Lorneville Conference: 2012
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2 Corinthians 4:15
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2nd Corinthians 5.
At least for this meeting.
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It would be suitable with the brethren I was thinking of.
The latter part of the 2nd Corinthians 4 in addition.
Starting from verse, uh.
About verse umm.
UH-15 and going on into the 5th chapter that uh.
In the mind of the brethren.
Some brother would read from, uh, say verse 15 of the 4th chapter.
2nd Corinthians chapter 4 reading from verse 15.
For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might, through the Thanksgiving of many redounds to the glory of God.
For which 'cause we faint not. But though our inward men perish, yet the inward I'm sorry, but though our outward men perish, 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. Or the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. Or 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. For in this we groan earnestly, desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven, if so be that being clothed, we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this Tabernacle do groan, being burdened not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Now he that hath brought us for the self, same thing as God, who also has given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Wherefore we labor.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive the things done in His body according to that which He has done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.
But we are made manifest unto God, and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf.
That ye may have somewhat to answer them with glory and appearance, and not in heart. For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God, or whether we be sober, it is for your cause. For the love of Christ constraineth us. Because we thus judge that if one died for all, then we're all dead, and that he died for all. That they which lived should not henceforth live under themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh? Ye know we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we Him no more. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, or a new creation. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new, and all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ.
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And hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation, to which that God was in the world. I'm sorry. God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. And hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ. As though God did beseech you by us, we pray you in Christ.
Had be reconciled to God, for he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God.
Well, the Apostle Paul.
Wrote this. The epistle, umm, had various, uh, purposes in mind. Uh, we see this in the, uh, earlier part of the epistle that uh.
There was, umm, you might say, misunderstanding, uh, among the Corinthians, uh, about, uh, Paul's purpose. He didn't come to Corinth, as he had, uh, intimated in his first epistle. And, uh, there seemed to be a lot of, uh, opposition to the apostle. There were those that were seeking to, uh, undermine his ministry in Florence and, uh.
Impute wrong motives to him and so on. So the apostle takes up a lot in this, uh, epistle about ministry, the, the characteristics of a true minister of the Lord. He deals with that whole subject in great detail from, you might say, chapter 2 right through to Chapter 7. Uh, so sort of a parenthesis in the epistle.
But, uh, it's beautiful to see the way he unfolds the.
The characteristics of a true minister of the Lord, which no doubt he he manifested in his own pathway that's taken up in the third chapter, in the 4th chapter and so on.
But umm, he does, umm, defend himself, if we might say I shouldn't probably use that term, defend himself, but, uh, the ministry that he had given up been given of the Lord to show that, uh, he was, umm, manifesting the true, uh, characteristics of, uh, a servant of the Lord in his sacrifice.
He was a willing vessel. He was a broken vessel. He was a clean vessel. And those that were, uh, working with him. And so, uh, coming down to our passage here, uh, there is rock before us. Certain motives that really, uh, inspired the apostle to continue on in the ministry.
So, starting in our passage here, all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might, through the Thanksgiving of many, redound to the glory of God.
So he says in the first epistle in the first chapter, that the persecutions that he went through, which he gives in detail there in the first chapter, were really for their sakes. Because the same comfort that he experienced in all those trials and tribulations were really for the blessing of the Lord's people, so that he could comfort others in their times of affliction and.
Colossians. Capital One.
She's here. The suffering of the apostles fall.
And I don't think anybody suffered as much as the Apostle Paul next to the Lord Jesus Christ himself. As you read through what he experienced here, he speaks of it in uh.
Verse 23.
Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more labor is more abundant in stripes of measure, in prisons, more frequent in death. Or of the Jews. Five times received by 40 strikes, save 1. Thrice was I eaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck a night in a day. I've been in the deep and journeying so often in perils of waters and perils of robbers.
In peril by my own countrymen. In perils by the heathen.
Imperils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren, and the list goes on. In weariness and painfulness, in watching so often, In hunger and thirst and fastings often, and called in nakedness besides those things that are without that which cometh upon me daily. Just what I was thinking about.
Saints of God.
And it wasn't something that was off and on with him, you know, one week, uh, concerned about the church, the next week not so it says here daily. He had the care of all the church, not just one assembly or two, but he was thinking about all the assemblies.
So what an example your Pastor Paul is for each of us.
You know any little thing that we do for the people of God seems quite miniscule compared to what the great apostle suffered was willing to suffer and love for Christ and for his people. But we see in this chapter that we started with how that.
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It's amazing that the apostle could speak of these things as a light affliction.
It would seem as a very heavy trial and affliction for the apostle to suffer as he did, but he speaks of a light affliction.
Because it's in view of the coming glory. This is where he's talking about weight.
Your parcel includes you and I with Himself. It works with for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Lord. How important it is to keep our eye on the future and think about where we're going.
And really those things that are so difficult for us here in this world.
We need to recognize.
That these things are making the weight of glory that much more.
So rather than shining the suffering and affliction.
It's easy to speak about the resurrection and the power that's manifested there and the fact that we're going to experience this power because it tells us this in verse.
Where we started, I should say before we started.
And in any measure that we seek to follow the Lord and.
Serve him and his people. There's going to be difficulties. They'll be suffering.
But it's, it's a reward, isn't it?
Well, what a great savior, not on he's the Savior, but the body was the soul of the spirit and the verse two in chapter one verse, uh, second Corinthians grace, BDU and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be God, even the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercy and the God of all comfort comforts us in all of our contributions that we make be able to comfort them which are in any trouble.
By the comfort, where would we ourselves our comfort of God?
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That last person, Dave Dickey, often quoted that verse to me. Verse.
And the glory.
That should follow.
You know, as the sufferings of Christ in connection with redemption.
We have no cards with that.
But as to the suffering in his life, the rejection, the pain?
Sorrows and he went through as he dealt with men around him in unbelievable.
Annual feelings towards himself. This we have. We have. Telegraph inter sufferings of Christ.
And we can consider that whatever bidder cup is set before us.
When we relate that to what it was for the Lord.
In similar, yet so much greater circumstances.
Ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. And then he gives an illustration.
A woman when she is in travail, has sorrow because her hour has come, but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish or joy that a man.
Yes, there is suffering, yes there is sorrow, but there's the exceeding joy and there's the weight of it forever. And the future that we have is absolutely tremendous. And He, he gives us.
As we wait on him, uh, the, the word given to the Apostle Paul as he passed through the difficulties that he had down here.
My grace is sufficient for me. Not, maybe not will be, but my grace is sufficient. So for down here it's sufficient.
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At his right hand, there are pleasures for everyone.
Well, there's a tendency to become discouraged. Uh, and.
Becoming weaker and we feel the infirmities of age as we get older. The outward man is is perishing.
Umm, that's the, uh, the Tabernacle that we are in the tent, so to speak. It's temporary, but uh, the inward man, that is the soul and the spirit, they can be renewed day by day, something that, uh, we need to be exercised about on a daily basis. Uh.
Would be strengthened by the Word of God and renewed.
On a daily basis.
And verse 28.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the call according to His purpose.
So we have a calling.
And God has a purpose in that calling.
And uh, in verse 32 it says he that spare not his own son, but delivered him up for us all. How shall he not with them also?
Really give us all things.
My brother Philip Herman, he pointed out to me. Mr. Darby has a footnote.
For Psalm 23, verse 6.
And.
I I looked it up and it was beautiful. For surely goodness and mercy. He's got only goodness and loving kindness. That's all. Shall follow me all the days of my life.
So you read this first here Romans 828 We know that all things work together for good for them that love God.
Well, what a great comfort this is to realize that God has only our good at heart every step of our pathway here.
There's never a time when he's trying to hurt us, harm us.
We have difficulties, no question about it, but they're all designed in love. They're an expression of His love to do it good in one way or another. So what a great comfort this is.
And I was thinking too, in connection with Thanksgiving here in our chapter, verse 15.
Thanksgiving.
Is so blessed you know God appreciates.
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But you know, it's wonderful how that when we take things to the Lord in prayer, He comes in.
And he undertakes for us, he gives us deliverance in one way or another.
That those traveling to this conference would be kept in safety on the road. There's a lot of dangers out there on the highway.
But you know, the Lord has brought us to this place, and now we can thank Him for His goodness in bringing us to your safety. And there were those who gave thanks for this very thing. But this Thanksgiving redound to the glory of God, just as it tells us here, because it was God.
Whose power and goodness brought us here in safety. That's the only reason we're here.
And we can thank Him. It's a testimony to the world about us and to the greatness and the goodness of our God.
How important Thanksgiving is.
And I believe a thankful soul is a happy soul.
You know, sometimes we get the impression like.
We deserve this and that and the other thing because of what we've done. The truth of the matter is we don't deserve anything but God, in his goodness, he still blesses.
And that's what Grace is all about. It's getting a favor we don't deserve.
We ought to be just thanking the Lord.
24/7.
For his goodness.
Reality and truth of resurrection.
That we have in these previous book. Also, First Corinthians 15 was something that was definitely under attack in Corinthians.
But the truth of resurrection, all of this world goes into deep sorrow. We have it in the news all the time, great names to pass away, and that's the end of it. No, it's not the end of it. We know the Lord is risen from the dead and we are all going to be raised from the dead if we pass away. And if we don't pass away, when the Lord comes, you're all going to be changed. This has been.
Operated for us, merited for us by the Lord himself on the cross. It's something that's so.
Complete.
And it's gonna be just the manifestation of something that's true right now. And it gives us, as we consider the scene where there's the valley of death and the shadows there and the sorrow and the pain and the suffering momentarily, it's all gonna be over and we're going to see all these wonderful things presented to us now in the scriptures.
For our enjoyment, we haven't. I think it's first Timothy chapter one.
It says manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light to the Gospel?
It's through the gospel now, it's by faith that we, we have these things, but we have them. They're ours. That has been announced by the Lord Jesus. And it's now life and immortality that is what is before us. And it's only in the light of this truth that we can look at the president's fiction as being like, if our outward man perishes, oh, I'm getting old, I'm getting sick, I'm losing my means. Well, temporary.
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We think of the apostles, laborers, I suppose you might say 30 years of Labor that our brother Wally referred to there in the.
Further on in the epistle we would hardly consider it to be a a moment or light, but uh, in view of eternity, it really is. Umm.
Very short time.
And although perhaps it's not the reward that is prominent here, I think rather is the spiritual capacity that we are developing in our lives now. Umm.
That's going to go on into eternity. Rewards we know are going to be given according to our measure of faithfulness. They are more connected with the Kingdom.
But the eternal weight of glory is our spiritual capacity that we are forming down here. Every cup will be filled, as it has often been said, but the joy of each one will be full. But the the capacities will be different. So we are developing or forming that capacity now by our walk and our enjoyment of Christ.
In our souls, that will be a a weight of glory that will go on, uh.
An enjoyment that will go on into the eternal state even beyond the the Kingdom period, which we know is the Millennium. But how, uh, often the things that are seen motivate us and drag us down.
How often we.
Are are, uh, controlled, we might say, by these earthly things instead of, uh, having our view on eternity?
And the the weight of glory and.
The things which are not seen and take spiritual energy.
To grasp those things and to to enter into what God has.
Traumas to us and what He has given to us even now to enjoy it takes spiritual energy. There are, as mentioned, so many things to hinder us from, uh, apprehending those eternal things, that portion that we have in Christ that, uh, is really, uh, our possession now.
The things that are seen.
Seoul also is the resurrection of.
So we have the stars and the perfect glory, one from another. That's what we have the weight of glory in our portion there, the resurrection, the resurrection bodies and glory.
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This morning encapsulates the whole crux of the matter in one verse. I believe that verse can be found in chapter 4, verse 11.
For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus sakes, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. That's what is our witness in our testimony, is it not how the Lord Jesus shines through you and me as channels of His grace and His blessing?
I think when we just read that last verse of verse 18, sometimes we look at the channels and we judge the channels, not the message that comes through them because we look at what is seen. Often times the Lord and saving us doesn't change us physically.
But he changes spiritually. So often times we judge the things that we and even the the tone of voice and those things that we naturally absorb. We tend to judge not seeing the totality of God's perfect work in the channel that he chooses as he chooses that Channel and works it. And this is one of the things I believe Paul was was struggling with.
Paul had, uh, some abnormalities I believe, as he mentions in other uh.
Books where he speaks of how he wasn't really welcome in certain situations because of whatever his situation was, whether it was a deformity or whatever. I don't believe you're quite sure on that, but, and he was often judged because of that. He was often judged by his manner of speaking and what he spoke about, but yet the message of God came through clear and we had the evidence of that in the word. Now that we speak about it and are able to encourage one another and enrich one another with, but I just thought it was interesting how he, uh, says in that one verse.
The life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh for you and I the same thing as it not. That's the whole crux of God working in us, that the life of Christ may be made manifest in our flesh, in our flesh, in our normal natural that we are. This is the body he's given us. These are the the voices he's given us, the eyes with which to see the hands which wish to work. But yet the life of Christ is what is now in US. And because of that, Paul suffered persecution.
Not because he was Paul, but because he was Christ. Christ suffered persecution because he was Christ. And you and I will continue to suffer persecution to the measure that Christ is shown through us by his grace.
Perhaps wasn't all that much to attract.
India Pastor Paul from a human standpoint of.
But you know the apartheid Paul.
He was chosen vessels for Christ.
And he spoke the truth.
And he unfolded the, I believe, highest truth of Christianity concerning the church, the body of Christ. You and I united with Christ as our head. And what a wonderful revelation to the apostle. And you could say it's not by my, it's not by my nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord. And I believe the Saints of God recognize in the apostle.
That he had this revelation and they appreciated his ministry when they were spiritual. But you know, it's possible to become carnal and rather than being governed by the Spirit, we're governed by our own fleshly.
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Lust.
And we can adopt A humanistic, uh, viewpoint that doesn't appreciate divine things, but, uh, would rather glory in the flesh.
The old man, so to speak, but you know the apostle.
He rejoiced in his ministry and there's nobody who rejoiced as much as he did in the Lord, I believe in spite of his, uh, bodily appearance, his speech. And he, he speaks in Galatians about how that, uh, they appreciated him so much that they would have even plucked out their own eye to give to him because perhaps he did have a, an eyesight problem.
Well, we can see that there was that, uh, appreciation.
Of the ministry of the apostle by those that were spiritual. But when carnality come in, we find they turn against it. So it's something we need to be aware of. But The thing is to look.
Not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. How can we look at something that's not seen? It seems a contradiction.
Well, this is fake. That's what we're talking about faith and I I just read recently concerning Steven in Acts Chapter 7 and how he gives his testimony concerning God's ways with Israel.
And he spoke the truth. And of course, this.
Aggravated the Jews, and they began to gnash upon.
Him with their teeth. It tells us this is Acts Chapter 7 but notice in verse 55.
It says but he that is even being full of the Holy Ghost.
Looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God.
And Jesus standing on the right hand of God.
Well, with Steven not looking upon that which is not seen, you know his persecutors, those that were picking up the stones to hurl at him.
Yeah, no appreciation for what he saw, but.
It's wonderful.
What Steven saw, and was it not by faith?
He saw the Son of man at the right hand of God.
He saw the glory of God.
As if the Lord Jesus was right here on earth.
But it's a matter of faith, and that's how, as Christians, we walk. We walk not by, say, the sight, but by faith.
And we need to exercise that faith.
Because if we don't, we're gonna get tripped up.
And we see how Steven went out of this world.
It was marvelous to realize the attitude of Steven toward his persecutors.
As they stoned Stephen, it tells us he called upon his God and he said Lord Jesus receive my spirit. And verse 60 says he kneeled down, cried with a loud voice. Lord, lay not this into their charge.
And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
You know, I asked myself.
Would I?
Perform or behave in the same way as Steven.
Found in these circumstances.
Well, I believe it's a matter of faith that enables us to be overcomers.
Nothing for Stevens.
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To have a report, to be looked at as martyrs and faithful wonder.
Ones who are really concentrating the Lord and so on. So you shouldn't be ashamed that a board has to be discussed to us at the same event or something that we see and reverses which belong reasonably impossible. And those who were certainly at that time and in a message from each one of us. True, but we should just be having arrived in the Lord in whatever circumstances of our life here, but we should manifest in the character as even this in your circumstances involved in the history of sanctions and.
Warren sisters as well as brothers, and we need to exercise that.
That service for the Lord in dependence upon him, and there will be a reward. Even a cup of cold water given in the name of his disciple will not lose its reward. Mag Mag Wonderful. The grace of God is what I was thinking in our verse here at the toward the end of the tractor here the world looks on and they think this is pure nonsense. How can you be?
Affected by what you don't see.
Well, that's because they, they don't have any object to be for them, but their horizons are limited by this world. They can't see beyond that. But we, uh, by faith is our brother Wally has brought out, we can look on into eternity. We can, we know that, uh, we're going to have that eternal weight of glory, but are we really living in the power of those things now?
You know, the children of Israel have to cross the Jordan and, uh.
They to, they want, they have to, there was conflict there in the land of Canaan to, uh, enjoy what really was there's. But, uh, there was self judgment at Gilgal and there was conflict before they could enjoy what was really theirs. It was their possession, but they had to encounter difficulty to, to, uh, to enjoy it, to possess it. So, uh, looking at those things which are not seen take spiritual energy because every.
Everything in this world is calculated to occupy us with the things that are seen, Mr. Hale used to say. Every ad advertisement that you have that you see is to make you dissatisfied with what you have. But.
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Christianity gives us godliness with contentment is great gain gives us an object outside of this world entirely.
So I.
Servants said unto him, Alas, my master, how shall we do? And he answered, Fear not.
For they that be with us are more than they that be with them and all.
Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man as he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and Chariots of fire around about Elijah.
There that only the spiritual eyes to discern, and I wanted to tie a quick thought to this in connection with what Molly said earlier about Thanksgiving. Reminded me of a story.
Of, umm, the hiding Place. You probably read that book, many of you. And.
The girl was in the nasty concentration camp and they were living in awful conditions and this one spot they had a terrible problem with. I think it was light, it might have been fleas, I can't remember.
And the fleas were just horrible. And, umm, the sister had a Bible and she was able to conduct Bible studies daily with a whole group of the prisoners in that concentration camp. And the prison guards never once went near that Bible study, never once sought to shut it down. And they hated the fleas in that place and after.
This has gone on for a while. They finally realized that the reason that this Bible study was never stopped was precisely because the prison guards couldn't stand the fleas, didn't wanna go anywhere near them, and therefore the Word of God is able to be read in that horrible, horrible place. And they were thankful for the police. They praised God that God had sent the fleas to that place. And I believe there's two things in that, that you can be thankful in the worst of conditions, but you can also realize that in the worst of conditions.
Your spiritual eyes may be able to see things that God is doing.
That other people couldn't possibly begin to imagine. And I think that's what sets us apart from the world.
And that's what the faith really is.
Well, you see the various motivations of the apostle in this passage.
One was the resurrection of Christ. He knew that if he should lose his life in, uh, in the rigors of persecution that he was enduring, he, uh, he would have a, uh, a temple, uh, a building of God in a house not made with hands. He knew that, uh, he would, uh, be in the presence of the Lord.
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Was a motivation for him to, to devote his energy, uh, in the Lord's service. This, this comes on into, uh, chapter UH-5 where he deals with the subject of uh.
Our resurrection body, building of God and house not made with hands.
So there were various things that motivated the apostle, uh, in his, uh, service and all the sacrifice that he endured.
Uh, as we have read in the epistle.
And, umm.
He didn't faint.
He had the glory before him, and he drew upon those wonderfully resources of God's grace. I think of that verse in the, I think it's in the 8th chapter of our epistle or the 9th chapter. I've often enjoyed it and I think the apostle experienced it. Verse eight of the ninth chapter. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that ye always having all sufficiency in all things.
They are bound to every good work. That was what what the apostle was experiencing that.
Wondrous resource and supply of grace so that he didn't faint and he pressed on in view of eternity and the judgment seat of Christ and the the.
Glorified body that he would have with the Lord forever the.
This hope motivated him in his ministry and his service for the Lord.
Rumble, you know the Lord Jesus, He groaned. He saw the effects of sin.
I believe come in.
They're in the household of Mary and Martin. The brother died since he grown spirit. Well, we can look about and we feel burdened because of, you know, the effects of sin in this world. But we never read about the Lord Jesus complaining at all. He never grumbled, and that's a word for it, my own heart, because it's a tendency, isn't it, to.
Complain, but the Lord Jesus had a beautiful attitude about everything.
Even so, father, for so it seemed good in thy style, He just took everything from his father's hand, recognizing that it was.
Good. And there's no grumbling.
Please save 162.
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We thank you for this time together.
Address 1
2 Corinthians 5
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For comfort V thyself, our hope, our sole desire 1.
Stop.
There's a lot in this chapter that.
Should really exercise us and.
Ignore the whole word of God is profitable. This is a very.
A chapter replete with the instruction and teaching for us. But it's whatever the brethren say.
Order verse one.
Reading from Second Corinthians chapter 5, starting at verse one. For we know that of our earthly House of this Tabernacle were dissolved, We have a building of God, and house not made with hands eternal in the heavens. For in this week Rome earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven, if so be, that being clothed, we shall not be found naked.
For we that are in this Tabernacle do groan, being burdened not for that we would be unfold, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now He that hath brought us for the self same thing is God, who also have given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.
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For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labor that, whether present or absence, we may be accepted of him from whom you 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.
Knowing therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.
We are made manifest under God, and I trust also we're made manifest in your conscience. For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have someone to answer them with glory and appearance, and not in heart. For whether we be beside ourselves it is to God, or whether we be sober, it is for your cause, for the love of Christ constraineth us.
Because we must judge that if one died for all, then we're all dead.
And that He died. For all that they which lived should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh? Yeah, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we Him no more. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new.
And all things are of God, who have reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation, to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not of shooting their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us.
We pray you in Christ, Dennis, be reconciled to God.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
When the Apostle goes on here to, uh, outline some of the motives for his uh.
Untiring zeal and service for God.
Which would no doubt speak to his detractors who were seeking to question his ministry and his motives. Uh, he speaks here of uh.
That eternal.
Portion that we will have and here it is in connections with our bodies. He's both spoken of a moral transformation in chapter 3 as we behold the Lord.
We look up and see him. We are morally transformed gradually, little by little, as we gaze upon him. That's a moral transformation here. This is a a physical transformation.
The apostle is speaking here of.
Our earthly House of this Tabernacle that refers to our bodies that we are presently in and it's our present condition. And notice it says a Tabernacle or a tent. It's something temporary.
And if through all the persecutions that Paul suffered, sometimes near death, longs and afflictions abide me in every city, and he had the sentence of death in himself.
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If that happened then.
He had if, if, if the earthly Tabernacle was dissolved, that is, if he passed through the article of death.
He had a building of God.
That is the glorified body, uh.
New conditions that he would enter into a building of God, a house not made with hands, that was something permanent, eternal in the heavens, doesn't mean that that body is waiting there in heaven, but it means that that would be his destiny. He would be in in heaven with the Lord. So that building of God is the glorified body.
That he was looking forward to.
Umm, he had the, the absolute assurance of it. He says we know that was not to through experience, but that was through a divine revelation. Uh, he had the certainty, and so do we, of salvation of our souls, but also the salvation of our bodies. So there was no doubt in his mind about, uh.
His condition when if he was called on.
To leave this world might just say in passing that Scripture doesn't speak about having a new body. I mean, that's often spoken of. It's not really accurate. Uh, we're going to have a glorified body, uh, the same body that we have now transformed, changed into the very lightness of Christ, Not a new body per Southeast, a new condition that is true.
But not a new body. We're going to have a glorified body.
Umm. And so the apostle goes on to, uh, speak of these conditions.
Umm.
The glorified body, eternal in the heavens, is the is the future of the believer.
And.
Then we will have our redemption. We have the redemption of our souls now through the work of Christ. We do not have the redemption of our bodies yet.
Salvation spoken of in three ways, past, present and future. So, uh, the full redemption is not, uh, yet, umm, enjoyed as it will be when we receive our, uh, glorified bodies.
Sort of changed body support the truth of resurrection, doesn't it? Because.
His own body of glory.
And I appreciate what you say about uh.
Sometimes it says.
Four and 14.
He says, knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus.
And shall present us with you.
Now he starts the chapter here in five We know.
And then the language continued as we read down through the chapters here.
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For six, therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord and so on. Verse 11 knowing therefore the terror of the Lord. So I might have missed that one or two, but the point here is that we're reading factual information and you know, you go into a library or a bookstore.
And sometimes you see.
The shelves are marked with the label that says.
Fiction. Well, you realize that if you pick up a book off the fiction shelf.
It's something that's written. It might be based on fact, but much of it.
Not true.
You go to another shelf and it says nonfiction.
So you pick off the book and maybe it's an Almanac.
And they're in that Almanac you have.
Date.
You have history that which has happened and it's their in factual.
Information and so you know, you're reading facts, but the word of God, I believe is.
Nonfiction, and we can read it with confidence.
Knowing that.
Writes something about the future. You would have to question whether he knows what he's talking about. And we have read books, perhaps in school. I remember reading one book, it was called 1984, I believe it was by Orwell. And you know, he made so many predictions in that forecast to what was going to happen.
20 years later, well, it's interesting that some of these things.
Happened, you might say, in a way, but there was so much there that never did happen. But here we're reading about the future, and the Apostle Paul writes with assurance because he knows that.
He's received the revelation from God, and the fact is that we're going to.
After leaving this world.
And these tabernacles that we dwell in in the earth are on the earth complete itself. But we gotta.
And it's a wonderful thing to be able to, by faith, lay hold of this and enjoy it.
I know that it's gonna happen.
It doesn't mean that.
Every person will pass through the article of death. In fact, that is not the hope of the believer. The apostle says here, not verse 4, not for that we would be unclothed because that's not the hope of the believer. Death, it may occur. It has occurred in many cases, loved ones right here.
Our brethren have passed away. They are consciously in the presence of the Lord with unhindered enjoyment of his person communion, but not closed. They do not have their, uh, their glorified body. They're in a brighter waiting room and the the believer in this body, we groan as we get older, the.
Aches and pains.
And there's death and decay and disease in it, in our bodies now because we're still connected with this groaning creation. We don't have a, a glorified body now. Uh, we've grown in this, not grumble as our brother brought out. And it's groaning here not because we are uncertain of the future, not because, uh, we want something, uh, that we don't have.
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That's not the grown here of being unsatisfied.
Or longing for something else. The groan here is because our.
Our bodies at the present time hinder us from the full enjoyment of Christ. There are.
Detractions with the the body.
There's two things we will not have in the glory. I think we've often been reminded of this. We won't have the old nature, thank God, that causes us so much problem down here. Umm, and we won't have this body of humiliation. Uh, it's not really correctly termed a file body. It's a body of humiliation because it's always humbling the believer.
And that's part of God's discipline with us. But in this we groan. That means in this body we, uh, we are still connected with, uh.
This groaning, this corrupted creation, we're part of it, and we earnestly desire to be closed upon with our house, which is from heaven. Well, that's the glorified body that the believer will have. That's the hope that we have.
Not death, not the undertaker, but the upper taker. And so the apostle knew that if that occurred, if he did pass through death, that he would, he would have a house.
Not made with hands internal in the heavens. At least that was the future he was looking on to. When he speaks about mortality being swallowed up of life, verse four, then he's looking for the rapture. That is, if the rapture took place immediately, in the twinkling of an eye, the body would be changed into Christ's likeness. It would mortality would be swallowed up. We'd never pass through the article of death at all.
And, uh, that's what the apostle, uh, was bringing before the Saints here closed upon immediately all the Old Testament Saints who have died in faith. And we who remain on the earth, all our loved ones who have passed away immediately would be raised from the dead and changed into Christ's likeness. In fact, the translation is not exactly correct here, uh, verse 6.
A believer who passes away going home and we would not criticize that, but really home in the IT to be accurate according to Paul's teaching poem is when we have the glorified body, when we are with Christ and in that final condition of glory with the Lord that is being at home.
At the present time, we are.
Present in the body. But we are, uh, absent from the Lord. Now being clothed to having the glorified body is really what is, what is meant by being clothed. We shall not be found naked. How solemn. Those who die without Christ, those who die in their sins, have no covering. They are naked in God's sight. They are. They have no covering for their sin. They have to stand before God.
In their sins, we are not told what kind of a body the unsaved will have. Scripture doesn't reveal that.
But they will have a body when they stand at the great white throne before the Lord and give an account for their lives. So closed upon is the condition of glory that the believer will have when we're with Christ physically.
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Will you make some comment on Philippians chapter one verse 21?
2223.
While being present with the Lord Cam is much better than the remaining in in this scene.
It's better if it's God's mind and we go through the if we pass through the article of death, to be present with the Lord is much better.
Umm, that comes out in our chapter, doesn't it?
But for the best of all would be for mortality to be swallowed up of life. And so the Apostle Paul, he desired to be present with the Lord, an absent from the body, but he was willing to remain.
Among the Philippians for their spiritual growth and benefit if it was God's will.
The fact that it was going to be just him.
So that was when you were hoping the impossible call be with the Lord you love so much.
And then in chapter 2 we have.
Suggesting you see the ultimate thought, the perfect thought is so much better for what it comes, and some will never die. It was a mystery to be reeled in the end of the 15th chapters.
Don't start your desire to be with the Lord, and when the Lord comes with you, with the Lord.
My remark also that sleep is never, uh, is never spoken of in relation to the soul, uh, the.
False doctrines promulgate this error that there's a such a thing as soul sleep and no more consciousness. That is a rank error. The soul is never spoken of as sleeping. The unsaved you pass into eternity. They're in conscious torment.
In a in a lost eternity, and the believer in the conscious enjoyment of Christ, although perhaps not seeing him.
Because the they do not have the body yet. But sleep is always spoken of as in connection with the body. The body is is put as Mr. Kelly.
Translates it put to sleep by Jesus. So the body is sleeping, and it will be awakened at the Lord's coming at the rapture, and it will be raised.
In a new condition of glorified body. But umm, the word sleep is never used in relation to an unsafe person.
They are dead, dead in their sins to begin with, and then physically dead if they when they pass into the next World. We've never spoken of as asleep, but the believer is.
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Lord Uh spoke of uh uh livestreams in the city.
Then he had to tell them plainly that he was dead so they could understand what what was really going on.
Well, it's, it's, it's lovely to see that, that it corresponds with every word that the Lord Jesus ever said. There's no, uh, well, I think this or think that whatever the Lord said, it was positive, not wonderful that we can, we can rest on the word of God. Whatever he says is absolutely true.
Just the the thought of the waiting room for the John would be better for us to stay in a temporary state because they are really in the full enjoyment of the Lord say that they don't have their glorified body.
This disembodied state.
You go to see the doctor and you're in the waiting room.
The Lord Jesus said told the thief on the cross. Today shalt thou be with me in paradise?
His legs were broken, he died. He went to paradise. I believe he went to be with Jesus. Lord Jesus said, you're going to be with me today. How wonderful this is to realize that when the believer departs this life.
He enjoyed the presence of the Lord. He's with Christ far better.
But.
How delightful this is to contemplate that God has prepared these bodies, that which will be perfectly suited for the Father's house, for glory.
But you you state the contrast that we find in Revelation.
Chapter 20.
For those that have died in their sins.
They resurrected and they stand before that great white throne.
And.
They're naked to the judgment of God. There's no covering for them. You know Adam and Eve, they knew when they sinned about their nakedness.
And Adam told the Lord, he said.
I was naked and I hit myself, didn't feel comfortable.
Of course he tries to make his own covering out of pig leaves, makes an apron of fig leaves, but he still went and hid himself because that didn't work.
But how beautiful to think that God did provide covering for Adam and Eve.
So I believe it was a little type of how God was gonna provide a covering for the Sinner.
To the debt, the shedding of the the blood of the Lamb, his own dear Son. And through that sacrifice of Calvary, you and I, we have a covering that perfectly suits us for the presence of a holy God. It's a wonderful thing to contemplate, should cause us to rejoice.
You know the prophet and joy, he said. I'm covered with the garment of salvation, clothed with the robe of righteousness.
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Upstanding in Christ, you know that's our cover, is Christ himself. That's where God places.
And when the father brings out the best robe to put it on his son, that comes back from the fire country, and the rags and the ruin.
When I was a little boy, I lived right across from the cemetery and of course we oftentimes played in that cemetery or playground. Uh, but, uh.
You know, I, I went to a place as a little boy where only Latin was spoken. I never heard the word of God. Uh, the only thing I did hear was, uh, that Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh.
And you know.
There was a, there was a tombstone there and uh, it used to scare us terribly rather than we, we would read it and then run away and just be screaming, more or less.
3089 you know, and all the other kids, we all go for a group of kids and here's what it says in Latona Stone. It said, umm, as you are now, so once was I.
As as I am now, so you shall be. Pick up your cross and follow me. Well, we didn't know what that meant. And uh, after I was saved, I went back and looked at it. It was in 1890 that Bravestone was, but it had something peculiar about it because it was a chain on there And then the book 1 great song to the next.
And I think it might have been his wife. But anyway, that chain has long rotted away in the course of the gravestone. Got uh, over half a century older and the lettering under gravestone was pretty, uh.
Hard to see, but when our niece Karen, uh, got married down at Hubbard's, I went to the nighttime open to the graveyard there and the kind of the headstones, they were so old, but there was a lot of Christians buried there because, uh, we saw two that said add something from the body and the president of the Lord. And it was just such a pleasure to see that. And, uh, there was a lot of verses in the scriptures, uh.
On the head of headstones in that cemetery.
But the one that really made my heart rejoice was that was in the body and the present of the Lord. And they're so.
Today call themselves Christians. There are so many people out there that believe one should die that's it and there's.
They, they, they call themselves Christians, you know, and they, they don't believe it because it's not in their doctrine, you know, but it's a doctrine of men, doctrines of devils.
Mike is mentioned for the help of the young people that, uh, the.
This is re uh. This refers to the first resurrecting.
The whole idea of a general resurrection.
Commonly spoken of in Christendom is completely unscriptural. Uh, there's no general resurrection. The first resurrection.
Could take place today. The Lord would would come from the glory and give the shout and we would be, uh, transformed and we'd be, uh, raptured into his presence. That's the first resurrection. Every believer from Abel downward would have part in that resurrection.
The first resurrection.
Might say there was a, there'd be another installment of that at the end of the tribulation period when the markers during that awful period will also be raised. They will be, they will have part in the first resurrection, but uh, the unsaved will remain in their graves. They will not hear the shout and uh, they will not be resurrected in their bodies of whatever kind it is.
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Until the end of the Millennium, the Great White Throne which our brother referred to is the resurrection of damnation. This is the resurrection of life. But every unsaved will then be raised by the power of the Lord and stand before him at the Great White throne, the judge on the throne. And it will be the issue, the result of that meeting there that.
Part of the judgment seat of Christ.
Will be eternal, eternal banishment from God's presence.
So it's, it's important to keep the, it clear that, uh, the first resurrection, the resurrection of life, the Lord speaks of in John 5 is his coming to, uh, to take the church and all the, uh, the Old Testament Saints as we have in First Thessalonians. It's described in detail there. Uh.
Into the glory. That's the first resurrection and every It's only for believers. No unbeliever will have any part in it.
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All of us that are sitting in a little more body 2nd.
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That's all formatted and.
As far as change.
This perhaps almost lacking corruption with 50.
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So maybe change body. I think it's not a new body, but uh, it's as a different, a different charge.
Oxygen is of heaven.
When it says not made with hands, it means not of this creation from the new creation.
Well, while we are waiting for that glorious time, uh, we have here in verse, uh, five now he that has brought us for the self same thing is God. It's gonna be all by the power of God. You'll have no part in it. Uh, you also have given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Well, that is.
Uh, the forecast of what we will enjoy.
In that coming day, we now have by the Spirit of God, the earnest has the thought of, uh, enjoying.
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Something before we actually enter into the possession of it.
But he is also the earnest, that is, we have a foretaste of the glory now in these bodies that we live in. We have a four taste of what we're going to enjoy for all eternity. The best illustration of that that I have ever heard was given by I think it was Mr. Burton in one of his writings. He said he took his son for a.
A a trip on the sea. And he had given him a real telescope. And the boy was thrilled with this instrument and he used it in the trip. And as they approached the cliffs of Dover there in England, he used his telescope to look through and see the shoreline. And he says that I can see people walking there.
And his father couldn't see anything.
Just the dim outline of the shoreline, but he could see actually people moving about there, and as they got closer he could see the houses and everything. The telescope brought those things near to him, though his father couldn't see them and couldn't enter into them. And so it is the earnest of the spirit he makes these precious realities.
To be.
Our enjoyment in our souls at the present time. Is that right there, Wally?
It's wonderful to have that capacity to enjoy the future right here and now, and this is made possible to us through the Word of God.
Unfolded to us by the best teacher on the face of this planet, and that's the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God.
Can reveal to us wonderful.
Future that we have in Christ, the glory that shines before us as we read the book.
So how privileged we are to have this book in our hands. It's a gold mine.
And it's well worth the time to.
I understand that earnest money was money that was given to show the intention of the person that intended to buy the object and.
And I was just thinking that God has given us His Spirit and that someone has made the illustration like this, that someone put down $100,000 as a down payment on something that was worth $20,000. You couldn't doubt for a moment their intention of purchasing that that thing. And so God has given us His Spirit. What more could he give as proof?
Jesus, chapter one.
Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchase possession whenever sealers Spirit of God until the day of redemption and the redemption of our bodies. So here's the down payment. We might say the fact that the Spirit of God is set now and the sealer body until the day that the Lord is going to change them in resurrection.
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All that speaks in Ephesians chapter 4.
Grieve not to the Holy Spirit, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. That's uh.
Ephesians 4 verse 30 I believe umm, the Spirit of God will never leave the believer.
Verse 30 The Spirit of God will never leave the believer. He is now a divine person on the earth.
In the House of God, that's in the collective sense, but also he dwells in the bodies of believers.
There are scriptures that bring that clearly before us. First Corinthians 6.
Your bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit, and so wherever we go, go to the theater or whatever, we take the Holy Spirit with us.
He will never leave us there, for the apostle says, don't grieve him.
If we grieve the Holy Spirit of God, which shall last to our shame, we sometimes, perhaps often do, then He will grieve us. You cannot.
Minister Christ and comfort to our hearts if there is unjust sin in my life.
Uh, and uh, it's very easy to grieve the Holy Spirit of God. So we need to walk in that, uh, spirit of self judgment.
So that the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, would be free.
To minister, comfort and enlighten our souls and unfold the Word of God to us.
Why? Why should occupy the ground for nothing? Left us here for a purpose to glorify His name.
Proof and so we need to be concerned about that. If also Paul says I, I couldn't find the scripture, somebody might put it for me well unto me by preaching out to the hospital. It was responsibility for what the thing that he'd been uh revealed to him by the Lord and the empowering and the spirit of God. So he made them give him.
Translation is not correct there. Uh, Michelle, uh, as you have brought out, umm.
Or seats there of, uh.
Verse 9.
Uh, wherefore we labor that whether present or absent, that is whether he was still in the body or, uh, whether he was, uh, he passed through the article of death, We may be, it should be acceptable or agreeable to him. Our acceptance is in Christ. That's another thought.
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As our brother mentioned, our, our acceptance is, is through the work of Christ before God. But to be acceptable, that is to be pleasing to the Lord is, is another thing that's our pathway down here is that my motive is that the object to be approved of the Lord. Young people like to be approved by their peers, but uh, who do we want to be approved by?
Uh, the Lord or the world? The world certainly not going to approve us if we are faithful.
You're not going to understand our motives at all, but uh, we should desire to walk in a way that is honoring to the Lord, pleasing to him. And then the apostle goes on for to bring another motive before us. And I think that much of what he says here is in connection, as Michelle has mentioned, with his service for the Lord. And who was a more active evangelist than the apostle Paul?
And just read of them this morning. But he suffered every peril and privation to give the gospel out. And this should be an example for us.
Well, the judgment seat of Christ. We probably won't have time to cover the whole subject this reading, but, uh.
For the young people, it is good to have the proper understanding and sequence here. The judgment seat of Christ, uh, is really in its broad sense. It applies to everyone. Everyone has to appear before the judgment seat of Christ, but at different times and with different results. The believer umm will appear before the judgment seat of Christ, but.
The Lord is not in a judicial character there. He is going to review our lives.
Our actions, our thoughts, our motives, everything will be reviewed, manifest at the judgment seat of Christ, not to condemn us.
The judgment for our guilty, filthy sins was taken by the Lord at the cross. They'll never be raised up to condemn us for all eternity, but our lives will be manifested.
And so the apostle speaks of the broad sense here. The unsaved will appear before the judgment seat of Christ too, but at a different time entirely. Now, when does the judgment seat of Christ take place? Well, not during our lives down here, of course.
Uh, very likely it is shortly after the rapture, uh, in that period of the tribulation, uh, which is at least seven years long. During that period, we will, uh, be manifest that the judgment seat of Christ, our lives will be reviewed. As our brother Bruce Anthony puts it, they'll be reviewing.
Rewarding and rejoicing.
And everyone of us.
Our lives will come in to review, not only since we have been saved, but as it says here, to receive the things done in his body according to that he has done, whether it be good or bad. So our whole lives will come out at that size, that judgment seat, but not for condemnation.
Our sins will not be brought up to condemn us. Our works will be resurrected.
And if there has been anything in your life and mine for the glory of Christ, it will be rewarded and there will be rejoicing. Of course, there's also the possibility, as First Corinthians 3 brings out very clearly, that.
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There might be loss.
Maybe you should turn to that verse First Corinthians.
Three, where you have a saved soul but a lost life.
Very exercising. Chapter three. First Corinthians.
We read there, umm, verse 13. Every man's work shall be made manifest. That's the judgment. See the price there for the days We'll declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire.
There will be a searching manifestation, and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
If any man's work abide which he has built, thereupon he shall receive a reward. That is a, a believer who laborers according to the mind of God builds up that which is, uh, according to Scripture and uh, there'll be a reward for that service. Here in First Corinthians 3, it's not God that is the builder, it is man that is the builder. It is the responsibility of man that is prominent in this chapter.
And so it goes on in verse 15. If any man's work shall be burned.
He shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved yet so as by fire. That's a person who is saved.
But to their works are burned up. There's nothing that abides for eternity. There's no reward now every man shall have praise of God. That is true. Wonderful to think of that. But uh, as a reward for uh.
For our, our service, some will lose that reward, they won't lose their souls, but, uh, the reward and so lot of the.
A prime example of that. He was a man that was truly saved. We'll meet a lot in heaven. A righteous man who vexed his soul every day with the ungodly conversation of the wicked among whom he dwelt where he shouldn't have been. So he lost his testimony there and.
USA delivered and he'll be in the glory, but I'm afraid much of his works will be burned up. Well, we don't want that to happen.
In our lives, we want something that will abide and be rewarded. That reward will go on into the Millennium.
Could distinguish these two also, couldn't we? As to in second chapter 3 ministry on building on the foundation, the apostle Paul is anymore referring to those that were in that line of service, I mean Christian.
And, uh, we will not have any differences of thought with the Lord as to His judgment on what He refused.
We'll be glad to see him.
We used to in school have the science fairs and so you had to do a science project and then you set it up.
For, uh, all the schools to review and then the teachers look at it and then there would be judges and they would come in and they would, uh, evaluate the project and a person would get first, second or third prize. And I kind of think of it in this connection that we're reading here in our chapter because, uh, you know, it was only the project that came under review.
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And the person that that did the project.
Uh, they were not, uh, judged. It was the project. And so, uh, I think it's this way here too, that it's the work that's judged and not the person.
But of course, when you come to the Great White Throne, you find there.
That the books are open and instead are judged out of the books according to their works.
The works are brought into review, but it's the persons that are judged and whosoever was not found written the book alive was cast into the lake of fire.
So we see the difference between the two installments of the judgment seat.
At least 1000 years apart.
Hold that fan which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
When I was young, very young, that bothered me. It it almost seems as if.
If I did something for the Lord, maybe I wasn't faithful on it. The Lord wouldn't take a reward away.
But I don't believe that's the thought there.
The Lord has given each to each of us a work to do for Himself.
He has things that we can do for him and it could be we don't step up and do what he's given for us to do.
And if that's the case, you'll raise someone else to do that work. If I don't speak to a soul about the Lord Jesus, perhaps he will raise someone else to do that work. And so in that sense, someone would take my crown.
The Lord is so good and so giving, and He wants to give us all that He can. That's His heart and love.
And.
And then we won't follow through in that which He puts in our heart by the Spirit that we've been reading about, He's given us Spirit.
To prod us into doing that which he wants to do for him. Someone else will come along, He'll move in their heart. They'll do that work, receive the reward.
Ourselves, our God and Father, we just come before me this afternoon and we thank thee for the verses that we've had before us. And oh Lord Jesus, we thank Thee that very soon these bodies of humiliation are going to be changed for those glorified bodies, and Lord will be likely for all eternity. We thank Thee for such a glorious hope, but we pray, Lord, as we wait for thee to come.
That we might be exercised, that everyone of us are going to have to give an account of ourselves to Thee, not to be judged but for our sins. But.
Lord, in view of rewards, we just pray, Lord, that we might seek to honor thee, that what we do in our lives might be agreeable to thee, acceptable to thee, and we might be found redeeming the time knowing the days are evil. We know, Lord Jesus, that thy coming is so very, very near. We just pray that we might walk in a way that's honoring to thee and be lights in this Dark World is getting darker by the by the moment.
And so we just thank you for this time we've had together thus far. We ask thee for thy continued blessing in the worthy and precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
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Gospel—Henry Sikora
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Let's begin with number six, number seven.
RC75.
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Oh, it's glory, grace. Shine in the safer state.
I've been enjoying this on for a couple of weeks.
I had a gospel meeting last and sang it and I just love again, so we sing together.
All his mercury.
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Romans, chapter 3.
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Yay, let God be true.
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But every man alive.
Yeah, let God be true.
But every man is alive.
With false.
Stop.
Stop. We're not here to speak our own words, not here to present something that we have brought up in our own minds, but to present to you the word of God. You can open this wonderful book, which is.
The word of the living God that's written for you and for me.
We read these words. Let God be true.
Let God be true. We want to hear this evening what God has to say from his word to me and to you, each one of us. A message in the Gospel. Let's turn to a passage that the brother referred to.
Earlier this afternoon.
Psalm Chapter.
19.
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament show us His hand He was.
Day after day utterly feast, and night after night shall acknowledge there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard, their wine, or the extent of their testimony is gone out through.
All the earth and their words to the end of the world.
Stop there.
Challenge in this world and then if you wisdom says that.
The state is in a preview, so no God, no God stops.
He's given up a place to look. It says it's not gonna happen. Declare the glory of God.
And if you look up into the heavens.
And we see that which God has made that would never have gotten there by itself. Manhattan is serious, but it never tell us how everything got there in the 1St place and it's amazing. I'd love to know how.
Last year we traveled down to the state of Wyoming.
And it's a little different from New Jersey, where I live.
Umm, we're at a camp 7000 feet in elevation.
The arrow was clear.
And at 3:00 AM when I got out of our van and I looked up.
And I saw something that I've never seen before.
A blaze, a star. And I looked at the Milky Way and it was like a cloud of stars across the sky, and I heard a voice.
I heard a voice just like it says here.
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Verse 3.
Already involved there.
There is no speech.
He wrote these words. He said I love the stars in the night and all it's still.
I'd love to combine the height of the summer of the hill that's upward gaze and use a blaze of the bright horse that heaven's vest pancake silver. I hear their mighty voice in my cold ear to make my soul rejoice that God is here.
Whose faith was done? Moon, stars, and sun praise his glorious name, and heaven appeared.
The declared it's not always the stars, it's the moon, the moon.
Uh, we were wondering.
Just went with the full moon and we looked it up. You know, I'm getting the exact time to the minute.
Somebody figured that out a long time ago. You can go to a chart and you can tell whether the sunrise or something sunset, when the moon rises, when the moon sets, it's all done according to the schedule that God has established. The ordinance is of the sun and the moon. These things are the six by the dimmer. It's His voice to us. It's His voice to mankind.
The guarantee of quarter rules and security in the universe. God sent this Father on the throne. The fall is a challenge to confirm and when it's taken, sinister against the throne.
Of the throne. Devil defines the throne of God, but God sits as sovereign on the throne. He roared his false thing as well as to God. We have come here to talk to them this evening, the living God.
And he is the God that you and I. He is the God with whom we have to do.
We wanna find out a little bit more about this card. Let's turn to the.
139 saw.
She knows me.
He has search.
And nothing is hidden from that search.
Uh, it goes. It's just a little further detail about this.
Verse 13.
For thou hast possessed my reins. Thou covered me in my mother's womb.
Versatile. My substance was not hidden from the when I was made a secret.
And curiously lost in the lowest parts of the earth, thy line thy eyes is, See my substance, or my uninformed substance, being yet uncertain. And in thy foot all my numbers were written.
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Verse 17. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me.
O'Donnell, how great is the sun of them?
We're talking about God.
To not only know about Him and His word helps us and He's known us and it's searched nuts, but He's a God that cares for us. He cares for you and for me. And as I read this portion, I see that.
Before my father. Before my mother knew.
That I existed. God knew all about me.
That's how instant his hair is.
And that's this tiny little light.
Began. He put a mask there as to what I would be like, how tall I would be, and the color of my hair and everything else about him. He had an infinite care, more than father, more than mother, more than aunt.
To me, as I read in the book of Proverbs that you return to Proverbs chapter 8, I'll find out something even more wonderful than this, and that is before FFTC, before Michael Marinus SBC, before Adam and Eve were made in place here on the Earth.
He cared about me. He cared about you. He he thought about it.
Instantly cared about everything about us. That's the care.
Milwaukee that he has for those that he has made.
The 14th chapter. The 14th song.
Stop.
Do you know what that means?
The garden light that comes in from the Word of God.
It says.
In his word.
It's just.
And in him is no darkness at all.
Not really can be hidden read elsewhere that he.
12 lights that no man can approach unto.
And you know that simply means for.
It means you can't hide anything from God.
No, His word assures us that all things are made and spoken unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
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Men love darkness rather than light. Why? Because their needs are evil. They like to be covered.
We state that differently. We like what we do. That's wrong to be covered with darkness.
But the garden light.
Unto the light where you dwell. None of us in our natural state can you stand before him.
In the his full examination, we come shortly and we read about that in this song.
Psalm 14, verse 2.
Lemoore mugged down from heaven upon the children of men.
To see if there were any that could understand and speak it to God.
They are all God and God layout all together. Become filthy Cortana.
There is none that do it's good. No, not one.
Speculative.
And each one in this room.
He looked down.
Correct. Thank you.
Corruption University.
Stop.
This is what God.
What I'm saying, I've got it in Alamo. Where are you?
Where are you? Gone? Away from God. He was dead. Dead sins.
Corrupt. Corrupted. What is God's response to this?
OK. What would your stock take that which you have made?
If if care upon him love.
And it has turned out utterly.
Corrupt.
Let us turn to, you know, Second of Corinthians.
Excuse me, uh, first candidate.
We have been friends before Dodge.
We have Man Man's conditions on the floor.
Lawless Verse 9. Disobedience.
Ungodly stop centers on totaling propane murders, murderers, fathers, manslaughter, manslaughter, foremothers.
That the depiled themselves at the same time men's healers wires perjured person.
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All these things that are contrary to God's gospel sound and sees that at all.
Now, what's his response to this?
I've noticed this recently Touches my heart verse 11.
Here's God's response.
Aguilar.
Stop.
God advanced services to our needs. He has an answer to this condition for those of us, each one of us, because we've read they are all gone straight. They are all together to become unprofitable.
The glorious Gospel of the blessing God is going to be read this way.
The Gladiators.
Of the glory of the happy God.
The glass lighting of the glory of the happy God. God has an answer to him and how to deal with it. He has good news.
Verse 15. This is a faithful saying we read about it and worthy of all assification that Christ Jesus came into the world to save.
Mercy, Thank you, Son, to world thy sin undone. Gospel is the good news of the happy God. He is happy. He is glad to present the story of his love, and it goes forth.
To Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. It's a message that goes out to everyone to the very worst, and we're assured that from the Word of God.
Jesus came into the world to save sinners. We read in the book of Galatians. When the fullness of time God sentenced forth his Son and the purpose was redemption. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, the Son of God who dwells in the gluten of the Father.
The Word he called the Word John's Gospel.
The offer of the forgiveness of sin. And as Jonathan looked on Jesus as he walked, he said this. They hold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. And how did he do that? Thank God for the wonderful story of substitution. God believes the substitution.
When Adam and Eve sinned.
They didn't die immediately.
No, an animal dog.
Tokyo.
They were coupled with Curt's skin, the animal thought.
The other night from the land of Egypt.
A land was taken by those that believe the word of God, who said God is true.
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And instead of the people in that house sign, the land dies and they were saved.
And the largest price, the Son of God, went to the cross of the Calvary.
And he was not like we are sinners who forked it on life because of the sins that we have committed. He went there perfect, spotless Lamb of God, the one who had never done anything wrong. And after reading God's Word, God, he, God has made him to be sin for us, He who knew no sin that we must make the righteousness of God.
In him. What a wonderful story of God's love. I love this verse. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
There was a Sunday school teacher who actually is a student.
What's the most wonderful?
Thing you have ever heard in your life?
Mother girls spoke up and she said well, she said most wonderful thing I heard is my family came home and said we're moving from the country to the city.
Stop.
The best? My parents came home and said we were moving from the city to the country.
When you hear that wonderful verse, John 316.
And that is me. It's the story of God's love.
But I wanna talk a little bit about the joy because we've been speaking about.
Glad I got happy God Lucius chapter 15.
We're gonna look greatly at this our I believe this one three parts so it stops.
Wisconsin.
These are people that did not receive a testimony of God.
Stop yeh moh coffee shrews.
Every man of wire, they didn't receive that assessment.
They didn't see themselves at dinner.
Because they did not receive that testimony, they were going to miss out on the collection.
Anyone that does not receive God's testimony.
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Not because I said it's, not because it's written. Here is wonderful book.
For I have found my sheep, which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one Sinner that protected.
Stop.
They lived in the mountains of Czechoslovakia.
He lives there for much of the 1St 15 years of his life.
Stop and all the way home. Stay here and I could remember the smile on the face.
I can't enjoy the think about.
Playing that lamb on his shoulders and what the Lord Jesus had done for him. And as I read that he lays it on his shoulders to breathe, choicing.
He calls his friends and neighbors. It's not enough that he's happy.
The happy God as we have brought before us this beautiful nature of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, going into that which is lost.
Then there's a woman.
Either one woman having ten pieces of silver, she moves one piece.
Likewise, I say I'm to you there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one Sinner that is handset.
Many years ago.
My mother was doing dishes.
She took a rainbow her wedding ring.
She put it on the dresser in her bedroom.
Later in the day, she went back to put her wedding ring on.
And it was gone.
Stop.
We found out later and put it on the finger and play with it and went outside.
And dropped it.
She didn't know where.
And we lost.
And we didn't find it.
I'm not sure how many years later stop.
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My mother was digging into flower beds.
And she found her brain.
What do you think she did?
Yeah, thanks. Your mother on the finger.
And just kept doing her work.
You know she didn't.
There was joy, there was happiness, she counted out, she had to tell everyone of the joy that she's had in founding that which was lost. And this little picture is given to us so you can you and I can understand the joy that is in the heart of God over one Sinner that reintends God not only has come up with this wonderful plan of salvation.
But there's joy in the heart of God over one Sinner that contends, and it's not a joy, it's a joy that has to be shared. He calls her friends and her neighbors and the Lord Jesus tells us. Likewise, there is joy in the presence of the fields of God over one Sinner. That intense the wonderful story of the gospel, and then we get it to the left.
Stop. A certain man has kicked his thumb under the other livestock and his father. Father has given me the portion of the goods that falls to me.
Verse 13 And not many days after, the youngest son gathered altogether.
And took injured him into far country.
He lost the father that loves him and it's just like our stories.
The Garden loves us. The garden made us the God who loves us, who has this infinite tear. Each one of us has gone astray, gone far away. But what about the plants?
It says verse 20, the second sentence. But when he was yet a great way of his father saw him.
Is the same as what we have in verse 13. He took his journey into He took his journey a great way off same word.
Help diligently with the following things for this time.
His father saw him and had compassion and ran and fell on his neck.
And this is help.
Stop.
Being a with Jock.
As the sun coming back, that's the highest of God. That's the God we have to do. That's the story of the God's soul that comes forth from the heart of God, God of light. But a God of love is something that we can scarcely understand. The truth and the joy begins.
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Let us eat pizza.
Stop. Stop.
With that, people would have sort of said.
Because my son was dead and was alive again, he was lost in his town and they began to be married.
There's a beautiful boy in Britain. They began to be married.
When it stopped.
For those that will receive the word of God.
Yay, but God be true and see themselves as a loss of Sinner. There's businesses, there's dancing, there's happiness. They feed upon the famine, care, the enjoyment of Christ.
Forever.
Forever.
Let's answer one more passage, Second Corinthians, across the page from where we're reading.
Stop.
It is. It's them that are lost.
In whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not.
Let the light of the glorious Gospel impress.
Who is the image of God should shine unto them?
There's those that will not believe God's record.
Will you set your seal that God is true? Will you receive the testimony of God against yourself?
It says the God of this world.
And find the divine to them that believe not you know this is the problem. The God of the world is safe.
Of the glory of Christ.
Should shine unto them.
One day long ago, Jesus arrived.
To a cross.
Atlanta.
Those hours of the darkness he suffered for sin.
Three days later, something wonderful happened.
He was here for 40 days. He ascends it up to heaven and he's there at the right hand of God. You know what that means? That's what it's talking about, the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ.
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A full and a free salvation.
Those that will not accept the testimony of God.
John, the voice of much people in heaven.
Say Hallelujah, disappeared of happiness. Enjoy. As we've been saying, that goes on and on and on and never ends.
But the record doesn't stop there. It says this and it's a warning. We must give a warning, but the fair holds.
As unbelievable.
Have their parts.
Lloyds, which burns with fire and brimstone, which is a second death, the fearful.
The litter of phrase a lot of people may say if they come in God's way, the answer is leaving.
Are you unbelievable?
We Have Christ
Children—Dan Allan
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And I guess there's some children's hymns on the back. Maybe we can sing some of them. Does someone have a song they would like to sing?
Anyone have a song?
Jake #41 around the throne of God in heaven will many children sing. That's a wonderful song and I think one of my favorite songs on this hymn sheet, the number 41.
Around the throne of God in heaven will many children say. Children who sings are all forgiven well handly and some spring singing explorer.
Children. But in heaven there are going to be many, many children around the Lord Jesus singing glory, Jesus, God on high. All right, someone else with a song they'd like to sing.
Number one.
That's a nice song. Almost persuaded. We don't usually sing that one in in Sunday school, but I really like that one. Almost persuaded. Maybe I'll get someone to start that for me.
Let's now do we live.
Almost.
Christ and raising.
Persuaded.
Come from today.
Almost persuaded.
Turn on the way.
She's a strange voice you'd hear.
Come.
Have you, if someone ever asked you to do something, you thought, well, maybe I'll wait a little bit before I do it.
That ever happened to you?
That's a hard question. That's happened to me, you know, one time I'll tell you, uh, maybe I shouldn't tell the story. The story is a bit of a scary story. I was in the water scuba diving one time and I was in a shipwreck going through it. And someone said to me, they said stop, don't go there. And they were, they couldn't talk to me with their hands. They were with their voice, they were using their hands and they said stop, don't go any further. Don't go any further.
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But I just ignored them. I didn't listen to them and I kept going and I got a lot of trouble. And I'm thankful that the Lord Jesus saved me, that I had a second chance, that, you know, sometimes we're warned not to do things and we don't listen. And we should, we should listen. And you know who the one is that's telling us to, umm, who is inviting us? It says here, it says Jesus invites you here. The Lord Jesus is inviting us. Then we should definitely listen.
All right, someone else have a song they like to sing Isaac.
#32.
What can wash away my sins? Let's sing the.
Through it all, my righteousness, nothing but the blood.
Season O fresh up is the floor that makes me whine. I saw no other fact. I know nothing but some blood of Jesus.
You know, on Monday of this week, I got an e-mail. Anyone know what an e-mail is? Children? It's like a letter. And I got a letter that said we would like you to come to a special event on Wednesday. And it said you have to have an invitation. They said if you show up at the door and you don't have a printed invitation, you couldn't, you couldn't just go and say my name is my name is Danny, so I'm allowed to be here, they said.
And I, I have a little phone and I could show them the e-mail. I could say, look, it says here that that I'm invited. And I thought, well, I'll just show up and we'll look at my phone and they'll say, oh, you can come in. And so I came with my phone and I took that phone and I showed him. And I said, look, it says right here, dear Danny, you are invited. And they looked at me and they said.
Don't worry, they said you needed to print that out. They said it says right there you need to print that out in. And there is one way to get to heaven. We just sang about it and what is that way to get to heaven? One way that sometimes we think we say it's our title to glory.
Alleys.
Restaurant.
The one way to get into heaven. Our invitation? Yes, Office.
Yes, Jesus walking away our sins as we sing here. Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
#3.
Well, I guess we can say that let's sing this is a good song when we just talk about the blood of the Lord Jesus because that's the way that we need to have the number three. Let's just sing the first verse of #3.
Something conspiracy? Umm.
I can't talk to us. We let's pray, let's train far from really on his last name.
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I hope I'm nothing left is built in Jesus and the blood he's built. Alright, let you know the verse from last week.
Anyone knows the version last week if you have a few hands here.
Caitlin, maybe you can give us the reference and so everybody can turn there and then we'll have some people say to buy the words and you know the rest. Roman chapter 5 and verse 8.
Stop.
Milford can stand up.
Stop.
All right, OK, uh, service case. God commanded his love toward us in the wild.
That you know, and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5/8.
Go command. This is locked without saying that while we are yet finished for a start date.
Cobblestone and that while we were at the North Coast. By far.
Roman chapter 5.
Stop.
For a Old Testament and I was thinking about it. So I just kind of sat down and I thought once you pay at all the little children.
Stop.
Was the interest in paying?
Stop.
21St Can I know I need to read it a little bit differently, but I want to explain it in a way that the youngest child you can understand.
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Can I read it a little bit of differently? I hope you will forgive me.
Stop one.
Stop.
Those words Christ died for us while we were yet dinner. And I want to start with the 1St 2 words Christ die.
And anyone here met a very, very, very important person?
No, this week I was traveling and I talked to someone on Wednesday with.
Dairy dairy important that exposed to his bags.
And I don't know, one time I think my parents were invited was, uh, to.
Be Powell in England and who lives in the palace, who lives there, who lives there? Queen Elizabeth. But then first talk to someone who is more important than both of those, and that is someone.
Sir, that's all for you this morning and I hope you said every little noise earlier spoke to them this morning as well. And that is the creator of this universe, the Lord. We have Christ.
And those first 2 words.
Are some of the are probably the most amazing words in the whole file says Christ and die.
Lord of Life bled and die if you don't.
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We need to go in.
Stop.
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Research the ships. I was talking about this breakfast. You know more passengers die on this ship than on the Titanic. If anyone know what ship that was?
Stop.
Beautiful clearances are going up and they can see a ship coming aboard them with a cold Earth and out of, uh, Disney, Nova Scotia. So do two things if they're coming towards each other and all of a sudden, guess what moves across the water?
A big fall of cash and I will tell. The whole story is a long story. A long story and it's a very dirty, sad story. Those two ships ended up hitting one another and over 1000 people died.
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But you know who is on that? There was 138. I think it was children. I'm going to enter that number because I have four children. Four in two girls are 138 children. You know how many boys?
1812345480.
You know, like, by the way, you don't have any way to live on that ship.
One boy, 730. Do you know how many girls are there? 3 girls. But there was a story. Come on, I tell you the story. But one of those girls, because it's like our first pricing died for us. Really girl in that **** from Amy's corner and she's only six years old at age where she was saying 14 minutes and her mommy was on the ship and her sister was on the ship and they only had one night shot. And the movie said, oh, I better take mylife.com, give it to my little girl on YouTube. The life jacket off she gave us to the little girl.
The little girl fell in the water and her squeezing cold water and there's a man there. She put our hands around the man's neck and that man stayed that little girl's door. She was the only one in her family.
Cool diamonds. Well in this first it says price dot or I stop.
You and for me, and that's a wonderful thing that they said, the person who made the stars and made the moon and made the bars, he died for you because he loved you. And then I want to read the last part of this verse.
Stop.
Stop.
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While we were yes in her, so I'll only think about that in three parts, price, size, price guide for us and price guide for us while we were finished.
Stop.
That's quite a lot of it. That's why we're just one week. Remember that the Lord Jesus died correctly, that He showed His love given His Son.
Stop one more song and then we can close your prayer #47.
Winnie Thompson.
Order is from.
All of your 112, whatever you want.
Lord Jesus loves to hear little children say, I believe.
Infinite souls of the little children.
Call stop you just pray that each one here that is of the age of understanding that they would put their trust and faith in the Lord Jesus.
Not around the throne of God and have your each one singing glory be to God on the high. We just thank you for this verse. Christ died of our sins. Christ died for us. The same thing that we can remember a little bit now on the hour to come of what the Lord Jesus has done to our from the cross.
You're saying for this is it worthy name of our Savior, never Lord and his presence?
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2 Corinthians 5
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Want to continue with, uh, Second Corinthians 5 or is there another?
Desire to look at.
We get down to the 11Th verse.
Did we get down to the 11Th 1St?
Probably reading verse 10 if we could go on.
2nd Corinthians 5 starting at verse 10.
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. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God, and I trust also are made manifest in your conscience, where we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that you may have somewhat to answer them, which glory and appearance, and not in heart.
For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God.
Or whether we be sober, it is for your cause, for the love of Christ constraineth us.
Because we thus judge that if one died for all, then we're all dead, and that he died for all, that they which lived should not henceforth live under themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh? Yeah, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we Him no more. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature or creation.
All things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new.
And all things are of God, who had reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation, to which that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and have committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did deceit you by us, we pray you in Christ that be reconciled to God.
For he hath made him Jesus, to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Oh, you spoke like yesterday about the judgment seat of Christ as not being of a judicial character, uh, but rather, uh, a review or a manifestation of our conduct, our walking ways in this world, umm, taking place after the rapture, uh, in heaven, not on earth. And, uh.
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The question of reward comes up here. That, uh, the Lord will.
Apportion the crowns of the rewards to those who have uh.
Been faithful in their ministry and service some.
Sometimes we have the idea that it's only those who publicly participate.
That are in the service of the Lord. But that is not the truth. We each have a ministry, and every little act of devotedness or service for Christ, however small it might appear in the eyes of men, is recorded in the annals of eternity. That book of remembrance the Lord has placed in that volume.
In heaven, we might say. Perhaps it's figurative, but uh, the point is that all is recorded. Umm.
Even a thought upon his name will not lose its reward. Reward has recorded all of those I.
Service for him and it will be his delight to reward.
What has been, according to his mind, that which meets his approval and that reward or that crown will, uh, go on into the Millennium. Our place in the Millennium in the Kingdom will be according to our walk down here.
So as we mentioned, receiving the things done in His body would take in our whole lives, even before we were unsaved. Everything is going to be manifest.
And someone has said perhaps.
We don't realize how great the debt was. Now we, uh, we know, uh, our past histories and perhaps our sins are an ugly pile we're certainly not proud of, but uh, we're going to see in that day.
How much greater?
Umm, our sins were than than we uh, and we uh.
That we are able to, uh, estimate them now, umm, in that day we will, it will augment our, uh, our praise when we see, uh, what the Lord has forgiven us, how great the debt was, the cost of our redemption. It will augment our praise when we see the wondrous grace of God that put away that mountain of sins in our lives.
And, uh, it will, we will burst forth in Grays and, and worship as we think of the, the grace that that, uh, overcame where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
When you talk about those in labor for the Lord, there's probably many more to have done so umm privately that no, no one knows except the Lord himself that those who have done so in a, a public sphere, umm, particularly it takes the sisters. I was thinking of that short passage of umm about darkest of these, these garments that she made and, and what?
And that's when and when she passed away. It was only then that her works remain manifest and the government said she she had made for the rules and needed them shown.
And your conscience is?
New Boston, TX spoken similar language in the forecast.
Verse two, chapter four, We haven't announced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking and crafting craftiness or handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves for human conscience in the sight of God. So there was reality in the manifestation that was visible.
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Costco home.
Stop.
There's failure in manifesting perfectly, but we know and what we preach, but there should be a correspondence. And so there was manifestation in the life of the apostles of the truth that he preached and that he expounded on and lived up. So this is manifest to the believer in New York.
And in the sight of God also man investments are good. He had a conscience boil of repentance before. God wasn't justified by that. He was walking in the light and he was keeping short accounts with the Lord and being true.
Experience or bad way here? This can't be settled by television.
I'm trying to get the idea that you want everything to be satisfied or even we know that the the right they're wrong.
Thank you. Right.
So it's a good main thing.
Weather in our Ferguson life in December.
We just had patients waiting to come to the Advantage station.
May be the Lord.
Has comfortable but.
Everything will be issued.
There are things that.
I need to reach that right here.
Because there's a lot of things really peace with the Lord and come on the Lord and set his brain in his time and it'll give us lots of happier spirit. We really did wait a lot of time to set things like that.
And I think also says all that, that there's many trials and.
Afflictions in our lives and reversals and, uh, we wonder why, uh, we're in these circumstances knowing that God is able to change them if it is his will. But at that time, everything will come out and we will see the wisdom of the ways of God in all our pathway down here. Umm, that, uh, the trial of our faith, uh.
Which is much more precious than a goal that perishes.
We will understand the the needs be and we'll see the perfect, uh, ordering of God in all the.
Difficulties or the, uh, events that happened in our lives. We'll, we'll see that he had a purpose of love in it all. Uh, although sometimes, as our brother Wally mentioned in his address, the fiery darks of the enemy are hurled at us.
And they are for that purpose of breaking down our confidence in God and his ways with us. We don't always understand those ways down here, but it's the purpose of love God that is ways in the wilderness with Israel. But His purpose was to bring them into the land. And that's God's purpose to do us good at our latter end. So I believe the judgment seat of Christ will.
Unfold those things. The Lord will go through our lives step by step, as it were.
And show us His wisdom, his love, his grace, that he had our good in view, uh, through all the various, uh, uh, circumstances of our wilderness pathway.
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This will only magnify as great, I believe, that the judgment seat.
Used to give the illustration about one who is in debt.
And the debt continues to grow. He can't pay the debt.
He feels the burden of the debt.
And then somebody comes along.
And pays the debt.
And so.
The debtor is relieved the debt has been paid.
Well, sometime later in life.
A receipt comes to the eyes of the dead.
He finds out that he owes far more than what he thought.
He thought he only owed maybe $5000, but it turns out the debt was $50.
Now, what kind of a response is that going to produce?
In the heart of the dead to realize that this one who paid the debt stop.
Was willing to pay far more.
Favor shown to us that we never deserve.
The appreciation of His grace is going to grow. And you know the Lord sees all that we do. It tells us in Hebrews that all things are naked and open unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight. God sees. God sees all that we do. You know it's been said.
We can fool all the people some of the time and we can fool some of the people all the time, but we can't fool God any of the time.
God sees things as they are, and there's records being kept. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good record.
It's amazing how records are being kept today through technology and a little tiny ship volumes of information, records, medical or whatever. Well, God is keeping records and you know, I believe.
This will come into review.
As we read here in the chapter, but the wonderful thing is when we stand before the judgment seat of Christ, we're going to be in Christ. We're going to be standing before the judge, so to speak, in all the perfections of the judge himself.
And so I don't believe it's going to be any worry or any concern at that time. You know, the Lord Jesus could say.
Verily, verily, I stand to you he that hears my word, and to hear His word is to believe, to take it to heart, accept it, and believe on him that sent me shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death unto life.
Now, that's more than can be said for those that stand 1000 years later.
At another judgment, and that's the great White Throne and those that stand there.
Stand there before the judge in their sins. The books are opened and they're judged according to their works.
Every thought, word, action is brought before them, is brought into review things that one would never expect to be brought up.
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There it is.
And so.
There's no remedy, there's no salvation at that time.
And judgment.
Is the.
Destiny of those that stand before the Great White Throne. It's very solemn to consider, but what a contrast to what we have in our chapter here.
Stop and we have an appreciation on the board with us during our lives and the result of it will be for His glory to see the grace of the Lord Jesus and all that He did for us before we received it and I saved us.
Is motivated the apostle to.
To speak forth the gospel with energy and death purpose, realizing if we as believers are going to stand before the judgment seat of Christ and our lives be reviewed and we are in Christ and sheltered by His precious blood. What about those who are outside of Christ, who have no, who are naked in his presence without any covering how it should?
Energize us to be faithful in the Gospel.
And the apostle says manifest unto God. I think Michelle spoke about that. Transparent in our dealings with our brethren and uh, walking before God to work, everything is uh, open to his eyes. Manifest unto God, walking with a transparent or good conscience, uh, before God and before man.
There were influences.
There so it's in contrast here to someone who has the appearance but they didn't have it in their hearts, they didn't have the reality where.
Costs.
In the Christian life and the response to the love of Christ, He loved me, keep my commandments. It's all in the enjoyment of his love for us. And it can be seen even in the apostles, the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. We often enjoy calling that verse. The apostle Paul enjoyed that himself. And so the love of Christ constrained him. And in the measure that you and I are enjoying the same love, it's going to constrain us.
It doesn't speak about our love to the Lord, as we have often been reminded. Don't try to love the Lord any more than you do.
Sit down and contemplate His marvelous love to you.
In fact, it doesn't say in the passage here the love of Christ should constrain us. It says the love of Christ constraineth us. And I know the illustration is rather threadbare, but we have a magnet, and if you hold the magnet at a distance from the pins, there's not going to be any movement. A child knows that. But if you bring the magnet down close to the object.
Immediately there is a response. And why is it that we are not moved more to serve the Lord more devotedly because we are living at a distance from Him. We're not feeling the constraining power of His love in our lives. It may be something I'm going on with that is contrary to the Word of God. I'm unwilling to judge whatever it is. I'm not feeling the constraint of the love of Christ.
It's not something legal, but it's the response of the heart to to him and and his love to us.
And if this life exercises itself, it's the life, right? There would never be anything wrong with anything done by the life of Christ in US.
Well, the Lord knows there was no sin in law, but there was activity involved and there was energy involved and the judgment. See the frightful manifest, those things that were done, who they were done for, maybe they were done for us. Maybe we would like to kill another son. I mean, he's the Lord. Put something on someone's heart and he hesitated and finally get up and share that. That's going to be manifest. So it's not a question of sin. It's a question of how we behave, what we do, the actions that we carry out. And obviously, if a brother is doing wrong, you're not going to wait till the government see the price. You have a responsibility. You have many other pictures that address a specific question.
People who compete in the Olympics now, if you cheat, you're disqualified. But if you compete in the Olympics, you might not end up coming out first. You might get no medal at all.
You still did pretty good, you know, So the Lord is going to have.
A glass of water given in his name. He knows why his love, He's going to acknowledge that. And what looked before men is adherents. We read that here about appearance. There were those among the Corinthians. They had appearance and it looked like, I mean, that's a judgment seat of Christ. Well, no, the reality of it.
Have judgment of other members of the body of Christ who are not with us. The tendency of my National Park like that, deciding the Lord, they're not calling us. They had a little something in their heart because those ones were following them. Laura Chantilly.
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What he thought of what they did and what's going on should encourage us here. Once as we read this chapter, we come to the conclusion there it says to live for him who for us died and rolls again. That's what can be manifested at the judgment city of Christ. I believe it's true. You and I live for what were the models there, even though it might have looked very good, might have been bad. I might need to look bad in the eye of some people versus atmosphere here.
Stop.
Stop.
Stop.
Under review.
Stop.
Home and in your life, each one here has put your trust in the Lord, not remembering sins or elections any condemning way that all has been covered by the work of Christian.
Valort didn't have to say that those that were not fortunate were against him. He was speaking about, I believe, religious.
Jews, Pharisees, and so on, they had no heart for Christ whatsoever.
And so the Lord had to speak that they were against him because they didn't go with him. They were against him. But there were others that the Lord had to say, Whosoever is not against me is for me. And so there were those that they didn't go with to decide they weren't following with the Lord like the disciples.
But they were still serving the Lord's interest. I believe they had God's interest at heart. And the Lord, he said just because they don't go with us, it doesn't mean that they're against us. I think that's good. What you bring up, Michelle, that.
There are those that are, I believe, serving the Lord in the light that they have and what they're doing, they're doing.
For the furtherance of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And even though they're not gathered to the Lord's name, we need to be careful that we don't condemn them, because the Lord did say that, whosoever.
Is not.
OK, so just this form and so there is that size things that you be careful not to contend the service of another that's perhaps not gathered to the Lord's name. They're acting in the light that they have.
Is it knock rewards? It's addressed here more than.
Other judgment, is it not rewards rather than judgment here?
So there is a sense of, uh, loss too, as we pointed out, uh.
We can't lose our salvation.
But we can, umm, lose our reward if uh.
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We drift back into the world, the lost crown.
They need to be exercised. In fact, that's brought out in our chapter here, that he died for all that they which lived should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them and rose again. The love of Christ was so, uh, had so motivated the apostle, uh, the, the love of Christ and manifest in his pathway down here. I think it's more, uh.
The more in connection with the Lord's love unto death down here in His pathway, umm.
What a wonderful exhibition it was of the heart of God.
And we have our henceforth, it says henceforth, you know, the rest of our time. We can't do anything about the past that cannot be changed. But we do have a henceforth. We do have the rest of our lives if the Lord leaves us here. And uh, so the judgment seat of Christ as a, a future aspect that we have been speaking about, but it also has a present effect. It, it motivated the apostle Paul.
And the love of Christ was another, uh, factor here. And, uh, we have the henceforth of our lives, the Lord leaves us here that we shouldn't live for our own, uh, interests, ambitions and pleasures, but live for the Lord, as it says here, should not live unto themselves. Well, that was our whole character of life when, when we were unsaved. Uh, do what I want to do.
This car belongs to me and this.
House belongs to me and my time is mine. You can't interfere with anything that I do. That was our language, but now we should say.
Everything that we have belongs to the Lord. Uh, what? Whatever it is, our money, our time, our talent, and we want those things to be used for His glory, not for ourselves. We want to use our material possessions, umm, we want to lay up treasure in heaven, in other words, and use those possessions which the Lord has given us for His glory, and then there will be a reward.
And that will meet us at the judgment seat of Christ. Now I know that.
Reward is not the motive. We've often heard that, and it's true. Reward is not the motive. It should be love for Christ, love for His people, love for lost souls. But as Mr. Kohler used to say, I want to get as many crowns as I can so I can lay them at the Lord's feet.
I love, uh, just turn to Genesis chapter 45. I know it's Joseph restoring his brethren and, uh, lovely picture of, uh, the Lord Jesus, uh, restoring, uh, the nation of Israel, but uh, certainly has, uh.
Special interest, uh, from the Christian UMM.
I just love him. I can't do that. I I can hear people read the.
Restoration in these chapters here where he's restoring his brother he loves so dearly. He chasing him but.
He loves them so dearly and when he reveals himself to them, it's just so touchy. It's just like the heart of God. And chapter 45 and verse 3.
Well, first verse 2.
And he wept aloud, And the Egyptians and the House of Pharaoh heard. And Joseph said unto his brother, I am Joseph, because my father yet lived. And his brother could not answer him, for they were troubled at his presence. And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. And this is so lovely here now therefore.
Be not breathe or angry with yourself.
That you sold me together, for God would send me before you to reserve life. Isn't that wonderful?
In his heart we oftentimes say we could give somebody, but we hold the grudge God never holds a grudge and we turn to the Lord if we confess our sins and faith and adjustment for you is our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Now that's that's communion there. Of course you know but.
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We are so much unlike him at times that is scared, you know, when we think of how awful the flesh is, isn't it? Our hearts are so deceitful and destiny wicked and.
We may say we forgive, but we don't forget, but we should forget. But God says he actually forgives in a way that's divine and like it speaks about the revelation chapter 5. I just, I love this revelation chapter. I'm sorry, chapter 4 revelation.
For thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Isn't it lovely? It's all of Him. He needs us to repentance in the 1St place because the God leads us to repentance. He gives us the faith. You believe and then.
Restoration or.
I had given you more, and the Apostle Paul is going to wish that he had given him more. Every last thing the same. One will say the same thing. Oh, I wish I had given him more.
Bill, I really, really appreciate you saying that. He goes back to see some questions and I think she said it's just so perfect because the Lord said if there's any makers, you'll remember no more and the person who is truly forgiven.
A person will not go back and remember that offense over and over and over again.
Post week because we're so different from that you know with someone her that's something against this Nintendo reader to say and over and over here again and you mentioned Joseph and I just appreciate.
It I still think that she's waiting for a second attempt to fix it.
Thy servants and Joseph said under that fear one for an admire the place of God. That's for me. He thought evil against me, that God mended under good to bring his path as it is this day. I think Joseph wept because they doubted that he had forgiven them. They doubted to the goodness that it is.
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It will be a question of how what we've done in the current and hurt the Lord. They'll show his goodness in.
And, uh, I just appreciate it very much that we shared there. I might add this too, brother. Umm, I know, umm, and we all know how much we are unlike the Lord, the love of a time. But I know I'm going to have very, very much burned up and I can't wait to get it, uh, burned up. A lot of, uh, Christianity, uh, have a fear of the destiny of Christ, but that's just, that's just getting it out of the way.
Second Peter, chapter one.
Nsnoise.
And there is noise.
Stop.
And the 11Th verse says, behold, we count them happy which endure. We have heard of the patience of Joel. I've seen the end of the war that the Lord is very pitiful and a tender mercy.
So we read about the old heavens of Satan.
Doesn't it draw out her heart in Thanksgiving praise to the Lord when we see how the Lord works in gold life, the life of David and the life of Joseph and all the Old Testament saying.
Why should our lives be hidden? Our lives are an open book. How much comfort and joy we get out of reading about the Old Testament Satan. Our lives are going to be an open book later. Our lives are going to be revealed, but not for consultation. Every man is going to have praise of God. When I see how God works in your life, how it worked in my life.
So draws like art and spray the Lord what he has done. And this is a a a point. I think that we need to grab a hold of that. It's not endemic. It's so that we might be able to praise the Lord and give him glory when we see how he worked in our life and how he carried them. Could you say, Venus, that it's not for him? It's across.
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The Lord is going to be glorified and we see how He acts.
There is a government of God, of course, in our lives and we get off with nothing but point that Michelle brings out, I think is important that if there has been any measure of faithfulness in, in our lives, it will certainly be, uh, it will be, uh, acknowledged by the Lord and uh, and rewarded. It will, uh, humble us when we think of the grace of God toward us in all our failings is our services.
Failing in whatever measure it is. We we're unprofitable servants, really. And, uh, the Lord in His grace is going to reward whatever little measure of devotion there is in your life and mine.
You're president of the at the assembly meetings where it may be in much weakness with only a few and you have the option of going to a much larger group. The Lord understands that and he'll reward you for continuing on. It might be when things look very weak and depressing. The Lord values that very much highly, and he will reward that sisters who take the scriptural place of in the assembly and do not participate. We know, but.
They will have a great reward if they occupy the place scripture gives them.
And they're priests as well as the brothers. But it's getting late here and I was wondering we could have a something on the latter part of the chapter here.
Speaks of a new creation. Therefore if any man be in Christ, it's really a new creation. All things are passed away. We have different objectives, different purposes in life.
Entirely all things are become new. It doesn't mean that we get rid of the old nature.
It doesn't mean that we are not assailed by lusts of that old evil nature that we will have till the end of the story. But our position in Christ is a new creation. That's our position. Our state is another thing which we have to mourn about, that our state is not always.
According to our position, but we've been reconciled.
Uh, that reconciled, uh, means to be brought back into, uh, favor. Uh, might say that reconciliation is God never needed to be reconciled to us. We were the ones that were enemies by wicked works. We needed to be reconciled, not God to us. It was never against us. But umm, here we have, uh, another point to verse 16. Wherefore henceforth knowing no man after the flesh.
Yeah, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. Might be a little difficult to understand, but umm.
Now we, uh, we have no Christ in a different way than, uh, the Israelite did they look, uh, for the Lord to set up the Kingdom as the Messiah. But Mary was told, touch me not, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father, which is in heaven. Mary was to know the Lord in a different character, not as the Messiah to establish the Kingdom in an earthly sense, but to know Christ as a glorified man.
At God's right hand. That's our privilege, brethren, to enter into that and to enjoy the Lord, uh, now in his present position as, uh, a man glorified in God's right hand. And, uh, we are, we are not drawn. What draws us together this weekend? I mean, we come from different areas, even perhaps different nationalities. We have different interests and, uh, different, uh, tastes and so on.
Those things aren't what draws together now. It's the love for the person of the Lord and the Word of God that draws us together.
Now as members of his body. Maybe someone else has a comment on that.
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Stop. Mankind is dead in their sins. If there was anyone that had life, it wouldn't be necessary for the Lord Jesus to die for all. But the fact is, there's no exceptions all.
Are dead in trespasses and in sins.
The wonderful thing is that the Lord Jesus went to the cross in love for each and everyone of mankind. Each have the opportunity to be saved, and in love He gave Himself. As we had in the Sunday school, God commends His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. So the message of the gospel goes out to whosoever will. It appears to all men, not simply to the Jews.
But to the Gentile as well, the fact is not all receive the gospel, but there are those that do, there are those that live, and those that live should not henceforth live unto themselves. Each one in this hall that is accepted, the Lord Jesus Christ, the work that He has done, we have life, it's a new life, it's empowered to us.
Through being born again.
And so how wonderful to realize that what God is interested in, it's not reformation of the old. You cannot.
He's interested in new creation, and so when we come to Christ, we become part of a new race, a brand new race of which Christ is the head, and we're part of that race and we're new creatures.
As John points out, new motives, new thoughts, new objectives.
Everything's new, and if we're enjoying in our soul what the Lord went to the cross, what took Him there was His love.
I believe it constrains us to reach out to those around us and seek their good and their blessing. We need outreach. And the Apostle Paul, he was an ambassador for Christ to him was committed. This as it tells us, this ministry of reconciliation.
The gospel, the grace of God.
How that when we were enemies were reconciled by the death of God's Son.
And so I believe the apostle says we are ambassadors for Christ. Well, I mean each one of us as believers, we can be ambassadors for Christ.
90 verse Ashley is what he was destined to. John is annoying Christ on the flesh.
The price was sent to the lost chief of Israel. You mentioned that the multi sentence of the lost chief of Israel. He was a huge strong answer to them. But when they rejected him. There was a counsel of God for the whole world behind it all and he used to do that in the 1930s God lost his life reconciling the world himself. So there was a a greater purpose of Christ coming to the world not only to restore Israel and that didn't happen because if you use it for the cable TV regard to access what is in his heart before you hit the world though reconciled, reconciled the world that you saw through the Lord Jesus Christ preparing our sin in the Father of the cross.
The.
Well, we have a work privilege that the angels.
They are not given the.
Opportunity to, uh, present this, uh, word of reconciliation.
An ambassador, you know, is a person that.
I'm at the ambassador to Brazil in Ottawa. On one occasion he and his wife, I met them, spoke to them. They don't belong in Canada at all.
They're representing Brazil. They are strangers here. They don't take part in in the political or.
Social state of the country, but they belong to another place. So do we. We are here to represent. That ambassador is representing Brazil and Canada and we are representing the Lord in this dark evil world where he is rejected. This morning we gathered around a rejected Christ, remembered one who is still cast out by this world. We don't gather around the glorified Christ.
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At the present time, and we are ambassadors, as though God did beseech you by us. The Lord is not here to do that anymore, but we have that privilege to pray the unsaved in Christ's dead in His position be reconciled to God.
We'd be seating there would suggest to us a longing heart and a heart that would warn people if you were the ambassador to China from China to Canada, and China was planning to invade Canada unless we made peace with them or whatever. Well, the consequences of not responding to the offer of reconciliation would make you deceased. Publicate begs. Don't neglect it.
Initiative come to each of our hearts and realize what is coming for this world. We we, I'm I'm asleep concerning that. I'm half conscious of what is coming for this world. May the Lord wake us up and we may we be faithful beseechers of those around us.
Uh, can you learn where, where are you seeing the uh?
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Gospel 2
Gospel—Stan Allan
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You could open our meeting this evening by singing numbers 7.
God loved the world of sinners lost and ruined by the fall. Salvation full at highest cost He offers free to all #7 perhaps we could stand.
God loved the world.
Of sinners lost and ruined by the fall.
Salvation.
I've gone to me.
It brought my savior from.
Above to die one Calvary.
Love dreams.
Oh nice, and I'm to the last makes no.
Salvation.
For thus far of sin through faith and cry silence.
Of Calvary.
He now by faith I claim him I'm the.
Risen Son of God.
Redemption by his death by minds and cleansing through.
On Oh Trust loss.
Calvary.
We just asked the Lord's blessing.
Perhaps we could sing one more hymn, uh #19.
O Christ and thee, my soul is found, and found in thee alone. The peace, the joy I sought so long, the bliss till now unknown #19 Perhaps we could stand again.
Oh Christ, and they, my soul have found. I have found.
I sign for us.
I yearn for them nothing.
But while I pass Savior by his love, like hold on me.
No, none, but praise God.
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Another name for me.
Love and life and lasting joy.
Lord Jesus found in thee.
I tried the bro and test turns Lord but of the water.
In as I used to do drink, they fled and locked me as I wailed.
No, none.
And it's fine, none of their name for me.
Love and life and lasting joy.
The Lord Jesus.
Found in thee.
The pleasures lost.
Sadly mourned.
Uh, very wide for thee.
Oh, grace, thus night, Thur sighs, racing.
Light of lanes to sing.
No, none but Christ can satisfy.
Their name for me?
There's a love and life and lasting joy.
Lord Jesus.
Found in thee.
I'd like to welcome each one to the Gospel meeting this evening.
And it was late on my heart to speak on a historian, the word of God that I've often enjoyed in the gospel. And I trust it can be made simple enough that even the very youngest here can understand. It's found in the second book of Kings. And uh, I'm going to start reading at verse 24. Forgive me, but I think we should probably read the story through.
And then make a few comments with the Lord's help.
Second Kings chapter 6 and starting at verse 24.
And it came to pass after this, that Ben Haydad, King of Syria, gathered all his hosts, and went up and besieged Samaria. And there was a great famine in Samaria. And behold, they besieged it until an ass's head was sold for four score pieces of silver, and the 4th part of a cab of Doves dung for five pieces of silver. And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall.
There cried a woman unto him, saying, Help my Lord, O King. And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee?
Out of the barn floor, or out of the wine press. And the king said unto her, What aileth he? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him. And I said unto her, On the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him. And she hit hath hit her son. And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman.
That he rent his clothes and passed by upon the wall. And the people looked, and behold, he had Sackloth within on his flesh. Then he said, God, do so, and more also to me, if the head of Elijah, the son of Shaphat, shall stand on him this day. But Elisha sat in his house, and the elder sat with him, and the king sent a man before him. But ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders.
See how this son of a murderer has sent to take away Minehead. Look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door and hold him fast at the door. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him? And while he yet talked with him, behold, the messenger came down unto him, and he said, Behold, this evil is of the Lord. What should I wait for the Lord any longer? Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the Lord.
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Thus saith the Lord, tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold.
For a shackle and two measures of barley. For a shackle in the gate of Samaria.
Then, O Lord, on whose hands the king leaned, answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven.
Might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes.
But shall not eat thereof. And there were four leprous men at the entering end of the gate.
And they said one to another, Why sit we here till we die? If we say we will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore, come, let us fall into the host of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we shall live, and if they kill us, we shall but die. And they rose up in the twilight to go on to the camp of the Syrians.
And when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was number man there.
And the Lord made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of Chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host. And they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to come upon us. Wherefore they rose and fled on the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their ***** even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp.
They went into one tent and did eat and drink and carried thin silver and gold and raiment.
And wins, and hit it, and came again, and entered into it, and entered into another tent, and carried fence also, and went and hit it. Then they said one to another, We do not. Well, this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace. If we tear each other morning light, some mischief will come upon us. Now, therefore come, that we may go and tell the King's household. So they came and called under the Porter of the city.
And they told them, saying, we came to the camp of the Syrians and behold, there was number man there.
Neither voice of man, but horses tied and ***** tied, and the tenses they were.
And he called the porters, and they told it to the King's house within. And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry. Therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive and get into the city. And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain.
Which are left in the city? Behold, they are always the multitude of Israel that are left in it. Behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed. And let us send and see.
They took therefore 2 Chariot horses, and the king sent after the host of the Syrians saying Go and see, and they went after them under Jordan, and low all the way was full of garments and vessels which the Syrians had castaway in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.
And the people went out and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shackle, and two measures of barley for a shackle, according to the word of the Lord. And the king appointed the Lord, on whose hand he leaned, to have the charge of the gate. And the people trod upon him in the gate. And he died, as the man of God had said, who speak when the king came down to him. And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king.
Saying, 2 measures of barley for a shackle, and a measure of fine flour for a shackle shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria. And that Lord answered the man of God, and said, Now behold, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, and might, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eat there us. And so it fell out unto him, for the people trod upon him in the gate.
And he died.
Well, I think many of us here this evening are familiar with this story. We find at the very beginning here that King Van Haydad, who was the king of Syria, it says he gathered all his hosts and went up and besieged Samaria. In other words, this city was really a very ungodly city at this particular time.
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Uh, the king of Israel had turned his back on the Lord and, uh, the Lord had brought a famine. He allowed a famine to come. And uh, I just want to say at the beginning, you know, that some people think that God brings bad circumstances into their life because he doesn't like them, because he hates them. But that's not true. We know very much from what the word of God says that God so loves the world.
That he gave his only begotten Son. And I want to say tonight, dear friend, that God loves you.
And he loves me. Why does he allow this, this famine that we read about?
It was because he wanted to warn those people about their sinful condition.
And, you know, there are times, I believe even today, when God allows difficulties to come to the world, to wake them up. We know that there have been two very serious tsunamis in the last 10 years, one in Japan and one over in Thailand. We know there was a very severe hurricane down in New Orleans. And many of these things God allows not because he's against his creatures.
But to warn them that Trump that judgment is ahead.
But, you know, man doesn't seem to pay very much attention. And we find here that Ben Haydad came up to this city. He surrounded it. And of course, the people couldn't go in and out as usual to get their food, and they began to starve. You know what reminds me of an enemy? That we have an enemy, dear friend, that you have the enemy of your soul, Satan. We were told last night, I think it was.
That got that Satan is the God and Prince of this world and he is out to destroy every man, woman and child.
He knows what lies ahead for him, eternal judgment, and he wants to take every man, woman and child with him to a lost eternity. And so he is influencing man's minds to turn against their creator. And so we find here that Ben Haydad, this Syrian king, surrounded the the the city and the result was that people began to starve.
And you'll notice it says here an ass's head was sold for, umm, UH-4 score pieces of silver. Now, I don't know exactly what that would be worth, but from what I can figure out, it might have been something like $50. Can you imagine paying $50.00 to eat an ass's head? That's how serious things become. I understand that, umm, the very things that we're reading about in this chapter actually happened during the Second World War.
The Germans attacked the city of Leningrad. They surrounded it. And the people there, they were starving so much that they actually turned to cannibalistic, cannibalistic behavior. And you notice here in this particular chapter, the same thing happened. There were these two women and they were so hungry that they actually decided to eat their own children. And they made a an agreement that one day they would eat the one woman's child, the next day they would eat the other woman's child.
But you know, after they had eaten one of them, the other woman just couldn't bring herself to do what they had agreed to. So she hit her child and they were. And she was so upset because the woman didn't keep her her promise that they went to the king and explained to the king what had happened. And the king was very upset. And I just might say that God had prophesied that these things would actually happen.
You know, if you turn back to Leviticus chapter 23, I think it is umm, Leviticus chapter 23. I'm sorry, it isn't 23. It's umm, 26. I think it is umm, yes, uh, uh, Leviticus chapter 26. And he says there in the 27th verse.
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If he will not for all this hearken unto me, this is the Lord speaking.
But walk contrary unto me. Verse 29 Ye shall eat the flesh of your sons.
And the flesh of your daughter, shall ye eat? God actually promised that that would, or at least predicted that that was going to happen if they turned their backs on the Lord. And you know, I want to say that we're living in a world today that have turned their backs on the Lord. They don't want.
The word of God in the schools. I remember when I started teaching, I'm a teacher and back in the late 60s or early 60s when I started teaching.
We were allowed to read the Bible. We were allowed to pray with the boys and girls.
Can you imagine that happening in the schools today? No way. No man does not want to hear about the Creator. He does not want to hear the Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And we know that in the States they've removed the 10 commandments from the beginning, from the front of courthouses and so on. And so things are going from bad to worse. Is that any wonder man thinks that he can live his life without the Lord in his life?
Outside and dear friend tonight, maybe that's the way you feel. You might think I don't need the gospel. I don't need the Bible. I'm quite free without it. But I want to tell you that the day is coming when you are going to have to stand before the Lord. It says every one of us shall give an account of himself to God. And so the day is coming. We had it in the reading meetings that we're going to stand before the Lord someday and give an account.
Of our lives well we find here that the king, he was so upset by what these women had done that he tore his clothes and underneath someone saw a sackcloth Now you know sackcloth in the Bible speaks of repentance. You all know the story of Jonah and how he had promised or at least he had prophesied that yet 40 days the Nineveh would be overthrown and you know the people were so.
Taken aback by what he had to say. They believed what he said. And they covered themselves with sackcloth. Even the animals did. We're we're covered with sackcloth. And we know that sackcloth speaks of repentance. But you know, this king, he had it underneath his clothes and he he was hiding it. And yet, you know, I don't think there was a real change in his life at all. Because you'll notice there in the seventh verse.
It says Elisha came to Damascus. I'm sorry I'm in the wrong chapter here.
The 30th verse. And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he ran his clothes, and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth within on his flesh. And he said, God, do so, and more also to me, if the head of Elijah, the son of Shaffat, shall stand on him this day. In other words, there was no true repentance on the part of this king.
It's true that he fell back.
About what had happened, the fact that the people were starving. Umm, he felt bad about that. But uh, you'll notice here that he blamed all his troubles on the lace of the prophet. You know, he had a conscience and his conscience told him that God was allowing what was happening to that city because they had turned their backs on the Lord. And so we find here that his, he had bitter hatred in his heart.
Uh, against elation and no doubt against God himself. And you know, dear friend, maybe that's the way you are tonight. Uh, perhaps, uh, you say, well, I, I go to church, uh, every Sunday and, uh, I try to do the best I can, but, you know, do you find that when someone goes to you and says, do you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior, that you get very uncomfortable and you want to change the subject?
And you want to turn and go in another direction. Well it shows that you have a heart that is no different than this King's. And so we find here that the king, he decided that he wanted to kill Elijah. And so he took his servant and he said, you go to the home of Elijah and I want you to kill him. And so we find here in this 32nd verse, it says Elisha sat on the House.
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And the elder sat with them, and the king sent a man from before him. But ere the messengers came to him, he said to the elder, See how the son of this murderer, son of a murderer, has sent to take away mine head. Look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door and so on. And so we find here the king was planning to actually kill Elijah. Well, you know, man was showing here his absolute hatred.
Uh, he was willing to kill the prophet of the Lord. But you know, the wonderful thing is that right when man was showing his absolute worst condition, what happens? God gave Elisha a wonderful message and we find that message in the first verse of the next chapter.
Elijah said, Hear ye the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord.
Tomorrow, about this time, shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shackle?
And two measures of barley for a shackle in the gate of Samaria. Just imagine. Here's the king plotting to kill Elisha, and Elisha is giving up a message from God of blessing. He's told that the very next day they're going to be able to buy a measure of fine flour for a shackle. But you know, dear friend, tonight I'm not asking. I'm not presenting to you something that you can take advantage of tomorrow.
God is offering you salvation tonight, this very moment.
He says in Second Corinthians, behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. All I want to say, dear friend, that God loves you. He knows that you're a Sinner. He knows that a lost eternity lies ahead, but he wants to give you salvation without money and without price. He's not offering it tomorrow, He's offering it tonight. In fact, don't put it off until tomorrow.
For we know not what a day may bring forth. You might have health and strength here tonight, but who knows what can happen tomorrow. You could be ushered into a lost eternity by a car accident or some other. You could have AI was just talking to a brother here the other yesterday and he told me that he went to see the doctor and the doctor said to him, he said you have an artery here in your neck that is 99% blocked. He said it's amazing.
That you aren't even alive as you stand there. Well, we don't know what a day may bring forth.
So God isn't offering you salvation tomorrow, He's offering it to you tonight. Will you come to the Lord Jesus?
Will you not believe that He came into this world? Who is the Lord Jesus? We were told last night who He was the creator of the universe, the one that made everything and that we can see with our eyes. And yet that very One came down here into this world 2000 years ago. Why? Because He wanted your blessing. He wanted you to be with Him for all eternity and He couldn't have any sin in His presence.
So he decided to go to the cross and there take the judgment that you deserved.
And so in those three hours of darkness, when he was there hanging between heaven and earth, He took the judgment that I deserved. I know I want to say how thankful I am that when I was a young child, I accepted the Lord as my Savior. And tonight He is offering you salvation. And you know another thing, here they were offering salvation, or at least.
A measure of fine flour for a shackle. We're not.
Offering you God is not offering you salvation tonight at a shackle. He's offering you a full and a free salvation. There's nothing to do. There's nothing to buy. Remember that for you, he left his mansion in the sky. And so tonight salvation is free. It cost the Lord Jesus his life. But for you, all you have to do is accept it. And so how wonderful to see here.
Then when God, when man, showed his absolute hatred, God showed out his love.
And isn't that exactly what happens at the cross?
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You know there was man standing there accusing the Lord Jesus. What did they say? They said away with them. Crucify him. We will not have this man to reign over us. They went and they put up a crown of thorns on his head. They split in his blessed face. They plucked the cheeks of the hairs from his cheeks, and they they made along the furrows on his back.
Whip them. That's what this world has done to the Lord Jesus Christ. They said we will not have this man to reign over us. They cast them out. Is man any different today? Not a speck. They don't want him. And dear friend, what about you?
Well, even though the man has shown out his worst hatred, God has shown out his love.
By sending the very one that this world hated to the cross, so that he might shed his blood on Calvary to make a way that you could spend eternity with him. Well, how wonderful. Well, we see here that the message went out, but how was it received? Notice the second verse. Then a Lord on whose hands the king leans, answered the man of God, and said.
Behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be?
And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shall not eat there, eat thereof. So here was the this Lord. He just laughed. And he said, oh, I said, who do you think you are? How is it possible that a measure of fine flour can be sold for a shackle tomorrow? That's just a myth and a fable that couldn't possibly happen even if God made a window in heaven. Could these things happen? But you know, I've often enjoyed that verse and I know many of us here have too.
In Malachi chapter 3, I'll just read it. You don't have to turn to it, but I've enjoyed it so often. This is the Lord speaking, he says.
Umm, prove me now here with saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. Oh God, tonight he wants to pour out a blessing for your soul.
He wants to bring joy into your life. We had last night that God delights to bring joy into the heart of lost sinners who accept His Son as Savior. And oh, tonight God wants to pour you out a blessing. But here was this man here, he couldn't believe it. He wouldn't believe it. And you know, there are many followers of this Lord today in this world. They don't believe the Bible is the word of God. They don't believe the gospel message.
They think that things are going to continue as they are for another thousand 2000 years. They don't realize the judgment lies ahead. But you know, dear friend, perhaps you'll be like this Lord. You'll see it with your eyes, but you won't be able to eat thereof, because one of these days the Lord Jesus is going to come. It could be before the clock reaches 8:00 that the Lord Jesus will come. If He came tonight, what would happen?
Everyone in this room who has put their trust in the Lord Jesus would be caught up to be with the Lord, and everyone who is left behind in the seats here will be left for the judgment of God. Oh, I want to speak to boys and girls here tonight.
Perhaps you have heard the gospel many, many times, but you've never actually bowed your head and accepted the Lord as your Savior. Why not do it tonight?
You know, as a little him we often sing. Why not tonight? Thou wouldst be saved, Why not tonight?
Why not bow your head right now and say Lord Jesus, I'm a Sinner. I know I deserve to go to a lost eternity.
But I believe that you died on the cross to put away my sins, and I accept you as Savior. Will you do that tonight?
Well, we find here this Lord did not believe, but then we come to the third verse and we notice here that there were four lepers. You know, these lepers, they weren't very popular because leprosy is contagious and they were at the gate of the city. They really weren't allowed in and they recognized that they had no food to eat and they were going to starve.
I might just add here, there were four of them. I wonder why the Word of God tells us there were four lepers. Well, you know, I think of it this way, that four in the Bible often speaks of universality. You know, there's North and South, east and West. That takes in the whole world, doesn't it? north-south, east, West. And so four often gives us that thought of universality. So there's these 4 lepers.
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Who do they represent, men and women, boys and girls, in this world?
Who are sinners? You know, it's telling us in Romans chapter 3 all have sinned.
You know, I might speak to you and say, are you a Sinner? And you say, well, I'm really pretty good. You know, I don't swear and I try to do the best I can and I help the United Way and so on. And you might not be willing to say that you're a Sinner. But, you know, we had that verse quoted to us last night. I'll just read it again. It's in Romans chapter three. I think we actually read it in in some 14.
But umm, uh, in Romans 3, we've had the very same thing. It says this, it says there is none righteous, No, not one. There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of their way. They are together, become unprofitable. There is none that doeth good. No, not one. And so, dear friend, every one of us are sinners by nature and by practice.
But you know, I believe there's two groups in this, in this room tonight. There are those who are saved centers and there are those who are lost centers. Which group are you in? Have you had your sins washed away in the precious blood of the Lord Jesus? Well, we find these four, umm, lepers here and umm, you know, notice what they say there in that fourth verse. We will enter into the city. Now if we say we will enter into the city.
Then the famine is in the city, and we shall die, and if we sit still here.
We die also, so you know, they were in a situation where they were under the sentence of death.
And if they went into the city, they would die. If they sight where they were, they would die. If they went into the Syrian camp and the Syrians there, they would die.
They were in a difficult, difficult position. But dear friend, that is your condition tonight. If you don't know the Lord, you're under the sentence of death. But God wants to give you life. We often sing not Him, don't we? There is life in a look at the crucified one. There's life at this moment for thee.
Then look center, look unto him and be saved to him. It was nailed to the tree. Oh, will you not take the Lord Jesus as your Savior tonight? Will you not take life instead of death? Well, these lepers here, it says in the fifth verse, they rose up in the twilight to go into the camp of the Syrians. They made a decision. We're going to go to that camp and we're going to.
See what happens. So they went in the twilight. I wonder why they went in the twilight. You know what makes me think of Nicodemus? Do you remember Nicodemus? It says he went to Jesus by night. Why? He didn't want people to see him going there. And you know, perhaps these lepers, they didn't want anyone to see what they were doing. But anyway, they decided to go and how wonderful what they found it says here.
In the fifth verse, when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria.
Behold, there was number man there. They couldn't believe it. They went into the camp chance after tent after tent were empty. No man. And what did they find there? Notice in the eighth verse, when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the the camp, they went into one tent and they did eat and drink, and they carried them silver and gold and raiment.
So they found all kinds of food to eat.
And not only food, but they had the benefit of picking up gold and picking up silver and raiment. They couldn't believe it. It was so wonderful. But you know, I believe here we have something very, uh, interesting. And that is that the Lord Jesus, what does he say to you tonight? What does he say to me? He says, I am the bread of life. They found food to eat. They found bread to eat. They found water to drink.
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The Lord Jesus says I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never.
Hunger. He the cometh to me shall never thirst. So who is the one that can give that which can satisfy? You know we sang that hymn tonight, didn't we? Now none but Christ can satisfy. There's none other name for me. There's love and life and lasting joy. Lord Jesus found in thee. And so we find here. They had all they could. They could eat as much as they wanted. They had as much water as they wanted. And was that all?
No, they found silver and they found gold and they found Raymond. And you know, it tells us in the Word of God, doesn't it, that we're not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold. So the silver speaks of redemption, and the gold speaks of divine righteousness, and the raiment speaks of that which we are clothed upon that makes us fit for God's holy presence.
And you know, it all comes down to the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, I love that verse in First Corinthians chapter one. I think we all know it, but I'll just read it. It's the very last verse of the chapter. It says there, umm, Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us, wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
There is redemption, the silver, we have the righteousness, the divine righteousness of God the gold.
And it's all found in the Lord Jesus.
How wonderful. You know the one that can bring happiness and joy into your life is the Lord Jesus Christ. Will this world satisfy? Never? You know we sang that little hymn tonight, it said in the 19th. Him it said. I sighed for rest and happiness. I yearn for them, not Thee. But while I passed my Savior by, his love laid hold on me. You know this world can never satisfy.
But what can satisfy the Lord Jesus? Have you come to know Him? You know, there's sometimes even those of us who are Christians think that this world can satisfy. And we try. All the world has to offer, but it never brings lasting joy and happiness. It's only found in the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, here were these lepers. They found all these wonderful things. I can't help but read the verse that our brother Alan Mccaver read this morning.
In the 61St chapter of Isaiah in connection with the raiment.
It says, I will greatly rejoice in the Lord. My soul shall be joyful in my God.
And He has clothed me with the garments of salvation. Those lepers, they knew what it was to be clothed in raiment. Well, we can be clothed in the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness. Well, how wonderful, these lepers, they found all this wonderful.
These wonderful things and oh, tonight, if you will accept the Lord Jesus of your Savior, you'll find He's everything that can bring joy and satisfaction to your heart.
Well, you know, they started taking more than they could handle. They started taking the gold and the silver let they said, let's let's hide it. So they started hiding in various places and then they became a little bit convicted. And notice what they say there in the ninth verse. Then they said one to another, we do not. Well, this day is a day of good tidings and we hold our peace. You know, they said, we can't just leave this here. We've got to tell people.
And you know, isn't it wonderful that we come to know the Lord as Savior? What's the first thing we want to do?
All we want to burst out and tell people. I can remember there was a young girl in Stellarton many years ago.
Umm, who came to know the Lord and Savior? And it was such a joy to see her because every week she would bring one of her friends to the gospel meeting. She wanted others to hear and oh tonight, dear friend, we want you to hear the good news that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
And these lepers here, they wanted everyone to hear the good news. And so they went and they told the people, what does the king do? He doesn't believe. He just could not believe. He said, there's some trick. These Syrians, they've gone out into the field and they're hiding there. And they're just waiting for us to get out of the city. And as soon as we get out of the city, they're going to attack us. And someone said to him, well, look, shouldn't we at least try and figure out if this is the case?
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Why not send some of those startling horses, put some people on them and go down there to the Jordan River and see if you can see any Syrians? So the king said, OK, go ahead and do it. And I don't know how far it is from Samaria to the Jordan. I was had the privilege of being there this past couple of months, but it must be a good 40 miles or so. And they sent these horses down to the Jordan and everywhere they went they saw the Syrians had scattered all this.
Umm, material on the, on the ground. And they came back, I don't know how many hours later and they said it's true, the Syrians aren't around. And, uh, they wasted all that time checking out to see whether it was right or not. And the people continued to starve until they came back and they could have had everything. Well, they went out with of course, and they found that everything that it said was true. And I want to say tonight, dear friend, you might be sitting there and saying, well.
Uh, you must be sort of deluded about this. So I don't believe the gospel message. But you know, friends, the time is coming when you're going to find out that what we're saying tonight is true, not because I'm saying it, but because the Word of God says it.
He had, says he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent Me hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment.
But has passed from death unto life. Is that my word? No, it's God's word. The word of God says it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many.
That's God's word, not mine. And all I want to tell you tonight that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. He wants you to be saved.
As we had before us last night, He's the happy God. He's the one that wants to make you happy. He was the one that wants to bring blessing into your life. Will you let him?
Well, if you refuse, what will happen? Well, you know the story of the Lord, what happened to him. Notice there it says in the in the 17th verse, the king appointed the Lord on whose hands he leaned to have the charge of the gate.
And the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said.
Who spake when the king came down to him so the very man that mocked.
He went into a lost eternity.
Oh how sad. There are many today who are passing into a lost eternity because they refuse to believe the glad tidings.
All I want to say, is there someone here tonight who has never accepted Jesus as their savior?
Will you not come to him? Will you not bow your head right where you're sitting and say, Lord save me? I believe that you died on the cross. I believe you shed your blood to put away my sins.
Will you not do that? You know it says in Isaiah chapter 55. I'll just read the verse to get it correct.
But it says ho everyone that thirsteth.
Come ye to the waters.
And he that has no money.
Come ye buy and eat.
Ye come by wine and milk without money and without, uh, price. Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which satisfies not? Hearken diligently unto me, and EG that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in flatness. That's God's word tonight to you. We do not accept Him as Savior. You know. It says, Behold now as the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
Well, I think we've enjoyed a very happy two days meetings here. We're about to depart.
But please don't depart without settling this question tonight.
Take the Lord Jesus as your personal Savior. Let us just look to the Lord.
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Our God and Father, we just come before thee this evening.
And we thank thee for the gospel message. We thank Thee that we can read those words. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. We thank the Lord Jesus for Thy wonderful love that would desire blessing for thy creatures and all. We would just pray tonight if there is some man or some woman, some boy or girl that has never settled this sin question, that they might acknowledge their sins tonight.
And accept the Lord Jesus as their personal Savior. We thank thee for that verse, the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son.
Cleans us from all sin. We would just pray that thou bless thy word.
And we ask in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
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2nd Conclusion, Chapter one.
Unto the glory of God by us now He witnesses which talented us with you in faith, and has anointed us as God, but also sealed us, given us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Just a short portion of the comment on briefly and room for others.
We brought into the knowledge of this now and the realization that all the conferences will go up.
Inhibits are yay and him are.
Folded his hand from the seasoned side and I'm going to hear his voice. We're going to be physically in his presence. Wonderful promises we have.
Reference to the activity of God towards us.
And we have 4 things being established together as twice being anointed, being sealed, and having received earnings in the spirit in our hearts.
I just like to speak Greek on that.
And 12 words the enemy.
Build a capital and restore physically what belongs to them is got the people.
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They were in identification, they were building things, they were going ahead and the enemy did right to the key.
Known as the king of the Jews, which came up from thee to us, are coming to Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the vast city. And I've set up the walls, they're up and joined the foundation.
So any reason you tell me the king bad things about that rebellious bad city?
Goddesses, and they had been rebellious. They had been rebellious to God also, but it is mercy. He allowed them to be restored in the land and we're going again, obeying their God. The one thing that we're really worried about was what was happening here, setting up the wall and joining the comedy. If you look at the note there, sold together, they were sewing together the foundation. They were leaking those foundations together.
You know, foundation is something that's something that's wrong and if you had more strong things to it, it becomes a firmer condition.
Stop.
Service.
Stop.
Stop being bound together.
Anyway, as to the promises of God, as to what we are?
We are members of one other and members of history.
This morning when we were gathered together and we were remembered.
This too, it remembers me as we did that we physically broke the same breath.
And we addressed it. We manifested that in a very small way that's moving, giving the Lord the desires are an expression in anything. We haven't realized that perhaps this morning when you remember the Lord, you didn't take an attack that although all those of us who are redeemed by such as blood, our own body, we're all one thing for Him and we are.
And I'm not saying if this is true. I understand this is true.
How responsible that makes us.
To be bonded together.
To be close to one another, to be concerned of one another. That way you have the same spirit, the same behavior, without the same person, to be bound together with each other, firmly together.
Well, just quickly just move on here.
Understanding and we're all in a growth process and we only know the parts. We're all ignorant. It's a different measures of what we are, but we are able to come to having similar thoughts, the same thoughts coming to the same teaching, the same understanding as we consider the truth of God who might not be easy and pull up right with everything. But I mean all right and full, of course, with all the basics that are so clear in the word of God because it's a clear God teaching us.
The same thing by the unusual thing I've received.
It's a normal thing and then it says there's 22 also sealed us.
That's sealed. We have this Ephesians chapter 113.
Through either the gospel of our salvation he steals.
It's mentioned, it's yesterday two, it's, it's the, uh, uncertainty that the enemy succeed in our works about the word of God, about the person of Christ, about his work, while the Spirit of God makes us sure and we can be boldly within conviction by the spiritual, we have a ceiling. And then he says, and given the earnestness of the Spirit in our hearts. Here are believers going through altered specific circumstances. We read second Corinthians chapter 4, the instant chapter there.
Difficulty, sorrow, burdens, things being weighed down.
The Spirit of God gives us to know and be assured of and enjoy.
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It illustrates it for me, present enjoyment of future things, Illinois, all their problems in my bicycles on the Friday. Never had a bicycle before. All your little boys had bicycles. We went to school and we just sat and do the bicycles and all the kids rode by him on Monday morning. His father said we're going to go together to the hardware, so I'm going to buy a license.
She goes to the school and every month.
They provide it and have the computer. Can you change your writing machine? But it cancelled to you again. I'm gonna see the Lord's face because I can show Him to you right now. But you can be sure and I can send you those things right now. By His third that He needed. So His spirit has bounded together as one. He's given us. He believed you understood that and enjoy the things. Of course He's given us to be sure of those things.
And He's given us the ability to enjoy another rest. Those things that are coming that are coming for us. The Lord bless us where you are here with me.
#23.
Promises of God in Christ are ye and Amen.
#23 verse 19.
God is not a man that He should lie, neither the Son of man that He should repent. Have he said, and shall do not do it.
Or have spoken, and shall he not make the good?
We know the answer.
Stop.
Stop and I believe.
As we consider what is being told us here, it is blackboard. Our house is rejoice to realize that the Lord is good and He keeps His promise.
And the Lord gave them rest round the mouth, according to all that he swear unto their fathers, and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them.
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The Lord delivered all their enemies into their hands.
Deerfield, 9/1. Five which the Lord had spoken unto the House of Israel, All 82.
Stop.
Egypt, he would deliver them from the cruel pharaoh.
And no, he promised that he would bring them into a good land.
Is it our Samsung?
We're ready for our learners that lead to patients to become the prescriptions my hope and so we find that we threw our faith.
With conflict, there's opposition in the Christian Catholic.
The highest form of supplement is to be able to suffer for the name of Christ.
A step back to the ACT stuff. That's fantastic.
And you gave yourself.
The future.
23.
14.
Joshua chapter 23 and 14, he says, Behold this day I am going the way of all the earth, that ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing have failed of all.
The good thing which the Lord your God.
All are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed.
Thereof.
Stop.
That God has told.
And Joshua challenges repeat.
Your law in all your heart, and in all your souls.
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Do you believe that what God will say in His Word is true, that it will come to pass?
Realize that God is in it all and that's all that occurs in our lives. That's the reason it is designed for our good and our blessing.
Take that and it's worth getting your dad off.
And any questions, you know, why is time to get all upset? Can't the Lord lift his salad? Who is Jesus?
Nsnoise.
According to his riches in glory through Christ Jesus.
Do we believe in God and with all our souls? Joshua said to the people. You know that God has never failed you, not once.
Nobody asked me this God ever failed you?
Thank you, I asked myself.
Once.
I both say there's times, you know, when one perhaps orders.
You know the same thing. He's a wider talk.
And me the second stop we read about Ephesians chapter 6.
Cookies and the love of God.
Make us lose our confidence.
But there is a remedy for those private jobs, and that is the state.
Put up the shield of space.
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Stop.
Perfect love cast outfield. Do you? Do I have a copy?
Is the love of God.
That's perfect, love.
Here is what it appears.
Now let's turn it over here to, uh, first.
First Kings chapter 8.
First resort.
To us.
Of the rain of a greater than 1000. And then Jesus is going to raise this world and sang about this morning. Royal Rd. shall soon invest in Royal Splendour's crown stock and he's going to raise in this world.
Stop.
Because they feel that they have 200 needs to go in a new direction.
Stop.
Suffering and rain go together as a suffering time.
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The Keys grilled with a laughter on the city.
And his people is, uh, according to, according to all that he promised, there had not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
He didn't have that. He desires the very best for us in both the world is this one and attack.
Stop Silverhead Cross taking out a shirt. But he and I understand.
Yeah, I'm not in a statement. It's lost it. Puritan comes out of the store to close to the top and silver becomes sort of in the end it's pure. So well notice here what it tells us about the real problem we have our hands pure growth.
It's just like silver and siding furnace but.
Just one or twice like 7 times speaks of perfection.
Easy life insurance, you know, to live with the world, she said. God said it.
Stop.
Municipality tells us that he was full persuaded, he was on mind and heart like what God had found. He was able to fall over.
That's good.
And you know, Abraham did say, but overall he was characterized.
Like confidence in the word God.
And that's what card once from you and I the greatest favor that we can do is to trust you patience at his word and you know.
Pick topless in the world. The checks are very locked our personal lives.
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The second verse 34.
This is what the Lord.
Said.
I don't know all about the problems, Star Wars difficulties.
I hear you.
Some and there's much to pray about, but I can tell you one thing with certainty, the Lord's teeth, the situation he knows all about and.
He hears your clothes, he hears you, he's got IUC and hearsay and he's got an arm too. That's.
What a wonderful dog you have.
Many years ago.
He brought people out of Egypt, he brought them through the wilderness, he brought it into the good land, according to astronomy.
He never failed people once.
Well, thank you. Yes, we're gonna come back.
But I suppose we could ask ourselves a question. Are we stable to me?
A noisy neighbor or in some places where they're poor neighborhoods, perhaps there's a place where there's some illegal activity being done in a certain house and you live on that street cause the snow ended problems and pave the let me.
Waiting for the situation to change.
And all of a sudden there's a sign on the hose that says for sale.
And it hurts to come in white. I don't think there's gonna be an end of this situation. We hang on for a little bit longer and then all of a sudden we see the sign that says total.
And we're a little bit more pregnant. You have a nice wow, there's going to be an end of the situation finally.
And then whoever causes the problem moves out, the new family moves in, and usually what happens, there's a complete change and everything's fine.
I was thinking of that very practical sense, but the book of Joshua, chapter 5.
Thought that the Lord is so.
So I can use the word flesh and a good time to be with. I thought he'd ask me the same question and then thought about this here and Gospel chapter 5.
Well, we'll read it Joshua chapter 5 verse four. It says in this.
Is because by Josh was it circumcised all the people that came out of Egypt that were males, even all the Men At Work died in the wilderness by the way after they came over to Egypt.
And my question is.
How do they spend their time waiting for the last one to die?
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He had God's promises before us and now they get faithful and all these things. And he did promise that those who went into the wilderness for 40 years, they always died.
So how did they mark the company?
As you and I probably would sit around and watch there goes one, there goes another. Whole woman is turning with mark by Kunos, but each funeral meant one closer.
Coming out of this situation to go through US promises every criminal at one closest.
So what would they have thought? The last person?
Let's go to survive the last surviving 20 all the day of mine. How would they have waited their time watched them very closely, carefully. Every time it talks, it would probably is this it is this it?
Well, finally he's a go.
That would be it. We don't read of any greater choices. Wouldn't that be what you and I would do? The last one's gone. We're free now. It's free to do what he wants to do.
Anyway, that was the Father. I did just like throw that at you to see that it comes with you of your thoughts. But you know what happens. How about taking that clock further? In the book of Matthew, the Lord tells us.
For you and I as the children of God, Book of Matthew chapter 24 very quickly.
Math 2442. It says March therefore, for you know not what hour you are, more dust come, and the 46 it says, Blessed is that servant whom his Lord will become, that shall find so doing.
The advantage that they had stop.
Was that they could watch sadly, they could watch those who died one by one and they knew and they trusted the same God as the spoken of from this Fulton, but that God is just as faithful to them as he gives to us that when that last person died.
God would act on His promises and take them into the Promised Land.
They had the warning. They have a specific time that they can look forward to and say yes. When that happens, then the next thing will happen. The next turn of events will happen. You and I don't have that. The Lord will come when the Lord chooses to come.
We don't have any advantage of sitting around watching.
In Los Angeles.
The one of the members of the body Express has spoken of we are a boss, we should function as a body and he's member of the body has cared one for another. The singing in the book of the Song of Solomon.
It says this.
Solomon, chapter 3.
I think it what I, what I, what I thought is that the only two things I thought was that thought and how I was going to explain that thought to you. And the other thing I sent you in the menu is.
One of the things that Aventi loves, I believe the conferences of the open meeting and every time I know if you said the same thing that he says to me, I'll be. I'd love to hear the brothers school. I love to hear the other brother's speech and sometimes I challenge them to identity. Why does the undergrowth? Why not the older brothers? Is it only the older brothers that the Lord lays on their heart? Things to say?
OK, I think the younger brother said much to say. The Lord lays on our hearts what He lays on our hearts, which wants, and sometimes we have a tendency to leave it to the older brothers.
To thank you for our Internet screen and I'm sure there are many younger brothers who are quite capable but yet for some reason complete all of that.
But I think it's a call for us to be faithful. And I, I look at calling some of the chapter 3 and this is what the the the person said the night on my head. I saw him whom I love it, whom I so love it. I saw him and whom not.
Most of the time they spend their time sleeping, and we've been dealing with this in our assembly reading, meeting in the sense of speaking as a true census, I suppose, speaking in the sense of death, but also speaking in the sense of not being faithful to the things that God has committed to our hands and to our hearts. Just sort of laying back and letting others take place when the Lord may convert things in our hearts and speak and talk about it. I will rise now and go about the city and the streets, and then the broadways go like seeking whom I so love it. I saw them and I found him not to watch him that go above the city found me because he might say, so are you him whom my soul loveth?
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And they couldn't offer a deal with the answer of the information that she wanted.
I know this visited million my time and many of us have visited the families for perhaps there's only one brother and it's up to him to minister to the estate in that particular locality or in some cases in the, in the, uh, the mainstream churches, they appointed a man in, sometimes called a pastor, but it's up to him to do all the things that are necessary to make that audio part of the body, the assembly, the church, whatever is the function.
And that's a lot of food on the show, which is one person, especially for that person who has only a certain amount of degree of lifting or a certain ability that God has given them.
But it says here in verse four, I was taught a little that I passed from them and I found him whom my soul loveth and I tell them and would not let him go anyway, brought him into my mother says and in the Chamber of her husband. I believe it's me to the truth that we appropriate for ourselves. It's a wonderful thing when God gives us truth that we can take into ourselves and and learn from it. But I believe also because he's given that to us to do. I believe also he's given us the ability to.
Take in, but also to give others. Ephesians chapter 2.
Has given a peculiar and particular individual gifting, love, care, concern, whatever God is giving you or a particular reason. And though we tend to be somewhat as elevation in those things and we rejoice in them and that's it. Sometimes it's a good thing to do that to enjoy the things of the Lord. But the volume of grace was a needy mind and it needs each one of us to participate.
Jesus, chapter 4, verse 16.
Or even verse 50 but speaking the truth in love may grow up unto him in all things, which is the head of in Christ, from whom the whole body, the heaven turning together and compacted by that which every joint supplier, every joint supplier. There is a need for each one of us to supply what God has given us to one another in order to be helpful. A strong and functional as the body of Christ and his assemblies.
According to the sexual working in the measure of every part, making increase of the body to identify with the self in life, what God has given you, what God has given me as an individual, I believe He will require of us to be just as faithful as He is in the sharing of those things longer than others. It might be ministry from the faulty. It might might be just thoughts and encouraging word here and there. It might be some care or concern that you have for someone, maybe a prayer, whatever it might be that is laid on your heart to do.
Do it his faithfulness. Don't hold back the God has committed that spring to do. He is faithful to the body as he is in all the promises he seemed.
I trust it might be a little, probably the definition more than anything, but I hope it encourages us to remember that the faithfulness that He has given to us in providing His Son the great love He's shown for us and the care and concern that He gives us in our daily lives.
Deciding that we can show from one another in our daily lives also, and by doing so we become strong and encouraging and help one another because after all, we are in essence His hands, in His feet, His eyes and His ears.
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It it is good.
Praise the Savior.