Title: Others May, You Cannot Meta: The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch over you, with a jealous love, and will rebuke you for little words and feelings, or for wasting your time, which other Christians never seem distressed over. So make up your mind that God is an infinite Sovereign, and has a right to do as He pleases with His own. - G. D. Watson Tags: holiness,pride,humility,honor,glory,Christian Life 1 00:00:00,620 --> 00:00:02,770 "Others May You Cannot." 2 00:00:02,770 --> 00:00:03,880 Lets see what it says here. 3 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:05,709 Who's it by? G.D. Watson. 4 00:00:05,709 --> 00:00:07,950 I don't know who that is. 5 00:00:07,950 --> 00:00:09,570 Herald Press Tracts. 6 00:00:09,570 --> 00:00:13,099 As a brand new Christian, 7 00:00:13,099 --> 00:00:15,820 I came across this tract. 8 00:00:15,820 --> 00:00:20,470 “If God has called you to be really like Jesus. 9 00:00:20,470 --> 00:00:27,170 He will draw you into a life of crucifixion and humility 10 00:00:27,170 --> 00:00:32,549 and put upon use such demands of obedience 11 00:00:32,549 --> 00:00:37,019 that you will not be able to follow other people 12 00:00:37,019 --> 00:00:40,850 or measure yourself by other Christians 13 00:00:40,850 --> 00:00:48,030 and in many ways He will seem to let other good people do things 14 00:00:48,030 --> 00:00:51,179 which he will not let you do.” 15 00:00:51,179 --> 00:01:00,069 Now one of the classic texts, 16 00:01:00,069 --> 00:01:03,139 is right at the end of John. 17 00:01:03,139 --> 00:01:06,390 Remember Peter? 18 00:01:06,390 --> 00:01:10,120 “Lord, what about him?” 19 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,790 You remember how the Lord answered? 20 00:01:12,790 --> 00:01:16,060 “What is that to you? You follow me.” 21 00:01:16,060 --> 00:01:16,920 Exactly, 22 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:18,970 and that's how we all need to live. 23 00:01:18,970 --> 00:01:20,680 Because we like to do that, 24 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:22,150 “What about them?” 25 00:01:22,150 --> 00:01:25,490 “They don't have to go through what I'm going through, 26 00:01:25,490 --> 00:01:28,270 their not subjected to this, 27 00:01:28,270 --> 00:01:29,780 why I am I this way, 28 00:01:29,780 --> 00:01:30,810 why am I that way? 29 00:01:30,810 --> 00:01:32,530 Why, why, why! 30 00:01:32,530 --> 00:01:35,270 Why am I convicted? 31 00:01:35,270 --> 00:01:41,500 How come I have to be convicted about this when they're not convicted about that?” 32 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:43,850 Here the Lord's words. 33 00:01:46,190 --> 00:01:49,500 “What does that have to do with you?” 34 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:53,090 You were bought with a price. 35 00:01:53,090 --> 00:01:55,550 Were but servants, were but slaves. 36 00:01:55,550 --> 00:01:57,380 And what Christ told us 37 00:01:57,380 --> 00:01:59,850 is when you done everything you've been commanded, 38 00:01:59,850 --> 00:02:03,140 you are still just an unprofitable servant. 39 00:02:03,140 --> 00:02:05,470 And the thing is, 40 00:02:05,470 --> 00:02:07,730 He owns us, 41 00:02:07,730 --> 00:02:11,930 and you know that a slave master can do one thing with one slave, 42 00:02:11,930 --> 00:02:13,499 and another thing with another slave, 43 00:02:13,499 --> 00:02:15,420 and neither slave can say, 44 00:02:15,420 --> 00:02:23,609 “Look, look why do they get to go to town and I gotta work the field?” 45 00:02:23,609 --> 00:02:26,560 (Reading tract again) 46 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:32,139 “Seemingly religious and useful men push themselves, 47 00:02:32,139 --> 00:02:33,590 pull wires 48 00:02:33,590 --> 00:02:36,939 and work schemes to carry out their plans, 49 00:02:36,939 --> 00:02:38,849 but you cannot do it 50 00:02:38,849 --> 00:02:41,459 and if you attempt it 51 00:02:41,459 --> 00:02:45,079 you will meet with such failure and rebuke from the Lord 52 00:02:45,079 --> 00:02:47,590 as to make you sorely penitent.” 53 00:02:48,650 --> 00:02:50,709 That's true. 54 00:02:50,709 --> 00:02:53,999 Try to resist your conscience and just keep running, 55 00:02:53,999 --> 00:02:56,680 in that direction and see where it gets you. 56 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,790 You will be miserable, 57 00:02:58,790 --> 00:03:00,349 you will be weak, 58 00:03:00,349 --> 00:03:02,310 you will be carnal, 59 00:03:02,310 --> 00:03:03,709 you will not advance, 60 00:03:03,709 --> 00:03:06,049 you will not grow. 61 00:03:06,849 --> 00:03:10,950 “Others may boast of themselves 62 00:03:10,950 --> 00:03:12,389 of their work, 63 00:03:12,389 --> 00:03:13,870 their success, 64 00:03:13,870 --> 00:03:14,749 their writings, 65 00:03:14,749 --> 00:03:17,790 but the Holy Spirit will not allow you to do it 66 00:03:17,790 --> 00:03:18,810 and if you begin it 67 00:03:18,810 --> 00:03:24,340 He will lead you into some deep mortification that will make you despise yourself 68 00:03:24,340 --> 00:03:26,439 and all your good works. 69 00:03:26,439 --> 00:03:29,279 Others may be allowed to succeed in making money 70 00:03:29,279 --> 00:03:32,209 or may have a legacy left to them, 71 00:03:32,209 --> 00:03:36,629 but it is likely God wants you to have something far better than gold, 72 00:03:36,629 --> 00:03:40,629 a helpless dependence upon Him, 73 00:03:40,629 --> 00:03:45,099 that He may have the privilege of supplying your needs, day by day 74 00:03:45,099 --> 00:03:48,329 out of an unseen treasury. 75 00:03:48,329 --> 00:03:52,150 The Lord main let others be honored and put forward 76 00:03:52,150 --> 00:03:54,730 and keep you hidden in obscurity 77 00:03:54,730 --> 00:03:59,239 because He wants to produce some choice fragrant fruit 78 00:03:59,239 --> 00:04:01,459 for His coming glory, 79 00:04:01,459 --> 00:04:04,840 which can only be produced in the shade. 80 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:08,349 He may let others be great but keep you small. 81 00:04:08,349 --> 00:04:11,739 He may let others do work for him and get the credit for it 82 00:04:11,739 --> 00:04:15,879 but he will make you work and toil without knowing how much you're doing. 83 00:04:15,879 --> 00:04:18,769 And then to make your work still more precious, 84 00:04:18,769 --> 00:04:22,360 He may let others get the credit for the work you've done 85 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:26,800 making your reward ten times greater when Jesus comes. 86 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:31,190 The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch over you...” 87 00:04:31,190 --> 00:04:34,400 And that's what you have to recognize, 88 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:39,270 when these seasons of conviction come on, 89 00:04:39,270 --> 00:04:41,240 it's a God who loves you 90 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:46,060 and does not want to share that affection with these idols. 91 00:04:46,060 --> 00:04:50,210 He wants you clinging to Him. 92 00:04:51,140 --> 00:04:55,379 “The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch over you with jealous love 93 00:04:55,379 --> 00:04:59,340 and will rebuke you for a little words and feelings, 94 00:04:59,340 --> 00:05:00,819 or for wasting your time, 95 00:05:00,819 --> 00:05:04,139 which other Christians never seemed distressed over. 96 00:05:04,139 --> 00:05:08,560 So make up your mind that God is an infinite sovereign 97 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,889 and has a right to do as He pleases with His own. 98 00:05:11,889 --> 00:05:15,990 He may not explain to you a thousand things, 99 00:05:15,990 --> 00:05:18,479 which puzzle your reason, 100 00:05:18,479 --> 00:05:20,940 in his dealings with you. 101 00:05:20,940 --> 00:05:26,150 But if you absolutely sell yourself to be His love slave. 102 00:05:26,150 --> 00:05:28,830 He will wrap you up in a jealous love 103 00:05:28,830 --> 00:05:31,729 and bestow upon you many blessings 104 00:05:31,729 --> 00:05:36,139 which come only to those in the inner circle. 105 00:05:36,139 --> 00:05:38,110 Settle it forever then 106 00:05:38,110 --> 00:05:41,340 that your to deal directly with the Holy Spirit 107 00:05:41,340 --> 00:05:45,979 and that He is to have the privilege of tying your tongue 108 00:05:45,979 --> 00:05:47,159 or chaining your hand 109 00:05:47,159 --> 00:05:48,610 or closing your eyes 110 00:05:48,610 --> 00:05:53,180 in ways that He does not seem to use with others. 111 00:05:53,180 --> 00:05:56,909 Now when you are so possessed with the living God 112 00:05:56,909 --> 00:06:00,650 that you are in your secret heart pleased and delighted 113 00:06:00,650 --> 00:06:06,819 over this particular, personal, private, jealous guardianship 114 00:06:06,819 --> 00:06:10,150 and management of the Holy Spirit over your life. 115 00:06:10,150 --> 00:06:13,810 You will have found the vestibule of heaven. 116 00:06:13,810 --> 00:06:18,030 'God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble, 117 00:06:18,030 --> 00:06:20,490 submit yourselves therefore to God. 118 00:06:20,490 --> 00:06:23,750 Resist the devil and he will flee from you.' 119 00:06:23,750 --> 00:06:26,349 'Lest I should be exalted above measure 120 00:06:26,349 --> 00:06:30,180 there was given to me a thorn in the flesh. 121 00:06:30,180 --> 00:06:35,409 For this thing I sought the Lord three times that it might depart from me 122 00:06:35,409 --> 00:06:41,020 and he said unto me, 'My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect 123 00:06:41,020 --> 00:06:43,240 in weakness.' 124 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,340 Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities 125 00:06:46,340 --> 00:06:49,090 that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 126 00:06:49,930 --> 00:06:52,270 If you then be risen with Christ, 127 00:06:52,270 --> 00:06:55,740 set your affection on things above, 128 00:06:55,740 --> 00:06:58,530 not on things on the earth. 129 00:06:58,530 --> 00:07:04,530 For you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. 130 00:07:04,530 --> 00:07:07,210 Amen. 131 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,310 Let's pray. 132 00:07:16,980 --> 00:07:27,889 Father, I for one can say I want that 133 00:07:27,889 --> 00:07:36,969 and I am very thankful for your dealings with me, 134 00:07:36,969 --> 00:07:39,870 with us, 135 00:07:39,870 --> 00:07:42,900 your protective love, 136 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:46,129 your guiding hand, 137 00:07:46,129 --> 00:07:51,560 your cleansing work. 138 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,789 Lord we pray for more of it. 139 00:07:54,789 --> 00:08:00,620 Lord please give us resigned, 140 00:08:00,620 --> 00:08:03,620 submissive, 141 00:08:03,620 --> 00:08:07,310 humble hearts, 142 00:08:07,310 --> 00:08:08,939 ready to comply, 143 00:08:08,939 --> 00:08:11,530 ready to follow, 144 00:08:11,530 --> 00:08:13,900 ready to surrender. 145 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,930 Lord, give us grace. 146 00:08:18,930 --> 00:08:33,059 May your spirit produce us that real deep Christ likeness. 147 00:08:33,059 --> 00:08:37,889 We ask it in Christ's name, Amen. 148 00:08:38,729 --> 00:08:41,139 Well brethren, I have to tell you, 149 00:08:41,139 --> 00:08:45,130 that was good for me and helpful, 150 00:08:45,130 --> 00:08:48,200 that was very helpful to my own soul.