YP Address—A. Barry
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On Earth to speak on the Asher Psalm.
And before I call attention to the Asher sound.
I'll ask you to turn to the 33rd of Deuteronomy so we might get.
A fraud or?
As to what the word Asher means.
So we'll turn to the 33rd chapter of Deuteronomy.
And read in the 24th and 25th verses.
And the way here, he said, let Asher be blessed with children.
Let him be acceptable to his brethren.
And let him dip his foot in oil. Thy hue shall be iron and brass.
And as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
There was a tribe among the children of Israel.
Named Asher.
And the way it's brought before us tells the meaning of the name of that tribe. Let Asher be blessed with children.
Hater means blessing or happiness.
Guess what we were singing?
Together happy they who trust in Jesus.
Sweep. Their portion is insured.
And what characterizes Asher? The blessing of Asher.
He's blessed with children.
God has many children and He is seeking to make happy here. He's going to have heaven filled with happy children to sing the praises of the Lamb for all eternity.
And so it says, Let him be acceptable to his brethren.
That's a little word of exercise.
For our hearts are we acceptable to our brethren.
We seek to judge those things that interfere with full communion with our brethren in Christ.
Doesn't say that he's popular with his brethren. 1 Might be very popular.
And be compromising the holiness of the Lord.
Just to get a name, a reputation and a place that isn't for thought.
But the one who here is acceptable to his brethren is the one who is walking humbly and consistently.
According to God's word.
Such in one will will win the confidence of his brethren, if he's walking in self judgment of what is what hinders.
That fellowship among the Saints.
Then he will be acceptable to his brethren. A most blessed thought that we can consider.
Then it says uh.
And let him dip his foot in oil. Oil, as we know, is the type of the Holy Spirit.
So we have a beautiful picture of one who is walking in the power of an ungrieved spirit.
And then he says, thy shoes, it's really thy bar shall be iron and brass, and as thy these, so shall thy strength be.
That is, the bars are up. That keeps the enemy.
From including.
Into the label.
Of the earth going on.
And interfering with his Christian life.
Or in any way?
How disturbingly peaceful.
Happiness of its souls.
So if we're walking in the way described here, the bars are up.
And then he says, as thy days.
So shall thy strength be.
Now I started out, as I stated, to speak on the isher Psalms.
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We have got the key as to the meaning of the word. Actually it's.
It means blessed.
And the word blessed means happy.
And the three Aisha psalms are the first Psalm.
The 32nd Psalm and the 119th Psalm.
I'm not taking those psalms in order, nor do I.
How expected.
Developed much in those three songs, but just to select certain verses.
That, I think will be profitable and I trust will bring us into the happiness.
The blessing that God so truly desires.
For his redeemed people.
Remember that verse in the 10th chapter of Proverbs on the 22nd verse which reads the blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich.
And he addeth no sorrow with it.
What a wonderful promise that is, beloved.
It makes rich not rich in temporal things.
But enriches your soul. Give him more to know of those unsearchable riches that will last for eternity.
And excludes, oh, so much sorrow, such terrible disappointments.
That one can be spared from.
If they're just going on quietly.
Enjoying the blessing of the Lord.
That soul enriches the soul.
We'll turn 1St to the 32nd Psalm.
The blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven.
Whose sin is covered? Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity.
And in whose spirit there is no God?
It's quite a large company here tonight. I'm here to address the young people.
You all, you young people, know for certain that your sins are all forgiven.
Are you right with God?
Have you ever been in the presence of God about those things?
Have you ever really from your heart, accepted the Lord Jesus Christ?
As the one who suffered for those sins.
On the cool cross of Calvert.
Well, if you have not.
Let me entreat you with all my heart.
To not let this opportunity go by.
Without having personally to do with that savior, turning to him, wanting to him that you need a savior, that you're lost, that you're guilty.
And then fully putting your trust in Him as the one that suffered the the agony of Calvary's cross, in order that you might enjoy this full forgiveness.
Well, like.
Could not be anything happier, beloved friends.
And to know that oh, I am a Sinner, my sins are all forgiven.
It doesn't matter how hard the people try in this world to make themselves satisfied.
And enjoy the pleasures of life or the pleasures of spin. They've got a conscience.
Now God consciousness.
That tells them that there is a beyond.
And their souls cannot be at rest.
They cannot enjoy true peace.
Of heart and mind.
But you notice here that it says, not only blessed is he whose sin is forgiven.
But it says, blessed is the one whose sin is covered, whose iniquities are, whose transgression is forgiven.
And whose sin is covered?
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That reminds us of what have been before us.
In some of these meetings that the blood of Jesus Christ.
His Son cleanses us from all sins.
Thank God our sins are forgiven, but they're covered.
So completely covered that God says their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
But that isn't all, for he says, Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord includeth, not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
You owe a great debt and the man told you that he had forgiven you that.
You might say, well, I don't know. I haven't anything to show that he has.
And he has forgiven me that death.
But if a man comes out and gives you.
A written guarantee.
Last rap depth giving the full mouth has all been settled.
Oh, you say that that can never come up against me again. There's, there's his own handwriting.
There's my receipt that the debt is all paid. Isn't it wonderful, beloved friends?
That God has given you and me just.
Such a guarantee is that.
That our sin will never come up against us for all eternity.
Now you show me a man or a woman or a boy or a girl.
That's enjoying this blessedness that I'm bringing before you in these verses.
And I'm going to show you a happy man.
A happy little boy or girl.
That knows that nothing can ever shut them out of heaven.
That awful lot of sin was all forever settled at the cross of Christ.
Well, then, we gather a description of the one who is under conviction of sin.
Now in the first we were commenting on in our readings, if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.
And to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, we could apply that either to a lost Sinner or a child of God, although we usually apply that to a child of God because he's addressing God's children.
But take the thief who said.
We indeed, justly, for we receive the due reward of our deed. Wasn't that a confession? Wasn't that a confession that he was a poor, guilty Sinner? Indeed it was. And that very moment he got such a knowledge of the forgiveness of his sins that he had the Lord's own words. Today doth thou be with me?
In paradise.
So whenever anyone whether a Sinner who is covering up his sin and trying to go on.
And his disobedience, Christ rejecting way. When the Spirit of God is working. There is just such a experience as is described here. When I kept silence, my bones waxed old to my roaring all the day long. For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me.
My moisture is turned into the drought of summer seal off.
As long as we're unwilling to get down in the Lord's presence and judge ourselves, confess our failures, God just keep His hand pressing harder, harder upon us.
We said that may refer.
To a poor Law Center, or it may refer to a child of God who's got away from the Lord, is going on in a sinful, worldly, disobedient course, and God is dealing with him.
Been said that God will never give up. You just as well surrender you just as well give up, for God is not going to give up.
So he keeps on putting more and more pressure, and then when he comes to this, I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity Have I not hid? I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord. And thou forgave us the iniquity of my sins, of my sins.
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Oh, how lovely that is.
How happy it is as soon as he confesses his sin, the Lord is lifted.
Perhaps as well as Davidde own experience in connection with.
His sin against Uriah the Hittite. I'm sure that during those months before Nathan the prophet came and faced him with his guilt and during that time he must have had some very great soul searching.
Well, how lovely it is, beloved, to be fully restored in one soul, and that comes when we get down fully confess the whole matter in the Lord's presence. You know some dear ones, I fear.
Now want to go on in.
Their in their worldly ways, there's something that they love and they don't want to give up. It may be a a friend, it may be some course that they're taking, something that the world has set a very alluring before them.
And they're not seeking to please the Lord.
And the.
Don't desire and perhaps they resist and refuse to get down on their knees.
And really?
Get themselves and get before the Lord about the whole thing or if they're any like that. Is there any that are getting away from the Lord? You're going on, beloved young believer, with anything that is going to harm your soul, it's going to lead to a departure from Christ.
It's going to separate you from your brethren who are seeking to please the.
Lord, Oh, I beseech you, with my whole heart.
To not spare that thing, get down in the Lord's presence, judge the whole thing, and get fully happy and restored in your soul. So we learn a little more of this from this Asher son. How this?
Blessing continues and then you go on in the sun.
Here he says, For this shall everyone that is godly pray unto thee, in a time when thou mayest be found surely in the floods of great water, they shall not come nigh unto thee. I just.
Digress for a moment to warn any unsaved here, for this is the voice of the Spirit of God through His Word, speaking to your conscience, he says.
In a time, in an accepted, when thou mayest be found.
Now just remember this.
That tomorrow it may be too late. This is the time when the Lord can be found. Marvelous, wonderful fact that any poor Sinner need not leave this room without finding the Lord.
Or if you haven't been in the Lord's presence before, beloved young friend, get in the Lord's presence while I'm speaking these words in your ears.
Then he fell surely in the floods of great waters. They shall not come nigh thee, for thou art my hiding place. Thou shalt preserve me from trouble. Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.
Oh, what a lovely description of 1.
Who is enjoying the happiness?
The blessing what this I sure Psalm is teaching us. Now he has the Lord's protection. After looking up the man for his protection, now he has the Lord to look over him.
Although we live in a world of danger and uncertainty and handle troubles on every hand. Ah, if you're right with the Lord, he'll carry you through the troubles. He'll sustain you through every trial.
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Then he says in the in the eighth verse, I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way that thou shalt go. I will guide thee with my eyes, for I'll guide thee with my eye upon me.
So we have the Lord protection, and blessed be His name, we have His guidance too.
We're in a very uncertain world, know how many problems, and I know dear young Christians have many problems that they're facing.
Well, the Lord is concerned about your problems.
Here he understands the these matters that are coming up as to an occupation as to going on farther in school or what line of profession or what line that you should you should take up.
Who will make an honest living? Oh, the Lord is interested in all these affairs, dear young friends.
But here's a lovely guidance that's brought before us. This one who is going on in happy communion can say.
That can respond to his words.
I will guide thee with my eye upon thee.
Well, when one is full well acquainted and so understands the thoughts.
And the mind of another that all what's necessary to get that?
One's mind, just a look in his eyes.
Well, that's the way the Lord would have you and me going on hold here, that his eye happily guides us so we don't miss.
The path at all we have a warning about not being as the horse of the mule, but.
I'll not go into that, but I want to go on now to the 119th Psalm.
I'm sure we all know that the 119th psalms the longest chapter in the Bible.
It contains 176 verses.
And in every one of those verses except 2.
You have something about the word of God, the law.
For his prefabs.
Some expression that speaks of his word.
And the first verse of this long song begins with that word. Asher, or blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
Now we have called your attention, beloved young friends.
To having that same question all settled.
Be right with the Lord in your soul, having His protection and having His guidance.
But all we need further instruction for what is it that's going to preserve us as we go on in the journey? We may be very happy indeed when.
And will be when we know that Christ is our Savior and we can sing. Oh Happy Day that picks my choice on thee, my Savior and my God. Well, may this glowing heart rejoice until it raptures all abroad.
Oh, but the wilderness is before us. Like the children of Israel, they sang on the banks of the Red Sea, the horse and his rider as he drowned in the sea.
But all it was for that long desert journey ahead.
That they must travel.
Day after day and week after week, and month after month and year after year.
What is the a lot of young friends that is to keep us?
As we go on in our wilderness journey, we have it set before us here. Blessed are the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the Lord. That's just another expression for His words.
So we need not only the word for our salvation, we need the word for our walk.
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And the Blessed One in that verse.
Is the one who is undefiled in the way.
We're in a world that's full of defilement.
Wherever you go.
Why you pick up a magazine, There's something there that's defiling.
As you go amongst men, you hear things that are defiling. You see things that are defiling.
And defilement is only increasing as we get near the end.
What a wonderful thought that God can preserve his.
Beloved children.
On the files in the way.
And he's given us the means to.
That it's right here in this book that I'm looking at.
For it says, Who walk in the law of the Lord.
Subject to His word, I'll just call attention to a verse here or there as we glance into this Psalm. Look at the ninth verse. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his ways, but by taking heed thereto?
According to thy word.
Oh, we're talking to young people.
Here's the first definitely addressed to young men.
Wherewithal shall a young man?
Well, I'm sure that it includes the young sisters, the young women, and indeed the boys and girls.
And older ones too, but especially address the young man. Wherewith all shall a young man cleanse his ways. Now here's the answer by taking heed thereto, according to thy words.
You say there's not only the reading of the Word, but there's a taking heed there too. We might just form a habit of reading a chapter every day and cut the Bible and think no more about it, read it hastily, read it carelessly. But oh, when we're taking heed, letting it, uh, speak with the voice of God to our soul.
Then that produces a real frenzy.
In our walking ways.
Well, there's so much here that would be profitable that I must limit my time, but here's something very helpful in the 63rd verse.
I am a companion of all, and the fear of thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
Always your your companions, dear young friends, here is one that can say I am the companion.
Of all them that fear thee.
Well, we know that verse. It's in Proverbs that tells us that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Who are your companions? Your young friends?
You know, we have to even be careful about those who profess to be Christians.
And it's sad to say, sometimes we have to be careful even about some that are breaking bread because there may be laws breaking bread who are going on inconsistently.
Coming to meeting and going out in the world between times.
But you find one who is fearing the Lord.
We'll have a real, real concern that he might in any way depart from what is consistent with the Word of God.
And there that tells us here, and of them that keep thy precepts, now you can be very, very safe.
And choosing 1 described here as your companion in your Christian life.
Now in the 67th verse.
Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word. And then the 71St verse. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. Well. How wonderful, beloved, that even when the Lord has to afflict us, has to put us under His governmental dealings, that He can use that for our blessing, if it turns us more sincerely.
To his blessed word.
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There will be a positive gain for our soul soul that we can say with the silence. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, but now I must close my little clock with the first Psalm.
In the first verse of 119 Psalm, we've had the undefiled in the way that walk in the law of the Lord tells us.
Now the things that we should walk according to, but now we have in this.
First Psalm.
Things connected with our walk we're called upon to avoid. So here is blessing.
Are happy.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand is in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful, but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law that he meditate day and night.
We have a sad illustration of what we're warned against.
In that first verse when we read the life of Peter, the night the Lord was betrayed.
And all Peter boasted of how much he loved the Lord, but it was self-confidence.
And then we find when they came out and took the Lord, and bound him, and took him to the House of the high priest.
That Peter followed him afar off.
So we get.
Have Rocket and not in the council of the ungodly.
Ah, he, he was walking.
Our Communion.
In company with those that hated Christ.
And then we get nor standeth in the way of sinners. So we find that when they build a fire, and the House of the high priest of Peter, they made a fire of coals. And Peter Warren stood and warmed himself, standing with the company that were condemning his blessed Lord to the cross of Calvary, and then he sat down among them.
And then the next thing we have is that when Peter was.
Told that he was one of the Lord's disciples, he denied the Lord three times and with oaths and curses.
Well, that's what we're warned against, young friends, though I must not pass by how the Lord's grace came in. You see, it was in the House of the high priest. There was like a court, and Peter was out in this court, and the Lord was in a room where the high priest was there trying the Lord with a.
Were among the Sanhedrin.
Now there Peter was, you know, the Lord heard this denial.
He just turned and looked at Peter. What does it tell us?
So Peter went immediately out, immediately out.
Oh beloved, how?
How gracious, how marvelous.
That look of Jesus.
Instantly separated Peter from that ungodly company that he had walked with.
That he had stood with and that he was sitting in company with Beloved. There wouldn't be one of God's children here this afternoon.
If it were not for that precious look that Jesus.
Has has given when he looked right down into your heart and touched the cord of affection for himself.
Well, it says here, but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law, that he meditate day and night.
Well, we've spoken about the importance of the Word of God.
And we've called your attention to the longest chapter in the Bible that has something about the Word in 74 of those verses.
But there's another poppet.
It is important for us to consider and that's what you get here in the in thy law, in the law of the Lord and in his law that he meditates day and night meditation.
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Well, and it's only not only in the day, but in the hours of the night.
You ever have wakeful spells in the night? I'll tell you a good way to.
Fill in those wakeful hours is to get some scripture before you, some event in the life of the Lord Jesus, some passage of His word. Take it over. Think of the Lord, some of his journeys. Oh, it's a sweet occupation, isn't it?
Remember, we had a dear brother that was Satan gathered when I lived down in Kentucky.
Named Jeff Davis Schofield.
And after he got the truth of deliverance from dear brother Hart years ago.
He said when he went out to work in the morning on his farm, he said he would read a chapter and then he said he had the happiest time out, following the team, holding on to the plow handles, just enjoying the scripture that he had read that morning.
Oh, how needful it is, beloved. And if there is that subjection to the word.
And letting the word.
Exercise your soul and then just the peaceful enjoyment of the Word in your soul.
The result of that is described in this way. It says He shall be as a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his seasons. His leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall.
Prosper. Well, I'll disclose that beautiful, charming description.
Are the one who is is walking in separation, enjoying the word of God?
Occupied with those things that concern our blessed Lord, He's a fruitful, He's a fruitful believer.
And he's looked at as a tree that yields her fruit because his roots are down by the river.
Of those eternal streams of joy and blessings.
Well, Thing 294.
Oh, come thou stricken Lamb of God.
Who sheds for us thine old life blood and teach us all I love and pain in life were sweet, and death were gained. Take all our hearts and let them be forever closed. All the things thy willing servants let us wear the seal of love forever there.
Oh, come thou.
Prayer.
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