But look at, look at verse four, and Gideon came to Jordan and passed over.
He and the 300 men that were with him faint yet pursuing them.
So I mean, look, these guys are, are working hard.
I mean, they're, they're, they're, they're going by day.
They're going by night.
They're chasing after the enemy.
They're in a big hurry and they're faint, right?
I mean, and if you've ever done any kind of a big hike or a long distance run, you've
got to eat.
You've got to have fuel in order to keep going or you're just going to run out of steam.
And they're chasing after this enemy.
They've already fought this great victory and they're doing this for everybody.
I mean, the whole nation of Israel is going to benefit from defeating these enemies of
the Lord.
Because if you remember again, you know, going back a couple of weeks, the Midianites are
taking all their food, trashing the land, destroying everything.
That's hurting everybody.
And Gideon's doing something about it.
He's being used by God.
He's doing the work of God.
He's faint, but he's still chasing after them.
And he said unto the men of Succoth, give I pray you loaves of bread unto the people
that follow me.
For they be faint and I'm pursuing after Ziba and Zalmana kings of Midian.
It's like, look, I'm going after the kings of Midian.
We've already defeated the princes, Oreb and Zib.
We're going after the kings of Midian.
And he's not even asking for himself.
He's saying, look, give the men that are following me bread.
These guys are doing God's work.
You've got to help us out.
And the princes of Succoth said, are the hands of Ziba and Zalmana now in thine hand that
we should give bread unto thine army?
And Gideon said, therefore, when the Lord had delivered Ziba and Zalmana into mine head,
then I will tear your flesh with thorns of the wilderness and with briars.
So then he goes after them.
Now what's going on here?
I think a spiritual application that we could make from this is, number one, people that
aren't participating in the work of the Lord whatsoever are part of the problem.
Like if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Because here's what Jesus Christ said.
He said, he that is not with me is against me.
And he that gathereth not with me, scattereth abroad.
He said, look, if you're not gathering toward Christ, you're scattering.
You say, well, I never preach the gospel.
I never give the gospel or witness or go soul winning.
I don't do that.
So I'm just kind of a neutral entity.
But the Bible says you're actually a negative on the kingdom of God.
He said, if you're not gathering with me, you're scattering.
So you're not at level zero.
If you do zero preaching of the gospel, zero witnessing, zero soul winning, you're actually
a negative.
You're in the hole.
You're going into the red spiritually.
We need to be in the Lord's army.
We need to be serving God.
We need to stand up for Jesus.
And if we're not willing to participate in the work of the Lord, we're actually dead
weight.
We're dragging down the work of God.
And look, I'm not the one who made up this concept.
Jesus said, he that is not with me is against me, and he that gathereth not with me scattereth
abroad.
And what's the gathering?
The metaphor there is about gathering the sheep, going out and finding the lost sheep
and bringing them back to the fold.
That's a metaphor for soul winning in this case, going out and finding the lost and bringing
them to Christ.
And he said, if you're not doing that, you're actually scattering.
You're actually harming.
You're actually a negative.
And so what I see here is that these people that refuse to have anything to do with the
work of God, he's not even asking them to be on the front lines or risk their lives.
He's just asking them to support the people who are risking their lives.
Support the people who are doing the work.
And they just won't pitch in.
They want to benefit spiritually, but they don't want to pitch in.
It kind of reminds me of, for example, obviously this is kind of on everybody's mind, Pastor
Bruce Mejia's situation, where the sodomites bombed his church building, literally bombed
his church building.
And that's not the worst thing that they did.
The worst thing that they did was just parading their disgusting selves around his church
and bullhorning while he was trying to preach.
And they're trying to disrupt his services and defile the minds of the children by screaming
and yelling perverted things and dressing and looking in a perverted way.
And so he's in a battle.
And obviously, myself, Pastor Mejia, other pastors who preach the Word of God, we're
actually putting ourselves at risk because Pastor Mejia is getting so many death threats
right now.
And obviously, there is real danger, in a sense, because they've already blown up his
church building.
So obviously, these people are willing to use violence on some level.
And so the point is that when you've got a guy like Pastor Mejia, he's putting himself
out there, he's standing up to an agenda that we all agree is wicked.
Any child of God is going to admit that this LGBT sodomite agenda is a wicked agenda, it's
destroying America, it's corrupting our youth, it's destroying their minds, it's brainwashing
them with filth, and it's just turning our country into a Sodom and Gomorrah.
I mean, everybody agrees.
Every Christian agrees with that.
And not even just independent baptism, I mean, just every Christian says, hey, this is really
bad.
But then you've got a guy who's doing something about it.
He's actually confronting these people, and he's, you know, just like the Apostle Paul
has brought before, like Felix and Agrippa and stuff, you know, he's being brought before
like the city supervisor and the mayor and the police chief, and he's, you know, preaching
unto these people.
And he's preaching in the media, and he was on the Alex Jones show, which is a pretty
big audience, and he's preaching the gospel.
And so, you know, can people just at least back him up?
You know, at least help him out, you know, encourage him, back him up, and then you've
got the armchair quarterbacks kind of just sitting there and just kind of like, well,
you know, I wouldn't have said it exactly like that, all right?
But it's like, well, what are you doing to stop this, you know, sodomite onslaught in
our country?
What are you doing?
What are you really doing to actually teach people the truth on this?
Because, you know, when we get up and we preach these sermons about the truth on the sodomites
and they get, you know, 100,000 views on YouTube, 10,000 views, some things even get up to a
million views on these subjects, you know what we're doing?
We're actually changing people's minds.
We're changing a lot of people's minds.
Why?
Because the truth is powerful.
And the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, and
the Word of God is not going to return void.
It's going to accomplish the thing that it sent out to do.
God's Word has power, and that's why there's so much censorship right now of the Word of
God, because God's Word is powerful.
They don't want the truth to get in there and cut to the heart, because I'm telling
you, it changes people's views on this.
It makes a difference.
It matters.
But you've got this attitude amongst the men of Sukkoth, and basically their attitude is
also one of, number one, it's like, well, we don't want to get involved.
We don't want to pitch in.
Even though they're all going to benefit, they don't want to contribute anything.
They don't want to be a part of it.
But I think there's also an attitude of waiting to see how things turn out.
Because what is it that they actually say?
Well, are the heads of Zibun Zalmana now in thine hand?
Come back and talk to us if you win, because you wonder, maybe are they thinking, well,
we don't know which way this is going to go.
So we don't want to side with the man of God, because what if the Midianites come back with
a vengeance and they win?
We want to be like, oh, man, we didn't help out.
We didn't help Gideon out.
We weren't with Gideon at all.
They're kind of waiting to see how it's going to go.
Do you see what I'm saying?
There are a lot of people like that, too.
They won't support you.
They won't stand with you.
They won't encourage you or help you until they see whether you're going to win or not.
Well, spoiler alert, we're always winning.
And so Pastor Mahid is going to win.
But here's the thing.
I don't care if he wins or not.
I'm still on his side.
You know what I mean?
Whatever that even means, whatever it means to win, to me, I'm not waiting to see how
it's going to turn out.
I don't care how it turns out.
I'm going to side with the man of God that's preaching the truth.
And I'm not going to side with a bunch of perverts.
You know, this is simple for me.
I'm not going to wait and see, well, is it going to be the Midianites or is it going
to be Gideon?
It's just Gideon.
We're just going to go with Gideon, OK?
We're just going to go with the Lord.
We're going to be on the Lord's side.
These people are like, well, let's see how it turns out.
They're not involved.
They won't even give moral support.
In fact, that's discouraging.
I mean, how do you think Gideon feels for his troops to hear that message?
Oh, man, thank goodness.
These are our friends.
We can just get a quick bite to eat so we can just get some calories so that we can
chase after the enemy.
And it's like, well, what did they say, Gideon?
Well, they said, you know, we don't even know if you guys are going to succeed.
Oh, well, thanks for the vote of no confidence.
Think about that.
So you've got idiots that will literally discourage preachers when they're in their time of need.
And I remember going through this back in 2009 and again in 2014, just having people
literally call me, like people that I hadn't talked to in years, just people from the past
just calling me out of the blue just to tell me what an idiot I am, you know, while I'm
in the midst of taking the sodomites to task.
And I'm thinking to myself, you call yourself a Christian, you call yourself a child of
God and you're going to just side with sexual perverts and pedophiles and rapists against
your brother in Christ who preached exactly what the Bible said.
You know, I mean, it's not like Brother Mejia and myself and everybody else don't have chapter
and verse on these things all day long because we've got Leviticus 2013 all day long, we've
got Romans 1 all day long, we've got Jude, we've got 2 Peter chapter 2, we've got clear
scripture all day long, okay?
And yet they want to side with freaks and weirdos and people that literally hate the
Lord.
And you know what?
Brother Mejia loves the Lord in his heart.
The sodomites hate the Lord in their heart.
Who do you want to support?
Whose side are you on?
I mean, that should be a no-brainer.
And you know what?
Gideon versus the Midianites should be a no-brainer.
It should just be we're with Gideon, sword of the Lord and of Gideon.
Let's do it.
Here's a sandwich, Gideon.
Here's a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Get out there and continue chasing these guys.
That's the right answer and not to sit there and say, well, you know, I mean, I don't know
how this is going to turn out.
And he said, okay, well, here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to come back here and I'm going to knock down your stupid tower and I'm going
to give you guys a whipping.
He's going to actually whip them.
He's going to physically punish these guys.
He's going to actually do something worse than that because he's going to tear their
flesh with thorns and briars.
He's going to throw them into the briar patch, amen?
But they're not like the tar baby or burr rabbit rather.
Does anybody even know what that is?
Who knows what I'm talking about?
Virtually no one.
Man, what's wrong with this generation?
Uncle Remus stories, come on.