Greetings to each of you.
It's a real joy to be at Lake
Verona.
I've looked forward to it for quite a
while.
I've been trying to go out very, very
much in reference to it.
I say this without mention,
we have three assemblies, and it's our own
people.
Three commencement addresses, and at least two junior
and senior.
So we're quite pleased that we see...
Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 3...
I think perhaps it's
3 and verse 10.
Consider him, may know him.
I would like to read with you...
Loveliness.
John chapter 4.
Winter for the Lord knew...
He met Judea and departed again into Galilee.
And he must need to go through.
Then cometh he to a city of Samaria,
which is called Sychar.
Near to the parts of the ground.
Jesus, therefore, being weary with his journey, Jesus
saith unto her, Give thee drink.
Then saith the woman of Samaria, How is
it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink
of me, which am a woman of Samaria?
For the Jews have no feelings with us.
Jesus answered, If thou knewest the gift of
God, and who it is that saith to
thee, Drink of him, and he will have
given thee living water.
The woman saith unto him, Where is this?
From which then hast thou that living water?
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which
gave us the well, and drank thereof himself,
and his children, and his cattle?
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh
of this water shall live.
But whosoever drinketh of the water of the
spring, and of every lasting life, give me
this water.
Jesus said unto her, Go, call thee to
come hither.
The woman answered and said, I have no
husband.
Jesus said unto her, For thou hast had
five husbands, and he whom thou now hast,
in that saidst thou truly, receive that thou
art a prophet.
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye
say that in Jerusalem is the place.
Jesus said unto her, Woman, believe me, the
hour cometh when ye shall neither in this
mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship ye know
not what.
We know what we worship, is of the
Jews.
But the hour cometh from now in, when
the true worshippers shall worship the Father, and
seek of such to worship.
God is a spirit, and they that worship
him, must worship him in spirit, and in
truth.
The woman said unto her, When he is
come, he will tell us all things.
Jesus said unto her, Believe, and upon this
came his disciples.
Then no man said, The woman then left
her water pot, and went away into the
city.
Come, see a man, which told me all
things, that ever I did, is not this.
Then they went out of the city, and
came unto him.
In the meanwhile, as his son was praying
and saying, Master, eat.
Jesus said unto them, My need is to
do the will of him that sent me,
and to finish his work.
May the Lord richly bless, and I'm sure
he will bless, the reading and the hearing
of this precious and holy word.
Throughout the past week, men have had their
favorite candidates before the nation.
There has been much in the way of
eulogy.
Great things have been said of them.
They have been pictured to us as men
that are needed to fill the breach that
exists at the present, nationally and internationally.
My refined words have said all this.
Well, may God in his infinite wisdom and
tender mercy give us the man that we
need, for surely we need a man to
fill the breach that has been infected by
the power of evil.
The inroads and the penetrations are deep indeed,
and they are very broad there.
One wonders how much longer God is going
to permit these things to continue.
One wonders if the rapture of the church
is not just before us.
And surely we will know him as the
living God in our Lord Jesus Christ.
We who know him as the altogether lovely
one, we should point him up as the
alone remedy for the conditions that prevail individually,
collectively, nationally, and internationally.
For every child of God knows without equivocation
that alone, the alone remedy, he
is the only way back to God.
And this is the solution to be brought,
brought into those still
in nature's darkness, alienated from God.
May it be that during these meetings we
are so able to present Christ to you
in all of his glory and majesty, and
the beauty that is unparalleled in his love
with us.
No doubt to you.
When I
hear that I gather this from the tip
of another, he
has said, let's build three tabernacles, one for
thee.
He did put the Lord first, but now,
how he has degraded and warred in these
days and times.
Even to the point of being the illegitimate
son, he
has anointed with the oil of man.
This is not a temporary shadow, but the
truth.
Christ is not a provisional makeshift, but a
perfect manifestation.
Christ is not a social organ, a savior
of man.
Christ is not a figment of the real.
If you are saying this, oh may it
be that during these, he believed in his
head, but in memory.
But when I was about him, the misery
of my sin, and remorse and anguish of
heart and mind.
Do you know anything about it?
In this day of loose, I don't say
these things to be critical.
For if there is anything worthwhile, it's being
a real Christian.
And this is a big thing.
We need many women, who have no saffron
streaks down their backbones.
We need them with backbones like ramrods, to
stand for our Lord Jesus Christ.
If there is anything, in
the very beginning of it, you have the
deity of our Lord Jesus.
We say the Lord knew.
Then it says, so his deity is seen
on the one hand, in every instance that
you have in the Bible, where his humanity
is set forth, you will find in that
same place, reference to his deity, to the
sleep and the ship.
But he arose, rebuked the wind, and said
to the sea, Peace, be still.
His deity is in evidence.
He is truly the Lord Jesus.
We would truly say, with Thomas of old,
my Lord, and we consider
his devotion and
the beauty as set forth in the true
antidote.
In the first instance, those unattractive persons, his
skin, no beauty that we should desire him,
is seen in the weary Jew, seated on
Cyprus' well, as the woman Samaria observed, dusty,
tired, seated on the well, adieu to her,
very unattractive.
You think it is adieu enough?
Give up the other.
If I give up him, if
it were not, salvation is not giving up,
but receiving.
Oh, how much I have received.
And then the second curtain, the curtain is
seen in the expression, he must need the
true Samaria, him caught by his forearms, on
the mount, used instead of Isaac, held by
the very place of his power, not by
Roman spears, not by the guard that was
there, not by the Sanhedrin, not by the
scribes and the Pharisees, not even by the
Nago.
Devoted even unto death, seen for this reason,
as he unclothed, that she might see herself
in the presence of the living God.
And this certainly, the negation for
God, unclothed his forearms, she
rejoiced, plainly, she was bowed upon, and
I am, thus the term for Jehovah, I
that speak unto thee, and he, before Abraham
was, I, O what unparalleled loveliness is presented,
behold, true beauty, it is nearest, indeed it
is all, but here we see in him
those more, he
must need, as far as any revelation
is concerned, here is Joseph, a fruitful bough,
even a fruitful bough by a whale, the
wall that hedged in him, the nation of
Israel, a futurist, God's fruitful bough, even the
Lord Jesus, his secret commandment, go not in
the way of the Gentiles, or any city
of the Samaritans, enter ye not in, but
go to the lost sheep of the house
of Israel.
Thus, my friends, we see the Lord Jesus
Christ, the one in whom is found both
grace and truth, he shows that the evidence,
he must, to
heal my all.
May it be that during these conferences, more
and more, the realization of what we see,
who gave his all, his devotion, God's first
of all, what
devotion indeed, here we see, all the sins
and fragrance to God, when the fire is
placed there, the sacrifice of the fire, fragrance
to the nostrils, and devotion, that
he might say, he reached even to me,
hold me out of heart, and these flow
outwards, more and more, as we awaken, manward,
father, for I know not, the altogether
loveliness, what loveliness, is seen in him, as
he expresses his prayer, I have rediction to
his blood, even, father,
I have sinned, thank thee, he is just,
and justified indeed, he is also faithful, faithful,
yes, faithful to that prayer, father, forgive them,
righteous, because he has a righteousness, there
must be no forgiveness, it must be paid
for, there is forgiveness with thee, that thou
mayest be feared, not like some people in
the earth, sin
is to be hated, God hates sin, my
friend, thus his devotion is seen, father, forgive
them, in church with Christ, love the church,
and gave himself for it, that he might
sanctify and cleanse it, for the washing of
the water of the world, worldward, ah yes,
my friend, for God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not, is he
not lovely, in his devotion, is he even,
his conversation, my, how those lips,
that have been anointed with grace, through chapter
four, they marvel at the great
deed, what wondrous words, what gracious words, what
precious language, when he said, neither do I
condemn thee, oh, and still, seemingly
so at least, she
meets the Lord Jesus Christ, in her heart,
disappointment, disillusionment, dissatisfaction, verily, verging on the
despair, the Lord knew he would meet her
there, and he hath assured her,
whosoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again,
but whosoever drinketh of it, he the
greatest, never walketh off, for the sake of
this poor woman, and all her sin and
misery, I have that which will satisfy the
longing of your brothel, the craving that is
found there, the thirst of your life, to
say it enough to mean it, what a
bastard, but ah, he is the Lord, he
is the fountain of life, he is the
well, he has the well, yet satisfied not.
Hail him, that we together, may know, hail
him, that ever, height and depth, with the
telescope, or with the microscope, there are those
unsearchable spaces, that we may indeed explore, we
may explore, for our joy, our delight, nevertheless,
there is hope for the hopeless, there is
fullness for emptiness, which is, my, how good
it is to know him tonight, as Savior,
and as Lord.
Thirdly, he is lovely in his penetration, I
thank God tonight, I thank God that he
knows every corner, every crevice, I thank God
for the knowledge of those eyes that praise
the fire, that intellect and perfect wisdom searches
out the innermost recesses of the soul, and
I am before him, in all that I
am.
His penetration, or his loveliness, is deepest in
his discernment.
He tells me exactly my needs, and then
provides what that means.
He shows me my sinfulness, and then provides
cleansing for it.
Praise the Savior.
He reveals to me my incidents, and then
provides all I need to feel He shows
me that all the wells, the cisterns in
time, that can hold the water, they are
broken cisterns.
Do you know it?
If you know it not, we do not
exist.
Who beholds your heart, knows your thoughts afar
off, knows the longings and the cravings, he
knows the disappointments, every problem that's found there,
he has the answer.
The conscience is reached, the will is yielded,
the heart is opened, because of him.
You who seek to reach others, if that
conscience, if that will is not yielded, will
never be opened.
The life, I care not for the hand
raising, the card signing, there must be reality.
The home, the hallways of school, that is
the conscience is increased, the will will never
be yielded, and it's the citadel of the
life.
The fortress of the life is not surrendered
to the Lord Jesus Christ, absolutely and unconditionally.
God is never really open, so you find
them flitting from this place, seeking something to
satisfy a longing in the bosom that can
never be satisfied.
The revelation, we rejoice that God does not
merely take us down to the depths of
needlessness, he does not reveal to us God
without providing a way out, is
the answer.
Marvelously, there is a new race,
inferior group, new
companions, they
are the only good Indians about, I am
crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not
I, but Christ lives.
I'm in a new race, folks, praise
God that I know something, new
race, and a new place, the spirit God,
dwelling within us, we are worshipers of the
living God, crucified
in Jesus, I behold him, there is a
new disgrace too, a new disgrace, and the
Lord Jesus said to this woman, it is
not merely singing hymns, not merely reading the
Word, not merely praying, w-o-r-t
-h-s-h-i-t, what
it means to God, and come to God
presenting Christ in that measure alone to you
or I.
I, the spirit, you
arrive at a place, not geographically, but you
arrive at that place morally and spiritually.
Now many of us talk about have you
arrived, and the place of God is of
clean, non-joy, there is no place for
sin there, there is no place for self
there, and there is sin, self, and the
social question.
I realize that heaven, the
dean of the college, associated with such a
humble group of people, all of those markings
according to a
fool for Christ, that's
his revelation, fitly, and
you never will be rebuked, and speaking well,
will always serve and stand, for the end,
for all that he is in himself, his
manifestation, doubly, in manifesting himself.
I, that speaker of the dean, am, he
is altogether lovely indeed, unparalleled loveliness, manifested in
his devotion, in his conversation, in his penetration,
in his revelation, in his manifestation.
And my friend is telling me that this
universe is what has created with a purpose
that is enthroned in the midst of it,
every intelligent creature, to lift the voice in
praise, continually, to the Son, to the glory
of God, forever.
He, who stood, he was Jehovah, the
eternally self-existing God, he is Emmanuel, God,
without, he is the mediator, God, and man.
As God, perfectly comprehending all the requirements of
the throne of God, the holiness and the
majesty of that throne that I sinned against,
man, understanding perfectly all my needs, he, takes
the hand of God and the hand of
a poor old sinner, as it did Sica
as well, and restored them to God.