Address—Michel Peyette
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What I had before me this week.
Is the thought of.
Fragrance.
There's a verse in the Second Corinthians.
Chapter 2.
Verse 14 Second Corinthians 214 now thanks Beyoncé God.
Which always causes us to triumph in Christ and make it manifest the Savior of His knowledge by us in every place. Or the odor, the fragrance, if I may say, it's not to savor with the mouth, it's the odor with the nose. For we are unto God a sweet savour or fragrance or perfume of Christ.
Our brother John Bilasali in the Walla Walla spoke to us of Egypt there in one of the talks and he.
Remarked how there was a stench in Egypt.
When the judgment of God came upon it there and you know.
This creation is characterized by that.
Remember when I was in school?
And closed classrooms now they've got improved ventilation, but if you put a 30 or 35 people in one room for an hour or two and you come back in that room after, you'll see it's not very pleasant, the odor that comes from there.
We keep washing our bodies because if we don't.
The fragrance of them isn't very nice.
Well, here is something that is a delight.
Or God.
The sweet savour.
Of Christ when Noah came out of the ark.
He offered a burnt offering, and the Lord smelt the sweet savour.
Was reminding him of that one who would be the fulfillment of all these types in the Old Testament, of all these sacrifices which could never take away sin.
The beloved Lord Jesus, his beloved Son, who would come and satisfy his righteousness.
And make known.
His character of late and love.
Well, you know, in the Gospel of John, you're familiar with that Mary, she wrote that vessel. She had Alabaster Box and.
The house was filled.
With the odor of the perfume.
And I think of that, you know, as when we come together in the Spirit of God produces worship.
The very House of God in the presence of God. He can smell that.
And how pleasant to him to have that fragrance of Christ.
Well, I just like to turn to the 133rd Psalm first of all. Then we spend a few moments in Exodus.
Verse One. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
It's like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard, even the Aaron's beard that went down to the skirts of his garment, as the Jew of Herman and as the Jew that descended upon the mountains of Zion. For there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life forevermore.
Well, you know, we had this in the meetings yesterday that were acceptable.
We have our acceptable in the will of God, which is a good, acceptable and perfect will of God that was acceptable. Really is is pleasant, agreeable, Something that's pleasant, that's nice.
And it says here how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
I'd like to just suggest this thought here. It is always good for brethren to dwell together.
But it is not always pleasant.
But it is always good.
And it is good and pleasant when they dwell together in unity. And it's what God would have us dwell together in unity. You know, if you're going to the dentist, it's a good thing, but it's not a pleasant thing.
And it's good for us to dwell together because we need each other. We need each other to grow, and we need each other to set us straight, you might say, to realign our course. We fix our vision on the Lord. We need each other.
And it is the Lord's desire that we would go on together in that which is good and pleasant. It's not only pleasant for us, it is pleasant for Him.
This is something that is impressed upon my soul and I know I bring it often when I speak to others that you know the Lord Jesus died.
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For me.
And this is just beyond me when we sit together around the Lord Jesus and I were brought in a measure each one to consider the sufferings of the Lord Jesus.
And it is individually for each one of us, and that's what we say.
When we partake of the emblems, don't we? We are showing the Lord's death, each one of us, and we're showing it for us.
And I know, dear young people, we've been speaking about knowing the will of the Lord and for your life, and we had these verses on sanctification yesterday.
But I believe, dear ones, that if you know the Lord Jesus your Savior, I believe it is the desire of the Lord.
That you would remember him in death.
That what He has done for you would be fresh to your soul moment by moment. And I know it isn't for me. We get occupied and distracted by this robot from week to week. I can tell you what precious moments for our souls when we're brought back to consider what the Lord Jesus done for the Father's glory, but personally for you.
But you know.
He also died to gather into one the children of God, which were dispersed.
He also.
We could be selfish and just think for ourselves, but this is part of the work of the Lord Jesus and giving himself that He might gather us in one to have us together.
How good and unpleasant to dwell together in unity. And yet we dwell together.
We can warm ourselves up.
You can warm yourself up and enjoying the Lord together. Sometimes we get warmed up by friction, and that's a good thing, not a pleasant thing. Friction is not a pleasant thing, but it's a good thing because it can bring us to a greater measure of likeness to the Lord Jesus. And you can help me that way, and I trust I can help you that way. And as the Father sees us grow in the likeness of his sons.
We're perfect in him and as he looks at us in Christ, we're perfect and he looks at us practically. He would say, oh.
They give me special delight.
Additional delight in walking in practically in what they have in my son. Well, here I would just like to use this illustration because oppression press appointment comes from the head and runs down upon the beard and the skirts of the garment. And this is priesthood, you know. And this precious ointment will be looking at that. That had a fragrance. That had a fragrance. And this is it. It came from the head, but then it went down right to the hems of the garment. And I think that speaks of testimony the garment speaks of.
And isn't it wonderful that we could be, even at this late hour, the hem of the garment just before the Lord comes?
That the Father could look down and see a reflection in your life and mine and his Son, and see and smell the sweetness of Christ in your life and mine, and that also He would have brought to his nostrils when we're together.
That fragrance that there was in the sanctuary where everything literally was anointed with the same oil. And let's just look at that now. And that's in Exodus chapter 30.
22.
Exodus 30, verse 22. Moreover, the Lord spake unto Moses, saying.
Thou also unto the.
Principal spices. I have it in my French Darby, the most excellent spices.
There are none more excellent. Take thou also unto thee the more excellent spices of pure myrrh, free flowing myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much even 250 shekels, and of sweet calamus 250 shekels, and of cassia 500 shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary and.
Of oil olive and hen, and thou shalt make it an oil of hope.
Holy ointment, anointment compound after the art of the apothecary or the perfumer, it shall be an oily holy anointing oil. And thou shalt anoint the Tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony, and the table, and all these vessels, and the Candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense, and the altar of burnt offering, with all his vessels, and the labor on his foot.
And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy, and thou shalt anoint.
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Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office, and I shall speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generation. Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it. After the composition of it. It is holy, and it shall be holy unto you, whosoever composite and you like it, or whosoever put it, any of it upon a stranger.
Be cut off from his people.
Well, here is given to us by the Spirit of God, the composition of that holy anointing oil that we have brought before us in 133rd Psalm.
Now these measures 500 shekels, that's about 15 lbs. So half 250 shekels is 7 1/2 lbs or something. And a hint of olive oil or olive oil is about a gallon, close to a gallon, so.
I just think that this brings before us.
Human measure, you might say human measures, and you know what this speaks of.
As you walked into the sanctuary.
Maybe outside and that's an altar of burnt offerings. It was anointed with that President didn't feel as much the fragrance of once he got into the holy place that was a closed place there you would have smelt that you said.
Now he's brought up in the Catholic Church, and we used to go to church. We would enter into this building and they would burn incense there. And it was a fragrance there. And I remember, you know, as a young man, they're going in there. In the first few years perhaps, where there was still a reverence for God, there was ignorance there, but there was reverence for God. And it was a quiet place. When you went into church, it had a different smell.
And it was a place where there was the fear of God, and you walked quietly, you didn't talk and.
It's no longer like that anymore. I've been to on other occasions to for funerals and stuff and you know, the behaviour has changed a lot. But this is the sanctuary of God.
Didn't know that when I was in the Catholic Church, but I've been brought into this now and so have you. I type in the Old Testament of where they entered the holy place and as you can just see from these verses themselves, have been anointed with that for the anointing oil and everything else in there. They had a smell.
Everything smelled the same.
You know, sometimes you, you smell something and it's, it's sweet, but it's too sweet.
Sometimes my girls, they get the ball of perfume and.
Put that on. Smell good, daddy? Yeah.
For my wife.
She'll put someone in the car when the windows are closed.
And these things are made to smell for hours and hours, miles of a distance. You know, it says that too much. No, no. But I just used that illustration here because this perfume is different.
There's never too much of it.
And you never have enough of it. God put it on everything.
Was for his nostrils.
The sweetness for him, the fragrance of Christ.
I don't know much about it, but I enjoy a little bit.
Here it was a composition of it.
It was excellent spices, the most excellent spices. So nobody can be compared with our Lord and no, we're going to be made perfectly like Him. God finds his delight in us now through Him.
There's this one, the most excellent one. One was perfect in every way, every thought, every movement of his soul, of his body, a delight for the heart of the Father.
Well, the first one is pure myrrh or free flowing myrrh. Myrrh you get from.
A little shrub and it's like resin, I believe. And it just comes out like you would have pine resin on pine trees. And this is how you get murdered. But the way they get murdered is they make little Nicks on the on the shrub and that opens it up and then so the SAP comes out the resin comes out and that's how they gather it. But this is.
Free flowing.
It's just poured out by itself. The Lord Jesus came into the world to suffer.
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We suffer in this. We don't come into the world to suffer, but we suffer. But the Lord just came into the world to suffer.
Offering himself.
Free flowing mern.
That's what I have in my heart as I consider that. And these are not exclusive thoughts, you know, there are many other thoughts I'm sure you can enjoy. But then and it says sweet cinnamon half so much even 250 shackles and sweet calamus are aromatic Reed.
It's our reason. French Bible. There's there's that 250 suggests to me that this was their combined measure to get 500 like the other. It's a combination of things, you know, you know, in our lives as believers, this is something we need and This is why we need our brethren so much too. One thing that we need is is balance is balance. God is light and God is love.
There's righteousness and there's grace there's and sometimes we're over here and sometimes we're over there and sometimes we're. We got 200 of that and we're missing all the rest.
Jesus 250 shekels of each cinnamon I think you got from the bark of a tree which speaks up is outward testimony. And this week calamus or the aromatic readings before me like John the Baptist was spoken of as a read in the desert tossed by the wind of the words of the Lord Jesus as the prophet of God. And you know the Lord they asked the Lord Jesus to who he was. He says absolutely that which I say unto you.
His perfect balance, everything, he said.
He was.
Everything he said, he was.
I can tell you I will confess this before you, dear brethren, I say a lot more than what I am practically.
But I seek by the Lord's help to be more.
Practically what the Lord has given me to enjoy in my heart, but the Lord Jesus perfect in every way.
The things which he did and thought thought were perfect. Perfect balance, not one discrepancy.
And then it says the last one was Cassia.
500 shekels, and I've had the dog Cassia there as it brings before us in the 45th Psalm, also part of his garments.
The thought of beauty.
Moral Beauty.
Here's this young boy of 12. Anybody here 12?
The Father could see him in the temple there.
About his business. About his father's business when he was 12.
This Blessed One who could order the universe into being by his word. He could come the sea and The Tempest by one word.
Spends the night in prayer before he chooses his disciples.
He's bowed down in the Garden of Gethsemane, Father. Not my will, but down thine be done.
Moral beauty as a man before his God, perfect in every way. Oh, God could look down, couldn't he? From his birth right up to Mount Calvary there and find the light in every moment.
Of the life of the Lord Jesus.
So that's and then it was shall be with the anointing orality all the voice speaks to us of you know the Holy Spirit here's the Lord Jesus.
Perfect man and perfect God.
When does he start his public ministry?
Well, after the baptism of John and the power of the Spirit of God.
When an example for you and me.
If one.
Was self-sufficient.
There was a man who was God manifest in flesh.
And he goes forth in the power of the Spirit. Can you do without that?
Can you do without dependence? Oh, let us consider the beauty of our Lord Jesus and seek by God's grace to be more like Him. Well, you see.
This was put.
On everything in the sanctuary. And it was put on Aaron and his son, so they ministered before the Lord. This is the very life that you and I have. This is the fragrance that God has given us before himself. A sweet that the sweet savour of Christ, not only to this world.
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But to the father, what a privilege.
But then.
Since they weren't to make anything like that.
This was.
Perfume fragrances. It was put on things there.
To be enjoyed by the Lord.
And surely when we come to our Father.
And we speak to him of the Lord Jesus.
As we enjoy this about the Lord, or that about the Lord, as we consider His life down here, as we share thoughts of Himself with one another, this is the fragrance.
Of this beautiful one.
According to the art of the perfumer, I believe the Spirit of God does that to us, doesn't He takes this precious book and He opens our understanding and He shows us Christ from the very beginning, right right to the end, in one way or another, to enjoy it when fellowship with the heart of the Father.
Well then we get to verse 34.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices.
Stacked it and Annika and galbanum these sweet spices with pure frankincense of each. Shall there be a lightweight?
And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary or perfumer.
Tempered together, pure and holy, and thou shalt beat some of it very small.
And put it before the testimony in the Tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee, and it shall be unto you most holy. And As for the the incense, really As for the perfume, the incest which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves, according to the composition thereof. It shall be unto thee holy to the Lord, Whosoever shall make like unto that the smell thereto shall even be cut off from His people.
The Lord repeats this, the exclusivity, if I may use the word of this, not only the holy ointment.
But this?
Incense it was and which says perfume here, but I believe it's incense. That's what it says in my French Darby and I believe this is what was burnt on the altar of incense.
You know what strikes me here?
When it refers to the holy ointment, there were measures 500 shekels of this, 250 shekels of that, one hint of olive oil.
But when you get here to the holy incense.
How much of it was there?
I don't know.
And you know I will never know.
I will never know how much there was.
I believe.
Holy ointment speaks to us.
Primarily of the life of the Lord Jesus.
And I.
This only instance.
Speaks to us of the dead.
Of the Lord Jesus.
And This is why I believe in connection with redemption.
Just like the weeds of Nebraska not be found out.
I cannot measure.
These things that are typified, I believe, in the elements that were used to make the compound.
These things were brought together.
Could be holy incense.
So which was the first one? There were sweet spices and they said what they were stacked it.
As far as I understand, stacked is really merged.
But if you took a drop of myrrh, a drop of that resin, you probably would find that the outside was a bit.
Not sick, but it would have a certain rigidity to it. But if you cut it open you would find inside the liquid form of it.
No contact, you might say, with the outside air that kind of dries the resin, but the inside was still soft.
And it brings before me.
The hidden suffering in the Lord Jesus.
Perhaps we can see in our minds, you know, as head crowned with thorns, and what it would have been like to have his hands pierced to his side and his feet had his backs courage and to be beaten with fists and unspit upon. We can maybe relate to that because.
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We have physical bodies and we suffer in our bodies, you know.
And we could say maybe appreciate in the measure.
And though we can't get to that, but we can relate. We have a body that can suffer.
But his soul's distress.
We have suffering in our souls, but his soul's distress.
Who committed?
Who can measure what it meant to the Lord?
To go through that.
To have contact which?
To be that very witch which he hated by nature.
I can't understand.
The Father understands, and this fragrance of that holy insect was burned in a Tabernacle.
God could appreciate that and he could bear, couldn't he, with this people that were so stubborn? He could bear with them because.
He could have the fragrance of Christ in that Tabernacle until he came.
Well, the other one is on the Co.
And I read Onika.
Is something that comes from seashells.
That's how it's made.
Comes from the depths of the seams.
You know, they look, I think it's the Pacific Ocean, probably has got the deepest abysses and some of them are perhaps they haven't measured, you know, probably deeper in contrast with Mount Hedris. And probably some of the abysses in the sea are so deep. You know, it's just dark in there. And you have some creatures down there don't have eyes even they don't need eyes. They can't see anything. It's so dark.
Pretty deep, you know.
It's not very.
Psalm 69.
You know these verses first one.
Save me, O God.
For the waters.
I come in.
Unto my soul.
Genesis chapter one.
That the waters gather in one place and that the dry land appear.
Doesn't make sense to my mind.
To gather the water in one place, you're going to be a lake.
And there it's going to be around me.
The waters were gathered in one place.
And they went into.
Is so it doesn't say waters have come in into my soul and it doesn't say waters, it says the waters.
Can you measure the water in the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian Ocean? Can you measure that? That's nothing.
The waters have come into moisture.
Verse two, I think indeed mire where there's no standing, I'm calm into deep waters where the floods overflow me. Look at that little note.
Verse six, it doesn't see the deep waters. It says the depth.
Of the waters, is there a difference? Oh yes, there's a difference.
You could probably measure the depth of the waters in the Pacific Ocean.
But the depths of these waters you cannot measure and water whatever the depth was.
He says I am coming to the depth.
Of the waters, can you measure that, dear one? Can you measure the waters that came into his soul? Can you measure the depth of the waters to which?
And I don't believe in eternity. I will be able to measure that.
But I can tell you I'm going to appreciate it even more than I am now.
We're going to appreciate it forever as we see the blessed Lord Jesus and enjoy the glories of His person. How great thou art. And to think that this great person, this Almighty 1.
Went there and he took that upon himself.
Praise the Lord ye who know Him well. This is what Annika speaks to me about.
The depths of the waters that he went into.
And then the next verse, the next one is called I believe.
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Galbanum.
And this one I read, apparently Abigail Banham.
Doesn't smell.
It smells nice when it's compounded with other elements, but by itself?
It doesn't have.
A pleasant odor.
You know.
The disciples said.
That doesn't have a. He doesn't have a good order. We better go this way.
And Peter said that's not a very good order. I don't know him.
And Judas said that's not a very good order. Give me 30 pieces of silver.
And the people of Israel said that's not very good. Over Away with him. Crucify him.
And then when he's on the cross.
Made sin.
He cried. My God, My God.
Why hast thou forsaken me?
And he's abandoned there.
Because he was made soon for us.
So I think.
Galbanum speaks of his rejection, denial, betrayal, forsaking, abandonment.
And then and they mix these spices with George frankincense.
And each shall be.
A lightweight.
You know.
Will be around the Lord in a few moments and we'll be going back to Calgary together and.
Perhaps we we don't know what the sprue I'll bring before us. Perhaps some of the depths that he went through, perhaps.
Perhaps a rejection?
Perhaps the sufferings of his soul, Perhaps a mixture of deeds.
Perhaps a fire, because this is how this perfume.
This incense brought its fragrance when he was consumed on the altar of it was burned.
I know, the Lord said in the Lamentations prophetically, the fire had come into his bones.
Psalm 22 also has thoughts there about fire reduced to ashes and.
I don't know what it's going to be, you know, but.
I know last week, week before, the week before, and for the past 30 years in some of you would tell me for 50 years, for 60 years we've been coming together around the Lord in the first day of the week and the Spirit of God has touched our hearts with this and that about the same person.
In Fellowship.
With the heart of the Father.
Who has a full appreciation of all the fragrances of Christ of his life?
And have his death.
But you know.
Here's poor little meat.
Brought into this.
What is that?
What grace from our God and Father to take us.
What can I? I was going to say the words pinky. I don't like this word stinking, but it'll smell these sinners.
If that's a proper word.
And he just washes us.
And how does he wash us?
Through this one.
Of which he fully appreciates.
The fullness of its character, the beauty of his person.
And not his work and he says.
I want you.
I want you in my sanctuary.
This is what the measures were, was the shackle of the sanctuary, was God's appreciation of the work of Christ. Dear ones, this morning, it's not your appreciation of the work of Christ accounts. It's the appreciation of the Father. And he is delighted.
And he is going to be delighted forever. He is satisfied forever. But you know.
He's going to be delighted this morning.
He's going to be delighted this morning in the Seed, in the very scene where we spit upon this Blessed One and hidden with our fists and we hated them with all the cost in this very scene. Here we are.
Men of the very same nature that did this to the blessed Savior, here we are.
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With hearts touched and mouths open.
Sing his praises to thank the Father, to appreciate in a measure, because a small measure.
Some of this beauty and the light.
Of our Father's heart.
Well, it says then.
Thou shalt make it a perfume, a confession after the art, or an instance was composed incense after the art of the apothecary of perfumer, tempered together, pure and holy, and thou shalt beat some of it.
Very small and put it on before the testimony of the congregation.
Very small.
The heavens cannot continue.
The heavens cannot continue.
There he is.
There never was a smaller man.
You want to be big. You want to be important.
We want to be chief men among the brethren.
Yet that is greater among you. Let him be the smallest.
It was beaten very small. It was already small. It was the smallest.
But he went down, and he went down, and he went down.
To the death of the Cross.
So nothing was to be made like it.
Was not to be put.
Yeah, the ointment wasn't to be put on flesh, and I trust dear ones.
That as we consider the beauty of this person, those things that the Lord has given us in the Scriptures.
That we are made.
Were made quiet in his presence.
You know.
You figure the sufferings of job.
Surely a man that was afflicted greatly and we can have real sympathy with Job for what he went through. Nothing to be compared with what the Lord went through.
But his friends, when they came, you know, and they saw his affliction, you know what they said?
You know what they said?
They didn't say anything for seven days.
They just sat there.
And we're quiet.
And you know, I believe that sometimes.
The beautiful worship Him there are.
You know, sometimes I believe the Spirit of God can so grip our souls.
With the Lord's presence and the glory of His person and His work that we really have.
What words could we use to describe to express?
And if jobs affliction.
LED these ones to be quiet in his presence.
All fitting for us.
To be quiet in the Lord's presence. I'm not suggesting that we shouldn't sing pray at all, but the disposition of our spirits to be quiet. And I believe that if we're quiet, the Spirit of God himself, God himself by his Spirit, will move us.
Will touch us.
Will bring thoughts to us as he does. I'm sure this is the way it is. I just like to remind ourselves of that.
Versus and produce this collective worship.
To this blessed One, in the presence of our God and Father and the Lord Jesus.
You enjoying this in a measure of dear ones?
Are we enjoying this, dear ones, in a measure?
You know when we speak of.
Being gathered to the Lord's name.
There are many things we need to learn, and we'll learn them on the way. But I can tell you, dear young people, when I was gathered to the Lord's name, I didn't know I was being gathered to the Lord's name. I didn't know that, but I knew that this blessed One loved me so much that He died for me.
And at least this blessed one who loved me so much to die for me told me.
I Remember Me.
And by God's grace, I was found in the company of those that wanted to give the Lord the desire of His heart, and I asked not to take my place at the Lord's table.
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I don't. I don't want to make an issue out of this, but I asked to remember the Lord.
I asked to remember the Lord.
And by God's grace, that was received in fellowship, and a little while later I was remembering the Lord.
In this company.
And then I grew and later found out about the wondrous truth.
That's why the Lord was drawing me, because He was present.
He was working in my heart and I could feel the spirit drawing me, but I didn't know what it was.
But I knew I loved him in the measure I loved him back. But what he's done for me?
You know the Lord Jesus your Savior.
Do you remember him?
Like he's asked you to do.
It's not joining something.
We're not joining anything.
The whole subject is a person. It's a person. Do you know that person? And that person says to you, Remember Me?
You can't do that by yourself. You need to be too determined with the Lord. And you know this is a wonderful thing because here's 2 just two believers, and you want to remember the Lord. And here they are, two believers and they remember the Lord in death.
And they think when they take the bread and they take the wine, they take the best body given for me.
And then that cup of wine, that sip of wine, his precious blood for me. Thank you, Lord Jesus. My brother hears it. Oh, thank you, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord Jesus. We're thankful personally for the Lord Jesus. But you know, in doing this together.
Maybe we don't know it.
Because there's this one loaf there. And actually when we remember the Lord in the Catholic Church, they had wafers, you know?
And it was really terrible, but.
There's one love, and then when you take that loaf and you break it, the Lord Jesus tells us in Corinthians this loaf is a picture of his body.
And it's also a picture of His spiritual body. We being many, are one body. 1 Lord. And even if we don't know it, because we've been drawn to Him because of His love and what He's done for us by coming together to remember Him, we're expressing that truth that we are one in Him. It's precious to see it. We don't come to express that we are one in Him. We do that.
But we come to remember him, and when our affections are drawn to him, we're drawn to one another.
And we're so happy when we realize the Lord says he's thinking of me, He's thinking of me, they're thinking of me. And there are one with me. I died that there would be one. And there they are, all of them, one thought, one object. What a delight to the heart of the Father to have this, to have the company of these ones redeemed with a precious blood of the Lord Jesus brought to oneness. How are they brought to oneness?
By the Lord Jesus Himself is he precious to your heart this morning?
Are you going to get him this morning? The desire of his heart. What I trust you will just a few more minutes just to look at Second Samuel chapter 23.
David's mighty men.
That are they coming when the true David, the Lord Jesus.
Is going to give us true appreciation what was done for him.
And these mighty men are brought out here as to their feet what they did for David.
Strong men.
Vanquishing the enemy.
I just like to read in verse 14 And David was then on hold, and the Garrison of the Philistine was in Bethlehem. And David longed and said, oh, that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate.
And three mighty men breakthrough the host of the foolish times, and drew water all the well at Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David. Nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. And he said, Be it far from your Lord, that I should this do this. Is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? Therefore they would not drink it. These things did these three.
Mighty men.
Do you know the names of these three mighty men?
I don't.
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Three men unknown.
Three unknown men. What did they do?
Well, they risk their lives.
To give David.
A drink of water.
They could have said.
There's water in the well over there. I've got water right here in my bag, and there's another stream right there. What do you want, this water there?
What's so special about the water of the well that's by the gate in Bethlehem?
Well, I believe it's a little lesson for us.
This was David's desire concerning the place of his.
Might have drunk of that well with his young man he just.
Had maybe had a special taste.
For the greater than David.
Has expressed a desire not in connection with the place of his birth.
But the place of his death?
It's water from a well.
How deep? The well? The woman said to the Lord. The well is deep. Are you going to draw?
I don't know how deep it is.
But you can get to water pretty quick.
Some water.
Did they get water from the top of the well? From the bottom? They got water from the well and they brought it to David. It was by the gate. Speaks of entrance, you know.
What can we say? We read these verses, we share these thoughts like we open it or say, look at that.
Can I measure the ocean?
Too fast for me.
But you and I have a measure, a little measure. How much water did they bring? I don't know.
But they brought some from that well. And this morning, dear ones, maybe you're just here to say thank you, Lord, for dying for me places. That's water from the will.
That's why they gate in Michigan. That's water from that time when I was alone, forsaken, and no heart could answer to mine.
And we've been given by his grease now to have heart that can have certificates and drink some water.
Bumper.