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His various little sayings around this school and there's.
One that I jotted down and I thought I might use it in a gospel meeting sometime, but the Lord seemed to keep impressing it on my mind.
That, uh.
I'm going to mention it now.
To go out this door and just kind of go to the left.
You'll look at a little poster that is promoting teamwork and it goes like this.
One cannot help many.
But many can help one.
You know, this is a school in the United States, as far as I know.
That might have been a little more appropriate in Communist China or Communist Russia, but here it is near Chicago.
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One cannot help many, but many can help one. Very collectivist, very socialist.
And especially for a school.
What do they teach you in these schools?
Have we never learned of Louis Pasteur?
Have we never learned of Luther Burbank?
Have you never learned of George Washington Carver?
Where one has helped millions and perhaps billions of people.
Anna School has no one ever heard of a teacher?
One teacher.
In a class of 28 kids.
One helping many and yet you turn this corner out here and it's flatly says one cannot help many.
Go ahead and check it out after this meeting and be shocked for yourself.
Has none around here heard of the Lord Jesus Christ?
Let's open our Bibles.
First Timothy.
First Timothy, chapter 2.
And verse 5.
For there is one God.
And one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself.
A ransom for all?
To be testified in due season or due time.
One there's one God and one mediator.
And he gave himself a ransom.
You know, it's nice to turn our eyes to the Lord Jesus Christ.
It's nice to consider that there is indeed one.
Who can help men?
And this is not a gospel time, but there's always time for the gospel.
And if there is anyone in this room perchance that you would not consider the claims of that one person on your life and on your heart that you would consider that person as we talked for just a few minutes about that one.
That he has a claim on you.
For your good.
An eternal blessing.
I jotted down a few verses at lunchtime and the lunch table and.
It would be nice to look at a few of those.
Hebrews.
Hebrews chapter one.
We're very familiar with this and so we'll just go right to verse three speaks about the Son of God who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his power when he had by himself.
Purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high.
By himself.
Not one person made purgation for sins, and now he is seated.
At the right hand of the majesty on high, the one who is to attract all of our attention.
The one, the one.
Who brought blessing into this world through the sacrifice?
Of himself.
And later on in Hebrews, I'm sure there's lots of verses that probably people already thinking of.
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But in Hebrews chapter 10.
And verse 12, Hebrews 10. Verse 12. But this man.
This man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool for by one offering.
He has perfected forever them.
That are sanctified and that's the position that we have. Do we consider ourselves as being blessed people? We should, no matter what our state of soul it might be. We are certainly blessed in the Lord Jesus Christ. We're seen as in Christ. We're seated in Christ in heavenly places. It's this one, this man.
And he's given one offering.
For sin, so that he could perfect us forever. Them that are sanctified.
Set aside for blessing.
You have a heart to do something for him. It's motivated by him. He's the one who sets you apart. We've had a whole meeting about being called.
And he's the one who has called us.
Over in Romans, and I'll probably jump around here as I.
Try to remember some of these verses Romans.
Chapter 5.
Romans chapter 5 and verse 18.
Therefore, as by the offence of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation, now that one is Adam.
The offensive of Adam judgment came upon all men to condemnation, Even so by the righteousness of one.
The Lord Jesus, the free gift, came upon all men unto justification of life.
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one.
Shall many be made righteous?
Now go, someone has good calligraphy. Write that out and tape it onto that little motto over here. See what the principal does on Monday morning.
Uh, Wednesday, Monday morning, Tuesday morning this week.
By the obedience.
Of one shall men be made righteous? What an incredible thing that the work has been done. We don't need to make our own righteousness. We don't need to somehow prove ourselves in the presence of God whether we're lost or whether we're saved. We don't have to prove ourselves in the presence of God at all.
Through him, that one.
We've been made righteous.
Lay hold of it.
You say I don't feel very righteous, but you know, that's the position that you've been put into by that one.
Who's redeemed, loved you, then the sacrifice for you?
I mean, I've checked some notes here.
We won't read in Isaiah 53, of course, the well known verse. By his stripes you're healed.
By his stripes you are healed. You have a standing in the presence of God because.
Of what the Lord Jesus did in love for you.
At the time of the cross there are the two thieves or on each side and you should just turn to it. Luke 23.
23 and verse 39.
And one of the manufacturers which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ.
Save thyself and us.
I guess maybe he was hoping there was one who could help the many.
If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God?
Seeing thou art in the same condemnation, we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our sins. But this man.
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Has done nothing.
Amit, this man has done nothing amiss, and he said in him, Jesus.
Said unto Jesus, Lord, Remember Me when thou comest into thy Kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
This man has done nothing amiss.
He's the one that has stepped forward and does step forward to be a help to the many, to you, to all of us who will accept him by faith.
And can we live for him? Of course. Look at all that he's done. Look at the position that he's put us into, and he can do that.
You know, the little saying around the corner here is kind of a motivational thing for teamwork.
But that sign is really not going to be there, probably much longer.
Because it's going to be replaced with another sign that will read something like this.
One has come to help us.
And we must rally behind him.
That'll be the new sign out there. You won't be around to check it out, I can assure you, but.
It's an interesting thing, isn't it?
An interesting thing? Let's turn to John chapter 5.
John chapter 5 and verse 43.
I am come, this is Jesus speaking, I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not.
If another shall come in his own name.
Him ye will receive.
I guess for obvious reason, there's been few comments made in the last day and a half about the situation in the world.
We are priming ourselves.
For the ascendancy of a single person.
Who will solve our problems?
Now, that actually might There's two main characters. We're going to kind of refer to them both, but.
That's what the world is being primed for.
They're willing to say this now what you find around the corner in this day of grace when the gospel of Jesus Christ goes out.
But as soon as the new gospel goes out of a man who says I have it, they will change their tune.
And it'll be fast.
Someone who will come in his own name.
Christ, they've refused.
And the beast and the false prophet, they'll accept.
With open arms.
You know, in John chapter 10 a few chapters later.
Speaks about a hireling that's going to come.
And the real situation there is that he doesn't care for the sheep.
Doesn't really care for the sheep and when he finds himself in a real pickle he just runs off.
That's the type of person that this world is going to really want to begin with.
Now where is our heart?
We've had some ministry about the world around us and so forth, but very legitimate. Where's our hearts?
As our hearts there with the man who is seated there at the Father's right hand, and the glory.
One who's done everything for his people, for blessing and for good. The one who shows grace to us.
Has manifested in.
So many ways.
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Or are we really looking for an earthly solution?
Something.
Just something.
Well, our hope that our hearts are lifted up above this world and that we can see something better than what's going on down here. And we've set our affection on those things which are above, considering that there's a treasure in heaven and certainly Jesus Christ, and it can never corrupt. It can never fall apart.
And all that's associated with him.
Is eternal.
There was a day in the past.
Where a man asked the question and it's later on in the book of John. Also John.
18 Verse 39 But ye have a custom that I shall release unto you one at the Passover, Will ye therefore?
That I release unto you the King of the Jews.
Then cried they all again saying, not this man.
Not this man.
But Barabbas.
Now Barabbas.
Was a robber.
Brabus.
Was a robber.
And in this world we choose even as Christians, even as Christians.
We choose to associate ourselves with that man that's in the glory.
Or we choose to be robbed by what is happening in this world.
Sometimes we call it spinning our wheels. You know, we got to accomplish something.
It doesn't pan out. We say, well, that I just spun my wheels on that.
But the Lord.
His interest in his people, his desire that we grow in grace and the knowledge.
Of that one, that's his interest for us.
Lord, what would thou have me to do?
He has an interest in what we do and he doesn't want us to have our time robbed by things that are around us.
In the Book of Revelation.
Maybe one last verse about this person that's come or or people that that are to come.
Revelation 13 and verse three and I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed.
Now this is the verse that the part that I was really interested in, all the world wondered after the beast, and they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying, who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?
You know, it's, it's a sad thing to think of our neighbors.
And those around us.
This is what they have to look forward to, those that are not safe.
And it's saying we can be thankful, we can put a smile on our faces as we think that this is not what we look forward to.
That we do not look forward to the.
Antichrist and people say.
Or the beast, the false prophet. Those are not things that really fill our minds as far as our expectations.
Our expectations is to see the Lord Jesus Christ face to face.
One who will come.
To take us home.
The one for whom we should be looking for and anticipating not just this afternoon, but also.
Tomorrow afternoon, Tuesday afternoon.
The one that we should be considering.
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself. Consider him.
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There's our brother here. As frequently Say has said, reduce your thoughts.
To him.
The world has their mottos.
The world has their principles.
And if we're even halfway alert, we realize that those mottos and those principles change very, very quickly. If you want some examples, talk to me afterward.
But just a little observing that it's an unstable world, not only in finances, not only in job security, but it's unstable in the way people think.
In the way that people think is unstable.
Their thoughts shift this way and that way, like they're being whipped with the wind. And they are, by satanic forces, no doubt.
But our thoughts are to be reduced to him.
To that One who is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, for whom we wait.