1 00:00:00,330 --> 00:00:05,650 In Hebrews, in the 9th chapter, and a 2 00:00:05,650 --> 00:00:10,400 little over in the 10th, now you will 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:14,820 remember that there was a tabernacle made in 4 00:00:14,820 --> 00:00:16,080 the Old Testament times. 5 00:00:17,780 --> 00:00:20,100 The first wherein was a candlestick and a 6 00:00:20,100 --> 00:00:24,000 table and a showbread, and that tabernacle was 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,880 called the sanctuary, that section. 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:34,240 Then after the second veil, the tabernacle which 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,080 is called the holiest of all. 10 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:41,660 Sometimes that's called the holy of holies, sometimes 11 00:00:41,660 --> 00:00:46,580 people call it the sanctum, or sanctum sanctorum, 12 00:00:46,660 --> 00:00:47,740 the holiest of all. 13 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:57,850 Now, over the, now when these things were 14 00:00:57,850 --> 00:01:00,290 thus ordained, the priests went always into the 15 00:01:00,290 --> 00:01:05,010 first tabernacle, busy in the service of God, 16 00:01:05,110 --> 00:01:07,670 but into the second, that is, clear in, 17 00:01:08,450 --> 00:01:11,750 went the high priest alone once every year, 18 00:01:12,470 --> 00:01:15,590 not without blood, which he offered for himself 19 00:01:15,590 --> 00:01:16,930 and for the heirs of the people. 20 00:01:18,110 --> 00:01:22,750 The Holy Ghost this signified that the way 21 00:01:22,750 --> 00:01:26,430 into the holiest of all was not made 22 00:01:26,430 --> 00:01:31,090 yet manifest, while the first tabernacle was yet 23 00:01:31,090 --> 00:01:31,530 standing. 24 00:01:33,010 --> 00:01:35,410 Verse 11, But Christ, being come in high 25 00:01:35,410 --> 00:01:37,730 priest of good things to come, by a 26 00:01:37,730 --> 00:01:40,690 greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with 27 00:01:40,690 --> 00:01:41,950 hands, that is to say, not of this 28 00:01:41,950 --> 00:01:45,210 building, neither by the blood of goats and 29 00:01:45,210 --> 00:01:46,870 calves, but by his own blood he entered 30 00:01:46,870 --> 00:01:49,410 in once into the holy place, having obtained 31 00:01:49,410 --> 00:01:52,470 eternal redemption for us. 32 00:01:53,490 --> 00:01:56,450 And over in the 10th chapter, a little 33 00:01:56,450 --> 00:02:00,310 exhortation there based upon all this teaching, verse 34 00:02:00,310 --> 00:02:04,950 19 and on, Having therefore, brethren, boldness to 35 00:02:04,950 --> 00:02:06,730 enter into the holiest by the blood of 36 00:02:06,730 --> 00:02:10,350 Jesus, by a new and living way which 37 00:02:10,350 --> 00:02:13,350 he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, 38 00:02:13,470 --> 00:02:14,390 that is to say, his flesh. 39 00:02:15,890 --> 00:02:18,070 And having an high priest over the house 40 00:02:18,070 --> 00:02:21,790 of God, let us, let us draw near 41 00:02:21,790 --> 00:02:26,790 with a true heart and full assurance of 42 00:02:26,790 --> 00:02:31,170 faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil 43 00:02:31,170 --> 00:02:35,830 conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 44 00:02:37,090 --> 00:02:41,270 Now, you have in your mind, no doubt, 45 00:02:42,350 --> 00:02:46,790 the Old Testament tabernacle, with its outer court, 46 00:02:47,590 --> 00:02:52,210 with its holy place, and with its holy 47 00:02:52,210 --> 00:02:52,950 of holies. 48 00:02:54,250 --> 00:02:57,330 Now, priests could come to the outer court 49 00:02:57,330 --> 00:02:59,090 and they could come to the holy place, 50 00:02:59,590 --> 00:03:03,070 but inside the holiest of all, the holy 51 00:03:03,070 --> 00:03:06,330 of holies, they could not come. 52 00:03:07,750 --> 00:03:11,490 Only one man could enter that holy of 53 00:03:11,490 --> 00:03:14,130 holies, and that was only once a year. 54 00:03:15,410 --> 00:03:17,730 And then he came with the blood of 55 00:03:17,730 --> 00:03:21,770 bulls and goats, which he sprinkled upon the 56 00:03:21,770 --> 00:03:24,970 mercy seat where the fire burned. 57 00:03:27,470 --> 00:03:29,910 For now we are taught that by the 58 00:03:29,910 --> 00:03:32,530 death of Jesus, the rending of his flesh, 59 00:03:32,690 --> 00:03:36,590 which was the tearing of that veil that 60 00:03:36,590 --> 00:03:40,630 separated from the holy of holies, now anybody, 61 00:03:40,870 --> 00:03:42,710 all of God's people, can come in. 62 00:03:44,310 --> 00:03:47,230 Now, what I most particularly want to emphasize 63 00:03:47,230 --> 00:03:51,610 is this holy of holies. 64 00:03:52,250 --> 00:03:56,090 You see, there was a golden chest, a 65 00:03:56,090 --> 00:04:00,530 sort of cedar chest affair, and it was 66 00:04:00,530 --> 00:04:04,690 plated outside and inside with pure gold. 67 00:04:05,990 --> 00:04:08,670 And then there was a lid on that 68 00:04:08,670 --> 00:04:13,170 chest, also made of pure gold. 69 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,000 And then there was a collar around that 70 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,880 lid, with the four corners sticking up a 71 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:23,860 little to give it artistic beauty. 72 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:29,540 Then on that lid there were two figures 73 00:04:29,540 --> 00:04:35,920 made of pure gold of the cherubim, holy 74 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:36,420 creatures. 75 00:04:37,060 --> 00:04:40,240 And they stretched their wings and their wingtips 76 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:40,740 touched. 77 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:46,420 And then between the wingtips there burned and 78 00:04:46,420 --> 00:04:53,980 glowed an awesome, awful, holy fire, which the 79 00:04:53,980 --> 00:04:59,060 ages have called the Shekinah, meaning the presence 80 00:04:59,060 --> 00:05:00,500 or the face. 81 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,300 And that was God. 82 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,080 That's why the careless crowd couldn't see it, 83 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:08,420 couldn't come in. 84 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,340 That's why the average rank and file of 85 00:05:12,340 --> 00:05:16,000 the clergy couldn't come in, only the high 86 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,740 priest could go in there and with a 87 00:05:18,740 --> 00:05:22,980 verted face look on that awesome presence. 88 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,100 Once a year, while he held in his 89 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:30,820 hand a basin of blood, saying, O presence, 90 00:05:31,660 --> 00:05:32,820 I ought to die. 91 00:05:33,540 --> 00:05:37,140 O Shekinah, O God, I ought to die, 92 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,160 but I bring this blood as an evidence 93 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,360 that I ought to die, and that another 94 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:42,580 has died for me. 95 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:48,180 Now it's this holy presence that we want 96 00:05:48,180 --> 00:05:50,800 particularly to talk about, and why so many 97 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,360 Christians are shut away from it. 98 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:59,460 I read recently and carefully checked again, though 99 00:05:59,460 --> 00:06:03,580 I've preached this truth lots of places, I 100 00:06:03,580 --> 00:06:07,860 carefully checked again to know that the words 101 00:06:07,860 --> 00:06:11,420 in the Old Testament, the word that is 102 00:06:11,420 --> 00:06:15,280 translated presence and face is the same word. 103 00:06:16,060 --> 00:06:18,960 The face of God in thy presence is 104 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:21,400 fulness of joy, he said. 105 00:06:22,420 --> 00:06:24,980 And you'll find all through the Psalms the 106 00:06:24,980 --> 00:06:31,660 worshiping man of God celebrating his entrance into 107 00:06:31,660 --> 00:06:35,240 the presence, and his looking forward to the 108 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:37,360 presence of God, and he talked about the 109 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:38,400 face of God. 110 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:42,160 That passage, for instance, when thou saidest, seek 111 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,520 ye my face, my heart said unto thee, 112 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:47,900 thy face, Lord, will I seek. 113 00:06:48,300 --> 00:06:50,360 Now that same word is presence. 114 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,720 In thy presence is fulness of joy, thy 115 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:56,880 presence, Lord, will I seek. 116 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:02,680 When thou saidest unto me, seek ye my 117 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:06,300 face, my heart responded, thy face, thy presence, 118 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:07,680 Lord, will I seek. 119 00:07:08,140 --> 00:07:09,280 It is the same. 120 00:07:10,260 --> 00:07:13,980 And what I'm trying to present is that 121 00:07:13,980 --> 00:07:18,500 there is an unseen presence which is God, 122 00:07:19,180 --> 00:07:23,220 that holy one, that one in the midst 123 00:07:23,220 --> 00:07:27,180 of us, which theology sets forth in the 124 00:07:27,180 --> 00:07:29,060 doctrine of the divine amendments. 125 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:32,060 It says that that holy presence, that one 126 00:07:32,060 --> 00:07:35,400 time localized himself there between the wings of 127 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:39,700 the cherubim, is wherever his creation is. 128 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,420 But there is a difference between a presence 129 00:07:43,420 --> 00:07:45,440 and a manifest presence. 130 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:47,780 I have said this before, and I don't 131 00:07:47,780 --> 00:07:49,920 hesitate to repeat it again, because a thing 132 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:51,500 like this ought not to be tossed out 133 00:07:51,500 --> 00:07:54,140 and forgotten, that there is a difference between 134 00:07:54,140 --> 00:07:56,780 the presence and the manifest presence. 135 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,080 It is the fine shade of difference between 136 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:01,900 a man's presence and his face. 137 00:08:02,460 --> 00:08:05,180 The same word, and relative, very nearly the 138 00:08:05,180 --> 00:08:09,160 same meaning, but not quite, a man comes 139 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,600 into the room and keeps his back turned 140 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,720 to you, you can say he was in 141 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,280 my presence for half an hour, or I 142 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:19,400 was in his presence for half an hour. 143 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,920 But you don't have much fellowship with a 144 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,040 man who keeps his back turned to you, 145 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:27,920 it is when he turns his face to 146 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,220 you that the fellowship begins. 147 00:08:31,020 --> 00:08:33,520 So it is different, there is a vast 148 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,820 difference, all the difference perhaps in the world, 149 00:08:37,539 --> 00:08:41,840 between God being present and God's face being 150 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:43,220 manifest to his people. 151 00:08:44,220 --> 00:08:46,220 Now Israel knew that God dwelt in the 152 00:08:46,220 --> 00:08:48,440 midst of them, that the high priest was 153 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:49,740 able to go in and look on the 154 00:08:49,740 --> 00:08:51,860 face once a year with blood. 155 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:54,520 Men come back out and pull a heavy 156 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:56,420 veil, they say it took some men to 157 00:08:56,420 --> 00:08:59,760 push it aside, and that veil was there 158 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:04,000 to shut out the unprepared from that holy 159 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:04,700 face. 160 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,560 And then, when Jesus, our Lord, died, it 161 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:11,520 says that when he gave up the ghost, 162 00:09:11,700 --> 00:09:13,280 the veil of the temple was rent from 163 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:14,200 the top to the bottom. 164 00:09:14,740 --> 00:09:17,000 God himself rented with his finger from the 165 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,700 top to the bottom, not from the bottom 166 00:09:18,700 --> 00:09:20,200 to the top, then it might have been 167 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:21,920 done by a priest or an enemy, but 168 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:24,820 from the top to the bottom down, and 169 00:09:24,820 --> 00:09:26,140 was forever removed. 170 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:29,980 Poor old Israel, they say, sewed that veil 171 00:09:29,980 --> 00:09:32,440 up and used it again, sewed it back 172 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,860 up again, to try to undo what God 173 00:09:35,860 --> 00:09:37,960 had done by the death of his son. 174 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:41,600 And so they have wandered all these centuries, 175 00:09:42,220 --> 00:09:45,560 shut out from the presence by sewing a 176 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:48,720 veil up again, when God was telling all 177 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:52,940 the world that my son, my eternal son, 178 00:09:53,100 --> 00:09:55,600 is the renting of his flesh, the tearing 179 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,380 of the veil, and now there's nothing to 180 00:09:58,380 --> 00:10:00,360 keep you out of the Holy of Holies, 181 00:10:00,420 --> 00:10:02,260 where only a priest could go before. 182 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:04,780 Now all of God's people can go. 183 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:08,340 So the Bible teaches that God's presence is 184 00:10:08,340 --> 00:10:11,140 everywhere, but the Bible teaches that God's face, 185 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:16,240 God's realized, manifest, and joyed presence may be 186 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:18,600 the precious treasure of all of the people 187 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:19,440 of God. 188 00:10:19,980 --> 00:10:22,460 Now what is this, and who is this? 189 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:23,380 Who is this? 190 00:10:23,420 --> 00:10:25,780 Am I preaching about God too much, friends, 191 00:10:25,900 --> 00:10:26,240 am I? 192 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:29,060 I preach about God an awful lot. 193 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,460 Am I preaching about God too much? 194 00:10:31,940 --> 00:10:33,480 Do you want to hear something else? 195 00:10:33,860 --> 00:10:35,620 If you want to hear something else, let 196 00:10:35,620 --> 00:10:37,520 me know, and I'll know what to do 197 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:38,040 about it. 198 00:10:38,140 --> 00:10:41,600 But I won't change my preaching, because I 199 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,680 must preach about God, I must. 200 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:45,680 I don't know how long I'll have to 201 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:46,240 preach yet. 202 00:10:46,300 --> 00:10:47,940 The way I feel now, it'll be 20 203 00:10:47,940 --> 00:10:48,320 minutes. 204 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:51,540 But what the doctors say, it'll be a 205 00:10:51,540 --> 00:10:53,600 good many long years yet, so we'll take 206 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:54,480 the doctors for it. 207 00:10:55,100 --> 00:10:57,240 But anyhow, I can't preach anything else. 208 00:10:57,260 --> 00:10:58,820 I can't preach anything else. 209 00:10:59,180 --> 00:11:01,520 I must talk about God, God the Father, 210 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:04,520 God the Eternal Son, and God the Blessed 211 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:05,560 Holy Ghost. 212 00:11:06,300 --> 00:11:09,640 And as God reveals himself, he reveals himself 213 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:13,420 in nature as the Strong, the Mighty One. 214 00:11:13,860 --> 00:11:16,580 And he reveals himself in the scripture by 215 00:11:16,580 --> 00:11:21,520 various names, Elohim, and Jehovah, and Jehovah-Nissi, 216 00:11:21,700 --> 00:11:24,280 and Jehovah-Jireh, and Jehovah-Cain. 217 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:28,760 He has these various names, setting forth various 218 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:32,680 facets of his majesty and his glory. 219 00:11:33,580 --> 00:11:35,760 I had read again in the Psalms this 220 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:39,900 morning, before I came down, the beauty of 221 00:11:39,900 --> 00:11:40,980 the Lord our God. 222 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,940 One man said, I'd like to enter into 223 00:11:43,940 --> 00:11:47,000 this one thing I've sought after, that I 224 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,700 might enter into the presence of God to 225 00:11:50,700 --> 00:11:52,880 enjoy the beauty of the Lord. 226 00:11:53,380 --> 00:11:54,800 And I looked it up to see what 227 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,240 it was, the beauty of the Lord. 228 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:01,900 Well, in the Hebrew, it's beauty, it's grace. 229 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,680 One translation says, the grace of the Lord. 230 00:12:05,020 --> 00:12:08,240 Anything that is graceful is beautiful, and the 231 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,220 person of God is beautiful. 232 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:15,400 And this beautiful, awesome presence was dwelling there, 233 00:12:15,460 --> 00:12:17,680 and the priest could push in past that 234 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:19,880 veil, but nobody else could. 235 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,260 He could only once a year, I repeat. 236 00:12:22,820 --> 00:12:25,260 But that presence has revealed in Christ. 237 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:27,960 Is there ever, is it ever possible to 238 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,220 overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? 239 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:33,440 My wife and I are reading every morning 240 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,340 a letter, one of the letters of Samuel 241 00:12:36,340 --> 00:12:36,820 Rutherford. 242 00:12:36,940 --> 00:12:39,640 We've read, I guess, maybe 300 pages now, 243 00:12:39,940 --> 00:12:41,600 and are on our way through to the 244 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,260 end, which will be another couple of hundred, 245 00:12:43,260 --> 00:12:45,880 of the letters of this holy man. 246 00:12:46,500 --> 00:12:48,460 His love for Jesus Christ is one of 247 00:12:48,460 --> 00:12:51,820 the most awful, wonderful, beautiful things in all 248 00:12:51,820 --> 00:12:52,620 Church history. 249 00:12:53,140 --> 00:12:54,920 His wonderful love. 250 00:12:55,620 --> 00:12:57,960 He loved Christ to a point where he 251 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,200 embarrassed her with the warmth of his devotion. 252 00:13:01,940 --> 00:13:05,440 He had no hesitation, this wonderful Scotchman. 253 00:13:05,860 --> 00:13:09,520 He had no hesitation to plead that the 254 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,120 Lord might allow him to kiss him. 255 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:14,800 He wanted to love him so much. 256 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:17,100 And as the woman who came into his 257 00:13:17,100 --> 00:13:21,040 presence and kissed his feet, anointed and kissed 258 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,660 his feet, and he honored her because of 259 00:13:23,660 --> 00:13:26,860 it, so Rutherford honored the Lord and kissed 260 00:13:26,860 --> 00:13:29,920 the feet of the Lord the best he 261 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:32,500 could in what he called his prison in 262 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:34,520 Aberdeen, shut away from his pulpit. 263 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,220 My brethren, this Lord Jesus Christ, this wonderful, 264 00:13:38,740 --> 00:13:43,180 loving, self-sacrificing Lord Jesus, who is said 265 00:13:43,180 --> 00:13:44,880 to be a star and a sun and 266 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,300 a light, who's called the Prince and the 267 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:51,940 Lord and the Beloved, and as revealed by 268 00:13:51,940 --> 00:13:55,900 the Holy Spirit in human experience, unutterably holy 269 00:13:55,900 --> 00:13:57,540 and unspeakably adorable. 270 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:01,000 I don't want to be hard on people. 271 00:14:01,860 --> 00:14:03,460 You'll say, now look who's talking. 272 00:14:03,580 --> 00:14:03,980 I don't. 273 00:14:04,060 --> 00:14:05,520 I really don't want to be hard on 274 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:10,320 people, but I'm afraid that our lukewarmness about 275 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:14,280 the person of Christ is a great proof 276 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:16,720 that we don't know very much about him 277 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:18,060 in personal experience. 278 00:14:18,780 --> 00:14:22,540 I tell you, I tell you, we can't 279 00:14:22,540 --> 00:14:25,780 keep still about that which we love. 280 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:28,440 We can't keep still about it. 281 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:33,500 That which we love supremely and first above 282 00:14:33,500 --> 00:14:36,840 all else, we're going to talk about a 283 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:37,040 lot. 284 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:38,340 I never get over it. 285 00:14:38,340 --> 00:14:39,640 It's still a delight to me. 286 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:43,100 It's still a pleasure that I cannot get 287 00:14:43,100 --> 00:14:43,540 over it. 288 00:14:43,540 --> 00:14:44,500 I don't try to get over it. 289 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:46,900 I just enjoy it, to see young parents 290 00:14:46,900 --> 00:14:49,000 with their baby, particularly their first baby. 291 00:14:49,580 --> 00:14:52,740 It's just something now to see a young 292 00:14:52,740 --> 00:14:53,080 father. 293 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,200 We had a certain baby born into the 294 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,080 midst of us here a little while back, 295 00:14:57,540 --> 00:15:00,500 and I told a number of people about 296 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:00,640 it. 297 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:03,320 This young father was walking exactly four inches 298 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:04,840 off the sidewalk when he talked to me 299 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,100 out in front here about it, and she 300 00:15:07,100 --> 00:15:09,400 was, I think, maybe two weeks old, and 301 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:13,020 he told me with enthusiasm that she could 302 00:15:13,020 --> 00:15:14,260 turn her eyes and look at him. 303 00:15:14,660 --> 00:15:15,960 He said, you know, she can turn her 304 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:16,860 eyes and look at me. 305 00:15:18,300 --> 00:15:19,080 Astonishing, isn't it? 306 00:15:19,380 --> 00:15:21,180 There are just three billion people in the 307 00:15:21,180 --> 00:15:22,600 world, and all of them have turned their 308 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:23,140 eyes and looked. 309 00:15:23,620 --> 00:15:26,560 But that father, now that's love, my brethren, 310 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:27,900 and I think we ought to take off 311 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:30,180 our shoes in the presence of that burning 312 00:15:30,180 --> 00:15:32,740 bush, because it's one of the few beautiful 313 00:15:32,740 --> 00:15:35,100 things left in the world of selfish men 314 00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:37,320 and women, that we can love a baby 315 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,480 like that, that we can love somebody like 316 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:41,540 that and then not be able to keep 317 00:15:41,540 --> 00:15:42,520 still about it. 318 00:15:43,660 --> 00:15:46,140 When our seventh baby was born, a girl, 319 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:49,860 little Becky, into our home, I had pictures 320 00:15:49,860 --> 00:15:53,380 of her taken in all stances and poses 321 00:15:53,380 --> 00:15:56,540 and directions, and I carried them around, and 322 00:15:56,540 --> 00:15:58,620 all anybody had to do would be to 323 00:15:58,620 --> 00:15:59,280 say, how's Becky? 324 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:01,960 Out of thing. 325 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:03,820 Instantly and at once. 326 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,640 And I did that so long innocently, not 327 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:09,480 knowing I was making a nuisance of myself, 328 00:16:10,140 --> 00:16:13,600 until I was at a Bible conference one 329 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,220 time where they had a little skit. 330 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:16,560 I don't go much for them, but I 331 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:17,780 was present and saw this thing. 332 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:23,040 And a very, very large lady, very large, 333 00:16:23,940 --> 00:16:26,300 with a robe down to the feet, stood 334 00:16:26,300 --> 00:16:27,080 up to be a preacher. 335 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:28,940 She was a minister, and she was taking 336 00:16:28,940 --> 00:16:34,540 off on me, and somebody said something to 337 00:16:34,540 --> 00:16:38,900 me, and that sort of dampened me down. 338 00:16:39,780 --> 00:16:41,680 I didn't show them a picture quite so 339 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,600 frequently after that, but I carried them around, 340 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,500 and I believe in this. 341 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:51,520 I believe this ability to love is one 342 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,700 of the few desirable things left in the 343 00:16:54,700 --> 00:16:55,220 world. 344 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,620 And it's tragic how it has been dragged 345 00:16:57,620 --> 00:16:58,220 down. 346 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,100 The world has made romantic love to be 347 00:17:02,100 --> 00:17:05,220 its mainspring, but the church has made the 348 00:17:05,220 --> 00:17:07,280 love for the Lord Jesus Christ to be 349 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,980 its spring and fountain of joy. 350 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:12,220 For me to live is Christ, said the 351 00:17:12,220 --> 00:17:12,819 man Paul. 352 00:17:13,180 --> 00:17:15,180 For me to live is Christ. 353 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,339 And isn't it true, then, that if it 354 00:17:19,339 --> 00:17:23,079 is the nature of love to be enthusiastic 355 00:17:23,079 --> 00:17:24,940 to the point of even being a bit 356 00:17:24,940 --> 00:17:28,000 of a nuisance about the thing it loves, 357 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,340 or the one it loves, if we never 358 00:17:30,340 --> 00:17:33,140 mention the Lord in conversation with each other, 359 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:34,500 is it not a proof that we are 360 00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:36,280 not much concerned about him? 361 00:17:37,340 --> 00:17:41,440 If we do not in our conversation ever 362 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:44,780 have an impulsive, warm statement to make about 363 00:17:44,780 --> 00:17:47,360 our relation to the Lord, can we not 364 00:17:47,360 --> 00:17:51,480 properly conclude with charity that it is because 365 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:53,100 we do not know very much about him? 366 00:17:53,940 --> 00:17:56,660 You couldn't talk to David long until the 367 00:17:56,660 --> 00:17:57,980 Lord was in his mouth. 368 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:00,800 You couldn't read anything David wrote for one 369 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:02,820 minute or one half minute or one quarter 370 00:18:02,820 --> 00:18:04,840 of a minute until you ran into the 371 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:05,800 Lord is God. 372 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:07,560 And so it is with Paul. 373 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,480 Paul was the man Jesus man, and I 374 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:14,340 like it that when missionaries go to the 375 00:18:14,340 --> 00:18:16,340 foreign field they're known as Jesus people. 376 00:18:17,100 --> 00:18:18,860 They're known, the Jesus man was here, Mama, 377 00:18:18,980 --> 00:18:19,460 they'll say. 378 00:18:19,780 --> 00:18:22,000 The Jesus man just passed the village. 379 00:18:22,700 --> 00:18:24,760 That's exactly what we ought to be known 380 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:25,520 as. 381 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,940 Now he waits for us to enter, not 382 00:18:29,940 --> 00:18:33,500 in theology only, but in experience. 383 00:18:34,380 --> 00:18:37,280 This is what I'm trying to do, and 384 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:39,780 it happens occasionally, once in a while it 385 00:18:39,780 --> 00:18:44,780 happens, occasionally, that somebody will pass through theology 386 00:18:44,780 --> 00:18:47,800 by means of theology and through experience. 387 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:50,060 I got a very wonderful and lovely letter 388 00:18:50,060 --> 00:18:52,020 from a young man attending one of the 389 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:57,920 institutions of learning here in the city, and 390 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:01,220 he told me that he felt his experience 391 00:19:01,220 --> 00:19:04,020 was quite like the number of others about 392 00:19:04,020 --> 00:19:04,300 the city. 393 00:19:04,380 --> 00:19:05,640 He said, I went over to hear you 394 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,680 and left determining never to come back again. 395 00:19:09,360 --> 00:19:11,280 He said, I was irresistibly drawn, I had 396 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:12,520 to, and then he went on in an 397 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,800 exuberant, enthusiastic letter to tell me what the 398 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,500 Lord had done for his soul. 399 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,460 Now God was blessing his soul and leading 400 00:19:20,460 --> 00:19:21,620 him on and leading him in. 401 00:19:22,580 --> 00:19:24,760 I hope that there are many others like 402 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:28,260 that, because what I'm pleading for is that 403 00:19:28,260 --> 00:19:30,660 we learn to know the Lord in living 404 00:19:30,660 --> 00:19:34,000 experience for ourselves, that we are not forced 405 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,260 to go to theology to prove something but 406 00:19:37,260 --> 00:19:40,140 that we can say, I know, I know. 407 00:19:40,380 --> 00:19:42,840 Seeing the man that was healed standing among 408 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:44,420 them, they could say nothing. 409 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,960 And there's always an answer to any theology 410 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:49,920 that you present. 411 00:19:50,060 --> 00:19:53,080 Somebody has an answer, but there's never any 412 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:55,060 answer to your glowing face. 413 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:58,480 There is never any argument that is valid 414 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:01,500 against the glowing, throbbing heart of a man. 415 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,200 I can prove to the young father that 416 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:08,940 his baby is only one more baby among 417 00:20:08,940 --> 00:20:12,780 millions, but I can't stand up before the 418 00:20:12,780 --> 00:20:15,360 face of the glowing face of a happy 419 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:15,960 young father. 420 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:18,840 And the mother that looks down upon that 421 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,300 baby is not going to help her in 422 00:20:21,300 --> 00:20:23,120 her name or the world to say, listen, 423 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:24,980 you're looking down in joy on the face 424 00:20:24,980 --> 00:20:26,600 of your baby, but don't you know that 425 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:28,520 twenty-six or three or five or whatever 426 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:30,400 years ago, your mother looked down on you 427 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,280 like that, and so back to Adam when 428 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:34,980 she looked down on Cain and Abel and 429 00:20:34,980 --> 00:20:37,000 smiled and held him in her arms. 430 00:20:37,420 --> 00:20:39,520 That doesn't mean anything to somebody who is 431 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:41,780 enrapturously loving someone. 432 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,280 So there's lots of theology that can be 433 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,540 brought up to prove that a man like 434 00:20:47,540 --> 00:20:49,220 me, there's something wrong with me, I know 435 00:20:49,220 --> 00:20:49,400 it. 436 00:20:50,180 --> 00:20:54,480 But, my brother and sister, uh, before, before 437 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:57,760 the glowing face of men and women who 438 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:01,200 have been in the presence, ah, my old 439 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,620 friend Tom Hare, I often talk about him. 440 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:08,080 An old Irish plumber, not much education, but 441 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,380 he's been educated where it counts. 442 00:21:11,420 --> 00:21:12,700 God educated him. 443 00:21:15,110 --> 00:21:16,910 And I was talking with old Tom once 444 00:21:16,910 --> 00:21:20,110 and I said, Tom, do you know that 445 00:21:20,110 --> 00:21:24,330 there are certain scientists who have a different 446 00:21:24,330 --> 00:21:25,990 view from you on this? 447 00:21:26,710 --> 00:21:28,430 And they don't accept what you have to 448 00:21:28,430 --> 00:21:28,750 say. 449 00:21:29,410 --> 00:21:31,570 He bowed his old white head and said, 450 00:21:32,430 --> 00:21:34,510 but they haven't been where I've been. 451 00:21:35,230 --> 00:21:36,330 Ah, that's it, brother. 452 00:21:36,690 --> 00:21:37,110 That's it. 453 00:21:37,130 --> 00:21:38,850 They haven't been where I've been. 454 00:21:39,630 --> 00:21:42,990 And the man who's been there, scientists can't 455 00:21:42,990 --> 00:21:44,230 argue him out of anything. 456 00:21:44,230 --> 00:21:46,210 They can get into rockets and go around 457 00:21:46,210 --> 00:21:48,430 the earth and kid from a hundred miles 458 00:21:48,430 --> 00:21:50,610 up this glen, very funny and very wonderful 459 00:21:50,610 --> 00:21:52,270 and, and, and very admirable. 460 00:21:52,990 --> 00:21:54,770 But they don't change a man who's been 461 00:21:54,770 --> 00:21:55,290 in the presence. 462 00:21:56,210 --> 00:21:57,850 The man who's walked in there and looked 463 00:21:57,850 --> 00:22:00,170 down that awful fire, even for a brief 464 00:22:00,170 --> 00:22:03,250 second, is able to say, show me thy 465 00:22:03,250 --> 00:22:06,490 face, thy one transient gleam of loveliness divine, 466 00:22:06,630 --> 00:22:08,270 and I will never think or dream of 467 00:22:08,270 --> 00:22:09,270 any love save thine. 468 00:22:09,950 --> 00:22:11,830 Well, now, why do we stay outside so 469 00:22:11,830 --> 00:22:12,050 much? 470 00:22:12,050 --> 00:22:14,150 Why do most people not enjoy the presence 471 00:22:14,150 --> 00:22:14,730 of God? 472 00:22:15,410 --> 00:22:17,110 I think it is because there is a 473 00:22:17,110 --> 00:22:17,410 veil. 474 00:22:17,810 --> 00:22:19,590 But you say, you just said that there 475 00:22:19,590 --> 00:22:20,930 was a veil was taken away. 476 00:22:21,290 --> 00:22:23,090 Yes, there were two veils. 477 00:22:23,270 --> 00:22:24,690 God took one of them away. 478 00:22:25,170 --> 00:22:27,490 There was one veil that God had put 479 00:22:27,490 --> 00:22:27,690 up. 480 00:22:28,110 --> 00:22:29,810 That was to keep us out. 481 00:22:31,170 --> 00:22:33,910 He took that away and says, let's enter 482 00:22:33,910 --> 00:22:34,870 Bali now. 483 00:22:35,210 --> 00:22:36,730 He's taken his veil away. 484 00:22:37,550 --> 00:22:39,670 But there is another veil, a veil that 485 00:22:39,670 --> 00:22:40,830 he did not make. 486 00:22:42,070 --> 00:22:46,250 It is the close-woven self-veil, the 487 00:22:46,250 --> 00:22:47,710 veil of carnal self. 488 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,460 Just as the sun shines in its brilliance 489 00:22:52,460 --> 00:22:55,120 all day, but a cloud can shut out 490 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:59,440 a city from its rays, so the veil 491 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,240 of self can shut out the face of 492 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:02,540 God. 493 00:23:02,620 --> 00:23:04,660 And I believe that most Christians, I don't 494 00:23:04,660 --> 00:23:07,100 hesitate to say it at all, I believe 495 00:23:07,100 --> 00:23:12,480 that most Christians spend their lifetime outside the 496 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:12,740 veil. 497 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:16,480 Though the veil that shut us out has 498 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:18,980 been rent away and is not there anymore, 499 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,440 God has taken away that veil. 500 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,480 We have sewed a veil up with our 501 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,340 own little busy carnal hands. 502 00:23:29,100 --> 00:23:32,600 We have put up a veil woven of 503 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:40,520 self-love, self-pity, self-trust, self-admiration, 504 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:46,360 self-defense, and these other self-sins. 505 00:23:48,450 --> 00:23:50,850 My friend, there is in every ransomed breast 506 00:23:51,730 --> 00:23:52,430 a flame. 507 00:23:55,260 --> 00:24:01,160 And that flame came from that fire that 508 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,740 was before the wings of the cherubim, our 509 00:24:03,740 --> 00:24:05,460 God is a consuming fire. 510 00:24:06,580 --> 00:24:08,880 And that little flame that burns in the 511 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,820 breast of every redeemed man longs to be 512 00:24:11,820 --> 00:24:16,140 reunited with that eternal flame, the fire of 513 00:24:16,140 --> 00:24:16,700 his presence. 514 00:24:19,060 --> 00:24:21,500 But that little flame of ours is sheathed 515 00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:25,080 in clay and hidden behind the veil of 516 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:25,600 self. 517 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,580 And the rank and file of Christians don't 518 00:24:30,580 --> 00:24:32,220 go along with this at all. 519 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:36,280 They don't go along with it. 520 00:24:37,380 --> 00:24:39,080 They want me to come and tell them 521 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:40,120 here and there all over. 522 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,020 Mexico City is my latest. 523 00:24:42,140 --> 00:24:43,240 They want me to go down there for 524 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:44,060 a few days. 525 00:24:44,740 --> 00:24:47,140 People coming from all over Mexico, to Mexico 526 00:24:47,140 --> 00:24:49,200 City, they want to talk about the deeper 527 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:49,640 life. 528 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,100 So I spend seven hours flying down there, 529 00:24:54,180 --> 00:24:55,620 and I spend three days there, and I 530 00:24:55,620 --> 00:24:57,240 spend seven hours flying back. 531 00:24:58,540 --> 00:25:01,320 And all I've done is tell them what 532 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,940 I've been telling you these months. 533 00:25:07,210 --> 00:25:09,070 Is it unbelief or is it realism? 534 00:25:11,410 --> 00:25:14,110 It leads me to picture a lot of 535 00:25:14,110 --> 00:25:17,530 people traveling from all over Mexico to here, 536 00:25:18,650 --> 00:25:21,990 spending three or four days together, and then 537 00:25:21,990 --> 00:25:25,290 going back just as they came with something 538 00:25:25,290 --> 00:25:26,970 else in their head but no change in 539 00:25:26,970 --> 00:25:27,570 their hearts. 540 00:25:27,950 --> 00:25:29,730 The rank and file don't go on to 541 00:25:29,730 --> 00:25:29,930 enter. 542 00:25:31,590 --> 00:25:33,190 You've got to be holy to enter. 543 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,300 I think if I might use an experience, 544 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:39,840 an expression, it's like this. 545 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:45,100 I don't think that the members of the 546 00:25:45,100 --> 00:25:48,780 Commonwealth all around the world would very much 547 00:25:48,780 --> 00:25:51,100 enjoy spending their time in the presence of 548 00:25:51,100 --> 00:25:51,680 the Queen, do you? 549 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,060 I think everybody would want to go in 550 00:25:54,060 --> 00:25:57,320 once and bow and go through all the 551 00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,760 protocol, and would be very happy and would 552 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:00,780 tell it for the rest of their lives. 553 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:01,800 I think they want to do that. 554 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,320 But I don't think very many would want 555 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:09,020 to live every day in the palace, because 556 00:26:09,020 --> 00:26:10,540 they'd have to be on their alert all 557 00:26:10,540 --> 00:26:10,940 the time. 558 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,640 They'd have to be dressed properly, they would 559 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,500 have to watch their English, they would have 560 00:26:17,500 --> 00:26:21,560 to know all of the etiquette and procedures 561 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:25,080 of courts, and it would just be a 562 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,380 little too much for the average easygoing Canadian 563 00:26:29,300 --> 00:26:30,320 to want to do. 564 00:26:32,900 --> 00:26:33,960 Am I right or wrong? 565 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:34,800 I think I'm right. 566 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,340 Just as you don't want to always stay 567 00:26:37,340 --> 00:26:40,920 dressed up, you want to relax and fall 568 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,820 apart and put on an old pair of 569 00:26:43,820 --> 00:26:46,080 slippers with a tear in the side and 570 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,560 be comfortable, you don't want to stay always 571 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:49,540 dressed up. 572 00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:54,640 So I think we are not spiritual enough 573 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,240 to want to live in His presence, because 574 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,380 we've always got to be at our best. 575 00:27:02,420 --> 00:27:04,580 We've got to have the robe of righteousness. 576 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,600 We cannot wear the old dungarees or the 577 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,620 old sloppy shirt. 578 00:27:12,940 --> 00:27:15,740 To enter that awesome presence and live means 579 00:27:15,740 --> 00:27:19,000 morally and spiritually we have to be right, 580 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:20,540 we have to be clean. 581 00:27:25,300 --> 00:27:27,960 And that's why the average Christian is perfectly 582 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,120 willing to wait for heaven, to have the 583 00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:31,980 experience of being always in the presence of 584 00:27:31,980 --> 00:27:32,220 God. 585 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,980 I think if the average Christian would tell 586 00:27:34,980 --> 00:27:36,520 the truth in the deep of his own 587 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,880 heart, he would have to admit that being 588 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:40,400 in the presence of God all the time 589 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:41,240 would be a bore. 590 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:47,380 Can't take it. 591 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,160 We want to relax and go to the 592 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,380 world and the flesh and go to Adam 593 00:27:53,380 --> 00:27:56,460 and back to the flesh parts of Egypt. 594 00:27:57,500 --> 00:27:59,700 Just a little too much to demand of 595 00:27:59,700 --> 00:28:02,220 us that we gird ourselves and go into 596 00:28:02,220 --> 00:28:03,500 the land and stay there. 597 00:28:05,020 --> 00:28:06,840 And yet that's what the Holy Ghost is 598 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:07,740 pleading that we do. 599 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:09,740 Let us enter boldly to the throne of 600 00:28:09,740 --> 00:28:10,080 grace. 601 00:28:11,060 --> 00:28:13,720 Let us, he says, come boldly, having a 602 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,380 high priest by a new and living way, 603 00:28:15,500 --> 00:28:17,000 having opened a way. 604 00:28:17,620 --> 00:28:19,420 Let us draw nearer with a true heart 605 00:28:19,420 --> 00:28:22,160 and full assurance of faith, having our hearts 606 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,100 sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies 607 00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:25,220 washed with pure water. 608 00:28:29,490 --> 00:28:31,990 I say the rank and file, satisfied to 609 00:28:31,990 --> 00:28:35,610 live just a little veil removed from the 610 00:28:35,610 --> 00:28:36,510 presence of God. 611 00:28:37,790 --> 00:28:40,490 God has always had his Davids and his 612 00:28:40,490 --> 00:28:46,770 Pauls and his Stevens and his Rutherfords who 613 00:28:46,770 --> 00:28:48,930 would die to taste what one man called 614 00:28:48,930 --> 00:28:51,150 the piercing sweetness of the love of God. 615 00:28:52,090 --> 00:28:53,750 So what can I do now? 616 00:28:54,150 --> 00:28:54,690 Well, briefly. 617 00:28:56,190 --> 00:28:58,110 First, hold faith and love. 618 00:28:58,550 --> 00:29:00,550 Hold faith and love. 619 00:29:01,970 --> 00:29:03,710 These make a man dear to God. 620 00:29:04,730 --> 00:29:06,270 Come in full confidence. 621 00:29:07,210 --> 00:29:08,430 Turn your back on self. 622 00:29:10,610 --> 00:29:12,810 As Fenelon says, cut and tear and burn 623 00:29:12,810 --> 00:29:16,230 and destroy and spare nothing of the old 624 00:29:16,230 --> 00:29:18,950 flesh and of the old veil. 625 00:29:18,950 --> 00:29:22,630 So take away that veil from before your 626 00:29:22,630 --> 00:29:23,110 face. 627 00:29:23,990 --> 00:29:25,750 God has taken away the one that he 628 00:29:25,750 --> 00:29:27,010 had up to shut you out. 629 00:29:28,510 --> 00:29:30,290 Now you take the one that you have 630 00:29:30,290 --> 00:29:31,310 up to shut him out. 631 00:29:32,710 --> 00:29:34,490 Remove his experience. 632 00:29:36,110 --> 00:29:40,310 Tear and rend and cut and burn until 633 00:29:40,310 --> 00:29:43,610 there's nothing left of the old veil that 634 00:29:43,610 --> 00:29:44,210 shuts us. 635 00:29:48,490 --> 00:29:50,610 We celebrate the Lord's Supper this morning. 636 00:29:52,410 --> 00:29:54,510 In one way, we're celebrating the rending of 637 00:29:54,510 --> 00:29:56,690 that veil, the tearing away of that veil 638 00:29:56,690 --> 00:30:00,780 that had shut men out from the Shekinah. 639 00:30:02,420 --> 00:30:06,840 How tragic, how deplorable that we allow the 640 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,260 veil of self-love, self-pity, self-confidence 641 00:30:10,260 --> 00:30:15,760 to shut us out when God has never 642 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:16,680 meant it should be so. 643 00:30:17,580 --> 00:30:19,600 So let's pray that the blood of Jesus 644 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,540 Christ might cleanse away that veil. 645 00:30:22,740 --> 00:30:27,100 We might mortify ourselves until as the sun 646 00:30:27,100 --> 00:30:31,040 shines this morning unhindered on Toronto, bathing it 647 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,960 in its golden light, so the face of 648 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,180 God should shine upon our hearts all the 649 00:30:36,180 --> 00:30:36,460 time. 650 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,600 And we'd get ready for heaven, for that's 651 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:41,440 the way it'll be there. 652 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:47,960 Lord, our Heavenly Father, we ask that thou 653 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:53,060 wilt bless this meditation on this great book, 654 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:53,420 Hebrews. 655 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,600 How we thank thee that Hebrews was ever 656 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:56,800 written. 657 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,240 How we thank thee thou didst in thy 658 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,840 kind love ever move a man by the 659 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:10,420 Spirit, put down on parchment such golden words, 660 00:31:11,620 --> 00:31:16,060 such liberating sentences, such keys to the light 661 00:31:16,060 --> 00:31:16,660 in the Spirit. 662 00:31:18,770 --> 00:31:19,710 How we thank thee. 663 00:31:21,610 --> 00:31:24,910 Lord, we pray that we might have this 664 00:31:24,910 --> 00:31:27,970 morning's faith to enter in by the blood 665 00:31:27,970 --> 00:31:30,570 of Jesus, by the new and living way 666 00:31:30,570 --> 00:31:33,310 which he consecrated for us in his flesh, 667 00:31:34,710 --> 00:31:39,370 and we might not be guilty of allowing 668 00:31:39,370 --> 00:31:42,890 our own little veils to interpose. 669 00:31:43,410 --> 00:31:44,710 We would tear them away. 670 00:31:46,550 --> 00:31:50,990 We would put under feet self-love, self 671 00:31:50,990 --> 00:31:59,570 -pity, self-aggrandizement, self-confidence, pride, and all 672 00:31:59,570 --> 00:32:03,410 these things to shut out thy presence. 673 00:32:04,610 --> 00:32:07,670 May this be our best communion service for 674 00:32:07,670 --> 00:32:08,390 a long time.