Moses’ Part

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Short Summary
The discourse emphasizes God’s active and continuous involvement in the lives of those who consecrate themselves to Him, illustrating this through the detailed symbolism in Leviticus 8 and the wave offering performed by Moses. It highlights that consecration is a covenant between the individual and God, whereby God not only accepts but also actively guides, supports, and overrules circumstances to fulfill His plan and transform the believer’s character. Personal testimonies reinforce the theme that God’s mighty power works in and through believers, ensuring their spiritual growth and ultimate sharing in the divine nature.

Long Summary
Detailed Summary of the Discourse on Leviticus 8:29 (“Moses’ Part”) and Related Scriptural Themes

Context and Focus on Leviticus 8:29
– Leviticus 8 details the consecration of Aaron and his sons as priests.
– Brother Russell (founder of the Bible Student movement) has no commentary on verse 29 (“Moses took the breast of the ram of consecration and waved it for a wave offering before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses”).
– The speaker, Brother Harry, emphasizes this verse’s significance, highlighting Moses’ unique role separate from Aaron and his sons.
– The waving of the breast (a powerful muscle over the heart) by Moses symbolizes God’s active and continuous involvement in the lives of consecrated individuals.
– This wave offering represents God’s dynamic overruling and cooperation in the believer’s covenant walk, not just human effort.

God’s Active Role in His Plan and in Individual Lives
– God’s sovereignty and meticulous plan encompass creation, the Logos, angels, mankind, and history—all aligned with His foreordained purposes.
– The plan is executed with harmony and beauty, respecting human free moral agency.
– Most people are unaware of God’s overruling hand in major historical events and personal lives.
– The current divine work is the quiet gathering and completion of the Body of Christ (the Church), which is hidden from the world’s view.
– Psalm 55: “Gather my saints together unto me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice” illustrates the covenant relationship God makes individually with each consecrated person.

Symbolism in Leviticus 8: Sacrifices and Consecration
– Five mentions of “Aaron and his sons” stress the collective covenant walk with God.
– The bullock for the sin offering (Leviticus 8:14) symbolizes Jesus and his body members (the Church), representing perfect humanity.
– Leviticus 1:4 teaches that laying hands on the offering signifies identification with the sacrifice, indicating that the sacrifice represents the individual.
– Justification is “vitalized” and imputed through Jesus’ merit, allowing fallen humans to be reckoned as perfect (justification by faith).
– The bullock’s blood applied to the altar symbolizes the believer’s sacrifice of self-will and life to God.
– Brother Oslo notes that the altar’s acceptance depends on the shed blood, paralleling Jesus’ sacrifice and believers’ consecration.

The Fat and Zeal (Leviticus 8:16)
– The fat of the offerings burned on the altar represents the zeal and devotion believers must show.
– To the world, this zeal may appear excessive or “out of control,” but God values this fervent sacrifice.
– The “sweet savor” to God contrasts with the world’s disdain (e.g., the “hide, hooves, dung” outside the camp).

The Ram of Consecration (Leviticus 8:18-29)
– The ram is entirely consumed, symbolizing the complete dedication of the believer.
– Blood is applied to the right ear, thumb, and great toe of Aaron and his sons, signifying:
Ear: Ability to hear and obey God’s voice.
Hand (thumb): Actions performed in God’s service.
Foot (great toe): Walk in newness of life.
– The fat and right shoulder with an unleavened cake mingled with oil represent purity and the indwelling Holy Spirit.
– The unleavened cake (wafer) symbolizes the “exceeding great and precious promises” (2 Peter 1:4), including the promise of divine nature.
– The wave offering gesture (waving the fat and cake) illustrates continual consecration effort until God accepts the course as finished (Tabernacle Shadows, paragraph 44).
– Luke 9:23 emphasizes daily self-denial and taking up the cross—ongoing commitment.

Moses’ Unique Wave Offering (Leviticus 8:29)
– Moses alone waves the breast of the ram, which is not burned on the altar.
– This act symbolizes God’s part in the covenant—His active overruling and involvement.
– God is not passive; He continually works in the believer’s life, guiding and empowering.
– Examples from Jesus’ life show God’s active power:
– Miracles like walking on water, resurrection of Lazarus (John 14:6; reprint 4162).
– The apostles given by God to Jesus (John 17:6).
– Jesus’ trial and crucifixion align with prophecy (Isaiah 53:7; Psalm 22:1).
– Resurrection and exaltation of Christ is God’s ultimate creative work (Ephesians 1:19-20; Colossians 1:18).

David as a Type of the Church
– God nurtured David and overruled circumstances for his preparation (defeating lion, bear, Goliath).
– 1 Samuel 18:4 – Jonathan recognizing David as God’s anointed.
– David’s refusal to kill Saul shows integrity and submission to God’s overruling.
– God promised David his seed would establish a kingdom forever (2 Samuel 7:12).
– Typologically, David represents the Church in the flesh, who will share in the divine nature and reign with Christ.
– David’s failure with Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11) occurred because he lost focus on God (Isaiah 26:3).
– Despite failures, David sought cleansing and guidance (Psalm 119, Psalm 139).

God’s Overruling in the Early Church
– Peter’s miraculous prison release shows divine intervention (Acts 12).
– Paul and Silas singing in prison led to earthquake and conversion of the jailer (Acts 16).
– Peter’s vision and Cornelius’ conversion demonstrate God’s guidance (Acts 10).
– God’s overruling power is evident in the apostles’ ministries and trials.

Personal Testimonies Illustrating God’s Active Overruling
– Brother Harry recounts personal experiences of God’s intervention:
– University lab scheduling and permission to attend Bible study.
– Reconciliation with a former employer, leading to personal peace.
– The nursing home admission of Sister Karen’s mother expedited by unexpected vacancies.
– Unexpected meeting with fellow believers on Christmas Eve showing God’s care.
– Recovery and spiritual perspective after a knee injury.
– These examples illustrate God’s daily involvement and encouragement in consecrated lives.

The Covenant Relationship Summarized
– The consecration covenant is mutual: God pledges to manage all external events affecting the believer.
– The believer’s responsibility is the “big thing” — the full surrender of self-will and faithful walk.
– Malachi 3:10 and Psalm 37:4 promise blessings and fulfillment for those who delight in God and obey.
– Peter 4:12-13 encourages rejoicing in trials as partakers in Christ’s sufferings, purifying character.
– 1 Corinthians 10:16 speaks of the “cup of blessing” as part of the covenant.
– Ephesians 1:17-20 reveals the “exceeding greatness of his power” working in believers as it did in Christ’s resurrection.

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Selected Bible Verses Cited or Referenced:

– Leviticus 8:14, 16-29 (Consecration rituals, sacrifices, and Moses’ wave offering)
– Leviticus 1:4 (“And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering…”)
– John 14:6 (“I am the way, the truth, and the life…”)
– Psalm 55 (“Gather my saints together unto me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”)
– Isaiah 53:7 (Jesus’ suffering prophecy)
– Psalm 22:1 (“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”)
– Ephesians 1:17-20 (Spirit of wisdom; God’s mighty power in Christ and believers)
– Colossians 1:18 (“He is the head of the body, the church…”)
– 1 Samuel 18:4 (Jonathan’s recognition of David)
– 2 Samuel 7:12 (God’s promise to David)
– Isaiah 26:3 (“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.”)
– Psalm 119, Psalm 139 (David’s prayers for guidance and cleansing)
– Luke 9:23 (“If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily…”)
– Malachi 3:10 (“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse…”)
– Psalm 37:4 (“Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”)
– 1 Peter 4:12-13 (“Think it not strange concerning the fiery trials… rejoice, that ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings…”)
– 2 Peter 1:4 (“Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises…”)
– 1 Corinthians 10:16 (“The cup of blessing which we bless…”)
– John 17:6 (“I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world.”)

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Key Themes and Takeaways:

– The consecration covenant is a deeply mutual, spiritual agreement involving both human surrender and divine empowerment.
– God’s active overruling in history and individual lives is a fundamental but often unseen reality.
– The Levitical consecration rituals symbolize various aspects of this covenant walk: justification, zeal, purity, spiritual promises, and ongoing effort.
– Moses’ wave offering symbolizes God’s dynamic participation in the believer’s life.
– Biblical examples (Jesus, David, apostles) demonstrate God’s guiding, correcting, and enabling power for His people.
– Personal experiences affirm God’s daily involvement and blessings in those who consecrate themselves.
– The Christian life requires continual self-denial, zeal, and faithfulness, trusting God’s power to bring about the ultimate transformation and reward.

Transcript

Moses part. This is in Leviticus 8, 29, and it’s in the consecration of the priesthood, and we’ll see that Brother Russell has no comments on this verse at all. At all, anywhere.

But we’re going to talk about it in length, at length, and I think when we do, you’re going to see, yes, I understand this.

Or at least you’re going to think Brother Harry thinks he understands it.

Yes, if you try to come a little bit closer. Okay, that will work. I can only get. Okay, well, let’s see. How’s that?

All right. Every day is an adventure. Did you know that?

Okay, well, it’s talking about the incredibly active part that God takes in our consecrated lives, what he is doing in our lives. Is there anybody here who’s never had any evidence of God working in your life? Anybody good?

Well, I was raised not knowing the truth. So having God working directly in my life, I was raised in Presbyterian Church. So the idea of God working directly in my life, that was a foreign thought. I mean, why would he bother? I mean, a lot of people would pray to God when they’re in trouble.

You know, it’s like the gospel according to Superman. When you’re in trouble, you pray and then you hope God will. Will help you. But then you forget about Him. Thank you very much.

You don’t have to thank Superman, you know, he just flies away, never sends a bill, so. But God showed me in many, many ways over the years in my consecration that he is actively working in my life tremendously. Well, before I get into Leviticus 8, I’d like to emphasize that we all know, as we said, that God takes an incredibly active part in the outworkings of his plan. The creation of the Logos, the heavenly host, the universe, the creative days, mankind, it’s all been designed by God and all the rest. It was all according to God’s foreordained plan.

He’s doing all this according to a foreordained plan. Now when we look at the enormity of God’s plan with respect to mankind, we see that God has designed it with harmony, beauty and precision, all without interfering with man’s free or moral agency, and they don’t have a clue out there what’s going on. The Gods overruling everything. They just don’t.

I mean, all the, I mean the huge events of history, they just don’t see it at all.

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Okay, so here’s what we want to share. Okay, so the tremendous precision in God’s plan. Here’s God’s day of rest, seventh day. Now, does anybody recognize any precision there? Any symmetry?

Any evidence of design? Yes. Does the world see this at all? No. Completely oblivious to that.

Okay, let’s go to the next slide. If I can. Come on.

Every day is an adventure. Okay, how about this one? The Dominion parallels. I love these Dominion parallels. You see symmetry there.

You see beauty, harmony. Anybody think this happened just by chance, God rolled the dice, got lucky? No, of course not. Okay, thank you. That’s all.

Thank you. That’s all I need that for.

So we look at that seventh day of rest. We see the tremendous harmony. Well, our purpose is not to go into detail about these charts, but to show God’s incredible active role in his plan, which is now seen by his children and heirs. An incredibly active role, and we should all see that not only there, but in our individual lives.

Which you already said you did. But again, this is almost completely unseen by mankind. Because the big thing that God is doing now is he’s quietly gathering and completing the body of Christ. That’s what he’s doing. It’s not the world’s business.

I mean, they don’t need to know that. In fact, it’s best if they don’t.

Psalm 55. Gather my saints together unto me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. Well, God makes. Note that God makes exactly the same covenant with each individual who would become a member of the body of Christ. Now we’re going to be looking at Leviticus 8, verses 14 through 36.

Now, we’re not going to go through all of it. I’m sure you’ve all studied these things. But one thing to notice, when you go through there, you’ll find five times it says, aaron and his sons. Aaron and his sons, and what is Leviticus 8?

It’s not brethren walking in the narrow way. What it is. It’s the covenant to walk in the narrow way. That’s what it is. It’s showing the covenant that we make with God himself.

Each individual makes this covenant with God himself. Jesus made that covenant, we make that covenant. That’s why Aaron and his sons do all of this together. Very important.

So Leviticus 8, 14, and he brought the bullock for the sin offering, and Aaron is, and feel free to open your bibles to Leviticus 8. That’d be great. Leviticus 8, 14, and he brought the bullock for the sin offering.

And Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the sin offering, and in Tabernacle 41, Brother Russell says, this means this sacrifice represents us. Now why would he say that? Is that just brother Russell’s idea? Well, no.

In Leviticus 1:4, it says, and he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, whatever the animal is, and it shall be accepted for him. So now they should put your hand on it says, that represents me. That’s what it’s saying. So this is a scriptural principle given by God about how he views these sacrifices. Well, this bullock represents Jesus and his body members.

This is incredibly important because when you make your consecration an acceptable guide by God, that means Jesus merit has been imputed to you. You have vitalized justification. He sees you as a perfect human being, and if he didn’t, you couldn’t make a covenant with him. A fallen man cannot make a covenant with God unless somehow he’s regarded as perfect.

He’s regarded as perfect. So very, very important. So the bullock really represents perfect humanity. You know, later, I don’t know the Psalms, scripture, scripture, but it says they will offer perfect bullocks all mankind when they reach human perfection. They’re pictured as perfect bullocks.

Well, Jesus was a perfect human being. That’s easy. We know that. So he should be pictured as this. But fallen human beings, normally we have no standing before the heavenly Father.

But Jesus had said in John 14:6, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father Father in consecration. But by me. But by me. What does that mean?

Well, so at the moment of consecration, we have that vitalized justification imputed to us. We’re seen as God, as perfect human beings for that person’s purpose of consecration. Not to live a perfect life, but to sacrifice a perfect life through the blood of Christ. It’s like a contract. If you’re a 14 year old kid, you want to buy a car on time, you go down the dealership and say, sorry kid, you’re not even legally competent.

So if we were to independently try to make a covenant with God, he’d say, I’m sorry you fall. You’re already, you’re always condemned to death.

But when we go with the endorsement of his son, he’ll look at our signature on that contract, say I don’t recognize you, and he looks down, he sees the name of his own son signed in blood, says, if my son accepts you, I accept you. Go ahead.

So this bullock, I knew this was going to happen.

So the bullock was taken and Moses slew it, took the blood, put it on the horns of the brazen altar. Now what blood is that? Is that Jesus blood? Well, yes, when it was his, his consecration, yes. But we are seen as perfect human beings at that point.

We’re counted as part of that bullock, we’re image. We’re seen as that bullock perfect human being. When we make our consecration, that’s our blood going on. That’s our blood. That’s your blood.

When I made a consecration, it was my blood going on in fact. Because I’m laying down my life, my will, and God says, now that you’ve done that, everything that goes will go on that brazen altar. I can accept, and we all know that.

Suppose somebody walked in that door and said, I’m sacrificing unto Lord. We say, that’s great. When did you give up your humanity? Forever. If they said, well, I never did that.

We say, well, I got news for you. Nothing you do can be acceptable as a sacrifice to God. Because self will is still there. It’s got to be gone. Only then the blood.

If you have that reckoned human humanity accepted by God, your life, your blood will go on the horns of the altar, and brother Oslo says something very, very important. It says, it’s by reason of the shed blood that the altar of earthly sacrifices is acceptable, and that’s true for each one of us. Each one of us.

Leviticus 8, 16, and he took all the fat that was upon the n words and the collab of the liver. The two kidneys, the fat, etc. Burned it upon the altar. This shows the devotions which we must have.

Now, notice it doesn’t show the quality of our sacrifice. That’s Leviticus 16. This is showing the covenant. This is the covenant. Same covenant that Jesus made.

Now, when the fat, the fat goes on there. Now, if you’ve done any barbecuing, you know, if a lot of fat goes in the fire, what happens?

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And if your neighbors were looking, I said, well, that fires out of control. It’s out of control. But our Heavenly Father says, that’s exactly what I want. I want your zeal to be so apparent and your sacrificing so. So intense that to the world it’ll look like you’re out of control.

You’re out of control. But we’re here to burn up the flesh. In fact, I remember being at the. At the memorial service for brother Len Chesney and some worldly relatives were there, and I heard one say, he just wasted his life.

All he ever did was go to church. Because that zeal was being seen by them as a stench. That zeal. This was not the sweet savor in the court. This was a hide, hooves, dung, outside the camp.

That’s what they were seeing. Our heavenly Father sees the intent of that sweet zeal.

And so at the same time, the hidehouse dung burned outside the camp, and the world will think we’re crazy. But what does God see? Well, in Leviticus 8:18, we have the ram for the burnt offering. The ram, this is completely consumed.

Completely consumed, and this is how God sees our sacrifice. Now, when a ram is burnt whole, you’ve got the fat, the organs, the dung, the skin. Well, if we were actually burning that, if we had that burning out when we had lunch out there, well, you say, wait a second, because you may have some sweet parts, but you got some pretty smelly parts.

But when our Father sees what we’re intending to do, and finally when it’s completed, he’ll say, I see it all as a sweet savor that my sons have done. He says, it’s wonderful. It’s beautiful. It’s a sweet savor. Then in Leviticus 8:22, and he brought the ram of consecration, and Aaron and his sons and their hands put their hands upon the head of the ram.

And this is a beautiful thing because it shows the effect that our consecration has on us, and we all know this. We’ve lived these things, it says, and he slew it. Moses took the Blood. Put it on the tip of Aaron’s ear and his son’s right ear.

The right ear, the great toe, his thumb and a great toe, and also for Aaron’s sons. Well, this shows the big change in Jesus himself, Aaron, and also the big change in all his body members. Well, this blood on the ear, this is the miraculous hearing ear. Where in fact I think of Sister Karen when she made her consecration and the next day she was reading the 23rd Psalm and finally she understood what it meant the day before.

It was a wonderful song about little animals. Sister Karen is. You know about little Sister Karen, little animals, if you know her. But now all of a sudden, this understanding boom, really self will was gone. The Lord says, now I can show you these things.

The thumb. Whatsoever our hands find to do, do it with thy might. As unto the Lord. The toe. We walk in newness of life, not the way we used to.

Then Leviticus 8:25, and he took the fat and the rump and all the fat that was upon the n words and the call above the liver and also the two kidneys, fat and right shoulder again, showing the best powers that are continually consecrated to the Lord, and then he took an unleavened cake, an unleavened cake mangled with oil, one wafer and put it on the fat and then upon the right shoulder and upon the right shoulder. In that unleavened cake, pictures purity. We’re seen as pure, we’re seen as sinless.

The new creature is seen as sinless. We have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The unleavened cake mingled with oil. The Holy Spirit and then the wafer. The wafer is something very special.

Here’s the exceeding, great and precious promises. So let me ask you this. You’re really hungry today. You’re really hungry. So if somebody says, here’s what’s on the menu.

Here’s this big steak and big loaf of bread, but. Or you could have this little wafer. If you’re hungry, you know, give me the big meal. The wafer is not for the flesh. The wafer is something.

A wafer is something that has a strong taste. A strong taste. Like the, you know, little chocolate on chocolate on the pillow in the hotel. You know, it’s something you put in. Oh, that tasted good.

I think this is really why. This is just a little waiver. It can be appreciated by the new creature, but not. It’s not for the flesh. The flesh would say, get away from that.

We’d like to. We like to keep the flesh, but we’re sacrificing the flesh. So the way for exceeding great and precious promises, including the promise of the divine nature.

So, and only the new creature can really appreciate that. The second Peter 1:4, whereby are given unto us as new creatures, these exceeding great and precious promises. Well, then this is waved in Leviticus 8:27, Aaron put it on Aaron’s hands, his son’s hands, and they waved it and waved it for this wave offering, and they kept waving and waving until finally Moses takes it off their hands to say, okay, you’re done. Pictures the end of your walk.

Tabernacle 44, paragraph 2 says, we consecrate to continually keep our affections and powers uplifted, never ceasing until accepted of him as having finished our course. That’s what we do. It shows we’re doing this. This is what we are doing. This shows we are active.

It shows that this takes strength. It takes effort. It takes effort, and they’re continually doing this.

As Jesus said in Luke 9:23, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me. I was just at the Indiana State Fair talking to people, and many went by, said, thank you. I’m saved, I’m saved, I’m saved. Oh, that’s great. Well, you’re right, because the Abrahamic promise, because.

Not because of what you’re doing now, you know your time’s coming. So Moses took it off their hands, picturing God saying, it’s enough. Come up higher. So this ram of consecration shows how we are seen by God and what he gives to us in terms of capabilities, opportunities, and how he reckons us. It includes the promises to us of our final acceptance, that we must maintain constant effort to fulfill our vows.

But now comes to a verse for which Brother Russell has made no comments at all. Leviticus 8:29. But we’re going to talk about this at length. This has to do exclusively with Moses. Aaron and his sons are not involved at all with this.

This is Moses wave offering. Leviticus 8:29, and Moses took the breast, the breast of the ceramic consecration and waved it for a wave offering before the Lord, and of the ram of consecration, it was Moses part as the Lord commanded Moses. Notice it doesn’t say it was burned on the altar.

But this is Moses waving this. So what could this be? Well, again in Tabernacle 45, it says, the ram of consecration showed what effect the sacrifice will have upon us. What effect our consecration will have upon us. Well, the breath keep in Mind, the breast is a powerful muscle.

It’s over the heart.

The fact that this is waived by Moses seems to show to me that God is also giving tremendous effort in this covenant. God’s not just sitting back, says, well, you know, you made the covenant and I gave you all these things. I’m looking at you this way, I’m reckoning you as that, and I gave you the hearing ear and et cetera. Let’s just see how you do.

I’ll, you know, in 50 years I’ll come back, see how it all went. No, that’s not what God does.

He is actively involved. He is doing, he is actively overruling in our lives again and again and again and again and again, and he wants us to see it. He wants us to see it and he wants us to acknowledge it. He wants us to know, I am in this covenant.

You know, a covenant is a two way thing. It’s a mutual consideration. Value has to pass in both directions, and part of that action is God saying, I’m going to overrule things in your life, and I feel that’s what it’s showing.

That’s what Moses was doing. Now if we look at Jesus, God overruled again and again in Jesus life so that all the prophecies about Jesus could be and were fulfilled. Many of Jesus miracles were not by the power of Jesus, but by God’s power. He walked on water. Do you think perfect man will break all the laws of gravity?

I don’t think so. He walked on water. There was God overruling so he could do that. The transfer, transfiguration, vision. Perfect man can’t just make these things happen out of thin air.

This is God doing it. The resurrection of Lazarus. This was not of Jesus giving his vitality. This is something beyond that. Jesus prayed to God for the resurrection of Lazarus.

And in reprint 4162 he says, so that all those who stood by might take knowledge that not by his own power, but by the Father’s power as the finger of God, he worked these miracles.

Very important to see. God is working in Jesus life. He’s powerfully overruling. Well, the apostles were also given to Jesus by God. He didn’t say, well, I think I’ll take this one and that one.

No, they were presented to him. It’s a wonderful study to look at that. But in John 17:6, I have manifested thy name unto men, unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gave us them to me. Jesus trial was according to prophecy.

Isaiah 53:7, he opened out his mouth. I mean, all these things were prophesied and they were overruled. So that would happen. You know, Jesus didn’t say, okay, I have to organize this event and do I have an event planner who can do? Well, the event planner was God himself self.

He would be crucified on a tree because of the curse of the nation of Israel. That was overruled. God was actively doing all throughout Jesus walk, the blessings, the encouragements, even the final hardships. Psalm 22:1, the Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

That had to be done. That had to be done. Now if we look back at the work of the creation of the universe, it is small, small by comparison. Work of the fingers.

When I consider the heavens, the work of thy figures, fingers, etc. But in Ephesians 1:19 and 20 it says, but the resurrection of Jesus to the divine nature was the ultimate creative act of God according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him on his own right hand. Well, this doing is what the heavenly Father really want. This doing, this finally raised into the divine nature. That’s the thing the heavenly Father really wanted to do.

Finally I get to raise him right next to me in the throne, next to me. That’s what he really wanted to do.

Colossians 1:18 and he is the head of the body of the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence. Well, now we’re going to look at David’s life because David is a picture of the church now. God nurtured David in his upbringing, his experiences in his family. He was able to defeat the lion, the bear, Goliath, and later, when Jonathan saw this, Jonathan, Saul’s son, who was in line to be the next king, he sees what David has done.

And Jonathan in 1st Samuel 8:14, he stripped himself of his robe that was on him and gave it to David. Because he realized, you’re the one, you’re the one God wants, you’re this anointed one. Jonathan knew that David was the God’s anointed to be king of Israel, and he took off these royal vestments. Whereas Saul was so jealous, he said, well, you know, if you’re going to have my daughter Michelle, however you pronounce that, yeah, that’s fine, just go kill 100 Philistines.

And of course Saul Thought, well, of course, out of 100, somebody’s going to kill David. He’ll be gone. Well, Lord overrule, David killed 200 and brought it back. So, you know, God was overruling in his life. But David would not kill Saul.

He would not kill Saul. He refused to do that, and God even overruled that David was kept from fighting against Israel. At the very end, when he was with the Philistines under Achish, you thought, wow, because he was being loyal to Achish to the extent he could, and he said, you want me to go out and fight, I will.

And the other nobles or princes said, no, no, no, not David. He’ll probably switch sides, which he wouldn’t have done because he’s a man of integrity. But God overruled, look, you’re not going to have to have this on your conscience that you fought against Israel. So I thought that was wonderful.

God was overruling David’s experiences as in a laboratory, but allowing David to fully and honestly express himself in response to his experiences. God showed David the future with respect to his house and his family. In 2nd Samuel 7:12, he says, and when thy days be fulfilled, now pay close attention. When thy days be fulfilled and thou sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall both proceed out of thy bowels, and I’ll establish his kingdom.

He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of, of his kingdom forever. Well, anatypically, David pictures the church in the flesh. That’s us.

And just as David was told that one of his sons would be on the throne, we are informed not one of our sons, we are those sons. We are informed that when we finish our course, we as perfected divine beings will share in the throne with the resurrected Christ to bless mankind. Now this, this was pictured in the, really the initial reign of Solomon. Solomon kind of went off the deep end later and the completion of the temple. That’s what’s being shown.

Well, other Christians, I mean, if you go, leave this room, other Christians are planning to go to heaven. What are you expecting in heaven? Well, let’s see. They’ll see their relatives. You know, it’s a retirement community because they’re going to see their relatives, they’re going to play with the dog, go fishing, maybe an eternal worship of God, something like that.

But they certainly don’t think they’re going to receive the divine nature. They don’t think they’re going to bless all the families of the earth. I mean, I was There I was out there in a Presbyterian church for many years. I know what they thought. So that’s not so.

This is very privileged information that the Christ had embodied the Christ body. What will they be doing? They’ll be raised to the divine nature. So we have the deliverance and exaltation of the Church shown by Moses, hand going in and out. That was only known after the Lord’s return.

That was unknown. I mean, this is tremendously privileged information. But we can say as David did, who am I, O God, that thou hast brought me hitherto? And what can I say more for thou what you’ve shown your servant for thy word’s sake and for according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things to make thy servant know them? We know these things for millennia.

The church didn’t know these things. Well, we’re privileged to know them.

David said, what more can I say unto thee? For thou, Lord, knowest thy servant how weak and fallen. In other words, how weak and fallen I am, that at best I’m an unprofitable servant. Well, even after this wonderful promise of this, David failed with Bathsheba. Why was that?

Well, he lost his focus. This is at the time in 2 Samuel 11:1, where the kings would go forth through battle, but David decided to stay behind. He was not fighting the Lord’s battles at that point. He was thinking about himself. He was thinking about other desires.

And he was distracted by Bathsheba. He lost focus, and it makes me think of Isaiah 26:3, that will keep him in perfect peace. Whose mind is stayed on thee.

David’s mind was not stayed on God. He was thinking of other things. So we know what happened. Calls Bathsheba.

She becomes pregnant by David. He tries to hide it. Have Uriah come and to sleep with your wife, and then you’ll think it’s yours. Oh, no, that didn’t work. So then David had Uriah carry the order for Uriah’s own murder to Joab.

It’s hard to get lower than that. But one thing I appreciate about this is that David’s reverence for God never faltered. He was just distracted by fleshly weakness. So David was punished through his own family, his own son Absalom, and there’s a lot more for why that happened, but his own.

We know about the rebellion, but in Psalm 119, this was really a good thing for David. That’s really a good thing. You need to be corrected. Psalm 119, 23 princes. I mean, he says princes.

And I Think this is Absalom. Princes also did sit and speak against me. But thy servant did metaphor meditate, and thy statutes the proud have made me greatly in direction. Yet I have not declined from thy law.

He had to. God says, let’s focus on what’s important, and David was doing that. He saw his sin and he knew he had to be straightened out, and he appreciated what God was doing for him.

David wanted his character to be cleansed. Who can understand his own errors? Cleanse thou me from secret faults. That’s what David wanted. Psalm 139.

Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts and see if there’s anything wicked and lead me in the way, everlasting. That’s what David wanted. It’s like this hymn, this hymn we just sang. We can’t guide ourselves.

We need that guidance from God. Powerful overrulings in David’s life. They picture how God’s works, works through the body. The body members. We like to go on to James.

When James was killed by Herod, we know that Herod thought, oh, I’m making the Jews very happy about this. So he takes Peter in prison. He guards him with four quaternions, 16 men, and what happens? Well, it’s not like, well, Peter, here’s the key.

You figure out how to get. No, an angel comes, the shackles drop off. He walks out like all the guys are asleep or something. They don’t see it, and he goes to the brethren, knocks on and they go, who is that?

You know, it’s just amazing. But God was showing. Now, did Peter do this? No, God himself was doing this, or the resurrected Christ was doing this. I mean, this is.

Here’s this wave off, this wave breast, this active doing, active doing. God was actively doing. Overruling on Peter’s behalf. We can find with Paul and Silas. They’re in the stocks.

They’re in Philippi. They’ve been. You know, they fixed this woman possessed by a spirit. She couldn’t do fortune telling anymore. Her handlers were upset.

He gets tossed in prison and what have. Their feet are fast in the stocks, and what are they doing? They’re singing, and I don’t think this is a short song. I think they were singing for hours and probably witnessing to everybody around them.

They wanted to know, hey, this is wonderful. Look at what this is. Well, then at midnight, and brother Wes, if he’s with us, he said in a talk, well, this was an earthquake, but it was a smart quake. It didn’t tumble the whole building.

But it just opened the doors and the, and the cells. You know, it’s like, okay, so they could leave, but, and the keeper of the prison was going to kill himself. You know, if you.

If you mess up and your guys, your prisoners escape, you get killed, and Paul said, well, don’t do that. We’re all here, and he’s witnessing to this fella, and he wants to know, what do I do to be saved? So he becomes baptized as well. All these tremendous things, I mean, God was doing.

Here’s this. God is saying, I’m doing, I’m doing, I’m doing. He’s shown that Peter was later corrected by Paul. In fact, Peter went. When it comes to Cornelius, Peter had a vision three times to get the point across, and he still didn’t get it.

When he went to Cornelius, he was very reluctant. So God says, well, you don’t even have to lay hands on him. He’s going to give evidence of the Holy Spirit before you. God was doing that for Peter as well. I want you to get the lesson.

Very powerful things. Well, does he do this in our lives? Does he actively overrule in our lives? Absolutely, and I’m going to share a few things.

I’ve shared a lot of things with the brethren here. I appreciate your patience in me sharing so many stories. But here we go again.

And God wants us to see it. He wants us to see the overruling and acknowledge this is for me. Give you an example. I was the summer I consecrated 40 years ago, August 10th. Well, that.

That later. I was in my last semester as an engineering student. I was 32 years old, a little older, but, and there was a. There was a weekly or a daily Bible study off campus about 10 miles away, 8, 10 miles away, over the noon hour.

And I really wanted to go there. I really, really wanted to go there, but there was a lab I had to take. That was that. There was a lab in the morning that was closed. I had to.

But there was another section at one o’, clock, and if I had to go to the one o’ clock section, I couldn’t go to the noon study. What to do.

I know what I did is I went and I said, I’m going to pick up a math course that it looks like I need because I took a lot of math courses. I’m going to pick up this math course, sign up for that, and then I’m going to make sure it conflicts with that one o’ clock lab so it’ll look like I can’t be in that one o’ clock lab. I have to have the morning lab. So I had all this bogus paperwork and I went into the head of undergraduate programs and he said, okay, Harry. He knew I was a good, pretty good student.

He says, okay, Harry, what’s so important you need to get into this closed lab? Well, brethren, I was clutching this bogus paperwork in my hand and I said, I can’t do this. So I said to him, there’s a Bible study at noon. It’s very important to me, and if I have to go into this one o’ clock labor, have to miss it.

So he said to me, harry, Harry, I’m an official of this university. I can’t accept that as an acceptable excuse to let you into a section that’s already closed. But I will.

So the Lord was saying, hey, who do you think did that? He was showing me, look, you don’t have to use your own crazy methods, which are highly questionable. I’m going to do this for you.

We also had. Also later that fall, I was at our Wednesday night testimony meeting, and Sister Karen, I was going to pick her up. She was on business. She was going to be driving back or flying back to the Champagne Airport, and she wanted me to pick her up.

So I’m going down there to pick her up. Well, about four years earlier, I worked for this company, and the president of the company, I did not see eye to eye, and he asked me to leave the company. He didn’t want to fire me because he didn’t want to pay, you know, unemployment.

But I said, hey, no problem. I’m going to go back to school. School for engineering. Okay, fine. Well, I go out to pick up Sister Karen, and there’s this guy.

His name is Dick Spencer. There’s Dick Spencer. So I looked at him. He didn’t see me, and I thought, okay.

So I take a big circle around him. He didn’t see me, picked up Sister Karen and left. Well, brethren, I felt dirty. I felt dirty. What in the world are you doing?

What are you doing? You’re a consecrated child of God and you’re letting the memory of this guy for which you had, you know, disagreements or at least a different severe difference of opinion, and I just felt dirty. Well, the next, the next testimony meeting, I testified about this. I said, you know, if I ever see him again, I should be able to walk up to him, smile, look him in the eye, thank him for the experiences I had when I was with his company. Well, it just so happened that Sister Karen was coming in that evening from somewhere.

And she was going to be flying in that same airport. So I went out there. Well, guess who was there. You guessed it, and it’s like the Lord said, out of your own mouth.

So I swallowed hard and I walked up to him. I said, dick Spencer. How are you doing? It’s good to see you. I smiled, I shook his hand.

I thanked him for the. For the experiences I had in his company. He kind of went and he didn’t know what to make of that, and I walked and picked up Sister Karen and I left, and I felt clean.

I felt so much better. Because the fear of man, whether it’s real or imagined, it bringeth a snare. But whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. So these experiences we also had. When I married Sister Karen, the deal was I got two cats.

I wasn’t a cat person, and I got a mother in law with profound Alzheimer’s disease, and that’s when they didn’t even know the word Alzheimer’s.

I mean, she. It was. So she was living with us. Put her in the master bedroom, took the door off the bathroom, hoping for the best, you know. But we had a.

We had a little babysitter for the 40 hours a week when we were working. But other than that, we’re up all hours because her mother was up all hours. So. But Sister Karen said, you know, Mom, I’m never going to put you in a nursing home. Well, I’m the new husband.

I’m not going to say, well, you know, who cares about that? No. But her brother, Uncle Vernon, you know, he had all his marbles. He comes to visit that next summer and he’s seeing his sister Ruth, and Ruth walks by him like he’s a lamppost.

Like, doesn’t even recognize him at all. Doesn’t acknowledge him as, you know, even a human being. Uncle Vernon turns to us and says, you can’t keep doing this. You can’t. You’ve got to put her in a nursing home.

After all, they’re professionals. They have people all hours. They know what to do. You don’t. If you want her to have the best care, you have to do this.

So we thought, okay, thank you. The Lord overruled this statement to absolve Sister Karen from this promise, which we couldn’t keep. All right, great. So we call up the Champaign County Nursing Home. It was the best place, very open.

We call them on a Friday afternoon. We tell them what we’d like. They said, that’s fine. We have a Six month waiting list.

We said, okay, well, put us on the list. So we called up another nursing home and they said it was more closed, you know, not as open, but we thought, we said. They said, well, we can take your mother next Wednesday. Okay. So that weekend we’re putting in name tags and clothes and things.

So Monday morning, Champaign County Nursing Home calls us and says, we can take your mother tomorrow. I said, what happened to the six month waiting list? And they said, well, seven of our residents passed away this weekend. That opened up a spot. It’s like the Lord said, they’re just waiting for the kingdom.

I put them to bed early and God was saying, I am doing this for you. I’m doing this for you, brother Harry and sister Karen. Do you understand that? Do you see that? That’s the deal.

I’m going to overrule all these things.

Tremendous, tremendous experiences. Oh, another thing about brother Wes, since he’s. Hopefully he’s on. We were coming back several years later. We were coming back from Pennsylvania, York, Pennsylvania, where my parents live.

We’re coming back on a Christmas Eve, it turns out, and we’re going through western Pennsylvania on a Sunday morning. We thought, well, let’s just see if the Kramers are available. So we tried to call brother west and sister Tony. Of course they’re at their meeting. We kind of expected that.

So about 11:30 we thought, well, let’s get hungry. Let’s pull off the road and find someplace to eat. So we did and we went up to the door and it was locked. Of course, it’s Christmas Eve. So, all right, get back on the highway, go down another 10 miles, another exit.

We go to another place and there are people, people in the parking lot and they’re coming out, and I thought, oh, great, and we’re about to go in. They said, oh, they’ve just closed. Okay, well, all right.

Merry Christmas. Got back in, went down another 10 miles or so, got out this nice place and there are people walking in. I thought, well, this is a good sign. So we’re walking in too, and they looked at us and said, oh, this is a private party.

Okay, well, thank you. Merry Christmas. Went another 10, 15 miles and we went to a place, big shopping center, you know, lots of stores, and there was a Bonanza or Ponderosa or something like that. So we found it.

The car’s in the parking lot. Looks like people inside. So we went in. Are you open? Yes.

You’re going to be open? Yes. So I went and sat down. Sister Karen went to the restroom of Course, they have a big salad bar, and I’m sitting there, and this woman is coming right from the salad bar.

You know, they just got her food. She’s coming from the salad bar, and she’s right here. I look up. It was Sister Tony Kramer. I said, I’d like you to sit at this table.

We look two tables down. There is brother Wes. Now, why were they there? Well, normally they wouldn’t be, but brother Marion Schrock in a nursing home, he lost his slippers. You know, things in possessions and nursing homes kind of go.

They float. So the Lord is like, it’s a holiday weekend. My children would like to be together. I got this. I got this.

So wonderful, wonderful experiences the Lord has had.

If we have time. Well, there are so many more. Just one, briefly one. This was Sister Karen, and I had a business and.

Well, let me just go to this one part of it.

How do I want to start this? I was going out to the. I was doing lots and lots of work. We had this business, IT training, consulting, and I had a lot of work, and it was over the holidays.

And whenever it’s the holidays, you know, the cash flow goes down. We’re kind of worried about that. So I was working, working, working. But I was supposed to be developing a study on the vine and the branches for a convention. It was still five months away, but I hadn’t even started.

So I walk out. It’s like the Lord says, let me clear your schedule. I walk out to the. To the mailbox. There was black ice fell on the ice.

Boom. Couldn’t get up. Called Sister Karen. I think I dislocated my knee. Okay, well, brother Jim happened.

Jim McClugan happened to be coming home in his van. He comes, he’s on his way. In the meantime, about a minute later, Grosjeira goes up next door. The fellow sees me. He and his girlfriend are there.

He comes over. He was 6 foot 8. 6 foot 8, sort of looks down. Oh, little man fell, you know, picks me up, gets me in the house. You know, I had a cane.

And he says, anything else? I look up and I said, you’re much more than I expected.

So I go out and there’s the. There’s Brother Jim. Go to the emergency room. This is now like 7 in the evening. 7, 7:30.

There’s the orthopedic surgery. Is trolling for interesting cases. He sees my knee, does an exam, says, oh, you blew it out. I haven’t seen this for two years. I haven’t seen.

Seen this in her two years, you know, so he was a happy guy. So I had the, the surgery and when I came home, as I had nothing to do, you know, I was there for two, three days, but there was nothing in front of me but my books. Just like the Lord said, okay, now let’s do what’s important.

The thing that I really appreciated about the vine and the branches, it’s the branch that bears fruit, that he purges it, so we’ll bear more, and I thought this is a purging experience because God wants me to bear more fruit, and I was so thrilled and so energized and thankful for that. Now I haven’t run for the last 25 years because I got a foot long scar and a knee that, you know, still does. Okay, but thank you.

It’s just what I needed. So, you know, these encouragements, I mean we have many, many more. But the Matthew 3:10, I mean we’ve all learned from experiences. Now the Lord many times has to hit me in the head with a two by four to get my attention, but he says I got plenty of two by fours, no problem. But Malachi 3:10, bring ye all the tithes into this storehouse that there may be meat in thine house.

And prove me now, saith the Lord, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, a blessing that nobody else sees, by the way, I will pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it. Psalm 37:4, Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart, and that our desire should be to do his will, to learn of him, and we will see those blessings in the transformation of our character. I mean, that’s amazing.

When I see actually progress in my character, I mean, I know what’s in here, and when I see that change, I go, boy, that’s a miracle. Thank you. There will be hard lessons first. Peter 4:12, 13.

Think it not strange concerning the fiery trials, as though some strange things going on. But rejoice because you’re partakers of Christ’s sufferings, so that you may be glad with exceeding joy. That’s what these are for. We should be able to look back with exceeding joy and hopefully during the experience. What is this for?

The dross would be purged. We heard about that earlier today. Be purged away to reveal the gold that the Father wants in our characters, and this cup of experiences I appreciate. First Corinthians 10:16, the cup of blessing for which we bless God.

Because without this, there’s no way we could make our calling Election. Sure. So he’s overruling the difficult experiences for us to learn. It’s like an athlete, you know, when the coach is really tough on him because he says, I want you to be the All American and you do what I say and you will be for the experiences that are necessary for our development. Going back to Ephesians 1, 17, 20, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him that the eyes of our understanding, being enlightened, that we may know what is the hope of our calling and the riches of the glory of.

Of his inheritance in the saints and the exceeding greatness of his power. Now pay attention to this. The exceeding greatness of his power to us, Ward. In other words, that’s to us who believe according to or the same as the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead. That’s the same power he’s working in our lives.

I mean, it’s just miraculous. It’s absolutely amazing. God is using the same mighty power on our behalf to help guide us, to correct us, and encourage us to the end of our course. So when we look at Moses part, God is saying, I’m doing, I’m doing. I’m doing all these things.

You’ve seen what I’ve been doing in your life. To me, the consecration can be boiled kind of down, down to this, what the agreement is. God says to us, you’ve made your consecration. I appreciate that. Here’s what’s going to happen.

I will take care of all the little things, like every event on planet Earth that could ever affect you. I’m taking care of all those little things. You take care of the big thing. That’s your consecration. May the Lord add his blessing.

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