Address—C. Hendricks
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Tonight, I'm the person of Christ. I've been struck of late.
By some who have been misled.
Misdirected.
Wrongly taught.
But they've left the path of the truth.
For what they consider.
Light.
And it's not light.
It's darkness.
I think of the Lord's words, If a light that is in thee be darkness, how great the darkness.
Turn with me to Matthew 22.
And verse 41.
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying.
What think ye of Christ?
Whose son is he?
They say unto him, the son of David.
He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit?
Call him Lord saying.
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand.
Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth. Ask him.
Any more questions? Now keep your finger in this place and just turn back to the 110th Psalm. This is what the Lord quotes to them.
And we'll come right back here, but I just wanted to read.
The Psalm that he quotes.
That verse of it, the 110th Psalm, verse one.
The Lord.
This is a Psalm of David. David speaking.
The Lord said unto my Lord.
Sit thou at my right hand until I make thy thine enemies.
Footstool.
That's what the Lord quoted to them.
They had answered. He asked them a question. Usually they were asking him questions, trying to ensnare him. They didn't know who they had they were dealing with, of course.
And this time he asked them a question, and he's asking it of the Pharisees, He's asking it of those that were.
Umm of the sect of the Pharisees among the Jews that were the fundamentalists of the day, they should have known their Bibles.
And he asked them, what think he of Christ, whose son is he? They should have known. They should have known that question, that answer, and they answer correctly. They say the son of David. And he was he is the son of David. He's called that over and over again in Scripture.
The blind man cried out. Thou son of David, have mercy on me.
But then the Lord asked them this question. How then?
David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, so I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.
Is David calling Lord? How is he his son?
And.
The last verse of this passage says they didn't know. They couldn't answer him.
They didn't know who the Christ was.
They didn't understand how he could be David's Lord as well as David's son. And the doctrine of Christ that we're going to look at this evening involves these two truths that he is Davidde Lord, he is God.
And he is David's son. He is man.
As God, he is the Son of God, as man, he is the Son of Man.
And as we were singing, the union of both joined in one.
The Divine in the human, united in one person.
Formed the fountain of love in his heart.
Whenever we read of him as the Son of God, we're talking about his deity.
It's what he always was and always is.
He never became the son, he became a man.
He became a servant, but he was always the son. Thou art my son. That's a statement of who he is.
This day, that's a point in time, I have begotten thee. He was begotten in time and born of the Virgin.
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That's his humanity.
But thou art my son, that's his deity. That's why they crucified him.
Because he made himself the Son of God. That's what they said. Those were his, their quotes, their words about him. But he never made himself the Son of God. He always was the Son of God.
Another passage says he said he was the Son of God.
And so they crucified him. The Jews understood that when he claimed to be the Son, he was claiming deity. He was claiming equality with God the Father.
The temporal sonship doctrine.
Which?
Was introduced many years back by a company of brethren.
And is being promoted today by Christian leaders.
In the camp.
Is based upon an error, and it's based upon the error that sonship implies inferiority.
But On the contrary, it implies equality.
Equality, and we'll see that as we look, as we look at the scriptures tonight.
Amazing that these religious leaders the best taught.
Of the sect of the Pharisees did not.
Could not understand, could not answer the question how can he be Davidde Lord and Davidde Son at the same time?
If you look at the 22nd chapter of Revelation, last book in the Bible.
We see that same truth.
Revelation 22 and verse 16.
I, Jesus have sent mine Angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root.
And the offspring of David the Bright and Morning Star.
As the root of David, he is Davidde, Lord. As the offspring of David, he is Davidde Son. So here we have that truth again brought before us. We get it over and over again in Scripture. Look at Romans 1.
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, separated unto the Gospel of God, which he had promised afore by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures concerning his Son.
Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh. That's his humanity, David's Son.
Seed of David.
And declared to be the Son of God.
David's Lord with power according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. So here we have another passage presenting him as David's son and David's Lord.
As Son, as man, as God.
Now let's turn to second John, the second epistle of John.
Where we have this brought before us.
The second Epistle of John it was written to.
An elect lady and her children. The elder unto the elect lady and her children. Verse one.
Wasn't written to a brother like 3 John was written to Gaius a brother and he was commended for his hospitality and how he had housed the Saints and and took care of them and so on.
Normally what a woman would do, but here he's laying upon this sister, this elect lady and her children.
Solemn responsibility to know who Jesus is, to know who the Son is, and to refuse those that would come and not bring the doctrine of Christ.
The truth as to his person in verse 7 he says for many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. Now the way this reads in our King James, it sounds like the confession is the fact that he came, but that's really not the point of the passage.
You could ask anyone in the world, even not necessarily Christians today, was there such a personage down here in this world?
Jesus Christ, Yes, absolutely. Our calendar is dated from the time of his birth.
They would say.
But that's not exactly what John is saying. I'm going to correct it just a little. Many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not Jesus Christ, come in flesh. The confession that they don't make is the person who came in flesh, not so much the fact that he came.
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But the person who came now, it wouldn't make any sense to talk of any of us coming in flesh. That's the only way we can come.
Because we're just creatures. We're just men, women, boys and girls. Of course we come in flesh. But here's the confession of a person who pre existed before he became a man, before he came in flesh.
Jesus Christ is his name and he came in flesh and he was there before he became man. That's the confession. So it involves the the truth of his deity and also his humanity. That's the doctrine of Christ. In verse 9 He says whosoever transgresseth.
And abideth not in the doctrine of Christ. The doctrine of Christ is the truth of his Person.
That he is very God.
Very man.
Son of God, Son of Man.
Mr. Darby renders that ninth verse, whosoever goes forward.
And he has a nice note and he says what is?
Called.
Development.
Progress in the things of God.
And those who deny his person.
And there's various ways in which it can be denied. We can touch him in his deity or touch him in his humanity.
Either one we can sully His glory. Could the Lord Jesus have sinned? This question was addressed to a very prominent man.
In the Christian circles today, living.
He has a pastor, he pastors over maybe 3000 huge congregation and my brother told me and I asked him, I said Are you sure you heard him right? He said I'm positive.
He was dealing with the question, Could Jesus have sinned?
And his answer was.
I don't know, we'll just have to wait and see.
In other words, he would find out at a later time after he got home to glory, but he didn't know, and it's sad that he wouldn't know the answer to that question.
Because the Lord Jesus in his humanity was holy.
Not innocent like Adams before the Fall, not sinful like ours since the fall, but holy humanity. You remember the Angel said to Mary, you're going to have a son.
How shall this be? She said. Since I know not a man?
The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall over shadow thee. Wherefore also that holy thing, that holy thing which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God. Notice the precision of Scripture language doesn't say shall become the Son of God. He never became the Son of God. He was always the Son of God.
That's his name, the only begotten Son.
But he was called the Son of God, that baby, that one who became a babe.
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, was called the Son of God. But it says, that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. His very humanity was holy.
Holiness can't sin. Holiness abhors sin and delights in good. That's what Holiness is, and his humanity was that.
And so the.
The answer that he gave was very inadequate. And then there's another man out here in California. I won't name them. I can name them.
Who denies the Lord's eternal sonship?
He espouses temporal sonship. He says that he didn't become son until he became a man.
And this company of brethren.
That can say as we can. We have Darby for our father.
They don't believe that he was Son from all eternity.
Their teaching is that.
You cannot define the persons of the Godhead before the Incarnation.
They're inscrutable.
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Unknowable. Undefinable.
And the one that taught that.
Later on in his.
Comments went on to define what he had just said is undefinable.
You don't even know that.
There were three persons to the Trinity, to the Godhead.
He does use the word Trinity.
And what is the Trinity?
You see, the denial of the eternal sonship really involves the denial of the Trinity.
I was talking to a young man who has left us and gone with that company.
And.
I said to him.
I said the brethren you're now with don't believe Jesus is the eternal Son of God. Oh, they believe that he is God from all eternity. I said. That's not the question.
That's not the point. Yes I know that, but they don't believe that he was the Son from all eternity and God was the Father from all eternity because the 2GO together.
And I said to him, I said, you know, you remind me of the man that Paul, you remind me of the what Paul read when he was in Athens. He saw.
A marker that said to the unknown God.
As you have an unknown God.
You have a God that cannot be defined.
That has not been revealed.
But the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath revealed Him, He hath declared Him. And if the Father, if the Father has not been revealed, and the Son and the Spirit by the one who came, then God is unknown still. And that's really their position. It's a very serious thing.
Not to know.
The truth of this person. They even deny that the word was eternal. They say that it only applies to time.
And he said, well, he was only called son in time. And I said, tell me.
When before time did anyone exist?
To hear him being called anything.
Of course he was called Son in time. No one existed before time began except God Himself.
The revelation had to be made in time. The argument is nonsense.
The revelation was made in time of what God was from all eternity.
Baptizing them. The very Christian formula for baptism in Matthew 28 is baptizing them in the name. Not names, but name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Three persons, one God. Why did the Seraphim cry Holy, holy, holy?
Lord God Almighty, the whole earth is full of his glory because there's three persons.
In the beginning Elohim God created.
A plural subject and a singular verb.
God Elohim, plural.
In the Hebrew they have a singular number. They have a dual number, which means only two. Singular is 1, dual is 2, and then the plural is 3 or more in English.
The plural is 2 or more, not so in Hebrew.
In Hebrew, the plural Elohim, the plural is 3 or more, and so there has to be at least three and there are three persons.
One God.
The name of that God is the Father.
In the Son, in the Holy Spirit, it's a name revealed and declared by the Son. In time, the Son become a man revealed and declared by him.
A declaration of who God is.
In His eternal relationships among the Persons of the Godhead.
But this has all been denied.
Do they know? Do they have the doctrine of Christ? It's a very solemn thing.
Verse 9 Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, these are not my words. These are the words of inspired Scripture, half not God.
Most solemn.
He that abideth in the doctrine, he hath both the Father and the Son.
And then he gives instruction.
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To the elect lady and her children.
You children as most adults here tonight, but there's.
One that's a child and and you're responsible to know who Jesus is. You should know that if you're asked a question, Could he have sinned that No, he couldn't have sinned. I know who he is. He's holy.
Is God manifest in the flesh sinless?
Not only that he didn't sin, but that he couldn't sin.
To say that he could have denies his person, denies his impeccable humanity.
To say that he is the Son only in time, that is the temporal sonship doctrine.
Denies the eternal relationship between the Son and the Father.
From all eternity.
This company teaches.
That he didn't enter the Father's bosom until he became a man.
That's blasphemy.
We sing in the 27th hymn, the second verse. Of course, they struck that hymn out of their hymn book.
Son of God, thy Father's bosom ever was thy dwelling place.
That's the truth of Scripture.
He never entered the Father's bosom.
He never left it either.
He's always been there.
In the bosom of the Father, Mr. Bell, it puts it so beautifully. In his Son of God, the hiding place of love.
The hiding place of love, the place of delights in fellowship.
And joy.
That he enjoyed.
Between himself and the Father there's a lovely hymn.
It's not talking about the Father's bosom in the hymn.
It's talking about the father's house.
But there's some expressions in it that you could just apply to the Father's bosom.
The son who knows how does it go?
What, what, what? What him is that?
It may come to me.
I'll think of it right now.
The sons. The the the the flow of affection and the flow of love.
That characterizes that place. That's what characterized the father's bosom.
It was his dwelling place from all eternity. Well, we'll come more. We'll get into that more.
127 that's what. Thank you.
Verse 2 it says.
Or at home the son who knows he only all his love.
And brings us as His well beloved to that bright rest above dwells in his bosom.
Knoweth all that in that bosom lies.
And came to Earth to make it known that we might share.
His joys. Oh what a home.
And as we think of that, not just as the Father's house that we'll enjoy, but the place that he enjoyed from all eternity, their fullest love flows through its courts of light. The Suns divine affections flow throughout its depth and height. There's some expressions in that lovely hymn that suggests the Father's bosom, the enjoyment that the Son had in that place of nearness and blessing from all eternity.
Well, all of this is denied.
And then it said.
What's been lost? What's been lost?
What's been lost?
So much the relationship.
No, they don't deny that he was God.
But they deny that He was in the place of Son from all eternity, and God was in the place of Father.
Well, I want to make a comment on verse 9 before we leave it.
Whosoever transgresseth, whosoever goes forward.
New Translation.
Abideth not in the doctrine of Christ Hath not God? I was passing out tracts on the elevated platform in Chicago as a young man.
Loyola Station, there was a theological seminary there. That's where you changed from the L and the Loop to Loop and took the subway, if you so chose. And I passed a man attracted. We sat next to each other on the train and I got to talking with him.
And he asked me what I believed.
And I told him, I believe in the virgin birth of Christ. I believe He is God, man, and one person. I believe in his bodily resurrection. I believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, the all sufficiency of Bible, and so on.
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Various foundations of the of the faith. And he smiled at me and he said that's nice, but now you have to go on into the deeper things. Now that's what John's talking about in verse 9. Whosoever goes forward is what is called development in the things of God. In this company of brethren I'm talking about, they speak of fresh light and new light. It's not light, it's darkness.
It's not truth, it's error.
And we have to.
Know what the doctrine of Christ is and recognize when someone comes to us under the guise of a Christian teacher.
To reject them.
Notice what he says in verse 10. If there come any unto you, and he's speaking to this elect lady and her children.
And bring not this doctrine.
Jesus Christ coming flesh.
His Godhead and his manhood.
Receive him not into your house, neither bid him Godspeed.
For he that biddeth him godspeed, or greets him is a partaker of his evil deeds.
So there's a solemn responsibility laid upon the very youngest in the family of faith, the children even.
To know who the Lord Jesus is and not to receive one who comes under the guise of a Christian teacher but does not bring the doctrine of Christ.
Remember the Old Testament?
There was the Ark.
Of all the vessels in the Tabernacle, that was the most holy and sacred. It spoke of Christ.
It was the place where God dwelt.
It was a box made of shithim wood or a quiche wood, an incorruptible wood, Speaking of the Lord's holy humanity.
And it was overlaid with pure gold, Speaking of his deity.
And a gold plate called the Mercy Seat. A cover for the Ark was placed upon it with two cherubic figures.
Looking down upon the mercy seat where the blood was sprinkled.
That speaks of his work and they were looking down at the blood of of the sacrifice.
Well, in the history of Israel at the time of Eli, who was.
A failing priest and he had two wicked sons, Hofnion and Phidias.
They did some very evil things and he didn't restrain them.
Israel went to battle against the Philistines and the Philistines defeated them. They brought the Ark into the camp. Great shout was given.
And the Philistines heard what is this shout? And they said, the gods of the Hebrews have come into the camp.
Quit yourselves like men. Be strong. These are the gods. They called, of course, the true God. Gods because they just. That's all they knew is God's.
These are the gods that delivered them from the Egyptians.
Pharaoh.
Fight and they fought, and they defeated Israel.
And they captured the ark.
Now God would not allow.
The art having been brought into their into the camp.
To gain them the victory because of their state state that Israel was in was deplorably bad.
But the Philistines were going to.
They were going to learn.
The awful consequences of.
Capturing the Ark.
And it went from one city to the next, and a plague broke out in this city. It was placed in the same place with Dagon, their God, and Dagan was falling in his face. They set him up again the next day. And the next day Dagon was falling on his face and broken.
Before the ark of God.
It speaks of Christ.
Speaks of his person.
There's instruction given to the Levites that they were to carry the ark. There were rings in the sight of the ark and staves that were also made of ******** wood overlaid with gold and the.
The Coethites were to carry the ark on their shoulders.
They were not to touch it, lest they die.
It was holy.
Spoke of Christ.
Remember how many times they tried to kill the Lord?
I remember Mr. Ballard and his son of God, he said.
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All these plagues broke out and every city, one city got it. They didn't want to keep it. They said get rid of it and it went to another city and they went to another city and every city it went to, there was judgment on the Philistines.
Why didn't they just break it? Why didn't they?
Destroy it with just a box.
I love his answer.
Said they couldn't.
You remember how many times they tried to destroy the Lord?
In Luke 4 when he spoke of grace, mercy to the Gentiles in the Old Testament.
They took him. They were filled with rage and anger in the synagogue, and they took him to the top of the hill to cast him down headlong, but he, passing through the midst of them, went his way. Had they cast him off the hill, he would have walked away at an unharmed at the bottom.
Because he said, no man taketh my life from me. I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again.
This commandment have I received of my father.
They couldn't touch him until he allowed it. Another time in John 8, he got into a discussion with them and they said.
Thou art not yet 50 years old. And hast thou seen Abraham?
Who makest thou thyself?
And he said before Abraham was I am.
You remember when Moses was told by Jehovah to deliver Israel, He said, when they asked me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them? And he said, I am that I am.
I shall say unto them, that I am have sent thee.
And so that's the name of Jehovah.
The I am that I am the one who is who He is the one who does not change the unalterable, unchangeable God.
An eternal God be I am the one who lives in an eternal present.
The equivalent expression in the New Testament of Jehovah. We don't find the word Jehovah in the New Testament.
We find the word Lord, but the equivalent expression expression is in Revelation one verse 4 from him who is and who was and who is to come. That's that's what Jehovah means, the eternal, the eternal he is, that's the present. He was, that's the past. He is to come, that's the future. He's a timeless being he inhabits.
Thus saith the high and lofty One, who inhabits eternity.
Timeless.
Jehovah and the Lord claimed to be that.
And they took up stones to cast at him, but he, walking through the midst of them, went his way.
When they came to him in the garden with lanterns and torches and weapons to take him, he said, Hum, seek ye.
They said Jesus of Nazareth, and he said I am and he I am.
And they all went backward and fell to the ground.
And he said, I told you that I am here if you seek me. Let these go their way and they.
Then took him.
And when Judas, who had betrayed him with a kiss, saw that he was delivered into their hands, that he did not deliver himself as Judith had seen him do over and over and over again, but that he was taken.
Judas existence became intolerable to him.
And he went out and hanged himself.
The Lord did not die as a martyr.
He freely gave himself to their hands.
They could not touch him until he allowed it.
And then he did it to accomplish the eternal purpose of God.
Well.
This person, this glorious person, is symbolized by the Ark.
And so finally, the Philistines, they had had enough of having the Ark.
And.
They sent it back.
And they made a test.
They took 2 milk kind.
And they took them away from their calves.
They were attracted to, of course.
I live right across the road in Allendale in Illinois. Southern Illinois now right across the road from afar.
And whenever they are, they have taken the calves from the mother cows.
All night long you hear those cows bellowing.
Quite a quite a noise.
I don't like it.
And so they took these two milk kind put the ark on a cart.
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And they said if it goes straight, straight.
Into the land of Israel to bashmish.
Then we'll know that the Lord has done this if it doesn't.
Then we'll know it was just a chance thing and the cows went on. Cows were done mowing as they went, missing their calves but still going straight on.
When they knew, and then the men of Bashemish, they saw the cart coming. The ark was put on the cart. That's not the way they were to carry it. But the Philistines didn't know anything about that.
And so they put it on this card.
And it came to the men of Bashir.
And we read they did a very serious thing that was in the land of Israel, now back in the land of Israel.
Those times had had enough of it.
And says the men of Bashemish looked into the ark.
And the gods smoked them with a great slaughter.
And this is what men have done, beloved. Today they have looked into the Ark.
They appeared into that which is inscrutable. In Matthew 11. The Lord says no man knoweth the Son, but the Father either knoweth any man. The Father saved the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. But you don't have that qualifying clause of.
The Father revealing the Son there is that in the Son which is inscrutable, which is past our understanding as creatures.
Which we will never fathom.
Reunion of the divine and human in one person.
That's beyond me. I believe it with all my soul, but I don't understand it.
None of us really can understand that.
How can he know everything and yet?
Not know the day nor the hour.
These are all mysteries of his person.
How can he?
The Jehovah who neither slumbers nor sleeps, and yet be asleep in the boat.
Because He is God and He is man.
And you can go through many, many things. I remember speaking to a Hindu boy and he could not understand how the Lord Jesus could not know the day nor the hour if he is God.
I said because he's the perfect servant and it's not given to the servant to know.
What his master is doing in keeping with the character that he was taking.
And had taken.
These are wonderful mysteries concerning his person.
But men have gotten to reasoning upon this, these things, trying to explain these things.
Which are beyond us. And they have peered into the ark. And when the men of Bashemish did that, they were immediately judged.
Then they sent the Ark to another place. They were afraid.
And it was put in the house.
Can't remember the name man.
There for 20 years.
And then there's a break in the history for Samuel, and then we get other teaching, and then you get into Second Samuel. And let's just look at that in Second Samuel Chapter 6.
We'll pick up that account.
Very, very interesting.
Two Samuel, chapter 6.
Again David gathered together all the children. The Chosen men of Israel 30,000.
And David arose and went with all the people that were with him from Valley of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God.
Whose name is called by the name of the Lord of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.
And they set the ark of God upon a new cart.
This was a mistake.
David made the mistake that the Philistines made.
And he brought it out of the House of Abinadab. That was his name, that was in Gibeah.
And Uzza and Ahayo, the sons of Abinadab, draved the new cart.
Now these were two sons of Abinadab and it had been there in Abinadab House for 20 years.
And they were very familiar with the Ark and Ohio went before and gave the.
Drive the cart.
It says they.
Brought it out of the House of the Vinadab, which was at Gibeah accompanying the ark of God. And Ohio went before the ark. Verse 5. And David and all the House of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of firwood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals. And when they came to Nakin's threshing floor, Oza put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it, for the oxen shook it. That was one of the sons of.
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Ohio drove it, and he was by it, and he went to steady it.
The anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzza, and God smote him there for his error, and there he died by the ark of God.
They were told in Leviticus.
Not to touch you.
Not to catch it. And heroes it does. And he's immediately smitten when David was displeased because the Lord had made a breach upon Oza.
And he called the name of the place, pursues it to this day. And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and said, How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?
So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David, But David carried it aside into the House of Obedom the guitar.
And the Ark of the Lord continued in the House of Obadiah the Gittite 3 months.
And the Lord blessed obed him in all his household.
And it was told, King David, saying, The Lord hath blessed the House of Obed Edom, and all that pertaineth.
Unto him because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the House of Obed Edom into the city of David with gladness. Now it's not told us here.
How he did it but if we turn over hold your place we're coming right back here to First chronicles 15 we'll see that he he learned of his error and.
Corrected it.
In First Chronicles 15 where you have this account.
With some more details.
And I'll pick it up at verse verse 11. And David called for Zedek and a buyer through the priests and for the Levites.
For Uriel Asaya, and Joel Shamaya and Elio and Aminadab, and said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel into the place that I have prepared for it. For because ye did it not at the first the Levites were to bear it on their shoulders. Remember, they put it, David put it on the cart.
Because you did it not at the first. The Lord our God made a breach upon us for that we sought Him not after the due order.
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.
And the children of the Levites bear the ark of God upon their shoulders. This is according to the due order. Now with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded, according to the word of the Lord.
Now go back to Second Samuel 6 and let's just read a little bit more in that chapter verse 13. And it was so that when they that bear the ark of the Lord that was the Levites now had gone 6 paces. He sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
And David danced before the Lord with all his might, and David was girded with a linen ephod.
So David and all the House of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.
And as the Ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michael.
Saul's daughter looked through a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him.
In her heart, she had no value for the Ark.
She did not value it. That's the brightest spot in Eli the Priest.
That when he was told.
Israel went to battle with the enemy and he was told.
That.
His sons were dead.
And Israel had been defeated.
And the ark of God was taken, and when he heard that, he fell backward and died his neck break. He was an old man, over 90 and fat.
But he had real value in his soul for the ark of God.
Michael didn't, and so she criticizes David.
Verse 17 And they brought him the ark of the Lord, and set it in his place in the midst of the Tabernacle that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts. And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to everyone, a cake of bread and a good piece of flesh and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed.
Everyone to his house. Then David returned to bless his household. And Michael the daughter of Saul, came out to meet David and said, How glorious was the king of Israel today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovered himself. And David said unto Michael.
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It was before the Lord which chose me before thy Father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord over Israel. Therefore will I play before the Lord, and I will be yet more vile than thus, and will be basing my own sight and of the maidservants which thou has spoken of.
Of them shall I be had in honor. Therefore Michael, the daughter of Saul, had no child until the day of her death. Saul was a man after the flesh, and evidently Michael was a woman after the flesh. No value for the ark? No value.
Do we value the ark? Do we value the person?
Of Christ.
His presence.
It was the ark that made all the difference in Israel.
It's Christ's person that makes all the difference.
You remember in Matthew 16, I don't have to turn to it. You know it as well as I do, he said, who say that I the Son of Man and, and they said, some say that thou art John the Baptist, others Elias or Jeremias or one of the prophets.
And all of those came short.
Of his Person. But whom say ye that I am? And Peter confessed, and said, Thou art the Christ.
The Son of the living God. That's the doctrine of Christ.
Thou art the Christ, that's his humanity.
The Anointed 1.
What think he of Christ? Whose son is he? The Son of David. The Christ is the Son of David, yes.
David called him Lord.
And so Peter goes on to say in the other two gospels, Mark and Luke, Peters answer is the Christ of God. That's all he says. But here where it's going to to become these confession is going to be the rock foundation upon which the church is built. It's a full confession. Lord the Christ is humanity, the Son of the living God, his deity.
That's the doctrine of Christ. And then the Lord says on this rock, Peter, I will build my church.
The church is built on that truth, and the church is the pillar and ground of the truth.
And the truth of this person is the most important truth that we have to carry through this wilderness, as the Levites had to carry the ark.
To uphold it and to maintain it.
What thinking of Christ is the test to try both your state and your scheme. You cannot be right in the rest unless you think rightly of Him. As Jesus appears to your view, as he is beloved or not, so God is disposed to you, and mercy or wrath is your lot.
Most important question will ever have to answer. Or think ye of Christ. Whose Son is He? He is the Son of God, and He is the Son of man, very God and very man.
The son of David, David's Lord, the root of David, the offspring of David.
The eternal Son.
Came to where we were.
He is our kinsman, Redeemer. He had to become a man. He had to become one of us. Since the children partake of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same, that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to *******. The children partake of flesh and blood. He also Himself likewise took part of the same sin apart.
The only difference? But his humanity is just as much.
Just as true humanity is yours.
But the state of it is holy.
But it's true. Humanity, spirit, soul, body, blameless.
And so he grew in spirit, in wisdom and stature, before God and before men.
Because he was a true.
Born as a.
There was nothing miraculous about the birth. That was very normal. The miraculous part was the conception.
Conceived, begotten of the Holy Ghost.
That was his humanity.
But this false teacher from years back in the last end of the last century.
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He said.
Where the idea of the union of the divine inhuman in one person came from, I know not.
It seems to me perfect nonsense.
Patrick Nonsense.
God and man in one person. What was His formula? His formula was in person. He is God in condition. He is man. To Him the humanity of Christ was a mere condition that He took up in time.
Didn't make it part of his person united to himself.
Which I believe is the truth spend the orthodox confession of Christians throughout the years.
God and man in one person, very God and very man, eternal Son.
Let's just look at a few scriptures before we close.
John, Chapter 1.
John, Chapter one in the beginning.
Was the word.
How in the light of that statement?
They teach that the word didn't begin to exist as such until he became a man.
This is talking about the dateless past.
In the beginning of anything that had a beginning, the word was He never began, but he was in the beginning. The word was the word that's his eternal person.
And the Word was with God. That's his distinct.
Personality with God the Father.
The word was God. That's his proper deity.
In that one verse we have his eternal person, his distinct personality.
And his proper deity. And then it goes on to say in the same was in the beginning with God.
He was there, a distinct person in the beginning with God, in the beginning, back in that time where this, Mr. Taylor said You can't define it.
The Word of God says He was the Word back then.
I'm using words to express what's in my mind.
You're hearing those words.
It's an amazing thing.
You're hearing those words and then.
Your brain.
Conveys to you.
What I need?
It's amazing.
I was out working in the backyard before leaving and dogs next door were barking. They just just hit me. All they can do is bark.
They can't form a word.
All they can do is Yep, Yep, Yep.
They're just dogs.
Only man.
Can speak words.
Only man can can write.
If you want to read a tremendously interesting article under the heading Writing in the New and Concise Bible Dictionary, look it up.
They have a story in there that has to do with writing.
An Indian chief.
Was talking to this missionary.
And.
They needed a hammer.
And the missionary said, give me a piece of wood.
He handed no piece of wood and he scratched something on the wood. He said just take this to my wife.
He took it to his wife. The boy did, took it to his wife, gave it to his wife. Wife looked at it, went into the tool shed and brought the hammer out, brought the hammer and to him. And the Indian chief said we'll talk, we'll talk.
He had never seen writing before.
Only man can do that. Only man can form words. And all I am doing in speaking to you is uttering sounds. That's all it is. It sounds. If you didn't understand English, it wouldn't have any meaning to you. Tremendous is the word. I'm using words to convey what's in my mind, and then you are receiving those words and it conveys to your mind what I'm trying to convey to you. And that's what the Lord was. He was the word. He was the very expression of the mind of God.
And he was that from all eternity.
And then it says in verse 14, the word became flesh and dwelt among us.
And we beheld His glory. What glory did they behold? The glory as of an only begotten with the Father.
That's the glory of an eternal relationship that John saw by faith. Through that veil of human flesh, he saw glory that was his from all eternity.
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What was it? It was the glory of an only begotten with the Father, and the Word. Only begotten has nothing to do with time.
It has to do with.
Essence, it says in Genesis 1.
Every animal begat after his kind. You'll never find a cat coming from a dog.
You'll never find a wolf coming from a fox. They began after their kind, after their kind. And so if there isn't one who is called the only begotten Son, he is of the same substance.
And the same essence.
As the father.
It has nothing to do with time at all. It has to do with essence.
Has to do with kind.
If the Father is God, the Son is God.
So the expression the word, the name son implies.
He is one with the Father.
And so he is.
Verse 18 No man hath seen God at anytime, the only begotten Son.
Which is in the bosom of the Father. He hath declared him. Now there's something in the original.
That you don't see in English.
And it used to puzzle me and I think I understand it now. It's in the original Greek.
I would have thought that that little preposition in was the Greek word en.
But it isn't.
It's ice.
Which is translated into unto or for, but you cannot translate it that way here.
The only begotten Son, which is unto the bosom of the Father, into the bosom of the Father. For the bosom of the Father doesn't make any sense. You have to translate it in.
But why is it ice? I used to say why is it ice? Ice means motion towards.
What he's talking about, you see these false teachers, they use that to say, see, he entered the father's bosom at some point in time when he became a man. That's why it says ice wrong, false. That's not correct.
What does it mean then?
It means what we were looking at in that hymn 127.
The sons divine afflict affections flow throughout its depth and height. There was the sun in the Father's bosom, the hiding place of love, the affections of the Father for the Son flowing to him, and He is his affections reciprocating and flowing back to the to the Father.
That's why it says ice.
It's the movement within that place of love, of the divine affections between these.
Two persons, the father and the son, most precious and most beautiful.
One more passage I want to call your attention to, and then I'll close in John 5.
I said that I would point out a verse that showed and refuted the idea that sonship implies inferiority.
On the contrary, it implies.
Equality, verse 17 of John 5. But Jesus answered them, my Father.
Worketh hitherto, and I work. He refers to God as my Father, the only one that ever did, the only one that ever used that expression. He did teach his disciples to call for us to pray our Father, which art in heaven, and so on, but not my Father. That was his distinct privilege, being the eternal Son. So he says, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
And that the Jews understood what he was claiming. Notice their reaction. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father.
That means he was his son. He was claiming equality, making himself equal with God.
That's the divine comment.
That's what they understood and they were right. He was claiming equality with the father.
By addressing him as my father.
Well.
These truths are very, very precious.
And of all the responsibilities that we have, beloved?
The carrying the ark through the wilderness, not touching it, not looking into it, not trying to understand what he has told us we cannot understand.
But upholding and maintaining the truth as far as He has revealed it to us.
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And upholding it till we're home in glory.