Address—G.H. Hayhoe
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There were three verses, and.
The 4th chapter, First Timothy or Second Timothy rather chapter one, verse 8.
I've been not all therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his his prisoner, but he thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel, according to the power of God, who has saved us, and call us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was guilimas in Christ Jesus.
Before the world began.
Now in the second chapter.
And the 2020 first verse. If a man therefore purged himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the master Jews, and prepared unto every good work we also use for us, but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace with them, that call in the Lord out of a pure heart.
And then the 3rd chapter and they.
14 Verse. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned, and hast been assured of knowing, of whom thou hast learned then, and that from a child, thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God.
And is profitable for doctrine, or a proof or correction for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, truly furnished unto all good works. I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quicken the dead, not his appearing in his Kingdom. Preach the word the instant in season out of season.
Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
But the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lust shall eat to them shall they heap to themselves teachers, having hitching ears, and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things endure afflictions. Do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. For I am now ready to be offered in the time of my departure is.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the place. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only. But I'm dwelling also that love is disappearing through Thy diligence to come shortly unto me, for demons have forsaken me.
Having lost this present world and his department on the Thessalonica.
Craftsman to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with thee, for he is possible to me for the ministry.
Anticipate.
The clothes that I left control at the carpet when thou comest bring with thee and the book, but especially the Parthenon.
Alexander the copper Smith did me much evil. The Lord reward him.
Good baby, I believe in the other translation. The Lord shall reward him according to his work. A boom beat out where also for he had great enlisted our words. At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men persuade me, I pray God, that it may not delay to their charge. Notwithstanding, the Lord stood with me and strengthened me.
That by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all of them proud of my dear.
And I was delivered under the mouth of the lion, and the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve thee unto his heavenly Kingdom.
In heavenly glory, forever and ever. Amen. Salute Priscilla Christa and Mcquillan is the household of Omnisciprus.
A Raspberry supposed at corn, but for Fremont. Have I left that molecular Sikh?
Through liabilities to come before winter humiliates greatest things. Newtons and lioness and Claudia and all the brethren.
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The Lord Jesus Christ, he with my Spirit, grace be with you. Amen.
I'm sure all of us realize the second epistle of Timothy is particularly written for the time in which we live. It's particularly the last days we have brought before us.
The responsibility of all this, who would seek to walk in godliness and laugh and need last in difficult days? And so surely they have a message for us because we are living in the last days. The Lord is about to come.
Although I might say that in this I think on the Lord's coming is not so much front before us as our hope, but it's rather connected with the appearing and the manifestation.
Because what is needed and what we need to be encouraged about in these last days is to be faithful, not only to have the blessed hope that the Lord is coming again. And it is a blessed hope, and it ought to indeed rejoice our hearts. But all what was before the heart of the apostle was. But these are that in these last days, not only would he have the hope of the Lord's return before him, but particularly the thought.
Manifestation and that the day is coming when everything that we have done is going to be manifested that the judiciary of Christ.
Well, the reason I ran these portions and made and our first 3 chapters was just to give what I believe are three important things for us in connection with the last days in the 1St chapter when it goes back into eternity and tell us about the eternal counsels and purposes of God. These purposes of God had before even the world began.
And what an encouragement that is.
No matter how dark and difficult today, it's been blessed to look back into a fast eternity, brethren, and know that God has purposes of blessing before us and for all His own, and those purposes are going to be fulfilled. No failure on the part of the church. No failure on the power, violence, or opposition on the part of man.
Is going to hinder the purposes of God being fulfilled.
I did not an encouragement to us sometime in the last days we're liable to think how much depends on us. Well, I was going to have the spirit that molds the time when he saw difficulties rising, he said that I am not able to bear the burden of this people alone.
I literally realized and that it was God's faithfulness that was going to bring the people in as he had said he would bring them out and He might bring them in. Moses could be an instrument if that's all God's purposes and grace were going to be fulfilled and all brethren, doesn't touch our hearts to the things that God has those eternal purposes and they're going to be fulfilled.
And not one of the redeemed is going to be.
Left behind the work is going to be completed in grace, and all the redeemed brought safely home, As we often sing in our own thyroid ones. All complete in glory, Roundly there with joy shall meet.
So what, when I say, is the starting point, and how important it is in a in a dark and difficult day, that we should think that we should think of those eternal purposes, how last we get occupied with the state of things, lest we get occupied with our own heart and effort? We need to be occupied with the sovereign grace and goodness of God.
Well then the reason I read those verses in the 2nd chapter was to show that a mistake of confusion was the 20th, 21St and 22nd verse. The 2nd chapter. And the reason I read that was to show that no matter how Christiansman becomes a great house and vessel to honor and vessels to dishonor, and that while we are called upon as individuals to separate from.
The great mass of evil that we see.
I'm the 6th to go on in the past of faithfulness. Thank God we don't have to go along.
We may not know all the ones whom God has called out in His grace, and sometimes we're inclined just to look at the little company that we know ourselves, perhaps in our own city, but as the Lord is going to have a testimony until we come together.
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And tells us to follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace with them, and call on the Lord out of a pure heart. And so Ramon gave the spirit that Elijah had, you know, Moses on his part. He thought that he had to bear the burdens of people alone and forgot those counsels and purposes of God.
And all of you, he said. I only am left to they seek my life.
That occupied with the norm of the Borderlands, and the Lord had been telling that he had 7000 who hadn't bowed the knee to bail, and who hadn't kissed him.
So God had it on, and so we know He's going to preserve a remnant, brethren, He's going to keep the best of all me, not through any faithfulness of ours, but he's the faithful and true witness, and He will preserve a testimony until the Lord Jesus comes again.
And then in the 3rd chapter from the 14th verse, it's the importance of the word.
I don't really see that as the end approaches the great importance of the Word of God.
I was thinking of how when they came back from their captivity and they started the worship of God again in Jerusalem, how they were exercised that everything might be according to the Word as it was written.
And so that is what gives us cheer and encouragement too. We have the word.
If we look around this, we may see failure, we look at them, we see weakness, but the word is unchanging. Heaven. Earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away. And I just say a special word for those who are beyond. It says I'm just from a child, for thou hast known the Holy Scriptures.
Now inevitable time I'm showing are so privileged as they are, and these days much below. Perhaps we could say that it's characteristic of the last days and that God works among children. I've instructed the fact that when describing priorities rejected the Lord and that he entered Jerusalem on that cold and the scribe from Pharisees didn't like it, but the children were saying.
To the son of David, yes, in the Lord said out of the mouth of babies and suckling Thou hast ordained strength. And so there were those children who were crying Hosanna, and those who actually have known or rejected.
So I say, what a privilege to the children, to the boys and girls you brought up under the sound of the Word cannot bring their youth to be able to have an open Bible on their knees and to sit under the sound of it in Sunday school and in the meeting. What a privilege it is.
Only graduate, namely value, what it is to have the precious word of God brought before us. So it could be said of Timothy from a child, that thou hast known the Holy Scriptures.
So to mention those 3 points, and I believe they're very important, that God's eternal purposes which are going to be carried out in spite of all the church's failures and all the opposition is Mass.
And the God is going to preserve a testimony through his own faithfulness to the end and to the is going to let us live in.
Word and special privilege in these days of bringing the children under the sound of the Word as well as ourselves, so that we might be instructed in US first to salvation and then to the third year, uh, profitable production for his truth, for correction.
For instruction in righteousness. So the word of God completely specialized for all that we need, no matter around the dark and evil of day. It is wonderful about God in his wisdom.
Has given us that corrective ministry in His Word, in connection with every state of things that may show itself, whether in our personal lives or whether in our assembly life.
Or whether it be is regarding the perfection above us, every ministry in the word to meet every situation in which we can find ourselves. That's why we should be so diligent because we do need the whole honor of God. We need the whole word. We need to read it carefully and prayerfully. President cannot afford to give up 1 little pardon. We're living in days of compromise. We're living in days when people.
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Have to set aside a verse if it doesn't fit in with your plans.
Or perhaps even worse still, if we don't set it aside and we try to find a way of arguing around it on the sometimes.
The unbeliever that besides the scripture as a Christian argues around us, he takes the words and as Peter says, we rest the Scriptures. That is when we don't like some verse while we try and find a way of getting around that verse.
Well, that felt well, isn't it honest that if there's any verse in the Bible that I don't like to have told it to me, then the flesh must be at work in that flame? Shouldn't I be glad to have any verse of God's Word going to me?
Why they were decided, my words were found, or Jeremiah rather, thy words were found. You're not at least them. And they were unto me joy, rejoicing in my heart. We ought to be glad to receive any part of the word. And so I say to myself, as well as each one here does any worship in the Bible. And we don't like someone to bring up to us.
We better be before the Lord. My will must be at work in something.
If we're existing the Word, all scripture is given by an inspiration of God, and it's all profitable.
Well, now we come to the 4th chapter where Paul, in prison at this time, charges Timothy.
In connection with the difficulties of the pathway.
I shall thee therefore before God, the Lord Jesus Christ, until judging the quicken the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom.
We're reminded that God is going to set everything right. The Lord Jesus is the judge and someday everything is going to be felt like no, we get discouraged because we'd like to see things that right now the breathings are not going to be set right now. It's not until the Lord comes the same they're going to be set right and there's trouble saying and indeed.
Although perhaps in a certain.
It seems discouraging to say up and yet on the other hand we know that God warns us that as the end approaches, things are become going to become more difficult. But the Lord is always our resource. He's always our resource. And So what is brought before us here is a fact that the Lord is the one who is going to set everything right in his troubled things.
And this was to encourage.
The heart of Timothy and a difficult day.
And so he was to go on, preaching the word, the infant in season out of season.
One phase in the Nile Stadium. What's the bad fellas? Well, trying 1 is when was easy to get the people into a gospel meeting, but today very difficult. We can't get them in, so sometimes we have to carry the gospel to them where they are perhaps at work, perhaps across the back fence.
We're talking to a neighbor, hard to get him to come to the gospel, but we can be instant in season and other seasons. And So what might seem like other seasons, why it's always in season for the believer. What do you give out? The word and the special word, as I say, for the last day.
And we do feel more and more that these work of spreading the gospel and giving out the truth becomes in a large measure individual. And one has been struck by noticing that the ones who are saved and and brought in these days are often the results of individual faithful testimony on the part of someone.
Who meets that person at work or something like that?
Face the word the instant end, season out of season.
We prove, reduce, absorb with all long-suffering. That is, will you understand the character of the days? We're not living in days Pentecost. We're not living in the days of power as we're wise in the early days of the Church's history. And so there needs to be long-suffering.
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There needs to be or there, because we tend to be affected by the state of things that we see about us.
I thought it was.
And the Lord San Ezekiel the prophesied of the people of the captivity, it was given a message to them, but it tells us that he went down to the children of the captivity and sat down among them astonished for seven days, and didn't say one word.
Is the actual word of the Scripture he stop whatever he thought he went there and it's not there for seven days before he said anything. And isn't it often so, brethren, that we say things too quickly because we haven't put ourselves in that other person's position? We have never been in their position, perhaps. And so if we were in their position, perhaps we would be.
More careful and more wise and loving in the.
So it was necessary for Ezekiel in a day like that to go and sit down and see the condition of things among the cactus. And then he spoke, and he spoke faithfully to it. And we should speak faithfully, but we need wisdom from the Lord. When you speak how to speak, it's all long-suffering.
And doctrine.
Well, the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. Surely that day has come. Today, that day has come. Let me find the world Christendom. Christendom, I should say, is just filled with false doctrine. And what it is thus most of all, is to find these things gradually and filtering in even among those who are known as fundamental.
Those who are known as preaching the gospel is often a sound one picked up a book. In fact it was given to me just while I was on this trip. One man who preaches and not always heard him very highly commended to define gospel preacher and here you might find that in the book he was teaching that there was a chance for those who were left behind when the Lord comes.
Well, you see how evil doctrine comes in. The time has come when a lot of Jewish sound doctrine, You think that man would receive correction? No, the crime is coming. People don't receive corrections.
Matching Pack is so thankful for the little assembly, and we ought to claim the truth. We ought to hold it. Let's not give up any little part of it. Better to have a few to seek to go on obedience.
Have great numbers if the truth is not wise, and the only way that we can have great numbers in a day like this is.
Have it at the expense of church, at the expense of truth. That's the only way because.
All the sort of thing that is coming in.
Into the professing church is because of their defendancy today to be.
Man places, man places and to take away the sharp edge of the truth and to make a little powerful. So, uh, tone down and people want to hear something new. Another man I met in my journey, sorry to say, a man that used a lot of bad language set up on the train.
And so I said a few words to him about the Lord Jesus, tried to speak to him about his soul.
And change the subject by telling me how much he enjoyed listening to some man who preached over the radio and prophecy, starting to tell me some of the things he had learned about prophecy. And and yet they were seen by his conversation and everything that it was non regenerate unsaved man. But he had itching ears. That was quite interesting to him.
He heard something about Russia's place in the future and they asked me if I thought it was true. Well, he had 18 years, but he didn't want the truth about his own name.
Wanted to be told that he was a center and needed.
In Christ, there's a great deal of that today. It's a year.
Turning away in their ears and the truth.
And perhaps he hears a little bit of truth, but he'll return to Fable.
Maybe he's heard somebody that has given him a little bit of truth, but not wanting the truth about his own condition. Where may that man land? Where may he land?
I know, I believe is a warning for us because a tendency for us to want to have something new.
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No, Children of Israel, when the man that first came, it says it was like tasted like waivers of honey. That is, it was sweet to them. It was sweet when it first came.
But as the wilderness journey went on and they grew weary, and they grew weary of the man too, and they tried different ways of preparing it so it would just taste a little different. But after all their efforts.
And the sweetness was gone. I didn't take like honey as it did at the beginning.
And so, so it is. If we lose the precious enjoyment of Christ, you know, the sweetness of His love, we're going to want new things too. We're not going to be satisfied unless something is a little interesting and different than what we have heard before.
Well, I often think of what a dear brother said to me.
That it's a bad thing when they lose the enjoyment of the simple thing.
The simple thing always is just as precious to you and I tonight as it ever was of Christ. God for our sins.
That He saved us from judgment to come that were justified, that were accepted in the beloved, that He's coming again for us. Are these true? That we know so well ever squeeze and precious, precious to us? Let's not get tired Speaking of them, brethren, and rejoice without God. But we should be Speaking of these things, for I'm a God of sweet savour of Christ.
And then they're saying, and then the perish. Other people were listening or not. God delights to hear His Son well spoken of.
Well then, in the fifth verse, he says, Watch down all things and your afflictions.
Do the work of an evangelist. Why is this brought in here?
Well, I believe this sentence before us to get discouraged. 2525 people don't want to listen to the truth when we find the general departure, when lies would give up this very important part of the work.
And what is it? What is important to maintain the truth and rather than why having a hard time?
Why has he waited?
He's waiting for some soul to the God again.
That's what he's waiting for.
He tells us that when that word of grace is completed, the long-suffering all gone, this elevation, when that work is completed, the Lord is going to come.
And he hasn't come because he's waiting for my society.
So Mr. General Clark ruined. Oh, let's have a fresh energy in the Gospel.
It's true we may not be able to get large crowds together, but sometimes 1 Field might speak of myself to danger. When you see coldness and indifference and lack of interest in the truth. The 10 appears to get more about the gospel theory.
Not to have that fresh energy and desire that would sit to win others for the Lord Jesus.
Don't let me very interesting to me and searches my own heart here, Timothy, Hold in this last chapter to do the work of an evangelist.
Make proof of my ministry.
Let us see grace to serve the Lord and His wife and sigh out the word even in these last days. Well then, He tells us, for I am now ready to be offered in the time of my departure to pass.
I have fought that. Looks like I have finished my course. I have kept the place.
And foresters laid up for me a crown of righteousness with the Lord. A righteous judge will give me at that day not to me only.
All animals so that love is appearing.
While it was revealed to the Apostle Paul, apparently that he wasn't.
That he was going to pass through death.
As far as we know, the only two in Scripture who knew that. That is in the New Testament I speak of in my epistles, and that was Peter and Paul. But Paul has now come to the end. He was about, he was about to be called home.
And for us, of course, in this application to ourselves, we're about to be called home. The time of our departure is at hand. Only for us it's to depart by the coming of the Lord. That's our hope. That's what we're looking for.
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And so in hazard time in there all especially anxious that he should continue in this fireplace that I probably fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the least faith. And this expression of these faith refers to the whole deposit of truths that have been committed to Paul.
And I believe for ourselves it's very important.
Because there is a continual trouble, there is a continual struggle to keep the faith and leave faith is all the tendency to give up and let us not think that because we are gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus precious privileges. It is that and we're going to.
Example, there will be a struggle even to maintain it on ourselves. The enemy will always consider, the enemy will always try the robbers, just like he did with Israel. He tried to take away this corner of the land, the next corner of the line, and there was continual conflict to maintain that which God had given to them.
And brothers, it's going to be the Lord loses here. It's going to need more of that energy in place to keep things safe and especially as a departure and out of the world comes in.
But you know, in reality, we only have as much of the truth as we walk in.
Sometimes that if I have.
Furniture in my house and I haven't used it for a couple of years and sitting down in the basement.
And somebody asked you for it. Why? I'll gladly give it to the mom. Say sure. I haven't used it for a couple of years. Here, take it.
Not much use to me. And so if there's any part of the truth that we're not walking in that we relegated to the basement.
I remember when the test comes, it'll be easy to give that up. It'll be easy to give that up. But if there was an article of furniture that we're using every day, we say no, I can't partner that. It's very useful, use it every day.
Brethren, a lot of us speak to walk in the truth.
The danger comes of giving up when we're not walking in it.
So what the enemy does is begin with Israel. He got some careless and his marriages took place with the people of the land.
It didn't take this large star. Other things took place. And then in the day of battle, they were weep. They had no power.
That's as it was in Azure's day, through these intermarriages with the with the heathen round above them.
Then wasn't long until divine I had a chamber in the House of the Lord and.
What witness there was and all how we need to watch because the enemy.
To robust too, I have fought after fight. All brethren, let us be faithful.
It's always in this world seeing a conflict. We can never shut down the armor until we get home.
But then Paul looks on to that time when we'll get home.
And he said it will be worth it all. It will be worth it all when I get home.
Because he says he's going to be a manifestation.
And there are 4 crimes mentioned in the scripture, and the two of them I believe are particularly connected with the last days.
I believe this one where it says the crown of righteousness.
And then in Peter's epistles where we read of the crown of glory, I believe both of them are particularly.
Connected with the last day.
Because the crown of righteousness is connected with it.
All golden Asia have turned away from Paul.
And they were saying to narrow. They were saying if he, if he.
He had just wasn't in prison. They would feel a little better toward him, but he identified as Paul, a prisoner. They didn't like that. I didn't like to be identified with a rejected testimony.
And then B.
We find too, and Peter's epistle, and that adds to the faithful shepherd. It tells us to feed the flock of God.
I mean Chief Shepherd shall appear, he shall receive a crown. Glory as fadeth not away, rather not legal to ground with ridiculously connected with the last day.
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It takes the special energy to be in the fresh enjoyment of the Lord and our soul celebration.
The flock of God.
Not just give some little intellectual thought. No, we can read up things in the book and we can give intellectual thoughts.
But having some flu is it?
And it takes real. It takes a going on.
The Lord to have food to the soul. Those who think are fresh well, let us take to come to the meeting in such a way that we have something that.
Holy, fresh and strengthened the same.
Being able to say it was good for us to be here.
Well then, the righteous judgment, the Lord is the righteous judgment. And sometimes the testimony may be connected with reproach, as when Paul was in prison. But it tells us here that the Lord of the righteous judge, those in Asia, have turned away from Paul. They didn't want to follow him in that time, but he was satisfied.
That he was walking in the truth, and that the Lord was a righteous judge. And so we need that sense in our souls.
We can't please everyone. It's impossible.
Impossible. I always like that little hand that says.
Various cares our hearts retirement shall deepen boundless their desire is now to please but.
Him before who meets me shall bomb the things all our business now and.
Arkansas, let's seek to please the Lord. I'm seeking to please the Lord. Our lives will become a blessing, and the Lord is the righteous judge. He'll manifest it in that day. So here are things I say. It's not the rapture that's the deal, but it's the appearing, because responsibility in the Scripture is always connected with the appearing.
That's very simple thought I believe why it is sometimes put it like this.
When I'm away, perhaps my boy might all might not always be obedient. He might not be what it should be. You're in my absence. But I always want my return home to be connected with joy and not with a manifestation in government.
I would like to complain when I come home that there's a joy in my coming home.
And so when I come home, I don't want to take up with him about.
Time, anything about his conduct, perhaps afterwards that may come up, but my return home doesn't have to do with that side of things. It's rather the hope of seeing Daddy again. Well, isn't it lovely that when the Lord Jesus presents to us the hope of his coming as the bride, complete bride who never brings in responsibility?
It's always, it's always joy and comfort and the blessed prospect of seeing him whenever responsibility comes in. It's connected with the appearing, which takes place after the judiciency of Christ has manifested our lives.
So here, as I say, it's not always coming here that is a rapture, but loving His appearing is appearing. How you say it wouldn't be lovely if the Lord came tonight. Indeed, what precious to think of seeing his face. But brethren, I were living in such a way that our lives, at least the desire of our heart, says that our lives should be agreeable to Him.
Agreeable to him.
Enemy love disappearing and we say, well a one thing, one thing I see is disapproval and at that time.
All kinds of manufacturers.
I like why I said while his appearance.
Very interesting to notice in his ninth verse.
And again in the 21St verse.
Through the ability to come shortly on the main.
21St verse, the diagnosis to come to fall winter. Not quite interesting to know the classic view. Well, surely it's a beloved vocal, uh, felt the need of the fellowship of such a one as Timothy.
And we love them, Faith. They showed us how much we need one another brother.
It shows how much we need to be together. I was quite impressed and noticed with them now that it's mentioned here twice in this chapter. And so sometimes we have few diligence to get out to me too. But we don't need them and so much the more as we see their crossing.
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I'm sure that in those days travel was by no means easy, but the heart of the apostle longed to have fellowship with Timothy, one with whom he could have, shall we say, hindered thoughts.
And we meet Christians elsewhere.
But what a privilege to be gathered with those who call on the Lord under a pure heart.
We can have fingers, thought.
So I say Brandon, my mother's time girl with me.
A lot of she was diligent to get out is a meeting and enjoy a scholarship together.
Well, now we have the mention of different names here. That is very interesting.
Call attention to the four demons in the 10th verse.
Or demons have forsaken faith, having loved this present world, and is departed on.
There's another sorrow here, isn't there?
I believe that Demos was a true child of God. I expect to be demons in heaven.
But Adeimus, I didn't want to pass. He for suffered the Apostle Paul. And why? Well, he loved this present world. And O brethren within me, these warnings.
Last days The world is wrapped up. It has many attractions. There are things all the time that are seeking to.
Lead our heartful.
And if we don't use diligence to get to the meeting?
Won't be long until they'd be going after this present world.
Won't be long for other things. Briefing because of the heart.
And so if if we're Georgians getting to the meeting.
We have our refreshments and done and fellowship for the Saints of God, if not even want to be spent somewhere.
Going to start someone and.
Hard to have this present world.
No, it may not be the evil of the world. It doesn't say here.
Classes particularly evil.
Sometimes we only think of the world in a single side. So here Christians even say followed. Nothing wrong about that, just educational but remember this.
That the world in all glory.
Is just as bad and just as corrupt and before God as the world.
Lord holds fleshly life.
The thing is that a certain job to the Lord and he brought them up to the seating high and on when the bad things in the world they could show them all the king.
The world and the glory.
And the glorious you and I like to see the glory of the world.
And we like to see all scientific advancements and all this doing and they occupied with progress that it's making and all these things. Sometimes we call these things educational of which may be that they educate brethren.
Which nature were all the things that Satan portrayed to the Lord on that exceeding high mountain?
And what did the Lord do?
The office of the malls of the law are due, but the Lord says.
Thou shalt worship the Lord by and gone him home, Sir.
199-2192 for us, brother. Remember, I pray, not the sinful bad things of this world.
But just explored it attractive things.
But soon lead the hard way from that brighter Vista of glory, that brighter scene.
We are insane. Most bright and blessed things were seen in America for in the measure in which we get occupied with the glory of this world.
Were wrong our blessed prospect of that glory which the Apostles speaks out in the end of this chapter of the Eternal opinion.
The glory is before clarity.
Well, I'm going to have a different one.
And in the 11TH verse he says, Take Mark and bring him with thee, for he is thoughtful to me. For the ministry Elmark has been restored in this beautiful Mark has got away, but Mark had been restored.
What impresses me in reading these different names is that there's not a great deal of comments made about them.
A little bit sad and it shows us the largest interest in US individually.
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And sometimes the silence is stricture. It is important what says.
We find in the 16th of Romans Paul mentioned some names and doesn't make any.
Mentions other names and they have a happy comment to make about.
Well, the Lord is writing up our report too, and the precious if our names are among those who are seeking to walk in the class.
About the water pressure still, if there is that energy.
In command I interviewed. It is blazing to heaven, the obstacle to me for the ministry.
One little warning here too. Both rabbi should make a comment about this thirteen first.
And says the folks which are left to trolls and carpets when they're kind of playing with me and the books, but especially.
Apartments. Well, we learned the best that Paul was concerned with the daily matters of life about the club. But I was thinking particularly in the last part of the verse.
He was a prisoner.
But he wasn't wasting his time, He wasn't wasting his time and was anxious that these parchments which.
That was part of the scriptures should be brought to him.
And so he may be confined, trapped with occasional content after the meeting.
Well, I would occupy ourselves with good things.
We have to stay home for a week or so when you see happy things, if during that little time that we have not able to get to the need of that, we were occupied with the precious writings.
God-given to us enjoying them. Perhaps our brethren might get something of what we have gleaned while we were the latest side.
So I'll follow the prisoner. He was concerned about the department, which would no doubt were.
Part of the written word.
We also live a little warning here about Alexander the covers that.
And I call attention to the other translation.
In our the Lord reward him.
The other translation says the Lord shall reward him.
The reason I call attention to that difference is that Paul wasn't wishing anything to happen to him.
Rather than we should never wish anything to happen to any of our brethren, no matter what.
Done to us. Sometimes if someone's unkind to us, we might wish that something would happen to them after they have said something unkind to us, or done something unkind to us. But.
All this he says, the Lord look after God.
The war to look after that we can safely leave all over the law.
We have, we ought to have thoughts of love for our brand answers. Any situation that arises. You may have to count on a warning. Paul passed on a warning here. Beware of this man, Alexander, but he didn't wish anything upon him.
Just come out of the whole place through the law.
And so the Lord will and take care of every situation in his own time and way, and if we just leave it with Him.
As someone has written all the little lines.
The limitation shines.
If in the right of way thou by taking from God's land by God.
If wrong, Patastar, but invite Satan himself by friend and me Sam.
Leave all of God. It brought him through this dog. It's not an apartment.
Therefore to himself.
So can please explain to the Lord and fall there?
Then to another thing bears the 16th verse, that my first answer No man stood with me, but all men forsook me.
And this is just beautiful. I pray to God that it may not be late to their dark.
What do you watching anything upon?
Now I have to warn about you have to warn about Alexander, because his opposition was intentional. It was bad, it was evil.
But believe, I think there was a lack of courage and I think this is so sweet and touchy. If someone doesn't stand with us for lack of experience, we're live in the same water and they wouldn't help you out when they're in the difficulty, they wouldn't stand with you.
I pray God, who may not delay to their charge, is not the spirit of his Master, the Lord Jesus on the cross, said Father, forgive them.
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You know not what they do. All may we, brethren, shall the Spirit of Christ and all that.
Takes place and all happens, and if someone has done a wrong to us that we might pray that it wouldn't be laid to their charge. All that surely was sweetly the Spirit of Christ.
Why was he without anyone to stand by him or the Lord to die?
Notwithstanding or Lord desire, and no matter, no matter how we may be left alone sometimes, as we noticed in the 2nd chapter, we'll never be left entirely at home.
The testimony will continue, but the time will come. Different matters in our lives where we may be called upon to stand at law, but let us stand alone in the consciousness that we are not doing another pride, but only seeking the Lord's glory and the blessing of the.
If we ever stand alone in the prophets were better than others, that's pride and they'll have to bring down the other hand of God.
But if we stand alone and that was the.
To be faithful to the Lord's glory by have anything safe to leave it all over the law. And the Lord stood by, and he was delivered.
He was delivered and so we find.
That when he was delivered, then there were some others that came and identified themselves with them always in mind. And one of Gideon, you remember how Gideon, my love, the 300 men and they went out and bought the Midianites.
And then when there was a great victory being, one small woman came and joined in and they wanted to have a share in the glory of the truth. They want to take the credit to themselves.
And Gideon was willing to give them all credit.
Because what was I even doing? Embarrassing to you and not a lovely spirit. And the answer was going to give them credit. And yet as far as he was concerned, he was the only one who was really exercised about the state of things in Israel. But his faith became encouraging to others. Daniel had to stand alone, but his faith became encouraging to others through, and so brought him. Sometimes the war may test us alone.
But let us have large hearts.
That don't condemn others, but if you're good, take your blood brain, take your happiness supporting in the mind of God.
And the Lord shall preserve me, deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly Kingdom.
Whom the glory forever. Amen.
Well, this confidence was in the law.
But inside you didn't say you could do anything like I'm trying.
It's all confidence within the Lord said. The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me.
Brother, if we take you walk humbly and the fast of obedience to the Lord, why he will preserve.
Good person, seven piece song says by the word of my life.
Have I got made from the planet to be destroyed?
By the word of thy love you and I are only safe, safe in the fashion of obedience to the Word, and it says anything in your life and mine that we know is disobedience to the Word by the enemy can get in at that point.
Let us speak to have our lives and conformity to God's word, His wealth, and then now we can say preserve me.
All gone for me. Do I put my truck?
Well then, we noticed in the 20th verse the last disposal of Corinth.
But for FEMA and I laughed at molecular stick.
Well, the apostle had power now those that he could appeal to famous.
When he came to the island of Malia to heal all the people who were sick on the island.
So I'm sure it's smarter. Flower was concerned that he had power to heal, but why didn't he use it here?
Well, we don't see power being used in that way.
Scriptures. The Lord never once used power to relieve his own suffering.
He never used power once to make the pathway easier for himself.
Don't you think he could have got water out of that well without asking that woman for it?
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I could raise the dam instead of that water over that well without asking the woman.
How many times in this fact?
We couldn't pray for allegiance of angels.
But now he come to do his Father's will. All soul like that. Christians, it's touching. If we have power at our disposal, we like to use it for ourselves, and if not for our own deliverance, at least to show our power before others. But here was the Lord walking through this world and.
Never really one thing to please himself and every act of healing that he did what was glorious by solemnly his Father's glory and so we find the fall here no doubt in the communion of the mind of God. He knew this thickness was good for your famous.
It was needed for him, and so perhaps the Lord has laid us aside. Early exercise by all these passes through.
He has the purpose and everything. Nothing happens by chance.
All he allows is in love and for our good.
Well, in the last verse, the Lord Jesus Christ.
He was eyes for us. Grace, be with you.
Amen. As one remarked, this 5th chapter is the special words of the last day.
Things remain leading up to the diversity, to the state of things that we see above us, the circumstances in which our lot is cast, the way we often feel that we are treated by others. And to me, it's just a simple little.
An old picture in this chapter of the same thing back in the last days of the Apostle Paul, one thought how to answer to the fervent sign in which we live outstanding to our own assembly life in these days. And how encouraging to find the Apostle Paul and sign like this charging Timothy. Now don't get discouraged, just go on, said I have known something of these difficulties that you're passing through.
And the Lord will be faithful, He will sustain you. And he said the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
Don't get under the saddest thing, be involved in your soul, for the Lord devoted the Lord is about.
Is always about the state of things and.
Cloudy day Sometimes we say for the sun is not time today, but I like to think it's always shining. But if we could just get above the clouds, we'd see it as bright as ever.
So sometimes we get below the clouds, we see the difficulties, we see the troubles, but if we get above the clouds, the clouds look beautiful. Number one time going down on the train, down on the coastal from California and we came to a point where they went above the clouds.
All it was beautiful as we passed along there and watched those clouds in the valley, so beautiful with the sun and shining on them. I thought, I suppose those people underneath the clouds think it's a dark day, but for me up there it looks so beautiful and bright, well brightened for.
Look at the clouds too.
If we seek to be above them with God and our souls, why we see that they're all allowed.
For our goods and for our blessings, and that they're all but fresh occasions for us to show forth the praise of the sinfulness called the set of darkness.
It was marveled, like one has been impressed by that first lately. In all these things, we are more than conquerors.
Muhammad Lawless.
One way to exercise a long time but but that meant more than conquered.
And I would like to think of this. This is one side in connection with it.
Not only does the Lord give the grace to live as long as difficulty.
But he turned to this because positive blessing if we take it from him.
And so that when we get home to heaven, not only will we thank Him for the grace and that helped us through the trials.
But when we look back, we'll say.