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Battles in Canaan - Figure of our Heavenly Blessing
Address—J. Brereton
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When we open the meeting tonight by singing 275.
Our God is light, and though we go across a practice, wild.
Our Jesus footsteps ever show the pot for every child. The mana and the springing wells suffice for every need and as called Greatest Story Tell of where Thy Path Doesn't Lead and #275.
If I have.
All.
Heart-shaped our crystals are.
All right.
I would like to look tonight, dear friends, beloved brethren, at the 8th chapter of Deuteronomy.
But before I do so, I would like to read a few verses in the 7th chapter and a few verses in the 9th chapter in order to understand the setting in which we find the 8th chapter placed for us. If you look at Deuteronomy Chapter 7 for a moment.
And the sixth verse.
For thou art and holy people unto the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself.
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Above all people that are upon the face of the earth, the Lord did not send His love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people, for ye were the fewest of all people, but because the Lord loved you.
Well, if you turn over to the 9th chapter for a moment.
And the third verse.
Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he which goes over before thee has a consuming fire. He shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face. So shall thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee. Speak not thou in thine heart. After that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee saying.
For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land. But for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee. Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart dost thou go possess their land, but for the wickedness of these nations, the Lord thy God, that drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord square unto thy fathers.
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
It doesn't. Keep your finger there for a moment and turn over to Romans chapter 15.
Romans, chapter 15.
And verse 4.
For whatsoever things were written before time were written for our learning that we, through patience and comfort of the scriptures, might have hope.
We find in the word of God.
But we are authorized by the New Testament and the teaching of the Spirit of God there.
To go back into the Old Testament and find that instruction for us, that builds us up, that shows us God's care. It enables us to see how God cared for his earthly people, the Israelites, and from that to see how God cares for us.
We also find that in the types that we have in the Old Testament.
Many of these types, brethren, overlap one another. That is, the same type might be used of God to bring out two different lines of truth for us.
And that is true as far as the land of Canaan is concerned.
The land of Canaan is viewed in the word of God in two different ways.
One way is that way in which it was presented to us at the Wheaton general meetings.
Some of us were privileged to be there, and that is that it is the land that we enter into at the end of the wilderness journey. When the wilderness journey is over, we enter into our rest.
For Israel, that was the last of Cain. For you and I, it's heaven, the presence of God.
But Canaan is viewed in another way too.
And that is, that is, it's viewed in the Word of God as the sphere of heavenly blessing.
That is that blessing that God has brought us into. Now in Christ you and I belong to him. So we find that the children of Israel entered into their rest in the one sense when they finished traveling across the wilderness, but in the second sense.
In which they were called upon to enjoy the good land that God has given to them. They found that they have to fight many battles. And you know, if you follow the history of the children of Israel, you will find that they fought far more battles after they entered into the land of Canaan than they ever fought in the wilderness.
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Because, beloved brethren, the Satan, the enemy of our souls, cannot take our salvation away from us, but he will do everything that he can.
To rob us of the enjoyment of it, to rob us of the enjoyment of what we have in Christ. And so it is that it's a constant battle against the enemy of our souls. We find this brought before us particularly in the New Testament, in the book of Ephesians.
There the Saints of God are skewed as being in the enjoyment of heavenly places.
Of being blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. But it's there in that book where they are introduced into all those wondrous blessings that they have in Christ that the Word of God says take up to yourself the whole armor of God. Because if we're going to be in the enjoyment of them, if we're going to enjoy what we have in Christ, we need the whole armor of God.
Satan is going to attack us in every way that he can to rob something. Now when we go back to the book of Deuteronomy, we find God has set before us in the 8th chapter in particular That way he had of working with his people in the Old Testament, the Israelites, to introduce them into the fullness of the blessing of the land.
What we find, as I might say, we would expect to find.
That God showed first of all.
That a blessing originated in the heart of God so we find in the 7th chapter. The Lord did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people, for ye were the fewest of all people. But because the Lord loved you. And so it is we find that God would first of all remind our hearts.
That our blessings are Richard, made in the heart of God, and that those blessings came forth to Israel not because of any merit on their part, but because the Lord loved them. He says. In that sixth verse that we read Thou art and holy people unto the Lord thy God you'll notice the language of the word of God. It doesn't say thou should be a holy people. He says thou art.
Holy people unto the Lord thy God, the Lord thy God, hath chosen thee to be as special people unto himself. Again, not a question of saying, this is what God has in mind. He had chosen them. Exercising his sovereign right as God, he chose them to be his people. And beloved friend. Tonight if you and I belong to Christ, that is true of us. We are.
A holy people.
Unto the Lord our God we have been chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world, and not just those of us that are here, but every one that has been washed in the precious blood of Christ. Every child of God is numbered among the chosen people.
That God has chosen to be a peculiar people unto themselves, and he has set his love upon.
Why? The answer, and the only answer we have in the word of God is because of love. If I could put it to bring the 2 answers together, it's as if God says I love you because I love you. That's the only answer He gives us. We look at our own hearts and we might well indeed say why President, We won't find the answer in our own hearts. The answer is in the heart of God, not in our own hearts. And He gives us the answer. Your love tonight. Because God chooses to love and He would have you rejoice.
Simply in that large group. Well then when we come to the 9th chapter, we find the other side of the coin and that is that God has not only loved us, he loved the children of Israel, but he also had a purpose. He purpose was that the nations that were already in the land of Canaan should be put out and the children of Israel should be put in. And he says to the children of Israel there in the 9th chapter.
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Don't think that because you're being brought into the land, it's because of the uprightness of your hearts. Don't think it's because of any merit on your part or anything that you have done. But he says it's because I have purposed to do so. God had purpose, they should have the land and they were going to have.
And beloved president, God has purposed God has purpose, and God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. And that blessing, that purpose of God, is not dependent upon our obedience at all. It's dependent upon God. And God has purpose that it should be solved. And so if you belong to Christ tonight, if you're his.
Then you are blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. God says in the first chapter of Ephesians He hath blessed us not He will, but he has, and that's your possession tonight. Every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. God's purpose for Israel was that they should enjoy the land Now we find.
That their actual enjoyment of it.
Their actual enjoyment of depended upon their want, their enjoyment of it depended upon their walk. And beloved brethren heavily places all God's blessings in heavenly places. In Christ Jesus are ours tonight. They're our possession. They've been given to us God, but our enjoyment of them depends upon obedience, the Word of God. Now let's look at Jack of her own.
All the commandments which I command thee this day shall be observed. To do that he may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord swear unto your heart.
Here was the promise. It was going to be their last, I might say. For those who look forward to the Kingdom that's coming into this world, Beloved brethren, this promise is still going to be fulfilled in its entirety to Israel. The land that has been promised to Israel is going to be theirs to be enjoyed to the full. The promise that the land would go to Israel was an unconditional promise made to Abraham.
You go back to the 12Th chapter of Genesis, and there you'll find it an unconditional promise made by God to Abraham. The land will belong to the children of Israel, and that promise is still going to be carried out. They're going to have what we find here, though, that to go in and possess the land. They say God says all the commandments which I command in this day shall be observed to do you know at a second in the book of Nehemiah.
Book of Ezra A. Beg your pardon.
We have Ezra saying that he searched her. He studied the law of God, to know it, to do it, and then to tell you, Well, God would have us to observe the love of brethren, all that has been written, to read this precious word of God, to find out for ourselves what the Lord would have us to do for them to do it to them to do it. What do you belong to Christ tonight, beloved grandeur, young people, those who are younger here, you belong to Christ.
Has the Lord shown you from his word that which is his will for you? And then May God give you the grace to do it, Because you will never be in the enjoyment, never be in the enjoyment of what you have in Christ as one of God's children, until you walk in opinions who wasn't revealed to you from His Word. So we find it. First of all, it's shall be observed to do that He may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord swear unto your father your father's home.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God lent thee these 40 years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou would keep his commandments or no.
Brethren, did God need the trials of the wilderness to find out what was in the heart of Israel?
I'm sure the answer we all make immediately is no. God didn't meet the trials the wilderness to find out what was in their hearts.
But they needed the trials of the wilderness to find their goals in their heart. They needed to see what it was to be hungry. They needed to see what it was to have opposition, to be thirsty, to have enemies on one side and enemies on the other. To see are they going to walk please God and you know the other president. God allows these trials and difficulties. He allowed these problems to arise for Israel for 40 years.
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For workers in television to humbly and to prove thee, and no one was in thine heart whether thou wouldst eat His commandments or not. There are rather here tonight that are much older than I am. And I'm sure they can look back much further than I can, and see the testing time that have come up amongst the Saints of God, the testing times that have come up amongst those gathered to the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And those testing times, brethren, have been allowed God. They have been allowed of God. And that one of the purposes must uncomfortable us to humble us through our brethren, that we might be cast upon the Lord. You know, sometimes we feel perhaps if we can get along pretty well by ourselves. I sometimes think of Peter as he walked on that water, and he looked at the boisterous waves, and he began to sing.
You know, brethren, if he had thought something out, I'm sure he didn't take some time to do it. But he had thought the thing out. He would have realized that he couldn't walk on the water even if it was food. He needed the Lord Jesus to hold him up even on the smooth water, let alone the voice of the ones. Well, the Lord allows these trials. The Lord has allowed trials amongst the gathered Saints in recent years.
And those trials, brethren, heart tests, allowed God. True, much of it we thought upon ourselves, and it humbles us. And the Lord intends that it should humble us. But they've been allowed God to see. Are we prepared to walk in obedience to the word of God? Or are we going to look for a path of compromise to solve the problem some way around the problem and let obedience to the word of God?
We downgrade. Well, this is what he did for Israel.
Whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or not. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger.
And friendly with man. Here they were in the black in the wilderness, and the Lord Jesus allowed them to be hungry. He allowed the time to come when they would be hungry and they would have to cry to God. All beloved friend God allowed to trial. He suffered them to hunger, he said. He said, couldn't he have provided, couldn't he have provided so they wouldn't have needed to hunger? Yes, he could have, but it wouldn't have cast them on the board the way he became. He allowed them to hunker And then.
We met the people. He fed them with manna, which thou doest not. Neither did thy father's know. I remember, if you're part of me, selling a personal story about myself, that I stuck with me for many years. I remember being in high school at the same age, some of these young men that are here tonight. And when I was in high school I was writing a mathematical exam.
And there was a question on that exam, a question that was for a lot of marks.
And when I read the question, I realized I didn't know the answer. I just didn't know what the answer was.
And I did the only thing I could do. I asked the Lord to help because I just didn't know how to answer the question. Well, I worked and worked and worked, and I finally worked in the answer to the problem, took pages, pages and pages to work out the answer to the problem, and I got a full mark for the answer, but I was shown afterwards that there was a much, much simpler way.
There was an answer in the textbook that would have allowed me to do the whole question in a couple of lines, and it took me about 3 pages. You know why? I thought to myself after? Why was it that when I asked the Lord to help me, why was it that he showed me this long way, this long complicated wedding? Why not just a short one?
And I realized rather than if he had shown me the short way, I would have said to myself, I might well have said to myself, I remember. I remember the answer of the textbook, and I would have taken the credit to myself.
By showing me a way to solve the problem that even the teacher had never heard of before, had never seen before, that I had to acknowledge this was the end of that God was the one who gave me the answer, the children of Israel. They have to acknowledge that this manner, that was right on the ground there for them to pick up this manner. So he says in the word, and feathy with manner which thou doest not. Neither did thy fathers know.
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That he might make me know that man does not live by dreads, but by every word that proceedeth out the mouth of the Lord. When they picked up that bread, that manna from the ground, they had to acknowledge This was God. God was provided, and for love the Lord is allowing the prize, the trials in your family life, the trials in my family life, in the assembly life, wherever they are.
He's allowing these trials to humble us.
To prove us as to whether we're prepared to walk in obedience to the word of God or not, in spite of the trials. And when He suffers us to hunger, when He suffers the problems to arise, it is only that we might turn to Him and cry to Him that we might see His hand. He loved the children of Israel, and when He suffered them to hunt, it was for their blessing. So He says that they might man that.
He might make me know.
That man does not live like rebel and all the presence.
I sometimes feel I speak for my own heart, not for anyone elses. But I sometimes feel that we would be much more satisfied with Christianity if it was that it satisfied us with bread. If it was that we could just find something, we would just satisfy all our needs. Then we think Christianity was a wonderful thing. You know, in China they used to talk about the rice Christians, those who were prepared to confess Christ the Savior in order to get a bowl of rice. Everything.
All this one not, that's not what God attempts, even in suffering of the Supper, hunger and feeding them with manna. It was to teach them.
That man departed by federal, but by every word see without nothing thought of my head. Now we go on and says, Thy arraignment waxed on hold upon thee. Neither did thy foot swell these 40 years.
We find that Children of Israel walked through the bonus.
For four years, with the same code, with the same truth. For 40 years, the same truth. They've never moved, They've never fought. Now who Who could conceive of a God that was so scared of his pain that would even think about their feet? Beyond says that neither did I put swell sport, The love of God. This is our God.
In the 7th chapter, where we read in the ninth course, it says Know therefore that the Lord thy God he is gone. The faith God, the faith of God and for love. This is the one who calls upon us for walking obedience. He's making every provision for us along the way. There was not one thing that the children of Israel needed in the willows that their faithful God did not provide.
God wants faith. All the aspirants was the big walking.
His love for the business depends upon their obesity.
They're entering into the land was a promise of God that didn't depend upon their obedience either. She brought them there, and it brought them into life, but all their triumph of the presence of God, their enjoyment of what God had for them in the land.
So.
So it is with us. And so he says. He cared for their Raven, he cared for their feet. And then the next person says, Thou shalt also consider in thine heart that as a man chasing up his sons. So the Lord thy God chastened me as a father.
That as a man chasing his son, we were noticing the other night over a pillow, and the 12Th chapter of Hebrews how it speaks about the Lord's chastens every son.
As you can see, and it is the evidence that there is chastening that the Lord deals with us.
Is evidence that we are in science and all that our children here tonight? Well, if you get a glove tomorrow and get into a fight with one of the children down the next fire, we're out on the road somewhere your mother or father sees you. They're not going to call it the other child and punish them. And they call you in and punish you. And the reason they called you in and cut you is because. And the reason they called you in and cut a shoe is because you are their child. And the very fact they call you in and punish you with the evidence.
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Is an evidence that you are their child. This is what God is going to perform as a man chasing his son. It was in the relationship of a man with his son.
That is how God deals with me as a member of his family. He's dealing with me as a father to his son.
Why is it?
Why is it that we sometimes achieve?
Under the discipline, why is it presently sometimes feel that you know that particular trial? I didn't really leave that book. I didn't really need that. You know what she said? I said it correctly, but simply sometimes feel this one trial. Somehow it got away from the golf, it got away, got past them and it got to me from other seven. That's not so. Nothing gets to me, but that my father arrived. Nothing.
The Mystery - The Church
Address—J. Brereton
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I can open our meeting to mind by saying HIP #330.
What Raise the Waters thought? Or who did it suggest?
That we in the Church to Glory Cross, should with the sun be blessed.
Oh God, the thoughtful side thine only it could be.
#330 almost started for.
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IPL 2019 Akhilesh Yadav.
Rise falls.
And it's my heart proposed.
I would like to turn to my brethren, to the third chapter of Ephesians.
Ephesians chapter 3.
And verse one.
For this 'cause I call the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you, Gentiles.
If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which has given me to your word, how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote afore in few words.
Whereby when you read, he may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ.
Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men.
As it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the spirits, that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel.
Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gifts of the grace of God-given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
Unto me who am less than the least of All Saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.
And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the world had been hidden, God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.
To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the Church, the manifold wisdom of God.
According to the eternal purpose which he purpose in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of Him.
Wherefore, I desire that you faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
For this 'cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man.
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.
That ye being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with All Saints what is the breadth and length, and depth and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.
That ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now unto him that is able to do it seething abundantly above all that we ask, or think according to the power that worketh in US, unto him the glory in the Church by Christ Jesus, throughout all ages, world without end, all men.
I therefore the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith your call, with all loneliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love.
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Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body and one spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling.
One Lord, one faith, one Baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all, and in you all.
We find beloved president in this chapter.
But Paul is first of all.
Bringing before us the fact.
That God has had a secret.
That God has had a secret that he kept hid in himself.
From the beginning of the world.
And that secret was the truth of the Church.
And so it is.
In the beginning of the chapter that we read.
We read, which in other ages the fifth verse, which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men.
As it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets.
By the Spirit.
And so it is beloved rather than if I want to find out the teaching.
Concerning the Church.
I can't find it in the Old Testament.
There are types and shadows and pictures concerning this lovely truth, many of them going right back to the book of Genesis.
And Adam going into a deep sleep in order that Eve might be formed that Adam could have a companion.
With whom he could share his headship, the position that God had put him in.
But if I'm looking for the teachings, what God has specifically revealed concerning this wonderful truth, I can't find it anywhere in the Old Testament.
Along with that truth is the fact that the things that are peculiar.
To the church.
I will not find these.
In the Old Testament either.
For example.
The truth of the living being.
Being translated to glory.
The truth of the living being taken out of this world and translated to glory. I will not find that truth revealed in the Old Testament, the resurrection.
Yes, there are sufficient scriptures in the Old Testament concerning the resurrection.
That the Jews had rightly gathered that there was a resurrection of the dead.
But the idea that the living would be called away to glory, you won't find that in the Old Testament because it's the church that is called away and the truth of the church is not found in the Old Testament.
You will not find the truth of the Lord's coming for the Church.
In the Old Testament, you will find the Lord coming there, but it is always His coming in judgment.
It is the day of the Lord when the Lord Jesus comes to judge the world and to set up His Kingdom. You have that in the Old Testament. But the truth of the Lord Jesus coming in the air to call his Saints away, the glory that coming of the Lord you will not find in the Old Testament.
Because that coming is for the church to call the church a way of glory, and the church is not revealed in the Old Testament.
The first announcement that we have concerning the church is what we have in the 16th chapter of Matthew. When the Lord Jesus says upon this rock, I will build my church.
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And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. But we find that when we come over to the third chapter of Ephesians.
That Paul is explaining to us his knowledge of this mystery. And he tells us in the third verse how that by revelation he and his God made known unto me the mystery as I wrote aboard a few words. Now the writing of four in few words is the 1St and 2nd chapters of this book. The book of the Ephesians he had already touched on in the 1St and 2nd chapters.
The church? He'd already explained its position in the Councils of God.
He had already explained that the Church was the body of Christ.
The full of him that fill it All in all. And now we explained that where his knowledge came from, it was a revelation. By Revelation he made known unto me the mystery.
In the fifth verse, as we read, he said, which in other regions was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit that the Gentiles.
Now this epistle, as I'm sure we all realized, was addressed to a Gentile assembly.
And he writes that the Gentiles should be fellow wares and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel.
Now God had made certain promises to Israel.
In the second chapter, we were told.
That we were without promise. That we had no claim upon God at all.
That we were sinners of the Gentiles having no hope.
And without God in this world.
But he has gone on to explain how that those who were in that position have been brought in to that blessing which was promised to Israel that they would be the people of God.
And so whereas on the day of Pentecost.
All that formed the church on the day of Pentecost were Jews.
The Gentiles were brought in.
The blessing was extended to the Gentiles, as it tells us in the 49th chapter of Genesis.
The blessing that was for Israel went over the wall. Joseph is a fruitful bow, even a bow whose branches spring over the wall, And so it is the promises that were made to Israel. We have no claim upon those at all, but as it tells us that we should be partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel, where all I was made of minister according to the gift of the grace of God-given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
Rather than to the next part, from there to the end of the chapter, the beginning of the 4th chapter that I have particularly on my heart, we see the setting. Call has announced that he has this revelation. He has explained to them that this the Gentiles had been made.
Fellow wares and of the same body brought together with the Jews into something new.
The body of Christ.
The Church of God now he says that has you got that You've been brought into everything that was promised to Israel. The promises that were made to them, you've been brought into the good of that as a result of the gospel.
But then he goes on to say unto Me, who are less than the least of All Saints, is this grace given.
That I should preach among the Gentiles the promises made to Israel. No beloved wrath, and that's not what it says. I should make known unto I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and all beloved brethren, what you and I have been brought into.
So far surpasses any promise that was made to Israel.
There is no promise that was made to Israel.
That is not greatly exceeded by that which you and I have been brought into fellow wares through of the same body through but now we find that the unsearchable riches of Christ are of such a magnitude, are of such an altitude, are so unfathomable that the spirit of God.
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Has to use the word unsearchable. There is no way we can explore, as we'll notice later on, there is no way that we as finite persons can explore the magnitude of the riches that we have in Christ Jesus. Would you want to today, as it were, say to God, I'll take Israel's portion, I'll take what is for Israel and give up what I have in Christ.
Of course you would. What we have in crisis surpasses it so much. But Paul, when he's writing, he said, I have this message for the Gentiles, the unsearchable riches of Christ along the president. That's our portion. That's what we've been brought into. That's what God would make known to us.
The unsearchable Richard impression, the magnitude of the blessing and we will see as we go on.
Trust the more carries how this is expanded. In this chapter you notice the next verse and Jamaica now, not the Gentiles.
To make known among the Gentiles in unsearchable riches of Christ. But now he says, and to make all men see what is the fellowship. Or perhaps a better translation might be the administration of the mystery which from the beginning of the world.
Has been hidden God who created all things by Jesus Christ. Now Paul would have all men know what is the administration of the men? What is the mystery, Beloved brethren, The mystery is the truth of the church that Christ is to have a bride, that Christ is to have one to share with him.
All that he comes into as a result of the work of Calvin. You know, I remember your partner again telling a story about myself. I remember some years ago when I was in business traveling up to the West Coast of Canada and I had blown out there many times before. And this one time I decided that just to make do it differently, I would fly out as far as Calgary and I would take the train through the Rocky Mountains to the West Coast.
And I said to myself, you know, I'll be able to sit there in the Dome car and I'll be able to enjoy all those beautiful sights as I go to the mountains. Well, I got the train as planned, and I went up into the tone car and I stayed there 20 minutes. And then I went to bed and I tried to think to myself, it's a beautiful sight. Why am I not enjoying it the way I should? And you know, it came home to my own soul, my brother, The reason I wasn't enjoying it the way I should, was.
I had no one to share it with. My wife wasn't there. I was alone and I had no one to share with me all those beautiful sights. And with no one to share it with, I thought to myself, I might just as well go to bed. Well, the Lord Jesus is going to come into all that God has purposed for him. If we were to go back to the first chapter of Ephesians, we would find in the 10th verse that in the dispensation of the fullness of time.
God would gather together in one all things in Christ.
In other words, God has a purpose, and that purpose goes back to a past eternity. And that purpose is that the Lord Jesus should have the place of headship over all. But the Lord Jesus is going to have a companion when he takes that place to Peck chili, and that too is the purpose of God. God has planned it so that his son should have a bride. You know, the Lord Jesus could take a man.
And then the third, the second chapter of Genesis.
It says it is not good that man should dwell. God is going to see you with that. His son, as a man does not enter into his place of headship alone. He's going to have a companion to share it with him. And beloved president, you and I are that companion. Well, what we find here is the mystery is the truth of the church that Christ is to have a companion. But the administration of the mystery is the working out of Black Flag.
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The working out of that plan according to the councils and purposes of God. And so we find it says to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery. That is, Paul has had the mystery made known to him. Now he wants to make known how it's all working out.
That God is gathering together a people indwelt by the Spirit of God, and that that people that he is calling out is to be the bride of Christ. That body that he is forming by the Spirit of God formed on the day of Pentecost, added to by every time a child of God, every time a person receives the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. The administration of the mystery is this working out.
Of this purpose and counsel of God.
And so it says, which from the beginning of the world has been hidden. God. What has been hidden in God? The mystery, the proof of the church. God always had that plan from a past eternity. But now Paul said, I want to explain to you not just the mystery, but the working out of the mystery, how it's all coming about that Christ is the highest bride. And so he says to the intent.
That now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places must be known by the Church, the manifold wisdom of God.
The principalities and powers, they are angels. They are the angels who look down, and what did they see? They saw a creation that was very good. They looked down and they saw a man put there in the place of headship.
They saw my fail. Then they looked down, and they saw a law given, and they saw that breakthrough law. They saw the sacrifices and the temple established, and they saw it all pass away. But what did they look to see now? They look down the anchors, look down now, beloved, and they see the working out of the mystery through the intent that now unto the principalities and powers the angels.
In the heavenly places might be known. The angels look down, and they seek the Church, the body of Christ now, and they see in that.
They all very the manifold wisdom of God. They all very wisdom of God. Beloved. Presently angels look down and they see a mark and a marble. They see that which displays the manifold wisdom of God.
That God is gathering out of this world at bribe, right? A bribed one who's going to share all that he comes into as a result of work. At the top, the angels put down, and as they see them, they see sinners that deserve nothing but a lost eternity. Like you and I, not only saved, but brought into the church, brought into the body of Christ. They see that God's counsel from a past eternity, that Christ should have a pride, is actually working out before their lives. As they look down in this world, they see it forming.
There it is, the body of Christ.
Made members of the body of Christ, the Spirit of God, uniting together as one every believer in this world.
And they look down and they mark as we all buried, wisdom of God. Why is it why is it that the sisters in this meeting tonight warehouse? Or is it because the brethren demanded, all are being discussed? It's because according to First Corinthians 11, because of the angels.
The angels are looking down as they behold the order that God has established for the Church. They see the order that the woman is to be in subjection to the man. They see that order, and the angels see in that order the wisdom of God. Beloved Friend, I feel sometimes that we fail to see. We look at the Church in all its ruins.
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We see the church, the body of Christ outwardly, and I say when I say outwardly, broken up into all little segments and pockets of groups. But instead beloved brotherhood to God, we would see him as God seeker or what we thought we would see that the Angel secret that which displays.
The all very wisdom of God that God is having.
Out of the world.
Of people that are to be the broadest, God has purpose according to the eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus, our Lord Beloved brethren, go back as far as you will, go back as far as you can, and back beyond that.
God has a purpose, and that purpose was twofold.
Purpose number one. Christ should be the head over all.
That purpose #2 is that he should have a bride to share his attention with the purpose of God according to that eternal purpose and the angels now.
See that purpose taking shape before their eyes. All the love of presidency of life has been brought into that which displays the all very wisdom of God. We have been both brought into it as a result of believing on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Receiving him as Savior, and we indwelt by the Spirit of God, we are identified and formed part of that body process that displayed.
All very beautiful. And sometimes I put the thief on the cross, it will be part of the church. And the answer has to be no, he can't be part of the church because the thief on the cross had gone to heaven.
Before the Holy Ghost came down, when they were talking about anyone that had died before the Day of Pentecost cannot form partnership but everyone that has died in Christ and everyone that is living.
Everyone that is living after the Spirit of God has come into this world and that has received the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior are part of that body. Christ and beloved brethren, they are the wise who are going to share.
With Christ, all the department heirs of God, joint heirs of Christ, in whom we have oldness and access with confidence.
By the faith in we have been brought into this position, brother. We are in Christ, and in Christ we are in the church, part of the body of Christ. We have that access, That boldness is declared plainly, if that's our standard.
As a result of faith in Christ. But I don't know what's the next question.
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For this 'cause I bow my knees under the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now if we were to take the time to go back to the first chapter of Ephesians, we would find that it tells us, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And we find that in the first chapter of Ephesians there is a prayer that is addressed to the God of our Lord Jesus Christ. When we come to the third chapter, the prayer is addressed to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The first chapter, the prayer addressed to God, is that we might know our standing in Christ. The prayer in the third chapter, beloved Brethren, is that we might be in the enjoyment of that It might not simply be that which we know, but that which our heart lays hold of as we might be in the enjoyment of. So he said, For this 'cause I bow my knee unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Of whom the whole family in heaven.
An urgent name now the whole family. A better translation of it is every family in heaven and earth is named. God has, as it were, a number of families. There are going to be those who are the friends of the bridegroom.
There are going to be those who are the Church. There are going to be those who are going to be saved, martyred during the tribulation, a variety of people God has the Father has a number of families, and that families, it says, of whom the whole family or every family in heaven and earth is named. But there are none, not one, not Abraham, not David, not Solomon.
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Not one, not the thief on the cross that will be in the position that you and I, beloved President, are going to know and joy of being with Christ and so closely identified with him.
In their.
You know it tells us in the 5th chapter of Genesis and God called their name Adam. God looked and said there they are.
He saw Eve as so much a part of Adam that he called their name Adam. And if we were to take the time again tonight to turn over to 1St Corinthians 12, we would find there that Christ the head, and you and I and all believers on earth making up the body of Christ, are showing us so closely linked together that God by his Spirit says so also is.
Christ.
The head and the body so closely identified together that they carry the one thing cross.
Beloved President, how closely we are identified in the Lord Jesus Christ we bear.
He's more the name of that you will not bear the name of Christ identify with him. So it tells us of whom the whole family of heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man. Rather disturb God would have us to enter into the fullness.
Enter into the depths, enter into the riches of the blessing that we have in Christ the brethren. Why is it, And I, I, I address the comments myself. Why is it that we seem at times to be so contented skin building, when God has such creed, the riches of His grace to enjoy?
Now what we have been brought into in Christ, we find that we get together. Perhaps all we can talk about is the weather when we have the riches of His grace.
Oh, that Christ has as a result of the work of redemption He shares with you and he shares with me. So he says, according to the rich of his glory, that we might be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man. Get it? In here. Not just in my head, Not just a superficial knowledge, not this. Mr. Mackintosh makes his comment. He calls it intellectual trafficking truth.
But they get into my heart, get it inside, and by the Spirit of God strengthen to have it made of my own, according to the riches of the Lord, that he would grant you that according to the rich of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit. It's the Spirit of God that brings us into the truth in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.
But Christ went well, and we might have that joy for love and present and joy of walking in the conscious sense that the Christ has taken up his abode with us. Dwell in your hearts by faith to have the enjoyment of the presence of Christ in the heart and joy there. My spiritual This is what Paul is incredible. It's not that they might know. He's already prayed that in the first chapter.
Now he wants it in here. Make good to the heart.
That Christ faked well in your hearts by faith. That he being rooted and grounded in love, made good, real, seated, implanted deeply in love in my heart. That I am so identified with Christ according to purchase. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, achieving rooted, and grounded in love may be able.
To comprehend with All Saints what is the breath and length and depth.
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Now this is sometimes connected with the love of Christ, but I really don't believe that that's the thought in it, though I certainly wouldn't object to someone who connected with the love of Christ. But if you notice, it takes you back to the 11Th 1St according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord God had a purpose.
And God would have us to enter in to not live and breathe.
And depth and height of his eternal counselors, all that God has planned He would have you and I friends to be as good as them in the enjoyment of them to realize now that God is going to have His Son in the place of ancient overall, and you and I identify with him, with Him in that place. Attention.
Do we enter into the left and the breath and the death of the height?
Do we find ourselves brave? Saying thank God?
Thank God I'm saved. And we find ourselves saying is an environment. I'm not going to go to hell. I'm not going to go to hell. Jesus died on the cross and isn't that marvelous? I'm never going to go to hell. And Denison Brendan Heights, who I say to myself, isn't it marvelous that someday I'm going to be in heaven, someday I'm actually going to be in heaven?
That's not entering it. The left, the breadth of the depth of the height takes to understand rather than enter into in some measure. Whereas I said at the beginning it's impossible for finite minds to grasp the wall, but it's to enter into what the purposes and counsel of God are. Not that He has simply saved you and I from hell, but what was His purpose? His purpose was that Christ should have a pride.
I'm going to be crying that pride.
That Christ should have a companion, that when God counsels concerning His Son reach their fulfillment, and every knee, bow, and every tongue confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord, they're with Him will be his pride. To share all all beloved brethren isn't any wonderful that in the 20th verse it says.
Above all that we after that notice of expertise, and to know the love of Christ, which passive knowledge that you might be filled with all the votes of God.
To see both.
To see below a thread of all these councils, that God has this purpose for his Son, that you and I are to share with his Son all the God purposes for him, and then to find on top of all that, but not Christ.
The whole Christ. But not only is He sharing it with us, not only are we going to be identified with Him.
But the mother brother, he bubbles us. You know when Rebecca, when Rebecca crossed the wilderness to be with Isaac being what mind saying, isn't that wonderful? Here's Rebecca brought across that long distance and here she is with Isaac Barb. She's going to enter into all that is attacked.
All that he received as the son of Abraham. She tried to share it all with him who said it's fireless. But then we read the Isaac love.
The marvelous we not only shares it with us, we not only enter in with Him, and of all that he has the beloved presence. He loves us to know the love of Christ, but then to find out that it passes on.
It's fine. Go on to say that you might be still with all the force of God, that on top of all God's counsels and all God's purposes, on top of all that we're going to be brought into.
Is this petition Marvel's Petition? The Christ Apology?
A monster. Christ also loved the church and gave himself. Well, you know what it says. Know the love of Christ which passes knowledge. I was talking to some folks from my present just today about this. I remember some years ago reading a poll. The poem was called I Believe I Have Seen the Sea. Perhaps some of my brother here have heard the call before.
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But the poll concerns a little girl.
And this little girl went down to the ocean. And when she went down to the ocean for the first time, she spent a day at the ocean. And when she came home, some friends of hers said to her, have you seen the sea? And she answered, yes, I have seen the sea. And beloved brethren, what she said was absolutely true. She had seen the sea, but how much had she really seen? How much of it does, how much of its magnitude?
How much of its wide area have you seen? Just a little bit. But nevertheless, what she said was absolutely true. She had saved the sea. Well, beloved brethren, you and I can say we belong to Christ tonight. We can stay with thankful hearts. I know the love of Christ.
But the more we know about, the more we explain it passes on. The magnitude of the marvelous is beyond their comprehensive.
The love of crowds, which passes knowledge. So he says now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask for faith according to the power that work within us. Unto him be glory in the church, by Christ Jesus, throughout all ages, world without end.
Rather than I suggested what this simply means to this.
And if God I suppress, I could say it remembers. In this way, if God had come to you and said, what blessing would you like? What would you like me to give you?
It would never even have entered into our minds. We would never even have thought to ask God that we might share the reign of Christ with him.
We would never even have thought to ask God that we might be brought into the same place of favor. Enjoy my beloved son. But Ephesians, chapter one tells us we are expected in the beloved. We will never even have thought to ask that we might be so closely identified with his son that we bear his name for the patience. Chapter one says his body, the fullness of him in the filling all along.
We would never even have thought that we might enter into all that he comes into as a result of the work of the cross.
But Ephesians Chapter 3 says Delaware.
Guest Pleasant cares in God. These things would never even have entered our minds, never have entered even to our thoughts. But this is what God planned, and God's purpose are going to be carried out. And so it is that this is what we look forward to now. We belong to Christ. We are members of His body. By the indwelling of the Spirit of God and the Mother presently know the love of Christ.
All that we might enter more and more responsible.
See more and more of the ocean of Islam, explore it more and more and more as each day goes by, and at the same time enter in in the heart more and more into the length and breadth and depth and height of the council and purpose of God concerning Christ at His Church.
And now we come to perform check, and we find the love of brethren in these 6 verses, actually in all the three remaining chapters, but particularly in these 6 verses, that there is a very practical application of what they had before. So he says in the first verse, I, therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith your call, rather than what you've been called.
We have been called to be members of the Body of Christ. We have been called to bear His name, to be so closely identified with himself that we enter into all that He enters into.
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As God fulfills his counsel, so closely identified with himself, that Jesus enters into nothing until he first takes his life to glory.
In order to have them within when he enters into his place of action.
Now the Spirit is not said. This is your calling, blood brethren. This is what we could have called. This is what we are now, He says. What word beyond all how this feast the ones own conscience? What were the comments does mine walk reveal?
Does my walk reveal that I'm identifying with Christ part of that body which is united to him by the Spirit of God and that bears his name?
Here in the United States, how unbecoming it would be for the president's wife to be involved in some kind of.
Crime. Some kind of.
Sin some kind of wickedness, we'd love to say, well, that's That just isn't becoming to the one who is the president's wife. It just isn't consistent with being the president's wife to find herself involved in that. What? You'd say what?
On the name of the president that brings reproach on that name of the president. Well, beloved president, you and I are united to Christ by the Spirit. And what we do at Richland hope on that name that the Spirit of God has identified us with. Yes, if you're young people here, you belong to Christ. What you do, what you say, where you go, what you're occupied with all these things.
Both of us were older. The same for us. It can bring the food, it can bring dishonor because we are on that name, the name of Jesus because we are identified with him. And so Paul says walk worthy of that calling or with your call. And then he said with all.
Loneliness.
With long sovereign or married one mother to love.
No, I think it's very instructive for us that this truth about the meekness, the loneliness, and the meekness should come before the endeavor to keep you in the Spirit. In the 11Th chapter of Matthew, the Lord Jesus says, take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am beacon loving heart, and ye shall find rest unto your sins. Rather than when he calls upon us to walk in low winds and to walk in weakness, He's calling upon us to display the characters.
Of the person with whom we are connected by the Spirit of God. What we bear is name. Beloved president may be displayed his character. May I display the character I bear his name, I'm associated with him.
Let the world see to my brethren. See that which displays the character of Christ. I know we have His life, He has His nature. All of his character might be seen with us.
Well, it says loneliness and meekness. I'll simply pass on a thought, perhaps that is enjoyed here before, but someone has defined loneliness as that which doesn't give offense and meekness as that makes sense.
That we should go on so far that the world that our brother might see that particular corpus with that precious thing. To be fair, why is it that this comes out well? Brethren, in the next person says, endeavoring to keep the unity of this curve and the uniting in the bond of peace. Or the other translation says, the uniting bond of peace, and daring to keep the unity of the spirit in the uniting bond of peace. How can we do that?
You know, it's been said, beloved president, that it's no difficulty at all. It's not very hard at all to get along with somebody to see once a year that's very easy. You say to yourself, well, they're coming. I can put up with them. They'll stay for a couple of days. I can put up with them, and then when they leave, that's over for another year. But God has taken the body of Christ and by the spirit of united us together. And so it is that right here in Sully.
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My brethren here are in association with each other day after day.
Three times a day, four times a day, perhaps four or five times a week. And President, what's going to keep us going on together?
Not giving offense. Not taking offense. Displaying the character of Christ. We're going to meet that if we're going to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bottom of the sea. You notice the next person says there is one bot now, the love of present. That is true. It was true on the day of Pentecost, and it has been true for every day since then. Until tonight.
There is one body, and you and I are not responsible to maintain the unity of the body. That's the function of the Spirit of God. And thank God they always want. They're always in one body from the day of Pentecost until tonight. And there always will be one body until the Lord Jesus comes and takes us home before. And the Lord Jesus has his pride in himself. There is one body. We don't have to keep that. The Spirit of God keeps that.
But to disclaim in a practical way that we recognize by faith that we are one body, that we function as one body that requires, rather than business, loneliness and love, long-suffering and love. You know, I.
I have various members to my body and it would never occur to me, at least I don't think it would ever occur to me if I had a sore finger to say to myself, well, that's too bad, the finger got itself sore. Let the finger get itself better. It would never occur to me to say, well, that thing is causing a lot of trouble, just cut it off and get rid of it. Or if someone else came to me and said, well, why are you bothered with that finger? Why do you bother? Isn't it a nuisance? I'm like, I might very well say, yes, it's a nuisance.
But it's part of me. It's part of me. It's part of this body. And I have a care for, because it is part of me, beloved brethren. That is what it means, in a practical way, to endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit that is, to display practically in our contact, one with another, in our care, one for another, in our loved, one for another, in our consideration, one for another.
In seeking the good and blessings one of another.
To recognize that we are one body, that the Spirit of God has united us together into one Father, all beloved present that takes his death. You'll have to work at it. You'll have to work at it. And it takes meekness and moments and long-suffering, forbearing one another in love some of us.
Rather than some of us are not very lovable. Some of us need a lot of care. Remember in the 10th chapter of Lutheran?
When the Good Samaritan took the man and put him upon his own beast and brought him to the hill, when he brought him to the end, what did he say to the innkeeper? He gave him two pairs. And then he said to the innkeeper, Whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will pay him.
Below the present, Some of us need more spent on it than others. Some of us need more love. Some of us need more care. Some of us 'cause our present to exercise more long-suffering. Some of us 'cause our president to exercise more patience. Some of us need a lot of you. But the Lord Jesus says, whatsoever thou spendest more. When I come again, I will pay. I'll make it up to you. I will pay. And beloved friend and May God give us to have that care.
That loved one. For another, the mixed and loneliness comes in because we might say to ourselves, well, I tried to help that brother and he he just didn't want it. He just didn't want it. So what do I say? Well, I tried. Write them off. Or marrying one another one month. Going on again. I'm again. I'm again. You remember how Paul says that the more I love you.
The left side all along the presence of the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, explained to how they hear one person. There is one thought. The next circle says there is one more one thing, one black.