Address—G.H. Hayhoe
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Tonight to Matthew, chapter 16.
Matthew chapter 16 and verse 13.
Canteen just came into the coast of Caesarea Philippi. He asked his disciples, saying whom? The men say that I, the Son of Man, AM.
And they said some say the solid John the Baptist from Elias and others Jeremiah saw one of the prophets.
He says unto them, But whom say ye that I am Diamond? Peter answered, and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou Simon by Jonah, for flanking blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
When I say also unto thee that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, and I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
I'd like to turn over to the 18th chapter.
Do you think, first shall I say unto you, Whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound and have them, and whatsoever you shall lease on earth shall be leased in heaven? Again I say unto you, that if 2 of you shall agree on earth, as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For two or three are guided together in My name.
There am I in the midst of them.
Well, on Monday night we were talking about the earth, they said we were talking about the earthly Jerusalem and how God had her way back in the time of Abraham, shown where that spotless today Ben Harvey Temple was afterwards built there in the time of Solomon. And then because of Israel's unfaithfulness, how they were said and we captured robbed back again to it and then how then they rejected them as far.
That was laid into ruins, and then we also noticed how that it will be a funnel of glory and blessing for the earth in a coming day. Now we see Israel going back to unbelief. They're doing their best to establish themselves in that land to get the promised blessings from God by their own efforts. This will never be. It'll only be when the Lord Jesus.
Israel's rightful King was given his place when Israel is acknowledged their guildener, killed in their sin, and having crucified their Messiah.
Then there is someone will be a joy to the whole earth.
What we mentioned on Monday night at the present period is the appearance of this in the ways of God. He mentioned that it's what might be called the fullness of the Gentiles.
Israel has now been certified nationally, and we find that God has now a new center. It tells us in Hebrews 13 here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. One is we haven't got a geographical place upon earth that we can. So this is God's center on earth. God had that center.
Jerusalem, and it's going to be the center of the earthly glory and a coming day.
The city of the great Saints, the Mount Zion that he loves. But during the Lord's absence, now there is a center, There is a place where the Lord would have his own to be gathered around himself. And how blessed it is for us to see. As I say, it isn't some particular city. It's a person. It's a person.
Also here in Matthew 16.
The Lord Jesus had been rejected in the cross chapter. They had come out of the unpardonable sins, and they had attributed the worst of the Lord Jesus to the power of Satan. And this sensation that was the unpardonable sin, to say that what the Lord Jesus said in all its succession was by the power of Satan.
Was to close the doors if were on blessings, because if it had been ignorant by them, there was hope for them. But.
If they said they saw the work, if they acknowledge them and still could say that that was by the power of Satan, there was no hope until we see that in the 12TH chapter, the unchargeable sin and the Lord Jesus then and goes out of the house by the seaside. And six of these characters that the Kingdom of heaven would take during his absence. Now let us be clear about this, that the Kingdom of heaven is not heavenly. The Kingdom of heaven is a part.
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A world where the rule of the heavens is on.
The 13th chapter will see that because it says that in the end the Lord will stand before his angels and gather out of his Kingdom all same for the family, and then the demonicity and pass them into a furnace of fire. He speaks about the pair as being sown among the heaps in the Kingdom of Adam. He speaks about some of the seed formed by the wayside in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Same concealer, clearly by reading that chapter carefully, that the Kingdom of heaven is not heaven.
Bob Smith There was a certain part of earth that was privileged, and that was Israel.
They were safely on God and given 1/3 of Romans what advantage them have to do and whose profit is the circumcision much everywhere deeply because that under them we're committed the orbit of God. They were a greatly privileged people, but when they rejected their Messiah, why kind of kingdomly heavenly heaven was taken from them.
They lost their place and friendly, and now God and His goodness and grace is working thankfully among the Gentiles.
And so the Kingdom of heaven is the part of the world, by the rule of the heavens is on.
When here we find the Lord nor rejected, and he goes up to the very limits of the land of Palestine sufficiently a Philippi. And then he asked the question whom the men say that I, the son of man al.
How much time from the blessing of Israel if they didn't recognize who he was? There was no blessing for them. He was the only one who could bring blessing to him. And solely the disciples answered that. Tom said he was John the Baptist Son, alive, always one of the prophets. He didn't know who he was, and yet he had common fulfillment of those scriptures. They ought to have known what they didn't.
Funny tab to Peter, at whom so we that I am.
And Peter stabbed the wall at the price the son of the living God. Yes, he was eyes were open to know he that one was not blessed one in their midst. And so the Lord said blessed art thou Simon bar Jonah. The slice and blood has not revealed it under these, but my Father, which is in heaven, which is a very, very solemn statement.
The natural heart of man is blind.
There is no beauty in the Lord gave us tells us in John 1. He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world made him not. The world didn't recognize its own creators. And when Paul was talking to these wise groups of corns, he said.
None of the Princess of this world knew, for had they known, if they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
They were so wise, how could it be they didn't know their own creator, the Lord of Glory Sunny was here. If I if I was talking to a man and he told me that he knew a great deal about science. And I said, Bill, and did you ever hear the name of Sir Isaac Newton? And he said, no, I never heard that name. That man was thrown to the news.
Well, I say they don't know much about science, and because anyone that would know much about science would have heard his name, and we were friends when we think of this world boasting of wisdom and not knowing their own creator when he walks in it. That's why it says hast not God made Surely the wisdom of this word, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom not to recognize.
Through the Lord, Jesus is in the eyes of God.
To be told to have no, not even the beginning of true wisdom.
Oh, wow. It wasn't flashing blood that was yielded to Peter. It wasn't because he was brought up in a good family and wasn't because he belonged to the nation of Israel, privileged all they were, because they didn't recognize them. But God the Father had opened his eyes.
Armed Allah blessed everyone in this room tonight has fades and saw that we were once like a blind man, but our eyes have been opened to see the Lord Jesus as the front one of God to see beauty in him. Is anyone here tonight is not saved. It's because your eyes have never been opened to see beauty and thy blessed Savior. I hope it will be open tonight because he doubled for you and he wants to bless you. He wants to praise you.
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Now the Lord adds in the 18th verse, And I say also unto thee, that Ballard, Peter. And upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Now I think we're all aware that the man here means it's strong, but the Lord didn't say that he was going to build his church upon a storm, but upon a rock.
And continue as a stone. He tells you that in his own epistle to read fastly in the 2nd chapter of first Peter. He tells us we also like living stones are built up a spiritual house to OfferUp spiritual sacrifices. So only believer is a living stone in the building, but the Lord Jesus is the foundation.
He is the cornerstone. He is the rock upon which.
Bill and he said on this rock, that is the rock of heedless compression and the acknowledgment of who the Lord Jesus really is, and this rock I will build my church on. The gates of hell shall not prevail against us. I say again, this is a new thing. Jerusalem had been built.
And it had been destroyed. It had been built again, and the Lord announced in this early gospel.
That is what they described. But he says I will build my church and the gates of hell. All the powers of darkness will never prevail against that which he built.
And this was something that hadn't taken place before. The church did not begin with Abel. The church did not begin with Abraham. Now, you might have a Bible, and you might find quite a few headings across the top of the page through the Old Testament where it speaks about the church.
Let us bear in mind that those settings were put in by the translators of the Bible, and they're not part of the Word of God. The Prince of God did not begin until after the death and resurrection of Christ. The Lord didn't say I have built my church or I am building it. He said I will build. It was here too in the Lord's book. It was consequent upon the rejection of Israel.
That something you wish to take place and that was.
So to be on the dance Pentecost when the Spirit of God came down.
Notice here he says I will build. Now of course in First Corinthians 3 we find man as a builder and he goes in wood, hand stubble. There are many people that tell you that they belong to such and such as church, but they weren't filled in by the law. They were built in by man. But if you have been built in by him, that is if you really the season of your Savior.
Why Then you're part of the church.
Reply It says an app to the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. So I'm not speaking about what man builds. A man might even be receiving the God's assembly on earth and not to be a saved man. He has profession, but to no one must be really saved. He must be indwelled by the Spirit of God.
To be part of the church. So I wanted to sing with the scriptures between.
What God builds and what man builds what God builds is all good material. There's no Woodhome trouble in what he will and he never builds anything but living strong. The storm that was put out to go and Solomon Temple each set in their place they were they were strong that was cut out in the quarry at the command of Solomon and so the Lord Jesus.
In Matthew 16 has looked upon as the builders.
Himself, and it's all real. The gates of Hall shall not prevail against it.
This is not a this is not a temple built on Mount John. This is people on their books because again I remarked their living stones. This is what is going on now. In the Old Testament, there was an earthly city. There was a physical building that could be destroyed. It could be burned with fire.
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But in Christianity it was spiritual building.
I know in the minds of many people in Christendom they call certain building services, but in the Bible it's never so.
The church is spoken out in two ways. It's spoken out as the body of Christ and as a spiritual building. As the body of Christ, it's our place of association and newness to Him as a building that's connected with a testimony here in this earth. And the Lord Jesus in this particular instance says that he is the builder now also.
In the 19th version I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou shall lose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Our remark before that the Kingdom of heaven is not heaven. There are no keys to heaven. Who is not standing at the door to open people and open the door, and let people in? The Lord Jesus said, I am the door.
By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved. But Peter did have the fees of the Kingdom.
Talent. How do we use them and when?
Well, he was the first one who got used to announce the glad planning to the Jew in the day of Pentecost. He was the first one in God used to announce the gospel to the Gentile in the 10th chapter of that. He was the one who was given this remarkable privilege. And the Lord was telling him this at this time and that he was the one who would be the one who would sort of speak and have the privilege.
Of making a strong announcement and in that way of opening the door. But the door is open now. There's no thought of our door being open to let people into heaven when they get there. But I say again, it's the Kingdom of heaven, not heaven. I will give them to be the peace of the Kingdom of heaven. Well, this was a wonderful privilege that was given to Peter.
And special Apostolic authority was committed into his hand, into the.
Apostle Tom and all apostles today. There were those apostles who were the ones, as we're told, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets that are open.
As Paul said, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation. Now once the foundation is laid and doesn't have to be laid again, superstructure goes on, but the foundation is laid and then the rest is built on top of it. And God used the apostles to lay the foundation, the notice of all the groups, and christened them to talk about having apostles.
They're always adding something to the foundation. You'll always notice this. They'll tell you that. They'll tell you that they have some.
The Father, the Word of God, Nevada, and.
Speaking and saying that they have a message from God beyond what's in the Word of God.
I see this is the way the enemy deceives people. The foundation is laid a bit upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ himself seeing us peace on a stone according to Ephesians 2.
Sing me a lullaby 16 chapter of Matthew We have the Lord rejected now by the nation. He had to tell them about Jerusalem, and he tells them now that there's going to be something new takes place, something that hadn't existed before. And he tells them about the building of his church.
How many come over to the 18th chapter and he tells us a little more in connection with this.
I didn't read all the verses, but you'll notice.
About telling the church in the 17th verse.
So until we'll find that what the Lord had spoken of was now going to be the place where things could be settled. And this is quite important because in the Old Testament when God and told him that he was going to see the place in Israel where his name would be placed, he also said.
That if there was any judgment made in that place, that they were to accept.
That judgment, if it was made in the place where the law had sold him, then they were to accept that judgment because they were the authority there. Now, you know, of course, the source of all authority is God and His Word, but God does and has committed authority into the hands of those who are gathered to each precious name, as we found in this passage.
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This isn't authority to satisfy the Word of God.
Political authorities who act in matters of concern, the people of God, because holiness becomes God's faith. And so here we find that it says whatsoever would also bind on earth to be bound in heaven. Now this doesn't mean that the assembly is infallible.
God has given authority to a father in his home, but that doesn't mean that fathers don't make mistakes. But the authority is there.
Dan had given authority into the hands of policemen and those in authority in the land. But this doesn't mean they're insoluble people. But we recognize that authority is there and it's given of God. It's so God's assembly. There's authority there. Authority has been given by God, and the assembly is responsible.
To exercise his authority, and to exercise it according to the word of God.
When I always find also.
It says that they it was binding and leasing. That is God recognizes this authority. So if someone's dealt with and put away from the Lord's table because holiness becomes his house.
Or the person is responsible to recognize that that action has taken place. Each one of us are responsible. When a person is restored, why they all reverse together.
Just as they did when the man was restored in Second Corinthians, they could rejoice now and forgive that man, and he was happily restored to the Lord's Table.
And on other things in the 19th birth.
Again I found here that is clear of you shall agree on earth is touching anything that they shall ask. It shall be done for them as my Father, which is in heaven. 402 or three are gathered together in my name. There are mine in the midst of them.
One of those two things promoted with God's founder in the Old Testament. There was authority and there was the answer in the prayer.
And they did quite remarkable. It tells us my house shall be called of all nations, the House of prayer.
And when the temple was dedicated, Solomon prayed and asked the Lord, and any prayer that was made entered toward that place that God would hear that prayer. I don't think this is very beautiful. Besides, the Lord, as I said, have been rejected. Jerusalem was about to be set aside. He said, your house is left unto you deathless.
Was there going to be no authority in the earth then? Well, yes, we find that there was a new center now to be established. There wasn't to be a study. It was to be the Lord in the midst of a guarded bank.
There was a there was a special place of blocking on us, not only a far he's a blessing and soul in that temple was dedicated. It was to be a special place of blessing and the queen of Yeshiva came up and marveled at the great blessing of their lives in that place for God excellent to put his name.
Now this is a place where God delights to make known the blessings within His heart for His people. Today I believe there is presence. I believe there is. And so we find yours connected with God coming in and answering His desire for the blessings of His people. And so how lovely it is to see that the Lord.
Cannot see two things with that with you is about to establish.
And now again I don't notice that.
By two or three are gathered together in minimum. Where am I in the midst of that?
Not no longer Jerusalem.
Not from a system that has been formed by man.
But not worth 2 or $3, but worth two or three, all gathered because I believe it's the worth of the Spirit of God, the God who souls to Christ. He is the gathering center. And how blessed that the Lord gave us is not only the way of salvation, but He's the gathering Center for his people. And I believe that if we were submitted to the leading of the Spirit while he would gather.
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People together around himself. Was it not so in the day of Countercross? Why there we find on the day of county talks. Let us turn over to it in the second of acts.
Back in the back on the first voice.
And when the day of Santa Claus has fully come, they were all with 1 accord in one place.
Find the.
Like they also call the attention to it later on, say.
There are the 4th chapter in the 32nd verse.
And a multitude of them that believed were of 1 heart.
Found of one soul. Isn't this lovely? Well, this is what the spirit of God had wrought there was we we find them gathered together in one accord in one place, and now we find.
In the 4th chapter and the motherhood of the disciples were of 1 heart and one soul.
And here, when they were gathered together, what took place?
Something that has never been saw upon the first before.
1/3 of God came down.
Thus is the Lord Jesus promise He said that he would they would Italian Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit was gentlemen tied in Jerusalem until he be injurious powers from unharmed. And they waited there in Jerusalem, and on the day of Pentecost the Spirit of God came. And what did the third of God do to them all? The Spirit of God indwells each one who was there.
So as he sat upon each of them and also.
The house where they were sitting.
Well, and to any present question period. A Spirit of God dwells in the bodies of believers, and He also dwells in the professing House of Christendom.
He dwells in the bodies of believers and he also dwells in the house, in the profession House of Christmas.
Me, I might say that in first Corinthians 3, yes, there's a raising gentleman. Why, it's very, very solemn. What is brought into the professing house? It sells there any man befall the temple of God. Whom shall God destroy? For the temple of God is holy. Which temple ye are, that is, into the profession House of Christendom.
There have been those who have brought an evil doctrine. They denied the beauty of Christ. They denied the finished work of Christ.
That is responsible. What a tremendous responsibility to bring Rose into the professing house where the square dwells, of those things that rob Price of his glow. This is very solemn. And so it tells us that if any man befall the temple of God, whom shall God destroy us, and those who have brought these things in?
As many not, I'm not saved men at all, but a profession only.
He's gone in these evil doctrines, and they themselves are going to come under the judgment of God, the solemn phone, but the Spirit of God dwells in the house.
Tell her it tells us about these who are in this room. 120 They were all now united to one another.
Return to 1St Corinthians 12, you'll see this.
There's plenty of chapter 12.
In verse 12.
But as the body is 1 and has many members, and all the members of that one body being many, are one body, so also is Christ.
For by 1 stood are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bombed or free, and have been all made to drink into one spirit. Notice this expression by one syrup, or all that flies into one body. Or if we have an Ephesians 4. Of course there is one body and one.
Spirit, even as you are called in 1/2 of your calling, so from the fruit of God.
Down upon the Dales kind of talk dealing with these people in this upper room. And now the third of God baptized them by one syrup into one body.
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That is the body of Christ, for it tells us an Ephesians chapter 1.
That Christ is on up on high, on his head over all things, to the Church, which is His body, the fullness of him that filleth All in all. So when he speaks of the one body, it speaks of the fact that Christ is ahead, and all believers are numbers. And how did they become united by the Spirit?
Wow. It's important, I believe, for us to bear in mind, too, that the baptism of the Spirit in Scripture is never spoken. I was an individual thing. It's a collective thing.
And so still 120 individual believers, and the day of Sunday class they were, you notice, to one another, and to Christ ahead and blow. At this point, though, there were no Gentiles.
Go on the in the front chapter of that what we have the burning end of the gem trial. Then in the next chapter Peter reverses the matter and he said and that the Holy Ghost fell on them as on us at the beginning and that he had remembered the words of the Lord, how that they would be baptized with the holy God.
So we only have the baptism of the Holy Spirit connected with those two of them. The day of Pentecost went reformed and then it was used only and then connected with the Gentiles, a group of which were brought in and now from the 1St Corinthians 12 and were called, but now it has been formed.
And it includes raising gun by this is not so in connection with Judaism. And the Lord Jesus is here. He said all those things of the Jews. He said I'm not sense but for the last sheep of the House of Israel. He said it's not me to take the building of bread and pass it to dogs. You see God, who's the only particularly nascent body in Christianity.
Believers, Jews are Gentiles.
And now about 521 body and made one in place.
Oh, how wonderful, this practice truth. This is what is going on in this present time. And the building, if one could speak in this way, is now under construction. It's now under construction.
Because as Peter tells us in his discussion, I thought it again, he says in whom ye also are builded together for inhabitation of God through the Spirit. So when one has kept the Lord Jesus as Savior.
Dwell by the sword. He's built his a living stone in the building. Another one accepts it. He is built as a living stone. There is not a repeating of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The Church has been formed, and I might say this, that in the Scripture the Church has always looked upon at any given time as including all believers upon the face of the earth.
That is the truth.
Fire has an expression in question them about that the the 3rd 2 are here and the church you have gone on before. Well, this is not so according to the Scripture. According to the Scripture it's always looked upon as being the believers on earth and perhaps one verse makes it quite clear because there's one men who suffer all the members suffer with it. This should not be so it shouldn't include those who are in heaven and.
Upon earth now the Church is looked upon as being the aggregate, the total of all those who have been united to Christ the Head and to one another here upon earth.
The end of the second of Acts it says the Lord adding to the church daily such as the same and everyone is.
So he received the Holy Spirit, it says after that you believed you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise. And he's added to the church. And this work is going on quietly, just like Solomon's temple. The songs are being turned up in the poise and each put in their place. And for seven years this work was going on and the stones were being placed in. And at last we read the word about the house.
The house is finished now. That's what is going on now. The thrill of God is burning those living stone and he's putting them in the house.
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And it has nothing to do with a certain group of questions from a divided state of system by who is Speaker Wilson and Mormon by let us be poor of this. That's the Church of God really is. It includes all believers.
If a person calls himself by some name of a denomination that has been made and formed by many, and it's called such and such, he may or may not be a believer.
But if he is a believer.
He was the most part of the Church of God as any other believer, even if he's got his scripture.
The fact that one has received prices is failure is what makes him part of the church.
The Lord added to the church again in Acts 20 the church that she has purchased with his own blood. That is the truth that the Scripture recognizes. Again, Ephesians 5 close also loved the church and gave himself. Now this is a this is a fact before God.
And that's why it says my thought, the verse again, there is one body.
So there ought to be 1 body. There is, there is, and I looked down upon this earth. He sees every member of that body. It doesn't matter. I say again, what name that person may call himself by. If he has been chosen and dwell by the script, he is part of the only church that God recognizes. That is the church that he has purchased with his own blood.
Now it's a privilege to address the.
Now if I were to go and identify myself with some system that is made-up of made by mom, would I not be practically denying the fact that the church is 1 before God?
I believe I will. I believe I am multiple authority to go and identify myself with something that men have made and called by a certain name and called the church organization or a church building or something in this nature because.
Except their own, and stayed. S 1, And that being formed by the indwelling of the Spirit of God and his Livingstone, built him by the Lord Jesus himself.
Well then I'm not all the concealers in the AC Germany calling themselves by different names. What is the path of the question?
Oh, there's heat that just speaks out the place that he thinks is the nicest and best.
Well, I believe we have Atlanta with us in Second Timothy 2. I'm just going to look at it briefly because I would like to speak of how this oneness is expressed, but I I just call attention to this.
When I'm seeing birth nevertheless.
The foundation of God stand the pure having this feel the Lord know our Son that are his.
And not everyone that may have the name of Christ is far from unequity. At any great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honor, and some to dishonor.
If a man therefore proves himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meat for the masses, youth, and prepared unto every good work. Flee also useful us that follow righteousness, faith, study, peace with them upon the Lord out of a pure heart.
On the soul of God and this part is anticipated what Christendom would become.
It would become a great house.
And that's what it is today, a great house.
Well, again, I'll call attention to the fact that the Scripture states the critters and friends. God Himself is the builder and man as a builder. When you have God Himself as a builder, there is no bad material. There is no unsaved person built into the church by the Lord Jesus himself. But when man goes to work.
Then he likes to have a cell, he likes to have display, he likes to have something.
And it looks large.
So Christendom has become a great help.
I am in it. There are vessels to honor and vessels to dishonor. Now, what is the cast of the question when he sees this is taking place?
Not always tell who's real, and he was not even called, said the Lord Mafamilir Hills. How many people who call themselves systems, I don't say they're not. I don't know. It's hard to tell Bob. The Lord knows those that are his. But we're told here that in this great house we are to purge ourselves from the vessels to dishonest.
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So he signed in the district to speak of separation from that which dishonor the name of Christ, morally and also as adoption.
I'm sorry, finally, first Corinthians 5 that a person who went on moral sin was to be put away from among the.
They didn't say that the man was not saved.
No, he won't say, because he was his child. In the next professor he was saved, but he was not allowed to continue in God's assembly. He was in there, but he was a vassal to dishonor. But it was a real believer and so it couldn't go on with this man.
At the large total they didn't tell him he wasn't a Christian because actually after them so that he lost.
But it couldn't go along with him, because of course, they're so dishonouring to the Lord that the Scripture called upon him to put that man away from among themselves, that wicked person.
Now until we come into the second epistle here where we've read and here was some that was showing the resurrection was passed already.
One of the important are we to allow dogs assembly to be a place where things are put out as our dishonor, the person and worth of Christ.
Family sit down, doggy family or the Lord in the midst, and allow things to be said of that dishonor the person of Christ.
No, there was a man that said the resolution was fast.
Thousands in First Corinthians 15. That is probably not laid. Your faith is vain, you're getting your sins. And there were so many times that they found there was no resurrection.
Well, when we find people are Ismat people who profess to be Christians and they said that the Lord Jesus had a sinful nature that he could have said he didn't, but he could have.
All this is fine, is great. They're not talking about an ordinary man. They're talking about the 20 Son of God, and they speak that way.
Well, it's possible for a person to get in a slab like that. I know a man when he got in a club, he got mixed up in this kind of teaching. Thank God he's up here from him today he'd tell you all, no, the Lord Jesus could not spend. He had a whole new to the could not sin, but he did get mixed up and if he continued that way.
Why would be a very fond thing a person couldn't continue?
And gods with some ways and peace doctrine like that.
How this is solemn. So you see in the great house for a vassar to honours, and vessels to dishonour, there are those who bear the meaning of life. Some may be real Christians.
But still we have to separate some, not because we're better.
Because of all causes of God's grace, but because holy must become God's health.
Because they're also to dishonor our dishonor to the Lord.
And not that they're dishonor to us.
To dishonor to the Lord.
Who's boss of mine who's blasted things work is dishonored, and so those of a man therefore killed himself, or as an eternal person says, purge himself by separating from these.
Now go on her dad, he doesn't leave the great house. He can't, But he can be in a place where the peace of God is named Cain for the glory of the person and work of Christ is maintained for their separation from that which is of a terrorist to his Son mentioned in First Corinthians 5. For the name of the Lord has been openly dishonest. And so, so we find that there is instruction.
The destiny's last, That's what you call.
And so it tells us.
He shall be of apple under honor, sanctified in me for the nasty youth, and prepared unto every good work.
Well, sometimes people will say, well, I don't like to leave that company because I'm doing a lot of good, bro, and a lot of people coming in during the gospel and I think I should say that.
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I don't remember what the Lord said.
To our day, it's better than sacrifice and to hearken from the saddle ground.
Yes, there are delights in our beauty.
And here it says.
Prepared under every good work. Now, it's quite possible that some of these people are doing a good work, but I am bold to say from the Word of God that they're not prepared to ever get with. There are some things they can't do because of the remaining association with what's evil. They can't walk and pull obedience to God and His Word. They're going on with things that dishonor Him.
And you know, the Lord delights and obedience. It's not how much we accomplish in life. It counts.
He would do us the will of God about his forever, He the doeth the will of God about a celebrity, and better to do the world gone and have it continued into accomplishable duo.
And that has to be, it has to be declared as being Tom, prey to his mind in that day of manifestation, because it says the command stride for the mastery that is not crowned except he tries lawfully.
They really found the instruction now, does that mean then that we have to walk alone?
It says follow righteousness, follows priority, peace with them.
Calling the Lord out of a pure heart. God preserves the past.
Lord Jesus said it might be quite small, he said. With two or three, I doubt it together. Sometimes people don't like to come out because the company is too small.
Well, not how large the company was. It's the person who's there.
Almost there. How long the company is, if I have the person I love with me, that's the question for me, it isn't how big the company is. I like to be with my group of people sometimes, but if there's somebody I love and satisfied with their company and you know, the Lord is in the midst of his own that according to his word set out to satisfy our heart.
That ought to be enough. Let's hear him say to you, that's fine enough. Remind him how to fail.
No, I'd just like to say a few words about that which.
They do when they come together. The expression of the truth of the one body. 1St Corinthians 10.
I said to his voice.
I speak as a wise man. Judge ye what I say. The cup of blessing which we blesses it not the communion of the blood of Christ, the bread which he broke, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we, being many, are one bread and one body, So we are all for takers of that one bread. Beholders will ask for the flesh on our favorite of the sacrifices for chasers of the altar.
And here I think we have something that's very instructive for us.
I'm sure that we have all noticed that there is something about the remembrance of the Lord in the 10th chapter and also in the 11TH.
On the Prince chapter, the subject finale of the Truth of the Lord's Table, whereas in the 11TH chapter the subject primarily is the Lord suffered.
Now, who's spoken about what the Church of God is, that we are members of the body of Christ, and this is kind of what the Church of God is. Now, how can we give expression for this? How can we give expression to it? We know that when the Lord comes, He's going to give the shout and all his comforts will be gathered and it'll be complete around himself.
Is there such a sign of expressing the truth on Earth?
That the Church of God is 1. I believe this passage shows us that there is I believe this is a thing that many real Christians have not laid hold of and yet I believe it's very successful for us to see it because when we meet together, we don't meet as members of a group that's why if you ask someone.
Who is spiritually gathered? Well, what name? The opportunity will probably tell you well.
They got into the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And if you can ask them or what is your group, you probably might say, well, the doubt is members of the body of faith.
The God of his money, the body of Christ. Now that's what it tells us in this chapter, and I believe it's processed and important for us to get hold of it.
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My before is on and so I'd like to call your attention to something that's quite remarkable and that is it. In this chapter, unlike the 11TH chapter, we find the cup coming first.
I wonder what actually instituted a supper in late 22 and elsewhere in the gospel. You notice that he broke the blood 1St and then afterwards he passed the cup. This is the only instance where we have about the Lord supper where the cup comes first.
I can't believe it's all of their very blessed and significant for us.
Because the subject in this chapter has a large table and when you think of the large table, I'm sure that there's a thought comes into our mind and that is what title do I have to be at this table?
What title do I have to be at his table? How could I come if I was invited to the table of the president?
Why? I'd want to be very sure there was no mistake about it. I was really invited. And I want to be sure of another thing that when I went there I was dressed in an acceptable way.
Now, hello, I'd have invited us to come around and craft and he's also told us what it is. It gives us perfect acceptance before him. I think this is lovely and I connected with he became having therefore blood and boldness turned into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.
So I believe that's why the cup comes first to it. I come to the Lord's table. I come to the into the very presence of the One who's the Lord of glory. I sit down at his table and I step.
Well, the blood has clams me.
That has made me perfectly set. I'll not have a better fitness in heaven than I have right now. And so here it says the cup comes first and it says that the communion.
Now the blood pressure is a preliminary mean. Common thought resulted in bizarre thoughts about the value of that blood. And we sit there for the third conscience. We sit there with a mouth.
And that the blood of Christ has given us perfect title to be there.
And now the certain thing was that you'll notice that this is the only instance where the Lord has spoken out as a symbol of a musical body of Christ. Now for the sake of that some that are younger, when we talk about the mystical body of Christ, we refer to the fact that every believer is a member of the one body of Christ.
That's the mystical body. There was Christ, physical body, that body.
They have hung upon salaries cross. That was his physical body. But when you and I received Christ as our Savior, we become part of the one body of Christ.
Isn't it remarkable here that it says?
My 17th verse will be doing many are one bread and one body. So we're all protectors of that one bread and so I believe when we're spiritually gathered his own loss placed on the table and not one loaf symbolizes every member of the body of Christ.
That does not just represent the little company, but there maybe there might only be half a dozen, but the one loaf symbolizes every member of the body of Christ.
And that is the way that there is a job or is a job or according to his mind, because he being money or one blood, one body. And what is this one body?
But Christ is set over all things for the Church, which is His body. It says by 1 foot we're all about size into one body. Is that just a little company that might be gowned in a particular place?
That includes all believers, and the one law from the table symbolizes that.
That's what it symbolises.
And if it's allowed, cable dots both must be symbolized there if if man makes 1 The learning and he has a certain group and he calls members of that church.
But if he has long the case of God, he says.
For all who are embroiled by the Spirit are members of the body of Christ. Until we gather as numbers, as a body of sex. Well, this is a very cross of strength, and we get this only in this passage. So we have the large table brought before us.
I know that little thought I'd like to add, because I think it's very cautious for us to see and that is that we, we don't really, I don't think enjoy the remembrance of the Lord like he said, unless we lay hold of this fact.
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What sometimes illustrated it like this?
It's not always a woman that we read out in the book of Joshua. Way hard to harlot.
He was a woman of a bad character, but she put his face in Jehovah, the God of Israel. He put the silent line in the window. He was sheltered from the judgment that fell upon Jericho. But the story doesn't end there.
Heroes and brought out and she married into the raw lawn of Israel.
The time had come when she would sit down at the table with her husband and with the building. Now that she comes and sits down at the table across from her husband and she looks across the table and he says wonderful to be a forgiven harlot.
You're more than not for me. I don't think to be about why it's still your forgiven slowly forgiven so completely forgiven that it's gone from my mind that I want to defend when you sit down at my table here that you are the bride of my choice and perhaps you could use the words that.
One uses in the Song of Solomon. He says all it all can I love. There's no spot in this.
Well, some questions. Blake Blab. Nearly a forgiven center. I don't believe there's any real liberty in their souls as they if they only go that far from their appreciation of the local stuff.
But I believe that when we sit at the Lord's table and friends, that He is telling us that we not only forgiven that, that we are in the merest possible place as members of His body, I believe the remembrance of Himself becomes unspeakably precious.
That's the thing, that you're sitting at his table, not merely as if they're given sinners.
That's true, but only somewhat. Like more than that.
You're sitting there as a man that I was bad. It's not a process. Find them all, but at all. This is brought in in the tents captured before the remembrance of the Lord comes in and the 11TH chapter and why is it.
The one I was invited to a person's place. My whole enjoyment of the occasion depends upon two things. So that I feel that they really want me there and and whether I feel that when I'm there. I'm accepted at the table this episode and I enjoy. If it wasn't so, I would be a little uneasy through the whole thing.
Well, how lovely it is that before the Lord brings His supper before us in the allowance chapter, He brings before us our purpose, exceptions, our choice there. And so shall I say, we kept completely relaxed, like a little Him says, with heart and conscience now set free. It is our joy, the sanctity.
Moral come to the 11TH chapter and how do we what are we thinking of in the 11TH chapter? So we're thinking of what he suffered to bring us there.
That's it the Lord's Supper while he suffered the burn a star, but the the tent shaped he takes up our acceptance there and our place there is numbly with his body all had a precious friend. And if I believe driving is what it is to be gathered at his table as members of his body, how conscious it should be to our hearts, how thankful we should be.
To be gathered not as members of a in particular denomination that has gathered in the Lord and the men of members of His body. This is what characterizes the present day. This is our privilege now in this time.
Called the Fullness of the Gentiles. Now let's just look for a few moments of this 11TH chapter in the 23rd verse.
That I have received of the Lord. That was also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, Eat. This is my body which is broken for you, just doing the numbness of me. After the same manner also He took the cup when he had stopped saying This cup is a New Testament in my blood.
This he is off as he rented a remembrance of Made.
As often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you do so. The Lord's death shall he come.
Now here we have the remembrance of the Lord.
Our hearts have been sat free in this threatened, but now we think of what it's passed in and we think of him bearing that judgment in his own body on the sleeve a lot and judgment of God poured out upon him in those eyes of darkness. And why does the blood come the why does the cup come second representing the blood of Christ? Why is that coming in second? Well, I just like to make this little comment because I think it's very important that.
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They say that they they take the top post and mom drink the cup. Take the little first I meant to say, and then break the cup. And that is that the blood of Christ said when he had finished the work, told of a Spanish redemption.
You know all the sacrifices of Judaism. The blood was shed first before the animal was offered in sacrifice.
And the blood that was sprinkled on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat was not blood that flowed after the animal had been on the fire. It was because, but now they spoke of the finished work. It always pointed on to something. It always, as it was said below, in his blood was said that there's a sacrifice to follow. This love was shed, but there's a sacrifice to follow.
But not so with the blessed Lord Jesus. He bore the judgment to exhausted.
That it is finished. He bowed his head in death and the blood that flowed from his side, his blood that spoke of a sunny slower let of him put it nicely twice past and gone. That awful contain one forced the life blood flow that cleans our souls from everything that paid the debt we owe. And so when we actually remember his death that we have the lowest First Amendment.
His suffering for sin and his blood said to tell us that the work.
The work is done.
Well, he had this cleverly gentleman had a blessed thing it is. Now could I just make a little comment about who it is that the voices come in here about eating and drinking unworldly?
You know, if you or I have been writing them, he might have put them in the pants chapter.
Because without surprise, my mind would have been I'm not worthy to be at his table.
Maha lovely.