Address—G.H. Hayhoe
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I have it on my heart this afternoon, friends, to pick up three places where we have the word Christian in the Bible.
Not only three places and I believe there are special lessons to me connected with each mentions of its name of Christians for the first one is in Acts 26.
And the beginning of the 20th birth.
The 22nd Robert Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue under this day, witnessing both long grace, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses displayed should come.
That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and to show forth light unto the people Adam, and to the Gentiles.
And I will be thus faith for himself vast thus said with a loud voice, all dark and side by itself. Much learning does make me mad. But he said I'm not mad. Noted faster. But speak for the words of truth and soberness.
What is being thought about these things before whom now saw it speak freely? For I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him. For this thing was not done in the corner, or even saw the prophet. I know the power believers then a different set of the fall. All those thousands greatest may be a Christian.
And Paul said I was the God, but not only thou, but also all of duty. This day I will go up all alone and all together such as I have.
Get the bomb.
On this first passage planning.
The top for us is the importance of being a Christian here with a man and being a Groupon. He had great position in this world. He had a wonderful position. He wasn't brought in this courtroom with pomp and ceremonies, and he was given the privilege of hearing this wonderful servant of God, the apostle Paul.
And his powers hopefully, and reasoned with him, reasoned with him.
I'm coming into the Lord Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation. King of river sadness almost doubtless would be to be a Christian. When I speak of a Christian, I don't speak of it in the popular sense in which it is used today, in the popular sense today. Why everyone, I suppose this city and in this country.
Will say yes, we are Christians.
Within the Christian land were not Mohammedans. We're Christians. What do you plan? At the time that the Bible was written, the word Christian had a different meaning altogether. In fact, I might say that the word means one who belongs to Christ.
One who belongs to Christ, and so after one to belong to Christ. And those signs cost a great deal. It might cost persecution, it might cost even ones life. But I had a wonderful thing, the working of God's grace and bending out the message of his love to the world that had crucified his Father.
When the Lord Jesus was crucified, how allowed us to think of the Lord in resurrection saying that the gods of the message is pardoned and to begin after Muslim, the very people that have taken his son and nailed him to a cross, He better begin by telling them the good news that we let work accomplished on Calvary.
There is salvation for whosoever will.
And there are many of you, dear young people, who have come here this afternoon, and perhaps some of you are not saved. Maybe you're like a Griffin. It's our fear that Paul said to him, believe us now, the prophet. I know thou believe us. And perhaps you too have sat in the meetings from childhood, and you believe the Bible. At least you say you do.
And yet you have never made.
Personal matter between your fallen God you have over the head. Belief you believe in a historical way others never been any personal dealing between your soul and God. There's never been a time in your life when you've got a little presence of God as a lost Sinner and receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your own practice and personal Savior.
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Holy, I say to you, dear young people.
Gracious village Indian brought up under the sound of the Word. But great is your responsibility if you refuse to flee opposite God in offering you salvation and all. How wonderful it would be with this Thursday. There should be someone in this room. Lord, give his or her heart to the Lord Jesus.
Who will accept him, and from this day forward to the place I belong?
Christ, I am here I am dealing with circus club. Well how bad this picture here a man brought under the sound of the word brought to the point where he says almost and get not all together. And perhaps that's the way it is with you. Perhaps in the dark believing last night you soon as it were on the very threshold and then you walked out of the room on the grave.
This afternoon, a day you stand up a threshold with the watching this annoying crisis, your savior before you, the glorious hope of spanking eternity with him offered to you freely. And can it be that there should be 1 here? That is, what is a threshold? And the devil is pulling you back and saying don't decide now. Don't receive Christ as your savior today.
If you do, you'll have to give up too much. But all the devil is a liar. He says he's a liar, and the Father of it. But the Lord Jesus, with all tears in hands, offers salvation to you. Think of what it cost him, that Christ is suffered all what he suffered, not those sufferings at the hand of man, terrible as they were.
Of all those suffering at the hand of God.
When the Lord Jesus was made sin for us, the one who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him may because our darkness and in those hours, the Lord Jesus there you laugh in judgment that would have struck us down into hell forever, and that he should love us enough to bear that judgment in our place that we might be saved.
For dear young people, take that step.
Come to Christ this day. Don't know most persuaded but it says.
All answering says I was the dog, that not only thou but all but also all here in this day where those almost and all together.
What does I am except these bonds? It isn't enough to be all alone, but to be all together, That is to receive Christ in your heart and to be able to say I belong to Him. What a marvelous thing to belong Christ purchased in his precious blood and intelligence.
That if you belong to him purchases prejudice, precious, bloodless, there is a lot.
In its park war to allow the fool share for all eternity, A blessedness you don't know anything about until you receive him. As the story was told of the little boy who was asked to describe what the honey tasted like. Would it fail? And you couldn't tell how sweet it was. And so he said further out of face.
And the scripture says all taste and seed of the Lord is blessed and you never met one who found the Lord Jesus as his own personal Savior. Whoever regretted it all. May God bless you young people that I didn't turn home from the speed and maybe some who will be leading just in this meeting is over. How wonderful you should go back.
With that sweet and wondrous knowledge in your soul.
I belong strike I am a dating of the precious laws. I'm a child. I know I'm saying I possess eternal life all Elizabeth yours if you'll only receive that blessed failure and for this time we have Christian brought before us with command to the nation threshold and sad to say he did not make the decision and as far as we know never did.
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And this may be your life.
Opportunity, hey, God bless you will receive Christ as your Savior and receive him today.
And I'd like to look at another instance in the 11TH chapter of that the 11TH chapter of Acts, in the 19th verse.
Now they were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose without. Steven travelled as far as Phenomenon and Antioch, reaching the Word to none, but unto the Jews only. And some of them were men of stripes and Tsailenes, which when they were come to Antioch, they come to the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus, and the hands of the Lord was with them.
And a great number believed and turned under the Lord.
10 times of these things came under the ears of the church before the Jerusalem, which sent, and they sent forth Barnabas, and he should go as far as Antioch.
Little Wayne came, and had seen the grace of God was glad, and he got them all at the purpose of Harper would plead unto the Lord, for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost, and the faith and much people was added under the Lord then, besides Barnabas.
For deceit God. And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass. For the whole year they assembled themselves with the church and taught much people and the disciples were called Christians first in Antiochus.
So here we have, we might say, the testimony of those who are Christians before the world. And I know that most who are here this afternoon, most of you, dear young people, convey, yes, I belong to Christ. I know him as my own precious Savior. But here we have their testimony, I say, before the world.
It says in Corinthians we are made a spectacle on the.
World and to angels and to men. The world is looking on. The world is looking on. At this strange phenomenon. They see something has happened.
A boy, a girl has confessed Christ as his savior, and they expect something different. They don't expect you to be like them when you confess that name of Christ, as I expect you and I to be like our blessings.
We acknowledge that we belong to him and even appears to me in reading this that it wasn't the name they took for themselves, but it was a name that was given them by the world. They were called Christians and that is the world of dominates that why these people don't belong to us, they belong to Christ. They belong to Christ.
All of you young people have any testimony before this world?
And the world is watching us.
The boys and the boys and girls at school are watching us. They are young people in the office are watching us. Other Christians are watching us. And why are they watching the sea? Are they watching the sea? If we act like those who belong to Christ, and if we are the testimony here in this world, we're no longer our own. It says ye are not your own. Ye are bought with a prayer, with a price.
The Christian has a new life. He has a new power. He has a new object, new affections of any man in Christ. He is a new creature. All things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new. And so here in this little group that were scattered abroad, they were persecuted. They didn't have an easy life.
We had to endure persecution. They had to give up their home.
All you say, well, I thought when I became a Christian I was going to find a lot of friends and have a really happy life, a lot of life that's going to be very smooth for me. Perhaps like Mary, you expected the Lord Jesus to be the gardener and to make things pleasant and happy in your life. But the Lord Jesus when Mary is looking for the gardeners, he said, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father unto.
God your God, then they have to get the Lord Jesus, said Mary.
There's a home up there for you, but don't expect one down here. Don't expect me to make this one out of the comfortable place while your home is up there. And think of these years, gold driven out of their homes. We're losing their earthly possessions. But all they had a pleasure in the earthen vessel.
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And as they traveled from place to place, they announced the wonderful glad tidings.
Of the Lord Jesus, I don't think any power of his grace and his testimony was touched before others that they said these people have lost their possessions, but they have something that we don't have. And it says the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord.
Did they turn to the Lord? They have an easy path. All these were Christians.
And the testimony before them was such that they want to have what these dear Christians had already. God granted our lives will show we have been in the company of the Lord Jesus. All the young people as we return home from these three days meetings.
Many have been with me or something like Moses, but when it came down to the mountain, being in the presence of God. With that in Saint John John, and so we turned to our homes. Even more than any persecutions, there may be difficulties and problems awaiting us when we returned vanity as great as the problems of this little suffering company face, some of their numbers cut off some of the.
Was fascinated for this faith in Christ and our our suffering such privations, but all how happy they were and they spoke about the Lord Jesus. That was their testimony. They had its treasures in the written vessel. I say they had something that the world could not produce. And you know as I attended the funeral of our dear young woman.
Back in Ottawa just the other day.
I thought, it seems brought home during a time like that all how much more that Christian has in the world. The people of the world came in and they didn't have one word of comfort. They had nothing but all the Christians and they had something done, this world, something that satisfies.
And even some of the doctors and nurses were impressed and came to the funeral. This because.
Where was going fast in the front of death and there was a triumph. There was a joy that they didn't know anything about was Paul was yesterday. How the dear one who was lying something but the testimony was such that infidels turned to the Lord arguing young people as they agreed. These people have their mouths open to speak about that which.
Is far better than earthly progressions.
About the Lord Jesus place and a great number believe turned under the Lord, and unto they were brought into a new circle of fellowship, a new circle of fellowship. A message of this gave the assembly that was up at Jerusalem and was concerned with what God going on down there, and that these people might know the truth.
And so and that's why we have come together in these violently.
It's a grand thing about brother brought these for us yesterday to be a testimony for Christ to speak to utterance about our precious Savior from here. When these people were saved, they didn't leave them. They didn't say it's wonderful. Great numbers have been saved down there. This is a place where the God more than you stop there. It tells us.
Right when this message came to the nearby assembly of Jerusalem, why others there?
Pastor who came down, and he had brought to these young believers, for that which purpose of heart they leave unto the Lord, all their young people takes real purpose apart.
Why is it around as many as you know? Why is it in the little family that you come from? I know perhaps a little bit of the problem and this has loneliness that you have to face after you return from the three a meeting like this. And I know this is not easy, but all I do know and I can tell you this afternoon about the Lord Jesus.
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Is the patient and if you look up to him, we have suffered the heart.
Who believed to him? He will not fail you. He will not fail you. What does it mean to plead to the Lord? Well, I think of it like this. Just keep us close to the Lord as you can. Just keep us close to the Lord as you can.
Just keep it close to the Lord.
Every morning when we get up to read His word and the bound prayer.
Every day as we go forth, this needs to go forth with something of the enjoyment of His love in our souls, so as we go out and meet the world, that there is purpose that can go against the purpose of this world which is downward. The only clean fish to the children of Israel were the ones who had sinned and scaled. They had to have scales like the armor to keep all these firemen of a lot as they passed through.
And they had their sins that if God needs to turn those the only fish that were clean to us while the children of Israel and here young people are. That's what my earnest desire for you is. That's what that's perfect for part just putting it under the Lord. It's a dark there is a difficult day. This dream is against you and even the dream of Christendom. It may be an even other young people encouraged you.
Drift along with the stream sometime, but in here of one we thought of these years young believers that pleased the Lord with purpose of heart.
How beautiful and how important this was.
Brother with this testimony, when there were first days and the second thing was that when they were encouraged to go on and cling to the Lord close to him in communion. And then the next thing is to find there was a teacher who came down there. His name was Saul. He was one who sought to instruct them in the things of God.
And so they were satisfied, and they were lying for trying to be a testimony for Christ.
That testimony to Christ publicly a good thing, a fine thing.
But then there was another thing here, and what was it they pleased to the Lord? What? There was a third thing here. What was the first thing that struck before us all it says here.
It came to pass for all years. They have sentimple themselves with the church. They assembled themselves with the church. All your young people, how is it with you and the little meeting that you come from? Do you assemble yourself with the gatherings? When the Bible really nights come, do you found there?
Or studying, I suppose these, these were greetings here. They were very well educated people. They were one who had obtained the highest painful learning.
But nevertheless, and they set aside those things, they came together and they assembled themselves with the Church.
All, I'd like to encourage you again, dear young people, first of all, to be a testimony for the Lord Jesus and your own personal life, to clean to Him with purpose of heart and to speak His strength and grace for every step of your pathway. And that is third thing, to be regulatory at the meeting to make the heart of a new life.
To assemble with the face of God, that may seem difficult.
And they may not seem to be men, and they are, but to know everyone who comes one more, and who can tell the blessing that your presence is going to be in the little meeting where you are.
And I think I can say, and I can speak for myself and for a good number of others here, that any little knowledge of the Word that we have in the things of God today is the result of being at the meeting of being at the meeting. Or how important is to be there where the Word of God is red wearing fruit of God's thought. Well, what was the result of all this?
The disciples were called Christians. The disciples were called Christians. I say again, had won the popular Christianity. What could go on with the world? Here was a little group that had been entirely separated from the world.
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Persecuted, suffering the company and they were having to endure much for Christ's sake, but as others looked down, they said old people.
The long crisis.
They belong to Christ and all I want to say over the word more in connection with our school and all these days your young people all trying to turn the things today is to fill your mind with earthly success.
Our last days in this world are something like the way it was before God brought his people, Israel out of the land of Egypt.
Now the last thing that the children of Israel were joining the land of Egypt was building pregnancy for Pharaohs deciding, building these great foreign cities. And it seems to me that the enemy of our souls is trying to get our young people occupied.
With building up things in this world, making our possessions down here, and circling this world as if we were part of it. As if we belong to it and we're living.
Time and prosperity is within you least when most of you young people have opportunities that some of us in the world didn't have in our youth of getting things much more easily. There within your reach and their dependency for them you can hold in your heart. And I speak this in love to your young hearts. May the Lord keep you, dear young people.
You dear young men who have ability and are getting along.
And perhaps winning scholarships in school. Are you going to concentrate all our ability and all that? You have constant success in this world and you get along. That's what the enemy of his soul wants you to do. That's just exactly what he wants you to do. But the Lord would where you become more with the same lead together with me at the gathering and learn more of your precious failures.
We belong to Christ. We are young people.
We belong to Christ, we're not part of this world. All you say, but I've gone so far. I have to continue. Mom has a large in you the way things in the balances of the sanctuary this day it says in the province that a false, false way of false bounds and abomination of the Lord. And if you've been weighing things in a false balance. May God give you the way it needs the truth down.
You may think of the privilege that we have of bearing the name of right.
What did not precious name and bearing us before this world have a little hymn says going to all where once he thought nothing but Christ, the Christ of God. I know there are problems. I know it's difficult for you to get into something where you can earn a living, but the Lord will advise you.
His promise is in all our ways acknowledge Him and He.
Now the rest thy path. How the other passage is in First Peter chapter 4. First Peter chapter 4.
And with 12, the 11 Thinketh not strange concerning the fiery plow, which is surprisingly with both. Some strange thing happened under you.
But rejoice in as much as you are partakers of Christ suffering.
That one is glory which shall be revealed. He may be glad also with exceeding joy.
On their part he has even spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
But let none of you suffer murder or defeat, or as an evil doer, or as a busy body in other men's matters.
Yet if any man suffer the Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God, on which he has till the time he's come. The judgment must begin of the holy block, and as it first begin with us.
Where? What's the entity of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely or with difficulty be saved, where is the ungodly, and the Sinner appears? Wherefore let them suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. Now here we have the sufferings connected with bearing the name of Christ.
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The first one I believe we have in.
Salvation, accepting, accepting Christ, bearing His name is one who belongs to Him. The second it's our testimony before the world, but He is there is suffering connected with bearing the name of Christ. It says in Philippians 1 unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe in men, but also discuss her for his sake.
His natural tendency in our hearts.
My hard feeling to saw him escape the suffering.
The bank was nice to be a Christian, to know upon his saying to try and make ourselves fit in with this world in certain measures, and escape the reproach of being gathered to a rejected Christ.
But all your young people, how there is a suffering connection with the name of Christ?
All that was very difficult. It's hard and trying things and it'll cost the reveal. I have to do this. All the fish says here. If you be reproached for the name of place, happy are ye?
Let me score the beginning is easier to draw for the name of Christ.
Happy on he Have you ever seen another young Christian bearing the testimony for Christ before his friend and associates? Is he happy or is he unhappy?
While I've known quite a few young people and all the ones too who have stopped to do that and I can play this verse is true. This verse is true. I come here lady when she read the Bible.
And she used to read these things and then she used to try them out in her daily life. And she put beside the verses P&T, someone looked at their Bible. What does this mean?
All she said it means pride and told them.
Prior to them. And so how how wonderful it is that every Christian who has intention to do this, the witness from the name of Christ to be faithful to Christ, to take a stand for him can say guide and proven. Or you say that I'm going to have to lose quite a terrified doom if I take a stand if I step out of that association.
If I if I confess Christ, I have to suffer.
All the Lord Jesus will never, never disappoint you. We may pride our place, but we won't disappoint us. All the joy, the sweetness to your young people of suffering as a Christian, suffering as one who belongs to Christ, as joyous, a pleasant joy, and in the future, joy too.
When it says here.
That when his glory shall be revealed, he may be glad also with it. Door, as a brother pointed out to us one time, this joy in heaven when a Sinner is dead, There's greater joy when one walks in the truth.
But there is a steam going at the journey's end and you know, I've often in one's own mind, take a little pre union's own mind at the presidency of place and think of what it will be to hear the saviors say, well done, Don't think we'll be glad that it's being joined.
As it is in those marks to be fans and the.
American inspired and hear him remind us that the judgment of Christ, what he had to suffer to put away our standing as a great, the role of our sins passes before us. Therefore, there'll be a review there that we might know how great the death lies that the Savior paid for us. I'll end as we see how great that death was.
How our hearts will bound, worship and play.
And how should it be dog, if there isn't any substance as a Christian, as one who belongs to Christ in these 4 failing line followers?
Yesterday we'll be glad of the King Joy, you, your young people who are going to college and the last year last year of high school, you're looking forward to graduation time. I'd be glad to hear you say I'll be glad when the year is over and I get my diploma. But oh how wonderful that when our little time of suffering down here is over to be in the presence of the Savior and to hear.
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Play well done, Mr. Is my own heart thinks the Lord's years at hand will be enlisted the place of town on the head of any of us who suffered so little in comparison to what he's suffered for others. If any man doesn't exist, and let him not be ashamed. The enemy says, oh, don't do it, don't take a stand.
But all died now and it's in joy at the end of the journey. Will more than recommend for anything. We have to suffer for his main sake.
I also want to call attention because it struck me in reading this in the 17th verse, where the science comes, judgment comes to begin at the House of God. Now why does that come in there?
After Speaking of the joy of suffering of the Christians, why think about judgment beginning at the House of God?
All the young people I believe is a very thirsty flock and it serves as my own heart if we try to escape the suffering of foreign or rejected Christ.
Bad to say we come under the government of God and in that time and suffering there is no real joy and there won't be joy as we see that all lost as the judgment seat of Christ.
Both in this part of our heresy, it's part of what belongs to as a Christian. It's a happy portion both now and at the judging Christ that has gone through in devotedness and loyalty. Christ. In that way, I'd like to compromise the life of Joseph and the life of Jacob.
World was suffered in the possible demons and faithfulness in the lordedness, and he had cursed and joy, and he had beautiful joy in seeing the edge of the knee of blacking in his teeth on the coming days. But what about Jacob?
Jacob suffered in the dumb of God and he could never life of style here and alone at the end he did enjoy to see his son Exodus. He had to save you an eagle had been the same in the years of my soul division. All this is side by side in the land of Egypt side by side guys, there's a dirty wind and thank God our title of glory and of life and every believer is.
Side by side praising the Savior, do not pray, but all God wants us to have this present joy, the future joy and if we try it as a patient. We are young people that now comes in the government of God and lost as a judgment. He decides so obeying the word encouraging in the last verse wherefore.
By then the suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their souls to Him.
Well done as unto a faithful Creator. I don't even believe it says here is under a faithful creator.
I thought we might say, well, you know, what if I give up? What if I take this stand? What if I am faithful? I'm going to lose out. Why? The Lord said why? I'm the one who created everything and I can still supply and need all your needs unless I don't. I created everything and all mistakes for you. And so our precious things were to miss the keeping of their souls to Him and well doing quite a little.
Watching for us in the meeting about the white stone, the Saints of the Lord's approval and of the manifestation. But He would write upon us in new name in that day. Yes, there's a manifestation coming.
To have the sense of God in our soul now, the preciousness of a complete society. And dear young people, may I say insulting, salty, that's the sweetest and happiest thing in your life that you can possibly have. And one would covet it for a long fall as the sense of walking through this world, knowing that we have the law's approval in our pathway.
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To have intercourse, the sense of his company whose Starship and his approval all would have landed in his Indian Christian. May God grant. Is anyone here? I'm afraid that you will be all the terrorists persuaded to be assisted today.
And he encouraged to their testimony in this world as those who belong to Christ.
And then last of all, if there's nothing in that path to prove the happiness and the joy of suffering as Christians, as those who belong to Him, in view of the mereness of our blessed Lord's return. For it may be that before we leave this assembly, we may hear His joke. But if He does give us a little longer, may His love constrain our hearts, that we may say, I belong to Him.
My desire to acknowledge his claim all the way.