Open—Ron Klassen Jr.
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This has been announced as an open meeting. It is open for the Spirit of God.
To minister through two or three brothers.
I would like to read some verses connected with a meeting for prophecy in First Corinthians 14 verse 29 through 33.
Let the prophets speak two or three.
And let the other judge.
If anything be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
For ye all may prophecy one by one, that all may learn.
And all may be comforted, and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of the Saints.
#18 in the offender.
Right, our God and Father, our hearts rejoiced as we anticipate that day of glory in that time when we're going to be with and like our precious Savior and the Father's house. Our hearts leap as we consider that meeting in the air with all the redeemed gathered around the Lord Jesus to lift up our voices in the eternal songs and give him that praise and worship that He is so worthy of. But now we thank Thee as we look back over these days.
For all the way that thou hast LED us, Thou hast fed our souls, encouraged us. And now as this meeting is upon us, our God, we pray that through Thy, uh, instruments, we Thou would give us that which is needed. Encourage our hearts, refresh as we do pray. We pray that there might be messages in the power of the Spirit that we might have opened ears, tender consciences, and receptive hearts to take in what Thou hast to say to us. So we look to Thee for help and.
Nothing. Asking it in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen.
Perhaps we could turn to Leviticus chapter 6.
We were just singing about.
What is going to be like to be there in the presence of our Lord Jesus?
Not along with what our brother Jim brought before us.
In regard to foot washing.
That communion might be maintained between our souls and the Lord, and that we might be free then to be a blessing to one another.
These meditations came to mind, so in Leviticus chapter 6 we'll just read a few verses.
Starting with verse one. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, If a soul sin and committed trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbor in that which was delivered to him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, Or have deceived his neighbor, or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it. And sweareth falsely in any of all these things that a man doeth sitting there in.
And it shall be because he has sinned and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away.
Or the thing which he asked deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered to him to keep.
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For the last thing which he found of all that about which he hath sworn falsely, he shall even restore it in the principle, and shall add the 5th part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth.
And the day of his trespass offering.
And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord of Ram, without blemish of the lot out of the flock, with thy estimation for a trespass offering unto the priest, and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord.
It shall be forgiven him for anything of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.
Well, perhaps that's far enough.
Not too long ago.
It was recounted to me that her brother was talking to another brother.
Who told him that?
A situation that happened some years ago in an assembly. He's no longer in fellowship, this brother, but he said, you know what we did as an assembly? We went down and involved this other assembly. He said, you know, we had no business doing that at all. We were wrong.
Well, as far as I know, that assembly that was so affected by it, I don't think they've ever heard him say anything about that.
A dear sister that's been such an encouragement to me over the years.
Umm, every time I get the opportunity to see her, she shares something with me.
One of the last times I was with her, she shared with me that when she came from her homeland, uh, not too long before, and I know some of her families here. So I don't know if I'm gonna get that the story right and forgive me, it'll be just the gist of it, how it came across. But she said her and another sister had, uh, really crossed and, and a very strong and.
Uh, feet away. A way of great feeling.
And nothing was resolved, but she was. She left the country. And so, you know, she's miles away and thought perhaps she'd probably never see the sister anyway. Completely different land.
Let out she got over here.
The Lord began to work with her.
You know it says in connection with the sin offering and the trespass offering in the earlier chapter, Chapter 5, it says and when he knoweth it.
You know, sometimes we cause offense.
And from our standpoint, our perspective, because we see from.
What concerns us?
We don't realize sometimes perhaps the offense that's been caused, the damage that's been done, or we feel justified in what we've done.
So, but the Lord in his faithfulness, we have the faithfulness of God in the last meeting.
He brings that to us, and so it says. And when he knows it, when he knows it, then there's a responsibility. Well.
This sister said, uh, finally she got to a time when she said, you know, I felt like I needed to call that sister Miles Continent separated us, but I needed to call her. She said I called her and she said to me, you know, hive, I've been feeling the same thing.
She said I'm coming to the States and not too long and I'll make sure that we get together.
And they did. And as difficult as that situation was.
They.
Were able to come together with the Lord's help, a trespass offering, and they were so thankful for that. And she said to me, you know, we're almost home.
And that's what God impressed on my soul, that as we had in our hand, we're going to meet the Savior.
Does he care if I have straightened out something that has been between me and my brother, me and my sister? How important is that?
In our chapter here.
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Perhaps notice verse two. It says if a soul sin, commit a trespass against the Lord and lie unto his neighbor.
You say it was against them.
The Lord says, well, it was against me too.
Maybe we don't think about that sometimes, but that's what gives it to serious character, isn't it? It's the Lord, too.
Does he care?
All he says you need to go to that one.
Verse four. Then it shall be because he has sinned and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered to him to keep for the lost thing.
Middle of verse five shall restore it even in the principle.
And she'll add the 5th part.
You know, I think of that brother who?
Spoke about pressing to go down and and take this assembly matter up.
And years later, he's thinking, you know, we have. We should not have done that.
So you say to him, well, think of the the the stress, think of the sorrow, think of the families being separated, think of the subsequent history of the children.
Can you restore that in the principle?
Let alone add the 5th part.
Well, we would say no, you can't.
But here, we're told, do it.
Mm-hmm. Well, how can you?
You say, well maybe by and by I will, but it says in verse the end of verse five, in the day of his trespass offering, and he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord.
Well, maybe that was just the Old Testament. Let's go to Matthew chapter 5.
Mm-hmm.
Matthew chapter 5 and verse.
23.
Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar.
And there remember us that thy brother hath aught against thee. Leave there thy gift before the altar.
Go thy way first, be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
How important is this matter to the Lord?
He said if you're coming to the altar.
You're going to worship me. You're bringing a gift. Your heart's full. Wait, wait. Set it there and go to your brother that you know you've offended and make it right with him. I want your offering.
But I don't want it before that is settled and taken care of.
You see how important it is?
Again, this sister was impressed, who was impressed on her soul. You're going to meet the Lord. And you know, Ephesians 5 tells us Christ loved the church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of the water by the Word. Sometimes in our mind we we think of that as the atonement for our sins. It's not.
That sanctification is an ongoing sanctification in our souls.
As He is preparing us, He is making us more holy, as He is conforming us to the image of His Son.
That's part of the sanctification. It's in view of when.
Christ presents us to Himself.
And so that's an ongoing work. Would he want this settled? Yes, he would. He says the day that you bring your offering, make sure that that one that's been wrong, make sure you take and restore it in the principle and add the 5th part.
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You know, something that's happened down the road many years, it's difficult.
Again, you say, well, well, how could you make amends for that? What would you say?
Let's go to Psalm 69.
Perhaps I'll say before we read here in this Psalm, you know this wonderful thing about the trespass offering.
Is that when it's all through, the person that was wrong, the person that was robbed?
Is richer.
Then, before the incident ever happened. There's something very precious about that, isn't it?
Don't we want that?
In Psalm 69 you have the Lord Jesus as a trespass offering.
Isn't wonderful when we realize that we have offended our brother, our sister, when we've caused distress, that yes, no, we can't, we can't repair it, we can't, we couldn't. There's no amount of money, no amount of apology, in one sense, whatever make up for it. Isn't it wonderful to know that there's one who is paid for those sins? There's one that is perfectly satisfied, God.
In relation to what I did.
The distress I caused, He has come in where I couldn't and not only restored the principle, but He added the 5th part when the Lord Jesus went to Calvary and completed that work and He could say it is finished. It didn't just set us back in the Garden of Eden, no, it made a way by where we can come right?
To be, as we've had this weekend, the sons of God, the children of God.
They're on our way to the Father's house. That's the 5th part.
And so in Psalm 69, the sufferings of the Lord Jesus save me, O God, for the waters that come into my soul. I sink in deep mire where there is no standing. I am coming to deep waters where the floods overflow me.
You know, sometimes you go to try to settle a thing and it's just this is brought up and you think you've got that cleared and then this is and so you try to explain or clear that up or apologize and then there's this and you just say, is there any end?
Think of the Lord Jesus.
As we viewed him this morning by faith.
On the cross.
Covered.
With my sins, the mire my sins.
With each one he felt as our brother Bob brought up his intrinsic holiness. The mire my sins he bore, but he felt.
Verse four. They that hate me without a cause.
Or more than the hairs of my head.
They that this would destroy me, being mine enemies, wrongfully or mighty. Then I restore that which I took not away. Oh, you know, sometimes. And we had it in first John. It should never be that we hate our brother, our sister. Sometimes there's a strongest feeling because of the results of offense.
You know, I I'm sure that we realize that probably all, most if not all the divisions among brethren are no doubt the result of a fence that was earlier.
Maid.
That was a trespass offering was never given. And so it went over the years and then finally there's an occasion where feelings can be expressed or or things could be shown how we feel about it. And then and then the sorrow of the Lord's people being divided never needed to be because.
There was this provision for the trespass offering.
But to think of they that hate me without a cause, you know, to be hated and not to have reason to be hated, The Lord Jesus we do because of our failures, because our insensitivity to our brother, to our sister, because of our selfishness, we haven't considered them.
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But the Lord Jesus.
That hatred came upon him and he felt it.
Verse five. O God, thou knowest my foolishness, and my sins are not hid from Thee.
To think of as a hymn writer said that our sins confessed and born by him.
Yes, he bore them on the tree, but to think of him confessing them as his own?
Oh, Sir.
It's not easy to go.
To our brother or sister.
And confess what we've done.
But the Lord Jesus is our trespass offering. What an example.
If we could follow in His spirit.
To confess.
To think of him saying before, O holy God, confess.
So made my sins his own.
But he could say, Thou knowest my foolishness, and my sins should be trespasses are not hid from thee.
Verse 6.
Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake.
Let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel, because for thy sake I borne reproach. Shame hath covered my face.
Isn't that precious?
In spite of all that, he was suffering.
In spite of all he felt.
Because as we just had again, he was doing the will of God, He prayed that there was any other way.
Hugh said he wouldn't have to be made sin, he wouldn't have to go into doubt, he wouldn't have to be forsaken of God, but there wasn't any other way.
So what's his concern? What he's going to bear, What he's going to feel his pain? No, his concern was what about those that are looking on like the two on the way to Emmaus? What if they're stumbled by what's happening to me? That was his concern.
Would that be something if that's our concern?
How will my brother be affected by it?
Will they be stumbled by how I thought thoughtlessly did or said something that we didn't include them or whatever?
Isn't it process? The Lord Jesus is a trespass offering. That was his concern.
But those who were trusting on the Lord wouldn't be confounded, because he was doing the will of God.
Verse 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me.
And I was the song of the drunkards.
Verse 11 I should have I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a proverb to them.
What'll happen?
If I go and make things right.
Think of how the talk will be.
Think of what will be said. Think of how I'll be viewed after that.
I think of that, brother.
How would what would people think of him then if he went and he said we were wrong, we were wrong?
I was wrong.
You know the Lord Jesus felt that.
They just sit in the gate.
The from the highest, the the elders that would sit in the gate, that even the drunkards.
The Lord's name was despised among them.
Verse 20 we don't, I don't want to take all the time.
Reproach has broken my heart and I am full of heaviness and I look for some to take pity, but there is none. And for comforters but I found none.
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Oh, isn't it wonderful when we go?
When we go to our brother, go to our sister.
Not easy. Isn't wonderful to take that trespass offering.
They're so satisfied, God.
But to think.
To think that God wants us to know the blessing, the richness.
Of the 5th part.
What about the one that's offended?
Let's go to Philemon.
We don't know.
What happened between Onesimus and Philemon? But whatever it was.
It was bad.
Perhaps the Spirit of God and his wisdom doesn't give it to us, but we could say as we read how Paul approaches Philemon that it could be as bad as you could imagine, whatever he did.
And now he's going back.
With this letter in his pocket and he's going to face the one that he's offended.
You must have felt in his pocket a time or two to make sure that letter was there.
What does Paul say?
We'll just touch on a couple things.
Verse 10 I beseech thee from my son Oneshimus, whom I've begotten in my bonds.
Perhaps to be your help.
To the one that's been offended to think.
Of this one coming to you and realizing as they come to you.
But they are one of the as we've had the children of God.
You know, people can do things to us, that's one thing. But if they do it to our children?
That's that's very difficult, good or bad, it very much has an influence on us. So here's the Apostle Paul and if you could think of him as speaking for our souls for our sakes this afternoon as the Lord himself. And as you see that one coming towards you that you have such feeling against who you feel you could never forgive.
Who, When you see him, you realize you feel what he's done and how it's affected your whole life or your family or whatever.
Think of them as a large child.
A large child. And so how you receive them, Paul said. Receive them.
Receiver, he's my child.
Verse 11, which in time passed, was to the unprofitable.
But now profitable to thee and to me.
I think this deals with that 5th part.
Could an estimus ever be profitable to Philemon?
And if he was profitable, Paul wanted him to be able to stay with him and help him. If he was with Paul, how could he be profitable to Philemon?
You know, if we simply seek grace from God to go.
And clear something up in view of eternity.
And we're the one that's been offended.
The flushiness doesn't want to release.
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But isn't it wonderful that there's grace from God to do so?
And if we prove that, and if we look to him for that, we're going to profit.
Verse 12.
Whom I have sent again. Thou therefore receive him. That is my own vows.
He doesn't say here forgive him, he says receive him.
You know it says about the one in uh.
Matthew 18 Thy brothers offended thee. Go to him and tell him the matter between thee and him alone. We fail in that, don't we?
It's a test for us and it's the wisdom of God.
If we're going to be preserved as our brother Jim brought out again.
To be able to wash one another's feet so that it would never come to this.
We're going to be preserved in that.
We need to keep the matter. That was an offense to us just between me and and him.
That's a safeguard.
And that's a preservation from things going farther and making it difficult for things to be cleared up. And, you know, if I can't go to them, I can talk about it to others, but I can't go to them. That's a proof perhaps that I really don't have something that's legitimate to hold as an offense. That's the wisdom of God.
If he's offended me, go to him.
But it says, if thy brother hears thee, you've gained him.
You've gained them. It isn't just that you've cleared things, but you've gained your brother. This is that 5th part.
That the Lord would want us to prove and to experience that so blessed.
Receive him? No, just forgive him. Bring him in. Put your arms around him.
Tell him on essence, I'm thankful that there has been a change. I'm thankful for what God has wrought in you.
And I can forgive you.
Verse 15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldst receive him.
Forever.
Does.
Does this have an effect on eternity? An impact on it? I want to be careful what I say.
But I believe the richness that's gained from it will be. It will be. And that's the encouragement to our hearts. We can say, well, the Lord is almost here. We'll just go on the way things are. And he says, no, leave your, leave your, your offering there.
You say, well, I'm just going to go on with the Lord. I can't. That's water under the bridge. That's that's happened so many and he says no, leave it there if you really value.
Fellowship with me, if you really value being able to give me something, go and clear that up and then come back. I I still want it, but I want you to be enriched by that 5th part and I want your brother to be enriched, perhaps just for a little while. The separation came in this hard feeling, but that you might receive him forever.
Forever.
Verse 16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother, beloved, especially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh.
And in the Lord, is it possible? Is it possible to to?
To think, to, to have the to know this brother, this one, there was, there's such feeling between us to actually for it to end up that he's my beloved brother. I'm closer to him than many others. I believe that this is the encouragement for that.
Well.
I think we we get the gist of this. Let's just finish verse 22.
But with all prepare me a lodging for I trust that through your prayers.
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I shall be given unto you.
Brethren were almost there.
We're almost at home.
What will it be?
When we look into his eyes.
The first time.
Will it make a difference if we made it right with our brother, our sis?
It will.
It will repair mealogen.
Going to see you soon. May the Lord give us grace.
To be enriched by that 5th part.
For the glory of God.
Thou mightest receive him forever.
I just want to read some scripture that.
Into my mind during the Sunday school this morning. The children's meeting.
In connection with broken connections.
But more importantly, with.
Those connections that are broken as a result of death.
And, umm.
Not talking about the physical death.
But death?
Of friendships.
Broken relationships.
And what causes them?
We have a verse in Proverbs chapter 18.
Verse 21.
Says death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Connection with that we can go to James.
James Chapter 3.
And we'll start in verse 2 for In Many things.
We all, we offend all. If any man offend not in Word, the same is a perfect man.
And able and able also to bridle his the whole body.
Behold, we put bits in the horse's mouth.
That they may obey us, and we turn the whole body.
Behold also the ships.
Which, though they may be great, are driven of fierce winds.
And are they turned about with a very small helm?
Withers, however, the governor listed.
Even so, the Tongue is a little member and boasts his great things.
Behold how great a manner a little fire kindle it.
The tongue is a fire.
A roll of iniquity.
So is the tongue among our members.
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The file is the whole body and set us on fire.
The course of nature.
And it is set on fire. It is set on fire of hell.
For every kind of beast.
Of the birds, and of the serpents, and of the things in the sea is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind.
But the tongue can no maintain.
It is an unruly evil.
Full of deadly poison.
Therewith bless we God.
Even the Father and therewith.
Curse we men.
Which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing.
My brethren, these things ought not to be.
Proverbs.
16.
Verse 28.
A forward man so a strife and a whispereth separate his chief friends.
Another verse.
In Exodus.
In connection with James.
Exodus chapter 22.
And verse 6.
If fire break out.
And catchin thorns.
So that the stacks of corn.
Or the standing corn.
Or the field be consumed therewith. He that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
I want to read that verse in James again.
Is helpful for me to.
Read it in a different translation.
Because I believe it's a little bit more clear.
Verse 2.
Of James chapter 3.
For we all stumble in many ways.
And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man.
Able to bridle the whole body as well.
The word all does not allow any of us to escape responsibility for the things that we have said.
And I think that's very important to keep in mind that we are all.
In need of forgiveness for things that we have said and that we are all responsible for the things that we have destroyed and the relationships and the friendships that we had killed.
Not one of us is perfect.
I was reminded.
By a brother in our home assembly.
That our Lord was slandered. Our Lord was mocked.
So should we expect anything?
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More for ourselves.
I want to read another verse.
I can't place it right now.
Paul has two sisters that are at odds if someone can help me find it. And he asked for the help of others to help bring reconciliation to them.
Philippians 4.
Philippians 4. We'll start in verse one. Therefore, my brethren, dearly beloved, and longed for my joy and crown to stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
I beseech Eureus and I beseech can't pronounce his name, apologize that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
And I treat thee also. True yoke fellows, help these women which labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also.
And with other my yoke fellow laborers whose names are in the book of life.
So even in the work of reconciliation in the assembly itself.
Each member is a res is responsible.
To intercede on behalf of others who may be divided.
Who may have been offended?
Who may have offended other people?
To help them.
For the sake of the Gospel.
But a few moments left here and has been evident to most everyone here. Comments today, umm, centered around reconciliation of some type.
And, umm, reference was made by the last speaker to the Sunday school this morning and, uh, this morning, I believe we looked at, umm, uh, scripture here in Genesis Chapter 3 in connection with, with uh, Adam and Eve. And, uh, we've enjoyed the thought of fellowship here in these meetings.
And umm, you know, sometimes it's hard for us to grasp that, but I was thinking of the fellowship that we enjoyed.
Umm, or was brought to our attention, uh, during the meetings about, uh, fellowship with the Father and the Son, and certainly this morning, umm, as we remembered the Lord, uh, in his death. I'm thankful that we in a measure, can share God's thoughts, umm.
As to his son, his person and his work, he.
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Umm, epitome of fellowship.
And umm, just to close on a, on a note of comfort, perhaps, umm, I might just read uh again a little bit here in, in Genesis and then a couple scriptures in the New Testament to umm, acknowledge.
The UMM reconciliation that has been made for us, umm, by our Lord Jesus.
And so we had in the lesson about Adam and Eve and the efforts of the serpent to.
Umm, lie, deceive, uh, Eve and why she umm, obeyed that voice and her husband as well, Adam. And what do we find here in the third chapter of Genesis? Umm.
Uh, they heard in verse 8, uh, the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. Well, not sure I grasped this all correctly, but I believe it's correct to say that.
God delighted to have fellowship with His creature.
And umm, he was walking in the garden, in the cool in the day. And where were Adam and his wife?
Umm and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
And so it is sin has separated, hath separated man from God, and they hit God hadn't gone anywhere.
And so that being said, we had little ministry in these meetings about, uh, as our brother said, propitiation is a big word. And, uh.
I'd like to turn in that, uh, light to, uh, first Peter.
Umm.
First Peter, the third chapter.
Verse 18 This is a verse that was set forth by others to umm have contained in it 3 vital truths.
And uh.
Thankful for the help given and I just passed this on. Many are familiar with this. UMM, for Christ also hath once suffered for sins. So we had defined before us what it was for the Lord Jesus, that aspect of His sacrifice that satisfied a righteous and holy God. I believe that first phrase depicts that.
He hath once suffered for sins, that which was God word in that work.
The just or the unjust?
Was that portion that spoke of substitution. We had much in our remembrance meeting this morning that we were rejoicing for the, umm, completeness of that work of the Lord Jesus taking our sins upon Himself and them being, uh, fully dealt with in those three hours of darkness.
But then there's this last expression that touches on reconciliation.
That he might bring us to God.
And so, as our brothers were commenting on various things that come in to hinder fellowship amongst one another, how much more serious umm for sin to have come in and separated us from God, and how thankful we can be that.
He will have a uh.
Companion for all eternity. And so let's look at Romans in closing here.
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The 5th chapter of Romans.
I'm sure we've all enjoyed these, uh, these scriptures.
For various reasons.
And we touched on the love of God in verse 5.
What a wonderful thing to.
Experience that too, and measure, comprehend it. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die yet per adventure for a good man.
Some would even dare to die, but God commendeth His love toward us.
In that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more than being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
For when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son.
Earlier.
The some of the comments described individuals being at odds and coming together and trying to reconcile themselves.
We see clearly here.
Umm.
Who is at fault?
Fault was all.
One sided, wasn't it?
And uh.
Grace was as well, for when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son. Much more being reconciled, we built shall be saved by his life. Not only soul, but we also joy in God.
To our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation it should be.
And so as we've enjoyed these meetings and been reminded of what a privilege it is to be.
Umm brought into the family of God, and to be even more so, may the sun.
And.
Enjoy those privileges of sonship would not be possible if it wasn't for this complete work of the Lord Jesus.
Those 3 aspects, the propitiation, the substitution and this reconciliation.
So we've enjoyed in measure.
Oh, fellowship with one another, fellowship with the Father and with the Son. As we've opened the word together, we've began this meeting by singing of a severe UMM.
Where that, uh, fellowship will go on, umm, unhindered by those things of the flesh that our brothers have been seeking to address here this afternoon.
Well, uh, just, uh, trust, we're all encouraged by what has been done for us in the place of privilege we've been brought into to draw with confidence in his presence for now and for all eternity. His close with one other scripture that comes to mind that speaks of that privilege position.
And, uh, was in the epistle.
That we took up this week first, John in Chapter 4 speaks of the position I believe that we have now.
If we contemplate the position that the Lord Jesus has at God's right hand.
First John chapter 4 and verse 17.
Herein, as our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment.
Because as he is.
So are we in this world?
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It's just God our Father.
Thankful for thy precious words and.
How does the search of the Lord, especially in view of the fact that we are soon going to be raptured into eternal glory?
See thy blessed faith.
Lord Jesus, to be ready for that supreme moment, that it may be with real joy that we we meet the Lord in the end. In the meantime, help us now, gracious Father. And we're thankful for our dear brother and we've had us here. Bless them. Lord bless the preaching of the Gospel this evening too. In the name of our Lord Jesus, we pray, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.