Len Richardson – The Manifesto of the King – Class 1 – Citizens of the Kingdom

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Len Richardson Hereford opening
the study of the manifesto of

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the King, studied in the Sermon
on the Mount and our particular

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study today is citizens of the
Kingdom.

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When Jack Bolton said he’d
rather listen to Len Richardson

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and look at him, he didn’t know
what Len Richardson voice was

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going to be.
Live.

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

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voice as you’re here.
I don’t want you to worry about

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me, because I should probably be
like this all the week.

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I’ve got South Africa Bump and
it’s gone to my lyrics at the

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moment.
It moves about me from place to

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place and with God’s help, up to
now I’ve managed to do

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everything that’s been asked of
me and I believe that He will

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help me to do what I’ve got to
do.

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And it may even help you to
concentrate rather on the

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message than the man, if you
don’t have a melodious voice

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like Leslie Johnson.
And I have to put up with that

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fellow from Hereford.
But I don’t want you to be all

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the time thinking what’s the
matter with the man?

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You know, there’s nothing wrong,
actually.

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It’s just a larynx trouble.
And you’ll be interested to know

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that it does gradually improve
as I go on.

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After the 1st 2 1/2 hours, not
too bad.

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

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verses here at Fred.
Brethren, sisters, my brethren,

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speaking on the Gospel of the
Kingdom of God, that Jesus went

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about everywhere teaching the
Kingdom of God as though he went

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about giving Christadelphia
lectures on the Kingdom of God.

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And when we come to read the
gospel, 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 paid to talk about the

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promises to Abraham and the
covenant to David help be

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fulfilled in what we call, quite
rightly, a divine political

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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 behavior.
He speaks of the Kingdom of God

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in 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 to say it

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soon to be established on the
earth.

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And the soon is not our province
to say.

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But it seems probable that it
will soon be established on the

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earth.
But when Jesus preached the

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Kingdom of God, all this was
underlying message.

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This was something that was
there at the background of it.

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The Jews themselves perfectly
understood the divine political

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Kingdom aspect of it.
That was all they did think it

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was.
And they were expecting a great

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Messiah to arise who would
establish this Kingdom, and they

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

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be trotted on their fingers.
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.
But he read into what he said.

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But what even more concern was
what I’ve called in my title,

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the citizens of the Kingdom, the
kind of people God wanted for

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His Kingdom.
In a sense he was saying to Mr.

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Patriot Jude, it’s all very well
to be so wrapped up in the idea

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

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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 and become as little
children.

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You cannot see of the Kingdom of
God like that.

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You receive the Kingdom of God.
There’s this way in which he

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uses the term except you receive
the Kingdom of God, of the

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

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this idea of receiving the
sovereignty now in Slough

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becoming subjects of God and of
God’s Kingdom, beginning to live

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

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now in order that you might
inherit it then to live like the

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sky and heritage.
You do know perfectly well all

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about the covenants to Abraham
and David, and expected that it

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was all being set up in store
for them.

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Must have received the rebuke of
Jesus.

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You will see Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob in the Kingdom of God, and

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you yourself thrusted, unless
you change your ways.

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John the Baptist, the great
creature.

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There has never been a greater
than John the Baptist.

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The Lord and the prophet were
and killed John.

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Since then the Kingdom of God
and all men press into it.

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Here was the proclamation
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 the way of sickness.

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

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deaf shall be under all 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 a 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 pride,
no even said it all he had that

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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,
but you know the idea.

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This was what Jesus was
concerned with, the of people

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called to the king, the kind of
people God was looking for, for

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his Kingdom.
That’s what Jesus was concerned

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with.
And all the way through the

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Gospel, all the way through the
gospel.

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This is what the preaching of
Jesus about the Kingdom of God

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was, I know, called when he
spoke to his disciples privately

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on the Mount of Olives, he gave
a more detail what we might call

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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
Kingdom when at last it should

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be established upon them.
And when he’s thinking of second

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coming, in order that the Son of
Man in the fullness of time

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might sit on the throne of His
glory daily, always the

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preparation of the hearts of His
disciples to be ready against

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that day.
The servants serving their

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Master in His absence, those who
did what they could for His

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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, probably of it
if you like, but that they

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should have an understanding of
the moral content of those who

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were to be heirs of the Kingdom
of God.

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So the manifesto of the King was
the sermon on the mouth, almost

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certainly early in his ministry
when as it were proclaimed, two

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men and women everywhere into
the Jesus special, the terms on

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which God would be prepared to
receive into his Kingdom of

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love.
The kind of people God was

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looking for a citizen.
And the Beatitudes we’ve just

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read in the 5th chapter of
Matthew are really a description

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of a man of God.
This is the kind of purse that

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God is looking for and preparing
for his ultimate Kingdom, the

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beatitude, the blessing.
Blessed are the poor in spirit,

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blessed are the pure in heart,
and so on them all together.

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And you have a portrait of Jesus
in it, the King of the Kingdom.

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Here he is.
This is what the Kingdom of God

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is all about.
When God’s glory, God’s will, is

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established on earth over all
the world, these kind of people

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will be there to live with Jesus
everlasting in his eternal

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Kingdom.
Not only a portrait of Jesus, of

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course, but a portrait of the
complete Christian character as

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well, living in the world but
not belonging to it.

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I want to begin by looking at
these a little more closely

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called in what’s left of the
time.

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Go into each one indeed, and I
want to look at them a little

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more closely now.
I want you to notice how that

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these qualities are Christianity
give an unnatural religion.

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That is to say, there’s nobody
naturally like this.

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You must be born again, Jesus
said.

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You’re not born like this.
You may be born with a quiet

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disposition.
There aren’t many people with a

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much quieter, quieter
disposition than Len Richardson.

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There are a lot of quite a lot
of our brother and sisters who

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are nice, quiet, humble.
No, not, you know, not natural.

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Nobody’s naturally humble.
What is naturally humble?

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

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a little less aggressive.
Their dreams may have been

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ordered in their structure a
little differently to mine so

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that they’re less aggressive
than I am and and more ready to

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give way than some of us are.
But humility is a spiritual

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quality.
You must be born again into

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these.
These are qualities that Jesus

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says belong to discipleship and
they have only been produced by

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the work of the Spirit in our
lives.

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William Paley in his famous
book, he may have, I don’t know

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whether you can remember.
Let’s start that sentence again.

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William Paley wrote a book which
used to be famous in

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Christadelphian circles, even
though it wasn’t written by

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Christadelphian, and that was
some testimonial for it and it

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was born evidences of
Christianity.

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Some of the older brethren here
and nodding their heads, of

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course they read it.
How many of you have read it?

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Hands up those who have read it?
Not many.

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Well, I’ll tell you what it’s
all about.

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It was a very good book and if
you get the chance, 2.7 if you

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get the truck, pick it up on the
bookstore, grab it.

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It’s very good and it is to me
one of the classic defences of

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the Scriptures and of the
Christian musician.

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It’s called quail, evidences of
the truth of the Christian

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religion.
And one of his evidences is that

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the qualities inculcated by
Jesus Christ are so unnatural,

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

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God by a divine property.
He divides virtue into two.

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He says there are what I call
what he talks heroic virtues,

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and there are the patients and
the two classifications.

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No, he says.
You know, strength, patriotism,

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selflessness, courage, these
sorts of things.

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There are very great men in the
world.

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There are very great people who
have done great things, things

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that make us almost feel ashamed
of ourselves.

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Look, they, they are so great,
but they’re only natural.

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They are natural qualities.
Some men are naturally more

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courageous and they do great
things and they get factory

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stood up to them in the
marketplace.

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These are the natural thing, the
heroic quality.

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But the fish, these are the mark
of divinity in the Bible and in

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the Christian brain, because
Jesus Christ talks about me.

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Purity of heart, voice of
spirit, gentlemen.

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Now he said these are not things
that naturally you think are

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important.
We admire naturally the Jesus

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said blessed 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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spirits, he means those who are
humble and Contra in spirit.

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In the 51st Psalm we come urine
God to forgive him very seal.

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He was so abused he has to say
that himself.

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He was pouring broken in half
over his sin.

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Jesus says that’s the man God
for the man, the woman who is

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humble enough to recognize their
deficiencies, their frailties

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great man David courageous, but
his greatness in God’s sight was

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a humble and the contrite heart.
O God, thou wilt bested obey

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that maul.
No special blessing in being

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bereaved of your loved 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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who mourn for their sins and
perhaps for the sins of others.

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There’s so much to mall about in
our world.

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The name of God being despised
is something to mall about man

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in humanity.
To man the oceans of suffering

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in the world is something to
mall about.

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My own sin is something to mourn
about.

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Christianity is a joyous
religion, but it’s not jolly.

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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
more, 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 answers well,

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weeping my end during the
evening, the psalmist said.

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But joy comes in the morning as
sure as faithful and life.

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

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quiet and sober before God in
the reality of their

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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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attacks it to those that mourn.
The main Jesus was meek but he

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was never weak.
I like to think of this as being

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the non competitive.
About that try to say he said

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what is meekness?
What is meanness marriages was

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mink wasn’t he one of the the
meekest man that ever lived up

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to his time?
Anyway what a mighty man he was.

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He wasn’t wink.
I think the mink man is non

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competitive and we live in a
competitive if we’re honest, you

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know, we’re all competing all
the time, at least if we’re not

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careful.
Trying to be well thought of,

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trying to make a name from the
odds, trying to get somewhere,

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trying to be recognized.
Jesus says it’s not like that at

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all.
It’s not like that self

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effacement.
You’re not in the race, you’re

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not trying to glorify 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 mate.
Those who want God to have all

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the glory, those who are
prepared to go where he wants to

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go and do what he wants them to
do, but not to get anything out

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of it for 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 rest for your

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souls.
Jesus said, May look at me.

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Jesus said I am mate and lonely
of heart.

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Follow my example, you know, for
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Up with me and you shall find
rest.

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Now do you know, brothers and
sisters, I am absolutely

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convinced, absolutely convinced
that this is something we are

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all wanting in life.
Rest for our thoughts, to be at

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peace with God, to be at peace
with our neighbour, to be at

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peace with ourselves.
Feel that you can have it, but

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you can only have it my way.
Come on to me, all you who are

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confeted you, all you that
labour, that heavy laden, come

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unto me and I will give you
rest.

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Take my yoke upon you and learn
of Me, for I am meek and lowly

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of hearts, and you’ll find it.
Things you’ve been looking for

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all your life and you’ve
recognized it or not.

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I give up night race for your
souls.

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Hungering 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 up to righteousness.

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You really mean what you want.
The other life, what are you

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trying to get?
Where are you going?

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What’s life all about as far as
you’re concerned?

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There’s one thing to be a
Christadelphian.

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It’s one thing to what we call
understand the truth, baptize

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and go to all the meetings.
But it’s a different thing to

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hunger and outer righteousness.
I know, I know brethren, that my

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hunger and bursting half the
time 3/4 at the time isn’t

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really for righteousness.
I want so many things.

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Old as I am, I can say that so
many things you hunger for look

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forward to enjoy Jesus both of
the hunger and earth for

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righteousness.
Now do you?

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Do you really so much long for
it, So much that you couldn’t

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really describe it as hungry and
praised for it?

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Jesus did thou hast love,
righteousness, and his 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.
I think I will be the king of

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this everlasting Kingdom.
That’s why the Lord has highly

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exalted him and given him a name
above every name, because he who

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is to judge the world in
righteousness and establish

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God’s will upon the earth over
all nations, first received

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God’s will into his own life.
And let God be keen over all his

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desires.
He loved righteousness, hated

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inequity, and that qualified him
to be the head of the Kingdom of

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God.
If you want to prepare, Jesus

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says you’ve got to learn it.
You’ve got to learn to love the

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things that the Kingdom of God
stands for.

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Man cannot live by bread alone,
but by every word of God, the

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merciful.
Blessed are the merciful.

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How shall we vote for mercy
giving none?

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Porsche said, shy Lord, didn’t
she have hopefulness?

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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 the
render the deeds of mercy.

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

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I think being merciful in this
set, being being kind.

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

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judgments of other people.
You want to receive mercy from

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the Lord?
Then be merciful to others given

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it shall be given unto you.
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 just.

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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

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from others.
Blessed are the merciful.

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Goodbye reason for say, journey.
Blessed are the merciful.

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Now notice that there’s a
pleasant blessing in all these

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things.
It’s a pleasant blessing.

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It’s just something reserved for
the few.

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One day, if you grit your teeth
and carry on, one day you’ll get

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blessings, tremendous blessing.
Now the merciful obtain mercy

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now and in the world, the heart,
by the grace of God, eternal

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mercy in His everlasting
Kingdom.

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Blessed are the pure in heart.
They don’t play in inside.

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

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Not the outsider, not just
scrubbing out outward man trying

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to put on a good faith to
others, but what we are like

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

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The pure in heart.
They shall see God alive.

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I just I don’t think we can know
the fruits of what that

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expression means.
They shall see God, but you’ve

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got to be pure inside.
Jesus is one of the conditions

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

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that the outside also may be
clean also, lest are the pure in

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heart, for they shall see our
God.

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The secret of the Lord is this.
It’s a wonderful phrase, isn’t

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it?
The secret of the Lord is

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theirs, the pure in heart.
Their heart is fight the bow.

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Blessed are the pennies made,
not the pennies.

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We tend to give so much credit
to people who blaze trails and

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lead things and fire the guns.
One of those qualities you think

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that painting talks about
unnatural qualities.

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Not the arrogant, not the
vengeful, not the pride of the

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peace.
The fruit of righteousness is so

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in peace of them that make pain.
And as one dear old brother of

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Hereford, his daughter’s here
tonight, so she anyway said it.

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George Merritt said that they
are buying class ones.

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You don’t sow seed on the
battlefield thought for to die.

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You don’t sow seed on the
battlefield.

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

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peace, and the persecuted and
the reviled, and there is

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nothing consumely in shame for
the name of the Lord Jesus.

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He said that they’re 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 faults and these are

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divine faults.
This is God of what makes up the

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complete man, and those who were
counted worthy to suffer shame

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for his name rejoiced and
praised God that they were

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counted worthy to endure these
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Now I’ve only very briefly run
through these qualities that

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Jesus said are the first Prince
of the Christian life and having

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described the citizens Kingdom,
he now goes on to describe their

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function.
Verse 1316.

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He uses 2 figures to describe
the function of those that

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belong to the Kingdom.
First of all he says you are the

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salt of the earth and he says
you are the life.

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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 says it

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needs his salt.
You are you followers of mine,

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you believe, oh, the salt of the
earth.

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You see, the world is always
tending let themselves society

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corrupts get a gaggle of people
together.

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They nearly always gradually,
increasingly descend in their

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mode of conversation.
Human natures, the world is evil

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and not good.
The constitution of mankind is

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one that is going wrong.
What’s happening in our society?

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Society is going wrong.
It’s flavourless.

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It’s incipient from God’s point
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Now, salt is an additive.
It’s quite different in time

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from the material in which it’s
plain salt and potato.

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Potatoes bubbling away in the
pot, No salt in them.

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You know what’s going to happen.
They’re going to have no flame.

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Your guests are going to not
enjoy the meal and taste it.

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Add some salt at the last
minute, give them another 5

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minutes so the salt can permeate
and flame it 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 flavor of Christ in
their society.

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

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them into the world.
John chapter 17 to preserve me

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from corruption and to bring the
savour of Christ into their

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environment.
So when you go about your daily

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annotation, when we go about our
daily living, think of ourselves

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as being hailed into the world
by Gene.

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We have tended to withdraw from
the world.

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We’ve been afraid as a
community.

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We’ve had a withdrawal.
Come inside, shut the door, put

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the curtain down and leave them
to Stew in their own Jews.

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These are says I have sent you
into the world, not to become

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like the world, but to change
the world if possible to try to

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bring something of the flavor of
Christ into the environment in

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which you live.
If a child, you may be able to

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save them that believe.
Let your speech be always with

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salt, with grace, seasoned with
salt.

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Salt, 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 take me with you into

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the world and to bring something
of the flavor of Christ into the

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life and 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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stealthily taking Christ in our
daily life and showing into men.

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But the light stands up and
shines out in the darkness.

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The clear evangel of the Church
is here, proclaims shiny of

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light in the world, holding
forth the word of life.

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The world is dark, You are its
light, Jesus says.

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The world is invented.
You are its hell, the world is

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in the ship, you are its slave,
you are the fault of the earth,

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you are the light of the world.
And then make to the person, not

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just you conglomerately, but may
you individual let your life so

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shy before me that they may see
your good works.

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And glorify your Father who is
in heaven, men and women who

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have these qualities of life
within themselves and who

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through their daily ministry to
others reveal Christ and all

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that Christ stands for for their
fellows.

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These are men and women who are
citizens of the Kingdom of God.

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And when the day comes for the
Kingdom to be worldwide and the

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name of God to be glorified in
all the others.

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And in some measure began begun
the journey now and even now

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begin to sing the song forever
new.