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[0:00] I thank you for the Spirit of God. I thank you for the book of Neal Myra, chapter 8, and we read the last words in the 10th verse.

[0:18] From Neal Myra, in the 8th chapter, let us read the last words in the 10th verse. For the joy of the Lord is your strength.

[0:39] You may find it mysterious, perhaps, as to why we have read this evening our lesson very good.

[0:51] That it was to demonstrate the sacred experience of holy joy that flows into the soul of the Lord's people when the Lord responds to their prides and runs their abundant, gnashing, and sacred presence.

[1:22] And how, immediately, and when it goes in the scriptures, it indeed enters this, and the twinkling of the night.

[1:43] Their sorrow is transmuted into joy. And this is this heavenly and sacred heritage of the joy, an experience of the joy that the Lord Jesus possesses, and that was saved in all his suffering shortness.

[2:22] It is his joy, his peace, that his fear and redeemed, and that his loving people share in.

[2:36] that his foundation on it. It is a quote of the spirit, the embleming spirit of God.

[2:51] It is a quote of the spirit, the embleming spirit of God. God, the embleming spirit of God.

[3:02] God, the embleming spirit of God. God, the embleming spirit of God. And it is a pleasure of the embleming spirit of God. That his people should enjoy those sacred fruits.

[3:16] For there is an ethical ceremony. For we may speak of this as being something that is not answered.

[3:30] With God, with all shallots and tribulations and temptations of the journey. The heavy wastes that big into the heart, and with the sore distresses that page his temple.

[3:53] now he gives us the enjoyment of these sweet roads in this beautiful county of Kent as you know so very well it is all the world renowned the folks of Kent I devouse the wonderful folks of this country in the southeast of England government of all parts of the world millions and millions and millions of people for centuries have enjoyed the folks of the county of Kent what do you think about the folks of the dear Redeemer once crucived by dead and buried now risen and ascended and then found Redeemer he has given us these precious folks to enjoy that is one of the main functions of the ministry of the gospel of redemption his servants bring the folks and bring the provision by the care of the Holy Ghost the table is spread and the Lord fulfills his promise to abundantly bless her provision and satisfied therefore with bread and so we enjoy this delicious air these sweet entertainments this holy woman so picture it and say

[6:13] I'll be there and I respond and preach and say that I enjoy very little of this I believe God has given me grace I hope I have with you God in my heart that I have very little enjoyment of love joy peace you will be immediately answered in this forward speech thirsting why do you claim to know the Lord Jesus do you claim that you enjoy any measure communion with him if so you will know the rich enjoyment of these holy truths but let me say every way in this promise because it is to me a very dismal thing and it's not to understand this fact joy when you hear those who protest the name of the Lord always speaking about their destitution as if they never had any enjoyment what I would say then immediately is this if you are the child of God if you are one that he has redeemed blessed with grace and might and you have the

[8:00] Lord Jesus and it is your lamentation that you do not enjoy these roads it's not the Lord's path is on yours there must be some condition that lies in your soul may be a greedy in the spirit or idolatry or condemnation that is ever to dine for something who is stamping away your spiritual strength now that's a very solemn consideration it is the Lord's wish and pleasure and delight that is why he has provided with these precious quotes in the cabinet of grace and to me as you well know the covenant of grace is administered it's not something but static

[9:09] I wonder whether you have the right conception of the covenant of grace that covenant is administered by the Holy Ghost from event that he quotes are dispensed that spirit for who may be the Holy Orbit of ministry of the gospel of redemption so that those who have a spiritual to better to thee for those things that are holy and divine and eternal and spiritual so that they should take and I again knew that they should again take of this ambitious truth nothing more did without that is it for every wonder and sorrow love joy meets thought for a moment examine yourself in the light of this discourse you enjoy these truths very wonderful it is to me and indeed it has been a subject of much spirituality and the admiration of my spirit to the

[10:56] Lord for his wisdom of goodness concerning down the cross chapter but the that denisive kept cave it was all settled before the chapel was finished building and on the opening day the opening services he said himself the Lord's home came into this sanctuary and to the ministry of my precessor William Mayim he said the chapel was consecrated from that day and it is remaining consecrated and it means this was spelled out from this aspect that these precious fruits of being on this angel is lost forever since now how many of you can say yes it is delicious you will if you know love joy it feeds in your soul let us then emphasize and undermine this it is the

[12:14] Lord's pleasure that his people should share in all that he enjoys in his exaltation and entrustment it's a wonderful thought it's a glorious thought this came out in our subject in our own group and yesterday my peace I am unto you let me bring to you a very simple illustration a illustration that is based upon the purpose of God in building families on the earth now then very loud a dear loving family husband and wife dear parents happily united in love and fidelity and the children now there's one thing that always are trying that is whenever they have parents the father and mother whenever they have with joy they share with their children and the dear

[13:38] Lord shares everything with children his joy is to share with them taking home and still are here it will lead for your son of joy and peace and comfort into the beginning of life he gives you what is joy that is the son of God in time the man Christ Jesus that Lord is who is joy yes he was sharing his joy and you don't have to wait until we are released from the Father we give you many sweet four thanks all precious fruits of the land thanks to let you go to your mother fruits and so we give you four days to what we enjoy glory is made in heaven here and love and what is joy let me then just demonstrate why I read the rest in that chapter chapter chapter chapter what you know that the heart was in distress because of the children of

[15:19] Ammon Moab and Mount Teer that had come against them in a good place he was a far better place than he was then planting in what the wall enjoying the sin of the they had nearly lost his life all have the little now with his disclosure and love that the sin of the wicked they had in his life but now he has a few children that is a bit of place he is from dying forces who can be against him and he went to prayer to become great and he used very vulnerable language but he so used for his marriage into a family that are helping everything he said neither know we got this though he did know what to do on the earth mental man and he wanted to do but he never made his wisdom he knew what to do in his spirit he said that our eyes are concrete that's the secret

[16:56] I think whatever the thought was if you were dry or sorry in the war that is the truth our eyes are from the earth and you see there is no despair in that word he said in fact there is joy already and I know upon you already the holy faith is so activated in his soul by his spirit upon the war for the way there will be so joy in his spirit because our eyes are hungry Lord the trust man trust a living sight for such but knows that the

[17:56] Lord has the world circles and his promises that there never can be a discourage of divine faithfulness and mutual love and so we bear despite the end of joy but our lives are always and the Lord made and made the answer to him who and who was excited he said now look what is this battle is entirely lost now walk in a special way then my angel that thought he was this he consoled him said his people and he did a last amazing thing the

[19:20] Lord said go out tomorrow go out again soon that you know you have life in this battle isn't it a wonderful thing when the Lord is with you and when your cause is committed to you you have to touch anything and all that is all I told you about three as one who realized that our many concern is that some of them may be minus reasons some maybe that could have other minus reasons and I wish I am very good for me and trying to go and I don't have to go why as I really get to the Lord to get right out of my hands that I didn't have to do anything to not to do it do

[20:30] I really just walk down with promise and run and the faithfulness of my friends and father and king nothing to say to me he said look the battle is is the Lord he went to do nothing to do and maybe have been simply next month incredible zac donating physically it will worry Hunter go Don't say it!

[21:26] Don't say it! To try to be your goodness, to try to walk for his national view of prayer, and I won't try to walk to say, oh my God!

[21:47] The single one will know it. I feel the beauty of the sacred military in delivering this prayer tonight, and the Lord knows my mind.

[22:01] The Lord cares to you and your soul, you set the singers in van der Yaren, the prying of beauty of other events.

[22:12] And when they commence to sing, the Lord set the anguish of the nearest people who would not have been, and all you never see it.

[22:25] Now you see, the joy of the Lord is your strength from the demonstration. Now you're taking a round on these mighty men and the light of the night and the light of the Lord and the light of the Lord is your strength.

[22:43] Pride is the Lord. They must have been full of joy. Pride is the victory of only. The joy of the Lord is your strength.

[22:54] I am, for many years, interested in medicine, many of you only know. And I'm interested in therapy.

[23:08] And especially in its application to the things of the spirit. the joy of the Lord is your strength. And let me just give you, shall I say, one very simple hemisphere is the rule of major intellect for your elders.

[23:28] It is not a rule. The truth of God is your issue. Now you may say, I have many anxieties and cares and sorrows.

[23:43] And you know one very little happens. Does it come to your mind? Let us quote, to make this day, just your review, which is all insane, blessed, and blessed, and seeing their cares alive.

[24:05] The Lord shall make His goodness not to the poor hearts and the wise. And seeing the praise of God is the sin of His name.

[24:19] We protest. If you feel very fine, you will really have turned here to the right immortal God in mind.

[24:31] But if you feel very fresh, and this will look proud of your mind, you kids are, try singing the praise of God.

[24:44] Try singing Him under time. The white, my soul, enjoy the flame, and sing my great Redeemer's face. And go on.

[24:55] There it says, he just, pray the song you can make. And sing by the time you go to the end of the hymn, let it feel better. There's no reality in this.

[25:06] This is something the Lord has obeyed, the joy of the Lord is your spirit. Joy. Obviously, much of it is the orientations of the spirit.

[25:23] If you are looking to Jesus, you will know what the joy is. If you are looking away from Him, how do you expect the joy? This is often the cause of the problem.

[25:37] To take our eye away, looking in some other direction, but to look to Jesus. This is the secret.

[25:48] So, you will, I am sure, appreciate that the election demonstrates the subject.

[25:59] In a corporate way. There it was. It is one of the most amazing things. The ring of the choristers going out before me, praising the Lord.

[26:18] And with the enemies, we're absolutely invalid. Because the Lord is. Sorrow, the joy of the Lord is your strength.

[26:37] I want to say just another step. To use. And with the, we have already made reference to our blessing Lord, to refer to some direction to this joy already, which has been named.

[26:58] I have used that passage of exposition that is the word which should be shared in this report. very beautiful meditation and some wonderful joy in this.

[27:16] To think that you are saved and will share with you with your heart. You better thought of it. my peace is his joy.

[27:30] And he gives it to you, shall not go. That is the joy of heaven. It is all the glorified sight sharing in joy.

[27:44] So you see the divinity of his end the divinity of it and the divinity of his end the glorified is your heart.

[27:59] This is a wonderful concept, version. You can make a sense. And it's just your study, heaven. To find the other than heaven you will have full taste of everything that you will enjoy in such.

[28:16] for the rest of the world. So I'm very sure. And you'll be able to say we have very good decision on our behalf of the world.

[28:27] This is the message. And go through this stage, you can walk. And you'll decide that there is no doubt in your experience what you have missed for the summit.

[28:43] and if anyone said to you how it is then that you will feel this assurance you will say because the law is in the end of God.

[28:56] It's a mess all right. We wish now with reverence and love to return to our evangelism again.

[29:10] And there are two scriptures that we will name to you in this course. The verse is is Matthew when the Lord Jesus was baptized.

[29:23] And Jesus when he was baptized he went straight way out into the water. And all the heavens were opened unto you. What do you see?

[29:35] that witch is also so amazingly light that it revealed in his head in his eyes He saw the joy in him. And lo, that heaven knows him. A sea of suffering or disordination and lo, that heaven knows him.

[29:49] A sea of suffering or disordination. we despised rejected men and men's sorrows and acquaintances and we give it as we have our faces from him.

[30:17] He was despised and yet esteemed in God. Surely he had gone out of recent Canada times.

[30:29] Now the temper of God that joy was sent to God he knew when he had accomplished his priestly with the government without a move that he would have to stand on the pie and be entrusted in glory that is the sons of God never make men like Jesus and so that heavens are opened unto him are they to you to the preachers come to the saints and the sins and the sins that the heavens should be opened unto us and in the sacred exercise of their holy office that there should be this experience in the soul of the people that they should look up and see their heaven known to them and the glory of God if they made them with the evil standing of the light and the sky with nothing comfortable and although an old angry ghost is sent here from living with God's reform from the past of the fortune of God saying this is my loving son in whom I know to be my name for him there of course was to show the joy of the sacred and it is the revelation of the amazing secret and he who shall go for the joy that was sacred for him endure the past this time he was shamed and set down with the right hand mercy on my now our savior and his joy and he sets it before his people and it is his joy

[32:50] I thought now just to give you every definition of joy what is if we joy is an emotion God grew so wonderfully and he is a joy that is joy is an emotion God grew so wonderfully and he is what joy is joy is an emotion who so wonderfully made our bodies he the human body and what amazing worth it is for the human body soul spirit brilliant brains spend a lifetime on one or one section or one system of the life and when they come to the end of their days they admit they are the other things that God who made your body gave you emotions and one of the emotions is joy don't you remember the manner of your steps in grace the love of the love the love when she had the love the joy is the love of the love the joy that is radiated in the achievement of the love joy it is an emotion that is activated the emotions are there thus joy is an emotion that is activated what dies two things either the acquisition or the acceptation of that that you cherish and that joy is now when you come to this fruit of the joy this is a sweet holy heavenly character it is a sacred growth that is expanded as you know

[36:00] God is Jesus Christ as you know his sweet person and you have the expectation of the Lord and as the Lord answers he gives you assurance so that you have the enjoyment of death which you long or in its constant and that's joy for our happy souls I know that we must allow something for sentiment that I have had many happy souls in the church and that have traveled and walked upon tribulation they have regulated the sense of happiness wonderful to be a happy soul and presently you'll be a happy soul to be a happy soul joy we have therefore given to you

[37:33] I believe this definition of joy wonderful thing said in that word in John 6 he said to his disciples the rules and the rules and the rules and the rules that is the rules they will rejoice when they see me put it in they will rejoice in they will rejoice in my suffering they will rejoice but you shall be sireful my agony will be an occasion of sire to you and the that my agony will be an occasion of rejoicing in my enemies that your sorrow shall be turned into joy and he didn't say your sorrow shall be succeeded by anyone he said your sorrow shall be turned into the joy no return will be strengthened by it the very sorrow shall be determined to joy and in his dying and in relation to your cruel sins and yet how you rejoice in love and you rejoice in your sins and how you rejoice in his dying love and you rejoice in his cry to all your to save you and your love and your love and your love and your love especially in this holy audience he has given us this night a taste of this holy thought which is a poor taste of a full enjoyment of it when we have pure and holy and completely confirmed that his story is no living

[40:41]  God has answered that we have thanks to this sweet enemy you