Six hundred and six people, six, six oh
then, this passing world is done, when has
sunk yon radiant sun, when the pearly gates
I gain, never to go out again, then
Lord shall I fully know, not till then,
how much I owe, six, six oh please.
Thank you.
When the sun is burning down, then
Lord shall I fully know, not till
then, how much I owe, then Lord shall
I fully know, not till then, how
much I owe, then Lord shall I
fully know, not till then, how much
I owe, then
Lord shall I fully know, not till then,
how much I owe, then
Lord shall
I fully
know, and we're journeying with Jesus this evening
down from Bethlehem to Jerusalem.
It's only six miles.
You see Bethlehem lies about six miles south
of Jerusalem.
And when you're turning from Bethlehem to Jerusalem
you're going north, and they tell me that
you always say going down, when you're going
north you're going down.
We get it mixed up here in Ireland
sometimes, sometimes I say I'm going up to
Port Lush.
That doesn't really matter whether you say up
or down, you're like the good old king
when you're only half way there, you're neither
up nor down.
So we're going down from Bethlehem to Jerusalem
this evening.
There's a very special day here in the
life of the master at Jerusalem, and there's
a very special day in the life of
the mother at Jerusalem.
Because if you're looking at your notes carefully
you'll find that there are three special days
on your notes this evening.
First of all there's the day of circumcision,
and I believe that this took place at
Bethlehem.
Now I know that there are some bible
scholars who argue against this.
They say they went to Jerusalem to have
the child circumcised.
I don't think for a moment that he
was circumcised in the stable.
You remember how he was born there and
laid in the manger.
Now I think we'll find out when we
come to the study next week when the
wise men came looking for the child.
You look it up now, it's Matthew chapter
2, and you'll find this, that the wise
men found the child in the house when
they had come into the house.
But we'll not go into that now.
You'll find that the great day here is
the day of circumcision.
And then of course after some time, Mary
and Joseph and the babe went to Jerusalem.
And that was a very special day in
the life of the master, because that was
the day of presentation.
Because Mary is a good Jewish mother, must
present the child.
It was the firstborn, must present the child
to the Lord.
And then of course we're going to have
a look at that special day in the
life of the mother.
It's the day of purification.
Because Mary was counted by the God of
heaven as an queen for a great number
of days.
And the Roman Catholics don't like me to
say that.
But we'll have to find out what the
scriptures say, dear.
So these three days are before us.
There's the day of circumcision, I think it
was at Bethlehem, the day of presentation at
Jerusalem, and the day of Mary's purification, which
we shall find within the temple at Jerusalem.
Now we're here in Luke's Gospel, chapter 2.
And you remember we were looking and listening
to that ballad of Bethlehem last week.
Verse 13, when suddenly there was with the
angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising
God and saying, glory to God in the
highest, and on earth peace, good will toward
men.
And we are moving on to verse 21
just now.
Luke's Gospel, chapter 2, verse 21.
Now watch the wording very carefully please.
And when eight days were accomplished for the
circumcising of the child, his name was called
Jesus, which was so named of the angel
before he was conceived in the womb.
That always throws me before he was even
conceived in the womb.
The angel Eudice, of the child to be
and have given the name.
And then the days of her purification according
to the law of Moses were accomplished.
And you want to watch that very carefully,
the law of Moses.
When the days of her purification according to
the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought
him to Jerusalem, that is they brought the
child, the Lord Jesus, to Jerusalem to present
him to the Lord.
As it is written in the law of
the Lord, and watch the phrase, the law
of Moses and the law of the Lord,
because they're one and the same.
As it is written in the law of
the Lord, every male that openeth the womb
shall be called holy to the Lord.
And they didn't only come to present him,
as it is written in the law, they
also came, verse 24, and to offer a
sacrifice according to that which is said in
the law of the Lord.
Because you have the law of Moses in
22, and you have the law of the
Lord in 23, and you have the law
of the Lord in 24, because Luke's really
laying down the law here.
And they came to offer a sacrifice, a
pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
And that will do us just for the
reading right now.
Now, we're going to think first of all
about the day of circumcision.
It was the eighth day, and I think
we want to get the teaching of the
law into this first of all.
Let's go back and see the law of
God on circumcision.
It's the book of Leviticus, and it's chapter
12.
Leviticus, and we're at the 12th chapter.
And the Lord is talking to Moses, verse
1.
And the Lord speak unto Moses, saying, and
that's the very reason that sometimes we call
it the law of Moses.
In fact, the New Testament definitely says that
the law was given by Moses.
Sometimes it's called the law of the Lord,
because it was the Lord that spake to
Moses.
And here you have it quite clearly.
And the Lord speak unto Moses, saying, speak
unto the children of Israel, and remember this
is for the Israelites, speak unto the children
of Israel, saying, if a woman hath conceived
seed, and born a man child, then she
shall be unclean seven days.
And there's a difference, you know, between a
man child and a girl child.
There's a difference between a boy and a
girl.
I know there are certain companies running about
now who want to make no difference anymore.
Well, I can assure you that the Lord
makes a difference in his church, and that
the Lord makes a difference in his law.
But we'll just take it bit by bit.
If a woman hath conceived seed, and born
a man child, then she shall be unclean
seven days.
According to the days of the separation for
her infirmity shall she be unclean.
And in the eighth day, the flesh of
his foreskin shall be circumcised.
The eighth day, and let's get up very
careful now.
And she shall then continue in the blood
of her purifying three and thirty days, thirty
-three days more.
She hath those seven days of uncleanness, and
then there is this eighth one left off,
where the circumcision might take place of the
child.
And then there are thirty-three more after
that.
And she shall then continue in the blood
of her purifying three and thirty days.
She shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come
into the sanctuary, until the days of her
purifying be fulfilled.
And that's one of the reasons I'm perfectly
sure that Mary didn't go to Jerusalem.
Till the thirty-three days were up.
She wasn't allowed to go.
She can't go to the sanctuary, she can't
go to the synagogues in Bethlehem.
And yet the child had to be circumcised
the eighth day.
So most definitely she wasn't in Jerusalem at
the temple.
I don't know where they get it.
She wasn't allowed to go.
I'll tell you when she went up to
Jerusalem, the child was forty-one days old.
Almost six weeks.
Six sevens is forty-two.
If you take eight days and then thirty
-three, you'll find it's forty-one.
I don't know why they argue.
I think they never read.
That's the trouble.
But let's get this quite clear.
Therefore, and she shall then continue in the
blood of her purifying tree in thirty days.
She shall touch no hallowed thing and not
come into the sanctuary until the days of
her purifying be fulfilled.
And if she bear a maid child, you
see there's a difference between a man child
and a maid child.
Then she shall be on queen two weeks,
as in her separation.
And she shall continue in the blood of
her purifying three score and six days.
It's sixty-six instead of thirty-three.
And it's fourteen instead of seven.
I'm telling you, God made a difference.
Oh, I know that they go raving about
and trying to say that they're just the
same.
Dear, if we were to take every department
of this book, you would find how many
differences God makes between man and woman.
And I'm not particularly whether you approve lib
or anything else.
I'm just telling you what's in the book.
Because God made it sixty-six days when
it was a maid child.
And it was only thirty-three when it
was a man child.
But that doesn't concern us very much this
evening.
This is the teaching of the law.
It says this, verse six.
And when the days of her purifying are
fulfilled for the son or for the daughter,
she shall bring a lamb of the first
years for a burnt offering, and a young
pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering,
unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation unto the priest, who shall offer it
before the Lord, and make an atonement for
her.
And watch that bit.
Make an atonement for her.
And she shall be cleansed from the issue
of her blood.
This is the law for her that hath
borne a male or a female.
And if she be not able to bring
a lamb, if she is not rich enough,
then she shall bring two turtles or two
young pigeons.
The one for the burnt offering and the
other for the sin offering.
And the priest shall make an atonement for
her.
And she shall be clean.
You see, she's on clean until the offering
is brought and she's needed.
Now, that's the law.
That's the teaching of the law as regards
circumcision.
Now, let's go back to Genesis, because in
Genesis chapter 17, we'll get the token of
the law there.
Genesis 17.
Verse 1.
And when Abram was ninety years old and
nine, he was ninety-nine at the time,
the Lord appeared to Abram.
You can see how his name is spelt
there.
And said unto him, I am the Almighty
God.
It's very like the word that they had
in Revelation 1, I am the Almighty.
I am the Almighty God.
Walk before me and be thou perfect.
And I will make my covenant between thee
and me.
And as we go down here, you can't
say, I will, I think there are seven
of them.
This is the first one.
I will make my covenant between thee and
me.
I will multiply thee exceedingly.
And that's the second one.
And Abram fell on his face, and God
spoke with him, saying, As for me, behold,
my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt
be a father of many nations.
Neither shall thy name any more be called
Abram, but thy name shall be called Abraham.
God changed his name here.
But a father of many nations have I
made thee.
And I will, and that's the third one.
I will make thee exceeding fruitful.
And I will make nations of thee, and
kings shall come out of thee.
And I will establish my covenant between thee
and thee, and thy seed after thee, in
their generations, for an everlasting covenant.
And I want you to get the hold
of that more than anything.
Because the covenant that's going to be made
is going to be an everlasting one.
You can't change it.
To be a God unto thee, and to
thy seed after thee.
And I will give unto thee, and to
thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou
art a stranger.
All the land of Canaan.
I don't understand the boys who don't understand
this.
Because God's making a covenant with Abraham.
And it's going to be an everlasting one.
And he says, I will give unto thee,
and to thy seed after thee, the land
wherein thou art a stranger.
And then he emphasizes it, all the land
of Canaan.
If you don't understand that, you should go
home.
We're all millennials, don't agree with us.
Ah, I tell you.
Is it the land of Canaan, or is
it not?
Oh, you're afraid to say.
My, how miserable you must be reading this
book.
This happens to be the land of Canaan.
Just start with that behind us.
And it goes from the Euphrates to the
Nile.
They haven't got it all yet, but they'll
get it all.
Because God says here, he's making a covenant
with Abraham.
And he's making an everlasting one.
Where it says again, I will give unto
thee, and to thy seed after thee, the
land wherein thou art a stranger.
All the land of Canaan, for an everlasting
possession.
And I will be their God.
Says, and I will.
And God said unto Abraham, thou shalt keep
my covenant.
Therefore thou and thy seed after thee in
the generations.
This is my covenant.
Which he shall keep between me and you,
and thy seed after thee.
Every man among you shall be circumcised.
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your
foreskin, and it shall be a token of
the covenant.
Is this a covenant God is making with
Abraham?
And he asks you another question, is this
an everlasting covenant?
Is this the token of the covenant?
Because they tell me now, you know, they're
trying to tell me, that sprinkling hath taken
the flesh of circumcision.
You're not reading this book right.
Because God said this wouldn't change, this would
be everlasting.
Where do you get your authority for that
now?
The end of this weekend.
And you tell me that sprinkling is the
token of the covenant.
Would you like to come down and meet
me after the meeting and show me the
page?
Because I can tell you, you can't tell
me.
It's totally yours taken off you, not the
book.
This token of the covenant belongs to Abraham
and belongs to the land and belongs to
Jews and belongs to Israelites and it has
got nothing to do with you.
It's an everlasting covenant given to the Jewish
nation.
And God has vowed that he will give
them the land of Canaan as an everlasting
possession.
And he said this, verse 11, And ye
shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and
it shall be a token of the covenant
that which made you.
And he that is eight days old, it
was God who laid down this law, shall
be circumcised among you, every man, child in
your generations.
He that is born in the house or
bought with the money of any stranger, which
is not of thy feet, he that is
born in my house and he that is
bought with my money, must needs be circumcised.
And my covenant shall be in your flesh
for an everlasting covenant, and it was not,
and cannot, and will not be changed, so
put me swiftly.
Have you got it now?
Do you think I'm a rascal?
No that's not.
I shouldn't take the time not to waste
it on duds who can't even think or
read or do anything else.
I don't know where you get all the
fancy ideas.
Well it's not just in the book and
that's all.
Now you've got to think a bit about
this haven't we?
Now, just why?
You've a right to ask questions, you know.
Why?
Why did God give this particular sign?
Why must Jewish boys be circumcised the eighth
day?
Why?
Well, there was a ceremonial reason, first of
all.
The mother was unclean for the first seven
and only the eighth day was allowed.
So she couldn't attend to this thing until
the seven days had gone past.
And even on the eighth day, she had
to remain thirty-three more.
But you know, there is not only a
ceremonial answer to the reason.
There's a physical answer.
I'm indebted to a man in the meeting
who gave me this book here, Mr. Wilkins
Stewart was sitting down there.
He came to the door the other day
and said, give us evil.
I said, no, I'm afraid I've never seen
that, but I would love to read this.
This is written by a medical doctor, S
.R. McMillan, M.D. It's called, None of
These Diseases.
So you can pick it up, it's a
paperback, you can get it in the dollar,
it's a match.
It's what it says on page twenty-one.
There is one final, but remarkable, unique fact
about the matter of circumcision.
In November 1946, an article in the Journal
of the American Medical Association listed the reasons
why circumcision of the newborn male is advisable.
It says, three months later, a letter from
another specialist appeared in the same journal.
He heartily agreed with the writer.
Then two doctors, Dr. Emmett Folt and Ruston
McIntosh, made a report that a newborn infant
has peculiar susceptibility to bleeding between the second
and the fifth days of life.
Hemorrhages at this time, though often inconsequential, are
sometimes extensive.
They may produce serious damage to internal organs,
especially to the brain.
It is felt that the tendency to hemorrhage
is due to the fact that the important
blood clotting element, vitamin K, is not formed
in the normal babe until the fifth to
the seventh day.
A second element which is also necessary for
the normal clotting of blood is prothumbin.
The doctors here will know this.
It appears that a neat, day-old baby
has more available prothumbin than on any other
day in its entire life.
Four thousand years after God said the eighth
day, they're finding out!
You got what I said?
Little baby, just born, and so the first,
second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth day, it hasn't
got this vital vitamin K and this prothumbin
made in its blood yet.
But on the eighth day, it has got
more than, than it will ever have again
in its whole life, should it live to
be a thousand.
So there was a physical reason, and only
God knew that.
Doctors are only finding out, of course.
Oh, but it goes deeper than that, my
dear.
There's not only a ceremonial reason that the
mother was on pain, and there's not only
this physical reason, but you know there's a
national reason.
Let me say this to you.
Now, ladies, you know that I just can't
go too far, because this is not a
medical flux.
And yet I feel I've got to say
things just now, and I hope you'll go
with me that I must do it.
You know, cancer, cancer of the womb for
a woman, is something that's on the increase.
It says here, cancer of the cervix is
one of the most common cancers in women.
It comprises 25% of all cancers in
women, and 80% of all genital cancers.
It says here, in the history, the history
of its recognition is intriguing.
In the early 1900s, Dr. Weinberg, who was
studying records of patients with cervical cancer in
New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, observed that Jewesses
were comparatively free from this common cancer.
And then Dr. Kaplan of New York's Bellevue
Hospital took it up, and was astounded by
the scarcity of cervical cancer among Jewish women.
1949, the gynecologist at Mayo Clinic noted that
568 consecutive cases of this kind of cancer,
not a single Jewess was among them.
That's really astounding.
Now, you've got to put your thinking cap
on, because I can't take you too far.
But women don't get cancer of the womb
from something that they eat, or from something
that they do.
You see, the man is involved in this.
And a man that's not circumcised can be
a danger, is what they're finding out.
So that the Jewish nation has been blessed
by this, blessed.
Jewish women don't have this, because Jewish men
don't have any skin germs, and I'm going
no further.
You ask me why?
Why?
Why did God do this?
There's a ceremonial reason.
There's a physical reason.
There's a national reason.
But then it goes further than that, doesn't
it?
There's a spiritual thing here.
Let's come over into the New Testament, and
we're at the letter to the Colossians, and
at the second chapter.
Paul's letter to the Colossians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians,
Colossians, And he's talking about Christ here, and
at verse 9 he says, we're at Colossians
chapter 2, verse 9, For in him that
is in Christ dwelleth all the fullness of
the Godhead bodily.
What a very wonderful statement.
And looking at the believer, he says, and
ye are complete in him.
Isn't that very soothing?
Which is the head of all principality involved.
In whom also ye are circumcised with the
circumcision made with our hands.
You wouldn't like to read sprinkling into this,
would you?
He says, I'll tell you, you have to
use your hands as sprinklers.
You want to hold the baby while he's
crying and the oil is a full water
on him.
But the circumcision we're talking about now is
not made with hands at all!
With our hands!
I want you to get the hold of
that, because that's very precious to me.
It says, in whom also ye are circumcised
with the circumcision made with our hands.
In putting off the body of the sins
of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ.
You see, that's very interesting.
Because you know, without me going into it
too much, that circumcision in the old economy
is cutting away the flesh.
Because when a man gets saved and he
stands complete in Christ, you know that then
he thinks that Christ has come into his
life, and cut away the old man.
He becomes a new creature now.
And all things are cut away.
And then he gets baptized by a virgin.
Not sprinkling.
Are you reading it off?
Do we need to read it over again?
Verse 11.
In whom also ye are circumcised with the
circumcision made with our hands.
In putting off the body of the sins
of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ.
Buried with him in baptism.
And that's buried.
I don't know how they work this at
all.
You see, this is the wonderful thing of
the church.
Let's go into chapter 3.
We're at Colossians chapter 3.
It says there in verse 10.
And have put on the new one.
You know we are new creatures.
Which is renewed in knowledge after the image
of him that created him.
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew.
Circumcision.
Moron circumcision.
Barbarian, Scythian, Bombardier.
But Christ is all in all.
You know the day that you step into
Christ.
You become a new creature.
And the very effectiveness of Christ's life in
you.
Cuts away the old man.
And that's circumcision with our hands.
And you become this new creature.
And you should be baptized then by immersion.
Has any quibbles about it at all?
You see these covenant theologists.
They come round to argue with me.
And they have no argument.
Let me shut it up once and for
all for you.
If you were a kid you can do
what I'm going to do now if you
can remember it.
Look at the Acts of the Apostles.
Chapter 15.
The Acts of the Apostles.
Chapter 15.
Paul and Barnabas have been out preaching and
so on.
And you know they have started little assemblies
here and there.
And then of course when you do the
spirit work sometimes.
They come round to preach things they shouldn't
preach.
I see somebody nodding their head.
They must know about this.
Hallelujah brother.
Verse 1.
15.
Uncertain men which came down from Judea trumped
the brethren.
They came into this we knew formed assembly.
And said except ye be circumcised after the
manner of Moses you cannot be saved.
You don't believe that do you?
That would be a new gospel wouldn't it?
That would mean I would have to trust
Christ.
And then get circumcised would you say?
You don't believe that?
As not what Paul said to the Philippians.
When the Philippians said what must I do
to be saved.
Paul said believe in the Lord Jesus and
thou shalt be saved.
But these were false teachers who wanted to
hold on to something that belonged to Moses.
Verse 2 says when therefore Paul and Barnabas
had no small dissension and disputation with them.
They determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain
other of them should go up to Jerusalem
unto the apostles and elders about this question.
And the whole Christian chapter now has come
out as Paul and Barnabas going to Jerusalem
about the question of circumcision.
Wouldn't it be the place where the name
of Jerusalem would have said.
You know it's changed now Paul.
It's changed potentially now.
Wouldn't it be the place if you were
honest?
Well your steps are through and through and
you'll never hear anything like that.
You know the plain text stares us in
the face when you go to Philippians.
Let's go to Philippians chapter 3.
Paul is giving his testimony here.
It is in verse 5.
Circumcised the eighth day of the stock of
Israel of the tribe of Benjamin and Hebrew
of the Hebrew touching the law of Pharisee.
He's expelling the people what he wants.
But let me put the question to you.
Was Paul circumcised the eighth day he was?
Because he was an orthodox Jew.
He was brought up in Judaism.
Now tell me this.
If circumcision stood in the place of the
now present strictly.
And strictly stands in the place of circumcision
so to say and I don't believe a
word of it.
Why did Paul get circumcised?
He was already circumcised wasn't he?
If one stands for murder why does he
need both?
I'll tell you this that the circumcision that
he went through only made him a child
of Abraham.
It belongs to Jews and it goes no
wider.
When baptism, believers baptism belongs to the children
of God.
I hope you see that.
This rubbish about circumcision and sprinkling is the
greatest hopeless nonsense that I've ever listened to.
And some of you old dead Presbyterians believe
it.
Your ministers all around preach it you know.
My dog just sit and listen to some
pulpy at times.
Then you walk with your sash on on
the twelfth of July.
Yeah.
Oh I get into trouble for rubbing into
the old men.
Oh I see them walking down the street
here with a non-sash and a poopy
scar on at the same time and the
one laughs at the other.
They amuse me.
Oh I get into more trouble, yes.
Oh praise the Lord I'll stand up for
what's right.
That's what's made this class all its days.
I think it has gotten so far.
I want you to see this.
Let me get back to the notes.
You see circumcision on the eighth day It's
established his nationality as a Jew.
That's all.
When he sat on the lair with the
women he said how is it that thou
being a Jew?
He knew he was a Jew.
That was his nationality.
And you know it not only established his
nationality because at the moment when they circumcised
him it was then that they gave him
a name.
His name was called Jesus.
That's his identity.
Now let's go back to Luke's Gospel chapter
2.
We'll try to work the rest of this
up.
Luke 2 verse 21 And when eight days
were accomplished for the circumcising of the child
his name was called Jesus which was so
named of the angel before he was conceived
in the womb.
And when the days of her purification according
to the law of Moses were accomplished and
that's thirty-three days after the earth's one
there were seven.
She was unclean.
He was circumcised on the earth.
She's still unclean for thirty-three more.
So that it's forty-one.
It's nearly six weeks later when they brought
him to Jerusalem.
You see sometimes we Christian mothers almost want
to follow the doctrines of Judaism.
I've seen this you know.
I've seen mothers who want to present the
child to the Lord just like this.
Let me say to you that this is
Jewish.
I hope you're not a Jew.
I would think that if some of you
came and presented yourselves that you would bring
your child up in the nature and admonition
of the Lord you'd do better.
But we're always angling after popery or Judaism
on the other side.
This is a Jewish mother.
And this is a Jewish child.
And this is a Jewish temple.
And this is a Jewish law.
And there was a law for a Jewish
mother that she must present her firstborn to
the Lord.
It's just merely being a good Jew and
obeying the law of Moses and presenting her
firstborn unto the Lord.
That's the whole thing that's right.
Now let's get this.
You see, the moment that she presented him
to the Lord this put a responsibility on
the child.
When he would come to the years of
responsibility and we'll find that out too you
know.
Because when he was twelve years of age
and there's a good rebit between the six
weeks and the twelve years he came to
the temple again.
But we'll wait till we come to that.
It is just the presentation of the child
and he's responsible when the days of his
responsibility comes to live under the law.
He was made of a woman we read.
He was made under the law.
And so you find that circumcision Well, it
gives him his nationality.
It was then he got his identity.
And the presentation in the temple just now,
six weeks later shows his responsibility to be
brought up under the law.
Now I want you to watch me just
now for a moment.
It says I brought them to Jerusalem to
present them to the Lord as it was
written in the law of the Lord.
Every male that openeth the womb shall be
called holy to the Lord.
But she didn't only come to do that.
She came to offer a sacrifice.
Make no mistake about that.
According to that which is said in the
law of the Lord a pair of turtledoves
or two young pigeons If you're looking at
your notes you know this was a special
day in the life of the mother.
It was the day of her purification.
You know she exhibits here her obedience to
the law.
She was the Jewish mother obeying the Jewish
law.
Make no mistake about that.
But you know there's just a little bit
more here.
She admits her uncleanness before the law.
You know she was unclean for the seven
days.
And after the child was circumcised she was
unclean for 33 more.
And she needed a sacrifice to put her
clean.
And the sacrifice was a title of what
her son would do in Calvary.
I don't know where this popish nonsense comes
in that she never was unclean in her
life.
I'm telling you she was unclean and I'm
telling you she withered and I'm telling you
she brought a sacrifice.
You know this bringing of the sacrifice and
you'll notice it was two turtledoves or two
young pigeons here.
You know she's admitting right here and now
her uncleanness and she's exhibiting her obedience to
the law.
But she's revealing that she was a poor
woman in the land.
You know she couldn't get her hands.
She hadn't got enough money.
This was the smallest, poorest sacrifice could God
make the law that even those in poverty
could cut her.
Two young pigeons.
And this shows us just how poor a
family the Lord Jesus was born into.
I hope we've got that.
I want to try to do this quickly.
Verse 25 And behold there was a man
in Jerusalem whose name was Philemon.
The same man was just and about waiting
for the consolation of Israel.
He was waiting for the Messiah.
And the Holy Ghost was upon him.
Oh I know the Pentecost had not come.
Now you'll think to hear some of the
Pentecostals that the Holy Ghost even began the
Pentecost.
And oh the Holy Ghost came upon this
man.
Oh he was an old Jew.
Oh the Holy Ghost was upon him.
And it was revealed unto him by the
Holy Ghost.
The Holy Ghost was working in him that
he should not see death before he had
seen the Lord's Christ.
This old fellow was absolutely sure he was
living in the secret place of the Messiah
and he had a knowledge of the secret
things of the Lord.
You know he knew I cannot die until
the Lord's Christ comes.
What a wonderful old character he was.
Walking about the temple of the devout man.
The Spirit of God on him all the
time.
I'll tell you if someone was to get
into the secret place a bit more they'd
know things that were going to happen.
You know he was sure of this.
He came into the temple.
It says verse 27 And he came by
the Spirit into the temple Seemed that every
single step was directed by the Spirit.
He thought of being led by the Spirit.
Well this fellow was.
And he came by the Spirit into the
temple and when the parents brought in the
child Jesus to do for him after the
custom of the law then took he him
up in his arms all sinly and took
the babe you know and graced God and
said Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart
in peace according to thy word for mine
eyes have seen thy salvation which thou hast
prepared the policies of all people a right
to let in the Gentiles must have shook
the temple when he said that and the
glory of thy people Israel and mind you
he put the Gentiles first You know if
he took the babe in his arms I
can almost see him he's an old Jew
trembling the Holy Ghost is on him He
says I have seen thy salvation The salvation
is in a person in Christ Salvation for
Jew and Gentile and you can't be saved
without Christ Neither is there salvation in anyone
It was a wonderful sermon wasn't it Look
at this little bitch Verse 33 and Joseph
and his mother marveled at those things which
were spoken of him Joseph and the child's
mother marveled at those things which were spoken
of him and Simeon blessed them and said
unto Mary his mother Mind you I want
you to get the hold of that This
old man blessed the Virgin Mary Did you
get the hold of that?
Because the Romans don't like me to say
that I'm telling you he blessed the Virgin
Mary She didn't bless him I'll tell you
this old Jew blessed her Don't read this
thing it's a trouble Someday you go through
the Scriptures you'll find there are three men
come very close to the blessed Virgin Mary
and Simeon was one of them and he
blessed the Virgin Mary You know Joseph he
was another one He stood by her where
everybody listened to him he stood by her
and I'll tell you this when she was
an old woman standing at the cross John
took her home to keep her She didn't
take him anymore He taught her You just
mark those men and you'll put her into
her right place Simeon blessed her Joseph stood
with her and John took her home and
looked after her Don't you make any mistakes
about it now Don't get her into the
wrong place She was the blessed Virgin Mary
chosen of God to do a mighty job
but don't be going and exalting her as
God She was unclean according to the Jewish
law Now this is very wonderful because just
at that moment verse 36 and there was
one Anna a prophetess the daughter of Samuel
of the tribe of Asher That tribe was
lost that day anyway because she knew where
she was coming from She was of a
great age and had lived with her husband
seven years from her virginity She was a
widow of four score and four years She
was a widow for 84 years She was
a good age at this time well over
a hundred which departed not from the temple
but served God with fastings and prayers night
and day If she coming in that instant
gave thanks likewise unto the Lord and speak
of Him to all them that looked for
redemption in Jerusalem Now have a look at
this woman I'm looking for messages for a
woman's meeting Well here's one This old woman
was a prophetess She was a prophesying woman
Do you get that?
You see the tribe she belongs to it's
the tribe of Asher The word Asher means
blessed When it says blessed is the man
it says in the Jewish Old Testament Asher
is the man It's the word blessed You
see it means happy Happy is the people
whose God is the Lord and it's the
word Asher Asher is the people whose God
is the Lord You see she wasn't only
a prophesying woman she was a prophet woman
It's a great idea You will find that
she lived with her husband seven years from
her virginity She was a pure woman You
know she was the widow of about four
score and four years She was a powerful
woman She was 84 years a widow but
she was still plodding on She served God
with such things day and night You know
she was a plodding woman She plodded on
Do you see the word prayers?
Prayers night and day She was a praying
woman Are you getting it?
A prophesying woman A pleasant woman Pure woman
Powerful woman A plodding woman A praying woman
What's this?
Is she coming in?
In that instant he thinks she was a
praising woman At this bit you take fellows
Likewise unto the Lord and speak of him
to our men She was a preaching woman
Oh Dr. Irons I do belong to the
brethren said She was the first evangelist in
Jerusalem Now to the whole settlement Speak of
him Oh nobody keep your back if you
keep talking about him She would out and
speak of him What better sermons could you
get?
She just speak of him to all men
that looked for redemption in Jerusalem She talked
the whole day and night long about Christ
See you next week Alright God bless you
Let's sing a couple of verses What are
we singing for?
Oh 1075 1075 we'll sing it all Ye
Christian heralds God proclaim salvation through Emmanuel's name
To distant climes the tidings bear And plant
the doves of Seren there And remember the
book store and sale And I want to
say to the old age pensioners Now take
them and don't pay for them Been giving
the money away to the missionaries anyway so
you might as well have a whack out
of it You know what Nicholson said on
one occasion when they lifted the collection an
old solicitor with an old grumpy old fellow
is in the front seat and the man
puts the plate on he says no no
I'm not giving you anything Nicholson says give
them something out of it it's for the
heathen anyway Well now
Old age pensioners Get the books free Heath
going to give you nothing it seems Give
nobody nothing And the worse you get in
you'll be worse And don't you young ones
try and pretend to be old age pensioners
when we have one or two cute boys
at the door They know your age by
looking at you God bless you We're singing
1075 1075 three verses the short ones 1075
1075 1075
Dear Lord
part us in our fear and with God's
blessing take us to our homes in safety
through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen