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Tip #100 and 68168.
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The Lord's power.
Reigns and he gave me praying to him, Oh my God.
All right, uh, we can take them to learn two and it's one better day.
Look at the flowers in the house. Listen, we're not going to come back and be here. We can't matter.
What I'm afraid to go out for anything, something.
OK.
Oh yeah.
I just plowed holy.
Time 100 and 501,000 years of life.
And God, I love you all the time. I'm going to put the fire and fire on the fire and fire and fire and fire.
Just read some verses in Luke 24, Luke 24 and verse 15.
It came to pass that while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.
And verse 25 he said unto them, O fools, and slow part, to believe all that prophets were spoken.
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Not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory. Beginning of Moses and all the prophets he expounded unto them, and all the Scriptures, the things concerning Himself.
Good. Thanks, our God and our Father.
Wherever we are in our, uh, state of soul or thoughts of our minds, uh, perhaps our reasonings, uh, whatever it might be, we're thankful that there's one that comes alongside and, uh, our ready to minister thyself to us to set us at ease to.
Uh, bring us into a place of comfort and peace and soul. And so we just do commit this time to thee for thy blessing. And that is the scriptures are open. We might see thee. Lord Jesus, in thy name we give thanks, Amen. Amen, Amen.
I have a subject I'd been on my heart for many years and, uh, perhaps now is time to speak of it once. I'm, uh, glad our brother asked the Lord to do what he alone can do, and that is come to us, walk with us, join us. And we notice most times when the Lord Jesus joined himself to the disciples, there was some bit of.
Correction they took away with it.
Fact. Sometimes it seemed that the disciples couldn't stand to be around the Lord Jesus. Mr. Bellock suggests this in the Moral Glory. He says from its intense Excellency of his moral glory. They hid themselves. Give you a good example? Why did it take 12 men to carry a loaf of bread?
The disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy bread.
I'm just speculating, but I think I see what's going on with the disciples when you're with someone.
Who's constant every action is only perfect with no deviation from that at all when he picks up that piece of paper that you walked over as you walked into the room.
That's not fun.
So Mr. Pellet put it in nice language, and I'm going to take that language and make it understandable from the intense Excellency of the moral glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, the fact that He did everything perfectly. Men, shield away. Let's not shy away from the Lord speaking to us, OK? The subject I want to take up, I don't have time to do so, but I'm going to dive in anyway and give it a try.
We're all familiar with the Scriptures from Deuteronomy 12 and 13.
Everybody familiar with the scriptures there that speak of then there shall be a place.
Anybody here who has not heard those scriptures spoken on?
Sender shall be a place, and we take that correctly to be typical for us, that God has in the present day a gathering Center for His people.
And it's not a physical place like it was with Israel. It is a gathering center, the name of the Lord Jesus.
OK.
Now, we're all familiar with this. Uh, I don't think there's a soul in here who's not heard about one place. And it's a typical picture derived from the Old Testament with a correspondent in the New Testament in Matthew.
What chapter?
18 Woodverse.
20 Thank you. I think everyone here knows that we're two or three are gathered together unto my name. There am I in the midst of them. That was given by the Lord Jesus when He was on earth. And we have felt now for since the early 1820s that that Scripture has particular meaning to us, and that it is the New Testament correspondent of what in the Old Testament was pictured to us as a physical thing.
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A place.
OK, now I see not everyone is familiar with this. So guys, you're going to have to listen up. Some of this is going to be new. I want to go beyond that. And in order to do that, I've got to assume, you know that Scripture will read it. And I've also got to assume you know what a type is. When you get a story in the Old Testament, it's mostly a type of the Lord Jesus Christ in some aspect.
And there are so many aspects to the Lord Jesus that we don't have enough stories in the Old Testament to bring it all out. OK, but this is one of the stories in Deuteronomy 12. Now I'm going to begin this by saying I'm going to read that scripture. But before I do, I'm going to read the scripture that I believe ties in with it, that I've gone around and asked a number of.
Guys like myself, older brethren, I'm 67, OK, that's a number of older brethren in different places. I say, where is the Scripture that speaks of every place or?
All places, they say well in Deuteronomy 12 and 13 is replete with references to a place not place and so on, and say well is it scriptural for me to refer to every?
Place instead of the place. It's a scriptural thing for me to say there is.
The scripture says all places, plural, not the place.
Hey brother and wanna volunteer uh here? Uh, tell me where to open up and read that scripture.
Somebody wanna tell me what book it's in?
Nope. Good try.
There's some related things, yes.
It's in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament there's thematic things that are brought out. You know, you learn that if you want a wife, where do you go to? Well, I mean, you learn the themes. You know, things are given right out and things repeat themselves. Words tie themselves together. The scripture is characterized as a living person. And Paul says the scripture foreseeing that Abraham blah, blah, blah. It's a living thing. We need to learn to read the scriptures. And if we have become dull in reading.
So let's, without further ado, turn to Exodus chapter 20.
And keep your finger there and I'm going to flip over from Exodus 20 to Deuteronomy 12 and continue reading. You're going to be amazed that the one plays off of the other.
And, uh, incidentally, I'm using, uh, Mr. Darby's translation is the one I picked up on the way out the door today. Uh, hope you don't mind. Uh, I think we all like a better translation. I do use the King James and would be happy to switch, but I have it here, Exodus chapter 20. And there's only one word difference in the King James and this one here, it's, it really strengthens it. Umm, verse, umm.
I've been a read for the context, uh oh. And just say for the context in case you don't know it in excess. 19 The children of Israel brought near in their first year on the way out from, uh, Egypt, OK, to come to where the place where Moses had seen God on that mountain because God had promised he would bring him there and he'd bring the people there. And God set bounds around the mountain. He said, don't let him come near. I'm going to come down and he got ready and he came down. And what actually happened was you get chapter 20.
God came down in all his glory. They saw him hiding in the not hiding, hidden from them with the obscurity and the darkness and the trumpet sound and the voice of words and the lightning and so on. You know, Jewish tradition would have it that it was written with the finger of God, with white lightning on black lettering and so on. We don't go into that. Scripture doesn't say that. But there was quite a scene so that Moses himself said, I am exceedingly afraid and tremble.
It's not recorded in the Old Testament, but Hebrews tells you that, uh, if I got scripture right, OK, I'll somebody will correct me afterward. I like that. Nice to talk to a group like this. Umm, OK, so God comes down on that mountain and he speaks what are called the 10 words. You call him the 10 commandments because that's what you've been taught to call him since you were a kid. OK? In scripture they're called the 10 words, OK. And it begins with thou shalt love the Lord thy God. And you know the have no other gods before me. Pardon me, I'm, I'm mingling couple, OK.
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Now, when he gives that, and this is in the first of those 40 years that they came out, they're camped at the foot of the mountain. He's just given it. Now he starts giving Moses some more things. Let's read, uh, the context from verse. Umm.
22 And Jehovah said to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have spoken with you from the heavens. Ye shall not make beside me gods of silver, and ye shall not make to you gods of gold and altar of earth. Shalt thou make unto me, and shall sacrifice on it thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, and sheep, and thine oxen.
In all places your translation probably says Every place, same thing. No, no big deal. In every place, all places where I shall make my name to be remembered, I will come unto thee.
And if they'll make me an altar of stone, thou shall not build it of hue. And so and so on. Uh, I don't have to read that. Now flip on over for the continuing narrative. And I'm gonna have to say, guys, if you don't know that the book of Deuteronomy was all spoken in one continuous speech, I read it aloud. We do this in New York. Hour and 20 minutes to read through the Book of Deuteronomy.
From beginning to end without stopping. OK, you can read the book. It was delivered like that by Moses.
To the children of Israel on the banks of the Jordan, as he had been told, you're not going in that land. They provoked him to being hasty and God said you're not going in the land. So what he did instead was he spoke that entire book and people say, well, it's the second giving of the law and there's different things. It's it's Moses and his deathbed, his swan song as it were giving them.
Not only what they had seen and what they had done for that 40 years that they were wandering, but he says, I'm longing to go into that land. And I went to Jehovah and I said, let me see that goodly. Jordan, he said, speak to me no more of the matter. And he thought takes him up to the top of Pisgah and shows him a mountain. Well, in between those two events we have the book of Deuteronomy spoken by Moses to the children of Israel as one continuous speech.
OK. And he takes a different tone in different parts. One part he said that we took our journey here and we went here and it's 11 days journey from there. And the next question says, remember how you're there and you did this and that. You've got to read it that way. When you read it, don't stand there and read this like, you know you can't get it that way. Put yourself in the frame of mind of the person who wrote it and the frame of the mind of the people to whom he intended it to be read out. OK. They didn't have their own copies of Scripture. Each one of you and I have our own copy.
Prior to Mr. Gutenberg's wonderful invention.
Nobody did hear either, but they had a scripture read out to them in a public kind of way. OK, So, umm, what I'm gonna read now in Deuteronomy chapter 12 is Moses saying, OK, guys, I can't take you in. Joshua's gonna take you in. I would love to go there to that land, but I've been forbidden. Now there's things are gonna be very different when you get into that land. The manna is going to cease.
You're going to get a new kind of bread, you never a new kind of food. You're going to partake of old store corn, of the land that wells you didn't dig, crops you didn't plant. It's all there waiting for your land of milk and honey. And he's preparing them for this. And so let's find a place to start that will continue the same tone of what we've just heard. What we read in Exodus was the order for the wilderness.
In every place where they would come for those 38 years from there on, God says whether it's Maratha or Masa or Kibrova or whatever place they came to, God says you build an altar there of whole stones, don't you touch them with your chisel and I will come to you in that place. And he did that. All through that wilderness journey, God was teaching them what was in his heart towards them.
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And they were kind of learning what paltry, pitiful stuff was in their hearts in response to God. It's not hard to get picture, is it? It pictures us. It's a type. Let's write. Read right from first verse. And I'm going to read rather rapidly here, so hang on, let me see. These are the statutes and the ordinances which ye shall take heed to do in the land which Jehovah, the God of thy Father's, is giving thee to possess it. All the days that thou shalt live upon the earth. Thou shalt utterly destroy all the places where in the nations which he shall dispossess have served their gods upon the high mountains.
And upon the hills, and under every green tree. And you shall break down their altars and shatter their statues, burn their asheras with fire. And you shall hue down the graven images of their gods, and shall destroy the names of them out of the place, the names of them. Get it? OK. Ye shall not do so to Jehovah your God.
But unto the place which Jehovah your God will choose.
Out of all your tribes to set his name there his habitation shall ye see. And thither shalt thou come, and thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your ties and the heave offering your hand. Sounds kind of like Exodus, what we just read, doesn't it? Similar verse. That's why I say you follow themes. It helps you in reading a scripture, uh, and your vows and your voluntary offerings and the first things of your kind of your sheep, and you shall eat there before Jehovah your God.
And ye shall rejoice, ye and your household, in all of the business of your hands.
Where in Jehovah?
Thy God has blessed thee. Ye shall not do after all that we do here this day, everyone, what is right in his own eyes for year not as yet Come to the rest and to the inheritance which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. Watch these four conditions now. But when thou art one gone over the Jordan, 2 Dwell in the land which Jehovah your God causes you to inherit free. When he hath given you rest from all your enemies round about, and you dwell in safety, That's four.
Then there shall be a place. Can I just pause there?
You see the direct contrast while a soul is in the wilderness, God comes down to them, meets them in their circumstance, feeds manna to them.
When that soul crosses the Jordan.
The Manor ceases.
Every condition of life has changed. Moses spends his entire swan song telling them, if not to remember how they were or what lessons they learned, how they were to act in this new condition now.
I don't want to take a lot of time here and we certainly don't have time to develop the subject. I'm just simply going to lay out a few thoughts that way, uh, maybe somebody else will have some thoughts on that and, uh, can, uh, elucidate me a little and correct me a little bit. Goodness knows we all need that. Uh, what I'm going to say is this. When you're taking a picture, a type, OK, We all know the picture of the type of God taking a people from another people, right?
Uh, Abraham was told 400 years, your descendants are going to be, uh, in a land captive and I'm going to bring them out with great spoil. But I can't do it right now because the iniquity, the amorite is not yet full. That is a picture of the people of God being in ******* to Pharaoh in Egypt. Egypt is the world, Pharaoh is Satan. That ******* was broken by what?
So his ******* was broken by Jehovah coming down and saying to Moses, I have heard the groan of the children of Israel and I am come down and Moses said they don't even know your name. Who am I going to tell you is sent me. He says tell them I am actually said sure, I share. Aye, yeah. It it's in Hebrews you come. I'm not a Hebrew scholar. I've learned this in Hebrew. If you take the tense for I am I was.
I will be and put them all together in one pair of syllables you get Yahweh or Jehovah as we've spelled it out. OK, Jehovah gave his new name there to Moses. He said by that name. I wasn't known to Abraham and so on. Tell them I am has sent you so that he comes with this new name. I am tells the children of Israel that hey, something really wonderful has happened. God has appeared to me.
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In a burning Bush. And he's promised me that he's gonna come and deliver you. He's heard you're groaning. Well, you know, the human race was groaning for 4000 years, just like that 400 years that Abraham talks about. I don't know if the picture or not, but this is how pictures work in Scripture, OK. And they were groaning. And finally, what happened when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his son, come of a woman, come under law, that he might redeem.
And so God sent his son the picture of Moses and the picture of Christ. Pharaoh is a picture of Satan. Egypt is a picture of the world. Well then, you say, are the rest pictures too? Yeah, by golly, the Red Sea is a picture, and I'm just going to run by if you're not going to catch it. Red Sea is a picture of Christ's death for you and me.
The wilderness is a picture of the experience we go through in coming to know our God. We don't want to know him. We're like those disciples who say, oh, let's get out of here. We'll go buy a loaf of bread.
Couldn't stand to be around Jesus 24/7. It was too much. We're that way with thought, he said to Moses.
Get up there on a mountain where the God's going to scare us. You know, we've heard all this trumpet and everything. You go talk to him and come down and tell us what he says. Moses says OK, OK, so the wilderness is a picture of our getting to know God. It's that thing that if the Red Sea price dying for us and you came into the knowledge of that is your deliverance from Egypt, that's feral.
The world and Farrell is is Satan.
We've been delivered from that. Well, then the wilderness is a picture too, a type, and that's what it is. And then the third type is the Jordan. We just spread 4 signs. You know, when you, God's given you a restaurant about and your, uh, safety from your enemies and so on. What happened when Christ died? That's what he did. That has won everything for us. But now the thing that's different, when you come to interpret this type, when you go home tonight and read this and try to figure it out on your own, you're gonna have a hard time.
Uh, I had a lot of help from good brethren.
Umm, you're gonna find that the Jordan is a picture of the same event, the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ and his death there. However, you're going to find in the New Testament, there is a great difference made between.
Christ dying for you, and you're dying with Christ.
Not everyone can say I am crucified with Christ.
That was an experiential thing.
OK.
Anyway, just want to bring before you a little bit that there are three conditions that are typically spoken of in the Old Testament, the people of Israel, in Egypt, in the wilderness and in the land, and those are typical of us.
In Egypt, they didn't even know who their God was until he acted for him and sent Moses.
It's like us, we didn't know who our God was until he sent Christ.
And when he came, we said, oh, you know, And John just attached himself to him. From then on, John was done with everything else. Same with Mary. You couldn't pull her away from Jesus. When you discover who Jesus is, it does something to you.
And then when you find out that he died, you go through what Peter did. It's all over. He moved around for those couple of days not knowing what he had denied his Lord. These things are pictures for us. OK, now that I'm I'm mixing some things here, let me let me recapitulate and get this a little clearer so you can think about it straightly. You're dying with Christ is the Jordan.
Regional writers. I mean, this is not Harvey talking speculations that he speculated. Reid, Darby Reed, Kelly Reed.
Patterson uh, you know, we have a nice heritage. If you don't touch it, hey, you're gonna have to pick it up elsewhere. Hire yourself a guru. You know it. It's better to go to the word and get it straight from there. Because when you get it straight from God, it's going to stick and it's going to help you. It's going to build you up. OK, so we've spoken of those 3.
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Pictures in the wilderness.
Uh, in you're, you're in, not in the wilderness, 3 pictures of the people of God. You're in Egypt and your food there finally becomes a Passover lamb. You're in, uh, uh, the wilderness. Your food becomes immediately the manna, but the manna ends at the end. You get into the land. You have the old horn of the land, as King James puts it, or the store corn as the modern translational give it the, the stuff that they had.
Raised in the land and put in storage and Israel had just come in and took it all prepared. They didn't have to do anything. Umm OK so those 3 pictures, uh, read CHM. Anybody ever hear of Chapter Macintosh? One of the old writers? He said something like this. As to the fact I am in Egypt, as to experience, I am in the wilderness, as to faith, I am in the land.
Uh, yeah, again, I said I'd quit and I will quit here. It, it gets a little bit, uh, difficult if you've never done types before in your life and opened this up and said, oh, here's a story. What does it mean? And tried to figure it out. What's Jonah really a picture of, you know what Sampson, really a picture of in the New Testament? If you haven't done that, you can have some difficulty. But, uh, those three conditions as to the fact I'm in Egypt, I can't deny it. My body is right here on earth. I had to eat today.
I had a drink. I have to breathe, OK, that I'm in the world. You can't deny it. You take a knife to my blood, shut it out. I'm dead, OK. I can say by faith is no longer I that live, but the faith of the Son of God, you know, and he's loved me and given himself for me and I have eternal life. And I believe that. But that's true to me, to my faith. The fact is I am in Egypt and the government, the the.
Proper protocols of a person who's yet in Egypt.
Is obey the authorities until you're let out. And the guy who did that would say, oh, I can't go back and make bricks for Feral. But, you know, that's just drudgery. And they make us work harder. And the other guy would say, hey, you know, this guy Moses has said, we're going to be out of here in days. All I have to do is a couple more days of making bricks. I'll do it. And he goes back with renewed vigor and he makes bricks for Feral. Guess what we're doing? You guys are going to college to learn how to make bricks for Pharaohs for a world that's already been condemned.
And just the date of its execution is not there yet. So as in fact, we're in the world. I can't deny that. As to experience what am I feeling every day. I fail today. I'm failing now. I can't put in words what I would love to bring out of my heart and bring from the heart of the Lord Jesus down to you and me as our brothers prayed. I can't do it because I haven't learned enough in the school of God. Well, thank God for the wilderness in my.
Experience. Day by day, I'm in the wilderness.
So now when you go and you read about he broth, Hatta have a graves of Lust and Tibera and all these places with the long Hebrew names, you're going to find some meaning to them because it can relate right to you. It's your experience that you go through day after day. Now to faith. We're in the land. Let me give you an example of that. Remember Caleb, Joshua, remember the 12 spies they sent in to search out the land and 10 of them come back with a bad reversal. Oh man, we're like grasshoppers in the sight of those giants cities, walls of heaven. You can't do anything. Let's go back to Egypt.
And Caleb and Joshua, they say the land is wonderful, flowing with milk and honey. Let's go on in. The same God that delivered us through the Red Sea and the wilderness is going to take us on in.
That's faith. OK, as to faith, I am in the land and I'm no longer eating the manna. I'm no longer eating the Passover lamb. I have a remembrance. And you know, celebrity Lords, they certainly we're going to come together here and we're going to remember the Lord. But to one who has gone on, there is a whole different order of things. Now, I submit to you real quickly and I'll close with this.
Those of you and I'm going to turn away from the younger one thing and speak to the older ones and the leaders.
Umm, we have.
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The words of uh, brother that we all respect. I won't say his name about 40 some.
Yeah, about 47 years ago.
He was visiting me when I first met my wife in New York and we had just gotten married, just gotten saved, met two wonderful people in New York, the Lord Jesus Christ and my wife. He visited with us that he said Harvey, I had written something he says Have you ever considered that most error is 1 sided truth?
I said no, I never thought about that. Well I've thought about it pretty much since then. Look at most of the systems of error. You will find a germ of truth there, but it's one sided and pressed to the exclusion of other. OK, we don't want to be unbalanced. 1 sided. The two sides that we need older brethren is every place.
And a place.
A place becomes a moral necessity for a soul who is actually gone on through the wilderness. He's come out of Egypt. He knows what the death of Christ for him has done. He knows what's in his heart. He knows what the death, his death with Christ is all about. That's the Jordan. He now has four things before him. When ye are at rest in the land, and from all your enemies, and Jehovah's cause you to dwell in safety, then there shall be a place.
You don't tell a soul in Egypt, let's say some simple believer I meet every day on the street, somebody in a Catholic Church. They know nothing of what you and I are enjoying here in a way of spiritual wealth. They know something that yet Jesus is going to Get Me Out somehow. That's faith in Jesus, his person. They don't know nothing about his work. A soul like that is in Egypt, and they have not come to the wilderness because they've not gone through the Red Sea. They've not realized that Christ's death, that he died, was good for them.
And applying the value of that blood to them changes their whole condition. They're no longer under the power of Satan in Egypt. OK, we don't tell a soul in.
The Wilderness.
Uh, what wonderful big clusters of grapes are on those eshkol that's come at the end of the journey? Oh no, I'm sorry. That did come in the beginning of the journey and they refused it. You don't tempt someone in a different state of soul.
With what can only be theirs when they've gone on. Those who have gone on and actually believed in Christ.
And then walked with him and then found out why Paul switches and says I instead of we. We know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly sold under sin. Romans is riddled with that. When he says I, it's personal experience and you've got to make it your own. The weeds are for all of us. We know that God is good. You know, we know God's love. We know we love God when we love the brethren, all the wees. But when you come to Paul's eyes, you've got to make them your own.
And in one sense it's true what our leaders have told us, that every soul has been given all blessings in this heavenly places in Christ. So we're seated in the heavenlies. But believe me, it does no good to probably 2/3 people in this room right now have no idea of what we're talking about in Ephesians 6. Because in Ephesians 6 we're getting into warfare. Do you realize there was no warfare in Egypt?
There was number warfare in the wilderness. All you had was a skirmish with the Amalekites who picked on what lag behind. You only get warfare in the land and to tell people who have never come into the land what it's like to fight the warfare.
I'm sorry, I don't believe it's intelligent.
The Lord Jesus taught us to give.
Meat suitable to the occasion and he talks about servants who beat the other fellow men, servants and maidservants and failed to give the household when he's gone meet do.
For what they can take in. OK, so I want to confess my failure in this. I've seen these things for many years, not been able to speak of them. And I want to bring before the brethren and say let's consider what we have done. We've been beating people over the head with truth that presumes.
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That you've come out of Egypt, you're still not hankering there in your soul. They've been through the wilderness experience.
That you've come over to Jordan now and realize that not only Christ have to die for you, but you have to die with him. Whole different light and read the old brethren on this. And it's not stuff that I'm I'm percolating up out of my own head.
We need to feed the people of God with meat such as they can take in.
So to my older brother and I say, receive the word of exhortation to my, uh, younger ones.
Read the book.
Read it together. When you don't understand, ask the question.
God will come in and give you what you could not get in any other way. Thank you for your listening.
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Umm.
All right. Welcome.
To anything right?
Yeah.
To follow me.
Umm, I think.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Umm Oh my God, 68, 2011.
Is there anything else?
Or anything.
All right. Good day, my soul.
All right, so.
You're getting yourself in my head. We're almost going to receive.
I don't want to go to bed.
Oh my God.
It's allergic to anything.
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You have anything like that? Medication or normal 100%?
Lord, Beast of Lord, I had one of them honored and.
Anything else?
Lord, we were Shasta or I'm connected or not. I'm trying to find out what you're doing. Anything.
All right. Thank you so much.
For anything more, everything.
We need ourselves to give anything to believe you're in the past.
Yeah.
Did you hear me about that?
10-4 Did you see anything?
That's quite a song, isn't it? Quite a message.
Jesus gave himself for me.
What have I given to him?
What have we given to him?
Failure on every hand.
And you know why we have failure on every hand.
Turn with me to the 119th home.
One thing we can be sure of, there is no failure.
And this one that gave himself for us.
The failure is all ours.
And when I think of young people growing up and becoming mature in this land today.
It certainly breaks my heart.
Because I know I'm not gonna be here much longer.
But you got your whole life ahead of you if the Lord tarries.
There's only gonna be a few versus.
I want them to go into my heart and into your heart also.
119 songs.
1St 10.
With my whole heart.
Have I sought the?
Can any of us in here stay with our whole heart?
We've.
I know I can. Oh, there's been times when I maybe made a little mark.
But are we playing the game, or are we in serious business for the Lord?
And you young people, you certainly have my prayers, and I'm sure you have the prayers of many in this room.
Because you got a battle ahead of you, as we had this morning. How I thank God for that meeting.
I can't do what you young people can do.
I can pray for you. I can ask God's strength for you to put that armor on that we were talking about this morning, and I love that.
Man I love that meeting also.
Where talks of the remembrance meeting.
My own personal belief is that's the greatest meeting that we have gathered. We have gathered, Saints have.
And I left it for 14 years.
Because I couldn't get along with my brother.
That's all been forgiven.
And we can thank God that our sins can be forgiven.
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But with my whole heart.
Have I sought thee?
Oh, let me not wonder.
From his commandment.
That's one of his commandments.
Was this due in remembrance of me?
And I heard of a ******* preacher not too many months ago.
When accosted by a friend of mine, a brother and the Lord in California, and he asked that pastor why? Because he had just got done preaching a stirring message.
And he said, why have don't you remember the Lord on the first day of every week like he had requested?
And that preacher says.
And a very smile part.
You make it too common.
How can we ever say for one minute that the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ could be too common?
All that my heart might be touched with. Love in your heart also.
Love Hoyer, Jesus said. It starts in US.
A new commandment I give unto thee that she love.
That she loves one another.
They don't see much of that kind of love anymore.
I told someone earlier today that when I was the little boy, I didn't come from a Christian family.
But we weren't allowed to go out and play on the Lords day.
We weren't allowed to make any noise or any frailty.
We had to be quiet.
Well, we're not under law, are we? But the Lord's Day is the Lord's Day.
And I think that message.
That our brother gave earlier on the Lord's Day was a stirring message from my heart, and I hope it was for yours also.
With my whole heart.
Have I served thee?
We have so little time to love and serve the Lord.
We have so little time.
To read and learn His word.
I've been working in a nursing home.
For the last several months.
And you don't know what time is all about until you go in a nursing home.
Because so many people.
Have so little time.
So little time.
But so did the thief on the cross.
Who rebuked the other thief and said we're getting our just desserts?
But this man.
Have done nothing amiss.
And he turned, and he said to the Lord three of the greatest words he ever could have said.
Lord, Remember Me.
And Jesus said, Today thou shalt be with thee, with me in paradise.
And I didn't get up to make a message for the young people, but you're on my heart.
You're on my heart because I know the battle you have ahead.
But just remember one thing.
Commit your life.
To Jesus Christ.
Have a desire within your heart to live and to serve Him.
He'll do the rest. God bless you all.
Might we very briefly look at a portion in the New Testament and then go back to the 119 Psalm?
In Second Corinthians chapter 6.
The apostle Paul says.
O ye Corinthians.
Our mouth is open unto you.
Another place the apostle Paul said that he did not shun to declare or make known unto them the whole council of God.
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But then he says at the end of the 11Th verse.
Our heart is enlarged. Our heart is enlarged.
Well, in a medical sense, when a person has an enlarged heart.
There are problems.
In a spiritual sense.
When a believer has a large heart, it's something to be commended, isn't it? And so the apostle Paul goes down in verse 13 and says now for a recompense in the same.
I speak as unto my children.
The apostle Paul had to speak very faithfully to the Corinthians. There were things that were in disorder.
But there was still.
A heart of love.
Here in this chapter, addressing the Corinthians, I speak unto you as children.
And then he says.
Be ye also enlarged. So he not only expressed the fact that his heart was enlarged to them, but he felt a necessity of them having an enlarged heart. How could that be expressed?
In love to the Apostle Paul and appreciation.
Four. Perhaps what the Apostle Paul had suffered, perhaps in appreciation for the apostles faithfulness.
Perhaps in appreciation.
And love for their fellow brethren. And I believe that that would be a practical way to display or to show forth an enlarged heart. Now if we go to Psalm 119.
Verse 26.
The psalmist says, I have declared my ways, and thou hearest me, teach me thy statutes. As I has been mentioned many times before, we have the word of God brought before us. In every verse of the 119th Psalm perhaps a different word is used, statutes, word, commandments, but each verse in the Psalm brings before us.
The word of God.
In verse 27 it says, Make me to understand the way of thy precepts. Make me to understand.
And the New Testament, we have a corresponding verse, I believe if there is a lack of understanding, there is a way to get it, isn't there? Let's just turn briefly to the book of James holding our place in Psalm 119, the book of James.
1St chapter, fifth verse. It says if any of you lack wisdom.
And I'm the 1St to admit that often.
I've done things that were not wise. I thought things that were not wise.
But where are we to go?
To see the bounds, to see the boundary, to get that necessary wisdom says, let them ask of God that giveth to all men.
Liberally.
Here's a resource often unavailable.
Let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.
Let's go back to Psalm 119.
Verse 29 removed from me the way of lying, and grant me thy law graciously.
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I have chosen the way of truth. Thy judgments have I laid before me.
I have stuck unto thy testimonies. Award. Put me not to shame.
I will run the way of thy commandments.
When thou shalt enlarge my heart.
In the New Testament portion that we read, the apostle Paul could speak about his heart being enlarged. He desired that the Corinthians have in large parts.
Here the psalmist expresses a desire.
For his heart to be enlarged.
Well.
I believe.
One portion of God's word that we could read that will help us.
Enlarge our hearts towards our brethren.
Is the first epistle to John.
We have a wonderful balance in God's precious work.
We have Paul's ministry, which we certainly appreciate.
Which is valuable.
We have Peter's ministry, but let's not forget John's ministry.
Let's just turn to a few verses.
And the epistle of John, first John.
No, love begets love.
When someone shows us love.
There's a tendency for us to reciprocate and show it back, give it back, isn't there?
Well, we have in John's epistle we involve not only we love him.
But we love. Why? Because he first loved us.
And that's the example that we can follow, is it not?
And that will help us often put things in the proper perspective. We're just going to read a few verses.
And the first official of John.
3rd chapter.
Verse 14.
We know.
That we have passed from death unto life because we involve the brother.
This manifests in our ways.
Do we express this practically?
I speak to my own soul.
Verse 16.
Hereby perceive.
We the love of God. Why? Because He laid down His life for us.
Verse 18.
My little children, here we have the word children again, the Apostle Paul.
Spoke to the Corinthians as his children here, John.
Is using similar words, my little children, let us not love in Word, neither in tongue, but indeed and truth.
Verse 23 And this is His commandment that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and loved one another as He gave us commandment.
And if we went on to the next chapter, we would find similar verses.
We look at verse 19, we love him or we love because He first loved us.
It was a little piece of poetry on the Christian's calendar.
For the 4th of September that made quite an impression on me.
And I kept it.
By my chair.
The dining room table and I've looked at it every day.
Since the 4th of September.
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Read something like this. Forbearing one another and forgiving one another.
Fenny man have a quarrel against any.
Even as Christ forgave you.
So also ye do.
Then there's a piece of poetry.
Gov is desirous for the gain of another.
Love suffers long.
With the fault of a brother. And we don't have to look very far to find faults in our brethren, do we?
My brethren don't have to look very far to find faults in me.
Love giveth water.
To a cup that's run dry.
Love reaches low as it can reach high.
Seeks not her own.
At expense of another.
Love is of God. When it reaches our brother, well may we all desire to have our hearts enlarged.
We sing #2 in the appendix.
And my.
I'm.
Oh.
My God, there in the beginning.
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Umm, and the first time I'm getting back in my eyes and then 181,000 I saw a shadow of a Graham.
That we are thus privileged to be gathered like this.
Around the darling, as I told them, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And it's difficult for us to understand why thou would love a touch tone.
But it's not difficult to believe.
We just would ask Father that we might be touched within our hearts.
We surely are unworthy of my love, Father.
But after looking to the cross and seeing that Blessed One taking our place in judgment.
That we might not perish, but have everlasting life.
How come we say anything? But The thing is, author, thanks for giving the darling of libosum.
Thine only begotten stuff.
Who is Willingham?
Take my place in judgment.
And I do thank thee, Lord Jesus, and I thank thee, Father, for the gift of gifts.
Eternal life.
Through Jesus Christ, of course, and his precious things. I can read that.
Stop.