{"id":1260,"date":"2025-02-16T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/335-dennis-gillett-get-to-grips-with-gods-word\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T23:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:36:04","slug":"335-dennis-gillett-get-to-grips-with-gods-word","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/335-dennis-gillett-get-to-grips-with-gods-word\/","title":{"rendered":"335: Dennis Gillett – Get to Grips with God’s Word"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we are listening a class by Bro. Dennis Gillett titled \u201cGet to Grips with God’s Word\u201d that was given at the Birmingham Ecclesia in 1979 . <\/p>\n

We hope this strengthens your Faith and brightens your day!<\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to good Chris Selfian
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\nI’m Levi.
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\nOn this podcast, we select one <\/p>\n

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\ntalk a week to help us get the
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\nrecommendation to you on why we
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\nAnd now let’s talk more about
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\nHello, this is Brother Chris
\nHoward with a special talk to <\/p>\n

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\nshare with you coming from the
\nannals of the tapes that I have <\/p>\n

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\nbeen working on digitizing.
\nThis is a class that was given <\/p>\n

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\nby Brother Dennis Galette in
\n1979 at the Birmingham Ecclesia <\/p>\n

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\nin England and the title of this
\nclass is Get to Grips with God’s<\/p>\n

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\nWord.
\nNow because of the nature of the<\/p>\n

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\nrecording, the beginning of this
\nis a little abrupt. <\/p>\n

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\nHe’s kind of mid comment on a
\nslightly different subject that <\/p>\n

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\nseems to have potentially been
\npart of his introduction. <\/p>\n

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\nI’ve tried to edit it as best as
\nI can so that it sort of starts <\/p>\n

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\nwhen he’s introducing the topic.
\nBut if you hear him referencing <\/p>\n

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\na related topic to what he is
\ntalking about but don’t <\/p>\n

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\nunderstand the full context,
\nthat’s why. <\/p>\n

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\nBut that’s only a case in the
\nfirst couple minutes. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd then I think he makes a call
\nto it right at the very end of <\/p>\n

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\nhis class.
\nBut what brother Dennis is doing<\/p>\n

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\nthis I think is is really
\npowerful, is taking a look at <\/p>\n

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\njust a handful of scriptures to
\nremind us of what it is that is <\/p>\n

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\nso important in Our Calling and
\nwhat we are responsible to when <\/p>\n

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\nit calls to.
\nLooking at what God has called <\/p>\n

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\nus to and what is in God’s Word.
\nBrother Dennis, as we’ve had him<\/p>\n

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\non a couple times on the podcast
\nwhen we’ve played talks of his, <\/p>\n

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\nis very well spoken and also
\nvery studious in his Bible <\/p>\n

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\nstudy.
\nBut I especially appreciated how<\/p>\n

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\npassionate he gets in the
\nsecond-half of the classes. <\/p>\n

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\nHe’s talking about the
\nimportance of what it is that <\/p>\n

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\nhe’s looking at and how
\nimportant it is for us to make <\/p>\n

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\nsure that we keep to God’s Word
\nand live what it is that we <\/p>\n

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\nread, that we’re not academic,
\nbut we’re also not just going <\/p>\n

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\nthrough the motions without
\nhaving the principles of God’s <\/p>\n

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\nWord underpinning everything
\nthat we do. <\/p>\n

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\nI’ll also use this as an
\nopportunity to again call out to<\/p>\n

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\nif any of you are out there that
\nhave or know of tapes that are <\/p>\n

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\nsitting out there and haven’t
\nbeen digitized and. <\/p>\n

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\nMade available to people.
\nFeel free to reach out to us. <\/p>\n

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\nI am more than happy to take
\nthem and find a way to get them <\/p>\n

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\ndigitized.
\nWe’re working through tons of <\/p>\n

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\ntapes at this point and there’s
\na huge backlog that we’re <\/p>\n

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\nworking through.
\nAnd I’ve also uploaded that we <\/p>\n

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\nhaven’t even been able to get
\nto, to share on the podcast. <\/p>\n

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\nBut if you are, if they’re out
\nthere, especially if you know, <\/p>\n

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\nif they haven’t been digitized
\nanywhere else, I don’t want any <\/p>\n

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\nof these lost gems like this one
\nfrom Brother Dennis to be lost <\/p>\n

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\nto the annals of history.
\nSo please feel free to send <\/p>\n

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\nthose in.
\nAnd so with that, I hope that <\/p>\n

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\nthis talk encourages you and
\nenergizes you for the coming <\/p>\n

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\nweek.
\nI will now turn it over to our <\/p>\n

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\nbrother Dennis Gillette from a
\nclass he gave at the Birmingham <\/p>\n

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\nEcclesia in 1979 titled Get to
\nGrips with God’s Word. <\/p>\n

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\nThe right of government over all
\nHis creation and that there is <\/p>\n

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\nin Him a moral force with which
\nall things ultimately will have <\/p>\n

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\nto be reconciled and to be
\nresponsible, means that we are <\/p>\n

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\ncapable of rational conduct and
\nconsequently are morally <\/p>\n

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\naccountable for our actions.
\nAnd we are in a position, <\/p>\n

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\ntherefore, where we are liable
\nto be called to account for our <\/p>\n

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\nlife.
\nThe Bible says that those who <\/p>\n

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\nare responsible are answerable
\nto God. <\/p>\n

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\nNow, I am not concerned tonight
\nwith the man who lives in the <\/p>\n

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\nbackwoods of Australia or New
\nGuinea. <\/p>\n

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\nThat is a case of diminished
\nresponsibility. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s a very interesting thing,
\nbut it isn’t my subject tonight.<\/p>\n

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\nI’m concerned tonight with some
\nof the people of Birmingham who <\/p>\n

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\nhave heard the sound of the
\ngospel. <\/p>\n

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\nThe question is posed, what do
\nyou propose to do about it? <\/p>\n

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\nI am concerned therefore with
\nyou who sit tonight listening to<\/p>\n

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\nme, people who have the word of
\nGod in their lap and therefore <\/p>\n

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\nare in some sense responsible to
\nGod because the Word of God is <\/p>\n

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\navailable to all alike.
\nAnd if we have spurned it, then <\/p>\n

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\nit is our misfortune and it is
\nour fault. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd being our fault, we cannot
\nescape responsibility. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s why we come to you saying
\ngetting to grips with God’s <\/p>\n

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\nWord.
\nAnd therefore as a first step <\/p>\n

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\ntonight I want to straight away
\nget to grips with God’s Word and<\/p>\n

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\nI’m going to ask you to listen
\nto or if you like to turn up, <\/p>\n

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\nyou may of course, 7 passages of
\nScripture from different parts <\/p>\n

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\nof the Bible.
\nEach passage is dissimilar but <\/p>\n

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\nalike in one respect.
\nThere is a common factor running<\/p>\n

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\nthrough them.
\nThey have all to do with what <\/p>\n

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\nthe Bible demands of you.
\nThey have all to do with man’s <\/p>\n

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\nresponsibility toward God.
\nI’m particularly anxious that <\/p>\n

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\nyou should notice the words
\ncarefully, because every word in<\/p>\n

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\nthe Bible is important.
\nNotice the words, I beseech you <\/p>\n

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\nvery carefully because those
\nwords will throw light on this <\/p>\n

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\nquestion.
\nSo the first passage is from the<\/p>\n

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\nOld Testament.
\nIt is in the 5th chapter of the <\/p>\n

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\nof the prophecy of Daniel.
\nVery briefly, if I may sketch in<\/p>\n

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\nthe context, Belshazzar, king of
\nBabylon, was a wicked king, <\/p>\n

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\nwicked in many respects, and
\neventually the judgement of God <\/p>\n

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\nwas given to Daniel to be
\ndelivered to King Belshazzar, <\/p>\n

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\nGod’s judgement on his
\nwickedness. <\/p>\n

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\nNow Daniel could have charged
\nthe king with all kinds of <\/p>\n

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\nwickedness.
\nHe could have charged him with <\/p>\n

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\nbad government, with sacred,
\nwith immorality, with vice, and <\/p>\n

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\nso on.
\nBut when the prophet went to <\/p>\n

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\ndeliver the judgement of God to
\nBelshazzar, he didn’t speak of <\/p>\n

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\nany of these things.
\nLet’s notice what he did say in <\/p>\n

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\nthe 23rd verse of Daniel 5.
\nThe God in whose hand thy breath<\/p>\n

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\nis, and whose are all thy ways,
\nhast thou not glorified? <\/p>\n

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\nI bring you to the 12th chapter
\nof the Acts of the Apostles, to <\/p>\n

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\nanother king, King Herod, the
\npuppet king of his lair. <\/p>\n

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\nWell now Herod was a proud man,
\nand on a certain day he arrayed <\/p>\n

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\nhimself in his royal apparel and
\nmade a great oration to the <\/p>\n

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\npeople, and he was exalted.
\nAnd the people hearing the <\/p>\n

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\noration of Herod quoted in the
\n12th chapter of Acts verse 23. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd the people shouted, it is
\nthe voice of a God and not of a <\/p>\n

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\nman.
\nAnd immediately an Angel of the <\/p>\n

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\nLord smote him, because he gave
\nnot God the glory. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he was eaten of worms, and
\ngave up the spirit. <\/p>\n

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\nThe 3rd chapter of the Roman
\nletter of Paul in chapter 3 of <\/p>\n

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\nIn chapter 3 of the letter to
\nthe Romans, the apostle Paul is <\/p>\n

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\nreferring partly to the
\nuniversal failure of every man <\/p>\n

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\nin the sight of God.
\nThe whole world is declared to <\/p>\n

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\nbe guilty before God.
\nAll I ask you to do is to notice<\/p>\n

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\nthe exact words which the
\napostle used to describe that <\/p>\n

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\nuniversal failure.
\nVerse 23 of Romans 3 For all <\/p>\n

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\nhave sinned and come short of
\nthe glory of God. <\/p>\n

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\nTurn over one page please to
\nRomans 4. <\/p>\n

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\nIn Romans 4, the apostle in this
\nparticular passage I’m going to <\/p>\n

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\nrefer to is concerned with the
\nsuccess of Abraham. <\/p>\n

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\nAbraham, who received certain
\npromises from God when at the <\/p>\n

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\ntime they were given, seemed
\nhumanly speaking, to be <\/p>\n

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\nimpossible of fulfillment.
\nOne in particular was that he <\/p>\n

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\nshould bigot a son when he was
\n100 years of age, and his wife <\/p>\n

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\nSarah should give birth to a son
\nwhen she was 99, consequently <\/p>\n

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\nwell past the age for child
\nbegetting and bearing. <\/p>\n

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\nNevertheless, God promised that
\nthis would take place. <\/p>\n

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\nObserve how Paul describes it
\nRomans 4 verse 20. <\/p>\n

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\nAbraham staggered not at the
\npromise of God through unbelief,<\/p>\n

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\nbut was strong in faith, giving
\nglory to God, and being fully <\/p>\n

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\npersuaded that what God had
\npromised, he was able also to <\/p>\n

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\nperform the 2nd chapter of the
\nPhilippian letter. <\/p>\n

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\nIn the 2nd chapter of
\nPhilippians, the apostle Paul is<\/p>\n

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\ndescribing in this passage the
\ngreat work which has been <\/p>\n

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\naccomplished by Jesus Christ,
\nhis obedience to God and His <\/p>\n

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\nfinal victory in the cross and
\nHis final exaltation in heaven. <\/p>\n

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\nObserve the words that the
\nmajestic words that the apostle <\/p>\n

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\nuses to describe it.
\nHe became. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is verse 8 of Philippians
\n2. <\/p>\n

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\nHe became obedient unto death.
\nYeah, the death of the cross. <\/p>\n

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\nWherefore God hath highly
\nexalted him, and given him a <\/p>\n

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\nname which is above every name.
\nBut at the name of Jesus every <\/p>\n

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\nknee could bow, and every tongue
\ncould. <\/p>\n

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\nYou have confessed that Jesus
\nChrist is Lord to the glory of <\/p>\n

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\nGod the Father.
\nThe 43rd chapter of Isaiah. <\/p>\n

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\nVerses 6:00 and 7:00 I will say,
\nto the north give up, and to the<\/p>\n

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\nSouth keep not back.
\nBring my sons from far and my <\/p>\n

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\ndaughters from the ends of the
\nearth, even everyone that is <\/p>\n

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\ncalled by my name.
\nFor I have created him for my <\/p>\n

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\nglory.
\nYeah, I have formed him. <\/p>\n

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\nI have made him finally the 14th
\nchapter of the Apocalypse, the <\/p>\n

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\nBook of Revelation, chapter 14.
\nIn this particular passage that <\/p>\n

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\nis given to us, the Gospel which
\nis to be taken finally to the <\/p>\n

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\nworld before the day of
\njudgement, before the day of <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:18,000 –> 00:12:22,640
\nenforced humiliation, the last
\nchance that God gives to men, <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:22,840 –> 00:12:27,640
\nthe last call to judgement, the
\nlast call to repentance. <\/p>\n

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\nObserve the words which are yet
\nto be proclaimed, because this <\/p>\n

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\nis prophetic.
\nVerse 7. <\/p>\n

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\nFear God and give glory to Him
\nfor the hour of His judgement is<\/p>\n

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\n00:12:43,760 –> 00:12:56,440
\ncome. 7 passages of scripture,
\neach dissimilar but each alike, <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:58,200 –> 00:13:04,400
\nhaving one common thought
\nrunning through them, occurring <\/p>\n

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\nin each.
\nI wonder if you noticed what it <\/p>\n

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\nwas?
\nThe words were there in every <\/p>\n

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\npassage, whether in success or
\nwhether in failure. <\/p>\n

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\nMen are responsible to God, and
\nthat responsibility as expressed<\/p>\n

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\nin the words giving glory to
\nGod. <\/p>\n

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\nMan was made to give glory to
\nGod. <\/p>\n

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\nThat is what the Word of God
\ndemands of you, that you shall <\/p>\n

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\nglorify your Creator.
\nLadies and gentlemen, you are <\/p>\n

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\nnot made to pursue pleasure or
\nto accumulate wealth or to <\/p>\n

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\nacquire knowledge.
\nYou were made to give glory to <\/p>\n

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\nGod.
\nThe words of Isaiah seldom <\/p>\n

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\nexpanded.
\nClearly and unmistakably I have <\/p>\n

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\ncreated him for my glory.
\nNow may I just pause to say, I <\/p>\n

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\nknow there are Bible students in
\nthis house tonight who are just <\/p>\n

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\nwaiting to tell me that those
\nwords I’ve quoted from the 7th <\/p>\n

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\nchapter of the of the seventh
\nverse of the 43rd chapter of <\/p>\n

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\nIsaiah were spoken of the people
\nof Israel. <\/p>\n

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\nI know it.
\nBut may I say to you that though<\/p>\n

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\nthey were spoken originally of
\nthe people of Israel in their <\/p>\n

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\nnoblest meaning, they are
\nintended at last to apply to <\/p>\n

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\nevery man who will come to God
\nthrough Jesus Christ that God <\/p>\n

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\nwas showing in one nation what
\nHe intended to do for all <\/p>\n

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\nnations.
\nAt last Israel were <\/p>\n

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\nrepresentative, and it is the
\nApostle Peter who in the New <\/p>\n

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\nTestament takes the very words
\nwhich are so, which describes so<\/p>\n

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\npowerfully the exclusive
\nrelationship which Israel had <\/p>\n

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\nwith God, and applies them to
\nany man, be he Jew or Gentile, <\/p>\n

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\nwho will come to God through
\nJesus Christ, says he to those <\/p>\n

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\nwho are Gentiles.
\nYe are an holy nation, a royal <\/p>\n

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\npriesthood, a peculiar people
\nfor God’s own possession. <\/p>\n

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\nYes, Isaiah said it plainly.
\nWhat does God demand of you that<\/p>\n

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\nyou shall give him glory?
\nWell, now, very properly, <\/p>\n

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\nsomebody will say that’s a
\nsentence, but it’s a strange <\/p>\n

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\nsentence.
\nWhat does it mean? <\/p>\n

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\nGiving glory to God?
\nSo let us come to the 13th <\/p>\n

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\nchapter of Luke.
\nI’m going to read to you verses <\/p>\n

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\n6 to 9 of the man who had a fig
\ntree in his vineyard and Jesus <\/p>\n

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\nfaked this parable.
\nA certain man had a fig tree <\/p>\n

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\nplanted in his vineyard, and he
\ncame and sought fruit thereon, <\/p>\n

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\nand found none.
\nThen said he unto the dresser of<\/p>\n

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\nhis vineyard, Behold these three
\nyears I come seeking fruit on <\/p>\n

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\nthis fig tree, and find none.
\nCut it down. <\/p>\n

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\nWhy come bereth it the ground?
\nAnd he answering, said unto him,<\/p>\n

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\nLord, let it alone this year
\nalso, till I shall dig about it <\/p>\n

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\nand dung it.
\nAnd if it bear fruit, well, and <\/p>\n

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\nif not, then after that thou
\nshalt cut it down. <\/p>\n

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\nThe interesting thing about this
\nparable, though it’s short, is <\/p>\n

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\nthat it tells us about the
\nrights of God and telling us <\/p>\n

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\nabout the rights of God, and
\nresultantly it tells us about <\/p>\n

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\nthe responsibilities of men.
\nThe parable, of course, is <\/p>\n

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\nEastern in its setting, but it
\nwould do it. <\/p>\n

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\nNo violence, I think, to change
\nthe word vineyard to garden and <\/p>\n

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\nthe word vine dresser to
\ngardener. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd the owner of the garden
\nspeaks as though he had the <\/p>\n

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\nright to expect fruit from the
\ntree. <\/p>\n

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\nOf course, it was his tree, and
\nafter all, he had planted it in <\/p>\n

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\nhis garden.
\nIt was using his resources. <\/p>\n

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\nIt was enjoying the care of his
\ngardener. <\/p>\n

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\nThe tree was not there purely
\nfor ornamentation, nor was it <\/p>\n

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\nthere only to provide shade on a
\nhot day. <\/p>\n

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\nIt was there, after all, to
\nproduce fruit, and if it did not<\/p>\n

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\ndo that, then it had failed in
\nits purpose, and in the words of<\/p>\n

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\nthe owner of the garden, it
\ncumbered the ground. <\/p>\n

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\nI dare say most of us would
\nagree really, that the owner was<\/p>\n

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\nright after all, that an
\nunchangeably barren tree is <\/p>\n

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\nbetter removed.
\nI suppose those of you who are <\/p>\n

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\ngardeners or have gardeners, if
\nyou had such a tree, would <\/p>\n

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\ncertainly think it right to
\nremove a tree and replace it by <\/p>\n

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\na fruitful one.
\nIt’s sensible. <\/p>\n

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\nBut though he was patient, that
\nowner, and though he waited to <\/p>\n

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\ngive the tree every opportunity
\nto be fruitful, and though the <\/p>\n

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\ngardener himself was an
\nintercessor, I want you to <\/p>\n

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\nnotice that in the end there was
\nno disagreement between the <\/p>\n

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\ngardener owner and the gardener
\nhimself about the fate of the <\/p>\n

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\ntree.
\nIf it bear fruit, well, but if <\/p>\n

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\nnot, then it must be removed.
\nWell, of course the figures in <\/p>\n

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\nthe parable can be identified
\neasily. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s simplicity is the thing
\nthat makes it magnificent. <\/p>\n

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\nGod is the owner, the gardener
\nis an intercessor. <\/p>\n

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\nThe supreme intercessor is Jesus
\nChrist. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd that tree represents men.
\nIt represents any man who is <\/p>\n

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\nresponsible to God.
\nAnd as I say, the thing that <\/p>\n

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\nmakes the parable so interesting
\nis it’s simplicity. <\/p>\n

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\nFor instance, if you were to ask
\nyour child what he expects to <\/p>\n

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\nget from an apple tree or what
\nhe expects to get from a fig <\/p>\n

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\ntree, and you’ll know at once
\nwhat he will say. <\/p>\n

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\nNow, if you can keep that kind
\nof simplicity in your minds and <\/p>\n

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\nthen ask yourself this question,
\nwhat does God expect from a man?<\/p>\n

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\nWhat does God demand of you?
\nWhat does God expect of a man or<\/p>\n

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\na woman?
\nApples from apple trees, figs <\/p>\n

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\nfrom fig trees.
\nWhat does God expect from man? <\/p>\n

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\nWell, his simplicity will tell
\nus the way from man. <\/p>\n

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\nGod expects manhood, but very
\nproperly, somebody’s going to <\/p>\n

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\nsay to me, well, that’s only a
\nword. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat does manhood mean?
\nWhat’s manhood? <\/p>\n

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\nWell, now, the proper answer in
\nmy judgement is that manhood is <\/p>\n

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\nwhen a man does that which God
\nintended him to do. <\/p>\n

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\nNo, I take that back.
\nManhood is when a man is what <\/p>\n

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\nGod intended him to be.
\nYou see, ladies and gentlemen, <\/p>\n

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\naccompanying every created
\nthing, there is a law. <\/p>\n

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\nGod made law, a law to which
\nthat thing ought to conform, and<\/p>\n

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\nwhen that thing conforms to the
\nlaw which God has placed in it <\/p>\n

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\nand upon it, it does that which
\nfor it is divinely natural, and <\/p>\n

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\ndoing that which is divinely
\nnatural, it gives glory to God. <\/p>\n

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\nMay I tell you without fear of
\ncontradiction, that upon every <\/p>\n

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\nTulip there is the law of the
\nTulip God made. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd when the Tulip answers the
\nlaw which God has placed in it <\/p>\n

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\nand upon it, that is to say,
\nwhen it blossoms forth in all <\/p>\n

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\nits beauty, it consequently
\ngives glory to the one who made <\/p>\n

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\nit.
\nUpon every eagle there is the <\/p>\n

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\nlaw of the eagle.
\nAnd when the eagle answers that <\/p>\n

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\nLord, and on its great eagle
\nwings soars into the heavens and<\/p>\n

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\nhovers over its young, it does
\nthat which for it is divinely <\/p>\n

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\nnatural, God intended and doing
\nthat gives glory to its Creator.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd this is how the Bible speaks
\nabout the created things, <\/p>\n

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\ngetting to grips with the Word
\nof God. <\/p>\n

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\nIndeed, this is how the Bible
\nspeaks about the created things.<\/p>\n

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\nThe heavens declare the glory of
\nGod, and the firmament showeth <\/p>\n

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\nforth His handiwork.
\nPsalm 19, or in Psalm 148, <\/p>\n

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\npraise the Lord from the earth.
\nMark who the psalmist is talking<\/p>\n

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\nabout, please praise the Lord
\nfrom the earth, ye Dragons and <\/p>\n

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\nall ye deeps, fire, hail, snow,
\nice, and stormy winds, <\/p>\n

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\nfulfilling his word, mountains
\nand all hills, fruitful trees <\/p>\n

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\nand all Cedars, beasts and all
\ncattle, creeping things and <\/p>\n

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\nflying fowl.
\nLet them praise the name of the <\/p>\n

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\nLord and give glory to Him
\nwithin heaven and earth. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we crystal Alphaeans,
\nsometimes we sing about it, we <\/p>\n

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\nsing about this principle.
\nWe have a hymn which goes like <\/p>\n

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\nthis.
\nWherever we look, thy glory <\/p>\n

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\nshines.
\nAnd all things fair and bright <\/p>\n

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\nare thine.
\nWherever we look, thy glory <\/p>\n

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\nshines.
\nAnd when the created things <\/p>\n

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\nanswer their own law, which God
\nhas placed upon them and in <\/p>\n

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\nthem, they give glory to Him.
\nAnd may I say, when they fail to<\/p>\n

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\ndo that, when they fail to do
\nthat, as did that barren tree, <\/p>\n

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\nthey do not give glory to Him.
\nThey have failed in their high <\/p>\n

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\ncalling, and consequently they
\nare barren, and they must be <\/p>\n

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\nrejected.
\nNow this principle, which is <\/p>\n

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\ntrue of the creation, is true
\nalso of man. <\/p>\n

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\nAs in the Tulip and as in the
\nEagle there are certain forces <\/p>\n

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\ndivinely implanted which enable
\nthem to fulfil the law of the <\/p>\n

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\nTulip, or the law of the Eagle,
\nas the case may be. <\/p>\n

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\nSo in man there are certain
\nforces, certain divinely <\/p>\n

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\nimplanted forces, which enable
\nhim to fulfil the law of <\/p>\n

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\nmanhood.
\nThere are, and in order to <\/p>\n

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\nunderstand it, we shall need
\njust to pause for a moment to <\/p>\n

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\nthink about the nature of men,
\nthe nature of you. <\/p>\n

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\nThere are some people who would
\nprobably tell you in good faith <\/p>\n

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\nthat man is a beast and no more
\nthan a beast. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, now, I must say that I
\nshan’t be telling you that <\/p>\n

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\ntonight, because I do not
\nbelieve it is true. <\/p>\n

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\nI know that sometimes men behave
\nlike beasts, and indeed, if they<\/p>\n

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\nare only beasts, then behaving
\nlike beasts, they are doing that<\/p>\n

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\nwhich of them is right?
\nAnd so their very beastliness <\/p>\n

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\nwould seem to give glory to God.
\nNow you can see yourself that <\/p>\n

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\n00:24:14,080 –> 00:24:17,120
\nwhen the argument is carried to
\nits logical conclusion, it is <\/p>\n

327
\n00:24:17,120 –> 00:24:21,560
\nmanifestly false.
\nI know that in the book of <\/p>\n

328
\n00:24:21,560 –> 00:24:25,120
\nEcclesiastes you can read that
\nmen hath no pre eminence over <\/p>\n

329
\n00:24:25,120 –> 00:24:29,080
\nbeasts, but we must be careful
\nhow we read it, because the <\/p>\n

330
\n00:24:29,080 –> 00:24:32,720
\ncontext is that men are mortal
\nlike beasts are mortal. <\/p>\n

331
\n00:24:32,720 –> 00:24:35,040
\nAs one dieth, so dieth the
\nother. <\/p>\n

332
\n00:24:35,200 –> 00:24:37,520
\nIn that respect men are like
\nbeasts. <\/p>\n

333
\n00:24:37,520 –> 00:24:41,320
\nIndeed.
\nThey are subject to the same <\/p>\n

334
\n00:24:41,320 –> 00:24:44,960
\nlaws of life and death.
\nThat is to say, they need air <\/p>\n

335
\n00:24:44,960 –> 00:24:48,080
\nand light and food and water to
\nkeep them alive. <\/p>\n

336
\n00:24:48,080 –> 00:24:53,800
\nDeprived of that, they die in
\nthat respect on that particular <\/p>\n

337
\n00:24:53,800 –> 00:24:56,280
\nplane of argument.
\nIndeed, they are like beasts, <\/p>\n

338
\n00:24:56,280 –> 00:24:58,000
\nbut they are not beasts all
\ntogether. <\/p>\n

339
\n00:25:00,280 –> 00:25:04,480
\nAnd you can sense it yourself,
\nbecause when a man behaves like <\/p>\n

340
\n00:25:04,480 –> 00:25:08,520
\na beast without willing it, you
\nare conscious of his <\/p>\n

341
\n00:25:08,520 –> 00:25:12,040
\ndegradation.
\nAnd degradation is when the <\/p>\n

342
\n00:25:12,040 –> 00:25:15,800
\nhighest things are used for the
\nvery lowest purposes, or rather <\/p>\n

343
\n00:25:15,800 –> 00:25:18,320
\nwhen the highest things are used
\nfor a purpose lower than that <\/p>\n

344
\n00:25:18,320 –> 00:25:20,800
\nwhich were intended, which are
\nintended. <\/p>\n

345
\n00:25:22,560 –> 00:25:26,400
\nAnd I say to you that when a man
\nbehaves like a beast, you are <\/p>\n

346
\n00:25:26,400 –> 00:25:31,720
\naware of his degradation.
\nIf I might just illustrate, if <\/p>\n

347
\n00:25:31,720 –> 00:25:34,680
\nyou see a pig wallowing in the
\nmire, you are not aware that the<\/p>\n

348
\n00:25:34,680 –> 00:25:38,480
\npig is degraded.
\nDid you are aware that the pig <\/p>\n

349
\n00:25:38,480 –> 00:25:41,920
\nis doing what is right for pigs?
\nAfter all, that’s how pigs are. <\/p>\n

350
\n00:25:43,360 –> 00:25:46,440
\nIt may be, of course, that they
\nwallow in more mire than they <\/p>\n

351
\n00:25:46,440 –> 00:25:49,360
\nneed, but that is because very
\noften they have bad masters. <\/p>\n

352
\n00:25:53,880 –> 00:25:58,880
\nOr if you see a horse at Plough,
\nI don’t suppose you see many <\/p>\n

353
\n00:25:58,880 –> 00:26:04,480
\nhorses at Plough in Derrid End,
\nbut sometimes in the field of <\/p>\n

354
\n00:26:04,480 –> 00:26:07,560
\nNorth Oxford, fields of North
\nOxfordshire, you may see a horse<\/p>\n

355
\n00:26:07,560 –> 00:26:12,520
\nat plough.
\nAnd it’s a wonderful sight, the <\/p>\n

356
\n00:26:12,520 –> 00:26:18,440
\nhorse pulling open the good rich
\nloam of Oxfordshire. <\/p>\n

357
\n00:26:20,120 –> 00:26:25,720
\nHis muscles are rippling under
\nhis silken skin, doing that <\/p>\n

358
\n00:26:25,720 –> 00:26:29,520
\nwhich for him is divinely
\nnatural. <\/p>\n

359
\n00:26:30,520 –> 00:26:34,280
\nAnd you are aware that in some
\nsense he gives glory to his <\/p>\n

360
\n00:26:34,280 –> 00:26:38,840
\nCreator.
\nBut let a man be chained to a <\/p>\n

361
\n00:26:38,840 –> 00:26:43,600
\nplough and you are aware that he
\nis at once degraded. <\/p>\n

362
\n00:26:44,400 –> 00:26:46,440
\nHe was not meant to work like a
\nhorse. <\/p>\n

363
\n00:26:46,440 –> 00:26:50,160
\nSome people thought he was at
\none time, but they were wrong. <\/p>\n

364
\n00:26:51,280 –> 00:26:54,880
\nHe is nobler than that.
\nHe is finer than that. <\/p>\n

365
\n00:26:55,440 –> 00:26:59,360
\nHe has more dignity.
\nHe was not made to be like a <\/p>\n

366
\n00:26:59,360 –> 00:27:01,480
\nhorse.
\nHe is not a beast. <\/p>\n

367
\n00:27:02,320 –> 00:27:06,440
\nAnd you are aware immediately
\nthat he is degraded. <\/p>\n

368
\n00:27:06,960 –> 00:27:14,880
\nSeeing him chained to a plow,
\ngetting to grips with the Word <\/p>\n

369
\n00:27:14,880 –> 00:27:20,440
\nof God will tell us that this
\nThe Bible says that man was made<\/p>\n

370
\n00:27:20,440 –> 00:27:25,400
\nin the image of God, and it is
\nthis very thing that <\/p>\n

371
\n00:27:25,400 –> 00:27:28,840
\ndistinguishes him from the rest
\nof creation, and in this very <\/p>\n

372
\n00:27:28,840 –> 00:27:33,360
\nthing lies his dignity.
\nIn some respects man is kin with<\/p>\n

373
\n00:27:33,360 –> 00:27:37,400
\nGod because he is able to think
\nand able to reason and to decide<\/p>\n

374
\n00:27:37,400 –> 00:27:41,760
\nand to respond.
\nMan is the one link between the <\/p>\n

375
\n00:27:41,840 –> 00:27:44,200
\nmaterial world and the spiritual
\nworld. <\/p>\n

376
\n00:27:44,720 –> 00:27:48,480
\nHe is as it were at the place
\nwhere the two worlds meet. <\/p>\n

377
\n00:27:49,560 –> 00:27:53,480
\nHe is the place, as it were,
\nwhere all the lower forms of <\/p>\n

378
\n00:27:53,480 –> 00:27:57,360
\nlife and all the highest forms
\nof life touch one another and a <\/p>\n

379
\n00:27:57,360 –> 00:27:59,520
\nscene in him and can be
\nmanifested him. <\/p>\n

380
\n00:27:59,720 –> 00:28:03,160
\nI confess man can be beastly.
\nIndeed he can be beastly. <\/p>\n

381
\n00:28:05,800 –> 00:28:10,880
\nThank God he, he can be saintly,
\nthe same man. <\/p>\n

382
\n00:28:13,280 –> 00:28:17,560
\nAnd these forces which are in
\nman, and which are in no other <\/p>\n

383
\n00:28:17,560 –> 00:28:23,920
\ncreated thing, make him kin with
\nthe divine, make him make the <\/p>\n

384
\n00:28:23,920 –> 00:28:28,480
\npossibility or provide the
\npossibility of him being at last<\/p>\n

385
\n00:28:28,480 –> 00:28:31,760
\nlike God.
\nAnd these things were given to <\/p>\n

386
\n00:28:31,760 –> 00:28:36,240
\nhim to answer the law of
\nmanhood, these marvellous <\/p>\n

387
\n00:28:36,240 –> 00:28:41,200
\npowers, so that he could be what
\nGod intended him to be. <\/p>\n

388
\n00:28:41,760 –> 00:28:52,240
\nWhen the Creator said, let us
\nmake man in our image and after <\/p>\n

389
\n00:28:52,240 –> 00:28:57,880
\nour likeness.
\nSo then man is given the power <\/p>\n

390
\n00:28:57,880 –> 00:29:01,400
\nof reason so that he can
\nunderstand God. <\/p>\n

391
\n00:29:02,320 –> 00:29:06,240
\nHe is given the power of free
\nwill so that he can respond to <\/p>\n

392
\n00:29:06,240 –> 00:29:09,120
\nGod.
\nHe is given the power of trust <\/p>\n

393
\n00:29:09,280 –> 00:29:11,800
\nso that he can have faith in
\nGod. <\/p>\n

394
\n00:29:12,080 –> 00:29:15,480
\nHe is given the power of love so
\nthat he can love God. <\/p>\n

395
\n00:29:16,680 –> 00:29:20,600
\nAnd when a man does that, he
\nanswers the Lord of manhood and <\/p>\n

396
\n00:29:20,600 –> 00:29:23,720
\ndoes that which for him is
\ndivinely intended. <\/p>\n

397
\n00:29:24,080 –> 00:29:31,280
\nAnd doing that he becomes God.
\nLike there is beginning to grow <\/p>\n

398
\n00:29:31,320 –> 00:29:37,400
\nin him that thing which the
\nBible calls godliness, God <\/p>\n

399
\n00:29:37,400 –> 00:29:42,640
\nlikeness, That is what the Bible
\ndemands of you. <\/p>\n

400
\n00:29:45,840 –> 00:29:52,120
\nBut when man misuses those
\nforces, and flings them away on <\/p>\n

401
\n00:29:52,120 –> 00:29:56,400
\nsomething less than the high
\npurpose to which they were for <\/p>\n

402
\n00:29:56,400 –> 00:30:01,120
\nwhich they were intended to be
\nused, that man is degraded. <\/p>\n

403
\n00:30:02,160 –> 00:30:06,480
\nThe powers given of God, and
\ndivinely implanted in the nature<\/p>\n

404
\n00:30:06,480 –> 00:30:09,320
\nof men, and which make him
\ndifferent from every other <\/p>\n

405
\n00:30:09,320 –> 00:30:12,520
\ncreated thing, are consequently
\nprostituted. <\/p>\n

406
\n00:30:14,000 –> 00:30:17,080
\nNow I know very well that
\nprostitution isn’t a very nice <\/p>\n

407
\n00:30:17,080 –> 00:30:20,400
\nword on a Sunday night in
\nBirmingham, but it’s the right <\/p>\n

408
\n00:30:20,400 –> 00:30:24,920
\nword, because prostitution is
\nwhen the highest powers of men <\/p>\n

409
\n00:30:25,200 –> 00:30:27,280
\nare used for the bilest
\npurposes. <\/p>\n

410
\n00:30:27,800 –> 00:30:33,080
\nSo then a man in that situation,
\nusing his high powers for such <\/p>\n

411
\n00:30:33,480 –> 00:30:37,400
\nweaken, ignoble purposes, is
\ndegraded. <\/p>\n

412
\n00:30:38,720 –> 00:30:41,040
\nAnd so the truth can be stated
\nvery simply. <\/p>\n

413
\n00:30:43,880 –> 00:30:50,600
\nWhen a man does that which is
\nungodly, he is degraded because <\/p>\n

414
\n00:30:50,600 –> 00:30:54,000
\nhe is a called genetically.
\nHe is called to the high <\/p>\n

415
\n00:30:54,000 –> 00:30:56,680
\nheritage of being like God in
\ncharacter. <\/p>\n

416
\n00:30:56,840 –> 00:30:59,840
\nHe is called to God likeness,
\nand when he sins against the <\/p>\n

417
\n00:30:59,840 –> 00:31:04,040
\nwill of God, he is defaced.
\nHe is defiled, he is polluted <\/p>\n

418
\n00:31:04,160 –> 00:31:06,880
\nand he is degraded.
\nHe is disgrace. <\/p>\n

419
\n00:31:08,120 –> 00:31:11,040
\nHe corrupts the standard by
\nwhich he was to be elevated to <\/p>\n

420
\n00:31:11,040 –> 00:31:14,880
\nthe high honour of serving his
\nCreator in obedience, and <\/p>\n

421
\n00:31:14,880 –> 00:31:17,080
\nconsequently giving glory to His
\nGod. <\/p>\n

422
\n00:31:25,320 –> 00:31:30,640
\nAnd in this particular
\nconnection there is one thing I <\/p>\n

423
\n00:31:30,640 –> 00:31:34,880
\nmust say to you.
\nI know you won’t love me one bit<\/p>\n

424
\n00:31:34,880 –> 00:31:39,600
\nfor saying it, but if I said it,
\nnot, if I went back to Oxford <\/p>\n

425
\n00:31:39,600 –> 00:31:43,520
\nand failed to say it, I should
\nbe false to this ministry of <\/p>\n

426
\n00:31:43,520 –> 00:31:46,680
\npreaching.
\nAnd the thing which has to be <\/p>\n

427
\n00:31:46,680 –> 00:31:56,920
\nsaid is this, In order to have
\nfailed in man’s responsibility <\/p>\n

428
\n00:31:56,920 –> 00:32:02,440
\nto God, and in order to have
\nbecome degraded, it is not <\/p>\n

429
\n00:32:02,440 –> 00:32:05,400
\nnecessary that we should have
\ngiven ourselves over to the <\/p>\n

430
\n00:32:05,400 –> 00:32:07,680
\nlowest and the meanest
\npractices. <\/p>\n

431
\n00:32:08,680 –> 00:32:13,000
\nWe may be people of unblemished
\nreputation, and yet we may have <\/p>\n

432
\n00:32:13,000 –> 00:32:15,440
\nfailed in the truest meaning of
\nthe word. <\/p>\n

433
\n00:32:16,520 –> 00:32:21,000
\nWe may turn away from everything
\nwhich is gross and vulgar, and <\/p>\n

434
\n00:32:21,000 –> 00:32:24,080
\nall our indulgences, if we have
\nany, may be marked with <\/p>\n

435
\n00:32:25,000 –> 00:32:28,680
\nrefinement and taste.
\nWe may do all the things which <\/p>\n

436
\n00:32:28,680 –> 00:32:31,280
\nare taken to be the symbols of
\nrespectability. <\/p>\n

437
\n00:32:31,400 –> 00:32:33,520
\nI won’t enumerate them, so I
\nshan’t offend you. <\/p>\n

438
\n00:32:34,520 –> 00:32:38,000
\nAnd their homes may be filled
\nwith comfort and elegance, and <\/p>\n

439
\n00:32:38,000 –> 00:32:40,480
\nthere may be nothing in their
\nlives to offend the most <\/p>\n

440
\n00:32:40,480 –> 00:32:44,640
\nfastidious opinion.
\nAnd yet I say to you that we may<\/p>\n

441
\n00:32:44,640 –> 00:32:47,520
\nhave utterly failed in our
\nresponsibility to God <\/p>\n

442
\n00:32:47,520 –> 00:32:50,520
\nnevertheless, and consequently
\nhave become degraded. <\/p>\n

443
\n00:32:50,920 –> 00:32:55,920
\nIf, ladies and gentlemen, if
\nthat Spirit in US which was <\/p>\n

444
\n00:32:55,920 –> 00:33:00,160
\nintended to find its real and
\nonly satisfaction in doing God’s<\/p>\n

445
\n00:33:00,160 –> 00:33:07,560
\nwill, is satisfied without doing
\nit, and if the gifts which were <\/p>\n

446
\n00:33:07,560 –> 00:33:11,280
\ngiven to us in order to serve
\nGod and obey Him instead are <\/p>\n

447
\n00:33:11,280 –> 00:33:16,400
\nbeing frittered away upon things
\nwhich are trivial and and and of<\/p>\n

448
\n00:33:16,400 –> 00:33:25,760
\nno consequence, ultimately
\nwasted, misused, used on things <\/p>\n

449
\n00:33:25,760 –> 00:33:32,840
\nwhich are in opposition to His
\npurpose, then we have failed. <\/p>\n

450
\n00:33:36,720 –> 00:33:40,960
\nWe have not answered the demand
\nwhich God is making upon us. <\/p>\n

451
\n00:33:41,760 –> 00:33:46,960
\nThe writer of the book of
\nEcclesiastes at the end of his <\/p>\n

452
\n00:33:46,960 –> 00:33:50,320
\nwriting, sums up man’s
\nresponsibility. <\/p>\n

453
\n00:33:50,640 –> 00:33:54,560
\nHe sums up what the Bible
\ndemands of you in these words. <\/p>\n

454
\n00:33:55,840 –> 00:34:03,360
\nClear God, and keep His
\ncommandments, for this is the <\/p>\n

455
\n00:34:03,360 –> 00:34:10,040
\nwhole duty of man.
\nAnd as one of my brethren <\/p>\n

456
\n00:34:10,040 –> 00:34:15,080
\npointed out to me yesterday,
\nthat word duty is in italics. <\/p>\n

457
\n00:34:15,719 –> 00:34:18,679
\nIt’s been put in by the
\ntranslators to make what seemed <\/p>\n

458
\n00:34:18,679 –> 00:34:21,960
\nto them to be the sense of it.
\nAnd whilst I don’t quarrel one <\/p>\n

459
\n00:34:21,960 –> 00:34:26,120
\nbit with the fact that is the
\nwhole duty of man, what the <\/p>\n

460
\n00:34:26,120 –> 00:34:29,480
\nwriter actually wrote was fear
\nGod and keep his commandments, <\/p>\n

461
\n00:34:29,480 –> 00:34:34,400
\nfor this is the whole man.
\nThis is man as God intended him <\/p>\n

462
\n00:34:34,400 –> 00:34:36,000
\nto be.
\nThis is manhood. <\/p>\n

463
\n00:34:36,400 –> 00:34:39,159
\nThis is manhood.
\nFear God and keep his <\/p>\n

464
\n00:34:39,159 –> 00:34:41,360
\ncommandments.
\nThis is the wholeness of man. <\/p>\n

465
\n00:34:41,480 –> 00:34:44,600
\nThis is man fully extended.
\nThis is man developed. <\/p>\n

466
\n00:34:44,760 –> 00:34:51,800
\nThis is man as God intended him
\nto be, force and heart and mind <\/p>\n

467
\n00:34:51,800 –> 00:34:54,639
\nand will in glad submission to
\nthe great God. <\/p>\n

468
\n00:34:54,800 –> 00:34:59,600
\nYou see by that divinely natural
\nprinciple whereby things which <\/p>\n

469
\n00:34:59,600 –> 00:35:03,440
\nhave a common interest take on a
\ncommon identity, so a man <\/p>\n

470
\n00:35:03,440 –> 00:35:08,400
\nbecomes like God, God like in
\ncharacter as God intended him to<\/p>\n

471
\n00:35:08,400 –> 00:35:12,920
\nbe.
\nLet us make man in our image and<\/p>\n

472
\n00:35:12,920 –> 00:35:18,480
\nafter their likeness.
\nSo finally, may I say this to <\/p>\n

473
\n00:35:18,480 –> 00:35:20,680
\nyou?
\nI’ve said that the <\/p>\n

474
\n00:35:20,680 –> 00:35:23,320
\nresponsibility of man is to
\nproduce manhood. <\/p>\n

475
\n00:35:23,640 –> 00:35:26,320
\nAnd if we face this issue
\nsquarely, and if we come to <\/p>\n

476
\n00:35:26,320 –> 00:35:30,840
\ngrips with God’s Word, we shall
\nhave to ask ourselves whether we<\/p>\n

477
\n00:35:30,840 –> 00:35:34,320
\nare fruitful in this particular
\ncalling, or whether we are <\/p>\n

478
\n00:35:34,320 –> 00:35:36,600
\nbarren.
\nAnd if we lay the measurement of<\/p>\n

479
\n00:35:36,600 –> 00:35:41,000
\nother men’s characters upon our
\nown, we shall come to a false <\/p>\n

480
\n00:35:41,000 –> 00:35:44,320
\njudgement.
\nWe can always find somebody else<\/p>\n

481
\n00:35:44,320 –> 00:35:47,320
\nwho is worse than we are, and we
\nshall be content. <\/p>\n

482
\n00:35:47,640 –> 00:35:51,240
\nNow, if we are really in
\nearnest, if we mean business, <\/p>\n

483
\n00:35:51,840 –> 00:35:54,600
\nand if we are really seeking the
\nanswer to this question, what <\/p>\n

484
\n00:35:54,600 –> 00:35:58,920
\ndoes the Bible demand of you?
\nThen may I say to you that <\/p>\n

485
\n00:35:58,920 –> 00:36:07,480
\nmanhood has been once perfectly
\nrevealed, and only once manhood <\/p>\n

486
\n00:36:07,480 –> 00:36:12,240
\nwas once perfectly revealed in
\nthe Man of Nazareth. <\/p>\n

487
\n00:36:12,880 –> 00:36:18,600
\nThe man of the seamless robe.
\nThe man who was born at <\/p>\n

488
\n00:36:18,600 –> 00:36:24,000
\nBethlehem and played on the
\ndoorstep at Nazareth, and lay in<\/p>\n

489
\n00:36:24,000 –> 00:36:28,480
\nhis mother’s arms in the Hill
\nCountry of Judea, and came at <\/p>\n

490
\n00:36:28,480 –> 00:36:33,600
\nlast to stand in the midst of
\nhis own people, and said, I am <\/p>\n

491
\n00:36:33,600 –> 00:36:37,640
\nthe way, the truth, and the
\nlife. <\/p>\n

492
\n00:36:39,720 –> 00:36:48,160
\nHe was man in all his glory.
\nHe was the realized idea of what<\/p>\n

493
\n00:36:48,160 –> 00:36:53,000
\nGod meant when he said, let us
\nmake man in our image. <\/p>\n

494
\n00:36:53,600 –> 00:36:59,200
\nThis man whose image is
\nimprinted now upon the parchment<\/p>\n

495
\n00:36:59,200 –> 00:37:04,560
\nof the New Testament, is the
\neffulgence of God’s glory, the <\/p>\n

496
\n00:37:04,560 –> 00:37:09,360
\nexpress image of His person.
\nAnd when we look at the Man of <\/p>\n

497
\n00:37:09,360 –> 00:37:16,120
\nNazareth, we are looking at the
\narchetypal man, and we shall not<\/p>\n

498
\n00:37:16,120 –> 00:37:19,840
\nbe able to find the key to our
\nlife, nor to our responsibility <\/p>\n

499
\n00:37:20,480 –> 00:37:25,920
\nin any other man than in He.
\nHe was a man wholly submitted to<\/p>\n

500
\n00:37:25,920 –> 00:37:30,560
\nthe will of God, and absolutely
\nat the service of his brother <\/p>\n

501
\n00:37:30,560 –> 00:37:33,280
\nmen.
\nA man who, being in the presence<\/p>\n

502
\n00:37:33,280 –> 00:37:36,400
\nof the material world,
\nconstantly looked through the <\/p>\n

503
\n00:37:36,400 –> 00:37:45,080
\nmaterial world to the spiritual.
\nA man who looked at the flowers <\/p>\n

504
\n00:37:45,080 –> 00:37:48,320
\nand said, Your heavenly Father
\nclotheth them. <\/p>\n

505
\n00:37:49,440 –> 00:37:57,520
\nA man who heard the birds
\nsinging and said, Your Father <\/p>\n

506
\n00:37:57,520 –> 00:38:03,640
\ncares for them.
\nA man who looked at children and<\/p>\n

507
\n00:38:03,640 –> 00:38:07,480
\nsaid, you’re they do ever,
\nthey’re angels, do ever behold <\/p>\n

508
\n00:38:07,480 –> 00:38:09,520
\nthe face of my Father which is
\nin heaven. <\/p>\n

509
\n00:38:12,120 –> 00:38:15,160
\nA man who handled a common loaf
\nand said there is bread to be <\/p>\n

510
\n00:38:15,160 –> 00:38:18,160
\neaten which men may eat and not
\ntaste of death forever. <\/p>\n

511
\n00:38:20,000 –> 00:38:22,640
\nA man who saw the shepherd on
\nthe hillside and said The <\/p>\n

512
\n00:38:22,640 –> 00:38:26,520
\nshepherd work of God will go on
\nuntil all the broken ones are <\/p>\n

513
\n00:38:26,520 –> 00:38:31,640
\nbrought home.
\nMan who saw the vine growing in <\/p>\n

514
\n00:38:31,640 –> 00:38:35,120
\nthe field and said it was but a
\nreplica of the true vine which <\/p>\n

515
\n00:38:35,120 –> 00:38:39,360
\ngiveth life to the world.
\nYes, look at the material <\/p>\n

516
\n00:38:39,360 –> 00:38:41,960
\nthings, Store in them the glory
\nof God. <\/p>\n

517
\n00:38:41,960 –> 00:38:44,480
\nThank God for them.
\nLook through them to the <\/p>\n

518
\n00:38:44,480 –> 00:38:48,040
\nspiritual.
\nSuch a man was he, a man, you <\/p>\n

519
\n00:38:48,040 –> 00:38:50,640
\nsee, who laid the measurement of
\nheaven upon earthly things, and <\/p>\n

520
\n00:38:50,640 –> 00:38:53,360
\nconsequently gave us a new
\nvision of goodness. <\/p>\n

521
\n00:38:54,080 –> 00:38:57,320
\nA man who spoke the great law
\nfrom the final government of <\/p>\n

522
\n00:38:57,320 –> 00:38:59,640
\nmen, and hear it as it fell from
\nhis lips. <\/p>\n

523
\n00:38:59,880 –> 00:39:04,000
\nWhat does God demand of you?
\nYe shall love thee, Lord thy <\/p>\n

524
\n00:39:04,000 –> 00:39:07,840
\nGod, with all thy heart, and
\nwith all thy soul, and with all <\/p>\n

525
\n00:39:07,840 –> 00:39:11,480
\nthy mind, and with all thy
\nstrength, and thou shalt love <\/p>\n

526
\n00:39:11,480 –> 00:39:15,200
\nthy neighbour as thyself.
\nAll the forces of our nature <\/p>\n

527
\n00:39:15,400 –> 00:39:18,600
\nbent towards God’s purpose.
\nAll the talents of our life <\/p>\n

528
\n00:39:18,720 –> 00:39:23,240
\nsubmitted to His will.
\nThese things the only true man <\/p>\n

529
\n00:39:23,240 –> 00:39:26,520
\ndid, and we have seen in Him,
\ntherefore, true manhood. <\/p>\n

530
\n00:39:27,080 –> 00:39:29,720
\nAnd the question therefore, as
\nyou put this measurement upon <\/p>\n

531
\n00:39:29,720 –> 00:39:33,280
\nyour own life, the question
\nwhich is before you tonight is, <\/p>\n

532
\n00:39:33,560 –> 00:39:36,360
\nhave we been like this?
\nGod help us, have we? <\/p>\n

533
\n00:39:37,440 –> 00:39:40,080
\nHis life was truth governed and
\nlove mastered. <\/p>\n

534
\n00:39:40,240 –> 00:39:44,240
\nHow was your life yesterday?
\nWas it a day of giving glory to <\/p>\n

535
\n00:39:44,240 –> 00:39:46,040
\nGod?
\nWere your forces and your <\/p>\n

536
\n00:39:46,040 –> 00:39:52,440
\ntalents used for His high
\npurpose, and I say it to you <\/p>\n

537
\n00:39:52,440 –> 00:39:56,720
\nwith the deepest respect, or was
\nit a day of degradation when <\/p>\n

538
\n00:39:56,720 –> 00:39:59,760
\nyour high forces and talents
\nwere wasted on things of no <\/p>\n

539
\n00:39:59,760 –> 00:40:05,040
\nconsequence, on trivialities, on
\nlow things and mean things? <\/p>\n

540
\n00:40:06,840 –> 00:40:09,200
\nI put it to you that if we
\nmeasure ourselves by the true <\/p>\n

541
\n00:40:09,200 –> 00:40:12,360
\nstandard of manhood, then when
\nthe proprietor of the garden <\/p>\n

542
\n00:40:12,360 –> 00:40:15,680
\ncomes into his vineyard seeking
\nfruit, what will the harvest be <\/p>\n

543
\n00:40:15,680 –> 00:40:20,120
\nlike?
\nPlease don’t misunderstand me. <\/p>\n

544
\n00:40:20,120 –> 00:40:22,360
\nI’m not pretending to stand in
\njudgement upon this <\/p>\n

545
\n00:40:22,360 –> 00:40:25,440
\ncongregation.
\nI’ve no business to be doing <\/p>\n

546
\n00:40:25,440 –> 00:40:28,040
\nthat.
\nI’m only anxious to oppressive. <\/p>\n

547
\n00:40:28,080 –> 00:40:30,720
\nImpress upon you the solemnity
\nof this little parable. <\/p>\n

548
\n00:40:31,480 –> 00:40:34,280
\nGod has a right in the ultimate
\nto reject the thing which is <\/p>\n

549
\n00:40:34,280 –> 00:40:36,560
\nunchangeably barren.
\nThat’s its teaching. <\/p>\n

550
\n00:40:37,240 –> 00:40:39,960
\nAnd God will, because of His
\nvery nature, have to reject the <\/p>\n

551
\n00:40:39,960 –> 00:40:44,600
\nman who, being responsible, has
\nculpably neglected his <\/p>\n

552
\n00:40:44,600 –> 00:40:48,160
\nresponsibility.
\nNow, as I said before, I’m not <\/p>\n

553
\n00:40:48,160 –> 00:40:50,480
\nconcerned tonight with
\ndiminished responsibility. <\/p>\n

554
\n00:40:50,480 –> 00:40:54,160
\nA very interesting subject.
\nNot my subject tonight, though. <\/p>\n

555
\n00:40:55,120 –> 00:41:00,880
\nMy subject tonight is the
\nresponsibility of the men and <\/p>\n

556
\n00:41:00,880 –> 00:41:04,360
\nwomen who have sat listening to
\nme and to this gospel. <\/p>\n

557
\n00:41:05,760 –> 00:41:08,840
\nSo may I in this last minute,
\ndirect your attention to one <\/p>\n

558
\n00:41:08,840 –> 00:41:12,800
\nother thing in the parable, the
\nintercessor. <\/p>\n

559
\n00:41:13,960 –> 00:41:18,280
\nThink upon him, and I’m thinking
\nupon him. <\/p>\n

560
\n00:41:18,280 –> 00:41:21,360
\nLet us not think that the
\npurpose of Jesus Christ is to <\/p>\n

561
\n00:41:21,360 –> 00:41:25,440
\npersuade God to let off the man
\nwho insists on being a failure. <\/p>\n

562
\n00:41:26,320 –> 00:41:28,000
\nLook at it carefully, that
\nparable. <\/p>\n

563
\n00:41:28,000 –> 00:41:30,320
\nThink of it.
\nWhat was the underlying purpose <\/p>\n

564
\n00:41:30,320 –> 00:41:32,880
\nof the proprietor?
\nWell, the underlying purpose of <\/p>\n

565
\n00:41:32,880 –> 00:41:36,200
\nthe proprietor was fruit.
\nAnd what was the foremost <\/p>\n

566
\n00:41:36,200 –> 00:41:39,480
\npurpose of the vine dresser?
\nWell, the foremost purpose of <\/p>\n

567
\n00:41:39,480 –> 00:41:43,600
\nthe vine dresser was fruit also.
\nSo let us say reverently, there <\/p>\n

568
\n00:41:43,600 –> 00:41:47,520
\nis no quarrel between God and
\nJesus Christ about man’s <\/p>\n

569
\n00:41:47,520 –> 00:41:50,240
\nresponsibility.
\nThere is no disagreement between<\/p>\n

570
\n00:41:50,240 –> 00:41:53,920
\nGod and Jesus Christ about what
\nGod demands of you. <\/p>\n

571
\n00:41:54,080 –> 00:41:57,200
\nChrist did not come into the
\nworld to let off the man who is <\/p>\n

572
\n00:41:57,200 –> 00:42:00,120
\nset hard against God and will
\nnot change his Baroness. <\/p>\n

573
\n00:42:00,280 –> 00:42:03,320
\nBut Christ did come into the
\nworld to produce in that barren <\/p>\n

574
\n00:42:03,320 –> 00:42:05,360
\nman the fruit that God is
\nseeking. <\/p>\n

575
\n00:42:05,480 –> 00:42:08,920
\nAnd the purpose of the Savior is
\nto make men who are willing to <\/p>\n

576
\n00:42:08,920 –> 00:42:11,920
\nsubmit to Him to be what God
\nintended they should be God <\/p>\n

577
\n00:42:11,920 –> 00:42:15,520
\nlike.
\nSo the judgement now you see, <\/p>\n

578
\n00:42:16,120 –> 00:42:19,720
\ndid you notice it?
\nThe judgement now is postponed <\/p>\n

579
\n00:42:20,000 –> 00:42:23,240
\nso that all those who have not
\nyet introduced themselves to all<\/p>\n

580
\n00:42:23,240 –> 00:42:26,720
\nthose forces of the Son of God
\nwhich can remake them, they do <\/p>\n

581
\n00:42:26,720 –> 00:42:31,320
\nso whilst there is opportunity.
\nThis is the hour of the vine <\/p>\n

582
\n00:42:31,320 –> 00:42:33,680
\ndresser.
\nThat’s this hour. <\/p>\n

583
\n00:42:34,160 –> 00:42:38,760
\nLeave it alone, he said.
\nHe is interceding for us, for <\/p>\n

584
\n00:42:38,760 –> 00:42:42,120
\nthose of us who are
\nprocrastinating, for those of us<\/p>\n

585
\n00:42:42,280 –> 00:42:46,120
\nwho are putting it off, for
\nthose of us who are hesitating. <\/p>\n

586
\n00:42:46,200 –> 00:42:49,240
\nHe is pleading for us.
\nHe is saying, Leave it alone <\/p>\n

587
\n00:42:49,240 –> 00:42:53,080
\nthis year also, and I will
\ncultivate it. <\/p>\n

588
\n00:42:56,280 –> 00:43:00,920
\nThe hour of the vine dresser.
\nAnd by the strange dignity which<\/p>\n

589
\n00:43:00,920 –> 00:43:07,080
\nGod has endowed men with, the
\nprocess needs your consent. <\/p>\n

590
\n00:43:09,240 –> 00:43:12,160
\nIt means that we shall have to
\nrepudiate the life which lives <\/p>\n

591
\n00:43:12,160 –> 00:43:15,240
\nfor self indulgence.
\nIt means that we shall have to <\/p>\n

592
\n00:43:15,240 –> 00:43:20,560
\ncome humbly and recognize our
\ndegradation for what it is and <\/p>\n

593
\n00:43:20,560 –> 00:43:23,560
\nturn from it.
\nAnd we shall have to come humbly<\/p>\n

594
\n00:43:23,560 –> 00:43:27,760
\nto God’s Word, confessing our
\nneed, seeking to know His will, <\/p>\n

595
\n00:43:27,760 –> 00:43:31,440
\nand being willing to bend our
\nlives to His commandments. <\/p>\n

596
\n00:43:32,200 –> 00:43:35,600
\nAnd nothing short of this will
\nenable us to meet the demand <\/p>\n

597
\n00:43:35,600 –> 00:43:40,320
\nwhich God’s Word makes upon us.
\nAnd this is the last solemn <\/p>\n

598
\n00:43:40,320 –> 00:43:44,920
\nWord, ladies and gentlemen, and
\nI, I beseech you to to believe <\/p>\n

599
\n00:43:44,920 –> 00:43:48,400
\nit.
\nThere is in this situation no <\/p>\n

600
\n00:43:48,400 –> 00:43:53,760
\nmiddle course, Not for you at
\nleast, no middle course. <\/p>\n

601
\n00:43:54,280 –> 00:43:56,560
\nYou know what you are called to
\nand for what? <\/p>\n

602
\n00:43:56,800 –> 00:44:01,120
\nFor the reasons, the reasons why
\nyou have been created, you’ve <\/p>\n

603
\n00:44:01,120 –> 00:44:06,240
\nbeen invested with wonderful
\npowers divinely implanted for <\/p>\n

604
\n00:44:06,240 –> 00:44:07,800
\nyou.
\nThere is no middle course. <\/p>\n

605
\n00:44:08,000 –> 00:44:11,400
\nEither you will submit
\nyourselves to those forces which<\/p>\n

606
\n00:44:11,400 –> 00:44:15,400
\nwill produce in you the fruit
\nwhich glorifies God, or you will<\/p>\n

607
\n00:44:15,400 –> 00:44:17,760
\nnot.
\nAnd if you, if you will not, <\/p>\n

608
\n00:44:17,760 –> 00:44:21,320
\nthen you will become barren.
\nThe Word of God demands that we <\/p>\n

609
\n00:44:21,320 –> 00:44:24,320
\nshall humbly seek to know God
\nthrough His Word, the <\/p>\n

610
\n00:44:24,320 –> 00:44:28,400
\ndocumentation of His mind, the
\nexpression of His will, that we <\/p>\n

611
\n00:44:28,400 –> 00:44:30,640
\nshall seek to know Him as He is
\nrevealed there. <\/p>\n

612
\n00:44:30,800 –> 00:44:33,400
\nThat we should believe what He
\nhas revealed, believing it with <\/p>\n

613
\n00:44:33,400 –> 00:44:36,680
\nreverent fear.
\nNot choosing this and rejecting <\/p>\n

614
\n00:44:36,680 –> 00:44:40,200
\nthat, but submitting ourselves
\nto the mind of God and seeking <\/p>\n

615
\n00:44:40,200 –> 00:44:42,160
\nto make it the master Passion of
\nour life. <\/p>\n

616
\n00:44:42,720 –> 00:44:46,840
\nThat consequently we shall
\ncultivate the faith that trusts <\/p>\n

617
\n00:44:46,840 –> 00:44:50,520
\nin God altogether, and we should
\nbe baptized into the saving name<\/p>\n

618
\n00:44:50,520 –> 00:44:54,160
\nof His Son, our Lord, the
\nSaviour and the Redeemer of <\/p>\n

619
\n00:44:54,160 –> 00:44:57,760
\nthose who will come to God.
\nThat we shall make Incarnate in <\/p>\n

620
\n00:44:57,760 –> 00:45:01,080
\nour lives the will of God, by
\nobeying His commandments, and <\/p>\n

621
\n00:45:01,080 –> 00:45:04,480
\nallowing him to work within us,
\nwilling and doing of His good <\/p>\n

622
\n00:45:04,480 –> 00:45:07,080
\npleasure.
\nThat we shall look expectantly <\/p>\n

623
\n00:45:07,080 –> 00:45:10,120
\nfor the coming again to the
\nearth of His summon flaming <\/p>\n

624
\n00:45:10,120 –> 00:45:13,760
\nAdvent glory, to establish here
\nupon the earth the Kingdom of <\/p>\n

625
\n00:45:13,760 –> 00:45:18,040
\nGod, to bring life and joy and
\npeace, where at the moment <\/p>\n

626
\n00:45:18,040 –> 00:45:20,840
\nsorrow and sighing and sin
\nabound. <\/p>\n

627
\n00:45:21,680 –> 00:45:24,160
\nThis is what the Word of God
\ndemands of you. <\/p>\n

628
\n00:45:25,120 –> 00:45:27,800
\nI put it to you, there is no
\nmiddle course. <\/p>\n

629
\n00:45:28,320 –> 00:45:31,280
\nEither you will believe the
\ngospel of grace, and believing <\/p>\n

630
\n00:45:31,280 –> 00:45:38,160
\nit, you will live, or you will
\nnot. <\/p>\n

631
\n00:45:44,960 –> 00:45:51,520
\nSo there is no neutrality, there
\nnever is for those who are <\/p>\n

632
\n00:45:51,520 –> 00:45:55,440
\nresponsible.
\nSo it’s my hope and the hope of <\/p>\n

633
\n00:45:55,440 –> 00:45:58,360
\nmy brethren and sisters that
\nthere’s anybody in this house <\/p>\n

634
\n00:45:58,360 –> 00:46:02,440
\ntonight who has not yet taken
\nthat fateful but magnificent <\/p>\n

635
\n00:46:02,440 –> 00:46:05,440
\ndecision in favour of the King
\nand the Lord. <\/p>\n

636
\n00:46:06,160 –> 00:46:10,280
\nThen they will do so ere long,
\nwithout delay, whilst there is <\/p>\n

637
\n00:46:10,280 –> 00:46:14,760
\nstill opportunity, whilst the
\nhour of the vine dresser lasts, <\/p>\n

638
\n00:46:15,240 –> 00:46:23,000
\nwhilst he is saying still leave
\nit alone this year, God knows <\/p>\n

639
\n00:46:23,000 –> 00:46:24,920
\nwhether he’ll leave it alone
\nnext year. <\/p>\n

640
\n00:46:26,520 –> 00:46:30,360
\nLet us therefore not fall victim
\nto the peril of procrastination,<\/p>\n

641
\n00:46:30,960 –> 00:46:34,240
\nbut let us yield ourselves now,
\nthis night, if need be, this <\/p>\n

642
\n00:46:34,240 –> 00:46:41,240
\nvery night, to His Word and His
\nwill, and let us crown Him a <\/p>\n

643
\n00:46:41,240 –> 00:46:49,320
\nlawful King and Lord of all.
\nThis is what God’s Word demands <\/p>\n

644
\n00:46:50,520 –> 00:47:07,210
\nof you.
\nThank you for listening to the <\/p>\n

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\n00:47:07,210 –> 00:47:08,810
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335: Dennis Gillett – Get to Grips with God’s Word<\/a><\/blockquote>