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Have to be sharp, and I word again hear from those whom without lead speak, Pray thou blessed thy people who have expressed in the same, uh, weakness or neediness, start our provider.
And uh, we would look to the provision for our souls this afternoon and we might be helped and encouraged. In my word, yes, I have lessons. And I got it in the Emperor largest Christina.
We turn to the 12Th chapter of Hebrews, the 12Th chapter.
Of Hebrews.
I'll make this introductory remark.
Usually.
Good idea to avoid introductory remarks and start with the word of God, but in this particular case I just want to notice that which we already know that the 11Th chapter is a glorious list.
Of people who have gone on in the path of faith.
Wonderful witnesses to that path.
Now in the 12Th chapter.
Verse one Wherefore seeing we also?
Are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses.
Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us.
And let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
Looking unto Jesus.
The author and finisher of our faith or just of faith?
Who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross?
Despising the shame.
And is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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For consider him.
That endured such contradiction of sinners against himself.
Lest ye be wearied, and faint in your minds, you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin, and ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, my son.
Despise not thou the chasing of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son.
Whom he receiveth.
If he endured, chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons. For what son is he whom the Father chastens not?
But if he be without chastisement, where of all our partakers, then are you ******** and not sons?
Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh, which corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spirits, and live for they verily for a few days chastened us.
After their own pleasure, but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of His Holiness. Now no chastening for the present, seemeth to be joyous, but grievous nevertheless Afterward it yielded the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised their body. Wherefore.
Lift up the hands which hang down.
And the feeble knees.
It makes great paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed. Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord looking diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up, trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.
Lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of meals sold his birthright for you know how that afterward when he would have inherited the blessing.
He was rejected, for he found no place of repentance.
Though he sought it carefully with tears, I think we'll just stop there.
Perhaps I'll read the last verse.
For our God is a consuming fire. That's a line of things we don't often speak of, but it's clearly in the word of God.
We dare not overlook it. Our God is a consuming fire.
As we, our hearts have always been thrilled, haven't they? As we?
Red dot eleven chapter and seeing how the Spirit of God brings before us the great number of the faithful ones of faith who have gone before us, and some not even named but just enumerated kind of.
Others, it says, endured this and that.
It kind of.
Staggers us, doesn't it, to look at those.
But now the Spirit of God would put before us a single object. It isn't to put Moses before our souls. It isn't to put Abraham before our souls.
Those are encouragements or instructions to us. They thrill our hearts as we read them.
But the Spirit of God would put before us one man.
One precious man.
Looking unto Moses and what it says, looking unto Abraham.
Looking unto Enoch.
No.
Looking unto Jesus.
Jesus.
The author.
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And finisher?
Of our faith or of faith?
The one who was the beginning.
And the ending of the path of faith.
Precious Jesus.
I remember reading about William Tyndale struggling with the translation of this passage of Scripture as he sought to put it into English, and he experimented with various.
Uh, words that were synonyms and finally came to author, author.
The author.
The beginner.
Of the path of faith, the Lord Jesus Christ and the finisher.
Of our faith.
Who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross?
Despising the shame.
And is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. That's where he is, beloved brethren. He's at the right hand of the throne of God.
Doesn't that and doesn't that bring joy to our souls to think of him in that way? And the spirit of God says look at him now, there's the one to put your eye on.
I find the stories of men like George Mueller and Hudson Taylor thrilling to read.
I recently read one about William Carey that was quite.
Umm, quite inspiring.
But in every one of those, you're going to see failure. You're going to see failure.
And the Spirit of God says there's one to put your eye on Jesus.
Jesus, and that's what I have on my heart this afternoon.
To start here with that, with our eye fixed upon that Blessed One.
Where is he now?
The right hand of the throne of God.
The cross is over.
The shame is finished.
Never more will he be shamed.
Never more will he be dishonored.
God will answer all of that with glory.
And he's at the right hand of the throne of God now.
Verse five says for consider him.
J&D translates that for consider well him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself.
Do we consider him well?
Oh fix our earnest gaze, O holy Lord, on thee, that with thy beauty occupied, we elsewhere none may see.
What a view for our souls to have that blessed one set before us. Consider well him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds, I believe Satan has made a special effort.
To weary the Saints.
I believe he's made a special effort to cause fainting among the people of God.
What's the antidote to that?
What will counteract that?
Looking unto Jesus, considering him well.
Verse six says You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Have you?
Have any of you laid down your life for?
Struggling against sin?
No, we haven't. But there is one who did.
I think it was put by.
J&D and his Meditations.
He died rather than allow sin to exist before God.
What a blessed one has been set before our eyes, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Now he says in verse five, you have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord.
I think we generally have a a thought of chastening a punishment.
I think it has a much broader sense to it than punishment. It includes it.
I think it was Brother Ichi Hajo that used to refer us to Job 37. I think it's verse 13 and speaking about that.
Drove 37. We'll just look at it in a minute.
Talking about the the wind and the storms that come upon the earth, it says verse 13 He causes it to come. That is God causes it to come whether for correction.
Well, how many times we need that? And God brings things into our lives that are designed to correct things that are not pleasing to Him.
But then it says or for his land.
That's a remarkable expression for his land, but it has the idea of making that land more fruitful.
More fruitful.
Don Hinesley always likes to use words that start with the same letter, and I can remember his talking about this and talking about it as punitive.
The first one correction purgative.
Getting rid of what hinders fruitfulness.
And the last one was it says.
Or for mercy?
What does that mean? Well, the best illustration I've ever thought of in connection with that was given to us in the New Testament when Paul was caught up to the 3rd heaven.
He heard things that it was.
Not lawful to utter. Not permitted to men, to utter.
A tremendous revelation he received.
Unless he be lifted up. That's mercy, isn't it? He was given a thorn in the flesh.
If you ask Paul about that thorn in the flesh, Paul, is that a punishment for something you did in your life?
I think in the light of Second Corinthians chapter 12, he would probably say to you know, it's mercy, it's mercy.
Because it will.
Keep me from being lifted up.
So that's the three purposes of the chastening of the Lord for correction.
For his land.
Make us more fruitful.
And for mercy, so that we don't get into things we shouldn't.
And he goes on to point out he says despise, not.
Thou the chastening of the Lord.
How do we despise it? I think there's a way of despising it which would say this.
I'm driving along the Brooklyn Queens Expressway and all of a sudden I hit a pothole and my tire blows out.
Now I can say that happens to everybody.
They would want to take care of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway better than they do, and they should take care of it better than they do.
But to see God in all of that is so important instead of.
Instead of, umm, taking the attitude of what happens to everybody.
That's despising the chastening of the Lord.
The Lord allows something to come into our lives an adverse circumstance.
Fire in the home or major sickness?
See, everybody gets major sicknesses. Anybody can have a fire in the home.
If you treat it that way.
That's despising the chastening of the Lord, but then the other side of it is neither. Faint thou.
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Uh, I can't go on.
This is too hard. I can't go on.
The Lord.
It didn't bring it on you to make you faint.
And so both things are important, neither to despise it nor to faint under it. Now I want to skip ahead a minute and go down to verse 11.
Now, no chastening for the present Seemeth to be joyous. You have a tire blow out on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway and I want to pick on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. I could have picked on Canal Street because that's the last experience I had like that. Thank the Lord Jason Hadley was in the car with us that night and helped us out. But.
And a truck driver came along and helped us, a Christian truck driver.
It is enjoyous.
That's not a happy experience.
But is grievous.
Nevertheless, nevertheless.
Afterwards.
It yieldeth.
The peaceable fruit of righteousness. To whom?
To those who are exercised thereby.
All Beloved ones is whatever the Lord allows in our lives. Let us learn to take it from Him and say Lord.
Is there something you're saying to me about this?
You might not immediately see.
But don't despise it and don't fade under it, but be exercised.
By it and there will be peaceable fruit of righteousness.
From it Wherefore verse 12, lift up the hands which hang down.
I think we live in a day a much hanging down of hands.
I don't know what to do. I can't. There's nothing I can do.
Everything is against me.
All sorts of circumstances that we come into my life lift up those hands that hang down.
Lift up the feeble knees.
I see two applications of that. I'm impressed with you. The one that is the correct one, but.
The knees are give way.
The whole body gives away.
We use the expression weakness sometimes.
But I'd like to apply it another way.
Are those needs feeble when it comes to getting down before the Lord?
And getting into his presence.
To lift up those feeble knees, get them going.
And then it says in verse 13 and make straight paths.
For everybody else's feet.
Is that what it says?
Read it, Saints. Read it.
Make straight paths for whose speed.
So it's easy to make straight paths for other people's feet. We're very good at that.
We're very good at saying so and so shouldn't do this so and so should do this so and so.
But it says make straight paths for your feet.
For your feet.
And I like to link that with the verse we were considering this morning or yesterday rather in the afternoon.
In connection with the elders of Ephesus, it says, Take heed unto yourselves unto yourselves.
Make straight paths for your feet.
The big job, isn't it, to make straight paths for our own feet.
Because if we don't.
Somebody who is lame is going to be turned aside.
Do you care about the lame?
Do you understand that there are people who are coming along behind you and maybe you can negotiate A tortuous path, but they can't?
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When we used to camp at the Sour Neck Lake.
The outhouse was back about 100 yards behind the camp.
And during the night, if you'd get up and you'd want to go out there.
He had to take a flashlight with you because the path was not straight, I'll tell you that.
And you could stumble and fall.
A straight path.
A straight path.
For who?
Is it my job to tell Graham what path to walk in?
How to walk in it? Where to go?
You know your past ought to do this, and your password No.
No.
I am to make paths straight paths from mine feet.
From my feet.
If each one of us did that, beloved brethren, I believe the lame would not be turned aside. Many lame have been turned aside.
Through our failures to make straight paths for our feet.
And I'll put my hand up to the first one to say that.
Not without shame.
Straight path.
Three path.
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left.
How easily we deviate.
From the path.
Then it says not only that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but it says, but rather let it be healed. Healing. What a blessed.
Thing, that is.
There are lame.
Probably more lame than we realized.
Do we have pity on them?
Do we care about them?
Well then, we better make our own path straight.
Verse 16 verse 15 Looking Diligently, I'm sorry 14 Follow peace with all men.
And holiness and holiness.
I don't think that we. I think we've lost some of the sense of the holiness of the Lord. I'm speaking for myself, but I believe we've lost some of the sense that.
As He who has called you be holy, so be ye holy.
Peter says in all manner of conversation.
Were to pursue holiness.
Yes, please, with all men, but don't forget that it says, and holiness without which no one shall see the Lord. Verse 15 looking diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God.
List any root of bitterness springing up troubled you and thereby many be defiled.
I don't want to be too occupied with that, but.
The older I get, the more I realize how much that has destroyed.
Families, assemblies, his roots of bitterness that spring up.
Offenses that were taken.
Over something.
Often it's over a financial matter that's terrible.
It's terrible.
Shows how what a stock we put in money instead of in the things of God.
But that root of bitterness?
Grows springs up.
And defiles many. Defiles many. It's defiling. Bitterness is a defiling thing.
Let there be any fornicator.
The fornication and spiritual fornication of this day.
Is appalling.
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Unfaithfulness.
Immorality spiritually.
And physically.
Profane person, as he saw.
Who for one morsel of meat.
Sold his birthright.
I happen to like lentil soup. My wife makes a really good one.
As an Austrian recipe for it, but he just.
11 Brother we knew when I was younger used to say to my mother who used the same recipe used to say that's like catnip to a cat.
Is it worth selling your birthright over things like that?
What do we value? Do we value our birthright?
As children of God.
Or are we putting emphasis on the material side of things?
The morsels of meet the.
Things we like as natural men.
For you know.
Then afterward when he would have inherited the blessing.
My father, bless me, bless me. Isn't there any blessing left for me after Jacob stole his blessing?
Get things right in your own mind. He despised the birthright and sold it for a morsel of meat.
That's the order of things.
Lenny got cheated out of the blessing.
The First Born Blessing.
But first, he despised the birthright.
And then he comes to his father and says, My father, isn't there some blessing for me?
I I've already blessed him.
Now what did he seek earnestly?
That's important to see. The text may be a little bit obscure here, but if you read it carefully, you'll see that what he sought earnestly was the blessing, not.
Repentance. It looks like repentance when you read it first. It's not repentance. He didn't wasn't seeking repentance. He found no place for repentance.
There wasn't any repentance in his heart.
I just mentioned that because I think it's important that we get a hold of that we understand that what Esau sought.
Was not repentance and he couldn't find it.
I don't believe there's anybody like that.
Who really?
In his heart seeks repentance and can't find it. What I think it is, is the order of things is that he sought the blessing and he found no place for repentance and so there was no blessing for her.
Yes, God gave him a blessing, but not the blessing that he despised.
Beloved brethren.
I'm gonna sit down now.
But I want to leave this thought.
The Spirit of God occupies your heart and mind with Jesus.
With Jesus.
We can get distracted with all sorts of other things, even principals.
That we think are important.
Principles never work against Jesus, and Jesus never works against principles. But we can think that that's what our object is. But the Spirit of God says Christ before you.
Let Christ occupy your heart.
I don't know.
I was thinking yesterday I talked to Bill War maybe about three or four days ago on the telephone. I didn't intend to. I was talking to Elaine and UH or to UH, Kathy and Bill asked if he could talk to me.
And we, uh, we chatted a bit.
And he said, Brother **** if you get there a little ahead of me, he said, hang on, I'm coming.
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I didn't know whether I might get there ahead of. I didn't know whether that was a little word from the Lord that I was going to go before him.
But.
I thought to myself, if you don't have any other opportunity to talk to the Saints, what are you going to say to them?
Looking unto Jesus.
The author and finisher of faith consider him well.
Brother, before I, uh, talk to you about what I was having on my mind, my heart.
I just thought of a story.
That happened to me. I don't want to.
Blow anything itself. Because it wasn't.
But I used to run the engines, the trains, and I went from, for a while, from Montreal to Sherbrooke.
And we came to this place in the mountains, and you came around the curve and over the sound, and then back up a hill.
On this day you come down the hill, so I wasn't using the engine very hard. You couldn't hear anything. I came around this curve.
And lo and behold, there was two teenage young people in the middle of the bridge.
Right in the middle of this bridge.
What could I do?
I couldn't do anything.
The two of them took off and started running to get over across the bridge to get out of my way.
I stood up.
And I watched.
And in seconds we went by them.
With the engine.
I was just thinking last night we got a real gospel.
I'm telling you about where you're gonna spend eternity.
What would happen if that was one of you children? What would happen if it was one of you children? You know all the answers. How many of them? Said John, 316 this morning.
But would that be the time to be starting to think about getting saved?
Would that be the time to start to think about turning your heart over to the Lord Jesus?
You know.
There's a time for you to get saved.
A date.
And you can't find it on any calendar that's ever made. You can't find it. We all know. We all know what that what that date is.
Now, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation now.
Is it 5 minutes ago? In 10 minutes from now? It's now. And if there's any young person, any child, any teenager here that has not accepted the Lord is their savior, do it now. We're not promised the end of this meeting at 3:15. We're not promised. And what I'm going to say?
After, if you're not saved, it doesn't apply to you.
You know.
In creation, God made everything and He made it perfect. He made it good. But what happened? Man was put in the world and what happened? Sin came. It didn't take very long to get some sin.
First man sinned.
The first man that was born killed his brother at a rage.
Hatred.
And what does he say when God?
Comes to him.
Does he say I'm sorry? I I'm sorry. I'm sorry what I did. My punishment is greater than I can bear. My punishment is greater than I can bear. Isn't that sad?
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No, it's not a repentance at all. My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Now man comes to.
Nose Day and what happens? What happens with Nose day?
Manga was wicked, very wicked. What did God have to do? He sent a flood that only goes in New York. Were saved. What happens, my friend? But what did God do after the flood?
He put a rainbow in the sky and he said it's never going to happen again. This world is not going to be done by water. Think of it.
Then he turns. We go a little farther, go farther.
In Genesis.
Lots in Sodom.
Shouldn't have been there. He had a house there. He wasn't supposed to. All he was supposed to have was a tent and and umm, an altar. He had a house and saw him. He was trying to make make it better, make Sodom and Gomorrah better.
What happened?
God saw that the wickedness was terrible there.
God saw that the wickedness was terrible in that day.
What did he do after Lot was taken out of Sodom?
He sent fire fire from heaven. Sodom and Gomorrah were burnt.
And this is serious, serious brethren for each and everyone of us here this afternoon.
These two countries that were founded on the word of God.
Are going back to Sodom and Gomorrah.
It's not something I'm thinking about. It's true.
We go Thursday night.
When they got umm, they gave the ruling here in the state. One young man stood on a platform and he said welcome to all you sodomite. And what did we hear last night? Where the sodomites are going to go?
Into hell.
There was no rainbow at at at at Sodom. There was no rainbow. It's gonna happen again. And everyone that wants to be that way is if they don't accept the Lord as their savior, they're going to hell. And we can look in revelation, the sad case of people that we would maybe even sort of like look down a little bit on and they they they deserve to go to hell, we'll say. But you know something?
The head of that list is scary.
The fearful and the unbelieving leave that list.
The fearful and unbelieving are the ones like you.
To have all the knowledge of the Lord Jesus that you.
We'd rather go to the cinema tonight.
Then stay behind after a gospel meeting.
You the one that enjoys everything and you know all the answers.
Think about the fearful and unbelieving.
How terrible. How awful.
Were in sad days. I won't mention there was a case in Canada. Just happened.
For a dear Christian lady stood up for her, for her faith.
And uh, she's been very, very well reprimanded by our government.
For standing up, they say we don't want the Bible anymore.
Don't want the Bible. It's hate language. There's hate language in it. We don't want Bible. We don't want anything like that.
So I'm trying to put the word of God out, but it's been around longer than anyone of them have, and it's going to be here after they're gone too.
But you know, when I stood up here, I didn't want to stand up and.
Tell you all the sad news I could tell you about, even though it's true, I want to give you some good news, because this same book that tells all the bad ones, it tells some good news too.
And what is it? Turn over to Ephesians 6.
Ephesians 6.
Verse 13.
This is the good news. And this is not just for me as the speaker. This is for you, everyone that knows the Lord Jesus as your savior. This is for you. I'm not just talking about myself now. It's you. So if it's for you, listen.
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Wherefore take on the uh six and 13.
Wherefore take on to you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, And having done all to stand, stand therefore, having your loins gird about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked, and take the helmet of salvation.
And the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit. Watching your undo with all perseverance and suffocate, suffocation for All Saints.
How did you say put on the whole armor of God?
What would happen if you only put on 3/4 of it? Would that be good?
No. And you know, a rope.
A chain is as strong as its weakest point. How do I mean that? You can take the biggest change you want and have two chains together and put an elastic around them to hook them together. And what good is a strong, strong change? If you've got an elastic, they're broke apart.
So what it says here put on the whole armor of God. Don't put it on. Uh, half on.
And after you put it on, what do you do? You have to stand, And how are you to stand?
Go out and fight. Go out and fight. No. Are we supposed to go out and fight all these people and and and get everything right here? No. No. But we're supposed to stand.
On our knees, stand. On our knees. If you're in an army, where do you get your orders from?
You make up whatever you wanna go today, tomorrow or next week, you just decide you gotta go to the chief to the head.
That's where we got to go. You got to go to the head and he'll tell you what to do, where to go.
That's what we gotta do and it to stand. Think of it A at the the, the, the crucifixion of Jesus after the the people have done all the horrid, horrid, horrid things they could do. What did they do? They sat down and watched. How terrible.
They could sit down and watch the Savior die. They thought they were going to see it.
Make their heart feel better.
But when he was dealing with.
God vote our sins question.
I'm gonna say something. I said it last night to a brother.
You know.
You ask a person on the street.
How are you going to get to heaven? Oh, it's no problem. I'm going to have my good deeds and my bad deeds when I get to heaven, and God's going to take a look at them. And if the good ones outweigh the bad ones, I'm going to be all right. But if not, well.
You know, at 100 sins a day, if you're 50 years old, you only committed 1,825,000 cents.
It's a little bit heavy on one side.
What about my good deeds? What about them? What does God say? All my righteousnesses are filthy rags. What goods that gonna be?
How good is that going to be?
What do we gotta do?
There is an answer to that. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sin, whether it's 1,000,200 or 5 million. The Lord's blood, the blood of Jesus will clean them if we'll only bow our heads and accept Him as our Savior. Now I want to put on the the the thing the armor put on the breastplate. No, put on, uh, the loins. Have your loins girded. Don't let anything into your stomach. That's not true.
Don't let anything in there. The devil wants to pump it up with all the things from hell, but he doesn't. Don't do it. Keep it clean. And then he says put on the breastplate of righteousness. What is the breastplate of righteousness? What they want to cover the breastplate. Cover your heart. Don't let the devil get into your heart. Keep it there.
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And he says, put on shoes on your feet. Have your feet well, shod with the gospel. Go around and tell everybody, don't be mixed in the world. You know, You know what it's like out on the beach and all that. If you're going in bare feet, you get sand in your feet. You're Mexican with, uh, the world with with the the, the sand. But what happens if you.
Uh, put shoes on. It lists you above the world, you're not down in it, and you're giving out the gospel. Then what else does it say?
And you're to put on, uh take your shield of faith that you can protect yourself anywhere there's not other uh protection. And then it says put on the helmet of salvation. Why don't let the devil get into your head. Put on the helmet. Don't let him get into your head.
That's what happens. A lot of people that grow up in a meeting, they got head knowledge and the devil uses that. You need heart and knowledge from the Lord, from the Lord to carry on and.
Then it says you got to have the sword of the spirit, you got to fight. And fight what, with a dagger sword. No.
The Word of God.
Is anybody here to say, well, I know all, all the word of God, I don't need to learn anymore. Anybody want to stand up? Well, I hope they don't have to stand up because I am and I don't. I really don't believe that I know it all yet. How much more there is that we can learn. And if you think you know it all, somebody can come and give you another thought on the precious scriptures, that that's wonderful.
So what are we to do? Praying always with all prayer and supplication. That's what I said, where to stand. We're told to stand in the army. What? What good are the soldiers if they're all sitting down? They got to stand. Stand on our knees. It says here. Praying always with all prayer and supplication.
For all the Saints, the last part of it, for all the Saints, I'm gonna say something.
Yes, we pray for everybody, but how many of us take everybody in our assembly at home, in your closet? How many take everybody and pray for them?
It's it's it's startling thought. How many people pray Oh we pray. Oh yes no worries. Family and I I don't stand don't ever say I said that they're in problems but what about the people in your assembly and you know something if you're praying for somebody.
How can you be throwing stones at them? Because that's what the devil wants you to do, is throw stones at your brethren. And how can you throw stones at them if you're praying for them?
So, brethren, I've only said a few words, but I pray that what I've said will uplift us and that we'll fight because.
I'm sorry, we're we look back in Scripture and in the Dark Ages, some people had to go through some terrible things because they love the Lord Jesus and it's getting around.
That maybe before the Lord comes, if he doesn't come very, very soon, we are going to be crying, crying to go home.
The Gospel of Luke Chapter 7, as many people who speak normally say, I'm going to say also.
I speak to myself before speak it to me. I need to hear it more than most of you, if not all.
And verse 40 of Luke Chapter 7.
Jesus answering, said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee.
And Revelations chapter three or four? I don't remember. Let me check.
Jesus wants to speak to us. Hopefully we're all going to listen.
Hopefully I have the Lord's mind in this. I do believe so.
But I'm very weak, so please forgive me for the weakness.
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Verse 20 Behold, I Stand at the door. Revelation Chapter 3.
And not if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come into him.
And the Gospel of John, chapter 21, we hear Jesus saying to Peter, Do you love me?
He sang to everyone here. Do you love me? If you don't know Jesus as your savior, He wants to be your savior. Let him in.
And you will have peace, everlasting life, forgiveness of sins, and so much more.
The Gospel of John, Chapter One.
It's wonderful to hear the the word of God.
Especially when you're anointed savior.
Can remember a couple of years ago I was, uh, taking the bus.
And many times during that day, that day I heard.
People talking to other people and saying do you love me? I think I heard that that saying three times in one day.
Another day I was reading a booklet. I think it's Hamilton Smith.
One thing, the title if I remember correctly, Speaking of at least one thing I I have desired.
I don't remember exactly what it is, but uh, I was in a coffee shop and I heard, uh, at least three times somebody saying one thing and kept repeating that thing, one thing. And that was just after I read, uh, that booklet. One thing, if my memory serves, serves me right.
Recently at Montreal, there's a certain word that came before my soul In my heart. I don't know exactly how to say it.
Many times these last few weeks and today and yesterday also.
That word is the Gospel of John.
But as many as received them in verse 12.
He received asked the word.
To them gave the power to become the sons of God.
He went to them that believed on his name, which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. We beheld his glory, The glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, turn to the first epistle of John, Chapter 3, verse one. Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.
Therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, not are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be.
But we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
And verse 11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another not, as Cain was of that wicked one, and slew his brother, and wherefore slew him, because his own works were evil, and his brothers righteous. Verse 16 Here perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Verse 21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us, not, then have we confidence toward God. Whatsoever we ask, we receive as the word receive again of Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.
So many.
Things I'd like to say, and I don't know exactly how, the first time I speak here, it might be the last, I don't know.
Welcome Matthew 18 verse 5.
And also in verse 4, Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the Kingdom of heaven, and whoso shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.
So if you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, He's in your heart, as it were.
Uh, no. I don't know if I should say it that way.
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OK, well, it wasn't. And and your heart is where when you accepted him. He'll never leave you. But sometimes we say we don't want you right now to rule over us. Maybe your savior. You may be our savior, but we sometimes we say we don't want you to be our Lord.
So he has to knock on our door again and say can I come in?
It's a blessed thing to say. Yes, Lord, come in, because we read in Two Corinthians.
Chapter 6, verse 16. One agreement at the temple of God with idols, for ye are the temple of the living God.
God, I said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be their God and their and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be separate, saith the Lord, And touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive You will be a father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
So as this has been said before, that every believer as God as their father.
But when you touch not the unclean thing, when you walk in the holiness separation, you can see that God is your Father. You can feel His loving kindness.
When we read in Psalm 24.
UH-25.
Verse 14 The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and he will show them His covenant.
This is a little I believe I could be wrong, but it's like John the disciple Jesus loved John when he was leaning on his breast. He said Who is it Lord? And he told him.
So when we walk with the Lord, we hear him speak to us and say wonderful to hear his voice.
Like I said yesterday, today and these last few weeks, the word we see was before me. I thought maybe the Lord maybe wants me to speak about that.
I wasn't sure 'cause I'm one of the least of all things. I've failed many, many times and I'd like to say I'm sorry to those who know me and to uh, to those who I've met today, that, uh, I'm not very loving and very weak.
But I endeavor to please the Lord. And then He's a faithful God, merciful, and He restores our soul when we fail and when we turn back to Him.
I went to outside.
During lunch and I decided to stay with the Lord alone and to read and pray. And uh, I was sitting on a picnic table.
I looked at him on, I said maybe there's a because there was a lot of handwriting on the table. I said maybe there's something for me there. So I look in front and besides my right and I look to the left.
And lo and behold, the word received was there, wasn't it? It wasn't a great thing, what was written there, but it wasn't interesting, it said. If I wish for it, maybe I'll receive it.
If I get it, then maybe I'll believe.
Well, we know that's not the the way of God.
The Way of God is Matthew 21 verse 2221 and 22 of Matthew.
Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
There's another verse.
In James Chapter 4 verse 3.
Which many people know here.
Perhaps we can start at one or two. Let me see here.
I guess two you lost and if not, you kill and desire to have and cannot obtain the fight and war. Yet you have not because he has not yeast, and receive not because ye ask amiss that you may consume.
It upon your last the adult words, and says no ye not that the friendship of the world.
Is enmity with God. Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world Is the enemy of God.
Do you think that the Scripture says in vain? The spirit that dwelleth in US lusteth to envy, but he giveth more grace? Wherefore, he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble. Draw an eye to God, and he will draw an eye to you. Cleanse your hands. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
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Be afflicted and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.
Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord when you shall lift you up.
OK. Well the time is going fast and more thing to say about that, but look 7 hour.
How he was received in the house, but he wasn't very welcome there.
UMM didn't receive any water.
He didn't receive any kisses.
And so on. But someone in that house, well, who came after, had received the Lord Jesus as our Savior, and she knew what to do.
She kissed his feet and she wept. And so on. It's very beautiful, and this reminds us that it's so important.
Uh, to receive one another, to see that Jesus is an every believer and that that we have to love every St.
If we don't, we're not pleasing God.
We ought to kiss one another.
And so on. I don't want to take too much time here.
Well, I guess I'll send it here.
Before our precious Savior, and we thank Thee for the word of God that has been before us. It is a Searchlight into our hearts as we consider some of the things that we've had before us this afternoon. And we think of the root of bitterness that may lodge in our hearts, and the hands that may hang down on the feeble knees, and the pathway in which we may walk. And we just pray our blessed God and Father that as we've had before us in these scriptures too, that have been brought before us in connection with the heart.
And the way that we receive thee, that we may have hearts that are devoted for thee, that though we see weakness on every side, that there might be an earnest desire to go on for the.
To give you a warm reception, blessed Savior, to have a large place for thee in our hearts and for all Thy people, and that we may walk a right in these days We are in, as we have heard, a fierce battle, and we have not to go to war, but to stand for the truth of God. And we pray that we might have that diligence that we have had before us in Thy word, to fit ourselves for the battle, and not to be losers, but to go on for thee in this day of weakness.
And so we just thank thee for thy goodness and thy graciousness to us. We just pray that thou must take each one of these verses that have been read before us this afternoon and use them in blessing to our hearts that we may be a blessing to thy people. We just thank thee for this privilege of being in thy presence and our Savior's name. Amen.