384: Dave Pogson - The Atonement

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   Welcome to Good Christophian Talks. Thank you for joining us this week on this podcast. We select one talk a week to help us get the Bible in our Daily News feed. Each week we post a talk that we previewed from suggestions sent in by listeners from around the world. Then we record a short intro beforehand as a personalized recommendation to you on why we are sharing the talk. And now let’s talk more about this week’s talk. Hello, all, and welcome back.

2. 0:36

   This is brother Benji. This week’s talk will be a class given by brother Dave Pogson. This talk is the final in a series of 6, which you’ll be able to find over on our extended podcast. We’re not exactly sure where this series was given, but it seems it could have been given at the Coorparoo Ecclesia in Queensland as a Bible class series. This series is on the atonement.

3. 1:08

   Brother Dave’s understanding and exposition of the atonement is exciting. Simply put, he makes it simple such that it often caused me great joy in finally grasping a concept that was otherwise incomprehensible.

4. 1:29

   I love Brother Dave’s analogies. They’re relevant, engaging, and deeply aid your comprehension. This series will fill you with happiness, joy, relief, and understanding. With that said, I’ll give you over to our Brother Dave for his sixth Atonement study. If we’d like to open at Romans 3, where we were and where we finished last time, that’s a little bit of unfinished work there to be done.

5. 2:05

   Apparently I turned over a couple of charts and we missed a bit. And of course, in Romans 3, we are dealing with what all scholars in and out of the truth, regardless of the most important subject, important, a verse on the atonement. OK, So if we just open up Romans 3, see where we are, can you still say, OK, so let’s just capture the flow of thought. I mightn’t finish everything tonight, but it’s very important that we finish these verses in Romans chapter 3. OK?

6. 2:53

   So I just grinded into you a little bit. We’ll just go over it a little bit, OK? If we just pick up verses 18 and 19 and Roman 19 and 20 of Romans 3 says you can never be pronounced righteous by deeds of law. Remember the background deeds of law meant earning, OK? That was a Jewish wrong doctrine that you could earn acceptance in God’s sight, right?

7. 3:21

   You could earn it. That’s a completely wrong concept. It can’t be earned whether it’s by grace or their concept of earning. Yes, it involves obedience. Yes, they both agree it involves forgiveness. They both agree, but their bases are completely different. The Jewish view was man was created with the ability to perform well enough to earn eternal life. The argument of the apostle Paul is that that’s absolute nonsense.

8. 3:54

   OK, The Law of Moses condemned everybody. You had to keep it wholly and perfectly and continuously before you could ever have said to earner, and no one was ever capable of doing that. So the idea of earning his argument right through Romans is is out. So, but the argument in Romans is all about the Jews or man’s method of in becoming righteous before the judge.

9. 4:23

   And Paul’s argument Now God’s got a method that he’s given you and you’re going to take on board that method. And that method is based on faith in Jesus Christ, in God’s sent, and he sent that Jesus Christ as a perfect example of the method, a perfect example of the method. And it was a method of dependence upon God.

10. 4:50

    And in Christ it produced a perfect result in US using the same method. We don’t produce a perfect result, but we acknowledge that. But because we could see in Christ a perfect example of the power of God’s Word right and dependence upon that right, He forgives that. What? Christ’s perfect demonstration of the divine method of salvation becomes a basis for which God will accept lesser men and women that endeavour to walk and follow in the steps of Jesus Christ.

11. 5:34

    So that’s it in simple terms. So he says, so he says in verse 21, but now that is with the coming of Christ, there is a righteousness of God. This God’s method for you to be righteous, that’s a path without the law has been manifested, all right. Christ has lived it out and established it. I was witnessed by the law and the prophets. The whole Old Testament from beginning to end spoke about it all the time.

12. 6:06

    Verse 22, It’s a righteousness of God. It’s a divine method for you to be pronounced righteous, but it’s conditional. You never earn it, but it is conditional, highly conditional. You must never confuse conditions with earning. You find the churches out there and everything’s got to be love and grace. They say any sort of conditions at all constitutes works, and it’s the opposite of grace. They got it all wrong.

13. 6:34

    It’s completely inconsistent with the Bible. Sure, salvation can never be heard, but it is conditional. And here’s the condition. You’ve got to have faith in Jesus Christ and what he stands for and what he’s done and what God has done with him, which he goes on to describe what God has done with him. And this righteousness comes under all those 22 and upon all them, that faith, Jew as well as Gentile. It’s for everybody.

14. 7:05

    For there’s no difference between Jew and Gentile. What? Well, they’ve all Jew and Gentile, they’ve seen, and they’ve all come short of the glory of God. They disobey God and they’ve failed the manifest God for which they’ve been created. For therefore you can’t earn it. It can’t be earned because there’s always the element of failure and cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. And so verse 24 says this method of God we are, we have been pronounced righteous freely.

15. 7:41

    That’s opposite to earning, isn’t it, right. We have been pronounced righteous freely by God’s grace, sure, but it’s conditional. It’s through the redemption or salvation that is in Christ Jesus. God has established a method and it all centres around Christ living it out perfectly. And because He’s lived it out purpose purposely, perfectly, He calls upon all men to identify with that perfect manifestation of God’s method and he’ll accept them. Then we we got the verse 25 and we’d miss verse 26 and verse 26 as a repeat of verse 25.

16. 8:27

    But let’s just go through 25 is the most important verse we have on the subject. It’s talking about Jesus Christ and what God had done with him. Verse 25 whom God has set forth, so God has set him forth, The Martian says for a dying, but it makes no difference. God has set him forth.

17. 8:50

    Some translator, he’s been publicly set forth, so God sets him forth and he sets him forth to be a propitiation. And the word propitiation is actually a Greek word used in Greek religions whereby they placated the wrath of the gods by their particular sacrifices. In other words, they went through a protocol by which they were able to placate the wrath of Zeus or or whatever the Greek gods were at the time.

18. 9:25

    OK, but the word hillisterion propitiation is hillisterion and it means the place of favour. And it’s used in the Septuagint to translate the Hebrew Kapoorith, the place of covering. And of course the Kapoorath was the mercy seat on top of the IT was the lid on top of the ark, right? And Gods was in between the Caribbean, represented by his glory in between the Caribbean.

19. 9:54

    And that’s where the high priest had to come each year with the blood, all right, and sprinkle it before and on the mercy seat on the Day of Atonement to make atonement, to seek to procure the forgiveness of all Israel’s sins. So it’s the place of forgiveness, if you like. OK. And in Hebrews it’s actually called the throne of grace. Hence the the English translators have called them called the hillisteria on the covering. They’ve translated it mercy seat and they’ve taken that from Hebrews, the end of Hebrews chapter 4, the throne of grace. So Christ, God has set forth Jesus Christ as the place of meeting.

20. 10:46

    I’ll meet you here. It says he, here is the propitiation. Actually it’s the whole thing. But this is the hard point. Here was where there was a moral victory of the power of God’s thinking, of the power of natural thinking. At last another Adam had come and had gained a victory over sin by taking on board because he had the capacity to do it, taking on board the divine morality. And it proved with all its temptations and all its trials, it proved triumphant, a unique accomplishment. How wrought by God.

21. 11:32

    And God says, I’ll meet you there. That’s the place of mercy. That’s the place of covering, and that’s what precious remains. It’s used in first John chapter, the early verses of first John chapter 2. It’s also used in Hebrews 9 to translate the mercy seat of the the Tabernacle of the Lord of Moses. So it’s the place.

22. 12:02

    So Jesus Christ crucified is the place. I’ll meet you there. Why does God meet you there? Well, he says, and he says, I’ll meet you there through faith. You can only come there by faith. You’ve got to believe what this is all about, OK? You’re going to believe this. I’ll meet you there.

23. 12:22

    If you believe what’s going on, I’ll meet you there. Why does he meet him there? Well, it goes on to say appreciation through faith in his blood or his death. His blood simply means that death. OK, what did this death do? It says here it was to declare his that is, God’s righteousness.

24. 12:47

    It was to declare God’s personal righteousness, to declare that God is right and just and holy and fair and equitable in all that He does, particularly in his judgement on sin and particularly in his mercy toward those who confess their position. So in both those areas, plus every other area, God’s righteous and that declares that God’s righteous. I want you to pick up something I never mentioned about that word declare.

25. 13:31

    We said that word to declare, and that’s the big picture really. That’s where we’re going and that’s where we finish up really on that particular thing. The individual has to have faith in the heart, in Christ, His development, His baptism, His ministry, His death, His resurrection, His elevation to the right hand of the Father as our mediator. Here is our propitiatory, he does a propitiatory work. He declares that God’s righteous and if you believe that, if you believe it, God sends forgiveness upon you, called righteousness upon all, upon all them they believe. OK, now that word declare.

26. 14:22

    You got your pencils. Say the word declare to declare in my Bible. If you’ve got the same Bible right next to it, there is a quote and my eyes can’t read it, but I think it’s Psalm 98, verse 2. Now I pointed out that the word declare is a very important word in this phrase to declare, pick up the word declare, OK?

27. 14:52

    It doesn’t mean to speak something out to declare it by that. It doesn’t mean that at all. OK, it might involve that, but that’s not its basic meaning. The basic meaning is to exhibit the word declare and daxis means to exhibit or to show. To exhibit or put on show and one translation translated demonstrate and I’ll be talked about going to to AG grip. And you, I think you go to a place called Echo. What a funny name.

28. 15:32

    You Queenslanders have got funny names up here, I can tell you. Anyway, in other words, the word means to demonstrate something. OK, that’s when you go to a show and you look at certain machinery being working. Get the idea? So what Christ is doing when he’s He lived his life and was perfectly obedient under the death of the cross.

29. 15:56

    He demonstrating God’s personal righteousness as in respect to sin and in respect to obedience and mercy. He was proud. He would be righteous in his judgement on sin. You know, and I think we quoted Roman sex. The wages of sin is death. That’s righteous. And he was and Christ was demonstrating that, OK. And the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

30. 16:40

    That’s done righteously. We can forgive our kids, sometimes quite wrongly. You mightn’t extract from them proper recognition of what they’ve done wrong. You might just say, oh, that’s them and let them get away with it. And you’re only doing the kids harm if you forgive them on a wrong basis. They’re going to be forgiven on a right basis.

31. 17:02

    And God only forgives us when we confess the facts involved and see our position. Then he’ll forgive. Otherwise, it’s unrighteous forgiveness. And He will not. When he forgives, he won’t lightly pass by the judgement on sin. If he’s going to give, if he’s going to give you forgiveness, he’ll make sure you recognise what you really deserve.

32. 17:30

    That’s fair, right and just. And it’s beneficial for you. It’s beneficial for you to realize that. OK, so in Christ it’s been set forth just the the terrible enormity of human sin on the one hand, all right, and the wonderfulness of divine grace and the brightness of demanding faith before he’ll forgive. That’s as simple as that.

33. 18:01

    Now this word declare, put a circle around that Psalm 98 verse 2, because it expressed perfectly what the word declare means. And maybe this declare His righteousness is actually quoting from Psalm 98 verse 2, although I can’t prove it because the words aren’t exactly the same in the Greek septuagan. But just turn you keep your hand in there and just look at Psalm 98 verse 2 to go on the circle, because if you forget what this declares all about this Psalm tells you and the Psalm’s all about righteousness and victory and God the judge of all the earth.

34. 18:45

    That’s what the whole Psalm’s about atonement and and and he’s probably quoting verse 2 and Yahweh hath made known his salvation and notice this, his righteousness hath he what declared openly showed. That’s exactly what the meaning of declared is in the Greek back up here in Romans 3 openly showed OK, if you looked up that Hebrew word for openly showed it would it’s it’s pronounced something like gall law.

35. 19:26

    I’m not very good at pronouncing Hebrew and it actually means strip naked. In other words, fully exposed. So, so, so Christ is fully exposed God’s righteousness both in respect to sin and in respect to mercy, based in respect to His Verity and in respect to His goodness. You can take the whole character of God which Jesus Christ manifested. When you see me, you see the Father. And let’s not kid ourselves.

36. 19:59

    He manifested while the emphasis was on mercy, All right. He wouldn’t let the disciples call fire down on a city. He says, you know what manner of spirit, spirit you’re of. We’ve come to save life, not to destroy. However, He spent his life recommending right attitudes and divine like attitudes and condemning wrong attitudes, right from his disciples, right from the scribes and Pharisees, and condemning old cities, didn’t it?

37. 20:31

    It was a balance of severity and a balance of mercy and the righteous direction should lead us all right and expose the hypocrisy of the earning salvation with all its wrong doctrines that the Jews had. They had every wrong doctrine. The churches have got to die. I’ve mentioned that before. They believed that that the devil wasn’t yourself.

38. 21:00

    It was Beelzebub. OK, the the God of flies of the Philistines, of the Philistines. Wasn’t it something like that? And they believed in purgatory. They believed in in souls and mortal souls and going to hell and going to hell. They believed all that stuff. OK, In other words. And like the churches today, they believed in this concept of earning, even though the churches would deny that today they do. We won’t go into that.

39. 21:34

    That’s a complex argument. So Jesus Christ came to demonstrate God’s personal righteousness. And as to if you can believe that he demonstrate God’s personal righteousness, God’s prepared to pronounce you righteous even though you don’t deserve it. You pronounce him righteous because he is righteous. He’ll pronounce you righteous because you’ve turned around you want to copy a follower of God instead of a follower of yourself and your world. It’s as simple as that.

40. 22:11

    If you can see that God writers has manifested in the work of Christ OK and you’re prepared to turn away from the the life of sin and try and pursue God’s values. He will forgive. He will pronounce you righteous. OK, But what God wants in faith is a confession that He is righteous. There it is.

41. 22:38

    It says God’s righteous that says he wants you to confess that. All right, And the confession was first, and we’ve got a problem in confessing that. And the last time we pointed out there’s a lot of sins. We haven’t learned of sins yet. All right, there’s two things that separated primary from God at certain Ephesians, and that’s ignorance and wicked works. That’s what’s OK, ignorance and wicked works. And so there’s a lot of things we don’t even know are sins yet. And yet you’re saying confess your sin. We can only do it partially.

42. 23:15

    Also, I also want you to confess, but holiness be holy, for I am holy. We know a lot of God’s righteous values don’t know them all, and we don’t know how to apply them all in 1,000,001 situations in life. It’s a lifetime’s job. OK, so we can only confess sin and holiness to a limited degree.

43. 23:38

    Except this unique man here, he could was tempted in all points. He could recognise every sin, therefore he would recognise every temptation, right? And he could recognise every right attitude and every action. That’s right. He was taught of God from right from his early age. God opened his ear morning by morning, developed his spirituality, OK? I mean, he was a second Adam.

44. 24:08

    There’s only three people begotten by God, and that’s Adam, right? He was another son of God and he had these capacities. OK, Yeah, yeah. You might call him a, a moral freak relative to us, but that didn’t make him not a man. I mean, Einstein was a bit of a freak. And there’s some people that are are freaks in mathematics and they don’t know how they can do it, but they can just work this mathematics out in seconds like a computer. They don’t even understand how they can do it. OK, but that doesn’t make him not a man. They’re of like passions as we are and have the same sin problems that we have.

45. 24:50

    So this was declaration was actually a confession in action in action, right? He was demonstrating it. He not only did it in words, he did it and he lived it out. He’s called truth, as it is in Christ Jesus. It should be truth, which is Christ Jesus. So he was confessing. He was an expert.

46. 25:15

    He was a you’d say he’d never sinned. He wouldn’t be an expert. Sin. That’s completely wrong. The more you sin, the less you can recognize sin. The less you sin, the more you can recognize sin. If you’ve been tempted with every sin but never yielded to it, you’d understand sin and sinners better than any Sinner around.

47. 25:40

    Plus the fact you had the Holy Spirit to be able to read people’s minds, you’d be able to read and analyse what effect their transgressions were having on their personality and character. So is the only man really qualified to confess the sin of mankind? Every sin, it’s the same as he was the only man qualified to take on board the full divine morality and recognise every righteous attitude, every righteous act.

48. 26:09

    I mean, he’s a unique man specially prepared to demonstrate human sin and divine righteousness and therefore a perfect example for us to follow a perfect example. It’s interesting. I I shouldn’t do this, but this word declare is a very interesting word occurs all that place we want to follow it. Pick up the word show in the Bible and occurs a lot All right, and the key letters in it are DEI, which means to exhibit. There’s all sorts of words that are made-up different words. OK, and one of the most quite a common use it’s translated example.

49. 27:06

    I mean, someone says, Oh yeah, you know, how do you hit that ball with how do you play this golf? He says. He says, well, I’ll show you. And he shows you. Yeah. In other words, you’ve given him an example of how to do it. So the idea of example now just bear that in mind.

50. 27:25

    We preach the truth about Christ crucified. We’ve got to get, when we speak to interested friends, we’ve got to get down to a very simple language. You could actually say he exemplified God’s righteousness. He was an example, right of declaring if you like, he was an example. He showed how sinful man was and and he showed how righteous God. He was a perfect example of this, a perfect example of rejecting sin, the perfect example of taking on board the divine mind so that he could be obedient, So you could actually preach the gospel in the simplest possible way. You could say, well, what’s Jesus Christ death all about? Well, it’s a perfect example of the life that God wants, the perfect method of salvation.

51. 28:18

    And if you’re prepared to accept that perfect method and copy it and use the same methods, all right, take on board the divine mind as best you can and, and reject the sins you can recognise God’s prepared to forgive you. It’s as simple as that. That’s how the simple truth we should be preaching. Paul went through the Greek around the world beaching Christ crucified.

52. 28:41

    I’ll know no other thing amongst you but Jesus Christ and him, a crucified one. That’s what he went doing. So, so the righteousness of God revolves around those two things. You know, wages of sin is death, the gift of God’s eternal life. It says in Isaiah 40 the same thing in different words. All flesh is grass.

53. 29:06

    Wages of sin is death. The Word of God endures forever the gift of God’s eternal life. You’ll find this expressed in dozens of different ways throughout the Bible. You can trace it through in your daily readings, you know, in a dozen different ways. I’ve just got to resist tempting taking you through it. OK, now this is this declaration of God’s righteousness is the basis for the remission of sins that are passed. The word remission, there’s not the usual word usually in the New Testament word remission means to send away. It means to forgive and often translate a forgiveness. OK, it’s it’s a word taken the scapegoat, where the symbolically all the sins were placed on the scapegoat’s back and they sent him in the wilderness. He was remitted like a letter.

54. 30:03

    He was remitted into the wilderness, that guy. But this is a different word. It actually means to relax, to let it pass by. In other words, because you believe and confess your position and you confess the ideal, and thereby by comparing yourself with it, you confess your position. God relaxes and he relaxes the sins of the past. In other words, he forgives.

55. 30:34

    OK, He forgives them and forgives quite remissions. Quite a good translation, really, even though technically it’s not. Let’s go back to Romans 3, We’re in Sam. Let’s go back to our industry. So it’s a basis. It’s the condition upon which God’s grace comes. It says for the mission of sins of the past. And Brother Carter suggests that means not our past sins. That means, he suggests it means the basis for remission of all sins done from Adam to Christ.

56. 31:12

    And that’s why we’ve got the next verse which the the the verse is virtually repeated in a shorter form and says and for this time, in other words, verse 25’s dealing with the sacrifice of Christ as the basis for the forgiveness of sins, right for Madam to Christ. And the next verse deals with that sacrifice is the base of all sins, forgiveness of all sins from Christ onward, from Christ onward in this time.

57. 31:42

    You know what I mean? Turned the two over again, made the same mistake, didn’t we? Now we go to verse 26. So we haven’t looked at verse 26. Let’s look at verse 26 to declare and it’s not up there, OK, to declares that same word again to demonstrate I say at this time or for this time. In other words, verse 25 says that was the basis of God forgiving from Adam right up to Christ. Then he says verse 26.

58. 32:20

    It’s also the basis from Christ onward to declare. I say at this time, that is in the sense of from this time forward to demonstrate that at this time he is, that is God’s as personally righteous to declare his righteousness that he might be righteous and a righteous fire of him which has faith in that work of Jesus described in verse 25, that he might be just and a justifier that he might be righteous and a righteous fire. He’s actually quoting from Isaiah 45, which is a chapter which deals the God that saves.

59. 33:13

    And we’re going to pick this up because it talks about burying the knee and confessing your position. Burying the knee and confessing your position. There’s a bloke burying his knee. OK. And the quote was put by where God says I am a just God and a saviour and a justifier. No practical difference. OK.

60. 33:43

    And when you go to Isaiah 45, it’s interesting to go there and just have a look at that. OK, just for a moment. In other words, the main verse in the atonement in the Bible is built on Isaiah 45. That’s interesting. You know, we’ve got we ought to look at it just for a second.

61. 34:10

    Of course it’s the servant prophecies and Isaiah 40 right through to the end of the rest of Isaiah’s full of the atonement full of it. It’s all about God being a saviour of verse 11 that saith Yahweh the holy one of Israel than his maker ask of things to come concerning my sons and concerning the work of my hands command you and you asked me about that. OK now verse 13.

62. 34:46

    I raised him up in righteousness, and he the type is Cyrus, but the language is too powerful for Cyrus. I’ve raised him up in righteousness. I will direct his ways, and he will build my city, and so on and so on. He’ll let my captives go free for without reward or prize. Verse 15 Verily thou, Adele, and thou hide us thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

63. 35:19

    They shall be ashamed. Verse 16 And also confounded all them that go to confusion together, that are makers of idols. Verse 17 But Israel shall be saved in Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You should not be shamed nor confounded. Well without our end, which is the alarm we add for the for the Millennium and beyond and forever and ever.

64. 35:52

    OK, He’s talking about everlasting salvation. OK. And he says we often quote verse 18 in our lectures. For thus saith Yahweh that created the heavens, Elohim himself that formed the earth and made it. He has established it. He created it not in vain. He formed it to be inhabited. I am Yahweh, and there’s none else.

65. 36:15

    I have not spoken in secret in the dark place of the earth. I said not under the seat of Jacob seek ye Me and faiths are those that seek God, who diligently seek him. Seek him in vain. I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I haven’t asked you to seek me out in vain. If I’ve asked you to seek you out, it’s it’s a righteous thing that I’ve asked you to do and I’ll be faithful.

66. 36:45

    If you seek me out and find me, you’ll get what I promise because I’m righteous. Verse 20 Assemble yourselves and come draw near you that are escaped to the nations that have no knowledge that set up wood of their graven image and pray unto a God that cannot save. The Jews had one of those.

67. 37:10

    It wasn’t actually an an idol God. It was an idol concept. We can earn salvation. We’ve got Abraham to our father. We are a superior people. The weak, the flesh has got weaknesses, but it’s got a lot of strength. And that just so long as we apply that strength and practice ourselves in keeping a divine law outside of us, we earn salvation.

68. 37:35

    Well, that was an image. It was the wrong concept and they’re trying to be saved by a human method that was wrong. Verse 21 tell you and bring them near you. Let them take counsel together. Who had declared this from ancient time. We were told that from that time have not I Yahweh. There is no Elohim apart from me. There’ll be no angels, except they come by me. Then we have the expression here, Here we have it, a just, I’ll and a Saviour.

69. 38:11

    There is none, only me, a just and a so. So he says, look under me. Verse 22 pick up that word, Look, look unto me, behold me if you like, behold me OK, and and being ye saved, you’ve just got to behold me, see me for what I am, and be saved all ends of the earth.

70. 38:45

    I am ale, and there’s none else. And then he makes an oath. I’ve sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return. And this is the oath that under me every knee will bow, and every tongue shall swear, or as Paul translates it, confess. And this is quoted in a few places in the New Testament.

71. 39:16

    This oath under me every knee shall bow. There he is, and every tongue will confess. Confession. Remember our famous quote from Hebrews, David, Proverbs 2813. He that confesseth and forsaketh his sin will find mercy with God. So God says you’ve got to look at me and you’ve got to bow the knee and you’ve got to confess your position.

72. 39:54

    OK, acknowledge your position and that involves, you know, the weight of sin is death. You confess your position. And you confess to the point where it it converts you. You look at Christ and you see the terribleness of sin and what sin did to him and what it’s doing to the glory of God.

73. 40:24

    And yet when you look inside that man, you see a wonderful mind that was able to be perfectly obedient even under the death of the cross. When you see that and it turns you around to stop pursuing the life of sin and to pursue life of God, you know what you’ve done. You know what you’ve you’ve given up your own life.

74. 40:51

    You’ve given up living to yourself. It’s a death, a very real death. He that loses his life will find it, right? But he that saves his life, he’ll lose it. It’s a very real death. It’s a moral death. It’s a bit like a man who should hang for murder. And the judge says, well, we can hang you and that’ll all be over in a second or else for the rest of your days, right? You’ve got to work in the hospital without money, without pay, with any days off.

75. 41:29

    You’ve got to totally commit yourself to the benefit of other people. In other words, your personal life’s finished, right? You can choose which death you like, but they’re both death to your own will and to to your own direction. Selfish existence. It’s a death, and God regards that as satisfying his judgement on us for sin instead of killing us and leaving us in the grave forever. It’s a moral death and it vindicates God better than if he kills you.

76. 42:08

    That’s a quite a key concept there. Quite a key concept. That’s why you wonder why Christ talks like that way. You know, you can’t reserve yourself a sin. You go, you got to you got to forsake your life. You say, well, these are pretty high standards, OK, But remember, it is direction. Sure, sometimes we turn around, do something selfish and we see it, but that’s our committed direction in life.

77. 42:37

    Instead of us chasing the life of selfishness, we’re chasing the life of God. And now and again interrupt gives us a flying tackle. We fall in our face. God understands that and He forgives for Christ’s sake. So long as you get up and keep heading in the right direction. That’s practical, simple and functional and very merciful.

78. 42:57

    And it works. So where’s this first quoted was quoted a member in Philippians. Now that this might be new, which was in Christ Jesus who those in the form of God thought it not robbery to be like God. They’ve been found in fashion a man he emptied himself and became obedient. I’m not quoting a perfect He became obedient even under the he humiliated himself, he humiliated self and became obedient even to the death of the cross.

79. 43:32

    Wherefore God hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus, and he’s praying this, the name of Jesus every knee should bear and every tongue confessed that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father. God exalted him to be his vice Regent, his representative for the people that are going to be saved and bow the knee to God and look at God.

80. 44:03

    They’ve got to do it in front of Jesus Christ. They’ve got to see Jesus Christ as God manifests. They’ve got to confess themselves. They’ve got to confess their position here. They’ve got to look at Jesus Christ, his life, his death, his burial, but particularly this great moral victory here, his vindication of God’s judgement and his vindication of the power of His Holiness. They’ve got to look at that and bare the knee and confess their own position.

81. 44:35

    Confessions the key. And in that very confession, realise that this one here is only the only one making a perfect confession that vindicates God completely. You’re doing the best you can, at least you’re identifying with it, and you’re getting the benefit of that brotherly family identity that God lets you have through baptism.

82. 44:59

    Spread in other places in Romans chapter 10. Yeah, with a heart, man believeth the righteousness of the mouth. Confession is made under salvation. Scratted in Romans 14, but it must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ that quotes this very verse under me. Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess. All right, So right from baptism we’re barring the knee and confessing our position.

83. 45:27

    We should do it every day. We do it particularly on Sundays. We should be doing it all our life. And when we get the judgement seat, we’ll be doing it then we’ll be giving account of ourselves to God. We’ll bow the knee and confess. And what will be the final outcome of all that when we’re being we’ve looked been God confessed and got the benefit of identifying the one who confessed it perfectly right.

84. 45:53

    What will be our position? Hey, what will we finally say? Well, it tells us here what we’ll finally say. Verse 24. Surely shall one say in the Lord, in Yahweh, in the Lord, shall I have I righteousness and strength in the Lord? It’s because of my identity. By course I look at God and the person of Jesus Christ and identify with that and I become his brother and walk in the same direction and get the benefits of the forgiveness and grace of God. Just because you had you confess your position as and identify with that perfect confession by Jesus Christ and you bow the knee before that one, what will be the outcome in Yahweh? You know, one of those common expressions we say, we say we’re in the truth, but in the the 1st century, they didn’t say we’re in the truth.

85. 46:50

    They said we’re in the Lord. They’re referring to this very phrase in the Lord. They’re in the family. They’re in the Lord’s family, OK, They had a brother of Christ who? Baptist in Galatians chapter 3, etcetera, basic stuff. Son of God, brother of Jesus Christ. They’re in the Lord. They’re in the Lord’s family because in the Lord’s family they’re getting these benefits. They’re sharing Christ’s perfection. They’re sharing his full confession. All right, they’re doing the best they can, but they share the benefit of his fullness in the Lord have our righteousness and strength and to him shall men come and all that are incensed against him.

86. 47:29

    Everyone that disagree with that method of God, they’re going to be ashamed. Verse 25 in the Lord in Yahweh shall all the true seed of Israel be pronounced righteous and shall glory. Now Romans chapter 3 built on those verses. OK, and you’ll have to work on that yourself to really make it chill.

87. 48:00

    Our reading tonight was Matthew 3 and we our go to, we’re picking up, declaring God’s righteousness, all right, and we’re relating it to something very similar to that which was Christ’s words to John the Baptist. This is John the Baptist, this is Jordan, this is Jesus Christ here in yellow. And these are all those that follow Jesus Christ. He’s the captain, all right.

88. 48:31

    Remember our earlier studies? He’s the chief leader. The word captain means chief leader, as in our dreams tonight in Acts and in last night it occurred again, all right. And it’s whom God has made a Prince and a savour. The word Prince is chief captain. He’s a captain, a chief leader. It means he’s a leader.

89. 48:54

    He’s leading. The word shepherd means the leader of the sheep. All right, the idea of leaderships in many a king, a king is the captain of my people. A king is the chief leader of his people. He’s a leader. I mean, he had to be an example. A king supposed to, when he came to rule in Israel, supposed to sit down and personally wrote out the whole Old Testament as it was then, and he had to write it out personally in his own hand, and he had to read it every day. In other words, a king had to be a leader both in moral things and in battle and in ministry.

90. 49:30

    He had to be the chief leader, OK? And that’s what Jesus Christ was, a chief leader. And he was a leader when he got baptized, OK? He was a leader. He was beginning a public manifestation of God’s method, something that starts with baptism, runs the life of repudiating sin and taking on board divine values, overcoming weakness by divine, developing the divine mind, and finally in death itself.

91. 50:05

    Dying. It is, it’s acceptable with God that even your death can be acceptable. You know, I only hope that when I die, well, you’ve got to think of it beforehand because sometimes you just been able to do up your shoelace and that’s it. But so you’ve got to think of it on a daily basis.

92. 50:25

    But I’m getting pretty close to it, OK. And I’ve got a truck ticker and everything and it’s I’m encumbered not only through my life, but right now you come to the end and physical death itself to say God is righteous. I should be mortal. The wage is as sin is death. I can survive this, but allow me by because I’ve taken on board the word which endures forever. And I’m sharing the benefit of Christ’s perfect victory. I’m sharing his victory, OK, which is really forgiveness. And it’s just forgiveness put in all different sort of ways. It’s conversion, forgiveness and, and, and I should die with that faith.

93. 51:03

    And dying with that faith will ensure that I’ll be with him in paradise. So just let’s look at Matthew 3 and Isaiah 40. Keep your hand in Isaiah 40 and turn up Matthew 3. You’ve got to turn from one to the other. It says in in Matthew chapter 3. In those days, first one came John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea saying repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. And this is he that was spoken of by the prophet saying quote Isaiah 40 verses 3 to 8, the voice of one crying in the wilderness.

94. 51:55

    Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Now when you go back to notice what he’s preached, repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. But when you go back to Isaiah 40, now put your hand in Matthew 3 and go back to Isaiah 40. It’s told what he should have preached, OK. The chapters dealing with forgiveness, the verse 2, speaking comfortably to Jerusalem, crying unto her that her warfare is accomplished and her iniquity is pardoned. Her iniquity is pardoned.

95. 52:37

    So it’s about the pardon of iniquity, OK. And and from Isaiah 40 writes at the end of Isaiah, that’s what the subject’s all about, OK. And it says verse 3 is the verse that’s quoted in Matthew 3, the voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, prepare you the way of Yahweh makes straight in the desert, a highway for our God, our Elohim.

96. 53:04

    That’s the one that’s quoted. So it’s John the Baptist. Verse three is talking about John the Baptist. Verse 4 says he’s going to be a bit of a bulldozer. Every valley should be exalted, and every mountain and hill should be made low. And the crooked place is straight and the rough ways is plain.

97. 53:22

    In other words, his job was to build a highway. You push over the tops of mountains, you fill in the valleys, you make it, you straighten the road up. He was building a highway. So he was doing it with a a gospel. He’s building a highway with a gospel. He’s building a highway in people’s minds. Why?

98. 53:44

    Because verse 5, the glory of Yahweh shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. Look under me, behold me. If you’re going to get forgiveness, if you’re going to get iniquity, you’ve got to be able to see God. God’s got to be demonstrated in front of your very eyes. Well John, you’re going to prepare a highway because the glory of Yahweh is going to appear.

99. 54:12

    He said, OK, verse 6, what will I preach? The voice said cry. And he said, well, what do I cry? He says, this is what you’ll cry. All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth because the Spirit of Yahweh bloweth upon it. Surely the people, the whole lot of them is grass. And he repeated, The grass withereth, the flower fadeth. But there is something that’s eternal, and it’s not the grass. The word of our Elohim, our God shall stand forever. And that last phrase was quoted many places in the New Testament and says the Word is the gospel, the gospel of salvation, the gospel of God, God’s method, OK, it stands forever. Anything that comes from God and it’s divine is eternal. God.

100. 55:26

     Christ was able to offer himself because without spot, because He had an eternal spirit about him. He derived this eternal attitude from the divine mind being communicated in the divine Word. But what was he by nature? Just grass like every one of us. Just grass like every one of us. But what got him through to eternal life? The Word that stands forever.

101. 55:57

     How did John preach that He didn’t actually use those words, even though they’re used many times by the apostles? He says repent ye for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.

102. 56:11

     Repent ye for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. That’s what he preached and he preached a a baptism whereby they had they confessed their sins, verse 6 and verse 5 and then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region roundabout and were baptized of Jordan confessing their sins.

103. 56:37

     Now eventually Jesus Christ comes along to be baptized. OK, they’re confessing their sins. Now how do you confess your sins? We’ve got to relate this to Isaiah 40. Well, to start with, he should have been preaching all fleshes grasp and the word induced revenue can be sure he did that. It’s tied up in the expression Repent ye, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. In other words, your grass turn around. The Kingdom of heaven is about to appear. The glory of God’s about to appear. The royal majesty, the kingdom’s about to appear. OK, turn around.

104. 57:19

     Repent. All right, Recognise your sin because you’re about to be able to behold God. You’ll be held about to behold and there’s no, there’s no salvation unless you behold God, OK, unless you recognise God and and and and and so we find when you pick up this idea of grass in Isaiah 40, go back to Isaiah 40.

105. 57:50

     Pick up the end the word grass at the end of verse 7. Say run a line to verse 17. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing. Nothing in vanity. That’s how grassy man is. All nations, that’s how grassy they are. Verse eight, Run a line from grass to verse 18.

106. 58:15

     To whom then will you like an ale? To what likeness will you compare him You’re going to build an idol you’re going to you’re going to make your own concept of what God is. Forget it. He’s about to appear at the end of verse 9 of of Isaiah 40 verse read verse I know Zion that bring us good tidings.

107. 58:39

     The margin says oh that tell us good tidings to Zion. They are that tell us good tidings to Zion and good tidings the gospel. They are that tell us the gospel. What’s the gospel? All flesh is grasp. The Word endures forever. And you know all truth is bound up in those two truths.

108. 58:59

     The whole system of truth that you and I believe are bound up in those two truths. All flesh is grasp. Man is weak, mortal, sinfully inclined, and will die. People don’t believe that, but the Word of God endures forever. The only hope of eternity is to take on board the Word of God.

109. 59:23

     And you can be related to resurrection, change and immortality without taking that on. On board. There’s not, but people don’t believe that. Every religion in the world believes they’re already immortal. That’s ever been so. It’s ever been so. Men refused to humiliate themselves to this fundamental fact that man’s just grasp. Oh, no, he’s got weakness, but he’s got a lot of goodness too. Oh, he’s got a moral spark in him. Yep.

110. 59:54

     And they make man more precious than he really is. Look how God’s view, God’s view, all nations are nothing. And to whom you’re going to compare it to an idol. Can you produce? Can you produce something that’s like me? No, you can’t. But I can. Behold your God at the end of verse 9. I read verse 9 again.

111. 1:00:19

     Oh, thou that bring us the gospel designed. Get the app into the high mountain. Oh thou that tell us good tidings to Jerusalem. Lift up thy voice with strength lifted up. Be not afraid, say under the cities of Judah, and this is what you’ve got to say under to the cities of Judah, John, behold your God. And that’s exactly what John did, and he changed the words a little bit.

112. 1:00:52

     The Gospel of John chapter 1, he was he, he was told that when Jesus Christ came to be baptized that he’d seen the Spirit descend upon him and he would, he would, that would reveal to him that that was the Son of God. And so when that happened, he immediately thereafter, whenever Jesus appeared and on the scene, what did he say?

113. 1:01:16

     Behold the Lamb of God, Behold your God. He said it twice in the Gospel of John chapter 1. Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. He’s talking about this. Behold your God, the taking away of iniquity, her iniquities pardon in it. So here we have the Gospel of John and Isaiah 40, and it’s simply the gospel.

114. 1:01:44

     The gospel he preached, Christ lived out perfectly. John lived it out as best he could. Wonderful man, the greatest prophet ever lived. He never lived it out perfectly. Behold, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world would come and would perfectly manifest the grassiness of man and the everlasting hour of the word of God. And he demonstrated, declared, it demonstrated. And hence you have when we turn back to Matthew chapter 3 time’s gone.

115. 1:02:21

     Hence you have when John when Christ comes to be baptized because he gets stuck into the scribes and Pharisees. You know, you say you’ve got Abraham to your father. You know, earning righteousness. We’re superior flesh. They trusted in the flesh. They trusted in the fact that our sons of of Abraham. God’s over these stones to rise up. You’re only subject to judgement. God’s about to appear.

116. 1:02:48

     All right. The royal majesty, the Kingdom, the royal majesty, the kingdom’s about to appear. He’s what he’s going to do, you blokes. He’s going to use an axe and cut you down because you’re not producing any fruit. And, and and he’s going to baptize with the Holy Spirit, verse 11. And he’s going to separate the wheat from the the chaff.

117. 1:03:08

     And you blokes of the chaff, you’re dried up grass, all right. Yeah, That’s all you are now they’ve got to be burnt, and you’ll be burnt. Verse 13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized with him. But John forbade him, saying, I’ve need to be baptized to thee, and cometh out of me.

118. 1:03:32

     And Jesus answered and said unto him, Look, and you’ve got to appreciate when people came to be baptized by John, they go out there confessing their sin. If you’re 50 years old and you’re confessing your sins, you’d be standing in the water for about two days. You wouldn’t remember them anyway. And half of them, these sins you wouldn’t even know. So, so you didn’t actually confess each sin you’d ever done, maybe some major besetting sin, but what would you do? What would you say?

119. 1:04:06

     All flesh is grass. And the goodness that I was the flower of the field. I’m right immortal. I’m a Sinner, I’m rightly related to death by this death. I know the answer lies in turning to God’s word and I know I’ve got to change the direction of life. That was confessing his sins for the remission of sin.

120. 1:04:32

     That’s what it was Jesus Christ and he walks down and and the brother can’t suggest that he would say, well, I’ve lived in all good conscience before God or something like this until this day. However, I want you to baptize with John probably knew his his cousin anyway and he said, look, no, I would I should be baptized by you.

121. 1:05:01

     I shouldn’t be baptized you. He says no John, think about it John, think about it. Suffer it to be so now. Well, thus it becometh us, you and everyone that’s following me, all the believers that we’re going to say thus have become of us to fulfill means to fill up all righteousness. We’ve got to do everything that’s right.

122. 1:05:31

     I’m commencing a public ministry and you know I am all right. You know, that’s what it’s about. You already were suspecting here. I suspected he was the Messiah and he’s got to fulfil. He’s got to walk the way that others have got to follow. He has to be the perfect example. He’s the only one that could make a full confession at baptism. He’s the only one that could confess the sin of the human rights, will confess all of those who are going to be avengedly saved, because all those who are going to be saved, their baptism won’t be able to recognise every sin. They haven’t learnt them all yet, but they do it in principle.

123. 1:06:15

     So He comes along. Thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness, right? God’s got a righteous method, and the method commences when you bow the knee and acknowledge a position. Then you from there on live out that baptised life every day, and you die in that baptized way. And I can prove from the Bible in many places that every day is a day of baptism.

124. 1:06:49

     All right, Paul talks in Second Corinthians chapter 4 about dying and living right all the time, right? He talks about in in 1st Corinthians 15 about being baptized for the dead, and he goes on to explain what it means. It means suffering adversity of the beasts of Ephesus for the sake of preaching the truth.

125. 1:07:11

     He constantly was living the baptized life. Every day is a day of baptism. Every day is a commitment. Every time you wake up, it’s a commitment. I am flesh, I am grass naturally, and every day it’s a daily thing. Make up your cross. What daily and follow me. OK, so it was necessary to complete a example of the righteous way that he submit to baptism. He just a confession of the facts. Later on he died and demonstrated the facts. All right, So what he did here by word and by ritual, He did. In fact, later as he was crucified on the tree, you’re going to have a late night.

126. 1:08:14

     So sacrifice is virtue of confession. Christ is demonstrating and in the demonstration He’s confessing the facts. All flesh is grasp. The word endures forever. He’s doing it perfectly. You’ve got to take up your cross daily, all right? It says so in Luke 923. You’ve got to take it up daily. Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me.

127. 1:08:43

     OK, so we’re going to follow the same direction but recognise their limitations. Is He the only one that’s doing it perfect? And while ever you identify with him, you get the benefit of that perfection. All right. And we’ve looked at Isaiah 45. So when he walked away and it was confronted with temptation and death, his actual death and victory over sin built a bridge, a bridge which he went over first and which we will follow at resurrection. We’ll go over this bridge to judgement, survive judgement, enter into immortality.

128. 1:09:20

     It talks about Christ’s been giving a good confession before Pontius, in the days of Pontius Pilate. You know you’re a king then. Yeah. For this end was I born that I might be a witness to the truth? And that’s what I’ve been doing. That’s what I’m doing now. That’s what I’m about to do. And Pilot Scratch, he hadn’t said what is truth. He didn’t know what he was talking about. And here he was testifying the truth. What is truth?

129. 1:09:47

     All flesh is grass. The word endures forever. OK, simple gospels that we preach continually. What’s that? Sorry, that sets times up. So from the first Adam we receive a natural body. God operated through Mary and he produced a second atom which coming from this state became a life giving spirit. He became this one gives us a natural body.

130. 1:10:24

     Jesus Christ obtained to immortality and he was given the power to share it, to actually immortalise other people. OK, and and so we have these two atoms. We haven’t got time to go into that. And in Romans chapter 6 it talks about moral turning. Here we were living the selfish life off lifted grass and we were loving it, right? Oh, but we change our direction.

131. 1:10:50

     That’s what repentance and conversion means. Change your direction of life and you submit the baptism. When you go under, you identify with Christ crucified. When you come out of the water, you identify with the resurrection of Christ. That shows another significance of Christ from the tree and his resurrection. It shows it represents this physical thing, actually represents the moral change that’s got to govern the person.

132. 1:11:19

     There’s many things represented in the death of Christ, and instead of relying on motivating forces like the Jews who relied on the pride of life to earn salvation, we rely on these very things which say dependence upon God. Faith is trusting God, believing the truth of God, believing what God said. Adam and Eve didn’t believe what God said. God has said to us, we grasp, but the word endures forever this but believe it make that a motivating force. It provides hope, it provides love. When you consider this method, it stimulates a sense of gratitude that they’re completely different motivating forces than self determination.

133. 1:12:02

     And I’m great and I can do this. And I must say to Abraham and so on, OK, their motivations that are begotten by the gospel of truth brings us to the last thing which races us forward to. Romans 7 and 8 sort of summarizes everything. OK, Now the boys at the school of prophets reckon for them it said everything. I didn’t think it was that big time for them. It said everything.

134. 1:12:31

     Romans 7 talks about the law of sin, talks about this duality. It’s all figures of speech and personification. He divides himself up into two. He talks about the law of sin and his members. It’s called the emotions of sins. It’s called sin. It’s called a law of sin. It’s called sin in the flesh.

135. 1:12:53

     That’s but then he sees that as the natural functions, they’re simply the lust, the bless the eye and the pride of life who don’t like the restriction of law. We need them to live. But that doesn’t like the restriction of law. It’s selfish and it wants and it’s self indulgence. And he found his body always geared for that. You know he might have you might have a job to doing the truth, but you’re that jolly hungry.

136. 1:13:23

     It’s and it’s no good saying I’ve got a job to doing the truth doesn’t stop you being hungry. You might ignore it, but the flesh keeps saying have something to eat, mate. You know, especially 40 days in the wilderness and you’re hungry, You know have something the flesh. You know it was no good saying man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that could proceeded out of the mouth of the Lord.

137. 1:13:46

     Shall man live? I mean it did. It was the whole answer, but didn’t stop him being hungry. OK, it persists. So he found this persistent law and his nature trying to be selfish. On that hand, he’d learnt God’s ways 1st through the law of Moses. And even there there was a conflict in which he found he felt.

138. 1:14:04

     But when he got the full knowledge of the Gospel, when he was the lights in God’s law, he said, but he found this law that they were constantly at war. The the mind, the grass is fighting the word of the law. There’s a constant battle. It’s war. Wars made-up of battles. Now, some battles go for hundreds of years.

139. 1:14:30

     Wars, sorry, wars go for hundreds of years. A set, a set of the Romans in the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, often vanquished in battle, but always victorious in war. Which means they lost a few battles, but they went back and had a go, and they eventually won the war. OK, and that’s what our life’s all about. It’s a moral battle.

140. 1:14:56

     Who with our self and our world. It’s a moral battle. It’s a daily thing. We’re going to use the daily method. We’re going to use the intake of the divine mind, the light in God’s law, learn the delight in it. And while ever we do that and identify with the work of the perfect example, there is a basis for God to forgive and that forgiveness and that direction of life is victorious over that.

141. 1:15:33

     Simple, it works, but it’s got to be done on a daily basis. That means resist the influence of selfishness that the world imposes upon you. Daily resistant, daily take on board the word of God. Daily pray daily trust, not every second day, daily continually war those, fight those battles. Some you’ll lose, but thus forgiveness. And because there’s forgiveness, there’s victory. There’s victory in Christ Jesus.

142. 1:16:11

     Let me finish with one verse. I won’t explain it, I’ll just read it. Let’s you know it backwards. First Corinthians 15 See our last verse. I know it’s the final victory of the Word, which endure forever over grass. Verse 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood grass cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. Neither does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery.

143. 1:16:52

     We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. We’ve been talking about moral victory, and the moral is the heartbeat. And it will ensure this physical victory in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the past Trump. Well, the trumpets shall sound, and the dead should be raised incorruptible.

144. 1:17:14

     And we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal shall be brought put on immortality. Now note this. So when and if you’ve got a pencil circle, when so when this corruptible shall have put on in corruption, and when this mortal shall have put on immortality, then and circle then then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written death grassiness, death is swallowed up in victory.

145. 1:17:54

     A death. Where is thy sting, O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, but the and the strength of sin is law earning. You know you try earning, but thanks be to God, which it’s not earning. He gives us the victory because Christ gained the victory let’s us share it giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

146. 1:18:21

     That’s what that’s all about final words. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. Thank you. Thank you for listening to the Good Christadelphian Talks podcast. We hope this talk helped you in your walk and brightened your day. If you would like to hear more, please subscribe for new episodes.

147. 1:19:14

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148. 1:19:57

     God bless and talk to you next week.