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And be found in him.
Not having my own righteousness, which is of the law.
But that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.
But I made no Him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his suffering, being made conformable unto his death, if by any means I might attain under the resurrection of the dead.
Not as though I had already attained either. Already perfect.
But I follow after if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
My brother and I count not myself with apprehended.
But this one thing I do.
Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth into those things which are before.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Let us therefore as many as be perfect peace of minded.
And if in anything you be otherwise minded.
Yours will reveal even this unto you.
Nevertheless, where do we have already attained?
Let us walk by the same rule. Let us mind the same thing.
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as you have us for an example.
For many a walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you, even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ within the destruction.
God is our belly and whose glory is in their shame through mind earthly things.
For our conversation is in heaven.
And with also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Who will change our vile bodies, that it may be fashioned like under His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself?
Could we say that in chapter two we have the manner and in chapter 3 the old form of the land?
Just the two Christian humiliation, chapter 3 we're trying to resurrection.
Would that be your right thought? I'm sure he'll tell her bloody because now.
Right down here.
And the old corn of the land.
It's right up there.
That's just the character of these verses where we're reading now, isn't it? Particularly that is, it's bringing that out. It isn't so much that.
The mirror that we enjoy.
The truth of it practically in our souls, that's that's wonderful. But it's the fact that Paul is pressing on any thoughts and reaching out until that moment.
When you'll even have the body of glory and everything complete, well, he'll be in the rest. When he'll be with the Lord Jesus, just like him, with him, and everyone like him in every way. The full realization.
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Of of what that you speak of it heavily side effect.
I was thinking in the maximum brother father, that nothing that Christ ever did in life or death.
Is our righteousness and Christ Himself that we should be clear on this?
That without faith in Christ we never could possess that right with every believer has now.
Before God, being in Christ.
Notice how it's worded in that nice word.
To be found in him, not having my own righteousness with this of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ.
The righteousness which is absorbed by faith.
So every center who has accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal Savior possesses that righteousness.
Or who knows where it saves? God sees us in Christ before God.
Well, what was said about the Prodigal?
The reaches of all their house, and Father runs to meet him. Father says, bring forth the best robe and put it on.
Though he doesn't enter the house in the ranks that he was wearing when he was feeding the swine in the far country.
He comes into his father's house in the very best room. The father has to provide for it.
I suppose the reason the removal of the racks and the dirt is not mentioned is because God would have a not confined positive blessings. Not the righteous things we lose, but the things we gain through coming to Him.
And you're trying to and.
And Joshua the high priest was clothed in filthy garments.
My parents killed the same cost of of the best role.
And the coats of skin.
Say.
3rd chapter I think of Zechariah.
The third first our Joshua was low with filthy garments, then before the angels the answer is bigger. The world that stood before him saying, take away the filthy arm determined and under him he said, Behold, I have thought an equigated pass from thee, and I will close thee with chains of Raymond.
So as the Lord Himself.
That gives him the change of drink clothes.
And father his iniquity to pass from him.
But with the the prodigal, our brothers veterans, there's there's more additives or not. Yeah, that completes the whole picture until the the.
Saint of God is sitting and feeding on the fabric calf.
They don't have that here, do we? In Zachariah, there we have the rain. First, the cast shorts the factions of the ring, Eternal relationship. And you'll notice too, it says bring forth. It's all new.
Brought forth for the first time for the Prodigal.
And then you have the shoes on the feet. Perfect liberty forever the Father's house, never again to feel, never to feel. When I wonder, thought, see something on me that he disapproves of. Never perfect liberty there and then to sit down and feed on the fatty cap, the Excellency.
Of Christ.
The enjoyment, those hidden things.
The enjoyment of in our souls forever those hidden things that.
We're not seeing under the law they weren't allowed.
And yet two of the most phony men would tell them to take their shoes off, Weren't they? Verses and Joshua.
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Have enjoyed through the contrast between that which we received and that which we actually were guilty of, of giving to the Lord Jesus.
They departed, my garments among them, and cast lots upon my investors.
And in return he said, Bring forth the best robe and put it on here. They pierced my hands and my feet, put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet. Every blessing we receive seems to be the opposite to that which was given to the Lord Jesus in shame and suffering when he was here. And your marvelous thing to consider that perhaps all those soldiers were saying.
Because the Lord told his disciples to go out, but he says beginning at Jerusalem.
Go right back to the very place where they had crucified Him and when they had shouted away with Him. He will not have His plan to reign over us.
I'll have to wear the gospel of First to be sold out.
So there was an awkward faith, you know, the various soldiers pierced the side that he could have.
That crime forgiven could have a very landing period. Have your personal savior.
There is something in this scripture that our brother Barry Cooper attention to in Zechariah.
That isn't seen in the.
The simple translation we have here.
But where it speaks of a change of Raymond, I believe it should read Costly Raymond.
For festival Raymond, well, that's in line with what our brother Hayhoe was Speaking of.
The raiment cost something. The Lord Jesus Christ suffered from God over a Christian age. We might have this range. It's not just a mere change of Raymond, but look at the Raymond. We got costume and it's festival too. There's to talk about it and it fixes for glory.
I remember years ago hearing brothers go to give a talk on the prodigal son.
Bringing out God's power.
And he called attention to the fact that when the prodigal arrives.
That he didn't have father, he doesn't have to send to the store and have made it for the prodigal. He had a rope hanging up exactly finish that he didn't have to send through the shoes store and get shoes for it.
To the jewelry store to get a ring for him. That was all waiting and they plan following, he said. I believe that father was up on an elevated place looking out down the road for as soon as he comes in sights he doesn't fall the sword. But he said that wasn't all the father provided. He said he sent that family to the into the far country to bring him home.
It looked nice to notice too, that there will be one thought again.
Of being a certain.
And all that is said there in that scene is that that which expresses the joy of heaven.
Interaction with that parallel.
Because it is one parallelism, the sheet and the piece of silver.
And the God of the sun, it's really one parable, but it's all the joy of heaven. It's what it's what is found there in the heart of gods. His own heart is is satisfying.
When these children from all satisfied, and they'll be just like Christ with the sun, he greets him, he dresses him son. It's in the dignity of the one who has the inheritance, not a servant. That was the sons thought. But he doesn't express about. No, he can't express it now because he knows better now.
He's not observant, his son.
It began to be married, yes. And so I never ended.
And our joy will never end begins down here.
When it's for lesser measure in the father's house.
There's too solemn beginning there.
Says first in the far country he began to be alone.
Then you have a second they began to be married.
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For instance, the beginning.
Of misery for those on Christ. If he hadn't turned to the Father of His type, that beginning of misery would have continued.
And want to have lasted forever.
But all in the Father's house. It was just the beginning of the joy.
That never ends.
When he said make me as well as I am servants, it sounded like true humility, but it was really rich and try it after all thought he was still well enough and good enough to be a servant anyway.
And all he could look at now was the best role could look at those old rags with brass making feel humble.
Poor Sinner, he thin smile. He sees himself just as the following has the very best role he could provide.
One of the prominent things that we have in Luke is repentance.
And we find in connection with the piece of silver. I would just suggest this.
Consideration that it's a picture of what goes on.
As the prodigal is on his way home.
The woman sweeps the house.
It's a picture, I believe, of the work that's going on the Spirit of God is doing today. It's true, very true, that when that son sees the Father and the Father encloses things, covers him with kisses, he can't say, make me a higher shirt, he can't say. But it's just as true, brethren, that there was a sense of grace produced in his heart on the way home.
The work of the Spirit of God and our soul. And that's why the Word gathers us on occasions like this.
And that which was lost in the garden.
That was so precious.
I'm not setting aside controls of the Law Center precious to God, but I'm thinking too of what we have in the general character of Luke Gospel. There was something that had to be recovered, and that was the sense what grace would do.
And so the work is done in his soul. Does the woman sweep the house? There are two brooms in Scripture. There's one here in Luke. And that every heart must be slapped with that room. Otherwise if we swept with the bees of destruction, that's the broom of destruction. Isaiah 14. What a terrible day that'll be for those who have never repented, never confess themselves sinners before. Holy God.
Well, we have it here in Lucia.
Professionals of guilt 0. And now we find the father gardens. This best growth in Luke 15 was dropped out of the father's house.
Brain work the best role if they were told.
And.
That's why we have it now. We have righteousness in Christ. Now foreclose that righteousness because the role has been brought out and we've been closed in that race. That's why we're ready to to go to glory. And the apostle is so taken up with it that he wants to to get there and to see that one who paid the price that he might have this righteousness.
I mean no him know that Christ.
Satisfied with the heart.
Your father, old man now you young man, when he left right on his way to the past.
And read his voice and knew his and proved his love. Now we look over his life, all the hardships.
Persecution, stoning, being beaten with rocks and shipwrecks.
And danger everywhere he went. But we find that Christ hasn't failed to be the opposite of his heart and sex. He still wants to know more kids.
And that's my object, that it's possible to satisfy the long of a human heart, Christ himself.
This is the light that shining just a little brighter as we near that that moment is that what we have here in Colombia St. as we near home, the light gets brighter to us doesn't after the justice was like the shining light shining more and more under the perfect day.
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That perfect day when it was when we have reached the major of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Power of His resurrection here, I suppose, is in two different ways too. Now we can experience this in a spiritual way. Now that is walking the power of the new life that God has given to us. And then it's also in a physical way here, I believe.
And the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death, he had Christ so much before his soul, that he desired that Christ might be manifested in his pathway. And if going through death was necessary in the path of following Christ, he could rejoice in that, because he would experience the power of his resurrection in a physical way. The out resurrection one would call him out from among the dead to be thoroughly like the object that was before him.
At this time he could rejoice too, in being made the righteousness of God in him, but he was going to have the same righteousness too, when he stood before him. Because this is lovely for us to get hold of, will not have any better standing or any better righteousness, even in glory than we have right now. And if we lay hold of this in our souls, there will be a power that will sustain us in our walk down here.
Another is said that the devil said to Paul, if you go out and that's had your following why they'll kill you or because the apostles, then I'll be left much more like Christ because he was martyred in his pathway. So that was defeated the the efforts of the enemy to discourage him going on.
You might be conformable under his death.
Well we know the apostles is need a marker set when he doesn't second Timothy. The last chapter I'm ready to be offered up in the time of my departure is here.
Nothing good that glorious ends before him, he say. None of these, none of these things moved me.
Two things that the apostle at least two things that the Apostle never forgot.
His life one was the way he persecuted the Church of God.
The second one was when he was caught up in the paradise we have recorded in the Second Corinthians chapter 12.
There where he sees all that, he was caught up in the paradise and heard unspeakable words, which it is not awful for manned water.
Such a wonderful life. Glory. Isn't that the what we have before us here?
The glimpse of that blessed woman glory. And now he wants to know more of him. And we found in him.
Well, this is good for us all to remember that death is no loss to the believer, it's actual gain. And even though a believer is looking for the coming of the Lord Jesus all through his life, it's no loss if he should pass through death.
In First Thessalonians 4 it says the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds. And if death should come in the path of the boldness and following Christ bias game because as the apostle brings before us here, he would experience the power of his resurrection that would take him right out of death.
For it says in First Corinthians 3, all things are yours, whether life or death. Death belongs to the believer, it's actually ours. So that whether we go through it or whether the Lord should come and take us without going through it, there's nothing to fear. It's gain no matter what way the Lord may call us home, and whichever way we go, if again like us to Christ.
Called through death, Well, he's been in death, and if we're caught up to meet the Lord in the air while he was out with his disciples as far as Bethany and was caught up into heaven.
So it's it's like us to Christ, which ever weighing God with me to take us out of this thing.
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That's the thought, Brother Perry, in the Second Timothy chapter 4. You've already referred to it of the 18th First Second Timothy chapter 4, verse 18.
You referred to verse 6.
I'm now ready to be offered my the time of my departure, the past but in verse 18.
The apostle seems to have confidence. He says that the Lord shall deliver me from every evil worker, and he we know all of these.
The headed suffered martyrdom for Christ's sake, yet knowing too that he passed through the article of death, he knew that that would bring him into the very presence of the Lord, to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better. So with the evil work.
The Lord shall Remember Me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly Kingdom.
And to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Speaking of death.
And I think just a moment to.
To speak of it in this way.
You know when you go to the cemetery sometimes.
You see little graves.
And some of us have experienced.
That you know.
There's little ones laid away.
And we wonder sometimes about these things.
And of different ages.
The church is likely to know to a Pearl of great price.
And the jeweler was showing me once a string of pearls.
Very precious, costly pearls.
And I spoke of the different sizes of the Pearl, always said that doesn't make any difference, he says. They're all just as important. You wouldn't put that big one down on the end of the necklace.
He says those pearls are all just as justice, beautiful justice.
Full as they'll ever be, no matter what stage.
They're still just a complete burden, whether it's a small one, whether it's a big one, and the the Lord is going to have each one in that glory just as it pleases Him.
So let's remember brother, the Lord is doing all things he doesn't right? And he may take a little one home.
But it's according to his plan at purpose.
I'd like to ask the question is next with the power of his resurrection from Ephesians 1.
Verse 19.
By the exceeding greatness of His power to us were who believe according to the working of His mighty power, which He rock in Christ, when He raised him from the bed.
I have wondered why it is that the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ is spoken of as being a subject of such mighty power.
I just asked this question. Would it have anything to do with the fact that he actually took our place and died as our sin bearer? That such mighty power is spoken of his connection with his resurrection?
Never heard that Sonic Express, but I have one.
Mighty power that took Christ out of the dreams, seated Him in glory as the power that's working in the believer knowledge.
Or we are already on resurrection ground.
I see me when I go up. Remember that in the second change. So that's the that's the whirlwind.
That we're seeing there that took Elijah and and he crosses Jordan in that same power.
Does he know we connected with the Hebrews 2? Perhaps it would shed some light on it and Hebrews 2 and verse 14.
And I think it's a little different than the new translation. I'll just read it as it is in the new translation.
Hebrews 2 and verse 14.
Since therefore the children for take a flash of blood and flesh, he also in like manner took part in the same.
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That through death He might annul him who had the might of death, that is, the devil, and might set free all those who through fear of death, through the whole of their lifetime, were subject to *******. Satan was the one who led Adam and Eve into sin, into sin, and in that way death was brought into the world. And so he has spoken of as having the might of death. Well, it was only by that mighty victory that the Lord Jesus accomplished.
By taking up the question of sin, glorifying God about it, settling it, now there's a power that can come in and know the whole power of Satan that had brought death into the world. And the Lord Jesus rises triumphant. He went into, if one could speak in that way, Satan stronghold.
Rose triumphant over it, and that might that raised him, and now is seated in there is the same power that is toward us and is going to deliver us. But when we come to the final judgment of the loss, it says, and the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death, and not until the great white throne where the Lord Jesus sits is judged is the final penalty in connection with death.
Meted out and those who have died in their sins will be cast into that awful place of torment with Satan and that will be the complete, shall I say, victory over death by display. But for us, for us, it was all settled at the cross. And so it's death is our servant. Satan is a defeated false and that power is now working in US. The Lord Jesus is up on high. He is entered there as the forerunner for us and he is going to take us out of the power of death.
And associate us with Him in that glory. But all how awful for those for whom death has not been at all. They will have to meet that awful judgment of eternal death.
Well, the Lord himself has the key of death now.
That's the dominant fell at his feet is dead. I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I'm alive for evermore and have the keys of death and hating. I believe that the Lord took those keys away from Satan and straw.
Well now they can no longer have that micro death that he wants, that the keys are in the hands of the blessed convert over Satan and all his power.
And that's why death houses the terrorist rule of Christians that had to an old heaven saying.
3 heavy cars, mournful fears of death when he was told to make ready his house and he was to die. And then read about Steven looking up into heaven and saying Lord Jesus received my spirit on a difference.
Is it not also the same thought in Ephesians 2 where it speaks up in leading captivity captive?
That the Lord Jesus said death was what held men in captivity and Satan had that power because our brother Barry just remarked, the Lord Jesus has taken that power from him. Now he has the keys and he's gone up on high and the gifts have them to proclaim this victory.
And actually, those who have received gifts from an ascended Christ art are to proclaim his victory here in this world. And this way we are brought into the good of that victory. And as we enter into these precious truths in the word of God, we are brought into the liberty. Just like when they returned and said, well, there's a complete victory over Cicero and Oswald sister has been put to death. Well, people now can rejoice.
In freedom, liberty.
While the Lord Jesus has done that, and we who are his ought to be telling on his victory, whether it's as a evangelist, the sinners, or the pastors and teachers to the Saints, to enjoy what Christ has done.
I probably see the the.
The Mastering.
The truth the believers in in the resurrection of Lambda.
The Lord said to others, rolled you away the stone. He didn't roll away the stone himself.
But then he speaks the word of power and brings ladder for him, but the Lord doesn't listen.
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Lazarus when he came forth mount hand and crooked grave clothes, and asking about his face couldn't seem they couldn't use his arms or weights. Well, the Lord says to his disciples.
Seven and wagon door all their their definitely two works. The Lord is his service. One is to prepare the way thoughtful as we heard it last night I'm sure.
There was a powerful way that God says of rolling away the storm, opening the way it's all about that that glorious Savior can speak the word of life into a dead into a dead soul.
Then the last soul is walk more in life and it's a privilege to service others to lose it, and much of that's going on now. Connection with the Lord. Where is the loosening?
Sinners who have been given life, bringing them into the liberty and enjoyment of the mighty glorious victory that Christ as trumpet. Those were rolled away. The stone wouldn't be very popular, would they, because that exposed ladders in this corrupt conditions.
And so the preaching of the gospel that exposes sinners is not a popular gospel and will not be popular when we preach that kind of about.
In the very close would suggest, at least partially, that which would attach us to the earth here, the scene of death in a religious way, would it not? There are many things that would hold us here, and it's the privilege of one another.
To help one another.
And having our hearts fixed on heavenly things, being separated from this world. The man say this in that connection.
It wasn't the thing that was done suddenly.
And we mustn't expect.
That all this happens in one minute.
So in this same chapter.
We're looking ahead a moment these verses that were read this morning.
15 flat snippers many to be perfectly thus minded, and if anything you'd be otherwise minded. God shall reveal even this other you. But He does use the Saints. And then nevertheless, brother, we have already attained. Let us walk by the same rule. Let us mind the same thing.
And we have to be patient with one another and we have to be able.
By our own state of soul walking with God.
To to know when the right time to be a help to one another in these states.
What if one might ask the question and connection to a verse on the left, that verse in the second chapter of Ephesians?
5th 3rd.
Is that?
That indicates that the power is spoken of in the first chapter was an exercise here in our behalf.
Even when we were dead and sins had quick enough together with Christ.
That would be in his resurrection, but it's not.
And are being raised with him out of the place of that.
Reason.
Not only yes please.
The subject of getting life of its life and association with Christ himself so we can together that's behind us all together, but it's with Christ.
It's spoken out in two ways of the 5th and jar. I suppose that is that the hour is coming, but it also now is.
That is, there are those in the turn to the 5th is John.
The art of Gospel.
25th 1St barely barely I understand you of the hour is coming and now is dead, shall hear the voice of the son of God and they adhere to live.
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For as the Father hath lightened in himself, so He also given to the Son that I have life in himself, and I've given the authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.
Marvel not at this for the hours coming in which all that in the grave shall hear his voice.
It shall come forth. They have done good on the resurrection of life. They have done evil of the resurrection.
Of damnation so I believe in the first part and Speaking of the actual giving life the subject to this chapter that it needs to click there but also.
He's going to be the one that will.
Raise the damn and raise Lazarus, because he named Lazarus.
If he had just said come for it, all would have come for it. But he named lives Well, that's that's the first of all coming out from above the dead. But all those are in nice and be raised out through among the dead. And then we have the other class mentioned here 1000 years later too. Two parts to it, But I believe we do have life.
In nations too, but it's in association with the Lord Jesus.
It's in here.
Well, in Ephesians 2, I believe it's the spiritual side. When the Lord Jesus comes, it will be the physical thing, so that we're already seen as being seated in heaven, in the heavenlies in Christ now. But when the Lord Jesus comes, we'll be there, like the little hymn says, in soul and body, perfect, all glorified with thee. But now it's the same power that has raised us up now.
But it's only a spiritual thing, and our souls ought to be in the enjoyment of that now spiritually, but soon physically.
And the American experience of our chapter. You read it by any means.
I might obtain under the resurrection of the dead.
We have a goal before it.
Elections in South Here it's a little man in a race.
And he's straining every nerve to bring that prize at the end. And no matter.
How many difficulties? How many trials? Why he presses on?
And it's been said that one who is eager to win a race would throw away a bag of gold as quickly as he would the bag of pebbles, because it would only hinder him to gain the race. Oh, that's where the apostle has had objects, right?
And he wanted to attain to that glorious time in Christ will be displayed in all his power and glory.
My.
Power will be displaced on the Lord gives that shout in the air, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
He can feebly conceal of what that means. Think of all the Saints exodus all over the earth that have.
Have laid there for centuries, yet everyone can be raised. Come forward, you give that chance.
Interruption.
And the word for resurrection here is, I believe, the Spanish word.
And it means the resurrection from among the dead or that one out from among the dead. And really the thought here, So it's a specific resurrection, not a general resurrection. It's the specific one, the one that the apostle Paul had the revelation about.
As a bolt of John 5, the 1St is the same, then those that are done good, and then those that have done evil.
Are the last one that is those who have rejected all festivals, overtures of mercy, but John given you know when the Lord came down from the Mount of Transfiguration. He told his disciples that they were not television. So after the resurrection after his resurrection from the dead.
And the disciples questioned among themselves what the resurrection from the dead should mean. Well, they were not in front of the truth of resurrection.
Every Jew that was talked in the synagogue knew that it was a resurrection. Marley had the general idea that you.
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Well, we're taught in those days, she said. I know that he's arrived again in the resurrection.
In the resurrection but when the Lord hope of our resurrection from.
The dead or from among the dead I believe is the more correct question. That was something entirely new to this time.
That mom of the dead would be raised and others would be left behind.
And that part is brought before here. It's a New Testament.
The Lord is coming, and He will call all the sleeping things immediately, and He will take them to the Father's house.
To the last three verses of last 28 tests on our 7th.
Matthew, 2018.
Came with the state under that debate. All power is given underneath him.
That was.
Certainly take that in.
Whole subject where his power is exercised.
87 the 12Th verse. Not as though I already have seen either. We're all perfect, but I follow after you find me an African. I think it's really lay hold.
That which I am late full of Christ Jesus.
Well, we're very conscious that we haven't obtained for that glorious moment when you see the Lord in our glorified bodies.
Always pressing on with that.
Before it's sold.
To take into session like the children of Israel. Isn't it that the land is there her brother attention to that this morning. The children of Israel had to land all right theirs.
My craft got given to them, but some of them didn't even cross the jargon, didn't they?
Exercise.
They lost out in their experience down here in connection with it, didn't take possession of it until the apostle here is going to take possession of it now by faith. But there's such a thing as.
It's expecting that moment when you have full possession.
And there's then you'll have a body just like that body of body who doesn't say you will have full possession. That's what he's looking for.
I was just reading the other day in the book of Joshua, and I was quite impressed there that when they gathered together at Shiloh, the land was divided among them by lots before the Lord, That when their portion was made known, least tried. There was one tribe, the tribe of Judah, that said, we have more than we need. We could gladly let someone else have part of our inheritance.
And they gave away part of their inheritance because it was too much for them. That's the language the Scripture uses, too much for them. There was another tribe, the tribe of Dan, that said we would like still more. They heard it on their stores and went up into the Hill Country and enlarged their inheritance.
I thought it was so impressive to read the difference between the energy of those two tribes, one of which said this is more than we need, we gladly let someone else have part of it, and the other said we would like to have still more. Well may the Lord grant that as a result of being together at these meetings.
We may actually feel that this is truly a mind wealth and spiritual wisdom that we have here and that we might seek to lay hold its possessive and enjoy. Could we look for the person that connection Albert with physique the last chapter?
But it's more showing the.
The sovereign grace is actually with the final.
Setting form of the land to Israel.
And I believe a little picture of what will take place when we arrive at full.
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And the first verse of the 48th chapter of Ezekiel.
Now these are the names of the trials.
From the North End of the coast of the Way of Heplan that's on goes to Hammond Hazer and the border of Damascus, N to the coast of Mammoth.
These are his sides, east and West.
A fortune for Dan.
Now the question arises.
Why is it that Dan comes first? Why not Judah? Or why not the oldest?
Well, we have part of the answer.
In Revelation where we find the 144,000 minutes.
12 drive to the 7th chapter.
There Dan is missing.
When it drives your seal, the drive of dam is missing.
Well, there we have God's government.
And when it's God's government.
Dan is missing.
And his name means judgment, I believe. And there may be some association of that tribe, according to the prophecy of Jacob, with the Antichrist.
But after man's history is over.
God now deals out the land according to His own thoughts and grace, as He promised to Abraham and His sovereignty, not on the ground of their merits.
Damn, it was left out in Revelation against the first place.
And I'd like to speak to our hearts.
There might be those experiences we go through here that are very trying and we feel got in the hands of God's government and we may be left out of some things here that we like to have part in through that government.
But there's a day coming when he's going to deal with according to with us according to the dictates of his own heart, not our ways. He's going to pour out his heart of love from his people and deal with us according to that great heart of love.
And blessing.
Rather than our count, not myself to us apprehended the 1St 13.
But the one thing I do? Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth into those things which are before I press toward the mark.
Of the prize, the high point of the calling, high God in Christ.
So we get that part of one who was running in a race.
With the goal before him, we really get the.
The picture that this capture presents one draining every nerve.
To win last great time to how thy soul and the goal was before they wanted this great is Christ and glory.
We found Christ so precious. Now he's become the goal of the race, and he's right. And so he forgets the things that are behind.
I don't take that as.
The as the.
Wretched thing that one would gladly forget and never remember again, but it's those things that were really again with what is already mentioned that would have given me my high place of honor and distinction in this world. He forgets all that and he keeps survived fixed. Unless gold.
Glorify the Christ before it, and that's really what keeps us deadly on the pathway down here.
You ever want to make a beeline where you got to have your eye fixed on some object?
Get your eye over that object, you can make a very crooked pathway.
I thought of every boy has tried that and the soul and sometimes in his life.
And he can obviously for him and seeing how strange he could mark out of past in the snow.
Well, if his eye got off of that object for one moment.
Who's against to make a very crooked pathways? All conversions started out that way, didn't It started out by seeing Christ in glory and he wanted it to continue that way.
You want to continue having his eye on the Lord and glory, and that's what he's looking forward to. He was looking forward to.
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Ritchie, Christ and Lord, that was the prize before he speaks of it in the.
Yang first end of it, but I'm going to win Christ.
Father have Christ for my game at the end of the road and verse 12 not before hath already I paid or received the fries, but he says I'm pressing forward. I want that right. That's what I want to read, but that means.
Going toward that goal, he fixes his eye on.
Some of us have been farmers and some of the brothers here are farmers, and I think they know something about clouding the horses. I don't know if they do this thing with tractors or not.
But sometimes when we started blowing the field, we would start down the middle of the field.
We figure out just about what the middle was and we wanted the first person to be straight for that. I probably would would look like something. It would appear nice.
So we would put in mark at the opposite end of the field.
And we would start driving for that. Ozzy. Perhaps a white flag on a post.
And we try to guide the horses right for that, that flag at the end of the field. And if we kept our eye on that goal at the flag, the fur would be straight. But I remember once as a young fellow when my father was starting me out following.
I was to do that very day and when I got through about the middle of the field, I thought I'd look back and see how I was coming along.
Well, I found that when I got to the end of the field, I was a little crook in the fur right there where I looked back. I'd forgotten to keep my eye on that. Goal ahead continues. I remember the experience I had on the farm. I put a flag, as you say, up at the end of the field. But they were.
There were trees all back there, and instead of getting my eye on the plague, when I got my eye on the plate object in the trees and here I discovered that I played a client steering clear off from the what I intended to the fur I intended to make.
So there's a real warning for us.
There's danger of getting along. Many of us can get to the wrong object.
If it's making money.
It doesn't certainly price is the option getting a position in this world and getting.
The arm respect of others.
Anything that we can think of that becomes another object in Christ will lead us astray.
I think there's a warning here too, in connection with things like Victorious Life books, because they occupy us with our own progress and they lead to either discouragement or pride. If we get occupied with our own progress, we may get very discouraged because we feel we haven't been what we should be, and rightly so. And if we think we have been what we should be, then we get filled with pride.
How blessed it is that God sets Christ before us, and if we keep Him before us, although we have failed, there's restoration. But if we get occupied with ourselves and our own progress, it's certainly getting the eye off him. And indeed, this is the subject, is it not, brethren, of the whole chapter where we have been brought, we have been made the righteousness of God in Christ, and now our whole pathway flows from this.
Gratitude for what He has done for us. We get our eyes upon Him, the one who has accomplished this work and is glorified. And now we go on, conscious that we're not perfect, conscious that we're far from being fully like Him, but keeping our eye upon Him.
Perhaps this high calling?
Is contrasted with.
What we have, as Paul speaks of forgetting those things which are behind all the things that in the religious way would make something of a man down here. And so it's the pie falling.
Congress with the Jewish daughter.
My calling, but it's of God, you can be sure of that. And the skin Christ Jesus. So the believer now has his eye fixed on Christ, but he remembered that he has called, he has instructions.
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Vocation of Ephesians, so on. He has a calling. He has various instructions of the word of God as to Christian desimboli and the end of it. It's Christ and glory.
To the new translation is the Kalahan high is an entry that is that's where the Lord Jesus path ended.
Now that's where it's going to end for us, and we should have that before us. And the end of the chapter brings that before us when we will be like him, not only morally but physically, fully like him. But there's the the calling on high. We're just waiting for that moment when we're going to be called into his blessed presence and we're pressing on with that before us.
Thoughts in the 15th 1St you get that therefore as many as we purchased and if we turn back to the cross first, the process says now the though I had already attained, neither were already perfect.
All that's all that we need.
Discernment in connection with the things of God.
And we have to see what the Apollo is talking about.
Seeing the 12Th verse, he is, he says, and he is perfect, yet he is.
Fully conformed Christ, He has the body of glory, yet by Christ.
But Internet 15 First he says, let us therefore, and he includes himself among a certain class, As many as he prayed, he thus minded.
I behave that perfect in the 15th verse means having Christ as one comment. Now there's no question that the apostle Paul definitely had a Christ as his honor from the moment he met Christ there on the roads of the masters.
He had Christ before his well, he says as many as he was minded.
That is all who are like the apostles, with Christ as an object before their souls.
And he had been anything he be otherwise minded. God shall reveal even this unto you.
That's the way true unity among the things is maintained is by having Christ with novels and if we have different thoughts about different subjects and different things connected with.
The.
The things that are concerned the Christians, while the Lord will bring us more and more, have one mind.
About divine things.
But we say that the perfect Christian state is to have praise as the object the moment the eye is off him. Well then.
There has been departure from that, but when the eye is upon him, by one who has his eye upon the Lord won't sink. But alas, the work of the enemy is to get our eye off the Lord. And so if we don't see alike in things, it must be because there is some measure in which self has a place in US, and Christ isn't fully the object before us. Because one thing we can be sure that the Spirit of God is not going to teach.
Two believers, two different things about his truth.
Now we're not to try and force others to accept something, we have to.
Present it to them and allow the Spirit of God to work. Maybe it's ourselves that need to learn. It's the it's the point that when we go see like we seek to turn the eye to Christ.
Because in all truth, Christ will be the object. Christ will be the one who is before the soul.
And so he says, if in anything he be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
The distinction is then between that which is perfect and that which is otherwise.
It wouldn't quite leave leeway for.
Various.
Conflicting thoughts as the scripture. At least I wouldn't think it to be that way.
We do need very much grace and forbearance because we are so very, very often in need of being corrected and instructed ourselves. But the thought is otherwise mine. It seems to be in contrast with being perfect. Is that so?
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There are certain fundamental truths, as there's only one way to consider them.
But there are many interpretations of portions of scripture where one gets one view and another gets another view. Well, we shouldn't insist on our view and not consider the view of another reason.
I was just recognized that.
The cost of fall here, and it's a special place I suppose, as an impossible goal in setting an example.
Not only himself having taken the place of death, but being delivered to death that Jesus say, and his whole life being sent forth as a an example.
Delineation for those who after we should believe.
And so he sets this condition up.
Is seeing price of the body of the object and now he says for those who follow in that way in contrast with those who would set their hearts on earthly things especially.
Those religious things down here that would hold them to the earth in a religious way instead of having heavenly things before them. And not only did they have the truth of it, but the apostle here is an example of it.
In his life.
No, the apostles. Paul is the only one of the apostles who tell others follow him, follow me even as I follow train. Peter doesn't use language like that.
I believe the reason why the apostles fall is the only one of the apostles that is looked at as the parent Saints. It's because.
He's the only one that called Christ glory.
And the man to call.
Is the man who has seen Christ and glory and.
Such was the.
The the wonderful experience of having seen Christ and glorious.
To cover all. And he suffered. To count everything lost that was dear to his heart in this world, and to have only Christ.
As the one before it. And yet having seen Christ in glory has had such an effect upon one man, and the only man the dog took up there brought him back.
What want to speak to?
Me and that seat, and to be acquainted with that pleasant one, if he was so infused and fulfilled with the cost of the wonders of that person and his glory.
That nothing else with any value to it, just going on with Christ before dad and that brother barely practice truth. The end of the fall verse Paul realized.
Very definitely.
And he hasn't taken possession off by Christ Jesus. I believe that's the new translation thought there's possession of by Christ Jesus.
And him, and him alone.
Was his desire served and glorified?
I was thinking this 16 verse is very important in connection with this the 15th verse. Nevertheless that is in the end of the 15th verse it says if in anything he be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you nevertheless.
Where two we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. We'll never find the perfect group of Christians who will always think eyes. Why, if we were all in communion by the Spirit and had Christ as the object before us?
Why God would reveal these things to us so that we would go on together? But if we don't, isn't this lovely? In the 16th verse, where do we have already attained? In the family of God there are babes and young men and fathers. Can we not go on with those who perhaps haven't made the progress that we might like to see? Oh yes, we can, unless is our brother very remarked. There are certain fundamental things you have to stand for.
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But there are many things in which some of us certainly should be growing more than we have. Well, we can go on. And it says here, where do we have already attained? Let us walk by the same rule. So here is another. And he hasn't made much progress in the things of God.
What am I to do? Well, I seek to set the rule of the Christian life before him.
And the rule of the Christian life is to have Christ as his object. And what will be the result of this? Well, it says.
Let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. And so if I can get my brother, and if I can seek my grace myself to have praise with the object, why we go on. And I was thinking of even Paul when he was going up to Jerusalem that time.
He didn't realize that he had his eye upon his brethren instead of upon the Lord. He had such a love for his Jewish brethren that he wasn't really rising to his full privilege as the apostle of the Gentiles. Well, some sought to bring us before him and press upon him by the Spirit that he shouldn't go. And when they saw that he didn't receive it, they left and said, let the will of the Lord be done. Well, I think we have a beautiful example there of just what we have here. They didn't get angry with fall. They didn't press and say, you must accept this.
They left it and the Lord worked out in Paul's life in a in.
Allowing him to be put in prison, and then in prison he rolls to the full height of his ministry. And that which wasn't accomplished at that time was accomplished in God's ways with him. And so we see him in this beautiful epistle in prison.
But now he has learned to rise to his full, his full place as the apostle of the Gentiles, and he has Christ fully before him. Well, I think there's something instructive for us too, with dealing with our brethren and seeking to go on together. And remember, there's one rule of the Christian life, and thou is to have Christ as the object before the soul. His word is a guide for our feet.
This principle should be applied in the assembly and the exception also to the Lawrence table, because we receive one another to the glory of God.
And unless there's some evil connect to that person, that would prohibit their being gathered.
Their case should be considered.
And you know.
There's such a thing as learning.
At the table, that's where we learn, that's where the Spirit of God is free to minister the things of Christ to our souls and how many a person has had the grave control has taken off afterwards after they find their place and the the truth is ministered. Now when it comes to doctrine, it has to do with the personal Christ for everything evil and a moral way, of course.
Care of you received but there are many things that one could overlook knowing that the the spirit of God is in the midst who worked in the soul and to reduce that which would be pleasing in God's sight. The story you know is told of a.
My brother who came.
In the early days in England, with uniform on and he was all dressed up with his medals, one of the brothers felt that he shouldn't break crab.
But another brother said, well, leave him alone, he'll mole. Which he did. It was one of those medals in the mainland.
Something old brother, that'd be a different thing. Much different. Are you getting into that? Which is not right for the glory of the Lord Jesus.
Neither something very evil connected with evil.
And there are times, I believe when there is wisdom is waiting if there's any uncertainty about.
One path or whether one has.
Is going on with something very questionable.
A little time of waiting when I say much or later on and it won't hurt the ones who is has asked for services who have to wait until or clear it satisfied about the case. Especially in these days. In these days, yes, when there is so much.
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Mixing up with evil.
And I remember in Shanghai, I believe you've all heard of Brother Jansu, haven't you?
Chinese brother who died in prison camp, so he came to the meeting in Shanghai.
And also we received the Lord stable and the Chinese reverend said, well, we don't know too much about you, we'd like to prove you first.
They said be nice if you'll wait a little while, he said. I'm happy to do that.
I'll wait the Lord's time.
And that dear brother came to the Lord's Day morning meetings for six months and sat behind and waited.
Patiently and I'm going home. I said, well, we've certainly put it in the past. We've proved now we'll receive him. I mean one of the greatest blessings that little meaning ever had. A real godly man and a great help.
Isn't it true, brother? There were one.
Is unwilling to wait in a case like that. That definitely shows that they're not true reality in the heart. They don't value the first price or the place.
They have suddenly a nomad.
A good practice will be guided by today.
I knew another case where brothers were seeing the telephone. What you think of that brother?
I don't think we can lay any laws down. I don't think we can say that they have to wait six months or they have to wait two weeks or they have to wait any special time. But I do think that there is such a thing as a priest today that is moral judgment in the assembly where the Lord is in the mid believe that's what the priest is today is.
But as far heats and so often say you can't make rules, he said that you make truth be responsible for your rules.
Who said that well apart?
Haven't you heard him say that?
So many times rather than can't make rules, that's the only rules to make this the only rule to harvest the harvest.
Last Lord, say a strong man, that was a dear couple who had asked for their place and had been waiting for a little while, and they weren't just sure what the seating arrangement was for the remembrance of the Lord and that they came to me and said, would it be all right if at least we sat in the same room? We're waiting and we're willing to wait, but we would like to be as close as we can.
I thought it was such a lovely spirit. We're willing to wait, but we would like to be as close as we can.
Yeah.