1 00:00:01,300 --> 00:00:05,400 It's great to see everyone and I am very happy to be here again 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:07,800 and be your speaker in these series of meetings. 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:11,300 And Frank gave me the microphone tutorial. 4 00:00:11,300 --> 00:00:16,000 So I think I can avoid letting it rip off my coat, 14 times 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,000 tonight and entertain you thoroughly. 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,400 But anyway, that will be better tonight, I promise you, but it's 7 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:23,500 great to see you. I'm glad to be here. 8 00:00:23,500 --> 00:00:25,400 It's an honor to be here in numbers. 9 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,600 The 13th chapter, the Bible says, in the Lord, spoke to 10 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:34,300 Moses saying, send men to To spy out the land of Canaan which I 11 00:00:34,300 --> 00:00:37,800 am giving to the children of Israel from each tribe of your 12 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,700 father's. You shall send the man everyone 13 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:44,500 a leader among them. So Moses sent them from the 14 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:47,200 Wilderness of Paran. According to the command of the 15 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,600 Lord, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel. 16 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:55,900 This is a great story and it's not just one of those stories, 17 00:00:55,900 --> 00:01:00,800 like Disney's Frozen or one of those deals that they come out 18 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:02,800 with. We're a little girl, somehow 19 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:04,700 grows a fan and we call her Ariel. 20 00:01:04,700 --> 00:01:07,400 That's not the deal. We're talking about our real 21 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:12,200 time, that happens, something real, and it is fantastic. 22 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:15,000 It's amazing. And the reason it's amazing is 23 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:20,000 because what God has promised was home, he's promised all 24 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,900 these people, not just home, but a Homeland, but there was going 25 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:26,300 to be there were going to be great trials, and there were 26 00:01:26,300 --> 00:01:28,400 going to be tribulations and there were going to be 27 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:33,500 Crossroads to that but he promised Them a reward, what he 28 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:37,000 asked for in the midst of all this though was he asked for 29 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,600 people to be faithful to him? And one of the things that these 30 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:46,400 guys did that's going to really irritate God, is that they have 31 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:48,300 been wandering in the wilderness. 32 00:01:48,300 --> 00:01:53,700 Now, eating manna that God just allowed them to go around and 33 00:01:53,700 --> 00:02:01,300 pick up. Kind of like in our world today. 34 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:06,800 You see people that sometimes that can do something that don't 35 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,699 do something and yet our society takes care of them. 36 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:14,700 And what happens whenever people are given something many times 37 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:16,900 and they take it for granted, they complain. 38 00:02:17,900 --> 00:02:19,900 These people complained about that. 39 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:21,400 So you know what? God did? 40 00:02:21,700 --> 00:02:25,700 Okay, you want me? I'll give you fat Quail. 41 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,100 So they had Manna and they had fat Quail every day. 42 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:33,700 In fact, if you were to study how many truckloads and how many 43 00:02:33,700 --> 00:02:37,900 train loads that the Army Corps of engineer would have to have 44 00:02:37,900 --> 00:02:41,600 to feed this group of people, it's a significant number. 45 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,400 You know, sometimes we they why don't all those boys in the 46 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,500 uniform? Why don't they just go? 47 00:02:47,700 --> 00:02:50,400 Drop in on all these Isis evil folks. 48 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,200 And you know, just put a whooping on them wherever they 49 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:53,500 are. Well, first of all there in 60 50 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:55,700 countries, second of all, there's this thing called a 51 00:02:55,700 --> 00:02:58,400 supply line. That's pretty difficult to do. 52 00:02:58,500 --> 00:03:02,400 God was the supply line of the people of Israel. 53 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,500 And he's taking them out of Egypt and he's feeding them 54 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:12,200 every day. And then he finally says go over 55 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,900 and check out the land and then God gives this wonderful 56 00:03:15,900 --> 00:03:19,900 illustration. He said I'm going to give it to 57 00:03:19,900 --> 00:03:22,900 you. I'm gonna give it to you. 58 00:03:23,300 --> 00:03:28,300 It's going to be a gift. Now, in that moment, that that 59 00:03:28,300 --> 00:03:32,800 sounds like a great deal of the people would soon recognized 60 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,400 that there were challenges in being faithful to this promise 61 00:03:36,700 --> 00:03:40,800 and and laying hold of this promise and gift that God has 62 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,500 had. They gather amazing fruit in 63 00:03:43,500 --> 00:03:47,700 verses 1 through 20 of Numbers Chapter 13? 64 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,600 It was truly a land that flows with milk and honey. 65 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:54,500 Just like God had promised him Just like you had promised him. 66 00:03:54,900 --> 00:03:58,600 In fact, there were people that came to the Americas looking for 67 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:02,400 siebel, ah, and it was one of those wonderful Cities of Gold. 68 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,700 That people would look for Fantastical Treasures. 69 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:12,500 Of course, it didn't exist. Had they been able to go to a 70 00:04:12,500 --> 00:04:16,899 place and gather amazing Treasures with the stamps Ebola 71 00:04:16,899 --> 00:04:19,899 on them, and brought them back. I promise you, the map would 72 00:04:19,899 --> 00:04:22,800 look a whole lot different today but I couldn't bring it back. 73 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,800 Any evidence. In other words, all the people 74 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:30,200 that told the story of see below or any other Fountain of use 75 00:04:30,300 --> 00:04:33,200 youth, they were telling stories. 76 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:38,000 They were telling fables, they had no evidence to bring back to 77 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,300 produce faith. But God gives you evidence to 78 00:04:42,300 --> 00:04:44,800 believe. God does not ask you to check 79 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,900 your brain in at the church building door and God did not 80 00:04:48,900 --> 00:04:52,500 ask them to cross over into the promised land without some 81 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:55,700 evidence. He gave them evidence The 82 00:04:55,700 --> 00:04:58,800 evidence was hey it's going to be a land that flows with milk 83 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,400 and honey. It's really going to be 84 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:04,300 wonderful and it was just like God said it was. 85 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000 And after 40 days, they returned. 86 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,500 And they showed Moses and the people what they were able to 87 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:15,400 achieve, and they talked to them and brought to them in verses 25 88 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,200 and 26. And verse 27. 89 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,600 The Bible says, then they told him and said, we went to the 90 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:25,700 land where you sent us, it truly flows with milk and honey, and 91 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:30,000 this is its fruit. Nevertheless the people who 92 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:36,100 dwell in the land are strong and their cities are fortified in 93 00:05:36,100 --> 00:05:40,600 very large. Moreover, we saw the descendants 94 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,400 of anak there. Do you hear the wind that 95 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,600 they're bringing back with them? Do you hear the whining? 96 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:53,300 You hear the fear in The Voice. He's a little Israelites. 97 00:05:53,700 --> 00:06:01,000 Jesus was not Shaquille O'Neal. Jesus was not some big 611 guy. 98 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,800 Jesus was a little brown man and all the sudden they go over here 99 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:10,200 and there were giants. It'd be like going to the NBA 100 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,400 game at and walking down the court. 101 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,400 And if you've ever done that, it's pretty amazing. 102 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:17,400 I was Starstruck and LAX Airport. 103 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:19,500 Savannah can tell you, I left my briefcase and if there's 104 00:06:19,500 --> 00:06:24,100 anything I don't ever do I do. Leave my briefcase Juwan Howard, 105 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:26,800 walked through the airport, I had to go over and say something 106 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:28,500 to him because that's what you do, right? 107 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,700 Just this unbelievable freak of nature 7, feet tall that 108 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:36,100 walkthrough in front of me, that I've watched my whole life play 109 00:06:36,100 --> 00:06:39,700 basketball for Michigan fab five to his MBA days. 110 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,600 Pretty impressive, I wouldn't want to meet him in a back alley 111 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:47,800 and he having a problem with me and what these people knew? 112 00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:50,600 What the Israelites new is, we're going to have to go over 113 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:52,900 here and we're going to have to, what these folks. 114 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:55,400 We're gonna have to drive them out. 115 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:00,500 We're afraid of that. Caleb and Joshua were streaming. 116 00:07:01,300 --> 00:07:04,000 We can do this. Do you know what the greatest 117 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,900 cancer is on the battlefield fear? 118 00:07:07,900 --> 00:07:11,500 You know what the greatest cancer is and any team fear, you 119 00:07:11,500 --> 00:07:14,100 know what the greatest cancer is that any organization that's 120 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:17,300 trying to achieve a goal that sometimes may seem 121 00:07:17,300 --> 00:07:22,200 insurmountable fear. The I cants and the pessimist 122 00:07:22,300 --> 00:07:25,800 and the people that look at everything that's going on as as 123 00:07:25,900 --> 00:07:29,800 half full or almost dry. If you listen to the weather 124 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,100 reports and if you listen to everything pretty much, I think 125 00:07:33,100 --> 00:07:35,000 you guys are about to break off into the ocean. 126 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,200 In fact, my whole life, people on the other side of the 127 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,200 Mississippi, River have been sure you were going to what 128 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,300 hasn't happened yet? Contrary to every movie that 129 00:07:43,300 --> 00:07:45,000 showed it falling off into the ocean. 130 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:47,200 It hasn't happened yet, and you're still here. 131 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,700 But if you listen to the eighth word blurbs, that people 132 00:07:49,700 --> 00:07:52,800 describe the fears of earthquakes or your fears back 133 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:56,500 east of tornadoes, we're going to go circling up in a A tornado 134 00:07:56,500 --> 00:07:59,500 and y'all are going to fall off. Those are fears that people have 135 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:05,600 wherever they live. There's a difference in me being 136 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:10,800 afraid of an earthquake because I am And I'm also afraid of 137 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:19,900 tornadoes just so you know. And God say, hey, I've got 138 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:22,200 something for you. And I've got evidence and I'm 139 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,800 going to ask you to trust me and believe in me because I've never 140 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,500 let you down, not one single time. 141 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:32,900 That doesn't mean it's going to be easy. 142 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,100 It doesn't mean it's not going to be difficult, but I've never 143 00:08:36,100 --> 00:08:39,600 let you down. Caleb and Joshua were the only 144 00:08:39,700 --> 00:08:43,000 ones that really believed. God, that really believe the 145 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,700 mission. Notice Caleb quieted the people 146 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:50,900 before, Moses and verse 30 and said, let us go up at once and 147 00:08:50,900 --> 00:08:54,800 take possession for. We are well able to overcome it 148 00:08:55,300 --> 00:09:00,400 but the men who had gone up with him said we're not able listen, 149 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:02,900 we're not. Not able to go up against the 150 00:09:02,900 --> 00:09:06,700 people for they're stronger than we and they gave the children of 151 00:09:06,700 --> 00:09:10,600 Israel, a bad report. You know, what happens when God 152 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,400 says, I want you to go over here and I've got to land prepared 153 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,600 for you and you get pessimistic, come on the scene and give the 154 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:18,700 people a bad report, what happens? 155 00:09:18,700 --> 00:09:21,400 That people began to believe that bad report. 156 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,500 They trust in that bad report. Fear begins to go through at all 157 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:32,100 the people. The Bible says the land through 158 00:09:32,100 --> 00:09:35,800 which we have gone out as spies as a land that devours, its 159 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:39,500 inhabitants and all the people whom we saw in, it are men of 160 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:43,400 great statue, there were giants. The descendants of anak were 161 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,400 there from Giants? We were like grasshoppers in our 162 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:53,400 own sight and so we were in their sight. if you've ever been 163 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,800 a hold of somebody that 7 feet tall, as I just described to you 164 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,700 Juwan Howard, it's a pretty imposing deal. 165 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:04,900 I'm six foot two. It's one of those deals you 166 00:10:04,900 --> 00:10:08,600 just, you're pretty much at all, you get a team of those guys 167 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:12,000 together and it's really something to watch. 168 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:17,100 It's impressive. I've got a nephew named Trevor 169 00:10:17,300 --> 00:10:21,400 and he was throwing a ball one day, my middle brother Kipps boy 170 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,800 and he was throwing them all one day and the ball roll underneath 171 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,500 my cousin Alex's chair and he wouldn't go get it. 172 00:10:28,500 --> 00:10:30,200 And his mother said, just go over there and get the ball. 173 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:32,400 And he said, no, that giant has it. 174 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:38,400 Alex is about 63 and about 300 pounds of big guy that giant has 175 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:43,400 it. It's easy to look at your 176 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,500 physical circumstances. It's a I can't it's easy to look 177 00:10:46,500 --> 00:10:50,200 at your physical circumstances and say, God can't save me from 178 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,300 this. God can help with this. 179 00:10:52,300 --> 00:10:57,000 Oh no, what a lie. What a lie physical 180 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:02,300 circumstances create in our minds sometimes in chapter 14, 181 00:11:02,300 --> 00:11:05,000 verses 1 through 4. The people believe the bad 182 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,700 report they wailed about how they were victims and how they 183 00:11:08,700 --> 00:11:10,600 wish. They were back in Egypt and at 184 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,600 least they could have died. Back in Egypt in peace. 185 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:17,200 Moses and Aaron were beside themselves just to give you the 186 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,700 hierarchy of leadership you had Moses and Aaron. 187 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,600 They were the main guys. Then you had Joshua and Caleb 188 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,300 that were leaders as well. But they were the only two of 189 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:29,500 the 12 that came back with a good report. 190 00:11:30,900 --> 00:11:34,000 And here's what I want to say to every man that considers himself 191 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,700 a leader in. Here's what differentiates 192 00:11:35,700 --> 00:11:39,100 people from being a leader and being a decision maker. 193 00:11:40,900 --> 00:11:46,900 Leaders are willing to go into places that are difficult and 194 00:11:46,900 --> 00:11:52,300 and tight and hard and very very arduous. 195 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:56,000 Because it's the right thing to do. 196 00:11:57,700 --> 00:12:01,600 Decision makers will weigh the odds and they'll wait things out 197 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,300 and they'll lick their finger and stick it up in the air and 198 00:12:04,300 --> 00:12:07,900 see which way the winds blow and if the winds blow politically 199 00:12:07,900 --> 00:12:11,500 the wrong way, they'll say, oh you know, let's take a poll. 200 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:15,200 Yeah, let's take a poll. That sounds like a great idea. 201 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:17,100 I'm sick of poles, are you sick of bowls. 202 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:19,900 I'm sick and tired of it. We've got an election coming up, 203 00:12:19,900 --> 00:12:22,700 and we're already hearing about how everybody hates Hillary and 204 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:25,900 hates Bush, and we had enough Clinton and Bush and you maybe 205 00:12:25,900 --> 00:12:29,000 we have I don't know what God has in store, but I'll tell you 206 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:34,400 this no leader. That knows what is Right stops 207 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:39,200 and says, hey let's take a poll to make sure that everybody's 208 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,400 good with this. Leaders do, what is right in 209 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:47,000 those moments. The Bible says Caleb and Joshua 210 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:50,800 tore their clothes. I don't know if you've ever seen 211 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:54,500 somebody, clear them out of spot and I won't even call it pitch a 212 00:12:54,508 --> 00:12:57,100 fit. But that's, that's a kind of our 213 00:12:57,100 --> 00:12:58,200 thinking. On the deal. 214 00:12:58,900 --> 00:13:02,400 I've seen some guys that were able to clear out a spot in the 215 00:13:02,408 --> 00:13:05,700 midst of circumstances, where people were literally going to 216 00:13:05,708 --> 00:13:08,400 go and do the wrong thing. I've had the privilege in 217 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:12,500 business to see people leaders, Real leaders. 218 00:13:12,500 --> 00:13:15,600 That despite all the people there, the majority of which 219 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,500 said, oh this can happen that can happen. 220 00:13:18,500 --> 00:13:21,100 This is not going to happen. Stand up in the midst of it and 221 00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:24,000 speak. Truth and speak a vision and 222 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,600 show people, this is what we're going to do. 223 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,900 Get on board. Those were the kind of guys, 224 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,400 Caleb and Joshua were you'd think automatically this story 225 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:41,800 is going to end well. And yeah, it's not going to end 226 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,400 well. And they spoke to all the 227 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,700 congregation of the children of Israel saying. 228 00:13:47,700 --> 00:13:52,000 The land we pass through to spy out is an exceedingly, good 229 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,500 land. If the Lord Delights in us, 230 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:58,900 there's the key he will bring us into this land and give it to us 231 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,400 a language flows. With milk and honey, only do not 232 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:06,300 rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land for, they 233 00:14:06,300 --> 00:14:10,500 are our bread, their protection has departed from them. 234 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:15,400 And the Lord is with us, do not fear them for all of this speech 235 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:19,200 that they just gave the people. Oil picked up rocks and we're 236 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,800 going to Stone them to death verse 10. 237 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:28,800 It's not going well. It's not going well. 238 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:34,400 God was so angry. That he almost destroyed the 239 00:14:34,408 --> 00:14:38,400 people. Moses pleaded for the people and 240 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,800 he saved them, but God made a decree about the people in here. 241 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:43,900 Goes in verse. 22 of numbers, 14. 242 00:14:44,900 --> 00:14:48,700 Because all of these men who have seen my glory and signs, 243 00:14:48,700 --> 00:14:52,000 which I did in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and it put me to the 244 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,300 test. Now, these ten times and have 245 00:14:54,300 --> 00:14:58,500 not heeded, my voice. They certainly shall not see the 246 00:14:58,500 --> 00:15:02,200 land of which I swore to their fathers nor shall any of those 247 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,000 who rejected me. See it. 248 00:15:05,500 --> 00:15:10,300 But my servant Caleb because he has a different spirit in him 249 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:14,200 and is followed me fully, I will bring into the land where he 250 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:19,800 went And his descendants shall inherit, it every doubter god 251 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:25,300 said, and every complainer over the age of 20 years old will die 252 00:15:25,300 --> 00:15:28,100 and their carcass will rot in the land. 253 00:15:28,100 --> 00:15:33,000 You will not go in. You know what that means? 254 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:38,600 Means god holds everybody in this room accountable for what 255 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,600 they believe and what they believe in and what they're 256 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,400 convicted about and who they're convicted about. 257 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:49,400 God holds us accountable for what we believe to those that 258 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,500 were older. And those that believe that 259 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:54,900 report and drop that report, every one of them had to die. 260 00:15:54,900 --> 00:15:58,200 And so years would pass before they would have this opportunity 261 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:02,000 again and I want you to notice how God differentiated those 262 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,700 people from Caleb. He said, Caleb has a different 263 00:16:05,700 --> 00:16:11,600 spirit in him and he was willing to follow me fully Fully. 264 00:16:12,900 --> 00:16:17,200 That's who Calum was. God said something else. 265 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:24,400 He said all of these men who have seen my glory, You think 266 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,400 God takes it personally, sometimes whenever he shows us 267 00:16:28,100 --> 00:16:32,200 who he is. And then because of our own 268 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:36,400 fears, we acquiesce and we shudder and we failed him. 269 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,200 I think he takes it very personally. 270 00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:43,100 Whenever Jesus came into the world. 271 00:16:43,100 --> 00:16:47,900 The Bible says, the word was made flesh and John one in one. 272 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:51,800 And one in 14, the Bible, says, God's word was made flesh and 273 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:57,000 dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, the glory, as of the only 274 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,700 begotten of the father full of grace and truth. 275 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,300 In other words, whenever we have heat, we have seen. 276 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,900 And whenever we have heard about Jesus, whenever we have examined 277 00:17:08,900 --> 00:17:12,300 the evidence about Des. And whenever we understand the 278 00:17:12,300 --> 00:17:20,099 glory of who Jesus is, and we fail away and we don't follow 279 00:17:20,099 --> 00:17:25,099 fully because of fear or because of whatever the reasons are What 280 00:17:25,099 --> 00:17:27,900 do you suppose? The reaction will be from God. 281 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,500 In verse 34 of Numbers. Chapter 14, the Bible says, this 282 00:17:32,500 --> 00:17:36,500 is what God told, the people ye shall know. 283 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,500 My rejection. You know, the greatest thing, 284 00:17:39,500 --> 00:17:43,800 kids fear and school rejection. You know, the greatest thing, 285 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,500 parents fear rejection, you know, the greatest thing people 286 00:17:46,500 --> 00:17:53,100 that are married fear rejection. God will make your worst 287 00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:57,400 nightmare come true. If when you look at his evidence 288 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,700 and when you look at what he has shown you, and what he has given 289 00:18:00,700 --> 00:18:03,800 you in the form and in the message of Jesus Christ. 290 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,300 And if you turn back from that, I absolutely beyond a shadow of 291 00:18:07,300 --> 00:18:12,600 a doubt know that God will know, he will teach us his rejection 292 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,000 and just because he doesn't do it now, does not mean he won't 293 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:20,800 do it one day. In Numbers, Chapter 14 verse 36. 294 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:24,700 This is what the Bible says. Now, the man who Moses sent to 295 00:18:24,700 --> 00:18:27,800 spy out the land who returned and made all the congregation 296 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:31,600 complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land. 297 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:35,400 Those very men who brought the evil report about the land died 298 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:38,600 by the plague before the Lord. God struck him dead. 299 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,800 But Joshua, the son of nun, and Caleb, the shot, the son of 300 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:46,800 jephunneh remained alive of the men who went to spy out the 301 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:50,800 land. Just for a little while tonight, 302 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:53,200 I want to talk to you about facing our Giants because that's 303 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,900 really what scared these people. They saw giants. 304 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:03,000 They saw a battle going on and they valued their own ability to 305 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,300 fight in a way that basically said, I can't do this. 306 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,300 And I want to talk to you about overcoming some enemies and 307 00:19:10,300 --> 00:19:13,100 facing some Giants in your own life. 308 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,700 And there are only two, I don't have a bunch of points tonight. 309 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:18,200 I'm going to make it very, very simple. 310 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:22,600 The first giant that I want you to think about and he is a 311 00:19:22,608 --> 00:19:26,700 biggie is Satan. The Bible says, but even if our 312 00:19:26,700 --> 00:19:29,500 gospel is veiled, second Corinthians 4 verse 3, it is 313 00:19:29,500 --> 00:19:33,900 veiled to those who are perishing, whose Minds the God 314 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:38,600 of this age has blinded, who do not believe less, the light of 315 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,400 the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God 316 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,400 should shine on them. You know, one of the reasons why 317 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:48,800 people don't accept the gift of God and they're not faithful to 318 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,800 God and they're not heading for a home in heaven. 319 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,900 It's because of his work when Jesus gave the parable of the 320 00:19:57,900 --> 00:19:59,700 soils. He said there's four kind of 321 00:19:59,700 --> 00:20:03,600 ground and there's one kind of see the seed is the word of God. 322 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,600 And what we do is we go out and throw the seed and it falls on 323 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:12,700 the ground, the hard ground and the Stony, and the thorny, they 324 00:20:12,700 --> 00:20:18,800 don't bring forth fruit. Only the good ground does, and 325 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:22,300 on the Wayside ground, Jesus said, what happens to the 326 00:20:22,300 --> 00:20:26,900 Wayside soil, is the seed sits on top and the birds of the air 327 00:20:26,900 --> 00:20:29,600 come and devoured. Who do you think it is that 328 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:33,300 wants to take the word of God, out of any, and every possible 329 00:20:33,300 --> 00:20:35,200 institution of Higher Learning today? 330 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:38,300 Who do you think it is that wants to ban every possible 331 00:20:38,300 --> 00:20:40,800 reading? A Bible or prayer in anything 332 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,600 you want to talk about, but do you think it is? 333 00:20:44,900 --> 00:20:48,100 That wants to keep everything about religion inside and locked 334 00:20:48,100 --> 00:20:52,200 inside of a church house and laws are being passed to call. 335 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,600 Preaching the gospel and convicting people of sin hate 336 00:20:55,600 --> 00:21:01,200 speech in certain States. Who do you think's doing that? 337 00:21:02,300 --> 00:21:05,200 You're not up against an enemy, that's easy. 338 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:10,900 We're not up against an enemy, that is to be trifled with, but 339 00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:13,800 we're not up against an enemy, that cannot be defeated. 340 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:19,700 We absolutely are not in the business of losing when we're on 341 00:21:19,700 --> 00:21:23,500 God's side in Luke 22:31. Here's how powerful Jesus 342 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:26,200 treated Satan. As far as his relationship with 343 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:28,400 Simon Peter Simon. Indeed. 344 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,500 Satan has asked for you that he may sift. 345 00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:35,100 You as wheat Luke 22:31 to everybody in this room that 346 00:21:35,100 --> 00:21:38,100 thinks you're going to be able to good choice, your way. 347 00:21:38,100 --> 00:21:41,700 And by your own rationale and own thinking that somehow you 348 00:21:41,700 --> 00:21:45,700 can just tough it out and push through every Situation without 349 00:21:45,700 --> 00:21:47,600 the Lord's help. And without the church. 350 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,600 And without reading your Bible and without prayer, and without 351 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,500 any recognition of God's presence in your life, I want 352 00:21:53,500 --> 00:21:57,300 you to know, Jesus had no confidence in Peter's, ability 353 00:21:57,300 --> 00:22:00,300 to resist, completely by himself. 354 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,200 Satan wants you. He said, but I have prayed for 355 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,400 you that your faith should not fail. 356 00:22:08,100 --> 00:22:11,700 And when you have returned to me, strengthen your brethren, 357 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,900 but he said to him, Lord I'm ready to go with you both to 358 00:22:14,900 --> 00:22:17,900 prison and to death. And Jesus said, I tell you 359 00:22:17,900 --> 00:22:20,900 Peter, the rooster shall not Crow this day before you deny me 360 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:25,600 three times that, you know me. I want to tell you, fear is the 361 00:22:25,608 --> 00:22:29,300 reason why Peter denied Jesus, three times fears. 362 00:22:29,300 --> 00:22:32,300 The reason why Christianity is a different difficult thing for 363 00:22:32,300 --> 00:22:36,100 people to put on everyday and remain faithful Christianity. 364 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:40,000 Because of Satan looks fearful in the practice of Satan wants 365 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,300 us to be afraid of losing our job or losing our status for 366 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:47,800 losing our friends or maybe even losing everything. 367 00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:52,400 Because of our convictions in God. 368 00:22:53,300 --> 00:22:55,800 Do you know that Satan is asking for you tonight? 369 00:22:57,300 --> 00:23:01,100 I want you to get this straight. Satan already has the world. 370 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:04,700 He's convinced the world that they don't need, Jesus, they 371 00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:06,800 don't need the church, they don't need the Bible. 372 00:23:07,700 --> 00:23:09,800 I don't know if you saw this statistic that came out two 373 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:15,000 weeks ago, but from 2008 to 2015, the points that have gone 374 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,500 down, we've lost 8% of people that would refer to themselves 375 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,900 as a religious in the United States of America. 376 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:23,500 In other words, that the headline, went basically 377 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,500 Americans more secular than ever before. 378 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,000 You know what? That means means God's not a 379 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,100 part of their life. Satan already has a significant 380 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:36,200 A portion of the world churches are being shuttered. 381 00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:40,700 All over this nation, our Brotherhood included. 382 00:23:41,300 --> 00:23:45,500 As a result of what Satan has been able to accomplish hearts 383 00:23:45,500 --> 00:23:49,000 that have been hardened to such a degree that the Lord is not 384 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,200 welcomed. We have a culture that is so 385 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:56,400 refined and so educated. And so in love with our 386 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:01,000 Brilliance that we have no place for Jesus or a need for Jesus, 387 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,800 because we live in a self-sufficient society that if 388 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,300 we want it, we can have it. And if we want it, now, we can 389 00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:08,900 push a button. We can go through a 390 00:24:08,900 --> 00:24:12,000 drive-through, we can go to a anything we We walk and we can 391 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,600 have it now from our thermostat to our food. 392 00:24:16,500 --> 00:24:19,300 Two hot water. We can have it right now. 393 00:24:20,100 --> 00:24:23,000 We live in a society today that Satan has convinced. 394 00:24:23,300 --> 00:24:27,200 There's no such thing as an arduous fateful, good life 395 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,700 filled with purpose and self-sacrifice but it's all 396 00:24:30,700 --> 00:24:33,800 about the flesh. He got Dimas According to 397 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,500 second, Timothy 4 and 8 because Demas loved the world. 398 00:24:36,500 --> 00:24:39,900 He got Judas because Judas had an affinity for money. 399 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,100 And for 30 pieces of silver, he traded his soul. 400 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,900 The Apostle Paul wrote to the Ephesian church, and he wrote 401 00:24:48,900 --> 00:24:51,300 about Satan and he wrote about what was happening. 402 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,200 Here's what he said. In Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 403 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,100 10, finally my brethren be strong in yourselves. 404 00:24:58,300 --> 00:25:06,800 No, He didn't say that be strong in the Lord and in the power of 405 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,600 His might, you know what I think about when I read that I think 406 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:16,900 about some little wimpy shrimpy kid at school getting bullied by 407 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:20,900 somebody and the Big Brother that's about 10 feet tall, and 408 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:25,500 bulletproof coming on the scene and just whooping up on the 409 00:25:25,500 --> 00:25:28,000 bully. We've all seen those stories. 410 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,100 They've been unfolded in print and television. 411 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,400 Elevation and movie a thousand times. 412 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,900 When the Bible says, be strong in the Lord and in the power of 413 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:42,000 His might, I would remind you that Jesus with a few Legions of 414 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,500 angels could have called, and made it greasy spot out of the 415 00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:49,900 Middle East. We think we're powerful with our 416 00:25:49,900 --> 00:25:53,500 nukes and our air force and we talked about people pushing red 417 00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:57,900 buttons and all that good stuff. Jesus, almost annihilated the 418 00:25:57,900 --> 00:26:05,600 entire Middle East. and the only reason he didn't, It was because 419 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,200 he loved his so much. Finally my brethren be strong in 420 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,700 the Lord and in the power of His might put on the whole armor of 421 00:26:12,700 --> 00:26:15,500 God, that you may be able to stand against The Wiles of the 422 00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:17,600 devil. Last night we had a little 423 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,700 firecracker, gunshot whatever it was during church and I got to 424 00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:23,600 tell you I was feeling pretty good up here behind this Pulpit. 425 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,300 I think I can duck pretty good. I don't know how you're going to 426 00:26:26,300 --> 00:26:28,100 fare, but I'm going to do pretty good up here. 427 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,500 I've got this whole thing and it's wood and I'm going to get 428 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:34,200 down behind it. That's what's going to happen. 429 00:26:34,500 --> 00:26:37,800 I've to Shield, I'm going to trust in that. 430 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,800 And if somebody literally were coming in the back door and I 431 00:26:42,808 --> 00:26:48,100 were able to tell you, hey, we can all get behind a concrete 432 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:51,100 barrier and we can all pack in there and lock the door. 433 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,200 And you say, no, I want to see who it is and what's going on. 434 00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:57,300 You're not going to do that. You're not going to do that at 435 00:26:57,300 --> 00:26:59,200 all. You're going to grab if I handed 436 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,100 you a Kevlar vest, you'd be strapping it on, you'd be 437 00:27:02,100 --> 00:27:04,800 getting down behind everything, you could get down behind what 438 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,500 God is saying is, hey, I'm asking you to be strong and I'm 439 00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:12,300 asking you to recognize That I have stuff for you to put on, 440 00:27:12,300 --> 00:27:17,100 I'm not asking you to go out and fight Satan with nothing on. 441 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:22,000 Put on the whole armor of God, we do not wrestle against flesh 442 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,300 and blood, but against principalities against Powers 443 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,900 against rulers. Of the darkness of this age, 444 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,100 against spiritual hosts of wickedness, in the Heavenly 445 00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:33,600 places. Therefore, take the whole armor 446 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,200 of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day. 447 00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:41,600 And he goes on to say, basically this, you can do it stand. 448 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:46,000 Therefore, and he goes on saying, gird yourself clothed 449 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,600 yourself above all. Taking the shield of faith. 450 00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:54,500 You know how you get Faith. Faith comes by hearing and 451 00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:57,800 hearing by the word of God. If your faith is failing and 452 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,300 you're not sure you believe in God, chances are, you're not 453 00:28:00,300 --> 00:28:02,800 reading your Bible. Chances are you're not checking 454 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,800 out the evidence that God has given us. 455 00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:08,000 And the promises that God has given us chances, are that we're 456 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,600 not in the mode of thinking about this book as the perfect 457 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,900 mental, emotional spiritual, she'll that God has mentioned 458 00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:19,800 for it to be And by the way, the Apostle Paul, when he wrote this 459 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,000 was in a Roman prison cell and he watched those Roman soldiers, 460 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,600 being closed and girded with special armor every day as they 461 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,700 watched his cell. And if they ever gave up their 462 00:28:29,700 --> 00:28:33,800 posts or he ever escape, they would surely die as a Roman 463 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,500 soldier, because Roman soldiers didn't take off their armor and 464 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:40,500 they didn't fall asleep and they didn't stop doing what it is. 465 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:46,500 They were designed to do. Paul said this in second, 466 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:49,700 Corinthians 10 verse 4 for the weapons of our Warfare are not 467 00:28:49,700 --> 00:28:53,400 carnal. But Mighty in God for pulling 468 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,300 down strongholds, casting down arguments and every High thing 469 00:28:57,300 --> 00:29:01,200 that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every 470 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,700 thought into the Captivity of obedience of Christ. 471 00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:07,700 The Gospel of Jesus Christ has destroyed the most fortified 472 00:29:07,700 --> 00:29:12,500 philosophies and systems of idolatry atheism. 473 00:29:12,500 --> 00:29:16,900 Reels, at the message of Jesus, and I assure you every History 474 00:29:16,900 --> 00:29:20,800 Channel and National Geographic story that comes along and tries 475 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,400 to cast. It out on Jesus as some sort of 476 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,500 a womanizer or perhaps he is homosexual or variety of other 477 00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:32,100 claims. The reason they have to do that 478 00:29:32,100 --> 00:29:35,100 and the reason these guys get on there and say, well it's 479 00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:39,400 possible, it's probable. The reason they have to do that 480 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:43,100 is because historian after historian after historian 481 00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:47,300 outside of biblical evidence has laid down their name on the line 482 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:52,100 with accuracy who Jesus was, and what he was, and what he did on 483 00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:54,400 the cross. They've laid down their name and 484 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,200 they were not even Christians. That Jesus did live. 485 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,800 He was alive. There was a man named Jesus, he 486 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,100 did die on a cross. He was a good man. 487 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:03,700 And perform many wonderful Works. 488 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,600 He's our historians. That didn't care one iota about 489 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,300 following Jesus. They just wrote about Yet, 490 00:30:11,300 --> 00:30:13,300 modern day. People can fill your children's 491 00:30:13,300 --> 00:30:16,700 Minds with all kinds of ignorance and arrogance, was 492 00:30:16,700 --> 00:30:20,700 so-called philosophies that are not based upon any scientific or 493 00:30:20,700 --> 00:30:23,600 any historical document known to man. 494 00:30:25,100 --> 00:30:29,900 But they basically can write supposition and they'll say 495 00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:34,700 things like possibly and probably and likely we know 496 00:30:34,700 --> 00:30:39,100 certainly that Jesus lived and certainly that Jesus died and 497 00:30:39,100 --> 00:30:44,000 certainly that he rose again. Think about this when you fight 498 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:49,200 Satan you're not alone. If anybody thinks they're going 499 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,400 to fight Satan by themselves and without the Lord's Church, they 500 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,200 have grossly underestimated. Their enemy. 501 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,000 And they have completely destroyed. 502 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,200 One of the great attributes of God, salvation in the church, 503 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:07,700 What happens when people devalue the church and they talked about 504 00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:10,500 their personal relationship with Jesus or their personal 505 00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:14,900 relationship with God, and they never are present among God's 506 00:31:14,900 --> 00:31:18,400 people. They have destroyed the very 507 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,000 sanctuary of God's manifold wisdom. 508 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,000 Did you know? The church is God's manifold 509 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000 wisdom? According to Ephesians chapter 3 510 00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:30,100 And God put everything and made everything subject to Jesus in 511 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:33,400 the church. If you read about Revelations, 512 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:39,200 10, 11 and 12 what you find out is Satan, his whole story was 513 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:44,500 wrecked and he's like a chained animal, he was thrown out of 514 00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:47,400 heaven. And Jesus was exalted to the 515 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,700 right hand of the father and he has no more access to Jesus our 516 00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:54,500 high priest. The bad part for us. 517 00:31:54,500 --> 00:31:58,100 That's the good part for us. The bad part for us is God cast 518 00:31:58,100 --> 00:32:00,500 him down to earth for a little while? 519 00:32:05,700 --> 00:32:09,900 And he now roams as a hungry lion, trying to pick off your 520 00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:13,200 precious children and your grandchildren and your own soul. 521 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,400 Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the devil walks 522 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,100 about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. 523 00:32:21,100 --> 00:32:25,700 Listen resist him steadfast in the faith. 524 00:32:26,700 --> 00:32:30,300 Knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your 525 00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:34,500 Brotherhood in the world. You're not alone. 526 00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:39,600 Jesus promised us that if we're in the father's house and we're 527 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,100 in the father's hands. This isn't an All-State plug. 528 00:32:43,100 --> 00:32:46,400 But I think about the Allstate commercial in my commercialized 529 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,900 mind of, you're in good hands. Why do I say that? 530 00:32:49,900 --> 00:32:54,400 Because Jesus said, if you're in my father's hands, no one will 531 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,800 pluck you out of my father's hand. 532 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:02,600 No one can. How do you make sure that you're 533 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,500 in the father's hands? How do you know where you should 534 00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:09,600 be? Will you you're in the father's 535 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:15,000 house every Lord's day you eat at the Kings Table prepared by 536 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,700 Jesus, the son of God himself, Two people that don't Avail 537 00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:22,400 themselves of the privilege and the opportunity. 538 00:33:22,700 --> 00:33:28,800 And also the command to be here are basically saying I'm going 539 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,100 to go out and I'm going to face Satan and I'm going to win. 540 00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:37,300 And you're not going to win. You're a dead man or you're a 541 00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:40,800 dead woman walking. If you're away from the church 542 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,300 and you're away from God, and you're away from the path of 543 00:33:43,300 --> 00:33:45,800 God, that is centered around the church. 544 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:50,200 You're not winning, you're losing, or you've already lost. 545 00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:53,300 You just don't know it. The second John I want to talk 546 00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:57,600 about my last remaining minutes. Is the giant of self. 547 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:03,600 Jesus said in Mark 8:34 when he called his, his people to him 548 00:34:04,100 --> 00:34:06,700 and his disciples, he said, whoever desires to come after 549 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:11,300 me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me 550 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:15,400 for whoever desires to save his life, will lose it, but whoever 551 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:19,000 desires to who will lose it. But whoever loses his life, for 552 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,199 my sake and the gospels, we'll save it for. 553 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:23,199 What will it profit? A man. 554 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:26,400 If he gains the whole world and loses his own soul, or what will 555 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,500 a man give in exchange for his soul? 556 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:33,100 So for whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous 557 00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:37,600 and sinful generation of him. The son of man will also be 558 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,199 ashamed when he comes in the glory of his father. 559 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:43,400 With the Holy Angels. Now take you back to the story 560 00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:47,900 in numbers. God said, you will know my 561 00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:50,900 rejection. Those people that brought the 562 00:34:50,900 --> 00:34:54,199 bad report and didn't believe in God and didn't trust in God and 563 00:34:54,199 --> 00:34:56,300 said they're Giants, and we're going to get whipped and we're 564 00:34:56,300 --> 00:34:58,500 going to lose God said it, your gun. 565 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,800 You know, my rejection, he turns around here in the voice of 566 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,000 Jesus and says you need to understand that if you're 567 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,700 ashamed of me and my words in this sinful world, I'm going to 568 00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:11,500 be ashamed of you when I come back. 569 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,700 In other words, you're going to know my rejection. 570 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,500 You stand up for Jesus, he's going to stand up for you, one 571 00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:24,600 day. You confess Jesus as the Son of 572 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:30,200 God, he'll confess you as his son as the Son of God, one day. 573 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,600 The giant of self makes people forget God and care. 574 00:35:34,900 --> 00:35:38,000 Very little about what anything and anybody else says except 575 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:42,300 themselves. Paul contrasted those who are in 576 00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:46,800 Christ and those who were living for self in Galatians 5:19-21, 577 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:51,100 or I don't have time to go into that, but I'll tell you this, In 578 00:35:51,100 --> 00:35:54,900 Romans 8, verse 1, the Bible says there is therefore now no 579 00:35:54,900 --> 00:35:58,300 condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. 580 00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:02,200 Who walk not after the flesh. But after the spirit, that is a 581 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:06,600 very succinct. Passage that draws Galatians 582 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:11,500 5:19 through 24 in clear picture, if you're in Christ, 583 00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:14,300 you're saved and here's what your life looks like. 584 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:19,100 It looks like self-control and love and patience and and 585 00:36:19,100 --> 00:36:22,200 brotherly love it. Looks like that it doesn't look 586 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,600 like drunkenness and fornication and all the other sins of the 587 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,700 flesh. And if you want to know, if 588 00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:31,200 you're alive and your children are winning spiritually and 589 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:35,300 whether Satan, and the giant that he is is winning or the 590 00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:41,900 giant of self is winning. You open your Bible to the fruit 591 00:36:41,900 --> 00:36:44,900 of the spirit and you see how many of those things apply to 592 00:36:44,900 --> 00:36:47,500 you and you open your Bible to the works of the Flesh in 593 00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:50,100 Galatians chapter 5. And you see how many of those 594 00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:52,700 things apply to you. And Paul was describing people 595 00:36:52,700 --> 00:36:57,300 who had a habitual practicing lifestyle, that involve these 596 00:36:57,300 --> 00:37:00,700 things. He didn't say you had to be 597 00:37:00,700 --> 00:37:04,900 perfect. if you're here tonight and you hear what I'm saying, 598 00:37:05,900 --> 00:37:08,400 what he does expect his faithfulness. 599 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,900 I'm not a perfect husband but I am a faithful husband. 600 00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:18,500 Nobody's a perfect wife but you can be a faithful wife. 601 00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:23,800 There's a big difference there. God is not asking us to live in 602 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,500 a world and that and there's never a moment where we fail or 603 00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:33,400 fall at times or stumble. But he did say, he wanted us to 604 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,100 be faithful. He did say, he did not want us 605 00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:39,800 to walk after the flesh, but walk after the spirit and 606 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,700 Galatians 2:20, I have been crucified with Christ. 607 00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:46,400 It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me and the life, 608 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,900 which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, 609 00:37:49,900 --> 00:37:52,800 who loved me and gave himself for me. 610 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,900 Here's what Paul told the Colossians therefore put to 611 00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:57,900 death your members which are on the earth. 612 00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:00,300 Fornication, uncleanness, passion evil. 613 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:05,000 Is are covetousness, which is idolatry because of these 614 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,400 things. The wrath of God is coming upon 615 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:11,800 the sons of disobedience in which you yourselves, once walk, 616 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,700 when you lived in them. But now you yourselves are to 617 00:38:15,700 --> 00:38:19,300 put off all these anger wrath, malice blasphemy, filthy 618 00:38:19,300 --> 00:38:22,000 language out of your mouth do not lie to one another. 619 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,500 Since you have put off the old man with his deeds and it put on 620 00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:29,800 the new man who is renewed in the knowledge according to the 621 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,100 image of his Him, who created him? 622 00:38:35,700 --> 00:38:40,300 Here's what happens. You got to hate sin. 623 00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:43,300 And hate everything he's selling. 624 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:49,200 You ever heard of the old out that song and saying Devil in a 625 00:38:49,207 --> 00:38:53,500 blue dress? Sure, you have. 626 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,400 It could be Devil in a blue suit too just so you know. 627 00:38:58,900 --> 00:39:02,700 The point of it is very simple. Sometimes the things that look 628 00:39:02,700 --> 00:39:06,100 physically gratifying and that please your I are nothing but 629 00:39:06,100 --> 00:39:10,200 bait to hook you in. That's it. 630 00:39:11,300 --> 00:39:14,000 In other words. What's behind that face or 631 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,600 what's behind? That suit of clothes and what 632 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,500 looks so appealing to you. And what feels so appealing to 633 00:39:21,500 --> 00:39:27,700 you, What captures your heart sometimes, or your eyes, or your 634 00:39:27,700 --> 00:39:30,700 affection? Is a trap. 635 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,200 You know, the one thing I can't stand in my own life, it's a 636 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,900 weakness of mine. It makes me react, sometimes in 637 00:39:37,900 --> 00:39:39,800 ways. I don't want to, I can't stand, 638 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:44,000 being taken advantage of. That's all he does. 639 00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:50,200 That's all he does. You know, let you feel a little 640 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,500 pleasure. He'll let you feel a little 641 00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:54,600 affection. He'll let you feel a little 642 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,900 acceptance. He'll let you have all the 643 00:39:56,900 --> 00:39:59,800 emotional and then he's going to reel you in. 644 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,400 I think about those fishermen out there on deep-sea fishermen 645 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,700 and they get these big giant fish on there and the fish, of 646 00:40:06,700 --> 00:40:10,800 course, take this bait and they run that that line is far as 647 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:15,200 they can. It goes way out. that fisherman 648 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:20,900 just keeps on reeling a man and keeps on reeling them in You 649 00:40:20,900 --> 00:40:23,400 know, the best part of it, for the fish, some of those fish, 650 00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:26,400 some of those fish recognize that they're getting reeled in 651 00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:29,400 and they figure out a way to break that line, you better 652 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,200 figure out a way to break that line of Satan's, got a, hold of 653 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,900 you and really you in and you're in the best place on Earth to 654 00:40:35,900 --> 00:40:38,300 break that line. When you're in the Lord's House, 655 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,200 you're in the among the best people to break that line when 656 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,700 you're among God's people. But you've got to make up your 657 00:40:43,700 --> 00:40:47,500 mind, you hate what he's selling because when he reels you in 658 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:52,300 according to James chapter 1, he will add So lutely annihilate, 659 00:40:52,300 --> 00:40:54,500 you sometimes people get themselves. 660 00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:58,100 So no heat. So deep in sin that they can't 661 00:40:58,100 --> 00:41:01,700 see their way out there so tired, they're so exhausted. 662 00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:03,700 They give in. That's the worst thing you can 663 00:41:03,700 --> 00:41:05,400 do. That's the worst thing. 664 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:09,000 Anybody can do. And then the giant of self. 665 00:41:10,300 --> 00:41:15,000 This is one of those. We've got to recognize that all 666 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,400 the things that we want in all the things of this flesh are not 667 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,600 good things. The flesh is something that will 668 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,500 war against us. It's something that the Apostle 669 00:41:24,500 --> 00:41:28,600 Peter said, it will always war against you. 670 00:41:28,700 --> 00:41:31,300 Satan will do that over and over, and over again. 671 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:36,000 And and First Peter chapter 2, when he used the idea of the 672 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:40,700 flesh that always Wars, what he's saying is Satan, is not 673 00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:44,800 going to give up. And the young man sin is not may 674 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,300 not be the middle-aged man sin or the old man, sinned. 675 00:41:48,300 --> 00:41:51,900 But all along the way Satan is going to try his best. 676 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:57,200 It's a reel. You in, he will always war 677 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:02,100 against the soul and he operates through the smell of Flesh. 678 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:06,100 He operates by what you can see. That's why John would say. 679 00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,900 Don't love the world. Neither the things that are in 680 00:42:08,900 --> 00:42:10,900 the world. If any man love the world, the 681 00:42:10,900 --> 00:42:12,400 love of the father is not in him. 682 00:42:12,500 --> 00:42:17,000 Whenever James would say, friendship with the world is to 683 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,100 be the enemy of God. Why would he say that? 684 00:42:22,300 --> 00:42:24,500 You're not God's friend. If you're in love with what 685 00:42:24,500 --> 00:42:27,200 Satan selling you. You're not God's friend. 686 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,300 If you're the one that is driving the boat in your life 687 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,000 and you're the captain of your own ship. 688 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,500 Listen, God is not asking to be your copilot. 689 00:42:35,500 --> 00:42:40,100 He's asking the pilot he's asking to be in charge. 690 00:42:40,100 --> 00:42:43,500 He's asking for surrender. That's what repentance is 691 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,100 repentance. Is bringing all of our mistakes 692 00:42:46,100 --> 00:42:50,000 and all of our problems and all of our flaws and surrendering 693 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:55,000 them. And arising to walk in newness 694 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:56,500 of Life. Here's what Paul said, don't you 695 00:42:56,500 --> 00:42:59,000 know that so many of us as were baptized into Christ were 696 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,600 baptized into his death. He sort of just like we were 697 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:05,400 buried with Christ in baptism and the Bible says we arise to 698 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:09,600 walk in newness of life. But God be thanked that you were 699 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:11,600 the Servants of sin. But ye have obeyed from the 700 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:13,800 heart that form of Doctrine, which was delivered. 701 00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:18,600 You being then made free from sin, ye became the Servants of 702 00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:22,700 righteousness. There's a story. 703 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:29,500 Of an embattled football coach made a movie out of it, facing 704 00:43:29,500 --> 00:43:32,100 your Giants, it's a great movie. It's one of the few that I would 705 00:43:32,100 --> 00:43:35,700 ever plug in any kind of a lesson, a coach had a losing 706 00:43:35,700 --> 00:43:38,800 season, the kids didn't believe in him, it was a bad year. 707 00:43:39,500 --> 00:43:41,300 Had a lot of things messed up in his life. 708 00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:44,100 He had a lot of things that weren't going good and he 709 00:43:44,100 --> 00:43:47,100 really, really, really began to work on himself, spiritually. 710 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,100 One day, he decided he was going to take his team in a different 711 00:43:51,100 --> 00:43:53,300 direction. It gets all the kids out there 712 00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:58,900 and he begins to get the biggest strongest leader on the team. 713 00:43:59,100 --> 00:44:02,000 The one that was the most pessimistic and he knew if he 714 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,000 could change this kid, he could get to the whole team's heart 715 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,900 because this kid was the heart of the team and he called him 716 00:44:08,900 --> 00:44:12,500 over and this kid was all pessimistic and down and out and 717 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,500 He asked him, basically, how far do you think you can? 718 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:18,900 How far do you think you can bear crawl? 719 00:44:19,100 --> 00:44:21,900 You know what a bear crawl is? You get down to some evil coach 720 00:44:21,900 --> 00:44:25,400 thought that up. I'm just telling you how far can 721 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,300 you bear crawl? When somebody is hooked to your 722 00:44:27,300 --> 00:44:29,400 back. It's going to put another kid on 723 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:30,800 his back. How far do you think you could 724 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,500 go immediately the kid who wanted to know? 725 00:44:33,500 --> 00:44:37,500 Well, how far do I have to go? And he just kept negotiated with 726 00:44:37,500 --> 00:44:41,000 him and how far can you go? And then how far can you go 727 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,400 blindfolded? And all along the way. 728 00:44:45,100 --> 00:44:47,500 This coach started him out. And when you, when you start 729 00:44:47,500 --> 00:44:50,100 bear-crawling, everything gets on fire real quick. 730 00:44:50,500 --> 00:44:54,100 You can't go down, you can't stop your arms. 731 00:44:54,100 --> 00:44:55,800 Get on fire. If you don't believe it, just go 732 00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,600 home tonight and try it, don't break anything, and don't break 733 00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,000 your neck. I've seen some guys almost do 734 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,000 that. So, if you're not able don't, 735 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,300 but if you are, just go do it. It's a great exercise. 736 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,200 They get this kid down, they blindfolded me? 737 00:45:08,900 --> 00:45:11,600 He's got the other Kiln is back, and the coach is just in his 738 00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:14,400 ear. He is in his ear, encouraging 739 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,900 him, that he can do it. And the kid keeps going and 740 00:45:16,900 --> 00:45:20,300 keeps going and he doesn't go 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 yards. 741 00:45:20,300 --> 00:45:24,500 He goes all the way to the end zone and when the finally, he's 742 00:45:24,500 --> 00:45:28,500 able to take his wife old off, he cannot believe he made it all 743 00:45:28,500 --> 00:45:31,500 the way and it was a turning point on the entire team. 744 00:45:32,700 --> 00:45:36,500 Listen. There are people that God filled 745 00:45:36,500 --> 00:45:39,600 the stands of Eternity with to cheer you on. 746 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:44,300 God didn't want you to scourged, God doesn't want you down, God 747 00:45:44,300 --> 00:45:48,600 doesn't want you sad or upset or down on yourself or feeling like 748 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:53,900 your left behind in some way. He said, since we are surrounded 749 00:45:53,900 --> 00:45:55,700 by so great, a cloud of witnesses. 750 00:45:55,700 --> 00:45:59,400 Let us lay aside every weight and the sin, which so easily 751 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:03,600 ensnares us and let us run with endurance, the race that is set 752 00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:08,200 before us looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our 753 00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,600 faith. Who for the joy that was set 754 00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,600 before him. Endured the cross despising, the 755 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,500 shame and has sat down at the right hand of the Throne of God, 756 00:46:16,500 --> 00:46:20,400 for consider him who endured such hostility from Sinners 757 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,500 against himself, lest you become. 758 00:46:22,500 --> 00:46:26,600 Become weary and discouraged in your souls. 759 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:31,400 You know what God did God spent the life of people like Noah and 760 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,600 Moses and Abraham to get your attention in 2015. 761 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:39,500 So you never give up and you never allow Satan and you never 762 00:46:39,500 --> 00:46:42,900 allow the giant that he is to operate in your life and have 763 00:46:42,900 --> 00:46:46,600 power over you, God gave you the ability to break that line. 764 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:50,900 God gave you the ability to be his son and his child and to be 765 00:46:50,900 --> 00:46:53,800 the Kings child. God gave you that, right? 766 00:46:54,500 --> 00:46:56,200 Don't you ever give that right away? 767 00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:01,800 The Bible says you are of God little children and have 768 00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:08,300 overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he that 769 00:47:08,300 --> 00:47:11,500 is in the world. Don't you ever doubt that for 770 00:47:11,500 --> 00:47:13,800 one minute? The greatest tragedy that I see 771 00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,600 happening in the church today is whenever people are getting 772 00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:20,300 discouraged and they get weak and they get down the first 773 00:47:20,300 --> 00:47:22,800 place. They cut attendance and time is 774 00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:25,900 The Lord's House? What a tragedy? 775 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:27,500 What an awesome. Awful thing. 776 00:47:27,500 --> 00:47:30,100 You want to know what's going along with that, their Bibles, 777 00:47:30,100 --> 00:47:35,200 never open. And we expect God to come down 778 00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,400 and do something kind of one of those stories about the guy that 779 00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:41,100 was going to go from the flood and that people came by, of 780 00:47:41,100 --> 00:47:44,100 course, and said here, where the last for the last ride out and 781 00:47:44,100 --> 00:47:45,800 do know. God is going to save me. 782 00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,000 The boat came by the guys on his roof. 783 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:49,500 No, no. God is going to save me. 784 00:47:49,500 --> 00:47:52,400 The helicopter comes by, and he's up on the tallest hill. 785 00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:52,800 No. No. 786 00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,500 God is going to save me? He dies. 787 00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,200 God has a conversation with him and said, would you what would 788 00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:03,200 you expect that sent you? I sent you an ambulance, a 789 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:06,900 fireman I sent you a boat and a helicopter and you do not all of 790 00:48:06,900 --> 00:48:10,000 them. How do you expect God to operate 791 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:11,800 in your life? If you shut the church house 792 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,800 door? How do you expect God to operate 793 00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:15,400 in your life when you shut your Bible? 794 00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,200 How do you expect God to operate in your life without prayer? 795 00:48:18,300 --> 00:48:21,200 How do you expect God to operate in your life without Fellowship? 796 00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:25,500 How do you expect to win? Without this team. 797 00:48:28,500 --> 00:48:31,800 You won't. That's why this is the manifold 798 00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,800 wisdom of God. That's why in Acts chapter 2. 799 00:48:34,900 --> 00:48:37,400 The Bible says they were praising God and having favor 800 00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,000 and the Lord added to the church daily such as we're being safe. 801 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:42,900 God puts you in the church, right? 802 00:48:42,900 --> 00:48:44,800 Where he wanted you. According to First Corinthians 803 00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,300 chapter 12 and verse 18, and the Glorious news, we have when we 804 00:48:48,300 --> 00:48:50,300 preach the gospel is by one Spirit. 805 00:48:50,300 --> 00:48:52,500 We were all baptized into one body. 806 00:48:52,700 --> 00:48:55,900 This is where he put safety. This is where he put salvation. 807 00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:59,400 This is where he puts this is where he put Fellowship. 808 00:48:59,900 --> 00:49:04,400 This is where he put our defense and when we link our Shields of 809 00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:06,800 Faith together Satan doesn't stand a chance. 810 00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:10,800 What I didn't read to you as the Bible says the shield of Faith 811 00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,800 Can quench. All not some not part all the 812 00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:18,600 fiery darts of the devil. Do you believe in that? 813 00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,500 Do you believe that with all your heart? 814 00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,900 You can win, we can win. We're gonna win. 815 00:49:24,900 --> 00:49:26,900 That's the beauty of the Book of Revelation. 816 00:49:27,100 --> 00:49:31,400 It says and tells us the reality of the end game in the end game. 817 00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:38,100 Is we win until that, time comes until Jesus comes back or we 818 00:49:38,100 --> 00:49:39,700 die. Faithful to him. 819 00:49:40,100 --> 00:49:44,200 You remain faithful to him. You stay and you work and you be 820 00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:47,300 faithful and you don't believe the pessimism and you don't 821 00:49:47,300 --> 00:49:50,500 believe the lies and you don't get on the devil's line. 822 00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:54,000 And if you find yourself where you, find your children on the 823 00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:55,900 line, you do like what those great? 824 00:49:55,900 --> 00:49:57,800 Big fish. Do you break that line? 825 00:49:57,900 --> 00:50:01,100 You recognize the situation you're in and God gives you the 826 00:50:01,100 --> 00:50:02,600 power to do that. You're not gonna do it on your 827 00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,700 own. God gives you the power to do 828 00:50:05,700 --> 00:50:08,700 that. We thank you for listening to 829 00:50:08,707 --> 00:50:13,600 our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 830 00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:17,100 Road in Bakersfield, if you would like any additional 831 00:50:17,100 --> 00:50:20,400 information or you would like to receive a free Bible 832 00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:25,900 correspondence, course by mail. 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