Class 5 from this series was used in GCT Episode 346.<\/p>\n
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\nour brother Purse Mansfield,
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\nHis general subject is Before
\nthe Deluge and his subject for <\/p>\n
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\nthis the first class.
\nA warning for today, Brother <\/p>\n
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\nMansfield.
\nMy dear brethren and sisters in <\/p>\n
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\nChrist Jesus, we commence these
\naddresses on a note of urgency. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause of the significant times
\nin which we’re living, we <\/p>\n
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\nbelieve that we’re on the very
\nepoch of the Lord’s return. <\/p>\n
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\nThat means for us the epoch of
\njudgement. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd far as that is concerned,
\nthe whole world is in that epoch<\/p>\n
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\nof judgement.
\nIt’s going to be the judgement <\/p>\n
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\nof Armageddon.
\nThere’s going to be the <\/p>\n
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\njudgement of the judgement seat
\nof Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd before the judgement of
\nArmageddon is poured out of from<\/p>\n
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\nan unheeding world, we’re going
\nto be called to the judgement <\/p>\n
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\nseat of Christ.
\nOr that is how I understand the <\/p>\n
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\nScriptures, because Peter tells
\nus in the first of Peter chapter<\/p>\n
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\n4 and verse 17 that judgement
\nmust begin at the House of God. <\/p>\n
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\nJudgement must begin, he says,
\nat the House of God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in the 149th Psalm we read,
\nLet the Saints be joyful in <\/p>\n
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\nglory, let them single out upon
\ntheir beds, let the high praises<\/p>\n
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\nof God be in their mouth, and A2
\nedged sword in their hand, to <\/p>\n
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\nexecute vengeance upon the
\nnations and punishment upon the <\/p>\n
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\npeople, to bind their kings with
\nchains and their nobles with <\/p>\n
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\nfetters of eye.
\nSo part of the work of the <\/p>\n
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\nSaints of the age to come will
\nbe to assist the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nChrist in subduing the world to
\nHim. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if that is part of our work
\nof the age to come, then <\/p>\n
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\nobviously the judgement seat of
\nChrist must precede the <\/p>\n
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\njudgement seat in the judgement
\nof the world at large. <\/p>\n
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\nSo as we look around the world
\ntoday and we see these signs <\/p>\n
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\ntaking place that speak so
\nclearly of Christ’s return, as <\/p>\n
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\nwe see the growth of Russia and
\nthe divided state of the <\/p>\n
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\nnations, as we see the uprise of
\nIsrael, as we see those dramatic<\/p>\n
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\nevents that are taking place in
\nPersia and in Lebanon and so <\/p>\n
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\nforth, we’re impressed with the
\nfulfilment of Bible prophecy. <\/p>\n
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\nBut let us not be deluded in
\nthat regard. <\/p>\n
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\nThat should act as an excitation
\nto us. <\/p>\n
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\nBut Christ returns and we will
\nbe in his presence. <\/p>\n
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\nNow theme, which is of course
\nbefore the deluge, will be <\/p>\n
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\nconsidered.
\nWith that in view, we will take <\/p>\n
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\nthe section of Genesis that
\nwe’re going to treat with in two<\/p>\n
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\nways.
\nFirst, of course, it’s <\/p>\n
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\nconsidered literal, A literal
\naccount of what historically <\/p>\n
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\nhappened, there’s no doubt about
\nthat. <\/p>\n
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\nBut secondly, it will be
\nconsidered as a parabolic <\/p>\n
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\nallegory of the purpose of
\nAlmighty God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we will see in the events
\nthat are recorded in the early <\/p>\n
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\nchapters of Genesis leading to
\nthe flood that both the advents <\/p>\n
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\nof Jesus Christ are foreshadowed
\nthere. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in a very remarkable way, we
\nwill see that the events that <\/p>\n
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\ntook place in those days leading
\nto the flood exactly foreshadow <\/p>\n
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\nwhat we see in the earth today.
\nIn other words, what we are <\/p>\n
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\nwitnessing today as we see a
\nworld given over the wind, <\/p>\n
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\nmorality and wickedness, we see
\nthe growth of crime and the <\/p>\n
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\ngrowth of the military exploits.
\nThis sort of thing was there <\/p>\n
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\nbefore the flood, and the whole
\nworld was sunk of iniquity. <\/p>\n
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\nThen that God looked down upon
\nheaven and it repented him. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he washed it clean with the
\nwaters of the flood, and He must<\/p>\n
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\nlook down now upon this earth of
\nours, and observing the way in <\/p>\n
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\nwhich people live, it must
\nrepent him at his heart that we <\/p>\n
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\nare in that state.
\nI mean the world at large. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd whilst he washed it clean of
\nthe days of Noah, he’s going to <\/p>\n
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\npurge it with fire.
\nIn the day when the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nChrist shall return.
\nWe shall see how that the events<\/p>\n
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\nin Noah’s day were recorded
\nthere. <\/p>\n
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\nI believe not only to tell us
\nwhat happened, but also to warn <\/p>\n
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\nus what will happen as far as
\nour day is concerned. <\/p>\n
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\nWe commence therefore, in
\nlooking at some places in the <\/p>\n
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\nNew Testament.
\nWe commence with the 17th <\/p>\n
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\nchapter of Luke and at verse 26.
\nAnd here the Lord Jesus Christ <\/p>\n
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\nsays that as it was in the days
\nof Noah, so shall appear the <\/p>\n
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\ndays of the coming of the Son of
\nMan. <\/p>\n
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\nThey did eat, they drank, they
\nmarried wives, they were given <\/p>\n
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\nin marriage until the day that
\nNoah entered into the ark and a <\/p>\n
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\nflood came and destroyed them
\nall. <\/p>\n
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\nLikewise also as it was in the
\ndays of lot, they ate, they <\/p>\n
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\ndrank, they bought, they sold,
\nthey planted, they build it, but<\/p>\n
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\nthe same day that lot without of
\nSodom, it rained far and <\/p>\n
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\nbrimstone from heaven and
\ndestroyed them all. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the Lord Jesus Christ in
\nthose words were warning his <\/p>\n
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\ndisciples and his warning words
\ncome down to us today because <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re living in that time.
\nAnd it’s a remarkable thing that<\/p>\n
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\nthe Lord Jesus Christ, in
\ndealing with the days of Noah <\/p>\n
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\nand the days of life, spoke
\nnothing about the worldwide <\/p>\n
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\nimmorality at that time, nothing
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\nthe world, nor of the violence
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\nHe tweeted with people that did
\nthings that in themselves were <\/p>\n
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\nlegitimate.
\nThey ate, they drank, they <\/p>\n
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\nbought, they sold, they planted,
\nthey builded. <\/p>\n
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\nNothing wrong with any of those
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\nThey are legitimate pursues.
\nAnd yet there was those things <\/p>\n
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\nthat the Lord emphasizes took
\nthem off their guard. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the day of Noah came upon
\nthem unawares, and they were <\/p>\n
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\ntaken off their guard by the
\npursuit of things that in <\/p>\n
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\nthemselves are quite legitimate.
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\nwarning us concerning that as
\nnervous to say to us that the <\/p>\n
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\nmain danger of our day and
\ngeneration just prior to the <\/p>\n
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\ncoming of the Son of God will be
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\nworld about us, but the
\npreoccupation on our part of <\/p>\n
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\nthings that in themselves are
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\nbuying and selling and planting
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\nAnd the danger of this age in
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\ngive first priority to that, and
\nthe things of God can take <\/p>\n
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\nsecond place.
\nThat was what happened in the <\/p>\n
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\ndays of Noah.
\nAs we will see. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a danger that could
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\nwhich we living.
\nWe’re living in an age of great <\/p>\n
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\nworldly opportunity.
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\nIf we like to divert all our
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\nget rich.
\nIt’s a day of great opportunity <\/p>\n
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\nNot only is it a day of
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\naffluence and that affluence can
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\nChrist Jesus.
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\nthe and the mechanical things of
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\ntoday.
\nAnd we feel that we’re like <\/p>\n
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\nplaying the seer.
\nWe’re rich and increased with <\/p>\n
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\ngoods and the need of nothing.
\nThat’s the danger, brethren and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters, not to you, but to me.
\nIt’s the danger that takes <\/p>\n
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\npossession of every one of us
\nand can take us off our guard. <\/p>\n
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\nIt did in the days of Noah.
\nThere was a big ecclesia. <\/p>\n
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\nThen that ecclesia went into the
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\nThere was a big ecclesia with
\nLot in Sodom. <\/p>\n
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\nHe never went down there on his
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\ntaken up with the opportunities
\nof that city and completely <\/p>\n
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\ndestroyed.
\nAnd the danger is, says Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nChrist, that at the time of his
\ncoming the situation will be so <\/p>\n
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\nmuch like that that we may be
\ntaken off our guard. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I believe that the events
\nthat are recorded in the early <\/p>\n
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\nchapters of Genesis are recorded
\nthere to warn us of what can <\/p>\n
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\ntake place.
\nWe must see it in that parabolic<\/p>\n
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\nmanner.
\nWe can give to God a second <\/p>\n
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\nclass service in which we may
\nread the Bible and attend <\/p>\n
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\nmeetings and do this and do
\nthat, but it is all second <\/p>\n
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\nclass.
\nAnd, you know, Malachi warned <\/p>\n
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\nabout that.
\nThey were sacrificing, all <\/p>\n
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\nright, but it wasn’t the best of
\ntheir animals that they <\/p>\n
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\nsacrificed at that time.
\nThey couldn’t pay the ties <\/p>\n
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\nbecause they said they didn’t
\nhave the money. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Malachi voicing the words of
\nYahweh, says, offer your <\/p>\n
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\nsacrifices to your governor.
\nWell, he will be pleased with <\/p>\n
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\nwhat you’ve given him.
\nGive it unto me, give it unto <\/p>\n
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\nhim.
\nAnd As for your ties, you’re <\/p>\n
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\nrobbing God.
\nYou’re robbing God. <\/p>\n
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\nWe remembered last night the
\nsacrifice of a man that gave <\/p>\n
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\neverything that he might provide
\nthe means whereby we can attain <\/p>\n
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\nunto life eternal.
\nWhat’s life eternal mean to you?<\/p>\n
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\nSo you will suddenly realize
\nthat you have a deadly sickness.<\/p>\n
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\nWhat is your life worth to you?
\nIs it worth a sacrifice? <\/p>\n
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\nJesus Christ gave the whole of
\nhis life to his God. <\/p>\n
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\nWe can treat the life of Jesus
\nChrist and the offering of Jesus<\/p>\n
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\nChrist as a substitutionary
\noffering, which we would say is <\/p>\n
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\na deadly heresy, or a
\nrepresentative offering which we<\/p>\n
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\nsay is the truth.
\nBut your own brethren and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters, we can speak of the
\nrepresentative offering of Jesus<\/p>\n
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\nChrist as a doctrinal truth, but
\nnot apply the principles of it. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause if it is a
\nrepresentative offering, then <\/p>\n
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\nthat which we remembered last
\nevening in the offering of the <\/p>\n
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\nJesus Christ was representative
\nof our offering. <\/p>\n
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\nNow is it?
\nAnd that’s what we need to bear <\/p>\n
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\nin mind.
\nA second class service to God is<\/p>\n
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\nof no use to him.
\nIt’s an insult to him. <\/p>\n
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\nOnly the best is good enough for
\nhim. <\/p>\n
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\nThe best of our time, the best
\nof our energy, the best of our <\/p>\n
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\nthen that sacrifice comes
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\nAnd Jesus Christ warned that at
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\nDon’t say yes, that’s right, we
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\ntell us.
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\nThe matter is urgent and the
\nurgency is of such a nature that<\/p>\n
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\nAnd he says, remember Lot’s
\nwife, we know what happened. <\/p>\n
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\nAs far as Lot’s wife is
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\nto save his life shall lose it,
\nand whosoever shall lose his <\/p>\n
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\nsave that life in that way,
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\nWe may atone under the objective
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\nNow we’re losing in the age to
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\nhe will preserve it in the age
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\nIn that night there shall be two
\nmen in one bed. <\/p>\n
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\ncometh when he is away.
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\nin that night there shall be two
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\nfellowship, one with the other,
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\nThen he speaks of two who are
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\ntogether.
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\nas that of the ecclesia, some in
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\nsome labeling one with the
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\nBut he says one shall be taken
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\njudgement seat.
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\ntake one to oneself as one will
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\nmotivation. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd now at the judgment seat,
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\nthat they have pursued is
\nbrought before the the eyes of <\/p>\n
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\nthat judge.
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\nAnd they say, Where, Lord, where
\nshall he be driven? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the Lord said Wheresoever
\nthe body is, thither will the <\/p>\n
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\neagles be gathered together.
\nAnd he’s Speaking of a dead body<\/p>\n
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\nand the boxes are coming down,
\nand that’s the world at large. <\/p>\n
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\nSo those that have driven away
\nare driven back into the world <\/p>\n
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\nthat they love so much.
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\nus, which he builds upon the
\ndays of Noah. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the issue is there.
\nThere’s an urgency about it. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that we notice that urgency,
\nthe unexpected nature of the <\/p>\n
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\nreturn.
\nThe verse 30 where He says in <\/p>\n
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\nthat regard, the day when the
\nSon of Man is revealed and the <\/p>\n
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\nword is apocalypse unveiled,
\nwhen He’s revealed to us and all<\/p>\n
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\nHis glory and His Majesty, and
\nHe’s in our presence and the <\/p>\n
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\njudgment seat is set up, then
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\nother left in that way.
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\nquestion, what is to be our
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\nWhat is to be our destiny?
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\nas it was in the days of life,
\nso shall it be at the coming of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Son of Man.
\nNo one in the days of Noah, no <\/p>\n
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\none in the days of Lot, warned
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\nat hand.
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\nunexpectedly.
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\nThey weren’t conscious of that
\nmatter. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen Lot was up the gate and
\nthose angels came to that city, <\/p>\n
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\nLot was conscious of the evil
\nand the wickedness of that city.<\/p>\n
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\nBut he didn’t realize that
\nwithin a matter of hours that <\/p>\n
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\ncity would be destroyed by the
\ngreatest Holocaust of those <\/p>\n
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\ntimes, a vast earthquake that
\nwould destroy the whole of A and<\/p>\n
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\nplunge it into the depths of the
\nDead Sea. <\/p>\n
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\nHe didn’t understand it.
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\nbrethren and sisters, the world
\nat large didn’t understand it. <\/p>\n
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\nBut tragedy of tragedies, the
\necclesia existing in the days of<\/p>\n
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\nNoah didn’t realize it.
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\nof that time.
\nAnd that ecclesia was an <\/p>\n
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\nextensive ecclesia.
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\nthe very witness of Noah.
\nSo the day came upon the man of <\/p>\n
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\nWares, and they were plunged
\nalso into the abyss, into the <\/p>\n
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\nflood that destroyed them all.
\nNow we take another passage of <\/p>\n
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\nthe importance of the times in <\/p>\n
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\nThis time we go over to the <\/p>\n
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\nEpistle of Peter in the second
\nof Peter chapter 3. <\/p>\n
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\nWant to do this is preparatory
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\nin the early chapters of
\nGenesis. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in the Second Epistle of
\nPeter, chapter 3, we have a <\/p>\n
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\nchapter of challenge.
\nIt challenges US, number one, <\/p>\n
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\nnumber 2 with the indifference <\/p>\n
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\nof our contemporaries #3 with
\nthe signs of the times #4 with <\/p>\n
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\nour reaction thereto, and #5
\nwith the order of our <\/p>\n
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\nThis chapter, first of all, <\/p>\n
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\nemphasizes our standing before
\nour God, and it does so in the <\/p>\n
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\nfirst verse.
\nThis second epistle, beloved, I <\/p>\n
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\nnow write unto you five times in
\nthis chapter. <\/p>\n
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\nHe directs attention to the
\nbeloved in Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s our title, beloved.
\nGod so loved the world that he <\/p>\n
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\ngave his only begotten Son, and
\nthey have beloved who are <\/p>\n
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\ngathered into that Son and are
\nmanifesting the qualities of <\/p>\n
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\nthat Son.
\nAnd five times Peter is <\/p>\n
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\nemphasizing his feelings towards
\nthe ecclesia by the use of that <\/p>\n
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\nterm beloved, because he would
\nsave them from the trouble that <\/p>\n
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\nhe knew threaten them in their
\nday and threatens the ecclesia <\/p>\n
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\ntoday.
\nThis is my beloved son, said <\/p>\n
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\nAlmighty God in relation to the
\nLord Jesus Christ, in whom I am <\/p>\n
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\nwell pleased.
\nAnd he was well pleased because <\/p>\n
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\nhis beloved son performed the
\nwill of his father. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the term beloved applies to
\nus if we’re found in the same <\/p>\n
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\ncategory as obeying the will of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he goes on to say in verse 2
\nthat he may be mindful of the <\/p>\n
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\nwords which were spoken before
\nof the holy prophets and of the <\/p>\n
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\ncommandment of us, the apostles
\nof the Lord and Savior. <\/p>\n
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\nSo when we use this term beloved
\nor loved in regard to ourselves,<\/p>\n
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\nremember that it is based upon
\nhow pleasing of God that we <\/p>\n
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\nplease God by performing his
\ncontempt, his his commandments. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Peter speaks of the
\nindifference of our <\/p>\n
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\ncontemporaries, the scoffing
\nworld about us, in verses 3 and <\/p>\n
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\n4.
\nKnow this first, that there <\/p>\n
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\nshall come in the last days
\nscoffers walking after their own<\/p>\n
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\nlusts and saying, where is the
\npromise of his coming? <\/p>\n
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\nFor since the fathers fell
\nasleep, all things continue as <\/p>\n
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\nthey were from the beginning of
\ncreation. <\/p>\n
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\nPeter is not dealing with the
\nworld at large, Notice. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s dealing with those that
\nrecognize the Fathers of the <\/p>\n
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\nEcclesia.
\nIt’s not the world that are <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re the members of the <\/p>\n
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\nEcclesia that were scoffing in
\nthe days of Peter, despite the <\/p>\n
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\nwarning of Peter of that
\nparticular time. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they were saying, where is
\nthe promise of his coming? <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ve heard it so often, it’s
\nbeen repeated so much. <\/p>\n
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\nWhere indeed is the promise of
\nhis coming? <\/p>\n
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\nFor since the Fathers fell
\nasleep? <\/p>\n
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\nAll things continue as they were
\nfrom the beginning. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he’s not Speaking of the
\nfathers of the Jewish race, <\/p>\n
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\nAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
\nThe apostle Paul said you have <\/p>\n
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\nfathers in the ecclesia.
\nHe says I have begotten you. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he warns them of times of
\ndifficulty that were going to <\/p>\n
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\naccording to the believers at <\/p>\n
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\nthe time that they expected.
\nSo now they are saying, or they <\/p>\n
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\nwould say, Peter says they will
\nsay when he was gone and he was <\/p>\n
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\non the point of death then and
\nPaul already had died. <\/p>\n
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\nThey would say since the fathers
\nfell asleep, since Paul and <\/p>\n
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\nPeter and these others have
\nfallen to their sleep, all <\/p>\n
339
\n00:21:13,480 –> 00:21:17,480
\nthings continue.
\nAll things continue. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:21:18,040 –> 00:21:21,840
\nThere’s no change whatever.
\nAnd you know, brethren and <\/p>\n
341
\n00:21:21,840 –> 00:21:24,800
\nsisters, that’s a sort of
\nlanguage that I have heard very,<\/p>\n
342
\n00:21:24,800 –> 00:21:28,680
\nvery frequently since the days
\nof Doctor Thomas. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:21:28,680 –> 00:21:32,520
\nHe expected the return of Christ
\nso much sooner than it has <\/p>\n
344
\n00:21:32,520 –> 00:21:34,800
\noccurred and all things
\ncontinue. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:21:35,160 –> 00:21:38,000
\nLook, I’ve been tired.
\nI’ve heard all this about Russia<\/p>\n
346
\n00:21:38,000 –> 00:21:40,920
\n30 years ago.
\nWe’ve heard it all and that <\/p>\n
347
\n00:21:40,920 –> 00:21:42,600
\nhasn’t happened.
\nThe news say it’s going to <\/p>\n
348
\n00:21:42,600 –> 00:21:48,200
\nhappen shortly, but all since
\nthe days of Doctor Thomas and <\/p>\n
349
\n00:21:48,200 –> 00:21:50,120
\nRobert Roberts, things have gone
\nalong. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:21:50,280 –> 00:21:53,240
\nWe’ve had crises, right, 30
\nyears ago. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:21:53,400 –> 00:21:55,400
\nWe do have collections for the
\nJewish people. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:21:55,400 –> 00:21:57,920
\nThey’re going back to the lab.
\nAnd so these things are <\/p>\n
353
\n00:21:57,920 –> 00:22:01,400
\nhappening and they do happen
\nlike that till we take them for <\/p>\n
354
\n00:22:01,400 –> 00:22:05,840
\ngranted and we say within
\nourselves that we’re not going <\/p>\n
355
\n00:22:05,840 –> 00:22:07,720
\nto say it openly to someone
\nelse. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:22:07,800 –> 00:22:09,600
\nWhere is the promise of his
\ncoming? <\/p>\n
357
\n00:22:10,040 –> 00:22:14,080
\nBut we act as though that way.
\nIt’s not so much what we might <\/p>\n
358
\n00:22:14,080 –> 00:22:18,280
\nsay, it’s what we do.
\nAnd our reaction to that is that<\/p>\n
359
\n00:22:18,400 –> 00:22:21,200
\nurgency there.
\nAnd I know full well how <\/p>\n
360
\n00:22:21,200 –> 00:22:24,880
\ndifficult it is to maintain that
\nstate of urgency constantly <\/p>\n
361
\n00:22:26,240 –> 00:22:28,680
\nbecause I’ve been in the truth
\nover 50 years. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:22:28,680 –> 00:22:32,000
\nAnd I remember right back 30
\nyears ago when we talked about <\/p>\n
363
\n00:22:32,000 –> 00:22:35,200
\nIsrael and Russia and so forth.
\nAnd I’ve lectured upon these <\/p>\n
364
\n00:22:35,200 –> 00:22:38,440
\nthings for many, many years.
\nAnd of course, I have <\/p>\n
365
\n00:22:38,440 –> 00:22:40,800
\nanticipated the coming of the
\nLord before now. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:22:41,080 –> 00:22:43,920
\nBut do we lose our sense of
\nurgency and expectancy? <\/p>\n
367
\n00:22:44,200 –> 00:22:48,000
\nAre we taken away in this way?
\nThat’s the danger that faces us <\/p>\n
368
\n00:22:48,000 –> 00:22:51,840
\ntoday, as the Lord Jesus Christ
\nwarned and as we have it warning<\/p>\n
369
\n00:22:52,000 –> 00:22:56,280
\nin this epistle of Peter here.
\nAnd this is the latter day <\/p>\n
370
\n00:22:56,480 –> 00:23:01,520
\nproblem, a latter day problem.
\nThis now also, says Paul, that <\/p>\n
371
\n00:23:01,520 –> 00:23:05,200
\nin the last days perilous time
\nshall come, men shall be lovers <\/p>\n
372
\n00:23:05,200 –> 00:23:10,520
\nof their own selves, boast as
\npower and and thankful and holy <\/p>\n
373
\n00:23:10,600 –> 00:23:12,760
\nwithout natural affection.
\nTruths break. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:23:13,000 –> 00:23:16,120
\nAnd he’s talking about the
\necclesia, not about the world at<\/p>\n
375
\n00:23:16,120 –> 00:23:21,520
\nlarge, brethren and sisters.
\nPaul is there talking about the <\/p>\n
376
\n00:23:21,520 –> 00:23:26,000
\nbrethren the same as Peterhead.
\nAnd here is the danger that we <\/p>\n
377
\n00:23:26,000 –> 00:23:28,800
\ncan see in this age in which we
\nlive. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:23:29,120 –> 00:23:32,320
\nWe can walk after our own lusts,
\nas Peter says. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:23:32,640 –> 00:23:35,760
\nWe can be seeking our own
\npleasure and heeding of the <\/p>\n
380
\n00:23:35,760 –> 00:23:39,040
\ndivine purpose or will.
\nThis is an age, as I said <\/p>\n
381
\n00:23:39,040 –> 00:23:43,160
\nbefore, a great opportunity and
\nwe might grasp that opportunity <\/p>\n
382
\n00:23:43,360 –> 00:23:48,000
\nand avoid the the situation as
\nfar as the truth is concerned, <\/p>\n
383
\n00:23:48,560 –> 00:23:52,960
\nin the in the second of
\nCorinthians chapter 4, the <\/p>\n
384
\n00:23:52,960 –> 00:23:57,400
\napostle Paul says we look not at
\nthe things that are seen, but <\/p>\n
385
\n00:23:57,400 –> 00:24:00,560
\nthe things that are unseen for
\nthe things that are seen at <\/p>\n
386
\n00:24:00,560 –> 00:24:04,360
\ntemple, but the things that are
\nnot seen are eternal. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:24:05,400 –> 00:24:08,040
\nWe look not at the things that
\nare seen, he said. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:24:08,560 –> 00:24:14,240
\nWe look at the unseen, we see
\nthe invisible things, and those <\/p>\n
389
\n00:24:14,240 –> 00:24:16,760
\ninvisible things are apparent to
\nour eyes. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:24:16,920 –> 00:24:20,000
\nThey’re apparent to Paul’s eyes.
\nThey weren’t apparent to the <\/p>\n
391
\n00:24:20,000 –> 00:24:23,640
\nEccleses eyes at that time.
\nHe was in the city of Corinth. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:24:24,040 –> 00:24:26,960
\nAnd the city of Corinth is a
\nvery, very interesting place. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:24:27,320 –> 00:24:30,120
\nI’ve had the great privilege of
\nbeing in the city of Corinth. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:24:30,360 –> 00:24:33,040
\nI’ve walked along the same Rd.
\nas Paul walls. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:24:33,120 –> 00:24:36,600
\nI’ve stood at the same place
\nwhere Paul was brought before <\/p>\n
396
\n00:24:36,720 –> 00:24:39,880
\nthe authorities in Corinth.
\nAnd I’ve looked about me and <\/p>\n
397
\n00:24:39,880 –> 00:24:43,320
\nseen it, and I’ve looked up the
\nApricon, and I’ve seen where the<\/p>\n
398
\n00:24:43,320 –> 00:24:47,400
\ntemple of Aphrodite was one
\nsituation when Paul was there, <\/p>\n
399
\n00:24:47,560 –> 00:24:50,360
\nmighty buildings in the ancient
\ncity of Corinth. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:24:50,760 –> 00:24:53,840
\nBut I walk along ruins.
\nThere’s nothing there at all. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:24:53,960 –> 00:24:57,000
\nNo mighty buildings today.
\nJust ruins. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:24:57,240 –> 00:25:01,840
\nThe delight of archaeologist.
\nWe look not at the things that <\/p>\n
403
\n00:25:01,840 –> 00:25:05,480
\nare seen, Seth Paul, we look at
\nthe things that are unseen for <\/p>\n
404
\n00:25:05,480 –> 00:25:08,600
\nthe things that are seen at
\ntemple and there they are, they <\/p>\n
405
\n00:25:08,600 –> 00:25:10,920
\nare temple.
\nBut the things that we see Seth <\/p>\n
406
\n00:25:10,920 –> 00:25:14,360
\nPaul they are eternal and it’s
\nall the invisible. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:25:15,360 –> 00:25:18,480
\nHe saw the invisible by the
\npower of faith and the power of <\/p>\n
408
\n00:25:18,480 –> 00:25:22,040
\nfaith can enable us to say see
\nthe invisible that we’re able to<\/p>\n
409
\n00:25:22,040 –> 00:25:24,160
\nchallenge the times in which
\nwe’re living. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:25:24,680 –> 00:25:29,160
\nSo here in the days of the Peter
\nwhen he wrote this epistle, he <\/p>\n
411
\n00:25:29,160 –> 00:25:32,480
\nwarned them of the same thing
\nthat this day is coming upon <\/p>\n
412
\n00:25:32,480 –> 00:25:36,480
\nthem unawares and they need to
\noccupy their time and thinking <\/p>\n
413
\n00:25:36,480 –> 00:25:39,760
\nof this verse 9.
\nThe Lord is not slack concerning<\/p>\n
414
\n00:25:39,760 –> 00:25:42,440
\nhis promises.
\nSome men count slackness, but <\/p>\n
415
\n00:25:42,440 –> 00:25:45,880
\nit’s long-suffering to us.
\nWard not willing to that any <\/p>\n
416
\n00:25:45,880 –> 00:25:49,440
\nshould perish, but that all
\nshould come to repentance. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:25:49,600 –> 00:25:53,240
\nThe day of the Lord will come as
\na thief of the night, in which <\/p>\n
418
\n00:25:53,240 –> 00:25:56,120
\nthe heavens shall pass away with
\na great noise, and the elements <\/p>\n
419
\n00:25:56,120 –> 00:25:59,160
\nshall melt with fervent heat,
\nand the earth also in the works <\/p>\n
420
\n00:25:59,160 –> 00:26:03,520
\nthat are therein shall be buried
\nup, shall come as a thief of the<\/p>\n
421
\n00:26:03,520 –> 00:26:06,040
\nnight.
\nThe Lord Jesus Christ in the <\/p>\n
422
\n00:26:06,040 –> 00:26:10,120
\n16th chapter of the Revelation,
\nin an exhortation that applies <\/p>\n
423
\n00:26:10,120 –> 00:26:13,680
\nto us particularly because it
\ncan’t apply to any other age. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:26:14,760 –> 00:26:18,120
\nHe says, behold, I come quickly.
\nHe said, Behold, I come as a <\/p>\n
425
\n00:26:18,120 –> 00:26:20,960
\nthief.
\nBlessed is he that watcheth and <\/p>\n
426
\n00:26:20,960 –> 00:26:23,720
\nkeepeth his garments, lest he
\nwalk naked and they see he <\/p>\n
427
\n00:26:23,720 –> 00:26:25,680
\nshines.
\nBehold, I come as a thief. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:26:26,760 –> 00:26:29,040
\nDidn’t you know it’s not the
\nhabit of thieves to ring you up <\/p>\n
429
\n00:26:29,040 –> 00:26:30,840
\nand say, I’ll be there at 3:00
\nin the morning. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:26:31,720 –> 00:26:34,880
\nBehold, I come as a thief.
\nHe says, blessed is he that <\/p>\n
431
\n00:26:34,880 –> 00:26:36,800
\nwatcheth.
\nAnd that word means, who’s <\/p>\n
432
\n00:26:36,800 –> 00:26:39,360
\nawake?
\nIt doesn’t mean blessed is he <\/p>\n
433
\n00:26:39,360 –> 00:26:42,400
\nthat’s watching even the signs
\nof the times you’ll be doing <\/p>\n
434
\n00:26:42,400 –> 00:26:46,160
\nthat, but it means he that is
\nawake, he that is vigilant, <\/p>\n
435
\n00:26:46,360 –> 00:26:50,000
\nblessed is he that is vigilant
\nand awake to the circumstances <\/p>\n
436
\n00:26:50,000 –> 00:26:55,080
\nof the of the times.
\nBecause of course he says lest <\/p>\n
437
\n00:26:55,200 –> 00:26:58,640
\ncoming suddenly speaking.
\nAnd then on another in the 12th <\/p>\n
438
\n00:26:58,640 –> 00:27:01,280
\nof Hebrew Luke, I find you
\nsleeping. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:27:02,200 –> 00:27:05,480
\nAnd that is the danger that can
\ncome to every one of us. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:27:05,560 –> 00:27:09,360
\nAnd so in this epistle to Peter,
\nwe have this principle set <\/p>\n
441
\n00:27:09,360 –> 00:27:11,200
\nforth.
\nI come as a thief in the night, <\/p>\n
442
\n00:27:11,920 –> 00:27:14,880
\nand he says the heavens shall
\npass away with great noise. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:27:15,160 –> 00:27:17,440
\nHe’s not speaking, of course, of
\nthe literal heavens. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:27:17,560 –> 00:27:19,520
\nHe’s Speaking of the political
\nheavens. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:27:19,680 –> 00:27:22,880
\nThey’re going to be dissolved in
\nthe great noise, the noise of <\/p>\n
446
\n00:27:22,960 –> 00:27:26,720
\nArmageddon, and the element
\nshall melt with fervent heat. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:27:27,360 –> 00:27:30,240
\nAnd in another place, in
\nGalatians chapter 5 and verse <\/p>\n
448
\n00:27:30,240 –> 00:27:36,080
\n19, he describes the elements as
\nthe religious systems of things.<\/p>\n
449
\n00:27:36,480 –> 00:27:38,640
\nSo the heavens, the political
\nheavens, are going to be <\/p>\n
450
\n00:27:38,640 –> 00:27:42,280
\ndissolved in the elements, the
\npolitical and religious <\/p>\n
451
\n00:27:42,280 –> 00:27:45,360
\nprinciples that make up life as
\nwe see it today. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:27:45,600 –> 00:27:50,560
\nThey too are to be destroyed.
\nAnd the works, they’re in the <\/p>\n
453
\n00:27:50,640 –> 00:27:54,320
\nmanifestation of fleshly
\npolitics and in religion, they <\/p>\n
454
\n00:27:54,320 –> 00:27:57,040
\nare all to be burned up.
\nThey ought to be completely <\/p>\n
455
\n00:27:57,040 –> 00:28:00,920
\ndestroyed in the days of Noah by
\nwater, in the days that are <\/p>\n
456
\n00:28:01,040 –> 00:28:05,200
\nimmediately coming by fire.
\nAnd he says, seeing them, But <\/p>\n
457
\n00:28:05,200 –> 00:28:08,960
\nthese things shall be dissolved.
\nWhat manner of persons ought to <\/p>\n
458
\n00:28:08,960 –> 00:28:13,320
\nbe, and all holy living
\nungodliness, looking for and <\/p>\n
459
\n00:28:13,320 –> 00:28:17,120
\nearnestly desiring, rather than,
\nas you happen here hasting <\/p>\n
460
\n00:28:17,480 –> 00:28:20,640
\nearnestly desiring the coming of
\nthe day of God. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:28:21,120 –> 00:28:24,600
\nThat should be our anticipation.
\nWill it be earnestly desiring? <\/p>\n
462
\n00:28:24,600 –> 00:28:29,240
\nAnd if our great ambition in
\nlife is our business, we will be<\/p>\n
463
\n00:28:29,240 –> 00:28:31,920
\nearnestly desiring it if we were
\nlooking for the coming of Jesus <\/p>\n
464
\n00:28:31,920 –> 00:28:35,640
\nChrist, because our businesses
\nwill go, then there’s no future <\/p>\n
465
\n00:28:35,640 –> 00:28:39,360
\nto them.
\nThey have a relative importance <\/p>\n
466
\n00:28:40,520 –> 00:28:44,080
\nand we must recognize them as
\nthat and our first priority to <\/p>\n
467
\n00:28:44,080 –> 00:28:46,800
\nthe things that Peter would
\ndirect our attention to. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:28:47,880 –> 00:28:51,480
\nAnd he says, therefore, beloved,
\nseeing that you look for such <\/p>\n
469
\n00:28:51,480 –> 00:28:55,000
\nthings, be diligent.
\nIt’s not easy. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:28:55,640 –> 00:28:59,000
\nWe may imagine it is we need to
\nbe diligent. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:28:59,160 –> 00:29:02,880
\nWe need to work on this problem,
\nthe work on the problem of our <\/p>\n
472
\n00:29:02,880 –> 00:29:06,000
\nsalvation.
\nThis is vital, says Peter, that <\/p>\n
473
\n00:29:06,000 –> 00:29:08,520
\nyou may be found of him in
\npeace, without spot and <\/p>\n
474
\n00:29:08,520 –> 00:29:10,560
\nblameless.
\nAnd here is an important <\/p>\n
475
\n00:29:10,560 –> 00:29:14,120
\nstatement in verse 15.
\nHe says, I count that the <\/p>\n
476
\n00:29:14,120 –> 00:29:16,800
\nlong-suffering of our Lord is
\nsalvation. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:29:17,480 –> 00:29:21,440
\nI count that the long-suffering
\nof our Lord is salvation. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:29:21,600 –> 00:29:26,280
\nWhat does Peter mean?
\nThe long-suffering of our Lord <\/p>\n
479
\n00:29:26,440 –> 00:29:31,400
\nis the time that God waits
\nbefore Jesus Christ, his sin, <\/p>\n
480
\n00:29:32,160 –> 00:29:35,360
\nhis long-suffering.
\nThat is that period of time. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:29:35,360 –> 00:29:39,520
\nIn the first of Peter chapter 3,
\nhe says in verse 20, the <\/p>\n
482
\n00:29:40,080 –> 00:29:44,360
\nlong-suffering of God waited in
\nthe days of Noah. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:29:46,080 –> 00:29:50,920
\nGod’s long-suffering waited
\nuntil the crisis developed and <\/p>\n
484
\n00:29:50,920 –> 00:29:53,960
\nthen God moved.
\nBut there was an epoch of time <\/p>\n
485
\n00:29:53,960 –> 00:29:57,000
\nin the days of Noah, and that
\nepoch of time is valuable <\/p>\n
486
\n00:29:57,240 –> 00:30:01,440
\nbecause it was in that time when
\nGod waited that Noah developed <\/p>\n
487
\n00:30:01,440 –> 00:30:04,800
\nand his family developed.
\nIf God had moved before, then <\/p>\n
488
\n00:30:04,920 –> 00:30:07,160
\nthe family of Noah would not
\nhave been saved. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:30:07,400 –> 00:30:10,920
\nSo you see, the long-suffering
\nof God waited and that word <\/p>\n
490
\n00:30:10,920 –> 00:30:12,320
\nwaited.
\nIt’s a beautiful word. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:30:12,520 –> 00:30:15,960
\nIt means to stand with arm
\noutstretched to help someone. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:30:16,160 –> 00:30:19,800
\nThat’s as though God was there
\nin the days of Noah with his arm<\/p>\n
493
\n00:30:19,800 –> 00:30:22,720
\noutstressed for whoever might
\nlike to take hold of that arm. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:30:22,960 –> 00:30:24,800
\nBut it means that he waited in
\nvain. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:30:25,240 –> 00:30:28,760
\nUnfortunately, you imagine you
\nsee someone in desperate <\/p>\n
496
\n00:30:28,760 –> 00:30:31,440
\ntrouble.
\nYou know that this desperate <\/p>\n
497
\n00:30:31,440 –> 00:30:33,520
\ntrouble is going to overwhelm
\nthem. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:30:34,160 –> 00:30:36,280
\nThey may be seeking in quick
\nSam. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:30:36,280 –> 00:30:38,080
\nThey don’t appreciate their own
\ndanger. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:30:38,280 –> 00:30:41,840
\nYou are on the firm foundation.
\nYou extend your hand to try to <\/p>\n
501
\n00:30:41,840 –> 00:30:43,760
\nhelp them.
\nThey ignore you completely. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:30:43,960 –> 00:30:47,160
\nThat’s what the world did, the
\nreligious ecclesial world in the<\/p>\n
503
\n00:30:47,160 –> 00:30:49,840
\ndays of Noah.
\nThe long-suffering of God <\/p>\n
504
\n00:30:49,840 –> 00:30:52,160
\nwaited.
\nHe wanted their salvation the <\/p>\n
505
\n00:30:52,160 –> 00:30:56,120
\nsame as he does our own now.
\nPeter takes that up as far as we<\/p>\n
506
\n00:30:56,120 –> 00:30:59,560
\nas concerned and he says that
\naccount that the long-suffering <\/p>\n
507
\n00:30:59,560 –> 00:31:04,840
\nof God is salvation.
\nThis time that remains is our <\/p>\n
508
\n00:31:04,840 –> 00:31:08,760
\nday of opportunity to make our
\nfalling and election. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:31:08,760 –> 00:31:11,960
\nSure.
\nIt’s a day of opportunity and we<\/p>\n
510
\n00:31:11,960 –> 00:31:16,080
\nneed to recognise it as that.
\nWhen we leave this Bible school,<\/p>\n
511
\n00:31:16,360 –> 00:31:20,600
\nwe need to go back to our homes
\nand to our cliches determine <\/p>\n
512
\n00:31:20,600 –> 00:31:23,800
\nthat as far as we’re concerned
\nand in face of the growing <\/p>\n
513
\n00:31:23,800 –> 00:31:27,440
\ncrisis and the signs of the
\ntimes we’re going to be diligent<\/p>\n
514
\n00:31:27,760 –> 00:31:30,080
\nto make our falling and election
\nsure. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:31:30,400 –> 00:31:34,840
\nWe’re going to see this has a
\ngreat opportunity that might <\/p>\n
516
\n00:31:34,960 –> 00:31:39,200
\nthat in which we might make our
\nsalvation sure in that day. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:31:39,600 –> 00:31:44,000
\nSo he speaks of these things,
\ndoes Peter, in a context with <\/p>\n
518
\n00:31:44,080 –> 00:31:48,200
\nthose of the days of Noah.
\nThe heavens are going to be. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:31:48,200 –> 00:31:50,280
\nDestroyed.
\nLook at the state of the world <\/p>\n
520
\n00:31:50,280 –> 00:31:52,760
\nabout us.
\nSee how the political heavens <\/p>\n
521
\n00:31:52,760 –> 00:31:56,520
\nare already almost on fire?
\nWhat about when Russia moves <\/p>\n
522
\n00:31:56,520 –> 00:31:59,600
\ndown into the Middle East?
\nLook at the situation in Iran <\/p>\n
523
\n00:31:59,840 –> 00:32:02,960
\nand Iraq at the present moment.
\nUnderstand that behind the <\/p>\n
524
\n00:32:02,960 –> 00:32:07,920
\nattack of Iran there is Russia.
\nWhat could happen at any moment <\/p>\n
525
\n00:32:07,920 –> 00:32:10,880
\nof time?
\nAnd yet Christ, I believe from <\/p>\n
526
\n00:32:10,880 –> 00:32:14,640
\nthe power of the Word of God,
\nreturns before Armageddon, not <\/p>\n
527
\n00:32:14,640 –> 00:32:17,040
\nafterwards.
\nI believe that the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
528
\n00:32:17,040 –> 00:32:21,080
\nChrist will be in this earth
\nbefore Russia moves down South. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:32:21,200 –> 00:32:24,680
\nThen how close is the coming of
\nJesus Christ? <\/p>\n
530
\n00:32:25,320 –> 00:32:28,440
\nWe are living in a time of
\nwidespread destruction. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:32:28,960 –> 00:32:32,240
\nDaniel tells us in the 12th
\nchapter and verse one that it <\/p>\n
532
\n00:32:32,240 –> 00:32:35,360
\nwill be a time of trouble such
\nas never lies. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:32:35,680 –> 00:32:41,120
\nYou have the words of Isaiah
\nchapter 26, verses 20 to 21, in <\/p>\n
534
\n00:32:41,120 –> 00:32:45,440
\nwhich he speaks so graphically
\nof the accumulating trouble. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:32:46,120 –> 00:32:50,360
\nAnd Isaiah says this, Come my
\npeople, enter thou into thy <\/p>\n
536
\n00:32:50,360 –> 00:32:53,880
\nchambers, shut thy doors about
\nthee, hide thyself, as it were <\/p>\n
537
\n00:32:53,880 –> 00:32:57,520
\nfor a little moment, until the
\nindignation be overpassed. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:32:57,520 –> 00:33:00,440
\nFor behold, Yahweh cometh out of
\nhis place to punish the <\/p>\n
539
\n00:33:00,440 –> 00:33:02,720
\ninhabitants of the earth for
\ntheir iniquity. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:33:02,920 –> 00:33:06,280
\nThe earth also shall disclose
\nher blood, and shall no more <\/p>\n
541
\n00:33:06,400 –> 00:33:10,160
\ncover her slang.
\nJeremiah takes the same theme up<\/p>\n
542
\n00:33:10,360 –> 00:33:12,960
\nin the 25th chapter of his
\nprophecy. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:33:13,160 –> 00:33:15,720
\nHe shows the extent of the
\ntrouble that’s going to involve <\/p>\n
544
\n00:33:15,720 –> 00:33:20,160
\nthis world at that time.
\nFor he says in verse 23, The <\/p>\n
545
\n00:33:20,160 –> 00:33:23,600
\nslaying of Yahweh shall be on
\nthat day from one end of the <\/p>\n
546
\n00:33:23,600 –> 00:33:26,600
\nearth unto the other.
\nThey shall not be lamented, <\/p>\n
547
\n00:33:26,800 –> 00:33:29,720
\nneither gathered nor buried.
\nThey shall be done upon the <\/p>\n
548
\n00:33:29,720 –> 00:33:32,320
\nground.
\nThis will be the extent of <\/p>\n
549
\n00:33:32,320 –> 00:33:37,200
\ntrouble in the days that Jesus
\nChrist shall be manifested, and <\/p>\n
550
\n00:33:37,200 –> 00:33:41,000
\nalready I believe we’re living
\nin the time of the fulfillment <\/p>\n
551
\n00:33:41,000 –> 00:33:44,600
\nof verse 32.
\nBehold, evil shall go forth from<\/p>\n
552
\n00:33:44,600 –> 00:33:47,800
\nnation to nation, and a great
\nwhirlwind shall be raised up <\/p>\n
553
\n00:33:47,800 –> 00:33:51,480
\nfrom the coast of the earth.
\nAnd the very extremities of the <\/p>\n
554
\n00:33:51,480 –> 00:33:54,000
\nworld are being involved in the
\ntrouble today that will <\/p>\n
555
\n00:33:54,000 –> 00:33:57,680
\nculminate in this time of
\ntrouble such as never was, in <\/p>\n
556
\n00:33:57,680 –> 00:34:00,480
\nwhich the slain of the Yahweh
\nshall be in that day from one <\/p>\n
557
\n00:34:00,480 –> 00:34:02,280
\nend of the earth until the
\nearth. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:34:02,960 –> 00:34:05,600
\nMalachi likewise in the 4th
\nchapter. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:34:05,840 –> 00:34:09,560
\nSo the day is coming that’s
\ngoing to burn as an oven, and <\/p>\n
560
\n00:34:09,560 –> 00:34:13,480
\nall the proud and all the lusty,
\nthey shall be the stubble, and <\/p>\n
561
\n00:34:13,480 –> 00:34:16,880
\nthey shall be destroyed.
\nAnd of course the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
562
\n00:34:16,880 –> 00:34:20,320
\nChrist and that very familiar
\nchapter to us in the 21st <\/p>\n
563
\n00:34:20,320 –> 00:34:24,920
\nchapter of Luke, when he is
\ndealing with these times, he <\/p>\n
564
\n00:34:24,920 –> 00:34:30,719
\nsays in verse 26 concerning the
\nevil that shall afflict the <\/p>\n
565
\n00:34:30,719 –> 00:34:34,480
\nworld, Men’s hearts will fail
\nthem for fear and for looking <\/p>\n
566
\n00:34:34,480 –> 00:34:37,080
\nafter those things that are
\ncoming upon the earth, for the <\/p>\n
567
\n00:34:37,080 –> 00:34:38,840
\npowers of heaven shall be
\nshaken. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:34:40,120 –> 00:34:42,120
\nWe’re immune from a lot.
\nOf what’s going on in the world <\/p>\n
569
\n00:34:42,120 –> 00:34:45,040
\ntoday.
\nBut let us be in Lebanon, let us<\/p>\n
570
\n00:34:45,040 –> 00:34:48,360
\nbe in Iran, and we would soon
\nunderstand what is meant by <\/p>\n
571
\n00:34:48,360 –> 00:34:50,679
\nmen’s hearts failing them for
\nfear. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:34:51,760 –> 00:34:53,719
\nI’ve been in those countries and
\nI’ve seen it. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:34:53,719 –> 00:34:56,520
\nI have first sight information
\nconcerning it. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:34:56,840 –> 00:34:58,600
\nI’ve been in the very midst of
\ntrouble. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:34:58,600 –> 00:35:01,920
\nI’ve been within the terrorist
\ncamps bound South of side of <\/p>\n
576
\n00:35:02,200 –> 00:35:05,400
\nI’ve spoken with the leaders of
\nthose camps concerning <\/p>\n
577
\n00:35:05,400 –> 00:35:08,080
\nconditions there and what
\nthey’re anticipating. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:35:08,280 –> 00:35:10,840
\nI’ve been in the situation in
\nthe world where I’ve seen men <\/p>\n
579
\n00:35:10,840 –> 00:35:12,920
\nrolling in blood and no one dare
\ntouch them. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:35:13,280 –> 00:35:16,240
\nI’ve watched the planes as I’ve
\nswooped down destroying <\/p>\n
581
\n00:35:16,600 –> 00:35:19,040
\nvillages.
\nI’ve stood in no man’s land when<\/p>\n
582
\n00:35:19,040 –> 00:35:23,240
\nI’ve seen armies on both sides.
\nAnd I’ve been in inspecting and <\/p>\n
583
\n00:35:23,240 –> 00:35:26,520
\ntaking to places that I might be
\nin, might inspect them. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:35:27,520 –> 00:35:31,640
\nAnd men’s hearts have failed
\nthem for fear in a way that we <\/p>\n
585
\n00:35:31,640 –> 00:35:34,000
\ndon’t understand in Australia
\nand I don’t suppose you would <\/p>\n
586
\n00:35:34,000 –> 00:35:36,800
\nunderstand here either.
\nBut men’s hearts have failed <\/p>\n
587
\n00:35:36,800 –> 00:35:39,120
\nthem for fear because of the
\nthings that they fearing will <\/p>\n
588
\n00:35:39,120 –> 00:35:42,160
\ncome upon them at that time.
\nThis is going to be worldwide. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:35:42,360 –> 00:35:44,880
\nAnd thanks be to God that we
\nhave been given the knowledge <\/p>\n
590
\n00:35:45,080 –> 00:35:51,040
\nthat can enable us to escape
\nthese things that that is going <\/p>\n
591
\n00:35:51,040 –> 00:35:54,240
\nto involve.
\nSo we need to make. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:35:54,320 –> 00:35:57,920
\nOur Calling and election, Sure.
\nWe need to give our first <\/p>\n
593
\n00:35:57,920 –> 00:36:02,800
\npriority to the things of God.
\nThey ate, they drank, they did <\/p>\n
594
\n00:36:02,800 –> 00:36:06,240
\nthis, they did that.
\nLegitimate things, the things of<\/p>\n
595
\n00:36:06,240 –> 00:36:08,760
\nbusiness, the things of
\npossessions, the things of <\/p>\n
596
\n00:36:08,760 –> 00:36:11,320
\nwealth, the things of
\nreputation, the things of <\/p>\n
597
\n00:36:11,320 –> 00:36:15,040
\nfamily, the familiar things of
\nlife gradually absorbed the <\/p>\n
598
\n00:36:15,040 –> 00:36:18,960
\nwhole of their attention, until
\ngradually the things of God were<\/p>\n
599
\n00:36:18,960 –> 00:36:22,400
\ngiven 2nd place.
\nAnd that was the great trouble. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:36:23,080 –> 00:36:28,920
\nWe have a exhortation powerful
\nto that end in the 29th chapter <\/p>\n
601
\n00:36:28,920 –> 00:36:42,320
\nof Proverbs and Proverbs 29 and
\na verse 18 and a verse 18 says <\/p>\n
602
\n00:36:42,320 –> 00:36:45,720
\nthis.
\nWhere there is no. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:36:45,720 –> 00:36:48,960
\nVision.
\nThat people. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:36:49,080 –> 00:36:55,160
\nPerish or are made naked that
\nhappy is he that keepeth the <\/p>\n
605
\n00:36:55,160 –> 00:36:58,320
\nlaw.
\nWhere there is no vision, the <\/p>\n
606
\n00:36:58,320 –> 00:37:03,240
\npeople are made naked.
\nThey are susceptible or they <\/p>\n
607
\n00:37:03,280 –> 00:37:04,880
\nperish.
\nWhatever way you like to do it, <\/p>\n
608
\n00:37:05,280 –> 00:37:09,600
\nit’s a case of vision, isn’t it?
\nWhere there is no. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:37:09,600 –> 00:37:11,680
\nVision.
\nThe people are made naked. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:37:12,920 –> 00:37:15,480
\nJesus Christ.
\nSpake to the lay of the sins <\/p>\n
611
\n00:37:16,120 –> 00:37:19,440
\nthat they were naked.
\nAnd in the 16th chapter of the <\/p>\n
612
\n00:37:19,440 –> 00:37:22,520
\nRevelation he used the same term
\nagain. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:37:22,960 –> 00:37:25,440
\nThe whole I come as a thief.
\nBlessed does he that watcheth <\/p>\n
614
\n00:37:25,440 –> 00:37:28,400
\nthe keepeth his garments, lest
\nhe walk naked. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:37:29,440 –> 00:37:33,760
\nAnd the word is used twice in
\nthe Revelation, once for the <\/p>\n
616
\n00:37:33,760 –> 00:37:37,800
\necclesia of Laodicea, who said,
\nWe are increased with goods, we <\/p>\n
617
\n00:37:37,800 –> 00:37:39,560
\nare rich, we’re in need of
\nnothing. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:37:39,800 –> 00:37:43,160
\nAnd you not you not that they
\nwere poor and miserable and <\/p>\n
619
\n00:37:43,160 –> 00:37:46,520
\nblown and naked.
\nTheir sin was not in what they <\/p>\n
620
\n00:37:46,520 –> 00:37:48,920
\npossessed.
\nTheir sin was not in that, that <\/p>\n
621
\n00:37:48,920 –> 00:37:51,720
\nthey had these things.
\nTheir sin was in that one <\/p>\n
622
\n00:37:51,720 –> 00:37:54,520
\nphrase.
\nThey knew not, they knew not <\/p>\n
623
\n00:37:54,520 –> 00:37:57,960
\ntheir own state.
\nThey imagined that they were <\/p>\n
624
\n00:37:57,960 –> 00:38:00,360
\nwell.
\nThey would did not realise their<\/p>\n
625
\n00:38:00,360 –> 00:38:02,520
\nsickness.
\nThey had no vision. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:38:03,080 –> 00:38:05,840
\nAnd that’s what we have here
\nwhere there is no vision. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:38:05,960 –> 00:38:09,840
\nThe people have made naked, they
\nmade like layer the sins and <\/p>\n
628
\n00:38:09,840 –> 00:38:13,920
\nthey in that state in which
\nChrist warns against in that <\/p>\n
629
\n00:38:13,920 –> 00:38:17,480
\n16th chapter of the revelation.
\nSo we must create a vision, a <\/p>\n
630
\n00:38:17,480 –> 00:38:21,320
\nvision of the future that will
\nenable us to see so clearly <\/p>\n
631
\n00:38:21,480 –> 00:38:25,240
\nthose things that are set so
\nvividly before us. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:38:25,800 –> 00:38:29,920
\nSo Peter says that in that that
\nchapter that we looked at <\/p>\n
633
\n00:38:29,920 –> 00:38:32,880
\nbriefly this morning.
\nHe goes on to speak of that and <\/p>\n
634
\n00:38:32,880 –> 00:38:35,760
\nwhat we should do under the
\ncircumstances in which we find <\/p>\n
635
\n00:38:35,760 –> 00:38:39,040
\nourselves, because He says this,
\nand His words are worth <\/p>\n
636
\n00:38:39,040 –> 00:38:42,360
\npondering.
\nWherefore, beloved, verse 14. <\/p>\n
637
\n00:38:42,680 –> 00:38:45,280
\nSeeing that she looks at such
\nthings, be diligent, that she <\/p>\n
638
\n00:38:45,280 –> 00:38:48,440
\nmay be found of him in peace,
\nwithout spot and blameless, and <\/p>\n
639
\n00:38:48,440 –> 00:38:51,760
\naccount of the long-suffering of
\nour Lord of salvation, even as <\/p>\n
640
\n00:38:51,760 –> 00:38:54,480
\nour beloved Pete.
\nPaul also, according to the <\/p>\n
641
\n00:38:54,480 –> 00:38:56,760
\nwisdom given unto him, hath
\nwritten unto him. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:38:57,480 –> 00:39:02,360
\nAnd then he goes on to speak
\nconcerning this, that we should <\/p>\n
643
\n00:39:02,360 –> 00:39:06,560
\nin that manner build upon the
\nthings of God. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:39:07,080 –> 00:39:12,080
\nHe, by the study of these
\nepistles of the pool that he has<\/p>\n
645
\n00:39:12,080 –> 00:39:15,640
\nset forth there, that we should
\nbuild upon these things of God <\/p>\n
646
\n00:39:15,640 –> 00:39:19,640
\nthat will enable us to see
\ncompletely that which is before <\/p>\n
647
\n00:39:19,640 –> 00:39:23,600
\nus, that the vision might be
\nclear and sound before us. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:39:24,080 –> 00:39:27,520
\nNow that is the challenge that
\nfaces us in these days in which <\/p>\n
649
\n00:39:27,520 –> 00:39:31,960
\nwe see about us the growing
\naffluence of an age that is <\/p>\n
650
\n00:39:31,960 –> 00:39:34,520
\nindifferent to the requirements
\nof God. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:39:35,360 –> 00:39:39,360
\nA growth in the things of God
\nare vitally important, vitally <\/p>\n
652
\n00:39:39,360 –> 00:39:42,120
\nimportant.
\nThey are important because of <\/p>\n
653
\n00:39:42,120 –> 00:39:45,240
\ncourse, without that growth
\nwe’re not going to manifest that<\/p>\n
654
\n00:39:45,400 –> 00:39:50,640
\nwhich the Lord Jesus Christ
\nwould see in so he says in verse<\/p>\n
655
\n00:39:50,640 –> 00:39:55,640
\n17 and 18 of that chapter.
\nYe therefore, beloved, seeing ye<\/p>\n
656
\n00:39:55,640 –> 00:40:00,400
\nknow these things before, but
\nwhere lest me also being LED <\/p>\n
657
\n00:40:00,400 –> 00:40:04,440
\naway with the error of the
\nwicked fall from your own <\/p>\n
658
\n00:40:04,440 –> 00:40:10,200
\nsteadfastness, but grow in grace
\nand in the knowledge of our Lord<\/p>\n
659
\n00:40:10,200 –> 00:40:15,120
\nand Savior Jesus Christ.
\nWe are to grow in grace. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:40:15,600 –> 00:40:19,120
\nIt doesn’t mean that we are to
\ngrow into grace. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:40:19,920 –> 00:40:23,160
\nBut it means that we’re going to
\ngrow upon the foundation of <\/p>\n
662
\n00:40:23,160 –> 00:40:25,760
\ngrace, having grace and
\nknowledge. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:40:25,920 –> 00:40:29,520
\nLet us grow, let us develop in
\nthe things of God. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:40:29,960 –> 00:40:31,200
\nAnd that of course, is the
\npurpose. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:40:31,200 –> 00:40:34,880
\nWell, our purpose in being, of
\ncourse, at the Bible school, our<\/p>\n
666
\n00:40:34,880 –> 00:40:39,120
\npurpose in studying the things
\nof God, and our purpose too in <\/p>\n
667
\n00:40:39,120 –> 00:40:42,080
\nconsidering the events that lead
\ntowards the damage. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:40:43,000 –> 00:40:45,920
\nNow we turn to another passage
\nof Scripture, which is vitally <\/p>\n
669
\n00:40:45,920 –> 00:40:49,280
\nimportant and related to our
\nsubject, and that is the 11th <\/p>\n
670
\n00:40:49,280 –> 00:40:53,280
\nchapter of Hebrews.
\nHere we have a challenging <\/p>\n
671
\n00:40:53,280 –> 00:40:57,680
\nstatement because the apostle
\nsays that now faith is the <\/p>\n
672
\n00:40:57,680 –> 00:41:00,880
\nsubstance of things hoped for,
\nthe evidence of things not seen,<\/p>\n
673
\n00:41:01,920 –> 00:41:04,760
\nand it lists a number of people
\nhere who were motivated by <\/p>\n
674
\n00:41:04,760 –> 00:41:07,360
\nfaith.
\nHe tells us in the sixth verse <\/p>\n
675
\n00:41:07,360 –> 00:41:09,720
\nthat faith is extremely
\nimportant. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:41:10,280 –> 00:41:14,040
\nWithout faith it is impossible
\nto please God, that he that <\/p>\n
677
\n00:41:14,040 –> 00:41:17,360
\ncometh to God must believe that
\nGod is and that He is a rewarder<\/p>\n
678
\n00:41:17,440 –> 00:41:19,080
\nof them, the diligently seek
\nHim. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:41:19,960 –> 00:41:23,120
\nYou notice that the mermaid used
\ntwice that the will of the word <\/p>\n
680
\n00:41:23,120 –> 00:41:25,120
\nis.
\nBut in the Greek there are two <\/p>\n
681
\n00:41:25,120 –> 00:41:28,440
\ndifferent words and the
\nstatement should read that he <\/p>\n
682
\n00:41:28,440 –> 00:41:33,280
\nthat cometh to God must believe
\nthat God exists and that he <\/p>\n
683
\n00:41:33,280 –> 00:41:38,280
\nbecomes that he becomes a
\nrewarder of them that diligently<\/p>\n
684
\n00:41:38,280 –> 00:41:41,720
\nseek him.
\nSo God exists as the first thing<\/p>\n
685
\n00:41:42,040 –> 00:41:45,640
\nGod is a reality and must be a
\nreality in our lives. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:41:46,440 –> 00:41:48,760
\nYahweh liveth.
\nWe read frequently in the Old <\/p>\n
687
\n00:41:48,760 –> 00:41:52,840
\nTestament scriptures.
\nBut you see if God lives, we <\/p>\n
688
\n00:41:52,840 –> 00:42:00,680
\nmust recognize him as such.
\nThe statement made to Moses for <\/p>\n
689
\n00:42:01,360 –> 00:42:06,400
\nin the in the book of Numbers is
\nvery, very significant in that <\/p>\n
690
\n00:42:06,400 –> 00:42:10,280
\nregard because there this
\nstatement was made to Moses as <\/p>\n
691
\n00:42:10,280 –> 00:42:13,920
\nthe children of Israel were
\nwandering down towards the Red <\/p>\n
692
\n00:42:13,920 –> 00:42:16,520
\nSea, towards the towards the
\nland of promise. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:42:16,920 –> 00:42:21,040
\nAnd God said this to them in
\nverse 21. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:42:21,040 –> 00:42:25,160
\nAs truly as I live, all the
\nearth shall be filled with the <\/p>\n
695
\n00:42:25,160 –> 00:42:28,800
\nglory of Yahweh.
\nAs truly as I live, all the <\/p>\n
696
\n00:42:28,800 –> 00:42:30,720
\nearth shall be filled with the
\nglory of Yahweh. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:42:30,960 –> 00:42:35,840
\nHe said that generation would
\nperish, but as truly as I live, <\/p>\n
698
\n00:42:35,840 –> 00:42:38,240
\nall the earth shall be filled
\nwith the glory of Yahweh. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:42:38,520 –> 00:42:41,600
\nNow you notice in that
\nparticular verse that the word <\/p>\n
700
\n00:42:41,600 –> 00:42:43,800
\nhas occurs twice.
\nIt’s in italics. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:42:44,280 –> 00:42:47,440
\nWhen a word is in italics in the
\nAuthorized Version, it means <\/p>\n
702
\n00:42:47,440 –> 00:42:49,800
\nthat there is no comparable word
\nin the Hebrew. <\/p>\n
703
\n00:42:50,120 –> 00:42:53,280
\nSo eliminate them.
\nEliminate them in that verse. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:42:53,280 –> 00:42:55,760
\nAnd what do you read?
\nTruly, I live and. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:42:58,080 –> 00:43:01,920
\nThat’s what Israel did.
\nNot understand they now the name<\/p>\n
706
\n00:43:01,920 –> 00:43:04,240
\nof God, they attended the
\nservices of God. <\/p>\n
707
\n00:43:04,520 –> 00:43:07,720
\nThey will attend upon the
\nsacrifices, but God was not a <\/p>\n
708
\n00:43:07,720 –> 00:43:11,640
\nliving reality in their life.
\nAnd the statement made to Moses <\/p>\n
709
\n00:43:11,640 –> 00:43:14,920
\nwas truly on live and all the
\nearth shall be filled with the <\/p>\n
710
\n00:43:14,920 –> 00:43:17,720
\nglory of Yahweh.
\nAnd it’s the living God that we <\/p>\n
711
\n00:43:17,720 –> 00:43:20,840
\nmust recognize not in a matter
\nof doctrine, but in their own <\/p>\n
712
\n00:43:20,840 –> 00:43:23,520
\nlives that God lives.
\nWe’re in the presence of God. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:43:23,840 –> 00:43:27,520
\nNow faith, you see, demands that
\nhere that cometh to God must <\/p>\n
714
\n00:43:27,520 –> 00:43:32,640
\nbelieve that God exists, God
\nlives and will become a rewarder<\/p>\n
715
\n00:43:32,640 –> 00:43:34,080
\nof them that diligently seek
\nHim. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:43:34,440 –> 00:43:37,160
\nWithout faith, it is impossible
\nto please God. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:43:37,560 –> 00:43:39,800
\nAnd notice here that faith is a
\nsubstance. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:43:40,120 –> 00:43:42,400
\nFaith is the substance of things
\nhoped for. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:43:43,000 –> 00:43:45,400
\nCan you weigh out a pound of
\nyour faith? <\/p>\n
720
\n00:43:45,960 –> 00:43:49,080
\nCan you measure your faith by a
\nrule? <\/p>\n
721
\n00:43:49,560 –> 00:43:52,440
\nCan you put faith in the scales
\nand see what it weighs? <\/p>\n
722
\n00:43:53,040 –> 00:43:55,280
\nYou care with something that’s
\nunsubstantial. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:43:55,800 –> 00:43:59,560
\nThis here is substantial.
\nThat’s substance there, but <\/p>\n
724
\n00:43:59,560 –> 00:44:02,400
\nthat’s not substance.
\nBut faith must become <\/p>\n
725
\n00:44:02,400 –> 00:44:05,720
\nsubstantial.
\nBecause faith. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:44:05,720 –> 00:44:10,120
\nIs the substance of things hoped
\nfor, and what Paul means by <\/p>\n
727
\n00:44:10,120 –> 00:44:12,960
\nthat?
\nIs this that the things that <\/p>\n
728
\n00:44:12,960 –> 00:44:17,560
\nfaith revealed to our mind, the
\nKingdom of God in all its glory,<\/p>\n
729
\n00:44:18,200 –> 00:44:21,880
\nthe return of Jesus Christ to
\nthis earth, the setting up of <\/p>\n
730
\n00:44:21,880 –> 00:44:25,680
\nthe judgment seat, all these
\nthings must become substantial <\/p>\n
731
\n00:44:25,680 –> 00:44:28,640
\nrealities to our mind.
\nThey’re not something that we <\/p>\n
732
\n00:44:28,640 –> 00:44:31,600
\nanticipating without any sort of
\nreality. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:44:31,800 –> 00:44:34,960
\nIt’s not something we discuss,
\nnot something we read in a <\/p>\n
734
\n00:44:34,960 –> 00:44:37,760
\nstatement of faith.
\nThey become the living realities<\/p>\n
735
\n00:44:37,760 –> 00:44:40,120
\nof life and we are motivated by
\nthem. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:44:40,720 –> 00:44:43,520
\nWe can see them clearly.
\nWe study the things of the <\/p>\n
737
\n00:44:43,520 –> 00:44:46,880
\ncoming of Jesus Christ and we
\nsee it all clearly before us. <\/p>\n
738
\n00:44:47,160 –> 00:44:49,640
\nIf you were to come to Israel
\nwith me, you would be fully <\/p>\n
739
\n00:44:49,640 –> 00:44:51,760
\nexcited because you would know
\nwhere you were going. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:44:51,920 –> 00:44:53,880
\nYou would be anticipating what
\nyou would see. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:44:54,000 –> 00:44:56,640
\nYou’ll be reading up travel
\nbrochures and so forth, and you <\/p>\n
742
\n00:44:56,640 –> 00:44:59,560
\nwould make a reality in your
\nmind of there when you were <\/p>\n
743
\n00:44:59,560 –> 00:45:02,520
\ngoing to go.
\nIt may not be according to what <\/p>\n
744
\n00:45:02,520 –> 00:45:06,040
\nyou see, but you would at least
\nbe motivated by the reality of <\/p>\n
745
\n00:45:06,040 –> 00:45:09,400
\nthat and you would have a sense
\nof expectancy and excitement as <\/p>\n
746
\n00:45:09,400 –> 00:45:11,640
\nthe time come with you.
\nBut leave on that to it. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:45:11,920 –> 00:45:15,360
\nSo the Kingdom of God must
\nbecome a reality to us in that <\/p>\n
748
\n00:45:15,360 –> 00:45:17,320
\nway.
\nThat’s what faith is. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:45:17,480 –> 00:45:20,560
\nIt makes it substantial.
\nAnd so that we read, for <\/p>\n
750
\n00:45:20,560 –> 00:45:24,280
\nexample, the words of Isaiah the
\nprophet, the prophecy of Isaiah <\/p>\n
751
\n00:45:24,360 –> 00:45:28,080
\nwhich he did see.
\nHe saw it. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:45:28,920 –> 00:45:33,080
\nHe saw Jerusalem a glory.
\nHe saw it elevated in all the <\/p>\n
753
\n00:45:33,080 –> 00:45:34,640
\nearth.
\nThat’s fine. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:45:35,000 –> 00:45:39,720
\nIt becomes a substance, and the
\nsubstance of faith enabled men <\/p>\n
755
\n00:45:39,720 –> 00:45:50,920
\nlike Abel and Enoch and Noah to
\nchallenge the growing crescendo <\/p>\n
756
\n00:45:50,920 –> 00:45:54,840
\nof trouble in their day.
\nAnd come forth a. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:45:54,880 –> 00:45:58,080
\nShining God.
\nAnd that’s what. <\/p>\n
758
\n00:45:58,760 –> 00:46:03,880
\nOur studies are designed to do
\nMay God grant the increase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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