Mt. Tabor Conference: 2007
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Hebrews 10:1-12
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Xavier, come, we long to see thee, long to dwell with the above, and to know in full communion all the sweetness of thy love. Come, Lord Jesus, take thy waiting people home. 276.
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Problem.
Give me a long time to get the middle of the door and.
Oh God, I'm here.
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Good night to God and Father. We just give thanks for the privilege that we have to be here together.
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And understand all my words. Time to spend with each other, encourage each other.
The uh, just think of the thought of the same. Pray that our hearts would be occupied with the coming of our visas. We just pray that they will guide us.
No, no, I'm afraid that, uh.
What we take up was, uh, season 8.
And that each one of us here would, uh, consider these things in our souls, and that they may affect our lives.
Give thanks for Thy mercy, pray for those still traveling here and after returning mercies, and just pray that the Lord Jesus would be honored in this time, these few days.
His worthy name for Christ. Amen. Amen.
Would it be the mind of the brethren to take up the Hebrews Chapter 10? We're thinking about, uh.
Our Pilgrim journey and the throne of grace. Both of those subjects had taken up in the book of Hebrews at length would it be the mind of the brethren to.
Uh, uh, for, uh, this reading at least to recover Hebrews 10.
That would be nice.
Are you thinking of reading the whole chapter, John?
Umm, we won't get through the whole chapter this morning, but, uh.
Probably down to, uh, verse 2625 to 26.
Eboost chapter 10, beginning at verse one for the law, having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of things, can never, with those sacrifices which they offered year by year, continually make the commerce thereunto perfect for them, would they not have ceased to be offered because that the worshippers.
Once purged.
Should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of abodes and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he comes into the world, he says, sacrifice and offering. Thou wouldst not, but a body has Thou prepared me in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
Thou hast had no pleasure then said I lo, I come.
In the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will, O God above, when he said, sacrifice, and offering, and burnt offerings, and offering for sin, Thou wouldst not, neither has pleasure therein which are offered by the law. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God, he taketh away the 1St, that he may establish the 2nd.
By the which will we are sanctified to the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standards daily ministering and offering off times the same sacrifices which can never take away sins. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God.
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From henceforth expecting till His enemies be made His footstool 4 by 1 offering, He has perfected forever them that are sanctified, whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us. For after that He had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them, and their sins and iniquities.
Will I remember no more now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin, Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He had consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, His flesh.
And having a high priest over the House of God, let us draw on the air with a true heart in full assurance of faith. Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience in our bodies washed with pure water, let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, for He is faithful that promise. And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works, not forsaking.
The assembling of yourselves together, as the manner of some, is but exalting one another. And so much the more as we see the day approaching what we sin willfully. After that we have received the knowledge of the truth, There remaineth no more sacrifice for sins.
Perhaps we could say in, in as, uh, introductory remarks that the official to the Hebrews, uh, we assume the author, the Apostle Paul, although, uh, we don't have it stated as such. But, uh, as we probably all know, it deals with, uh, the contract between, umm, Judaism, which was just going to pass away and all the ritual connected with it.
A contrast between this that whole system of things which in its beginning was ordained of God, but became corrupted in the hands of man. And the apostle is exhorting them to appreciate the Christian position into which they had been brought.
Umm, so it's a contrast in the characteristic word in the epistle is better.
Christianity is so infinitely better in every aspect than Judaism ever was.
Here we have the priesthood, uh, brought before us, the priesthood of all believers. We have the perfection of the sacrifice of the Lord in contrast to the multiple sacrifices that were, uh, offered under Judaism, the rivers of blood that flowed and never gave peace of conscience. The apostle brings before us in a very, uh, remarkable umm.
And wise way the the fulfillment of all those types and shadows under Judaism, all fulfilled in Christ as the perfect sacrifice and the place of the privilege into which the believer has now been brought.
Uh, in the, to the throne of grace into the very presence of God within the veil, no longer, uh, a special class of, uh, people who only had the, uh, privilege of, uh, drawing near to God. The whole thing is a contrast. It's no longer just an outward, uh, system of things without a divine life.
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Because you didn't have to have a divine life to, to worship under Judaism, but uh, you must have a divine life in Christianity to enter into these things. And the perfection of the work of Christ, the position into which that work has brought us now.
Uh, as a purge worshippers, uh, no more conscience of sins, uh, accepted in, in Christ, all these things are.
Are brought before us very uh.
Very wisely by the apostle who had a a great knowledge of the Old Testament Scriptures, of course, and that he shows us the.
Characters of Christianity and a lot of Christians, you know, don't understand this because we're all around us. We have a mixture of Judaism and and Christianity.
They've taken certain things from Judaism and incorporated them into, uh, their, uh, their religious, uh, exercises. But it's totally contrary to the position into which grace has brought us as believers now, uh, within the veil and having this, uh, position of perfect acceptance before God through, uh, the work of Christ, so infinitely superior.
To any sacrifice that was offered in the old economy.
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The law is used in different ways in the scriptures.
Sometimes it means the.
The Law of Moses.
We read in John's Gospel the law came by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
And the law was a measuring stick for men to show man what God's requirements were.
Ultimately, God used the wall to show man that in his own strength he couldn't meet those requirements. But in a broader sense, the law refers to the word of God. So like in Psalm 119 that everyone, most everyone has read, Oh, how I love thy law. And the psalmist is just rehearsing over and over again how precious the word of God is to him, and he calls it the law. And so it's used there in a more general sense. And so we're not used to thinking of the Mosaic laws, something that promises good things.
Because the law measured me up and showed me that I fall short of the glory of God. And the gospel of the grace of God then comes in and shows me that there's a remedy for my deficiency for my sins.
But in a broader sense, the law is a picture contains within it pictures.
A blessing for man, God's heart for man. And so here in this first verse, the law is a shadow of good things to come. Goodness has always been in God's heart for man.
And in the law there was a shadow of those things. And what's been brought out now by the Lord Jesus Christ himself and our wonderful day is the very substance of which the shadow, just like a, a real thing making a shadow, it's the thing itself, the substance, the image, uh, the thing itself.
Under the Old Testament time, we find that all these, as our brother explained, the law or the word that was handed down to them, all pointed toward the Lord Jesus Christ of things to come. It points to the cross. Today we make a reference by looking back to the cross, don't we? So the two go hand in hand there. Sometimes we think the cross is the center of two eternities. Oh, that's exactly what it means by that. So here the law, all these things that they did to sacrifices.
The the, the consciousness of sin, that measuring stick as our brother mentioned there that showed how unrighteous man is before God and that the way out was to have bloodshed. So sacrifices were to be brought before God. And we'll go into more details about the four different sacrifices, but here it tells us that even though it was a provision that God has set up for men.
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It says here that.
In verse two there he said that, uh, for then what? They have not have ceased to be offered because the worshipper once purged should have had no more conscience of sin. But then it says in those sacrifices there's a remembrance to be made again each year. It wasn't perfect, it was just to look at as a temporary solution. But then there is that perfect sacrifice to come. The one further on in the chapter said how?
You in fact use the word.
That one offering he had perfected all the offerings of old.
To understand the word of God, sometimes we have to look at it this way. A lot of things that were written in the Old Testament, they didn't understand. They did it our traditions, they did it our off the way the law obliged them to do it. But then we have the New Testament, as some would say, things in the Old Testament that were hidden. It was revealed to us now in the in the New Testament and that that's why.
We should take both the Old and the New Testament together in order to understand the word of God. You know, some Christian would say, well, the Old Testament are the things of the past. We don't need to know that how warm it is. And we find in this chapter here we need to understand the types, the shadows, all these things that are pointed to the Lord Jesus Christ. Now as we look back to the cross, we will begin to understand more of what they're here for us.
I just remember that the apostle was writing to the Hebrews.
And then most likely Hebrews who had professed, they didn't try it. So we learned in the.
Umm for the 6th chapter and verse 12.
He said to when for the time he ought to be teachers.
That need that one teacher again would be the first principle of the Oracle of God.
Becomes such as I need of milk and that has gone meat.
We are going back to integrating the element of the Old Testament is they have received that from God. So you might say that they kind of had a leg to stand on to say well, pointing on to the law of most to command into the sacrifice of the temple. So I've given them that twice has been revealed. All these things were recognized as to be shadows and it's all in place. So from the beginning of Hebrews chapter one.
God speaking to us at the time he had spoken to us by the prophet in terms of wolves, but now his son.
Higher than the angels and through the chapters in the Hebrews he brings different elements that belong to their inheritance committee. Phase two and shows on prices better as John was traditional. So good to keep this in mind as we get to some of the harder verses in people 6 and 10 which are used in percentage today to.
Troubleshoot that two internal security and the possibility of loss of salvation. We have to remember that this hit missile is written to those who profess and O the Lord and some of them were turning back.
They perhaps in the back eye and follow the movement of the crowd and now they they, they have persecution and they got them something and so.
They were going back to the law and saying I don't want anything to do with this Jesus. And so just to keep this in mind after you go on and get on the chapter. And if you read this epistle that was written to those who had that light in the Old Testament today, brother was suggesting we enjoy what's being brought up here as we can be brought into the significance of those things, the Old Testament as they related and they foretold ahead of time.
Otherwise we do with drinks so and it suggests that thought.
That's a very important point to Michel because the apostle deals with, uh, that whole subject of profession in the epistle in, in several places. That is, uh, here were Jewish people who had all the oracles of God and the Old Testament scriptures in their hand and they were enlightened now with the truth of Christianity.
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It doesn't mean that they had embraced it.
But they had were enlightened with these truths and, uh, they were going back to Judaism. They made a profession.
Uh, they sinned, verse 26. They sinned willfully. After we have received the knowledge of the truth, doesn't mean they received the truth in their hearts. They had to know each of it. But here they were going back to that whole ritualistic system of Judaism.
Umm and uh, refusing to acknowledge the the sacrifice of Christ.
Then that was apostasy. There was no remedy for such a course as that. They were not true believers. And as our brother Michel mentioned, there are several passages that have been wrongly interpreted, one of them in our very chapter here, 2627. These people were not true believers. They had.
UMM refused the the sacrifice of Christ for their.
The remission of their sins and they were holding on to the whole old, the old order of things in Judaism.
Uh, and they were refusing the gospel of Christ, though they were professors, they had shown an interest, they were apostates. They remain as no more sacrificed for sins. And so the apostle contemplates this group of people throughout the epistle and he uses the word if more than once, if that is, that's the test, if we continue in the, uh, in the truth that has been revealed to us, if not like these, uh, people that we mentioned.
These professors. If not, it is a clear sign that there was not a divine work in the soul. That's in the 6th chapter and and other other places.
Sacrifices were repeated all the time, was a constant reminder that sin had not been completely dealt with. It was we understand, that was put on the Lord's account when He came, although that trusted in the Lord in the Old Testament, their sins hadn't been washed away yet. They were in the Lord's account. He had to come. And when He died on the cross, He paid for all those sins also as well as ours. So they had sacrifices and morning sacrifices and evening sacrifice sacrifices throughout the day.
Sacrifices for sin once a year on the Day of Atonement, they had sacrifices. It was the only way God could bear with these people, the constant reminder of His Holiness to be satisfied by shed blood and the Lord's ages comes 2000 years ago and you know, thousands of years after the law of Moses, he sheds his precious blood and God is satisfied forever. We have boldness to enter into the holiest of all by the blood of Christ, one sacrifice for sin, a perfect sacrifice in it. It has its value for us and it's precious to us who have received the Lord as our Savior.
How? How could we ever think that we would draw under foot the Son of God, having tasted in their measure for ourselves the value of that sacrifice and reconciling us to God?
Compare, if you will, the difference between someone having a disease, say like like a kidney failure. Sometimes people have that.
That happens to them and they have to go every other day, maybe every couple of days to be hooked up to a machine and sit there and have their blood cleansed, uh, mechanically by a machine. And they have to do that over and over and over again. If they didn't do that, they would die. So they're thankful for the, for the provision, but still it's, you know, going there and, and showing up and getting hooked up and all of that.
Uh, over and over again. And that's a little bit like.
The law, yes, there was that provision, but it reminded man that he had a need to be cleansed, that his sins were graciously passed over. But that's a far different thing than being taken away. And so compare, if you will, in, in our early versus, uh, the end of verse one, those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually.
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Uh can never make the commerce there unto perfect or complete.
Compared with that verse.
UH-14 for by one offering he priced hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. So the contrast medically would be and one day you show up and someone says I have a remedy for you that can cleanse you forever. You don't have to keep coming back and getting hooked up in the same way. You don't have to go through that. And that is the great contrast as John was speaking in the beginning between that which was put before.
The people of old, in the in the law, and us being now able to look back upon the finished work of Christ, He did a work for the Sinner. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.
He didn't just love the believer, he loved the world. And so he gave his son.
And Christ died for us. You have the authority of scripture to walk up to any man or woman in any country of any religion and say God loves you and Christ died for you.
But does that mean you'll get the blessing? Not necessarily.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. The provision has been made for for for all, for the whomsoever to come.
But when the person comes and puts their trust in Christ, they receive not just a couple of days worth of inoculation against sin or defilement or uncleanness, but they receive the forgiveness of their sins forever.
The previous chapter talks about they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
And in another place in Hebrews it speaks of eternal salvation and.
So that's what the believer now has.
He is judicially now pardoned forever before God.
Imagine what a judge would think if you went in and you were guilty. You confessed that you were guilty. And the judge says, I know you're guilty, I pronounced you guilty, but I have a way where I can righteously and justly pardon you. You are pardoned. Bam. And he bangs down the gavel.
And you come back the next week asking for the same thing. And he would say, you don't understand. I've given you a pardon forever. And in this case for all things. And that's a feeble analogy that I try to make for what the Scriptures explain to us, for the comfort and encouragement of our hearts as to what we now have in Christ in comparison to what the Saints even had before them in the Old Testament, perfected forever.
I was telling you that some that were here this morning about my friend.
Steve who got saved yesterday and after we ended our prayer.
And he and, you know, his mind is filled with the newness of all of this. He was raised Roman Catholic, and these things are flooding into his mind. And he says, well, what about confession? I'm getting out of the car. He says, do I have to go to confession?
I said, Steve, all your sins have been forgiven forever. You are a forgiven man forever. That's what you have.
And he's looking at me like.
Overwhelmed. And I said, But when you fail, if you fail, you need to speak to God like he's your friend.
Confess to him that you fail.
But he says he's already forgiven you. You have the forgiveness of sins. That's the one of the foundation blessings of every believer you have. Like you have a Bible in your lap. You have the forgiveness of sins as a present possession, and you have it forever. This chapter will get on more to explain that contrast. That's really where the Spirit of God, I believe, is heading in this portion of Scripture. The wonderful contrast between covering over or passing over something.
And the radical change of taking it away.
To be able to take care of all these, it's not just anybody.
The subject and the object of all is the Lord Jesus Christ, for who is he and why is he able to do all this? What about all the high priests that Israel old had? What about all the prophets of old? Did they qualify? Well, I believe this book, as he mentioned and you'll hear this word used a lot. The contrast and I believe the word is better is our brother put it. I'd just like to turn back a little bit so we can come right back to this chapter. If we were to look at the 1St chapter, we find that the chapter talked about here is this same Jesus that we're presenting.
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Chapter one if you look at it.
He was presented to us as the Son of God and we're not going to have time to go into that, but it is a nice thing for you, especially young, young people here to study that in detail when you get back. So he's presented to us as the Son of God. When you look over the chapter 2 of this book, now we have the Son of man being presented. You go over to chapter 3, then you'll find that.
He is presented to us as a high priest. That's why it says wherefore holy brethren, particular heavenly calling. It is considered the apostle and Thai priest of our profession, Jesus Christ. You go over to the fifth chapter. I'm just skipping some here. Then you see that he was being contrasted with the one the high priest that the Jews really reverence that Aaron himself and of course we know the result that is to show that he is better than Aaron.
Chapter 6 we commented quite a bit on already Chapter 9.
It takes it back to the Tabernacle of how God set up a communion so that God can dwell with men. But because of man sinned, there has to be remedy, and the remedy is the sacrifices. So now when it comes to our chapter in chapter 10, we see that the sacrifices that we as man made toward God is that He found no pleasure therein. But then those sacrifices.
Had a picture or shadow of things to come. Uh, let's go down here to verse, uh, five. Now, if you notice here, it's not a very long verse, but it has a lot of details of all those sacrifices of different types of sacrifices mentioned here. Let's read this again. Uh, I'm sorry, I should say verses 5 and six. Now let's see if we find as we read this at least.
Four different types.
Of sacrifices that represent the Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore when he comes into the world, he said So what did he say? He said sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not Ah, we learned there were two things here, the sacrifice and offerings. We find God didn't like it. He said, oh it's not, but a body has thou prepared me now just couple more sacrifices in the next verse.
That's here in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. Thou hast had no pleasure.
Well, there are I believe 4 sacrifices mentioned. Now the thought of the following verse, that's that He will come because He is the perfect one to do a velocity. These two verses. For the moment, we know that there are forced perhaps 5 sacrifices mentioned in the book of Leviticus in the first four chapters. We know that the 1St chapter talked about the burnt offering.
Right in the next chapter, talk about the meal offering or the meat offering and then the peace offering and then the.
4th one is the thin offering and as opposed, depending on how you look at it, some would say the fifth one is trespass offerings. Now here we noticed four are mentioned and I I'd like to cheat a little bit. I I'd like to look at it and look at verse six because it gives away two of them right away.
So we see it says here in burnt offerings. So we know it speaks of that and sacrifice sacrifices for sin. So we see the burnt offering and the sin offerings I mentioned here in verse 6. Then the other two we deduce back to it sacrifice and offering and I would presume one would be the meal offering or the meat offering.
And then the other one.
It's the peace offering. Now, just very briefly, I think others can comment better than I can in regard to the pictures of these offerings, but just in very, very simple, brief explanation, the burnt offering.
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That's an offering. If you read through it, all of it is OfferUp to God. Nothing was left for men. It was offered up as a sweet smelling favor to God. It's a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This perfectness in every way, all for God ascended up to God the Father.
Then we have the meal offering. Now the meal offering is a little bit different. Sometimes we'll call that the meat offering and the way I remember it is there is no meat in it at all. It was flowers, fine flowers.
We put oil on top of it or it says either on top or mingle in with it. So we see that as a picture of the perfectness of the Lord Jesus Christ as He walked in this world. The oil speaks of the picture of the Holy Ghost in dwelling Him or descended on him. So that's a picture again of the meal offering and then we have the peace offering.
Now that part of you read through it, you'll find that the priests get to share the meat from that the shoulder was offered up and so on. You'll find that it's a picture of fellowship, not making peace with God, not from that, but rather a picture of having fellowship. And then the last one, the sin offering is when someone have trespassed or committed a sin, they are to bring the sin offering or their I'm sorry to bring an offering.
As a sin offering.
Wonderful that we can.
Through the, uh, types and shadows of the Old Testament, with intelligence now the light of the New Testament shining upon it, we see these types and shadows, uh.
Uh, as replete. Filled with the beautiful, umm, references.
Shadows of the person of Christ and his work and his, uh, sacrifice person. All of this is brought before us. Like for the young people, it might be, uh, interesting to make an analogy. Your mother is away from you and, uh, you think of her often and you have a picture of her there. So someone comes into the house and you say, this is my dear mother. She's away for a number of months now.
But I remember her by this photograph. But when your mother comes home.
Uh, it would be very strange if you uh.
Uh, turned your back on your mother and, uh, what we're occupied with the, uh, the photograph of her. That wouldn't be normal, would it, if she was there present with you. Well, this is what, uh, Christians do who go back to Judaism when we have the substance and the fulfillment and the, uh.
The accomplishment of all these things now in the person and work of the Son of God, and that's what the apostle brings before us in Hebrews, starts off with the person of Christ.
Uh, he brings before the, uh, believers. The person of the Lord Jesus is the one who was the anti type, the fulfillment of all those types that were given by God in the Old Testament and umm.
Uh, it's a wilderness book. Uh, Hebrews doesn't bring before us the Church of God as the body of Christ doesn't even bring before us the believers as in the family of God. It is a wilderness book. And we are pilgrims going on to our heavenly inheritance and, uh, instruction for us, uh, along the way, uh.
But it's a marvelous epistle. The argument of the apostle is masterly. Uh, I saw sometimes say who else could have done it but the Apostle Paul. But if, uh, his name is not given because Christ is the object of the, of the book. But as our brother Bruce mentioned, if you go back to Romans, uh, three, that verse that he made reference to, I was just thinking maybe we could just, uh, have a short comment on it. Roman three and, uh.
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And verse umm 25.
Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation. That's a big word, but it just means satisfying the claims of God through faith in His blood to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past. While some people think, oh, that's my past sins that I've committed in my life, God has forgiven them all. That's not the thought there at all. The thought here is that all those Old Testament Saints, they were sinners. They needed to be born again.
Their sins were remitted, so to speak, on credit. God was looking on to the work that Christ would accomplish.
Just like I have a tremendous debt, $100,000 and uh, I can't pay it.
Uh, along comes a person and says, uh, John, I'm, I'll pay that debt for you while my creditor says, oh, I know this person that has, uh, made the offer. I know him to be, uh, an upright, honest man. And uh, seeing that he has vouched for you, uh, we will just pass over that debt because I know it's going to be paid in the future because I know this, the character of this man who is offered.
That is the way it was with the Old Testament Saints. They were saved because God was looking on to the work of Christ that would be accomplished and therefore He passed over their sins. Uh.
We wouldn't. We wouldn't say they were justified, but they were passed over in view of the work that would be accomplished. They were covered meaning atonement. Actually, they were covered in view of that work that would be accomplished at Calvary.
Is precious too, to see at the cross that how God look at it and he he views it to us through these offerings of old. You know often in the Gospel we present that Christ died for our sins and we present about the sufferings and rightly so, the suffering of the crops, suffering at the hands of man, suffering at the hands of God. Those three hours of darkness you that of his ghost and forced the glorious resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But we ought to also look at in terms of these offerings of old because he fulfilled God, anticipated all these throughout the centuries, looking forward to the cross. You recall we talked about these four offerings. The burnt offering is how God looked at the Lord Jesus Christ. It's that perfect one, you know, to think of him. We talk about the Son of God, the Son of man. What? Let's think about that for a moment, how the Son of God, that's who he is.
Came into this world so that he can become the Son of man.
The fact that he became the Son of man is because the sons of man, that's us, isn't it, can become the sons of God. So we think about that, how the Son of God became the Son of man so that we as the sons of man can become the Son of God. And all that because of the finished work at the cross. Well, the burnt offering was to God. God will find in the Old Testament time that God came and consumed.
The sacrifices, fire came down from heaven would consume those sacrifices here at the cross, the sacrifice itself, the Lord Jesus Christ, he consumed God's judgment, didn't he? So the burnt offering. Now it's interesting at the cross, if you remember, the Lord Jesus yielded up his ghost at 3:00 that afternoon. Our brother mentioned about the offerings of all the burnt offerings. They were to do it continually twice a day, one day.
I understand under the Jewish economy, the morning and the evening, the evening burn offering is to be offered up at 3:00 in the afternoon. That's when the evenings start. At that time, oh what a picture. The Lord we God reminded us that his Son was that perfect burnt offering. There's no other burnt offerings in the past could replace none of the blood that was shed as we sometimes sing in on Jewish Quarters Lane. None of that could take away sin.
Could make God be satisfied. What a beautiful picture, the meal offering that we talked about, the walk, the perfect life that he had had exhibited at the cross. When they were even put on there. They couldn't call him, uh, condemn him in any way. They would have to say the king of the Jews there, even the centurion, the soldier at the end would cry out, truly, this is the Son of God. What a testimony in a sense of that meal offering or the meat offering. His perfectness, not a single flaw with him.
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Without blemish, without spot and then the peace offering. Well, we find that even at the hour before he died, he would commit his mother, he would commit his brother to into proper hand. And then it's interesting about the sin offering. We, we don't quite have the thought, uh, in this chapter, but it in later on. Let's go to chapter 13 of Hebrews for a minute.
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Chapter 13 of Hebrew verse 11.
For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the the sanctuary by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Now you have to go back and look at the offerings. First of all, the sin offering is kind of interesting.
You go back and then you'll find that the person that brings the same offering in is the person that has to kill that offering the offer.
Has to kill the offer range. After the offering is killed, the blood is drained in front of the octave and then it starts and then for sin offering the animal STB, the body I should say of that animal STB brought out outside the camp to a clean place.
What did our Lord Jesus do? He was led outside Jerusalem, didn't he, to a place called the Place of Skull. There He shed his blood. He died for us. He was the opera and the offering both. He. He yielded up his life, He said in John 10. I believe it is therefore that my Father loved me, because he said he lay down his life, that He may take it again. Oh, what a perfect picture to see all this He knew beforehand.
And then in verse 7, then he can say, then he said, I slow, I come to do, I'm sorry, I will, I come to do thy will. O God, knowing full well what was ahead of him, knowing full well that he will fulfill what Scripture has to say in regard to his life, that he was the obedient 1 unto God the Father.
I'd like to uh make a comment in connection with uh.
With what the people of God were used to.
There's a, there's a lot of young folks here and, umm, if umm, we could listen up just for a moment here and, uh, and get exactly what the apostle is bringing before the people of God because they're used to something.
You know, we get used to doing something and it's not that easy to change. It's not real easy. And I, I, I see that as I get older that the longer I've been doing something, the harder it is for me to get dislodged off of that to doing something else.
Uh, we're, we're creatures of habit, we're creatures of routine. And the longer we're in the routine, the more difficult it is for us to change. So here in Hebrews, the apostle is bringing before the people of God something that they know and something that they're used to and showing them what is better. And I'd like to go back to, uh, the book of Leviticus for a moment, just to, just before you get there, we'll look at a few verses here.
But to go back to both of Leviticus and to see one of the rituals that the apostle is bringing out here and showing how much better the people of God at the present time have over what they had before. And so here in, in you have the whole book of Hebrews. But if you go to the previous chapter in the seventh verse, we have the second went to High Creek alone once every year. So this is not the daily sacrifice, uh, we, we've spoken about, which we do have in our chapter, but the yearly sacrifice. We have it in the umm.
In the, uh, third verse of our chapter, chapter 10. But in those sacrifices there is remembrance, uh, again, made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulletin of goats should take away sins. Now let's go back to Leviticus chapter 16 and just to see what the people of God were used to.
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Leviticus Chapter 16 And as, as we've had, uh, Dave brought before us, there was a burnt offering in the morning, there was a burnt offering in the evening. There was the sacrifices that uh, umm, were continually made. But the day that we're going to speak up now was umm.
Was a day that only came once in a year, and it was a big event. It was an event that everybody's attention was, umm, uh, it attracted everyone's attention because it affected everyone.
So everybody get, everybody gathers around and everybody is extremely interested in exactly what's to take place here once a year. And we find it in Leviticus 16. So in the second verse it says, the Lord says unto Moses, speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil before the mercy seat. That's what we had in our prayer meeting, which is upon the ark, that he died not, for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
Now in verse five it says, and he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel, two kids of the goats for a sin of.
And one ramp for a burn offering. So just picture the scene here. All the people are gathered around, everyone's gathered around and there's two goats that are selected.
And we find a reason. Air and Shell offers Bullock upon one, umm, one offering verse 6, which is for himself and making a tone for himself and for the house. He shall take the two goers. Now let's just pay attention to these two goats and present them before the Lord at the door of the Tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats, one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
And Aaron shall bring the goat, which is, which is the Lord, which the Lord's thought fell on, offer him for a sin offering. But the goals on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Now let's go to Umm.
That the goat is killed. And uh, in verse 14, he shall take of the blood of the bullet and sprinkle with his finger upon a mercy to eat through it. And before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle the blood with his fingers seven times. UH-15 And he shall take the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with the blood as he did with the blood of the bullet, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat. And he shall make an atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
Because of their transgression.
And uh, let's go now to, uh.
Verse 20.
So here's these two goats. One has been killed.
His blood has been spilled, and now we read when he has made an end of reconciling the holy place in the Tabernacle of the congregation, the altar, he shall bring the live goat, and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel. Now this is what the people of God were used to on a yearly basis. All their things were taken on that day, which was a momentous day. They're all there. They're all very interested in it, and all the sins of the people are confessed on the head of this live ghost.
And all our transgressors and all their sins, putting them upon the head of the ghost, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness. So here's all the sins. They're confessed on the head of the live ghost, and they've selected a man that's a fit man.
They just didn't take any anybody. They got a man that was a fit man, a strong man that could take this goat, and they were to take you to take him into the wilderness. And it says there he was to be taken. The goat shall bear. Verse 22. The goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities into a land not inhabited, and he shall let the let go that go in the wilderness. So here's this ghost is to be taken into a land not inhabited, and the sins of the people are never to be found because there's nobody there to find them.
And they're PLA, they're placed on this coat. This coat is gone. This is what the people of God are used to now. I used to wonder in my mind, you know, what happened if the next morning this goat came tripping back into the into the camp.
You know.
It would have been great consternation, people that think, you know, at the end of every year, this time every year that this boat was plain and it was very, it was real interest that the people of God would listen to hear Aaron going into the holy place. He only did that once a year.
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Within the bail went into the mercy seat. Prince of the blood on us. You know, they could perhaps hear those golden bells ring and they knew he was still alive. And then he came out and they thought, oh, what a relief. Another year, our sins gone. And then they go through that same ritual another year, year after year. Well, what if that book came back?
You know, we don't read that never came back, but what a third would have made. But you know, this is what the people of God were used to. And so the apostle takes up his pen and he writes to the Hebrews. Let's go back down to our chapter.
He writes these things as he starts off the chapter by by saying for the law having a shadow of good things to come. So these things were a shadow. The people of God went year after year through this ritual, but it was only a shadow. And the concept of change is not that easy for us. And so we find in the in the 12Th verse. But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sin forever, sat down on the right hand of God. You know, I appreciated Bruce. He was talking about Steve and saying, yeah, my things are given. But what about confession? You know, we get stooped in a in a line of things and it's difficult for us to be dislodged and that that can keep coming up.
To get deliverance is sometimes not that easy and I'm sure it wasn't like that for the people of God here.
But all the apostle brings out, you know, this has been done once and the Lord has sat down. The boat's never gonna come back in. There's no wondering as to whether the sins are dealt with. They're dealt with once for all, forever gone. What a position that we have to see here this morning. Beautiful, the apostles to bring these things before us and recognize they're gone, forever gone. God is satisfied with the work that the Lord Jesus has done.
So the Lord Jesus himself is pictured in both those goats, isn't he?
The goat that was slain, and he's the goat, so to speak, that takes the sins away into a land uninhabited, never to be seen again.
So in our 12Th verse, after he has offered one sacrifice for sins, forever sat down on the right hand of God.
There is only one man who has been raised out from among the dead.
And that's the Lord Jesus Christ.
The resurrection of the just has already started. It happens in several installments and the first installment has already taken place.
The Lord Jesus Christ is not dead anymore. He's risen, and not only has He risen, but he has gone to sit on the right hand of God as a man.
And this just if you're troubled about your sins or troubled about.
Your sins coming back or somehow doubling around like David said he used to. I never thought about that go coming back, but evidently you did. But there's other people probably who think about other things that could come back. Well, we know that the Lord Jesus bore our sins. They were placed upon him, and God punished him as as if He were the one that was guilty of them, that He might be our substitute, that we might be righteously set free.
It's possible to be set free from something, but for someone to do it unrighteously?
But God has set us free righteously, because the Lord Jesus has answered for all our sins. And so perfect and complete and finished was the work on Calvary's cross that he has raised out from among all the rest of the dead and given glory by God.
And he ascends up as a man into the presence of God. And what do we know? What have we learned about the presence of God? We know and have learned that sin cannot be there.
The profit Habakkuk tells us that God is of two pure eyes than to look upon iniquity.
And sin cannot exist in his presence.
So here's the man who wants bore our sins.
He died for us before the penalty of sin bore the wrath of God.
And exhausted at all.
And then rises victorious and takes his place now in the very presence of God, as a man sitting upon the throne of God. And that's where he is today. There's one man in glory, and soon he's going to come back and he's going to fill heaven.
With a redeem, God's house is going to be a happy place filled with happy, redeemed souls.
And the Lord Jesus is going to see.
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The fruit of the travail of the soul. And he's going to be satisfied. He's going to be the man of joy in that day. And so perfect is his work for you and me that God has accepted him into that place. It's a further proof that God has been satisfied with the work that the Lord Jesus did with respect to our sins. Our sins are gone. The Lord Jesus is now in heaven.
When we look at, when we look at sacrifices here, it's good to think of what we talked about since being forgiven, But I believe it's more than that. That's why we're, the very distinctions of the four or five different offerings is also the walk that we have. And I believe a lot of Christians today forget that how we ought to walk before God is just as important. Uh, let's, let's turn back to Leviticus. I know our time is, is running short, but then we started about 5 minutes or 10 minutes late. So I suppose we could take the liberty to be a few more minutes over.
Umm, Le Leviticus chapter 6. If you go to that chapter, you'll find that the law, as they call it, the law of the, uh, meal offering. And I believe there's some instructions in there for us as to our walk as we deem one, not just as the sinners. I'm just gonna read a few verses to get the connecting thoughts. Uh, I'll begin at verse 14. And this is the law of the meat offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord, before the altar.
And he shall take of it his handful of the flower of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for sweet savour, savour even the memorial of it unto the Lord. And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat with leavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place, in the court of the Tabernacle of the congregation.
They shall eat it. Well, we just stopped there to get a few thoughts. Here we saw the fact that here Aaron's, the sons of Aaron's. I believe the sons of Aaron's is a picture of the believers. Now they have a portion to this meal offering which is priced. Do we partake of Christ? Do we enjoy the Lord Jesus Christ? Not long ago someone said to me how zealous they were with the gospel work.
In fact, they were a little upset that others are doing more work than they are and we'll have to remind them that the work we should wait when the Lord call upon us to do, but at the meantime, are you enjoying the Lord Jesus Christ the meal offering are you thinking of is perfectness is perfect walk is that in your heart? Have you noticed here that this when they bring in the meal offerings the priest.
Actually take some of it out, a handful of that is taken out for the priests to consume. Now where are they to consume? They couldn't take this back to the home and say here I got some of this for you. If you notice here it says that they are to eat of that casino. I can find verse 16. Let's look at that again. A lot of part of verse 16 each be eaten in the holy place.
In the quarter of the Tabernacle of the congregation, they shall eat it. Now Brother David talked about inside the Holy of Holies that they can go on once a year. Now here they have to eat at the Holy Place.
To enjoy Christ, brethren, we need to be where the Lord is. I believe it's a very important principle from the Word of God. We don't just go anywhere and say we can enjoy him fully. Yes, we can enjoy the thought of the Lord Jesus Christ anywhere, but is it the same as it has presented to us here in the picture of the meal offering that we're to enjoy that at the place that He chose to place His name at the court of the Tabernacle?
And in the Holy place, it's where we can truly grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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And umm, yeah.
We're all strong again. We're going to do that and it's going to be a lot of problems again and then.
All over the place. We're all going to ring my parents and everything from the rest of the restaurant and I'm going to go home and then I'm going to play.
OK, OK. No, I'm really good at all right now. I'm not going to go.
Right.
Well, I'll drink well over here, so I'm trying to go home and everything.
And ourselves, our God and our Father.
We thank you this morning for this time together. We thank you for that precious Word, for Thy Spirit to teach us from its pages.
And we thank you, Father, for.
My beloved Son, our Lord Jesus.
For the sacrifice of himself.
Father's Week.
Spoken of these things, these different aspects of the same sacrifice we pray that would give us in our hearts.
A sense of that value, that infinite value before the Father satisfies Forever, glorified forever we're blessed forever, sanctified forever. Father give us the value. That view of Calgary give us the value of that one.
We gave the sacrifice of himself for thee and for us. We thank you for this Father. We pray Thy blessing and the rest of our time together. We thank you for Thy love, Father, and his most worthy and precious name. Amen. Amen.
Hebrews 10:23-38
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Lord, help our God and Father.
Forgot to open thy word again and we would ask thy help to.
Understand it to apply it in our lives.
Praise out, warm our hearts as we read it. Think on Thy things for the next little while.
Thanks and ask these things. Never. Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
The brethren want to go on with the 10th of Hebrews.
Rather have another exercise.
Maybe it would be good to.
Start down verse 23 and.
No, it's not our custom, but if we pick it up in a more summary manner, we might be able to get down to the end of the chapter.
Hebrews, chapter 10.
Beginning at verse 23.
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith with our wavering, for He is faithful with that promise. And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works, not forsaking the assembling of your of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exalting one another. And so much the more as you see the day approaching. For if we sin willfully, after that we have received the knowledge of the truth.
There remained no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despise Moses law died without mercy under two or three witnesses. Of how much sorrow punishment suppose he? Shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God?
And have counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified and unholy thing, and have done despite unto the Spirit of grace. For we know him that that hath said Vengeancey is belongeth unto me. I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again the Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
But call to remembrance the former days in which after you were eliminated.
He endured a great fight of afflictions, partly whilst you were made a gazing stock, both by reproaches and afflictions, and partly while he became companions of them that were so used. For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that.
You have in heaven a better.
And and enduring substance cast not our way, therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise for yet a little while. And he that shall come will come, and will not tarry now that just shall live by faith. For if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
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But we are not a family who draw back into partition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
My remark that, uh.
The Passage.
The earlier part of the chapter.
Deals with the, uh, subject of sanctification.
Which we have in uh.
Verse 14.
Whereby one offering he has perfected forever. Them that are sanctified.
It's in other passages too.
But sanctification in the book of Hebrews has the positional absolute aspect.
It's not the thought of progressing in the holiness as some other scriptures are.
Sanctification is looked at in two ways in Scripture, basically as a position that we have been brought into through the, uh, the finished work of Christ.
Which does not change. It doesn't. There's no growth in the sanctification that is mentioned here. It's our position before God as separate.
Uh delivered from judgment.
Perfectly fitted through the, uh, work of Christ, never to be brought into condemnation. That's the sanctification that Hebrews looks at. Now, there is an aspect of sanctification which, which really means separation from evil, that is progressive. That's first Thessalonians 5. Pray God that your whole spirit, soul and body be sanctified. We should be more sanctified from the world.
And from sin this year than we were last year. That is something that is ongoing, but not the aspect that the apostle deals with in our chapter here. That is perfection, perfectly fitted, sanctified for the very presence of God. You're not more fit for heaven.
Now after being a Christian for 40 years than you were the night that you were saved, at that point you were sanctified, set apart for glory. That's, uh, it's a in Hebrews, you have a perfect work done by a perfect person to give the believer a perfect standing before God. That's that you could say sums up the book of Hebrews.
And so the perfection we have here, as our brother mentioned as to our guilt, uh, we're perfectly justified. We're, uh, we have a standing before God that is perfect through the work of Christ and umm, and that's what uh, the Spirit of God would have us to enter into and to enjoy.
And uh, another point that we might mention, the incarnation is brought before us in the earlier part of the chapter.
Which we didn't comment on this morning where it says that.
Umm inverse umm 5 Sacrifice and offering thou would is not but a body. Hast thou prepared me? So the Lord Jesus took a perfect, perfectly human body that was capable of death, but it was not subject to death.
And in that body, which we call the incarnation, the Lord accomplished the will of God and he accomplished the work of redemption in that body. But we are not saved through the incarnation of Christ. It was necessary, and it's marvelous to know that the Lord Jesus stooped and became a man. That's the very, very essence of salvation, redemption through the the work of Christ and through his.
Entrance into this world.
But we are only saved through that sacrifice that put away sin from the sight of a holy God.
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Going back to the, uh, Day of Atonement that was brought out earlier, the high priest had special garments that were given to him called garments of glory and beauty. And in the New Testament, in Hebrews chapter 2 speaks of seeing the Lord Jesus by faith crowned with glory and honor. And it's really the same words there in Greek and Exodus. It's, uh, in Hebrew, garments of glory and honor, glory and beauty, the same thing.
But he laid aside those garments on the Day of Atonement, and he put on linen garments because it was going to be a special work. So not only has this brought out earlier, the sacrifices are a picture of the Lord Jesus and His work, but the priest there as well.
Is a picture of the work of Christ, and so the priest, High priest would go in with the blood.
Of the sacrifice he would go in and take a sensor filled with coals from the altar, burnt offering, and he would put incense on those coals, and in the cloud of that incense, and with the blood of the sacrifice he would go into the most holy place with those linen garments. And it speaks of the work of Christ presented before God, and all the fragrance of His person in that instance, and his atoning death and.
The Israelites would wait outside.
For the priests to reappear. And you know, if he didn't reappear, then he had met the same end as those wicked sons of Aaron who offered strange fire before the Lord, and they were consumed before the Lord. But if he reappeared again, then they knew that that sacrifice was accepted, and so he would go in, in the way prescribed in Leviticus 16.
And come back out again after that work was done. Well, the Lord Jesus has entered into the holy place is not made with hands, we read in Hebrews, but into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us. But he hasn't come out again.
And in a certain sense, Israel, uh, saw him. The last they saw him was on that cross. And, uh, he's gone back into heaven itself. And they have not yet seen him again. And they will not know until the day that he appears in this world again.
The fullness of the work that he accomplished at Calvary and the blessing that they're going to be brought into because of it. But what about us?
God is not satisfied for us to wait until that day He appears again in this world, but we're brought into the holy place itself as well. And so the need for sanctification being set apart in holiness, as we have in verse 22, let us draw near why He wants us near to him for the satisfaction of his own heart. And so through that work of Christ, we're sanctified. We're set apart.
And in a priesthood that each one of us has been placed in, were brought into that most holy place, into the very presence of God by faith. And so verse 22, let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience in our bodies washed with pure water, there is not only the sprinkled blood, but there was a labor in which the priest was to wash.
And if we would look at the first epistle of John and the 5th chapter, we read that this is he that came by water and by blood, not by water only, but by water and by blood not only or moral purification. That's what the water speaks of, our bodies washed in pure water. That's one aspect of the work of the cross. There's moral purification not by water only though, but by water and by blood, because the blood is put away our sin from before the sight of God.
That water is for moral cleansing in our own eyes and before others.
Both are part of the work of Calvary. And so when that spear pierced his side, it says there came forth blood and water. And through that finished work we've been fitted, sanctified, set apart. Romans takes up justification Hebrews or justification Hebrews is sanctification made fit to go into that holy place. He wants us near to him.
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We used to hear more about the difference that.
That John just laid out for us a few minutes ago between.
That which is true of every believer as to our standing and our everyday state.
And it would be good for us to keep this more in mind because the pattern in scripture.
Is 180° different from religions? Religion says you do these practical things and maybe you can get to be this.
Uh, but the gospel of the grace of God, unlike the law, hasn't come looking for something in man, and it has come to bring something to man. The grace of God which brings salvation hath appeared to all. And so the gospel is such good news because it brings something to me that I never could have had.
And through the laying hold by faith of the work of Christ I made, I'm given a standing of righteousness. I'm I'm giving given a standing of guiltlessness before God. I'm justified. And as John put so nicely, I've been set apart into a place of blessing. That's what each one of us is. We don't have that more than each other. We all have that same standing, each one of us the same. It can't be improved upon.
It can't be less. And as we get hold of that more and more, it constrains our hearts really. The love of Christ constrains us in response to this wonderful position we've been given into to give us a desire that in practical things our life would be different. So, and you'll notice this pattern in the New Testament. This is what you are, the Lord would say to us. This is what I've done for you. Now therefore, and the practical side flows out.
In their life and from the heart, once we get established in the wonderful position we've been given by grace. I love the way it says in that hymn. I can't remember which one it is in the little flock, but we stand accepted in the place that none but Christ could claim. He won. A place he won. As a victorious man, He won.
A profound place. As a man before God, we are assigned that place.
And it's in the sense of that that Christian exhortations are given to us of a practical character and the.
Portion of the chapter that we started into with verse 22 and 23 and 24 as at least in the English language, these lettuces and these are our response to the position we've been brought into through grace. Let us draw near as Steven elaborated on in verse 23. Let us hold fast in verse 24. Let us consider one another.
So it's important to get that order right and.
A Christian can fall back in their conscience to the old way because naturally we say, ah, the old wine is better. We all tend to have legality in our hearts and even as a Christian, and we're established and we understand the gospel. But in our practical life we can put ourselves under law. Oh, God is not gonna be very good to me because I haven't been very good myself. And we put ourselves under the law and we and we and we.
Go backwards that way.
You know, we, we don't wanna go back there anymore and we want to go forward. And the way to go forward is to as I used to listen when I was building my, one of my houses, I listened to these old tapes of brothers that went to be with the Lord before I was even saved. And this one brother, his name I won't mention. He said, he says don't try to love the Lord any more than you do. Sit down and realize how much he loves you. Well, that's the spirit that and other comments like that that he made is the spirit that will propel us forward.
Happily, in a happy and a fruitful Christian life, walking in liberty before God.
Those exhortations that you mentioned let honestly do not have a legal connotation.
Uh, the apostle is really drawing a contrast between the whole legal system that the Jew was under. Do this and thou shalt live.
Uh, were not brought to, uh, Mount Sinai with all its fiery indignation, but we now have liberty, not liberty to, uh, to sin. God is still holy. His nature hasn't changed. But now we have liberty, as the apostle says here to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, liberty to serve God, liberty to worship because we have a divine nature that loves to do those things.
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The old nature cannot keep the law, the new nature doesn't need a law. So we are brought into this place of nearness, liberty of soul, not liberty for sin. Let us underline that. No, God doesn't, doesn't.
Consider, contemplate a believer wanting to sin that we that we are called upon to judge unsparingly in our lives, but to allow the new nature to to operate to to be active in our pathway.
Brings liberty and joy in debt and Christian Christian position. We have that position, but to enjoy it in our souls practically is what, uh, God would have us to do.
LED us these words of exhortation here are action words aren't they Christianity is faith but faith has to go along will work at the same time but I believe here too. It also give us the godly order. There are quite a few things that they mentioned here and it's like many things in life when we take things out of order then chaos happens. Let's go back and look at this I believe in verse 19 the first thing that we have to have assurance in our heart.
To essentially having therefore, brethren.
Boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. Is there any souls here this afternoon do not have that assurance? The assurance that the Lord Jesus has finished the work on the cross for us and that is blood has washed your way our sins and that we're no longer under the law. Where we have been reminded how the high priest can only go in to the Holy of Holies once a year. Do we have the assurance that now the veil has been rent?
And then now.
We can have our sole draw near until that we, we must have that as our foundation, believing that now we can join. I then in verse 21 is this and having, uh, a high priest over the House of God, Let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith. Well, the rest is secondary, isn't it? Here's the 1St and fundamental that we must have that assurance. Are you still doubting about the eternal security of your soul if you are the rest?
Is not is is going to be harder to live up to and you might say, well, I believe in this. Oh, I'm glad that you are because the word of God give us that assurance. Well then what's next? Now that you fully believe in your heart, The first thing is to let us draw near what a true heart. Then the next one is that let us hold fast.
Then the one after that is let us consider one another. Well, hold fast.
Well, you have to have something before you can hold fast to it. Otherwise what are you holding fast to in this particular case here with hole to hold fast to the profession of our faith without wavering. Do we believe that and it tells us in brackets that he is faithful that promise. Do we believe that? How often do we tell other people and encourage other and say, you know, miracles do happen. The Lord do take care of us.
And then when circumstances come into our lives, then we find that it's so difficult to believe that for ourselves. What do we truly hold fast to this profession of faith? And then once we have that, then it's easier to say, let us consider one another to provoke and to love and to good work. You know, often we only look at the other person and say.
Well, I don't know why he's not behaving the way he ought to. Well, we pick fault, but we forget that if we only look at that as the first object.
Then the thing that should have come back to our own hearts, that we're provoking one another in July into good work. Love begins from our heart. In fact, let's turn over to the next chapter in Hebrews chapter 13. We find that in that chapter.
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The apostle tells us this is that lead brotherly love continue. Well, again, for it to continue, it must have been there first. And I remember another brother of Osed. If you don't feel that there is love where you are, then the responsibility is on you. You're the one that should show love rather than saying, well, there's no love in that assembly. There's no love in that place. What about you? It's interesting too, in this particular passage.
We find that these divisions of chapters and verses have been added by men is another pro brother put it if you were to read the last verse of chapter 12 and the first verse of chapter 13 together, then you'll see how important this this love is. Now let's let's read that together. Let's see if we can see a different context here. Verse 29 for our God is a consuming fire that brotherly love continue.
Oh, what a difference. We have a God who is a consuming fire, but yet he demands us to let brotherly love continue. Now then, there's one more order. So you may say, well, I understand that I now have full access into this only place behind the veil. We can hold fast to the professions of this faith and we will consider one another. And then what is the next thing? And the next verse in verse 25. Perhaps a lot of us would have to bow our head in shame as we read this verse because collectively.
Our testimony may not reflect that.
Not forsaking.
The assembling of ourselves together as the manner of summits, but exhorting one another, and so much to more as you see the day approaching.
You know, it's sad, isn't it? As we look at the assembly meetings, it's sad when we go to a prayer meeting and find that perhaps there are a lot less people at the prayer meeting than there are on Lord's Day morning. Is that isn't it?
But why is it so? Why our hearts often grow cold? Or perhaps our heart gets so occupied with the cares of this world. Now, if we think back of this as a process, then often we can look back and see the result of not following the godly order. Perhaps we've forgotten the preciousness of the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Perhaps we are wavering with our faith. Perhaps.
We haven't been considering one another, and the result is perhaps that lead us into forsaking the assembling of ourselves together. Or how much more we need to look to the Lord and realize that we, by ourselves, cannot do any of this. We need His help.
And we need to be before Him, to put that desire in our hearts to seek after Him.
It's very important to see that, uh, Hebrews develops also the priesthood of all believers. In the Old Testament, that was not the case. There was a family set apart family of Aaron who had the privilege of ministering in the sanctuary and no one else on pain of death could enter that office. But this is not so in Christianity. Every believer here.
In the uh assembly.
Sisters as well as brothers are holy priests. We are a holy priesthood to OfferUp spiritual sacrifices to God. It's not a question of gift or ability or office or anything like that. You are a priest with liberty, allness to enter into the holiest. And we have one who, uh, uh, to all our prayers and praises, He adds his sweet perfume.
So to offer a word of thanks or prayer in the assembly is the exercise of your priesthood. Young brothers don't need to have that a lot of years of experience before they stand up and give a a word of thanks in the meeting. It's not a question of gift or experience. You are a priest and fitted for the very presence of God through the work of Christ in prayer or in praise. You have that privilege.
Now there is gift in the assembled, most definitely, but that's a different subject. Gift has been given by an ascended Christ. We recognize those who have a gift, they minister publicly. The Sister isn't given that position publicly, but that is gift and office are not the same as priesthood. I just thought I'd mention that I remember Brother Gordon Hayhoe who gave the best illustration that I know of in connection with.
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Boldness to enter into the holiest or I think he was commenting on the 4th chapter.
The 4th chapter and the last verse of the 4th chapter, it might be a help to the younger people. Uh, let us therefore, verse 16 of the 4th chapter. Let us, uh, let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Chapter four, he said that a young boy.
He may, uh, come to a neighbor's house.
Rather hesitantly. He's not going to.
Mark opened the door and come in because that's not his home. He knocks and he waits until he is invited to come in. That's politeness, but he doesn't do that in his own home. He pushes the door open and he walks right in. This is my home. This is my where my parents are. He feels perfectly at home. That's the way that God would have you come into the throne of grace. It's a place of fellowship, but it's a place that belongs to you.
And it's home, as it were. You have that liberty.
To enter at all times. And there's no closing hours with the Lord, 24 hours a day, uh, seven days a week. We have that privilege of entering the holiest, uh, in prayer or in praise. We have a high priest over the House of God.
Bearing in mind the, uh, analogy we kind of thought of this morning.
About the difference between the passing over of sins under the old order of things before the Lord Jesus came, we likened that to say.
Have to go in to get medical treatments on a continuous basis.
With perhaps if someone, a scientist or a medical doctor said I have found the cure for your disease and we know for a fact that it's the only cure for your disease and I'm offering it to you. You just have to take it. And if you take it, it will be effectual and it will work for you once and for all and forever.
Well, that's quite a thing and I think the comparison between the two things as we took up this morning helps us understand these next couple verses, verse 26 and on what does it mean there if we sin willfully, after that we have received the knowledge of the truth.
Is there a young Christian here who says, well, I wonder if I've done that? You know, I knew better than to do what I did last week and I did it anyway. And I feel ashamed of myself. But is there, have I done something to lose my salvation or will these verses apply to me? Well, again, think back to that analogy. It's one thing for a person, just a sick person to say, I'm just so tired of going to the clinic. I'm just not gonna go and take my dialysis today. I'm I'm just gonna go for a walk in the park. Well.
They probably won't feel very, I don't know much about it, but I assume they wouldn't feel very good the next day. And there was a certain issue with that. But to reject a remedy that was full and final and the only remedy, and to reject it completely would bring doom to the person. It's a big difference. And so in this series of verses here, starting with verse 26, if we send willfully after that, we have received the knowledge of the truth.
There remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation. We shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses law died without mercy.
Under two or three witnesses of how much sore punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy, who shall trodden? Who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith He was sanctified an unholy thing?
And so I think to understand this passage, it helps to step back and look at what is really being compared here by the Spirit of God.
The failure under the law is one thing. The failure to reject the full and final offer of salvation is a whole more serious thing. Once in the end of the age has he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself, He's not going to come again in that way anymore. His hands are outstretched in love to whomsoever will.
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And if that offer is rejected, grace is slighted and rejected. Only judgment remains.
Well, I think that perhaps can help some if they're never pondered these things, rather than jumping to conclusions that the scriptures wouldn't lead you to about your the salvation you've received to see it in its context, in the contrast with the law.
The sin referred to here it has to do with that it's a willful sin after having received the knowledge of the truth.
Going back to Judaism, but not just in the say, by the way, you know, I, I still believe in the Lord, but just in case I'm going to offer sacrifice. Some people are like that, you know, they can save and and for a little while they carry on with their religion because they want to make sure cover every angle, you know, but what does it develop into and, and it's given to us here. Here's a man who despises the law of Moses, two or three witnesses. He died without mercy. He read the numbers the man he went and he picked up some wood for a fire on the on the Sabbath day.
He ended up getting stoned.
What was the sin? Disobedience of Allah? Moses. No mercy.
Will fully disobey the nuisance and have done it. And he was funny and it's contrasted here.
What did the man do? 12 verse 29? What punishment is going to merit the one? What did he do? Did he go and pick up wood, or, you know, got drunk or falling and didn't know? This is what he does. He draws under foot the Son of God. That's the sin that is being reproached here, and a seeming unclean of blood by which he was sanctified.
So this is really sitting against the message of the gospel is refusing really the Lord In Hebrews chapter six, he says, I think crucify unto themselves as Son of God. So here living out what had happened before, the people said we don't want this man to reign over us, crucify him. I hear these people, they heard the gospel, they got baptized, they followed for a while and said, you know why? They said I set up with all this Christianity, what are we going to do? Crucify him? That's the same condition of heart. They've gone through the knowledge of the truth. They've heard about him.
But in the end, this is what they're rejecting. They're rejecting him and there's no salvation out of him. It's not the question of a believer falling into sin at all. It's somebody who professed you knew the Lord. And now he says, I don't know, this man is the dog that vomited and swallows up what he vomited before the sound that was washed goes back wallowing in the mire. I know the Lord, but then he goes and he blasphemes his name. So it's really, I believe that's the context here.
It is sanctified that as he was put in a place of privilege, uh, outwardly, but there was no work in this person's soul. A divine work was not there. But outwardly he was in the place of the opportunity. He had heard the gospel. He had been presented with the Son of God.
And he was in a place where he he could have received the gospel, but he turns his back on it all and goes back into Judaism. That's the willful sin. And he's an apostate. It's not a believer that has backslidden here, as our brother Michelle explained.
Paul says, I mean the 2nd Corinthians said if any man love not the Lord Jesus, let him be accursed. That's a measure. Why can you not love him? I mean love him more. But if you meet up with the Lord Jesus and you kind of perceive who he is and what he's done for you, how can you not loving that? Only if you don't know.
Well, it's helpful for those who are younger here to see the wording. 4.6 It doesn't say that. Umm, if we still, uh, we think willfully after we've received the truth doesn't say that because after we've received the knowledge of the truth. So there's a difference between receiving the knowledge of the truth and receiving the truth.
And the fitting locally has two points to it, one is.
That a person who has received the knowledge of the truth, here they they trot under foot the Son of God and discounted blood. And two they do death fights to the spirit of grace. Those two things they characterized by not someone who has received the truth, but simply someone who has received the knowledge of it.
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Rather than that portion in Hebrews 6, it ends that passage there that Michelle was referring to with these comforting words. Verse nine of Hebrews 6. But beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
That should be helpful to the soul that is, uh, troubled needlessly by that passage. So in our passage, the apostle brings them back after this warning of the rejection of God's offer in Christ to remind them of what they had endured after they had made a profession or confession of Christ.
Verse 23 We we read the exhortation, let us hold fast the profession of faith without wavering.
Think that word wavering Is is is the same word used elsewhere in the New Testament for staggering?
Says of Abraham that he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but being strong in faith, gave glory to God. And though he was 100 years old, he, he trusted God, was able to perform what he had promised, and God did. And so these believers were encouraged not to think, to hold fast. The confession. Don't waver, rather.
And then in verse 35 of our chapter, cast not away therefore your confidence.
While there were some that the Spirit of God must have discerned, as David was saying, only had a knowledge of the truth, the truth didn't enter into their hearts.
But others?
Had really entered in with real faith towards God, but we're in danger of giving up, of casting their confidence away through discouragement and the apostle reminds them of what they had been through. Call to remembrance verse 32. The former days in which after you were illuminated, you endured a great flight of afflictions.
And in the next verse, they also were willing to stand by those who had been receiving reproaches. Uh, you became companions of them that were so used, and then even of the apostle themselves. Verse 34. You had compassion of me in my bonds.
And then took joyfully the spoiling of your goods. Why? The truth that entered into their hearts and says, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
So God doesn't place put before us empty platitudes. You know, other people, they don't know what to say. They you know, you're going through a trial as well. Good luck. I hope it works out well, you know.
Man feels so empty. What does he have to give to another? What can a man do for his brother?
But when God gives us an exhortation, it's based upon a reality that he's made good to us.
Or else he soon will.
And so he gives us a hope that's a delayed certainty.
And he gives us to possess an inheritance. You say, well, an inheritance is something I don't get to later, but you have the promise of it now.
You have an eternal inheritance. Now we get we'll enter into the full good of it later. Knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an ignoring substance pure this word better. If you've read the book of Hebrews, you know you've seen it before. It's a a common word in the book of Hebrews, the book of contrasts.
I think this morning someone walked us through some of those. But this is what establishes us to bear up to things, to take joyfully. The spoiling of one's goods takes much grace. Why could a person do that? Or why could you do it if called upon to do it? Because you know in your heart that you have in heaven a better substance than one is not temporal, not here today, gone tomorrow, but one that will endure. God gives us that they can give in and, and and seeks to encourage and comfort our hearts.
Something real and solid that he's given us to hold on to.
That word India, last part of verse 27, adversaries. They were adversaries of the Lord, connected with Judaism, the Pharisees and the scribes. They were opposing the Lord. They were His adversaries when He was here.
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But you know, there were many, uh, who believed the law and then they embraced the gospel and they went to the temple daily. But here we find that some who had done that adversaries again, they were going against the teachings of the Lord. So we had in Hebrews chapter 6.
That what happens to a land that you use less than you, uh, you're looking for fruit from it and all it produces its thorns and verse eight of Hebrews 6 that was there at thorns and briar is rejected and is nigh at the cursing. He was added to be burned.
Now those that wanted to go back to the sacrifice as well, Lord, take care of destroying the temple. There was no place to offer a sacrifice. There was no holy place. There was nothing that happened that was left. The Lord destroyed, took them out of the land and He was going to judge the adversaries, the ones who were responsible for the rejection of Christ, whether when He was living or after his death and resurrection, affecting those that were believing in Him truly. And the Lord here uses these scriptures to comfort them and encourage them, though there were some of their own countrymen who were becoming adversaries and giving up the truth.
Someone has seen the truth and then rejects it, and apostate is far more bitter against the truth than someone who's never seen it. They really become adversaries.
So when the Pharisees accuse the Lord of casting out demons by the Prince of the demons, umm.
They had really seen that it was the Spirit of God acting in power, and they stubbornly set themselves against it. They became adversaries and the Lord said there's no forgiveness for that. They really put themselves in the same place.
That was the unpardonable You cannot be committed today because the Lord is not here in person.
But an apostate is possible today.
I think that some of those who, uh, are connected with these evil sects that we are prevalent in the country are probably in that category. They have had the truth presented to them, they turned their back on it and God judicially has allowed them to be blinded and ensnared by these, uh, evil doctrines. But, umm.
The the believer, umm, which is thinking also, uh.
The Believer has a uh.
A wonderful resource in the person of the Lord Jesus as our great high priest. That's another subject that is dealt with largely in the official to Hebrews, that Christ is our high priest at the right hand of God, living to make intercession for us. He is a man. The Lord didn't become a high priest until he had died and rose again and entered the glory in manhood. The Lord wasn't a priest on earth.
But uh, after his resurrection ascension, there he is varying our names upon his breast and upon his shoulders. Remember there was 2 Onyx stones on the shoulders.
But there were 12 Stones, different ones on the breastplate. Each one of us have a, uh, a place of nearness, a special place on the heart of Christ. He knows our weakness. He knows our personality. He knows all about our infirmities. We have a place of special love and interest on the heart of Christ as our great High Priest at the right hand of God. And that will go on until we no longer need that service.
Which, uh, will be, of course, when we are raptured to glory. We will not need the Lord's service as High Priest in the ironic character.
Of course he will be high. He will be preached after the Melchizedek character in uh, in, uh, the Millennium. I was thinking also Bruce made reference to verse 35. That's not a way. Therefore their confidence, which has great recompense and reward. There are many things in our lives we can't understand, trials, afflictions, disappointments, sorrows. We just cannot under realize or see the point of the Lord in these.
Umm.
Uh, various, uh, afflictions that come into our lives, but the Lord values our confidence when we cannot understand the reason. It doesn't say that we're going to down here understand the reason for all the trials that come into our lives, but the Lord values our confidence that we just look up to him in, uh, in, uh.
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Confidence and trust, knowing that He doeth all things well, and that He has a purpose of blessing in that trial, and needs be on our part, the purpose of blessing on his part at the judgment seat of Christ. That confidence we have in the Lord in the difficult, dark dispensations of life will be rewarded.
Was brought before us in the address this afternoon to exercise us as to how we use our time, our resources and so on. Time is short and we only have a little time to make our lives.
Count and all will be reviewed at the judgment seat of Christ, but the shortness of time is also brought before us to encourage and comfort our hearts in that.
We don't have to hold on and and endure forever. And so the cast is not away there for your confidence with great recompensive reward for you have need of patients who really, uh, often think the translators put it endurance, not just, not just for today or tomorrow, but the next day and the day after and the day after that.
Most everybody who starts out on the job and hire somebody, you expect them to be a ball of fire the first couple of days or you expect a guy in, uh, six o'clock 7:00 in the morning before the sun gets hot to be, uh, to be, you know, all over it. But, uh, as the day goes on and the sunsets and the day gets long, whereas, you know, the things stretch out over time is where the real proof is that someone have endurance. Do I have endurance in my spiritual life?
I thought it was a good exhortation that in the practical things, how am I compared with how I was last year?
But that's this is a wonderful exhortation. You have need of patience. After you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise for yet a little while.
He that shall come will come and will not tarry. Well, people, other of our brethren go through trials, and you think about their life and you think about what they're going through, and you say.
Boy, I haven't seen them for 15 years and all in the interim time they've been going through that physical trial or that other kind of trial every day. I can think of brothers I know who live in painting every day.
Year after year.
But what a hope that has sustained them in the meantime and will turn all this sorrow tears into joy when the Lord comes. So time is up, but perhaps we just touch on that verse 38. Now the just shall live by faith.
In the meantime, this is what the Lord leaves with us. While we're waiting for that, in this little while, we live by faith.
**** Gorges used to elicit a chuckle from everybody, because when **** would bring out a passage of skip scripture that was precious to him or made precious to him, he would tell you who it was that brought it before him. Where they were, maybe what time of day it was, what street they were on. And you could look around and see his relatives and others who knew him well kind of chuckling. But I understand where **** was coming from because.
He remembers when a certain the Spirit of God brought something home to his soul and made it precious. He remembers the vessel that brought it. He remembers the whole.
Situation and perhaps you're that way. I know I'm a little bit that way and I read a verse and I can remember a person or a brother just where I was and that brother bringing that verse before me and I and I haven't forgotten it 25 or 30 years. And I won't go on to give you any of those right now, except to say that this is a precious verse that the Lord leaves with us in the meantime that just shall live by faith.
And I can remember our brother, says Bruce. Brother Bruce, I was 2324 years old.
Look me square in the eye and make sure you have my full attention. Say, Brother Bruce, how did you receive Christ Jesus the Lord? Oh, by faith.
And then he would quote that verse, As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him. So Brother Bruce, how do you walk in him?
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Guess it's by faith very good and then he would briskly walk away. Well that was probably almost 30 years ago and whenever I read such exhortations of like this I I think of that day and that brother and it's a it's a wonderful and it's it's stabilizes it's a buckler establishes our souls in the meantime, the just shall live by faith. I look out here I came in here this morning and I think the average age.
And the prayer meeting started in this room was about 18 1/2 or 19.
And I look into the Lord. It's like, wow, I'm starting to feel older and there's a lot of young people. It's encouraging. I say, how many of these young brothers are going to grow up and, and, and gain a love for the truth that they have a desire to pass on to others?
And what's, what is it? What is Lord? What is it? What are these? Most all of them are saying We went around row by row, the young people. Yes, I know the Lord is my savior, but what's next? What do I do now?
Well, this New Testament is filled with what to do now, but you could put it under a heading. Adjust. You're just now the just shall live. You have life by faith.
Not a book of rules. Not what the brethren will accept or won't accept.
But by faith.
They get #173.
'S that they continue talking all know so how the recommendation the suffering of this new 173.
Moving God and our Father, we thank Thee.
By sovereign love that picked each one of us up, drew us from our hiding places, took us as blind beggars from the dunghill instead of with Princess. And we thank you for the wonderful justification, Robin Calvary, for our souls before the forgiveness of sins, to be brought into a place before the that was only occupied.
Before of our thy beloved Son, and then to find in this chapter that we've had before us that we have been sanctifying and that we have liberty and boldness to enter into thy holy presence and, uh, to, uh, find as it were there the home of our souls. We do, uh, thank the Lord Jesus for that mighty work. We think of that body prepared for the which audits lay down line.
From thy youth, Lord Jesus, appointed to death.
We thank you, oh Lord Jesus, we thank thee. Thou hast fitted us for service within the mail and in that holy place.
May we, uh, abide as brethren, Lord Jesus, and encourage one another and pass the faith to assure one another. And so much the more as we see that day of reward and glory approaching, when that will appear once again. Lord Jesus, before this world unto thy earthly people, Israel's race shall now behold thee full of grace. Majesty, Lord Jesus, we look forward to that day and I'll come forth. It's uh, Melchizedek of old, bearing bread in line, blessing and sustenance.
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For this whole earth, Lord Jesus, we shall be with you and see thee.
And thy glory and in thy beauty, I always thank Thee for the faith our God, our Father thus given us even now to, uh, lay hold of these things. May we enjoy them in reality, in our hearts, not to turn back, having put our hand to the plow. Help us to keep our eyes fixed on my beloved Son until he come for us. Until we do. Thank Thee for this chapter, and freshmen, for our souls in the past.
Commit ourselves to the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Without Excuse
Gospel—David Mearns
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I'd like to welcome everyone to the Gospel meeting tonight.
I wonder if we could open by singing in our Little Flock hymn books. Hymn number 54 in the back.
Hymn number 54 in the back, the 1St 2 verses.
Come ye, Center.
Right.
Now the way it's called.
No.
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Management through and all the hard convenience and all come together.
Our God and our Father.
We thank the.
For the Lord Jesus.
We thank Thee for the Gospel message that touched the hearts of so many of us here.
But are gone tonight we think of that gospel message and perhaps someone here tonight.
Moshe, not his father, although knows the gospel well, knows not Thy blessed Son of their Savior. We just would pray tonight and as we open thy precious word.
And we would realize that Thou art speaking to us tonight.
And if there is someone lost, but they might hear thy voice, and they would turn to thee.
And so our God, we would ask this, and just would pray thy blessing upon thy precious word.
And asked that.
It would be a real blessing to some lost soul. Tonight we'd ask this, our God and the worthy and the precious name of our Savior, the Lord Jesus, Amen.
Turn with me, please, to Romans chapter one.
We're gonna start with a phrase here in Romans chapter one that we actually ended with in the reading Meeting in Hebrews, Romans chapter one and verse 17, the last part of the verse.
Adjust shall live by faith.
Adjust shall live by faith, for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.
Who hold the truth in unrighteousness, because that which may be known of God is manifest in them. For God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
Tonight, as we're sitting here with the word of God in our hands.
And we have some 40 minutes ahead of us.
The responsibility is somewhat staggering to realize that perhaps there's someone here and you're lost and in your sins.
You know, not the Savior.
And you know, the work of a soul is the work of God.
And I can't.
Point to you and your chair and saying you're the one but somewhere here in this room you're sitting there and you're lost and in your you're in your sins and if the terrible position to be in and we trust that tonight as we proclaim the wondrous gospel of the grace of God that you would realize your need of a Savior and that you would come to him. You would come to the Savior here in this portion that we read. We ended by there without excuse.
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And just to let you know where I'm going tonight, I'd like to turn to the book of Genesis for a few verses to show there some of the things that would show us why were there with that excuse in these early chapters of Romans. He takes up the thought of Genesis and many things that happened there, and all of us in the human race are without excuse. And then I trust from there to go to the Gospel of Luke for a portion.
And then to turn to the book of the Acts and to see a few people.
That had various excuses as to why they would not come to the Savior and then to end up in Matthew chapter 22. So let's turn to the book of Genesis now for a few moments. The book of Genesis.
The Book of Genesis.
And the.
1St chapter.
We hear much in the world today about two words, 2 words. One of them is viewpoint and the other is outlook.
Viewpoint and Outlook.
And our outlook.
Is determined by our viewpoint. Just think about that for a minute. Our outlook, whatever it might be, on our circumstance, on our life, on whatever we think about our outlook.
Has to do with our viewpoint. I had an interesting thing happened after the prayer meeting this morning.
Windows Live.
And, umm.
I was visiting with our dear sister Shadia.
And she informed me that I have an accent.
You know our our viewpoint effects, our outlook.
And.
If our viewpoint tonight is not the word of God.
Then our outlook is gonna be all over the place. But tonight, if our viewpoint is indeed the word of God, then our outlook is gonna be the same.
If we recognize this as indeed the holy, infallible Word of God.
Then our viewpoint is gonna be the same and we're gonna have a similar outlook. Very interesting, eh? Shadia thinks that I have an accent.
Here in Genesis chapter one.
Verse one In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Verse nine And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. Verse 11 And God says, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth, and it was so.
Verse 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly upon above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every wing fell after his kind. And God saw that it was good. Verse 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, creeping thing feast of the earth after his crime, And it was so.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind.
Everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and God saw that it was good.
And God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, and the image of God created he him, male and female created he. Then chapter 2 verse seven. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
If we were to turn to the Book of Hebrews Chapter 11, and we won't do so.
We would read.
That by faith.
We believe.
That the worlds were framed by the word of God.
We've read an an account here in connection with the creation. I'm not a scientist. I'm not gonna take this up from that viewpoint.
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So I would suggest that.
If there's someone here that has entertained the thought that we evolved from some green slime 100 million years ago.
I would suggest it takes far more faith to believe that than to believe the account that we have just read that that that the world's, the heavens and the earth were framed by the word of God. It would take far more faith to believe that you and I evolved from some green slime 100 million years ago. And if there is someone that has such tremendous faith like that here in this room, let me ask you, where did the green slime come from?
Outside here, as we look through the windows, we see grass, we see trees.
And we've read about the creation of the grass and the trees.
And this morning, you know, when I when I woke up, my window was just beside the deck there where you folks were singing.
And my bunk is right beside the window. And so I heard the first movements and I heard people coming out and greeting each other. How was your night last night? How was your night last night? And a response, you know, I, I didn't hear anyone go to one of the trees there and pat the tree and say, how was your night last night? How was your night? It's alive. But, but why don't you do that?
It's life, you know, but it's different life. And we've read about that. The grass and the trees are different. At home. I get up in the morning and I go downstairs and on my way outside, we have a dog that sleeps in the garage. And I say to him, you know, his name's Cole. I pat him and I say, cool boy, how was your night last night? You know, he doesn't understand what I'm saying, but he responds. The tail waggles and his head rubs up against my leg. And there's a real response there, even though he has no idea what I'm talking about.
But when my kids come down for the reading and I say to them, so how was your night last night? I I get an intelligent answer from my kids.
Get an intelligent answer that they had either a good night or they had not such a good night.
That that life is different.
You know these trees and the trees up where I am, they spend 4 in the grass. It spends four months in the decrease, frozen solid.
And yet the sunshine comes out in the spring, warms everything up, and out come the leaves.
I was like if I was to take my dog and throw it in the deep freeze for four months.
And and pull it out. It might turn green, but it would not be alive.
It has to do the same with you and with me. We wouldn't be able to go through that kind of a scenario.
Were different than the animal life. Were different than the plant life.
If there's someone here and you're saying, yeah, I believe in that green slime, come on, please.
Let's listen to the Word of God tonight. Let's listen to what God has to say to each one of us. Let's turn over now to Luke chapter 14.
With chapter 14, verse 16.
Then said he unto them, a certain man made a great supper, and bade many, and sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden come, for all things are now ready. And they all with one consent began. Here's our little subject now began to make excuse. The first set of the MI bought a piece of ground. I must need to go and see it. I pray that you have any excused. Another said I bought 5 yoke of oxen, I go to prove them, I pray they have me excused. And another said I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. So the servant came and showed his Lord these things.
Then the master of the house being angry, said to his servant, glowed quickly into the street and lanes of the city, and bringing hit her the poor, and the mained, and the halt, and the blind, And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. For I say unto you, that none of those men which were bidden shall eat of my supper. Here we find 3 excuses, very, very poor excuses. The first one.
I bought a piece of ground.
And I must need to go see it.
He bought the ground. Whether he went to see it that night, whether he went to see it a week from then, whether he went to see it a month from then, didn't make any difference. It was an excuse. It was an excuse.
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No, we're we're used to making excuses.
And, umm.
I look at the young folks here and, uh, you know, you go to school and, uh, sometimes you're late to a class and you know, as you're trying to get there, you're thinking, uh, what can I say here that's gonna be palatable to, to be a good reason? And so you arrive at the class and you come up with some conjecture as to why you were late. Umm, maybe there's young people here and your parents that said to you, you gotta be home by such and such a time. And you know, you're half an hour late and you're going through your mind. What do I gonna come up with here for a reason is to show why it's bona fide that I'm to be late. And you arrive and, and you've got this story.
Fabricated, you know, we're used to making excuses and here there was no reason at all why this man couldn't company. He says, well, you know, I I can't come. You made an excuse. The next one.
I bought 5 yoke of oxen. You know the auction were his. Whether he proved them that day, whether he proved them a week from then or he approved them a month from that, from that time didn't make any difference. It was an excuse why he didn't want.
To go to the supper. 20th, 1St and others said I have married a wife, therefore I cannot come. Why couldn't the man have brought his wife? Now let's go to the book of the Acts, Acts chapter 8.
The first person that we're going to look at in the book of the Acts is a man by the name of Simon.
And in in Acts chapter 8 and verse eight, it says there were great joy in that city. And so the word is preached and there's great joy. You know, we started our day off today with great joy hearing of someone who turned to the Lord, marvelous thing. But right after that verse we hear but it says, but there was a certain man called Simon, which beforehand in the same city used sorcery and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one.
To whom they all gave heed from the least to the greatest thing. This man is the great power of God, and to him they had regard, because that of a long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. And Simon himself believed also. And when he was baptized he continued with Philip, and wondered beholding the miracles and signs which were done.
Verse 18 And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands he may receive the Holy Ghost. But Peter said unto him, by money, perish with thee because.
Now I thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. Thou was neither part nor law in this matter, for thy heart is not right in the sight of God. Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me. I wonder tonight if there's someone here that's in the position of Simon.
You know, it says here about Simon that he believed.
Was he real? No, he wasn't. No, we read that the devils believe also and tremble. Here's a man he believes.
But he's not the Lord. And we read in the UMM, we read in the 13th verse that he was baptized. Here's a man he believes and he's baptized and he's still not the Lord.
I wonder if there's someone here tonight and that's your position. But yeah, you believe.
And yet you've been baptized, but you know, know the Lord, you know Simon. Here is a picture of the Philistines. The Philistines were dwelling in the land, but they didn't go through the Red Sea and they did not go through the Jordan.
And we read in Romans chapter 10 that yes, we need to believe in our hearts, but we have to also confess with our mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord. That's what we need to do. We need to take our place as a guilty Sinner before God and recognize his claims upon us. Have you done that tonight? You know what? The cross. There were those that would say we will not have this man to reign over us.
How is it with you tonight?
Do you believe?
Have you been baptized?
But you will not have this man to reign over you.
You know the sad thing about Simon, if we turn to the end of that portion that we read that he comes to the point in his life where he says then answered, Simon Says, pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these come things come which ye have spoken, which ye have spoken come upon me. You know Simon wanted them to pray for him.
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And if I could pray here tonight for you, or if I could reach down and grab you by the lapel and make you believe, I would. But I cannot do that. It's something that you have to do yourself. You have to take your place as a guilty Sinner before God in repentance and recognize your need and recognize the claims of God upon your heart and turn to him. And Simon didn't do that. He wanted to be prayed into heaven. That's not something that we can do.
Let's turn over now to another one in Acts chapter 17.
Acts chapter 17 we read about two groups of people.
And verse 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit.
Was stirred in him when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered him, and some said, What will this babbler say? Some said, He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods, because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection. Verse 30. And the times of this ignorance God winked at. But now commandeth all men everywhere to repent, because he have appointed a day.
In which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
So pulled apart from among them.
All these two groups of people here, these Stoics and these Epicureans, they heard this message and they say, what's this guy babbling about?
You ever sat in a gospel meeting and and entertained a thought like that? What's this guy preaching about? Is that the thought of your heart tonight as we're seeking to proclaim the matchless gospel of the grace of God?
What are you babbling about, you know?
When Paul preached the resurrection.
It says here that some mocked.
At some month and it said others.
Said.
We will hear thee again.
Of this matter.
Not now, another time.
The Resurrection.
Christ died.
Was very.
And he rose again according to scriptures.
Now the resurrection is something.
That people who know not the Lord they have a difficulty with.
Because it suggests that there's a time coming when we'll stand in the presence of God.
The Resurrection.
They didn't want to hear about the resurrection. Time and time again, through the book of the Acts, the resurrection comes up.
People do not want to hear about the resurrection.
I remember when I lived in Montreal, I worked with a man and, uh, at the end of the week, I asked, I asked the man what he was doing that weekend. He said, well, I'm, uh, gonna take a drive up into the mountains. Umm, I knew his dad passed away some time ago and he had him create, uh, his dad wanted to be cremated. And, uh, that particular weekend, his son was gonna take a little urn of ashes and he's gonna sprinkle them on one mountain and he's gonna take a drive and go to another mountain, sprinkle a few ashes over there.
Take another drive and have these ashes spread out all over the place. Why? Why? If you're here and you're lost and in your sins, you too have a difficulty with the resurrection if God.
Can call into existence the world that we spoke of in the book of Genesis. You think he cannot take those ashes and put them together?
That day coming, every person is going to stand there in the presence of God, the resurrection.
You know, it's a marvelous thing. It's a marvelous thing to think of what God has done. We've read that account to think of God calling into existence the very world that we live in, the universe.
There's one thing that God could not do.
He could not say.
Sin be gone.
Sin begone.
That is not something that God could do with my sins now, as we realize.
What it cost God?
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For my sins to be gone.
It's staggering.
It's a marvelous thing to think of Creator God and to think of all that He is.
But you know what some far more marvelous thing to me To think of God, as we had in our reading meeting, taking upon Him the body of a man.
To take that lowly place and as we think that through the Lord Jesus didn't come with white hair as the Ancient of Days. That's not how he came. If we're gonna turn to the the book of the Song of Solomon, we see there someone who is in the prime of manhood and he didn't come that way with his locks as bushy is there and black as a Raven. That's not how the Lord Jesus came. He came as a dependent babe. That's how the Lord Jesus came. That's how the creator of this universe came. This universe came.
As a dependent vein.
Is there anything that's more astounding than that? Yes, we can see the universe and what a marvelous thing it is, but we have a newborn babe in our assembly. We haven't had one for some time.
His name is Tommy House. Beautiful little baby. Beautiful, but he's totally dependent.
Totally dependent. You know, just this very week my boys got some day old chicks.
And they are older than little Tommy.
At least, rather they're younger than little Tommy.
And at the present time, they're only just a few days old. They're running around their pen. They go to the food tray when they're when they're hungry and they they eat till they're full. They go to the the watering through when they're thirsty. And they drink and they fight with each other and they play with each other and they flap around. This is just days old.
One of the last things I did before I came here is I drove to Perth and I'm driving along behind this car and all of a sudden the car slams on the brakes and I didn't see anything in the way. And I, I, I come behind it and I stop and a few minutes later a mother duck walks out from the, the front of the car in front of me with 11 little ducklings right behind it went down into the ditch and ran into a pond. And they're all swimming around in the pond. You know, you take a baby duck that's just a day old and you throw it in the pond and it swims.
But you know.
A human being when they're born, totally dependent. Totally dependent. And that's how our Savior, the Lord Jesus came.
Oh, that marvelous glory to think of the low place. You know, my dad, he used to say it this way when he was addressing the Lord Jesus on Lord's Day morning. He would thank the Lord Jesus for the mighty stoop that he took, the mighty stoop that he took to save my soul and to save your soul.
Where are you tonight?
Do you believe in the resurrection or is it something that you fear here? There were those that said, what's this babbler saying? There were those that mocked when they heard of the resurrection and they said, oh, we're gonna hear hear you some other time about this matter.
Is that your position tonight? I'm working presently with Aman working on his house.
And I spoke to him some time ago and gave him the gospel.
And he told me these words, he said, Dave, I'm going to wait.
Until I'm on my deathbed. Deathbed. And then I'm gonna turn to the Lord he recognized.
That there was a God. He recognized his need.
But he said not now. I'm gonna wait till then. And there are those here in this very chapter. Let's read it.
Chapter 17.
And verse 32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked another said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
Let's go to the next chapter, Chapter 18.
Versailles.
And when Galileo, the deputy of IKEA, and when Galio, the deputy of IKEA, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat, saying This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason, would that I should bear with you. But if it be a question of words and names and of your law, look he to it, for I will be no judge of such matters. And he draves them from the judgment seat. Then all the Greeks took sophomies, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Galileo cared for none of those things. Are you like Gallio tonight? Are you like Gallio tonight?
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Whereas we stand here and preach the gospel of the grace of God, Yes, and great feebleness, but your responses like Galileo, Galileo and you say who cares? Who cares?
This was presented to Gallio. It says he cared for none of those things.
Is that your position tonight? You couldn't care less.
About what we're presenting tonight, the meetings that we've had today.
No many view whatsoever.
You just don't care. What a solemn thing, What a solemn thing you think when Gallios stands and we have no reason to believe we don't read that he ever turned to the Lord.
When he stands is the excuse that he didn't care?
Is that gonna be valid in that coming day?
You know, it's, it's, it's a, such a strong thing to, to, to see Gallios, umm, attitude here in connection with the things that we're speaking about. It says he cared for none of those things. Let's go to chapter 20.
Chapter 20 and verse seven upon the first day of the week, when the disciples.
Chapter 20, Verse 7.
Upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the Morrow.
And continued his speech until midnight. And there were many lights in the upper chamber where they were gathered together and they're sat in a window. A certain young man named Utica being fallen into a deep sleep as Paul was long preaching. He sunk down with sleep and fell down from the third loft and was taken up dead. Here's another man. And yes, I know we've had a long day and we've sat much in these chairs, but here we're preaching tonight, and we're not gonna preach until midnight. But here, Eunice, listen to the preaching, perhaps for a little while, but he went to sleep.
He went to sleep. Are you asleep as to your need? Remember the parable of the virgins? There was 5 wise and there was 5 foolish, and it said they all slumbered and slept. Is that your position tonight as to your soul's need?
You're sound asleep, you know, Eunicus was the sound of sleep. Eunice fell out of the window. You know, it was a happy ending to this because his life returned to him and we trust.
That you would get life tonight from the Savior.
We're running out of time. Let's go to chapter 24.
Chapter 24.
In chapter 24 and 25, we read about three people.
Chapter 2424.
After certain days when Felix came with his wife.
Ducilla, which was a Jewish, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ, and as he reasoned the righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled and answered, Go thy way for this time. When I have a convenient season I will call for thee. We had an interesting thing happened last summer.
And many of you have been to Rita Fury where we meet in a little yellow meeting room and right beside that is a little brick one.
And last summer, a young man came down the old Kingston Road and he got to the curb just before the meeting room and he lost control of the car and he slammed into the meeting room.
And as life was taken like that.
You tell me how much time?
That young man had.
To entertain.
The thoughts of turning to the Lord Jesus.
As he was coming down the highway and his car went out of control, there was no time for a convenient season.
Now the Lord says, behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. And tonight, as you sit there in your chair, are you saying it's not convenient tonight? Yes, I need to do it. Yes, I would like to do it, but not tonight. All we would urge you tonight we would plead with you that the convenience season is now here. Felix trembled, but he said, not now, not now, let's go over.
The next chapter.
We read about Agrippa in the first chapter of the first verse of chapter 26.
Agrippa said, And De Paul Dauer permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand and answered for himself. I think myself happy, King Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews.
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Especially because I know thee to be the expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently, my manner of life, and so on. And he says in verse 8, Why should it be a thought? Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? Now let's go to verse. He quotes what Moses said, umm, speaks, and in verse 23, that Christ should suffer, that he should be the first that should rise from the dead.
And should show light unto the people and to the Gentiles. And as he thus speak for himself best, as said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself. Much learning doth make thee mad. But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. For the king knoweth of these things before whom I also speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things were hidden from him. For this thing was not done in a corner. King Agrippa believed to sell the prophets. I know that thou believe us.
You know, this next verse is such a sad verse because we never read that Agrippa turned to the Lord. It says here that Agrippa said Paul almost I'll persuaded me to be a Christian. I wonder tonight if there's someone and you're just on the verge of turning to the Lord. You know, I don't know where you're sitting.
I can't tell that, but there you are, lost it in your sins. You realize you're in need of a savior. You realize you have no excuse and you're at the same position as the gripping. You say, you know, I'm almost there. What a sad thing for the people that we read about in the Word of God, that we're almost saved, but we're lost.
Think of Lot's wife as she left the city, almost spared, turned into a pillar of salt.
A young person or older person, wherever you sit tonight, don't be like Agrippa.
Don't be like Agrippa, who said almost. Let's turn to Matthew chapter 22. Matthew chapter 22.
And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, The Kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king.
Which made a marriage for his son.
Sent for the servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding, and they would not come. And again he sent forth other servants. Thing. Tell them what your bid. And behold, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen, my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come under the marriage. They made light of it, went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise. And the remnant took his servants and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. But when the king heard thereof, he was wrong, and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. Then saith he to his servants, the wedding is ready, but they which were bidden, they're not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find bid to the mayors.
So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good, and the wedding was furnished with gifts.
And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment. And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hit her not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless, or he was without excuse.
Then said the king to the servants, find him hand and foot and take him away and cast him into outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth for many, our call, but few are chosen. What a sad story to think that there was a wedding garment for this man, but he just didn't put it on. He just didn't put it on. Is that your position tonight?
That's your position tonight.
Oh, we trust tonight that it would not be so.
As we have preached the gospel, I know feebly tonight.
But you are without excuse.
Were all without excuse.
Won't you turn to the Savior?
Won't you own the Lord Jesus?
As your Lord and turn to him tonight and repent of that lifestyle that you have of your sins and recognize.
All that God has done.
That marvelous plan to bring you into blessing and all you have to do is own your need and receive it and just put on that wedding garment.
Could we sing two more verses out of that hymn that we started with?
First number three and #5 of 54 in the back. Somebody please start that verses 3:00 and 5:00.
Our God and our Father, we thank Thee for thy marvellous plan that has brought so many of us into blessing.
But tonight, our God, we just would pray if there's someone here tonight and they're lost.
They haven't owned that blessed One as their Lord.
That tonight they would do. So they would not put it off, they would not say some other time.
It would not say almost, but not tonight, but tonight they would bow the knee. We are our God, that the work of a soul is thy work. And we just would pray.
At the good feet tonight would fall on fertile soil, and there would be blessing for thine honor and glory.
We'd ask this our God.
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Children—Dan Weeks
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Good morning.
I would like, uh, all of these white seats up here to be filled with children or somebody who's at least less than 21. All right? If you're sitting in the back row and you're a children, come sit up here so I can see your lovely face and be encouraged.
That's better.
My heart is all a flutter, you know, Because, uh.
I've GI been given the opportunity to tell you about the Lord Jesus and I've lived for so many years and, uh, still I'm at lack for words sometimes. And so when I see happy faces and, uh, bright eyes, it encourages me.
To have some things to say. Now some of you know me a little bit. I like to sing and we have all these lovely short handbooks passed all out. Umm, let me get my Bible here for a second.
There's sometimes we know songs by heart, We know some songs by heart. And because we're young, a lot of us are young enough that we can actually learn things quickly. Well, that's not the notes I'm looking for.
There is a brother named Bauman. Anybody know a brother named Bauman? He's with the Lord now. He used to work with Indian kids.
And he liked to sing this song with them. It's a very simple song. It has only several words in it. And one of the words that we sing a lot is Hallelujah. Do you know this song? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Ye the Lord. That's right. OK. Now I'm going to do what he asked you to do. And when the girls sing Hallelujah, they're supposed to stand up. So all the girls sing Hallelujah.
And all the boys sing Praise the Lord. And when the boys sing Praise the Lord, they have to stand up and the girls sit down because they're not singing. Does that make sense?
OK, so I'm going to go through this one. And you just all stay seated. And then we're going to get into it. And the girls rise up when we sing Hallelujah, and the boys rise up when we sing Praise Ye the Lord. OK, it gets a little tricky in the middle.
Are you ready? I'm going to sing it once, just so that you all know, because I know you can learn things quickly. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Praise ye the Lord. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Hallelujah, praise ye the Lord. Hallelujah, praise ye the Lord. Hallelujah, praise ye the Lord.
Are you ready? OK, now the girls got to stand up when we sing Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Praise ye the Lord.
Praise ye the Lord, praise ye the Lord.
Praise the Lord.
Praise ye, the Lord.
Praise thee, the Lord. We didn't do too well on that one. The guys just started to sit down the second part. So in order to get it straight, we're going to sing it again, all right.
Let's go, girls. Hallelujah.
Praising the Lord.
Praise ye the Lord, praise ye the Lord.
Praise ye, the Lord.
Praise ye, the Lord.
Praise ye the Lord. Good. Well, hopefully we're all getting awake at this point.
I like to sing songs where people have motion to them. Sometimes we have kids over to our house. Just last year we had every Friday for four weeks. We had kids in the neighborhood and kids in the area out to our house and we sang songs. We like to sing this one. Everybody likes this one. You know this one. OK, let's stand up and sing.
Wide. Wide as the old.
I am the heavens of all.
It's behind my ears. My dear, my dear, my dear, my name is my dangerous run. I also wonder where I'm under these.
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I as above.
Sea is my padded love.
I also unworthy.
Still am the style of his hair.
For his work teaches me that His love reaches me.
Everywhere.
Good. I have so many things. I brought so many things. You know, I, I worry about talking and so I have to bring all these little props and I brought so many of them. I don't know if I'm going to have time to look at them all. But I noticed somebody took the clock away. So if I go over time, maybe you better give me your watch.
It's big enough that I can, I think I can read this all right.
We've only used up five minutes so we've got some more time to sing.
Umm, I have this song I like and the kids in my neighborhood know about it. It has the twinkly stars. Have you ever done that one?
Oh, not very many people, my daughter says. Yeah, nobody else. OK, it goes like this. He made the stars to shine, twinkle, twinkle. He made the rolling teeth. He made a mountain pie so high. And he made me humpty, humpty, humpty pump. And that is why I love him, because he bled and died, the Lord of all creations.
Became the crucified. We're going to sing it again and I want you all to you can stand up. We can do the motions. All right, I'm going to stand a little higher so you can see the motion. This is he made the stars to shine twinkle, twinkle. He made the rolling sea. He made the Mountain High so high and he made me pumpity, pumpity pump, pretty pump. And that is why I love him.
Because he bled and died, the Lord of all creation became the crucified. OK, you can sit down. And I always ask this question because I have to know, and this is a new crowd, and maybe you don't know and you have to tell me. What does this mean?
Can you tell me?
Yeah, I mean, you think that means the Bible? It says he bled and died.
Come on, do you know?
The Nail Prince. The Nail Prince. Prince in his hands. Hey, the Lord of All Creation. What's this?
The cross. That's right. They put him up on a cross. Why?
You can tell me.
Wait, wait, wait, and I'll get my microphone for you.
How come they put them on the cross?
They wanted him to die. They wanted him to die. They sure did. How come they wanted him to die?
Do I have to ask my own daughter?
Why did he want the Lord Jesus to die?
Because he said he was the king of the Jews.
That's that's what they put over the top, right over the cross. They said this is the king of the Jews. And Pilate said I don't appreciate that I'm the king here. I'm the guy that rules.
But you know why he died? Really. Why did God put him on the cross?
The father actually put him on the cross. Why did he do that?
Umm, 2 figurations. That's right.
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Say it again, 2-3 questions so our sins could be taken care of, right?
He had to die to be a sacrifice.
For our sins on the cross. Anybody here a Sinner?
If you don't have your hand up, you're wrong.
We're all sinners. God tells us that in his wonderful book. I have one more. So this is an action song. We know this is everybody knows this story about David.
David And what was the man? What was the big guy?
Don't remember what was the name of the big guy? Goliath. Yeah, only a boy named David. Only a rippling. Only a boy named David but he could play and things. Only Aboriginal. Only a boy named David. But 5 little stones he took and one was going in the swing and the swing went round and round.
And one little store in the swing and sling went round and round, and round, and round, and round, and round, and round, and round, and round, and one. Let's go it up in the air. And the giant came tumbling down.
Good one, little stone. We're going to talk about some things that are big today and some things that are comparatively very small.
The big things are the things that God does, and the little things are the things that we have been allowed to do.
But before I talk very much, I've got to pray. I really have to. I need the Lord's help. So we're going to ask him for his help, that his name would be lifted up. And then there'd be, of all the things I have to say, you'd actually think of something when somebody asks you, well, did you have a nice Sunday school? You can say, yeah.
Actually learned something. And what did you learn? And you can say what you learned. OK, hopefully we won't cover so much that you can't learn something. So let's ask God's help.
Our Father, we come to you in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Who, as we have already heard, had died on the cross for sinners. And we pray that your word would be made clear and that children here who do not know you yet as Savior would have an opportunity to come and accept you as their Savior and get to know you. And anyone who's not a child also would be struck with your light, the light of the gospel. We ask your blessing and your help our God.
In the name of Jesus our Savior, Amen.
No, I, uh, I've been thinking a lot lately.
About uh.
About light. Now we all know some things in scripture. There's a lot of scriptures actually that talk about light.
Let me show you something here. I took this.
What's that?
Yeah, it's a lease. Where do you suppose I got this lease?
Off a tree just out here in the back, I picked a leaf that had big leaves so that we could see it. Because some of you are sitting way far back and you might not know what it is. It's a leaf.
You know what? See this green stuff here? You know inside of the leaf? It's called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll. And this tree, this tree gets energy from the light of the sun. And so when the springtime comes.
The light comes and the leaves start to come out.
And they they get energy from the sun, yes.
Right when they get energy, it begins to turn green. You know what? Chlorophyll. I learned this because we have to study some of these things. Chlorophyll is very, very, very much like human blood. There's very little difference between chlorophyll and human blood, the substances that are in it. God has a marvelous thing. He's taken these leads and against the tree energy light does some wonderful things, some great things for us.
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In fact.
You know, I when I was a little boy, we had, we had some clothes lines in the backyard.
My mom had a tea, a bar, a metal bar, tea bar in the back on one end of the yard, and then on the other end of the yard was another metal tea bar and about 6 lines, 6 heavy steel lines went from one end to the other. And then every day out in the dry Colorado sun, she would hang out the wash. Even in the winter she would hang out the washing because it was so dry out there, even though it was only.
35° or what you call two or three degrees Celsius. She would hang out the clothes and they would dry. Wasn't a problem. But you know, it wasn't just the drying. You know what the sunshine does? Have you ever got into a bed and it has fresh sheets that have been hung out? Have you ever smelled those sheets? Oh, it smells good. So fresh and so nice. You know what? That sun has come down and actually purified.
The sheet is come and taken more of this stuff off of that sheet that might be harmful to you just in the sunlight itself. Isn't that marvelous? God has an incredible amount of information in light, but what about light? You know I have.
I have a friend that lent me some here.
It makes me think of.
Makes me think of a story in the Bible I want to see if.
If you can, I have to find out how to get this open. Oh, here it goes.
What? Well, I don't. You know what?
This I I saw this in my trunk the other day. I said, what's it?
And my son says, well, that's, that belongs to the legend and, uh.
And it's a light. Yeah. Yeah, Well, it's a light. And I look inside and say, well, you know what that looks like? A quart halogen bulb from the headlight said no, dad, No, Dad, this is 1010 thousand candle power 15,000,000. Oh, 15,000,000 candle power. Wow, this is pretty bright. I wonder.
Uh, yeah, if I can turn it on.
Is what's wrong with you guys everybody?
Huh.
15,000,000 candle power and they shined it on a building. It's not very bright in here. We got it a bit more like they shined it on a building in the dark. We were outside of the meeting room and they shined it on a big tall apartment building. Just lit up the whole side of the building. 10,000 candle power.
Whoa, how bright is a candle? Not very bright. Somebody tell me a story. Can you think of a story where there was a very bright light in the Bible?
Somebody think of a story. I can tell you where it's found. You can't think of it, I'll tell you where to find it and you can read it to us.
It's in Acts Chapter 9.
And I'm gonna get one of you kids who has a Bible return to Acts Chapter 9. You can read it to everybody who's the 1St that has it.
Acts Chapter 9.
Versus 3:00 and 4:00.
Here are the guys already already with it. Let me pull this up. Can you read it?
Why should stand up here?
OK.
And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly there shined round about him a light of heaven, and he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him so.
So. So why persecute Sammy? That's right. So we saw a light from heaven. How bright was that light? Did you read to me how bright the light was? Anybody remember he read it? Did you hear it?
How bright was the light?
How many candle power?
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Does it say how bright it was?
Maybe I got the wrong play.
Maybe it's in?
Oh, I got I we we forgot to read the third verse.
So I wrote stuff down and didn't get the whole thing. The third verse, he journeyed. He came near Damascus. Suddenly there shined around about him. A light from heaven. All right, there's a light. It doesn't say how bright. Maybe it's in Acts 22. We won't go there because it takes too long. It says it's above the brightness of the sun. It was a very bright light.
And it struck Paul. It struck him so hard. Here he was, he hated Christians. He hated those people who believed in the Lord Jesus because he thought he was doing God's service. But he was in the dark actually. He thought he was doing God's service by taking these Christians and finding them up and putting them into prison because he thought they were doing the wrong thing. But then as he came.
And he was walking near Damascus, a bright light came down and it struck him.
So bright.
Something happened to Paul when that light hit him.
What did he say?
He felt in the earth. He heard a voice saying, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord?
You know what? He asked the question and answered the question in the same statement. He answered the question. He asked when he said, Lord, who art thou? Lord, what happened? The brightness of the light gave him understanding.
What is this book anyway?
It's survival, it's survival and it's a very bright, it has lots of light for our pathway.
Thy word is a light unto my feet.
A lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Thy word, let's say it together. Actually, I know a song. Now you're going to forgive me, because when I run across the song, we have to sing it.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and alive unto my heart.
Thy word is the Lance unto my teeth, and the light unto the light unto.
That was the best part of that song and I remember that God is very, it's very important for us to have that light lamp and that light.
In John eight, I'm going to look at John 8. Somebody can read it for me.
I want somebody to read verse 12 for me. John 8 verse 12.
Maybe I better read it myself. Just make sure we're getting it right.
OK, John 8 verse 12. You want to read it?
You can stand up so folks can see you.
And Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life. That's right, that's good. I am the light of the world. He that falleth me shall not walk in darkness. You know, one day I had a a real big pain.
Oh, this is bad. And I prayed about it and it went away. So then.
It wasn't very long later I had this, this pain again. Oh, it's really bad.
And I prayed about it and it went away. But this Cape happened a little bit. Pretty soon it didn't go away. That boy, I better see the doctor. I think I better go see the doctor. And you know what? He he didn't know what to say, but.
It came out with, uh, one of these things.
We can't see it very well.
Yeah, yeah, I know what to do. I need 2 volunteers.
Uh, these two guys in the end here, OK.
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I want you to hold this up. One guy on one side and one guy on the other. OK? I need another volunteer. OK, You.
Got to hold it high because folks can't see.
And you go behind here and point this light, OK on that thing.
You guys come forward all right now.
This is what the doctor saw.
MMM. He's looking and looking and, you know, he ended up taking a whole lot more of these things. I ended up I had a kidney stone. Now, what about this, this light? What does that remind us of, you know?
You hold the light a little higher and hold that higher, so you gotta hold it up there, yeah.
OK.
It reminds me that God can see into my heart. We already, we already quoted a verse here. The light is showing right through Mr. Dan's body. It was like this, OK, Now you can't see it this way. When you get the light on it, you can see it. It shows right through. And God sees into your heart, though, you know this. I'm just, you can't even see my heart in there because it's just an X-ray. It sort of goes through everything and it's looking for bones. And I don't understand how doctors can read this stuff.
They have to know exactly what each shadow means, right?
So we're gonna put this down and you can drop that. No, wait, no, go ahead and put it down. OK, good. Thank you very much. You wanna turn that thing off?
Does it go off? Oh, here we go. OK, Thank you. I got a verse we read about this X-ray. All right.
Umm, Second Corinthians.
We're gonna look in Second Corinthians.
We're gonna go to the, uh, 4th chapter of Second Corinthians.
And read.
The 3rd and the 4th verse of the 4th chapter of Second Corinthians.
And I want somebody to come up here and read it. All right. Anybody have it? You read before? Does anybody else have it? OK, don't see in there.
Come up here to the front and read that verse.
Let me stand behind here. All right, but if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, of Christ, who is the image of God to shine onto them. That's a powerful verse. OK, thanks very much and you can go down.
This has been a real exercise to me. You know, one day I was praying in the in the prayer meeting.
And this verse came to me and I thought.
I thought, wow, Satan, it says the God of this world, and who's that? That's Satan. He's blinded the mind of them which believe not. Now I have all these people that I know that don't know the Lord Jesus, and I look at this first I say Satan has filled their minds with so much. He's blinded them to the light of the glorious gospel of Christ.
You know I have a a a neighbor.
We have it used to be two neighbors, but now there's only one-on-one side of us and we pray for them.
When Nancy was, umm, diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer.
We went to the neighbors next door and the two of them stood there, and Mr. Bates was quite conciliatory.
So, you know, that's too bad. I But he didn't know really what to say. And Mrs. Fate said that I don't believe in a God that gives cancer to a mother with five children.
You know, it wasn't very long after that that Mister Bates found he had some troubles in his gallbladder. And they looked at it and looked at it and he got sicker and sicker and pretty soon found out that Mister Bates had cancer too. And we began to pray for Mr. Bates in this way.
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That God would take the blindness that Satan has put into his eyes and take it away.
So that what's going to happen as soon as that blindness is taken away, what's going to happen? The light of the glorious gospel of Christ is going to shine in and come in it's light. We began to pray for Mr. Bates like that a little bit by little bit. You know, one day he was he was lying at home in the, in the.
In the family room there, their family room went to visit him and Nancy talked to him and he, he said, well, you know, a long, long, long, long time ago, I went to a camp and I used to, I used to teach Bibles school and Bible camp. And maybe a long, long time ago, I, I, maybe I know Jesus. You know, Mrs. Faith, she, she didn't want to deal with that very much.
Little bit by little bit, you know, one time I came home and Mr. Bates had been put into a palliative care.
Center and he was very, very sick. Palliative care kids means that you're about ready to die and they're trying to take the very, very best care of you they can. So he was in a palliative care center.
And I came home from work one night and Mrs. Bates was next door, and she walked over to me and said, I got to tell you the most amazing thing that's happening, Mr. Bates. Stan was in the front room of the palace's care center, and they began to Somebody came and they were playing the piano. And he said, Play me this little light of mine.
Let's sing it. This little light of mine. I'm going to let it die. It's little light of mine. I'm going to let it die and let it shine. Let it shine, let it shine. And she said, you know, he was really happy to, to, to, to hear that song. He was just putting his hands up and down and he was swinging around and he was so happy. I said, in my heart, I know what's happened.
I know what's happened. You know, you go to visit him in the palliative care center and you wouldn't see much. But then one day Alan went to visit him.
And I don't, I don't remember exactly what he said. Do you remember what he said?
Can't remember, but he acknowledged, he acknowledged that the Lord Jesus Christ was his Savior. Oh, we were so happy. We were so happy. But the darkness had coming off, had come off of his eye, and the glorious light of the gospel had passed in. Mr. Bates was saved. I know it.
And now what about Mrs. Faith here? This dear lady is next door to us, and she's talked to Nancy on the phone and she says, you know, I think that you are the only miracle I've ever seen in my life. If there's ever a miracle, you're a miracle.
And then a couple of weeks ago she had some, she had some lumps that she had to go see about too.
And it turns out that they don't think there's anything really terrible that they'll be able to take them out. It won't be a problem. And when Nancy talked through says, well, Nancy said, I, I was praying for you. He says, that's good. I'm I know God answering your prayers. So we're praying for Mrs. Bates that the blinders will be taken off.
And that she will begin to allow the glorious gospel of Christ to come inside.
Many children in our neighborhood have been touched with the gospel as we speak to them, and we know of one or two who have really accepted the Lord Jesus as their Savior. What is a wonderful thing? We have a little light, we try to shine it out, and God does marvelous things, not with us, but with His Word, right? I have, uh.
We're running out of time yet. No, no, we still got lots of time.
In here I have some funny things. You know, you don't see these things around anymore.
Pretty hard to see.
Can you see what's in here?
Yeah, OK, a street can can can you see what's in your?
Oh, electric poles.
A car, maybe a car. OK, it's pretty hard to see.
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I found one of these in the at the Salvation Army.
It only cost me $5. I'm glad because I've never had one, you know? And I have a bunch of old slides and the kids had to see them all.
So this thing is a.
This is a slide. They don't have them anymore. They have they have a digital cameras and you can't you can't even see the image in a digital camera doesn't come out except unless you pro you can project it on a digital projector of some kind. But this you know, this reminds me of of another verse.
That God is going to bring to light certain aspects of my life. You know, if I know the Lord Jesus as my Savior.
When I get to heaven, I'm gonna understand a whole lot more about my life.
Than I do now and even as I look back, you know some of the some of the, uh.
I can look back on some of my life and I can sort of understand parts of it. Can you do that? God is working in your life right now.
And he's trying to.
Uh, he's trying to, you know what he's trying to do.
He's trying to make you like the Lord Jesus.
Did you know that?
So I want many children, many children to be like my son.
So you see, I have a. There's another one here.
When I get to heaven, God is going to help me with the light of his countenance. Let me somebody bring read First Corinthians chapter 4.
And verse five while I'm busy with this.
Anybody ready?
1St Corinthians 4.
And verse five, we are in 2nd Corinthians 4 before now in First Corinthians 4, verse five, I don't know I can get this down or not. We'll do the best we can.
Anybody got it?
You do you want to come up here and read it for me?
OK.
Therefore, judge nothing before the time until the Lord comes, who will both bring to to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the heart. Then each one's praise will come to from God. That's right, He's going to bring the hidden things to light. That's good.
You know, we have a trouble sometimes the judging things before we know what's going on, but when we get to heaven, everything is going to be brought out to the light. We're going to see what's right. Let me see if I can get this to go here. We're, uh, we're sort of guessing.
Uh, this one.
Uh, hey.
That's upside down. How do you like that?
You know, when you get to heaven, a lot of things are going to happen. This is a bit of Comic Relief.
Uh, you turn off those lights back there.
This is yours truly when he had hair.
So how many of us think we're going to be bald in heaven?
So when you get to heaven and you see me, I think I'm going to look like this.
I don't know.
But a lot more like trace, I think so, yeah.
Now there's uh.
I'm bringing this slide and it's hard to see a little bit. Let me see if I can focus it up.
Because it makes me remember something that happened a long time ago.
You know what this is?
Yeah.
Well, no, it's not. It's not very clear, is it? Even though we've got all the lights off. And yes, it's a motorcycle. This picture was taken in about 1973, which is a long, long time ago. And that guy in the motorcycle's named Dina Stern. He's a good friend of mine. And we used to ride a lot together. And I had a motorcycle, too. It was just like Paul's. Paul was riding a motorcycle when he went to your wedding, and I had a motorcycle like that.
But you know, right about that time in 1973, yours truly was praying pretty hard. I was saying, Lord help me to know exactly what you want me to do. Here I am, I'm 20 years old and I'm still not quite sure where I should go and what I should do. Please help me. In fact, I said do anything that's necessary in order to get me into line with what what your will is. You know what happened is 3 weeks or two or three right in the range of this picture.
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I had a motorcycle accident.
I was riding along back from work. I was working for Dean. His dad in Rockford, IL being a gas station attendant, said well, this won't get me anywhere. Anyway, I was walking, we were driving back home to where Dean lived on my motorcycle and some guy came right across and he, he went through a stop sign and bang, I went into his back and I went over the top of that car and into a tree about 30 feet down the road, all in the air to begin with.
Well, my mom was in Denver and she came to the hospital where I was.
I don't remember the first four or five days, in fact.
I'm told my mother tells me that while I was in the hospital and in the operating room, they came and told her, you know, we almost lost your son.
We almost lost your son and he nearly died on the operating table. They were putting this big. See this thing, you know where they put that? I broke all the bones in these two legs and they took this thing, they put it right down inside of this bone so they wouldn't have to have me strung up for six weeks. So this went down inside. This is a femur, OK? It went right down inside the middle of the bone. They took a hammer and they.
Hammered it down inside of there after they sort of drilled a hole.
Now I still have it.
About, uh, six months later, they took it out, you know, and I still have it And the amazing thing it was straight when they put it in, but now if you look at it, it's curved. Why? Because the bone that God built, this is very, very hard, very, very tough deal. The bone that God built healed properly and bent this into the proper shape of the bone. Isn't that incredible? I still have, I kind of treasure this thing, God.
God was giving me a lesson. And here I'm telling you this because when you get to heaven, you have all these things that are going to come through your mind and you're going to see what the Lord was doing. What was the Lord doing? When I was in the hospital bed during those four days that I don't remember anything, one of the nurses came in and she was telling my mother, you know, they almost lost him in the operating table. And I was, I was there, too. And the nurse looked at me and I said, yeah, well.
Maybe that would have been for the best.
You know what? Mr. Weeks wasn't afraid of death. How come?
The light of the glorious gospel that Christ has entered into my soul.
I knew where I was going. What about you?
What about you? I got to, I got to ask this. You know, we're looking at an X-ray. We're saying God sees inside of you. We had a verse that said all has sinned and come short of the glory of God. Sin. You know what sin? Sin was defined by the law. The law defined the glory of God. We're all sinners and we came short of that glory came short, every one of us. You too.
Your center right. Who here hasn't sinned?
You know what, God is holy and he wants to have you in his presence. So he said, what am I going to do? I have all these wonderful people that I've that have grown up, that I love them. I want them to be with me. I'm lacking a companion.
So I'll give my son for the sin.
Gave the Son for the sin, you know. After this I went home and in my recuperation period.
I was, uh, I worked for a printer and then I went to printing school and I went to Montreal for 13 years and I printed so that God answered my prayer.
Remember, the prayer was the prayer was God. Do anything it takes to put me in the position you want me to be in.
So for 13 years, that was God's position for me.
God knows.
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Exactly what's going on in the light of His Word tells us how you know what's the light on that motorcycle makes you think of a verse in the Bible.
There's a light that's on the front of the motorcycle and it's showing the way. A verse in the Bible in Psalms 119.
We sang it already.
Yes.
OK, I don't think you know. Don't raise your hand if you don't know. It's only my daughter. The only one that knows. Come on. Are you guys? Am I so boring that you can't remember we sang this song?
Yeah.
That's right, thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. That's good. OK? That's what we need is the word of God to guide us.
You know, yesterday I was driving, uh.
I'm going to turn this off yesterday, Alan, and I know it was two days ago. Alan and I were driving home from from work and I got to remember to turn this off. Here we go.
And along came uh.
Along came a civic that was all dressed up.
You know what I mean dressed up a Honda Civic dress up. It had fat fenders and it had wide tires and it was all black and it had all that all the the uh the details and everything taken off and it really looked cool right It looked cool and it went by and a verse came to my mind it uh.
Uh, let me see now I can't remember. The verse came to my mind which is the lust of the eye.
MMM, the lust of the eyes. That's what God calls. When you see something going by and you say woo, that's cool.
Or if you look at someone's house, say, whoa, I wish I could. You know, that's the lust of the eye, isn't it?
You wish maybe you could have some of that.
The lust of the eye we we have we have a one for things. God has put that one inside of us. But I'd like to bring out another verse. You want to turn those lights on Gloriana while you're there.
So we won't all be in the dark again.
Matthew 6, verse 22 and 23.
Talked about.
Eyes. Uh-oh. My time is up.
And I had one more illustration.
But we're gonna go fast here.
The light of the body is the eye. Therefore, if the eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. If thy eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If, therefore, the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness? The light Here we're talking of light. The light of the body is the eye. Now why did I relate it to?
The lust of the eye.
I wanted to understand about.
What we see and what we desire.
The light of the body is the eye if I be single.
My whole body shall be full of light.
When we look at something and we want them, that's the desire we have, right? A desire that we have deep down inside. But if our eye be single, if that desire that we have is single minded for Christ, what's going to happen? Thy whole body shall be full of light. We're going to have understanding, understanding of the word of God. We're going to have understanding for our pathway. We're going to have understanding and our bodies, our lives.
Will be full of light.
So let's relate that to what we see.
What do we desire?
If I be single.
My whole body be full of light now the next thing it doesn't give if I be double it says if I I be.
Evo.
There's a black and a white here, a black and a white. Does it give us a space for walking with one foot with the Lord and one foot in the world?
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It's I I be single.
Thy whole body shall be full of light. It's thy eye. Be evil here. 1 foot in the world, one foot with Christ. Are we going to get very far in our life? No. Our Is our whole body going to be full of light? No, it said.
Therefore, the light that is going to be darkness. How great is that darkness? That one more quick illustration. You don't mind, do you? What's this? It's a candle.
There's some verses about candles.
Somebody tell me a verse about candles. D Tell me a verse about candles.
Yeah, that's the one I thought of too. That's very good. That's in Matthew 5. We're going to look at it fast.
Verse 15 and 16 Let your light show and even let do men light a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candle stick.
Oops, it's going to light. This is what this is. It's a Candlestick.
And to give us light unto all that are in the house, if we came in here.
In the middle of the night and all the lights were off and we lit this candle, we'd probably get more benefit out of it than we did out of that 10 million candle power light that we turned on when it was light, right? The light dispels the darkness, doesn't it? Now, if God has given you a light, this little light of mine, I'm going to let it. Do you remember that?
This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. God has given you a light. If you know the Lord Jesus as your Savior, God has given you a light. All right, now I have a very quick story. I have to tell this story about the bee. Do you know about the bees, these tiny little creatures? Last year in the United States, you know, they lost 25% of the bee population.
These tiny little creatures. You know what Einstein said, If the bees died, mankind would be finished on Earth in four years.
Last year we lost 25% of the bee population. God tells us he's chosen the small things and the weak things and the things which men despise, God has chosen.
That's me.
That's you.
This is the light that God has given you. It may not be 10,000 or 10 million candle power. It may not be the brightness of the sun, but it's the light that God has given you and me.
I need about 6 volunteers. I'll just pick them here. I want you to come up. Come here. Yeah. OK. Keep you guys come and you guys come through. I don't know if I won for everybody. Hold it up high. OK. Hold that up high.
Let everybody see it.
Look at. I've got a whole bunch of them.
I've even got one more.
Uh, this guy in the back? In the back. In the back, yeah.
OK, what are we reading here? Thank goodness, joy, love, long-suffering, gentleness, endurance, meekness, temperance. Is having a light to shine. Is it only preaching the gospel? You know what? When you show forth the fruits of the Spirit, your light is shining. Obedience, gentleness, long-suffering, love, joy, faith, goodness, endurance, meekness. That's a light. It's a light in this world. And you know what? You know what? It's a glorious gospel of Christ.
If you show that with the faith and the love that the Lord Jesus has given you, if you display that with grace to those who are around, you're displaying Christ and it's a light to this dark, Dark World. Don't walk with one foot in the world and one foot with Christ. Display these lovely lights. Isn't it a wonderful contrast?
We just have this. It's not bright, but it's something that God uses because God is powerful and just like those little bees.
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That he uses just like those little bees that he uses to display his power of feeding the world. These little lights can be displayed to bring salvation to men and women and boys and girls everywhere. OK.
Let's sing it one more time. This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine. This little light is mine. I'm going to let it die. Let it die.
Let it shine, let it shine. OK, good. I want everybody to stand up because they're standing up and we're going to pray.
So that they won't feel embarrassed. Now we're all standing. Let's bow our heads, our God and Father.
We have learned a little bit about the glory of your life and the power of even just the sun.
But we have learned a little too far about the power of the little light that you've given us to display to the world. We pray, O God, that thou will give us power to look and to walk and to display that light that you have given. And we pray for any soul here today who is not saved, who has not received the benefit of the light, the glorious gospel of Christ. We pray, O God, that you would remove the blinders that Satan has put in there.
That their eyes would be open and the glorious gospel of Christ, the light would shine into their soul and they would be saved. We pray it in the name of Jesus our Savior, Amen.
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Land and other lines around to read it such way and pray why they made ourselves of it and not only that that they would see that liberty to give us cross and our souls and we thank you Father. And that's these things we wanted to bless the name of our Lord Jesus, Amen.
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Now this I say, brethren, that flash and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, neither does corruption inherit any corruption. Behold, I show you the mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, the last trump for the trumpet show sound, and the death shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorrupt, and corruption this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on in corruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass. The saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. Oh, death, where is thy thing? Oh grave, where is thy victory? The thing of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
The facts be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
So then, we have announced the government of the Lord by remembering Him.
So they can take on everything to be able to do.
Do, umm, accomplish the position of our Lord? That's something with you. And there's 51.
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This would be bigger.
It's a privilege, umm, to us not.
Only to remember the Lord today, but also wait for Him all the days that we have remaining in this world.
Invested capital of this particular moment, Philippians.
Chapter 3. Verse 20.
Teaches us that our job in place or a growing place is in heaven.
Our conversation is in heaven from once also we look for the Savior. The Lord Jesus Christ shall change our vile body, that he may be fashioned like unto his lawyer lawyers body according to the working whereby he's able even to subdue all things unto himself.
The things that we sometimes, umm, lose sight of.
And when we entertain ourselves, we get caught up with.
The things of this world.
But we can be, umm, waking up today by these scriptures.
Is that we should put our.
Site our view and the things about Not on the earth. Not on the things of the earth.
And we sometimes do the opposite.
Our bodies will be changed.
And we'll we'll no longer suffer this visible body.
It is true that it's one of us here has some kind of trial.
And, to put it that way, a burden.
Jesus in his mercy.
Doesn't allow us to have two burdens, only one like we have in Revelations chapter 2 verse.
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As many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan as they speak, I will put upon you none other burden that I wish you have already. Hold fast till I come.
I visited some brothers and sisters with.
Very strong trial.
And I have umm read the scriptures to them.
And I told him that the Lord in his mercy allows one burden, not 2.
Yeah, he is.
Two of those that are gathered here doesn't have some kind of burden.
But it is only one burden.
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But the one that we do have, we should have patients, because the Lord is allowing it.
Resurrection. That spoken up here is only connection. Connection with the body. I think we all understand.
Connection with the soul. The soul never sleeps. The whole idea of soul sleep is a blasphemous.
Doctrine, but the body.
Sleeps and only the believers body is spoken of as sleeping an unsafe person. When they pass into eternity, they're never spoken of as sleep. They're uh, they're in a lost eternity conscious torment if they die without Christ. But in our chapter here, umm, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. Neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
So every man and woman has an immortal body.
Every soul has an eternal existence, uh, it doesn't mean every person has eternal life. Eternal life is only possessed by those who, uh, have been born again. Eternal life is actually the life of Christ. But every person has an eternal existence, umm, and they have a numerical body.
Immortal soul, uh.
They have a body that is mortal body capable of death at this.
The soul is immortal. It will never die.
Now, the type of body that uh.
That an unsaved person has.
They have a mortal body, as we do, but the scripture doesn't reveal the type of body that an unsafe person will have. They're going to be raised.
Uh, raised from the dead to stand before the Great White Throne.
But they're gonna stand before God in the person of Christ with a body. But we're not told in Scripture what kind of a body it will be. But we know the type of body that the believer will have, uh, as we read in Philippians, a body like unto Christ.
Not reflecting no to flesh and blood, but a real.
Uh, body, flesh and bones like Christ.
Uh, Gloria, Glorified body.
So this is what the apostle is referring to here, the first resurrection.
The whole chapter first Corinthians 15 deals with the subject of resurrection. And in the pre previous verses we've spoken on those that were earthly and those that were heavenly. Verse 48 And that is the earthly, such are they also that are earthly. And such as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And verse 49 And we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly people. How's that going to happen?
I'm in a body of flesh and blood, in a corruptible body, a mortal body. Well, here it develops how I'm going to bear the image of the heavenly to go from a mortal body to an immortal body and from corruption to interruption when the Lord comes and I'm going to be changed. This is what he's getting into in the following emergency. This I say brethren and flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. Something's got to happen to you and me to be in that complete final heavenly state that I'm going to be in and it's either true death and resurrection.
Which was a part of those that already died and they died in faith in the Lord. Their bodies is going to be raised, but those will be living when the Lord comes. They're going to have to be changed because flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. And we're going to be changed. We're not going to have, it's been said, a glorious body like the body of the Lord, less involved in resurrection, in the resurrection body. And that body is going to be eternal.
It is a changed body.
Sometimes we say a new body and uh, maybe it conveys the thought that it's a different one, but it's changed. You know, there aren't gonna be any graves of the Saints of God in this world when the Lord comes that are left full and they're up there in their spirit and soul in a new body. Now that old body is going to be taken out of the grave in chains. Those graves are going to be empty.
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This is one of the very few places in the New Testament in verse 51 where.
Paul uses the word a mystery. And a mystery in the New Testament, in Paul's teaching, is not something that can't be known or isn't known. It's something that God has been pleased to reveal in these last days. The risen Christ has revealed it through his chosen vessel, the Apostle Paul. So that resurrection in the general sense was known before the blessing of Israel in the coming day, based upon the the suffering and death of Messiah was known before.
Even Gentile blessing was a subject of Old Testament prophecies that the nations of the world would be blessed under Israel, the head of the nations. But what was not known was what Paul calls the mystery. In Ephesians 3 he speaks about it. Maybe we should just turn there quickly without long digression.
But in Ephesians 3, I'll just jump into verse 3.
How that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery?
Verse 5, Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. Here's what it is. But the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the Gospel.
The communication of this unknown, previously unknown truth.
Was a ministry given to the apostle Paul along with the gospel of the grace of God. And it was something that had pleased the Lord Jesus on high to use Paul to reveal that in between the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow in that interlude would be something that was unknown before. And that was that the Spirit of God in that interlude which we live in now, would gather out of Jew and Gentile one people for his name. We'd be joint heirs with Christ.
Members of his body and partakers of that promise. You'll see pictures and types and shadows of it in the Old Testament, but not the revelation of the truth of the Church of God as the body of Christ, the bride of Christ. And so Paul introduces that by saying, behold, I show you a mystery. He's revealing something that now is known to the Saints. Another the next place in first Corinthians 11 where he introduces.
Or takes up the subject of the remembrance of the Lord. Well known passage, 1St Corinthians 11.
Verse 23.
For I have received of the Lord.
That which also I delivered unto you. And so here is another revelation, and without going into all the details of it, the remembrance of the Lord, the loaf on the Lord's table, the Lord's Supper, the cup on the Lord's table, is sort of the characteristic expression of what we now are and what we now enjoy. If the church was not known, then the character of remembering the Lord in that way was not known either. And you say, well, you know the, the disciples, they, they.
They had that feast with the Lord.
Before the Lord was betrayed. And they could have said to Paul, well, where do you get off saying that this is some revelation that you had? You weren't even their fault, John. Peter could have said we were there. And you're saying you have this revelation that it's well.
The remembrance of the Lord that He introduced Himself still kept in view of the possibility that His people would repent and receive Him, that He would even set up His Kingdom, should they collectively humble themselves in those times of refreshing, as Peter and John preached in the early part of Acts, would come from the presence of the Lord. But not only did they reject Him on Calvary's cross, but the Spirit of God after the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
Came out again in mercy and grace to those same people with a stealing. With the death of Stephen that additional offer was declined and rejected. And right at that moment you have the apostle Paul, Saul of Tarsus coming into the scene and in his ministry he received this precious truth of the church as the bride of Christ, as members of his body. The existence of what we are now was not known before the Lord's table then became the remembrance of the Lord took on a character.
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And that the Lord Jesus himself was not pleased to introduce at that time, looking upon the loaf and realizing that we are all members, all partakers of one loaf. And that was not known by Peter and James and John at that time. And so the existence of the church, the characteristic expression of it at the Lord's table, and then finally the church's destiny. So here we read as the brother has been bringing before us the destiny of the church. If the Lord pleased to come today and receive that word, we'd be changed.
Today would be changed and those that are asleep in Christ would be raised up from among the rest of the dead.
And then the final one is First Thessalonians 4, where it's another mystery, another revelation that the Lord is gonna rapture that church with all the rest of the redeemed down through the ages, up into glory. So those are 4 main areas where the apostles spoke of the mystery, a mystery revealed. And it's the privilege of all the Saints to be in the understanding of this precious truth. The mystery is revealed now to faith not unknown to us.
So again, a mystery is not the way the world uses it ought to mystery to me where you buy a book that's a mystery book and something that can't be known. Mystery is something now revealed that God has now been pleased to reveal to.
All of us that have now been brought into the Church of God.
I tell you a secret, it's not going to be a secret anymore.
That's what he does. I show you a mystery. I tell you a mystery. When I told you it's not a mystery anymore, you know it.
And Joseph had that wonderful double title, Savior of the world and Revealer of secrets.
This should be this should be the blessed hope that every believer has. The beginning of chapter reminded us that our blessed Savior, it was the first one, the first fruit of resurrection. He was the one that have conquered death. He's the one that we have to be looking at and be reminded. In fact, our whole basis of salvation is based on not just death, but death and resurrection, isn't it? You know, often when we preach the gospel, and rightly so, we tell people about the death and the suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ.
How often do we forget to mention about the resurrection? We may even go versus well known, versus Romans 10:00 and 9:00. We'll say, if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shall and shall believe in thine heart. And what are we to believe in our heart? Well, let's turn to that so we don't misquote that. I know we know that very well.
Romans 10 verse nine. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved. That's the basis of our salvation, isn't it? Believe that Jesus died and it rose again over death. As we go through the word of God we see many pictures as it has been mentioned, shadows and types of all resurrection.
We find death and resurrection often go together. We'll find our scripture often mention about the third day, the third day, that resurrection day, we find Abraham as he, uh, was told to take his son Isaac in the 22nd chapter of Genesis to be offered up. We now find that as we follow, the path of faith is set. On the third day. He lifted up his eye and there he saw a fall off the place that he ought to be.
And then we, we script here carefully. There are many places that mention about the third day. Then we have to be reminded of death and resurrection. We find that in the Old Testament they talk about the feast of the first fruit. Well, the feast of the first fruit is to be raised on the 17th day of the month. Where you say, where is the third day coming from? Well, the death is really the Passover, which is the 14th day of the month, three days after the Passover.
Is the feast of the first fruit. You'll find the 17th day repeated often in scriptures reminding us of resurrection that follow after death. And you know, even go as far as to notice that NOAA when its arc rested on Mount Ararat, you'll find that the word of God was very precise. He said it was on the 17th day when it rested. So resurrection is something we as Christian should.
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Precious that thought on but here in our portion here.
The resurrection is a different one, isn't it? It's not necessary for, uh, those who died, though it does mention that verse 52 is it? Is that in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump for the Trump official sound and the dead, oh, it mentioned the dead first shall be raised incorruptible. A brother mentioned about the verse we often quote in 2nd Thessalonians 4. And the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Well, we know that, but then is that we which are alive and remain, Oh, we have that portion too. So here, back in our chapter here, and the dead shall raise incorruptible. Well, there's two portions to this, isn't it? Isn't there? There is a dead and then we, oh, do we have to wait for death before we can see this resurrection? You know, that's not the hope we have within us, is it? In a moment, in any moment now, we which are alive, it says here, and we shall.
Be changed. What a blessed hope we have that we may not see death, but we shall be usher into His presence.
A margin will start to lift. Me too is in a twinkling of an aisle.
The whole of verse 52 is in the twinkling, in a moment, in the twinkling of an oil. All of all that happens in verse 52, and it could happen right now and after three.
Think of that, brethren, that.
You know, we've talked about these things.
Heard them spoken about at so many conferences and meetings in our home assemblies. One of these moments, this is actually going to happen.
And how that should how the thought of that should.
Should change my life.
Lies with each one of us and put things into perspective as to what really counts and what we're doing with the last few moments of our lives here.
We're gonna say something along the same lines there, Robert, about the plunging of an eye in a moment.
The Lord has graciously told us how long that moment was going to be. It's a moment and still twinkling of an eye. I don't know if there's a moment and the quinting of an eye, but you know, Quintin of an eye pretty quick. You can imagine there's nobody before you there, and you blink your eyes and when your eyes come back, there's somebody standing there. He wasn't there before. That's the resurrection that did.
And then somebody's before you and then you blink and he's all changed. You know, the colors change, the shirt change, everything changed. How'd that happen? And that's one thing I've been on. It's based on a work that's been done already. You know, it's science tried to do that. It takes years and years and years and never be able to do that. The process of transforming, of transforming, God has to say a word and that's it. It happens all of a sudden, but it's based on the work that we've done. That's why it can be performed, you might say, because everything's ready for that to be done. And that working on performance, performance on the cross by the Lord Jesus.
Now we read before Romans 10:00 and 9:00 and we had the salvation of our souls there. That work was performed there by the Lord Jesus on the cross.
And the salvation of our bodies, well, that's going to happen when the Lord Jesus comes. The only thing that separates us from that moment is the coming of the Lord. And when he comes in the twinkling of an eye in a moment, that word moment, I believe is a, a Greek word that you, you can't invite that moment into. You can't have two of those. There's only one moment. You can have two momentitoes. You can't have two, just one. It's so quick at the salvation of our bodies. But in the meantime, as you were suggesting, Robert, what do we have? We have the salvation of our lives and that's a process. 2nd Corinthians 3 verse 18, how we beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord.
Are transformed from glory to glory in the same image. We're gonna bear the image of the heavenly in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. So we can be more conformed morally to the image of the elderly. Now, as we gave upon the Lord and we let these things that we hear that were reminded of in these scriptures, let me sing about, Are we going to be face to face with that man in the glory in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye? And shouldn't that drill our hearts and that make us responsible as a Lord? How much time I have left? But if I have only a moment left, I want to live it for you.
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Interesting too with this thought the moment it happened so quickly, but yet this is the same blessed hope that was given to the Saints throughout the ages, the Saints back in the Apostles day at this hope of the Lord's return, that imminent return. In fact, throughout the church period we found that it's the so-called dark ages. Part of the problem was that the the hope of the Lord's imminent return was forgotten.
The church had forgotten about that. Actually, Vimeo, I'd like to turn to overturn to, uh, uh, just a few passages in the 27th chapter of Acts. We'll find that that chapter speaks of the shipwreck that all and those on board had to endure. But in a, in many ways, that is a picture of that ship of testimony, the church that gone through that ruined state that they go into. I just want to highlight maybe a couple of things in regard to the Lord's coming.
We find this chapter to be a very instructive chapter. In fact, I strongly urge you to go through this chapter carefully. But we find that Paul told the Paul told the, uh, captain of the mask of the ship that they shouldn't leave that port called Fairhaven. We find that in the verse 10 and verse 11 There. But man with the so-called expert, the, the centurions, the master of the ship, the owner of the ship, the so-called expert decided that.
Pause ministry does not need to be heed and we find the church goes through states like that and then after that they got in trouble the the storm came. Now I'd like to go down to verse 19. When the storm came they were tossed and fro. They have now less we sum up this here and the third day we cast out our own hands the tackling of the ship and when neither.
No stars in many days appears and no small Tempest lay on us. All hope that we should be saved was taken away. Now they were caught in this big storm because they were told not to sail. They did, according to pause, a warning to them. So what happened here? They tried to fix things on their own. They tried to even toss out things that are perhaps important, things like the tackling that helps sailing that ship. So it's somewhat like the truth that we have learned things that we are really required.
When there is problems and difficulties, we toss them overboard, trying to do things our way now. But here's something else interesting. I think we may see that in our lives too. When things seems to be very dark and when the storm cloud seems to get bigger and bigger, chances are we have forgotten the Lord's return. Here it mentioned the third day, the third day. When we see the third day, it was commented before. We should be reminded His death and then His resurrection.
But here is that and the third day we cast out with our own hands are tackling. Oh brethren, young people, you have problems too. Not just parents here. We all have difficulties, don't we? As we often comment in a crowded size, there are many come with heavy hearts. We have various problems. I know when we sit down and talk, everyone ask how you are, we all say well, but deep down.
We have our burdens, don't we? Well, do you feel that you and that storm and seems to be you try so hard and it doesn't seem to get any better. Here we have on the 3rd day forget about the resurrection. And then because of that it says here and when neither sun nor star in many days appear, and no small Tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved.
Was taken away. How sad do you find that your hope that you have the blessed hope we have to mention that don't we have the blessed hope that this world does not have the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. Now not to prolong this chapter, but here just go down a bit. We'll find that throughout this incident, Paul was silent. So it's like the church ages paused, doctrine was forgotten, but the Lord recovered that for West India.
Back in the early 1800s, his doctrine was to recover. So we see here Paul began to speak. Paul told them that no souls would be lost, told them to be of good tear. So let's just go down.
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Verse 25 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheers, for I believe God that it shall be, even as it was told me. So they know from Paul that things will be better if they trust in the Lord. So in the 20.
27 Verse. 26 verse. How be it we must be cast upon a certain island? 27 But when the 14th night was come, as we were driven up and down in the Atria above midnight, the shipment deemed that they drew near to some country.
And found it, and founded 20 fathoms, and where they had gone a little further they sounded again and found it. 15 Fire them then, lest they should fall, should have fallen upon rock. They cast 4 anchors out of the stern, and wish for the day. Now what a beautiful picture here, when the apostles doctrine is heed, then that blessed hope has been recovered. When we see that, then we will see the sign of the Lord coming.
Rana's brethren, do we see the sign, the evidence that this return must be so eminent? Look at these, these lost souls in a sense on the ship, on the scale, a scale one there they get signed now saying they must be coming near. They say 20 fatal. Oh, they were getting closer to shore. And then as if that wasn't enough, there was a little bit more sign, 15,000. Are we not like that? The Lord has provided us with signs. Look at what's happening to us. Look at what's happening in this country.
Look at what's happening in Israel. Oh, and see what the word of God has to say to what these last days, as another brother put it, he said it's like watching a play. You know that a curtain is still drawn. You see that the actor and actress is all lining up behind the scene ready to go. The props are set. You know the play is going to begin. It just the curtain has been drawn open yet. Oh, do we have that blessed hope? Let's be reminded, the blessed hope that in that moment is that quickly, in the twinkling of an eye, as our brother reminded us, we will be caught away forever with the Lord.
Second Timothy.
A very important verse in connection with what we are uh.
Studying.
For the second Timothy one verse 9 and 10, who have saved us and called us with unholy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.
But note, but he's now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and has brought life. And that should be incorruptibility there, incorruptibility to light through the gospel. Their brother Bruce mentioned there were certain revelations not known to the Old Testament Saints.
Yes, they were born again, but they didn't know the kind of body that they would have. They believed in a resurrection, but it wasn't until Paul received this revelation from the Lord in glory.
Uh, and administered it to the believer that we understand now that we have life for the soul and incorruptibility.
For the body.
Uh, as we have in our chapter.
So we have, uh, now we have a corruptible body. If the Lord doesn't come, we're going to pass through the article of death and the body will see corruption because we are sinners. That's the result of sin. That would never have been the case in the Lord Jesus.
But through the apostle Paul, we learned the type of body that the believer will have. It will be a body incorruptible, immortal. We have a, uh, an immortal body now, an immortal soul. I hope I didn't make a mistake there before. We have an immortal soul, but we have immortal body, but we're gonna have a body that is just like Christ.
Umm.
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Apart from the marks of his suffering, we're going to have a body that is perfectly, uh, like him. The salvation of our body we don't yet have. We have the salvation of our souls. So this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. But I just wanted to emphasize that point, that in Christianity we have so much more light that the Old Testament Saints did not have.
He did not have a life in resurrection as we have life more abundantly. He did not have, he did not have the assurance of what type of body he would have or uh, that uh, the body was going to be changed. The truth of the rapture was not known to the Old Testament saying, but now it has been revealed as our brother mentioned through the special ministry of the Apostle Paul.
So you could say then John following up on the verse you read that.
Life and immortality were not a new thing, not something that God hadn't thought of before, because his purpose in Christ is eternal. But the gospel has brought these things to life in a way that they weren't before. And so Old Testament Saints kind of saw that glimmer in ahead of them in the future and it sustained them. They live by faith and they had a hope and it took over their lives. As Hebrews 11 describes. We have it in a, in a, in a, just a bright.
Revealed.
Uh, manner that, that, uh, hardly compares with what was revealed before. So the question that we asked ourselves is, why doesn't it take hold of my life more day-to-day in a practical way?
This exercise before that death is swallowed up in victory. It says here that then shall be brought the pasta saying that is written death is swallowed up in victory goes on to tail death, whereas I single grave, whereas thy victory a sting of death and sin and the strength of sin is the law, but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
And the Lord Jesus rose from the dead. That was victory over death, but it's not apparent yet that death has been swallowed up in victory.
When the Lord Jesus comes and He calls out of death all those that are His, and it's going to be manifest that He had that victory 2000 years ago and He went into that for us, and that would not hold Him. If they could not hold Him who was our substitute, they cannot hold us who have been associated with Him. And when He comes like the Lord Jesus rose again and had an incorruptible body, that's what's going to happen to all those that are His. You give it us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. We're going to have incorruptible bodies just like unto His body, and He's gone into glory now, and He has a glorious body, and that's the body we're going to have to the body of glory like unto His own.
That quotation, death is swallowed up in victory, is from Isaiah, and it's a passage that takes up Israel's restoration in the coming days, though through trial and tribulation. We know that tribulation is going to be for seven years. And so it might bring in the thought too, that upon that time when we're changed and our and we have bodies like his and we're caught up to be with the Lord, then it's going to commence that time.
For the complete fulfillment of that scripture.
Sometimes, perhaps we speak a little bit too.
Sure, what adjective to use, but like we've got it all figured out and like it took us 5 or 10 minutes when we sort of when we when we feel we understand the sequence of events and the counsels of God. But it's by comparing Scripture with Scripture that you can convince yourself that what you hear in meetings like this and teaching is really the truth of God, as Steven said as an example of that in Isaiah 25.
It connects this passage is spoken by the prophet Isaiah in connection with the introduction of that wonderful Kingdom which will be introduced by judgment, which the Lord will head up. But in our chapter here, there's this word in verse 53 or 5054. So when this corruptible shallow put on incorruption, and this mortal shallow put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written.
And so it's by comparing scripture with Scripture, New Testament passages like this that you can build in a solid scriptural way.
The scripture explaining scripture that aha, the resurrection of the just of the Saints must take place at that time introductory to that thousand year Kingdom. It's not enough for you to just accept it because Steve Stewart or or John Kemp or any of the rest of us say it. It gives a good stability to your soul and and a good clear conscience before others as you speak of the truth if you've traced it through yourself and have convinced yourself from the Scripture.
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Comparing scripture with scripture that you have an outline of sound truth and of the events that are soon to come upon us, in our case for great blessing.
It's the word that perhaps the time is nearly over here before we have to adjourn verse 58, which we all, I'm sure, are familiar with and have enjoyed it countless times. It's really an exhortation of the apostles.
Isn't it? Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable.
Always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as.
As you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. What an encouragement this verse is. And uh, sometimes I've illustrated it in this way. Every boy and girl knows what a compass is. Uh, there's one leg of the compass which is stationary, doesn't move. It's steadfast, unmovable. The other leg of the compass every boy and girl knows.
It reaches out as wide as possible and makes a circle.
You have to have one leg, uh, established there or else it's not going to work now.
I believe that it's so important to grasp this truth, especially for the young people who have a desire to take the glorious gospel out to the lost around us. Move out from the assembly where you are gathered scripturally to the name of the Lord. You don't have to leave the true divine ground of gathering to preach the gospel. The Lord has brought you into a most favored place.
The greatest privilege.
That you have in this world to be gathered according to the word of God, to the name of the Lord Jesus in the midst. There's only one Lord's Table in Mount Tabor, not 2.
Uh, scripturally gathered, uh, and we need to remember that first it is the holy priesthood giving the Lord his proper place in worship. Then the royal priesthood follows that. That's what we have in the end of the verse, always abounding in the work of the Lord and how much work there is for young people, for every one of us to do.
We live in a world that is perishing, we're on the threshold of the Lord's return and souls are all around us and we have liberty to preach the gospel and to spread the gospel everywhere by His grace. Let us remember first, be steadfast in the assembly and the truth that God has given to us, of gathering to His name, and then go forth with all the energy possible to reach.
The lost with the gospel. Of course, the work of the Lord entails more than just preaching the gospel. It may be in visitation, it may be in, uh, comforting a sick St. or a helping one that is in trial. But every one of us have a work to do for the Lord, especially the young people. I think of their energy.
Uh, sometimes we think, uh, well, we need, uh, activities, we need, uh, some sort of sports so the, uh, young people can, uh.
Burn off their energy. Well, I wouldn't say a word against that, but if you go out with the gospel and trap the streets and reach souls, you'll get lots of exercise, always abounding in the work of the Lord and you'll get blessing to your soul as well. So I just wanted to make those few comments. I hope that are taken in the right way, that we are gathered on scriptural ground and.
Service flows from worship, not the other way around.
Uh, some people say, oh, you are putting, uh, SER, uh, you are putting worship above service. I don't think the Scripture explains it that way, but there is an order in Scripture that is first worship Godward, then service man word. So that's what the apostle, I think, uh, may be bringing before us in this, uh, beautiful verse. Our labor is not in vain in the Lord. You may not see many results.
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Leave that until the judgment seat of Christ. Don't count your converts before you get to heaven because you'll count too few. Leave the results with the Lord, but preach the gospel, uh, the instant in season out of season as we have in Timothy, and the Lord will bless and He will give the increase. You cannot do it, but we are to be faithful with what the Lord has given to us.
I could just add 1.
Glenn Johnson included and as part of the work of the Lord, and I agree with what he said, but that's one thing that I want to add in prayer.
I was talking to one of the dear older sisters, not that old, I should say, local sisters here in that table. And I thank her for inviting us all to the conference. And she said I didn't do anything. And I said I'm sure you must have prayed a lot worse, and I'm sure she did.
No, prayer is the work of the Word, and there isn't one of us who can say that we can't do that, the sisters included.
Very important.
The 318.
Our eyes behold the Raptor. Houston Restful. Very good.
318.
I don't know.
Uh, OK.
Uh.
I know it's well. I'm good experience.
And I get into that.
I need to go.
Uh.
And everything else.
And Crystal.
And.
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You're taking all of your time. Whoa. Oh my God.
Montana can follow up on the party.
But I'm going to get a case to go to your place, he proved to us at that time.
Amit.
The Man of God Made a Fire to Warm Himself and His Brethren
One Last Invitation
Gospel—John Kemp
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So we open our.
Gospel meeting tonight by singing #5 on our hymn sheet.
Oh Happy Day, that fixed my choice.
And thee, my Savior and my God #5.
And, umm.
1 Three because.
Come together. I'd like to see it happen.
110 o'clock.
Uh, I didn't have a problem with my hair.
And then I'll go right along.
And come back and tomorrow.
Forever.
Our God, we thank thee this Mor this evening.
For that unspeakable gift of thy beloved son.
Heaven's Beloved 1.
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Who entered this world in manhood?
To become our Savior, to accomplish the mighty work of redemption which only He could do. And we thank you for that happy day which has come into the lives of many in this room.
The grace that has reached down to us when we were far from the Argonne.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor. We do pray for blessing upon the Gospel tonight.
We do not know each soul that is gathered here. Our God, Thou just looked down into the deepest recesses of every heart.
Nothing can be hid from Thee. We ask thy help. We acknowledge our weakness tonight, our dependence upon the cruelly. Without Thee we can do nothing. We ask that Thy word might be a blessing in any life, in any soul. Here tonight is who is a stranger.
To God and to grace with eternity before Him, An eternity in heaven, or an eternity in the regions of the lost. How solemn we look to the argument that Thy word might.
Reach the heart and conscience of any lost soul here there might be two, an encouragement to Thy people, for many here have, uh, closed in with the offer of mercy. So we commit the meeting to the and ask thy direction. And by blessing our God in the worthy and precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen. Good reason our time is limited, so perhaps just another short one.
Year #16 Whosoever hear it shout, shout the sound.
Blank from blessed with my opinion all over the world around.
That's one of the ones there's whatever. That's what I'm saying. It's well.
Everything well.
When they come.
Look around.
No problem. One day she's going home for a second or nine every day.
And come upon her wonderful.
Well, tonight, dear friends, we have the privilege again of.
Channeling the message of the gospel to each one here this evening, I'm sure there are some that could do a better.
Presentation than I can, but uh, we know that God can use his holy Word, uh, in blessing to souls. The time is short. We are on the threshold of the Lord's return.
We wonder why we are still here in 2007.
God has been speaking to the world in many ways, and He's speaking still tonight with those wonderful words we just sang. Whosoever will may come. In fact, God could not close the Canon of Scripture until he had given one more invitation.
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That is in Revelation, the last chapter, the last book of the Bible. Whosoever will may come and take of the water of life breathing.
There is the last invitation, and that is for you, my friend, tonight, if you are in the company and you have never yet tasted the water of life. If you have never received God's wonderful full free salvation offered to you.
Perhaps many times God has a message for you tonight. A.
Gospel meeting has its origin in heaven.
And it's God's desire that each one in this company tonight.
May be prepared for the vast eternity which lies before him.
We are.
Umm, we umm, are solemnized as we think. Eternity before every soul that we meet, that we brush shoulders with from day-to-day. Eternity with the Lord Jesus and the glory which many of us are looking forward to.
And or eternity in the regions of the lost. Our brother Paul and I were speaking about this just before.
One of the meetings today or after the meeting, we read those scriptures. Death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.
Whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire, Death and hell, Death, the place of the body, Hell or Haiti, the place of the soul, joined together at the great White Throne and cast body, souls, spirit into a lost eternity. How Song?
For us, are you prepared, dear friends, for the meeting with God, which you cannot cancel appointments, You may, uh, you may, uh, reschedule down here, but that appointment with God, you cannot.
Avoid. May God bless his words. I remember a story of a brother in Ottawa.
Who, Uh.
Was visiting.
Uh, an older man who had been in the army as a young man.
He was a careless, uh, unsaved, uh, individual. But when he went into the service, he was given a New Testament and he put the New Testament into his tunic pockets and he went into the battle careless.
And, uh, he was on the front lines and a bullet penetrated through his uniform into the New Testament and stopped just at the last chapter of Revelation.
He opened this book and he showed it to my friend. He said here, that's where the bullets stopped at this place. Do you know what the verse was? Whosoever will let him come and take water of light, really. Yet this man was still unsafe.
God has spoken to him so solemnly.
Yet he had not received that water of life. Remember, my friend, in a lost eternity there's not a drop of water. There's no mercy in hell. There's no rest. God has a way of escape from that place. God has no desire that any soul in this room, young or old, spend eternity in the regions of the lost.
In the blackness of darkness forever. God has no pleasure in that.
None whatever.
But He desires so earnestly your blessing. His love is reaching out tonight.
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To you in this room. And this was manifested the love of God toward us, that he gave his only begotten Son. It wasn't that verse read to us this morning. First John chapter 4 verse 10 here in his love, not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. No, there was no love in our hearts, none whatsoever.
It was the the heart of God that was the source of all that love, the heart of God.
And reverently speaking.
Don't take me wrong here, the Lord Jesus didn't have to come into the world in order for God to love man. It was the.
The greatest expression of the love of God, but that love was there for man from a past eternity, and he did not spare his own Son, but deliver him up for us all.
But what was there in you and me that attracted the love of God? Nothing whatever. There was enmity, there was fear, there was hatred. But there was no love in my heart, nor was there in your heart.
We love a person because we see some quality that attracts us, but God saw nothing in us that would attract Him.
I've been to India a number of times, as you know. Once I had the privilege of seeing one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. You all know about it, I'm sure. But perhaps not many of you have seen this building. It's called the Taj Mahal. It's up in the northern part of India, near Agra, not so far from Delhi, is visited by thousands of tourists there. It's shining in all its beauty.
White marble.
Inlaid precious stones, intricate designs, marvelous buildings. You know when that was built, about 400 years ago, It was built by an emperor. His name was Shah Jahan.
Why did he build this stuff? It's actually a Muslim tomb. He was a Mughal emperor. He was a Muslim. He had a wife that he loved very much.
And in memorial to her, I think she died young.
He built this magnificent structure, this.
Tomb, uh, with its, uh, Dome and uh, it's uh, a beautiful building. One of the most beautiful I ever laid my eyes on.
And it's called a monument of love.
That was love for a person.
That was attractive to him that he thought so highly of.
But the greatest monument of love tonight, my friend, is the Cross of Calvary.
There we see the love of God told forth in all its fullness. What more could God do to win your heart than He has done?
He did not spare his beloved son.
There from the glory.
The Son of God.
De departed from the courts of the of joy and love and light to enter a world where he would be rejected and spit upon.
Knowing what He would receive from man, he entered this world and for the first time the angels beheld their Creator.
For the first time.
Where was he born? In a stable. If you had the opportunity to choose where you would be born, you did not. Would you choose a a Manger? A stable with the cattle? That's what the Son of God did. He humbled himself.
How greatly was the scoop from the glory from the bosom of the Father?
The eternal Son of God. He never became that. He was the eternal Son from a past eternity.
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He never relinquished that.
But he did take manhood.
Into union with himself.
He took manhood into union. So the Lord Jesus was perfect man. And, uh, at the, at the, uh, at his baptism, the heavens opened and uh, the Spirit of God descended like a dove upon him. Those words were heard. This is my beloved Son, in whom I have found all my delight. That was God the Father giving his approval.
Just at the beginning of the earthly ministry of the Lord, and then again at the end of His pathway on the Mount of Transfiguration, the heavens were open to gain. And God pronounced to those words the second time. This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
The Lord Jesus could have gone on from the Mount of Transfiguration to the glory. He didn't need to come down from the mount.
Was there any cause of death in the Lord Jesus? None.
Naturally speaking, there was no cause of death in Him. Wholly spotless, undefiled, separate from sinners. Some people talk about following the example of Christ.
I haven't done that. The life of Christ as I behold it in the gospels and read of his perfect pathway filled with compassion, love.
And kindness, meeting every form of human need that He came in contact with. I am condemned because my life was so different to His. So following the example of Christ, that leaves me out completely because there's such a difference. A dear friend that one did not go back to the glory. We read this morning about His sufferings in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Will my father, if it be possible that this cup, pass from me?
But uh, nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done. We've read in Hebrews 10 by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ once and for all. It was God's will that you should be blessed, that you should be saved from your sins, your guilt, your ruin, that you should be brought into blessing God's will, God's desire. Is that for you tonight, my friend.
Are you still unsafe?
God's desire is for your blessing.
But there's a problem. There's an obstacle there. And what is it? It's my sins. Your sins.
And, uh, thank you.
That's the the only way that God's will could be fulfilled.
God's desire should could be accomplished was the death of His Son.
Price had to go into debt, but he didn't remain there. He rose triumphant, and he is now a man in the glory. He went to the cross to save you and me from a lost eternity. Let's look at Hebrews Chapter 11.
Good morning.
Yes.
I wanna say here at the.
Before we read these verses that we are not on trial tonight, the trial.
Was over at the cross. We're not on trial or probation tonight. The gospel message.
At the end of the world, the Lord Jesus appeared after man had done his very worst.
God allowed man to.
Display what was in his heart, what was, what was the result. This is your hour and the power of darkness. God allowed man to go to the limit at the cross. He permitted his his son to be ridiculed to be.
Scourge to be crowned with thorns to be crucified.
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Not allowed. God looked on. He did not intervene to stop man from that wicked act.
Led on by the enemy of Souls.
He allowed man to do that.
Because he wanted to provide a Savior for him. And that's what God is offering you tonight, salvation. So we're not on trial anymore. The trial was over at the cross.
But now God has a remedy.
Even though you're condemned, you're brought into court and you're pronounced guilty before God because you're a Sinner, a guilty Sinner. Although that is the truth, you cannot deny it. God says I have a remedy. I have a way by which you can be justified.
By which your sins can be washed away, you can be made fit for the holy presence of God.
Hebrews 11.
Verse 4. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous. God testifying of his gifts, and by it he being dead, yet speaketh. Did you ever hear a dead man speak?
While you are tonight.
Abel is dead, has been for nearly 6000 years, yet he's speaking. He has a message for you.
What is that message going back to the story of Cain and Abel, which we know, or perhaps most of us are familiar with?
Uh, able both, uh, both boys were sons of Adam. They probably sat at the same table.
They heard from their father what happened in the Garden of Eden, how that man was expelled, how that he was covered with a, a garment. Because you know, even though Adam covered up him, covered up his nakedness, when God called his name, he says I'm Naked. So his, his good works did not fit him.
For the presence of God.
And so Abel and Cain had the same opportunities. They were both.
In the same family.
And uh.
The thought came into their heart.
I want to draw near to God.
That was a good thought.
They wanted to be worshippers.
They wanted to, uh, come into God's presence, and this is what they did.
But there's a difference in the way in which they came into God's presence.
As we as we are familiar with the story.
You might say that these men are leaders.
Uh, every soul in the world is either following change or following Abel.
And it says in the book of Jude, war unto them, for they have followed the way of Cain.
I wonder, are you following the way of Cain tonight, or are you in the company of Abel? Abel is in the glory tonight. He's with the Lord. Cain is in a lost eternity. He had no sense of the fall of man. He ignored it. He denied that he was a Sinner, that he was guilty.
He attempted to come into God's presence.
By his own good works he thought that he would be accepted. He had no sense that he was at a distance from God.
Or any sense that he was a Sinner and needed a sacrifice.
But as we know with Abel.
He put between his soul and God a sacrifice, an animal, a spotless sacrifice he knew must be presented between his soul and God. And so I ask you tonight.
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What are you trusting in for the salvation of your soul? Is it your prayers? Is it your religious exercises? Is it your good deeds? Cain was of that character.
He was not a skeptic, he was not an infidel, he was not a hypocrite. He would be a worshiper.
He was sincere, I suppose, and how many people we meet today who are sincere? I have done the best I can. So did Cain.
And uh.
The point is that Cain did not obey God.
Did not realize that there must be a sacrifice.
Between his soul and God to make him acceptable. There was nothing in Cain that was acceptable to God, even though he worked in labor and brought a beautiful offering to God.
And laid it down. And God did not have respect to the offering of Cain.
And what a picture it is to us of many people today who are laboring to make themselves fit for God's holy presence.
Cain has nothing to say to us tonight.
He was blinded, he was hardened and he went out from the presence of the Lord. And we know that he became a murderer. His perhaps there's someone in the room tonight who is blinded.
By the enemy of souls we had it this morning, the God of this world, that blinded the minds of those that believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
May God open blinded eyes to see, hearts to respond. Mr. Moody was having meetings in one of the large cities at one time, and there was a reporter in that city who claimed to be an atheist. And he says Mr. Moody is telling these stories just to make an impression. I don't even think they're true. So he asked permission to come to the meeting.
That Mister Moody was having and to sit there and take notes because he wanted to disprove the truth of what the preacher was saying. And as he sat there, Mr. Moody told his story and this is what it was.
He says I read in the newspaper about 3 little girls.
They were looking inside a window, a store window. It was beautiful all lit up. There were dolls and doll houses and everything and they were so excited.
Two of the little girls were were very interested and they were describing everything to this third little girl, but there was only a blank expression on her face.
And the person who was writing this story, he said that I drew near and looked. I wondered why there was no response from that little girl, and I saw that she was blind.
I saw she was blind and although they said they wondered why she didn't, uh, delight in what was in the window, but he understood she was blind, she couldn't see it.
And, umm.
Mr. Moody went on to say that's just the way it is with so many people. We bring the gospel before them again and again.
And it seems they're just blinds. They don't realize their need. They don't realize the the beauty of the Lord Jesus and his finished work on the cross. They're just blind spiritually.
And this reporter who was sitting there in the the front row, he stood up excitedly and he said, Mr. Moody, I was the one that wrote that. I was the one that wrote that report. I was the one that was looking on there.
And the Spirit of God convicted him, and he saw that he was spiritually blind and he was in the the captive of the enemy, and he accepted Christ as his Savior. That night his eyes were opened to see the beauty in the person of the Lord Jesus. Dear friends, have you seen beauty in that man of Calvary, the one who suffered for you? We are going to see him face to face.
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Every eye shall see him, they also which pierced him. All kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. You must meet God. Are you going to meet him like Cain did? Perhaps you are respectable in this community.
You're a religious person. I attend church.
But unless there's a sacrifice between your soul and God, you are not fit for that holy presence of God.
Abel put a sacrifice between his soul and God. An animal died. Its blood was shed.
He put his faith in the sacrifice. Why was Abel received? Because he was a good living boy, I say to the children in the Sunday school. Is there any difference between these two boys? No, they were both sinners, both outside of the Garden of Eden, outside of the presence of God. They wanted to come in, and one brought what pleased God and the other ignored the fall.
And came with the works of his own hands.
No recognition that he was outside God's presence and.
Guilty.
So, dear friends, tonight tonight, let me say that God is reaching out.
With a message of pardon to you tonight.
And he wants you to believe in that sacrifice, as we read in our.
Verse here. Umm.
Verse 3.
By faith, Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice. So Abel was received in his sacrifice. Dear friend, the only way that you or I can be made fit for the holy presence of God.
Is through the sacrifice not of a land, but of the The Savior, the eternal Son of God, gave his life in sacrifice, that you might have eternal life, forgiveness of sins. God testifying of His gifts, not of the.
It says here that he testified of his gifts, not of his good life.
But the sacrifice that he brought pleased God, and he has a voice. He has a message for you tonight.
And uh.
The evangelist is only a signpost to God, to heaven, to eternal life. A signpost. You know when we are at a crossroads, how often we, uh, want to have.
A A signpost, The oldest signpost in the world is in Great Britain, up in the northern part of the country Northumberland. It was built. It was erected there by the Romans about 1700 years ago.
And it's still pointing the way, although the the words are blurred on it a little. It's still pointing the way that you want to go. It's showing you the correct way. And that's all we are tonight. The cross of Christ is a signpost to heaven.
And uh, if you will, listen to the word of God.
That signpost the cross of Christ, the the greatest monument of love the world has ever seen.
Will show you God's way of salvation, forgiveness, pardon. God wants to forgive you tonight through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins by him all that believe are justified from all things. I couldn't remember all my sins. There are too many, but it says in that him, God who knew them, laid them on him.
When you receive the Lord Jesus and trust his finished work by faith, as Abel did here.
Then God.
Play has you can know that all your sins were placed upon the head of that Lamb of God.
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You don't have to wait for a lamb. Now. The question was asked by Isaac, where is the lamb, Father for a burnt offering? And it took a couple of 1000 years before there was an answer to that question. God will provide himself a lamb, dear friends, He has provided that lamp, the work of Christ. The death of the Lord Jesus is the fulfillment of that prophecy. And tonight it is offered to you. But as we draw to a close of our little gospel meeting tonight.
Let me say.
This is a message that is urgent. It's urgent. If you go out of this room tonight in your sins without Christ, you're turning your back upon.
The offer of salvation.
Life is uncertain.
Eleanor and I were visiting in the hospital in the north of Brazil.
Just about a month ago, we visited most of the hospitals in that city of Mozero, where there is an assembly.
Elerner is a good translator.
And most of the afternoon, Lord's Day, we visited the rooms of that hospital and preached the gospel in nearly every room and gave calendars and tracks, spoke to the people. That day, four people in that hospital passed away that night. Four people in that hospital went into eternity. We were told that next day, perhaps we had the privilege of speaking to some of those people.
Life is real and life is earnest.
And the grave is not its goal. Dust thou art, and unto dust returnest was not spoken of the soul. And dear friend, tonight the enemy of your soul.
Would tell you that there's lots of time.
If you're young with life before you, you'll have another opportunity. The story is told. I don't know who, uh, related it of, uh, a person who had a dream. In that dream, Satan was on his throne.
And he called out.
This question, Who will go forth to ruin the souls of men? And one of the evil spirits stood up, and he said, I will go, and what will you say? Well, he said, I will tell them that there is no golf.
All Satan said that will not work because, uh, although they may deny that and try to stifle the thought till they know that there is a God and everything around themselves and there must be a God and that's not going to work. When they get into trouble, they realize there's a God.
So another evil spirit stood up.
And he said, I will go forth and ruin the souls of men.
Faith and said, what will you say? I'll tell them that they're too bad to come to God. All Satan said that's not going to work. No, because there's Bibles around and it tells them that God will be merciful to them, that their salvation offered to them through the work of Christ. No, that's not going to work. Another evil spirit stood up. And what would you say? The Prince of Darkness asked.
He said I will tell them.
Let them hear the gospel as often as they want.
The wonderful message of God's love and the death of Christ and the sacrifice and God's great love, and reaching out to them, I'll let them hear that as often as they would. Satan said, Well, how is that going to ruin the souls of men? But he says, I'll tell them, I'll let them hear all that, but I'll tell them there's lots of time. There was a murmur of applause from the regions of the lost.
And the Prince of darkness, Satan, he said, go forth, you will be successful. You will ruin the souls of men.
It's only a dream. Perhaps true, but uh.
It illustrates what I'm closing the meeting with tonight.
That God is giving you one more opportunity tonight to receive this wonderful, full and free salvation, and God is beseeching you to close in with the offer of mercy to be saved from your sins from a lost eternity, to be brought into peace with God.
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Forever we sing that in sometimes, just as I am, without one plea that thy blood was shed for me. We're gonna sing that to him as we close tonight. I don't think it's on the little between the, uh, book here or not in the kimchi, but I think we all know that the first verse of it anyway. But perhaps we don't know the, uh, story behind that him. That hymn was written by Amelia Hall of England.
She was from a fashionable home.
Her father was, uh, a captain in the British Army.
A man of distinction, man of wealth. She had a beautiful home, beautiful clothes. She had everything that heart could wish. She went to a gospel meeting. She heard the message. She was stirred.
She felt I'm a Sinner.
She came home and told her father, he said. Listen, my daughter.
I don't want you to speak of those things in this House.
And I don't want you to go to that meeting again. I won't have anything, any of that nonsense in my house.
You understand?
Well, it went on like that for a while, but uh, Amelia felt her needs so much.
And the burden of her sins was weighing upon her. She went to another meeting. There in the South of England. She heard the glad tidings from a full heart sounded forth. It touched her, her. Her soul was stirred. She saw the Lord Jesus dying for her and shedding His blood on the cross. It won her heart. And she bowed the knee to the Lord Jesus. And her heart was filled with joy.
But she had to come home.
And when she came home and related to her father, Captain Hall, what she had done, he flew into a rage. He said I won't have anything of that sort in this house. And if you're going to continue to live here, you'll have to completely give up.
Any idea of this this conversion nonsense?
He was enraged. He said. Go up to your room, Amelia.
And think about what you have done. Come down tomorrow morning and tell me your decision.
And if you don't get rid of this these ideas in your mind, he says. There on my library table is a horse whip and I'm going to use it on you.
And he meant what he said. Well. Amelia went up to her room. She didn't sleep very much that night. She was too burdened for her dear father. But she took out her pen and she wrote to him. That we're going to sing just as I am, without one plea. That thy blood was shed for me, that thou bids me come to thee, O Lamb of God, I come. Well, the morning came. She had to meet her father at the foot of the stairs. He was waiting for her.
Was the horse whip on the table and as she came down.
She handed her father that hymn.
He took it and he read it carefully. He sank down into his seat, into his chair, convicted by the Spirit of God.
And at that moment we accepted Christ. He came just as he was to the Lord.
And his sins.
We're forgiven.
I'm sorry I made a mistake that hymn was there is life in a look at the crucified one. This is the hymn that she that she composed during the night and this is a hymn that her father read from beginning to end. We're going to sing one verse of it before we go and Captain Hall he looked to the Lord and he believed on him as his savior and for many years he was gathered to the name of the Lord. Is that in the our him she said.
Thank you.
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Our God and Father, we thank thee for this wondrous truth we have sung about life in a look at that blessed One who was lifted up as a sacrifice for us on the cross between heaven and earth. We thank thee that Amelia Hall we have related did look to the Savior.
And received forgiveness and her dear Father as well. We thank you that this message goes forth to whosoever.
Though it presented feebly, tonight we asked Thee to use My precious word to open eyes to see and hearts to respond.
We commit the message last night that went forth and ask the Lord that.
Anyone who is still a stranger to thy love and grace in the company.
They feel their need and by faith receive that salvation through our Lord Jesus and through his finished work on Calvary. We thank you for these happy days of fellowship. We pray for, uh, journeying mercies for those who may be traveling tonight or tomorrow. And we thank you for the love of our brethren, Mount Tabor. And we ask thy blessing on each one and ask the Lord that should there be one, young or old.
Who is still without God and without hope in the room tonight?
They may look by faith to the crucified Savior. We ask these things and give thanks and the blessed and worthy name of our Lord Jesus, Amen.
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We see #18 in the back of the book.
We're running out of. That's what I'm going to do about.
It.
OK.
Anoche ET Alamo emuna fogartin.
Last night we were at a bonfire at the end of Huevo and there was fire there at a Los Hermano Calenta that the brethren there could warm up a little bit.
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And we see that fire extinguished rapidly.
Spiritual so we could now speak of a special fire in Los Angeles and teochew like we have enacted chapter 28 the essential.
Acts 28.
Este fuego Comenzo pro not terminal to La Villa terminal and we see that this fire started.
And has not been extinguished yet because this is a an eternal fire.
First verse of UMM Acts chapter 28 through verse 5.
And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Nolita.
And the bar barbarous people show showed us no little kindness, but they kindled the fire and received those everyone because of of the present rain and because of the cold. When people had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, there came a Viper out of the heat, and hastened on his hand. And when the Barbarians saw the venomous piece hang on his hand.
They said among themselves, no doubt this man is a murderer, and though he had escaped the sea, yet vengeance sufferers not to live.
And he shook up the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
Este cuevar mano ES El cuello que nosotros de Nemo cacere and este Mundo oya. And this kind of fire is the fire that we should make in this world.
We see that the Barbarians.
They made a fire para calendar Aqua sommere que elano la Ponte Pablo.
To to to warm up those men that were coming out with the Apostle Paul.
And we see that the Apostle Paul himself gathered a bundle of chicks.
In order to increase the fire because of the cold and Romino La Vivora there came out of Viper in Epico and fastened on his hands.
And they were waiting to see if he would fall down.
Dad, it's saying over something else there's a work of Satan.
Every time we want to do the will of God, we have some kind of test of time.
He shook off the beast, so he took the fire.
And that.
Was used to increase the fire to warm up the others.
And laid them on the fire. There came a Viper out of the heat, and hastened fastened on his hand.
So they were hoping he would.
Pull down debt. That did not happen.
Because the Lord was with him.
But the same way we today should make fire.
To warm up ourselves.
Para calentara a Los Hermanos.
And every one of us here should bring up sticks so that we can, umm, warm up our brethren.
That's why the Apostle Paul did.
And that's why I said this fire has not been umm, has not been umm put out yet basically of weather first four como Los valvaros vieron la vivo la corgando de sumano de Sierra Los unos a Los otros Pierre demente tembresomicira.
Verse four among the Barbarians saw the venomous B is tangled on his hand. They said among themselves, no doubt this man is murderer, though that he has escaped to see he had vengeance suffereth not to live.
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The world looks for a way to accuse us.
But we have the word that says if God be for us, who against us?
So verse five says an issue capabilities into the fire and felt no harm.
Muerto de repente mas aviende perado mucho viciendo eviendo que de ningun model.
So in verse six we have Halbius. They looked when he should have swollen.
We're falling down debt suddenly. But after they had looked a great while and so no harm comes to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a God.
He overcame evil with good.
And that is what we should do.
And we know that the fire we had last night has, umm, been put out.
But here we have an internal fire that doesn't end. It's a Nemo Casaya de Puerto.
And we should make an effort.
To warm our revenue.
And I can say that.
Us Dominican brethren they came, or Elise and myself were a little bit cold and so was my wife.
But we have warmed ourselves with you, Romano San Lucas.
Luke, chapter 10.
Persico Trenta verse 30 as a 20 single through 35 of our Letterman.
And Jesus answered and said a certain man went down.
From Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves which stripped him of his raiment and wounded him, and departed, living him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain place that way, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. Likewise the Levite, when he was at the plague, came a look on him and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was, and when he saw him he had compassion on him.
And went to him, and bound up his wounds, and pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast.
And brought him to an end, and took care of him. And on the Morrow he departed. He took out two pens and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him, and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again I will repay thee.
Cinemos Mucha Erosaciones Inventor Vertico Laido. We have a lot of illustrations in these verses that we have read.
It says that this man was coming down from Jerusalem to Jericho.
Jerusalem was placed in blessing. Jericho signifies the world.
And we see how this man came down from Jerusalem to Jericho.
It is very dangerous when our brethren go down.
They would fall into.
Umm, they'll go into dangerous places like this. Man did these mano de la roni de una biz, and it says that he immediately fell among thieves.
We stripped him of his raiment, wounded him.
And they left him half dead.
When our brothers and sisters go down, fall down from their position into the world, Prodigo makes me think of the prodigal son.
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They did not want to have communion with his father, he said.
And went to umm a set of a Park Place, a separate place and he also had trials like this.
We see in verse 30 that it says that they stripped him.
And they let him have that. If one doesn't win it, that person is a is a person without Price de Perillo. And when a person is dead, he's lost.
Nosotros ETA momento vivo noviciano. We the Christians are half alive, iguano pasamo de Mundo poquigador mimos and when we passed from this world, because we, we umm, are asleep now.
Then we're completely alive.
And death is no longer umm.
It, it doesn't, uh, anymore Reign over us. Verse 31.
And by chance there came down a certain place that way, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
This priest is the type of the law.
Of religion. I'm sorry.
And when he saw him have that, he said, Oh no, that is not one of us. So he left him.
This is Yasim is monerita gigandos TER Cala que lugar eviendo les SE Paso de gulado. So we have the same thing in verse 32. And likewise Levite when he was at the plaze came a look on him and passed by on the other side. He's a type of the law, firo de Nemo otro queces a Maritano enabled, but we have another one, masuna maritano que transitava bi niendo cerca del vie viendo de cuevo vido a misericola, but a certain Samaritan.
Teacher And it came where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion on him.
It's just some people as a youngsters. He's a type of the Lord Jesus.
And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an end, and took care of him.
Romano Meteor. Samaritano.
What do we see in this American?
We see him doing the work that the the two prior ones should have done.
Had no fellowship or no intercourse with the Israelites.
The Christians. The Christians have, umm, intercourse with everyone.
Even though we don't have the same ideals.
While a lot of the parties are called those scenarios.
Verse 35 And then tomorrow when he departed, he took out two pens, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him. Whatsoever that will spend us more, when I come again, I will repay these.
Not represent a lot of Milano de la de Gracia. These two plants would represent the 2000 years of this the dispensation of grace.
And beneficial de otro necesitado no vamo present. And anything that we do for the benefit of a person in need, we will not lose our recompense. Essex.
He will pay us according to his will.
Even though we should not do it because of it.
Romano pando podemos cuidados hermanos.
Depode demo Hermanos.
And it says in verse 34 that he bound up his wounds, and pouring in oil and wine, set him on his own beast, and brought him to an end and took care of him.
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How good it is, brethren, to be able to take care of our brethren.
Manos de Los Radrone.
Queso de Mr. Ekorian Tones SUS les Leslie Holladiro Bay Yacht to Romiz, MO.
From verse 36 we have umm, a question which now these three thinkers now was neighboring to him that fell among thieves.
And he said, he that showed mercy on him then said Jesus unto him, Go, go and do that likewise. So we have a lesson here for every one of us.
That we shouldn't make umm exception or of of of persons.
Vesicular lens ICSTI Ojo verse 38 dia contest yokendo intro emuna de ayuna mujer yamada Marta le recivio ESU Casa yeta de nio nermanica Maria la cueva cincondos nados Pierre de Jesus oya superabra.
This is imperial Marta cedritra Y mucho servicios a vivieniendo di SE senor no tienes cuidado que MI hermano Medea teresola.
Marta. Marta.
Pero una Cosa necesaria Y Marie escogola Buena par de la cuano de seraquita and it came to pass as they when they entered into a certain village and a certain woman needs. Martha received him into her house and she had a sister called Mary which also sat at Jesus feet.
And heard his word that Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him and said, Lord, do thou not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Meet her therefore that she helped me.
And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, that were careful and troubled about many things, but one thing is needful, and Mary, Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her.
Martha did a good thing by receiving the Lord Jesus into her house.
But she lost her recompense because she umm.
She was, umm, not happy with what she was doing.
It's my thought.
But when? When she spoke to the Lord about it.
Mucho servicio echo cuarenta sore viniendo di SE senor not tie enes with ado que merman Medea servicola.
And.
When it says in verse 40, But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone?
Bid her therefore that she helped me.
The Lord is not looking so much into material things.
Although we haven't, we have material things first and then the spiritual ones.
Anyway, we see him admonish him, Martha in verse 41.
Martha, Martha, our careful and troubled about many things, verse 42 Says. But one thing is needful.
May have chosen the good part.
It has.
And beneficial It could be true that we may do many things, brethren, for the benefit of our of our brethren, and that is not a bad thing to do.
But we should not justify ourselves.
Before God with these things.
Capitol Roman Stewart says that we should present our bodies to God and And let's look for romance too. Romano dos Eunos Romes 12/1.
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Room S 12 two says but BAE transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Essex Maria Villa.
Chosen the good part, which is.
Praise and worship.
And that's what we have done today, Worship the Lord Jesus.
And the Lord is happy with that because we have remembered him, His death, Anita.
Have announced that it's coming. We have spoken about what the bread means. Represents a total of survival, La Tierra. We know that the bread as a whole represents all the safe ones upon earth.
And the broken bread.
Represents that the Lord Jesus was.
Broken up for our 10.
Years.
It was a shame for me to ask for some brothers and sisters and I thought that they did not come to break bread today.
Yeah.
In Le Mans, Peru, there was an avalanche of dirt coming down from the mountain and only one brother that was inconvenient and died.
We'll get the idea of the Mingo Yell hermano nose, so come we go.
Because that day, it was Elora's day, and the brother that day did not, umm, did not gather.
And the brethren were that they gathered at the meeting room.
And the avalanche of third came, umm, somewhat like a meter from the place where they were gathered.
So only that brother that did not gather that was used not UMM was discussed on not to gather UMM and did not gather that they died.
Sunday is, umm, worldwide, the Lord's Day.
No Soto nozzle, no open demo cono simento Y non herculamo. Sometimes we lose sight of it and we do not come to remember him.
And he will.
Call us into account for this.
Sometimes we're eating too much honey.
And that is not good for us.
Like we have in Proverbs chapter 25.
Verse 27.
It is not good to eat much honey, so for men to search their own glory, it's not glory.
Comer mucha mierna sueno nie buscala la Gloria esgoria.
It is, you know, that we can eat a little bit of honey.
Because God is merciful.
And he knows that if we don't eat a little bit of honey, we cannot live basically as he says like in verse 16.
As thou found honey, it so much as is sufficient for thee, is how we filled there with and vomited.
This gajas de la Miele como locate vasta no SE aquar to the quetiarte de vomit.
If we eat a lot of honey, it will be bad for us.
But we can eat a little bit of it.
Sometimes I give an example that is a simple example, but it's a practical 1.
Although it has a very wide meaning in the word.
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The Lord allows us to have, umm, one wife, one sister wife.
If we want another one.
It's like eating a lot of honey.
This scripture has.
A very wide meaning.
So I'm just giving that simple one which is not that simple.
There was a man lost his two eyes because he ate too much honey, and there was another man.
That ate a little bit of honey.
And his eyes were open.
Invoice demolomer Capitola Rosso in judges with the cuisine Catherine judges 14. We see demand that lost his two eyes.
Cadorsevicolo siesta at a vicicolo. Nueva charges 14 from verse 7 through 9.
And he went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well. And after her time he returned to her to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion. And behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carpets of the lion. And he took her up in his hands and went on eating, and came to his father and mother. And he gave them, and they did eat, but he told, he told not them, that he had taken the honey out of the carcass of the lion.
It's the hombre de la Palabra.
Que que cojola mien ensudos mana. It's the word says that he took the honey in in both of his hands.
Like a person that likes to eat a lot, like we say in my country.
So he went this way, eating on the road.
Capitol yesterday in chapter 16, verse 21.
For the Philistines took him and put out his eye, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass, and he did green in the prison house.
Demos Comoro finite Dozo. So we see how the Philistines took out his his two eyes.
And we know why he has told his parents. This woman is pleasing to my eyes. Take her.
To be my wife and she was a philistine.
This case is this was coming from God.
But he did not keep her.
He went on looking for more women.
So we see that the first time it took out his eye.
So he lost his twice for eating too much honey.
First Samuel 14.
Vasicolo anticipate.
Verse 26 at A Vericolo antinuev to verse 29.
And when the people were coming to the wood, behold, the honey dropped, but no man put his hand to his mouth. So the people feared the oath, But Jonathan feared not when his father charged the people with the oath, heard not when his father charged the people with the oath. Wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand into his mouth, and his eyes were enlightened.
Then answered one of the people and said, Thy father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.
They said, Jonathan, my father has troubled the land. See, I pray you all mine eyes have been enlightened because I tasted a little of this honey.
So this man, this man's eyes were enlightened because because he tasted a little bit of honey.
So I said in the beginning that the Lord allows us to eat a little bit of honey.
But sometimes we're not, umm, happy with just a little bit.
And we want to eat more of what is already enough.
Last part of verse 29.
So.
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CI pray you how my eyes have been enlightened.
Uno pezzioso poquito de mien. One man lost his eyes because he ate too much.
This man's eyes were enlightened because he ate a little bit. That's the mercy of God.
La Costa. Materially, this has to do with material things.
And there is danger when we stop serving the Lord.
In order to get, umm, more of the things of this world.
Because everything here will stay behind.
I myself like, have liked to umm, lean on things of this world.
And I'm conscious that I will take none of it.
I don't have any sufferings for it. I haven't taken nothing into from the religious. A canal.
I have taken nothing into this world and I have no right to take anything out of it.
The word of God says that let it be sufficient for us if we have what to eat and what to cover ourselves with.
It's sometimes hard to.
Follow that verse now more capital says First Samuel chapter 6.
Verse 7 as a Vecchico lo katosi 3. Verse 14.
Primera, Samuel says.
First Samuel 6 seven through 14 Now therefore make a new card, and take two Milstein, on which there had come no yoke inside the kinds of the card, and bring their their cops home from them. And take the ark of the Lord, and lay it upon the cart, and put the jewels of gold which he returned him for a trespass offering in the coffered by the side thereof, and send it away that it may go.
And see, if it goes up by the way of his own cost to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil. But if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us, it was his chance that happened to us. The man did so, and took two meals trying, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home. And they laid it, laid the ark of the Lord upon the cart and the coffer, with the mice of gold and the images of their hemorrhoids.
And the kind took the straight way to the way of Beth Shemesh, and went along the highway low in as they went, and turned out aside to the right hand or to the left. And the Lords of the Philistines went after them until the border of Benjamin. And they of feshermen were reaping their weed harvest in the valley, And they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it. And the cart came into the field of Joshua the Beshamite, and stood there where there was a Gray stone.
And they claimed the wood of the card, and offered the kind, the burnt offering unto the Lord.
The nemos hermano mucho que de si de ta vitura de parano Soto. Yeah, there's a lot to say about this scriptures and it has a a lot of illustration illustrations for us. Erando waka hovind we see that there were two young cows.
We don't know if there were tea on cows. The Bible doesn't say it. Puerto Hugo.
But it.
But in verse seven we see that.
No yoke had come on them.
And they put a yoke on them.
And they, they put the young cows, umm, they locked the young cows behind.
The ark that was carrying that was being carried.
And the arc in which the Ark of the Lord was being carried.
Yeah, queos, don't be roicier on a tip, Puerto mando dos Marca que quia van unciero de la El arte Caro Enzo.
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In Sucasa, Superteros says that they took two meals, kind and tied them to their cart and shot up their cows at home.
Los veera la Casa encegrado Nos representa nosotros que de vemo de discipline la Casa. The calls at home is a representation of what we should do.
Being disciplined in or correcting our children at home.
Not correcting them elsewhere, not correcting them at school or on the streets.
They laid the ark of the Lord upon the card and the coffer with the might of gold and the images of their hemorrhoids.
Verse 12 And the kind of the straight way to the way of measurement, and went along the highway low end as they went, and turned other side to the right, N to the left. And the Lords of the Philistines went after them unto the board of Bechamel.
As we're there, bro la ponena caminar de janos avian donde Riva and so we see these two young cows, they have never put a yoke upon them. They take away the coughs from them and they put them to walk and they did it. This cows didn't know where to go.
So we see them lowering as they went.
And we are that way also in the wake of the Lord, When?
When the Lord pushes on on a on on a path, we are also lowering.
And I don't think that's a bad thing.
We see the counts that they didn't turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.
They were low in because they had left their cows behind.
There are no Venice here on HL Visio a la Guerra Viejo encommendala. They did the work for which they were taken, taken for verse 313, verse 13. And they of Fathomish were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley, And they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it. And the court came into the field of Joshua with a beshamite, and stood there where there was a great stone.
And they cleaved the wood of the cart, and offered the kind of burnt offering unto the Lord.
Vemos hermano como como esta la California iciera unservicio Pierre. We see, brethren, have this kind, this chaos accomplished a faithful service.
And then they were sacrificed. They were killed.
Eat with a eme fuego una Lena pigeon and put on the fire with the wood that.
Umm, that they had taken from the cart.
So that's, umm, that's what I'm saying. They accomplished a perfect service.
The Lord Jesus.
In order for his work to be perfect.
For our sake.
And we while working in this world.
Or.
Work will not be so perfect.
Because we are in the presence of standards.
But going from this world.
The world, no longer the sin, does not longer reign over us.
So these two kinds, these two cows made it work, and we see that no yoke has been put on them before.
And they took the art to the appointed place.
In order to conclude another scripture in Matthew chapter 26.
He's asking if there's enough time.
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As well as 2/5/15? Is that the time?
Mateo Venti sector and I say Matthew.
26 verse 36.
Then cometh Jesus with them into a place called Sethimony, and says unto the disciples, Sit ye here while I go and pray Yonder.
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of 70, and began to be sorrowful, and very heavy. They said He unto them, My soul is exceedingly exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.
30 Here and watch with me. And he went a little farther, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, Oh my father, if it, if it is possible, let's let this stop. Pass from me, nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou will. And he cometh unto you the disciples, and find us them asleep. And says unto Peter, What could you not? What could you not? Watch with me one hour. Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation. Spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
It went away again the second time and prayed saying Oh my father, if this cup may not pass away from me.
Except I drink it, they will be done. And he came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy, and left them and went away again and prayed the third time saying the same words.
A quit tenemos hermanos pota eludracion de la palabra de Rios queuedano. Here we have another illustration, brethren from the Word of God that may be able to help us.
Of the Lord could not wait to not, umm, wait with Him, to watch with Him for one hour and the moments that were most difficult.
Moments of agony.
But what caused UMM is caused to my attention.
In verse 36 is the position that the Lord is asking them to wait for him. He says sit ye here.
Centaos Aki Azaga Ajiore is a city here while I go and pray Yonder.
It is not hard to be one hour.
But they did not wait for him. They went to sleep.
That is the condition of brethren nowadays.
We are asleep.
Ibinos SU disciplos E dos ajoder miendo Y diva pedrasino base podido velar comigo unora. Any comments to the disciples and finders? Find them asleep and save them to Peter. What you not watch with me? One hour, one hour.
They couldn't wait for the Lord Jesus for one hour and his moments is Ave.
What would you say?
We have been umm negligence from their part bueno vamos avepo quinoa esperano, and we will see. We're going to see why they could not wait. They cannot watch with him client. I wouldn't Tauno verse 41.
Belayora para.
40 One watch and pray they enter not into temptation is willing, but the flesh is weak. He went away again the second time.
I'm afraid saying, Oh my father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I accept, I drink it, I will be done. And he came and found them asleep again.
Do you know why they could not wait? They cannot watch with the Lord Jesus one hour.
Sirissek porqueta vangieno de la Cosa de Mundo. It is said that because they were full of the things of this world.
1 is full of the things of this world. One falls asleep.
You'd say, well how come they cannot wait for watch with him one hour?
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I ask the same question. Unaudora is La Vida enquiries. The police give you a fashion.
One hour is the time every believer has after he comes to the Lord Jesus.
Maybe 70 or 80 years.
And we may think well there were negligent, that they could not watch only one hour, but one hour is the time that we have here in this world.
And that is, that is the time that we have umm and we.
Many times fall asleep as them.
My country, we say that the brother that praise, umm, the praise praise does not fall.
Because the brother, that phrase wants to make the Lord participate of his life.
When a brother wants to send savage secular Conde de senor, he won't, he won't he Do you know he wants to hide himself from the Lord?
He doesn't want the Lord to know it. He hides himself, I say.
We cannot hide ourselves from the Lord in any way.
But it is a hard thing to do when if you kneel down and ask the Lord help me, that I want to sin.
When we want to depend on the Lord.
We want him to know everything that we will be going to do.
Quadrano.
I was here four years ago in the in the house with my daughter and something happened that I will always remember.
Gemini and myself, umm, Gemini is the husband of my wife and myself. We're going, we're leaving umm, towards, umm, the Montrose Conference and we're umm, putting things together very fast.
And we were we were going very fast and I was going with my two younger, umm, son and daughter a momento de salir and when we're when we were going to about to leave.
I put my bag up on the roof of the car and we forgot it.
But when we're about to leave, I say to them, let's pray before we leave.
And at that moment a lady came knocking on the car and I got scared so we went.
We've, we've, uh, brought down the, the, the window of the car.
She was saying, Sir, your your bag is on the top of the roof of the car.
He had my Bible, he had the passport.
We had the the tickets, the airplane tickets.
So we just said, umm, thank you Lord sisa liamo inora Alamo. So if we had less and had, uh, we had not prayed.
We would have. We would have been suffering.
We would have lost all our documents.
So we.
Umm, we know that the brother. That phrase doesn't make mistakes.
There is vessel is a new villa.
Three times the Lord went to pray, and when he came back he found his disciples asleep.
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He left them and went away and prayed the third time saying the same words.
Then cometh he to his disciples, and said unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest.
Behold the hours at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. De venos hermano de de nodal mirino and cuanto la Costa de tenor. We should not go to sleep rather as as to the thanks of the Lord.
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Well, they were having was a physical sleep what we see here.
But many times, sometimes we have a spiritual umm where spiritual asleep. It's a swinging methanolo, but they sleep that they have here is not that bad.
I hear the classless venue in a signature like a podium or Diembo. There are seven times of fleet that we have in Scripture that.
That we could talk about if we have.
We see Matthew 25 that the vergence.
Where it went down to sleep, all of them. In Jonah we see him as we see him sleeping.
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Mr. Sarah Mano, please inefficient 5 We have another example, the Nemos in Thessalonians chapter 5. We have another sleep, but there is a real bad sleep.
That we have in Acts chapter 20.
The brethren read yesterday. It'll send you profundo. And it was a deep sleep, Muerte.
And that sleep caused the death Ake Hoeving of that young man.
That sat on the window.
To the outside to look on the to the people or whatever was happening on the.
Alma equal.
We should be here in spirit, soul and body.
Because if we have our bodies here and our minds are outside.
The Lord Jesus.
Onions.
Umm, capricular capitals in versus the line is five in order to conclude.
Basically.
GST Yochi versus Umm 6 through 8.
Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. The letters who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for our helmets the hope of salvation.
These vesicles yet they or cannot get werming the notched werming inosquet tambour gracios de noche tambovrachi. It says in verse seven for day that sleep, sleep in the night and day that be drunken are drunken in the night mas nosotros nosomos.
De maas nosotros que somos del dia temosovios bestido de quota de fei de caridad Y Las Esperanza de salon Ponte.
That's what it says in verse 8. But let us pour out the day we saw we're putting on the breastplate of faith and love and for our helmets.
The help of salvation.
May the Lord always keep us.
Awake.
Doing as well waiting for him, Domingo and I personally think that he may be coming in a day like this. Lord's Day.
He rose up on a on a Sunday, Lord's Day.
He was taken up into heaven. I already said that, Buenos Aires.
Right now interested in for us.
And I think that maybe it may, umm, that it may be that the Lord is also coming on the Lord's Day.
But we should not be Christians only on Lord's days.
Mexico UMM delivers that go to meetings only.
On Lord's Day, they say that they are there only to eat bread.
We have no reason to stop, umm, not to go to meetings on Lord's Day. There are only two reasons, if we're traveling or if we're sick.
Gyro animados hermano para que visiting la repura. I would like to encourage the President to visit the Dominican Republic.
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Giallo semano que Vicente amiro senor.
Rather than they used to visit us before have gone to the presence of the Lord.
And those that remain are a little bit slow to visit us.
Colombia, I think Colombia de sentiment the USA venti ciente diabetes in Colombia, YSU privilege Colombia. We should also visit the weather in Colombia there. There are five assemblies down there and I was there with them.
You days ago and it is a need to visit them.
Aiyo segosa muncho con la visita. They are very happy to receive visitors. Tambien, Devin. Visitada, Peru.
Bolivia, Mexico.
Mexico. Venezuela.
We should also visit all those places.
Bueno avemond diezermanon paralima Peru para confidential Julio Dominicano dos so there are umm 10 Dominican brothers that already have a ticket to visit umm the conference in Peru that is coming umm.
This, umm, is June is July 25th.
Single month vaganta Yamando Gekirinji. So when I go down to Dominican, there's probably gonna be five more because they have been calling that they want to go.
So I just want to say this to encourage you.
It's a privilege to also be able to visit the brethren in Lima.
I was there less than a month ago.
And I had a beautiful communion with them.
May the Lord bless you brother, the equipment.
Sorry that the language doesn't allow us to speak correctly, but.
That's why our brother and myself are wanted to.
Be a little bit quiet because 45 minutes translating.
90 minutes after the translation.
So we don't want to do that. May the Lord bless you.
#17 May the grace of Christ our Savior and the Father's boundless love #17.
We are more comforting yourself together, and edify one another, even as also you do. And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labor among you, and are over you and the Lord, and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly. Love for their work sake, and be at peace among yourself.
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Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly. Comfort the feeble minded, support the weak. Be patient toward all men. See that none render evil.
Any man that ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves and to all men rejoice evermore, Pray without ceasing, and everything gives thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerned you quench not the Spirit displays not prophesied prove all things both said that which is good.
Abstain from all appearance of evil in the very God of peace.
And I pray God, your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved, blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful to see the followers who also will do.
Correct.
Father, we just thank you for time when we've been able to sit at Thy feet as Mary Bold, and we just thank Thee that that portion was not taken away from her. We thank Thee, Lord Jesus, for that which we've been able to enjoy this conference.
In the scriptures, we just pray that now it's helped us to to have a proper balance.
With honey their lives. We just pray that that would help us to prove all things to hold fast that which is good.
Just to thank Thee for all that we have in Thee, Lord Jesus, Just pray for journey mercies for those traveling home and the blessing on the rest of the time. Together, we're just committed to Thee and the name of Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
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