Len Richardson - Manifesto of the King - Class 4 - Consider the Lilies

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   This is Len Richardson of Hereford, delivering the fourth talk in the series The Manifesto of the King, which is entitled Consider the Lilies. We'll open with a hymn and then remain standing for a short prayer. The hymn is number 114. Through all the changing scenes of life, in trouble and in joy, the praises of my God shall still my heart and heart employ.

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   Here's chapter 6, in Henry of the Ferman on the Mount, verses 19 to 34. John Edwards is going to read that section first. This is a hard saying, they said, who can hear it?

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   This is a hard saying, isn't it, that we've just read. We all know it pretty well and read it quite easily and probably quote it from the heart. It is a hard saying, isn't it? Our subject is centered in the Lord's teaching about anxiety, really. He knew the human heart and he knew how easily we can become obsessed with the present thing and forget the future.

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   Now, anxiety is one of the great scourges of our days. And Christadelphians are not exempt, you know, from it. We do, all of us, have the problem of anxiety and some a lot more than others. And it's just no good saying, well, don't worry, brother. That's their problem. They do worry. It's been said that you don't get ulcers from what you eat, but from what you eat you can get.

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   And things are eating all the time. And just brush it on one side, though it's something that shouldn't apply to saints, isn't grappling with the problem. It's been estimated, though I don't know on what basis, that 90% of our worries are about money. I wonder if that's true. It's not the thing that many are.

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   You know, when you come to boil it down, so you're worried about whether you should try to get a better job. What do you want a better job for? To get more money. What do you want more money for? To get more money. More money. Save up your old age or whatever. So it's not quite the abstraction that it may sound to say that a great many of our problems boil down to the subject of money.

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   And do you know what it is? Lay not up to yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and wrath corrupt and thieves break through and steal. But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where these things benefit and your treasure can be safe and secure. Sell that you have and give arms.

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   Provide yourselves bags which wax not on, a treasure in the heavens that fail is not. In Luke, the cow did the same thing. Now we say, have we got to take that seriously? You say, what are we doing here? There are cars waiting in the car park. Sell that you have and give arms.

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   Don't have that money, Jesus is saying. Lay not up to yourselves, Jesus upon us. What about the pension fund? What about when I'm on? What about home? What about the children's education? What about? What about? What about? What about? And Jesus is eating down to Jesus. He says. And he isn't just saying to you, don't worry, don't worry, it'll all be alright.

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    He's saying that your priorities right, that's what he's saying. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Notice how those two go together. Sometimes we are awfully concerned about the kingdom of God and less concerned about his righteousness. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. It should be added on to you.

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    It sounds lovely. But you're going to be worried tomorrow about something or other. Probably. If not tomorrow, Monday. I don't think Jesus, now I'm beginning to rationalise, I'm dying to say, we immediately start saying, ah, well, yes, but.

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    Did Jesus mean sell what you've got and give it away and just go out and vagrant preachers? He may have meant that. He may have meant it for some of you, I don't know.

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    But the New Testament doesn't seem to confirm the idea that that was how it was interpreted in the early church. Even by the apostles. In the first flush of their enthusiasm for the gospel, you remember, they did just that. If any man had possessions, he sold it and brought the son of money.

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    The apostles beat and distribution was made to the poor. But it seemed to be broken down, actually, by the sixth chapter of Acts. They had to have a commitment to sort it out. We always say it's first century Christianity revived. And certainly by the time of the Gentile churches, when Paul wrote to them, their methods seemed to have been very much like our own.

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    There were wealthy brethren then who hadn't sold all that they had, certainly not because they had large houses in which the ecclesi was able to leave. And we know that certainly in one case, and well certainly in other cases, they owned slaves as well, because they were commanded how they were to deal with their slaves.

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    And they seemed to have had a collection rather like ours, that every man lay by according to God. There'd be no gatherings when I come. And they gave at their largesse to the poor in Jerusalem, and maintained the preachers of the gospel out of their wealth rather than out of their poverty, according as God had trusted them.

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    They certainly were not now by the 80s, 70s, 60s, 70s, if I've got any dates right. They weren't selling everything up and going about as vaguer of preachers.

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    So I think we must say what Jesus meant was either that if you're able to receive it, let him receive it. This duality of goodness that I spoke about, I think, in the first talk or the second, he may be saying, this is the highest you can aspire to, to get everything off, leaving all for his dear sake.

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    We've seen it. You'd think we were doing it the way we think it. But we don't want to be honest. I do always try to be honest. I think we've got to be honest. It's no good pretending. We do have our homes and our cars, and many of them have television sets and freezers, and goodness knows what else.

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    And then we think we leave it all, I think, to your sake. But some of them, not necessarily Christian Alcum, but I don't actually know whether there are any, of our own brothers and sisters, who have literally given up everything and gone into the world to preach the gospel with nothing, with a shirt on their back.

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    Some do. And it may be that if you can aspire to this complete abnegation of everything that you hold dear, it may be that this is the highest. I don't know. But I don't think it's for every man. And I do think that the teaching of Jesus is for every man. And I think the very least, the very lowest point we can put on this is that Jesus is saying that we are not to be concerned about all these things, that they shouldn't occupy all their attention and fill our horizons, that we're obsessed with the materialistic areas of the age in which we live.

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    Well, sure, he meant that. He couldn't have meant less than that. He couldn't have meant less that we should be much more concerned with our spiritual health and with our brothers and sisters and the service of the Lord and the preaching of the gospel and the work of the Ecclesia, of all the things that we conglomerate into the word life in the truth.

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    It's important to me, without doubt, the predominant thing in our lives. More important, because after all, he said, you can't, by worrying over things, add a cubit to your stature. You can't turn one hair black or white by anxiety. So don't be obsessed over these earthly cares and the things of this life.

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    But set your affection on the eternal things. It's promised so much more. To put the birds of the air in. What a lesson for human beings. Consider the power. Are you not one better than the power of the air? No, some don't wonder if we are, really. But that's the challenge of Jesus.

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    They live with God's provision for their needs. And they sing their songs from the harp and cheer the human race. And they go, he said, they don't worry. I suppose they don't. I've never asked them, but I am. They don't see you. But they don't die. He said, not a sparrow falls to the ground except your heavenly father, but one hit my bumper and down it goes, and I think there goes another one.

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    It's sad, isn't it? They die. And they die from starvation sometimes in the winter. And God feeds it. So don't presume, other than sisters, that God can do everything for you. You can just sit back and it will all come through the letterbox. He didn't say that.

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    He feeds them through the processes of nature. But I'd go and look for it, as the sister said the other night. You know the cliche, God feeds the birds and he doesn't put the food in their mouths. And they sometimes go short. But in the main, what Jesus is saying is, anxiety doesn't get you anywhere.

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    Put your trust in the Lord, set your attention on the right thing, and let all these other things take their place. If you have to have them, at least let them be subordinate to the dominance of life, which is the service and love of the Lord. Now that's a good recipe for what it is, that isn't saying to people, oh, you shouldn't be anxious, you know, you shouldn't worry, full stop.

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    It's saying, look, there's nothing in this worry business, you know, it won't get you anywhere in the early grave. Now, why don't you try to see things from God's point of view? Why don't you see that these present things are unimportant relatively? And try to get your priorities right. And having set your desire for the kingdom of God and righteousness and all the things that belong to him, then put your trust in God and believe that through all the changing scenes of life in trouble and in joy, and I forget how it goes on, but that's that idea, right?

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    That's what Jesus is saying. Consider them, they toil not, neither do they spin. Yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory is not a ray like one of these. If God so clothes the garbage still, which is today and tomorrow his garbage into the oven, how much more will he close you, oh, ye of little faith?

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    I'm sure he could say that to us. However big our faith may seem, it is really only a grain of mustard seed, you know, but the grain of mustard seed grows, doesn't it? Explodes with life and from the great tree. So if you've got the grain of mustard seed, you've got the ingredients for a faithful life.

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    Let it develop. And that really, what I want to come on to now, because I'm going to spiritualize this as well. A brother said to me, oh, when I was, I was such a young man a few years ago.

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    He's been long since then. But he said to me, you know, Lenny said, I think Jesus meant more than just the things of this life. And he said, consider the lilies, how they grow. It applies to our spiritual life as well. Look at the lilies and see how they grow. God clothes them with good people.

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    And if you want to grow spiritually, then consider the lilies. And that's what we're going to do. Because I think this is far more important in fact than worrying about our refrigerators and television, such as in cars and things of that kind. This is the thing that matters. It's getting our spiritual growth.

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    And then it's, I understand, and visitors from the land of Israel have told me so, though they're not always right, of course, about everything. I believe that the lilies in the land of Israel are very wild flowers. They're not like the Aram lilies or pond lilies that we know of as lilies. These are really wild flowers in Palestine.

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    Wild and there are many of them, but I won't ask for views on that, that somebody may like to tell. I'm sure they were just, I am pretty sure Jesus just picked one up and it would have been a bandit. Yeah. Or a brother, you know, he could have just picked a bandit.

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    Look, see that? Isn't it wonderful? Isn't that beautiful? God made that, you know. Consider that, how that has been produced. It cannot worry this self-induced. beauty. God's processes have developed that. And isn't it splendid? And I think it was a wild flower of this kind in the land of Israel that Jesus actually plucked and showed it to them because he believed in visual agnism.

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    They toil not. Neither do they spin. That's a man and woman. Have you ever noticed? This is only pointed out to me recently. I've never noticed it before. The men do the toil.

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    And the women do the spinning. Well, they did. They toil not, neither do they spin. Yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his belongs. There's not a ray like this. I'm going to take that because it's just my son Paul always says, you know, we talk to them as women because they happen to grow wild.

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    If we grow them in their own garden that they weren't called weed, we should be showing what lovely flowers they are. There are some wonderful flowers in the hedgerow that we think nothing of because they're wild flowers. So it's abandoned on them. Consider it.

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    How does it grow? Well, first of all, it has to have a seed. You've got to be the right seed. If you're going to grow any kind of plant or flower, you've got to have the seed, first of all. and then you've got to have the right condition. Given the right seed and the right conditions, it will grow, it will grow beautiful because God has established it so.

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    Well, that's our old frenzy read it to in the environment, really, isn't it? Everybody leads that in every kind, of course. If you're doing engineering or whatever, everybody does a bit of psychology.

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    We all know what the environment is and the argument that goes on between the clever dicks as to which is the most important. Is he read it in the most important or environment with factors and all that changes? Well, they're both important, of course. They are the two determining factors. We know that.

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    We start off with a lump of something which we call gen, brain, or whatever, and we we inherit nothing from this, whether I've got ginger hair or dark hair, I'm not in living with it. I've just inherited all that. Blue eyes of green eyes. We inherit things. And we start off with a sort of computer program set that is dependent on our heredity, what we inherit this about.

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    Not only terror, their parents are going back into the long ages of history. And you can't do anything about that, you know, you can't change that. What you've inherited, the kind of basic structure of your body, and I suspect in some degree the basic structure of your mind is an inherited factor. thing about you can do something about environment, because that's what happens after you come forward from your mother's womb.

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    Some say before, that can come through me. So, our physical environment is that which we ourselves can take forward. Then in the early days, the environment is provided by our parents, and later we begin to choose things with our friends. We choose the kind of things we're going to do. Are we going to play in the school football team?

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    and then we find ourselves mixed up with other books, and gradually as we go through life, we are selecting the environment into which this inherited thing is going to go in order that it might develop in some way or another.

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    And what Jesus is saying to me, to me, he is saying, it makes us worry about the spiritual brother. The seed is good in your heart. The seed is the word, isn't it? Spiritually, the seed is the word. So, if you've received the word of God into your heart, you've got good feed, but it's the environmental factors that you can govern to the great extent, the great extent, for yourself.

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    You can make the difference in the growth of the plant by what you choose to do or not do. when I get back from this conference, I know very well that I've got the ground on my arm. It will be overgrown with weeds, I know, I've got my part to do. The seed is good.

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    paid enough time. The soil is good, but there are other things plants that do. My part in the process of making the environment so that the plant may grow. Dennis, dear Dennis, he has a story about this, which I'm getting for the record. I think you've all heard it several times.

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    He tells a story about a vicar who inherited a parish when the church yard was all in terrible sake, all overgrown. So the parish council decided to employ an old man in the village to tidy it up and get it nice. He made it beautiful. He got the weeds all out, he hoed it all around, dug it and planted it.

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    In the summer, it was a wonderful sight, flowers, beautiful. The old beast comes round and he said, isn't it marvellous? He said, the wonderful things God does, these beautiful flowers, he said, oh, this is wonderful what the Lord can do. He said, yes sir, he said, but you should have seen it when he added it to his health.

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    It is amusing, far more amusing than that. This is the environmental factor. We had our parts to play in that. And it seems to me that for the growth of the useful flower, whatever it is, the dandelion or the wild anedomy or the lily or whatever, for growth, having good seed, you need the right nourishment, food, you need water,

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    you need light, and you need air. out, food, nourishment, warmth, light, air. I took the words and the beat out of the face, the nourishment. Loving care, splendid, splendid, tender loving care, yes, that is our power, isn't it? My loving care with the whole, bang bang. Very true. But what I've had is a mysterious factor. I call it the X factor. And that's the spirit of God. You've got to have it.

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    But somewhere in the universe, somewhere in all these processes, all these things just put together, still need the power of God, the spirit of God, to give them life.

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    Now food is the word of God, no doubt about that. So if you are worrying about your spiritual growth, like, you know, I referred the other day to people who say, I've been 40 years in trouble, I don't think I've made any progress, ask yourself, is it the food factor? You see, you can't produce the beautiful fruit of the vine, or the flower, in all its beauty, if you're living on the barren diet of the world.

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    You've got to provide the right factor there. You've got to get the food of God's word, if you want to grow. And the warmth, I would say, is the love of Christ. We often talk about light, but not often enough about heat. We don't just want light, we want heat, we want warmth.

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    Protected from the cold winds of bitterness. If this fragile thing we call the human soul is to grow before God. That's one of the great things that happens, not only in our community, in any community.

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    The cold winds of bitterness shrivels the soul of the disciples. One of the things we ought to be so careful about, especially with our young tender plants, who have come into the truth thinking it's all sweetness and joy. Be very careful. Whoso you call one of these little ones the sun wolf, it were better for him than a wolf.

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    They were hanging about his neck and he was drowned in the midst of the sea, the Lord Jesus said. They must have warmth. We must have warmth. And the bitterness of strife and debate is a shriveling thing spiritually, shriveling. We must have light. Light, more light. Who said that? I don't know. Mother, who's out for you?

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    It isn't out for you who said life, more light. We must have life. Life, you think, spiritually. I think it's the openness of faith. The openness of faith. Something trans, contaminant, and confined. It's open to the sunshine of God's love. And God-like. Clouds won't grow in the dance cellar.

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    I was thinking of mushrooms. I'm off. My dear brother is Lord of his dead, now bless his heart. Some of you knew him, I know him. My brother tried to grow mushrooms in the dance cellar.

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    He won't grow flowers in the dance cellar. And you know, sometimes, I think that's what we're trying to do. Grow flowers in the dance cellar. We talk sometimes as though we've received the truth, like some solid thing from the task, in an iron basket, and it's not to be preserved, handed on to the next generation in violet.

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    And it's like some solid thing. It's not to be preserved, it's not to be preserved. It's not to be preserved. And we've got to develop it and let it in. Let it be a little bit in us. So that we carry it on in our generation. As a living vitality of positive on.

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    To the next generation, our sons and their children. As a living vital thing. Not just some lead basket in a dance cellar. And air, air, not for air. Freedom.

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    Freedom to grow. Away from the fortification of prejudice and bigotry and tradition. To be able to explore. And don't get this, children. You're never in. You're never in. Without question. Find out. Find out. From the word of God. New concepts. New understanding. It must be so. You're going to wither and die if you don't.

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    And Jesus wants us to have the air. The sweet pure air of the word of God. Coming through our blood. And he's giving us oxygen. To enable us to grow into his life.

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    And we're worried. You can't make yourself grow. When do you think you can't add an impact? By worrying if it's true spiritually and it is natural. You've got to look at the conditions. And you've got to get these right. And grow. We'll follow as naturally as Jesus said it is. First the brain.

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    Clear. And after that the full torn in here. It's all the work of God in us. And it will happen. If we get the conditions. Because of that unknown. Mysterious. Fifth factor. The spirit of God. Power and love. God in the Lord Jesus Christ. We'll follow this together. And long as we get these growth factors right.

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    We'll follow this together. Continue with him in his days. God. How often. With you taste. The Lord Jesus said. And it is true. And he is not there. Solomon did all his glory. Queen of Sheba. A perfect battle. She saw. Nothing. Nothing. There's a sandy line. Isn't it? A sandy line. Solomon wasn't as beautiful as that.

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    In all his glory. He wasn't as good as that. That old dandelion I just picked out of the hill. That's the work of God. Now you can be like that. You see. You can grow beautifully. With the beauty of God. If you let him do it. In you.

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    He saw more splendor. In the lily. Or the primrose. Or the dandelion. Or whatever it was he picked up. Than in all the wonder of Solomon's cult.

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    But we can't just will ourselves into being beautiful. It is the work of the spirit in our life. Don't bother the work of the spirit. All God's work in our lives. Is the work of the spirit. What God is doing for us. Has done for us. Will do for us. In Jesus Christ.

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    Is the work of the spirit. The word is the spirit. The providential care is the work of the spirit. The only watching of our path is the spirit. The enabling of us to see the wonderful things of his word. Open your own bones that I may be whole. Stronger things out of thy law.

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    The work of the spirit. And if we let him work. Jesus. Sweat. We'll be beautiful. I am a rose of Sheer. And the lily of the valley. The bride said in the Song of Solomon. She wasn't cleaning us. She was there. I'm nothing really.

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    The rose of Sheer and the lily of the valley. Were these fallen-laced flowers. She could have. In our country have said. I'm only a buttercuff or a daisy. I don't compare with all these wonderful daughters of Jerusalem. These are the lily among the bulls. So is my beloved among the daughters. She might think herself unbeautiful.

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    She may think of her soul. She's not worth noticing. But he sees her standing out of her environment. As a lily among the souls. With the beauty of God. Her beauty then was not a self-conscious. Self-appraisal. It was something peaceful. It's peaceful.

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    It's peaceful. I want you to look at... No I won't. I'll cut a bit out. Because I want you to have my yellow pair of it. I'll leave this video. I was going to take you to Psalm 9. Because Psalm 9. He talks about man being like the grass of the field. As the flower of the field.

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    So he flourishes. Our natural life is soon cut down. And it passes away. But it finishes with fear in us. It finishes with faith. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us. And establish thou the work of thy hands upon us. Yea, in the work of thy hands establish thou it.

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    The beauty of the Lord our God. We may be on the grass. Flower of the field. Here today and gone tomorrow. Cast it with the oven. But if we develop the beauty of the Lord our God. If that is stamped upon us. Exist it. He will establish it forever. And the flower will flourish.

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    Unto everlasting life. We want... Although I know deep down in us. We all want to be beautiful. We want people to be able to say they've been with Jesus and learned of him. Try... And get stuck out of the question. But deep down we really know. In our best moments. And we're not always in our best moments.

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    But in our best moments. This is the one thing I have desired of the Lord. That I might see the beauty of his faith and inspired in Tabernacle. And the one thing in our best moments. In our best moments. In our best moments. Spirituality that we want. Is to be like Jesus. And have his beauty set upon us.

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    No good trying to do it yourself. You won't get there. You won't. Yield yourself unto God. As those that are alive from the dead. And you really are alive from the dead. You really are alive from the dead. Yield yourself unto God. And you really are alive from the dead. It takes the worry out of life.

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    It takes the worry out of the... Well, look at the... We come back to the primitive... Features of this... The refrigerators and the cars and the jobs and the retirement pensions. It takes the worry out of all that. It gets things in their right perspective and says to our souls... Leave it all to my...

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    Here's the answer of the question. A mock translation of Psalm 62, I think it is. Which in the authorised version says... Truly my soul waited upon the Lord. But the word waited... Is the same root word... I found that... My young. My young. By out there... By out there... By out there...

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    by health and life change. And it comes in again as a refrain in yourself. Leave it all quietly to God. That doesn't mean to say there's no effort. It doesn't mean to say you can put it back in your armchair and say oh, what God's doing. None at all. You've got to hire it.

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    You've got to try to choose the right environment. To put yourself in situations in which the work of God in your life may develop. To seek the sunshine of the air. To the word. The only influence is the positive work of strife. That will enter into your being. It means growing. To protect you.

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    But in the end, it's God. And in the end, it's his dream. Somebody pointed out to me, I dare say, it's an ordinary thought. Most of mine are.

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    And you probably think, oh, well, we knew that 30 years ago. And I didn't. It's not a point. It's out to me. Only quite recently, I've never seen it. But in the parable of the prodigy, in the parable of the prodigy, he started off by saying, give me, give me. Give me the portion of good.

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    Maybe, so I need to know this. Give me. And it finished up with saying, make me. Well, I don't know whether that's a legitimate interpretation, whether we're making too much of it. But it's right. It's right.

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    Not give me, but make me. And that, I think, is the lesson of the living. Would you like a hand for the living? It's out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn't out there, isn in the form of questions. Don't worry. Was there ever a more patulous piece of advice to give to those who are the worrying tough?

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    Well, I may say Dennis Gillis, bless his heart, he has all these questions about painting of him, from what he's given in the paper, and I think it was therapeutic for him, he's been through it all, and he's got it all out on the table when I went there, and his Bible open, and he's been going through actually writing down his answers to them, and he went through right from 1 to 20, telling me his news, and the further he went on, the more he became in himself, the old gestures began to come back, and even the huge, when he read this one, he says, Don't worry. Was there ever a more factious piece of advice to give to those of the worrying kind? Yes.

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    Yes. And his jaw stuck out. I can think of one very much like it, isn't it? To think of a starving man, don't think of food. The reality and the environment are two great factors in making of what we are. Does this apply to our spiritual development? I've tried to show it though.

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    The lilies must have air. This is an important one. The lilies must have air. They must have freedom to grow. How far can we allow individuality to blossom, apart from the constraint of the victim and the fetus? Do we indeed tend to put the spirit of truth in a straitjacket? I'm concerned about that one.

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    We want to be beautiful like Jesus. Yet there was no beauty that we should desire him. Isn't that the beauty of Jesus, can say? Well, he's got it right. Straight away. The beauty of holiness, he said. That was the beauty of Jesus. Everything the Father wanted, he did. Everything the Father was, he was.

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    The holiness of the Father was stamped on everything in Jesus, he said. That was his beauty. That's the beauty of the lily, isn't it? And that's the beauty you're trying to get. Well, there you are. I'm going to leave these with you. I could take one question or point. Yes, yes, there's time.

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    Everybody's got a quick point they'd like to make. Let me please hear it. But the main thing for you is to consume in your notes and everything about that. Anybody got anything? They could come back with like they must be saying.

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    Thank you. That was in my notes. You know that. I didn't use it. But thank you. Yes. There's a wonderful passage actually, that in the Living Bible, if anybody's got... Anybody got the Living Bible? I can only remember dimly from memory, but I... No, the Living Bible says something like, The light of the body is the eye. If you have a single eye, it will bring sunshine into your soul. That is the phrase. I don't know, I don't know. It brings sunshine into your soul.

99. 43:22

    I don't know. It brings sunshine into your soul. I don't know. It brings sunshine into your soul. It brings out你看 out你看 out你看 out你看 out你看 out你看 out but thou art he that took me out of the womb so he said so I wonder where I was going for it, for it, for it, for it, for it the one that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed for he giveth of his bread to the poor yes and the other one was for the most, for it, for it he that hath a bountiful eye and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him that certainly seems to be the sort text from which he was quoting, I speak, wouldn't it in the context of his thinking about the worthlessness of riches thank you for joining our attention to those I think that's why he's given that a poverty nor riches because if you're given poverty he needs justice yes, yes that's in Robert, didn't it?

100. 45:03

     that's in you yes it's surprising how much of the teaching of Jesus is George and Robert but however, the time has now gone thank you for the comments you've made I'm sorry if you feel pleased but it's a good way to leave an audience yes yes, yes, that's very interesting it also has a lesson have a guess what the lesson is before I close there's a wonderful lesson in that the wedding bells were ringing while I was talking about the bride but I hadn't heard them, I didn't notice them but I was not we're missing half the wonderful things that are there for us while this muddy vesture has decayed as grossly closes in we cannot hear it but it's there, really there to be heard there to be listened to and we've listened to some wonderful things this week but we're there all the time like the wedding bells but I'd got a deaf ear until my ear was teased right thank you, brethren, for being patient with me I hope you have been 1070 and then brother David Shemmell we'll close our meeting with you 1070 Christian, walk carefully danger is near all in thy journey with trembling and fear snares from without and temptations within seek to entice thee once more in this in 2030