Ottawa Conference: 1961
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Matthew 1
Address—P. Wilson
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First chapter in the New Testament.
Matthew 1.
The book.
Of the generation of Jesus Christ.
The son of David.
The son of Abraham.
Abraham begat Isaac.
And Isaac begat Jacob.
And Jacob begat Judas and his bread.
And Judas begat berries, and Zara of tamer.
Fairies, we got Ezra and Ezra begat Aaron.
Aaron begat a minute.
A minute ABBA got Madison, Madison begat Sound, Salmon begat boys, a grey cat boy as we get old bed of Ruth.
And obey it, began Jesse. Jesse begat David the king.
And David the king, begat Solomon, a bird that had been the wife of Uriah.
When Solomon begat Rob Long.
Robon began to buy you.
The buyer, began ASA.
Mesa begat Joshua, and Joshua begat Joram, and Joram begat Asias.
Mosiah spigot Jotham, Jotham begat Akas and Akaz begat is a chaos. There's a guys begat Manassas and Manassas begat Ammon, Ammon began to Sias.
Josiah's begat Jeconius and his brethren about the time that they were carried away to Babylon.
And after they were brought to Babylon, Jeconius began Silathia, and Solathiel begat Zerubbabel, Zerubbabel began a Bayou, and Bayou began to Lyacam and Eliot and begat Azor.
Mazor begets a doc and say doc began a come and they can begat Elias.
Begat Eliezer and Eliezer begat method.
Begat Jacob Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, was called Christ.
So all the generations from Abraham to David are 14 generations and from David.
Until the carrying away into Babylon or 14 generations.
And the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ for 14 generations.
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise.
When, as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came together, she was found with Child of the Holy Ghost.
Then then Joseph, her husband, being a just man and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
But while he thought on these things, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying.
Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife.
For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
She shall bring forth the Son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus.
For he shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet saying.
The oldest virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel.
Which is being interpreted.
God with us.
Then Joseph, being raised from his sleep, did as the Angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife.
No, we're not. So she had brought forth her first born son, and he called his name.
Jesus.
You know when man wants to emphasize something.
He brings forth the preponderance of words.
God brings. God sets forth His truth in few words.
In the simplicity of it.
Now the most important event.
In the history of this world, aside from the crucifixion.
Is found here in this chapter.
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And yet it's not gone into in great detail.
But there is a wonderful amount in it for our profit.
How do we begin the New Testament? First of all, let's ask God. It would begin the Old Testament.
The Old Testament begins.
With, in the beginning, God.
That is, when you open the word of God, the first thing you meet is God Himself.
They are introduced to a person.
When you open the New Testament, how does it begin?
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ.
You're introduced to a person, Son of God.
So many people think that Christianity is a system of ideals.
A Christian system of Christian ethics.
And even with so-called fundamentalists today are veering toward that view.
I've just been reviewing some.
Book of pay books and some literature by a man by the name of Bass.
And he wants Christianity to just take over the world and improve it.
By instilling the ideals.
The ethics and the teachings of Jesus.
Now I insist that that is not Christianity.
Christianity brings you to a person.
And a person that will meet our needs.
A person that will satisfy our hearts.
For time and eternity.
So we begin the New Testament with an introduction to Jesus Christ.
Now, if we go back to the Old Testament for a moment, how does the Old Testament conclude?
The Old Testament concludes.
By looking for a person to come.
Home it calls the Son of righteousness.
The sun to come and it's full orb light and shine upon this dark work.
And when the sun does shine in its strength?
It will burn up the chap with unquenchable fire.
So Malachi concludes the Old Testament Canon.
Looking for the sun to rise.
And shine in its strength.
How does the New Testament conclude?
Looking for the Morning Star to appear?
Looking for the Lord Jesus to come as the morning star.
Now, what's the significance of the Morning Star and the Sun?
We have no difficulty with it in nature. We know that the sun doesn't appear first, the morning star appears.
Therefore, we conclude that the old the New Testament, the closing part of the New Testament, is to be fulfilled before the closing part of Malachi.
For the sun appeared this morning, Star appears while it's hit dark and only to those who are waiting, those who are looking for it.
However, I want to guard that statement by saying that every Christian, everyone that knows the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior, is going to be taken when the Lord Jesus comes for his own, even if he doesn't believe in the truth of the Lord's coming.
Is going to be taken anyway.
And I venture to make this statement that he will not be disappointed even though he found his belief strong.
The Old Testament poses looking for the sun, so therefore it will follow.
When the sun shines.
It'll wake up sleeping people. In fact, a sleeping man can feel the warmth.
Of the sun.
I merely make these few statements to show that the fabric of the book is 1.
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And while God has used many different writers.
Of many different times over a period of about 1500 years.
To write the several sections of this book.
It is evident that one person designed it all.
Because you never could get so many people to write the same things. So that when you finish it, when you read, when you read the whole book, you realize that there's been one designer, one planner, and that the whole thing is 1 fabric that cannot be taken apart without mutilation.
Therefore, we come now to the New Testament, the book of the generation of Jesus Christ.
Oh, it's a wonderful thing to come to a person.
Doctrine won't satisfy your soul.
The creeds of Christianity won't satisfy your soul.
If you do not know, Christ is your savior. We were just singing Jesus. How much thine name unfolds to every open dear.
What a precious name Jesus is.
The name that God decreed should be the name given to His beloved Son on earth, Jesus.
You know he only has two names.
Jesus and Emmanuel.
Jesus means Jehovah the Savior.
Emmanuel means God with us.
The other type, the other words like Lord and Christ King and.
Various other things are just titles.
But his personal name was Jesus.
And thou shalt call his name a man.
Wonderful thing you think of a manual that God has actually been here on this earth.
I'm not going to be occupied with.
Other celestial bodies the word of God would occupy me with.
The one that came into this work, the Lord Jesus, correct?
Now what does it say?
Abraham begat Isaac.
And Isaac begat Jacob.
This book presents the Lord Jesus Christ to us as the Messiah, the King of Israel.
Therefore, it was very fitting.
That we should that his genealogy here should begin with Abraham.
And David?
Abraham and David.
Why? Because it was well known in the Old Testament Scriptures that the Messiah was to come and that he was to come through Abraham and through David.
So they're going to present the Lord Jesus as the Messiah of Israel. And this was written for the Jew in that day, really, but was written for our prophet, for our learning.
For our enjoyment too.
It was necessary to prove that he came according to the prophecies.
Now we would turn to the 10th chapter of John. We would read there.
That he came in by the door into the sheepfold.
By coming into the door, by the door into the sheepfold. The sheep hole was Israel.
And by coming in at the door, he came according to all the Old Testament prophecies concerning him.
Therefore Matthews Gospel begins showing that he was came as the Messiah, the son of Abraham and the son of David.
May I also make another aside here?
Man would like to make the four gospels into one.
Many attempts have been made at they call it harmonizing the gospel.
I want to ask you how you can harmonize what was never in disharmony.
I want to know how you can harmonize something that was never left harmony.
Well, if the Spirit of God indicted these four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, there must be perfect harmony.
What do you say? Why did they give us four and why did he repeat some things and some gospels and not give them another's?
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I think the answer to that is quite simple.
Suppose you went outside to give A and you were told to write a description of this building.
You might write about the north side and the South side and the West side and the east side. You might give us four different viewpoints of this building.
Well, you might mention several things in common.
You might mention that there's a chimney.
Fortuning above the roof, it could be seen from all four sides, and so you might mention it in all four in all four descriptions of the building.
So there would be things in common.
And yet there are things that you wouldn't have in common if you were doing that.
There is another way to illustrate why there are 4 gospels.
Some years ago they had a king in England, King George the 6th.
Let's suppose the case about His Majesty King George has sex.
The royal family sent for a portrait painter and called him to the.
Main headquarters. So now we want you to come in on certain dates.
And make a portrait of His Majesty the King.
Well, he said. I'll be happy to do it.
But before we proceed any further, I'd like to know what you wish.
Would you like to portray the King, His Majesty?
As the sovereign, the King with his crown.
Or would you like to portray him as a family man at home with his family?
Or would you like to portray him perhaps as the Admiral of the fleet?
Or the General of the Armies.
Suppose somebody in a royal family says, well, just make a composite picture.
Just blend it all together. We want just a composite picture. We want a harmony here. I submit that you'd have the worst disharmony.
How in the world would you mix an Admiral in a general and a king and a family man all in one picture?
Just be foolishness.
Well, these four Gospels give us just that. They give us 4 portraits given by divine inspiration of the Lord Jesus Christ.
1St as the Messiah, the King of Israel, according to the prophecies.
And rejected by them according to the prophecies.
Going away and coming back again.
Fallen Mass.
Therefore you get his genealogy in Matthew and it's traced up to Abraham and David.
Mark did no genealogy.
Mark could be described according to a verse in Isaiah.
Behold, my serpent, I one time saw a book.
Written as an exposition of the Gospel of Mark, and it was entitled Bold My Servant.
Well, that's a good title for a book written on Mark, where in the Gospel of Mark the Lord Jesus is presented as this God servant. The prophet who came to do God's will came to speak for him.
And you find one characteristic of the gospel of Mark is and forthwith.
And immediately.
The busy servant, always in his father's business.
And you find him going from one thing to another with wraps, with rapidity that's not marked anywhere else.
Well, you don't need a genealogy for a servant. Therefore there is no genealogy given in Mark.
Luke gives us his genealogy not back to Abraham and David, but back to Adam.
Why Luke presents him as the seed of the woman.
Adam was told the seed of the woman should prove the serpent's head.
He presents him as the Son of Man.
And so all the teachings in Luke are in keeping with it. You'll find a much broader aspect of things in loop than you do in Matthew. In Matthew, he says to the 12 go not into the way of the Gentiles and into any of the villages of the Samaritans and are Enoch.
In Luke he sends out the 12 with no such restriction, Memory serves me right. And then he sends forth other 70 with no such restriction.
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He sends forth other 70 and they go farther afield.
Where you find the broader character of things in Luke's gospel and you find the Lord.
In a wider sphere, not only to Jew but to Gentiles.
John's Gospel you get no genealogy.
Now, why should you have a genealogy in John's Gospel? Or why should you not have it? The answer is very simple.
In John's Gospel, he's presented as the Son of God.
It would be all together out of place to try to give a genealogy of the Son of God.
Therefore you find none in John's Gospel.
In John's gospel, he's rejected from the very first chapter. The other three gospels give you a point in each gospel where he's finally rejected by Israel. But John's gospel gives it to you. In the first chapter. He came unto his own, and his own received enough. And so in the third chapter you'll find him leaving Israel and going to.
Samaria.
And then coming back to Israel after two days.
So even in the crucifixion.
Everything isn't in keeping with those four characters of the four gospels.
In John's gospel, he's he's supreme. He's master of it all.
He sees one thing yet to be done, and he says I thirst.
He pronounces on the whole thing and says it is finished.
In Luke's gospel, you get another character and you'll find that the thief converted.
You might even mention here that the Luke's Gospel gives us the character, the peace offering where God gets his part.
The Lord gets his, the thief gets his.
Oh, it's the communion office in Luke's Gospel.
Matthew is the synonym.
We won't go into that phase of it, but I fully believe that the four chapters of Leviticus 123 and four are supplanted by.
The four Gospels.
Where you see in the 40th Psalm he says sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not.
Or we get from the 10th of Hebrews. 2 hours. Just read it.
During a might misquote it.
Well, when he said, they were sacrifice, and offering, and burnt, offering and offering for sin now with us not which are offered by the law, neither has pleasure therein which are offered by the law. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.
And so he takes the place of that which was characterized in the first four chapters of Leviticus. And if you will analyze it in the 40th Psalm, you will find that the the 4th offerings, the burnt offerings, the meat offering, the peace offering, and the sin offering are all mentioned.
The oblation is given and new translation in the 40th Psalm I think. Definitely marking out the meat off.
It's a burnt offering, the peace offering, the meal offering and the sinoff.
But he comes to take this place then said, I'll, Oh, I come to do thy will, God.
Now let's go back to our first chapter of math. It is not my point to.
Bring out a great deep detail here in this chapter, so much as to show the part that the chapter plays in the whole book of God.
Abraham would get Isaac. Isaac would get Jacob.
Jacob begat Judas and his brethren, Judas begat fairies, and Zarah tamer.
Now there are four women mentioned in the genealogy.
Four and only four and if a jewel.
With his national pride.
Had been writing this gospel or the genealogy of the Messiah, He would have hidden every one of them.
He would not have mentioned one of them.
So that while this gospel presents the Lord Jesus to Israel as their Messiah.
Along with it, he's he's showing out that the Messiah came to Israel on the ground of pure grace.
They didn't deserve it, didn't deserve to have him come.
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Grace is preeminent in this chapter.
Judas begat fairies, and Zerah of Tamer. Now that was a most wicked act.
You look back to Genesis, you'll find that it was a revolting frame.
Why did God mention it? He shows that the grace of God was abounding over the sin of man, and Israel with their high privileges was no exception to sin.
Therefore, he brings in Tamer.
And Aaron begat Aminadab and Aminabad, And Minidab begat. And Naism begat soma begat Boaz.
A right half.
The reason that has the hard sea in there Ray cab is due to the fact that there's a difference in the languages, one having it and the other not having it.
So it's Rahab.
Who was Rahat?
We hear of Rahab, we read of Graham in the book of Joshua, we read of her in the list of those that had failed, and they 11Th of Hebrews.
But it isn't her faith that the Spirit of God would emphasize here now.
But it's a character and her nationality.
For she was a woman of Canaan. She was a Canaanite. She was one of the accursed race. It was to be exterminated.
Cast out to make room for God's people. But here's Rahab not only of the accursed race, but an immoral woman.
And now the Spirit of God brings her in and mentions her.
Salmon begat Bohaz, a rare.
I might make mention of something.
We have to be careful what we read.
I went to see a brother one time long ways from here.
And he was a brother that didn't believe in Sunday school.
I learned anathema to him.
The chief object, the chief objection he had, was that sisters might instruct the little children in the word of God.
When I was in his home, I picked up a book.
And it was a Bible story for children. He had some small children.
And it was written by a woman.
All consistency thou art a virtue.
He had this book by this woman, by their sister, giving the account of the doings of the Lord Jesus.
And the Old Testament accounts here, there and beyond.
So he said this woman said that when they brought Rahab over to Israel after they took her out of out of.
Jericho.
The season taken that they brought her into Israel.
And gave her the best tent in Israel and she married one of the spies.
One of those that went to spy out the land.
I asked his brother if he could give me chapter and verse for those assertions. He said no, he couldn't.
We need to be careful that we do not introduce things that speculate, and I do warn young preachers.
Do not speculate.
Do not go beyond what's written.
And the case not long ago, one of them came and preached and said.
That when the Samson met the lion and that the that the lion was a type of Christ.
And he spun a great big theory out of it. The lion was a type of Christ because he was of the lion. He was a lion of the tribe of Judah.
Well, you can make anything fit if you want to twist it here and twist it there.
But it's just the reverse. Samson's the type of Christ, and he goes down and the lion roars against it.
Did not Satan, as the roaring lion roar against him in the Garden of Gethsemane?
He surely did.
And they're not. Did not the Lord overcome the Satan? And did he not go down into his domain, as it were, and come forth with the victory? Yes.
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And they brought forth meat out of the eater.
It brought forth sweetness.
To overcoming Satan as the roaring lion. I just mentioned this as a sample for young breaches of what I mean by speculating and getting beyond scripture.
Now we go on Boaz.
I don't know that he was one of the spies spied out the land and Obed begat Jesse. No go as begat Obed approved.
Now they wouldn't have. The Jew wouldn't have put Rahab in the list in their chronology.
He'd rather put in Sarah Rebecca.
Honorable figures of honorable women in their backs.
But God brings in that that makes nothing of man, and now shows His grace. So it brings in Reyes.
Now the next woman is brought in his rule. Now you say what was wrong with Ruth?
Lot of thing. Morally, she was a virtuous woman.
She was an upright woman. She was a God fearing woman.
But she was a foreigner. She was a stranger.
She had no right or title in the land of Israel. She was not to come into the congregation of the Lord, and I think it was till the 10th generation.
Lord.
But he brings her in.
Now you know, Israel votes. They've been having quite an argument over in Palestine about who's a Jew.
Prisoner upset the the the government of the country about who was a Jew and they decided that.
A Jew is one who had his His mother was a Jewish, even if his father wasn't.
They had to. They had to separate the argument some way.
But here a Jew rightly is 1 whose father and mother were both Jews. They were not supposed to intermingle. God had put a wall around them, separated them.
Now here we find a woman brought in a Moabite us.
And when she came into Israel and married Boaz, who was her mother-in-law.
Ray have the Canaanite.
I want to ask you just how much Jewish, true Jewish, blood there was in the strain at that time.
Here we find.
Sam and we got Boaz of Rahab.
One's Jew, one's Gentile. Now the the son marries A Moabite us.
Ruth and has obeyed. Now how much Jewish blood is there?
Oh, the picture here is very humiliating towards the Jewish mind, but that's what it's intended to do.
And then furthermore, thinking not only grace to bring bring all this into the the line of the Messiah, but next and obed.
Begat Jesse.
And Jesse begat David the king, he began. He becomes the grandfather of the king.
All through him, to him through whom the promises came, through whom the Messiah must come. Here is a woman brought in that shouldn't get into the congregation till the 10th generation and their son of the second generation sits on the throne.
Or the make the grace of God.
And that's why we find in the 11 Chapter of Romans that when Israel comes into blessing again, it's going to they're going to come into blessing on the ground of pure mercy, that he might have mercy upon all.
And that's why Ruth is a type of the Jewish remnant. She's a Gentile, and she's a type of the Jewish remnant who embraces the God of Israel.
And the kinsmen the Redeemer brings her in is the type of the Jewish remnant of the future.
Because the Jewish remnant will come in in the future on the ground of pure mercy, just like a Gentile.
Well, we go on.
And David begat Solomon of her. That had been the wife of Uriah. This wasn't necessary to add that was it?
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Or one of the saddest blocks on Israel's history was David Sin in the matter of Uriah's wife?
David and David.
Jesse, we get David and David the king begat Solomon of her. That had been the wife of your eyes.
A marvelous grace of God that would bear with that people and through the Royal Lion.
That had been so interspersed with Gentile blood.
And so many foul bloods, Very, very light comes the Messiah.
So therefore women mentioned and the Jew would have hit everyone, hidden everyone of them, every good.
Grace of God by the Spirit of God brings it all out. Now we go on. And Solomon begat Robo and Robo and begat Abaya, and Abaya begat ASA. ASA begat Joshua that Joshua begat Joram, Joram begat Isaias, Musias begat Joratham, and Jotham begat Akaz, and Akas begat Ezz and Ezekai forget Manassas, and Manassas forget Ammon and Ammon to get Josiah.
Well if you would go back and check this with the Old Testament you will find.
That there is a there are about four or five kings left out. Remember I haven't checked it just recently. So how many were left out?
But they're all the descendants.
Of that unholy alliance.
Between the King of Judah.
And the king and King Ahab and his wife Jezebel, they all come down from that unholy alliance through Athelia coming into the royal family. And God just eliminates each other. Or they're about four generations missing.
But the Spirit of God has done it for a purpose, that He might show us His displeasure with the seed royal of the House of Judah mingling with the House of Israel.
In all their idols. And so here's a here's a family that's left out.
Might say when it says all the generations were 14 generations from here to here and here to here and so on, that's an arbitrary 14. But the Lord has done that. It's two sevens in each cases, but in order to do it, He left out those.
Persons that were of that unholy alliance. Or you might bring somebody in and grace into the lines, but that which is an unholy alliance with Ahab's house, Jezebel eliminate.
From the records.
And Josiah's begat Jacinius and his brethren about the time they were carried to Babylon.
Now jeconias is called by various names.
I want to have you turn with me to the 23rd chapter of Jeremiah.
Jeremiah. No, it's the 22nd of Jeremiah, verse 28.
Is this man Kanaya?
To the same man.
It is 5 broken idol.
Is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure?
Wherefore are they cast out? He and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not.
Or Earth. Earth.
Earth.
Hear the word of the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord.
Write ye this man childish.
A man who shall not prosper in his day.
Where no man of his seed shall prosper.
Sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judith.
Now that's a strange verse. Here's the one that's in the royal line here, Jack and I.
And no one of his seed was ever to sit on the throne of Judah again.
That's strange, isn't it? Here's a decree against this man, this profane man. I think he was the man of remember correctly.
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Who made an oath? The king of Babylon and the name of Jehovah broke.
No man of his seed was ever to sit on the throne of Judah.
Now why? Why does that happen? Where does it fit in here? It fits in here simply this way.
That in the royal line through which Joseph came for Joseph was the direct lineage of David through Solomon, as we see here.
He was of that line, but no actual descendant of his was ever to sit on the throne.
Now how do we count for that if you go back?
If you go to the Lukes Gospel and the Lords genealogy and the Gospel of Luke.
You'll find that Mary who is of the royal line for its Mary's genealogy, and Luke.
Begins with going back to Adam and it comes on down and.
After David it's. It divides.
One Matthew goes down through Solomon. Luke's genealogy goes down through Nathan.
So that the genealogy divides David and goes down through.
One through Solomon through Jeconius for the legal right to the throne, but there was a decree against anyone of the actual blood relation sitting on the drone. Remember that the Lord was not a a direct descendant of Joseph, but by his mother's engagement, his spousal to Joseph, he had the legal right to the throne.
But in the Gospel of Luke, you get Mary's genealogy and he and it was her seed, the seed of the woman, and there's no jeconiah Senate for it came down through Nathan and so the the prescription.
Against the descendant of Jeconiah sitting on the throne anymore.
He's taken care of carefully in Mary's genealogy and Luke.
The accuracy of scripture is marvelous.
The accuracy of scripture, the intricate details that all fit together is better than anything the archaeologists Spade can uncover.
And the scripture is better than any argument you can give the unsaved man either.
Because if he'll let it, it'll reach his conscience. It'll give him a probe sometimes. Say if I if I gave you a big argument about how sharp my knife was and gave you a big long dissertation about how sharp this knife was, it wouldn't be half as convincing as a jab with it.
And so the Word of God gives that jab to the conscience. The man that spelled his keen edge doesn't need an argument.
So we go down.
Josiah to get Jeconiah and his brethren about the time they were carried away to Babylon and after they were brought to Babylon, Jack and I forget so late the own slate. You'll get the gets a rubble book. The rubble will be get a Bayou and a Bayou begets Hazel and Azor begets Aidoc and Sadak to get akim and they can begun to lie. You allow you begat Eliezer and Eliezer begat Methen and Matthen begat Jacob and Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary.
Now that's where the Lord had his legal right to the throne.
Here was Joseph.
The reputed father of Jesus.
The Royal Air to the throne of Israel, working as a Carpenter.
It said. You know that Herod called for those.
His Lords, brothers and sisters and at a later time and and he asked them about their claim to the throne.
And he looked at their hands and saw their rough hands from hard work. He dismissed them. He didn't think they were looking for any thrill.
So all the generations here we get this 14 generations are summed up here. Now we go to the 18th verse. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise when as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Then Joseph, her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought of these things, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph.
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Thou Son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in hers of the Holy Ghost.
Ah.
A new element has entered the genealogy now.
It's not merely the son of David now.
That which is born was to be born is of the Holy Ghost.
And she shall bring forth his Son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus.
More exactly, Jehovah the Savior.
For he shall save his people from their sins. His people are Jehovah's people.
Jehovah his people to save them, not from their enemies, for which the Jew was looking, but from their sins. They were looking for a deliverer to save them from their enemies, but knowing he shall save his people from their sins.
Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Now he quotes from Isaiah, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and they shall, and she shall bring forth the Son, and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel, which is being interpreted, God with us.
Now there are three scriptures in the Old Testament.
That seem irreconcilable.
And if you would take these three, these three thoughts from the Old Testament and put them down one side by side, you'd say they couldn't be reconciled.
It was it was prophesied that the Messiah was to be the direct. He was to be the of the royal line of David.
It was prophesied that He was to be the Son of the virtue seed of the womb, and it was prophesied that He was to be the Son of God or God with us, Emmanuel, Emmanuel meaning God with us. Now you would say, how is it possible that those three things can be put together?
The son of David.
The son of the Virgin.
Son of God.
Matthew's Gospel takes the three of them and puts them together and brings them together into one.
And to me, it's marvelous. Legally, he was the heir to the throne of David Drew Joseph.
But he was actually the son of Mary, the son of the Virgin.
And really?
He was the Son of God.
All three things are brought together in a way that there is perfect harmony now between the three, seemingly.
Irreconcilable statements from the Old Testament. The son of David, the Son of the Virgin, the Son of God. Oh, he's all that, brethren, He's all that.
It was the son of David legally. That is, he was the son, the son of David through the royal line, down through Solomon.
And as such, he had a right and right entitled to the throne.
But he was the son of the virgins who married.
And in evil build Scripture in that, but he was also the Son of God. He was God manifest in flesh. He was a manual God with us. And so we see all it was prophesied of him as to who he was put together into one check 1 short chapter here in the first of Matthew.
To me it is. It is marvelous and it's beautiful.
And.
She gave birth to this son and they called his name Jesus.
Well, may we sing, Jesus, how much thy name unfold every open.
The pardon sinners memory holds none other half so this.
Oh, I know that the name of Jesus is more often heard in blasphemy than in reverence.
I hope none of us ever become so calloused that we can hear the name of the Lord Jesus taken in vain, and not feel it not be cut by it.
I heard of one Christian who said to one who whom he heard taking the name of Jesus in vain, he says, You speak against a friend of mine.
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I was in a Barber chair one day.
The man in the next chair was.
Very profane, Very profane.
And he just kept his mouth going all the time.
I called out to him. I'm just tired of listening to it.
I called out to him and I said, Mr. would you please tell me one thing?
Why is it that when you must speak black, when you must say something and add somebody's name, that you have to add the blessed name of Jesus?
Or you speak of God.
Or hell, I said, why don't you? Why don't people use the name of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln or something like that?
He says Mr. You've got something there. Never said another word while I was in the shop.
May we can't stop it, I recognize that. But may we never become so callous that it becomes common to us that we fail to feel it as a slight on one whom we love.
Well, I just hurriedly gone through the chapter and in its relation to the other four Gospel, the other of the four Gospels.
But may it be for our problem, some brother in him.
218.
Soon will the Master come, soon pass away our times of conflict, grief and suffering here.
Our night, a weeping end and cloudless day and sorrows moment like a dream appear #218.
The Daughters of Zelophehad
Address—A. Roach
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General Meeting Ottawa, October 1961 addressed to young people by Adrian Roach.
To open the meeting by singing hymn #231.
231.
We have pilgrims in the wilderness. Our dwelling is a camp.
Created things though pleasant, now bear to us. Death stand but onward we are speeding, though often let and try. The Holy Ghost is leading home.
To the lamb is bribe #231.
Where pilgrims and the Will Garner.
As well.
Is the creation.
Of.
Pleasure.
Nowhere.
Where they grow.
Oh.
Oh.
Lord.
Stands and we stand.
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On the ground.
All again.
Like to have my place there.
And we.
Shall we ask the Lord?
And several passages in the Old Testament I would like to read in the Book of Numbers.
The 26th chapter of the Book of Numbers.
There.
Verse 28.
The sons of Joseph after their families.
Were Manasseh an Ephraim?
Of the sons of Manasseh.
Verse 32.
And of Shemaida, the family of the.
Shamari Deites and a heifer. The family of the heifer, right?
And Zelophehad, the son of heifer, had no son but daughter. And the names of the daughters of Zilahfahad were Malar and Noah, Hoagler, Milker and herzer. These are the families of Manasseh.
Now the 27th chapter of the same book and verse one.
You might read the last verse of the 26th chapter for the connection.
Numbers 26 and verse 65. For the Lord had said of them, they shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left A man of them saved, Caleb the son of Jefona, and Joshua the son of Nun. Then came the daughters of Gala, Fahad, the son of Heifer, the son of Gilead, the son of Make, here the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph. And these are the names of his daughter.
Malar, Noah, and Hoagler and Milker and Terza. And they stood before Moses, and before Eliezer the priest, and before the Princess, and all the congregation, by the door of the Tabernacle of the congregation, saying, Our Father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah.
But died in his own sin, and had no son. Why should the name of our father?
Be done away from among his family, because he hath no son. Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our fathers. And Moses brought their 'cause before the Lord, And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, The daughters of Zalofer had Speak right, Thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren, and thou shall cause the inheritance of their father.
To pass unto them, and now shall speak.
Unto the children of Israel saying, If a man die and have no son.
Then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass on to his daughter.
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The 36th chapter of the same book.
And verse one.
And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Make here the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spake before Moses and before the Princess.
The chief fathers of the children of Israel, And they said the Lord commanded, my Lord.
To give the land for an inheritance by a lot to the children of Israel. And my Lord has was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughter. And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put through the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received.
So shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance, and when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be.
Then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe, whereunto they are received social, their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the Lord, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph had said, Well, this is the thing which the Lord doth command concerning the daughters of ZLAP had.
Let them marry to whom they think best. Only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry. So shall not be inheritance of the children of Israel removed from tribe to tribe. For every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers, and every daughter that possesseth an inheritance.
In any tribe of the children of Israel.
Shall be wife unto one held the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his father. Neither shall the inheritance removed from one tribe to another tribe, but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance, even as the Lord commanded Moses.
So did the daughters of Zilafa had for Mala, Perza, and Hogler, and Milka and Noah. The daughters of Zalapa had were married unto their fathers, brothers son, and they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh.
The son of Joseph and their inheritance remain in the tribe of the family.
Of their father. One other passage in Joshua 17.
Joshua 17 and the third verse.
But Zilatha had the son of Heifer, the son of Gilead, the son of Make. Here the son of Manasseh had no son but daughters. And these are the names of his daughters, Mala, Noah, Hoagler, Milker, and Terza. And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the Princess, saying the Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance.
Among our brethren, therefore, according to the commandment of the Lord.
He gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their fathers and their fellow 10 portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Beishan, which were on the other side. Jordan, because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons, and the rest of the NASA's son had the land of Gilead. We'll just turn back to the 26th of numbers to have that before us.
The Apostle Paul at the end of First Corinthians uses a very solemn expression. He makes this statement in the last chapter of First Corinthians. If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, maranatha. Or if any man loved not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed with a curse.
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The Lord cometh, but on the other side it's a blessed there's a blessed note.
At the end of the Epistle to the Ephesians there it is grace be with them, with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. What a marked difference. Those who love not our Lord Jesus Christ and those who love him in sincerity. And we trust that the Lord will give us a word here this afternoon for all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ.
In sincerity.
Oh, how blessed it is to know the Lord Jesus Christ, to know his love. And I'd like to just make a statement about that word sincerity before we pass on to this subject and the Word sincerity as we have it.
In the English language I understand is taken from 2 Latin words Sina Kara, which means without wax, Without wax in the old days in Rome.
Some of the pottery manufacturers, if the pottery broke or had cracks in it, they would take wax and fill in the crack and smooth it over and they would sell it as though it were 100% perfect. But those dealers who were honest, they would put a sign.
On their product Sina Kara without wax. That is, it was 100% genuine. It was a genuine piece of merchandise. It hadn't been tampered with. And so when it says there those that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity, it means without wax, without putting on, without making it look what it really isn't or how it how unnecessary that is.
When we know the wondrous love of the Lord Jesus Christ, not only in giving himself for us, but in daily His love, His care, His watching over us. Oh, I would challenge the hearts of the dear young people this afternoon as well as my own heart. Where will you find a better friend, a more gracious master, a more wonderful Savior, one that can satisfy the heart? Where will you find such?
Or if any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, what an awful position it is to be in. Well, now, our reason for reading these scriptures here this afternoon. There were several principles that are set before us that are especially good, shall we say, for the young, but also for all of us. I was thinking of three things here that are brought out in these scriptures, and they all are related one to another.
They are connected.
First there is relationship. Next there are rights or privileges. Next there are responsibilities. That is, we have 3 Rs. We have relationship. We have the rights of that of that relationship and the the, the responsibilities connected with that relationship. Now every blessing, every privilege and every responsibility that is set before us in the word of God.
Is based on a known relationship. We stand in relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ as our Lord. We stand in relationship to God as our Father by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, when I was a boy, I lived in my father's home. I had been born there and I was raised there and I had the privileges of that home. I could eat there. I could sleep. I could read.
I had the privileges of that home. Why? Because I was my father's son.
I was in relationship. He was my father and it was his house, it was his facilities, it was what belonged to him.
That as a son in that House, I had the privilege of enjoying those things.
But then there were responsibilities. There were certain responsibilities that I had and and and all of us here can look back. Certain responsibilities connected with the privileges and with the relationship of father and son. Now in these portions that we've read, we find those things coming out in a very practical way. Well, before we look at it, turn a moment to the 5th of Ephesians.
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We want to connect that with the scriptural privileges and scriptural privileges.
And responsibility.
In the 5th of Ephesians.
On the 81St.
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord.
Walk as children of light for the fruit of the Spirit, or I believe it should read, For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth. Now notice what we were We were darkness. That was the place we were in. But now what a wonderful fact God has taken us from that through faith in the Lord Jesus. And he says now.
Ye are light in the Lord, Ye are light in the Lord. We're brought into relationship with God our Father. We're now before him with a nature, with a holy nature. God says ye are light in the Lord, but now what is the responsibility that goes with it?
Walk as children of light. If we belong to the light, we have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. The darkness has nothing to do with the children of light. And so here we have this wonderful fact that we are light in the Lord. But if that is so, if God is my Father, if Christ is my Savior, then there are responsibilities as well as privileges. And here the responsibility is walk as children of light.
Have Christ before your soul. Have the light of God's Word before your soul. Ye are light in the Lord.
And the Spirit, No doubt the Spirit is needed to produce this fruit. But it is this fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth. And those are the things that characterized the new life that we have in Christ. Goodness, righteousness, truth. No Christian would want to have to do in his walking ways with that which is not goodness, that which is unrighteous or against the truth.
No, those things are connected here with the fruit of the other light and that's our place and our portion before God. Now let us look briefly at this scene that we have in the Old Testament. Here we have relationship.
In the.
26th chapter of Numbers.
Before we can walk as God's children, it is quite evident we must be one of His children.
We cannot be one of God's children because our Father and mother are. There's got to be personal faith. You're all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Faith finds its object in him and everyone here this afternoon that has put his or her trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, our children of God, our children of the Light.
Are members of the Body of Christ to look at it in another way?
Members one of another, we've been brought into a sphere of relationship with God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Now notice the relationship here. In the 26th of numbers, verse 28, it says the sons of Joseph. The sons of Joseph Now that we have various names mentioned. And then we come to the 33rd verse where we have these five daughters mentioned. With whom were they in relation?
With Joseph. Joseph is a type of the Lord Jesus Christ. Joseph was the one who was cast down, cast out by his own people, and persecuted by the Gentiles. And God raised Joseph up. Joseph in that way is a type, the risen Christ. And so these daughters here are seen in relationship with Joseph, that one who is a type of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so this afternoon every believer.
In the Son of God, every believer in that Blessed One stands in that relationship. Or can you say this afternoon, the Lord Jesus Christ is not only my Savior, but He is my Lord. He is my friend, and furthermore, he is the head of the Church of which I am a member, a member of the body of Christ, a member of one of another, linked together by the Holy Spirit and linked to a Christ in glory.
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So we're in relationship all. What an important thing that is to know that we belong to Christ, and to show forth that which is pleasing to him. You know, a missionary one time said to a soldier, I've forgotten what land it was in. But this meant this rather this. The missionary said to the soldier. He said, are you ashamed of your uniform? Are you ashamed of your uniform? Of course, the soldier was not ashamed of his uniform.
Well, to whom do we belong? Do we belong to Christ?
Is our spot the spot of his children? Has he marked us out? Are we marked out in our ways? Does the world have to say to you and me, Well, I wouldn't want to walk in the path you're walking in, but at least I see that you've got something and that you're consistent in what you've got. Does the world see Christ in US? And is the world here Christ?
From our lips, that name spoken in blessed reverence to those round about, well, these daughters. I want to bring out the fact here that first of all, when they're first mentioned, nothing is said about them other than that they are the daughters of this one man and that they are related to Joseph. They belong to Joseph the risen Christ, and they're in relationship with Him. But nothing is said as to why their names are brought in here.
For in these genealogies the sons names are given, but here we only have.
The names mentioned. And it's remarkable that every time they referred to in all these passages, the Spirit of God names them everyone. He doesn't pass over and say the five daughters of Zalafa had he names them each one, or they were all precious in his sight. He cherished each one of them, they were valuable to him, and they all had come forward in faith to lay hold of the privileges that belong to the relationship. Now notice going over to the 27th chapter.
We have.
They're asserting their rights. Now, shall we say spiritual rights privileges. You know, it tells us in the first chapter of John's Gospel that as many as received him to them gave he the right is the thought there to become the children of God? The children of God? Those that trust him have the right to be called the children of God. Isn't that a wonderful, dignified right to be called a son of God, a child of God?
By faith in Christ Jesus, Well, here we have these daughters asserting by faith there's energy of faith shown in these young girls. They're going to claim a blessing. There had been no special.
Provision in the law as to the daughters inheriting, there was provision for the sons and the blessing passed down that way. But now here is a new thing introduced into Israel by the energetic faith.
Of these girls, notice what it says about them, they say in verse 3.
They say our father died in the wilderness. You see, they connect at once here the thought of death with their position. Death is named over them. Our father died in the wilderness. He didn't die under the judgment of Korah. He died for his own sin. It tells us here he died in the wilderness and death is marked over it. Oh, how we see that God is marked death over the world.
While we have our connection with the blessed Lord of Light and Glory, daughter, put the word death over this whole scene through which we pass. But I want to call attention to another thing. In the end of that 65th verse of the 26th chapter, we find these men of faith named Caleb and Joshua. These men who said we we'd be well able to take the land when everybody else with the other spies came back with a bad report.
And there was unbelief that went through Israel. These two men were mighty men of faith, and they lived to go into the possession. And so notice the company in which these daughters of faith find themselves. They're found in company with Caleb and Joshua, these mighty men of faith who would defy the power of the enemy, knowing the strength of the Lord was on their behalf. And so they then mentioned next in the 27th chapter, it says. Then came the daughters of.
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Had we find them standing before Moses in verse 2?
Mentioning a father's death in verse 3. Now why did they come before?
Moses for this privilege, what was their purpose? What did they have? What was their motive? Was it just simply that they wanted to enjoy the inheritance? That was a good thing. What was it that motivated their hearts?
Verse four tells us they had the honor and the glory.
Of their father at heart, they said, Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family? Because he hath no son. They were not looking out directly at first here for that privilege. Yes, they were looking for the privilege, but they connected it with the glory and the name of their father. Oh, what a challenge that is to our hearts. Whose interests are we looking after in this world?
Is the interest of Christ predominant? Is that what is before our hearts day by day, not just simply during the three glorious days of a conference, but as Christ before our hearts at other times? I would like to use an illustration here some years back.
One of the steamship companies in the United States decided they would send a steamer into Shanghai at the Red China, knowing right well that there might be some trouble from it. So both the United States and British navies decided to set up or destroy a patrol off Shanghai. So the British commander took his position and the American commander took his position. The American commander got all kinds of instructions from Washington DC.
How he was to handle this case? He had quite a lot of paper telling him what to do. But later on, after the incident was passed, the American commander was at Hong Kong at a dinner where he met the British commander of the other unit. And so the American was interested in no one instructions his British counterpart had received. And so he asked him, he said, what were your instructions. All said the British commander. He said my Admiral was very brief.
All he said was set up the patrol and when in doubt, act to protect Her Majesty's interests. That's all the instructions I got all As I read that I thought, what a what an illustration. That is. Whose interests are we to act for in this world? When in doubt, act to protect Her Majesty's interests? Well, the Word of God would take away any doubts from us as to how these interests should be protected. The glory of the Lord Jesus.
Is that predominant? It ought to be. It searches our hearts as we make the statement. We realize how short we come, but nevertheless, this is God's challenge to our souls. They say. Why should the name of our Father be done away from among his family because he hath no son? Was it right for them to insist on this privilege? Well, Moses had no immediate instructions, but Moses went to the Lord about it. In verse five. He brought their cause before the Lord.
Well, with these that are insisting on an inheritance, shall they receive it? Is it their portion? And verse six says, the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, The daughters of the Lotah had speak right, They speak right. Oh, how wonderful is if we lay hold of the privileges that belong to us as Christians? The Epistle to the Hebrews tells us that we have boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.
Faith would make us bold in the presence of God. When sin would drive us away, our conscience would drive us away. But here, these daughters, they act in faith. They act for the glory of another, while at the same time putting forth a hand of faith for their own privileges. And so how those things are connected.
Relationship with Joseph The tribe of Joseph is to receive an inheritance. Their father's name may be blotted out, and their their their zealous for their father's name, and for the tribe of Joseph. And so God comes in. He gives a special word to them through Moses. In the seventh verse, the daughters of Zelophehad speak right. Thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their fathers, brethren.
Oh, how good it is, dear young believer, and all the ones who to clay hold of everything that God has given us. Now suppose we turn to the 36th chapter, because there's responsibility connected with privilege and relationship. If God is my father, and I have the privileges of the family of God, then if he be a father, where is his honor? And if he be my Lord, If he Lord, where is the reverence and respect? So here now we have.
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Other voices heard in the 36th chapter.
It says in verse one, the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Make, here the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spake before Moses and before the Princess, the chief fathers of the children of Israel. Well, you know, it's very nice to see here, shall we say, the interest of the elder brethren in what these young daughters had done.
They had put forth the hand of faith to lay hold of privileges, but now we find the older ones, the chief fathers. They look at the whole, the whole situation, and they have before them not only the good of all Israel and the good of their tribe.
And the good of these daughters. But they are thinking of God's order of things. God had set up a certain order, and they were jealous here and anxious that that order be maintained. And that while they are in no way interfere or set aside the privileges of the daughters of Zalafa had notice that they bring in a responsibility. They bring in the responsibility. If you five daughters of faith are going to enter into that inheritance, here's a responsibility that goes along with it.
And so when our Christian pathway are we ready as those who love our Lord Jesus Christ.
In sincerity to walk in accordance with our responsibilities as well as our privileges. Notice what follows these men, these chief men.
They remember that the inheritance would follow the husband and of these daughters married men from the tribe of.
Gad or Reuben or Asher one in the year of Jubilee that that inheritance would go out into those other tribes and it would be lost to Manasseh. There would be confusion produced in Israel. According to the way these daughters would marry. There would be confusion in Israel. And so there was a word on that here and the in the fifth verse.
Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the Lord. Now Moses gets another word from the Lord.
Saying the tribe of the sons of Joseph half said, well, so if the daughters had spoken right, the elder ones here had spoken well also and and God tells us that. And then what follows is this instruction here against an unequal yoke. There was an instruction here of an unequal yoke of an unusual kind. We usually think of an unequal yoke in marriage as the marriage of an unconverted person.
With a converted person, we consider that that no doubt is the most outstanding of it. But here we find that in connection with the daughters of Zalafa had, while they had freedom and liberty to marry whom they think best in verse six, it must be in the family of the tribe of their father. That is, they couldn't go out and say, well, what's wrong with marrying someone from the tribe of Reuben? He's an Israelite.
He's one of the children of God. He's an Israelite, but not what it brought confusion into the tribe of Manasseh. And so they were limited here by the by the word, by the word of the Lord. Let them marry to whom they think best. Only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry. What an important instruction this is. It's It would bring a burden before us. It isn't always the wise thing.
It isn't always according to the word of God for one Christian to marry another simply because they are a Christian.
They might not be in the same tribe. They may not be committed to the same principles of the pathway that you and I may have have gathered from the word of God. And so it isn't just one thing to say. Well, this person is a Christian. That settles it. No, it says here they were free to marry whom they would, but only in the tribe of their father. Now, there's a verse in First Corinthians I'd like to read in that connection.
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One Corinthians Chapter 7.
Verse 39 I'm thinking at the end of the verse, but we'll read the whole verse. The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth. But if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will Now, just like the daughters of the Lapa hat, they may marry whom they think best, but only in the tribe. Now it says she is at liberty to be married to whom she will only in the Lord.
All that requires the Lord's mind. That requires first of all a willingness to do the Lord's will.
If any man will us to do his will, he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God.
Or whether I speak of myself so that actually it's a willingness on the part of those who love the Lord Jesus Christ to carry out His word. Now let's see what happened. Our time is about up in the.
In the 10th verse of the 36th of numbers.
It says even as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughter of the Lopahad. As the Lord commanded all, the word of the Lord was precious to them. The word of the Lord had secured an inheritance to them. And now the word of the Lord brought in addition to the privilege, the word of the Lord brought a responsibility before them. And it says even as the Lord commanded Moses, so did.
The daughters of the La Fahad and notice again all their names are mentioned.
For Marwar, Terza and Hogler and Milka and Noah, the daughters of the Lotah had were married unto their fathers, brothers, sons. They're named again. Every one of them don't ought to say I want you to notice how I value their obedience. I want you to notice what this means to me. I'm recording their names again. You'll notice too, that the two of the names are changed in this listing and all the other listings.
Noah is mentioned second.
And Tarzan laughed. Well, there may be other thoughts here, but one thought that it struck me in reading this that in connection with their obedience there's a change of possession. It seems as though there was greater energy in obeying on the part of Tarzan than of Noah. And so the Spirit of God reverses their names in connection with their obedience. Read the 16th of Romans, and you'll see how God lists then his honor roll there those who labored and those who labored much, and so forth.
And so God's honored and cherished these who sought his will and who sought to obey his word. So may the Lord bless these thoughts. Towards each one is not only the unequal yoke in marriage, but there's the unequal yoke in business and the far more subtle unequal yoke in the religious world. There's no Concorde between Christ and Belial, between the temple of God and idols. And so there's that danger of a religious unequal yoke.
Being unequally yoked together in a religious system which is not according to the word of God. Or may the Lord preserve young and old alike from any of these pitfalls that may present themselves.
So we sing #230 and hymn 231. We were expressing our desires, what we were, but Him 230 gives us the blessed example of the Lord himself. Hymn #230 with some brother starter please.
Great.
We.
Are.
They That Feared the Lord
Pharaoh's Compromises
Gospel