1 00:00:00,710 --> 00:00:06,650 Exodus chapter 12 And the LORD spake unto 2 00:00:06,650 --> 00:00:08,810 Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 3 00:00:08,990 --> 00:00:13,530 saying, This month shall be unto you the 4 00:00:13,530 --> 00:00:14,390 beginning of months. 5 00:00:15,370 --> 00:00:17,530 It shall be the first month of the 6 00:00:17,530 --> 00:00:18,030 year to you. 7 00:00:19,110 --> 00:00:21,370 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, 8 00:00:21,570 --> 00:00:23,270 saying, In the tenth day of this month 9 00:00:23,990 --> 00:00:25,750 they shall take to them every man a 10 00:00:25,750 --> 00:00:28,050 lamb, according to the house of their father. 11 00:00:28,950 --> 00:00:31,110 A lamb for an house. 12 00:00:31,450 --> 00:00:33,710 Verse 5, Your lamb shall be without blemish, 13 00:00:34,430 --> 00:00:35,690 a male of the first year. 14 00:00:36,450 --> 00:00:37,790 He shall take it out from the sheep 15 00:00:37,790 --> 00:00:39,150 or from the goats, and ye shall keep 16 00:00:39,150 --> 00:00:40,850 it up until the fourteenth day of the 17 00:00:40,850 --> 00:00:41,410 same month. 18 00:00:42,010 --> 00:00:44,170 And the whole assembly of the congregation of 19 00:00:44,170 --> 00:00:46,030 Israel shall kill it in the evening. 20 00:00:46,870 --> 00:00:49,190 And they shall take of the blood and 21 00:00:49,190 --> 00:00:51,710 strike it on the two side posts and 22 00:00:51,710 --> 00:00:53,450 on the upper door post of the houses 23 00:00:53,450 --> 00:00:54,990 wherein they shall eat it. 24 00:00:55,650 --> 00:00:58,790 Verse 11, And thus shall ye eat it, 25 00:00:59,110 --> 00:01:02,090 with your loins girded, your shoes on your 26 00:01:02,090 --> 00:01:05,550 feet, and your staff in your hand. 27 00:01:06,230 --> 00:01:08,150 Ye shall eat it in haste. 28 00:01:08,430 --> 00:01:10,450 It is the LORD's Passover. 29 00:01:11,330 --> 00:01:13,450 Now these words in this passage will be 30 00:01:13,450 --> 00:01:16,210 familiar to you as it reminds you of 31 00:01:16,210 --> 00:01:18,290 the day that God, by the hand of 32 00:01:18,290 --> 00:01:22,770 Moses, led his people out of Egypt beneath 33 00:01:22,770 --> 00:01:24,910 the sign of the shed blood of the 34 00:01:24,910 --> 00:01:28,410 unblemished lamb of whose body not a bone 35 00:01:28,410 --> 00:01:29,110 was to be broken. 36 00:01:29,570 --> 00:01:32,630 That beautiful Old Testament picture of the sinless 37 00:01:32,630 --> 00:01:35,790 Lord Jesus made sin for you and for 38 00:01:35,790 --> 00:01:40,030 me, who was born uninhabited by sin, inhabited 39 00:01:40,030 --> 00:01:43,810 only by God, and who died as the 40 00:01:43,810 --> 00:01:45,470 lamb that taketh away the sin of the 41 00:01:45,470 --> 00:01:49,030 world, whose legs the soldiers did not break. 42 00:01:49,030 --> 00:01:53,270 He was the lamb without blemish, not a 43 00:01:53,270 --> 00:01:55,790 bone of whose body was to be broken. 44 00:01:57,610 --> 00:02:01,230 But says Moses, this month shall be unto 45 00:02:01,230 --> 00:02:02,530 you the beginning of month. 46 00:02:03,130 --> 00:02:05,050 It shall be the first month of the 47 00:02:05,050 --> 00:02:05,530 year to you. 48 00:02:06,350 --> 00:02:08,550 This is going to mark an entirely new 49 00:02:08,550 --> 00:02:10,190 chapter in your life history. 50 00:02:11,270 --> 00:02:14,370 He said you are to eat this, with 51 00:02:14,370 --> 00:02:17,230 your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, 52 00:02:17,230 --> 00:02:19,170 and your staff in your hand. 53 00:02:19,850 --> 00:02:22,330 In other words you are to recognize that 54 00:02:22,330 --> 00:02:26,590 this crisis whereby God will intervene and redeem 55 00:02:26,590 --> 00:02:29,090 you out of Egypt is but the threshold 56 00:02:29,090 --> 00:02:33,110 of a process, of a new walk, and 57 00:02:33,110 --> 00:02:35,970 you are to eat it with shoes on 58 00:02:35,970 --> 00:02:36,470 your feet. 59 00:02:37,090 --> 00:02:39,250 It is the threshold of a journey. 60 00:02:40,670 --> 00:02:42,570 Now that is of course what we always 61 00:02:42,570 --> 00:02:45,090 need to remember when we think of our 62 00:02:45,090 --> 00:02:46,970 redemption through the shed blood of the Lord 63 00:02:46,970 --> 00:02:47,350 Jesus. 64 00:02:47,870 --> 00:02:51,310 Wonderful as it may have been on the 65 00:02:51,310 --> 00:02:53,230 day that you put your trust in Christ, 66 00:02:53,830 --> 00:02:56,150 remember that wasn't the end of the story. 67 00:02:56,730 --> 00:02:58,790 That did not constitute your salvation. 68 00:02:59,510 --> 00:03:02,810 It constituted your reconciliation to God through his 69 00:03:02,810 --> 00:03:03,130 death. 70 00:03:03,450 --> 00:03:06,510 The act of faith that exposed your guilt 71 00:03:06,510 --> 00:03:10,170 as a guilty sinner to the adequacy of 72 00:03:10,170 --> 00:03:11,070 his atoning death. 73 00:03:12,570 --> 00:03:16,170 A wonderful day but not the end in 74 00:03:16,170 --> 00:03:16,650 itself. 75 00:03:17,490 --> 00:03:19,310 For the Lord Jesus said I am come. 76 00:03:19,730 --> 00:03:21,110 Not that you might have forgiveness. 77 00:03:21,810 --> 00:03:23,470 Not that you might escape hell and one 78 00:03:23,470 --> 00:03:24,270 day get to heaven. 79 00:03:24,790 --> 00:03:27,090 I am come that you might have life. 80 00:03:27,770 --> 00:03:29,190 The process of a lifetime. 81 00:03:29,790 --> 00:03:31,150 The walk of a lifetime. 82 00:03:32,090 --> 00:03:34,190 And when you shelter beneath the shadow of 83 00:03:34,190 --> 00:03:36,590 the cross it is but to poise you 84 00:03:36,590 --> 00:03:39,390 upon the threshold of a new walk. 85 00:03:39,970 --> 00:03:42,850 For you will remember in Romans chapter 8 86 00:03:42,850 --> 00:03:45,270 and verse 1 it says there is therefore 87 00:03:45,270 --> 00:03:48,490 now no condemnation to them who are in 88 00:03:48,490 --> 00:03:53,110 Christ Jesus clothed with his righteousness imputed righteousness. 89 00:03:53,390 --> 00:03:54,410 No condemnation. 90 00:03:54,890 --> 00:03:57,290 Reconciled to God by what he did because 91 00:03:57,290 --> 00:03:58,190 of what you have done. 92 00:03:58,530 --> 00:04:00,170 But then the same verse goes on to 93 00:04:00,170 --> 00:04:03,270 say there is therefore now no condemnation to 94 00:04:03,270 --> 00:04:06,090 them who are in Christ Jesus who walk 95 00:04:07,150 --> 00:04:11,110 not after the flesh but after the spirit 96 00:04:11,110 --> 00:04:12,330 the new principle. 97 00:04:13,170 --> 00:04:15,230 For what the law could not do nor 98 00:04:15,230 --> 00:04:17,089 even the life of Christ that he lived 99 00:04:17,089 --> 00:04:19,890 then through the weakness of the flesh for 100 00:04:19,890 --> 00:04:22,150 your flesh could neither satisfy the demands of 101 00:04:22,150 --> 00:04:24,410 the law nor could your flesh imitate the 102 00:04:24,410 --> 00:04:25,130 life of Christ. 103 00:04:25,510 --> 00:04:27,290 What the law nor the life of Christ 104 00:04:27,290 --> 00:04:29,170 could not do through the weakness of the 105 00:04:29,170 --> 00:04:32,050 flesh God sending his own son in the 106 00:04:32,050 --> 00:04:34,550 likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned 107 00:04:34,550 --> 00:04:41,090 sin in the flesh that only his life 108 00:04:41,090 --> 00:04:43,770 can fulfill that the righteousness of the law 109 00:04:43,770 --> 00:04:47,710 might be fulfilled in us who walk not 110 00:04:47,710 --> 00:04:50,230 after the flesh the old principle but after 111 00:04:50,230 --> 00:04:53,390 the spirit the power of an endless life 112 00:04:53,390 --> 00:04:54,870 the life of Jesus Christ. 113 00:04:55,490 --> 00:04:57,710 So when you are redeemed through his death 114 00:04:57,710 --> 00:04:59,930 because of what you have done you are 115 00:04:59,930 --> 00:05:02,870 qualified to receive the life of the Lord 116 00:05:02,870 --> 00:05:04,810 Jesus in the person of the Holy Spirit 117 00:05:04,810 --> 00:05:08,930 who fulfills in you today the righteousness of 118 00:05:08,930 --> 00:05:12,130 the law as he fulfilled it then. 119 00:05:12,610 --> 00:05:14,030 So we are back again to our old 120 00:05:14,030 --> 00:05:16,950 basic principle that the life he lived qualified 121 00:05:16,950 --> 00:05:19,070 him for the death he died there is 122 00:05:19,070 --> 00:05:21,630 the shed blood of the sinless unblemished lamb 123 00:05:21,630 --> 00:05:23,870 the life he lived qualified him for the 124 00:05:23,870 --> 00:05:25,890 death he died but the death he died 125 00:05:25,890 --> 00:05:27,910 qualifies you and me to receive the life 126 00:05:28,590 --> 00:05:31,650 he lives as the Holy Spirit comes to 127 00:05:31,650 --> 00:05:34,810 dwell in us clothe himself with our redeemed 128 00:05:34,810 --> 00:05:38,670 humanity and fulfill in us now the righteousness 129 00:05:38,670 --> 00:05:40,470 that he fulfilled then. 130 00:05:40,710 --> 00:05:42,570 So the Christian life is the life that 131 00:05:42,570 --> 00:05:46,570 he lived then lived now by him through 132 00:05:46,570 --> 00:05:48,150 his spirit in you. 133 00:05:48,570 --> 00:05:49,710 Now that is simple isn't it? 134 00:05:49,870 --> 00:05:51,310 And I trust that by now if we 135 00:05:51,310 --> 00:05:53,070 have gained nothing else we have grasped this 136 00:05:53,070 --> 00:05:56,370 principle for this is the very heart the 137 00:05:56,370 --> 00:05:59,670 golden content of your faith the Lord Jesus 138 00:05:59,670 --> 00:06:00,310 in you. 139 00:06:00,770 --> 00:06:03,510 Now it all began in the day that 140 00:06:03,510 --> 00:06:05,710 the precious blood of the lamb was sprinkled 141 00:06:05,710 --> 00:06:07,510 upon the doorpost and the lintel of your 142 00:06:07,510 --> 00:06:09,870 heart and you were poised upon the threshold 143 00:06:09,870 --> 00:06:11,750 of a new life and the beginning of 144 00:06:11,750 --> 00:06:12,770 a new walk. 145 00:06:13,690 --> 00:06:17,250 So Moses says in verse 3 of chapter 146 00:06:17,250 --> 00:06:21,490 13 remember this day in which she came 147 00:06:21,490 --> 00:06:23,710 out from Egypt out of the house of 148 00:06:23,710 --> 00:06:26,310 bondage for by strength of hand the Lord 149 00:06:26,310 --> 00:06:28,270 brought you out from this place. 150 00:06:28,510 --> 00:06:31,190 He says remember this day don't forget it 151 00:06:31,770 --> 00:06:33,730 always look back to it with profound gratitude 152 00:06:33,730 --> 00:06:34,330 to God. 153 00:06:34,650 --> 00:06:36,630 It is a day to be remembered the 154 00:06:36,630 --> 00:06:38,190 day in which you were cleansed from your 155 00:06:38,190 --> 00:06:41,090 sin reconciled to God and numbered amongst the 156 00:06:41,090 --> 00:06:42,750 redeemed and your name was written in the 157 00:06:42,750 --> 00:06:43,630 Lamb's book of life. 158 00:06:43,910 --> 00:06:46,590 He says remember this day it is a 159 00:06:46,590 --> 00:06:47,990 day to be remembered. 160 00:06:49,410 --> 00:06:51,050 But I want you to notice this that 161 00:06:51,050 --> 00:06:52,470 he went on to say something else. 162 00:06:53,810 --> 00:06:56,750 It shall be verse 5 of Exodus 13 163 00:06:56,750 --> 00:06:59,530 it shall be when the Lord shall bring 164 00:06:59,530 --> 00:07:02,370 thee into the land of the Canaanites which 165 00:07:02,370 --> 00:07:04,310 he sware unto thy fathers to give thee 166 00:07:04,310 --> 00:07:06,750 a land flowing with milk and honey that 167 00:07:06,750 --> 00:07:09,010 thou shall keep this service in this month. 168 00:07:10,030 --> 00:07:12,750 Seven days thou shall eat unleavened bread and 169 00:07:12,750 --> 00:07:14,470 in the seventh day shall be a feast 170 00:07:14,470 --> 00:07:15,530 to the Lord. 171 00:07:16,130 --> 00:07:18,150 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. 172 00:07:18,290 --> 00:07:21,330 This feast of unleavened bread this Passover feast 173 00:07:21,330 --> 00:07:23,630 when you remember the day was a day 174 00:07:23,630 --> 00:07:27,290 to be remembered listen in a land to 175 00:07:27,290 --> 00:07:27,890 be possessed. 176 00:07:29,350 --> 00:07:32,910 A day to be remembered but a day 177 00:07:32,910 --> 00:07:36,250 to be remembered in a land to be 178 00:07:36,250 --> 00:07:36,810 possessed. 179 00:07:37,350 --> 00:07:39,770 Says Moses to his people because God brought 180 00:07:39,770 --> 00:07:41,530 you out in order to bring you in 181 00:07:42,250 --> 00:07:45,610 the only place where you can genuinely legitimately 182 00:07:46,470 --> 00:07:50,070 remember the day and celebrate the day is 183 00:07:50,070 --> 00:07:50,970 in a land to be possessed. 184 00:07:53,980 --> 00:07:57,180 Now you can remember the day maybe when 185 00:07:57,180 --> 00:08:02,040 you were redeemed but tell me this have 186 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:03,980 you ever been able to celebrate that day 187 00:08:03,980 --> 00:08:07,460 till now in the land to be possessed 188 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:13,560 Canaan not heaven some day but Christ in 189 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,540 the power of his indwelling life his resurrection 190 00:08:16,540 --> 00:08:20,120 victory now for only as you live in 191 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,700 the power of what he is today can 192 00:08:23,700 --> 00:08:26,580 you really celebrate the blessedness of what he 193 00:08:26,580 --> 00:08:31,520 did then when he redeemed you but to 194 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:34,000 be redeemed by what he did without enjoying 195 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,559 the fullness of what he is is to 196 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:39,820 miss the whole point of your salvation miss 197 00:08:39,820 --> 00:08:42,039 the whole point of the cross is to 198 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:43,560 cheat him of that for which his blood 199 00:08:43,560 --> 00:08:45,620 was shed for he came that you might 200 00:08:45,620 --> 00:08:48,960 have life his life his abundant life his 201 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,760 superlative quality of life that you might be 202 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:54,240 more than conquerors through him that loves you 203 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:58,020 with joy unspeakable and full of glory peace 204 00:08:58,020 --> 00:09:01,320 that parteth understanding and joy that parteth knowledge 205 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,120 so his life without his death would have 206 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:06,620 been inadequate but his death even if it 207 00:09:06,620 --> 00:09:09,000 redeems you without his life in you now 208 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:13,680 and enjoyed by you now is inadequate both 209 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:17,620 are necessary for us to satisfy the heart 210 00:09:17,620 --> 00:09:20,120 of God and for the Lord Jesus to 211 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,100 see in us of the travail of his 212 00:09:22,100 --> 00:09:24,940 soul and be satisfied it's a day says 213 00:09:24,940 --> 00:09:27,320 Moses to be remembered but it is a 214 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:30,340 day to be remembered in a land to 215 00:09:30,340 --> 00:09:33,040 be possessed how often was this celebration to 216 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:36,020 take place well on each anniversary they were 217 00:09:36,020 --> 00:09:40,180 to remember their spiritual birthday when God redeemed 218 00:09:40,180 --> 00:09:42,760 them out of Egypt I always think back 219 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,600 with gratitude to God to the day when 220 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:47,580 I was born again 13th of August I'm 221 00:09:47,580 --> 00:09:49,560 sure I've never told you before it was 222 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:51,860 a quarter to nine Saturday night 13th of 223 00:09:51,860 --> 00:09:54,400 August I can't forget it it was the 224 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,940 biggest thing that ever happened to me I 225 00:09:56,940 --> 00:09:59,640 don't remember living until I was 12 I 226 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,520 think I must just have existed but I've 227 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:06,530 lived ever since just glance with me for 228 00:10:06,530 --> 00:10:13,880 a moment to the 23rd chapter and here 229 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:17,800 it says chapter 23 in verse 14 three 230 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:19,880 times thou shalt keep a feast unto me 231 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:22,200 in the year thou shalt keep the feast 232 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,860 of unleavened bread that was to remember the 233 00:10:24,860 --> 00:10:27,780 day thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days 234 00:10:27,780 --> 00:10:29,500 as I commanded thee in the time appointed 235 00:10:29,500 --> 00:10:31,300 of the month Abib and then for in 236 00:10:31,300 --> 00:10:33,500 it thou camest out from Egypt that's when 237 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:35,560 you were converted that's when you put your 238 00:10:35,560 --> 00:10:37,240 trust in Christ and you were redeemed and 239 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,670 you came out of Egypt and you became 240 00:10:40,670 --> 00:10:44,930 one of God's own people and then secondly 241 00:10:44,930 --> 00:10:48,090 verse 16 the feast of harvest the first 242 00:10:48,090 --> 00:10:50,770 fruits of thy labors which thou hast sown 243 00:10:51,570 --> 00:10:55,510 in the field thirdly the feast of ingathering 244 00:10:55,510 --> 00:10:56,850 which is in the end of the year 245 00:10:56,850 --> 00:10:58,850 when thou hast gathered in thy labors out 246 00:10:58,850 --> 00:11:01,350 of the field these three feasts were to 247 00:11:01,350 --> 00:11:07,850 be observed year by year by year in 248 00:11:07,850 --> 00:11:11,530 the land to be possessed how could they 249 00:11:11,530 --> 00:11:13,550 keep the feast of unleavened bread in the 250 00:11:13,550 --> 00:11:15,510 desert in the wilderness there was no corn 251 00:11:15,510 --> 00:11:18,310 in the wilderness the only way they could 252 00:11:18,310 --> 00:11:20,090 ever keep the feast of unleavened bread in 253 00:11:20,090 --> 00:11:22,350 the wilderness would be by the resources that 254 00:11:22,350 --> 00:11:25,850 they brought with them out of Egypt I 255 00:11:25,850 --> 00:11:27,550 may be wrong and I'm subject to correction 256 00:11:27,550 --> 00:11:29,610 but I can't find a record of any 257 00:11:29,610 --> 00:11:31,710 other occasion that they kept the feast of 258 00:11:31,710 --> 00:11:33,330 unleavened bread in the wilderness but on the 259 00:11:33,330 --> 00:11:37,070 second year of their pilgrimage and after that 260 00:11:37,730 --> 00:11:41,230 silence because you see after the second year 261 00:11:41,230 --> 00:11:42,730 all that they brought out of Egypt with 262 00:11:42,730 --> 00:11:45,790 them ran out and the tragedy is that 263 00:11:45,790 --> 00:11:49,010 all too many Christians who don't recognize that 264 00:11:49,010 --> 00:11:50,690 the Christ who died for them rose again 265 00:11:50,690 --> 00:11:53,130 to live in try to live the Christian 266 00:11:53,130 --> 00:11:55,310 life with the resources that they bring with 267 00:11:55,310 --> 00:11:57,930 them out of their unregenerate condition the energy 268 00:11:57,930 --> 00:12:00,270 of the flesh instead of the power and 269 00:12:00,270 --> 00:12:03,630 unction of the Holy Spirit and so long 270 00:12:03,630 --> 00:12:06,510 as it lasts the enthusiasm the novelty lasts 271 00:12:06,510 --> 00:12:09,530 all goes well but then you settle down 272 00:12:09,530 --> 00:12:15,210 to the somewhat boring routine of wilderness wandering 273 00:12:16,070 --> 00:12:17,550 is that what happened to you? 274 00:12:18,390 --> 00:12:25,310 the dull monotony of a desert diet after 275 00:12:25,310 --> 00:12:31,710 the first flush of enthusiasm wore off and 276 00:12:31,710 --> 00:12:34,050 what about the feast of harvest the first 277 00:12:34,050 --> 00:12:35,710 fruits of thy labors which thou hast sown 278 00:12:35,710 --> 00:12:37,330 in the field they sowed nothing in the 279 00:12:37,330 --> 00:12:39,270 wilderness if they had it it wouldn't have 280 00:12:39,270 --> 00:12:42,470 grown and there was no feast of ingathering 281 00:12:42,470 --> 00:12:45,330 because there was no harvest to reap so 282 00:12:45,330 --> 00:12:49,110 it means for forty years they were unable 283 00:12:49,110 --> 00:12:52,270 to celebrate the mighty thing that God did 284 00:12:52,270 --> 00:12:54,630 when he brought them out of Egypt what 285 00:12:54,630 --> 00:12:59,930 a sad thing of this celebration of the 286 00:12:59,930 --> 00:13:02,450 day to be remembered in the eighth verse 287 00:13:02,450 --> 00:13:05,710 of Exodus 13 Moses says thou shalt show 288 00:13:05,710 --> 00:13:08,510 thy son in that day when you celebrate 289 00:13:08,510 --> 00:13:12,430 the day to be remembered show your son 290 00:13:13,230 --> 00:13:15,210 this is done because of that which the 291 00:13:15,210 --> 00:13:16,830 Lord did unto me when I came forth 292 00:13:16,830 --> 00:13:22,050 out of Egypt when your small boy comes 293 00:13:22,050 --> 00:13:25,010 nosing around and he says dad what are 294 00:13:25,010 --> 00:13:25,750 we doing this for? 295 00:13:26,630 --> 00:13:29,730 you must tell him it's because God God 296 00:13:29,730 --> 00:13:31,690 reached down from heaven and he brought us 297 00:13:31,690 --> 00:13:33,650 out of Egypt he saved us we're his 298 00:13:33,650 --> 00:13:36,410 redeemed people can you imagine the bewildered look 299 00:13:36,410 --> 00:13:38,990 on the boy's face as he gazes into 300 00:13:38,990 --> 00:13:42,030 distant space and sees nothing but the vast 301 00:13:42,030 --> 00:13:45,630 arid dried up desert he says I don't 302 00:13:45,630 --> 00:13:49,470 see anything particularly to be enthusiastic about to 303 00:13:49,470 --> 00:13:51,810 be honest I'm pretty sick of the desert 304 00:13:53,770 --> 00:13:55,430 what have we got to celebrate about being 305 00:13:55,430 --> 00:13:56,530 here don't you think it would be better 306 00:13:56,530 --> 00:13:59,070 to go back to Egypt from what I've 307 00:13:59,070 --> 00:14:00,290 heard of some folk who lived in Egypt 308 00:14:00,290 --> 00:14:01,730 once it was a better place than this 309 00:14:03,190 --> 00:14:04,810 and I think the small boy would be 310 00:14:04,810 --> 00:14:09,500 very unimpressed if his father had tried to 311 00:14:09,500 --> 00:14:12,120 celebrate the day to be remembered if he 312 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,800 still lived in the wilderness I wonder Christian 313 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,760 why some of your friends are unimpressed by 314 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:21,460 your Christian life Christian parents I wonder why 315 00:14:21,460 --> 00:14:23,880 it is perhaps that your children are unimpressed 316 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:26,180 by your Christian life or the faith of 317 00:14:26,180 --> 00:14:29,600 their father could it be that you've lived 318 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:34,940 so long in the wilderness and never never 319 00:14:34,940 --> 00:14:37,660 had cause genuinely to celebrate the day to 320 00:14:37,660 --> 00:14:39,480 be remembered because you've never lived in the 321 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,980 land to be possessed can you imagine the 322 00:14:42,980 --> 00:14:45,040 parents of this small boy egging him on 323 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:46,740 to be a little bit more evangelistic in 324 00:14:46,740 --> 00:14:49,860 his outlook and telling him to invite one 325 00:14:49,860 --> 00:14:51,800 of his unconverted boyfriends to come and spend 326 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:57,410 the weekend with them in the desert well 327 00:14:58,570 --> 00:15:01,570 he works up a bit of enthusiasm he 328 00:15:01,570 --> 00:15:03,470 says I suppose I'd better be evangelistic dad 329 00:15:03,470 --> 00:15:05,630 says so and so off he goes and 330 00:15:05,630 --> 00:15:07,790 he finds some poor kid and brings him 331 00:15:07,790 --> 00:15:10,130 home and do you know what they have 332 00:15:10,130 --> 00:15:14,170 for lunch manna do you know what they 333 00:15:14,170 --> 00:15:17,750 have for tea manna do you know what 334 00:15:17,750 --> 00:15:21,930 they have for supper manna and the small 335 00:15:21,930 --> 00:15:23,630 friend says I say what are we going 336 00:15:23,630 --> 00:15:31,310 to have for breakfast told shamefashedly he says 337 00:15:31,310 --> 00:15:35,950 well I think it'll be fried but it'll 338 00:15:35,950 --> 00:15:41,850 be manna sure as eggs sure as eggs 339 00:15:41,850 --> 00:15:46,390 it won't be eggs it'll be manna can 340 00:15:46,390 --> 00:15:49,870 you imagine it manna for 40 years of 341 00:15:49,870 --> 00:15:52,930 course they got sick of manna tired to 342 00:15:52,930 --> 00:15:55,390 death of it but God never intended them 343 00:15:55,390 --> 00:15:59,050 to have manna for 40 years they said 344 00:15:59,050 --> 00:16:01,370 the manna they said now is our soul 345 00:16:01,370 --> 00:16:03,910 dried away there's nothing at all beside this 346 00:16:03,910 --> 00:16:06,250 manna before our eyes yes manna was the 347 00:16:06,250 --> 00:16:09,350 most monotonous diet that you could imagine it 348 00:16:09,350 --> 00:16:12,090 was miraculous it was the witness of God 349 00:16:12,090 --> 00:16:14,590 to his redeemed people that God was still 350 00:16:14,590 --> 00:16:17,190 in the midst but manna manna was never 351 00:16:17,190 --> 00:16:20,590 designed to satisfy God's people we're told in 352 00:16:20,590 --> 00:16:23,550 the book of Deuteronomy and the eighth chapter 353 00:16:23,550 --> 00:16:28,940 and the third verse he humbled thee and 354 00:16:28,940 --> 00:16:33,260 suffered thee to hunger Deuteronomy 8 3 he 355 00:16:33,260 --> 00:16:35,780 humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger and 356 00:16:35,780 --> 00:16:39,700 fed thee with manna that sounds like a 357 00:16:39,700 --> 00:16:43,020 contradiction doesn't it he fed thee with manna 358 00:16:43,020 --> 00:16:46,340 and suffered thee to hunger while God was 359 00:16:46,340 --> 00:16:48,880 feeding them he was letting them hunger but 360 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,060 God says I never designed that you should 361 00:16:51,060 --> 00:16:54,360 be satisfied in the desert I'll sustain life 362 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,840 but I'll never satisfy your souls why should 363 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:59,680 I satisfy you in the wilderness when I 364 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:03,480 have laid the table in Canaan Christian you 365 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,640 will never be satisfied in the wilderness you 366 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:08,720 may try to remember the day but to 367 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:10,780 be quite honest after the first flush of 368 00:17:10,780 --> 00:17:13,280 enthusiasm and the first novelty and the first 369 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:15,980 love has worn off you will settle down 370 00:17:15,980 --> 00:17:18,619 as a Christian to the dull monotony of 371 00:17:18,619 --> 00:17:21,180 a desert diet that's a fact and you'll 372 00:17:21,180 --> 00:17:22,859 wonder why it is that your Christian life 373 00:17:22,859 --> 00:17:25,180 has so little luster and you'll wonder why 374 00:17:25,180 --> 00:17:28,080 it is that your friends and relatives neighbors 375 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,420 maybe or colleagues in business are so little 376 00:17:31,420 --> 00:17:34,640 impressed by your testimony of what God has 377 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:36,420 done for you they see so little of 378 00:17:36,420 --> 00:17:41,300 it in the drabness the colorlessness of your 379 00:17:41,300 --> 00:17:44,500 own Christian life no no the desert was 380 00:17:44,500 --> 00:17:47,700 not the place to celebrate the day to 381 00:17:47,700 --> 00:17:51,880 be remembered for Moses said in verse 9 382 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:56,480 of chapter 13 this celebration shall be for 383 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:59,460 a sign unto thee upon thine hand shall 384 00:17:59,460 --> 00:18:03,040 be for a memorial between thine eyes and 385 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:05,380 that the Lord's law may be in thy 386 00:18:05,380 --> 00:18:09,200 mouth for with a strong hand hath he 387 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:13,040 brought thee out of Egypt in so many 388 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:16,060 words Moses was saying this when you remember 389 00:18:16,060 --> 00:18:17,420 the day and it is a day to 390 00:18:17,420 --> 00:18:21,520 be remembered in God's economy it was designed 391 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:26,240 to be a sign upon your hand that 392 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,620 an entirely new chapter in your life's history 393 00:18:28,620 --> 00:18:32,180 was to open and everything that you do 394 00:18:32,180 --> 00:18:35,980 would be revolutionized it would change the things 395 00:18:35,980 --> 00:18:39,600 you do secondly it would be memorial between 396 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,680 your eyes it will change the things you 397 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,720 think it will be the Lord's law in 398 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,440 your mouth it is designed to change the 399 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:53,320 things you say when you celebrate the day 400 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:57,180 in the land to be possessed the things 401 00:18:57,180 --> 00:18:59,960 you do the things you think and the 402 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:03,780 things you say will be completely changed gloriously 403 00:19:03,780 --> 00:19:06,860 revolutionized for this you see is a picture 404 00:19:06,860 --> 00:19:09,440 of the sovereignty of the Lord Jesus re 405 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,880 -established by the Holy Spirit in the area 406 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:16,060 of your human personality so that your mind 407 00:19:16,060 --> 00:19:18,540 your emotions and your will would be brought 408 00:19:18,540 --> 00:19:21,780 under the Christ rule so that you would 409 00:19:21,780 --> 00:19:23,900 do with your will everything that your mind 410 00:19:23,900 --> 00:19:27,400 declares with the full affirmation and consent of 411 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:31,380 your emotions now that is soul peace the 412 00:19:31,380 --> 00:19:34,480 peace of God that passes all understanding it 413 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:36,680 is the peace of God that God gives 414 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:40,360 to those who walk in the Spirit who 415 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:42,940 with their shoes on are stepping out each 416 00:19:42,940 --> 00:19:44,540 step at a time and you only walk 417 00:19:44,540 --> 00:19:46,520 one step at a time in the Spirit 418 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:50,020 your mind your emotions and your will handed 419 00:19:50,020 --> 00:19:53,600 over without reserve for the exercise of the 420 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,580 Lordship of the enthroned and living Christ within 421 00:19:56,580 --> 00:19:59,120 your redeemed humanity so that you can say 422 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:02,000 to me to live is Christ He has 423 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,960 changed the things I do completely He has 424 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,040 changed the things I think completely He has 425 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:09,420 changed the things I say completely He has 426 00:20:09,420 --> 00:20:11,900 filled my life and flooded it with God 427 00:20:11,900 --> 00:20:15,820 now that is the Christian life the life 428 00:20:15,820 --> 00:20:18,540 that He lived then lived now by Him 429 00:20:18,540 --> 00:20:23,160 in you and through you now what happened 430 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:24,420 in all the time that they were in 431 00:20:24,420 --> 00:20:27,580 the wilderness they were a redeemed people no 432 00:20:27,580 --> 00:20:30,580 question of doubt about that that's how they 433 00:20:30,580 --> 00:20:32,980 are described if you turn with me to 434 00:20:32,980 --> 00:20:37,860 the book of Psalms and you'll discover that 435 00:20:38,500 --> 00:20:41,560 this is a story more quoted in the 436 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:43,260 Bible in the Old and the New Testament 437 00:20:43,260 --> 00:20:45,680 than any other that's why I wanted so 438 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,800 much this weekend to introduce it into this 439 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,460 little series to whet your appetite to discover 440 00:20:50,460 --> 00:20:52,440 more of what God the Holy Spirit has 441 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,660 to teach you about this lucid illustration that 442 00:20:55,660 --> 00:20:58,420 God has given you of the true implications 443 00:20:58,420 --> 00:21:03,340 of your conversion it says in Psalm 106 444 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,840 verse 7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders 445 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,680 in Egypt they remembered not the multitude of 446 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:12,780 thy mercies but provoked Him at the Red 447 00:21:12,780 --> 00:21:17,680 Sea they weren't particularly willing even when Moses 448 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:19,620 led them there but he taught them the 449 00:21:19,620 --> 00:21:21,600 faith that appropriates he taught them how to 450 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:26,100 take God's word as His word and they 451 00:21:26,100 --> 00:21:28,580 learned to say thank you and they stepped 452 00:21:28,580 --> 00:21:31,880 out of Egypt in spite of their unwillingness 453 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,940 because they learned to take He saved them 454 00:21:34,940 --> 00:21:37,500 for His namesake for He's as good and 455 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:39,480 as great as His name that He might 456 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,440 make His mighty power to be known He 457 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,100 rebuked the Red Sea also and it was 458 00:21:43,100 --> 00:21:45,680 dried up so He led them through the 459 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,900 depths and through the wilderness and He saved 460 00:21:48,900 --> 00:21:50,200 them from the hand of Him that hated 461 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,720 them and He redeemed them from the hand 462 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,200 of the enemy and the waters covered their 463 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:56,880 enemies there was not one of them left 464 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,220 they were taken as they were baptized into 465 00:21:59,220 --> 00:22:01,540 Moses through the place of death raised by 466 00:22:01,540 --> 00:22:03,160 God out of the place of death and 467 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,380 leaving in the place of death buried to 468 00:22:05,380 --> 00:22:10,370 a man the old tyranny the Egyptians then 469 00:22:10,370 --> 00:22:12,970 believed they His words verse 12 and they 470 00:22:12,970 --> 00:22:15,790 sang His praise they had enough faith to 471 00:22:15,790 --> 00:22:22,380 get out then they got dumped in the 472 00:22:22,380 --> 00:22:32,300 desert for the daily diet in the dumps 473 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:37,600 they soon forgot His works they soon forgot 474 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,260 His works they lost the first principles they 475 00:22:40,260 --> 00:22:43,440 forgot how they got out and they waited 476 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,880 not for His counsel but lusted exceedingly in 477 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:48,620 the wilderness and tempted God in the desert 478 00:22:48,620 --> 00:22:52,000 and He gave them their requests and sent 479 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:57,230 leanness unto their souls did it change the 480 00:22:57,230 --> 00:23:02,460 things they did in the desert you look 481 00:23:02,460 --> 00:23:08,520 in Deuteronomy chapter 12 Deuteronomy 12 verse 1 482 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,960 Moses writes these are the statutes and judgments 483 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,640 which ye shall observe to do in the 484 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,560 land which the Lord God of thy fathers 485 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,460 giveth thee to possess it all the days 486 00:23:20,460 --> 00:23:23,140 that ye live upon the earth it was 487 00:23:23,140 --> 00:23:25,160 a land to be possessed on the earth 488 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:30,680 on the way to heaven verse 7 there 489 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,240 in the land to be possessed ye shall 490 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,040 eat before the Lord your God and ye 491 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,280 shall rejoice in all that you put your 492 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:41,380 hand unto ye and your households wherein the 493 00:23:41,380 --> 00:23:43,200 Lord thy God has blessed thee it's going 494 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,880 to be a land where you'll rejoice evermore 495 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:52,420 you'll rejoice without ceasing ye shall not do 496 00:23:52,420 --> 00:23:56,000 verse 8 ye shall not do after all 497 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,040 the things that we do here this day 498 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,800 in the desert every man whatsoever is right 499 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,540 in his own eyes that's what you do 500 00:24:05,540 --> 00:24:08,540 when you're a wilderness Christian it doesn't even 501 00:24:08,540 --> 00:24:09,980 say that you do what is wrong in 502 00:24:09,980 --> 00:24:12,500 your own eyes it says you do what 503 00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:14,600 is right in your own eyes you have 504 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,560 your own ideas about how you should live 505 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:20,140 your Christian life for Christ instead of allowing 506 00:24:20,140 --> 00:24:22,900 the Lord Jesus to implement His ideas as 507 00:24:22,900 --> 00:24:24,620 to how He's going to live His life 508 00:24:24,620 --> 00:24:28,500 through you every man does what is right 509 00:24:28,500 --> 00:24:30,960 in his own eyes I don't know whether 510 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:35,000 you've ever served on a committee but if 511 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,940 you've got six people all of whom insist 512 00:24:36,940 --> 00:24:38,220 on doing what is right in their own 513 00:24:38,220 --> 00:24:39,740 eyes and they're serving on the same committee 514 00:24:40,740 --> 00:24:43,300 you're going to have a few sleepless nights 515 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,700 for says Moses verse 9 notice this very 516 00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:52,240 particularly for you are not as yet come 517 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,360 to the rest and to the inheritance which 518 00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:57,500 the Lord your God giveth you you've come 519 00:24:57,500 --> 00:25:00,520 out but you haven't got in you haven't 520 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,300 come to that kind of rest which has 521 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:05,480 taught a man the total sovereignty of Christ 522 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,760 so that He no longer does what is 523 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,960 right in His own eyes He lets Christ 524 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,520 do what is right in His eyes the 525 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:17,260 total capitulation to the utter jurisdiction of the 526 00:25:17,260 --> 00:25:21,560 risen Lord Himself the rest of faith for 527 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:23,960 He that has entered into this His rest 528 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:28,500 has ceased from His own works just look 529 00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:35,040 for a moment in Joshua and glance at 530 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:40,000 the third chapter it shall come to pass 531 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:44,640 verse 3 after three days that the officers 532 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,440 went through the host you remember the resurrection 533 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,580 morning the first Easter Sunday in the Old 534 00:25:50,580 --> 00:25:54,660 Testament picture they commanded the people saying when 535 00:25:54,660 --> 00:25:56,260 you see the ark of the covenant of 536 00:25:56,260 --> 00:25:58,040 the Lord your God and the priests the 537 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,960 Levites bearing it then you shall remove from 538 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,320 your place and go after it yet there 539 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,480 shall be a space between you and it 540 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,760 about two thousand cubits by measure come not 541 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,280 near unto the ark come not near put 542 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,120 a space between it and you to one 543 00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:18,560 end that you may know the way by 544 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:23,320 which you must go keep well back let 545 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,820 the ark of God go before you then 546 00:26:25,820 --> 00:26:28,560 you'll know the way do you see the 547 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:33,780 principle involved Christians recognize that the Lord Jesus 548 00:26:33,780 --> 00:26:35,200 is the only one who has the right 549 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,060 to exercise sovereignty in your life and stand 550 00:26:38,060 --> 00:26:42,260 well back stand well back so that he 551 00:26:42,260 --> 00:26:44,960 can lead the way give God room and 552 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,660 give God time for maneuver all the biggest 553 00:26:48,660 --> 00:26:50,680 blunders in the Bible have been committed by 554 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,940 good men of good sincere intent who were 555 00:26:53,940 --> 00:26:55,860 in a hurry they didn't give God time 556 00:26:55,860 --> 00:26:58,900 for maneuver they didn't stand well back Abraham 557 00:26:58,900 --> 00:27:00,540 did it God said in your seat all 558 00:27:00,540 --> 00:27:02,020 the families of the earth should be blessed 559 00:27:02,020 --> 00:27:03,880 and he wouldn't stand back he didn't give 560 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,320 God time he hustled round and he thought 561 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,560 God was behind schedule and he had a 562 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,940 committee meeting with Sarah and they decided they'd 563 00:27:12,940 --> 00:27:14,360 have to get God out of the awkward 564 00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:17,240 predicament in which God had got himself for 565 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,300 God somewhat absentmindedly had overlooked the fact that 566 00:27:20,300 --> 00:27:21,980 Sarah was an old woman had never born 567 00:27:21,980 --> 00:27:23,440 and Abraham was an old man and they 568 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,660 said dear dear dear what will God do 569 00:27:25,660 --> 00:27:28,920 when he discovers what he's done he's promised 570 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,460 us something that he can't implement we must 571 00:27:31,460 --> 00:27:34,600 hustle along and present the solution to God 572 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:35,800 we must get him out of his dilemma 573 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,680 now wasn't that nice of him and of 574 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,200 Hagar the bond woman Ishmael was born father 575 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,820 of the Arabs and if Abraham is able 576 00:27:44,820 --> 00:27:46,480 to look down from heaven now and see 577 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,540 what's happened as a result of his enthusiasm 578 00:27:48,540 --> 00:27:55,950 the Jewish nation surrounded by the Arab countries 579 00:27:55,950 --> 00:27:58,310 for the Arabs are the seed of Ishmael 580 00:28:00,110 --> 00:28:02,070 oh we've seen it happen so often some 581 00:28:02,070 --> 00:28:03,870 of us a little while back saw how 582 00:28:03,870 --> 00:28:07,550 Moses rushed in didn't give God time became 583 00:28:07,550 --> 00:28:10,430 a murderer instead of a missionary motivated by 584 00:28:10,430 --> 00:28:11,990 a sense of the need of the hour 585 00:28:14,030 --> 00:28:15,390 and there are some of you been doing 586 00:28:15,390 --> 00:28:18,130 the same some of you professed yesterday your 587 00:28:18,130 --> 00:28:19,710 willingness to go to the mission field may 588 00:28:19,710 --> 00:28:23,210 I urge upon you give God time don't 589 00:28:23,210 --> 00:28:25,430 rush off in a hurry stand well back 590 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,560 for you see if they'd all rushed ahead 591 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,080 of the ark they wouldn't have known the 592 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,860 way you had to have had ten sub 593 00:28:33,860 --> 00:28:36,560 -committees to decide which way to go and 594 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:37,860 one committee said this is the way and 595 00:28:37,860 --> 00:28:39,280 the other said no that's the way there 596 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:40,520 have been a few exclusive people who say 597 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:41,640 no we know the way we're the only 598 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:51,280 ones who do what a 599 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,800 mess no God said stand well back it 600 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:55,820 isn't now good enough to do what's right 601 00:28:55,820 --> 00:28:58,860 in your own eyes stand back and let 602 00:28:58,860 --> 00:29:01,840 the ark of God go on ahead you 603 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,320 haven't been this way before it's a new 604 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:08,040 way but every man was still doing what 605 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:09,240 was right in his own eyes in the 606 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,260 wilderness perhaps you have until this weekend so 607 00:29:12,260 --> 00:29:14,540 it didn't change what they were doing did 608 00:29:14,540 --> 00:29:16,880 it change what they were thinking well I 609 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,220 think we got the answer to that on 610 00:29:18,220 --> 00:29:20,920 Saturday night in Numbers 11 do you remember 611 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,520 Numbers 11.4 the mixed multitude that was 612 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,840 among them Pellelusting and the children of Israel 613 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:28,680 also wept again and said who shall give 614 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,080 us flesh to eat we remember it's with 615 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,020 your mind and with your imagination that you 616 00:29:34,020 --> 00:29:35,780 remember this is the thing that they were 617 00:29:35,780 --> 00:29:38,360 thinking about the things that pertain to Egypt 618 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:42,000 no no alas for forty years although God 619 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,320 had buried their enemy to a man they 620 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,680 lived under the subtle influences of a defeated 621 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,700 foe and their minds were filled with the 622 00:29:49,700 --> 00:29:53,120 thoughts of Egypt and where your treasure is 623 00:29:53,620 --> 00:29:57,180 there will your heart be also I wonder 624 00:29:57,180 --> 00:29:59,620 where you live in the area of your 625 00:29:59,620 --> 00:30:01,940 mind where do you go to in your 626 00:30:01,940 --> 00:30:05,620 imagination is your body here at the Narrawakia 627 00:30:05,620 --> 00:30:08,740 convention you've propped it up on a bench 628 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,340 would you tell me this even since you've 629 00:30:13,340 --> 00:30:14,920 been in this tent this afternoon where have 630 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,620 you been where have you been how far 631 00:30:18,620 --> 00:30:21,540 have you been I say who have you 632 00:30:21,540 --> 00:30:24,780 been with tell me this what have you 633 00:30:24,780 --> 00:30:28,100 been doing since you've been sitting there you 634 00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:29,800 thought you deceived me you propped yourself up 635 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,600 and stuck your back against the bench and 636 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,880 kept your eyes looking moderately in my direction 637 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,100 and you thought I'd think that you were 638 00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:40,400 there you weren't you were miles away I 639 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:45,120 say supposing I had accompanied you would you 640 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:46,860 have considered me to have been an intruder 641 00:30:48,020 --> 00:30:50,760 would it have embarrassed you where have you 642 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:57,240 been back into Egypt have you nice bit 643 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:09,500 of cucumber for 644 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:12,280 40 years that's where they were living in 645 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:16,360 their imagination back in Egypt even though their 646 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:20,100 bodies were numbered amongst the redeemed it didn't 647 00:31:20,100 --> 00:31:23,220 change the things that they thought I wonder 648 00:31:23,220 --> 00:31:25,160 if the Lord Jesus has been allowed to 649 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,360 establish his supremacy in the area of your 650 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:32,120 mind so that your imagination now instead of 651 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,140 being an art gallery you are ashamed is 652 00:31:35,140 --> 00:31:38,720 an art gallery of beautiful things of which 653 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:42,620 you are unashamed you remember what Paul says 654 00:31:43,540 --> 00:31:49,300 in his epistle to the Philippians finally brethren 655 00:31:49,500 --> 00:31:52,880 whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest 656 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,400 whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are poor 657 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,580 whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of 658 00:31:59,580 --> 00:32:01,820 good report if there be any virtue if 659 00:32:01,820 --> 00:32:04,760 there be any praise think on these things 660 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,560 allow the Lord Jesus to fill you with 661 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,520 his thoughts Philippians 4.8 that is in 662 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:13,640 other words allow the Lord Jesus to be 663 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,580 what he is in the area of your 664 00:32:15,580 --> 00:32:18,860 mind and your emotions and your will for 665 00:32:18,860 --> 00:32:22,440 he that is truly spiritual hath the mind 666 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:29,460 of Christ 1 Corinthians chapter 2 remember this 667 00:32:29,460 --> 00:32:32,800 if you are legitimately to remember the wonderful 668 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,180 day when you were redeemed it can only 669 00:32:35,180 --> 00:32:38,880 be to God's satisfaction when you are in 670 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,460 the land in the promised land a land 671 00:32:41,460 --> 00:32:43,900 to be possessed because the things you do 672 00:32:43,900 --> 00:32:46,160 have been changed and the things you think 673 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,020 have been changed what did they say in 674 00:32:48,020 --> 00:32:50,500 the wilderness you look in number 16 and 675 00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:53,420 see the things they said they were very 676 00:32:53,420 --> 00:32:56,260 pious it is described in the new testament 677 00:32:56,260 --> 00:32:58,740 as the church in the wilderness it is 678 00:32:58,740 --> 00:33:04,700 a special denomination but it is interdenominational for 679 00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:07,960 there are many churches in the wilderness they 680 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,880 gather themselves it says number 16 verse 3 681 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,960 they gather themselves together against Moses and against 682 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,640 Aaron and this is what they said ye 683 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,640 take too much upon you seeing all the 684 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,760 congregation are holy every one of them and 685 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:23,620 the Lord is among them wherefore then lift 686 00:33:23,620 --> 00:33:25,520 ye up yourselves above the congregation of the 687 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,160 Lord that is what the church in the 688 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:31,200 wilderness said they said we are perfectly satisfied 689 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:36,280 with ourselves all the congregation are holy every 690 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,140 one of them and the Lord is in 691 00:33:38,140 --> 00:33:39,920 our midst what more do we want to 692 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:45,900 know than that can you imagine it these 693 00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:51,380 people half naked who half drunken had worshipped 694 00:33:51,380 --> 00:33:54,380 a golden calf again and again in whose 695 00:33:54,380 --> 00:33:56,260 hearts they said let's get back to Egypt 696 00:33:56,260 --> 00:33:58,460 let's get rid of this man Moses let's 697 00:33:58,460 --> 00:34:01,160 create our own captains let's establish a form 698 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,460 of religion that excuses from any sort of 699 00:34:04,460 --> 00:34:08,440 holiness any sort of consistency we are holy 700 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,679 enough they said I say you can always 701 00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:17,300 be holy enough by your own standards but 702 00:34:17,300 --> 00:34:23,940 how holy were they by God's standards God 703 00:34:23,940 --> 00:34:27,260 said you are so holy enough by your 704 00:34:27,260 --> 00:34:29,179 own standards that I have no option but 705 00:34:29,179 --> 00:34:32,159 to bury you in the wilderness and I 706 00:34:32,159 --> 00:34:33,260 want to tell you this that if this 707 00:34:33,260 --> 00:34:35,060 is your standard of holiness that's where God 708 00:34:35,060 --> 00:34:38,659 will bury you you'll get to heaven you'll 709 00:34:38,659 --> 00:34:42,179 be redeemed for you're out of Egypt but 710 00:34:42,179 --> 00:34:44,440 if you're not prepared to accept God's standards 711 00:34:44,940 --> 00:34:47,880 he'll bury you by your own standards in 712 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,600 the wilderness but don't complain if your Christian 713 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:55,080 life is boredom don't complain if you wander 714 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:59,040 through time a spiritual non-entity don't complain 715 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:00,640 if you have no cutting edge to your 716 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,260 testimony and the world around you is left 717 00:35:03,260 --> 00:35:06,520 unimpressed they said in the wilderness we are 718 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:11,860 holy enough all this stuff and nonsense that 719 00:35:11,860 --> 00:35:14,940 you talk to us about Canaan it may 720 00:35:14,940 --> 00:35:17,480 well be that Satan himself may have initiated 721 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,940 just such a complaint within your own heart 722 00:35:19,940 --> 00:35:22,360 all this business about a grain of wheat 723 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,540 dying to itself letting go of what it 724 00:35:24,540 --> 00:35:26,280 is so that it can become what God 725 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,180 wants it to be stuff and nonsense I'm 726 00:35:29,180 --> 00:35:31,200 good enough for what I am all right 727 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,280 you will be but not for God and 728 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,660 he'll bury you in the wilderness but there 729 00:35:39,660 --> 00:35:41,460 were those who weren't satisfied to live in 730 00:35:41,460 --> 00:35:45,920 the wilderness Caleb and Joshua are described in 731 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,620 God's words as those who followed God fully 732 00:35:48,620 --> 00:35:51,460 men of another spirit who said the God 733 00:35:51,460 --> 00:35:52,820 who brought us out is the God who 734 00:35:52,820 --> 00:35:54,280 can bring us in and we will not 735 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,720 we cannot we dare not stay here we're 736 00:35:56,720 --> 00:35:58,420 going on and we're going in and on 737 00:35:58,420 --> 00:36:02,120 that wonderful third resurrection morning in they got 738 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,600 and as our closing word I want you 739 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,940 to turn with me to the fifth chapter 740 00:36:09,940 --> 00:36:15,140 of the book of Joshua and it describes 741 00:36:15,140 --> 00:36:18,480 what happened it describes what happened on the 742 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,900 day that they got in as they got 743 00:36:20,900 --> 00:36:24,220 out you remember how they got in they 744 00:36:24,220 --> 00:36:26,700 got in exactly as they got out they 745 00:36:26,700 --> 00:36:29,860 got out by standing still and allowing God 746 00:36:29,860 --> 00:36:33,700 to do his own work faith they stood 747 00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:37,520 still and by faith released divine action that 748 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,280 redeemed them out of Egypt and they got 749 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:44,360 in by standing still by faith releasing divine 750 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,060 action for their sanctification they stood still in 751 00:36:48,060 --> 00:36:51,120 Egypt and God opened the Red Sea they 752 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:52,800 stood still in the desert and God opened 753 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,380 Jordan and they scratched their heads and say 754 00:36:55,380 --> 00:36:57,580 is it as easy as that to get 755 00:36:57,580 --> 00:36:59,740 in the way we got out what have 756 00:36:59,740 --> 00:37:02,340 we been doing for forty years fancy taking 757 00:37:02,340 --> 00:37:04,440 all that time to find this out that 758 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,520 as I have received Christ Jesus the Lord 759 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,040 so I am to walk in him by 760 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,540 faith remember as you have received act of 761 00:37:12,540 --> 00:37:15,320 faith so walk one step at a time 762 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:19,340 attitude of faith but it's all faith the 763 00:37:19,340 --> 00:37:22,260 faith that recognizes your own inability and his 764 00:37:22,260 --> 00:37:27,280 utter ability your confidence in his competence first 765 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,240 to redeem you and now to fill you 766 00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:33,640 with himself an act of faith redemption an 767 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:37,660 attitude of faith step by step sanctification what 768 00:37:37,660 --> 00:37:41,920 he did redemption what he is sanctification isn't 769 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,540 it simple and how complicated we make life 770 00:37:44,540 --> 00:37:47,060 for ourselves if only God could bring us 771 00:37:47,060 --> 00:37:48,880 back to the simplicity which is in Jesus 772 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,480 well when they got into the land it 773 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,060 says this verse nine God said to Joshua 774 00:37:54,060 --> 00:37:58,300 Joshua five nine this day have I rolled 775 00:37:58,300 --> 00:38:00,040 away the reproach of Egypt from off you 776 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,520 at last for forty years I've been waiting 777 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:03,780 to do it but you wouldn't let me 778 00:38:03,780 --> 00:38:06,080 but now at last I have rolled the 779 00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,580 reproach of Egypt the defeated foe that I 780 00:38:08,580 --> 00:38:12,280 buried forty years ago his subtle influences at 781 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,960 last have been broken wherefore the name of 782 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,740 the place is called Gilgal unto this day 783 00:38:17,740 --> 00:38:19,560 and the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal 784 00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,540 and listen they kept the Passover on the 785 00:38:22,540 --> 00:38:23,900 fourteenth day of the month and even in 786 00:38:23,900 --> 00:38:25,540 the plains of Jericho they were in the 787 00:38:25,540 --> 00:38:27,780 land and they did eat of the old 788 00:38:27,780 --> 00:38:29,300 corn of the land on the morrow after 789 00:38:29,300 --> 00:38:32,360 the Passover unleavened cakes and parched corn in 790 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:34,460 the cells same day there was a day 791 00:38:34,460 --> 00:38:36,900 to remember in the land to be possessed 792 00:38:36,900 --> 00:38:38,880 and for the first time in thirty-eight 793 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,860 years they had joyful legitimate grounds to celebrate 794 00:38:41,860 --> 00:38:43,320 the fact that God had brought them out 795 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,420 because he had brought them in and I 796 00:38:45,420 --> 00:38:46,880 believe there are some of you going away 797 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:48,820 from this convention this weekend and from this 798 00:38:48,820 --> 00:38:51,020 camp saying thank God it's taken him an 799 00:38:51,020 --> 00:38:52,780 awful long time and it's all my fault 800 00:38:52,780 --> 00:38:55,000 but now I'm going away from this place 801 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,920 believing that I'm going to walk by faith 802 00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:58,520 in what he is as once I trusted 803 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,120 him for what he did in the measure 804 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,240 in which I have appropriated my Lord Jesus 805 00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:06,920 to be my life from now on instead 806 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,920 of the diet in the desert it's going 807 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,720 to be the plenitude of God's bountiful provision 808 00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,980 and it says verse twelve the manna ceased 809 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,760 the manna ceased not even fried not even 810 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,980 minced once and for all they said goodbye 811 00:39:24,980 --> 00:39:28,340 to manna not that they were not to 812 00:39:28,340 --> 00:39:31,440 be fed but God was going to relieve 813 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,500 them of their hard rations and give them 814 00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:37,300 a full diet the manna ceased on the 815 00:39:37,300 --> 00:39:38,900 morrow after they had eaten of the old 816 00:39:38,900 --> 00:39:40,460 corn of the land neither had the children 817 00:39:40,460 --> 00:39:46,500 of Israel manna anymore no more boredom their 818 00:39:46,500 --> 00:39:48,960 life was no longer a burden a weary 819 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,520 wandering in the wilderness they were now going 820 00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,680 to rejoice in everything that their hand was 821 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,700 given to do they did eat of the 822 00:39:56,700 --> 00:39:58,440 fruit of the land of Canaan that year 823 00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:02,700 now I want you to know this that 824 00:40:02,700 --> 00:40:04,580 the Lord Jesus cannot give you more than 825 00:40:04,580 --> 00:40:07,640 He is and you already have what He 826 00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:11,360 is what He is you have in Him 827 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,500 dwells all the fullness of the Godhead body 828 00:40:13,500 --> 00:40:16,480 the full balanced diet that God has provided 829 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,580 for every redeemed sinner He wants you to 830 00:40:19,580 --> 00:40:21,760 say thank you for what He is and 831 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,860 enjoy what He is don't ask Him for 832 00:40:23,860 --> 00:40:26,880 His strength He is your strength don't ask 833 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,980 Him for His wisdom He is your wisdom 834 00:40:28,980 --> 00:40:32,200 don't ask Him for His power He is 835 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,360 your power don't ask Him for His victory 836 00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,520 He is your victory believe it and thank 837 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,780 Him for it and act on the assumption 838 00:40:39,780 --> 00:40:42,460 that is true don't ask Him to help 839 00:40:42,460 --> 00:40:45,080 you win souls you can't it's His business 840 00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:46,880 thank Him that He's the one in you 841 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:48,720 and through you who will win souls and 842 00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:52,140 live hilariously by faith in the future and 843 00:40:52,140 --> 00:40:54,800 say Lord Jesus horizons of blessing thank you 844 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,140 for people I've never seen whose names I've 845 00:40:57,140 --> 00:40:59,140 never heard but to whom you're going to 846 00:40:59,140 --> 00:41:00,840 be a blessing through me because now I'm 847 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,300 at your disposal and as you died once 848 00:41:03,300 --> 00:41:05,620 to redeem my soul from the penalty of 849 00:41:05,620 --> 00:41:07,120 sin I thank you now that you fill 850 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,280 me with the power and fullness of your 851 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,580 resurrection life but remember it is a walk 852 00:41:12,580 --> 00:41:15,740 one step at a time and the faith 853 00:41:15,740 --> 00:41:18,200 that you apply to what He is in 854 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,760 you for this step is not enough for 855 00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:22,700 the next step as you thank Him for 856 00:41:22,700 --> 00:41:24,380 what He is now you must thank Him 857 00:41:24,380 --> 00:41:26,960 for what He is then and remember this 858 00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:28,520 that at any given moment you can take 859 00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,540 a step other than independence upon what He 860 00:41:30,540 --> 00:41:32,160 is and if you do that it will 861 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,300 be dependence upon what you are and that's 862 00:41:34,300 --> 00:41:37,780 bankruptcy the Lord Jesus said men ought always 863 00:41:37,780 --> 00:41:41,460 to pray and not to faint always to 864 00:41:41,460 --> 00:41:43,320 pray and not to faint what do you 865 00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:43,920 do when you faint? 866 00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:46,780 you fall back on nothing that's a faint 867 00:41:48,380 --> 00:41:51,120 now when you pray you fall forward on 868 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,200 Him you see that's praying praying isn't begging 869 00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,600 and asking praying is just reckoning upon Him 870 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:00,980 exposing every situation laying the table with your 871 00:42:00,980 --> 00:42:02,900 need and then standing back and saying my 872 00:42:02,900 --> 00:42:05,860 need your riches thank you very much that's 873 00:42:05,860 --> 00:42:08,400 praying and men ought always to pray pray 874 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,540 without ceasing maintain as a relentless attitude this 875 00:42:11,540 --> 00:42:13,760 dependence upon the one who being in you 876 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:17,280 is adequate now if you don't depend upon 877 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,260 Him in any situation by failing to depend 878 00:42:20,260 --> 00:42:22,600 forward on Him you'll depend backwards on yourself 879 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,020 and that's nothing you'll faint so men ought 880 00:42:26,020 --> 00:42:28,660 always to pray and not to faint so 881 00:42:28,660 --> 00:42:30,880 go out of this tent today not saying 882 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:32,580 to yourself well I shall never sin again 883 00:42:32,580 --> 00:42:34,240 of course you can sin again if you 884 00:42:34,240 --> 00:42:35,420 live to be a hundred you'll be just 885 00:42:35,420 --> 00:42:37,300 as wicked as you are now for what 886 00:42:37,300 --> 00:42:39,840 you are without Christ it's only Christ who 887 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,840 is in you who is victory it's only 888 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,800 Christ who is in you who is righteousness 889 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,760 it's only Christ who is in you who 890 00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:47,640 is your purity and your power and your 891 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:49,700 wisdom and your knowledge the moment you cease 892 00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:51,720 to depend moment by moment step by step 893 00:42:51,720 --> 00:42:55,280 joyfully hilariously saying thank you on Him you're 894 00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,060 thrown back upon your own bankruptcy recognize the 895 00:42:58,060 --> 00:43:01,340 symptoms it'll happen don't bury your hand head 896 00:43:01,340 --> 00:43:03,040 in your hand and weep your eyes out 897 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:04,980 and say all is lost it isn't the 898 00:43:04,980 --> 00:43:06,640 devil's just cheated you for a little while 899 00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,120 of what you have he hasn't robbed you 900 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:10,560 of what you have he's cheated you of 901 00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,320 the enjoyment of what you have he can't 902 00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:14,840 rob you of your victory because Christ is 903 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:16,220 your victory but he can rob you of 904 00:43:16,220 --> 00:43:18,040 the enjoyment of your victory if he can 905 00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:19,880 persuade you to depend upon yourself instead upon 906 00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,800 him will you recognize the symptoms instantly confess 907 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:24,920 it say so sorry Lord it grieves me 908 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,160 as it grieves you I've depended upon myself 909 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:28,520 instead of upon you look at the mess 910 00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:29,620 I've made I don't even know how to 911 00:43:29,620 --> 00:43:31,180 clear up the mess but I thank you 912 00:43:31,180 --> 00:43:33,900 Lord for cleansing all I can do with 913 00:43:33,900 --> 00:43:35,560 the sorrow of my heart is to ask 914 00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:37,160 you and trust you to clear up the 915 00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,480 mess I've made thank you very much now 916 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,560 you're back you've rebounded to your true position 917 00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:44,920 of faith don't let Satan capitalize upon any 918 00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:48,500 occasion when he causes you to relax into 919 00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:51,960 self confidence defy him to his faith and 920 00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:53,540 say you haven't robbed me of Christ you 921 00:43:53,540 --> 00:43:55,100 haven't robbed me of victory you haven't robbed 922 00:43:55,100 --> 00:43:57,700 me of strength you can't for Christ is 923 00:43:57,700 --> 00:44:02,830 this and all to me and then turn 924 00:44:02,830 --> 00:44:04,450 your back on him and your face to 925 00:44:04,450 --> 00:44:07,290 Christ and thank him that he's still there 926 00:44:07,290 --> 00:44:10,830 just the same as ever this is the 927 00:44:10,830 --> 00:44:14,310 plenitude of God's provision and it came to 928 00:44:14,310 --> 00:44:19,050 pass when Joshua was by Jericho that he 929 00:44:19,050 --> 00:44:21,670 lifted up his eyes and looked and behold 930 00:44:21,670 --> 00:44:24,270 there stood a man over against him with 931 00:44:24,270 --> 00:44:27,030 his sword drawn in his hand and Joshua 932 00:44:27,030 --> 00:44:28,750 went up unto him and said art thou 933 00:44:28,750 --> 00:44:30,750 for us or art thou for our adversaries 934 00:44:31,190 --> 00:44:32,410 whose side are you on are you on 935 00:44:32,410 --> 00:44:33,970 our side or are you on their side 936 00:44:33,970 --> 00:44:36,190 and he said nay but as captain of 937 00:44:36,190 --> 00:44:37,850 the Lord of the host of the Lord 938 00:44:37,850 --> 00:44:40,330 am I now come and Joshua fell on 939 00:44:40,330 --> 00:44:42,390 his face to the earth and did worship 940 00:44:42,390 --> 00:44:45,170 and said to him what saith my Lord 941 00:44:45,170 --> 00:44:50,610 unto his servant a man a man with 942 00:44:50,610 --> 00:44:53,390 his sword in his hand and Joshua went 943 00:44:53,390 --> 00:44:54,650 up and said whose side are you on 944 00:44:54,650 --> 00:44:57,710 our side or their side he said no 945 00:44:58,710 --> 00:45:01,710 I'm not on your side I'm not on 946 00:45:01,710 --> 00:45:03,850 their side I haven't come to take side 947 00:45:05,450 --> 00:45:11,420 I have come to take over that's Canaan 948 00:45:12,900 --> 00:45:15,580 not God taking your side you don't have 949 00:45:15,580 --> 00:45:17,020 a side to take you were buried nineteen 950 00:45:17,020 --> 00:45:19,640 hundred years ago God doesn't take the side 951 00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,340 of the dead he doesn't come to take 952 00:45:22,340 --> 00:45:25,660 side he's come to take over isn't that 953 00:45:25,660 --> 00:45:28,200 wonderful and this was the beginning of a 954 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:30,260 new chapter in the history of Israel in 955 00:45:30,260 --> 00:45:32,200 the land to be possessed what saith my 956 00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,720 Lord who comes not to take side but 957 00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:36,820 to take over what saith my Lord to 958 00:45:36,820 --> 00:45:40,240 his servant my sole responsibility is to be 959 00:45:40,240 --> 00:45:42,480 available and the captain of the Lord's host 960 00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,600 said to Joshua loose thy shoe from off 961 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:46,880 thy foot for the place whereon thou standest 962 00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,940 is holy you are in the presence of 963 00:45:48,940 --> 00:45:57,420 God and Joshua did so and I suggest 964 00:45:57,420 --> 00:46:03,920 that in these closing moments we recognize that 965 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:08,600 we are in the presence of God of 966 00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,760 the man with a sword in his hand 967 00:46:13,530 --> 00:46:17,910 who hasn't come to take side but who 968 00:46:17,910 --> 00:46:23,780 has come to take over will you bow 969 00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:31,480 and worship him and say Lord what saith 970 00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:36,420 my Lord unto his servant let bow our 971 00:46:36,420 --> 00:46:50,140 heads in prayer this 972 00:46:50,140 --> 00:46:52,420 day have I ruled the reproach of Egypt 973 00:46:53,540 --> 00:47:00,810 come off maybe you'd like to make this 974 00:47:00,810 --> 00:47:04,450 the language of your heart Lord Jesus I 975 00:47:07,940 --> 00:47:11,760 see it now I never knew that I 976 00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:17,720 was so wealthy forgive me for having lived 977 00:47:17,720 --> 00:47:24,100 so long in self imposed poverty the monotony 978 00:47:24,100 --> 00:47:27,220 of the wilderness and the dullness of the 979 00:47:27,220 --> 00:47:36,040 diet had been provided as I have trusted 980 00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:39,980 thee for thy redemption I trust thee now 981 00:47:39,980 --> 00:47:47,100 for thy indwelling gracious presence thy life that 982 00:47:47,100 --> 00:47:52,820 imparts to me thy victory thy strength thy 983 00:47:52,820 --> 00:48:02,770 righteousness in quiet submission I place 984 00:48:02,770 --> 00:48:08,200 my redeemed humanity at thy disposal not to 985 00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:12,060 take my side but to take over to 986 00:48:13,690 --> 00:48:17,890 be to me life itself from this time 987 00:48:17,890 --> 00:48:21,830 on thou art for me every step of 988 00:48:21,830 --> 00:48:29,130 the way the will of God take me 989 00:48:29,130 --> 00:48:32,890 where it will for I know that for 990 00:48:32,890 --> 00:48:34,430 every step of the way in the will 991 00:48:34,430 --> 00:48:41,190 of God thou thyself wilt be adequate true 992 00:48:41,190 --> 00:48:44,110 to thine own will equal to thine own 993 00:48:44,110 --> 00:48:49,830 will I am more than conquered through him 994 00:48:49,830 --> 00:48:52,770 that loves me henceforth it is for me 995 00:48:52,770 --> 00:48:56,770 to reign in life by one Christ Jesus 996 00:48:57,730 --> 00:49:03,370 the man God's man with the sword in 997 00:49:03,370 --> 00:49:09,040 his hand thank you Lord Jesus for horizons 998 00:49:10,240 --> 00:49:18,680 unlimited filled with the fullness of God for 999 00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:19,300 thy name's sake