I want to deal with man's lips, and
next week I want to deal with man's
hands.
Somebody said to me, you have missed his
ears, I said just let them hang there
for a moment or two.
I haven't forgotten about them, I'll come back
to them again.
Now tonight I want to deal with man's
lips.
And in between that of course I've got
to deal with man's speech, man's tongue.
And I want to bring it before you
in a very simple way that you'll get
the hold of it and be able to
grasp the subject.
I want to talk first of all about
the Savior's lips.
And then I want to go through the
book and try to find you what God
says about sinners' lips.
And then I'll finish with the saint's lips.
The Savior's, the sinner's, the saint's.
And I'm commencing the Bible reading tonight in
the Song of Solomon, chapter 5.
The Song of Solomon, chapter 5.
This is one of the great songs of
the Bible.
There are many songs in this book.
You go way back to the book of
Exodus, you'll get redemption songs.
When they passed over the Red Sea, then
found the children of Israel.
They were on redemption ground then, and they
sung redemption songs.
If you go away to the book of
the Revelation, you'll find the glory songs.
But this is the song of songs, because
this is a love song.
It's the song about a lover and the
one he loves.
Sometimes we find the bride here talking about
her beloved.
And sometimes we find the beloved talking about
his bride.
It's a wonderful song, and I'm at chapter
5 just now.
And to get the connection, I'm reading from
verse 2.
And it's the bride that's talking.
She said, I sleep.
And you know, sometimes, some of us would
have to confess that too.
While this love song between our beloved and
his bride, the beloved, of course, is typical
of Christ, and the bride is typical of
the believer.
And here she's confessing, I sleep.
Some of us are like Jonah.
We get down into the bottom of the
ship, and while people are perishing, we're fast
asleep.
We're like people in the prison cell.
When the enemy is working and planning, we're
fast asleep.
Wonder would you have to testify like this
to make her confess this, rather.
I sleep.
Then she went on and said, but my
heart wakes.
Sometimes even stoopy sinners hear the sound of
the voice of their beloved.
It is a voice of my beloved that
knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my
love, my dove, my undefiled.
For my head is filled with dew, and
my locks with the drops of the month.
And though she was sleeping, she heard the
whole lot.
She heard the knock, she heard the voice,
she heard the pleading, Open to me.
She heard these notes of affection, my sister,
my love, my dove, my undefiled.
And she heard all the deep dire desperate
need of her beloved for communion.
She heard the whole lot while she was
sleeping.
She answered like this, I have put off
my coat.
How shall I put it on?
I have washed my feet.
How shall I defile them?
Might it go to task or something to
get out of her sleep?
Because we are all like that, you know.
When the Lord knocks, and his voice comes
in through the darkness that surrounds us, and
he begins to waken us up out of
our sleep.
You know, it goes a task for us
to get out of that comfortable midst that
we are dozing in.
How shall I get out?
How would that be when you get out
to the pyramids and themselves there?
Just by getting away from the things that
have been holding you from the throne of
grace.
Cost you something, you know, if you be
led by the voice of your beloved.
Might it be to take a look at
that for my beloved put in his hand
by the home of the devil.
And my balls, or as the margin reads
in my Bible, my heart was moved for
him.
I think that's a beautiful dress.
And you don't see the beauty of it
and you don't get the grandeur of it
until you slip through Eastern eyes.
You see, it's an old Eastern custom that's
before us here.
You see, when the doors in the east
even shut they, there's just a little place
there that they can shout to the child.
And you know, they open sometimes and look
up and see who's there.
And sometimes instead of knocking as we do
here in our custom, they just slide it
to the side and put their hand in.
And they usually have a distinguishing mark upon
them, some particular kind of ring.
Do you remember the prophet who got a
ring on his finger?
It was to denote that he was the
son of a family.
And you know, when our beloved put his
hand in, he knew who was there.
Sometimes on Sunday morning as we sit round
the temple here, my, our beloved shows off
his hand.
Hold my hand, he says.
Sometimes when by faith you gaze up and
kneel, God's hand that was nailed to the
cloth of wool, your heart is moved.
It's one of the ways the Lord has
for waking up those who are sleeping.
I honestly believe that the cloth doesn't waken
you.
So this beloved here is being touched by
her beloved.
Verse 5, I rose up to open to
my beloved.
My hands dropped with myrrh, my fingers with
sweet-smelling myrrh upon the handles of the
lock.
I opened to my beloved, but my beloved
had withdrawn himself, he withdrawn.
I tell you, friends, you know, sometimes the
Lord comes and calls, and you hear the
voice, and your heart is moved, and you
jittery-dally about nothing, you don't respond.
You're all going to be great men tomorrow.
You're going to do big things for God
tomorrow, aren't you?
Well, I want you to start tonight.
Sometimes when you get out of your slumber
and sleep, so carelessly and slowly respond, He
comes!
And you've got to do a bit of
hunting for Him.
I went out into the night to hunt
for Him.
And in verse 7 we read, The watchmen
that went about the city found me.
They wounded me, the keepers of the walls
took away my veil from me.
She went through a terrible time.
And then she said, I tried to.
O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my
beloved, that you tell him that I am
sick of love.
And I like that verse most, in this
particular passage, because it tells me something like
this.
That although she was sleepy, and although she
was slow, and although she had lost sight
of her beloved, and though she had done
many things that were wrong, yet deep down
in her heart she loved Him.
My, she was just like Peter.
Peter had denied.
And yet deep down in his heart he
loved the Saviour.
And we've all failed Him, you know.
I failed Him.
And I've done the thing I should never
have done, the thing I should never have
said.
And yet deep down in my heart I
know I love Him.
Don't you?
And then they questioned her, in verse 9,
What is thy beloved more than another beloved?
O thou fairest among women, what is thy
beloved more than another?
To charge her.
Now she begins what I'm asked to.
She begins one of the greatest songs in
the book.
Listen to it.
Verse 10.
My beloved is white and ruddy, the cheapest
among ten thousand.
His head is of the most fine gold.
His locks are bushy and black as a
raven.
His eyes are as the eyes of doves
by the rivers of water.
Washed with milk and simply set.
His cheeks are as a bed of spices
as sweet flour.
His lips are as the bitter mustard.
His lips like lilies, dropping sweet-smelling myrrh.
What a beautiful thing she said.
I think that's one of the beautiful, most
beautiful pictures in your Bible.
That the lips of our beloved, his lips,
are like lilies.
I wonder why she used that picture.
I think she used that picture, first of
all, for this.
This great eastern lily that she had her
mind on just then is the perfect symbol
of purity.
Purity.
And you know, that's one thing that we
do know about the lips of our beloved.
Everything that passed across them, that came from
them, was absolutely pure.
So, purity was stamped there.
You see, he speaks nothing but truth.
Truth.
So she used a beautiful picture, the symbol
of purity, but then she put a bit
to it.
She said, his lips are like lilies, dropping
sweet-smelling myrrh.
You know, there was not only pureness there,
but at all times, for all who listened,
there was freshness.
Yes, there was a fragrance that came with
the very teaching of Christ.
And it's always so.
Ah, but there was sweetness there.
Pureness, freshness, his lips are lips
of purity.
But they're much more than that.
You remember when he first preached at Capernaum,
and he stood up in the synagogue, in
this book says he speaks as one having
authority, not as a scribe.
You see, those lips were lips of purity,
but thus God made their lips of authority.
We must never forget that, you know.
Yes, those were the very lips that away
in the beginning preached, and it was done,
commanded, and it stood fast.
Yes, he spoke at all times with authority.
You remember that the centurion said to him,
I'm not worthy that thou shouldest enter under
my roof, but speak the word only, just
speak the word.
I know you've got power.
My dear friend, thank God for those lips
this evening.
Lips that express pureness and sweetness and freshness.
But lips that speak, speak with authority.
Yes, he spoke with authority.
But there's much more to it than that.
When he was speaking under in John's gospel,
he said, The words that I speak unto
you, they are spirit unto your life.
You see, these words that came forth from
the Master, they were words that were deafened
and cold and energized by the Spirit of
God, and they brought life.
That's why it was with authority.
Why, the scribes never spoke with authority, because
they were never filled and overflowing with the
Spirit of God.
But the Spirit of God anointed the blessed
Master that when he spoke it was life
-giving words.
And not only spirit-filled and life-giving,
but he said on one occasion, Heaven and
earth shall pass away, but my words shall
not pass away.
My, they were everlasting.
I know wonder he spoke with authority.
He had creatorial, healing, spirit-filled, life-giving,
everlasting power.
Solid.
But let's go to Isaiah chapter sixty-three
just for a moment.
The prophecy of Isaiah chapter sixty-three.
Now take your time and find the place.
These are Bible readings and you've got to
see the book.
Isaiah sixty-three, verse one, there's a question
of, Who is this that cometh from Edom
with dyed garments from Barter?
This that is glorious in his apparel and
troubling in the greatness of his strength.
And now comes the answer, I, God, speak
in righteousness, mighty to say.
Then comes another question, Wherefore art thou red
in thine apparel and thy garments like him
that treadeth in the winepot?
Now comes the answer, I have trodden the
winepress alone, and of the people there was
none with me, for I will tread them
in mine anger.
Sample them in my fury, and their blood
shall be sprinkled upon my garments.
And I will sin all my women, for
the day of vengeance is in mine heart,
and the year of my redeemed has come.
Now this is a beautiful picture.
It goes a way forward.
Hasn't been fulfilled yet.
That's one of the prophecies that needs to
be fulfilled.
You know, we who trust in the Saviour
this evening, and believe this inspired book, we
believe that Jesus Christ is coming back again.
When he left this world, he said, If
I go, I will come again.
And as he went back, and the disciples
watched him, two men in white suits, and
said, Why stands he gazing into heaven?
This, whom Jesus chose to come, in white
manner, as he hath seen him go.
And winter means in white manner he'll come
again.
One of these blessed moments, he'll come to
the earth.
And only the believer shall see him.
That's how he went.
He wasn't a sinner on this globe, Tom
Dory.
Only as he is his own, in white
manner, he'll come back again.
One of these days, all right, we'll see
him face to face.
And we believers will rise to meet him
in the air.
What a moment that will be.
And this world will be left behind for
judgment.
And then the Antichrist will have a time
down here to himself, the devil will be
let loose into prayer.
And at the end of that terrible period,
the Lord will come back again, not to
the air, but to the earth.
What for?
To trample the wine caps.
To turn them in his puree.
It'll be the day of vengeance.
And you know, as we see him coming,
you'll say, who is this?
And the answer is, I, that speak in
righteousness.
I that speak in righteousness.
You see, give lips.
Our lips of purity, and lips of authority,
but a lip of equity.
My, he'll be the righteous judge.
And you know, friends, I don't only believe
that he'll speak in righteousness to sinners, nor
do I believe that he'll speak in righteousness
to saints.
You know, all of us, we've got to
stand up at the judgment seat of Christ.
And I think that the Lord has some
things to say to some things.
I'm perfectly sure he will.
You know, there's been a lot of dirty
tricks done here, done here, among saints.
And there's never been good ones, you know.
Somebody thinks they can treat their brother just
whatever way they like, and they can destroy
his character, or they can cast all kinds
of slander, and touchbiting, and everything else upon
them.
Well, the Lord has got to talk to
you one day.
And he'll speak in righteousness.
My, there's a lot of things to beget
with when we get to the judgment seat
of Christ.
You know, I can see him standing in
the midst of the churches in the book
of Revelation.
And his eyes upon everything in every touch.
Every service is scrutinized.
And every motive is measured.
And as he looks at the whole crowd,
he said to the church at Ephesus, I
know your works, and I know your patience,
and I know your labor, and I know
how you tried them, the traitor apostles in
our north, and I know how you have
stood up for me and you have not
sinned, nevertheless I have somewhat a temptation to
tell thou hast to ask thy first love.
That was speaking in righteousness.
You know, when some of us get to
the judgment seat of Christ and we stand
yonder, you know, and say you worked very
hard, and you put a lot of time
into it and a lot of money, but
you know you were only working for the
Baptist.
And you look miserably ashamed, my dear.
God pity if you're working for the Baptist.
God pity.
And God pity if you're working for any
other cause.
I think I can say this humbly, I
work for him.
I didn't come here to work for folk.
I came here to work for Christ.
I wonder, do we all?
I wonder what way we get about it.
If you just think of what our way
plays and often we, it's a pity of
you.
Because I tell you this, the Master will
talk to you one day in the words
of righteousness and say you didn't do it
for me at all.
And it will go up in smoke then,
not the worst of them.
Only what's done for Jesus will last.
And maybe when he comes back down here
to talk to the ancestors, it's then that
he'll speak in righteousness to the world.
And you know friend, there are some awful
things in this book that he's going to
say.
I wouldn't have time to get them all
out tonight, but I'll take time to get
one of them off.
When that day comes, and the door shuts,
and then he stands without saying, Lord, Lord,
open unto us.
We have eaten and drunk in my name,
and in my name we have done many
wonderful works.
And listen to this, and in my name
we have passed our devils.
He shall say, now listen to this, he
shall say, I never knew you.
He passed from me, ye curses.
When he reads, you know this crowd that's
knocking outside, they said we have eaten and
drunk in my name.
And you know they've been brought into the
communion by some of these half-damned old
ministers.
How dare a man bring a sinner into
communion?
You have no right there if you'll not
say it.
If you don't love the Lord, you have
no right at the Lord's table.
How dare you sit at God's table, the
Lord's temple, when you have never bowed at
the Lord's cross?
And if you think that will get you
to heaven, you've got another thought coming.
Because when you say we have eaten, he'll
say, ye curses.
And I'll say it now for him.
Some people don't like that sort of righteous
talk.
Sure they don't.
Well, you'll have to take it in a
day to come.
I speak in righteousness.
Lips of equity.
He doesn't care who you are, or where
you served, or what you did.
If you don't know him, he doesn't know
you.
Righteousness.
Have another look in Mark's Gospel, chapter 12.
Mark's Gospel, chapter 12, verse
28.
And one of the scribes came and hadn't
heard them reasoning together, unperceiving that he had
answered them well.
Sure the Lord never did anything else.
He always answered well.
Asked him, which is the first commandment of
all?
And Jesus answered him, the first of all
the commandment is, here in all history the
Lord our God is one Lord.
Blessed love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, with all thy soul, with all
thy mind, with all thy things.
This is the first commandment.
And the second is life in religion.
Pleasant love thy neighbour as thyself.
There is none other commandment greater than these.
And the scribe said unto him, well Master,
thou hast said the truth.
He said he never said anything else but
the truth.
And you know if you want to learn
anything, if you want to answer questions well,
you answer them by the truth, that's how
you answer well.
And you'll never answer better than the book.
That simple.
The Lord answered all the time with the
book.
You'll never answer better.
And when he was in Egypt, verse 32,
and the scribe said unto him, well Master,
thou hast said the truth.
For there is one God and there is
none other but he.
And to love him with all thy heart
and with all thy understanding and with all
thy soul and with all thy strength, and
to love his neighbour as himself is more
than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly,
he said unto him, thou art not far
from the kingdom of God.
And if you want to learn another wee
thing, here it is for you.
Once you know that Jesus always tells the
truth, you're not far from the kingdom of
God.
If you know tonight that when Jesus said,
you must be born again.
If you know that, if you know you
need a second birth, you're not far from
the kingdom.
You're beginning to know your need.
And if you know that Jesus said, I
am the way, the truth, and the life,
and no man cometh unto the Father but
by me.
If you know that that's truth, you're not
far from the kingdom.
Because you don't only know your need, but
now you know the way.
And once you get down where this teller
got to and say, Master, thou hast spoken
the truth.
He'll say to you, you're not far from
the kingdom.
Always goes like that.
It's as simple as ABC, you know.
That's not what I'm after.
Now come on a wee bit closer.
Verse 35.
Jesus answered and said, while he taught in
the temple, I say with courage that Christ
is the son of David, for David himself
said to the Holy Ghost, The Lord saith
to my Lord, sit thou on my right
hand, and I will make thine enemies thy
footstool.
David therefore himself called him Lord.
Christ is he then his son.
And the common people had him bloodied.
After we get to Master.
You see, the common people had them bloodied,
isn't that lovely?
You know, those lips were lips of purity.
They were lips of authority.
They were lips of equity.
But bless God, they were lips of simplicity.
Common people just got in round him.
You know, they could understand this man.
He didn't preach over their heads.
He didn't use language that they couldn't understand.
You know, they could sit at his feet
and they knew everything that he said.
It was so clear and plain and simple.
The common people had them bloodied.
Friend, if you're a preacher, get this into
your soul.
It's clearness you need, not cleverness.
Some of the boys that I know are
clever.
But they're not clear.
I like to get that over so that
you can get the hold of it and
take it home.
And you're bound to have got this purity,
authority, equity, simplicity.
Those are the lips of the Saviour.
You know, the great Dr. Ironside, whom I
reckon in my simple estimation, and that doesn't
mean very much, I reckon was the greatest
preacher in this age.
I think he was a great preacher.
And one morning he was standing at the
Moody Memorial Church, as the congregation was leaving,
shaking hands with the noblemen here and the
noblemen there.
About 4,000 at the morning they came.
And as a mother and little child came
out, the little girl was about five years
of age, this was the first time she'd
ever been to the church.
And as he stood down and said, Hello,
how are you?
Glad to see you.
And then spoke to mummy.
As the two of them passed by, he
overheard the little girl say, Mummy, I thought
you said the doctor was a great preacher.
I understood everything he said.
And you know, I remember him telling that
with tears in his eyes.
And he said, as the big tear rolled
onto his cheek, he said, that was the
greatest compliment that was ever said to me.
That I can teach that a little girl
of five can understand every word.
I say that's good preaching.
And so it is.
And you know, when our Lord was here,
he was like that by the common people,
boys like me, they came and had them
glad.
God was standing there.
You see, there was complicity there.
Let's go a little bit further, let's go
back to John, on to John's gospel chapter
seven.
Perhaps one of the greatest statements ever made
about the master of lips made in John's
gospel chapter seven.
Verse forty-five.
Then he and the officers to the chief
priests, the officers were men who were sent
to arrest Christ.
Then he and the officers to the chief
priests and pharisees, and they said unto them,
why have you not brought him?
The officers answered, never man speak like this
man.
You know, there's a nobility about that, isn't
there?
You see, these lips that I'm thinking about
now, the lips of the Savior, there's purity
about them, minor like the lily.
Then, bless God, there was authority about them.
Speak the word only.
And then, bless God, there's equity with them,
to some righteousness.
He's a judge.
Yet there was simplicity, for the common people
heard him gladly.
And yet, in spite of it all, there
was a nobility about them.
For never man speak like this man.
Never mind.
You know, I'd love to start preaching now,
in this woollen around up to now, you
know.
Friend, I could produce pictures I think for
the next hour and enjoy.
On people who could lift their very same
testimony.
Never man speak like this man.
And I could bring men and women and
children in.
Let me think quickly of women.
I think of the woman taken in the
doctorate.
They threw her into the sand.
And they said, will we stone her?
And do you remember how he turned on
them and said, he that hath no sin
let him cast the first stone.
And he convicted them and they got away
out of his presence.
And when he was alone with her he
said, neither do I condemn thee.
Go and sin no more.
And I think she went out that day
and said, never man speak like this man.
I think of the woman, of the woman.
Do you know when he had her unveiled,
he took her hip to it.
And then he unveiled her heart.
And then unveiled himself.
You know, I think she went away and
said, never man speak like this man.
And I think of many standing on that
morning in the tomb, at the tomb, with
tears in their eyes.
And the sky was dark.
She had lost the Savior.
Everything had gone wrong.
She was puzzled and perplexed and disappointed.
And through the darkness came one word, Mary.
And her tears dried.
And the sky cleared.
And her soul was enlightened.
She said, never man speak like this man.
And I think of the woman at the
cross, his mother.
As she stood in that hour of agony,
as he kneeled to the tree, and as
the groves stretched from down his palm, and
as with her heart of gold, turned pale
in the gloom, she looked down and said,
John, behold your mother.
And mother, behold your son.
And John took her home from that hour,
and I think as she went home, she
said, never man speak like this man.
I think I can think why this has
got her.
It is only a little girl.
She is only twelve.
And she was lying dead, cold dead, gripped
by death.
And he took her tiny, weak, wavering, dead,
cold hand, lifeless hand.
And he turned her eyes and took her
to bed.
And I think a little girl must have
said, never man speak like this man.
I can see a little boy.
And they brought him to the disciples.
And the disciples could do nothing for him.
And the devil put them out.
And threw them in the fire.
And then threw them in the water.
And then Jesus came and carved that devil
free.
And I think that we fellows stood up
and said, never man speak like this man.
I can see the man in the tomb.
I can see the man by the pool
of death.
I can see the man outside the gate
of Jericho.
One was in a place of lifelessness.
And one was in a place of faithlessness.
And the other was at the gate of
godlessness.
I can't tell.
And then Jesus came.
And bathed their darkness.
And I think all the men said, never
man speak like this man.
There's a nobility about it.
One wouldn't want to go on preaching like
that all night in a Bible class.
But I could enjoy it.
I don't know about you.
Now I want to turn you from there.
Now that will do for the Toby's lip.
You can build the rest of it yourself.
I think you've got it.
Lips of purity.
Lips of authority.
Lips of equity.
Lips of simplicity.
And lips of nobility.
The Toby's lip.
Then I want to think about the sinner's
lip.
You know, if you could read a book
of Psalms sometime, you'll find again and again
and again and again and again it goes
right through the Psalms.
There were so many Psalms I couldn't list
them for you.
That God taught that God's a flattering tongue.
You know, a flattering tongue is a deceptive
thing.
If people flatter you, you might be perfectly
sure they're trying to deceive you.
And you know, a flattering tongue is a
terrible thing when it's used to one another.
But I'll tell you this, it's ten times
worse when men try to flatter God.
Try to flatter God.
All right then, come to Psalm 78.
The 78th Psalm.
Verse 31.
Psalm 78.
Verse 31.
The light of God's name upon them conceives
a process for them.
Moot down the chosen men of Israel.
For all this they tend to and believe
not for his wondrous works.
Therefore their deeds did he consume in vanity
and their ears in trouble.
When he slew them, then they taught this.
And they returned and inquired early after God.
And they remembered that God was the rock
and the hard job they were doing.
Nevertheless, they did flatter him with their mouths
and they lied unto him with their tongues.
That's what you call flattering God.
Now let me get into that a little
bit.
Come to Matthew's Gospel, chapter 15.
The Gospel by Matthew, chapter 15.
Now if you get the connection, we'll read
from verse 1.
Then came Jesus, then came to Jesus Christ
and Pharisees which were of Jerusalem, saying, Why
do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the
elders?
Now what's the question?
They're all worried about tradition.
For they washed not their hands when they
eat bread.
He answered and said unto them, Why do
ye also transgress the commandment of God by
your tradition?
Now that was some answer, wasn't it?
Some people are worried about tradition, mind you,
and it doesn't come out of this book.
I know people who would argue all night
for April sprinkling and let me tell you
there's not one phrase in that book about
it.
And when I preached about believer baptism which
is the commandment of God, they're all worried
about their tradition.
But they're not worried about the commandment of
God.
And they're no better than the Pharisees.
If you haven't got any scripture for what
you're doing, you're doing what papal does.
Just the tradition of the church.
But I think it's a bit in here.
And if you would like to have it
out with me, this man is no better
leader than I am.
Not that he's someone who's with the word
of God.
I just can't be talking behind my back,
mind you.
You just come round and have a go
with me to my face.
And I look in the book and you
have put it there by finding it in
you.
And I level you up to don't believe
in baptism if you just come round and
listen to it.
How dare you get worried about your old
anti-religious tradition.
It's only these verses that are in the
book isn't it?
I left it up to you, you know.
Therefore, for God commanded, say, honour thy father
and mother.
And he that churches father and mother let
him die the death.
But you say, they've changed it you know.
You say he's too ambitious to take his
father and his mother.
It is a gift by whatsoever thou mightest
be prospered by me.
And honour not his father or his mother,
you total freak.
Thus have ye given the commandment of God
at none except by your tradition.
Ye hypocrites.
Oh, if I'd have said that you'd get
all weird, wouldn't you?
If I'd have told you, you'd have said
that.
Ye Pharisee, ye hypocrites.
Ah, Jesus is coughing now.
I suppose you don't like Jesus when he
coughs, my friend.
Nevertheless, the new alternate for you, dear, if
you're a Pharisee, you're a hypocrite.
You're a Pharisee, you're a hypocrite.
And I wouldn't ease it up on you
for one minute.
Ye hypocrites.
There's a desired prophecy of you saying this
people drive my aunt and me before mouth
and honour us before lips.
But a horse is far from me.
That's the prophecy you're saying, that's what I
meant.
You know, friend, when you begin to go
to the presence after this and you use
that great, heavenly, flowing language that praises the
Lord and determines his presence in all the
deepest of times and heavens and then the
temple has built beneath your feet, you'll remember
that you're born now of a hypocrite.
But your heart is far from me.
I wouldn't like to try to flutter God.
I think it's a miracle.
Just learn to bow to his book.
I think sometimes when I preach believer's baptism
in here that some of you think it
belongs to the dancer.
The great fact is it belongs to God.
It's God's will.
It's God's truth.
It's God's commandment.
And if you can't enter in here and
find in his presence to pray you're going,
now you're going to the horse.
It's far from him.
God saves us all from that sort of
thing.
Then that's what you call lips of flutter.
Of fluttering lips.
Fluttering lips of hopelessness.
Can't you know God is hopeless?
Way back in the book of Proverbs it
says seven things that God did.
And the first one is any proud look.
Proud look.
God did this pride that comes from the
devil.
And the second thing that God did is
a lying tongue.
Lying tongue.
And if you try to praise him while
you tear his book up in secret you're
using fluttering lips and that's falsehood.
Then of course there are real life things.
Sometimes some of the baptists tell lies.
I had the omnipresent Jupiter to go to
an elder of a baptist church not too
very long ago and tell him he was
a liar.
And blindly I made no bones about it.
For he was a liar as ever there
was one.
And I just said to him, my dear
boy you are not fit to be an
elder in any fact.
For you are a liar.
Some liars among the baptists tell me a
new one.
I try to have a fair ministry.
I don't care where it looks so long
as I get this word of whether it's
baptist or sermon or testicle in the Methodist
I will come here for your life.
That's what I'm here for.
I'm not here to sit here smiling seeing
you come.
Let me say this is the thing that
comes to have a false lip.
Because if you can go on practising lies
I'll tell you where you'll land in hell.
The biblical revelation tells that the Philistines and
the unbelievers and the torturers and all liars
will have their parts in the lake of
fire.
I'm telling you as a baptist or a
brethren if you can practice lies you're on
your way to hell.
It's serious, my boy.
It's very serious.
Some people can sing like a lark and
pray and give and tell lies every minute
of the day.
You'll go to hell.
False lips.
It talks about flattering lips and false lips
and then it talks about false lips.
Isaiah said, I am a man of uncleanness
and I dwell in the lips of the
people of uncleanness.
Mind you, false lips are a dreadful thing.
There are many things that I should take
to a lip and I don't need to
do it.
I'll tell you something I heard the other
day and I know the man who told
me it the man who told me it
was the doctor that was here the other
night on the platform giving his testimony and
he said, I know where there's a Presbyterian
minister and he sat in the house the
other day and he said, this harker daughter
told me do you mean to say when
I say I've got to go out to
the yard and kill a chicken he said
it's blood and then he laughed.
Let me tell you that.
The man that can laugh and laugh and
talk at the blood that's pouring across the
body of that bitch is a blasphemer.
That bitch says it was that bitch says
it was the demon that bitch says it
was covenant blood that bitch says it was
shed blood on the cross heaven and God
does no pardon and the man that laughs
and talks and licks the mouth of the
blood of Christ in such a fashion is
a blasphemer is a blasphemer and if you
ever find yourself under ministry let that be
it how can the leader pick that sort
of thing I don't know so if you
could pick on me like that for 20
years then I'll remember it in the church
of hell I couldn't pick that for 20
seconds a blasphemer like that so blasphemy
falsehood silence and then of course there are
structural groups I said I'd give this to
you that one it's in Luke's Gospels chapter
1 Luke's
Gospels chapter 1 is the place where Jechariah
the father of John the Baptist is in
the temple that's why they have to get
the connection the Lord in the days of
Herod the king of Judea of Chester and
Thessalonica named Jechariah for the cross of Abel
and his wife was the daughter of Aaron
and his name was Elizabeth and they did
like this before God walking in all the
commandments and ordinances of the Lord Jesus I
always think that's lovely here were two walking
in all the commandments and ordinances of the
Lord Jesus that's what the whole of it
was when husband and wife were stepping out
like that all the commandments and ordinances of
the Lord Jesus it was lovely there'd be
trial because of Elizabeth's vine and they both
were now there tripping and kneeling in the
cross of Abel the truth of the peace
started before God and the order of His
truth according to the question of the priest
after his loss was to bear an infest
and he went into the temple of the
Lord and the whole multitude of the people
were praying with us this was that at
the time of infest and there appeared unto
him an infant of the Lord standing in
the right side of the altar of infest
and Jechariah said he was heavy and he
was very determined and the angel said unto
him fear not Jechariah for thy prayer is
heard it was full wonder the word thy
prayer is heard thinking he was an old
man now the group said this was the
passage that we've written was there tripping and
kneeling I did think he was praying now
for the chariot of hell fear not Jechariah
for thy prayer is heard it was full
wonder the word thy prayer is heard thinking
he was an old man now the group
said this was the passage that we've written
was there tripping and kneeling I did think
he was praying now for the chariot of
hell I think we've prayed sixteen years ago
and we've cried unto the Lord when he
was a young man and possessed a young
woman and then of course at the time
of John he's got old and you know
from when he was old and fat praying
and he didn't think he was any hope
the Lord said do you see the prayer
that you've prayed and waited that long there
it passed my mess praying business is a
powerful business sometimes when the boys that pray
fall down in faith God still hears the
prayer and answers the prayer for all the
faithful after all those years is there an
old mother here and you sing it to
your son I had an old mother who
went to heaven when I was in death
and after all the years that she lifted
up her hands and gave birth to a
child and started praying for me and said
when will you speak this prayer again and
the Lord said look your prayer is here
pray on this pray on this pray for
one more and pray for somebody special give
your best when will you speak to me
that's what I said and here's what he
said verse 15 my parents said and my
wife Elizabeth shall bear me a son and
I shall call him John so they said
if John died there's some money for you
just for this job verse 16 the Lord
said that if I cannot endure Lord God
shall I endure for I am an old
man and my wife there crippling me and
I'm the first of it serious thing to
question the message that the Lord must tell
you it was very serious he didn't believe
it that's the problem he just couldn't take
it in he just couldn't believe it means
not what it's trying to mean just keep
going on and on and it may just
prove it's very serious but no my mother
is caught with unbelief in the whole lot
of it and that's what the angel said
verse 19 and the angel answered him saying
unto him I am guilty that stand in
the presence of God and am sent to
speak unto thee and to sow thee these
glad tidings and the rest will be glad
tidings and behold thou shalt be done not
able to speak until the day that these
things shall be performed because thou believest stop
my work it shall be fulfilled in their
season and the people use it a great
pride is needed for such a life and
all who will be carried so long in
the temple and when he come out he
shall not speak I've seen many a boy
like that before I've been to conventions and
they all start submitting to cross this country
and when he came out he couldn't speak
he was a dummy there are more dummy
ministers in the country than I can tell
you about I'll tell you why they're dummies
because of their unbelief how could a man
that doesn't believe such thingamajig about God he's
a dummy the pupils are full of dummies
that's why the meetings are answered here that's
why they're answered not that it takes force
to tell you're doing it in the book
if you speak in the pupils you've got
people in the pool they're dummies they're dummies
that have been they're underdogs let's work that
out thou shalt not speak satan what a
sopid look to mouth, my dear God save
us all the only one who'll be punished
for this is Jimmy Godwood my mad duke
to me is Bradwood the old man that
I was raised with Jim McKendrick he used
to say I kiss the duke when I
can't kiss the officer Godwood to me, that's
Godwood every phrase and not every jot and
sentence every tongue and sentence just the most
disgusting thing on earth that's Godwood you treat
it like that you think that just God
has given it to us and we're as
well waiting at the feet of Christ and
you'll be moved over you'll be moved over
I haven't any trouble you know, filling in
the two or three minutes of the message
our trouble is getting late for ten and
my trouble is getting late not filling it
in satan if you talk about
flattery listen if you talk about falsehood this
duke talks about tolling lips this duke talks
about second lips let me say this personally
this duke talks about foolish lips I'm not
sure you see it there was a man
who stood one day in his barnyard and
he looked all round and he said I
have no place to be still my lips
and he said he said unto himself he
said I will pay to my toll fool,
I have not giggled up for many years
eat, drink and be merry fool, God said
I'll toll he was talking like a fool
and you know there's a lot of people
they're always talking about time and they never
would dare once talk about eternity always time
told us tomorrow and the next day and
years to come and years to come then
we're all on the edge of eternity now
you know somebody here in this company some
one of us will be the next to
go into eternity wonder who it'll be some
one wonder who it'll be some thing might
be you dear do you know the Lord
are you saved by grace are you born
again have you trusted the Savior don't give
it up tomorrow may be too late don't
talk like a fool get ready for next
year so what is the use of such
foolishness then I want to talk about senselessness
someone read the Proverbs 31 the book of
Proverbs 31 and
beginning at verse 10 there's a question who
can find the virtuous woman for her Christ
is all that he be then it goes
on from there to give a real exposition
a wonderful picture of this woman mind you
all you women ought to read those verses
for what a woman she is what a
woman her ability is here and her dependability
is here and her activity is here and
then all her qualities are here her spirituality
is here and her integrity is here wonderful
woman I'm just asking one or two qualities
about her look at verse 25 thanks and
honor are her clothing and she shall rejoice
in time to come she openeth her mouth
with wisdom and in her tongue is the
law of kindness I tell you there's a
law that's not reached on too often you
know that book's full of laws I give
bible readings somewhere sometime on the laws written
in this book Moses gave us the moral
law the law he and I know and
the book of Leviticus outlines for us the
ceremonial law Paul he talked about the law
of sin and death James he talked about
the royal law and there's a whole lot
of others in between but he has done
the law of kindness law of kindness it
was in her tongue you know believers are
adopted by people to add to their faith
virtue and to virtue knowledge and to knowledge
patience and then comfort and then godliness and
then comes odds probably kindness probably kindness you
see she had it in her tongue and
people talking about adding it on and Paul
said the cross with humility with bowels of
justice and kindness you see this kindness it
ought to be the law of our lips
and then it ought to be dripping among
our dresses and it ought to be part
of our covering kindness you know I think
it's questionable sometimes you know when I hear
of some of the things that Christians do
to other Christians I wonder about this kindness
my friend I could tell you stories now
that would shock you because it shocked me
of people who talk about holiness and the
second blessing and the higher life and sanctification
and they're living up in the house and
I know things they have done to other
believers that you know you'd even think the
devil would do come around and question me
and I'll tell you the whole story just
put me again on the wall and say
who was it and what did they do
and I'll tell you kindness you know friends
there's one thing that should mark our speeches
belief kindness like don't go and mix it
up with softness I think you know that
some of you think the Lord was a
tough man not a typical you've heard him
talking to the Pharisees a moment ago you
have to put this in that was one
of the kindest things the Lord could do
He was just holding their hearts and letting
them feel what to do and you should
always speak boldly but remember there are times
when kindness will make you not to repeat
some of the things you hear you know
you hear such a rattle sometimes where if
you're saying to the poor person they're slandering
and biting and rejecting and criticizing just the
law of kindness is in your friendship of
kindness let's go a little bit further come
to Hebrews chapter 13 Hebrews
13 it's the last chapter of Hebrews it's
so much here that one needn't know where
to start look at verse 11 for the
bodies of those beasts whose blood was brought
into the sanctuary were the right beasts for
sin are going without repentance now that's the
old type he's talking about the bodies of
the beasts that were used for the sin
after their blood was taken in for the
holy atonement after their bodies were taken without
repentance and then it goes on to say
this the call for Jesus also you see
he was the anti-type that whom I
think is why the people with his own
blood suffered without the guilt and just because
he was the type of the anti-type
or the anti-type of the type it
says let us let the people who have
been dealt with his blood let us therefore
go unto him without repentance bearing his reproach
I hope that's where you'll find tonight repent
some people you know talk about the place
here more than the person they're always talking
about being without the camp without the camp
the past they're talking about of course it's
the place it's the party they're talking about
but this book says let us go therefore
unto him but if I can get near
to him if I can walk with him
if I can take a rest bless God
I'll be without the camp the nearer you
get to him the farther away you'll get
from the camp let us go unto him
without the camp then verse 14 says for
here we have no continuing tipping but we
seek one to come by whom therefore just
because of our love let us offer the
sacrifice of peace to God continually that is
the fruit of our giving thanks unto his
name now here's the bit that I'm after
you see the saint's lips should be marked
first of all by kindness and don't forget
that then it ought to be marked by
thankfulness you see the one who's outward to
your brother but the other who's upward to
your God and you know it's great when
the lips is marked with love then there's
kindness to your brother and then there's thankfulness
to your God but you don't do it
properly it says let us therefore offer the
sacrifice of peace therefore just because that we
love one another I can't request to be
sacrificed no you ought to thank God for
your sacrifice you ought to thank God for
your sacrifice just because of the sacrifice and
if just because of the separation the sacrifice
is made thank God for us taking care
of each other no we don't take the
care you ought to thank God you don't
take the care thank God for the sacrifice
thank God for the separation and then Emmanuel
you're looking for a tickle praise the Lord
we're looking for a tickle you ought to
thank God there's a sippy prepared now in
the straw he's gone to prepare us and
just because of the sacrifice just because of
the separation just because of the tickle we
ought to continually take off I get out
from under the juniper tree you're plenty to
thank God for you ought to thank God
that the cross was erected you ought to
thank God that you're numbered under the redeemed
you ought to thank God that you're going
towards the kitten that kills and goes in
bringing many sons to glory a mirror of
glory to nation never was before plenty to
thank God for whether there's no work done
here or not we're plenty to thank God
for come on cheer up a little bit
take your plastic leave them one by one
and it'll stop hanging my wicked fellow all
day we're thanking and one thing that ought
to mark our thanksgiving I'll tell you friends
it doesn't always do it man we're murmuring
we're a murmuring crowd we're like Ezra in
the wilderness when they ought to thank God
they were out of Egypt and they ought
to thank God that they were around the
Lord separated under the Lord and they ought
to thank God they were going under Canaan
and when they should have been thanking God
they were murmuring and we are no better
not a bit better are we truth only
should mark our lips shameless I'm thankful but
come back to Titus chapter 2 Paul writing
to Titus that
he was a great message to a young
man he was a doctor and was kept
there by God verse 1 teach
thou the things which become found after Titus
chapter 2 verse 1 teach thou the things
which become found after verse 7 in all
things showing myself a patron of good works
in doctrine showing on corruptness gravity sincerity find
speech that cannot be condemned that he that
is of the contrary part may be a
chief having no evil thing to say of
you do you know friends it beholds us
all to get the hold of this do
you know in in our dealings with one
another there needs to be kindness and as
we turn our faces toward God there are
to be thankfulness that as we live and
preach and talk to men there are to
be kindness find speech that cannot be condemned
you know when people talk about having visions
you hear more about visions in these days
than you ever heard in your life there
are all sorts of visions you know sometimes
the sea angels sometimes the sea demons honestly
I just think they've got a nightmare that's
what I think there's nothing fine about it
the only thing that turns in between the
cobbles of that book look and I'll say
to that that devil can block you always
remember that and when the antichrist comes he'll
do miracles that'll really shock the whole world
and it'll be the devil if you want
to be turned you just keep inside the
cobbles of this book you know there are
the demons some of the visions that some
of the boys have and I take the
time to read them I find out that
the vision they're talking about doesn't correspond with
the book at all and when the vision
doesn't correspond with the book it came from
the devil you use sound speech dear you'll
go better off something that's inside the cobbles
of your own bible the devil can fool
you remember don't forget that soundness is what
we want soundness and then here's one from
the book of Job chapter 2 Job
chapter 2 you know Job went through a
terrible time he lost his children and then
he lost his wife and then he lost
his house and at the end of it
all his wife turned upon him you know
somebody said to me one day I don't
know whether I should say this or not
I'm just debating it right now it's clear
I've munched off I'll just go on somebody
said to me now remember that little bit
somebody said to me I'm not saying it
somebody said to me that the devil was
very cunning he took Job's sheep away took
Job's camels away took Job's children away but
he left Job's wife now that was strange
just because he knew the kind of a
woman she was he left her there to
kill men for her now watch after everything
has happened here's what she said verse 9
then said his wife unto him doth thou
still retain mine integrity curse God and I
mind you she wasn't a virtuous woman that
we were looking at in Proverbs 31 no
she was a sinful woman curse God and
I but what's the answer it is said
of the house I speakest as one of
the foolish woman's speakest what shall we receive
good at the hand of God and shall
we not receive evil in all this did
not Job end with his rest I think
that's lovely you know those risks of Job
even in the deepest sorrow even when he
was going through the storm even in the
darkest night they were controlled risks seems to
be that God kept the door of his
mouth do you know friends we would need
a kindness on our lips towards our brothers
we would need a thankfulness on our lips
towards our God we would need a kindness
on our lips towards the world and we
would need a controlledness on our lips towards
the devil did not Job end with his
rest in all this Job came not with
his rest he was just sitting there very
jazzy look it's wonderful to be through the
book and find out the man who did
not sin with their lips in the deepest
darkest night do you remember the story of
Joseph his brethren all treated him there was
no kindness there he was put into the
pit and put down to Egypt and put
into the jail and put through the torment
but you'll read all the chapters in Genesis
to write the story of Joseph and you
won't hear one murmur not a murmur in
all this Job came not with his rest
you'll go from there to the book of
Daniel and you'll find that Daniel was put
into the lion's den and you know when
the king come round in the morning you
just look it up because he met the
king with the most tender words ok friend
you'll not get one murmur in all this
Daniel came not with his rest he went
through as dark a night as the Lord
possibly they struck him in his face they
struck him on the head with a reed
they ripped his guts into pearls with a
lash they suffered in his place he was
as a lamb before a shield a dog
in all this take the man on the
other side that did the opposite Moses he
spirit unadvisedly with his lips lost his temper
Peter he cried with all his heart denied
the Lord he was afraid Thomas except I
say I will not believe friend where do
we start wonder what cloud will be in
a man at the judgment seat of Christ
wonder where we'll be kindness thankfulness soundness
control of the mind and as you go
away tonight ask the Lord Jesus by his
spirit and through his words to make you
more kind in your speech tomorrow and more
to speak to your God to be more
kind in your talking to him to have
gifts given from the Father and more control
of his tongue before his mouth thank you