Thy throne, as thou hast sought to let
me see, Thy erring children, lost and lone.
786.
Now listen for the tune, because we're changing
the tune to an old-fashioned one, and
you'll easily get it if you listen.
Thank you.
And I
think you remember this, don't you?
That last week we looked at the created
man.
Let's turn to Genesis, chapter 1, just for
a moment or two.
Book of Genesis, chapter 1, verse 26.
And God said, let us make man in
our image after our likeness.
And last week we looked at God making
man after his own image.
And I went into what this, after his
own image, means.
And I pointed out that man has a
body.
We saw the material part of man being
made out of the dust of the earth.
And then God breathed into this, and this
became a living soul.
And we went away to Zechariah and found
that God, at the same psychological moment, formed
the spirit of man within him.
So that man is a tripartite being.
He is a trinity like God.
A trinity because he is body and soul
and spirit.
And that makes man.
You see, God is a trinity.
There is the Father, and the Son, and
the Holy Spirit.
Yet one God.
And man is body and soul and spirit.
Yet one man.
And so we noticed that man was like
God because he was a trinity.
And he was like God because he was
a trinity and a unity at the same
time.
And a personality at the same time.
But we also noticed this.
That man was an authority for this very
verse that we are at faith.
And God said, let us make man in
our image after our likeness.
And let them have dominion over the fish
of the sea, and over the tongue of
the air, and over the cattle, and over
all the earth, and over every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth.
So man was loved of all that he
surveyed in the day that God created him.
We also found that he was not only
a trinity, and a unity, and a personality.
Not only had he authority, but he had
a capacity like God.
A capacity to love.
And a capacity for holiness.
You know, when Adam failed, he immediately knew
he was not right before a holy God.
You know, he began to cover himself with
fig leaves.
But the moment that he heard the voice
of the Lord God walking in the garden
in the cool of the day, then he
ran because he knew that the works of
his own hands didn't meet the requirements of
a holy God.
You see, he had a capacity for love,
and holiness, and for peace, and for mercy.
And then last week we went on to
look at the fallen man.
Only just tackling these quickly to get some
new friends into the swing of things.
And when we looked at the fallen man,
we found that this book says Adam was
not deceived.
I think that's something that sometimes the people
miss.
Mind you, Eve was deceived.
Let's have a look at 2 Corinthians, and
we're at chapter 11.
2 Corinthians, chapter 11.
And this is what Paul is writing to
these Corinthians.
And don't let's forget that he's writing on
the inspiration by the Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is moving him to write
these words.
Verse 3, chapter 11, verse 3, we're saving
time.
But I fear, said Paul, lest by any
means of the serpent beguiled Eve through his
subtlety.
You see, he believed this Genesis story.
Make no mistake, the dog of some of
the modernists who poo this thing, say first
and second and third chapters of Genesis should
be thrown out.
It's trash, is it not?
I can tell you that our Lord Jesus
caught him from all three chapters.
I can tell you that the Spirit, under
inspiration, moved Paul to write, lest by any
means of the serpent beguiled Eve through his
subtlety.
So your mind should be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Christ.
And so there's no question about the authenticity
of the first three chapters.
But while Eve was beguiled through the subtlety
of the serpent, remember the book says, Adam
was not deceived.
Oh no, oh no, he walked into it
with his eyes open.
In fact, I believe that he saw what
Eve had done.
And out of love for her, he followed
her.
And he disobeyed God, and I mean disobeyed.
He wasn't beguiled.
He wasn't even tempted.
By one man's disobedience, this book says, sin
entered the world and death by sin.
And you'll find that this created man is
now a fallen man, and the capacity is
all upset.
The capacity for love is upset.
And the capacity for holiness is upset.
And the capacity for peace is upset.
And the capacity for mercy is upset.
The whole thing is upset.
You see, if we were to follow the
story, we would find that Adam and Eve,
fallen creatures now, sin hath entered, and the
seeds of death are within their breasts just
now.
You will find that their offspring, the first
baby born is Cain, and the next one
is Abel.
Now, these were the first babies in this
world.
They belong to the first family in this
world.
They were the first brothers in this world.
And Cain's death was the first, Abel's death
was the first death.
Infected was the first murder.
And Cain was the first murderer.
And you'll find that love and holiness and
mercy has gone out of all.
Right away you can see the fallen creature.
And you'll find this, that we come from
the fallen man, and you can trace this
right down through the book.
Now, that's as far as we went last
week.
We looked up the created man, and then
we looked up this fallen man, and we
could see that this capacity was upset.
Now, I want to come to the second
man this evening.
Let's go to 1 Corinthians, and start this
session properly just now.
1 Corinthians, chapter 15, and we're commencing at
verse 45.
1 Corinthians 15, verse 45.
And Paul says, And so it is written,
that first man, Adam, was made a living
soul.
And that's exactly what we saw last week.
God breathed, and the man became a living
soul, and he was body and soul and
spirit.
I want you to notice the phrase, the
first man, Adam.
Because that's a very important phrase these days.
One of the professors at Queen's not so
very long ago said to me, Do you
think there are any other men on any
of these planets, Mr. Mullan?
I said, there couldn't be.
He said, do you think we might find
men on Mars, or on some of the
planets?
Not a chance in the world.
This is the first man, is that right?
This is what this book says.
Adam was the first man.
Now, I can trace a great lot of
his race, of course.
And we all came from him, no matter
how far back you go.
I want you to get this.
That none of Adam's sons have left this
planet, and have gone to any other planet
to stay.
And even with all the science we have
today, the great men who leave this planet
and go to the moon can only stay
for a short time and come back again,
with about a thousand on Earth, helping them
through the orgy.
No, they're not finding any other men.
This is the first man.
If they find somebody else, Adam might be
knocked out of the race, but they're not
finding anybody.
The old book's too clean.
Now, the first man, Adam, was made a
living soul.
Verse 45.
The last Adam.
Now, who was that?
That's one of the titles of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
He's called the last Adam.
He was made the quickening spirit.
You see, he quickens poor lost sinners.
You remember Paul writing to the Ephesians, and
he said, You would wed in trespasses and
sins, and you have he quickened.
You see, that's what happens when you're born
again.
You see, our Lord Jesus is a quickener.
Yes, he gives life to those who come
to him.
It is very thrilling to know that only
in Christ and in him alone is there
new life for poor lost sinners who will
come and trough them.
You remember he said, I am come that
ye might have life, and that you might
have it more abundantly.
We were looking on Sunday night on the
great testimony that Christ gave.
He said, verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that heareth my message is the old
translation.
He that heareth my message and believeth him
that sent me is the proper translation.
You see, the Father sent the Son, and
he gives this testimony that life is in
his Son.
And he that hath the Son hath life.
And he that hath not the Son of
God hath not life.
And the sooner we get this little bit
tidied up in all simplicity, the better.
See, it doesn't make a matter what you
have tonight.
You may have a big church, and you
may have sprinkling, and you may have confirmation,
and you may have Bible reading, and you
may have prayer meetings, and you may have
a thousand things all connected with religion.
Let me say to you now just bluntly,
if you haven't got Christ, you haven't got
life.
He that hath the Son hath life.
He that hath not the Son, it doesn't
make a matter what he has.
He can have the home of chronic horror,
and all of ritual.
But if he hasn't got Christ, he hasn't
got life.
That's what this book says.
Peter was pretty sure about this.
He says, there is none other name under
heaven given among men whereby you must be
saved.
You need Christ.
You see, he's the last Adam.
Well, we'll get round to this.
Peter might address this, and so it is
written, the first man, Adam, was made a
living soul.
That's true, the last Adam was made a
quickening spirit.
And then it changes it in verse 47.
It says, the first man is of the
earth's ashes.
You see, his body was made of the
earth.
This is an old translation that says, the
first man is made of the soil, earth.
That's what it means, talking about the material
part of the man.
The first man, back to Adam again.
Now, watch this bit, the second man.
Sometimes called the last Adam, but called now
the second man.
You see, sometimes there are questions about this.
A young fellow came to me once after
the Bible class one evening, and he said,
I can't understand this person.
It calls Adam the first man, and I
accept that.
But how can you call the Lord Jesus
the second man?
There's a whole lot of men in between.
Millions of them, that's very true.
But you see, when we talk about the
first man, Adam, we're talking about the federal
head of the whole race.
You see, when Adam sinned, the whole race
that was to spring from him was condemned
in the federal head.
Yes, he was the representative, and he was
responsible for the whole race, and he failed
it.
But then you see, there came a second
Adam to the fight.
Somebody that the devil didn't think about.
And he's called the second man because he's
the representative of a new creation.
That's very important, you know.
Because you see, if you start to talk
to me about being lost again, I shall
start to talk to you about my federal
head.
Because I was lost when Adam failed.
I'll be lost again when Christ fails.
And that will be never.
Never.
You see, I think the people miss this.
You see, our Lord Jesus came the second
man, the last Adam.
He came as the federal head of a
new creation.
And I want you to get this.
You see, when you say second man, you
see his responsibility, don't you?
And when you say the second man is
the Lord.
Now, I know there's some arguments about the
translation there.
But I don't think there are any arguments
if you go through the New Testament.
Was this the Lord from heaven?
Oh, you know, I could waste the whole
meeting now doing this.
You see, on the night he was born,
on that memorable Christmas night, we call it,
so long ago.
You remember that the angel of the Lord,
he doesn't make any mistakes.
He came to the shepherds on the Judean
hills.
And he said to them, unto you this
day is born in the city of David,
a saviour of which is Christ the Lord.
For it was the Lord that came.
It's really wonderful, you know.
You just go right through his life.
And you see him in the wilderness, and
the wild beasts were with him, so it
says in Mark 1.
But they never touched him.
I don't believe he even groaned.
He was the Lord.
You can see him at sea in the
little fishing boat.
And you know, the fishermen were in jeopardy.
And when fishermen get in jeopardy, it's a
rough night.
And he just stood up and spake to
the waves, and the winds, and said, lie
down.
It's the old translation.
And you know, it was wonderful how the
time came just right there.
Because he was Lord of wind and waves.
When he spake to the fig trees, they
just simply reared up because he's Lord of
the vegetable world, too.
And when he died on the cross, and
his face is battered for the soldiers punched
his face, and the crown of thorns that
was crushed on his brow, let the blood,
and the sweat, and the spittle all mix
together, and his bones are pulled out of
joint, and his hair is muttered round his
face, and he dies in agony, and shame,
and in darkness.
And as the earth trembled, the dying priest
turned and said, Lord!
He's still Lord!
Let's get it settled now without a long
argument.
It was the Lord that came.
You can see his deity.
When you say, the second man, you see
his responsibility.
He's responsible for the new creation.
If he lets it down, it will perish.
Sure, he won't let it down.
He's God.
He cannot fail.
When you say, the second man, you see
his responsibility.
When you say, the second man is the
Lord, you see his deity.
When you say, the second man is the
Lord from heaven, you see his eternality.
See, Unitarians try to argue with me.
They'd be amused at their ignorance.
One old, frightened Unitarian minister said to me,
he began a Bethlehem in us.
Did he not?
I want you to explain this to me,
sir.
It says, the second man is the Lord
from heaven.
Did he come from heaven, or did he
come from Bethlehem?
While he was sort of turning it over
in his mind, I said, this book says
he who was rich became poor.
If he began at Bethlehem, you tell me
when he was rich.
Was he rich at his birth?
He was born in a stable.
Was he rich in life?
He was the carpenter's son.
Was he rich in the future?
He had to say, show me a penny.
The fowls of the air had nests.
The birds of the air had nests.
Yea, my dear, the foxes had holes.
He had no where to lay his head.
Was he rich in death?
He died on a cross.
He was buried in another man's grave.
When was he rich?
See, he doesn't know.
He hasn't got an answer to that.
You see, he was the eternal son.
Down from his glory ever living story, my
God and Savior came.
Let's get it settled, he was the Lord.
From heaven, came from heaven.
Wonder of wonders, you know.
He came from heaven to save a thing
like me.
Yes, he's the federal head.
Let's go back up the chapter here because
we're not finished with this.
Look at verse 22.
Sometimes I find when you work backwards you
can do it better.
Verse 22, For us in Adam all die,
even so in Christ shall all be made
alive.
You know, I know there are universalists who
preach this.
They say, you see, the first federal head
failed and all in Adam died.
Well, you see, Christ came to the site
and even so in Christ shall all be
made alive.
And they're putting the emphasis on the all.
Everybody died, everybody will be made alive and
nobody is on the parish that has nobody's
books yet.
I heard an old fellow preaching this once.
And I was so annoyed with him that
I I said to him, can I ask
you a question?
Oh, it was in the open air.
I'm allowed to ask if he allows me.
He said, certainly you can ask the question.
He said, you're preaching that everybody's saved whether
the Lord or not, all are saved.
That's right.
He said, you know, he was the savior
of the world.
That's right, sir.
If everybody's saved, you tell me why Paul
became all things to all men that by
all means he might save some.
What's he talking about over all this?
Tell me about the man that's lost in
hell in torment.
Tell me about the fearful and the unbelieving
and the whoremonger and the liar who shall
have their path in the lake of fire
forever and ever.
Tell me about it.
You see, they're not preaching right.
This is not handling the word of God.
Watch me doing the call.
He's putting the emphasis on me all, isn't
he?
Watch it now.
Verse 22.
For as in Adam.
When I was born, I was born in
Adam.
He was my federal head and I was
born again.
Yes, in Adam, in Adam, in Adam all
die.
Even so, in Christ.
All in Christ, of course.
I am Christ.
Now that's where the emphasis is.
You see, the fallen man.
I want you to get this.
That our Lord came to assist you.
He came to be responsible for a new
creation.
He came as the Savior of the world
and has provided salvation for all who will
accept it.
Oh, there's salvation for all.
But you don't want to be saved.
That's your business.
God is not taking conscripts to heaven.
You're not willing to be saved.
Talk to a wee boozer on Saturday night.
A man that's been drinking for years.
And I said to him, you know, the
Lord Jesus came to save you, Willie.
He called him Willie Jordan.
And he died on the cross to save
you.
And he rose again.
There is a Savior for you.
But you need to be willing to come.
He said to the folks once, ye will
not come unto me that ye might have
life.
He says, of course I'm willing.
And was down on his knees in the
flesh.
Now you see the created man and then
you see the fallen man.
And now you've had a glimpse of the
second man.
Let's try and see the saved man now.
The man that's in Christ.
Let's go to 2 Corinthians chapter 5.
2 Corinthians chapter 5.
Now this is very thrilling.
Verse 17.
Paul knew just how to preach.
He says, therefore, if any man be in
Christ.
That's the bit we were at just a
moment ago.
He is a new creature.
There's an old translation which says, he is
a new creation.
Ah, that's what our Lord came to be
the head of.
The new creation.
Adam was the head of the old creation.
Yes, and when we were born, we were
born in Adam.
And when we were born again, we are
in Christ.
Now I want you to watch how wonderfully
Paul put this.
If any man, you know there's a sameness
about this, any man.
Because I want you to get this, that
high and low and rich and poor and
black and white and learned and illiterate and
olive and Jew and Protestant and Catholic.
Any man.
Any man can get saved, you know.
Oh, don't make this exclusive, you know.
This is any man.
Doesn't make a matter what school you went
to.
Doesn't make a matter whether you can write
your name or not.
Doesn't make a matter whether you can read
or not.
There's a big man in the meeting now,
not very far away from me.
And the night he was saved, he says.
But the confessor says, can he read?
That's all right, I'll read it to you.
You'll believe I'll do it rightfully, don't you?
Come here right now for a moment.
Read it out.
And the Spirit of God takes the word
and breathes it in his heart and he's
down on his knees and he's crying, Lord,
Jesus, save me.
If any man.
Oh, yes, any old woman that never went
to school can get saved.
Any bruiser can get saved.
Let me tell you that a murderer can
get saved, if he will but come.
Though your sins be a toilet.
For heaven's sake, don't be putting limitations on
grace.
Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
If any man.
Let's hit that.
There's a famous about this.
It's the same for the Queen as it
is for me.
She'll have to get saved before the Lord
Jesus, if she's going to go to heaven.
I hope she'll be saved.
Yes.
Now, I want you to get this.
If any man.
There's a famous about that.
If any man be in Christ.
Let me hit the in Christ.
There's a blessedness about that.
You know, I'm not in the baptist.
I'm abysmal.
I'm in Christ.
Sure, I knew Christ before I ever saw
the baptist.
Oh, I believe what they believe, and what
I teach they believe too.
I believe the doctrines and the fundamentals of
this church.
They're scripturally true, but I'm not in the
baptist, you know.
I happen to be in Christ.
There's a blessedness about this.
You see, it's very wonderful to be in
Christ.
God is just like this.
You see, I'm right in there.
Just like that.
Goes right in there.
You see, if I look beneath me just
now, there's no other foundation that any man
can lay than that which is laid, which
is Christ.
I'm standing on Christ.
And you see, if I look away above
me, the highest place that heaven affords is
His.
Because He's underneath me and He's above me.
And this book says that like as the
mountains are round about Jerusalem, so is the
Lord round about His people.
And I'm in Christ.
He's below, above, and round about.
And if you're only saved, and you were
an old loser two weeks ago, you're as
much in Christ as I am.
You're not as long saved, but you're as
well saved.
There's a blessedness about being in Christ, you
know.
As any man, there's a sameness about this,
being in Christ.
There's a blessedness about this.
He is a new creation.
Yes, He is, you know.
Very wonderful to be a new creature.
You see, when you come to the Lord
and you accept Him, you're born again, you
get a new birth.
And you have a new life.
And you have new aspirations.
And you find new friends, and you do
new things, and you're on your way to
the new Jerusalem, aren't you?
You know, if any man be in Christ,
he is a new creation.
You know, there's a positiveness about that.
Oh yes.
You know, sometimes I've been in this vestry
here, I've led hundreds in my life, probably
thousands, to know the Lord.
And sometimes, you know, I kneel, can I
confess this?
Knelt with a man some years ago, and
he wasn't right down on his knees until
he lifted his hands and said, Lord Jesus,
thank you for this night, and I'm coming
to you, bless ye your mind.
And he was off his knees before I
knew it.
And it goes through my mind, I wonder,
is he really saved?
And that's a shame for me.
Because the book that I read, it tells
me, whosoever shall call upon the name of
the Lord shall be saved.
Oh, but years have proved that he was
a new creature.
Man, you can see him in the meeting,
a day or two later, he's got a
new Bible.
Yeah.
Passes the boys on the street, and they
look at him, and they think he's come
terrible.
My God, he'll not stick it, he'll be
back at the book.
He says, ha, ha, ha, he's not back
at the book.
And we're not wrong enough for him.
He's got new life.
You know why you are here tonight?
Because you're a new creature.
They can say what they like about you.
And they can scoff and laugh and mock.
They did it with your master.
What about it?
You're a new creature.
Yes, there's something positive about that.
You see this bit?
What's this bit?
If any man has the sameness there, be
in Christ, there's a blessedness there.
He is a new creation.
There's a positiveness there.
All things are tossed away.
I want you to get that.
There's an indisputableness there.
You know, that's how you know you're saved
too.
You see, I had, I had drank holy
wine from I was 16 until I was
24.
And the day that I took the old
cap off and screwed it into a nut
and stood there and said, alright Lord Jesus,
I'll give you my life and I'll trust
you.
I never drank holy wine again.
44 years.
I'm a new creature, you know.
And all things, you know, there's a whole
lot of old things tossed away, you know.
You have this experience.
You used to do this and you used
to go there and there were so many
things that were habits.
Are they gone?
Ah, yes, that's indisputable, you know.
You're backward, but you crawl around with the
believers.
Some of you I see coming in here,
you've just saved the dead too and walked
amongst me and blessed you and blessed him
too.
You know why you're here?
Not because you think I'm anybody.
You're here because you love the Lord.
That's wonderful.
That's the truth of history.
You see, all things, you might have been
in the pub tonight, but you're not, you
know.
All things are passed away.
You see, all things become new.
You know, this book becomes new.
Why you wouldn't have thought of sitting, fiddling
through these pages for a hundred pounds a
week.
Has something happened?
Hallelujah.
It has happened.
Do you see this?
You see, you're a new creation.
Something has taken place inside you.
It's a new birth, and we'll come to
that one night.
And I want to tell you this.
There comes a new commandment into your being.
Whether you love or not, you begin to
love for what you didn't.
See the old thing that was upset when
Adam fell?
How all the love begins to get its
proper place.
First of all, you love the Lord, and
then you love the Lord's people, and then
you love the Lord's house, and then you
love the Lord's Word, and then you love
those who haven't got the Lord.
Yeah.
Comes into its own, doesn't it?
And there's not only a new creation, and
a new commandment, but you know you begin
to walk a new course.
You're following after holiness.
Oh, you'll never catch up with it.
You'll never be perfectly, yet blamelessly, faultlessly holy.
No.
But you're going along that course, you're following
holiness.
And you're following peace.
And you'll never catch up in it either.
There'll always be somebody to really rattle you,
and you've got to stand up and become
her.
See, I watched these boys with the masks
on the other day, standing out with their
guns and their new guns on the street.
Where was Mr. Mason with all these muscles
then?
When poor old Paisley took a stance, whether
he was right or wrong, he hadn't a
stick in his hand.
But they had all the military in the
north of Ireland out on the roads.
My God, that new man would need to
be hunted.
That sort of game won't do.
Do we let these boys parade?
And are we afraid to get the men
out?
And then if poor Paisley makes a blunder
of any kind, all the army and all
the jeeps that they can command for about
three miles along the road waiting on them.
And you know, if they went to Iraq,
then they wouldn't fight booty or goose anyway.
It goes like a lamb.
They never fight like that.
I think it's a disgrace.
And I want to register that.
You see, I seek peace.
There's once or twice in life when I've
got the feelings.
I'm stayed on my will.
Don't you make any mistakes about that.
When I think it's truth and fair, I
shall fail.
Yes, I think God expects me to say
it too.
Oh, I'm following peace and holiness.
But I'll hardly catch up on it while
I'm here.
Look, let's get away from the creative man.
And let's get away from the fallen man
and the second man and the saved man.
Let's get to the common man.
Let's go to 1 Corinthians and we're chapter
3.
1 Corinthians chapter 3.
Now before we read the part of this
chapter, I want to say that Paul is
writing to the church of Corinth.
Let's have a look at the opening verses
of chapter 1.
Chapter 1, verse 1.
Paul.
That's how he starts his letters.
How I love it.
Not Dr. Paul.
Not the very reverent Father Paul either.
Just Paul.
Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus
Christ through the will of God.
And Sarpenes, our brother, unto the church of
God make no mistake about it, which is
a term for them that are saints as
I did in Christ Jesus called saints.
The words to be are in italics I
think in your book.
They're just called saints.
Now these people were really saints.
No doubt at all he's writing to the
church.
He's writing to them that are sanctified in
Christ.
He's writing to them who are the saints
of God.
And this is what he said to them.
Chapter 3 now.
He says, and I brethren, and he uses
that word to let you see that he
knows they're really saints.
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you
as unto spiritual but as unto carnal.
Even as unto beds in Christ.
I have fed you with milk and not
with meat.
For hitherto ye were not able to bear
it, neither yet now are ye able.
For ye are yet carnal.
For whereas there is among you envy and
strife and divisions are ye not carnal walk
of men.
You see, sometimes saved men become carnal men.
That's something we need to be very careful
about, you know.
See this word carnal it's an old Greek
word.
It's the Greek word parax.
And more times it's rendered flesh.
Carnal and flesh.
Though you have to be very careful with
the word flesh.
Because you remember that this book talks about
the loss of the flesh.
And you can see that if you go
to examine them adultery and so on and
so on.
And then this book talks about the sins
of the flesh.
And this book talks about he that is
born of the flesh is flesh.
But that's different.
You remember it says our Lord Jesus in
the days of his flesh.
You remember when he wrote again he says
the spirit hath not flesh and bones.
So when you use the word flesh you'll
find it sometimes talking about your body.
Sometimes talking about your physical friend in the
days of his flesh.
Sometimes this word flesh means you're all carnal
nature.
That's why we call it the sins of
the flesh.
See although we're saved tonight this is the
thing we want to get a hold of.
And we are a new creation.
And old things are passed away and old
things become new.
You know inside the same frame there's the
old man.
The old nature.
The carnal fleshly nature is still there.
If you haven't found that out I would
doubt that you're saved at all.
Because you'll find the old man will want
to do things you know.
Yes.
Now it's easy to see the carnal nature.
See what he said here.
Verse 3 For ye are yet carnal for
whereof there is among you envying.
See that's when you can see this old
man can't you?
There's envying and strife and divisions.
You see we have an open meeting here
in the morning at the table and we've
got quite a number of able young and
old preachers.
We had a young fellow stood up on
Sunday morning and preached.
Yes unto him who loved us and washed
us from our sins in his own blood.
And I've scarcely ever seen a young fellow
do as well.
Terribly well.
Now it's easy for other young fellows in
the meeting to be envious of them.
You're a fool if you are.
Remember if God takes up a wheel out
in the meeting and it's evitable to you
that God is helping him and God is
directing his thoughts and God is blessing him
then you ask for grace to say hallelujah.
Because God will go on blessing them no
matter about you.
You see when I was coming up in
the meeting at home and it was very
evitable that God was blessing me.
In fact it was more evitable to the
people than it was to me.
I always felt a backward shy sort of
character and didn't really know that God was
helping me so much.
But the pastor knew that he was annoyed
of God's forgiveness.
He said to the elders we must not
let this fellow preach.
He's a far better preacher than I am.
God helped the pastor to talk like that.
He should be hung from the highest tree.
That's baloney to get on like that.
Oh never let that happen.
If that breaks your heart go and close
your eyes and ask the Lord to give
you grace.
That's calm.
That's envy.
They'll get you nowhere.
That's your old man.
And you know this old man is ready
to start war about the least little thing.
Strength.
If you blow your nose wrong you're for
it.
There are all these people who just sit
in meetings and they're pure miserable carnal critics.
Just waiting for the first slip.
But when you preach for about 40 years
you don't get too hoots about them.
Don't worry me at all.
I knock it into them.
I do you know deliberately.
Oh yes.
They don't put me off my sleep or
anything like that.
I know that crowd.
My dear friend You that would start trouble
about nothing.
You're carnal.
It's your old nature is your bother.
That's what it is.
It's flesh.
Easy now.
It's false sense.
Yes.
Whereas there is among you envy and strife
and divisions.
You know there's always people ready to split
the meeting in two.
If they could only get the clode after
them.
Oh Paul warned the Ephesian elders.
He says after my departure shall grievous wolves
enter in among you not sparing the flock.
And of your own selves shall men arise
drawing away disciples after them.
That's the big idea.
I need a promise to the Lord.
You know I should die or brush the
streets or go into poverty before I will
split the meeting.
That's not a shepherd's job.
I shall gladly go out like David on
my bare feet not a bit of me.
If legs have ever crossed your heart may
God fight you.
If you would ever drive that leg so
hard that you would split the meeting for
your miserable ideas.
You're a carnal creature.
You see that that thing is put to
death.
The flock is more important than you and
I.
Yes.
You see this.
Look let's go to 3rd John.
1st, 2nd, 3rd John.
Sometimes you wonder why John penned these little
letters.
But I assure you there is much in
them.
See 3rd John hasn't many verses mind you.
Just 14.
Here's what he penned in verse 9.
I wrote unto the church.
He was writing to the church.
But diatrophies who loveth to have preeminence among
them receiveth us not.
Wherefore if I come I will remember his
deeds which he doeth preaching against us with
malicious words.
And not content therewith neither doth he himself
receive the brethren and forbid us them that
would and cast us them out of the
church.
Well that's carnality at its worst.
And I venture to say that there's hardly
an assembly in the world that diatrophies have
not appeared in sometimes.
My dear friend don't you be a diatrophy.
You don't need to be the preeminent one
you know.
The Lord can bless a wee fellow in
the backseat alright.
Yes you'll find that right through the Corinthian
letter that Paul points out how carnality gets
on.
Now that's as far as we'll go this
week.
But next week now I want you to
get the hold of this.
Because we're branching out now I've tried to
do the man in a broad spectrum for
you.
You can see the creative man and then
you can see the fallen man and then
you can see the second man and then
you can see the saved man and then
you can see the carnal man.
Now we want to sort of put the
man on the table the theatrical table of
the word of God and we want to
dissect him now.
Now first of all I want to look
at his conscience because when God made man
he went straight into the age of conscience.
Though the law didn't come to a bit
of Israel law.
Now the conscience is a part of man
and it's very difficult.
And I would venture to say that unless
you keep close to the word of God
you will never get this exact.
But I've done it out for you and
the notes are ready and everything and we're
going to look at the weakness of his
conscience at times.
And we're going to look at the hardness
of his conscience.
Because you can have a steel conscience you
know as with a hot iron.
Then we're going to look at the activeness
of his conscience and then we're going to
go on with every detail concerning the conscience
of man.
So you see we're beginning to dissect and
then we'll look at his spirit his soul
and we'll go on from there.
So you know where we go.
Don't think we'll sing anymore.
Where are you?
How fair she is.
Bless her.
Omnibarifita.
She's just a school girl you know.
She goes to school and we're training her
up and she's doing very well and we
all love her and she's a great weasel
and you couldn't upset her no matter what
way you try.
Yeah.
You wouldn't tackle the big fella at the
back would you?
We'll sing one verse.
642.
Just the first verse.
642.
When we walk with the Lord in the
light of his word but the glory he
sheds on our way when we do his
good will he abides with us still and
with all who will trust and obey.
Just the first verse.
642 please.
Dear Lord part us in thy fear and
bless thy blessing for thy manship.
Amen.