YP Address—E. Smith
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139.
This world is a wilderness wide.
We have nothing to seek or to choose.
We've no thought in the ways to abide.
We've not to regret nor to lose.
Tis the treasure we found in his love.
That has made us now pilgrims below.
And is there when we reach him above.
As we're known.
All his fullness will know.
And #139.
Dear young people this afternoon.
I would like to talk to you about.
Young man.
We find in the word of God a young man, I might say, that God has used to speak to me.
We read a few things about this young man in the 106th song, and then I thought after we'd read these few verses, we might go back.
And pick up his history to see the sequence of events that led up.
To what is written about him in the 106 psalms.
And Psalm 106 and verse 28.
They joined themselves also unto Bail Pier, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions, and the plague break in upon them.
Then stood up in 1/2 and executed judgment and sold. The plague was saved.
And that was counted unto him for righteousness.
Unto all generations forevermore.
You know, it seems to me, dear young people, that today, and it seems to be becoming more and more pronounced as each day goes by.
That the young people of this world seem to feel that they must stand up for themselves.
That they must stand up for their own rights.
That the young people are entitled to be heard.
That their voices.
Are voices that should be listened to.
As we read what's going on in this country to some extent in Canada, over in Europe, again, how we see students standing up to declare what they think is the way things should be done, to declare their rights, to let everyone know that they have a voice and they want to be heard.
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Well, dear young people, when I thought about this and thought about this young man.
We have someone here that stood up. It tells us in that 30th verse, then stood up in a hat. And all dear young people, I say with all my heart, it's a good thing for young people to stand up.
It's a good thing for young people to take a stand.
To stand up.
But all May God give to you and to me.
The grace to stand up.
For what God tells us is right to stand up. For what God tells us should be stood up for.
This man's been a hat, and I'd like to talk about this afternoon.
Has a very interesting history.
And one that parallels, I feel to a large extent, many of the young people who are here today, particularly perhaps.
The children, the young people born into the homes of Christian parents.
Would you turn with me? We'll be referring to this passage again, but turn with me to pick up one little verse in the first chapter of Numbers.
Numbers Chapter one.
And verse 7.
Numbers chapter one and verse 7.
Of Judah.
Nation, the son of a Minidas.
And now turn over to the 6th chapter of Exodus.
The 6th chapter of Exodus and the 23rd verse.
And Aaron took him Elishiba, daughter of a Minitab, sister of nation, to White.
And she bear him, Nadab, and by you Eliezer and Itamar.
And now the 25th verse. And Eliezer Aaron's song took him one of the daughters of future White, and she bear him in a hat.
You'll connect what we have here with the portion in the first chapter of Numbers.
You'll find.
That finnehas grandfather.
Was Aaron of the tribe of Levi?
And his grandmother was Elishiba of the tribe of Judah.
And so in their offspring, in Eliezer, for instance, the father.
Of finna has we have one in whom?
The priestly tribes and the kingly tribes, the royal tribe of Judah and the tribe of Levi were united.
I was thinking of this passage this morning in connection with the verse that was read in Revelation.
Both being made kings and priests.
You know what, dear young people, if you have a spinner hat pad.
A parent, A father.
In whom?
Look, the priestly tribe and the kingly tribe were united.
You might well say that Finna Hat was born, and rightly so. You might say that Tennehas was born into a favored position.
What a place to be in to have someone as a father.
Who?
Was of the two tribes, particularly of the tribe of Levi, but who could also trace his ancestry from the other, the leading the outstanding tribe of Judah, the tribe from which the Lord would come.
And as I look around this room this afternoon.
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It strikes me as I think of thinner hat, how many here have been born into such a favorite position?
Dear young people, to think that God has been pleased in his goodness to you, to grant to you that you might be born into a family.
Where your mother, your father, or both?
Belong to Christ.
You have been born into a place of favor, a place of privilege, a place of blessing. And what a thing it is.
To realize.
What a blessing this is.
There are numbers of us that were not born into such a place. God has been very gracious and very good to us.
All dear young people, May God give you to see and to value what it is.
To be in the place like Finnerhan to have.
As a parent.
One of whom God speaks as a king and a priest.
To have one as your mother and father.
That belong to Christ.
And earnestly desire to see you brought up, and to support the Lord, and to go on for him.
Well, Finnaff was born into such a position. Finna hath had a great deal.
To be thankful for, but dear young people in a hat, the position that he was born into, the fact that he had such a parent that he could trace his lineage back through the tribe of Levi and Judah.
Was of no particular avail in the moment when it came.
That's been 1/2. Must take a stand.
He must stand up.
We find, if you'll turn with me now, over to the 21St chapter of Numbers.
The beginning of a sequence of events.
A series of things that happened that led up to that time.
When thinner hat stood up.
As we read in the 106 song.
We haven't time to read all the verses in these chapters, but I would like to just touch on the highlights as we have them opened up to us here in these two chapters leading up to the case of cinemas standing up to the law.
If you look at the 21St chapter of Numbers, and the eighth verse, it says, And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee A fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole, and it shall come to pass, that everyone that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, And it came to pass that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
We might say, dear young people, this is the first step.
This is the first step.
In taking a stand for the Lord and standing up as a young person for the Lord.
There can be no stand taken.
There can be no standing up for the Lord.
There can be no letting your voice be heard.
Standing up for the more.
Until you first of all.
Come to know him as Savior.
Until you are first of all.
Looked to the serpent upon the pole.
Until your eyes have first of all.
Been directed to the cross of Christ.
And seen there the Lord Jesus.
As the one who gave himself for you before, there can be any kind of stand taken.
There must first of all.
Be a personal transaction.
Between your soul and Christ.
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Dear young people, can I ask you this?
Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior? The fact that you have been born into a place of privilege? The fact that God has so blessed you?
With a mother and a father that belongs to Christ.
Wondrous privilege as it is, is of no avail in the saving of your soul.
You must.
Bitten by the serpent, as we all are.
Bitten by sins, we must all look.
To the serpent abras upon the poles, we must all look to the Lord Jesus Christ as the one who was made sin for us, He who knew no sin.
We are ever.
To take a stand for him. What a pitiful thing, what a foolish thing, what an empty thing it is for someone ever to think that they could stand for the Lord.
Without ever knowing him.
Savior.
Well, what we have following this chapter.
In the 22nd chapter, we have the account given to us available.
This is the McAllen. I'm sure that's well known to many or most here. How Balaam was hired by Balak.
King of Moab and of Midian.
To come and curse the people of God. To come and curse the ones who had looked.
To the serpent, and lived to come and curse those.
Whom God was pleased.
To call his people.
And when Balaam came, he warned Balak.
That though he was ready to curse the people of God.
Though he was willing to curse the people of God.
He warned Balak in advance that he could not go beyond.
What the Lord allowed him to say.
Well, they're young people, we now find.
In these chapters, a 22nd and the 23rd and the 24th chapters of numbers, we have the history of Balaam and his efforts.
His endeavors to fulfill his commissions.
To fulfill his hiring.
Curse the people of God and how God frustrated it.
Now, again, we don't have the time to read all these chapters, but many of you, I'm sure, are familiar with it. They're young people. You may read it at your leisure, but I would like to point out, pick out the four or five instances where Balaam opened his mouth.
And where we have the.
That God put into his mouth to say concerning the people of God.
If you notice in the 22nd chapter and the 12Th verse.
And God said unto Balaam.
Thou shalt not go with them.
Thou shalt not curse the people, for they are blessed.
Notice that.
They are blessed.
Dear young people, I'm going to address you now.
As it was my purpose this afternoon.
As particularly those who belong to Christ, you have looked.
Yesterday, last night, last week, last year, 10 years ago.
Sometime you have looked and seen for yourself the Lord Jesus Christ is the one who died for you. You have looked to Calvary and seen the Lord Jesus as the one who has paid the price to redeem you to himself. Well now we have in these chapters perhaps highlighted in the types connected with Israel in the word said concerning Israel.
Some of the things that are true of you and of me. Dear young people, May God give us to be in the enjoyment of these things. First of all, that I love the simplicity of this first statement. Thou shalt not curse the people.
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For they are blessed.
Dear young people, do you know?
Are you enjoying this afternoon the fact?
That you are blessed of God.
Blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
To think that you and I, we who deserve nothing but a lost eternity, have not only been saved from that not only been saved from hell, but we have been blessed of God.
And blessed, dear young people.
With every spiritual blessing.
In heavenly places, in Christ Jesus.
God has held back nothing.
That is for your good and blessed. God has not held back to Himself one blessing.
That he could give.
It's your your blessed of God.
In order since the 23rd chapter.
And the ninth verse.
It says again. Balaam ceased speaking, he says.
The top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him.
Lo, the people shall dwell among.
And shall not be reckoned among the nations.
God was saying through the mouth of Salem that these were his people, that they were to be kept apart, that they belong to him.
Dear young people, do you know that?
Do you know that God is saving out of this world?
A people for His name, and that you are one of them, that you are blessed of God, and that now you are numbered among His people, among this company, that He, as it were, separates to himself and says they're not to be numbered among the nations, not to be reckoned with the rest of this world. These are mines, these are mine.
Fair to dwell alone.
They are a separated company. Dear young people, you belong to Christ.
You're blessed of God and you belong to this separated company. You're one of them.
Regardless of how you're walking or how I'm walking, the fact remains that we are blessed God.
And we are among his own separated people.
You go on to the 20, the latter part of the 23rd chapter.
The 21St verse, he says.
He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob.
Neither have he seen perverseness in Israel.
The 23rd verse Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel.
According to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel.
What?
Hath God wrought.
Dear young people again.
God is bringing before our hearts here as He put it into the mouth of Balaam.
That there can be nothing.
Laid to the charge of God's delight.
God will receive from the mouth of the enemy of your soul no charge against you.
He sees you as in Christ.
And there was no divination.
No enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel.
According to this time, it shall be said of Jacob of Israel, what hath God wrought? Dear young people, you belong to Christ. And now?
In him.
God.
Sees you as purpose. God sees you in Christ.
Before himself. And he sees there in you and in I, in me this afternoon He sees the results of his own works, the results of the work of the Cross. He sees in you and in me this afternoon what he has wrought.
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In the gift of His Son He sees what has been the result, you and I in Christ.
For God, he sees us this way, dear young people, He sees us. This is one of the ways.
God looked at us. Are you and I in the enjoyment of this this afternoon?
Is my soul and yours rejoicing?
In what God has brought to see us.
In Christ before God.
Dear young people, my soul has just been rejoicing lately.
It seems the Lord has been bringing, particularly before for my own soul's enjoyment, the precious truth.
That the Lord Jesus.
Took my place.
On Calvary's cross.
And then in grace, as a result of that, He has introduced me into his place of favor before God.
Love with the same love that He was. Loved with the glory that He was given him, He had given us.
Made joint heirs with Christ.
Dear young people, how could we be more blessed with God?
How could God improve?
On the work of his own son? Impossible.
God has worked through Christ to make you even now.
Thick with glory, ready to be there.
With the Lord Jesus Christ.
And to be seen in and like him, you notice that the 24th verse, the 24th chapter, and the fifth verse.
How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel?
We read previously through these chapters and we find how Israel murmured, how Israel rebelled, how they grumbled, how they blamed God for bringing them out of Egypt.
And now God says how goodly.
Are thy tenso Jacob, and thy Tabernacle Israel?
Dear young people, God takes his delight in his own God.
Hearts finds the light and those who are resolved to see them in all the beauty and all the perfection of His own Son, to see you and I to view us as in Christ, and He can truly find the delight of His heart.
And those that are his own, how one risk to think that in that coming scene of glory.
The Lord Jesus is going to be able to say, or it's going to be able to be said of Him.
He shall see of the fruit of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied. Oh, when we look at our own hearts. When one looks at one's own heart, how could it be that the Lord Jesus would define His satisfaction?
And having us there with himself in the glory.
To see what he must have endured on Calvary's cross, to make us his own, and then to have him say of you and I.
That he will be satisfied to have a say.
In spite of all that it cost him to make it possible.
You notice the 24th chapter and the 17th verse.
The middle of the earth there shall come a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel.
And the 19 verse out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
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We now find one lack point race here, the fact that there is going to be 1 Come out of Jacob, there is going to be a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion.
Tells us in the Book of Revelation, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is going to have dominion, dear young people, He's going to take this world he has created.
It he has redeemed it.
It belongs to him.
And he's going to take it. He's waiting.
For the moment when you and I are with Him in the glory before He does.
He's waiting to have those that are his own with him there in the glory before he takes it.
But it is his, and he will take it in spite of the God and Prince of this world, in spite of all the opposition of men, in spite of all the hatred that's natural to the heart of man against God.
He is going to have what is his by right.
Dear young people, we are going to be with him.
We have been blessed.
We are his people. He sees us as that which he has wrought in Christ.
He finds his delight. How goodly our life tabernacles. He finds his delight in his own.
And he tells us.
That this whole scene is going to be his and we are going to share it with him available.
But the one who made these prophecies, these words were put into Balaam's mouth.
And spiritually, they apply to us today. God has the question, Dear young people, after we've read this, these chapters, after you have gone back over them perhaps sometime and read them for yourselves, it will perhaps cause you to marvel how the 25th chapter could ever have been written.
How could the 25th chapter follow what we have here?
You'll go to the 25th chapter now and the second verse.
Says And they called the people, that is, the daughters of Moab, called the people of God unto the sacrifices of their gods, And the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
Israel joined himself unto Baal Peor, and the anger of the board 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 sons, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye everyone his men that were joined unto Baal Peor. And behold, one of the children of Israel came, and brought unto his brethren a Midianitis woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the Tabernacle of the congregation. And when finna hast the son of Eliezer the son of Aaron the priest sought.
He rose up from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand.
And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through the man of Israel and the woman through her belly.
So the plague was speed from the children of Israel.
And those that died in the plague were 20 and 4000. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Sinner has the son of Eliezer, the son of heir, And the priest hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consume not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
Wherefore say, behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace, and he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his gods, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
The 16th verse. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Vex the Midianites, and smite them.
And if you turn over to the 31St chapter for a moment.
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31St chapter in the second verse.
Says Avenged, the children of Israel of the Midianites, Afterwards shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
And the sixth verse. And Moses sent them to the war, a thousands of every tribe them. And Finna has the son of Eliezer, the priests through the war with the holy instruments and the trumpets, to blow in his hands. And they warned against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, And they slew all the males, and they flew the kings of Midian beside the rest of them that were slain, namely Evie and Recum, and Zur, and her and Reba.
5 Kings of leaders, Midian Balaam, also the son of Beor, they slew with the sword and the 16th verse.
Behold, these caused the children of Israel.
Through the Council of Balaam to commit trespass against the Lord in the matters pure.
Dear young people, this is, at least to my own soul, an amazing chapter.
Here we have had recounted.
Through the mouth of Balaam.
God views His people. We have seen them as blessed of God. We have seen these other things mentioned concerning them that we have read.
And now we find.
That through the Council of Bales, through advice given by Baal.
The people of God.
Who could not be cursed?
Because they were blessed of God.
Were enticed.
Away to the worship of Bail Peor.
Enticed away, LED away.
By the desires of the flesh and LED away to the point where God must bring a plague upon dear young people. How can this be? How could it be?
That people so blessed of God.
Would turn away after the false gods of Baal Peor.
All dear young people, it came about through the advice of Valence.
It came about through the advice of this false prophets.
It came about through the advice given by.
One in the mouth of fame.
By one the enemy of your soul and minds who knows so well.
The treachery of these hearts of ours.
That knows so well.
How he first succeeded.
In the case of Eve, in getting her to turn away.
To listen to his voice.
And now we have Balaam here in the Council given.
Leading the children of Israel away, leading them to the worship of false gods. You notice what it says of them. And they called the people under the sacrifices of their gods. And the people did eat.
And bow down to their gods.
Dear, beloved young people.
You and I have been.
So blessed of God.
We have been brought into such a place of favor before himself.
And that's such a cause.
Why isn't it? Why is it that our hearts?
So often respond to the invitation.
To come and sacrifice before the gods of this world.
You know, it tells us in the 106th Psalm, the passage that we read, that.
That they sacrificed unto bail pure.
And ate the sacrifices of the dead. Or how this has struck my own heart and conscience.
Ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Dear young people, we have extended to us every day.
The invitation from this world and from the God of this world to come and sacrifice before the gods of this world.
To come and eat.
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Wisdom How many different gods there are?
How often we come in contact with them, we find one. Perhaps we could call him the God of business.
And we're invited in spite of the fact that we are so blessed of God.
We're invited to come and do sacrifice before the Goddess business.
To let God's things take a second place and come and go in the world ways.
After the God of business.
We find the God of pleasure is one that we're invited to constantly.
To come and sacrifice before the God of pleasure.
To come and eat with them.
All dear young people I had, as I said before, I have been so struck with that expression. And they ate the sacrifices of the dead.
We have.
Is dead sacrifices.
Being offered by dead people.
And you and I are invited. Invited by this world.
Seduced by the God of this world.
To come and eat with them, to come and partake with them.
Of the sacrifices of the dead. Or, you know, sometimes we hear young people.
Say things are so dead around here. You ever hear them say that? You ever said that yourself?
In our meeting back home, things are so that nothing ever happens and we find sometimes at the hearts of the young people are attracted to go after the things of this world.
As if that's where life is found. As if that's where really life is. Things are so dead.
All dear young people, what you're being invited to do is to step out of the pathway of obedience to the Word of God.
And instead to step up and eat the sacrifices of the dead, to partake of the things that this world has designed.
To satisfy their hearts away from God.
Right here in this same place today, right here in the same places last several days, we have had the Word of God ministers.
And we have had racist carried on by dead people.
By dead people, ones who have no life toward God, trying to eat dead sacrifices, trying to find something that will satisfy their hearts. And it won't. It cannot, but they try. And then they invite us to go and partake with them.
Beloved young people, we are blessed of God.
We have his blessing procured at such a cost to himself.
May God give us the grace to see these things for what they are.
Another God, dear young people, that I would warn your heart and mind against.
Is what we might call the God of fashion. The God of fashion. We see this creeping in amongst the young people and how it saddens one's heart to see young people feeling they must copy.
The practices of the dead that are around us. You have life from God. You are blessed of God.
The Lord Jesus has paid such a cost that you might be his own. Why should we copy the practices of the dead? Why should we want to dress like them, look like them, act like them?
Or may I speak frankly?
We used to worry and some of us still do, and I I will not hurt anyone's feelings when I say this.
But they're young people. The Word of God speaks.
Of long hair being a glory to a woman.
But it never speaks of long hair being a glory to a man. And we find this practice coming in among some of the young people today. Where are they getting it from?
They're copying dead people. They're copying ones who have no life towards God at all. They're being invited to go and sacrifice before the gods of this world and eat their dead sacrifices.
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Their young people, May God preserve you and I promise.
Promise we have here in the case of Finna hat now.
One who took a stand, This thing was coming in and reached such a point.
That one of them felt that they could bring a Midianitis woman right into the camp of Israel.
Well, it tells us that it was at this time. At this time.
That thinner hat stood up.
Dear young people, do you know the Lord Jesus and Christ as your Savior?
Do you know that you're blessed with God?
Do you know that God sees you as one of his own, that you belong to Him?
That he's waiting for the moment when you're going to be caught up to be with the Lord Jesus in glory before he takes all this scene around us.
In the hat now stood up, and it says And he took a javelin in his hand, and he killed this.
One of the children of Israel and the Midianites woman that came into the camp of Israel, he killed them. He took in his hand at javelin. Dear young people, you and I have a javelin. You know, it struck me in meditating on this.
That center has didn't have to go go and look for his javelin, says. He stood up and he took his javelin and he went in and he acted for God. He acted for God. He stood up.
And he let it be known that he was going to stand for God against all this worldliness that was coming in, against all this seduction that was being exercised at the advice of Salem to lead the people of God astray.
Dear young people, their beloved young St. of God, I invite you and I invite myself.
To stand up for God, to take a stand through his grace and goodness, to take a stand.
Against the world.
Against the worldly practices. Against the worldly enticements.
That are coming in amongst his people.
It tells us the spinner hats.
That he stood up.
It says Benahath, the son of Alma Aziz hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consume not the children of Israel in my jealousy, he was zealous for my sake among them. Dear young people, dear young brother or sister, will you be zealous for his sake?
Among the people of God.
Would you take a stand or dear young people, it was something for Finna has the people were all going after them, says the people that he Finna has didn't have much company in his stand, but he took it nevertheless.
God is looking for God is, as it were, calling upon you and I to take a stand for Him, to be zealous for His sake.
Not to be concerned. Not to be concerned about being popular.
But to be faithful, to be faithful to your young people, what a claim He has on our hearts.
The Council of Balaam was leading them into such errors, but Finna has stood up.
Will you and I take a stand for him? Stand for him?
We only have a few minutes left. I would like to turn over for a moment to the 22nd chapter of Joshua.
The 22nd chapter of Joshua.
And the tenth verse.
And when they came onto the borders of Jordan that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to. And the children of Israel heard say, behold the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, and the half Trident Vanessa.
Have built an altar.
Over against the land of Canaan in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel. And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh to go up to war against them. And the children of Israel tent unto the children of Reubens, and to the children of God, and to the half tribal Manasseh into the land of Gilead Finahat the son of Eliezer the priest.
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And with him 10 Princess of each chief House of Prince, wrote all the tribes of Israel, and each one was ahead of the House of their fathers among the thousands of Israel. And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead. And they spake with them, saying, Thus saith the whole congregation of the Lord, What trespasses this that he have committed against the God of Israel?
To turn away this day from following the Lord, in that he has builded you an altar, that he might rebel this day against the Lord.
Is the iniquity of pure too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord?
Dear young people, it seems to my own heart, and I say I address these words to myself more than anyone else.
But it seems to my own soul.
That the enemy of the people of God is directing his attacks today against the young people, against the people of God, but perhaps particularly against the young people in two ways.
1.
Is through the encroachment of worldliness and worldly practices.
Copying.
The systems of this world copying the things of this world, going after the things of this world. Dear young people, it's no accident that when the Lord by His Spirit says love not the world, neither the things which are in the world, If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
What? When he addressed those words, he addressed them to the young men.
The young men for young people, this is a particular.
Problem. A particular difficulty, a particular temptation. But there's another one.
Young people again I I trust that this will exercise your heart and mind.
It seems to me that for many of the young people today.
The enemy of our souls is getting to them.
Making them indifferent.
To God's truth concerning the ground of gas.
Concerning the truth that God has one sentence.
To which he would have his people get.
That God has set up.
One testimony.
To the truth that there is one body, when I speak to many of the children of the Saints about this.
Truth I find many times.
That they are not opposed to this truth. They don't argue against it.
But they are indifferent to it.
They don't value what a precious truth it is.
They haven't laid hold in their souls of what it means.
Before God.
To be gathered to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, in meditating upon cinema has to destruct me that this was the other thing that came up in cinnahas his life.
There was that turning after Baal Peor, going after this world, going after the enticements that Balaam brought before them, and he took a stand with the javelin, with his weapons, with the word of God. He made his stand. Dear young people, may you and I make our stand on the word of God. But when the worldliness and its practices.
Comes to my heart. May we judge it by the word of God.
May we uncompromisingly apply the Word of God.
To what is offered, to see it from what it is, to judge it as God sees it, and to turn away from it as hateful to Him.
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But May God give you an eye to dear young people to take the same stand that Finna has to fear. If you read the chapter carefully, we haven't really time to go into it now, but you will find it's amazing to me at least it is to my own soul and reading it the half tribe of Manasseh and Reuben.
And.
One other one Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh. They had not crossed over Jordan. They had stayed outside of the land of Israel after going into fight the battles.
They hadn't really come up to all the privileges that were there as God's people, and now they established another altar. If we read the chapter, we find that they had an explanation for what they did, and God does not particularly condemn them at this point for what they did. But what struck me so much struck my own soul so much.
Was the concern that Finna has had.
For the fact.
That there was a departure from the center that was at Shiloh.
That something else was being established, regardless of the reason for it. He was concerned for the truth that God Center was a Shiloh.
Dear young people, beloved Saints of God, May God give to you and I to be concerned.
Before God for this precious truth that he is committed to us, that he has given us to see that Christ is the center to which he would have us gathered, Dear young people. That we might value it, that we might thank God for it, That we might be concerned about it, That we might teach it to our children, That we might speak of it to the young people.
Just recently one of the young people said to me, you know, she said, it's been years since I heard anything in our meeting about the truth of the ground gathering. Dear young people, I say to my own heart, if we don't value it, we'll lose it, But God will preserve it to us in grace. If we value it, if we're concerned for it, May God give it to you and I to be sold.
To take a stand against worldliness again, against the encroachments of the enemy who would seek to lead us away.
To partake of the sacrifices of the dead and to value this precious, precious place, this privilege that has been given to us, to be gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In the center.
Where he has chosen to place his name.
And the place gathered to him.
Until we come.