Address—John Bilisoly
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Well, I'd like to sing together part of a hymn 234.
And.
The whole hem is nice but I think forsake of time I'd like to sing the 1St, 3rd and 5th stanzas of 234 if someone would raise the tune for us.
We're not of the world.
Trade and the way.
We're not on.
Our children.
All day.
A change at once found us by Jesus.
Are in.
Where strangers honors.
Our Shepherd is still alive.
And God.
Before us he goes.
To love and grow white.
The springs that we precious from heaven we're given.
Our grandson.
And soon shall we answer our own promise.
When?
A round is right, wrong, and glory shall stand.
Forever.
And ever child being all morning and blessing for Jesus.
Well, I think I can certainly say for my wife Carmen and I, and no doubt I'm echoing the thoughts of others, that it certainly has been good to be here.
And I feel like, for myself at least, it's been one of those mountaintop experiences as we speak of. And how good of the Lord to give them to us. And we also can conjure up the image of.
Basking by the still waters in the pastures I I feel like we've we've had food that have has encouraged us.
I've we're dry in Colorado right now, so it's been nice to drive back and forth from the hotel to the facility here and see the green pastures and the cow here and there grazing. I just, I've enjoyed that they they look lush. So I just think of what we've had and certainly we can say it's been Bush, can't we, brethren?
I just.
Wish we could stay in these conditions, if you will. There's a reticence with us, I'm sure, to to go back and to leave. But we know that we have been called to walk through this wilderness with the Lord, and so He helps us. And yet we're so thankful for these little Oasis along the way.
I I know that.
There's things that we're going to go back to that exercise us, each of us.
Perhaps personal things, perhaps things in our assemblies that cast us on the Lord and and that certainly is good. But it's been nice to, as it were, be able to lay things aside and and just enjoy this time together, fellowship together and with with our Lord and Speaking of him and enjoying him.
I.
Hesitate in some ways to take up this subject because.
In some ways it's a contrast, but I hope I can do it and still encourage us to press on because it is a reality. And that is I would like to speak about the world.
In the sense of it being an enemy to our souls. And so we've often heard that we have three enemies that might have been mentioned in these meetings.
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Satan, the world in the flesh and I want to take up the world and what characterizes it and.
Hopefully with looking at some Old Testament examples of how we might see something in type anyway, of how we confront this world that we're in, we can't deny that we are in the world. We have to, we have to live in it and the Lord himself.
And John 17 there speaks to his father and asks that not that he would take us out of the world, that he might preserve us in the world.
And so that's, I think our desire for one another is that we would be preserved.
So maybe with that introduction, we could just turn to 1St John Chapter 2, and I'm going to just read a few passages from a few portions of Scripture to kind of.
Set set the scene before us here concerning this subject of the world. It's again, these subjects are meetings in themselves. And so I'm going to just share some things with you that that I've enjoyed that have been an encouragement to my heart and certainly by no means am I going to give you a a good.
What would we say? Doctrinal lecture on the world? I just want to be practical for myself.
And so and for each of us. And so let's turn to Second John, Chapter 2.
Where we have in verse 15.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world. The lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God.
Abideth forever. So we're given these three characteristics that we've often heard.
That characterized this world that we're in, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. And I want to take up those three and apply them, as I said, using.
Old Testament accounts in type and how we confront these aspects or these characteristics of the world that we live in.
Now go to Genesis chapter 3.
And these accounts are so familiar with this, but I'll just read a few verses in the chapter, beginning at the verse one of Genesis 3. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yeah, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent.
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said.
He shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die, for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God it should be, knowing good and evil.
Now I think we have these characteristics that we read of in second John two or first John two in this next verse, verse 6. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, we might apply that to the lust of the eyes. I'm sorry, the lust of the flesh. She looks at this tree and she sees that it's good for food.
Had she not been provided abundantly with food, she certainly had.
God had so abundantly provided for Adam and Eve. Just think of everything in its pristine condition before sin and the lushness of whatever it was that was edible that God had given them. They had abundance and more.
But she sees something that had been forbidden.
And the lust of the flesh.
Is activated the next thing?
And that it was pleasant to the eyes.
Oh, she takes it in.
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And how subtle the enemy is.
He stirs things up.
And often.
He puts a thought in the mind, and then the lust of the eyes.
And then the next thing that we read is and a tree to be desired to make one wise, oh wisdom.
That would be nice to have that.
I could be wise. I could be as God. That's what the enemy had told her.
Isn't it something how he works?
Something that.
Wisdom, something that is so useful, we're thankful for it.
But when it's outside of what God gives, this is what happens as we know the story well.
She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
Well, I'm going to stop there in that account.
We know the awful results of heating the voice, the whispers of the enemy, and giving in to these principles, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, and they plunge the human race into sin.
And then let's go over to Luke chapter 4.
For a beautiful contrast to this.
We've read about the fall of the 1St man.
That succumbed to these principles of the world.
But then we read of the Lord Jesus, that perfect man, and we see him in this 4th chapter of Luke being tested as a man. Now it says that I'll just read a few verses in verse four of chapter 4, starting with verse one. And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness.
Being 40 days tempted of the devil and in those days he did eat nothing.
And when they were ended, he afterward hungered, And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone, that it be made bread.
And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written that man shall not live by bread alone.
But by every word of God. And the devil, taking him up into a high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee.
And the glory of them, For that is delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou wilt, therefore, if thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. And Jesus answered and said unto him, And I'm going to skip here, said unto him, It is written, Thou shalt not. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence.
For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up.
Lest at anytime thou dash thy foot.
Against a stone. And Jesus answering, said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.
I think we're aware and have been told that this count of the Lord's temptation in the wilderness is given to us by Matthew.
Mark and Luke, but not John. I think it's so fitting there.
He's the Son of God. He doesn't need to be tested as a man in this way. So he, we don't have this in in John's Gospel. And if you look at Luke's or in Matthew's account, it's a little different. The first one is the same, but then Matthew switches the order of the other two. And perhaps again, that's more fitting with what Matthew is bringing before us, being more of a dispensational gospel.
And how the Lord has tested there as a man, as He is here in this first temptation.
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And then in Matthew's account, he's tested as the Messiah, the one to whom the promises were given, and then he's tested as the Son of Man. So we see that order in Matthew, but here in Luke, it's what we call an moral order, and it follows the order of what John brought before us in the second chapter of his epistle, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes.
And the pride of life. And I think each of these without taking.
Much time to develop them.
Answer to those things.
Certainly the Lord as a man.
He was hunger in in hunger. It says that here afterwards, he afterward hungered at the end of verse two, he felt this. He was 40 days tempted of the devil in the wilderness. Now we're not told anything about those 40 days.
The Spirit of God veils it to us as to what took place. They were temptations that were, perhaps we could say, peculiar to the Lord Himself.
And.
Satan, as it were, tests him for that period of of testing, 40 days. And we can't imagine what that must have been like to be tested day after day relentlessly by this enemy. But the blessed Lord Jesus, he never wavered. He never wavered, did he? Now if we were to look at Mark's account.
All Mark speaks of is the 40 days.
But then he adds something, he says, and he was with the wild beasts in the wilderness. I've pondered on that. I don't feel like I have very much. But I will just say this, that if we were to look, take the time to look at.
What was committed to Adam? He was given dominion over the beasts of the field, the birds of the air. So Adam is given this dominion, you might say, over the lower creation.
But sin comes in through Adam's fall and.
All is spoiled, and so we know no doubt, that.
The beasts became wild after the fall of man and no doubt preyed upon one another. So God comes in with a flood, and he destroys the earth, and then he raises up Noah, and we're told there in the ninth of Genesis that Noah is given dominion.
Over the beasts and the birds and so on. But Noah, we know, fails to.
And so the first man has failed, and now we see a world in the lower creation of violence and praying upon one another, and so on bloodshed.
It's all the result of man's fall but this blessed one, the Lord Jesus.
He can be there among the wild beasts, and they cannot touch him.
He's their creator.
They're powerless to follow their instincts from the fallen man. They're powerless. He's there among the wild beasts. I don't know. I'd like to hear someone's thoughts on that. I just enjoyed that, that this one, this perfect man could be among them. No Fear not subject to their their.
Fallen instincts, you might say.
But he could be there in perfect peace.
Well, I just enjoyed this first one here where he's tempted to.
Provide for himself. And as we've had brought out here, the Lord Jesus never did anything that eased his pathway, did he? He always walked in perfect obedience to the Father. And we have in the second one here the devil taking him up and showing him all the in a high mountain and showing him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Offering them to him, well, they're going to be his in the coming day. He wouldn't take them prematurely.
And certainly not from an adversary like the devil.
No, he's going to have them all. They're going to be given to him. They're his by title and right. And then we have this, taking him to the temple and tempting him to cast himself down, counting upon the angels to bear him up.
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I don't know exactly.
What that all signifies, but perhaps doing something spectacular, coming and appearing suddenly in the temple.
To gain the the notice of his creature man, would the Lord do that? No.
No, he, he won't. He won't respond to any of these temptations. Everything that Satan had used against the 1St man, that man had fallen in the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. This blessed man stands firm.
He could say in John's Gospel chapter 14 that the Prince of this world Speaking of the devil.
Cometh and hath nothing in me. That is, there's nothing that the enemy Satan could point out as a fault, as a failing, as a stumbling with that blessed one. He was maintained perfectly. He was sinless. He was without sin in this world.
What a wonderful one we have for an example, and perhaps that's one of the reasons.
That he quotes in each of these cases from the book of Deuteronomy. He responds to Satan from the book of Deuteronomy. We know that Deuteronomy, by the time we get to Deuteronomy, the children of Israel had failed miserably under the law that was given. They could not keep it. They were guilty and so they have to be taken up.
More on the principle of grace.
And not the righteousness of the law, because the righteousness of the law would have judged them and condemned them. So God takes them up on a different principle, principle of grace, just like he's taken us up on. And so I think, I think I remember being told that the the name Deuteronomy signifies a second law.
So Israel had miserably failed under the law.
The law of Moses. And so God takes them up in a different way, not pure law. It would have condemned them. But the Lord Jesus, He doesn't succumb in any way to these efforts of the enemy. What a wonderful one we have to follow. And so I think it was Mr. Kelly that said something like that. He quotes from the book of Deuteronomy.
So that we might be able to follow him.
We.
We can follow in the steps of the Lord Jesus with His help. We couldn't, certainly can't, do it in our own strength. The natural man could not resist the temptation of Satan.
But with the Lord's help, we can follow in His footsteps. And so how gracious of the Lord to to quote from that book.
In refuting these efforts of enemy, the enemy Satan to tempt him. Well, now I just want to look at these examples in the Old Testament that and just make an application to dealing with each of these principles, we might say of characterize the world.
The first one being the lust of the flesh. So maybe if we could turn over to Numbers chapter 25 to begin.
And I might mention that the judgment in each of these examples that I would like to make application from the judgments are severe.
And death has to come in in each of these cases.
And so the wages of sin is death, isn't it?
The wages of sin is death. So we have in Numbers 25, and I'm not going to read a lot of these. I'm going to skip a little because I think we're familiar with these. But the chapter begins with Israel abode in Shaddam. And the people began to commit ******** with the daughters of Moab. And they called the people under the sacrifices of their God gods. And the people did eat and bow down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto.
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PR and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the Son.
That the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel. And Moses said unto the judges of Israel.
Stay everyone slagy, everyone his man, men that were joined unto Baal Peor. And behold, one of the children of Israel came, and brought unto his brethren Amy and knightish woman, in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the Tabernacle of the congregation. And when Finnehas the son of Eliezer the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation.
Took a javelin in his hand and he went in and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through the mount of Israel and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel and those that died in the plague.
Or 20 and 4000 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Finna has the son of Eliezer the son of Aaron The priest hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. Wherefore say, behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace.
And there should be an exclamation mark there at the end of that sentence.
And he shall have it and his seat after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God and made an atonement for the children of Israel. Well, I would like to apply this. I'm going to call it a mighty act. I'm going to call this a mighty act for God's glory.
He.
Acted, didn't he? And as a result it says that the plague was staged. Just think of how many more would have perished had not.
Elliott Finne has perhaps a younger man, I don't know what his age might have been, but he acts for the Lord's glory. This is a godly act of valor for God's glory. And so he it's if, if it wasn't recorded for us in the Word of God, you would shrink from reading such an account.
But it just shows that the seriousness of of before the Lord of what the lust of the flesh is and how it needs to be treated. And Finna has acts for the Lord's glory and saves many of his brother's lives.
It says he's given a covenant of peace. I think that's beautiful.
To think of what he had to do, and yet the result of it was peace.
A covenant of peace.
And so I've just for myself, for each of us.
The lust of the flesh.
Is a mighty tool of the enemy of our souls.
And we need to treat it, you might say, in all of the vengeance that Finna has displays here.
Because if we don't.
We know that it's it's something that continues and the plague spreads, doesn't it? And so how important that this be, as it were, stopped the very source.
So I I just think of this, it mentions a covenant of an everlasting priesthood.
Don't profess to understand all of these things, but I've just enjoyed this this covenant of peace that is given to him.
As a result of his act, that which you would say naturally was anything but.
What you would think would generate peace on his part?
That's what is given to him, this covenant of peace.
And So what a mighty act, a godly act of valor for the Lord's glory on the part of this this man. Now let's go to the next one.
In First Samuel chapter 15.
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First Samuel, chapter 15.
Again, we won't read all of the account.
But we're familiar with it enough that I can skip from skip over some verses, so we'll start again at the beginning of the chapter.
Samuel also said unto Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people.
Over Israel now, therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts. I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ***. And Saul gathered the people together and numbered them.
In to Liam 200,000.
Footman and 10,000 men of Judah and Saul came to a city of Amalek and laid weight in the valley. Now let's skip down to verse seven. And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest assure that is over against Egypt. And he took a gag, the king of the Amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
Basal and the people spared a gag.
And the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them, but everything that was vile and refuge that they destroyed utterly.
Then the word of the Lord came into Samuel, saying, He repenteth me, that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments, and aggrieved Samuel, and he cried unto the Lord.
All night. And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set him up a place, and has gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal. And Samuel came to Saul. And Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the Lord, I have performed the commandment of the Lord. And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleeding of the sheep, and mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen, which I heard?
And Saul said.
They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God, and the rest we have utterly destroyed. Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the Lord has said to me this night. And he said unto him, Stay on.
And so on. Well, I believe that we have.
That perhaps what would answer to.
That second characteristic of the world, the lust of the eyes. You know, Saul had been given a very specific word from the Lord to utterly destroy Amalek and all that was his, all the sheep and the oxen, and so on. Nothing was to be spared. Verse 9. But what does he do?
He thinks that he's wiser than the word of the Lord from Samuel.
I'm going to spare the best lust of the eyes.
This enemy was a real enemy.
And this was referred to in the conference here, Amalek, we have that account when Israel was first coming into the land or headed towards the land, into the wilderness, I should say. They encounter Amalek in Exodus 17 there.
And I think Amalek is a picture to us of the activity of Satan working through the flesh.
And we have the lust of the eyes here.
Amalek was to be utterly destroyed. That's what Saul was told.
To utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not, but slay them both, man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep.
Camel and house Sounds harsh, doesn't it?
Everything was to be destroyed.
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But Amalek is such a dangerous enemy.
Just that insidious working, working through our flesh, that which we think is good.
That which we might say is, oh, this looks OK, this is all right. Be careful, Be careful. If Amalek is behind it, it's not good. It will bring us down. It was the result of Saul's downfall.
Because of it.
The Kingdom was going to be rent away from him because of his failure.
And if we don't judge the lust of the eyes, it's going to.
Cause failure in our lives.
We need to treat it.
Severely.
Saul wasn't willing to do that. He thought better. He thought, well, surely I can spare a gig. I don't know what it was about a gig.
That appealed to him. Perhaps it was.
His position. He was a king. Perhaps it was his attire, perhaps it was a number of things, but in Saul's reasoning mind, he would spare him, and he would spare the best of the animals for sacrifices. But that's not what he was told to do.
And so he has to be told that.
In verse 22 hath the Lord his great delight and burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fatter Rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
And so it doesn't matter what we think, does it? Along these lines, we're to obey the word of God.
And we're told it's explicitly not to fulfill the lusts of the flesh. And we'll end with some verses when we get to that, that bring that out.
But I want to go to the end of this chapter and read the end of this concerning a gag because I think it's so instructive to us.
Verse 32 Then said Samuel, he's speaking to Saul and he says, bring me, bring ye hit her to me. A gag, the king of the Amalekites.
An egg came unto him delicately, and a gag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past now. This is what I take from that. I don't know. I'd be happy for someone to share a different thought with me, but I believe that in a sense, a gag is thinking to himself.
Well, Saul spared me, and now he's standing before this man. He's an old man.
Saul was head and shoulders above the people. So here's Saul, this big imposing man that could have taken his life and was supposed to in obedience to the Lord, but he spared him. So if he spared me, then surely this old more feeble looking man, I'm probably OK here. I think I've passed the bitterness of death that that's what I take from this.
Surely the bitterness of death has passed.
But little did he know that this little man.
Perhaps feeble looking man.
Was going to reckon with him in a way that must have been a shock.
And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made children women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed egg in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
I find that.
Very moving in a way to think of this man. I don't know if we ever read of Samuel carrying a sword. I don't know where this sword came from.
But to Samuel, it was going to be the sword of the Lord's deliverance from this enemy. And he doesn't just kill him, he hews him in pieces.
And I don't want to carry the these things too far, but I've just I've just thought of this that.
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When Samuel is finished with this enemy, this mighty enemy that was such a plague to Israel, he's unrecognizable. He's hewed in pieces before the Lord and Gilgal I just and then Gilgal is brought in there too. But I just thought of this the.
Godly act of valor on the part of Samuel.
For the Lord's glory he hews Agag in pieces.
Well may it speak to us concerning this aspect of the world, the lust of the eyes.
Want to look at one more?
To finish out this, the pride of life. And for that let's let's go to stay in, let's go back to judges.
Chapter 4.
And this is the story that we're very familiar with of Deborah and Barrick.
And a woman named Jail.
We've had a nice word for our sisters the last reading meeting.
And I think.
This.
Chapter is has much encouragement to take it in a spiritual way for our sisters, but I'll just read a few verses here to to bring the scene before us. Verse one and the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord.
When Ehood was dead, and the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabun, king of Canaan, and that reigned in Hazor, the captain of whose host was Cicero, which dwelt in Hirosheth of the Gentiles. And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, for he had 900 Chariots of iron, and 20 years he mightily oppress the children of Israel.
Well, I'm not going to read all of the rest of it leading up to.
Jails act, but we know that.
In verse 13 it says sister had gathered together all his Chariots, even 900 Chariots of iron, and the people that were were with him from Hirosath of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishan.
And Deborah said unto Barrick, Up For this is the day in which the Lord hath delivered Cicero into thy hand. Is not the Lord gone out before thee? So Barrack went down from Mount Tabor, and 10,000 men after him. And the Lord discomforted Cicero and all his chariot Chariots and his host with the edge of the sword before Barrick, so that Cicero lighted down from his chariot and fled away on his feet. But Barrick pursued after the Chariots and after the host.
Unto haroseth, and so on.
Verse 17. Now Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of jail, the wife of Hebrew the Kenite.
For there was peace between Jabe and the king of Hazel, and the House of Hebrew. The Kenite and jail went out to meet Cicero, and said unto him, Turn in my Lord, turn in to me, fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him again. He said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be. When any man doth come, inquire thee, and say, Is there any man here? Thou shalt say no a jail. Hebrews wife took a nail of the tent, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smoked the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground, for he was fast asleep and weary so.
Died. And so we see then that there's a song that is sung. I think it's the only song in a book of judges. And it's kind of a pinnacle in the book, a book that has.
Lots of ups and downs for the children of Israel. And she's spoken of here. She's given a place of honor. And you know, I, I thought of this in connection with that.
Last aspect of this world, the pride of life. Oh, that's a, that's a hard one. It's one that affects all of us, I believe, and continues to affect us. I know our brother John had a little text up here or one of his visual aids there to have the word pride on it with the letter.
I The tallest of the letters, The middle letter of the word pride.
My dad had a little similar text in his study. It was shaped like a diamond and the letters got bigger and bigger and the the I and the word pride was the largest. Then they went back down and he had it right above his door on the inside of his study. And I asked him about it one time and he why he put it there because it was kind of.
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A strange place, There wasn't much room between the top of the door and the ceiling that he had made a little study in the basement of it.
Our house in Corner Brook, NL, and maybe some of you have been in that study, but he told me it was to remind him whenever he went out of there that pride was a terrible thing. And it is, isn't it? And I, I think of this here in connection with Jails Act. What does she do? She puts that nail through his temple.
That might which might speak of man's intellect, his head.
She fastens it to the ground. She takes his life with a nail and a hammer, and as it were, destroys that pride, the pride of man well.
Perhaps it's a feeble application, but I've thought of those 3.
Godly acts of valor on the part of these three different individuals.
To deal with these.
These characteristics of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the lust of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. Well may the Lord encourage us as we go on.
To.
See these things for what they are and that we too might have that energy, that godly energy to deal with these things. Let's just turn in closing to a few verses in Galatians chapter 5.
And I want to end on more encouraging note here, so.
In Galatians chapter 5.
It says.
Verse 16 Walk in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
And so on. And then we have the fruit of the Spirit brought before us.
At the end of the chapter. But the fruit of the Spirit is Lovejoy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Against such there is no law.
Verse 25 if we live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit. May the Lord encourage us in that I want to just end with.
A Verse of a Hymn, 318.
O Lamb of God, still keep us close to thy pierced side.
Tis only there in safety and peace we can abide With foes and snares around us and lusts and fears within. The grace that sought and found us alone can keep us clean. I think we'll just read sing that first stanza. So again, if someone would raise that that tune.
Up last year. I'll still your eye here. I hear the sense I'm here since I've been, since I've been, since I did. It's only parents lately.