Lorneville Conference: 2015
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1 Corinthians 15:1-23
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We expect these thanks to your Lord.
Rejoice.
Many times.
Rejoice for the.
Coming of Jesus.
Draws time.
How well come to?
Those your hands share in this cross.
Almighty God.
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First Corinthians chapter.
Morocco, Frederick, I declare after you the Gospel which I'm preaching.
Which although he had received the word, he said.
While we go something outside, we keep remembering when our treatment. Michigan is believing, right?
Was buried and told him to the scriptures.
And the deepest state of Satan. And of the 12, I'll let you see about a 500 record of plants whose great heart was present for someone to sleep.
After that you can see the change then the more the apostles and last morning for sealing me also as one the one out of time Brian, the least of the apostles that have not made to be caught in the apostles because I have persecuted the Church of the Gods. By the grace of God I am on the air and this grace is bestowed from labour from more of other people than they all.
But the price is gone, which was different.
Yeah, whether it will or not. So we preach, so you believe.
Now I'm going to be preached to devotion to bed. How say some of you that there is no resurrection?
Resurrection today and his trust.
And if he likes the government reaching his face. Your faith is also the only that we have found false witnesses of God because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ. Will we raise not up in something dead from God?
Representational is not there is not Christ right and if Christ they got praised. Your faith is vague, you know, yet in your sense, then they also look at falling asleep in Christ of perish.
Different business. Let's only have all the most miserable.
Now by the resident from the dead and become.
Slip so since my man, my dad, my man also had the resurrection.
Well, as he had an old guy he signed crushed, it will be made alive, but every man in his own order. Vice versions are made of Christ this country.
Dave Thomas, Pennsylvania, When he shall have to lift up, when he shall have looked down, all, all, and all authority of power, for he must run.
And when all these shelves do that again, there shall the Sun himself be such a time to think of football in all.
I'll wait for righteousness and send on for someone to have an option for the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
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It's my insurance to wait for some other question, but don't give me the bullet as it has at least. And everything you found. All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh in it. Another flesh of people is another efficiency, another of birds. There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial. But the glory of the celestial as well, the glory of its restful, is not.
There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, another glory of the stars for one star in the healthy glory, so awesome is the resurrection.
Of sound corruption. He's raised his decoration. It is sounding dishonour. It is placed in glory, it is sounding weakness. He plays his power. He is so natural. He is raised to surgeon.
There's a spiritual body, there is a mental body and there is a spiritual body and so it is group first in Canada made a big insight the last time it was made a good experience helping in that was not the first of the spirit that was connected and afterwards that which is spirit. The 1St man is of the earth's earth and the 2nd man is the Lord of the heavens, as is the earth.
Such are off. They also that are different, and as we have formed the image of the earth, we should also create the image of the earth.
Set off period.
Behold, I show you a mistake which is not all sorts, but we should all be changed in a moment, in the 20th of an eye and the last trump for the trumpet, yourself and the dead should be very incorruptible. We should be changed, but this corruption must put on any corruption and this war.
So the Minister of Insurance, clone in corruption and this author should have put on immortality and should be brought across the site.
O'Brien, where is my picture?
Strength of the Lord, but thanks for your God has given us big.
If you sit, unluckily always abounding in the work of the Lord, as much as you know that you're awake.
I guess it's a long chapter and seems to me that you divided 3. The first user, the apostle, establishes the references of crime and the consequences as far as the Christian is concerned in advertising.
Then from verse 24 we got a glimpse of the eternal state and also.
The nature of the raised body and then from first.
51 we get the older.
The apostle reveals the mystery of the place in the moment. We can all be changed and so.
I just wonder if you have 3 readings when we could try and.
Provide that three in that way.
There's an interesting structure to invite for the of the officials to the Corinthians. We know that the.
See you with some disorder in the present meeting and we had the.
The sectarian aspects and the entirely part of the the early chapters.
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We have the correction is called issue of fornication is concerned in the 5th chapter 2 and then in the 7th chapter yes.
And then the second apostle uses the term now concerning the things you vote underwater. So it appears the president written to the apostles.
And we find that in faith and subject up those subjects up. So we get in a separate chapter as of certainly the things that we run for me, but I think now is touching things off of two idols. And then the apocalypse goes on to take up an associated subject. And he used the word Morocco. So at the beginning of chapter 10 to get a moreover, he was really a subject that was associated with what they'd written to him without, but he wanted to add another subject to it.
And in the 12Th chapter.
We have now concerned so this might be something that the parentheses of British to the apostle about now concerning very good for Siri because it probably could be the word gets Dallas Bay Road and then concerning the work of the spirit and that when we get the the spirit of the energy of the body and energizing all the members in chapter football.
Chapter 13 if you buy love and Chapter 14 the the working out the spirit in the in the assembly meetings and then he brings up.
He deals with an era that is best in India, the media currently with others who would deny that there was going to be a resurrection.
And the any deal for the immoral or the associated with the work of the screw, it wasn't the word of the truth of God to deny there was a resurrection of God. So he connects that with the subject, the main subject that he had in mind when it was the actual Holy Spirit, if we get it in the beginning of chapter 12.
The victory that you were Speaking of earlier, David?
Is is connected directly with the resurrection of the Lord Jesus?
And that's a major subject in this chapter.
And it is.
It's absolutely fundamental to all that we believe the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ because he triumphed over sin and death and hell.
In his work at Calvary's Cross, and the proof of it is the resurrection, and the undeniable proof of so many having seen him after his resurrection and testified to the fact that he was alive. And so now that is has become part of us. We trust in that and we rely upon it. Our future is founded upon it, and we rest upon it.
And it's good to keep returning to that wonderful subject of the victory of the Lord Jesus Christ and how his resurrection is the basis for so much of what we put our faith in.
Might be important to notice that resurrection.
It's only in connection with the body. It's not in connection with the spirit or the soul.
The epoxy will.
Develops this this truth and.
In relation to Cuba war, immediately it was a physical resurrection of the body and.
In our in the case of the believer who passes through the article of death.
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There's resurrection at the at the coming of the Lord.
It's not a new body, it is the same body that went into death will be raised in a glorified condition.
So.
When the believer who has died is open up as asleep in in Christ, the unsaved never spoken of of asleep, they are dead, although they're conscious in a lost journey with a believer.
The body goes into that.
But at the resurrection, the first resurrection.
When the Lord returns, that body, which may have been in the grave for thousands of years, will be resurrected. All the components of that body, every particle, will be brought together by the power of the Lord, and death and body will rise and be joined with the spirit of the soul which is already in the Board's presence.
So this is the subject of the of the chapter and.
As our brother pointed out, the resurrection is the divine proof that God was fully satisfied with the work of his Son, glorified by that work of Calgary. So God said.
Commendation or Amen into the finished work of Christ and the cross that didn't leave him in death. He couldn't leave him in death because the question of sin had been fully settled there. To the work of Christ.
Speaks in Hebrews to how that the devil.
Has the power of death.
Hebrews 2 and verse.
14.
For as much then, as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same death. Through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the death. Now that's not to say that the devil has been annihilated, because we know that the devil exists.
And he is an enemy who vigorously opposes.
Anything of Christ.
But I believe that through death.
And resurrection. The Lord Jesus Christ made weak the power of the devil. And I believe in order to show that the Lord Jesus had power over death, he must go into death.
And.
I believe the Apostle Paul here emphasises the fact that not only did he die for our sins according to the scriptures and was buried, but he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. And this is what distinguishes Christianity from any.
Of man's religion.
You know there are many religions that man has originated.
But their leaders are dead. They're in the grave. But not so our leader. He rose a victor from the Dark Domain.
And Jesus lives. And really, I believe this truth is that which not only distinguishes Christianity, but it extinguishes every other religion of man.
So how wonderful to look up and to know by faith that our Savior lives and He is coming again.
Now it's critical to salvation that we believe he lives. Romans 10 and 9, the apostle Paul.
He could say, if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, or Jesus as Lord, and believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. So if there's anybody here this morning that does not believe that Jesus lives.
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You're still in your sins. You need salvation.
And the apostle Paul clearly presented the Gospel of God concerning the Son Jesus Christ.
And the Corinthians, it tells us, received it. Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received.
And wherein you stand, by which also ye are saved.
Oh, there's only one gospel.
And that's the gospel of God concerning his Son Jesus Christ. Neither is there salvation in any other. There's none other name under heaven given among men, or if I must be saved.
Annual purpose of what the Apostle Paul had before him. Let's read verse 12 of our chapter together.
Now if Christ be preached, that he rose from the dead.
How say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? What is it that the apostle is saying?
I believe what he is saying is just that you and I, as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, are so linked with Him as a result of the work of Calvary, that because God has taken and raised him from among the dead, it's impossible that you will not be raised from the dead.
The bodily resurrection is what some were denying in Corinth, and so Paul brings them back to the very truth that Christ rose from the dead, and because he rose from the dead, you are going to be raised bodily as well. Is that the thought?
I was just thinking.
John and the Gospel John, chapter 5.
And verse 25.
This passage of Scripture, I oftentimes meditate upon it and I oftentimes think of the multitude 2 That are in the graves of the graves of the Saints. And of course, if we know all the little ones, those that didn't reach the age of accountability, they're also in the grave and many, many more that that died.
And didn't have the opportunity to accept or reject. And so I oftentimes think of, you know, how the Lord grows and then we're going to.
Were raised with them already spiritually, but we're waiting for that change to happen. And if we go into the grave.
Well just be starting at verse 25, barely, barely, I say unto you, Yower is coming and now it is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live, whereas the Father has life in himself soul, as he given to the Son.
To have light in himself and has given him authority to execute judgment also because he is the Son of man.
Marvel notifies the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth. They that have done good unto the resurrection of life. They that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation.
It's quite.
It is so very, very.
Solo is.
Such a thought that those who put in the graves the way they were in an they weren't saved I think and I I standing correct here.
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But I I think.
I lost a person that is lost the Gwen's the grave. They're going to be resurrected in that grave with the body of death.
And it's.
It's a sad thing to think about that there are multitudes today heading prevent various situations, but for the Christian you rejoice and we have to go after that.
It says precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints, and I believe it's precious because it's.
It's such a thing for.
For him to allow us to go into that and I oftentimes think too broadly change in a moment thinking of the eye, but it says there you know it says vending prices that's all you the debt price shall rise 1St and we're we're going right behind them on their heels, so to speak and that's why I often times picture it but the thing.
That we don't have to go into debt. What a lovely thought.
We caught up, changed the moment quickly, you and I, and but the resurrection is there's only two resurrections. That's the resurrection of those that are saved and those that are not safe.
I think that when we consider the resurrection, if we get it in this chapter and many other places in the.
Interesting. We have to remember that the.
The the translation is probably not the smartest We have to refer to the Derby translation because when we once we gave you the 12Th of their father David referred to It's not just the resurrection of the dead. We we go back to Daniel 12 two resurrection to describe but the fact that there's a tie between them is not described assembly as you definitely have mentioned in verse.
In short and five, we get here to the resurrection.
That is fine. That's between is not mentioned.
The Old Testament teaching, I knew there was resurrection.
Which one?
We get in in the New Testament is not the resurrection from the day that's true, the resurrection and among them.
The Lord Jesus Christ, the person, He was the first group, the 1St to arrive from among the left. In other words, the Lord brothers and the rest of the dead maintenance.
And then the apartment here is challenging them as to their science. There's no resurrection from a mother there. That was that we know 1St that now the dead in Christ shall rise. So there's the resurrection of Christ as the first, there's the resurrection of failure of Christ is coming. And they're the ones who are sleeping Jews and we will be right.
Now the unbelieving those who died in their sins, that resurrection is not the.
1000 years, That's what we get in Revelation.
That the office 1000 years the unbelieving days are right. So what the apostle here is really taking the Corinthians those that didn't know it was that there was going to be a resurrection from underneath that will be going.
It wasn't an Old Testament of truth. They didn't die, not at the time only revealed it to us in this time. So there are yes, the resurrection of Christ, Christ the first fridge, the resurrection of those of sleeping Jesus and later on the resurrection of the of the.
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Unbelievers. Not, as you can see.
So I said go when these $3000 of resurrection of the day.
The resurrection from London.
I just wondering if someone could comment on.
Unless we have believed in vain.
Box on that.
My thought is not several places called writings that when he uses the word if for example, he is not implying that you may not be saved, but he's challenging the folks to respond and say of course I'm saved.
And this is a little bit I suggest in that character.
He's, he's throwing out a challenge unless you have believed in vain. And if the response is, well, I have not believed in vain, I truly believe. And then he goes on to present the challenge of what that implies. And it implies the trust in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and many other things as he goes on in the chapter. That's my thought and I'd welcome hearing others on that subject, on that response.
I commended his love toward us not while we were yet sinners. Christ died for us. Christ died for us that he could have us in glory.
And Christ is the first fruits of the resurrection, as we've been told, except the corn of wheat fall into the ground and die. It abideth alone, but if it die, if rena forth much fruit.
In order for the Lord Jesus to have us in glory, he hadn't go down into death.
And when he arose on the other side of death and resurrection, he brought us four centers that have believed in him. We have died with him. He brought us with him on the other side of death, were risen with them. This is how God sees us. He sees it's already risen and seated in Christ in glory. And so the work of Christ, the reason he went into death was for you and for me.
That we could have that whole in love with him and this is what we have. We're he's expounding this to some that perhaps were LED astray by those that were seeking to turn them aside by telling them there was no resurrection. We know that one of these groups is mentioned in the Acts was the Sadducees. They didn't believe in resurrection. They didn't believe in.
In angels and they didn't believe in spirit.
This is a comparison to what we have today in the world. The world is filled today with those that just believe that. Live your life. Eat Drake and be merry the Morrow we may die. Enjoy yourself and there's nothing after death. There's no God, no responsibility, no accountability. Just live your life the way that you want and that's the end of things.
Well, that's totally contradictory to the Scripture that we know as believers that we have life, have a life eternal. We know that there's a resurrection, we know where we're going to spend eternity. And so we know these things.
But there were some here that were teaching, I believe, wrong Vegas and they were upsetting some of the believers here and and the apostle Paul is seeking to straighten it out.
Seek out the comment on her brother.
All using if bring challenge to the believer and then have them and then come back with statement truth. I think we see a good example of that in the prior chapter, First Corinthians 14 and verse 37.
All right, if any man take himself to be a prophet or spiritual.
Let him acknowledge of the things that I write on to you or commands on the board to see.
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I'll read you up to them with that. If and if you make your your spiritual, if you make your profit, then you should know what I'm writing to you is the truth. So he really calls them out on their their assumption.
Maybe they should be believing in and drive to home with, you know, a strong point of a doctrine or what they should be doing. So I agree with that point. I think that you use that in the writing. I make it acknowledge or something and drive it home with a piece of cure.
There are some that are spoken of as believing who were not genuine.
Remember in the book of in John the Lord's ministry there and many believed on him when they saw the miracles that she did. Simon in Acts 8 is spoken up as you believe it when he saw the miracles in the the operation of the Spirit of God. So there is a a believing which is only connected with an outward perfection.
But the proof is that the person goes on and.
Gives evidence in his life of of possessing a divine nature, and there's fruit in his life in the.
Case of Simon, there was no fruit. He was he was under the power of Satan, but says he believed. So there's a possibility of believing the outward facts without without really a work of God's spirit in the soul.
Say something.
You were starting to say something before.
Actually, Brother John's comments were really what I was thinking of there, that it seems to me there's the exercising They didn't believe in the bodily resurrection of the Lord, then possibly they would save themselves.
There's another there's another thing that to me, the apostle, he had such a love and a burden for the Saints of God, the notice of verse 33.
Be not deceived. Evil communications corrupt good manner.
If you and I.
Get mixed up with some kind of.
Of teaching that is not the mind of God. It will affect the way that we walk through this world. If you are not expecting if we are not expecting that the Lord's coming is going to be anytime as a present hope.
That you thought it was going to be maybe 1000 years from now. It'll change the way you live in this world now. But we are to live in the momentary expectation of his coming again. So I think that is the force of that particular verse. Evil, communications, corrupt.
Good manner, the manner of life, the way that we walk through this world.
Possible Johnny to say that does not yet appear.
What you shall be? But when he shall appear, he shall be like him.
For we shall see him as he is, and then it goes on, goes on to say he that has this hope in him purified himself even as he is pure. So if we're truly expecting the Lord to arrive at any time, it's going to have an effect upon our.
Livestock and we're going to desire, I believe, to be pure as he is pure. That's a good point.
I was noticing in verse seventeen of our chapter.
Your pastor Paul, he says if Christ be not raised.
Your faith is faith.
You are yet in your sins, and so connecting it with verse 2, the apostle Paul is saying that.
If you do not believe.
If Christ is not raised.
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Then what's the use of believing?
It's all vague. There's no value to faith.
But of course, we know that's not the case.
And the Apostle Paul, he goes on to clearly indicate.
The bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
He was seen of Cephas not to skip over three and four, but he was seen of Cephas then of the 12 after that he was seen of above 500 brethren at once.
Of whom the greater part remains unto this present, but some are falling asleep.
However, the greater part of those that witnessed the Lord Jesus.
Resurrection.
They were still alive.
And if anybody questioned what Paul was saying about the resurrection of Jesus?
They could go to one of these brothers that were still living.
To clarify or to confirm what Paul had said.
After that he was seen of James, then of all the apostles. Last of all he was seen of me also.
As of one born out of due time.
The Apostle Paul, he was converted on the road to Damascus.
And he thought to extinguish Christianity.
And he breathed out threatening and slaughtered against.
Those who were followers of Christ.
He didn't know the Lord Jesus Christ.
But on that day.
There was a light above the brightness of the noonday sun. What a light. It's shown upon Saul and Saul.
He comes to know in a personal way the Lord Jesus Christ.
I think it's important to see that there were revelations given to the Apostle Paul that were not given to anyone else returned to 2nd.
Timothy, chapter one, verse 9.
It's really part of Paul's gospel, Speaking of the Lord here who has saved us and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus.
Before the world began, but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ. You have abolished death and that brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel. That's what we have in our chapter.
The Old Testament Saints, they trembled in view of passing through the article of death, because they did not have assurance of really.
What their portion would be in that coming, in that coming day in resurrection. They knew there was a resurrection, but it was left to the apostle Paul to by revelation tell us.
The resurrection from among the dead, that's one thing, but also that we will have a body, incorruptible life for the soul and immortality or incorruptibility. It should be here for through the gospel for the body. Now this is a peculiar.
Revelation or development that was given only to the apostle Paul, and so now we know the kind of body that we will have.
The Old Testament Saints did not know about them, but we know that we will have a a body of glory. So there's really no St. is yet glorified. We speak of people being in the glory, but you really know no St. of God is yet glorified because glorification has to do with the possession not of a new body, but of a body that has changed and.
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An incorruptible body, an immortal body. So this is.
This is especially part of Paul's gospel, and it's a marvelous revelation for us to to grasp it to the true meaning of of resurrection and its results. Is that right, David?
When we look in First Corinthians Chapter 11 and.
Verse 26.
It says as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you just show the Lords death till he come. We don't remember a dead person, We don't remember a dead Jesus. We remember his death. He is living.
The Angel said to the women at the at the grave, at the tomb, he is not here, He is risen. So we remember a living Savior, but we remember the time of his death and back in John chapter 20.
And the disciples, they, they'd heard the, they had read the Psalms, they had heard what the Lord said to them, that he would rise again the third day. But in verse nine of chapter 20, John.
For as yet they knew not the Scripture that He must rise again from the dead. They didn't comprehend that. They didn't understand it. They thought the Lord Jesus was going to establish the Kingdom, and here he had died, and they did not yet know that he was going to rise from the dead. And so further on in chapter 20, we see that the Lord came and showed himself to the disciples. And the second time he came back, Thomas wasn't within the first time.
And verse 26 after eight days, again his disciples were within, and Thomas was with them. Then came Jesus, and the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith you to Thomas, Reach hit thy finger, and behold my hands reach hit of thy hand, and thrust it into my side. Be not faithless, but believing. Thomas did not believe that Jesus had risen from the dead, but here he sees him face to face. And the Lord Jesus says.
Thomas answers the Lord Jesus, and said unto him, My Lord and my God Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Blessed are they that have not seen, yet have believed. And so we believe by faith that the Lord Jesus has died, that he's risen from the dead, and he's ascended into glory and so.
Our brother went over the seven points.
Of witness of resurrection in our chapter verse chapter 15 First Corinthians and the very first one is in verse 3, verse four and that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. So we we have the Scriptures to show us of the witness of these many witnesses. We can believe what the word of God says because it is the word of God.
We need to believe that this word that we are reading, it is the word of God and that we are accountable to everything that it says.
I like what the angels say in Luke 24 in response to what Tim just said. One of the interesting titles, if I can call it, of the Lord Jesus. In Luke 24 verse five, it says And then they were afraid, bowed down their faces to the earth. They said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
To living among the dead.
The Lord isn't He always was the living one among the dead. Even when he walked on this earth, He was still the living among the dead. He never changed, and yet he didn't. What we're Speaking of now in in a more glorious way, He's still living alone.
The heresy of the denial of the resurrection survived through to this day. See it often in groups that self identify as Christians in the sense that they say well it's 2015 we don't really know what people wrote down back then. The important thing is to take the principles of his wife Jesus man and fly them into making our world better today.
In verse 19, he points out not only is it wrong, but it's a it's a miserable thing.
That put yourself under the tyranny of the of the law and try and work out your righteousness or your works is not only is it wrong, but it's miserable. It's not a it's not the security and the wondrous glory of having a savior that died for us, but it's putting yourself under the misery of works righteousness and.
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Just trying to show them the consequences of going down this path.
Celebrate and.
I'd like to refer to.
1St 20 verse 20 but now is crossword along the day and become the first troops and then that's left now that word first truth would prefer us back to the 5th of 23 and notice first time.
And the Lord will wake on the Moses side, speak under the children of Israel, and say unto them.
When you be coming from the land I give up to you, and shall reach the harvest thereof, then you shall with a sheet of the first week of your harvest, and the priest and he shall weigh in the sheep before the Lord, to be accepted, point on the moral of the Sabbath. The priest shall wake, and you shall offer that day when you wait for sheep and land without flesh for the first year, for a third offering, and for the Lord now our Father.
Mentioned except for the week falling in the ground and dire in the Five Below and there in the 23rd.
To take the questions the person of the of of the fruit of the astronaut and waited before the war. What's the thought there?
Sailing can cause sin and death, but only God who calls resurrection. And when we have that reference to a corner, wheat forming into the ground and dying, that's what there we go through.
Every day or every year, farmers sow seed and the seed dies and there is resurrection and only God can do it. We wouldn't have any food, natural food, if we didn't have any. Worry not for the fact that God has the power of restoration and raising that seed from the dead. And so in the 23rd of Leviticus, they were told to grab hold of the first Black Sea and waited. It's like celebrating the victory.
When you set up by the ministry, you take the flag at the table on and you wave it and, and only make a lot of noise. People do that. They they're celebrating the victory they're owing Leviticus 23 and to celebrate the victories for the resurrection, that fruit of resurrection which can be taken place.
God can do this. Thank you.
So we celebrate his resurrection. We celebrate the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ died on Calvary.
That the price of our sins because God has accepted that sacrifice and Samaria crazy from the dead and we have a glorified many deaths. We celebrate, we wait. We want to tell the world about that there's a risen glorified Christ in heaven this land. That's why the IT was so damaging here.
In this chapter.
Of saying that there was no resurrection.
Because it was an attack on the grace of God, the gospel going out with the apostle Paul was preaching.
Contained in the Gospel is a very fundamental truth of the resurrection.
And by his denial of resurrection, it was a it was a.
Run attack on the gospel of grace. We know that the Sadducees, for one group mentioned earlier that didn't believe in resurrection. Pharisees didn't believe in resurrection. Does that mean that all Pharisees were saved because they believed in the resurrection? No. But.
Here with the the more damaging thing here was that there were these ones that were coming and proclaiming that there was no resurrection.
And the apostle Paul and witnesses there of those that did believe to God only preached and knew in their hearts with the resurrection, and he was appealing to those that that may have been.
Turned aside a little bit because of that false teaching, but there probably were some there, no doubt, that were false, that didn't believe.
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And they were trying to turn the other ones aside. And we have this kind of doctrinal evil going on today.
So as we change in that sense.
We often hear said that Christ work is a finished work. We get that in Hebrews 12 which is the author and picture of our faith.
What sense is graceful?
In his death towards his finish with his resurrection and I can answer that question, I would believe that it's finished through his resurrection.
Or fine, I think we read earlier that was one of the best designed out of the Lord Jesus until believe in my heart that God had raised from your head. Thou shalt be saved, certainly from us getting to work with him for himself being.
For us, it seems that believing the truth of the resurrection is important. So I guess my question is here. Price of a kid is going to come across.
Was his work finished up across the family resurrection? And then just to kind of add something I noted, correct me if I'm wrong, I don't believe you read anywhere that reads out anywhere Price reappeared after his resurrection when all the waivers. Neither says that it was brethren the apostles and might suggest that when those early chemo were confronted with the resurrected words.
That the truth of that was so cleared of it that it could help believers. So we don't create any of that hearing that wrong believers. So we're seeing that that resurrection at least prior to work with salvation on our.
Well, I think the work of it, atonement for sin, was completed at the cross.
Blood was shed to to give a proof of the of the work of redemption.
I think that the whole work of propitiation was completed at the cross and the resurrection. The proof of God's full satisfaction with that work and.
I don't think he we can say that.
You have to present.
That but the award happened to be raised and presented his blood in the sanctuary above before you could consider the work as completed. I think the work was completed completed at the cross when the resurrection, the proof that God is satisfied with that word. But I wouldn't bring the work of redemption into into into glory.
We speak figuratively of Christ presenting His blood. That is, the blood forever speaks in God's omniscient here. But that error came in amongst brethren early.
There was teaching that the work was not finished until Christ had actually entered the glory and presented His blood. That was a cardinal error that came in amongst brethren.
Back in the time of Mr. Stewart and it was refuted very, very definitely. So I think we have to be careful there. The work was the work of redemption was finished when the Lord said it is finished.
Resurrection and ascension is only the proof that God was fully satisfied with that word.
Finished on the cross when the Lord said it was finished.
But it's still necessary that the Lord should die to death, as we get in Hebrews, but by death, by destroying him and the power of death that is the devil now.
The force of resurrection is concerned, and we remember Acts 17.
Verse 31 he will be disappointed today he will judge the world that his fault spoken, speaking happens because he has a point in the day. He will judge as well in righteousness by that man who we have all day. We're all he has given assure of unto all men in the appraisal from the dead. There's the effect of the resurrection as far as our as far as we're concerned, it's the proof of God's word.
The resurrection of Christ was forecast in old desperate time. The Lord himself destroyed this temple and our wise again in three days. And the apostle John, if we look at an interpretive note, he was Speaking of his resurrection and the the resurrection of Christ is the fulfilment, it's the fruit, it's the assurance that that's what we believe is correct.
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That's what he gets from the resurrection of the Cross. The assurance and the hallmarks of the Aspiration Committee is any doubt about Christianity.
What you have to do, we go back to the record of a British never.
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1 Corinthians 15:24-34
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Never tire what inline love possess you not under.
Changeable by gracious loves, our earthly pot has ceaseless. View 166.
What do you think before that?
We're going to keep on scheduled. We might want to start at 24 and refer back.
Thinking because.
24.
Then come at the end.
When he shall have delivered us the Kingdom to God, even the Father, when he shall have put down all rules and authority and power, For he must reign till he has put all enemies unto his feet, The last standing shall be destroyed. Youth, Death.
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Well, here for all things under your street.
Said all things are put under Him, it is manifest that He is acceptable, which is for all things under Him.
And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son himself be subject to nearly the footballers under him. The God I recall in all.
Else what shall I do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rises at all? Well then, they then baptize for the day, and why stand we in jeopardy? Every hour I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ you our Lord. I die daily, yet after the matter of men I have fought with peace and deficits.
What advantage?
But tomorrow we die.
We don't get saved. Evil communications corrupt good manners.
Awake to righteousness to see not, but some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
If some man will say, How old will dead brother say? And with what body do they come? They'll hold that which thou sow It is not flicked except it's dark, and that's which they'll sow it. They'll sow it's not that body shall be, but being like it may charge a week or some of them. But God give it involved as you have reason, and to every seed.
All flesh is not the same flesh that there is one kind of flesh man, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and none of them are birds.
There are also celestial bodies, bodies celestial at the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
There is one glory of the sun, and not the glory of the moon, not the glory of the stars, but one star. Give it from another story door. So also is the resurrection of the day. It is sounding eruption. It is raised in incorruption. It is sounding dishonour. He tries to glory. He is sounding greatness. He is raised in hell. He is sound. The natural body raised the spiritual body. There is a natural body. There is a spiritual body.
And so he went to Britain. The 1St man, Adam, was made a living solvent. The last was a quick spirit.
Healthy. That was not first, which is spiritual, but that was his name and I.
Which is that it's true.
The first man is at the earth, 2nd man, Lord the devil.
As is the earth for such a day. Also there are.
And that is the heavenly such a name also than our heaven.
As they form the image of the earth, we should also say in the image.
Now this is our side for a bit of pressure, blood and lovely spirit to keep it with God. Neither does corruption inheriting corruption. Behold, I show your mystery. We shall not all sleep. We shall all be changed in the moment, in the cleaning of an eye at the last trump and the traffic show now and the day shall be raised in Trump or that we should be changed. But this corrupt rule must put on incorruption. It's more of a customer on immortality so that when this corrupt shall have put on in touch.
And this mortal killer on immortality, then she'll be brought and sign of his ribbon dead. He swallowed nothing. Victory again, where is right victory. The sting of death is sin, and the strength of the sin is the law that thanked me to God, which gives us the matrix where Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my godly President. These state talks are notable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.
As much as you know at your labour is nothing vain in the lawful.
I was thinking in connection with the resurrection that we have been dwelling upon, that it's important to.
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Note the fact that.
We have now a glorified man, God like man.
He entered the glory in manhood. Turn back to Romans chapter one.
Verse 3 concerning there is His incarnation. He became a man.
In every sense of the term, sin apart.
You didn't take our nature into union with himself because we had a sinful nature. But.
He became a perfect man.
In incarnation to prostate child is born, but it never says unto us the Son was born, He was given, but his eternal sonship is a very important truth to hold.
Umm, tenaciously.
But also we have in verse four of Romans 1 declared to be the Son of God. This is His divinity. This is the divine person in manhood, declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead or the resurrection of dead ones. So the Lord in his pathway.
Evidence of his divine power, His deity, by raising dead ones. Jarius, Daughter and the widow of Names.
Son and Lazarus and himself.
In fact, the resurrection is attributed to three the three persons of the Godhead. He was raised by the.
The glory of the Father He raised himself, and then he was raised by the power of the Spirit of God.
So he declared to be Son of God with power that was in his pathway down here because he put forth the divine power, the same power that he is going to put forth in raising the dead in that coming day. So at the rapture, there's going to be a game, the raising of dead whites.
And the glorification of those who have passed through the article of death, our glorification as well at the same time, if we are living at that moment when the show is given. So he's been declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness, because everything was in the power of the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead.
And so we should.
Always remember that the manhood has entered into the glory. This was never never the case before. There was never a man in the glory.
And the Lord entered the glory.
As a man who had glorified God completely about the question of sin, He didn't enter the glory until that whole matter of our sins was settled. Turn to Hebrews chapter one.
Remember with that person, sure.
Verse three. Who deemed the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high. So there He entered the glory. He had the right to enter the glory, having glorified God His Father about the question of sin.
And since, and he entered there in manhood a glorified man, and that is the point brought out in the passage we read here, He is going to retain that manhood for all eternity. He's never going to give it up. Why does he retain that manhood? In order that he might enjoy our company. You'll be his bride in that coming day, and for all eternity he will be a man.
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In in subjection.
To his father, but he will retain that manhood, in order that he might enjoy our company, as our brother referred to that verse in John 12. Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground, and die, and abideth alone if it died, and bring us forth much fruit. So the Lord had not gone into death. His manhood would never have brought redemption, but.
And embrace and in love He went down into death to bear the awful judgment for our sins, so that He would not be alone for eternity. He's going to have us as his companions in that glory in manhood. And I think that that is the thought that is brought out here in the passage about the Kingdom. This looks on to the future, of course, when the Lord will.
I've established the Kingdom and will be.
Be raining and then when the Kingdom has.
Been completed and he's going to still retain his manhood to enjoy.
His Church for all eternity.
Brother Dave, at the beginning of last reading, he went over three sections in the in the book. Could you reiterate those and what they're about and what what are the second one is about?
As far as the parentheses is concerned.
The apostle writes in the first four chapters of the main subject of the 1St 4 chapters of the divisions that are coming in amongst them and how they were I'm I'm I'm sorry, I meant the chapter sorry. I meant the chapter sorry.
I mean, I thought as far as the chapter itself was concerning broad terms was that as far as verse 23 we have the.
We have the apostle there.
Reiterates the evidential assay of the the resurrection of Christ, and then he also.
Mentions the consequences as far as ourselves restrictions are concerned.
As some were saying that there was no resurrection of the Christian, well then.
We form those that perform asleep the perish. There is no no.
No salvation from the question if it wasn't, if it was from the resurrection of Christ, and the resurrection of the question is with with Christ.
This portion here is the alludes to the eternal state I believe verses that we have here and how that the Lord will deliver the Kingdom up until the Father Father.
And then of course, he he deals with the issue of, well, what kind of body are we going to have in resurrection? And then of course, from verse 51, he introduces what was a Christian truth, a new truth to the Christian. It was an Old Testament truth. And then of course, it is corruption and obviously among the twinkling of her eyes and the last trump. And when we raised in corruption, our bodies would be changed and we'll take on that.
Incorruptible nature.
If the Lord takes me home, my body will be put in the earth, and it will corrupt.
That would be changed when.
So then verse 24.
Where it's pieces in, it's that which actually introduces the eternal statement.
Correct thought this is the end of the Kingdom.
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Of the sun.
He's going to deliver up.
The Kingdom to God.
At the end, and that's after all enemies have been put under his feet.
It tells us.
In Colossians that in all things he must have the preeminence.
And so.
We see that even death itself.
Is destroyed, the last enemy that shall be destroyed is dead. And would that not refer us over to Revelation 20?
Where we find that the dead.
Are resurrected.
It's not that life is imparted to them. They're still dead, but they're resurrected. I believe resurrection is.
The reuniting of the body with the soul and spirit.
Now it tells us here in Revelation 20.
And verse 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. The books were opened, another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, And death and hell delivered up the dead, which.
We're intent and they were judged, every man.
According to their works.
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Well, we see here that death has no more hold.
On the body.
And as a result, those who have died in their cities will be resurrected to stand.
There at the great White Throne before the Lord Jesus Christ.
There he will be the judge.
And souls that have died in their sins, resurrected, now are judged on the books. A record is being kept.
And the books are opened. It's very sober, you know, sometimes.
We may go and we buy things on credit.
Well, you know you can rack up.
A lot of expense buying on credit.
And a person might forget about some of those expenditures.
But they don't go away. They have to be paid for it and when the credit statement comes.
Sure enough, each and everyone of those expenditures are there on that statement.
And the bill has to be paid.
Well, you know, for the Christian.
Christ has paid.
Our debt at the Cross of Calvary. That's what we learn in this chapter.
In Revelation for a 15th chapter, Christ died for our sins, but for those that have rejected Christ.
We find that they are faced.
With a debt of C and they are responsible to pay that.
And what does it involve? Eternal punishment tells us here. Whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast.
Into the Lake of Fire.
And then I believe you have the introduction of the eternal state.
The final judgment here.
Perhaps to avoid any confusion here, we should refer to the.
5th and the 6th verses of chapter 20.
The rest of the bid did not again because 1000 years were finished.
This is the first generation, let's just say, how do you see that part in the first resurrection? So there has been a first resurrection before we get to verse.
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Verse 11 and and and nor verse 12 and the dead there, I believe, are what's called the rest of the dead in verse.
Five, in other words, those who are blessed.
Already raised at this time and the the rest of the dead are really those that are judged in verses 12 Could say this.
There's no thought. I don't think that Great White White Believer would ever appear in the Great White Trust.
I think we can apply in connection with the verses that we have read here. You go back to Psalm 2 and Psalm 8. You have a description here of what will take place in verse 24.
And the Lord will put down all rule and all authority and power. It's really during the Millennium that that takes place. He must reign to be up with all enemies under his feet.
That's a wonderful time of the Lords power and.
Rain and righteousness.
Contrast to what we experienced today where it's man's will, active in the world and.
Opposition to God, but none of nothing like that will be tolerated in the Millennium. The Lord will reign supreme, but there's also the thought that we will reign with Him, and our place in that coming Kingdom will be according to a walk down here.
We will be assigned certain places of responsibility, be thou over 10 cities or five cities in the administration of the Kingdom. He's going to associate his people with him. He will reign. He'll be the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, bring through a representative on on David's throne, but we will administer the Kingdom with him. Another point we might just.
Just remark in passing there verse 23, Every man in his own order writes the first fruits afterward they that are Christ that is coming.
Now it has been taught with only those who are looking for the Lords coming and in a up.
Correct spiritual state will hear the Lord's voice. That is not really that is not a scriptural thought. All those who belong to Christ, regardless of their spiritual state.
Not that.
That God upholds a careless state, but regardless of what our state is spiritually, they that are Christ.
At his coming, that is the rapture there. So everyone, every believer in the world will hear the Lord's voice and the raptured into his presence and.
Glorified at that time. Really no believer is glorified yet because they don't. Those that have passed through the article of death, they still do not have their bodies of glory. We all understand that.
It says.
For as an Adam all died, Even so in Christ shall all be made alive. You're alive now in Christ and life. But it says every man in his own order, price of first fruits, and afterwards they are Christ that is coming.
Be looking at the completeness of of us when we receive our glorified bodies.
Speaking of there.
Verse 23. Verse 22 and 23.
Yes, I believe that it looks on to the resurrection and there's two things we're not going to have in the resurrection. I think we we know that. One is this body of humiliation which is connected with this groaning creation. We're part of the groaning creation. We feel it in our bodies every day. As we get older more so, but we're going to have a body.
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Of glory without any infirmity, any sign of weakness or suffering or sorrow or pain, It will all be obliterated, but also we will be delivered from that old evil nature.
We don't get it. It's not eradicated down in this world.
Some people think that when we're saved, the old nature is regenerated, that we're given we renovate the the old nature. That's entirely wrong.
The old nature will never change as long as we are in this world. We're never delivered from the presence of sin. As long as we are in the body down here we have the old nature. We we realize that, but we are to keep it in the place of death. But in the glory. We won't have these bodies of humiliation and we will not have the old nature. But right now we do have that resurrection life. So we have the very life of Christ in resurrection.
Now abiding within us, we have a different order of life than the Old Testament. We we have now the consciousness that we are children of God. We have the very resurrected life of Christ abiding in us so that we can enter into the things of God. The consciousness that we are children of God, which was not shown in the Old Testament. The assurance, the adoption of the sonship, and so on, all of these things are connected.
The Spirit of God dwelling in the believer.
Great, of course.
Spiritually dead, dead in trespasses and in cities. But it seems here what the apostle has in view is.
Physical death. Death of the body.
As in Adam all died.
Even so, in Christ shall all.
Be made alive.
And so those that have died in Christ are going to be raised.
In verse 20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept percent by man came death by man came also the resurrection of the dead. It seems to me to bring before us two families here Addams family, in which all are subject to death because of sin.
But Christ on the other hand.
Has his family and those that have died in Christ will indeed be made alive.
Physically.
It's a contrast between the two that he's drawing attention to, isn't it? I believe so, yeah.
I was just wondering maybe?
The perhaps younger ones.
What we're talking about here.
We used to everything in the spiritual world, you see it in the natural world. Only one is one is the shadow of the real thing to come. And I was just thinking of.
You know, a cocoon and you know, the, the Caterpillar makes it cocoon around itself made of silk. But it's going to be a beautiful butterfly someday, you know, and but it really, really has to struggle to get out of that cocoon. And I read a story of a man one time. He was watching.
The butterfly kind of, you know.
Of course they don't. They're not the butterflies. When they come out, they fly away. But a man was.
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Hours and hours and hours going by. He got so patient he thought the poor thing was never going to get out of the cocoon. So he took the sharp skeleton and he opened up the hole and he waited. He waited, Waited and waited for no more struggling. But the creature that come out wasn't a butterfly, it was a shriveled up.
The wings were all scribbled up and it was.
Not really a butterfly. So as we go through this life.
It's just like we're in the cocoon stage, but.
That butterfly, when it comes out, all that through all that, the tribulation and turmoil, it's a beautiful butterfly. Would you say that would be a good?
Example in nature and we can see all kinds of things in nature that tell us the resurrection.
There's so many I can't name. I'm the only one that can pick up at the moment. There's all kinds of creatures that were a picture of resurrection. You can see the nature.
Well, you see it in the tree. You know the tree. Well, SAP was down. We rolled all up in the springtime, resurrects, time comes back to light, more or less. You know it doesn't grow in the winter time.
When it grows will never be. I don't know if they grow very much.
Just thought of that, maybe somebody else had something else to get back to that.
Corn of wheat. The Lord used that example.
We fall into the ground and die and fight it alone. But it's a diet reinforced much fruit.
We have all natures that can't produce any fruit.
And we need to be abiding in the Lord to produce fruit.
And.
So we we need to be looking to him if we.
Not to the flesh and all nature that's innocent pointed out.
It's it went down in the depth of price and that's where he wants us to see it. Reckon it's all, that's where it is. It was good for nothing, flesh, proper nothing. And so we can't look to it and expect anything good from it.
But we can look to that which the Lord has given to us, that that new nature.
And in the power of the Spirit we're able to produce fruit for the Lord.
But not to ourselves.
In Ephesians one we get the purpose of course in.
39 and 10, having made no not to ask the mystery of His will, according to the good, this good pleasure which He has purchased himself, that's got Himself in the dispensation of the fullness of times, He might to gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are in earth, even in Him. And I think this is this case in the physical world that we've been talking about.
We get similar phrase too in Colossians 1.
1 And having like peace through the bloody cross by him, to reconcile all things under himself, by him, I say, whether they be things on in earth or things in heaven. Now if we go back to Genesis, the end of Genesis 1.
If the last person and God saw everything that he had made and behold, it was very good.
Well, I'm sorry. I'm good. Science is very good, and I'm sure it is because it was good. It sure was good.
It was beautiful, it was orderly, it was peaceful. Every.
Quality that you could expect, can I say of a creation.
It was there and God declared himself declared which good. Now it is true that if you go back a couple of verses.
That's 28 in the verse. Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and secure it. And what is this? And have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the flower of the air, and over everything, anything, and move it on the earth.
Adam and the responsibility of ordering the animal Kingdom. He could tell his Catwoman still and the cat would immediately abide but of course he lost that in the court when the Lord comes, of course we see that in the perfect land the Lord Jesus he could tell up this to pick up paper silver and then and then by on Peter's foot and the fish was doing. I believe there's going to be a reordering.
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Of the national Kingdom, it's all going to be brought back to the original state of.
When God could say it was good and it's being done by the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, he's going to be had that supreme place. The 2nd man, the second Abbot is going to have that face supremacy in that creation which will be reordered. If only the confusing world and and chaotic world that we see around us now, it'll be a world just like what I think back to that situation.
The Lord Jesus Christ, we've got to do that.
I think he's going to as he says in the in the adverse.
Standing as we get in verse 28, and then having accomplished that work of reordering God the Kingdom and natural the whole national Kingdom, he's got a potential benefactor.
Look at that verse in John one which we often use in the Gospel and.
Certainly it it has its application there, but the true interpretation of John 129 The next day John C of Jesus coming unto him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. The true meaning of that meeting is referring to the time that we are reading about now, when every trace of sin.
Will be obliterated from this creation, partially so in the Millennium to a large extent, but not entirely because there will be still the the results of sin in the Millennium, but there will be the rule of the Lord so that man will not be able to.
Perform any acts of of rebellion or or.
Unrighteousness in that time, but the work of Christ is so complete and so perfect that in that coming day, the eternal state, every trace of sin will be removed. And that's really what that verse is referring to.
The.
The obliteration of the every resulting consequence of sin in the world through the work of Christ. So all the blessing in the Millennium, in the eternal state, The foundation of it all is the Word of Christ on the cross.
I've enjoyed.
The first, we're kind of going over two or three verses here together, but I'd like to make a comment in connection with verse 23. Every man in his own order.
Christ the first fruits afterward, they that are Christ that is coming, and we go on to read them. Come at the end.
That that 23rd verse in the first part of the 24th verse spans a period of 3000 years.
Christ the firstfruits.
You know when a when a farmer plants a field of wheat.
And then it grows and it turns that golden color in the field.
He knows it's getting near the harvest.
So he goes out and he looks at it and that he wants it to be a certain, a certain.
Forget the term they use, but a certain percentage of moisture in it. I recall it around 15% or something like that. I remember from days of my father and his brothers were in the milling business. But anyway, he would go out and he checked the field.
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And when it was just right, he would take it and it would be the first fruits and he would check and that was a sample of what the whole crop was like.
So it says Christ, the first fruits.
When Christ rose from the dead, he was taken up, and that was a sample of what the whole crop was.
The result of the work of Christ and the cross was so complete before God.
That Him and his perfection after removing, after the judgment of sin and His Holiness, raised to the very glory of God. He was a sample of what the whole family of God would be in the glory. Christ the first fruits afterwards.
They that are Christ, that is coming, that took place.
Just after Calvary three days, then comes 2000 years and here we are right near the end.
Then he comes and we are taken up out of this world to be with him.
Afterwards they that are Christ at his coming.
And then you have another thousand years and I think of that verse one day is with the Lord is 1000 years and 1000 years is one day. Just think of what we have put into just a couple of words in the Bible here and then it says then cometh the end, you know, to get a glimpse of eternity. We live in this short period of time here.
Now we spend an hour and 15 minutes in a meeting and brethren, think of what's ahead.
You know the the Lord's coming afterwards, they that are Christ that is coming and then to be with them and like them for 1000 years and then the final judgement of sin in connection with this world and then come with the end after that.
And we spend eternity with them. I mean, it's so beautiful to see.
Was before the believer all that we would enjoy it more in our souls as we go along and this misunderstanding of these truths that took place, God has used them as a as a an opportunity to bring out the preciousness of the resurrection and the end time of where we are going.
And so these very few verses that we're just starting with here in verse 24 down to the end of verse 28.
I think we all feel quite sure that the prime thought in those verses are the eternal state after the Millennium. That is the end that God has in view for His Son and His family for all eternity. Then come at the end when He shall have delivered up the Kingdom to God, even the Father.
When he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. Speaking of the millennial time, I'm sure the day of the Lord, and he must reign. Julius put all things under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed. His death. For he has put all, for he have put all things under his feet.
But when He Himself all things are put under Him, it is manifest that He is accepted which did put all things under Him. And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, after all sin is dealt with, then is already. I know have been commented, but to me it's nice to connect it all together.
Then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that's referring to God.
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As God.
And why does he take I don't think I'm quite right in using the the the the thought of being inferior to God because this is this doesn't seem to fit to me, but the thought is it's already been expressed, brethren, that he might enjoy your company and mine forever.
So then it says He's subject unto him.
That put all things under him, that God may be All in all as He, and that eternal state God, whom no man has seen nor can see, will be in his home, but no man will ever see him. But we'll be conscious of the fact that we're in his home and we're with him.
But there, as a man, we enjoy the presence of our Savior forever.
Lovely these verses, isn't it?
Something that was in the heart of God, wasn't it? Ephesians chapter one and verse 12.
Read that verse and.
Be in chapter one and.
Pretend that in the dispensation of the fullness of time, you might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in Him.
And whom? Also we have obtained an inheritance. Isn't that nice? We haven't attained an inheritance. We're part of this wonderful plan that God has ordained counsel.
There's not many references to the eternal state in the scriptures.
But here is one of them, and I think the thought is in our verse 28 that the Lord will retain manhood for eternity. I think that's the thought there.
Have we turned over Revelation? In 21 I saw new heaven and the new earth. The 1St heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea. And I drunk saw the holy city, New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. This described as the eternal state. Here up to above verse six, the bride after 1000 years she still has her mutual beauty.
Prepared as a bride, adorned for her husband after 1000 years. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and he was well with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God, and so on. This is looking on to that day when.
God's desire to dwell with His creature will be fully accomplished and fulfilled.
It was God's desire to dwell with His people in the midst after redemption. You have that thought brought out in Exodus, that God was preparing a habitation for man to dwell to dwelling in company with with Himself. Here you have the fulfillment of it. When God himself and the Person of Christ, He will dwell with men, There will be no government, there will be no nations, there will be nothing to rule over at that time.
Because there'd be no, uh, insubordination as there, as there is now in man's day and even in the Millennium, there will be the, the.
Subjugation of of any rebellion, it will not be tolerated for one moment in the Millennium.
The wicked will be cut off every every morning, but now in the eternal state.
The sin has been dealt with and now the Lord as man is going to dwell with his people and enjoy His people for all eternity. God Himself should be with them and be their God and.
That is the the end that is in view.
Question Luke chapter 12. Luke chapter 12.
37 Verse Blessed are those servants whom the Lord may cometh so blind, Washington. Verily I say to you, that he shall burn himself, and make them sit down and meet, and.
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Come forth and serve.
What time period does that person work?
You ever thought, John?
Honest question.
Well, it refers to the Lord's service of his own, serving us now as our great High Priest, our advocate. He's going to be serving us for all eternity when we think of any little service we might do for him now.
How small it seems, but the Lord values that we.
Little measure of devotedness in our lives to the Lord.
In service of of whatever kind it's going to be rewarded when I guess I'm not answering your question. I'd rather I think it it goes on into the eternal state. Maybe someone else has a thought there that he's going to serve us for all eternity and and I know that rewards are are often.
Confined to the Millennium.
But I think there is a sense in which the reward goes on into eternity. But do it, the will of God shall abide forever.
So although there will not be be the position of reigning with Christ in the eternal state, we are forming our capacity now for the enjoyment of the Lord for eternity. It's how we walk now and.
We are how we.
Enter into the things of the Lord. Now that is going to go on as our portion for eternity, but I think that the thought is that the Lord will minister to our joy.
In that coming eternal statement, maybe some brother has another thought on it.
But to answer the question specifically, that will start after the record.
Didn't understand you, David?
To answer the question specifically, I believe when will it happen? I believe it will start immediately after the Rapture, won't it?
I don't know if we can put a a try into it, but.
The circumstances will be right without beginning to happen.
Well, I was just thinking.
You know, in, in, in the Millennium reign of Christ, we're going to reign with him and we'll serve him in the Millennium reign, but in the new creation.
We have no need to rain because all things will be offered up to God.
That's the first that was read in Ephesians there and then.
He'll be searching us for all eternity, but that's the way I always looked at it.
It seems to me, Sean, that.
The context in those verses there is the Lord showing His appreciation for those who take and follow Him and are waiting for Him. He values it, whether it is the Millennium or whether it is the eternal state or whether it is both.
He's showing he values.
Our watchfulness and waiting for him to come.
You know, I remember being at a conference not too many years ago and the subject came up of some verses. Some referred to the Millennium and some refer to the eternal state.
And I was personally corrected in my thought and the brother was right, I felt afterwards.
But a brother, you know, we're sitting down for the meal afterwards and talking these things over. And he made this simple comment, he said. I feel that the Millennium is the front porch of eternity.
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And I have enjoyed that thought.
If you go see a great big, shall I say a great plantation home in the southern states the way they had them before, and you see some of the beautiful homes and then on the outside you see the size of the porch on the of it. When you go to that front porch, you say my, how beautiful it must be on the inside.
Well, the Millennium is like the front porch eternity, and if it is going to be that beautiful brethren during the Millennium, just think of what it's going to be like in eternity. Brother. I was just going to say who I take back that I retract that statement I made of not having anything to do in the new creation. I remember Stan said when I was first saying that.
The whole creation.
We're not going to be sitting around either. It's ours for joint heirs with Christ, and that includes the new creation. So whatever that is, we don't know. But we we know we're going to have something to do.
I'd like to add another comment if I made brethren in connection with the eternal state and it's already been referred to in Revelation chapter 21. We know the verses that we had here and 1St we had the 1St Corinthians 15 refer to the eternal state. I feel we we're we're one mind in connection with that, but then cometh the end that is referring to the time of the eternal state. We also get that in Revelation 21.
And I, I enjoyed, I remember when I was a young fellow sitting in a conference like this. And this is the explanation that was given in connection with the Revelation 21. Now this read the first two or three verses.
Again, this is referring to the time of the eternal state after the Millennium. And look what it says. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the 1St heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. And I, John, saw the holy city.
New Jerusalem, coming down from God, out of heaven, prepared as a bride, adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people.
And God himself shall be with them and be their God.
And so on in order said it says here about the New Jerusalem, the holy city in verse 2, coming down from God out of heaven. And again I remember sitting in this conference.
And a brother who I won't say his name, but I'll give his initials because it'll bring a smile to many faces, Heh.
And he's made this comment in connection with these verses. He said the heavenly Jerusalem coming down from God will be suspended over the earthly Jerusalem, and the light of that heavenly Jerusalem will so fill the sea.
No need of the sun, but there the light of it will shine, and the interaction between heaven and earth. And brethren, it would seem that we will be there with him in the glory, and there will be the earthly Jerusalem as well.
And there is eternal state in which God will be glorified. You remember the verses in John one where it says Hereafter he shall see the Son of man.
Ascending and descending. Well, yeah, that's, that's the Lord ascending. You know, he's with, he's with us in the glory. He has his earthly people as well. And that is the scene that we are going to be part of.
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In the glory of God forever again, we are a heavenly people.
It would seem from Scripture that when we leave this world, we'll never return to it again.
At least I feel that in my own soul. I don't know if we can say that categorically, but we are a heavenly people, but God is going to have an earthly people. We get it, don't we? Back in Revelation, I'm sorry, in Genesis 22, what he said to to Abraham as the stars of the heaven and the sand which is on the seashore. And God's promises are going to be filled, aren't they?
Lovely to see.
An interesting.
In relation to what we have in in verse 25. It's a simple verse for for he must reign. I draw attention to the word must. When you come across the must in Scripture, and there are quite a few, take note.
Because they absolutely affirm God's order with respect to what's happening and going to happen. And it is.
It's gives a sense of confidence and security in connection with these things. I know young people perhaps sitting here some this afternoon will say, well, that stuff is winging over my head, but.
The point is that it's the truth of God we've been talking about, and it's all true, just as your salvation is true. So these events to come are absolutely sure and certain, bound to happen, no doubt whatever. And it reminds me of the verse that says we can do nothing.
Against the truth, but for the truth, the truth of God stands immovable, unchangeable. We can't dent it. We can criticize it, but it doesn't affect it. And we know that that is something that we can absolutely hold on to it, and it's right here in our hands.
And the whole of it is the truth of God and all worth paying attention to. And so when we hear some of these things that apparently at the moment wing over our heads.
Be listening anyway because a lot will go in as it did with me when I was young. I didn't pay a whole lot of attention sometimes, but I know now that I look back it was going in anyway and sticking. Some of it was sticking and I'm very thankful for that.
And we need this little by little.
Come all at once as a great revelation of these things. But we learn as we sit in a place like this and pay attention.
We sing 202 Tip 202. What will it be to dwell down, and with the Lord? Glory raise is the blessed all unto the blood so frightened all those ferry plains and all hearts. You think no tongue in hell, but joy. It will be with Christ as well, 202.
Cry. Allow us on.
I'm so bright.
And falling.
Hear his voice.
Without seeing him say.
And all the.
History.
And today?
For God So Loved the World
Gospel—David Hayhoe
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Will your anchor hold?
In the storms of life.
When the clouds unfold their wings of strife.
When the strong tides lift.
And the cable strain, Will your anchor drift or firm remain? We have an anchor that keeps a soul steadfast and sure, While the billows rule Fastened to the rock which cannot move, grounded, firm and deep.
In the Saviors love hymn #11 Could we stand for this hill?
Will your anchor hold in the storm?
Without some soul there when you strike.
Tight, lifting the cable straight away.
Will your anger hold in with all the sun?
Oh, kill your latest friend.
I think we'll sing another hymn before we pray, and that is number 15 on the sheet.
Oh blessed gospel sound, yet there is room. It tells to all around yet there is room number 15. Just stay in your seats please.
Oh, blessed gospel song.
They draw near the.
Thye thye hear.
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Already come.
Yet there is room.
I shall have a great day. I told you there is room.
To offer it is not a complete.
Savior you will need.
There is room.
God houses filling out here. There is room.
Some guests will be the last here.
Very true.
Patience day from you.
We prayed together, our God and our Father we thank.
You know, friends.
I think probably most of the world.
Of a young lad, three years old.
His body lying lifeless.
On a beach in the Mediterranean Sea.
His father.
Was seeking to flee from a war-torn country in Syria.
And fled to Greece I believe it was, and then was trying to get across.
To Europe.
And he didn't make it.
With his complete family, his wife and his two children were lost. He tried his best.
And his wife and two children were drowned. And there we see the picture gained.
Circulated throughout the world of this lifeless body.
It was kind of a tragic picture.
Of really the situation of the.
Of the desperation of the of the.
Inhumanity to man, that that is, exists throughout the world today. Tragic.
What's wrong with this world?
Where's it going?
Why doesn't God intervene?
Is he going to intervene?
Does God love man?
Does God love you?
Does God really love the world?
I've had my Bible open and perhaps those of us who have a Bible, if you turn with me, I just want to read a couple of verses here before the subject I have before me tonight is in Hebrews chapter 6.
And verse 18.
That by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope that is set before us.
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We might have.
A strong consolation who have fled for refuge.
To lay hold upon the hope that is set before us, which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, brochure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil within the forerunner, is for us entered. Even Jesus made an high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Where is Jesus now?
He's not in the grave, friend. He died in this world. History records that he died and he rose again and he's at the right hand of God in heaven, and he's looking down on this whole world and on you and me in this room tonight.
When Jesus was here.
He quoted this verse and probably the most well known verse in the whole Bible. He quoted it to Nicodemus. And if I asked almost everybody in this room, they could quote the verse. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son lasting life.
Dear friends, think of the those words and the power of those words and what is meant by those words.
Where did Jesus come from?
He came from the very throne of God. If anybody can I say knew the heart of God, it was Jesus.
He dwelt with him in a past eternity. That is what this book here reveals to us.
It is this book is a message from God Himself to mankind.
I spoke to a man just this past week and I said to him, you have a Bible.
Yes, I have a Bible.
Have you read it lately? No, I haven't read it any of it lately.
Now, dear friends.
If somebody who was very dear to you went on a long journey.
And they sent you a letter and you get it in the mail.
What are you going to do with that letter? Are you going to put it on the shelf?
No, you're not.
You love that person. You're going to open it and you're going to see what they have to say to you. They send it to you.
And God has taken and he has given a book.
Where he reveals who he is and he reveals who we are.
And so it says per God, so loved the world. If anyone knew the heart of God, dear friends, it was Jesus.
He drove with him for a past eternity.
And he said, For God so loved the world, the people of the world, that he gave his son, and here he was, right in front of Nicodemus.
He gave his only begotten Son.
We could talk about that.
The very expression only begotten.
The only occurs about 5-6 seven times. They don't remember exactly in the Bible and it has a special meaning.
And the meaning, friends, is the darling of his heart. Take now thy son, thine only son whom thou lovest.
That for God so loved the world that he gave the greatest treasure in heaven.
Gave him.
And what did men and women do to him in this world?
You know the story of Calvary.
From the time that he was born into this world, dear friends, the devil sought to to energize the leaders of the world to take and get rid of him, killing all the babies 2 years old and under. Because the devil wanted to get rid of the Son of God who was born into this world, the very God of heaven revealed in flesh.
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3:00 and 1:00 and 1:00 and 3:00.
Revealed in flesh and God took care of him as he was raised in this world in a 12 years of age. He said was she not that I must be about my father's business. And he traveled through this world and went and did his way to Calvary's cross.
For God so loved the world that he gave. Think of God looking down on his Son Jesus as he walked through this world, and he saw what the hearts of men and women did to him.
He could say that they hated me without a cause.
That's what this world did to Jesus and nailed him to the cross. And then Jesus said he loved the world so much that he gave his Son that whosoever believeth in him.
Where is your faith tonight?
Have you ever thought of it in that way that God sent his Son to die for you? Did you know that when he was on the cross 2000 years ago, friends, that he was thinking of you and me?
Individually.
That's how much he loved us.
The whosoever believeth in him.
Have you ever thought of it that way, That here he was dying in my place?
Why did he have to die? He didn't have to die.
But he gave his life because he loved us.
And the Bible says the wages of sin is death.
But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Do you understand it?
The reason why people die, the reason why, the ultimate reason why they die through whatever disease that they get is because behind it all of sin.
And as by one man sin entered the world, death by sin, you and I were born with a nature.
Adams Nature We're born with a self willed nature.
And the Bible says all we like sheep have gone astray.
You know, there's one characteristic about sheep.
Is that when you take and you find an enclosure where sheep are?
That if there is a a hole that they can find where they get out, one will go out and the other will follow. And I have been told this, that when sheep go out, they'll never come back again.
They just go astray and the Bible says that's us all. We like sheep.
Have gone astray, You know a dog will come home.
The cat will come home.
But all we like sheep have gone astray. And what you see, friend, and I see, let's face the facts in this world today is man away from God, and he's going further and further away. And darkness is increasing, and the light of this book is being, being.
Taken away.
The Bible.
Jesus said he was the light of the world, and thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. And if you take away the Bible, friend, what have you got? You got darkness, moral darkness. Man making up his own ideas as to how to take and make the world better.
But dear friends, God is going to judge this world because they have rejected the light from heaven. I am the light of the world, he said.
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And they cast him out, cast him out of this world.
That whosoever believeth in him.
On him.
Yes, friends, he died for you. Now it's up to you.
What will you do with Jesus, which is called Christ? That question was asked in Pilots Hall by Pilot himself. He said to the Jews.
What shall I do then with Jesus?
Which is called Christ, they said. Away with him. We will not have this man.
To reign over us and what is the result?
Of not having this man to reign over us.
Turn with me please.
To Isaiah Chapter 9.
Isaiah Chapter 9, verse 6.
Love this verse.
Someone quoted this verse today.
For unto us a child is born unto us.
The Son is given, the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
This was written approximately 700 and some years before that Jesus was born and God gave this message to Isaiah to to send to his to the Jews, unto us, that's to the Jews a child is born, unto us a son is given, and his name.
And the government shall be upon his shoulder. Oh, I how I remember my father enjoying that thought.
The government shall be upon his shoulders, no.
Shoulder.
Why does this say shoulder and not shoulders, dear friends?
All the.
You know.
He's allowing what is taking place in this world. He knows what's going on.
He's in control and he can do it with one shoulder. But if we turned over to Luke chapter 15, we would lead the story. We won't take time to return to it now, but read the story about the sheep that got lost and when the shepherd found the sheep, it said he leaded on his shoulder.
Rejoicing. Why? Why does it say shoulder for the governments of the world in a poor little lamb, that he leaves it on both shoulders?
It represents the security of the believer. If you turn to Christ, if you own, you're a Sinner. He will save you from your sins and he will carry you all the way home. I remember when my father was dying, lying in his own bed. He wanted to, he wanted to leave his home and go to the next home.
And I remember going in and see him in a weak condition.
And I remember saying to him, Dad, the shepherd carries the sheep all the way home, and I saw I could hardly talk. And he nodded his head. He grabbed the thought just for a minute before he left the world.
Old dear friends, you have an anchor to keep your soul. You have a soul that will never die.
You and I, I should say, we have a soul that will never die.
You see, God made you and me different in the animals.
We are God breathed. Man is a three-part being. He is spirit, soul and body. All you see when you look at me and I look at you is our body on the outside. But you and I have a spirit and a soul. You know what the difference is between them?
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The Spirit is God word.
And you have a conscience that tells you that there is a God. And the Bible says the fool has said in his heart, no God or no God for me, dear friends, don't take that Ave.
Don't take that Ave.
Will you have a you have a God conscious part of your being that tells you that you have to do with God?
And I.
Remember our brother?
Dear brother John over there telling me about talking to a man one time and I think John, you probably used this illustration quite a few times when a person talks that way to you, he said to the to a man he was talking to.
When he said, when this man said to him, I don't believe in God, he said that's what you are trying to convince yourself, but your conscience tells you that you have to do with God.
And man has a conscience and he tries to, if he he'd rather not think about it, and he'll try to to argue and reason why there isn't a God because he has a conscience that tells him that there is a God.
That's the spirit the Bible speaks of in those three ways, Spirit, soul, and body. Now what is the soul?
The soul is the affections.
The desires.
You see, when God put Adam in the Garden of Eden, there he was.
And God breathed into his nostrils of breath, of life, and man became a living soul. He was God breathed.
The animals weren't God breathed.
And man just formed, He formed man of the dust of the ground.
And man became a living soul.
And there Adam was, and all the freshness.
From the hands of God, would you turn with me, please?
The next book over. Jeremiah, Isaiah, Jeremiah.
I think I can find the verse.
Both the House of the Potter. I think it's.
Go down to the House of the Potter, chapter 18.
You know.
God chooses.
God chooses little things.
To tell us about the big picture. So here you have the first verse of this chapter, the word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord. You see, Jeremiah was a prophet from God for the people, and God sent a message. And you see, that's what God's doing tonight. It's not me, it's him, it's his book, it's his message. And so it says.
He sent Jeremiah a message. Verse 2 Arise and goes down to the Potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
And when I went down to the Potter's house, and behold, he wrought a work on the wheels, and the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the Potter, so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the Potter to make it.
Have you ever been to a Potter's house?
I remember going, I like going to Potter toast. I haven't been to one for a few years now. It's wonderful, you know, to see what they can do with that clay.
Brilliant work, really.
And they take and they, they form, they form these beautiful, I like mugs, coffee mugs that are made with at a Potter's house. Well, God told Jeremiah, go down to the Potter's house and see what he's doing in the working on the wheels.
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And then it says.
He went down, and behold, he brought a work on the wheels, and the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the Potter.
What is it, friends, that that that God is bringing out in that little verse? He knew that that Potter was going to have that problem as soon as he, as Jeremiah arrived at the Potter's house.
He did the work and as soon as he did it, it was marred in his hand.
Dear friends, you know what it's a picture of?
It's a picture of man being made by God. It says the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground.
And so the Potter.
He formed that clay, and as soon as he made it, it was marred in his hand.
And there was Adam first from the hand of God.
Think of the beauty of Adam without sin there in the Garden of Eden.
And then it says the Potter that it was marred in his hand. You know, a friend, I believe that it was such a short time after God had made him that Satan entered into the garden and tempted Adam and Eve, and they sinned and creation fell. It was marred in his hand.
First from the hand of God. And the devil went to work, and he caused man to fall, and sin entered into the world.
And you and I know it. The consequences of sin to this day there was 6000 years ago in France. It's not going to go on forever. Because the one who made you and me, he allowed it all.
But he owns the world.
And he made you, and he wants you forever.
To be with Him. But he knows about our sin and our sins.
And the Bible says that Christ died for our sins. So the end of the verse here says that he made again another vessel. Did you know that you could have a new life?
A brand new life from God if you accept Christ as your Savior.
How do you get it?
You must be born again.
You have to receive Christ as your Savior. You can't buy your own good works.
Get into the door of heaven.
You need forgiveness from your sins.
We read in this room today 5 words, many words more than that, but 5 words. Christ died.
For our sins.
Why is it that Jesus was on the cross, friends?
He didn't have to come, but why did he die?
He never sinned. He couldn't sin.
Impossible for him to sin.
In Him is no sin. He did no sin. He knew no sin.
But he died for our sins. He bore our sins. Christ died for our sins. Why did He do it? Because he loves us.
And he wants you forever.
In heaven.
Yes, we're going to leave this scene.
We're not here for long.
Where are you going? Every journey has a destination.
Where is it? You and I are fellow travelers.
And we must meet God.
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And the Bible says every eye shall see him.
We're not talking about religion tonight. We're talking about a person, and you and me.
And everyone born of atoms race is going to meet that man.
Jesus.
And if you met him tonight?
And he said, suppose I'm going to put it this way to kind of.
Get the point across.
Suppose that it was tonight was your night. Suppose it was my night.
And we something happened, and you and I died.
And suppose, if I may say.
We're standing, and I'm going to use the term little loosely, I know, but just to get the point across, we're standing before the pearly gates. That's the term that is used in this world today. He, the pearly gates, will open and so on him goes. And who's there at the gate? Jesus.
You want in. You don't want to go to the other place, do you? I know you don't, because I don't either.
But there he is, and he knows you, and he knows me through and through. And he says.
On what grounds?
Do you come to go inside? On what grounds do you plead for acceptance to go into heaven?
Why you say?
I've tried the best I can. I gave money to the church and.
I just did are the best I could when I was in this world. Yes, I know I've done things wrong. And then he says, well, the Bible says that nothing that enters heaven will can enter that there can be no sin.
What's your answer? Well, you know you've sinned, and I know I sinned.
So what? What is it? What's your ticket to get into heaven? Because I can't let you in to a place when you are a Sinner.
Dear friends.
Is there an answer?
Do you know the answer?
What would you say?
There's only one answer.
And that is the verse many verses in the Bible, but that verse I quoted before Christ died for our sins.
He died for you, He died for me.
Did you ever accept them as your Savior? Did you ever open your heart, young boy, and receive Christ into your heart?
You like sports?
Would have you ever accepted Jesus as your Lord and your Savior?
If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, Jesus is Lord, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. So to get back to my question there about the Lord Jesus saying that as to what grounds I have to say to him, Lord.
I accepted you as my savior. Thank you for dying in my place on the cross.
On that ground alone.
His entrance to eternal glory.
Do you have it?
Verily. Jeez. Oh my, so many verses.
So many verses think of this. Here's what Jesus said in John 5. Verily, verily, I say unto you.
I say unto you.
Is that personal? Think of it, the very God of the universe revealed in flesh as he's talking there. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that set Me hath everlasting life.
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Do you have it tonight?
I can say on the grounds of what this book book tells me.
That I have everlasting life dwelling in my body. If I was to leave this world tonight, oh thank God.
I don't hope for salvation. I know I have it.
Do you know where you're going?
Are you resting on what Jesus did for you?
And the end of that verse it says, Verily, verily, I send you hear that he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent Me half the everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment.
But have.
Everlasting life, he goes on to say.
To give the the the the force of it. You have everlasting life.
And I'm telling you, you won't come into judgment.
Do you rest? Do you trust what he said? Have you accepted him as your Lord? Will you have him tonight?
This world doesn't want him, but what about you?
Will you take him?
One time there was.
A young fellow, 16 years old.
That I knew from work.
And it was Christmas time and.
We told a story about a.
How Jesus came into the world.
That's what Christmas means to me, that Jesus came.
And he died in this world.
And this young fella.
Remember, we spoke to him afterwards and said to him, Carlos.
What about you?
Have you ever accepted Jesus as your Savior? No.
So we pulled out.
I don't like to say it but I will pull $50. I pulled $50.00 out of my pocket.
I said to him, Carlos.
I want to give this to you.
Well, it shocked him. He worked part time at the company.
And he looked at me.
And he didn't know if I was serious.
But I was.
I said, will you take it?
So he looked at me again and.
He put his hand out to take it and I pulled it back.
And I said to him, is it yours?
Said no. I said when will it be yours?
When you take it. And he reached out again and I gave it to him.
Dear friends, the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. God offers to you tonight eternal life.
Will you take it?
Will you take Jesus? You know that boy took Jesus as a savior. He's a Christian today.
Wonderful, you know tis done, the great transactions done. I am my Lords and he is mine. Have you had a moment in your life, a private moment when you have turned to Jesus?
And you have accepted him and said Lord.
You know what Lord means.
Surrender.
No longer seek your own way.
There's a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Will you surrender, friend?
To him who died for you, who lives that you might be with them for all eternity, Will you have him in life, in death?
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In the in the future, we've been speaking in our meetings about what's beyond this world For the Christian a being with Christ in glory, you have a life that's going to live forever in one of two places.
Jesus died for you. He shed his blood. That man, that soldier, took the spear, and he put it into his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
This world is stained with the blood of Christ.
Do you want the world or do you want Jesus? What will you do with Jesus? Neutral, you cannot be. Someday your heart will be asking, what will he do with me?
Dear friend, won't you come?
You know, with a little child.
With a parent taken, they hold out their arms.
And they say come.
What does the child do?
He runs, he comes.
Will you come to him? He stands there, he waits.
Verse over in over in second Peter chapter 3 that God is Lord is not slack concerning his promises. Some men count slackness, but he's long-suffering, not willing that any should perish and all the tragedies that are happening in this world today. It grieves the heart of God, but the reason why God is waiting is because he wants others.
To be saved yet there is room. You know, I was going to talk tonight. I was going to read Matthew 22 about the king that gave us supper.
For his son and how that everyone was invited. It's a story there about.
That covers a period of 2000 years.
In about 10 verses.
Come for all things are now ready. You get every get an invitation to go to a wedding or someplace like that and and and did you respond to it? Would you say no to a nice wedding we were invited to?
Somebody prepared the whole thing. Would you be slating the person if you didn't go? Are you going to slay God tonight, friend, or will you surrender to him and come?
In closing our quota averse over in Revelation Chapter 3.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock if any man hear my voice.
And open the door. I will come into him, will suck with him and he with me.
Remember hearing a story of ODA?
A painting that was done by someone.
To illustrate that verse. And there was the door, and there was there was the man standing at the door, and he was knocking.
But there's something different about the door.
There is no knob on the outside of the door.
The knob was on the inside, you see. You have to open your heart's door. Jesus is not going to force His way into your life, but He wants in. Will you open the door and let Him in?
Have you any room for Him? Oh dear friends, He'll make a happy life for you. Through all the difficulties and problems of your life. He'll stand by you, and at the end of your life, he'll take you home to heaven. We have him tonight. Accept Jesus as we pray.
Mean it in your heart. Talk to him, ask him to come in matter of fact, we'll, we'll sing that little chorus. I don't know if it's in here or not, but I think I can quote it into my heart. Is that in this book? Into my heart, into my heart. Come into my heart, Lord Jesus, come in today, come in to stay. Come into my heart while it is in here, you know.
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No, so it goes. I was all repeated again. Into my heart. It's a prayer. Into my heart, into my heart. Come into my heart, Lord Jesus. Come in today. Come in to stay. Come into my heart, Lord Jesus.
Into my heart.
Heart into my heart.
Come in to my heart.
Lord Jesus.
Coming.
Today coming.
To stay coming to.
Heart, Lord Jesus.
Open your heart. Open your heart.
Open your heart.
To Jesus.
He knocked today.
You know, delay, but over your heart to Jesus.
Let's bound prayer. Our God and our Father, we thank thee for the.
Message the story of salvation. We praise Thee, Father, for giving the Lord Jesus to be our Savior. We thank the Lord for coming and we thank thee. Thou are coming again to take all the believers out of this world to be with Thee. We pray for any in this room.
Who may not know Jesus as their Lord? And ask thee that thou would speak through thy precious word. By the Spirit of God, this night we give thanks in thy name. Amen.
Yeah.
Yes.
Virtually.
What Can Wash Away My Sins?
Children—Jonathan Grinton
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Everyone, everybody ready for Sunday school.
Yeah, on the back of your sheet it says children's hymns and choruses. You can pick anyone in there. I'm not going to guarantee that I know the tune, but if you want children's ones, they're on the very back. So if anybody has one that they'd like to sing.
Just put up your hand, Caleb.
43 #43 one door and only one.
OK.
One door and only one, and yet its eyes are two.
Inside and out.
Marks teach me how to be a pro with this Mike.
Last year or a couple years ago I did this and I was so nervous. My voice was shaking and I said this time he's going to give me a new mic. My voice isn't going to shake. You think it's the mic that's not making me shake or somebody else helping me?
Who else would be helping me this morning?
God the Lord Jesus, Yeah. Anybody have another one I'd like to sing?
#47.
When he cometh, When he cometh OK.
When he comes.
Well, we've got some good singers in the front row up here. Sounds really good. Yes, Sir.
#41 around the throne of God in heaven, OK.
Around the throne of God.
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All right, let's say you understand.
Now I'm saying.
Isaac.
46.
46 Very good.
Glad TIDID.
I take all the hands.
And you want all the beer?
He does. He wants us to have our sins washed away, just like it says in him. And in 41 it says white and clean, doesn't he? I didn't realize there were so many more children over here. Sorry. Anybody else have one? They like to sing Boy the hands.
This lady right here.
#44.
OK.
Into a tent where a gypsy.
Salvation Story.
And I am sure that he stands for me.
Salvation Story.
My friend say about my children.
I may never have so many things for the world.
There's one boy back there, had his hand up.
Yes, Sir.
What is it?
#39.
What a friend we have in Jesus.
Iron stems and ingredients together.
A little low, sorry.
Very good singing up here, I can tell you. These kids are great singers. Do you children want to come up here and sit in the front row too?
I only have a few minutes left.
I was going to sing #32 also.
I'll just look at it quick. It says what can wash away my sins. Anybody know the answer?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus. You're right.
Very good. OK, let's close our eyes and the last Lord Jesus for help, OK?
Our God and our Father, we thank Thee.
For this time here this morning that we can come together.
These children, and a few older ones too.
And we can have a time to learn a little bit about the in Sunday school.
Lord that we.
Can learn how Let us love us to die for us.
Does want to wash our sins away?
And Lord, we pray that these little lessons this morning, everyone might see.
That truly is the alone that can do these things and can save us and wash us as white as snow take all our sins away. So Lord, we would just pray for guidance and direction and and help and that each one is at the end of their heart.
We thank you for this and praying these things. My name, Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
Well.
Who can tell me what sin is? Can somebody tell me what is a sin?
Anybody. Yes, Sir, that I think you said the same thing, didn't you? Bad things. What is a bad thing?
Not obeying your parents? That's a good one. I was talking to my boys about that this morning, Right, Caleb and Isaac.
Not obeying your parents? That's a good one.
Do you think I've ever done any sin?
Really.
Really. Everybody does. Well, do you know a verse that says that?
Now, yes.
Right. Where is that found?
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Romans. Is that the Is that the right one?
Romans, chapter 3.
In verse 23 it says for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Well.
You're right, I'm a Sinner too.
But when I was little.
I went to Sunday school just like you. I'm so happy that my parents took me to Sunday school and I got to listen and learn more about him, about the Lord Jesus Christ. Sunday school is very important. And maybe one day you'll grow up if the Lord leaves us here and you'll have children and you'll remember some of these things that you learned and you'll take them to Sunday school too. Sunday school is an important meeting. How can I get rid of my sins?
By being saved. Caleb, what were you going to say?
By asking the Lord Jesus to wash your sins away. You know, we spoke about David a little bit yesterday and if you look in Psalm chapter 51.
Some of these are maybe a little bit hard to understand, but Psalm chapter 51 verse one, it says, have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness, according to unto the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions, wash me throughly from mine iniquity or my sin, cleanse me from my sin.
Even love God.
And he knew he was the only one that could take all his sin away.
And if you look in Isaiah.
Chapter One.
I might be a little nervous. I'm having a hard time turning the pages, do you think?
Isaiah chapter one and verse 18 it says.
Anybody open to it?
You want to read it? Can you stand up nice and loud?
Oh, just one is.
Let us squeeze together.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red, white, Crimson, they shall be. There you go. Thank you.
Sins are scarlet.
I'll let it be red like Crimson, you see that?
That's what we look like in our sin. You know, I was talking about being a little boy and going to Sunday school. I grew up here in a little village called Laurenville. The meeting is there and there's one in Saint John as well. But I remember being your age and sitting in the front row and having competitions to read and, and staying with my cousin Keith and, and Mr. Roach got up one day. He's just sitting over here behind Mr. Kent. And he, he had something like this and I remember it very well.
And he might have talked on the same verses like I don't remember that part, but my eye was really caught to this. So I hope it works. I hope this works.
So in the verse it says.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Well, he wants to wash our sins away. This is the blood of Jesus Christ. His Son cleanses us from all sin, right? First Peter chapter 2.
For as much as you know that you are not redeemed with corruptible things such as silver and gold, but with the precious blood.
Of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. So he wants to get all these spots and take them away from us. He wants to wash our sins away. So he died on the cross for you and I.
And then he shed his precious blood. Remember the soldier when he pierced his side?
Blood and water.
Really hoping I don't make a mess here.
Well, he did that so that we could have our sins washed away.
Which looks better?
Which way looks better?
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This way, do you want your insides and your heart to look like this, or do you want it to be full of sin?
This way me too. So I was a little boy and I get on my knees and.
I believe that the Lord Jesus died for me on the cross and shed His precious blood. So I asked Him to come into my heart and wash my sins away, and you know He did.
He did.
And how do I know that he did that? Anybody. We spoke about this yesterday too. How do I know?
That the Lord, yes.
Because the Bible tells it, we believe it. We put our faith, our trust.
In God, don't we?
We spoke of that yesterday and you know.
If you turn to.
First Samuel, chapter 17.
Talks a little bit about David. Remember David?
And King Saul, what did David do?
He put all his trust in God, but what did he do? Anything you can remember? Yes.
He killed Goliath.
He killed Goliath.
Goliath was bigger than him, you're right. So do you think he did it by himself?
No. So once we're saved.
Can we do this by ourself here in this world? No.
We need God to help us. You're right. You guys got good answers up here, Really good. Well, you know David, he says in verse.
Saul didn't quite think David could do it on his own. You know, he wanted to give him special stuff to wear and he wanted to protect them. And David says.
Verse 34 David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock. And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth. And when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
Thy servants slew both the lion and the bear. Do you think you could? Do you think you could kill a bear and a lion? No.
What if God helped you? Do we have enough faith to believe that he would help us to do that? He can help us to do anything while we're here if we put our trust in him. He goes on to say, and this uncircumcised Philistine, that's the giant you spoke of shall be as one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God. David said. Moreover, the Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, now to the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of the Philistine, the Lord that delivered me. God delivered them, didn't he? He took care of them.
Saul wanted him to wear all this stuff. You know, I brought this. I like the snowmobile.
And I'm not going to say I go fast because my wife would be upset.
But you know who wants to try this on?
Anybody you want to try this on? No. Yeah, come on up.
Come on up.
What do you think of that? Do you think of a bear attacked you right now? Would that help you?
Not really. Not really. Do you think if you had to fight the giant, would it help you? No. No. What if you had this on? Put that on. I don't want to wreck your hair.
Look at that. Now what? What do you think? Are you protected?
No, you really aren't, are you? We fool ourselves by thinking that this stuff can protect us from Satan.
And from the bad things that happen in this world, but they don't, you know, I was wearing that one day and I had a brand new snowmobile and it was obviously too big for me. I should have been driving one of the kids snowmobiles, I think. And I was going too fast. And I come up this trail and I went around the corner and I missed the corner and I went over and I hit a stump that was sticking up. But this far you couldn't see it though it was covered in snow and it bucked the ski up so hard and it turned my snowmobile on its side.
And I had all that stuff on and it didn't do anything to help me. I slid up over the gas tank and there's a great big, huge gas cap on the snowmobile and it caught me in the leg here and it left such a bruise and a welter. It didn't go away for years. This big bump in my leg, I thought I was prepared and I wasn't prepared for anything.
I thought I wore all the right stuff. I thought I had the armor that I needed, but I didn't. And that's what David said to Saul. He took all that stuff off. He says I haven't proved it, but the Lord will deliver me. He'll help me. And you know, if you turn to.
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First Peter, chapter 5.
It tells us about.
Casting all your care upon him in verse seven, being turned to him for everything. OK, cast all your care upon him for he care for you. Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary, listen, your adversary, the devil as a roaring lion. Do you remember the lion that David had to fight? Well, here's our roaring lion, the devil.
Walk at the boat seeking whom he may devour, whom resist steadfast in the faith. Stay strong in your faith with God. Keep your trust strong, and he'll keep you protected from that lion from Satan. Because he wants to take us down so bad. He wants to. You know, my wife makes cookies. Does mommy make cookies?
Does. Yeah. Well, my wife makes cookies, and I don't like cookies per SE an hour after they're cooked. I like them when they're still in the pan or they're still in the bowl. So sometimes when my wife goes to get the pan out of the oven.
I'll go like this and I take the cookie and is that good? It's good. It tastes good, but it wasn't good. I was so tempted to take that cookie that I did it. I should have said, Hun, can I have one of these? Nice. I like the teaser too. But so we have to be really careful and there's only one that can protect us. And who do we say that was?
Anybody.
Jesus in Ephesians chapter 6.
He tells us about the armor that we need.
Ephesians chapter 6.
Now, you know, if I really looked at this, I'd probably have to get Mr. Roach or Mr. Kent or Mr. Sikora or somebody to explain more of this to me. So I don't expect you to understand it all, because I don't, but I'm going to read it to you. It says in verse 10, finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God. That would be what David did, didn't he? That other armor, that breastplate and that helmet and that sword. And they weren't going to do anything for David and that giant, were they?
Now he had to put on the whole armor of God.
That ye may be able to stand against the Wiles of the devil, that roaring lion. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Says, Wherefore take on to you the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day. And having done all to stand, says Therefore stand therefore, having your loins gird about with truth.
And having on the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, above all take the shield of faith.
Take the shield of faith. Anybody want to tell me quick what faith is?
Yes, faith is believing. Faith is believing in something that you can't see.
Quick example, you remember Thomas, after the Lord Jesus died, Thomas, he wouldn't believe, he said unless I see the Lord Jesus and thrust my hand into his side and see the nail prints in his hand, I won't believe you. Remember that? So the Lord Jesus came and Thomas Song and he said, here I am Thomas, here's my side, here's my hands. And Tom says, oh it's you Lord, it's you. And he was so happy.
But the Lord Jesus said, blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed. That is us. OK, that is us. We believe in something that we don't see, but we believe He is there. We believe that the Lord died and now He's sitting in heaven waiting to take us home to that place He's prepared for us. He loves us so much. He wants us all to ask Him into our hearts to wash our sins away.
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. That's all the bad names people throw at us, all the nasty things people do and want to drag us down. We can, we can turn our back to it. And He'll help us and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit. Praying always, casting all your care upon Him.
It's hard at school too, isn't it, as a as a believer if you go to school.
Yeah, you go to school yet?
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Do you go to school?
You do school, right? Well, it's hard when you get out and you get a job and you go to school or you people are so mean sometimes and they don't treat us well and because they know that we're different.
But God, He will be there with you all the time, and He'll help you through all of it.
Well, maybe we can sing that #32.
What can wash away my sins?
What can wash up?
Nothing but the blood Jesus.
Lying. Goodbye, Thyme.
Very good. Well, we'll just close in prayer. But before I do, I just want you to see these bookmarks here. And everybody is welcome to come up and take one, or I think there's probably enough that you can take one of each. OK, let's give thanks and praise the Lord Jesus for Sunday school. Our God and our Father, again, we thank thee for thy love to us. We thank thee for thy gift of thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. We thank thee for the little lesson here in Sunday school today, Lord. And we just would earnestly pray that each one would ask into their heart to wash their sins away before it's too late. Lord, we know that they are coming again.
To take us home, to be with Thee. So Lord, we would just pray for these dear ones and for the remainder of the day. And Lord, as we too would come together and have the privilege to remember thee, Thy death for us this morning.
We thank Thee and praise, Praise Thee and thine long, worthy and precious name, the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
The Shepherd and the Sheep
This Generation
1 Corinthians 15:35-50
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This attack the fellow Pilgrims meeting as we roll number 231.
Our welding is again.
Every day of the day. So hustlers nowhere to us aside, what a word we are speaking.
No.
That's true. That was.
To sing together.
We are not far from home.
And when we learned our lesson, our work is our training time.
Well, well, well, well, well.
I'll never see me before.
With Angel Host.
Attending.
In here it's true.
As I'm all about all the beginnings.
About taking up from above verse.
51 to the end, but you know, there's a few verses before that.
I thought we got about as far as what, around 35 or so?
Going to be with the Lord and sort of discussed a little bit. Can we put it that way in the verses between 35 and 50?
I I wonder if it'd be good to to talk about that a little bit, but not to get what to way late and not so that we can.
Get into those last verses of the chapter, perhaps a few comments on the verses for about 35 on down to verse 50.
Would that be in order?
Yeah. I was wondering, David, when we should start reading at verse 45 and in this commentary of the previous verses, that's fine, but 40-5 really gives us the connection with the nurses following on 51.
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1St 1915 and verse 45.
The first man, an adult made a living soul and Arthur was made equivalent strip healthy. That was not the first which is true that genetic and of course that is spirit.
The first place is that the earth. Earth, the 2nd man is the north.
As is the earth and as is the energy. Such a way also the market.
And as we form the image of the, we should also bear the image.
Now this.
I don't think you do it now. The corruption is very interruption.
We shall not all sleep.
We should all be challenged.
In the 20th of July.
For the trumpet shutdown and the debt should be raised in the number and waiting to be changed.
This corrupt.
And this is all immortality.
So we're just corrupt what should have put on interruption and there's more control of put on immortality. Then she'll be drawn past the same equipped death swallowed up again.
OK, results.
Right, the Stinger daddy said the strength of the sins is rewarded, but thanks to his daughter, which giveth us the victory for our Lord Jesus Christ.
These verses are comparing the family of Adam and the family of the Lord Jesus, the first Adam and the second Adam. Remember when I was growing up, I was in my father's house.
I was the son of my father and I acted according to the conduct required in the household and.
I I perhaps look like my parents. Perhaps I act like my parents in some ways.
We resemble our parents, while everyone born in this world resembles Adam.
For children, Nevada, we're of the household, if you want to put it that way, of Adam. But then when we're saved.
We change. We're now from the first, from the 2nd man, the last man, that's the Lord Jesus. We're in a new household.
When I graduated from high school, I moved in, I moved to another country and I lived with another family and I was in their household. I had to conduct myself accordingly to that new household and.
When we're saved.
We move into a different household. Now we're in the household of God and we need to conduct ourselves in a different way, and we do conduct ourselves in a different way because of the very nature that we have. We're a new creature. And so these verses are comparing those two a little bit.
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Always enjoyed the expression of this change in the book of Colossians.
Chapter one. It's a part of the prayer that Paul gives.
Colossians chapter one verse 12 giving thanks unto the Father which has made us meet.
To be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in life who have delivered us from the power of darkness and have translated us into the Kingdom of his dear Son. He's made it possible for us to enter heaven by a translation of ourselves in that way. And I believe that's what's brought out here in this chapter, changing from, I guess, one glory to another. It's interesting.
In verse 48.
It says as is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy, and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. It's a bit what Tim was talking about, but it's interesting that it's described as earthy, not earthly.
There's one letter missing that little Ellen makes a little bit of difference because if you're earthly, that means where your heart and mind is because it's your choice. But if you're earthy, that's your nature. You have no choice in what your nature is. So in essence, that's just the whole change that we see, that we've been changed from being earthy to heavenly. God has given us a whole new nature that appreciates the things of heaven that we couldn't have before because we were earthy. Our old nature was all we had was the one nature nature of Adam, but he was the second nature now.
The nature of heaven.
He added the creation any longer.
We we long, we didn't belong to this creation under Adam.
Who was formed by God but.
Now the crisis come and die for us and.
Has purchased us. God didn't form the Lord Jesus like he did Adam. Adam was made. God made Adam with the Lord Jesus is inflicting spirit.
And he is the one that we are joined to and belong to. We're all done with the atom race. As far as God sees us. That's our standing. Their standing is in Christ, the new man, who is a quickening spirit.
So.
Received life from God. It was imparted to Him.
But when we talk about the last Adam, as you say.
He is truly life itself. He is the one that imparts the life.
And we learned from Colossians 3 that Christ is our life.
Colossians 31 If you then be risen with Christ, see those things which are above where Christ sits on the right hand of God. Set your affection for your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
We are dead and their life is hid. It's Christ in God, when Christ, who is our life shall appear themselves. He also appeared with Him in glory.
Perhaps you have an analogy in John chapter 20.
What we are speaking about here, John 20.
This was.
Prior to the.
Giving of the Holy Ghost as a person to indwell a believer who's 21 Then said Jesus to them again, peace be unto you, as the Father had sent me, Even so send I you. When he had said this, he breathed on them and set on them, received either Holy Ghost and so on. So there was the impartation of a.
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The light of the resurrection light. The Lord was in resurrection at this point. He was imparting life to them by the Spirit. This is not the indwelling of the Spirit. I think it has an analogy to what we are reading about here.
Award as the Quickening Spirit.
He has given to us a.
Divine life. Nature.
Belong to a different race Belong to a race characterized by reward as the as the head of the second Adam, and we are connected with him in resurrection and.
We are to here to manifest that new life that has given to us.
1St man added it says of the earth earthly. The 2nd man is support from heaven. We know that the earthly man failed and brought down the whole creation.
But the second man not from the earth, says he's from heaven, and he's a quickening spirit and.
So we're tied to him through new birth, and our faith and resurrection is in the new man, in the Lord Jesus. And so it's in him that we are. The body is his body, the church, and we are joined by Spirit to Him, the head of that body in heaven.
And we're waiting now as the body of Christ to be with Him, rejoined to Him by spirit. But we're going to be with him and like him for all eternity, His resurrection truth that we have.
I was looking at.
Bob and me brother may give a comment on. We didn't comment on verses 31 and 32.
Speaking there of baptism.
You know, today if somebody gets baptized here in Canada and you go out to a river, they're baptized and they put on Christ outwardly that way.
Having it baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and.
They're baptized to the Lord. Outwardly they put them on. Outwardly they're probably not going to be.
Persecution here in this country attached to that, you're probably going to go out and have a peaceful baptism and.
Want to go on from there, but I think there's a few here that might be able to explain to us that what it means in this verse that at the time there were those that were being baptized and they were coming under persecution because they were going to one set of circumstances to another.
And they were being rejected, oftentimes by their families, by the heathen religions that they were attached to. And sometimes that persecution might even lead to death.
And the apostle Paul is making the example here. There wasn't any resurrection. Why would there be any need to fill up those rags for those that have that died in that way? If, if that was the end of things, why would we bother risking our lives?
Well, I believe that today in some land, brother, probably Brother Tim mentioned something to us and John Kemp, that there's real persecution attached to baptism. And in some cases lives are taken because they have that understanding of it that they're leaving behind that religion or whatever they were attached to when they go to Christianity. And there's real persecution attached to that.
We don't see it in this land, but you know, we might live long enough to see it. I just wonder, maybe your brother could come in on that a little bit.
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Or baptism in India certainly marks the personnel very definitely.
As connected with the Christians professionally.
The sign of the retudiation of the Hindu system and.
Certainly.
You know, so it brings often persecution, bit of persecution and even threats on the life.
So as you say, it's much more evident that the meaning of baptism in these these.
Other lands, even Delaware, taking the name of Christ in baptism, identifies the person with.
With the Christian profession, at least.
One of the apostle says I die daily.
I don't think we need. We need to consider that as.
Putting keeping the old nature into the place of death is something that we we should do. I don't think that's the thought there. The persecutions were so severe.
Apostle Paul and both working with him that.
He was facing perils and.
Death on a daily basis, he says there in every city longs an afflictions abide him. He was bearing the scars of persecution I bear in my body as scars of the Lord Jesus.
His wife and says in jeopardy everyone. We don't see that character of things here in that same measure.
Will all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution, But the apostle is is referring here to actually the danger of losing his life.
He lived in Eminent.
Prospective losing his life for for the name, for his testimony for Christ and the beasts of Ephesus fear when you read in Acts the way they acted in their opposition to the apostles message. They had just acted like beasts.
We were ready to tear them apart.
The Lord delivered him until we find him. Second Corinthians, chapter one by two. It was a very severe test for the ocelot and the other workers with it.
Maybe someone could make a comment, I'm just not clear on the 1St atom I don't think.
We consider the first item as sinful. Naturally, there are certain things that go along with natural life that are not actually sinful. There are certain abilities.
Collins characters that a person has naturally that I don't think we would connect with the old man the old man is.
It's an abstract term. It's a character description.
The old man is not really something within us, but.
Brother can maybe add something here. The 1St man is the natural man and there are certain things in the first man that are commendable. We don't put them all in the category of sin, but now we are connected with.
A divine light in resurrection.
And those natural things now aren't to govern and control our lives.
There may be nothing sinful in them, but now we have.
A new object.
Above those natural things.
To walk in the power of that new life. Maybe some brotherhood had something to that.
Perhaps what is not a faith is sin. You might look at it that way, but that's the old man. The natural man doesn't lift my face.
The new man would live by faith.
Would be connected to the.
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The 50th verse I wonder.
Where it says.
Say brother of flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.
And So what comes from first Adam is flesh and blood. That's how we came. Adam was the natural man. He became a living soul. And every descendant from Adam in this world became living souls. We have flesh and blood, and flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. It's a spiritual realm. And so neither this.
Last Adam spirit will be.
And so it is.
In order to, we'll say, access, the new creation had to be new bird, spiritual bird.
And follow the Lord's example and he said you know, and only in see flesh and bone. It's a different it's a different flesh as it were that could in there could enable the the spiritual life.
That's the only time I have on it. Like there's something else.
Did not tie into the.
Previous verses in connection with the seed.
God is talking about and take for example verse 38. God giveth it a body, Speaking of the seeds as it has pleased him.
And to every seed his own body.
The seed you put in the ground for wheat or for corn, or for whatever the.
Size and the shape and all these things are determined by the seed itself.
And so.
That's the natural side of things. That seems to me the comparison that is being given here.
For Bob Tony saying one time, God loves variety.
Different flowers and worship corn, you have wheat, you have barley, etcetera.
So in the resurrection, so in with humans, there's various characteristics that belong to each of us. I wonder if all of that is kind of included. God has given each of His characteristics as it has pleased him. I don't know if that commends itself here.
Mentions in James that every good gift and every perfect gift coming down, coming down from the Father of lights, whom there is no variable in this, neither shadow of turning. I believe God gives gifts to every man good gifts.
It's the corruption came in and how man uses them.
Uses of herself and that's really what describes fallen man is self will. That was what the sin was in the Garden of Eden.
They were told not to do something, and they did it, and that sin brought the whole creation down.
Until we speak of the old man, that's really looked at as the failure.
Of man and his responsibilities before God. He became corrupted because he exercises his own will against the will of God.
I think it might be worthwhile going back to Genesis 1.
And she won't go on the lady 1St 2026 of all.
And God said, let us make many of their lives.
Those 26, so 120 then she disclosed image. In the image God played with the male and female, frightened of this. Now there's two words there that he used. One is invited and the other one is an image. And I think it's important that this goes through because especially users are very different.
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Like this, this implies some kind of physical violence. You might say a football is you have my other picture of somebody, you know the person to tell you that's a good practice.
Shall I say more characteristics and you might have, there might be a young guy and you look at him. If you say this is the image of his father doesn't mean to say you wouldn't be able to distinguish between him and his father and get together, but it needs he bears the characteristics of the father, but some of the characteristics of the father and evidence in it.
So Adam was created in the image of God, but I believe he lost that image. In those days, if you'd be on the earth and you want to know what life was like, you could have looked at him and he was created in the image of God. But in the fall, when Satan came in, he lost and then he had that weakness. He was of the earth by his character.
Even though he was created in the image of God, there was that weakness of character.
He was up here.
It wasn't divine in that way that God is divided. And so we have here in the.
Verse 48 As is the earthen, so are they.
So are they the heavens and as we have formed the image of the earth, we form the image of the earth. We've had the amount of moral Christians that of his rice by 90. That's what we are. As we have formed the image of the earth, we should also bear the image of the heaven. In other words, we're going to be performed to the image of these sons. We're getting Romans 98. I think that is and so.
The the the contrast is, I believe, between Adam.
He failed to sustain the enemy of God. When he fell, we fell with him. We were born in sin and shaken in liberty because their connection to heaven, but.
We are going to have and here is the future we shall, we shall also bear the image in the heavens. But of course there's a practical slide that we should demonstrate it even now in our lives. But oppressive gap that the hindrance shall I say as the old nature and that's going to be removed. So in the future we shall bear the image of the heavenly in its fullest. We shall be a complete reflection.
Of the first of the Lord Jesus Christ.
1992.
Come back to Newfoundland.
Brother from Kentucky.
Daniel Floor, I believe his name was.
He gave me a palm and it goes like this. I've given it to many Christians before and even there's some newborns and they seem to get the connection right away because.
They they don't really know what's going on.
You know, they just they know they have this battle and they know that there's something wrong with the the old painter. But anyway, closing this two natures meet within my breast. One is cursed, the other is blessed. One I adore, the other I hate and the one I see will dominate. So I think it's a very.
Simple little thing that gives a lot of Christians.
Comfort I've mentioned to many Christians and they say, say that again, say that again. I want to hear that again and they want to write it down as I wrote it down and.
But it's there's so much truth and just that little statement. And then of course.
We have the Spirit of God and we have no need that any man should teach us. And so it's such a wonderful thing to know that in this world we have a new nature.
That cannot sin and I just thinking the last verse of Romans Chapter 7. It's it's the first I'd like to read even still today.
I went through Romans 7 for quite a while and you know the last verse says so that with the mind I myself, that's the real me, the new me serves the law of God, but with the the flesh, the law of sin.
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You can do nothing else but sin old nature.
Wicked, wicked thing.
It's interesting that structure refers to the Lord Jesus Christ as coming in the likeness of simple flesh. In other words, there was a physical life, but the the image of the invisible God. The careful scripture is in the use of those words. It was a physical life.
Physically different, shall I say, in any other than any other ones that you have raised.
Pictures and they put a highlight. Well, that was like that. He didn't wear a Halo. He was in the likeness of simple fresh that he was the gimmick he was.
Reflect all the excellences of the Lord himself were found personalities trust.
The difference was that that he, Adam, was created, God created Adam from the dust of the earth, and the Lord was born of Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost.
He was born a man he had.
Looked like man. He. He was a man every way except for sin. But he wasn't formed in the same way you and I are. He was. He was formed by the Spirit of God.
And back in.
Genesis chapter 6.
Speaking about.
The old man or question that we have.
Verse 12 There chapter 6 it says God looked upon the earth and behold it was corrupt for all flesh, it corrupted his way upon the earth.
God is a spirit. Here we have man who is flesh, and it says he had corrupted his way on the earth. So man is a corruptible person.
Like because of sin and self will the body itself.
Didn't sin, but the but the nature of the Senate causes the body to do bad things.
It's essential we'll see that what you're referring to Venus and Luther chapter one that's very important that we.
To the burden of Christ.
135 I think.
Unusual answered and said unto her, The old vote shall come upon thee.
There were also that only thing which shall be worn indeed shall be called the Son of God. We partook of human nature.
He was perfectly a man, body, soul and spirit.
But he wasn't born of our bone, in the flesh of our flex.
He did not partake of a sinful nature, of course, blasphemy for those who teach that the Lord.
Could have sinned.
Although he did not.
Are really holding a blasphemous doctor because if that was the case then the Lord had an evil nature in the particular the same nature that we have no he was holy from birth. He could not say he was the eternal Son of God, but he was also a perfect man in every sense of the word, all the sentiments of the man. But you need to be careful about those things because evangelical Christendom today.
It's almost universal. Price could have sinned, but did not. It's very serious doctrine. It's.
Really fundamental error worse than error. It is really lots of because.
It supposes the Lord had an evil nature.
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I feel that.
Perhaps I should say one of the thoughts that is.
That God is seeking to bring out for us here is there is a distinctness of personalities I know I.
I think my comments before suggest that with seed there's a difference. There's a variety, and so there is a variety in connection with you and me. You are distinct in your personality and that's the way God made you in the resurrection. You will retain that distinctness of your personality. In that notice in verse 41 it says there.
There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, another glory of the stars. For one star different from another in glory, so also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.
The question has been asked, will I know?
My loved ones in heaven.
Well, I think that this verse helps us in connection with that, am I right? One star different from another in glory. And then there's the on the Mount of Transfiguration, we have brought out about the Lord with Moses and Elias, and they knew Moses and Elijah immediately.
And.
Again, this verse has been used that way across, rightfully so. One star different from another in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. And you will, can I save you, will still be you in glory.
That part of what is being brought out here.
Possible in writing the testimonials.
He says First Thessalonians 219 For what is our hope or joy? For a crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ that is coming.
So I believe he passed with Paul. He was looking forward.
Seeing those Saints that had been the result of his effort in the Gospel, in the glory. And if he couldn't recognize who they are, why would he be writing like this?
As to seeing them in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ?
I was just thinking too what you mentioned there.
Every star is not two stars the same and.
He calls all by name, but I'm thinking in the new creation, I think he's going to create as many stars as there are now. But our our star is 866,000 miles in diameter. There's one star in a small Milky Way of 400 billion stars. There's one that's 2.3 trillion miles in diameter. But I'm thinking when the new creation happens or when he creeps the universe.
The earth and the heavens. There won't be one flaw in all those stars. I wonder, will they all have a different name than they have now?
You know so.
In respect of the 49th, 1St.
We're going into the earth and the 51St flesh and blood. God's judgment on treasure cloud was to Adam. He says, Dost thou lost, and to dust thou shalt return. That's when we guide Corruption comes in, death and corruption comes in and death and corruption came in as a result of it, Adam said. And so we see that for us to have.
Fair, the image of the Lord in his fullness.
There has to be a change, but that changes.
I have eternal life.
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But I still, I do not yet have been corruption. And in order for me to live in the Polish sense of the word, to be the image of God, I've not had that property and the Lord will deal with it at the rest of the country all the time itself.
We see a parallel with Israel.
Follow a little bit and Isaiah 5.
We have this about Israel's failure and the Lord's fulfillment. We won't read it, but in that Isaiah 5 we have divine Israel being the.
Flying in a fruitful hill and must be a blessing to all the nations.
And so they failed miserably in that and so in John 15 need to turn to it. The Lord says I and the true Bible. I am the true volume. Yet if you turn to Malachi 4 and many other places to a Malati 4, I'll read this. It's a day coming and that blind is each Israel.
Will yet be a blessing. They will get over the wall and be a blessing to the nation, so it says.
Verse 11, chapter 3 And I will rebuke the developer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground either shall your blind cast your fruit before the time in the fields have a lot of votes, and all nations shall call you blessed, and we shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord that can't future.
And so in the parallel we have what we just love. In Genesis, one man was made, he says, all mankind made in the image of God. We were to be represent God in every way in this world.
And and morally especially and of course man became corrupted. He fell from that. And so when you go into Hebrews chapter one, when you have there in Hebrews one, just like Israel.
Where he said I am the true vine and Hebrews one you have.
To bring the brightness of His glory.
Verse three and the express ending of this person, the Lord Jesus was he expressing we were the image, but he, the man from heaven was the express image expressing God in totality perfectly and so.
In our chapter here, what he's saying is that look at the 15th verse again, but the 50th verse it says at the end of 50th corruption.
Needed a corruption and there an incorruption. In other words, man failed. He could not represent God in that corrupted state, so he fell. And so there has to be a change. In other words, for Israel to be a blessing, there has to be a change in coming. There will be a delightful land. They will be changed. And so he's saying here, we need to be changed too. And this period in order to again be in that place we can represent God.
He is image again and that is a change of nature we have to be born in. We have to put opposite word the old Adam and put on the new is not the thought that's here so that now it's only because we are in Christ, but the last at a part of the last atom and now we can again.
As Risen stands up, as Risen believers, we can.
So forth the image of government, and we lost.
In the first step through corruption.
Just enjoyed it this way Derek.
Verse 50 Again, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
Our present body in its present form is not suitable for our heavenly home.
So we get verse 50, and because it is not suited, this body that you and I have right now is not suited, God tells us what He's going to do about it. We go on with verse 51.
There is a secret that the that God gave to the apostle Paul here to be revealed that it never been revealed before verse 51 I show you a secret, a mystery.
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We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible.
We shall be changed for this this corruptible.
Must put on incorruption.
And this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass as saying that is written.
Death is swallowed up in victory.
Corruptible is something that corrupts the dies incorruptible.
Is indestructible.
God is going to give you and I or He's going to change our bodies. As you mentioned before that it's not a new body, it is a changed body.
So that I take it that should be as part of the change, so that you and I will know each other in the glory.
And but in the body that is changed it will be incorruptible on the structure.
Who shall fashion our bodies in that our bodies making fashion like unto his body of glory, which takes us back to the 20th chapter of John, when he was raised from the dead.
So that is the truth that is being brought out here.
Body being this was not revealed in the Old Testament.
That which happens in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.
Credible to think about it.
We're going to make a difference. See what Lauren said before and when we look at that verse date and verse 53 for this corruptible must put on corrupted corruption. There's no choice. It must be back. If it doesn't do that, no heaven for it. It doesn't fit heaven unless it's incorruptible. It must put on that. And how do we do that? We can't do it. It's not up to me to do it. It's entirely the work of God.
To fit us for the heaven that he's designed for us.
We cannot go asleep. That's an interesting word actually. It's applied to the Christian. The death of the leader is we thought is almost called sleep.
Is interesting word for his passive. It's put.
And.
What the structure that gets us off when you have a family that's.
It frankly, well, it's time he had enough and so.
The Lord doesn't come in the next few years make you say to me, maybe it's time question.
And you might say to the child and put them down and say put some prospects before all of them, so.
After your nap, we'll go to the park and they go to the United States.
When you wake up.
Just like person of the Lord Jesus Christ, there is in his birth throughout the ages of His birth.
Well, for the Christian.
I believe that death has lost its state because of the work of Christ. We rest.
In.
The value of the precious blood of Christ, knowing that.
Our sins, so great and so many, have in His blood been washed away.
I remember a dear brother, he was about to depart this life and the verse that was such a comfort to his soul was first John one and seven. The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us, cleanseth me from all sin. He'd like to hear that repeated. Well, it tells us here that the sting of death.
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Is.
Sin.
We might have thought that the sting of sin is death, but it's not put that way. The wages of sin is death, but I believe for the unbeliever.
To depart this life.
Is a leap in the dark.
Death has been referred to as the King of Terror. And why is that? Because.
Every saw is going to have to do with the Holy God.
And the Word in Amos 4:00 and 12:00 is prepared to meet thy God.
Well, if we're under the shelter of the precious blood of Christ, we are prepared. But if not?
I believe there is a sting to death, and it's because sin is on the conscience and on the heart.
And the strength of sin is the law. The law is that which exposes sin.
There's no power in the law to do anything about it, but it does convict.
And I believe that's why it's holy. It's just. But it's good because it convicts.
But if one goes on in their sins.
And does not accept Christ. They're going to die in their sins.
And they're going to stand before that great white throne and meet Jesus Christ as their judge, and there'll be no salvation available.
The Lord Jesus said if you believe not that I am He, you're going to die in your sins.
But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, we learned from Second Timothy one.
That.
Through the Lord Jesus, death has been abolished and life and incorruptibility had been brought to light. It's through the Gospel.
It's also wonderful for the believer.
The room is 13 was then that which is good. They definitely got to live but seeing that it might appear sin working death in me by that which is good.
It's seen by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. So the 1St 1600 years of man's history, there was no law.
That was the period of conscience, we say.
There was no law given. What man?
Was still a Sinner and it culminated in the flood. But when the law was given, now there was a standard that God had given to me.
It was laid out plainly to him what was according to his nature, and what was disobedience. He had no excuse now, because there was the law of God, and the apostle says that.
Then a man became a transgressor. He.
He was convicted of open transgression, disobedience to the law of God after it had been comulated. That was all that we have in our chapter here.
The strength of sin is the law it incited the old nature to to act.
Verse 15 Deliver them through the fear of death for all their lifetime stuff used to *******.
Speaking of the law there, I believe that they were under the law for righteousness.
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And they feared death.
Or Satan today has many people under a system of works. They fear death too, and they think that they're going to gain eternal life through their own efforts or what they can do themselves. We have many cults that go around and they work very hard to try to gain themselves favor with God or a life after death. But there's only one way.
That God has provided for man and that's through Christ, through the work he has finished at Calvary, and that's the only way that we can have. The victory is in him.
But Lord Jesus, when he died on the cross, he, he defeated Satan, He took the keys of death all away. He yelled them. And there's no more judgment for the believer. There's only glory to follow after we leave this scene to be with our Lord forever. All is passed, judgment is passed. We owe all things to Christ. He got the victory for us.
And.
It's sad to see today that there are so many that still are under that ******* of works.
The victory has already been won. The victory has already been won when Christ was raised from among the dead.
And then it says Christ the first fruits afterward, they that are Christ that is coming the resurrection of the Saints is really the the.
Outworking of the victory that Christ want and it is yet to take place. Thanks be to God that giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
So his going to the glory.
Was the first part.
That's the resurrection, the power of the resurrection, that will take us there, too.
And based on that, we have the last verse of the chapter that tells us that. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable.
Always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
I've heard it said in connection with the 1St man being earthy and the 2nd man being heavenly is that the world that I might be brought into was made to receive them. We read of Genesis one what the Lord created the animals for man and plant life for man.
Heard about chapter 3 for the first world was made for the first man who seen them.
The world that our second hand into it needs to reject.
Isaiah 53 it says he's despised ejected event.
1St man came into a world ready to receive them. The 2nd man came into a world prepared to reject him. I know that as a believer, believers with that new man have been us with.
We also will face some of that projection we get in John 15. The worst people do is disciples said the first time either of the world, the world would love his own. But because you're not in this world and I chose you out of this world, Therefore the world hated you. So it is nice to see that final verse in our chapter that although we may consider next with that second man, he can dwell in the Holy Spirit as Christian. You may see trials and tribulations unconcerned. Not only do we have victory over death in the end, but.
We'll have a new labor here on Earth. Your labor is not in pain before.
Verse 32.
Your pastor says, well, if the dead don't rise, we might as well just eat, drink.
And take it easy and relax. But that's just the opposite of what we have in verse 58. Because the fact is the dead do rise. And so the apostle, he says, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.
For as much as you know, your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
If you have a compass, you have two arms to accomplish. Every boy and girl knows how a compass works, and it only works when one arm is firmly implanted on the base, on the on the desk, then the other the other arm is able to circulate around. First of all, you have to have that one arm firmly.
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Implanted on the desk with the paper, then the other arm can move out. Well, it's been often used as a picture of the evangelist.
But I think it can apply to any service for the Lord. You need to be steadfast.
Established in the cruise that we have in other scriptures, we established in the present truth, steadfast, unmovable, and then.
Reaching out.
In activity of whatever nature it might be, in the gospel, in the ministry to the Saints, in activity abounding in the work of the Lord, it may take different forms. We each have a a place to fulfill in the body.
But the energy that is put forth abounding as the thought of energy, doesn't it? We?
Tend to be like the basically lazy but the Lord says.
Your work will be rewarded.
And labor on, not as a motive, but certainly it is an incentive that what we do for the Lord, however small it might appear, is going to be rewarded and acknowledged in that coming day, the judgment seat of Christ.
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The Vessel Marred in the Potter's Hand
Gospel—Shawn Allan
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Buddy, I would just like to welcome the gospel meeting this evening, please. You could come. And I'd like to start the meeting tonight by singing hymn #7, hymn #7.
Just ask for the Lord's help.
We read a verse.
Last night in the Gospel meeting. I just would like to refer to it again in Jeremiah chapter 18. Jeremiah chapter 18.
And the fourth verse.
Was murdered in the hand of the Potter.
So he made it again. Another vessel.
Has seemed good to the Potter to make it. Just read that one more time. The vessel that he made of clay was mired in the hand of the Potter.
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So he made it again. Another vessel seemed good to the Potter to make it.
Before I.
Go along with the subject that I had in my heart tonight. I'd like to start the gospel meeting this evening by giving just a very brief summary of the gospel message. The good news.
In this verse that we just read, we read of a vessel that was made and it was marred.
And, you know, over the last couple of months at my work, I've had the occasion to have to work very closely with people who are really feeling the effects of that mired vessel.
One man in particular, his name was Kevin Baldwin. He was happily married for 24 years. His wife suddenly got some flu like symptoms and they wouldn't go away and she went into the hospital.
And she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
She was a pitcher of perfect health before that. Two weeks later she went into a cardiac arrest in her liver and her kidneys shut down and she came within a breath of dying. They rallied to back to life and another week later and she was gone.
Needless to say, Kevin was devastated.
I have another person I work very closely with. His name is Michael.
And Michael's wife has multiple sclerosis.
And it's been degenerating quickly.
And she's been miserable for many, many years.
They have no children and she felt that maybe the answer to her misery was to have a child. So they went through unusual means to obtain a child, had a little baby.
Michael was the father, she was not.
But it didn't answer her problems and their marriage continued to spiral out of control and now it's ended up in divorce.
Just before this meeting started.
I saw some tears shed.
You know, every day.
We see evidence around us of the marrying of that vessel.
Adam and Eve sinned in the garden, and sin entered into this world, and death by sin, and so death.
Passed upon all men, for that all of sin.
And justice, before we started this gospel meeting tonight, someone prayed and I was struck by it that the time is short. You were here in this gospel meeting this evening.
I'm not sure for how long.
We do not know time we have left, but you are a vessel that is marred. And the story of the gospel is that the Lord God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Two choices.
To perish or to have everlasting life. And the gospel is so beautiful because it's the story of the love of God in sending the object of his love, the Lord Jesus Christ.
To come down and provide the remedy and the answer.
For these merged vessels.
And you know you have a choice tonight. You can accept the Lord. Irish. That is the gospel message. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleans us from all sin.
You know the answer to the problems of this world. The Kevin's hurt.
And to Michael's pain and divorce.
And through the horrific things going on in Syria and elsewhere in the world.
It's not humanitarian aid and it is not military force.
The answer is found in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Sin.
Is the thing that it has brought in so much pain and suffering over the centuries of this world.
So the subject I have on my heart tonight, with apologies to Derek and B who've heard a little bit of this before, is the subject of passing by.
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And we had a verse in the Breaking of Bread this morning. I'd like to reference it.
One book over from Jeremiah in Lamentations chapter one.
In the 12Th verse.
Is it nothing to you?
I'll either pass by.
Behold and see.
If there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
I'd like to turn over and read a verse in the Gospel of Mark and the 15th chapter.
And the 27th verse.
And with him they crucify 2 Thieves, the one on his right hand and the other on his left.
And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith and he was numbered with the transgressors.
And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroys the temple, and billisted in three days, save thyself and come down from the cross.
Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves. With the scribes he saved, others, himself he cannot save.
Subject that I have in my heart for the gospel tonight is not so much the fact of those that pass by, although we will speak on that tonight.
But the subject of the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ does not pass by.
And I trust that when we leave here tonight, our hearts will be filled up with a sense of that.
You know, I spend fairly often a lot of time in airports.
And airports are great places for observing people passing by.
You can be one person amongst thousands and there's just a stream of people endlessly walking by.
Everyone of those thousands of people is a broken vessel, as it were, a murdered vessel with pain and suffering in their life.
And yet the thousands.
Pass on never really thinking about their fellow man and what may be happening in their lives. I do not say that to be critical.
How many here tonight in this room have felt alone during this conference? As you watch people pass by, it's a feeling that we all can relate to.
And yet I want to bring before you the thought tonight that the Lord Jesus.
Wonderful Thought knows that feeling more than anyone here tonight.
We're not going to talk about the Lord's high priestly work.
But what an amazing thing to think of our great sympathizer. And there he hung on the cross of Calvary.
And the people walked by, and there the blood ran from his hands and his feet.
And there he was, alone, and his disciples, for the most part, had fled.
And he was all alone there on that cross.
And people just pass by an indifference.
We read here in the verse that we just read that some of them laughed.
And what did they say? They said Father Thou that destroys the temple and billisted in three days. They didn't believe what he had said, nor did they understand. And maybe tonight you're a person who doesn't feel understood.
Maybe you don't feel like your belief.
The Lord Jesus, as he hung on the cross, knew those feelings.
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They mocked them as they passed by.
And we hear the voice and lamentations. Is that nothing to you? All ye that pass by, behold, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow.
We're with the Lord have afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
And we know that they're on that cross.
The Lord Jesus endured 3 terrible hours.
When he became sin for us.
He who knew no sin that we could be made the righteousness of God in him.
What was it like for a person who was holy and without sin to become sin for us?
And so I want to get to the subject, the real thing that I had in my heart tonight. So our time is short instances.
Where the Lord Jesus did not pass by in the first instance. He's right here in our chapter where we're told that there was two malefactors crucified with them.
You know, it's hard to express how touching this is.
Will Hale pointed out to me in a breaking of bread a few months ago, and I never thought of it this way before, but I was struck by it.
The Lord Jesus does not pass by.
And he had preordained, he knew, that there was going to be malefactor on Calvary's Hill that day who needed him.
The very time of the crucifixion.
The Lord Jesus knew there would be a malefactor on that cross.
He knew that he needed to be saved.
And he allowed that he would be hung between two of them there, and those two represent the two camps tonight.
The one who witnesses the Lord Jesus in indifference and rejects them.
And the other who witnesses the Lord Jesus in his suffering and says, Father, remember, sorry Lord, Remember Me when thou comest into thy Kingdom.
The Lord Jesus knew he would be there.
The Lord Jesus was there to provide redemption for that malefactor.
And He was there to provide redemption for you.
So the next instance I I'd like to reference is a story we well know in the Gospel of Luke chapter 10.
Story of the Good Samaritan.
And the 30th verse.
Jesus, answering, said a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment and wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead.
By chance there came down a certain priest that way, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side, And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him and passed by on the other side.
But a certain Samaritan.
As he journeyed, came where he was.
And when he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, set him on his own beast, and brought him to an end, and took care of him.
And on the Morrow when he departed, he took out 2 Pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him, and whatsoever thou spendest, more when I come again.
I will repay thee.
Here in this story, we have a man who is traveling from Jerusalem down to Jericho, the city of the curse.
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And as he travels, he encounters robbers.
Who heard him and leave him half dead?
And two people pass by.
They didn't care, it says. In both instances, they came straight over to where he was. In one case, they looked at him.
And when they had a look, they just passed by on the other side.
You know, I think we've all been guilty of that.
You know, there's a story that I read recently and many of you will know this story about a man called Louis Zamperini.
Book is called Unbroken. The book should be called Broken.
And Louis was a troubled boy who grew up in a in a He's a troubled youth. He got in trouble all the time, but he was a tremendous runner.
And he eventually was able to run in the Olympics and did very well there.
But unfortunately, World War Two hit.
And he enlisted in the Army.
As a as a fighter pilot flying a plane.
And you know, there's a story in that in that novel, it's a true story about Louis. His plane has been shot down over the Pacific Ocean and he's in a life raft with two other people in a shark infested waters.
They spend actually 45 days in the Pacific Ocean, nearing day by day the point of death.
It's an incredible story.
But part way through, they're there in that life raft, and along comes a plane. And they thought, surely this is our answer. An allied plane has come and we're going to be saved. And the plane went by them and it turned around and came in low. They set off flares to get the attention of the plane.
And all bullets began to spew out of that plane. It was a Japanese plane and they saw that life raft and the 2-3 suffering men in it, and they opened fire on the raft.
Louie jumped into the water. They all got in the water at that point despite the sharks.
And the plane took off and they came back into a bullet bullet riddled life raft.
Turned around and came back again, shot at them again and tore up the life raft. Only one of them had the strength to get in the water that time. It was Louie.
He eventually got back in the in the raft and was able to patch up the holes. But you know, Louis went on. I can't tell the whole story here today to spend time in a prisoner of war camp in Japan. And he was tortured in ways that you can't even dream of.
And Louie, eventually.
Got finished The war is incredible story of survival.
But he was a broken man.
A broken man, just like this man in the story of the Good Samaritan.
He had post traumatic stress disorder. He turned to drink even though he married a woman who was beautiful.
And they tried to make it work, and it got worse and worse and more and more to alcohol. And I don't know, perhaps there's someone here tonight who struggles with alcohol. Louis did, and he nearly destroyed his life.
But his wife was at the time of the Billy Graham crusades.
Went to a Billy Graham gospel meeting and got saved.
And she begged and pleaded with him to come and he wouldn't.
Years earlier in the Pacific Ocean, Louis had made a pact with God and he had said, Lord, if I get out of this arrival, give my life to you. And he forgot all about it.
Well, one night in desperation, he ended up going to a Billy Graham crusade. He heard the gospel meeting and never really registered with him. As he was leaving, the Lord sent into his mind that promise that he had made.
And Louie Zamperini was a broken man.
Who accepted the Lord Jesus Christ and his Savior. He never ever craved a drop of alcohol, and He transformed.
Who found them?
The Lord Jesus found him. He came to where Louis was.
This light and this priest passed by, but this Good Samaritan who was despised and a Jew would never expect a Samaritan to pay any attention, came where he was. And I love that expression. That's why I find it hard to read sometimes, because the Lord Jesus meets you where you are.
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Someone I know?
Living in circumstances that I would have assumed would never have led them to Christ.
And you would have never assumed that they would have been led to Christ.
But in the past couple of months, the Lord Jesus came right to where that person was.
And they became a new creation.
Total miracle. And it says here that the Lord, that the Good Samaritan had compassion. Do you know that the Lord Jesus has compassion for you tonight? He loves you. He cares about your wounds. He cares about the fact you're a broken, marred vessel and he come, He wants to come to where you are to make you whole.
Well, I just want to turn to the next instance in Luke chapter 18.
Thank you.
Another scene near Jericho 35th verse, Luke 18 and verse 35.
And it came to pass that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the side wayside, begging, and hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant. And they told him that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by. And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace. But he cried so much the more.
Thou son of David.
Have mercy on me.
And Jesus stood and commanded him to be brought unto him. And when he was come near, he asked him, saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.
And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight, My faith hath saved thee.
Here's another instance of passing by.
And here are these multitudes.
Walking along in total indifference, undoubtedly to the poor.
And there was this blind man who was begging.
I wonder sometimes.
How much we see that state of things around us. You know, I know for myself that one of the great traps of becoming complacent in Christianity is to stop seeing.
Those needs all around us, those broken, marred vessels.
And there was.
This blind beggar.
And he was there begging.
But he had heard that Jesus was passing by.
And he cried out for mercy.
Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. And you know the Lord Jesus was walking along that road and I just think it's so beautiful to see.
He comes along and he stops. He does not pass by, he stops.
And he commands this blind beggar to be brought to him. And what does he do? He gives him sight.
But more than that, it says thy faith hath saved thee. I have no doubt we will see.
This man in heaven one day.
You know, there's a verse in Revelation that I'd like to turn to tonight.
In the third chapter.
Verse 17.
Because thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing.
And knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind.
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And naked.
Is there someone here tonight who has not accepted the Lord Jesus as your Savior? That is a description of you.
You're naked.
You're poor.
And you're blind.
But the Lord Jesus came to give you sight.
He came to give you riches, to make you inherit.
All the inheritance of the riches of His grace in heaven.
And he came to put a robe of righteousness on you.
If you do not accept Him as your Lord and Savior, there will come a day we talked of it at this conference.
The Great White Throne when you will stand before him naked.
And blind and poor.
And you will be cast into.
A lost eternity.
Did that happen to this man? No.
He cried out, and the Lord Jesus answered that cry.
If we just go over to the next chapter, chapter 19.
It says Jesus entered the first verse and passed through Jericho, and behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.
And he sought to see Jesus, who he was, and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. And he ran before, and climbed up into a Sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must abide at thy house. And he made haste and came down, and received him joyfully.
Verse 9 Jesus said unto him, This day his salvation come to this house, for as much as He also is a son of Abraham, for the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.
We often read this story of Zacchaeus and we think of Zacchaeus as this annoying man who no one liked and was friendless.
And that indeed may be true. But you know, this is what I like to think a little bit of. Zacchaeus, he was insecure. He was a little man. Anybody here tonight insecure? Maybe because you're short? Clearly, I don't have that problem.
Little insecure sometimes about my nose.
But just being silly. But you know, Zacchaeus was a short man.
And you know another thing I think about Zacchaeus.
No one ever wanted to come to his house.
He was a tax collector who ripped people off and no one ever wanted to come to his house. And so he was.
A undoubtedly very lonely man.
Insecure and lonely.
And undoubtedly very unhappy man. No one wanted to be friends with this man.
But this day hears about this man Jesus, and he goes up into the tree to look for him.
But he didn't know that the Lord Jesus was looking for him.
And the Lord Jesus stops at the base of that tree and calls him by name and says, Zacchaeus, come down for today. I must abide at your house. Did you ever think about what kind of reaction that that what that must have made Zacchaeus feel like probably nobody ever wanted to be at his house before.
And here, the very man who he'd heard so much about, who healed people and brought so much good about, wanted to be at his house.
Do you ever think about the grace there? And I'm sure Zacchaeus was totally overwhelmed by that and the fact that he was known by name.
And so the Lord Jesus goes to his house.
And there's a happy occasion there. And we know the faith was brought into that household because Zacchaeus was transformed. We why do we know that? Because there was a change. He offered to give back all the money or a great deal of the money that he had stolen. We didn't read the verse, but he said, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
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You know, I spoke earlier about someone. We just spent time in their house earlier this week.
Who is a changed person?
And you know the evidence.
It's just unbelievable where there was hostility to the gospel a year ago.
Where a brick wall went up every time the name of Jesus was mentioned. Now there's a hunger to talk about him.
Now there is a thirst to read the word of God. There is a glow on the face.
Everybody around that person sees the change, they are transformed, they're totally changed and it is just thrilling to see and you know, tonight.
The Lord Jesus if you're not, if you haven't accepted Him as your Lord and Savior, He wants.
To transform you to take going back to Jeremiah chapter 18, that murdered piece of clay and make it good.
How wonderful that is. Joy came to the House of Zacchaeus and this person, this lady, we know very well. Joy has come to her house.
She's a single mother. She is a lot of difficulties in her life.
But joy has come to the house.
And joy can come to your house and to your heart tonight.
Our time is almost gone.
Everybody here in this room could perhaps tell the story. Many of you at least.
How Jesus came to you. And you know, in my story, it's not a very exciting one, but still, I'm going to tell you it tonight.
Years ago, when I was eight years old.
Fred Cormier was my Sunday school teacher.
And I might have been saved earlier, but what I do know is that for a period of time I wrestled with doubts as to my salvation.
And I asked Fred one day in Sunday school class in the basement of 32 Kirk Ave. Fred, how can I know that I'm saved? He said to me.
If thou shalt confess with thy mouth, Jesus is Lord, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. And that night I went home and prayed, and I said, Lord.
I do believe.
That you were raised from the dead.
An assurance came into my soul, and from that day forward I never doubted.
What's your story tonight?
You know, you may not remember a moment in time that you accepted the Lord Jesus as your Savior, and I want to encourage you in that because.
This person who's my sister-in-law who just recently got saved.
We don't know when it happened. We know the Spirit of God worked, and we know there's a transformation.
You may not know the moment, but if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation and you will know that the Lord Jesus Christ is your Savior.
One other little story.
I had a little girl come to me this past year.
And told me.
That they had asked Jesus to come into their heart.
And the comment was made I feel way better.
Joy came into my heart.
But much more.
There was rejoicing in heaven.
To go back to the start of the meeting.
Forget this.
The Lord Jesus.
Will not pass you by if you are searching for him. He wants to come.
To where you are.
He came right to where the dying malefactor was on Calvary's Hill.
He came to where Zacchaeus was, he came to that broken man on the road to Jericho. He came to the beggar and he can come to you.
The Lord Jesus died on the cross and shed his blood to be your substitute.
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Will you accept Him as your Lord and Savior tonight? Let's just pray.
Lord Jesus.
For how we love the gospel.
Oh, how wonderful it is to say God is love.
We just pray that if there's someone here tonight who is seeking.
That they may know that you will not pass them by.
We just ask this and give thanks for this happy time at the conference in Jesus name, Amen.
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With mercy or exceed, all we can do or say is in Thy people. Thou indeed is feeling more displayed but for our happiness. Oh God on us while here below, by virtue of Christ, death and blood, thy riches, blessings flow. 288.
All those.
Mercies.
Are really.
Can you know what I'm saying? You have seen by being before thou rain.
Saying a prayer.
Preserve thy flock most graciously within thy sheltering fool.
Move them from every harm away, and in thy safeguard hope.
Now who is it that preserves the flock?
It's the shepherd.
And so this afternoon, for a little time, I'd like to turn to John Chapter 10.
This is what was on my heart. John chapter 10 concerning the Shepherd.
And the sheep somebody is referred to this book as a sheep book.
There are hundreds of references.
In the Bible to sheep.
And last night you learned how that we are like sheep. That's a humbling thought.
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Because a sheep does things.
Dumb things.
And we have to admit that we are like that all we like. Sheep have gone astray. We have turned.
Everyone to his own way. Now that's emphatic. We have a little 3 letter word.
All.
And we also have a bigger word that means all, everyone.
There's no exceptions.
We have all.
See Wandered away from God.
And we need to admit that.
It was, I believe I'm July 4th there was a celebration in the Seaport Eastport. It's the most easterly location.
In the United States East port.
And it was quite a celebration there, a lot of people, thousands of people.
Well, there is opportunity if you pass out a few tracks.
And I happen to have.
Attract.
I'd like to give this track away.
There was a man and his wife, and the man had a.
Blue hat. And on the hat it said the captain is always right.
And this is the track that I had in my hands.
White Star Line boarding pass, Titanic.
I handed him the tracks and I said.
There are exceptions.
And he was ready to agree.
And his wife as well. But when it comes to all have sinned, all have gone astray. There are no exceptions.
But the wonderful thing about this is.
God.
Loves the Sinner even though he hates.
Is sick.
And so this morning, he sang a beautiful hymn.
How that?
Lord, Thy love has sought and found us wandering in this desert wide.
Thou has thrown thine arms around us for us, has suffered blood and died, and so we find that the shepherd seeks the sheep.
And how wonderful it is to be found. Now it's true that a sheep.
Who is lost will never find its way back.
So what can the sheep do?
Well, I thought of it this way.
A sheep.
Could.
Acknowledge that it is lost.
I believe that's what you and I we can do.
And even though we cannot find our way back on our own.
Thank God we have somebody that's seeking us.
But a sheep that is lost and in difficulty can.
Bleed.
Indicating a need for help.
Have you ever come to that point?
Where you have acknowledged before God your helplessness.
I believe that's what God desires.
Over and over in the word of God it says, Whosoever shall fall upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Those are beautiful words.
And they are true words.
Every word of God is pure.
You know this book has.
Over.
Three quarter million.
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Works in this blessed book.
There's a lot of words.
But we learned in the Psalms that every word of God is pure. Tried seven times. And so when God says.
We need help.
The best thing we can do is to acknowledge it.
It's humbling.
But I believe God teach problems and pride is what keeps men.
To God, the big letter in the word pride is the middle letter I.
Man is so self-centered.
This focus is on himself.
We need to look outside of ourselves and focus on the Lord.
And God, that's what God's desire is.
And so as I look around this company today of salvation.
This was a verse that we used this summer with the boys and girls.
And it was encouraging to find those that said.
They had asked the Lord to save them. They felt their need and.
They had called upon the Lord. Maybe you feel their need right here now as you sit in your seat.
You can simply say, Lord, be merciful unto me, the Sinner.
You'll forgive your sins, You'll save your soul. He'll cleanse your heart. He'll make you whole.
Here and now you can leave this room a different way, rejoicing.
The other day.
I saw a little plaque. It was in a Walmart.
And there were 5 words on the plaque.
5 words.
Love is.
All you need.
I got to thinking about that. Is that all I need?
If that's all I need, I think I'll buy this plaque.
This is a good plaque. So I took it up to the cashier and I said to the cashier, what do you think about these works?
Is this all a person needs? Is love?
You know what he said.
It sounds good, but you need more than that.
I think he was looking at it from a human standpoint.
When you look at it from a divine standpoint there once, that's all you need.
We sang in this conference 166.
And we sing it many times. Beautiful hymn. Lord, what in thy love possess we not?
Our star by night, our sun by day.
Our spring of life when parched with drought.
Our strength, our shield are safe of both.
I wrote before the throne of God.
And we could add many more verses.
Because the.
The love of God, the love of the Savior, the love of the Shepherd has provided all that we need, and that's what came before me in connection with this chapter, John, chapter 10.
Love Is All we need now.
I know what that texture was thinking about. You know we.
Love our families and sometimes there's difficulties.
And we feel how powerless we are in ourselves to do anything about it.
We learned last night about a dear man. He lost his family where I understand it is the drowned. I'm sure he loved his family.
But that wasn't enough.
On his part to save them.
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But when it comes to divine love, we find that.
Power is combined with love.
And that's beautiful and so.
The Lord, he says I have loved you with an everlasting love.
Therefore, with loving kindness have I drawn you.
But in the next chapter, I believe it's Jeremiah 32.
The question.
Is is there anything too hard for me?
And he said there's nothing too hard for the Lord. He made the heavens, the earth, there's nothing too hard. So you see, we got love and power and we sang it into him. Our brother gave out today. These are beautiful hymns.
How good is the God we adore?
Our faithful, unchangeable friend whose love is as great.
As his pirate and knows neither measure nor end.
And I do believe.
That whatever is taking place in your life or mine.
It's an expression of the love of the Shepherd.
There's something to think about when the times are rough. We need to.
Remind ourselves that Jesus loves me.
How do I know this? There's five more words. The Bible tells me so.
Love Is All you need. The Bible tells me so.
I'd like to just turn here to Chapter 10, John, Just talk a little bit about the shepherd and about the sheep.
It says here in verse one, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
But he that entereth in by the door.
Is the shepherd of the sheep to him the quarter openness, And the sheep hear his voice, and he calleth his own sheet by name, and leadeth them out. And when he put it forth his own sheep he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his.
Voice and a stranger, will they not follow?
But will flee from him.
For they know not the voice of strangers.
I believe the Lord Jesus came into this world.
By the door, the door was opened onto him.
He was truly the Messiah.
And He fulfilled all those prophecies concerning Messiah or will fulfill them in the coming day. But there were those that claimed to be shepherds in Israel, and they were nothing but these.
And robbers.
And the Lord speaks of it in verse eight. He says, All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers.
But the sheep did not hear that.
And what does the thief do? Well, verse 10 it says the thief comes not but for to steal, to kill, and to destroy.
Think of it.
That see.
Profits by killing the sheep.
He furthers his own interests at the expense of the sheep.
But what do we find?
In verse 10, the Lord Jesus says I am come that they might have lot, and that they might have it abundant.
I don't think more is in the original translation.
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The Lord Jesus King.
That you and I, we might have life, and not just life, but that we might have it abundantly. You see the contrast between the thieves and the robbers and the true shepherd now.
It says to him, the quarter opens verse three. The sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name.
I believe when the Lord Jesus started his ministry here in this world, God saw to it that this.
World.
Would.
Come to know his thoughts about his son.
Because we know He came unto his own, His own received Him not.
He was rejected.
He wasn't appreciated.
But you know, we read at the baptism of John, the Lord Jesus went to be baptized, not because he had seized, but because he wanted to associate those that are doing the right thing.
It was a very gracious act on the part of the Lord Jesus to identify with those who were doing the right thing and acknowledging your guilt that the baptism of John. But then we know there came a dog.
And lit upon him, and a voice from heaven said, This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. We know whose voice that was, who was the voice of the Father.
Honoring his Son and I'm sure it was an encouragement to the Lord Jesus.
To hear his voice.
And to know that he was approved of God the Father, because that's why he was here in this world, He could say, my delight is to do the will of him who sent me.
And so he came in by the door.
And there were those.
That he called.
And they responded.
And he called by name.
Nathaniel Zacchaeus.
He calls by their names.
Because I believe the Lord Jesus is personally interested in you and me.
It's a wonderful thing. You know somebody maybe you are not that familiar with and then they call you by your name, you kind of light up and you say, well, how did they know me?
Somebody once said that the sweetest music to the human ear is one's name.
One's name, well, he calls the sheep by their names.
And it tells us here that the sheep here is voice.
The she here is voiced.
Verse four does she follow here? For they know his voice.
The voice of a stranger. They recognize it.
And you know, in today's world.
We've got, I believe, hundreds, thousands of strange voices, but there's only one voice that imparts life, and that's Jesus.
And I believe.
You and I.
Who are sheep of Christ have the capacity to discern His voice.
Amidst the myriad of strange voices out there, there's.
A true voice.
And it tells us here the sheep.
Hear his voice.
I understand.
That when?
A banker.
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Is dealing with money.
He or she is so familiar.
With a genuine bill.
That.
A counterfeit bill.
Can be detected.
It's because the fact one is so conversive with a true bill, one can.
No counterfeit.
And I believe that's very true in our own experience, you know, as we go on with the Lord and he talks with us and we talk with him and we get acquainted with Him, we get to know His voice and we can detect.
If there is that which is contrary.
Lord Jesus.
Because the voice, it doesn't have a true ring to it.
And we are to be.
Simple. Concerning evil, I don't think it's a healthy thing to be looking into all the various cults and the errors that are propagated in the world, but let's be focused on.
Christ and.
I believe that.
He can give us discernment as to what.
Is his voice, as opposed to that which is the voice of a stranger.
He says a stranger will they not follow but will flee from him. I read one time about.
A man that he approached the shepherd and said to the shepherd, he said, I understand that.
You call these sheep by their name and they'll come to you.
He says. I believe they'll come to me if I would.
Put on your shepherd's car, he said. You try it. So the shepherd.
He gave to this man what he was wearing.
Had a staff and so this man, now he looks like the shepherd.
And then he proceeded to call one of the sheep bites name.
Mina Minor.
Mina went in the opposite direction.
It wasn't the Shepherd's voice.
From all outward appearances it seemed like the shepherd, but it was, and Satan has his counterfeits today, and we need to be careful that we be not deceived.
And so it says here in verse.
Seth then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep, and verse nine, I am the door by me. If any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture.
Only one.
Way of salvation, and that is through the door, and the door is the Lord Jesus Christ.
And.
We enter in through the door, we get saved, and now we can go in and out and we find pastor. There's a freedom to move about and to enjoy the rich pasture that God has for us.
That wasn't so under the law. You know, the law was very confining.
And.
We find that the Israelites.
Where to remain?
In an area and they did not travel.
For the most part, very far they work to course associate with the Gentiles.
But you know, that's all changed now through the advent of Christianity.
And there is a freedom that God gives.
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To come and to go and to enjoy.
Green pasture.
A freedom.
No longer bound by the law, now we also find in this.
Portion that the sheep were kept in a full, which is a enclosure, the fold I believe, Speaking of Judaism.
And Judaism, of course, is connected with the law.
And the law was given to try to contain.
Man's.
Old nature, if I could put it that way.
But even though the law was holy, just and good.
There was number power in the law to reform the old nature.
And so.
God.
Has a plan.
And according to this plan he sends his son who is says here is the Good Shepherd, verse 11. He says I am the Good Shepherd.
The Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
And so at the cross.
The Good Shepherd gave his life. He laid it down.
And we read about that later in this chapter.
Notice what it says in verse 17.
Well, verse 15 as the Father knoweth me, Even so know I the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep, OK.
A Good Shepherd.
Thinks more about the sheep.
Than he does about himself.
David was a Good Shepherd. He was willing to risk his life to save the lands.
From the Lion and the Bear.
His life was spared.
The Lord Jesus is the Good Shepherd. He gave his life for the sheep. But if you go on and read in verse.
17 Therefore doth my father loved me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power.
To take it again this commandment that I received of my father, notice what he says here.
In verse.
17.
My father loves me because I lay down my life.
It doesn't save my life for the sheep. Why not?
I believe because what the Lord Jesus has in view here is not the sheep so much as his Father.
And he was submitted to his father. He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
So the Lord Jesus laid down his life for God the Father, but He laid down his life for you and for me. Now stop and think about this, what he was willing to suffer on your behalf and mine at the cross.
And when we read about the shepherd seeking the sheep in Luke 15, it tells us that the shepherd sought the sheep until he had found it. And you know that involved the Lord Jesus coming all the way from glory, the palace of his glory, down to this world and going to the cross of Calgary. That was all part of the search. And He gave His life at the cross. None of the ransom shall ever know.
How deep were the waters crossed, or how dark was the night that the Lord passed through when He found His sheep that was lost? We'll never know about that, but He found it, and it tells us there. Luke 15 puts it on his shoulders. He takes it home, and he's rejoicing.
The joy of the shepherd eclipses the joy of the sheep.
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I'm going to tell you there once we need to get ahold of this.
We got to be thinking about.
The Father's joy, the Shepherd's joy in finding the loss, it's that which gives joy to the heart of God.
We often think of things from our own perspective, but think about God and you know, it tells us in Nehemiah, the joy of the Lord is your strength.
Oh, to get a hold of this joy that God has been blessing the Sinner, saving his soul. Wonderful. And so he takes the sheep all the way home safely.
Now.
The attractive center verse 16 is the shepherd the Lord leads out of the fold, out of Judaism.
The Sheikh. Now there's no enclosure around the sheep. Why? Because the sheep are focused on the shepherd and it's the shepherd becomes the attractive object to keep the sheep from going astray.
Keeping them together.
And that's so beautiful you pass a call He could write. The love of Christ is what constrains us.
There once this afternoon, if we could focus more on the love of Christ told out at the cross where that precious Savior lay down his life.
And exhausted, the fury of a thrice holy God vented on his head.
Many waters could not quench them, neither could the flood.
It's the love of Christ that constrains us to live for Him. Though I forget Him and wander away, still He loves me wherever I straight.
Back to his dear loving arms, do I flee?
When I remember.
That Jesus loves me. We need more debt love of Christ now.
Just in closing 27, my sheep hear my voice.
I know them, and they follow me. I give unto them eternal life. Two things about the sheep, two things about the shepherd.
The sheep hear his voice, and the sheep follow him.
And notice he says, my sheep. Oh, how wonderful to be a sheep of Christ.
Psalm 23.
Psalmist could say David could say my shepherd.
Here the Lord Jesus says my sheep.
How wonderful.
That we belong to him and he belongs to us.
I am my beloved's in. My beloved is mine well.
What about the shepherd? Shepherd here says, I know them, and I give unto them eternal life.
Shepherd knows all about you.
How many hairs are in your head? What your thoughts are, What your problems are?
Your sickness, your infirmity.
The Good Shepherd he knows, he suffered at the cross for you, for me.
His precious blood has cleansed us from our sin and you can be sure He's an all the way home Savior or Shepherd and you can trust him. And there's another hymn that goes like this. The very hand our sins.
Have pierced has now become our guard and our guide. That's beautiful.
What is it that the sheep?
Wants from the Shepherd.
Well, he wants food, he wants water, he wants protection, he wants guidance.
And I believe the Good Shepherd supplies all he does.
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A little girl once misquoted Psalm 23 verse one.
We know what it says.
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.
And she said it this way.
The Lord is my shepherd. That's all I want.
She didn't get it quite right, but the thought is beautiful.
And it tells us here he gives.
What eternal life? If you could lose it, it wouldn't be eternal.
They shall never perish, neither shall any. You can leave out the word man. There's no power able to plot or to seize the sheep out of his hand.
And then we find, he says, my father.
Which gave them me. Now you and I are a love gift of the Father to His Son and the Father.
Is as interested in your preservation as the sun is.
And it says here.
No, you can leave out the word man because it refers also to Satan.
There's no power. No one is able to pluck them out of my father's hand. Now this is a promise that the shepherd has made. And if somebody is going to say.
That a sheep of Christ.
Can.
Perish.
It's an insult to the shepherd.
Because this basically is saying.
That the Lord Jesus does not keep his promise.
It's a thought that's repulsive. It really is. The Lord says here, they shall never perish.
Neither shall any pluck them out of my hand. Well, this is security and this ought to cause our hearts to rejoice. The Lord Jesus could say, I and my Father are one.
They're on the same page, if I could put it that way, speaking reverently.
Desiring your blessing and mine and your preservation.
And.
The father and the son, they have your best interests at heart.
24/7.
In one of these days, the sun.
Is it going to step out of heaven? And he himself will come with a shout, the voice of the Archangel, the trump of God, and we're going to be caught up to be with him. And what a day of rejoicing that will be. But in the meantime, you're on the shoulders of the shepherd, and he's an all the way home.
Sure, trust you.
I have a subject before me that I've been doing for some time and got connected this week with the the theme that came up in the 15th of the First Corinthians, so we might sort of step off there.
And look like I'm gonna share what I did enjoy and it has to do with there is a generation.
Problems there, but we'll go there shortly and let's see what time we have.
In First Corinthians chapter 15, you know what we've had the last few days about the resurrection.
And I've enjoyed this thought has been coming to me that.
What Paul was saying, one of the things that Paul was trying to get across in the 15th chapter was this. And it got touched on a few times and I think hopefully maybe this afternoon we might get touched on even more in this way. And that is.
We won't turn to but we know about Joe remember, Job said. I know my Redeemer. Live it, and he will stand one day upon the earth.
So Joel knew about resurrection.
And the key phrase is on the earth. And the Lord said to marry at that time. Your brother shall rise again. Mary's response was, yes, I know he will rise in the last day. You were wrong. So those that Paul was writing to Aaron Horne had the same belief. They came in the same system, many of them. And so those who believe in resurrection believed in resurrection.
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At the last day. But this wasn't the point he's trying to get across. First of all, he dealt with those who questioned the resurrection period and said if Christ be not raised and grow in our sins, there's there's, there's nothing. There's no resurrection, there's nothing. So for you who don't believe in resurrection, examine yourselves, see whether you be in the faith because there's no resurrection, there's nothing. And all that we had last day coming down to the eternal state, all that was nothing. It's empty, it's gone.
Resurrection. But I believe in that chapter, what he's getting to it, getting to bring you forward, is this and that is.
Yes, there is a resurrection and yes, we are going to be bodily with the Lord Jesus in that day in that place.
But he's bringing before them that you are risen now, the resurrection, something you already have. You have a risen soul in an unwritten body.
And you're found in a world that's at enmity with Christ. And so you suffer. And the more we realize that we are, we are already because Christ wasn't wasn't at the end of the age that he rose. The testimony was 500 people plus more than we saw him. He's alive now. He's risen now. And so even though we're not bodily risen now, you're not either. But in your spirit you are on heavenly grounds because their resurrection is tied with the earth on the earth.
Now.
With Christ having gone into death and rose, resurrection is now, it's a spiritual, it's a heavenly thing. So he says already you're there, and now the character that you showed to this world has to be that of someone who's resurrected, whose life is not tied to this world, but to another.
And so we could go back to Corinthians and find out all the things that the Corinthians were guilty of because they were operating, as it says in the in the verses coming up during our 15th chapter, in the flesh and blood. And he sank in. Flesh and blood cannot inherit them.
Put that in his place of death. So it's it's the resurrected person. So this is the point he's getting on, I believe. And how to live, how to live.
In the rest of your time, as those who are already resurrected already have that risen life of Christ, how do we be able to behave the same as before? No. And so let's just point out one thing. Here's one example in Corinthians before we go to.
The end of Proverbs move back to the 6th chapter for example, and we could put name any other chapter called.
Problems the lower. But in the 6th chapter you know what was happening there. It says there any of you having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, not before the Saints. Do you not know that the Saints shall judge the world, that the world shall be judged by you? Are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life? If then you have judgment stuff of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church, because don't call the elders and those who got on. Those who are new could deal with the temporal things. I speak to your shame. Is this so that there is not a wise man among you? No, not the one that shall be able to judge between his brethren, but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
Now, therefore, there is a there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law along with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? Nay, ye do wrong and defraud, and that your brother.
There's a principle there, unless we all will see.
Do you ever notice the Apostle Paul in this address here speaks to those who were the offended first?
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Who caused this problem? It's the offender, the one who stole.
One who caused his brother and loved him for the long so he stole my knocks for my goat or something.
But when Paul speaks here, he's not speaking to them who are the offended or the offenders, Not the guilty party. He's speaking to those who have been offended against.
As he says, why do you rather take? Why do you not really take long? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
And there's a principle he deals with those first. But why the others are very guilty.
Strike things come into the assembly.
The one responsible is the one that causes it.
But who's responsible for mending them?
It's the one who was offended against.
Because that's resurrection life.
That's living beyond this world and the principles prove because.
Have you and I our Lord Jesus Christ?
It was us, it was man who offended God, it was man who was sinned against God, it was man, it was you and I that needed to be reconciled to God. For what does God say in the second book? That he was in Christ Jesus, that Christ as a praise? Second Timothy 5 God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself.
The offended one had to be. Why? Because the one who causes the offense is already morally bankrupt. The avenue, the have not the ability they have not the the morality. They don't have the strength to to to to bridge this gap. They cause a problem. Ye who are spiritual, restore such a one.
And so it was Love who had to initiate bringing us back.
He was the one.
And so there's the principle.
And so he now says to us, be reconciled to God. But the work was his. And so in any situation he addresses first those who have been wronged, those have been wrong, because if the problem is going to go anywhere, it's going to be dropped further by those who have been wrong.
And they have the ability to Kermit.
By why not suffer yourselves to be deployed?
Why are you standing up for your rights? Why you're bringing your brother to court to get that slave out?
These are temporal things. You know you're going to judge angels and justice world, you're above that. We're resurrected. We belong to a different sphere altogether, even though we're still here. That's what he's saying to him.
And they need that approach and we need that same approach in our assemblies, in our home, everywhere that we would.
Take the High Road as an order and this is the thought here now he doesn't. Secondly, you'll you'll mention those, I believe who caused the offense. They're not free as it were. Next verse 9 and 10 refers to them, I believe nay says you do wrong Verse 8 and defraud your brethren know ye not with the unrighteous shall not.
And there at the Kingdom of God be not the seed in her fornicators. Chapter 5.
Idolaters. Let's move further around Chapter 8. More adulterers. Feminine abuses themselves in mankind. Thieves either somewhere thieves. They defraud it, right?
And covetous drunkards, revilers and extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God. What a message to those who actually have stolen them from their brethren. Something irrelevant, he says. Don't you know that these people that do these things cannot near the Kingdom of God? He's now touching on them. Are you stealing from your brother? Are you really against your brother? Have you had these bad thoughts against your sister?
Kingdom of God is not made-up of that.
You, that was the flesh and the blood.
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You are not flesh and blood cannot inherit Kingdom of God. It's a spiritual realm and so I knew how risen you are risen.
See ourselves as risen that we walk as we're on a higher Rd.
Nor thieves nor coverage of solo And then I believe in verse 11, I think he covered both groups, the offender and the offenders and such he says, were some of you.
But where are they now?
But dear Walsh, we are sanctifying, we are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. What a contrast they were, those things. It's what they were. But now on new ground, Christ is raised and we're raised in him. This is the ground we have. We're for was sanctified and justified. So live.
That way, that's the point I believe is making interest in that chapter. Now I'm going to go back to Proverbs.
30 and it's it's a big topic in itself. I won't do justice with it, but let's just.
See how much I could pull up?
In Proverbs chapter 30, we have a man.
His name is Edgar, first words and the son of Jacob, and he's speaking to two people.
And Yuko, who I imagine might be his sons or his grandsons, or maybe Mike, he's going to be a grandson and a granddaughter.
I don't know those things, but he's speaking to the younger ones. We can't say all that he says, but I want to go say this, but he said to them all right.
Verse 7, Two things, he says. Two things have I required of you.
Deny them not before I die. So I picture them as a holy man. Two things that require says. You know what I mean? I mean not then one removed from, removed far from me vanity and lies.
Not becoming vanity and lives. And then he says feed me with food convenient, give me neither publishing our riches or give me convenient protein.
And that's what our desire ought to be.
Be there this weekend to get a convenient food and to have truth walk before us. And this is what this man.
Desired of these young men and he brings before them now a situation since there is a generation that you're going to face and I think over this I think.
I think we are in that generation. I think it's this generation in a little time. Anyway, let's look at it and the first one is verse 11. There is a generation that curses their father and does not bless their mother.
Did you get a nod for this generation you live in?
I believe then it gives illustrations. I believe the first leach in verse 15 illustrates this generation. Jump down verse 15. The horse Leech has two daughters trying give you. Apparently horse Leech is a large Leech that just leeches on the horses and things and it is insatiable. It never gets full. It's continuously peace and insatiable. Bleach give give.
They links that there are three things that are never satisfied. A4 does not does not say it is enough.
The grave never full, the barren womb that never gives birth, the earth that is not filled with water and the fire never says I'm full, I have enough. Never.
And so, he says, the horse leaves us like that.
And he says this generation is like that, this generation that curses their father and mothers up. Lester curses their father and does not bless their mothers like that. It's a generation. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, never satisfied. So I was Italian. In verse 17, the eye says that mocks his father and despised us to obey his mother. Raving the sad. Isn't it serious?
How do you treat your mother and your father? You certainly simply see them as a, as a, you know, a fountain of funds. Is there a following after them? The eye is that way too many places the eye is not satisfied with seeing. You know, the ear we're hearing isn't that this day we live in.
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No satisfaction we live in this generation, I believe now and so it tells us. Ask us how am I faring as someone who's risen having Christ life behavior. How do I treat my parents am IA horse *****.
Let's jump on next one, verse 12. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes and yet is not lost.
From their filthiness.
Is a generation that are pure in their own eyes. It is not washed in their filthiness as you think about people you know in this world.
Don't you think we're in that generation too?
All around but they they seem fine in their own eyes.
You have this way of life and yet they're not washed yet. They seem to go on carelessly about any activity that they involved in is fun, but whoever pleases you, go with it. Well, that generation is illustrated in the next set of three, verse 18.
There will be three things which are two wonderful for me.
Solomon says here he gave which for I know not.
The way of an eagle in the air, the way of the serpent upon Rome, the way of the ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a man. I will say this here at this point. This is proper order, I believe. In other words, Solomon is the gas as he watches the eagle, that everything herbirds soar, and that even flap its wings just close.
And over the mountains.
And he says.
A circuit and rock. This movements is ultimate movements here, this movement, there's no visible means of locomotion, and yet it just moves so swiftly and so beautifully across the rocks. You know, if I were to lose my arms and legs and you told me to get across the other side of this room, I think I'd be anything but graceful.
Trying to get there.
But there's a certain and some quite fast, and a ship on the sea.
You know, disappears in a site, now everything is gone. It can upload, it comes again, right graceful on these, these puzzles, on all these that this works, this proper order of things and then these concrete things. Give them think about something else. They can understand the way of the man with the maid.
How the strongest men sometimes are brought to their knees by pretty maid.
Oh man, think that their heads with him and over the next.
And you know, it's the movement, it's how how things move in the proper order. It's amazing. It's I think it's all positives there, but out of it because notice the the thing says.
That verse 13 or verse 412.
Generation that are pure neuralized, it is not washed from your filthiness. Out of this generation you have worse plenty, she said. Such is the way otherwise this graceful movement.
In wonderful order is used such as the way of an adult first woman she needed and wiped her mouth and say it. I have done no wickedness there was like using the things of the Lord in a in a self-serving way.
Using the natural wonderful things of the Lord and the self-serving way and waking the melting thing, I've done the evil.
It's a generation that.
You young people are growing up and this is what you face. The Lord has seen to them. He's put all of us together in the same generation, same same time period. It was a difficult one, but then there's more to be said. Let's just jump to lose our time. Let's just go to the next one, verse 13.
There is a generation, Oh well, off the other eyes and their eyelids are lifted up. Self exaltation is there and I believe the next set of three full streets. These Solomon said verse 21. There are three things he says in the earth.
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For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which you cannot bear.
Her servant when he reigns, and a fool when he is filled with me. An odious woman when she is married, and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Here we have things out of order.
You know, there's many servants. There's many.
Servants who have come to reign in this world, Well, Satan is one as a word that you certainly look at the rain that he's taking.
Has it been better because he took over? Is it better in Uganda when he be admitted over?
Are in Gaddafi to go over and it was too.
All those history is filled with those servants is a word that elevate themselves to the top. And you think the rule will be better that in almost all cases that I know, it's quite much worse. And so it is with the the next year, let's say full when it's filled with meat.
Only control control of fools by food. Others don't feed them first she didn't do the work and afterwards they feed them as you feed a person getting to work for these guys. Right because he's just produced for the moment.
And so controlling that way.
Holiest woman she's married will remain the same. Marriage will change that. It's the out of order things. God has an order and he places us all in the right place. I do believe and.
What it was here to mistress also.
I mean, if he goes to the race, she's often.
To work, she becomes the worst mistress of all, the one who was a servant. It's the out of order things. And so it's the self exaltation. There's two Brits verse 13. There was a generation a little off the other eyes and their eyes are lifted up and isn't in this generation wholesale.
First, the humility in this shoot, this generation, Where's the respect for the elders?
So they, even the youth feel that it's, you know, it's their right, it belongs to them. They should have it the best and everything. And they and their treatment of the elderly, for example, all kinds of cases of that. And it's, it's not a, not a pleasant thing.
This jump.
Verse 14 There is a generation whose teeth are as swords.
And their jaw teeth has knives.
To devour the poor from off the earth and the needy from among them.
Qualified in this generation whose teeth are our swords, Joketh his knives. Have you been following the world with world politics and.
Movements of ISIS and all that. You can see that you live in a generation that's just.
Just running.
Anyway.
This is generation we live in. I'll give you the end of the next 7/3.
Is out to live in that generation. In other words, it's the answer. Are people not strong? The Conys are a people who locals have no king. They go put by bands. That's those who would seek to live in this generation to be answered. That gather to meet in summer. That's what we're doing now. We gather our meat. This is our meat we're gathering right now.
Beating ourselves wonderful. The colonies make their homes in Iraq and this is where we are in the midst of this generation. We need to make our home in Iraq our Lord Jesus Christ of that rock and the solid ground we are on. The locusts of no king, no parent king. To go for five bands is a spirit, as it were. And you and I are like led by the Holy Spirit. And so in the midst of this, it's order amidst this order, order amidst disorder.
They can't tell, but we are living as fans. Then you have the spider takes all with her legs. She's in kings houses. The spider, the locust is the collective. The spider individual doesn't matter to the spider of it's living in the palace or in the hollow justice content. You change them around. They won't just contend and that's like you and I in this world where the Lord places us in the palace or in the Hubble. This could hold. Let's be content there because.
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The risen people and last we have this, we have no more generation. But then it says.
Verse 29, there are three things just go well before we are coming and going for our company, and it is this. Before I read it, I'm going to go back to the first part of chapter and read verse 4. This is about this person who's going to establish oil, who have to send it up into heaven or descended, who have gathered the wind in his fish, the wind bound the waters and the garment who has established all the ends of the year, What is his name?
And what is his Son's name? That thou canst tell? Every word of God is pure is the shield unto them that put their trusted in so.
Proper order out of order, order amidst disorder. And now here comes one. It will set the order. And so you have to lie in strongest among the beats. Lion tribe of Judah is coming. Turns away from nothing. A greyhound known for its speed. The old I come swiftly when he comes coming swiftly.
And he goat sure footed in the Sun Mountains when the Lord Thomas the mountains is very prominent. He's that sure footed woman. He comes and a king against her is no uprising. He's going to come back king and on a slide, king of kings and Lord of Lords and he's going to set everything straight.
Order will be installed. So we have the whole picture here, and that's where we have to be in their thought. That's risen people. This is our portion in the midst of a generation. This is the generation we live in, and this is how we live in that generation.
No matter if it is for the border, we're still in some colonies.
I've enjoyed that portion and it got connected there chapter so I apologize for me.
Our God in dark.
Y.P. Address 2