John chapter 7, beginning at verse 14.
Now about the midst of the feast, Jesus
went up into the temple and fought.
The Jews marveled, saying, How knoweth this man
letters, having never learned?
Jesus answered them and said, My doctrine is
not mine, but he that sent me.
If any man will do his will, he
shall know the doctrine, whether it be of
God, or whether I speak of myself.
He that speaketh of himself speaketh his own
glory.
But he that speaketh his glory that sent
him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness
is in him.
Did not Moses give you the law, and
yet none of you keepeth the law?
Why go ye about to kill me?
The people answered and said, Thou hast the
devil.
Who goeth about to kill thee?
Jesus answered and said unto them, I have
done one work, and ye all marvel.
Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision, not because
it is of Moses, but of a father's.
And ye on the Sabbath, they circumcise a
man.
If a man on the Sabbath, they receive
circumcision, that the law of Moses should not
be broken.
Are ye angry at me, because I have
made a man every day?
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge
righteous judgment.
Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is
not this he whom they seek to kill?
But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say
nothing unto him.
Do the rulers know indeed that this is
the very Christ?
Howbeit, we know this man whence he is,
but whence Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence
he is.
Then cried Jesus in the temple, as he
talked, saying, Ye both know me, and ye
know which I am.
And I am not from of myself, but
he that sent me is true, whom ye
know not.
But I know him, for I am from
him, and he hath sent me.
Then they sought to take him, but no
man laid hands on him, because his hour
was not yet come.
And many of the people believed on him,
and said, When Christ cometh, will he do
more miracles than these which this man hath
done?
The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such
things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the
chief priests and officers should take him.
Then said Jesus unto them, Get a little
while, and I with you.
And then I go unto him that sent
me.
Ye shall seek me, and shall not find
me.
And where I am, hither ye cannot come.
Then said the Jew unto him, Will ye
go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and
teach the Gentiles?
What manner of saying is this that he
saith?
Ye shall seek me, and shall not find
me.
And where I am, hither ye cannot come.
On the last day, that great day of
the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If
any man thirsts, let him come unto me
and drink.
He shall believe it on me.
And the scripture hath said, Out of his
belly, or out of his inner life, shall
flow rivers of living water.
That this may be of the Spirit, which
they that believe on him should receive.
For the Holy Ghost was not yet given,
because the Jesus was not yet born.
Many of the people, therefore, when they heard
this, saw the truth.
This is the prophet.
Others said, This is the Christ.
But some said, Shall Christ come out of
Galilee?
Hath not the scripture said that Christ cometh
at the seat of David, and out of
the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
So there was a division among the people,
because they had taken him.
But no man.
Then came the officers to the chief priests
and Pharisees, and they said unto them, Never
man.
Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also
deceived?
Have any of the rulers or of the
Pharisees believed on him?
But this people who know it, not the
Lord.
Nicodemus said unto them, Doth our law judge
any man?
They answered and said unto him, Search and
look.
For out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
And the hearing of this precious and holy
word.
Yesterday he sought to bring to our hearts
unparalleled love of God and Savior.
Of his own person, the more we are
going to be.
O we indeed long.
We may seize on.
We may grasp.
We may grip.
Some given doctrine of the
glory of the person.
They are as good.
They are only as good as the person.
This morning it is a joy to know
something of the glory of the person of
the Christ.
And thus I can rightly appreciate the value
of the forgiveness of sins.
I can rightly appreciate the peace.
The value of eternal security.
Mine is lifted into more and more as
I appreciate the glory that belongs to and
is found in the person of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
And thus we seek to bring before our
hearts something of the worthiness of the person
of the Son of God.
We readily confess how little we scratch the
surface.
We readily confess that we have barely touched
the hymn of the gospel.
We readily confess that we have barely went
our feet in the great ocean of divine
revelation.
For he is the unspeakable gift of God.
There are unsearchable depths to be plumbed.
There are unreached heights yet to be ascended
so far as the person of the Son
of God.
But mine, my heart just rejoices at the
little more of the glory that is his
own.
That glory, fatal indeed in the human form,
but nevertheless the apostle says we beheld his
glory, the holy as of the only begotten
of the Father, full of grace and truth.
And certainly that glory occasionally burst forth and
was beheld by the eyes anointed to behold
it.
And oh, may the spirit of God anoint
our eyes with heaven's eyes, Sam, and that
this veil may be pulled aside completely and
we behold something of the future.
But then in the meeting, as a fellow
child of God, you may be able to
sing never so well, you may be able
to pray never so fine, you may be
able to speak with the best of rhetoric,
but if you do not come to God
with a proper appreciation of Christ, there is
no approach to God.
Why have I in myself, do I believe
in scripture which says, once in the end
of the world hath he appeared?
No matter your achievements, your accomplishments, your development,
your position, once in the end of the
world, God
has tried man down through the dispensations of
time.
He has given man every opportunity.
The living God was wrong about man.
His very filthy heart was to lay his
heavy hands on the
university graduates, I
long to be of help and blessing to
them.
But we must get right.
These truths are elsewhere.
Irrespective of who you are, God saw your
end at Calvary.
We know the man told me
to get back to the person of Christ
and appreciate something of the glory that is
resident in himself.
And I'll assure you, to tell you and
me closer to him.
Oh, my friend, in the meeting, get a
right perspective by
the devotion of the penetration, the red rimming
throughout the pages of the word of God.
Come!
Come unto me, all ye that labor in
the heavens.
Look unto me, all ye that live in
the earth, and be as they.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith
the Lord.
Though your sins be astonished, they shall be
as white as snow.
Though they be red like pimpkins, they shall
be as wool.
Here is one who did come.
She came and she found and she went.
Tell what you know.
What do you know?
Go on.
See, a man, it
all must be out in the open, you
see.
He's a perfect physician.
He never puts a band-aid over his
head.
He gets it all out and he pours
in the ointment.
And my!
She enjoyed the fact that he revealed to
her all that she was in herself.
But in the same way, they must be
brought to God.
And in the presence of God, they find
all that they are, and their old, their
lost and ruined condition.
On the mercy seat and before him revealed
everything was arranged.
How beautiful to be able to
do the will of him that sent me
and to finish this work.
If he who was God the Son, with
a perfect will, a will that could never
yield to the enemy in any sense of
the word, if he yielded himself completely to
his thoughts, submit
your will, vow, in unconditional submission.
O man, if this submission is seen in
his stupidity, his self-admiration, his
unparalleled love, this
expression that we find in the seventh chapter,
those who went to apprehend, to live the
handcuffed service, they went to apprehend him.
He apprehended never
man.
And indeed say that never man lived like
his faith.
Acts chapter 1 verse 1 says, The things
which ye can to teach.
You are able to speak with weight in
the measure that you live a weighty life.
So live.
Thirty years under the eye of God, heaven
opened.
The Father's voice was heard, This is my
beloved Son, in whom I am well.
This man who works as never another man
worked.
As far as his deeds are concerned, this
man who died, being
God, being the one who was from every
last thing, could choose the family that he
chose, but
the Lord Jesus Christ.
His confidence, the
unexcelled humility,
and yet, even
great minds, come unto thee, all ye that
labor, and their heavy labor.
A restless world surging round about us, longing,
yearning, for rest.
To give any sum of money to lay
down at night, and simply rest.
And how many of them terminate their lives,
before being brought
to the point of death.
The Lord Jesus in simple language, and yet,
with such profoundness said to me, to you,
to all, come unto me, all ye that
labor.
Neither be thou in, for they shall soon
be cut down.
So shall thou dwell in.
Delight thyself also in the Lord.
For what simplicity of seeing, as he spake
these lovely words on that day, when he
was being rejected, by the nation of Israel.
And he could say, come unto me, all
ye that labor.
Not only the Jew, but the Gentile.
Rather, in his Indian answer.
My, what simplicity, and yet, what profoundness, is
found in these words.
You rejoice through sin to forgive, and yet,
how much more that is for you, to
lay hold of, who
died, as none other could possibly.
It's another life, for you to know.
But with authority and power.
Some people have authority, other people have power.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, spake with both authority,
and power.
What he said, he could do it.
Longing, to have his body made whole, like
a living God, was still.
Will thou be made whole?
Sir, I have no.
Rise.
Take up thy bed.
Walk.
Do.
Authority.
Take up the thin metal.
You become conqueror over that which is.
And never make provision.
All, and
again, that occasion, when he said, go thy
way.
But he could speak the word.
Then thirdly, thirdly, reality
and performance, is seen likewise.
So, if
God so loved us, we are all so.
So, thus, beloved one, reality and
performance, yes.
He said, go wash in the pool of
Siloam.
He went, washed, lest
he come bigoted.
Go wash.
He came seeing.
I was washing.
This one thing I know, that whereas I
washed, those
symbols of something, their case
region had been spoiled by it.
Old wine, threw out in
charity to the governor.
I, as I, any of you, my adultery,
it is
he, that that wine, really tastes like.
His favorite salinity.
We've been hearing all these.
There were gracious words falling from his lips.
Jewels.
The name will cry, Lord, Lord, open to
us.
Oh, what salinity.
Then shall he say, to those on his
left hand, depart from me, into everlasting fire.
I pray
not for the world.
It seems a world of great need around
us.
Thou shalt break them into all of mine.
Thou shalt dash them in pieces.
Why does he pray for the world?
Pray for those who are coming up to
take over the control of our nation.
Pray for truth, kid.
Pray for the others.
That God may control in the affairs of
men.
As Judas Iscariot, may
we adore him.
And all.