In this video, you will meet people creatures that helped
people in the Bible. Now, one of these animals is
actually dead and before I reveal, which of these animals
was dead and helped another human being.
Can you guess which creature you think it is number five,
balaam's donkey. Balaam was a greedy sorcerer who
really messed up and one day, there was a king called King
balak and Ballack was quite jealous.
He was quite annoyed at the people of Israel because they
were taking over his moabite territory.
So we said to Balaam, I'm going to hire you to curse the people
of Israel but Balaam replied. Well really I have no power, no
strength in and of myself to be able to curse the people of
Israel. I need to go to the Lord first
so he took his request before the Lord God.
And what did God say, you shall not curse this people for?
They are blessed, but king balak would not take no for an answer
and he really did raise Steaks. He put all of his money on the
table and said, come on name it. What you want, whatever you
want. I will give it to you and I will
reward you handsomely for you to curse the people of Israel.
So Balaam said, okay. Just once more I'll go before
the Lord, and ask him and the Lord's.
Perhaps because he was pestered, so much said, go go with this
evil people, so Balaam wasted, no time.
He saddled his donkey and he started to make the journey with
King balak servants, ready to do harm to the people of All but
God was greatly angered and sent an angel of the Lord right into
the middle of the road. This is where it gets very
interesting Balaam. Could not see this angel in
front of him, but his donkey could see, what was going on in
the Unseen World. I wonder, I wonder how many
animals see things that we as humans, do not see and this
donkey it was a faithful donkey. He tried to protect Balaam, so
we steered Balaam into a field but Balaam got very angry and
beat his donkey and And the Lord opened the poor donkeys mouth,
and he cried out. Why are you beating me have I
ever made a mess before? I've always tried to be a good
donkey, I've been faithful to you.
And then suddenly the Lord opened balaam's eyes, and he saw
right in front of him, that angel of the Lord ready to slay
the wicked profit. I believe, this is one of the
most humbling stories in all of the Bible because it proves this
scripture, God has chosen the foolish things of the world.
World to put to shame the wise and God has chosen the weak
things of the world to shame the things which are strong about
four years ago. I thought my Ministry was over
one morning. I woke up and I could not walk.
I could put no pressure on my leg because I felt this
excruciating pain from my hip right down to my ankle.
And that day, I was supposed to preach in a church.
I can still remember the phone call with my pastor, where I was
crying my eyes out to him and I said, please would you Cancel
the preaching engagement for me because I'm too embarrassed to
ring this church and graciously. He took care of the situation.
Anyway, a few weeks went by and I still was struggling to walk,
but I could manage a few steps and so I went to a Minister's
conference. And there I met the most
incredible man who have never seen since, but I believe the
Lord puts him there that day to help encourage me when I was in
one of the weakest times of my life.
So, bearing in mind, I'd now convinced myself.
That, that was it. My Ministry was Is over.
How can I stand on a step ladder and preach if I couldn't stand
for a few minutes without feeling pain, how can I preach
In a Pulpit if I couldn't walk more than a few steps?
And as all of these thoughts are rushing through my mind.
A man during the coffee break turns to me and says, excuse me,
would you mind opening this packets of sugar for me?
And at first I thought it is he joking which grown man, can't
open a packet of sugar and then I looked and I saw his hands.
They were twisted and his legs were to Abled and he really was
struggling to do this, very simple task.
And so there I struck up a conversation with one of the
nicest loveliest strangers I have ever met.
And I poured out my heart to him and told him all of my concerns
and he said, don't let that worry you.
My church is quite happy to listen to me.
Preach sermons in a chair and as I spoke to him more and more, I
saw the wisdom of the Lord, pouring out from this man.
That night. When I went home, I spoke to
Emma. And I said, you know where my it
was just so So Beautiful to see how the Lord was using this man
who the rest of the world would push aside the rest of the world
would say. No, he's a nobody and yet the
Lord God was using that man mightily to speak the Oracles of
God. So never ever ever believe the
lie of the devil but I'm too weak to be used by God.
I'm too ugly to be used by God, I'm too stupid.
How could God use me? Because in fact, in God's
kingdom is often the opposite way around.
God uses weak role. Sinful men and women so that all
the glory goes back to him, sorry to State the obvious but
balaam's donkey was quite clearly alive.
So what do you think? Is the dead animal in the Bible
that was used to help another human being?
Well, we're going to find out very shortly number for Elijah's
Ravens. You might remember in our last
video, we talked about how Elijah was the man who stopped
the rain. Well, this is exactly the same
Miracle were talking about God was so angry at King.
Hap and his evil wife Jezebel, who is killing the prophets.
So, the Lord using Elijah stopped the rain and there was a
massive drought over the land, but the Lord wanted to protect
his servant. So he commanded Elijah to go and
hide in a Ravine and there every single day, the Lord sent Ravens
from Heaven who brought bread and meat in the morning and in
the night. So that the Prophet Elijah never
lacked food. And he also drank from the water
of the brook that ran through the Why do I tell you that
story? I tell it you for one reason and
one reason alone, I need to remind you.
That one of the names of the Lord God is Jehovah Jireh.
The Lord will provide. And I think most of us watching
this video right now, at some point in our lives have had
Financial worries, where we think?
How will I survive? Perhaps there's someone watching
right now and you're really worried.
I don't know where the next meal is going to come from.
Well, I believe I'm here today to remind you that Jesus Christ.
Christ himself said the father feeds the very birds of the air
Li not feed you also. And sometimes God feeds the
birds of the air. But also sometimes God uses the
birds of the air to feed you and I'm not talking about KFC
chicken, right now. When Elijah obediently went into
the Wilderness, he had no backup plan.
It had no energy bars stuffed underneath his cloak.
He was no Burger van around the corner.
No, he had to totally rely on the Lord, God and have faith,
that God would turn on. Did the Lord fail him?
No and neither will the Lord fail.
You the Bible says he will supply.
Our every need, not every craving, not everyone's but our
every need and sometimes God with holds things from us
because he knows at the moment, this isn't good for me to have
but he will always supply for us.
People often ask me why is it you don't put adverts in front
of your YouTube videos? Why do you not monetize your
channel? One of the reasons is this, I
believe that I've been called to live by faith.
Faith, not saying that's for everyone, but for me personally,
that means I don't sell merch. I don't put adverts in front of
my channel. I have no set salary because I
believe if the Lord really wants me a Ministry then he will
provide and I don't want to be in a place where the Lord
doesn't want me. So, the evidence that the Lord
wants me to stay in Ministry, is that he will keep on providing
for me. But I know what you're thinking,
you're thinking, when it's very easy for you to say that Joe,
you've got seven hundred thousand subscribers.
Have course, people will fund your ministry.
Well, let me tell you something else.
When I didn't even have 10 subscribers to my name, the Lord
still provided and sometimes it was in very Supernatural ways
because as Hagar said you are the God who sees me and the
whole world might not see you to the rest of the world.
You might be a nobody it might be as if you don't even exist
but I want to tell you right now the Lord God sees you he loves
you and he will provide for his children.
Hey now, have you got any ideas of what you think this dead
animal? Could be well, before I reveal
the answer. He is number three, Peter's
fish. You know, the story.
Well, Peter and the disciples have gone out fishing and they
have caught, absolutely nothing all night.
And they see in the distance. There's a man on the shore and
he calls out to them. Have you caught anything yet
Lads and the disciples reply? No, so this man who at the
moment they think is a total stranger says, why don't you put
your net on the right side of the boat and so Peter and the
disciples. Those things.
Well, we might as well give it a try.
So they put it on the right side of the boat and suddenly they
get the biggest haul. The biggest amount of fish they
have ever caught in all of their life and when they see this huge
catch suddenly it clicks. Who is that, man?
It is the Lord. Okay, watch this Jesus is about
to ascend back to Heaven. Jesus has just risen from the
dead, and this is one of the last times he will ever appear
before the disciples. So, why did he choose this
particular? Ticular Miracle to show the
disciples his power. I'll tell you why, because it
was a sign of what Jesus was about to do through Peter.
Peter has never seen a bigger catch of fish in all of his life
but do you remember what Jesus Christ?
Once said to Peter, follow me and I will make you a fisher of
men. You see Pizza as just caught all
of these fish, but Lord, Jesus Christ as lined up and even
bigger. Catch for Peter in a couple of
days time and around two weeks later.
Pete that would stand up on the day of Pentecost.
And what does the scripture say? And that day about three
thousand Souls were added to them.
If Jesus had told Peter that day, you will be used by God to
bring in three thousand Souls into the kingdom.
I'm going to use you to preach the most powerful sermon that
will bring one of the biggest catches in history.
Peter would have said, no, Lord. You can't use me.
I've just denied you three times.
How can you use a sinful man? Like me, but Jesus was showing
Showing Peter when he brought in this huge net of fish, I'm not
finished with you yet, and I'm still going to use you though.
You failed, though you've messed up.
I am the god who uses Sinners for my own Glory.
Okay, number two. Are you ready for the dead
animal? That helped a person in the
Bible or that dead animal is Samson's lion carcass?
Samson was the strongest man in all of the Bible.
Physically, he was also probably one of the weakest spiritually
and Samson's job. Is to protect the people of
Israel from this wicked enemy. The Philistines but Samson had
no interest in protecting his own people.
In fact, he'd rather spend time with the Philistines and date
their women. So the Lord took the initiative
and he sent, he engineered a sort of situation that would
force Samson into a rivalry with this evil people.
One day Sampson is walking down the road to the people of
philistine. He wants to meet an unbelieving
woman and there in front of him the Lord.
Has sent a lion a ferocious line, which attacks Sampson.
Now, because Sampson was so strong.
He tore the line into pieces and left the deadline on the side of
the road and thought nothing of it.
Anyway, a couple of weeks went by and Samson again is walking
down the same road to meet this On Believing woman and then
something catches his eye there in front of him is that dead
lion that he killed the other day and suddenly, he notices.
Something else about this dead lions carcass inside the Lions
body is a With bees and the bees have produced the most sweet
delicious honey. And this gives Samson, an idea
for a riddle, the riddle goes like this.
Out of the eater. Came something to eat out of the
strong came something sweet. And if you know the story of
Samson and the Philistines Samson use this riddle to mock
them and it started a great battle which would ensure that
God would get his glory. And God's people of Israel would
be protected because Samson would use his strength to defeat
an awful lot of Philistines. Now this is the bit that's going
to blow you away. When we look at Samson's life,
when we see that death of the lion, we see there's a sweetness
that comes from death and that reminds us that there's a
sweetness that came from the death of the Lord, Jesus Christ.
Why do I say that? The Bible says, for the
Christian for the believer, The Sting of death has been removed
death. Where is your sting?
Because now we have put our trust in Risen, Lord.
Jesus Christ, we don't need to fear the grave anymore.
I remember once going to a Christian funeral and I went in
a black suit with a black tie and I was kind of shocked
because everyone in the congregation was wearing
different colored ties. In fact, the lady the Christian
lady's husband was wearing a pink tie and I said, if you
don't mind me asking, why am I, the only one in a black tie.
He said, because George is in heaven.
We don't need to be sad about that.
She's with the Lord right now. This is a day of rejoicing and
that really did wake me up. Because Jesus Christ himself
said I am the resurrection and the life, he who believes in me,
though, he may die. He shall live and any man, any
woman who has put their trust in the Lord.
Jesus Christ has a hope beyond the grave because Christ Jesus
conquered the grave. They put him on a cross.
Everyone thought it was over everyone thought when he was
dying there for the sins of the world, it was finished but
Christ, proved them all wrong. And he conquered the grave and
showed them He was God and asked in God In the Flesh and he is
the only man who can empty dead men and that woman's Graves.
And I've got to ask you, have you come to the Son of God, who
was nailed to a cross? Who died on that cross because
he loved you, taking the punishment for your sins.
Have you come to the Son of God, who offers forgiveness of sins?
Have you come to the Son of God? Who is willing right now to give
you a place in heaven and to beat your grave because when the
believer dies, it's not the end, it's only the beginning.
But hey now you've probably guessed number one.
What is this animal? Which has helped another person
in the Bible will because I've run out of time, you'll have to
click this video here to find out what that animal is.
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