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Life.
All of heaven.
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I would say.
And I feel you all are my breath. I have to wear a girl.
We open our Bibles to First Timothy 316.
To get the scripture before us first of all.
First Timothy, 316.
And without controversy. Great is the mystery of godliness.
God was manifest in the flesh.
Justified in the spirit scene of angels preached unto the Gentiles.
Believed on in the world, received up into glory.
The hymns that we've been singing.
Confirmed a thought that I had in my heart to talk about the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Particularly in his early days.
Thinking of this phrase, God was manifest in the flesh.
Yesterday we were reminded that he stepped into time from eternity.
And we have various verses that prove that in Isaiah.
And remember, whether it's the 7th or the 9th, but it says unto us, a child is born, unto us a son is given, indicating that he would become a child. But He always was the Son. And John 316 backs that up too. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. So he gave one that he had his Son.
And he came into this world. We have it here. It was manifest in the flesh.
God was manifest in the flesh.
And I'm sure we're all aware of those scriptures that point.
This out, I'd like to turn first of all to Luke. Chapter one, which was read yesterday, actually took place before his birth.
Luke, chapter one.
Well, just read verse 35 concerning the person.
Of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Angel answered, and said unto her.
The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall over shadow thee.
Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee.
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Shall be called the Son of God.
Let's bear in mind that when the Lord Jesus came into this world as a man, He never ceased to be the Son of God.
He laid aside the form.
Of God. He didn't set aside being God. He always was and always will be God the Son. He set aside the form.
I had a book that was written by a Greek scholar pointing out the meaning of some of those words.
And the form indicates the outward expression of what is inwardly true.
He laid aside the outward expression. He veiled it in the flesh.
Of his body.
So the Lord Jesus came into this world as a true human being, but let's not forget that He has called that holy thing the Son of God, and He never ceased to be that.
And there are many other things that could look at. It's interesting to see the Scriptures that deal with the very early life of the Lord Jesus. We have him later in Luke at 8 days, coming according to the law, circumcised again at 40 days when the days of Mary's purification were accomplished. And we see Simeon, you know, and that's interesting, Anna, Speaking of him to all that looked for redemption in Israel.
And then in Matthew we have the wise men seeking him and bringing their gifts.
They were indeed wise men because they brought things that spoke of his person.
His we can take time to look at that Matthew chapter 2.
Verse 11 of Matthew 2.
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down and worshiped him.
And when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts, gold, and frankincense and myrrh.
I tried to emphasize the word him.
Much is made of Mary, She had a wonderful portion to be the Mother of our Lord, but when they came, they worshipped Him, not them or her, but Him.
It doesn't say he's an infant here.
I think it's nine times.
The term young child is used in this chapter.
He was now a young child, and Herod inquired diligently what time the star appeared, and he killed the children from 2 years old and under. That gives us a little indication.
And they presented their gifts unto him Gold.
How much they perceived of this I don't know, but they are wise enough to bring gold. Speaking of divine righteousness, they knew.
At least their gift implied his deity.
And frankincense.
That word would speak of the free outflow.
The incense that needed nothing to make the fragrance come forth.
And who would speak to us of his perfect life?
There's a book that's.
Well recommended for everyone. I read it two or three times. I should read it again. It's called The Moral Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ by JG Bellit. I think there was a brother recommended at reading it every year.
It brings before you the person of the Lord Jesus is a man of perfection.
Of his person and as the delight to read that and to enjoy those perfections.
In our blessed Lord, thus frankincense. And the third thing is myrrh.
And I understand that is something that oozes from a tree when the tree is cut.
Injuries the tree.
Trees don't feel pain, but it just brings before us the sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ and other side of His being.
Well, you know, we have those same three things just by the way we look at Philippians Chapter 2.
That portion?
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Getting a little away from what I really have in my heart, but this is so nice.
Philippians chapter 2, that portion that we often read on Lord's Day morning, beginning at the fifth verse. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery?
To be equal with God, there is the gold.
Verse 7.
Made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant.
And was made in the likeness of men.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself. There's the frankincense.
And became obedient unto death.
Even the death of the cross and you have the myrrh. Isn't that beautiful?
I really enjoyed that.
My reference is to Brother Gladding, the source of that. Let's go back to Luke.
To chapter 2.
At the end of that chapter.
And thinking particularly of the children and young people.
No, You might look at the folks that stand up here and speak or during the reading meeting. Most have Gray hair, if they have any hair. You know, we're older folks and.
Maybe we forget it too, that we were one day, one time, the age of some of you folks that are younger here.
You know, I was a teenager once.
I was a little boy once.
And we haven't forgotten those things. And oftentimes I come across something in the scripture that was a puzzle to me. I like to make it plain.
For those of you who are younger.
Well, don't forget that the Lord Jesus was once a little boy.
Someone said he had to do something that was more difficult than Adam had to do. He had to grow up from an infancy in a corrupt world. Adam was placed as a grown man in a in a paradise and he failed. The Lord Jesus grew up in a corrupt world and he didn't fail. He couldn't fail. That holy thing. It's called the Son of God.
Well, this glorious person as a child.
Who will read about it now when he was 12 years old? Anybody that's 12 years old here today, would you put up your hand? Hold up your hand. If you're there's a 12, here's a 12/1 back there, two back there. Good. There's some 12 year olds. Okay, I missed a few, a few 12 year olds.
And I'm not just speaking to you that are 12. Those are your 10 and 11815 TuneIn too, because I'm going to tell you something about the Lord Jesus when he was young. Let's read it first verse 40 Luke two and the child grew and waxed strong in spirit.
You know, when we're 12, we're trying to get strong and body, aren't we? Lift weights and stuff. Strong in spirit, filled with wisdom. And the grace of God was upon him. And his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover. And when he was 12 years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. And when they had fulfilled the days as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem.
And Joseph and his mother knew not of it.
But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey, and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.
And it came to pass that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors.
Both hearing them and asking them questions.
And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
And when they saw him, they were amazed. And his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? Behold, thy father, and I have sought thee. Sorrowing he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me?
Wish ye not that I must be about my father's business? And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them. But his mother kept all these sayings in her heart, and Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
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We hear a marvelous thing here about the Lord Jesus.
It says he was a child, spoke of him as a child, he grew and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and God was with him. How is it that at the age of 12 he could say things, he could ask questions that the wisest man, the most knowledgeable man in the scriptures of his day would marvel at him?
I just want to say this, the Lord Jesus never used his divine power.
To help out His humanity. He was a true human being without the failures that sin brings in. He was a true human being. Because someone once asked the question, was Jesus able as the Son of God, to ease some of the sufferings of the cross that she suffered as a man? Not a bit, not a bit. He even refused that medication of wine mingled with myrrh. He wouldn't take it.
And it tells us that the Passover was to be roast with fire, not sodden at all with water. Nothing to take away the heat.
Of that suffering.
He endured it all, he felt as intensely as anybody would, maybe more so.
The pain of the nails, the thorns, the lash, the punch.
The plucking of the hair.
He felt it.
And what he felt even more was the weight of our sins.
O Lord, was the tormented was our sins heavy load. He felt it all.
And the point I'm trying to make is, how is it that at 12 years of age he had all this knowledge?
So just because he was the Son of God and he knew everything.
Upholder of the universe? I don't think so.
I believe that as a human being, he studied it. He read the word of God.
They must have been into the scriptures.
You know there's an older brother here.
I'm not going to reveal any names, but a younger brother of his told me one time that he was walking through the living room of his house and he saw this, his older brother sitting there with his Bible open. He said you're studying your verse for Sunday school, No.
What you do in your Bible questions? No, what are you doing? I'm reading my Bible. I may have quoted exactly, but.
It was new to the younger brother that you could sit and read your Bible. Young people, you do that. Do you sit and read your Bible sometimes?
You know, there's a I see a boy shaking his head. Good, good.
You know there's a.
A young lady which is now gathered to the Lord's name, and she told us that.
She never read the Bible.
But it was one of her duties in the house and the home to dust a certain room and among other things, she had to dust this big family Bible off.
You get the idea. See, nobody was reading it. She dusted it off and one day it dawned on her, why don't I just read it and see what is it about? This is the Bible. And she started in Genesis. And I don't know whether she continued right on through, but a month later she was invited to a gospel meeting. And after the meeting.
She was discussing it with people, some of the young folks.
And she accepted the Lord as her Savior.
Is not marvelous. It started with reading the word of God and it no doubt touched her conscience.
So young people, children, read your Bible. You might not understand all the big words.
And the names are hard to pronounce. Big people can't even pronounce them right. So don't worry. But read your Bible. This is the point I'd like to make with you, dear ones, Read your Bible. The Lord Jesus as a boy had given himself to it, so much so that when he was 12 years of age when he came into the temple.
He was sitting in the midst of the doctors, doctors of the law, both hearing them and asking them questions, hearing them.
I'm glad to see young folks here that are hearing the Word of God. I see some of you are very attentive to the Word of God, and I don't mean just being. When I'm standing up here, I see I can see more from up here. But when I'm sitting there I can see folks that are paying attention and it's nice you're paying attention to the Word of God.
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Keep it up. Listen.
Listen you, you can go home from the conference and someone might say to you, did you learn anything? And you'll say yes.
I embarrassed one person one time, said well, what was it that you learned?
I'd probably be the same way but three years from now if we're still here.
Something will come to mind. I won't remember where it came from. It probably came from this conference.
Maybe it won't be that long.
But there are things that we're learning as we listen and as we read the Word of God, and the Lord Jesus as a boy was like that.
He was sitting there hearing them and asking them questions.
And notice verse 47 what it says.
And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. Answers.
That tells me that they must have asked him some questions.
You know when you find someone that's quite knowledgeable about a subject, sometimes, especially if it's a child, you quiz them a little bit to see what is the extent of their understanding. No wonder they were astonished at his understanding and answers.
I've often wondered what kind of questions did he start off with?
You know, sometimes we can ask questions that are kind of meaningless. And don't be afraid to ask questions because maybe they aren't meaningless, but the Lord Jesus would have asked very knowledgeable questions.
You know, it wasn't divided up in chapters in those days. But I wonder if he didn't ask him about Isaiah 53. What's that about?
And what did David mean when he said, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
And, you know, he could have asked questions like that. It would have stumped them. They wouldn't know. They don't know to this day.
Some of those learned rabbis.
But the Lord Jesus had studied. I'm bold to say it and correct me if I'm not right, but I believe he studied the word of God as a boy.
Maybe it was read in his home. He was brought up in a godly home. Many of us have been brought up in a godly home.
And don't feel bad because you've never got into some of the things that your friends talk about at school.
Be thankful.
You're shielded from it.
You're kept from it.
You know, when we were growing up, there were things we were not allowed to do. And in those days you did obey your parents. And in those days you respected authority. And I hope that it's not any different today in a Christian home, that you do respect authority, respect what your parents tell you, respect the word of God and respect all due authority. But.
There were things that we never did. And sometimes the neighborhood kids would say, I remember one time they asked my brother and I, they said, you've never been to a movie, we'll buy you a ticket. And then we didn't know how to answer them.
Because we knew that would have been wrong to do.
I'm sure we didn't miss anything because a brother that was saved in his teens.
He told me that the things he saw in some of those movies still come back when he's kneeling in prayer.
To haunt them.
We don't have that kind of a memory. It wasn't.
Hours to have is that I'm thankful for that. Thankful for that.
Another time.
Due to a circumstance of.
A person that was doing business with.
And I said to this person.
You must read your Bible.
And she said I had the privilege of being brought up in a Christian home. Wasn't that nice. I never saw her again, never saw before that.
I had the privilege of being brought up in a Christian home.
Do you understand it as a privilege, young people? Is it a real privilege to you to be brought up in a Christian home where you hear the word of God and where you're restrained from things?
You know, sometimes people think it's awfully narrow. I'm going to hold my place here and turn to 2nd Corinthians 6 because there's something there that might seem like it's holding us back from something.
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And verse 12.
Now I better read verse 11.
First Second Corinthians, chapter 6.
OE Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged or expanded. You're not straightened, that means narrowed in us, but you're straightened in your own vowels. Now for a recompense in the same I speak as unto my children, be ye also enlarged. And then what does it say? Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, and so on.
It might sound like, well, that's being restrictive, that's narrowing me down. Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. But you know what would happen if you're yoked together with an unbeliever? You are restricted. You can't go on in the same way with the Lord. So he says be enlarged. Don't get into this narrow thing, restricting yourself from going on with the Lord.
And we see some sad cases where that's been ignored in the matter of marriage. And a believer marries an unbeliever and they're restricted, they're narrowed.
Well, I just want to get back to the Lord Jesus here because.
He was into the word and he was able to speak to those learned men in a way that.
Amazed them.
And you just notice when his mother found him in verse 48.
They were amazed. His mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? Behold thy father, and I sought thee sorrowing. Did you notice, if you're following that in the Scripture, how the word Father is there? It's with a small.
Now let's look at his answer in verse 49.
And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? Wish ye not that I must be about my father's?
Business with a big F.
My father's business.
Mary was referring to Joseph, the legal father.
In the eyes of the law.
But he was about his father's business.
The Father, God the Father.
Well, this is all marvelous, isn't it? The Lord Jesus had such knowledge and understanding. Now let's go down to verse 51.
And he went down with them.
And came to Nazareth.
And was subject unto them.
Was subject unto them.
What does that mean?
Subject unto them.
He was obedient.
He did what they wanted him to do.
You know, sometimes there's things that you don't have to be told as a command. You just know that your parents don't want you to do it.
He was subject unto them.
I've often thought as apparent that they must have been amazed at this child.
Who never did anything wrong.
It doesn't tell us that any detail of that in the scripture, but his mother was always pondering these things.
I skipped those words here in these verses but at the end of 51 it says but his mother kept.
All these sayings in her heart. Amazing. He was subject 12 years old.
So young people and children, don't forget that. Be subject if you want to be happy.
We've heard it already. Obedience and happiness go together.
Obedience and happiness. It's so in our Christian life, whether we're children or older. But if you're a child in a home and you want to be happy and the family wants to be happy, be subject to your parents.
Obey.
And then it says something amazing. In verse 52, Jesus increased in wisdom.
And stature and favor with God and man. We read already in verse 40 that he was filled with wisdom.
And it says he increased in wisdom.
How could that be? He was filled with wisdom and he increased in wisdom. Oh, someone said it might be capacity increased, but it's like to think that the Lord Jesus is such a marvelous person. He's infinite.
He was filled with wisdom and he increased in wisdom. You can't explain it. I'd rather not try to explain it. I just marvel at this blessed one.
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And all that he did even as a child. I'd like to leave it there, but I trust that.
The dear younger ones.
And all of us, we could take a lesson from this of the Lord Jesus in his early life.
And how he was still obedient to his parents, although he was so wise in the things of God.
I hope I have something for the young people and for their children that this afternoon.
I'd just like to say to the young people and older ones too, including myself.
I've been joined this verse when I first noticed that when I was at a conference, I'd read the Bible through I don't know how many times, but in the first second chapter of Matthew, verse 12, it says these words, these wise men were seeking to find the Lord Jesus Christ the Savior. And it says in the end of the verse 12, it says they departed into their own country another way.
And I just hope, dear boys and girls.
And older ones and myself included.
That when we leave these meetings, we go back another way.
And serving our Lord Jesus Christ.
Because there's no other way to be happy.
I'm going to try and go through these because I don't want to take the whole time, but the Lord Jesus Christ, I'm going to read these words. You don't have to turn to them to save time, but we're reading the Gospel of John, chapter 15, These words spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. He said these things. Have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you, that your joy might be full?
The Lord Jesus Christ wants you and I, girls and boys, to be joyful in Him.
Now I just wanted to say there were five steps I'd like to talk on for young people an older ones that they're here.
That.
Might help you if you're unsaved and that is the first step is to find out. First of all important question.
That you're a Sinner.
And get a right from God's word.
And the Holy Spirit reveal it to you, that you'll realize that you are a Sinner.
And that you need a savior.
And if you're an earnest God will show you what verses there are several verses. As I say, I don't want to take up time. Let another brother have a message to. But there's so many verses in the Bible that tell us that we're sinners.
And there's as many verses, if not more, and telling us how to get saved.
But the first one is if you find out you're a Sinner.
And I hope you do today.
And then the next thing is to be baptized.
If you want to be happy and then the third thing.
After you get saved, that is.
Be baptized and then the most important step after you're baptized and you.
Know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior.
Is to take your place at the Lord's table and remember him when you turn with me to Luke 22.
We all know this pretty well, but I'll read it for this younger one, verse 7.
Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the Passover must be killed. And he sent Peter and John saying, Go and prepare us the Passover, that we may eat. And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that's so important?
Where wilt thou?
And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the Center City, there shall a man meet you. Isn't that beautiful, if you and I were sent into a city?
I've been sent in many times and with the company I used to be with and they gave me certain things to look for.
And in the excitement, I would be looking around and I never saw some of the things they told me. It wasn't easy to find. But he says here.
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There shall a man meet you, and that is no other than represents the Holy Spirit of God.
Bearing a picture of water.
Now when I read that several years ago, I thought, well, I if I was writing that, I might have made a mistake and I might have said a picture of water.
Picture, but notice it's a picture of water. Now the spirit speaks of the man.
The Spirit of God and the vessel the picture speaks of man you where I were saved and it's full with water. The word of God.
And if anybody comes into the meeting and they're not guided by the word of God, and they only come because we're nice people, the women all wear hats, they all shake hands, and the women kiss each other and show affection. And they have no other interest in the meeting than that. And they haven't got down by the Holy Spirit guide on there and a real desire to serve the Lord and fulfill his dying request.
Well, it isn't long till sometimes they leave the meeting naturally that they can't understand it all, He says unto them further.
After they follow this man, follow him into the house where he entereth in.
And ye shall say unto the Goodman of the house, notice.
The capital M for Master. The master set under the Where is the guest chamber? I like to think you know it was a guest chamber.
And I like to think that.
God maybe put that word guest chamber there.
Because it reminds us.
I guess chamber is a place where people come and stay for maybe two or three nights, maybe they stay a week, but they don't stay as a rule, very long. It's a guest chamber. And so it speaks to us this very short time that the Lord is coming and we're to go into this room expecting at any time we'll hear the call, the shout from the Lord Jesus Christ himself.
Master, and you shall say unto the Goodman of the house, the Master saith unto thee.
Where is a guest changer chamber where I shall eat the Passover with my disciples and he shall show you a large upper room furnished. Isn't that beautiful? A large upper room furnished for as many who is same and wants to be at the Lord's table. A large upper room furnace and they were there to make ready.
And they went and found as He had said unto them, and they made ready the Passover. And all this is so beautiful. The next verse.
I know that you who have gathered for years have enjoyed it like I have in others.
And when the hour was come?
He, Jesus sat down and the 12 apostles with him.
I remember reading this one time I went to a small town.
I read it and I said.
And when the hour was come?
He sat down and six of the apostles with him, and all heads went down to read their Bibles.
No, I said there were 12. They were all there.
To read to me, to remember the Lord there, as we count it now to be at the Passover.
And he said unto them.
First of all, when the hour was come.
I mentioned that when I was brought up by my dear mother and father, who are Christians gathered to the precious name of the Lord.
Do you still insist that all of us would be at the meetings 15 minutes before the meeting started?
And my mother used to say a dear old French brother in our meeting and naming him, I'd forgotten his name.
He used to say if you get there, 15 minutes.
On if you get there on time.
You're 15 minutes late.
You should be there, Lord, especially Lord's Day if you're at the Lord's table 15 minutes before.
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So you can meditate.
And meditate with the Lord in prayer, and be prepared when the Lord, so to speak, appears at 10:30 at the hour.
And so I spoke in this town and I said, when the hour was come, he sat down. And lastly I said this six. And then I said, no, it's 12, isn't it? They were all there.
And he said with desire, oh, I think that's so wonderful. Can you imagine? It's hard for us to take it in.
That the Son of God.
God's beloved Son.
Who never sinned. He couldn't because he didn't have a simple mention like you and I. He was sent from heaven, born of a virgin.
And he tells us.
That he desires to be with us.
I think it's so wonderful.
So wonderful He desires to be with us.
I desire to eat this Passover with you before.
I suffer.
For I say unto you, I'm not anymore members of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying the test, the cup is the New Testament in my blood, which is shed for you now to save time.
I said there were five things. First, find out you're lost through the word of God.
Secondly, get saved. You heard a gospel message last night. There'd be a gospel message tonight if the Lord hasn't come.
Lord willing.
But find out and then be baptized. And then when the Lord shows you and you have a real desire to remember Him and his death as He's asked us to do, take your place.
At the Lord's table Now maybe there's someone here is in the same condition as I was. I went to the meetings faithful and my dear mother and father. I never never remember ever saying I'm not going gospel or anything else. I would go. I I enjoyed it. I wasn't safe for till I was about 11:00 and 12:00, I guess, but I went and I love my mother and father and I knew they were taking me there because it was of the God's will.
And as I went there, finally I got.
One for Christ, and I'm so glad that the Lord saved me.
So.
Going back to this place where I went.
Spoken this after the breaking of bread I hadn't been there for a while I went back and the brother said to me oh brother it's me alive just like to speak to you in the corner and took me over and said you know we had the.
Family here.
The family name and the number, I forgot a minute there were, he says. They used to come.
At 25, English to 11 and you hold it was 5 minutes before either 5 minutes passed the.
11 The meeting started at 11, we'll say 5 minutes past 1110 minutes past 11.
And 15 minutes past 11, all different ones, he said now.
They're all here 15 minutes before, like you suggested. I said, isn't that nice? He said maybe nice if you speak to them. I said, Oh no.
The Spirit of God has spoken to him. The works his Mr. Leven. I love them and I wouldn't want to offend anyone. Offended brother is harder to be one.
In a strong city.
And I said, leave that with the Lord now. Alright, we're down to the.
Finding out we're lost.
Secondly, being baptized, taking our place, the beginning say being baptized and.
Taking our place at the Lords Table now, there may be some here that are in the same condition as I was in the Lords Table. I used to sit in Montreal at that time.
The brethren sat in front and up there was a balcony over and underneath. Those who didn't break bread sat back. And as I went. I used to sing to hymns and I loved this. I've always loved singing. Not a good singer, but I love it.
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And I used to sing to hymns and when the brother visited with his children.
And he walked in with these three children.
Brought tears to my eyes, Aunt.
Isn't it sad they were younger than I am?
And here I am back here.
And one day.
My brother visited one of the laborers and he said.
Billy, why are you sitting back there?
And I said.
He said you're saved.
What are you sitting back there for?
Well, I said. I tell you why.
I'm afraid if I.
Take my place at the Lord's table.
I may fall into sin. I've never been to a theater in my life.
But you know, I just, it's a serious thing to take your place there, he said. Yes, it is.
Well, he says, and he turned me to the 1St Corinthians 11 and he read me that scripture and he says, if you wait till you're any better.
You may never come at all.
Because, he said, we all sin.
And if it was a case of us not coming to, we sure we wouldn't sin. There wouldn't be anybody here if they were honest.
Oh no, he said here and we have the word of God and he says if a man's sin at an examine himself and then partake of the ailment and so I.
Desire and shaving one afternoon and supposedly went with a Christian friend, Chris Newton, believer in the Montreal assembly. Not gathered and I was shaving.
And the Lord spoke to me, and just as if he was in the room.
And he said.
When are you going to Remember Me?
I was getting ready to go out with.
I put the razor down and got down my knees.
And I said, Lord give me his strength, and I went up to Chris's house.
And I said, I'm sorry, I won't be going with you tonight. We weren't going anywhere special.
And I said I'm deciding to go over to the House of Mr. Price. I've been invited his grandchildren being baptized and I'm going to ask for my place that the Lord's Table.
And he got his hand out and he said you couldn't make a better choice. That's good.
But he said. I'm terribly disappointed that you're not coming.
Well, I said if I don't do it tonight.
Satan will hinder me and I said this may be the last opportunity I have because Christ is coming pretty soon, Chris.
He said. I know he is.
So that's why I took my place. Now, if there's any young person here today that has that feeling, don't put it off. Now the last one I was going to say is to work for the Lord.
Now how old have it got to be?
To be a Sinner.
I asked the little fellow that one in the summertime I was at a meeting and said, how old have you got to be to be a Sinner?
And he thought for a while and he said.
Well, he said.
When you invite me, oh, baby can be a Sinner, I said. That's all right. We're born on sin.
Yeah, I said. That's Stuart. Yeah.
So I'm going to ask you this.
How old are you going to be to work for the Lord? Well, some say you know well.
I'd like to but I haven't got the nerve to hand out tracks.
I haven't.
Got the energy to wherever the nerve to speak to somebody above the Lord.
And so hard.
Dear young people.
That's only.
Satan is telling you that.
We have two young people, a young man who has come to our meeting lately.
And once from Russia.
And the others from Lebanon?
And.
They bring in different ones on. Choose the name before I left. This Russian boy, nice looking boy, speaks only a little English, quite a bit more French, speaks Russian and other languages, about 5 to 6 languages. But here he is sitting at the back.
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With two young girls that he brought out.
One was a girl with.
And a colored skin, bound skin. And the other was a little French girl. And there he was at the back and I went over.
Shake hands with them. And he said, I want you to meet these two girls. I shook hands with them.
And had a talk with them. Not saved yet, but he said.
They hope to get saved.
He said.
Speak to them.
So I said, well, you've already spoken them. I don't think we should go too far.
I said, you know, we can spoil the work of the Holy Spirit by trying to get people saving 24 hours. Have you spoken about the Lord? You know, so I quoted some verses to them and I said, do you understand them? That we've all sinned and come short of the glory of God?
Yes. Did you read about John 316, How God so loved the world? Yes. But if you believe that, you can be saved tonight, right now.
Well, then we're going to our teeth. They're supposed to be this Sunday and we're having a fellowship tea and they hope to go the they said they were at least now about the younger ones. How about a little girl six years of age?
Can she?
Word for the Lord.
Well, there's a little girl I periodically get mail, no name attached them. I don't know who sends them to me half the time, but the little sip of paper telling about.
Two stories and this will really touch my heart. The little girl left Sunday school and she's.
Skipping down the sidewalk singing Jesus Loves the little Children.
All the children of the world.
And she was saying, and then she went on to Jesus loves me. This I know beside her was a man.
Walking down beside her.
And.
She didn't know him and he didn't know her.
But they came to cross the street and traffic light was.
Against them. So the little girl looked up in his face with a sweet smile and she said.
Mr.
Do you love Jesus?
No, no, no.
No, no, I don't love Jesus.
Why not?
He loves you.
He said how do you know he loves him? And he crossed the street with her and she said because he died for you and I on Calvary's cross.
And she said.
Why don't you love Jews?
Tell me Mr.
Why?
He said.
Go on home.
He went home.
And the Spirit of God.
Used that little girl's voice and message.
And he put on the TV to look at his sports.
Turned it off.
He picked up the newspaper, started to read it, put it down.
His wife looked down and said. She said to him, are you sick? No, no, no, he said, just come up, I guess work and all that, he said.
And she said, well, you're very.
Honey, you don't look at their TV or sports. You're not interested in the paper with the matter. I don't know. I ain't going to bed early. So we got into bed and he tossed and turned.
And the Holy Spirit all the time.
I was bringing this little girl's question.
Mr. Do you love Jesus?
Why not?
He died for you and I.
And so when the man went home and finally he got down to his knees.
And he confessed the Lord Jesus Christ.
And he went to a place where they sold the.
Papers telling the way of salvation. Christian book room. I don't know where it was, but he went there and told him the story.
And he said that's how the Spirit of God saved me.
And so this was written on a little track and somebody mailed it to me. The little girl, she was around six years of age. Now, here's another one. About 10 years ago, I got one little girl five years of age.
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And their father and mother had her friend coming to the house, a man businessman of her father's.
Not saved worldly man.
And the father and mother are Christians, and the little girl was.
Five years of age? No, that's not old, is it? The man came in and.
He said something to her like, what do you know today? I think it was.
And she said.
While I was at Sunday school and I found out that Jesus loves me.
Not nice, he said.
Oh yeah, she said he loves me is how do you know it? Well, she said I'll try and find the verse. So she somehow want your mother somebody and got the burst John 316. She read that.
Then she got the worst. But Paul says.
How he loves us.
And she said, you know, we sing in the Sunday school, Jesus loves me. That's why I know. And they are only reason we know is because God speaks to us in the Bible.
Well, he said. How do you know it's true?
Oh, because he's told and he's showing me. How did he show you? Well, she's done on Calvary's cross.
He said I love you this much.
That broke the man's heart, though, to think a little.
Five year old could lead him to Christ.
God is working, that is not.
Lose heart and Get me on tracks every opportunity. There's so many ways we can spread the gospel and the bills we send out for electricity or power or telephone or anything. But it'll attract him.
And I've done it for years. And in some cases I haven't heard. I got one call from one company and they phoned up and the girl said to you, the party that close the little tracking, such and such a track. I said yes, I did. She said, well, I work for the such and such a company and I'd like you to come in and speak to me personally. Would you, would you come at lunchtime when I have my mom on my lunch hour and I'm not taking up the company's time? I said sure and went in.
She accepted Christ and her Savior.
Wonderfully, I got another one in the mail.
From a girl, she said. Did you put that in there? Have you got any others?
Yes, understand some to her. I hadn't heard anything since from her, but young people that older don't. Let's give up giving a try. If you can put them in phone books on the telephone booth or there's so many ways we can spread the gospel. And I would advise you to get a rubber stamp. They're not expensive and put the address of the gospel hall where you go over whatever you call it and stamp it on there the hour of the gospel meeting and you'll get results.
Not the next day, but the main thing is the water with your prayers and the Lord can use you. So keep those five things in mind. Find out from the Bible that you're a Sinner. It's a very important question. And then find out how to be saved. If you don't know, if you're here last night, you know the answer. You'll hear it again tonight if the Lord tarries.
And then the next step is.
To be baptized and then to receive to the Lord as its favor, and then take your place at the Lord's table. And then after we've done that, be a worker for the Lord Jesus and he'll bless you.
There's 25.
Been encouraged to come up here to want to take too much place. I had the opportunity and the privilege of preaching the gospel last night.
I did have a portion on my heart and I felt encouraged to come up here because the two previous brethren have been speaking to young people and the children.
And I would like to just mention something that happened just before this meeting. I.
Spoke to a young boy in the washroom just before this meeting. I won't mention who it is.
He must be six or seven.
And Brother Peter Blair was with me, and this boy confessed that the Lord Jesus Christ with his Savior.
This is really good news. It's good news in heaven and it's good news for us. We know the Lord Jesus our Savior.
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To know that one has confessed the Lord Jesus as his own personal Savior.
Now the second thing I want to say.
Just want to say that that piece of plastic in my throat I've been asked about did go down and I did survive. Everything was, well, Hebrews 10 and 25.
I have something in my throat this afternoon and it's not a piece of plastic.
Not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together as a matter of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching.
Want to thank their brethren here for the energy expense.
Afforded.
The work, the hours that we can be together and spend time opening God's Word and hearing of the things of Christ together.
Allowing us to be assembling together.
You know this word here, assembling ourselves together.
Appears twice only in the New Testament.
In this verse and in Two Thessalonians chapter 2.
It's the Greek. I'm not a Greek scholar, but I did look it up at Peace Synagogue or Sunagogi.
Like the word synagogue, a place where they met.
So the gathering together, but there's a little prefix there, Fe, and I believe it means 2.
There's a center 2nd Thessalonians, Chapter 2.
And the first verse.
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together.
Unto him, gathering together, unto him, two gatherings, this one. None of us who know the Lord Jesus are going to miss this one.
He's going to come on the clouds and we're going to be called away to meet him in the air.
You're not going to miss that, are you?
When it happens.
In a twinkling of an eye, in whose presence are we going to be the presence of the Son of God?
Hebrews, chapter 10, verse 25.
Gathering together.
To who? We get it in the 13th chapter.
Verse 13.
Let us go therefore unto Him without the cap.
We gather ourselves together, but unto Him.
Whose presence are we going to be into the presence of the Lord Jesus? Whose presence are we into now this gathering, the presence of the Lord Jesus?
It's a wonderful blessing.
Great responsibility.
I wasn't brought up in a meeting.
Come from the outside.
Was in a church denomination, the camp.
Value very much the word of God, the Lord Jesus.
And I.
I'm probably going to fail. Still not planning to fail.
We do fail.
Pull the browser at once.
Because we'd been having some difficulties and.
We have been having some difficulties.
I spoke to the brother and I used the word failure among the seats of God.
And he said failure no.
Weakness. Yes.
Failure. No.
Well, you can talk to me after a meeting. I'm leaving tonight after the reading meeting. I would like to speak of failure.
Failure to realize.
In whose presence we are.
And I would like to speak this afternoon to my older brethren.
And I would like to ask the Lord to give me grace. I don't want to offend my brother, and I love you dearly.
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I appreciate the ministry from the Word of God.
We're in that place. We believe that's why we're here. We believe we're gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
There are other companies of Saints who claim to be gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And we claim that.
And we believe that.
And I am here not because you are here, though I love you very much.
I'm here because I believe the Lord Jesus Christ is here. That's why I'm here.
And if the Lord Jesus is here.
We want him.
He's the object when we come together to remember him Lord's Day morning to thrill our hearts, and when we come together, assembling ourselves together, exhorting one another.
We would want to be the apostle, Peter says. If any man speak, let him speak as the Oracle of God.
It's a great responsibility.
We have Colossians 3 in their eating.
We could have Ephesians 2, Philippians one, we could have any chapter in the Word of God, any chapter in the New Testament, and we'd have a blessed time together because we know the Scriptures so much. There's gift among us and we can appreciate the things of Christ together. But what does the Lord Jesus have for us?
Do we know?
Well, brethren, we seem to know.
We seem to know what the mind of the Spirit is.
And I'm afraid we're tripping over each other.
And in my judgment, brethren.
I do not believe we are waiting on the Lord properly.
Several years ago I was a young Christian in Montreal and we got together some French brethren and we were going to have a reading meeting.
Young in their faith and eager and so.
You'd find that if you'd come into one of our readings.
You have to be sitting on the edge of your chair. If you wanted to say something because I talked fast, raise your hand if I do too much, if I go too fast. For French people, we talk fast and we talk with our hands. If you wanted to say something, you almost have to **** in.
A trait of nature.
Not a trait of the Spirit.
Waiting on each other.
Would be waiting on the Spirit of God, because the Spirit of God can say it through me or somebody else and it has to be me that says it.
First Peter, chapter 5.
Verse one.
The elders which are among you? I exhort.
Who I'm also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ and also partake of the glory that shall be revealed.
Feed the flock of God which is among you.
Taking the oversight thereof not by constraint, but willingly.
Not for filthy lucre, but I've already mine.
Neither as being Lords over God's heritage, but being.
And samples.
To the flock.
When we had that meeting in French.
Dear brother in the Lord, he was older, English speaking, but he could speak French and he made that comment. You really got to get in there if you want to say something.
One on another evening, the regular assembly meeting was there with quite a few older brothers and.
And beautiful readings.
And I'd rather make a comment.
Little moment of silence. Somebody didn't understand. The question would come up.
But nothing else came up and another brother would make a comment and it was so wonderful for me, a young believer, to receive so much from the word of God from 1:00 and another by the Spirit of God.
And you know.
I was thinking as the more of God's people are together.
The more important it is for what I say that it would be from the Lord. If I'm talking to somebody, I can talk about the things of the Lord, but in the assembly the ones speaking should be speaking as the Oracle of God.
And I was thinking I would get the conferences. There are four or 500.
Brothers and sisters in Christ, maybe I'm naive, but I would expect.
I would expect longer silence.
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More waiting on the Lord because we need food for our souls.
And that's not what I've been experiencing for many years.
Maybe I'm wrong, I don't understand properly. Maybe it is like it was the Corinthians. They even interrupted each other. Maybe while Brother Roach was speaking before I had something. I might say brother Roach, I have something and it's scripture for that. Not very nice to do, but that's the only orderly way. The first one is quiet and the other one goes on.
Why was that? Was he led by the Spirit to interrupt the other? I doubt that.
And samples of the flock.
My understanding from the Word of God.
An open meeting.
I want to speak freely because I believe it's general among us. I'm not pointing anybody, It's general among us.
Andre told me once we don't have any more open meetings.
Because I was the same brother gets up. So what do you do?
The form of godliness. It's good. The form of godliness.
Either power in it.
You have an open meeting in your assembly.
Some have it once a month.
And you wait a few minutes.
Nothing special.
So we go through our regular reading.
So what the Lord is saying is there's absolutely nothing wrong, Everything is perfect. We don't need special exhortation.
The Lord has no message for us. That's what we're seeing.
Now, brethren, I challenge you. You have an open meeting, your assembly.
You just wait, I challenge. You wait.
And if the Lord doesn't lead you by His Spirit to a portion in God's Word.
You better get on our knees, brethren.
We better get on our knees.
If I was there, I could suggest a chapter.
From chapter I chose.
But if you live that experience, probably the next reading meeting, the next open meeting, you'll come with a prepared heart.
And when your heart is prepared.
And the form is there, and there's power. There should be liberty and time.
For one who has a portion.
To get up and to present it.
Yesterday.
Was 3:10 I believe.
We were done.
So the portion from the Lord have no doubt.
What was it? Maybe 40 minutes is it or an hour and 1020 minutes left?
And we had 20 minutes at the end.
Would to God we would have had 20 minutes of silence in the beginning.
Am I wrong, Redmond?
Are we so spiritual?
So we're ahead of the Spirit of God, and He leads two of us to speak at the same time.
Or give out two different hymns. Don't feel bad brother.
We all do it.
Brother said before he said the Lord took out the blue.
He takes out the broom.
He doesn't get rid of brethren.
Can I say it? The Lord doesn't take out the room to get rid of brethren. He gets the dirt out. He keeps the brethren.
What do you think, brethren? You think He got rid of the brethren members of his body?
Dirt.
I believe the Lord needs to bring the broom out among us.
Not to get rid of us. He loves us. He has portions we've been enjoying. Delightful portions, brother. The form is there, but in my judgment, the power is lacking. The power to be quiet, the power to wait on each other.
And I would say this for myself, young brethren, do not take example on us that way.
Wait on the Lord.
You have a portion on your heart, you wait on the Lord.
And I trust the Lord would speak to us that are older, and I'm starting to get there.
Did we wait on him?
Let him lead us.
He's in a mist. Release 123 in the reading meeting. It doesn't matter who speaks. Doesn't have to be me. If we're edified, if we're getting from the chapter what the Lord Jesus has on his heart for us, He knows what we need. I don't.
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I can read Colossians 3 from Mr. Darby or Mr. Kelly, or we can all read mystery books. We don't come together to have ministry books read to us.
We come together to hear the voice of the Lord Jesus, That one. We're going to be in this presence in a few moments. Here is delightful voice. Here's here in our midst.
Does he have the place that he deserves?
The ministry of His Spirit, I believe, involves our waiting on Him, and I trust the Lord will give you grace to consider what I've said. Thank you.
336.
When we were arrested and I'm done.
On helpless race.
The father gave his only son.
Of twice 10,000 gifts divine, No gift like this could ever shine 336.
Behold.
The sun and break when we were.
Red Dead.
Was great.
Our day.