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Hello and welcome to the Arise 
Church Podcast. 

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We are so glad you're here and 
want to thank you for joining us

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today for the audio version of 
our Sunday morning message. 

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We want to invite you to join us
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celebration every Sunday at 10 
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We are located on Old Jenks Rd. 
in Apex, NC. 

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Well, if you have your Bible, 
why don't you grab it? 

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And if you would turn to First 
Chronicles Chapter 9, First 

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Chronicles is not First 
Corinthians. 

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First Chronicles is in the Old 
Testament. 

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And I don't ever want to assume 
that everyone just knows, but 

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it's in the Old Testament, First
Chronicles Chapter 9. 

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And before I read there, I want 
to just kind of go back a couple

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weeks ago. 
A couple weeks ago, I taught a 

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message called the call, call of
a watchman. 

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And today I want to talk about 
the call of a gatekeeper, the 

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call of the gatekeeper. 
And it's fascinating. 

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In fact, I could probably do a 
series on this. 

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And that's sometimes how things 
happen. 

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You just see these things that 
explode throughout Scripture and

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the theme of gates, little roll 
gates within cities like 

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Jerusalem, but also other cities
within ancient Israel and that 

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time were significant. 
And we find them all over the 

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place. 
And even the role of a 

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gatekeeper becomes very 
significant and becomes an 

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assigned role by God through 
other people to watch the gates,

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to guard the gates. 
But before we get into, I want 

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to just cover a couple things to
remember, really, it might be 

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new information to some of you 
about gates. 

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So if you can kind of transport 
yourself back several 100 years,

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maybe even a couple thousand 
years ago to an ancient time in 

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a place like Jerusalem, and just
imagine how you have these walls

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and the walls guard the city, 
but to come in and out of the 

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city, you have to have gates. 
So when you're thinking about 

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gates, these would be common 
entry points of people, cities, 

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regions, and nations. 
So those cities have gates, but 

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also you have to think about 
their gates into regions. 

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There's gates into nations, 
there's even gates into your own

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soul. 
And we'll talk about those for a

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couple minutes today as well. 
Gates are the appropriate Ave. 

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for commerce, migration, 
community, and even social life.

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So we'll see even from scripture
that Jesus said if someone comes

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up over, through and over a 
wall, that's not the appropriate

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way, that's a thief that 
everyone coming in the 

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appropriate way comes through 
the gate. 

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Gates are controlled by 
appointed positions that are 

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authorized to restrict and 
approve accessed. 

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Those would be. 
Gatekeepers or doorkeepers? 

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Gates are protected by all the 
resources of the city, because 

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to take the gates of a city or a
region is to control that city 

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or that region. 
The gates are. 

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The most important part of the 
entire fortress around a city. 

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And so we, most of us know it. 
If you've ever seen Lord of the 

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Rings and you've ever seen those
kind of epic type movies, it's 

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always about the gates. 
That comes down to the gates. 

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And if they can get through the 
gates, then they have access to 

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the entire city. 
As I was studying, it reminded 

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me of Matthew chapter 16, verse 
18, where Jesus said, I also say

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to you that you are Peter and on
this rock I will build my church

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and the gates of hell or Hades 
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In other words, we're a part of 
a Kingdom that not only plays 

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defense, but we absolutely play 
offense. 

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And that when Jesus is building 
his church, no, no gate, no 

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fortress, no opposition shall be
able to withstand the building 

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and the expansion of this 
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Come on, I'm preaching good 
already. 

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You should be saying Amen to 
that. 

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Because a lot of times fear will
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especially within times of 
turmoil or peril, and people 

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only play defense. 
But I love that Jesus reminds us

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that when he's on the offense, 
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there is no gate that is secure 
enough to keep out the Kingdom 

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of God. 
When I have a time to follow up 

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with Mr. Mueller, the director 
of the movie, I want to tell him

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that even as I was preparing, I 
was thinking about him. 

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That is, he takes ground within 
a very dark industry that he can

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go so with confidence that 
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the power of God and the Kingdom
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That's true for you and your own
company, your own position where

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God's called you to. 
You may think, well man, there 

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are these gatekeepers within 
your business or within your 

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industry that you know there's 
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Them, well, I know one. 
Person that can get through 

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them. 
Well, that was a good place for 

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a stronger Amen. 
Come on, this is very important,

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that we know who it is that we 
serve and that he said the gates

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of hell shall not prevail 
against the building of his 

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church. 
I will build my church. 

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And the gates of hell shall not 
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I want to show you a map of of 
Jerusalem during the time of 

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Nehemiah. 
This map will show you 10 

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different gates. 
This is of course a more modern 

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rendering. 
None of us have pictures, none 

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of us were there so. 
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understanding of the 10 gates of
that time and doing research. 

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No one really knows how many 
gates were in ancient, even more

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ancient Israel during the kind 
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preceding him. 
But of course, David built the 

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Temple of Solomon, or actually 
he didn't build it, he prepped 

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it so that Solomon could build 
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We don't know exactly how many 
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know for Nehemiah because the 
book of Nehemiah details how 

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many gates there were and 
appoints gatekeepers at each of 

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these gates. 
Let me show you a picture of 

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what just one of these gates may
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In fact, this is a picture of a 
gate that's in Old City of 

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Jerusalem today. 
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you'll go into the Old City and 
you'll see these small gates. 

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Do you see how small that is? 
We're not talking about these 

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big mighty gates that you might 
see in different movies because 

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it wasn't helpful to have a huge
gate. 

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Because if you have a small 
gate, it's easier to control, 

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it's easier, easier to guard, 
it's easier to protect if you 

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build these huge old gates. 
Then when if someone pierces or 

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penetrates your gate, they're in
and you're sunk. 

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So there was this strategy. 
These are smart people that were

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doing this at these times. 
So let's look at First 

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Chronicles Chapter 9. 
If you haven't found it, give 

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up. 
It's all right, You can look up 

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on the screen. 
That's a joke. 

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OK, I'm just joking. 
It's OK to laugh. 

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First Chronicles Chapter 9. 
I'm going to start in verse 17. 

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I'm going to read several verses
here all the way to verse 29, 

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but I want you to pay attention 
to a few keywords as we go 

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along. 
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of. 
Recap what we see through just 

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these scriptures. 
First Chronicles, Chapter 9, 

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verse 17. 
The gatekeepers who returned 

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were Shalom, a cub, talman, A 
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Shalom was the chief gatekeeper.
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Prior to this time, they were 
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on the east side. 
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for the camps of the Levites. 
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descendant of Abaya Saf from the
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He and his relatives, the 
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guarding the entrance to the 
sanctuary, just as their 

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ancestors had guarded the 
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Lord. 
Phineas son of Eliezer had been 

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in charge of the gatekeepers in 
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been with him, and later 
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responsible for guarding the 
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In all, there were 212 
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Notice the scope. 212 
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they were listed according to 
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villages. 
David and Samuel the seer had 

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appointed their ancestors 
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Notice that they were reliable 
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These gatekeepers and their 
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were responsible for guarding 
the entrance to the House of the

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Lord, when that house was a 
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The. 
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all four sides, east, West, 
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Their relatives in the villages 
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duties for seven day periods. 
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Levites, were trusted officials 
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the rooms and treasuries at the 
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Notice the responsible means 
they that was the 

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responsibilities the rooms and 
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They would spend the night 
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was their duty to guard it and 
to open the night and and open 

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the gates every morning. 
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assigned to care for the various
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They checked them in and out to 
avoid any loss. 

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the sanctuary, and the supplies 
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olive oil, frankincense and 
spices. 

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So there's a lot of information 
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So let's just break it down a 
little bit because a lot of 

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times when you're studying 
Scripture and you believe, like 

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we believe that there's not one.
There's not. 

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One word that's misplaced. 
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The Bible says that all 
scripture is inspired by God, is

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given by inspiration of God, and
it's profitable. 

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So in other words, none of these
scriptures are throw away 

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scriptures. 
None of these words are throw 

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throw away words where it's 
like, I don't understand that, 

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so let's just skip it now. 
These things have meaning to us 

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even today. 
They're profitable, or in other 

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words, they're worth something 
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So it's worth us just kind of 
breaking it down a little bit to

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at least pick apart some of the 
things that might be profitable 

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for us today. 
So when I look at this and I 

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think, OK, well, what do I see 
#1 there's structure. 

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There is structure. 
There's a chief gatekeeper. 

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In verse 17, there's a chief 
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It's interesting to me because. 
Again, in a few moments, I'm 

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going to break down the fact 
that you and I have a lot of 

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gates in our life. 
And if you're not intentional 

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about it and you don't know what
is guarding those gates, your 

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gates are vulnerable both in 
your person, your own soul, in 

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your family, in your ministry, 
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And we're going to make it very 
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But there there's an incredible 
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And I'm going to guess that 
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are not being intentional with 
our gates. 

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And today the God's going to 
highlight some stuff and he's 

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going to call you up and say man
your gates, man your gates. 

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And another thing that we see is
that there are assignments to 

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particular gates. 
In verse 18, we saw that there's

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one group that was assigned to 
the King's gate when you go to 

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the Book of Nehemiah, which we 
won't take time to do today 

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through in the book of Nehemiah,
when he's rebuilding the walls 

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of Jerusalem and basically he's 
redoing all this that we're 

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seeing here in First Chronicles 
because the walls had been torn 

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down, they had been pillaged, 
they had been taken into 

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captivity. 
And Nehemiah comes back, he 

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starts to rebuild the walls. 
Well, he starts to assign 

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families to different. 
Gates. 

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He's saying you take this gate, 
you take this gate, you take 

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this gate, you take this gate. 
They had assignments and they 

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didn't get to just pick whatever
gate they wanted. 

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They didn't say, oh, I don't 
like that gate. 

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That's in a bad side of town. 
I don't like that. 

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Gate give me the give me the 
gate that's by the nice 

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restaurant or the the gate 
that's by the ball or whatever. 

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Nope, you got to take the gate 
you're assigned. 

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There were assignments to 
particular gates. 

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Another thing we noticed is that
one of the one of the prominent 

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assignments at this time was to 
guard the entrance to the House 

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of the Lord. 
That's found in verse 1921 and 

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23. 
So it's so. 

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Important. 
It's repeated multiple times 

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that one of their chief 
responsibilities is to guard the

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entrance of the House of the 
Lord. 

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That was the King's Gate. 
That was the particular summit 

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they had right there, but not 
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Gates. 
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crystal, put back up on the map 
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that there are. 
A lot of gates that aren't even 

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near the temple area, but the 
how the the gate that they were 

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assigned to was towards the 
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Lord. 
And they were, they were 

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assigned to guard that entrance,
guard that entrance. 

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Well, did you know you have 
entrances in your own life to 

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guard, guard the entrance of 
your life, of your heart, of 

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your thought life, of your 
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Did you know a lot of us have 
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unmanned? 
They're unmanned. 

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In other words, we're not 
paying. 

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Attention to them. 
We just watch whatever comes on.

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We just listen to whatever comes
on the radio next. 

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Don't even know the words to be 
honest. 

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I can't understand most of the 
words anymore. 

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I don't know why people have a 
problem speaking in tongues. 

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It's on the radio every day. 
Can't understand a word. 

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But what's interesting about 
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even if not understood, are 
going into your ears, your 

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entrance, free of charge. 
They just come right. 

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In and yet the assignment on 
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entrance. 
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verse 22, these were reliable 
people that were assigned 

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reliable people. 
Reliable. 

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Everybody say reliable. 
You know, great example is Mr. 

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Farley over here. 
He has tow truck company and you

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know, probably one of the things
that is important for his 

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business to be successful is 
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So that when you call them and 
you say I'm at the intersection 

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of such and such and my car's 
broken down and they say we'll 

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be there in 10 minutes. 
Well, if in two hours go by they

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haven't called you, guess what? 
You're going to have a problem 

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because they're not reliable. 
Thank God they're reliable. 

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That's why they're successful. 
But reliability matters. 

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Did you know in the, the 
ministry, reliability matters. 

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Reliability matters. 
If I ask someone to man of 

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certain ministry, or I give them
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ministry and they neglect it, we
have a problem. 

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Why? 
Because reliability matters. 

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the more. 
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Reliability matters greatly. 
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26, they had responsibilities 
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responsibilities was for each. 
Room within the the the the 

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temple complex and also the 
treasury so they would make sure

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they knew what's coming in and 
out of these rooms. 

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Who's coming in and out of these
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Are those approved allowed, 
those who we know are coming in 

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and out of this house or the 
House of God do do they have the

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approval to do that? 
In fact, one of them, it says in

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verses 2829 that they were to 
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furnishings, items and supplies.
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that the Bible details that they
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check out system. 
A lot of people then church, we 

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don't need all those systems. 
Like can we just get together 

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and just praise the Lord and 
just figure out what happens? 

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That's called fraud because you 
know people will come in and 

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they'll start stealing the money
when you don't have systems and 

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you don't have people who have 
checks and balances to make sure

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that the money's going where 
it's supposed to go. 

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Amen. 
Right. 

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In fact, I'm thankful in this 
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called a church council. 
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with our church council members,
I'm the chair of the church 

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council, but they all have equal
vote to me. 

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And we sit and we look at all 
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every single transaction that 
comes in and every single 

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transaction that goes out. 
They got the bait statements. 

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They got the QuickBooks reports.
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They're gatekeepers. 
They're making sure everything's

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on the up and up. 
They're making sure that we know

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where the money's going. 
They making sure that the 

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stewardship is what it needs to 
be. 

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In fact, I got several right, 
just right in front of Eyesight.

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Deb Vincey. 
David Farrell. 

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April Harrison and Tim's back 
there and then. 

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Lillian's right here. 
Our church council right there. 

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Gatekeepers. 
And aren't you glad you got 

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them? 
This is biblical. 

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We didn't. 
Make it up. 

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This Is Us doing our biblical 
responsibility and they're 

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reliable people. 
That's why within our Welcome to

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Arise starter pathway classes, I
explain the church governance. 

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I explain who sees the money, 
who sees where it's going. 

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I explain the role of the church
council because that's that's 

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important. 
And these are reliable people. 

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I even share. 
How we vote to put them into 

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that office of the church 
council. 

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And so that's a little teaser. 
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you got to go to the class. 
Another thing we notice in verse

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26 is that they spent the night 
to guard and then to open. 

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The gate at the appointed time 
in the morning, so the gates 

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don't just stay open, there's 
times where they need to be 

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closed. 
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they're to be open, but no 
matter what, they're to be on 

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guard at their spot. 
Man the gates. 

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Everybody say man, the gates. 
Let's read again in First 

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Chronicles chapter 26, so just a
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I didn't mention it earlier, but
I'm reading out of the new 

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Living Translation. 
But let me read a few more 

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verses. 
First Chronicles chapter 26, 

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verse one. 
In fact, I'll just start the 

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couple, the first verse where it
says these are the divisions of 

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the gatekeepers. 
And then it goes through several

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of the families, their names, 
their sons. 

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It even details them out. 
It's the first, the oldest son, 

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the fourth son, and it goes on 
from there. 

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I'm not going to take the time 
to slaughter their names, so 

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we'll just kind of skip through 
of verse 6. 

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Let's go to verse 6. 
Obed Edom's son Shamayam had 

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sons with great ability who earn
positions of great authority in 

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the clan. 
Notice these are not unnotable 

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people who are manning their 
post. 

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Verse 7, their names were 
Athani, Raphael, Obed, and 

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Elzabad. 
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Semakaya were also very capable.
Men very capable verse 8, all of

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these descendants of Obed Edom, 
including their sons and 

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grandsons, 62 of them in all 
were very capable men, well 

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qualified for their work, very 
capable, well qualified. 

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This is why I'm pointing out 
these details that the Holy 

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Spirit decided put that in 
there. 

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Make sure that they know these 
were well qualified, that these 

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were very capable people, 
because don't turn your gates 

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over to uncapable, unreliable 
people. 

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When you vote this week, do not 
turn the gates of this city over

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to unreliable, uncapable people.
I could just drop the mic and go

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home right now. 
Hello. 

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In our system of government, you
each, if you have the ability to

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vote, you have a responsibility 
to make sure you know who you're

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voting for. 
Have you noticed? 

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I didn't plan to go down this 
rabbit hole, but now that I'm in

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it, I'm going to go. 
Have you noticed it's hard to 

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know your local officials? 
Where do you find information? 

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How do you get to know what they
really stand for? 

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But you know, we ought to know. 
We ought to be prayerful before 

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you go to the ballot box. 
This week. 

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There are several of our cities 
that are doing church council, 

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City Council, different 
representatives across the local

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governments. 
You should know who you're 

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voting for. 
Why? 

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Because they are about to be 
gatekeepers. 

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And the Bible says those ought 
to be very capable, competent 

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people. 
I would even say we were, we are

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prayerful that they be God 
appointed. 

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I'm going to break it down for 
Apex in a minute, but just give 

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me time, all right? 
Praise the Lord. 

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Well qualified for their work, 
well qualified for their work. 

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Qualifications matter. 
Qualifications matter. 

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I'm just seeing if I want to. 
Read the rest of those or just 

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skip down. 
Let's skip down to verse 12. 

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These divisions of the 
gatekeepers were named for their

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family leaders, and like the 
other Levites, they served at 

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the House of the Lord. 
They were assigned by families. 

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For guard duty at various gates.
Guard duty. 

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Guard duty you know, a lot of 
times when I thought of 

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gatekeepers before, I didn't 
realize, oh, these are guards. 

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These are armed people these are
people who make sure you try to 

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come through this gate without 
permission. 

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I will cut you they. 
Probably didn't say that in 

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Hebrew, but I'll say it today in
English. 

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You will. 
You picked the wrong place. 

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They were on guard duty. 
They were on guard. 

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Duty without regard to age or 
training for it was all decided 

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by means of sacred lots. 
That was a way that they 

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determine the will of God was 
through lots. 

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Now we have the Holy Spirit. 
That's how we determine the will

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of God by discerning His voice 
and hearing His voice. 

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Verse 14 The responsibility for 
the Eastgate went to Mesh 

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Shalamaya and his group the 
Northgate. 

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Was assigned to his son 
Zechariah, a man of unusual 

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wisdom. 
Interesting. 

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I wonder why they thought you 
know what the Northgate ought to

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go to. 
The man with unusual wisdom. 

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The Southgate went to Obed Edom 
and his sons were put in charge.

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Of the storehouse Shapam went to
and Hosa. 

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Yeah, Shapam and Hosa were 
assigned the Westgate and the 

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gateway leading up to the 
temple. 

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Guard duties were divided 
evenly. 6 Levites were assigned 

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each day to the Eastgate, 4 to 
the Northgate, 4 to the 

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Southgate, and two pair at the 
storehouse. 

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Six were assigned each day to 
the Westgate, 4 to the gateway 

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leading up to the temple, and 
two to the courtyard. 

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Notice there were they knew 
who's on duty today, How many 

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people ought to be there? 
How many people is it going to 

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take to guard that city? 
And not every gate was the same.

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Some gates required more 
gatekeepers. 

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This is important for us because
I think we live a little bit 

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many times, and I can even say 
it for myself, a little bit 

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ignorant, maybe aloof, naive to 
the spiritual war and dynamics 

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that we are in constantly, that 
there are constantly enemies 

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trying to breach your gates, 
constantly trying to breach the 

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gates of our city, of our 
region, and our state. 

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Listen to this out of Second 
Chronicles chapter 23, verse 19.

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He also stationed gatekeepers at
the gates of the Lord's temple 

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to keep out those who for any 
reason were ceremony 

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ceremonially unclean. 
He also stationed gatekeepers at

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the gates of the Lord's temple 
to keep out those who for any 

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reason were ceremonially 
unclean. 

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Now this is interesting to me 
because part of the assignment 

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of gatekeepers was to say, no, 
you're unclean, you can't come 

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in here. 
And one of the things that I 

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consistently pray over our 
church property as that no 

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unclean spirit can cross the 
boundary line of this property. 

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So that when people come, we 
want the people but not the 

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spirits. 
We want the people, but not 

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demonic influence and not 
demonic assignments. 

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And so we believe there's a real
enemy. 

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There are real unclean things. 
And we put a boundary line over 

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this property. 
We put a boundary line over our 

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home property. 
So no matter who comes and goes,

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I don't care if it's an Amazon 
driver or if it's a friend that 

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may drop by if you bring in 
unclean things, it's checked at 

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the property. 
Line. 

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Oh, some of y'all I'm tweaking a
little bit though, that's all 

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right. 
But what it reminds me of is in 

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Acts chapter 3, there was a man 
outside the beautiful gate. 

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Peter and John came across him 
and the man was begging for 

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alms. 
Why was that crippled man 

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outside the gate? 
He wasn't allowed in? 

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And isn't it so good of God to 
send two servants on that day 

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who had eyes to see the man who 
couldn't come beyond the gate, 

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but on that day could get 
healing for his infirmity so 

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that he could come through the 
gate? 

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Could it be that that's our 
assignment? 

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Could it be that it's our 
assignment is watch the gates? 

454
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,400
Who hangs out around the gates? 
Who are the people who hang out 

455
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,400
around City Hall? 
Who are the people who hang 

456
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,720
around Congress? 
Who are the people who hang just

457
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,400
outside the perimeter? 
Could it be that it's our 

458
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:44,280
assignment to go clean them up, 
bring healing to them, bring, 

459
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,880
bring the salvation to them that
through the through the blood of

460
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,680
Jesus Christ, these things are 
right here in scripture. 

461
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,840
I bet you never thought we 
talked through gates today, but 

462
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,640
here we are and it's very 
relevant to us today. 

463
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:02,560
Second Chronicles 35, verse 15. 
The musicians, descendants of 

464
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,160
Asaph, were in their assigned 
places, following the commands 

465
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:10,120
that had been given by David 
Asaph, human and Jettethan, the 

466
00:27:10,120 --> 00:27:12,800
King's seer. 
The gatekeepers guarded the 

467
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:17,160
gates and did not leave, did not
need to leave their post of 

468
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,400
duty, for their Passover 
offerings were prepared for them

469
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,640
by their fellow Levites. 
This is detailing them honoring 

470
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:27,040
the Passover, but I thought it 
was fascinating that they didn't

471
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,240
even leave their post for 
Passover, This high holiday, 

472
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,160
this high feast holiday and they
didn't leave. 

473
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,920
They didn't go to back to their 
house to enjoy Passover with all

474
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:40,840
their family. 
They stayed their post. 

475
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,640
And there are sometimes where we
don't heed the voice of the Lord

476
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:49,240
to know should I leave the post 
or I stay at my post. 

477
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:54,320
This is important because we 
live in a very calendared 

478
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,760
society. 
Everybody's telling us who to 

479
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:02,600
honor on whatever day this is, 
you know, the chewing gum 

480
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,560
holiday of whatever. 
It's like what in the world? 

481
00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:09,000
And then I got to go buy chewing
gum because somebody told me 

482
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,840
it's chewing gum holiday. 
We live in this very calendar 

483
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:18,200
society. 
Most of them made-up, you know, 

484
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,000
just made-up. 
Somebody made it up probably to 

485
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,640
make some more business. 
But if you're not careful, you 

486
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,920
get caught in the rat race, in 
the world of what everybody else

487
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,200
is telling you ought to be 
honoring, you ought to be doing,

488
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,680
and you don't know. 
I can't leave my post. 

489
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:38,920
I love in the book of Nehemiah, 
Nehemiah is up building the wall

490
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,520
and there's two messengers that 
want to come and talk to him. 

491
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,400
And they were kind of 
distracting him. 

492
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,400
And this is what Nehemiah told 
those two distractions. 

493
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:50,400
He says I cannot come down. 
I cannot come down. 

494
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,240
For the work is great. 
And many of us, we need to stay 

495
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,000
on duty. 
It's time to stop being 

496
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,920
distracted because wouldn't it 
be just like an enemy strategy 

497
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:07,960
to distract you for 5 minutes 
and then now he's in, take you 

498
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:12,840
off duty, take you off your post
and yet it's not time to leave 

499
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,760
our posts. 
I believe in the hours we are 

500
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,440
living in. 
This is part of why I'm bringing

501
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:21,560
this message up right now is 
this is time to keep your post, 

502
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:28,640
man your gates. 
Be aware, be alert, The New 

503
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,000
Testament says. 
Be sober. 

504
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,480
Be vigilant for your adversary, 
the devil. 

505
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,760
Walks around like a. 
Roaring lion seeking whom he may

506
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,880
devour. 
What's he looking for? 

507
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:43,800
Open gates. 
Open gates. 

508
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,840
He just needs a little bit. 
Have you ever heard the term? 

509
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,560
Give him an itch and he'll take 
a yeah. 

510
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:58,920
We need to know the status and 
the the the status of our gates.

511
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,600
Second Kings, Chapter 7, verse 
10. 

512
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,680
So they went back to the city 
and told the gatekeepers what 

513
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,640
had happened. 
We went out to the Aramean camp,

514
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,640
they said, and no one was there.
The horses and donkeys were 

515
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,800
tethered and the gates. 
Were all in order, but there 

516
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,320
wasn't a single person around. 
Look at verse 11. 

517
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,880
Then the gatekeeper shouted the 
news to the people in the 

518
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,440
palace. 
The gatekeeper shouted the news 

519
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:28,120
to the people in the palace. 
Gatekeepers communicate, Listen 

520
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,840
to me. 
Gatekeepers don't stay silent. 

521
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,320
So we talked about Watchmen a 
couple weeks ago. 

522
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,120
A lot of times Watchmen would 
alert the gatekeepers. 

523
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,640
So if there's trouble on the 
way, it might be the middle of 

524
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,000
the day. 
But if trouble's on the way, 

525
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:44,080
shut the gates. 
Board it up, shut the gates. 

526
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,560
But then gatekeepers 
communicate. 

527
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,520
They hear news from another 
land, news from another city, 

528
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,920
news from another town. 
It's their job to not say, wow, 

529
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,720
that's interesting. 
And then to sit around the gate 

530
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,160
and gossip. 
No, they got to communicate. 

531
00:30:58,240 --> 00:30:59,880
Tell the people what's 
happening. 

532
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,040
Tell the people, what are we 
hearing of what's going on in 

533
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:06,520
other areas. 
This is so, so, so important. 

534
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,160
It's time to even communicate. 
What are you seeing? 

535
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,360
What are you hearing? 
Use all means to communicate. 

536
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,960
Stop using Facebook and social 
media to tell me what you had 

537
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:26,520
for lunch. 
I'm like, Oh no, half the room 

538
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,440
that didn't laugh. 
You're the ones. 

539
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,560
You know, I'm not even on. 
So if you're doing crazy stuff 

540
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,000
on social media, I don't even 
see it. 

541
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,600
So that's so I can look at you 
with clean eyes and I don't know

542
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,080
anything going on except. 
The Lord and the Lord crucified,

543
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,440
that's all I know. 
But gatekeepers communicate. 

544
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:50,000
Use your communication tools to 
be a gatekeeper. 

545
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,880
What are you hearing? 
What is God saying to you? 

546
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,160
What do we need to be alerted 
about? 

547
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,720
Where do we need to shut up and 
wall up and make sure that the 

548
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,120
people know about? 
If you're taking notes, why 

549
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,840
don't we just kind of break this
down into our own lives? 

550
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,080
I'm going to give you different 
areas that you're a gatekeeper 

551
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,440
of #1 you're the gatekeeper of 
your heart. 

552
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,640
You are the gatekeeper of your 
heart. 

553
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:17,080
You are the gatekeeper of your 
heart. 

554
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,560
It is no one else's job to keep 
your heart. 

555
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:26,160
It is no one else's job to make 
sure that you guard your heart. 

556
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:30,600
It is your responsibility. 
Praise the Lord, we're going to 

557
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:34,320
just get rid of all victim 
mentality and we're just going 

558
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,760
to take responsibility for our 
heart and say, As for me and 

559
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:39,240
Lord, I'm going to guard my 
heart. 

560
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,440
I can't help my spouse guard 
their heart. 

561
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,600
I can't help other people guard 
their hearts, or at least I 

562
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,400
can't do it for them, but I can 
guard my heart. 

563
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:52,760
Verse Proverbs chapter 4, verse 
23 out of the new living 

564
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,400
translation says guard your 
heart above all else, for it 

565
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,120
determines the course of your 
life. 

566
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:03,640
Guard your heart above all else.
As I was studying for this, I 

567
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,800
never put this scripture, which 
I've known for many, many, many,

568
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:12,600
many years and put it in terms 
of a gate and understanding. 

569
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,040
I am the gatekeeper of my own 
heart. 

570
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:20,280
So if I'm allowing 
discouragement in, I did that. 

571
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:25,400
If fear gets into my heart, it's
because I didn't keep my heart. 

572
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,800
If I start to have other 
thoughts that would be 

573
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,960
destructive about me or my 
future of my life, if they get 

574
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,400
into my heart, it's because I 
allowed them in my heart. 

575
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,320
If you don't take radical 
responsibility for this, you 

576
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,920
will blame everybody else for 
the condition of your own heart,

577
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,600
which the Bible said you're to 
keep. 

578
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,040
This is a tough one right now. 
I can just feel it. 

579
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,240
But this is important because, 
you know, like God wants you to 

580
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:59,560
have a a, a, a heart that's. 
Clean and pure and. 

581
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:04,880
Protected that he can mold and 
shape that he has access to. 

582
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,400
And the great thing about a 
heart that's being kept is you 

583
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:12,719
can let the Holy Spirit in. 
You can let Jesus into that 

584
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,440
heart and Jesus will do a work 
on you. 

585
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,639
He will heal you. 
He will clean you up. 

586
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:19,760
He will set you right back on 
your feet. 

587
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,960
He is a wonder worker. 
He cares for us. 

588
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,199
He cares for our hearts. 
But when you're allowing 

589
00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:30,400
destructive things in, it'll be 
rough for you. 

590
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,159
When you're guarding your heart,
watch what you watch. 

591
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,159
Be careful. 
I've said it before, but you 

592
00:34:39,159 --> 00:34:42,880
notice every time I watch one of
those HGTV renovation shows, 

593
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,719
guess what I want to do? 
Renovate the house. 

594
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,080
Ever noticed that every time I 
watch a Food Network 

595
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:52,679
competition, guess what I want 
to do? 

596
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,000
Eat. 
I don't want to cook. 

597
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:59,600
I want to eat. 
You ever noticed that? 

598
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:08,040
Fascinating to me. 
You know, I'm around a lot of 

599
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,200
ministers and pastors and 
friends and all of us in the 

600
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,600
ministry, and it's wild to me 
how Lily and I will be around 

601
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,160
different people and they'll 
start to just tell. 

602
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:21,360
Us out of their own mouth what 
they watch The Bachelor pastors 

603
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:32,050
watching foolishness and you 
know, let me let me break it 

604
00:35:32,050 --> 00:35:34,130
down for you. 
It's shocking to me. 

605
00:35:34,130 --> 00:35:35,650
This happened to me multiple 
Times Now. 

606
00:35:35,730 --> 00:35:40,850
Shocking to me how many wives 
will be the ones that want to 

607
00:35:40,850 --> 00:35:43,970
watch it and they'll let their 
husbands sit right with them and

608
00:35:43,970 --> 00:35:50,880
watch trash and then when the 
marriage falls apart, who's 

609
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,400
there to tell them? 
I know where your gate was 

610
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:59,440
breached. 
Watching Real Housewives of 

611
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:05,640
whatever whatever. 
It's crazy but those are gates. 

612
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,720
When you let that in your gate. 
Do not be deceived. 

613
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:15,000
God is not mocked. 
Whatever a man sews that he will

614
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,280
also, that's this. 
This is not spiritual 

615
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,640
suggestion, spiritual 
principles. 

616
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:26,440
That is a spiritual law that 
will happen every time, all the 

617
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:30,640
time. 
So the good news is you get to 

618
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:34,600
guard your heart. 
So the best way out of that is 

619
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:38,640
the off button. 
Turn it off. 

620
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:45,560
Well, I'm preaching good. 
Today I'm in everybody's 

621
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,120
business. 
And I've been around enough 

622
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:53,000
church people that I know the 
ones that smile the cutest are 

623
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,600
the ones who watch the worst 
stuff. 

624
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:04,160
They just looking around like, 
so I'm not deceived either. 

625
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,360
I know, I know. 
But you know what? 

626
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:11,760
It's thank God we have the word 
that will rescue us from our 

627
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,320
foolishness, that will tell you,
no, no, no, don't watch that. 

628
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,440
That's, that's for the 
unbeliever. 

629
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,480
And the unbeliever will reap 
those results. 

630
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,240
But you ought not be reaping the
results of unbelievers. 

631
00:37:27,240 --> 00:37:30,760
And the, the hard thing about 
some of these things is some 

632
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:36,280
people will never know what 
actually they allowed in because

633
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,080
they won't connect the dots. 
But today I'm connecting dots 

634
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:43,480
for you so that you know the 
marital strife you're facing 

635
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:48,280
today is because you're watching
TLC on the weekend where they 

636
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,720
got all these sister wives 
running around with each other. 

637
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:55,600
Crazy, y'all. 
This is nuts. 

638
00:37:57,720 --> 00:38:00,000
And the world calls it 
entertainment. 

639
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:07,440
Another area to be a gatekeeper 
of is your home. 

640
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:12,000
Your home. 
Your home could be an apartment,

641
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,040
a condo, townhouse, single 
family home. 

642
00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:17,160
It could be an estate. 
It could be. 

643
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,280
It doesn't matter the size of 
it, but guard it. 

644
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:26,000
Be a gatekeeper. 
Know what's coming in and what's

645
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,760
going out. 
Determine right now that you'll 

646
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,320
allow no unclean things into 
your home. 

647
00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:37,800
Determine right now you won't. 
You won't allow unclean things 

648
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,960
into your household. 
Your household. 

649
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,040
It should be a place filled with
the presence of the Lord. 

650
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,560
It should be a place where God 
dwells. 

651
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,520
Well, he's not going to dwell 
with unclean things. 

652
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,640
I'm sorry, you said, well, we're
all unclean. 

653
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,160
No, no, no, no, no, no. 
You misunderstand salvation. 

654
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:01,400
When Jesus becomes Lord of your 
life, it says that now you've 

655
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:05,280
been sanctified. 
You're no longer unclean. 

656
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:10,160
When you make Jesus Lord of your
life and you live as He's 

657
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:14,440
appointed for you to live holy, 
then now you're no longer 

658
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,880
unclean. 
You are the righteousness of God

659
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,600
in Christ Jesus from here on 
out. 

660
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,880
But don't allow unclean things 
into your house. 

661
00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:29,360
Monitor who is coming in and out
of your house. 

662
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:34,600
Lily and I are very, very, very,
very protective of our children.

663
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,400
We're very protective of our 
children. 

664
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:41,840
We don't do sleepovers. 
Why? 

665
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,040
Because we're going to protect 
who is around our children. 

666
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,960
And it may not be that I don't 
trust the parents, but I may not

667
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:54,600
trust Uncle Joe, who pops by the
house every once in a while at 

668
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,680
the friend's house. 
I don't know. 

669
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,000
But what am I going to do? 
I'm going to be a gatekeeper of 

670
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,640
my household and I will be 
unapologetic about it. 

671
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,880
And if it hurts feelings, it 
hurts feelings because you know 

672
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:11,080
why we going to be protected. 
Hello, You can say Amen to this.

673
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:16,920
It's good to be a reliable 
gatekeeper, a capable 

674
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:20,240
gatekeeper. 
We monitor what's going on on 

675
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,640
all the devices in our 
household. 

676
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,040
Why? 
Because we're gatekeepers. 

677
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,480
I don't trust Apple to be the 
gatekeeper. 

678
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,000
There's 30 things that I almost 
said, but I just kept it back 

679
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:38,520
right there. 
Now we don't trust them to be 

680
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,280
the gatekeeper. 
We're the gatekeeper. 

681
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:41,880
You're the gatekeeper of your 
house. 

682
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,320
Be watchful over your house and 
listen to me. 

683
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,800
Do not leave your post. 
Do not leave your post. 

684
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,560
Do not leave your post. 
Men, do not leave your post. 

685
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,960
Do not leave your post. 
You, you are the chief 

686
00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:05,040
gatekeeper of your house. 
God has graced us as men to be 

687
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:10,840
physically strong. 
To be aware of what needs to be 

688
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,240
protected. 
He, God, gave us an instinct to 

689
00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:17,840
be a protector. 
Don't, don't, don't leave that 

690
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,560
post. 
Better to give up some sports 

691
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,960
stuff so that you can man that 
post. 

692
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:29,480
Amen. 
And and we live in, I believe, a

693
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,840
demonic strategy right now where
the enemy would have men leave 

694
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:38,920
their post de emasculate men 
'cause men to well, that's 

695
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:44,400
toxic, toxic, toxic masculinity.
I don't read that anywhere in 

696
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:49,840
Scripture. 
No, man, your post, man, your 

697
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,480
post obviously. 
And when you're done it in the 

698
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:56,040
love of Jesus, you won't be 
abusive, you won't be 

699
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,440
domineering, you won't be a 
dictator. 

700
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:00,880
Nowhere in Scripture does it 
give you permission to be any of

701
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:05,080
those things. 
But as a godly man and a godly 

702
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:08,240
husband, it's absolutely your 
job to protect your family. 

703
00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:10,560
And that means sometimes you'd 
need to tell the whole family, 

704
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:17,200
no, we're not doing that. 
Nobody said it, man. 

705
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:21,000
Lord. 
I'm all alone, Lord. 

706
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,560
Gatekeeper. 
You're to be a gatekeeper of 

707
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:29,520
your ministry, of your ministry.
Each of you have been given a 

708
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:34,280
ministry. 
Each of us has been given a 

709
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:35,560
ministry. 
Watchful. 

710
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,560
Be watchful over that ministry 
and pray over your ministry. 

711
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:43,480
Ask the Lord to give you eyes to
see so that you know who is to 

712
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,320
come into that ministering and 
who maybe shouldn't come into 

713
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,360
that ministry yet. 
Know the difference between 

714
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:53,800
wolves and sheep. 
As a pastor, I often Time Lord, 

715
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,800
help me know the difference 
between people who are supposed 

716
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,320
to be the sheepfold in the 
sheepfold of a rice church and 

717
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:05,800
those who are not part of the 
sheepfold and in, in a those who

718
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,080
may think and more basic 
understandings would think, 

719
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:09,840
well, everybody can be a part of
the sheepfold. 

720
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,600
No, not everybody. 
Not everyone has God put in the 

721
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,800
sheepfold. 
Just because you visit once 

722
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:16,280
doesn't make you part of the 
sheepfold. 

723
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:18,840
Lord, help us to know the 
difference. 

724
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:23,120
Help us as ministers to know, 
the community of believers 

725
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:27,240
around us to know. 
Know where, where, where we need

726
00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:30,000
to know their vulnerabilities, 
areas where we need to help one 

727
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,680
another, guard one another to be
communicate to one another. 

728
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:38,160
Hey, I see a potential breach 
over there in your ministry. 

729
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,560
We need to be. 
Humble to have those kinds of 

730
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,240
conversations. 
Could you imagine if a 

731
00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:48,520
gatekeeper knows that there's 
potential issues at another gate

732
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,680
and they just refuse to say 
anything because the other 

733
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:53,720
gatekeeper is too prideful to 
hear it? 

734
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,840
So we, the whole city suffers 
because two people can't talk. 

735
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:02,800
That's stupid, that's dumb. 
But you know how often that 

736
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:06,600
happens in church and it won't 
happen here in Jesus name. 

737
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:08,840
We're going to talk, we're going
to communicate. 

738
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:10,400
The ministries are going to talk
to one another. 

739
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,400
They're going to play nice 
together and they're going to 

740
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,280
make sure that no matter what 
conversations we have to do, we 

741
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:16,520
will communicate. 
Why? 

742
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,080
Because we're not the enemy with
one another. 

743
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:26,800
The enemy is on the outside. 
Lastly, we're to be a 

744
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:30,400
gatekeepers of our community, of
our community. 

745
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,400
To do that, we need to be alert 
and knowledgeable. 

746
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:38,920
Be alert and knowledgeable. 
This last Friday night, NO22, 

747
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:43,520
Friday nights ago in downtown 
Apex, all the businesses, or at 

748
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,200
least most of them, decided to 
collaborate and do what's called

749
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:51,400
Witches Night. 
And so on that Friday night, 

750
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:55,720
people came dressed as witches 
and just walked through the 

751
00:44:55,720 --> 00:44:59,800
streets of our town, right down 
the street here and decided it 

752
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:06,200
would be fun to bring the 
demonic right downtown to Apex. 

753
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:11,320
I don't know yet who organized 
it, but I'm concerned for every 

754
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:15,800
business that endorsed it, every
business that put signs out on 

755
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:19,240
their window to invite it. 
I'm concerned for them because 

756
00:45:19,240 --> 00:45:22,480
what happened that night was 
demons came all up in their 

757
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:23,920
territory. 
And I'm not talking, I'm not 

758
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,680
talking about the people who 
dressed as witches, though I'm 

759
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:31,040
sure literal witches came 
through doing what they do, 

760
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:34,520
which is to curse and not bless 
our city. 

761
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,480
And if you're unknowledgeable, 
they these things just happen. 

762
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:41,400
And then we wonder, why is our 
city seeing such destructive 

763
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,760
things? 
Well, because the gates were 

764
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:48,440
breached, we need to be 
knowledgeable. 

765
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,560
We need to know the state of 
affairs of our city. 

766
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,360
We need to be a gatekeeper 
through prayer. 

767
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,000
We need to pray for our city. 
Some of you, you, maybe you 

768
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,480
don't live in Apex, but you live
in Gardner, you live in Raleigh 

769
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:02,720
or you live in Cary. 
We'll know the state of your 

770
00:46:02,720 --> 00:46:05,600
town and your city and be 
prayerful. 

771
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,480
We are we. 
This church is positioned near 

772
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:11,440
the Northgate of Apex. 
What do I mean by the Northgate?

773
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:16,320
Salem Ave. right here goes 
straight down through downtown 

774
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,400
Apex. 
We're just off of it. 

775
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,680
We're positioned just on the 
north, the very North End of 

776
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:23,520
Apex. 
So guess what? 

777
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:28,000
We're going to man this gate and
through prayer, we're going to 

778
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:29,760
man it through prayer. 
We're going to be watchful of 

779
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:33,280
what's coming right down into 
the downtown area of the Apex. 

780
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:37,120
And through prayer, we will see 
things absolutely shift and 

781
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,800
change because now I see it. 
As I was studying, I just 

782
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:42,800
started to look through where 
are we? 

783
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:46,800
When I was pastoring with our 
church in Anaheim in California,

784
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:50,320
I noticed we were on this little
jolt like it just this little 

785
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,440
square annex of Anaheim. 
And it was on the North End of 

786
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,760
Anaheim. 
Interesting N on both parts in 

787
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,320
the North End of Anaheim. 
And I recognize at that time, 

788
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,800
oh, we're a gate. 
And as gatekeepers, we get to 

789
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,320
decide what comes in and out if 
we man our post. 

790
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,600
If you're not manning your post,
you have no say. 

791
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:13,120
And so in our community, we must
man our post. 

792
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,880
It takes time, it takes 
intentionality, it takes being a

793
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:20,360
little nosy sometimes to find 
out who did that and which 

794
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,840
council members voted for that 
and which one showed up to 

795
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:27,560
witch's night. 
I want to know because 

796
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,280
gatekeepers are not aloof and 
they're not naive. 

797
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:35,440
We are in the loop. 
Apex is not only, you know, not 

798
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:38,600
only we're here, but Apex is the
southwest gate of Wake County. 

799
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,280
So if you're thinking about if 
you want to come into Wake 

800
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:46,240
County Southwest, you're going 
to have to go through Apex. 

801
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:51,240
And basically it's not the the 
official part of Apex, but the 

802
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:56,320
your address Apex changes just 
as you crossed 64, just a little

803
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,920
bit on this side. 
Of Jordan Lake. 

804
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,600
That's when Apex begins, but 
that's also when Wake County 

805
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:03,680
begins. 
So as soon as you come into Wake

806
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:05,640
County from that angle, you're 
in Apex. 

807
00:48:06,240 --> 00:48:11,840
So not only are we positioned in
our own town as a gate to Apex, 

808
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:17,600
our church right here, but Apex 
is positioned as a gate to Wake 

809
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,120
County. 
Well, let's go a little further.

810
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:22,640
Wake County is the gate to North
Carolina. 

811
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:28,480
Wake County is the seat of the 
North Carolina legislature and 

812
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,560
the governor and obviously the 
the capital of Raleigh. 

813
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,200
If you don't know where God's 
positioned you, you cannot men 

814
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,600
your post and you cannot fulfill
your assignment. 

815
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:41,320
So today I'm just announcing to 
you now we know our assignment 

816
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,120
because we know where we've been
positioned. 

817
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:48,240
God chose somehow, some way, 
talk to the people who built the

818
00:48:48,240 --> 00:48:51,280
building right here that we were
to be positioned right here. 

819
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:54,440
It's not by chance, it's not 
random, but we're in the right 

820
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,440
place at the right time. 
And now God's opening up our 

821
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:00,160
eyes and opening up our 
understandings so that now we 

822
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,640
know we're not just a little 
outpost where we're just 

823
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:07,600
protecting ourselves over here. 
No, we're here to pray through 

824
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:11,040
and to begin to man our posts of
what's coming in and out of 

825
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:14,000
Apex, which effects what's 
coming in and out of Wake 

826
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,560
County, which effects what's 
coming in and out of North 

827
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:20,720
Carolina. 
Do you see this now? 

828
00:49:20,720 --> 00:49:22,640
I'm not making any of this, this
up. 

829
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:25,080
It's right here. 
It's on the maps, by a map, and 

830
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,360
you can see it. 
Hello. 

831
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:30,880
Could it be that you need to pay
attention to where did God place

832
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:34,600
you in your neighborhood? 
Where are you positioned? 

833
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:36,840
Where's your house at? 
Where's your neighborhood at? 

834
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,800
Very, very, very important. 
When Lily and I were living in 

835
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:46,080
Maryland, we were the first 
house as you came into the back 

836
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:48,560
end of our neighborhood. 
And I immediately knew when we 

837
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:49,920
were there. 
Oh, where the gate? 

838
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:52,520
And I'm, I love that because you
know why? 

839
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:56,760
Because I'll man that gate and 
ain't no crazy coming in or out.

840
00:49:57,840 --> 00:49:59,680
And I didn't announce it. 
I didn't tell people. 

841
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,040
I just made a spiritual 
declaration that I'm the 

842
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:05,920
gatekeeper of this community and
nothing evil can come into this 

843
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:10,800
community and I will choose what
good comes into this community. 

844
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:12,280
And some of you are like, I 
don't understand. 

845
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,680
You'll get it. 
Once you go home and you start 

846
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:18,240
to see that you've been living 
at the gate all along, but you 

847
00:50:18,240 --> 00:50:20,520
just haven't been manning it. 
It's time to man the gate. 

848
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:23,360
Are y'all see what I'm saying 
this morning? 

849
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,440
These are spiritual things. 
I'm not talking about going down

850
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:31,680
there and putting on a ancient 
Israeli, you know, suit or 

851
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:37,360
whatever costume and make 
pretend no, this This Is Us 

852
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:42,480
fulfilling our assignment. 
This is for filling our 

853
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:44,080
assignment. 
Robin team, if you'll come, I 

854
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:47,680
want to just hit on a couple 
other scriptures and I want us 

855
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:49,200
to know this as we wrap up 
today. 

856
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,800
Acts chapter 20 verse 28 says 
take care and be on guard for 

857
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:56,280
yourselves and for the whole 
flock over which the Holy Spirit

858
00:50:56,280 --> 00:51:00,440
has appointed you as overseers 
to shepherd tend feed guide. 

859
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:02,280
This is out of the amplified 
version. 

860
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:05,880
The Church of God which has He 
has bought with His own blood. 

861
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:09,040
I know that I am. 
After I am gone, false teachers,

862
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:12,480
like ferocious wolves, will come
in among you, not sparing the 

863
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:15,480
flock even from among your own 
selves. 

864
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,760
Men will arise speaking perverse
and distorted things to draw 

865
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,960
away the disciples after 
themselves as their followers. 

866
00:51:22,240 --> 00:51:26,440
Therefore, be continually alert,
remembering that for three 

867
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:30,800
years, night or day, I did not 
stop admonishing and advising 

868
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:37,440
each of you with tears. 
This is so, so important that we

869
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:39,120
understand. 
This is the language of the 

870
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:41,120
Bible. 
This is assignments. 

871
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:44,600
And it's very easy for people to
think, oh, I want to be in the 

872
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:46,640
ministry or I want to be a 
pastor because they think 

873
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:52,920
preaching is just easy breezy. 
But you know, when I stand up as

874
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:56,000
preaching like I am this 
morning, I see myself as a 

875
00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:01,120
gatekeeper. 
I see myself communicating this 

876
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:05,280
is what's going on in our city. 
There's Witches night in our own

877
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:12,080
city, and I'm not OK with that. 
So Lord gives give us strategies

878
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:16,680
not to curse the people who did 
it, but to become such a 

879
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:21,920
blessing to the city that they 
won't want that nonsense, that 

880
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:25,120
the business owners will become 
awakened to the fact, oh, you 

881
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,800
know what, ever since we had 
that witch's night, our business

882
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:29,800
went down. 
Maybe we shouldn't do the 

883
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,720
witch's night anymore. 
Oh, we know how to pray. 

884
00:52:33,240 --> 00:52:34,480
I can. 
I know how to pray. 

885
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:37,040
Supply lines cut off because I'm
a gatekeeper. 

886
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,640
Gatekeepers control what's 
coming in and out, commerce 

887
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:42,080
that's coming in and out through
prayer. 

888
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:45,680
I know how to cut down 
communication lines through 

889
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:47,880
prayer. 
I know how to talk to God and 

890
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,960
ask him to send Angel armies and
say, Lord, will you go and man 

891
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:54,520
the post that I can't reach yet?
Will you go and send Angel 

892
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:57,880
armies to push back all this 
darkness that somehow breached 

893
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:01,880
itself in our own city? 
See, I believe this stuff. 

894
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,880
I believe the word of God, but I
want you to know this. 

895
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,920
Not only are we to be a 
gatekeeper, but the Lord is also

896
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:15,080
our gatekeeper. 
The Lord himself says, in fact, 

897
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:17,320
in Psalm 127, David says it 
about him. 

898
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:19,760
Unless the Lord builds the 
house, they labor in vain who 

899
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,560
build it. 
Unless the Lord guards the city,

900
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:27,200
the Watchmen stay awake in vain.
Psalm 121 verse 3 says He will 

901
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:30,680
not allow your foot to be moved.
He who keeps you will not 

902
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:33,400
slumber. 
Behold, he who keeps Israel 

903
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:37,800
shall neither slumber nor sleep.
The Lord is your keeper. 

904
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:41,840
He is your guard, the Holy One 
of Israel. 

905
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:44,920
He never leaves His post for 
you. 

906
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:50,800
He will guard you, He will alert
you, He will talk to you, He 

907
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:54,240
will communicate to you. 
He will allow provisions to you 

908
00:53:54,240 --> 00:53:57,840
on time, every time. 
He is a great gatekeeper. 

909
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:05,360
Glory to God. 
Philippians chapter 4 verse 7 

910
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:08,240
says be anxious for nothing, but
in everything by prayer and 

911
00:54:08,240 --> 00:54:10,760
supplication with Thanksgiving. 
Let your requests. 

912
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:12,880
Be made known to God. 
I prayed this earlier and the 

913
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:16,160
peace of God which passes all 
understanding will what will 

914
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:20,200
guard your heart and your mind. 
Yep, heart and mind. 

915
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:24,800
God commits his peace towards 
you so that it'll actually be a 

916
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:29,680
gatekeeper over your heart and 
mind where those anxious 

917
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:31,560
thoughts try to come. 
And you might say, you know 

918
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:32,960
what? 
Every night I've been sleepless.

919
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:34,880
I can't sleep. 
I just get overwhelmed with 

920
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:37,280
these thoughts. 
Well, may the peace of God 

921
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,920
become your gatekeeper. 
And so when those thoughts think

922
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:44,480
they're coming your direction, 
you can know that he who neither

923
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:48,040
neither slumbers nor sleeps is 
watching over me. 

924
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:50,880
He's keeping me. 
He's bringing peace to me. 

925
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:57,720
Oh, this is important. 
And not only is the Lord our 

926
00:54:57,720 --> 00:55:03,280
gatekeeper, Father God, but 
Jesus is also the door and the 

927
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:06,440
doorkeeper. 
In John chapter 10 verse one 

928
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:10,280
says this most assuredly. 
I say to you, he who does not 

929
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:13,880
enter the sheepfold by the door,
but climbs up another way, the 

930
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:18,960
same as a thief and a robber. 
By the way, I know who the Lord 

931
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:21,880
has brought to our church many 
times because they come in the 

932
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:25,760
right way. 
Usually people who have foul 

933
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:30,200
means or I'll intent, they try 
to sneak in another way. 

934
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:34,760
They'll try to talk to someone 
else to come talk to me because 

935
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:36,040
they won't come through the 
right way. 

936
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:40,280
That's how I usually know, Oh 
no, you're off and you can't 

937
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:44,800
come in here. 
Verse 2. 

938
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:47,720
But he who enters by the door is
the shepherd of the sheep. 

939
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:52,680
To him the doorkeeper opens, and
the sheep hear his voice, and he

940
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,680
calls his own sheep by name and 
leads them out. 

941
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:58,960
And when he brings out his own 
sheep, he goes before them, and 

942
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:02,800
the sheep follow him, for they 
know his own voice. 

943
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,920
Jesus is the door and the 
doorkeeper. 

944
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:09,160
That's why he says I am the way,
the truth, and the life. 

945
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:11,680
No one comes to the Father 
except by me. 

946
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:14,360
Why? 
Because he's the door and the 

947
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:18,000
doorkeeper. 
So when you make Jesus Lord of 

948
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:22,520
your life, he says, come on in, 
come on in, come on in, come on 

949
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:24,800
in, come on in. 
When you make Jesus Lord of your

950
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:26,600
life, the door swings wide open 
for you. 

951
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:29,160
But there's no other way in 
except through the door. 

952
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:35,320
That is the gate that you must 
enter. 

953
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:36,680
In Jesus. 
Name. 

954
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:40,680
I want to end with this. 
This is how important gates are 

955
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:45,120
to even our prophetic future. 
As far as believers, I want to 

956
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,320
put up on this picture. 
This is the picture of a sealed 

957
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:48,400
gate. 
It's called the Golden Gate. 

958
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:51,480
It's the Eastgate in Jerusalem. 
This is a modern day picture as 

959
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:56,680
it stands today. 
Ezekiel prophesized that Jesus 

960
00:56:56,720 --> 00:57:01,760
the Messiah will come back and 
guess where he's going through 

961
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:05,800
those gates. 
And those gates, Ezekiel said, 

962
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,080
would be sealed. 
These gates have been sealed for

963
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:10,040
many centuries now and guess 
what? 

964
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:13,240
The Muslims sealed them up. 
The Muslims sealed it up and put

965
00:57:13,240 --> 00:57:16,120
a cemetery right in front of it 
because they knew this is what 

966
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:20,960
this is literally no knowledge. 
They knew that the Messiah would

967
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:23,240
be coming, is prophesied, would 
be coming through that gate. 

968
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:26,720
So they thought if we just put a
cemetery there, then he won't 

969
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,480
come because the Messiah would 
never go through unclean, 

970
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:32,720
unclean place. 
But what they don't know is that

971
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:36,360
when Jesus returns, that even 
the dead will become living and 

972
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:40,360
that space will no longer be 
unclean. 

973
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:46,040
And so the end, the end will 
come when Jesus himself returns 

974
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:50,320
as the triumphant ruler, as the 
Messiah, and he will go through 

975
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:56,440
those gates. 
So if the gates matter that much

976
00:57:56,440 --> 00:58:01,000
to God, and that's even where it
all will come down to, that's no

977
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,560
wonder he talks about gates. 
All through scripture. 

978
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:08,560
No wonder he wants you to guard 
your gates, Guard your heart, 

979
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:10,480
guard your ears, guard your 
mind. 

980
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:14,920
Oh, this is important. 
This is important. 

981
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:16,440
Why don't you close your eyes 
right where you're at? 

982
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:19,560
First of all, if there's anyone 
here who you've never made Jesus

983
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:21,560
Lord of your life, today's the 
day. 

984
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:24,560
He's the only way to eternal 
life. 

985
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:33,040
There is no other name by which 
man may be saved, only the name 

986
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:36,520
of Jesus. 
And maybe you have prayed a 

987
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:39,120
prayer before, but you really 
haven't followed the Lord. 

988
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:44,760
And today you can sense the Lord
pulling you, your heart longing 

989
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:49,000
for this. 
Either way, if it's your first 

990
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:52,920
time or if you just know I need 
to give my life back to God, 

991
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:54,840
would you raise your hand right 
here where you're at? 

992
00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:56,600
And I'm going to pray for you. 
And we're going to pray for you 

993
00:58:56,600 --> 00:58:57,800
this morning. 
Raise your hand right where 

994
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:00,760
you're at. 
Yes, yes. 

995
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:05,800
Anyone else? 
Yes, praise the Lord. 

996
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:09,040
Before we go on, let's pray with
those who just raised their 

997
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:10,920
hand. 
In fact, let's all repeat this 

998
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:12,840
after me and pray it with them, 
Say Father God. 

999
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:18,840
We want to thank you again for 
joining us for the Arise Church 

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00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:20,960
podcast. 
We hope you were encouraged by 

1001
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:22,760
what you heard today. 
You can find 

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00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:27,560
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1003
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:30,960
If you need prayer or support or
are interested in learning more 

1004
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:34,640
about Arise Church, we encourage
you to connect with us online or

1005
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:36,680
in person at our Sunday morning 
service. 

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Thank you and God bless.