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Philippians, Chapter 3.
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord.
To write the same thing to you, me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
Beware of dogs. Beware of evil workers.
Beware of the concessions.
And we are the circumstances which worship God in the Spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus.
And have no confidence in the flag.
Though I might also have confidence in the flag.
If any other man thinketh that he has whereof he might trust in the collection more circumcised the 8th day.
Of the stock of Israel, Of the tribe of Benjamin.
And Hebrew to Hebrew.
Touching the law of Pharisees.
Concerning zeal persecuting the Church.
Touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
So what things were gained to me? Those I counted lost for Christ?
When I count all things but lost to the Excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.
For whom I suffered the loss of all things, and to count them but done, that it 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 my Savior. But 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 under the resurrection of the dead.
Not as though I had already attained either. We're already perfect. But I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended as Christ Jesus.
Brother, I count out myself to have apprehended.
But there's one thing I do.
Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth under those things which are before, I press toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God, and Christ be them.
Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded.
And if in anything you'd be otherwise minded, God 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, the followers together with me, and mark them which walked. So if you have us for an example.
For many walkers whom I have told you often, and I'll tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of God, who then does destruction, who have guarded their belly, and it was glorious in their shame through mind earthly things.
Where our conversation is in heaven.
From whence also we look for the sage of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We will change our vile bodies, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body.
According to the working whereby he is able even to do all things unto himself.
Seeing that this after almost with a expectation based on.
Has already been bought the same.
In the second chapter.
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And probably didn't mention it or if I remember.
That we have 4 towers for the Christian law in that second chapter.
The first is the garden itself.
Then we have the Apostle Paul.
Who was willing to be just the library poured out on the sacrifice of the Saints on the tumble holy place he took himself back to with his hair ministry to the face. He could only be a library poured out being this sacrifice. He is a library or to punish. And we have Timothy.
From the apostles, we have no man like mine who actually care for your faith.
And in contrast with chemistry's faithful walk behind the state of death.
In the midst of such equation and departure where he had the same and all seek their own opposition through Jesus Christ and I've spoken about the people of God.
Getting into a such a worldly law states the present things before.
But here was a pattern for the Saints, a man of lonely apocalypse who will naturally care for your state. You have a heart for the people of God and sought to encourage them and help them on without any problem of being of any importance Himself.
Well then we have half tonight.
In order to carry the contribution that was sent from Philippi, Patrick Davis had gone in person. He couldn't get his mail, the money order, express orders and the impossible role. Someone had to go and take that.
Help for the apostles and such was the rigor journey that he took it home and cost in his life.
That probably means when he established.
Because of the work of Christ, He was nigh on his death for the work of Christ.
And that shows that the work of Christ isn't always.
And the gospel.
Or ministering the Word. It's looked upon here just as much of the service in Christ.
Servant with Christ in connection with His financial affairs.
As it was to be serving in the mighty way, the apostle himself was serving dogs.
And this touching pill in connection with the catalyst.
That you are sorry.
For it says for He longed for you all at 26th verse of chapter 2.
And were full of heaviness because that he's heard that he had been sick.
The sorrow wasn't because of the sufferings and bodies he had experienced but but the sorrow of heart he experienced. What you think of the sadness in his home local assembly where his brother would have heard about his business and be sorry about his condition? So again we have another lovely pattern.
The one who thought not of self, who was thinking of Christ and what promoted His glory.
So we have the friggin patterns.
In Christ have the dear of Consul himself, and then Timothy, a young man.
To serve the Lord in such a devoted way, knowing that young man cannot call upon to wait till they get in advanced years before they can be among the faithful service Christ. It was the young man that was serving Christ and that formally positive and was not only preaching the gospel, but he cared for all their needs.
Well, the same to God and then his dear pastor divers.
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Who had served the powerful at the time of trade the stress need or would you find that the last chapter must be apartment that's an important.
In in the Gospel of Matthew we have various parables and one of them is the referral of great prize.
I believe a Pearl is a symbol of feminine graciousness.
Let's leave it here. Consider that.
In this second chapter, we've been to had before us.
We have the subject of graciousness.
It's the Lord Jesus coming down in his grace to man.
And so, as our brothers expressed, the Apostle Paul.
Has been set before us as as an example of pattern too in his life.
Of what the Spirit of God has brought through grace.
And so, Timothy?
And.
Sophoditus, now the apostle Paul, was an insolent, an older, very man.
Before he was converted.
Let's see what the Spirit of God has done.
In our chapter that we're considering today.
We have contrast.
Between that which is simply legalism of the flesh.
And that which is the result of the grace that God himself imparts to his people. But it's the assembly but not.
And so we have now this grace manifested and the exhortation in this third chapter of Philippians, no doubt based on what we've had.
Before.
How you and I should conduct ourselves here as Christians.
Manifesting.
Just in the measure in which grace has given us.
Christ be played to the message, and it isn't becoming for us as Saints to show a legal spirit.
But it's always the natural tendency for our communion.
You know, instead of of Jacob his sons at the time of famine.
That they looked one upon another and it usually is an indication rather than our souls of families when we begin to look at others and and pick at them.
And find their faults. But isn't it nice that all the horses of the Tabernacle?
Were covered over with gold. There were knots underneath, but the bars were covered with gold. And we have the right to consider our president in that life. Now I know that in our third chapter, it isn't the gross things of evil that the apostles calling before us, rather those religious things that the flesh trusts in.
But still, it's legalism that he calls to our attention and the energy of the spirit now that will fix its eyes on that one object so that we might be delivered from that spirit of legalism.
As the law here is presented this way.
Really says rejoice in the Lord.
Time is the first chapter.
At the enemy had thought to discourage the apartment by.
Having been walking and to add affliction to his heart.
We pretended to be very into the problem, but the impossible to rejoice that even Christian and their intention, and then in the 26th verse.
One, he says that you're rejoicing, maybe more abundant in Christ Jesus by my coming to you again. Well, they could look forward to rejoice, Father once more having a visit from their dear Father.
Now the impossible gives us.
The highest?
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You know he can reach and he said finally my bread and rejoice in the Lord.
I'll let you know the privilege that never denied the Saints of God.
And they may not always be able to resource in our circumstances.
And sometimes our brethren breathless, so we can't rejoice in them, but we can always rejoice in the Lord. And you see that spirit of rejoicing.
And having Christ as the as the object before the soul all through this person. So when he gets to the last chapter, he says rejoice and the Lord always and again I may rejoice.
And that was another asset. There's no epistle.
Like the person to the Philippians.
Where where you can hear the clanking on the chains all through this vessel. For Paul was a prisoner at Roll. But there isn't another temple where there's so much joy, so much about rejoicing.
There's always that that lifts the heart, but.
Farrow difficulties of this thing have blessed man not a fall, not a failure seen in his blessed life the more we look into his pathway.
Consider His ways, for our hearts are filled with joy and rejoicing. There is an object that never fails and never disappoints the one who is occupied with Him.
I was noticing in the second verse there are three things, three warnings there.
Which would hinder our rejoicing in the Lord Father not.
Second verse Beware of dogs.
Well, dogs are hooked upon in these, particularly as unseen things.
And verse and so forth would have a defiling of films upon once and so hinder they're rejoicing in the Lord.
Since beware of evil workers, those in whom evil is actually working.
And then healing influence over others.
And there is be Beware of the concessions.
Well, the apostle says information fine.
To behold by fall sound to you, that if he be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Speak so that coming off of the flesh doesn't not but the apartment could say in the next verse or we are the circumcision which is God and Spirit and rejoice in Christ need doesn't have no confidence in the flesh.
So these are three important warnings something.
These things work in the are rejoicing in the Lord.
Daughter, what Gentiles are before they receive Christ.
There's no sense of grace because there's no grace in the natural man. Or there might be.
Things that show out in natural.
The things that you've called race, but it doesn't last. And as soon as one is tested, we see the flesh coming out. But it's only in Christianity that the Spirit of God makes control of Amanda, that these things.
Are manifested, it cannot be in the play.
Mr. Darby says that if the dogs are those who stand around and bark at the inconsistency of Christians.
I think it's really his own studio icing teachers that were ever collecting the Saints, just as you were saying from the plumbing by singing to bring the Saints under law, legalism and the apostle here has seen so much.
Of their wretched ways and the sad consequences of their including into the working Lord.
And he doesn't hesitate to speak of it in this way. Beware of dogs.
Course the dog today is my attention. In those days it was a scavenger. A registration is not around.
8 bottles unclean.
So if possible, doesn't hesitate.
More than them as to the danger of those who come around with a legal system, but the same under the law, instead of giving them the ministry of Christ.
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Of grace for their soul.
Consisting on the on genealogy and so and those things that had to do with a system that now was set aside.
The Jewish system.
Its traditions and all offered observances were set aside.
And the law as a basis of receiving eternal life.
And never could give.
If you're talking sees here and set aside, there's a new righteousness that he knows. But those who would insist on on their family, their heritage.
There the concession. They insist on these things.
And you know, really if if the Jew would search back far enough that he would find he had no claim on that basis at all, because it was only Ishmael would have the claim at the basis of of nature. And that's taken up in Galatians. The apostle takes out carefully to show that if the Jew is blaming anything but the ground of faith and he had no claim at all. So Christianity shows us that was true basis.
And that is the the simple, childlike faith of the work that Christ has done. And then trusting in the righteousness, there's not a man at all, it's a God.
Always afraid of that, we have here in the third chapter rejoice in the Lord, and then again in the 4th chapter.
Of the precious truth which we've had in the second chapter.
Christ himself.
And the sacred of our rejoicing to the Lord.
With me as we are in subjection or submission.
To to warns well, and as we are in obedience to His word for we define both.
And Christ submission as well as obedience. And it's all right to read these chapters over and emphasize, rejoice in the Lord.
When we're not going on in the in communion with that question one.
I find that it's very easy to sit in the reading meeting and make these or whoever these precious purses.
But the secret of it all is in connection with our communion and walk with right and subjection or submission to His will and obedience to the Word, then there would be no room for that whole legality that will refer to them.
It would be a price where the price will not be.
Legality, old as it is.
That White Brother and Mary, yeah, I think health will illustrate as to the difference between the town season and the circumstances.
To think of a tree.
Well, if it's a tree, that bearing only weren't the truth.
Someone might say, well, that's grown the tree and fix it up. Well, that's that's what you have this beauty I consistent and is improving the old man in the place trying to make something good out of the place. So that's just pruning up the trees.
That there is nothing but bad truth but circumstances, meaning of which is cutting off and is digging an axe and cutting the street completely down just down the back itself to act now. Also the axe was made under the roof of the tree, and every tree that bringeth not the corn foot truth is groomed down the passage of the pirates.
All that circumcision being done of the lake.
In every Africa you can think of it where it's religious inflation or whether it's social deflation, various place appears something that Panama needs thought they letter in the place.
Cannot please dog.
That's man energized only by the old lady. He cannot breathe dogs.
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But we also say that perhaps dogs would bring before us the thought of shameless evil, because they're the two extremes that were liable to go to. We can drift to the extreme of the galloping, or we can drift to the extreme of positive carelessness about evil, and both are warned against. I believe in this verse. I was thinking too of it in connection with the disciples.
On the mouth, how happy they were on that mount of Transfiguration when they saw the Lord Jesus in his glory. But then when they came down to the mouth from the from the mount, they found their weakness to meet the situations that they had to face down at the bottom of the mountain.
So we and these things, we have been occupied with the Lord Jesus and I'm sure in our measure, each one of us have been glad to rejoice in him. But rather than these meetings are not going to continue. If the Lord leaves us here to the end of the day, we're going to, as it were, come down from the mountain and we're going to have to face the realities of life. And there are snares that beat us. There are the there's a shameless evil in which the world walks.
And let us not think, because we have been enjoying these happy meetings that were automatically protected against all these things, we need to be warned. The flesh is still in us, and unless we keep it in the place of death, why often we'll find their own weakness right after such a happy time as this.
Just like the disciples, for them we can drift into the other extreme of setting up certain standards of legality. This also is another thing that could be a snare to our hearts. And so I believe that He brings before us. Rejoice in the Lord. He warns us of these two extremities.
Then goes on to occupy us with the Lord Jesus, the object before us, the object in glory. But let us never forget that the flesh is still in us. And as it's been remarked, it's not just correcting the flash, you're helping it. It's seeing where God has put it in the death of Christ and judging it and turning from it to be occupied with the Lord Jesus, but never trusting the flesh at all.
Have no confidence in the place and in order just before that, for we are the circumcision which wishes gods and the spirit. Be that my experience.
And rejoice in Christ Jesus, and give no confidence to the plain. Know when the Lord was talking to the woman at factors.
He said that neither at this mountain or yet at Jerusalem.
Well, we might turn to it before.
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Jesus said unto her, one believe me, they are coming when he shall be there in this mountain there yet at Jerusalem worship the problem. He worth it. He know not far we know about we work.
Salvation is of the Jews, but they are common, and now is when the true Worcestershire works. The problem is spirit and in truth, for the Father sicketh us to worship him. God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must work in Him and Spirit and His truth.
So that is a very clear verse and sure enough that any kind of of work.
So-called and pressing them to say that he is an imitation of the Jewish system.
Gorgeous temple.
Or trained fire. Or they had the markers and all kinds of musical instruments and the worship of Jehovah.
But the Lord sets all that in the side when he says neither in this mountain.
But that was only a false religion and that the Lord didn't recognize. But Jerusalem that time was the center that God had given for the worship of his people.
But that kind of a worship is set aside, and he speaks over time.
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When they would worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
Now there is private distinction there.
From the worship of the Old Testament.
To see they find the people of Israel worshipping afar off. It has never entered the sanctuary.
But now that Christ has died, the veil has been wrapped from top to bottom. We're permitted to worship within the veil.
That is the veil with friends. Our souls draw near unto and from the great marvelous truth, that by faith we can go into the coldest all and work. I notice this distinction too. It says that the worshiper is here worship in spirit and in truth. Now you could say of the Old Testament Saints that they did worship in truth when they carried out the.
Requirements that you find.
Given the rules and later today they were worshiping in truth because they were following the commands of the Lord, but you couldn't say that they weren't by the Spirit. That definitely belongs to this present dispensation.
Since 25 and the Holy Spirit has come down.
To like a well of art picks off to the woman, he says. This water shall be in him, a will of water springing up into everlasting life. So we have the well of springing wells.
To fill our hearts and minds and lead out the phrases of the assembly. So when he speaks here we are the circumcision which worships God by the Spirit harvesting is that when we meet together as we did yesterday morning.
Remember the Lord in His death, that the blessed Lord Himself was in the men according to His work, and also the Holy Spirit was was present too through time with worship.
And that goes up to the father.
So that we worship in spirit and in truth. And that's why there is that waiting on the Lord. And remember is waiting on the Lord. He is the hit and He is the heaven glory guides by the Spirit.
The day in which we're living is called Man's Day in First Corinthians.
The 4th chapter of third verse.
New translation. It's man's day.
Now everything today is ordered.
By the God of this world, as a Prince of this world, so that man's judgment.
Is.
That this decides everything.
There's a day coming when there will be a Superman that everyone who are left here in this world will bow to.
Grace, the Spirit of God, has given us His precious Word.
And we have no other guy but the word of God by the Spirit today for faith.
And we're told how we should worship.
Man is controlled by public opinion unless it's his lust.
And so he acts according to what man thinks.
But the one who walks by faith will act now.
Before God.
Not before man's judgment, but before God. Possible it may.
The man of faith will act according to what God's Word dictates.
Carry it out as we're taught here.
In the assembly considering one another.
We have to remember that we're a part of the body and we have to walk together, according to the.
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Of our chapter.
And so these things are tempered by the word God here. Let us there for as many as be perfect.
Be thus minded, if anything he be otherwise minded. God, to reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, where until we have already obtained, let us walk by the same rule, let us find the same thing.
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And then the apostle speaks of the example that.
Consider as an assembly that we're a part of that assembly and we cannot be independent, and that when we judge another one in the assembly, we're judging ourselves. We're part of the assembly, and if one is able to admonish another, it's because he's taken off his role and girded himself.
Would it be right to say that?
Rejoicing in the Lord is truly hindered by those things that are mentioned in the second verse. And also to say that.
Rejoicing in the Lord would spare us from being taken up with those things that are mentioned in the second verse. It's a bar and protection for us, so that it is a very equal thing for us to be reminded of this joy and privilege of rejoicing in the Lord. I was just thinking that it was read.
Connecting it with what we have in the well known verse in Romans 10 and 9 and it is the very beginning of our Christian pathway is found in that statement. It found out confessed with my mouth Jesus as Lord.
Then we find our believers in Colossians. One walk worthy of the Lord unto all, please.
That is something that I'm sure in front of you. Well, the exercise is fast because having respect the name of the Lord fever, there is that responsibility.
Walk worthy of the Lord. And then in Ephesians we be strong in the Lord.
Perhaps these things lead up to what we have here is a rejoice in the Lord because I don't suppose we can simply hear an exhortation in meeting.
Has to rejoice in the Lord and go home and say, well, I'm going to do that. I'm going to rejoice in the Lord.
It can't simply be done because we heard someone tell us how important it is.
There is. That which precedes it is enough.
Also told and walked where he has a vocation, where.
Endeavoring unity of the Spirit and uniting bomb of peace.
So that this rejoicing is not something that we just.
Have individually.
Rejoiced in our daily life, but together it's a matter of the wrong folks together.
So there has been severing to keep the unity of the spirit, the uniting bomb of peace, so that we can have one body, one company.
Lift our hearts and praises to our blessed Lord, because the hearts of the Saints are occupied for that pleasant one.
It might be well, Brother Barry.
To to point out those passages my mother Hales referred to.
One of the people born is not.
Walking worthy of the Calling The location in the first verse of season 4.
They subject to an abatement. Is that marvelous?
It's really good for us, but healthily calling.
And.
So in keeping with that, as our brother has called our attention to, where's the walk now worthy of that location?
I just thought it'd be nice to point out the scriptures then in the Colossians.
The first chapter.
Where's your hand? Where's 10? Yeah.
The Lord Jesus is seen here in the head and all our supply.
God, why? And then in the first part of the chapter, the hope which is laid up for you in heaven.
God wash worthy of the Lord.
All. Well, that simply means saving the Lord and everything. Yes, and that comes down to the minor details of life.
There's nothing that we can do to express life, but if we can do it in a way that's worthy of him.
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That is Thessalonians, the third one.
In First Thessalonians.
The.
12Th verse that she would walk worthy of God, who had called you under his Kingdom and glory.
Now you'll notice in the first part of Thessalonians.
The church has seen in the first verse as in God the Father.
And the second epistle is in God our Father, I believe.
A little advance the warmth to the truth of it. But the point here is that think of what a position these young Christians were. They've just been converted, no doubt, many of them successful nightness.
Where? Where are they in God the Father?
Well now walk worthy of.
And how the Spirit of God draws out our hearts that way. Not legalism, but the heart responding because there's a nature there.
The instructions in the New Testament are not an eye for an eye on a tooth for a tooth.
There are the instructions to a new nature that loves to please God, but these instructions, so he says in our epistle, these things for you are saved, they're safe.
The muscle didn't have a date to go over and over these things did he? Well would not grieve it to him because it was safe for them and how they needed the warning. How we need the warning in a day like this when there is so much of religious activity.
And so much literature that sounds on the face of it to be plausible and to be very good.
How many times we have had various ones there hand us a pamphlet or a book of some kind, say, what do you think of this? But doesn't it sound good?
What would you find as a rule? There's something there which.
Is not.
Will not stand the test of the Word of God.
So we need those warnings. There's usually something of legalism that is brought in.
To these things.
Something which we can.
Satisfy the flesh and you're expecting something from it.
So they yeah, possibly warns against it and is willing to go over it time and time again that we may be spared.
The.
Going getting into and getting mixed up with these things.
Describe that set the bottom of the whole thing. And that's what we have here is not the apostle says you have something glory in. I'll show you what I have the glory in in the flesh.
But it won't do me any good, he said. I just counted all film. It's not worth considering.
But it was pride, and that's what God made. Oh, he wasn't.
Presenting something to the thing that he hasn't thoroughly just felt. And as you said before, it isn't.
Evil, corrupt things that he mentioned here, but things that were a Kingdom as a national man. So he enumerates me.
8th 1St circumcised of the 8th day of Israel of the tribe of Benjamin. Well the tribe of Benjamin doesn't go straight and set up a king in Israel. So they had a fanning and a position that the other prime except Judith that he has.
And Hebrew of the Hebrews, and threatening the law of the Pharisees.
Concerning the.
The.
Concerning zeal persecuting the Church, I suppose that was one of the most outstanding of always assault parties attained.
That he was so zealous for the religion of his forefathers.
Persecuted Christmas because we talked here was the system that was denied.
The what had been given to his father through the people of Israel, well, that marks him out in Israel has a very important land here stood out to champion for the doctrines of Israel persecuting the Church.
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Concerning touching the righteousness which is in the law of language.
Hey, in the car and outwardly, one could live up to the commandment of the law.
And hadn't been stealing or didn't take the name of the Lord in vain. He kept the Sabbath day and all that is hard as possible for a man to keep the law.
All have a thing to that in his unconverted days.
Well, you you have a very similar.
Character.
The young man who met the Lord and said, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Well, the Lord says voted the commandments to him, and he says always have I kept for myself as far as.
Good man in the world, why he has pain the highest stance.
But here we have the end of all that the natural man, the poster.
While things were gained content those I counted the law for fire, he met Christ on the road through the masters, and I was with everything for his soul. And he saw in him a righteous that was all superior to any righteousness that a Jew could attain.
That those things that he most valued them had given him such a place of renown in his name.
He counts on the bills that he may win, right? Nothing. But Christ is always said. We could only learn less because that's the secret of happiness in the Christian life of the God. Could we at this point just call attention?
To this righteousness that.
We have here and connect it with Romans. I think it would be very profitable.
Especially for the young people, because.
I believe the subject of righteousness is not very well understood.
Now God has the righteousness of his own.
I suppose gold is a picture of it in scripture.
The book of Romans.
Takes up the subject of righteousness. It lays the very foundation, the relationship between God and His creature man, the only relationship in which man can never enter into blessings with God.
And the apostle is given by inspiration to lay down in detail.
All is in God's heart in connection with that subject, first clearing the ground and showing how everyone is guilty before God and showing the difference between man's righteousness and God's righteousness. Now that's what we have here.
There is a difference between the two subjects of righteousness.
Man's righteousness is based on what he can do.
That is, according to the law, the one who does these things shall live by them or in them, as long as the man kept those things.
He would continue on this earth, but I don't know of anything in which the Spirit of God, the Old Testament, suggested that one would have eternal life by keeping the law.
It is simply the continuing of that life that they have.
But the apostle here is Speaking of a righteousness that has nothing to do with man at all. As far as keeping a law. It's true. This righteousness is found in Christ Jesus, and we'll only get it through believing in Jesus. This is a righteousness that can only be given.
It's God's own righteousness, and we find that in.
Romans 3 We have the secret of it. I think you should turn to it just for a moment. I believe it will be helpful.
I.
The 19 first with the start this line.
Perhaps we should reverse in the first chapter first.
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The first chapter of Romans.
16 birds.
For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God and the salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew 1St and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed.
I'm the principal faith to faith.
As it is written, the just shall live by faith.
Now the third chapter.
19 first, now we know.
That what things soever the law set itself to them, who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped in all the world, may become guilty before God.
Now where is the righteousness of the law? It's gone. No one can keep it.
So.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
But now the righteousness of God.
Without the Law is manifested being witnessed by the Law in the prophets.
Even the righteousness of God, which is of my faith in Jesus Christ unto all and upon all of the belief, there's no difference.
For all of sin that comes short of the glory of God.
Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, who God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His life.
To declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God.
You declare, I say at this time his righteousness, that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
The one who is simple and simply trust God. He tries and he has a savior to believe in God's word. But it's on the principle not of the law or human righteousness, but of the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Is that right? Yeah.
Other Potter used to say that he's a nothing that Christ ever did in life or death is our righteousness. What is our righteousness?
Parents to 1St Corinthians one, there you will find what our righteousness is.
First character of the Corinthians and the 30th First form of him are ye in Christ Jesus?
What God is made under wisdom and righteousness.
And redemption.
So Christ is our righteousness, and we are in Him before God.
There is a doctrine.
In Christendom, that terrorism bleeding, and that's the righteousness of Christ.
Now the teaching here.
What we don't complete in our walking ways.
Right has completed that for us so that you're always seeking the righteousness of Christ. Our shortcoming she makes up for us.
But that isn't true at all.
He did the whole work on the cross and now we get a new standing in before God in Christ. So everyone who has accepted the Lord Jesus as a personal savior not only possesses a perfect.
Eternal salvation, but he has a standing now before God, and that's in Christ.
And if in Christ we stand by the impossible 7 the 8th chapter in first verse. There is therefore now no convenience to them which are in Christ Jesus. So condemnation, he is born with judgment. He's risen from the dead. And you notice in my first I read there in first Corinthians 30 of him are he in Christ Jesus.
As we mentioned before, when you get Christ Jesus, you have them. That is your university. You have the glorified man. Man is born up, defeated. That God's right hands when you have Jesus Christ usually refers.
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To his pathway down here.
God doesn't see us in the Lord Jesus when he was on his way to the cross. The judgment wasn't foreign then. The song sees us now as that man in the glory.
That's our expense. That's our righteousness before God.
So that's what the impossible is speaking about here.
Can we also say that in Galatians we have the subject of righteousness, but it's the thought of a person keeping the law for righteousness after he is saved? In Romans it's the thought of a man trying to be righteous before God.
And for his salvation, after we're saved, there is a danger of us putting ourselves under law to obtain a practical righteousness. And I believe that subject is also brought in here, that the Lord Jesus has not only settled the question of our sin and guilt, and that now we are made the righteousness of God in Christ, but our whole conduct is to flow from the enjoyment of the standing. And so the practical righteousness is not by keeping some.
Colder rules.
By having Christ Himself before us, we are in Him. And as we walk in the power of that new life that we have been given by the Spirit, practical righteousness is seen in our life. And so that when He speaks here in Philippians 3 about what He could have bolstered, I believe there were those who were true believers of Philippi who were trying to produce a practical righteousness.
And he is seeking to show that we have this perfect standing, but now practical righteousness, a life that is pleasing to God is by having Christ himself before the soul. And this is complete deliverance from the law, either as a way of salvation or as a rule of life afterwards saying.
You'll notice in Romans that there are.
The 5th chapter and the 6th and the 7th.
Before the complete deliverance of the soul, and before a soul can say I know I'm safe. And in the 7th chapter all wretched man shall deliver me out of this body of death.
Knowing a soul has the helmet of salvation on.
It's not only that he says, yes, I know I'm saved, but he has a sense of complete deliberates, complete deliverance. That's the helm of the salvation.
It's with that that he can go out and meet the enemy and work up all the darks of the enemy. His mind is at perfect rest as well as his heart.
He knows now that he is fully delivered, not because of anything that has to do with human righteousness, but because the righteousness of God covers the whole thing, and he sees himself as a new creature in Christ Jesus the Holy entire on the basis of that redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Trying to attain righteousness by our own efforts, even as believers, will only lead to pride. But if we see where God has placed us in Christ, and our life then flows from the liberty of the enjoyment of that position, why? There's nothing that ministers to pride in this.
It's all occupation with Him. And so it says in John. I believe it's the 16th chapter. When the Spirit has come, He shall glorify me.
And I've often said that we can make a simple test of any doctrine that is presented by asking, does does this exalt matter? Does it exalt Christ?
Make anything.
As something in which the flesh can glory, and it's the exaltation of man teach that a person can be lost again because of his own unfaithfulness, and then he can glory in the fact that he has kept his salvation and this pleases the flesh. Man has kept his salvation.
Teach that salvation and that baptism is necessary to salvation.
And you have brought in there is something that a man can do to complete your salvation and give you a perfect standing before God. So anything at all is introduced that even after we're saved that adds to the work of Christ or the Texas field of our own efforts, we're going to have something new before God is a denial of the place that we have been brought into Allah blessed and holy liberty we find here.
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A soul completely set free from all those things that we come to Florida.
And desiring that one thing, that he might fully apprehend Christ, and have him as the object before his soul.
Being in Christ Jesus.
Carrying up saying that salvation comes through Jesus Christ but is secure in Christ Jesus the United States.
And thy Kingdom.
Thinking about that righteousness.
Even considering and the third first last chapter.
It says for what the law would not do in that it was weeks through the place.
God sending his old Son from the likeness of sinful blank, and pour sin condemned sin in the quake.
Lord forgives our transgressions, our failures, even as His own, when we come and confess to Him our.
Waves, the way of the old nature that produced those. God doesn't forgive that, but he comes down.
That whole nature that we all have and have, all that sad truth every morning, that whole thing has been condemned and that was right. But he doesn't put us under another law.
In order to obtain to a certain standard of Christian.
Progress. But in the next verse you need that the righteousness of the law.
Might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the place, but after the Spirit.
Remarkable, isn't it, that after having told us that the law couldn't do anything if your man because of the place that old nature which is not subject to the law of God either in being canvassed, But then he tells us how we can fulfill the righteousness of the law.
I believe a better translation reads the righteous requirements of the law.
That is where certain rights requirements.
They always say.
I shall not cover before all these things are just as much.
According to the holiness of God, as they were in the old national.
But the way it's possible for us to carry out that righteous requirement?
Is to walk in the spirit and not in the place.
Who walked in the strength and in the spirit?
And we could ask the question then, how? How can we walk in the spirit?
Well, one thing is very important and that's being subjected to the Holy Word, to have no will of our own when we face something that the Word of God.
There's a list of that word, or if we go on and in visions, we certainly are not walking in the spirit fan. Oh, it's a subject of mine. There's a large will and occupation with Christ before it says an essential thing too.
And that way, democracy of the law never been producing man. Now we see that you're a believer who is going on in this way.
And of course we have in and 2nd Corinthians 3 that we all was unladen. Faith, beholding the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory.
That is, when we're occupied with Christ, we're not saying to ourselves, well, if I go to a store, I must not feel.
Thou not steal or not.
Going on day by day in a legal way. Time to keep the law, but it's just occupation with rights and learning more of him. The more we learn of him by the Spirit, the more we desire to please him.
And then unconscious as to ourselves, why we're keeping those righteous requirements of the law.
This was spoken of in relation to the fruit of the Spirit is enough.
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We read all our righteousnesses, our filthy ranks. I was looking at the verse in My Design 6110.
I was a great neighbor. Rejoice in the Lord.
Not in my own efforts.
My soul have been joyful in my God.
For he has clothed me from the Darwins of salvation.
He had covered me with the robe of righteousness.
Now we have nothing to do. I'm thinking of the particle two in the 16 to 2. The father said. Bring forth the bedroom and hurry up and get an answer. Put it on Now, he said. Bring forth the bedroom and put it on him.
So the poor language boy had nothing to do with that.
It was put on him in this case without listening. He had nothing to do with this right God.
Even in the very first instance in the Garden of the East, when God made those coats of skins keep clothes them, he didn't give them the goats of skins, He clothed them. Very lovely. It's nice too to see how personal this seems to be to the apostle and writing about it.
For in writing of these things, which he sets to one side so disdainfully, it isn't because he feels he optimism. It seems to me they go lovely the way he speaks of it.
In the seventh verse of our chapter. What super game To me, that's the way he used to recognize.
Though like sounded lost for Christ.
Interesting to notice that that's written in the past tense, as though the apostle in writing looked back to that day on the road to Damascus when he met the Lord, and that which had meant so much, so much to him up until that point.
Suddenly.
Was seen in an entirely different flight and erased what things were going to be those like houses, he reckons at a time long past in his life, these things were now lost. But then in the very next verse, the eighth verse, he said, yeah, Douglas and I count it's not past tense now, it's present tense.
I'm an old man now and I'm in prison and I still feel the same way about it. I reckon it lost phone though and I still feel the same way.
Why? For the Excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. Not simply because there were certain principles that told me often do this, but because there was something so very practiced before Him.
For whom I have suffered the laws of all things, and just count them. But no said I mean, we destroyed. That's quite strong language, and I wondered in reading it, could the apostles all for absent been thinking of?
That with which I don't know he was familiar.
The building of the Sun Gate in the third chapter of Nehemiah don't need to turn to it, but I believe there's a very, very instructive lesson. Fair, the great deal of detail given in the building of that wall. But there's one thing quite striking that there are no dimensions and no measurements of any kind in the building of that wall except one. That is the measurement that leads to the donkey. It's all to be.
A bound cubic, it went from the Valley Gate to the Dung Gate.
The man who built that gate was a ruler, man of good importance. He built it all alone.
And he put locks and bars on it. And it seemed to me quite significant that there would be given in that instance alone of measurement. And perhaps it would suggest that God has that purpose in each of our lives. And there's something indefinite, something vague about the ways of God with us.
It's all for known to him and wisely measured out to us to the intent that we do by having each of our lives.
This same dungate and all that which man and ourselves make glory. And to be on the outside of that gate with locks and bars between.
In order that we might enjoy the caution that was so real, the apostles, the excellence of knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For the very next gate after the gun gate was the fountains gate.
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I believe that's what perhaps we have taken.
And be found in him in that lovely.
What a one place to hide, you know in the Old Testament. Isaiah for Israel in the coming day.
When the battle is raging and Jacob struggled, he's at its height.
It says a man should be a hiding place for the storm in the temple.
And isn't it so in God's ways for all of his children? Christ is the hiding place and we need to be simple in our soul. We need to be in the enjoyment of this or we will not understand any truth properly if this isn't the basis we have in here with great apostles.
Be found in heaven. How sweet and how precious the truth, brother, that we can enjoy together today.
And be found in Him, and not even if anything of any righteousness or anything that we can do.
But just to be in the enjoyment.
He found in him and then.
The apostle goes on in the 10th verse.
To what he's occupied with, it seems to me that we have in this chapter.
Set before us.
On account of the conflict, the necessity for an energy.
Keep us in the right path.
If it's a question of grace and the previous chapter now is energy, that will enable us to go on in that pattern that's been sent before. So the second chapter.
Now in Hebrews where we have faith set before us.
In the life of Abraham we have patience. How many instances there we have of patience with Abraham?
Brother Hale brought us before us yesterday how Abraham took the second place and gave Lock the first patients. He waited upon God on these things and he was the he was the one who won out in the end. But with Moses, it wasn't so much that.
It was the energy that pursued in the midst of all opposition, all the power of the enemy, Pharaoh. And that's where we are today, brother. The power of the enemy is increasing around us, and that is in its open manifestation.
And he wants to rob us of the precious truth that we've held so dear for so long. And the way he's doing it, he's allowing the Saints to become, he's causing the Saints to be occupied with present things.
To be overcharged in the cares of this life reward. In Luke's Gospel, 21St chapter, we're not going to be overcharged compared to this life, but the enemy would occupy us these things, so we lose.
This energy the apostle speaks out here, though he has one thing before him in this chapter. That's right.
Found in you.
Now you live here.
If it were possible for him to obtain a righteous God, good excess.
He saw a righteousness all far.
In the righteousness of God.
That he would give the whole thing up. Well, this was quite an answer to those who are being misled by Judy Eyes and teachers. They came down to Jerusalem among these guesthouse believers.
And they said, well, for himself, all right, but now we have something superior to belonging. We must eat the wall. And they could, they could make quite an impression. We came from Jerusalem.
If they could carry their minutes and their.
Family tree back to us, all the patriarchs and soil, they had quite a placement for buses. The apocalypse, that's what you're following. Why? He said. I have obtained a higher position, higher position than any of those men who are talking to you.
What did I hear about it? I himself, when I saw in Christ the righteousness of God, because I just gave a thing all up, and my one desire now is to press on. When that blessed one.
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Has the object before my soul.
The enemy doesn't want us to enjoy this truth. Many dear souls are and believers.
Are in respect to the very truth that we're going over.
And has already been mentioned that this is a religious flesh.
And I suppose the religious question, some are harder to cast aside or give up and the deceitfulness of the flesh or even perhaps the sinfulness of flesh, because the enemy will not and will do everything possible to keep our eyes and minds from the glory and the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that's the only way that we can be.
Set aside these things which the apostle could boast in, and the apostle has much to boast in.
That which we're going over.
When he saw something far far better, a person and the glory connected with us. It's heavily calling. So ours is a heavenly calling calling online and the enemy was occupied with things down here rather than our heavenly portion to see that especially from the Saints at vessel naked.
When he says here that I may win Christ and be found in him.
And in the 10th verse.
That I may know him, there was number question as to Him already having Christ as His righteousness or knowing Him. But it was something like Abraham when the whole land was set before him. It was his, but he was told to walk through the lengths and the breadth of it. And it's blessedly true of everyone who has received the Lord Jesus as His Savior, whether he enjoys it or not.
He has been made the righteousness of God in Christ. That is his standing as it was radulous. And Corinthians of him are he in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. But it's been remarked here that he's speaking in the singular in the eighth, in the end of the 8th chapter of Romans.
He said.
Variety and persuaded that neither task nor life. And then in the end, he says, shall be able to separate us. It's quite an interesting thing in the end of the 8th of Romans to notice the change from the singular to the plural. That is, Paul said, I am persuaded, but he said shall be able to separate us. That is, it's true of every believer that nothing can separate him from the love of Christ.
But everyone is not persuaded of it. Happy the experience in the soul when he can say I am persuaded. And so it's true of every believer that he has been made the rights of this, of God in Christ. But what Paul desired for his own soul and for all the Saints that they would walk in the enjoyment of this.
And that he might win Christ, that he might have Christ so completely before his soul, and enjoying the righteousness that he had before God in Christ, and that he might know him better, that he might be more conformed to him. This was a practical side of the thing, and that was really walking through the layer and breath of the land, but it was his before he started to walk through it.