God's people are a unique and shielded people, set apart by their birth from God, their heavenly citizenship, and their intimate companionship with the Trinity. This uniqueness stems from being God's special possession, beyond the ordinary, and possessing a new nature, energy, and will through Christ. As a result, believers are distinguished from the world, destined for eternity with Christ, and complete in Him, finding their identity and sufficiency in His presence. The sermon emphasizes that this divine enablement provides strength, peace, and a transformed life, ultimately magnifying Christ and attracting others to Him.
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Now please open your Bibles at Deuteronomy and the thirty-third chapter. Deuteronomy chapter thirty-three, it's been lovely having you here. We trust that you bless you and grant you much joy for coming along. The thirty-third chapter, I think you know the verse by this time, verse number twenty-nine. Let us read all together just twice, shall we? Happy art thou, O Israel, who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy health, and who is the sword of thy necks, and say, And thy enemy shall be found liars unto thee, and thou shalt tread upon their high place.
That's one. Well, just once more, right? Happy art thou, O Israel, Who is like unto thee? O people, say, By the Lord, the shield of thy health, and who is the soul of thy exes? And thy enemies shall be found liars unto thee, and thou shalt tread upon their high places. The Lord will add his blessing to that reading from his word to her hearts today. We're looking at this wonderful theme, O people, saved by the Lord. But the people say, by the law, we are a happy people. We are a unique people. And then we are a shielded people.
We are a defended people. We are a vindicated people. And we are a triumphant people. We have all that, as you know, in that twenty-nine verse. Time not going to allow us to develop all these one-who themes. We're going to live this morning as we as a unique people and as a shielded people. And just see how the two again dovetailed the one into the other, as we have seen, how the happy people and the saved people just dovetailed one into the other. Because we're a saved people, they were triumphantly happy, aren't we? For the happy people we are as God's beloved people. Remember then last night we saw the fact of the happy people, they are happy, holy, and because we are holy and healed, we are assured and accepting, we are powerful and victorious, we are peaceful and expectant, and we are yielded and delivered.
This morning I want to link these two together by me. and shield. Just put these words down, the word unique, and the word shield. And just see how they dovetail the one into the other. Righto, we are our unique people. There's nobody like us. We like to think that at times, don't we? But it's perfectly true. We are a peculiar people. You see, that's more like it. I mean not being odd nor a square, but we are a peculiar people. This word peculiar comes several times in the book of Deuteronomy. A people without a match, we stand up unique.
The word peculiar has a double meaning. First of all, it means a people for his own possession and his own special treasure. His own special treasure and secondly, A people beyond the ordinary. Did you get that? A people beyond the ordinary. That's what we are. And only we are people beyond the ordinary, but we have his own special treasure. We are the darling of his own heart. As a people beyond the ordinary, we are in our birth. We are born not of blood.
nor the will of the flesh, nor the will of man. We are born of God. And in our relationship we are now the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. And beyond our citizenship, for our citizenship is in heaven from whence also we look for the Saviour. And in our companionship, for our companionship is with the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit and with all who out of a pure heart call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Beloved, we are a unique people. We are a people beyond the ordinary.
All that could only get into our hearts. That could only grip us. Wouldn't make us egotistical, not at all. But Paul would say, by the grace of God, I am of what I am. is no longer i but the grace of god that worketh in me oh the joy relies on all the important truth that we are unique people are people beyond the ordinary but then i suggest a people for his own possession his own special treasure i like that thought uh our son peter When he's much younger than he is today, we just read it from him this morning, he's been dining with the governor there in St.
Kitts and all the, what do you call it, the government official has just been there, in fact he travels home just on the twenty-seventh of this month, been down there in work for the government from Canada, these underprivileged countries. But when he was much younger than he is today, I remember getting home from an evangelistic crusade. We were living near Birmingham, England at the time. He was next door, the Baptist minister wife of the Lord. And she saw me going through my garden path and said, look Peter, she was walking up your garden path. When another fellow saw me, he got through the garden fence, came running down, threw his arms around my legs and looked up and said, my own dadder, my own dadder.
These words, my own, have never left me. My own. And this morning, beloved, the Lord looks into your heart with my heart, and He says, You're my very own special treasure. You're my own by creation. You're my own by redemption. You're my own by precious blood. You're my own by sovereign right. Oh, beloved, this morning, Luke, often saying, Glad responds, Oh, Jesus, Lord and Savior, I give myself to thee, for thou in none atonement does give thyself to me. I own no other master. My heart shall be thy throne.
My life I gave henceforth to live. Oh, Christ, I fall thee alone. Oh, friend, you see how precious you are to him? This too could only dwell in a part of it. Oh, he would become increasingly precious to us every moment. of every day. Keeping that still before you. In one John chapter three we'll read these words, Behold what manner of love the Father bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God, and such we are, says the revised version, and such we are. The world knows us not, because it knew him not. that does not yet appear what we shall be.
But we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And those that have this hope set on him, purely for themselves, even as he is pure. In that quotation we've got four D's. Now I want to give them to you. First of all, we are people of dignity. We are the sons. the children of God, for an honour conferred upon us, that we shall be called, and such we are, the sons of God. So I have royal blood surging through your veins. Spirit said this morning's letter, they promised they closed it, I'll get to visiting with the Queen.
But my friend, listen, to just think of royal blood surging through your veins. Looked upon with great esteem. Great appreciation. What dignity. What of wife. He's a prince. She's a princess. But listen, that fails into insignificance when you recognize this morning. You are the child of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Think of the dignity resting upon us. We are a unique people. There's nobody like us. And please, oh please, never be apologetic to let people know you're a child of God. Never, my friend, be ashamed to let people know you're a Christian.
Don't sit in an apologetic, half-hearted, sloppy kind of way. Oh, yes, I must be sure, be definite. And when the truth dawns in the pastor this morning, all the gleam that comes into your eye, all the spring that comes into your state, all the glow that floods through your whole being. Why, I'm a child of the King of Kings. I'm Lord of the Lord. And remember, there's nobody like you. You're the aristocracy of heaven, walking up and down the streets of Kings and Heights. No wonder, just think of it my way, who you are and what you've been brought into as a child of God. The very first thing my good brother Jack said to me this morning at the table says, said, Jim, I couldn't sleep last night.
See, why? You see, because another phrase is continuing coming into my heart. It's coming and coming. So what was it? I'm in the beloved and the beloved's in me. I've been thinking about all night. What a wonderful thing to think about, eh? What a thing to keep awake with. The fact that I'm in the beloved, and the beloved's in me. Now, isn't that true? The indissoluble union that we are a child of God. I love that. Not only are we a people of dignity, we're a people of distinction. As says, remember, the world knows us not. They call it new him not. We are a distinct, distinctive people. I love that.
That means a lot to us. We like to think we're a people of distinction and we are. We are. The world knows us not. The world can understand us with an enigma, with an amazement, with a wonder to them. And the I says in passing, when the world can understand us, there's something wrong with our testimony. There's something wrong with our testimony. What? that takes time off to go way down from the north and go down the path of Perth for four or six months among all those Christians, you must be a square. What is something wrong with you? To go to prayer meetings, to go to Bible study, morning and evening. Why?
There must be something wrong. They don't know the joy, do they? They don't know the thrill. They don't know, my friend, the joy that we have in Christ Jesus and the joy of finishing together one with another. Oh, the sweetness of the spirit. And we are a people of distinction. There's a mark of distinction about you and about me because we're Christians. I love to develop that time was allowed. Not only are we a people of dignity, understanding, we are a people of destiny. We shall be with him, we shall see him, and we shall be like him. My friend, no wonder Paul said, I have not seen of ear hairs near the end of the heart of man.
All the gods prepared. for them that love him. This rules my soul. That only are we going to be with him. That's absolutely wonderful. But we're going to see him. And my friend, if this glimpse of love is so divinely sweet, what will it be above? His gladdening smiled to me. Have these seasons so precious and so sweet and so real just now, with all those physical limitations and failures? Oh, my friend, what's the full realization going to be to see him and to be with him throughout all eternity? We are a people of destiny.
I'll be glad about that this morning. We're going to be like him. This takes me back to the thing that happened at Bradford, Ontario. twenty-one years ago. On my first visit to Canada, I had given a series of talks for ten nights on the Lord's coming in the little chapel there. Night after night, a fellow sat in the second front row. He was a converted boxer, a man, not a dog. I converted boxer, and with every part the boxer, he wanted to shout hallelujah, he wanted to say praise the Lord, he wanted to say amen. But it wasn't done in such circles, not etiquette, not polite.
Why? I simply don't know, do you? And how you can sit there so quiet and not say amen, I don't know either. Never mind, merely jives together. And this man, after he was all over, he just bubbled over, he just couldn't contain himself. This night, the last night, I speak on, behold, I show your mystery. We shall not all flee. We shall be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trough. Now I meant to say something like this. In a moment that's too long. The twinkling of an eye. Your eyelid will be up and before it's down you'll be in heaven.
The twinkling of an eye. Do you know how long it takes to wink the forty-six thousandths part of a second that all the time it takes and yet how much harm and heart it's been caused in such a short time the word is Adamos Adamos there is this a splitting of the only time you come across the word Adam in the Bible is right there a moment is far to law says in a twinkling light Adamos in a moment the twinkling of an eye in heaven and we're going to be changed we're going to be like him and I meant to say this I'm not much to look at now And before I got my next word, just Amen, brother.
But I'm not much looking at it, but one day I'll be well worth looking at, because I'll be like him. And he's all together lovely. He's the fairest of the fair. He's the chief among tens of thousands, two or so. I hope that just be wonderful, that we are a people of dignity and distinction and destiny, and because in view of this, there is a duty. And let all those who have his hope set on him, pure for themselves even as he is pure. Now with all that before your heart come down to this word unique. And as a unique people we are united. We are united to our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
Says in Psalm number eighty six verse number eleven. Unite my heart to fear thy name. The word is the reverentially troughed thy name. We are united to him. All the intimacy, all the oneness, all the closeness that is between the believer and his beloved Lord Jesus Christ. In a world we are married to Christ. The wonderful state of matrimony between the bridegroom and the bride. Between Christ and his church. We're members one of another, born of his born, flesh of his flesh, all that wonderful wonders that he now is the very life of our lives.
Hearts two, united one. Now that is what marriage is. Hearts two, united one. And there we are, my friend, this morning we are in the beloved and he by his birth lives in us. And again I repeat, there's a in the indissoluble union between Christ and his people. If only this could grip our heart by divine revelation, all the stamina, all the spiritual strength, all this virtual vigor and vitality it bring into our lives, all the glow, removing all the fear, all the dust, all the suspicion, all the jealousy, all the detrimental criticism, all these things would go where Luke comes and say, Those whose minds are stead upon him, they have great peace.
They have perfect peace. They have a deep settled peace deep down in their heart. Oh, that wonderful oneness between Christ and his people. Another thought I want to suggest you is this. We are a new, Kabbalah, a new creation. Not only are we united to Christ, and one in Christ, but we're a new creation. In two Corinthians chapter five, verse number seventeen it says that we are a new creation where in Christ Jesus all things have passed away before all things have become new. Aren't you glad you got a new sparking, a new salvation, a complete new life?
Aren't you glad you're all alive as you done away with once and for all. And God sees you no longer now as a child of Adam. He sees you in his son, holding him without blame before him in love. We're a complete new creation. As if Adam all died, so in Christ shall all be made alive. You get that lovely word new. And I like that new word new, don't you? Here it is, because we now have a new nature. A new nature. I love that. It says, remember in Peter that we have become partakers of the divine nature. We've now received the very nature, the very life of God.
I love that. We have now a new nature. Then again, we've now a new energy. a new energy. And what does the Bible say? I can do all things through Christ. Through Christ who is strengthened, who energizes me. Then Father, God is faithful who also will do it. Then it says, remember in Philippians chapter two, there's one, work out your own salvation with fear and truth. For it is God who worketh in you. All this new nature brings with it a new energy. Not my struggling and striving to try and live the Christian life.
Not my agonizing and my carrying. Oh no. It is God who worketh in you. In Philippians chapter one, verse number six says. being confident of this very thing, that he had begun a good work in you, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. That's the commencement. But it continues in chapter two, verse thirteen. For it is God who worketh in you both to wills and to do of his good pleasures. And then you've got the consummation of this in chapter three, verse number twenty-one. But it says, I mean, For our fellowships in heaven from whence also look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our body of humiliation, like on his own body, according to the working, whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
There's the consummation. First of all, you have salvation. Then you've got sanctification. And now you've got complete satisfaction. And remember, it's all of God. from beginning to end. It's all of His matchless grace in your life and in my life. Then lastly, this connection, we've got a new will, a new will. Our will is lost in His will and all the joy of seeing do His will in the energy of a non-greed Holy Spirit. Remember again the words of the Mary to the disciples. Whatever it says unto you, do it. Do it. Our will surrender lost in His will and remember doing his will, whatever the cost.
I know that's a strong statement. I know it's a searching statement. Is it real? Am I willing for his will? Ernie Woodhouse and Dave Cleven, I used to work as a team. We worked as a team and call ourselves the Tent Evangelist at Crusade. We used to work all over the British Isles. One of the favourite chorus of those days were these words. Sweet will of God be thou my portion. Sweet will of God be thou my choice. Self lost in thee, if in the valley or on the mountain, self sweet will of God, my choice. Is this real today in your life? And in my life? We've got a new nature.
We've got a new energy. We've got a new will. And what does that do for the man? This new will, this new man now, is going to magnify Christ. He's going to magnify Christ. Not I, but Christ. And remember too, Paul said that whether by life or by death, Christ will be magnified in my body. And remember, A, we're going to attract to Christ. Going to attract to Christ. John the Baptist said, remember, Christ must increase, I must decrease. And what did Paul say? There's wonderful words, are the lives of Jesus. might be made many faith through my immortal flesh and christ saved and if i be lifted up i will draw all unto me all and how is he going to be lifted up oh i trust not only the ministry of his precious word but i trust he's been lifted up this morning before our eyes that he's filling our vision and occupying our heart of satan for it's my sincere prayer That his beauty may rest upon me, as I seek the lost to win.
And they're going to forget the channel, seeing only him. Not I, but in every look, in every look, and in every action. Only Christ. And Christ alone. Oh, to be saved from myself, dear Lord. Oh, to be lost in me. Oh, that it may be no more I, but Christ who lives in me. Oh, what a salvation is that Christ liveth in me. Oh, it's this divine revelation gripped our heart because this will magnify Christ. It will attract to Christ. And what's going to happen?
The man, the woman who knows his joy, they're never without Christ. And they're never without Christ. Isn't it lovely? The same yesterday and the day and forever. Lovely chorus I love to teach is this. I will never, never leave me. I will never, never forsake me. A beautiful chorus. I'm not teaching it here in this time. But I want to get this. The very one who says, it matters to him about you. It matters to him about you. All the day long, all the night through. He's caring for me and he's caring for you. His mercies are tender. His love is ever true. It matters to him about you. He also says, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
The same yesterday, and today, and forever. Earthly friends, they'll fail and leave you. The one day soothes, the next day grieves you. But this friend, he'll never deceive you. Oh, how he loves. Do you know him? Is he a reality in your life today? Remember you're a unique people. And remember, furthermore, you're united to Christ. And, Father, you're a new creation in Christ. That takes me now to my next point. That letter I, we are really...
in Christ we're in the beloved I love that don't you in the beloved Colossians chapter two and verse number nine reads like this and please the father that in Christ should all fullness dwell now all the fullness of the Godhead bodily is treasured up in our adorable Lord Jesus Christ now please don't ask me what that means for I simply don't know is far beyond my finite mind. You might bring the Prince of Preachers, a Charles Haddon's Persian. You might bring a great theologian like a John Nelson Darby, a great scholar like a Lincoln or a Kerry, or the Prince of Expositors and Alexander McLahn, or the Prince of the Avengers, a D.L.
Lurie, and you might bring that wonderful orator, a Talmud, And place them all before you and ask the question. Can you please tell us what this means? That in Christ all fullness dwells. All these safely godly men in all humility would bow their heads and their hearts and say, We simply don't know. Now let something that come over your spirit life. All that God my friend this morning has treasured up. In the darling of his own heart. The very next sentence says, get this. And ye are complete in him.
Isn't that amazing? He comes to us this morning. He says, he looks into your heart with my... Why, you're complete. You're made fool in the darling of my own heart. The wonder of this, the completeness in our beloved Lord Jesus. We are complete. in him. I like that, don't you? Doesn't that do something to your heart? The same thought is brought up. Remember, in Romans chapter six verse says, we are buried with Christ in baptism. Let's say we've been planted together in the likeness of his death. So shall we be also in the likeness of his resurrection. When the Lord Jesus died upon the cross, we were in Christ.
His death is our death. When Christ was buried, we were buried. When he arose, we arose. When he ascended, we ascended. When he goes, place it, God right hand. That's our position this morning, beloved. And that's where God sees us today, accepting in the beloved. Lost all the fullness that's treasured up in God's beloved Son. Now, if I recognize I'm in Christ. And the book of Proverbs says, and I love it, the name of the Lord is a strong tower. The name of the Lord is a strong tower. Unite my heart to fear to trust thy name, said the Samus.
The righteous run us into it, and they are saved. We're in that strong tower. That strong tower is our beloved Lord, and we are complete. We're made fool. And friend, get this, you can't add any to that completeness. You can't get anything from that completeness. We are complete in Christ. That's why I don't believe in this fallen away theory. He even says they are lost again tomorrow. My friend, our salvation is a complete salvation. Our life is abundant and complete in Christ Jesus. Because I recognize I am in Christ.
He is my patience. He is my power. He is my purity. He is my love. My wisdom. Absolutely everything. Many beloved people come along and say to us, will you please pray the Lord will give us patience? When my wife prays for patience, the Lord usually sends me home. Tribulation work of patience. They've not got his status on that. But remember, they say, please, will you please pray the Lord will give me patience? I'm so impatient. I'm so irritable. I'm so nervy. And they got the brainy idea that God's going to bundle up a bundle of patience, put the name upon it, drop it down.
There you are, my dear, there is your patience. He doesn't do that. He is your patience. When you get in that corner and you feel like blowing your top, just quietly look up, Lord, take over the situation. Lord, you're my life, you're my peace, Lord. Take over. Lady came to me some time ago and said, is that life of victory you're preaching for a woman with seven children in a two-roomed house? And I said, My dear, if it were not for you, I would never preach it again. Just as much for you, in a two-roomed house with seven children, as is for me preaching, day by day. I met that lady quite recently.
Said, Jim, I thank God the Lord ever caused you to cross my pathway. That day I learned the secret, that Christ is my patience. And I said, enough, when I just feel like blowing my top. I said quietly, Lord, take over in the situation. I said, all the inner serenity, all the trials that I've never lost. I said, James, and I've been so wonderful. I used the very life of my life, and I want to tell you something. I've had the joy of leading some of my oldest children to the Lord Jesus Christ. They learned the secret. He is our patience.
Be not something apart from God. He is our patience. Same with love. Oh, please, ask the Lord to send me love. I'm so lonely. I'm so harsh. I'm so critical. I don't want to be like that. Ask the Lord to send me love. And they got the idea that God is going to abundant love and put an important... There you are, my darling. There you go. He doesn't do that. He is unloved. And when you meet that person, my friend, coming down the street, it always rubs you up the long way. And you don't feel like loving them. Just look, Lord, Lord, love them through me.
Love them through me. And it's amazing what that can do between husband and wife. And what it can do between brethren and sisters. Oh, Lord, love them, love them through me. I had a ministry law on this line. I kept the convention some time ago. And a man came up at the service and said, suppose I've seen something today. I've never seen my life before. What is that? He said, I've been a secret smoker for years. But he said, I say to him, brother, I didn't say a word about smoking, did I? Said, my ministry is not a condemning negative ministry. No, I know.
But it's when you talk about Christ singing through the thoughts, winning through the will, looking through the eyes of compassion upon the multitude, Christ loving through the heart, Christ working through the fingers. He said, I could never think of his pure holy life stained with nicotine. And he said, I'll never smoke again. And that man's never gone back to the old weed. He could never think of the holy, pure life of Christ, the who indwells him. ever stayed with nicotine, I'll never smoke, and he's never smoked again. I mean, it's the old afternoon talking about the wrongs of smoking, how injurious to the system, how selfish, how unclean, how expensive is that filthy habit.
He would never have given up. The loved life touched it and had to go. Two women were seen weeping in the aisle of that particular building that day, weeping each other's shoulders. Someone said, Will you please go and see what's wrong with those two women? He said, not me. I didn't have to do with brethren's problems. I'm not touching women's problems. They say, well, we like you to go. So going along with me, I help you. He said, no, the hell's been given you can't help us anymore. He said, what's the matter? He said, I've hated her for three years. And she said, it's me for three years. I haven't talked for three years. I said, I never said a word of it in the right with each other. Did I? He said, nobody talked to the love life flowing through the heart. A love life can't flow through the heart if I've got something against her. She's not the same thing at the same time.
And they're reconciled to one another. Brethren, I don't care what your problem may be. I don't care what your habit may be. The love life is the answer. It's the only solution. You let the love life touch it and it's got to go. But we must be willing for the love life. Mr. Willie right here could config and could concern when I'm saying things happen right here through the ministry or not so much this time in the earlier days of my visit here where this love light began to flow and when barriers were broken down hard feelings were brought to the cross and people reconciled to one another who had not been talking to one another who had hard thoughts about one another that broke what because the Spirit of God was allowed to operate And he says, Spirit of love.
And remember this morning, dear children of God, we are united Christ. We are a new creation in Christ. And remember, we are complete in Christ. Now the Father, what is the next letter? We are quickened. Quickened in him. Let us say in Ephesians chapter two, verse number one, we are once dead and now quickened into life. quicken into life I thank God for that our desires this morning our ears may be quick and centered and alert to hear his voice speaking to us not only so but we are upheld you we are upheld by his hand Isaiah forty one ten says fear not be not dismayed I am thy God I will strengthen thee I will help thee I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness So, beloved, not only are we this morning united in Christ and a new creation in Christ and in Christ complete, not only are we quickened into this enlightenment, abundant life in Christ, but remember we are upheld by the omnipotent hand.
Oh, thank God. But the right hand, which means omnipotence, that the hand holds you today, the hand will never let you down. I want to give you another view here because we've got the upward look. The upward look. while we're looking outward, we're expecting our Lord to come back any moment, we're looking unto Him and looking for Him every moment of every day. And the Word of God says, remember, in Hebrews, verse number two, looking off, says the revised version, looking off, looking away unto Jesus, the author, and finisher of our faith. Oh, to have that upward look this morning as we go, neat people, and I want to whisper something to you.
If this morning I know the joy of being united in him, and the joy of this new creation, and the joy of being Christ complete, and the joy of the quickened heart and spirit and ear toward himself, and my heart's quickened toward him, then this morning I know the joy, this wonderful joy, All being upheld by him, and with a shadow of a doubt, we got one longing, you see, outward look, and we're upward, bound, and maybe it's very deep, we're going up. Maybe it's very deep, we shall hear the Lord saying, rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away far above the clouds. Listen, beloved, this morning.
The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shot, with a voice of the archaic, with a trumpet of God, Our loved ones have gone before, shall be raised. We shall be changed, reunited with them, and caught up together to meet the Lord in the air. Wouldn't that just be wonderful today? From these wonderful, congenial, sweet, precious surroundings, to hear the Lord saying, rise up, my beloved, and come away. A boy was born blind. When this boy was about eighteen and fifteen years old, his father got home from his office this day and he found his wife despondent, really down in the dumps.
He said, what's the matter, dear? I'm all right. He said, no, there's something troubling you. What is it? I want to know. He said, no, no, I tell you, I'm all right. He said, no, no, come on, tell me. I know there's something troubling you. Leave me alone. I'm all right. So he got hold of her and I pushed her right away and said, you tell me there's something troubling. What is, oh how you women try to cover things up, don't you, eh? You think my love is too sweet, fellas. She said, tell us. And she began to cry. She said, it's breaking my heart. The think the child of my broadened world whom I have cared for all these years will never see the mother who's done this for him. I can't take it any longer. She went back to his office somewhere distracted.
He confided one of his workmates who told the harvest treat special way back yon London, England, when performing one of the operations, some born alive or even receiving the sight. Cutting my long story short, an interview was arranged. The doctor examined the boy's eyes and said, I am very sorry. There is a little hope of the boy ever seeing. I'll do my best. I can do no more. They agreed the operations. Some days after what the father and mother were sent for, in a little room with a company of medical students, doctors and nurses, the father and mother and of course the boy. A nurse and did the bandages. And then after some moments, the boy looked up at the ceiling. He looked down at the floor, looked down at a table in front of him.
He looked up and he saw his hand moving for the first time. He saw his mummy and he saw his daddy for the very first time. Someone said to him, aren't you happy you can now see? He said, I'm extremely happy, but please, I want to see the man who opened my eyes. The professor was just waiting next room for the results. He was keen to know about this, just waiting next door. He was brought in. The boy clasped by the hand and looked up and said, thank you, sir, for opening my eyes. Beloved, it may be this very day. that we too shall be ushered right into the immediate presence of the lovely man opened our eyes and we're going to thank him face to face wouldn't that just be wonderful the Lord bless you a little father then we must close remember this unique we have an eternal inheritance he an eternal inheritance he who obtained an eternal redemption for us and by the eternal spirit has obtained an eternal inheritance for you and for me.
He's given us the earnest of it now. If the earnest is so wonderful, what's the full realization going to be? I was speaking at the Stewarden Conference years ago. It was Richard Hill who's now with the Lord. And a lady came up to me one day after one of the meetings. I was continuing for two weeks from Sammy before, falling on from that conference. Now he's talking about our wonderful inheritance in Christ Jesus. Now I never forget this. The Philly came up and said, you know, on Saturday at the conference, you said something's made my mind real. So what is that? He said, you talked about we are cool heirs, joint heirs, together with Christ.
I said, my dear, I never said that. Oh yes, you did. I heard you. I said, no, I didn't say that. I heard you with my own ears. And I'm sure Mr. Hill didn't say it. That's what I didn't say either. Well, who said it? I said the Holy Spirit said it. I was just a mouthpiece. He said, you know, I've been thinking about this. And think of the little planet which we found ourselves living. Think of all the silver, the gold, the iron, the copper, the ore. Down there in the balsy earth. Think of all the timbers that are in the world today. And think of all the cattle upon the thousand hills. Grow up, look up in the starry heavens. See those wonderful galaxies. See those wonderful...
and we can't number them beyond our imagination. That's jazz, but what about it? And you just think that this little planet in which we found ourselves living is one of the smallest of millions upon millions upon millions of worlds he spoke into being and is heir to them all, the overwhelming. And now you tell me I'm a joint heir with Christ. Oh, says Jim, I'm lost in wonder, love and praise. All I can do is adore him and to worship him and throw myself before him and say, O precious Lord Jesus, how lovely thou art.
Come and abide in me, rule in my heart, break every fetter. Thy face let me see. Then thou shalt ever be precious in me. Brethren, do you see how wealthy you are? Dear sisters, you see where you've been brought to as a child of God. Yes, you're a unique people. There's nobody like you. I'd love to develop that at this time. Well, not an hour. May I give you the cross in the word shield. And now I'm closing. I was allowed to go over just about ten minutes. I got one minute to go. I don't think Mr. Willie said anything about the exact time to go over, but I'd be very polite. First of all, then, we're united in Christ. We've got a strong shield. A strong shield.
Then we got the shield as a hiding place. He is our hiding place. Our shield is invincible. It is invincible. Our shield is excellent. Another E, our shield is exceeding great. Exceeding great. He said to Abram, I am thy shield, an exceeding great reward. Then Father, our shield is a loving shield. loving shield the shield of love the salvation army hold that you know oh yes I know maybe just a crest but thank God for the salvation army and their own particular ministry furthermore now our shield is a delivering shield and a delightful shield did you get them strong hiding invincible excellent exceeding loving delivering and delightful And just to take me home and see how the unique people dove till right in to the shield the Lord Himself.
Sam, in verse number nineteen says, I delivered you because I delighted in you. And I close with these words by John Nelson Davy. That thou should find delight in me and be the God thou art. It's darkness to my intellect, but it's sunshine in my heart. Hymn number three hundred and two. Three hundred and two. Do you appreciate the match of coming and be much in prayer regarding this evening's meeting in the will of the Lord?
in the beloved accepted am I. For just sing the first and last verses grand on him, right? In the beloved accepted am I. For the risen ascending as he did on high. But take from those things true his infinite grace. Whispering he'd once accorded a place, In of evolving God's marvelous grace, Because he could rally to this wonderful place, Because he's my savior, and then he sees me.
in the beloved house saved my retreat in the beloved account is complete in that wonderful who can condemn me in him i am free savior and keeper forever is the in your heart shout hallelujah the last verse and please notice the word thank you in the beloved i went to the street who there in his person might be behind me said Stay by thy grace, on thy name I said.
In thy beloved God's marvelous grace, who calls me to dwell in this wonderful place. Because he's my Savior, and then he sees me. in our beloved. Forgive us, blessed Father, for knowing so much theoretically in practice a little day by day. Help us, it goes to practice what we preach and to live just as we pray.
And may we be the easiest to live with and to work with and to worship with just because we've been here this morning through Jesus Christ our wonderful Lord to whom be glory both now and forevermore. Amen. Thank you.