St. Thomas Conference: 2011
Table of Contents
John 1:1-10
Hymnsing
Change
John 1:10-15
Philemon
John 1:15-29
Call Upon the Lord
Gospel—Cecil Roossinck
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Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Gospel Meeting.
Umm, just got our hand sheets.
So the one IO blessed gospel sound yet there's room. Is that on our hymn sheep? I think it is.
Thank you #15.
If you are anticipating the little flock in books, #66 in the back.
But we'll sing it off the hem sheet #15.
Gym #15.
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Should we ask the Lord's help tonight?
Our daughter Father, we thank you for the gospel invitation.
That invitation has been going out now for 2000 years. We thank thee for everyone who has responded to that sweet and loving invitation.
We thank you, blessed Savior, for thy words and whosoever will let him come.
Or if there's one of those whosoever's in the audience here tonight, oh, may they come.
We know, Lord, that there's many who know the gospel message. They know about the Savior. They know about the one who came from heaven.
But they just haven't come.
Lord we re.
Select in our hearts those words of thine come unto me, all ye that labor in our heavy laden.
And I will give you rest.
Where we're living in a troubled world.
On every hand there's fighting in disaster and death.
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And disasters of natural sources and storms and.
And floods and.
And all but, O Lord.
There's.
Disasters right within the heart of many.
Or lost. Lord, we pray that thy word would touch our hearts tonight.
And thy love would draw.
Some needy soul to thee.
Lord, we feel so inadequate to present that wondrous message.
To speak of thy heart of love for God.
But we thank thee that we have the privilege.
Of telling forth the good news, Lord, we hear thy words.
In the scriptures.
The gold forest to the highways and hedges.
And compel them to come in.
We pray, Lord, that each one of us here who know Thee, is Lord and Savior, that our hearts will be stirred.
To seek.
Lost we pray thy blessing and help tonight and all our weakness.
Lord, do by the power of Thy Holy Spirit, who draw precious souls to thyself.
We hear thee saying that my house may be full.
Lord, thy heart is so great.
That the gospel is still being told forth until the last soul.
Brought into thy glorious house.
Lord, we pray thy blessing. We pray Thy help. Tonight we commit us to Thee in Jesus worthy and precious holy name. Amen.
I'd like to read one verse to begin tonight from Isaiah chapter 52.
Isaiah 52 and verse 7.
How beautiful.
Upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth the good tidings, and publish a piece.
That bringeth good tidings of good.
That publisheth salvation.
That saith unto his eye, in thy God reigneth.
How beautiful are the feet?
On the mountains.
And they bring in good tidings. We had a number of verses in the Bible reading this afternoon.
About the Lord Jesus coming from heaven.
He came down from heaven.
No man descended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven.
And uh, that's the blessed person we'd like to talk about tonight, the one who came down from heaven.
And it says here how beautiful.
Our speed.
How beautiful.
He took a body.
Psalms tells the body, Hast thou prepared me?
In order that he might walk through this world.
And reach the need of my heart and yours. Oh, what a precious savior.
I believe as Isaiah penned these words by the Spirit of God.
Perhaps, he thought.
The one who is coming, I'm sure he did.
Those beautiful feet came down from heaven.
To tell us the good tidings of the gospel, and I hope tonight that in your heart.
You realize the beauty, the glorious reality of the one, the man from heaven, Christ Jesus, who came and walked this world.
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In pure love and grace.
He's a wonderful savior.
Before we go any farther, we'll, uh, ask his help.
In prayer.
Our daughter, Father.
We thank thee for this glorious one who came.
Down from heaven.
Who came to save and to bless and to tell out the heart of God.
Oh, may there be a response in every heart, those of us who have experienced what it is.
To know the Savior.
To know our sins forgiven.
To know that we have a home in heaven. Oh, bless the Lord.
You just pray that I help tonight.
Do bless thy word.
And pray that by faith we may see him who came, him who went to that cross.
For redemption. Who paid the price to save our souls? Oh dear Lord, we are weak. We are failing. Others never fail. Thank you for this. So we pray that I hope tonight in the worthy name.
Of him who came from heaven, our Lord Jesus Christ.
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You know, I was thinking these beautiful feet that came down from heaven.
Walk this this weary world.
And.
Brought the good tidings.
You know, he he came at a time in this world's history.
When?
You know, airplanes.
There was no.
Cars.
No trains.
Those feet.
What? As far as I know, there was only one occasion that I remember of, or perhaps two that he rode on a beast on a donkey, one when he went into Egypt as a small child, Young child when the Lord.
Sent his parents to Egypt to escape from the wrath of Herod.
Rolled his hands and made.
He had to escape for his life to Egypt. Perhaps they rode on a donkey. I don't even know if it tells it did one other time when he rode on a borrowed donkey.
And rode into Jerusalem, fulfilled the scriptures. Other than that, as far as I know, he walked the weary paths of earth.
And love and grace.
Told out the UH.
Tidings of God's heart and we've had so much.
In the Bible readings here of that wondrous story of how God was made known in Christ, how he came.
To tell us what was in God's heart. Do you know what's in God's heart for you?
God loves you.
God loves you.
And I hope you realize it tonight.
Those beautiful feet. What does this world do?
I nailed those feet to the cross of Calvary.
They nailed them there, Psalm, 22, tells. They pierced my hands and my feet.
Does it mean anything to you, your friends tonight? Does it mean anything to you that the Son of God, the Creator of all things, the Lord of glory, was here?
He was in the world, and the world was made by him. The world knew him not.
Instead of honoring him.
They nailed him to Calvary's cross.
Those beautiful feet.
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That brought the glad tidings to my soul of yours.
I sometimes like to think of his ascension in the first chapter of Action. Oh.
He led them out as far as Bethany tells us, and as he.
Spoke to them, he went.
The glory. He went back to glory.
He told his disciples, If I go prepare a place for y'all come again receive you unto myself. But I was thinking, there is he is he ascended into glory?
Through the cloud.
Through the cloud, and what a meeting it must have been on the other side of the cloud.
As he was received up into glory.
Received the Worthy 1.
Who Earth would not acknowledge.
Who men like you and I despised and slew.
There, at the end of his pathway.
Went up into glory and the other side of the cloud met the Father.
What a what a blessed person there are. Those feet is. That was the last thing the disciples saw as they watched him go up. They saw those nail pierced feet as he went through the cloud.
Well, by God's grace, many of us here tonight are going to see His hands and His feet. You know, they're they're never spoken of in the Scriptures, scarred over.
It's always the wounds.
It's fresh in the heart of God, Revelation 5. We read of his wounds.
Him that was wounded, for he was wounded for our transgressions. God will never forget that the rules I believe for all eternity.
We'll see his hands and his feet. His pierced inside. It was wounded, Wounded for me. Can you say that? Do you realize his love that brought him to Calvary, that he was wounded for you?
You might know about it.
But all have you ever come?
Ever come, you know there's a a woman in the Bible, the Queen of Sheba, she's called.
And it tells us in two places at least in the Scriptures, maybe three, that she heard of the fame of Solomon, She heard of his glory.
And then?
What did she do?
So sweet she came when she heard the famous Solomon concerning.
His God concerning the Lord says. And she came, I doubt. Well, there's one here in this room anywhere tonight who's never heard of the fame of the Lord Jesus Christ, the man from heaven, the man who came to save and to bless. But have you come to him? Not enough to hear about him, Not enough to know some of the Scriptures. You got to know him.
And he wants you to know him tonight.
We were reading in the first chapter of John.
Yesterday and.
We read that verse.
But as many as received him to them gave thee power to become the sons of God.
Have you received him?
You might know all about it. You probably have been at meetings like this before. You've heard much about him, the Lord of Glory, that blessed person. Have you made him your own?
Have you made him your own? Have you ever said yes, Lord Jesus, I know you died for my sins.
He's made it.
So simple, and yet it cost him so much.
Come, for all things are now ready. Come.
The work is done Calvary.
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Is finished, the Lord Jesus said before he gave up his life. There in the cross. He said it is finished, finished.
Oh, what a wonder it is.
That he finished the work that he came to do. The work is done.
Have you made it your own?
Have you made it your own?
Many has received him.
To them gave thee power, become the sons of God.
You child of God, you can be The work is done. He paid the price. He bore the penalty of our sins on Calvary's cross.
Christ died for our sins.
He's risen again, gone back to glory.
Is your savior.
Or is it to you, just a matter of statistics?
You've heard it before.
Have you made a charge?
Come the Lord, please come unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden.
And I'll give you rest. Learn from me.
Fry meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Well, I believe we could say that many of us have learned this afternoon.
At the in the address in the Reading meeting, we learned from him.
That which gives rest to the soul rest in our lives. But you know, before you can find that rest, you need to have peace with God.
It's nice to have the peace of God, and I hope that each one of you will go home tonight with the peace of God in your soul. You need to start with having peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ to know that God is satisfied with that sacrifice. At Calvary's cross we sometimes sing God is satisfied with Jesus, we are satisfied as well.
Oh, what a savior.
Oh, what a savior That he died for me. Well, let's go over to Luke, chapter 10.
Well, keep in mind this verse about him that.
Came and walked this weary.
That I'm not gonna.
Speak tonight about any rare scriptures or unusual things. And all the scriptures I believe we turn to be ones you heard from Sunday school.
Perhaps everyone here has heard the gospel maybe many times.
Years ago there was a young man.
Forget his name now.
I don't know if I heard it, but some of you know it, knew it.
He came to Sunday school.
Week after week.
And he had a good mind. He was able to memorize it.
My wife's father was there, uh, taking the Sunday school one time at the meeting where he went.
And he asked if anybody knew the Sunday School memory verse and uh.
The couple did follow his own boys, managed to stumble through the verse one verse and said it was fine. So it came to this young lad.
Next, and he said, Do you know a verse?
For your memory, uh burst Sunday school today. My folks were visiting there.
He quoted a chapter complete.
Whole chapter. Oh, he had a good memory and he knew a lot of scriptures he memorized. But you know.
Doesn't say that memorizes the scripture. We'll get to heaven.
I don't think.
That went beyond.
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Fine. Never got into his heart, as far as I know. Evidence.
Would indicate that it never got into his heart for a few years later.
Climbed up onto a bridge over a highway with a rifle and a.
Large supply of ammunition.
I can't remember the exact details, but I believe he shot 15 people from the bridge.
Sad to say.
Well, knowing about the Lord is not enough.
Know him?
We're matching the Queen of Sheba.
When she heard of the fame of Solomon.
He didn't. He doesn't say she memorized some of his proverbs.
Doesn't say she.
Umm thought That's very nice. She came, She came.
You need to come tonight to the Lord Jesus.
As many as received him. Not as many as who came to the Gospel meeting. As many as received the Lord Jesus Christ. It's a personal thing. Have you received him?
He loves you. He's calling.
Come on to me.
Maybe you come. Have you received it?
He's waiting. He's waiting, perhaps, for one.
Here in this audience tonight, if you're the one.
It's a wonderful word.
Come, come now, the Lord Jesus says, Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. No, they be as Crimson. They shall be as wool. I say 118.
The Lord said to Noah, Come thou.
Come out.
The door of the Ark was opened.
Whosoever would come.
Lord.
As if he bowed down from heaven, said to Noah and his family.
The doors open. Everybody can come. Come now.
You personally.
Come. And they entered into the ark, and were safe when they flood. When the flood came, the judgment of God fell upon this world.
God shut the door.
At the end.
But it was open.
For a long time.
The place of safety was available.
Strange enough, a lot more animals came in than people.
Perhaps they thought they knew better.
But what a, what an invitation. Come now. Never mind the person next to you. Maybe they're passing you notes tonight instead of listening.
Mayer, you and them are making plans for what you gonna do as soon as the Gospel Meeting is over.
And the devil's got your mind filled with everything under the sun.
Or.
Maybe the Spirit of God is speaking to you.
Are you listening?
Are you listening?
Come.
Come on, what a savior. Let's go to Luke 19.
And verse 10 verse that I love.
The book of Luke is a wonderful book, you know, because we see the Lord Jesus truly as a man, the Son of man in the Buccaloo.
One who feels what we feel. One who walks the path we walk.
And here's what says in Luke 1910.
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For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. The solemn man has come to seek and to save that which was all the love of God. He loves you tonight.
And he wants to save your soul.
I had a call on the phone. Uh.
About a week before we start on this trip.
The voice on the other end.
3rd Cease. It's Ross Park here.
I want you to pray for me.
I found out I got terminal cancer.
Lungs are full of both lungs.
You've been a smoker all his life.
Oh, I said. Won't you pray for me, please?
Have your group, he said. Pray for me.
Well, we did pray for him at the prayer meeting And then.
The next night or the next day?
I think it was Doug. Barry and I, Doug and Marge were down visiting us.
I'm not mistaken. You went out with me. Yeah, we went out and we visited.
Ross Park.
He said to us, although he had said to me in earlier years, he didn't know if the Bible was.
True or didn't know God was real and he had a lot of doubts and things, but now, he said.
I know the Bible is true.
He said, I know it says this, that some shall be beaten with many stripes and some shall be beaten with few stripes, he said. That's what I've got to look forward to, being beaten with either many or few stripes. And that's not a very great hope to have, is it? That's not something you would enjoy looking forward to. But Ross, you were sure? He said. I know he said that God tells the truth and so I know it's true. He said. I'm soon.
Going to die and I'm going to be beaten.
With either many stripes or few.
My heart went out to him, you know. He felt deeply in his soul.
Return to John 524. Let's turn to it now.
Oh, he believed, no.
In the judgment of God.
Face to face with death. I don't know if Ross is still living.
I hope he is when I get home and visit him again.
He came in after we'd been there. I thought he was too weak to even drive his car. But twice before we left on this trip, he drove from York Harbor into Cornbrook to see me. He wanted a Bible with bigger print that he could read and.
Uh, I hope he's found the savior. I really hope that he's found the savior by now.
John 5/24.
Brother Doug and I read this to him.
Umm, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me.
What does it say? She'll be beaten with many stripes.
Or few stripes. What does it say?
Has everlasting life.
And shall not come into condemnation.
That is past from that unto light.
How many stripes draw?
Uh, the love and kindness of God.
He that hears my word. Have you heard God's word? You're hearing it tonight.
Have you believed?
If you believed.
In the.
The God that sent the Savior from heaven.
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To bury your sins on the cross, have you believed?
No condemnation. Precious word considered my soul.
I didn't want to lessen his concern about those stripes.
Bye. I just wanted to tell out the heart of God. For God is not desires to punish because the Lord Jesus took the punishment for your sins. If you'll have it, if you'll believe him, if you receive him, Oh what a savior, What a blessing savior.
Well, dear friend.
Do you know that blessed person? He loves you. He died. He came and bore my sins on Calvary's cross.
Is he your savior Or it can be your savior Tonight, he's longing to save.
Here in Luke's Gospel, we find that he.
He whacked over the city of Jerusalem.
Because.
They didn't receive his testimony.
He said this as he wept in Luke's Gospel. He said, How often would I have gathered thy children together as a hand gathered their chicks beneath their wings? And he would not? You would not.
Oh dear friends, are you one, Is there one here tonight? Or whom the Lord Jesus would have to weep and say?
She knew the gospel or he knew the gospel?
Would not, would not.
Those words will ring through the ears. I'm afraid of some.
In eternity.
Where it's too late. How often would I have gathered thy children?
He said to those women that were following him to the cross, they were weeping.
He said to him, Weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
Is your child here tonight?
Who steal their sins.
The Lord Jesus.
Tears flow down his face.
Not because they were gonna crucify him and nail him to the cross.
Abusing.
But when he thought of those that were going to perish.
In Jerusalem.
When judgment fell upon that city, you wept, he said. Don't wait for me. Weep for yourselves and for your children.
Thou cometh.
When destruction and death.
Would be upon them, dear friend, Tonight the hour of judgment is coming.
God in his mercy.
Put off the judgment of this world.
For all these years.
But it's coming.
It's coming.
You're not saved.
You're gonna stand.
Before the Great White Throne.
As far as I know, there won't be one that will be there that will escape.
Eternal judgment.
Behold, now is the day of salvation. Behold, now is the time.
Not tomorrow. Not next week.
Today, if you will hear his voice, the Lord says, Harden not your heart.
Today. Today.
Once you come, dear friend, today if you will hear his voice hard, not your heart.
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Well.
There's lots of other scriptures we get turned to.
I think this meeting was slated for 45 minutes. That's a great plenty.
You heard the Gospel only takes one scripture. Just before we close, though, let's turn the 10th chapter of Romans. Simple verses that you've all heard before.
Romans, chapter 10.
Verse nine, That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus.
And shall believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead.
How shall be saved?
Let's see for the heart Man believeth unto righteousness, and with a mouth confession is made unto salvation.
For the scripture says.
Whosoever believeth on him.
Shall not be ashamed.
I like those words, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
The devil tell you like he told.
Eve and Adam in the garden. Make something of yourself.
Eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, good and evil.
He shall know O good meal, he said.
Your friends, you don't need to know good and evil. You need to know the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of sinners.
And then a verse that I seldom preach the gospel without quoting.
Verse 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord.
Shall be saved.
God couldn't have made it more simple.
Lord Jesus.
Will you save me? Have you called on the name of the Lord? He hasn't made it complicated. You don't have to go through some learning, some book work or whatever to attain your salvation.
Just as call upon me.
Call upon me in a day of trouble and I will answer thee. We had an answer from God. Or if you haven't called on him, please do so this very night. Maybe your last opportunity come to Jesus gently calling.
Just a tiny little word.
About the umm.
51St.
Just gonna read the last part of the verse and this is for you who know the Lord.
This is quoted from the verse we read in Isaiah, and here's what it says. How beautiful are the feet of them?
That preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things.
We know it's nice. It's how beautiful. The feet of him refers to the Lord who came from heaven, who came from glory. And here in Romans says to your heart and mind how beautiful are the feet of them.
That preach the gospel of peace.
Dear Christian young Brother.
Sister and the Lord, you have beautiful feet.
In God's estimation.
Well, you can't. Do you love to tell the story You know I've heard.
A big congregation of people saying I love to tell the story.
And I think.
I wonder how many of them, how many of us I should say?
Told that blessed story.
To those that we know best. To those that we work with. To those that we go to school with.
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Doesn't mean they're physically beautiful. I know I don't have beautiful feet. Toenails are all falling off and.
I guess uh.
Stock over here and it was a little about those kind of feet, but.
It's not that kind of a problem, but we have with our feet most of us.
Because we just keep on the.
Under the bed or under the couch? May the Lord help us to be faithful, diligent in telling out the glad tidings. We just commend us to Lord our God our Father, How we thank Thee for our precious Savior. We thank Thee for that love unbounded that brought Thee from glory above.
Where we met thee with hatred, enmity.
Nailed it to the cross, Blessed Lord, and yet.
Thou art still compelling them to come in.
We pray Thy blessing and Thy word.
Thank you in Jesus worthy and precious holy name. Amen.
Sins Washed Away
Children—Reg Roossinck
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Welcome to Sunday School.
Who's got a song? Well, actually, you know what?
Thoroughly. We gotta get woke up.
I got everybody stand up, please. I'm gonna sing wide, Wide is the ocean and I want everybody to do the actions. I know it's not oops, I know it's not in the book, but I think we all know it.
Why do I?
Share I have not had been so far.
In the past.
I don't know one forever in the evening.
Alabama Child Ave. care for him where he just means that his blood reaches me.
OK, now, now that we're all woke up, who's got a song they like to sing?
Not all at once.
What do you want, Ed? What's your number?
41.
Hello, this is Ed. This is Ed's favorite song. We sing this pretty much every Sunday in Pine Grove.
OK if I can start this.
No, it's been back on Friday just like me. All the wine and clean singing glory.
Glory.
Glory, glory, there is no God.
That sounded very good. Who's got another one they'd like to sing?
First option on the 1St row, but if I don't get anybody, Jim Hejos said he wanted to give something out today.
So if I don't see anybody else, I'm gonna have to. There he is.
2343.
One door and only one.
Who can tell me what this one door is referring to?
One door and only one? What's it talking about when it says one door and only one Ed? What is it?
Lord Jesus is knocking on your door.
And also, there's only one door by which we can go to heaven.
The Lord Jesus.
Suffered on Calvary's cross for the judgment for our sins, and there's only that's the only way that we can go to heaven to be with him is through that one door, the Lord Jesus through his blood. Remember the story in the Old Testament when the children of Israel were in Egypt.
And they had to kill that lamb, and they had to put the blood around the door so that they were protected when the destroying Angel came with judgment on Egypt. And they were protected by that blood. And today the Lord Jesus has shed his blood.
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And we have to apply the blood of the Lord Jesus.
To go to heaven, he shed his blood on Calvary's cross and he says.
You have to take that blood and apply it. You bore the punishment for your sins.
But it doesn't do you any good unless you accept the blood of Jesus Christ to wash your sins away. OK, let's sing #43.
On the inside of which I love you.
Very nice, who's got another one?
#40.
There's a favorite.
OK, Jesus loves me this I know. Remember, it's important.
To realize each one of us that Jesus loves me individually.
When he says Jesus loves me, he's talking to me. He's not talking to the person next to me.
The Lord is talking to them too, but He's talking to each one of us individually.
Yes, Jesus loves me, and it's fine to realize that Jesus loves the whole world.
And that Jesus died on the cross and shed his blood for the sins of the whole world. But we need to individually realize that Jesus loves us personally, and we need to personally come to the Lord Jesus and ask Him to wash our sins away.
So when we sing this song.
And do this, I do this in Pine Grove and I do this in Hamilton. I won't make you stand up this time, But when we sing the chorus, yes, Jesus loves. And I want us to not sing me. Point to yourself because it's important that we realize that the blood of Jesus Christ was shed for me personally. So only in the course, the four times that we sing the word me, we won't sing me. We'll all point to ourselves, OK.
Only in the course Jesus loves, Jesus loves Jesus Christ.
You.
Just want.
92515 Hotel.
You don't want me to die now and take it to the whole and why?
He will wash away my sins last hour don't stop coming.
Yes, it's like.
Yeah, yeah.
God wants me to know why God and he was to make me God wasteful in his heart. It may take from every heart.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wilby, Wisconsin.
So you must love me. You love me still, and I never really shut down.
Long and shining my heart.
I'm still watching where I live.
Yet in the flood.
Yeah, it's not love.
Yeah, yeah.
So you have lost me, well carried closely by beside me all the way in a fight. If I trust him to thy heart, he will make me home on time.
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Yeah, jeez. Umm, well, yeah, it's not long. Yeah, it's it's tough love.
Bible tell me.
We do pretty good, a couple of mistakes, but.
Usually I screw up at least once. So OK, I think we'll sing maybe one more and then we'll have a story from the Bible. And if we have time at the end, we'll sing a few more. OK, You, the girl in the pink.
44.
Into a tent. I like this one.
I think I'm going to ask Mr. Prosser to start this one, though.
Into the sandwich.
Nsnoise. Television Retirees. Nsnoise.
Nobody answering. I told it to me.
Throw it away again. Throw away again.
Our nation's sorry revealed.
No one can play on my children of men. Nobody ever has spoken before.
Nsnoise.
OK, before we have our Bible story, we will ask for the Lord's help.
Our God and our loving Father, we thank you for the privilege to be here on the Lord's Day morning Sunday school, to sing songs about our Savior and the love that He has for us and the work that He did on Calvary's cross, shedding of His blood for our sins.
Father, we pray that if there's any boy or girl or older one here today that has not yet come to know the Savior.
Personally, does anyone here that does not yet know that Jesus loves me personally?
That they may come to the Savior right now and know that peace be on their way to heaven, we commit the meeting to Thee. As for Thy guidance and help, we pray this in the precious and worthy name of our loving Savior. Amen.
OK, I wanted to talk about a story that was mentioned yesterday a couple of times or more in the reading meeting.
In the 22nd chapter of Genesis.
Well, there's probably a few here that have heard me talk about this story before, but this is the story of Abraham and Isaac.
That's a very beautiful picture.
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Of the Lord Jesus.
Going to the cross.
So I think what we'll do, we're not gonna read the story. I've got an assistant here that's gonna help me. And you know, when I was a kid, I always found that if somebody had something to see and something to do, it helped me understand a lot more.
So I think we probably all have heard the story before.
So we're we're sort of going to have some actions act.
The story out a little bit.
And then talk about it, OK.
So in the 22nd of Genesis.
It says God tempted Abraham.
And so.
Abraham's going about his business.
And God says Abraham.
And Abraham says.
Here I am.
God says, Abraham, I want you to take your son, your only son, Isaac.
To love.
That son that I promised you.
Would be.
That I would bless, and that son that I promised you I'd make a great nation of. And I want you to take Isaac, and I want you to take him to a place that I'm going to tell you about. And I want you to sacrifice him there to me. I want you to kill him.
Ibrahim says OK.
You think about that Abraham had one son that he loved.
We know we had another son, Ishmael, but all the promises of God were to Isaac and through Isaac and God says Abraham, I want you to take Isaac. So I've got Isaac here. Come on up, Isaac.
He says I want you to take your son and I'm going to tell you where to take him.
I want you to kill them.
And I want you to sacrifice to me your son.
Abraham believed God, he says. OK.
You know, this is not my son, this is Craig's son. So if I had to sacrifice, it might be a little easier.
Not really, but.
What do you think, Isaac?
But you know.
My wife is pregnant. I'm sort of hoping she has a boy.
I think it'd be awfully difficult, even though I've never seen that child yet. I think it'd be awfully difficult if God asked me to take a child and sacrifice him.
But Abraham believed God, he says. OK, so it says, Abraham took two of his young men, two of his servants, and saddled the donkey.
And he went. He prepared the wood. So Isaac, we've got some wood.
You know, they didn't have matches in those days. I think they had to carry coals.
So we've got a bucket and we'll pretend there's some fire in here.
To light our sacrifice with.
Some rope because we don't want Isaac to get away when he's on the altar.
Got a knife well suited for butter, but we'll pretend that's sharp.
And we've got some wood.
I'll get rid of the Home Depot bag because I'm not sure that Abraham had a Home Depot in his town.
I think, I think I'd like you to carry the wood.
And just in case there's not enough, we got a couple of extra pieces.
We'll put the fire in the bucket.
And off we go and we're 10. We've got here a donkey.
And a couple of extra servants with us and Abraham and Isaac to go 3 days journey.
After three days journey.
You know, I'm sure they stopped and said camp every night, the three days journey, Abraham looks up and he sees the place that God had told him of. It doesn't tell us before that where it was.
But he on that third day, he looks up and there's the place and he says to the two young men that are with him, he says the servants, he says, you stay here with the donkey.
And Isaac and I are going to go Yonder and worship.
And we will come again to you.
So the two young men stay there, and Isaac and his father go off.
And they get walking along, Isaac's carrying the wood, Abraham's got the knife fire. And Isaac says to Abraham, what's he say?
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My father, behold the the live fire in the woods, but where is the way of the birds offered? Imagine Abraham's heart when Isaac says to him, and they keep walking.
And Abraham says to him, My son, God will provide a lamb for burnt offering.
And they went, two of them together. You imagine Abraham's heart when Isaac says that to him. He says, dad, I've got the wood, you got the fire.
Where's the lamb we're going to sacrifice to God? Where's the lamb for the burnt offering?
Abraham says to him, My son, God will provide himself lamb.
What we're offering.
Now Abraham had faith that whatever God had in mind.
To happen.
That the promises that God had made to Abraham were through Isaac.
And God would take care of it. And Abraham didn't know what was going to happen, but he trusted that God, if he had to kill his son, that God had the power to raise him from the dead.
And so they go, the two of them, and they get to the Mount Moriah. You know, I grew up very close to Mount Moriah, not the same mountain, but it was called Mount Moriah. And he builds an altar.
Poor Isaac's got a hold on the wood for a minute.
Get them out, Mariah.
And Abraham builds an altar and he says, OK, son, now we're going to lay the wood on the altar.
We're going to prepare, we'll lay the fire, we'll pretend that's well laid out, and hopefully your mother doesn't get upset with me when I get you to sit on this wood.
He pulls out a rope.
Says we can't have Isaac.
Getting cold feet?
And he ties them up.
We don't tie this too tight in.
Here's Isaac. He ties him up.
And he picks him up and he puts him on the altar. Go right on there. Hope there's no splinters.
He's got the fire, you know, it's burning away nicely in the.
Bucket and Isaac's on the altar, and Abraham pulls his knife out.
And Isaac's. I'd be pretty worried by now.
But he trusts his father, and his father trusts the Lord, and Abraham raises that knife up over his head.
And he's going to kill his son because that's what God told him to do.
And he's got that knife over his head, and says, the Angel of the Lord, call unto him, Abram.
Hold it.
That's enough.
I know that you trust me.
This part maybe we'll read.
Where did I set my Bible? There it is.
Angel, the Lord called on them out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here I am here my. And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him.
For now I know that thou fearest God. See, thou hast not withheld thy Son, thine only Son from me.
Lord, says Abraham.
You passed the test.
I can see that you trust me.
So I don't want you to kill your son.
So Abraham looks around behind him. There in the thicket behind him, he sees a ram caught by his horns in the thicket.
So he takes Isaac off.
And I think Isaac said I was close.
And he unties them.
And it goes over to the second ad. You want to play two parts.
You wanna come over and be the RAM too?
Over here is a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. And maybe he's, you know, the ram on the mountains powering those horns. That's what they use to defend themselves.
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And here's his ram, caught by his strength, his horns in a thicket. So Abraham goes over to the thicket and he grabs this ram, maybe gets him by the shoulders, and he Yanks him out of the thicket, and he brings them over and he puts them on the altar.
Good job.
He takes the knife.
And he cuts his throat.
The ram was dead on the altar and he sacrifices the ram.
Texas fire and lights the wood. We won't. We won't burn yet.
Mr. Ram.
And he sacrifices that ram.
To God.
There was a substitute for Isaac.
OK, you can sit there and burn for a few minutes around.
It says. And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns.
And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him for a burnt offering instead of his son.
You know.
We have a couple of things in this story. OK, you can you can sit down now. Thanks for your help.
We'll leave the altar there.
The Lord Jesus.
Went to the cross.
Think of it in Isaiah, it says.
God the Father speaking.
Asking who will go?
Who will go and bear the punishment?
For the sins of the world.
And the Lord Jesus says, here am I, send me. And in our story, here is Isaac.
And he says, I'll go on, God said to Abraham, I want you to sacrifice your son.
Abraham says I'll go. Abraham had faith in God and Isaac went and he trusted his father and he went to be that sacrifice that God had required. You know you and I have sinned.
I won't ask you to put up your hand, but if I asked you to put up your hands, anybody here that felt they had never sinned you put up your hand.
I'd have to tell you you're lying.
Because each one of us is born in sin.
And God says sin cannot enter into heaven the righteousness of God.
Requires.
That there be judgment on sin, and God cannot have sin in his presence. And so.
He wanted to have you and I with Him in heaven.
That there has to be.
Some punishment for that sin.
And so he sent his son.
His only begotten Son into this world.
And he went to Calvary's cross.
And he bore the punishment for my sins.
He shed his blood on Calvary's cross, and he bore the punishment for your sins.
Just like Isaac went to that altar.
The Lord Jesus Christ came into this world.
And he suffered on Calvary's cross, you know it says.
That God turned out the lights, it was complete and utter darkness. You couldn't see your hand in front of your face. And for three hours He put on his Son, the punishment for my sins.
And when it was done?
The Lord Jesus that is finished.
And he bowed his head. He died.
And it talks about the that soldier came along.
Because it was the preparation for the Passover.
They broke the legs of the two thieves that were crucified with him.
But when they came to the Lord Jesus, they found that he was already dead.
He had already died, and so the soldier took that spear, and he put it into the side of the Lord Jesus.
Outflowed blood in the water.
Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sin.
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And so we had Isaac on the altar.
A little story, a little example to show us.
Of what God was going to do.
When the Lord Jesus came into this world.
But yet there came a point where God stopped Abraham.
And he said that's enough. I know that you trust me.
You know the judgment for my sins, the judgment for each each of your sins.
Was due to God. God could not have those sins in his presence. He couldn't have us in heaven as sinners, and so he had to send someone.
To take my place, because if the Lord Jesus had not come into this world.
I would have to pay the judgment for my sins. Each one of us would have to pay the judgment for our sins. So the Lord Jesus came into this world, and just like when God stopped Abraham from killing Isaac, and Abraham looks around and there's a ram.
Caught in a thicket.
A big goat caught by his horns.
In a Bush.
And Abraham says there's a substitute for my son. God is requiring a sacrifice.
And there's a substitute. The Lord Jesus came into the world and was the substitute.
The judgment that was due to me for my sins. The judgment of the due to each one of us, each one of us, boys and girls, older ones. A judgment that was due to each one of us. The Lord Jesus was the substitute. So Abraham takes that ram and he puts him on the altar, and he kills him, and he sacrifices him, the Lord Jesus.
Was put on the cross.
And he was killed.
He was to substitute.
For me and for you. And so the Lord Jesus now can say to each one of us, come.
We heard what we heard in the gospel last night.
The Lord Jesus speaking to each one of us, Come, come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
I've borne the punishment for your sins.
The judgment had been taken care of.
Now we just have to come and accept the Lord Jesus as our Savior.
He shed his blood. He died on that cross for us.
You know, when I was when I was a kid.
Generally on Sunday afternoon I'd get into some sort of trouble and I'd know I was going to catch it when I got home.
And I get that point from my mother.
Or pinch from my father and I knew that there was more coming when I got home.
That settled me down pretty good I think. Sometimes anyway.
As I knew that I was going to get a punishment for something I had done when I got home.
And I'd spend the rest of the day wishing that there was a substitute. How can I get my brother to take the punishment for what I've done?
I get home on Sunday night.
And whatever it was I had done, I'd get a punishment for it. Might have been a spank.
Whatever it was, I'd get a punishment.
I remember one time we got home and.
The meeting was in Uncle Donna at Betty both Holly's house and it was a short walk around the block and it was a winter night and we'd walked a meeting. We got home and Dad forgot his key.
And so.
He had to go back and get the spare key from Uncle Don Dolsolly and by the time he got home it was past her bedtime and we got put to bed and I knew I had a punishment coming.
I knew I had done something, and I knew that my parents intended to punish me for what I had done. By the time I got home, By the time we got in the house, it was past bedtime. Mom to bed, and we went to bed and they forgot.
They forgot about the punishment.
Let's forget the key every Sunday.
That doesn't work with our sins.
God cannot forget about our sins.
And there's a punishment due.
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But he says.
I've sent my son into this world and he's taken the punishment. He shed his blood. He died on the cross.
And he says, except the blood on the cross, ask the Lord Jesus to wash your sins away.
And that punishment?
Not that the punishment's forgotten about because the Lord Jesus bore it. I don't think I ever managed to get my brother to take the punishment for what I had done.
Though I sort of think that he may have gotten me to take punishment for what he did a few times.
But the Lord Jesus bore the punishment for my sins, and he says to each one of us, except the blood, to wash your sins away.
It's that simple.
That easy, The Lord Jesus bore a punishment for my sins.
The Lord Jesus bore the punishment for your sins.
And now he says come.
We'll pray.
Then perhaps we can sing.
Another song while we're praying. Think about that if you've not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior.
God says, behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
We don't get it. We're not promised.
That will have until the end of the Sunday school.
When I promise that we'll have until the end of the day.
Lord Jesus says I'm coming back soon to accept all of them, all who are washed in the blood of Christ. I'm going to take them to heaven and I'm coming back soon and we're not told it's going to be now. It's going to be this minute. It's going to be in 1/2 an hour. The Lord Jesus may come before we're finished praying.
So if you've not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, ask Him into your heart right now.
Lord Jesus, we.
Come before you this morning and.
Thank you for your love, for going to Calvary's cross and bearing the punishment for our sins, for being the substitute.
That judgment that was due to each one of us.
Lord Jesus, we pray that there is any boy or girl or older person here in this room this morning.
That is not yet accepted.
At work that you did for us on Calvary's cross.
We pray that they may be convicted of their sins. They may come to know.
You as their savior.
We commit our time together to Thee. Thank thee once again.
For that mighty work on Calvary's cross.
We pray this in your precious and worthy name, our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
Perhaps we've got time for one or two more before our time is up.
Anybody's got one they'd like to sing?
14.
Normally you want to start this.
I didn't want to get.
Well, I wish you one give my love in the soul friendly cloud.
I can't find him. I'm just talking. Lying on the snow Party was in the blood of the blood of blood.
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When the light can come at the Yellowstone, light your eyes light in the light of the morning, William told me. Ready for the mansion's right and be washed in the light of the light.
You know, that's the most important question that you will face in all your life.
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior?
You know if you do.
Turn to the person next to you and tell them about it.
Your mom or your dad? Your friend besides you.
The Lord you say, thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead.
Thou shalt be saved. You know, when I was in school, I spent a lot of time, especially on Sunday nights after a gospel meeting, worried that I wasn't saved. I'd hear a solemn gospel message and I go home and I'd lie in bed and I'd listen to the neighbor dogs bark and know that I had to walk to school the next day and afraid that those dogs were going to tear me from limb, limb from limb.
There are only small dogs, but I was only a small boy once.
And I asked the Lord Jesus to wash away my sins.
And then I'd have peace until the next Sunday.
I'd be lying in bed on Sunday night. I heard the gospel meeting and I'd be worried. Am I really saved?
Are my sins really washed away?
And I asked the Lord Jesus to save me again.
And that went on until I realized that.
Truth of that verse.
And I went to my father one day and I said, Dad, I want to tell you that I'm saved. I want to tell you that I've asked the Lord Jesus to wash away my sins.
I think that made him very happy. It certainly made me very happy. And I never from that day to this ever had another doubt or another question that I was saved.
You're saved. Tell somebody about it.
The Lord Jesus has asked us to do that.
It'll give you peace.
And it'll make that other person very happy too.
Thank you for listening.
Thanks Isaac for your help.
And it appears that if you've sat up front, there's chocolates.
Holy of Holies
Be on the Watch; There Is Safe Path for You
God Shares His Lamb With Us
John 1:29-on
Gospel 2
Gospel—Steve Bambauer
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Well, we'll start out with him #7.
God loved the world.
Of sinners.
For her heart.
Or we would have no message this evening, nothing to say. We're thankful for that. Let's ask the Lord's help. Our God, our Father, how thankful indeed we are that He came down. He came down right to where we are, came to us in our need, knowing what would meet Him when he came here, came nevertheless.
To do thy will, which led him all the way to Calvary's tree, went unwavering in love to thee, in love to the Sinner. We're thankful for this, our Father, that we have a message to preach. Salvation is of the Lord now we ask Thy help in it. Our Father, pray that just everybody would be able to hear their hear this evening. We know that one of the main problems appearing is the heart.
Is the imagination, Is the wanderings of the mind. Help us in this, our Father. For each one here to be attentive to this word. May be the last night, our God and Father, yet thou hast preserved in grace.
The opportunity to go forth again with the gospel this evening, and we ask Thy blessing on it in the name of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
His truth endureth to all generations.
Thy law is the truth.
For truth is fallen in the street.
I am the way, the truth, and the life.
The Spirit of Truth will guide you into all truth.
What is truth?
We can do nothing against the truth.
I just read those verses out of the concordance without reference. They may be familiar to you. You have probably heard them. I don't know everybody that's in here.
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How familiar you are with this word?
I will start with three facts of life.
It's important to know the facts of life.
Sometimes you get them from your parents.
Sometimes you don't, and you may have to get them on your own.
Through a lot of trials in life.
It's a wonderful thing to be raised in a Christian home where children hear the truth. Thy word is truth from the ground up.
They come out of the womb and they start hearing mom and dad praying a couple independents in that place of dependence for the child that is born.
And it comes out that way along the way all the way up.
We think of this world.
In its confusion.
You go to college and they say that truth is relative.
We're Speaking of truth, they say. That truth is relative.
The statement denies itself.
Is the statement truth? Is relative absolutely true? Is it absolute truth? It meets itself going the opposite direction. God is true. Christ is the truth.
We look for reality.
Young people look for reality.
Have you started with yourself?
It's not a small problem to look around and see hypocrisy.
In your neighbors and your brothers and sisters, maybe in the assembly, maybe in your parents, if you look hard enough and make up the rules as you go along.
Ultimate reality requires a revelation, otherwise it's unattainable.
We stagger along in a cloud.
In confusion.
A lack of ultimate rosality will will result in just pragma, pragmatism, humanism and secularism and all persuasion is just based.
On eloquence.
And sophistry.
I said that God is.
That's not enough.
Has God spoken?
If God hasn't spoken, we're off the hook. We make up the rules as we go along.
And that is the consequence of a godless society.
God has spoken.
What then is that for the philosophical mind to dabble with? God has spoken.
The first fact is God is.
The second fact is, God has spoken.
The third fact is now we are responsible.
Man is responsible. I thought I would just go over.
Since I mentioned that, God has spoken.
And we'll just read through the scriptures from beginning to end.
I will start with the first verse, the first statement, Genesis chapter one, verse one.
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
Well.
We'll skip a few.
Psalm 118.
Verse 8.
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in Princess.
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OK, well, we're coming to the end.
Let's see what we get there.
How does the book end? Sometimes you pick up a book and you go to the end.
To see how it ends.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Be with you all.
That's a good southern verse. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Hey, man, so be it, I said. God is, God has spoken. We're responsible. It's a good thing.
That the book ends with that statement.
If you go through it a ways, you'll find out that God brings in law and ceremony.
We could go back to the first verse. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
He put man on there.
He created him for a purpose, created him in his likeness and in his image.
Likeness to represent.
That is likeness for communion image to represent.
Likeness.
The ability to communicate with God.
Image to represent him.
How are we doing?
How are you doing?
Have you ever misrepresented God?
At all.
That's why I read the middle verse.
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
You one of them.
Do you have confidence in yourself? The worst sort of confidence is self-confidence.
Well, we might depend upon the president vote for one that we think can pull it out the Prime Minister. I see elections are about to happen up here.
They happen down there and every four years or so.
Somebody figures they've got the answers.
And they want you to put their confidence in that person.
And cast them their vote, student vote. Everybody has their pitch. I see one over there against that wall. Read it before you go out. Here's one over here. Some kind of an affiliation, some kind of an attachment, some kind of a belonging. Our school song. We are from PCI.
I see 4 words, fight, fight, fight.
I just gave you a description of the human condition.
It isn't ready, but they want allegiance. The politician wants allegiance. Somebody wants your allegiance, they probably want your bank account.
Or whatever. And that's the way the system functions.
Now the last verse again.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Now we read in the Gospels.
The second man, the last Adam. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Adam won't do. The politician won't do.
Nobody will do.
The Lord Jesus Christ is our only hope.
Now I want to make this personal.
Started out with the human race.
Let's funnel this down to each individual sitting right here in this room.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Let him down in both image and likeness, in communion and representation.
We misrepresent him every time we sin.
He comes in with law.
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Man sets it up.
Then there is sacrifice.
In case there's broken law.
But things get out of hand.
So the Son of man himself, the Son of God, I should say.
Comes down here.
Takes upon himself the form of a man, and he becomes here a man. God manifest in flesh.
I used to think, well, you know, if God would just come and and tell me what I'm supposed to do and talk to me and help me along, why, I'll be all right. All I need is some instruction. He's already done that.
I didn't respond.
All of the Lord Jesus would have just stayed here. I could have gone over there. I could have joined his little band. I could have listened to his Sermon on the Mount. I could ask him, shall I do this? Shall I go there? Should I do that? And I could get my instruction. I always used to wonder, why did the Lord Jesus go out by way of the cross?
I didn't know.
20 years old, 21 years old, I didn't know.
I was raised in a system that said if you abide in Christ to the end, you'll be saved.
And I wanted to be saved.
I was just honest enough to know I wasn't abiding very well.
And that God would demand perfection, and I didn't have it.
But I didn't know what to do about it.
I didn't know what it meant. Christ loved you and he died for you. I didn't know what it meant. Christ died on the cross. Why? I asked a man once. He asked if I were saved. No, I don't think so. He was kind of startled. I was driving him to a Father son Christian banquet that my father wanted me to go to with him. And I had the day off and I had to go down to the next town and pick him up. And on the way back I knew I was in for it. This man was an evangelist.
He asked are you saved? I said no, why not?
Well, why did the Lord Jesus have to die?
Why didn't you just live here so we could ask him how to behave ourselves?
And he told me something. Surely I heard this before.
But it didn't get down here. It didn't register, didn't assimilate.
He said Jesus had to die because we have sinned and somebody had to bear the penalty for that. Somebody had to pay the price for that.
That was startling to me. I don't think that's startling.
To anybody in here.
But I didn't hear that when I was young. What I heard is if you abide in Christ to the end, you'll be saved.
And I was just honest enough to know that I wasn't.
The book ends as I said, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
That's so comforting. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Turn to the Gospel of Luke.
And the 10th chapter.
Just giving an overview.
From the beginning, went through the middle, got to the end.
We see that under the hand of man and his responsibility and likeness and image the ruin of thanks.
There is no peace. We enjoy affluence in Western civilization, and we have more than we know what to do with it. And it tickles us and we pursue it like a dog after a bone, but it can never give us the satisfaction of the reality and purpose of life.
How that the whole world lies in sin?
And the question that the philosopher always asks why the evil? If God is good, why does he allow the evil?
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They might be able to reckon that man's evil to man is man's responsibility.
And take some responsibility for that.
But why the gratuitous evil?
Why the earthquakes in Japan? Why the tsunami?
All of those things.
Fires.
Romans chapter 8 says The whole creation groaneth and travaileth under this weight of our sins.
Pile them all up from Adam to this very day, and who could measure that?
How many?
Have each of us in this room contributed?
To the railing.
That causes even nature to groan.
Sin has its consequences.
What is the hope?
All of man's organizations.
All of this optimism.
Optimism in education and politics. Forms of government.
Hasn't gotten us anywhere.
That is the broad perspective of this world and its condition today.
And I see.
That I've taken almost 1/2 an hour to get there.
In Luke chapter 10.
And I'll start at verse 30.
The Lord giving a parable here.
I have also spoken unto thee in similitudes, Hosea says. God speaks to us that way.
And now he's going to speak to us in that way in this little parable in Luke chapter 10, beginning at verse 30.
Encapsulate the whole thing that I've been talking about for the last half an hour.
In this little story.
And you can look at this.
As a worldwide problem maybe.
And hide yourself under the umbrella of that.
As if it's a world problem.
But I want you to look at it now.
In a microcosmic way rather than a macrocosmic way, not just a worldview.
But this would Burrow down to each one of us individually.
Jesus answered.
Because he's talking to a man who was willing. Willing. Not just volunteering, but willing. His will is at work here.
That's our problem, to justify himself.
A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho.
Luke, 1030.
Well, Jerusalem was the city of God, and Jericho is the city of destruction.
Adam left the garden when he sinned, A place of bliss, the presence of God.
Everything in order.
And brings in destruction.
And he fell among thieves.
Immediately the first statement leaving Jericho, Jerusalem going to Jericho, he fell among thieves. They stripped him of his raiment, wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead.
By chance there came down a certain priest that way, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side, and likewise a Levite when he was at the place.
Came and looked on him and passed by on the other side.
The law.
By the law comes the knowledge of sin.
No man has kept yet.
Could not save us.
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We got the rules. We didn't keep them. The favored people did not.
There came down a priest that way, and a Levite. The law and the ceremonies couldn't save.
When he was at the place.
Came and looked on him.
Passed by on the other side, couldn't come to where he was, but a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came where he was. Now the Lord Jesus has not only come down.
To remedy the problem of sin here.
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
He'll order it. Judgment will be the mains in the end.
That's the macrocosm. What about each of us?
He bore my sins in his own body on the tree. He bore them. He took the punishment for those sins. Everyone that I've ever committed, everyone that ever will.
You knew them all.
This Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was. That's right where we are. What did it cost him to do that? When he saw him, he had compassion on him.
Went to him.
In 1969 I was sitting in the back of an F4 on the USS Constellation.
The engine was winding up both of them.
To general electrics.
56,000 lbs of thrust.
£88,000 US steel armament.
Strapped and.
Hook down there to the underside. Steam catapult gonna shoot us from 100 from zero to 160 knots and two and 2.1 seconds.
Zero to 160 knots. After that, we're on our own.
Everything better work.
Usually does.
Got to the end of the.
Catapult shot. It's about.
60 yards.
Does that in a hurry.
Speed looked good.
Looked at the side of the ship going off the angle deck.
And it seemed to be rising. Never saw it on that wise made me nervous.
This aircraft is supposed to be rising. Wasn't happening.
Not much time, you know, at 160 knots and you're heading for the Pacific Ocean.
Navy was kind enough to offer us an alternative to give us this ejection seat.
I go off the landing, there's a handle between the legs. Have one hand on that just in case.
Be prepared.
You're gonna have to decide in a hurry.
How much time do you have to decide?
Three score and 10 are by reason of strength 4 score.
To take the provision that God has given for you in your distress, in your sins, judgment looming.
Pull the handle.
The parachute connected to the mark, the seat that I'm on connected to the Martin Baker ejection seat, shoots us up 250 feet into the sky.
You do 2 back flips. I see the stars. Well, it's 8:00 or 8:00 or 9:00 in the evening. It's in the summertime.
Just turning dark, then I see the ship, then I see the sky, and then the parachute pops. Automatic. Good thing.
Flies out, opens up.
Brings me to a sudden stop. By that time I'm going 180 knots plus the ejection speed.
Nobody could survive that impossible situation. One option. Planes going down can't survive it. One option. Good old Martin Baker, good old U.S. Navy thought of it all.
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Parachute deploys. I hear this fearless jerk.
And the water is coming. The Navy provides little, uh, flotation device that's, uh, CO2.
Operated otherwise, it's flat. Pull these two little handles. CO2 cartridges blow up. This little flotation device goes around my waist.
Water is coming on. I pulled those just before I hit the water. Hit the water at A at a pretty good horizontal level and speed. Rolled a few times. Got hopelessly tangled up in my shroud lines. Now my friend is my enemy.
Ship is going by from me to that wall right there. Look up at the flight deck, it's 80 feet up there.
Guys running around.
Throwing flashlights down near where I am so that the helicopter that's right close there can find me in a hurry because it's starting to get dark.
That's what they would do in that case.
Little dark spot is hard to find in a big dark spot. Some of the flashlights are thrown down there and they float.
Ship goes by Mammoth. Impressive.
About 1000 feet long. 5000 people live on there seagoing city.
Hit the prop wash tangled in the back with these parachute lines.
What are we reading about here?
He went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves.
Stripped him of his raiment, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Well, the priest came, the Levite came. Can't be any help.
Certain Samaritan.
The prop was ships me, I go under the water, thought I was going to drown. Looking up through the water, it's just far above me at the top of my head against the flotation devices and everything. Desperate predicament, what will I do?
Well, let's see, where's a good book? What's on television? What I learned in college.
What's going on this evening in town?
And we put it all off.
The predicament is urgent.
The situation is desperate.
Lost in our sins with judgment hanging over our heads. Thought I was going to drown.
Thought my last thoughts were going to be because the week before I carried my previous paycheck home in my flight suit was in there, zipped in the pocket.
And it got thrown in the laundry. Looked all over for that paycheck, couldn't find it.
What did I do with that thing?
Suddenly dawned on me a few days later. Looked in my flight suit pocket, zipped it open, found a bunch of fuzz in there. Kind of green go color of a government check that went through the laundry. Hard to cash. What'll I do? Called up payroll. Oh I'm sorry, we're going to have to wait a month before we replace that check.
You know, it might show up. You lost it. We'll pay you again in a month, but we're gonna have to stop that check.
Get by the best you can all right.
Ships going by, I'm underwater. I see just the light above the surface of the water. By the way, we have this little mask and it's attached to an oxygen container that gives us about 5 minutes of air.
Good Old Navy.
It'll do for a while.
What's on TV?
Situations urgent. Wasn't thinking of that. One of the things that flashed through my mind when I thought I wasn't coming back up. And this can't go on forever. I wonder if Patty will ever get that check.
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I don't know what you think about. That's what I thought about.
Well.
I was saved at that time.
I didn't fear death, but it wasn't my first option.
I enjoyed life at home with my wife. I had objectives down the road, aways, you know, we all do. We're all built that way.
Anyway, the ship went by, popped up above the water, still tangled in the shroud lines.
Ships going off in the distance.
Navy provides a helicopter there.
Sitting up there on all flight OPS, off to the side out of the way, you know?
They're taking this all in. That's their job. They do it well.
As soon as the ship clears, he gets right over me. Now I've surfaced. I don't know if I'm going down again or not, but I've surfaced. I'm trying to untangle the shroud lines that had tangled up in the back of my harness and I couldn't get them loose. I start to try to take the harness off. Click it here. 2 straps here. It's wet. I wasn't getting anywhere. I didn't know if I was going to get free from there or not. Helicopter comes over.
They're polite enough to drop this line down here.
With a harness on it, it's the only way to get up into the helicopter. You have to slide into this thing in a certain way, wrap it around underneath like this so you don't slip out on the way up.
Be careful you don't fall out.
Turn aside along the way is the warning in scripture.
The guy up in the helicopter has got his megaphone. Pilot, get away from your chute.
Was trying.
Can't jump up to that helicopter. It's about as high as the roof is right here above me, flying around, blades throwing up, splash, getting me all wet.
I pushed the harness away.
We're wasting time.
You can't pull me up. I'm tangled in the chute. I would pull that whole helicopter down. God can't take us to heaven in our sins.
Well, the helicopter, the parachute had gotten me that far.
I've done a lot of things I thought had gotten me that far.
I went to college. I had a degree. I did all right in school. I got into the world's second largest Navy.
I was flying the airplanes. I was about to go to war. Second cruise over there. Done one cruise already.
Married things were looking pretty good.
I wouldn't have minded a few more days.
I pushed the harness away, my only option. He pulls it back up, goes up there out of sight.
Swimmer gets in it from up there. He comes back down, he swims around in back of me. He releases the harness. He can see what's going on. You know what he did?
He came right to where I was. That's what he did.
He came right to where I was, the only chance I had.
So did the Lord Jesus.
Came right to where we are.
But unlike the swimmer that came down and freed me from these entanglements.
He risked himself, of course. That was his job description, the swimmer.
Put me in the harness, got me secure free from the chute.
They hoist me up.
All the way up.
All the way home, savior into the helicopter.
Kind of weak by then.
Grab and hold him there trying to crawl in.
The helicopter is moving back to the ship. They'd get a hold of me and they would grab me and make sure I didn't fall out as they run, hooking the harness that they had dropped down to pick me up and take me back up.
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Grabbed a hold of me. She unhooked that harness. He's an all the way home savior. He holds on to us.
Took a hold of what was provided.
And I thought I was pretty good for that.
And you must God has made provision at great cost to Himself.
God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son. Whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life. We have to lay hold of them. We have to take what's been provided. It's our only hope and there is no other way. We're drowning in our sins. We're entangled in the cords of iniquity. We need a Savior like that who has done it all.
They get me in to the helicopter.
They fly me back to the ship.
They land on the ship. The sea of our squadron meets me at the helicopter and escorts me down to the CEO of the ship to his quarters, captain of the ship.
Four stripes up here.
And they bring me into his room. I'm soaking wet.
I'm nervous, I'm cold, I'm shivering.
They have something just for that case. Seal of the ship reaches into his cabinet and he takes a bottle of bourbon and he fills this little shot glass and he puts it before me and I drink it and it's just warm going down. Strong drink belonging to them that are ready to perish is how I thought about that since then.
It calmed me. He wanted a word with me.
What happened?
What went wrong?
And I rehearsed it all with him.
You know the joy of being in glory with the captain of our salvation.
Is to rehearse with him the pilgrim's path here, isn't it? And see all his ways, many of which we never see. We never see them, but they're there. He's an all the way home savior.
He went to him and 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.
I've heard people say that they have enjoyed the thought of the end as the assembly.
There were others there.
Brought there many here, brought in like manner and the happy fellowship that's enjoyed.
You might ask, is it anything to you? Is it precious? Think of the hymns we've sung, the ministry we've had.
The home life that offers stability.
Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Things are not pretty in many homes, in many households, young people, school age. Talk to your classmates. You don't have to nose around. You'll see these things. They'll be exposed to these things, inevitably sorrows.
Difficulties, broken marriages, fighting in the family, except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
All of these blessings, the end, the fellowship of the believers, the stability of the household.
The perspective and vision that's before us. Otherwise, no, you take a step at a time. Otherwise, what's happening in the next step? Where is the next pleasure? Where is the next fantasy? Where is the next delicacy?
That's all it would be to life in your case.
Brings them to the end and took care of him all the way home. Savior.
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And on the Morrow we departed and took out 2 Pence and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him, and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again I will repay thee. We are our brother's keeper and the Lord will repay for that. He takes note of that tender kindnesses, gentleness, attention to others, to be other person minded.
Most of the people in this world aren't that way.
And then says I will reward you for these kindnesses when I return. What a savior we have.
Now which of these three thinkest thou? Was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves? Which of these?
Options that this world has to offer as opposed to what God has provided is to you.
The remedy for one who has fell among thieves.
Fell among thieves. How did we get there?
We had our part.
This is our own doing. This is we got there ourselves. Bad choices, bad decisions.
Walk with the Lord.
He that showed mercy upon him, Christ is our Good Samaritan and has shown such mercy.
To each one of us.
And now the lot is cast into the lap.
The whole disposing of the matters of the Lord. But the lot is cast into the Lamb, and you must decide what you're going to do with the Lord Jesus Christ, who has come right to where we are.
In our extremists and would take us all the way up to the courts of bliss forever and ever.
Hymn #3.
When is the meeting supposed to end? I gone over.
OK, I was gonna say we'll sing verse three, but we'll sing all of verses of, uh, hymn #3.
Nsnoise.
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By 10:00 that night.
Casually assistance calls off the surface of the Navy, whose job is usually a side one, had the privilege of calling my wife at home in the apartment and Patty answered the phone and the voice said, Missus Bambauer, this is the casualty assistance officer. Just wanted to let you know that your husband is all right.
She didn't know anything was wrong, but she was glad to hear it. I hope that we can say of each one here, we can say to loved ones, it's all right. He is safe. O our God and Father, we're thankful for such a provision that thou hast made to us in such a predicament that we got ourselves into.
We pray our Father that everyone in this room has laid hold with both arms and wrapped them around the life vest that's come down to where they are laid hold of Christ eternal life. We pray our Father ask thee now in this last hour and day, day and hour of the feast that thou was watch over each one of us in the travelings and in our the going to our different places in the family life, in the responsibilities we have in relationship.
As brothers and sisters and children and fathers and mothers and husbands and wives and brethren, we thank thee for these relationships, indeed the essence of life sustained by the by the one who has brought us into a relationship with thyself. We thank Thee, our God and Father, in the name of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
Open Mtg. 8
Open—B. Imbeau, B. Prost, D. Rule
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Call Carlisle Bridge.
We also sing hymn #78 in the back of the book.
I'm waiting for thee, Lord, thy beauty to see Lord.
I'm waiting for thee, for thy coming again, and number 78 in the back of the book.
I'm waiting for the more I believe.
Morning or night?
1100.
And 99.
I agree there's been a lot of.
Coming again?
He is now signed by Grace Lord.
May be quiet when thy grave born.
Or greedy are nothing.
Ever my father.
We pray together.
Our blessed, loving God and our Father.
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Do now enter the last, uh, half day of the.
Here at Saint Thomas for this conference.
Under the independence, blessed God and the dear Lord Jesus, with ours ahead over all things to Thy Church, which is thy body. It is so precious to thee, Lord Jesus.
And thou dost know where we are. Thou dost know all about us, individually, collectively.
And they seek to be our God before thee this afternoon, that thou would fly thy Holy Spirit.
Minister.
To thy dear people.
We thank you for the open meeting. We thank thee for thee scriptures that encourage us to have the open meeting.
And now, our God, we seek the leading of thy Holy Spirit, by whomsoever thou wilt to open the Scriptures to us, to point us to Christ, and, uh, to speak to us, we pray.
Whether it be for exhortation, edification, or comfort our God.
Young and old alike in this room we pray for those of our number who have already left and we pray that thou would give them journey mercies and that they may be encouraged in the Lord as a as a result of being at the beach. Thus our God, we look to the independence for this hour that is before us and give thanks in Jesus name, Amen.
Turn with me, please, to the book of Ezra.
The book Book of Ezra, chapter 3.
Before I read.
I'll mention what.
Topic is because we won't actually get right to the topic for just a couple minutes here.
But the topic is the Holy of Holies.
And for anyone who's been around me recently, that's they're probably not surprised.
At that topic.
But Ezra chapter 3 this is the return after the captivity.
Of which there were.
Several phases of the return.
But in the seventh month and the 7th month has come, and the children of Israel were in the cities. The people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
Then stood up Joshua the son, Josadeck and his brethren, the priests and Zrovels and Sheltiel and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses, the man of God. And they set the altar upon his bases, for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries. And they offered burnt offerings there on unto the Lord, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
Uh, let's see here.
And you want to go to verse verse 6, verse six, and halfway through where there's a new sentence, it says, but the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.
Seems like an awkward situation where there was no temple. You know the temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and this is many years later.
Umm, approximately 70 years later, it's actually less than that.
But here they're going to build the what we would think of as the Brazen altar, the altar for sacrifice. And there's no temple associated with it. It would have been in the place, no doubt, or close to where Solomon's temple was built. But, umm, still no temple.
But they had the heart. They had the strength to build the brazen altar and offer sacrifices on it.
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I'd like to suggest and I hope that it will in a minute make sense.
That maybe things look.
Out of order? Maybe Things look incomplete, obviously.
Maybe even things look like, uh, there was some neglect that they didn't do things in a proper course of things.
Because in my mind, which isn't worth a whole lot mind you, but in my mind you think of setting up the temple and getting the arc in place.
And then building out and and maybe a little later on getting the brazen altar in place.
But that's not what happened.
I'd like to lay out.
A little something.
That will be the topic.
And that is that if the temple had been built, OK, which at this point it wasn't, it was built later, at this point it wasn't built. If you remember the layout of the temple, there was a border around it and there was the brazen altar. And if you go in, you did, you then went to the temple and it's always temple. There were doors and you went into a place called the Holy Place and in the Holy Place.
It was like the lamp stand and the table showbread and altered incense.
And if you went and bought beyond, that was the holy of Holies.
A holy of Holies, and in there was the ark.
And then that on that arc was the blood that was put there on the Day of Atonement.
Turn with me please to.
Uh, First Chronicles.
OK, now we're going to go back in time to when.
Actually second Chronicles sorry, when Solomon built the temple.
And you know when Solomon built that temple? The Second Chronicles, chapter 4.
Covers the previous chapter and this chapter.
When Solomon built that temple, he did things in a grand way. Everything was large. There was lots of gold over a place you can imagine. That's why one reason why the Babylonians were happy to get that temple, put all the gold out of it.
But.
In chapter four of Second Chronicles, verse one, moreover, he made an altar of brass, 20 cubits the length thereof, and 20 cubits the breadth thereof, and 10 cubits the height thereof.
Now a cubit is about a foot and a half and so this thing was massive, 30 feet One Direction, 30 feet another, and 15 feet tall. Now this is this is big.
If you go back.
I think it's the previous chapter, chapter 3.
Yes, chapter three of Second Chronicles.
And.
Verse 8.
And he made the most holy house.
The length whereof was, according to the breadth of the house 20 cubits, and the breadth are of 20 cubits.
And he overlaid it with fine gold, according to 600 talents.
And then verse 10 and in the most holy house he made 2 Cherry bombs of image work and overlaid them with gold.
So in chapter 3 we have a description of the Holy of Holies, as we commonly call it.
And you notice the size of it. It's 20 cubits by 20 cubits.
And the altar that was made.
Chapter 4 verse one was 20 cubits by 20 cubits.
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So there's an obvious connection, at least in dimensions, between that all through that without front made out of brass.
And the inner sanctum that we call the Holy of Holies.
Just simply in the size of it.
Now if you want to turn back to the end of Exodus.
And.
Uh, chapter 40.
Yes, that's the last chapter.
We'll notice another connection.
And that's in verse 10, Exodus 40, verse 10, and this is Moses. Now this is going back in time where Moses made the Tabernacle and he made the instruments of it, including the altar of burnt sacrifice, which was the brass altar.
And it goes like this in verse 10. And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar, and it shall be an altar most holy.
In every instance in the King James where you have the phrase Most Holy, it is the phrase Holy of Holies.
It is actually.
Two identical words put together. Holy, Holy.
I call it a double word. It's designed apparently for emphasis in Hebrew. In English we'd say it like this, most holy in emphasis on the holiness. But in Hebrew, apparently they didn't have that. And so it's holy, holy.
And there's a few other words that.
We found that also our double words scattered throughout the Bible, but this one.
Holy holy, The same word used twice, except the second word is always plural.
And the first word is usually singular. And so we have the phrase Holy of holies. That's a very excellent translation of that.
So you and I, we think of the inner part where the arc was and the chair of him over the blood on the mercy seat. We think of that section as the Holy of Holies.
God looked down.
And he saw that section of the temple or the Tabernacle, and he also saw the brazen altar.
Because it's also Holy of Holies.
It's actually a lot of things in the Old Testament that are referred to as the Holy of Holies.
In fact, as we go through the Bible, we find that that term gets expanded and we find that it's a portion of the priests in the millennial time and and is even the whole section of land.
That is given to for the priestly service, which was a very large section of land in the future Ezekiel's temple, and that's called the Holy of Holies also.
So there's the inner part.
There's the brazen altar.
There's the land around at least around Ezekiel's temple, and then way out land around Ezekiel's temple. It's all called the Holy of Holies.
God claimed a lot, didn't he for his own?
So when the people in Ezra's time, all they had the energy to do was to build that brass altar and they and they used it, they sacrificed on there.
And even though the temple was not rebuilt yet with its inner sanctum of the Holy of Holies.
God would have looked down.
And he would have seen the whole story laid out.
Just from having that altar there.
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Also called a Holy of Holies.
You know, we might consider ourselves as being inappropriately so, as being pretty wimpy.
And doing things in incomplete ways and maybe just doing the quote UN quote best we can. I mean that in a good way.
And we wonder what God sees.
God sees more than we do.
Whatever is presented to him.
Is really bears the title of Holy of Holies in God's view?
And we should never be ashamed.
Of being like the people in Ezra's time and only being able to do one thing.
To set up that one altar.
And I'm sure that we know that when they did set up the the foundation of the temple that some shouted and some cried.
They probably cried. I imagine that they probably cried also because.
That foundation that they're going to build in the book of Ezra wasn't nearly as big as what Solomon had, but you know, God had his hand in it and he blessed it.
Mention there's other things that are called Holies holies.
And I'd like to turn to Leviticus.
And I.
Trust I can get the right verses here. Leviticus chapter 6.
Well, there are some verses there, but.
Yeah, uh, sorry, let's go back to Leviticus chapter 2 for a second.
And the remnants of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons. This is verse three of Leviticus.
Verse three. And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons. It is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.
So even the offerings, bringing a meal offering wasn't even a sacrifice with blood. It was, you know, grain. Sometimes it's a sheaf of grains, sometimes it was ground, sometimes it came in different forms and cakes and whatever, but it was bloodless.
Maybe. I might imagine that wouldn't have been so significant, you know, in God's or as significant in God's view. Of course this represents Christ. They all represent Christ.
But God gives it the title.
Holy of Holies.
And a part of that I was given to the Lord, was put on the burnt.
The brazen altar in a place that was holy of holies also.
But this does not stand alone and I hope I can find the verses if not.
You might have to find them on your own here. I think it's.
Yes, chapter 6.
Again, it's talking about the meat offering.
And as verse 17.
It shall not be bacon with leaven. Now this is the meat offering the meal. Offering meat is not as in animal meat, but meat is in food.
Maybe one exception, but I'll use the word always anyway. Always uses the word oblation for meat offerings. So if you're reading from Mr. Darby and you run across the word oblation, it's a it's a meal offering.
OK, verse 17. It shall not be bacon with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy. It is holy of holies, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
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As far as I know.
The Ark of the Covenant is never called Most Holy.
And the burnt offering is never called most holy.
The brazen altar is called Mosuli.
And these that we sometimes consider the more lowly offerings are called Most Holy.
God's view is not our view.
Imagine the thrill in God's heart when they did set up that altar.
Because God could see the big picture.
And he saw what it meant to his heart.
And he refers to it, God refers to it, as a holy hope. Those people Ezra did.
Now, of course, this all looks forward.
To the ultimate, doesn't it?
And so we can turn to Daniel Chapter 9.
And.
If I'm leaving.
It's for a reason because they're loose ends in my mind too so.
If you're gonna ask me questions afterwards, I'll probably shrug and say I don't know.
But it's good to get to the end point and kind of the apex of the whole thing.
Daniel 9 and verse 2470 Weeks are determined upon thy people.
And upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and the prophecy, or actually the prophet, and to anoint.
Here we go, we're at the top.
And to anoint the most holy, this is the Holy.
Of holies this reference using that little double word in Hebrew, Holy Holy. This is the only time it refers to the Messiah directly, Jesus Christ.
This is the end point of all of God's purposes.
This is where the Lord Jesus Christ, where God has been heading towards for centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries, where there's been in strength and glory like in Solomon's time, or whether it's been in weakness in Ezra's time, and whatever way you want to ascribe nowadays.
God's purposes are the same, and that is to exalt and to honor His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and He is called.
The Holy of Holies.
You may bring a simple sacrifice.
Appraise.
God just in that, sees the work of his Son in your heart and goes back to the work of the sun on Calvary's cross, the sacrifice that made it all possible.
The sacrifice that will forever bring honor and glory to the Lord Jesus Christ. Certainly a sacrifice that we would call a most holy one, wouldn't we? Holy of holies, but in His.
He is the Holy of Holies and.
God looking forward as we are as well to that day when He will be anointed as the Holy of Holies in this world.
Don't hesitate. Never should we hesitate to bring our prayers and praises to Him. God values it even in weakness. Whether it's small or the day of weakness makes no difference.
Just think of the people as we're setting up that altar.
God looked at it and.
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That message, I must say, struck a chord in my own heart.
Perhaps we could carry on in a similar way.
I don't think there's anyone here this afternoon that would deny that we're living in the last days.
And there are a good many of us as a result.
Shall we say it out loud that are hurting?
Maybe for various reasons, maybe from different circumstances.
But we're hurting.
It's a difficult day.
We're seeing events all around us.
In every way that are causing distress. First of all, outwardly in this world, things that are affecting all men.
And if you're anything like me?
We almost take to boot up your computer in the morning.
For fear of what else is going to have happened in the world.
What new natural disaster has taken place? What new?
War has started. What new difficulty has surfaced even in?
Favored lands like Canada and the United States and Western Europe.
And bringing it closer to home.
How difficult it is on top of all that to hear of serious difficulties among the people of God.
And I speak in a general way.
Because our hearts ought to ought to go out to every true child of God, and every member of the body of Christ.
But there are things, of course, that we don't know about.
As our brother Eric Smith used to remind us, he said God gave us limited eyesight and limited hearing, Otherwise we would be overwhelmed by the.
Shall we say the cascade?
The overwhelming waves of sorrow that are in this world.
And it is the attempt of Satan to try and discourage everyone of us.
Whether you're young or whether you're old, yes, he knows how to attack in different forms and in different ways.
Maybe you look at somebody else and say he doesn't seem to have any problem, at least not compared to mine.
Or maybe we see someone else who is appearing to be consumed with sorrow, and we say in our hearts, they don't know what we are. They don't know what real trouble is. They had to be in my circumstances. Then they'd really have something to cry for.
Could we turn in that connection to an Old Testament scripture again?
Job Chapter 28.
Job 28 and verse seven and eight verses 7:00 and 8:00.
There is a path.
Which no foul north, and which the vultures eye hath not seen.
The lions whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
I guess I'm not very big on watching videos.
Occasionally it's interesting to see a documentary on nature.
And recently my wife and I looked at a documentary that had been made by the National Geographic Society at great expense and a lot of time involved too.
On life on this earth.
And it was fascinating to see the way wildlife lives.
They had taken tremendous pains to go into all kinds of situations, from one end of the globe to the other in order to photograph, sometimes on land, sometimes on water, sometimes underwater.
To show how wildlife interacts on this planet.
The one thing came through loud and clear, whether it was up in the Arctic, whether it was in the temperate zones in which we are right now, whether it's in the tropics, whether it's in the oceans, on the surface, under the sea.
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Even down in the Antarctic.
One thing was common to everywhere.
Just about everybody, every animal of every kind.
That was, shall we say, capable of reasonable thought, if we could use that. That's not a very good term. I better rephrase that. That was capable of looking at its environment and reacting to it.
Everyone had to be on the lookout for a predator of some kind.
Even the Penguins in the Antarctic. Excuse me.
The Penguins in the Antarctic huddled together there amid the snow and everything at 70° below 0.
But as soon as it started to warm up and they took to the water, they had to be aware of this seal. Great big fellow that had been lurking around all winter, living off the fat on his body, waiting to nail them as soon as they went into the water for those beautiful coral reefs that you would see in the tropics.
Everybody was on the lookout because some kind of predator was out to get.
Him or her?
That's the way it is today with you and me.
The devil's got his predators out there. They're working overtime. And the whole effort of Satan, he knows he can't take away your salvation and mine, but the whole effort of Satan is so to reduce you and me.
That basically it'll be as the Lord Jesus said, and I know it's not in its essence referring to our day, but the principle is there. Satan's whole effort is to be able, if he can, to bring to fruition the words of the Lord Jesus. When the Son of Man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
But here in the book of Job, I believe we find tremendous encouragement. There is a path, and I would say that to each one of us here this afternoon, young or old, again, I'm going to reminisce a little bit. Some of us do that maybe too much. But I can remember how precious this was to my own soul when a brother stood up and ministered on it, probably well over 50 years ago now, and what it meant to me when he sat there.
Is a path.
And it's interesting with what that path is connected here. Notice the imagery in verse one. Surely there is a vein for the silver and a place for gold where they find it. Iron is taken out of the earth and brass is molten out of the stone, and so on.
He that is the miner satteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection the stones of darkness.
And the shadow of death, the flood, breaketh out from the inhabitant. That is, he doesn't. If he doesn't watch it, he'll land in a gush of water that he didn't know was there. Even the waters forgotten of the foot don't step in those waters normally on earth, but go underground. And there they are. They are dried up, they are gone away from men. As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and under it is turned up, as it were, fire. The stones of it are the place of sapphires and at half dust of gold.
Referring back to those videos.
Sometimes it made me feel a little sad.
Because there they had actually a helicopter with a camera attached to the underside of it, and that camera had lenses of such.
Magnitude that they could capture something over a kilometer away as if you were standing right next to it, so that they could photograph action without the animals even realizing that there was anyone doing it.
And there were those who tried to escape from predators.
Sometimes they made it, sometimes they had a narrow escape.
Sometimes they didn't make it.
All too often they didn't make it. All too often, whether it was a bird of prey or whether it was another animal on four legs or whatever it had or something that swam in the sea, it had the ability and the strength and the speed to catch up with whatever it was after.
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Some of it was almost heart rending to watch.
Because those who were photographing in photographing it in no way tried to intervene with what was happening, they just let it happen.
But there is a place.
Of safety.
And I say to you and to me, God has a place of safety for you and me. Today there is a path.
Says here in verse seven there is a path which no foul knoweth.
Birds of prey, a hawk or an eagle that swoops around way up in the sky there. But they tell me they have tremendous eyesight and they can look down on the earth from that great height and see something even as small as a chipmunk or even a mouse.
And I have seen them do it sometimes out the back of our home where you'll see a hawk hovering around up there.
And then all of a sudden he pulls his wings in and comes down like a bullet. And you know very well he saw something and got it.
And usually there's no escape because he comes so fast and so silently that the poor animal on the ground pretty much has no chance to get away.
There is a path which no foul knoweth. You know the fowls in scripture are unclean.
The fowls in Scripture, Now I know there were clean birds. I don't mean to imply that there were not clean birds. But in general, the fowls in Scripture speak of that which is evil, that which is against the mind of God.
You'll remember that the grain of mustard seed grew into a great tree, and it says the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches of it. Those are those evil teachers, sad to say, in much of Christendom today, who are taking a place they never could have had if the grain of mustard seed hadn't become a great tree. And that's only one example.
You'll remember the good seed that was sown by the wayside. It says the birds came and devoured it up.
But there is a path which no foul knoweth.
And you know there is a path where that bird of prey cannot attack you. There is a path which no foul knoweth.
And I want to emphasize where this path is, because you say, well, do I have to go underground to get it? Is that the thought?
No, I believe the thought is here that in order to have the precious things of Christ, you may have to work for them.
A miner has to go underground and work to get that silver and that gold or even that iron out of the ground. It is a process that takes a good deal of effort and it takes spiritual energy. And I say to you and me today, it's wonderful to come to a conference like this. I enjoy it so much. It's wonderful to sit here, sit down and have fellowship with brothers and sisters from all over the country. And a number of countries, of course, are here.
Wonderful.
But then we go back home and all of the problems and the difficulties and the hurts and the things that are not right are still there. And as our brother Bruce has been bringing before us, you and I are living in the days when everything is not being done the way it should. And if we're not careful, Satan will use that and say, see that that isn't right. You can't go along with that or you can't have fellowship with that, No.
That's not right.
There are things that need to be stood up for.
If it comes down to the person and work of Christ as we have had before us in the readings, there can be absolutely no compromise whatsoever. There can be no compromise with what is due to our blessed Savior and to God our Father.
But we are living in days when everything we say procedurally is not being done the way it should.
And the devil uses that to discourage the Saints and to say.
You don't. You can't go along with that.
It becomes very difficult sometimes, doesn't it?
And I have had contact with a number of individuals in the fairly recent path, all of whom had decided that they could not walk with any group of Christians whatsoever on the face of the earth. One man I addressed very pointedly in an e-mail and he refused to answer me, but his actions and the way he walked spoke loud and clear. There is no group of believers anywhere on the face of this earth with whom I can be identified because.
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They're all wrong.
There is a path. God will have a path for faith right to the end. Not only an individual path, but a collective 1.
And in that path that is described here, not only can the fowl not see you.
Not only can those eagle eyes not catch you, but you will find those precious treasures that God has for you. It may have to be more individual. It's wonderful to come to a conference like this. And if there were things that were said that sometimes were a little difficult and a little over the heads of some here.
I apologize on behalf of those of us that took part.
Sometimes we don't always put it out in a way that it should be, and we don't excuse ourselves, but the point is.
It's wonderful to come together and to hear Christ exalted.
And I can tell you from the bottom of my heart that when I was the age of some of you young people, I sat in meetings like this. And I have to confess to you that I watched the clock too.
And what was the most disgusting was when it went on for 10 minutes after the hour instead of stopping on the hour. They don't do that anymore, but they did in my day.
But I remember what was said.
And if I quote to you from some of our older brethren, a lot of it I took in.
When I was still a teenager or in my 20s, and even though I didn't understand it, I remembered it.
Because I was there.
Some cases, of course, it wasn't my choice to be there, but I'm thankful I was brought there.
There is a path which no foul north in which the vultures. I have not seen vulture. What's a vulture? Nobody likes vultures. Ugly creatures, aren't they?
This may bring a smile to your lips, especially those who remember them. But when my late father-in-law, Albert Hayhoe was alive, he liked to go down to southern Mexico to the general meetings in Oaxaca.
And he loved the outdoors and he loved to walk, and so he would do his best to try and walk to and fro from the conference there instead of making use of some kind of a donkey or horse on which to ride.
But age caught up with them, as it is with some of the rest of us.
And one time when he had done his best to walk up to the top of a hill, he was just totally out of breath. And as he lay there on the top of that hill, sucking in great gas of air.
He closed his eyes because the sun was bright.
And when he opened his eyes, to his horror.
What did he see?
Down it was coming, this big black ugly Buzzard, closer and closer.
What happened? The Buzzard thought he was dead. He was coming in to get first, first take on it on the body. Well, as you may well imagine, he'd soon be stirred himself in. The Buzzard immediately decided that no, I have to go somewhere else.
That's what the devil wants to do with you and me. And I say to my own heart, as I say to each one here this afternoon, the devil is trying to make you and me appear as if we were dead Christians.
Because the vultures don't prey on anything that's clearly alive and well, they prey on something that's dead or well on the way to becoming dead.
And they're waiting to get in there. But there is a path where the Vulture not only can't attack you, he hasn't seen you. And that path is in the pathway of following Christ with a full heart.
Verse 8.
The Lions whelps have not trodden.
If you notice Mr. Darby's translation, I like the way he puts it, he says in a footnote. I think he says this expression the lion's whelps.
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Could read the proud beasts.
Proud beasts.
Oh, this is another problem that's sad to say is liable to be in our hearts today. And allow me to speak very plainly, because everything I can tell you from the bottom of my heart that I am talking about this afternoon, I have had to work through in my own soul. I am not laying this on the conscience of anyone else or on your hearts as if I haven't had to work through it. And I'm still working through it.
Let's say it that way, the proud beasts have not trodden it.
If there is, on the one hand, the danger of Christians.
Going along so much with the current of this world that to all outward appearances.
They appeared dead.
There is the other alternative, which perhaps in one sense is even worse, and that is saying I can do it.
I will not be overcome by circumstances. I will not be overcome by the current of things around me. I will not be carried down by the condition of Christianity that is going on today. I can walk that path.
And coupled with that there is a serious error.
And it's not a new one and I've quoted this before.
George W Heaney, whom of course I never knew, and I suppose it's fair to say no one else in this room ever did, because he has been with the Lord. Now, for I stand corrected on the actual time, but it's getting close to 100 years, so I suppose it's safe that no one here knew him. But he said that when he was a young man he wanted to be a great man in the world, and after he got saved he wanted to be a great man in the Church of God.
He said I had to learn that both were wrong.
Oh, there is the tendency when there is failure.
For any spark of desire to go on for the Lord.
To be used in the wrong way by the devil who says get in there and straighten things out. You've got the ability, you've got the strength.
O the Lord values you young people today, and if I can speak to you for a moment, it does my heart so good to see you here this afternoon. It does my heart to see so many of you that put yourselves out, spent your money, took time off school or work to come to the conference, even if you could only make it for part of the time.
I can relate to that.
We did it too. We did it too. Sometimes, I'm ashamed to say we even made inquiries to see who would be at the conference depending on who was going to be there was that May Our efforts to get there were dependent on that. And I can remember a certain brother who is now with the Lord and some here can relate to it, that if Paul Wilson was going to be at the conference, we young people would break our necks to get there because we like to hear him.
Speak.
He related to young people.
But that wasn't a good reason to come. But I'm glad you're here because you want to go on for the Lord. I know you do.
We can't do it in our own strength.
And if you and I have any atom of pride in our hearts, and I've got plenty of it myself, the Lord's going to work you through it and take it out of you one way or another.
If you want to follow the Lord with a full heart, he's going to say to you, as it were, I can't use you.
Until you deal with that. Now, I'm not saying that we ever deal with it perfectly. Of course we don't. At least I don't.
But let's never think we can do it in our own strength. And if we think we can, the Lord will bring us right down to the bottom where we have to say, Lord, I can't, I can't go off. And then we find as the apostle Paul did, when I am weak, then am I strong?
That talks about in verse 8, the end of the verse, nor the fierce lion pass by it. The fierce line. What's the fierce line? Oh, the fierce lion is Satan. And the devil is out there to attack you and me today as he never did before.
We know there's a day coming when he will be cast out of heaven.
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And it records there concerning that time that he comes down to the earth with great wrath.
Because he knows that he has for a short time. Oh yes, the devil is intelligent as to prophecy. And when it happens at that particular time, he knows very definitely that his time to go about and deceive people and carry on in that way is numbered. And he knows exactly how long he has. And he comes down with great wrath. And as a result, there is that time which Scripture calls the great tribulation, a time that will be so terrible that if God didn't shorten it.
Man would begin and finish by annihilating himself.
The devil seems to be redoubling his efforts because I think he can see.
The Lord setting the stage for the judgments that are about to fall in this world and the devil is not stupid.
If man looks on the events such as the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
For all of the unrest in the Middle East.
Or the difficulties and problems that are occurring, Tornadoes, floods, droughts, tremendous problems of every kind.
Satan knows full well that God is speaking to man, and perhaps in an increasing way.
Now we hasten to say that what we see today is literally nothing compared to what will happen after the Lord comes, when the Spirit of God is taken away, and when the full unleashing of man's hatred and enmity against God with all the power of Satan and nothing to curb it.
Is released.
But nevertheless, I believe what we are seeing today, the devil knows full well that God is starting to work as the time of the end approaches.
And there are many dear believers that are being caught by that fierce lion.
An awful thing.
The lion is an apartment description of Satan.
Because they tell me those that understand and know lions that they're unlike most other beasts of the earth. There is just about no other animal that will ever molest a lion. And if a lion chooses to lie down under a tree, he can safely go to sleep because in modern terminology, nobody messes with him.
And he has an ability that is uncanny.
Back well over 100 years ago, they were trying to build a railway across what is now the country of Uganda and Africa.
The British were trying to build it, and they employed hundreds of workers of various kinds, and they had engineers and people there to supervise, and they were very capable. But they had a terrible problem with lions. They had a terrible problem because most of those workers had to remain in tents, and those lions were so uncanny they would surround those tents with huge rings of thorns.
Cut down thorn bushes with huge thorns on them. Not the little itty bitty thorns that we see here in North America, but huge things I understand. Surround the whole camp with these rings of thorns. Post guards of every kind.
Yet that lion would get through, and so noiselessly that nobody heard him.
And he would come right into a tent sometimes where a number of men were sleeping.
And that lion would come in.
Lay hold on a man, take him out of the tent.
Do it all so quietly and so swiftly that the poor man, the poor victim, never uttered a sound and the others in that tent didn't even wake up.
For even a husband and a wife sometimes would be in that tent, and the lion would come in, take the husband away, and the wife would wake up an hour later and look, and the cop beside her was empty.
The Lion had got him.
Very apartment description.
Those lions are now.
In the big museum there in downtown Chicago.
They got them eventually, but it was an incredible job to get them.
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Those lions still have on their hides that have been preserved to a taxidermist the marks on them of having gone through those thorns. But they could do it. And I say to you today, that is an apartment description of Satan to day.
There is a path where the fierce lion, it doesn't say, can't get you, doesn't even pass by it. Oh, isn't that encouraging? Doesn't even pass by it.
You never yet saw a lion go underground, did you? He doesn't do that. No, that's not part of his game. Yes, there are animals that go underground after their prey, like a ferret go right down a hole after a bunch of rats. Because he can do it.
Lion can't do that. Go down underground, you can't get you. And I say to you and to me, God has preserved a path, not merely a -1 but a +1.
Because if we're in that path.
Not only are we preserved from these attacks.
But we're going to find those veins of silver and gold, those precious stones.
Or that iron, those wonderful things of Christ that are typified by these minerals that are underground. God is ready to reveal them to you and me. And as I have said before, no one ever in the history of the church had any advantage over you and me individually as to the enjoyment of Christ.
There is no reason why anyone in this room can't enjoy the Lord just as much as the Apostle Paul did, or as Peter did, or John.
Or any other one whom you care to name, any Christian that you can think of that walk before the Lord.
Some of us were talking at dinner the other day about some dear brethren that have gone before. We were talking about James B Dunlop from eastern Ontario, a man much used to the Lord, a man I wish I could have met.
There's no reason why you can't enjoy the Lord as much as he did, or any other brother or sister you can think of. The Lord is the same.
Remember.
One last comment.
It's wonderful to come together.
To have an assembly gather to the Lord's name, and I believe with all my heart that God is going to preserve that until the end.
But remember, Christianity is not characterized so much by what it finds as by what it brings.
If all you have are those coming to the assembly as takers.
That's like a bunch of dead Christians where the vultures have a field day.
God looks for live fish. God looks for live Christians. God looks for energetic Christians.
Who want to follow him with a full heart.
And then when we want that we have that desire, we find the Lord says, all right, you're living in a difficult day. You're living in a very hurtful days. And I don't take away from it, but there is a path. There is a path and the Lord is going to preserve it to you and me right till the end.
On my heart to bring together some thoughts connected with the reading meetings that we've been having together, to look at some of the truth connected with what we have in John One with a little bit of a larger perspective, perhaps that we might enjoy it in its context. Turn with me to umm, Exodus chapter 12.
We all know the story of Exodus chapter 12 about the Passover and the Passover lamb.
And John's gospel is about the Passover lamb.
Here in Exodus 12 as we read.
Verse three. Speak 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 for an house. And 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 account for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish a male of the first year. You shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats.
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And you shall keep it up until the 14th day of the same month. And the whole 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.
So here we have the instructions to the children of Israel concerning the Passover lamb.
Umm, it's not hard to visualize. Suppose you were there and these instructions have been given to you as a father or a mother in a household, and your oldest child, a boy or a girl, is there with you. And you say to the child, let's go out to the flock and, uh, choose the lamb.
To fulfill this requirement upon us. And so you go out and you look at your flock to choose the lamb, to identify the one that is to be put to death and whose blood is to be put on your.
Door across the top and the sides.
You go out carefully and you look at each animal of the flock to find the appropriate one. They had to be a male. It had to be in the first year of life. It had to be without blemish. And you perhaps the one who's going to fall under the sentence of death if the appropriate lamb is not found. Look very carefully together, one by one through your flock, and you get to the end of the flock and you say.
Don't have one?
Don't have one?
We can't provide one.
Every single one of the lambs that are in our flock here fall short of the requirement that is given to us.
So you.
Caring about the situation, you say let's go next door to our neighbor and let's see if we can share with our neighbors lamb and you go next door to your neighbor and you.
Say, how's it going? Do you have your lamb identified?
And your neighbor says, you know, I went into the flock, my flock, and I've looked over it very carefully. And I, I can't find a lamb that meets the necessary requirements to protect. And there was the provision made that if the household was too small then for its own lamb, it could share it. But no lamb is found to be shared.
And in the type, the picture that is presented to us here, where does it finally come? It says in verse.
Eight or six, and the whole assembly of the congregation shall kill.
Yet.
It just one.
Just one.
In the what's presented to us here, there was only going to be found one lamb.
That matched the test to be the sacrifice.
I didn't have one. You didn't have one. Our neighbor didn't have one.
We weren't able to provide what was required of God.
When the Lord passed through in judgment, we couldn't say, well, we're believers, we're all right, we're not Egyptians. This was to shelter from righteous judgment that every single soul deserved. Really, the Egyptians were no worse, as far as that goes, than the Israelites were. They were.
The Israelites were no more safe than the Egyptians.
Unless they had the lamb, they all needed it.
I'll take Abraham and Isaac.
As we had it in Sunday school this morning, there was to be with Abraham.
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The instruction given.
Go take Isaac.
To the mountain. And so they start out. And as we had this morning, Reggie presented, uh, Isaac says to his father. Well, where's the lamb?
And he gets the answer, and I'm going to quote the new translation God shall provide.
For himself a lamb.
For a burnt offering.
Oh, somebody can provide a good lamb.
Somebody's able to provide a good lamb.
God himself.
And no other can provide it.
We won't go into that side of things, but in a certain way it was necessary for God himself to have a lamb.
For his glory, and the satisfaction of his glory in a world that had dishonored Him by sin.
God shall provide for Himself lamb or burnt offering.
Will he share it?
Will they share it?
We know the answer.
We had no lamb.
We had no means of protection from the Holy judgment of God.
God provides the Lamb.
For the burnt offering.
And he shares it.
In John's Gospel.
Is the sharing of the lamb. Let's go to the chapter where we have been meditating together in first John. I mean, sorry, John, chapter one.
John 1 just introduced these thoughts. I hope you'll read John's gospel through and see the details of them. John one and 29. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. And verse.
Umm.
It's a little verse 36 and looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, behold the Lamb of God. This is the identification of the Lamb.
Is he going to pass the test? Here he is. He's presented to us by God. Here's my lamb.
Look at them. Behold him.
It was then said that after the lamb was identified as he's identified for us here, he was to be kept alive.
To the 14th day of the month and from the 10th to the 14th today, they were to make sure that the lamb was the right one, the good one, the one that could pass the test, that it could be offered to as the sacrifice.
That's John's gospel.
As you go through John's gospel, you are beholding the Lamb from the 10th to the 14th day.
You are beholding Him to see for your own soul.
Is he without blemish?
Is he without spot? Will his blood shelter from the holy?
Righteous wrath of God.
If we have time, we'll go backwards and see a little detail, but go to the end if you will turn to.
Chapter 19.
Here's the final presentation on the 14th day.
John 19.
Verse 5.
Well, read verse 4. Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, behold the Lamb, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.
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It's as if we have the testimony even here of Pilate and he says I see no fault in this lamb.
Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, and Pilate saith unto them, Behold.
Demand.
The Lamb.
Does he pass the test?
Can he be offered?
On the mount.
It's been commonly reported that the amount on which Abraham offered up Isaac is Mount Moriah, on which the Lord Jesus was crucified.
Be that as it may, hear the Jews say.
Verse seven. Here's their answer. We have a law.
And by our law, he ought to die. Why? Because.
He made himself.
The Son of God.
The Lamb.
Of God.
That's who he was.
That is the ground on which He is to offer himself and not other the Lamb.
God no other could be the Lamb in John chapter one when it says, behold the Lamb which taketh away the sin of the world. We have the person connected with the work.
The person, the Lamb of God, the work, that which takes away the sin of the world. And to do so.
It then says, behold the lamb, because it's the lamb. It's the quality of the lamb, it's the perfection of the lamb that can sustain the work.
If the Lamb isn't who he is, the Son of God, he could not be the sin bearer.
None short.
Of himself could bear the load of sin.
The Son of God.
To deny him that place is to deny him the right. Really.
The pro. The proper pro.
Provision to be the Lamb. If he wasn't the Son of God, he couldn't do it.
Adam and innocence we before he sinned, He didn't have any sins of his own, but he couldn't have been the Lamb. He couldn't have sustained the wrath of God and his person as the Lord Jesus did.
Just time passes quickly, but just one more end of the story comment that's.
I feel in my own soul, and that is.
Verse 17 And he bearing his cross, went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha. This is the only gospel that records it this way, and I believe it's necessary to do it this way.
He has to do it alone.
You can't have any support in it.
Every step of the way in John's Gospel is a step toward this point.
In the 12Th chapter of the Gospel, there's a very significant chapter in connection with Him as the Lamb, and we see several statements that he makes in that chapter.
Is it's by contrast, Sometimes there's similarity, wonderful similarity in Abraham and Isaac, and sometimes the story is seen by the contrast.
Isaac as a lad had no clue what was happening. That's why he asks his father the question. But this lamb, by contrast, knew every step of the way that he was coming one day closer and over half of this gospel is the last six days of his life, and he the intensity of the pressure upon his soul increases daily through the last half of the gospel.
And says Chapter 12 begins six days before the Passover, and here he is in Jerusalem to be seen, to be held for those of faith who would say, yes, this is my lamb. And he goes forward to it. But he says, now is my soul troubled and what shall I say? He had a full plea, complete knowledge of that which was before his soul. And so in our meditations, in the reading meeting, we're seeing him as the identification of his person.
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But as you trace it through the rest of the gospel, you get the fullness.
Of the story.
One other thing that it's not time to go through all the parts, but another thing is so important to see in John's gospel is the connection between the Lamb and the Light.
The Lamb and the Light.
He's introduced to us as we had in our meditation, the light was the light of men. And then in that chapter it says.
He bears away the sin of the world. Sin is what brings darkness. Darkness is connected with sin, and men were in darkness because they were sinful creatures.
And the lamb is the light that comes into the place of darkness. And so just quickly to go to back to the 12Th chapter to at least introduce it to you for your own meditation in chapter 12.
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Verse 35 Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while as the light with you, walk, while you have the light, less darkness come upon you. For he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. Well, you have the light, Believe in the light, that you may be the children of light. These things spoke Jesus, and departed, and hid himself from them.
Here it's being brought to the crisis point and he is reminding them of a truth that is woven throughout the gospel and its She is light.
And it's the light that can dispel the darkness. It is the person who is light that can bear away the sin of the world. They, many of them were blinded to it because a blind person doesn't see the light. And they said we see. And he had to say then your sin remains in the case in the Chapter 9 where you have the lights and the darkness brought together in the blind man and how he's liberated.
And gets to see the lamb and in faith. But here it's it's brought out and and this lamb is the light and it's the light that is going to dispel the darkness of the whole world. And when the story comes to its conclusion, well, let's go to the conclusion to conclude of it. Go to revelation. The same writer to make the same connection for us. God is used.
Revelation chapter 21.
Here's the lamb again, taking us on toward the end of the story and its conclusion, and his connection with Light.
In Revelation chapter one.
This is our destiny, brother. It's our connection with the Lamb. He's born, He's SE, he's, he's delivered us from the judgment In John's epistle, which goes from the Gospel to the epistle to the Revelation and his epistle, he says in chapter 2, the light's passing. I mean, the darkness is passing.
It, it was going on toward the conclusion and John could see it. And he says the darkness is passing because the light was now shining in souls. The darkness is passing because there's light within the souls of we trust all but most at least of this room. And when that when all sin is removed, they're all darkness will be removed. There will be no night in heaven.
I don't believe there'll be night on Earth.
In eternity, but here in chapter 21 and verse 22 it says, and I saw no temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb.
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Is the light thereof.
The Lamb is the light thereof. The Lamb is the perfect outshining of the glory of God for eternity. The Lamb is that light that you and I will gaze upon for eternity to the perfect overflowing satisfaction of the way God has made us as His children. We will gaze upon the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ in perfect.
Eternal.
Light.
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We were crying.
Tomorrow like one.
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Well, we're going to do that.
Again of the land.
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Son and our father, we just thank you for the time that we've had together. We just thank you for, umm, the privilege of looking at the land and how he just stalls the darkness.
We just think of that beautiful day that's coming and we're gonna be in heaven and enjoying his company forever.
And we know that those things, some things might go over our head today and that day everything will be as clear as crystal and we'll be able to focus and, and know for sure, Umm, as we are known, we just pray as, uh, we're here today and umm, tell others to come. We just pray that I'll keep us going on for thee. We just pray that we wouldn't be taken away with the course of this world, but instead we try to focus on me and.
Try to lay down our lives for our brethren.
Let's pray that we're gonna be taken away with the spirit of change either, Lord, and you know, Obama's going for that now and others. We just pray, Lord, that we just be humble in ourselves and Lord, that we'd have a real desire to.
Feed thy sheep and.
Have peaceful waters for nice sheep to drink.
We just pray for.
Blessing for the rest of the conference. We just pray for real food, for a little land, for the ones that don't really know, and we're the ones that need to be protected.
Just earnest, earnestly pray for this. We ask these things in Jesus worthy and precious name, our name, Amen.
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