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well my dear brother and sisters first of all let me say what a real pleasure of all let me say what a real pleasure it is to be back with you it is to be back with you i think the last time that i met most of i think the last time that i met most of you was in you was in 1963 at wilbraham i would like to bring to you the greetings of the southern california greetings of the southern california ecclesias ecclesias cycs cycs and especially those of and especially those of my own ecclesia the lombok valley my own ecclesia the lombok valley ecclesia in lombok california we're ecclesia in lombok california we're small but small but we hope that we're mighty in the work of we hope that we're mighty in the work of the lord's work and this is what we're the lord's work and this is what we're trying to trying to do in that area i would like to begin our study this morning by mentioning the fact that i was deeply impressed with the i was deeply impressed with the opening prayer and i would like to preface these remarks brethren and preface these remarks brethren and sisters by saying that sisters by saying that if we were to be asked the question if we were to be asked the question what is the greatest form of worship what is the greatest form of worship that we can render to the god of israel that we can render to the god of israel i might get many varied answers but the scripture makes it quite plain and this was the theme of our brother's and this was the theme of our brother's prayer this morning prayer this morning it is exemplified in the peace offerings it is exemplified in the peace offerings under the law under the law it's interesting enough that it's interesting enough that every time we have a record of an altar every time we have a record of an altar being built to yahweh being built to yahweh the two basic offerings that are offered the two basic offerings that are offered on that altar are the peace offering and on that altar are the peace offering and the burnt offering the burnt offering and one of the major factors of the and one of the major factors of the peace offering was praise peace offering was praise and this is the greatest form of worship and this is the greatest form of worship that we can render to the god of israel that we can render to the god of israel is praise and thanksgiving is praise and thanksgiving this was the central theme of our this was the central theme of our brother's remarks this morning he concluded by mentioning the fact too that that we every one of us in the body of christ are members of that organization that are members of that organization that are holding high the holding high the way of life brethren and sisters we are in a very real sense the mortal caribbean of god we're being prepared for that immortal care of them care of them i'm sure we're very familiar with the i'm sure we're very familiar with the fact that the caribbean actually means fact that the caribbean actually means one in whom god dwells one in whom god dwells one in whom god rides this brings us right down to the theme of our wilderness wanderings this of our wilderness wanderings this morning you know you might not think you are very you might not think you are very important as an individual in the body important as an individual in the body of christ of christ you might have the idea many times that you might have the idea many times that god doesn't see me who am i and basically this is right and basically this is right because it is because it is it is an obedience to the command it is an obedience to the command that we're told what does the lord that we're told what does the lord require thee but to do justly and to require thee but to do justly and to love mercy and walk humbly with thy god love mercy and walk humbly with thy god but on the other hand brethren and but on the other hand brethren and sisters had you ever stopped to think sisters had you ever stopped to think that as small as you might feel that you that as small as you might feel that you are you are the one thing that is are you are the one thing that is holding back the judgments of god upon holding back the judgments of god upon this world this world have you ever thought about that god is not going to move in with his judgments judgments and the time of trouble such as never and the time of trouble such as never was was until you as an individual have been until you as an individual have been removed from this world just removed from this world just as it was in the days of lot when the angel told abram that he wouldn't destroy that city as long as wouldn't destroy that city as long as any of his chosen people were in that any of his chosen people were in that area and this brings us to another thing brethren and sisters god hasn't brethren and sisters god hasn't indiscriminately gone out and and picked indiscriminately gone out and and picked people people he doesn't go into the large cities of he doesn't go into the large cities of the land and say come everybody the land and say come everybody god has been very choosy and we must remember that no man comes to god except god himself no man comes to god except god himself draw him it is god's operation and this is number one that we must remember remember and it comes right down to the one of and it comes right down to the one of the basic facts of our subject this the basic facts of our subject this morning morning that we are a privileged people just as that we are a privileged people just as israel was a privileged people you know many times we when we think of the atonement we when we think of the atonement we only think of christ only think of christ and far be it from us to belittle the and far be it from us to belittle the lord jesus christ god forbid lord jesus christ god forbid but by the same token my brethren and but by the same token my brethren and sisters sisters don't give christ the initial glory in don't give christ the initial glory in this thing god was in christ paul tells us in second corinthians the fifth chapter god second corinthians the fifth chapter god was in christ manifesting himself under was in christ manifesting himself under the world it's god that does it the world it's god that does it and we can in some small way in this and we can in some small way in this session realize that the god of israel session realize that the god of israel has reached down into your life and into has reached down into your life and into mine and lifted us out of this world of mine and lifted us out of this world of corruption and has said in so many words corruption and has said in so many words you are the material out of which i want you are the material out of which i want to form the building blocks for the to form the building blocks for the future age now i know many times that when we mention this book we think of it as something different basically completely different than any of god's creation i know the world looks upon anyone that looks upon this book and reads it as looks upon this book and reads it as some kind of a nut some kind of a nut they're fanatical but if there's one thing i want to leave in this class in this class my dear brethren and sisters it is this that this book is the handbook of the creator of heaven and earth and he put creator of heaven and earth and he put it there for one reason he put it there brethren and sisters because in the beginning because in the beginning man transgressed god's law and god in so many words has given us a handbook that guides us from the garden handbook that guides us from the garden in eden to the end of the millennial age in eden to the end of the millennial age and it doesn't go back any further than and it doesn't go back any further than that and it does not go ahead any that and it does not go ahead any any further than the end of the any further than the end of the millennium millennium it is a book that has its central theme it is a book that has its central theme the redemption of man and the earth the redemption of man and the earth and because it is god-given it has the basic laws of the universe as its foundation as its foundation now if we can remember that we'll approach the bible with an entirely different viewpoint this is entirely different viewpoint this is what the apostle paul means in romans 15 what the apostle paul means in romans 15 and 4 when he says these things were and 4 when he says these things were written for our learning that we through written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the scripture patience and comfort of the scripture might have hope might have hope what are you saying paul well i am saying that the basic fundamentals that guided the children of fundamentals that guided the children of israel through the wilderness are the israel through the wilderness are the same basic fundamentals that you're same basic fundamentals that you're going to be facing when you come to the going to be facing when you come to the end of the age they don't change end of the age they don't change god doesn't have the sun rise on the god doesn't have the sun rise on the eastern horizon one morning and on the eastern horizon one morning and on the west the next brethren and sisters and west the next brethren and sisters and this of course we know this of course we know why because this is a basic fundamental why because this is a basic fundamental law and when we get this idea of these glorious themes glorious themes going from genesis to the revelation in going from genesis to the revelation in an unbroken continuity all weaving an unbroken continuity all weaving themselves together in a beautiful themselves together in a beautiful pattern that we know as the glorious pattern that we know as the glorious kingdom of god on earth kingdom of god on earth then we begin to see the beauty of the then we begin to see the beauty of the scriptures of truth i think one of the central themes that we must remember we must remember first of all brethren and sisters and it first of all brethren and sisters and it is the basic theme of the atonement is is the basic theme of the atonement is the basic theme of the basic theme of israel's wanderings in the wilderness israel's wanderings in the wilderness is found for us in genesis 1 27 where god says let us make man in our image and let him have dominion let us never forget that let him have let us never forget that let him have dominion over the earth rulership now we know don't we brother and sisters that that that that fixed principle of god was temporarily fixed principle of god was temporarily delayed temporarily delayed because because in god's creation that he looked out in god's creation that he looked out upon and upon and pronounced very good pronounced very good horrible dirty thing entered that thing the sin how did it get there brethren and sisters sisters did god put it there did god put it there no no no god can't look on sin and we are of all religions in the world are the most fortunate in realizing this are the most fortunate in realizing this because because anyone that attains to immortality could anyone that attains to immortality could never fall never fall there could be no personal devil working there could be no personal devil working in opposition to god in opposition to god for god cannot look on sin and the for god cannot look on sin and the apostle paul makes this very clear apostle paul makes this very clear in romans 5 and 12 and the apostle paul in romans 5 and 12 and the apostle paul of course of course he's very meticulous in the words that he's very meticulous in the words that he chooses he doesn't want any question he chooses he doesn't want any question in our minds no ambiguity at all in our minds no ambiguity at all the apostle paul emphasizes brethren and the apostle paul emphasizes brethren and sisters that by one man sisters that by one man and let us never forget that by one man and let us never forget that by one man sin entered the world and death by sin sin entered the world and death by sin and so death has passed on all men for and so death has passed on all men for that all have sinned now we're right at the basis of the entire theme of the bible entire theme of the bible first of all let us remember that god first of all let us remember that god has determined that one day man is going to be in his image and in his likeness and in his likeness and man is going to have dominion over and man is going to have dominion over the earth the earth god has decreed this god has decreed this god has taken three oaths in the bible god has taken three oaths in the bible that this is going to be in actuality that this is going to be in actuality numbers 14 and 21 numbers 14 and 21 isaiah 11 and 9 isaiah 11 and 9 habakkuk 2 14 habakkuk 2 14 where god says that as truly as i live where god says that as truly as i live all the earth shall be filled with the all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the lord glory of the lord now if we begin to ask ourselves the now if we begin to ask ourselves the question question how is the glory of god going to fill how is the glory of god going to fill the earth the earth when that ugly thing known as sin is in when that ugly thing known as sin is in the earth the earth we have cause and we have effect don't we have cause and we have effect don't we if you were to get an appendicitis and you wanted your health restored you wanted your health restored the logical thing to do is to remove the the logical thing to do is to remove the appendix appendix what have you done you have removed the cause to gain the effect and god was quick to tell mankind that that was exactly what he was going to do that was exactly what he was going to do in genesis 3 15 i will put enmity in genesis 3 15 i will put enmity between thee and the woman serpent between thee and the woman serpent between thy seed and her seed between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel and thou shalt bruise his heel now notice carefully brother and sisters now notice carefully brother and sisters god is going to do it god is going to do it and i want to emphasize this over and and i want to emphasize this over and over and over again it is god over and over again it is god the supreme ruler of the universe god is the supreme ruler of the universe god is going to do it going to do it you may have asked yourself the question you may have asked yourself the question from time to time why did god say the from time to time why did god say the seed of the woman seed of the woman why did he say that why did he say that in most scriptural genealogies you very in most scriptural genealogies you very seldom find a woman do you seldom find a woman do you genealogy comes down through a man genealogy comes down through a man why did god say the seed of the woman and god was actually saying i cannot abdicate my i cannot abdicate my position in the universe position in the universe i cannot abdicate my i cannot abdicate my high and lofty and exalted position high and lofty and exalted position to come to earth to fight sin so i'm going to meet that monster sin head on so the prophet isaiah says that behold a virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son and they shall call his name emmanuel and they shall call his name emmanuel l of course we are familiar in our names and titles of the deity that we know and titles of the deity that we know that l that l is that particular title that signifies is that particular title that signifies the power of god the power and strength of god manifested in a woman manifested in the arena of in a woman manifested in the arena of flesh would meet flesh sin head-on flesh would meet flesh sin head-on and would conquer sin and would conquer sin who did it who did it secondarily christ did it primarily god secondarily christ did it primarily god did it did it why was he doing this class he was doing it that his original purpose in the earth purpose in the earth might become a reality might become a reality i will make man in my image and after my i will make man in my image and after my likeness likeness and he will have dominion over the earth now you see we see this theme develop don't we and as we come down through the don't we and as we come down through the stream of bible history we see god stream of bible history we see god moving to this end moving to this end and notice if you will it's god that's and notice if you will it's god that's doing it always and we have the destructive waters the very thing that destroyed the very thing that destroyed mankind the very power that destroyed mankind the very power that destroyed man man was the power that saved man was the power that saved man because those waters that destroyed man because those waters that destroyed man lifted the ark up and carried it to lifted the ark up and carried it to safety and peter makes quite a thing out safety and peter makes quite a thing out of this doesn't he showing how baptism of this doesn't he showing how baptism does the same thing for us then we come to the time of abraham later abraham we find him obeying god get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred come thy country and from thy kindred come into a land that i will show thee abram into a land that i will show thee abram he comes into the land there are the he comes into the land there are the colonies colonies i'm going to give you a seed abram you wait and see he wanders five years and 10 years and he wanders five years and 10 years and 15 years and 20 years never doubting 15 years and 20 years never doubting never discount serie my dear brother and never discount serie my dear brother and sisters sisters you don't find her murmuring and you don't find her murmuring and complaining even though she'd left the complaining even though she'd left the lap of luxury lap of luxury what was god teaching what was god teaching he waits until he's a hundred years old he waits until he's a hundred years old far past the normal time for childbirth far past the normal time for childbirth god says now watch i'll intervene god says now watch i'll intervene and the birth of isaac is a miracle and the birth of isaac is a miracle an absolute miracle who did it an absolute miracle who did it god did it god did it what's his purpose what's his purpose to effect the destruction of flesh to effect the destruction of flesh the destruction of sin the destruction of sin to eradicate brethren and sisters that to eradicate brethren and sisters that thing which thing which had temporarily delayed his eternal had temporarily delayed his eternal purpose we come down to the time of rebecca and god touches the will of rebecca another god touches the will of rebecca another miracle so that when the nation of miracle so that when the nation of israel came into existence it was a israel came into existence it was a miracle the birth of israel was just as miracle the birth of israel was just as much a miracle as the birth of the lord much a miracle as the birth of the lord jesus christ jesus christ for god did it we can go on down through the stream of time and see how this time and see how this pattern begins to broaden out can't we pattern begins to broaden out can't we how god is working how god is working for one thing for one thing and that is the destruction of sin and that is the destruction of sin is it any wonder then that the apostle is it any wonder then that the apostle paul picks this up in the sixth chapter paul picks this up in the sixth chapter of romans and tells us brethren and of romans and tells us brethren and sisters sisters that if we want a place in the kingdom that if we want a place in the kingdom of god that our old man must be of god that our old man must be crucified with him that the body of sin crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed might be destroyed or in galatians chapter 5 verse 24 or in galatians chapter 5 verse 24 where god tells us where god tells us that they that are christ have crucified that they that are christ have crucified the flesh the flesh with its affections and lusts you might ask the question then what does this have to do with the what does this have to do with the wilderness wanderings wilderness wanderings it has everything my dear brother and it has everything my dear brother and sisters sisters everything everything because as the nation of israel now because as the nation of israel now begins to become a nation begins to become a nation god has not changed these principles and he's also going to affect a string of narratives in actual life that can be of narratives in actual life that can be used by his brethren and sisters used by his brethren and sisters by the brethren and sisters of the lord by the brethren and sisters of the lord jesus christ jesus christ as they come to the end of gentile times as they come to the end of gentile times why can they be used even though they why can they be used even though they were uttered nearly 4 000 years ago were uttered nearly 4 000 years ago because of the fact that god's because of the fact that god's principles do not change principles do not change because he is taking out a people for because he is taking out a people for his name his name because of the fact brethren and sisters because of the fact brethren and sisters that the first fruits of that new that the first fruits of that new creation spoken of in the first chapter creation spoken of in the first chapter of hebrews where we were told that god of hebrews where we were told that god who at sundry times in a diverse manner who at sundry times in a diverse manner spake in time past unto the prophets spake in time past unto the prophets hath in these last days spoken unto us hath in these last days spoken unto us by son by his son by son by his son and we go on in the second verse and we and we go on in the second verse and we find that he is the exact duplicate of find that he is the exact duplicate of god god the exact duplicate made in the express the exact duplicate made in the express image image it's an echo isn't it of genesis 1 27 it's an echo isn't it of genesis 1 27 made in the express image and in his made in the express image and in his likeness let him have dominion over the likeness let him have dominion over the earth let us make man in our image earth let us make man in our image the apostle paul says he's the first the apostle paul says he's the first fruits of them to sleep the first fruits fruits of them to sleep the first fruits of a new creation and all that are born of a new creation and all that are born again again born into this born into this become part of become part of become one of those stones that will be become one of those stones that will be built upon the chief cornerstone that built upon the chief cornerstone that was cut out of the mountain without was cut out of the mountain without hands and because that is a multitude hands and because that is a multitude which no man can number is outlined in which no man can number is outlined in the seventh of the revelation it becomes the seventh of the revelation it becomes a great mountain and fills the whole a great mountain and fills the whole earth they don't change these principles don't change you don't these principles don't change you don't change the purpose of god now when israel begins to grow as a nation nation god doesn't change these principles they are taken into egypt why as we're told in the 11th chapter of hosea at told in the 11th chapter of hosea at verse 1 that it might be fulfilled out verse 1 that it might be fulfilled out of egypt if i call my son why egypt of egypt if i call my son why egypt did god just did god just reach out and out of thin air pick out a reach out and out of thin air pick out a nation nation no my brethren and sisters he didn't no my brethren and sisters he didn't in his creation when he created the in his creation when he created the earth he created egypt with peculiar earth he created egypt with peculiar characteristics peculiar characteristics so that it would exemplify the ugliness so that it would exemplify the ugliness of flesh you see the land of egypt does not receive its land of egypt does not receive its sustenance from the skies it sustenance from the skies it receives its sustenance from the river receives its sustenance from the river nile whose nile whose headwaters are far away from the land of headwaters are far away from the land of egypt egypt and what is the consequence and what is the consequence an egyptian is constantly looking down an egyptian is constantly looking down he's looking to the ground for help it's typical of the nations of the world who nations of the world who put trust in their own ability put trust in their own ability in this quality that seems to uh in this quality that seems to uh be flooding the world today of be flooding the world today of self-confidence the power of positive self-confidence the power of positive thinking thinking the great i am inside of man the great i am inside of man which is entirely opposite to the will which is entirely opposite to the will of god of god there you have it in egypt brother and there you have it in egypt brother and sisters sisters constantly looking down but what do we have in the land of israel israel we have an israelite looking to the we have an israelite looking to the heavens for the early and the latter heavens for the early and the latter reigns reigns constantly dependent upon the god of constantly dependent upon the god of israel in egypt we have preservation of the dead preservation of the dead mummification as the tombs are excavated they find the earthly possessions of these monarchs earthly possessions of these monarchs still intact still intact they find the food that was given there they find the food that was given there for his sustenance for his sustenance still the same he hasn't touched it we find verification of the biblical principles that in death there is no principles that in death there is no remembrance of thee in the grave who remembrance of thee in the grave who shall give thee thanks shall give thee thanks we see the grand fulfillment of david's we see the grand fulfillment of david's words as he warns us in the 146th psalm words as he warns us in the 146th psalm to put not your trust in princes to put not your trust in princes nor in the son of man in whom there is nor in the son of man in whom there is no help his breath goeth forth he no help his breath goeth forth he returneth to his earth and that very day returneth to his earth and that very day his thoughts his thoughts perish perish he see such a fulfillment of those he see such a fulfillment of those glorious truths don't we brethren and glorious truths don't we brethren and sisters and young people sisters and young people and so into this land and so into this land we have the beginning of the nation of we have the beginning of the nation of israel israel they grow up here they become a great and mighty nation and we see god working through an and we see god working through an individual by the name of joseph individual by the name of joseph and in joseph we have a tremendous type and in joseph we have a tremendous type of christ if we only had time to of christ if we only had time to elaborate on this elaborate on this we see a man that was figuratively we see a man that was figuratively lifted from the grave lifted from the grave [Music] [Music] we see a man who by the revelation of we see a man who by the revelation of god was permitted to be a savior to god was permitted to be a savior to egypt we see one deliver his people from the house of bondage house of bondage and in joseph we see an individual that and in joseph we see an individual that has not one recorded sin against him has not one recorded sin against him not that he didn't sin not that he didn't sin but there is no recorded sin against but there is no recorded sin against joseph and he becomes a joseph and he becomes a marvelous type of the lord jesus christ marvelous type of the lord jesus christ and you know it's very interesting that and you know it's very interesting that when when the writer to the hebrews the writer to the hebrews reaches down to take something out of reaches down to take something out of the life of joseph the life of joseph that he bypasses all of the colorful that he bypasses all of the colorful events in this man's life brethren and events in this man's life brethren and sisters sisters and think of the many incidents that he and think of the many incidents that he could have chosen could have chosen but when he comes to put him in the 11th but when he comes to put him in the 11th chapter of hebrews he discusses his chapter of hebrews he discusses his bones bones why does he do that because here is faith faith at work stop and think for a faith at work stop and think for a moment moment joseph joseph in line for the throne of egypt joseph who could have been buried in the royalty of egypt on the banks of the royalty of egypt on the banks of the niles with the pharaohs this isn't our final resting place final resting place this isn't the land of our fathers this this isn't the land of our fathers this is egypt is egypt this is that which is a symbol this is that which is a symbol of opposition to god you're going back into the land how did he know that brethren and how did he know that brethren and sisters remember that when joseph made that statement that the nation of israel was statement that the nation of israel was riding on the crest of the waves riding on the crest of the waves they were friends of the prime minister they were friends of the prime minister they were looked to how did joseph know they were going back that's the theme of the 11th of hebrews that's the theme of the 11th of hebrews isn't it he had faith he believed god isn't it he had faith he believed god so you're going back so you're going back and when you go take my bones with you it's interesting that the book of it's interesting that the book of genesis opens with genesis opens with the creation and it concludes with a the creation and it concludes with a coffin in egypt that's the way the book coffin in egypt that's the way the book concludes concludes it opens with life it finishes with it opens with life it finishes with death the book of beginnings a coffin in egypt you know if you are familiar with adam you know if you are familiar with adam clark's commentary and many others they clark's commentary and many others they will tell you and many travelers will will tell you and many travelers will tell you the same thing that a coffin in tell you the same thing that a coffin in egypt was quite a thing because egypt was quite a thing because there was only two kinds of burial in there was only two kinds of burial in egypt you were either buried in royalty egypt you were either buried in royalty or you were buried in poverty or you were buried in poverty and to be buried in royalty as joseph and to be buried in royalty as joseph was meant that you had a casket that was was meant that you had a casket that was hewn out of solid stone that casket would weigh somewhere in the neighborhood of neighborhood of 10 tons 10 tons this is the reason they carried this is the reason they carried jacob back jacob back on wagons can you imagine the problem that they had problem that they had carrying the bones of joseph through carrying the bones of joseph through that wilderness for 40 years and what was it doing god intended it for them to be a problem god intended it for them to be a problem because it was a constant reminder because it was a constant reminder brother and sister that in that coffin was the bones of one that was going into the promised land that was going into the promised land it was the counterpart of that which is it was the counterpart of that which is constantly with us that one day constantly with us that one day the lord jesus christ is going to reign the lord jesus christ is going to reign gloriously in jerusalem in the promised gloriously in jerusalem in the promised land and that is the reason he tells you and me to abide in me hold on don't turn loose why do you say that master well if you why do you say that master well if you hold on to me viciously and tight and hold on to me viciously and tight and never let go there's only one place that never let go there's only one place that you can go because i'm going to be king you can go because i'm going to be king over all the earth over all the earth and if you're holding on to me you're and if you're holding on to me you're going to be carried into that kingdom going to be carried into that kingdom but i warn you that it's not going to be but i warn you that it's not going to be easy to hold many times you're going to easy to hold many times you're going to loosen your grip loosen your grip but take renewed strength take renewed but take renewed strength take renewed courage as god told joshua this morning courage as god told joshua this morning be strong and of good courage i will be strong and of good courage i will never leave thee nor forsake thee i'll never leave thee nor forsake thee i'll give you that strength as long as your give you that strength as long as your desire is there and if you hold on to me desire is there and if you hold on to me there's only one place you can go and there's only one place you can go and that is into that kingdom with me now you see these are basic these are fundamentals fundamentals and what i want to emphasize as we begin and what i want to emphasize as we begin these wilderness wanderings brothers and these wilderness wanderings brothers and sisters that the principles sisters that the principles that we find in the wilderness are the that we find in the wilderness are the same principles that we find in the same principles that we find in the wilderness of life today they haven't wilderness of life today they haven't changed changed and you know many times we are inclined and you know many times we are inclined to say to say my my israel how could you do it how in the world could you turn against how in the world could you turn against god with all of the manifestations of god with all of the manifestations of his power at your right hand oh we his power at your right hand oh we wouldn't do that wouldn't do that oh no not us oh no not us we look out on a world a world that is the exact and complete fulfillment of what christ said in the fulfillment of what christ said in the 21st chapter of luke would be in the 21st chapter of luke would be in the world just prior to his coming no way world just prior to his coming no way out out no way to no way to turn turn could you think of three better words could you think of three better words this morning to describe the dilemma in this morning to describe the dilemma in washington right now in the watergate washington right now in the watergate affair affair could you could you could you think of three better words could you think of three better words brethren and sisters to describe the brethren and sisters to describe the problem in southeast asia problem in southeast asia we thought we had peace didn't we we thought we had peace didn't we that is the world did the that is the world did the christadelphians knew better christadelphians knew better could you look out on the dope problem could you look out on the dope problem that is in the world today and find that is in the world today and find three better words to describe that three better words to describe that problem problem no way out no way out well you know if god or christ could well you know if god or christ could have thought of three better words they have thought of three better words they wouldn't have used it in the 21st wouldn't have used it in the 21st chapter of luke chapter of luke but that's the three words they used but that's the three words they used but every one of us this morning should but every one of us this morning should fall down on our knees and thank the god fall down on our knees and thank the god of israel that he has given us a way out as israel were under the power of the pharaohs those three words hit them right in the face in the face and apart from the intervention of god and apart from the intervention of god there would have been no way out but because they cried unto the lord because they had a desire to be because they had a desire to be delivered from bondage and remember it delivered from bondage and remember it was because of that desire god heard god sent them a deliverer god sent them a deliverer god extricated them from the bondage of god extricated them from the bondage of sin sin the bondage of egypt the bondage of egypt and he brought them into that glorious and he brought them into that glorious land of promise and the apostle paul reaching back brother and sister says brother and sister says in romans 15 and 4 that these things in romans 15 and 4 that these things were written a fourth time for our were written a fourth time for our learning learning that we through patience and comfort of that we through patience and comfort of the scripture might have hope and in our next two classes this morning i want to take the highlights i want to take the highlights of that deliverance and i want to bring them right down into the laps of every individual in this the laps of every individual in this audience audience and i want us to take those first and i want us to take those first principles brethren and sisters that are principles brethren and sisters that are enumerated over and over again these enumerated over and over again these basic laws of god and i want us to see how they can be stepping stones into that kingdom that stepping stones into that kingdom that is coming brethren and sisters and is coming brethren and sisters and that's the most important thing in the that's the most important thing in the world i don't know how many of you are familiar with it you should be you're familiar with it you should be you're right in the middle of it but about a right in the middle of it but about a year ago in the los angeles times there year ago in the los angeles times there appeared a half-page article appeared a half-page article and it was from mit here in boston and in that half-page article in the times times and i am sure that you would all agree and i am sure that you would all agree being as close to this brighton factory being as close to this brighton factory as you are they would have nothing to do with the bible as an authority bible as an authority but they're dealing with facts and they warned the world that unless man took his head out of the that unless man took his head out of the sand and got up and did something and sand and got up and did something and they said we don't know what you're they said we don't know what you're going to do because it's an going to do because it's an insurmountable problem insurmountable problem unless you do something about the unless you do something about the population explosion and the shortages population explosion and the shortages that are going to develop in food and that are going to develop in food and everything else everything else that civilization is going to come to a that civilization is going to come to a screeching halt screeching halt in 1984. now they're beginning to see that they knew what they were talking about i knew what they were talking about i don't know the problems you're having don't know the problems you're having here but we're facing gasoline racing in here but we're facing gasoline racing in california we're facing power blackouts we're facing innumerable problems the pollution is getting out of hand the pollution is getting out of hand it is stated by authorities that people it is stated by authorities that people will be falling over in the streets in will be falling over in the streets in los angeles by 1975. now if you look at these things squarely brethren and sisters and young people brethren and sisters and young people and if the world looks at them squarely and if the world looks at them squarely they can forget this book and they're face to face with the fact that the future offers nothing but that the future offers nothing but trouble trouble the future holds nothing the future holds nothing but annihilation that is the reason that you and i this morning should fall on our knees before morning should fall on our knees before the god of israel the god of israel and thank him for the open door that he and thank him for the open door that he has given us that will lead us out of has given us that will lead us out of this land of egypt this land of egypt through this dark night through this dark night across the red sea across the red sea and into our promised and into our promised hope we hope to develop this in our next hope we hope to develop this in our next few classes thank you

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we find a sad commentary on human nature how many times this is spelled doom for how many times this is spelled doom for an individual an individual that there are rows of pharaoh that knew that there are rows of pharaoh that knew not joseph not joseph and all the glory that had been israel's and all the glory that had been israel's all the prestige that they had owned all the prestige that they had owned suddenly has blanked out suddenly has blanked out how many times this has been true in the how many times this has been true in the course of civilization course of civilization and how it emphasizes the truth of and how it emphasizes the truth of david's words once again but not your david's words once again but not your trust in princes trust in princes nor in the son of man in whom there is nor in the son of man in whom there is no help no help his breath goes forth his breath goes forth he returneth to his earth he returneth to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish in that very day his thoughts perish it emphasizes again the fact that it emphasizes again the fact that the jeremiah reveals to us in his 17th the jeremiah reveals to us in his 17th chapter that the heart of man is chapter that the heart of man is deceitful above all things and deceitful above all things and desperately ill or sick desperately ill or sick it's diseased and he goes on to ask the it's diseased and he goes on to ask the question question who can know it of course this becomes one of the great facts facts unchanging facts that the world has been unchanging facts that the world has been faced with when they put their trust in faced with when they put their trust in man man so we see the nation of israel go into so we see the nation of israel go into bondage hard labor under the whip of the taskmaster their cries come up before the god of israel our story goes back now to now to their provision of a deliverer we know the story of moses don't we there's no need to go into a lot of there's no need to go into a lot of detail concerning the miraculous detail concerning the miraculous deliverance of this man deliverance of this man and how he was taken into the courts of and how he was taken into the courts of pharaoh but i want to pause for a moment in that story brethren and sisters to story brethren and sisters to bring out a gem bring out a gem you know there's more beauty actually in you know there's more beauty actually in the unwritten things in scripture than the unwritten things in scripture than there is in that which is written if we there is in that which is written if we stop and analyze it if we go under the stop and analyze it if we go under the surface for a moment surface for a moment we often think of the unwritten story we often think of the unwritten story that that elapsed between that time when god told elapsed between that time when god told abram to go offer isaac as a burnt abram to go offer isaac as a burnt offering on mount moriah offering on mount moriah and the next words that we have and and the next words that we have and he rose up early in the morning there was a knight that intervened their brethren and sisters that was abraham's gethsemane do you think he slept that night do you think he slept that night i'll leave the answer to you i'll leave the answer to you it wasn't just an ordinary offering it it wasn't just an ordinary offering it wasn't a sin offering this was a burnt wasn't a sin offering this was a burnt offering offering that required the skinning of the animal that required the skinning of the animal and the severing of the parts of the and the severing of the parts of the body body abraham was all too well aware of the abraham was all too well aware of the demands of that offering but to get back to our question and point this morning moses was under the tutelage of his own mother mother you don't read much about jochebed do you don't read much about jochebed do you brethren and sisters you brethren and sisters there isn't much to be said but i want you to stop and think for a moment moment there have been many jochebeds in israel there have been many jochebeds in israel jochebeds who undoubtedly went to their jochebeds who undoubtedly went to their deathbed thinking that god has never deathbed thinking that god has never seen me i have tried but i have done seen me i have tried but i have done nothing spectacular nothing spectacular i've never given a public lecture i have i've never given a public lecture i have never been out in front where the world never been out in front where the world could see me could see me i am an unknown and yet those jochebed's brethren and sisters sisters will be in the kingdom of god and many will be in the kingdom of god and many of those who have made a big noise will of those who have made a big noise will be cast out for you see jochebed lost no time when she received that baby back when she received that baby back she went to work and on that soft mind of clay she so instilled the principles of almighty god that when he was faced with the glories of the throne of egypt and all of the fringe benefits that could come to him from a natural could come to him from a natural standpoint standpoint he refused and he chose as the writer to he refused and he chose as the writer to the hebrew says the hebrew says to suffer the affliction of his people to suffer the affliction of his people rather than to enjoy the pleasures of rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season and once again brethren sin for a season and once again brethren and sisters i want to emphasize and sisters i want to emphasize something here something here the apostle paul is going right back to the apostle paul is going right back to our basic principle of the destruction of sin that operative principle that came into the world that principle that came into the world that temporarily delayed god's plan temporarily delayed god's plan moses didn't want any part of it moses didn't want any part of it because he was looking forward to that because he was looking forward to that city whose builder and maker is god but you know in the seventh chapter of acts acts we're told something very interesting we're told something very interesting brother and sisters in regards to this brother and sisters in regards to this man man i would like to direct your attention to i would like to direct your attention to the 22nd verse acts chapter 7 verse 22. do we go to 11 now and moses was learned in all the wisdom of the egyptians and was mighty in words and in deeds and if we go to the historian pliny and to josephus to josephus for the hidden years of moses life and for the hidden years of moses life and even though they are not really even though they are not really authoritative historians yet they are authoritative historians yet they are credited with some degree of credibility we find out from them that moses was one of the greatest generals in the egyptian of the greatest generals in the egyptian army army that moses was the mastermind in that moses was the mastermind in building the treasure cities building the treasure cities that moses was one of the greatest men that moses was one of the greatest men that was ever in egypt and as the writer to the in acts tells us here that us here that he was skilled in all the wisdom and he was skilled in all the wisdom and knowledge of the egyptians now don't knowledge of the egyptians now don't take that too lightly brother and take that too lightly brother and sisters because that was a tremendous sisters because that was a tremendous education in that time education in that time that would have meant a degree in that would have meant a degree in engineering it would have meant that he was skilled in hieroglyphics that he was skilled in all of the wisdom of egypt and at that time that would of egypt and at that time that would have meant a tremendous education in have meant a tremendous education in secular knowledge and now moses in the prime of life 40 years of age with all the wisdom of this world i have this marvelous education i'm in the prime of life i am qualified in the prime of life i am qualified in every detail god to do your job i know that's rather a free translation of the king james version brethren and of the king james version brethren and sisters but the thought is there and god says oh no you're not moses no no eight years no no ten years no ten years no it'll take longer than that moses it'll take longer than that moses how long god how long god 40 years what university are you going to send me to god to god i'm taking you moses to the backside of i'm taking you moses to the backside of the desert where i have and will train the desert where i have and will train every one of my workmen every one of my workmen i'm taking you far away from the i'm taking you far away from the exchequer exchequer i'm taking you away from the world of i'm taking you away from the world of the commercial the commercial i'm taking you moses back into my i'm taking you moses back into my creation creation i'm taking you back where you can get a i'm taking you back where you can get a good look at my stars and my universe at good look at my stars and my universe at night i'm taking you moses back where i night i'm taking you moses back where i can get rid what was in moses mind or you say you just said that he had or you say you just said that he had been filled with the wisdom that been filled with the wisdom that jochebed had given him of the jochebed had given him of the knowledge of god this is true knowledge of god this is true but in acts we are told that he was but in acts we are told that he was skilled in all the wisdom of egypt skilled in all the wisdom of egypt and what is egypt and what is egypt it's flesh what's god telling him now brethren and sisters let's get down now brethren and sisters let's get down to the basics to the basics here in this one verse is the meat of here in this one verse is the meat of the atonement then this one verse is the atonement then this one verse is exactly what christ did at calvary he destroyed the thinking of flesh why did god tell the serpent that he was why did god tell the serpent that he was going to be just hit in the head going to be just hit in the head because in the head is the brain because in the head is the brain is the thinking of man is the thinking of man it wasn't only to destroy that serpent it wasn't only to destroy that serpent it was to destroy the thinking of man it was to destroy the thinking of man that the thinking of god could come in that the thinking of god could come in and this is what paul tells you and me and this is what paul tells you and me galatians 5 24 that they that are christ galatians 5 24 that they that are christ have crucified the flesh and where do we have crucified the flesh and where do we do it brethren and sisters do it brethren and sisters i can talk freely to you back here i i can talk freely to you back here i don't know any of your habitat don't know any of your habitat i don't know what bothers you except i don't know what bothers you except that you're mortal like i am that you're mortal like i am but i can tell you the trouble in but i can tell you the trouble in california and los angeles area california and los angeles area i can tell you why our bible classes i can tell you why our bible classes have gone down and down and down and have gone down and down and down and they can be traced to the advent of they can be traced to the advent of dodger stadium and the angel stadium in dodger stadium and the angel stadium in anaheim if i can use that term loosely someone says what's the matter of that that's good clean entertainment brethren that's good clean entertainment brethren and sisters we don't have time we have a given space of time to go from this point to this point and there is no this point to this point and there is no place for a detour and this is exactly the reason that god took moses to the back side of the took moses to the back side of the desert desert there was no disneyland back there there was no disneyland back there there was no marine lands there was no marine lands there was no dodger stadium there was no dodger stadium there was no anaheim stadium there was no anaheim stadium there was nothing of the world back there was nothing of the world back there it was in god's creation and for there it was in god's creation and for 40 years he drained out the wisdom of 40 years he drained out the wisdom of egypt he crucified the flesh with its egypt he crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts affections and lusts and a man that had been the one of the and a man that had been the one of the chief spokesman for pharaoh a man that chief spokesman for pharaoh a man that had led armies a man that had been the had led armies a man that had been the greatest in the egypt greatest in the egypt was now so humbled and brought to his was now so humbled and brought to his knees before the god of israel knees before the god of israel that he had to have a spokesman when he that he had to have a spokesman when he stood before pharaoh god says you can't do it on your own and the sooner you come to that and the sooner you come to that realization the sooner you are in a realization the sooner you are in a position to position to being my disciple being my disciple when you come to the realization that my when you come to the realization that my son came to that of mine own self i can son came to that of mine own self i can do nothing that i'm a weak frail do nothing that i'm a weak frail stumbling creature of dust and without stumbling creature of dust and without your help god i'm lost your help god i'm lost when you get to that point then you're when you get to that point then you're ready after 40 years moses is now ready 40 years in god's school 40 years of flesh now 40 years of spiritual exhortation in now 40 years of spiritual exhortation in a building well brethren and sisters there's so much here much here there's such an exhortation there's such there's such an exhortation there's such a warning a warning isn't it interesting that isn't it interesting that as moses comes to pharaoh that he utters as moses comes to pharaoh that he utters the beginning of a cry that we're the beginning of a cry that we're hearing today in russia hearing today in russia isn't it interesting that is there were isn't it interesting that is there were three approximately three million three approximately three million israelis israelis for jews in for jews in egypt egypt that there are three million jews locked that there are three million jews locked up in russia today up in russia today and isn't it interesting that and isn't it interesting that the same cry to let my people go is the the same cry to let my people go is the same cry that's being echoed from the same cry that's being echoed from the four corners of the earth today four corners of the earth today and it isn't this and it isn't this isn't it interesting that isn't it interesting that the egyptian army was destroyed by water the egyptian army was destroyed by water and god says it won't happen again but and god says it won't happen again but this time it will be by fire this time it will be by fire the judgments of god the judgments of god and we're seeing those things and we and we're seeing those things and we hear the words of jeremiah crying out in hear the words of jeremiah crying out in the third chapter of jeremiah go into the third chapter of jeremiah go into the land of the north and bring my the land of the north and bring my people home people home the words to elijah and the immortalized the words to elijah and the immortalized saints bring my people home saints bring my people home let my people go let my people go you see god's principles don't change do you see god's principles don't change do they now moses comes before pharaoh we know the story well we know how that pharaoh's heart was hardened and pharaoh's heart was hardened and how many comments we've heard on this how many comments we've heard on this brethren and sisters brethren and sisters but god didn't harden pharaoh's heart but god didn't harden pharaoh's heart isn't it interesting in the scriptures isn't it interesting in the scriptures of truth that of truth that god never hardens the heart of an god never hardens the heart of an individual and an individual's heart is individual and an individual's heart is never hardened until mercy is extended never hardened until mercy is extended as long as those plagues were in egypt as long as those plagues were in egypt as long as the frogs were there as long as long as the frogs were there as long as the lice were there as long as the as the lice were there as long as the darkness was there darkness was there pharaoh was a very humble person wasn't pharaoh was a very humble person wasn't he he meek but when god extended his mercy the hardness of pharaoh's heart returned the hardness of pharaoh's heart returned you'll think well how could you do that you'll think well how could you do that pharaoh be careful brethren and sisters there's several in this audience this morning they've had a pretty close brush with death death as individuals and in their families and you know there isn't any time in your life that your life that your mind turns to yahweh ropheka as it your mind turns to yahweh ropheka as it does and they are of pain and sickness does and they are of pain and sickness for you realize that he is the only one for you realize that he is the only one that can affect the cure all the hardness in our hearts towards our brethren and sisters if we have any our brethren and sisters if we have any and and we pray god that we don't we pray god that we don't every sin that we have committed comes every sin that we have committed comes bounding back like a echo destiny and oh bounding back like a echo destiny and oh if we only had time to remedy these if we only had time to remedy these things things because there's a possibility i might because there's a possibility i might not live through the night but rather a meek person aren't we brethren and sisters brethren and sisters our financial trouble comes and our financial trouble comes and no way to turn and we go to our knees in no way to turn and we go to our knees in prayer and we give everything to god prayer and we give everything to god there's the heart that god wants there's the heart that god wants but then health returns and the sun but then health returns and the sun begins to shine and the larger is full begins to shine and the larger is full and the bank account grows and what and the bank account grows and what happens to our heart the world becomes happens to our heart the world becomes quite bright again doesn't it quite bright again doesn't it and our old associations look better and our old associations look better than they than they had in our hour of trial and uh had in our hour of trial and uh we begin to go back to egypt we begin to go back to egypt our heart hardens god doesn't do it you see our heart is never hardened until mercy is extended to us hardened until mercy is extended to us that's one of the ironical things of that's one of the ironical things of human nature moses realizes that the only way that pharaoh is going to bend is by force god is going to prove to israel and he's going to prove to egypt that there is going to prove to egypt that there is only one god that can save only one god that can save now you know when we speak of the power now you know when we speak of the power of god we are liable to think many times of his liable to think many times of his massive universe and this is the power massive universe and this is the power of god of god there's no question about it there's no question about it when we look at the extent of space and when we look at the extent of space and man's utter incapability of reaching its man's utter incapability of reaching its end or even fathoming its depths certainly that speaks to the power of god but that's not the way the scripture god but that's not the way the scripture speaks of the power of god brethren and speaks of the power of god brethren and sisters the way this scripture speaks of sisters the way this scripture speaks of the power of god is spoken by paul in the power of god is spoken by paul in romans 1 where he says i am not ashamed romans 1 where he says i am not ashamed of the gospel of christ for it is the of the gospel of christ for it is the power of god under salvation to everyone power of god under salvation to everyone that believeth that believeth and as he comes to philippi that i may and as he comes to philippi that i may know him and the power know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death if by any means i might unto his death if by any means i might attain unto the resurrection of the dead attain unto the resurrection of the dead the power of god is exemplified to us the power of god is exemplified to us and god's ability to and god's ability to save save we realize this don't we when we go to we realize this don't we when we go to the the a funeral a funeral and we look and we look at one we've known in life brother john carter said in pomona one day day when he was speaking on the atonement when he was speaking on the atonement that that there is no time in our life and our there is no time in our life and our experience of life that experience of life that we realize that our utter helplessness we realize that our utter helplessness like we do when we look upon one that like we do when we look upon one that has passed on has passed on there isn't anything they can do there there isn't anything they can do there isn't anything we can do we're utterly dependent upon the power of god of god i'm an extremely good friend in pomona i'm an extremely good friend in pomona area that is a physician and he told me area that is a physician and he told me one day and one day and maury if there is ever any time in a maury if there is ever any time in a physician's life when he feels the need physician's life when he feels the need of god of god it is when we have it is when we have for instance a young person that is in for instance a young person that is in the prime of life that's been in a the prime of life that's been in a serious accident and serious accident and we operate and we put all those pieces we operate and we put all those pieces back together just like the book says to back together just like the book says to do and then we wait do and then we wait we wait for that spark of life to begin we wait for that spark of life to begin flowing through that body and he says if flowing through that body and he says if you ever felt a helpless moment you ever felt a helpless moment he says every physician realizes this he says every physician realizes this the most helpless moment the most helpless moment is when you wait for that spark of life is when you wait for that spark of life and you know that you yourself can't put and you know that you yourself can't put it there it there my brethren and sisters that's the power my brethren and sisters that's the power of god and now god is going to move in and he's going to exhibit that power going to exhibit that power and isn't it interesting that he strikes and isn't it interesting that he strikes at the very source of power in egypt at the very source of power in egypt because egypt had those 10 gods because egypt had those 10 gods that they worshipped that they worshipped that they deified the frog-headed goddess haika the earth god kept the earth god kept the sun god raw ammon the sun god raw ammon the river nile the river nile and on and on and on god says very well egypt if you worship these gods i'll egypt if you worship these gods i'll reverse them for you and then we'll see reverse them for you and then we'll see if your god can deliver you remember the priests of baal don't we the same principle and so the land was flooded with frogs they became a pestilence they became a pestilence and the egyptians went through their and the egyptians went through their ceremonies of praying to their ceremonies of praying to their frog-headed goddess haika morning noon frog-headed goddess haika morning noon and night and nothing happened rings a bell doesn't it brother and sisters when men are putting their trust sisters when men are putting their trust in idols of silver in idols of silver and gold and they're falling down before and gold and they're falling down before them but nothing happens them but nothing happens there's plenty of money in washington there's plenty of money in washington this morning this morning but it's not clearing up the scandal there's plenty of money in our military but is not clearing up the problems in but is not clearing up the problems in southeast asia it is a replica isn't it of nebuchadnezzar going to the wisdom of nebuchadnezzar going to the wisdom of this world rather than coming to the this world rather than coming to the wisdom of god for a solution wisdom of god for a solution there we have it in the courts of there we have it in the courts of babylon babylon the sun god raw ammon the sun god raw ammon turned into darkness turned into darkness they couldn't bring light they couldn't bring light the river nile the river nile turned into blood remember what we stated that these are fixed principles fixed principles and very soon the world is going to see and very soon the world is going to see the power of god displayed in a manner the power of god displayed in a manner that they will know beyond any question that they will know beyond any question of doubt that this power is far beyond of doubt that this power is far beyond human ingenuity human ingenuity when they feel this worldwide earthquake when they feel this worldwide earthquake and they see every wall falling to the and they see every wall falling to the ground the dams breaking in their ground the dams breaking in their strategic position throughout the world strategic position throughout the world god moving in to cleanse this world in god moving in to cleanse this world in preparation for the kingdom of god on preparation for the kingdom of god on earth earth we're going to see the fulfillment of we're going to see the fulfillment of the last verse of the 38th chapter of the last verse of the 38th chapter of ezekiel thus will i be magnified in ezekiel thus will i be magnified in thine eyes o israel thine eyes o israel and they shall know that i am yahweh his principles don't change brother sisters then that very memorable night a lesson that israel was never to forget a lesson that israel was never to forget by the way a lesson that we are never to by the way a lesson that we are never to forget either brethren and sisters a forget either brethren and sisters a lesson that we're going to be reminded lesson that we're going to be reminded of tomorrow morning at the breaking of of tomorrow morning at the breaking of bread bread take a lamb israel slay that lamb and take that blood and put on the lamb and take that blood and put on the door posts and the little of your house door posts and the little of your house don't put it on the doorstep israel don't put it on the doorstep israel because that would be the symbol of because that would be the symbol of treading the son of god under foot but identify yourself with that which can bring deliverance with that which can bring deliverance brother gene turner a moment ago said brother gene turner a moment ago said maury there is one way out maury there is one way out how true christ said there would be no way out for the world but we have the hope of for the world but we have the hope of one way out brethren and sisters and it one way out brethren and sisters and it was no accident that he was a carpenter was no accident that he was a carpenter none whatsoever none whatsoever he was a builder and we're spoken of as he was a builder and we're spoken of as his companions as the four carpenters in his companions as the four carpenters in zechariah building upon the ruins of the zechariah building upon the ruins of the four horns or the gentile powers that four horns or the gentile powers that have brought really nation to israel have brought really nation to israel and that carpenter of nazareth and that carpenter of nazareth constructed the door constructed the door the only door by which and through which the only door by which and through which man can enter into life eternal man can enter into life eternal and here it is back in egypt and here it is back in egypt you put that blood on the door you put that blood on the door there was one door into the ark there was one door into the ark i am the way the truth the life i am the i am the way the truth the life i am the door if a man comes in in any other way door if a man comes in in any other way he is a thief and a robber he is a thief and a robber and we can only come through brethren and we can only come through brethren and sisters and sisters by having that righteousness that god by having that righteousness that god has recognized and the lord jesus christ has recognized and the lord jesus christ imputed to us there's only one way we can approach into the presence of god and that is on into the presence of god and that is on the basis of 100 the basis of 100 righteousness 100 purity and we of our righteousness 100 purity and we of our own selves can't do it any man that thinks that he can is a liar but thanks be to the god of israel with the blood on the doorposts of our with the blood on the doorposts of our heart we can come boldly as the writer to the hebrew says boldly before the throne of hebrew says boldly before the throne of grace this is what israel was learning that night the angel of death is going to come through the land and unless that blood is there you will become a victim the angel of death is in the land isn't it it we're all afflicted with leprosy aren't we're all afflicted with leprosy aren't we brethren and sisters but thanks be to we brethren and sisters but thanks be to god god he passes over us he passes over us because as we're told in the eighth because as we're told in the eighth chapter of romans in verse 1 there is chapter of romans in verse 1 there is therefore now no condemnation to them therefore now no condemnation to them who are in christ jesus who walk not who are in christ jesus who walk not after the flesh after the flesh or sin or give their lives to this or sin or give their lives to this this principle that has temporarily this principle that has temporarily delayed the establishment of the kingdom delayed the establishment of the kingdom of god on earth of god on earth of making man in the image of god of making man in the image of god who walk not after that but after the spirit this brother robert so beautifully this brother robert so beautifully brings out brings out in the blood of the lamb in the blood of the lamb it's not a matter of us it's not a matter of us walking perfectly before god brethren walking perfectly before god brethren and sisters and sisters it's a matter of development as we walk it's a matter of development as we walk to the kingdom of god to the kingdom of god we're baptized as no when we're baptized we're baptized as no when we're baptized there is no guarantee that we won't sin there is no guarantee that we won't sin again again none whatsoever none whatsoever we stumble we fall but we learn by our we stumble we fall but we learn by our faith certain certainly we sin certainly we sin certainly we transgress god's law certainly we transgress god's law but it is not our desire to do these but it is not our desire to do these things that's the difference things that's the difference christ is reigning in our hearts as a christ is reigning in our hearts as a monarch you know a few years ago i heard an illustration a few years ago i heard an illustration and i think it's well to bring it out at and i think it's well to bring it out at this time this time i've never forgotten it i've never forgotten it and brethren and sisters it can be and brethren and sisters it can be a test for each one of us this morning a test for each one of us this morning as to whether we will be in the kingdom as to whether we will be in the kingdom of god or not the illustration is this that a compass the needle of a compass is attracted to the needle of a compass is attracted to the north pole because of the magnetic the north pole because of the magnetic field there but you can put a strong compass or a strong magnet to the side of that or a strong magnet to the side of that needle and you can sway it to the right needle and you can sway it to the right or to the left but once that magnet is or to the left but once that magnet is removed the needle points back to the removed the needle points back to the north pole our needle is pointed to the lord jesus christ but as we go through the day christ but as we go through the day in the trials and in the problems that in the trials and in the problems that we have there are strong magnets on we have there are strong magnets on either side pulling that needle to the either side pulling that needle to the right and pulling it to the left right and pulling it to the left but the question is but the question is at the end of the day at the end of the day when all restriction is lifted when all restriction is lifted when there are no crystaldelphians when there are no crystaldelphians around around when you are by yourself in the when you are by yourself in the loneliness of your room loneliness of your room and those magnets have been carried away and those magnets have been carried away where does your needle point where does your needle point which is at the right hand of god which is at the right hand of god that's the question that's the question the angel of death came through just as the angel of death came through just as the angel of death is going to come the angel of death is going to come through in the very near future brethren through in the very near future brethren and sisters and sisters for the last plague is on gentile times for the last plague is on gentile times that plague of darkness and isaiah says that it will grow more and more intense as time goes on until and more intense as time goes on until darkness covers the earth and gross darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people darkness the people the prophecy of joel tells us that the prophecy of joel tells us that as this as this time comes and that we are taken to the time comes and that we are taken to the judgment seat of christ that the moon judgment seat of christ that the moon and the stars and the sun shall withdraw and the stars and the sun shall withdraw their shining their shining what's he talking about what's he talking about the son of righteousness will have left the son of righteousness will have left the father's throat the father's throat the moon the reflected light the the moon the reflected light the ecclesia of god will also be there ecclesia of god will also be there the individual stars will be there every the individual stars will be there every trace of life that lightens this world trace of life that lightens this world today brothers and sisters and those today brothers and sisters and those that proclaim the truth of god will be that proclaim the truth of god will be taken out they will be taken to the taken out they will be taken to the right to the judgment seat of christ right to the judgment seat of christ they will be with their lord they will be with their lord darkness will cover this earth as gross darkness will cover this earth as gross darkness the people darkness the people men will struggle and stumble and fall men will struggle and stumble and fall as the time of trouble comes on this as the time of trouble comes on this earth and we will see a reenactment of earth and we will see a reenactment of the plague of darkness the plague of darkness and then the angel of death will strike that's two minutes to twelve on the divine timetable divine timetable that great number that angel spoken of that great number that angel spoken of in in daniel daniel palmoni is his name the keeper of palmoni is his name the keeper of secrets the keeper of god's timetable secrets the keeper of god's timetable at this very moment brethren and sisters at this very moment brethren and sisters he is counting down counting down 10 10 9 9 8 8 7. 7. six six five five four four three three two two one one the lord himself shall descend from the lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of god the archangel and with the trump of god and the dead in christ shall rise first and the dead in christ shall rise first that's how near we are to the time of that's how near we are to the time of the end the end that's the reason brethren and sisters that's the reason brethren and sisters that it is so appropriate for us to that it is so appropriate for us to consider this type consider this type that was given us in vivid outward that was given us in vivid outward manifestation in real life manifestation in real life of the problems that we would face as we of the problems that we would face as we come to the time of the end come to the time of the end and we are there in our next session we're going to follow closely now as we come out of the land of egypt and figuratively and figuratively come into the land of promise brethren come into the land of promise brethren and sisters all the principles are there god never changes god never changes god never changes god never changes history repeats itself did you say 10-11 okay okay we'll leave egypt for a while so the exodus begins now try to get israel's dilemma brothers and sisters israel's dilemma brothers and sisters and i want to emphasize this point and i want to emphasize this point when we think of israel in egypt we are thinking exclusively of their bondage exclusively of their bondage now let's do not make that mistake now let's do not make that mistake the egyptians were no dummies the egyptians were no dummies and they realized that for israel to be and they realized that for israel to be an effective people for them an effective people for them they had to be healthy they had to be healthy and israel was given the best of food and israel was given the best of food they were in the bread basket of the they were in the bread basket of the world world and even though their bondage was severe and even though their bondage was severe their bodily needs were taken care of their bodily needs were taken care of they lived actually as far as food and they lived actually as far as food and shelter was concerned in the lap of shelter was concerned in the lap of luxury luxury their bondage was severe but you don't their bondage was severe but you don't hear of them starving do you oh no hear of them starving do you oh no brother and sisters this has its brother and sisters this has its counterpart in our life our bondage in counterpart in our life our bondage in this life regardless of the fact that we this life regardless of the fact that we think sometimes we never had it so good think sometimes we never had it so good the bondage of flesh is a horrible thing the bondage of flesh is a horrible thing sickness pain suffering trial problems sickness pain suffering trial problems on every side on every side but we're quite well fed aren't we the but we're quite well fed aren't we the material things of life are in abundance material things of life are in abundance many times this is bad many times this is bad and it proved to be the downfall of and it proved to be the downfall of israel because they never forgot the israel because they never forgot the garlics and the leaks in egypt garlics and the leaks in egypt and here they are on the edge of the red and here they are on the edge of the red sea and sea and already this exodus has began to be already this exodus has began to be quite a problem for them three million quite a problem for them three million people on the march the metropolis of los angeles on the march through the wilderness under the march through the wilderness under the leadership of moses leadership of moses many of you have seen that picture of many of you have seen that picture of cecil b the mills the ten commandments cecil b the mills the ten commandments i think he gives a very fitting picture i think he gives a very fitting picture of the exodus that night of all their of the exodus that night of all their possessions possessions squalling children all the problems that squalling children all the problems that would be in attendance leaving egypt would be in attendance leaving egypt three million of them never discount three million of them never discount their tremendous operation now they are at the red sea brethren and sisters the sea in front of them sisters the sea in front of them tremendous mountains on either side what a shame to look back what are they doing they're looking back what are they doing they're looking back to egypt brethren sisters to egypt brethren sisters they see a frightful sight they see a frightful sight they see the best trained army in the they see the best trained army in the world bearing down on them world bearing down on them it was the best trained army in the it was the best trained army in the world at that time world at that time a thousand horses and chariots a thousand horses and chariots bearing down upon them young people and brothers and sisters if you want something for success in this life want something for success in this life always go to the bible because if you always go to the bible because if you want success in this life want success in this life because you have basic fundamental because you have basic fundamental principles here that principles here that they're the secrets of success they're the secrets of success napoleon hill has written a book one of napoleon hill has written a book one of the best sellers think and grow rich and the best sellers think and grow rich and he's written many others and if you look he's written many others and if you look at the preface of that book he'll say at the preface of that book he'll say you know you know these are my ideas these principles came from the greatest salesman that ever lived these salesman that ever lived these principles have come from the lord jesus principles have come from the lord jesus christ christ and he's taken every one of his basic and he's taken every one of his basic principles out of the teachings of principles out of the teachings of christ and he's created a bestseller and christ and he's created a bestseller and multitudes of people have become rich by multitudes of people have become rich by applying these principles applying these principles their basic life their basic life and i want to leave one of those and i want to leave one of those principles with you that god told moses moses prostate trade before the god of israel and god tells moses something something he says moses he says moses get up off your face get up off your face get up off of your face moses what was god telling moses he says haven't i been with you all these years haven't i guided and guarded and directed you and all that you have done directed you and all that you have done have i ever failed you moses do you think i'm going to fail you now after i've brought you out of egypt after i've brought you out of egypt after i have exhibited my power in these after i have exhibited my power in these 10 great and dreadful plagues that i've 10 great and dreadful plagues that i've proved to you in a way that has never proved to you in a way that has never been demonstrated in the history of the been demonstrated in the history of the world that i am the god of israel that world that i am the god of israel that can save do you think i'm deserting you can save do you think i'm deserting you now you get up moses and you put your foot in that water i'm not going to move until you show me the step of faith and when you put your the step of faith and when you put your foot in that water and show me that you foot in that water and show me that you mean business moses i will perform mean business moses i will perform and brethren and sisters and young and brethren and sisters and young people here is a principle people here is a principle god will never force you into his god will never force you into his kingdom god will never force you to do kingdom god will never force you to do anything god says you go and i will be anything god says you go and i will be with you with you but you make the move but you make the move we're going to see later that the jordan we're going to see later that the jordan never never stopped and went back to the never never stopped and went back to the city of adam until the priests put their city of adam until the priests put their foot into that water foot into that water and when god calls you to do a job and when god calls you to do a job god says i'm going to be with you but god says i'm going to be with you but you show me that you have the faith to you show me that you have the faith to take the first step you know we have a candidate in lompoc right now we've been working with for over well nearly three years nearly three years and we've beaten all the false doctrines out of him and he knows the truth backwards and forwards and for the truth backwards and forwards and for some reason he won't make the step some reason he won't make the step i told him just the other day i said i told him just the other day i said earl it's up to you now earl it's up to you now we've done all we can for you we've done all we can for you but i'm not going to force you to be but i'm not going to force you to be baptized girl baptized girl oh i could force him i could persuade oh i could force him i could persuade him i could catch him in a weak moment him i could catch him in a weak moment and he would go and he would go we don't want this brother and sister we don't want this brother and sister because god doesn't want it because god doesn't want it there comes a time in your life and mine there comes a time in your life and mine when there is no one in the world that when there is no one in the world that can make the step except you and me and that was the position that israel was in at that moment that was the was in at that moment that was the position that moses was in position that moses was in and when moses took the step of faith and when moses took the step of faith and when he put his foot in the water a and when he put his foot in the water a miracle took place miracle took place because the red sea divided and there because the red sea divided and there was dry ground how many times in our lives have we met the red sea situation brethren and the red sea situation brethren and sisters sisters and those waters will never part for you and those waters will never part for you and me until we put our foot in and me until we put our foot in and when we do and when we do we have the comfort that we read in the we have the comfort that we read in the first chapter of joshua this morning first chapter of joshua this morning i will never leave you nor forsake you i will never leave you nor forsake you i will be with you as i was with my i will be with you as i was with my servant moses and never let us limit servant moses and never let us limit that to moses brethren and sister or to that to moses brethren and sister or to joshua joshua he's speaking to he's speaking to jesus and his followers jesus and his followers and what great comfort there is in the and what great comfort there is in the hour of trial hour of trial as i was with moses as i was with moses so i will be with you so i will be with you but remember but remember god was with moses only when moses took god was with moses only when moses took the step of faith and he will only be the step of faith and he will only be with us as we take the step of faith and with us as we take the step of faith and we're going to see where that step of we're going to see where that step of faith led israel in our 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we come to one of the great experiences of the scripture now of the scripture now of course it illustrates the atonement of course it illustrates the atonement in a way probably unequaled in any other in a way probably unequaled in any other part of typology of the entire bible part of typology of the entire bible remember that israel is leaving egypt remember that israel is leaving egypt we're reminded of what the apostle paul we're reminded of what the apostle paul tells us in the second chapter of tells us in the second chapter of ephesians ephesians that at one time you were strangers from that at one time you were strangers from the covenants of promise and he says because of this you are without hope and without god in you are without hope and without god in the world the world now here is the glorious visible now here is the glorious visible manifestation of this great truth that manifestation of this great truth that god has given to us god has given to us and we do ourselves a great injustice and we do ourselves a great injustice when we pass over these old testament when we pass over these old testament narratives lightly brethren and sisters narratives lightly brethren and sisters because they're for a real purpose because they're for a real purpose i had a brother once tell me that i had a brother once tell me that whenever we come across any reference in whenever we come across any reference in the new testament where we have the new testament where we have a reference to the old a reference to the old that it would pay us to stop right there that it would pay us to stop right there and go back and find out the details of and go back and find out the details of this reference and what a true statement this reference and what a true statement this is this is because god put it there for a reason because god put it there for a reason when we come to the crossing of the red when we come to the crossing of the red sea sea we have a picture of what happened at we have a picture of what happened at calvary calvary we have a picture of what happens in our we have a picture of what happens in our own life in the waters of baptism own life in the waters of baptism we have a picture brethren and sisters we have a picture brethren and sisters what happens every time we come before what happens every time we come before the throne of grace and prayer and the throne of grace and prayer and thanksgiving to god we have a glorious thanksgiving to god we have a glorious picture that day when this mortal will picture that day when this mortal will put on immortality and we have a vision put on immortality and we have a vision of the end of the millennial age when of the end of the millennial age when the world itself will be completely the world itself will be completely delivered out of egypt and sin is delivered out of egypt and sin is destroyed destroyed there's great depth and a great there's great depth and a great magnitude of understanding in hosea 11-1 magnitude of understanding in hosea 11-1 that out of egypt have i called my son that out of egypt have i called my son and this is exactly what we're going to and this is exactly what we're going to experience in this third session experience in this third session let's bear in mind now what israel was let's bear in mind now what israel was leaving leaving they were leaving the land of sin and they were leaving the land of sin and death death that's exactly what's happened to you that's exactly what's happened to you and to me in the waters of baptism and to me in the waters of baptism brethren and sisters brethren and sisters we're leaving the land of sin and death we're leaving the land of sin and death but they did not leave the land of sin but they did not leave the land of sin and death brethren and sisters until and death brethren and sisters until they recognized the fact of the slain they recognized the fact of the slain lamb lamb and what god was trying to tell them the and what god was trying to tell them the same story he told adam and eve in the same story he told adam and eve in the garden of eden the coats of skin let's go back there for just a moment to get the magnitude of what get the magnitude of what israel was experiencing you see adam and israel was experiencing you see adam and eve had never seen death before brethren eve had never seen death before brethren and sisters and sisters had you ever stopped to think about that had you ever stopped to think about that adam and eve had never seen death adam and eve had never seen death and suddenly and suddenly a lamb is slain in front of them a lamb is slain in front of them and that which was alive and that which was alive that which was part of god's creation that which was part of god's creation suddenly now is inanimate and they had not even recovered from that shock until suddenly they are that shock until suddenly they are wrapped in that animal's skin that was a lesson they would never forget and israel is about to receive the same sort of an to receive the same sort of an experience experience they had seen the egyptian slain hadn't they had seen the egyptian slain hadn't they they they had seen the firstborn of egypt they had seen the firstborn of egypt they had heard the cry they had heard the cry but stop and think brethren and sisters but stop and think brethren and sisters they were spared the real suffering they were spared the real suffering because that night israel was in the because that night israel was in the land of goshen land of goshen they were in the very similar they were in the very similar circumstance of circumstance of noah in the ark noah in the ark with the door shut they did not hear the with the door shut they did not hear the cry they did not see the suffering god cry they did not see the suffering god spared them that it reminds us doesn't it of the assurance that we have in the 26th assurance that we have in the 26th chapter of isaiah chapter of isaiah that call brethren and sisters that we that call brethren and sisters that we could receive even before we leave this could receive even before we leave this meeting and what a tremendous vantage meeting and what a tremendous vantage point it would be point it would be to leave for the judgment seat of christ to leave for the judgment seat of christ from a gathering like this from a gathering like this and rest assured brethren and sisters and rest assured brethren and sisters that we will hear this call as certain that we will hear this call as certain as the sun rises tomorrow morning come as the sun rises tomorrow morning come my people my people enter thou into thy chambers and shut enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy doors about thee thy doors about thee hide thyself as it were for a little hide thyself as it were for a little moment moment until the indignation be overpassed for until the indignation be overpassed for the lord goethe forth to punish the the lord goethe forth to punish the inhabitants of the earth inhabitants of the earth you see how these principles repeat you see how these principles repeat themselves brethren sisters over and themselves brethren sisters over and over and over again and they are telling over and over again and they are telling us the same story remember what we said us the same story remember what we said this morning in genesis 1 27 the central this morning in genesis 1 27 the central theme of the bible god's eternal purpose theme of the bible god's eternal purpose let us make man in our image let us make man in our image and after our likeness and after our likeness and let him have dominion over the earth and let him have dominion over the earth his name shall be called wonderful his name shall be called wonderful counselor the mighty god the everlasting counselor the mighty god the everlasting father the prince of peace of the father the prince of peace of the increase of his government brethren and increase of his government brethren and sisters there's no dominion that was sisters there's no dominion that was made us unto our god kings and priests made us unto our god kings and priests there's no dominion there's no dominion that's god's eternal purpose and he that's god's eternal purpose and he selected you and me to be part of that selected you and me to be part of that great order is it any wonder that he great order is it any wonder that he tells us tells us nail everything else to a cross will you nail everything else to a cross will you please please nail it up get away with it come out nail it up get away with it come out from among them be separate touch not from among them be separate touch not taste not handle not the unclean why god taste not handle not the unclean why god because that is the thing that has because that is the thing that has temporarily delayed my purpose temporarily delayed my purpose that's the reason that i gave you a that's the reason that i gave you a picture of calvary picture of calvary that you might see the sinfulness of sin that you might see the sinfulness of sin how i look upon sin how i look upon sin and what was done to christ brethren and and what was done to christ brethren and sisters in principle was done to sin nailed to a cross let's don't say it too quickly the most precious thing in god's sight his only begotten son his only begotten son nailed to a cross that's god's evaluation of sin brethren and sisters and sisters is it any wonder he says that you're is it any wonder he says that you're going to be part of me you're going to going to be part of me you're going to be my hands my fingers my eyes be my hands my fingers my eyes you're going to be my spokesman you're going to be my spokesman throughout the world you're going to be throughout the world you're going to be part of me part of me i can't look on sin i can't look on sin you're in the proving ground you're in you're in the proving ground you're in the wilderness like moses i'm chasing the wilderness like moses i'm chasing egypt out of you my brethren and sisters there's not one idle word in the old testament all of idle word in the old testament all of these things speak to us of our future these things speak to us of our future glory in the kingdom of god glory in the kingdom of god paul tells us all things are for your paul tells us all things are for your sakes all things all the creation man enjoys it all the creation man enjoys it but the creation the glorious sun rising but the creation the glorious sun rising on the eastern horizon every morning on the eastern horizon every morning that's not for man and his that's not for man and his uh unsaved condition uh unsaved condition that's not for the world at large that's not for the world at large certainly they enjoy it certainly they enjoy it but the sun rising on the eastern but the sun rising on the eastern horizon every morning brethren and horizon every morning brethren and sisters is telling us a story if we sisters is telling us a story if we would listen would listen it's telling us of the son of it's telling us of the son of righteousness rising and just as the righteousness rising and just as the natural son natural son dissolves every trace of darkness dissolves every trace of darkness god says look forward to that time when god says look forward to that time when the son of righteousness will arise with the son of righteousness will arise with healing in his beams and every trace of healing in his beams and every trace of sin will be obliterated from the earth sin will be obliterated from the earth that's what i'm telling you that's what i'm telling you everything and god's creation is for you everything and god's creation is for you and for me guiding us to the kingdom of and for me guiding us to the kingdom of god god and if we can look out upon god's and if we can look out upon god's creation and see the true story that's creation and see the true story that's behind the rainbow brethren and sisters behind the rainbow brethren and sisters it's seven colors that go from red down it's seven colors that go from red down into a purple and you don't change that into a purple and you don't change that progression progression you never change it you never change it have you ever wondered why god gave noah have you ever wondered why god gave noah a rainbow have you ever wondered in the a rainbow have you ever wondered in the first chapter of ezekiel why the rainbow first chapter of ezekiel why the rainbow arches the throne is it accidental oh no no and the next time you look at a rainbow notice the color progression rainbow notice the color progression seven the number of spiritual perfection seven the number of spiritual perfection the seven colors of the spectrum the seven colors of the spectrum going from red the nature of man through going from red the nature of man through yellow trial yellow trial picking up the green of immortality picking up the green of immortality next coming into blue the color of god next coming into blue the color of god and ending with purple royalty and ending with purple royalty and god's telling the world that they and god's telling the world that they would realize that this is the would realize that this is the progression from mortality to priesthood progression from mortality to priesthood this is with a message that noah saw in this is with a message that noah saw in the dawn of a new day which typed the the dawn of a new day which typed the millennial age and this is the message millennial age and this is the message that ezekiel saw as the rainbow arched that ezekiel saw as the rainbow arched over a sapphire throne brethren and over a sapphire throne brethren and sisters the restored throne of david sisters the restored throne of david everything in god's creation everything in god's creation guides us to a place in the kingdom of guides us to a place in the kingdom of god if we would let it god if we would let it and so israel and so israel begins their journey begins their journey out of the land of egypt out of the land of egypt just like you and i just like you and i began our journey began our journey by recognizing that we must be baptized by recognizing that we must be baptized into christ into christ and what is baptism brethren and sisters and what is baptism brethren and sisters why was christ baptized i don't have to why was christ baptized i don't have to tell you tell you why was he baptized in the jordan of all why was he baptized in the jordan of all places places that dirty filthy stream that dirty filthy stream that runs from the river of life down to that runs from the river of life down to the river of death the river of death that stream that bounds down to 1280 that stream that bounds down to 1280 feet below sea level through the feet below sea level through the precipitous crags precipitous crags it's a picture of man going from life it's a picture of man going from life down the problems of life down the problems of life to death and the reason the ark of the covenant went across that river was to teach us went across that river was to teach us something brethren and sisters and that something brethren and sisters and that was that when christ enters that stream was that when christ enters that stream of life that that stops of life that that stops and those waters are turned back we have and those waters are turned back we have hope for life eternal hope for life eternal the same picture of the widow of nain the same picture of the widow of nain carrying her only child from jerusalem carrying her only child from jerusalem down to jericho the same principle again down to jericho the same principle again and christ stops at funeral procession and christ stops at funeral procession just as he stopped it in your case and just as he stopped it in your case and mine mine and he says unto that young man i say and he says unto that young man i say unto thee arise unto thee arise that's what he says to us in baptism that's what he says to us in baptism brethren and sisters brethren and sisters arise arise you remember what he told lazarus when you remember what he told lazarus when he came out of the grave bound hand and he came out of the grave bound hand and foot in grave clothes that's our foot in grave clothes that's our condition before we come to christ condition before we come to christ and when we come to christ he says loose and when we come to christ he says loose him and let him go him and let him go and now israel is going to be loose from and now israel is going to be loose from the bondage of egypt the bondage of egypt they go through the red sea brethren and they go through the red sea brethren and sisters and it's interesting they go sisters and it's interesting they go through at night through at night at night was that accidental why not in at night was that accidental why not in the daytime the daytime why do you do these things almighty god why do you do these things almighty god i'm teaching you a lesson i'm teaching you a lesson you're going through the wilderness of you're going through the wilderness of life life and you're coming out of darkness into and you're coming out of darkness into light you're coming from the blackness of sin into the dawn of a new day and brethren and sisters they were pursued aren't they just like you and i pursued aren't they just like you and i are pursued with our sins are pursued with our sins after we are baptized after we are baptized but there's something different now but there's something different now because because we read in the 91st psalm that i will we read in the 91st psalm that i will give my angels charge over the give my angels charge over the that word charge in the hebrew we're that word charge in the hebrew we're told even though i don't profess to be a told even though i don't profess to be a hebrew scholar but hebrew scholar but those who do profess tell us that those who do profess tell us that that word charge means command that word charge means command god is saying i will give my angels a god is saying i will give my angels a command over thee to keep thee in all command over thee to keep thee in all thy ways thy ways isn't it interesting that isn't it interesting that that is the work of the caribbean to that is the work of the caribbean to keep the way keep the way to keep the way of the tree of life to keep the way of the tree of life to keep thee in all thy ways why god to keep thee in all thy ways why god lest thou dash thy foot against the lest thou dash thy foot against the stone stone and so they had that protection and so they had that protection even to the point of taking the wheels even to the point of taking the wheels off the chariots off the chariots even to the point of putting a division even to the point of putting a division between israel and the between israel and the armies of pharaoh armies of pharaoh that division is still there brothers that division is still there brothers and sisters if we will only accept it i and sisters if we will only accept it i will never leave thee nor for safety nor will never leave thee nor for safety nor suffer thee to be tempted above that but suffer thee to be tempted above that but you're able but will with the temptation you're able but will with the temptation make a way make a way that she may escape let's appropriate that to ourselves brother and sisters let's don't think brother and sisters let's don't think all that just applied to the old testament characters no no no if the apostle paul and peter could be here this morning we would here this morning we would probably reverence them and give them a probably reverence them and give them a high c but they wouldn't be any better high c but they wouldn't be any better than we are brother and sisters they are than we are brother and sisters they are our brethren our brethren they are our sisters they are servants they are our sisters they are servants of the lord jesus christ and that's the of the lord jesus christ and that's the attitude they would have attitude they would have they wouldn't be puffed up they wouldn't be puffed up no no they're part of us and they're trying to they're part of us and they're trying to convey this message to us convey this message to us we're all in this race for life eternal and you know when israel arose the next morning what did they see brethren and sisters they saw that which would destroy them they saw that which would destroy them destroyed destroyed they saw the dead egyptians on the they saw the dead egyptians on the seashore identically the same thing that we see in the waters of baptism in the waters of baptism we see our sins floating on the surface we see our sins floating on the surface of that water figuratively speaking of that water figuratively speaking dead dead we're dead to sin we're dead to sin and it doesn't only happen in baptism and it doesn't only happen in baptism brethren and sisters brethren and sisters as we came before the throne of grace as we came before the throne of grace this morning if our hearts and if our this morning if our hearts and if our minds and our attitude was with our minds and our attitude was with our brother who offered the prayer we were brother who offered the prayer we were led into the very presence of the god of led into the very presence of the god of israel israel think of it think of it we were led into the place where the we were led into the place where the only the high priest could go one day a only the high priest could go one day a year on the day of atonement and that year on the day of atonement and that only after special garments and special only after special garments and special washings had taken place washings had taken place we were in the living presence of the we were in the living presence of the god of israel god of israel we are in the living presence of the god we are in the living presence of the god of israel at this very moment where two of israel at this very moment where two or three are gathered together there am or three are gathered together there am i in the midst of them this is a serious i in the midst of them this is a serious thing brethren and sisters the egyptians are floating on top of the water and they are dead your life is hit with christ and god with christ and god christ in you christ in you the hope of glory this is the plane we must elevate ourselves to brethren and sisters and ourselves to brethren and sisters and still keep that humility which must be still keep that humility which must be there that we of our own selves have there that we of our own selves have done nothing we are indebted to the god of israel for his mercy and now israel sings the song of triumph the rider the rider and his horse and his horse hath he cast into the sea hath he cast into the sea and we find the grand and glorious and we find the grand and glorious counterpart brethren and sisters in the counterpart brethren and sisters in the eighth chapter of romans there is eighth chapter of romans there is therefore now no condemnation to them therefore now no condemnation to them who are in christ jesus who walk not who are in christ jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the after the flesh but after the spirit we see the glorious consummation spirit we see the glorious consummation of this in the seventh chapter of the of this in the seventh chapter of the revelation where john was permitted to revelation where john was permitted to see us in the kingdom of god see us in the kingdom of god and he says who are these that are and he says who are these that are arrayed in white robes and whence came arrayed in white robes and whence came they they noticed brethren and sisters the exact noticed brethren and sisters the exact counterpart counterpart these are they which came out these are they which came out of great tribulation they came out of of great tribulation they came out of egypt they put the blood of christ on egypt they put the blood of christ on the doorpost of their heart the doorpost of their heart they would not dare to tread the blood they would not dare to tread the blood of christ under foot of christ under foot they've been delivered from that night they've been delivered from that night of darkness of darkness their sins have been forgiven their sins have been forgiven these are they which came out of great these are they which came out of great tribulation have washed their robes tribulation have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the and made them white in the blood of the lamb lamb there it is there it is god is actually saying i am going to god is actually saying i am going to give you a visual manifestation of what give you a visual manifestation of what happens when you come into the truth happens when you come into the truth i'm going to take three million people i'm going to take three million people i'm going to bring them out of the very i'm going to bring them out of the very symbol of sin and death i'm going to symbol of sin and death i'm going to bring them through the red sea i'm going bring them through the red sea i'm going to have the greatest army in the world to have the greatest army in the world pursue them i'm going to destroy that pursue them i'm going to destroy that army army they're not going to do it they're not they're not going to do it they're not capable of doing it they have no weapons capable of doing it they have no weapons to do it i will do it says god god tells you and me the same thing you aren't capable of delivering yourself aren't capable of delivering yourself from the hand of death from the hand of death you are utterly incapable i will do it you are utterly incapable i will do it god says god says god was manifest god was manifest in the flesh in the flesh justified in the spirit there's the answer brethren and sisters god was in christ god was in christ and we're not taking away from christ and we're not taking away from christ god was in christ god was in christ and he was in christ to redeem us and he was in christ to redeem us brethren and sisters to bring us to him let our praise and our thanksgiving first of all be to the god of israel the first of all be to the god of israel the source of all mercy source of all mercy second to his son the lord jesus christ second to his son the lord jesus christ remember the acts the incident we spoke remember the acts the incident we spoke of earlier of earlier of abraham offering isaac and remember i of abraham offering isaac and remember i think it's repeated three times think it's repeated three times that two of them went together that two of them went together the two of them the two of them and you take get a picture in your mind and you take get a picture in your mind of a father and a son of a father and a son hand in hand hand in hand going to that great principle going to that great principle exemplified in the red sea exemplified in the red sea of the destruction of sin's flesh of the destruction of sin's flesh a willing victim a willing victim a willing sacrifice but they went hand a willing sacrifice but they went hand in hand in hand realizing that this was the only way realizing that this was the only way that man could be redeemed well brother and sisters our time is getting away our time is getting away we must go on and i direct your we must go on and i direct your attention now back to the 15th chapter attention now back to the 15th chapter of exodus for a moment of exodus for a moment what a tremendous chapter this is what a tremendous chapter this is i only wish that we could linger on it i only wish that we could linger on it because there are gems in this chapter because there are gems in this chapter gems that can help guide us brethren and gems that can help guide us brethren and sisters to the kingdom of god as there sisters to the kingdom of god as there is of course in every chapter of the is of course in every chapter of the bible bible but i would like to bring you down now but i would like to bring you down now to verse to verse 24. you know many times we say oh israel how could you murmur against god could you murmur against god brethren and sisters let's not be too brethren and sisters let's not be too harsh on israel harsh on israel i want you to try to stop and think for i want you to try to stop and think for a moment here you are all your earthly possessions all your earthly possessions you have two squalling children one in you have two squalling children one in each arm and you're going over sand dune each arm and you're going over sand dune after sand dune in the blistering sun after sand dune in the blistering sun and you get to the top of one sand dune and you get to the top of one sand dune and there's four more in front of you remember brethren and sisters you've left the bread basket of egypt left the bread basket of egypt you were under trial you were under you were under trial you were under persecution and all that persecution and all that but you had a comfortable place to stay but you had a comfortable place to stay and you had food that was unsurpassed in and you had food that was unsurpassed in the world the world and now you're going through this i wonder which one of us wouldn't ask the question is this deliverance the question is this deliverance deliverance from what and now they come over the sand dune and they see water they see water and they cry water and they run and they pick up that water and you can see them and you can see them stumbling over each water other and they stumbling over each water other and they scoop up that water scoop up that water bitter let's read the account brother and sisters sisters 24th verse 24th verse exodus 15 exodus 15 and the people murmured against moses and the people murmured against moses saying what shall we drink what a verse we have in verse 25 what a verse we have in verse 25 and he moses cried unto yahweh and and he moses cried unto yahweh and yahweh showed him a tree and when he had yahweh showed him a tree and when he had cast into the waters the waters were cast into the waters the waters were made sweet there he made for them a made sweet there he made for them a statue and an ordinance and there statue and an ordinance and there he proved them he proved them sometime when you get time brethren and sometime when you get time brethren and sisters if you haven't done it in the sisters if you haven't done it in the past past it might be well for you to look up the it might be well for you to look up the original of that word tree and you will original of that word tree and you will find something very interesting find something very interesting you will find that it's the same root you will find that it's the same root for the word cross and what god was actually telling the children of israel in your journeys children of israel in your journeys through the wilderness of life through the wilderness of life you've been delivered from the bondage you've been delivered from the bondage of egypt but that doesn't mean that your of egypt but that doesn't mean that your way is going to be without trouble and way is going to be without trouble and trial trial you're going to find the bitterness of you're going to find the bitterness of life as you go through these trials as life as you go through these trials as christ was later to say that christ was later to say that unless you take up your cross daily and unless you take up your cross daily and follow after me you're not worthy of me follow after me you're not worthy of me christ was saying you're not going to christ was saying you're not going to have an easy time why master have an easy time why master well basically because the principles well basically because the principles that i am teaching you are spirit that i am teaching you are spirit they are in that category spoken of by they are in that category spoken of by the apostle paul when he said the fruit the apostle paul when he said the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long of the spirit is love joy peace long suffering gentleness goodness faith suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness and temperance meekness and temperance and every one of those principles is and every one of those principles is diametrically opposed to works of the diametrically opposed to works of the flesh flesh and when you manifest these principles and when you manifest these principles of truth of truth you're going to run into opposition you're going to run into opposition wherever you turn that's what he was telling them and your life life is going to be bitter is going to be bitter many times now you know brethren and sisters the apostle paul has a tremendous lesson for apostle paul has a tremendous lesson for us in hebrews on this subject us in hebrews on this subject as you know the as you know the apostle had a tremendous job as he comes apostle had a tremendous job as he comes to the to the ecclesia in jerusalem and his letter to ecclesia in jerusalem and his letter to the hebrews the hebrews first of all they were going back to first of all they were going back to judaism and he has to prove first of all judaism and he has to prove first of all that christ was greater than the angels that christ was greater than the angels and then second greater than moses and and then second greater than moses and then greater than joshua and then the then greater than joshua and then the priesthood was far superior to that priesthood was far superior to that of the levitical order of the levitical order but in his dissertation proving that but in his dissertation proving that christ was greater than the angels christ was greater than the angels he's telling them what angel could have he's telling them what angel could have gone to calvary gone to calvary impossible the jews would say impossible the jews would say what angel could learn obedience by the what angel could learn obedience by the things which he suffered things which he suffered well we hadn't thought of that paul well we hadn't thought of that paul what angel could become a merciful and what angel could become a merciful and faithful high priest faithful high priest by god taking down a tool off of the by god taking down a tool off of the shelf and that tool was labeled shelf and that tool was labeled suffering suffering in other words what paul was saying in other words what paul was saying brethren and sisters that christ did not brethren and sisters that christ did not obtain the ability to be a merciful and obtain the ability to be a merciful and faithful high priest when he was faithful high priest when he was immortalized immortalized no he gained that by going through god's no he gained that by going through god's school school and he's also telling you and me and he's also telling you and me something in romans that when you're something in romans that when you're chasing to the lord don't ask the chasing to the lord don't ask the question question why is god doing this to me why is god doing this to me don't do it don't do it he's saying you're going to be kings and he's saying you're going to be kings and priests in that future age and you're priests in that future age and you're going through god's school going through god's school and brethren and sisters you may be and brethren and sisters you may be going through severe trial but had it going through severe trial but had it ever occurred to you that your position ever occurred to you that your position in the millennial age as you go out into in the millennial age as you go out into the world to teach the nations may be the world to teach the nations may be concerned with an individual that has concerned with an individual that has your same problem who could be better qualified to deal with that than one that has suffered by with that than one that has suffered by the way experiencing every problem and the way experiencing every problem and trial this is the reason christ is our trial this is the reason christ is our merciful and faithful high priest and merciful and faithful high priest and this is the great lesson that we have this is the great lesson that we have coming out of the waters of mara that coming out of the waters of mara that we're going to drink that water of we're going to drink that water of bitterness but he says drop in that bitterness but he says drop in that water that tree or that cross water that tree or that cross the symbol of calvary the symbol of the the symbol of calvary the symbol of the crucifixion of flesh and that water crucifixion of flesh and that water which is bitter will be made sweet which is bitter will be made sweet because you will see the reason for that because you will see the reason for that suffering suffering you will see the suffering servant that you will see the suffering servant that has gone before you and you will see and has gone before you and you will see and you will hear his words follow me you will hear his words follow me and we ask where are you going master and we ask where are you going master he says i'm going to calvary he says i'm going to calvary i'm not your substitute i'm your i'm not your substitute i'm your representative and i representative and i request that you be up there on the request that you be up there on the cross with me i don't want you down on cross with me i don't want you down on the ground sending up cat calls i want the ground sending up cat calls i want you up there co-crucified with me you up there co-crucified with me why master why master that the body of sin that the body of sin that thing that has kept god's original that thing that has kept god's original purpose from being fulfilled the body of purpose from being fulfilled the body of sin might be destroyed there it is brethren and sisters and he goes on in this next verse goes on in this next verse and he gives us this assurance and he gives us this assurance he says he says let's come to verse 26 if thou wilt let's come to verse 26 if thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of diligently hearken to the voice of yahweh thy elohim and will do that which yahweh thy elohim and will do that which is right in his sight and will give ear is right in his sight and will give ear to his commandments and keep all his to his commandments and keep all his statues statues i will put none of these diseases upon i will put none of these diseases upon thee thee which i have brought upon the egyptians which i have brought upon the egyptians for i am and this is the first time for i am and this is the first time brethren and sisters that this brethren and sisters that this title of deity occurs in the scripture title of deity occurs in the scripture this title is yahweh rophika this title is yahweh rophika i am yahweh that healathy i am yahweh that healathy it is the basis of the great physician it is the basis of the great physician it is the basis of that great salvation it is the basis of that great salvation that god has brought through ye hoshua god is my salvation the great physician and why is he called the great physician and why is he called the great physician the great physician because he is the only one that can cure because he is the only one that can cure us from leprosy brethren and sisters and us from leprosy brethren and sisters and of course this is a beautiful subject of of course this is a beautiful subject of the law of moses the law of moses but do you know that we never have an but do you know that we never have an account in the scriptures of truth of account in the scriptures of truth of leprosy ever being occurred leprosy ever being occurred cured except it be by the miraculous cured except it be by the miraculous intervention of god intervention of god and there is no case of leprosy ever and there is no case of leprosy ever being cured except that that is the being cured except that that is the reason that it was proof positive reason that it was proof positive to the pharisees and to those leaders of to the pharisees and to those leaders of religious movement in the time of christ religious movement in the time of christ that when a leper went to them cleansed that when a leper went to them cleansed who did this who did this jesus of nazareth never had it been done because here was an incurable disease and they knew well an incurable disease and they knew well having known the scriptures of truth having known the scriptures of truth that no leper was ever cured except god that no leper was ever cured except god had intervened had intervened this was the reason they were this was the reason they were responsible to god responsible to god they were casting his truth to the ground i am yahweh rophika that healeth thee i am yahweh rophika that healeth thee brethren and sisters this is not just a brethren and sisters this is not just a healing like our faith healers talk healing like our faith healers talk about about it's speaking of the botch of egypt it's speaking of the botch of egypt either cancer or leprosy a terminal either cancer or leprosy a terminal disease disease we're all afflicted with it we're all afflicted with it we're all lepers brethren and sisters we're all lepers brethren and sisters thank god it hasn't broken out in our thank god it hasn't broken out in our foreheads which was incurable when a foreheads which was incurable when a man's mind was diseased but we are man's mind was diseased but we are lepers lepers and there's only one person that can and there's only one person that can cure it and that is yahweh ropheka and cure it and that is yahweh ropheka and the principles of that cure brethren the principles of that cure brethren sisters have not changed from that verse sisters have not changed from that verse underscore it in your bible underscore it in your bible notice what he says notice what he says he said if thou wilt diligently let's he said if thou wilt diligently let's ponder that word for a moment brother ponder that word for a moment brother and sisters and sisters and we'll do that which is right in his and we'll do that which is right in his sight will give ear to his commandments sight will give ear to his commandments keep all his statues i will put none of keep all his statues i will put none of these diseases upon thee and how beautiful in their next aspect of their journey of their journey they come to elam they come to elam where there were twelve where there were twelve wells of water wells of water now brethren and sisters let's take this now brethren and sisters let's take this word by word word by word after having come to a knowledge of after having come to a knowledge of god's truth god's truth after dedicating our lives to him after dedicating our lives to him after having absolutely turned our back after having absolutely turned our back on the things of the world on the things of the world god says if you do these things you will god says if you do these things you will come to elam and what does hela mean in come to elam and what does hela mean in the scriptures the scriptures palm trees palm trees and what do palm trees mean in the and what do palm trees mean in the scriptures it's a sign of victory scriptures it's a sign of victory brethren and sisters another aspect of brethren and sisters another aspect of nature as a palm reaches its hands to nature as a palm reaches its hands to heaven heaven in contrast to the willow which droops in contrast to the willow which droops you know the children of israel in you know the children of israel in babylon were under the willows it was a babylon were under the willows it was a symbol of defeat symbol of defeat their country had been destroyed the their country had been destroyed the temple had been sacked temple had been sacked and there they're sitting in the symbol and there they're sitting in the symbol of defeat of defeat but when christ came triumphant into but when christ came triumphant into jerusalem they strewed palm branches jerusalem they strewed palm branches and as we see the glorious picture of and as we see the glorious picture of the redeemed brethren and sisters in the the redeemed brethren and sisters in the book of the revelation they're marching book of the revelation they're marching triumphant that's you and me and they triumphant that's you and me and they have palms in their hands where are the have palms in their hands where are the willows willows they shall hunger no more they shall hunger no more neither thirst anymore neither thirst anymore neither shall the sun light on them nor neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat the willows are gone any heat the willows are gone palm trees victorious and they come palm trees victorious and they come brethren and sisters to elam brethren and sisters to elam and there were 12 wells of water and there were 12 wells of water oh brethren and sisters what a beautiful oh brethren and sisters what a beautiful picture this is picture this is 12 wells of water 12 wells of water and we're reminded aren't we and we're reminded aren't we of the woman at the well of the woman at the well where christ says where christ says i can give you water to drink i can give you water to drink you'll never thirst of this water what was he talking about he's talking my brethren and sisters he's talking my brethren and sisters about the commonwealth of israel that about the commonwealth of israel that hope which springs from the covenants of hope which springs from the covenants of promise the 12 tribes of israel promise the 12 tribes of israel that's what he's talking about that's what he's talking about he's speaking of that of which we read he's speaking of that of which we read in the first psalm in the first psalm blessed is the man that walketh not in blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor standeth the counsel of the ungodly nor standeth no way of sinners nor sitteth in the no way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful but his delight is seat of the scornful but his delight is in the law of the lord and in his law in the law of the lord and in his law does he meditate day and night he shall does he meditate day and night he shall be like a tree be like a tree planted by the rivers of waters planted by the rivers of waters that bringeth forth his fruit in his that bringeth forth his fruit in his season his leaf also shall not wither season his leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper and our minds are transferred to the and our minds are transferred to the 22nd chapter of revelation aren't they 22nd chapter of revelation aren't they let's turn to it brethren and sisters let's turn to it brethren and sisters the 22nd chapter of revelation where the 22nd chapter of revelation where john was permitted to see the glorious john was permitted to see the glorious culmination of this culmination of this revelation 22 what an outgrowth of this revelation 22 what an outgrowth of this is of what god promised israel if they is of what god promised israel if they would only conform their lives to his would only conform their lives to his service service in this 22nd chapter of the revelation in this 22nd chapter of the revelation in this vision of the redeemed and in this vision of the redeemed and brethren and sisters never let us brethren and sisters never let us separate ourselves from this we are separate ourselves from this we are there there john saw us in this vision think of it the building blocks of god's new the building blocks of god's new creation creation he showed me a pure river of the water he showed me a pure river of the water of life clear as crystal proceeding out of life clear as crystal proceeding out of the throne of god and of the lamb in of the throne of god and of the lamb in the midst of the street of it and on the midst of the street of it and on either side of the river was there the either side of the river was there the tree of life or his brother thomas tells tree of life or his brother thomas tells us in the eureka the wood of life it us in the eureka the wood of life it would be impossible for one tree to be would be impossible for one tree to be planted on both sides of the river planted on both sides of the river here is the wood of life here is the wood of life a forest of trees a forest of trees and the leaves were for the healing of and the leaves were for the healing of the nations the nations brethren and sisters that's you and me brethren and sisters that's you and me that is a tree that is planted by the that is a tree that is planted by the rivers of waters that bringeth forth rivers of waters that bringeth forth their fruit and their season their fruit and their season his leaf also shall not wither he's an his leaf also shall not wither he's an immortal and whatsoever he does shall immortal and whatsoever he does shall prosper prosper that's the glorious vision that they had that's the glorious vision that they had and they come to elam and they come to elam they come to these palm trees they come they come to these palm trees they come to victory brethren and sisters to victory brethren and sisters and there were three score and ten there and there were three score and ten there were twelve wells of water and there were twelve wells of water and there were three score and ten palm trees and were three score and ten palm trees and i don't have to tell you i don't have to tell you that seventy in the scriptures of truth that seventy in the scriptures of truth speak to us of the nations of the world speak to us of the nations of the world and believes were for the healing of the and believes were for the healing of the nations do we separate the old from the new brethren and sisters brethren and sisters oh by no means oh by no means by no means do we separate it here it is by no means do we separate it here it is and it leads us into the glorious and it leads us into the glorious consummation consummation and they encamped there by the waters and they encamped there by the waters now where did those waters come from now where did those waters come from where did they come from brothers and where did they come from brothers and sisters sisters they come from the very throne of god the very throne of god and we are told in the revelation and we are told in the revelation therefore are they before the throne of therefore are they before the throne of god and they serve him day and night in god and they serve him day and night in his temple they shall hunger no more his temple they shall hunger no more neither thirst anymore neither shall the neither thirst anymore neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat sun light on them nor any heat does that fulfill what god promised does that fulfill what god promised listen listen if thou wilt diligently hearken to the if thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of yahweh thy elohim and will do voice of yahweh thy elohim and will do that which is right in his sight and that which is right in his sight and give ear to his commandments and keep give ear to his commandments and keep all his statues i will put none of these all his statues i will put none of these diseases upon thee in other words you diseases upon thee in other words you will be cured of leprosy will be cured of leprosy you will be cured of mortality you will be cured of mortality you will brethren and sisters come into you will brethren and sisters come into the glorious realization the glorious realization of the final consummation of the final consummation had you ever stopped to think of the had you ever stopped to think of the fulfillment in your body and mind fulfillment in your body and mind brethren and sisters of this glorious brethren and sisters of this glorious truth truth had you ever stopped to think of had you ever stopped to think of behold i show you a mystery behold i show you a mystery we shall not all we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed in a sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump last trump for this trumpet shall sound and the for this trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised to incorruptibility dead shall be raised to incorruptibility and we shall be and we shall be changed try to envision this brother and changed try to envision this brother and sisters sisters for this mortal for this mortal must put on immortality think of must put on immortality think of immortality surging from the bottom of immortality surging from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head and to your feet to the top of your head and to know that for you eternity had been won know that for you eternity had been won none of these diseases shall come upon none of these diseases shall come upon you the botch of egypt shall be no more you the botch of egypt shall be no more leprosy shall be cured leprosy shall be cured go and show yourself unto the priest go and show yourself unto the priest this mortal will put on immortality this mortal will put on immortality that speaks of those that will be alive that speaks of those that will be alive when christ comes when christ comes this corruptible will put on this corruptible will put on incorruption that speaks of those who incorruption that speaks of those who are in the grave who will be restored to are in the grave who will be restored to life so that when this mortal shall have life so that when this mortal shall have put on immortality and this corruptible put on immortality and this corruptible shall have put on incorruption then shall have put on incorruption then shall be brought to pass the saying that shall be brought to pass the saying that is written is written death death is swallowed up in victory is swallowed up in victory isn't that interesting i will put enmity isn't that interesting i will put enmity between thee and the woman between thy between thee and the woman between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head serpent head serpent thou shalt bruise his heel death shall thou shalt bruise his heel death shall be swallowed up in victory oh death be swallowed up in victory oh death where is thy sting oh grace where is thy where is thy sting oh grace where is thy victory victory the sting of death is sin that terrible the sting of death is sin that terrible thing that has delayed thing that has delayed my purpose my purpose and the strength of sin is the and the strength of sin is the law would be no sin if i hadn't given a law would be no sin if i hadn't given a law says god law says god but thanks be to but thanks be to remember what we said brethren sisters remember what we said brethren sisters this mercy comes from god himself thanks this mercy comes from god himself thanks be to god which giveth us the victory be to god which giveth us the victory through our lord jesus christ put a price tag on that brothers and sisters if you can i'm sure as we try to contemplate the greatness and the value and the greatness and the value and the blessing that is ours because blessing that is ours because god in his mercy has seemed fit to god in his mercy has seemed fit to choose us choose us out of all the millions in the world to out of all the millions in the world to be be possessors of his kingdom beautifully by the apostle paul and he says oh the depth of the wisdom of the wisdom both of the riches and knowledge of god are his judgments and his ways past finding out for who hath known the mind of the lord or who hath been his counselor or who hath been his counselor or who hath given to him or who hath given to him and it shall be given to him again my dear brethren and sisters may this be your prayer and may it be mine and the your prayer and may it be mine and the days that lie out ahead days that lie out ahead never let us forget it never let us forget it i know the apostle paul was i know the apostle paul was had a vision of that glorious day as he had a vision of that glorious day as he closed this verse by saying closed this verse by saying for of him and through him be glory forever amen

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in the old testament he has given us vivid examples of what he means to be vivid examples of what he means to be transferred into the spiritual side in transferred into the spiritual side in the new testament we see this so many the new testament we see this so many times in the tabernacle don't we that times in the tabernacle don't we that the great brazen altar the great brazen altar a symbol of total dedication to god upon a symbol of total dedication to god upon which the which the daily burnt offering was rising to the daily burnt offering was rising to the praise and honor and the god and every praise and honor and the god and every time the israelite would look out the time the israelite would look out the doors of his tent he would see that doors of his tent he would see that smoke ascending to god is a sweet smoke ascending to god is a sweet smelling savor smelling savor and and then we hear paul saying now the new then we hear paul saying now the new testament counterpart of this is to let testament counterpart of this is to let your bodies be a living sacrifice your bodies be a living sacrifice let your bodies be totally dedicated to let your bodies be totally dedicated to god god and all throughout the old testament we and all throughout the old testament we have that glorious picture that's given have that glorious picture that's given to us of a vivid real-life to us of a vivid real-life representation of a principle that god representation of a principle that god wants us to take and use in our wants us to take and use in our spiritual walk to the kingdom of god now in this chapter in exodus this morning exodus 17 17 we have several of those examples and we have several of those examples and while we won't be able to while we won't be able to completely cover the tremendous lesson completely cover the tremendous lesson that we have here yet there that we have here yet there is much food for thought is much food for thought and i want us to bear in mind the and i want us to bear in mind the tremendous tremendous task now that moses has task now that moses has he's leading he's leading metropolitan los angeles actually as far metropolitan los angeles actually as far as population is concerned through the as population is concerned through the wilderness of life and those of you who wilderness of life and those of you who have been over there i have not had the have been over there i have not had the privilege of going into the sinaitic privilege of going into the sinaitic peninsula peninsula but they tell me that it is really but they tell me that it is really something to see as far as desolation is something to see as far as desolation is concerned concerned and here moses has they've crossed the and here moses has they've crossed the red sea and red sea and they're coming down the sinai through they're coming down the sinai through this barren desolate waste remember that israel had left the land of plenty as far as food and water and of plenty as far as food and water and shelter was concerned shelter was concerned and now they come to the very reverse of and now they come to the very reverse of this this very similar brethren and sisters to very similar brethren and sisters to what we leave in the world we leave a what we leave in the world we leave a world that offers us the nicethy so to world that offers us the nicethy so to speak of this life and speak of this life and suddenly we find ourselves crucified to suddenly we find ourselves crucified to the flesh the flesh and many times it isn't easy and many times it isn't easy we've been told many times that it only we've been told many times that it only took a few took a few months to get in a few days to get months to get in a few days to get israel out of egypt but it took 40 years israel out of egypt but it took 40 years to get egypt out of israel and it takes a full lifetime for us to get egypt out of ourselves doesn't it get egypt out of ourselves doesn't it and we never completely conquer it and we never completely conquer it and here are these three million now and here are these three million now trudging towards sinai all of their trudging towards sinai all of their earthly possessions earthly possessions through this barren desolate waste and through this barren desolate waste and those of our brethren and sisters who those of our brethren and sisters who made the trip last year and this year to made the trip last year and this year to sinai even in modern sinai even in modern facilities facilities say that it was a rugged rugged rugged say that it was a rugged rugged rugged trip even coming down from jerusalem as trip even coming down from jerusalem as they did they did much less going through the barren much less going through the barren desert without any facilities whatsoever desert without any facilities whatsoever like israel did like israel did and they run out of water and they run out of water i stopped to think for a moment brethren i stopped to think for a moment brethren and sisters this is not only water in our life we run out of water many times we run out of the water of life and it's very easy to do when we let the things of this life supersede things of this life supersede those of our high calling of god in those of our high calling of god in christ jesus christ jesus our daily partaking of the word of truth our daily partaking of the word of truth our daily drinking of that living water our daily drinking of that living water that that will bring us the absence of thirst when will bring us the absence of thirst when we shall hunger no more neither thirst we shall hunger no more neither thirst anymore neither shall the sun light on anymore neither shall the sun light on us nor any heat us nor any heat and probably one of the most profound and probably one of the most profound lessons in all scripture is given to us lessons in all scripture is given to us here here as israel cries for water as israel cries for water direct your attention to verse 5. i'm direct your attention to verse 5. i'm once again i apologize for having to once again i apologize for having to skip over so skip over so many of the real gems that are hidden in many of the real gems that are hidden in this marvelous incident this marvelous incident but we come verse 4 moses cried unto the but we come verse 4 moses cried unto the lord saying what shall i do unto this lord saying what shall i do unto this people they be almost ready to stone me people they be almost ready to stone me and the lord said unto moses go on and the lord said unto moses go on before the people before the people and take with thee of the elders and take with thee of the elders of israel of israel note if you will brethren and sisters note if you will brethren and sisters here we have at repudium the leaders of here we have at repudium the leaders of the mosaic system the mosaic system now this is important now this is important take with thee the elders take with thee the elders the leaders of the mosaic system the leaders of the mosaic system and thy rod wherewith thou smote us the and thy rod wherewith thou smote us the river taken thine hand and go river taken thine hand and go behold i will stand before thee upon the behold i will stand before thee upon the rock in horeb and thou shalt smite the rock in horeb and thou shalt smite the rock and there shall come water out of rock and there shall come water out of it that the people may drink it that the people may drink and moses did so in the sight of the and moses did so in the sight of the elders of israel elders of israel now let's pause for a moment now let's pause for a moment let's look at the names and titles of let's look at the names and titles of deity here once again brethren and deity here once again brethren and sisters sisters for this word rock for this word rock is tis your t-z-u-r it is one of the titles of deity it is used many times in scripture for used many times in scripture for instance in the 32nd chapter of instance in the 32nd chapter of deuteronomy we have it at verses 4 deuteronomy we have it at verses 4 15 and 18 this title of deity 15 and 18 this title of deity and this word teshur means and this word teshur means a huge rock a huge rock a boulder as being set in the earth a boulder as being set in the earth providing shelter for man and beast providing shelter for man and beast this is one of the titles of deity an this is one of the titles of deity an immovable rock immovable rock providing shelter note in the earth providing shelter note in the earth and when moses was commanded to strike and when moses was commanded to strike that rock that rock it has the counterpart of christ being it has the counterpart of christ being struck in crucifixion struck in crucifixion and in this moses was obedient and in this moses was obedient now i want you to turn with me to the now i want you to turn with me to the 20th chapter of numbers 20th chapter of numbers and of course this is refidem let us get and of course this is refidem let us get our our our uh directions straight here this is our uh directions straight here this is refidem refidem but now we have in numbers 20 and 8 the but now we have in numbers 20 and 8 the great sin that moses committed great sin that moses committed that kept him from going into the land this time instead of taking the elders of israel under the mosaic system of israel under the mosaic system he is to take that he is to take that number one number one he is to take the type he is to take the type of the priesthood of christ of the priesthood of christ he is to take aaron this time not the he is to take aaron this time not the elders of israel elders of israel we put in at verse 8 take the rod and we put in at verse 8 take the rod and gather thou the assembly thou and aaron gather thou the assembly thou and aaron thy brother thy brother notice what he was to do he was not to notice what he was to do he was not to smite the rock this time brother and smite the rock this time brother and sisters and there's a very real reason sisters and there's a very real reason he was to speak unto the rock and it shall give forth his water and thou shalt bring forth to them water out thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock so though thou shall give of the rock so though thou shall give the congregation and their beasts drink the congregation and their beasts drink of course moses took the credit to of course moses took the credit to himself when he said here now ye rebels himself when he said here now ye rebels must we fetch you water out of this rock must we fetch you water out of this rock must we but brethren and sisters there's something interesting in this word rock something interesting in this word rock because because no longer is this tijur this word here is an entirely different word is an entirely different word this word here is sila s-e-l-a-h and this word typifies a mighty crag a mighty crag high up high up inaccessible that's the meaning of the inaccessible that's the meaning of the word word and this time it is speaking of christ and this time it is speaking of christ risen christ at the right hand of god and moses is told in so many words god and moses is told in so many words you can't smite the rock now moses you can't smite the rock now moses because that would be crucifying christ because that would be crucifying christ afresh afresh there's only one way that you can come there's only one way that you can come to this rock this time moses and that's to this rock this time moses and that's to speak unto it to speak unto it a tremendous lesson brethren and sisters a tremendous lesson brethren and sisters on a play of words here on a play of words here coming down to the meaning of these coming down to the meaning of these words but the two aspects of christ his words but the two aspects of christ his earthly ministry and now his ministry at earthly ministry and now his ministry at the right hand of god speak to it moses the right hand of god speak to it moses but moses in his anger smites the rock but moses in his anger smites the rock and in doing so he typically crucifies and in doing so he typically crucifies the son of god afresh the son of god afresh and the writer to the hebrews tells us and the writer to the hebrews tells us that if we that if we crucify the son of god afresh crucify the son of god afresh that there is no forgiveness for that that there is no forgiveness for that no forgiveness and this was the end not no forgiveness and this was the end not that moses will not be in the kingdom of that moses will not be in the kingdom of god brethren it says there's god for bed god brethren it says there's god for bed but here was a principle a living but here was a principle a living principle that god was giving to us principle that god was giving to us to you and to me to show us the to you and to me to show us the necessity necessity of not trampling the son of god under of not trampling the son of god under foot foot and to those who do this that they will and to those who do this that they will not be in the kingdom not be in the kingdom and this was basically the reason not so and this was basically the reason not so much of moses taking the glory to much of moses taking the glory to himself while that was a sin himself while that was a sin but basically the principle that we have but basically the principle that we have here is here is that moses could not lead the children that moses could not lead the children of israel into the land of promise of israel into the land of promise because of this sin because of this sin of course the children of israel could of course the children of israel could not go into the land of promise under not go into the land of promise under the mosaic covenant they had to go into the mosaic covenant they had to go into the land of promise under the leadership the land of promise under the leadership or the type of the new covenant joshua or the type of the new covenant joshua or jesus or jesus just as we hope to go into the land of just as we hope to go into the land of promise under the leadership of jesus promise under the leadership of jesus christ christ our savior and our redeemer now brethren and sisters in this chapter i want to come down to the main theme of i want to come down to the main theme of our our talk this morning talk this morning and i think it's a tremendous lesson to and i think it's a tremendous lesson to each and every one of us in these closing days of gentile darkness darkness we have an exhortation in the 17th we have an exhortation in the 17th chapter of exodus chapter of exodus that if we will heed will guide us into that if we will heed will guide us into the kingdom of god but it is not as easy the kingdom of god but it is not as easy as we might think as we might think i think it's very important that we get i think it's very important that we get a word picture a word picture of the struggling multitude now as they of the struggling multitude now as they are going to mount sinai are going to mount sinai we have the ecclesia of god in the we have the ecclesia of god in the wilderness of life on their way to sinai wilderness of life on their way to sinai and eventually into the land of promise and eventually into the land of promise and here they are and here they are struggling down through this barren struggling down through this barren wilderness wilderness all of their possessions with them all of their possessions with them murmuring murmuring distraught discouraged thinking of the luxury they had left in egypt even though the task had left in egypt even though the task masters had been severe masters had been severe do we recognize ourselves brothers and do we recognize ourselves brothers and sisters sisters we do don't we we do don't we human nature hasn't changed the heart human nature hasn't changed the heart that is desperately sick there it is who that is desperately sick there it is who can know it can know it desperately evil desperately evil it is diseased and there were three it is diseased and there were three million of these hearts beating in the million of these hearts beating in the breasts of these people breasts of these people murmuring against moses murmuring against moses and now they're approaching sinai and and now they're approaching sinai and let's try to visualize let's try to visualize this terrain that this terrain that now the mountains begin to appear and now the mountains begin to appear and the precipitous crags and the rocks the precipitous crags and the rocks begin to get larger and they begin to get larger and they begin to narrow down now and go through begin to narrow down now and go through a canyon as they approach a canyon as they approach the precincts of mount sinai you see brethren and sisters some of them became discouraged some of them them became discouraged some of them became weak became weak some fell and lagged behind but they didn't realize that in those mountains was a very very wicked mountains was a very very wicked individual one that was working in direct opposition to god amalek was a coward he was afraid to attack israel as a body he was afraid to attack israel as a body now let's remember that brother and now let's remember that brother and sisters sisters as long as israel held together as long as israel held together as a community as a community one strong community amalek would not one strong community amalek would not attack attack who was amalek after amalek was looking for those that lagged behind behind those that were unprotected those that were lackadaisical and uh were lackadaisical and uh possibly had had their feelings hurt those that were going to show someone that they couldn't be treated like this that they couldn't be treated like this and we won't associate with you i'm glad i'm not in your occlusions here because you'd think i was talking about because you'd think i was talking about someone wouldn't you we have the problem too brother and sister so don't feel alone i wouldn't be seen with her if she feels that way toward me that way toward me well they can just have that attitude if well they can just have that attitude if they want to i know my personal feelings and we have many of these in israel and you can imagine how many there would be you can imagine how many there would be three million brethren and sisters three million brethren and sisters disgruntled disgruntled they were letting the works of the flesh take hold and they could not see the forest you see they could not see the forest you see for the for the little blades of grass that were in little blades of grass that were in front of them front of them they were going to separate themselves they were going to separate themselves they hadn't yet learned that they hadn't yet learned that we need the ecclesia far worse than the we need the ecclesia far worse than the ecclesia needs us ecclesia needs us we're sheep brethren and sisters and the we're sheep brethren and sisters and the sooner we realize that sooner we realize that when a sheep is isolated by when a sheep is isolated by he's vulnerable to he's vulnerable to every attack every attack but when he's part of a community of but when he's part of a community of sheep sheep he is safe and here was amalek lurking in those hills lurking in those hills and when he would find a straggler and when he would find a straggler he would pounce on him he would pounce on him and that was the end and that was the end there was no more israelite there was no more israelite and that is the way brethren and sisters and that is the way brethren and sisters that amalek has worked down through the that amalek has worked down through the stream of time stream of time and as we conclude this chapter here and as we conclude this chapter here this morning we have the verse this morning we have the verse that amalek is going to be with you that amalek is going to be with you throughout your generations throughout your generations and could you think of a more vivid and could you think of a more vivid representation of the danger of amalek representation of the danger of amalek than the one we are given here in the than the one we are given here in the 17th chapter of exodus brothers and 17th chapter of exodus brothers and sisters sisters it's hard to uh it's hard to imagine a it's hard to uh it's hard to imagine a more vivid illustration that we could more vivid illustration that we could have have now notice if you will verse eight then came amalek and fought with israel in rephidim and moses said with israel in rephidim and moses said unto joshua chooses out man and go out unto joshua chooses out man and go out and fight with amalek tomorrow i will and fight with amalek tomorrow i will stand on the top of the hill with the stand on the top of the hill with the rod of god in mine hand rod of god in mine hand note if you will note if you will how how israel fought amalek in body rather than israel fought amalek in body rather than sisters sisters see we have a two-fold lesson here we have amalek picking on the picking on the weak and straggling weak and straggling and we also have amalek in a collegial and we also have amalek in a collegial life and another vivid illustration was that as moses held his hands up in prayer to as moses held his hands up in prayer to god god israel prevailed israel prevailed and when those hands went down amalek and when those hands went down amalek prevailed prevailed i don't think we have much trouble i don't think we have much trouble seeing the beautiful significance here seeing the beautiful significance here god was telling israel something that god was telling israel something that they were incapable they were incapable of fighting amalek of fighting amalek on their own on their own he was telling them brethren and sisters he was telling them brethren and sisters actually that they were incapable of actually that they were incapable of gaining life on their own gaining life on their own and the principles we spoke of yesterday and the principles we spoke of yesterday without me you can do nothing without me you can do nothing you remember the reference we made to you remember the reference we made to brother carter as he was saying that we brother carter as he was saying that we never realize this until we stand in never realize this until we stand in front of a deceased loved one and we front of a deceased loved one and we look at that loved one in the casket look at that loved one in the casket there isn't anything they can do there there isn't anything they can do there isn't anything we can do isn't anything we can do without my father i can do nothing without my father i can do nothing and brethren and sisters we're totally and brethren and sisters we're totally dependent upon the god of israel now we dependent upon the god of israel now we know what moses was doing don't we he know what moses was doing don't we he was lifting his hands in prayer to god was lifting his hands in prayer to god asking for the guidance and direction of asking for the guidance and direction of god god but he was also afflicted with the human but he was also afflicted with the human weakness brethren and sisters of flesh weakness brethren and sisters of flesh and he became tired and he became tired he became exhausted he became exhausted and he needed help and he needed help he needed the help of the ecclesia of he needed the help of the ecclesia of god god moses couldn't do it alone moses couldn't do it alone because of physical inability to do it because of physical inability to do it alone alone and here is the great lesson for and here is the great lesson for christadelphia today we can't go it christadelphia today we can't go it alone if there is one lesson we have in the 17th chapter of exodus my dear brethren 17th chapter of exodus my dear brethren and sisters it is the need for unity in and sisters it is the need for unity in the brotherhood today the brotherhood today rising above the little things of this rising above the little things of this life life i wonder if we have ever thought and i i wonder if we have ever thought and i imagine we have how imagine we have how foolish the fleeting things of this life foolish the fleeting things of this life for instance this morning for instance this morning every one of us every one of us are plagued with some personal problem are plagued with some personal problem that's out there in that world that's out there in that world every one of us every one of us if we would let ourselves go this if we would let ourselves go this problem would crisscross our minds problem would crisscross our minds wouldn't it you have yours i have mine wouldn't it you have yours i have mine i have a motive of things in california i have a motive of things in california that if i would let go this morning it that if i would let go this morning it would detract would detract from the glorious words of truth and my from the glorious words of truth and my hands it should be raised in prayer hands it should be raised in prayer would fall but you my brother and would fall but you my brother and sisters are holding up my hands this sisters are holding up my hands this morning and prayer to the god of israel morning and prayer to the god of israel and thank god for the glorious and thank god for the glorious association we've had together association we've had together our minds have been eradicated of the our minds have been eradicated of the things things of flesh as of flesh as abraham told those about him as he went abraham told those about him as he went to offer isaac abide ye here to offer isaac abide ye here i am the lad will go yandra in worship i am the lad will go yandra in worship and in due time we will come back to you and that's what we have done this morning it's what we've done this morning it's what we've done this weekend we've said to those cares weekend we've said to those cares those things of amalek abide here those things of amalek abide here i am going with my dear brother and i am going with my dear brother and sisters to worship the god of israel i'm sisters to worship the god of israel i'm going to fill my heart and my mind with going to fill my heart and my mind with things of truth i'm going to let them things of truth i'm going to let them hold up my hands in prayer to the god of hold up my hands in prayer to the god of israel israel due time will come back to you due time will come back to you that's what we have said isn't it that's what we have said isn't it brother and sisters and here is the brother and sisters and here is the principle principle but if this morning while we're sitting but if this morning while we're sitting here here as severe as many of our problems might as severe as many of our problems might be be and we were to hear the words come my and we were to hear the words come my people enter thou into thy chambers and people enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy doors about thee and brethren shut thy doors about thee and brethren and sisters that isn't an impossibility and sisters that isn't an impossibility at all the lord has come and calls for at all the lord has come and calls for thee thee i wonder what that home would amount to i wonder what that home would amount to i wonder what that new car would amount i wonder what that new car would amount to i wonder what our businesses would to i wonder what our businesses would amount to have you anything at home you amount to have you anything at home you want to go back for brother and sisters you see the magnitude of the second coming of christ so far out distances the things of this life out distances the things of this life that there's no comparison i haven't a that there's no comparison i haven't a thing in california that i want to go thing in california that i want to go back to i know my family would be at the judgment seat of christ with us judgment seat of christ with us there isn't anything of material there isn't anything of material possession that means a thing to me out possession that means a thing to me out there there and if i knew that i was going to be and if i knew that i was going to be with my lord it would mean far less i with my lord it would mean far less i wouldn't even think of it brethren and wouldn't even think of it brethren and sisters sisters and this is the great lesson we have and this is the great lesson we have here and if this theme could dominate here and if this theme could dominate and fill the lives of christadelphia and fill the lives of christadelphia throughout the world today throughout the world today all division all personal matters all division all personal matters everything that detracts would go out everything that detracts would go out the window and we would emerge as the the window and we would emerge as the strongest community in the world strongest community in the world fighting for the principles of truth fighting for the principles of truth and letting the world know that christ and letting the world know that christ is coming back to the earth and we would is coming back to the earth and we would reflect that belief in our life and our reflect that belief in our life and our attitude attitude and in our joy of expectancy of his and in our joy of expectancy of his return brethren and sisters we would be return brethren and sisters we would be giving our all to him and this was the giving our all to him and this was the objective that god wanted when he told objective that god wanted when he told israel as they came from the red sea israel as they came from the red sea thou shalt love the lord thy god with thou shalt love the lord thy god with all thy heart all thy heart all thy strength and all thy mind all thy strength and all thy mind that's what he wanted why do you suppose that's what he wanted why do you suppose god said that brothers and sisters god said that brothers and sisters well he said in so many words well he said in so many words in so many words in so many words israel if it hadn't been for me you israel if it hadn't been for me you would be dead would be dead you saw that mighty egyptian army you saw that mighty egyptian army bearing down on you bearing down on you what chance did you have israel what chance did you have israel and it was by my power and by my might and it was by my power and by my might that you were saved that you were saved now israel you owe everything to me now israel you owe everything to me and we would say and we would say yes israel are you so foolish you can't yes israel are you so foolish you can't see that see that beware brother and sisters because beware brother and sisters because if it were not for the intervention of if it were not for the intervention of god in the provision of the lord jesus god in the provision of the lord jesus christ christ that egyptian army would eliminate us that egyptian army would eliminate us also but god was manifest in flesh justified in spirit believed on in the world in spirit believed on in the world received up into glory and thanks be to received up into glory and thanks be to god god god was in christ manifesting himself god was in christ manifesting himself under the world and he redeemed us brethren and sisters and by this we are made holy and by this we are made holy and by this we can triumphantly sing the and by this we can triumphantly sing the writer and his horse as he cast into the writer and his horse as he cast into the sea and god sends a resounding message sea and god sends a resounding message to everyone in this audience this to everyone in this audience this morning morning everyone in this audience this morning everyone in this audience this morning unto the brethren and sisters throughout unto the brethren and sisters throughout the world the world you owe everything to me you owe everything to me you're mine you're my firstborn you're you're mine you're my firstborn you're the firstborn of a new creation therefore thou shalt love the lord thy god with all thy heart love the lord thy god with all thy heart all thy soul all thy soul all thy mind israel had that great truth firmly implanted on them every time they implanted on them every time they offered a burnt offering a symbol of offered a burnt offering a symbol of total dedication to god god wasn't interested in the skin of that animal was he tells the priest you that animal was he tells the priest you take it do whatever you want to with it take it do whatever you want to with it i don't want it i don't want it i don't want that outward appearance in i don't want that outward appearance in you you i could care less if you have on a 250 i could care less if you have on a 250 dollar suit it doesn't make any difference if you come to me in overalls come to me in overalls i'm not interested in the outward i'm not interested in the outward appearance appearance let's rip it off the thinking israelite would realize this then that body was severed and there was a very distinct order in which that body a very distinct order in which that body went on the altar brethren and sisters went on the altar brethren and sisters as we're told in leviticus as we're told in leviticus first was the head what's in the head the mind the mind the thinking of man the thinking of man that went first that went first thou shalt love the lord thy god with thou shalt love the lord thy god with all thy heart all thy heart the second thing that went on that altar the second thing that went on that altar was the fat and that fat was not just was the fat and that fat was not just any fat brethren and sisters that fat any fat brethren and sisters that fat was the fat that cushioned the liver in was the fat that cushioned the liver in the kidneys the kidneys that fat which determined the health of that fat which determined the health of the animal the animal that fat which developed unseen and that fat which developed unseen and developed developed by which the on that which the animal by which the on that which the animal ate and if there was any blemish in that fat out anything negative never went on god's altar and don't forget that altar and don't forget that we can't approach god except on the we can't approach god except on the basis of 100 righteousness and anything basis of 100 righteousness and anything negative never went on that altar the third thing that went on that altar was the legs speaking of the strength you know in the 12th chapter of mark i believe it is a rich young believe it is a rich young the scribe comes to christ and the scribe comes to christ and the scribe had been standing back and we the scribe had been standing back and we know well don't we that the scribes had know well don't we that the scribes had had to rewrite the law to the point they had to rewrite the law to the point they had become lawyers in israel had become lawyers in israel but there were some very sincere scribes but there were some very sincere scribes and there were some very sincere jews and there were some very sincere jews and this scribe was one of those and and this scribe was one of those and he's standing back in this crowd and he's standing back in this crowd and he's listening to the master and he he's listening to the master and he thinks to himself thinks to himself my word this man knows the old testament my word this man knows the old testament listen to his profound explanation and he goes to the master and he says you know there's something that's been you know there's something that's been puzzling me i want to know the answer puzzling me i want to know the answer and this is the man i'm going to come to and this is the man i'm going to come to master what's the greatest commandment thou shalt love the lord thy god with all thy heart all thy heart all thy strength all thy mind there's all thy strength all thy mind there's none greater than these and this none greater than these and this scribe says you know master that's just scribe says you know master that's just what i thought what i thought just what i thought just what i thought and master to love the lord thy god with and master to love the lord thy god with all thy heart and all thy soul and all all thy heart and all thy soul and all thy mind and i strength thy mind and i strength it's greater than burnt offerings isn't it's greater than burnt offerings isn't it and jesus looked upon him and the word means knowingly he saw in this man one who had taken the principle of this offering brethren and principle of this offering brethren and sisters of total dedication and he sisters of total dedication and he says you're not far from the kingdom of says you're not far from the kingdom of god beautiful isn't it you're not far here was one in israel you're not far here was one in israel that had seen the typology brother and that had seen the typology brother and sisters sisters here was one in israel that had taken here was one in israel that had taken the lesson of the 17th chapter of exodus the lesson of the 17th chapter of exodus and had held together with the body and had held together with the body had lifted his hands in prayer had lifted his hands in prayer constantly to god realizing that he constantly to god realizing that he could do nothing of himself and he could do nothing of himself and he realized that the burn offerings as far realized that the burn offerings as far as the offerings was concerned was as the offerings was concerned was merely a ritual merely a ritual but that wasn't the important thing but that wasn't the important thing because he remembered that god had said because he remembered that god had said i don't need your cattle israel a cattle i don't need your cattle israel a cattle and a thousand hills are mine they're and a thousand hills are mine they're all mine i want what's inside all mine i want what's inside i want your heart and here in the 17th chapter of exodus brothers and sisters there's something brothers and sisters there's something that is telling us that there's some one that is telling us that there's some one out there and he's not a personal devil out there and he's not a personal devil either either but there's someone out there that wants but there's someone out there that wants our heart also our heart also we're quite popular aren't we we're quite popular aren't we you didn't know you were wanted by two you didn't know you were wanted by two people did you people did you well amalek wants you and it has ever been the same and this chapter concludes by saying that this chapter concludes by saying that amalek is going to be with us till the amalek is going to be with us till the end of the days end of the days and you know israel could very easily and you know israel could very easily have been destroyed if it were not for have been destroyed if it were not for the protective power of god by an the protective power of god by an amalekite do you remember that amalekite do you remember that and his name was haman and his name was haman you look up his genealogy sometime and you look up his genealogy sometime and you will find that he was an amalekite you will find that he was an amalekite and god and god brings these brings these people into focus to show that he means people into focus to show that he means what he says what he says and someone might say well we don't have and someone might say well we don't have any problem with amalek today do we and i tell you my brethren and sisters and my young people and my young people i address this to our young people i address this to our young people because you're facing a great trial probably facing a much greater trial than the facing a much greater trial than the older ones are now older ones are now you're facing a greater trial than i you're facing a greater trial than i faced when i was your age i say to you that amalek is right outside that door and he's waiting for outside that door and he's waiting for you to come out this morning you're going to find amalek out in the world he's going to be looking at you through a television screen i won't repeat that he will be in dodger stadium because i think i've worked that someone asked me yesterday what do you have against the dodgers and i said that's the trouble i don't have enough against them i'll tell you give you a very vivid illustration of give you a very vivid illustration of why i why i don't have enough against them brethren don't have enough against them brethren and sisters because they happen to be my and sisters because they happen to be my amalek amalek you see i played baseball you see i played baseball i played football and i played football and very active in school and these things very active in school and these things and and i can't get involved because i get right i can't get involved because i get right out there in the game with them and i my out there in the game with them and i my decisions sometimes don't agree with the decisions sometimes don't agree with the managers one night working at the fairgrounds one afternoon working at the fairgrounds one afternoon i i had everything well under control as far had everything well under control as far as my daily work is concerned and as my daily work is concerned and i had on my tape recorders which god has i had on my tape recorders which god has graciously given me the opportunity to graciously given me the opportunity to do and do and i had my own bible class once i got my i had my own bible class once i got my work laid out why work laid out why it doesn't take any concentrate all of it doesn't take any concentrate all of these lines and so i can listen to my these lines and so i can listen to my tape recorders without any interruption tape recorders without any interruption i was doing fine i'd started about three i was doing fine i'd started about three o'clock in the afternoon and o'clock in the afternoon and i was progressing beautifully on a i was progressing beautifully on a study in eureka six o'clock came and i thought well i'll go eat dinner go eat dinner i'll get right back and we'll continue i i'll get right back and we'll continue i had my bible out and i had my had my bible out and i had my notebooks on my bench and notebooks on my bench and when i'd come across some gem i'd stop when i'd come across some gem i'd stop the recorder and i'd put this material the recorder and i'd put this material down and down and actually i was out of this world i i was actually i was out of this world i i was in the realm of the kingdom of god and in the realm of the kingdom of god and floating on cloud 37 so to speak floating on cloud 37 so to speak i went to eat it was the third inning and they were tied one to one i ate came back to the car and it was a sixth came back to the car and it was a sixth inning they were still tied one to one inning they were still tied one to one i got back to shop and it was the i got back to shop and it was the seventh inning scored the same seventh inning scored the same i thought well now there's only two more i thought well now there's only two more innings to go and it won't hurt anything innings to go and it won't hurt anything to see how the outcome is and i'm sure i to see how the outcome is and i'm sure i can help manager alston ninth inning came still one to one you know brother and sisters that game you know brother and sisters that game lasted till the 16th inning and i was in a strait of frustration i was a nervous wreck to save my conscience more than anything else i turned the recorder back on else i turned the recorder back on you know it didn't even sound the same i you know it didn't even sound the same i couldn't recognize the words i wasn't couldn't recognize the words i wasn't amalek had moved in now you may not have this problem brethren and sisters and i pray to god brethren and sisters and i pray to god that you don't music is another one of my problems a music is one of my amaleks and someone music is one of my amaleks and someone said what in the world is wrong with said what in the world is wrong with that there's nothing wrong with it but you know i have to stay away from a musical and i'd rather go to a good musical and i'd rather go to a good musical than i had to eat because i can musical than i had to eat because i can tell you tell you every move of a musical i saw in 1930 and maybe some of you saw it most of you weren't some of you saw it most of you weren't even a lot of you weren't even born then even a lot of you weren't even born then but you've heard of that but you've heard of that paper moon and sound sound movies were just coming in and it was a movies were just coming in and it was a real real real real novelty to hear the voices and hear the novelty to hear the voices and hear the music there's many of you here that went music there's many of you here that went through that transitional period with me through that transitional period with me and i thoroughly relaxed one afternoon and i thoroughly relaxed one afternoon that beautiful music of a paper moon now this becomes my problem brother and sisters it may not affect you at all sisters it may not affect you at all but i have a mind that is very limited but i have a mind that is very limited in for capacity in for capacity and it depends on what i put into that and it depends on what i put into that receptacle of how much room i have for receptacle of how much room i have for the truth of god the truth of god this is the sin there's no sin actual this is the sin there's no sin actual sin that i can see in going to dodger sin that i can see in going to dodger stadium stadium or going to marine land or going to or going to marine land or going to disneyland disneyland but the idea is that we don't have time but the idea is that we don't have time we don't have the place for that we don't have the place for that material it's crowning out something material it's crowning out something something has to give now maybe you have the capabilities and i pray to god that you have that you can i pray to god that you have that you can just let everything come into your mind just let everything come into your mind and you can and you can you can file it in separate little you can file it in separate little compartments and you can reach up and compartments and you can reach up and extract anything that you want from extract anything that you want from those separate compartments anytime you those separate compartments anytime you want to well god bless you if that is want to well god bless you if that is true true but i'm telling you this individual is but i'm telling you this individual is speaking this morning can't do that as a man thinketh in his heart so is he as far as i'm personally concerned as far as i'm personally concerned sports number one is one of those things sports number one is one of those things that i have to nail to a cross and i can that i have to nail to a cross and i can tell you tell you that when i nail it to a cross i can that when i nail it to a cross i can feel the prince of those nails piercing feel the prince of those nails piercing my hands my hands because it's tearing something away from because it's tearing something away from me but brethren and sisters that's me but brethren and sisters that's amalek one of my favorite programs on tv was the lawrence welk programs on tv was the lawrence welk show because his music dated the show because his music dated the times that i love to hear times that i love to hear music music meant something to me music music meant something to me i'll never forget we had an old brother i'll never forget we had an old brother that was staying with us and loved the that was staying with us and loved the lawrence walk show and lawrence walk show and it came on saturday nights and i was determined that i was going to stay over my sunday school work because stay over my sunday school work because that was the time that i had set apart that was the time that i had set apart for my eureka study at that time one night i will never forget i was over my desk and he had this program on and joanne castle began to play and began to play and i kind of like ragtime piano i must i kind of like ragtime piano i must confess confess i thought well maury it won't hurt you i thought well maury it won't hurt you to relax just a few minutes and this might be good for you it'll kind of clear your mind and all the excuses you clear your mind and all the excuses you can make so i uh got up and got up and went in and stood in back the chair for went in and stood in back the chair for a minute joanne came got through and then that team that they had on that very that team that they had on that very similar to jeanette similar to jeanette mcdonald eddie came on i thought maybe i mcdonald eddie came on i thought maybe i better sit down for a moment you know brother and sisters before i got through that i had lost two hours in got through that i had lost two hours in front of that television set front of that television set and someone said well i didn't hurt you and someone said well i didn't hurt you didn't it didn't it you know when i went back to eureka that you know when i went back to eureka that it didn't look like the same book you see they won't mix brother and sisters now israel made a great statement i'm trying to bring in a lot of things i'm trying to bring in a lot of things here in the wilderness wanderings here in the wilderness wanderings brother and sister's trying to bring brother and sister's trying to bring this this but i want to leave some thoughts with but i want to leave some thoughts with you i would like for you to come with me this morning to i think we have time to conclude this and i think would be a very fitting and i think would be a very fitting thing to conclude with is we're taking thing to conclude with is we're taking lessons out of this book you know as israel began to move into you know as israel began to move into the the land they were told to destroy the land they were told to destroy the canaanite now israel did not obey that command israel did not obey and it proved to be their great downfall and it proved to be their great downfall brethren and sisters brethren and sisters we read in we read in the last chapter of zechariah chapter 14 one of the last things that we're told that there shall no more be the canaanite canaanite in the house in the house of the lord of the lord there shall no more be the canaanite there shall no more be the canaanite in the house of the lord now god says when israel comes into the land i want you to destroy the canaanite we won't have time to take the complete we won't have time to take the complete tour of this through the scriptures tour of this through the scriptures because it's about a half hour session because it's about a half hour session so let me brief it for you destroy the canaanite now let's stop for a moment and think what the canaanite a moment and think what the canaanite was brother and sisters was brother and sisters the canaanite himself was not a the canaanite himself was not a particularly bad person in fact as we would have the counterpart of the we would have the counterpart of the canaanite today canaanite today in an individual that we say oh they're in an individual that we say oh they're lovely people they're high moral people lovely people they're high moral people they uh they don't believe like we do they uh they don't believe like we do they don't go to church very often but they don't go to church very often but they're wonderful people they make they're wonderful people they make wonderful neighbors now that's the type of people that came tonight oh there were the reprobates tonight oh there were the reprobates among them just as there are among among them just as there are among everyone else everyone else but for the most part the canaanite was but for the most part the canaanite was a fairly nice individual on world a fairly nice individual on world standards standards he was a law-abiding citizen he paid his he was a law-abiding citizen he paid his taxes he was taxes he was you might say a very very uh prominent businessman and the name means that he's a traitor and the name means that he's a traitor he's uh he's uh you might look at him as a high pressure you might look at him as a high pressure salesman of some kind salesman of some kind but the trouble is that he's used in the but the trouble is that he's used in the scriptures of truth as one that deals in scriptures of truth as one that deals in men's souls and when god said destroy the canaanite israel didn't obey in fact as we progress through the scriptures of truth you will find that scriptures of truth you will find that they they intermarry you know that's dangerous brethren and sisters because so many times we'll say sisters because so many times we'll say well i'll marry out of the truth and well i'll marry out of the truth and i'll bring that individual into the i'll bring that individual into the truth truth there have been rare occasions if that there have been rare occasions if that happens happens but 80 percent of the time brethren and but 80 percent of the time brethren and sisters it works in the opposite sisters it works in the opposite direction direction that canaanite makes a canaanite out of that canaanite makes a canaanite out of you you this is what israel found out their life they found out that they were worshiping worshiping the idols of the canaanites and because of this god moved in because god cannot stand god moved in because god cannot stand idolatry and this is the problem we have today about us brother and sisters we have about us brother and sisters we have wonderful people wonderful people we work with them don't we but they're not are in every sense of the word the are in every sense of the word the canaanite they are that which has for their city has for their city a city that is built with hands a city that is built with hands and we look away to that don't we to a and we look away to that don't we to a city whose foundation whose builder and city whose foundation whose builder and maker is god maker is god god says god says destroy it destroy it now he doesn't mean for us to go out and now he doesn't mean for us to go out and kill our neighbors you know what he kill our neighbors you know what he means means crucify the flesh with its affections crucify the flesh with its affections and lusts and lusts but brethren and sisters there is the but brethren and sisters there is the trial that you and i face today we sometimes hear brethren and sister say don't you think that we will go say don't you think that we will go through tremendous persecution before through tremendous persecution before the second coming of christ brethren and the second coming of christ brethren and sisters sisters as far as the truth is concerned we're as far as the truth is concerned we're going through that persecution today going through that persecution today and let me tell you that that and let me tell you that that persecution is more severe than those persecution is more severe than those that the disciples endured because that the disciples endured because in the time of christ and in up until in the time of christ and in up until the first century the first century when you took a stand for the lord jesus when you took a stand for the lord jesus christ christ it meant death it meant death there was a clear line of demarcation there was a clear line of demarcation you knew where you stood if you were in you knew where you stood if you were in a christian you were in this category if a christian you were in this category if you were for the world you were in this you were for the world you were in this category there was no gray section at category there was no gray section at all all but what do we have today but what do we have today we are living in the world of amalek we are living in the world of amalek we are living in the world of seduction we are living in the world of seduction brethren and sisters and we're living in brethren and sisters and we're living in a group of people that say we don't care a group of people that say we don't care what you believe what you believe we're living in the world of the we're living in the world of the canaanite that says canaanite that says we are broad-minded we don't care what we are broad-minded we don't care what you believe you believe come with us come with us you can believe what you want we'll even you can believe what you want we'll even go to your church with you go to your church with you but you come with us and one of the great lessons of the wilderness wanderings brethren and wilderness wanderings brethren and sisters was that when god said to sisters was that when god said to destroy the canaanite he meant exactly destroy the canaanite he meant exactly what paul was later to say in the fifth what paul was later to say in the fifth chapter of galatians at verse 24 chapter of galatians at verse 24 they that are christ have crucified the they that are christ have crucified the flesh with his affections and lusts flesh with his affections and lusts they have nailed it to a cross and brethren and sisters it is not easy anyone that thinks that their road to anyone that thinks that their road to the place in the kingdom of god the place in the kingdom of god had better re-evaluate there's only one way brethren and sisters and this would be my closing sisters and this would be my closing message to you message to you there is only one way that we can ever there is only one way that we can ever hope for a place in god's kingdom hope for a place in god's kingdom there's only one way that we can crucify there's only one way that we can crucify the flesh which is affections and lust the flesh which is affections and lust and that is to follow the example that and that is to follow the example that we have in the wilderness wanderings we have in the wilderness wanderings of loving the lord our god with all our of loving the lord our god with all our heart and all our strength and all our heart and all our strength and all our mind and when we look at the greatest mind and when we look at the greatest example example we find in the 12th chapter of hebrews we find in the 12th chapter of hebrews that it was for the joy that was set that it was for the joy that was set before the lord jesus christ that he before the lord jesus christ that he endured the cross endured the cross it was for the joy that was set before it was for the joy that was set before him that the lord jesus christ crushed him that the lord jesus christ crushed out amalek it was for the joy that was out amalek it was for the joy that was set before him that he crushed out the set before him that he crushed out the canaanite and what was that joy and how canaanite and what was that joy and how did he get it he obtained that joy brethren and sisters by constantly infiltrating his sisters by constantly infiltrating his mind with weakness such as this mind with weakness such as this by saturating his mind with the word of by saturating his mind with the word of truth truth by praying to god from morning to night by praying to god from morning to night by seeking and gaining the help of by seeking and gaining the help of angels angels by saturating every vestige of his heart by saturating every vestige of his heart and his mind with the truth of god and his mind with the truth of god and leaving no space for the things of and leaving no space for the things of amalekura for the things of the amalekura for the things of the canaanite canaanite and because he was totally dedicated to and because he was totally dedicated to god because he had the vision of that god because he had the vision of that time that is coming time that is coming when he shall see of the travail of his when he shall see of the travail of his soul that host which no man can number soul that host which no man can number and he will know that they gained and he will know that they gained immortality by what he accomplished at immortality by what he accomplished at calvary that's what he saw brethren and calvary that's what he saw brethren and sisters he saw that glorious day when he sisters he saw that glorious day when he would take to himself the five great would take to himself the five great titles of wonderful counselor the mighty titles of wonderful counselor the mighty god the everlasting father the prince of god the everlasting father the prince of peace peace and when he said if it be possible let and when he said if it be possible let this cup pass from me i do not believe this cup pass from me i do not believe he was dreading the cross of calvary he was dreading the cross of calvary brethren and sisters brethren and sisters what was he speaking of then what was he speaking of then he knew that the he knew that the presence of his father that had been presence of his father that had been with him so long must now depart so that with him so long must now depart so that he could drink the suffering to the full he could drink the suffering to the full for you and me for you and me that's what he didn't want to leave that's what he didn't want to leave we don't want it to leave either do we we don't want it to leave either do we brethren and sisters in these last few brethren and sisters in these last few steps of the way steps of the way he's blazed the trail he's gone ahead he's blazed the trail he's gone ahead and he says and he says follow me we say where are you going master going to calgary going to calgary what are you going to do there master what are you going to do there master i'm nailing amalek to that cross he's in i'm nailing amalek to that cross he's in my way my way i'm nailing the canaanite to the cross i'm nailing the canaanite to the cross he's in my way he's in my way there can be no there can be no stumbling blocks between me and my goal stumbling blocks between me and my goal because that joy is set before me this is new brother and sisters because god gave us that formula when he brought god gave us that formula when he brought israel out of egypt didn't he israel out of egypt didn't he they began their journey says thou shalt they began their journey says thou shalt love the lord thy god with all thy heart love the lord thy god with all thy heart and all thy soul and all thy strength and all thy soul and all thy strength there's the answer brethren and sisters there's the answer brethren and sisters i'm sorry we've had to rush through the i'm sorry we've had to rush through the wilderness wanderings wilderness wanderings i hope we have left something for you to i hope we have left something for you to think about think about it's been a real joy to be with you in it's been a real joy to be with you in this study i can assure you this study i can assure you it's going to be my prayer that it's going to be my prayer that i might take your hand i might take your hand that glorious day of zion's glad morning that glorious day of zion's glad morning and and that we can reminisce that we can reminisce on weekends such as this on weekends such as this and see how they were provisions made by and see how they were provisions made by the god of israel and they were stepping the god of israel and they were stepping stones into our eternal rest stones into our eternal rest and may it be your privilege and mind as and may it be your privilege and mind as we we stand at the portals of that everlasting stand at the portals of that everlasting possession that possession that we might hear those welcome words well we might hear those welcome words well done though good and faithful servants done though good and faithful servants enter thou into the joy of thy lord enter thou into the joy of thy lord my brethren and sisters i want to be my brethren and sisters i want to be there with you and there with you and we feel the thrill of immortality going we feel the thrill of immortality going completely through our body completely through our body and that we can look out on the unending and that we can look out on the unending ages of eternity ages of eternity knowing that eternity will never dent knowing that eternity will never dent our immortal frames our immortal frames to know that at last we have won our dream has come true that we shall hunger no more that we shall hunger no more neither thirst anymore neither shall the neither thirst anymore neither shall the sun light on us nor any heat sun light on us nor any heat and that we may exclaim once again with and that we may exclaim once again with the apostle paul the apostle paul o the depths of the riches o the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of god both of the wisdom and knowledge of god how unsearchable are his judgments and how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out his ways past finding out for who hath known the mind of the lord for who hath known the mind of the lord or who has been his counselor or who has or who has been his counselor or who has first given to him and it shall be given first given to him and it shall be given to him again to him again and then we will know the true meaning and then we will know the true meaning that paul expressed when he said that paul expressed when he said for of him for of him [Music] [Music] and through him and to him and through him and to him be glory forever