Sully Conference: 1988
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Abraham Pt. 1
Address—G. Hayhoe
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Indeed, eternal counsel before the world was made, before its deep foundation, on nothingness were laid. God purposed us for blessing, and chose us in His Son to Him to be conformant, when here our course was run 141.
Speak this afternoon a little bit about the Church of God, and about its expression as God has planned it to be. We return first of all to Matthew chapter 16.
Matthew 16 and verse 13.
And when Jesus came into the coast of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Putin demands say that I, the son of Man AM. And they said some say that thou art John the Baptist, some Elias and others Jeremias are one of the prophets.
He saith unto them, For whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father, which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter. And upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Well, I say again, how wonderful that God should have made known his counsels and purposes to us. We know that he had councils and purposes for the blessing of the nation of Israel, and he's going to fulfill those councils in the coming day. Israel are yet going to be the center Jerusalem, the city of the great king, and all the nations will be blessed in association with Israel when the Kingdom is set up, and they'll have to come up from year to year to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
But when Israel were chosen, they lost the sense of this and division took place in their tribes, as we know many of them. Ten of them left God center that he had established at Jerusalem and were scattered. And then eventually the two tribes too were taken down to Babylon. God in his grace gathered back a little remnant in the time of Malachi, in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah.
But weakness was among them too. But then the Lord Jesus came, And as we know, He was born of the seed of David of the tribe and the tribe of Judah. And there he was the one who had come to confirm the promises made under the fathers, the Scripture says. And all those promises centered in God's beloved Son. And as I say, they rejected him. But God hasn't forgotten his promises, and he is going to bring Israel into blessing another day.
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But I'd like to speak particularly today the vote of God is doing now, and we see in this Gospel of Matthew that that it's often spoken of as.
Dispensational and that is God had patience with that nation, waited from the call of Abraham till the coming was of Christ was almost 2000 years, while God waited in patience and that nation went on as it did. There was however, a little remnant when the Lord Jesus was born.
And we know that he was taken there to Jerusalem. And there were those ones who were waiting, Simeon and Anna, Elizabeth and Anna and Mary. They were walking in godliness. Let's not be discouraged rather than when things are weak, because we can always go by the word of God. I think it's so commendable what it says about Elizabeth and his wife. It says they were walking, and all the commandments of the Lord blames.
Well, that nice one, there was so much confusion and breakdown. Here were those who were just simply seeking to please the Lord. And Simeon had the great joy at that time of seeing the Lord Jesus brought into the temple, and Elizabeth and Anna being the ones for whom John the Baptist was born to announce the coming of the Lord Jesus.
But in America's gospel, we see that the Lord presents himself to the nation of Israel.
As their king, but they wouldn't have him. They even went so far as to say that the works that he did were by the power of Satan. What a terrible thing that was. That was what the scripture calls the unpardonable sin, to see all those glorious works that he brought, and to say that he did them by the power of Satan, by what further testimony could be given. They had rejected that brilliant outshining of grace in the person of Christ.
Was Satan how terrible?
When I see the Lord the 13th chapter, he goes out of the house and he gives those seven similitudes. He sold seeds for a new crop and tells what is going to happen consequently on their rejection. And now he come to the 16th chapter. We have the first mention in the Bible of the Church of God, That is the Church of God as we know it today. The word church just means assembly.
And there was an assembly in the wilderness, but it was not the Church of God. It was not that which we have in Christianity, with a glorified Christ at the head of it, until the Lord announces this. Here Peter makes a confession of who the Lord is. Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Everything is built upon that, as Peter says in his epistle, other foundation Can no man lay than that is laid which is.
Jesus Christ. He's the foundation and believers are living stones. Remember that turned all the scriptures. But in First Peter chapter two he says he also has living stones or build up a spiritual host, an holy priesthood to OfferUp spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament there was a temple. It was built with physical stones cut under the quarries and placed into that temple.
Says there was number sound heard in the building. There was a quiet work that was going on, but they were real stones. But now the church in Christianity is not a physical building. This building here is not a church. It's a convenient meeting place, but that's all the church is, people, and they're viewed in two different ways. In the Bible, the church is viewed as a building and it's viewed as the body of Christ, as a building.
The thought is brought before us of responsibility in connection with the body of Christ, its relationship.
And the enjoyment of the gracious provision that has been made by the head of the body, which is Christ. It's viewed in those two different ways. And what is the building to? It's viewed with man as the builder. Here it's not man as the builder, but it's Christ as the builder. I say that because the Lord says here I will build my church. And that's why Ethan and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
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When men bring people into a position of profession, accept their profession, and identify themselves with the Christian testimony, why, Sometimes they're not real. But the Lord will never build 1 into His Church of who is real, and all the powers of darkness can never pluck a child out of the hand of a Good Shepherd, or remove a living stone for God from God's building. The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
There was a warning when man was the builder to be careful, that is, he's told, we're told in First Corinthians 3 that when man with the builder he built in wood, hay and stubble, and the day he cleared it, there are many people imprisoned them that have taken the profession of being part of the Church of God, perhaps been baptized, perhaps joined some system of man, and they have identified themselves in that way.
But you know it's all going to be manifested in the coming day. We might deceive others. You can never deceive the Lord. So when God is the builder or when the Lord Jesus is the builder, it's always living stones, it's always reality. But then when it's looked at as the body of Christ by tells us in Ephesians chapter one that Christ is the head over all things to the church, which is His body.
The fullness of him that filleth All in all. And so as members of the body of Christ, our body is not an organization, it's an Organism, and it's controlled from the head. If it's not controlled from the head, things are going to be in disorder in the body. You know, people, if something goes wrong with their mind, then their body does things that are very wrong, very inconsistent, because they aren't controlled by the head and the head of the church.
As the body of Christ.
Is the Lord Jesus himself? People sometimes say, well, who's who's ahead of your church? There's only one head. As far as the Bible is concerned, Christ is the head. And I just mentioned too that in Ephesians, the church is viewed there as Christ's love for the church. And so the expression is head over all things to the church, which is his body. And so we see the full provision that he has made.
For the needs of his church. He loved the church he gave himself for it. He's provided those who care for it, The evangelists, the pastors, the teachers, the foundation layers, the apostles and prophets. He provided all that. The man loves his wife, he provides for her, and he does everything he can. For for happiness and for her good. Christ is the head of the body, has done that. And sad to say, many Christians don't avail themselves of the provision that has been made.
But nevertheless, that's what the Scripture shows us, that Christ is head over all things to the Church, which is his body. Oh, how important it is that we recognize him as the head. Now, in Colossians, Christ is spoken of not as head over all things, but head of the body, the Church and the thought, if I can put it very simply. So perhaps you'll get the thought in Hebrews. It's what the church is to Christ.
In Colossians, at what Christ is to the church, somebody put it this way, the man starts to talk about his wife, and he has great affection for her and all the things he'd like to do for her. Now he's talking of his affection and his care and what he wants to do for her. Then when he's done talking, she starts to talk about what he means to her. That's Colossians. And so in Colossians, he's spoken of his head. Oh, the body matures. And so in Colossians, you have the glory of this person brought out in much further way.
That had all of the body, the church. And that's why philosophy and vain deceit in the traditions of men have no place. Because if a wife respects her husband as a head who can look after things for her, then she doesn't want all the philosophies and ideas of other people, she says. My husband is quite sufficient to happily sing his price. Sufficient as head of the body. The church. Ohio. Well, we know this, brethren.
In him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
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Now to come back here to our chapter in Matthew 16. The Lord is making this announcement now, and in Matthew it's not the church as the body of Christ, but rather as the House of the sea. Because it says I will build my church, Peter takes it up as living stones. And so this is what the church really is.
In God's sight we find all sorrow and.
Acts chapter 20. It says the church which he purchased with his own blood. In Hebrews chapter 12 it says the Church of the first born, which are written in heaven. You can see how it's all reality, Those whom the Lord Jesus has purchased with his own blood, that's those who are really saved, those who have been indwelled by the Spirit of God and then the church.
The first born which are written in heaven.
People have church roles down here, but the important thing is, is your name on the church roll in heaven. That's the only thing that really counts. And so the Lord is making the announcement of this consequent from Israeli rejection of him. And so there is this period that has been introduced now. That's why we call dispensation. Perhaps most of us know that the dispensation in the Bible.
Is a period of time in which God dealt in some particular way.
That is, he placed Adam and Eve in the garden and put them in innocence. They didn't have the knowledge of good and evil. Would they just in simplicity, listen to his command and obey it just because God says so? If your child understands why you tell them not to do something, it's one thing, but if they have enough respect that they'll obey you, whether they understand why or not. Why? That's real obedience. And Adam and Eve were tested in innocence. And then we find afterwards.
Man was tested without government, with no government at all. Would he behave himself in the earth if there were no rulers or magistrates? Until the earth of violence and corruption and God introduced government, then people thought they could keep God's law. So there was a dispensation of law. And so we find these different periods that man broke down in everyone. He failed in every test that God gave him.
At last, as we were saying, the Lord Jesus comes and he presents himself to the nation. Would they have him says in John that he didn't come to condemn, but to say that was a children's verse this morning. So when a woman, woman was brought to him, taken in sin, he said neither do I condemn me, and some people have misinterpreted that. There wasn't that the Lord did not condemn her sin, but he was on the way to bear her condemnation so that he could say I don't condemn you because he was going to Calvary to bear her condemnation.
So as he went here in this world, he didn't go about condemning people. He was doing good, healing the sick, raising the dead, and cleansing the leopard. Would they accept the testimony like that in grace? No, they didn't want him, he practically said. If that's what God is like, we don't want it.
They don't. They didn't want him even though he had done. He said, For which of these good works do you condemn me? And they said, no, it's not that, but it's because thou being man, make this thyself go. They didn't want God to come down the person of the side. Man would like to have somebody empty at all the hospitals here.
When that nation did that by, God postponed their blessing. He postponed it because he had promised unconditionally to bless them through the promised sea. This is Christ and brethren. That's what we come to now in this present period. He has visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his name, and now he's going to set up something in the earth. You turn to Matthew 18.
For safety, verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be laced in heaven. Again I say unto you it, that if two of you shall agree on earth as such in anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven, or where two or three are gathered together.
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In my name there am I in the midst of them.
16th chapter. The Lord has spoken. I will build my church. And now people read this chapter. We would see that authority was committed in the 17th verse. It speaks about telling it to the church, and that God gave authority to the place where He His name was. There for two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst. There were two particular, perhaps I should say 3 particular things in the Old Testament associated with the center. And that was.
That they were to come there for worship. Secondly, that difficult matters that were decided there were to be decided with the Lord's authority, and they were to accept that but Deuteronomy 17 And then when the temple was set up, you remember in Solomon's prayer that he prayed and asked the Lord that any prayer that was made in or toward that place, that the Lord would hear it and answer to me, It's very beautiful to see the Lord establishing something new to place where we can gather around him and worship.
It's a place, a House of prayer. The early disciples continued steadfast in the apostle doctrine and and prayers when they when John was at least when Peter was put in prison by. It tells us prayer was made without ceasing of the church under God for him and God heard that for Ernie delivered fear. So we find that there is a new center established.
To read over and over again in Deuteronomy.
That the Lord said that there was a special city where he put his name, and that city was the place where the tribes were to come up to worship. That was where they were together, because the Lord was there. But he's about to set aside that nation. Is there nothing on earth that corresponds to that in Christianity? Well, it isn't a city. It isn't a physical building, but it's a person around whom we gather.
And where two or three are gathered together in my name.
Say here that it isn't enough just to say that we meet in his name. We must meet according to his word if we are going to associate his name with it. It tells us in the Psalms Thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. I I just like to ask you, would you like somebody to use your name without your authority and say no, I don't think they should do that. If they're going to use my name for something, I think they should ask me.
And we shouldn't say that we are gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus unless our position is according to His word. Now it's magnified by the word. Above all, I name. What would the meaning of a sign of in front of a doctor's office, And the doctor saw himself position and surgeon? And what would it mean if he didn't have a diploma and he had nothing to support the sign? They have no right to put out that sign unless he could support it with a diploma.
And if we say that we are gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus, we need to be able to support the position that we take from the word of God. And that's important. It's humbling, but it's important because we don't have any other authority but the word of God and the precious and altogether the worthy and lovely name of the Lord Jesus.
So it says, for two or three are gathered together in my name. And we know that the Spirit of God is gathering to Christ, that is his work here in this world. God visited the Gentiles to take out of them enough people for His name.
It's a work of God, and he's operating by the Spirit of 1 Spirit. We are all baptized into one body.
Where we see the announcement of it then in Matthew now if we turn over to acts, we see that.
In the first chapter of Acts.
Fourth verse And being assembled together with them, that the Lord with them commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which said he, Ye have heard of me, John truly baptized with water, that she shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
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Turning over to the second chapter.
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as if a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. There appeared unto them clothes and tongue, like as a fire, and it sat upon each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues.
As a spirit gave them utterance.
And there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, devout man out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noise abroad, the multitude came together and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
May the Lord as we know was He accomplished that mighty work of redemption. And then forty days after his resurrection he ascended and went back to glory. But he told the disciples to wait in Jerusalem because the Holy Spirit of God was going to come. Now we know what the Spirit of operative in the Old Testament, because new words is always by the Spirit, and even creation is spoken. All that says.
By a spirit according to heavens need, I might say that every activity of the Godhead is always in Trinity, and the order in Scripture is the Father in Council, the Holy Ghost of power by which it's carried out, and the Lord Jesus the Son, the one who carries out the Father's counsels. We always find that order in the scripture and so they were to wait. There in Jerusalem the Spirit was active, but He hadn't come.
We want to confirm that you can read in John seven. It says for as yet the Holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified. And if you read in John 14 and 15 and 16, you'll read about the Lord saying he was going away and that he would send the Holy Spirit. So the Spirit of God came down on the day of Pentecost. They were waiting for that. And it says in First Corinthians chapter 12.
By one Spirit we are all baptized into one body. Here I want to distinguish water baptism is not the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It's water baptism. It is that by which the name of Christ is placed upon a person. But it doesn't say the soul. It is only the scriptural way by which the name of Christ is placed upon one, as I've often said if when a person was baptized.
We put the name of Christ and plummet around their neck that would help them to understand baptism, that is water baptism. They're introduced into a position in this world where in the scriptural order of things they bear the name of Christ. But when a person believe is a gospel, says in Ephesians chapter one, and move after that, she believed you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance.
Until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of his glory.
But there was something special on the day of Pentecost, and that was there were a number of people there. About 120 were told in the end of the first chapter that we're waiting for the coming of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit of God came down and those 120 now were baptized by 1 Spirit into one body. That was what took place on the day of Pentecost, and it's spoken out in Peter's epistle as the Holy Ghost come down from heaven.
You notice in what I read in the second chapter, he sat upon each of them and filled the house where they were sitting. And the Bible brings those two things before us in Christianity that every true believer is indwelled by the Holy Spirit. But the Spirit of God also dwells in the house. That's why when we came together this morning, we didn't appoint somebody to take the lead in the meeting because the Spirit of God.
Is here to lead in thine says where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, and he might use various members of the body. But there was something very special that took place on the day of Pentagon. It was the church's birthday. It was the formation of the Church of God on earth. When the Lord spoke in Matthew 16, he didn't say I am Billy, but I will then. And he told the disciples to wait for the coming of the Holy Spirit.
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Like when the Air Pentecost was fully come, there they were about 120 in that upper room and the spirit of God came down. Someone has illustrated that if you had 120 beads sitting on the table and you look there and you said, oh, I've got quite a few beads there as the other is about 120. But if I put a string through them and held them up and said, what have I got now You probably say, oh, you've got a necklace.
You wouldn't say you've got 120 bees. You would see those 120 all connected together. And so you'd say, oh, that's a necklace now and that's what happened on the day of cranky boss believers. We're individuals, if I can speak that way before. But when the spirit of God came and believers were united.
Believers were individuals, if I can speak that way before, but when the Spirit of God came.
Then believers were united to one another and to Christ the heaven blind because Christ is the head of the body of the church, had over all things to the church, which is his body. So we're united to Him, Christ, and we are one. And so that was the formation of the Church of God on earth. They waited for it, but we don't have to wait now, and I might say that.
Whenever you read about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the Scripture, it is always spoken of in a collective sense, never an individual sense. That is, it has to do like I was saying with putting those 120 beads on to the necklace and what happened afterwards.
If you wanted to enlarge that necklace swag, you could put more beads, but it will still be on necklace.
41 And so on the end of chapter 2 it says the Lord added to the church daily, such as should be saved, but I as an individual believe the Holy Spirit of God came in and dwelled my body.
After that you believed you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise. And when you're endwell by the Holy Spirit, then you're sealed and it says seal on solid day of redemption. Now that means that you're marked out as belong to Christ and you're not going to lose one of his own. Everyone who is part of that one body, everyone whose name has been written above in the Church of the first born.
Why? None of those are going to be lost or sealed then it tells us too that we are indwelled. The Spirit of God is a divine person. Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you. It speaks also of the anointing. That is the power that we might be able to serve the Lord and live for Him, just as a king was anointed and put into a certain position, so.
He's anointed us. He sealed us.
And he's given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts, so we're not, we're not told now, when we get saved, to wait for the Holy Spirit. It's an operation of the Spirit of God that when you believe the gospel, you are sealed and the Spirit is the earnest until the day of redemption. And that's the individual part of it now, the collective thing we have brought before us here.
Just a little word also about about speaking in tongues.
We know that God gave this gift at the beginning, and what he was really showing was that the gospel was not to be confined to that one nation. Perhaps you recall that when the Lord sent out the disciples to preach, this is what he said to them. Go not into the way of the Gentiles and into any cities of the Samaritans entered United.
To the lost sheep of the House of Israel, they were just sent out. To that particular nation, they were the favored nation. If roots of all bites wanted to be blessed, she had to be identified with God's people. It may even have to wanted to be blessed. He had to recognize that the most the true God was in Israel. But on the day of Pentecost, then something new happened.
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Not to be confined to 1 nation.
And it tells us we're all baptized by 1 Spirit into one body, whether we be Jew or Gentile. And the disciples were told going into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. And so in order to introduce this, God showed what he was doing by giving the gift of tongues. There was no promise that it would continue. If anybody thinks they have it today, then let me gather together a group of people like in the second of Acts from every nation under heaven and give them the opportunity that hurts them in their own language.
You know they couldn't do it. They may tell you that they have a different times, but they don't have it in the spiritual sense. I don't know what it is, but they don't have it in the scriptural sense because these were as it says, they heard every man in his own language. These were not unintelligible languages. They were languages that were known in the world. What a marvelous proof that God was reaching out to go beyond.
That special nation.
Most of us in this room, perhaps all of us, belong to gentile nations or at least backgrounds. And we we're in the body of Christ and very few of the Jews being saved. Today it is a remnant In the 70 in Ottawa. We had a converted Jew, a very happy believer, but he would tell you, just as I would tell you, I'm not a Jew anymore. I'm part of the body of Christ. He left his old position just as we left our old position.
And we were brought into a new position as members of the Body of Christ now, just to go on to the end of this second chapter of Acts.
Verse 42.
And they continued steadfastly, and the apostles doctrine and fellowship, and embracing the bread and in prayers.
And the 47th verse praising God and having favor with all the people and the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
Now you see they it says they continued steadfastly and the apostles doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and prayers we spoke about how.
The that was magnified Thy word, above all thy name, and how very important the word of God is. And so it tells us also in First Timothy 3, the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Now the Church doesn't teach that. The gathering doesn't teach, but the Spirit of God.
Teaches us, And then God, as we'll see later, raises up teachers. So I don't say, Well, brethren taught this. The word of God teaches it, and the Spirit of God makes it good in our soul. But the assembly is responsible to hold the deposit of truth that has been committed to us. There has been a deposit of truth committed to us.
Whose teachers I've learned a great deal from different teachers that have helped me to understand. But it isn't the Church that teaches, it's the Word of God that teaches. And God may use individuals to teach us more of His truths, but never mind. In the scripture the Church teaches, The Spirit of God teaches and uses different ones that may teach us about. The Church is responsible to hold the truth.
It's not Brethren's truth, it's God's truth, and we are responsible to hold it. If we are gathered according to God's mind, according to His word, then people ought to find a group of people who have no other authority on which they rest and what they believe of the precious word of God. They don't have a creed. Someone asked Mr. Garvey what is what is the creed of the group that you're with? And he said that it's the whole word of God.
Genesis to Revelation, he said. I can tell you some things I've learned from the Bible, but if you ask me my breathe, it's the whole word of going. I have no right. That I handle today is not my truth. It's not grabbing truth if the truth is gone and the church is responsible, and that's why.
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When questions are raised why we're to settle them by the word of God, that's our authority. By word is truth.
So they continued in the apostles doctrine and fellowship that is now they're introduced into walls of like mine often to walk together, except they be agreed and there's a breaking of bread and always speak of that and in prayers.
The assembly as a prayer meeting. And as I said before, when Peter was in prison, the assembly came together and they prayed for Peter. And there is individual prayer in our homes. But it's important to recognize that the assembly is a place where there should be time set aside for further affirmative. Rather interesting that.
We have the Apostle Doctrine, Fellowship, perhaps that would answer to when we come together to read the word of God and have fellowship and enjoying the things of God and the remembrance of the Lord, and in prayers, well, who added to the Church?
The Lord added to the Church. We hear expressions and Christendom such as joining the Church of your choice, but.
It's not my choice, it's his choice. My father used to have a little expression I thought was rather nice, he said. The Lord chooses my friends for me.
No people often they choose a nice group they would like to be with and maybe it's a very zealous, energetic group and they say, well that's a nice group and they really love the Lord and they want to serve him well. I'm not discounting the fact that it might be a nice group, but you and I have no right to make choices on that basis.
We are. We are responsible to gather according to the word of God. They didn't choose the people they would be associated with. And the Lord says, You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.
And so I'm not gathered with those who are gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus, because I like the people, although I do like them. But I'm that's not my reason. I'm there because I believe that they are gathered according to the word of God. And if you're only there because you like the people, someday something will happen and they may get pretty discouraged. But it's important to be there because the Lord is there, so you don't have to join the church.
The Lord does the joining. What we do is associate with those who are seeking to follow the word of God. But that doesn't make us part of the church. Have often said when people are received at the Lords table, it's not to become part of the church. It's because they're already part of the Church and we wouldn't want to receive someone at the Lord's table who wasn't part of the Church of God before we received them. We received them because they are that.
Till the Lord added to the church daily and pulled the verse again the church which he purchased with his own blood. And again the Church of the first form which are written in heaven. But now I'd like to just turn to the 20th of the box. Here you just see a little example here and that's fond of the back. So this way this seven years.
And upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread.
All have reached, some of them ready to depart on the Morrow, and continued his speech until midnight. Well, just to call attention to that little expression upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread.
That is the day of Pentecost. Perhaps we all are aware the day of Pentecost was the first day of the week. The Lord rose on the first day of the week and appeared to His disciples that day. The next first day of the week he appeared again. And the day of Pentecost. If you want to read about it in the 23rd of Leviticus, it says there were the #7 sabbaths and the moral after the 7th Sabbath.
Was a piece of Pentecost. Pentecost means 50 days, and it was called the face of Pentecost. So that we see that that's the Christians day. The Lord grows the first day. Christianity is an entirely new thing. The Sabbath belonged to Israel. If I could put this way, the Sabbath was God's pledge of rest on the earth.
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But the new first day of the week is to remind us that there is a new saying. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. And so it was a custom of these believers to meet together on the first day of the week to great prayer, to remember the Lord and his death. And Paul came. They didn't come to hear a sermon. They did hear a sermon. Sometimes a brother might stand up after the meeting and give a little word.
Of exhortation.
But that is why we came. We came to those, right? And of course Paul the 19 and never did see those present again. He felt he had a great deal to tell them, and I'm sure he did because the New Testament wasn't all written and he had much to tell them. But that person, why they came together to listen to Paul. They came together to bring bread. And I would like to turn to 1St Corinthians chapter 10.
And raised from the 51St I speak as to why is man judgy? What I say, the cup of blessing which we bless. Is it not the communion of the thought of Christ, The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we, being many, are one bread and one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread. Behold, Israel, after the flesh, are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers?
Of the altar. But say I then, that the idol is anything, and that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything but. I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice the devils. I'm not to God, and I would not that she should have fellowship with devils. He kind of drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils. He cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
Now there are two chapters here, the 10th chapter and the 11Th chapter.
The 10th chapter brings before us the truth of the Lord's table, and the 11Th chapter the truth of the Lord's Supper.
It's very important that the Lords table comes first, and we see that the Lord's table is the expression of certain things. In Israel there was what was called the table in the Tabernacle, and on it there were trial rolls which represented the 12 tribes of Israel. And that was to be there continually upon the table to represent the fact that those 12 tribes.
Were represented before God.
And now we see here in First Corinthians 10 the Lords table brought before us and what it expresses, and I believe that's very important for us to understand.
There is the remembrance of the Lord, but we find here there's a difference in the 10th chapter in the 11Th that the cop comes first in the 10th chapter and the loaf comes first in the 11Th chapter, and I'd like you to observe that and notice because of the purpose in it.
Now Paul uses the things that existed at that time. If you had gone to Corinth, it's likely have today with a great many different groups. It's sad to see the testimony to the one body soul, shall I say, almost forgotten today. But if you've gone to Corinth, you would have found places where Jews assembled, you would have found it where Christians assembled, and you would have found it where heathen assembled in there at his temple.
And what he is showing, that's a very important principle, is that the act of partaking was the expression of fellowship. If a man for took of the sacrifices in Judaism, he had fellowship with the Alger. If he went to an idols temple and for took there he had fellowship with that idol. If he came to the Lord's table and he was expressing fellowship with what the Lord's table really stood for, if I can put it plainly, brethren, I don't want to go.
And work bread at a place where the truth of what the one body and the church really is is expressed. I believe it's a wonderful privilege to give expression to this truth so dear to the heart of Christ. He loved the church and gave himself for it. Every believer is a member of the body of Christ. He showed that unity on the day of Pentecost, that all those 120 who were there became associated together.
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One fellowship. And when the Samaritans and the Gentiles were brought in, it wasn't a different church. It was only to bring in of Gentiles into the church, a body of Christ. It says by 1 Spirit, you're all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles.
Well, I think it's very precious to see here what the Lord's table really expresses. I just like to say a few words on what is brought before us. You might say, well then, why is the cup brought before us first here? But you know what I think of whose table it is? The Lord of glory. The one who is God himself, and it's his table. Isn't that a very, very serious thing? And who am I?
To be able to come into the presence of the Lord of Glory, for he is in the midst and sit down there to remember him. What title do I have?
Why the only title I have is the precious Blood of Christ, like like Hebrew, Sam says.
Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiness by the blood of Jesus. And so I think it's so lovely that the cup comes first when it's talking about the Lords table. And another thing you notice in this chapter talks about communion.
Because you don't take communion present. I think I mentioned the other day, Communion means common thoughts and you can't take common thoughts. You have common thoughts. I can share common thoughts with you. We can have an agreement. If if we're talking about something, you have one idea and I have another, then we don't have common thoughts. But isn't it wonderful to have common thoughts about the value that God has placed upon the blood of Christ?
He wouldn't have any doubts if you had communion with him about the value that he has placed upon it. Some Christians have doubts, but it's because they don't have God's thoughts about the value of the blood, the blood of Jesus Christ. His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Lovely that our title is settled through the blood. It gives us title to be there and then. The lower fear is not spoken of as the physical body of Christ, but it's spoken of as the body of Christ can hold of all believers or knows what it says in the 17th verse. Are we being many? Are one bread and one body where we are all partakers of that one bread?
So we see that had an envelope. Here is a symbol for the one body. When some of us came in here this morning, there was one loaf unbroken sitting on the table. And that in the 10th chapter is set before us as a symbol of the one body of Christ. And every believer is represented in that one world. That look doesn't just represent the little company here where we are here it represents.
The one body of Christ which includes all believers.
Just illustrated as soon as a brother who I knew and he was talking to a neighbor one Monday morning and he knew that this neighbor was a real believer, a true member of the body of Christ, thought he wasn't gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus. He was gathered to one of the systems that men have established. And when we met him on Monday morning, he said, oh brother, I was so glad to see you.
In the loaf on Lord's morning, boy said I was there, said I wasn't my own church. He said I saw you there and they said, oh, I must have made a mistake because I wasn't there, he said. I saw you represented in that one world and Brandon, isn't it? Lobby. As I look at that one love, I think of every believer, Impella, every believer in the world represented in that long life. That's the realm on which we need. That's the scriptural way. That's what the Lord's table is.
It's an expression of the one body of Christ. Now Allah may not be there.
But they're all represented there. The man asked if a father asked his family to put one wolf on the table to represent the one family when they came together. If some of them weren't present, the one loaf would still be what he asked them to have it. And if they met us, He asked them, that's what it would represent. And so isn't that lovely. To know that God has established such a thing in his word isn't a great privilege to break bread, not as a member of something that men established, but as a member of the body of Christ?
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And that's very precious too. Shall I say. It's more than just knowing your sins are forgiven, because I am a forgiving Sinner by great bread in the nearest possible relationship, we are members of his body of a splash of his bones. It often used an illustration that perhaps might help to bring this point home.
Take the story in the Old Testament about Rahab the harlot. She put her faith in the God of Israel and she hung the scarlet line in her window. And then the city of Jericho fell. She was delivered because she was safe under the scarlet line, a picture of the blood of Christ. But there's a little more to the story. We find out that she was introduced into the royal line of Israel. She became.
The husband of a man, The wife of a man who was in the royal line. Now what? He supposed that she comes and she sits down at the table with him as his wife and she looks across the table and says it's wonderful to be a forgiving harlot.
I think I would see him looking across the table and said you're forgiven. But there's far more to it than that. I don't think of you that way. I think of you as the one to my love, the one whom I've chosen. Brethren, isn't it a wonderful thing that the law we know is forgiven, that we can sit at the table and as it where the Lord is saying how it all affair my life, there's no spot you'll really enjoy the Lord's table and the privilege that you have if you enter into that.
And so in the 10th chapter, I say again.
We have first decided to do There through the Blood and then the truth that is expressed there in the relationship in which we stand. Oh, how wonderful to be there as a member of the body of Christ. I want to ask you, do you think that Ray had would want to go back to her old friends again after that? I don't think she would feel under law. I would say that she would be constrained by love to say, well, that's enough to ever.
Set me free from my old friends and so you know in separation isn't illegal.
Separation is a question of heart. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp there in his report. So on the 10th chapter then we have those things brought before us. The Lords table, the Cop first, the love. The loaf is a symbol of the one body of Christ. Then we have a result in separation, and we have submission. In the next chapter the sister, by her long hair and her covering, accepts the place that God has given to her.
Because she figures the place the church occupies in relation to Christ, and as the church is to be subject to Christ, saw the woman sitting at the Lords table. She expresses that she takes that place as a beautiful picture of the position in which the in which the church stands in relation to Christ. And that's why the covering and the long hair are mentioned in First Corinthians 11, because that is also.
To be seen at the Lord's table. But then it goes on in the 11Th chapter and the 23rd verse.
Before I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he break it, and said, Take he, This is my body which is broken for you. This do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup when he had sat, saying, This cup is a New Testament in my blood. This do ye as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.
For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, he do show the Lord's death, till him come. For for whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup he leaves and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation. The margin says judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
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For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chasing the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
Well, here we have in this chapter the Lord's Supper. It's mentioned in the 20th verse, and the Lord instituted the supper on the night of his betrayal. He noticed the loaf comes first and then the cup in this chapter. And the loaf is not brought before us as a symbol of the one body of Christ, but rather the symbol of the physical body of Christ. That is, he bore our sins in his own body on the tree. And so.
When we break the bread as we come in, we come in and sit down as members of the body of Christ. When we break it, we remember the Lord Jesus giving His life for us, first bearing our sins in His own body on the tree, and then shedding His precious blood.
It's important in the remembrance that the Loeb is first in the Old Testament. In all the sacrifices, the animal was put to death and a bloodshed before it was placed upon the altar. For it was not possible that the blood of bulls and a goat that take away sin. And if I can put it this way, every time that they looked at the blood of the animal, they knew something was to follow.
Because the blood was shed before the sacrifice. But the Lord Jesus exhausted the judgment 1St and the blood flowing from his dad side was approved that the work was done. And so we remember a finished work that's very precious for us.
But I can put it in this way. Think of the 10th chapter as the place, the wonderful place.
Abraham Pt. 2
Address—G. Hayhoe
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Come now found of every blessing, tune my heart to sing my grace streams of mercy, never ceasing. Call for ceaseless songs of praise #5 in the appendix.
We like to look tonight a little bit about the life of Abraham as God has recorded it in his Word.
It begins at the end of the 11Th chapter of Genesis.
Genesis Chapter 11 and verse 31.
And Terra took Abraham his son, and Lot the son of Heron his son's son.
And Sarah his daughter-in-law, his son Abraham's wife. And they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came unto Heron, and dwelt there in the days of Tiara were 205 years, And Tierra died in Heron. Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee, and I will make of thee a great nation.
And I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing, And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee. And indeed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was 70 and five years old when he departed out of Karen. And Abram took Sarah his wife, and Lot his brother's son.
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And all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Hiram. And they went forth to go into the land of Canaan, and into the land of Canaan they came, and Abram passed through the land under the place of Sikkim, under the plain of Mora. And the Canaanite was then in the land. And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said unto thy seed will I give this land? And there buildeth he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.
And he removed from fence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the West, and hey I on the east. And there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South. And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there. For the famine was grievous in the land, and it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt. And he said unto Sarah his wife, Behold, now I know of thou art a fair woman to look upon. Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee that they shall say, This is his wife.
And they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be well with me for thy sake my soul shall live because of thee. And it came to pass that when Abram was coming to Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman, that she was very fair. And the Prince is also a Pharaoh, saw her and commanded her before Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into under Pharaoh's house.
And he had treated Abram well for her sake, and he had sheep and oxen, and he ***** and men servants and maidservants, and she ***** and camels. And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarah Abrams life. And Pharaoh called Abraham, and said, What is this that thou has done unto me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Why did why sinnest thou? She is my sister.
So I might have taken her to me to wait. Now therefore behold thy wife take her and go thy way. And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and they sent him away, and his wife and all that He had just a few verses in the 13th chapter also. And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and lot with him into the South neighbor was very rich in cattle and silver and in gold. And he went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel.
Under the place where his tent had been at the beginning, and between Bethel and Hey I.
Under the place of the altar which he had made there at the 1St, and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
Well, I'm sure many of us are well acquainted with the story of Abraham. But I believe there's some very important lessons that we can get from this story, because the Bible tells us that whatsoever things were written before time, were written for our learning, that we, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope. And when I read the Bible, I like to think of these people, you know, as real people, people who are just like you and I, as the Bible says, man of light, passions with ourselves.
And perhaps we can enter into some of their feelings as they went on in the path, as it's marked out for us here. And it tells us too, you know that these things are examples to us upon whom the ends of the world are come. And so I believe there are very important lessons Abram were told in the New Testament is spoken of as the father of all those who have faith, because he was called out from the darkness of Mesopotamia. There he was a worshiper of idols.
In Deuteronomy, I believe it is that they were worshippers of idols, and Abram was along with them. But the God of glory appeared to Abram when he dwelt in Mesopotamia, and said, Get the out from my country, and from my kindred, and from my father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. Sometimes people say, well, what about the heathen? But we should never limit God's power to make himself known.
And God did make himself known to Abram. Even Lloyd was a heathen, and he knew that it was God who was speaking to him.
He knew that God was calling him, and so it is often with us, even today, boys and girls brought up in the meeting like I was considering the meeting many, many times. And we can hear what's said, but we don't hear the voice of God. Maybe we hear the voice of our parents and we say there's some brothers that speak, but perhaps one time comes when it speaks to us as the very voice of God.
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Perhaps you remember when you sat in the meeting and you said the Lord was speaking to me. It was really a message from him. And so the time comes when God calls as it tells us whom He called them, He also justified, and whom he justified them He also glorified. I hope that there is one here and all that you have thought out. Well, my parents taught me these things, and I know the Brethren believe that way, but you've never really for yourself heard the call of God.
I hope that this very night, if you're not one of his, that you will hear his voice speaking to you because it's an individual thing to be saved. It's a personal matter. People aren't saved in families. They're not saved in groups. We must be saved as individuals. We must personally come and receive the Lord Jesus. And those of us who are saved Remember how that the Lord spoke to us and we realized that the Lord Jesus not only died for sinners, but He died for me.
Became a personal thing. Well, it was a personal thing, a personal call to Abram, but we find here that he allowed his father to sort of influence his life. And you know, we can let other people hinder us from coming out from the Lord. Many people allow influences, perhaps in their home or friends, to hinder them from coming to the Lord Jesus. They allow people who perhaps would laugh at them to hinder them hearing and receiving the call of God.
And sometimes, even as believers, we can allow others to hinder us from following Christ for really making him the first one, the first choice, so to speak, in our lives. The Lord Jesus said he that loveth Father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. Perhaps you remember when the Lord was here, and he saw James and John, the sons of Zebedee, working with their father.
And the Lord called. He didn't call their father. I don't know what happened to Zebedee. You often wonder if he ever really got saved.
But I know that John and James were called, and Anna tells us that they left their father in the in the ship with the hired servants. They didn't neglect their father, they left him with those who would be a help to him. But the Lord Jesus had said, follow me. We should never neglect our parents. The Bible says honor thy father and thy mother. But we shouldn't allow our parents to hinder us from following the Lord Jesus. We shouldn't allow anyone, our best friends, to hinder us. The Lord Jesus must come first.
And and we see here.
In this story that apparently Abram had a great deal of respect for his father.
Which was proper in that way. But he allowed his father to take over. And you know the notice the way it read in this 31St verse.
And Tyra took Abram, his son and Lot. When you read in the next chapter, you find that Abram was the one who acted, because it tells us that Abram remembered that the Lord had called him. And so his father took over. His father, as it were, took control. And they started out together, Abram and Sarah and Tyra, the one who was taking the lead in this little group.
And Lot and Lot came along with them as well. He was a nephew of Abram.
And they started out. But as I said, as far as we know from Scripture, Kira was not a man of faith. He would say, perhaps if you knew him, that he was a nice man, and perhaps, and I'm sure he did love his boy very much, but it isn't enough just to be a nice person. The Lord Jesus said, except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. And so, Abram, I mean Tyrone, never got into the land.
Tyra died in Herod. They came along part way and sometimes you'll find that your friends will come part way. But if they're not saved, they can't take a stand for the Lord Jesus and they won't be in the heavenly glory unless they receive him a savior. And so it tells us here that they came to Haram. History tells us that this was a place where the caravans coming from the east and coming from the West met.
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It was a sort of a place where you could be halfway. You could meet those coming from Canaan, and you could meet those coming from Mesopotamia. And so you know there are people who will go halfway, but you and I are going to follow the Lord Jesus. As we often sing love that transcends our highest powers demands our soul, our life, our all, and, it says in Romans chapter 12.
I beseech you therefore, brethren.
By the mercies of God that she presents your bodies, a living sacrifice.
Wholly acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable for intelligent service.
Another verse says we are not your own, ye are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are gods. Well, and it's sad here that Tyra died and it was apparently quite a little while that they settled there in Canaan. But after Athira had died, isn't it sad that God sometimes has to bring some sorrow into our lives to wake us up?
We're not wholehearted for him. We're not giving him the place that he should have in our lives. Even though we belong to him, many of us can look back and realize we weren't giving him that place. Then God brought something into our lives. Perhaps it was a sorrow, perhaps it was a disappointment of some kind, And that woke us up, just as it did Abraham here. It caused Abraham to reconsider things, and when he did, it said.
Notice that first verse of the 12Th chapter. Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from my father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. He was called upon to leave his country, and he never fully left it. And he didn't leave his father's house, because his father took the lead and detained him, so that he didn't really come out and out for the Lord.
But it all came back to his mind after his father died. And isn't that often true that something happens in our lives and things come up and we think I haven't been giving the Lord the place that I should in my life. He I haven't been acknowledging him as my Lord. Well, I believe this is what happened in an experimental way in the life of Abram. And the Lord had said it wasn't what his father might have said, but what the Lord had said.
That he was to come now he was partially obedient. And that he had left Mesopotamia and come as far as harem, that was partially, and sometimes we're partially yielded. But as I say, the Lord wants us to be fully yielded to Him. That's really what it means, brethren, By acknowledging Jesus as Lord in our modern society. It's perhaps a little harder for us to understand that.
Because there isn't such a thing as slavery in this land. But there was in Bible time, such as the thing, as a person who had the position of lordship, and the people he had were his slaves. They belonged to him. And Paul calls himself the bone slave of Jesus Christ. He says the Lord bought me and I really belong to him and he's my Lord. He has a right to tell me what to do. I've often said there is a person.
Who has a right to tell me what to do? I belong to him. He bought me at a tremendous price. And we as Christians like to sing that little hymn. And I am his, and he is mine forever and forever. Willis, as I say, came back. And then he added things in the second verse. And I will make of the great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing.
God was going to make of this nation of which Abraham was the star. He was going to make that a great nation. And you know God is going to do that. He's going to fulfill his promise he made Abram. Centuries have passed since that promise was made. The nations now are trying to get Israel to settle for less than what God intends for them. Now we know that they're not going to get that land in the full possession of it.
Themselves until God gives it to them. And when he does, they'll have to recognize that they didn't get it by their own power. But it's no use for the other nations to interfere and tell them that they have to make concessions to those nations around, because in God's plan, Israel is going to be the center of blessing in the millennial Kingdom. Jerusalem is the city of the great king, and all the nations of the earth will have to come up from year to year.
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To worship the king, the Lord of wolves, and to keep the feast of Tabernacles. It tells us Jerusalem is the metropolis of earthly blessing. And here it all began in his simple call for Abraham, and so God promised that he would bless him. But, brethren, we have something better than that. It is a wonderful time to look forward to for the nation of Israel when God will bring this blessing and they'll sit down under their own vine and fig tree.
In the paper that they have in the city of Ottawa, just before they had 40 years of their independence, they published a large 412 pages about that nation. And it was interesting. They said 40 years a nation, 40 years of conflict. But you know, when God blesses them, it will be 1000 years a nation and not 1000 years of conflict, but 1000 years of blessing. Yes, they're trying to do it now by their own efforts.
God is going to give it to them. But I'll say again, brethren, we have something better. You and I have been called not to the earthly inheritance, but the heavenly, as it tells us in Hebrews 12. Here come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, the Church of the first born, which are written in heaven. Oh, how wonderful is our inheritance. If Abraham was called to blessing, how much more wonderful is ours?
Ourselves worrying so much about this world and all that's going on. And it's certainly a sad picture that we see as we see the breakdown of things in the hands of man. But isn't it glorious to be a Christian, to look on to the time when the Lord Jesus will be the center of heavenly and earthly blessing? Well, God made these promises, and shall I say, he made them unconditionally. The promises that were made to Abraham. God didn't say to Abram, if you'll do this, and if you'll do that, then I'll bless you.
They were unconditional because they were founded upon God's faithfulness. And as it says, in thy seed who is Christ, shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
We know that afterwards the people entered into a bargain with God, that they would earn the blessing by keeping God's law and they forfeited everything on that ground. Be like as if a father promised to give his boy a bicycle. And the boy says, dad, I'm able to earn it. And if you'll just tell me what you want me to do, then I'll be able to say to all my friends, you know, I worked hard and I earned this bicycle. Then the boy breaks down. He doesn't do what he said he would do. But what about the unconditional promise the father made at the start?
He didn't say that he was going to give it to him because something the boy did, he just gave it to him because he loved him. And so the Lord Jesus is going to break that nation into blessing on the ground of the unconditional promise that is made to Abram. They placed themselves under law and that's why they're having all this trouble now. They place themselves under law and they couldn't keep it then when the Lord Jesus their true deliverer, the only one who could bring them blessing.
Came, they said, We will not have this man to reign over us. They said, his blood be on us and on our children, and not until they repent, when they look upon the one whom they pierced, will his blessing come to them. But their blessing will come through Christ, just as ours come through Christ and Christ only, so that that nation is going to be blessed. And it says, I'll bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee. And if you notice.
Any nation that has oppressed the Jew has always got into trouble. Over and over again, it's happened because they're God's earthly people. It's true they're under the government of God for their rejection of their Messiah. But God says you leave them alone. They're my people, and I'm the ones who will bring them. I'm the one who will bring them into blessing.
He says it's my land and I'm the one that's going to bless them. He says in Ezekiel about how those nations around them are saying just what they're saying now. These two nations and these two countries are ours. He said Israel has been away from there for 2000 years now. This is ours and the Lord says it's mine and my people are going to have it. And so how wonderful these promises that were made to Abram.
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Well, this time Abram took it all to heart. And brother, I'm saying this because we need to take what we have in Christ a heart so we get so easily taken up with this world and all it has to offer. And we don't take to heart how richly and we are blessed and how wonderful our portion as Paul spoke of it, the unsearchable riches of Christ. But now Abram took this to heart and it says in the fourth verse.
So Abram departed.
As the Lord had spoken unto him, and Lot went with him, and Abram was 70 and five years old when he departed out of heroin. I'd like to particularly mention about these four different people. First, about Tyra, we talked about him, a man who didn't, as far as we know from Scripture, have living faith, who never entered the promised land, who died in Haran, although he had, shall I say, a religious atmosphere about his life and leaving the Chaldean coming part way.
Many, many people are religious today, but they haven't received Christ and religion doesn't say it. So I believe that Terra pictures to us a man who might be religious and come part way along with Christianity, but without receiving the Lord Jesus, Abraham. I believe friends before us, a man of faith, a man who not perfectly as we'll see and none of us are perfect, but a man who in the main had a desire to honor God.
And how he made some very faithful stands at times. And I said, I believe, as I say, he's characterized in the Scripture as a man of faith. And now I like to think about Sarah too, because it must have been very difficult for Sarah when Abraham received this call and said, probably as I say, I like to picture these things, he said to his wife one day, perhaps they were living in a measure of prosperity back there.
In Mesopotamia because.
He evidently was quite a influential and clever man, and according to history they had made quite a bit of progress. That was quite an advanced civilization in her of the Chaldeans, and perhaps here, if you can picture one day, he says to his wife. God has called us to leave this land, she says. Where are we going? I don't know. God will show us. What kind of a home will we have if we go into that land? I don't know.
We just have to wait and see. And in actuality, they never had a house in that land. They only lived the rest of their lives in tents. That was a tremendous decision, wasn't it, for Sarah to be willing. And you know, this is a word to us too. We can be a help or a hindrance to our friend or partner. And each one of us can ask our hearts when her partner wants to follow the Lord. Do we give support or do we hinder?
It's nice to see that, Sarah, as far as we know.
Gave support. She never, we never read of her driving back here alone. And she came right along when Abram did this. And so that we can be, as I say, a hell or a hindrance, a partner. One time we know Sarah was stronger in her face than Abram and spoke to him about something that he needed to be spoken about. And so I'm not speaking about whether the man has more faith in the life or the wife than the man, but I'm saying that sometimes.
The wife might grow more than the husband, or sometimes it might be the other way, but it's a tremendous thing to be a help to the partner that God has given to us or to our friends. When someone of your friends, even if you're not married to someone of your friends, wants to follow Christ, do you put a little drag on or do you have do you say, well, that's great, let's go on and follow the Lord and put him first. It's it's so nice to see this about Sarah, but now there seems to be a rather sad note about life.
A lot to me represents a person who was always just like the company he was with. We never read a Lot making a good decision when Abraham left her of the Chaldees and he stopped in Heron when Abram came. I want to say here that Lot was a real believer because the New Testament tells us that he was a righteous man but when he left.
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Karen and came into the land. It just simply says Lot went with him. When he went down to Egypt, Lot went with him and he came back out of Egypt. Lot came back out. And when he was finally forced later on to make a decision on his own, he showed that he was a follower of somebody else. And he didn't have personal exercises of his own to follow the Lord. And you know, we're put to the test, brethren.
As to whether we're just going along with our brethren, when they're doing things for the Lord, we go with them. When they're going the other way, we go along with them. We're put to the test sooner or later as to whether there is real decision in our own hearts for Christ. And these four characters are very interesting, all brought together.
Later as to whether there is real decision in our own hearts for Christ and these four characters are very interesting, all brought together in this story that God has given to us. I say again, Tara, probably not a believer at all or a religious man. Abraham, a man of faith. Sarah, a wonderful help and lot just a person who though a believer was not really walking before the Lord in the strength of a faith that counted upon God.
And sought to please God for himself. Well, we're going to meet Lot in heaven, there's no doubt about that. But it's possible, as the scripture tells us, to have a saved soul but a lost life.
The Lord said, He that loveth his life shall lose it, but he that hateth his life in this world.
Keep it on delayed eternal. That's not the question of the salvation of the soul. That's only thrown through new birth and through the blood of Christ. But a person could really be saved and yet have a lost life, not living our lives for the Lord Jesus who is so worthy of all that we have. And another thing we notice in this fourth verse was how old Abram was. Now I know they lived longer in those times.
But his life was pretty close to being half spent because.
Even though they live longer, it was we might sit pretty close to the middle of his life.
When this happened, and this is an encouragement too, if we've had wasted years in our life, we don't have to waste the rest of our lives. The Bible says that we should live the rest of our time to him who died for us and rose again. So it may be there has been wasted years in our lives, but we don't have to say, well, since I've wasted so much time, I might as well keep on this way. There was a great change that took place here.
The real advancement in his Christian life when he was 75 years old. So let's think about the rest of our time. As it says in Hebrews today, if he will hear his voice harden not your hearts, that is, we just have from today forward to live for the Lord, So says And Abraham took Sarah, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son.
And all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Heron.
And they went forth to go into the land of Canaan and into the land of Canaan.
They came.
You notice what it says. They took all their substance and the souls that they had gathered. We have a little expression that we sometimes use, burning your bridges behind you. And we all know what that means. That you say, well, I might, I might want to go back, so I'm going to burn the bridge so I can't go back. And I think this is really what Abraham was doing here, because if he had left some of his flocks or his herds. So there's good feeding here. I'll see what cannons like and we'll leave.
Some of our things back here, we can come back and get them afterwards. He might have got discouraged because everything wasn't perfectly smooth when he got the Canaan.
And I want to tell you that if you want to follow the Lord, it may not always be smooth, Paul said to the unbelievers. We must, through much tribulation, enter into the Kingdom of God. There is no promise for us as believers that we're going to have a smooth path. We can expect persecution, and there is no promise that we're not going to have the aches and pains of humanity. It says we are cells who have the first fruits of the Spirit.
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Even we ourselves grown within ourselves, waiting for the adoption to with the redemption of our body.
So they left nothing there that they might want to go back for. They took everything when they left came and and it says it's a rather interesting expression to go into the land of Canaan and into the land of Canaan. They came and perhaps we can see something of the force of this because sometimes we start out and we face a few hardships and difficulties and we say, well, I don't know whether I'm quite prepared.
This is not going to be easy, but it says they went forth to gull and into the land of Canaan. They came, that is, they pressed on in the energy of faith, and we need that energy of faith to press on. We need to look to the Lord. He's the God of all encouragement. All of us get discouraged at times, and we need to do like David did when he felt pretty discouraged one time, it says.
David encouraged himself in the Lord his God, and we need to.
Get that little bit of encouragement from the Lord when we feel difficulties in the way. Well, in the sixth verse he passed through the land under the place of Sikkim under the plain of Mora, and the Canaanite was then in the land. And it wasn't all clear, as we might say, because we know the Canaanites were the enemies of God's people. We all know about the battles they had with them later on when they entered the land under Joshua.
And so when he came into the land, it wasn't just all clear so that he could say, well, it's going to be very simple because there's nobody here to contest our rights in this land. No, Satan will contest your rights every step of the way. He'll constantly try to put obstacles in the way the Canaanite was then in the land, there were those who were enemies dwelling there, But it says in the seventh verse.
And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto thy seed Will I give this lamb?
And there bill that he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.
We're told that the God of Glory appeared to Abram when he was back in Mesopotamia, but we don't read of any appearance from then on until this very time. That is, he didn't appear to him when He was inherent. While the Lord never leaves us, we may not be in the enjoyment of His presence. The two that were on the road to Emmaus, they didn't realize that the Lord was walking beside them, but He was there, and when it says the Lord appeared to him. I believe that this brings before us the fact that.
Now he enjoys the Lord's presence as though the Lord had come and said, Abram, remember, I'm right here to support you and help you. You see these Canaanites in the land. But I am the Almighty One, and he's the one who appeared to Abraham both before and now as he enters the land. And so he builds an altar to the Lord. The response of his heart is to give the Lord his rightful place.
Because the order, as we know, has to do with our approach into the presence of God.
Says in Hebrews we have an altar where they have no right to eat, would serve the Tabernacle. But we come and the Lord Jesus himself is our altar. So he builds this altar if we can put it very simply, He gives the Lord His place. He recognizes that all this is from him and of him and whenever the Lord does something for us.
Good for us to come back with Thanksgiving and with praise. Enter into his gates with Thanksgiving and into his corpse with praise.
The 10 lepers were cleansed, but only one came back to give thanks, and the Lord valued them. So Abram builds an Alger.
I believe the Lord is leading him on, just as He does with us. He needs us step by step. He doesn't make known everything to us, but if we're willing to go on as He marks out the steps for us, then He becomes more and more precious to us. He opens up things to us. Many of us can look back on our lives and see He didn't show us everything all at once, but if we're willing and as we go on in his company.
And seeking to give him his rightful place, then he shows us more and more.
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Has a little hymn, says Richard Fuller. Deeper, Jesus love is sweeter, sweeter. As the years go by and the mother verse says in the Bible the path of the justice is the shining light. The China's More and more Mr. Darby's translation is going on and brightening until the day be fully come. That is an era. We get to the glory, the brighter the past becomes as we walk in that path in company with the Lord Jesus.
So we lead them on. In the eighth verse it says he removed from then son to a mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the West and hey I on the east. And there he builded an altar upon the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord. Seems to me that there's progress. First he leaves heroin and comes into the land. He finds the Canaanite there. Then he comes to this.
Special place where the Lord appears to him to give him some encouragement and he builds an altar, but now he comes to this place.
This place, Bethel. I think all of us know that Bethel means the House of God. And it tells us also and where he pitched his tab, he had Bethel on the West and hey, I on the east, hey, I mean the heat. And the children of Israel later on entered the land. They laid that very city.
And made they burned it, and they made a heap of rubbish out of that city. And I like to think of where he pitched his tent and where he built his altar.
I think all of us know that pitching the tent has to do with being pilgrims and strangers. When we were reading in the meetings in Des Moines, we were reading in First Peter. And it says, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims. Strangers because we're away from home, pilgrims because we're on our way home. And that's our position here. And this was a position that Abraham took. It's true the land was his, but he was only a Pilgrim and a stranger there.
And we're on our way, and in one sense we're already seen as seated in the heavenlies in Christ. But in this world where pilgrims and strangers too. And so this is where he built his, where he pitched his tent, and there he built his Alder. So here in this world where we're pilgrims and strangers, we have, we have a place where we can gather and gather around the Lord Jesus and worship him. It tells us about this place, Bethel, which means the House of God and.
Hai meaning a heap. I like to think of it in this way.
As we think of the West, we think of where the sunsets we think we're pressing on and we're in life. We're pressing on to the end of life. And So what he left behind, we began our existence in this world, and now he's pressing on to the setting of the sun. What did he leave behind? You know, sometimes when people get old, they they live in the past. They think of all the things they've left behind.
All the good times that they had in the past, they don't see anything bright ahead, you know, Sunsets. Very bright. It's very beautiful, isn't it? You know, with your old sister?
In Canada, when she was put in a home and somebody talked about the sunset of life with all its sorrows, she wrote a little poem that to her, the end of life was just the beginning for her, of something bright and glorious. So, in other words, what she left behind.
Was to be compared with what was ahead. And rather than that's our life here in this world, we began here in this world there was, so to speak, a sunrise. And it's right that we should provide for honest things. God gives us many happy joys in life, the joys of youth, the joys of home and health and many things. But we're pressing on and we're going on. But between the two isn't this nice? We have a tent. We're never to forget that this is not our true home.
We're just pilgrims here. As we sang, we are but strangers here. Heaven is our home. Earth is a desert rear. Heaven is our home. And instead of getting discouraged as we get older, let's think of what's ahead. The glory shines ahead for us, who are believers. And what a wonderful thing it will be when we meet our precious Savior. And as our brother Brown used to say by the clot or the cloud, we're going to meet him soon.
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That might be death, or it may be that is coming, but that's what's ahead for us. Well, so this is where he had his tent and his altar. But now perhaps we can say a little time of departure coming in the life of Abram. Because as I said, Abram wasn't perfect. He settled in Heron first, then his faith was, shall we say, stirred up. And he comes in and they he makes real progress.
But.
There comes a famine in the land and he presses on toward the South. And the famine instead of improving, it gets worse. And you know, there are families that come in our lives too. Things often go along well for a time, and everything seems to be bright and the Lord seems to be encouraging us and so on. But then polls come and you're a lot, troubles come in our lives. Maybe health problems may be difficulties in the assembly, maybe financial thing, and there's a family.
We know, of course, this was a famine for food, but there are various kinds of famine that come in our Christian life and it's a very, very serious time.
The journal over First Peter, I'd like to call attention because I think there's something very instructive in first Peter 5.
First Peter 5.
It says.
Those things humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.
Casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant, because the your adversary, the devil, is a roaring lens gold the boat seeking whom he may devour.
Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
You know, I believe those verses show us that when troubles come, if we don't take a humble place and cast our care upon the Lord, then the devil comes in and he gets us discouraged. The next verse says, your adversary, the devil, is a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour. I heard.
Satan compared to the roaring lion in connection with persecution, but I believe that when he's he's brought before us as a roaring lion in the scripture. It's discouraged.
I've seen that persecuted Christians are usually happy, Paul sang when he was in the prison. And I'm sure that many of the Christians who are being persecuted in our very day are happier than some people who are in these lands of prosperity. But they're discouraged, discouraged, and that's where Satan comes in. And I think this was a serious point in Abraham's life. He was discouraged. He had obeyed the call of God. Why did God let this trouble come?
You say, I've tried to please the Lord, and why did he allow this to come? And instead of casting your care upon the Lord, you let yourself get discouraged. And that's where the danger is, that's where the world is liable to creep in. And it was just at this point that that Egypt looked very attractive to it. And he thought, well, I'll go down. And Egypt. And Egypt, as we all know, is a picture to us of the world. The reason it pictures the world to us is that they didn't have to depend on reigns like they do in this country.
And all you're hoping for rain here, and I hope the Lord sends it, if it's his will. But down in Egypt, they used irrigation. And so they felt kind of independent that they watered their crops by irrigation. But that was, that is why I believe it's a picture of the world. It it was a place of progress, but it was also a place where they had a feeling of independence of God. And so Abram said, well, I'll go down there if it doesn't rain, they'll have irrigation there and we'll have crops.
And so he goes down, he leaves his tent, and he's altered. He goes down there. And now he denies his proper relationship to his wife. And that's what happens when we turn to the world. We deny our proper relationship to the Lord Jesus because the Lord Jesus is the bridegroom of the church, and he denied his proper relationship to his brain. And so this was a sad thing for everyone.
It tells us here that it became very prosperous. But what was it all when he didn't have his tent on his altar? And he almost lost his wife too? Oh how many sorrows we often enter into? Because when discouragement comes, instead of seeking the face of the Lord, instead of saying Lord, help me through this discouragement, help me through this time of trial, casting all your care upon him for a careth for you. We try to work out some plan of our own.
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We turn to the world and we bring sorrows into our life. Thank God we have a wonderful savior and he restores. And Abraham got restored, but there were losses in his life which were fully regained. And while the Lord restores, we can never, never fully regain what we lose when we have wasted years in our lives. Abram went down here. I think Sarah seems to shine out very brightly.
I think it was wonderful that she didn't get discouraged and say, well that's the way Abram treats me up through, but it seems to me that we see the little traits that God see allows in His word. Isn't it nice to see maybe you have the time to discourage, maybe somebody that you trusted in has been untrue to you too. It's wonderful how the Lord is able to sustain in times like this when we depend upon Him and so.
We see this whole story, a real true picture of life as we endure it ourselves. Well, God came in and in mercy he delivered Abram and he delivered Sarah. Is it wonderful how when we do miss the path, how we can say with the psalmist he restoreth my soul? He delights to bring us back. Does anyone here that's wandered away don't continue wandering? Abram would have lost everything if he had stayed down there in Egypt, but.
Thank God he didn't stay there. He didn't. He didn't allow himself to get so discouraged that he remained there in that wrong position.
But it was not only a loss in his own life, but it was a dishonor too. Because Pharaoh was Pharaoh really rebuked him. And sometimes the world has to say, well, do Christians act that way? Do Christians do things like that? And this was a sad thing. When even the world looks on, they know how Christians should act. I've often said the world sets a very high standard for us as Christian.
Isn't it amazing how they all say, Well, Christians shouldn't act like that. People of the world might, but if you profess the name of Christ, you shouldn't. Well, we shouldn't either. So we bring sorrow on our lives. We often bring dishonor on the Lord, but all the faithful, gracious God.
We have. And so there's another thing I might mention too, and that is perhaps two things. Abraham was the one who gave Let a Taste of Egypt, And if we read the whole story, we'll see that.
That when Lot missed the path later on he had acquired a taste for those things that he had seen in Egypt, and that was where he turned afterwards. None of us liveth to himself, and no man died to himself. Our lives have an effect on others. We seldom go astray alone. We usually influence others. When Peter decided to go fishing, he took six others with him and six other people.
Cut into our own path. Because Peter was a leader type and Janelle we have to be careful. We affect our own lives, we affect others. So we affected lot and became a hindrance to his brother in Christ. And he also got down there that girl at Hagar who was an Egyptian girl, he also got her who after called a lot of sorrow in his house. So we see that while Lord restores by sometimes we have to reap what we saw from him and.
All these things are warnings to us. They're written, as the Scripture says, for our learning. But here, let's turn to the bright side of it. Now the 13th chapter.
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and lot with him into the South. And Abel was very rich, and cattle, and silver, and gold. And he went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Haley, under the place of the older, which he had made there at the 1St. And there Abram called in the name of the Lord.
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And if we're going to get back rather than, we have to get back, just like Abram did, he came back.
To the very place that he had left.
And that's the way of restoration. He wants us to come back, and there's really no restoration until we come back to the place that we have left. That is, we've got to know the point of departure. We'd like to take shortcuts sometimes, but there was no shortcut. You had to come all the way back, right back to that place where his tent and his altar had been at the first. Well, this is the way it is when the Lord restores.
Abram has just left Egypt. Instead of I'll go to a different place because I've messed up my life and there's no use for me going back. What a loss of what I've been. He would have really lost.
A further blessing that God had for him in his life. And so let's say if any of us have got away from the Lord and we wandered away from him, don't be satisfied with half measures. Come right back, get right with the Lord and get right with your brethren. We find later on in the life of Jacob that there were two points, so to speak, in his Restoration. First when he wrestled with the Lord at a place called Peniel, and secondly when the Lord said to him.
Arise and go to Bethel. Pineal means the face of God.
And Bethel means the House of God. Yet I believe that wrestling in Jacob's life was he had had 20 years that he was away from the Lord. 20 years. Not a last time, wasn't it? And it says the sun set on him when he left his father's house. But when he wrestled that night and had it out with the Lord the next morning it says the sun rose upon.
And he called the name of the place.
Peniel, he said. I've seen God face to face. Yes, we have to get first back to the Lord and then after this, then the Lord said, Now put away the strange gods out of your eyes and arise and build a battle. And so that's the way the Lord restores. And this is what we see with Abram. He not only left Egypt, but he comes and goes right back, shall I say, retraces all his steps.
And comes to the place where that is 10 and his altar at the first well, how wonderful these lessons that God has for us and His word. Brethren, these things were written for our learning that we, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might have hoped. I'm sure all of us here in this room see. Certainly as I speak to you, I can see things that fit for me. Perhaps you see something that fits for you, because God has given us these stories to help us.
And to give us to see that we're compassed about with a great cloud of witnesses, others who have walked the path of faith before us and have learned things and justice, like you might say to a friend, Well, listen, I stumble there. Don't you stumble in the same place? Because it won't be so good. And This is why God put these things down. And when somebody says, oh, I want you to see this, it's something wonderful that I saw Then you can share something wonderful. And the Bible gives us warning, but it also gives us wonderful things to share too.
How God comes in and restores and blesses and encourages. Well may His Word be an encouragement and a blessing to us. We only have, I say again, brethren, the rest of our time, But we can live it for the Lord Jesus, for he loved us and gave himself for us.
Maybe we could send 275.
Our God is light, and though we go across a trackless wild, our Jesus footsteps ever show a path for Every child 275.
For God is light and.
There we go.
Matthew 13:1-31
Address—C. Buchanan
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Let's start with #40 in the back part of the book.
#40 in the appendix.
Hailed to the Lord's anointed.
Who's that great papers?
Greater sign.
The last standard king shall fall down before him.
And go.
And incense brain.
Whole nation shall adore Him, His praise.
All people sing. We can do it right now. That's number 40 in the back of the book.
Hail to the Lord.
Day.
Matthew 13.
I'd rather.
Glad to hear.
That our brother Neil has recently.
On over this chapter with young people.
Because in my own history.
I can go back 50 years.
About.
To rent a man named John Wilson.
Came to our little assembly out in the country.
Southern Illinois.
And spoke on this chat.
Deeply impressed me.
Young people are the ones that get the word.
Eric Smith, who some of you know, the missionary, 95 years old now, still living, he said to me one day. He said, you know, and the thoughts of you are long, long thoughts.
95 he has reverted back to his youth, tell stories about his Jupiter.
It's wonderful to get the Word of God and still in the mind in your youth.
You read this first verse here.
The same day when Jesus out of the house and sat by the seaside.
We're going to read verses and comment upon them little by little as we have time.
What does this tell us?
The same.
Who lost it?
Went Jesus.
Jesus, God manifest in the flesh. God come down.
Revealed by Matthew.
Republican. Not Republican, but Republican.
One who had a place in the tax collecting public government.
Was used to reveal to tell us about Jesus as the Messiah.
Particularly to the Jews whom he had come.
To show that he was their king, the Craig.
He did come.
The early chapters tell us his name is Jesus, for he shall save his people and their sins. But it also calls him Emmanuel. That's being interpreted as God with us. That was the literal fact. This man was and is God. He came now.
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He ministered to the Jews.
For a full 3 1/2 years publicly before that many testimonies his own mother recognizing some has to who he was and we may say is God manifest from the flesh.
He had come to.
Do his own as John Rice.
And his own received him, not, that is his own people.
Born of Israel, made of a woman.
To redeem them that were under the law, He had come to them, I say.
Now speaking to farmers like myself.
We enjoy.
The way Jesus.
Pictured things to us.
There are 7 parables in this chapter.
The parable is a story.
Using.
Literal things.
Like trees, for instance.
Or she or other things.
With a meaning behind it.
And.
God had worked.
With Israel beforehand.
Using a figure of a tree, 3 trees.
The victory.
Is in scripture a figure, a picture of that nation Israel as a nation?
Behold the victory and all the trees. Luke 21.
Is God's way of telling us you look at Israel and all the other nations.
And that applies in 1988.
The fig tree and all the trees.
For the Lord had come to that victory.
He had a fig tree planted in his vineyard.
The vineyards and other symbol of the nation of Israel seeking fruit.
Ryan speaks out fruitfulness, and there's still another treat that God uses as a symbol of Israel, and that's the following truth.
And that's the richness, the fatness of the blessing of God to a people.
So that we find in Romans that the wine anomaly is draft into the old olive.
Is the Gentiles are put in the place of richness and fatness instead of Israel? I am talking about these three trees.
To help clarify what is coming up in this chapter.
For what had happened?
The same day was that finally?
Jesus felt himself rejected by Israel.
He had performed his miracles amongst them, healing the sick. Full of them came through.
Giving sight to the blind.
Hearing and speaks to the deafened zone. Cleansing the leopard.
Casting out demons and raising the dead to show that Emmanuel was their president.
All power of God against sin and its effects were seen in the ministry of Jesus, and they rejected.
In the chapter before this, the 12Th chapter, they attributed to Jesus his miracles to be elves above the Prince of Devils.
That was the cardinal sin of the nation.
From that point on, Jesus looks at them as.
Really.
Not wanting him rejected he was.
So now he goes out, he leaves the house. The house was relieved.
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That he told me it may have been the House of God. It certainly was in the 23rd chapter.
This is a place where they were.
Those who were then, you might say, and he had come to, He leaves them, he goes out by the seaside, and a great multitude were gathered together under him, so that he went into a ship and sat, and the whole multitude stood on the shore. What a beautiful scene. Let's think about it a little more.
A most marvelous day this.
Here was Jesus, the Son of God, God manifest in the flesh, and he goes out of the house, He gets in this book, He goes out a little way and he looks back and there are the masses of the people standing on the shore waiting to hear him.
Now this is a picture.
The seaside and the multitudes there are picture of the masses of mankind.
The Gentiles, all mankind.
So he he begins a new thing.
When Israel has rejected him.
He begins a new thing.
And he begins to announce future things.
Now he was the king.
So the first thing he announces?
Is the Kingdom of heaven.
A little later on in this book, he announces the church.
And still a little later on, the Kingdom in glory.
But we're here to take up this chapter, which tells us.
About the Kingdom of Heaven.
Now Simply put.
The Kingdom of Heaven.
Is this fear of profession on the earth?
During the time when the king is in there.
Say that again because it's very important to get ahold of it.
Christendom is an accurate word. It means Christ's Kingdom.
And it's the same as the Kingdom of heaven in that sense. So to repeat, the Kingdom of heaven is this sphere of profession where people profess Christ in some measure or another. It's largely the Western world as men speak about it. It's this fear profession during the whole time and when the king went up until he comes back. Now that's a long time and we're still in it, but we're going down to the close up.
And when Mr. Wilson lined out these things, I thought, this is tremendous.
Because you and I can look back and see how accurately every prophecy in parable form has been fulfilled.
It just increases your faith to see that the word of God is true when God speaks that we ought to believe it.
So Jesus begins to announce a new thing, and he's not selecting any nation.
But it is for all the most.
There they stood on the shore, and he speak many things unto them in parables.
Saying, Behold, a sore went forth the soul.
A parables, we have said, is a story with a hidden meaning.
And we, as farmers enjoy and perhaps can understand.
This parable is coming up.
Easier than a man who works in an office in New York City, downtown in Manhattan.
You know they don't know much about planting and reaping.
But even they know something about it.
Put in a beautiful form.
Now say that in this chapter we have 7 perils. 7 in scripture is a.
Complete sets of things spiritually.
And So what the Lord is giving us is a complete outline of the time of the Kingdom of heaven.
Now, the first one is distinct from the six that fallen. We're just getting to that much of it today. Perhaps you'll notice when you read carefully.
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Let the first parable.
Is different.
That's similar to the next one and those that follow in that.
The last six are called similitudes of the Kingdom for likenesses of the Kingdom.
And the last six are complete in themselves.
But I think the first one, before we read it be helpful to say.
That they apply. They talk about the time before the king went up to heaven, his own ministry as the king had been presented to the Jews.
The time when he was here.
The time when he was the sower.
It's nice, boys, to go out and plant corn, show some oats and that sort of thing and put it in the earth and watch it come up and grow.
It's very delightful thing to see the product come forth from what you're putting out. What is the same way?
He looked down here and here was Jesus. He had labored publicly those three and more years looking for a product, and there was a product, but it wasn't all good.
Clearly it's pretty much the gospel. We'll go ahead and read it. Behold, the sword went forth. The soul when he sowed. Some seeds fell by the wayside when the fowls came, and to guard them up some fell upon Stony places.
For they have not much earth, and forthwith they strung up, because they had no deepness of burden. When the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no roots they withered away. Some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprung up and choked them.
But other fell into good ground, and brought four fruit, some and 100 bowls, some 60 fold, and some 30 fold. Who have ears to hear? Let him hear. And the disciples came and said unto him, Why speak us thou unto them in peril? You see, He was speaking for all of those out there on the seashore to hear it. He answered and said to them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven. Here he mentioned it.
This is what he's announcing, and it's a mysterious form. Doesn't look like a Kingdom.
But to them it is given.
It is not given to them, is not given unto you. It is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven, but under them it is not together those who don't receive the Lord, for whosoever hath.
To him shall be given He that hath, he shall have more abundance. But whosoever hath not from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables, because they seem see none, and hearing they hear none, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaias, which saith By hearing he shall hear and shall not understand.
And seeing he shall see, and shall not perceive. For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull here. And their eyes have they closed, lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears.
For they.
For verily I say in you that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see and have not seen them, and to hear those things which you hear and have not heard them. This is the parable. Then he expand here Thee therefore the parable of the soul.
Now this, The thrower here is Jesus himself in his own ministry. Run here when anyone hears the word the Kingdom, There's the Kingdom mentioned again, for he was the King and understandeth it not.
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Then cometh the wicked heart.
And catch it the way that which was sown in his heart.
This is he which received seed by the wayside.
But he that received the seed into Stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and Anon with joy receiveth it. Yet has he no root in himself?
But there is worthwhile for when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word by and by, he's offended.
He also that received seed among the thorns is he that feared the word, and the care of this Pearl, and the deceitfulness of riches showed the word. He become a unfruitful. But he that receive a seed into the back to heaven is he that hear the word and understand a bit, which also beareth fruit.
And bringeth forth some, and hundredfold, and some 60.
And some 30.
Well, it's rather simple in a way to look at this parable.
And see how it applied then and still applies.
To the seed that is being sown in the gospel of the grace of God.
For many.
Much work has been done in sowing the seed by the Lord Himself when He was here.
He preached the same gospel of John the Baptist priest. Repent the King, receive him.
John said he's coming, and in fact the Lord said he's here. Menace, I mean showing, manifesting by his own works that he was gone by what he did to overcome all the effects of sin.
And laboring at that, sowing the seed. And then so many did not receive it, but some of you did, and it was those who understood.
And the Lord is looking for us to understand what is sown today.
In the Gospel of the grace of God, which has now been praised well over 19150 years and still goes for and produces the same results.
That is what is shown.
1St is that which went by the wayside.
And the harrows came and devoured them up.
You've seen birds come out to broadcasting oats.
Or you don't get your corn quite deep enough and they pick up the seed and go off with it.
And it's gone. Doesn't produce anything. That's the picture.
When you noticed the gospel being presented.
Tracks handed out people talking about the Lord Jesus.
And.
Facts given my person just drops it and it blows away.
Or a word spoken. Don't pay any attention, just ignore.
An enemy put his portion there, and Satan is always at work still as he wants them.
To blind the eyes and that seeing they might not see. That was nationally true of Israel. That was the work that Jesus did. If you read the 49th song, you find the feelings of Christ about that whom this place you just moved to.
It is so tender to your heart to think of the feelings of Christ about His own work.
When he was here.
With Israel, you get it in the gospel.
And prophetically.
In the fourth verse.
Of the 49th of Isaiah we have the feelings of Christ about his own work. The 49th of Isaiah and the fourth verse. When you read this, just think of the heart of Christ.
That he had labored with Israel in perfection.
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He was a perfect servant, absolutely perfect.
And they turned him down. They turned him down. Did he feel it? Look what he says.
Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for North, and in vain. Who does he trust in now?
Yet sure, my judgment is with the Lord.
And my work with my God.
You gospel preachers, this is a verse for you. You may preach the gospel, you may hand out tracts and people just ignore it. You don't see any results.
Down in Bolivia.
Years and years ago.
A man was dying.
Consumption. That's a form of tuberculosis.
Eric Smith a new and he had been saved.
And he wanted to do something for the Lord.
Fabian Estrada was his name.
Fabian had just a few months to live.
And he wanted to do something from the Lord.
And Eric helped him. He gave him some books, some Bibles and tracks and set him up and down the railroad on a free pass to labor for the Lord to hand out cracks and reach souls.
Worked for three or four or five months.
And Eric said, well, how did it go? Probably on, they said, I didn't see.
I didn't see anything.
But one of those tracks?
Fell in the hands of a man named Leno Bueno. He yet lives. He's a year older than Eric. He's 96. Being there in March, he was still moving around. I missed seeing him one day. He was saved through Fabiana's struggle.
You can be sure that your works not in pain. Somebody's going to get blessed. It's not important that we see it now. The blessed Lord he looked for results. He says I have labor in vain spent my strength or not yet as my work with my gone.
Well, he expounds this parable, and he goes a little further in the expounding of the parable. He always does in each parable where he tells what means. He goes a little beyond what you find in the parable itself.
But he tells what these different results are.
And in the 19th verse he says when anyone heareth the word of the Kingdom.
And understand if it's none, he doesn't really.
Take in his mind about what it means. Then cometh the wicked one over there is the enemy. He's always around. He catches the way, the seed that is sown in his heart.
This is he that receive a seed by the wayside. We've talked about that there's another result.
But me that received the seed into Stony places, the same as he that here the word an amount with joy receiveth it, Yet has he no root in himself, but doeth for a while, For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word by and by his offenders.
Now this is another result.
And it's no good.
A few years ago throughout California, they have two daughters out there. We get out once in a while. They're traveling the mountains. We don't have any mountains in Illinois and I haven't seen any now, but they get pretty big out there and they call them the Rocky Mountains out there. And this one mountain that we were looking at, look, look, I got shooted up almost as smooth as that ball, hard as granite. I looked up, way up there, maybe at 1500 feet up there.
There's a crack in the mountain.
And a seed of one of the trees to take a root in that crack and try this best to grow on the side and look about as Scron as your corner socks here to this year for a tree that's pretty poor. So you see, there's an example.
One who's heart is stolen.
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He he grasped it right away. The sun's there and there's some germination, but there's nothing to last. It does not produce. You've seen this result in the gospel, that race going forth through each Come on, Pierce, the next day you don't.
Wind blows along, it comes there buddy and say, oh don't go post people, they're weirdos, that sort of thing. Maybe when they temptation they don't want to try, they don't want to storms their life and they should let drop away. This kind of thing still goes on. It went on with the Lord when he was sowing the seed too.
Verse 22. He also then received seed. Among the thorns is he that heareth the word.
Now we as Christians need to think about this.
And the care of this world.
And the deceitfulness of riches show the word, and he become untruthful.
There is a seeming.
They get a little prick in their conscience. When the Lord said in one of these prayers, let these things sink down into your ears, he meant your conscience and have a deep rooted work.
The flowers don't go out and turn out. I mean plant without stirring land up.
Clown discipline, heroin, ripping that land up and making a smooth seat back.
They don't work very well. I know there are some ways to.
Motel planning will do work, but there has to be a looseness of soil and a preparation is just right. It may be even more difficult to get a good seed crop, good stand of seed in the no till way of farming and the standard way of farming. But at any rate there has to be a fitness to that soil to receive the word, and then there has to be the care to keep out the.
Of course, we and Johnson grass or your corn and all those other things, the thorns and Thistle that aren't here, that rub the plant and it doesn't produce. Now for the Christians the care of this world.
You've experienced some of the tech for parents raising children is quite a bit of care of this work.
And it's right to have a certain amount of it, but it's the overcharge you'll find in Luke 21 That is wrong.
Be not overcharged with service and drunkenness and the cares of this one. We have a duty to do down here, and we must not go beyond that. But this is apparently one who just left the care that came along and the deceitfulness of riches. One last temple, looking at temporal things instead of eternal, was the error of this person.
And it chokes the word he doesn't produce any fruit, but he that received seed.
Into the good ground. You see that here, the word and understanding.
Meditate upon these things.
When God speaks, it's time to listen what my dad told me.
The bumper sticker you see sometimes is.
God says.
I believe it. That settles it.
But it's better if you say it this way.
God said it that.
See the difference? When God says that it's true, it's already settled. My believing doesn't change the word of God one bit. It's already said wherever, oh Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
So to understand the word, to think about it, meditate upon it, receive it, and then there will be the production. And it diminishes from 100 fold down to 30. We in the drought think we're going to the 30 fold this year, certainly down to the 60 fold. We're not up to the hundredfold production of these three comparisons here. And as farmers, we understand what this means. Well, the one who's sowing the seed.
Notice verse 38 ahead of time.
The field is the world.
The good seed are the children of the Kingdom.
What our Lord as King up in heaven is sowing.
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Is children of the Kingdom.
Who's a child of the King?
Are you a turn into the king? He is king, you know. I meant a dearer, a nearer relationship, but you know him this way.
He's planted you over here in Iowa and over here various places in Puscan, Illinois. He has his children scattered all over Christendom.
Christendom is an accurate word that we say to express the Kingdom of heaven, which is here yet, and will be, until the king comes and puts down the last head of the last Gentile empire, whom we call the beast.
There's going to be a revised Roman Empire and there's going to be a man, a great man, raised up and take the lead of it during the days of the Tribulation. He's going to be a Greek. He's going to work with the other beast over in Jerusalem. It's nice to know these things and relate them to the truth camp.
Back in Ezekiel, you find prophetically sad.
I will overturn God's speaking. I will overturn, overturn.
Or turn it, and it shall be no more, until he comes whose right it is, and I will give it him. Perhaps the 21St chapter.
That is God's way of telling us in one verse what He has done during the time of the Gentiles we referred to when the time.
Of the Gentiles ends.
That's a different time than the time of the Kingdom of heaven. I hope I don't confuse you by saying this, but the time of the Gentiles began when Nebuchadnezzar set up because Israel had failed in their Kingdom in the line of death, God took it away from the Jews and He gave it to the Gentiles.
When Christ came, he was the time of the 4th Gentile Babylon, Media, Persia, Greece and Rome. Jesus was born in the days of the seizures. Augustus.
Tiberius played crucified. Now that was the time of the Gentiles.
Kings, and we're still living in that time of the Gentile king. That is the government of the world is not a hand of the Jews over there. There's having a struggle to be supported by the Gentile empowers of US and Britain or a few others to stay where they are. But they are there because Christ is going to come back and deal with them later. And that's how near we are to the end. I think these things are rather important to get a little bit of a grasp of.
So that the time of the Gentiles.
Ends at the time that the Kingdom of Heaven ends.
That is, Christ will come back as the king and put down that imperial head of the last Gentile empire, and he'll be here. Not as in heaven, baby, here on earth, you see.
Repeat about the Kingdom. It is a dispensational thing. It applies to this whole period of time.
Since Christ went up to heaven until he comes back.
So that brings us through the 1St parable and I want to go into the next one, verse 24. Another parable put HE4 come to them saying the Kingdom of heaven is like.
Notice that word like. We call that a simility. That's what it means likeness or.
Something similar to.
So we're going to get the rest of the Chapter 6 parables, which are all introduced with the same words, their likenesses.
Of the Kingdom of Heaven.
And it's quite a bit similar.
But it's very different from the one we've just been through.
Now this begins the age.
When Christ went up to heaven.
And he's still there.
As a result, put into the hands of man.
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It's the results of the children of Kingdom.
Sowing the good seed of the Word of God. And it produced varying results. And it was a Pope.
And you've noticed in the gospel work, or maybe your own?
Efforts.
In grasping and holding the truth that the enemy opposes.
I've seen it over and over again.
You can look at the examples in the book of the Acts.
When Paul went forth in his ministry.
First attempt.
There was a man called Elias.
That means son of the former.
But he was a sorcerer.
And he opposed the works of God.
And God gave Paul, Saul, the power to put down that attack of Satan against the work that Paul is going to do, because Paul is a special servant, a chosen vessel to bear the Lord's name to the Gentiles. So let's be discouraged when the enemy attacks your work or my work, it may be a good sign that you're doing the right thing.
It may be a good sign that you're doing the right thing, that you're doing the work of the king. We're here to represent the king. We're the ones to sow the seed. We're the farmers to carry forth the message and the silly.
So the Kingdom of heaven is likened unto the man which sowed good seed in his field, but while men slept.
His enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. Isn't this interesting?
I never didn't have anybody when I was forming after I'd showed a field of pleat come along that I knew of.
And sow some wheat seeds behind where I have sow.
But I never had a perfect piece of wheat either.
And I haven't seen one where some kind of a weed didn't come up.
And there is a week that we call cheat.
That looks so much like wheat that when it.
And growing. You can't tell the difference until the heads put on.
It's as similar as a spelling of the word.
Just one letter.
Tweet is WH E8 she is CHEAT.
That's the cleverness of the enemy to imitate, and it's so in Christmas we're in Christmas, we're in the Kingdom of heaven.
And the Lord has put us here as the children of the Kingdom, to sow the good word, and the enemy comes only imitates it.
You know about Mohammed?
But I don't suppose you know very much. Neither do I.
But there was a missionary went from Springfield, IL.
100 and.
110 or 20 years ago and they beat half paper.
You can read about BF Pinkerton. He was gathered with us in Springfield, IL, married into the Europe family.
And Bert might know some of the Urix, their relatives are out in California. They yet live. There's one of them up in.
Calgary or vagina? No, he has Calgary.
I say this because some of the good seed still remains in that family. They're down here. BF Pinkerton went to Egypt, to Lebanon, where they have those awful terrorists and horrible wars and into Syria and into Palestine, preaching the word of God.
And he wrote about.
Mohammedanism or Islam?
Said that Koran. I tried to read it and he said it was.
10.
But the doctor was put so subtly that it just confused them.
Now that's the cleverness of the imitation.
Mohammedanism to Christianity so that people in the world can't distinguish. They think Allah is the God that we have.
It's an imitation of Satan. It's a diabolic.
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And they come, they claim, to be the dominance of Abraham.
Oh, it's the imitation, and that's only one of the many that the enemy has sown.
Well, what are we going to do? I never did go out and pull up the cheap that's going to refund.
When the blades sprung up.
Verse 26 brought forth through then appeared the tears also, so the servants of the householder.
Came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thine field? From which then hath it tears? Now the answers given by the Lord himself he said unto them, And enemy have done this.
The servant said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay, bless, when he gather up the tares, he root up also the wheat with them.
Let both grow together until the harvest and in the time of harvest.
I will say to the readers, gather you together first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my body.
How wonderful is the picture here of what has happened in Christmas in the Kingdom of Pat.
First of all, we confess as men we went to sleep.
Like Goodyear.
The only charge I know against you because is that he went to sleep.
There are other charges against me, perhaps against you.
But we need to be alert.
To the operation of the truth, the Holy Spirit, under the operation of the Spirit of error that sows this seed.
But when it's introduced, you know it's, it's not committed to the disciples to eliminate, to separate, neither is it for us to do that too.
In Bolivia about 6-7 eight years ago.
Went to Bob Tony across the.
Solar, that is the salt sea. It's only a sea for about a month a year with water about 6 inches deep. The rest of the year is dry and it's flat as this floor, as pure soil, something like 100 miles across that salar.
On the other side of epsilon.
Is a town called Geek Double LICA. There are brethren there.
It's an old place.
There are several meetings over there.
The brethren there are the poorest of any of the brethren all the world that I have ever seen they are.
But their dear brethren.
And it's faithful rather than amongst them some that bear witness to the truth.
Of the wheat.
They are weak.
But there is the big system.
I want to say this in love and carefully.
That possibly.
The first imitation.
Towards Radio came out in the Roman Catholic Church little by little.
And I say this because.
Of what they did.
Now we went there with a pure gospel.
And we asked if we could preach the gospel in that town that night.
The brethren who were brought up there, a brother named Enrique especially, grew up in Yuka, known to the people there. But we were apprehensive because six weeks before.
Some energetic.
Evangelists. So Connell had gone over there to try to.
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Capture the people, take them out of Romanism.
And this is what they did.
And you could walk around town and see.
They had in front of their big edifices.
Biggest honor? They knocked over one or two of those idols.
And then they had to leave town. They were chased out of town.
Nearly killed.
They were not.
They were trying to pull up the tears and.
And leave the wheat. God hasn't given us to do that. Brethren, we have a positive message.
Is the truth about the Lord Jesus Christ?
And we ought to feel for souls who have been captured in any sense by Satan. Now amongst the Roman Catholics, I think there are more Christians, as I thought about, than any other so-called denomination all the world.
You think what you think it doesn't. It isn't important. But I say this in love to because there are real Christians among them. But what did they do in her zeal?
To pull the tears out.
I'll tell you another story about Lima, Peru, and if you get a chance to go to Ming, I recommend you go to this place.
It's called the Museum of the Inquisition, The Holy Inquisition, one of the most unholy things that's ever been done.
And he read missionary stories about the heretics.
And you know what?
Thrown dead for several 100 years, the Inquisition in South America ran from 1520 up until the early 1800s.
The Spanish Inquisition, where they set up a tribunal and hailed in heretics that they called heretics, and some of them so long.
And they tormented them to the extreme under that.
What were they trying to do? They say we're trying to root the tares out. They wouldn't say it that way, but they say we're trying to get heretics.
A heretic is one who forms a party, and a party against the truth of Christ. Rove herself turns out to be somewhat like that. We can't charge her, But this is the error of Rome, to try to root out the tares. So I said don't do it. Let them both go together until the time of the harvest. And then he says.
Gather and I will say to the Reaper we haven't time to go on this perhaps.
Tomorrow night they can take up this theme and go a little further and find out that the reapers are the angels. I like that. It's a wonderful thing to go out and harvest fruits and corn and soybeans like you're doing, and a legitimate and a necessary practice.
That God is telling us Christians who are the children of the Kingdom, don't you try to do that? Don't you try to separate the good from the bad?
The angels are going to do that.
And that's the end of the age. And it's after he gathers a week in demand. That's the last thing we read, and you'll have to stop here. Notice in verse 30.
Gather ye together first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn. Now this is important. This is not the burning, this is ahead of time.
Like we used to gather wheat with a binder and tie it into bundles and set it up to run it through the separator.
They were put in bundles or bundled here and bundled there, and then they put them together and later on you took them to the separation.
There is today the gathering of groups of pairs.
In the bundles again I say it's by anxious.
We cannot see it.
But there are angels serving God at all times. They do this.
And he has sent them here. I think we see it. One of the strongest things of the proof of how near we are in time is this very fact.
150 years ago when brethren wrote about these things, they talked about Mohammed, Nissan and.
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Pagan room I'll say as being months now you can go down the list.
From millennial domes and moon to 70th in the whole district that are getting to be big plumbers. The Jehovah Witnesses, one of the marches.
Now these are bundles that are being selected together, tied together.
To burn. But the burning is not going to happen while the wheat's here. This is our consolation. Here's another place in Scripture where we learn that we shall never go through the tribulation, he says. Gather.
The Queen into my heart, Brother Mrs. Who rapes her. We're waiting for it. It could be today we'll sing again.
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May the Saviors love and merit fill our hearts, both night and day, and the action of His Spirit.
All our thoughts and actions way we have a positive thing, not a negative thing. Maybe thus in Lord and fighting and from self dependence free we can't separate the terror from the fleet.
Or find our rest in Christ divided till with joy in South and sea. That's the rapture. Some brothers start this force. 194 please.
May the Savior.
Fall behind the world.
Matthew 13:31-58
Address—C. Buchanan
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Says here King of Glory set on high.
Dirt, with strength and majesty, we, thy holy name, confess.
Thee with adoration bless.
Jesus.
Mighty Son of God.
Wondrous gift a man mistook some brothers start for us, Please 143.
King of Glory 7.
Hearts.
Let me fall asleep.
Maybe some other brother has another kid.
No, I can't start. I got off on the wrong Timmy. Well, we'll read. We can't get through it. King of glory set on high girt with strength and majesty. We thy holy name confess thee with adoration. Bless Jesus.
Mighty Son of God, wondrous gift on man distilled. Many crowns are on the thigh. Head glorious, first born from the dead.
Gladly Lord, we follow the need by the fathers. Just decree to his own anointed 1 to his well beloved Son. Wonderful words, aren't you? Well, let's pray.
We'll open to this chapter 13 again in Matthew.
We had reached the 31St verse.
Where we will begin just a little bit later.
But I think we should review a few things.
But first.
Mention.
That the 2nd parable which we took up.
And spoke about.
In verse 3424.
He is called the Kingdom of heaven. Is Lincoln unto man that sowed good seed in his field, but while men slept, his enemies came and sowed tears.
This is the beginning of a set of 10 parables that are likenesses of the Kingdom of Heaven. Or similitudes is another word. There are six of them in this chapter.
And then there are four more scattered on in the book.
I think it would be well to point them out.
We will try to get through some of these six tonight that are in this chapter.
When we get to the 6th one, we find that there is a separation.
And then when we get to the last one, we find there's another separation.
These things are more than interesting.
They are set there for a warning for the Kingdom of Heaven is.
This sphere of profession here on earth, during the time while the king is in there, it began and it will end.
It began when the king went up to heaven. It will end when the king comes back from heaven and puts down the last Gentile power. He reviewed that a little bit yesterday.
Now.
The first one then of this 10 is that one in verse 24. The next one will begin later is in verse 31 and is called the Kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed.
The third one is verse 33. The Kingdom of heaven is like unto letter.
The 4th, 1:00.
Is in verse 44 again the Kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field.
The first one is verse 45. The Kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls.
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The 6th one is verse 47 again. The Kingdom of heaven is like unto a net that was cast into the sea.
These in this chapter.
Are more or less completing themselves.
And.
What we're going to take up tonight from verse 31 on to the end of the chapter.
As far as we can go.
Are 5.
That are a development.
That first one, that's a likeness that is likened unto a man with so good city in his field, but then tears are so near.
You farmers know this better than anybody else in the world.
That you never so bad seated.
He always sow good seed.
And what we have here.
Is an enemy sowing the bad seed?
And.
Then we get.
The product of the bad seed.
In two parables.
And then we get the product of the good seed in two parables, and then we get the separation of two. At the end of the age. We'll come back and cover this. So we have remarked about 6 parables which are likenesses of the Kingdom of Heaven.
We'll go then to Chapter 18.
Where we'll find.
#7.
To point out.
The 10.
In the seventh, in the 18th chapter, in the 23rd verse we have the 7th similitude of the Kingdom.
It says there the Kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his service.
At Chapter 1823.
Then we go over to Chapter 20.
20 In the first verse we get the 8th 1:00.
Chapter 20 In the first verse we have the 8 similarities of the Kingdom and it says.
The Kingdom of heaven is like unto a man, that is a householder which went out early in the morning, so on.
These are all likenesses of the Kingdom of Heaven, and they have their specific teaching for us.
Chapter 22.
And the first and the second verse gives us the 9th.
Parable that is a similitude, a likeness of the Kingdom of heaven, that says the Kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king which would make a marriage or his son.
And the final one is Chapter 25.
And the first verse.
In the Kingdom of heaven.
Then shall the Kingdom of heaven be likened unto 10 virgins, which had their lamps, and went forth to meet the migrants on. And you remember that there were five of those which were wise, and five which were foolish, and they're separated at the end of the age.
When you thrash grain, a combine does the whole thing now.
But when we used to guide bundles and put it on wagons carry the separator.
Driven by a steam engine or later a diesel engine, the grain would be thrashed out.
And the good grain, the wheat of its wheat would be put in the bin. The fans would blow up the chaff and morning glory seeds or anything else that you have there that was foreign material that you didn't want and separated, and you'd keep the good, throw the bad away. That's what Jesus is telling us about the present age.
And he does it in 10 perils. But the those in our chapter are.
Completing themselves concerning this operation and then he goes on in those that were scattered out 18/20/22 and 25 to give another set of parables which specifically speak of grace.
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We might say that the one in chapter 18 was the need of grace. Well, certainly this world needs grace.
It's the need of grace. God's a gracious God, so he offers grace. That's chapter 20.
Grace was needed Chapter 18, Grace was offered in Chapter 20 and in chapter 22 grace was received.
And then there comes a separation.
In our series here.
We have these beginning with verse 31.
And 33 which give us the product of the bad seed.
This parable we have talked about on Saturday, on Sunday afternoon.
The parable of the tares of the field is the disciples call it is a rare it's it's a special one and it's very complete in itself and it has the development of the whole of these from 31 on to the end of their chapter. But these last five give details that fill in.
The one, we might say. The parent parable.
They can tone that parable, the tears of the field kind of apparent parable.
And the development of what was there in the embryo or the womb comes out in detail in the product of the two seeds that are planted.
And.
So it it makes it helpful to understand that there are two seeds sown.
In the earlier parable that we took up first in the first part of the chapter.
We sat was the sewing of the Good Seed by the Son of Man while he was down here in the world. He did that too. This puts us in a most wonderful position.
In John's Gospel, Jesus in talking to his disciples.
Says to them other men labored, and here entered into their laborers.
Who are the other men?
Specifically, John the Baptist and the Lord.
And he said you're entered into their laborers.
They're gone. Who's in the labor land? He's brethren here and so in health.
Brethren all over the world.
The good seed is the children of the Kingdom.
We have the same message to carry.
Fuller developed than John the Baptist did and Jesus did, for they preached the gospel of the Kingdom. Nevertheless, it was a gospel.
And the gospel can be spoken of as.
God's good news concerning His Son, in whatever age it is. It began when man sinned. It was spoken first to Satan. It was this. The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head. That's victory over apprehended. That's Christ. Christ is the good news.
Well, the long test came in. The King was promised. The King came in this gospel, which begins the book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham, the King. King Kane grew up.
Entered into his ministry and proved who he was by what he did as well as what he said.
That is, he could undo the works of the devil. I was talking with Leo and Marguerite about that word undo, and I think of it when I think of Margaret's father Tom Love. It's found in chapter three of First John for this cause where the Son of God manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil is our translation. A more correct one is undo the works of the town?
He came to.
Well, he healed the sick, he gave sight to the blind, he he gave voice to those that were done hearing to the deaf, and cast out demons and cleanse the lepers and reach the dead.
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Those were the results of sins. Satan introduced sin. So the king showed who he was like what he did, and his words tell it to oh, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and his teaching. Well, he had been refused nationally by Israel, those to whom he came in the 12Th chapter of Matthew. So as we said to begin with on Saturday.
Jesus leaves the house. That's the 1St.
Words of this chapter. And he goes out by the seaside, and he gets the vote, and he goes out in the boat and talks to the people on the shore.
And.
Now we'll start with verse 31.
We had finished up yesterday with the gathering of the wheat into my barn. This, beloved, is the rapture. This is the good seed that is collected and taken up to the Father's house, and it's before the burning. We refer to that. But now we're beginning another parable, and it is the product of the bad seed.
You get bad seed in your field that grows up and it causes you lots of trouble when you try to combine, but it's there and Satan has done that. So let's look at this parable, verse 31. Another parable put he forth unto them saying the Kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field.
Which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree.
So that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches of it.
So here we have the first product of the bad seed.
And it may be spoken of as outward.
And it's it's what's visible and important to man, and it's greatness.
Now believers.
Were never set in the world to become a great thing.
That is those who accepted the king, those babes.
Who received Christ? Who could understand and still can understand the parables?
We're never set to become a great thing in the world.
Rather, we as believers are set here to follow the footsteps of a rejected first.
But you notice this man.
When he sews this seed, it's the bad seed.
It's small to start with, and so it was. I think this began in the days of the apostles.
That the enemy was sowing the seed.
And little by little, you can see how it developed its men. But it's men who Satan gets ahold of. You follow church history.
And you find out that the overseers began to take a title and told themselves bishops. They began to call themselves priests.
And the church is getting spread out and wasn't long until there was a great man down in Alexandria in Egypt, which was the center of Christianity in those days.
There was another one up in Constantinople.
Where Turkey is the northern part of Turkey, where much of the work of pole produced and results of the good seed too. But the enemy came in and men grant grant began to aggrandize, to make themselves big and to clean titles, and to clean and over rule over the masses, and so developed the cortical system.
And the layup cave.
And it was contrary to all the teaching of the Epistles.
Neither being Lords over God's heritage is a simple statement that we read in Peter. Well, they didn't. They didn't do that. They began to come great and they began to assume greatness. So much so that in the days of Constantinople.
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The world began to rule in the public systems that were developed then. This is the tree growing big.
It is now this world system of things in Christendom which has become very great.
And it becomes like a tree. A tree is a great thing in the earth. And the symbols of Scripture. Often trees are used as symbols of nations, as we explain yesterday too, that Israel had been likened to a fig tree and likened to an olive tree and likened to a wine. And other nations have also in Scripture, in the prophets been called.
Great trees in the earth. So Christendom became that.
And here we have read.
When it is grown is the greatest among the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches of it. This is a picture of what will end up as Babylon, the grave, the false church.
Which we can readily understand as we think of the world Christian.
Oh, it's a huge thing. And these birds are symbols.
Now those who find their nests, they're living in this great system of things.
And you'll find that the greater they are, the less of Christ and of God they have.
We don't have to say much about this. It is so big, the whole world knows it, but they don't know.
The meaning of what Jesus was teaching at.
Now this is Christendom.
And christened them, repeating what we said yesterday is a good name for the Kingdom of heaven. It's Christ, Kingdom down here while the king is up there. It's a big thing.
The World Council of Churches is a known organization which is trying to get together the diverse systems that men have set up.
And birds of the air as used here.
You find it back in the province of the Old Testament in connection with Babylon. She's become the whole.
Of every unclean and hateful bird.
It's looked at as.
And God's sake, that's bad thing. It's the product of the bad seed. It can't turn out anything else but it's outward secular greatness in this likeness of the Kingdom of heaven.
It's what men see.
They don't understand it, but we do. It's the outward secular greatness of the world, Christendom around us.
That's one product of the bad seed. The next, the next parable, verse 33, another parable speaking unto them. The Kingdom of heaven is like unto 11 which a woman took the other place, it was a man.
Now woman took and hid in three majors of meal till the whole was left. That's all it is to this parent.
But eleven, we had some wonderful rules over our sisters house tonight. I know she put some leaven in those to make them.
And you cooks knew what leaven can do to inflate.
And I've never seen a cook yet start the 11:00 to 11:00 to working. But she didn't stop.
My wife's going on town a few times and left the bread rising and one time it ran over and ran over down the avenue. That's right and it just keeps on going unless you stop it.
So now is a picture of the working of sin internally. That's all it is.
It's a picture of the working of sin internally. The first parable we talked about tonight is the.
Outward secular greatness of the world. Systems in Christmas.
This is the internal spiritual corruption.
It's the intern spiritual corruption.
That introduces poison into the children's brain. The three measures of meal are a type of the children's brain.
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You see, the Christendom should have fed the young ones coming up the pure Word of God, the pure Word of God that does away with some that puts it away and still instead of inflating man in the flesh, which turns out into turns into inward spiritual corruption and it's a woman. I do think that these things are progressing.
In the order in which Jesus related them.
To typify the progress of the development of these things in these last 2000 years.
In a chronological order.
And we were carried up and thought to the days of Constantine, Constantinople, and then began to form what was the head of the system of things.
Not at Alexandria, nor at Constantinople, but at Rome. Now Rome assumed the ascendancy, and Rome is the common knowledge all over the world as the great leader of Christianity, or Christendom, or the great world systems of the Kingdom of Heaven.
And she is looked at as a woman.
And Rome is the one who began to introduce corrupt teaching into the pure Word of God.
I love the Roman Catholics.
I don't want to speak hard about something, but Rome has done this, Rome has not.
Denied this book. Some Protestant systems have. They hold that this is the word of God. They teach that Jesus was born of a virgin.
And that there is a heaven and that there is a heaven. But then they introduced their poison. You got to go to the human priest and get absolution. You got to pay for forgiveness of sin. Pay, pay, pay, pay, pay. You got it down. Bow down to worship lines. That's the internal spiritual corruption that's poisoned many of soul. God holds that against you.
Isn't it clear this is the development of the bad seed?
But as we spoke yesterday, we are not to do anything about this.
Let both grow together.
For us who are farmers, while I hear you talk about walking things, I didn't understand that term, Vermont time. But then I found out what it meant. We we'd gone down there and hooked them. We had it hooked, it hooked the weeds out and it just does. A farmer could get all those meat out of people.
But in Krishna we are not to do. We are absolutely not to do. And there's one of the failures of Rome that we referred to yesterday, and it is also a failure of The Crusaders.
And crusaders, and there were a number of crusades coming down from northern Europe to try to get back the whole man and looking for the Holy Grail and all this and trying to put the Muhammadans out and all the other religions, war after war.
Trying to eliminate the tears, what they thought were taken. But men can't judge these things.
And we're not to do it. We're to let both grow together.
So we have come to verse 34.
All these things speak Jesus unto the multitude in parables, and without a parable spake ye not unto them.
That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Prophet saying I will open my mouth in parables.
I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
And this is very interesting.
There's coming a change here. Jesus had spoke these this much, and he stopped with the product of the bad seed.
In the before the masses, he spoke all this before the military.
And he did not speak without a parable unto them.
And it says, I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
But he did it in this form that seeing they may not see that's the multitudes that the one through Christ projectors.
They don't rejected him and he wasn't going to give them any truth that they could understand because they had rejected the king. But some had none and those were spoken to in parables and then it was opened up so that they could know.
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So verse 36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. He goes back into the house.
And his disciples came unto him. They were his own. The little ones, the babes, those who were true to Christ, they came to him.
And they asked him, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
They asked him, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
They were so surprised by the tears that they forgot about the good seed as just one parable. To them, it was different from the first parable.
And so they call it the parable that tears of the veil.
Well, that was all right, and Jesus puts forth the most straightforward unfolding that you could possibly give.
We're just reading, He answered and said to them, verse 37, He that sowed the good seed is the Son of man. How that?
How very deaf.
He sold a good seat. He might have used the children of the Kingdom to do it, but he sowed the good seed.
You're put here by the Son of Man, you know.
I am children. He puts us in this world.
Satan puts the other kind of product.
The field is the world. You and I were born in this world.
The good seed are the children of the Kingdom.
Are you one of the good seed? You believe the gospel humor?
The Tares are the children of the wicked one.
That's really sharp, isn't it?
Now child of the devil, Jesus could say.
To somebody, we don't do that.
But he says, the children of the wicked.
The enemy that showed them is the devil. Now we know who served the bad sea.
The harvest is the end of the world.
We haven't come to that. It means the end of this age. It means the end of the time.
That we have spoken of as the Kingdom of heaven.
This will go on right up till the king comes back out of that.
And takes his rightful throne on the earth, and puts down the last Gentile power.
The reapers are the angels, not men.
We have nothing to do with the separation. It's left for angels, those with divine.
Discernment at the end.
Are going to sort out.
The good from the back.
They shook me on.
Our part of individual to be sure that I am one of the children of the Kingdom, you 2.
And to know how to go on down in this world.
Understanding why things are like they are.
Why sin goes on? Well, it's the patience of God. There are many other things that enter in, but this is very clear here. Then he goes to teach on this in verse 40. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire.
Well, you go out and gather firewood.
Care was telling me that he always halfway laid up. He went out and chopped a lot of movement. So he just loves to do that, get something to warm himself up with. Well, this is not gathered for that kind of purpose, but it's a gathering together of fuel for the fire, for the fire of judgment. As therefore the tears are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall be at the end of this age. World here means age, this age of world, Christendom.
The Son of Man shall send for his angels.
I believe they're here. We talked about that a little bit. We'll read a little bit more and come back. They shall gather out of His Kingdom.
All things that offend.
And then which do iniquity.
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And shall cast them into a furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
That's an interesting thing that we have read now.
Of the Kingdom.
The Son of Man is the one who sends the angels to gather out of his Kingdom. That is the Kingdom of the Son of Man. That's another way that the Kingdom is spoken of and is different from the Kingdom of Heaven as also we will get the Kingdom of the Father in these series of parables if we go far enough, which is another aspect of the Kingdom, the first talking specifically about the Kingdom of heaven and that's what we.
Are in when we propose Christ.
And every professor is in the Kingdom of heaven and responsible to the king whom he has professed, and ought to listen to the teaching of that king who gave this instruction here that day. That applies right now as well as the rest of the book.
So.
As the tears are gathered in the fire and burned in the fire, so shall it be end of the at the end of the age.
And this is done by the angels who are the reapers.
And said angels are invisible.
And but in as much as some cults had developed to a great measure.
Who professed to be Christian and deny one of two things or both, That is, that Jesus is God or that Jesus is man, or both. They're completely false and.
Yet they say they're Christians. These are tares. These are the impostors, the imitators. Satan is a wonderful imitator.
But there's only one reoccurrency.
You haven't run into counterfeit here. Probably in El Salvador where we go quite frequently, 3 little assemblies down there we carry.
US currency because it's valid down there and it's valid all over the world when it's genuine, but they have run into a lot of foreigners who come in with counterfeit money.
And it's interesting.
How good some of that counter hit money is.
And the man who was changing our money there, I asked him a little bit about it. He said, oh, some of it. You can just feel it and jerking like that and tell what it's.
Bad or it's good?
And some of them you have to examine real carefully and look at it to a glass.
But then he had a machine.
That got a hold of a magnetic thread that the US puts in their bill right in the center of that.
Shield that got there and he showed me the light would go on if it was good and not if it was bad. Then he told me the Russians are the best counterfeiters of US currency. Said they can make it so good that you have to have a machine to tell whether it's good or bad.
Now Satan is clever and I referred to Mohammedanism.
And I am thoroughly convinced that it is one of Satan's masterpieces.
To imitate.
God's people down here on the earth and has LED.
Amora Stray.
From the truth of Christ than any other isn't.
It is nearly.
Well, it's half as big as all Christian.
Some of the books of numbers that you can get, each year they come out with a new one, 8788, and I expect 89 of the out for a few months, which gives you the data of the population of different countries, the different religions in the different countries, how many are educated, what language they speak, what currency they use. They will give you numbers which tell how many there are that are recognized as Christian and they lump the whole thing together.
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And I'm thankful to say.
That of the 5 billion people that are living on the face of the earth approximately right now, the largest group of all or looked at as Christian, they came under this group, Christendom. They are in the Kingdom of heaven by profession, and there's about 1,000,000.
The largest division of that is Rome, which is about half of that.
And the largest other group is Islam or Mohammedanism, and they're almost.
Have that too, but they're growing by leaps and bounds. I thoroughly think that this is one of the bundles that God is allowing angels to gather together.
Because they're imprison them, and they're the product of the bad seed which the enemy sold, which men have developed, and there are many others, and they're getting set into bundles. 2 or but as we enjoyed yesterday, that we scattered into the barn before the burning. Another proof in these parallels that we shall never go through the tribulation. But the word of God carries us on in here.
And.
And then it says.
In verse 42 shall cast them into a forest of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth they get the final judgement carries us right on to that. Then it carries us on to another result.
Then shall the righteous shame forth as the Son in the Kingdom of their Father. Notice that.
We're getting now the Kingdom of the Father.
You have noticed we are talking mostly about the Kingdom of Heaven, and we've limited it to the time when the King's outcomes out of heaven.
And push down the beast and takes begins to take the throne of the earth. But they're beginning to take the throne of the earth will be the seven years.
Judgments that precede the manifestation in glory of Christ, and we coming with Him.
And then we get what is called the Kingdom of the Son of Man, which is the earthly side of the Kingdom in the Millennium.
And the Kingdom of the Father is the heavenly Son. We're going into the Father's house.
That is, we're going in now.
Past.
The time of this Christendom age on the earth, when the King is in heaven, he judges things and then he comes back and you have two other aspects of his reign. In heaven, it's the Kingdom of the Father. On earth, it's the Kingdom of the Senate man. It's 1000 years of blessedness. Oh, it's going to be wondered. So we're introduced that far into this picture here.
Then he goes on back and he takes the product of the good seed. This is what the farmers like to see. This is what your heart likes to see, and it's very beautiful. Verse 44. Well, the person says who have ears to hear? Who hath an ear, who have ears to hear? Let him hear. I hope both of our ears are open tonight and we're listening to the word of God.
It's wonderful that in the Gospels it says who hath ears to hear clearly and when we get the addresses to the seven churches, which I understand the video took up with young people.
You'll notice it says he had half an ear right in here, just comes down to one ear. It's the end of the time in that Book of Revelation. If you haven't got two years to hear and listen with one and we've gotten 2 years and I hope they're both open, paying attention to the teaching of our Savior about the age in which we live, which is drawing to a conclusion. But here's the product of the good seed, verse 44.
Again, the Kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field.
That which, when a man hath found, he hide it, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he had.
And bias that field.
These two are so alike, I'm going to read them together and talk about them together.
Verse 45.
Again, the Kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls.
Who when he had found one Pearl of great price?
Went and sold all that he had and bought it. Now these two parables, the one of the treasure and the one of the Pearl.
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Take the product of the good seed, which is the wheat, and they present to us.
The good things in Christmas, we're in Christendom, we can't get out, We profess Christ, we're in Christendom, we're living here and every believer in this Christendom. But it's the good things of Christendom in the two characters which Christ is looking for as being set here in Krishnam for Christ's glory and forced Christ joy or delight.
You and I, as the product of the wheat, the good seed, are here in Christendom, to be sat here for the glory of Christ and for his delight, and he sees that interest.
He sees that in us. He wouldn't have gone us so low he hadn't bought it if he hadn't seen it. The picture is of a man.
Who was looking?
For a treasure hid in a field, we've already had that. The field is the world. And as Christ looked down here at the world.
He saw something that was.
Of value to him a treasure is something that has value. Another way to speak of these two two likeness of the Kingdom of heaven as they present the value and the beauty that Christ saw in the Church.
Something that was worthwhile to him.
That's every believer he gave himself for me.
Christ loved the Church and gave himself for him, individual and collected.
We were down here in this pool. He saw something that was precious to him.
And he came to get it. No one else saw it. It was hit in the field.
Two brothers.
Larry, devout old brothers some few years ago, gathered amongst us.
We're talking together. One of them was arms that varies forward. His name was Armstead, too. I knew him as a young man. He was a unique fellow.
And they voted. But the man, the work began in Kentucky, where you go to Columbus and Mayfield to that brother more than anybody else.
And he and another brother somewhat like him, were walking along, and one said to.
Arms did Armstead. Father, we know you don't look like Christ.
He says yes, it does not yet.
What Christ was there? You don't look like Christ. Even we don't know what Christ looked like except his moral glory, his moral beauty, and that ought to shine in us too.
But it does not yet appear. The treasure is hidden. The fields. People look at us and they don't think, well, these Christians are beautiful. They're worth a lot. I'd give $1,000,000 for one of them. They might do the other way around.
And try to get rid of you for the do supper.
But Christ, he saw what he wanted.
It was a treasure exceedingly precious down here.
And for joy thereof.
He sold all that he had. What did he have? Every created temple she has.
The one on whom was God's delight ever with the Father, he left.
To become a man, to come down here.
And the bull?
Not just us, the whole field to take us out.
It's all in this, and He gets us out before he gets the wheel, but he's going to get the field. In the second Psalm God says about Christ, I have set my son upon my holy heel of Zion. He's not there yet. Ask of me, and I'll give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for thy position He has nestled. Yet in his prayer in the 17th of John he says, I pray not yet for the Word. I pray not for the Word He's saying there. I ask not for the Word.
He gets the treasure out first and he's going to ask for the world. It comes in the 5th of Revelation.
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He's going to get the whole field, but he gets us out because he saw something valuable and something beautiful.
For this merchant man was looking for goodly pearls. You read that practice about the massless Pearl. It's a lovely track. Perhaps been used more of the Spirit of God to save souls and to attract them to Christ than anyone that I know. At least it's a wonderful day.
Not this Indian diver who's after these pearls. Well, you know the story and Sir, apartment symbol. And so this merchant man was seeking goodly purpose.
And when he had found one, just one.
Great price he went and sold all that he had and bought.
Now this is the 139th Psalm.
Hold this, hold one finger here. We'll turn back to it.
It's beautifully put before us.
And the way the 139th Psalm.
Curiously wrought in the.
Lower parts of the Earth.
Verse 15.
A Pearl, you know, is formed in a living creature down under the sea, down in the sea, through irritation internally in that by valve.
And it is formed little by little by little by little.
And.
That's the description. That's the gem.
That Jesus uses here to picture the formation of the church.
Out of his ribbon side.
That irritation down through this age, through the Gospel, is forming 1 body, one church.
Little by little by little added pound added through his death he went down well. Let's read this my substance verse 1500 and 3915. My substance was not hit from the when I was made in secret.
And curiously brought in the lowest parts of the earth. We had to go down in debt to do it. Thine eyes did see my substance. Jesus knew you before he went to the girls. He knew me. He had to go down to the lowest parts of the earth against. And he's still for me. He's still adding. That's the reason he had to come here.
Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unparalleled. He doesn't say imperfect. This is an accurate language. They're still adding to it to make it.
Full and complete that one Pearl of great price when the last believers added.
That Pearl will be fully formed, and Christ will come. This is what Christ saw, this thing of beauty, and it reflects something of His glory.
Coming out of a living body out of Christ. Well, this is the gem that's used. Now we get the separation. Verse 47 again. The Kingdom of heaven is like unto a net that was cast into the sea and gathered at every time, which when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the age we'll read. The Angel shall come forth.
And sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire.
There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth this completion at the end of the age.
The angels are used to suffer. That's the figure of the net cast into the sea. The sea is the masses of people, and they come down and they gather the good into vessels, and then they cast the bat away.
And then it talks about after casting a battle away, the angels are coming forth and sever the wicked from the just. They take the wicked out, cast them into the furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. They're gone.
Now he asked the question, have you understood all these things? They say unto him, Yeah, Lord, have you all these things a little bit, and what little bit we can get is most precious.
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But people out in the world read these parables can't get anything.
You have to have the Spirit of God and.
When the Spirit of God unfolds them to you, you see that what Jesus said sitting in that boat or blooming in the house later about those seven parables has presented the whole of the age to the which we are drawing the toys. It's impressive. We're almost at the end of the age.
Well, one more verse here, therefore verse 52.
Every scribe Can you read and write? Have you been to school? Let's describe.
Which is instructed in the Kingdom of Heaven? Are we instructed in the Kingdom of Heaven? We're getting some instruction. We know a little bit about it.
The great clergyman Pompano, unless they read Chapter McIntosh, they might have gotten a few things like that, but here presented to the babes those who in simplest of heart follow a rejected practice.
And we are set here. We should be instructing. The Kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is in the household.
Man with a House got things in which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old chapter. Macintosh used that title for the periodical he he ran for some 35 or more years. Since I have 38 of his books, I think, which we've had published annually, a series something like Christian Treasury and full of good material. Now, in turn, we've got one minute.
To a verse in Leviticus 26 which should energize us. Leviticus 26 about the last little bit we've read here.
There's a verse there that goes so well with this in Leviticus 26.
Just the tenth verse.
Leviticus, 2610.
Ye shall eat old story and bring forth the old because of the.
Now that's a wonderful verse in connection with what we have.
If you and I are instructed in these parables and store them up in our houses, we'll be able to bring forth out of the Old Testament.
Food because of the new. The new reveals the old. It's Christ in the Old Testament, rather conceived in its place in the New Testament revealed.
And if you don't understand the New Testament, you can't understand the Old Testament as it applies today.
But when you can, you can bring out of the old destiny.
We've had some good food here now.
And some of it has been kept in the freezer a little while they brought it down. Well, that's a poor illustration. Some of they've gotten right out of the garden. But the the symbol is you've got the New Testament, you've got Christ teaching what this meant in the old age. And now we ought to be instructed in the Kingdom of heaven and bring forth food for our children.
Which brings forth out of his treasure things new and old. There's one short him we might sing #40.
I think it is.
Yes.
Number 42 to him that saved us from the world were in it, but rather were saved. He's going to come and take us out because he set his heart of delight upon us as those of value and of beauty set here to represent Christian glory.
And his praise some brothers start #42 for us, please.
Matthew 14
Address—C. Buchanan
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#193 is the selection to begin with tonight #193.
Reads this way.
Jesus.
My Savior.
Thou art mine.
The Father's gift of love, divine.
All thou hast done.
And all thou art are now.
Today, the portion of my heart some brothers start for us #193 please.
Kiss us, my Savior.
And mine one upon every scale, for all of our lives in my life.
All thou has been animal.
I love, love.
All day long.
All my dreams.
Believe me.
Open the same passage.
We had nearly concluded.
This 13th chapter.
And.
In the outline.
Of the seven parables.
In this chapter we went on to point out.
Besides the first parable, which is.
Complete in itself that there is a link of six parables which are likenesses of the Kingdom of Heaven, sometimes called similitudes of the Kingdom of Heaven.
And that there are.
Or more.
Which are scattered a little farther on the book.
And while it would be nice to directly go.
In those last four.
I don't feel we can Passover.
Too much what intervenes.
Because there is a break between them.
Not only in the chapters.
But the Lord had something more to tell his disciples.
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On this occasion.
The parables which are 7 in this chapter.
And we did say I believe that.
In chapter 12 of Matthew, the king, who had come down.
And demonstrated that he was God manifesting the flesh, the line of David by the power.
To heal and to undo the works of the devil. The effects of sin. That he was publicly rejected by the nation in chapter 12.
When they, the leaders know it, accused him of doing his works in the power of bills above the Prince of devils.
We can almost say that that is the cardinal sin of the nation.
For which there was number forgiveness.
People ask about the unpardonable sin.
And they're puzzled about it.
If you're searching out in Mark Three, it's the same occasion as Matthew 12, what they did the nation.
Attribute the works of Jesus to the Prince of Devils.
When Jesus was doing it in the power of the Holy Spirit, that is that people in that land in that day had a perfect witness of the power of the Holy Spirit in Jesus Christ, and they said, no, you're doing it in the power of the devils.
The Friendship Devils.
For that, the nation was unforgiving. Jesus turned away from them at that day. Oh, there's always forgiveness of sins personally, but the nation wants to be put down.
And they have been put down for nearly 2000 years.
But upon that failure.
Of the nation which?
In tight have been spoken now.
As the victory nationally.
Or the.
Vine to produce fruit or the olive tree.
To partake of the richness.
And fatness of the blessing of God.
And they're set aside, and the fig tree is cut down, and Jesus begins.
By going out to the seaside, leaving the house.
And sewing just like a farmer does.
That's the first pyramid. He begins a new work on the Earth.
And brings into the Kingdom of heaven.
In the last six parables, after he had gone up to heaven, the Kingdom of Heaven begins.
And the same message was preached.
And the gospel of the grace of God has been preached to since the king has gone into heaven.
Drawing in children into the Kingdom.
But that's not the only thing that Jesus had to announce.
He has two more things quite definitely to announce.
And he takes care of that before he gives them the last four.
Similarities of the Kingdom of Heaven.
The next the last two things that he announces. First, the Kingdom of heaven.
The last two is the church in chapter 16, the first time in the Bible you get the church mentioned.
Is I will build my church yet future, but that's a pronouncement that's very, very significant and it applies to this age as well as the relationship as children of the Kingdom were brought in by faith into the church, baptized into one body.
Which Jesus is the head?
The one body, the Church here formed on earth.
Typified to, as we noticed last night, in the two parables which are the product of the good seed, the treasure and the Pearl.
Simplifying the Church as set here for Christ's glory and delight and joy.
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And then we came to the separation.
Well, the church was the second thing that Jesus had to announce. Repeat first the Kingdom of heaven, secondly, the church. And then in chapter 17, I'm only stating these things.
To get what intervenes outline but so we're not going to the last four.
Parables of the similitude tonight. I don't think we can get that far. But the third thing.
Is that Jesus takes Peter, James and John up on the mountain and displays his glory. Really, it's the Kingdom in Lord.
The other things that lead up to that, it's the millennial age.
Peter writes about it in his second epistle.
And he said we were eyewitnesses of His Majesty. Wonderful thing for Jesus to do for those 3 disciples, for them by the Spirit to pass on to us these coming glories. We know about them. Much of the scripture leads us right up to those coming glories of the millennial Kingdom and not much farther because we can't understand.
Paul caught up there likewise.
In the 3rd, heaven says it's unspeakable. In other words, brethren, we can't get it yet.
But Jesus tells about it to set a goal before us.
To know where we're going, who we're going to be with, and the wonders of that scene. But we're still here on the earth. We are in the Kingdom of heaven by grace. We are saved through faith and.
Linked by the Holy Spirit into the one body, the Church.
And we're waiting for the Kingdom in glory.
But now.
There are other things that Jesus has to put before the disciples, and I believe they're practical for us.
So I think we should read chapter 14.
I'll read the whole chapter first and then I'll go back and speak about it.
At that time, hair the tea chart heard of the fame of Jesus.
And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist, He is risen from the dead.
Therefore Mighty works to show forth themselves in Him.
For Herod had laid hold on John, and found him, and put him in prison for Corrode's sake, his brother Phillips White. For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her, when he would have put him to death. He feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
But when here it's birthday was kept.
The daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod, whereupon he promised within those to give her whatsoever she would ask, and she being before instructed of, her mother, said.
Give me here John Baptist's head in a chart.
And the king was sorry nevertheless.
For the oath's sake, and then, which sat with him at me, he commanded it to be given her.
And he sat and beheaded John in the prison.
And his head was brought in a charger and given to the damsel, and she brought it to her mother.
And his disciples came.
Took up the body and buried it.
And went and told Jesus.
When Jesus heard of it, he departed this by ship into a desert place apart. When the people had heard me thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities. And Jesus went forth and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. When it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place.
And the time is now past. Send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves little. But Jesus sat unto them, they need not depart. Give heed them to eat. And they say unto him, We have here but my Lords, and two fishes.
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And he said bring them, hit her to me.
And he commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves and the two fishes. And looking up to heaven, he blessed and prayed and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all the and were filled, and they took up of the fragments that remained 12 baskets full. And they that he'd eaten were about 5000 men beside women and children.
And straightway, Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship.
And to go before him under the other side.
While he sent them over to.
And when he had set the multitudes away.
He went up into a mountain apart to pray, and when the evening was come he was there alone.
But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves, for the wind was concrete.
And in the 4th watch of the night, Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit. And they cried out for fear. But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer, It is I be not afraid.
Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said.
When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.
But when he saw the wind more generous, he was afraid, and beginning to sake. He cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou little faith, wherefore it is thou thou? And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased. Then they that were in the ship came and worshiped him, and saved.
Now the truth thou art the Son of God.
When they were going over, they came into the land of Genesis.
And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country roundabout, and brought unto him all that were diseased, and besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garden, and as many as tests were made perfectly cold.
We see here that.
Jesus goes on with his ministry.
It was not yet.
He had a little more to do.
And in the events and experiences.
I believe the Spirit of God has put together the things which are lessons for us.
To show to us.
What is going to take place?
In the Kingdom of heaven.
Now that there's going to be opposition.
But that the Lord is always going to take care of this woman.
You and I, as saved by grace through faith, are not only in the Church of God, we are in the Kingdom of heaven, and as have we, as we've had these last two days.
Particularly yesterday, in that parable of the tares of the field, we find that there are two seeds shown down here.
One is good, so by the son of man, the other is bad, sold by the devil.
And that they are to be let grow together until the time of harvest and the harvest hasn't taken place. The good seed is here, the bad seed is here, the product of the good seed is here, the product of the bad seed is here. And we can't do anything about it to change that situation. It's left and we have to learn things by experience.
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Going back to the closing verses of chapter 13 that we didn't speak about.
In verse 53.
It came to pass when Jesus had finished these parables, He departed thence when he was coming to his own country. So he came back to his own place. You and I are generally in our own country. We're generally in our own place. You rather than here in Iowa and we down in Illinois.
And that is the place we begin.
Our witness and our place of experience.
It's not all going to be.
Sweet and lovely and turn out like we would like to have a turning.
But we're going to learn many things.
That are lovely and helpful if we go on as Christian.
First step.
54 When he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogues in so much that they were astonished, and said, What's half this man, this wisdom, and these mighty works? Of course he had all wisdom, and he could perform all mirrors.
That you and I, as children of the Kingdom, come into the place of understanding.
It's the babes. We have noticed that yet the understanding.
Not the leaders of the people who have turned down the Lord Jesus and he spoke in parables and they could not understand.
But we can understand by the author of the book the Holy Spirit that's given to us and know many things and have wisdom concerning the word of God.
The Lord did say to his disciples about miracles greater than works than each shall he do because I go to my Father.
Now that was true, with the disciples performing literal miracles.
But I think the forces upon the power of the Spirit of God down here to save souls by the gospel.
And we can announce the gospel and be a witness for Christ as a miracle when one soul gets saved.
There's nothing point like.
And it astonishes people.
And they don't exactly like it.
So what happens verse 55? They looked at Jesus and said, is not this the carpenter's son?
Is not his mother called Mary?
And his brethren, James and Joseph, and Simon and Judas and his sisters, are they not all with us? Now think of saying that about the Son of God.
In our 33rd verse of the next chapter that we read, Thou art the Son of God.
He was and always is that. But they just said, oh, he's, he's a, he's a little Carpenter. His brothers and sisters are here. We know his parents. That's all it is. They let it go.
What does Jesus do? Well, they say, whence hath this man all these things? They were puzzled. They couldn't understand.
And I suspect that in the neighborhood of sewing.
And tell them their people in the world that wonder how these brethren meet over here know so much about the future.
And that they behave so well and have a great understanding of the scriptures.
But they can't understand about that. They're puzzled, honestly. Oh, they're just a bunch of farmers. I've been sitting here said that. Me too and that sort of thing. But brethren, look what they said to Jesus.
We can well afford to leave and pray for them and seek to give them understanding and you've got to get it by the Spirit in taking it as the Spirit of God reveals getting light from heaven.
And they were offended in him.
What does Jesus do? He says.
Unto them a prophet is not without honor, saving his own country and his own house.
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And he did not. Many money works there because of their unbelief.
This is true yesterday.
In your area, you're going to be known.
Minor or works and your thoughts and your actions and you're probably going to be looked down on. There's not one that's trying to make the community better.
And you won't get any honor likely if you walk like Christ because he was rejected.
And right in your own area, you're going to suffer what Jesus suffered.
And if you go off to foreign country as a missionary, you'll be looked at in a little major.
Yes, you will, but that's not the best thing. That's not the important thing. The important thing is to follow in the course, in the place where Jesus puts you, bearing with all this reproach and opposition, knowing what is coming.
And knowing where you are in the Kingdom of heaven and in the Church.
And that the Kingdom and glory is getting close.
These things known and enjoyed in the soul will help us to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, he goes on in our chapter.
And there's Herod that keep driving, and he heard of the fame of Jesus.
Well, who wouldn't in that age? And when it was so famous what he had done, those miracles were performed to attract attention to him as the king who had come to undo the works of the devil. And he showed all the power to do it, and it astonished the king.
And.
John the Baptist had already been put away by her, but right here.
The Spirit of God gives us the account.
One of the cruelest, saddest stories you can read in the Bible.
We have hard things happen today that we don't understand. Read about animate some of you younger brother by saying to you what Tom McMillan said to some of us a long time ago.
It's a wonderful thing.
To take your place in the assembly. Helping the assembly, especially in the prayer.
And we were in a meeting and.
The discussion was about trying to get the younger brothers to take a little part and help out some of the older brothers. Well I was one younger and saying.
And.
The common plea with younger brothers, well, we like to let the older brothers, they know more. We have respect for them, give them a place. And Tom McMillan returned to us and looked, said some of the younger brothers aren't even as young as John the Baptist was. When he finished his ministry, already passed 30. That's all. Go where it got and his ministry was over with.
Well, that's just by the way, but we have read what John the Baptist suffered and how he got it from Herod. Now he'll hold this place and turn the 8th chapter.
We're going to pick up just a little thought there.
As an admonition in the 15th verse.
Mark 8:15.
This is Jesus in his ministry in Mark's Gospel, in this verse, he charged them, saying, take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod.
And it's true. Yet today, Luke 12 definitely tells us.
That the leaven of the Pharisees is hypocrisy.
Pretension.
It's exactly what is seen most of the time, I suppose, on television by actors pretending to be something or not. Now, that's not what it seemed that exactly, but I cite that because that's hypocrisy.
That's what it is, pretending to be, what you learn and in your community there's lots of people that we pretend to be righteous and they're very unrighteous.
As hypocrisy, well, it was a class of people that day and they were to beware. But then I said beware of 11 parrot. I think the 11 of Herod is exemplified in what we have read and what happened in Herod support before they had a big birthday party. We have birthday parties. I thank God they aren't like this, but you can't have.
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Full confidence in it because it's called a birthday party.
But you see how they were doing?
Dating and drinking and browsing and living in licentiousness.
He taking another man's wife, that was Herod.
And the court was there. It's the way of the world.
In its world.
I think the Lebanon heritage is worldliness in this sense.
And it could get hold of in America.
And Bolivia, because we're more exposed to it, the easy life, but really trying to get up on top and live like the senators and the presidents and the great men of the world do.
In any measure of.
Opposite and any measure of opposition that comes up to it, cutting over no matter what.
Travel on others to get to the top. That's what the great men on Wall Street do.
And in any great big company, they tell me it's the same way.
Well, it's the way of worldliness, and beware of it. We'll pass on that.
And going past this.
And there was a multitude.
After your sights about here, the Texas disciples away, and he goes out into the desert, and the multitude follows him. Now this is Jesus, the disciples and the multitude.
And it's getting dark.
Jesus had compassion on and he healed her second into verse 14 and it was evening and his disciples came to him and then in fact they said, look, here's all this great big multitude and they're hungry.
What should we do? Send the multitude away? We can't. We haven't got anything here. Send them away. They turned, the Lord said. Send this mass of people away.
They're hungry.
This is real lesson.
Let them go into the villages and buy themselves village probably.
Most of that multitude didn't have enough money to buy their own food. I don't know, but.
Jesus said what? They don't need to go away. You give them to eat. You see, he puts his disciples to the test. They were the children of the Kingdom. They were following the King.
They were the children of the Kingdom before it became the Kingdom of heaven, because they received the king, but while he was down here, before he went up there.
They have the king, and the king said you give something.
What could they do? Well?
They they didn't know.
That in their company there were five loaves and two pieces.
One or the other gospels developed it, but it was a board at lunch I think.
Boys, you can really have a supply that can be used by the Lord if you've got, well, you have got things the Lord gives you, intelligence he gives you.
Strength, vigor, and you might even have 1/4 in your pocket, but that's when you might have a lunch.
The Lord can use whatever you've done, But brethren, in your little assembly, have you ever felt that we haven't got anything to say tonight in this meeting? We don't know what chapter to read. We haven't gotten much gift.
What are we going to talk about? How are we going to get some food? We've got more than five loaves and two fishes.
Although I think the five loaves and two fishes typify the five books of Moses which were they had then.
Plus the Psalms and the prophets which they had then comprising the Old Testament, and now we have the New Testament.
And we have the Holy Spirit.
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And it's a wonderful thing just to turn to the Lord Jesus and get something to eat from the Word of God in our little assemblies. That's certainly one lesson we can get out of this.
So he exhorts them. Bring them to me. Whatever you've got, young brother, bring to Jesus. Talk to him about it. Ask him to help you, to give you a portion to read. And in the meeting you're asked a question. Pray.
And look for the answer. The Lord will give you something to say that helps us.
He commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass.
Notice that word commanded.
And again, I want you to look back.
In the previous chapter we had.
Chapter 13.
At the end of verse 23.
13 and 23.
Bring it forth some 100 fold, some 60.
And Psalms 30. I believe we have a practical demonstration of that in this chapter.
The 100 polls, what we have here.
There was a multitude.
And they were under the command of the law.
That's the hundredfold.
Wonderful to see.
And he commanded the motor to sit down on the grass.
And took the five loaves on 2 pages and looking up to heaven. There's prayer. Here's the dependent man of the 16th song. Preserve me, O God, for any do I put my interest? Look up to heaven, brother, and ask for something. Go get it.
In faith.
And this was Jesus.
He looking up to heaven, He blessed. We gave thanks. That's what that means.
When we give thanks for the look, we bless a couple of communion which we bless. Is it not communion? The cup of blessing which we bless is not the communion of the blood of Christ. 1St Corinthians 10 Blessing and giving thanks are the same thing in scripture.
He blessed, He gave thanks, He braved and gave the loath to his disciples.
They received it from the Lord.
And the disciples to the most. Wouldn't you like to have just seen that demonstrated? Just take these these 5 rolls and break them. Start passing them out, passing them out, passing them out. And there are 5000 people I never did running it multiplied and multiplied and multiplied.
Start on a meal but.
Young people having young people's plans, I remarked to him because it was my experience he is already marketing about.
Learning.
And giving.
My experience and I, he said. He's lost to that. You can't teach a young people's class without learning more yourself.
And I always thought I learned more than my class did. It is so wonderful. That's what you have pictured here in the things of God. You don't give, and it's gone.
It's so in the Ministry of the Word. What you report and give to others you retain.
You can have your cake and you can give your cake away and eat it too. In spiritual things. You can't do that with a piece of cake. That's what happens here. They could give and when they got done giving, there were 12 baskets full. I like to picture that as a basketball for each one of those trail designers. I believe it typifies that to help us in our ministry in the meeting, just to go along and feed the masses.
And they did all eat and were filled.
They didn't run short.
Sometimes at McDonald's, we go away hungry. You don't have enough money.
They always get filled when you go to the Lord.
And they took over the fragments that remained. 12 baskets full. Oh, the Lord likes them. Give fullness of joy these things rightly under you, that your joy might be full. He gave each one of those disciples a full basket for himself.
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Or maybe they gave it back to the boys, Don't know.
The boy got rewarded, I'm sure.
And they that had eaten were about 5000 men besides women and children, probably 15 or 20,000 people there, but ate all they could eat. And I had a remainder from 5 loaves and two fishes. This is the Lord owe little as much if God is in.
Now we go on, and straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into the ship and to go before him under the other side to stop there. Notice the word constraint.
We have noticed back in chapter verse 19, he commanded.
Now that was a multitude.
Here it says Jesus constrained his disciples to get in the ship. We're down to 12 down.
At least I think it was 12.
This is the 64.
Notice we had a multitude.
In verse 19.
Here we have a dozen and they get into the ship.
This is association together in fellowship as brethren typified here too.
But this is the multiplication, first one hundredfold, now diminishing but but 64.
And while he sent the multiplied away, and when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray.
And when the evening was coming, he was there alone.
But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves, for the wind was contrary.
Here we have a picture of this age.
Drawing to a close, but it's the whole of the age in that sense.
Because Jesus is up on the middle. It's a picture of the King and Lord.
It's a picture of the whole period of the Kingdom of Heaven with his followers on earth.
Getting tossed around in the struggle of life. Everyone of you experienced the boys and girls, children, babies are born crying.
And that's the experience down here of the children of the Kingdom. They have a rough time. They're shaking out, but Jesus is up on behind. He's praying for us. This is the type, Jesus, the King in heaven as our faithful and merciful high priest, praying for his own and keeping his own down here in the struggle of the voids of life. What a comfort.
And.
The ship was tossed in the midst of the sea. The wind was contrary. Oh, you've experienced these things. You kept hard opposition.
You even get every wind of doctrine that were warned about in efficiency that we are to avoid nice bad teaching.
That might be part of what signified here, but I think it just means the hard times we have in getting through this world. This world is a bad place.
It's a bad place, but the Lord is praying for us, He is supplying for us, He's taking care of us, and we have the Holy Spirit.
And it was the 4th and in the 4th watch of the night. Now that's what we have arrived to.
In the night that was used here.
In Matthew's Gospel, there were four watches, and I think they went from 6 to 99 to 12:12 to 3:00 and 3:00 to 6:00.
So this is three to six. At any rate, Jesus is pointing to the time in which we live.
It's the end of the time. It's the end of the night. When the king comes back, who is God is like, it'll be the daytime in the sense that it's used here. He was up on a mountain praying. They were down there being tossed and it's getting toward the end of the journey. This may be the last day of it, but there's a tossing.
And.
In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
We're getting a tremendous thing brought before us here by the Spirit of God.
We will notice a little further. When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying it is a spirit. They cried out for fear.
But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer, desire, be not afraid. Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it didn't be, thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come.
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We have the word come here.
And this identifies where we get the 34.
Command in verse 19. Pictures of multitude the hundredfold.
And the constrained.
In verse 22 pictures, the 64.
And the come in verse 29 is the 30 fold.
Pictured in Peter who brother I believe is a picture.
Of the gathered Saints that step out of the visible means of support to do something that flesh cannot do, that is warped on water. The trouble See, this is all figure.
And remember 160 years ago.
The Spirit of God revived the truth.
Of Christ in the Church and the heavenly calling and the outline of prophecy.
So that brethren were led by the Spirit to break bread in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ alone, and it was a tremendous reproach.
The flesh couldn't do it.
It has to be by the Spirit of God and the presence of Jesus was seen there.
Like a spear in the next.
When we gather together, brethren, by faith, we know the Lord Jesus is there.
And as we are led by the Spirit of God.
It's only like Peter that we can step out of the visible things around us.
And do something that Christ cannot do. I say this is typified in fear.
The Lord uses one man to typify this position. It's the fourth watch.
Well, that was 18127 or something like this. This began. Now we're down to 1988.
The 4th watch, but the close of the 4th watch perhaps?
But God still attracts and draws dear souls. Remember the ship was there and never many in it. I think that's a figure of Christendom. Many their souls here around this.
And.
To take no name.
What do you call this church here? They might call it the Reno Church. That's not what you call this. You don't have anything. You got a nice meeting room. It doesn't look like the.
Cathedral I saw in Paris or even in Lima, Peru.
Raul Velma Rama, who you've heard about.
The banker brother in Lima, Peru, was rather hungry up in the.
Affairs of social life and business life in Lima as a young man.
And when he was married.
The president came to his wedding.
And twice I've been in the cathedral where he was married. It's not an immense building, but it's one of the most beautiful buildings I've ever seen. You look up there and those pinnacles and it's pure gold, yet it's guarded. Oh, it's *****. It is beautiful. Anybody could brag on it. Anybody could say that's where I go. And the government would go there with pleasure.
Brown had to step out of that.
He's a little bit like Peter. How could he do it come.
Brethren, you can't step out of that visible thing if you don't see Jesus.
And if you get an exercise about doing it, ask him is that you don't come because the brethren there come because the Lord's there, because they're going to still be rough.
But it's just as hard to work on. Walk on smooth waters is rough water. The only thing that will serve is hearing the Lord's voice to come. You come out of this nice group of people. They may be believers, and you come with me.
And I'll take you to the other side now. Every night reunites you with every other believer.
And so.
When Jesus said come.
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Peter has come down out of the ship. He walked on the water to go to Jesus. As soon as you take that step and walk with this group that's not no, not recognized, you're going to be tested. The Lord lets us be tested.
And we can't sink.
But we can sure pray real quick can we get into trouble? We might get saved and come along real well and think I won't have any trouble with sin anymore in the old fashioned the next week you're sure to have.
And you come with the Lord's people, gathers the Lord's name and you'll think, oh, this is a nice bunch of people I've ever heard of in my life. I think there are yet, but you're going to be tested amongst them. Yes, you are. And there's going to be the need to try to Jesus, Lord save me, Lord help me and.
When he saw that wind boisterous, he was afraid beginning to sink, He cried, Lord, save me. And that doesn't say any more about sinking, but rather said. Immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him, and said unto him, full down of little faith, Wherefore didst thou down?
Where we have to review be reviewed for the smallness of our faith, but thank God for faith. Don't worry about how the quantity of your faith just be concerned in in whom you have confidence.
You get in a truck with belongs to the vendor lease and right with that fellow that's driving it, you've got confidence that he knows how to put the brakes on if somebody pulls in front of him and how fast they go down the hill and everything else. You get an airplane, you've got confidence that pilot knows what he's doing.
We have faith every day, people said. I don't have any faith. Yes, you do. You manifest it. When you step down a step, you're going to hit the next step.
We could trust our daughter.
He never faces this same Jesus said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake me. There's going to be an end to the story. We're going to arrive.
When they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.
This is when we're united, or rather reunited with all good arrived there.
Actually, in the fullness of it, we're all going to arrive there at the same time in the new body.
And.
And then it says a wonderful thing. Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying.
The truth thou art the Son of God.
Definitely it brings in the Jewish remnant that's gathered.
In the end of the the tribulation period.
And we there.
Pull together in worship.
I'd like to comment on that worship as to Matthew's gospel here. On Lords day we read one verse in chapter one who displacement will turn to chapter 2 I should say.
A remarkable thing about worship in Matthew's Gospel.
Which is applicable to all believers today.
In the second chapter.
Matthew.
Verse 11 when they were come into the house.
Notice that they came into the house. The picture for us to use for ourselves is the House of God, into the church, into the place where the Lord is.
They saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and fell down and worshiped him.
It's people who aren't where the Lord is in the house, in the Church, who can see the Lord in the midst by the Spirit as we've brought before us, and worship Him, not his mother, as the Roman Catholics hopefully taught and still do, but him, no one else, only Him. And then we can pour out the treasures that we've gathered through the week, through our lifetime. They opened their traitors.
And they presented unto him.
Give gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
I think that worship is the highest privilege we have or ever will have because it's given to God. Can you think of that? Do I have something to give to God? Yes, I do. What is it? Christ, all he is.
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And always I can speak to God about it. And he is oh so please.
He's the treasure, He's everything. All that was done, all thou art, are now the portion of my heart as you and I have occupied with Him. We can come together and worship Him in the house in our chapter. It was in the ship.
And is another symbol, perhaps a little further. It brings into association.
Those others in the ship, those with whom we have fellowship as bread, altogether worshipping in the house.
Turn now to the end of the book, the 28th chapter.
To carry this little point, which is so precious, to the highest pinnacle.
In Matthew.
28 verse 16.
Then the 11 disciples, Judas wasn't there. Now Jesus was in resurrection, went away into Galilee. Where did he go? Into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. Now this is the place of his appointment for us today.
We have no choice. He chooses everything.
He chooses where he's going to put His name in the midst of the two or three gathered to his name is the appointment today. And it's a mountain, brothers, because it's the heavenly truth of the heavenly calling and preached in heaven. We seem to be there.
So now the worship goes on queries into a mountain where Jesus appointed him. Then when they saw him, they worshipped him. Here it is in the fullness of things.
First in a house, then in a ship, and now on a mountain. This is our privilege today to come into the House of God, to have fellowship with us in in the same ship, to arrive in the mountain, because actually our worship is in heaven, our hymns, the whole is we enter in perfect peace with God expresses it.
We worship down here, but at arranged up there.
What a wonderful trip back to conclude in 14.
Jesus just goes on.
In his ministry, we won't have to comment on the closing verses.
But they point out to us that we haven't arrived into the glory yet. Physically, we're still down here and we're still going to have opposition. And we are to go on seeking the blessing of those around us. Not that we can perform miracles and physically heal them, that we can bring much blessing to those that we meet up with to talking about the Lord Jesus.
Let's sing in closing the next hymn.
194.
May the Savior's love and merit fill our hearts both night and day.
And the option of his spirit, Paul.
Our thoughts and actions may with us and God can find and from self dependence freeze.
Find our rest in Christ dividing till with joy in South Lucy #194.
May the Savior.
Oh my God.
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I love you.
1 Thessalonians
Address—C. Hendricks
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Lord Jesus, come and let us launder, roam apart from thee in that right place where we shall see thee face to face.
Lord Jesus, come.
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Oh Jesus.
First Thessalonians chapter one.
First Thessalonians chapter one verse one, Paul and Sylvanus and Timotheus under the Church of the Thessalonians, which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ grace.
From God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ We give thanks to God always for you all making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor, of love and patience, of hope. In our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God is our Father.
Knowing, brethren, without your election, go for our gospel came not unto you in Word only.
But also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance, as you know what matter of men, We were among you for your sake, and you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction with joy, the Holy Ghost, so that we were in samples to you, to all that believe in Macedonia, that you were in samples, rather believe in Macedonia and Makai, but from you sounded out the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Akaya, but also in every place your faith to God were to spread abroad.
So that we need not to speak anything, but they themselves show us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how you turn to God from idols, to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from Iraq to college.
Power had only been at Thessalonica 2 weeks.
And this was the first epistle that he wrote.
We were looking the other day at the last epistle that he rode, which was Timothy, and here we're looking at the first epistle that he wrote.
Everyone of these chapters, we have the Lord's Coming presented either the rapture or the Appearing, but they're both called the Coming.
Let's say the the two are two different phases or stages of his coming. First for us and then with us to this world. You will appear and establish his rights down here.
I was.
Thinking of going through the entire New Testament, just touching upon the the number of the pistols, Almost every epistle, with very few exceptions, we have the Lords coming.
Or our hope mentioned, but rather than that, I thought we would concentrate a little bit more upon these two epistles to the Thessalonians.
We're going to look at each epistle and the battle, the line of the of the bottom of the epistle and how that the the teaching revolves around the truth of the Lord's coming. It's a very, it's a very, it's probably the the most often spoken of theme in the New Testament because as I said a moment ago, nearly every epistle.
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Contains some reference to the Lord's coming or to our hope.
We had it several times in this chapter that we've read. Notice, he says. I'm not going to go into each verse in detail. Time will not allow that. But we're going to look at just follow through the line of truth that the apostle brings to these young believers. Very young in the faith. But it's amazing how much he had imparted to them in just a short while, two weeks that he had been there.
He says he thanks God, always spoiled them.
In verse 2, taking that with you in our prayers that remember you without ceasing, remembering without ceasing, we mustn't, we mustn't neglect to get the the tone of the apostles, of language being the delicacy with which he writes, the affection of his heart, how he handled, how he ministered to these beloved.
Young, women, young in the past.
Not necessarily young in years, but young in the favor and the tenderness with which he deals with with them. Remembering, he says, without ceasing your work of faith and labor. Flowers and patience of hope. New translation reads that your enduring constancy of hope. There we have the first mention and Alan Charles epistles.
I would suggest that you are very, very profitable study is go throughout his epistles and trace out and tell you hope and love. It's not always in that same order. Sometimes it's faith, love and hope as it is here. But we have those three mentioned over and over again and where one of them is missing. Is that the key to see that in the second edition it's a key to what was defective there or what needed to be corrected?
Or what what ministry needed to be supplied to, to fill up the full measure of the truth that he would bring the Saints into?
A man without a fault is most miserable.
We were once without God and without hope in this world. We have nothing to look forward to.
I can't call. 3 moments in time is nothing really, and that's all we're going to have. He has no hope outside Christ, nothing permanent, nothing abiding, nothing lasting. Just a few sleeping moments for what is our life. It's a vapor that appears and then finish it away, just like a puff of smoke that's gone and without a hope, without something which is future.
And sure and certain and steadfast, and which enters into that will in the veil where Christ is entered, without that most miserable, most miserable, That's what we once were when we were lost in our sins. Outside of Christ, we had no God, and we had no huddle, no hope.
And so he so when hope is missing.
In the life, in the in the epistles, and we'll see it in an instant in the second.
In the second epistle or hope is missing because there was something drastically wrong in that official. But it's not so here. Here, always in order. But they needed more instruction, and the soul needing more instruction is not necessarily the solo which is in error. They simply need to be further enlightened. That is where faith needs to be further instructed in the truth. And this is this is the case in the first epistle.
To the Thessalonians.
2nd Epistle. They had believed a lie and so they had to have their false belief corrected and that resulted in their giving up of their hope down here. And the enemy would have us in these last days to believe a lie. He doesn't care what the lie is, but if that if that thing that we believe that doctrine or falsehood that we believe.
Robs us of a daily present expectation of the Lord's coming.
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As follows. I very much enjoyed reading Forever Dallas Treatise On the Lord's Coming and he made this comment. I thought it was excellent. He said If an argument or a discussion arose as to when the Lord would come, he said I wouldn't engage in it, but if one arose as to whether he was coming or not, I would immediately come to.
The defense of the truth that he.
Is coming, he is coming. The important, the importance.
Of the doctrine of the Lord's coming. The truth of the Lord's coming is that he is coming. We do not know when he is coming, and all those that have set dates have been disappointed thus far. I liked what the newscaster. I didn't hear him say it, but a brother reported it to me. I'm sure many of you have heard him call Harvey.
He was commenting on a prediction made by someone that the Lord would come on such and such a date and this was the day after and the Lord hadn't come and he made some comments, I don't know what they were that connected with that. And then then he came back after some advertisements in that and he made a few more comments, but his last word is but keep watching, keep watching. I believe he's a Christian. I've been told that he is and the point he was making is.
So this prediction has failed.
He is coming. He is coming. That's the important thing, that we should be pressing on souls, not when he's coming. The enemy would get us occupied as to setting a date, which the Lord has told us not to do, and He has gotten us off the fundamental issue and that is that he is coming. He is coming and we can say he's coming soon because everything points to it that has to establishing a precise time that is not for us to do. I believe, remember I made a statement once.
Publicly, that I believe the Lord would come this year.
And ever since I've made it, I've regretted having made it. But I can't take the roots back that I can certainly say I think it's a mistake. Not that he, I don't expect him to come. I like what one brother said, he said any date setting that is farther off than today, I'm not interested in. And I like that because that's the expectation. That's the present hope that the Christian today, perhaps today, perhaps today, anything beyond that we're not interested in because.
We're to live our lives as though he were coming today, tomorrow. But today, well, he's coming. That's the important truth of the New Testament.
Your patience of hope you're you're in constancy of hope that is going on pursuing. You know all the activities that the Lord lays upon us down here with that hope before us, and that hope is to be such a power over our souls.
That it it causes us to hell loosely to things down here. This is not our home. This is not our hope. Our expectation of things is not here. It's it's in the glory. And so it's a heavenly hope. We could trace it all through the New Testament, all the wonderful terms applied to our hope. Not an earthly hope, but a heavenly hope.
Then he goes down to verse nine. He says, For they themselves shall have us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how you turn to God from idols. Now that's what he refers to in verse three as the work of faith. The work of faith seems like a sort of a contradiction, doesn't it? Because of its faith, it's not worse. And if it's works, which is the thing that we do, it's not safe. But here he's talking about the Word of Faith.
That is, this is a work which flows from faith, which is begotten by faith, which is the outcome of faith. It's it's what James talks about. Faith without works is dead. And this kind of work, this work of faith, is turning to God from idols. When one believes the gospel, he does something if there isn't some response on his part, if there's not some change in his life.
This profession of faith is meaningless, is worthless, and that's what James says. He says faith without works is dead. So if there's not a response, if there's not a change, if there's not some difference, if there's not the laying aside of the old order of living and the old habits of sin, if there's not a real marked change, there's no work of faith. There's no work which follows true living, abiding faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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They turned to God from idols. They turned to an object worthy of their faith as found objects unworthy. Their faith was There was something that happened, actually. It wasn't just something that took place in their hearts. It was that. Of course, that's what faith means of bleeding in the heart. But then there was something that outwardly changed. And if there's no outward change, one could well question.
Whether it's that there's any reality in the soul.
Work and faith, how you turn to God from idols. And then there's the labor of love to serve the living and true God. They have been serving idols. They have been serving what is false. They have been serving vanities and vain things, and now that they had in the work of faith, turned to the true God from all those idols, now they have the privilege, that labor of love.
To serve the living through God. What a labor of love that is. And it's one which goes on while our lifetime all our pathway here labor of love. And then he talks about patience or enduring constancy of hope. And so it is and verse 10 says, And to wait for his Son from heaven. To wait for his Son from heaven. There you have it, the patience of hope, the waiting for him.
The daily expectation.
In Luke 12 it was the wicked servant that said my Lord Delayeth his coming, And then he began to beat the men servants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink, and to get broken, and saw it allow the mischief that has come into the Christian testimony has flowed from putting off the Lord's coming to some future day.
Not expecting him momentarily each day.
That's the way our lives should be built. That would that would correct many of many a thing in our lives. Now one of the things that it shouldn't do, and evidently it it had this effect in many. I'm not sure how it was this doctrine or if it was other motives, but he he addresses it in the first epistle and in the second epistle, and that is that they should work with their own hands. Notice in the 4th chapter of this epistle verse 12.
That she may walk honestly toward them that are without.
Verse 11 and she's starting to be quiet and to do your own business and to work with your own hands as we commanded you. That she may walk honestly towards them that are without, and that she may have lack of nothing.
That was the tendency in verse 14 of chapter 5 not to work. Now when you exhort your brethren, you want them that are unruly.
Faint hearted, sustained, weak. Now what does he mean when he says unruly? Well, it's the word for disorderly. Not terribly. The 2nd Epistle, Chapter 3.
Verse 6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly.
And not after the tradition or the instruction. That word tradition in the New Testament simply means instruction or directions that you gave them, whether by word or by by a letter. It's not referring to the tradition that's the Royal Catholic Church talks about.
But it's just referring to instructions that he had verbally given to them from the apostle and.
Or, or in writing verse 7 for yourself, know how you ought to follow us, for we behave not ourselves disorderly among you, neither did we eat any man's bread or not, but brought with labor, and travel night and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you. I'll have you cut me off that power, and that is he had the right.
Not to work and to be supported by the Saints. He establishes that principle in First Corinthians Chapter 9 that the servant is worthy of his hire. But he didn't do it at Corinth. He did not take from the Corinthians. He didn't take from the Thessalonians. There were different reasons. The Corinthians we saw, we were talking about that in Bible study in Sunday school this morning. There were those at current that were saying that the Apostle Paul and he said that for what you had Corinthians had a lot of money. They were wealthy assembly and he just out for what he can get out of it. And so he refused to take anything from the Saints at current so that he would take away the handle that they were trying to get on him the the occasion they were trying to get on him.
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He did not take anything from the Corinthians. He didn't take anything from the Thessalonians, but for another reason. There was a tendency to be busy bodies and working not at all, and so he gave the example by working. He said in verse eight of Second Thessalonians 3. Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought that brought with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you, not because we have not power.
Not the right, but to make ourselves an example on you to follow us, or even when we were with you this we commanded you that if any would not work, neither should he eat. Are we here that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busy bodies. Now that there are such, we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ that requirements they work and eat their own bread, which he'd rather be not really in well doing, if any man. OK, not our words by this epistle.
Note that man have no company with him, and he may be ashamed about him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
So where was this, this, this habit that they had, some among them had gotten into, but not working Now that couldn't have come out of the doctrine of the Lord's coming. The Lord is coming very, very soon, and he's coming tomorrow, he'll say. What's the point in working? Let's just.
Let's just go out and wait for the Lord to come. There have been many on these false predictions that have been made. Many. They're sold their properties, they've sold their businesses, and they've even gone out to some mountain where the Lord was supposed to come to meet them. And the mountain disappointed. I think there might have been something like that here at this night that we don't know what the reason was, but there was a tendency possibly to use the Lord's coming as an excuse not to pursue honest industry.
And legitimate work until he came.
We find that especially addressed in both of these epistles. Now let's go back to First Thessalonians 1.
Verse 9. But they themselves show us what manner of entering in we have unto you, and how you turn to God from idols to the work of faith, to serve only in true God their label of love, and to wait for his Son from heaven, patience of hope, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us or.
I think more literally our deliverer from the last to come, It's coming awful judgment and wrath upon this scene, and the Lord is our delivered from that wrath. We're not expecting to go through the wrath through the tribulation, but to be delivered out from it. So there is a, there's an expression there which is broad enough to embrace that thought. Now in this first chapter, the first testimony, first Thessalonians we have.
Established that the proper.
Attitude of the Christian is to wait for God's Son from heaven. This is Christian ground, you might say. It's the proper attitude of the Christian to wait God's Son from heaven. Now we go to the second chapter for yourselves rather than our entrance in unto you that was not in vain, or even after that we had suffered before and were shamefully intrigued. As you know in Philippi, we were born in our God to speak of you the gospel of God with much.
Intention of much earnest, earnest, burning earnestness, is the thought. But our for exhortation was not a deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor unguide. But as we were allowed and approved of God to be put in trust with the gospel, Even so we speak not as pleasing men, but God, which by our hearts for neither at any time usually flattering words. These are all things which are used by those who are.
Deceivers.
Flattering words.
Flattery is a mean that is used to the enemy. Like we were reading that this morning our brothers home and prowlers. One that flatters with his lips spread the neck to the feet. And there are other. There are other things that are mentioned in in proverbs against a warning against poverty of the apostle didn't use that kind of thing either at any time. Used to be flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness.
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God is witness one of the greatest.
Snares of the Saints is covetousness. The desire to get, the desire to get it looked well, if you look at it and move. 12 That's one of the things that is used of the enemy covetousness. It's used of the enemy to to keep our thoughts earthward, and they're not to be ready for the Lord's coming. If I'm, if I'm covetous in my heart.
And I have a lust for things here. I've set my heart upon getting some earthly object. I don't want the Lord to come. That would spoil my plans. So a covetous man is one who has in his heart something going on which would put off the Lords coming.
I want this. I want this thing, and I'm going to have it. It's going to make me happy. And that's false. And covetousness is most destructive and it robs one of the blessing hope of the Lord coming. So he said he mentions this, especially every time the apostle mentions terms like this, there's a specific reason for it. He's he's using, he's giving ministry that addresses the need in this particular assembly that he's writing to.
Nor have men sought with glory neither of you nor yet of others.
When we might have been burdensome as the apostles of Christ, he did not take from them. As I said before, he worked and supplied his own physical needs, so that as to set an example before them of what they should do.
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse Cherish it her own children to breathe. Her own children, her own children. How gentle the nurse would care for their own children. So being affectionately desires of you, we were willing to have imparted into you not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you were dear unto us, the affection of the apostle for these young believers, and how he said, we would have parted to you.
Not just the gospel, but our very selves and very selves.
But you and other brethren in our labor and travail the labeling night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you. We preach them through the gospel of God, your witnesses, and God also. How fully and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you, I believe.
How important it is, as he emphasizes here, the conduct of the one that bears the precious truth of God, that that conduct be consistent with it, and that that he he conduct himself in a way which would be for the for the help of the of the Saints that he's seeking to help. Verse 11. As you know, how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you as a father, dealt his, again own children enough to read his own children.
That he would not worthy of God, who hath called you unto his Kingdom and glory.
And there you have a reference made to something still future. God has called us to His Kingdom and glory. And the Kingdom speaks at that time of manifestation when when the world will see us. The Saints in Christ, in glory of Christ, and we're going to reign with him, we're going to have part with him. Just public reign over this scene God has called us to that the the keeping that before vividly, before the soul ought to keep us holy very loosely.
Things down here. We're not Carlton earthly greatness. We're not called to earthly glory. We're called to His Kingdom. And that would enable us to walk through this scene as strangers and pilgrims who who do not have a portion here, but we just pass them through. We've been crawled into His Kingdom and glory that He would walk worthy of the God who has called you to His Kingdom and glory. Not the world's Kingdom, not the world's glory.
What to his for this 'cause we thank also thank we God without ceasing because.
When you receive the word of God, which he heard of us, he received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth the word of God, which effectually worketh also when you live. For ye brethren became followers of the churches of God, which in Judea are in Christ Jesus. For you also have suffered like things with your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus. And their own prophets have persecuted us, and they please not God, and are contrary to all men.
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So when they were called, they were proud to God's Kingdom and glory and they embraced that message. They were not called to expect a place of ease and and.
Getting along easily and well down here in this world that they were called to another world and to expect opposition, persecution and suffering, that's exactly what.
And.
Getting along easily and well down here in this world that they were called to another world and to expect opposition, persecution and suffering, that's exactly what they received. And so he said, you become followers of the churches of God, which in Judea are in Christ Jesus. They suffered. And these Saints at Thessalonica also suffered from their own country.
About the Jews in verse 16, verse 15 we both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and have persecuted us, and they please not God and are contrary to all men, forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to throw up their sins always, for the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost. But we brethren, being taken from you for a short time, in presence, not in heart, he says, I'm not with you, I'm not present with you and body, but I haven't been taken from you in my heart's infections. You're you're in my heart's infections, you're in my prayers.
You're in my thoughts, and I'm not really battling it physically, but I'm certainly with you in spirit. That's what he's saying here. We'd rather have been taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, and endeavored the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. He wanted to return there, have to see their face again, wherefore we would have come unto you. Even I fall once and again. But Satan hinded us. He didn't. He hadn't come because he didn't want to.
Humanity cut. He lets him know that that he wanted to see them and to be there, but he was hindered by Satan and then he has this chapter. What is our hope?
Or joy or crown of rejoicing, are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ that is coming, for ye are our glory and joy.
They the Saints, those who, those who live his children in the faith, those who had come to Christ through him. They were his joy, they were his glory. And he looks at them in that way. And so it's very important to him how they got on, how they, how they went on in the truth. He mentions the same thing. Let's look at the other passages in Philippians chapter 4, writing to the Philippians Saints, verse one. Therefore my brethren, dearly beloved.
For my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved. The Philippian Saints were his joy and crown, and that's exactly what he says of the Thessalonians Saints, where he are our glory and joy. And in Second Corinthians chapter one he mentions it again.
So we haven't haven't mentioned to the Thessalonians Saints, we haven't mentioned to the Philippians Saints, we have it mentioned here.
2nd Thessalonians, 2 Corinthians, chapter one and verse 14. As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus and the day coming when.
All that our service that has been done for the Lord will be evaluated in the presence of the Lord. And he says in that day ye are our rejoicing in the day of the Lord Jesus.
What a wonderful thing to have those there that are in the glory, because we have been faithful in the service in bringing the gospel to souls and that they're going to be there because of our efforts, our efforts. So Paul looks at the Saints as his glory and his joy again. First Thessalonians chapter 3, verse eight. He says. For now we live if he stands.
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Fast in the world. It was impermanent to him. They were his children. In the faith we know what it is as parents. We know what it is as parents, what a joy it is to us when our children go on well, and what a sorrow and grief and distress it is to us when our children do not go on well. And so Paul says now we did he stand fast in the Lord.
There's two other mentions of this in First John.
Here's another writer, now chapter two. First John, Chapter 2.
Verse 28, John says, and now little children abide in him.
That when he shall appear, that when he shall be manifested, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him, it is coming.
If his if his children in the faith of gold in Christ, and went on in the Lord.
And in the truth then, in that day of manifestation, he said, we will have confidence, we won't be put to shame. But if those who were his children turned aside and went astray and went into a path of error and sin, that would be for the shame of the one who was their spiritual father.
Second, John mentions that also.
In verse 8, the second John the Apostle John says, look to yourselves that we lose not those things which we have brought, but that we receive a full reward. Clearly the indication in these verses is that if the Saints went on well.
The one who is instrumental in bringing them to the Lord and in instructing them in the in the truth it would be for their credit. And if they did not go on well, it would be lost that we lose, not our reward, John says. Full reward.
So how important that the Saints go on? Well, not just for their own good, but also for the one who has brought them the truth. Now let's go back to First Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 19. What is our health or joy or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ? He doesn't say here it's to be with Christ.
Which is far better than he says that elsewhere, which is a wonderful truth. But here he says our hope and joy and crown of Rejoicing is to have you there too, to have you there in the Lords presence. Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ and his coming, for ye are our glory.
Joy wonderful to to be in that in that public manifestation day the day of Christ, and be surrounded by those who are who have been brought to the Lord through some effort of our own. Wonderful that will be.
That ought to stir us. That's a powerful relative to serve the Lord. I I've written down here in the second chapter, verses 19 and 20, the bearing of the Lord's coming on service.
How many am I going to have? How many are you going to have that will be in the glory because we have been faithful in bringing the truth to silver? How many? Power will have many, and there are others that will have many, But how many will I have? How many will you have that you can rejoice in, that are there because you thankfully gave them a gospel tract, spoke a word to them?
A faithful word.
Minister Christ to them, whatever it was. We have hundreds of opportunities every day that we often let slip through our fingers. Well, to to be here in the conscious sense. The Lord is coming, and am I going to be there empty handed, as it were, with no trophies of His grace that I can show are there because I have been faithful in speaking to service of Christ and getting the word out in visiting and speaking to the last my neighbors, those next door.
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Wherever they might be, the school, you children, you have an opportunity in school to talk to your schoolmates. And we all do in connection with our workplaces, Whatever it might be with with whom we ever come in contact, we have the opportunity to speak to them, to Christ, and to seek to bring them to Christ and.
This is the one of the powerful results of the daily expectation of Lord's coming. It produces service if I really believe the Lord's coming.
And they're going to be rewards leaked out for faithful service down here that it ought to stir me to be faithful in reaching out in the gospel to the lost, not keeping these truths for myself and for ourselves by reaching out, seeking to bring others in.
Chapter 3. Wherefore, When we were when we could no longer for bear, he thought it good to be left at Athens alone. He says we would have come unto you once and again. But Satan hindered us. Now he continues that thought. He says, when we could no longer for bear, we couldn't wait any longer. We we we wanted to be with you. We wanted to see you so badly that we thought it would be good to be left alone to Athens, and couldn't be evidently the work that the Lord had given him there. So he said, Timothy, and he saw, he says, I sent Timotheus, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer, in the gospel of Christ.
To establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith. You realize the only thing there a very short time. You don't have been there two weeks, and how much can you accomplish in that short period of time?
Very concerned did the enemy come in and use all these tribulations and persecutions and troubles in which they were passing, and turn them aside? Had the work come to nought as a result of the effort of the Enemy? You had to know he couldn't go himself, so he sent Timothy.
Verse three, that no man should be moved by these afflictions. For yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. Or verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation even as it came to pass. And you know for this cause what I could no longer prepare, I said to know your faith.
Lest by some means the tempter hath tempted you, and a laborer be in a.
But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that you have good remembrance of us always desiring greatly to see us, as we often to see you.
Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you and all our affliction, affliction and distress by your faith. They were going on. They hadn't become discouraged. They haven't turned aside. They were going on. They were going up. And that was a great joy for the apostle Paul. For now we live, he says. Did he stand fast in the morning?
That verse. But what thanks can we render to God again for you? For all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God, night and day, praying exceedingly that we might see your face and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith. Now that's really what's characteristic of the first epistle to the Thessalonians. Your faith was lacking. They needed to have it perfected. They needed to be brought to full growth. They were not inviting error at this point.
They did in the second because somebody has to correct that, but here they simply needed to be LED further into a a fuller, more mature understanding of the truth. So it talks about perfecting their faith and supplying what is lacking in your faith.
Now God himself, verse 11 And our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way unto you. That was still his desire. He lets them know this. I know this other chapter ends.
Here we have the bearing of the Lord's coming on our spiritual life. The first chapter is the Christian ground to wait for God's Son from heaven. That's the normal attitude of a Christian to wait for God's son from hell. If you find a Christian who is not waiting for God's Son from heaven, that's not normal. That's not normal for the Christian. Normal Christianity is to be daily expecting the Lord to come to await that song from heaven.
And then you ought to have such a bearing in our lives. On our service. There's a day coming. The Lords coming involves not only the rapture, but his return to earth to set up the Kingdom. And rewards are going to be given manifestation and manifestation. Seat of the judgment. Seat of Christ is connected with that. And and then we're going to be rewarded for faithful service. And are we going to have any that we have helped in in the truth? Any that we have brought to the Lord or any that we have delivered from error, from a false path that they were the worst? A sheep that gets strayed? Have we grown to them? Have we ministered to them? Have we restored them? Brother said to me the other day.
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He said. You know.
We hear so often of cells being put away from the Lord's cable. We don't hear very often the souls being restored to the Lord's table. And I said to him, yes, but every time we talk, talk on discipline, we always say that you for discipline is the restoration of the Lord is placed under discipline, never to leave them outside, but always to bring them back.
That is, it's always with a view to restoration. Restoration. Not leaving them out in the cold where they won't get any nourishment, where they won't get any care, where they.
Won't be instructed where they will be in the assembly the the thought. But the best way to get ahold of that is just look at your family. You're you're a parent, you have some children. You you have to discipline one of your children and send them to their room. The thought is sending them to to their room and not to keep them.
Never. Not to keep them. Never just to teach them a lesson for a short period of time. And then they're to be restored to their place in the family and sitting again happily at the table to enjoy the company and the fellowship of the family. That's what the assembly is. The assembly is not a court of law, and when we administer discipline as though we're dealing with criminals.
And we are magistrates meeting up judgment against a criminal. We're totally off the ground of Christianity. This is not Christian. This is not Christian. It's more the thought of a father disciplining his child. That was with the thought of the restoration of the erring 1, correcting them, that they don't do it again, but that they be brought back into happy fellowship. Well.
Sad to say, there are those out.
It has been out for years in places and they shouldn't, shouldn't out.
34 You don't have time this afternoon reading secret before? Read Jeremiah 23 and you'll see what Jehovah the Lord says about the pastors, the shepherds of Israel, how they have fed themselves.
And they hadn't sought after the strain. They hadn't bound up the wounded. They hadn't cared for them and brought them back. And the Lord has the controversy with them over that. And I dare say there's a controversy with us.
Connection with those matters to Not that I'm saying it as to this assembly at all, but I'm saying in connection with the Church of God, the Church of God.
For Thessalonians 3 now.
Verse 11 Now God himself in our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way unto you over the heart of the apostles. Hands you can just feel it.
Beating for the sinks here and the Lord make you increase and abound in love one toward another and toward all men, even as we do toward you to the end, and establish your hearts unblameable.
In holiness before God, even our Father at the coming. Notice how He connects it now at the end of the frogs, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His Saints. This is not the rapture, this is his coming with the Saints to establish his rights down in the scene. But He prays that love might abound among them. Lord, make you to increase and abound in love, one toward another and toward our men.
Even as we do toward you, the same kind of love that abounded in the heart of the great apostle Paul, towards the same stair of Thessalonica, that he wishes that that it might abound in their hearts towards one another, towards all men. And what would be the result of this abounding of love to the end? He may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness. I've often said it this way. There is nothing so holy as love. I mean real love now, the kind of love first harmed off as love in Christendom.
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Is the ignoring of evil?
And that's not true love.
If you see someone in a wrong path and you encourage them and express fellowship with them, and by so doing encourage them in a wrong path.
I've often used the illustration as a as a car going down the road, right up the road, a mile down the road, you know the bridge is out and as the car goes by.
You wave at them and say have a nice trip.
Is that loud? Would not love. Get out there and say stop. The bridge is out. Don't go ahead. Stop. They upset their plans. They may not like you for stopping them. They may not like you for telling them don't go ahead. There's danger ahead. But after they find out the bridge is out, they'll thank you for it. They'll thank you for it. They certainly wouldn't even live. Like to say anything to the one that had wished them well and set them on their journey.
To their own destruction. And now it isn't the way of love to wink at evil. Love is faithful love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, kisses of an enemy out of abuse. And so if we really love, I really love you, If you really love me, and you see I'm in a wrong path, you will love my soul to tell me about it. You will not neglect that, and I will not neglect that with you.
That's not being critical. I'm not talking about just a critical, hard, censorious type of spirit. We're not talking about that. We're talking about the kind of love that we see.
Just emanating from the heart of the agreed to possibly fall, who? Who would just lay himself up for the good of the states blessing of the Saints. But he faithfully warns them, he faithfully corrects them. He doesn't ignore what is necessary for correction. And so he says the Lord make you increase and abound in loved one toward another. Love always seeks the good of its object. Love always seeks the good of its object. And so if.
If I have love for one.
Who is in need of correction? And I go to them and rebuke them and give them corrective ministry. That's where they're good and if they heat it, they will thank me for it. Our member of brother in Oak Park.
I was a young man and he was basically heats them up to me and he put his arm around baby, what have I done now? And I knew when he did that I knew I was going to get it and he always felt very gently with me but.
That there was something coming that needed to have corrected. I may not have liked it too well at the time, but I value that as I look back, I value very much and those that have given me warnings in my young life. I was on a path once with a young lady that was not really the will of the Lord at all.
And a brother came to me and solemnly warned me, and I looked back to his thankfulness for that morning, because that would not have been a job if that had gone on. And so we need to be listened to. The the faithful warnings of those that really love you and that really care for your good. Don't turn a deaf ear to those things that will, that will issue in holiness of life.
To the end verse 13.
And establish your hearts unblameable in holiness. When love is inactivity. In an assembly there you see a holy assembly. There you see an assembly that's not covering up evil. But when I was in activity is exposing it and judging it in the light of the sanctuary. And then the end result of that kind of activity as well is true openness through separation from evil.
So he says to the end, God may establish your hearts and blamable before him in holiness. Even our Father has the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his Saints. He connects it with the Lord's coming, because then the full results, the firm conformity to the image of the sun, will will be affected. We will be like him. We will be fully and unblameable before him in love. Well, let's hurry on.
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We don't have much time left. I just want to go into the 4th chapter a little bit.
Furthermore, then, we beseech you rather, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk, and to please God so you would abound more and more, For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication to see His His.
The love that operated in falls apart didn't didn't allow him to withdraw or to withhold. I should say that need administrative they needed this ministry that is different. Right here in the 4th chapter he says God has this is the will of God. Within your sanctification you're you're keeping yourselves holy for the Lord that that you should abstain from fornication, that everyone of you should know how to possess his vessel, his body.
In sanctification and honor, not in the lust of contupacence, even as the Gentiles which know not God, that no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any manner, because that the Lord is the avenger of all, such as we also have forewarned human testified. So when he was there with them, tell them, he warned them about this sin association, this sin which was so common among those Gentiles unborn them. And now he tells them yes, because essential it was necessary to set back before them God has.
It's God's will to be sent to fight, that we be holy, that we keep our vessels in sanctification and in honor that we do not allow.
The familiarity that is being practiced nowadays to characterize us, but that rather we we keep ourselves in a very seemingly way and abstain from these things which are so loosely allowed in the world system through which we're passing. It was so in those days that that kind of thing was commonplace and so Paul had to warn against it very faithfully. And he brings the words coming at the end of the chapter.
We used to read 1St Thessalonians 4. We used to read the end of the chapter. We don't read the first part, but the first part is expectation to holiness.
To sanctification, To keeping our bodies in the in sanctification and possessing our vessels and sanctification in honor, because this is the will of God.
Verse seven God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness, unto holiness.
They needed that we needed and it's it's not well to avoid it is he therefore that despise it and reject it. This word despise it. Not man but God. You get one that makes light of this instruction and says you know you're wrong, you can do whatever you want with your body. God says no, you can't. It belongs to me.
Especially so if you're a Christian, You are not your own. Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which you have of God. You're not your own. You belong to Him. He has brought you, you're his, and you're to hold that body as holy for him. And there is a relationship, and that's America's relationship, where those inner desires and drives which God has planted there for the propagation of the race, can be fulfilled outside of that sphere. It is wickedness and fear.
And it's never approved of God outside of that sphere. It is condemned of God, and those that practice it would be judged for mongers and fornicators God will judge, God will judge. He therefore that despise him, despises not man, but God, who hath also given unto us His Holy Spirit.
Everyone of us has the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit of God, and dwelling us and making these bodies his terrorist sex. Probably enough that your bodies are the temporal of the Holy Ghost.
Which is in you, which you have of God and you're not your own. So there we have healthiness brought out in the first part of chapter 4 and now we have the subject of love. Verse 9 as touching brotherly love you have you need not that I write unto you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. We saw in chapter three that love operating issue in holiness. Now we have in chapter 4. He's he's ended chapter 3 with.
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Holiness and the Lord's coming with his Saints. And now he continues that thought in the first part, and then he reverts back to brotherly love, his touching breath of evolve. You need not that I write unto you, for ye yourselves are taught about to love one another. And indeed you do it towards all the brethren which are in all Macedonia. But we we beseech you, brethren, that you increase more and more, and that she's studying to be quiet and to do your own business. Mind your own affairs. Don't be busy bodies.
To work with your own hands, as we commanded you, and that you may walk honestly or reputably toward them that are without, that you may have lack of nothing. Then he comes to that proportion which we don't have time for. This afternoon the Lord's coming for his home, The Lord's coming for his own. A very important subject. Maybe we'll be able to look at that tonight.
Let's go Same 208 in closing, in hope we lift our wishful longing eyes waiting to see the morning star rise up right now, Gladstone Hills, Advent be before the sun shines forth and majesty.
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Joshua & Caleb Pt. 1
Address—N. Berry
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I was telling Leo that.
The subject is 2 parts, and.
I was going to just take up one part tonight.
As I've been sitting here I was, it was kind of expanding in my in my thoughts and if you won't don't mind I'll go ahead for maybe 1/2 an hour and then stop it for 10 minutes, do an interval and then we'll go on because it just is a little bit too much to cram into the hour and I would have to go too fast. So if that's agreeable to us, we'll stop and and when we do have the interval.
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Intermission. I'd suggest that you would walk around and it's easier for them to to go on. Let's turn now to Exodus Chapter 6 to begin with.
Exodus chapter 6.
And we'll try to remember that this is probably imagine.
The story of the of the children of Israel as they travel from the land of Egypt into that promised land.
And it took them a lot longer time to get there than had been anticipated, and it was because of unbelief.
And God outlined to them.
In very specific ways what he was going to do while they were still in that land of Egypt and we'll remember that all this is so very important for each one of us here tonight. Who knows the Lord is our savior because in in First Corinthians 10 and verse 11 it says now all these things happened under them for in samples.
Or types or shadows. And they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world or the ages are coming. All this that we are going to read up. All that is in the Old Testament concerning the children of Israel. They every act that those people went through, it was all acted out for you and for me, so that it could be written down. Not only happening, but it was written down under the word the Old Testament.
Is not now for you and for me a textbook of the law keeping, but it is the most magnificent illustration of the truth that we have in the New Testament. Unless I get the keys from the New Testament, I don't understand the pictures of the old. And if I just look at the pictures of the Old, I'm liable to be using my imagination as to what they need. So they are interwoven completely. The keys.
In the New Testament, the illustrations and the Old. But the illustrations are in more detail and have more teaching than the text of the New. The text is the teaching. And say also this, that we don't learn Christian doctrine or teaching from the Old Testament. We get it exclusively from the New. But the Old Testament is the illustration of the teachings of the New. But we must rely wholly on false teachings for our Christian government.
Now then, in Exodus chapter six, it was written by by Moses, but as I said, it was before they had even experienced I'm. I'm not going to go into these details of the stories because you all are very familiar with what happened in that land of Egypt, how that they were delivered from it through the blood of the lamb. This happened before.
This was written before.
Before and trying to remember this because you and I are on a similar journey. This Egypt is a picture of the world and the promised land. Israel is not when we get to heaven, but it is for you and for me to be enjoying the Christian teaching today. And so many people think of crossing the Jordan as getting into heaven, but that's not good Christian teaching.
The teaching is that you and I, beloved ones, are to be enjoying the fruit of the land now, and that land is glory, and that is for you and for me. The Apostle John, when he wrote the Gospels four times in his Gospels, he says that your joy may be full now. I just don't know whether you are enjoying your Christian life or not.
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I can't tell by your face, you can't tell by mine. But trying to, I know that the word of God tells us that if you and I are enjoying, we are going to be a separated people from this world, because the illustration is they went out of Egypt. If you and I are still kind of drifting back into the world, we haven't learned the lessons that the Lord has for us. What for? To make us happy.
He wants happiness for every one of us.
And we are the ones that have dragged our heels, if they say, and stay back in the land of Egypt. And so may the Lord help us to see that. I hope I'm not preaching at you, but I want to bring before the conscience of each one of us, myself included, that these are practical instructions for us with the guarantee, the word of God, guaranteeing us that he's going to do what he says.
So now we'll look at Exodus Chapter 6, and we're going to find seven I wills there, only God can say I will.
Say this that I will is the determinant of tense I shall is the future tense. We are the only ones that can say I shall, but God can say I will. He will carry it out. And so here 7 times he says I will, bearing in mind now that when this was referred to, it was while they were still in that land of Egypt. So the first one is in verse 6.
Here is the I will of deliverance, seven of them. Here's the first wherefore say unto the children of Israel.
I am the Lord that was the foundation of almighty God, but Lord in his relationship title.
I will bring you out from under the burden of the Egyptians.
The first one I will. God says I will.
They didn't know how it was going to be done. You and I don't know how salvation is going to come before we're saved, but God says I will, and when he says it, he will. And when he says he's going to save our souls. Anyone who puts our trust in him, we know he will. So we can preach the gospel and say whosoever will may come. It's a definite statement. So there's the first will I will of deliverance.
That's the basis. That's the process I will bring you from under the burdens of the Egyptians. Now here is the second one, and here is the I will of liberty, and I will rid you out of their *******. That is what has happened to every Christian. We have been delivered from the ******* of the corruption of sin. Romans 6 tells us that we heard dead. Now to the power of sin.
There's no more power over us. If I let it, it's because I will. My will starts to come into force and I start to do again what I want to do. And therefore I forfeit not my blessings, but the enjoyment of my blessings. God's telling us now what he has, what he will do. So there's the second one that I will of liberty. I'll rid you out of their ******* or slavery. You know what they did?
They put those people, and they were certainly slaves, as you and I were before we were saved, slaves to sin.
Now then, the third one. Here's the third one. I will of power and I will redeem you with a stretch out arm. There's the arm of Almighty God.
I will, with an outstretched arm. Just think of that. The mighty arm of God outstretched. That's the power of beloved ones that has saved your soul and mind. I don't know whether this is reaching our souls and our hearts or not. I just trust that you're not picking on delivering a sermon.
This is for you. I can only say it, but if it reaches into your heart and conscience, you're going to be blessed and you're going to be encouraged in your Christian life or not. Now of course, I know you may have heard some of these these things before, but I just want to lay this on our heart and on our conscience that if we make these truth, this truth, our own, then we're going to be able to say I have is we only have the truth we walk in with.
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Luke, 18, says.
Take heed how ye here to him that hath shall more be given. I only have. You only have the truth that we are walking, not what we know in our heads. And This is why we are weak and so often, because we're not walking in the truth that we do have. Or then it says, and he that hath not, but don't walk in the truth that I have, it says from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.
I might seem to have the truth. You might seem to have the truth. But unless we're walking in it, I'm going to. It's going to be taken away. I'm going to lose it. And so this is very much for our part of our conscience, but a wonderfully gracious of the Lord, He says, I'm going to do all this. I ask myself, I ask you, you want to live below? Are you going to let the Lord work these things, make these promises to you? And are you going to possess these things?
That's what it means to walk in.
Possess the truth. So there was.
The I will of power, and with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments.
Verse 7. The 4th one here is a sweet one. The I will of intimacy and I will take you to me for a people. I'm not going to be repeating and saying over and over again. Make this apply to yourself and to mine, to me. But I'm going to say this as we go on these things, the seven if you make them good to your own soul.
Why? You're going to see that this is not talking about a physical deliverance. That's going to be talking about your life and mine, 1St Corinthians 1546 says How be it That was not first when you are spiritual, but that which was natural, This is natural, and then afterwards that which is spiritual. Now the spiritual side is for you and for me to appropriate for ourselves as we go on to the story.
Here's the next one, in the middle of the seventh verse. Here is the well, I should say in the seventh verse, the first part, I will take you. To me, it wasn't just that God was going to take them out and and just let them find their way across that desert to a land where they didn't know. No, he says, I'm going to take you to me. He had a purpose and that was to have his people around him. That's what he has.
Purpose is for you and for me to have us intimately with himself.
And so that is that one. And now the next one here is that I will of relationship, and I will be to you a guy, how beautiful. And he shall know that I am the Lord your God. You and I are going to know these things. Now It tells us in John's gospel he that hath my word, and keepeth it. He it is that loveth me, and he shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.
That's the intimacy of our relationship. As you and I, beloved ones, walk with the Lord day by day. What happens? He reveals himself more and more to me. He becomes more precious to us, and we are lifted out of this world. We don't try to reform ourselves and say, well, shouldn't be doing that or shouldn't be doing the next thing, shouldn't be so early, and so on. Those things just drop off automatically.
If the intimacy, the I will of intimate intimacy grips our souls, oh man, do that now that here.
And is the next one.
Chapter verse 8 This is the I will of the blessing. Now here comes the positive. The others were all kind of deliverances. The the outs. And here comes the in now. And I will bring you in unto the land God set that I will bring you in, said I'll bring you out. I'll bring you in. The same God that brings us out of the world.
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He's going to bring us into heaven.
Years ago, I had a conscience about having insurance on my life and business, and I decided that I would trust the Lord, the insurance men, prominent men, he said To me. You're the most selfish man I've ever met. You're thinking only by yourself and nothing about your wife and your children.
And I said to him all art, I just have to say this, that I have accepted the Lord Jesus as my savior, and I know that I'm going to be there with him forever in heaven, but I don't know where heaven is. I don't know how I'm going to get there. He's going to take me there. But I am trusting him to take me into a place that I don't know where it is, but I know I'm going to go there. And I feel that if I can trust the Lord for that.
Take me there. I sure can trust him for the little things of this life. Well, and that is just what he's saying. Here. I'll bring you in. I will bring you in. I'll try to remember this because this is going to be the main part of our story. And we take take up the story of and I will bring you in unto the land concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham.
Eyes again to Jacob, there was that beautiful.
Promise of the blessing. And then here is the last one. Here's the seven and I will give it you for an heritage. There was the I will of inheritance. So there we have those beautiful that embrace the whole of our Christian life and the blessed assurances that we have we're fit for, Peter tells us.
That we are made ready for the inheritance and the inheritance is ready for us and we're just waiting now for.
So I wanted to say that as a kind of an introduction. Now let's go over to the book of numbers.
Chapter 13.
Or whether I'm speaking loudly enough to hear sorry.
I was just fluently brought Matt here for a few minutes.
Egypt.
Israel, they didn't know where it was. They didn't know anything of that. It was 11 days journey. We traveled along those that road and it was a very stupid a day, but it was 11 days journey. They could have gone directly across here and to that land instead of that God told them to that he wasn't going to take them that way. It was going to bring them down and they were going to cross.
Water, the water of the Red Sea, It was God's purpose they lack about it these days and they talk about the Reed seed and somebody said this the other day and that they stop at and say it's it was just a read seat because there was only three inches of water. Well, the Christian man said to the fellow that said that, well, isn't that remarkable because Pharaoh and his 600 Chariots and his men, they all got drowned in three inches of water.
That's how ridiculous the thinking of mankind is, and that is the scoffing at what God said. It was the waters of death, and they must learn that they all had to go through those waters of death. So they went in a circuitous route down, and then they came into the woods. We put it in a solid line here because they came right down here a little bit out of proportion here. It was really farther down this way.
But they came across here and down here. There they built the Tabernacle.
First year they came out of the land of Egypt. They built the Tabernacle. Now what was the Tabernacle for? It was going to be used to represent God's purpose of the ages. But they were in a good state of soul at this stage because they had just seen this amazing deliverance. It is like you're in my salvation. This is a picture of Christ's death.
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For me, for you, Christ's death, for you and for me they were they went through on a dry ground and they saw the walls on either sides. You know that story well. Dry ground and the it's a picture of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. His death for us. Not the same as the next crossing of the water, but this one is a picture of the cross.
Hundreds of times. I never have counted it, but many, many times in the scriptures it refers to that deliverance out of Egypt.
Beloved ones, that's the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, his death for us. They had to experience that crossing and so they did and then they went. And when that Tabernacle after a year of hard work by one's gifted in their hands and in their heads, they had great gift given to them ability and under.
The Holy Heaven.
And Bezalel or Beza deal with the leader he built that he was the director of it and they built that wonderful Tabernacle. Why did they build that Tabernacle?
I won't mention it yet. They went in a straight line after they got to build a Tabernacle built and they went straight for this land of promise and they came to this place called Kadish Barnia. It was on the South border of that promised land and they arrived there.
604,000 men and approximately 3 million people, and they stand there. And now we're going to pick up the story, 13th of numbers. Here's what happens.
1317 first.
And Moses sent them to spy, or search out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain or the Hill Country, and see the land.
The land on the side, what it is.
And the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, they're six things here, strong or weak.
Few or many. And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad, and what the cities they be that dwell in, whether in tents or camps or in strongholds.
And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood or trees therein or not.
That's what he said. Good, bad, sometimes bad, good. They need to do that.
You and I have to decide. Well, is it worth putting up with being a Christian in this world, people laugh at me. I say this for the younger ones.
You belong to the Lord Jesus Christ and we decide, well, it's pretty hard to be a Christian. I don't think I'll bother. It's not really worth much, you know. Whether you and what you and I think of the glory is going to determine how you and I are going to act here on this in this way. How much I am enjoying glory is going to be how much I have the power to go through here unaffected by the influences for bad against me.
Made no difference. Whether it was good or bad, whether trees or not or whether there was wood, whether there were walled up cities, it made no difference. God said I will bring you in and that's all they needed. That's all of you and I need.
We're going to be enjoying this, and there's going to be power kept in the first, Peter, 15, says. Kept by the power of God.
The I will for you and for me. But then two words follow. It says through faith, want to be enjoying the fact that we are kept by the power of God. I'm going to be asking the Lord to keep us, he said. Kept by the power of God. And so here it wasn't necessary, but it was because of unbelief. It showed the weakness now of the people that even Moses went along with this.
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And sent them as spies or to search at the land. Notice now what it says, the next little sentence there in the middle of verse 20. And be ye of good courage and bring out the fruit of the land, didn't say, be of good courage and go and see whether it's a good country or not. But he does say be of good courage and bring fruit.
What does that mean for you and for me now? This is the subject that is before us.
Fruit bearing in your life and mind. Fruit bearing for God. And the fruit is the fruit of the glory of heaven. This fruit was the fruit of the land, and they were, he says, to bring up the fruit of the Lamb. Now the time was the time of the first right grace. That was around September.
The just the glowing time of the.
All the fruit that was harvested in June and July and August. And then there was finally the great Growing. And that was the time of joy, a picture of the future when Israel, after you and I are cut to the glory that they are going there is going to be the turn by God to Israel and to bring them literally into that land.
As he was doing here.
In tight beloved ones were just on the verge of.
Just on the verge of the return of Israel to their land, May the 14th, 1948, they got their liberty to have that land back again for the first time in 2500 years. I hope we're stirred by the days in which we live and are conscious of the fact that we are just on the verge of the coming of the Lord for us. And then Israel is going to be.
In really into the time of first rite grace and that is when the Lord will lead them in believe and will save them in that land. So now verse 21. So they went up and searched the land from the wilderness of Zinn unto rehab as men come to Haman. Well Hamad was way up in the north with spies. The men were searched out of the land and probably they went up this way.
A great big circle and came down through the land and the ham up his way up here and they are on their way back now and note that place Hebrew. Notice the next verse.
Verse 22. And they ascended by the South and came unto Hebron. I want to emphasize that we'll try to remember it. It's a vital part of the story. Hebron means communion, Communion.
4 * 4 or five times. It has deep meanings. I want to take time to look at them, but if you went over to Genesis 23, you will find there it was the place of death.
Was the burying place for Sarah, I believe. And so we find that that was the 1St. And we're going to see others as we progress with the story connected with Hebron, but Hebron will try to remember, was a place of fruitfulness.
For you and for me the glory.
And so they came back to Hebron. Now the rest of that 22nd verse tells us that there were there were giants there. First it tells us about that place of communion, and then it says the difficulties there, the giants that were there. Verse 23. And they came unto the brook of Eshkol and cut down from fence a branch with one cluster of grapes.
And they vary between two upon a staff and they brought out the pomegranates and of the figs. The place was called the brook of Eshkol because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from defense. Notice that it says the children of Israel was only 12 men, but they represented all the people and they come to that spot and we've been there.
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And it's a very fertile part of Israel and the grapes are still growing there, very much fertilized now, but there it was. It's a very, very rich place and it it really is the prime spot of the whole land of Israel. It is the best spot.
The children of Israel had come out of the land of Goshen, which was the choice place of the land of Egypt. We also have been there, but it's all in ruins now. But we passed through there. It went from the best of that place to the best of that of the land of Israel.
And they brought back with them these the illustration. Here we just.
Use that as a not to be examined too closely, but there were the greats. I don't think they'd ever seen such a cluster of grapes that it required two men to carry on a pole. Just think of what fruitfulness there must have been in that blend to produce one cluster. And that's what the word eshkol means, One cluster. It's nice, isn't it, to realize that you and I who are redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are to manifest that oneness, one with Christ, one with one another, one cluster. That is the meaning of that word, eshkol. And so it was fruitfulness. It was grapes. And grapes are a picture of joy on this earth, and they bring that so we could bring them back with it. Now then.
Verse 26.
And maybe we'll stop now for a while.
I suppose.
6.
And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, to all the congregation.
The children of Israel under the wilderness of Param to Kadish. Now here are two things, and brought back word unto them and unto all the congregation. The first part, they brought back word of what they had seen in the land.
In other words, their ears heard. That's all they just heard.
I've heard of these jokes that I've heard of the with the hearing of the ear. The ears give us, they say, the educators say 15% of what we know. 15% of knowledge comes through the the ears, 85% through the eyes.
So I don't know whether I'm making this plane. The fruit of the land is seen by everyone that you and I come in. Came in contact today.
But they heard us say to unsaved people, we bring word concerning glory, don't we? And they brought the word and brought the word. How important it is to bring the word of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ whenever we can to an unsaved person. That's one part of it. But then look at the second part.
And show them the fruit of the land. Showed them the fruit of the land they saw. They saw the very evidence of it by the fruit there. And your life and your mind is the evidence that is seen by the world of whether you and I are enjoying Christ or not.
And as I mentioned, 85% is what they see in your life and mine. Our neighbors, they're watching us like Hawks, aren't they?
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Well, there was the there was the word and the evidence. The word comes first and then the evidence second.
Of seeing Joe as I quoted Jill first he said and he he as it was heard, he heard what the Lord said. But when his eyes were open and you and I hear the gospel, that's a wonderful thing. But when our eyes as believers, as believers.
Are open to see the loveliness of Christ. That's when we start to live our Christian life.
Now the evidence of it is seen by others, but if you and I are enjoying the Lord, it's going to come under. It's going to come out of the mouth because it says out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
So we're going to give the evidence out of John's Gospel. Chapter 6 says he that believeth on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. You're going to have one hand on The Fountainhead, drawing strength from the Lord as it works in our life, in our hearts, I should say. Then it goes out in our other hand to seeking the blessing of others. So here was the hearing and the seeing of that fruit.
Now then, let's go on.
Verse 27 And they told him they these are the whole 12 of the men. They all said the same thing, apparently. Just like when you and I are first saved. Oh, there's No Fear at all. We are brave and we're telling folks about the Lord as our savior. And we we don't have any self consciousness or pride.
And that's the way it is at the beginning, isn't it? Because they they all said that, and they told him, and said, We came unto the land, Whither thou sentest us? And surely?
It flowed with milk and honey, and this is the fruit of it all. The 12 of them said that they all gave a clear one single testimony of what the land was, and they said it was a land that flowed with milk and honey. Good to remember what that is. It has to peculiarities. Both of them are pre digested foods. The milk goes through the cow, the honey goes through the bee, and this is beloved ones.
Predigested food for us, the precious word of God.
And is never get indigestion by eating by reading this too much. And so there was the evidence of that plan.
Fruitfulness and flowing with milk and honey.
Now look at the first verse of 28, first word of verse 28. Nevertheless, that's sad. Nevertheless, here comes trouble. Now here comes unbelief. Here comes lack of conviction in the heart to believe what God says. I will. Here is what you and I so often.
Allow in our life, and that is the circumstances for the evil of unbelief, Hebrews 2 Says the the evil heart of unbelief here is the seed. Nevertheless, why do they need to say that? God says I will do this, I'll deliver you to that.
I'll take you into that land. Nevertheless, now here they're looking at circumstances. And when you and I look at circumstances where we're going to get depressed, but I often say this, my new nature never gets depressed. Neither does yours. It's my old nature that gets depressed. And why does my old nature get depressed? Because I don't get what my old nature wants. And here was their reasoning And 2nd Epistle of Corinthians tells us, casting down all reasoning.
Here they come now with their reasoning. Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled and very great in making a difference to God how much I think the walls were called, no.
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And moreover, we saw more. They saw these giants, big men maybe of as high as the ceiling, around 9 feet high.
The children of anything were there. Verse 29 And now here they lists a whole bunch of the the the enemies. Nothing to do with what God is going to do for them. The Amalekites were in the land. The Hittites jeopardizes. Amorites, Canaanites. They even knew where they dwelt. They were spending more time looking at the enemies than they were at the wonderful land that they were going to possess.
Their hearts were getting filled with unbelief and it gets worse as they go on.
Verse 30. But here is a nice interlude. Now one man speaks up. I don't know what he looks like, but here we suppose that this was Caleb because Joshua was the leader. Joshua and Caleb and this man has the courage to speak out. I wonder if we have the courage to speak out when we are witnessing to the world.
Or do we keep quiet?
Ten men are.
Going to be distinguished from these two, but what does he say?
And Caleb, still the people.
And I thought I'd like to call this story the Stiller of the people.
Do we still the Saints? Do we still the brother? Do we still each other? Or are we troublers?
Do we tell stories? Do we look at the dark side? Do we remember the faults of the of our brethren? We're going to see, Lord willing, tomorrow night, that this is a little different report. Or I should say it was a true report.
That Caleb gives many many years later, 45 years later, But here it says and Caleb still the people before Moses and said let us go up at once.
And possess it, for we are well able to overcome it. Notice the difference there, they said. We're not able.
But this man first of all says it, and then they both say it together. We are able. No, he doesn't say that. He says we are.
Well, in confidence of faith. And if you and I are walking close to the Lord, we're going to have confidence.
And courage to he was told there, Use your courage. There is a man who listened to what Moses had said, and he had the courage to say. We're well able to go up, not only to take a look at the land, but to notice that word possessive.
Verse 31 Now we go back to the men. But there's another.
Like nevertheless. But the man that went up with him said, we be not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we. Is that true or was that false? It was true. It was true.
They were stronger. These people had no great armaments. They weren't able to cope with these people that would be defending their land. We are for they are stronger than we. That's true. But what about the God of Heaven? Was he stronger than these Canaanites and the Amalekites and the Jebusites and so on? Yes, they he was indeed.
And now it gets worse. Verse 32 and they brought up an evil report.
It's not only a neutral report, but it was evil. It wasn't true. It was bad. Now I asked myself, I asked each one of us here, what kind of a report is your life and is my life bring to the people around me, you boys and girls that are at school? What kind of a report does your life tell to the other boys and girls in your class?
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Do they know that we are Christians?
How important it is? Can I stop for a minute to tell a story? One of the girls, I guess some of you know the family, were a French Canadian family, isolated, never had any contact with Christians and one of the brothers that was having his car and body work done, he found this little garage 100 miles from Montreal, went there and gave a track to the family.
And bit by bit you was more contact with them and finally gave them a Bible. And the father and mother were saved and their whole life was changed and they were bringing up their children now for the Lord. And one of the girls was at a French university and she was going there and she was brightly saved too. And while she was there, she didn't speak about the Lord to the others in the class, but one day.
A girl by the name of Dolores. She came to this girl and she said to her, what have you got? What have you got? And she said, oh, what do you mean? Well, she said you aren't like anybody else. You have, you must have something that we don't have. And she said, yes, I do. I have. Christ.
And she said to her, by the way, there is going to be a Bible conference in Montreal this coming weekend. Would you like to come immediately? She was thinking about the welfare of that girl and Dolores said yes, it would. So she said, will you come to our house Friday night? They were both boarding at this college. And so she said you come to our house Friday night and then we'll drive up. And she, the girl came and sat down at the supper table of this French Canadian family.
And the Father opened up the Bible. So important. It isn't, isn't it for us as fathers to be opening up the Bible with the children. And they opened the Bible and start to read. And he explained the Scriptures. And he brought to the conscience of this girl the blessed Lord Jesus, as the saving power. 9:00 they were down on their knees, and when they got up from their knees, Dolores says, I'm saying that girl is happily going on married to one of the.
Boys now and.
Toronto I think it is the other sisters married to at least, and the girl that led her to the Lord. The whole three of them are all I think married to English. 2 American boys and one of them and still my heart do a Canadian boy happily going on for the Lord. But I'm telling you this story to show that girl Shesland was bearing the fruit in her life.
It was seen, I saved to each one of us is it seen in our life. So here now is unbelief. Let's go on with the sad part of 32. And they brought the evil report of the land which they have searched under the children of Israel, saying the Latin notice these things. The land through which we have gone to search. It is a land that.
Eateth up the inhabitants.
There are now that wasn't true. The other was true this.
What isn't true? Didn't eat the land. They saw the people there and they weren't all eaten up. And that was what unbelief does see. It tells how.
What our imagination does heats up the inhabitants thereof, and then it says, and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. That wasn't true at all. All the people start to become giants and all the difficulties get bigger and bigger.
And everyone of them now is a Japanese 9 foot high. That's the way unbelief sees those things you see in our life. When we get our eye off, the confidence that we need to have and we get from the Lord everything, the difficulties start to magnify verse 33. And there we saw the giants and the sons of Penang which came off the giants.
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And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers.
Everybody got biggest a giant, maybe 9 feet tall. And here they these men that searched the land, they shrink down to become grasshoppers. No confidence in themselves, no confidence, I should say, in the Lord. And so then the last part says.
And.
So we were in their cycle. That wasn't what the people said. Doesn't say anything, but they were just imagining this. The difficulties were just worse and worse and worse. Well.
There we will leave them. But now, before we close, I want to show you God's side now, just briefly.
Next chapter.
Verse 6.
Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jefuni, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes. They just didn't shrug their shoulders and say, Oh well, that's the other thing. They were serious. And by that I draw this the you and I are going to stand for the Lord and others don't stand with us. And they are a poor testimony. We feel it.
We feel it. We're going to feel it. And so here he runs. They rent their clothes, who are at the bad report that the others brought, and the seventh verse. And they speak unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying how beautiful this is, the land which we passed through to search. It is an exceeding good land, Or as in the Darby translation, it says.
A very, very good.
Lab You didn't say anything about the walls or the giants or anything, or the grasshoppers or anything. It was a very good land. Good, nice report.
If the Lord delight in US.
6th of Exodus told that the Lord did delight in them. He will bring us into this land and give it us. Oh, they gave the glory to the Lord. Didn't say we're strong, we're able, we're stronger than the enemy. We will overcome. Not a word. The Lord is the one that's going to get the victory. And so it is with you and with me. We have confidence in the Lord. We're not afraid of the enemy.
We're not being deceived by Satan's and working on our pride to keep us from talking to people.
We'll go ahead. We'll have that courage. And so they knew that the Lord would delight in them. They had a brother in Montreal and he was an orphan from England, and in his years there in England, he was thinking of emigrating to Canada. So he wrote it to the Canadian government and got some literature as to what Canada was like and the government at that time.
Was promoting immigration to Canada, looking for immigrants. And so they had nice big brochures prepared to invite people to come there. And so they sent them to him, and he was delighted to see the beautiful pictures of Canada. And then every couple of months they send some more catalogs. So Honey was at work. He would bring in the catalogs and he'd be showing them these pictures of Canada.
In the next few months, and he would come with some more catalogs and showing, look at this wonderful. And he was talking so much about it. You know what they called him? Oh, they said here comes Canada. He was just talking so much about the land that he was hoping to go to that he was given the name of Canada. Or do you and I have that testimony? Are we still occupied with the glory in the Lord Jesus Christ that people would nickname us and call us Christian?
Followers of the Lord, well, this is what these, this man, these men were like now then?
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Verse 9 And now he gives a warning to the people only. Rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land. Don't be afraid, he said, For they are bred for us, but a different thing than what the others were saying. Bread for us. Their defense is departed from them, and the Lord is with us.
Fear them not. Stop there for a minute. There is the confidence of the believer who has his confidence in the Lord, not thinking of their own strength, only of the Lord. And notice I'll just read a little bit here of the next verse, but.
All the congregation that stoned them with stones. Let's pause there. Now what is it that all the 3 million people or so are 600,000 men? What do they do?
Prepare to kill these two men.
On a stone to death, but for foretelling the truth. And we know, beloved ones, that if we're going to stand for the truth, we're not going to be popular even amongst other believers. And the more we stand for the truth, the more we are liable to be targets. But if you and I are drawing our strength from the Lord, we're going to be able and willing to stand and be targets.
Nevertheless, we're not going to lose our confidence in the Lord, but here they are standing now, the two of them together.
Two men, two men. You don't know that in the scriptures 2 is always a picture of the church Jew and the Gentile drawn, drawn together. And so here were like two or three gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus. Wherever you get a two in the New Testament or old usually is a pointing on to the church that will was to come. So here they stand now, and the men are reaching for the stones to kill.
Now what happens just at that moment? What's that? Look at the next part of the verse.
And in the middle of 10 First and the glory of the Lord appeared in the Tabernacle of the congregation.
To all the children of Israel, the glory of the Lord is not wonderful. The Lord knows He knew what they were endured. He know. If you and I are faithful, He knows. He knows. And that's the time when the Lord is going to appear to just at the moment when we are needed. Second in Corinthians chapter 12. And Paul prayed that the thorn might be removed. Lord said to him.
My strength is made perfect in weakness. And then it says, and the power of Christ, the power of Christ. The only time that expression is ever used, that I can remember in the Scripture, shall be upon me. He had that confidence that the power of Christ was going to rest upon Paul, even although he was going to have to endure with the Lord laid on. And so here the Lord appears.
In his glory or the glory of the Lord appears at the darkest moment of the of the career of these two men thus far. Now just want to give you a little bit more.
The Lord tells them that I won't read it, but the Lord tells them now that because they wouldn't go into the land and possess it, he said they were going to wander around in the new illness and put it in dotted lines here because there's no way of identifying where they went. It's all lost. I just wandered aimlessly around till every man that was over 20 years of age.
That was living at that time is dead 38 years they wandered around and by the end of those 38 years, on every person over 20 except three people.
This man Joshua, and the man Caleb and Eliezer, the high priest he was there were the three that survived 2 men.
Celsius. Now that is what was going to happen.
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But I want to show you now.
That the Lord.
Was going to also remember the 10 men.
In verse 23 surely.
While speaking, they shall not see the verse. 23 They shall not see the land, they won't see it which I swear unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoke me see it. But my servant Caleb is mentioned before Joshua, because he had another spirit within him, and hath followed me fully.
Him will I bring.
Into the land wherein he went. And his seed shall possess the very words that were used about possessing the land here. It says Caleb is going to be there. He's going to see it and he's going to possess, oh, that's what you and I are going to happen to you and to me. We are going to have confidence and we will go on and endure. And because we have our hearts filled with the coming glory.
So what does he say about him? He says he wholly followed me. Just like to point out I found in the scriptures 6 * 6 times that it says about Caleb that he wholly followed the Lord 6 times. Why wouldn't it be 7 times? Well, we enjoy the thought. It's because no one succeeds as short of seven and six is the number of the man.
Six was the limit of man's abilities, but seven is perfection, and the Blessed Lord Jesus was the only one who wholly did the will of his Father. Nobody else but here is a human being, a man like you and me, who had the courage and had the testimony now from God himself 1/2 from Moses.
Three from Joshua and Caleb himself wholly followed the Lord 6 times. What a wonderful testimony that must be. You've covered that when we get to the glory. Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing to be called? The Lord? Called you by your name And he said, you holy followed me down there. This is your opportunity, This is mine to live for the Lord Jesus Christ.
It's real. This is what the Lord is telling us this story for. To encourage you and me to know that He's writing down everything. Just counting up today, six, five times in Revelation 2 and three, seven times in the King James. But I notice in the The Darby translation five times it says I know thy works. What a comfort that is to know that if you and I are living beloved ones for the Lord with the strength that He gives.
And the cartridge that he gives that then we are willingly going to go on unafraid of the opposition, or the stopping or the mocking of the world, or even of the Lord's own people. Sometimes they make it a little bit difficult, but the more faithful we are, the less concerned we are going to be about the opposition. And so there he tells them that he had done that but one thing now.
Here's the judgment side These are what's going to happen.
To.
36 and verse 36.
Notice of the eye will of 35. I never had seen that before. I, the Lord, have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against Caleb and Joshua. No, it doesn't say that. It says against me. That is what they were really against, but not least these poor fellows.
Got it? But it was the Lord against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed and they shall die. That was referring to the whole congregation. Now this is the 10 men and the men which Moses sent to search the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur. See, it wasn't only that the men were discouraged, they made the whole congregation sad and murmur against him.
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By bringing up a slander upon the land. Even the those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land died by the plague. No, the more accurate translation is a plague. God sent a special plague that killed those ten men, the unfaithful men.
And I'm not suggesting for a minute that believers could lose their their salvation. But I do believe this, that you and I are going to lose very much if we're like those ten men, if we don't trust the Lord for our life in this world, Romans 5 says much more being now justified by his blood.
We shall be saved by.
His life the Lord keeps everyone of us alive.
If it were left to Satan, he'd kill us all, the whole crowd of us here, and all Christians in the world, to destroy the testimony that the you and I realized that he keeps us alive. Because it does. I can't find the verse there exactly. It says that Caleb and Joshua live. They live. But these ten men.
What does it say?
Died.
Live 2 men live. 10 of them died by a plague, but there it is verse 38. But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jupiani, which were of them of the men that went to search the land.
Lived still.
Lived.
That's about right.
Joshua & Caleb Pt. 2
Address—N. Berry
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Bring it before us to the church as the first part, the first verse, and then Israel is, the heading says.
The last Near East glory.
Father.
Blessing when I saw naturally.
Your hands.
Press was everything.
For the earth when it shall rain.
So.
The long wilderness journey is over.
And.
They have been now in this land and we're going to pick it up, and Joshua had been in the land now for five years.
Helps to explain why some of the numbers are.
So we go on now into.
Joshua, book of Joshua.
Chapter 14.
I was just thinking before I stood up. There are three names that we're going to remember.
Remember Hebron?
Going to come back.
You're going to remember Caleb, his part in it.
Remember about you. Remember the Giants? The same giants 45 years before they're mentioned again?
And pass away some other things. So now we go to the 14th chapter and we will hear.
In verse 6.
Then the children.
Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal.
And kale of the son of jeopardy the king, as I said unto him.
It says to Moses.
Thou knows the thing.
No, this is to Josh. I'm sorry, but I don't know what's the thing that the Lord said unto Moses, the man of God concerning me and the kiddish party. I'd just like to stop for a minute.
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Here.
Dimension of a vital spot Gilgal right here.
That was where the shame of having been in the land of Egypt.
For those years are gone and the shame.
We are not fit really for this earth.
It's really, it doesn't suit us. It dirty us and we pick up the soil of the earth. That's like the Egypt was. They were they were slaves there and.
So when they arrived at Gilda having crossed the Jordan.
Circumcision was reinstated. They didn't keep the.
The.
Order of circumcision in the wilderness. They were careless about that, but when they got into the land, it was reinstated. In other words, that was death to the flesh for you and for me. It's hard for us, the younger ones, to understand this, but.
I think maybe I mentioned it and I'll just go over it again. They came through the Red Sea, all of them. Everybody, the whole 604,000 men. And then.
As we learn, they disobey. They wouldn't go into the land in unbelief. They turned back. They wandered here for 38 years. Just like that man in the 5th chapter, Jones gospel. He was stupid at the pool there 38 years. Oh, that's Israeli, so you can't walk. So there they were. They were wandering aimlessly around till the last one was dead. And then they start up. But as I mentioned, oh, I guess I did mention that. But they could have gone right in here. It was handy, but now.
All. There were many, many ones that had never gone through the waters of death. So they're taken up on this longer route, and they in turn cross the Jordan, which is a picture of our death with Chrysler, the Red Sea. Christ's death for me, Jordan, my death with Christ. Now everyone of us here who knows the Lord is our Savior.
Positionally.
But that I mean in God's sight we died with Christ.
On the ground, Galatians 220 tells us that I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live, yet not I, But Christ liveth in me a life that shall now live in the flesh. I live by the faith of the Son of God, love me, and give himself for me. That's the position of every one of us. I want to emphasize this. I believe that spiritually, Spiritually.
Unless I really.
Live this unless I realize I died with praise really positionally, or at least experimentally. That's the word I want.
Haven't crossed the jar. I'm still living with her and your life and mine shows where we are.
In that way, do I make that point positionally? Everyone of us is in our heavenly position in Christ. That is what the picture of being in the land is. Romans 8 tells us that we have been justified and we have even been glorified. That's how God sees us now, every one of us.
Ambiguity and Ephesians 2 tells us that we are seated in heavenly places. But you'll notice that it doesn't say with Christ. It says in Christ, in Christ. Now that is how God sees us. But experimentally or we might say in responsibility, Now every one of us in this room is to be living that that our position has given us, has put us in.
If I don't, it's not because I can't help it. It's because I don't want it. I want, I prefer to stick in that, stay in the wilderness and have all the world and the world that can give me nothing. To go back into the wilderness is to be destitute of food.
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With no manner falling down anymore, a man has stopped when that happened. When they came to Guild off, no more manner. But they had a new food which was called the old corn of the land and never had that food before. All was the manna had fallen from heaven. The manna is.
That provision that God makes for you and for me as we pass through this life. But in the wilderness there were no battles. There's only one battle could mention that, that Amalek, right at the beginning of their journey when they just crossed the Red Sea. Apart from that, there were no battles told I've spoken of as soon as they got to Gilgal, soon as they had been circumcised, As soon as.
Manner stopped there, I should say. They had the Passover first, and then the man of stopped, and then they had the corn of the land. Now I'd like to explain that the corn of the land is.
God's portion now He is not the provision, And then is the provision. The corner of the land is the food for my soul, for your soul today.
It's heavenly. It's the corn of the land and it's the old corn because.
It is Christ, the glorified man. Why is it the old horn? Because the Lord came from heaven. He was there before he became a man. He lived here as a man. Death raised, went back to heaven, and now he's the food for our souls. The old corn he came from, as it were. That position, where he had been before that beloved ones, is hard to take. I know it's hard to understand.
That is what God wants you and me to be feeding on day by day, just like the prodigal son brought into the house. And he sits down at the same table and he eats the same food as his father eats. No difference, you and I. I hope I'm not saying things too fast. You and I have the full mouth.
To enjoy the same.
Thing. Same person that God himself enjoys and that is Christ.
And the tendency always is to think of what the Lord Jesus is to me. And that is the result, I believe, of listening to poor and radio talk and.
Articles that are written by those who don't walk in this truth which has been bought for at such a price, and oh beloved ones that we can only realize that we're missing out in our souls, that we are not feeding on Christ glory.
That is what the old corn of the land speaks to us all. Now then, as I often say, suppose I am.
Enjoying this and all of a sudden something happens in my life, lose my job, health breaks down, death of somebody in the family or troubles with my work and I can't make a living and so on. And I say, how could I ever bring those earthly thoughts?
Before an exalted and glorified thrust, well speaking reverently, I trust the Lord who is also Jesus, and he's the exalted Christ. He, as it were, comes and he says, I'm going to take you by the hand and I'm going to go into the wilderness again and the man is going to fall. And I am Jesus who has walked on this earth and knows every problem that you have at present on the surface. And I'm going to.
Feed you with the manna, which is going to give you the strength to survive and not to stay in the wilderness, but to get back into the land again.
I like that point.
That's what the manna is for. It's not the trials of his life. They're not the bachelors.
Trials of life have to do the certain with the circumstances of our life are spiritual. They are to be living in devotion to Christ and separation from everything to be enjoyed, everything that would hinder, I should say, not to be way up into a monastery and separated. Separation is in isolation, but it is to be feeding positively on price, and that is the portion that each one of us has now.
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And if you and I do this, oh, how we are lifted up, how our prayers, how our Lords Day morning meetings are richer. And we're not thinking when we come in Lords Day morning thanking Jesus for dying for me on the cross, That isn't worship. That's the sin offering. That's how I got there. I don't come into the Lord's presence as a Sinner. I come in as a member of the body of Christ. I come in to remember him.
His death, and as it were, to lift him up to God. That is the land of God, not me, the center at all, right?
That is what happened at Gilgal. And then as Joshua was standing there and he heard these things, he looked up and there he saw the man with the drawn sword in his hands. The battles are going to start now and they are going to be in those battles as they were going to see they had the food you see before they started the battles and the food is priced. That is our strength for the spiritual battles.
You and I take a stand for the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm not now talking about preaching the gospel.
Speaking of the Honoring the Lord Jesus Christ as we are gathered by the Holy Spirit into His Holy Presence, that is the testimony that we have been given to bear in this earth. And you and I know that that is a hard battle.
We certainly are ashamed often of this, are we not? And yet this is the greatest privileges on the 5th privilege on the face of the earth. So now here they are, and they have dropped him to Gilgal. The first thing that Caleb says is the word of God. It came from God, it went to Moses, and from Moses it went to Joshua.
Joshua, it's a beautiful chain again.
Now middle of 6 thou knowest the thing that the Lord said unto Moses, the man of God concerning me and thee That was Caleb and Joshua. And kadish Barnea goes right back to the earliest promises.
You and I need to constantly go back to those original promises. When Abraham got out of communion with the Lord, he kept going when he was in that land, and he got to the town himself down on YouTube. But it tells us there in the 13th draw, the 13th chapters of Genesis, when he went back to the place where he was at the beginning. That's what you and I, beloved ones, need to get back to.
Not to be making changes, but to be getting back to the fundamental truth. And so he goes right back to the promises that God made to Moses. Moses made to them. Now then, 40 verse, 740 years old, was I, when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadishburnia to a spy out the land. And I brought him word again.
As it was in my heart. It's beautiful every stop. He's harkening back now to 45 years before, when he was one of those men that searched the land, which is the proper word, rather than spying. It was searcher. He was a searcher. And so he says there it was in my heart. I think that's nice. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speak if I'm ashamed to talk to an unsafe person. But the Lord is, because I'm not enjoying the Lord.
I'm not going to be shy. If I'm enjoying the Lord, it's going to come out very easily. I'm going to speak with a personal acquaintance about the Lord, his grandma. Similarly with with believers. What do we talk about when we are around the table? What? What? Sergeant General conversation. When we socially meet, you always say Christ. Or are we wasting our time talking about all the things of this life? What is in my heart? What is in your heart?
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He remembers 45 years ago.
Out of his heart came the words, and out of yours too will be so versatile nevertheless.
Go back to that word, nevertheless that we had before. He's quoting. What the parallels? Nevertheless, my brother. Who are those brethren? Oh, they're those ten men.
All died of a plague. He doesn't say anything about them. Disparagingly, he calls them my.
That is what you and I are going to call each other. If we are in communion with the Lord, not going to be despising one another or critical of each other, that we are going to be calling my brother. That went up with me, made the heart of the people melt, but I only followed the Lord.
My God. Now we remember that we said that that was the word that was spoken 45 years before. In other words, Caleb hadn't proved where he stood for how much he was following the Lord when it was spoken originally. So 45 years before the Lord says He who would have followed me here 45 years later, Caleb is saying I holy followed the Lord something like the Apostle Paul.
Paul who could say, be he followers of me as I am of God.
Sounded like pride, but the man was so close to the Lord in his daily life that he could speak in that way his his object was was the Lord. Now he goes back to the words again, verse 9. And Moses swear in that day saying, Surely the land were on thy feet, have trouble shall be in thine inheritance, and thy children's forever, because thou hast only followed the Lord.
My God, here's the third of d'artagnan. Here's the third person that is speaking Moses, Moses.
And what does it also say? He goes right back to the original wording and he says.
The promise was that was made to you, that where you put your feet on thy feet have trodden shall be enough thine inheritance. What does that mean? Now to the process Christians. Well, I often quote Joshua one and verse 3 which says this, but I'm going to misquote to emphasize what is the truth. I believe the verse doesn't exactly say this. Every place that the soul of your foot shall try to find that will I give you.
Doesn't say that. If it did, you see there would be some credit to us.
But what it does say is that every place of the soul of your foot shall tread upon that have I given you.
But it is up to you and to me now to walk the truth that has been given to you and me to walk. I don't get it by walking in it, but I enjoy it, and it becomes mine when I do. And I appropriated to myself, and I possess it.
But I must happen like we were thinking at the supper table tonight. There are two sides. God's sovereignty. He does everything. My responsibility, total responsibility. And there they are running through the Scriptures in parallel.
God doing everything, my full responsibility. If I say no to God, I go to hell. But when I say yes, and I accept the Lord as my savior, only after that do I discover He gave me the power to do that. Now that is the same thing in every moment of our life. The Lord Jesus gives us the power, as we're going to see in a few minutes. Now it was power from on high that enabled Caleb to walk, and it's the same power that are the ones that gives you and me that power.
We don't need to ask God for power. He's given us all things that pertain unto life of God. In this good to God we will walk in. And so there he is reminding.
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And human of the past.
Now we go down.
To the 10th And now behold the Lord. How does that work? Now behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said. Is that nice? As he said, What's he saying to you? Kept by the power of God? I can just say that the Lord said May good in my soul through faith. So here he says that the Lord kept him alive. He wasn't there going to those.
38 years with difficulties and.
To keep himself healthy, no. The Lord kept them alive. 604,000 men and all their wives and the children. Over 20 people over 20. Every one of them died but two men.
What keeps you and me alive? The Lord Satan would kill everyone.
You younger ones, you better remember this. The Lord keeps us alive. We belong to the Lord. The Satan would kill us if he had the power of it. The Lord keeps us.
So he acknowledges this, and it's a good thing for us to realize that we are kept alive by the Lord. And so he says.
As he said in the middle of 10 these 40 years, 40 and five years, so they were in the land now 45 years, so it was 45 years ago. Even since we've noticed the number of times it comes back to the Lord's word, since the Lord spake this word unto Moses.
While the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness. And now, though I am this day 85 years old, 85.
None of us here, which got that far, but here, he says. I'm 85.
Now I'm going to pause here for a minute while they were in the wilderness. He was there for those 38 years, wandering around. What did he see? Did he have some of his?
Like minded brethren all those people that he was with he belonged to the tribe of Judah and he was out in the floor tribe that led the way Let me see going on all around me they see people saying keep her eye on the cloud boys. That's the Lord he's going to keep us now but if the men are falling down wonderful thank God and the stream here following along that maybe told you before I figured it that it would require.
Two trains mile long each of tank cars to supply them with water for one day in the wilderness and if there were 3 million people it would be maybe a pound of fluids per day. 13 at least £3,000,000 of food fell around the camp every day. They were totally dependent on the lower total. Couldn't keep themselves warm, men.
What did he find? What did he see around him? Keep your place here and go over to Acts Chapter 7 and see what he finds but he was surrounded with.
42.
742.
Then God turned and gave them up to worship the hosts of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets. For ye House of Israel have the offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of 40 years in the wilderness. Yay, he took up the Tabernacle of more that was a heathen God, and the star of your God, Renfan.
Figures types which he made to worship them. That's what was going on. Worshipping the stars in heaven and God was carrying him through the wilderness all those 40 years and here they are worshipping God for the stars.
Possible no more.
Impossible for the grace of God that keeps this world going on today when you hear the blasphemy and the cursing and the filth that's going on, and even we who are the doors now we have to hang our heads and chain. Are we very shining lights for the Lord in this Dark World?
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Sad to say no.
The Lord sustained those two men, Joshua and Kim. He saw it all. You and I are seeing all the corruption of the world. You and I are seeing Christians getting cold in their souls. Sad to see assemblies going down in numbers, getting cold, going back into the world. We're exposed to that. And this is the test for you who have come out here tonight. This is the Lord's.
Comfort. Word of comfort to each one of us here to keep on.
John.
This is the Lord's and comfort word of comfort to each one of us here to keep on to go, go.
Almost at the end, it was the Lord's sustained Caleb against the Lord will sustain you and me. It's not. I should have said it. We're going to enjoy it. We're going to enjoy it if we realize we can't keep ourselves a minute. So here he is, he says 85 years.
Of age He forgets. He doesn't tell us about these things. God who reserves that for this and man speak.
1300 years later Stephen brings this out. We never heard of it. The scripture before God recorded and told it to Stephen, but here is.
Just talking with my brother, he's not finding fault with him, but he's saying the Lord kept so there it is. Now then he says, I'm 45 years of age now Notice this even since the Lord speak this word under Moses while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness. And now, though I am this day 85 years of age as yet, I am as strong.
This day.
As I was in the day that Moses sent me, as my strength was then Even so is my strength now, for war ought to go out and to come in. I think that's one of the most amazing verses, he says. I'm 85 years of age and I'm able to go outdoor and we could go and get killed there. But he says if I'm going to come back and come back.
I was the old armies to say it's one thing to talk and to put your.
Your uniform on, there's another thing to come back out of the battle and you still got and you're still walking around living. But here he is saying this, I'm a strong this day as I was when I was 40 years of age.
Five years they gave them to go to that one. We're going to see that he didn't think. It wasn't just fanciful top, it wasn't exaggerating and showing off, boasting. He really meant now that we're starting now there's another thing now he's claiming, he's claiming.
What God promises you and I, He wants us to claim the blessings.
Flank their promises where by our given drug unto us, exceeding great and precious promises. First chapter of Second Peter.
Seeding greater than precious promise. Are we enjoying them? That's the question.
So he says. And now, now, therefore, give me this mountain wasn't asking for a little plot of land 50 by 50, he says. Give me the amount.
We're all here. We go back again the 7th time we're off The Lord spake in that day for thou heard us in that day how the Anakin here they are the the.
Giants were there, and that the cities were great and fenced rather than He doesn't forget those. If so be the Lord will be with, not with us, as it was in numbers 13 with me. This is very personalizing.
It's nice when we are in the meeting to encourage each other. But when you go to school, your younger ones here, oh the Lord, you can say the Lord is with me. And let us. Father. Mother. Yes, that would be me. You say that the Lord will reward you. Him that honors me, I will honor. Trust me. Test.
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We'll see.
An area speaking with confidence.
But he still has got some fights yet, as we'll see in the.
Then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said in saying, I'm not going to be able to do it because I'm 85 or I'm strong, but if the Lord then I shall be here now then 30 And Joshua, bless the money. That's so beautiful.
Say, are you taking a chance Now you're 85 year old. You better not tackle some of those giants. Are you going to manage? Lord, please go ahead. Nice to encourage each other to keep on.
Gave unto Caleb, the son of Japani Hebron, for an inheritance. So let's pause there. Here we are back to here.
Hebron, as I mentioned, memes tell me the sweetest thing for you and for me as believers now to realize that going on with the breath is so important. I'm saying tonight I can't go on with the Lord and out of communion with my brethren. If I'm allowing roots of bitterness or the socks of the malice that he's having bad thoughts about the growth, I'm never going to be enjoying the Lord myself.
Unless I confess those things and forsake them.
Proverbs 2813 says he that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth and forsake of them shall have mercy he is.
With confidence. Now if you and I go on with a good, good conscience, that lots of courage not afraid even they could laugh at us. Don't even notice it.
So here he is. Now he's facing some difficulties, but Joshua blessed him and gave him Hebrew 133rd Psalm. First verse says how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. But the last verse, the third verse, says, For there the Lord come down the blessing in life forever.
Where the president went on together.
Stood up at each other, dwell together and muted, not union, union. So here is the same Hebrew.
You want to? I think I intimated it before. Iran has many.
References The first one was when Abraham came into the land. It was the place of the altar. And when Abraham Abraham came there, he was the first one of the Lord's people to enter into that land. Hebron was where he built the ark of him. Then in Genesis 23, I think it is there was where?
Sarah was there, a place of the altar, a place of death?
Here, now, it's going to be the place of victory.
To go on into the I'll have to give you the reference. I can't remember. It was the place where the priests.
And were established. Hebron was one of the cities of refuge in the land and the priests were there. And then finally it was the place of royalty because King David was crowned first in Hebron. Beautiful spot. When we came over those planes to see Iran, we could see how just how it is being prepared for the day when that is going to be.
The crown of the land of Israel.
Hebron Communion and he has been promised that he's going to have.
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Verse 14. Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb, the son of Jeopardy. The Kenazite unto this day didn't lose the enjoyment of that inheritance. As I mentioned the other day, we are made ready for the inheritance, and the inheritance is made ready for us. We're just waiting. It's waiting. We're waiting.
So here was Caleb now, and he has this promise that we're going to see in a minute to get to fight because he only followed the Lord God of Israel.
Now then, 15 just intimates the problem. And the name of Hebron before was Kerja Arba, which Arba was a great man among the Anakins and the land at rest from war. The Anakins were the giants. The very place of the greatest blessing, beloved ones, is the place where you and I are going to be tested the most here with the you and I are going to enjoy walking with praise.
The Giants.
You want to be tested like nowhere else.
If we just did, there are content to go on in a church or in something of that kind of nature, like one of the brothers who left the Lord's table and, he said to one of the other fellows in Montreal one time, he said, Come with me, come with me where I go there, he said. They never bother your conscience at all, 10.
And that's true. The conscience would never be loved. All here were was the place where the Anakins were. Now let's go over to.
The farther on that check verse 13.
And unto Caleb the son of Japan, And he gave a part among the children of Judith, according to the commandment of the Lord, to Joshua, even the city of Arbor, the Father, in which city is Hebron. Again it was the commandment of the Lord. And now he has this place.
But notice what it says.
It was in the tribe of Judah. Just want to explain a little bit here. Judith had this lower part.
Of of the land. Benjamin was next where Jerusalem was. Jerusalem was right in there. And Hebrew. This part was all Jude. But you notice what it says. It says there that this one man that all the tribes see when they got into the land.
There were a few tribes that were given specific places like as I mentioned Judith was put down the South bench of the next and there were one or so others. But the rest of them were all given by law, just put their name, their names in a box and out became the name and they were given them in the next place. So it was by luck all the tribes 11 of them, none for the tribe of of Levi.
They were the priests.
But what does this say now? It says that one man, one man. The only man that I know of in the scriptures that gets a special inheritance himself is that one. When I realized that when I was meditating on this few years ago, I just threw in my soul. Don't forget, beloved ones, that if you and I are faithful to the Lord in our little life down here.
He is going to miss nothing.
I know thy works five times and says it in Revelation 2 and three the seven churches seven times in the King James. But I noticed they were missing in the dark. Translation, I know thy works. Whatever you do or whatever I do for the Lord, it's not going to miss. It's real. This man Caleb put up with 38 years. But what did he have before?
As I just put it this way.
As he walked through that wilderness for 38 years, what was he saying to himself?
He he he had confidence that the Lord was going to give him that place, and he that was what motivated him. The other ones. If you and I are occupied with glory in the heaven, this life is going to be so light. That tells us in.
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Hasn't been. I think it has this deer run as the days of heaven upon her.
As the days of have a lot of experienced that in my life, do I want to experience that? It's hours, it's hours, it's just processing.
As it says there at the end of that chapter, the land had rest. How was that? It said. And the land had rest from war. I don't take time, but it just says later on that.
Can't find it, but it does say that when Joshua was old and the Lord said.
To him thou art old, and they're going to die now. And he said, there remaineth much land to be possessed. Here it says that the land rested from war. They took the whole of that land, And then farther on it says, the Lord says there's very much land to possess. Sounds like a contradiction.
Just like to pass on this stuff that I've had on that you and I have all this wonderful truth we have the blessed Lord Jesus to fill and dissatisfied totally our life, every desire of our redeemed hearts we have fulfilled, We have. Don't need to ask for it. We have. But I'm only going to be enjoying it. I'm only going to be.
Possessing it, possessing it as I walk.
You and I have that full equipment and walk in it to put our feet on it. When we put our feet on it so we have The 818 says Take heed how you hear to him that hath shall more be given. You only have the truth that you walk in. I only have the truth. I walk in. But if I walk in it I'm going to learn more. It's just.
Simple as that. But to him that hath not from him shall be taken Even that which he seemeth to have. And this is, I believe, beloved ones, is what is weakening us, and not walking in the truth that we have. We're not possessing it. They had that land, and he said, go and possess it. We read in the early chapters of Deuteronomy. You will see that one by one the tribes didn't drive at the end.
To stay. And they became thorns in their odds. That's what happened to you and to me. If we drift back into the world and allow the world to come into our lives and our homes that other ones, there's no compromise in this battle. It's real. And so here, now, let's go on under the story.
Verse 14 and Caleb drove fence. Notice this the three sons of pain.
And here are the same names that we read, played back in the book of numbers 45 years before St. John's. They're still there.
Shishan, Shishan and a hymen and Talamine, the children of Jamie, they were still there. Those enemies are still with us, and we know that as long as we're here on this earth, we're going to be plagued by those enemies. But the Lord allows nothing. Nothing. Satan has no power against me. Unless.
I need Satan is God's instrument that he allows me to be attacked by. If I don't walk in sufficient and obedience, he tells me you go there. If I don't go there, I go off here wandering away. The Lord allows Satan to attack me and to show me that path is not doing with you what you thought of do when I say Lord.
I'm wrong?
Then we get over to the place where I should have gone directly, without any pain if I were obedient. This is how important it is for us to walk in obedience to know the truth. And so it says they're 15 and he went up fenced to the inhabitants of Deeper. There's the 85 year old and the name of Deaver before was Kerja at Seaforth, and Caleb said he that smite of courage has Seaford and taketh it to him. Will I give?
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AXA, my daughter to wife.
There was a beautiful promise. I like to speak with this just for a few minutes.
His daughter, I believe, had the same spirit as he had. And it's nice, you know, I see we travel in many countries and many homes. Nice to see sons and daughters, sons following in the steps that they're calling.
When I see that, I know the Father is being taken.
And when I see the daughters saying to themselves my mother's faith, I want to call the world says, oh, don't bother listening to your father and your mother, the children, you see their father and mother living for Christ. They say, I know who has happiness. Are we bringing our children up that way? So here is Caleb. He has a daughter and her name is AXA and I believe as we'll see in a minute.
That she had the same spirit of faith that her father had, and he says the man, the one who takes this other city. I'm going to give him my daughter a surprise.
And a man in the emergency name is Fox Mail. He was the first of the 13 judges that were raised up of God to save Israel. In the dark day when the priests had failed, God turned to prophets, and when the prophets failed, he had to use the judges.
The first man he picked up his Osmo confirming.
God doesn't miss anything.
You're faithful. We are faithful to Christ. You can taste what it really means to have that peace and that confidence of going on. And so it says.
Verse 17 and Osmail.
The son of Kenas, the brother of Caleb, took it.
Gave him access his daughter like, got the brides. Now what happens, beautiful? 18 You came to pass, as she came unto him to her death, that she moved him, or at least her husband, to ask of her father a field. She prodded her. That's good.
Not many young wives here, but I always urge young sisters.
You are going on with the Lord. Don't get out of your proper order and don't try to take over your responsibilities in the home that is your husbands. But if you are walking with the Lord and pray for yourself and you are walking in the Lord, your husband asks you some godly advice, you are going to be in that state of soul. That wife is going to be in a state of soul to give Godly advice.
To her husband. And here was this girl giving good advice.
To her husband asked my father for that feeling.
And she lighted off her *** and Caleb said unto her, What wouldst thou where you are? And who answered him? Give me a blessing, for thou hast given me a self land, Give me also springs of water.
Spring and survival. That's like the word of God. Give me the word of God, the mountain.
Springs of water, and he gave her what he gave her more than she asked.
And he gave her the upper springs and the never springs.
I don't know exactly what that means, but I think it's nice to think of the two sources of blessing that the scriptures bring before US1. Is the heavens pouring down their ring from heaven blessing and the springs that come up 84th song brings up before the springs will fill the pools she asked for. Don't limit your asking blame.
He wants you and me to be walking in these things. 4 beloved ones. May the Lord just attract our heart more. Now we're almost at the end of our long journey. For some of us it may be very brief before we pass on. And those who are younger, younger, you're going to be in the place of responsibility.
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Don't share those responsibilities in the assembly. That is the greatest privilege on the earth.
To be gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Privileged people have a taste of heaven before we get there. Don't let anything of the world get interfering with us. And if our often say this, if my business keeps me from the meeting, I've got too much business. It's just as simple as that. Put the Lord first.
Caleb put the Lord first, in spite of all, in spite of everything, and he kept on. He was the pursuer for those 38 years he gained that inheritance. I don't want to take any more time, but I have hanging there on the other sheet, a comparison between Caleb and Timothy, both younger men, to start starting off. And I'll I'll open it up and if some of you want to.
Write those Scriptures down that I have enjoyed meditating on to see the comparison between the Old Testament Caleb and the New Testament Timothy. May there be in the in the heart of every one of us. Fill out at once to walk in the steps of Caleb, and to hear the Lord say to you and to me when we get to the glory.
Totally followed me. May that be the desire of our hearts. That's not my birth.