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Also enjoying something along the lines our brother brought before us.
Of looking to the Lord.
Gazing on the Lord and glory.
I will not gaze at glory, but on my King of grace.
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In numbers 12.
You have a portion.
Numbers chapter 12 and verse one.
And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married, for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
And they said, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses?
Hath he not spoken also by us?
And the Lord heard it.
Now the man Moses was very meek above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.
And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out E3 unto the Tabernacle of the congregation, and they three came out.
And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood at the in the door of the Tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forth.
And he said, Hear now my words, If there be a prophet among you, I, the Lord, will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
My servant Moses is not so who is faithful in all mine healths.
With Him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches, And in the similitude of the Lord shall he behold.
Wherefore then, were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
What was the problem?
With Miriam and Aaron.
The problem was they were looking at their brother naturally.
At a servant of the Lord.
And he had done something marrying an Ethiopian woman.
And as it were.
They sought to perhaps set him aside.
Or make it a matter of shame to him.
Notice that Moses did not fight.
He did not make it a matter of contention.
But the Lord said it right.
We see that Moses saw the Lord.
So we may have a tendency to look upon a brother or a sister.
And say there is something not right in their life, therefore I will not hear.
I will not listen to what God has given them, but that is not right.
We see from this example this scripture written for our learning that it is not the right path for us to do.
To be setting aside someone that the Lord is speaking to us through.
Keep our eyes upon the Lord.
And as we have in job.
Chapter 42.
A man.
Who went through great trial?
At the end he could say Job Chapter 42.
Verse 5.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the year, but now mine eye seeth thee.
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Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
We have heard.
Of the Lord.
It would seem that Job he finally saw the Lord.
In realizing His glory and His Holiness.
And looking upon his life, that which he had righteously.
Argued with his friends concerning.
He realized.
I have nothing.
Before the Lord.
Would this be?
A thing for us to do.
Have we seen the Lord in such a way?
Where it strips us of any.
Thought of.
Good. That is in US.
Where we see how holy?
And how pure he is.
And we repent and dust and ashes for having any inkling of glorifying ourselves. Any inkling of.
I am something.
No, before the Lord.
Speaking personally.
As an individual, a Sinner, saved by grace alone, I have nothing to glory in except the cross of Christ.
And so through trial.
And considering our ways being before the Lord personally.
We can see the glory of the Lord and have a moment of.
Where we truly see how great he is.
We are blessed.
In John chapter 20.
We have a portion.
Where we are called blessed.
John chapter 20 and verse 29.
Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, hast thou believed?
Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed.
How blessed we are.
We have believed by the grace of God, by the gift of faith, we know and believe that Jesus Christ is risen. He is a glorified man. He is on high in the glory.
And when we turn to that wonderful portion of Hebrews.
Is it cheapers?
Chapter 2.
We verse nine we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death.
Crowned with glory and honor.
We see Jesus.
So we can look around at failure.
We can look around at others. Indeed, we can look at ourselves as well.
But when we look at Jesus, that's where our.
Proper places.
I would say.
And as it were, when we have the Lord before us individually, is there anything else that can fill our eyes?
Perhaps we are all in the line and we're looking towards him. Or perhaps we're all in a circle and we're looking towards Him and that fills our eyes. He fills and we don't get distracted by our brethren.
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We don't get distracted by things down here. We don't get distracted.
By the afflictions that afflict us.
But we see him.
There was another man.
In Acts Chapter 7.
Acts Chapter 7.
Verse 55.
Before we read, perhaps we can talk a little bit about Stephen.
Young people, older ones.
He wasn't distracted by the things of this earth.
He wasn't distracted by friends.
He had one object and that was the Lord. He sought to do the Lord's will. He was full of the Holy Ghost. He sought to do the service that was in his before him to do.
And even.
In martyrdom.
Verse 55 But he Stephen, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven.
And saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
What a vision to have before.
Leaving the scene.
And surely we have that vision before us when we're up in glory seeing the Lord Jesus Christ.
At the right hand of God.
I spoke a little bit about distractions and and such. We know John Mark, he was, he was didn't want to go to the work.
He didn't want to go.
To the work with Paul.
And Barnabas, he left them. Perhaps it was too hard. We don't know what state of soul was, but let's be encouraged to be as Paul, Barnabas, Silas, they were focused to do the will of him that sent him to do the will of the Lord. They had the Lord before them, I believe, and so they could go through trials and tribulations.
Because the Lord was before them.
So may we have the Lord before us.