Address—C.H. Brown
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So the chapter, Brown, Burbank, CA, June 19, 1967.
Perhaps not too well connected.
But I believe that it would be well to start with the 13th chapter of Hebrews.
Now these verses are well known to us.
I'm sure there's no one present here that is not familiar with them.
Seasons 13.
Reading verse 12.
Wherefore Jesus also.
That he might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered outside the gate.
Let us go forth therefore unto him.
Outside the camps, wearing his report.
For here.
That we know, continuing cities, but we seek one to come.
Well, meditate for a few moments on those words.
Notice that it's the person of Christ that's brought before us.
Jesus, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood.
Suffered outside the gate.
Or may we be very clear in our minds.
And you younger people let it sink well into your soul.
What Christianity is Christ? It's a person.
It's Jesus.
We have some lovely thoughts brought before us by different ones yesterday morning in connection with two or three being gathered to his name that he was in the midst.
That's what gives meaning to our gathering when they come together with a sense that he is keeping his promise and he's in the midst of those gathered to his name.
So he sanctifies us. He sets us apart with his own blood.
That has never minimized the blood.
Let us remember that Scripture speaks of it over and over again and in this book of Hebrews.
God is mentioned 19 times in this one book.
19 times.
And the blood of Christ. The blood of Christ is mentioned seven times in this book.
Blood that he might sanctify through his own blood.
He gave his life he suffered under death.
The side was pierced and forthwith came around. Blood, water, blood to expiate, water to cleanse, and God's Word testifies to both.
Now the expectation based on that fact is this. Let us go forth therefore unto him.
Unto him outside the camp bearing his report.
Oh, what an expectation that is.
Let us go forth therefore unto him.
Have we done it?
Have we just united with a meeting?
And we just decided that we'd like to be in fellowship.
Now we just joined the brethren.
Or have we been concerned in our own souls?
About going forth unto him unto Christ.
Outside the camp.
You know we're living in solemn days.
Some of us that are older have seen tremendous changes in Christendom around us in our lifetime.
And right now we're living in the ecumenical age from the great pressure.
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Is put the one world church.
And it's not only the Protestants that are caught in this move, but the Catholics too. And Catholics and Protestants are striving toward that one world church.
Well, they're going to get it. There's no question about that. They'll get it.
But they're all how different is the admonition that's given to us here in this verse? Let us that's you. That's me. Let us.
Go forth therefore unto him.
Under him? Under the person.
Outside the camp.
Outside all this high ecumenical pressure.
Outside all this effort to build a world church?
Let's keep clear of it. Let's have none of it. Let's be found beloved following a rejected Christ.
Bearing his reproach.
His report You know, the effort today is to make Jesus Christ.
Popular.
To reduce him to a stature where he can be acceptable to men in general.
So a a new approach is made and the old fashioned gospel of the cross of Christ, the blood of Christ. Salvation through coming is poor lost sinners coming to a Savior.
Is being buried. It's being forgotten.
It's being given up all around us.
But beloved, God's Word has not changed. Not one with.
Let us go forth therefore unto him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.
He was rejected. When he was here, they crucified him. They said We don't want him.
And remember in John's Gospel are perhaps it's the 6th chapter.
Let's check it for a moment.
It's in connection with the miracle of feeding the 5000.
That was a wonderful thing, you know, 5000 men besides women and children. Tremendous miracle.
By the way, it's the only miracle related in all four gospel.
14 That knows man, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did.
Said, this is a the truth that prophet that should come into the world.
When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by first.
Taken by force to make them the king, he departed again into a mountain himself, alone.
Sir, we're going to take and make him the king. Why?
Besides, he performed that wonderful miracle. He said 5000. Perhaps 10,000 people.
Because the number of women and children is not recorded and give them a nice big meal and why not just the kind of man we want. And they were going to host them as a word of their shoulders and make a hero of him and having for their king.
No, he didn't want that. He slipped away. If it took himself, he didn't come here for that.
Let us go forth there unto him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.
You know, if you follow a rejected Christ.
That's what is meant by his research.
Is it perfect love and he would not join himself in this world?
Even Lincoln start up with it.
He didn't try to straighten out. It's wrong. He came here to save 4 lost sinners.
The same destiny on the mission God sent him into this world.
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But he might save poor lost sinners such as you and I were by nature. That was his mission. He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Bearing his reproach, for here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. Oh, thank God, the lover. We're not LED into the delusions of the day thinking we're going to build a wonderful new world.
We're not intoxicated with the idea of a new society.
We're not deceived by the notion that we're going to build a world where everybody has plenty and everybody's happy, and there be no more war and we'll all go along together. Oh, what a delusion.
It's of the enemy. It's of Satan. That's not the picture that God word gives.
Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come, our cities to come. Our joy, our goal, the acne of all lapses, what the story is to be with Christ in the glory above and here through the scene, the goal is kill them and strangers. The Pilgrim is turning on to his goals.
The stranger is one who doesn't belong here.
And so you and I have that place in this world, pilgrims and strangers. We're not on it. Or else you can let that sink into your soul. It'll be good for you all your Christian life.
Keep from becoming Indigo into any of the world's schemes and plans to have a better world.
Avoid all appearances that would seek to reform man. He can't be reformed. He needs to be born again. He needs salvation.
In the 24th of loop, it won't turn to it.
The Lord spoke to those two that were.
That he came in contact with.
He opened the Word to them, and he told them about the things concerning Himself in the Scriptures.
You know the Bible is full of Christ. You can find Christ all the way through from the first chapter in the Bible to the last chapter.
Christ is the center of all.
He said the Lord just took the time and trouble to inform those two of some of the things in the scriptures concerning himself.
When you read your Bible, look for Christ.
See where you can see him in the word. He's there if you look for him. Or the Word of God is full of testimony to that wonderful person, the second person of the Godhead.
The one who is the God man, the one who's been in this world has letters see into the heart of God representing himself as God manifesting flesh.
Now in Second Timothy, the third chapter will turn to that for a few moments.
Timothy third chapter.
This know also that in the last days.
Perilous times shall come.
And then we get a long list.
Of the characteristics.
Of those perilous times.
And it's a sad list, and it's a description of what we see around us today.
In the fifth verse.
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof from such turn away.
Seventh verse ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Oh, how thankful you can be, you dear young people.
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Thankful you can see that God has His mercy Ledger to Christ the center, and you're in a place where you can learn the truth about your blessed Lord. You're not going to be misled. You're not going to be indoctrinated.
With the favors of men, you're not going to see the dignity.
The deity of our blessed Lord Lord, one night.
You're going to find them exalted in the doctrines that you find in that place. Oh, how thankful we ought to be in a day like this, that there's a positive refusal to know the standards as to the person of God's Christ.
Well, these people have a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Then going on down.
Do the 12Th verse gain all that will live godly or all that will to live godly? All that have a desire and a purpose to live godly?
In Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Do you have a desire in your heart?
Godly in Christ Jesus.
Now the other personalist thought, that food gotten down on your knees.
And tell the Lord that it's your desire to live godly.
But not.
Just as a general principle, but in Christ Jesus don't forget the person.
Just a pious life or their monitors of people that live something called pious lives, and there's very little of Christ about it. In fact, perhaps they're the enemies of Christ and yet living what they call pious life. But here all that will to live godly. That's their purpose.
Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Don't ever expect to be accepted by the world. If you make Christ your opportunity, don't expect it.
There isn't a spiritual minded Christian in this world.
A spiritual minded Christian who's living in the presence of Christ who is acceptable to the world.
Know regardless of what titling they have and how famous may be his name, if he is following a rejected Christ, living a godly life according to the mind of God is revealed in his word. He's not going to be accepted by the world.
Was the apostle Paul accepted. I know it wasn't big building. Was Peter accepted? No he wasn't. What killed him was Steven accepted. No, they killed him. All the world just can't bear the presence in their midst of a godly minded Christian.
They that will deliver in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Buddy, old man and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
But now here's a word for us. Continue. Wow in the things that thou hast learned and been assured of knowing of who knowledge learned them. Don't give up, young folks. Don't let that teach it through, whether it's a great school or whether it's in college or university.
Don't let them rob you. Don't let them take one bit away from you of what you've learned as to the blessed person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Remember this marriage is the word of God.
And this world is going to stand on all the proud institutions of men have this integrated and disappeared forever.
This word is eternal. It's abiding it. God breathes.
15th verse. What a lovely verse for you young folks.
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From a child thou has known the Holy Scriptures.
That you're able to make thee wise unto salvation.
Through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Now salvation is a real thing.
And the scriptures are those that tell us away and from a child of us known. The Holy Scriptures have you known them from childhood?
When I was a little fellow growing up.
My parents.
Sent me or let me go at least to Sunday school, and I learned something about the Lord Jesus.
But I didn't have a Christian home. I don't believe we had a Bible in the house when I was a little fellow.
No, there is not a Christian home.
But most of you here.
Have grown up in a Christian home or you don't know how much you have for which to praise God.
Don't be a traitor to it. Don't betray that upbringing or how sad.
To be brought up in a Christian home with an open Bible.
Prayer attending the meeting.
And then throw it all aside and go into the world. What tragedy, but also reaping, well, remember.
He that saw it to his life shall of the flight reach corruption.
All the way the matter solemnly.
From a child I was known the Holy Scriptures.
And these holy scriptures in the 16th verse.
All scriptures given by inspiration of God and is profitable.
The doctrine You need doctrine. You need to read your Bible.
You can't be helped by a scripture that you don't know.
You can't get yourself in an exigency where you need a little help. You need the word of God, and you don't have it.
The verse isn't there. You don't know where it is. You don't know what you need. But if you've been diligent in searching your Bible, it's wonderful how the Spirit of God will bring to you the very verse that you need to carry you through that practice.
The early scriptures.
All scriptures given by inspiration of God. Literally that is all scriptures God breathed. That's the liberal of it.
And it's possible for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect. Now perfect means mature, we'll go, not staggling around the shifted about by every wind of doctors.
But he knows his way. He knows where he's going. He has this, he has this book and he has confidence in it, and it's his guide book. And so he walks on Independence Day by day, and he loves to read the words and be grounded and settled in the truth.
Now in the I don't think they're turning to it, but in the 11Th of Leviticus you get the clean and the unclean animal.
And a clean and unclean bird.
And the clean and unclean fish.
Well, those were instructions for the children of Israel.
And we don't go there to learn what to eat and what not to eat.
But we can pick out some lovely lessons from it.
And I'm just thinking of of one verse there.
Perhaps I could turn to it Leviticus 11.
Second verse.
Leviticus 11/2.
Speak under the children of Israel, saying these are the beats.
Which is an eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
Whatsoever part of The Who and his stolen footage.
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And Chewie is a cup among the beast.
We shall we eat?
Whatsoever part of the soul.
That is program service. And who is the cut on the beach that should be?
They had to have those two qualifications.
And I believe in that we see this.
But if you and I.
I don't go through the scene.
We want to be sure that the walk is related to our spiritual life.
Killing the club to apply spiritual may have meditating in the word of God.
As another has said, let's try and saturate ourselves with scripture.
But in order to do that at such time.
You have time to read your Bible.
Or do you just take advantage of it once in a while? Or do you wait for Sunday and see what you get at Sunday school? Or is this blessed book a part of your life? You feed on it. You saturate yourself with it.
That's killing the Cubs. When you really think on it and go over it, try to understand it.
When all that beast the truth, the cod was clean first.
The sovereign service.
Yes, there are animals that took that 11Th of Leviticus was on the shores. There are animals that choose the sun that are not stolen.
Right have been said about it. Well, what's it all about, all beloved?
Your walls to match your doctrine.
Are wrong through this world should be in keeping with what we profess.
And don't forget, the world is watching.
They are. They're watching you. They're taking notice. They're taking inventory of your life far more than you realize.
Let's be sure.
That we represent those.
Frozen hooks and chewing the Cubs.
The clean animals that God said they could use and sacrifice, they could be eaten.
Make straight paths for your feet. That's the wall.
Straight path for your feet, but that which is weak beats turn not out of the way. Somebody's watching.
Everyone of us is being watched. We're gonna make straight paths for our feet, less sappages, lanes. We turned out of the way. Somebody's watching this. They're seeking to pattern their life after your life.
Make straight paths through your feet, but that's his lane be turned out of the way.
Now in the South of Romans.
Romans 12 verse one.
I beseech you, therefore burdened by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies.
A living sacrifice Holy.
Acceptable unto God, which is your intelligence service.
And be not conformed to this world.
That be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good.
And acceptable and perfect will of God present your body a living sacrifice.
Now that word means just what it's there your body.
That's part of you, your body.
Are we using them?
Just to gratify our own love.
With our life consists in the next physical pleasure that we can have.
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Or by the mercies of God, are we presenting our bodies a living sacrifice? Sacrifice clearly?
Acceptable unto God your body.
Our hands.
All things our eyes, our ears.
Well, it's it's sad, the things that people are listening to today.
That is.
It's sad the things people are seeing today.
A sister in the meeting was selling me.
By being home, not among those gathered.
But he was in my room for a minute or two.
And the two young people listening to the program that was on the TV.
And these two young people?
Were professed workers for Christ in some youth group.
There they were, sitting with me.
To something that, as this sister put it to me, she said. It was frightful. It was nothing. It was perfect.
She could see nothing in it. The fact that it was contaminated, Wicked, abominable.
Present your body.
Our eyes.
Part of our body and our ears what we hear.
Can't need what you hear. Yes, our hands. Something to our feet where we go.
The walls present your bodies now remember, this is not.
Brother Brown talking.
This is picture. This is God's word. I beseech you better by the mercies of God that she presents your body.
A living sacrifice fully acceptable to God to take your intelligence service.
That applies to everyone in this group. If you're a child of God, you're responsible to do that.
No compromise. No compromise.
Minister right down the line without the word of God sake.
Now let's go over to Isaiah.
What a verse.
Isaiah 5.
The brain Get on to a little different line of things here.
Isaiah 5.
And verse 20.
Well, under them that call evil good.
And good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness.
That's better for sweet and sweet for better.
And you know, that very thing is going on today.
Royal under them saw evil there.
And good even that's going on right all around us.
Wouldn't have to go very far to prove it.
That put that in this for life.
And like productions to put better for sleep and sleep for bitterness.
We're living in an age. It's doing that very thing. And what does God would say about it? Word with them, I guess. Payday is coming.
Have you heard this expression that?
Being used nowadays.
The new morality?
I suppose most of us here have.
The world around us, in this enlightened nation.
Is professing to have found new standards.
The morality.
And I'm going to take the liberty just to read very briefly.
Clear first statements.
From a paper that came into my hands.
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It's from a brother in Christ over here in Glendale. I don't know him. I've never met him.
I want to read just a few statements from this article.
America is either going to rise or fall.
During its relationship with Almighty God and its adherence to His commandments of righteousness and morality.
Unbridled immorality is spreading.
And its final result will be the destruction of our country.
America must pretend or feel the wrath of God.
Christians have a responsibility to God, to their family, and to their nations.
The whole the principles of the Bible.
Now here's something shocking the National Council of Churches.
Gave an award. Gave an award to a recent motion picture.
The National Council of Churches held a banquet and awarded the producers for the Starbucks Last Star.
Operation Moral Upgrade cited this film as.
Two hours of vicious brutality, immorality.
Nakedness invitations.
Suggestions. Murder. Violence depicted throughout.
Shocking.
National Council of Churches.
Now a new term. That's.
Come to be used is this situation ethics. Situation Ethics.
That's a new angle.
In order to.
Say the question of ethics.
Now here's the new here's the new approach situation ethics.
Just as he made choice on the basis of the particular person and circumstances.
So, says Doctor Fletcher, must weave any act, even lying, immorality, murder.
Could be right within a given situation.
Now I've softened that just a little, because it's a little too true to read out loud in a situation like this. I softened a little.
But that's bad enough, isn't it? Now that situation ethics.
What's the point?
Well then, in certain situations you can transgress everyone of God's commandments and get by with it. It'll be all right if the situation justifies it.
That the end justify the means? No. Paul was very clear on this matter in Romans chapter 3.
Christian ethics are always up to date, but the Bible is the only rule of faith and practice, no matter in what year we live.
You believe Jesus Christ is really the same yesterday and today and forever. Amen. So do I.
The cure for this moral decline is to let men know that a living God has spoken in the Bible.
We have not left. We have not been left to wonder what we should or should not do. God has given us a record of Himself and what He requires us to do. Secondly, there's a living God who sees all things and to whom each man will get an account.
Just a few short extras.
Or hostile, if we can ever reach a place where God's standards are pushed aside and then comes forward with what he calls situation there.
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I don't know whether you've read the little pamphlet that can be secured from the Bible to publishers.
Or you can get a two Brother Jimmy Starr on the moral content of the 10 Commandments.
And the point in this cabinet is this.
That everyone of those 10 commandments as to its moral context.
Is reproduced in Christianity. You'll find it in your New Testament. You'll find it among the admonitions and the prohibitions of God. It's there with a solemn pronouncement.
Of God's authority. God hasn't weakened himself one bit in Christianity.
He's no less holy. They was on Mount Sinai. No, the only commandment that is admitted in Christianity is the one that has to do with observing the Sabbath. But that's not a moral command.
They're all they're all repeated.
In various ways in the New Testament, God's standards do not change.
Now in Ephesians 6.
And verse.
Well, we might read first class and get the connection.
Season 6 Trial We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities. Now these are.
These are not earthly matters. These have to do with Satanic powers. Satanic things we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
The devil and all his hosts are against us.
Therefore.
They under you, the whole armor of God. Have we done it?
That you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand.
Stand, therefore. Are we doing it, or are we giving up? Are we compromising? Are we making turns of the world?
Stand therefore, having your loins heard about with truth.
Having on the breastplate of righteousness.
And your feet shoved with the preparation the Gospel of Peace.
Above all, taking the shield of faith, for this we shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
And take the helmet of salvation and the sand of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Now here's where dependence comes in. Praying always with all prayers and supplications in the Spirit.
How necessary that is, dear young folks, have you been exercised about?
Are you standing? Have you taken the whole armor of God?
Or are you on the road to compromise?
May the Lord wake us up about these things.
Not first, Peter.
The third chapter.
Here's a word to the to the wives, the women.
Second verse while and behold your chaste conversation, that word conversation means manner of life Depot.
Your chase department couple of fear Who's adorning? Let it not be that awkward adorning of plating the hair.
Wearing a bull is putting on a apparel.
Let it be the hidden man of the heart, and that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God a great price, a great price.
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After this manner, in old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorn themselves.
Well, in connection with that.
Let's turn to first Timothy 2.
And the ninth verse.
First Timothy 2 verse 9.
In like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel.
With shame, facedness and surprise.
With braided hair or gold or pearls or costly arrays, but it's become a women professing godliness with good work.
Now remember, I'm reading this from the Bible.
This is Scripture.
And the word that I would emphasize in that ninth verse is modest, modest, apparent.
I've often wondered if you've got it before a high school group today and gave them a blank piece of paper and a pen and said I have a word in the dictionary here, I want you to write the definition of it.
And then asked them if they would please write a definition of the word modesty.
What does it mean?
Well, beloved is in the word of God.
And it's certainly a word that's being despised today.
We want to, we want to talk right down to where we are.
That's the reason we're here tonight, that we might look into these things because they're all interrelated, all interrelated.
First Peter one.
They first Peter Three, First Peter 3.
And the 15th verse.
Perhaps if you read the 14.
But, and if you suffer for righteousness, sake, happy are you, and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled, but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks if you a reason of the hope that's within you in meekness and fear.
Having a good conscience, that whereas they speak against his evil doors, they may be ashamed.
That falsely accused your good conversation in Christ. For it is better if the will of God be so that you suffer for well doing and for evil doing.
That Christ has once suffered for sins, Adjust for the unjust that he might bring us to God.
Now isn't that good sound advice having a good conscience?
But whereas they seek evil of his evil doers, well, you know the accusation is false. You can have a good conscience, but how sad is the accusation is true?
Now Romans 6 and verse 4.
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed or enough, but henceforth we should not serve sin.
Now Romans 8.
First verse.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus second verse.
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me freeze from the law of sin and death.
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That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in US, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
They that are after the flesh to mind the things of the flesh, that they that are after the Spirit. The things that are the Spirit, want. To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Now, Ephesians 2.
Second verse.
We're an end time pesky wall. According to the course of this world, according to the Prince of the power of the air, the Spirit is now working in the sons of disobedience.
Among whom we all had our conversation in times past notice in times past not now, but in times past before we were saved in the lust of our flag, fulfilling the desires of deflation of the mind, were by nature the children of wrath, even as others now Colossians 3.
5 Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil, concupiscence, covetousness, which is idolatry.
Which things take the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience, in which he also lost sometimes not now.
When you lived in it, that's the past. But now he also put off all these.
Seasons for US 17 No.
Philippians Philippians 318.
For many walks of whom I have told you often, and I'll tell you even weeping.
They are the enemies of the cross of Christ.
2nd Thessalonians 3/6.
2nd Thessalonians 3/6.
Now we command your brethren, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourself from every brother that walketh disorderly.
One more reference first Peter 4.
1St.
For the time past of our life. Now get that the time passed. Not the present, but the time passed of our lives. They suffices to have rocked the well of the Gentiles when we walked in. Lasciviousness lusts, excessive wine leveling, banqueting, and the vulnerable idols. When you think it's strange, that's it. They think it's strange that you run not with them to the same excessive riot.
Speaking evil of youth.
We have given account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.
The time past of our lives, oh brother, let's have a difference between the time past of our lives and the life we're living now. Oh let it be priced for me to live is Christ, the apostle said. For me to live is Christ.
And then he could say.
To God.
Let us sing.
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Number 57 #57.
Someone started please?