Talk—Dave Mearns
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So home.
It's found 51 Times in the Word of God.
It's not where I'm supposed to pick up. I'm just reminded of this 51 Times in the word.
The first one is in connection with a woman. The last one is in connection with a woman. There's 49 in between.
Our little swamp has 91 dimensions.
Almost twice as much.
That we have in the work. I thought, oh, those brethren as they wrote those hands, what did they have before they had before them? Oh, I just love that. That's just ask the Lord for his help.
I go to my father. We're so thankful for the Lord Jesus. We're so thankful. It's our privilege to be here this evening. We're so thankful for the courage of our brother here in Aberdeen to invite us here to these meetings. We know that there's a lot of work involved and so we're so thankful. We just pray for a special blessing for each of them and for ourselves too. Our God, we're all here.
With our need.
We're all here expecting.
And we're expecting blessing or we wouldn't be here. That's why we hear our God, you just betray. We earnestly pray as we have had in the meeting so far that the blessing would continue. So we ask will I help now as we would just spend a few minutes. My precious word that it would be a time of real profit for us. We ask these things, giving thanks and the worthy and the precious name of that blessed One, our Lord Jesus, who we await.
And.
And will soon be home. Amen.
So a few months ago I was in Angola and I arrived there on a Thursday.
And right there. And it was a hot, smoggy day, or a hot, dusty day. And the next day was Friday. It was another hot, dusty day.
Saturday I got up.
It's another hot, dusty day.
What day Another.
Hot, dusty day.
Monday.
Another.
Hot, dusty day Tuesday.
Oh, I love the dust. Why it rains. It's not the rainy season, but it rained and it rained hard and there was mud everywhere, everywhere everybody has stepped. And when we ooze up around the sandals and as we walked from the street where we were through this village.
Up to where the meeting room was, it was just all mud, just a mess.
But we found there was rocks here and there and there was little chest of grass where we could step and that way would be just a little bit higher than the mud. And I thought of that in connection with the world in which we find ourselves. You know, it speaks about a lot. It says about lot that he fell in the slime ****.
The the the men of Sodom and the men of Gomorrah. And there was there was 5 kings against four that they fell in the slime pits, but there were those that escaped it, says Clematon. And I just thought of what a difference there is between low ground and high ground.
You know, this is what we've had today is a little taste of the high ground.
In our, in the world that we find ourselves, it's low ground, it's low ground. No, it's like to have your feet all wet and muddy. It's just not pleasant. Well, as we, we made our way to the, to the meeting room there we are trying to we're trying to find these high places where we could step to stay overnight and there would be sometimes three or four steps where there wouldn't be anything and you'd have to step in the line and you'd.
Get it all over yet. We got to the other end and we took up the subject of foot washing and it's not what we're going to do tonight. I was thinking a little bit, I want to look at one man. But before we do that, I'd just like to make a comment or two with regards to what we had before us this afternoon in loop Chapter 12.
Luke chapter 12 just looking at to keep my mouth right here in order to be heard. You hear me out there in the field.
So loop checker, well I was thinking of this.
This portion we didn't get very far and I appreciated the suggestion of this portion. I thought just for a second we could look at the context. So here we we had.
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Brought before us here, not little flock and our brother Ron mentioned it's where the name of the flock came from. I've appreciated that earlier they were looking at the name from Zechariah as the poor of the flock. And I I thought if you look at their Zechariah, it's it's the time when Zechariah is is taken away captive and the tour of the flock were left and they had tremendous, tremendous blessing for them. But here.
What characterizes the poor of the flock?
Well, we find that in the context earlier in the chapter and in I enjoyed the list here. We won't go through it, but it says in verse 23, life is more than meat, the body is more than rain. And consider the Ravens, the anonymous solar wreath. So it speaks about the reason that I thought about the Ravens and how wonderful it says that the word provides for the Ravens.
In our area we find the Ravens, the crows that are on our bird feeder, but they're also the side of the road eating rope kills. They eat anything.
And there's all kinds of things provided for them, but at least they have wings to go and get the food to where they have to go. The thing that they're lilies.
This is the lilies here it says consider the lilies, how they grow, they toil, they spin up. Now lilies don't have any, the wings to go and get that refreshment, to get that moisture. They are entirely dependent on the Lord, entirely dependent on the Lord. And that is the point of the little flock that we have here. And so we are to be to this thing entirely.
Dependent upon our Lord. So what does it say to our government? Verse 28 O ye?
A big thing.
I'm sure.
Oh, I love those thoughts concerning that which should characterize.
Our own souls as we go through this scene and we find much lower out, you know, the enemy has all kinds of slant hits as we have that golden storm fell in all kinds of slumping. The enemy of our souls has has a whole buffet for all of us. The feedback doesn't be oh Lord would have us to seek that high ground.
We'll compete on that, which is good. Well, the one I wanted to look at is in the book and I'm just going to do this for a minute just to show you what characterized.
This young person.
Seeing first kings.
Bruce Kings.
14.
Christians, Chapter 14.
We climbed here.
Young man, child. We don't know the age of them, it says in the first part of the chapter. At that time, Elijah, the son of Jeroboam, fell sick.
I'm not going to go through this whole portion. It's a long one. You can read it when you get home, but.
He, he really wanted to see this child raised and I thought of this because.
The the man Jeroboam, he doesn't have a very good connotation. Doesn't every time you hear that name, we we think that Jeroboam who caused Israel to sin or what a horrible king he was, but he had this son and.
He said he's going to to try to disguise yourself to speak to the prophet to see if the son that was sick because he raised up. Well, I'm not going to go through the story, but let's go down to the.
What we find about this, this young person, it says in verse 13 in all Israel, this is a this is a forecast. This is a prophecy rather 12Th verse. It says Arise now therefore and get thee that I know house. And when thy feet entered into the city, the child shall die and all of Israel shall mourn for him and bury him. For he only is a jeroboam that shall come to the grave, because in him.
In hand there was found some good things toward the Lord God of Israel in the House of chair of long. You know, I thought of this in connection with this young person and I thought of how highly the odds were stacked against this young person to go on for the Lord. They were just so highly staffed and yet here was someone.
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Who I could put this way, was seeking high grounds.
Here was someone who had a tenderness towards the Lord and what happened was the Lord took them out of the scene. And as we read further we find that Jeroboams family was a disaster. He was a disaster.
He had, he had the potential for such promise. If you go to the promises that were made to Jeroboam, if he would only follow the Lord, that there was going to be tremendous blessing and he did anything but. And yet here in this household.
It was beset with so many things that were against him. It was tenderness towards the world.
Well, what about us here tonight? So many young people here.
Young people and you know, as I said before, the enemy of our souls, he has this world soul full of slime targets for us to fall into. And yet the Lord would have us to seek high ground. He would have a he would have us to have a tenderness. He would have, you know, as I was saying in the meeting this afternoon, I was thinking what these wonderful things, but what it seems like it's taken an awful lot of faith to be able to characterize by these ones that lived at this time and to be paralyzed.
With the moral attributes of the Kingdom, it says that Oh ye of little faith, of little faith.
I love that.
I love that everyone of us can make hold of that.
In such a way that we can seek.
Inside the hits that the enemy has forced those high places.
The Lord must have us to lay hold on that which is really like, you know, we spoke about home. And for those of us here older, we've got a few extra birthdays than you folks that are younger. Home. Sure. Sure. Looks good. It really looks good. I understand. I remember when I was young and the Catholic home, Yeah, it was nice. It was nice. And I I pondered it with mild interest and we enjoyed the thought of going home.
But we are still here. We are still here, aren't we?
You young folks.
It's going to time if the Lord needs us here, that.
A lot of birthdays too.
So what about between then?
All the Lord would have you to have a little faith.
And Sleigh Holt.
Almost reading that.
We we read about the little flock.
To think young people of the Lily that we spoke about.
What can a Lily do to survive?
It can't do a thing. It is totally dependent on the Lord for everything. And yet we read Psalm and all his glory was not arranged like one of these.
Oh, every one of us.
Have the dependence in our lives.
Like the Lily?
But this man, there was such tenderness toward him in such a way that the Lord just said, you know, take him home.
What about us?
Do you have tenderness towards the Lord? Is there that?
We pick up all kinds of performance. Do we seek the high ground, those places that are not defined equal? It's wonderful to be here, but not always here, though.
We see those things.
Oh, we must be left elderly, that we might be at the fighter towards the Lord. Let's pray.
Governor, Father we.
You think it's our privilege to be here?
And to read from these blessed pages that which is so good for our soul. Thank you for watching.
We pray that there will be like 10 minutes towards the hour God.
Watch him, we pray they would be left their Lily in total dependence upon me.
We ask these things are gone. We're here in our great need and we really need all of these things and so we would ask for help tonight. We think of each one here. We're all in a different part of our journey. So many young ones here are God so much in this world to discourage, which is earnestly great if they were to reach out and they hold and the things that are really nice and we ask these things are gone as we await the return of that blessed one, our riches.
Take us home. And his worthy name we pray. Amen.