YP Address—Bill Prost
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On the way to all the kingdoms of this world, as He did to the Lord Jesus. Whatever it takes, He will bring you and me into *******.
I mentioned yesterday how that many young people.
Hard, and I don't say this without thinking. It felt carefully depicted to having music going on all the time and live without those, those plugged in their ears, little earbuds in their ears, listening to music, listening to something all the time. Minds have been kept going. And of course there are the more serious addictions of drugs and alcohol and all kinds of things.
It's possible and I don't want to.
Be hard on anybody here that people can get addicted to, right? And things like that. People can get addicted to all sorts of things in their lives. People can be worth a thought to be addicted to their jobs.
Whatever it might be, the devil wants to bring him to bond.
And to that extent, if that happened?
Then we are being overcome of evil.
We say all those things aren't you don't. No, they're not. They're not necessarily evil, but they push out of my life that which is most important to you and me as believers. And of course, it can be real and positive evil as we talk about some of that, a couple in the first meeting yesterday, because the devil is surrounding you and me with so much that is evil.
That pretty soon we get almost hirement to it. So we just don't realize how we are injecting, sliding down that awful slope where we become much, very much like the world around us.
That's only Application.
Be not overcome the people. Is that good enough?
Well over 100 years ago now.
Brother whom no one here will remember.
Including myself, but he's a brother that I would like to adult rather by the name of James B Dunbar, who originally came from England and who eventually settled in Canada and eastern Canada. He's very straight up near Rio Ferry there in the cemetery on what's known as the Scotts Line as well. Familiar to some who are sitting here this afternoon.
Very dear brother, he gave an address on a New Year's Day meeting.
I think it was 19108 and I read that address. You can get it if you want to take. BTT would probably still have it, but in that address he made a regard that I never forgot.
He said you and I as believers are not here merely believed because morally upright lie and then go to heaven at the end.
That's all allowing good and we should do all of that, but that is not enough. No, he said. You and I are left here.
To be living witnesses for the grace that.
I have no problem.
The few men lift it, lift it right to the end, spend it full time in the work of the Lord with much, much use of the Lord in many different places that didn't find roughing it. Used to go out and preach the gospel to the Indians in North America, slept on the ground and all the rest of it and didn't hesitate to travel. And he was well up in the 70s and 80s.
I told this story before that when he touches my heart.
We got toward the end of his life. He was ministering after the breaking of bread in Toronto, ON, and he had a crippling stroke. Rightly, this ministry fell down on the floor holding paralyzed on one side.
Several rather than drift and left when they were going to carry them out that he protested and said no, I'm not finished yet.
Stand up anymore that he sat in his feet, his mind is clear to speak to the good. And he finished what he had to say.
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After a few minutes, he gave up the closing hidden sang most scarily.
Within a week he was with the Lord.
He was an overcomer not only in the first half of this verse, but in the second-half. He not overcome of evil.
The flat was older than evil good.
That means that not only is the Lord owing me to be able to resist being dragged down by all the evil that is around us.
But he says you have the privilege of overcoming evil.
When I was going to college.
I worked with some of the large industries in our local area during the summer.
And on at least two occasions I ended up working in the office.
And I used to be somewhat I'm used.
Like people who would come to work on Monday morning.
And not always just on Monday, either.
And they reminded me of some Christians.
Because they were sitting in the door of the office.
And you say good morning, so and so. How are you this morning?
And as they groped around the office for that cup of coffee, the answer was, well, I'm here.
Meaning that it had taken everything they had just to get out of bed and get dressed and get in the car and get to work. But don't expect too much from me for a little while, because I'm here and that's about it.
You know, we can be like that at this time. Yeah, But here.
See, we know we're going to heaven at the end of the journey.
Don't expect two months to watch it too.
That's not what the word wants from you and me.
And it finally makes a It's not what he deserves.
Many were here this morning when we remembered there.
When we think of what happened, When we think of all our Jesus.
In the words of the wind, love that transcends our eyes, thoughts he.
And her soul, our life.
Overcome evil with good. What does that mean? That means that you and Mike alone in this world is living witnesses for the name of Christ.
That means that you and I lived with Christ. That means that instead of being overcome by the evil.
Rather, we are happier seeking to bring soul into the same blessing as we are.
Or seeking to encourage other believers because some are more interested in getting up to gospel. Some are more gifted in the truth. Some are more gifted in pastoral work. There are many different gifts that God gives.
And God has something for each one of us to do.
We get that in the book of the season. Unto every one of us is given gifts according to the measure of the gifts of the Christ that is, God has given you and me and everyone here some kind of yet and a work to do that you can do better than anyone else.
Now I know one of the leaders climbed that hardness as well, but it's true, God has something for you to do that you can do better than anyone else. Now, if you don't do it, if I don't do it, the Lord will find something else. Just as you took the pound from the man that went in, kind of wrapped it all up in the napkin and did it away and gave it to the one that had 10 lbs.
A little like someone else to do that work if you and I don't do it.
Because you can do it better than anyone else, you say. How do I know it's the Lord wants me to do?
As good as but remember, you can't overcome evil if you're being overcome these things that's an that that doesn't make sense. But you can't be overcome of evil and then think you're somehow going to overcome you with good that doesn't that just.
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Doesn't matter.
We have to go through the first part of this nurse or the second part is two of us.
And we have to realize that if we're in blindness, we have to get out of it.
Now let's go over at first, John.
There beside it says.
Fast food.
Middle of Earth.
13 I write under you, young man, and ultimately young women too.
That you have overcome the victim.
Middle of Earth 14th I have written that to the young man because he is strong and the word of God abides in you overcome the word of God.
I encourage you, each one, to read the Word of God.
Many of you end up with plans where the Word of God is read. May be around the supper table, may be around the breakfast table, maybe both.
And that's wonderful.
But I would suggest you that's not good.
Read it for yourself. Have your own Bible. Have your own read. Read it for yourself.
Regularly have a regular time when you reach. Maybe you don't understand at all. Never mind, you'll get something out of it and the Lord will make it good to your soul.
I don't want to make a comment here that came out of a conversation I had with some young brother yesterday.
We talked yesterday about the appearance of unveiling ourselves of our good written minister read that which those who have gone before gifted dreadful, who have given us the benefit of their ability in the word and their teaching.
Yes, I believe I may suggest that God came in a very special way to bring back the precious truth of the assembly that had been lost, at least in a public way, for hundreds of years.
Read the Word of God for yourself and form your own thoughts on.
But for your own thoughts, let it form your thoughts of course, but form your thoughts as to what it means.
But then go and read our written ministry on that passage.
If you find that your thoughts line up with what the written ministry says, good.
If you find that your thoughts don't light up.
The old brother said don't just discard your own thoughts and say all the written ministry is going to be right. So I guess I'm wrong.
Say good on your knees and ask the Lord to short. Ask the Lord to make their fears.
Good advice which I can help you having followed out of economically faith for many years.
What I want to make clear is don't go the other way around.
Don't go and read the written ministry and then go to the word of God and say, well, I guess that's what it means. No, if someone.
There are young people here and I don't think I'm centering the note because there is more than one couple, but we are young people here who are very interested in one another.
And I know that the e-mail that's pretty well replaced letter writing, which was what some of us did when we were recording in our generation. We left the suit for the moment that you do get a letter from someone, someone you love and care very much about. Would you be satisfied if I took that letter unopened when I said, well, let me read it and I'll explain what?
He's trying to say here, does that go over well? I, I kind of felt sick.
That wouldn't work, but you say, no, I think I can very well understand what they're trying to say. And it is in fact my letter. I don't want it. Uh, so we use it with the app or if I put your laptop and said, oh, here's a letter. Here's a letter from your girlfriend. Uh, let me see. I'll, I'll give you a Gracie AD. I'll, I'll read it and I'll do that in a few sentences like she's trying to say, you say, oh, no.
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You know, blah blah blah, blah blah. Thank you, of course.
Now, it's true that there are many things in God's Word that are beyond His reason.
And that's why God has given us gifts and he's given us features and he's given us written in the streets and we need to leave it because those are the words of God hurts all of these friends of the word of God.
Because you have the Spirit of God is evil. And then don't neglect your written ministry.
And there's another danger today that next and out there and this is just the same here As for some of us that are older.
Sometimes problems and difficulties arise in the ascent.
And there's a danger of pulling the written ministry off the shelves and saying, well, there's how they handle that kind of a problem back in 1886. So I guess that's how we deal with it today. Or we go to some book that has been written and it doesn't have to take back 1800, and we say yes here in Chapter 3.
Subsection C It tells how to handle this kind of a problem and that's what we do.
Or we have some questions about prophecy, so we go and pick up the book and the details prophecy and say, Oh yeah, that's what all that's about.
To read the word of God, get on your knees and go to the Lord of them first of all.
And some of us had to learn that from hard experience. If there is a problem or a difficulty, the Lord wants you and me to go to Him, first of all, not to go and see if there's precedent for some way of dealing with it.
That lifted on to the Lord as He appeared to be honest, right? So don't be glad to get the press as well. That's why I tell you that the young men are strong, because the word of God is what?
They read the Word of God. I know it's a lighting. Now. The word of God is alighting in you. That means that you're living and walking in the good. It doesn't mean that you've got a whole lot of that up here and not much down here. It means that.
You read it, meditated on it, and I tested it and walked it.
Make another comment.
Oh my God.
And I have known this to happen not only among younger brothers, but also among those they were old enough to know better.
They were going to go to the reading beep.
And maybe Ephesians chapter three was going to be taken up in the reading.
So an hour or two before the reading meeting, they started pulling all the books off the shelf to see what Garments Synopsis had their season three, and about what William Heather said about it, and what he again said about it and various other writers.
To whom they had access.
No, I can still remember every day holding thundering foam telling us.
Never minister truth to your brethren just because you read it in a book.
And that's good as like. And I have seen dear brethren do that very thing that I am describing, come to our reading meeting. And because they hadn't digested it and walked in, at the very best it came out as if something was being parroted. And at the very worst it came out exactly backwards because they hadn't read it properly and understood.
Don't read it the night before, read it a year before.
Then Mr. Then Mr.
But don't hold up on the chapter just before reading it. He wanted to bone up on the chapter. Read the chapter. Don't go and fill your lines with written ministry just a few hours before the reason.
Anyway, the word of God is very important to make you and even overcome.
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And then going on to chapter 5.
70645 Whatsoever is born of God, overcomethable, and this is the fixture that overcome the world, even our faithfulness. What does that mean?
That means that although everything around me is trying to push me down.
I have faith that God is going to look after me all the way home. You and I have that sense in our souls.
You know, someone has made a comment that it takes only a little space to bring the soul to heaven, but that much faith will bring heavenless soul. And that is true because as you and I go on in our Christian lives, if we learn to trust the Lord for all of those difficulties and problems that come against us, we will find that He is more than equal to them, and we don't have to be dragged down by this world.
Sometimes it could get pretty rough.
Sometimes it can be very, very difficult sometimes and I may have to suffer for it.
We'll talk about a little more about that in a moment, but we don't need to compromise and be overcome by this world. Have faith that the Lord is going to look at you and in his faith that enables human beings to overcome in a space that gave those martyrs not only in yesteryear but also today.
Gives them the strength and the courage.
How do you suggest that the name of Christ?
I think the figure is fairly accurate that there are probably close to 200,000 believers that give up their lives every year in this world today. The name of Christ.
And many more that suffer serious persecution. I knew two of them in northern India.
One young woman got a little hard tonight and fellowship at the Lord's Table, but her family working there and they forced her into a marriage with a young man who was a Hindu and she could do nothing about it.
And he refused to bow down to the hinge of God. He murdered and burnt the hostel over her head so that the police would simply write it off while the house caught fire. It was only a mud. But of course when they came that big and it was just written off, the out of the house caught fire and she referred to the fire. That was it. And everybody knew very well but.
Another young man that I didn't know personally.
But he heard the gospel from those gathered to the Lord's name in northern India, except with Christ as the Savior, rightly Savior, and all through his family, and told him that he accepted Christ as his sake.
Ten days later, he too refused to bow down to Hindu gods and he was murdered and the house was hurt down over his head.
Another young man in the same area, except that Christ as a savior at the age of 13. His father was so intense Adam that he chased him out of the house with an axe and the only reason the boy was being killed was that he could run faster.
Spent $24.00 up with a tree until his father got tired of waiting for him to come down and eventually some of the brethren came there and helped him to escape and get away.
Going on in many places that you were lying or nothing about them.
We can overcome the earth with our faith.
But what I want to talk about, especially this afternoon, is the time that remains. I'm going to have to be free.
Is overcoming that the Lord Jesus left us as an example.
To see that, turned to the third chapter of Revelation, to the address of Laodicea.
Where are we flying at home?
Revelation chapter 3 and verse 21.
To hand overcome.
And there are overcomers in that are addressed in every church. In Revelation 2-3, we go at time to talk about the hospital, but in every case there's an address.
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For the overcomer, because God makes sense there to be overcomers, and he wouldn't tell us to be overcomers if it weren't helpful to do something.
To hand it over now till I burn it. To sit with me and my throne. And there it is.
Even as I also overcame and have sat down in my car in this church. He never hear them. Hear what the spirit under the church.
Now, in the other six assemblies addressed here, the overtime is in connection with the condition of things in the Church itself.
But here there's always different twist on it.
Because when we talk about the Lord Jesus having overcome.
If we think about it for a moment, he could not, and we speak randomly have overcome in a conviction of things in the Church of God, because when the Lord Jesus was here on earth, the church was not even torn was it wasn't formed until he'd gone back to heaven and the day of Pentecost came and the Spirit of God came back.
So the church was not performed and the overcoming in connection with the Lord Jesus that is referred to here is not an extraordinary traditional things in the church.
Assuming it's very significant as that is brought in and later see it because notice there was a condition in the Church of last year which needed to be overcome, a condition of good morning and that's a serious thing to be neither cold nor hot, neither hot door that which is good.
Or coal, and our coal toward that to be this kind of.
There's a whole brother that came from Europe and he said people can get very fishy by very fishy lush, wishy washy.
Just neither here nor there.
And we can get to do that way today.
The overcoming is more basic to overcome the land of the sea and state of states.
And that's why the Lord Jesus destroyed it.
I would suggest that there are two references.
And the lights go on. Jesus so overcome. And I'd like to look at them in the time of three days. The first one is in luma left, so let's turn to that.
Luke's dog for chassis, Alabama.
Luke 11, verse 21.
With a strong bad arm that Satan.
Keep of his towel left. This world is good there in peace.
But when stronger than he should come upon him and overcome him.
Take it from him, all his armor for any trouble.
Oh Lord Jesus is the stronger one that comes and took away all Satan's armor from.
When did that happen?
I would suggest that that happen.
At the beginning of the Lord Jesus ministry during the temptations in the wilderness and I'm assuming that you are familiar with that we won't turn the foot suction. I think no Remember beginning of the Lord's ministry that the Spirit drove him into the rivers and for 40 days it says didn't eat anything.
And then the devil came to test it. And test it.
By suggesting 3 different things here. First of all, well, you're hungry. Well then why don't you just command that these stones be turned into bread and yet something?
And he said, taking an optical pinnacle of the temple, well, turn yourself down because you know it says in the in the word of God that in the angels will in their hands, they shall bear the outlets at any time they'll actually put against the stone. So pour yourself down and then finally be offered Satan author Satan offer the Lord all the kingdoms of this world is set.
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You can have them all if you'll fall down and where should you knee?
I'm going to ask some young person here to give me the answer.
How did the Lord Jesus answer the devil in all three cases? What was the way that He answered the devil? How did he deal with those temptations? Anyone wanted to meet and tell the rest of us?
How he did it?
All right, Did you catch that quarter? You scratch it, holding your Scripture. Thank you. He didn't get into an argument with him. He didn't get any kind of discussion going. He simply quoted the word done. And Satan was a little silent and he had to walk away. It says it was Devil departed from them. We'll see. The devil's beaten.
Every time Satan had tried that on a man before that man.
So that woman has come, has taken the sensations, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the side of light, as John details, is imprisoned, thistles. Those three things have been used by Satan right from Adam on down.
Do you remember the same news that on Eve the persuaders, they could have forbidden truth? And he used those lots to manipulate sinful man in whatever way he wants. And here was one on No, those temptations had no effect.
Award He will take the Lord. Jesus wants you and me to overcome the same way.
And the point I wanna make to use and to me today is that the basis for overcoming, and this is kind of a repeat of what we said yesterday, but it's important we're getting the same message from a different point of view and with the Lord Jesus as an example.
Because the Lord Jesus.
And his right as God could have told Satan simply to go away and he had the power to do that. And that wouldn't have got you immediately. The Lord did that. He served as an example for you and being.
He used the word for all and again to get back with the boy. I want to make you and me today is that one of the major ways that God would have you and me to overcome the lay of the sea and state in the church survey.
Is to overcome. First of all, her left reflects the left of the eye, and the thrives handsome. That strongman is still that Satan is doing his work. I never saw exemplified so much as I did in the Kingdom of Bhutan, a little country north of India, but I persuade him to understand. Two things struck me first of all.
I never felt the power of the devil so strong in any other place that fit into the world.
But equally true that the country was in peace. Everybody got seemed to get along with everybody else little children. But then every adult was safe. Couldn't believe it. We were told strangers and everything located them off the wooden make up to us. They they started we can do it. They wanted to roll them wrong on the tracks. Didn't know who we were. We were in a strange city. We worked with anybody just traveling there. They wanted the shifting for.
So it didn't matter at all. No one had ever told them to be worried about strangers.
Municipalities must, good Sir, your peace along the sea that has its way. Take your chisel, keeping things on the level of the way.
But now stronger than he has done.
He's taken from Satan all his armor and which is trust.
You know, if you and I are going to use so where to go? You choose and have the victory over safe and we can overcome in the same way, said the Lord Jesus. Yes.
One other overcoming John's Gospel, chapter 16.
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Last verse verse 33.
These things I have spoken unto you, that we might have.
Yeah, this is overlooked each other. Circulation, Circulation. Let's see a good cheer. I have an older cup of work.
When does that overcome? Now all that was a drunk.
That was at the cross.
The Lord Jesus overcame the world because of Satan, using this world through everything he had, if we could say it forever. Dear the Lord Jesus, He drew everything he had upon working.
The Lord Jesus overtake.
But how did you overcome by divine power? You could say to his disciples that I I could even now afraid of my Father, and you impressively send me more than 12 pieces of angels.
But then how much?
How about the morning? First time I accept you. What was the Father's with?
It came and overcome it, but here in the apex as well, my weakness and defeat. He won the knee and promised brought all our clothes beneath his feet. By me. God, yeah.
That's your fast and lying to breakfast. You and I can be overcomers only by accepting that in the world we will have privilege.
And that's not anything. But her relationship is not easy to endure. And there are many believers today who are sort of coming under and saying this is too much. And in foreign country, some are getting into the persecution.
So that's not coming to some of the assemblies in northern India because of the threat of persecution.
Some here in North America are giving us the precious proof of God because the pathway is too difficult. I talked with your brother back home many years ago who left over some difficulties in his local center, and when I questioned him about it, he said I really missed the breaking of bread. So he said I just wanted to go somewhere where there was peace and quiet.
I don't know how long that's going to last.
For the 40 years, the more you and I want to be faithful to the Lord. Rather in the world or even among fellow believers, they're going to find that there's tribulation because the world has invaded the Church of God.
It's about 390.
The Lord Jesus says there's a reward. You'll get to stick with me in my throat.
Even as I also overhear.
Pickle. It costs him overtime.
You're OK by doing the father's growth the actual when that also dilemma face the **** Father glorified lady and that settled the issue.
I went through now the Lord says I'm not promising you to use that. That's why we get more difficult if the Lord leads us to your love.
He is good here. I have overcome the Word, and you and I can be overcome spiritually.
Well, who has that invoice 181 one 81181. Thank you.
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No, OK.
Let's say another thing.
That's when I didn't wish it's going on by the living room.
And they come on top of our feeling. That's why I'm going to go out of the car together.
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Yeah. Can you please let me check?
It again and then there's a Firestone power and quality. I don't know how to do this. Under power upon the Lord will grow the light.
Umm, your life and God bless you and I'm feeling that we do.
Let's murder my daughter's grave and shouting right? I'll turn through and never leave her in the morning without my sins, when I'm proud to come and knock the sun.
Is there anything else I can help you with?
I guess I'm not gonna overtime. So we're just closing straight. The loving daughter's father in the destiny now.
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And our God, we realized that strength is not enough, but rather indeed in thee, our Lord Jesus Christ. For thou hast overcome before, and thou hast satis an example.
We pray that for Thy blessing on Thy precious Word, we thank You for the time we have had together over the weekend. But now we go back, as occurred, to real life. Now we go back to the difficulties, the tribulations, and the various things that will certainly seek to drag us. We pray them for help.
For they care over those of us that will be traveling, and for that rich blessing on each one.
Were we asked at all in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ?