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Chapter 9 and verse 26.
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 other holy angels.
But I tell you the truth, there should be some standing. There should be some standing here which will not taste of death till they see the Kingdom of God.
And it came to pass about an 8 days after these things 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.
Behold, it taught with him two men, which were Moses and Elias, who appeared in glory, and speak of his deceased, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep, and when they were awake they saw his glory and the two men that stood with him.
And it came to pass as they 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 Elias, not knowing what he said.
While he thus faked, there came a cloud and overshadowed them and they feared as they entered into the cloud.
There came a voice out of the clouds, saying, This is my beloved son. Hear him.
And when the voice was 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 it came to pass that on the next day, when they were come down from the hill, most people met him.
Behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son, for he is my only child.
Spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out, and he tears him that he formeth again, and bruising him, hardly departed from him.
And I besought that his job was to cast him out, and they could not.
And Jesus answering, said all faithless and perverse generation, How long shall I be with you and suffer you bring thy son? Hit her.
And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down and tore 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 John.
While they wondered every man that all those things which Jesus did, who 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 this saying, and it was hid from them that they perceived it not, and they feared to ask him of that saying.
Then there are rows of reasoning among them. Which of them should be greatest?
And Jesus, perceiving the thoughts 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 in whomsoever.
Shall receive me, receiveth him that sent me.
For he that is least among you all the same shall be great.
John answered and said, Master, We saw one casting out devils in thy name, and we forbade him, because he followed not with us.
And Jesus said unto him, Forbidden not for he that is not against us.
Is four of them, and it came to pass when the time has come that he should be received up.
He stood fastly, set his face to go to Jerusalem.
Sent messengers before his faith, 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 should go to Jerusalem.
And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and conceal them even as Elias did?
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But he turned and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit you're of.
Where but a man has not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them?
And they went to another village.
And it came to pass it as they went in the way. A certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee Withers, whoever thou goeth.
And Jesus said unto him.
Boxes have holes and birds of the Arab nest.
For the son of man hath not where to lay his head.
And he said to another Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Jesus suddenly him, Let the dead bury their dead, But go thou and preach the Kingdom of God.
Another also said, Lord, I will follow thee, but let me first go and bid them farewell, which are at home in my house.
When Jesus said unto him, No man having put his hand to the flower and looking back his fit for the Kingdom of God.
These first two, the first we have read, I believe we can say they are.
Timely truth, we might say. Present truth. We barely believe that right here now. There are many that won't taste of death till they see the Kingdom, the glory. This was going to happen to three here on this occasion.
But oh, how wonderful it is to apply it as a present truth to us.
That the glory is just so near the the seeing, the glory of God. It really carries us into a glimpse of the Father's house here in this preview of the coming Kingdom.
But we have had discipleship here, and in this first verse we have read it's negative. Notice the 26th verse. Whosoever shall be ashamed of me in my word of the end, shall the Son of man be ashamed when he shall come in his glory, and in his Father's and of the Holy Angel.
Now if we go to John chapter 12, there's one verse that is like it, but different.
John 12 and verse 26.
IT service follow the Lord and we are here as servants to serve him.
And there is reward, connection with service. The 26th verse of John 12. If any man serve me, let him follow me. Now this is the disciple too. The one that follows the Lord is to be a servant of the Lord, and will be, will be if he follows the Lord. Then it says, And where I am, there shall also my servant be. We like to link that. But Matthew 1820.
Where we know where the Lord is.
And the servant that is serving and following the Lord, I believe will arrive at that place too, to be there for prayer and worship and praise as we had yesterday. Then it goes on and says, if any man serve me him will my father honor. It's not a question of being ashamed now, but it's a honor and reward and a return for what has been done.
Or the Lord. And then we have the 27th verse. I tell you a prude. There be some standing here which shall not be of death till we see the Kingdom of God. Now the Lord Jesus was going to give that preview, and did to the three.
And.
We have something of that.
Think of the Lord himself.
He has been announcing his death and rejection. Then he tells and shows to the three his coming Kingdom and glory.
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I believe it's always that way, in order to pass through the wilderness and the testings of discipleship and service, that God himself would put the end before us, the glory.
In Hebrews 12 we had a part of it read this morning, but in the second verse.
It says, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who were the joy that was set before him, endured the cross. Now there the Lord is put before us in his course, and here he was in Luke as the man going up to the cross, in this very chapter from the 51St verse on proceeding to the cross, what did he have before him?
Oh, he had the glory. He had the return to the Father's house. So that's what he would point us to as well, that Father's house to the which we are going. And so the glory he would announce and tell us about. But really the way of understanding and entering into it is to learn grace.
We referred to the 84th Psalm yesterday, and you have that order there He will give grace and glory, and in Luke's gospel that man, that perfect man.
For the grace of him all the way through. And he had labored and ministered and showed to his disciples that grace, and they were slow in entering into it.
As we had yesterday, because of lack of dependence in prayer and the seeking of a place, they lost their power and they went to sleep as to the glory. So what a lesson it is to ask to learn great the grace of God that bringeth salvation. Grace brings grace give it does grab and seek like self does. So we've had self denial in our portion.
And following the Lord and oh, we ought not to be ashamed of Him. Often one would confess for himself we are ashamed. But then if we go on and look to Him and see the grace and the glory that's coming, I believe it'll give us courage to take up the.
Opportunity that we have now as servants.
And as disciples to follow him in the path of his rejection with the glory before us too.
There is 2 aspects as you mentioned of this in our 26th verse. This is passive in a sense. It's just not letting it be known or letting it be proclaimed that you belong to Jesus. It's sort of silence. It's sort of not making much of it. When you're in the world, you're ashamed in a sense. How sad to think of it, but it's a passive thing.
But there's also the active and I and I think both go together, and that's in Matthews Gospel and Chapter 10.
And verse 32 and three. Well before these two verses, he lets us know that we're more value than many sparrows and he's got his eye on the Sparrow. And so he wants us to know to whom we belong and he says.
The very hairs of your head are all numbered. Then he says, Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, this is active. Now him will I confess before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. You think this is a a more challenging thing?
It's one thing just to quietly go through this world and and enjoy Christ at the meetings and enjoy fellowship with the Saints, but let it be sort of a quiet thing that's being ashamed, the sad thing, isn't it? But oh, how wonderful if you can confess how the thief on the cross.
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Confessed, he looked at that one in the center and said Lord in front of that whole hateful mob.
Who had just done the worst they could to that blessed one and would have done just as much to any that identified himself with him. He confessed him as Lord John 10 nine and he believed in his heart. God would raise him from the dead. John 10-9 saying, But I have never confessed Jesus as Lord in front of a hateful Bob. I've felt the reproach of confessing him but of course he does not like that thief must have taken.
Not like that thief must have taken.
But I was just thinking, brethren, let's not only not be ashamed of him to get the banner up, well, let's confess him, let's confess him. He's all to us, He's our Lord. And just one thought on that in Acts chapter 5. You know, this is about the third time they were apprehended, Peter and John and beaten and told not to preach in the name of Jesus. But you notice at the end of that chapter.
Verse.
31St 40 And to him they agreed, and when they had called the apostles, beaten them again, commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus. They let them go, and they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. And daily in the temple and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Jesus Christ. They confessed him everywhere.
Even though it meant beating, it meant beatings, not just reproach beatings.
Well, brethren, there's more to confessing his name than there is just to being ashamed. Confessing his name really brings you the blessings of a true disciple suffering for Christ sake. May we read those verses?
In Matthew 10.
Matthew 10.
32 and 33.
Matthew 1032.
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess before my Father, who is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father, which is in heaven.
And Hebrews?
11.
We ought not be ashamed, brethren. The Apostle Paul was not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.
For the power of God and salvation. But here we have another verse, Hebrews 11, verse 16.
But now they desire a better country, that is an heavenly. Wherefore, God is not ashamed. God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city.
May the Lord deliver us from shame.
From that kind of shame.
There were notice saying yesterday at the beginning, 18 first.
The order here that prayer.
Comes first and then.
The rejection and sufferings of Christ.
And then the question of discipleship.
We noticed too that the Lord was teaching his disciples here.
In grace.
Our brother spoke of grace this morning. It was in the Lord Jesus.
But when we speak of grace.
In regard to the Lord Jesus.
That's the altar of incense that floods the Tabernacle.
But when it comes to grace for ourselves, it's imparted to us.
The whole life of the Lord Jesus down here was a sweet savior to God.
But we received grace from him.
And if there's to be any discipleship at all, with us, I mean practically.
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It has to be on the ground of grace.
It doesn't come from the flesh, and that's what's important to see in this chapter.
Because the disciples using their own minds.
Missed his mind in these various illustrations we see.
And have read of this morning, and this will be true of us.
In our pathway here.
If we don't seek the Lord's face.
We'll never walk as true disciples because we notice that we are dead.
In ourselves, that which belonged to Adam, gone in God's sight, the So if there's to be any real service for Christ, it has to be on the ground of dependence.
We noticed that the Lord was praying and they were not praying so.
There they did not understand rejection.
And now we have prayer again. The Lord is praying again on the mount.
And notice the change that takes place.
When he prayed. And there's a little picture to us and to those disciples at that time.
That there will be a change in our lives when we pray we don't see it.
But the Spirit of God tells us there will be, and faith believes it.
And there won't be that change unless we pray. That's important to see.
Even with the Lord Jesus of man, it's seen here that when he prayed.
That which manifest itself outwardly countenance was changed, and so it will be with a believer. And so if we want.
To the discipleship, the testimony to be effective, it will have to be on the ground of a dependence on the Lord.
Can't be on the ground of something that I invent, some method I invent, or anything else. It has to be just pure dependence on the Lord, because there's nothing in ourselves.
And so we have here the prayer and in connection with the glory.
That has already been mentioned.
But before that, in this verse we first read.
For whosoever shall be ashamed of Maine, 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 Angel now these glories were mentioned yesterday.
But I just want to say this.
That one who has rejected him and his words.
He will be ashamed of them on that day.
That's an unbeliever.
But in that day.
Something will take place that has never taken place before.
And that is the full display of all God's glory and power.
That's what the name First Born really means.
When the Lord Jesus spoken of as the first born, Hebrews 1.
When he brings the first born into the world again.
Then the full power and the manifestation of glory with it will be seen for the first time in this universe.
Now, isn't it precious that you and I who believe his words and trust in him, will be there with him at that time?
The full manifestation of all the power and glory of God. He's the first born. He's the one to manifest them.
And you and I will know Jesus.
In that day and.
As is said in the Gospel of Matthew, he that has seen me.
Has seen the father.
We have that privilege now by faith.
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To see the Father, I say by faith.
How much that brings home to our hearts as we see the prodigal embrace by the Father.
The place of nearness and love. Now this is what gives us power for testimony.
It isn't a question of being able to read up, and that's important, but that's not the point.
Why was the testimony lost in Ephesus? Because.
They didn't have discernment. No, they had discernment. They noticed that there were false apostles.
Wasn't there the outward manifestations of the testimony? Yes.
But they had left their first love, that's why.
That's everything. You can have the shell with nothing in it.
And that's Christian profession. And even a believer can go on in this way without any joy, any soul, and there's no testimony.
And so it's lovely to see one who has that communion and goes forth from the presence of Jesus, because before he sent his disciples, he called them to himself, and they go forth from there. But now as we go on with this picture before us of the glory.
We're going to see the disciples still not laying hold.
What he would like to have them lay hold up because, brethren, they weren't praying. That's why you and I will not have proper understanding of the Scripture, the truth of God unless we go on independence.
Pray. Unless we read His word. And so it's important to learn the lesson of this chapter course today. And I believe that's the reason that there are so many trials among us, because we're at a distance from the Lord in our hearts, we're not walking close to Him. And so we find here that the disciples were in just that position.
And we notice here too, the word a in Matthew is 6. That's man's number. But eight brings us into a new thing. It's on the eighth day, Resurrection Day, that this is connected with. And so as we go along in the chapter, we'll see the importance of that as well. That is something entirely new and Luke's gospel.
Does not give us the ministry of Ephesians.
But Luke's ministry is the springboard for Paul's ministry, especially his prison physical Luke gives us.
Brother was Speaking of grace.
Luke gives us in Jesus.
Heavenly Grace.
Heavenly grace. It's that kind of grace that we'll experience through all eternity up there.
We get the little glimpses of it as we read about Jesus here.
We have a line of a hymn that says full the glory of the grace shining in the Savior's faith. That's the wonderful line there that Him. It's in the in that way, in grace, in the Savior, that we see glory today. And it's so important to to get a hold of grace and what it what it is and what it does.
And that there is nothing of self in it you're mentioning about love, one of the statements we've heard for years and enjoyed about that and it tips for self denial that we had yesterday.
After Who's this?
Likes to be served and thinks itself great. Love serves and is great. Now if we can learn that and we have the examples of that in the world around us, we're in a nice room in a nice building and buildings like this in the large cities are.
The favorite places?
Those who are wealthy.
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And they like to.
Be served. And they think themselves great. Well, that's more like Herod's world.
That we learn of in the Scripture.
That's the courts of this land and the world. That's where stealth would.
Put itself up on that pinnacle, and be served. But the Son of Man came not to be served, not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. He is the supreme and perfect example for us in this. And there he came into the world a meek and lowly man, serving and going on, misunderstood and not appreciated. And here in our chapter.
And here, even with those around him who had seen him and his works, they weren't apprehending this great. It's so important for us to get a hold of grace and what it is and what it does. I'd like to tell you a story that happened in Bolivia when I was with Bob about seven or eight years ago, who illustrated because it was such a great lesson to me.
And it fits with the gospel we've had a bit about. We were traveling.
Over to the eastern the western border of Bolivia, where you have to cross a Salt Lake. And it's the poorest part of the world I've ever been in.
And many dear brethren over there.
Where we came to a town, perhaps the best town in the region of all places. They had a university there. And so there were college people around, but still a very poor town. And we had with us Olino Bueno, 93 years old, now still serving the Lord, and along with us with a man named Enrique Garcia, who had been born over there in this place called.
Yeager, but we were carrying the gospel and ministry for the same. We came to this.
Which are done of them in secret.
But all things that are reproved or made manifest by the light, for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he says, Awake thou that sleepest, and rise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Or we can thank the Lord if he is waking us up. We are Speaking of all these things, trials, different things that the Lord is allowing among us. I believe it's His voice to us. Awake thou that sleep us rise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
How wonderful to have that light.
Is Christ giving us light? But if we want to walk in darkness, how can He shine upon us?
If we're not exercised, how can he give us light?
But the Lord knows how to wake us up. We thank God for His faithfulness. We thank the Lord for dealing with us in grace, dealing with us gently, tenderly.
All how He loves us, and He does want to manifest His light doors, He wants to give us light, and the light of the Lord will result result in joy and the power of the Spirit of God working in US, and the fruit of the Spirit being manifested.
And we need that fruit of the Spirit, and only God, by his grace, by spirit, can produce that fruit in us that's pleasing to him. Perhaps the Lord is preparing us for the rapture.
The supremacy of the Lord Jesus was touched on. It is such an important thing God here is putting his finger on that we should never equate the Lord Jesus with.
Any other, any being, I should say he is the Creator. He is preeminent in everything and God will have it always to be stole. The book of Colossians developed that very importantly and here on this occasion when the glory was revealed and the fact that there were men associated with the Lord seen there.
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Is such a comfort and encouragement to us, for we have the.
The heavenly side of the Kingdom as well as the earthly in this picture.
We have one man who was carried into heaven without passing through death.
Let's be lighter. And then we have Moses who it says God buried him. And this is a comfort to us today, who know the Lord Jesus and know the power that belongs to him, whereby he is able to substitute all things unto himself and bring forth in resurrection the bodies of sleeping Saints going clear back to Abel and perhaps Adam. And we'll do that and present.
Them with us changed we who won't pass through death. And this is our blessed hope. And we'll have that heavenly side of the Kingdom. And then there will be the earthly side which is typified by the three disciples. So the coming Kingdom in its heavenly and earthly side is portrayed here. But the preeminence of the Lord Jesus is maintained here fully and we ought to remember. Let's turn to Tom 100 and.
11.
And read the last two verses.
Because it's something that we should stand for the preeminence of the Lord Jesus that you stand alone when Peter later on.
Was used of God in the book of the act.
To open the door for the gentiles. We've just enjoyed this recently found home and it was pointed out that when Peter arrived at the House of Cornelius, Cornelius fell down to worship. Peter and Peter says arise stand up where I myself also am a man. They were Co equal Hornetus and Peter later on John in the Book of Revelation and this was pointed out.
That twice, perhaps in the last two chapters, at least toward the end of the buck, 19 and 21, I guess it is.
A John makes the mistake of falling down and worshipping an Angel.
Well, the Angel says.
I'm a servant too. That's what angels are. They're servants of God a little.
Higher than the creation of man. But that's all it said. Man is just a little lower than the Angel. They are servants of God who do his pity. So in those two occasions we are pointed to the fact that worship belongs to God and God alone. Now in the 111Th Psalm, the last two verses, he sent redemption unto his people. Who's the Redeemer?
He has commanded his covenant forever. Then what does it say? Holy?
And Reverend is his name.
Holy and Reverend is his name. Has that been corrupted and Christendom?
Do men take those names? They are reserved for the Redeemer.
Then it says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, all that put Christ preeminent and always above any preacher. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, a good understanding of all day that do his commandments. His praise endureth forever. We are the creatures that can praise him, but we must always maintain the absolute preeminence, supremacy of the Lord Jesus.
Now we see Peter is not praying. The Lord is praying. Again, Peter is not praying and so he doesn't know what he's saying.
He's saying all right, but he doesn't know what he's saying.
Says here.
Not knowing.
What? He said. Now that's solemn.
So it's possible one to.
To be in a position of an apostle, that is in the sense of testimony, means no apostles today.
But one who has been used even of God, and is in a place where he is being used of God and beyond communion, because he isn't praying, and he may say things unadvisedly with his lips.
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Because the blessing comes on the ground of dependence. No other way. He's not praying. When the Lord's praying again, second time in this chapter, and they're not praying.
And so we read. Also, when the voice was passed, Jesus was found alone. That's a good ending to this, isn't it? This portion of the chapter, because the Father now has spoken.
And the result is most and Elias disappear. Everything disappears from the eyes of the disciples but Jesus. And that's a good ending.
Now they kept these things close.
Until the 2nd Epistle of Peter. Then he speaks out, as we said, of the excellent glory.
And now when we leave these meetings.
We'll be back in our regular work, whatever it may be. We've been taken up with our jobs, school, whatever.
And we'll say, well, I've been at the conference. I certainly have a lot of power to, to live for Christ now because I've been at a conference. No, that isn't the case.
Because the disciples here were in the in this wonderful place of the glory.
And immediately in verse 37 on the next day, what happened?
When they were come down from the hill. We've been on the hill now for a few moments.
In our considerations much people met him, and behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master Ivy Seats. He looked upon my son for his, my only child.
And Lord Spirit take of him, and he suddenly crieth out, and it tear at him that he formeth again, and bruising him, hardly departed from him. And I besought by disciples to cast him out, and they could not.
Why couldn't they turn to the first verse of the chapter?
Then he called his 12 disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases.
Why couldn't they do it?
Prayer, all brethren.
No power in ourselves at all.
When we get away from the mercy seat, we're in trouble.
You'll see that with Abraham, when he went down in Egypt, there was number altar.
And he got in trouble.
Speaking of being on the hilltop.
I think we need to guard against this idea or feeling or thought or trend, whatever you might call it.
That we go to conferences.
And we live, as it were, from one conference to another.
And we just live on conferences.
But in between, what do we do? What are we living on?
We we go way down to the low level between conferences. What happened?
We are in touch with the Lord, perhaps a little more at a conference.
We're hearing the word of God. The Spirit of God is giving us what we need for our souls.
For being fed when touched with the Lord, and perhaps for a while we're in communion with the Lord. But what happens afterward?
The only way we can be sustained all through the week in the everyday, humdrum day of life.
Is to be in touch with the Lord.
To be expressing to him our dependence upon him. Because that's what praying is, expressing to him confidentially. Just like we're talking to someone here, face to face. He's so real to us, we're talking to him.
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And we're telling him about things. We're praising him for what he's done for. We're asking him for grace, for help. We're just simply having a little talk with him.
And then the day will go all right.
We used to sing a little chorus, a little talk with Jesus. Makes it right, all right.
Don't things go all right? Because we're missing that. Not just saying something to the Lord, not just repeating something out of habit, not just reading a little scripture out of habit, but being in touch with the Lord and really talking to Him face to face in tune with Him. That's what we need every day.
And every day can be just like a conference day if we're in that dependence on the Lord. I'm glad other brothers emphasizing that because it's so important, so important because look how it comes out in the scripture. I'm And again and there's failure when there's not dependence on the law with the last two first, the first Timothy four hit in with what you were saying.
Read it for us.
A little while to find the jewelry.
I Timothy 4.
The last two verses.
Meditate upon these things.
Give thyself.
Wholly to them.
That thy property may appear to all, take heed unto thyself unto the doctrine or teaching.
Continue in them for doing this. Thou shalt both save thyself and them that dearly. All that's good advice from Paul to Timothy, and to everyone of us.
What? These give us a rundown on that stubborn track of the Windstar on the farm.
I've enjoyed that a lot. We'll all enjoy it.
Well, after we'd come back from Africa in 1940, then I took up carpentry because.
I didn't want that title, Reverend, that he tacked on to me.
It reminded me of that when my brother read that first in Psalm 111.
So I went to work with my hand. The Lord took care of us, worked as a Carpenter for a while, and then we went to a farm. Well, I didn't have a lot of money to start farming, and I didn't even buy a tractor the first thing. I just bought four horses, and they were.
What are used? Bought some old farm machinery. Later on I got a small tractor.
Well, I've been doing work with that one day and it had been running fine.
And the next day I want to start the track well every morning.
The family would be together to read the word and to just express our dependence upon the law.
Well, this morning I had too much work to do.
I went out there to start the tractor. I had really shorted the Lord on the time I should spend with Him and really expressing our dependence upon him. But I went out in a hurry to start the track and it wouldn't start.
We usually spent about 30 minutes, half an hour, even in busy time, but this morning I thought I was too busy.
Then 1/2 an hour with the Lord.
I started.
Turn that cracker they never started on, just had to crank it.
But it wouldn't start. Took the magnetoire, cleaned that up, put it back on again till it wouldn't start.
And I tried again.
And after the 30 minutes had passed that should have been spent in the Lord's presence expressing dependence upon him and feasting upon his word.
After that, 30 minutes was gone. The track was started immediately. The Lord used that to speak to me.
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You didn't give me that 30 minutes and you couldn't have it either.
Well, what a lesson we have in our verse here that he sought disciples that cast him out and they could not Verse 40.
The reason was the disciples, although in the first verse we see they were given the power, they were not bringing in the the source of the power, and that's Christ. That's what's being emphasized here. And we have that brought out pretty clear in the in another.
Reference to this same same incident in Mark 9. And we have that man in Mark 9 bringing the sun with the dumb spirit.
And Jesus said the same thing in verse 19. Bring him unto me. That's why they couldn't cast out. They weren't bringing Christ into it. Bring him unto me. And when that man said in verse 22, If thou canst do anything.
Help. That's not faith. You see. He needed to have faith in Christ, and so the Lord gave him the faith. That's the grace we're talking about. And he said all things are possible to him that believe and that he said, Lord, I believe.
And of course the sun was healed because his faith was in that person. And Peter later learned that lesson. And I just mentioned in Acts 12 in Acts chapter 3 when Peter and John were at the temple and the beautiful gate and that that cripple there the beggar asked for alms and and Peter said silver and gold. Verse six, chapter 3 of Acts have I none?
But such as I have, I give thee now he's learned in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Rise up and walk.
It was healed in Mark 929. Two, brother. Amen. 929 Amen. That's a wonderful one. And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting.
That's what we're, you see, the source of all power is that one we can be connected with. And we can receive the power by prayer. But fasting brings in the heart, doesn't it? Reality.
Thank you, 151.