299: Len Richardson – Citizens of the Kingdom

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Hi everyone.
This is Jason Hensley, and this

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week we are going to be
listening to a class by Brother

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Len Richardson given at the
Oxford Bible Conference in 1980.

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That’s kind of fun.
It’s a little bit of a

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throwback, and this is a class
that was suggested to us based

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off the fact that it’s just an
incredibly good beginning to a

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series on the Sermon on the
Mount.

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What I really liked about this
class is he emphasizes the fact

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that citizenship in the Kingdom
of God, it’s all about who we

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are.
Sometimes I think we focus on

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other things like the things you
own or the things you know, or

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sometimes the people you know.
And we forget that citizenship

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is really about who we become
what, what kind of people are

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we?
And I think that Brother Len

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brings that out very powerfully.
Now, additionally, I love the

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way that he ends this class
because he really focuses on

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what it means to be salt and
what it means to be light.

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Preaching is something that
isn’t necessarily in vogue.

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And so it’s good to just get
this reminder that we need to be

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out there.
We want to show people that

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we’re different, and why are we
different?

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We’re different because we have
this hope of the Kingdom of God.

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We know, and we love the Lord
Jesus Christ.

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So I hope that you enjoy
listening to this class.

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I think that you will find it
stimulating.

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It will give you a lot to think
about and maybe challenge some

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of the thoughts that you’ve had
in the past.

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So here we go.
This is Brother Len Richardson,

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1980 Oxford Bible Conference
class #1 called Citizens of the

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Kingdom.
When Jack Balchion said he’d

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rather listen to Len Richardson
and look at him, he didn’t know

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what Len Richardson’s voice was
going to be like.

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Let me hasten to assure you that
there’s nothing wrong with my

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voice.
It’s your hearing.

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I don’t want you to worry about
me, because I should probably be

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like this all the week.
I’ve got South Africa bug and

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it’s gone to my larynx at the
moment.

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It moves about me from place to
place and with God’s help, up to

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now, I’ve managed to do
everything that’s been asked of

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me and I believe that He will
help me to do what I’ve got to

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do.
And it may even help you to

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concentrate rather on the
message than the man, if you

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don’t have a melodious voice
like Leslie Johnson’s talking to

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you and have to put up with that
croaky fellow from Hereford.

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But I don’t want you to be all
the time thinking what’s the

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matter with the man?
You know, there’s nothing wrong,

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actually, it’s just a larynx
trouble, and you’ll be

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interested to know that it does
gradually improve as a rule, as

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I go on, after the 1st 2 1/2
hours, it’s not too bad.

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Our reading is from Matthew’s
Gospel chapter 5, the 1st 16

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verses.
We quite often hear it said,

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brethren and sisters, my
brethren, speaking on the Gospel

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of the Kingdom of God, that
Jesus went about everywhere

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preaching the Kingdom of God as
though he went about giving

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Christadelphian lectures on the
Kingdom of God.

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And when we come to read the
Gospels, we’re surprised

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sometimes to find that he didn’t
seem to say the same kind of

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things that we do in our
lectures about the Kingdom of

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God.
That is to say, when we are

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preaching the Kingdom of God, we
are at pain to talk about the

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promises to Abraham and the
covenant to David and how it

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will be fulfilled in what we
call quite rightly, a divine

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political Kingdom soon to be
established from the earth.

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But when we read the Gospels and
we find Jesus preaching the

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Kingdom of God, he doesn’t seem
to deal with those aspects of

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it.
He seems to be more concerned

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with human behaviour.
He speaks of the Kingdom of God

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in a a different sense to this.
Now of course it is perfectly

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correct to say that the Kingdom
of God is a divine political

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Kingdom.
It may even be correct as they

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soon to be established on the
earth, though the soon is not

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our province to say.
But it seems probable that it

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will soon be established on the
earth.

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But when Jesus preached the
Kingdom of God, all this was

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underlying his message.
This was something that was

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there at the background of it.
The Jews themselves perfectly

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understood the divine political
Kingdom aspect of it.

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That was all they did think it
was, and they were expecting a

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great Messiah to arise who would
establish His Kingdom, and they

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would have the preeminent places
in it, and their enemies would

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be trodden on their feet.
So when Jesus came preaching the

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Kingdom of God, his
understanding of the Kingdom in

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its political sense must be read
into what he said.

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But what he was more concerned
with was what I’ve called in my

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title, the citizens of the
Kingdom, the kind of people God

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wanted for his Kingdom.
In a sense, he was saying to his

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compatriot Jews, it’s all very
well to be so wrapped up in the

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idea of the establishment of
Israel as the Kingdom of God and

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the restoration of the throne of
David.

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But unless you change your ways,
you won’t be there except you be

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converted, he said, and become
as little children.

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You cannot see the Kingdom of
God except you receive the

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Kingdom of God.
Notice this way in which he uses

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the term except you receive the
Kingdom of God as a little

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child, you shall in no wise
enter there into there is this

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idea of receiving thee
sovereignty of God now in this

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life becoming subjects of God
and of God’s Kingdom, beginning

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to live in a sense, beginning to
live in the very spirit of the

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Kingdom now in order that you
might inherit it.

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Then to live like the skies in
Pharisees you do knew perfectly

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well all about the covenants to
Abraham and David, and expected

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that it was all being kept up in
store for them was to receive

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the rebuke of Jesus.
You will see Abraham, Isaac and

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Jacob in the Kingdom of God and
you yourself thrust out unless

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you change your ways.
John the Baptist, the great

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preacher.
There has never been a greater

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than John the Baptist.
The law and the prophet were

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until John.
Since then the Kingdom of God is

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preached and all men press into
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Here was the proclamation of the
Kingdom of God in a moral sense,

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to be received now by men and
women prepared to become

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citizens of the future Kingdom
to be established.

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So when he wanted to give
descriptions of the Kingdom of

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God, he didn’t in fact go back
and start talking as we do about

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the abolition of war and the
doing of way of sickness.

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And the eyes of the blind should
be opened, and the ears of the

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deaf shall be under.
Oh, that is perfectly true.

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It’s all part of the
proclamation of the message.

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But when Jesus said, And what is
the Kingdom of heaven like?

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And with what comparison shall
we compare it?

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Isn’t it like a man seeking
goodly pearls, who, when he has

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found one Pearl of great prize,
going and selling all that he

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had that he might possess it?
Or a man who finds treasure hid

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in a field?
Or a woman who hides how many

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measures of leaven in three
measures of flour.

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I’ve forgotten the my computer’s
not working.

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But you know the idea.
This was what Jesus was

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concerned with, the quality of
life of people called to the

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Kingdom, the kind of people God
was looking for, for his

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Kingdom.
That’s what Jesus was concerned

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with.
And all the way through the

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Gospels, all the way through the
Gospels, this is what the

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preaching of Jesus about the
Kingdom of God was.

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I know, of course, when he spoke
to his disciples privately on

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the Mount of Olives, he gave a
more detailed, what we might

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call political interpretation of
of what was to take place.

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But when He was preaching to the
people, His emphasis all the

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time was on the quality of its
citizens, the kind of people God

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was looking for to be heirs of
the Kingdom when at last it

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should be established upon the
earth.

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And when He’s thinking of His
second coming in order that the

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Son of Man in the fullness of
time might sit on the throne of

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His glory again, it’s always the
preparation of the hearts of His

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disciples to be ready against
that day.

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The servant serving their master
in his absence, Those who did

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what they could for his brethren
while he was away from them.

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These are the principles of the
Kingdom that Jesus preached

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because He was concerned that
people should not just have a

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surface understanding of the
divine political Kingdom, the

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politics of it, as it were the
property of it, if you like, but

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that they should have an
understanding of the moral

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content of those who were to be
heirs of the Kingdom of God.

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So the manifesto of the King I
called it was the Sermon on the

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Mount, almost certainly early in
his ministry, when if it were

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proclaimed two men and women
everywhere into the Jews,

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especially the terms on which
God would be prepared to receive

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them into his Kingdom at last,
the kind of people God was

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looking for as citizens of the
Kingdom.

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And the Beatitudes, which we’ve
just read in the future from

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Matthew, are really a
description of a man of God.

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This is the kind of person that
God is looking for and preparing

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for his alternate Kingdom, the
beatitudes, the blessings.

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Blessed are the poor in spirit,
blessed are the pure in heart,

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and so on them all together.
And you have a portrait of

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Jesus, the King of the Kingdom.
Here he is.

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This is what the Kingdom of God
is all about.

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When God’s glory, God’s will, is
established on earth over all

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the world, these kind of people
will be there to live with Jesus

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everlastingly in his eternal
Kingdom.

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Not only a portrait of Jesus, of
course, but a portrait of the

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complete Christian character as
well, living in the world but

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not belonging to it.
I want to begin, then, by

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looking at these a little more
closely.

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Of course, we can’t, in what’s
left of the time, go into each

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one in detail, but I want to
look at them a little more

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closely now.
I want you to notice how

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unnatural these qualities are.
Christianity is an unnatural

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religion.
That is to say, there’s nobody

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naturally like this.
You must be born again, Jesus

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said.
You’re not born like this.

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You may be born with a quiet
disposition.

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There are many people with a
much quieter, quieter

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disposition than Len Richardson.
There are a lot of people, quite

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a lot of our brothers and
sisters who are nice, quiet,

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humble people.
They’re not, you know, not

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naturally.
Nobody’s naturally humble.

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You know that no one is
naturally humble.

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They may be naturally a little
bit timid, or they may be

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naturally a little less
aggressive.

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Their genes may have been
ordered in their structure a

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little differently to mine, so
that they’re less aggressive

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than I am and and and more ready
to give way than some of us are.

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But humility is a spiritual
quality.

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You must be born again to these
things.

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These are qualities that Jesus
says belong to discipleship, and

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they can only be produced by the
work of the Spirit in our lives.

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William Paley in his famous
book, You May.

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I don’t know whether you do
remember.

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Let’s start that sentence again.
William Paley wrote a book which

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used to be famous in
Christadelphian.

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So it was, even though it wasn’t
written by a Christadelphian and

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that was some testimonial for it
and it was called Evidences of

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Christianity.
Some of the older brethren here

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are nodding their heads because
they read it.

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How many of you have read it?
Hands up those who have read it,

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not many.
Well, I’ll tell you what it was

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all about.
It was a very good book.

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And if you get the chance to,
sorry, Lesnar, yes, two points.

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If you get the chance to pick it
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It’s very good.
And it is, to me, one of the

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classic defences of the
Scriptures and of the Christian

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position.
It’s called paled evidences of

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the truth of the Christian
religion, and one of his

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evidences is that the qualities
inculcated by Jesus Christ are

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so unnatural, and that means to
say they’ve come from heaven,

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they belong to God, they are
divine qualities.

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He divides virtue into two.
He says there are what are

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called what he calls heroic
virtues, and there are the

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patient virtues and the two
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No heroic virtues.
Strength, patriotism,

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selflessness, courage, these
sorts of things are natural

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qualities.
There are very great men in the

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world.
There are very great people who

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have done great things, things
that make us almost feel ashamed

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of ourselves because they they
are so great.

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But they’re only natural.
They are natural qualities.

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Some men are naturally more
courageous than others and they

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do great things and they get
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marketplace.
These are the natural things you

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say, the heroic qualities, but
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He says these are the mark of
divinity in the Bible and in the

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Christian brain because Jesus
Christ talks about meekness,

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purity of heart, humbleness of
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Now he says these are not things
that naturally you think are

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important.
We admire naturally the go

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getters, the great men who do
great things.

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Jesus says let it are the poor
in spirit, for theirs is the

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Kingdom of heaven.
Of course he doesn’t mean poor

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spirited, He means those who are
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David is an example in the 51st
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We can’t look at it now, but you
remember it when he pleaded with

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God to forgive him for his sin.
He was so abased he hated him

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though he despised himself.
He was poor in spirit, broken in

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heart over his sins.
Jesus says that’s the man God

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looking for.
The man, the woman who is humble

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enough to recognise their
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Great man David was courageous,
but his greatness in God’s sight

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was a humble and the contrite
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O God, thou wilt not despise.
Blessed obey that more.

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There’s no special blessing in
being bereaved of your loved

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ones and and weeping for their
laughs.

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It’s not that kind of mourning.
Jesus thinking of sober people,

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people who mourn for their sins
and perhaps for the sins of

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others.
There’s so much to mourn about

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in our world.
The name of God being despised

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is something to mourn about.
Man in humanity, to man the vast

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oceans of suffering in the world
is something to mourn about.

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My own sin is something to mourn
about.

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Christianity is a joyous
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There’s a tendency for men to
make it into a rather jolly

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thing.
You know, as long as you’re all

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happy and jolly, you’re a good
chap.

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That means a good Christian.
But Christianity isn’t jolly.

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In fact, it’s rather sad.
It looks on the reality of

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things, and it’s those that
mourn, Jesus says, who are truly

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blessed.
Of course, he doesn’t mean

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leaving it at mourning, wringing
your hands and feeling

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desperately broken, but seeing
the answer to our mourning.

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Weeping may endure in the
evening, the psalmist said, but

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joy cometh in the morning as
sure as day follows night.

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Those who mourn over the right
things, those whose hearts are

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quiet and sober before God in
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understanding of their own
frailty and sinfulness, and of

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God’s grace and mercy in Jesus
Christ, will be made happy in

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the morning.
And that is the blessing that he

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attaches to those that mourn.
The meek, not the weak.

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Jesus was meek, but he was never
weak.

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I like to think of this as being
the non competitive.

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Now you think about that, try to
save yourself.

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What is meekness?
What is meekness?

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Moses was meek, one of the one
of the the meekest man that ever

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lived after his time anyway.
What a mighty man he was.

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He wasn’t weak.
I think the meek man is non

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competitive and we live in a
competitive world.

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If we’re on this, you know we’re
all competing all the time, at

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least if you’re not careful.
Trying to be well thought of,

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trying to make a name, really,
Oz, trying to get somewhere,

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trying to be recognized.
Jesus is not like that at all.

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Not like that.
Self effacement.

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You’re not in the race.
You’re not trying to glorify

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yourself.
You’re not trying to promote an

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image.
You haven’t gotten the image to

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promote the make those who want
God to have all the glory, those

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who who are prepared to go where
he wants to go and do what he

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wants them to do, but not to get
anything out of it for

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themselves.
They’re not in the competition

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with other people.
They’re just trying to please

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God.
You shall find race for your

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souls.
Jesus said Look at me, look at

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me, Jesus said.
I am meek and lowly of heart.

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Follow my example.
Yoke yourselves up with me and

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you shall find rest.
Now, do you know, brothers and

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sisters, I am absolutely
convinced, absolutely convinced

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that this is something we are
all desperately wanting in life.

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Rest for our souls to be at
peace with God, to be at peace

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with our neighbour, to be at
peace with ourselves.

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Jesus as you can have it, but
you can only have it my way.

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Come unto Me, all you who are
competitive, all you that labour

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and the heavy laden.
Come unto me and I will give you

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rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn

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of Me, for I am meek and lowly
of heart, and you’ll find it.

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You’ll find this elusive thing
you’ve been looking for all your

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life, and you recognized it or
not.

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Peace I give unto you, My peace.
Rest for your souls.

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Hungry and bursting after
righteousness.

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That’s the crunch, isn’t it?
Oh, I think this is wonderful.

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Blessed are those who hunger and
thirst after righteousness.

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You really mean what do you
want?

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The other life?
What are you trying to get?

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Where are you going?
What’s life all about as far as

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you’re concerned?
It’s one thing to be a

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Christadelphian.
It’s one thing to what we call

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understand the truth and be
baptized and go to all the

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meetings.
But it’s a different thing to

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hunger and rest after
righteousness.

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I know, I know brethren and
sisters, that my hunger and

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bursting half the time 3/4 of
the time isn’t really the

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righteousness I want So many
things, old as I am, I have to

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say that now.
So many things you hunger for,

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look forward to enjoy.
Jesus says righteousness.

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Those who hunger and thirst for
righteousness.

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Now do you?
Do you really love it so much,

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long for it, so much that you
can really describe it as

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hungering and thirsting for it?
Jesus did thou has loved

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righteousness and hated
iniquity.

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Therefore God, even thy God,
hath anointed me with the oil of

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gladness above thy fellows.
That’s why he’s going to be the

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king of this everlasting
Kingdom.

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That’s why the Lord has highly
exalted him and given him a name

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above every name, because he who
is to judge the world in

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righteousness and establish
God’s will upon the earth over

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all nations, first receive God’s
will into his own life and let

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God be king over all his
desires.

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He loved righteousness and hated
iniquity, and that qualified him

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to be the head of the Kingdom of
God.

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If you want to be there, Jesus
says you’ve got to learn it.

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You’ve got to learn to love the
things that the Kingdom of God

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stands for.
Man cannot live by bread alone,

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but by every word of God, the
merciful.

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Blessed are the merciful.
How shall we hope for mercy?

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Giving none?
Portia said to Shylock, didn’t

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she?
How shall we hope, woman?

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Where would you?
If justice be thy, please

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consider this, that in the
course of justice none of us

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should seek salvation.
We do pray for mercy in that

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same prayer that teaches all to
render the deeds of mercy.

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It means being kind, isn’t it?
That’s all kind, I think.

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Being merciful in this state,
being being kind.

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Kind to other people, kind about
other people, kind in your

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judgements of other people.
You want to receive mercy from

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the Lord, then being merciful to
others, give, and it shall be

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given unto you.
Jesus said good measure.

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Pressed down, shaken together,
and running over shall men pour

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into your bosom.
He meant justice.

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The merciful shall obtain mercy
even in this life.

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It’s true, you know, the
critical carping spirit is

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usually unhappy and the generous
man received generously from

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others.
Blessed are the merciful.

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Goodbye Ruth and Tom, safe
journey.

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Blessed are the merciful.
Now notice this, there’s a

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present blessing in all these
things.

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It’s a present tense blessing,
not just something reserved for

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the future.
One day, if you grit your teeth

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and carry on, one day you’ll get
blessings.

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That’s not it, he said.
Now tremendous blessing.

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Now the merciful obtain mercy
now and in the world, the cut by

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the grace of God, eternal mercy
in His everlasting Kingdom.

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Blessed are the pure in heart,
those who are clean inside.

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Jesus always insisted on inner
cleanliness, didn’t He?

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Not the outside appearance, not
just scrubbing out outward man

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and trying to put on a good face
to others, but what we are like

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inside, the motivation of a man.
This is what matters, the pure

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in heart.
They shall see God.

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I don’t know what that means.
I just do not know.

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I don’t think we can know the
fullness of what that expression

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means.
They shall see God, but you’ve

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got to be pure inside.
Jesus says, is one of the

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conditions of his Kingdom, that
we first cleanse that which is

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within, that the outside also
may be clean also.

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Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they shall see our God.

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The secret of the Lord is
theirs.

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It’s a wonderful phrase, isn’t
it?

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The secret of the Lord is
theirs, the pure in heart.

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Their heart is Christ’s abode.
Blessed are the peacemakers, not

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the peacemakers.
Notice we tend to give so much

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credit to people who blaze
trails and lead things and fire

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the guns.
Peacemakers.

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One of those qualities you see
that Paley talks about unnatural

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qualities.
Not the arrogant, not the

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vengeful, not the fighters, the
peacemakers.

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The fruit of righteousness is
sown in peace of them that make

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peace.
And there’s one dear old brother

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of Hereford, his daughter’s here
tonight so she can tell you.

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I said it.
George Merrick said that our

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Bible class once you don’t sow
seed on the battlefield, thought

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for the day, you don’t sow seed
on the battlefield.

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The fruit of righteousness is
sown in peace of them that make

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peace, and the persecuted and
the reviled, and those who are

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hate with contumely and shame,
for the name of the Lord Jesus.

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He says, Thou the place, thou
the truly happy.

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It’s a contradiction, isn’t it?
Nothing at all like you would

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imagine.
But of course you wouldn’t

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imagine it, because these are
not natural thoughts.

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These are divine thoughts.
This is God’s estimate of what

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makes up the complete man.
And those who were counted

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worthy to suffer shame for his
name rejoiced and praised God

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that they were counted worthy to
endure these things for his

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name’s sake.
Now I’m only very briefly run

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through these qualities that
Jesus said are the first

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principles really of the
Christian life.

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And having described the
citizens of the Kingdom, he now

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goes on to describe their
function.

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Verse 13 to 16 he uses 2 figures
to describe the function of

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those who belong to the Kingdom
of God.

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First of all, he says you are
the salt of the earth, and he

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says you’re the light of the
world.

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There are two functions of salt.
One is to preserve and the other

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is to flavour.
And there is an implied

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criticism of the world in the
very fact that Jesus said it

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needs this salt.
You are, he says, you followers

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of mine, you believers are the
salt of the earth.

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You see, the world is always
tending to putrefaction led to

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itself.
Society corrupts again.

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A gaggle of people together,
they nearly always, gradually,

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increasingly descend in their
mode of conversation.

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Human nature, we say.
The world is evil and not good.

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The constitution of mankind is
one that is going rotten.

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That’s what’s happening in our
society today.

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Society is going rotten.
It’s flavourless, it’s insipid

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from God’s point of view.
Now salt is an additive.

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It’s quite different in kind
from the material into which

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it’s placed.
I forgot to salt the potatoes.

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There are the potatoes bubbling
away in the pot, no salt in

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them.
You know what’s going to happen.

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They’re going to have no
flavour.

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Your guests are going to not
enjoy the meal.

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So you hastily add some salt at
the last minute.

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Give them another 5 minutes so
that the salt can permeate

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through and give flavour to the
meal.

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And Jesus says the function of
his disciples is to give some

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kind of flavour of Christ in
their society.

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Even as thou sent me into the
world, Even so have I sent them

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into the world.
John chapter 17 to preserve men

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from corruption and to bring the
Saviour of Christ into their

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environment.
So when you go about your daily

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allocation, that’s a good word,
isn’t it?

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When we go about our daily
living, think of ourselves as

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being sent into the world by
Jesus.

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Notice that we have tended to
withdraw from the world.

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We’ve been afraid of the world
as a community.

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We’ve had a policy of Western
withdrawal.

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Come inside, shut the door, pull
the curtain down and leave them

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to Stew in their own juice.
Jesus says I have sent you into

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the world, not to become like
the world, but to change the

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world if possible, to try to
bring something of the flavour

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of Christ into the environment
in which you live.

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If a child, you may be able to.
Save them that believe.

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Let your speech be always with
salt, with grace, seasoned with

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salt.
Salt.

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See, you are the salt of the
earth.

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They’re our brother and sisters,
of whom it’s true to say they

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are the very salt of the earth.
But in a very special sense,

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Jesus is saying you have a
mission to fulfil.

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I want you to take me with you
into the world and to bring

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something of the flavour of
Christ into the life and

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environment in which you daily
live.

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And secondly, you’re the light
of the world.

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Salt mixes with and influences
its environment, as it were,

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filthily taking Christ in our
daily life and showing Him to

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men.
But the light stands up and

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shines out in the darkness.
The clear evangel of the Church

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is here proclaimed Shine ye of
light in the world, holding

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forth the word of life.
The world is dark, you are its

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light.
Jesus says.

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The world is infected.
You are its health.

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The world is in sipping.
You are its flavour.

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You are the salt of the earth,
You are the light of the world,

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and then you make it a personal
responsibility.

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Not just you conglomerately, but
me, you individually.

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Let your light so shine before
me that they may see your good

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works and glorify your Father
who is in heaven.

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Men and women who have these
qualities of life within

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themselves and who through their
daily ministration to others,

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reveal Christ and all that
Christ stands for to their

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fellows.
These are men and women who are

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citizens of the Kingdom of God,
who when the day comes for the

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Kingdom to be worldwide and the
name of God to be glorified in

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00:43:22,520 –> 00:43:31,200
all the earth, having some
measure began, begun the journey

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00:43:31,200 –> 00:43:41,200
now and even now begin to sing
the song forever new.

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