Fellowship in the Gospel is the central theme, emphasizing God's faithfulness in completing the work He began in believers until the day of Jesus Christ. The sermon explores signs preceding Christ's return, particularly focusing on Isaiah 90's prophecy of peace and alliance between Israel, Egypt, and Assyria, illustrating God's inclusive promises to all nations. It highlights the importance of maturity in faith, using Abraham's prayer for Ishmael as an example of God's unfailing promises, and contrasts this with the dangers of compromising standards, as seen in the lives of Reuben and Samson. The message concludes by urging believers to live a separated, holy life, to remain plugged into God's power, and to anticipate Christ's return with steadfast faith.
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We were going to open yesterday. We will see the coming again of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are not quite there. We are not quite there. We live by such a request from a number of you. But we were mistaken on verse six. That's the one in verse six. Being confident of this very thing, that he which has been done at his word came to you. to perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. And we said that we prefer to fellowship in the gospel. It's often misquoted as the eternal security of the believer. I don't think that we ought here is the eternal security of the believer.
Believer is the eternal security of the believer. Believer is the eternal. The eternal is the eternal. The eternal means the eternal. and they shall never perish. He said, any man shall not come up with my hand. My father, who gave him me, is greater than all. And no man can come up with my father. And I pray the Lord. I pray the Lord. But the thought here is the fellowship in the gospel which has been parted in them by God himself. And he says that he which has begun a good work in you will perform until the day of Jesus Christ. We have been considering signs that receive the coming again of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Come with me please to Isaiah chapter ninety. We've not finished those times yet. Isaiah chapter ninety. We have noticed that our three words repeated over and over again in that particular chapter. What are the three words? In that day. And we find them in a number of verses. You find them, as I said, in verse eighteen, in that day, verse ninety, in that day, verse twenty-one in the middle of the verse, in that day, in verse twenty-three, in verse twenty-four, repeat all the way over again, in that day.
Please look at verse twenty-four, it's a difficult verse to read, and my reading is a bit cool, let us try and read it again. In that day can Israel be the third against Egypt's very dry... Not again. So many people have been asking me what is going to be the outcome of the conflict in the Middle Ages between Arabs and Jews. Who's going to be in it? Well, the answer to this question is in God's word. As a matter of fact, it is one of the signs, the answer is one of the signs that precedes the coming again of Jesus Christ our abiding and by faith. So it is first in the faith called Bethlehem Harbour Mission.
That's what he did before. which seems absolutely contrary. And some people question this. But this is God's word that is forever established in the heavens. In that day, shall Israel be a third, a third, with Egypt and with Assyria. In other words, the outcome is going to be peace and alliance even among those three nations with Egypt and with Assyria. And you know what happened just recently, when two great men of these two great countries met together, and the eyes of the whole world were focused on the meeting place of those two leaders.
Why? Because the attention of the world was focused in the Middle East nineteen hundred years ago, when heaven drew near to earth and placed in the left of earth a great gift, God's unspeakable gift. And I believe that I must come when the eyes of the whole world again would be focused and directed to that part of the world because of the coming events. I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again with a secret to myself that where I am there you may be also. In that day shall Israel be a third with Egypt and with Assyria. Assyria is what we know now as Iraq, Syria and Transjordan.
Sheria and Transjordan, even a blessing in the midst of the land, whom the Lord was blessed, saying, Blessed be Egypt, my people, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and Israel, mine inheritance. According to this verse, who is God's people? Don't be afraid. Amen. That's right. I'm going this. And the Lord said, Blessed be Egypt, my people. And got word. Not my word, got word. And as soon as it was the work of my hands. And Israel, mine heard.
Yes, but we have heard otherwise. Yeah, you've heard right too. You've heard right too. Because if men were just as much Abraham's son as Isaac was. Right? That's right. You remember some time ago the people came to the Lord when he was on earth, he asked him, so he gave tribute to people of God. And he said, show me a coin. And it is, and he asked him two questions, one question, rather two-fold question. To whom is the inscription? And the what? And the picture. There are two sides. There is a picture, and there is inscription. The Middle East, if I might say, assume, say coin.
Ishmael? and Isaac, and those are the children of Abraham. Why does he say, Blessed be Egypt, my people? Because God's promises are without repentance. Tell me, please, to Genesis seven days. Genesis chapter seven days. There's a very interesting incident there. When Abraham was nineteen, years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abraham and said unto him, I am the Almighty God, both before me and be without purpose.
Now the names of God had meaning, El Shaddai in Hebrew. Shaddai is an Arabic, and Hebrew word shaped them in spirit. I am the Almighty, the all-strong God. Why? Why do you say, I am the righteous God? Or I am the merciful God, the all-compassing God. I am the almighty God. Because he was going to speak to him about something that needed God's power only to perform. He had promised him a song by Sarah. And that song never came until Abraham was ninety-nine years old. By Sarah. Well, what could happen?
Has God forgotten his promises? No. But Abraham, fourteen years before, had behaved in a way which showed it was not mature. Be thou perfect, be thou mature. In this chapter, in chapter sixteen, he did something which showed immaturity. He wanted to help God perform his problems. And he married Hegel at the suggestion of his wife, Sarah. And God gave him a child by Hegel, and he named him Ishmael. Names in the Middle East are very important. They have meaning. Ishmael is made up of two words. Again, Hebrew and Arabic. Ishmael means hear or listen. And is or Allah means God.
Ishmael, Ishmael, God hears. He thought God has heard his prayer and gave him the choice. But the Lord has said, Be who thou before me and be thou true. Be thou mature. And then comes the first prayer recorded in the book of Genesis, or rather in the whole chapter. It's mentioned in verse eighteen. Abraham said unto God, chapter seventeen and verse eighteen, Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee. Why? Did he say, O that Israel might live?
No. He didn't ask for one life, Krishna. The most important part of the prayer is before thee. Oh, that Krishna might live before thee. Because before God, by nature, Namiktawapal, before death, you and I are dead in sins and trespasses, right? Ye are dead in sins and trespasses by nature. When do you become alive? I become alive when I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord, because in him was life. And life was the life of men. He that has the Son has life. And he that has not the Son of God has not life. You are quitting and you accept him who is our life.
Jesus Christ our Lord. So Abraham, with the eye of faith, looked ahead thousands of years and prayed for Ishmael that he might live before God. The life is really worth the name. Life is eternal. Oh, the Israel might live before me. The Lord said to him, Woke thou before me? He prayed for Israel and the same thing. Oh, the Israel might live before me. How did God answer this prayer? No, no. Don't break away. He had no plan. No place in my plan. Is it what God said? Look at verse twenty. And for Ishmael, I have heard thee.
I say it very well, but it is a play on word here. Eshman means God hears. As for God hears, I have heard thee. There you are. What tends to mean this grammar? It has heard. At the present purposes. At the purposes. It's a comforting fact. I have heard thee. Not I shall be about it. Maybe I will. I have heard thee. As for Eshman, I have heard thee. Behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. Twelve princes shall he beget and I will make him a great nation.
That's God's promise. And God's promises are without repentance. They are all yea and amen in Christ Jesus our Lord. And friends, this prayer has been answered. I must tell you right away that the Mormon seed is a very, very difficult seed. A decade ago, only ten years ago, when a Mormon came to Christ, there was a great set of eyes. But today, scores in various places are being converted and accepting Christ as a Savior. And that guy was a student of Christ.
And I know a number of them. We praise God for what has been happening today in the Middle East. which we see with our own eyes and take as a sign and a sure sign that this prophecy is going to sin today, which is a sign that precedes the coming again of Jesus Christ our Lord. I have blessed him and would make him fruitful, multiply him exceedingly, twelve princes shall give you gifts, and I'll make him a great nation. Praise God for what is happening today in the Middle East. But let me in fact Again bring down the point. Walk down before me and be thou mature. Be thou mature.
Don't try to help God what He promised He will bring about. Standing on the promises of God, my Savior, we say again, we praise God. We have rich promises in Christ Jesus. Right. The point was brought up by one of these sisters yesterday. What is the order of events when Christ does come again? He may come again today. We fix no day, no hour. We know that it's end. It's very near. But we know very well that he is coming again. And our brothers refer to verses twenty and twenty-one of Philippians chapter three this morning. Our conversation is in heaven. Please refer to Philippians three, twenty and twenty-one.
We have again The sure word of God was sure of what was going to happen when the Lord Jesus Christ comes again. For our conversation is in heaven from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body, the body of our humiliation, that it may be fashioned by unto a glorious body. According to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. All right. In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, for he shall come again.
The dead in Christ shall rise first. And we who are alive will be thought up to deliver to me the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord. But at the time when you and I are with the Lord in the air, stop this boon of heaven on earth. It's a great tribulation. I don't believe I'm aware of most of the doctrine, but as I study God's Word, I'm aware of the fact that the Church will never go through the Great Regulation. This is my conviction, as I study God's Word. Please look up a few references here. Look at Second Tendencies, Thessalonians two, one to twelve. Second Thessalonians, chapter two.
Now we be seated brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that he be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by thirst, nor by word, or by letter as for or not, as at the day of Christ you can. Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except that some are falling away first.
And that man of sin be revealed, the son of tradition, who opposes and exalts himself about all that is called God, or that he worships, so that he, as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. They may believe not that when I will get with you. I show you these things. And now you know that what we hold, that he might be revealed in his time. I believe that that which we hold is the presence of the Church and the Holy Spirit in the world. When the Church is taken up, and the Holy Spirit who is the Church, who meets the Lord in the air, well then, the great revelation will start in the midst of the week as you study in Daniel.
What must you do? We have seen science We keep the coming again of Jesus Christ. What is your attitude? What should your attitude be? As you heard, we know these things, we heard these things, we know them, they have been recorded with God's word, and we hear them over and over again. I want to give you one or two verses in second Peter three. The third chapter of second piece. And look at verse Eli.
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved. What manner of person ought he to be in all holy conversations and gossiping, looking for and hastening up the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved? and the elements of Melchizedek. What manner of person ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness? Yes. Holy, simply means separate unto God. We are a separate people. I stress this back over and over again. You are saved to live a separated life unto Jesus Christ our Lord.
And as the day approaches, At the time comes when end, how, what manner of persons ought you to be in a holy conversation, a separated life unto Christ. Young people, the tug of the world today is too strong. But we praise God that he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world. In Egypt we have a river called the River Nile, as I told you some time ago. One day I was walking along the shore of the River Nile, the bank of the Nile. I saw different kinds of ships. I saw a sailing boat. It goes by the wind. Whenever the wind blows, the sail catch the wind and it pushes the sailboat.
I saw a row boat. You row the boat, the boat, the boat goes. You stop, the boat stops. But I saw a motor boat. It has a motor in it. It has power in it. The Christian has always armed come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly. And it is the more abundant life that is your portion in Christ, the victorious Christian living. And I say this especially because of the difficult times you and I are living in. You are beset with temptations from every side. But we praise God that we have the power in us to live the victorious Christian life. I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.
I was reading in Genesis forty-nine the other day and I was struck very falsely by the comments that Jacob or Israel and he was about to give up the Spirit. It said about Ruby. Ruby was the firstborn. He was the firstborn and at the firstborn he had three privileges. He was the praise of the family. He was the leader of the king of the family, and he had another portion because he was the firstborn. But he forfeited all these. Because as we read in first Corinthians chapter five, in verse one, he defiled his father's gift, and he lost the three privileges.
The priesthood was given to Levi, the kinship was given to Judah, and The birthright was given to the son of Joseph Menendez. Friends, for the enjoyment of a season, he lost all his privileges. Samson was a powerful man, but he lost his power because he lowered his standards. He started by lowering his standards. First of all, he wanted to marry a girl which was not an Israelite, not a Jewish. And I can understand the argument used with the children. One day he went to his parents' dad. I told him to come and knew that he still come until today.
I want to marry a girl. Oh, yes, conferee. Who is she? Oh, she's so-and-so. It may have been Mr. Leila. But that's not the Jewish name. Oh, you know, I'm going to win her for my race. I want to win her to my God. What if she wins you to her, God? Oh, no, I'm strong. You know how strong we are. I am firmly established in the faith. I'm firmly established in the tradition. I cannot be one to other God. He lowered his standard. And when he was going to visit the island one day, he was forbidden by his Lord not to touch the dead body of an angel. He not only touched the body of the lion, but he ate of the animal.
When he started by lowering his standard, I couldn't. Where will he stop? The way of compromise is a one-way road and it leads to a precipice. Is there someone this morning here who is lowering his standards or her standards? Make an exception. There is no way to stop the exception. I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your body the living sacrifice wholly acceptable unto God, even your reasonable servant. And be ye not who point to this burden. But then you transform.
Why? Because how? As you look to Jesus Christ our Lord, day by day, he fellowships with him. You know, if I had to summarize, as a person who doesn't come from the USA regularly, if I had to summarize the life in the USA, I would summarize in one word. If I'm asked to come ride in two words, I'll say, hurry, hurry, hurry. And if I'm asked to ride in three words, I'll say, hurry, hurry, hurry. Right? I should never forget and experience what I had. The first time I took my ride on the subway in New York City. And I had to get out of one hundred and sixteen hours down from one university.
I literally stood at the top of the stairs and looked. And so the sea of people rushing it was high. I thought something wrong with anybody here. Well, later on, I thought something wrong with me too. I thought it wasn't the same way they were right. I'm afraid we are just pushed out. Rest our feet up our feet. There's no time we're finished with the Lord. Martha, Martha, you are troubled for so many things. I'm going to be harder than Martha, please. You have been very hard on her. At that time, how many people had eaten for lunch or supper? At least for a few people.
How do we know the Lord Jesus and your disciples? And she and her sister, how would you like to spend lunch for fifty years? She was really troubled. She was really troubled. And brother and sister, I don't know. Don't let anything in the world rob you of the pleasure and the privilege and the joy of fellowship with the Lord day by day. The subject of assembly at the assembly in Nashville, on second Corinthians, five, seventeen, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creation. He was reborn again.
He born again a new creation. And we said, there are steps. And God has shaped in your spirit. What was the thing that God created on the first day? Light. Let there be light. And so it is with you. It is nothing that you can do whereby you can be saved. It's the grace of God alone. By grace I will say through faith and that's not of yourself. It's the gift of God. It's not of words that any man should know. The word of God. And if there be anyone this morning here who is not being called again, here is the way. I am the way.
The truth and the light. No man comes unto the Father. Let there be light. Let there be light. I pointed out the cry of the ages. Mentioned in Psalm one hundred and eighteen. And verse nineteen. Open unto me the gates of right. As if there are gates in the full of sin. There are no gates for that. All right. Men have made gates. Prayer on giving, going to church, fasting, doing all these things. These are gates, man-made only. Man-made gates. And the answer comes in verse twenty. This gate is the single form of the world. It's only one gate. Only one gate, who faith in Jesus Christ, the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, led us from the Holy Bible.
Yes. But what did not break on the second day? The sermon expands and says three times, let it be by. In other words, God on the second day reads divisions. It must be a division. There must be a separation. I'm a separate people. I'm a separate man. I live separately unto Christ. He is my Lord. He is my Lord. Anything that is not in accordance with God's will is not for me. You know, some time ago, when I was in Lebanon, I bought a new tape recorder. Simon was using me to read tape recorder. It was beautiful. She had won it, won't care.
Oh, I was so proud of myself. One of my brothers came to me to visit me in heaven. And I wanted to show them the beautiful, take the photo and walk. Single years, this is maybe four years. So that they took the course. And I promised to brag about the take before me. And I wanted to show them how to learn. And with the tape, then they heard the love didn't work. Oh, stop. I'm not a technician. I'm not going to be innocent if it's a bridge. And then I publicly showed him how to work I could locate. No sound, not really at all. And so it was one of those beautiful gates that we built. That's no noise. Nothing at all.
And then I promised to twist and tell him what happened. He said, maybe there's something wrong with us. Maybe there's something wrong with us. He said, And of course I blamed it on my son. My son was only three years old. He was playing with everything in my life. He was always playing with everything in my life. But looking behind, I found the reason. I forgot to plug in. He was not plugged. And oh, was I ashamed of myself. It was very ashamed of myself. Brother, sister, I mean plug in. Is there a very touch with the Lord day by day?
Is it far flowing through you? Yes, we are saying to live a separate life under the light. Anything that stops the touch with the Lord, however triggered it may be, however insignificant it may be, caused by sin. has to be dealt with. We have God's promise. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Yes, what should you, and you see, fellowship with the Lord, being at the center of God's will, day by day, and more of the signs that the Lord may give us.
Thank you. He's in. He's plugged in. Carolyn. He is locked up. Let's stand. If you sing together. One verse of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . Our hope is filled now, nothing less than need of blood, and heart is still inside. And our promise of his praise is our holy name on Jesus' name. Our praise is all, and it is our Christ's name. Oh, other ground is sinking sand. Oh, other ground is sinking sand. That's my concern for sports and drink, but others, not at all.
Not so much in regards to sports because you can see it. Now for the third country, the fourth. Sports will be participating very shortly. I'd like to see you guys stay young to be better shaped to, you know, live the way he should. And get out there and just really enjoy it. All right. But the reason we're here to make an announcement is in regards to a film, we're going to show tonight to the adults. And our brother has been bringing some vivid, pretty beautiful messages. And I'm so sorry I missed out on all of them. But anyhow, it's a new film. And how many you saw a piece in the night? Raise your hand. All right. Quite a few. Most you saw a piece in the night. You haven't seen that.
It's been viewed by three billion people already. It had to be a friend of mine who got converted in Hollywood's producer in the Mark IV films and Hartland films in the One Island. They put out quite a few films, which are beautiful films. We had brought down with us a film that hasn't been viewed in the South yet anyhow, called Distance Sunday. And it takes off from where the thief of the night left. And this has to do with the tribulation. I say this without any reservation. When you build this stone, it really brings before you the pivot about the tribulation and what is going to happen immediately after the Lord takes it. And there is some questionable things in it in regards to if you have listened to the gospel once before where you have another chance, but there's no question about the church.
But I just want to read one verse that they bring out very vividly because I know the people who want it. And they kind of believe this found in the second fifth on him that says in the second chapter, Even him who is coming is after the working of stinking, with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness and unrighteousness in them, that courage, because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved. And for this cause, God shall send them a deluding influence that they should believe a lie. Brought out very vividly in this film, though, that this lie will be told, and of course many will believe. But I do want you to look at it, and it will be shown tonight in the dining hall.
And so make preparations for faith tonight. It says amen to all. Beautiful faith in the religious people of the Lord. Shall we pray our Father? How can we thank thee for re-sharing thy glory with us? The glory, which our blessed Lord Jesus Christ has with thee before the foundation of the world. in the end of the foundation of royalty. Never let him care for all his time and day. But now in this time between, my Father, help us not to endure ourselves any more than to enjoy ourselves any more. Help us not to just for bogus words. Help us our loving Father to keep to one of our heavens in Christ, to really be with us as we are Lord Jesus Christ.
Be with us now and help us to keep us from all harm and danger to you.