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I already.
Believe me.
11, Chapter 3.
I read the entire chapter.
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord.
To write the same thing to you, to me, indeed, is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
Beware of God.
Beware of evil workers.
Beware of the confessions.
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, but he asked where I'll be my dressed in the flesh. I more circumcised the 8th day. The stock of Israel of the tribal Benjamin, and Hebrew of the Hebrews, as touching the law. A Pharisee concerning zeal, persecuting the church, touching the righteousness which is in the law.
But what things were gained to me, those I counted lost for Christ.
Yay, Donovan, 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 with God, that I may win Christ and be found in him.
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Not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law.
But that which is through the face 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 suffering being made conformable unto his death, if by any means I might attain under the resurrection of the dead.
Not as though I had already attained.
Either we're already perfect.
But I follow after.
God I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ. Jason.
Brethren, I cannot myself to have apprehended.
But there's one thing I do.
For getting 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.
And Christ Jesus.
Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded.
And if in anything you'd be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Nevertheless, where do we have already a thing? Let us walk by the same rule. Let us find the same thing.
Brethren, be followers together of me.
And mark then which walked so as you have us for an example.
Or many walk of whom I have told you often, and I'll tell you even weeping.
That they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end his destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
For our conversation is in heaven.
And once also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
We shall change our wild 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.
That are here I would call attention to.
A very familiar outline that some of us have enjoyed for many years.
As to this epistle to the Philippians.
In the first chapter.
And the 21St verse.
We have for me to live is Christ.
In other words, the 1St chapter gives us Christ as our life.
Then in the second chapter.
And the fifth verse.
Let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus.
We have price our pattern.
Then.
In the chapter we've just read.
And the 14th verse.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God.
In Christ, and of the eighth verse, that I may win Christ.
Christ, our object.
And in the 4th chapter and the 13th verse, I can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me. Christ our strength.
I think these four points are helpful.
And seeing the nature of the Epistle to the Philippians.
All right, brother Wilson. Yes, I think it might be well to list them again.
The first chapter.
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Christ, our life.
That's the.
21St verse for me to live is Christ.
2nd Chapter Christ, our pattern. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
3rd cries are objects.
End of the eighth verse that I may win Christ. 14th verse I press toward the mark, the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Christ, our object.
4th chapter. 13th verse. Christ our Strength.
I can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me.
That says, when Christ, who is our life, shall appear.
Well, that is applicable to every Christian, as it were, regardless when Christ, who is our life?
None are outside of the good of that.
True Christ is our life, but in Philippians 121.
It is the practical character and the very pith of the Epistle.
Paul was living in the good of it for for me, he said. He didn't say for us.
For for me to live is Christ. He was in the good of it.
It was his business.
Now it is open for you and me and all of us also.
But we also asked in the last chapter. Actually, my father was crossing far from the car in the barking. Burke would be not also added in the 19th birth price of revisions to the pathway. My daughter will try all your needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus.
God has.
Seen to it that every believer is equipped with everything he needs for his journey through this scene.
There's nothing that a soldier more more resents.
And to be is sent into the battle line without proper weapons and ammunition and equipment.
He doesn't. He doesn't mind going into the end of the battle, but he does resent it if he sent it to the battle with nothing with it to fight.
Well, we can never lay that complaint before the Lord.
Rich, abundant provisions is made for every need, every exigency, every circumstance that can ever arise in our lives.
Abundant for vision is made for.
Furthermore.
No problem can ever confront the Church of God that has not been anticipated by the Spirit of God and the answers found in the Word of God. Every possible problem that can ever arise. God overlooked nothing when He gave us His Word.
The orders of these chapters is divine, isn't it?
First, there's a lighter You can't follow Christ as the example of pattern until you have the light. And we find much of that kind of thing in reverse impressions of the day, trying to follow Christ's pattern and thinking that will give life. But we can't follow the pattern until we have the light. There must be that divine light in on before we can follow crisis jump. But then I was thinking that.
If we have Christ before as our example and teach the pattern after Him, we might get to looking at ourselves and wondering how we're doing.
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So we get in the next chapter that we just had Red Christ as our object. We must keep our eyes fixed upon Him, not looking at ourselves.
Another.
Added thought perhaps to what you gave for chapter 3.
You gave that he is our object.
But he in this chapter is also our goal.
Object and goal.
Christopher Willows definitely a model and he had credit.
Where did it? I believe, according to Rotherham. Down to the goal I press.
Well, that makes it quite simple.
Down to the goal I present.
Up to the goal we press.
What you were saying in Second Peter we have that He is given unto us, and all things that pertain unto life and godliness.
Well, in Speaking of the order, the chapters being divine, aren't they divine all the way through the scripture? That is, the order of the chapters. The we cannot say that I believe, as far as the order of the books is concerned. But as to the internal construction of the books, are they not all divine?
For all scriptures God breathed and profitable, all scriptures God Brady.
Can't improve upon it.
Did you say this? This is pistol brings before us a normal Christian experience.
Normal Christianity.
I believe that's right, Brother Anderson.
It's nice to notice too, that.
In these four chapters, the apostle mentioned joy and rejoicing 18 times, although he's sitting in prison.
Is the joy of not a circumstance, but in Christ?
And he can say to them, Rejoice in the Lord.
They were in poor circumstances.
The Philippians were poor Saints.
They didn't have everything that the world could give, even at that time.
It's easy enough to.
Go along as a Christian and sort of be happy if everything goes your way and you can have a lovely home and all is fine.
But here is writing to poor Christians.
And he doesn't say. Now rejoice in your big bank account.
Doesn't say you can rejoice in your fine homes.
But here is something that will work. Here is something that will last if the bank fails.
Are those burned down?
Rejoice in the Lord.
The apostle himself, in a rather poor circumstance, being in prison, I have thought of the Canary bird. The singing Canary bird might be hanging in the kitchen, but.
To see the bird happy, happy at the lark and singing. Paul is in prison behind the bars like a bird in the cage, and we get this lovely epistle of rejoicing.
Coming out of that circumstance, and not only so when Paul was in Philippa.
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He sang and praised God in in the inner prison.
With these feet fast in the cruel stocks, and heat down in the filthy dungeon in his back, leader. Yet he praised God.
And so he can write to those that knew of those circumstances.
And he did it. He did it at midnight, Yeah.
That's the darkest part of the night. They just giving out a fears they knew. Yes, that's why we lost this epistle. He was giving something that really came from the heart.
No.
Is the title. He connects glory with suffering, glory with affection. Second Corinthians 417 for our light affliction.
Just a momentary affliction.
Which is, but for a moment worked for us, a far more exceeding and eternal way to flourish.
That's a.
Very comforting to realize when they're passing through trial suffering.
That is connected with the glory is working for us, that eternal weight of glory.
Is not ashamed, or did not shrink from repeating himself, did he?
You're right, same thing to you.
He told them all left before.
But he said to write the same things for you to me and Jesus, and for you at the same.
Do not need to shrink in our seeking to be helpful to our brother before.
Because they do not know when the Spirit of God is going to take hold and carry home to the conscience certain things in our own life and experience.
How many times?
We've listened to ministry, something has been brought home to us.
And we just thoroughly enjoyed it. We've been stirred by it, and yet we've heard it many, many times before.
But it didn't have the same unction with us personally that it had that time.
So let's not.
Think that we've always got to have something new to tell our brethren?
All we need to be exercised about is.
Is this the mind of the Lord?
For the present and given the truth, Even so, even though we know it's something with which they're permitted.
You're acquainted with the remark that Mister Macintosh made when?
He got off the train in a certain town, and the brethren met him.
Remarked to him that they hoped he had some.
Ministry for them, well, he says. I haven't anything new, but I hope that what I have is fresh.
When we get to glory, it will be the same glory for all eternity.
Peter was not.
Going to let them go without reminding the Saints.
Have these things always in remember.
There's a little him you know that says for I forget so soon.
Well, which one of us will say that isn't true of us? I forget, sister.
Peters thinks of that very thing. Brother Wilson Sunday.
And the 3rd and the 2nd epistle and the third chapter of Peter.
The first first, this second epistle, beloved, I now write to you in both, which I stir up your pure mind, minds by way of remembrance.
That isn't that they didn't know these things, that he's stirring up their minds by way of remembrance.
They define all of the words that were spoken.
In the first chapter, in the 12Th verse, he says, Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and be established in the present truth.
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It's a bad sign when you see Saints always looking for something new.
May we know where it may never take hold of us.
Come away from a meeting and say, well, I didn't hear anything new tonight.
But was it fresh? Did you enjoy it?
Did it come home to you?
But I'm always looking for something new. We're in danger of being tempted by the enemy to give ear to the divers and strange doctrines that are floating around, are we not?
I was glad to hear that some brother mentioned this very thing in his prayer, that we might be exercised not just another knowledge, but that we might have the truth is exercised in our souls. At least that is something that we need to be exercised about, especially in these last days, because the coldest that's coming in so easy to just have much proof with little exercise about the truth.
One will sound the warning. Look at.
Looking for a novel ministry summer. Some brother comes along and he's oh, he's discovered something new and he's all enthused about it, pending it about.
Feel on the guard against that kind of thing.
Sometimes this novel ministry, when I analyzed, proves erroneous.
The brother has overlooked.
In his discovery, he's overlooked other scriptures that balance.
What he thinks is so wonderful, he's overlooked them.
The one with just the sound of warning as to that. You think that's neat for Brother Airsman? Yes, I do. I think we should be very much on our guard about that. Well, remember what? How the Lord answered Satan. It is written again.
All that principle is so important, it's written again.
That that isn't the whole story.
Remember before the days of homogenized milk that the cream was on the service?
Is on top. He didn't have to go to the bottom of the bottle to get it.
Freshness in the scripture without.
Some special type of digging.
And I would also add a word to some of the brethren here from small meetings.
Don't neglect the gospel.
I've heard people say, oh, that's only the gospel.
I enjoy the remark of Jesus. I never expect to enjoy the gospel as much as when I'm in heaven.
Rather than our young people, and we all need it, but our young people need to be established in the truth of the gospel.
Now I know there's a different way of preaching the gospel, especially where they're both all professing Christians.
You hear Paul preaching the gospel to unbelievers of the Acts.
And a master he was doing it.
But you go to the epistles of the Romans and you find Paul teaching the gospel to Saints. There is such a thing as a teaching gospel, and our dear young people need to be grounded and settled in the teachings of the gospel.
Do you agree with that, Brother? Brother. Amen. Yes, indeed.
There there are some that.
It's so warped in their ideas. I heard of one brother that said well the gospel should never be preached in the medium room.
You ought to go out with the gospel, go out on the street somewhere, some jailer.
Meeting rooms? No place for the gospel.
Well, I'm sure that many of those sitting right here in this meeting today.
We're saved. We're brought to know the Lord Jesus right in the meeting room, listening to the gospel in the meeting room. I'm sure there are many right here in this meeting that can say that's true. Life is saved in the meeting room.
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So don't discount the gospel.
Although we like this word safe in our first verse.
One thing for the character, the day we live in and so much there is, and it introduces itself to us sometimes against our will.
That is not spiritually safe.
But the apostle here is better the Spirit to make reference to repetition of the word, and the same view is safe.
There are young people.
We may be assured of a place of safety even though we walk in the midst of pattern.
But the safety is surely emphasized. They want, or rather have already commented on.
That is an acquaintance with the word.
The impressing of all premises may not necessarily be that we take up a book or a track of a foreign teaching and study that, but we oftentimes have a business or school or neighbor companion who will clearly give a sentence to us.
And there is a safety to us being able to.
Win all this in light of the truth of God's Word.
Please, we can draw this conclusion from the word safe here, that it is an island of security for us in the midst of hazards that we encountered day by day.
But if we're going to have the life right in the pattern of Christ, and the power of Christ can see us along the way, we need to be familiar with him and with the word of God, that acquaintance with him.
Around this line, I'd like to ask the president.
Can we safely be satisfied with the translation of the scriptures that we hold in our hands this morning?
I'm thinking about a lot of others translations that are coming out might be a tendency to take up with them. And we think we trust this translation. Can we safely be satisfied with it? Yeah.
With one reservation that.
We have a more liberal translation of some of the original words and Mr. Garveys, but I wouldn't advise even reading that as a general thing. It's a wonderful reference book.
But he himself said that he did not write it to be used daily, preferred they would use the King James translation that.
His language is such that in trying to get this exact translation, it was not the best of English.
Mr. Darby's translation, if one can distinguish it in this way.
Was a literal rather than a literary translator. The King James is a literary translator.
And oftentimes.
In translation.
That Justin hears to the order of the words is awkward in reading, so we smooth it up a little.
In order to make it more readable. That's what they have in the King James version, but there are very few fundamental errors and the King James translation there are.
I would say three or four places.
Where we need to radically change the meaning of what's given because it's wrong.
All present sin is transgression of the law. That's a sample.
Another is.
Well.
There was sin before there was any law. Plenty of it.
So.
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The law, lawlessness, doing my own will is the guesses of sin.
And then you get.
Oh, another place where?
The large.
Nothing just lets me for the moment, but there's a confusion.
Perhaps I better turn to it.
I think I'll have to beg off at this point.
And there's one other place where there's a mistake.
As to connecting the appearance of the Lord with the rapture.
Philippians 2, I mean Titus two perhaps verse 13.
If you have something you want to say on that, go ahead brother.
Now the scripture that I'm trying to think of is Second Timothy 4.
Second Timothy 41.
Now this is a serious.
Misinterpretation of the Word. I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who's from just the quickened death at his appearance.
Well, he doesn't judge the quick and bad of his appearing at all.
If I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead?
Comma and by his appearing of his Kingdom. So he's charging them by two different things.
He does not judge the quick and dead at his appearing in pink. That's that's one of the important blunders of King James Ferguson. How about Second Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse 2?
Confusing the day of the Lord, Yes, right. That is the.
That is also.
Although I would judge in that case, perhaps it was a confusion of text that is in the original, which text they were to honor.
We know that the preferred text is the Day of the Lord friend.
I don't think that was so much.
A plunder as it was a choice of text and they made the wrong choice.
I would like to read two or three sentences in Mr. Darby's preference as to what he says as to the use of his translation.
My endeavor has been to present to the merely English reader the original as closely as possible. Those who make a version for public use must, of course, adapt their course to the public. Such has not been my object or thought, but to give the student a scripture who cannot read the original a close a close translation as possible.
There's a sample of that in a verse where the apostle Paul was talking to the Saints about giving and he wanted to have them to have the gift ready for the poor Saints in Jerusalem.
When he came, it would be ready.
And and the King James says it wouldn't be a matter of covenants.
But the better translation there, Mr. Darby says, and not has got out of you. Now. That isn't very good English.
Certainly the truth. He didn't want it to be ready as though he had extracted it.
Now I'm I like that fact it's not as God out of you.
But if you're wanting smooth English, it isn't there.
But Mr. Darby, I understand himself, made the remark he was free to get up and read any portion of King James except sin, his lawlessness, and 1St jump.
You'd read that to King James as it is anywhere else.
Because that one statement undermines the truth.
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There's also a verse in the last chapter of Revelation. Unless there they the cheapest commandments.
Where it should be. That was the rope, yes.
And it's a strange thing that the.
7th Day Adventists stand by both of those mistakes. Sin is the transgression of the law, and blessed are they that keep His commandments.
And the RSV translation that happens to be correct on both of them and they don't on Laureate Way, but when they come to those two verses, they quote King James.
I didn't hear you. Romans, Romans 81. The interpolation at the end of the verse, yes, but it isn't too serious.
Unless you start getting into the meaning of it and studying it out.
It belongs a little later down in the in the chapter verse four and should not be there in the first verse.
For you it is safe. Safe.
I would stress that word still further. It's already been stressed. We need to be on our guard today as to what constitutes safe reading matters.
There is a tremendous avalanche of printed ministry available today.
Especially that is coming from radio centers.
That one is had the experience repeatedly of being in the homes of gathered Saints.
And seeing a great deal of this flying around.
Now one is thankful for the truth going out. One is thankful that the gospel is preached.
But so much is mixed with error and oftentimes.
Those that get infatuated with some certain man who's gifted in speaking over a radio, they become so infatuated with him that they take for granted what he says is the truth because he says so much the truth.
But one has had the experience repeatedly of calling attention of such states to errors, and when their attention is called to it, then they can see it, but they hadn't seen it and they're absorbing it.
Oh why? Why aren't we satisfied, brethren? To be to occupy our time and reading that that we know will not build us up with errors that we later have to discard?
Did you say Amen to that, brethren? I certainly can.
That's what the brother meant when he said the gospel should not be preached in the meeting room. He'd rather hear it over the radio.
One thing it seems to me we have to bear in mind is that the assembly is looked at as the pillar and support or ground of the truth, and that all ministry ought to be subjected to the correction of the assembly. Well, now, when the very beginning of Protestantism, it started out, might say, making it depend upon men.
See, Roman Catholicism had stressed to the extreme about here the Church, so they swung to the opposite side and made it depend on men and has continued that way down to the present day.
I think the literature that we get from Bible truth default Bible truth public.
Our brethren there go through a great deal of pains to eliminate ministry that is not dependent.
It's impossible to demand perfection from anybody.
But they're making an honest and good effort to only sell that that will build up the Saints on their most Holy Family.
And, brethren, I believe that if we.
Are are willing to get our literature from such a source?
We're far less likely to be trapped into something that is not dependent on.
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One would stress the importance.
Be careful what you read, take mean what you hear, and never was it more needful than in a day like the present.
There are all sorts of vagaries afloat today.
Men are loved to have something with their own hallmark on and give it up. Sounds clever, but when we examine it according to the word, it just is not true. So beware. I'm speaking especially for young people here. Take heed. What should he what you hear and what you read?
There was a scripture that says, let them first be proved and let them master. I know it refers to service conditions, but is it not a principle there that we should be careful to take our written ministry as we also do our oral ministry of the Word? From those who have been proved, that is, the sale for a period of time, their brethren have found that God has kept them found disobedience.
And the Legend of London Credit Ministries available.
That practically all of us here, if we have it on our shelves, would never way through. No, it's super fun. It's good. Now, Ministry. I'll never finish the books on the shelf, I'm sure of it. And why go out as a pardon here? My daughter going out to clean his other other fields.
And you feel that very much if you are perhaps in a country where they have a different language and you see what a dearth there is of good ministry.
I was thinking in there. We're saying here about Second Timothy 3 and 13, and 14. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But continue thou, and the things which thou hast learned, and hath been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them, that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise, and the salvation through.
Faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
All Scriptures given by the inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good work.
Well, that exhortation there, knowing of whom thou hast learned them, well, he had learned them from the apostle.
I noticed on the book table that there's some new leaf cream of someone whoops and books. They're very good reading. They're easy reading and I recommend them to the young people and we have ministry like the knockdown depended to find Keith McIntosh and the miscellaneous writing very easy to read sometimes.
Young people don't feel like reading Pay and Garvey. That's just a little heavier reading. But start out with those things that are easy to read. Maybe you might think they're hard to read too, but if you never start reading, you'll never learn how to read those things. You have to start somewhere, and I highly recommend that you start with those books. And I believe that as you read your development appetite.
For that kind of ministry and read it together with the word of God.
Read the scripture along with it. In some of those books you have the scripture already there, which is good.
Just after what was said about not really in French film.
When any comes from a distance to a meeting where he is not known, according to scripture is to bring a letter of compensation is enough those annoyment invasion on the same basis if we receive ministry and whether it's oral or risen from those whom we do not know.
We have no guarantees at all as to the godliness of that person.
And some of those here are equated with the fact that.
Then those who have even been on a nationwide network preaching the gospel, who have been living a desperately wicked, ungodly life.
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What we want to get our ministry from such?
If one is not walking in the truth, he cannot maintain time doctrine, for it was condemned. He can only give a part of the truth and the voice act which would condemn himself.
Therefore.
Therefore, to the utmost importance that we fall to some doctrine, our brother Harrison is just alluded to the fact that he knows that among our Spanish freaking brothers there's a great durst of ministry. Now they are offered written ministry that's available from some other quarters. But much of this is not to be trusted. Our brother Bob Doran, for example, and him approved.
Was in the province of God he's been converted from.
A high position in the bank and he's a very intelligent and well educated man. But in a recent letter that he wrote to our brother Otter Cohen in Mexico and sent a copy to brother Eric Smith and to me, he mentioned that there was a great flood of of literature in Spanish down there that could be read but that it was infected with with bad doctrine and therefore he was treating us to.
Be concerned up here about getting more literature into Spanish.
For our Latin American brethren.
The first chapter in the seventh verse.
Tell me, O thou, who my soul mother, whereabout feedeth, where thou maketh by flock caressed nude. Well, why should I be as one of the turn of the side by the flocks of my companion?
In connection with what was said about leaning in other fields.
Ruth was not the glean. Where the authority of boys was not owned, there were the reapers. They were subject to Boaz, and so she was to glean in his fields. Well, that's a good thing, I believe. Remember.
In a hole I got the Saints and the sisters telling me, oh, she was elated over some hook she was reading.
She told me the title of it. Well, the title made this decision. Just the title of it.
I said well let me see the boat.
I said I would judge from the title of that book that it's going to be teaching you this higher life theory.
That you would have some kind of a sudden super experience and find yourself lifted to a different plane and.
There on while you go on victorious. Oh no, she said. I don't think anything like that in there, so I just opened the book at random.
And about the first sentence my eye fell upon.
Taught the very thing that I had warned her again.
And she was astonished. He said. Well, I didn't. I didn't notice that as I read it.
Well, that's the point, brethren. Why delve into these books of uncertain pedigree?
Know the pedigree of what you're reading. Why waste your time and get misled? Get your your thinking poison.
These words it seems so hard to get rid of afterwards.
Well, sister, I think I'm glad that I caught her attention to this matter, and I think that she was through with the book then. But then why get yourself in a situation like that?
Now we know that literature is being handled from door to door all the time. We have some of it left at our door just the other day. Well, it went into the wastebasket very promptly. I didn't even open the pages of it to see what was on the inside.
Let's let your reading be of that. That's going to build you up in the faith that you have received. You know where you got it. It came from the book.
And don't waste your time sampling this and sampling that.
Isn't it true that when the early brethren met together to read the Word, to discuss the Word, that they were a kiss one on another, and the ministry that we have is the result of those readings together? Is that the right brother? Yes, that is correct. Yes, yes we do well.
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We are the past, the very best writer.
By the Word, the very exercise of the soul, the very devotedness of the heart to Christ.
Would warrant our.
Testing it by the Word, as the Apostle Paul said himself.
That they received the Word with all readiness of mind, but they searched the Scriptures daily to steer the things were sold, and they were doing that, even though Paul was the one that they were proving. Now Paul commended them for that. And you and I, in order to have a healthy state of soul, must be ever in exercise as to whether it really is in accord with the Word of God.
Now, brethren, I hope you'll pardon me if I diverge for just briefly on something I believe was under emphasized, and I do not wish to get us off onto the subject again, but I do believe that Mister Darby's translation has been under emphasized, and I'd like to read to you from three different ones who've spoken about the importance.
Of having the purest translation.
I hope the brother won't blush and be regret my quoting him.
Well, I thought Mr. Darby first.
The faithful rendering of the original. Notice it's the faithful rendering of the original text.
Outweighs every other consideration. Now that's the truth.
Another one.
By Mr. Kelly As to the value of your translation, it is a duty to ascertain what has the weightiest claims to be received as the truth.
Now I quote 1/3. It is important to get as near as possible to the exact words which God caused to be written.
And I have the initials of PW after that.
Now I believe.
That the authorized version is beautiful. God has honored it over several centuries. Many have been saved through it, build up on it. It has been honored in ministry, and we would not want to try to set that aside.
But if God has given us the most faithful translation that exists on earth, and not only so, but it is outstanding in what I say.
And those who have been gathered to the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ are the ones who've been most privileged to be acquainted somewhat with it.
And I know that the teachers value it greatly. But brethren, I would not want to discourage any St. here, young or old, if they can afford it, if they can have the time to look into it, that they'll profit by it. We don't want a priesthood that only they have the truth and the common people you don't have, we should be.
Encouraged.
To turn to a most excellent translation, especially in your studies, your comparisons said as to.
No man is.
Didn't follow any writings. That's the just of what you said about the same remark applies to foreign ministry, doesn't it? We don't we don't receive a thing 100% just because somebody said it. But to let the prophets speak two or three and let the others judge.
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All, let's say, is something to the genuine of our brethren.
That's healthy, that's normal. So we mustn't, we must demand perfection. And none of us, I don't think there's anybody here with enough wholeness.
Going to say now, brethren, I'm going to give an address and everything I say is just exactly right.
If if such a harness was put upon us.
I don't think there's anybody here that would want to be on the platform.
So.
Always something to the judgment of our brethren.
Errors and so we can expect to find any book that was written by anyone that you can, if you go to the microscope, find some error.
But we're thankful that there's ministry that we can trust. We're sure we're going to find nothing in it derogatory to the person or work of Christ. It's folklore, it's found. It's going to build us up on our most holy faith. We know the pedigree, we know what it takes. But we mustn't demand perfection. Is that right, Brother Brown? Yes. Allow me just add one thought.
We must.
Give the word of God, it's too crude place.
Even above the finest of our ministry, I mean those that minister the best, we have learned to love and value. And I'm glad of our finest old teachers that are in book form and so on. But let us not let our souls sink down to thinking that that is the standard. God's Word is the supreme standard.
I know you're moving to that 14th chapter of First Corinthians we read, they asked. There are many kinds of voices in the world, and we know that to be true today. And perhaps there is a tendency to listen to the strange voices around us.
And the query has been raised. Well, which voice am I to listen to with safety? Well, how good to know that God has answered that query Himself. He opened the heavens upon his beloved Son and declared, This is my beloved Son. Hear him. How good it is to know that we can listen with safety to the voice of the Good Shepherd. There's no need for us to go into all the strange voices and wonder what they mean and understand them.
So long as we listen to 1 voice, the voice of the Good Shepherd, I believe that's completing what you just said. The word of God itself should be supreme in every way.
When the Samaritan found the man from the wayside.
He poured it on the oil and the wine, and put him on his beef. He took him to the hen.
He put them to the end, to the end. And he said to the innkeeper, take care of it until I come again. Whatsoever. I'll spend this more hour repeating.
I believe that the application of that at least an application we can make is this.
That inn, that was where the Samaritan intended that man should be cared for.
The end for you and me is the Church of God. It's the assembly.
That is where our souls are going to be taken care of.
And let's be satisfied with it. I don't believe near Saints of God, that we're going to gain anything by shopping around.
I don't believe it. Take him to the end. There's where your soul is going to be cared for. There's where you're going to get what the Samaritan intended you to have. He knew where he was taking him. He knew the innkeeper.
And therefore his soul to be cared for, be satisfied.
With the ministry that you get that is in fellowship with a little testimony and then you can be sure you're not going to be LED astray.
Some of us have been in other places which you wouldn't call again, and we have gotten a kind of ministry there, that Bible school.
But one can testify that it's the assembly. It's in the assembly where you really learn the truth.
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And once I'm satisfied that we have learned many times more in the assembly than in a Bible school.
Well, isn't that because, Brother Anderson, the Holy Spirit of God is free and given his liberty to minister by whomsoever he will? He doesn't have a a mass production program and.
Scheduled educational.
Subject to take up, but he he ministers the word according to the nature of his people. And impulse is one another to to give the word that answers to our needs. And many times we've heard things say after a meeting, well, that word was precisely for me.
And somebody else in attendance.
Has been.
Help by the same address, only in a different way. The Spirit of God taking of the things of Christ and administering to them, to us according to our needs. And Cheryl Norris and Moody Bible School, a professor lecturing on 1St Corinthians Monday in the case of that 14th chapter.
And he just said it an off man's way. Well, these books called Plymouth Brethren are the only ones that practice them now.
And justice. Methods of the wave of the hand.
Well, brother, Brother Cheryl Norris.
He was rather arrested by the remark. He thought that queer in that part of the word of God. How can we just ward it off? Just like you think an eraser and eraser from the backboard. How can we do that?
Shortly after that he was doing some janitor work there and he's left up a copy of Christian.
A young Christian. A little magazine. What is now Christian Truth used to be called Young Christian.
They just put these pop and he didn't know what it was, and he put it over and he found ministry of a different type than he'd ever gotten ahold of before, and he wrote in the Bible to his publishers.
That was the beginning of his enlightenment, and six months after that, that dear brother was happily received at the largest table and that size of those 25 or 30 years ago, and he's still going on happily found the truth.
Brethren, there's one thing that we have not commented on in respect to.
Safety of.
Going to those, to that type of ministry of all of whom we have known.
That is, the word also tells us that having received these things, we communicate them to others.
And Brother Brown commented that it's a happy thing for us if we're bound in a small meeting.
Be satisfied and happy with the ministry there, but I know he'll agree with me.
But if there are.
There may be one brother in that meeting.
Who has never had it on his heart to contribute.
And it may be that there is no great gift present. This is often paid.
Perhaps the brother is burdened by it.
Lord would be a happy thing if he were burdened to the point that he'd say, well, perhaps Lord has put me in this meeting that I might communicate a little to and add something to the ministry that we have here. So often we see little gatherings where, dear brethren, and we can't help but thank the Lord, we see them faithful in their homes and faithful perhaps in their employment.
Connection with more things but.
Absolutely quiet in the meeting.
Well, brethren, there are sisters present too. Perhaps Mark would exercise the heart, having acquired these things through reliable sources, being dependent on the Lord about it. Too offensive contribute and to communicate something of what we have gained.
And thus can add to the blessing of that whole meeting and the enrichment of your own soul too.
Yes, I do.
I wonder if we might go on with verse 2. Verse 2 Commences with Beware of Dogs, but I suppose that the context down to verse 6.
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Would bring before our attention.
Judaism in contrast to Christianity, verse 3.
I know there have been various ideas put forward as to what the dogs are, but I I think I'm abiding by the best that I've heard.
That the Judaizing teachers even like Saul of Tarsus once was himself.
Beware of dogs nowadays we have apostates.
Teaching, you might say, Jewish principles that suit the flesh. And the subject here is religious flesh rather than corrupt flesh. Not a question of corruption of the flesh, but of religious flesh in these verses. And he starts out with beware of dogs.
Verse 10 but Isaiah 5610 eleven good.
His Watchmen are blind.
They are all ignorant, they are all dumbed off. They cannot bark. Sleeping, lying down, looking to slumber. Yeah, they are greedy dogs who can never have enough. And they are shepherds that cannot understand.
They all look to their own way. Everyone prays for his game from his quarters.
Well, that's connection the dog and evil workers season.
The dogs were the protein.
The evil workers were those that corrupted the faith.
The concession.
Were those that were the homogenizers those that were?
Going to have a mixture that allowed the flash a place.
They were unwilling to apply the knife to everything that was of the place.
They wanted a very respectable kind of religion.
The profane and then the corrupters of the faith.
And then those that wanted to.
Not go too far.
Recognize the flesh, the conversation.
Then the apostle comes in with the bold declaration, We are the circumcision.
And then he goes on to show how much that circumcision includes in the verses that follow.
Just a complete stripping of everything that belonged to the old man.
Complete setting of it aside.
As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh.
They constrain you to be circumcised.
Only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
And then we get verse three of our chapter. For we are the circumcision which worship God in the Spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus.
And have no confidence in the life.
It's not a practical application of circumcision.
In Acts 7, in connection with the ear and the heart.
He's stiff next and uncircumcised in heart and ears. Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost. As your Father sees, so do ye.
A near attendance to the Word of God and the heart open to receive it, to be controlled by it in every way.
Lead by the grace of God, rejoice. And what is said in verse 3?
And I have no confidence in him. Flesh and religious flesh. And we shall not be very popular.
If you meet somebody on the street and and you're conversing.
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They say, well, what church do you belong to?
If you answer I'm a Catholic or a Protestant and some denomination, there's no reproach at all attached to it. And your hail fell well met with them as it grows. But if you say.
I belong to the Lord Jesus Christ. He's my Savior and my All in all.
At the strange note in her ear.
Robin two and 1St 28295.
Neither do, which is why not inwardly, not of the heart in the spirit, not in the letter. He's crazy. Not a man, but a clock.
Intellectual, Chapter 2.
I heard eleven dead and move all over your circumstance of the circumstances made without man and put it off the body of the state of the flag by the second vision of pride.
Not exactly what that means. Putting off the body of the sins of the flag.
Created in the other translation, Brother Anderson.
End of the verse.
Yet according off of the body of the flesh, the sins are committed.
Well, that's doctor is referring to the nature yes, yes, and that's what's been dealt with in the death of Christ. Now I don't get down here the Constitution where those who are concerned about the truth of the flag, the different individuals.
In that these might do.
And they were out to serve those things. And I thought of it this way.
And using it else an illustration.
We have an oak tree in the back of our mouth. It's in the neighbors yard. It's a large oak tree and in the fall some of those leaves fall.
That the tree sheds some of its leaves, but some of the leaves hang on, and they hang on all winter long.
Now someone might get concerned about that, but those leaves hang on all winter and wonder what kind of a tree.
It would look like in the spring it would. The beauty of the tree might be marred by those old leaves hanging on.
Well, to make it simple, I believe there's concedence are just like that. They get worried about some of those things that hang on that perhaps ought to drop off and perhaps try to impose rules and regulations in order to get rid of them.
But not about this tree. Wait until springtime and as that forces up the tree and the buds begin to push out, what happens to those old leaves? They drop off.
Well, so it is when the soul gets occupied with Christ, filled with Christ, well, those things drop off that might be hanging on.
For those that wanted to retain.
Something of the dignity of nature. They wanted to.
Have a religious appearance.
That was acceptable with the world. They they were unwilling to apply the knife.
I think her time is up, isn't it?