1 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:13,280 Hallelujah, Jesus will love you God, Thank you Lord, thank you 2 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,720 Lord, thank you Lord, Amen. You can be seated this morning, 3 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:21,040 Amen. Good to see each and different 4 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,320 ones of you today. House of the Lord. 5 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,520 Good to see Bob here again this morning. 6 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,360 Amen. Appreciate him being here again 7 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:35,680 today. Again, this is Memorial Day 8 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:41,040 weekend, Memorial Day weekend, and so we take time and pause on 9 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:43,760 this weekend. This is more than a day or time 10 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:47,640 off work, right? We gather around our families, 11 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:51,400 but there's some families gathering with vacancies because 12 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:56,080 of the sacrifice that their son or daughter or what however the 13 00:00:56,080 --> 00:01:02,040 relative relationship may be, that allowed us this opportunity 14 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:06,640 to gather together in freedom of worship today within this 15 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:12,680 building as a result of them. And so we, we give honor today 16 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,760 to those families and we memorialize the lives of those 17 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,200 who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Amen. 18 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,360 To help protect our freedoms and even other countries. 19 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:26,480 Just real quickly today, there was a book that I read years 20 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:31,760 ago, Man by the name of Zell Miller, who gave a speech 21 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,760 concerning the soldiers of America. 22 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,080 And it's just very brief. This is just a portion of it. 23 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,240 He said never in the history of the world has any soldier 24 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:43,640 sacrifice more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers 25 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:47,600 than the American soldier. And our soldiers don't just give 26 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,240 freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home. 27 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,400 There's been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the 28 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,160 reporter, who has given us the freedom of press. 29 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,520 It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of 30 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:03,920 speech. It is the soldier, not the 31 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:07,840 agitator, who has given us the freedom to of protest. 32 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:11,640 It is the soldier who salutes the flag and serves beneath the 33 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:16,360 flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that 34 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:20,640 protester the freedom to accuse, abuse and burn that flag. 35 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,080 No one should dare to even think about being the commander in 36 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,720 chief of this country if they don't believe with all their 37 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:33,240 heart, soul, and mind that our soldiers have, are, and always 38 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:38,560 will be liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home. 39 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:44,040 And I appreciate Amen them. Today I'm going to be turning to 40 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:48,880 the Book of Numbers, Numbers chapter #1 and I'm going to be 41 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,880 reading the three verses of Scripture there today. 42 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,360 And my competition today is food. 43 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:57,960 There's food on the grounds. There's food right here at the 44 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,640 church when that grill starts going later and it starts eking 45 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:08,720 through the the AC. That's my struggle today verses 46 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,440 one through 3 I'm going to read today. 47 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:12,640 If you want to stand you can. If you don't have to, if you 48 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:15,960 don't want to, Amen. But the Bible says these words 49 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:20,400 in the 1st chapter of Numbers. And the Lord spake unto Moses in 50 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:24,680 the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tabernacle of the congregation, 51 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:29,440 on the first day of the second month in the second year, after 52 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:33,800 they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Take ye the 53 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:38,160 sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after 54 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:43,240 their families by the House of their fathers, with the number 55 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:48,640 of their names, every male by their pose, from 20 years old 56 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:55,600 and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel, thou 57 00:03:55,920 --> 00:04:00,560 and Aaron shall number them by their armies. 58 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:02,960 Amen. For a little while this morning, 59 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,760 just simply this and with a little bit of a mindset 60 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,960 concerning this week. And I want to speak to you about 61 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:16,839 Warriors Count. Warriors Count, Amen. 62 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,240 Let's ask God to help us in the next little while. 63 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,480 Father, I need you today. We need you, Lord, in this 64 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:24,080 place. And we're appreciative, the Lord 65 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,240 for your spirit. We're appreciative, the Lord, 66 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,360 for the songs and the lyrics that have brought the Lord Jesus 67 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:31,440 praise and exaltation to your name. 68 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,240 I pray, O God, that you have to help us in the next little 69 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:36,000 while. God touch our hearts and minds 70 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,280 afresh. By your word. 71 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,320 I'll put God to speak to us. Help us, O Lord Jesus, to hold 72 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:42,960 fast. God, these truths in the lovely 73 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:48,080 name of Jesus Christ that I pray and the church say Amen, Amen. 74 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,080 And you may be see it this morning and I failed last 75 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:52,640 Sunday. I believe it was. 76 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:54,400 And I'll make mention of it this Sunday as well. 77 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,080 But Sister Margaret, one of our shut insurance has been with 78 00:04:58,080 --> 00:04:59,480 this last Sunday and this Sunday. 79 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:03,320 It's so good to see her here, been able to be out and about 80 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:08,320 and trailblazing the road and, you know, coming in here and 81 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,480 worshiping with us. I know that that has to be 82 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,440 uplifting, encouraging to her to be able to be here. 83 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,200 And we're glad that she is here. Yes. 84 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,880 So on this Memorial Day weekend, again, as I've already said, our 85 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:23,480 nation pauses. There will be flags all across 86 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,200 that will be flying at half masts and there will be people 87 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:31,000 going to cemeteries to adorn them with flowers and maybe 88 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,520 little small American flags that the headstones of veterans and 89 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,200 such. And families will pause to 90 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:42,680 remember loved ones that they have lost to war, to battle, to 91 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,960 great causes, no doubt maybe on our own soul and abroad. 92 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,920 And it's in these moments that we understand that we we will 93 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:56,120 never be able to repay the debt that that they have. 94 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,080 They have left us by number means in every generation. 95 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:04,800 We even teach our children to remember not, not not just 96 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,480 history, but the cost of of this particular setting in time. 97 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:14,000 President Ronald Reagan once said freedom is never more than 98 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 one generation away from extinction. 99 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:21,120 And so that's the reason why our taking time to remember matters. 100 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:26,320 And it reminds us that that what we have today came at a cost and 101 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:31,680 it came at someone's cost yesterday in order to give us a 102 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:35,440 tomorrow. And so there were in the World 103 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,120 War Two, there was great fighting that took place, of 104 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,280 course, all over in countries abroad. 105 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:45,400 And the Marines that fought in World War 2, that says they 106 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:50,200 fought for 43 months and yet in one month at a particular small 107 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:54,640 island called Iwo Jima, 1/3 of their total deaths occurred 108 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,920 right there. A Navy corpsman, John Bradley, 109 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,640 who was there made this statement concerning the event. 110 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,360 He said, I want you to always remember something. 111 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:11,040 He said the heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who didn't come 112 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:14,640 back. And so that's why we pause this 113 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:18,560 weekend to count the warriors, so to speak, to remember those 114 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:23,600 who paid the ultimate price. And as we remember each name of 115 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,040 the fallen, I think it's also important then to garner that 116 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:32,000 God values the name of every soldier as well, not just 117 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,880 literally, but those that serve, if you will, in the capacity of 118 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:39,600 soldiers in the arming of the Lord. 119 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,640 He also observes a Memorial Day of sorts. 120 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:48,400 The Bible says in Malachi 3 and 16 that a book of remembrance 121 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,720 was written before him. For them that feared the Lord, 122 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:58,560 and that thought upon His name. Recorded are those who Revere 123 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:03,200 the Lord and serve the Lord, and God never forgets those who 124 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,640 fight for him. He'll show up on that line of 125 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,800 fire, so to speak, whatever their dilemma may be. 126 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,720 He'll show up in the middle of a furnace with the three Hebrew 127 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,640 boys because he do does not forget those that stand for him 128 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:20,000 and even fight for him. You'll remember the story that 129 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,000 when there were ten other spies, the first time that Israel was 130 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,440 going to go into the land of Canaan. 131 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:30,760 The Bible says that Moses had sent 12 spies into the land to 132 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,120 seek it out. What type of people were there? 133 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,039 What type of land it was, The Bible reports that all 12 came 134 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:40,720 back with the same report concerning there's giants in the 135 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:43,840 land and it's a well fenced city if you will. 136 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:46,000 It's it has walls that are thick. 137 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,000 But there were ten that thought that they could not take it. 138 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,600 There was fear that was in their hearts and the Bible says that 139 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:55,800 too. Caleb and Joshua said quite the 140 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:59,720 contrary concerning that. Caleb even stood up and said 141 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:04,640 let's go up at once and possess it for we are well able to 142 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:07,960 overcoming. We understand the story maybe a 143 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,080 little bit as a result of the fear, as a result of the 144 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:14,880 children of Israel not acting upon the promise of God and 145 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,280 possessing what God said they could possess. 146 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,920 They would wonder for 40 years in the wilderness, one year for 147 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:25,480 each day that they had spied out the land, only for all of that 148 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,760 generation of that older generation to die off during 149 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:30,680 those 40 years in the wilderness. 150 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:35,760 But not Joshua and not Caleb. They would come the second time 151 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,800 to that place of the Jordan River to crossover into the 152 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,840 promised land. And the Bible says that Caleb is 153 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,680 over there and his feet is walking some familiar ground 154 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:49,280 that he had walked 40-5 years earlier. 155 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:52,720 Hey, man, he's looking around and he's telling those as land 156 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,680 is being divvied up and the allotments are given to the 157 00:09:56,680 --> 00:09:59,400 different tribes. He declared with his mouth. 158 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:04,840 He said, give me this mountain. It was that same mountain that 159 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:08,560 he was willing to fight for 45 years earlier. 160 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:14,480 And God remembered Caleb, a man who was willing to fight then 161 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:16,760 and still yet willing to fight now. 162 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:21,160 God remembered his courage and he preserved the inheritance, 163 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:25,120 that inheritance, that mountain for Caleb for all of those 164 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:30,360 decades because God never forgets those who fight for him. 165 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,280 The opening verses of the Book of Numbers. 166 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,760 It's it's, it's not real real, real detailed, but within it 167 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:41,280 contains account or a census, as we might say. 168 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:45,440 Just over a year earlier from this point of time, we read in 169 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:50,600 Scripture that that Israel had been slaves in Egypt and now 170 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,720 they stand as soldiers ready for a fight. 171 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,680 Amen. Just a little earlier, the Bible 172 00:10:56,680 --> 00:11:00,520 describes that they had been at the Mount of Sinai for about a 173 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:04,360 year, receiving instruction about how they should go, what 174 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,960 they should to do, and how they they should prepare themselves 175 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,760 and condition themselves for what was ahead. 176 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:15,880 But now they are a people not in captivity, not slaves, but they 177 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:19,640 are on the verge of becoming a very mobile nation that's 178 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:24,640 destined for a conquest of the land that God had promised them. 179 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,880 Exodus had set them free, but now Numbers was going to prepare 180 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:34,040 them for war and they would participate in war. 181 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:36,280 And so here's the fact of the matter. 182 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,720 They have been delivered from their bondage, but they were not 183 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,840 yet totally ready for battle. Because you can be delivered and 184 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:48,320 yet not ready for battle when the Israel the Bible says we're 185 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:53,080 let go by Pharaoh. Scripture says that God did not 186 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:57,120 lead that nation through the land of the Philistines, 187 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,960 although it was near it would have been the shorter route, the 188 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,680 closer route. But God did not lead them 189 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:08,320 because he he thought to himself, had they come against 190 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:13,160 some opposition and some battles, they might want to turn 191 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:16,120 back to Egypt. They they were not quite ready 192 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,840 for combat. Their hearts and their minds 193 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,160 were too fragile for such a thing. 194 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:26,120 So God delayed the fight for them in order to develop the 195 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,200 fighter. And so here again, he has been 196 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:33,200 conditioning at Mount Sinai for about a year, people who have 197 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:36,800 been delivered but maybe wasn't quite ready for the fight. 198 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:40,320 And he's developing them and he's pouring into them. 199 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:44,120 And God wanted them to know that he never meant the wilderness to 200 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,320 be a permanent place. He was preparing them for a 201 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:49,840 possession. But don't most of us know that 202 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:51,960 possession doesn't come without a fight? 203 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:55,800 Possession does not come without an opposition. 204 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,160 And so Israel would soon face some enemies. 205 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:01,680 The Bible tells us that they would come up against nations 206 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,640 that were mightier than them, that were greater than them. 207 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,040 The Bible says there were giants in the land. 208 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:13,720 The Bible says the cities were well fortified and walled and so 209 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:19,240 God needed some warriors for the first time in generations. 210 00:13:19,560 --> 00:13:23,960 God's people were not slaves, but they stood as warriors. 211 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,800 And so a census is taken. This this just wasn't good, just 212 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:31,880 good bookkeeping for their day. Moses and the people, they're 213 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:36,720 not the ones that initiated this count or this census, but God 214 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:39,680 did. This is God's role call that he 215 00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:41,720 ordered. And the Bible says one 216 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,680 translation says this. He says, I want you to count the 217 00:13:44,680 --> 00:13:50,920 names of every male 1 by 1. In other words, God wasn't just 218 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:54,640 interested in an estimate. He wasn't just interested in 219 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:58,240 numbers alone. But the Bible says he said count 220 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,320 the names, count the names. Why? 221 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:06,680 Because every warrior's name mattered to God. 222 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,120 God didn't ask Moses to count the cattle. 223 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:12,880 He didn't ask Moses to count the tents. 224 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:15,560 He didn't ask Moses to count the treasures. 225 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:19,600 He said, Moses, I want you to count the men and I want you to 226 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:25,640 record their name because God's greatest resource is not the 227 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:32,600 goods, it's always the people, it's always the people. 228 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:36,480 When God wanted to make a great nation that he would call his 229 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:40,560 own and a people that He would call his special treasure, he 230 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,960 didn't start with some great infrastructure or armies or 231 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,200 wealth. No, he began with one man called 232 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,200 Abraham. When God wanted to deliver his 233 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:54,440 people out of Egypt, Amen, He speared a boy from being 234 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,080 murdered during the time when it was imminent, and he calls that 235 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:02,520 same boy, that estranged kid to be nursed by his own Mama when 236 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:05,560 it shouldn't have happened. And he caused that same man to 237 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:09,120 be developing condition on the backside of a desert. 238 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:13,640 He chose a person when he wanted deliverance, Amen. 239 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:18,440 Even to reach this world after his ascension, Jesus didn't 240 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:22,120 invest in a building. Jesus didn't invest in budgets, 241 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:24,440 but he invested in his disciples. 242 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,120 People. He calls them, He quips them, He 243 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:30,720 sends them not things, but people, because God greatest 244 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,880 resource is not goods, it's people. 245 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,880 He said count the names, count the names of the warriors. 246 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,120 Even today, if you were to go to Washington DC and you were to go 247 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:49,080 to that black wall there, there are 58,318 names, names that are 248 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:53,320 carved in the stone there. Each one is a life that was lost 249 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:57,280 in the Vietnam War, not listed according to the rank. 250 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:59,360 They're not on that stone. Amen. 251 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,120 According to the race, it's just a name. 252 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:07,640 That's all that appears. Because every name matters. 31 253 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:14,120 of the 39 verses in Second Samuel 23 are littered with 254 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:18,800 names, and the introduction to this list says this. 255 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:25,080 These be the names of the mighty men whom David had. 256 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,600 These men weren't kings, they weren't prophets. 257 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:34,920 They were warriors, and their names are recorded in scripture 258 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:39,400 for all time, not because they sat on the throne, and not 259 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:44,480 because they ruled, if you will, with a scepter, but because they 260 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:48,120 stood their ground. You'll read through that chapter 261 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:51,560 and you'll read of some that fought alone by themselves 262 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:55,760 against hundreds, like Eleazar the Bible says, who smote the 263 00:16:55,760 --> 00:17:01,280 Philistines until his hand was weary and his hand clave unto 264 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:04,119 his sword. He was seemingly by himself. 265 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:08,359 The scripture even says there were many of Israel that left 266 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:12,560 him that day that he fought. But after he had won the battle, 267 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:14,720 all the troops are showing back up. 268 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:16,680 Amen. To spoil the enemy. 269 00:17:16,839 --> 00:17:21,040 But they had a chance to spoil the enemy because one man 270 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:25,119 warrior stood his ground until his hand became weary. 271 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:29,600 God counts in our lives more than just the victories. 272 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,400 He counts the warrior behind the victory by name. 273 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,720 Amen. These were not men who fought 274 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,000 with words. These were men who fought with 275 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,040 swords. But they weren't looking for 276 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:45,560 some type of headline in the New Jerusalem post about faithful in 277 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,320 the trenches. No, they were just the greatest 278 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:52,920 warriors that stayed at their post quietly, steadfastly 279 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:54,640 holding a line. Amen. 280 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,200 So that others could stand as well. 281 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,120 There's another everyone mentioned in Scripture, the 282 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:04,880 Bible says when everyone ran away that Shama stood what seems 283 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:06,440 like is said in a field of lentils. 284 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:10,520 In other words, he stood in a field of beans and he wrought a 285 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:14,680 great victory by God that day because when everybody else 286 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:19,280 moved, he refused to move. He stood his ground. 287 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,280 We go to New Testament scripture and it echoes in the New 288 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:26,320 Testament as well. We read Hebrews Chapter 11, the 289 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:30,200 great faith chapter, and it includes a list of of faithful 290 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:34,320 people and also flawed people who fought battles for God. 291 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,160 Some of them are very well known. 292 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:39,320 They're like household names, but they're others that are not 293 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:40,720 known. They're they're barely even 294 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:44,120 mentioned in Scripture, but they're there in the Scripture 295 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,280 because they're a name that was a warrior for the Lord. 296 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:51,480 Hebrew says, who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought 297 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:55,160 righteousness, obtain promises, stop the mouths of lions, 298 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:59,880 quenched the violence of fire escape the edge of the sword out 299 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:04,360 of weakness were made strong wax value and fight turn to flight 300 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:09,320 the armies of the aliens note what the Bible says they're out 301 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,640 of weakness were made strong. What does that say? 302 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:16,120 These weren't people with superior strength per SE. 303 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:20,240 These weren't superheroes per SE, but they were men and women 304 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,920 that surrendered themselves for A cause to God. 305 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:26,960 And God doesn't always call the qualified. 306 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:31,280 Many times he qualifies the call and he he does. 307 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,040 He looks just for the availability. 308 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:37,240 He can take weak men and make warriors. 309 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:42,040 This is case in point. The Bible says that David hid 310 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:46,280 away in The Cave of Dulum and while he was there, he's there 311 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,000 was a drawing of people that started coming and you know who 312 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,120 it was? All those that were in debt, all 313 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:55,520 those that were in distress, all those that were discontent. 314 00:19:56,280 --> 00:20:00,120 But you know, from those men came an army, about 600 people 315 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:04,040 that David would lead. Now, I don't know about you, but 316 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,520 that doesn't necessarily describe army to me when you're 317 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,800 talking about the discontent and the debt and the no, no, no. 318 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,880 But God can take something that doesn't look like much of 319 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,520 anything and he can develop that and spend some time with that 320 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,560 and he can raise it up. And God will remember many of 321 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:23,560 these mighty men aren't those same men that came to David in 322 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,080 that cave. Now they're spoken of as being. 323 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:27,120 Mighty men. Why? 324 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:30,120 Because God counts the names of the warriors. 325 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:38,640 Just someone say Amen. He many times he'll qualify them 326 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:44,000 even after he calls them. Think about Moses, unqualified 327 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,920 by his own admission, but God calls him. 328 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:50,960 Look at Gideon the Angel says, thou mighty man, the valor 329 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:54,920 Gideon's looking around as he's threshing wheat in a wine press 330 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:57,920 doesn't look hopeful, but God called him. 331 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:02,160 Look at David Ruddy faced lad taking care of the sheep on his 332 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,360 father's farm. Doesn't look like much, but God 333 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:09,120 called him Jeremiah, right? Didn't think he could be much, 334 00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:12,280 but the Lord said I ordained thee a prophet from the very 335 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,040 womb. You look at Esther right, Amen. 336 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:18,840 Who knows that thou art come to the Kingdom as such a time as 337 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,200 this. We look at the Apostle Peter, 338 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:23,560 Amen. We look at the apostle Paul, 339 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:25,080 Amen. All these different ones. 340 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,840 We look at the Rahab who was, if you will, a woman of a ill 341 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:33,040 repute in the city of Jericho, but she was kind to some men, 342 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,520 and she finds her name in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. 343 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,880 You don't have to be qualified to get in this thing, but if 344 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,520 you're available, God can qualify the call. 345 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:49,840 Warriors count and they're counted by name. 346 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,840 They're counted by name. You may never wear a uniform, 347 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:59,080 you may never be seen on a battlefield, but you could still 348 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,480 be a fighter or warrior, if you will, in the Kingdom of God. 349 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,640 As a matter of fact, we have scripture after script scripture 350 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:10,120 that implores this or or colors with this type of hue that when 351 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:13,080 we've been called to the Kingdom or even called to Christ and 352 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,480 Christian Christianity in the church that we've been called 353 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:21,640 into an army, so to speak. We've been called into a battle 354 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,360 arena. Paul told Timothy, he said 355 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:29,960 endure the hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 356 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:34,760 He goes on to tell him to do this because God has chosen us 357 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,640 to be so. Amen. 358 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,720 Do you know that whenever you came to the Lord, you enlisted 359 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:46,240 When you came to the Lord, you enlisted into an army. 360 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,600 You enlisted into a division of the army. 361 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:49,760 You said, Brother McGee. I don't know. 362 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,720 I'm I'm not a warrior. I'm not a fighter. 363 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,760 Sir. Ma'am, let's change your your 364 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,720 perspective here. You fight when you pray for your 365 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,360 family. You fight whenever you refuse to 366 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:01,640 bend and bow as the children. Amen. 367 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:05,000 Of the Hebrew boys Did you fight when you take up your cross 368 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,280 daily and you follow him, you're fighting. 369 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:10,920 You fight when you worship, even though you're weak and you're 370 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,160 tired and and things are not going your way. 371 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,720 When you lift up your hands and you raise your voice, you're 372 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,040 fighting. And God remembers the names of 373 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:25,800 his warriors. Revelation 19 and 14 says the 374 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:30,840 armies of heaven follow Christ on white horses. 375 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:35,520 It's Speaking of a day clothed in fine linen. 376 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:40,240 They're going to follow him into that last battle. 377 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:45,200 And that's more than just imagery being depicted there in 378 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:49,000 the Book of Revelation reality. It's a legacy that's being 379 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,760 depicted in the Book of Revelation. 380 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:56,800 Here's God, here's the Lord leading warriors, and they were 381 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:02,320 called to ride with him because the King knows who marches in 382 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:07,880 his ranks, whether you are seen or unsing. 383 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:12,400 The Apostle Paul, he is addressing the last chapter to 384 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:17,400 the book of Philippians, to the Church of Philippi, and he does 385 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,840 as he oftimes does with some of his letters. 386 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,840 He gives a lot of accolades and he acknowledges various people. 387 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,280 And in that last chapter of Philippians, he again is 388 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:31,880 acknowledging what are called some yoke fellows or fellow 389 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:36,840 laborers with him, both men and women, if you will, people who 390 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:40,120 were in the gospel arms alongside him. 391 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:44,040 He's naming them by name. He's given acknowledgement to 392 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,600 them, Amen. And had he not mentioned them, 393 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:52,920 Amen, they would have been seen, or at least many of them unheard 394 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,960 of, because it's not like you see their name popping up all 395 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:57,920 kinds of different places in Scripture. 396 00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:00,520 But he mentions them and he names them. 397 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:04,360 And this most importantly, is what he says concerning them. 398 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:09,520 He said whose names are in the Book of Life. 399 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,640 That's interesting to me. A lot of these names are not 400 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,160 well known in the Bible, but he names them. 401 00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:18,320 They're fellow laborers. They're yoke laborers, if you 402 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:22,200 will, together with him, he says, whose names are in the 403 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,960 book of life. Folks, there is no greater 404 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:29,320 evidence I can give to you today that warriors count than this, 405 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,960 that God says, I want their name numbered in so much. 406 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,840 I want their name numbered in my book. 407 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,960 The folks, whenever this thing all wraps up someday, the Bible 408 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:44,240 says the books will be open. That means this book right here 409 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,520 and the book of life. But in the book of life will be 410 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:52,080 not the legacy, not if you will the rank, not the race, not the 411 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:56,280 the language they spoke, but name after name after name after 412 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,600 name of a warrior of the Kingdom of God. 413 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:04,480 That said I'll stand for Jesus and let the world go by the 414 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:12,720 warriors count they by name by name. 415 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,840 You don't have to be famous to be faithful. 416 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,480 It don't have to. We don't do these things 417 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,800 anymore, but it don't have to be in the church bulletin or on the 418 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:33,640 social, social blurb today in order to be faithful. 419 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:40,080 But is it written in heaven? Because that's where it matters. 420 00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:43,640 And that's the only list that really matters. 421 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:56,320 God commands Moses numbers to count not for the purpose of 422 00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:00,520 just population, but for the potential. 423 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:06,760 Verse 3 indicates and from another translation even 424 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,240 indicates it like this. Everyone who can serve in 425 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:13,440 Israel's army the way it is in your King James Version is all 426 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,200 that are able to go forth to war. 427 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,760 To those that were 20 years old, males that were 20 years old and 428 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:26,240 upward seeking out who would be eligible to serve in the Lord's 429 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:30,320 army. Again, I think it's important, 430 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:32,360 important. Glenn, God wasn't counting. 431 00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:35,560 Oh, let's take inventory of all the singers. 432 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,600 Let's take inventory of all the musicians. 433 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,080 I'm just saying how sometimes our perspective is is in the 434 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:53,320 church where we like place as humans importance. 435 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:56,480 I'm not saying they're not important. 436 00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:00,280 I'm saying God wasn't wanting the list of those those that 437 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:01,560 were going to go gather the manna. 438 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,920 No, he counted who could go to battle. 439 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:10,920 Goodnight Paul, St. Ephesians. 440 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:16,040 He admonishes us. He said put on the whole armor 441 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,440 of God. That wasn't written for a group 442 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,720 of spectators. No, that was written for people 443 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:28,760 that would be fighters. And so as the census is being 444 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,520 made, it's not like he's passing out the volunteer form or 445 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,720 anything like that. No, in reality, it was an 446 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:37,360 expectation. It's an expectation that that 447 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:44,000 God had that if you were of age and if you were of strength, you 448 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:49,600 fought. It might be several eligible, 449 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,320 but there could be some that didn't serve. 450 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,920 But all those that were of strength of age, the expectation 451 00:28:54,920 --> 00:29:01,440 was they should remember the story of Gideon. 452 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:06,960 I know it's familiar to some. The Gideon started with 32,000 453 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,920 men. God reduced his army. 454 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,080 It's important that we understand God did this. 455 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:19,400 God reduced his army to 300. Now that's quite a downsizing. 456 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:28,080 Not because God per SE needed fewer, but because he wanted 457 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:33,040 them eager and ready. Because the first Test that he 458 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:39,040 gave to the 32,000 men by Gideon was basically if anybody was 459 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:49,080 fearful or afraid, go home. There was a chunk of them that 460 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:54,160 went home. Because God wants a warrior, but 461 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,640 he don't want a warrior with a mentality that's going to infect 462 00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:05,720 other warriors. Because see, this is the similar 463 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,080 thing that happened when they were going to go the first time 464 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,400 to the land of promise. Those that thought they couldn't 465 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,400 started infect others think and they begin to think they 466 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,280 couldn't. And before you know, you got a 467 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:23,080 nation, perhaps millions of people that for the most part of 468 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,920 believing we can't do what God says we can do. 469 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,040 Amen. That's what he says we're going 470 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:32,480 to remove. We're going to remove the 471 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:36,160 fearful because I need warriors. Amen That that that are ready. 472 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,240 And the second test was is how they how they would drink water 473 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,960 there If, if they would bring their hands to their face or 474 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,720 where they would bend down and and and and go to it themselves. 475 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,680 Because if you bring water up to your face, your eyes are still 476 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,360 at a level where where you are alert and you can see. 477 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,000 But if you're going down to the water and your head's down, 478 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:56,600 you're not aware of everything around you. 479 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,440 If, in other words, if I could state it like this, God was 480 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,560 looking for in Gideon's army to have some men that weren't going 481 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:08,160 to be distracted. Warriors count. 482 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,400 Ready warriors count. He's looking for the faithful 483 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:17,680 men. On June the 6th, 1944, there 484 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:22,080 were young men, many of them just 20 years old, who stormed 485 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:26,400 the beaches of Normandy. One survivor said this. 486 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:30,880 He said we weren't heroes. He said we were just doing what 487 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:37,000 we were asked to do, some of them, and never been further 488 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,960 away from home than the next county that they lived by. 489 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,680 But when the time came, they were counted as warriors because 490 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:52,160 they were just doing what they were asked to do, General Patton 491 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,560 said one time he said the soldier is the army. 492 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,440 That's a vast statement. The soldier is the army. 493 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:05,720 No army is better then it's soldiers. 494 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,280 If I can take that same statement of patent and I can 495 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,200 apply it to us today, I would say it like this. 496 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:17,840 No church or church body is better than its members. 497 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,200 We often think of the church in terms of buildings and 498 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:24,840 ministries and so on and so forth. 499 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:26,840 But when God looks at the church, he doesn't count the 500 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:34,640 bricks on the exterior, He counts people in Acts 2. 501 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:40,920 The early church didn't grow just because Peter preached 1 502 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:47,880 sermon. It grew because 3000 people that 503 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:54,560 were deeply impacted that they stepped into a lifestyle of 504 00:32:54,560 --> 00:33:02,760 sacrifice and devotion and bode witness the Bible says in Acts 2 505 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:10,520 and verse 42 and they continued steadfastly in the apostles 506 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:17,200 doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in 507 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:21,240 prayers. These 3000 that were impacted. 508 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:26,720 Yes, on the day of Pentecost, if you will, enlisted, they 509 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:31,480 enlisted in the Army. They enlisted in whatever their 510 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:35,320 branch or whatever their division was in the Kingdom and 511 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:39,040 they continued. It wasn't a moment of time of, 512 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,960 of, of a little flash in the pan, but they, they, they, they, 513 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,480 they had fatigues at the war, so to speak. 514 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,560 They, they, they had a lifestyle. 515 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,440 They continued and, and everything that the apostles 516 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,600 taught and Jesus taught and the fellowship and the prayers and 517 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,120 the breaking of bread and the fastings and the witnessings and 518 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,760 all those things. Can I speak just in a modern day 519 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,200 generation, just a little bit this morning, say this, There 520 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,720 wasn't no fog machines and there were no worship teams that were 521 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,239 getting cues in their ears about when to go to this or to that. 522 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:13,199 No, they were just warriors that had bought in. 523 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,199 They didn't just attend church. They were the church. 524 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:27,000 They were the church. I I'll hasten to a close. 525 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,760 You can stand with me today. And I'm I'm, I'm on about a 30 526 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:33,320 minute schedule here. And so that's that's keeping 527 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:34,560 your hamburgers. OK. 528 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,159 So if the soldier is the army and the believer is the church, 529 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:47,280 we've posed these questions before. 530 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,120 It's good to pose it though again today. 531 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,480 Then what kind of army would this be if every soldier fought 532 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:58,520 like me? To ask ourselves, what kind of 533 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,800 church would this be if every member prayed like me, Every 534 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,120 member gave like me? I'm not talking about me, I'm 535 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,400 just speaking as you know, our own selves. 536 00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:11,480 If every member served like me, If every member worshipped like 537 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:18,600 me, because the roll call is continuing, he's naming them by 538 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,800 name. And so I want God to find within 539 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:27,280 each and every one of us the same courage he saw in Caleb, 540 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:32,240 the same faith he saw in Eleazar until his hand was growing weary 541 00:35:32,240 --> 00:35:36,800 around the the halt of that, that sword, the same grit that 542 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,360 he saw in Shama that he's standing there. 543 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,360 Everybody else is leaving. He's like, I guess I'm going to 544 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,520 fight here if I have to fight by myself. 545 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,080 So we're here today and then we do. 546 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,640 And I, I think it's important that we give honor all those who 547 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,800 gave all. I think then on the flip side, 548 00:35:54,800 --> 00:36:01,160 it's important for us to give our all for the Kingdom that 549 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,160 we're a part of. So I wonder today if we could 550 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,640 just bow our heads today and someone, if it's just even by 551 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,680 the lifting up of a hand that you could just cast the vote of 552 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:13,080 enlisted and say, God, just count me in. 553 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:17,480 Not because I'm qualified, God, but because I'm willing. 554 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:23,120 Because I'm willing, because I am a able body and I am a body 555 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,400 with strength. I am a body that is available 556 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:30,960 not because I've never fallen, but God count me in because I 557 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,240 have the personality and the tenacity that I'm one. 558 00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:38,240 That even when I do fall, I get back up. 559 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:43,200 And Lord, if you're still calling names, God, Call My Name 560 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:47,000 among them because I know that warriors count. 561 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:52,360 And so today you need to be counted. 562 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,840 It's not just, oh, this is number, this is #35 of the 563 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:04,040 people know. Count them by name. 564 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:13,480 Mike Trout, Aaron Brown, Don McGee, Erica Goadsmith, Jerry 565 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,520 Mason, Glenn McVeigh. You understand what I'm saying? 566 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:27,720 Count them by name. This altar is open today. 567 00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,640 We've been called, we've been enlisted. 568 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:37,000 There's a count going forward. I wonder if there's anybody that 569 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:41,600 would say today, Lord, if the army depends upon the soldier. 570 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,280 And I want to be the best that I can be for the purpose of your 571 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,440 Kingdom. I know there's still a lot of 572 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:52,480 conquest that needs to be won. I know there's still a lot of 573 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:56,240 ground that needs to be covered. Is there anybody today that 574 00:37:56,240 --> 00:37:59,120 would just come, whether you stand or kneel today and just 575 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:03,560 say, Lord, count me in. Count me in, Lord. 576 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,960 I'll be willing, God. I'll be willing, Lord. 577 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,800 Maybe, maybe, maybe you just freshly been delivered some 578 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,920 things of your old life and maybe you're not ready for the 579 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,720 fight yet. But God, God can condition you 580 00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:19,600 and God can prepare you, and he can set you up for success for 581 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:24,840 that next time that we go out, if you will, and we brave all of 582 00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:26,640 the things that would come against us. 583 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:31,200 We, we, he can condition you. The warriors count today. 584 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,760 Warriors count. I don't want to sit idly by. 585 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,600 I don't want to just have an experience with God and let my 586 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,160 life with the Lord end at that experience. 587 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:45,280 I want to continue in prayers and supplications and breaking 588 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,080 the bread and fellowship. I want to continue in the 589 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,200 apostles doctrine. I want to be able to look over 590 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,800 my shoulders and say someday I'm further along than where I 591 00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,480 entered into this place. I I want to be a warrior, a 592 00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,920 warrior that counts. A warrior that counts. 593 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,440 If you don't know the Lord today, if you don't know Him, 594 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,320 you can enlist today. If you don't know Him, you can 595 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,240 enlist today. Hey, man, by means of 596 00:39:11,240 --> 00:39:15,400 repentance, Hallelujah. They were delivered from Egypt 597 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,920 before they ever were enlisted in the Lord's harmony. 598 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,440 He can today. He can do a marvelous thing in 599 00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,160 your life. If all you've known is slavery, 600 00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:27,760 so to speak, in captivity and you've answered to the call, the 601 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:31,360 number another did what they wanted you to do today that that 602 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,600 can come deliverance today. You can lift up your hands where 603 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:38,680 you stand, or you could just bow your head and say, God, I look 604 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,080 back over my life and I see, oh Lord, the things that have 605 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:46,360 entwined me and entangled me and have been, if you will, Lord, 606 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,080 they've been the master and I've been to slave, so to speak. 607 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:50,440 I've been at their beck and call. 608 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,400 God, I want to change that today. 609 00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,560 I don't want to just live the same old life that I've always 610 00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,720 lived. God, I want some newfound 611 00:39:57,720 --> 00:40:00,480 deliverance and freedom today. God, if it could be altered, if 612 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,560 it could be changed in my life, and it can be. 613 00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,160 You can repent today. You can make a conscious choice. 614 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,560 This morning to turn in a new direction, a different direction 615 00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:11,440 away from the way that you have lived life formerly up to this 616 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,920 point in time. God will help you, empower you 617 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,400 to do so. I believe that today, 618 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,720 Hallelujah, the warriors count across this place. 619 00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:22,480 Warriors count. Come on, Sir. 620 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,920 Ma'am, Hallelujah. But it's been a while since you 621 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,360 made a move for God and he strikes for God. 622 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:29,240 Amen. Make yourself available. 623 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,960 He said from 20 years old and upward, there wasn't a capstone. 624 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,800 If you would, there wasn't a capstone on those of being 625 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:37,600 warriors. It's not like the age, he said 626 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:41,640 from 20 to 50 or 20 to 45. No, no, he said 20 and upward. 627 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,200 That are able, Amen. That are willing, that are 628 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,800 strong, that are capable. Is there anybody here able 629 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,840 today? Is there anybody willing today? 630 00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:50,160 Will you present yourself?