In But Not Of

[Music] rise up in jesus name open eyes and heal the land rise up declare his truth we're the ones who cannot live [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is all right well if you have your bibles turn with me to judges chapter three that's where we're going to go first we'll see how far we get this morning so all right well there's well like i said we'll just see how far we get because i really want to jump into some stuff but there needs to be some ground work first so first off in judges chapter 3 verse 1 it says now these are the nations which the lord left to prove israel by them even as many of israel as had not known all the wars of canaan and notice first off these nations were left by god and if you go back and look at it uh it says that at one point joshua had been chasing all them out but these nations these five nations were remaining when joshua died and then the people pretty much backstood away from god and they had to start dealing with them they had to start dealing with these nations on their own and god said okay you're on your own this i'm not going to do this for you anymore. so then he said now notice so it says even as many of israel as had not known all the wars of canaan so these were at a time when israel did not know how to fight and so it says in verse 2 only that the generations of the children of israel might know to teach them war at the least such as before knew nothing thereof so again it's then they're gonna learn war how to fight from these nations that were left now what that means is this god already knew that they could win but israel didn't know they could win think about that that's where most christians are god knows you can win most christians don't know they can win and so god left them there on purpose now think about this just so israel could beat up on them isn't that something and they left them there just so they could learn how to fight and how to war make war because they had never experienced anything like it before then in verse three namely five lords of the philistines and all the canaanites and the sidonians and the hivites that dwelt in mount lebanon from mount bal hermann unto the entering in of hamath and they were to prove israel by them to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the lord which he commanded their fathers by the hand of moses now notice they're going to prove them but it gives you all these five kings here and the children of israel dwelt now notice here's the key and the children of israel dwelt among the canaanites hittites and amorites and the perizzites and the hivites and the jebusites now if you look this up notice israel moved in and lived among them okay that's their first mistake notice what they didn't do they didn't chase them out they lived among them right now what you tolerate will dominate you right it says in verse well actually before we get there i want to bring this up if you i actually did a kind of a quick study on this i've been looking at for a little bit but if you go back through all of these nations it is really amazing out of all these nations the canaanites were the ones that really gave israel the most problem historically all the way through and the the canaanites chief god was most people call it baal but his actual name was ba al and that was shortened from ba allah and so it might give you an idea of kind of where this stuff is headed well now the the um who is let me get the names right the hittites their chief god was a sun goddess named ereniti and her name is pronounced different ways but she had a husband and these are their gods their gods had a husband the female god was the top god and then the next down was her husband who was named taru which actually there's a longer name that goes with it but he was the weather god and god of storms okay now think about this right he was a god of storms matter of fact what you're going to find uh the amorites their chief god was called amuru and he was a storm or weather god and it's funny because when they mention weather gods they always mention storms right now automatically if you've read the bible much you should think about the storm when jesus was going across the sea remember that and this storm rose up well guess what that would have been amaru right or possibly even taru depending on what nationality you were at that time now people think a lot of people think that there's these superstition and that these pagans were superstitious with their gods you know these gods that they called gods were nothing more than demons and territorial spirits over their area and so whenever they were in that area matter of fact some of them had gods of the what they call the gods of the groves which was groves of trees that that god would be there then they had the god of the plains and matter of fact one of the times the nations that israel fought said well the reason uh we're we lost that fight is because we were fighting in the mountains and israel's god is the god of the mountains if we could draw them into the plains we could beat them because our god is the god of the plains it shows you how they thought when they tried that out it didn't work and just give you the short story all right now but then uh yeah i'm going through this the amorites amaru which was a storm god which was the husband of ashira which was known as she who walks on the sea okay now notice you can also see this is in the same place where jesus walked on the water what was he doing he was showing people uh no not her me i'm the one who walks on the sea do you understand everything that goes through there say we can read it at surface level which we do as especially as americans many times we read it at a surface level we're looking for principle which you should always look for principles because that's how you order your life but we also have to remember that when this was written especially in judges 3 obviously this was a time when jehovah was establishing the israelites in a place of their kingdom and then of course whenever the new testament was written jesus was walking and showing forth the kingdom you might say in that sense and so you have to go back and look at what they were doing so because all over and over again god kept telling the israelites do not go after false gods don't go after these other gods don't let these people around because you will go after their gods do not serve their gods is that right kept them over and over again and even one of the ten commandments of course is that we will have no other gods before our god amen and so there we now if it were not possible to have other gods he wouldn't have told us don't have other gods all right now when we think about other gods people say well there's only one god yes there's only one true god who is supreme sovereign self-sufficient but there are other things that people make gods or accept as god some of those are actual demons that are beings and then sometimes they're cars boats fishing lures uh anything that has some type of ball that you kick through or you know what or bad or whatever it is all of those are other gods do you understand now so this the so far we've talked about the canaanite god of ba'al then the hittites god which was ereniti the sun goddess and then the amorites had umaru which was a storm god who was the husband of ashraf she who walks in the sea also known as the mother goddess her normal term was the mother goddess right and now most now notice this is just some of them i mean you could go into all of them but i'm not don't have time to do it and i really don't want to waste time talking about false gods i'd rather talk about the true god amen but i'm just pointing out some of these things because all of these tribes pretty much and here's the main thing because the canaanites were the main tribe and pretty much had control of the area their god was generally seen as the top god and all the others were more like tribal gods over their own area because everybody wanted their own personal god right and so they had their own tribal gods but almost all of them even though they had gods that they saw as their supreme god usually had a wife or sometimes the wife was the top god and then the husband would be the second and so you can see both sides of that but all of them recognized by all right all of them recognized the canaanite god and when the canaanites were around pretty much everybody had to bow to the canaanite god when they weren't around then they would pretty much do their own gods and serve them but what they would do is they would make little images of them and then they would put them on their shelves in their house and make shrines and those shrines whenever there was any kind of thing going on they would pray to the appropriate god to cause good weather for good crops if it was if they wanted to become as we would say fertile and be able to bear children then they would pray to the mother goddess or to the top goddess if she was the head god in that sense and so they had certain things certain gods they prayed to for certain things now here's the thing look at this next verse in verse 12 verse 5 and that i already read this once we'll read it again and the children of israel dwelt among the canaanites hittites amorites perizzites hivites and the jebusites so now notice they dwelt among them they dwelt right now look at verse six and they took their daughters to be their wives and gave their daughters to their sons and served their gods why because they dwelt among them and because they were you see the the new testament tells us that we're in the world we're not of the world amen well here you see an example of people that were in the world who became of the world because they were so much in the world and so you have to watch because whenever you're around people that much and especially it says because they dwelt there they started serving their gods why because they wanted pure acceptance they wanted to be excited they don't want to be the weird people they don't want to be the people well they don't fit in with society they didn't want to be that they wanted to accept and they wanted to be accepted and so they started serving the gods that god said listen i put you here so that you could drive these people out because i gave this land to you why and if you go back and study and people say well look at god look how mean look what all the things he did now you have to go back and look at these people right and look at these lands in these tribes because these tribes number one they were filthy they had no type of sanitation they had no idea of any type of of just hygiene put it that way it was bad and matter of fact most of them had diseases that thank god most of that has actually died out but at the time they were having diseases and that's one of the reasons why god said don't be among them why because then those diseases will come upon you if you start living like them and so you have to put all of this stuff together to look at it now it says here watch this and they took well it's at the end of that it says and served their gods and the children of israel did evil in the sight of the lord and forgot the lord their god and served balaam and the groves now balaam we know what balaam was and we know that that uh balaam predominantly had to do with money connected to religion remember that right money connected to religion and so there was some type of wealth in that sense and they started watching it says and the groves and other groves as i said were groves of trees where they said their gods lived and so they were pagan they were heathen they were practicing these things in these groves and they were trying to what the israelites actually joined in with them and began to serve balaam and began to serve all of the gods that were there and the way they did things which meant that now and you have to remember when this was going on before that they were told this is why these nations are still there to prove you and to teach you war not to teach you how to get along not to teach you how to assimilate do you get that and so they were put there and god was saying i'm going to see what you're going to do with me you can win but i'm going to see if you're going to be with me and obey my commandments or if you're going to bow to the pressure of peer pressure and live how they say you should live right because it doesn't say they live separate now if you look at how they were in uh in egypt they were not living amongst the egyptians they lived across the river as we would say and when in the land of goshen and that's why all the plague that's why god actually sent the plagues where he did all the plagues all those ten plagues hit all of egypt and hit the river did not touch the israelites did not touch their land didn't touch their cattle didn't touch their none of their animals their stock any of that kind of stuff and so all of this was going on but and they could look over and matter of fact it said at one point when darkness hit the land in the land of goshen they had light and they could see but over on the other side of the river it was all dark now think about that these are visible things i want to talk about that hopefully later today i want to talk about the difference between the visible and the invisible and how that affects us right now it says in verse 8 therefore okay because they forgot the lord their god and served balaam and the growth therefore the anger of the lord was hot against israel and he sold them into the hand of actually the the name of this king is tushan risha thea king of mesopotamia and the children of israel served that same king okay i'm not gonna read his name again it's her name i don't know where they get these names from okay we're gonna call this one carl okay he's carl and we're gonna rename him okay hey you know come on when anybody comes from another country they come over here with a long name okay i have an ex-brother-in-law um actually yeah ex-brother-in-law one two whose name is saeed right and he's iranian actually and then there was another one he had a brother named masood well guess what now syed has another american name and masood goes by michael so if they can change their name i can change this name to carl he's carl now right so there we go now so okay and it said now watch this it says uh he's in israel served carl for eight years right okay just bear with me okay and when the children of israel cried unto the lord now notice when the children of israel cried unto the lord the lord raised up a deliverer to the children of israel he didn't do it till they cried do you get that if you go back and read whenever god raised up moses it was because the cry of israel was loud and he heard it and he sent a deliverer god always sends here's the thing people say why didn't he do it before they call okay i don't know okay i don't know and you don't know and anything we say is gonna be speculation and it's usually gonna turn against god somehow and if god's people are gonna turn against him then are we really god's people if anything we're to give them the benefit of the doubt here's what i can say every time god's people cry god sends a deliverer that's what we ought to be looking at as opposed to well why didn't he get here sooner right well why didn't you cry sooner okay so now notice it says he cried under the lord and the lord raised up a deliverer to the children of israel who delivered them now notice this even off meal there you go all right [Applause] the son of kinase caleb's younger brother amen now watch and the spirit of the lord came upon him and he judged israel and went out to war and the lord delivered carl king of mesopotamia into his hand and his hand prevailed against carl okay and the land had rest 40 years and othniel the son of quinas died okay well now here's what i want to get at here's the main point there number number one god knew as i said that these uh that the israelites should have been able to beat their enemies he expected them to be able to go in there drive out their enemies and possess the land amen but now notice they had unrealized potential because they didn't do that instead they went in and tried to get along tried to assimilate in and tried to you know be well we're just in here and trying to get along and trying to keep peace well that didn't work okay but they didn't fight them and now notice they gave in to them and started practicing their ways and following their gods now here's the thing they became conformed to their surroundings rather than transforming their surroundings now if we take this to the new testament and we're going to look at some stuff there too but if you think about this the bible is very clear jesus said that we are the light of the world am right he said he was and he said we are then he said you are the salt of the earth is that right so we are the salt of the earth is that right now do you remember the situation that jesus said that do you remember the story because what he said was you are the salt of the earth and he was talking about christians believers followers of christ amen then he said but if the salt christians has lost its saltiness then it is good for nothing but to be cast out and notice and trodden under foot of men if the church loses its saltiness it is good for nothing but to be cast out and men are going to walk on it we've seen that we're seeing that in some cases do you understand what i'm saying now see whenever i was looking through this and going through it and and meditating on these things i started seeing this so clearly of how the church has lost its saltiness why because of false doctrines doctrines of devils that have come into the church and have made the church number one very overall very feminine do you understand and most of the preaching has feminized the church to where men most of time don't even want to come to church why because all you talk about is women's stuff it's all emotions it's all feelings and inner healing and all that kind of stuff which you don't find in the bible but that never stopped preachers from preaching it and so we need to realize the purpose of the church is to be salt and light in the earth right now what that means is the church cannot afford to lose its edge but it has in times past people would always say that they know that there is a god in israel why because god would show up when his people did but over time because everything has become a self-help message rather than preaching the gospel people have gotten to a place where it's all about well help me be a better person so that i can make more money have a better job have a better house and drive a better car and it's all about the here and now rather than the future and now and the problem is in that now we are the body of christ now here's a revelation jesus was a man there you go that's the revelation and if we are his body then we are as the bible says he they even tell us quit ye and be like men that's what he tells us you get that and so as that the then this is one of the reasons why people why especially men do and people of authority do and are drawn toward the jesuit message why because we preach the truth and we preach that we are his body and if we are his body now people say well we're a bride no we're not no you have to look at that we're not a bride until he comes back you look at it look at it because it talks about that but it tells us that we are his bride we are his body he's the head we're the feet we're the hands and he is believe it or not he is not transgender he doesn't have a man's head a woman's body do you understand what i'm saying right and so we have to realize that if we're going to be salt and light then that means that we're going to go against the flow of the world and if we're not going against the flow of the world you need to check yourself jesus said that they didn't understand him and he said if they didn't understand him they're not going to understand us which means if they understand us we ain't like him and so we need to be more like him amen do you hear what i'm saying and so instead of dwelling among them in the sense of partaking of their gods and it's really sad because most christians you know there are certain groups of christians that actually stand out because of their stand on certain things most christians don't most christians you wouldn't know wherever you work you wouldn't know that they're christian unless of course there's been some little things said somewhere or something but they don't stand out they don't go against the flow and they go along with everything and so what we have to realize that as christians we are to go against the flow we have to remain salty that means that now understand what salt does salt does a lot of things i'm not going to give you a whole history right now because not the purpose but number one it sanitizes it purifies it preserves those are just three things right there now in the process of sanitizing right and preserving in that process now understand you can put it on meat and it will preserve the meat and that's how they used to do it before their refrigerators they'd pack it in salt and the meat stayed good for a long time now at the same time in the old days before there was a myriad of different types of medicines and all kinds of other potions and everything else back then if there was if you had a cut you went and packed salt in it and can you imagine okay packing salt in it why because it killed the germs and it kept you from getting infected but guess what whenever you pack salt in it it hurt it burned right which is another aspect of what the church is supposed to be doing amen we are supposed to if you go back and read even about noah it says that because noah was a preacher of righteousness in other words he lived a life and he was moved with fear and built the ark as he was commanded it said that the world that he can get this it says noah's faith how he lived what he said condemned the world do you get it he didn't walk around you're condemned you're condemned he didn't do that he didn't have to he was being a light and he was letting his light shine and believe me when light gets around darkness darkness knows it's dark now i'm not saying we shouldn't just preach against sins of course we should but at the same time you have to be able to realize that as light how you live your life separate from the world will cause the world to say they're different and quote unquote they're better their life is better they don't get sick they don't they're not broke they're not all this stuff where they're having to struggle after these things the christian lives their life seeking first the kingdom of god and all these things are added to them this is the way it works amen now don't think when the egyptians had the israelites in captivity across the river don't think that whenever the plagues were happening in it you know because you know that israel saw the plagues going on in egypt well guess what egypt saw the plays going on in egypt and they could also look across the land and go why ain't that happening over there we're wide and all of our god's helping us pharaoh is a living god why isn't he doing something and so don't think that they didn't recognize that and the israelites weren't standing on the other side like standing on the street corner and preaching to them they were living do you get that and in the midst of that what happened was the egyptians were got afraid of the israelites because the israelites it was amazing how they would just they begin to multiply and they said there's more of them we got to do something about it because the egyptians saying this about the israelites said there's more of them and we have to do something about it because otherwise they're going to outnumber us and take over now think about that slaves not always the best food obviously not always the best conditions why they were prisoners and so but yet the egyptians became afraid of them because they were going to multiply them and it's even said that the women the hebrew women were so strong that when they were out in the field the pregnant women would give birth in the field and keep on working god bless you women god bless you amen i mean think about it but they said and in in child bearing you will be saved or preserved and you won't die in child bearing uh if you follow god and then and we even have people right here in the church that have given birth with no pain boom amen why because that's what it's supposed to be amen but it doesn't just happen what you believe is what you have right now what you've been believing is what you have because what you've been believing you've also been saying and you will have whatever you say if you believe it so all of this is going on and people say well why didn't god do this why don't you go why don't you do the bible say what the bible says say what god says believe what he said and choose see this is the thing people make faith into some magic thing and they think it's you know to snap your finger it's not faith is how you live it is how you live amen now and it's not just a a formula but it is actually how you live your life on a day-to-day basis it is walking with god it's and listen it's knowing god but when we say that we automatically put in some religious context as if well walk with god and know god yes i'm supposed to walk around in a fog you know my as we say the head and the clouds and that kind of thing and you know i'm just in it i just don't know i'm just i'm just walking with god no yeah that's not the way it works right people that do that are pseudo spiritual not super spiritual pseudo spiritual which means fake spiritual right and we have to realize god walked with man in the garden he wants to walk with man today amen and that means in everyday life that means he can prepare you for things he can tell you things to come see there's all these scriptures that we have that we don't even use and we don't even realize sometimes he said that when the holy spirit comes he will show you things to come that means nothing should take us by surprise and you and it won't if you live close enough to him to where you're talking to him and he's talking to you what that means is if you abide in him and his word abides in you then you can ask whatever you will but guess what the holy spirit will tell you things and and it's a whole it's a different life of you're walking normal but yet abnormal things happen around you and things start going on ranch i could give you stories honestly just story after story even in the last few weeks of things that are going on even last this last week i'll probably tell that story uh in the during the 10 o'clock because uh i just don't tell her right now because too long but 10 o'clock have a little more time so i mean now watch us speaking of time i gotta there we go all right now notice here now picture this you've got them in judges they're living among these five nations they've they've become assimilated they become accepted and i'm sure they came in they assimilated the false gods doing all these things now remember this in the book of numbers okay numbers chapter 13. now you would think because this is before judges right and numbers 13 and i'm not going to read the whole story because it's it's actually two chapters of numbers i'm not going to read all of it i'm going to run through it real quick but now notice this it says these are the names in verse 16. these are the names and you go through the verses above it and gives you a whole list of the twelve spies of the men which moses sent out sent to spy out the land and moses called o'shea the son of nun jehoshapha so now notice it says that moses gave o'shea a new name he gave him a name and called him jehoshua right and moses sent them out to spy out the land of canaan and said unto them get you up this way southward and go up into the mountain in other words these times go up in the mountains come around he's telling them how to go in to spy out the land now watch what here's what he sends them to do and see the land what it is and the people that dwell it therein whether they be strong or weak few or many what were they doing was he sending in a a war party no he was sending out a reconnaissance squad 12 men that's a squad he sent out a 12-man squad to go do reconnaissance and spy out the land and come back with information you got that's all they weren't to engage they weren't to fight they were to go spy out the land and bring back information right now watch and what the land is that they dwell in whether it's good or bad and what cities they be that they dwell in whether in tents or in strongholds walled cities and what the land is whether it be fat or lean whether there be wood therein or not and be ye of good courage he told him ahead of time be of good courage right and bring of the fruit of the land bring it back and show us what it's like now the time was the time of the first stripe grapes verse and if you go down to verse 25 and they returned from searching of the land after 40 days they were gone 40 days and they went and came to moses and to aaron to all the congregation of the children of israel unto the wilderness of peran to qadesh and brought back word unto them and unto all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land and they told him and said we came unto the land whether you sent us and surely it flows with milk and honey wow just like god said and this is the fruit of it remember they said they brought back grapes on a basically they carried took two men to carry one rack of grapes we would say nevertheless the people in other words it's a great place it's great land it's good look at this look at the size of these grapes it's going to be awesome but we got a problem the people be strong that dwell in the land and the cities are walled and very great and moreover we saw the children of anac there and they were known to be large strong warriors basically the amalekites dwell in the land of the south and the hittites and the jebusites and the amorites sounds like the name i just listed all the names in judges chapter three doesn't it so now these are the first ones going in to spy out the land right then in judges they've actually moved into the land but these people are all still there right now watch us they dwell in the mountains and the canaanites dwell by the sea and by the coast of jordan now watch and caleb stealed the people before moses in other words when they started hearing that everybody started moving around and talking oh this is not good and they all started kind of jostling around and getting upset nervous caleb stealed the people before moses and said now watch it he goes oh yeah everybody calm down hang on he turns around and basically says to moses okay and says let us go up at once and possess it in other words he just heard the report these they're strong it's a good land but they're strong and they're powerful and and there's all these different five tribes here and first thing caleb says let's go let's go at once don't wait why the longer you wait the more you'll hesitate and the more you'll talk yourself out of it smith wigglesworth said faith listen it says fear looks faith jumps see people that are averse to risk will never walk in faith they'll always have to figure everything out first and you can't figure out god and they'll always try to figure well that couldn't happen this couldn't happen well let me tell you you start saying well but but but don't don't you see this don't you see that don't you know that uh are you in denial or you come on don't you see it and god said no we don't walk by sight we walk by faith is that right and god and as soon as you start talking about all the why you can't like these guys did then you become like these guys and guess what they did they did not go into the promised land they walked around for 40 years in the wilderness one year for each day that they had gone in and spied out the land they wandered around for 40 years not entering in their promised land why don't they go 40 years because they had to wait till everybody was dead of this generation and the only two that were left was joshua and caleb the two that said we are well able let us go up at once and possess the land let us go we can do this why because even joshua says if god is with us and if we please him then he will give us this land it will be awesome right but the others are saying no you don't understand this this is bad it's not good why did you bring us out here to die in the wilderness wasn't there enough graves back in egypt and then god shows up i'm cutting through it very quickly but i want to show you what they did i don't want to go too fast but i do want you to get this he said let us go up at once and possess it for we are well able to overcome it but the men that went up with him the other ten said we be not able to go up against the people for they are stronger than we yeah but they're not stronger than god and see they kept seeing everything through their eyes and all through god's eyes and they brought up an evil report of the land do you hear what the evil report was what god called an evil report it's people saying they're stronger than us and we can't do it why because they're cutting god out of it do you get that now put this in everyday life put this in your life where you are right now when you start thinking well what are we going to do well we better not do it oh have you heard about this oh they're going to make us build make more bricks without straw now it's going to get worse it's going to be this way and then people say well who are you listening to well you're listening to the evil report also known as the nightly news or you know whatever special report yeah here's a special report it's evil it's going to be an evil report because you're choosing to believe the report of man over the report of god and that's what god said in isaiah chapter 53 who has believed our report and you have to decide which report you're going to believe amen and you start listening to things now faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god so doubt and unbelief comes by hearing and hearing by the word of man why because man thinks like satan if he's not born again and his mind is not renewed so you get to decide what you want so guess what smith wigglesworth even said i mean i think i have it here right here um let's see yep yep yep i got it wait it's here okay i see has it and i have it right here i don't read all of them here it is right here all lack of faith is due to not feeding on the word of god you need it every day do you hear that all lack of faith is due to not feeding on the word of god so your real question comes down to what are you feeding on if you're going to listen to garbage every day you're going to have garbage in your head all day if you're listening to fear and fear-mongering you're going to become a fear-monger and instead of preaching the good news you're going to end up preaching bad news you're going to preach and what everybody else is preaching and let me tell you if you're only preaching what people see then you're not walking with god when you walk with god you see things other people can't see you see the invisible and you start speaking the invisible and the invisible then by faith comes into the visible that's how it works right so it's one thing i've again i've been reading a lot of wigglesworth and man he has some great one-liners i mean just just cuts right to the heart and he even talks about he said there are many christians who are lying to themselves because they think they're walking in faith and they're lying to themselves they're not walking in faith why because when you walk by faith you don't walk by sight and when you all you talk about is what you've seen heard oh no i've seen it but you don't understand well guess what jesus said there's going to be rumors and wars and rumors of wars right but ain't nobody seen the stuff going on now oh i've seen video i've seen this video i've seen that video and i've seen the things how they make videos okay here's what you ought to do sometime i you will never hardly ever hear me tell you watch a movie but there's a movie you should watch and i'm praying to god there's nothing bad in it because i don't remember but it's a movie called wag the dog and had dustin hoffman and i think it had robert de niro which i don't watch anything with him in it anymore anyway but because he went crazy and got stupid but anyway because he thinks he's a tough guy anyway so but wag the dog shows how filmmakers can make nightly news and put on video that looks like a war is going on and there's nothing happening and it shows how the uh how they basically changed the american view towards something because they made it look like a war and like we got to go save these people when there was nothing going on but they rallied the people behind fake news and that's and i'm telling you if you watch that show you will see and then right now especially with the things that with the the technology we have today let me tell you any person in this room could be picked out by somebody and they can make video of you and have you saying things you've never said in your life and have your face on it and have i mean if and people say well i believe it when i see it well here's the video and and you weren't anywhere near there never said anything like that never did it and don't be surprised when if things don't start happening in a way that whenever uh if you're just if you are determined to be an undesirable or a common term a hater don't think that they won't have video of you doing bad evil things that they can show people to turn them against you and you are nowhere near that but they can put that on video and people and people will believe that was you because it's possible technology is there it can happen today so guess what all this stuff well i believe it when i see it you can't believe what you see we have passed that point you're gonna have to walk by faith and believe what the word of god says because i will tell you this i don't care what's coming what's going to happen i don't care there is nothing that coming that is coming that faith in god cannot overcome faith in god will bring you through it bring you out of it overcome it or whatever it needs to be done but it's going to take faith in god so you can study all the stuff that's happening or you can study the word of god and get faith in god so that whenever what happens happens you will live through it now i really i actually i had like seven pages of notes okay which obviously i'm on page three right so and i've got to stop now even but i really wanted to get to daniel especially daniel 3 i really wanted to get to daniel 3 today about the three hebrew children being thrown in a fiery furnace boy i want to get there but anyway i just don't know i guess i'm telling you but here's what i'm trying to show you these ten spies came back and gave an evil report two of them joshua and caleb said we are able why they they saw listen the 12 all saw the same thing joshua and caleb also saw the sons of anak they also saw these are strong walled cities these are powerful people they saw all of that and they came back saying they are meat for actually i said meat they joshua said they are bread for us in other words this this is what this is it this is i this this this is going to be a walk over why because we have god not because well we're bigger and stronger and got more numbers you know every time that happens god says oh right get rid of some remember remember gideon he said no we got to get you down more why because if you do if you have bigger numbers you'll think you can do it and yet the church still hadn't learned that we've got all these examples and the church still hadn't said but you don't understand oh this is going to happen we have no defense there's nothing we can do anymore it's beyond that now uh excuse me we have no defense that's what they said that's what joshua said about these people they said their defense is gone why because god is for us so whenever the enemy is laughing going now i got them right where i want them god is saying yeah you think so it's like the american general at one time they called and said how are things going in the battle he said it's wonderful we are completely surrounded no matter where we shoot we will hit an enemy that's how christians need to think no matter what's going on man we can pray about anything why because it's all bad we can hit anything with prayer and change it amen your faith can change anything number one this world is changeable number two your faith can change it faith can change the world is that right number three you're the people with faith that can change the world you say well there's not enough of us really what are your new age you think you got to get enough people together so you can create enough power all it takes is two if any two agree is touching anything it shall be done but instead you know what we do we end up saying and repeating we let the news tell us what to say and then repeat it we just keep repeating it the people are supposed to know the power of their words the people that are supposed to know god and understand faith in god and yet we let instead of letting the bible come out of our mouth we let the news people put in our mouth and we repeat what they say and now we're gossiping and we're saying all this bad stuff and no wonder some of it comes to pass why you got the very people with power speaking it instead of speaking against it and saying no it won't be that way it'll be this way it'll be the way this book says it is well what makes you think so because i just said so why because he said that my faith is the substance of things hoped for do you get that and all things are possible to him that believes and with god all things are possible well guess what i believe i'm with god i got two out of two amen amen but you're gonna have to decide to make a stand for what you believe and you're gonna have to cut off the garbage out of your ears and start focusing this is why wigglesworth wouldn't even let a newspaper in his house he didn't even have a radio in his house which at that time that was the means of mass communication he didn't have any of that you know what he did he spent his time reading this and he was spending his time reading this he got faith he said i can read the newspapers but they're full of trash and he said when i come out i'm dirtier than when i went in or i can read this and when i come out of this i'm cleaner than when i went in think about that and that's why he spent all this time and then people oh wigglesworth oh he did this he did that i mean you're looking at the result that's not the thing the the miracles that's not the thing the miracles are the result of the faith he got by reading this so it's not well i want the miracles well then get the faith well i want the miracles but i want all the news ain't gonna happen and you watch the people that fall first are the people that know everything that's going on if you wanna stand you're going to decide what the bible says and you're going to decide to believe that no matter what you're going to speak that no matter what you're going to put a watch on your mouth and say i will not speak anything that does not agree with this word it's that simple and you watch listen you can you can be an israelite and live across the river and watch all the stuff go on and it'll not touch you why because though a thousand followed your left hand and ten thousand and right it will not come near my dwelling amen but you're going to decide to believe that and you're going to have to decide once you believe it to walk in it and that means you have to be as vocal about that as you are about preaching whatever happened last night on the news or predicting what's going to come you know a month down the road you're going to get away from that stuff and decide this is what's coming a month down the road amen this is what we've got to get to i'm telling you people say well you're just in denial you bet i am i deny that stuff the right to live in my life i i allow this and he said whatever you bind on earth is bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth is loosed in heaven how do you lose things by saying right so you got to decide what have you been losing what have you been allowing by your words to happen in your life i have decided god is in control of my life because i give his word control of my life and to that degree he is in my life working through my life and because of that things happen i don't even have to ask about why because he is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all i can even ask or think he's doing things for me i don't even know he's doing behind the scenes and they just show up when i need them amen why because i refuse to dwell on anything other than this i refuse if you want to sit around talk about it i'll get up and leave why because i'd rather think this he said think on these things and these things is not i don't care if it's fox news cnn whatever i don't care it ain't this this is what guides my life this is what i want to think on why because there ain't no things that are pure good of a good report on any of the networks if you go check the same people own all the networks the same people that own cnn own fox why they just know there's a market for one side or the other and if they can keep that going then they got people at war and everybody wants to hear what the next shot fired in the war was and who am i supposed to be mad at because they're going to tell you but instead you start listening what the word of god says and when he does that then he makes even your enemies be at peace with you when your ways please the lord amen i can give you examples even in my own life all i'm saying is that these these 12 and i've got to stop but these 12 spies you have to remember these people came back these ten came back and said we can't do it two said we can the ten went out now and then years later after they've gone to the promised land now this whole for after 40 years now they've gone to the promised land and they come these same people that they were afraid of before but now they're moving in and now they're dwelling them and that's how the enemy does it first off he tries to make you afraid and tries to defeat you through fear and if that doesn't work he will try to get you to blend with him and be just like him and that's exactly what he's done that's what the enemy it's still his tactic today and it's a principle we have to realize and not give way to and so then and the thing is now they're in that land now they're dwelling with them and now they already had an example of what happens when they don't trust god and you can see what happened to them they were defeated they were living defeated lives that is not who we're supposed to be amen learn from the past don't give up things and don't walk in fear to try to get along because after a while see the enemy knows the enemy is so well okay you look at sickness and disease it's the long sicknesses and diseases that usually defeat christians why because they get tired of long fights and after a while they just give in and go you know yeah whatever i guess that's what i got i guess that's what it'll be and they give in and the enemy either kills them or makes them live debilitated the rest of their life why because the enemy knows if i can hang on long enough they will wear out they will grow weary in will doing they will give up and they will quit and they'll start to go along because everybody's telling them you must be in denial and so they know that the enemy knows that and so he tries to do the same thing and then he tries to he'll he'll take some ground he'll back off a little bit and then he'll take more ground the next time and he backs off a bit and he takes more ground the next time and so you have to realize that you have to make the decision in the beginning i will do this no matter what and i will do this the rest of my life in other words never give in never give up never quit never back down if you don't bow you won't burn it's that simple because god is able to deliver us but even if he doesn't we will still serve him and not serve their gods and i can i can take you through every uh [Music] category of secular life and there are gods mentioned in the bible for each one of those categories the god of medicine was called escript let's get it out right and that's where the the idea of the serpent and the poles and all that kind of stuff see everybody thinks that came from moses it didn't come from moses is that see everybody oh see that's god's way you lift up the serpent on the pole said no it's not go back and read it that was the symbol of the greek god where they had healing places that were like pharmacies as we would call them where they did pharmacy and created potions and the reason the snakes on the pole is because they would go in and lay on these things and at night these snakes would come out into this temple and bite the people and generally would help them either die or build up antibodies in their body to overcome it and that was their hospitals and that's the symbol of medicine today but everybody says oh medicine is god's hand that's how god does it no medicine is not god's handiwork he it never was it never will be it's that simple god does his own handiwork he is jehovah rapha he heals man doesn't and man always comes up with another problem pretty simple anybody have any question where i stand on these things okay because i don't know how much clearer i can say it right but at least hopefully you got something out of this this morning amen amen

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Length: 53min 2sec (3182 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 16 2021