Open—W. Dear, D. Mollon
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With mercy or exceed, all we can do or say is in Thy people. Thou indeed is feeling more displayed but for our happiness. Oh God on us while here below, by virtue of Christ, death and blood, thy riches, blessings flow. 288.
All those.
Mercies.
Are really.
Can you know what I'm saying? You have seen by being before thou rain.
Saying a prayer.
Preserve thy flock most graciously within thy sheltering fool.
Move them from every harm away, and in thy safeguard hope.
Now who is it that preserves the flock?
It's the shepherd.
And so this afternoon, for a little time, I'd like to turn to John Chapter 10.
This is what was on my heart. John chapter 10 concerning the Shepherd.
And the sheep somebody is referred to this book as a sheep book.
There are hundreds of references.
In the Bible to sheep.
And last night you learned how that we are like sheep. That's a humbling thought.
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Because a sheep does things.
Dumb things.
And we have to admit that we are like that all we like. Sheep have gone astray. We have turned.
Everyone to his own way. Now that's emphatic. We have a little 3 letter word.
All.
And we also have a bigger word that means all, everyone.
There's no exceptions.
We have all.
See Wandered away from God.
And we need to admit that.
It was, I believe I'm July 4th there was a celebration in the Seaport Eastport. It's the most easterly location.
In the United States East port.
And it was quite a celebration there, a lot of people, thousands of people.
Well, there is opportunity if you pass out a few tracks.
And I happen to have.
Attract.
I'd like to give this track away.
There was a man and his wife, and the man had a.
Blue hat. And on the hat it said the captain is always right.
And this is the track that I had in my hands.
White Star Line boarding pass, Titanic.
I handed him the tracks and I said.
There are exceptions.
And he was ready to agree.
And his wife as well. But when it comes to all have sinned, all have gone astray. There are no exceptions.
But the wonderful thing about this is.
God.
Loves the Sinner even though he hates.
Is sick.
And so this morning, he sang a beautiful hymn.
How that?
Lord, Thy love has sought and found us wandering in this desert wide.
Thou has thrown thine arms around us for us, has suffered blood and died, and so we find that the shepherd seeks the sheep.
And how wonderful it is to be found. Now it's true that a sheep.
Who is lost will never find its way back.
So what can the sheep do?
Well, I thought of it this way.
A sheep.
Could.
Acknowledge that it is lost.
I believe that's what you and I we can do.
And even though we cannot find our way back on our own.
Thank God we have somebody that's seeking us.
But a sheep that is lost and in difficulty can.
Bleed.
Indicating a need for help.
Have you ever come to that point?
Where you have acknowledged before God your helplessness.
I believe that's what God desires.
Over and over in the word of God it says, Whosoever shall fall upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Those are beautiful words.
And they are true words.
Every word of God is pure.
You know this book has.
Over.
Three quarter million.
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Works in this blessed book.
There's a lot of words.
But we learned in the Psalms that every word of God is pure. Tried seven times. And so when God says.
We need help.
The best thing we can do is to acknowledge it.
It's humbling.
But I believe God teach problems and pride is what keeps men.
To God, the big letter in the word pride is the middle letter I.
Man is so self-centered.
This focus is on himself.
We need to look outside of ourselves and focus on the Lord.
And God, that's what God's desire is.
And so as I look around this company today of salvation.
This was a verse that we used this summer with the boys and girls.
And it was encouraging to find those that said.
They had asked the Lord to save them. They felt their need and.
They had called upon the Lord. Maybe you feel their need right here now as you sit in your seat.
You can simply say, Lord, be merciful unto me, the Sinner.
You'll forgive your sins, You'll save your soul. He'll cleanse your heart. He'll make you whole.
Here and now you can leave this room a different way, rejoicing.
The other day.
I saw a little plaque. It was in a Walmart.
And there were 5 words on the plaque.
5 words.
Love is.
All you need.
I got to thinking about that. Is that all I need?
If that's all I need, I think I'll buy this plaque.
This is a good plaque. So I took it up to the cashier and I said to the cashier, what do you think about these works?
Is this all a person needs? Is love?
You know what he said.
It sounds good, but you need more than that.
I think he was looking at it from a human standpoint.
When you look at it from a divine standpoint there once, that's all you need.
We sang in this conference 166.
And we sing it many times. Beautiful hymn. Lord, what in thy love possess we not?
Our star by night, our sun by day.
Our spring of life when parched with drought.
Our strength, our shield are safe of both.
I wrote before the throne of God.
And we could add many more verses.
Because the.
The love of God, the love of the Savior, the love of the Shepherd has provided all that we need, and that's what came before me in connection with this chapter, John, chapter 10.
Love Is All we need now.
I know what that texture was thinking about. You know we.
Love our families and sometimes there's difficulties.
And we feel how powerless we are in ourselves to do anything about it.
We learned last night about a dear man. He lost his family where I understand it is the drowned. I'm sure he loved his family.
But that wasn't enough.
On his part to save them.
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But when it comes to divine love, we find that.
Power is combined with love.
And that's beautiful and so.
The Lord, he says I have loved you with an everlasting love.
Therefore, with loving kindness have I drawn you.
But in the next chapter, I believe it's Jeremiah 32.
The question.
Is is there anything too hard for me?
And he said there's nothing too hard for the Lord. He made the heavens, the earth, there's nothing too hard. So you see, we got love and power and we sang it into him. Our brother gave out today. These are beautiful hymns.
How good is the God we adore?
Our faithful, unchangeable friend whose love is as great.
As his pirate and knows neither measure nor end.
And I do believe.
That whatever is taking place in your life or mine.
It's an expression of the love of the Shepherd.
There's something to think about when the times are rough. We need to.
Remind ourselves that Jesus loves me.
How do I know this? There's five more words. The Bible tells me so.
Love Is All you need. The Bible tells me so.
I'd like to just turn here to Chapter 10, John, Just talk a little bit about the shepherd and about the sheep.
It says here in verse one, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
But he that entereth in by the door.
Is the shepherd of the sheep to him the quarter openness, And the sheep hear his voice, and he calleth his own sheet by name, and leadeth them out. And when he put it forth his own sheep he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his.
Voice and a stranger, will they not follow?
But will flee from him.
For they know not the voice of strangers.
I believe the Lord Jesus came into this world.
By the door, the door was opened onto him.
He was truly the Messiah.
And He fulfilled all those prophecies concerning Messiah or will fulfill them in the coming day. But there were those that claimed to be shepherds in Israel, and they were nothing but these.
And robbers.
And the Lord speaks of it in verse eight. He says, All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers.
But the sheep did not hear that.
And what does the thief do? Well, verse 10 it says the thief comes not but for to steal, to kill, and to destroy.
Think of it.
That see.
Profits by killing the sheep.
He furthers his own interests at the expense of the sheep.
But what do we find?
In verse 10, the Lord Jesus says I am come that they might have lot, and that they might have it abundant.
I don't think more is in the original translation.
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The Lord Jesus King.
That you and I, we might have life, and not just life, but that we might have it abundantly. You see the contrast between the thieves and the robbers and the true shepherd now.
It says to him, the quarter opens verse three. The sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name.
I believe when the Lord Jesus started his ministry here in this world, God saw to it that this.
World.
Would.
Come to know his thoughts about his son.
Because we know He came unto his own, His own received Him not.
He was rejected.
He wasn't appreciated.
But you know, we read at the baptism of John, the Lord Jesus went to be baptized, not because he had seized, but because he wanted to associate those that are doing the right thing.
It was a very gracious act on the part of the Lord Jesus to identify with those who were doing the right thing and acknowledging your guilt that the baptism of John. But then we know there came a dog.
And lit upon him, and a voice from heaven said, This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. We know whose voice that was, who was the voice of the Father.
Honoring his Son and I'm sure it was an encouragement to the Lord Jesus.
To hear his voice.
And to know that he was approved of God the Father, because that's why he was here in this world, He could say, my delight is to do the will of him who sent me.
And so he came in by the door.
And there were those.
That he called.
And they responded.
And he called by name.
Nathaniel Zacchaeus.
He calls by their names.
Because I believe the Lord Jesus is personally interested in you and me.
It's a wonderful thing. You know somebody maybe you are not that familiar with and then they call you by your name, you kind of light up and you say, well, how did they know me?
Somebody once said that the sweetest music to the human ear is one's name.
One's name, well, he calls the sheep by their names.
And it tells us here that the sheep here is voice.
The she here is voiced.
Verse four does she follow here? For they know his voice.
The voice of a stranger. They recognize it.
And you know, in today's world.
We've got, I believe, hundreds, thousands of strange voices, but there's only one voice that imparts life, and that's Jesus.
And I believe.
You and I.
Who are sheep of Christ have the capacity to discern His voice.
Amidst the myriad of strange voices out there, there's.
A true voice.
And it tells us here the sheep.
Hear his voice.
I understand.
That when?
A banker.
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Is dealing with money.
He or she is so familiar.
With a genuine bill.
That.
A counterfeit bill.
Can be detected.
It's because the fact one is so conversive with a true bill, one can.
No counterfeit.
And I believe that's very true in our own experience, you know, as we go on with the Lord and he talks with us and we talk with him and we get acquainted with Him, we get to know His voice and we can detect.
If there is that which is contrary.
Lord Jesus.
Because the voice, it doesn't have a true ring to it.
And we are to be.
Simple. Concerning evil, I don't think it's a healthy thing to be looking into all the various cults and the errors that are propagated in the world, but let's be focused on.
Christ and.
I believe that.
He can give us discernment as to what.
Is his voice, as opposed to that which is the voice of a stranger.
He says a stranger will they not follow but will flee from him. I read one time about.
A man that he approached the shepherd and said to the shepherd, he said, I understand that.
You call these sheep by their name and they'll come to you.
He says. I believe they'll come to me if I would.
Put on your shepherd's car, he said. You try it. So the shepherd.
He gave to this man what he was wearing.
Had a staff and so this man, now he looks like the shepherd.
And then he proceeded to call one of the sheep bites name.
Mina Minor.
Mina went in the opposite direction.
It wasn't the Shepherd's voice.
From all outward appearances it seemed like the shepherd, but it was, and Satan has his counterfeits today, and we need to be careful that we be not deceived.
And so it says here in verse.
Seth then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep, and verse nine, I am the door by me. If any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture.
Only one.
Way of salvation, and that is through the door, and the door is the Lord Jesus Christ.
And.
We enter in through the door, we get saved, and now we can go in and out and we find pastor. There's a freedom to move about and to enjoy the rich pasture that God has for us.
That wasn't so under the law. You know, the law was very confining.
And.
We find that the Israelites.
Where to remain?
In an area and they did not travel.
For the most part, very far they work to course associate with the Gentiles.
But you know, that's all changed now through the advent of Christianity.
And there is a freedom that God gives.
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To come and to go and to enjoy.
Green pasture.
A freedom.
No longer bound by the law, now we also find in this.
Portion that the sheep were kept in a full, which is a enclosure, the fold I believe, Speaking of Judaism.
And Judaism, of course, is connected with the law.
And the law was given to try to contain.
Man's.
Old nature, if I could put it that way.
But even though the law was holy, just and good.
There was number power in the law to reform the old nature.
And so.
God.
Has a plan.
And according to this plan he sends his son who is says here is the Good Shepherd, verse 11. He says I am the Good Shepherd.
The Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
And so at the cross.
The Good Shepherd gave his life. He laid it down.
And we read about that later in this chapter.
Notice what it says in verse 17.
Well, verse 15 as the Father knoweth me, Even so know I the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep, OK.
A Good Shepherd.
Thinks more about the sheep.
Than he does about himself.
David was a Good Shepherd. He was willing to risk his life to save the lands.
From the Lion and the Bear.
His life was spared.
The Lord Jesus is the Good Shepherd. He gave his life for the sheep. But if you go on and read in verse.
17 Therefore doth my father loved me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power.
To take it again this commandment that I received of my father, notice what he says here.
In verse.
17.
My father loves me because I lay down my life.
It doesn't save my life for the sheep. Why not?
I believe because what the Lord Jesus has in view here is not the sheep so much as his Father.
And he was submitted to his father. He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
So the Lord Jesus laid down his life for God the Father, but He laid down his life for you and for me. Now stop and think about this, what he was willing to suffer on your behalf and mine at the cross.
And when we read about the shepherd seeking the sheep in Luke 15, it tells us that the shepherd sought the sheep until he had found it. And you know that involved the Lord Jesus coming all the way from glory, the palace of his glory, down to this world and going to the cross of Calgary. That was all part of the search. And He gave His life at the cross. None of the ransom shall ever know.
How deep were the waters crossed, or how dark was the night that the Lord passed through when He found His sheep that was lost? We'll never know about that, but He found it, and it tells us there. Luke 15 puts it on his shoulders. He takes it home, and he's rejoicing.
The joy of the shepherd eclipses the joy of the sheep.
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I'm going to tell you there once we need to get ahold of this.
We got to be thinking about.
The Father's joy, the Shepherd's joy in finding the loss, it's that which gives joy to the heart of God.
We often think of things from our own perspective, but think about God and you know, it tells us in Nehemiah, the joy of the Lord is your strength.
Oh, to get a hold of this joy that God has been blessing the Sinner, saving his soul. Wonderful. And so he takes the sheep all the way home safely.
Now.
The attractive center verse 16 is the shepherd the Lord leads out of the fold, out of Judaism.
The Sheikh. Now there's no enclosure around the sheep. Why? Because the sheep are focused on the shepherd and it's the shepherd becomes the attractive object to keep the sheep from going astray.
Keeping them together.
And that's so beautiful you pass a call He could write. The love of Christ is what constrains us.
There once this afternoon, if we could focus more on the love of Christ told out at the cross where that precious Savior lay down his life.
And exhausted, the fury of a thrice holy God vented on his head.
Many waters could not quench them, neither could the flood.
It's the love of Christ that constrains us to live for Him. Though I forget Him and wander away, still He loves me wherever I straight.
Back to his dear loving arms, do I flee?
When I remember.
That Jesus loves me. We need more debt love of Christ now.
Just in closing 27, my sheep hear my voice.
I know them, and they follow me. I give unto them eternal life. Two things about the sheep, two things about the shepherd.
The sheep hear his voice, and the sheep follow him.
And notice he says, my sheep. Oh, how wonderful to be a sheep of Christ.
Psalm 23.
Psalmist could say David could say my shepherd.
Here the Lord Jesus says my sheep.
How wonderful.
That we belong to him and he belongs to us.
I am my beloved's in. My beloved is mine well.
What about the shepherd? Shepherd here says, I know them, and I give unto them eternal life.
Shepherd knows all about you.
How many hairs are in your head? What your thoughts are, What your problems are?
Your sickness, your infirmity.
The Good Shepherd he knows, he suffered at the cross for you, for me.
His precious blood has cleansed us from our sin and you can be sure He's an all the way home Savior or Shepherd and you can trust him. And there's another hymn that goes like this. The very hand our sins.
Have pierced has now become our guard and our guide. That's beautiful.
What is it that the sheep?
Wants from the Shepherd.
Well, he wants food, he wants water, he wants protection, he wants guidance.
And I believe the Good Shepherd supplies all he does.
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A little girl once misquoted Psalm 23 verse one.
We know what it says.
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.
And she said it this way.
The Lord is my shepherd. That's all I want.
She didn't get it quite right, but the thought is beautiful.
And it tells us here he gives.
What eternal life? If you could lose it, it wouldn't be eternal.
They shall never perish, neither shall any. You can leave out the word man. There's no power able to plot or to seize the sheep out of his hand.
And then we find, he says, my father.
Which gave them me. Now you and I are a love gift of the Father to His Son and the Father.
Is as interested in your preservation as the sun is.
And it says here.
No, you can leave out the word man because it refers also to Satan.
There's no power. No one is able to pluck them out of my father's hand. Now this is a promise that the shepherd has made. And if somebody is going to say.
That a sheep of Christ.
Can.
Perish.
It's an insult to the shepherd.
Because this basically is saying.
That the Lord Jesus does not keep his promise.
It's a thought that's repulsive. It really is. The Lord says here, they shall never perish.
Neither shall any pluck them out of my hand. Well, this is security and this ought to cause our hearts to rejoice. The Lord Jesus could say, I and my Father are one.
They're on the same page, if I could put it that way, speaking reverently.
Desiring your blessing and mine and your preservation.
And.
The father and the son, they have your best interests at heart.
24/7.
In one of these days, the sun.
Is it going to step out of heaven? And he himself will come with a shout, the voice of the Archangel, the trump of God, and we're going to be caught up to be with him. And what a day of rejoicing that will be. But in the meantime, you're on the shoulders of the shepherd, and he's an all the way home.
Sure, trust you.
I have a subject before me that I've been doing for some time and got connected this week with the the theme that came up in the 15th of the First Corinthians, so we might sort of step off there.
And look like I'm gonna share what I did enjoy and it has to do with there is a generation.
Problems there, but we'll go there shortly and let's see what time we have.
In First Corinthians chapter 15, you know what we've had the last few days about the resurrection.
And I've enjoyed this thought has been coming to me that.
What Paul was saying, one of the things that Paul was trying to get across in the 15th chapter was this. And it got touched on a few times and I think hopefully maybe this afternoon we might get touched on even more in this way. And that is.
We won't turn to but we know about Joe remember, Job said. I know my Redeemer. Live it, and he will stand one day upon the earth.
So Joel knew about resurrection.
And the key phrase is on the earth. And the Lord said to marry at that time. Your brother shall rise again. Mary's response was, yes, I know he will rise in the last day. You were wrong. So those that Paul was writing to Aaron Horne had the same belief. They came in the same system, many of them. And so those who believe in resurrection believed in resurrection.
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At the last day. But this wasn't the point he's trying to get across. First of all, he dealt with those who questioned the resurrection period and said if Christ be not raised and grow in our sins, there's there's, there's nothing. There's no resurrection, there's nothing. So for you who don't believe in resurrection, examine yourselves, see whether you be in the faith because there's no resurrection, there's nothing. And all that we had last day coming down to the eternal state, all that was nothing. It's empty, it's gone.
Resurrection. But I believe in that chapter, what he's getting to it, getting to bring you forward, is this and that is.
Yes, there is a resurrection and yes, we are going to be bodily with the Lord Jesus in that day in that place.
But he's bringing before them that you are risen now, the resurrection, something you already have. You have a risen soul in an unwritten body.
And you're found in a world that's at enmity with Christ. And so you suffer. And the more we realize that we are, we are already because Christ wasn't wasn't at the end of the age that he rose. The testimony was 500 people plus more than we saw him. He's alive now. He's risen now. And so even though we're not bodily risen now, you're not either. But in your spirit you are on heavenly grounds because their resurrection is tied with the earth on the earth.
Now.
With Christ having gone into death and rose, resurrection is now, it's a spiritual, it's a heavenly thing. So he says already you're there, and now the character that you showed to this world has to be that of someone who's resurrected, whose life is not tied to this world, but to another.
And so we could go back to Corinthians and find out all the things that the Corinthians were guilty of because they were operating, as it says in the in the verses coming up during our 15th chapter, in the flesh and blood. And he sank in. Flesh and blood cannot inherit them.
Put that in his place of death. So it's it's the resurrected person. So this is the point he's getting on, I believe. And how to live, how to live.
In the rest of your time, as those who are already resurrected already have that risen life of Christ, how do we be able to behave the same as before? No. And so let's just point out one thing. Here's one example in Corinthians before we go to.
The end of Proverbs move back to the 6th chapter for example, and we could put name any other chapter called.
Problems the lower. But in the 6th chapter you know what was happening there. It says there any of you having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, not before the Saints. Do you not know that the Saints shall judge the world, that the world shall be judged by you? Are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life? If then you have judgment stuff of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church, because don't call the elders and those who got on. Those who are new could deal with the temporal things. I speak to your shame. Is this so that there is not a wise man among you? No, not the one that shall be able to judge between his brethren, but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
Now, therefore, there is a there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law along with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? Nay, ye do wrong and defraud, and that your brother.
There's a principle there, unless we all will see.
Do you ever notice the Apostle Paul in this address here speaks to those who were the offended first?
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Who caused this problem? It's the offender, the one who stole.
One who caused his brother and loved him for the long so he stole my knocks for my goat or something.
But when Paul speaks here, he's not speaking to them who are the offended or the offenders, Not the guilty party. He's speaking to those who have been offended against.
As he says, why do you rather take? Why do you not really take long? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
And there's a principle he deals with those first. But why the others are very guilty.
Strike things come into the assembly.
The one responsible is the one that causes it.
But who's responsible for mending them?
It's the one who was offended against.
Because that's resurrection life.
That's living beyond this world and the principles prove because.
Have you and I our Lord Jesus Christ?
It was us, it was man who offended God, it was man who was sinned against God, it was man, it was you and I that needed to be reconciled to God. For what does God say in the second book? That he was in Christ Jesus, that Christ as a praise? Second Timothy 5 God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself.
The offended one had to be. Why? Because the one who causes the offense is already morally bankrupt. The avenue, the have not the ability they have not the the morality. They don't have the strength to to to to bridge this gap. They cause a problem. Ye who are spiritual, restore such a one.
And so it was Love who had to initiate bringing us back.
He was the one.
And so there's the principle.
And so he now says to us, be reconciled to God. But the work was his. And so in any situation he addresses first those who have been wronged, those have been wrong, because if the problem is going to go anywhere, it's going to be dropped further by those who have been wrong.
And they have the ability to Kermit.
By why not suffer yourselves to be deployed?
Why are you standing up for your rights? Why you're bringing your brother to court to get that slave out?
These are temporal things. You know you're going to judge angels and justice world, you're above that. We're resurrected. We belong to a different sphere altogether, even though we're still here. That's what he's saying to him.
And they need that approach and we need that same approach in our assemblies, in our home, everywhere that we would.
Take the High Road as an order and this is the thought here now he doesn't. Secondly, you'll you'll mention those, I believe who caused the offense. They're not free as it were. Next verse 9 and 10 refers to them, I believe nay says you do wrong Verse 8 and defraud your brethren know ye not with the unrighteous shall not.
And there at the Kingdom of God be not the seed in her fornicators. Chapter 5.
Idolaters. Let's move further around Chapter 8. More adulterers. Feminine abuses themselves in mankind. Thieves either somewhere thieves. They defraud it, right?
And covetous drunkards, revilers and extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God. What a message to those who actually have stolen them from their brethren. Something irrelevant, he says. Don't you know that these people that do these things cannot near the Kingdom of God? He's now touching on them. Are you stealing from your brother? Are you really against your brother? Have you had these bad thoughts against your sister?
Kingdom of God is not made-up of that.
You, that was the flesh and the blood.
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You are not flesh and blood cannot inherit Kingdom of God. It's a spiritual realm and so I knew how risen you are risen.
See ourselves as risen that we walk as we're on a higher Rd.
Nor thieves nor coverage of solo And then I believe in verse 11, I think he covered both groups, the offender and the offenders and such he says, were some of you.
But where are they now?
But dear Walsh, we are sanctifying, we are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. What a contrast they were, those things. It's what they were. But now on new ground, Christ is raised and we're raised in him. This is the ground we have. We're for was sanctified and justified. So live.
That way, that's the point I believe is making interest in that chapter. Now I'm going to go back to Proverbs.
30 and it's it's a big topic in itself. I won't do justice with it, but let's just.
See how much I could pull up?
In Proverbs chapter 30, we have a man.
His name is Edgar, first words and the son of Jacob, and he's speaking to two people.
And Yuko, who I imagine might be his sons or his grandsons, or maybe Mike, he's going to be a grandson and a granddaughter.
I don't know those things, but he's speaking to the younger ones. We can't say all that he says, but I want to go say this, but he said to them all right.
Verse 7, Two things, he says. Two things have I required of you.
Deny them not before I die. So I picture them as a holy man. Two things that require says. You know what I mean? I mean not then one removed from, removed far from me vanity and lies.
Not becoming vanity and lives. And then he says feed me with food convenient, give me neither publishing our riches or give me convenient protein.
And that's what our desire ought to be.
Be there this weekend to get a convenient food and to have truth walk before us. And this is what this man.
Desired of these young men and he brings before them now a situation since there is a generation that you're going to face and I think over this I think.
I think we are in that generation. I think it's this generation in a little time. Anyway, let's look at it and the first one is verse 11. There is a generation that curses their father and does not bless their mother.
Did you get a nod for this generation you live in?
I believe then it gives illustrations. I believe the first leach in verse 15 illustrates this generation. Jump down verse 15. The horse Leech has two daughters trying give you. Apparently horse Leech is a large Leech that just leeches on the horses and things and it is insatiable. It never gets full. It's continuously peace and insatiable. Bleach give give.
They links that there are three things that are never satisfied. A4 does not does not say it is enough.
The grave never full, the barren womb that never gives birth, the earth that is not filled with water and the fire never says I'm full, I have enough. Never.
And so, he says, the horse leaves us like that.
And he says this generation is like that, this generation that curses their father and mothers up. Lester curses their father and does not bless their mothers like that. It's a generation. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, never satisfied. So I was Italian. In verse 17, the eye says that mocks his father and despised us to obey his mother. Raving the sad. Isn't it serious?
How do you treat your mother and your father? You certainly simply see them as a, as a, you know, a fountain of funds. Is there a following after them? The eye is that way too many places the eye is not satisfied with seeing. You know, the ear we're hearing isn't that this day we live in.
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No satisfaction we live in this generation, I believe now and so it tells us. Ask us how am I faring as someone who's risen having Christ life behavior. How do I treat my parents am IA horse *****.
Let's jump on next one, verse 12. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes and yet is not lost.
From their filthiness.
Is a generation that are pure in their own eyes. It is not washed in their filthiness as you think about people you know in this world.
Don't you think we're in that generation too?
All around but they they seem fine in their own eyes.
You have this way of life and yet they're not washed yet. They seem to go on carelessly about any activity that they involved in is fun, but whoever pleases you, go with it. Well, that generation is illustrated in the next set of three, verse 18.
There will be three things which are two wonderful for me.
Solomon says here he gave which for I know not.
The way of an eagle in the air, the way of the serpent upon Rome, the way of the ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a man. I will say this here at this point. This is proper order, I believe. In other words, Solomon is the gas as he watches the eagle, that everything herbirds soar, and that even flap its wings just close.
And over the mountains.
And he says.
A circuit and rock. This movements is ultimate movements here, this movement, there's no visible means of locomotion, and yet it just moves so swiftly and so beautifully across the rocks. You know, if I were to lose my arms and legs and you told me to get across the other side of this room, I think I'd be anything but graceful.
Trying to get there.
But there's a certain and some quite fast, and a ship on the sea.
You know, disappears in a site, now everything is gone. It can upload, it comes again, right graceful on these, these puzzles, on all these that this works, this proper order of things and then these concrete things. Give them think about something else. They can understand the way of the man with the maid.
How the strongest men sometimes are brought to their knees by pretty maid.
Oh man, think that their heads with him and over the next.
And you know, it's the movement, it's how how things move in the proper order. It's amazing. It's I think it's all positives there, but out of it because notice the the thing says.
That verse 13 or verse 412.
Generation that are pure neuralized, it is not washed from your filthiness. Out of this generation you have worse plenty, she said. Such is the way otherwise this graceful movement.
In wonderful order is used such as the way of an adult first woman she needed and wiped her mouth and say it. I have done no wickedness there was like using the things of the Lord in a in a self-serving way.
Using the natural wonderful things of the Lord and the self-serving way and waking the melting thing, I've done the evil.
It's a generation that.
You young people are growing up and this is what you face. The Lord has seen to them. He's put all of us together in the same generation, same same time period. It was a difficult one, but then there's more to be said. Let's just jump to lose our time. Let's just go to the next one, verse 13.
There is a generation, Oh well, off the other eyes and their eyelids are lifted up. Self exaltation is there and I believe the next set of three full streets. These Solomon said verse 21. There are three things he says in the earth.
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For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which you cannot bear.
Her servant when he reigns, and a fool when he is filled with me. An odious woman when she is married, and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Here we have things out of order.
You know, there's many servants. There's many.
Servants who have come to reign in this world, Well, Satan is one as a word that you certainly look at the rain that he's taking.
Has it been better because he took over? Is it better in Uganda when he be admitted over?
Are in Gaddafi to go over and it was too.
All those history is filled with those servants is a word that elevate themselves to the top. And you think the rule will be better that in almost all cases that I know, it's quite much worse. And so it is with the the next year, let's say full when it's filled with meat.
Only control control of fools by food. Others don't feed them first she didn't do the work and afterwards they feed them as you feed a person getting to work for these guys. Right because he's just produced for the moment.
And so controlling that way.
Holiest woman she's married will remain the same. Marriage will change that. It's the out of order things. God has an order and he places us all in the right place. I do believe and.
What it was here to mistress also.
I mean, if he goes to the race, she's often.
To work, she becomes the worst mistress of all, the one who was a servant. It's the out of order things. And so it's the self exaltation. There's two Brits verse 13. There was a generation a little off the other eyes and their eyes are lifted up and isn't in this generation wholesale.
First, the humility in this shoot, this generation, Where's the respect for the elders?
So they, even the youth feel that it's, you know, it's their right, it belongs to them. They should have it the best and everything. And they and their treatment of the elderly, for example, all kinds of cases of that. And it's, it's not a, not a pleasant thing.
This jump.
Verse 14 There is a generation whose teeth are as swords.
And their jaw teeth has knives.
To devour the poor from off the earth and the needy from among them.
Qualified in this generation whose teeth are our swords, Joketh his knives. Have you been following the world with world politics and.
Movements of ISIS and all that. You can see that you live in a generation that's just.
Just running.
Anyway.
This is generation we live in. I'll give you the end of the next 7/3.
Is out to live in that generation. In other words, it's the answer. Are people not strong? The Conys are a people who locals have no king. They go put by bands. That's those who would seek to live in this generation to be answered. That gather to meet in summer. That's what we're doing now. We gather our meat. This is our meat we're gathering right now.
Beating ourselves wonderful. The colonies make their homes in Iraq and this is where we are in the midst of this generation. We need to make our home in Iraq our Lord Jesus Christ of that rock and the solid ground we are on. The locusts of no king, no parent king. To go for five bands is a spirit, as it were. And you and I are like led by the Holy Spirit. And so in the midst of this, it's order amidst this order, order amidst disorder.
They can't tell, but we are living as fans. Then you have the spider takes all with her legs. She's in kings houses. The spider, the locust is the collective. The spider individual doesn't matter to the spider of it's living in the palace or in the hollow justice content. You change them around. They won't just contend and that's like you and I in this world where the Lord places us in the palace or in the Hubble. This could hold. Let's be content there because.
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The risen people and last we have this, we have no more generation. But then it says.
Verse 29, there are three things just go well before we are coming and going for our company, and it is this. Before I read it, I'm going to go back to the first part of chapter and read verse 4. This is about this person who's going to establish oil, who have to send it up into heaven or descended, who have gathered the wind in his fish, the wind bound the waters and the garment who has established all the ends of the year, What is his name?
And what is his Son's name? That thou canst tell? Every word of God is pure is the shield unto them that put their trusted in so.
Proper order out of order, order amidst disorder. And now here comes one. It will set the order. And so you have to lie in strongest among the beats. Lion tribe of Judah is coming. Turns away from nothing. A greyhound known for its speed. The old I come swiftly when he comes coming swiftly.
And he goat sure footed in the Sun Mountains when the Lord Thomas the mountains is very prominent. He's that sure footed woman. He comes and a king against her is no uprising. He's going to come back king and on a slide, king of kings and Lord of Lords and he's going to set everything straight.
Order will be installed. So we have the whole picture here, and that's where we have to be in their thought. That's risen people. This is our portion in the midst of a generation. This is the generation we live in, and this is how we live in that generation.
No matter if it is for the border, we're still in some colonies.
I've enjoyed that portion and it got connected there chapter so I apologize for me.
Our God in dark.