173: Dennis Gillett – Friendship and Fellowship

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Welcome to good for selfie and
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I’m Levi and I’m Chris and I’m
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You’re about to listen to and

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now let’s talk more about this
week’s talk.

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This was talk is title
fellowship and friendship by

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brother Dennis, Dennis galette.
I really, really loved this

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talk.
I thought it was absolutely an

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excellent study on the ideas of
friendship and fellowship at

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more friendship.
He spends about the first half

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or so really diving into verses
that relate to Friendship, some

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of the root words there and
you’ll hear right at the start,

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he starts with the argument that
Ship is the highest form of

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fellowship and goes on to kind
of defend that case.

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And then it really spins on its
head when he says that we know

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from multiple scriptures that we
are commanded to be friends in a

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way with the Lord Jesus.
And what does that challenge

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actually?
Mean, I just loved his just the

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words that he uses his masterful
phrases so many one-liners,

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really, to me that came out of
this talk, I’m going to be Re

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listening.
And this was a an interesting

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find for us.
The, this is a series of 3.

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This is the third one.
Although there’s no real

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relation that I can tell between
the first two, which are related

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and this third class, which
really stands alone.

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And these were uploaded to
Crystal.

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King Bible talks just a couple
months ago and I listen to them

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and emailed the brother who runs
the website and said, can you

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tell me who uploaded these?
Because I want some more

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information on where they’re
from.

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When was this recorded?
You know, we know brother,

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Dennis from his writings and
he’s been on this show before

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episode 136.
But you know when when and where

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was this given because I like to
post that information and the

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brother responded to me with a
fun story, he the short answer

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is he didn’t actually have any
information on when and where it

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was presented, but this is a
series of tapes that he had come

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into owning 30 years ago.
And had been looking for them

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more recently, online was able
to finally find his own set

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again, he’d found two and then
he knew that he’d landed lent

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one out and that was returned to
him.

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And so he went through the
effort of uploading these tapes

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because he’s very, he thinks,
it’s such a great series and I

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totally agree.
I’m excited to share.

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So thank you to the two, that
brother for the work that he did

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and getting these talks on the
internet for us and I can only

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guess the talk is from the 70s.
I mean, maybe this CS.

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But likely sometime in the 70s,
the quality of the recording is

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pretty bad and you’ll hear the
tape flips, the tape of the tape

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sides flip.
So there’s three, three or four.

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Paws has through the talk and
that’s where the tape is

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flipping.
And I’m happy now to share it in

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the podcast.
This is a great one, friendship

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and fellowship by brother,
Dennis Colette.

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Another president, I’m better
than sisters.

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And as I beginning to this
evenings, Adoration, I would

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like to make to this meeting a
proposition.

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I know, of course that it won’t
be seconded.

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And I know that we shouldn’t be
asking you to vote upon it.

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I understand that, but
nevertheless, I would still like

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to make the proposition for this
meeting for your consideration.

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And the proposition is this.
That the highest form of

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Fellowship is friendship.
Shall I say it again?

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The highest form of Fellowship
is friendship.

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They’re quite properly.
I know what you are doing.

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As you usually do, when you have
to face propositions, you are

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pondering it, you are beginning
to look at it and thinking.

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Well now let’s see where the
faults lie.

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Let’s be critical about it.
Buddy properly, that’s what you

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ought to be critical of the
proposition. and you are

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thinking, ah, Now, there are
plenty of people in the world in

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our community associated in the
very realist, and most genuine

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way in True Fellowship.
Who’ve never had the opportunity

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to meet, who are therefore
unknown to each other and who

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therefore cannot experience
friendship but they are in the

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very closest Fellowship
Perfectly true.

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I accept your criticism but
notice this when the proposition

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says that friendship is the
highest form of Fellowship, it

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does not in any way, cast any
doubt at all, upon the value and

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the reality of that Fellowship
which does not on the Practical

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level Embrace friendship.
It’s claiming that where

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Fellowship does embrace
friendship, then the fellowship

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is enhanced.
On the other hand, you may be

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thinking that there are plenty
of people who have the most

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sincere form of friendship and
yet really, they are not in

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Fellowship, that’s true as well.
Of course, it is.

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I accept that.
What can I say?

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You know, if we go on like this,
we shall be submerged in what

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has come to be known in, in, in
sort of discussion circles as

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the apple and fruit argument,
that is to say all apples are

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fruit, therefore, all fruit is
Apple’s.

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Now, one of the reasons we don’t
accept that is that we know for

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sure that some of them are plums
and summer peaches and some are

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apricots and we do detect the in
that argument there is a flaw

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and we are, right?
So Fellowship is friendship but

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not all friendship is
fellowship.

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We know in our deepest heart,
don’t we?

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That no amount of friendship can
create fellowship.

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If the Divine element is missing
no don’t don’t let don’t let’s

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misunderstand the proposition.
It means that given the

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existence of True Fellowship
which is based on Sound

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fundamentals, they comes to its
highest realization on the level

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of true friendship when that
properly understood and really,

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I don’t propose to beat about
the bush any longer because Bush

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beating does no good really.
So I’m going to come to the

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point now straight away and say,
the idea, the proposition is

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provoked in my mind and I hope
in yours by the fifteenth verse

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of the fifteenth chapter.
Our of the Gospel of John our

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Lord.
Speaking his Apostle says no

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longer do I call you servants
for the servant knoweth not what

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his Lord doing but I have called
you friends for all things that

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I have heard from my father I
have made known unto you.

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Now we need to notice the words
carefully in the Bible, every

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word is important, but we need
to notice these words,

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especially careful.
Lee because you will observe a

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change in, the relationship is
taking place.

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The word suggests that these men
in some way are passing into

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something, which is deeper and
closer, no longer do I call you

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servants, as you will know, more
accurately slaves, bonds flavors

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At first, the king called them
disciples and sure they are

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disciple.
If he be a true one is in

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fellowship with his Lord.
And then later on, he called

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them the same men.
He called them Apostles.

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And an apostle is one cent in
the name of another with

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authority, and if they went
forth in his name and hit with

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his authority, then surely the
fellowship was in hands and

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intensified but now there is a
change taking place.

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No Longer do I call you
servants?

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I have called you friends now.
We don’t have to be careful, not

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to make a mistake.
It does not mean that in some

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sense they have not been his
friend.

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Nor does it mean that being
friends they had in some way

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she’s to be disciples.
Nor does it mean that in some

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way they are no longer Apostles.
As a matter of fact, the the

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greatest part of their
apostleship was still future.

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Nor does it mean that in any way
they had ceased to be servants?

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Because, did you notice verse
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In verse 20?
He said, Remember the word that

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I said, unto you a servant is
not greater than his Lord.

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Now that referred to something,
he said to them, evidently

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before.
But as he now urges them to

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remember it, quite clearly, it’s
indicated that that relationship

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was to be maintained, so they
were still his servants, the all

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this being true, it They came
here is distinctly and

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definitely marking a change in
his relationship, with his

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disciples, with his Apostles,
with his servants, no longer.

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That’s the vital thing to note
is no longer the very words mean

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A change is taking place.
If it is to be no longer than

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something is in the process of
alteration, no longer do I call

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you slaves and then the very
character of the change is

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revealed.
In the words, I have called Did

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you friends?
And I am saying to you that at

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once we are taken on to a
different level.

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Discipleship is one thing, it is
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Apostleship is another thing, it
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And the fun of the deaf servant,
it servanthood is one thing.

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It is Central, it is devoted and
obedient now, all these

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relationships Express, an idea
of Fellowship they do.

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But then as it were, the final
conception is in the words, I

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have called you friends.
All the other relationships are

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part of the process of
Fellowship, but then, as it were

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centrally and finally I have
called you friends.

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And we ought to understand that
that sentence does not one Whit

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in any way diminish or – or in
any way, harm, any of the other

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relationships.
But instead, it takes their

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values and makes them even more
intimate, more beautiful, and

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more glorious.
And so brother president, It was

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for that reason that I proposed
to you, that friendship is the

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highest form of Fellowship.
It seemed to me and I hope it

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seems to you that the 15th verse
of the 15th chapter of John

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properly, understood is saying
that very thing to us, that

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friendship is the highest form
of Fellowship.

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But in order to take a
measurement in order to see

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whether it is true or not, or
whether are interpretation of it

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is true or not.
Russia.

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Now we shall need now to ponder
the idea.

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Of Fellowship.
Perhaps more penetrating Lee.

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I don’t want to take up time
going over terrain which is

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already well trodden and I’m
very conscious and in speaking

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to you tonight I am speaking to
people who are exceedingly well

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tutored in biblical Exposition
and therefore I’m going to take

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it for granted that there’s no
need for me to go into the

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relative values of the various
Words which are used in the New

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Testament to describe the idea
of Fellowship because you know

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them.
Well Fellowship contribution

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distribution communication
communion And if we turn from

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the abstract noun to the common
noun, we have words like

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Partners partakers companions.
All those words emphasized in a

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way how rich the idea of
Fellowship really is but for the

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purposes of this consideration,
I shall leave all those words

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which you know well expect
you’ll be through them with a

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toothed comb already and I’m
going to leave them and look at

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something in the Acts of the
Apostles something which is

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revealed in the experience of
the infant Ecclesia which gives

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us an illustration of fellowship
and we may say it’s an

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illustration and in its very
simplest.

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Terms.
But at it’s very nobilis

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definition.
I’m thinking of the fourth

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chapter of the Acts of the
Apostles A memory that fourth

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chapter of Acts it tells us, but
in the days of the pure and

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uncorrupted, faith in the days
when the disciples were impulse

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buy love in the days.
When the Ecclesia was utterly

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Mastered by the truth.
But in those days, when

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Fellowship came to each finest
realization, I think you would

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concede that, in those early
days of that infant church, that

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the, the men and women in Jesus
were closely knit together and

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week, I think we could say that
in those days Fellowship,

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whatever it means came to its
finest realization.

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It says in verse 32 of actual,
they had all things common, they

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had all things common and the
word which is translated, common

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is the root word from which
comes the word, translated

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Fellowship, so that gives us an
idea.

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Gives us something to go on when
we are pursuing the idea of

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fellowship and if we pursue the
idea at that level and

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supposing, we do for the time
being pursue it at that level.

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Where if we ask the question,
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Well, that it is having all
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And if we pursue it even further
and say what is fellowship with

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God?
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and ask that question, what is
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course, immediately it becomes
startling amazing and well it

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holds us in our tracks but never
mind let us go on with reverence

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and godly fear and say, It is
having all things common with

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him.
And when I think of that, I am

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different to think of friendship
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basis of true friendship is
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That is to say it is reciprocal
and self-emptying love resulting

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in a kind of mutual interest.
It is always and forever to be

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seeking the interests of my
friend, whoever he is to the

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forgetful of for lesser myself
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And if you go back to John 15,
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the King was calling these men
who are servants and was now

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calling them to be friends.
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I call you not servants and he
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knoweth not what his Lord do it,
but I have called you friends

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for all things that I’ve heard
of my father, I have made known

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unto you.
That is to say he had shared

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with them.
The things that he had received

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consequently, they had all
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Was common.
And because of this, they became

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his friends.
Is he a slave must give

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unquestioning unquestioning
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That is to say it is blind,
obedience.

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He did nothing on his own
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He was unable to possess
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He was unable to elect he.
He acted out of fear.

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He did eat it all things
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Now, let’s be careful not to go
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There is a sense, of course in
which disciples who our friends

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are also still bondslaves.
Let’s not make that mistake

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indeed.
There was one Apostle who said

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he was born out of due time, but
you said also that he was not

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one Whit behind the very
chiefest of the Apostles, he

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loves to call himself the bond
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But in the change relationship,
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also changed.
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Slave is still the property of
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But now when he elects, he does
it under the loving compulsion

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of his friends choice and when
he possesses, he shares the good

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gifts which comes from his
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For instance, he has heard this
all things are yours and you are

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Christ’s and Christ is God’s.
And when he acts, he acts to

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advance the very cause in which
in some way he himself has

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become a partner.
That is having become a fellow

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laborer with God.
You see the master principle of

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slavery is unquestioning
obedience or unquestioning

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submission and blind obedience
but that’s not the master

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principle of Friendship with the
King.

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Never the friends of Jesus asked
submissive but they are not on

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questioning.
The friends of Jesus are

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obedient but not blindly.
He has told them all things and

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they have asked him many things.
And when he had answered their

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doubts and when he had
illuminated their minds and when

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he had shattered their
blindness, then he said no

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longer do I call you slaves, I
have called you friends but is I

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have admitted you into the
secret things.

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You are coming into the Inner
Circle I have told you all

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things.
We have all things, common.

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And so, at last, they gave him
intelligent obedience and they

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give they give him satisfied.
Submission course.

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We understand what we ought to
understand that it didn’t

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happen.
It didn’t happen.

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Suddenly like magic overnight.
It never does you see?

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Although he has answered all
their questions that

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nevertheless, here is a man
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Lord, with a goest thou here is
a man asking.

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Lord, why can’t I follow thee
now?

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Here is a man asking Lord show
us the father and it sufficeth

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us.
Sufficeth us all these men still

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slaves, then.
Yes, yes, still slaves, but they

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are slaves.
Getting ready to be friends.

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It doesn’t happen like magic.
It may be imperceptible but it’s

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real enough.
They are beginning to have all

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things common.
And by that, he made them his

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friends, they did not make Make
him their friend.

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He said, you did not choose me.
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He took that doubts and
eventually made them the

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bastions of Faith.
He took their weakness and

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eventually made it the
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And so as they come more fully
as it develops and as they come

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more fully into the newer
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They are, they are not slaves.
Dragging themselves after him in

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misery and thinking that somehow
in the wedding misery, there is

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some virtue not that never For
example, you never find the

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Apostle Paul saying Brethren.
This is a bad business, I can

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promise, you know, amelioration
I’m afraid what cannot be cured

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will have to be endured.
I cannot give you chapter and

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verse that brother president
because there was no such

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quotation.
These men follow the lord gaily.

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If I may say so with reverence
they followed him gaily gladly.

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They suffered in his name
thinking themselves in some way

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to be privileged and they did it
for love of him because they

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were his friends, they were
seeking his interests as he was

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certainly seeking.
There’s and putting all they had

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it, his disposal as he had, but
all he had at theirs and they

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had all things common.
They are not slaves, but

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friends, And yet, in a sense.
Slaves as never before.

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Well, of course it sounds
Splendid but like you I am

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conscious of the fact that when
we when we begin to speak of

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Friendship with the Son of God,
we are faced at once with the

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problem of unreality.
I will not, it’s so easy to say

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it, but really, to believe it.
As a practical thing, it is

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another matter.
It is unreal.

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In a sense, friendship of this
kind with the Son of God having

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all things, common Touch of
unreality about it.

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So what we got to do now then we
thought about Fellowship, we’ve

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got an event next about
friendship.

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And as I start, I’m going to
read you somebody else’s

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definition of friendship.
With me.

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Somebody else’s definition of
friendship.

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Now, it may help us.
That’s all the only reason I

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raise do.
It may help us and this is it.

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I’ll tell you who it.
If you like afterwards, all the

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Comfort, the inexpressible
comfort of feeling safe with a

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person having neither to way
thoughts, nor measure words, but

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pour them out.
Just as they are chaff and Grain

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Together.
Knowing that the faithful hand

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will take and sift them.
Keep, what is worth keeping?

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And with the breath of kindness
blow the rest away.

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A definition of friendship.
We offer the oppressed I should

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say, well, those of you who have
had some experience of English

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literature will, perhaps
remember a lady named mrs.

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Craig mrs.
Craig lived at the end of the

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19th century beginning of this
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Wrote a lot of work, some of
them religious but especially a

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I think, perhaps the most the
best known of a Works was a book

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called.
John Halifax, gentlemen, I see a

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note of recognition on some of
your faces.

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This is great.
The inexpressible comfort of

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feeling safe with a person
having to having not to waive,

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thoughts, nor measure words, but
pour them out.

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Just as they are chaff and Grain
Together and knowing that the

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faithful hand will take them and
sit them and keep that, which is

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worth keeping and with the
breath of kindness, blow the

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rest away.
Now, if you think of those words

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brothers and sisters, I I think
you will have to agree that at

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that level that makes friendship
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It’s not every day that you have
friends measured by that

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standard someone with whom there
is no need to wear a mask.

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Someone with whom there is no
need to play the hypocrite, but

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there’s no need to make believe
you can be yourself without

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fear.
You can feel safe.

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You may speak out of the honesty
of your own heart, knowing that

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your friends will blow away the
chaff and keep only the grain.

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If when you leave this house
tonight and you go home and

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before you go to bed, you sit
down and make out a list of

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people with whom you can have
that kind of friendship.

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Can I say to you?
I do not think you will be going

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to bed very late.
Or if you like, can I put it to

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you another way?
I don’t think you’re likely to

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get writer’s cramp.
Course will have a big list of

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people with whom you are able to
have a polite conversation.

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Of course, you can have a very
pleasant evening and enjoyable

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hour, but there is a sense in
which you are having to be

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careful.
You are outwardly at your best

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with them, can I dare I put it
like that brother president

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without seeming to be offensive
in any way.

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We are at our best, with some
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You never dare take them really
into the into the private

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chamber.
When you are speaking, there is

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a sense in which you, you are
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But not with your friends.
You see, not with your friend,

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with your friends, you can think
aloud, you are true to yourself,

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such as you are.
So you are and because of the

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Affinity between you so, is he
and there is no fear and no

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apprehension and that is utter
peace between you.

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Now.
This is what I want to propose

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to you.
It is not irreverent to put that

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measurement on your friendship
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And I am fortified in that view
by thinking of something.

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In Psalm 32, you remember, Psalm
32 is a song which was written

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by King David.
To celebrate the Wonder and

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relief of the pain which had
come to him after his great sin.

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Course, when we read it, we read
it rather prosaically why nobody

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can complain about that.
We say, blessed is the man in

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whose sin is Forgiven.
And whose iniquity is covered,

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that’s how we say it.
But when he wrote it, no doubt

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it was written as it were with a
great grasp of really blessed.

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Is the man whose sin is
Forgiven, the gospel, Leaf on

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his iniquity is coming and then
he goes on to say and in whose

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Spirit, there is no guile.
That’s important.

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That sentence came out of his
own experience.

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No doubt dial is putting on a
performance.

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Guile is being outwardly.
What?

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We are not inwardly guile is
window, dressing guile is

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pretense and you wouldn’t
believe it.

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But sometimes we practice it
with God.

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David did he says so in the
psalm and his conscience gave

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him no rest and he had no peace
of mind.

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Guile is calling bad things by
good names.

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Guile is making plausible the
things we ought not to have, or

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we ought to share. and this is
what we do, I think, for this,

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you what I do as I said to you
before, I think I am not So here

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is the measurement if there is
some Secret.

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I’m putting it.
Here are the planet Lee.

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Now if there is some secret,
which ought to be acknowledged

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but is not and if there is some
Indulgence with your to be

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repudiated, which instead is
nurse and if there is some room

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up private from which the King
has to be excluded, and if there

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is some half hour in the day,
when, you know, his presence

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makes you embarrassed, Then can
I say to you with a very deep

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respect?
Although your relationship maybe

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Fellowship, it is not
friendship.

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Not at this high level because
with a friend you do not

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practice guile.
David said, blessed is the man

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who is guileless with a friend
you are honest and you are open

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and in The Fellowship of
friendship you are able to

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confess your full heart and your
false soul and in The Fellowship

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of friendship you may tell your
doubts and your fears and your

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griefs and your restlessness.
You may even come praying,

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perhaps about how God is Is
dealing with you.

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And I say it with a defect
deepest reverence, he will take

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out the Grain and with the
breath of gentle understanding

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will blow away the chart.
I read this once in the Roman

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00:29:23,700 –> 00:29:28,000
letter, we know not how we ought
to pray, but the spirit maketh

439
00:29:28,000 –> 00:29:31,100
intercession for us with
groanings which cannot be

440
00:29:31,100 –> 00:29:34,100
uttered.
You see, if you force yourself

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00:29:34,100 –> 00:29:37,300
tonight in this house to sing
the hymn of submission and

442
00:29:37,300 –> 00:29:40,300
resignation.
And in the Deep part of you, it

443
00:29:40,300 –> 00:29:43,400
is against your will.
I doubt very much whether it

444
00:29:43,400 –> 00:29:47,600
rises any higher than the
ceiling of this place, but if on

445
00:29:47,600 –> 00:29:51,400
the other hand, you pull out
your anxiety tonight and your

446
00:29:51,400 –> 00:29:56,800
fear, even your indignation, if
you like as Martha, did I think

447
00:29:56,800 –> 00:29:59,500
when she said I know that he
will be raised again in the

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00:29:59,500 –> 00:30:03,700
resurrection at the last day,
the king will hear it.

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00:30:04,100 –> 00:30:05,800
If we have understood this,
right?

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00:30:06,000 –> 00:30:09,100
The king will hear it.
It will blow away the chaff and

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00:30:09,100 –> 00:30:10,800
he will retain that, which is
true.

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00:30:11,300 –> 00:30:14,500
And According to his will he was
give you an answer of peace.

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00:30:15,600 –> 00:30:18,500
Remember, we are trying to
understand how it is, genuinely

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possible for failing and broken
men, such as we are to have

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00:30:22,200 –> 00:30:25,100
friendship with the exalted Son
of God.

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00:30:27,700 –> 00:30:32,000
Now in pursuing that thought I’m
never going to ask you to think

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00:30:32,100 –> 00:30:38,500
of the shortest biography in the
Bible for words to tell a man’s

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00:30:38,500 –> 00:30:43,400
life.
Enoch walked with God, the

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00:30:43,400 –> 00:30:46,200
shortest biography in the Bible
Genesis 5.

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00:30:47,300 –> 00:30:50,100
Enoch walked with God in a
civilization, which was

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00:30:50,100 –> 00:30:53,700
disintegrating, which was
descending, and which at last

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00:30:53,700 –> 00:30:58,300
was utterly doomed.
This one lonely man walk with

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00:30:58,300 –> 00:31:01,300
his creator and have you ever
thought how impossible that

464
00:31:01,300 –> 00:31:04,200
really is?
The wheat faltering, steps of a

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00:31:04,200 –> 00:31:07,700
man walking with the great
Yahweh Lord of Heaven and Earth.

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00:31:08,900 –> 00:31:12,600
Think of the great word of Amos
can two walk together except

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00:31:12,600 –> 00:31:15,200
they be in agreement, we should
do that sentence.

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00:31:15,200 –> 00:31:17,900
No violence brother and sisters
to translate it.

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00:31:18,200 –> 00:31:22,700
Can two walk together except
they be in fellowship with her.

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Do it.
No violence to change the word

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00:31:24,500 –> 00:31:27,700
because you remember in the New
Testament, we read this.

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00:31:27,700 –> 00:31:30,000
What Fellowship has light with
Darkness?

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00:31:30,200 –> 00:31:33,800
What agreement hath the temple
of God with Idols.

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00:31:35,300 –> 00:31:38,300
So we could say, can two walk
together except they be in

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Fellowship.
Assha now.

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00:31:40,200 –> 00:31:42,800
Walking implies three things if
you think about it.

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00:31:42,800 –> 00:31:46,400
But let’s think of this Enoch
walked with God, walking now,

478
00:31:46,400 –> 00:31:48,100
let’s think about walking for a
bit.

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00:31:48,300 –> 00:31:51,500
But Tim I’m suggesting to you
that it implies three things

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00:31:51,600 –> 00:31:55,800
will effort and Direction.
Now, every time you walk

481
00:31:55,800 –> 00:32:00,900
anywhere, it is an act of your
will Just to cover every

482
00:32:00,900 –> 00:32:04,100
possible argument.
When a pleasant I’ll enter in

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00:32:04,100 –> 00:32:06,800
that statement, I will end at
one qualification.

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00:32:06,800 –> 00:32:09,300
I said every time you walk
anywhere, it’s an act of you’re

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00:32:09,300 –> 00:32:12,500
welcome, one qualification it
unless you happen to be

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00:32:12,500 –> 00:32:14,300
sleepwalking, I’ll give you
that.

487
00:32:16,800 –> 00:32:21,700
But apart from sleepwalking
every time you walk, it’s an act

488
00:32:21,700 –> 00:32:26,400
of will that is to say, I’m not
even if that’s an act of desire.

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00:32:26,500 –> 00:32:30,100
You may not want to go.
But if you go, you will be.

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00:32:30,100 –> 00:32:33,000
I mean you may not want to walk
to the dentist.

491
00:32:33,500 –> 00:32:36,000
And if there’s any dentist here,
can I say I have the deepest

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00:32:36,000 –> 00:32:39,900
respect for your profession?
You may not want to walk to the

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00:32:39,900 –> 00:32:44,400
dentist, but if you walk there
while you’ve willed it, So

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00:32:44,400 –> 00:32:48,500
walking first of all implies
will and act of Will and then it

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00:32:48,500 –> 00:32:52,600
implies effort.
I know it comes so easily to us

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00:32:52,600 –> 00:32:56,900
normally, but if we lie in bed
for three months and then try to

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00:32:56,900 –> 00:33:01,400
walk, we shall know that walking
implies effort and then walking

498
00:33:01,400 –> 00:33:04,100
implies Direction because even
walking backwards are in a

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00:33:04,108 –> 00:33:06,600
circle you’re going somewhere.
You may not make a lot of

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00:33:06,608 –> 00:33:08,200
progress but you’re going
somewhere.

501
00:33:08,700 –> 00:33:12,500
So we’ll effort and Direction.
Now you think of those three

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00:33:12,500 –> 00:33:15,100
things in come the country in
the context of

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00:33:27,500 –> 00:33:31,000
think of those three things in
the context of Walking with God.

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00:33:33,400 –> 00:33:39,000
A man and God willing the same
thing that is to say United in

505
00:33:39,000 –> 00:33:42,800
volition a man and God putting
out strength towards the same

506
00:33:42,800 –> 00:33:44,800
end.
That is united in effort.

507
00:33:45,000 –> 00:33:48,300
A man and God moving in the same
path towards the same.

508
00:33:48,300 –> 00:33:51,700
Ultimate destination that is
united in Direction.

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00:33:53,900 –> 00:33:56,000
That’s what it means.
When we talk about walking with

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00:33:56,000 –> 00:34:01,700
God and you can see it again in
the lonely, man, who went out

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00:34:01,700 –> 00:34:06,300
from chaldea.
To the land, which he had never

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00:34:06,300 –> 00:34:10,900
seen and which he didn’t know
about, but to what, which have

513
00:34:10,900 –> 00:34:15,000
been promised to him.
That lonely, man, Abraham, as I

514
00:34:15,000 –> 00:34:18,600
said to you on Sunday measured
by the wisdom of the world, they

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00:34:18,600 –> 00:34:22,199
would be counted.
A foolish man to do such a thing

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00:34:23,000 –> 00:34:28,699
but He went out with confidence
because he was utterly sure of

517
00:34:28,699 –> 00:34:30,900
the god with whom he was
walking.

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00:34:31,400 –> 00:34:35,300
He went out because he was
convinced Beyond any shout of

519
00:34:35,308 –> 00:34:38,600
the Integrity of the invisible.
God will effort and direction.

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00:34:38,699 –> 00:34:43,100
That is to say they had all
things common.

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00:34:44,000 –> 00:34:46,699
Have I overstated it.
Thank you, Abraham.

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00:34:46,699 –> 00:34:50,400
And God, they had all things.
Common is that an overstatement

523
00:34:51,900 –> 00:34:55,800
Well.
I read this in the 22nd chapter

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00:34:55,800 –> 00:35:00,000
of Genesis, they went both of
them.

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Together.
And then there’s a sentence in

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00:35:05,400 –> 00:35:07,900
Isaiah 41, which ought to seal
our conviction.

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00:35:07,900 –> 00:35:12,600
If we need ceiling verse 8 of
Isaiah 41 reads like this, but

528
00:35:12,600 –> 00:35:17,700
there is a real art, my servant
Jacob whom I am the Seed of

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00:35:17,700 –> 00:35:23,300
Abraham, my friend.
So there’s a clear statement

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00:35:23,300 –> 00:35:27,100
that God and Abraham were
friends, they had all things

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00:35:27,100 –> 00:35:30,400
common.
Doubt it.

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00:35:32,200 –> 00:35:33,800
Let’s look all the nature of the
Friendship.

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00:35:33,800 –> 00:35:38,700
Then as it’s revealed to us in
Genesis video, Genesis 15, verse

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00:35:38,700 –> 00:35:40,500
1.
God said fear, not Abraham.

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00:35:41,000 –> 00:35:43,700
I am thy shield and my exceeding
great reward.

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00:35:43,700 –> 00:35:48,500
And then in chapter 18 verse 17,
it says and the Lord said, shall

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00:35:48,500 –> 00:35:51,500
I hide from Abraham?
The thing which I do.

538
00:35:52,800 –> 00:35:56,100
The servant knoweth not what his
Lord do it, but I have called

539
00:35:56,100 –> 00:35:59,300
you friends for all things that
I’ve heard of my father, I have

540
00:35:59,300 –> 00:36:01,800
made known unto you.
That is the measure of

541
00:36:01,800 –> 00:36:04,600
friendship.
And then, shall I hide from

542
00:36:04,600 –> 00:36:08,400
Abraham?
The thing, which I do Abraham

543
00:36:08,400 –> 00:36:11,900
was called to fellowship with
God, and as a result of the

544
00:36:11,908 –> 00:36:15,200
Revelation, he came into that
inner circle of God’s

545
00:36:15,200 –> 00:36:19,500
friendship, remember?
We’re trying to understand how

546
00:36:19,500 –> 00:36:22,400
it can be true.
That faltering failing men.

547
00:36:22,800 –> 00:36:27,300
Such as we are, can walk with
Yahweh, the great God.

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00:36:29,200 –> 00:36:32,200
The there is something in the
New Testament, which is a kind

549
00:36:32,200 –> 00:36:33,900
of counterpart which can help
us.

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00:36:34,200 –> 00:36:39,200
I’m thinking of Matthew, 11
verse 29, Lord’s words, take my

551
00:36:39,200 –> 00:36:42,400
yoke upon you and learn of me
for.

552
00:36:42,400 –> 00:36:45,600
I am meek and lowly in heart and
ye shall find rest unto your

553
00:36:45,600 –> 00:36:50,000
souls.
Take my yoke upon.

554
00:36:50,000 –> 00:36:54,600
You think of that for a minute?
Take my yoke upon you.

555
00:36:56,200 –> 00:37:01,900
Paul said.
Be not unequally yoked together

556
00:37:01,900 –> 00:37:05,000
with unbelievers.
Now, if you put those two things

557
00:37:05,000 –> 00:37:08,900
together, it gives you a clear
idea of what a yoke is full.

558
00:37:09,300 –> 00:37:15,500
It joins together, those who are
burdened bearers and dare, I say

559
00:37:15,500 –> 00:37:17,600
it to you.
That being yoked with the king

560
00:37:17,600 –> 00:37:23,700
is being unequally yoked.
In that, yoking the burden has

561
00:37:23,700 –> 00:37:26,400
been cast upon him and you are
rested.

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00:37:26,400 –> 00:37:32,000
And is that not on equal?
But in your favor, it’s a

563
00:37:32,000 –> 00:37:35,100
picture of two yoked together
the strong one and the week,

564
00:37:35,100 –> 00:37:38,600
when, and because of the strong
one, the yoke is easy and my

565
00:37:38,600 –> 00:37:41,400
burden is light for the other,
that’s what he means.

566
00:37:43,700 –> 00:37:46,700
Over the rough places.
The week one is sustained.

567
00:37:49,000 –> 00:37:53,100
He says my burden is light and
my yoke is easy but sometimes we

568
00:37:53,100 –> 00:37:55,200
feel it is not.
It is hard.

569
00:37:56,400 –> 00:38:00,400
It binds the Polish.
That’s what he means.

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00:38:02,900 –> 00:38:07,100
Such burdens of have to be born
a born together.

571
00:38:08,600 –> 00:38:11,400
Over the rough places.
The weak one is sustained the

572
00:38:11,400 –> 00:38:15,200
strong one waits encouragingly
for the other who fought as I’m

573
00:38:15,200 –> 00:38:18,100
using figures.
Now, you understand, learn of

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00:38:18,100 –> 00:38:22,100
me, he said what he means is
that as we are yoked together

575
00:38:22,100 –> 00:38:28,400
with him, all be it on equally.
Bit by bit, there is a kind of

576
00:38:28,400 –> 00:38:33,100
Harmony created betwixt the to
our step becomes his step.

577
00:38:33,100 –> 00:38:37,200
His effort becomes our effort,
our step, our purpose becomes

578
00:38:37,200 –> 00:38:40,200
his purpose, his Direction
becomes our Direction.

579
00:38:40,700 –> 00:38:43,300
This is the effect of the truth
Upon Us bit by bit.

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00:38:44,000 –> 00:38:47,300
All things I have received.
He said I’ve made known unto you

581
00:38:47,800 –> 00:38:50,700
learn of me.
Now this is the highest and the

582
00:38:50,707 –> 00:38:53,600
sublimest law of life.
It seems to me and the

583
00:38:53,600 –> 00:38:57,300
realization of is at its best
and its noblest is Is perfect

584
00:38:57,300 –> 00:39:00,900
Fellowship.
And so brother president.

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00:39:02,600 –> 00:39:09,400
I make my proposition this time.
A little more optimistic form of

586
00:39:09,700 –> 00:39:20,900
Fellowship is friendship.
Well, now, the final part of

587
00:39:20,900 –> 00:39:26,900
this meditation takes us back to
John 15. to what might be called

588
00:39:26,900 –> 00:39:34,200
the The outcome of this
relationship because remember

589
00:39:34,200 –> 00:39:38,000
the address was called
fellowship and fruit-bearing.

590
00:39:38,500 –> 00:39:42,600
Now let’s see what else.
Our lord said no longer do I

591
00:39:42,600 –> 00:39:44,700
call you servants for the
servant knoweth not what his

592
00:39:44,700 –> 00:39:47,600
Lord do it?
That I have called you friends

593
00:39:47,600 –> 00:39:49,600
for all things that I’ve heard
from my father.

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00:39:50,000 –> 00:39:53,800
I have made known unto you.
You did not choose me, but I

595
00:39:53,800 –> 00:39:57,900
chose you and appointed you that
you should go and bear fruit.

596
00:39:58,300 –> 00:40:00,400
And that your fruit should abide
that what?

597
00:40:00,600 –> 00:40:03,800
Whatever you shall ask of my of
the father in my name.

598
00:40:03,800 –> 00:40:08,900
He may give it to you.
So that the new relationship,

599
00:40:08,900 –> 00:40:14,000
according to that statement was
not a static and academic thing

600
00:40:14,900 –> 00:40:20,500
a theory only, but as a result
of the Revelation, they these

601
00:40:20,500 –> 00:40:23,300
men had found God in a way
perhaps in which they never

602
00:40:23,500 –> 00:40:26,300
found him before.
And resulting from that

603
00:40:26,300 –> 00:40:31,000
Revelation, there ought to be
created a new capacity for

604
00:40:31,000 –> 00:40:33,300
service.
That’s what Jesus is saying.

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00:40:34,200 –> 00:40:39,200
You saying that that you should
go and bear fruit and that your

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00:40:39,200 –> 00:40:43,400
fruit should abide?
Jesus wants said to Philip he

607
00:40:43,400 –> 00:40:47,000
that hath seen me.
Hath seen the father and you see

608
00:40:47,000 –> 00:40:50,200
underneath that sentence brother
and sisters.

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00:40:50,200 –> 00:40:54,900
There is a great principle.
We are now without doubt dealing

610
00:40:54,900 –> 00:40:59,500
with deep biblical principles
and here we are confronted with

611
00:40:59,500 –> 00:41:06,800
one in this part of John.
He that hath seen me.

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00:41:06,800 –> 00:41:12,800
Hath seen the father.
He said to Philip And when that

613
00:41:12,800 –> 00:41:18,700
Revelation strikes, a man a
principle is at work and the

614
00:41:18,700 –> 00:41:22,600
principle is this that men
become like the god, they

615
00:41:22,600 –> 00:41:28,700
worship.
How Lord said clip.

616
00:41:29,300 –> 00:41:31,800
When you look at me, you see my
father.

617
00:41:32,200 –> 00:41:34,800
In other words, your see God.
You see, my God.

618
00:41:36,600 –> 00:41:38,500
And can I say to you Brennan
sisters?

619
00:41:39,000 –> 00:41:44,100
If you are able to look at any
man truly and penetratingly you

620
00:41:44,100 –> 00:41:50,800
will see his God you know that
Because every man Reveals His

621
00:41:50,800 –> 00:41:54,500
God in what he is in himself.
In other words, that is an

622
00:41:54,500 –> 00:41:57,600
inexorable principle that you
become like the gods.

623
00:41:57,600 –> 00:42:03,500
You serve, whether you want it
or not, and whether you will it

624
00:42:03,500 –> 00:42:09,900
or not, you will become like the
god, you serve proof, they well

625
00:42:10,900 –> 00:42:16,200
Psalm 115 Have a look at Psalm
150.

626
00:42:26,200 –> 00:42:31,000
Psalm 115 begins not endorse.
Oh Lord not unto us but unto thy

627
00:42:31,000 –> 00:42:33,700
name, give glory for thy mercy
in thy truth.

628
00:42:33,700 –> 00:42:37,800
Say wherefore should the
nation’s say where is now their

629
00:42:37,800 –> 00:42:42,100
God, our God is in the heavens.
He hath done whatsoever.

630
00:42:42,100 –> 00:42:45,400
He pleased.
Their Idols are silver and gold,

631
00:42:45,400 –> 00:42:48,500
the work of men’s hands.
They have mouths, but they speak

632
00:42:48,500 –> 00:42:51,400
not eyes, have they?
But they see not, they have ears

633
00:42:51,400 –> 00:42:53,500
but they hear not.
Not noses, have they?

634
00:42:53,500 –> 00:42:55,900
But they smell not.
They have hands, but they handle

635
00:42:55,900 –> 00:42:59,200
nut feed have they but they walk
not neither speak they through

636
00:42:59,200 –> 00:43:02,900
their throat and they that make
them shall be like unto them.

637
00:43:05,100 –> 00:43:08,600
They that make them shall be
like unto them.

638
00:43:09,200 –> 00:43:16,400
If a man’s God is insensate at
last that man who worships him

639
00:43:16,400 –> 00:43:21,900
will himself become insensate.
That’s what that Psalm writer is

640
00:43:21,900 –> 00:43:26,600
telling us, ultimately, as a
man’s Soul response to his God,

641
00:43:26,600 –> 00:43:30,300
whoever they got is.
So, is he and if the God be lost

642
00:43:30,300 –> 00:43:34,700
and greed and carnality, so that
man would reveal at last in his

643
00:43:34,700 –> 00:43:37,700
class The lust and greed.
In carnality, it is an

644
00:43:37,700 –> 00:43:39,800
inexorable principle.
I tell you.

645
00:43:41,000 –> 00:43:45,700
And if that man’s God is Yahweh,
the god of Israel then.

646
00:43:45,700 –> 00:43:47,700
So it lasts that man becomes
truth.

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00:43:47,700 –> 00:43:52,500
Governed and love.
Mastered proof 1 John 3 verse 2.

648
00:44:01,000 –> 00:44:15,900
To love John 3:2.
1.

649
00:44:15,900 –> 00:44:20,600
John 3, verse 2 beloved now.
Are we the children of God?

650
00:44:21,600 –> 00:44:26,000
It is not yet made manifest what
we shall be, but we know that

651
00:44:26,100 –> 00:44:35,100
when he is manifested, we shall
be like him for.

652
00:44:35,100 –> 00:44:39,200
We shall see him as he is.
They that make them shall be

653
00:44:39,200 –> 00:44:42,800
like unto them.
We shall be like him.

654
00:44:43,200 –> 00:44:46,900
Those two statements in their
final realization are poles

655
00:44:46,900 –> 00:44:52,000
apart, but underneath them, that
is a common principle men,

656
00:44:52,000 –> 00:44:55,700
become like the gods, they
worship, whichever way it is.

657
00:44:56,000 –> 00:45:01,100
Now these men had seen their God
in the man of Nazareth.

658
00:45:01,500 –> 00:45:03,800
They had seen in his
sinlessness.

659
00:45:04,100 –> 00:45:09,000
The Holiness of God, they had
seen in his Compassion the love

660
00:45:09,000 –> 00:45:13,700
of God and living within the
orbit of that Revelation, they

661
00:45:13,700 –> 00:45:18,000
were to bring forth the fruit of
Holiness and compassion that is

662
00:45:18,000 –> 00:45:20,900
to say they were to become like
the god.

663
00:45:20,900 –> 00:45:25,000
They are discovered in this one.
Lonely concentric man in an

664
00:45:25,000 –> 00:45:28,900
eccentric world.
And all this of course is

665
00:45:28,900 –> 00:45:32,600
connected in a vital way, with
the very first words, which

666
00:45:32,600 –> 00:45:36,000
began this discourse, I am the
True Vine.

667
00:45:37,100 –> 00:45:40,800
If you want it more literally
and it as it happens the that

668
00:45:40,800 –> 00:45:43,700
the literal is is a blessed
Thing by the president.

669
00:45:43,700 –> 00:45:50,400
In this case that more accurate
to I am the vine the true.

670
00:45:50,600 –> 00:45:55,000
That’s what he actually said.
And if you think it’s kind of

671
00:45:55,000 –> 00:45:57,000
Distinction without a
difference, if you think I’m

672
00:45:57,000 –> 00:46:00,000
splitting hairs, the reason I
draw attention to it is this

673
00:46:00,300 –> 00:46:04,100
that when he said I am the True
Vine, he did not mean to imply,

674
00:46:04,100 –> 00:46:06,700
that all other Vines were there
for false.

675
00:46:07,000 –> 00:46:14,000
Not that I am the vines the true
is saying all other Vines are

676
00:46:14,000 –> 00:46:18,400
replicas not false but replicas
patterned upon the first the

677
00:46:18,400 –> 00:46:21,600
True Vine.
I am the vine, the true and all

678
00:46:21,600 –> 00:46:25,700
other Vines are patterned upon
him in the True Vine, the branch

679
00:46:26,000 –> 00:46:29,400
bears fruit and does so by
gaining, from the vine, the very

680
00:46:29,400 –> 00:46:31,500
life, which enables it to be
fruitful.

681
00:46:31,900 –> 00:46:35,600
And in a way, that the cluster
of fruit is the branches answer

682
00:46:35,600 –> 00:46:39,600
the branches response to the
force, which is given from, Um,

683
00:46:39,600 –> 00:46:44,500
the stop the parent stock and
you don’t have to be a genius to

684
00:46:44,500 –> 00:46:47,600
you.
To realize that our Lord’s use

685
00:46:47,600 –> 00:46:51,700
of this figure of the vine in
John 15, has its roots deep in

686
00:46:51,700 –> 00:46:54,700
the Old Testament because the
figure of the vine wrong through

687
00:46:54,700 –> 00:46:59,400
the Psalms and through prophecy.
And then out of that deep

688
00:47:00,000 –> 00:47:03,300
conception of the vine in the
Old Testament, one day, this man

689
00:47:03,300 –> 00:47:09,400
of Nazareth stood in the midst
of Israel and said Annie was

690
00:47:09,600 –> 00:47:11,300
Back.
As, you know, looking back to

691
00:47:11,300 –> 00:47:15,800
the old economy and said, I am
the vine, the truth.

692
00:47:16,500 –> 00:47:19,600
And by contrast, your minds will
have already gone to Isaiah

693
00:47:19,600 –> 00:47:21,100
chapter 5.
I know you’ve done that.

694
00:47:21,100 –> 00:47:23,500
I trouble.
You say it tight.

695
00:47:23,500 –> 00:47:24,900
I can’t keep up with the
audience.

696
00:47:24,900 –> 00:47:29,000
That’s my problem.
Isaiah 5, you’ve been taking

697
00:47:29,000 –> 00:47:35,800
off.
You remember, Isaiah fi, let me

698
00:47:35,800 –> 00:47:39,900
sing for my well-beloved, a song
of my beloved touching his

699
00:47:39,900 –> 00:47:47,200
Vineyard.
My well-beloved had a Vineyard

700
00:47:47,200 –> 00:47:51,900
in a very fruitful Hill.
And he made a trench about it in

701
00:47:51,900 –> 00:47:55,200
gathered at the stones that are
implanted it with the choices.

702
00:47:55,300 –> 00:47:59,200
Fine.
And built a tower in the midst

703
00:47:59,200 –> 00:48:01,200
of it and also huge out of wine
press.

704
00:48:01,200 –> 00:48:06,800
They’re in and he looked but it
shall bring forth grapes and it

705
00:48:06,800 –> 00:48:16,300
brought forth wild grapes.
You looked and it was balanced.

706
00:48:17,400 –> 00:48:24,800
What was he hoping to find?
Weathers 7 tells us what he was

707
00:48:24,800 –> 00:48:45,000
hoping to find.
Well, verse 7 tells us what he

708
00:48:45,000 –> 00:48:49,500
was hoping to find for the
vineyard of the Lord of hosts is

709
00:48:49,500 –> 00:48:52,500
the house of Israel and the men
of Judah.

710
00:48:52,500 –> 00:48:58,300
His Pleasant plant and he looked
for judgment and behold,

711
00:48:58,800 –> 00:49:05,400
oppression, and you look for
righteousness, but behold an

712
00:49:05,400 –> 00:49:11,500
empty cry.
He was looking for judgement

713
00:49:12,300 –> 00:49:18,100
when it says judgment.
Behold oppression.

714
00:49:19,300 –> 00:49:23,400
Look for righteousness and
behold the cry judgment is

715
00:49:23,400 –> 00:49:29,400
government, which is true and
righteous and just and

716
00:49:29,400 –> 00:49:34,500
righteousness is Holiness, which
is pure and undefiled

717
00:49:34,500 –> 00:49:38,800
uncompassionate.
And when the king said I am the

718
00:49:38,800 –> 00:49:43,800
vine that true, he meant that,
what once was look for and was

719
00:49:43,800 –> 00:49:49,500
found wanting had come at last
to Israel. the men threw him the

720
00:49:49,500 –> 00:49:54,400
things, which the What did he
call it?

721
00:49:54,400 –> 00:49:58,800
The choicest vine.
Verse to the choicest, vine had

722
00:49:58,800 –> 00:50:02,400
been planted in Israel.
I am the vine, the true.

723
00:50:02,700 –> 00:50:07,100
He meant that that fruit which
God had sought at last.

724
00:50:07,100 –> 00:50:10,700
Tom threw him.
There was to be judgment, and

725
00:50:10,700 –> 00:50:13,900
righteousness, and they were
coming into the world judgment,

726
00:50:13,900 –> 00:50:18,300
which was true and righteous and
just righteousness, which was

727
00:50:18,300 –> 00:50:21,500
holy pure, undefiled and
compassionate.

728
00:50:21,900 –> 00:50:24,200
Now that is the fruit bearing.
Airing of the vine.

729
00:50:24,200 –> 00:50:31,900
And he said, I am the vine and
ye are what did he call it?

730
00:50:31,900 –> 00:50:36,300
The choicest vine.
Verse to the choicest vine have

731
00:50:36,300 –> 00:50:39,900
been planted in Israel.
I am the find the truth.

732
00:50:40,100 –> 00:50:45,000
He meant that that fruit which
God had sought at last to come

733
00:50:45,600 –> 00:50:48,100
through him.
There was to be judgment and

734
00:50:48,100 –> 00:50:51,400
righteousness, and they were
coming into the world judgment,

735
00:50:51,400 –> 00:50:55,600
which was true and righteous and
just righteousness, which was

736
00:50:55,600 –> 00:50:58,900
holy pure, undefiled and
compassionate.

737
00:50:59,200 –> 00:51:01,400
Now that is the fruit bat.
Of the vine.

738
00:51:01,400 –> 00:51:05,200
He said, I am the vine and ye
are the branches.

739
00:51:06,200 –> 00:51:11,100
And he is saying to us.
And may God help us to realize

740
00:51:11,100 –> 00:51:17,400
it for our souls sake.
He was saying to us as he was so

741
00:51:17,400 –> 00:51:22,800
his friends are called to be
somehow by his friends.

742
00:51:23,000 –> 00:51:27,100
The value of his friendship is
to be manifested in the world.

743
00:51:28,100 –> 00:51:31,000
They are the Great Master
principles of the kingdom of

744
00:51:31,000 –> 00:51:35,600
God, truth, and righteousness.
And through the fellowship of

745
00:51:35,600 –> 00:51:39,800
those who are redeemed through
the house of God, through the

746
00:51:39,800 –> 00:51:44,200
incorporation of those who are
newborn through the Ecclesia of

747
00:51:44,200 –> 00:51:48,100
Christ in the world, the Great
Master principles of the kingdom

748
00:51:48,100 –> 00:51:53,100
of God, are to be revealed among
men and proclaimed among men

749
00:51:53,300 –> 00:51:57,400
because soon-coming is that
Kingdom.

750
00:51:57,900 –> 00:52:01,600
Ye are a city he said set on a
hill and to it.

751
00:52:01,600 –> 00:52:05,100
You see man you are seeking
sucker and salvation and

752
00:52:05,100 –> 00:52:08,400
Sanctuary.
They come to that City seeking

753
00:52:08,400 –> 00:52:11,300
it and within its Fellowship
that is or that ought to be

754
00:52:11,300 –> 00:52:15,300
truth and compassion that ought
to be warmth and love its

755
00:52:15,300 –> 00:52:19,400
citizens as those who are
impulse by a master passion and

756
00:52:19,400 –> 00:52:21,900
their Master passion is to
reveal the person.

757
00:52:22,100 –> 00:52:28,700
The Shining Light, the word made
flesh the vine, the true You are

758
00:52:28,700 –> 00:52:31,400
the branches.
I am the Vine.

759
00:52:32,600 –> 00:52:35,300
And when you pass into the New
Testament conception of

760
00:52:35,300 –> 00:52:39,700
Fellowship, I mean, real
Fellowship, when you try to look

761
00:52:39,700 –> 00:52:43,100
at the New Testament conception
of Fellowship, burn sisters, and

762
00:52:43,100 –> 00:52:46,900
when you breathe it for wear and
spacious atmosphere, as it were,

763
00:52:47,600 –> 00:52:52,400
you know, some open /, have to
say that sometimes, the

764
00:52:52,400 –> 00:52:55,000
triviality is Rich seem to
divide us.

765
00:52:55,000 –> 00:53:00,100
Do really become poor tree when
you think of what True

766
00:53:00,100 –> 00:53:04,000
Fellowship, really means.
The fruit of the branches is the

767
00:53:04,000 –> 00:53:06,700
revelation of the internal life
of the line.

768
00:53:06,700 –> 00:53:11,000
That’s the real issue.
There is a person, the world

769
00:53:11,000 –> 00:53:13,600
needs to see.
I think you would have to

770
00:53:13,600 –> 00:53:17,000
concede that.
I know it’s dark outside.

771
00:53:17,000 –> 00:53:21,100
I know that, but there is a
person, the world needs to see

772
00:53:21,300 –> 00:53:25,400
and the question therefore,
which really comes to us is are

773
00:53:25,400 –> 00:53:29,800
we showing him to the little
world in which we are moving in

774
00:53:29,800 –> 00:53:33,500
our society outside?
The waters are dark and stone

775
00:53:33,500 –> 00:53:36,500
dust and the Mariners such as
they are.

776
00:53:36,500 –> 00:53:40,300
They need a light?
Are we Illuminating the way in

777
00:53:40,300 –> 00:53:42,200
the little world in which we
move?

778
00:53:42,900 –> 00:53:45,200
That’s what he meant.
Ye are the salt of the earth you

779
00:53:45,200 –> 00:53:49,100
are the light of the world is
that Are we in some sense,

780
00:53:49,100 –> 00:53:53,400
halting the spread of corruption
has the accepting influence of

781
00:53:53,400 –> 00:53:56,300
her life in the truth.
Had its effect in the little

782
00:53:56,300 –> 00:54:01,800
world, in which we move.
You see outside there is a

783
00:54:01,800 –> 00:54:03,800
famine of hearing the word of
God.

784
00:54:04,200 –> 00:54:06,300
Men are dying outside.
I know.

785
00:54:08,500 –> 00:54:13,200
But are you finding and feeding
somebody just a few here and

786
00:54:13,200 –> 00:54:17,900
there, I know that, but are you
finding and feeding somebody?

787
00:54:18,600 –> 00:54:21,700
Because you are his friends, you
know, the method of his fruit

788
00:54:21,700 –> 00:54:24,500
bearing?
There’s a great New Testament

789
00:54:24,500 –> 00:54:27,600
word will which no doubt you
will be familiar.

790
00:54:27,600 –> 00:54:34,000
Which is often is often spoken
in its in its first film, I

791
00:54:34,000 –> 00:54:38,100
mean, in the Greek, the kenosis
expect, you’ve heard of that.

792
00:54:38,200 –> 00:54:40,800
Many times, the kind of sees the
self-emptying it’s in

793
00:54:40,800 –> 00:54:44,200
Philippians chapter 2, he
emptied himself and became

794
00:54:44,200 –> 00:54:47,500
obedient unto death.
That’s the kenosis, the

795
00:54:47,500 –> 00:54:49,900
Southampton.
It was essentially, it was done

796
00:54:49,900 –> 00:54:52,800
essentially for the sake of
others is where it was utterly

797
00:54:52,800 –> 00:54:55,300
remedial.
I know he benefited from his own

798
00:54:55,300 –> 00:54:58,300
sacrifice, don’t get me involved
in that argument.

799
00:54:58,300 –> 00:55:04,800
Now I know that. but it was
essentially remedial Throat is

800
00:55:04,800 –> 00:55:09,100
not that fruit, which is born
for selfish reasons, it’s not

801
00:55:09,100 –> 00:55:11,700
fair.
Own, spiritual selfishness is

802
00:55:11,700 –> 00:55:15,000
not for just for some blessing
upon ourselves to consume upon

803
00:55:15,000 –> 00:55:18,900
our own desires, even as
spiritual desires services, not

804
00:55:18,900 –> 00:55:20,800
rendered.
So that the big Harvest may be

805
00:55:20,800 –> 00:55:23,800
ours in the world to come.
That might be resolved.

806
00:55:23,800 –> 00:55:25,800
I don’t doubt that may be the
result.

807
00:55:25,900 –> 00:55:28,300
Certainly you may have a big
harvest in the world to come,

808
00:55:28,500 –> 00:55:33,600
but that is not the motive.
He went to discover the motive

809
00:55:33,900 –> 00:55:37,000
you If only to read carefully,
the seventh chapter of Judges,

810
00:55:37,000 –> 00:55:42,100
once more to read their of
10,000 men of Israel who under

811
00:55:42,100 –> 00:55:48,300
Gideon lapped at the Waterside,
and 9700 were sent home with

812
00:55:48,300 –> 00:55:56,500
men, all of them. 9700 drank to
satisfy themselves when they did

813
00:55:56,500 –> 00:55:59,800
it, they were forgetful in their
satisfaction for themselves of

814
00:55:59,800 –> 00:56:02,500
the Commonwealth.
They were forgetful of the

815
00:56:02,500 –> 00:56:05,200
common good and the need for
constant Readiness.

816
00:56:05,200 –> 00:56:06,600
That is to say in their
drinking.

817
00:56:06,600 –> 00:56:08,800
This is how I read it in their
drinking.

818
00:56:08,800 –> 00:56:12,500
They took unnecessary time over
necessary things and they were

819
00:56:12,500 –> 00:56:16,900
already in the act of their
drinking for the need and God

820
00:56:16,900 –> 00:56:20,100
sent them home and may God bless
them everyone and we, everyone

821
00:56:20,100 –> 00:56:24,200
be in his kingdom, but they were
not Judgment at that moment. 300

822
00:56:24,200 –> 00:56:27,600
lap to refresh themselves.
What they did it for one supreme

823
00:56:27,600 –> 00:56:30,000
motive that they would be ready
for the battle.

824
00:56:30,200 –> 00:56:34,100
They refresh themselves for the
sake of others, and they were in

825
00:56:34,100 –> 00:56:37,500
constant Readiness as they drank
they drank for the Commonwealth

826
00:56:37,500 –> 00:56:40,200
for the common good.
And so, it being refreshed, they

827
00:56:40,200 –> 00:56:42,700
could spend themselves in saving
their brethren.

828
00:56:45,100 –> 00:56:48,600
What a great victory over the
midianites, the fruit we bear is

829
00:56:48,600 –> 00:56:52,300
for the sake of others, and if
we are his fruit bailing

830
00:56:52,300 –> 00:56:56,700
friends, then that kenosis I
referred to as got in some way

831
00:56:56,700 –> 00:56:58,800
to be repeated to us for Love’s
sake.

832
00:56:58,800 –> 00:57:02,300
We do what we do.
The Apostle Paul said Christ

833
00:57:02,300 –> 00:57:05,900
liveth in me, meant the Life of
Christ was being repeated in his

834
00:57:05,900 –> 00:57:09,200
own life.
So the in proportion as we know

835
00:57:09,200 –> 00:57:12,100
what it is to have true
friendship with him.

836
00:57:12,100 –> 00:57:15,300
True Fellowship, bearing in
mind, the proposition, which

837
00:57:15,300 –> 00:57:18,400
began this meditation.
Then in a sense, we shall be

838
00:57:18,400 –> 00:57:22,500
able by God’s grace to Bear the
fruit that he is seeking.

839
00:57:22,800 –> 00:57:25,300
The only May mean, you know
let’s face it brother and

840
00:57:25,300 –> 00:57:27,700
sisters.
I spoke about the Yoke being

841
00:57:27,700 –> 00:57:32,500
easy and the burden being lidar.
Yes, indeed the burden is shared

842
00:57:32,500 –> 00:57:37,400
but it may well be that it may
mean sacrificing us.

843
00:57:37,600 –> 00:57:40,600
Instabilities.
If we mean business it may mean

844
00:57:40,600 –> 00:57:45,200
sacrificing our refinements and
our preferences, it may mean

845
00:57:45,200 –> 00:57:48,000
pocketing our pride and
confessing that perhaps may help

846
00:57:48,000 –> 00:57:51,600
us God we might have been wrong.
Perhaps up to now how about

847
00:57:51,600 –> 00:57:54,900
this?
All that it may mean going on

848
00:57:54,900 –> 00:58:00,300
when any sane person would say.
Man spare thyself it may mean

849
00:58:00,300 –> 00:58:03,700
putting what seems to be dead
seed into cold ground and having

850
00:58:03,700 –> 00:58:07,400
to wait a long time for the
emerald Sheen, over the Golden

851
00:58:07,500 –> 00:58:11,900
Footage of harvest.
It may mean getting closer to

852
00:58:12,400 –> 00:58:17,100
spoil Humanity if by God’s grace
out there somewhere.

853
00:58:17,100 –> 00:58:19,200
There is somebody yet to be
saved.

854
00:58:19,800 –> 00:58:22,700
It made me having infinite
patience with our Brethren and

855
00:58:22,700 –> 00:58:25,900
sisters will gods of the
children with their fables, and

856
00:58:25,900 –> 00:58:30,400
their failings, and their ways.
And it may mean shedding the

857
00:58:30,400 –> 00:58:33,700
things perhaps, which hitherto
will justify with plausible

858
00:58:33,700 –> 00:58:37,300
arguments, but which in our
deepest heart, we know we ought

859
00:58:37,300 –> 00:58:41,300
to If you donate repudiate and
it may mean being utterly loyal

860
00:58:41,300 –> 00:58:45,100
to the truth when in this place
all that, it is being assaulted

861
00:58:45,100 –> 00:58:48,400
and assailed and we have to
stand right Rock in its defense

862
00:58:48,700 –> 00:58:52,200
and it may mean being faithful
at all when faith in other

863
00:58:52,200 –> 00:58:55,300
people is growing demon When
Love is waxing cold.

864
00:58:57,800 –> 00:59:00,700
But nevertheless, that’s what it
may mean.

865
00:59:01,500 –> 00:59:05,900
But I think we could go away
from this house tonight.

866
00:59:05,900 –> 00:59:08,800
Pondering Fellowship.
We could go away with humble

867
00:59:08,800 –> 00:59:11,400
confidence.
Nevertheless, although it may

868
00:59:11,400 –> 00:59:15,300
mean all those things and in a
sense that what was a terrible,

869
00:59:15,300 –> 00:59:18,100
lisp brother president, was it?
Not even a, don’t us.

870
00:59:18,300 –> 00:59:21,300
It may don’t us, but I think we
may go away with humble

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00:59:21,300 –> 00:59:25,400
confidence because we can notice
Jesus said his friends were to

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00:59:25,400 –> 00:59:28,700
ask the father and his name for
the things which will enable

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00:59:28,700 –> 00:59:31,900
them to be fruit bearers.
Because they are his friends

874
00:59:32,700 –> 00:59:35,400
that is drawing from the vine
the forces which make for

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00:59:35,400 –> 00:59:39,900
Fruitful fruitfulness and he
wouldn’t deceive his friends

876
00:59:39,900 –> 00:59:44,000
now, Woody, let’s be honest, if
it isn’t true that we’ve been

877
00:59:44,000 –> 00:59:45,800
grossly deceived, if it isn’t
true.

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00:59:45,800 –> 00:59:49,400
Some part of that Bible is false
but we’ve come tonight under the

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00:59:49,400 –> 00:59:52,500
Mystic influence of the truth
because we believe in our

880
00:59:52,500 –> 00:59:56,200
deepest heart, he was telling us
the truth and he would Not

881
00:59:56,200 –> 00:59:58,900
deceive his friends.
Fruit bearing is not magic.

882
00:59:59,100 –> 01:00:01,600
It presupposes.
Life it indicates, Grove it

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01:00:01,600 –> 01:00:04,500
demands, cultivation.
It comes essentially from the

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01:00:04,500 –> 01:00:08,100
word of God, that is no great,
shaft of light from Heaven, into

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01:00:08,100 –> 01:00:11,900
your heart, or mine, apart from
this, holy word of God.

886
01:00:12,600 –> 01:00:16,300
It comes from our understanding
and the conviction of that the

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01:00:16,300 –> 01:00:20,100
changing of our Consciousness.
So that we become fruitful

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01:00:20,100 –> 01:00:21,600
people.
It comes from Commerce with

889
01:00:21,600 –> 01:00:23,100
having through the power of
prayer.

890
01:00:23,300 –> 01:00:25,800
It comes from The Fellowship of
the Ecclesia.

891
01:00:26,100 –> 01:00:28,800
And the effect of the brothers
and sisters Upon Our Lives.

892
01:00:28,800 –> 01:00:32,700
All these things bring forces to
Bear upon us, which make us

893
01:00:32,700 –> 01:00:37,200
fruitful the tender gracious
worth of the vinedresser upon

894
01:00:37,200 –> 01:00:39,900
such as are his friends and
always his servants.

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01:00:40,500 –> 01:00:45,300
That is upon those who have with
him, all things common and with

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01:00:45,300 –> 01:00:47,600
him, not only with him but with
themselves.

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01:00:49,700 –> 01:00:52,800
I’ve only two little references,
cannot go on for three minutes

898
01:00:53,200 –> 01:00:57,500
to little references to leave
you with which may interest.

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01:00:57,500 –> 01:01:02,800
You, you can think about them.
We’re thinking about not doing

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01:01:02,800 –> 01:01:08,200
things fruitfully for Love’s
sake, for the sake of others.

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01:01:09,000 –> 01:01:11,400
I’m going to take you back a
long way now to the tenth

902
01:01:11,400 –> 01:01:17,200
chapter of numbers, I wonder if
you’ve ever pondered this man

903
01:01:17,200 –> 01:01:25,000
before I expect you have but of
course you have how bad?

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01:01:28,900 –> 01:01:34,300
How bad?
Numbers Kent.

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01:01:36,900 –> 01:01:42,700
An interesting case.
Verse 29.

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01:01:45,700 –> 01:01:49,300
And Moses said unto her o baba,
some of who L the midianite,

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01:01:49,300 –> 01:01:53,800
Moses father-in-law, we are
junior until the place of which

908
01:01:53,800 –> 01:01:56,200
the Lord said, I will give it to
you.

909
01:01:57,400 –> 01:02:00,500
Come there with us and we will
do the good for the Lord hath

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01:02:00,500 –> 01:02:02,300
spoken.
Good concerning Israel.

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01:02:04,400 –> 01:02:09,400
And ho, Bob said unto Moses, I
will not go, but I will depart

912
01:02:09,400 –> 01:02:16,200
to my own land and to my kindred
Moses said, leave us not.

913
01:02:16,200 –> 01:02:20,400
I pray thee for as much as thou,
knowest, how we are to encamp in

914
01:02:20,400 –> 01:02:24,900
the wilderness and thou shalt be
to us instead of eyes and it’s

915
01:02:24,900 –> 01:02:27,200
will be, if I go with us, J, it
will be that.

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01:02:27,500 –> 01:02:30,300
What, Good’s, wherever the Lord
shall do unto us the same, will

917
01:02:30,300 –> 01:02:32,800
he do unto thee?
And they set forward from the

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01:02:32,800 –> 01:02:36,300
Mount of the Lord, 3j’s Day’s
Journey, Etc.

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01:02:36,600 –> 01:02:40,600
And that’s an interesting case,
Moses said to her by brocco Bob

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01:02:40,600 –> 01:02:42,500
go with us and we will do thee
good.

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01:02:43,100 –> 01:02:46,400
We will do thee good.
I’m old.

922
01:02:46,500 –> 01:02:48,400
How bad was?
We’ve met?

923
01:02:48,400 –> 01:02:50,600
Who had said something we
haven’t?

924
01:02:50,600 –> 01:02:55,800
We met hold up since those
independent characters and he

925
01:02:55,800 –> 01:02:59,100
was one of those, an independent
character and he replied to

926
01:02:59,100 –> 01:03:00,900
Moses in effect.
No, thanks of Moses.

927
01:03:01,400 –> 01:03:04,200
I do not care to go with you.
I will do my own way.

928
01:03:06,300 –> 01:03:10,400
And then those, he said, hello,
Bob, come with us and thou shalt

929
01:03:10,400 –> 01:03:13,700
be to us instead of eyes.
Now, here’s an interesting

930
01:03:13,700 –> 01:03:18,200
thing, how bad would not go in
response to the excitation that

931
01:03:18,200 –> 01:03:21,800
it would be to his own advantage
to go or be for his own benefit.

932
01:03:22,100 –> 01:03:25,100
But when he realized that his
going would be for the benefit

933
01:03:25,100 –> 01:03:29,300
of others that is for the common
good for the Commonwealth.

934
01:03:29,600 –> 01:03:34,500
When he realized that he can do
good for some of the Soul, he

935
01:03:34,500 –> 01:03:43,300
went and did his duty.
And then the last thing I wanted

936
01:03:43,300 –> 01:03:45,400
to say to you is this and I
promise you.

937
01:03:45,400 –> 01:03:53,600
It is the last We noticed
already from verses 15 and 16

938
01:03:53,600 –> 01:03:57,400
that the final and the ultimate
purpose of this friendship is

939
01:03:57,400 –> 01:04:05,500
flute Bay and it means that the
Kings next of kin in a sense,

940
01:04:05,800 –> 01:04:10,200
take on the identity of the
Kings, man, we’ve ever said this

941
01:04:10,200 –> 01:04:13,500
already.
Paul said Christ, liveth in me,

942
01:04:13,500 –> 01:04:18,800
means that, in some sense Paul
was taking on the life and the

943
01:04:19,100 –> 01:04:22,200
Entity of of his Lord and his
master and his King.

944
01:04:22,700 –> 01:04:25,900
And I say it means therefore
that his next of kin take on the

945
01:04:25,900 –> 01:04:29,900
identity of the king’s man, the
fruit bearing friends of Jesus

946
01:04:29,900 –> 01:04:34,500
become like him.
It means that the Life of Christ

947
01:04:34,500 –> 01:04:36,900
in some senses being repeated in
them.

948
01:04:39,200 –> 01:04:40,800
I just want to tell you a little
story.

949
01:04:40,800 –> 01:04:46,200
That’s all I heard it.
Not long ago about a lady of

950
01:04:46,200 –> 01:04:52,700
went This won’t impinge on any
of the truth or went to find

951
01:04:52,700 –> 01:04:56,300
anybody.
I hope the lady went into a far

952
01:04:56,300 –> 01:05:00,000
country where a well educated,
but they didn’t know anything

953
01:05:00,000 –> 01:05:06,800
about this word of God.
Educated people able to read but

954
01:05:06,800 –> 01:05:11,400
they didn’t know anything about
this and she dealt with them and

955
01:05:11,400 –> 01:05:14,600
wound up.
She took out her Bible in the

956
01:05:14,600 –> 01:05:19,200
little school where she was, she
took out their Bible in their

957
01:05:19,200 –> 01:05:25,600
language and read the young to
read the gospel narrative.

958
01:05:26,200 –> 01:05:31,400
And as she read the on, and on
the character and the nature and

959
01:05:31,400 –> 01:05:35,100
lie.
The Life of Christ emerge from

960
01:05:35,100 –> 01:05:41,600
the pages.
His compassion is justice.

961
01:05:43,000 –> 01:05:49,800
His kindness, the money was
emerged as she read and there

962
01:05:49,800 –> 01:05:55,400
was one little girl in the group
who was excited and got more and

963
01:05:55,400 –> 01:05:57,500
more excited.
She couldn’t keep still until

964
01:05:57,500 –> 01:06:00,900
the lady stopped her reading and
said, Mary, what is the matter

965
01:06:00,900 –> 01:06:04,700
with you?
And she said, nice.

966
01:06:05,800 –> 01:06:08,200
I know that man of whom you
speak.

967
01:06:09,900 –> 01:06:32,600
He lives in a street.
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01:06:32,600 –> 01:06:34,300
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01:06:34,300 –> 01:06:36,900
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