Address—C.H. Brown
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Addressed by Our Brother Chapter Brown in Glendale, CA, December the 27th, 1959.
Five to five F2, so I have plenty of time I won't have to hurt.
I will promise to use up all that time.
But I want to start where we left off yesterday in our reading meeting.
In the through of Luke.
They commented.
The middle on this verse.
Not too much.
Luke 12.
And verse 32.
You're not Little clock.
It is your father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
Luke 1232.
Fear not.
Little slop, what is your father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom?
I went away, those words. Fear not.
Little flock.
Some others have been singing out of a hymn book.
Let's call the Little Flock hymn books.
Some of us have had long, long years of enjoyment.
Singing from that little book.
The little flock.
We're living in days when.
We speak in terms of that which is great powerful.
We live in a day of exaggerated greatness.
The word super has come into use.
In the special way, during the past two years, everything must be super.
They're reaching out and beyond, feeling our bigness.
This isn't a new experience in the world.
It has transpired repeatedly through the history of the human race.
Because man, being what he is, doesn't learn his lesson.
He doesn't really learn what a poor people puny thing is.
And again and again, God has to pass him through humbling experiences.
Just a hasty look at the 11Th of Genesis.
We won't spend much time on it. We may turn to a number of scriptures.
If you don't have time to turn to them, all right, we'll turn to them for you and read them.
In the 11Th of Genesis.
After the flood, the people said one to another.
Go to third verse, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly and they had the breakfast stone and slime for mortar.
And they said Genesis 11 four go to let us build a city in a tower whose top may reach under heaven.
And let us make us a name, make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
So the Spirit that.
Abroad today is no different from the spirit it was abroad then when they built this wonderful pillar that was to reach the heavens. Man is the same. He hasn't learned his lesson.
Today we're not satisfied with anything if it doesn't excel everything that's been before.
That's the keynote of the age which we're living.
This car must go faster than any that was ever driven before, and this venture into space must be higher than anyone who's gone before.
So these things must all be bigger.
And better, it's that attempt to expand ourselves, to steal our greatness and our bigness.
Well, we find that that has been an old experience down through the through the years. Look at the Isaiah, the 14th chapter.
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This is a prophetic portion. I think that we referred to this.
A year ago on this occasion.
But it's so much to the point we can't refrain from reading it once again.
It's a picture of the.
Head of the revived Roman Empire. The political head.
Under whom all will be assessed in the end time of this world's history, that is, before our Lord returns.
And we find the Lord giving his indictment of that man here in the 14th of Isaiah.
The 13th verse thou has said in thine heart I will ascend into heaven.
Doesn't that sound familiar? Isn't that up to date?
I'll exalt my throne above the stars of God.
The stars are on the program to now you know.
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north.
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds.
The heights of the cloud. Those heights don't mean much now, do they?
Ascend above the heights of the clouds.
I will be like the Most High.
Yes, I'll be like the most part.
Now, Jehovah.
Having given the indictment.
Jehovah says.
Yet thou shall be brought down to hell, see all grave, yet thou shalt be brought down to see all to the sides of the pit.
Oh, brother, let us not be deceived.
The age in which we live is a but a replica.
Of the Spirit that we've seen in these scriptures, there's where we are now.
But when we come to the things of God, what a different picture it is.
Fear not, let's go flop.
You know our Lord didn't predicate.
Anything great and colossal when he gathered around himself.
A little company of disciples. They were a humble lot.
Most of them were taken from up around the region of Galilee, a simple, humble company.
And we do not get him pronouncing that this that he's going to introduce.
Consequent on his death and resurrection and ascension into heaven.
Is going to be some colossal affair that's going to envelope the earth.
He speaks rather in terms of its insignificance.
But when he does give, in the 13th chapter of Matthew, the seven parables of the Kingdom of Heaven in mystery.
He speaks of the fact that from the very start there would be very much associated with the testimony That would be false.
It will not be the real thing.
In fact, the sower that goes forth, the soul only has one.
Four of his work rewarded, 3/4 of it brings forth no fruit.
Then when we come to the one that goes forced to sow the good seed, we find the enemy immediately sowing tears.
Then we come to the parable of the of the mustard seed.
The least of seeds it's placed in ground.
And it becomes a great tree.
It becomes a great tree. It's the greatest of herbs, our Lord says. But that isn't the end of the story. The birds of the air come and lodge in it.
Now he's speaking in that likeness there, the mustard tree.
He's seeking as to what profession becomes. He's not talking about the reality that lies at the heart of it.
But he's talking about this great thing that we call the Christian concession or Christendom.
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It becomes a great tree, and the birds of the air come in lodge and the branches of it.
When I was down in San Antonio, TX the last time.
They told me what a plague the starlings were becoming, and the city authorities were debating cutting down all the trees in the City Park in the heart of the city because they've been taking possession of by these darlings came in there by the 10s of thousands every night.
Yes, the birds of the air came and lodged in the branches.
Can you say of any perversion of the truth of God?
That hasn't found a place under the banner of Christianity.
There's nothing too vile. There's nothing too far removed from the mind and heart of Christ.
To find lodging in the Christian confession here in this world.
You know, we're living in a country that is favored above many.
A country of liberty, of Bibles.
I understand that over 60% of the population of the United States are connected with some kind of religious, that is, Christian confessions, over 60% of them.
What does this mean?
Does it mean that the Church of God, that our our Lord here is pleased to anticipate as a little flock?
That has become a great thing. Has it grown out of all proportion and becoming great things?
No, not as to the reality.
We only have to test this thing out by approaching people as we meet them from time to time.
And we speak to them about Christ.
What kind of response do we get?
Coming out here on the train, I passed out tracks and two coaches gave them to everyone in the coach.
And to my disappointment, I didn't get a single intelligence warm response from anyone and either of those coaches and we were traveling together for a matter of 48 hours on that same train.
I couldn't find one warm hearted response.
In that great number of people.
And yet I found, as I engage some of them in conversation, that they were connected with various confessions of Christ.
Oh yes, it's the day of popularity for religious concessions.
And as I travel from coast to coast.
I find that wherever I go, there every evidence of a great, growing, thriving, thriving confession of a name of Christ in this country.
Amazing buildings are constructed growth on every hand. Great budget, yes, but all when one searches for the reality, the heart. That's true to Christ.
The one who can honestly say for me to live is Christ.
Or how the number dwindles, How sad it is.
The lover, I want to speak in terms this afternoon.
Of the heart of God, as he feels, as he looks down in this world and such as the heart he's looking for affection and loyalty to Christ.
I know how sad it would be for any of us to coast along through this world.
Bearing a name, a confession of Christ.
Yet the heart never have been touched by the Spirit of God.
Then we can take that a step further. How sad it is if you are a Christian. Let's say that you are that you've been born again.
Yet you've never been exercised. You've never got on your knees to seek the mind of God for your past through the wilderness scene at the present time.
Have you ever really personally waived this matter? Have you gone into the sanctuary, so to speak, and submitted yourselves to God's judgment in the matter? Have you thought the mind of Christ for your own Christian testimony during your sojourn here?
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In the first chapter of Isaiah, I think we might turn to it just for the moment.
It's only a brief word.
But it's so much to the point.
It's Isaiah 1.
And it's verse 9, Isaiah one, verse 9.
Except the Lord of Hosts had left us.
A very small remnant. We should have been a Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
Now the prophet Isaiah prophesying over 700 years before Christ.
Is the mouthpiece of God to that nation that have been privileged above all nations that had ever lived on this earth before.
And what have they done?
Was a marvelous deposit of truth that God had given them. He separated them from the other nations. He made them a peculiar people, a treasure for himself.
But all how completely they failed and toward dear Isaiah along with many other prophets.
Had to say here in this first chapter of his of his prophecy, except the Lord of Hosts had left us a very small remnant. We could have been a Sodom and Gomorrah.
That was the sovereign work of the spirit of God, to leave that very small remnants.
But he that had the mind of God, he that was guided of the Spirit of God.
He was saying it's a very small remnant, but all the false prophets, and there were many of them in Isaiah's days, the false prophets were constantly saying don't listen to Isaiah. You can't depend on what he said. Everything's going to be all right. So there was always an army of false prophets to assure them that everything would turn out all right in the end. But all the sovereign grace of God left a very small remnants.
Now we read in the 4th chapter of Zechariah. I believe it is. We'll turn to that for a moment.
And here's a word for our consciences.
I hope we'll all let it sink in this afternoon.
The first chapter of Zechariah.
And the tenth verse.
Who hath despised the day of small things?
Who has despised the day of small things?
Beloved, I believe that from God's viewpoint, from God's viewpoint, not man's viewpoint, but from God's viewpoint, we're living in a day of small things.
Reality is found in a small way.
As we go here and there in Christendom, thank God there is a very small remnant, and I'm using that term now as encompassing every heart that's loyal to Christ in the whole world. There is a remnant today.
That really know and love our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank God for every one of them. The Lord doesn't lose sight of any of them.
But the temptation all around today is to despise the day of small things.
That is, we feel that we can keep up with what's going on around us when we look around us and kissing them and see the mammoth structures and and the great numbers of millions.
Why? The Church today numbers its members, and in tremendous millions. For instance, take Catholicism broke the 500 million.
And Methodist Church, Over 8 million. The Baptists. About the same followers of Alexander Campbell? Three and a half million. The followers of Martin Luther? Millions. And so it will go right down the line. Great numbers.
But in the midst of it all, in the midst of it all, God sees one here and there, whose heart is loyal to Christ.
Now, if some of God's people have felt the burden of this and have been called by the Spirit of God to acknowledge the truth of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the two or three, let's be sure that we don't despise it.
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I'm too thankful that when the Lord Jesus said in Matthew 18 and 20, where two or three are gathered together under my name.
There am I in the midst of them. Beloved, aren't you glad that he said two or three? Aren't you glad he didn't say two or three hundred or two or 3000?
Or two or three million. No, he said. Where two or three are gathered together unto my name, there am I in the midst of them. Oh, that's worth everything, isn't it? Two or three gathered to his name.
Oh, what a wonderful thing it is. If we can value the name of Christ, how sad it is that men have allowed that name to become displaced. They yield into the temptation to lust after power and greatness. And so the name of Jesus has been relegated to a secondary place in many cases.
Why sometimes we find organizations that profess to be Christians.
Going up their constitution and the name of Christ isn't even mentioned.
That it all is and now in the present trend of apostasy.
I saw this just last week.
That the Unitarians and the Universalists.
Have gotten together, finally and after days of debate.
They finally came to the conclusion there was number necessity to mention the name of Jesus at all. They could just eliminate it, leave it out, and come together merely as children of God. Now I grant you that that's the that's extreme. I grant that, but that is the trend of all about us today.
To relegate the truth as to the person of Christ to the background and make much of the trappings of Christianity.
All you have to do is to pick up the magazines that represents the different religious bodies and see what tremendous emphasis is being put upon what they call the ecumenical movement. Well, ecumenical means the world movement to get together, the whole church all over the face of the earth, and they're willing to make all kinds of compromises to accompany this.
We are willing to cancel out this over here and we cancel out this over here. It's just like a game of checkers can't cancel out one here and run here, and finally we get closer and closer together. That is the aim of the great ecumenical movement. But all when it finally arrives at its destination. How much of Christ is there left in it? Or I'm afraid that he would feel a stranger in the midst of all that unbelief.
Lord brethren, the mind of Christ is not found in these great movements that are taking place today.
The mind of Christ is found among those that are willing to be nothing.
Willing to be unseen and unsung. Willing to follow a rejected Christ. Let me repeat what we were saying yesterday in our reading meetings, that there's no such thing in the word of God as a popular Christ for this world. Never was. It's true that on the day of Pentecost.
When a mighty spirit of God acted with fiery energy.
Let's Peter's sermon swept into the Kingdom of God, 3000 souls. Did Peter ever do it again? Never. No, that was never duplicated. No, Peter went on and he's humble ministry.
Suffering at the hands of this world and finally crowned his ministry with martyrdom. Yes, that's the way Peter ended up. If you had judged by that day of Pentecost, you would have said, well, see, look, this is just the beginning. 3000 slept into the Kingdom. The first day of the gospel is Christian. Was that an assurance that that was going to continue?
Far from it.
No, no. Think of the great Apostle Paul, God's greatest gift to the church in his whole history.
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Especially prepared and called instruments. How was it with the apostle Paul? Why one time he got a special heaven?
Nothing to do but to take refuge down in Egypt.
And Jeremiah and his faithful barrack went down there for a time.
And Jeremiah says in the 45th chapter.
Jeremiah 45, he says to Barrett.
The 40th captain, the fourth verse.
Thus shalt thou say unto him.
The Lord says that with all that the time built, will I breakdown.
That which I have planted while I pluck up even this whole land.
And seeketh all great things for thyself.
System not far, behold, I bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord. With thy life will I give unto thee, for a prey in all places, whether thou goest.
Weakest thou great things for thyself, seek them not.
You dear young folks here this afternoon.
You're living in this treacherous age.
Satan's bidding for you.
He's offering you big things.
And it's preached. It speaks to you from the moment you enter the Lord grades at school until you get through college.
This hammering of bigness and power and greatness, we're going to go places.
We're going to sail away into space. We're going to conquer the stars. Let spirit gets into you.
Hello dear young.
Maybe not. Heed the word of God this afternoon. Maybe not. Hear the word of God, The Spirit of God speaking to us speaketh thou great things for thyself. Teach them not no for thyself. Think of some great things for thyself.
They do not.
Wouldn't you like to live for Christ? Wouldn't you like to be able to say?
For me to live is Christ.
I travel about quite a bit among the meetings of the gathered Saints.
And I find young people.
They're in dead earnest to live for Christ. Yes, I do, brothers.
When I think of them, my heart is warm and I just praise God for them.
But I'm sorry to say that they're not all like that.
Oh, I watched some of them.
The real heavy hearts as I've seen them just drifty, just lifting bit by bit.
Not in the open sin. I don't mean that, but all the world's calling them the world, flattering them.
They're bestowing upon them more and more attention all the time, patting them on the back.
And they've listened. They've accepted the world flattery. And where are they today? Some of them.
The little meeting was too humble. It was too cramped.
Wasn't big enough. They couldn't expand. We don't see them anymore.
Others, perhaps they're still attending, but not not very faithfully. We don't see much of them.
Many responsibilities. They keep taking on more and more of the responsibilities that the world is glad to confer upon them.
And finally, they're almost as strangers in our midst. They're out of touch and out of tune.
With what the spirit of God is doing here and there among us, they're almost like visitors are these things are sad.
This is no time to be thinking great things.
It's a time for the heart to be set upon the facts that were just at the verge of the coming again of our Lord Jesus Christ. Brethren, I'm persuaded of it. How can it be otherwise?
I didn't have time to look at it because I didn't want to spoil morning meetings.
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When a brother handed me a copy.
Of that came out in the Los Angeles paper here, where Jesus Christ two has arrived and announced his arrival, and is being given the platform. Christ the second has arrived and announced his arrival and is being given the platform, being given the platform in those places that profess to be Christian gatherings.
All we are nearing the end. Indeed we are. Let's not be deceived by all the vain attempts that are made to reach the moon and reach Venus and Mars and then go on out. Don't be deceived by them.
You read that wonderful verse in the 18th Tom. I think it is the heaven and the heaven of heavens of the Lord. The earth has it given to the children of men.
God going to keep man right here on this earth. This is where God placed him in his brain, going to keep him.
Or I don't need to see?
You know, there's a time coming.
One man is going to be so wicked.
That when the Son of God rides forth on the clouds of heaven to take his Kingdom as he's going to do, assures God is true.
Man is going to be so mad, so under the power of Satan, that he's going to Marshall all his forces and he's going out deliberately against 6 battle to the returning son of God as he comes to take his Kingdom. Can you imagine such madness? It could only be under the awful, persuasive, deluding power of Satan. But that's where we are. That's fairwind, drifty and all that be wonderful.
If in the midst of it all we can find the past that pleases the Lord Jesus.
Other in such a path, I believe it was all my heart. There's a path in the midst of the ruins. The Lord knows the way of it.
We read that. I think it's in the book of Jones. There is such a path, and the Lord knows the way of it. And if you're in earnest, if you're exercise, if you want the mind of Christ, he'll show you that path, even in the days such as this in which we live.
But we're so deceived into thinking.
That we've got to do things in a big way. Well, let's think of Gideon. Let's think of him when he's going to go against Midian.
Is going to go against Miriam.
And is the question whether or not it has enough troops?
He had 32,000. Wasn't that enough?
Was the question Did he have enough?
No, the question was, did he have money?
God says now that too many If you go forth with your 32,000, win the victory. Why, you claim the credit and you'll be all elated. No, God didn't let him take his 32,000.
The artists, given that those that are faint hearted depart and I think it was 22,000 of them deserted and went back.
Now they sell 10,000 there. Is that enough? No, too many.
And The thing is shifted down and shifted down.
To 300, Yes, down to 300 and 700 victories won by the 300 Who gets the glory?
Or its God. Whereas if the third in 2000 has gotten the victory, they'd have pruned themselves on their own greatness.
Found many ways and time God shows us any in His word that the victory is not to the strong.
He's trying to convince us that when I am weak, then am I strong. God has chosen the foolish things of the world and the things that are not to bring to not the things that are.
God has spoken again and again that he must have the credit, He must have the preeminence that an oral thing. We might have the preemptive.
You remember about King Saul?
The first all was finally rejected.
Samuel said to him when novice little at 9:09.
When I was little and I know, Oh yes, God was living man.
But oh, how different it was so soon afterwards.
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He wasn't little in his own eyes.
And after he had sinned so grievously.
He is forced to acknowledge it under the mighty Ministry of Family. Forced to acknowledge it always, as I've sinned.
And then pull his legs and then immediately it turns around and says honor me before the people, honor me before the people.
There's the snare.
Are we willing to be unknown? Are we willing to live our little life of service for Christ here, unsung and unheralded in this world?
All beloved, I believe we have the mind of Christ if we are.
We don't have to write our name in the sky. No we don't. We don't have to make a reputation or a name.
It's just to speak, to go through this world as quietly as possible and be true.
To the blessed name of Christ. They're not little flock, little flocks. It's your father's good places. Then give you the Kingdom.
Well, when we come down to.
The case of the Church that we get in the third of Revelation.
Revelation 3 for a moment or two.
As we all know, Revelation 2 and three give us a bird's eye view of the churches history here in this world.
Beginning with Ephesus and running on right down to a ladder to see it.
We see that from the very start. That's what started out.
Well, such faithfulness and such happiness, all the wonderful display that we see there in the second and third and 4th chapters of the Book of Acts, how lovely it was. They all continued steadfastly, all of them.
And the apostles doctrine and fellowship and breaking of bread and prayers. Great fear came upon them all. Nobody counted. Anything he had was his own. They were together with one heart and one mind. Oh, how wonderful it was.
But sad to say, man being what he is, assumed we can and began to show evidences of decay and dissolution.
Door with the church at Ephesus, they left their first love in Smyrna. The persecution drove them back to reality once more, But in Pergamus they joined up with the world.
Means twice marriage, much married, they joined up for the world and began to lose their power.
And then the next thing we find that awful system of Thyatira tolerating that woman Jezebel.
Oh, what a thing it is. And think that that is the direct lineage.
From what took place at the day of Pentecost, that Christian profession here on this world.
Then God comes in and his mercy and his kindness, his goodness.
And it gives a little reviving.
And we find starless. So what's the next thing we read about Sardis? I'll have to name the list.
A name to live and are dead. Or how sad it is when decay comes in, when it's been revival, when it's been restoration. And then it becomes a mere formality.
Now when we come to the next of the seven churches, Philadelphia.
There's a distinct break.
There's something about it. It's all together unique. Get arrested. Attention immediately.
And they find that the Lord Jesus presents himself there as the one that's holy and the one that's true.
Those are the two characteristics that he emphasizes, His Holiness and His truth.
Now holding this is separation from evil with delight and good. That's what holiness is.
And so is that that comes from God. It's God expressing what he is, and he has done so in his words. You learn in the word of God who he is and what he is. We get the mind of God in his word, say the Lord Jesus, and presenting himself to this unique company called Philadelphia.
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He presents himself as the holy and the true one, separation from evil, separation.
Separation from evil, of delight and good.
You know, beloved Saints of God.
We're living in a strange condition now.
When I was a young man as a Christian.
I received Christ as my Savior about 60 years ago.
Six years ago and 30 months.
And in my youth.
I found that.
In the car was identified at that time.
There were certain things that were looked upon as worldly.
As not proper for Christians.
I remember distinctly when I was worshiping with the Methodists that we had a book we call the Methodist Discipline.
And there were written down in that book certain worldly places that were not to be for us because we were going to be loyal to our Christian confession.
There was some sense of separation from the world.
A Christian was not supposed to mingle with this and mingle with that.
A major separation with thoughts.
But things have reversed themselves now.
It's difficult to find anything.
That is off limits for a Christian now, according to the popular confession around.
Why? I remember that after I found Christ as my Savior and made a confession of Him.
I didn't go to the theater anymore. I thought that was not proper for me as a Christian.
I know that Christians who are trying to please the Lord felt the same way about it.
But now it's a good thing to go to the theaters if you can clock down and see Ben Hur or some other religious program, something that's educational. Yes, go down to the the heart of the city, into the theater and see these things.
And so was was many other things that one could mean there was a line of separation. But do you know that that word separation today is an offensive word? People don't like it.
They don't like to talk about separation. They say by the way to do is go and live among them and then you can do them good.
Join up with this and that, become one of the group and witness for Christ and you can do a little bit. Whereas if you go on in a separate path, you don't come in contact with people and you can't be a help to them.
Rather than I believe that that kind of a philosophy.
Comes straight from the enemy of our souls. I believe that if they defeat of Satan.
You and I do not help these people by joining a prism.
We help them when we maintain our clean path for our own seats and witness to them from that past. Or don't ever forsake the path of separation, thinking that by so doing you're going to be able to reach the great company. I know that there'll be various kinds of reasons that will be presented to you that seems plausible. But what says the word of God?
Come on, come among them, and be as separate, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive and be a Father unto you, says the Lord Almighty. He's able to take care of you, and your testimony is not so important that you're given a dispensation from God to violate His Word, in order that you may go on and witness to someone about Christ.
You say, well, if I go there and I sit down, I play a game of cards with him, but we can have a little talk about the Lord.
Oh, that that's not. That doesn't come from above. That comes from beneath. That's the enemy that's giving such thoughts to you. Let's have whole and separation according to the truth of God. Let's not be afraid of it. Let's take the path of separation.
We're back in the third of Revelation now. Susan's holding heathens who he's it open and old man shut us.
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And Sarah said no man open us.
I know thy word.
Behold, I've set before, then open door.
And no Manson suffix now has a little strength. Now there's our word little again.
Now has a little strength.
You ever hear anybody boast of having a little strength?
Well, I have. I've heard people that have sustained severe accidents.
Then placed in the hospital.
And almost totally paralyzed.
I've heard them both that they can move the finger.
Yes, there was a little strength there. Thou hast a little strength.
Thou hast kept my words and not denied my name.
My hands are peculiar Company of Philadelphia.
And the Lord himself.
He looked them over and he appraises them.
And they said you've got a little strength.
You haven't denied my name, and you've kept my word, brethren. Is it worth it?
If you knew that, you're going to stand in his presence within the next 24 hours.
You think you'd be sorry that you took the path of separation, that you're willing to step out to the name of Jesus alone? Where two or three are gathered together unto my name, there are mine in the midst of it.
You said say well to all the fancies of men. You stepped out of all the various organizations that man has made according to his own pattern. He left them behind, and he came out to Christ to finish.
It is going to stand before him within the next 24 hours.
You think you'd be sorry if you can hear me say.
Thou hast a little strength. Thou hast kept my word, and not denied my name.
Oh, what a friendly giving valued enough.
Or do we just take it as a matter of course? You ever get down on our knees, and thank God that there is such a path in the midst of all the confusion?
I'll tell you a verse, it's been a great comfort to me.
We all know from the word of God that.
We're not at liberty to sit down and break bread with black streamers or unsaved people, at least if we know them to be such. God doesn't hold us responsible for what we don't know.
But we know that we're not to have any fellowship.
What darkness?
The believer doesn't have any fellowship and darkness and belio.
So we know that.
If we're going to go on together and remember the Lord, it must be the goals that know Him and love him and are real.
I knew of a place down in Kentucky a number of years ago.
A good sound company as far as possession was concerned.
I said. How often do they need to remember the Lord? Oh, they never knew that anymore.
Why, Sir, How's that? Well, they said the real ones, the same people in that church.
Those that love the Lord, they just will not.
Be found breaking bread, taking what they call communion. They will not be found taking communion, but those other verily ungodly characters that are members of that Church. And so the the only way they can remedy it is that they just never have the Communion service. Well, one can't but admire the faithfulness and loyalty of those that refuse to take that under those conditions. But now to get to my point.
Our Lord Jesus tells us.
Through his words that as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup.
You do so the Lord's death.
Until he comes. Until he comes.
Now that verse gives me every assurance that there's going to be a clean place preserved.
Where I can carry out that request of the Lord and not dishonor his name, it's until he comes.
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Well, I might be like those folks down in Kentucky. I might turn around and say, well Lord, I like to do it, But you know, there's no place I can do it. It's all so mixed up, stained and unsaved, ungodly, along with the Saints. There isn't any place where I can do it.
We can't say that the Lord Jesus would never ask you or move.
To do a right thing in a wrong way. No, he wouldn't. He doesn't do that. And when he says as often as he says bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death. Will it come? He's giving you the assurance, beloved.
That there'll be a clean place where you can do what I ask you to do.
It's there. I am earnest about it. Do you want to know? It says. And see, it'll be revealed to you. He won't keep you in the dark.
I'll tell you something else in clothing.
If you haven't found it.
Seek a little help from somebody that you think.
Might be up to you. Just fantastic. Therefore I haven't found it. I'd like a little help.
Then I'll tell you something else.
You say? Well, Brother Brown.
You know, I think I found that place, but.
It's not where you go.
All right. If you have come and tell me about it, come and tell me about it. Let me hear what you have to say.
Ah, beloved, we must put everything else.
With will must have preeminence over everything else. Everything must be submitted to His will.
I'm not in that path if I haven't found the path of his will.
I want some dear brother to take me to the hand and tell me where it is.
It's worth everything.
Now accept my words and not deny my name. The lovers are going to stand before him pretty soon.
How is it weather?
Can we hear him say that that was kept my word, not denied my name.
They're not little sloths, Little flock. Don't miss it.
Middle class. It's a father's good player to give it a cool. Want to say one verse of that hymn that we sang at the beginning? Just one verse in closing.
I'll leave the verse the fifth verse of #16 in the back of the book.
All worldly pomp and glorious.
Your charms are set in vain.
I've heard a sweeter story.
I found a truer gain.
Christ the place, prepare us. There's my loved abode there till I gave on Jesus.
There, so I dwell with God, all worldly pomp and glow. Your charms are spread in vain.
Can you sing it with all your heart?
Worldly pomp and glory. It's time to spread in vain religious times and all the rest of it.
I've heard a sweeter story. I've found a tour game someone started, please.
God's soul.
I found.
A.
Place.
Where is my love, God?
Bless.
I.
Following is the address of Brother chapter Brown, January the 1St, 1960.