St. Thomas Conference: 2009
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Luke 22:1-11
Luke 22:11-18
Attractions and Distractions
Address—Michel Payette
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Could we open our meeting by singing together #188?
The third stands especially says Oh Lord.
How precious is thy thought?
How wondrous thy desire.
To win our hearts once, worse than not.
When all by grace aspire to seek thy glory, bare thy shame to keep thy word.
And love thy name #188.
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Say a word of prayer.
I had it on my heart to speak today and I didn't know he had taken up Route 22. My brother asked me to take the meeting. He phoned me on Thursday I believe and I had some thoughts from Exodus chapter 12.
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Which I'd like to turn to.
You know.
The Word of God is so full of meaning.
And it's so potent that.
Our hearts can hardly take in sometimes what it means, and I believe we can't exhaust the depth of what it means.
But it says, you know, as often as you eat, eat this bread and drink this cup.
You do show the Lord's death.
Till he comes.
I believe the Lord would have.
Our hearts respond to His heart.
I believe God our Father would have our hearts respond to His heart.
And find our delights in the one that delights his own heart.
And I believe the enemy of our souls, he will rob Christ a very glory of every joy, of every comfort he could.
And if you could destroy that little leftover, you might say of Saints that God has preserved, to whom he reveals his Son to, and put in their hearts to be gathered around him to remember him, and that he would destroy that too.
And I believe that God's grace, if we're here, is because God has preserved us, not because of our faithfulness, because of his faithfulness.
Your brother, I know he's a young brother in the Lord and he.
Been reading some stuff on the Internet, been affected by.
Preaching doctrine, you might say, and.
And he, he gave me a a path that was really 150 page pamphlet.
Quite a work there.
On post tribulation, the Lord coming at the end of the tribulation, the brother who put that together, he is very capable and he's ordered the verses and he's gone around the hurdles and he's very convincing, you know?
And so I read the paper to help this brother, and he didn't convince me.
And I put little notes there and I, I still have to meet with this probably to talk these things over, but you know.
The Spirit and the Bride say come.
And if this teaching that He's brought before us is true, we wouldn't be saying come. We would say, well, maybe the man of sin appear and we can see all these things happen, and our hearts wouldn't be longing for the Lord to come.
So Satan would rob you and I, and rob the Lord Jesus of the mutual enjoyment of the heart and the mutual expectancy moment by moment, to see Him face to face and Him to see you, dear ones.
And I like what the Lord held tonight this this afternoon, rather in Exodus chapter 12 to just go over these things momentarily.
Exodus chapter 12. We'll read from a few verses in Chapter 11.
Verse four. And Moses said thus set the Lord about midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt. And on the first born of the land of Egypt shall die from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even until the first born of the maidservant that is behind the mill, and all the first born of beasts. And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, and none shall be like it anymore.
But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue against man or beast, that she may know how the Lord thought, put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel? And all these thy servants will come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee, and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger. And the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt. And Moses and Aaron did all these wonderful, these wonders before Pharaoh. And the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel.
Go from his land of his land. Verse Chapter 12. Verse one. And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months, and it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the 10th day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb according to the House of their fathers, a lamb foreign house. If the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls. Every man according to his eating, shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish a male of the first year, and you shall take it out from the sheep.
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And from the goats, and you shall keep it unto the nut 14th day of the same month. And the old assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts, and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh. And that night rose with fire, and unleavened bread, and with bitter herbs they shall eat it, eat it, eat not of it raw nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire his head with his legs.
And with the pertinence thereof. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning, and that which remaineth of it until the morning, ye shall burn with fire. And thus shall ye eat it with your loins, gird it, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and ye shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and I will smite all the first born in the land of Egypt, boat and beast, man and beast. And against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord, and the Lord the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are. And when I see the blood, I will Passover you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt.
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and you shall keep it. A feast to the Lord throughout your generations. Ye shall keep it.
A feast, an ordinance, forever.
Verse 24.
And you shall observe this thing of an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever they shall come to pass, when you come to the land which the Lord will give you according as He had promised, that you shall keep this service, and shall come to pass. When your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? Then you shall say It is a sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smoked the Egyptians and delivered our houses, and the people bowed ahead.
And worship.
Well, perhaps there were remarks made yesterday about this passage in the Old Testament. I trust I won't be repeating some of the things that were said. We spoke this morning of the 10th day to the 14th day, those 3 1/2 years of the Lord's public ministry where they could see He was that land without spot or blemish.
Struck me in this chapter. You know, in the land of Israel in those days, there might have been, I don't know how many households there were.
There were 600,000 soldiers, you might say, put them in, so maybe 300,000 homes. So how many lambs were slaying that night in Egypt? 300,000 no problem.
But not once in this chapter is the word lamb used in the plural.
It's in the singular. The Spirit of God has penned these words for us now as we read this, and God is bringing our attention.
As we have in this meeting to that one who is a Lamb of God, the Lord Jesus Christ.
But it says there in verse five, Your lamb shall be without blemish a male of the first year. You shall take it out from the sheep.
Or from the goats. The sheep and the goat are in the plural.
You take it.
God has one Lamb in view in Exodus chapter 12.
The one who would come to fulfill that which was a type up here, our blessed Lord Jesus Christ.
I want us to go back in Egypt together.
Let's go back in Egypt at that time and that night.
It's gonna be a terrible night, it said there. There was such a cry in Egypt. There was never one like that before.
Wasn't gonna be 1 after.
The Jewish household. The Hebrew household.
I would think the father.
But I've made sure if you didn't do it himself.
Would have made sure that that lamb was in the house on the 10th day.
And I was gonna be slain in that night between the two evenings.
And that he would make sure that the blood was on the door.
Post it on a little.
Maybe the little boy says to his daddy as a first born son. He says to his dad. Why are you doing that father?
Oh, because I love you.
I'm sure Pharaoh loved this boy. Harold's neighbors love their boys and their sons.
Would you think that there you'd say their son died? Good for that.
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So sometimes we preach the gospel and you hear they're gonna burn in hell forever.
No, the disciples of the Lord, you want us to command the fire from heaven, says you know not what spirits are about you.
Is that what God wants to do? Call down the fire from heaven on the guilty ones?
You and I would have been burnt a long time ago.
It was a solemn night in Egypt.
So they sat on the table and they ate the roasted lamb.
Waiting for the judgment of the Lord to come and they be spared.
Villa boy says to his daddy. Dad, can I go play outside?
No, not tonight.
Can you and my brother go outside and play soccer?
No, not tonight.
Can I ask my little Egyptian friend neighbor if we could go out play with marbles or something?
Not tonight.
Anything wrong with playing with marbles or playing soccer or nothing wrong with that?
Would you agree with that Was a solemn night.
I'd like to be remembered.
Which they didn't remember very well because they didn't celebrate the Passover very often.
So the Lord graciously chapter Luke 22 he's got his disciples around him and he this is the last Passover with desire by deserted his Passover with you before I suffer. They made you ready. They must have gotten the lamb and they they they did all these things that were prescribed in the law of Moses. Not a word in Luke about that because the true Passover landed there. Christ our Passover is sacrificed.
He is a lamb without spot and without blemishes right there.
Brought himself in the person of his son.
With desire.
You know that man in the Old Testament? There he took that lamp for his only begotten son, or first born son I should say.
He was happy in the morning. His son was still there.
Judgment had passed.
I can't imagine the thoughts in his heart. You think of Abraham when God had him rehearsed what he was going to do himself, The thoughts going through Abraham's heart as a father.
What was God doing? Oh, God was opening his heart to Abraham, and the measure He could. And he's opening his heart to the children of Israel in a measure he could.
And in Luke 22, the Lord is opening his heart to us in a measure He could.
And in what measure do our hearts answer to His?
The Lord said to.
The children is all there when you you have this feast, when you just remembers, your children will say what mean he by this feast.
Can you tell your children?
Can you tell your Christian friends?
Can you tell anyone about what this means?
Would having without having your motion in your heart.
And maybe if you're French, your nose runs and you have tears in your eyes.
Can you?
Have we?
Have we argued about that?
Have we divided?
Over views about that.
How can that be, brethren?
Do that, Lamb.
There was nothing left in the morning.
Completely burned.
Exodus 12 The fire exhausted the lamp. Nothing left of it.
New Testament The Lamb exhausted the fire.
He's finished. He's on that cross and the fire is finished, and he enters willfully into death, the Son of God, after suffering what you and I would have suffered for eternity during those three hours with darkness. That's what happened.
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Means something to you when you remember the Lord.
You know.
We're religious creatures. When I was in a Catholic Church, we would have to commune once a year.
At Easter, that was.
In French's Polk is really Passover in English. But at Easter you had the community, you had to take the host there.
Or if you didn't take the host.
On Easter once a year, you're going to hell.
Unless you repent and confession.
So you took it?
Thank you, Lord, for dying for me. No. What was their sufferings for me? No, nothing like that. Religious duty, something I had to do. I was doing this for God.
Remember, said the Lord, Remember Me what the Lord has done for us.
And it's going to move your heart. It should move your heart.
I should produce worship just flowing from hearts, overflowing the glory of that person. And when you went through.
And the marvel of it all, He wants us to be there, to be so occupied.
You know, in the glory.
We're going to sing his worth, his glory. We're we're never going to forget.
All the believers in heaven, same fullness of enjoyment.
And if Satan had his way, no believer on the earth would have any measure of that enjoyment.
But God will have His way, and He is chosen to have a testimony and to reveal that to some poor hearts like mine in yours.
That's all. I would have something.
Of the fruit of the tribal, of his soul before he sees the fullness of it.
Am I off? Is is is this really what this is all about?
Were I off in the field somewhere? My thoughts are getting lost, my emotions overcoming my mind.
I'll let you answer that.
So I said to those boys on that night, you know.
Well, why? Why did you tell your Egyptian friend, tell his father to go get a lamb?
And to get some blood, put it on the door, you know?
You're my friend.
What's gonna happen is terrible.
Maybe my dad can help you, I don't know.
Well, there was no provision for that in Exodus chapter 12.
Now. But your neighbor, the fellow, the girl you work with, the guy at school beside you.
People you see every day.
Is there a provision for them?
There's a provision for them. God wants all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. Are you going to tell them about the blood of the Lamb?
There are dark clouds on the horizon. We're going home soon. Wonderful. What about those that are left behind?
Do we care?
Does he care?
And if he doesn't care, then we don't need to care.
But if he cares.
Like he cared for you and he cared for me. We should care well.
You know, we get get the privilege of remembering the Lord week by week. This was once a year and they didn't keep it very well and I guess they kind of lost the sense of how the Lord had delivered them and they never entered into it very much.
But John the Baptist says, behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. And we've been introduced in that now having the Lord Jesus our Savior. And I would suggest to you to take this picture here in Exodus 12. And as we consider the remembrance of the Lord week by week, not to consider it one event on Sunday morning and then another event the next Sunday morning, the same event that we kind of forget about and the Lord reminds us in the race.
On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, the same evening, the night that we are in now, when the absence of the one who is the son.
SUN, the light of the way He left us here in the night as light shining for him.
Shouldn't that make us sober?
Concerned.
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There was a concern here, the father for his first born.
God our Father would share with us his concern, his thoughts.
About his son.
Precious privilege.
And God our Father would share with us his thoughts about his sons and daughters.
And his concerns for them.
Our Lord Jesus.
Would share with us.
His thoughts and his concerns.
For his church.
You know.
It might just be because we're getting older.
It might just be because this is more prevalent in society as a whole that many of.
Our wives.
Are sick or have been sick?
Our Lord has taken many of them home.
I not a subject I like to talk about, but it seems to me over the past several years there's been so many.
And we are very thankful, my wife and I, that the Lord really.
Gave us a real small measure of testing there and we really feel for those that are going through much deeper waters, but there's so many.
Actually, through all that, the Lord is able to sustain each one and give grace. But I, I, I wonder in my own soul if the Lord wasn't telling us to what we're experiencing.
Some of the concerns he has.
For his wife, for the church.
And you know, it's a wonderful privilege to be at the Lord's table. I have no doubt that's what it is. And to break the bread remembrance of him on the ground of the one body, the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
That body takes up all those that are redeemed with the precious blood of Christ.
And perhaps we could.
Examine ourselves and see if our hearts were as large in considering them that way.
We need that.
Not to be liberal. Not to give up the truth in any measure. No compromise.
But in large hearts.
Many of our dear brothers and sisters in error and bad teaching. Or may they be, uh, part of concerns of our hearts because they are, I believe, concern of the Lord's heart.
And so I, I mentioned this before, but concern of the Lord's heart, the interests of Jesus Christ, not only for his church, but for so many lost ones. He came to seek and to save that which was lost. And he's left us here for many different purposes, but one of them is to make known his love, his forgiveness, his goodness, the goodness of God that leadeth to repentance. It's manifested in that person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
We've been drawn to him.
Don't you think others could be drawn to him if they see something of him and you, by the way you speak of him, or you have them read something or see something or attend something? You could draw them too. He's drawing you. He's drawing me.
I If I be lifted up from the earth, we'll draw all men unto me.
Proverbs 1922 And the French violence says what draws to a man is his kindness.
He's different in English, but the thought is there.
Well, He would draw all men unto him. He will. In the end, they're all going to be gathered before him.
Thought of him standing before the judge.
Because you will have rejected him so.
I'd just like to say a few words on.
Things that would distract us.
From this excellent privilege.
And I trust we continue to value it from week to week and don't, for we don't forget the Lord. You know from Sunday afternoon to next Sunday morning that E present in our hearts is warm in our hearts. And we go from the time of refreshment and worship in His presence, filled with wonder and a spirit of worship and a desire to have Him known all around us.
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Let's read a verse in Luke chapter.
10.
Luke, chapter 10.
Verse 40.
Chapter 10, verse 40. But Martha was cumbered about much serving.
And came to him and said Lord.
I still not care that my sister had left me to serve alone.
Bitter, therefore, that she helped me.
Well, no, we speak off times of this portion.
Martha telling the Lord what to do.
Could happen to you, could happen to me.
Little word there.
Much she was cumbered with much.
I think of the sin of much.
The thing itself isn't bad.
The problem is that much. There's too much.
There she is, serving the Lord too much.
Can that happen? She was serving the Lord too much, Yes.
There was perspiration involved.
Human energy. And she was so devoted. Motives were good, but it's too much. And it ended up her telling the Lord what he should tell somebody else, what she should do.
Well, it was a good thing she was doing.
All she needed was to just realign things, and we need that. We need realignment, rebalancing, sometimes with too much of this and not enough of that.
And we need that too. And my brother told me once, he said, you know, the Lord has gathered us around himself, but he's not not to preach the gospel. You know, it's really just for worship.
And besides, we lost sight that the Lord has left us here too, to be witnesses for Him, and to speak of one who should so fill our hearts. We should overflow to the Father and to our brothers and sisters, and we should overflow to.
The poor lost ones are going to have a cry like that cry in Egypt.
This was a good thing she had too much of.
Some of the things in life are necessities.
Let's read Luke chapter 22.
And.
21 rather sorry.
Luke 21.
Verse 34.
Loop 2134 and take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life, so that they come upon you unaware, Speaking of a of a future day. But I think we could take to heart this warning. Take heed unto yourselves. Overcharged made heavy is the is the meaning there, just like the disciples in the garden, you know when they were supposed to watch with the Lord.
They had too much to eat and drink and they were heavy.
And I fell asleep. Too much food or drink.
And they just the natural man has, you know, we have to digest and digestion takes a lot of energy. That's why as you get older, after meal time of times, you get drowsy because you you're gonna digest your food and you're so your energy goes to the stomach who's busy processing all these fine elements, you know?
So the more you eat, the more you process. The more you process, the more you're drowsy.
Especially during meeting.
So too much.
Too much food, too much drink.
James Chapter 2.
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It says of Mary.
She was distracted by much service in Mr. Darby's version. Distracted.
You know, we need leisure times and Lord understands that and there's there's nothing wrong with playing sports or whatever and having some relaxation.
But some things are distracting in a negative way. In a sense, what are they distracting from?
And that's what was wrong with Martha. She was distracted from enjoying the Lord by her service she used, she had too much service where Martha Mary had the better parts. She was sitting at the Lord's feet enjoying the Lord. And I'm sure she didn't stay there. She she got up in time and I'm sure she served the Lord with purpose of heart also.
For distraction.
In themselves, in many cases not. They're not bad, but if they're distracting from.
More important things then they're they're not positive, they're negative.
But there are distractions that are negative in themselves so in James chapter.
1.
Verse 13.
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God, For God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempted he any man.
But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed that when lust had conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bring it forth death. Do not ere, my beloved. Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
This world has.
Umpteen distractions of this nature.
Bad distractions.
Distractions that your heart and mind are natural hearts can respond to.
And there's just one answer.
To these propositions that you get.
And the billboards and the music and whatever is proposed from this world of corruption and violence.
The answer is no.
Sure. Easy to repeat? No.
Noted this Noted No, no.
So dear brother, and the Lord I remember was I wasn't saved yet and I wanted to come to a social event and I tried, I tried, I was a good salesman. I tried every argument in the book and persuaded him and this and that and he just kept saying no.
And you know, he never, he never came. He was freed.
I know of freedoms is no, I'm not going to look, I'm not going to go. I'm not going to taste, I'm not going to do no.
Noah Victory.
Yes, to the Lord and whatever is proposed here that's not from God, that gives every good and perfect gift, No.
You wanna be, But I said no thank you. No.
I like repeating that word no.
I have been doing my hair. I drive down. He's crazy. Toss him No.
But then you see, these would draw us away. These, these things would draw us away from the enjoyment of the Lord, bring sorrow in our lives, break our fellowship with the Lord, bring sorrow in the lives of those that we love. Read the Lord, grieve our brethren, No.
But then we can be drawn away in another way, and I'd like to look at that for a few moments in Acts chapter 20.
You know, in Acts chapter 20, when Paul stayed in, he stayed for a week there.
And if you read, I'm not gonna read that portion, but when the disciples were gathered together on the first day of the week to break bread.
They broke bread twice.
I'm just reading into it, but you know, they broke bread in the upper room and then that was interrupted and Paul went down and he picked up Eudicus and he brought him back up there and went back up in the room and he preached until the morning and he broke bread. They broke bread at night and they broke bread before the morning. That's exactly what happened. The ministry, Apostle Paul, you were breaking bread in the 1St century according to Paul's instructions. And then that just disappeared. And the Lord in mercy in the 1800s, he just woke up one in another and there, there you have rather than gathered around the Lord Jesus Christ, remember him in death, and there it is.
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And it that kept on right till the morning ministry of the apostle Paul, interrupted in the dark centuries, but restored in the end. And it's all around the person of the Lord Jesus and the truth of the assembly. And then we can be here together according to instructions in the Word of God. And let that happen. Let your heart and mind be enthralled by the person of Christ, by the ministry of the Spirit of God, and especially as we come together in quietness, you know, around the Lord.
We bow our heads, and in the Spirit of God just moves a hymn here and a prayer there and a verse here and there, just a Symphony of hearts that He alone can produce. You can't make that happen. He makes that happen. If we're there, I'm distracted.
I trust we come undistracted.
Attracted by him alone.
Acts, chapter 20, verse 28.
These I take their ones as warnings ahead of time, not describing any particular situation.
But I would say this.
Let's take this to her, dear ones.
Verse 28. Acts 2028. Take heed, therefore, unto yourselves.
Paul said to Timothy, Take heed unto thyself and the doctrine, Dear brothers and sisters, be careful.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers in high places. Someone who hates the Lord Jesus, the one you're associated with, and he would love for you to dishonor his name, to hurt his cause, to hurt yourself or others. Be careful. Take heed unto thyself, take heed unto yourselves. These were the leaders there in Ephesus to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost had made you overseers.
To feed the Church of God, which he had purchased.
With his own blood.
Well, I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you.
Knott's Berry.
This lock also.
Of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years I cease not to warn everyone night and day with tears. And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the great the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. You yourself know that these hands have ministered unto My necessities, and to them that were with me. And I've showed you all things, how that soul laboring you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said it is more blessed to give than to receive. And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down and prayed with them all. And they all welped sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sawing most of all for the words which he spake that he would should see his face no more.
And accompanied him.
Onto the ship.
Precious description of mutual affection, love in the Lord and.
Sweet fellowship.
Yet warning.
Could we be careless?
Says there were grievous wolves to enter among them.
And their character would be not sparing.
The floor.
May God grant us, dear brothers and sisters, those of us who are older and perhaps more.
Active maybe in the assembly or.
In service for the Lord.
To never be.
As one who?
Spared not to flock.
These came from outside, so we need to be careful.
But then it says in verse 30.
Of your own selves shall men arise.
And you would think maybe he's talking to the elders. So say you, you watch, you watch her make sure because somebody might.
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True. Well, you watch that mirror too, you know. You watch yourself. You just watch yourself.
Knowledge. Puff it up.
You know that was Satan's sin pride.
And when he sees that, when he manages to get that going, in your heart and mind, who?
He's gonna get a free ride as long as he can.
And he's going to use.
He's going to use this book.
He's gonna use truth and you're gonna find convinced brethren.
Absolutely convinced from the word of God in the name of the Lord Jesus doing this.
How could that happen?
Has it happened in the past?
It has.
Will it happen in the future? God keep us, we don't need that.
And I asked the Lord God.
Keep me.
And may he keep you.
Take heed.
Unto yourselves. Keep short accounts with the Lord, stay close to Him, and stay small.
Small enough the Lord can use you.
Well, they were gonna draw away disciples.
After that.
They were going to distract from the truth.
And of course, distract from the Lord.
And distract from the truth. And attract.
To themselves.
Just a general word, dear ones.
Both to brothers and sisters.
You know.
This is an unconscious thing.
But we like to be recognized.
We like to be noticed.
And don't worry, God knows you. He notices you, He knows you, He knows where you are, He knows your heart, and He cares about you.
Make sure.
That if you are.
Attractive.
In any measure, physically or in any other way, make sure you're not distracting.
That's the bad part about being too attractive because you might be distracted.
I use this little picture. Say would you say to someone?
Don't look at the Lord Jesus on the cross, look at me.
Don't look at the Lord Jesus in glory. Look at me here. We would never want to do that, would you?
Well, let's not draw attention to ourselves.
Let's draw people to the Lord. Let's not talk about ourselves.
Let's talk about the Lord.
He is truth if we talk about Him.
With devotion and the Spirit, wouldn't people be drawn to Him?
And if they're drawn to him, won't be one would be closer. And if he draws, people say himself, won't he draw them if you let him to be around himself at the Lord's table?
Loop 22.
At that table there with the Lord of glory.
No heart to respond to his.
And he said one of you will betray me. And they all ask.
Is it idle?
Is it I, Lord?
Take heed to yourselves.
Take heed until I saw enjoy the wondrous privilege of being gathered to His name. Nothing like it on earth to be around the Lord of glory. We can't show Him to you. We talked about that this morning. Not manifest. Physically visible. No manifested glory.
But you experienced it. I've experienced it. The Spirit of God just brings out the glories of that person. One aspect or another relationship with the Father is just exhaustless from the precious pages of this book. Nothing planned, nothing organized, yet it just happens because God is living. He's living in us by His Spirit. The Lord Jesus lives for us in the glory, and He wants to encourage us along.
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He enjoys having us around himself now.
A privileged company, not a better company.
A privileged company to whom he's revealed some secrets.
They're not secret really, because they're in the Word of God, but they've been revealed to you and me.
I use this example if I had a little boy and I had a little box there and say I put I put a dollar in my little box and I tell him I put a dollar in the box.
And I asked somebody else over there, you didn't see me. I said, what did I put in the box?
He doesn't know.
He doesn't know. Nobody else knows. This little boy here said what they put in the box. Do you know how he knows? How come he knows? Is he smarter than everybody else? He's smaller than everybody else.
He hardly can walk and speak. He's only four years old, but he knows what's in the box.
Why does he know it's in the box 'cause I told him what's in the box.
And God has chosen.
To tell you.
About him?
And they tell you about how he wants us to be around him. It's all about him, not about us.
There's one last version of the Song of Solomon.
Chapter One.
Stop.
We had some verses about drawing away disciples.
Being drawn to other things, away from the Lord.
Song of Solomon, chapter one, verse four, the beginning of the verse.
Draw me.
We will run after the.
Me we Z.
We can't do it for you, you can't do it for me.
You can draw as close to the Lord as you want. You can rest your head on the bosom of the Son of God. You can say, like the apostle Paul, the Son of God who loved me.
And gave himself for me.
Can you say that in faith?
And not and be indifferent.
Drawn to him. Nobody loves you like him, and nobody ever will love you like him. He loved me and gave himself for me.
A woman of Samaria.
She had many men in her life and her life, many things wrong with her, but she met up with the Lord Jesus.
And she said, come see a man.
Come see.
She went to the weeds, the others, and she told them about the one.
She had met up with.
And they came and they believed because they heard him for themselves, but it was through her telling them.
Draw me.
And there's gonna be a week there's gonna be others affected around you if you draw out near to the Lord. That is my personal responsibility. That is your personal responsibility to be close to the Lord. And if you're close to him, you're gonna affect others in the right way.
And if you're not close to him, you might affect others in the wrong way.
You might have been playing soccer outside that night in Egypt. One with such a solemn night, careless mind taking up with other things when it's just an important business. What's happening that night. This is an important business, dear ones, a business of concern for eternity for those around us. Let's be serious, let's be solemn. I, I like to laugh and I, I don't mean you're not supposed to laugh. I have a good time. Enjoy those things that God has given us, but in the sentiment of those things that belong to us.
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Knowing what times we're living in and how soon the coming of the Lord is well, it says there draw me and we, what are we going to do? We will run after thee.
We're gonna have that common object. It doesn't say we're gonna run after him.
That's third person. They're talking to the Lord. Draw me, Lord.
And we're gonna run after. It's hard. She's talking to the Lord, you talk to him.
Get close to him, listen to what he has to say to you about his love and what he's done.
And it's gonna affect you, and you're gonna affect others. Well, let's see #197.
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Luke 22:18-34
Gospel of the Grace of God and Glory of Christ
Gospel—Bill Prost
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Well, we'd like to welcome everyone to the Gospel meeting tonight. Most of you here have been here for at least the greater part, if not all of the day. But there may be some here who have come in having been invited specifically to this meeting. And to you, we issue a most hearty welcome. We're thankful you have come.
We'd like to start out by singing a hymn, and it's a very serious hymn that we're going to sing.
#25 #25 life at best is very brief.
Like the falling of a leaf, like the binding of a sheath. Be in time.
A few days ago I was driving my car in the Greater Toronto Area, and those from the area will know very well that there is a radio station there, CFRB, that gives a traffic report on a regular basis, three or four times an hour. And it's sometimes good to listen to, to know what's going on and how to avoid areas where there are accidents and so on.
But in the course of listening for a traffic report, they mentioned something that went right to my heart and most of you will know what I am referring to because as most in Ontario know, and in Quebec, there was an actress over here from Great Britain.
Who sustained what might normally be called a freak accident while skiing. And it wasn't as if she was going down a hill at 30 miles an hour or anything. She was on what they call a Bunny hill.
That normally shouldn't pose any threats, but she fell, struck her head, thought she was all right, and as we all know, pretty much she ended up losing her life.
And I can still remember the comments that were made by the moderators on CFRB.
Here she was just going about the activities of daily living, doing the things that not only she but normal people would do, and now she's dead.
And others were there saying, well, yes, it's no greater tragedy than anybody else. It just happens that she's a celebrity and everybody knows about it. Beloved friend, tonight we want to tell you that your life is precious in the eyes of God. Tonight. You may not be a celebrity, you may not be well known, but God looks down on you and your life is just as precious as someone who's wealthy or famous or of a high position in this world.
But we're reminded, aren't we, of the brevity of life #25 and I'm going to ask, please, if we can stand up and sing it.
Life at first is very brief.
Of life in the heart.
In time.
And your pride itself is?
The Father's Day today in the beauty of the beauty passed away. Oh, you have no one to stay away.
From the spirit that you consider no longer.
Your pride began to land.
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In.
Hindi.
Fulton eyes they were they are they are always what gains the floods are flooded in the flood beginning of the sun.
'S heart and everyone's and everyone's, and there's no pain in the lightning, and the lightning falls.
And you're going to call me?
In time.
Enterprise Department.
And thank you so much, can you find me a lot of your time to enjoy it? And I'm all over the Rd.
In 5019, distance to the light on the way to go.
And it starts quietly in the heart.
And you're crying without you.
Let's look to the Lord in prayer and ask for His help.
I'd like to sing together another hymn.
This time we'll remain seated #3232.
A very familiar hymn, one that I suppose many of us here learnt to sing in Sunday School.
We used to teach it to the neighborhood children in a craft class we had in our home. What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Again, let's remain seated #32.
What can wash away?
From God makes me wisdom. I don't know.
Lord, my Father has been my place. Nothing like the thought of you.
O graciousness of all, God makes me wine. I'm so.
No one in my title must be like the love artist.
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I'm so thankful to hear how many sung that last hymn with real feeling. And I know you did, as I looked out across your faces and I wasn't looking at any particular one, but I could see that many, many, many in this room, perhaps the vast majority, were singing those words.
With truth and reality in their hearts. This is all my hope and peace.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
And tonight we are not going to present to you anything new from God's Word. Yes, I trust it will be fresh, but it's the same gospel that you have perhaps heard many times before.
But maybe you haven't. Maybe you haven't heard the gospel before.
Maybe you don't know the truth of what we mean by the gospel.
And with the Lord's help, we would like to make it clear tonight.
I'd like to turn to two verses, at least initially in God's Word.
That bring before us that word gospel, the first one to be found in Second Corinthians chapter 4.
2nd Corinthians chapter 4. If you have a Bible in front of you, you may turn to it. If not, just listen.
We aren't going to read a lot.
2nd Corinthians 4.
Verse 3.
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid.
To them that are lost.
In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not.
Lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, or as it could be read, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake.
Now turn, please, to one more verse in Acts chapter 20.
Acts Chapter 20.
Here in Second Corinthians we have the gospel of the glory of Christ.
In Acts 20 we have a little different expression.
This is the Apostle Paul speaking.
And just by way of background, back in his day he was on his way up to Jerusalem and many had told him with the word of the Lord that there was trouble ahead for him up there.
If he went there, that if he tried to preach the gospel in Jerusalem, it was going to mean imprisonment and I'll treatment and generally a lot of difficulty for him. Here is his reaction in verse 24.
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy.
And the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus.
To testify the gospel of the grace God.
On the one hand, the gospel of the glory of Christ, and on the other hand the gospel of the grace of God.
The word gospel simply means good news, and it is good news that we have to tell you tonight.
These two expressions though, I would suggest in God's Word.
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Bring before us.
Complimentary, but at the same time slightly different aspects.
Of the Gospel.
The gospel of the glory of Christ brings before us certain things.
The gospel of the grace of God brings before us certain things, and with God's help we would like to present those things.
For you tonight.
But before we do, we want to emphasize what it said there in Two Corinthians 4.
It says there and we read it together. We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake. Beloved friends, tonight I have had the opportunity and privilege of traveling a bit in this world. I have had the opportunity to speak about the things of Christ and the gospel of the grace of God in many different places.
I thank the Lord for the opportunity and I can't help but remember various times when it has been, shall I say, thrown up to me that you Christians are all a bunch and I won't repeat everything that was said, but some things were said.
Along these lines, you Christians are a bunch of hypocrites and you don't live out what you profess to preach. And you Christians are all divided up into different groups and denominations. And how do I know which one to listen to? And I know a Christian that did this or that or the other thing.
And I have had to bow my head and admit that that was true.
Beloved friends, tonight we are not here to preach ourselves. Yes, we bow our heads in humility and shame as we think of the testimony that Christians have sometimes borne to this world and the things that have been done and said under the name of Christ.
In some cases have been very, very humbling. But Oh my friend tonight.
We want you to listen to the Word of God for what it is in reality.
God's Word, and we want you to listen to the message tonight, not as if it came from my lips or anyone else in this room, but rather from God Himself and His beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Why is that all? Because in a coming day you will not have to answer to me.
You will not have to give account to me for what you have done with God's offer of mercy. You will not have to tell me why you did not accept Christ as Savior. But God's Word tells us that every one of us.
She'll give account of himself to God.
And that brings me to the first point that I want to make, and that is tonight there is a God. And not only is there a God.
But there is a God to whom you and I are held accountable.
Is that a very solemn thing?
It is, isn't it?
A God to whom you and I are accountable.
It's very solemn, isn't it, when it says there in Romans?
For everyone of us shall give account of himself to God. There is a God.
A story is etched in my mind that I did not hear first hand, but it was related to me by a very reliable source and I pass it on to you because it emphasizes the solemnity of what we're dealing with. There was a man who was perhaps younger than I, but not that much, perhaps 40s or 50s.
And he was handed a gospel tract. He looked at it.
Looked at it for a moment and then turned to the one who had handed it to him and said something like this. He said Sir.
A month ago I would have thrown that gospel tract in the trash can or else handed it right back to you because, he said I was raised as an atheist.
What is an atheist? An atheist is one who says I don't believe there is a God.
What a serious thing it is. But there are those in this world who, not understanding what they see around them, say there is no God.
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And this man proceeded to say, I was raised an atheist, my father was an atheist, my grandfather was an atheist, and I never knew or believed anything else.
But he said, just two weeks ago today, my father died.
And he said it was a most solemn thing because we were sitting around his bed, and there he was, lying there on the bed, having, as we thought, lost consciousness, so that we were merely waiting until he took his last breath. Everything had been looked after. His affairs were in order. His death was not unexpected because he was an older man.
But he said all of a sudden my father sat up on that deathbed and with eyes.
Full of terror, he said in a very strong voice. A voice laced with terror. There is a God, there is a hell, and I'm going to it.
And he fell back on the bed and was gone.
All the men said I can't get that image out of my mind. My father who had been so strong, so firm.
All his life, and yet those were his last words.
All my friends tonight I would react to those words. There is a God.
And according to this precious book, the same book that tells us there is a heaven, there is an awful place called hell.
But to go on to what we were talking about, about the gospel of the glory of Christ.
If there is a God to whom you and I are responsible.
Why does it talk about the gospel of the glory of Christ? Why does it talk in other places in the Word of God, in Romans one, for example, which we won't take time to turn to, that the gospel of God concerns his Son Jesus Christ. Oh, because I say to you tonight that God has his purposes concerning his beloved Son.
You know, as we look around in the world today.
There are many that have purposes and plans, aren't there? There are individuals like you and me, and perhaps our plans and purposes count for a lot in our own lives, but they don't mean too much, perhaps in the larger sphere of this world. But there are those who are in positions of authority, positions of power, who have plans and purposes that they think they can carry out, and they are desperately trying to do so with whatever means are at their disposal.
Some of those plans, I freely acknowledge, have peaceful ends. Some of those plans have as their ultimate end destruction and warfare.
And all of this is going on in a tremendous mixture in this world that literally defies man's ability to cope with it.
Beloved friends, I tell you tonight, on the authority of God's Word, God has His purposes and plans concerning His beloved Son, and God is going to see that same Lord Jesus Christ that was hung on Calvary's cross, honored and glorified His head over all things.
Is God going to be frustrated in that? Is man going to be able to do something to change that?
Is man going to be able to engineer an interplay of forces, either economic or military?
That are going to make it possible, impossible for God to carry that out. Absolutely not. Oh, my friend, Tonight, all the purposes and plans of man, whatever he is trying to do, will only end up accomplishing God's purposes. And that's why the apostle Paul calls attention to those Corinthians. They were something like you and me in the Western world. They were wealthy. Shall I say it? They were rather proud.
They were educated. They took pride in who they were and what they were.
But Paul levels them right down to the ground by pointing out that all of man's wisdom.
Never got man any nearer to God. And I say to you tonight, if you've come with an idea that you have something from your own natural heart that you think will carry you somewhere in the spiritual realm, forget about it.
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God has His purposes, but the wonderful thing is He wants you to share in it. Isn't that wonderful?
As it said in that verse in 2nd Corinthians 4, there is one who is trying to prevent your seeing the gospel of the glory of Christ. He doesn't want you to see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ. And the Word of God calls him the God of this world. Who is the God of this world? Do I need to tell you? I think you know who the Scripture is referring to. The Word of God calls Satan.
The devil, the God of this world and the Prince of this world, because he's the God of this world, if we could say it.
In the religious realm, and he's the Prince of this world in the political realm.
But it is noticeable that the Word of God never calls him that.
Until this world rejected the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, my friends, tonight we are not preaching to you something popular. We are not preaching to you one whose name is honored in this world. Oh yes, men may outwardly honor the Lord Jesus. And perhaps on a weekend like this, they do.
We had a tradesman in our house doing some work on Thursday and as he went to leave, and I know him fairly well because we have had him do work for us before, I handed him a gospel tract and I said his name is Bill too, the same as mine. I said, Bill here is a gospel track to read. It's not pushing any cult or denomination, but it's a true story. He kind of grinned. He said, well, he said, yeah. He said, maybe, maybe I, maybe I should read that. He said, and yeah, I'll be going to church on Sunday, too. He said, guess that'd be good for me too, wouldn't it?
Oh my friend.
Let's not fool ourselves. The God of this world is here to persuade you that yes.
If you go to church on Easter Sunday, so-called, somehow it'll count with God. Or if you go to church sometime around Christmas and pay lip service to the Lord Jesus, somehow that's going to work. Oh my friends, tonight.
We are preaching to you a rejected Christ, but we are preaching to you, the only one who can save you. And that's why Satan is so desperately against the light of the gospel, of the glory of Christ. He doesn't want it to shine into you. And so he blinds men's minds. How does he blind them?
He's got plenty of tricks. As someone has said, it can be as little as a trinket in the window of a store.
And that will do for some people.
But if that isn't enough, he can up the ante as we would use the expression in this world. He can up the stakes.
A week ago today.
Another brother in Christ in this room, and myself.
Beretta Detention Center for young people down in the United States.
And we were asking some of those boys there.
What they would do and what it would be like to win the lottery, the Mega lottery in that particular state at that time had a jackpot of $65 million.
Boggles the mind for most of us, doesn't it? All the wonderful things they could do with it. And I said to those boys, boys, would that make you happy? And some of them said, Oh yes, yes it would.
But then another one or two were honest enough to say yes, but I guess it wouldn't last too long. I guess it wouldn't make us happy too long.
He understood, He understood. But Satan knows how to up the ante. He can give you more. And when he tempted that one who couldn't be tempted by sin, the Lord Jesus Christ, he offered him all the kingdoms of this world.
For the moment, God's allowed Satan to have them at his disposal. Beloved friend, tonight, is he doing that to someone here?
May I speak very solemnly for a moment.
For those who are sitting here that grew up in Christian homes and there are plenty of you and I'm glad you're here. I am so thankful you're here every time I see children and young people at a Bible conference like this.
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It rejoices my heart.
And I know that the majority of you children and young people here have grown up under the sound of this precious book.
Probably you have heard it read in your homes. You have been to meetings where you have heard it read and spoken about. You have been to gospel meetings.
Maybe you have a Bible of your own and you have read it yourself.
But I want to speak very solemnly to you.
Satan somehow brought something before you that has blinded your mind to the glory of Christ and ultimately to your need of a Savior. Because God wants you to share in that glory of Christ. He wants you to be part of it all. And He's made a way that you can be, even though, as God's Word solemnly tells us, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
I ask you, beloved young people and beloved children.
Have you accepted Christ as your Savior?
Let me tell you another sad story that some of you may have heard me tell before, but I'll tell it again.
I suppose this happened a good 30 years ago now in the city where I live in Hamilton, ON, and there is a Sunday school there that we still carry on. That has been going on ever since at least the 1920s and probably before that.
And another brother and I were out handing out invitations in the neighborhood trying to invite children to Sunday school.
Well, you don't always know every home where children are present, and so we sometimes knocked on doors where there were no children. But of course we have a Bible class and all are welcome.
So we knocked on this one door.
And no one came, but there was a voice inside that said, come in. The doors open. It's not locked.
So we walked in and there was an elderly man lying stretched out on the sofa. He didn't look very well.
I spoke to him briefly and said, Sir, I'm sorry to have disturbed you. I said I'm sorry, you're probably trying to rest, I said we were just handing out invitations to the Sunday school just across the Blvd.
Oh, he brightened up, he said.
I went to that Sunday school when I was a boy. I went to that Sunday school and I can remember a song that I learnt there.
And to my surprise, he started to sing.
What do you think he saw? He sung. It went like this.
Tell me the old, old story.
Of unseen things above, and so on, word for word, all the way through the first verse and then the course.
Oh, I was so overjoyed.
I said, Sir, how long ago did you learn that song?
Well, he said. Let's see, he said.
I was seven years old when I learned it and I'm 77 now, so I guess it was 70 years ago.
Oh, I was so thankful he remembered. He remembered.
But it almost breaks my heart to tell you what else happened.
And I said to him, I didn't know his name, never had seen him before. I said tell me.
Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior?
Not yet.
Not yet.
What could we say? We had a few more words with him. I said, Sir, I don't want to make any rash predictions, but allow me to say that you do not look very well. And he said, no, I'm not.
I said you're getting older.
Why not come to Christ today?
That was 30 years ago.
I never saw him again. I'm sure he's in eternity now.
I trust the accepted Christ, young people.
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The time is now.
I hope it's all right to tell another story.
Remember talking to a dear brother in Christ who has been with the Lord for many years.
His name is well known to many here. His name was Jack Wood from Smith Falls, Ontario and I remember well when he had open heart surgery.
And after he'd recovered reasonably well, I spoke to him and all he said to me, Bill, he said, whenever you preach the gospel, tell them to come to Christ when they're young. He said, when you're lying there in the hospital, having had your chest opened up and not knowing in some cases whether you're dead or alive, and your mind is all befuddled and you can't even think straight. Oh, he said, I shudder to think of having to try and settle where I would spend eternity.
At that point.
But you know, we read those verses in the book of Acts.
Let's turn back to them here. Acts Chapter 20.
We've been talking a little bit about the serious side of the gospel, and it is a very serious thing to reject Christ. It's a very serious thing for anyone to go out of those doors this evening.
And not have accepted Christ, having accepted Christ as Savior.
But what did we read there in the book of the Acts?
Oh, Paul could say.
He wasn't, shall I say, afraid. I don't mean he was entering into it lightly or that he was deliberately being foolhardy. But when it was a case of facing persecution for the sake of the gospel, he says none of these things move me.
Neither count on my life dear unto myself. Why, Oh, because He had before him the gospel.
Not only of the glory of Christ, but of the grace of God. Oh, that's a beautiful expression, the gospel of the grace of God.
What is grace? We use that word all the time. We use the word gracious all the time. But what does it mean in its essence and in the connection in which we are using the word? It means the favor, the goodness of God toward you and me that we did not deserve.
And you know that on the one hand, is a most wonderful thing.
Because, as we said earlier, all of us have to give account of ourselves to God.
And the word of God is plain in Romans 3 and verse 23. And the last part of verse 22 starts, for there is.
No, there is no difference.
For all have sinned and come short.
Of the glory of God. Yes my friend, the word of God levels us all out and says all have sinned and I don't think anyone in this room would argue with me.
But here's the the shall I say the serious thing. Not only have all sinned, all have come short of the glory of God. And you know and I know that in our natural hearts we don't like to face that. It's one thing to say I have sinned. It's another thing to say I am a lost Sinner. It's one thing to say I have done wrong. It's another thing to say that I am so far away from God that I am utterly helpless.
To do anything for myself.
Beloved friends, tonight, unless you are prepared to come to Christ as a lost, guilty Sinner.
Unless you realize that there's nothing you can do to help yourself, you will never.
Be saved.
Anyone here that has had any experience in rescue operations knows how difficult it is to try and save someone who doesn't feel the seriousness of the danger in which they are.
Anyone that has had any experience, I repeat, knows that in some cases you just have to keep your hands off until the situation gets more desperate and they are willing to admit that they need help. My friend tonight.
God has told us plainly in His Word where we stand as natural creatures before Him. Will you believe what God has to say?
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Earlier in Acts 20, here, in a verse that we did not read, Paul says in verse 21 of Acts 20, What was the burden of his message, testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks?
Repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord.
Jesus Christ.
Repentance.
All repentance is a word that I don't think we have to define. I think we understand it simply means feeling sorry before God for the course we have lived and the way we have acted. And I want to emphasize to you each one tonight, it's not a case of looking around you. It's not a case of comparing yourself with someone else. It is a case of getting into God's presence.
Have you ever been in the presence of God?
Have you ever seen the solemnity of what it means to realize where you are before a holy God?
Some of us have.
And there are many here in this room that are the Lords who would say yes. I had to realize what a serious Sinner I was because it's hard sometimes to believe that the fall of man has utterly ruined man in every possible way. And I don't need to multiply scriptures in God's Word to tell you that, but only to emphasize what God's estimate is. And I want you to think of this.
If there had been any other way that God could have saved your soul and mine.
Except by sending his beloved Son. I say it with all reverence. Don't you think God would have done it?
But God had to send his Son into this world, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And men would look on him as a great prophet, a wonderful teacher, one who laid out very good moral principles by which we can live.
And someone whose teachings we should look up to and Revere.
I have read the writings of various ones who esteemed this precious book.
In that way. And who would encourage people to read it? But they would encourage people to read the good books of many false religions too, thinking that we had to have a broad education and that the Lord Jesus Christ was only one of many to whom we should pay attention.
Oh my beloved friend, when God sent his son into this world, he would put his stamp of approval on him by saying.
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, and I am emphasized to you, according to Acts chapter 4 and verse 12, that neither is there salvation in any other.
For there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Will you accept that?
We all remember quite a few years ago now, probably getting close to 25 years ago when I was on a visit to India.
And I was standing in line at a money changer there.
Waiting to get some money changed. And of course in order to change money in most places there you have to show your passport. So everyone in line was standing there with his or her passport and I noticed a man standing a little bit ahead of me.
And I noticed that he had a Swiss passport.
Well, as most here know, there is more than one language spoken in Switzerland. But not having anyone else in line with whom I could converse, and knowing a little German, I ventured to try some German out on him to see if that would work. And it did. He was fluent in German, so we carried on a bit of a conversation and he asked me why I was in India.
So I told him that I was there to visit some Christian friends and that I was there to preach the gospel. Well, he went on to say, I am here too for spiritual reasons. And he went on, And I am not particularly speaking against India, Please don't take it in that way. Nor am I here to throw stones at anyone else, but merely to bring out the solemn truth of God's Word. He said I am here for spiritual reasons too, because there is a guru here that I want to visit.
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And he said, and he went on and on to tell me all kinds of things.
Well, we talked a little bit and I told them very clearly that God had only one way to be saved, and I could see that that didn't go over very well.
Well, two days later I was in a little restaurant in that same town and lo and behold, there he was again. And he came over and once more of the conversation started up again and I can still remember his words. He said you are so arrogant, you are so self-centered. You think that you have the only way to be saved and you tell me that my way won't work and you tell me yours is the only way. Who do you think?
You are. Have you heard that before?
We're still. Is there someone here that takes that attitude? If you do, beloved friend, let me tell you in solemn terms. It is not a question of what I think and what someone else thinks, because what I think is worth no more than anybody else. And if God had allowed you and me to devise our own way of salvation, then your way would be just as good as anyone else's. And you would have every right to say you are arrogant to try and tell me that your way is better.
But all, my beloved friend, tonight we are speaking on the authority of God's precious word, and it is God's word that we are using tonight. It is addressed to you and me with all authority from God.
And tonight, my friend, God presents to you the Lord Jesus Christ.
That one who went to Calvary's cross and died for you.
Just think died for you.
Remember once speaking to a group of young people in another place and we were talking a little bit about that and I said, if there's is there anyone here that would be willing to die for someone else here in this room? Is there anyone here that would step forward? If someone here was going to die in one means or another and you knew that, would you step forward and take his or her place?
No.
Nobody was willing to do that. Now I freely acknowledge that there have been those in the history of this world.
Who have voluntarily and willingly given their lives for others. Yes, it has happened many, many times. But beloved friend, the Lord Jesus Christ didn't come into this world to give his life for his friends. He didn't give his life, as we might say it reverently, for his comrades in a battle. He didn't give his life for those whom He was attached to. He gave his life for those who nailed Him to a cross.
For those who said we will not have this man to reign over us. For those who said.
We don't want you in this world. And beloved friend, let me tell you without any question at all that if the Lord Jesus Christ were to come back to this world to night, if he came back to this world to day.
Man would find some way of getting rid of him again.
You know and I know that that is absolutely true. This world said we can handle a Barabbas, we can handle a thief, we can handle a murderer, we can handle one who is guilty of insurrection and all kinds of trouble. We can handle that.
But not the Lord Jesus Christ.
But tonight, we present to you that One who wants to be your savior.
And how does he take your sins away?
Let's turn over to 1St John chapter one for that well known verse, although we scarcely need to refer to it in view of what we sung in that second hymn. But let's read it together because it's so important. First John chapter one.
And verse 7.
But if we walk in the light as he is in the light.
We have fellowship one with another.
And the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin.
That's not very popular, is it?
Men have tried to modernize the gospel today. They've done away with words like that, tried to make it into a social gospel, tried to make it into that which is palatable to the natural heart of man. But all my friend, tonight I tell you in all solemnity on the authority of God's Word, that the devil is doing that because he wants to see you in a lost eternity. And God is only one way that sins can be forgiven, and that is through the precious.
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Blood of Christ, you and I might say, Why is that? Ah, because God tells us way back in the Old Testament and repeats it again in the New Testament. Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission.
God attaches value to the blood of Christ because first of all of who He is.
And secondly, because of what He has done and the whole precious truth that we want to bring before you tonight is that God is satisfied with the work of Christ.
God is satisfied.
Can you believe that God says he is satisfied? And how do we know that?
Because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead, the resurrection of Christ.
Was God's seal of approval on the work that he did on Calvary's cross. And so Christianity, if I can say it, can boast of an empty tomb. An empty tomb. Isn't that wonderful, An empty tomb.
Reminds me of a story that I was just sharing with someone, and others may have heard me tell it before, but it again concerns a man who was an atheist. And this happened many years ago, perhaps at least 50 or 60 years ago, maybe more. And he felt he ought to at least be a little bit educated and a little bit in the know, even if he didn't believe it. So he made a trip to Europe and eventually ended up in the land of Palestine. This was before.
There was such a thing as a sovereign state of Israel, and in the course of going around that land, he was taken to the place which is conventionally thought to be where the Lord was crucified. And he went to various and sundry places there that had to do with the Lord's life. And eventually he was taken to what is known as the Garden Tomb.
I've never been there, but I've spoken to others who have. Apparently it's not very big.
And it may not even be the actual tomb of the Lord Jesus, but that isn't what is important. If not, it's a pretty good, uh, shall we say, replica of it. And it's pretty close to the spot.
And as he was taken in there with a handful of others, this man couldn't restrain his mockery. And he said, why have you brought us in here? Why are you bringing? There's nothing to see in here. There's no, there's nothing in here. What's what's what's what's the point of all this?
Oh, my friend, he wasn't prepared for what he got.
Because the guide was a believer. That Garden Tomb is owned by the British and everyone who conducts tours there is a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. I understand. And the guy drew himself up and in a good loud voice said, Sir, thank you so much for drawing attention to that. He said, you took the words right out of my mouth. He said you are right. There is nothing here. Christianity can show you an empty tomb.
O beloved friends, tonight the Lord Jesus Christ is risen.
In the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son tonight has power to wash away all your sins.
One last verse.
Turn to the 17th chapter of Acts.
Mm-hmm.
This is the most solemn thing.
Because the Apostle Paul here.
Speaking again to a very educated people, those.
Who were in the Greek city of Athens and if Rome was the political capital of that day?
Athens, we might say, was the cultural and intellectual capital of the world.
And here Paul addresses them in most solemn tones. And what does he say in verse 30 of Acts 17?
And the times of this ignorance God winked at or passed over.
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That is back before the Lord Jesus Christ came. God didn't hold man as responsible.
That's not your affair. It's not my business either.
God will deal with those before that time in a righteous way.
But now commandeth all men everywhere to repent, because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained.
Whereof you have given assurance unto all men, in that He had raised him from the dead. O beloved friends, tonight, if the resurrection of Christ is the seal of God's approval on His work on Calvary's cross.
And is the assurance of salvation for all who believe in him. The resurrection of Christ is also.
The absolute assurance that one day God will judge this world.
And who is going to be the judge? The very one who hung on Calvary's cross?
Will you admit with me, even from a human side, that is most fitting, that is most fitting?
I heard a story some time ago about a man in the United States who had committed a robbery.
And in the course of that robbery, he had stolen from an individual's private home. And eventually he was caught and brought to court. And the man from whom he had stolen was called as a witness. And after the judge had found the man guilty, there was plenty of evidence. He apparently turned to the one who had been robbed. And he said, Sir, what do you think this man's punishment ought to be?
Now the judge, of course, was not bound by what he might have said, but we understand from a human level, here was one who had been wrong. It was fitting that the judge say, what do you think ought to be his punishment?
You know what his punishment was on that occasion?
And the judge admitted that it was just and he allowed it and sentenced the man. He said the one who had been robbed was a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. And as I understand it he said I would like this man to attend the gospel meeting at our local assembly every week for the next 3 Lords days.
That was a good sentence. That was a good sentence. But the point is, my beloved friend, we don't want to introduce levity into this gospel meeting.
The one who tonight offers himself to you as your savior.
Will one day sit on the throne of His glory and be a judge.
There will be no mercy there. There will be no grace there. There will be no blood there.
There will be no offer of pardon there, only the books being opened and our time is gone.
Only the books being opened in your life reviewed and the awful sentence that will be the same for each one who has rejected Christ. Oh my friend.
This is a solemn meeting.
May I speak once again to those who have grown up in Christian homes.
Two things I would like to say before we close. First of all, after this meeting there is going to be some fun.
And I'm not that old that I can't remember how much fun it was to go out as young people and enjoy a good time together.
It's wonderful and I for one wish you a most happy time.
But if you're not saved.
Don't just go out and have a good time. Settle the question tonight. Settle the question right now. I can still remember a gospel meeting that I was at in Romania probably over 18 years ago where a young woman, about 18 years old came up after the gospel meeting sobbing her heart. And I didn't know much Romanian, but I could understand a little bit of what she was saying. And she said I want to be saved tonight. We got down on our knees and there she poured out her heart.
Again, I couldn't understand much of it, but she got up off her knees with a light in her eyes that wasn't there before. Christ had saved her. And tonight? If there's someone here that isn't saved?
Wait a few minutes and settle the matter tonight.
And if you are saved, maybe you have accepted Christ as your Savior.
Let re re remind, let me remind you of one thing. With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. There's something wonderful, something that, if I could say it this way, settles the whole matter even more in your heart if you go to someone and confess Christ as Savior. Have you ever told someone, mom, dad, some other good friend that you've accepted Christ as your Savior? If you never have.
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Do so tonight.
Our time is gone, but I'd like to sing one verse of a hymn.
#21.
And we'll sing just the 1St and the last verses of #21.
Decide for Christ today will just remain seated 21.
Let's just close in prayer.
Body of Christ Many Into One
1 Corinthians 11
Exodus 21, Psalm 86
2 Samuel 1
Acts 20:6-38
Gospel 2
Gospel—Cecil Roossinck
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Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the gospel tonight.
I'd like to begin with saying hymn #10 on your hymn sheet if you have one. I think there was a little shortage, so if you don't have one, you might be able to look on with somebody else or sing from memory.
When I was looking to the Lord about what to speak on tonight from his precious word.
And meditating a little, I discovered just before the prayer meeting that all the verses the Lord put on my heart were in the 10th chapter of something in the 10th chapter.
And uh, then when uh sing over hymn hymn that came to my heart, I looked and it was the 10th hymn. And uh, I wonder if there might be a lad tonight at 10 or a young lady of 10 years old, that the Lord is speaking to tonight if so.
Don't put it off. Time is gliding swiftly by well, whether you're 10 or not.
You need the Lord and if you are 10 tonight.
I think the Lord has a message for you tonight from His word hymn #10.
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Well, I mentioned before that the verses the Lord put on my heart were all in the 10th chapters tonight. 3 portions I'd like to turn to in the 10th chapter of Ecclesiastes, the 10th chapter of Luke, and the 10th chapter of Romans.
And I don't know why the Lord put on my heart.
I wasn't looking for.
Different things in chapter 10, but as the Lord seemed to bring some things before my heart, they all happened to be in chapter 10.
So we're saying hymn #10 tonight two. And uh, I didn't know it was #10 when I was thinking of him, but I can't help but think. As I mentioned before, there's maybe someone who's 10 years old or close to her but the Lord is speaking to tonight.
Young or old?
Before I read from the 10th of Ecclesiastes, there's another hymn that I'd like to sing because you know, I, uh, I love boys and girls. I had five of them myself and but.
Doesn't matter so much about my love the Lord loves.
The boys and girls, she loves the children and he says let them come to me and that's what he's saying tonight to every one of us.
Let them come to me.
And uh.
You won't be sorry if you come, let's say, number the first and last verse #41 on your hemp shooter around the throne of God in Heaven.
Will many children sing, children whose sins are all forgiven?
Will heavenly anthems bring sing glory, glory, glory be to God on high? And I'm thankful that by the grace of God I'm one of those children.
That are going to sing around the throne not because of what I am, but because of what the Lord Jesus has done for me by his grace. So we'll sing the first and last verse of #41.
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If you have a Bible tonight.
Uh, you could open it up with me at Ecclesiastes chapter 10 if you don't have one.
Just listen.
That'll be fine.
Chapter 10. It's a fairly small book, but if you go to Psalms then Proverbs and it's next Ecclesiastes. Not too hard to find. I only want to read one verse from there.
And that's verse 7, Ecclesiastes 10 and verse seven. It says this.
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I have seen servants upon horses.
And Princess walking as servants upon the earth.
Now that may sound like a quite a strange verse to begin the Gospel meeting with, but perhaps you'll see as we go on.
What I had in mind, and I believe the Lord sat before me, I have seen servants upon horses.
And Princess walking as servants upon the earth.
Well.
I'd like to speak tonight about the one who is the Prince of Life, the Lord of glory, the creator of heaven and earth.
And in His word we see him.
Walking upon the earth.
You know there's a verse, and uh, we're going to turn to it later in the 10th chapter of Romans.
And it's quoted from the 52nd of Isaiah that says Umm.
How beautiful are the feet of him that bringeth good tithing?
How beautiful are the feet?
You know our blessed Savior, the Lord Jesus.
Came down from heaven's glory because he loved me.
Because he loved you and.
One to bring eternal life to you.
I came into the world. The Lord Jesus said that you might have life.
And that you might have it abundantly, Lord, a Savior. That's the one we want to talk about tonight. The Savior of sinners, the Lord Jesus, the one who was the Prince of peace, the Lord of glory.
And the writer of Ecclesiastes asks, have seen Princess walking as servants?
And by his grace.
In his word, we too have seen the Prince of Life walking in this world and lowly grace.
You know he didn't. He didn't have a.
Carter riding to drive a motorcycle or anything like that, or it didn't even have a a horse. He had one time he rode on a donkey to fulfill the scriptures and he had to borrow that one all Prince who gave up all that he had and came because you and I were sinners and he wanted to take us home to his home in glory.
So he came and walked through this world, the weary paths in this world.
For 33 years in Love to Your Soul and to mind, let's turn from this portion over to Luke chapter 10.
The 10th chapter of Luke.
We're not gonna read all of this story.
The story that's often called the story of the Good Samaritan and uh.
It's an interesting story. We're just going to read part of it.
Is starting at verse 30.
And Jesus answering, said a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho.
Fell among thieves.
Oh, stop there for a minute. A certain man. He was on a journey. He had a goal in mind. He was going to Jericho, fully expecting to arrive there. He probably knew that Jericho was called the City of Palm Trees and it was on the banks of the Jordan River. It would be a place that.
Would be very desirable to go, and he had his plans and he had his purposes.
To make this journey into end that Jericho probably was going to settle there. I don't know what his purpose in going there. We're not told that, but that's where he was on the way to and it looked like a a good job to go to a city that was.
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Beautiful for situation.
Umm. Somebody told.
Elisha one day that the city was beautiful for a situation, but the water in it was no good. Bad water supply.
And in wondrous grace God allowed.
Elisha to heal the waters. God healed the waters through his prophet, Elisha made the city even a better place. But you know.
If you went back in the history of it, you'd see that it was called the City of the Curse.
But boy, it looked pretty nice, didn't it?
City of palm trees, it's called and on the banks of the the river.
And uh, this man had his plans to go down there.
There was a man years before called Lot and he got his eye on this valley.
By the Jordan River looked good to him and he had his plans too, to go there, but it ended in disaster for all of his family.
You may have your plans. Perhaps tonight you have purposes and plans of.
Getting an education, getting a degree and and settling down and having a a good life.
You know there's.
Something in this man's journey that he didn't count on.
He didn't counter.
That was as he traveled along.
He found there were thieves along the road.
Salomon thieves.
Do you know that sin is a great robber?
A young man is born to the world, a young lady.
So innocent looking happy.
No cares in the world.
But isn't long and.
We see that there is a a nature.
That is sinful. So God has concluded in His word.
That there is not one righteous, No, not one.
That all of us are sinners.
How about a young boy?
How about a young girl? Are they a Sinner? Why do you say no? No, I've never done anything very bad.
But you know.
The word of God concludes that there is that all have sinned.
Sin is a robber. Did you know that?
Sin as a thief.
Not only will it rob you.
But you know God and his love.
Created you. You belong to him by creation, but you know sin robs God.
What is his right?
Sin wraps God. Sin is a great robber. Sin robbed this man as he went.
Down from Jerusalem to Jericho, he fell among thieves.
I suppose he was.
Traveling happily along, thinking of what he was going to do when he got to Jericho and the good times he was expecting and the prosperity perhaps he had in mind. Maybe he was going into business there, I don't know. Maybe he was going to finish his education school in Jericho, whatever it was.
I don't think he was expecting.
Because the thief is usually one that comes unexpected and unwanted.
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In any case.
He fell among thieves who robbed him.
They didn't care about his plans. You know, Satan doesn't care about you either.
And this world doesn't care about you, except for what they can get out of you.
How many case we've heard of?
A young man, a young woman who got their education, got a good job at a good company they thought it was, and uh, worked for some years.
And then I guess the company would look at the situation and decide, well, this young man is getting pretty high pay.
I think we'll lay them off.
Plans are spoiled. Plans are ruined. Something comes in to change.
The expectations. Well, this world's like that, isn't it?
There's nothing in this world that will satisfy the soul, but far worse.
God looks down and sees what's in the heart and the soul, and he has to pronounce.
That all our sinners there is none righteous. We've all gone our own way, and perhaps.
You're still going on that way?
And perhaps you're going on that way happily. You think everything's OK just fine.
Uh, but around that bend, around that corner, the thieves are hiding.
Yeah, so this man met with these.
And they didn't leave much all that he had.
They left him wounded.
Verse 30.
He fell among thieves who stripped him of his raiment and wounded him.
And departed, leaving him half dead.
What happened to his plans? What I had to do, His hopes, his expectations, his purposes?
Smash.
He had nobody.
There he was, alone on the side of the road.
Hit and run.
Well.
Sin does that. Does God care?
You know, I think if we won't take time to turn to, but I think of the Song of Solomon in chapter 8. How?
It speaks there of jealousy being cruel as the grave.
Maybe I should turn to it, because I have not, but you won't have to turn to them just over in the Song of Solomon, just.
Right after Ecclesiastes.
Chapter 8 it says this.
I'll read from verse 6.
Verse seven I'm thinking of set me as a seal upon thy heart.
As a seal upon my arm, For love is strong as death.
Jealousy is cruel as the grave, the coals thereof, our coals of fire, which hath the most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. If a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he would utterly be condemned.
There was verse six I was thinking of. Now, why do we read about jealousy here? I think the thought I've enjoyed on this verse is that.
The Lord made you and I.
And he made you and I with a purpose.
You know when sin came in and spoiled everything in this world we read in the 6th chapter of Genesis.
That aggrieved God at his heart grieved him at his heart.
Does God care tonight if you're lost? Does he care tonight if you're on the way to a lost eternity? God does care. God knows where you are. God loves you.
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Sin robbed God.
Our sins robbed God of his right. Does God care? Oh, his jealous love is looking down tonight in this room. And he He's pleading with you. That's why he's allowed another gospel meeting, because he loves your soul and sin has robbed him and you cannot be. He cannot have you in his presence, in glory, in your sins.
And God cares and it says jealousy is cruel is the grave. Why did the Lord Jesus Christ have to go into death? Why did he suffer at that cross of Calvary?
Why was he forsaken there on the cross in those hours of darkness?
Because his jealous love for you, he wanted you. He wants to save your soul tonight if you've never come to him yet. Or wouldn't you come tonight?
He loves you. He knows where you are. He knows what sin has done.
To you and to me.
Oh, he came to save. He came to save many waters.
You know, you you boys here, you girls that are young.
Perhaps you haven't been through many waters in your life. Perhaps there hasn't been a whole lot of difficulties and troubles. Maybe there's some here tonight who've been through one sorrow after another. Does God care? Does God know? Yes. He loves you tonight. There's not one exception in this room tonight, because God loves you tonight and He loves me.
We've fallen amongst thieves. All of your sins have never been washed in this precious blood. You're still like that man on the side of the road, but God cares. There's one who cares, and he knows your need.
Well, he laid there helpless, hopeless.
And along came a certain priest.
That way and uh.
He looked at the fellow.
Well, I probably thought I could tell him to get religious, but.
He's robbed, he's got nothing, can't put anything in the collection I'm going on.
He, that priest, was looking for somebody that might be of some good to him, perhaps.
But there was no good to a man who was helpless.
You're in your sins, you're helpless, but God wants you well.
Religion.
Never save anyone. I've got my religion. How many times people have said to me, well, I've got my own religion.
Well, perhaps they do. Perhaps you do. Religion never took anybody to heaven, only Christ the Savior. Well, he went on on the other side of the road, the priest.
I had a woman tell me one time a couple years ago.
I'm the priest around here in this town. We're preaching the gospel and.
In the tent and a woman priest, priest, as she said, I'm the priest. But anyway, she was all dressed up in a big robe and she came right into the tent. So I'm the priest around here. What are you doing here?
Oh, I said to her. We're just telling out the good news, the gospel, how that Christ died for our sins. Don't you think I'm doing that?
Well, I said, I'm glad if you are. If you are, we pray for you every day because we pray for the gospel wherever it's told out in truth. So I said, if that's true, if you're telling out the good news I'm praying for you, must you know what to make of that? She said. Well, I mean, you got an oldest, more than one way to heaven.
My dear son Benj, he couldn't take that anymore and he put up his finger, he said, Lady, I'm telling you, there's only one way to heaven. It's the Lord Jesus, and that's what we're telling you today. There's only one way to glory. It's the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of sinners.
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This poor man didn't get any help from religion. From that priest, None. So along came a Levite. And Levite is a fellow who does the work, you know, he's a he's a worker and.
In the Old Testament, they carried the things across the wilderness, and afterward they did other works, like taught, and they were teachers and other things. But anyway, he got a little closer. He came and looked at him.
But there was nothing he could do. He couldn't tell a man to do some good works. There was nothing left that he could do.
So he goes by on the other side.
Oh, it's not good works. It's not reformation, not turning over a new leaf. You need to save your you need to have those sins forgiven by the man who came from glory and died for your sins on Calvary's cross. He's a wonderful savior. Oh, he's a precious savior. You know him. You know him. This man in the ditch.
On the Jericho Rd.
He didn't know the Savior.
But the Savior knew him.
There was one. It says. A certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was.
And when he saw him, he had compassion on him.
Oh, the compassion.
In the book of UH.
Romans, there's a verse something like this.
No, it's not that. It is the goodness of God that leadeth thee to repentance.
It's the goodness of God that has brought you to the gospel meaning tonight, and it's the goodness of God that stir in your heart tonight.
That's pleading with you to receive him as your Lord and savior.
Never mind.
The religion, never mind the good works, You need Christ.
You need the Lord Jesus, that precious man from the glory whose feet walked this pathway.
For 33 years, showing out what was in the heart of God. Showing the love of God.
To you and to me. And then those speed of his led him to that cross of Calvary.
Where he gave his life.
That I might be saved where he paid the penalty of sin.
He alone can forgive your sins.
There's no other that can forgive your sins.
I always enjoy a little story, a true story of a woman who is very sick in the hospital. She was, uh, an old older woman. She knew she didn't have much longer to live and at the hospital they knew she was getting near the end, so they.
Thought they and kindness as they thought and politeness they would they would call a priest.
To maybe help her. So they called a priest and he came in and he said lady, he said OK, I've come here to give you absolution.
What? She said.
Yeah, I said. Absolution. She was a little confused by the words. What's that? You know? She said. To forgive your sins.
And.
Was a little taken aback at that and her shaky hand came out and she said, Sir, she said, She said, let me see your hand. Could I see your hand? So he pulled, held out his hand. Oh, she said, the man that forgave my sins as holes in his hands. It's the Savior. There is none other name under heaven whereby we must be saved. It's only the Lord Jesus.
Well, you may not be an old lady sick in bed. I don't think so. It doesn't look like it, and you may not.
Have been robbed on the road to Jericho, but you need the Savior just the same.
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Because unless those sins are forgiven.
You're on a downward Rd. that leads to a lost eternity.
You need the Lord. You need the Lord. You don't need religion. You don't need good work. Although when you're saved, good works are important. God ordained that we should walk in them, but they'll never take you home to heaven, Ever.
Well, a certain Samaritan as he journeyed, he was on a journey. Don't say that about the the priest and the Levite. They just happened by they by chance they came. But here's a man who took a journey, and he's a picture of the Lord of Glory who took a journey from heaven's glory.
Right down to where we were.
He came down to this sin filled world in love to my soul and to yours.
Gave his life, oh, what a savior, we sang.
No, we didn't say it tonight, but we sometimes saying, oh, what a savior that he died for me.
From condemnation he set me free.
You know that Savior is your savior. Can you gladly say?
Yes, he died for me.
I know the Lord. I hope you can. Well, this Samaritan came with a purpose.
As he journeyed, he came where he was, and when he saw him he had compassion on him.
Compassion.
Wonderful.
To meet a man that has compassion.
My memory is a lad probably some of you boys age.
I was coming home from school and there was a a big bully fellow and.
He liked the fight and he just beat the tar out of me. I gotta admit it, I didn't stand a chance.
Just beat me right up and I came home like a baby. Bold my eyes oh.
And there was a brother, Mr. Anderson, from Des Moines. He was visiting.
And I thought probably get a little sympathy, you know, So uh.
I was telling all this, big fella hit me with his fists and knocked me in the ditch and all this and feeling real sorry for myself and kind of blubbering a little, I guess.
You always said to me.
Instead of a man's ways, please the Lord. Even his enemies will be at peace with him.
Well, I had. AI had a hard time forgiving him. Anyway, I love the dear brother. Got to know him well and his years went by. But you know.
It's easy to.
Getting difficulties and troubles along the way.
And even a deer man like Mr. Anderson couldn't save me.
I got a big review of that coming too, I know.
But it was good for me. I thought of it many times over the years. Well, here was the Samaritan. He came right down where he was. He got right down there. The man was knocked off the road in the ditch probably and he got came right there and he got right down where he was. He knew his every need. The Lord Jesus came where I was when he went to the cross of Calvary. I was a hell deserving Sinner.
By his grace, the Lord Jesus came where I was. He took my place on the cross. He wants to take your place where you have him. Would you receive him? Supposedness man said on Ah, you're smart and I don't want your help. Well, he probably been bones down there somewhere even yet. Well, what a what a wonderful Samaritan. No? Here's the part I was thinking about the beast and the.
Walking this man, it says, Umm.
He went to him. He bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast.
And brought him to an end.
And took care of him, took care of him.
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Took care of it. Isn't that good?
Well.
The man, I would dare say, was probably walking on his journey.
But here came one who cared for him, one who.
Had compassion on him and he.
Picks him up and puts him on his own beast.
And that man had to walk the rest of the journey, I'm sure, because that donkey or whatever he was riding.
Carry that dear man from the ditch, That man that was so helpless and so hopeless picked up by this dear man.
And the dear man walked.
And he rode the donkey, erect the horse, or whatever it might have been.
Set him on his own beast and took care of him. I think that's so sweet. He brought him to the inn where he would be looked after, where he would be safe, where he would be cared for any foot of the bill.
He paid the man at the end, he said. When I come again.
You spend any more up here? Oh ye, The man heard him say it. I'm sure I'm coming again. I'm coming back. Are you looking for the Lord to come?
Does that thrill your heart to think that perhaps this very night the heavens will open, the Lord of Glory will come, and call all those who belong to Him, all those whose sins are forgiven to be.
Home in the Father's house with him. What a precious savior. What a savior. I want to turn to one more 10th chapter. We could spend a lot of time on this, but the 10th chapter of Romans?
I love this chapter.
There's one verse in this chapter is my very favorite.
And my son over there can tell you what it is because he's heard me.
Speak on many times.
It's the 13th verse of this chapter.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Oh, isn't that wonderful?
The Lord whosoever shall call upon the Lord, the one who came from glory.
And whose beautiful feet brought that glad tidings from heaven.
Brought the gospel of God.
The man who came where we were in love. Do you know him?
He wants to take you.
To his home in glory.
Oh, he'll take you.
Over the rough Rd. riding on his own beast. Ah yes, he he walked this weary world himself.
For those 33 1/2 years. And he knows every sorrow, every trouble that you feel and will feel.
And he loves you. And he, he gives that comfort of the way and he says he takes care of him. What a savior. One thing you know to to get rescued and helped. And then somebody goes on their way, leaves you.
Uh, this Samaritan. He brought him to the end. He took care of him. He paid the debt. Yes, the Lord Jesus has paid the debt.
Always paid a debt for me. My debt of sins that would have sunk me to eternal hell. Oh, it takes one, you know, Only takes one. See, but he's calling to you tonight. If you heard his voice, he's saying Come unto me. All ye that labor in our heavy laden, I'll give you rest.
Perhaps there's someone here who intends to come?
Sometime.
One day, it'll be too late.
Behold, now, the Scripture says, is the accepted time. Behold now.
Is the day of salvation.
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I have to tell you about a young fellow that used to come to the gospel quite a lot when we had tent meetings. And we still do have tent meetings in Lark Harbor when he was a young fella. His name was Brucey and Bruce, he was kind of a bad boy, although he was a Sinner. And if you're not saved, you're a Sinner in your sins just as much as Bruce. He was his. His sins kind of stuck out a little more because he throw rocks and.
Dump the pail of water in our window on Reg's bed and the trailer one day and things like this.
And he would disrupt the meetings. Brucey heard the gospel, though, and he knew that he needed to be saved.
And uh, he he wasn't too interested in that. He wanted to have a fun time. And Bruce, he had a motorcycle, a dirt bike, you know, and boy, he could do wheelies for a quarter mile down the road. And he loved to have a fun time.
He was going to probably thought he'd take a serious things sometime down the road.
There was all kinds of mischief. There was too much fun now. Well, Bruce, he grew up.
And when he got older, he got a job out in Alberta.
Well, this fall.
I got a telephone call.
And I heard the news on the telephone that Bruce.
Was laid out in his father's home in a casket.
Bruising head.
One more fun time.
He had a girlfriend. She was an Indian girl.
So they stole a truck. They were gonna have a little fun, one more fun time. He's been in jail several times between now and then, but in a stolen truck, they were tearing down the road and they saw a policeman.
I wasn't really the kind of person they wanted to see today.
Saw, policeman saw. They put the pedal to the metal, as they say, and off they went, and off into eternity.
Bruce and his girlfriend were killed instantly.
Crashed the stolen truck.
Or eternity.
I think Bruce had good intentions of someday changing his life.
It was too late. So I saw Brucey there in that casket in his father's house.
Looked just the same as he did as a young lad.
Hey, what are you?
It was in eternity.
He put it off. Oh, if there's anyone here that's putting off your salvation.
Maybe Dad. Mom think you're saved.
Maybe your neighbors think you're a good person.
If anybody's gonna go to heaven, it'll be you.
You're not saved. You're on the way to hell.
To lost eternity.
You know, you can fool people. There was a man who came to the gospel tent for quite a few years. We had the tent up in in Tizards Harbor at this time. And there was an old man. He was 84 years old. He'd come to the tent for about the last four or five years. Tent was right near his house. And you know, he had me fooled. I thought he was a Christian. He always wanted to get a track at the end of the meeting and he and he read them too booklet.
His name was Sid Boyd.
Maybe Stan remembers him. I don't know. And he met him. I know.
Sid was uh, seemed like a really good man. He always came to the meetings. I never point. Ask him, are you safe sit. I just supposed he was, but you know, time went by and.
Sid lost his wife.
His wife was younger, quite a bit younger and he was she was washing dishes one day at the sink and.
Just fell over backwards, dead on the floor.
That shooks it up a lot. Made him think of eternity.
Well, Sid.
Moved in with his daughter.
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For that winter and.
He was back home. I think it was in March or so at his house. I went to visit him all this time. He thought, SIDS, I'm sure Sid's a Christian. He's he's always come to the meetings and he's he's, he's, he reads the tracks and all these things. So I went to visit him and uh, he said to me, see, she said I'd done it. I didn't know what he was talking about.
I said you've done it. What did you do, Sid? Oh, he said cease. I done it. Still didn't know what he was talking about. I'm really dense, you know.
I said, Sid, what did you do? Well, the tears started coming down his face. Oh, he said. See, she said. I got down on my knees. I asked the Lord Jesus to save my soul. I done it. You done it. Don't wait till you're 84 because you might not get there. I done it. Oh, we went together. It was a sweet moment. He's with the Lord not long ago.
I done it. Have you done it? Have you asked the Lord Jesus to wash your sins away? He'll do it.
It's not what you do. It's what he's done. Have you received what he's done? Oh, what a savior.
Is Jesus the Lord well here in the 10th chapter?
Of Romans we have that beautiful verse. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. You know Peter did that once. He said, Lord save me. Did the Lord say well, God do some good deeds first? No, He saved him, right. Then he reached out and saved him. If you call on the name of the Lord tonight, he'll save you tonight. He's longing to save you. He died to save you. He's calling once again.
Won't you come?
Once you come.
Don't wait till you're older. Maybe forever. Ever. Too late.
Come now, the scripture says, Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord.
Though your sins be a scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like Crimson, they shall be as wool. Come now, he says. Come now.
Today is the day of salvation. Behold, now, he says, is the accepted time.
Time is gliding swiftly by. Death and judgment both draw nigh. I hope there's none that are going to go out through those doors still lost.
Still lost? Won't you come? The Savior's waiting.
I remember a dear girl name is Erica Oregon down in Lapole on the South Coast. We were having some meetings there and uh and uh uh Community Center and.
I was pleading with the the, the children, the young ones to get saved, to accept the Lord as their savior, And I told them we'd like to, we'd like to hear. We'd like to hear from you. If you receive the Lord, tell us, because it says here, if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus.
Believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead. Thou shalt be saved. Well, we were. This was the last day we were there. We were going, uh, on the boat the next morning. It's a town where there's no roads. These children never seen cars, never had a ride in one. Lots of them, anyway. Uh, we were taking the boat early the next morning and we got down to the Wharf. There's. I can't remember who was with me.
But then there's three of us. We got down to the Wharf to catch the boat. And here was Erica on the war. And you know, she said I wanted to get up early, come down and tell you that I received the Lord Jesus as my savior. Oh, what a joy to hear a a young girl. I don't know if she was 10 or what, but she was a young girl.
And she confessed the Lord Jesus as her savior. Oh, it's a thrill to the soul.
Will you thrill the heart of someone tonight? Of course. Especially it's a thrill to the heart of the Lord Jesus.
If you will confess him as Lord, and you know, I think you might have a mother or father be very thrilled to hear you confess Jesus as Lord.
Perhaps you think you're safe, but have you ever confessed him?
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I remember one night when the gospel was being preached at a conference.
And uh, Brother Albert Hale was preaching the gospel and he was speaking on this verse about confessing with thy mouth the Lord Jesus.
You know, I got to think and I've been saved for quite a while.
But I couldn't remember that I'd ever really.
Said to someone, I I'm I'm saved. I know the Lord Jesus died for my sins. I'm a Christian.
So I was sitting next to Doug Buchanan down here.
So I said, it's tonight or never. I'm going to confess the Lord tonight I was. I was saved and for some time before that, but I just didn't confess the Lord. So I said to Doug, Doug, I want to tell you that I'm saved. I know the Lord is my savior. So Doug told me the same thing. You know, I gives you peace in your soul because the scripture says if you'll confess with your mouth, what a wonderful savior.
I'm going to read one last verse and then we're closing.
15 verse.
We already quoted from the Old Testament is one word at least different in the New Testament. Here it says And how shall they preach except they be sent?
As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace?
And bring glad tidings of good things. We noticed in the Old Testament it said, How beautiful is the feet of him that bringeth good tidings. And I believe that refers to the Lord Himself who came to bring the good tidings, the gospel to you and to me. It's the Lord Jesus. He came from glory. His feet walked this weary world. He didn't have a beast to ride on.
To tell us the good news now here in Romans.
After it speaks of confessing the Lord Jesus with your mouth, believing in your heart.
It's got a word that says to me and to you, are you saved? Do you know the Lord is your savior, dear young person?
This is the Lord's estimation.
How beautiful are the feet of them?
The Old Testament referring to him, it's the one, the Lord Jesus, who brought the good news from glory. But Oh dear young person, there's not much time left. And the scripture says here how beautiful are the feet of them. Are you going to be one of them that tell out the glad tidings? You know there's lots of folks where you go to school who don't know the Lord, or where you work who don't know the Lord Oh May.
You confess him, may your feet be those beautiful feet.
That send forth a glad tidings.
Let's just close in prayer.
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Perhaps following up on what we have had before us.
Could we turn back to the Old Testament again, this time to the book of Second Samuel? Second Samuel?
Right at the beginning of Second Samuel in the first chapter.
We find that very touching lament of David concerning his beloved friend Jonathan.
Notice what he says here.
It's not merely Jonathan.
We want to notice that.
First Samuel chapter one and verse 17.
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son.
And then going down a little further.
Verse 21.
Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings.
For there the shield of the mighty is vilely castaway, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil from the blood of the slain, from the fat of the Mighty. The bow of Jonathan turned not back.
And the sword of Saul returned, not empty.
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives.
And in their death they were not divided.
They were swifter than Eagles.
They were stronger than lions.
I'd like to speak just for a few minutes this afternoon, most of all to my own heart, but I trust it has an application to all of us.
To speak a little about Saul and Jonathan and David.
Here we find David speaking about both Saul and Jonathan.
And it is very noticeable here.
The David speaks only of that which is positive.
You and I in reviewing the history of Saul.
No doubt would say what a lot there was that was negative and even in dear Jonathan, as we have often been reminded, and I don't need to tell you this, you know it as well as I.
The dear Jonathan, although he had a heart of love for David.
And although there was a bond between them, perhaps that was not exceeded by any other on this earth.
Yeah, we have often been reminded that there was a failure of dear Jonathan to share rejection with David.
And although we are, I believe, reasonably.
Confident in saying that Saul was not a born again soul.
Sad to say, every evidence points to the contrary. On the other hand, I believe we can see in Jonathan one who truly was the Lords and who had a heart for Christ.
That is in the sense of the Old Testament. He had a heart for the Lord.
But for the moment, we want to talk about both of them because there was that which characterized both of them, which I believe eventually was their downfall.
Saul was a man for whom natural things.
Held a grip on his soul.
The energy of nature was what animators saw right from the beginning. Why was that? So all the people had to bear some responsibility for that because they said to.
Samuel, give us a king. We want one like the nations around us.
And the Lord said, as it were, I'll give you that kind of a man, if that's what you want.
I will give you that kind of a man. Physically he was head and shoulders above everyone else.
He had a lot going for him.
But it was largely the energy of nature.
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Were there good things in Saul's life? You can find things if you record them, if you look in Scripture rather and find them recorded that Saul had done for the Lord.
And you can see here in the account that David gives.
And I don't believe, for my own soul anyway, that David is deliberately, shall we say?
Resorting to the kind of flattery and the kind of talk that sometimes goes on at funerals where all kinds of glowing words are said concerning the departed one. And when most of those in the audience know very well that it is just a lot of hype, just a lot of talk.
No, I don't believe David is a man of God did that. I believe that David was honest and meant everything he said here.
Yes, the sword of Saul had not returned empty. Yes, the beauty of Israel had been slain upon its high places. Saul and Jonathan were indeed pleasant in their lives.
And there was more than that.
Turn for a verse that's a little obscure, but it's remarkable in First Chronicles.
First Chronicles chapter 26 I believe it is.
Now here we find the record of David when he dedicated many things that he had amassed for the building of Solomon's Temple.
And notice what it says here.
Verse 27.
Well, to get the connection, let's read verse 26.
Which Sheila met.
And his brethren were all Excuse me?
Which Sheila Meth and his brethren, which were over all the treasures of the dedicated things.
Now here with David the King.
And of the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host had dedicated out of the spoils won in battle.
Did they dedicate to maintain the House of the Lord? But notice this.
And all that Samuel the seer and saw, the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zerowaya, had dedicated. And whosoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shiloma and of his brethren.
Imagine.
Saul had dedicated things for the House of the Lord. So had his captain Abner. So had Joab, another man in whom the energy of nature and the appeal of natural things took precedence. The Spirit of God records that they had put things aside, dedicated them for the House of the Lord.
What about Jonathan?
Dear Jonathan, oh what a love he had for David.
What a heart there was between them.
I stand corrected on this, but there seems to be, if you read scripture carefully, a disparity in their ages.
We tend to think of them both as being young men, but it seems that Jonathan probably was quite a bit older than David and yet there was a bond that existed there.
But notice what the Spirit of God says. Turn back, please, to First Samuel again.
Chapter 20.
The last verse.
42.
And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, for as much as we have sworn, both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord be between me and thee.
And between my seed and thy seed forever.
And he arose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.
And then over a couple of chapters to the 23rd chapter.
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And we find there again in verse 18.
And they too, that is, David and Jonathan, made a covenant before the Lord, and David abode in the wood.
And Jonathan went to his house.
Why do I read all this?
Always say to your heart and mine, we have been reminded that we are living in the last days.
And there are difficulties in the pathway of faith, but it has always been so.
And here was a situation where there was a Saul and there was a Jonathan.
And there were good things in their lives that the Spirit of God records.
Toward God. Now again I say, I believe Saul unhappily was a lost soul, and Jonathan was one who had true life. But for the moment, I believe the Spirit of God recognizes what was there for the Lord, even though perhaps it was, at least in Saul's case, hidden behind so much that was of nature and of the flesh. But the Spirit of God records it.
And Saul had an effect on dear Jonathan.
So that in one occasion it's recorded that Jonathan went to the city and on another occasion he went to his house.
I suggest in principle those are the two things.
That the spirit of or that the devil uses.
The spirit of this world.
To draw aside true believers, the city would speak of that which man has made a congregation, as it were, of mankind where there.
Is activity where there is something that I can look to? I'm part of something.
I have a place in it.
And the house would speak of those family connections.
Which are so near and dear.
Did David feel it when he had to go out into the wilderness? Indeed he did. Did he feel the separation from his family? Indeed he did.
We're still perhaps, in some ways, did he feel the fact.
That dear Jonathan went to the city, went to his house.
What kind of men were there in the wood with David? What kind of men were there in The Cave of a Dullum? Were they beautiful characters all the time? Read the history.
Oh my, what happened when Ziklag was burned? What did those men do? Oh, it said they spake of stoning David. Imagine stoning him.
They speak of stoning, David.
What kind of man was Joab? What kind of man was that?
Oh, on one occasion David has to say concerning them, he says.
These men the sons of be too strong for me. The Lord shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
Those were the kind of men with David.
And I say to my own heart, as I say to each one, here in the pathway of faithfulness to Christ.
You and I will have to take our eyes off the kind of men that go with David.
You'll have to take your eyes, let's put it very personal. Off the likes of me, off the likes of others. Who perhaps.
On occasion the Lord has to deal with them because they have done that which is displeasing to Him. Or perhaps on occasion there is activity, there are attitudes, there are things said and done that so grieve the soul that it's very tempting.
To go back into the city or to go back home, I can't take that anymore.
The energy of nature.
Can take you a certain distance in the things of God. And I don't want to be misunderstood by that comment. I don't mean that anything of nature or of the flesh can in that sense have any value in the sight of God. But what I mean to say is that the energy of nature can to some extent allow me to walk, at least outwardly in a path that seems pleasing to the Lord. But it'll never last, because sooner or later I'll end up.
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Either going into the city because the offense of the cross is too much.
Few days ago I was reading an old letter that was written over 150 years ago.
And the dear brother said something like this. He said what brought me out?
Simply to gather to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He said. Was it a big group of people?
Was it brethren? He said no, there weren't any.
There weren't any to join. Was it the fact that there would be many nice things there? No, he said.
What brought me out?
It was Christ and he said if it is Christ that has brought me out, I trust it is Christ that will keep me there.
I say to my own heart, as I say to each one.
The reference point must be David. What did David do when his men threatened to stone him?
He encouraged himself in the Lord his God.
What did he do when his men behaved in such a way that it was too much for him to undertake to deal with it?
He said the Lord will have to reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
What did he do when there were difficulties and problems? Oh, there was a character there. No, I don't mean that David didn't fail. We know that every type falls short. But the reference point has to be David. And I say to your heart and mine, in these last days, I believe that Blessed One, the Lord Jesus Christ, morally and spiritually, still in The Cave of Adela. He's still out there in the wood. He's still there and he will not be given his rightful place until he comes.
With you and me. And there were those men, despicable in some cases though they were.
And in some cases, acting in the flesh, running ahead of dear David, and so on. Whereas as far as Jonathan is concerned, we don't realize, we don't read that he ever really displeased David in any way except in this one point.
He went back into the city. He went back to his home.
I sometimes wonder, I don't know, scripture doesn't say and I don't want to read into it what isn't there.
But if you read the account of David's mighty men.
In Second Samuel 23 you'll find very clearly there it says 30 and seven in all.
But if you count the names, there are only 36.
There is a second group of three is 1.
Is another, but the third one is not named. And obviously that third one is part of the group because the Spirit of God records that there are 37 when only 36 are named.
Is there a place there for Jonathan?
I don't know. I leave it to you to think about it.
Again, the Spirit of God doesn't record it, but I believe that God recognizes faithfulness.
And there are many today who are doing that which is for the Lord, and we bless God for it.
I say to your heart and mine.
Let's do all that. Let's have the the love of a Jonathan.
But at the same time, don't shy away from going into that rejection with Christ, from taking that place out in The Cave of a dolomite in the wood where perhaps it's very uncomfortable.
What is out there?
One thing.
David, David being a type of Christ and those men who share that rejection with David.
Had the privilege of sharing a Kingdom with him later. Now again every type falls short because Jonathan didn't share the Kingdom with David. And thank God, in a coming day no believer will be missing from that heavenly scene. And when those four and 20 elders are around the throne, not one place will be left unfilled.
But as we've been reminded in these meetings, Christ is hidden for now, as David was hidden in that day, and the world will not see him in power and glory until it sees you and me associated with Him.
It's a privilege to share his rejection.
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Well, I think, umm, the weather is a bit. It's a lot of healthy drinks. Is it? There's a fire on the air flow miracle one day and the girlfriend who loves irritated me and the children and the mountains and $1000 and thousand and $1000 and 382.
Uh-huh.
Open up, please, to, uh, First Corinthians Chapter 11.
Has been referred to.
Yesterday and.
The, uh, Lord's Supper has been talked about quite a bit this weekend.
First Corinthians, Chapter 11.
And verse 17.
Now in this that I declare to you, I praise you not that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you, and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. When you come together therefore, into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper. For eating everyone taketh before other his own supper, and one is hungry and another is drunken.
What have you not houses to eat, and to drink in, or despise you the Church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not, for I've received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks and break it, and said, Take heed, this is my body which is broken for you. This do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also He took the cup.
When he had stopped saying, This cup is the New Testament in my blood. This do ye as often as you drink it in remembrance of Me. For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of Jesus of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
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For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged, but when we are judged or chased into the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, tarry one for another.
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home, that ye come not together unto condemnation, and the rest will I set in order when I come.
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. You know that ye were Gentiles carried away unto these dumb idols, even as you were led. Wherefore I give you to understand that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus a curse, and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities of gifts at the same Spirit, and there are differences of administration with the same Lord, and there are diversities of operations, but it's the same God which worketh All in all.
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
And then it lists some things and I wanted to just, uh, we're familiar with these passages, of course, but I wanna drop down towards the end of this particular SE, uh, section.
Uh, verse 22. Nay, much more of those members of the body which seem to be more feeble or necessary, and those members of the body which we think to be less honorable. Upon these we bestow more abundant honour, and our uncommon parts have more abundant comeliness, for our commonly parts have no need. But God has tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked that there should be no schism in the body.
But that the members should have the same care one for another, and whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it, or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
Portion that I read is bounded by a word.
Which is kind of interesting. In chapter 12 verse 25 it says that there should be no schism in the body.
And in Chapter 11.
Verse 18 This first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you.
And that is the same word.
And it basically means to tear. And as related, I understand, to the, uh, to the same word that, uh, the veil of the temple was rent and twain. So it's actually a, a tearing.
The context, this is something we've been going over together in Cago Falls and our what we commonly call our adult Sunday school class.
And it's been quite interesting and I and I basically relating what we have noticed there.
And it's been very helpful to to many of us.
The the section starts with kind of this ominous tone, you know?
And not only does it mention the word tear in verse 18, the word division there, but then a word that was mentioned yesterday in verse 19. There must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you now.
The word heresy we.
It's it's a bad word in our language. OK, it was not necessarily a bad word in the Greek.
Umm, as a matter of fact in in uh.
Peter, I believe it is to to make it a bad word. It's called a damnable heresy.
But.
If I understand right, it's it's, it's the word to choose, which was mentioned by our brother, uh, yesterday and.
It's it's really a sect. OK, we go. Well, that's not a cool word either.
Uh.
It's a school of opinion and we say, well, that's not so good either, But really it comes from the philosophies that the Greeks held, and there were different types of philosophies.
And you're familiar with some of the philosophers of the times past, like Plato and Aristotle. And, uh, as people got into this, they would, they would kind of associate with a certain philosopher such as the Epicureans and the, uh, there's a bunch of anyone who knows Greek history will rattle them off, but there was a lot of that. And, and that was, that was kind of the thought was that you just kind of have.
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You're kind of attracted to this philosophy and it's and you kind of adapt, adapt to it and you kind of live by this philosophy. And that's kind of this word here. You made a choice to kind of pick up this way of life and it wasn't necessarily bad. It didn't mean they were evil.
Uh, the word comes into our language now in English as being a very bad word. You know, you don't. You don't call somebody a heretic or say they have a heresy unless you're pretty serious about it.
So.
It's it's it's not as strong a word really as that word division or to tear.
Well, let's keep going. Because what? What's really Paul getting at?
When you come together in verse 20 into one place and by the way, my comments will basically just be Chapter 11 with just a few comments in chapter 12, but.
When you come together in one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper for an eating everyone taketh before other his own supper, and one is hungry, another is drunken. What have you not houses to eat, and to drink in, or despise you the Church of God, and shame them which have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not. Now here is the thing, here is believers.
Save exact same way that we're saved. Live a life that probably wasn't all that different from the lives that that we live.
Uh, they had the amenities of, of the city of Corinth, which was an extremely wealthy city, you know, so they probably had a good building. They probably had nice chairs to sit on for their day and it was fairly comfortable.
And they would get together and they would have a dinner.
But instead of having like what we call potluck dinner.
They would bring their own bag lunch.
Except it was more like a thermos lunch instead of a bag lunch, and some people had maybe two thermoses full of all kinds of good stuff. But there were some among them that were poor, and when they came, well, they had a bag lunch.
And this is not working very well.
So it's not working very well at all.
Because the poor felt bad.
And the ones that had a little bit more kind of flaunted it, apparently, and tucked into the thermos was also a wine bottle. And they seemed to have gotten a little tipsy as well. And on top of that.
They came together on Lord's Day where there would have been morning or evening, I don't know, but they also kind of associated with the Lord's Supper.
And they took these two things and they kind of combined them.
Now, it could be that earlier in church history, maybe they did have dinner and Lord's Supper at the same time.
But Paul is now saying, look, there's a difficulty happening here. We're going to make a separation between these two things can't go on like this. But what? What is the real problem here?
The real problem is a social issue.
The social issue being those that have more versus those that have less.
If we start at verse 22 and basically work backward up the verses, we get.
I believe the thought of Paul's concern and that was that there was a social issue in verse 22 That comes out in how they ate.
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There's verse 21, of course, what they did, but.
In verse 20, when you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper. You may be calling it something, but it really isn't that.
You've you've messed it up.
And it's become a real issue, something of such an issue. It came to his attention and he thought he had to say something about it.
And then in verse 19 there must also be heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
Two things very important in that verse.
That are startling.
And that is, there is a social issue which has no ground, no basis, and especially is not valid in Christianity, not valid at all.
We don't walk up to somebody and say, well, I got a college education. You don't.
Or we say I live on this side of the tracks and you live on the other. That's that's not appropriate Christianity.
And they their conscience is apparently told them that that was not right.
And so something else had come in.
And that was the schools of opinion.
How am I going to justify?
Discriminating against you.
How am I going to do that? You pretend you're living in Corinth. OK, so you know that there's issue going on and and you're getting rumblings that that it's it's not appreciated. And so now you're going to justify it and you go, I've got it or you. We usually we're not usually that rational about it, but.
I have a different thought on scripture than you do.
And I'm right and you're wrong.
And so they started developing schools of opinion, probably on spiritual matters that justified the social discrimination.
And then we back up again to verse.
18 When you come together in the church, I hear that there be tears among you. And so has it gotten even more serious, probably beyond what they had anticipated.
In verse 19.
I'm gonna say something that may sound a little funny, but I trust you'll see the.
Not the significance, but the the reality of it.
You know when women talk together.
They talk together until they come to common ground.
When men talk together, they talk together until they disagree.
You just keep your ears open.
And that's the way it is.
Now there's a flip side to both of those. OK?
Gotta justify us guys somehow. There's a flip side to both of those #1 if you just kind of always seeking common ground, you know, things can things can go wrong by just doing that. On the other end though, it's interesting that there has been a habit since back a long ways, but probably at least since 1800s have come together in like reading meetings where people speak and sometimes there's points and counterpoint.
And you say, well, sometimes that's not so good, but think of how often when there is point and counterpoint, we go home and we check it out in the Bible.
There there can be value to that.
So get us off the hook somehow, OK, but I think the Lord there's there's wisdom in some of these things and and the Lord has given the way we are to sometimes give a little little building and we can appreciate that we can appreciate how the Lord's made it.
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The Lord has a solution to all of this. It's not a human solution.
Our social problems are real problem. Yes they are. We know they are.
I know they are.
It's it, yeah.
We can't fool ourselves.
They should not be a problem among believers. We know that also.
We should not start forming schools of opinions to somehow justify ourselves. We know that.
Well, what are you gonna do? Just tell people. Don't do this.
The Spirit of God has a different way.
Verse 23.
I have received the Lord.
Has been pointed out. Most of these points have already been made. It's not from the apostles that were there on the night that the Lord institute the supper. This is straight from the Lord. The Lord gave Paul this.
I received of the Lord that which I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread.
And when he had given thanks.
He break it and said, take heed, this is my body. And again, as was pointed out in the meetings here, the next the word about broken is really not there. This is my body which is for you. This do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup when he had sucked, saying this cup is the New Testament in my blood. This do ye as often as ye drink it in remembrance of me.
For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till he comes.
When we sit down at the Lord's table.
To break breath, we are remembering that the Lord Jesus died.
What?
What item? What significant piece of information in this whole universe?
Could reduce us to thinking nothing of ourselves more than.
Considering that the Lord of glory came into this world as a person.
And died.
Because the issue here was to think nothing of self.
Social issues disappear when you don't think of yourself.
Schools of opinion disappear when you don't think of yourself.
And the death of Christ.
Will bring us to absolutely not think of ourselves.
Simply repeat some of the thoughts that we've had today.
At noon time.
On that Friday when the Lord was crucified.
The sun went out.
Went out for three hours.
We had that verse from Exodus.
About a darkness.
That could be felt.
What happened?
The Lord Jesus Christ was taking our sins.
And bearing them, taking them upon himself.
He's the one who scripture at least six times say that he gave himself.
He gave himself, and in those three hours of darkness he gave himself to be under the wrath of God, the rod of God, the man who saw that.
My eternal salvation depends on that.
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I am saved because.
Of those three hours of darkness.
Which Lord Jesus Christ bore my sins?
What do I have left to stand for in myself?
Nothing.
What an elegant solution to the difficulty that there was at Corinth.
What a way that the Spirit of God prompted or used spoke through the apostle Paul to put it in this way.
So is there an issue?
There's the solution. You sit down to remember that Jesus died for you. Now have you thought about the death?
And what it meant to him and where it really puts us.
You see, there apparently was a third group in Corinth.
Only just briefly alluded to, there seemed to be maybe because society seem to be much more stratified back then than our middle class society now. But there seem to be the wealthy and there's who were flaunting and the poor that were feeling bad, but there seemed to be other believers that actually had put their finger on the problem.
And we're trying to bring a solution and we have to go back, my apologies, but we have to go back to verse 19 again. But it's a very key little thing. There must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be manifest among you. And that last half of the verse is that other group. There were those apparently, that were waving the flag.
And going There's got to be a better way, brethren.
And God is saying.
Those folks that were getting it from both sides, they were right. They're gonna be approved.
The ones who in this issue.
Had the right point of view and it wasn't on side A and it wasn't on side B.
It was someone who just saw through the whole thing.
And said, let's turn to Christ, brethren, let's turn to Christ.
They're the ones that are proved.
The last part of the chapter here says if we judge ourselves.
And this is a little bit different word. This is more the word that comes at the end of verse 29 about discerning.
For if we.
How do we say it in English? If we figured out, you know, if you can work through it, if you can discern the situation.
Then you will not be judged.
When were judged for chastens of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world? Where for my brethren, when ye come together to eat. Now here's some practical things. Tarry one for another.
Don't let this social stuff get in the way. If you're going to have a dinner together, enjoy it together. Believers. Christians.
For no other reason than that you are Christians.
And it's what you want to do. You want to be together.
Verse 34 if Amen, hunger, there's a real issue on that side. Let him eat at his own house at home. They come not together unto judgment and the rest will I set an order when I come.
The Lord is a gracious Lord.
He wants us to have full appreciation of the death of Christ.
You know.
How many of us, and I will speak just really for myself, really appreciate what the death of Christ has done.
The breadth of it, the different avenues of it, the emotional impact of it.
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What it does to us, what it does for us.
What it will all mean to us that that moment when we enter the glory to see that resurrected one who has gone into death.
The one who bears those marks in his body and will apparently for all eternity.
Chapter 12 is not a social issue, it's actually things that God-given to us through His Spirit directly.
For the ministry and the building up of his people.
Can we? Sometimes?
View those things that are given to us. And by the way, the things that are given to us in this chapter, they may be, they may characterize our lives, our ministry, or it may be something that's short lived just for the moment, but whatever it is, it's from the Spirit.
And that's what's important.
It's from the Spirit.
But could we even take those things?
And turn them back and make them like the social things.
Could we find ourselves distinguishing ourselves based not on social? Oh, we're past that. We, we, we really get along, but.
Well, the Lord's given me this.
On that what the Lord's given me this.
Well, through the Spirit I have this.
Now these things we found at the end are designed so there would not be any terrors among the brethren.
Could it be that sometimes those things are?
Used to make a tear.
The exact opposite of what was given by the Spirit of God.
What's the solution to that?
We go right back to the breaking of breath.
The death of Christ.
In the Old Testament, and there's many ways of looking at this, but in the Old Testament, some of the sacrifices, there were things that were dropped into the blood.
The cedar.
And the hyssop and the scarlet.
Whether it's a social issue, whether it's a family issue, which is with.
Even if it's a spiritual issue or things we get spiritually.
Whatever they are.
It must all be dipped in the blood.
That is always the solution.
What a remarkable thing that we could sit down this morning. Remember the Lord in his death.
I was impressed by some of the thoughts of darkness this morning.
And I'm sure others were too.
A God who is light.
God, who is light.
Would of his own will.
Go into that darkness.
Just so against his nature.
Jesus Christ would go into that darkness.
Resolve the issue of.
Like to just turn to Exodus chapter 21?
Just read verse 5 that was read this morning.
Exodus chapter 21 and verse five. And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children.
I will not go out free. Then his master shall bring him unto the judges. He shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post, And his master shall bore his ear through with it all, and he shall serve him forever. Well, those of us that were here in.
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Remember the Lord Jesus and His death this morning? Our hearts were touched at the end of the breaking of bread as this portion of Scripture was read and we recognized that there was, uh, the free will, uh, offering as it were, the Lord Jesus himself.
Desire to remain a servant forever, desire to remain a man forever. And uh, you know, we read in umm, Exodus or Isaiah chapter 6. I'm going to read it so that I don't misquote it. Isaiah chapter 6, prophetically of the Lord in the past, eternal age and the eternal councils of God.
He says in chapter 6 of Isaiah and verse eight also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then said, I here am, I send me. And so isn't that lovely? The Lord Jesus came because He saw you and I in our need, but there was a desire in his heart to fulfill all of the counsels of God that the purposes of God might be made manifest.
And that God would be glorified as to the question of sin, that you and I might be forever in his presence as his companions. But in Isaiah there is that desire of heart, and we have it in Genesis chapter 222, don't we? They went, both of them together.
Then should I hear my send me? And so we read those verses of Scripture in Exodus chapter 21 and, uh.
You know, it demands a response of heart from the bride in chapter 24 of Genesis. I'd just like to read the question, Another question there in Genesis chapter 24.
It says there in verse 58.
And they called Rebecca, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man?
And she said I will go.
You know, my heart was struck, my heart was touched as those verses in Exodus chapter 21.
Were red this morning and I thought of this question that would go out perhaps from the heart of the Savior Himself to each one of them.
Perhaps from the heart of God Himself, the one who sent the Lord Jesus to accomplish His purposes of blessing.
Love to call you out of this world and to save your precious soul and mine, to make us a member of the body of Christ, a part of that bride that he's going to have in the eternal scene above. And he asked this question.
You and I.
With I'll go with this man.
A lovely response. 3 words I will go.
I will go.
Well, this is introductory to what I had on my heart here to read this afternoon. Just three verses really, in the Psalms, the 86th Psalm.
Verse 11. We'll read 3 verses here, and perhaps reverse refer to a couple of other verses of Scripture.
But in the 86 Psalm, we have this Psalm, it's a prayer of David. And, uh, the background is that the 10 tribes of Israel have come through the testing time and umm, they've been restored to the Lord. They're in the land. And uh, perhaps the Assyrian is not yet dealt with. It says in verse 14 that God, oh God, the proud are risen against me in the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul and have not set thee before them. And so they're a little bit perhaps illities.
As they are in the land. But you know, these 10 tribes at one time in their history went out in idolatry and uh, their hearts were divided from the Lord himself and they went out in idolatry. They were taken and in the government of God, they were brought captive by the taken captive by the Assyrians. Now they've come back into the land.
And this is, uh, what they say in verse 11.
Teach me thy way, O Lord.
I will walk in thy truth.
Unite my heart to fear thy name.
I will praise Thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart.
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And I will glorify thy name forevermore, for great is thy mercy toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
There was a desire when they came into the presence of the Lord and when they evidenced His love for them. They experienced His deliverance. They experienced what it was to go through the wilderness and to be tested.
We're not going to read those portions in Ezekiel and so on.
But they've come into the land, and now they really, truly wanted to know the Lord.
They really, truly wanted to know that Blessed One who had gone to the effort to rescue them from the Assyrian and to take them out of the circumstances that they were in of adversity, and he brought them into his very presence, into the land and the blessing, and they wanted to know him.
They wanted to know his ways. So there's three things in the first verse here that we have. It's thy way, thy truth and thy name.
Three things that they desired to have.
But they said, teach me by way. Well, you know, they wanted instruction, divine instruction and instruction from the God that had created them. I want to ask you a question this afternoon. We've been here for this is the third day that we're together. Many things have been read from the Word of God, things that have touched our hearts, touched our consciences, and it's the desire of the Lord that we go back some other way.
Do we have a desire to know the way of the Lord?
To be taught of God, taught by the Spirit, what is the way of the Lord? You know, the disciples said, Thomas, I believe said to the Lord, how can we know the way? And the Lord Jesus responded to him in John's Gospel chapter 14. He said, I am the way, the truth and the life. And so here's an honest question. He says dishonest, teach me thy way, oh Lord.
And in the this is Jehovah that's being spoken of, addressed. Teach me thy way, O Jehovah.
And in the French translation it's.
The Eternal 1.
There is a course for the eternal glory of God.
That you and I can walk in this scene while we wait for him to come, while we wait for the Lord Jesus to come. We can walk in the path that has an eternal view because everything that we do here has eternal consequences. The Lord is going to be for the glory of the Lord or it's going to be lost in this scene. And so he desires here to be taught, not nice. Do you have a desire? Do I have a desire to be taught of God, to learn something from that God?
Who sent his only begotten Son into the world?
That I might not perish, but that I might have everlasting life. Well, it says here there's a promise, as it were. I will walk in thy truth.
Well, there's a divine course of life. There's a walk, there's a path, and there's a step, one step at a time. And perhaps like the, uh, ones that are speaking here prophetically, you have come to these meetings and perhaps there's been a laxative, lackadaisical course. Perhaps you haven't walked with the Lord with fervency of heart the way you really should. And you've heard some things here in these meetings and your heart is being stirred.
As mine has.
And so you desire perhaps to be taught of the Lord. Would you desire as well if He would reveal Himself to you through His Word in the person of the Lord Jesus? Would you walk in the truth?
Would you walk in the truth?
I will walk in thy truth. And so the truth of God is connected with the Person of Christ and obedience to His precious word as He's revealed it to us here.
I know I'm reading from the Old Testament, but I want to make this statement. We didn't make it during the reading meetings and that is.
That none of us would really understand the true ground of gathering and what it is to be gathered to the Lord's name unless we read the Old Testament.
We need to read the Old Testament and I'm reading from some Old Testament scriptures here.
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But we see the heart of God in these Old Testament scriptures and it says.
I think it's in Romans chapter 15. Trying to read it.
In verse 4, Romans 15 and verse four, for whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope.
These things were written for our learning, and so we have this this.
Uttering this prayer, Teach me Thy way, O Lord, I will walk in Thy truth. Unite my heart to fear Thy name.
Isn't that something, a strange word to use in connection with our hearts, to unite our hearts to fear the name of the Lord? While I believe that the thought is that our hearts are very easily divided, you know and I know how easy it is to have a divided heart.
To have Christ and something else that's attracted the heart. And so these dear ones wanted to have singleness of heart, to have an appreciation for the person of Christ and for the way for the path of faith, a singleness of heart.
To be united to fear or to honor the name of the Lord Jesus.
They wanted to live the name of Christ with reverence.
Let him that name is the name of Christ, or really proper translation, Let him that name is the name of the Lord. Depart from evil.
And so they wanted to walk in a clean path, and they wanted to have their hearts united to take up His name, to bear His name, and to bear the reproach of what it was to be associated with His name.
And I want to tell you, dear friends, dear, beloved young people this afternoon, that if you name the name of the Lord Jesus to your friends, those that even that are in the church systems and so on, and you tell and you just speak the name of Christ and say that you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ. Or they ask you what church you go to and you say, well, I'm gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Have you ever said that? Not nice.
I'm gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's going to bring some reproach because the name of Christ is reproached in this world. But these ones had gone in their own way in the past, and they wanted to have their hearts united to fear the name of the Lord. Not nice. So we have the way of the Lord, the way, thy truth and thy name. It really presents to us a right attitude and a right desire at the beginning of our lives and in the course of life.
That we might be continuing His presence, Well, there's fruit for God in verse 12.
It says, I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify Thy name forevermore. And so you know, beloved brethren, if there is a desire in our hearts to be taught of God.
We want to know the way of the Lord in truth in these last days. And there's a desire to walk in the truth that He reveals to us according to His word. And the heart is undivided. The heart wants Christ. The heart wants to please the Lord. Then there's going to be fruit, there's going to be praise, there's going to be Thanksgiving. Oh Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify Thy name forever more. Well, we know that it's possible for us to glorify the name of the Lord.
And to glorify him in this scene where his name is not honored.
We will glorify the name of the Lord eternally, this is true. But it's possible to glorify the name of the Lord here in the place, in the scene of His rejection, to adorn His name, to take His name upon us.
Well, I'll go with this man.
I will go Whose name are you going to take?
What name is going to be attached to your testimony in this scene? Is it going to be the name of Christ? Oh what a blessed name, the name of the Lord Jesus Christ Jesus who loved us and gave himself for us.
And who is going to be a servant forever? Why, that's the name that we desire to glorify forever. Well then, then, verse 13, there's a sense of the grace of God says, for great is thy mercy toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
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Well, Miss Lovely brethren, we've been delivered from the lowest hell and we need to continually remember, and it's nice to come into the presence of the Lord and to remember him in the circumstances of his death.
What he did for us, the great cost of our redemption, that we might have a sense.
Of the pit that we've been delivered from.
The pit of sin, the pit of hell, we've been taken.
As the worst possible material that could ever be found in this world. Dead in trespasses and sins.
And the God himself looked down upon us in this scene and desire to have a bride for his son.
And it was a divine act of grace, intervention in this world filled with sin, that he might pick up by grace those that were yet lost, and receive them unto them, receive them unto himself.
Save their precious souls, deliver the soul from the lowest hell. And so I just suggest to you.
This thought that I have enjoyed in connection with this mercy, Thy great, great is thy mercy toward me. There is a daily enjoyment of Christ that you and I ought to have, a daily enjoyment of the sense of the grace of God and the pit of sin that we've been delivered from.
We've been delivered from the lowest hell to live in the presence of the greatest savior.
And as a result, we take His name. We glorify His name.
And we have desired in some small measure, I believe, as I speak to you here this afternoon, I believe that perhaps all most are the Lords. And you have a desire in your heart, no doubt, to learn more about the Lord Jesus. And this is a nice prayer to pray. Teach me thy way, O Lord, I will walk in thy truth.
But daily we're going to need to have a sense of the grace of God and where we came from and where we're going.
And we're almost home.
Ramos home.
The tendency of our hearts is to.
Let up a little bit and just to relax a little bit, We're almost home. Things look pretty good and we're almost home. We almost got there.
But we need to be taught of God daily.
We need to not only be taught, but we need to desire to walk one step at a time in the path of faith. And so I just present this to you again, Thy way, thy truth, thy name, and the 4th one thy mercy, a sense of the grace of God. So these 3 verses would present to us a proper response to the heart of that blessed One who said I will not go out free, I love my Master.
I love my Master.
I love my wife, I love my children.
Wilt thou go with this man? Will you be taught of God when he reveals the truth, thy truth, His truth, Will you abide in it? Will you desire to associate yourself with His name? Oh what a wonderful name we have to associate ourselves with in this scene. Well may the Lord help us each one, to remember these 3 verses of Scripture as this conference is almost over.
And to have a renewed sense of desire, of heart, every one of us to want to be taught of God, to want to know that truth, and not only to know it, but to walk in it.
Yes.
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