It's the last reconciliation this evening.
We've not done redemption and atonement, on the
Lord's desk, and I would love to do
substitution and imputation, but we can't take the
time.
We're going on to the burial, and then
the next week is the Lord wills for
the resurrection, and then we're coming to the
spot where we're going to start into this
mighty subject of demonology, and I think it's
a mighty subject altogether.
Now, I've put on the notes there three
New Testament aspects of reconciliation.
Now, just let's look at these aspects first
of all.
We're in Romans chapter 5, the beginning.
Letter to the Romans, and we're chapter 5.
Verse 10 will do us, just to save
the time.
For us, when we were enemies.
Now, when we talk about we, or when
the apostle talks about we, you can see
he's putting himself in the crown.
When we believers were enemies, and there was
a time when we were enemies against God.
I can remember the days when I blasphemed
his name from early morning till late at
night, and cursed God to his face.
Now, he says here, for if when we
were enemies, we were reconciled to God by
the death of his son.
You know, that's reconciliation received by the believer.
Now, have a look at this one.
We're at 2 Corinthians, and we're at chapter
5.
2 Corinthians, chapter 5.
And again, to save time, because we'll come
back to this, Paul says at the end
of verse 18, God hath given to us
the ministry of reconciliation.
We who are reconciled have been given a
ministry of reconciliation to which it is what
we witness, that God was in Christ reconciling
the world unto himself.
And that's another aspect.
You see, that's reconciliation that's offered to the
world.
And if you go to the letter to
the Colossians, and we're at the first chapter,
Paul's letter to the Colossians.
We're at chapter 1.
And here's what it says here in verse
20, and again we'll come back to this.
And having made peace through the blood of
this cross, by him to reconcile all things
unto himself.
By him, I say, whether they be things
in earth or things in heaven.
So you can see the three aspects.
There's the reconciliation that's received by every believer.
And there's the reconciliation that's offered to the
world.
And there's the reconciliation that's wrought for both
heaven and earth.
And we've got to balance this out this
evening.
I think we need to know the very
depths of the root meaning of reconciliation.
And I think the best place to find
that is in 1 Corinthians chapter 7.
1 Corinthians chapter 7.
And it says a lot in this chapter
about husbands and wives.
And I don't want to get into the
depths of the many things that are here.
Verse 3 says, Let the husband render unto
the wife due benevolence.
Isn't that a tremendous statement?
You see, every husband should recognize that his
wife has certain rights.
And he ought to render unto her due
benevolence.
Yes, this is her rights that we're talking
about.
She's got conjugal rights that you must respect.
And she's got mother rights that you'll have
to respect.
Now it says in the next verse, in
the same verse, Let the husband render unto
the wife due benevolence, likewise also the wife
unto the husband.
Because he's got rights too, you know.
And if we would just keep this in
mind as Christians, it might lead to happier
families.
Now, away down the chapter, I don't want
to go into all this about husbands and
wives.
It says in verse 10, And unto the
married I command, yet not I, he corrects
himself, but the Lord.
It's the Lord's command.
Let not the wife depart from her husband.
You see, some old fellows are hard to
put up with, aren't they?
You're not a run home to your mother,
you know.
You see, I don't believe that the horse
is caught in this book for believers.
In fact, I'm very sure about that.
Oh, I know, you know, that there are
arguments about it.
You remember when our Lord Jesus was speaking,
let's just go back a bit, in John's
Gospel, in Matthew's Gospel, chapter 19.
Let's put this straight for a moment.
John 19, verse 3.
The Father sees all that came unto him,
tempting him.
You want to get that bit in, you
know, they were coming.
They were always trying to trap the Lord
Jesus.
Saying unto him, is it lawful for a
man to put away his wife for every
cause?
Here's how he answered.
He answered and said unto them, Have ye
not read that he which made them at
the beginning, made them male and female, and
said, said something, For this cause shall a
man leave his father and mother, and shall
cleave to his wife, and they twins shall
be one flesh.
Now, where is he quoting from?
Have ye not read?
I can tell you now that he's quoting
from Genesis, chapter 2.
So he believed in the book of Genesis.
And he believed everything that's written there too,
including chapter 1, and 2, and 3, and
4, and 5, and right up to 50.
Well, let's go back and have a look
at Genesis, chapter 2, where he's quoting from.
And to me it's most thrilling.
We're at chapter 2, verse 21.
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep
to fall upon Adam, and he slept.
And he took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh, and sped thereof.
And the rib which the Lord God had
taken from man, made he a woman.
I want you to get this little bit.
And brought her unto the man.
Did you ever see a father giving his
daughter away at the wedding?
Well, he brings her up the aisle, brings
her to the man.
And this is what Adam said when he
got her.
Adam said, this is now bone of my
bones.
And flesh of my flesh.
It was a pretty good union, wasn't it?
Because when we talk in the New Testament
about the union of Christ and his believers,
it's every bone of his bones.
And flesh of his flesh.
And if you can break these two, you
can get lost again.
Because you can break the union.
It says here, therefore, verse 24.
Now it's God that's speaking now, so Christ
says in Matthew 19.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and
his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,
and they shall be one flesh.
Jesus said, have ye not read that he
that made them male and female said?
It was God that said this.
And they're made one.
And they can never be made two again.
That's how God has it.
Exactly how God has it.
Now you'll find as you go back to
Matthew chapter 19, that the Pharisees were not
going to let them away with this.
They were going to have a bit of
an argument with him.
He said in verse 4, have ye not
read that he which made them at the
beginning made them male and female?
And you can see that if God made
them male and female, they didn't come from
monkeys.
And there's no evolution about it.
They were created male and female.
Man and wife.
And you'll find that they begin to argue,
verse 6.
Jesus says, wherefore they are no more swain.
No more swain.
But one says, what therefore God hath joined
together let not man put asunder.
So they start arguing now.
They say unto him, why did Moses then
command to give a writing of divorcement?
Because Moses did, you know.
Well Moses had a tremendous multitude in the
wilderness with him.
Thousands upon thousands upon thousands upon thousands.
And he had great trouble.
And you see they fought and they came
to the door of attention.
Well Moses gave them a bill of divorcement.
Jesus said in verse 8, he says unto
them, Moses because of the hardness of your
heart suffered you to put away your wife.
But from the beginning it was not so.
I hope you got that bit.
Oh God may have permitted Moses to do
a lot of things.
And that may have been the permission of
the will of God.
But the direct will of God.
It was not so.
You see in America, and we have some
Americans here tonight, bless them.
You can get a divorce if your wife
sneezes at night.
As simple as that.
Or if she has cold feet.
After divorce.
The doctor said to me once when he
was examining me, are you troubled with cold
feet?
I said aye, but they are not mine.
Now they keep on arguing.
Now look what Jesus said, and this is
where some people run to.
Verse 9, I say unto you, whosoever shall
put away his wife, except it be for
fornication, and shall marry another committeth adultery, and
whoso shall marry of her which is put
away doth commit adultery.
Now the Lord is quoting the law that
was in their land at that time.
That was the law they had.
A way back yonder they had the law
of Moses.
He gave them the law of devotion.
You know when the law of God came
into action, if a man was caught with
another woman committing adultery, they were stoned.
Because nobody wants that to be brought on.
They don't go back to that one.
They leave that one out all the time.
And there was the law of Moses, and
there was the law that was in their
land in the day when Jesus Christ was
there.
And there's the British law now.
Yes.
I preached at a place once, and at
the end of the service, a little fella
came up to me and said, Mr. Moore,
my wife has left me.
And she thought I half worshipped you.
And I think if you went and talked
to her, I could get her back again.
I said, son, I'm not just the softest
of all that.
But your wife didn't leave you for nothing.
So you'd better tell me the whole story.
He said, well, I have to admit that
I was running about with other women, and
I got venereal disease, and she found out,
and she left me.
But I've been cured, and I have a
complete bill of clearance, and I want to
get right, and I want to get her
back.
And I said, I'll go and have a
chat with her tomorrow.
And I did, and she opened the door,
and she welcomed me in.
She said, I know who sent you.
I said, he was talking to me last
night.
Is there no chance of a reconciliation being
made here?
She said, no, he never tells the truth.
I said, well, I think he told me
the truth.
He said he was running about with other
women, and he got venereal disease, and you
caught it all.
She said, did he tell you that?
I said, he did.
She said, that's the first time he's told
the truth.
And I'm taking him to court now, and
I want you for a witness.
Nice of her, wasn't it?
So Lord MacDermott was the Lord Chief Justice
in our land in those days.
And his son was the outstanding King's Counsellor,
or Queen's Counsellor, it should be.
And he sent me a letter, a few
days later, to come to his office.
And I went to see this gentleman.
Went through all the tribal offices to get
in to see him.
You, Mr. Mullen, were talking to this lad,
and he told you all this.
So he began to read out, I, Pastor
Mullen, who live at Windsor Avenue, Lurgan, was
speaking so and so.
And he told me this, and he had
the whole story written down.
And he said, friend, you need to know.
So I lifted the paper, tore it in
bits, and dropped it into the basket.
He said, that's my property, you know.
I said, it's in your office yet, sir.
He said, you think you're going to get
out of this.
I said, sir, I am sure I will
get out of this.
He said, I'll summon you by subpoena, and
that simply means that I get a summon
from the Queen.
And I have the great privilege of getting
a summons from the Queen.
Have it in the house, yes.
And it just means, when I'm summoned by
the Queen, I've got to go to court.
And the good old doctor who used to
be here in the town, he said, Willie,
are you going to go to this court?
I said, yes, I am.
I've got to go, can't do anything else.
He said, are you going to get evidence?
I said, no.
I said, I shall answer to my name
and go and sit in the dock, and
you'll bother making me talk if you don't
want to talk.
You can't screw my arm, come and sit
there.
He said, well, you know, there'll be trouble
about this.
You'll get three months in the Crumlin Gaol.
Oh, and I said, I'll get three months
in the Crumlin Gaol.
I could do with three months in the
Crumlin Gaol.
I'd be out of a lot of work.
I'd have time to do this and that
and the other.
So we went away together to the High
Court, and the great moment came, when the
great Lord Macdonald came in, and everybody stood
up, bowed to the judge, sat down.
He's just opening the book, when he falls
off a chair.
Took ill, had to carry him out.
The doctor said to me, you were praying
for him, that was all.
I assure you I wasn't.
So I'm coming out of this.
Now the case was put back for three
weeks.
Coming up, when another Queen's counsellor saw me,
a fellow that I've helped greatly, and he
loved the Lord, he said, what did you
do in here?
He said, I've been examined solemnly to come
to get evidence to get a woman a
divorce, to have an emotional divorce.
I said, what do you intend to do?
I said, just sit and look at her.
I said, I'm not getting evidence to get
a woman a divorce.
You don't believe in that.
Well, he said, he said, and then he
thought, he said, come round to the office,
there's something about this.
So I went round to his office, and
he went along a line of law books,
all the books of the day, for two,
and lastly picks one up, opens it up.
He says, you know, Macdonald can be in
trouble for summonsing you.
Go on ahead, you're buoyed.
I said, you're talking right now.
He said, there was an old law passed
by Queen Victoria, gave me the statute, book,
number, and all the rest of it.
You were what is called a conciliator.
You were standing in between these two.
You were trying to put things right.
And a conciliator cannot be summoned.
Get the girl at the pen, writer there,
the paper writer.
So she typed it out, and she typed
a copy out for the Secretary of the
Baptist Union, who was interested in what would
happen to me, and I thought that he
should have this, as he typed for you
for us.
And I had just left the office with
the paper in my pocket, and he told
me what to do.
When you're taken back to the court, just
hand that up to the judge and say,
Sir, your son doesn't know the law yet.
And he said, you're going to put him
in a fix.
But you see, I'd just left the office
when young McDermott came in and lifted one
of these papers and read it.
He said, if the pastor gets a hold
of this, I'm in a fix.
And the papist said, he left two of
them away home in his pocket.
Now this is the law of our land,
we'll tell you now, Lord McDermott and his
son.
And you know what fix I'm in now,
if I say anything wrong.
When the kids came under the subpoena against
me, they never called me.
The judge on the bench is wrong.
He's being on guts.
And the young fellow needs me.
And he never speaks.
That's the sort of law we have.
Yes, that's our great judge and his son.
Yes, conciliation's a tremendous thing, you know.
Want to get this over.
Let's go back to 1 Corinthians chapter 7.
Now Paul is commanding here, it says, The
Lord will go and unto the married I
command, yet not I but the Lord.
Let not the wife depart from her husband.
But, verse 11, 1 Corinthians chapter 7, verse
11, But and if she departeth, and that's
a tremendous thing.
But and if.
Let her remain unmarried.
Or be reconciled to her husband.
You see, a woman might marry a man.
We have a woman in this meeting, one
of our sisters here.
And she was married to a man who
hummered the life out of her.
Some mornings I would meet her with both
eyes blackened.
And she went through a terrible time.
Said to me, if I would stop with
a man on the street to say hello,
he's so jealous that he hummers me.
And so the time came when she couldn't
be kept in this cage with this beast
any longer.
Oh, there's a place in the scripture where
she can depart.
There's such a thing as legal separation, yes.
That's what's taught here.
But and if she departs, if she can't
put up with it any longer.
Says, Mr. Moore, if I leave him, will
you put me out of the meeting, not
a bit of us?
I said, we'll just understand your position.
I don't think you should be chained with
this boy all the days of your life.
But she's got to remain alive or be
reconciled.
Isn't that it?
You see, the word reconciliation means this.
It means that the position is completely changed.
That's what it means.
Now, let's see what it meant for us.
Let's go back to Romans chapter 5.
It says in verse 10, For if, when
we were enemies, we were reconciled to God
by the death of His Son.
You know, I was an enemy of God.
And then through the gospel, I was led
to see what Christ had accomplished for me.
How He had come and died and rose
again and there was a living Savior for
me.
And the moment that I put the arms
of my faith round the Christ, the Son
of God, who died for me, I was
reconciled to God by the death of His
Son.
You see, I was completely changed from being
an enemy against the Kingdom of God to
being a subject in the Kingdom of God.
That's the complete change.
Yes, I want you to get the hold
of that.
Let's have a look at what we were
looking at in Colossians chapter 1.
Because there's a bit there that just fits
in here.
Colossians chapter 1, verse 21.
And he's talking to believers.
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies
in your mind by wicked works, yet now
have be reconciled in the body of His
flesh through death to present you holy and
unblameable and unreprovable in the sight.
What a reckoning it is.
So the position's completely changed tonight.
I, who once was an enemy against the
Kingdom of God, I'm a subject in the
Kingdom tonight.
And through the death of His Son, I'll
be brought in eternally, yea, holy and unblameable
and unreprovable.
My fancy, me standing before the throne and
even God cannot reprove me.
I'll be in the likeness of His Son.
So I think you can see that bit.
Now there are other bits more difficult.
Let's go to 2 Corinthians chapter 5.
2 Corinthians chapter 5.
Once you get the proper lead up here,
let's begin at verse 17.
2 Corinthians 5.17 Therefore, if any man,
now it doesn't make a matter who you
are, and it doesn't make a matter what
you are, we have a little girl from
the Far East here this evening.
She was brought up under the Buddha religion,
and just a few months back she didn't
know anything about Christ.
But she knows Him now.
Now it doesn't make a matter what colour
you are, and it doesn't make a matter
what class you are, and it doesn't make
a matter what creed you are, and it
doesn't make a matter whether you come from
the jungle or the palace.
If any man, it's the same for a
whole bunch of us.
Now that's the sameness within this wonderful verse.
If any man be in Christ, you know,
in Christ, that's the blessedness within this verse.
You can see the sameness, any man, you
can see the blessedness.
He is a new creature.
Actually the word is a new creation.
That's the positiveness that he is.
Don't for any fix tell me that you
can just say it and stay in the
world.
I don't believe that.
I don't believe that for a moment.
It's got to make a change then.
And if you bluff yourself, you're like the
people we were talking about the other night.
There's a lot of them who profess to
know God, but in which they deny Him.
Now I'll tell you, you're an abomination in
this sight.
You see, is any man, that's the sameness,
be in Christ, and that's the blessedness.
He is a new creature, that's the positiveness.
All things are passed away, and that's positive,
isn't it?
Behold, all things are become new.
You know, that's the newness that's here.
You're a new creature.
The day you got saved, did heaven above
become bright blue?
Did earth around become sweeter green?
Did something live in every shoe that Christ
was ours, but never seen?
Did all things become new?
It isn't all things are of God, who
are reconciled up to Himself by Jesus Christ.
But you know, we're not only enemies made
subjects, and we're not only sinners made saints,
we're not only new creatures, we've been given
a ministry of reconciliation.
We're not only reconciled, but we've got a
message of reconciliation to preach to others.
And this is the wonder of it, to
which it is our witness, that God was
in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not
imputing their death passes unto men.
And not committed unto us believers the word
of reconciliation.
For that's a tremendous thing.
You know, we must not ever forget that
Christ was God, manifest in flesh.
Let's never forget this.
Talking to Russell like the other day, he
says, God cannot die.
No God out of Spirit, infinite and eternal,
cannot die.
But God manifest in flesh can.
Do you get that?
Yes, God manifest in flesh can die.
When God, the great Creator God, is absolutely
true, you know, God was in Christ, you
know.
I said to him, God cannot sleep, you
know.
But God manifest in flesh can sleep.
In the Hebrew part of the book.
God cannot get tired, can He?
God manifest in flesh was weary with the
journey.
He slept to get the hold of this.
God was in Christ's hand, reconciling the world.
Oh, that's a tremendous thing, you know.
An old fellow said to me, the world
says.
But on your life it's not.
There's going to be a procession at the
end of the day, and they're called the
fearful, and the unbelieving, and the whoremongers, and
all liars, are going down into the pit.
Make no mistakes about it.
Don't get it all wrong.
Now what does this mean that God was
reconciling the world?
He was changing the position.
That's what the word means, changing the position.
When I was going in between these two,
I was trying to change the position.
Then I put my faith in Christ, through
the death of God's Son, the position's changed.
Let's go back to Romans 3 for a
moment.
We're at the letter to the Romans, and
we're at the third chapter.
Second verse 19, Now we know that what
things soever the law says, it says to
them who are under the law, that every
mouth may be stopped, and all the world
may become guilty before God.
And that word guilty is a tremendous word.
If there's a little number of it in
your Bible, you must have a reference in
the margin.
And it says in my margin, subject to
the judgment of God.
That's what it says in the margin.
Of course you would know that as you
were standing in the dock, and the jury
had brought you in guilty.
You know that you're subject to the judgment
of the court now, don't you?
And the law had brought the whole world
in guilty.
This is where you get dispensations coming in.
The whole dispensation of the law had just
proved that man was guilty.
And incurably guilty.
Because the carnal mind without enmity with God
and was not subject to the law of
God, neither indeed can be incurably guilty.
And before Christ died, this was the position.
That the world was under the judgment of
God.
And that the righteousness of God demanded the
judgment of God to be on the world.
Now that's a tremendous thing, that the righteousness
of God should demand the judgment of God
to be on the head of these guilty
ships.
Now, let me see what it says now.
It says in verse 21, But now, and
you need to emphasize the now, now the
righteousness of God without the law is manifested.
And it's very wonderful because that's a bit
of a change.
The righteousness without the law is manifested.
I think this is a lovely rebit.
Being witnessed by the law and the prophets.
You know, the righteousness of God that brings
salvation and offers it full and free and
present and perfect and eternal to everyone who
believes in Jesus.
You know, the law and the prophets take
off the hat to that.
Being witnessed.
Glad to see.
The law and the prophets just take off
the hat.
Now, watch this.
But now the righteousness of God without the
law is manifested, being witnessed by the law
and the prophets.
Even the righteousness of God which is by
faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon
all them that believe.
Of course, our friends wouldn't accept that.
They'd have to have a whole rigmarole before
the word believe.
But it just happens to be that this
is upon all and unto all them that
believe.
Yes, you can't read.
It says, For all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God.
Being justified freely by a grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus whom God
has set forth to be a propitiation through
faith in his blood.
To declare his righteousness for the remission of
sins of the past through the forbearance of
God.
To declare, I say, at this time his
righteousness that he might be just You know,
that's tremendous.
God has shown in his righteous dealings with
his son at Calvary that he is absolutely
just.
And yet because Christ stepped into the breach
and paid the price, you know the righteousness
of God can offer now full and free
salvation to whosoever believes.
You see, the righteousness of God that demanded
the judgment of God that righteousness now offers
salvation.
Yes, it does more than that because we'll
need to go back to 2 Corinthians to
see that.
Let's go back to 2 Corinthians chapter 5.
Now, where do you see this?
This is most delightful.
You see, we who are reconciled we've got
this ministry of reconciliation verse 19, to which
the God within Christ reconciling the world unto
himself not imputing that death passes unto them
and hath committed unto us the word of
reconciliation.
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ.
As though God did beseech you by us.
We pray you in Christ's stead be you
reconciled to God for he hath made him
to be sin for us and you know
sin that we might be made the righteousness
of God.
All that I can get this over with
somebody listen to it carefully.
The righteousness of God demanded the judgment of
God on every guilty sinner before Jesus died.
That was the position.
But when Jesus died the position is changed.
All the world is brought into a complete
changed position.
Instead of being under the judgment of God
the righteousness of God that demanded the judgment
of God the righteousness of God is offering
them offering them, get it the righteousness of
God.
Do you see where I stand tonight?
I look at the cross I see the
Lord Jesus.
He who knew no sin.
He was made sin for me that I
might be made the righteousness of God.
Amen.
Oh what a change.
This is what God is offering the world
tonight.
The position is so changed that God is
offering the world the hand of God demanded
that righteousness like that and the world couldn't
come up to it, it was guilty.
But as he held out that hand Christ
came in and shut it and opened that
one to give what he had already given.
That's where I'm closed tonight.
It wasn't the Baptist church that saved me.
I have the righteousness of God Oh how
I'm closed.
So I hope you can see this now.
Now let's get a look at this other
one and we're back at Colossians and we're
not that first chapter and we'll do it
quickly.
Now there are so many lovely things about
Christ here that one would need a whole
week on each one of them.
It says in verse 17 He is before
all things No trouble about that is it?
You know it says in John chapter 1
In the beginning was the world That simply
means when anything that ever had a beginning
began He was there He must have been
there He was before all things In fact
the book teaches in a hundred places He
made all things Without Him was not anything
made that was made In fact it says
in verse 16 For by Him were all
things created He wasn't only before them He
created them What a wonderful person He is
And then it says at the end of
verse 17 And by Him all things consist
You see He's the upholder of all things
You know that's a very wonderful thing You
see the sun is in the middle of
this wonderful solar system of ours And mercury
is moving in close round it And then
the earth is moving in its orbit And
then Mars in its orbit And you know
all about the planets moving You know friends
He was before them all And He created
them all And He upholds them all They
say to me it's really wonderful That the
earth moves in its orbit round the sun
365 days on the quarter Every time It's
never been a second out in all years
of measurements Oh it couldn't be The Lord
driving the bus You see He was before
all things He created all things He upholds
all things You know it says in verse
16 there I'm just taking them in parts
For by Him were all things created But
that are in heaven and that are in
earth Make no mistakes about it Visible and
invisible Things that you can see and things
that you can't see Whether they be thrones
or dominions And we know all about thrones
and dominions don't we Whether they be thrones
or dominions Or principalities or powers And I
don't think we know enough about principalities and
powers When we come to demonology This is
what we're going to get into It says
we wrestle not against flesh and blood But
against principalities Who are these principalities?
What do they do?
Where do they exist?
These are really princes you know And they're
in the devil's command And he has one
special prince over every province And he must
be a terror to the sober officer But
we'll take the time And we'll differentiate between
principalities and powers Between the rulers of the
darkness of this world And wicked spirits in
high places We'll see what they can do
with believers And we'll see what they can
do with unbelievers Yes, but remember All
things were created by him I want you
to get this Whether they be thrones or
dominions Or principalities or powers All things were
created by him And for him You see
he's not only before all things And the
creator of all things And the aboder of
all things But he's the heir of all
things It says in Hebrews 1 God hath
appointed an heir of all things And this
is the bit that thrills me And scares
me at the same time That he is
the heir of God And that we believers
are joint heirs with him Everything he owns
I own Amazing Amazing You wonder what
we'd get excited about at times, wouldn't you?
You wouldn't think we were children of God
at all Remember the three sparrows talking to
each other on the branch Looking down at
the fellows all worried down below And the
sparrows said, you know, see those boys down
there It's a pity they haven't a heavenly
father like you and I You see we're
nobody at times We're heirs of God and
joint heirs to Jesus Christ But you find
this out That he's not only before all
things And the creator of all things And
the aboder of all things And the heir
of all things It says here in verse
18 And he is the head of the
body of the church Who is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead That in all
things he might have the pre-eminence You
know it's wonderful to see him here And
then it goes further and it says, verse
20 And having made peace through the blood
of his cross By him to reconcile all
things unto himself By him I say, whether
they be things in earth Or things in
heaven You know friends, there's a lot of
things to be reconciled down here I was
talking to them on Saturday about the time
When the lion will lie down with the
lamb Talking to them about the time When
the lion shall eat straw like an ox
The farmer who's in the meeting now, he's
a farmer Having his own troubles these days
He said to me the other day, I
was up to him He said he didn't
bother feeding the lion on straw these days
He's looking at it in a sober, farmerly
way He'll try putting straw into the cage,
do you see And he wouldn't move Looking
for a leg of lamb these days Because
he eats straw, the lion can't eat straw
There's going to come a tremendous change isn't
there If the lion who devours meat now
is so madly It's going to eat straw
like an ox Couldn't there be a bit
of a change come along There's a lot
of things down on this earth that need
to be reconciled And there's a lot of
things in the heavens All these principalities and
powers, these rules of the darkness These wicked
spirits in heavenly places All these heavens need
to be reconciled We've got the hold of
it now It's a tremendous one Just make
sure that you're reconciled Don't worry too much
about the world Not the earth, not the
heavens Not anything else Just make sure that
you're reconciled to God by the death Open
your tongue, you'll need nothing more But you
can be reconciled with nothing less Next Tuesday,
God willing, we've got to work out these
days of burial Have a look at it
through the week and see what you can
do with it We're singing 1045 Just two
verses 1045 first and last verses Fade, fade
each earthly joy Jesus is mine First and
last, listen for the tune please Jesus
is mine First
and last, listen for the tune please Jesus
is mine I just
want to say how very glad we are
to see our sister from the Far East
in the class this evening You're most welcome
my dear And I assure you that all
the believers love you And there's an old
saint in the meeting this evening Mrs. Seth
Sykes You know she's an old warrior I'm
sure many of you have sang that chorus
Thank you Lord for saving my soul Thank
you Lord for making me whole Thank you
Lord for giving to me My great salvation
So rich, free It was Mrs. Sykes and
her husband who wrote that Born a way
up here to have a look at her
Put her out of the seat there That's
it She's there somewhere, don't let her stay
now I'll have to come down for you,
that's all Come on the way up here
beside me You'll find a way Come on
Why don't you?
You're not afraid of me, are you?
There she is It's around the time the
Gorson Platter was written, isn't it?
Oh it is From long ago Well that
one was written about 1940 1940 She's still
good looking Well I thought we should honour
an old saint It's part of her Lord
we thank thee for all that These pair
were enabled to do In their lifetime We
know that Seth is with the Lord tonight
Which is far better And for his faithful
old partner in life We pray that thou
continue to bless her Until the road ends
Or Jesus comes And so we commit us
all to thee tonight Lord Thank thee that
we're reconciled tonight By thy death Lord thou
hast given to us this ministry Of reconciliation
And we look up together tonight All of
us who are reconciled And we say thank
you Lord For saving my soul Thank you
Lord for making me whole Thank you Lord
for giving to me Thy great salvation So
rich So free Caught us in thy fear
With thy blessing For thy name's sake Amen