in the frankincense, and it was all for God.
But what we recognize that these various ways in which these sacrifices could be brought speak of suffering.
And I believe when we think of the meal offering, such scriptures come to mind as the man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
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We find that in Isaiah 53 this was characteristic of the life of the Lord Jesus from beginning to end, man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
You know he wept over Jerusalem, and he wept at the tomb of Lazarus, and even when he in his power.
Took away the sufferings, the effects of sin, he felt it in his own soul, and let us turn to Isaiah 53.
Verse 4.
Surely he has borne our greeds and carried our sorrows. Yet we did him as we did, esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Many of the Lord's people don't understand the first part of that verse. They think that this all refers just like the last part.
Refers to the cross, but this already is true of him when he in his power was removing the effects of seeing. We have ever interpretation of that in Matthew.
Chapter 8 of Matthew.
Verse 16.
And even must come they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils, and they cast out the spirits. And he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaiah, the prophet saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bear our sicknesses now the Lord Jesus.
Footnoted as a man be sick, he could not be under the consequences of sin in that way. But like another has said, he felt in his soul that which he took away in his power. But those of us who have worked in the health field, you know, when we first got into it, it was at least that way with me. I sometimes was so sympathetic and I felt so sorry for those people.
Seeing their sufferings and irreversible conditions. But you know, I have to confess, as time went on, I got more and more careless, got more. I got used to being with such people. Maybe others have made similar experiences. But the Lord Jesus never lost his sensitivity. He always in a sympathetic way entered into the sufferings that.
Confronted him, and in his power he took it away, but he felt it in his own soul. So there are so many things when we think of the life of the Lord Jesus and the sufferings to which he did go.
That we.
Find it very difficult to enter into it. There might be some.
That we can enter into it a little better, You know, like when they, for all his love, rewarded him with evil.
And when they insulted him.
And spit upon him, you know, when they plucked off his hair. This is, of course now already connected with the sufferings of the cross. But there were so many things that they did as an insult to that Placid one to some measure. We can enter into that, but there are things that we find that we have very little ability to really enter in and appreciate. So what we find here.
And you see that there was an offering brought.
In an oven. Then there was an offering brought.
In a pen.
And in a children, I believe that's how Mr. Darby renders it. In other words, there were offerings. You think of an oven that's an enclosed thing. You know, you don't see what is going on like you would see in a pan. You know, these refer to things that the Lord Jesus had to endure, the oven that we had little ability to enter into, but.
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The Lord did it all, endured it all, because this was all part of His path to this world. But.
That which we can see in his word, that which we in a measure have ability to enter into.
Can be such a blessing to our souls, and perhaps the more we go on with the Lord Jesus, the more we can enter into these things.
And be blessed in our own souls. Remember what we pointed out? Is that the bulk of what was brought.
Was for the priest, for the high priest and for his sons to feast on. And this, I believe, is the important point to get ahold of feasting on the Lord Jesus. This is of course in a spiritual way by being occupied with his sufferings and entering into those things that he felt so keenly in measure. At least we are blessed in our souls.
And would it not be that we ourselves find rays to like the Lord Jesus suffer for God, you know the path for the believer in this scene is a path of suffering. The Lord Jesus said if they did that to the green tree you know, and in this world you have tribulation, but be of good fear.
I have overcome the world.
You know, those of us who have sought to serve the Lord and His people, have he not all at one time or another, had painful experiences where?
The Lord used us to help people along, and then they got off the path. What about our own children?
That have missed the path. Maybe the Lord allows that in our lives to make us to realize what he himself must feel as to our shortcoming, our unfaithfulness, that which pain that he feels in his own heart because of the disappointments that we are to him. But the Lord is able.
To help us by looking at the Lord Jesus to go through these things.
Because sometimes the good that we try to do is turn against us.
To discredit us. That's what the Lord Jesus experienced.
You know, I believe that those in the assembly that have to take the responsibility and to lead in the assembly.
It's such a difficult thing. Why? Because sometimes the very people that they try to help turn against them.
That's the kind of a thing that the Lord Jesus experienced and we find in the prophet that he cries that I have brought up children.
But were there a joy to his heart? You know, we have to humbly confess, do we not, that we as fathers and mothers have made many mistakes in raising our children, but the Lord?
Has not made any mistakes in bringing up children yet. What a disappointment.
And the Lord Jesus knows and feels these things with us even now.
When he was on Earth, he in a sympathetic way, entered into those things that confronted him. It hasn't changed that he has now gone to glory.
He still feels with us and he can succor us. He can comfort us. And beloved, we ought to feed more on the Lord Jesus. I would like to challenge the young people, especially the brothers.
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Not that that is only their business, I think the sisters also.
Read these offerings. Try to enter into these offerings and understand what the spirit of God in type is presenting to us. Why is that important? That will help you intelligently enter in on Lord's Day Morning in what takes place and you might intelligently add and participate.
Turn in what somebody else by the Spirit has brought before us, and if you really understand these various aspects of the sacrifices.
In the Old Testament, that makes you more intelligent, and you can bring more to the Lord Jesus, you know, And sometimes we find, do we not not that we find that very often that the burnt offering side is before us. And if you understand that this hymn, this passage, even in the New Testament refers to the burnt offering side, you're not going to jump and change the character of that meeting by.
Your lack of understanding and you will be able to fit in and intelligently participate.
You know there's helpful Millers to available on the offerings. You know recently, not that many years ago, 5 booklets on Leviticus by Mr. Kelly were reprinted and you also have Kings Cards booklet. Christ, they're seen in the offerings. Very helpful. Even Mr. Mcintosh's book, although he starts with the sin offering while the scripture starts with the burned offering.
And he says, and I believe it's so that from our side, this is how we enter into the work of the Lord Jesus. We see more the need.
In view of our sins, you know, and. But how wonderful to rise above that and to really enter into what the Lord Jesus has been for God.
But we also find and that is so important that.
There was not to be broad any level.
And salt was not to be lacking.
Why do we have that in Leviticus chapter 2 I believe?
11 always speaks of sin. Never ever In the word of God does Levin speak of anything other than sin.
You know, although some in Christendom try to tell us that in Matthew 13 that 11 hid under 3 measures of meal is the gospel and it has to spread until all.
Is 11? Well, that's not what is taught there. It's evil hidden under that which is good when you read the writings of some of those men who have attacked, like we had in the reading The Eternal Sonship.
It's hit under measures of Meal. There's a lot of good things in those writings, you know, but it is like the woman hiding it under me and meal speaks of that which.
The Lord Jesus is, you know, and what we find in this meal offering it had to be fine flour. Fine flour. Why? Because that speaks of the evenness and the perfection of the Lord Jesus. And no matter how much pressure was applied, it was always smooth. The Lord Jesus never overreacted to any circumstance.
That came along his way. He always acted perfectly in every circumstance.
You know, how often do we Rover react?
Or how often do we under react? We don't react when we should react. You know, when the Lord Jesus cast out those money changers out of the temple. That was a perfect behavior for the circumstance.
You know, but when we see him reacting in loving grace to repentant sinners.
Perfect response in Him. And this is what the Lord would like to accomplish in our lives. You know that we react as the Lord Jesus would react. You know that we do not dishonor Him. You know when we think of Moses.
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But he was provoked by these people.
He spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
And he smoked the rock.
I don't think that Eiffel one could find so much fault with him that he got upset with those people. But what we learned from this, when we overreact, we might not carry out the way the Lord has given us directions to do things. And instead of speaking in grace, that's what it would speak of, wouldn't it? We use the rod, but.
The Lord Jesus could say who of you can charge me with any sin.
There was never a time.
Even when they were trying to trip him up in his words and all of this, that was wicked men confronting him.
How wisely, he answered.
Show me a piece of money.
Give to Caesar what is Caesar, If to God what is God's?
But we must never bring that which would answer to the leavens. When we bring a meal offering. When we think of the Lord Jesus, Our Lord's Day morning, isn't that a time when we bring, as it were, voluntary offerings? You know, we do not bring an offering like a Jew did, but we are thinking and meditating upon that of which that sacrificed spoke.
And that is what we bring to God, and we want to be. Do we not grow rich in the things of God? When you think of the burnt offering, you know when an Israelite was poor, he was permitted to bring a pigeon.
But when he was wealthy, he was to bring a large animal. But I'm sure that many Israelites oftentimes were sorry that he didn't have much more to bring than what he was able to bring. And don't you think that we should have the exercise, that we should grow rich in the things of God, come into a full enjoyment of the Lord Jesus and his work, his work for God?
And his sacrifice.
For men. But salt was not to be like blacking, because what does salt speak of?
Of that which preserves, you know which prevents corruption. You know there was no corruption in the blessed Lord, no possibility. And you know when you're allowed to think of the sacrifices, even the burnt offering parts were to be washed.
That was not an indication that that sacrifice is a picture, that there is something in the Lord Jesus that needs to be planned.
Before he can be offered up, no. That sacrifice needs to be washed so that the sacrifice would answer to the purity of the one who was offered up to God, well beloved.
I trust these thoughts are helpful to make us think more of the Lord Jesus. You know, I believe we don't read the Gospels often enough, and as brethren especially, I believe we pay so much attention to the epistles, Paul's doctrine, and so on and so forth. But I believe we should read more in the gospel, because there we see.
The perfect life of the Lord Jesus portrayed, we see him as the King of Israel. We see him as the perfect servant in Mark. We see him as the man Christ Jesus in Luke and as the Son of God. And let me say it's in John's gospel where you find the burnt offering aspect of the death of Christ. And we know that sometimes we try to artificially.
Raise the level of worship amongst the gathered Saints.
We had a brother at one time gathered in Egypt. He was always pressing for the burnt offering aspect, and one time even in the breaking of bread, he said stop, we have to get into the burnt offering. But it got so bad that the brethren had to discipline this man, not just for that point, but we cannot artificially raise the spiritual level in the assembly, but if we all would be more occupied.
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With the Lord Jesus and with the various aspects of his death.
I believe we all would be able to join in and intelligently participate. And isn't that wonderful that you and I can now bring something to God? And what we can bring is that which we have found of the Lord Jesus, that which the Spirit has made good to our souls, not just intellectually, but really entering into it by faith, and then be able to bring more.
To him, and how it rejoices his heart, to see a response in the hearts of His people, an appreciation for his perfect life of service here on earth.
He glorified him and that sacrifice which he has brought, you know we have in Ephesians chapter 5.
This statement.
Verse one be therefore followers of God as dear children and walk in love as Christ also has loved us and has given himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savior. I believe in this verse. The second verse will have these two things brought together, the sacrifice to God and him giving himself for us.
So may the Lord help us and.
I hope everyone of us has the habit of reading the word of God for himself.
And not only the brothers, the sisters also, You know, isn't it wonderful if you have an intelligent sister when we travel around and we meet? A sister that really knows the scriptures has really made an effort to not just listen in the meeting, but in spite of a heavy schedule.
Of providing for the family, feeding the kids, washing the clothes. Takes time for herself to read the scriptures, perhaps even read a book of ministry. I think perhaps the sisters are in danger to think, well, you know, the brothers are the ones that have to open up their mouth in the meeting and it is their business to get into the scriptures so that they have something to give. Well, sisters, when you in a meeting.
And in your soul you're in the enjoyment of these things because you have been occupied with these things yourself. You're adding to the spirit that is in the assembly. You know, the brothers really are only the mouthpiece of the assembly. And what a difference it makes when they are sisters or when they are young people in the assembly that are in the enjoyment of the Lord Jesus, And it lifts the spirit of the gathering.
And how wonderful you and I can be a help or a hindrance, even when it comes to coming to the breaking of bread. You know, if you're in a good spiritual state and in enjoyment of the Lord Jesus, it's a help to those that have to give utterance. If the Spirit really leads that brother, he will not go above.
What is the enjoyment of the Saints in the assembly? Generally he will express that.
Which is living and real in the hearts of his people.
Like to?
Read part of a verse.
In one Timothy.
Just to add to what?
Brother was saying first Timothy 2.
Verse 11.
Let the woman learn.
Let the woman learn. We sometimes get occupied with the latter part of the verse.
God has a full verse. Let the woman learn, and I would like to.
Have a thought or two to just give and.
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By way of explanation.
I'd like to.
See if we can explain or understand a little better.
Our pathway here below.
You know, as we've had before, it's a type we as Christians, we stand in Christianity.
And lookout on another people.
That's not us.
We lookout on the people of Israel that we see, and we see types and we see shadows and figures and we learn from those as the brother has been setting before us some wonderful things.
But as we stand in Christianity, as Christians and lookout on the Old Testament.
And I was thinking somewhat of the book of Psalms when I say this.
We're looking out on a people that God is bringing through a discipline.
To work something in them.
For himself.
Now the great difference. And if we don't maintain this great difference we we will lose the value of the thing, I believe.
He is bringing you and me through a discipline, through a life of discipline and government, to be conformed to the image of his son.
A Jew could never say that.
We're looking out on a people that we can gather a lot of help from.
Ever understanding that we are the most blessed.
Of all and now we are being conformed.
To the image of his son.
We are probably the If you were to survey all of God's creation, man would be the worst.
Prospect for such a thing.
And God leaves us in the most wicked place of His whole creation. Hell isn't as wicked as Earth. Hell is more miserable.
To do his own work.
And through you and me.
Now what is his purpose? You know, I was trying to find this morning in the meeting and I don't know if it's brother Darby's thought or the way he translates something, but it's when the he was sending the messengers to the vineyard and the the husband and the wicked husband. And I I was just trying to. I was remembering it this way. Surely they will honor my son.
You know, I'd like to say that about use that expression prophetic Lee.
And I want to tell you surely.
They will honor my son.
And that's what he's working in you and me today. And he will have it in a full sense on down the road. Surely they will honor my son, and he will never back off from that. He will never retreat from that. Everything that is accomplished of any worth will be to the honor.
Of Jesus Christ.
Maybe that many will be before him in his reign to honor him as the king, and we will be there to honor him at his side.
To proclaim his worth as a bride.
There with our Lord Jesus.
Well, I was thinking of some thoughts in Second Corinthians. You know we don't get into Second Corinthians till we get out of First Corinthians.
So my brother mentioned the thought of doctrines, and sometimes we're taking up with doctrines and so forth and problems. And that's what we have, isn't it? In First Corinthians, we have to get separated from evil externally. We have to be separated from you take a position apart from evil.
And then he opens out a book to you and me.
But I'm thankful for one expression and I'll try to jump back and forth a little bit. But in chapter four, I've read this and I said, oh, I'm so thankful that this expression is in this book.
Chapter 4 verse 13 I believed.
And therefore have I spoken.
If we had to speak from experience about this book, it would remain a closed book.
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Because it tells of death.
Nothing short of death, no compromise.
Death is 100%.
And finally, when I read across this epistle and justice wondered at some of the statements in it, and I said my I'm sure glad that I see it in here, but I can't lay any claim to be speaking by experience.
First of all, back in chapter one there is a.
Kind of a key to this book and the apostle just remind us that he starts off as the God of all comfort.
Encouragement because he's going to kill us.
The Apostle he would come down to.
Verse 8 and chapter one.
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble, which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed.
Out of nature above strength.
Insomuch that we despaired even of life.
To be pressed to the limit of my strength would only be to display how strong I am.
To be depressed above my strength.
Is it show I have to live in the strength of somebody else? I have none.
So do we understand sometimes that we walk in this world through a world that is the most wicked place?
And on every side we are tempted, maybe persecuted, we are challenged, we are accused.
But there is one who has walked before us. That is what we have had. Just a few minutes ago we had one who has walked this path before us and now in following him.
He is going to step me out beyond my strength.
He's going to step me out.
To where? Only Christ.
Has any bet on it can obey?
We were speaking earlier today about the thought that in the book of Joshua.
God gave them their portion of land, he said. They gave it to them for an inheritance.
And the thought struck we had it. Somebody mentioned in our meeting down home. An inheritance for me is like something written in my will. Why am I going to get that?
I got to die to get it.
And what we have from God, beloved, is an inheritance.
And he takes me out to where I can enjoy that hairs. Where is that?
Oh, out where I'm gone and Christ is remaining.
Above strength in so much that we despaired even of life 1St 9:00 but we had the sentence of death in ourselves. When when that happened, the apostle Paul and experienced in his life, he already knew he already had heard God say about Saul.
Death.
Just like David pronounced, as we heard earlier today, he shall surely die, God pronounced on Saul of Tarsus. He'd heard God say thou shalt surely die. So he wasn't surprised by this. It was merely God carrying out his own word.
Now if we understand.
That our path here is not one for us to make decisions in. It's not one for us to seek to make our way through the scene. It's not one for us to think we're going to calculate our way through this world.
You know, sometimes we talk about dying and death and you know, it's a big word.
But I think it's a simple thing for you and me.
As if God would say don't worry about what that word means, just obey.
I'll take care of everything else.
So we get over in chapter 3. I'd like to read this verse. It was referred to just a few minutes ago, verse 18 of chapter 3.
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But we all with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord.
Are changed.
God changes us.
It's not that I have some target that I'm seeing and I'm going to change myself. I'm going to exert my.
Forces all my abilities to be like that.
I'm going beyond my forces and beyond my abilities to be like that.
And that just is a simple word. Obey.
Come down. Submit to God. It's the word of God. Trust him for it, you say. Oh, if I do, it'll kill me. That's right.
Then you enter into your inheritance.
And I don't want to get to be mystical. I don't want to get to be fancy. I just want to get to be to read a couple of verses, verse 10 of chapter 4.
And say to you and me.
God called us to a path.
When he called us out of this world by the revelation of his son, this is the path he called us to. This is the principle that underlies the Christian path in chapter 10.
Chapter 4 verse 10 Always faring about.
In the body the dying of the Lord Jesus.
That the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
This dying is not dying to sin. Here he didn't have any sin.
To die to if we can participate in his death. It doesn't refer to atonement.
It's not the question of sin that we're concerned with here in this verse.
We're called to a path where the first man is left.
Far behind. And we go on in another path, another life. Everything is new. It's a new life, Everything is there. And God called us to this path. And he says, well, this is the path.
I said I don't really understand this. I really don't. I don't gather in what all this stuff is about death. Philippians speaks about bearing about or not, but being made conformable to his death. Well, I don't understand these statements. God would say verse 11.
It's all right, he says. I understand it. For we which live are always delivered unto death.
For Jesus sake.
That the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal face now, Brother spoke early today of the government of God, and what a solemn thing that is.
But all below we have one who controls the government of God, God Himself.
To understand that what he's doing, he's following my every step. He's brought me to a path which says Christ is everything. And in his love for me he's fallen every step, as we heard today in his disciplined government, because he's going to deliver me unto death. Do I wonder why? Years ago something happened in my life and even today when I think of it, it causes me to tremble a little.
He wanted that tremble.
He was producing that tremble.
Do I wonder why, as I heard our brothers speak about the government of God and I wanted to kind of shrink up a little bit, maybe hide under the chair?
God wanted me to shrink up a little bit. He produced that in me, and perhaps in you, I'm sure far more. God is working something for his own delight and his own pleasure, and and you and me, and for you and me. And it is centered around the revelation of Christ, the man in glory.
And occupied with him, He's going to make us like the man who walked down here.
I would say this in behalf of our God.
He's not a superior man.
And he will never add 1 grain to any trial that I don't need.
But he's after something in me. He's after a certain humility that I don't have.
He's after a certain tremble. He's after a contrition. He's after producing in me that when I hear the name of Jesus, there's something just springs up. He's making the Lord Jesus everything to me and to you. He's doing it.
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He said. Now we don't want to get away from responsibility.
There is that in our lives which is responsible, and there's a peculiar divine.
Point of contact. If I can use down in each sole, I would say there's some place where sovereignty and responsibility meets.
And you and I know that somewhere down the bottom there, sometimes God has said, you know, you don't do that.
And when I did it, he said, I said you don't do that.
And you know, he always wins every discussion.
We know that, so I'm not saying we can walk away from any responsibility at all.
I'm just saying that when I meet anything down in here, that's saying, you know, you just can't do that. I meet it in the presence of a God who has in his heart to conform me to the image of his Son. And the only way he can do that is to walk me out through death and give me an inheritance out there where life is and where only Christ is. That the Lord Jesus Christ would be everything.
And death worketh in us, but life in you.
Thinking about inheritance, the Lord would give me something to pass along to my brethren. So he puts it in my will. I'll use again my will as an illustration. He gives me something and he says, OK, here's something for you to share with your brethren. Here's something and I'm going to write it for you in your will.
The Apostle Paul. God had given him something in Paul's will for the Saints of God. So Paul is saying death works in me, but you get the inheritance.
Death works in me, but life in you.
God has it that way, beloved. God has it that way for us because he wants us.
All together, everyone together to say praise the Lord. And that's why I was just thinking and why I wanted to read that verse for the sisters. God says let the women learn.
Because you too.
Are in this one voice.
That's voicing the thoughts of many hearts, and the Spirit of God is working that out. And that's part of His pathway for us to lead us out to where Christ will be everything.
We're going to turn again to 2nd Corinthians chapter 4.
We are going through.
A defiling world?
Satan is the Prince and the God of us.
But we must go through it. We are here.
But there is a pathway for us through the scene I want to read.
The last two verses.
Or the the last three verses starting the 16th verse, for which 'cause we think not, but though our outward man carries, yet the inward man is renewed day by day for our light affliction.
Which is but for a moment.
Worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
It's another verse in Colossians chapter 3.
Lawson, three and verse one.
If ye then be risen with Christ.
Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection or your mind on things above, not on things on the earth for your dead, and your life is hid with Christ and God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
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Mortify there for your members which are upon the earth.
I'm going back to.
For Colossians tells us who set our affection on things above, our mind on things above.
And verse 17 of 2nd Corinthians 4 for our light affliction.
Which is but for a moment.
Now we turn to 2nd Corinthians 11. We'll just turn to it for a moment to see this light affliction.
Verse 23. Two Corinthians 11 and verse 23. Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more and Labour's more abundant in strikes above measure in prisons more frequent and that's off of the Jews. Five times received I-40 strikes, save 1 Thrice. Was I beaten with rods once? Was I stoned?
Thrice I suffered shipwreck and night in the day I have been in the deep, in journeying often in perils of waters, and perils of robbers, and perils by mine own countrymen, and perils by the heathen, and perils in the city, and perils in the wilderness, and perils in the sea, and perils among false brethren, in weariness and painfulness and watchings often, In hunger and thirst and fastings often.
In cold and nakedness beside those things that are without.
That was cometh upon me daily the care of all the churches. There ones would we call that like affliction?
The Spirit of God calls it light affliction, which is but for a moment yet all his Christian pathway. Paul suffered this affliction.
But the secret is it's all measured in the life of eternity.
It's all measured in the light of eternity. Our brother Hendrix brought before us God's government and how that government could go on and on and on and on.
It does, but dear ones in our daily pathway.
Do we measure things in the light of eternity? The Spirit of God does.
How do we measure things?
Lost chose the well watered plains of Jordan. Why? He had a lot of cattle. He chose for present advantage.
The 2 1/2 tribes.
Reuben, God and Half Tribunal.
They chose to remain on the east side of the garden because it was a land for cattle.
Again, they chose for present advantage what was the end of law.
He lost everything.
He really lost every member of his family.
Grounded. His wife and two daughters came out of Sodom.
But his wife was turned to a pillar of salt, and his two daughters were as wicked as any unsolder.
He lost everything.
What about the 2 1/2 tribes?
It chose for president Advantage. They were the first ones to be current captive.
No, dear ones, do I Do you choose down here for present advantage, or is your choice made before the Lord in view of eternity?
May we ponder this question?
While we look not at the things which are seen.
But at the things which are not seen, set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
We sometimes sing that little hymn.
Have I an object, Lord below? It would divide my heart with these, which would divert us even flow in answer to thy constancy.
There are ones. May we have the Lord Jesus and his interests as our object.
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What about our job? What about where we're going to live?
Do we live where we can get to the assembly meetings?
Their younger ones. Do you get to the midweek meetings?
Oh, we need them. I need them. I know in my own soul I need those meetings.
Do you get to those meetings? Do you value them?
Those opportunities to open the word of God and learn from His patience.
That opportunity to be before the Lord in prayer. Remember, we often quote Matthew 18 and 20. Let's turn to it just for a moment.
November 19.
Again I'll say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it should be done for them of my Father, which is in heaven. For see, the two verses are connected. 4 Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Here once do we value the farming. The Lord is there, the Lord is in the midst.
Do we come to meet him, to be before him, to make our requests known unto him?
Oh, bless. The truth is, it was in her midst this morning. But he's also in the perimeter.
Let us value those meetings. Set your mind on things above, not on things in the earth. We need things down here. We need to provide things on the sight of all men. But let us seek to make that provision before the Lord.
Let us make the Lord's things our choice.
And look to him for wisdom and guidance.
This Earthly pathway.
Well, we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. Everything we see around us is going to pass away.
Everything we see around us is going to pass away.
But the things which are not seen.
Are eternal.
Now just our time is slipping away. Notice verse one.
Four of chapter 5. For we know that if our earthly House of this Tabernacle with the Tabernacle it's a 10th, it's a non permanent dwelling, something that can be taken down and moved very rapidly. For we know that if our earthly House of this Tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God and house not made with hands.
Eternal in the heavens.
Something eternal, something permanent. It is therefore us in the heavens.
And there was. That will be our eternal residence. Not down here. These things are going to pass away. Oh, that we might indeed value those eternal things. Now just notice verse 10.
Where verse 9 Wherefore we labor?
That whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
For the present or absent we may be accepted of him.
Do I ever think, do you ever think when we seek to do something, am I doing this for the Lord? Is this going to be acceptable to him? Am I doing it for salt?
10th verse For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.
That everyone may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done.
Whether it be good or bad.
Now, in one sense, every judgment except the cross is the judgment seat of Christ, for all judgment has been committed to the Son. But here this judgment that we know is the judgment seat of Christ, is where the believers works are judged, not a question of our sentence. They were all jobs.
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And the penalty laid on Christ at the cross of Calvary. Our sins are gone, but this is a question of our works, and that which we have done in the body is going to be reviewed and evaluated.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone.
May receive the things done in his body according to that whether it be good or bad.
There once is what we're doing done that it might be acceptable with him the Fern Back to First Corinthians chapter 3.
Verse 10.
According to the grace of God, which is given unto me as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation and another build of their own. But let every man take heed how he buildeth. Thereupon we are all builders.
For other foundation canola, landlord and that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Now any man build upon this foundation. Gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble. That is the materials used. I wouldn't say about each one of us, but that is the materials that Christians, children of God, are using in the building of this temple, this building.
Every man's work should be made manifest for the day, so declare it.
Because it shall be revealed by fire, and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
Any man's work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
To any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.
Now in verse 14 we have a true child of God seeking to work for Christ.
His work stands. He is built with gold, silver, precious stones. He divides the fire. There's a reward.
Verse 15 We have a true child of God.
But he has worked for self. He has used the Woodley stubble. It will not stand the fire. He suffers loss. He himself is saved. It's not a question of salvation. He himself is saved. Just so is by fire. He loses the reward he would otherwise have had.
Well, we'll just read the next two verses. No, Enoch, the year of the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you and is Speaking of the assembly. The Spirit of God indwells the assembly. If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
There can be those come in professing.
Children of God, but their only professors. We may not be able to tell that they're not.
But they introduced into the assembly that was defiled. Might be moral evil, might be doctrinal evil, but what they introduced depiled the assembly, and it's solemn Him shall God destroy? He was only a professor.
All I trust each one here does know the Lord as their savior. Well, going back then to 2nd Corinthians 5 and verse 10, I'll just read it again.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive the things done in His body according to that he has done, whether it be good or bad.
Dear ones, may we bear in mind that we are going to spend eternity with Christ. Christ should be our object down here. We are simply passing through this temporal scene. Everything here is going to pass away.
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All we may seek a little while we're here, that what is done might be acceptable in his sight.
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Father, Father, for these two days.
The grades and glass, and thank thee for the joy of having.
All right, Holy scriptures, open up.
In our hearing and an opportunity to ask and be those things, we have new job and then to return and give thanks and praise and worship and rejection. Songs will go on and on and never stop.