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Alright, Lord Jesus, we thank Thee that we can come apart from the world and all the distractions around us and into this place of quietness.
With Thy word before us, to hear what Thou will say to us by Thy Spirit, we pray that Thou would give us each one, ears and hearts and minds, to listen to Thy Word, and that we would be built up and fed and encouraged in our lives to go on necessarily while it is day. We just pray that that would now lead us to a portion of Thy word that.
Would be suitable for the time ahead of us today and, uh, perhaps in the coming days too. And we would just commit this time to the asking for thy help, Lord Jesus, and thy alone precious and worthy name. Amen. Amen.
I suggest I take up five words of scripture.
That are found on the schedule.
Those 5 words are that I may know him.
The Apostle Paul.
When the Lord first spoke to him in his life.
Ask him a question, he said. Saul saw. Why persecutest thou me?
And the Apostle Paul answered that first statement.
With the question, Who art thou, Lord?
Who are thou, Lord? What's recorded in Philippians 3 is many years later in his Christian life.
You might have thought Paul would say, Well, I know him.
I know I'm And in one way he did.
But I suggest we take out Philippians 3 that we might have that desire, each one of us, to learn how to know him better in our lives.
Philippians, Chapter 3.
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord to write the same things to you. To me. Indeed it's not grievous, but for you it is safe. Beware of those, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. For we are the circumcision which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he has thereof half, half whereof he might trust in the flesh, I'm more.
Circumcised than the 8th day of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin.
In Hebrew of the Hebrews, as touching the law, a Pharisee concerning zeal, persecuting the church, touching the righteousness which is in the law blameless. But what things were gained to me? Those I counted lost for Christ, gay doubtless, And I count all things but lost for the Excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things. And you count them but dumb, that I may win Christ.
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, that I may know him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto His death, if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead, not as though I had already attained either were already perfect, but I follow after that I may apprehend.
That for which I also am apprehended of Christ Jesus, brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended. But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press through the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect. Be thus minded, and if anything, you be otherwise minded.
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God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereunto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us find the same thing. Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk. So is ye have for us.
Have us for an example.
For many walks, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you, even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose Lord, whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. For our conversation is in heaven. From once also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Who shall change your vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working, whereby He is able even to subdue?
All things unto himself.
Chapter plus three gives us practical things that hinder us and help us.
To know Him, to know him better than we know Him today. None of us know the Lord Jesus completely as we shall know him in glory. But hopefully every one of us, when this weekend is over, we'll know Him better than we knew Him. When we arrived, the Apostle Paul, I don't know how many years later, he said these words that he first asked the question, Who art thou, Lord?
But he certainly knew the Lord Jesus better.
From the day of his salvation. And yet as he brings out here, he still wanted to know him beyond what he already did know of him. So it's very practical if we look at it in a practical way for each one of us, whatever our age is. I think particularly of you that are younger starting out and you're perhaps Christian life, but it's true of all of us.
Just before getting into the content of the chapter, I'd like to refer over to John's Gospel Chapter 7.
Teen for a verse that connects itself with knowing him.
John chapter 17 and verse 3.
And this is life eternal.
That they might know these.
The only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
God created us to have a creature that could know Him and with whom he could enjoy.
Common thoughts, common feelings, with whom, as we would use the word, could have fellowship.
God himself finds his greatest joy and pleasure.
In his Son Jesus Christ, and so the apostle Paul in this chapter when he wanted to know him.
He wanted to know the one that God found his pleasure in and that he himself could find his own pleasure in him. And so that's really the essence of what eternal life is all about and why God has given us that life, because through that life we are enabled to know our God and have fellowship with Him. We are.
Enabled to know his son and have fellowship with him. Fellowship having to do with common and joy, common thoughts, common desires.
That we didn't used to have before we came to start knowing him as we can get from this chapter.
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He starts out, he says, brethren, rejoice in the Lord.
Practical question, isn't it?
We all sit in the our seats here in this room. Each one of us can say to ourselves, do I find joy in the Lord?
Is thinking about the Lord here this afternoon something that gives joy our pleasure?
If it doesn't and you went to heaven this afternoon, you'd be miserable.
You'd be miserable if you went to heaven this afternoon and you don't have any measure of joy in thinking about the Lord Jesus. The first thing you think in heaven is how soon can I get out of here? Because if the Lord Jesus isn't a joy in some way to your soul, there's nothing in heaven.
That would give you joy. Nothing.
A lot of people just kind of have the idea, well, someday I'm going to leave this world and.
If I have to leave it sometime.
I've heard about a heaven and I've heard about a hell, and hell sounds like a bad place and I don't really want to go there. So the alternative is heaven.
But it's not because heaven is important in some personal way, but rather it's the opposite of having to go to a bad sounding place to us.
And to the natural, until we accept the Lord Jesus, we don't find joy in Him really.
And in fact, the very opposite is true. This world, to the natural eye, is an exciting.
Place.
It's a place that their natural senses in us that rejoice in it, that want to have a part in it, that want to discover it.
There's an illusion. The illusion is that we can be happy.
By those that pursuit of it with the realist, without the realization that it's really an illusion that we'll never find peace and joy that lasts in us because the whole world lies in Satan's power so it can't satisfy it can't give us that lasting joy, but.
The Lord Jesus on the other hand, if we don't know Him.
It's like we have in Isaiah 53. There is no beauty that we should desire Him. We will not find Him naturally attractive to us until we start to know it. But if we begin to know Him, then we will find we are led on until He's everything.
He is fully satisfying to the.
Newman, as we call it, to the one who has eternal life, and that's what the Apostle Paul in this chapter, he had that life and he was finding the Lord Jesus more and more a joy that meant everything to his heart.
But to anyone in this room who doesn't, can't say. As Paul starts out here, rejoice in the Lord. If you can't find joy in Him now, then you're not going to be.
Satisfy.
We just had a couple days of activities with young people and I think just that everybody enjoyed the time together. There's some meetings, there's some other activities and there's enjoyment. But what part of it was enjoyment in the Lord? Because like, like it's been said in heaven, it's, it's gonna be about the Lord and rejoicing in him and.
What are we gonna do in Heaven and in Revelation? Chapter 19 gives us a start about what we're gonna do in heaven in Revelation 19.
10 verse 7.
Says, Let us be glad and rejoice, There's a rejoicing again. Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him. That's the Lord Jesus. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife hath made herself ready, and to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white. For the fine linen is the righteousness, righteousness of Saints. And so it's gonna be rejoicing in heaven.
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We're going to be rejoicing when we see the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who died for us and who's who's there in heaven waiting for the time when he can call you to be with him. He wants you to be with him. And that when we're called there, there's going to be the marriage supper of the land, and we're going to rejoice and be glad and give honor to those.
In the last chapter.
And Ted Russell said emojis.
To the Saints there.
He says that I trust in the Lord Jesus in verse 19.
To Santa Monica shortly answered you that I also may be of good comfort when I know your state, but I have no man like minded who will naturally care for your state.
Now this is an an encouragement for us because we know this young man.
It was introduced by the Apostle Paul.
And he liked him because he had the desire to really serve the Lord. And then he describes as somewhat there what this young man also suffered for the Lord, he said.
Just like today for all their all seek their own and not the things which are of Jesus Christ.
With this young man, he was one who saw the sings of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And then coming to the first word here, it says finally, my person, rejoice in the Lord.
Now.
I'm sure he meant that Timothy's was one who also rejoiced in in the Lord and he wrote to him to the Saints here about the things with the mortgage did have to suffer and but how he rejoiced in the world which he was doing for the Lord. And he says to write the same things to you to me indeed is not grievous.
It doesn't leave him to write these things about emojis because he knew.
He was a young man all out for the Lord and he didn't mind to suffer things.
While he was doing this.
And then what, uh, what's next thing is? He says.
To me it's not courageous, but for you it is safe.
It is for for us.
Safe to know these things?
That we can rejoice in the Lord also through suffering.
Or when we have to suffer. And those who are on the mission for youth, they will.
Be able to tell about it, how this work is going on and what it all involves.
Used to me, there's two big difficulties that the apostle Paul is addressing here and the first one we have is.
Uh, what he starts with in the middle of verse one, to write the same things onto you to me is indeed not grievous, but for you it is safe. And then he goes on to speak about the religion of the flesh that would appeal to the flesh law, legalism and the dangers of that. Then later on he goes on to the opposite down to verse 18, for instance, in 19, maybe summarized at the end of verse 19, those in mind earthly things and so.
Taken up with the things of the world, the complete opposite. And either way we can be attracted to fall down into those things as believers. Because he says finally, brethren.
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And the answer is what we started with, isn't it? Rejoice in the Lord, what He developed in this chapter, the answer to all those things that would attract their hearts and take us away as the Lord Himself, and to continue on rejoicing in Him and all that we have in Him. It's often struck me that with the Gentiles the course downward began with not being thankful in Romans 1.
And as believers, although we have the divine nature and we can.
Go on, we have the Holy Spirit.
Yes, the course downward begins similarly with us, by giving up that which is our life and our portion in Him, to rejoice in Him and take up with Christ every day.
I think it may be helpful in considering this chapter to look at a little background for those who might not know as much about the pistols to the Philippians and about the background of this epistle. In Acts chapter 16, the apostle Paul wanted to visit Asia, but he was stopped by the Holy Spirit, and then there was a vision that God gave him. A man of Macedonia said, come over and help us. And they went there in Acts chapter 16, and there was a woman praying by the river. There's supposed to be at least I believe maybe 10 men before they could have a synagogue.
So without the synagogue, he had to go where there was people who could hear the message of the gospel. And so that's when the message went out and they were taken and put into jail. And there was that earthquake and the Philippian jailer came to believe in Christ and he rejoiced with that Philippian jailer. So that was that was how the message got out there. The message came in. The city was on the edge of the Roman Empire. It was a city named after Alexander the Great's father, King Phillip.
And they were Roman citizens and they valued that citizenship. So we find at the end of this chapter that our citizenship is in heaven because they were proud of their Roman citizenship. But we we might be proud of our American or Canadian citizenship, but our citizenship is in heaven. And this letter came to them and that he had rejoiced with that Philippian jailer. And he writes, I believe, 16 times worth joy or rejoicing in this book we find in the previous chapter.
In the day of Christ, rejoicing with you all. In this chapter, rejoicing in the Lord, rejoicing in Christ Jesus, there was joy, there was a connection, there was a bond. It started there with a woman in prayer by a river and he was put in jail and bought divine deliverance and the salvation of a family. And we find in this book, in chapter one, we find that Christ is our life, Christ is our life. In chapter 2, Christ is our pattern.
In this chapter, Christ is our object.
In the last chapter of Christ is our strength. So Christ was everything the impossible this prosperous province. He was in a jail cell. He was writing a thank you note. Well, some of our thank you notes rather pale by comparison. There have been a few thank you letters I've heard over the years that have wanted to get copies of they were so good. But this four chapters was saying and we find in chapter one. I think it's helpful to to see how this start in chapter one and verse 3.
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you always in every prayer of mine, free while making requests with joy for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now. The apostle Paul knew they would stand with him, and that was precious to him. He had the message God had given him, and he was willing to go to jail for it. And these people were going to stand with him and do whatever it took. And you know, in life we've had people who stood with us in difficult circumstances maybe.
A parent or a brother or sister or a friend or some companion, and we know and we value that. And in Christ we have brothers and sisters in Christ and we're in fellowship for the gospel. This was precious. And there was rejoicing between them and the rejoicing was in Christ Jesus. They were rejoicing the Lord, but they were dangers. We live in a world where there are dangers from the very small children stopped, looked and listened. There's dangers. And when those dangers are neglected, tragedy happen.
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So sometimes we hear things and we say that's negative. Oh, that's just so negative. God and his love warns us in love because there are dangers in this world. If you swim out too far without a life jacket, if you go into a dangerous spot, there can be consequences. And God in his love and in his grace, wants to warn us that the apostle Paul warned them.
It's important in considering this chapter just to remember that connection.
There's a pattern given throughout this little letter, this thank you letter, where there was rejoicing, but it wasn't just in one another. It was in Christ's shoes, the one who loved us and gave himself for us.
Verse one to write the same things.
The same things.
It's a hindrance to knowing Christ.
If we constantly feel the need.
To measure everything by newness.
We live in a world of the present time.
When everything is constantly changing.
And we are unconsciously, particularly when we're young, conditioned to that character of the world where we constantly have to know something new.
The newest version of the cell phone, the newest this, the newest, that is, lives from one new to another. And if it's not new after a while, it's boring to the natural way in which we're being conditioned in the world in which we live. Here the apostle Paul is talking to write the same thing.
The same things.
To get to know the Lord Jesus, you're going to get to know one who is the same.
Yesterday, today, forever one who doesn't change.
In fact, when the Lord Jesus takes control of the world, there's clear indication from Scripture that the whole pattern of life on earth is going to go back to a more simple pattern of life than we're experiencing in the world right now, because that constant change does not in itself generate joy and happiness.
But the secret of it is to know himself as he is, and to want to know him.
What we talk about here this afternoon is two ways.
What I mean by that is.
The Lord Jesus now is a man.
Scripture says it's not good for a man to live alone.
She personally wants.
You to know him.
So that you and he can have fellowship and enjoy one another.
The Lord Jesus this afternoon would encourage each one of our hearts to get to know Him.
And it's a satisfaction to his own heart.
It brings the joy, even as weak as they were at the end of his life, The night before he dies, he says to his disciples, Ye are they which have continued with me. He appreciated that.
In any measure in which their souls entered, in which they didn't very well at that point, but in any measure in which they could enter in with him into what he was passing through.
It brought appreciation and joy to his heart. And so when we truly put aside those things that hinder us from getting to know him, and one of them is in a practical sense, that very pattern of thought that says I have to know something new. You don't have to know something new this weekend.
It isn't based on adding to your brain's knowledge.
The truth of the matter is to know the Lord Jesus.
Is to know is hard.
That's what you need to know. That's what I need to know is hard. If you say how well do you know that person?
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The re response is going to be or a way of measuring how well you know someone is to create a question and say how would that person react in that situation?
And if you really know how that person would react or think in that situation, you can say I know them or you we could say you know them.
Consequently, when the Lord Jesus when a matter comes up in life.
Our knowledge of himself is in the same way. What does he think about it? What is his thought about it?
And that's what the apostle Paul wanted to grow in, to know him better, because he found his joy in him.
In the second verse, he said of dogs.
A veil of evil workers, beware of the concession.
Of course he doesn't speak here with dogs. He speaks of men that behave like dogs.
My neighbor has a dog in his backyard.
He's constantly barking.
And always the same, same work.
I talked to him one time and said you know, your dog barks a lot.
He says, well, that's the only language he knows. He knows nothing else.
Have to understand that he does that.
Where people can be like that.
Whatever they say means nothing.
And you can have people as neighbors like that. They have to talk about a lot of things.
May may it be football or basketball, or lately it is the Hawks.
In the hockey players in in our area and and they talk about nothing but that and when you watch TV, it's the same thing I.
I wouldn't encourage anybody to do that, to watch TV. It's just like dogs barking really. They got nothing to say about the Lord Jesus.
Only about a single of this world, and in that sense they are evil workers.
Because they work against the things of God.
And they try to divide people.
It's very important to be aware when we see somebody.
It may cause a division that could be by anything, just something that we everyday do that we everyday eat.
Oh, and what we watch?
Just about anything, he says. Beware of these things. Don't even get involved.
When two people get together.
They have to find if they're going to spend much time together.
They have to find something, as we would use the expression of common ground, something of common interest.
In their conversation and their activity. And if you can't find some common interest with somebody.
Sometimes meet a total stranger and the to try to get the process started, something about the weather or something like that starts the conversation. But if after the weather's talked about or something that's in circumstances of your situation, what brings you together?
Is used up and there's nothing of common interest that develops in it. The conversation does. It doesn't have anything to feed on. It doesn't have anything to get started with.
If we're going to know Lord Jesus.
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Then we have to have common interest with those things that interest him, need to interest us.
Those things that are not of interest to the Lord, we wanna learn to say that's not important.
And so.
You find here these warnings about classes of people because those classes of people are such that don't have a common interest with the Lord Jesus.
And if we find our companionship, we're going to find it on grounds that are common with the Lord.
It's gonna be on something else that we wouldn't talk to the Lord about.
And wouldn't expect the Lord to talk to us about.
And so if we really want to rejoice in the Lord, we need to develop an interest in that which is common to us.
And not go down the road of finding our companionships and our friendships and our pattern of thought in those things that we can't share.
With the Lord we had a prayer meeting. We talked to the Lord an hour or so ago.
We may have been imperfect in it, but we certainly thought we were bringing before Him those things that are of interest to Him as well as to us, and that's what we shared. There are lots of other things that we could have said to the Lord that if somebody had said and someone else would have thought, or we might have all thought, whoa, what's he talking to the Lord about that?
Four, that's not the kind of thing you talk to the Lord about and so on. And so he warns them here and in also when he says in verse 3, beware of the concision, for we are the circumcision.
The conclusion was mixing two things.
Trying to have something that was, we'll call it not to get technical, something was Christian.
With in a religious way, with things that had to do with Judaism or something else that was religious but mixing.
Circumcision, as it's brought out here, had to do with separating things.
And to have fellowship with God.
There is involved in it certain kinds of separation. There are certain things that God won't have fellowship with us in and they hinder us from knowing Him. So if I try to mix things that God doesn't mix, or if I'm not willing to separate from things that I know I can't have fellowship with God in, both of them are going to hinder me from joy in the Lord and knowing Him.
But in the separation, then I may enjoy God. Just one more comment about it is in the matter of fellowship, which is how we get to know someone. In John's first epistle in chapter one, he lays a very strong point to those to whom he writes about getting to know God and enjoying eternal life and so on. He says God.
Is light. Why does he say that there God is light? Because what he's saying is to have fellowship with God.
Everything has to be out in the light. You can't deal with God in darkness. You know, we can have a measure of fellowship with each other on the with certain amount of darkness, we can find something that's common to us and we can enjoy it together.
But there can be other things in us that we wouldn't tell, we wouldn't share, we wouldn't make known to the other person what we do when they're not around and how we occupy ourselves and our time.
And so on. No, we wouldn't talk about that. We just would kind of have a measure of fellowship on things that fit.
Umm, we have a weekend like this and we act a certain way.
The Lord Jesus acted the same way every day, everywhere.
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He didn't have weekends where he came with a certain class of people and he acted a certain way. But then on Monday morning life changed and he acted a different way, with a different set of people and a different set of circumstances. And on Monday night he engaged with something else. Lord Jesus.
Was the same every single day.
And if we are to enjoy him and have fellowship with him, we have to do it on the same terms in the life. We can't have fellowship. We might say, well, Lord, I'll have fellowship with you on Carrollton weekend. But then kind of like Monday, I'm going to have my fellowship with some other things, some other people.
You don't get to know him that way.
We may be imperfect, we are. There's no finished products in this room, but we want to get to know him better. And to do it involves the willingness in the soul to say, if that hinders me, Lord, please help me to put it aside.
Verse 3.
Very important, he says. For we are the circumcision.
Of course he was a Jew.
When the Jews had to be circumcised.
But then it says something.
With a completely different background which worship God in the Spirit. Now worshipping in the Spirit, you don't have to be circumcised. You have to know the Lord, you have to know God, you have to know the Lord Jesus Christ.
And rejoice in the Lord Jesus Christ. Rejoice in Christ Jesus.
And then in confidence it's not going to be and do these things that thou shalt be saved.
Because we had no confidence in in the flesh, in doing things in the flesh.
We want to do, we want to be guided by the Spirit of God.
We can only do that if we have fellowship with him in the spirit. We talked to him first thing, we get up in the morning, we talk to him about the day, but how we could.
Tease him profitably and personally in the things we are doing.
We talked to him as a friend.
He knows that. He knows all things about us.
And but we can talk to him about things.
Which are spiritual things with concern.
Lloyds and the things of God we can talk about the rapture, the coming of the Lord Jesus and these things. They will make us rejoice.
Verse two and the dog would be one who makes the profession of Christianity but isn't real, ends up going back to its vomit as we have in second Peter chapter 2 or Revelation also says without our dogs. So it's a terrible characterization of one who comes in among the Lord's people but does not have that reality. But then it goes to the evil workers, the ones.
Who is not raised as to the question of their reality, but what they're doing. And so there would be those and any of us could do this to be among the Lord's people and.
Build there in a way that is not right. This is particularly bad as the evil workers, those who actually take upon themselves to destroy that which is in Christianity. And then we had the concision.
Which has been mentioned. Is that which is not the separation really a mutilation, Mutilation, mixing things. And so perhaps there are those who don't just try to bring in that which is wrong, but they try to take something and just mix it in with what is right. That might be the most dangerous of all. And that was happening very actively with the Judaizing teachers all through the New Testament. We still have that today.
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But he says we are the circumcision.
And I think it's helpful to talking about actual physical circumcision at all. And for myself, I really helped by what the apostle brings out in Romans chapter 2 with regard to what a true Jew is. He brings in the spiritual side of that, and verse 2080 says he is not a Jew, which is 1 outwardly. Neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh.
Romans 229 But he is a Jew, which is 1. Inwardly in circumcision of.
That of the heart in this spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not of man, but of God. And so this circumcision is having that.
Flesh cut off, Really. What is that talking about? Our position under Adam, all that we work and as believers now we understand that we are not in the flesh anymore. We've been talking about that in the last couple of days, but now?
We are in a whole new position as having died with Christ and risen with him, and so it's something that's not.
Any longer?
We're not part of that old thing, but we're now put in Christ. And so he says that's who we are. We're the circumcision, that which is real, the Spirit, and that is where the true worship to God is.
And that is where we have the rejoicing in Christ Jesus as believers. And so that's why it's very important to understand our position in Christ and understand that we are not any longer in that old position that we were born in under Adam when we accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, our Jesus before God changed entirely. We can't take up with those things at all anymore. We have to take up with what is now our proper placing, positioning Christ.
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Colossians, chapter 2.
Colossians, chapter 2.
Maybe this will help some. We don't have time to really explain it. It's time. But what we're going to read about in the Old Testament?
Is likened to what took place after the children of Israel went from the wilderness through the Red Sea, got into the promised land and went to a place called Gilgal. And what's described here is that new position that they had been brought into and what Tim has just said. So it says in second in Colossians chapter 2.
And verse 11 and this is the same circumcision. It's not the physical Jewish circumcision that's in view in in our chapter, but he says in verse 11 here in whom ye also are circumcised.
With the circumcision made without hands, and putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ buried with him in baptism, Wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead, and you being dead in your sins, and the uncircumcision of your flesh.
He quickened together with him having forgiven you all trespasses and so on. The thought just to try to summarize without explaining it in detail is.
To be identified with the Lord Jesus, to enjoy him, to know him, we have to separate from all that we once believed in as to our natural flesh, all the power of it, all the wisdom of it, all the strength of it, all the desires of it, they're all ruined. They're perverted.
The flesh doesn't have power to do the will of God, and it doesn't have the desire to either, but it satisfies its own lust.
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Another brother once said, the will and us, the will engaged in evil, feeds on sinful desires and wastes itself without fruit. So we have to be brought through the cross, through the death of Christ, into a new place and position with God, to be the true circumcision, and then we can worship God by the Spirit.
And we can rejoice in the Lord in that new place.
The circumcision is to make a complete separation. And so with the concision, there may have been, umm, suffering in connection with, uh, man's efforts to please God, but he didn't, doesn't recognize himself as being totally worthless in the flesh. Circumcision is to to take and to remove, as it were, the flesh, and to consider it useless.
Uh, one in the concision doesn't consider the flush useless.
#15.
Thy mercy found us in our sins and gave us to believe, and in believing peace we found in thy Christ who lives #15.
All that we were hearts and guardians.
Guardian was all.
Known.
In the heart wicked, How many different things?
Laughter on our brain is laughing out loud.
Lord Jesus sweet, just give thanks that you're a friend that sticks closer than a brother, a friend that wants to have a fellowship with us. We stand that our hearts would be such that we would not be filled with this world, but be filled with the Lord Jesus and filled with the Spirit. We just give thanks for these meetings today in Jesus name, Amen.
Thank you for your time.