1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:05,120 For the Sunday school, we're doing the armor of God and and 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:10,920 in this particular class, we're going to be looking at the the 3 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:15,680 shield of faith and this is an interesting one. 4 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:21,040 And we've we normally apparently had had slides which I did not 5 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,440 get prepared. I, I have been ill and kind of 6 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,120 under the weather for a period of time and that's a lousy 7 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:32,040 excuse, but that's kind of what I'm sticking to other than 8 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,120 technology isn't my gig. So I'm not real good at the 9 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:41,960 slides, but we have had some great discussions on the the 10 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:47,120 different elements of the armor. And one of them that I was 11 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:52,040 recalling was when Pastor Mike talked about the breastplate of 12 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:55,080 righteousness and putting on this breastplate. 13 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,800 Sometimes we hear in the scripture talking about the 14 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:03,520 breastplate of faith as well. So this isn't a piece of armor 15 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:07,560 that would have been worn A breastplate protecting the 16 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:12,640 individual. Also, you would have seen other 17 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:18,240 items such as shodding of this shoe or however, your version of 18 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:24,840 the Bible talks about putting on the on the your feet, the the 19 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:33,280 gospel piece and and so forth. And then even prior to that, we, 20 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:39,840 we look at these various the belt of truth and so forth. 21 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,480 So when you look at a soldier, when you look at today somebody 22 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:47,720 in the military or whatever these kind of items they have on 23 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:50,600 and you look at them and you say, oh, they're soldiers or 24 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:54,960 they are, they are fighters, warriors, or however you want to 25 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,080 define them. You recognize them by the gear 26 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,160 that they they have on right now. 27 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:09,320 Today we start a an element such as the shield that you're, you 28 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:11,760 don't always wear that as a soldier. 29 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:15,120 It's something you take up. And and I'm going to cover that 30 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:19,560 a little bit in my my meager notes here. 31 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,360 But also, I'm going to be reading a lot of Scripture, and 32 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:27,960 I may ask for some assistance in doing that, just to change up 33 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:33,680 the pattern of reading. I'm feeling really good, but I'm 34 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:37,000 not sounding really good. I still got all that nice stuff 35 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,840 in my lungs and I, I fear that it may distract. 36 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:44,880 So please overlook that a little if you can. 37 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:48,640 And I think we'll get through this just fine. 38 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,480 I want to just open and start by saying, yeah, you know what? 39 00:02:54,480 --> 00:03:00,840 We cannot hope to stand against or up or before Satan. 40 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,800 I'm looking out here and I'm seeing people and, and I'm 41 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,920 making this assumption that we are all regenerated, we're all 42 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:15,840 believers and we are in a walk with our Lord and Savior Jesus 43 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,920 Christ. And I am stating the fact that 44 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:25,640 we cannot hope to stand against and be or stand before Satan. 45 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:33,360 Paul's going to give us some imperatives direction, but we 46 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:38,200 can't do this in our own strength, OK, that's the key. 47 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,160 We can't do this in our own strength. 48 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:44,360 We're told to stand forth and and do this and put on this 49 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:49,600 armor, but it will not be on our own strength, not even for a 50 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,800 moment. So let's take a look here real 51 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,920 quick. I'm going to flip to Acts 1911. 52 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:08,080 So this time I remembered there the Bible comes alive when you 53 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:15,440 get the right glasses on. It's just amazes Acts 19 and I'm 54 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,959 looking at roughly 11 through 20. 55 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:24,960 Well, this is an odd, odd verse and bear with it because we have 56 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:29,120 a a church, a new church and and a lot of things going on with 57 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,920 the the gospel of Jesus Christ and all of that. 58 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:40,160 And so starting in verse 11, it says and God was doing 59 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,400 extraordinary miracles by the hand of Paul. 60 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:48,360 So the clothes or the aprons were even carried from his body 61 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:53,320 to the sick and the diseases left them and the evil spirits 62 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,800 went out. But also some of the Jewish 63 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:02,880 exorcist who went from place to place, attempting to invoke over 64 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:07,280 those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus 65 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:13,600 saying I am poor. I implore you by Jesus whom Paul 66 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:16,840 preaches. Verse 14. 67 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:22,640 Now the seven sons of one name Skiva, a Jewish chief priest. 68 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:27,560 They were doing this, the seven sons, and the evil spirit 69 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:34,520 answered and said to them, I recognize Jesus and I know about 70 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:39,760 Paul. Who are you and the man in whom 71 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:45,600 the evil spirit, who and whom was the evil spirit, leaped on 72 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:51,840 them, subdued them, all of them, and utterly prevailed against 73 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:56,880 them, so that they fled out of the house naked and wounded. 74 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:02,760 And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived 75 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:08,040 in emphasis, and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the 76 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:18,200 Lord Jesus was being magnified. That was an attempt to take on 77 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,480 the evil spirits in your own power. 78 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,960 These people, they weren't followers of Christ. 79 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,320 They went in there and they were trying to X. 80 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:32,120 What do you call it? You know, an exorcist. 81 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,320 Get rid of these demons out of this people. 82 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:37,880 This is a wealthy thing. If we can do this, we're seeing 83 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:42,760 it happen with Paul and we're seeing it happen with others and 84 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:46,760 that are apostles and we're like this, I want in on this. 85 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:53,520 They got in many versions here, they got mastered by the demons. 86 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:58,880 They they severely got brutalized and if you were to 87 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:03,360 watch this in the news you would see this horrific bloodied 88 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:10,400 people coming out of a house, seven of them 7 coming out beat 89 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,000 up and naked. Now how does that happen? 90 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,760 It had to been chaos and crippling in there. 91 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:25,560 The demon definitely master the the seven boys. 92 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,840 So we start with that just knowing that we cannot do this 93 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:35,720 alone when we will start looking at this introduction of 94 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:41,760 Ephesians and chapter 6 of Ephesians and 10 through 16 95 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,000 again. It was kind of a repeat of what 96 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:50,480 we've been doing, but it worry it warrants a quick look at it. 97 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:55,600 So if you're turning to Ephesians 6 in just a few 98 00:07:55,600 --> 00:08:09,260 seconds here, OK, in Ephesians 6 and I want to 99 00:08:09,260 --> 00:08:15,540 look at starting at 10. Just just hitting this 100 00:08:15,540 --> 00:08:18,060 highlighting this. By the way, if you're wondering 101 00:08:18,060 --> 00:08:21,460 if this doesn't match your versions, the Bible I'm reading 102 00:08:21,460 --> 00:08:27,560 out of it happens to be the the legacy standard Bible one. 103 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,680 We probably don't hear too much in churches right yet, but it's 104 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:37,080 it's kind of developed out of the of the 1995 new American 105 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,760 standard and the ESVA little bit. 106 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,000 So you're going to find very similar to that. 107 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:47,120 Finally, be strong in the Lord and be and in the might of his 108 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:52,920 strength put on the armor of God so that you will be able to 109 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:56,400 stand firm against the schemes of the devil and we were putting 110 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:02,040 on the armor of God. This is that recognization that 111 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,160 I started with talking about. When you look at a soldier and 112 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:10,400 you look what do they got on that makes them identify as as 113 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:17,480 as a soldier or as a warrior. And verse 12 says, for our 114 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,880 struggle is not against flesh and blood. 115 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,440 Our struggle isn't against anybody in here, but it's 116 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:30,160 against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world 117 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:34,360 forces of the darkness, against the spiritual forces of 118 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:38,000 wickedness in the heavenly places. 119 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:42,880 Therefore take up the full armor of God as you will be able to 120 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:48,160 resist the evil day and have done everything to stand firm. 121 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,920 These are imperatives. These are things that Paul is 122 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:59,040 saying that we must do they they're an imperative and 123 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:02,520 especially in the Greek language, it's it's a must do, 124 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,920 not a suggestive. It's a good thing to have this 125 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:08,520 and you won't have as much trouble. 126 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:15,120 He's saying, no, put them on. And then we get into this, this 127 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:20,920 area here where verse 14, he's going to say, stand firm. 128 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,800 Having girded your loins with truth and having put on the 129 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,360 breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with 130 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:32,960 the preparation of the gospel of peace, in addition to all, 131 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:38,680 having taken up the shield of faith with which you will be 132 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:43,720 able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil. 1 133 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:50,800 Some will say the wicked one also received the helmet of 134 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,960 salvation, the sword. And we're going to talk about 135 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,760 that more in the week or two to come. 136 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,840 But I want to point out to you as we look at this and we're 137 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:08,320 putting on these items and we're identified now, but now we're 138 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:12,160 starting to use Paul changes from going from that word into a 139 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:16,000 new word. And it's take on, not put on, 140 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:21,320 but take on or or put in your hand, so to speak, a 141 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:27,320 distinguishingness of weapons. So we're, we're looking like a 142 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,720 soldier. But now we are taking with that 143 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:37,200 the, the, the, the shield of faith and, and next week or so 144 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:40,360 we'll look at the sword and that they're going to fly up here. 145 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,640 So if you seem to me fling into my arms and all that, it's not 146 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:50,880 like I'm you know, it's it's not the I forgot the name. 147 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:55,000 When, when you have the D TS, you know what I'm talking about. 148 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:58,960 It's not all that guys. It's it's an annoying fly that 149 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:04,000 has found me. So that's the introduction, the 150 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:10,000 physical analogy or or oh, what's what's the other word is 151 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,440 analogy, and you make a reference to something. 152 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:19,960 It's called A at any rate, let's use an analogy until I think of 153 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,280 that word. But it was mentioned that this 154 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:26,680 shield that was used by the Romans, it's like about a four 155 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:30,320 foot tall and it's about 2 1/2 feet. 156 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:34,320 It is something if it were the size of this podium that you 157 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:39,200 could hide behind and as Pastor Mike talked about it and that 158 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:44,160 study school lesson, several of us could line up and get down 159 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,600 behind it and we and there was a name for that. 160 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:50,880 You can know the the yeah, failings. 161 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:54,960 So this is a a good name to say it's, it's a big role of these 162 00:12:55,560 --> 00:12:59,720 and we're protected. And so it's defensive because 163 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:04,720 it's going to stop things from hitting us, but it's also very 164 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:11,880 offensive in that we can do a big rush towards the opposing 165 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:15,800 people, the other side and gain ground, right? 166 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:19,200 All right. Paul's using this because of the 167 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:24,480 people of the day that he's preaching to in, in this case, 168 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:27,040 to the Church of emphasis, Ephesus. 169 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,240 They would understand that. They would know that completely. 170 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,880 Excuse me, That's another one of those great things of recovery 171 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:47,760 is you, you need more water than you did when you were sick. 172 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:51,800 So there it is lying out there in front of us. 173 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,840 This these Shields. And we, we, we need to have 174 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,080 this. But we're talking about the the 175 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,400 shield of faith. All right? 176 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:06,880 This isn't a Roman shield. This is a spiritual nest that 177 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:08,600 we're going to learn a little about today. 178 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:12,720 And this is going to be more of where we need to be in our 179 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:16,720 hearts and in our walk as Christians than just physically 180 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:27,280 picking up a, a shield and, and that so I want to go to another 181 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:33,840 quick reference. Can somebody find First Samuel 182 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:42,760 And it'll be chapter 10. And then and then when you get 183 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:46,480 there, look for verse 21 B. It'll be the second-half. 184 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:50,000 You'll see kind of where it where it should start. 185 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:54,240 But while you're doing that, and I'll look to see who who was 186 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:58,120 successful in finding that. I'm going to go to first Samuel 187 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:04,480 as well, but I'm going to look over in in chapter 17. 188 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:09,760 So you're looking for chapter 10, verse 21. 189 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:20,800 B Hang on one second, Corey. And I'm and I'm going to have 190 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:25,160 you read that because I want to make a point when you say that, 191 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:30,360 what did I say? First Samuel 17 for myself and 192 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:36,520 here we go. You know, this always works out 193 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:39,720 easier when you're at home and you're at your desk and, and 194 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:45,560 everything's kind of laid out. And, and my wife, bless her, she 195 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:50,400 is a good support to say the least. 196 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:55,080 She did all my cross references. She she does all of this stuff. 197 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:59,120 Guys, I'm so blessed. And I tell you that today 198 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:02,200 because right, right now our marriage, everything's going 199 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,200 great, right? I can tell you times when I 200 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:09,360 might not have said that to you guys because, and we're going to 201 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,520 get into that when we start talking more about these darts 202 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:17,520 because those are the darts that I'm getting pelted with now and 203 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,280 again. All right. 204 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:27,480 So, Corey, if you would read that first Samuel, I think I 205 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:33,000 said 10 and starting with 21, the second-half there, we're 206 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,240 talking about King Saul. Guys, go ahead. 207 00:16:45,260 --> 00:16:49,700 Yeah, He couldn't be found. Is that the next verse tells us 208 00:16:49,700 --> 00:16:52,420 where he was. What was he doing where he 209 00:16:52,420 --> 00:17:00,300 couldn't find this guy? Yeah. 210 00:17:00,300 --> 00:17:04,300 So here's our leader that we just got by lot. 211 00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:05,619 And of course, you read Proverbs. 212 00:17:05,619 --> 00:17:10,560 Well, when lots are chosen, we pick, you know, here it is. 213 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,160 Oh, OK. But God determines the outcome 214 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:15,920 of the lot. Well, the outcome of this lot is 215 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:19,400 Saul. And Saul is not a man of my 216 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,319 height. He happens to be an 217 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:29,200 extraordinarily taller man, a man who I don't say his height, 218 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:32,400 but as you look, he's probably in the range of seven feet. 219 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,760 What do you think? 7 feet He he could be a little 220 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:38,160 shorter, but none the less, when you're looking at that group of 221 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:43,400 people, 7 feet is they describe it as he's head and a shoulder 222 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,120 above everybody and he's hiding in the baggage. 223 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:49,560 So they run after him like get him out of there because he's 224 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:51,280 our leader. You know, we can't have the 225 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:54,880 leader hiding in baggage. So this is what starts it. 226 00:17:55,680 --> 00:18:01,640 I go to chapter 17, so flip a few pages and and this is going 227 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:06,760 to be familiar because we are going to be talking about David, 228 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,520 who happens to be a little, a little shepherd boy. 229 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,200 And I say Lil, He's he's in stature. 230 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:16,360 He's not a very big guy. And standing next to Saul, he 231 00:18:16,360 --> 00:18:20,840 is, yeah, noticeably. And, and so let me tell you, 232 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:26,240 when I graduated from MBTS and, and the seminary there, the 233 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:31,560 president of that seminary is Jason Allen. 234 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:35,320 And he is a very tall man, very tall man. 235 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:39,840 And I want to say that he's, and I look out there and I and I see 236 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,600 Daniel Danny there. He's 6 foot 5. 237 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:47,960 That's tall. And this and this president is 238 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:50,520 about that height. Maybe he's 66. 239 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,600 He's tall and he stands next to you. 240 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:57,680 You know it. Well, Saul is like Shaq O'Neal, 241 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:02,040 you know, he's big. So we get him out of the 242 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:03,800 baggage. We're here. 243 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:09,280 He's up against the Philistines. And David shows up there and 244 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:14,800 David has a heart for God and is like listening to what's going 245 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:23,720 on a young boy. And in verse 36, David's talking 246 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,600 about this out to to them. Whoa, whoa, you know, come on 247 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,440 David, what do you got here? He says your servant has struck 248 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:33,200 down both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised fellas, 249 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:37,640 Philistine will be like one of them, since he has reproached 250 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,600 the battle lines of the living God. 251 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:45,240 And David said, Yahweh, who delivered me from the hand of 252 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,680 the lion and from the hand of the bear, he will deliver me 253 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:52,360 from the hand of the Philistine. And Paul said, or Paul, I'm 254 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:57,760 sorry, Saul has said to David, go and may Yahweh be with you. 255 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:04,600 Then Saul clothed David with his robes, A bronze helmet on his 256 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,800 head, and clothed him with armor. 257 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:14,800 And David girded his sword over his armor and tried to walk, for 258 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:19,120 he did not, for he did not test them. 259 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,040 The armor. Come on, do you imagine this guy 260 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,840 putting on a 7 foot man's clothing? 261 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,240 We have children and they've all dressed up in our clothing, you 262 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:34,200 know, And it's funny and we laugh and we chuckle about it. 263 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:39,000 But in this case, we are at a point of the nation in a, in a 264 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,520 war. And this giant Philistine, who 265 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:48,280 is even much taller than Saul, is bringing on repulsive things 266 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:54,200 against the God, against God. And David is struck. 267 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,440 He's he's absolutely enamored with this and asked to do 268 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:00,240 something, but he can't wear this armor. 269 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:05,160 So David said to Saul, I can't go with these for I have not 270 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,360 tested them. And David took him off. 271 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,160 He took him off. And Paul's telling us to put on 272 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:16,040 this armor. David took this armor of Saul 273 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:21,160 off because this is not the armor of God. 274 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,720 This is the armor of Saul. It was selected for him as the 275 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:29,920 best armor you could get for your, your, for your leader, 276 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:31,160 right? That's what you want. 277 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,080 You don't want your, your king to be killed. 278 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,360 So you get the best, but it's no good for David. 279 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,080 So he goes out there without that armor. 280 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:45,720 And we got to recognize that when the David goes out there, 281 00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:51,200 he didn't go without armor. He went without Roman or worldly 282 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:55,280 armor, but he did have armor, God's armor, right? 283 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:00,640 This this has got to be seen because when we read Ephesians 6 284 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,720 is the word I was thinking before is metaphor. 285 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:08,200 So what Paul was making a metaphor about this armor he's 286 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:13,120 not physically talking about. Grab this shield and coat it 287 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,280 with water so that when these flaming darts hit, they get 288 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,400 extinguished. We're looking at a shield. 289 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:26,120 Anyone wanting to guess what the shield is, it is faith. 290 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:29,240 But who and who? It's in essence what we're 291 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:34,880 looking at is it's Jesus Christ. It's in our relationship that 292 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,040 now we have this faith in Jesus Christ. 293 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,080 We have this faith, this protecting shield. 294 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:47,040 And then also with all of that there, there lies a, an 295 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:52,400 extinguisher on the outside that puts out the flaming dart. 296 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:57,240 That extinguisher, if you will, if in your mind is you, we don't 297 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,640 use water, we use the blood of Christ. 298 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,160 That's what we see. So any of these darts from the 299 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:08,720 from the evil one hit it, it's extinguished. 300 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:13,240 And we are now preparing ourselves for the battle by 301 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:17,520 having this. Now we just had a little bit of 302 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:21,880 prayer and all of that and, and, and one individual mentioned in 303 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:27,120 the prayer that we are already victorious. 304 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,280 Christ has already won these battles. 305 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:33,000 So Paul's telling us to get ready for battles and we are to, 306 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,320 it's not a suggestion. We are to get ready for it. 307 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:40,400 But we also understand that our battle does not belong to us. 308 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:45,600 It belongs to the Lord, right? And so we see that and we know 309 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,800 he's already victorious, but we ready ourselves for this none 310 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,600 the less. This is how we do it. 311 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:56,240 So let me move to something here. 312 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:04,560 One more reading real quick. If somebody wants to grab the 313 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:13,520 Gospel of Luke chapter 22, this is Luke 22 written by the 314 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,200 apostle. And I'm sorry, not the apostle. 315 00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:21,720 He's written this in penning it for an apostle. 316 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:28,640 Generally, we think of Paul, so Luke 22 verses 31 through 32. 317 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:33,640 And when someone gets that, raise your hand and just start 318 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:39,880 belting it out, if you would. All right, Leanne, please. 319 00:24:54,440 --> 00:25:02,120 Yeah, so we're reminded that before Peter even knew this, 320 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:06,200 before Peter, he is a real strong individual. 321 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:12,920 And what he's looking at there is the fact that I'll do this, 322 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:14,520 I'll go out and take care of this. 323 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,840 Well, then seven young boys say that and they were mastered. 324 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:25,040 OK, but before this is even really brought out, Jesus says 325 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:30,040 Simon, Simon and and you know, we've we've heard our pastors 326 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:35,560 tell us why we say it twice in the in the New Testament is 327 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,880 emphasis. It's bringing home this is 328 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,560 important. So he says Simon, Simon Satan 329 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:47,760 has what asked. Oh, he has to get permission and 330 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,840 he wants to I got to get some water in here. 331 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:54,240 Sorry. There. 332 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:59,960 Now I can say he wants to sift you and he wants to tear you 333 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:01,440 apart. He wants to master you. 334 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:06,040 Simon, you don't know this yet. It comes out and and acts. 335 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:10,360 You'll see this. But you can't do this alone. 336 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,680 And Satan's asked me that he would do this. 337 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,480 But I prayed to you or prayed for you. 338 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:21,520 OK, Good thing to know. Because as we get into this this 339 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:29,760 more into this, this shield, we've got to look at some things 340 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:35,800 that we can do with this shield. It's not just a a force field 341 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,720 that you put around you and you're good to go. 342 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,800 You have to be active with it in the sense you have to be 343 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:42,800 prepared. You have to know what it's doing 344 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:50,560 and you have to be able to lifted up the darts are coming 345 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:55,280 and and they're. So I want to grab some notes out 346 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,640 of a commentary that I use quite frequently. 347 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:02,800 I'm sure it's a common one that most pastors, in particular 348 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:12,800 pastors of this type church. This is the the, the, the series 349 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,000 of commentary by Martyn Lloyd Jones. 350 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,560 And this one is out of Ephesians, obviously. 351 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,600 And so I'm going to read some of his stuff in here so that that's 352 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,480 who I'm citing if you hear some of this. 353 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:30,400 But you're going to be able to pick up real quickly the the 354 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:35,200 idea in the context of this. And we're thinking of faith more 355 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:41,160 so than we're thinking of this podium protecting me from fiery 356 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,360 darts from you guys, right? So, so here we are. 357 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:49,200 The first thing he points out is when Paul was talking about our 358 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:52,800 our, who we were fighting. It's personal. 359 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:58,000 We know that our almighty God is a triune God. 360 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,720 And we know that when we look at this, it's not an idea or 361 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:09,280 concept. It's reality in a person of God. 362 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,200 So we look at God the Father, the person, the God the Father, 363 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,600 we look at the person, God the Son, and we look at the person, 364 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,160 God the Holy Spirit. We see that and hopefully and 365 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:27,680 and I'm sure as regenerated heart believing Christians, you 366 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,720 got that. But what gets overlooked at in 367 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:35,120 particular at a time when, when Martyn Lloyd wrote this, but we 368 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:40,960 could see it today very quickly, is we often look at the evil as 369 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,320 as a another one of those theories or things you come up 370 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,640 against. It's, it's not personal. 371 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,080 It's, it's evil. We got a lot of evil today and 372 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,560 we generalize it. But let me just say that it it 373 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,720 is important. And we we kind of get that from 374 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:01,200 an older version of scripture the like you might find it in 375 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,080 the King James Version where they talk about evil as a 376 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:10,480 generality versus our newer versions where we talk of either 377 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:16,560 the wicked one or the evil 1, specifically a personality, a 378 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,760 person. And the extract, the translation 379 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,360 is, and this is talk about the, the King James is particularly 380 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:28,680 important here because the apostle has reminded us that we 381 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:34,280 do not fight evil regarding it not as something abstract or 382 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:38,000 impersonal. And we are fighting spiritual 383 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,160 persons. We have to see this because in 384 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,240 this group of body, this of believers, we got to recognize 385 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,120 this. You may not feel today the 386 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:52,480 attack, but the person next to you or across from you or 387 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,240 wherever in their lives, they're feeling this. 388 00:29:55,480 --> 00:30:01,920 And it's very personal and it is very, very dangerous. 389 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:07,680 So we are confronted, as he says, the Wiles of the devil. 390 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,080 And these are the, you know, that's a word we don't use 391 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:15,200 today, Wiles. But it's much like the his 392 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,400 person, his personality. We're we're confronted with that 393 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,120 and he talked about the wicked one is the devil and he commands 394 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,800 and controls a diversity of powers and agents. 395 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,280 Of course we see this. He wanted to sift Peter. 396 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:38,160 So and we see it in Job. He wants to do this stuff to 397 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,760 Job. But Satan needs permission. 398 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:46,840 He has to, he has to get authorization, if you will, to 399 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,840 master seven guys. Oh, yeah. 400 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,720 You wouldn't think that you would get that approval, but it 401 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,960 did. And there's a good reason for 402 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,920 it. And we learned from that. 403 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:01,640 But he also wanted to do something to to Joe, but he was 404 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,600 given restrictions. He's given that. 405 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,760 Remember we talked about that line of battle. 406 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,520 Yeah, He's not to leave that line of battle and neither is he 407 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:15,440 to do that here. So never was it more important 408 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,960 that we should realize that we are involved in this tremendous 409 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,200 spiritual warfare. We believe in the Triune God and 410 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,560 I and I went through that. The Father, the Son and the Holy 411 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:31,320 Spirit 3 persons and one God had God is not a force or a power As 412 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:35,600 believers, we know that right and but do you not contend with 413 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:40,160 others in your daily walk? This is these are powers. 414 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:44,600 I'm not I don't have a relationship with Christ, but 415 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,560 I'm I'm I'm spiritual little ass. 416 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,080 I'm spiritual. I follow this. 417 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,200 Oh yeah. OK, so, but neither are the 418 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:58,280 forces against only in a, but neither are the forces against 419 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:02,640 us only a force or a power. But the personal agencies, 420 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,760 personal intelligences, all have been pointed out. 421 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,320 We do not begin to understand the problem of a life in this 422 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,240 world at the present time unless we understand this teaching. 423 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,040 And this is what we get picked up and we're learning it in 424 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,480 Matthew and we're moving forward in this stuff. 425 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:25,000 This is real. It just isn't 2000 years ago, 426 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,800 Old Testament acts and all of that time frame. 427 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:34,240 This is real today. Our church here are contending 428 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:42,280 with personal attacks. Let me move on. 429 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,920 And here we look at it again. He says you must not think of 430 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,680 evil and wickedness as something abstract. 431 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:58,800 The whole teaching of the Bible is that evil is manipulated and 432 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,960 propagated by these things and these entities. 433 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,920 These are persons. So if you haven't got it yet, 434 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:12,120 these are these are realities that come in and today would be 435 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,760 kind of a interesting day to mention this. 436 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:21,840 But when you think of Martin Luther as in the one of the the 437 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:27,760 keys behind the Reformation, that Martin Luther, he was so 438 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,400 aware of this and right. And at some point in his 439 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:36,960 writing, he felt that in his room was this presence of Satan 440 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,400 himself. And he could not rid himself of 441 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,200 it. It was there and you know, don't 442 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:48,120 go into mythologies and stuff, but he was there and he felt it 443 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:53,280 so much. He picked up his ink bottle here 444 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,600 like example. He grabs he grabs his ink bottle 445 00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:00,760 and he throws it at what appears to be the Satan. 446 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:06,120 OK, so that seems a little strange, but then you have a 447 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:12,360 very similar thing to a Puritan down the road in time who his 448 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:18,400 name is John Bunyan and and he has the same situation. 449 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:23,800 So we sometimes feel this sickening presence. 450 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:31,040 All right, now remember the seven sons of Siva that the sons 451 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:35,280 of that high priest, they didn't they weren't believers, all 452 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:40,600 right, So their feelings and their presence with Satan is 453 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,320 kind of like one of their own, right? 454 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,280 They're they're kind of one of his own and he mastered them. 455 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:51,719 But nonetheless, we don't want this to get into something about 456 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:57,320 the demonic other than Christ. Is victory victorious? 457 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:02,280 Nobody goes into battle without Christ. 458 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,120 He's already won the battle, but we don't go in without him. 459 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:22,670 All right, all right, so we'll talk about these fiery darts a 460 00:35:22,670 --> 00:35:25,150 little bit and and we need to wrap up. 461 00:35:25,150 --> 00:35:29,230 But we did not know something of what it is. 462 00:35:29,230 --> 00:35:35,560 Perhaps wake up in the morning and define that. 463 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:40,960 Before we have had time to do any thinking, thoughts come to 464 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,760 us. Evil thoughts, perhaps even 465 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:49,120 blasphemous thoughts. So as you wake up in the 466 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:53,000 morning, have you ever had those thoughts? 467 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,360 Yeah, I have. And and before you, This is why 468 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,840 we pray for pastors and and people to get up and preach the 469 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,400 word of God to you because, oh, you don't think they're getting 470 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,000 some of that in the morning And you don't think some of that is 471 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,640 there to distract them from bringing the word of God. 472 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,600 Yeah, of course. And who's who's put these 473 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:20,960 thoughts in who's who's there? Satan, demons, agencies, 474 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,760 whatever you want to define, it doesn't really matter, but it's, 475 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:29,120 it's not of good. So are you? 476 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,760 Were you not thinking you were doing nothing? 477 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,920 You had just awakened, but suddenly these darts are 478 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,840 reaching you. What is the apostle mean by the 479 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:43,480 fiery darts of the wicked one? We can go on and say, have you 480 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,320 not found that you have been engaged in prayer and then 481 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,520 there's something that's distracting you while you're 482 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:51,720 praying? It's coming in in different 483 00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:54,400 directions from things that never distracted you before. 484 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,600 Or how about an experience when you're reading the Bible? 485 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,400 I don't know how many times I get read in the Bible in the 486 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,520 morning and I remember, oh, I sent my coffee over here and I 487 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:07,200 put it down and go get my coffee and I come back and I said, man, 488 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,160 I forgot to do. And I do this, but in the 489 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:14,160 meantime, I've been distracted and I haven't concentrated. 490 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,760 And Martin Jones says you can read a newspaper and 491 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,480 concentrated on it, but when you start reading the Bible, 492 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:24,200 thoughts and ideas come from all directions and you find it 493 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,160 almost impossible to concentrate. 494 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:27,640 Come on. Been there. 495 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:31,800 Right. I want to move quickly because 496 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,640 I'm afraid I'm running out time. But But when you start getting 497 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,000 these, the devil is hurling doubts. 498 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,640 These are doubts. These are darts. 499 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,440 These are flaming darts and some of the greatest Saints have been 500 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,760 plagued from time to time by horrible doubts. 501 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,800 And we have, we think of it a lot of times in depression. 502 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,360 We think of it a lot of time and our abilities. 503 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:59,120 And I can't do this, man. There's no way I can get up in 504 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:02,320 front of this group and talk about Scripture. 505 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:07,120 This is this is hard, right? These are doubts we got. 506 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:11,760 So we doubt them. And they get so pervasive that 507 00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:17,520 we sometimes doubt that we are believers. 508 00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:19,280 Wait a minute. What do you mean? 509 00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:23,480 No, I'm not sure because I have these thoughts. 510 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:27,480 Did I? I remember it was 1975 when I 511 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,920 came to the Lord, right? But it didn't come like there it 512 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,640 is. I wrestled with it. 513 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:34,360 Well, imagine a 14 year old wrestling. 514 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,560 It's a lot different than what we may be going through today as 515 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:43,360 older, but I got to tell you I wrestled with it and in my mind 516 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:47,240 I knew exactly what it was and the gospel and how it was to be 517 00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:51,880 taken into my heart. But I was asking myself, am I 518 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:56,600 doing this? Is it did it set and and little 519 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,720 prayers and all of that that was there to help me was actually 520 00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:07,240 detrimental in some aspects. But any rate, the bottom line is 521 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:12,320 when searching scripture, you come to that very quickly that 522 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:18,000 like first John chapter fours and fives read it if you haven't 523 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,200 there, there's in there what we call tests and and maybe it's 524 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,080 testing the spirits, whatever you want to call it. 525 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:25,440 But these are the things that we should be looking at as 526 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:31,680 Christians and saying where do I fit in or out and and we should 527 00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:33,360 know that and we should go with that. 528 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,160 And if we're still wrestling with that, seek out your 529 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:41,000 pastors, seek out those strong Christian brothers and sisters 530 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:45,760 and get that answer. And then also the other thing is 531 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:52,560 while we're going through this, we need to look at our selves 532 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:58,200 and how can we preach the gospel to ourselves? 533 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,520 We do that not because. We haven't learned it, but we 534 00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:06,240 don't think we're safe. We do that so that it confirms 535 00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:10,120 and holds us faithful to the beliefs. 536 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,680 And if we have doubt, we pray about it and say, Lord, I know 537 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:18,320 and this happens and I know about regeneration, but am I 538 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:22,760 feeling this well? Is it a feeling or is it what is 539 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:23,960 it? Is there fruit? 540 00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:30,240 Maybe you don't recognize your fruit, but want to US others 541 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,840 would look at it and say, are you kidding me? 542 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,920 Look at you and how you're doing this and who you're talking to. 543 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:40,000 That's fruit. All right, So I want to conclude 544 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,920 real quickly here. There's some great scriptures, 545 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,320 of course, and I say great scriptures. 546 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:54,640 That's oxymoron. But first Peter 58 and 9, first 547 00:40:54,640 --> 00:41:03,840 John 54, Hebrews 11, Hebrews 11 is a chapter of faith. 548 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:08,880 Heroes, we've got to look at faith. 549 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,640 Why? Because are you seeking faith 550 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:16,560 for the sake of faith, or are you seeking faith in the one who 551 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:19,000 gives us faith, the Lord Jesus Christ? 552 00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,960 There are cults out there that seek faith for the sake of 553 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,160 faith. I got faith. 554 00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,880 That's great. If it's not faith in Jesus 555 00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:39,280 Christ, it's nothing. So then lastly, we know that 556 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:44,480 Jesus encountered temptation. This is a Jesus, the human 557 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:53,840 right, Yes, and and not with the Holy Spirit in them, right? 558 00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:59,560 This is that Jesus and and he's with the devil now face to face. 559 00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:06,280 Well, if you remember, the Son of God is from all eternal. 560 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:11,520 Satan was once a not a fallen God or fallen Angel and his 561 00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:16,920 demons were not fallen angels. They worshipped and served the 562 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,400 Lord Jesus Christ. And from from that perspective, 563 00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:23,240 well, now they're in the wilderness and they're seeing 564 00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:32,000 him in flesh at a weakest point. And why is that important? 565 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:38,160 Because if we can cause Jesus to fall, we have no salvation. 566 00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:45,120 And so Satan is hard at this is the king of the deceit, the 567 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:49,920 father of deceit. So we should probably study a 568 00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:58,800 little bit about that and get the idea that this, this priest, 569 00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:04,240 this Jesus is without sin in the human flesh. 570 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:10,240 OK, obviously he's without sin. He's the Son of God, but he's he 571 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:15,560 is in the what's quick, what's the word for? 572 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:21,360 And it's not incursion. They say he's he is when we when 573 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:26,840 the Spirit or the Holy Spirit comes into Christ Incarnate 574 00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:31,040 words lose your you lose words when you're up on that stage. 575 00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:36,240 By the way, any rate, this is now Incarnate Jesus Christ 100% 576 00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:39,120 flesh. He could fall just like anybody 577 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:43,320 else could fall and be mastered by Satan. 578 00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:48,680 And I and I say that this is a is is a proposed possibility. 579 00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:54,800 But having that being Incarnate with the Son of God, it can't 580 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:58,200 happen. You see why because he's the son 581 00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:01,360 of God, right. But what I'm just saying this is 582 00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:06,920 a a possibility we should consider and here we go and we 583 00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,400 should be upholding our our shield. 584 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:13,000 You, you don't sit with the seal shield at your side. 585 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:14,880 You don't sit at it here. It's not over there. 586 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:19,120 This is immediate. You have it on and you are there 587 00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,880 behind it. You are there relying on it. 588 00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:26,920 And this shield isn't the box. It is the Lord Jesus Christ. 589 00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:30,240 So holding up the shield of faith reminds us that you are 590 00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:35,000 looking to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy 591 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,080 Spirit. It means that you're depending 592 00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:41,320 upon God and His is grace in Christ. 593 00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:45,920 It means that you think yourself in your mind and thought to Him 594 00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:50,720 who has all power and who is able to do more than the 595 00:44:50,720 --> 00:44:53,680 conquerors. There are times when we are so 596 00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:59,160 hard pressed that we can do nothing but call on the name of 597 00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,960 the Lord. So I got to tell you, if you're 598 00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:06,720 in that situation and your faith is small or it's not there 599 00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:12,120 because you're not a believer, call upon the Lord. 600 00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:18,240 Don't just shrug it off. When I was that young man in 75 601 00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:22,520 and I couldn't get it, I called upon the Lord constantly. 602 00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,520 I, I understood what was there. I didn't understand all the, 603 00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:31,800 this, the nuances, but I called upon the Lord and, and he was 604 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:35,880 faithful. He answered and regenerated my 605 00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:40,240 heart and brought the Holy Spirit into me. 606 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:44,920 And there's this union through the Holy Spirit with me and 607 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:48,120 Christ. This is where we survive. 608 00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:53,120 That shield, that's Christ, that union, that's between you and 609 00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:56,760 Christ and Christ and you. If you don't have it, you're at 610 00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:01,920 danger, you're at risk, and you need to do something to at least 611 00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:06,680 cry out to the Lord. I'll tell you that's important. 612 00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:10,480 And I'll also tell you that you need to seek those that you can 613 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,760 trust in your Christian brotherhood. 614 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:15,520 I don't want to swat that in my Bible. 615 00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:19,080 I'll leave them alone. So that's what we got. 616 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,960 And now that's it. It's it's 5 after I'm going to 617 00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,000 ask, you know, we're going to take questions. 618 00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:31,560 But but I got to read this one. You know, your your your shield 619 00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:34,200 well enough to know that a lot of them are claiming the 620 00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:37,680 promises of God. A lot of them are just claiming 621 00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:42,880 the scriptures of God. And we need to do that. 622 00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:55,280 So I'm going to you can turn to Hebrews chapter 12 and and I'll 623 00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:59,400 read this just as soon as I get to it. 624 00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:27,840 All right, let's let's change that to Hebrews 4 verse 14. 625 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:31,320 OK, if you don't have it in front of you, if you remember, 626 00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:35,360 just think of 414 and let me read this to you. 627 00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,480 This is the the inspired word of God. 628 00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:43,200 This is given to us by what we call an unknown author. 629 00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:47,760 Some say it's Paul, but whatever this is what is said. 630 00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:54,680 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who is passed 631 00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:58,760 through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us take hold of 632 00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:02,520 our confession. For we do not have a high priest 633 00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:09,040 who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who 634 00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:13,280 has been tempted in all things like we are. 635 00:48:13,720 --> 00:48:17,200 These are the darts. He's had all the darts thrown at 636 00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:23,480 him, but he was without sin. Therefore, therefore, that 637 00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:30,480 meaning reaching back to before this in in verses 14 and 15 is 638 00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,440 is what the therefore is there for. 639 00:48:33,720 --> 00:48:40,280 Let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace so that 640 00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:46,800 we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in the time of 641 00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:50,480 need. This is what that shield of 642 00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:55,360 faith does. We can reach in the time of need 643 00:48:56,080 --> 00:49:00,000 and be protected from those flaming dirt dirts. 644 00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:03,680 All right, I'm sorry, I'm over. I'm real sorry. 645 00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:09,400 However, I'm not sorry that we all got to hear the gospel 646 00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:14,320 again, right? Who thinks in Ephesians 6 verse 647 00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:18,400 16 that it was my topic? Who thinks of that as the 648 00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:22,680 Scripture that brings us the gospel of Jesus Christ? 649 00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:25,240 Well, it does dig in. You'll see it. 650 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:30,040 Any quick questions or if if you want to come and ask them on the 651 00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:33,200 sides of the music team and everybody can get ready. 652 00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:35,680 Thank you. I appreciate it. 653 00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:40,200 And again, next week we're going to get the sort of God. 654 00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,720 Wow. All right. 655 00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:43,040 Thank you.