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[0:00] The End The End The End

[1:30] The End The End The End

[2:59] The End The End The End

[4:29] The End And we are told to honour the king or queen, of course, as in our taste.

[5:07] Some of us can remember two previous jubilees. The 25th of George V in 1935 and, of course, the silver jubilee of our pleasant queen in 1977.

[5:25] And does not want to make many of us, of course, the queen has led a moral life, very different from Edward VIII, Edward VII, or William IV, or sadly, the Prince of Wales.

[5:51] She has said, and the Bye- bidding.

[6:33] word of God. Remember, all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable. The doctrine reproof, review, and so on, instruction in righteousness.

[6:50] From the first verse of Genesis chapter 1 to the last verse of the last chapter of Revelation, all contain gospel teaching. But now we need to pray for the Lord to shine upon his truth.

[7:13] Indeed, I would exhort you, whether in the house of God, your own homes, cars, or wherever you take up the word of God, breathe a prayer in your heart for the Lord to shine light upon him. I have likened his word to a perfect map. If such a map existed in our cars, it would be of no profit if the car was in darkness.

[7:45] Send out, said the psalmist, thy light and thy truth. Let them guide me, let them bring me unto thy holy hill and to thy tabernacle.

[8:04] Well, now, it is a Sunday school anniversary, and I would like to speak especially for the younger friends. Remember, sheep will not starve on lamb's food, though lambs might starve on sheep's food.

[8:25] But I pray there will be something for young and for all. Now, I would firstly draw your attention that from chapters 11 to 25, each one begins with, the Lord spake or said unto Moses. There rose not sin to profit like unto Moses, when the Lord knew face to face.

[9:02] And he faithfully set these commandments before the people. This jubilee was not to be celebrated in the wilderness, partly because they were only there forty years, but they had no lands to till or to reap.

[9:26] We must not confuse a wilderness with a desert. There was sufficient food in the wilderness for their flocks and herds.

[9:38] And the point being, the wilderness was not cultivated. And this commandment, as we read in the first verse, applied to when they came unto the land, which the Lord would give them.

[10:03] Now, as we consider these trumpets, the man with the Lord teaches by parables. In his ministry on earth, we read, without a parable, spoke he not unto them, and afterwards, expounded to his disciples.

[10:26] We find his disciples often came to him and said, Lord, tell us the meaning, the parable of the tares and so on.

[10:40] Millions see the parables of nature. Few, and are you and am I amongst them, desire to be instructed by them.

[10:57] Well, that you may follow my thoughts, I say immediately, I look upon this trumpet, the sounding of the trumpet, as the preaching of the gospel.

[11:11] Indeed, one of our hymns begins, heart, how the gospel trumpet sounds. Christ and free grace, and grace for you younger ones, means the free unmerited favor of God through Jesus Christ.

[11:31] Christ and free grace, they are in advance. And if free grace, why not for me?

[11:45] Now, the modern trumpet has failed, but these were only invented about 300 years ago.

[11:59] the trumpets of scripture were more what we would refer to as bugles. The sound from the trumpet is varied according to the lips.

[12:17] When the lips are, as it were, comparatively slack, and vibrate slowly, a deep sound is made. When they are drawn more tightly in the mouthpiece, a high note is sounded.

[12:35] And for the most part, it would appear the trumpets, as we read in the book of Joshua, when they compassed the city of Jericho, the trumpets were of ram's horns.

[12:53] But now, there were these two trumpets of silver that we may look upon later. But how does a trumpet make a sound?

[13:13] So I say, keep this figure of the preaching of the gospel in your mind's eye. sound. It makes a sound because air is expelled from the lungs through the trumpet.

[13:31] But, and how essential and how important, that air must first have been breathed in, silently, compared with the sounding of the trumpet when it is breathed out.

[13:52] So, in the preaching of the gospel, the Holy Spirit must first breathe in. And that which, air which is breathed in is pure.

[14:08] Naturally speaking, the air that we breathe or blow out through the trumpet is contaminated. The carbon dioxide and the other vapours that our lungs expel.

[14:22] But that which is breathed in is pure. And of course, this figure applies in nature to the birth of a baby.

[14:34] Before the days of stethoscopes and ultrasonic scans, how was it known the babe was alive? Born alive.

[14:46] By its feeble cry. But before that cry was made, air was breathed in. So in the new birth, God took dust of the earth and breathed into it and Adam be time a living soul.

[15:15] Do you and I know that experience? As with the newborn babe, though we cannot dwell upon that figure, it feels distress. It must be a traumatic experience to be born and none of us remember it.

[15:31] But the mother rejoices. Not because she's hard-hearted, but because that cry of distress proves that it's like.

[15:44] So you who travail for the souls of others, know you will rejoice when you see them weeping and mourning over their sins.

[15:57] Not to move on. Many instruments can be played softly to piano or an organ, but not so with the trumpet.

[16:11] If you blow very gently into it, there will be no sound at all. It must be blown with at least some force.

[16:24] trumpet. And then, how the trumpet sounds. Just after the war, I was in the Army of Occupation in Germany, and I shared a room with a man who in civilian life played in a brass band in the north.

[16:46] and in the room we shared, he used to practice with his trumpet and the noise was so deafening, I used to have to walk out and I used to tell him, you could hear that trumpet sounding all over the town.

[17:06] He didn't believe it, but it was true. But now consider this figure, remembering the sounding of the gospel trumpet.

[17:20] You might have ten thousand trumpeters blowing with all their might around a coffin and the dead person would hear nothing actual.

[17:35] It would have no effect upon him to alarm him, to give him instructions as we may look at and so on. It would have no effect upon the dead.

[17:51] Does the preaching of the gospel have an effect upon you? It will if you are a living soul.

[18:05] The trumpet shall sound. but then let us move on and our friend touched upon this this afternoon.

[18:21] It was the sound of the jubilee to notify it was a time of release, a time of liberty.

[18:34] liberty. Now who would long for living? Those that felt they had it already wouldn't be bothered would they?

[18:47] But the captives would. Those who through their poverty had been sold, how they would be longing for that time to come?

[19:02] Listening as we might say day by day, will this day be the day when I hear the trumpet to set me at liberty?

[19:16] In the prophecy of Isaiah we read in the 27th chapter concerning Israel how they would be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel, and it shall come to pass in that day that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish, does that describe your taste, dear friend?

[20:03] Do you feel ready to perish? And notice they which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, the outcasts in the land of Egypt, as the lepers that were separated from outcasts, as it were.

[20:28] they shall come at the sound of that trumpet, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

[20:44] Jerusalem where the sacrifices were offered. You younger ones may often hear of the synagogues in which the Lord preached at Capernaum and other places, the synagogues in which the apostle preached.

[21:08] The synagogues were places of teaching where the word of God was read, as we find the Lord was given a book of the prophet Isaiah in Luke chapter 4, to which I may refer.

[21:27] But only sacrifices were only offered at Jerusalem. On Mount Malaya, the temple being built upon the threshing floor of all named the Jebusite, as we can read in the book of Canaan.

[21:50] They shall come to Mount Zion. Now I say this trumpet sounding and with what joy to those that were sown.

[22:12] We sometimes sing sold under sin was Paul's complaint. He sorely felt the fall.

[22:26] Do you fear that? our sins deserve eternal punishment.

[22:43] If we could live the rest of our lives free from sin but would not atone for one person. I love the various names of our Saviour but one especially seems to draw one's affections out and that is the Redeemer.

[23:10] The Redeemer. A Redeemer is one who pays the debt. A hundred years ago the trade of pawn broken flourished.

[23:26] No national assistance when a man was ill no wages came in and so on. So to provide food a precious article a ring a watch may be would be taken to the pawn broker who would advance a sum of money keeping that precious thing as security.

[23:53] when health was restored or circumstances more propitious a sum of money would be taken to the pawn broker and the precious article would be redeemed brought back the debt would be paid Christ came to redeem his people the apostle Peter writes in his first epistle ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold but with the precious blood of Jesus out of our land without money it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul

[24:59] I often refer to this book of Leviticus as the gospel as it is in Leviticus and I think it is indeed in the 17th chapter where you read of these sacrifices the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your soul for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul the trumpet shall sound in the day of atonement in the day of atonement man may just mention one's own little experience on the second

[26:01] Lord's day of July 1941 before I rose that Lord's day morning I was weeping literally and mourning over my sins and the Lord spoke with such power in my soul thy sins which are many and we have to say amen to that thy sins which are many are all forgiven they I leapt out of bed fell on my knees and thanked and praised God from the bottom of my heart wouldn't you have done sir you see it was a day of atonement the trumpet of the jubilee it was sounded in my heart and we wept to the mercy that we had found I love that dear woman in Luke chapter seven much might be said upon her case that we cannot dwell upon now but she must have known the scorn and ready till she would get in the

[27:15] Pharisee's house well no doubt she was tempted to wait until the Lord was all by himself but she could not wait hers was an urgent blessing case and so she came into the Pharisee's house what self righteousness this man referring to Christ if he were a prophet so he obviously he's not even a prophet if he were a prophet he would have known who and what manner of woman this is that touches it she is a sinner she is a sinner the Lord spoke the parable of the two dead which of them will love him most I suppose he to whom the most is forgiven does rightly judge he reproves the Pharisee and then he says to the

[28:17] Pharisee her sins which are many are all forgiven he was not speaking to her she must have heard what he said because he was at his feet would you be satisfied if someone said to you the Lord has told me your sins are forgiven no not if you're rightly taught you say with a psalmist say unto my soul I am thy salvation he he then turned and said unto her thy sins are forgiven thee oh what liberty was given to her in passing she had those three essential graces she had a faith to believe that

[29:29] Christ was the promised Messiah and those feet would be pierced for sinners she had a hope they would be pierced for her sins and this important fact you might not have considered she loved the Lord before she was told her sins were forgiven you who are waiting for this trumpet to say on the day of liberty and of atonement do you already love his people love the Lord and that will of course be manifest by a love to the brethren and a desire to keep his commandments the Lord said he that hath my commandments and keepeth them he it is that loveth me bring yourself to that too now the

[30:40] Lord I said began his ministry in Luke chapter 4 when he came into Nazareth went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day given to him the prophet Isaiah and he read from what we would refer to as the sixty-first chapter the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor to the poor Mary in the magnificent he uttered a very precious word he has filled the hungry in other words the poor he has filled the hungry with good things he has sent the rich the self sufficient empty alive to preach the gospel to the poor he has sent me to heal the broken hearted to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind to set at liberty them that are bruised to preach the acceptable year of the law them that are there poor writing to the

[32:42] Romans the speech of those that are bound by the law he uses the figure of a marriage the woman which hath a husband is bound by the Lord to her husband so long as he live it but if her husband be dead she is so adulterous though she be married to another man where for my brethren ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ that ye should be raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit unto God another way the

[33:42] Old Testament historical portions illustrate gospel truths Ruth married to Marlon had no children had Marlon her first husband continued to live she would have been bound by the law to him but her first husband being dead she could then be married to Boaz the type of Christ by whom she brought forth fruit she had at least one son now in Galatians we have words of warning the apostle describes them as foolish Galatians having begun in the spirit are ye now made perfect by the law you see they had been called by grace and yet had been as we might say seduced by

[34:59] Satan into thinking their deeds would attain righteousness then he goes on to use the figure of Ismail the son of the bond woman born as it were into bondage into service to whom as we read a few verses concerning it in Devidius 25 there was no jubilee for the bondman only for the Israelites and he gives this exhortation may you and I that are old and I to her stand fast therefore in the liberty where with Christ hath made us free and be not entangled again with the guilt of bondage where the spirit of the

[36:12] Lord is we read there is liberty I refer you now to John chapter 8 where the Pharisees said to the Lord Jesus we are children of Abraham we were never in bondage to any man and the Lord went on to say this if the son shall might be free he shall be free indeed because he has redeemed his people he has made a full attorney many in a profession of religion will speak of what they have done for the Lord how they began with the

[37:12] Lord well if you begin with the Lord it will soon come to an end it has to be the Lord beginning with you and then it will endure can they speak as if well if anything is lacking then Christ with his sacrifice can just top up my own works to make it good why you would such hell remember when the sons of the widow brought the vessels to her she said bring me empty vessels not half full of their own works and the oil of grace was poured in to empty vessels the trumpet shall say we read in the first epistle to the

[38:16] Corinthians if the trumpet they'd give an uncertain sound who shall prepare himself for the battle going thinking back to army days in the morning the trumpeter or bugler sounded the revali and we knew it was a command to get up have breakfast commence the day's parade or whatever was involved at night the last post was set the same instrument the same trumpeter but a different sound so in the preaching of the gospel there are many things that are needed to be set before our hearers to warn of temptation to speak of the Lord delivering from trials and the many burdens for need of guidance and so on but the all important subject to which we have to return again and again is sin and salvation the malady and the remedy the need to be free from the bondage of the law into the glorious liberty of

[39:51] Jesus Christ and for you younger ones this does not of course mean that we are therefore free to sin the apostle was accused of this and replies in the epistle to the Romans shall we sin that grace lay about God forbid God forbid we now desire to keep his commandments not through fear of punishment but constrained by love sin I cannot remember the time when I did not know I was a sinner as a very small child I could take you to the place where I knew I was a sinner to be disobedient to my parents to tell a lie was sinner and I knew

[40:52] I did it but my great concern was whether I'd be found out and punished otherwise it didn't greatly bother me but not so there if we with a grain of faith believe the Lord suffered to atone for our sins sin will be exceeding sin and we shall weep and mourn over it one said I hate the sins that made thee mourn referring to the spirit and drove thee from my breast not that the Holy Spirit is ever taken away but because of our sins he withdraws his foul blessing but there is another trumpet I want to refer to in conclusion and that is not a trumpet that will be sounded by man we read of it both in

[42:05] Corinthians and in the epistle to the Thessalonians how that the trumpet shall sound I show you a mystery we shall not all sleep that is some of the Lord's people will still be alive than the earth at his second coming we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed oh I love that we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trouble for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed this corruptible must put on incorruption this mortal must put on immortality are you prepared for that sailing of the trumpet whether it comes for us as individuals or collectively for mankind at the end of time we claim down the

[43:39] M-11 the small as some of you may know a small aircraft failed to land at the airfield at Duxford and overshot and crashed onto the M-11 and the pilot was killed he had taken off from North Weald Airdrome which we also came past and either my wife or myself commented he'd taken off no doubt expecting to meet his friends relatives and so on instead of which in a moment taken from time to return to him how is it with you one of my dear daughters in law said you always seem to be going to fear of us well that's true we went to one a fortnight ago we expect to go to one on Wednesday our friends our contemporaries our relatives are rapidly passing away but though the old must die the young may are you ready for that sounding of that great trumpet prepare

[44:52] I refer you to the parable of the wise and foolish sir we read they that were ready now notice the small print went in with him not to him went in with him to the marriage if I was in this chapel and you came in from outside you came in to me if we were both on the car park together and we came in through the door you came in with me you were in my presence and company the other side of the door and the wise virgins were those that were with the Lord in this life so when they died they set forth going through the doorway he went in with them the foolish were never in his company when the cry was made they went to buy when they returned the door was shut with many things in life we may adopt a ground of neutrality we may say

[46:16] I cannot vote for that man I can't vote for the other I won't vote at all I'll be neutral but when a door is closed we're one side or the other and when the door of your life closes and mine turns we shall either be shut out from Christ for everywhere or shut him with him forever and ever then it will be made manifest by whether we know and feel and love his company in this night whether we have heard this gospel trumpet of atonement sound in our soul there is no purgatory as the poor Roman Catholics teach in which the soul is as it were in a suspended state until money is paid to the church or so many prayers are made then it can be released they say to him away with the terror when the trumpet sounds at the end of your life life we shall either be with

[47:35] Christ forever shut out from him forever though there are many trumpets mentioned in the book of the revelation sounded by the angels we haven't passed upon these silver trumpets made of one piece how beautiful how precious but may those of us who sound as it were but ram frogs may we be found faith sounding the appropriate alarm the gathering together or whatever the commandment of the Lord the Lord spake unto Moses is laid upon it is required as a steward that he be found faith while I leave it there the trumpet shall say Amen let us conclude by singing hymn 59 after the benediction we will sing hymn 730 the 59th hymn to the tune

[49:18] Jubilee 548 hymn to the low ye the trumpet low the gladly solemn sound let poor insolvence know to earth remotest bound the year jubilee has come return ye ransomed sinners home 59 ough and oh Thank you.

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