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Brother Barry, you have something before you. No, I didn't, brother.
Well, I have thought something of lately of the ninth of Luke.
That's in that chapter. Of course, Luke ranges things according to moral order, and I believe there's three times in the chapter where the the apostles had to be rebuked.
For a zeal that was not of the Lord, yet they thought it was.
I think that something very important, but I.
Necessarily, I think we'd have to go on to that.
I would be happy to start with it.
Yeah, feels to me.
Very but.
There are so many young people here.
And perhaps we get lost in Docklands, some of the investors.
Someone read it please? Want to start with the first verse, yes?
9th chapter of Luke.
Then he called his 12 disciples together and gave them power and authority over all double s and to cure diseases, and sent them to preach the Kingdom of God and to heal the sacred. And he said unto them, take note, take nothing for your journey, be the stage, nor script, be the bread, neither money, neither have two coats of thieves. And whatsoever how she enter into.
Thereby and.
And then to depart, and whosoever will not receive you when you go out of that city, shake off the Gray dust from your feet for a testimony against them. And they departed and went through the town, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.
Now here are the Tetrarch heard of all that was done by him, and he was perplexed.
Because that it was said of some that John was risen from the dead, and as somebody Elias had appeared.
And of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again, and Herod said.
John have I beheaded, But who is that of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.
And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done, and it took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Macedon. And the people, when they knew it, followed him. And he received them, and spake unto them of the Kingdom of God, and healed them, and had need of healing. And when the day began to wear away, then came the 12 and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country roundabouts, and lodge, and get vittles.
Where we are here in a desert place.
But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but 5 loaves and two fishes, except we should go and buy meat for all these people. Well, they were about 5000 men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by 50s and accompanying. And they did so and made them all sit down.
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Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them and break, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude, and they did eat and were all filled.
When I was taken up with fragments that remained to them 12 baskets.
And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, His disciples were with him. And he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?
The answering said John the Baptist, but some say Elias and others say that one of the old prophets is risen again.
He said unto them, But what they do that I am Peter answering, said the Christ of God.
And he's greatly charged them, commanded them to tell no man that thing, saying, The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day. And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it. But whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save him.
For what is a man advantage if he gain the whole world and lose himself or be castaway?
For whosoever shall be ashamed of me, and of my words of him, shall the Son of Man be ashamed.
When he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels. But I tell you the truth, there be some standing here which will not taste of death till they see the Kingdom of God.
And it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings, he took Peter, and John, and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and blistering. And behold, they're taught with him two men, which were Moses and Elias, who appeared in glory and spake of his deceased, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem, but Peter.
And they that were with him were heavy with sleep.
But when they were awake, they saw His glory, and the two men stood with him.
And I came to pass. As it departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus.
Master, it is good for us to be here and let us make 3 tabernacles, one for thee and one for Moses and one for a life not knowing what he said.
Why thus spake there came a cloud and overshadowed them, and they feared as they entered into the cloud.
And there came a voice out of the cloud saying, This is my beloved son, Hear him.
And when the voices passed, Jesus was found alone, and they kept it close, and told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen.
And I came to pass that on the next day, when they were come down from the hill, most people met him. And behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I deceased thee, look upon my son, for he is my only child. And Lois spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out, and it tears him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departed from him. And I besought thy disciples to cast him out, and they could not.
When Jesus answering said, All faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and suffer? You bring my Son together.
And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down and tear him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his Father. And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God.
But while they wondered every one of the all things which Jesus didn't, he said unto his disciples, Let these things sink down into your ears, for the Son of Man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
But they understood not the same, and it was hidden from them that they perceived it now, and they feared to ask them of that saying.
Then there arose of reasoning among them which of them should be greatest.
And Jesus, receiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him, and said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me, and whosoever shall that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. For he that is the least among you, all the same shall be great.
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And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting our devils in thy name, and we forbade him.
Because he follows, not with us.
Jesus unto him forbid him not, for he that is not against us is for us. And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, and sent messengers before his face. And they went and entered into a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
When his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, will thou, they recommend fire to come down from heaven and consume them, even as Elias did.
But he turned and rebuked them and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit you're of, for the Son of Man has not come to destroy men's life, but to save them. And they went to another building.
And they came to pass, that as he went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee withersover thou go out.
And Jesus said unto him, Fontas have holes, and birds of the air have gnasses.
That the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.
You said I don't give another follow man.
He said Lord suffered me first to go and bury my father.
They listen to him, but the dead bury their dead. But go thou, and preach the Kingdom of God.
And another set Lord, I will follow thee, but let me first go and bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
And Jesus said unto him, No man having put his hand to the plow, and looking back.
Is fit for the Kingdom of God.
Before anything is said on the chapter.
I feel.
Explain a remark that I made earlier.
I certainly do not cast any aspersions on taking up the officials in our rivalry.
I hardly endorse it.
Lonely Times. True Church. Christian Truth. Indian Epistles.
To find the doctrine of Christianity there, and you'll find the walk that becomes the Christian there.
But some died. We're up to. I'm Speaking of now, we may serve.
After you give solid meat to those against the justice.
Solid meeting the Epistles.
And there are many among us.
That would like to have a little milk.
Now when it comes to the four Gospels to have the person of Christ preeminent people for us, I often think of that expression in John, one, John the Baptist looking on Jesus as he walked. He was overcoming. First he comes out and says, well, oh, the Lamb of God.
Nothing on Jesus as he walked. And if you want to save Jesus, every waltz down here is a man. You'll have to read the Gulf. And if you read the Gospels, you're aptitude, you're affected, your affections warm.
But there you'll find the person walking down here.
That right brother here.
Well, in giving out the truth, there is such a thing, is there not, of the time and the state part. And that's what we should be an exercise before the Lord about. The apostle Paul was one who was equipped to give strong meat.
But yet we find him saying to the Hebrew Saints and to the Corinthians, why I have to feed you with milk.
Sometimes we're apartment to come along and like to.
Demonstrate how much we know.
But the apostle Paul hid all that according to their sakes, and he had discernment of the state.
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We're exhorted to follow the Lord Jesus Christ, but we don't really know what that means until we know something about His walk down here. If we're to walk as He walked, we'll have to study his walk. And we find that in the Gospel. Don't sleep.
Free.
Take through the disciples you spoke of that in their sea only.
They they they made a mistake.
Drawing that just what you meant. That's seal and energy. It's not always.
But I think that is true, and I think it's very important. Well, I mean to skip over quite a bit in the chapter, but.
The first one would be on the Mount of Transfiguration.
There Peter witnesses this marvelous scene. There the heavenly scene on earth.
And.
He is overwhelmed by the glory that the these two characters from the Old Testament were in, and he makes a mistake of putting the Lord they on the same basis for the Lord. And so he said, Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us make 3 tabernacles, one for thee.
One for Moses, one for last, not knowing what he said. While he thus spake, there came a cloud and foreshadowed them, and they feared as they entered the cloud. And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved son, hear him.
Well, there Peter was overwhelmed by the glory that he witnessed.
And he didn't realize what he was saying, I believe. Is it in Mark where he says he wished not what to say? He thought he had to say something, so he said that.
Well, I think those things are important to notice.
That he spoke in that way.
And he thought he had though the glory of God before him, but it wasn't.
Placing these two distinguished characters on the same level of the Lord was far.
From having the mind of God about it. So there was.
The definite review This is my beloved son. Hear him.
Perhaps someone else has some thoughts on it?
The 49th verse.
And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and we were bad in because he followed not with us. Jesus said unto him, Forbid them not, for he that is not against us is for us.
Well, this man casting out devils, he had the glory of the Lord before him. He was doing it in the name of the Lord, and I don't doubt what he was a man of faith.
But the Lord hadn't called everyone to follow him like he had the 12. And I'm not aware that the Lord, as we see in the beginning of the chapter when he sent the 12 out, that he told him to make disciples and gather a company and come back to me. I'm not aware that he said anything of that kind, but it's noticeably followed, not with us.
Well, the Lord has his vessels that he uses.
And it was the time really for calling for followers in that way to come and follow with us.
Well, the Lord has to rebuke me, says forbid them not.
For he that is not against us is for us.
Well, it seemed to me that was important.
They thought it was the Lord's glory, but perhaps it's more of their own. He follows, not with us.
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What was the other?
No, I'm a local brother here and I shouldn't be taking up so much time. It's all right.
All right, we want to hear.
Well then following that.
51St Verse. And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he sent messengers before his face, and they went and entered into a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. And his disciples James and John saw this. They said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias dead?
But he turned and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirits you are of.
Well, I believe that.
Last clause there ye know not what manner of spirit you're of is something that we're a lifetime learning.
And we often make mistakes because we do not realize what manner spirit we're out. Well, here the Samaritans, they.
Were a people that were greatly.
Pretentious in their worship of God, but they didn't have the truth, as the Lord told the Samaritan woman. You worship, you know not what. But they had a prejudice against the Jews. And here was the Lord passing through, and his face was set to go to Jerusalem. Why they allowed that prejudice come in.
And they?
Would receive him.
Well, here these two disciples, James and John, why they think about it, Elias, they'd seen him on the Mount of Transfiguration and.
They say what thou we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them. He was, Elias did.
Well, whose glory were they really? They really had before them?
It evidently it wasn't a large glory.
So.
He has rebuked him well, the manner of spirit was the manner of which the Spirit which the Lord was manifesting here in His life on His way to the cross.
It wasn't judgment.
Or if He to let His glory shine forth, why all had been consumed?
Well, this verse often comes to me. You know not what manner of spirit you are of.
It's not the spirit of the natural energy of the flesh.
But it is, as we get in Ephesians, the truth as it is in Jesus, that lowly 1.
Well, I think there's great importance in meditating upon those three things.
That we do not mistake our zeal or really the leading of the Lord.
What about verse 46? Would you call that a mistake or does that tie in with the with the other?
There and there are no reasoning among them which of them should be the greatest.
Well, I it was a mistake really on their part. But because they didn't know the manner of spirit, there were they known the manner spirit derived? They never had that reasoning.
Well, one can't help but think, you know, in connection with these things when we consider the state of Christendom and how it's so divided up. Well, is it not because of these things here haven't had their weight with us?
Men seeking their own glory.
Have carved up Christendom into many, many parts.
I think it's generally true that it's men seeking their own glory that have caused the switch and.
Form the parties.
They thought they was doing it for the Lord, but there was a lot of self in them. Yes, I read something once on this passage and it brought out that in verse 46 its personal selfishness and in verse 49 its corporate selfishness.
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Well, that's very good.
We need to remember, do we not?
Something of the spirit of Moses when someone came to him, when he put the Tabernacle outside the camp in a far off from the camp.
He says My Lord Moses, Eldad and me Dad are prophesying in the camp.
He says I would to God that all the Lord's people did prophecy, and he put his spirit upon the mall.
It didn't condemn Eldad and Medak.
And let us not forget that God has his Eldads and his me dads in Christendom.
All saved people are a part of the Church.
They're a part of that which is dear to Christ, and he is caring for the church and he has some here and some there that have a measure of light and truth, and he is nourishing them through that.
And let us not.
Criticize that, That's one sided. But Moses didn't leave the Tabernacle afar off from the camp and rushed back into the camp to hear Elder me, Dad.
We are in danger of the two extremes. We are in danger of saying that anything that doesn't originate with us is all wrong.
And then there are others that would say, well God has blessed others and he has his elders and his me dads.
So whenever we find one, we should run an area.
If God has given us the truth, may we have grace to walk in it in all humility.
Without pride or position.
I trust we all.
Remember and we'll eat something, Brother Business said yesterday. I thought it was very important.
Thinking about Ruth leaning in the field of boys, I remember he said that it was where the authority of.
Boys, the Redeemer was found.
And then that. Lovely.
Record we have that our brothers so beautifully brought before us. You know, Ruth took the advice before as right from the beginning. And the first thing that Boaz ever said to Ruth was my daughter. Lean not in another field.
And if you remember, and I'm sure we all do, the story.
That when Boys came into the end of the field to his reapers.
They said the Lord blessed me and they replied much the same way that it was. It was lovely recognition by His service of His authority and He had His name. Everything was subject to boys.
And I believe it for our dear young folks in particular lay hold of this truth that our brother mentioned that we are to glean him the place where the authority of Christ is old. There are lots of places scattered over Christendom where you could go and hear the gospel and hear a lot of truth presented that perhaps without not in a much more attractive.
And a more eloquent way than what's appeared in our little meetings. But in that place, a place where the authority of Christ is old. Now will they all enjoy that? And if you have followed the whole subject now, Ruth never, she never turned aside from that first instructions he received from boys he never gleaned in another field.
And he mentioned, you know all that and.
Rather, her mother-in-law in the Omar. She gave the right instruction too, she says. My daughter.
You know I found where the maidens of another in another piece we see she went fast by the the the servants of boys in his field and among his maidens. She never left that field and that place.
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And the story ends, you know, and in our most beautiful climax of a story that could be told, how she comes into the fullest blessing. It becomes the wife of the uncle of boys. Well, I just felt that that was right in line with this, what you were saying about going to other places.
God bless. There were fields around Bethlehem where the barley on the wheat was just as rank and where they was as good bleeding as it was in Boersfield. But that was the place where she was to to glean and where she was promised blessing. But unless there is for us than that, I think that was very helpful a lot. Brother, as I said yesterday, you got a word in Deuteronomy.
Along that line and the thieves, Deuteronomy 12 and verse 13.
Take heed through thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou see it.
And over in John 2121.
Russell, Lord said, What is that? To leave Allah, thou me. Don't be occupied with what they're doing on the other side of the fence, so to speak, when you follow me. If you have seen me, I have had your affection stirred up toward me. Follow me. We can't follow in every time that we see. We can pray for those in that path, but we ought to be aware lest we are LED astray.
They're not two different things.
Might be profitable to mention.
One, it's the offering thy gift in any place.
That's going before to a place to give thanks to the Lord or to join in fellowship or worship.
But in Speaking of what Brother Barry was speaking.
Quoting from brother Miss.
It's the gleaning, the gleaning another.
How you can generally tell if you're with a Christian Ohio One of the gathered Saints Ohio.
In private conversation, you can pretty well find out where he's been gleaned.
It will soon become apparent in private conversation if the things of the Lord are mentioned.
There are certain things that mark the truth and there are certain things that mark other places.
And before long, the evidence of where you've been bleeding will be found.
Now for instance.
We have a case, We have many cases that come up. I don't know whether I should mention any or in particular or not, but there are certain things that have crept in with certain men that become a sort of a hallmark to them. Christians, I mean, in going their own ways, and they have certain hallmarks.
And they develop a line of things that attracts to them that is particularly theirs, and they are recognized by it.
Well, if we're gleaning in that particular field, the chances are that before long we will have picked up some of their sayings and we'll find them.
Just like.
Brother told me that in a certain place there was a brother listening to a certain radio preacher who was very fond of praying to the Spirit of God and praising the Spirit of God.
Before long, he was doing it in the meeting.
Now real intelligence in the mind of God will not have us pray to the Spirit of God.
We pray by the Spirit, but not to the Spirit.
And neither will we praise the Spirit of God. The doxology has an error in it.
Says praises to the to the Spirit, but there is a hymn in our book that is correct.
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Praises for the Holy Ghost sent from heaven at Pentecost.
Praise is for not two. I just mentioned this one thing, but there are. Their name is Legion.
We might mention too sometimes if you go around.
People will say, well, what do you think about this book or that book? Well, we pick it up and look at it. The author is unknown.
But we don't know.
But we have good sound ministry in books.
Written by men who have whose writings have been tested by the Word of God.
My brother told me, Speaking of that very thing of going into a home and a sister handing him a book to read, and she says I've enjoyed it. I've read it twice and I've bought some copies to give to some others.
And it was a book by Ellen G White, the founder of 7th Day Adventists.
Why don't we know what we're reading? Why don't we know who we're reading at?
Speaking of the authority of the Lord in the place.
There are many of these preachers that can give you much good truth. They may preach a good gospel.
But there is something lacking there.
They sometimes give out that which is not the truth, which is positive error and dangerous. And why is it that they go on with that which is error?
Because they are not in a place of subjection to the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And they are not in a place where that is recognized and there is no check.
On their ministry. And that's why it's a dangerous thing to listen.
To those who are not in the place where the authority of the Lord is, because they are not checked up on and all how we need that all the time. We're thankful when our brethren check us and they bring to our attention those things which are not according to the Word of God. It's not a free for all in these days. It should not be that, but it should be. We should have a sense of being subject to the Lord and subject to one another.
First Timothy 315 The church Oregon the assembly is the pillar and ground of the truth. So if one is going on an independency and not on that ground, why there's no checks at all?
And then Paul says, thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, and so on.
Paul was not afraid to present his credentials and so we should examine the credentials of a man that asked us to listen to him or read what he writes.
I picked up a book that our printers the other day.
There was a book they were printing for somebody else. Remember printing is done by a commercial apps and I picked up a book, he says take it, take it along with they just finished printing it and it was on.
First and Second Timothy.
And I opened the book and the first thing my eye fell on was speaking about the woman in childbearing. It says she shall be saved because of the childbearing, and explained that it was necessary that the woman should bear the very Christ as a man into this world, and she's saved by that act. Well, now that's flat denial of the truth.
It makes salvation the basis of works for somebody.
Wouldn't you say so?
Yes, I do.
Well, in our chapter here it's noticeable. It seems to me that there is a state of soul to go along with this truth. I thought it was quite striking in the first part of the chapter where the Lord sends out the 12 and he gives them power over all devils and to cure diseases.
Authority over him? Well then, after they come down from the Mount of Transfiguration.
Why here he finds that of course there was the other nine disciples that weren't up there, and here was a case where a man brought them his son and they couldn't cast out this devil.
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And so they prayed to the Lord.
Well, when the Lord says their old faith was in perverse generation, how shall long shall I be with you? Suffer and suffer you bring thy son hit her. Well, that really was a rebuke to all the disciples included, and.
And so the Lord rebuke the unclean spirit.
Well, I believe in Matthew's gospel. Why? They asked the Lord. Well, why couldn't we cast him out?
Well, he said, this kind cometh not out but by prayer and fast.
They hadn't continued in the spirit in which they were when he sent them out, and so here was something they couldn't do was because of their state of soul.
And you know the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
And our heart can deceive us as to our state of soul. I think our brother Hale used to remark by the vets that you don't need to impress. Seek to impress your brethren how spiritual you are. He says they don't know, and I believe that is true.
One of the things that Marx I believe getting away from the Lord and Spirit is increased activity.
That's been commented on by some of our older brethren and I think some of us have seen it and increased activity to make up for loss of communion.
Do you think so? Oh yes, it definitely fools the man himself and many others for a while.
It's an effort to cover up, maybe from himself.
Maybe unwittingly, he doesn't realize what he's trying to do. I think that's very true. It's it's he's been deceived.
All we can say that in the first verse.
That we need to rightly divide the word truth reading those words.
And seeking to carry out literally the instruction the Lord gave as 12 apostles pull out without stripped them, without purse and two together, and so on.
Well, this was.
This was for the disciples at that particular time before the cross, and it was a ministry that was just for his people, Israel that were not going into the cities of the Samaritans and the ways of the Gentiles turned up. So if we tried to carry the instruction out to see.
Completely all wrong. We might just give this word.
And it's very important for us all.
To rightly divide the word of truth all says in Second Timothy 2 and it's JMD translates that cutting in a straight line well the very remarks whether errors were made about the failure of James and John.
They would have called down fire from heaven. Well, that was in keeping with the dispensation in which He lied to live. Well, that was a day when God was acting in government connection with His people, Israel and the world. But now since.
The Lord has rejected and gone back to heaven during this interval before He returns.
It's definitely a dispensation of grace, that of God judging the world that crucified his Son. He's allowing this world to go on its course, and he sent the Holy Spirit into this world to gather a people out of this world.
To be associated.
With the one who is the king of kings when he comes back to reign.
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For now, if we mix up the different dispensation, we'll be just like James and John.
We'll be.
Some drastic mistakes see the Lord says you know not of what spirit here of.
And then the Lord.
Tells about the character of his mission here. He came not to destroy men's lives, but to save men's lives. Well after the Lord comes in the air and takes the church away.
While then it will be in keeping with the Kingdom dispensation for his earthly people to go out with a sword and fight their enemies.
Because that's the way the Kingdom will be set up. But that's another disposition.
That's all we need to rightly divide the word of truth. So all through this chapter we see the importance of knowing the dispensation in which our love is cast.
As you thought of connecting.
Hebrews 2 and four. With what you are saying about the miracles belonging to another dispensation, I have thought that well, in the Epistle of the Hebrews, evidently things were at a very low state there in Jerusalem, where there had been some, the mighty power of God had been manifested some 30 years earlier perhaps. Well, the apostle, he has to call their attention about the ministry of the Lord.
That and the apostles that God bore them witness with these signs and miracles.
Well, it seems to me that shows that there wasn't any such thing in their day, or you wouldn't have to mention it like he did.
Somebody asked someone while back, do you believe the Age of Miracles has passed? He said. No, I believe it's coming.
Well, they are the powers of the world to come, which is the Millennium.
But let's not try to resurrect the past or anticipate the future. God is not so working today.
But there is a growing amount of.
Of effort in Christendom to get all segments of it involved.
In fair theory.
Oh, God allows his people to pass through the trials and difficulties that are common to this world.
We never read of an apostle feeling himself or his friends.
These were signs to introduce Christianity. After it was introduced, they were no longer needed, but they will be prevalent in a greater degree in the Millennium. The signs of the world to come.
Prior to that there will be false signs and lying wonders during the tribulation period to deceive of the more possible the very elect, the elect being the elect Jew who will be here on earth, and maybe some Gentiles too, that look forward to the coming King. It's chiefly a work among the Jewish remnant at that time.
Here in Philippians chapter 2 we read about one that was sick.
Thacroditis.
Paul says in verse 27, For indeed he was sick nigh unto death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
Wasn't a matter of performing a miracle here to heal him.
But the Lord did undertake, but it was a matter of mercy, not a matter of God intervening in a miraculous way to heal him. And I believe it's our portion today to be cast upon the mercy of God.
It reminds us say this.
That in the 5th chapter of James, we got the fair face of faithful, faithful things.
Well, that's true at any time at the beginning on down through the dispensation, so that you can pray for those who are laid aside and were asked to affix your ways. And the apostle says to there that if you have committed sins, they shall be forgiven.
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That is, he's under the governmental dealings of God, governmentally is forgiven.
So they you'll find that those who profess to be healers.
Have at our say, they mix up.
With what you get in the 5th of James where the miracles that the apostles had formed in the book of Acts.
I love miracles that were deformed in the book of Acts were were real.
America, just like the man at this beautiful gate. Peter didn't pray over him, but he just said rise up and walk.
Of course, there were different ways that they were healed. These were kneeled down and prayed before darkness was restored to life. And they some seemed to have faith and others didn't have any faith. It was just like that. Man never walked, didn't even expect to be.
To be healed, but instantaneously he was healed, well, that's one thing.
A dog confused that with the teaching that you get in the 5th chapter of James might just turn to it so as to get.
Matters clear before us, we're constantly encountering this debate.
The 14th, 1St and 5th chapter of Jane.
If any thick among you, let him fall for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick of the Lord shall raise him up, and if you have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Well, that isn't a matter of being instantly healed.
The the elders of the church, of course we haven't.
Elders such as they had at that time, because they had apostles who ordained elders in every church they knew those old men and could call for, and they were to pray over the man, anointing him with oil.
But it doesn't say that the prayers of the elder should say to fix what it says. The prayer faith shall save the sick.
And we certainly have a prayer of faith today, just as much as we had in the days as we found. And the Lord does raise up in His grace many who are sick.
The prayers of the same.
Bring it out when you have something there I don't think I had thought of.
Great activity.
Although they're not official elders today.
It's rare state is effective.
I I believe what you say is true. The is the initiatives on the part of the one that's sick. But there has to be the faith too on the elder to go. I remember one time Brother Potter refused to go when he was called to go.
Here in Chicago, there was a young sister that.
She was really dying of tuberculosis. She was engaged to a young man who was not saved to be married.
And Brother Potter was incapacitated in those days. He wasn't able to get out very much unless somebody was going to get him. And she asked me if I would.
Speak to him about coming out and pray or that she might be healed well. He wanted to know why she wanted to be healed.
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She said she wanted to be healed so she could marry Jimmy. Well, brother, Potter says no, I can't go.
Well, her father was greatly incensed about to think that one had that power and wouldn't use it. Well, it isn't to be used like that. One has to have the faith. That's really the Lord's glory is there, buddy? After he got over he, he was that time, he wasn't in breaking bread, but he actually did come in to fellowship. But there has to be faith on both sides.
Would you connect that with what you get in John? There is a sin unto death. I do not pray to say that ye should pray for it. Yes, it I think so would be long that line that we could pass judgment in the case, but there is such a thing as God's hand being on one in government. Yes, you wouldn't feel free to pray for them. You wouldn't you wouldn't want to say that's a sin unto death. We would never have the authority to know.
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There was mentioned next with the healing of the man that the beautiful gate.
These are not this outstanding difference between that case and what we're Speaking of at the present day, these who practice.
Or profess to practice the active healing today we have to enact the these that.
Call attention to their own name. Come to so and so for healing.
The Apostle Peter is speaking to those who called in question. His act said this name through faith in his name that's made this man whole.
It was the name of Jesus that was before the apostle Peter.
There's one other point that probably should be stressed before we leave the subject, and that is that in this faith healing goodness.
For it is a business.
There is a false doctrine that springs up with it, and that is that there was a.
Healing and the Atonement and.
Take that verse that we referred to yesterday, Isaiah 53, verse 4/5.
In case some may have forgotten what it is.
A fourth party, 30, half, four and a three carried out sorrows.
Yes, that verse is quoted in Matthew 8. We read it yesterday in connection with healing.
He bore the burdens of the people on his heart.
In his lifetime. And that verse, the fourth verse of Isaiah 53, has nothing to do with atonement.
Bearing them on his heart and his lifetime, just like bearing one anothers burden. Now it's it's not atonement. Atonement.
It was more sympathy, yes.
In connection with what has been said about miracles.
And they're not being.
The power part in this present time is not the place for it. Do we get sort of a summing up of that in First Corinthians 13/8?
13/8 charity. Their love never faileth.
Of whether they be prophecies, they shall fail. Well, is not that really?
The time would come when the prophecies would not be revealing the mind of God as they were at that time. That is when the New Testament scriptures were complete. Why there wasn't such a thing then as saying, Well, the Lord said unto me, we going to do this or do that? Well then it says, whether they be tongues, they shall cease.
That's never an expression there. They shall cease. Well, that's this present time. And then what follows?
Whether they be knowledge, it shall vanish away. Well, that's at the coming of the Lord, I believe That is, there won't be the diligence and to read the Word and all that kind of thing by the knowledge will vanish away.
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My brother-in-law, Roy Wagner.
Greek scholar. He told me that when it speaks about the.
The town based of faith. He said it was another Greek word and the meaning of the Greek word is something that slowly passes out to its no longer in existence. But he said the other word is something that have a meaning of it suddenly cut off. As you say, knowledge when the Lord comes in the air, but then we're done with the kind of knowledge it's necessary down here.
But as to the tongue, they gradually became less and less induced to finally become no longer.
But that kiss and tongues there is really a general summing up of all miraculous powers, I believe, the healing and all of that.
Some people, in their effort to explain when and why the miraculous gifts with which Christianity was introduced ceased to exist, ceased to be. You have gone off onto another tangent and say that the Christianity proper wasn't established until Paul was in prison, and they say that only the prison epistles are for the church. Now that's downright error.
The Church of God was formed on the day of Pentecost, and while we see it after that in the days of the Acts being worked out in development in the Epistles, all of the epistles are for the Church.
Yes, one of the advocates of that kind of thing. Why he was trying to make out there was a certain period in the Acts when the miracles ceased. He was, he wanted, he had before him, he wanted to stop Pentecostalism. So he was trying to work out a system whereby he could say deceased at a certain time. Well, he even went so far that in the last chapter of Romans where it speaks there of the the mystery.
That, that was added later, That's the way he got around that. But that was added later and might have been by another hand. It gets him into ridiculous positions, for instance, those people.
Try to make a different dispensation. Begin with the Apostle Paul in prison.
They deny the truth of the Lord, of the Lord's Supper for the Christian and baptism.
They say that they were only for a Jewish.
From Pentecostal Paul was in prison and that the Lord's Supper doesn't belong to us. Neither does baptism.
By one of those men, and I wondered what he would do with first Corinthians 11. Often yeapless bread. Drink this coffee to show the Lord's death till he comes. The way he got to that he let Paul made a mistake.
He he had in order to.
To area of his duck he had denied the word of God and if you read that Paul says I have received the Lord, so we have to deny her come directly from the Lord. Well, there was another one that was teaching that when he and he was teaching that baptism doesn't belong to the church. Now he was teaching on Colossians. Colossians is for the church he came to buried with him by baptism. He says I don't know why that's in here. It just shouldn't be.
Because Colossians was supposed to be one of the thistles that belonged to the church. It gets them into ridiculous places. Now you speak about what we were mentioning before, people listening to these people and gleaning where they have no business to glean. And the trouble is that most of the people that do that kind of cleaning are the least able to discern truth and error.
There was a man in the Los Angeles meeting that got carried away with that thing.
Yeah.
You know, they raised some other planet that I remember party. So it was because it was just a little exercise about this doctrine and I read it to try to help her out. I didn't just read it by choice or it wasn't mine, my regular reading, but sometimes it's necessary.
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For those who seek to help the large people to discern these things to go into it.
I'm glad you said that, Brother Barry.
Arthur Wilson, you could make the venture of your old sister in Los Angeles.
Who has been going on for more than 50 years?
Isolated now, more or less who's been listening to over the radio and she has been taken up with this very thing. I don't recall.
Mrs. Moore.
Well, that's what they get and they're going to listen to these things they're going to buy there. Or I thought of having connection with the young.
Can't afford to take up the beach things. Well, I went out to I and another brother went to see this man that said that the Lord Supper wasn't for Christians. And we read 1St Corinthians 11 to him, went over and compared it with Luke 22 and showed the difference between the Lord instituting it and the Lord giving it from heaven and what the difference was. And we went through it with some detail and he says, but it still is only for Jews. I said, well, I would, I would recommend that you care First Corinthians out of your Bible because you don't believe it.
For I turned the page from First Corinthians 11 and on the backside of it was the 12Th chapter.
And it says.
Ye were Gentiles, I said. This says they were Gentiles at Corinth. You say they were Jews. Tear it out. You don't believe it, but you couldn't do a thing with it.
Wouldn't it be nice before the meeting?
Feeding the 5000 with five loaves, 2 fishes.
And that girl showed the difference.
In the parts of the disciples.
And the blessed heart of Christ.
Notice the 10th, 1St and the apostles when they were returned before.
The 12Th course I should have read, and when the day began to wear away then came the 12Th and said on him send the multitude of ways that they may go into the town from the roundabout lost get fitted for we are here in a desert lake. I don't call those travel fossils where hard hearted men. I think they had they had sympathy and feel for anyone that lived in bubble or difficulty or indeed.
But how different the heart of the most?
The most useful, the most important of the large service when we compare.
Earhart and the heart of Christ itself. Here's what the blessed Lord says in the 13th verse. He said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And another another gospel that the Lord said, Send them now away, give he them to thee.
Oh the Lord, South Florida, those hungry people.
Have been there listening to his ministry. He wasn't sending them away hungry because one place you read he said they might faint all the way. The Lord thought of those four people sitting down from weakness, returning after having listened to His ministry there in the wilderness.
Don't you think that is taking them into the desert? There was a needed service for them. They just come back from a very successful trip where the demons have been subject to them and Isis coming to the desert. Well, then the multitude followed and they were looking at natural resources. Why send them into the villages? Well, that's what this world around speaks up. It's entertainments and things of that kind.
Send them out there. Well then he says give me them to eat. Well then someone has remarked when the Lord says give ye them to eat. Why? Says they started to count their loaves and they wasn't near enough. But what he takes what they have though, and it's sufficient for them. And I'm sure in many ways why we naturally do that. Look, the natural resources. I think if we look for our natural resources, we never went ahead with this meeting.
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I understand some people have wondered how where the multiplication came in.
Take this small amount and make food for all and have so much moreover when they're through than they started.
But I also understand that the word He gave unto them, He gave to the disciples to give to them.
The sense is that he kept on giving. The multiplication took place in his hand.
Just kept on giving. Well, he was the creator. Yes, he created the He could have started with nothing to give them to eat, but he chose to use that instrument to keep on adding multiple. In the 6th of John, it's a little boys lunch that's placed in his hands. But whatever it is, when it's placed in his hand, it's sufficient. And so we may feel that after all, what we have is just a little boy's lunch we have in progress very far.
Maybe just the thing that he can use.
Other Wilson is this development of Solomon 132.
I will abundantly provision I will satisfy her for with bread if they. I suppose we might say this brother Lawrence, that if they had had eyes to see it, he would have been fulfilling that food.
As much as he said if he will receive it, this is Elias which Mr. pick up.
But they they didn't see the John the Baptist was in the spirit and power of Elias.
They didn't recognize either the Forerunner or the King. Would you think that would be?
That is one of the signs reserved for the Messiah to feed the poor with bread. Then they would like to make the king out of him, and they liked his bread.
They'd like to have a king that would feed them without any energy on their own part.
As far as your mother in Matthew's God for the only Time Lord healing at the time.
That intensified power and Mark stops would only find the more teaching at that time and it looks often you find both hadn't noticed her keeping where the different gospels.
Happened wherever where the Lord is proving business bias.
Where he is the king by his miracles and then marks up for where he's a perfect service. It's only his teaching is server. Thank you good Lord, get the moral side, but both are are brought before us then, of course, and John's gospel and isn't that the only miracle that found in all four gospels.
There is in connection with the last year.
There is one of the places I have to check where after he fed them.
He sends the disciples away, while He dismissed the multitude.
He didn't trust it to their rude hand to dismiss the crowd after he said.
Have 14 He dismisses the disciples, while he sends the people.
Break the use of them to take the.
Very thing that they wanted to do, the Lord does itself. That has been the most good way where then they thought they couldn't do on the Lord uses friends in connection with the distribution of the law profession. All is great.
I believe here, in connection with the Transfiguration, that this is the only gospel word mentions that as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was.
Auburn.
Who cares about the defendant's mind, The only gospel where he finds the Lord and friend at his baptism, and the only God for him to say where he finds the Lord in prayer at his investigation.
And only Luke that tells us the Lord prayed all night before he told the 12 apostles.
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The perfect Son of man.
Well, I believe our time is up.