23-0925P_THE REPROACH FOR THE CAUSE OF THE WORD PT.5
Psa 89:49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
Psa 89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
Psa 89:51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
Psa 89:52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Rom 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Rom 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Rom 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Rom 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Rom 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Jud 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
Jud 1:2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
Jud 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Jer 20:10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
Jer 20:11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
Jer 20:12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
Jer 20:13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
*AND HE COME AND TOOK THE PLACE THAT HE
MIGHT REDEEM AND GIVE ETERNAL LIFE TO EVERY SON OF GOD THAT HAD STOOD FOR THE
SAME WORD
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36-2 But He had to stand
the reproach. And here He has Himself, bound, lead up to death in order to be
put to death to bring back Eternal Life. Glory to God. Oh, how I love Him. Bring back
Eternal Life and raise up every son of God down through the age, that stood
with that Word and took the reproach. That's right.
If He hadn't have come, Noah couldn't raise. If He hadn't
come, Elijah couldn't come back. If He hadn't come, Noah would never raise.
If He couldn't--if He hadn't have come... 'Cause He was that predestinated Lamb that come to take the reproach upon Himself, and die the death for every Word of God that had been spoke that these righteous men had stood for. It had to be. No one else could do it: God Himself... And He come and took the place that He might redeem and give Eternal Life to every son of God that had stood for the same Word and would suffer the reproach.
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36-5 Every Son of God, down through
the age that would stand a reproach, there was no one could redeem him. But by
faith he saw that Redeemer coming.
Job saw Him. Job had stood back there. And they said,
"Oh, you're a secret sinner; God's just mistreating you 'cause you're a
secret sinner."
And he said, "I know my Redeemer liveth. At the last
days, He'll stand on earth; though the skin worms destroys this body yet in my
flesh I'll see God."
His wife said, "Why don't you curse Him and die? You
look like a miserable wretch."
He said, "You talk like a foolish woman."
Amen. There he was. "I know He lives, and He'll stand at the last days."
*WHATEVER THEY WANT TO CALL, THE WORST
THAT WE ARE WILL OUTWEIGH THE BEST THE WORLD CAN AFFORD.
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E-38 But Abraham, he didn't notice
the well-watered land, for he lifted up his eyes and saw the tomorrow; for he'd
inherit all things.
The real Christian, today, lifts
up his eyes and sees the promise of Christ: "Blessed are the meek, for
they shall inherit all things; they shall inherit the earth." The real Christian, by
faith, looks up and sees that. Call him what you want to, He lifted
up his eyes, and when he did that, God said, "Abraham, walk through the
land; she's all yours." By faith Abraham did this, the same faith that
Moses had.
It was wrote by one commentator,
that said this--and I thought it was most beautiful words--that Abraham--Moses
took the best of the world and put it in one scale, and the worst of religion
and put it in the other scale, and the worst of religion outweighed the best of
the world.
So is it today, that if we be called anything we want to be called, fanatics, or divine healers, or holy-roller, or whatever they want to call, the worst that we are will outweigh the best the world can afford. You want to be called old fashion, old foggy, fanatics; it'll outweigh the best thing that the devil's got to offer you. It most surely will.
MOSES ESTEEMED THE REPROACH OF CHRIST
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Moses esteemed the reproach of Christ... He foresaw
Christ. Later he spoke some mighty inspiring words about Him. See? "The
Lord your God shall rise up a Prophet like unto me." He knew he foresaw Him,
and re... esteemed His reproach greater riches, than all the glamour of the
world.
Christian friend, today, can't
you do that? But all the glamour and popularity of the world... By faith we see
Him Who promised. And the worst of the church today in all of it's
condition, yet it'll outweigh everything the devil can offer you. If
we are tore up, if we are broke to pieces, if we are confused, and broke up in
denominations, and fanaticism, it'll outweigh anything the devil can offer you.
Certainly.
He esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt. Then he had to do something. He forsook Egypt. Oh, I love that word. He forsook Egypt. See, he was looking through the same window, but he was looking different from Pharaoh.
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What if Pharaoh could have seen his end? What if Pharaoh
would've seen his nation drowned. Moses saw it. How? By science? By faith Moses
saw it. Everything that he did was by faith, because God promised Abraham, his
father, that He--He would visit this nation, after four hundred years, and
would bring them out. And by faith, Moses believed the Word that God said, and
knowed himself, as by faith, to be the chosen leader to bring them out. He
knew where he was. He took his place in the slime-pits of the mud-dauber and
counted the reproach of Christ, greater riches, than to set on the throne of
Egypt. He took...
He never did say, "I sympathize with them..." He took their place and went with them. Glory to... He took their place. We went with them. No wonder the inspired writer said, "I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few. I've started in with Jesus, now, I'm going through." I'm on my way to Canaan's land. Sure.
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Moses... It was said by one, that Moses had rather, when
he could've been the son of Pharaoh and have the glamour of the world, he'd rather be a son of
Abraham, than to be the son of Pharaoh--a son of Abraham, the despised, than to
be son of Pharaoh, the king.
I'd rather be the son of the Lord Jesus, and His fellow servant, and take my place with the rejected people of this world, than to be president of this great United States of America, or to be an Elvis Presley, or a Pat Boone, or whoever you want to make it. I'll take my way.
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E-42 Young ladies ought to take their way, instead of being a Mary Pickford, or some great movie star, some glamour girl; take your way with the Lord's despised few. I'd rather be a preacher in the pulpit, preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ, than to be a Hollywood movie star, or the greatest person on the earth. If I had to eat meager, beg, or whatever I had to do, I'll take my way with the Lord's people; by faith I do that. I've been offered opportunities, but by God's grace I still receive by faith. By faith I can see it afar. And our Father waits over the way, to prepare us as dwelling place there.
HE CHOSE TO SUFFER THE REPROACH OF CHRIST AND CONSIDERED IT A GREATER
TREASURE THAN ALL EGYPT COULD AFFORD TO GIVE HIM
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E-23 Moses, when he had become forty
years old, a young man, and as far as sight was concerned, Moses had the world in
his hand. He was the next Pharaoh of Egypt, and he had all the lands in the
world right in his hand, to be king over the entire earth knowing of that day.
And yet, he looked through the window that Pharaoh looked out of, and he saw
those Hebrews. To Pharaoh, who looked upon them, they were nothing but a bunch
of mud-daubers, down there in the mud making brick. To the celebrity as passed
by, they were the same. The well dressed people, that was a bunch of slaves,
nothing but mud-wallowers.
But when Moses looked out the same window, he saw them different, because he looked at the Unseen and know that God promised that He would deliver them out of that place and take them to the land of promise. For he looked at the Unseen. He saw the years that were coming ahead. He saw Egypt destroyed. Yet she was in her blossoming time. He saw Egypt as she is today. And he saw Israel all comfortably seated around Abraham in glory, and by faith he chose to take the--the worst the religion could give him and compare it with the best that the world could give him. And he chose to suffer the reproach of Christ and considered it a greater treasure than all Egypt could afford to give him, because he endured as seeing Him Who is invisible.
HE CHOSE TO WALK BY THE UNSEEN GOD, COUNTING IT A GREATER TREASURE THAN
ALL HIS SIGHT COULD AFFORD TO SHOW HIM.
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God had spoke to Moses, and Moses knowed Who God was. So
he did not look upon the brightness. And here I might say to the church
tonight, Moses had in one hand the best the world could give him. There
could've been no better. It was the highest office. It was the best the world
had. And religion offered him the worst that could be given, a bunch of slaves
in a mud pit. And now, if a man was looking, which side would he take?
Let me say this with sincerity and without any malice. Well, let me say this, that you'll understand it: today don't look at the big church. Don't look at the great denomination. Don't look at the well dressed, but look at Christ Who was rich and became poor, that through His poverty you might be made rich. And when you're seeking a church, don't go where all the celebrity goes or the big Ph.D.'s or D.D.'s, but look down upon the people who are looked down upon.
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E-25 And Moses, when he had them in both hands,
the best the world could give to what he could look at, and yet when he looked
at the Unseen, the worst the church could give him, he chose to walk by faith. And he chose to walk by
the unseen God, counting it a greater treasure than all his sight could afford
to show him.
Here was a kingdom. Here was a kingship. Here was a throne. Here was a crown. Here was everything in his hand. But yet, by faith, when he caught a glimpse of Christ out there in the mud pits, he went to his people.
AND THERE HE HAD TO BEAR THEM AWAY IN HIS OWN BODY TO CALVARY: A
REPROACH, A DISGRACE, SINFULLY HANGING THERE, NAKED, STRIPPED, BLEEDING,
BLEATING.
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How could I be saved? Get rid of
sin. He was the sin offering for me; so He died. Now, if sin is dead, then
buried, He carried my sins far away. He was a scapegoat that went out. And the
scapegoat took the sins of the people on him and went out into the wilderness
to be--to die. Go out there and took the sins of the people and took them far
away...
So did Jesus. He was... He--He took the sins of
the people, and carried them far away, so far that He put them in the sea of
God's forgetfulness. If sin is dead, bury it.
That's why we have baptisteries. When people believe that story, they come confessing their sins that they're tired of it, they've divorced it, they've separated from it, and they're tired of it; so it's dead. And sins has no more power upon that believer, because he stands justified in the death and burial of Jesus Christ. Therefore, he walks to the altar, makes his confession, says, "I'm sick and tired of sin. I want it no more." Then we bury it.
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When sin is buried, anything is buried, it's--it's dead
first. Then it's buried. It's put away from sight. That's why we bury people,
to put them away from the sight, the contamination of their bodies, hide them
from us. It's a gloomy thing to see what death does.
And when sin is finished, when sin lost its grips, and it died in the death of Christ at Calvary where He condemned sin, then the sinner who accepts that, justified by faith can scream, "Hallelujah, for God's carried my sins far away. He put them upon my sin Bearer, Jesus Christ." He represented both the animals: both dying and taking the sins away.
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Then as I said a
few moments ago, He become... We become... We were goats. He become goat for
us. Being... He become sin for us. That's the reason He had to be punished the
way He was, because all of our sins were placed upon Him. And there He had to bear
them away in His own body to Calvary: a reproach, a disgrace, sinfully hanging
there, naked, stripped, bleeding, bleating. When He rolled His precious head
around, the bloody locks dripping from His shoulders...
I believe it was Billy Sunday said there was an Angel setting in every
tree, saying, "Just pull Your hands loose from the cross and just motion
Your finger; we'll change the scene."
The Jews paid Him the greatest compliment could be paid, not knowing
what they were doing. They said, "He saved others, Himself He can't
save." Sure not. If He saved Himself, He could not save others. But He
gave Himself that we might be saved. That's the story.
Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away...
They're done; they're finished.
God's sea of forgetfulness to be remembered against us no more. Oh, can't we
shout, "Hallelujah," to that. Sure, it's all over. Christ did it. Oh,
my. Sure we can.
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