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For worship, 5167.
Good read a verse in John 15.
John 15.
John chapter 15 and.
And Bruce by.
The latter part of the verse.
For without me.
You can do nothing.
This is a very important instruction we have here, for without me you can do nothing. In other words, brethren, unless you have the Lord in your heart.
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You can't enjoy good times like we are enjoying right now.
Can't do it, not without the one above.
So this verse for without me you can do nothing.
Remember that, dear young people, unless you have the Lord.
You're helpless, you can't do without them, and it's been nice being here with you brethren, to share in the wonderful things of our Lord Jesus.
Thank you for inviting us and may you continue. May we all continue on until the Lord comes and He takes us home. Shall we pray?
Our God and Heavenly Father, we give thanks to thee for this opportunity.
To be over the sound of thy precious word.
To meditate.
To.
To share in the precious things of the Lord Jesus Christ which we have heard.
And now, Lord, we are before Thee, that you would guide by thy Spirit and give food convenient for us. Doctorowitz, choose that vessel a blessing which would flow out to thy people. We look to thee and thank you for this time, Lord Jesus, and thy own worthy and perfect name. Alone we ask. Amen.
Every other Lord's Day.
I called my my responsibility that that word.
Brother Benji opens up every time.
I'll just ask the Lord we should.
Get up and see what's on my heart.
And I think he answered.
Thank you man.
I've enjoyed some thoughts.
Previously, you coming to these meetings and when Brother Steve gave it that passage, I couldn't try to contain myself, or could I? Some of these things are a little difficult, I think, and I've enjoyed it. I really have enjoyed this portion of upbringing before you, and I trust it's all correct. At least let me finish before you correct me and we'll go from there. First of all, let's turn to Ephesians chapter one.
For reverse.
Agreed. Well known verse.
Someone that said it's a purpose of God.
The soul there in verse 10, that in the dispensation of the fullness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, and which are earth even in the end.
That's the millennial reign.
And that's when he's going to bring together.
In one on both things that are in heaven which are occurred.
And I believe in chapter 24 of Matthew, we have Elizabeth. The Lord began it there began it, but He introduced it there in the very opening course. I want to go from there, first of all, Matthew 24 and the opening to verse.
And Jesus went out and departed in the temple, and his disciples came to him for the show and the buildings, the temple.
And Jesus stood on for them, seeking on all these things.
Drill that's down to you here shall not be left here. One stone on another there shall not be thrown dead. No, I think we all understand that to be the Temple and it will be destroyed. And Titus came in in 87.
So I thought I would just touch on these temples very briefly, just briefly.
For a moment.
The first step is we know the Solomon's Temple which he built and.
You know, it was a rather beautiful temple, it says. And it's still.
Brother small, they probably could fit inside this room except for the height. It was about 30 feet and width.
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83 feet in land and about 43 behind when it was covered in gold. Most beautiful temple. And of course we know that when they show up his rotating captivity.
And.
586.
They say that temple was destroyed in all the wool.
And then seventy years later, Droplet came back into the land and he rebuilt the temple. It wasn't quite a glorious temple, but it was much the same size. He came back, and 538 began.
Kind of discouraged.
I wasn't finished. Twenty years later, 5/15.
And that temple was destroyed by Pompeii in 63 BC. Roman, Roman general. So this temple here is Herod's temple in 19 BC. King Herod sing on the oven in the door was warm there. King Aaron started to rebuild the temple. He wanted to impress the Jews.
And the people of Rome as well by doing this fantastic building. And so he did.
And it goes on the same pattern as Solomon's temple forged in the inner room, the whole.
Place and most holy as well. But he built it on a much grander scale and then he built a wall around it. So we've seen that wall and the an encompass for 35 acres when it was finished.
But can you eat something?
In that construction that wasn't with the others.
And that is?
The entrance to the to the Herod's temple was from the South 2 doors 2 dating and they came from the South and they when they went inside the 1St place was the the corner of the Gentiles that was included in this playoff. First is the court of Gentiles and the Gentiles could go in there.
And it was a big area, but they don't even go so far and there was a wall.
There was a wall, and they could never go beyond that wall, and beyond that wall was the court of Israel for the Jews. And even that was in the sense that the entries to that first court was a woman's court. The women could actually go into that, and beyond that was the man's court, and beyond that was the temple itself.
Solomon's Porch and the Holy Place most total.
When the Lord said, here there shall not be left here, one stone upon another, there shall not be thrown down. I think He meant the temple, truly. But we go back to Ephesians with me, chapter 2.
I believe you.
We'll see what the Lord has in mind.
When he said those words, a little deeper meaning than even those of that day probably understood.
Chapter 2.
Verse 13 but now in Christ Jesus you sometimes were far made dying by the blood. Of course, for years our peace who have made global one and have thrown them down the middle walls partition between us.
That Middle Mile partition was Herod's Temple. It was the partition between the Gentile, the Court of the Gentiles, and the Court of the Jews.
No damage called beyond letter back and where they accused Paul of maybe bringing someone in the end to the courtroom. Gentiles, cyclists on circumstances to get upset with them. He hadn't really, but that's what he was. They thought he had lactitis into the quarter of Jews.
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And so the Lord.
Even in that chapter say he was introducing the coming together of one.
That there will be no mineral wall of partition.
Now I'd like to look at something just before me.
And brother, my partner a little bit the touchdown a week back, the Kingdom of heaven and the Kingdom of God.
And try to put it in this light first of all.
In Matthew 24, turn back to 24. Now let's go back to Matthew Chapter 2, Chapter 3.
Someone has mentioned I believe in meetings already and I'm trying to put this in a sensible way. I can is something you know. I've got some complicated things.
But with this given, those newest ones here can actually understand the difference if someone asked you what's the difference between the team and the seven and the team of God?
There is an influence.
Anyway, someone has said that the Kingdom of Heaven praise.
It's only found in That's correct. I counted an important 29 times, Bethany says in her concordance was 32 Times to praise. Kingdom of Heaven is mentioned every time in the Gospel of Matthew. It's the gospel of the Kingdom.
Now the slowest one. Couple verses here real quick. Chapter 3, verse 2.
Verse two and saying is John the Baptist coming and saying, repent thee?
For the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. That was John's tweet, chapter 4.
John is imprisoned in chapter 4, verse 17. From that time Jesus began to preach and to say repent for the Kingdom of heaven is 10. Again, it's at hand, it's dear.
In chapter.
This chapter. Chapter 10.
When he calls in chapter 10.
Verse one these 12 Jesus sent forth and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles and into any city of the Samaritan liberty now, but go rather to the lost sheep of the House of Israel, and as you go, preach saying the Kingdom of heaven.
Of heaven is any.
That was the message.
Three times we have the Kingdom of our government. Now we know if the Lord Jesus Christ came, the diverse sinners that his death was required. But I want to look at this from the Jewish original life point of view as to the responsibility we can see category, but it leads true. The Lord came instead of this game. That's what he came for the King of heaven was to be set up. He was going to rule.
Over this earth, and he will in the Kingdom of heaven.
And they were to receive this. So John preached, the Lord picked it up. It was the same message. And his disciples went out and they were delivering a message to his own verse. Do not go to the Gentiles. Do not go anything except to.
The lost sheep of Israel.
Now, the Gentiles in mind, yes we do.
If you go back for a minute, chapter 80 is for thought there and generated Matthew.
When he comes down to the mountain Chapter 5-6 and seven, you might say characteristics for prerequisites to getting into the king movement of that at all.
And chapter 80 comes down from the mountain and he's met with two different individuals. The first one, verse 2 is a leper who worshipped him, saying, Lord of thou Willington, thou can make Steve, don't make me clean. And Jesus looked for his hand and touched him, saying, I will be thou clean. And those who he is in the next verse he tells the man, go show thyself to the phrase. This is a Jewish person.
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The next person who we meet is verse five. It's the it's in Capernaum and the centurion is a Gentile.
We find that the end of the little story right here about the Gentile person, he says and verse 10 when Jesus heard his faith on words, he marvelous headed to them that followed very down to you. I have not found so great of faith. No, not in history, not in the intercourse.
But diversity level will come back to me the afternoon.
Anyway, let's go to chapter. Let's jump right over to chapter 21, passing all the parables in chapter 13 and so on. So much more there. Let's just go to chapter 21. And so this one came saying they penned the Kingdom of evidence at hand. He was going to establish this Kingdom. If they had received them, he would have said that they would have entered in and delivered from the.
Oppressed.
In chapter 21 and verse, well we won't read much of it, it says.
1St 5.
Tell me the dollar of Zion saying, the old thy king, come on, do they meet and sitting upon mass and a whole fold and disciples went and did this. Jesus commanded them and brought the assault on someone. We know that story well.
And verse 9, the multitudes that went before and followed by saying, Rosanna to the Son of the blessed, is he that cometh in the name of the Lord Hosanna and the highest.
They say, who is this expert? Who is this?
We come down to verse 15 when the chief free subscribe saw the wonderful things that he did and the children crying in the temple and saying Hosanna the son of David. They were so afraid and they sent on to him. There are still not what these say and Jesus says unto them, yeah, I've never read about the mouth of babes and sufferings to us to click the praise and they let them die.
He came into that city fulfilling prophecy as to the Messiah. It was coming who was to come, and we know the story well. It was rejected and he was cast out and he was crucified as we had the remembrance this morning.
Let's jump up to the end of Matthew.
The last chapter of Math.
He's crucified. He's very in the gravy lane for three days, then he rises from the dead on the third day.
Verse 19.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things like whoever I am commanding, loyal, and with you all, even at the end of the world.
Instantly we have that portion of Matthew 24.
The Kingdom of heaven is crazy to those who are most responsible. His own who was rejected. He would have suffered. It was to be an earthly Kingdom.
And he was to rule over as he will, and one day come.
At the end of Matthew, where you'll have.
Reverence to the Kingdom of Heaven so often.
We have the last phrase of statement. I am with you all, even until the end of the world. You notice there's no ascension in Matthew.
There's no Holy Spirit coming down in math.
If we only had this gospel, we would have known about that.
Because in math, just gossip.
We come to the end of the stuff, Daniel 69 week.
There's still no way to go and from math is gone to go directly into the last week to pass over this 2000 year period.
And.
2000 year period is over roughly. When it's over, the gospel of the Kingdom will be picked up again. Back to our chapter 24 for a month in chapter 24, this verse was brought out of verse 14.
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And this is also off the Kingdom. Verse 14 shall be preached in all the world by witness unto all nations, and then shall be any time.
Once this the believers are caught on this scene.
And there.
Transported to glory, I believe soon after the gospel of the Kingdom of his previous first of all, by my on the Baptist and by the Lord himself and by the disciples will be picked up again and will permeate what we're working with Jew and Gentile life at that time.
But the thing of it is.
Coming into that period, seven-year period.
The Lord will return.
And the Kingdom of heaven will be established, will come in, and they will move away.
Now.
Here's the thought I had of the Kingdom of God.
You know we read the yesterday and heard this morning.
How greatly he loves us.
And in spite of what man does, in spite of the rejection of mankind.
Nor is there something even better. He comes back. Oh, something is even better.
So what does he do?
Though they cycled, there were those in Israel that day, that time that actually received.
There were those for example that.
And believe he was to the scientist, he wasn't the same one they received, and they followed him, the disciples. And on the there are many thoughts. For example, there's 120 enough of a room Corinthian springs up, there's 500 more somewhere else, and so on. There are many. What was to happen to them?
Excuse me, who believe that?
He was the Messiah and believed that the Kingdom was to be set up. God did something better for them, I believe, and for us.
And So what does he do?
I believe we have it in Colossians chapter one.
Colossal.
Verse 12 We need thanks to the Father, which has made us need to be partakers of the inheritance of Saints in life.
Who have delivered us from the fall of darkness, and have translated us into the Kingdom of his ears suffering.
Came to my business I believe it's the Kingdom of God wants any difference in.
What the Lord then did was and he couldn't believe those believers into the Kingdom.
What he did in the sentence was canal bringing him to you and so the Holy Spirit and thou glory and in wealth of believers. I believe what we have in the book of Acts is exactly that. I believe the different ones were translated into the Kingdom of is their son the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of God is a heavenly Kingdom. It's not an earthly Kingdom.
And it's in the the 2nd chapter of that book of Acts. The 120 were brought in because they were waiting for spirit to come down. They believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. Not all the believers are brought to them that day. Later on, as we know families and those were brought in and happened to leave the first of all Jesus Christ chapter 19 of last and the 12 who never have heard was the Holy Ghost they were brought into.
The Kingdom as well. So I believe that's the Kingdom of God that was established and the Kingdom is your Son. And he rocked them in and blessed and gave them that blessing and heavenly blessed.
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The Kingdom of God has mentioned many times in Scripture. Six times I believe in Matthew, 15 times in Mark, at least 33 times in Matthew, but only twice in the book of John. Turn to the book of John. Please say this.
In John three, he must come to the Lord and in verse three he says Jesus after that said unto him, barely, barely had to stay unto you, except the man be born again and cannot see the Kingdom of God. And then in verse 5 Jesus answers, really, really I say unto you, accepting men be born of water and of security, he cannot enter.
He cannot see and he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
Coming into this Kingdom, Kingdom is your son, he says. You come in my faith, you believe in my my Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the brother King, my father. And there's one more verse I want to look at First Corinthians chapter 15.
And here's the thought that the 15 of the First Corinthians.
And verse.
Now this I say 11.
This I say brother, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God either. The corruption inherit incorruption.
So here's the third thing.
To John, and John says he cannot see the Kingdom of God, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God, and there it says he cannot inherit.
Flesh and blood cannot, America. All those are brothers in the Kingdom of history, of some Kingdom of God, and by faith in Him and trust in Him.
Flesh and blood.
Will that the Kingdom of heaven?
Repeat that flesh and blood legend, the Kingdom of Heaven. In other words, when the Lord returns those that are.
Number 24th chapter. But Steve brought out about Christ. There's Christ, there is Christ. Those who believe that gospel that the Messiah is coming, they believe, they repent and they accept that the Messiah is coming. They will.
22 King and the nations that support Israel will win and Kingdom.
But the other way and he fathoms because the last dispensation money illustration is the last one. And they have to come to faith, just as in this position we have to come to faith. They come to faith as well. But they go in fondly in the Lutheran Kingdom of heaven and.
But none can go involved as a word of change into the Kingdom of God.
The Kingdom of God, I believe, began on the day of Pentecost when the Spirit came down and indwelled believers and brought them into the Kingdom of his nearest son province and Tel Aviv. And that's us as well. We've been brought, and this is how we come in today. We're not looking for the Kingdom of elephants that were to be set up on the earth as some freestax, you know, but we're waiting for the Lord to take us away to be with himself, because that's a heavenly king.
I'm very healthy people for not worthy people that's earthly Kingdom for earthly people, for heavenly people for the heavenly Kingdom and we're going to be caught along. God has said to those then for believing, accepting my Son, I have something better for you to make you decay. Translate it into the king and so every believer from then on, trust the Lord Jesus Christ brought into that Kingdom.
Brother, I have enjoyed that.
I wish I could have been relaxed to give it up.
I've enjoyed that stuff actually the whole of Matthews gospel and related the whole of work is a gospel of heaven message.
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It is that. It doesn't mean it doesn't apply to us.
Because I said we're already there, is the point. You and I are already in the Kingdom.
And there's nothing that those in latter day in the Kingdom of heaven are going to enjoy and work that we can't enjoy right now. For example, when they're there, the Lord Jesus is going to be reigning over them. Now, you and I, we're the church.
And our head is in heaven right now. He's raining over us. We have to see now that every blessing that they will have in that day, in the Kingdom of heaven, we have. Right now in the Kingdom of God we have.
Everyone except you don't have the blaster. That's not that. We have everything else. And So what did God do? He said to go. I'm going beyond bringing him into the earth bikini with those who believe I'm going to bring you in and form a body. The body is going to be one body.
All believers whose head will be in heaven and we commend my faith and trust that, but the Lord by faith was strong, not only one body, but it's just like forming a bride and my son. It is not good that man should go alone. I won't make it. Help me.
That's what he's doing now and you and I and the very first ones, they have many gossip properly and the Formula One body. So this is the the Kingdom of my dear son of the son of my life.
God is not the Father is not us reward you might save what the Lord Jesus Christ has done and for those who trusted him, he's bringing him you and I are already and so the same. That's why he wants us to walk down by faith and trust in him because we're already there and everything in that day. If you apply if you apply the all those masters Gospel through the gospel of heaven.
Then leave him like a 16th chapter room says a seal on earth is sealed on earth.
We left these things in that day as the as they administer saying from the earth in Jerusalem in that day and steal them right above the earth as the heavenly Christmas. It's sealed there as well, but so it is today.
In the Church of God and in this, in this scene, what the assembly has at 16 chapter said, it's recognized. There's no difference. The only difference is, is that we have a portion with himself.
In in heaven we are heavenly people called out of this world. His body, the Church is thrown.
So I believe the Kingdom of heaven is summarizing quit is to say that the Kingdom of heaven began from all of us because of that, but we'll say with the Gospel of Matthew or by John the Baptist of Matthew, the Lord Jesus and disciples and he would have stood up to the every the other of the Kingdom. Then for earthly people they would reign over them and he will complete that when they come, but because that was rejected.
Our God went beyond, says OK.
And I will bring it in to you. So the spirit comes down to the close of believers and we're brought in now. And now we're definitely, we can't access the Kingdom of Velma. The flesh and the other merit flesh and flesh and only inhabit the genome of that. And they will win, and many nations will win.
And they'll live in dweller for 1000 years and then they'll get that final judgment. They go in bottle. We don't go in bottle and this thing, we go in bed. We are the private class. We are this church. Where do I have this matter and all the blessings? Did you read this portion in Matthew? Think about it as being.
All these things are not ours. Whatever a blessing, this is ours. This is ours now.
I trust. I didn't refuse that too much. I didn't enjoy the trust.
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Reverse.
There's 29.
Immediately after the tribulation those days.
Shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her life?
And the stars shall fall from heaven.
In the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Talking about the Kingdom.
Talking about heavenly things.
We have here reference to the heavenly body in the sun.
The motive to start, and I know we've identified this as being the ruling authorities might have this world and cast down with the Spirit of God does use a figure of the heavenly body and I would like to spend a few moments to consider a few structures in connection with those.
You know when God made the world.
He had eternity before him.
And I believe that he translated in this creation.
Pictures of eternal food and we have many references in the scriptures to those heavenly bodies compared to the Saints in different positions. Let's read the Psalm 19.
So I'm 19.
The first verse.
The heavens.
Declare the glory of God.
So we can take on the starry night. You look up in the heavens and you see those multitude of stars, unnumbered stars, that God has a name for each one of them.
You marvel and you are a believer, that there is a creator of God.
And just the dimension of it all speaks of his power.
The glory of God declared in the heavens.
I'm sure there's more.
As we consider the heavenly bodies to consider the glory of God, and we'll get to that. We just read on for a moment. Day and today utter its speech and night and Tonight Show it knowledge. There's no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Whether you're in China, Australia and the island of the Pacific, the North Pole, wherever you are.
You can look up into heaven.
And there's a sun, The moon.
And it starts and they have a message from God making us responsible to know that these bodies have an author which is God himselfers. For their line has gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. And then had he set a Tabernacle for the sun?
So man, as a creature of God, is responsible to know there's a God. It tells us that in Romans chapter one.
Of course there is a God science wants to speculate as to the origin of the universe because it doesn't want to receive the fact that there's a creator God and he called the things into being by the power of his word. The believer just rests on what the Spirit of God tells us in the word of God. God spoke and there it was. Psalm 33 tells us that, but it tells us here verse four as to in the heavens.
That we can't measure and the scientists have to talk to billions of years and light years to travel over here and over there. And I start with there's so much bigger than this. And that it tells us in the Scripture in them hath he said a Tabernacle for the sun.
That's what God has done. God has created a heaven and he's made that to be a Tabernacle for the sun. And we are the spectators of that. And sure enough, we finally, when the sun rises in the east and rises up in the sky, you can't see the stars anymore. They just disappear from the glory of that one son. It's wonderful in English. It works. You know, the sun, SON, and the sun is UN and doesn't work in all languages like that. But you know, what a beautiful picture.
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The Son is of the Son, because when he appears in glory, there's no other glory to be beheld but his glory. And notice in the next verse it says, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber and rejoice it as a strongman to run a race. Oh, there's the Lord Jesus, the bridegroom as a strongman, the one who was crucified in weakness, a strong man He's coming.
To establish His Kingdom, to rule in righteousness.
He counts forth out of heavens, and his circuitous unto the end of it, and there's nothing hidden from that.
Eat thereof. Nothing is hid from him. He knows everything and he's going to have everything his way. But he comes out of heaven as a bridegroom, and it says out of his chamber, of the bridal chamber, he comes out of heaven with his bride.
What a wonder.
That there is One to accompany Him when He comes in glory, One brought out of the earth, one saved by His grace, by His crucifixion to be manifesting glory with Him. Those in which He's going to be admired tells us in Second Thessalonians chapter one be glorified in His Saints and admired in all them not believed. He's the one to be admired. So here in the 19th Psalm, God speaks of the heaven, speaks of the sun, speaks of it as a bridegroom. He's giving us pictures.
Of one greater than the sun.
Was going to like having an earth with his glory. It tells us in the Book of Revelation that the sea doesn't need the sun.
The glory of God has lit the city, and the Lamb is the light thereof. No more need for the sun.
Look at the Song of Solomon.
Chapter 6.
Verse 10.
Who is she?
That looketh forth as the morning fears the moon, clear the sun, and terrible as an army with banners.
We know in the Song of Solomon refers a lot to Israel and God will put his glory on Israel, an earthly nation, to manifest its character during his reign. But we can also apply it to the church that my French Bible which says, who is this one that shines forth like the morning, beautiful as the moon, pure, pure like the sun?
Isn't that something that you and I?
Sinners lost in sin.
To be manifested in the likeness of the Son of God. God wanted to bring many sons to glory, and He's going to bring them to be in the full likeness of His Son, pure like the sun.
You know, in when the sun is darkness, obviously the moon is going to be darkened too, because that's where the moon gets its like from the sun. And so the church in Israel manifested in glory by reflecting the glory of that one who's their Redeemer, Israel's Messiah and the Savior of the body, the Lord Jesus the Church.
And she comes with banners as an army coming out of heaven. I've enjoyed that in connection with the church.
Let's look at First Corinthians chapter 15.
For a moment.
My brother was saying that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God and if we go to the following verses we have the mystery of how our bodies are going to be changed.
But we have.
In Corinthians 15 in reference to the resurrection.
1St Corinthians 15 and 39.
All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes and another of birds. You know, you eat meat, you know, no chicken and fish and beef. It's meat, but it's it's different texture. And so humans life is also of a different texture. And though flesh and blood will not inherit the Kingdom of God, flesh and bones will.
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Because the Lord Jesus and resurrection he had gush and bones.
Yeah, an incorruptible flesh, immortal flesh, and that's what we have in the mystery following in the 15th chapter. Our bodies are going to be changed and our flesh is going to become incorruptible and immortal. And so in the 15th chapter it says verse 40, there are celestial bodies and bodies, terrestrials, but the glory of the celestial is one and the glory of the terrestrial is another. We know the heavenly bodies, what characterizes them as the emanation of light.
The character of God and light. And so it says here there is one glory of the sun.
Unmatched scientists will tell you the contrary, but your eye will deny that.
You can look at the stars all you want, but you can't look at the sun like that. The apostle Paul was blinded. It was the light greater than the light of the sun. He couldn't see anymore. That's the glory of the Lord Jesus. And God has put the sun as you went in the heavens as a picture.
Of his son, so when?
And you can't look at that glory for a long time because you're just going to blind. God made it that way.
So there is the glory of the sun and the glory of the moon.
And as we've noticed that the moon doesn't have any personal glory, it has reflective glory.
Are we beholding with an open face? The glory of the Lord are transformed into the same image. From glory to glory. There's reflective glory. The one who's before you is the one you're reflecting.
And if we're occupied with the Lord Jesus, and that's the one we're contemplating, that's who we're going to be manifesting. And then it says, for one star, defer it from another star in glory. And that's visible at night. You can look up in the heavens and you see brighter stars and weaker stars, but they're All Stars, you know?
So also is the resurrection.
I've enjoyed this very much in connection with the resurrection of believers.
You know Hollywood has its stars.
And you read a lot of corruption about these stars. That's the glory of the world.
Tainted with so much dishonor to the God who made them.
But these stars here, there's the stars of God, the stars of the morning like we see, and they're a reflection of God's glory, and so is the resurrection of the dead. And the stars differ in glory from one star to another. And I believe in the resurrection. We're all going to be stars, We're all going to have glorious bodies, but perhaps we would not have the same measure of glory. I think of the apostle Paul who died as a martyr, and he lived and he suffered and was imprisoned.
And there's a reward for him in glory, I believe. For that, let's look at a verse in Psalm 147.
Psalm 147.
You read verse 4.
He telleth the number of the stars.
He called them all by their names.
I enjoy the fact that he calls his sheep.
Each one of them by their name. And he has a name for all these stars. And he knows you has a sheep now, and has one shining, and glory with him in resurrection.
But if you connect the previous verse verse three it says he healeth the broken in heart and binded up their wounds. He tell it the number of stars and call it them all by their names.
I've enjoyed seeing these verses together where the Lord speaks of suffering, broken hearts, wounds, which is a portion of many of us through the circumstances of life.
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And then he speaks of the stars.
Let's prove God connects this thought together with us in Second Corinthians chapter 4.
2nd Corinthians, chapter 4.
In chapter 3 we have reflecting the glory of the Lord, but in chapter 4 in the end of the chapter it says.
Verse 16 Second Corinthians 416 For this 'cause we faint not, but though our outward men perish, yet the inward man is renewed by day by day for a light affliction, which is but for a moment work it for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. While we look, look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. But the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen.
Are eternal.
You know you can see the sun, the moon and the stars.
And there's a day coming when you won't see them anymore.
And there are things that you can't see now.
That are going to be manifest for eternity.
And that's the real sun, that's the end. And the real stars in resurrection, they're going to be eternal.
And we have in this portion here.
Reference to our condition in this world. Light affliction, but for a moment.
And you know, when you're going through affliction, I know moments tend to drag on.
When pain is there and sorrow, time doesn't go by us quickly. We feel.
Our life is but a vapor.
But in affliction seems to be longer than that.
Those of us are on in years. We look back. I'm 65. I just got here. I barely got here yesterday. I just.
And I'm kind of going down.
Just like that.
And I don't want to minimize anyone suffering or wounds and things that they're burying in their hearts, broken hearts. And the Lord has.
Concern for that and sympathy and comfort. But he would remind us that he's not indifferent to that. And there's an answer in glory for that.
The answer and glory here. I don't see that connected with service.
By the amount of people that I brought the gospel to, or how many sermons I preached, or how many books I wrote or whatever.
I believe it's connected with suffering in this life and manifesting the character of the Lord Jesus. We had that yesterday in the fruit of the Spirit, long-suffering.
I know some are suffering long. I don't know who you are, but some are suffering long. And the Lord, the Lord knows. The Lord knows the weight and the pain and the extent of it all, and He has an answer in glory for that. He knows you by your name.
He knows how many hair on your head you have.
He knows what Soros trial means. He's been through that.
And perhaps it's not. It's not my case right now. I can't, I can't complain. I'm very thankful for the Lords mercy. But should the Lord allow things in our lives in the coming days, may we remember.
He refers to them as light afflictions of a moment.
And in answer to that, he has a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
I can't show you that now.
We can't even see the Lord with our eyes. We can feel His presence. We can't see Him with our eyes, but we'll see Him with our eyes. One was glorious in the sun. You know, the apostle Paul, he, he was blinded because of the glory of the Lord. To be able to behold the glory of the Lord physically, we can do it spiritually. Now to be able to behold the glory of the Lord physically, we need to have a changed body. We need to have changed eyes, and then we can behold.
His glory.
Want to wonder, brothers and sisters, that momentarily, and we say before the meeting is over, before the day's over, before the weeks over, before the years old, I don't know when.
But it's by this little vapor that's going by, which is called our life. Momentarily. The moment is going to be over and we're going to see him. We're going to be changed in the twinkling of an eye, in a moment, and we're going to behold that one. And we're going to see the nail print in his hand and his feet. And it's like the Apostle Paul, he didn't see that. He just saw a light and he heard the voice.
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We're going to hear the voice, we're going to see His face, we're going to see the whole thing is happening inside. Well, may you encourage us there. Once those eternal things that are coming through resurrection, the glory of the sun, eternal glory, the moon. I think of the church reflecting His glory for eternity and the individual believers, the stars grabbing glory one from another. Not due to ability or gift is how.
In your life you glorify the Lord through the trials and difficulties to their broken hearts and their wounds that He allows you to go through, that you glorified Him in that way. May the Lord bless His word to our souls.
170.
And shall we see thy face?
And hear thy heavenly voice.
Well known to us in present grace.
Well, may our hearts rejoice 270.
I chose stand here right now.
Go on sailing brothers and praise and all my heart tree joy everybody to hear.
No.
Yeah.
Somebody.
On the floor now I should go.
Seeing him #202.
What will it be to dwell above 202?
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What will it be?
Raining.
Always love so bright and falls history.
Ignore.
It.
We just read Before We close First Corinthians 2.
Couple of verses.
1St Corinthians 2.
Verse 9.
As it is written.
I have not seen nor ear heard.
Neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared.
For them that love him, but God has revealed them unto us by His Spirit.
For the Spirit searches all things, yeah, the deep things of God. Let us pray.
Our God, our Father.
We're humbled to think of our God. How much?
Thou hast given our God the largeness of thy heart.
Now it's empty. Heaven, Father, to send thy Son into this world.
And when we think of what the scripture says, the hope that is set before us, we've had it brought before us a little bit this afternoon are gone. We ask the thou it's give us to.
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Lay hold on eternal life.
To realize.
Lord of what's before, those of us who belong to Thee, full blessed God, we thank thee for the privilege. We thank thee for the Spirit of God that opens up this blessed book to us. Amen.
And we ask the that the remainder of our time together here.
Whether in the meetings or whether visiting with one another that we might be encouraged in divine things to go on. So we pray for one another and we thank thee for this meeting in Jesus name, Amen.