The Dangers Of Russian Roulette

[Music] all right again thank you so much for being here you can be seated take your Bible and open as I've instructed you to The Book of Proverbs chapter 29 I'll be reading one verse of scripture I want to say thank you to the band and the praise team I never get tired of hearing I'll fly away and he called my name I'm praying that today through the Word of God you will be enlightened encouraged and most of all challenged from the message that God has put on my heart for the service today in proverbs chapter 29 the writers said in verse number 1 he that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy I believe Solomon is the writer of the book of Proverbs and he's simply saying this to those that God has warned frequently to those that God has reproved often through his man through his word and through his spirit he said if you harden your neck if you rebel against that word if you stiffen up and refuse to respond God said you shall be destroyed without remedy that word without remedy means without cure without due process or without an opportunity to change the conclusion this is a very stout verse of warning to all of us because he that knoweth to do with good and doeth it not to him it is sin when God deals with us we know better than to keep following the transgression and the follies of our lust and our flesh and our weaknesses with that thought in mind I want to preach on the subject the danger of Russian Roulette how many times do you think you're gonna get by with something before it finally catches up with you that's what the writer is implying in my text Russian Roulette is a lethal game of chance in which a player places a single round in a revolver spins the cylinder of the revolver and places the barrel against his or her own head and pulls the trigger Russian Roulette was started in 1917 with the Russian army while they were in Romania an officer would suddenly pull out his revolver setting anywhere with the troops or basically at a table he would then remove all the bullets except one out of his revolver he would snap the cylinder back into place spin it with his hand put it to his head and pull the trigger of that gun would it be in a six-shot revolver back then his chances of dying was one in six everytime they pulled the trigger could you imagine somebody being so naive somebody being so thoughtless that they would attempt such a measure on their own life Russian Roulette I remember years before I was saved I was in a place where I should not have been to say the least and I remember in the midst of that party probably 50 to 70 people there that night we were at a huge facility I remembered while we were all standing around talking some were sitting down the music was blaring I noticed that in the midst of us all of a sudden about 8 young people sat in a circle I was preoccupied talking and fellowshipping with people and I really didn't realize what was about to happen in just a few moments I looked down and I realized that those people sitting in that circle were not drinking they were not smoking and many of them were laughing uncontrollably out loud it was at that point when I turned around that I saw a little girl that couldn't have been more than 16 years old place a small gun against her head pull the trigger back and I heard it snap with uncontrollable laughter those that were sitting in the circle fell over thinking that it was so funny that the chamber that she had plunged into was empty of a bullet I stood up and I said this you can only do that so many times before someone loses you can only take so many chances you can only indulge in something so many times til somebody will be a loser I exited that room hurriedly and went elsewhere for the rest of the evening I found out later that the gun was taken by the man that owned the home and I'm glad he did because no doubt someone would have died that very night I remember walking down the street that night and I was thinking out loud and I said how crazy is it to take such a fatal chance for such a temporary thrill how crazy to take a fatal chance for something as temporary as a thrill I'm sure all of you would look at somebody that would proceed in this activity and say the same thing why would you gamble why would you chance why would you risk it all for a temporary thrill to gamble to take a chance and though you made shy away and even be critical of Russian roulette as a pastor I watched my people my community my state and visitors in our church spiritually do the same thing every week and Sunday after Sunday as you are throwing your life away I say to myself you can only play this game so long until you're gonna get hurt you're gonna play it so long somebody's gonna get hurt you say preacher I would never put a gun to my head with a bullet in the chamber and pull the trigger but there are other ways that you are gambling with your soul with your life with your future I'd like to mention a few of those today and I feel like I know in my spirit some of you just a revelation of God studying this message shot body here is playing Russian roulette with their future just for a cheap temporary thrill may I mention just a few of them that I'm sure is it exhibited in all churches number one are you really willing to play Russian roulette with your flesh as the devil spun the cylinder of depravity in your life and pointed the gun it's your flesh daring you to go ahead and take a chance and pull the trigger knowing that on the other side of pulling that trigger you have one or two options a cheap thrill or sudden death that's why Solomon said in our text he that being often reproved he that often spins the cylinder he that often plays Russian roulette with his flash will suddenly be destroyed and that without Reddit II you play with the flesh you will lose somewhere down the road oh you've heard the snap before as you've indulged in your lustful desires you've spun the cylinder and you've gotten by with it for a week a month or maybe even a year and because of that now you think you're a winner you think you're a pro and now every time you indulge in the flesh the excitement is greater the thrill is greater of the gamble is greater the chance is greater and you feed on that and now your flesh is out of control you're doing things now that you never dreamed you would do a year ago because you've allowed the devil to play Russian roulette with your flesh nobody has ever played with the flesh and come out a winner and you and I will not be an exception to that rule you yield to your depravity and your youthful lusts and your godless desires somewhere down the road when you pull the trigger sudden death could I take you back through the pages of the book of Judges chapter number 16 for it was there that sense and even as a lad of a boy begin to play Russian roulette with his flesh it was Samson that had his life for Dame before he was ever born Samson that judged Israel for twenty years it was that sex and when he was a lad of a boy that took the Nazarite vow that he was to be clean that he was to be virtuous that he was to stay away from anything dead and that he was not to cut his hair it was that Samson that as a young boy begin to be enticed by ungodly women it was sex and that laid with the of his community and no doubt every time Samson went into one of those women he would spin the cylinder of that gun here it's snap and get up the next morning and say I got by with it again well it was that same Samson that killed a lion with his own hands and days later passed by that dead carcass a carcass we're weird Samson through the Nazarite valve was not even given the privilege in the Liberty to be around oh but it was that Samson that went up to the dead carcass of the lion and pulled the honey out of it and tasted of the sweetness thereof again spill in the spin in the cylinder disobedient to God allowing his flesh to control his life all down through several years of time samson found himself in places of ill repute and each time he would get up and spend this cylinder put it up against his head and hear the snap only to feed his godless desires that much more but all that they came when Samson met his match he went into a woman of the Philistines called Delilah and it was there you know the story that Samson was there to commit a relationship that was forbidden by God in his Nazarite Val it was saps in that lady's head in her bosom spitter that cylinder listening to the snap feeding the thrill of that flesh it was that Samson that told her the secret of his strength being in the hair of his head oh no doubt when Samson woke up and his head was shaved and his power was gone he had realized that he had been often reproved I wonder how many times God through his spirit had dealt with Samson and said stop it don't do it get out of it quit it get away from it but all every time you heard the snap he thought he'd got by with it again and it wasn't until they plunged his eyes out of his head and brought him into a pagan temple where Samson realized his life and his future was now gone at one last time he spun the cylinder and pushed the pillars and brother the gun went off and all the Marvel and the stone fell upon the judge of Israel and killed him in such low ebb of State oh you hear me well some of you hear you think you got by with it just because you've not felt or seen judgment as of yet but there is a sad day coming when one day you're gonna play Russian roulette one time too many with the flash and the guns gonna go off and sudden judgment is sure well you're smoking dope now and you don't think anybody knows it but one day you'll step out of smoking pot they're getting in pills and meth and grant and they'll find you in some slum hole somewhere overdosed laying dead in your own vomit or you fooling around with somebody else's husband or wife but what are these days you'll get caught my friend and it may cost you your future as well as your life you pet play with the flesh and not get bit I say to you don't play Russian roulette with your flesh number two I want to beg you don't play Russian roulette with your family sad is the day when you risk the welfare of your own family and their future gambling with the demons of Hell they'll gladly set you down in a circle the demons are dance around you and watch your family be destroyed before your very eyes it's bad enough to jeopardize yourself but oh how much more the folly and the reproach the point the barrel of that gun that loaded gun in the faces of innocent children somebody says to me all the time it's my life I'll do what I want to do but you better take a good look down that Pew this morning ladies and gentlemen and realize that the decisions you make and the cylinder you're spinning may not only cost you your life but it may cost you the lives of those innocent children sitting on your view what are the things that God used to use to keep me humble and still does is I never wanted the judgment of God on my family because of my disobedience in my life now the grandfather of eleven children I would hate to know that any of them their future would be destitute for failure simply because I was so self-conceited in myself that I did not think about the judgment of God pass it on to my genealogy you may fool the preacher and you may fool the church and you may fool your family but you're not fooling God you may hide it but God one day will expose you for what you are wouldn't it be awful to know that when or if your child through their life away they did it because of your rage in rebellion and sin against God I know there comes a time when every child must give an account of themselves I understand that but no matter which way my children know I don't want them to go bad or away from God because of something that I had hidden in my life let me take you back to the book of Joshua it was there that Joshua went to fight the men of AI and 36 innocent men of Israel died Joshua went into his prayer room because God had promised him victory and Joshua will begin to pray and seek God on why they've lost the battle at AI it was then that God had revealed to him that they were sin in the camp and that the children of Israel had transgressed against the Lord Joshua lined up all the children of Israel in their drives and when he got to 18 he looked at a kid and said give God the glory and they could just bowed his head in silence in condemnation and even in embarrassment it was there that Joshua pulled him aside and said akin what have you done that has brought the wrath of God on our country our nation our people our families akin said you remember when we went the fight against the enemy and God told us not to touch anything for a spoil he said I went in one of their Babylonian tents and he said while we were fighting the battle I stole a wedge of gold I stole the wedge of silver and I stole some of the Babylonian garments and nobody knows about it but God and I'd done a hole and I hid them under my tent I brought that rebellion into my home I brought that rebellion into the lives of my wife and my disobedience in the lives of my children if you know the Bible you remember Joshua commanded the men of Israel to go back to Aikens tent no doubt the wife and children were sitting there in the noonday several of the Israelite soldiers walked into tent and said get up ma'am she said I'm sorry sir have I done something wrong he said I can't talk about it Bal we're taking you to the valley of Achor which means the valley of trouble and when you play Russian roulette with your family you are headed for trouble she had no idea what had happened no doubt there was a tent full of children there the little ones gathered around her apron mommy what's going on and they loaded him up and took him to the valley of Achor and when they got there they stood there daddy alone out in the middle of the valley Joshua had him bring his tent and everything that he owned into that Valley as well his wife runs to his arms in fear and says honey what in the world is going on why have they brought us to the valley of Achor he bowed his head and said honey I don't want to talk about it right now all the children got around him and they noticed that the elders of Israel had begun to pick up stones and circle Aiken and his family again his wife looked at him and said honey what have you done he said honey while we were in battle I stole the Babylonian garment a wedge of gold and a wench of silver and I rebelled and I didn't spin in that cylinder every day I get up and say I got by with it and I'd spin the cylinder and hear the snap spin the cylinder and hear the snap spin the cylinder and hear the snap but today the guns went off and God has brought judgment to me and to my household and as the man drew back with the stones Eakins wife said wait a minute wait a minute we had no idea that he had brought repaying into our home we had no idea he'd brought disobedience into the lives of our children please let our children go they didn't have anything to do with this and the little kids were draped around her apron holding on to it saying mommy what's going on and the men of Israel begin to stone Achan his wife and all of his children the Bible said and the Bible said as they fell down in the pool of blood that they put all the possessions of Aitkin on top of them and burn them to ashes and then they heaped up a heap of stones over their grave and left them there if I could borrow your imagination wouldn't it and sad to see those little children kicking in their own blood knowin that daddy did it it was daddy that had played Russian roulette and now it had cost him his family his genealogy and the future of the household of Aitkin why are you better listen to me friend nothing's worth more than your family nothing's more precious than your family and for God's sake if for nothing else you ought to put the gun down and quit playing around with Siena not only for your benefit but for the benefit of your family your family number three as the devil got you spinning the chamber of feelings and emotions you see the devil can get you to play Russian roulette not only was seeing and not only with your family but he can attack you through your emotions your feelings one contestant that played Russian roulette declared this in a testimony the feeling and suspense of playing Russian roulette is second to none other end of quote so it is an emotional experience that drives some people to do this anybody you and I that's directed by our feelings will soon fall prey to our own lustful desires have you let that devil kind of drag you down and get you in a suicidal circle because of some kind of feeling or emotion do you have hate captivated up in the back side of your heart have you got bitterness towards something or somebody are you practicing unforgiveness to someone that has hurts you those three elements alone will make up the casing the powder and the lead that will cause you to be a casualty humanism teaches if it feels good do it and you might but if you do you remember one thing humanism does not teach you you're gonna pay for what you do so I want to talk to my people about maybe something that's going on in the back side of your heart that nobody knows about is there any emotion there are you wish it hurt and harm on somebody you remember the book of Esther it was it was Haman that hated Mordecai and Haman decided that he hated the Jews so bad that he was going to make a set of gallows which is how they hung people back in the Bible days and he said I'm gonna make these gallows and I'm gonna hang Mordecai on these gallows you know the story of this hate and his bitterness and his unforgiveness and it was Haman with his own hands that made those gallows to hang that Jew named Mordecai but little did he know that the gallows he made was not gonna hang Mordecai was gonna hang him you see anytime you have bad feelings and you have bad wishes and you have bad intentions on other people you're not killing them you're killing yourself and every day you live in hatred and bitterness and unforgiveness it's just another day you get up and spin the cylinder close your eyes and pull the trigger and hope for the best but one day that bitterness and envy and strife all of that malice that's within you will come abroad out of you one day and it's not going to destroy anybody but you are you playing Russian roulette with your feelings number four and on closing this was the most important are you playing Russian roulette with your faith the bullet most used in the revolver of life is placed in the chamber of doubt by the devil people Cambell with their eternity without any concern or any consciousness anymore did you know a very high percentage of church-going people have no assurance and no true faith that in eternity they will be with Jesus you would probably be amazed at the percentage of people sitting in this auditorium that your faith is not settled that heaven is your home for sure I ask people all the time are you saved and they'll say yes and then I'll ask them this question are you willing to die with what you've got to get you to have it and they'll say oh I know no well then my answer to that is why would you live with the faith that you wouldn't die with because death comes suddenly according to the Bible and that without remedy I would get something in my heart my life my profession my conversion that would not only give me peace in this life but would give me assurance on the other side of the grave I've often wondered how many times Judas spun that cylinder of faithlessness I wonder how many times God dealt with him as he followed the Son of God I wonder how many nights when he laid next to Jesus the Holy Spirit convicted him and said Judas get it right I wonder what he saw Lazarus raised from the dead if the Holy Spirit didn't say Judas Jesus could do that for you spiritually he could raise you from the dead I wonder when he saw the blind maybe see the lame the wall panneti I just wonder how many times day after day after day God dealt with him and he kept spinning a cylinder and hearing it snap spinning the cylinder and hear that snap I'll do it later on I'll do it some other time only to one day third throw down thirty pieces of silver in the temple and hang himself and while I'm preaching to you this morning one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ is burning in hell playing Russian roulette with your faith in 1995 a 14 year old boy killed himself and pretending to play Russian roulette in front of his younger brother and a friend that was visiting while there parents was gone he had no intentions on killing himself he thought he had taken all the bullets out of the chamber but the 14 year old boy had accidentally left one in he went into the room where his younger brother and his friend were playing no adults were home spun the cylinder put the gun up against his head and the first shot was the loaded chamber and that was the end of him testimony said that the boy was known for being a happy boy a trickster type child super personality no drugs no gangs no membership in something in the neighborhood no suicide attend just playing a game that he thought he was safe in you see some of you are playing a game with the devil spiritually speaking his I preach you think you've taken all the bullets out of the chamber in the cylinder but the devil has slid one back in and some of you if you don't get right I'll stand over your dead body knowing that spiritually you played Russian roulette with your life and your future and your eternity and I will bury you as a fool let's bow our heads for a moment of Prayer [Music]

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Published: Sat Feb 09 2019