Address—H. Hayhoe
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General Meetings Wheaton, IL, August 1961 addressed by AG Hajo.
We sing together in #64 beginning at verse 6, hymn #64 beginning at verse 6.
Our God, whom we have known well known in Jesus, love. Now this is the language rests in the blessing of his own before himself above #64, somebody started him for us.
Who we are.
Just checking with that and.
What's up?
Blessed God and Father.
Now our talk this afternoon.
Will not be the gospel. It's going to be an address to young people.
And I'm going to speak a little slowly, because it is far better to get hold of the truth.
And have the very thought of it in our hands.
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This is the only book in the world.
That is light amid the darkness.
Truth amid earth comfort in every time of sorrow.
And the blessings of God that are promised in that book are all.
Ye and Amen in Christ Jesus.
Absolutely certain of fulfillment.
And every believer is blessed equally.
Now I'm going to say that again. It's so important God has no favorites in his family.
Every believer is equally blessed.
The jewel box for the whole Bible is Ephesians 1. Can you find it?
And it's the third verse of Ephesians 1.
Let it be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. Now that that's true of every believer, young and old, rich or poor, whoever you may be, God has no favorites.
Each one is equally blessed.
Your enjoyment of the blessing depends upon your walk. So will you turn over to the Gospel of John?
Can you find John's Gospel and read?
1St 15.
Or Chapter 15, Brother.
And verse 9.
I've often said you ought to memorize that this verse and say it every day of your life.
And never tried to love the Lord any more than you do.
Never try to love him any more than you do. Sit down and think of how much he loves you.
The Savior who died for you went through every form and kind of something that it was possible to go through. What? Ford, put your sins away? Oh no, That was part of it. That was part of it. But that was not all of it. Why did he go through so much suffering?
Why was it necessary for him to be hungry, to put your sins away, or to be willing?
Did he go through so much suffering to show you how much he loves you?
So it says in this ninth verse, as the Father had loved me, so have I loved you.
Continue ye in my love. Are you a Christian? God loves you with an everlasting love. As the Father had loved me, so have I loved you. Continue ye in my love. That verse has cheered my heart and caused me to burst into praise many times. Many times.
I remember well, particularly growing from New York to Woodbridge, NJ, and as I sat in the Newark station and saw them falling out of the tube.
Men quitting their work. And I was sitting on the bench amid all that travel, this this verse came to me. As I sat there, I thought I was the Providence. I loved me. So have I loved you.
And I couldn't help but burst into praise.
Never tried to love the Lord any more than you do. Sit down and think of how much He loves you.
Now the 10th and 11Th verses is the road to happiness.
You know when God created this world.
And he pronounced everything very good, and he put man Adam and Eve in the midst of a scene wherein they had done nothing to produce the good. But before Adam and Eve were placed there, it was the Garden of Eden, and God pronounced it very good. And he put Adam and Eve in the midst of it.
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Ah. He turned not to eat of the knowledge of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
And then afterwards, he came into the garden in the cool of the day.
In the cool of the day, what did he come in for? He came in to a whole communion with Adam and Eve. But they were hiding because they'd been. They were hiding. And you can't think of a good gift that you ever enjoyed since you were born, whether you're served or unsaved. That didn't come from God.
Did you enjoy your dinner today? Who made the fruit grow? Who gave you the sense of taste to enable you to enjoy it?
Who provided it for you?
Ah, it was God in his goodness to man. You can't think, I repeat, of a good gift you ever enjoyed in your life that didn't come from God.
Take man's artist work.
Well, it's all a copy of God's creation, for man can never improve on that which God has created.
It was very good, and man can never improve on. And I repeat, all our failures, whether we're children or grown-ups, springs from underneath of the goodness that's in the heart of God. Are you a Christian? Make it the habit of your life.
Never to take a step without consulting the wisdom of God. And there you'll find it in the world.
Thyroid is a lamp unto my feet that is for the next step, and I love them to my past. What does that mean? To show you where the past ends. But end it will down here and it will.
By So many look upon the Bible as a book to tell them how to be saved and go to heaven when they die. Even Christians are wrong when they look upon the Bible in that way.
The Bible of the book not only to tell you how to be saved and go to heaven, but how to move in this present evil world with light for your past wisdom for every step of the way and the blessing of God.
To rest upon your pathway. So notice that John 15 verse 10 now.
If ye keep my commandments.
Nothing about dying, nothing about.
Forgiveness of sins here. If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love.
Oh, every word of God comes with as a commandment to the child of God that has learned the love of Christ.
You keep my commandments. You shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in His love.
Every father wants to see his children happy.
Every true father wants to see his children happy, but sometimes I as a father, have made mistakes.
But I've got a father up there that never makes any mistakes. Never. Never.
Remember, the Bible is a book not only to tell you how to be saved, but how to live in this present evil world with the blessing of God upon your pathway through it.
And happiness is a state of soul, not a question of circumstance.
No, I think you keep that, John 15 and I'll bring you to a Psalm that will kill you that.
Can you find the psalms or right in the middle of the Bible and it's the 39th Psalm.
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I said I will take heed to my worries now. This is not how to be saved.
This is how to have happiness after your favor.
I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue.
Oh, the tongue is an unruly member. You say something and then you're sorry you said it.
Watch what you think about and judge every unkind thought and every evil thought.
The thought always precedes the action.
Never go to bed at night with an unkind feeling toward anybody in the world, no matter how they treat you.
No matter how they speak.
Dare. Is it not written? God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. Was it because it was a word that was toward him in love? No, hearing is love. Not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. At First John Chapter 4. You Know God loves you.
When you were in your sins.
Without a spot Godwin.
Human is love, not that we love God, but that he loved us.
All how precious to think. His love never changes. And to walk in the sense of it is to have a happy Christian life. When I come to these general meetings and I see you boys and girls, and you know I love boys and girls, I love boys and girls, I have some of them and I've got them some yet.
And God wants to everyone of these children to be happy.
But the world is dressed up to defend you, so it says here a little further down.
In this certain night song and the fourth verse, Lord, make me to know my end and the measure of my days, what it is that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou made my days as an handbag.
And by the way, there's nothing before these. There there are lay. Every man at his best state is all together Vanity. And then a little word is added. He lost. Every man at his best estate is all together. Vanity and the words of vanity is really vacuum. Nothing. Empty, empty.
So it says in the next verse. Surely every man walketh in a same show.
Vain an empty Show every book you read, unless it has the wisdom of the Word of God.
Is simply followed.
For the wisdom of this world.
Is thou go empty that the word of God tells us that I better send you to it social remember in your science, Corinthians.
First Corinthians.
Where chapter 3.
And verse 19.
For the wisdom of this world.
Is foolishness with God.
21St And again the Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are very empty. The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are lame.
Oh yes, there's no wisdom in this world. Well, we used to tell our children when they went to school. Children, you take your arithmetic and algebra and you could in composition from your school teacher. But when she talks about anything moral.
Sure, the beloved and messed her thoughts are governed by the word of God.
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Knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. Every book you read unless it is.
Governed by the wisdom of God will tell you to lay up your treasure down here.
To lay the pressure down here, that the things that are highly esteemed among men are abomination in the sight of God, you'll find that person the 16th of blue.
The things that I highly have seen among men are abomination in the sight of God.
I'm talking to you as Christians.
Six times over, the Lord says twice in Matthew, once in Mark, twice in Luke and once in John.
That a man that walks in the wisdom of this world is walking foolishly.
Is to lay up his treasure in heaven.
Where neither malt nor rust, of corruption. Where thieves do not breakthrough nor steal.
Lay up for yourselves treasure in heaven, having anything that you do.
Simply to please God in the path of obedience to His Word will never be forgotten. It will be blessed. And every act in your life and mind is either to please set, or to please God.
I often ask myself why do you want to preach? Is it please self.
If you did everything right, nothing would be right except the motive was right, and you and I are enabled by the Word of God to judge whether the motive is the glory of Christ.
Jesus could say down here I do always those things that please him.
I don't know those things that please him, I often say to our young people in Agua, where I live.
Young Christians remember this, that no one ever walked.
Through this world to please God, and at the end of their pathways said, I wish I hadn't done it for the blessing of the Lord. It maketh rich and the added no strong way.
The blessing of the Lord is make it rich.
And he added no sorrow with it and gifts. The even gift is not godliness.
David was a good king, and God blessed him as a king. But he was a poor father, and he had to suffer for it.
For you and I, if we're Christians, we're in the House of God and come under his government.
Now I'm going to give you a little rapid outline of that in First Peter.
In the five chapters we can turn over to First Peter.
The first chapter of First Peter is Salvation.
I'm not going into the detail, but notice the first verse. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ to the strangers scattered throughout Compass, Galicia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Virginia abuse. There were the scattered of the tribes of Israel.
Elect according to the knowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit. Now I'll tell you what that means. Even you children can understand.
Sanctification me of the Spirit means this.
That the Spirit of God.
Always, always, always occupies us with Christ and our heavenly portion sanctification of the Spirit.
For the spirit it tells you in the 16th of John.
The Spirit taketh of the things of Christ, and shows them to us.
And so it's sanctification of the spirit.
Unto obedience.
Unto obedience.
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The first thing that's spoken of is obedience. Are you a Christian? Are you a child of God? Never take a step in your life without consulting the wisdom of the Word of God.
Again, I repeat, don't look upon the Bible as simply a book to tell you how to die and go to heaven when you do die.
The Word of God tells us how to live in this present evil world.
And live with the blessing of God, for God desires the happiness and blessing of His children.
So it's unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ that added, because none of us walk in the perfect obedience of the Lord Jesus. So the sprinkling of the blood is necessary for us, though it was not necessary for him.
Grace unto you. Grace is the unmerited favor of God, and peace be multiplied.
Oh, peace.
Is more than simply peace through knowing that our sins are forgiven. This is the peace of God that passeth all understanding that keeps us in a world filled with evil. For the God and Prince of this world is Satan.
And so it is. We can walk in perfect peace. The world was never in such a troubled condition as it is right now, but God is behind the scenes, moving all the scenes that he is behind, and Christ is head over all things to the Church, which is his body.
I've often said to my brethren in Ottawa, there's no run in this meeting and no one in this world.
Can speak an unkind word to me unless the Lord allows it, and never look at the person that speaks unkindly to you. Ask the Lord why he allowed it, why he allowed it.
Shall I give you a simple illustration?
I had a mother. There were seven of us. Children. I never remember my mother losing her patience with us. Seven children never remember it.
Or were we perfect children? No, we weren't. We tried there, I'm sure, but I never remember her speaking an impatient word.
When anybody speaks unkindly to you, just take it as an opportunity to show the patience and grace of Christ.
The patients never go to bed at night with an unforgiving spirit or an unkind thought toward anybody in the world, no matter how they treat you.
Carry always a forgiving spirit. Nothing happens by chance. God is the God of circumstances.
Or if my mother walked in that room, my heart had overflowed.
I'll never know how close you walk with the Lord. Do I see somebody speak unkindly to you and find out how you act?
How you act nothing happens by chance.
All is ordered of God. The circumstances, the weather, the conditions of life in your home or in your business. Everything is ordered of Him. Why?
God is the God of circumstances, and it's well always to remember it so. So here grace and peace be multiplied, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy, have begotten us again unto a lively or living hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible, an undefiled, and that faded not away.
Reserved in heaven for you.
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. Well, this is contrast for Israel.
We promised the land of Palestine and they were to have blessing in the land. They will have it in a future day. Meantime, a jewel that believes in the Lord Jesus Christ has heavenly blessings.
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For the middle wall a partition is down, and Jew and Gentile are made one in Christ.
This is our school life now. Watch what I say next.
There are some things you learn down here that you can't learn in heaven.
You cannot learn in heaven God is the God of all comfort, where you won't need any comfort up there.
You can't learn God is the God of all patience in heaven, where we'll never do anything in heaven that requires his patience.
These things we learned down here of dear old brother Debbie once said it's worth being sick.
To learn what a comforter Rob can be. For he can come into your room in the day of your sickness and be such a comfort to you that your heart will overflow with praise. You can't learn that in heaven. Why didn't God take us to heaven the moment He saved us? What did he leave us down here for? To make money? No. To have a good time as men speak. No, He left us down here in the school of God.
To learn.
That we can't learn in heaven. Learn him as the God of all grace, the God of all patience, the God of all comfort. And it's worth going through this world, even in sorrow, to learn what a comforter he can be.
I will remember when I was a boy, they thought I was lost.
And I was supposed to be home for supper, and I didn't get home till about 9:00 or 10:00 at night.
And I'll never forget to this day. My mother opened the door.
And she burst into Thanksgiving into her arms around me. She said. Oh, Harry, you're safe. I thought you were dead.
That very trial brought out the.
The heart of my mother, that's made her very precious to my thoughts. Oh, what a savior Jesus is. When we get home, the glory and we look back over our lives and see how he had been so patient with us, so gracious with us, so forgiving with us.
Or how we look into his face and burst into praise. It's a privilege to be saved when you're young. To be saved when you're young. Thank God I was saved when I was a little boy.
For he the love of his life shall lose it. What does that mean? That means he that lives to please himself will be unrewarded in glory.
And it is worth having the sorrow to learn what a comforter Jesus is. All you dear boys and girls, you come to the meetings. Perhaps it's a long way to come. I remember this was in Philadelphia many years ago. An old brother, Hamilton, lived way up, A forgotten Erdenheimer was called, and he and I were coming down on the streetcar.
And he was sitting beside me and he said, oh, brother, hey, who? I'm tired of this long journey from Irvingham down down to the meeting. It was right downtown in Philadelphia. I looked at him and I said, but brother Hamilton, you must have a big reward waiting you in heaven for all that long journey that you wouldn't have had if you lived next door. She burst into laughing. And he said, oh, I never thought of it that way before in my life.
It'll make the journey easier.
Have you a long way to come to the meeting in Chicago? Have you a long way to come? Gotta get up 1/2 an hour earlier.
When you get the reward for it, for it, you'll be surprised.
She's measured of the mile you took. He's measured every step you took. He's measured all the costumes. Oh, it's a privilege to do anything for that precious savior who loved us and gave himself for us, as you heard me say at the opening of this meeting.
There's much of the sufferings of Christ that were not necessary.
To put our sins away.
Why did he go through it in order to be a sympathetic high priest?
Should I give you an illustration that you children can understand?
Supposing you had to walk from here to Spokane, WA, that's a long time and you had to walk every mile of it. And I knew you'd be tired and I knew the heat of the day would be a pressure to you. And I said I'll take the walk to Spokane myself.
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In order that I can sympathize with you in your weariness of body and all that you go through.
Well, I don't think I've got a heart big enough to do it. You know, I think I'd rather take the train or an automobile.
You know, the Lord Jesus walked every weary mile, hungry and thirsty, and we with His journey. What did He do it for? To put our sins away? No, to be a comforter to us.
To be a comforter to you. Are you misunderstood by your brethren? The Lord was misunderstood by the brethren too? Are you persecuted by the world? The Lord was persecuted too. Was that to put your sins away? No. No.
Why was it that Paul and Silas sang in prison? Why was it they sang in prison?
All they learned in prison what a comforter God was.
And how their hearts burst forth into praise, and the prisoners heard them, and it was a testimony to them.
How much we learn in that way of that blessed precious Savior with whom we're to spend eternity.
Oh dear young boys and girls, I can't tell you that. I would like to tell you the joy that awaits us when we step into the Father's house in Yonder glory. We're not only going to have bodies like him.
But we will be like him morally as well as physically, and we learn that in the Father's House, the depth of the divine bosom in a way that we cannot learn it fully down here.
Well, I must go on with my subject, or I won't get through at all. The first chapter of Peter is happiness and blessing through faith in Christ. I read the 18th verse to show, for as much as you know, that you are not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your Father's, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish.
And without spot.
Now the second chapter.
Wherefore, laying aside all malice, and all drivers and hypocrisies and envy and all evil speaking.
So why does it say that the first chapter is salvation through the blood of Christ, the second chapter is growth through the word of God?
Do you read the Bible every day?
Well, the first verse of the chapter is the pulling up of the reeds, laying aside all malice.
You won't enjoy the chapter you're reading in the morning if you allow malice in your heart. Now you notice these are the things that can't be seen. Malice and guile and hypocrisy and envies. Evil speaking is the last thing but the first four things that are mentioned.
Are the things that can't be seen. If you've got guy or hypocrisy or envy, I can't see it.
Now watch my next statement. If you judge the evil thoughts that your brethren do not see, you'll never have to judge the evil actions that your brother inducing.
Thought comes before the action.
If you if you have an evil prop, judge it at once.
Now, as newborn babes desire their sincere, that word sincere means unadulterated. It's sinusera in Latin.
The unadulterated milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.
How do I grow as a Christian? What's the book that is full for the new nature we used to tell our children when sometimes they'd say, well, what's the harm in it, father?
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We used to say, well, is it the new nature that wants it or the old?
Oh, I just. I think it's the old nature. We're ready to do with the old nature.
Put it in the place of death.
In the place of death, you ask yourself you've got a problem right now in your life as to what some step to take is that the new nature wants it or the old? Well, if it's the old nature, you have to keep it in the place of death, aren't you? Isn't that simple? Isn't that simple when something comes to you?
Why is it the old nature, or the new nature, as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that he may grow thereby? If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious, and all how full of grace?
Are full of grace. Grace is the unmerited favor of God. Now watch my next statement.
Please watch it. Every Christian blessing is so large that it couldn't be larger. Every Christian blessing is an apex. God couldn't do more than forgive you and make you one of his children. And through all eternity, God will never remind the believer of any of his sins, he says. Your sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Excuse me, lovely?
Early Christian blessing is a mountain peak.
If God hasn't won your heart, what more could He do to win it? What more could He do? He couldn't do more than make you a child of golf and Christ make you a member of his body. And then he says in First Corinthians 3, all things are yours.
Sometimes when I'm traveling on the train, I lookout the windows and I say to the man beside me, you know all that property out there belongs to my father, and I'm one of the heirs to the estate. Of course he thinks I'm crazy.
And then I give them the Scripture. The scripture says that we're heirs of God.
And jointed heirs with faith. That's Romans 8. Heirs of God. Who does the Chicago belong to? Who does the hell? The earth is the Lord and the fullness are all the world the Moment Gallery. He hasn't taken possession of it yet, that's all. But it belongs to him. And the Christian is an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ. So I say do him well. The Bible tells you that if you're a believer, you're an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ. And someday he's going to take possession of it. And you and I will possess it without buying it.
All is yours and your Christ, and Christ is God's, you know, lovely to be a Christian. Isn't it Lovely. I don't know any blessing possible that could exceed the blessedness of being a Christian.
Here we are just on the end of the journey. The Lord is about to come.
Have we anything to fear? No. No.
It's all his family, but God is behind the scenes, moving all the scenes that he is behind, and crouched his head over all things to the church, which is his body. All is yours and your Christ, and Christ is God. Well, the second chapter then.
Is the wearer Christian Rail? Do you want to grow? This is the food of newborn babes desired of sincere our honor Decorated Milk of the word that she may grow thereby.
Now the third chapter is happiness. Turn to the third chapter.
I'm the 10th first first Peter 3 and 10. The first chapter is Salvation.
The second chapter is growth. The third chapter is happiness.
For he that really loved life and see good days, let him refer his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile. Let him misdue evil.
And do good. Let him seek peace and end through our pursuit. Never bring anything up in your home life or in the office where you work or in the assembly.
Never bring anything up that will spoil the peace of your home life or your business life, or your assembly life, unless it is necessary to do so for the glory of God.
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Never defend yourself.
Any der never defend yourself. I will write and the other person wrong. Believe it. God will make it all plain someday.
Make it all clean. Make it the habit of your life never to defend yourself.
Never to defend. No. Never. Never. Never to defend yourself. No. No. Leave it with God. He knows what happened. He knows all the circumstances. You can leave it with the Lord. Always.
Always. Always.
What do we find here?
In the 13th verse. And who is he that will harm you if he be followers of that which is good? That and if you suffer for righteousness sake.
Oh, happy, are you?
Isn't that wonderful? If you suffer for righteousness sake. Oh, you say, I was right, my sister was wrong, and my brother was wrong. If you suffer for righteousness, sake, happy are ye. And be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled, but sanctify the Lord. Sanctify means to her. Set apart the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to every man's asking you a reason of the hope that is in you.
With meekness.
Fear.
17th verse For it is better that the will of God be sold that he suffered for well doing than for evil doing.
Why they took Carl and Silas in jail? Where they right in doing it?
From the province, Ireland sang in jail. Were they unhappy?
Want the unrighteous to put him in jail?
Did he say when I get out I'll get after them about this business? No, no, he was happy.
All this could be developed, I'm only just giving you a few little points as I pass on from chapter to chapter the next chapter.
Is the flesh suffering and the Spirit rejoicing?
4th chapter.
For as much then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh.
Christ suffered for us in the flesh.
What does that mean?
My question Armor says localized with the same mind for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin.
Didn't the Lord suffer in the flesh? Yes, I have already told you. He was weary with his journey. He was thirsty. Did he feel the accusations that were thrown against him? Oh, yes, he says in the 69th Psalm Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I look for some to take.
The sympathy within.
But there was none, not one. I look for comforters and I found none. I've often said that when I visited in the hospital. There's some Christian there, I said to the Christian lying in bed the Lord suffered, and he looked for comforters and he found none. But you can't say that when you got hurt and your mother put your arm around you and tried to comfort you put the Lord and said, I look for comforters, and I found none.
His heart felt it. Did he go through it to put your sins away?
No, no, Let me go through it. For to show you how much he loved you and to be an example of how you and I are to walk through this world. And so you do the right thing, perhaps in the meeting.
Perhaps it's in connection with the matters of a meeting that is held. Shall I tell you a little story to illustrate it? I remember we had a three days conference in Ottawa many years ago, many years ago, I guess about 30 years ago. And the brother said, well, I'll cook the meat. We said all right, thank you, that's fine. But he cooked it very, very rare and wasn't done. And a good May the brethren coming down, sick move. Meat's not cooked right.
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Meat, not cocktail. And so he said. I heard him say it. He says I'm never going to cook the meat for the meat anymore. They just criticize me. Oh, I said, brother, I thought you were doing it for the Lord.
So I was, he said. Well, I said, did the Lord tell you to stop? Can't you profit by it and do it a little better next time?
And he did. Next time, since he had, he cooked the meat and he did a better job. But he was going to give up. He was going to give up. So perhaps mothers told you to do something. Our father or some of the brethren have criticized you for something you did. Did you get cross and give up or did you say, Lord, help me to do it better next time?
Wouldn't that be the right way? Wouldn't that be the right way? We're so here. The Lord suffered. He felt it.
And he that suffered, suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin.
It makes me think of driving my car to the meeting in Ottawa where I live and my brother.
Was saying about some ball game he was going to. He was in the car, some ball game he was going to. I looked at him and I said, brother, do you ever read first Peter four It says he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin. Is it the new nature wants to go to that ball game of the old one.
Yes, it was the old one. Well, what are you to do? I said with it? He that has suffered in the flesh had ceased from sin. Aren't you to keep the flesh in the place of death, even if it means suffering?
Never thought of it that way. Well, why not? Why not? It's astonishing how people read the Bible and walk away from it and never stop to think what it means. Well, there Jesus claimed I didn't write that. I didn't write it. Barbara, he that was suffering in the flesh. Are you and I the praise the flesh?
These that are suffered in the flesh is because even though you're a Christian, you've got the old nature, the flesh in you that loves nonsense, loves foolishness.
Perhaps it's some bitter nonsense and you're going to tell it to your sister, brother, somebody else. Don't do it. He that has suffered in the flesh have ceased from sin. Now watch my next statement.
Paul gives you the doctrine.
That were dead with Christ, Peter gives you the carrying out of the doctrine and what it will cost to carry it out.
And the Old Testament gives you samples of those that walked to please God and what God did for them in the end.
Like Joseph or David or Daniel.
They walked to please God. What was the end of their path blessing?
That has suffered in the flesh, and so if you have a desire to do something.
Just ask yourself the question. Am I doing this to please God or to please myself?
Oh dear these young people, the time is drawing to a close, or I'll say from the bottom of my heart.
You and I would only live to please God. We'd never live to regret it. For the blessing of the Lord it maketh rich and he added no sorrow. The blessing of the man is maketh a rich to put down. Put your knees at your bedside at night with the consciousness that you've sought to please God during the day. He's the sweetest thing that the Newman can enjoy.
Oh, how precious to have his blessing.
How precious it is to have the inflow of his love into our soul. It's the peace of God that passes all understanding, and you lay your head on your pillow and go to sleep.
In the quiet assurance that your ways have been pleasing to the Lord again, I say never defend yourself. Defend the Lord, defend the word of God, but never defend yourself.
Leave all with the Lord. What is of himself will be owned and blessed of him.
So first Peter one is salvation, First Peter two is growth through the word of God. First Peter 3 is happiness through obedience, First Peter 4 is the flesh, suffering and the Spirit rejoicing. The 5th chapter is where it will end. So we just conclude with a bit First Peter fire.
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Verse 7.
Casting all your tear upon him, for he careth about you, or for you be sober. Be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, is a roaring lion. Walk at the boat, seeking whom he may devour whom resisted pattern in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren, which are in the world, but the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal Glaudor by Christ Jesus.
After that, you have suffered a while. Make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.
To him the glory and dominion.
Forever and ever. Amen.
Where is it going to end?
Oh is the God of all grace, and it will end in the Father's house in glory.
For the man put a glorious end. Oh brother. And I feel how imperfectly I've spoken of these things, but they're so precious, so blessed, so important. We're living in the crucial days of the Church's history.
There will not be a revival that will be in any sense worldwide.
Scripture says, hold fast that which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
And I want to see this air I close my top.
I'm not a young man. I look back over my life. I had a Christian father and mother that brought me up in the truth. I've read many books. I haven't done a shadow of doubt. But what the truth has taught in the word of God is held and taught in our various assemblies.
And to be gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, where there were light and wisdom of the Word of God, is honored in the assembly where you meet. Or perhaps great bread is an exceedingly blessed cribbage given to your God. And now you young people, the enemy, would try and turn you aside, and if you ever leave.
The place where God has put his name, where Christ has put his name, and where the word of God is honored and its ministry is faithfully given. It's the most precious spot on earth. The most precious spot on earth.
Thyroid And don't let anything ever happen in your life. It will cause you to turn aside. Curb fast that which thou hast. Why does it say hold fast?
A mother gives a child something that is valuable, especially the child. Hold it fast. Why? Because there's a danger of not doing so. And there's always the danger among our young people of not holding fast the truth that you've learned from your parents.
May God give you grace and faithfulness.
To hold fast the truth and walk in it, and walk in it in loads. Independence. And if you're tempted right now to give up, get on your knees before you get into bed and try to God for the grace and strength that is needed to walk in the truth until Jesus comes.
Shall we just pray together because our time is up?
Blessed.