Philippians 3:1-4

Philippians 3:1‑4
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Our gracious God and our loving Father, we thank Thee for thy grace towards us. We thank Thee for the Lord Jesus our Savior and what He's done for us. We think of His love and how our hearts toward Himself. And so as we sit here this morning, we ask though it's guide and directed to a portion of scripture that we would have before us, We pray that as we sit here, we might have our thoughts and our spiritual sight.
And our eyes open to see the glory of the Lord Jesus, our Savior.
We pray that our hearts might be warm towards Him, that there might be nothing, no other object before us. We ask for Thy blessing and help now. Thank Thee, our Father, for Thy goodness and love to us, and ask for Thy blessing in Jesus precious name, Amen. Amen.
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Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord to write the same things. You to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision, for we are the circumcision which worship God in the Spirit and in 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 hath, whereof he might trust in the flesh I more.
Circumcised the 8th day of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, and Hebrew of the Hebrews, as touching the law of 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 ye 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 to count them but dung.
That I may win Christ and be found in him, not having mine 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 in the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his suffering is 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, if that I may apprehend that for which also I 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 toward 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 any, and if in any other thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Nevertheless, where to 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 as ye have us as an example.
For many walk 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 glory is in their shame? Who mind earthly things. For our conversation is in heaven. From once, we from once also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Who shall change our 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.
Well, this works in nicely whether him doesn't it rather than that we had have I an object Lord below which would be by my heart. But see well here we have Christ as the object.
Of every true believer and.
It's a wonderful thing is that finally, my brother, rejoice in the Lord. What an encouragement it is when we see a fellow Christian that is a happy Christian rejoicing in the Lord. That's a marvelous thing for each of us. On the other hand, maybe it's discouraging to see a Christian that is always damned and maybe kind of sad. Well, how great it is.
If we're really rejoicing in the Lord in our hearts, it's really going to show in our lives and in our faces, isn't it?
There's another text in chapter 4.
They might just read it in connection with that. UH-44 says rejoice in the Lord always. And again I say rejoice. Uh, we have a lot to rejoice about.
But it's mainly in the Lord.
It's, uh, someone that asked a brother one time, I guess. Someone.
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He was asked a question many times, how are you? And one time, uh, I heard him say he answered it said, well, you asked me how I am. He says, uh, God is my loving father. Christ has shed his precious blood on the cross. He rose from the dead. My sins are great. So many all in his precious blood have been washed away. Heaven is my home and the Holy Spirit is my comforter. And you asked me how I am.
He, he said. I am rejoicing.
And I think what what we see here is we have a lot to rejoice about when we think of what God has done for us and we think of the enormous price that has been paid to redeem us. Can we not rejoice? Our hearts be full with joy. Now the script, there is a scripture that tells us with joy, with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Have you ever had that experience? And I think that's what a normal experience that God would have us to have.
Sorry to say that sometimes we lose sight of that.
And it's always good to see people rejoicing. I love to see the people rejoicing. And I'm gonna tell a little story that my wife sometimes and I have little, uh, private conversations that we were looking up on this person and he was so sad looking. His face was downcast. And I, it just seemed like he was so miserable. And uh, I said to my wife, I said, look, everything I said that man smiles. You're gonna break his jaw.
Well, you know, there's so much for us to smile about.
There's much for us to rejoice about If the blessed Savior is my Lord and Savior, a the Holy Spirit dwells within my heart and the great salvation that God has accomplished for me, I have a lot to rejoice about.
And there's another text just mentioning this in connection with First Thessalonians, where it says in the 5th chapter, rejoice ever more. And I think it says pray without ceasing and so forth. Well, that that's rejoicing. There is that. In fact, I think it goes on to say, and everything, give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. So rejoice every more. Even in tragedy we can rejoice. We still have something that our hearts may hurt.
Pain may flood our souls.
But there's still something above and beyond that we never lose sight of. And that's the what the Lord's love and grace that has reached down and saved us.
Just another verse on the subject of.
Of rejoicing is in first Peter chapter one and verse 8.
Where it speaks of the appearing of Jesus Christ at the end of verse seven, whom having not seen be loved.
In whom so now ye see him not yet believing, he rejoiced with joy unspeakable until the glory.
There's a rejoicing that not even words can express.
I suppose that when we read this scripture, our minds might go to hymn 135, which happens to be one of my favorite hems. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I sing it and I'll tell you one of the reasons is that I'm, I'm very bad on tunes. But I do know that tune and I love that Him. We joy in our God and we sing of that love so sovereign and free, which did his heart move. We've lost our condition or ruined, undone.
He saw with compassion and spared not his son. I love that him, but like I say, a very few hymns that I I'm not much on tune, but I do know that tune and I love that him. And I wake up laying in bed sometimes and sing that thing two or three times. So precious to think of his love.
This verse brings before us that.
It was a very, uh, introduction of Paul and Silas to.
Those who had come to put their trust in Christ at Philippi.
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Because it was in Philippi at midnight, their feet passed in stocks and their backs beaten that they sang praises.
To the Lord they prayed and sang praises, and, uh, what a wonderful work was wrought of God in that city.
By those who sang praises at midnight. And so rejoicing in the Lord has him as its objectives. We sung not earthly comfort, not earthly objects or things, because all those will disappoint us and there won't be any rejoicing whatsoever. There's only one object that can really fill and satisfy the heart that can really. We can rejoice and everything else is going to disappoint us. Everything is going to come short but one. And it's not rejoicing Jesus, but rejoicing.
The Lord, isn't it that owning that He's in control, who did they serve? They serve the Lord Christ when their feet were fast in those stalks. And so not only as the object of their souls, but as the one that they served, the one before whom they bowed. And this chapter takes up the energy that carries the believer.
Through the Pilgrim pathway and the right object before his soul to carry him in that pathway, You know, the flesh, all that we are by nature has no, uh, no resource, nothing in itself to, to, uh, carry us in the path of faith. And, uh, it's that Newman in Christ, that new creature that we are in Christ with a new object. Peter says that, uh, we're kept by the power of God.
And that's not where it ends. It says through faith. How does?
The power of God keep us in the path of faith by setting the objects before our faith that are proper to that faith. Christ Himself, the blessed hope that is ours as believers of Him.
Catching us up to be with Him, He keeps us by His power by setting.
The objects before the Newman, that new life, that new nature that we have, we have not only have a new life, but we have new objects for the faith that he's given us for that life. And so rejoice in the Lord is irregardless of circumstances, irregardless. We know in our experience that, uh, often it's our circumstances that drive our present state of soul. And, uh, as one said, you know, if, if.
You've been out after the rain and, uh, there's puddles out there and you, you walk along and I did it often as a boy. You look and it seems nice and Clearwater, but put a stick in there and give it a stir and you know what comes up? All the mud comes up. And so when circumstances are nice and clear, everything can be all right. And, but, uh, God changes those circumstances. He uses that stick and he stirs around and what comes up sometimes.
Always find what we're made of. We find if we really have Him as the object before us presently, or do circumstances drive us up and down in our state of soul? Well, here's that which, uh, lifts us above this scene and is the vehicle to carry us through this scene with the right objects before our heart. Christ himself in glory.
Let's see, that's a very important principle because if we get our eyes upon one another, it doesn't say don't make the mistake of rejoicing in your brother and apart from the Lord, because you're gonna be disappointed. Uh, it doesn't.
There is in every assembly, every congregation of Christian, there are those who are difficult to get along with. And you know the the old saying says to, to to draw above with the Saints I love that will be glory. But to draw below with the Saints I know well, that's another story. But we have to love one another and we do love one another. But there is sometimes there, there, there, the human nature being what it is.
Uh, every person in this room and every person in any assembly, we have all different levels of understanding. We have different levels of, uh, dedication. We have different levels of spiritual understanding. So we're not all the same. There's much weakness in all of us. So we have to be able to lovingly put up with one another. And I say that because if we're, we're going to put the brethren as the main object to which we're going to rejoice in, and that's wonderful.
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There's nothing wrong with that, but if we're gonna you, you're gonna find it. If you put your main force up on rejoicing in the brethren, you're gonna be very disappointed. Rejoice in the Lord and then he'll give us the grace to go on. And that's why the Scripture and Peter says to love, add a brotherly love. Other words, I mean to love. We love one another. I'm sure that that word is a general word and, and, and means that.
Uh, uh, the, the higher form of, of love, that's it. It's, it's the different things, but.
When it uses that word to add to love, brotherly love, that word is really Philadelphia. And it's the love of of that you can have, you should have, we ought to have for one, for another. But of course, personality conflicts come in. And I've been lived long enough to know and I've seen some of the human nature, not only with the gathered Saints, but also in other organizations. And when you have people come together, you, you have conflicts of personality.
That we have to be able to adjust and to go on.
And if we rejoice in the Lord, as we should, you'll give us the grace to do the rest.
Changes all the flippians. I may need a surprise and.
Uh, disheartened. And then he says terrified by the difficulties it came, uh, in being associated with the Lord, especially seeing how Paul was treated. So there's much set in Philippians about to them about, uh, false treatment and how they work the, uh, the car can buy that. So, uh, I'll use himself as an example and then even.
Saw that this was normal.
For us to realize that there is.
Difficulties that we enter into and we're, uh.
Say Holland and associated with the name of Christ that we wouldn't experience otherwise. And so fall, uh, encourages them to just to accept this and to rejoice in it to grow. But you know where?
Dangers too. There's open underwear of dogs and either workers beware of concession.
It's easy for us to just try and settle down and get along with who's around us.
I was really judging what is around us.
Try and avoid that difficulty I have to.
So there's lots of encouragement and there's warning here, too.
They can help you like to go through the chapter in an orderly way, but just to refer to verse 12, if we have the attitude that I, uh, Paul says neither as though I had already attained either were already perfect, but I follow after we all have that attitude of we are not perfect. We haven't detained. We're just followers. Then when it says, uh, in verse 15, if, uh, we're, we have that mind and if there's anything.
Than were otherwise minded. God shall reveal even that's unto you. It was a balance there of, of recognizing those things which have to be uh, we have to receive the warning against in these next two verses, but in the spirit of the verses which follow that we haven't attained, we're following and we count on the Lord to make us in the same mind.
And to sing the second part of the first first, there is the same things to you, to you, to me. Indeed, it's not a Trevis, but for you it is safe. Well, you know, uh, we need some repetition, don't we?
We don't get things that say the first time all the time and maybe we need to be reminded.
And so repetition, a certain amount of repetition is good.
But I was thinking of the warnings here that are better methods.
It suggested it's funny. In verse two it says beware of dogs.
Umm, to be aware of evil. We're cruise beware like some fish and so about they're on scene earth days and the dog will always be a dog. And so, umm, hopefully this isn't in the assembly, but it may be a person that's on the plane. They'll have a very bad effect. And then it says beware of evil workers.
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Well later on the Apostle Paul said beware of wolves that will enter in not.
The crafts the worst of all, and beware of the concessions.
And there's only these individuals believe that the flash is all right. All you have to do is trim it up a little better and the flesh is all right. There's so many people in Christianity Today that believe that. And, uh, that's really bad doctrine, isn't it?
But it says in verse three that we are the circumcision which worship God and the Spirit that is.
We, we believe that that the place is really bad. It isn't just nothing, it's really bad. There's nothing good in the flesh. And so we need to curse the new life, the divine life that the Lord gives us and the Holy Spirit to work on the divine life and applying it works. We're alive to get anything good at all.
I think a dog in Revelation there says without her dogs, her peripheral and they're under the table and can't leave anything out. Leave a sandwich on the table and they'll peel it. Leave your shoes where they can get at it. They'll shoot them. Sometimes they're something to be watched or at least have them in our houses and train them. But the dogs and dogs and I, and often as Lord never calls a believer a dog.
For a swine.
But, uh, there is.
That which is around us and or in contact with that character sort of being there the past we watched.
Thinking how easy it is to.
Judge things by just making a rule about it, just cutting it off.
Perhaps rules are necessary sometimes, and I was growing up, my parents had rules because I didn't understand the principle of why they were denying me something. But there was a rule about it, which is good if I don't have that understanding, but I I should circumcision really take judgment and and.
Discernment concession, when I think of that, I think is just cutting a thing off just.
To, uh, sort of with a rule without really judging what it is 'cause they're gonna have to pay them later. I don't really judge it.
Graham, you referred to uh, dogs into, uh, swine. Might be worth looking at second Peter, the, uh, second chapter and the last verse, verse 22.
It says, but it has happened on to them. According to the true proverbs. The dog has turned to his own vomit again. The salad was washed through her wallowing in the mire.
Umm, you also mentioned the that other place where I think the word dog is used in the same way in the end of Revelation, because I think you're the character of a dog in particular, like you've been mentioning in particular here is that they go back to what they were cleaned up from.
You know, they go back to what made them ill and in a spiritual sense, that's one of the things that we're to guard against. Or as it says in the Mr. Darby's translation, see two dogs. Umm, so.
Dogs are those who would go back, who take a place as being Christians and would go back into.
What, uh, they had turned their backs on. So it was turning back to, uh, thin again and uh, going after and chasing after their Luts.
Then, uh, he's mentioned too, there's new workers here and those would be those who in a sense of, uh, wanting to build something or to construct something would do that, which is evil. Perhaps to increase the numbers, perhaps to, uh, increase their own power base, whatever it might be. We're to, uh, see to those as well to be aware of them. And then, as uh, brother Norm mentioned, I'll be aware of the, uh, concision, Uh, that's those who would try and change what we are naturally.
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And, uh, and make it acceptable to God. And all three are those, uh, categories of people that we need to be on guard against and that kind of teaching that we need to be on guard against as well. And so it seems he has either written or said these things to them before him. So he said he's going to say it again because it's safe and that we do well to keep that ourselves. We sang about grace. We talk often about love. And it's important to, uh, pay attention to the fact that it's not necessarily great and it's not necessarily love to put up with evil.
In fact, that, uh, it's a thing to be on guard against in the past of, uh, true love. In the past of grace is to, uh, is to deal with evil.
In whichever these forms it, uh, it shows up. We need first to judge ourselves and then to be careful with those who we associate as well.
There's no confidence in the flesh.
I suppose that one of the leading sends that all of us are prone to is pride.
Too high opinion of oneself.
Listen, we're all affected by it. I used to play handball with the captain of the state Police Department, and he used to tell me that when he stopped some people and they would say to him, do you know who I am?
I suppose that happened quite frequently with many people, but you know, really, we're beggars off of the dunghill.
That's who God deals with. You don't wanna go up.
Go down.
Someone has said glow as low as air you will. He has gone lower still. The way up is the way down.
And even jealous of Christendom. Now there is a foot a program that is teaching Christians erroneous ideas of self esteem, self worth.
We that I haven't explored it, but I have. I've been familiar with slightly with it and I've heard evangelical teachers who have said that this is actually contrary to the word of God.
The Lord alone, if any man glory, let him glory in the Lord. We have no confidence in the flesh. If you wanna go up, you go down. Remember, God takes the beggar off of the dunghill. You wanna take that place before God? He, he, he can deal with you. But if you can have this pride about who you are or what you deserve or things like that, I mean, we all have to contend with that.
And I like the phrase, of course, Paul later on is going to give us a, a running description of himself who had all of the, the, the the potentials that that they have pride. And so we gotta be careful with that. No confidence in the flesh. Let us remember if we go from these meetings, no confidence in the flesh and let us rejoice in the Lord.
Reference was made to Act 20 by Brother Norm.
And I wonder whether you're aware of dogs would be that which comes into the outside. It's already been mentioned the dog never represents a true Christian.
Then we have the evil workers stop that's working from the inside. And uh, perhaps you just read those couple of verses and Acts 20.
Take heed, therefore, uh uh, Act 20, verse 28.
He, He therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers.
To feed the Church of God, which he had purchased with his own blood.
I know this, but after my departing shall grievous wolves.
That's dogs enter in among you, not sparing the flock at.
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Those who would come in from outside unsaved never were saved.
They've acted and there's Rob has already mentioned they go back to just what they work really are, but they come in from outside. We have to be aware of that. So we have to be in guard and we've been in our verse says beware, we're driving on the road and there's a sign up. Beware. We better pay attention or we're going to get into trouble, but then seems more serious. The 1St 30 we have also of your own self shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after themselves.
How dangerous. And so we're to beware of that too, to be careful and uh, that which is said, I trust even here we will uh, search it out to see what is the truth of God, otherwise the lead people away after themselves.
I think rather you hit a form of a nice word there to give attention to it, because I suppose the original force of this word be beware, it could be translated. See you to fact. That's the basic basic etymology of the word in the original the language. See to it, give it. Like our brother mentioned, give attention to it. We we come in contact with dogs every day. Not 4 legged dogs, two legged dogs.
Shameless evil.
People engaged in things. That is disheartening, frustrating.
Beware of dogs. They're shameless. They've been, they've, they've, uh, in, in, in incorporated practices that are just honoring and blasphemous to God. We have to be aware of them, see to it, avoid them. That's what we have to do.
In the thought of evil workers, it just is a.
Little exhortation for us.
Than one's experience that, uh, growing up in the assembly time comes as, as, uh, we mature that, uh, what we are becomes manifest, you know, and we're all little children running around and, uh, often we say we don't know, especially in connection with children who saved or who not, who's not. But as you grow up, it becomes manifest, you know, who's going on for the Lord and who's not. The Lord knoweth them that are his. The ones experience has been that those who are not Christ, who are not going on for the Lord will positively labor.
To corrupt.
Those who are.
And the only remedy is a separation from it. It'll be a positive laboring to corrupt those who are going on for the Lord. It's been one's own experience and I think others.
Would feel the same way and so there's AC to it. Beware.
Beware, and only by separation from that can we be preserved and kept.
Your other half and mix them together.
And we find this in, uh, just in the especially for that they give you some truth when you open up the Bible when they come to your door. But then again, they mix the other half, which is not true.
And this is where we need to be careful and have these disturbance.
To know what history.
Because if we mix half and half, if I take a half a glass of white milk and fill the other half with chocolate milk, it's not a white milk and it isn't chocolate milk, it's half and half.
And this is what we have before us is some truth.
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But also a lot of air. And this is where we have to be careful that we only see what is truthful and not to swallow what is bad for us or unfruitful to us. We want the pure milk of God, not a mixture of white milk and chocolate milk. But they want the truth. But they need to have that discernment.
So really what the apostle was dealing with here was the influences of those who sought to mix Judaism.
Oh, a the efforts of the first man to be accepted with God through ordinances in his own works. And really, I believe the, uh, influence of paganism out of which the Gentile believers came mixing together and coming to bear on Christianity. And really that mixture has been the bane of Christianity down through the ages and forms what we have.
Come to term and I believe scripturally so the camp.
When Israel came up out of Egypt and came into the wilderness, Moses went up into the mount to receive the law from God. And the children of Israel corrupted themselves. They made idols and uh.
They fell into wickedness.
And Moses pitched the Tabernacle outside of the camp and any who would come.
And want to be where the Lord was would have to leave the camp and go to where he had pitched that Tabernacle. And that's where the Lord met with Moses. And so there's a little picture there without going into all the detail of that mixture of things of Judaism and the Pagan, uh, background out of which Gentile believers came called the camp. And so Christianity has become infused with, uh, keeping.
Of the law and works for salvation and all the customs and rights that once were held in, uh, the Pagan religions that they came from and idol worship and blended together and the name of Christ put upon it. And really that's what I believe is considered in these verses. And many doctrines in Christianity have been concocted up from that mixture. And Mr. Darby had kind of a.
Way of putting things, you know, very concisely. And he said the problem with all those things is they produce, seek to produce results in the first man. And that's really what it was. Judaism sought to produce results in the first man. It proved he was completely bankrupt. Wherefore did the law come in between the promise given to Abraham and the gospel preached in Christianity? It came in to expose what man really was.
And show that he could produce nothing for God. All that the pagans sought to do and worshipping their gods and, and uh, Buddhism and Hinduism and all those things. Steps to enlightenment, self improvement has been mentioned.
There were things calculated to produce results in the first man. They never will be. The first man can produce nothing for God. And so the apostle goes on here saying.
Though I might also have confidence in the flesh, and that's what that confidence in the flesh is, that my flesh, I myself, as I am by nature born in this world, can produce something for God. He said no, nothing. And if there is anyone who thought they could produce something for God, he said who more than myself, look what I had, look what I had. You know, the pagans couldn't say, well, we got the oracles of God, we had the word of God, we had given to us the law of God and all they couldn't have.
Boasted of anything like that, but he as a Jew could, he could say, well, God gave us that perfect law for the first man, if he could live up to it, he would continue to live in this earth, and he had much to boast in after the flesh. And so the apostle lists all those things that he might have confidence in, that might be for his own credit, that he might come to God and say, Look what I am, I ought to be accepted.
Of God.
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But all that is left aside for what's presented to him later in the chapter, what he saw in Christ.
It eclipsed it all.
There are three warnings in the second verse and there are three items in the third verse that are characteristics of reality. Uh, we've talked about not having confidence in the flash. We've talked about rejoicing in Christ Jesus, but there's a third one. It's the first one in the list that is characteristic of reality and that is worshipping God in the spirit and by the spirit. And that's, uh, an important part to get straight, umm, a lot of people talk about worship today, but they don't understand what it is.
And when we talk about worship, what we're talking about is worshipping God in the Spirit. Like in John 4, the Father seeketh touch to worship Him in spirit and in truth. And the point that I want to make here is that worship is not.
Music, not instrumental music. It's not activity. What real, true worship is. What God is looking for is a response when the Spirit of God works in the heart of a believer to, uh, to Himself.
And to what he's done and to who he is. And so, uh, when you come together in the breaking of bread and let the Spirit of God lead, what he's working to produce is worship in our hearts. Thankfulness to God for who he is and what he's done.
And a true worship is created in our hearts as we consider the Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father, what they've done for us and who they are. And it's our response to that. It's what comes out of our hearts. It's not just the sound that comes out of our mouth. It's not that activity. It's not the prayers, but it's what comes out of the heart. It's expressed perhaps through our mouth, expressed perhaps by our actions, but real worship comes out of our hearts.
It's very important, brethren, that we never get carried away with a high opinion of ourselves and I know that I've been fighting that thing for quite a while, but thank the Lord, I believe he has given me some little bit of victory of it. I used to teach navigation and the boating safety for the state of Delaware and whenever they decided to write an article in the paper on on the voting safety or something, they the Fish and Wildlife who were my friends that used to tell them to call me.
Reporter had me on the phone.
And I guess I came across a little too authoritative. So anyhow, he said, and I guess, and, and uh, he said, uh, I guess you're an expert on these things. I said, let me tell you, Mr. I'm not expert in anything. I picked up a few things along the way. And that's the same with scripture. I have meticulously read William Kelly's lectures on a revelation five times at least. Do I know a lot of revelation? Not, not, not much. I forgot most that I read. We're, we're no authority. I'm no authority in anything. I've been studying the scriptures for over 50 years.
Am I authority on it? No, I know a few things. I have to look up things. I know how to find the answers, but none of us let's not get carried away with ourselves. Some of the biggest divisions among brethren have come because laboring brethren have got this big highfalutin idea that they were somebody and they just set forth some kind of a doctrine and oh, you have to listen to this now we're nobody if if we would just remember that no confidence in the flesh and don't have a high opinion. That's AI think the worst thing that plagues.
The Christian Christianity because people have too high opinion of themselves, too much pride in who they are and so forth. So I I think what we're gonna learn here from this is that a little bit of humility low I thy feet, Lord Jesus, This is the place for me. Here I have learned the lessons truth which has set me free, free from myself, Lord Jesus, free from the ways of men. Chains of thought that abound me can never bind me again.
None but thyself, Lord Jesus conquered this wayward will, but for thy love constraining I hide, and wondering still. Let us take that little place at his feet, and and it'll serve us good.
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Oh, they were just give thanks for what we've had this morning. We thank you for the warnings, especially against the pride of our own hearts and we pray that as we realize what it cost the in order to bring us into that relationship with the his Father and Lord Jesus that thou in giving thy life that's taken upon thee all that was so contrary to thy Father. We pray that as Lord and Savior now Lord of our lives, Lord Jesus, we might be subject.
To that which?
Is brought to our hearts by Thy Spirit, and that the rejoicing and the worship and praise might ascend to thee and to Thee Father. And we ask it in Jesus name, Amen.