Latest / Philosophy and Faith / 13 - Two Worshipers - Christ's Object Lessons

Transcript

13 - Two Worshipers - Christ's Object Lessons · Philosophy and Faith

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Chapter thirteen. Two worshippers unto certain which trusted in themselves
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: that they were righteous and despised others. Christ spoke the
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: parable of the Pharisee and the Publican. The pharise goes
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: up to the temple to worship, not because he feels
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: that he is a sinner in need of pardon, but
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: because he thinks himself righteous and hopes to win commendation.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: His worship he regards as an act of merit that
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: will recommend him to God. At the same time it
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: will give the people a high opinion of his piety.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: He hopes to secure favor with both God and man.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: His worship is prompted by self interest, and he is
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: full of self praise. He looks at he walks it,
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: he prays it, drawing apart from others, as if to say,
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: come not near to me, for I am holier than thou.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: He stands and prays with himself wholly self satisfied. He
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: thinks that God and men regard him with the same complacency. God,
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: I thank THEE, he says, said, I I am not
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: as other men are extortioners, unjust adulterers, or even as
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: this publican. He judges his character not by the holy
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: character of God, but by the character of other men.
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: His mind is turned away from God to humanity. This
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: is the secret of his self satisfaction. He proceeds to
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: recount his good deeds. I fast twice in the week.
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: I give tides of all that I possess. The religion
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: of the Pharisee does not touch the soul. He is
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: not seeking god likeness of character, a heart filled with
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: love and mercy. He is satisfied with the religion that
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: has to do only with the outward life. His righteousness
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: is his own, the fruit of his own works, and
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: judged by a human standard. Whoever trusts in himself that
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: he is righteous will despise others. As the Pharisee judges
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: himself by other men, so he judges other men by himself.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: His righteousness is estimated by theirs, and the worse they are,
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: the more righteous. By contrast, he appears his self righteousness
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: leads to accusing other men he condemns as transgressors of
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: God's law. Thus he is making manifest the very spirit
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: of Satan, the accuser of the brethren. With this spirit,
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: it is impossible for him to enter into communion with God.
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: He goes down to his house, destitute of the divine blessing.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: The publican had gone to the temple with other worshipers,
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: but he soon drew apart from them, as unworthy to
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: unite in their devotions. Standing afar off, he would not
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: smote upon his breast in bitter anguish and self abhorrence.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: He felt that he had transgressed against God, that he
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: was sinful and polluted. He could not expect even pity
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: from those around him, for they looked upon him with contempt.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: He knew that he had no merit to commend him
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: to God, and in utter self despair, he cried God
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: be merciful to me. A sinner, he did not compare
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: himself with others. Overwhelmed with a sense of guilt, he
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: stood as if alone in God's presence. His only desire
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: was for pardon and peace. His only plea was the
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: mercy of God, and he was blessed. I tell you,
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: Christ said, this man went down to his house justified
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: rather than the other. The pharisee and the publican represent
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: two great classes into which those who come to worship
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: God are divided, their first two representatives are found, and
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: the first two children that were born into the world.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: Cain thought himself righteous, and he came to God with
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: a thank offering. Only he made no confession of sin
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: and acknowledged no need of mercy. But Abel came with
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: the blood that pointed to the lamb of God. He
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: came as a sinner, confessing himself lost. His only hope
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: was the unmerited love of God. The Lord had respect
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: to his offering, but to Cain and his offering, he
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: had not respect. The sense of need. The recognition of
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: our poverty and sin is the very first condition of
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: acceptance with God. Blessed are the poor in spirit, For
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. For each of the
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: classes represented by the Pharisee and the publican. There is
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: a lesson in the history of the apostle Peter. In
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: his early discipleship, Peter thought himself strong like the Pharisee.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: In his own estimation, he was not as other men are.
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: When Christ, on the eve of his betrayal, forewarned his disciples,
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: all ye shall be offended because of me. This night,
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: Peter confidently declared, although all shall be offended, yet will
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: not I. Peter did not know his own danger. Self
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: confidence misled him. He thought himself able to withstand temptation.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: But in a few short hours the test came, and
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: with cursing and swearing, he denied his Lord. When the
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: crowing of the cock reminded him of the words of Christ.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: Surprised and shocked at what he had just done, he
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: turned and looked at his master. At that moment, Christ
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: looked at Peter, and beneath that grieved look in which
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: compassion and love for him were blended, Peter understood himself.
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: He went out and wept bitterly. That look of Christ's
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: broke his heart. Peter had come to the turning point,
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: and bitterly did he repent his sin. He was like
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: the publican in his contrition and repentance, and like the
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: publican he found mercy. The look of Christ assured him
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: of pardon. Now his self confidence was gone. Never again
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: were the old boastful assertions repeated Christ. After his resurrection
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: thrice tested Peter Simon, son of Jonas, he said, lovest
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: thou me more than these? Peter did not now exalt
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: himself above his brethren. He appealed to the one who
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: could read his heart. Lord, he said, thou knowest all things,
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: Thou knowest that I love thee. Then he received his commission,
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: a work broader and more delicate than had he heretofore
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: been his was appointed him. Christ bade him feed the
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: sheep and the lambs, in thus committing to his stewardship
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: the souls for whom the Savior had laid down his
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: own life. Christ gave to Peter the strongest proof of
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: confidence in his restoration. The once restless, boastful, self confident
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: disciple had become subdued in contrite. Henceforth he followed his
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: Lord in self denial and self sacrifice. He was a
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: partaker of Christ's sufferings, and when Christ shall sit upon
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: the throne of his glory, Peter will be a partaker
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: in his glory. The evil that led to Peter's fall,
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: and that shut out the Pharisee from communion with God,
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: is proving the ruin of thousands today. There is nothing
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: so offensive to God or so dangerous to the human
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: soul as pride and self sufficiency. Of all sins, it
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: is the most hopeless, the most incurable. Peter's fall was
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: not instantaneous, but gradual self confidence led him to the
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: belief that he was saved, and step after step was
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: taken in the downward path until he could deny his master.
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: Never can we safely put confidence him self or feel
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: this side of heaven that we are secure against temptation.
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: Those who accept the Savior, however, sincere their conversion, should
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: never be taught to say or to feel that they
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: are saved. This is misleading. Every one should be taught
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: to cherish hope and faith. But even when we give
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: ourselves to Christ and know that He accepts us, we
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: are not beyond the reach of temptation. God's word declares
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: many shall be purified and made white and tried. Only
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: he who endures the trial will receive the crown of life.
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: Those who accept Christ and in their first confidence say
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: I am saved are in danger of trusting to themselves.
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: They lose sight of their own weakness and their constant
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: need of divine strength. They are unprepared for Satan's devices,
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: and under temptation, many like Peter, fall into the very
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: depths of sin. We are admonished. Let him that thinketh
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: he standeth, take heed lest he fall Our only safety
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: is in constant distrust of self and dependence on Christ.
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: It was necessary for Peter to learn his own defects
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: of character and his need of the power and grace
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: of Christ. The Lord could not save him from trial,
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: but he could have saved him from defeat. Had Peter
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: been willing to receive Christ's warning, he would have been
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: watching unto prayer. He would have walked with fear and
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: trembling lest his feet should stumble, and he would have
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: received divine help so that Satan could not have gained
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: the victory. It was through self sufficiency that Peter fell,
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: and it was through repentance and humiliation that his feet
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: were again established. In the record of his experience, every
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: repenting sinner may find encouragement. Though Peter had grievously sinned,
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: he was not forsaken. The words of Christ were written
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: upon his soul. I have prayed for thee that thy
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: faith fail not in his bitter agony of remorse. This
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: prayer and the memory of Christ's look of love and pity,
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: gave him hope. Christ, after his resurrection, remembered Peter and
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: gave the angel the message for the women go your way.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: Tell his disciples, and Peter, that he goeth before you
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: into Galilee, there shall ye see him. Peter's repentance was
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: accepted by the sin pardoning Savior, and the same compassion
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: that reached out to rescue Peter is extended to every
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: soul who has fallen under temptation. It is Satan's special
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: device to lead man into sin and then leave him
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: helpless and trembling, fearing to seek for pardon. But why
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: should we fear when God has said, let him take
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me.
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: And he shall make peace with me. Every provision has
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: been made for our infirmities, every encouragement offered us to
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: come to Christ. Christ offered up his broken body to
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: purchase back God's hearing to give man another trial. Wherefore
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: he is able also to save them, to the uttermost
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: to make intercession for them by his spotless life, his obedience,
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: his death on the cross of Calvary, Christ interceded for
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: the lost race. And now not as a mere petitioner
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: does the captain of our salvation intercede for us, but
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: as a conqueror, claiming his victory. His offering is complete,
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: and as our intercessor, he executes his self appointed work,
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: holding before God the censer containing his own spotless merits,
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: and the prayer's confessions and thanksgiving of his people, perfumed
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: with the fragrance of his righteousness. These ascend to God
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: as a sweet savor. The offering is wholly acceptable and
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: pardon covers all transgression. Christ has pledged himself to be
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: our substitute and surety, and he neglects no one. He
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: who could not see human beings exposed to eternal ruin
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: without pouring out his soul into death in their behalf,
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: will look with pity and compassion upon every soul who
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: realizes that he cannot save himself. He will look upon
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: no trembling suppliant without raising him up. He who, through
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: his own atonement, provided for man an infinite fund of
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: moral power, will not fail to employ this power. In
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: our behalf. We may take our sins and sorrows to
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: his feet, for he loves us. His every look and
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: word invites our confidence. He will shape and mold our
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: characters according to his own will. In the whole Satanic force,
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: there is not power to overcome one soul, who in
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: simple trust casts himself on Christ. He giveth power to
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: the faint, and to them that have no might. He
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: increaseth strength if we confess our sins. He is faithful
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: us from all unrighteousness. The Lord says, only acknowledge thine iniquity,
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: that thou hast transgressed against the Lord Thy God. Then
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: be clean from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: Will I cleanse you. But we must have a knowledge
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: of ourselves, a knowledge that will result in contrition, before
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: we can find pardon and peace. The Pharisee felt no
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: conviction of sin. The Holy Spirit could not work with him.
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: His soul was encased in a self righteous armor, which
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: the arrows of God, barbed and true aimed by angel hands,
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: failed to penetrate. It is only he who knows himself
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: to be a sinner that Christ can save. He came
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives,
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: liberty them that are bruised, But they that our whole
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: need not a physician. We must know our real condition,
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: or we shall not feel our need of Christ's help.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: We must understand our danger, or we shall not flee
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: to the refuge. We must feel the pain of our wounds,
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: or we shall not desire healing. The Lord says, because
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods, and
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind and naked, I
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire,
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: that thou mayest be rich and white. Raiment that thou
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: do not appear, and anoint thine eyes with thy save
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: that thou mayst see The gold tried in the fire
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: is faith that works by love. Only this can bring
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: us into harmony with God. We may be active, we
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: may do much work, But without love such love as
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: dwelt in the heart of Christ, we can never be
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: numbered with the family of heaven. No man can of
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: himself understand his errors. The heart is deceitful above all things,
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: and desperately wicked. Who can know it? The lips may
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: express a poverty of soul that the heart does not acknowledge.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: While speaking to God of poverty of spirit, the heart
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: may be swelling the conceit of its own superior humility
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: and exalted righteousness. In one way only can a true
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: knowledge of self be obtained. We must behold Christ. It
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: is ignorance of Him that makes men so uplifted in
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: their own righteousness. When we contemplate His purity and excellence,
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: we shall see our own weakness and poverty and defects
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: as they really are. We shall see ourselves lost and hopeless,
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: clad in garments of self righteousness like every other sinner.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: We shall see that if we are ever saved, it
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: will not be through our own goodness, but through God's
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: infinite grace. The prayer of the Publican was heard because
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: it showed dependence, reaching forth to lay hold upon omnipotence self.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: To the Publican appeared nothing but shame. Thus it must
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: be seen by all who seek God by faith, faith
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: that renounces all self trust. The needy suppliant is to
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: lay hold upon infinite power. No outward obsord servances can
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: take the place of simple faith and entire renunciation of self.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: But no man can empty himself of self. We can
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: only consent for Christ to accomplish the work. Then the
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: language of the soul will be Lord, Take my heart,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: for I cannot give it. It is Thy property. Keep
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: it pure, for I cannot keep it. For THEE Save
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: me in spite of myself, my weak, un christ like self.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Mold me, fashion me, Raise me into a pure and
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: holy atmosphere where the rich current of Thy love can
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: flow through my soul. It is not only at the
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: beginning of the Christian life that this renunciation of self
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: is to be made. At every advanced step heavenward, it
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: is to be renewed. All our good works are dependent
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: on a power outside of ourselves. Therefore, there needs to
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: be a continual reaching out of the heart after God,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: a continual earnest, heart breaking confession of sin and humbling
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: of the soul before Him. Only by constant renunciation of
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: self and dependence on Christ can we walk safely. The
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: nearer we come to Jesus, the more clearly we discern
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: the purity of his character, the more clearly we shall
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: discern the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and the less we
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: shall feel like exalting ourselves. Those whom Heaven recognizes as
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: holy ones are the last to parade their own goodness.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: The apostle Peter became a faithful minister of Christ, and
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: he was greatly honored with divine light and power. He
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: had an active part in the upholding of Christ's Church.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: But Peter never forgot the fearful experience of his humiliation.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: His sin was forgiven. Yet well he knew that for
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: the weakness of character which had caused his fall, only
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: the grace of Christ could avail. He found in himself
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: nothing in which to glory. None of the apostles or
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: prophets ever claimed to be without sin. Men who have
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: lived nearest to God, men who would sacrifice life itself
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: rather than knowingly commit a wrong act. Men whom God
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: had honored with divine light and power, have confessed the
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: sinfulness of their own nature. They have put no confidence
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: in the flesh, have claimed no righteousness of their own,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: but have trusted wholly in the righteousness of Christ. So
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: will it be with all who behold Christ. At every
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: advanced step in Christian experience, our repentance will deepen. It
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: is to those whom the Lord has forgiven, to those
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: whom he acknowledges as his people. That he says, then
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: shall ye remember your own evil ways and your doings
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: own sight. Again, he says, I will establish my covenant
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: with THEE, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: that thou mayst remember and be confounded, and never open
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: thy mouth any more because of thy shame. When I
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: am pacified toward THEE for all that thou hast done,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: saith the Lord God. Then our lips will not be
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: opened in self glorification. We shall know that our sufficiency
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: is in Christ alone. We shall make the apostles can
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: fashion our own. I know that in me that is
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. God forbid that
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I should glory save in the cross of our Lord
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: and I unto the world. In harmony with this experience
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: is the command work out your own salvation with fear
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: God does not bid you fear that He will fail
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: to fulfill his promises, that his patience will weary or
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: his compassion be found wanting. Fear lest your will shall
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: not be held in subjection to Christ's will, Lest your
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: hereditary and cultivated traits of character shall control your life.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: It is God which worketh in you both to will
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: and to do of His good pleasure. Fear must self
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: shall interpose between your soul and the great Master worker.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Fear must self will shall mar the high purpose that
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: through you God desires to accomplish. Fear to try us
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: to your own strength. Fear to withdraw your hand from
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the hand of Christ, and attempt to walk life's pathway
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: without His abiding presence. We need to shun everything that
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: would encourage pride and self sufficiency. Therefore we should beware
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: of giving or receiving flattery or praise. It is Satan's
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: work to flatter. He deals in flattery as well as
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: in accusing and in condemnation. Thus he seeks to work
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the ruin of the soul. Those who give praise to
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: men are used by Satan as his agents. Let the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: workers for Christ direct every word of praise away from themselves.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Let self be put out of sight. Christ alone is
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: to be exalted unto Him that loved us and washed
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: us from our sins in his own blood. Let every
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: eye be directed, and praise from every heart assent. The
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: life in which the fear of the Lord is cherished
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: will not be a life of sadness and gloom. It
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: is the absence of Christ that makes the countenance sad
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: and the life of pilgrimage of size. Those who are
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: filled with self esteem and self love do not feel
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the need of a living personal union with Christ. The
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: heart that has not fallen on the rock is proud
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: of its wholeness. Men want a dignified religion. They desire
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: to walk in a path wide enough to take in
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: their own attributes. Their self love, their love of popularity,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: and love of praise exclude the Savior from their hearts.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: And without him there is gloom and sadness. But Christ
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: dwelling in the soul is a well spring of joy
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: for all who receive Him. The very keynote of the
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Word of God is rejoicing. For thus saith the high
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: and lofty one that inhabiteth Eternity, whose name is Holy.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I dwell in the high and holy place with him.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: heart of the contrite ones. It was when Moses was
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: hidden in the cleft of the rock that he beheld
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: the glory of God. It is when we hide in
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the riven rock that Christ will cover us with his
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: own pierced hand, and we shall hear what the Lord
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: saith unto his servants. To us, as to Moses, God
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: will reveal himself as merciful and gracious, long suffering, and
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: iniquity and transgression and sin. The work of redemption involves
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: consequences of which it is difficult for man to have
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: any conception. I hath not seen nor ear heard, neither
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: have entered into the heart of man the things which
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: God hath prepared for them that love Him. As a sinner,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: drawn by the power of Christ, approaches the uplifted cross
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: and prostrates himself before it. There is a new creation,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: a new heart has given him. He becomes a new
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: creature in Christ. Jesus holiness finds that it has nothing
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: more to require. God himself is the justifier of him
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: which believeth in Jesus, and whom he justified, than he
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: also glorified. Great as is the shame and degradation through sin,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: even greater will be the honor and exaltation through redeeming love.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: To human beings striving for conformity to the divine image.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: There is imparted an outlay of Heaven's treasure, an excellency
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: of power that will place them higher than even the
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: angels who have never fallen. Thus saith the Lord, the
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to him whom
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorth kings shall
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: see and arise princes also shall worship. Because of the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Lord that is faithful and the Holy One of Israel.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: And he shall choose thee. For every one that exalteth
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: himself shall be abased, and he that humbleth himself shall
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: be exalted. End of Chapter thirteen.