Address—N. Berry
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I like to commence our meeting this afternoon with.
Few verses of 225 two 2/5.
It seems of confusion.
And creature complaints.
How sweet to the soul.
Is communion with Saints defined at the banquet of mercy? There's room to feel in communion A foretaste alone, sweet bonds that unite all the children of peace and Christ blessed Savior.
There was a lot of cannabis seats though off the mid trials and dangers we were with thine We're United and Hastings doors for the same verse 3.
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You never sing. Sing.
Sing.
We.
Bless the Lord.
You.
It is to try.
To save glory.
Save your.
Prayer.
But you turn first of all with me to a little book in the Old Testament and.
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Daniel Ozil, Joel Hence.
Chapter 3.
Verse 3.
Amos 3/3.
Can two walk together?
Accept they be agrees.
Very plain work. The context in the number of questions that they answer is no.
And that everyone sits on my heart. I trust I have it from the Lord to see.
About walking.
With and in Christ together.
And we look at a few scriptures from the New Testament, first of all to get the proper.
Christian teaching on this, then by God's grace we will look, as I am very fond of doing, into the Old Testament and draw those sublime pictures that illustrate so fully and so satisfactorily those deep truths that are revealed in the New Testament.
So we're going to be speaking about.
Two walking together and the absolute need, the sensuality I'd say, of being in agreement to have one object before US1 object, and that is the Blessed Lord Jesus Christ.
Whether it is in a family life, husband and wife, there can be no walking together unless there is agreement.
Than any doesn't say can any can two walk together except they be agreed?
1St Corinthians 110 says Below, I I beseech you by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that have been all divisions amongst you, but that you be perfectly united together in the same judgment and the same opinion. Beloved ones, we are in difficult days, and I stand years and older brothers, a father who might say, and I tremble as I just think possibly if the Lord's delay for a little while longer until the last one is, is saved.
Of the difficulties and the confusion that you younger brothers and sisters are going to face, and you fathers and mothers too, in bringing up your children, to be feeding them on that through which will unite them to you and trust.
But I'd like to lay the foundation on when two walk together. Well, there has to be a grief one and the other. So let's look at the first one now, the one with whom you and I desire to walk. That is the Lord Jesus Christ. So let's turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 6.
And verse 16616. Second Fernandez. Now here is the one side. Beautiful, sublime words. I'm going to have to go rapidly over this and I would just ask that you bear with me if I sometimes just quote a verse, give you a reference or otherwise the readings. Now here. It's a very important part.
The Lord side of this two walking together in the middle of verse 16 as God hath said. Now this is these are the words of God. I will dwell in them and walk in.
This is God's side. This is beloved ones who are living their face. I don't want to be giving. I want to be talking strange to us. To each one of us. Fear, harmony to your conscience.
This is a promised Beloved Ones. We're living in dark, dark days. And here the Lord says I will walk in you. Some of the old Ones will remember Captain Dunlop, long since with the Lord. He made one remark that time. Well, remember, that is the thing that keeps me in communion from day-to-day, is the consciousness of the Lord's head, and is on my head.
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There is an example of blocking.
In the consciousness that the Lord is walking in with us here side by side. But hints how do you hence one side? Now what about your side? What about my side? Colossians, chapter 2.
And verse 6.
As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord.
So walk ye.
In and soul walk to me.
The state to use dear young ones here this afternoon. You're walking in Christ.
I'm not going to be talking about the circumstances that you may be in. You might say they're very difficult. They're very difficult. We realize that the dangerous days that which Paul warned are here, they're on us and they're not getting any better. My son was saying it's not only getting worse, but it's getting worse faster. And beloved ones, we need to be scraping in ourselves in Christ.
Walking with a good conscience with and in the consciousness that the Lord is walking in thee, and I in Christ.
Now we'll look at.
Beautiful illustration to me of two men who walked.
Ones name is Joshua and that's the Hebrew word. That same word in the New Testament is Jesus.
The other one was Caleb his.
Name means a dog that some of us recall and we heard a little bit this morning of what that is a picture of that unclean animal. This is what you and I are by nature. I don't be thinking about that from which we've been dig. Yes it's necessary be conscious of it. But all beloved ones what are we in Krutz We stand in all his perfection in the sight of God. Hebrews 10/14 says for by one offering.
At the perfected forever, then that aren't sanctified.
Look into your faces, beloved ones, and realize that if you are one of those of belonging to the Lord Jesus Christ, you stand in all the perfection of Christ. And if we are occupied, I can put it this way, If we're occupied with our state of soul, it tends to depress us, or we listen to those about us there is liable to be discouraged.
But oh, if you and I each day just remind ourselves of that perfect standing that we have in Christ, what will be the result of it? Beloved ones, my state will come up. This is what I want to do to you with God's grace this afternoon, to draw your hearts affections more and more to that one with whom we walk in this hostile world that hasn't got a thought for God.
And getting worse and worse. Oh, may we learn a lesson from these two men of the turnover now in Numbers, Chapter 13, and look briefly into this story.
Numbers 30.
The corner of Egypt.
We built the Tabernacle and they've gone up to go into Israel, southern end of it. Moses the leader. Jesus, one man from each tribe mentioned there that early part of the chapter. The names of each 15012 names.
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Your name may not be very prominent, you would say. Well, here they were just 12 men. But look at two of them. Look at two verse.
8th of the tribe of Ephraim.
Or Joshua.
Verse.
Six of the tribe of Judah.
These men.
Are scarring you now.
With a Commission. And that is to go and search the land that's so poor that should be used rather than spy the land. Search the land. It was a little indication of lacking in faith, because in Exodus 6 God made seven promises. I will take you out of the land of Egypt and so on. Not a word about the wilderness, but I will lead you into the land. Those were the promises.
That no doubt were in some of the minds of these ones, Caleb included. And so these 12 men go off and they make a very interesting circle of the whole of the land of Israel. What does the land of Israel mean to you and to me? It's a picture of our present day enjoyment in possession of the truth that is ours forever. Ephesians One and Three, God's blessed us with every blessing we're ever going to have in the heavenlies. You dear, young.
Boys and girls, I just trust that it grasps your soul that you are one of those chosen ones. These were just 12 men to search out the land. We're going to be searching out the land a little bit. I want to occupy with us with our heavenly portion. Our heavenly portion. Not later. Now Ephesians one they call praise and his prayer. I sometimes call it a then prayer. He speaks in that first prayer.
Of the glories that will be, and that we might be in that enjoyment of it. But the third chapter he speaks of the inner another prayer longer. And this prayer I call the now prayer. And it is so profitable for us to look into those things and to see that was longer and both so filled with blessing. Dear young people, are you reading? Are you feeding on this book for yourself?
It has your errors. I think it was or our berserk sees the heathen king in the days of Ezra. He said to Ezra one day he said that which you have in your hand is the wisdom of God. As for 7/25, I think it is.
The wisdom of God, all beloved ones. Do we realize that we have in our hands the Wiz of almighty God and the love and the grace that He has imparted. To you and to me, Dear young ones, I urge you read the precious words. Look into the Old Testament stories. My father brought me up on his knee telling me those Old Testament stories. I never forgot them. He was taken when I was just.
A young lad. But I never lost that love for these beautiful stories. So here are these 12 men.
Expectant and they weren't disappointed. They saw a land that flowed with milk and honey.
Been in that land and it surely is that way even now today. And unbelievable land was flowing with milk and honey. And not only did they come back with the words telling of this wonderful land, but they brought the evidence of it in the grapes that they gathered there and.
Say this to you and say it to myself. It's my life, giving it evidence of the fruit of the of heaven.
They brought back the evidence and they said it gave the words notice a few of the words.
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OK, verse 17.
In the middle of verse 17, that's numbers 1317. Get you up this.
Way shelter didn't go up into the mountain and notice this. See the land, see it. Oh, are you seeing what you possess in Christ now Or you're just saying, oh it's such a heart right there, But oh, it's going to be wonderful when I get up there. Relax, You know, beloved ones, he wants you and me to be filled with that joy.
In the present.
See it? Yes. See it. I want to lead you on, if I can, to views of your heavenly fortune with and in Christ. And so he said. And see the land go down to the 22nd verse.
And they ascended by the South, and came unto.
Percent word.
Hebrew.
When Caleb walked by, that land is.
Heartless. Captivated by Hebrew? Does Hebron mean it means communion? So we were seeing communion with Saints. He never forgot.
It remained with him.
When he came back and all the 12 men said it's all happened, it really is so nevertheless.
She's not sad, nevertheless.
Verse 28 nevertheless.
That's unbelief.
That's what you and I are surrounded with compromise. So we're having there in Colossians and then having in Philippians to compromise.
It's the end thing today to compromise here was.
Situation that now is going to separate these two men, Joshua and Caleb.
From the other 10.
Are you prepared to stand against the tide these days when even the truth has been compromised and we've seen it to our sorrow? In the last 3 1/2 years, many have gone off. Where have they gone to? I just say one word. Confusion. It can't be otherwise beloved ones. I'm not saying criticism. My heart bleeds, my artists filled with sorrow for those that are gone away.
But oh, at once are you and I strengthening ourselves for the dark days, if, well, today, or the darker days that may yet be ahead of us before the Lord comes. Nevertheless, 10 men said we're not able. Don't you hear that these days? Too hard in the path, too narrow, too narrow, and it broader paths.
Compromise 2 men Two men stood firmly, but look at one of them. Look at verse 30. How beautiful Caleb still.
Of people I'd like to be a killer.
I like to stay. Stay to.
Steal the Lorde people. I don't want to be a troubler, I want to.
Encourage each one this afternoon.
To go on to be a skiller amongst the gravity, not the compromised 1 oz, but to stand firmly and to be an encouragement to others. They're young ones. They're watching you in the assembly where you're standing firm. Are you a Stiller?
So here, he's still the people.
For Moses and he said in the end of 30 verse 30. For we are well able to overcome.
That confusion, that was confidence. Beloved ones, it's either confusion or confidence. And confidence comes from a single eye on Christ. And that's what Caleb saw. He was captivated by what he saw, and there he saw that.
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Police call Hebrews a beautiful place of being there, a very fruitful area he never forgot. But what was there?
That was a place where the Giants were the very same place.
What does that mean? That means that when you and I are going to be enjoying our ignorance.
Satan just wants to try to get at you, but don't forget this according to the fifth chapter of First Epistle of John.
Says he that is begotten of God, keeps himself, keeps himself.
First, Peter 15 says kept by the power of God, that's the sovereignty side, but the responsibility said says.
Cheats himself. Are you keeping yourself? Do I need to ask? You got to keep me. It says there in the 5th chapter of First Epistle of John keeps himself and what happens and that wicked one touches him. Not meant.
It's not in the student. They attacks by Satan. No beloved ones. If you and I want to go on with a single eye on Christ, there's the guarantee that Satan is not going to be able to get at us. The 14th chapter of John's gospel. The Lord said the Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in need, was nothing in the Lord that Satan could see.
What do I combine?
Suits himself, and we're getting one.
Let's go on now.
Well.
They describe at great length all but difficulties. Everybody would have done it. You hear that these days. Yes, all the problems. Too big. They weren't all giants. That wasn't true at all. Where the blessings were, or what the giants said.
The sons of Ana and the walls were so high they were up to heaven.
In their imagination, difficulties become mountains when we get our eyes off the Lord Jesus and so go down to the next chapter and verse 6.
Notice how the two men are now together, verse 6 and Joshua the son of none and Caleb the son of appearing, which were of them that searched the land.
Rent their clothes and they stake onto all the companies, the children of Israel. They smoke right out there boldly.
They just didn't whisper it to Moses. They spoke a testimony. What kind of a testimony do you have? What kind of a testimony do I have? My life shows how much I really and truly believe the truth of God. Your life does too. And so here was this man.
These two men standing firm together and saying in the seventh verse, the end of it, the land which we passed through to search. It is an exceeding good land. If the Lord delight in us wasn't a question, it's something like Colossians too, if he be risen with Christ, it's not as if, and it's not the question if the Lord delights they He has the confidence and so will you, dear young ones have been over too.
You'll have the courage to stand against the odds that are rising up these days, even the compromise of the truth in the amongst the Lord's peoples. If the Lord delighted us, he.
We're talking about the circumstances, No, All the difficulties. No, he's talking with the Lord.
And he says he will bring us into this land.
And give it us.
The stand in 1996.
For the Lord.
I see young men in our assembly come from.
Such degradation, drugs and so on. Oh, they've been captivated by Christ. They're going on a lovely example of Caleb and Joshua stealing the people and showing the confidence that they have not in themselves. They realize they have very little.
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But it grows.
What about us we worked in, brought up in the truth, or are we living a pillow at once? One thing to know it, but it's another thing as the 11Th chapter of Joshua, which will turn to Jordan. The 11Th chapter, the end of the chapter, says the the land after all that great conquest all the way through the land, the land rusted from war.
The 13th chapter in the first verse the Lord spoke to Joshua, and he said they were all well stricken in years, and there remaineth very much land to be possessed, possessed.
What's the difference? One saying there was no more war, and then the Lord saying much land beat. What's it? Beloved? Once nobody used this as an illustration, you and I, many of us have been brought up in the arms of the assembly, and we have heard precious truths since we were children.
We're living it.
Ready.
The Lord is able.
What about our choke?
Are we an example to our children? Are they following us?
What's following Joshua Joshua picture of Christ?
Are we following the Lord, our children falling in the path? They will. They will if they. If they do, there's zero credit to us, no credit to us. But if they're not I I have to take the blame. Oh beloved ones, I just say this an encouragement to us that to each one of us here, he said. We're well able of confidence.
And then the Lord said.
But then they said we'll go up and take that full of self-confidence. The whole of all the congregation, they said we'll go. They went in their own strength and immediately they were beaten and back they come and God called them together. And he said to them, because you have refused to go into that land to possess it. Possessing the truth is one thing at least having the truth, but possessing it is far is more.
May you and I desire to assess it.
He said everyone that is over 20 years of age.
We're gone. You're going to wander around for those 38 years till everyone was dead.
Caleb and Joshua heard that wasn't very good news, but.
I wasn't going to get into that land that he was thinking, but not. He had to wander around and around. Let's go over to Joshua, Chapter 14.
40 years is over.
They're in the land.
Everyone of those people over 20 is dead, 604,000 men alone.
604,000 deaths in the wilderness, God's governmental judgment. Now let me say this.
Is Israel for you and for me is a picture of a redeemed people? If we look at those Old Testament stories and see Israel as a redeemed people, we learn the lessons from them. And so you and I need to realize this 11 ones. They were all sheltered under the blood.
Of that land that came out of Egypt. They all went through the Red Sea and they were all baptized. But now God's judgment, because they didn't work, They didn't walk. They didn't walk in the tree.
Are we?
But here, the journey is all over. They're in the land.
There wasn't.
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One day of that blistering sun on Caleb and Joshua that turned them aside from their occupation, Caleb, particularly with that land of Hebron. On he went. What about what about all the difficulties that they had? I don't take time to look at it. You turn yourself to Acts Chapter 7 around the middle of around 25 or so.
There it says, the Lord said. Did he offer to me sacrifices?
In the space of those 40 years in the wilderness, No, no. He worshipped the stars and the moon like the garden that was what was surrounding Joshua and Caleb. I say this beloved ones, to encourage you and me to press on. It may be difficult. Granted the Lord is testing us now as we've never been tested before.
Are we going to stand firm from Christ? Caleb and Joshua continued on. And they got into that land now. I don't have much time left. Just look now at 14.
And.
Verse 6.
Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb the son of Jeopardy.
The Keenan's I said unto him, said to Joshua. There they are, the two of them.
Thou knowest the thing that the Lord said unto Moses, the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadish Barnea. Now just quickly to explain what this is.
Caleb never forgot the word of God that was given through Moses to them. You grasping the word of God, is it taking hold of your soul? Is it affecting your life day by day?
Forgive him. And so he says there in verse 714 years ago.
And 40 years I was 40 years old when I with Moses the servant of the Lord, sent me.
Verse 8 Nevertheless, my brethren that went up with me, made me my heart, made the heart of the people melt. But I.
Fully follow the Lord my God six times, beloved ones. This expression appears in the Scripture. God said it, Moses said it.
The word of God just said it, and.
Caleb himself was that pride. No, it wasn't. It was confidence. Like if also could say the followers of me as I am, it was confidence. And here now Caleb is reminding Joshua of a promise made long, long before to give him.
Hebrew.
He laid hold of the promises Are you?
Come on, laying over those promises, those blessings every one of us has, all the blessings we're ever going to have in the glory. Ephesians 1 fours it. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly sin. Christ, they're ours. They're ours, he said. The promise was made to me that I would get that as an inheritance.
Very interesting thing just in closing that these two men Joshua and Caleb as far as I can see in the scriptures for the only two people that received a personal inheritance of land in the scriptures in in the scripture.
He now receives blood that which was before him all through those tortuous years.
Joe and Caleb going on with the same beginning, the same faith, the same courage, the same path and the same destiny.
You remind Joshua, and they say according to the word of God, you haven't.
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Six times. Why doesn't say 7 times? Oh beloved ones? There is because the blessed Lord Jesus is the one who from the beginning of his life to the end totally did the will of the fox. But here we have a man sickness that's a picture of man 6 times and you stand before the Lord. Jesus may be very similar and the books are opened up your life and the Lord reviews your life.
Will he say to you? Well done, you followed me.
To cover that myself, I want to help you, dear young ones, to keep your eye on the price. What about you might say. Well, yes, but then those are those two men. They got pieces there. If you turn to the 19th chapter, will turn to the.
Joshua gets his portion to the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, if you turn to it in the 16th Psalm around verse 5, the Lord could say.
The lines are fallen into me in goodly places. Yeah, I have the goodly inheritance. I'm not Courtney. Exactly right. The Lord Jesus Christ is going to have his inheritance in the glory, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, pleased to dwell in the body of that blessed man who went so low to bring you and me into the riches of the glories of Christ.
We're walking in.
What do we have? What does, what does the Lord have? He's got an inheritance. He's going to have this this world. And then Ezekiel, 41 or 40, it says the whole world is going to light up with his glory in the day to come. It's coming, dear young people. And I say to you, fathers and mothers, don't feed your children on the trash of this world. Don't read to them. Fairy story, fairy tale. They're fantasies.
Don't be taken up with Disneyland.
You'll never lead your children to a closer walk with Christ if you do. I just say that in passing. Oh, may we have our eye on the future, But what are the Joshua? What are the what about your and my Inheritance versus Peter, Chapter One?
Tells us that. Let's close with that first Peter chapter one.
Our inherent inference, we're going to collect it.
We're not trying to be faithful for the sake of the inheritance.
But what does it say there? First Peter chapter one, verse?
4.
To an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that faded not away, reserved in heaven for you. This day is coming, beloved ones, and the Lord Jesus is going to be satisfied, You shall see, of the travel of his soul, and shall be satisfied two things One is he's going to have be able to know that he lived and died for the glory of God.
And as a reward, he's going to have those who have been redeemed by his blood. That's his heavenly Americans. But what about yours and mine? Oh, it's prepared. It's prepared. We're just in the hush of the new Billy before the Savior Come your loved one. May we walk with purpose apart, with a single eye on Christ, in separation from everything, doctrinal evil and moral evil. And one of these moments we're going to hear that shout of joy.
The Savior is coming. May we be faithful until that moment for His glory, let's start.