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All right, welcome back to Sure Foundation Baptist Church.
If you're happy to be in church today, say amen.
All right, let's all stand and let's take our song books
and go to number 147, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.
And this is my favorite song of the week.
Every week I have a new favorite song.
Sing it on that first stanza.
What a fellowship, what a joy divine leaning.
Leaning on the everlasting arms, what a blessedness, what a peace is mine.
Leaning on the everlasting...
Seed out church!
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms.
Leaning.
leaning on the everlasting second stanza oh how sweet to walk in his pilgrim way
leaning on the everlasting arms oh how bright the path grows from day to day
leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning leaning
Safe and secure from all alarms
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms
A member of the Rashid Q prays in to the service please
Amen, let's go to number 363, wonderful words of life.
Is a great song, 363, wonderful words of life.
It's a great song.
I'm just going to start saying their great songs.
See it on that first stanza
Sing them over again to me
wonderful words of life
Let me more of their beauty see
wonderful words
Words of life and beauty
Teach me faith and do
Wonderful words, wonderful words of life.
Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life.
Second stanza, Christ the Blessed One gives to all.
Wonderful words of life.
Sinnerless to the loving call.
Wonderful words of life.
See you at church.
Also freely giving, wooing us to heaven.
Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life.
Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of...
On that last stand, uh, sweet...
echo the gospel call wonderful words of life offer pardon and peace to all
wonderful words of see it out church Jesus
sanctify forever beautiful words
Words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life.
Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life.
Amen.
You may be seated at this moment.
We have evangelist Justin Zong come and give us some announcements.
All right, welcome to Shoe Foundation Baptist Church
on Sunday afternoon service,
and we have way more people in the afternoon service
than the morning, so you guys must not like me preaching,
so I guess.
But let's look at the verse of the week.
Raise your hand if we need the bulletin,
and Ash will bring one to you.
We got a couple of people here, three people.
Man, the ashes are slacking off.
So,
Verse of the week German chapter 5 verse 14 the Bible says wherefore does said the Lord God of hosts because he speak this word behold
I will make my words in thy mouth fire and this people would and he shall devout them
This verse is a great verse talking about the power of the word of God
Right the preaching of the God of the word of God is like fire and to devout the people who's hearing it
So I think that's pretty cool verse and we need more hard preaching that changed people's life. So
Let's look at the inside page.
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so you can stay up to date with all these events.
Service times on the morning at 11,
Sunday afternoon service at 4 p.m.
And once a night, we will have our Bible study at 7 p.m.
This coming Wednesday will be Ecclesiastes chapter number
eight.
So please join us if you are able to.
at 10.30 a.m. and Sunday afternoon at 1.30 p.m.
And then you can see the praise report below.
So I did talk to Patrick Thompson
and that we are counting the school salvations
from the Philippines.
So the 978 is a good number.
So praise Lord for that.
And we are almost reaching 1000 salvations year to date.
So with that number, 472 out of the 978 is from the Philippines.
So just so you know, so we have, let's see.
Okay, so don't worry about, and then, I forgot what I'm going to say.
So upcoming events, right after the service this afternoon, we'll have a wedding shower
for the Jones family.
So I pick up a great Hispanic cake, so hopefully it's good, you know, they don't speak English,
I was speaking broken Spanish to them, so I like Mexican bakeries and just the consistency
of the creams and the sugar, it's perfect, okay?
Nobody call me racist, you know, I like I like all nations
So stay stay after service if you're able and we get to partake a cake and some lemonade
And then next Saturday will have our fall fellowship at a local park around 4 p.m
September 13. Please sign up the you know the food item you want to bring. I think
we pretty much everything else has been signed up for besides the drinks you
know. The wine of the Jews still need people to pick that up you know and then
and then we have raw milk coming so it's great.
Everyone should start drinking raw milk, anyway.
Yeah, please check out the sheet about the food item.
Dinner will probably be around 5.30,
but you can show up early at 4 to play some games.
We'll have volleyball set up, badminton, basketball,
mail may not be a pickleball court.
We'll see.
And then Dr. Stringer will be preaching both services on Sunday, November 30.
He's the vice president from the King James Bible Research Council,
and he's an expert on the King James Bible, so please join us if you're able.
Sony Marathon coming up.
Detroit Sony Marathon is in two weeks, September 19th to the 20th.
We'll have a Friday afternoon so-calleding and then all day Saturday so-calleding.
for the video about the details about the address and the meet up locations and time
also the video is posted on all of the social media for you to see and then pray for the
Stockton's as they are heading back and they had a great trip actually the 462 is yesterday's
in like 10 days in the Philippines.
So that's the whole stat.
And then September Sunday afternoon preaching schedule
is for you to see.
At this church, I preach every Sunday morning
and every Wednesday night.
And then on Sunday afternoon,
we'll have a rotation of preachers.
If you want to know how to be saved
or needs to be baptized,
please see an usher or myself after service
or simply let us know on the back of the card.
and let's see on the back you can see the birthdays and the anniversaries for the month of September
if your dates are in September but not on that list please let me know by writing it on the back
of the communication card and drop it when the offering play goes by and that's the only way to
get your dates on there okay um all right with that being said let's sing one more song and then
Well, let's all stand for this last hymn. Let's go to number 169.
This is one of the first hymns I learned after getting saved.
It's one of my favorites.
Number 169, come thou found of every blessing.
Think about those words.
Come, thou fount of every blessing,
tune my heart to sing thy grace.
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
flaming tons above.
Praise the mount, I'm fixed upon it, Mount of thy Redeem.
Second stanza, Here I raise my Ebenezer, Hither by thy help I've come,
And I know by thy good pleasure, Safely I'll arrive at...
When a stranger
The full
He to rescue me from danger
Interposed his
Think about those words on the third
Hold to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be
Let thy goodness like a feather
Bind my wandering heart to thee
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it. Prone to leave the God I love. Here's my heart, Lord. Take and seal it, seal it.
We're going to sing that third stanza one more time, my cappella.
O, to grace, how great a day.
daily I'm constrained to be think about those words let thy goodness like a
feather find my wandering heart to thee prone to wander Lord I feel it prone to
Teal it for thy courts above.
Amen.
You may be seated at this moment.
We'll have ushers come up and give us the offering.
Brother Brandon, can you pray for the offering please?
First Kings chapter one we're gonna be in first Kings chapter one tonight
If you don't have a Bible, please raise your hand and usher will hand you a Bible
first Kings chapter one
Verse one reads now King David was old and stricken in years and they covered him with clothes
But he got no heat wherefore his servants said unto him let there be sought for my Lord the king a young virgin and let her
Stand before the king and let her cherish him and let her lie and thy bosom that my Lord the king may get heat
So they sought for a fair damsel through all the coasts of Israel and found
a Shuman Knight and brought her to the king and the damsel was very fair and cherished the king
and ministered to him but the king knew it not.
Then, Adonijah, the son of Haggoth, exalted himself, saying,
I will be king, and he prepared him chariots and horsemen
and fifty men to run before him. And his father had not displeased him at any time
and saying, Why hast thou done so? And he also was a very goodly man.
His mother bared him after Absalom. And he conferred with Joab the son of Zariah,
a by-a-thar, the priest, and they following Adonijah helped him, but Zadok the priest
and Ben Aniah, the son of Jehoida, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei and Rai, and the mighty
men which belong to David, were not with Adonijah.
And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zohethlis, which is
which is by and roguel and called all his brethren the king sons and all the men of Judah the king
servants but Nathan the prophet and Ben Anaya and the mighty men and Solomon his brother he called
unto Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon, saying, Has thou not heard that Adonijah, the son of Haggoth,
doth reign, and David our Lord knoweth it not? Now therefore come, let me, I pray, give the
counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon. Go and get thee in
unto King David, and say unto him, Didest not thou, my Lord, O King, swear unto thine handmaid,
and he shall sit upon my throne.
Why then doth Adonijah reign?
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king,
I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
And Bathsheba went in unto the king.
Into the chamber and the king was very old and Abishag the shewnite
ministered unto the king and Bathsheba bowed and did obstinance unto the king and
The king said what would is thou and she said unto him my lord thou swears by the Lord thy God
Unto thine handmaid sang assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me and he shall sit upon my throne and now
Behold that nudge arena and now my lord the king
Thou knowest it not, and he hath slain oxen, and fat cattle, and sheep, and abundance, and
hath called all the sons of the king, and a biathar the priest, and Joab the captain
of the host, but Solomon thy servant hath he not called, and thou, my lord, O king, the
eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shalt tell them who shall sit on the throne
of my lord."
the King after him, otherwise it shall come to pass when my Lord the King shall sleep
with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders, and lo, while
she yet talked with
the king Nathan the prophet also came in and they told the king saying behold Nathan the prophet
and when he was come in before the king he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground
and Nathan said my lord oh king hast thou said Adonijah shall reign after me and he shall sit
upon my throne for he has gone down this day and have slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance
of the host, and a by-a-thor of the priest, and behold, and they eat and drink before
him, and say, God save king Adonijah.
But me, even me, thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaniah the son of Jehoida, and
thy servant Solomon, have he not called.
Is this thing done by my Lord the king, and thou hast not showed it unto thy servant,
Then King David answered and said,
Call me Bathsheba, and she came into the king's presence
and stood before the king, and the king swore and said,
As the Lord liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,
even as I swear unto thee by the Lord God of Israel,
saying, Assuredly Solomon, thy son shall reign after me,
and he shall sit upon my throne and my steads.
Even so will I certainly do this day then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth and did reverence to the king and said
Let my Lord
King David
Live forever and King David said claw me Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and then I the son of joy and they came before the king
The king also said unto them take with you the servants of our Lord
of your Lord, and call Solomon my son to ride upon my own mule, and bring him down to Gihan,
and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel, and blow
ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon, then ye shall come up after him,
and he may come and sit upon my throne, for he shall be king in my stead, and I have appointed
Israel and over Judah and Ben and I the son of Jehoia to answer the king and said amen
The Lord God of my Lord the king say to so say so too and the Lord has been with my Lord the king
Even so be he with Solomon and make his throne greater than the throne of my Lord King
My Lord King David so they talk the priest and Nathan the prophet and Ben and I and Ben and I the son of Jehoia to and the Chethorites and
Apilothites went down and caused Solomon to ride upon King David's mule and brought him
to Gihan, as they after priests took a horn and horn of oil out of the tabernacle and
anointed Solomon, and they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, God save King Solomon.
And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes and rejoiced with
great joy so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
made an end of eating, and when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore
is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan, the son of a by-author of the priests, came,
and Adonijah said unto him, Come in, for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.
And Jonathan answered and said, Adonijah, verily our Lord King David hath made Solomon
with him Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and Ben I the son of Jehoida and the chatharites and
the pilithites and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule and Zadok the priest and
Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihan and they are come up from dense rejoicing so that
the city rang
Again, this is the noise that ye have heard and also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom and more the king's servants came to
Bless our Lord King David saying God make the name of Solomon better than thy name and make thy and make his throne
Greater than thy throne and the king bowed himself upon the bed
Also, let's say at the King. Let's be the Lord God of Israel which have given one to sit on my throne this day
My eyes even seeing it and all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid and rose up and went every man his way
and Adonijah feared because of Solomon arose and went and caught hold on the horns of the altar and it was told Solomon saying
Behold Adonijah fear of King Solomon for low he have caught hold on the horns of altar saying let
King Solomon swear unto me today that he will not slay that he will not slay his
servant with the sword and Solomon said if he will show himself a worthy man
there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth but if wickedness shall be
found in him he shall die so King Solomon sent
and they brought him down from the altar and he came and bowed himself to King Solomon and Solomon
said unto him go to thine house. Dear Heavenly Father, Lord just please help brother Andrew as
he preached with us today and please help him to edify the congregation Lord. We love you in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Hey man, thank you, evangelist Dustin Jong for having me preach and if you're looking in first Kings there
I want you to look at verse 21st the thought of my message
It's where it says there and now my lord oh king the eyes of all Israel are upon me that thou should just tell them
Who shall sit upon who shall sit on the throne of?
My lord the king after him and the title of my message is who shall sit on the throne look up at verse 5
says then Adonijah the son of Hagath exalted himself saying I will be king and he prepared him chariots and horsemen and
Fifty men to run before him and then look down if he would at verse 11
Says wherefore Nathan spake to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon saying has thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Hagath doth reign and
David our Lord knoweth it not now therefore come let me let me I pray thee give the counsel that thou may save thine own life in the life
Of thy son Solomon
So Nathan the prophet is coming to Bathsheba because he knows that the life of Solomon and the life of Bathsheba are dependent on who sits upon that throne.
In the Old Testament, God had called Solomon to sit upon that throne.
He told his father, David, assuredly Solomon shall sit upon that throne.
And in the New Testament, Jesus Christ will sit on that throne in the place of his father, David.
And so, Jesus Christ, every man has a throne in his heart and we decide who's going to sit on that throne,
whether it's the Lord Jesus Christ or your own flesh that you're going to live after.
And he knew that their lives were dependent on who sat upon this throne.
He says, go and get thee unto King David and say unto him,
it's not that my Lord, O King, swear unto thy handmaiden,
saying assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me and shall sit upon my throne.
Why then doth admonish your reign?
And so look down again at verse 20,
it says, and thou my Lord, O King,
and the eyes of all Israel are upon thee,
that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit upon the throne.
But my Lord the king after him and as I think about this congregation
It is even if I think about myself the world out there is looking at us and your fellow church members and your family
Are looking at you and seeing who is sitting on the throne who is it that you give the preeminence in your life?
Do you live your life for yourself, or do you live your life for the Lord Jesus Christ?
As I get older, you have more and more people looking up to you as you get older.
You have children and you have your wife that you have to lead,
and you have the younger generation that just,
they think the older people have it all figured out.
Like I did when I was younger,
I thought older people had it all figured out,
and I'm figuring out as I get older that I don't always have it all figured out either.
We're just going off the cuff sometimes,
but as you age, as David aged,
the eyes of all Israel were upon him to see who would sit upon the throne.
And we need, we need to be a testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ in our life.
There's a constant battle in our life to see who will sit upon the throne.
Galatians five, 17, if you'd like to turn there, says in Galatians five, 17, for
the flesh less less than against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh.
And these are contrary one to the other so that you cannot do the things that
you would.
And then in James chapter four, verse five, it says,
do you think the scriptures say it in vain,
the spirit that dwelleth in us lusts it to envy,
the spirit inside of us lusts it to envy against our flesh,
the spirit wants to be in charge in our life,
and the flesh wants to be in charge,
and these two things are contrary one to the other.
And just as Nathan the prophet come to plead to Bathsheba,
to tell David to put his son Solomon on the throne,
the spirit is pleading in your life to put the Lord Jesus Christ on the throne and live your life
for him so that you might save your own life and the life of your children so that you might save
our nation by following the Lord Jesus Christ. Nations are not judged in the afterlife. They are
judged here and now and if our nation does not follow the Lord Jesus Christ they do not do the
things that the Bible says our nation will be turned to hell and it will be forgotten.
and we will not have a Christian nation. You will have a broken nation that will fall.
And so, turn to 1 Chronicles chapter 28.
As I had mentioned earlier, in the Old Testament, Solomon is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ
and the millennial reign of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Chronicles chapter 28 and verse 5.
And of all my sons, for the Lord hath given me many sons,
this is David, he hath chosen Solomon my son
to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
And he said unto me, Solomon thy son shall build my house in my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
Moreover, I will establish his kingdom forever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgment, as at this day.
And so he's saying there, Solomon will sit on the throne.
Then look down at verse 10, take heed now for the Lord had chosen thee to build an house.
For the sanctuary, be strong and do it.
So David's saying to Solomon,
hey, take heed, be strong and do it.
Build the house of the Lord.
Then if you would turn over to chapter 29 of First Chronicles,
29 verse 1. Furthermore,
David the king said unto all the congregation,
Solomon my son whom alone God
hath chosen is yet young and tender,
and the work is great.
For the palace is not of man, but of the Lord.
and then look down at verse 22 and verse 25, it says in verse 22,
and did eat and drink before the Lord on that day with great gladness,
and they made Solomon the son of David,
king the second time,
and anointed him the Lord under the Lord to be the chief governor and Zadok to be priest.
And then in verse 25,
and the Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly
in the sight of all Israel,
and bestowed upon him such royal majesty
had not been on any king before him in Israel.
So that never before had any king received
such royal majesty as Solomon,
because he was a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ
and the millennial reign when it will be a perfect kingdom
on this earth that Jesus Christ will rule and reign.
as a perfect ruler. Obviously no man is a perfect picture of the Lord Jesus Christ, so Solomon had his flaws.
But in the Old Testament he was a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ ruling and reigning.
That's why there was no kingdom like before him and no kingdom like unto his after him.
First Kings chapter 2 verse 12 it said,
you don't have to turn there because by the time you're there,
I'll be gone. It says,
then Solomon upon the throne of his father, David,
and his kingdom was established greatly.
Now please turn to Luke chapter 1.
That was all just pretext to show you
that Solomon was who God
chose to sit upon that throne.
In the New Testament,
Jesus Christ sits upon that throne.
you have a duty and an obligation as a Christian to enthrone the right one in
your life to follow the right one whether you'll follow your flesh or you'll
follow Jesus Christ we've all most of us have been saved here right so I'm not
talking about getting saved right now everybody knows that right I'm talking
about after you've been saved you have to choose who you're going to serve in
your life and you may preserve your physical life by serving the right one
So it says in Luke chapter 1 verse 32 he says he shall be great and he shall be called the son of the highest and
The Lord God shall give him unto him the throne of his father David talking about our Lord Jesus Christ
We look to Jesus Christ. He is the author and finisher of our faith
Who for the joy that was set before him it says endured the cross despising the shame and it's set down at the right hand of God
He's sitting on the throne
Hebrews 1-8 it says,
But unto the Son he saith,
Thy throne, O God, is forever,
Aceptor of righteousness is
Aceptor of Thy kingdom.
So you don't get a life,
You build a life,
And you build that life
Upon the Lord Jesus Christ,
Or you build it upon the
Sinking Sands of this life,
And you have no guarantee if you build it on the sand,
Whether or not it will stand,
Surely one day it will fall.
And great will be the fall of it.
And that's why Jesus Christ lived as an example.
He was tempted in all like manners
as we are yet without sin.
He wants you to live a life that is free
from the sins of this world.
He gives you power over the sins of this world
so that you can live for him.
Turn to Revelation chapter five.
You know I think about the other day when it was mentioned that there was no man worthy to open the books and
John wept because no man was able to to read what was written. It was sealed in the book
But Jesus Christ was worthy. He was worthy because he sits on the throne
Turn to Revelation chapter 5 verse 12 and 13 it says saying with a loud voice worthy as the lamb that was slain to receive
power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing, and every
creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such that are in
the sea, and all that are heard saying, blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him
that sitteth upon the throne, under the Lamb, for ever, and ever.
Jesus Christ reign will be for ever and ever.
He is worthy to rule in your life.
He saved you from your sin.
Is he worthy just to have your life,
this little bit of life that you have for him?
Or are you going to live for self?
Turn back to 1 Kings chapter 1.
Look at verse 11.
Wherefore, Nathan spake unto Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon, saying,
Hast thou not heard that Adonijah, the son of Haggath,
doth reign, and David our Lord knoweth it not?
Now therefore, let me I pray that you give the counsel that thou may save
thine own life and thy son Solomon.
Your life is dependent upon whom you put on that throne we mentioned earlier.
The sin has a built-in punishment sometimes, doesn't it?
If you drink and drive,
you're putting yourself at risk to die.
It's just a fact.
It doesn't matter if you know that that's wrong or not.
You will die if you do it enough times.
And if you don't, you probably, you know,
obviously it's wrong to buy a lottery ticket,
but if you were to buy a lottery ticket,
you know, drinking and driving is,
you're buying the wrong kind of lottery ticket.
You're gambling with your life every time you do it.
They're built-in punishments that smoking, you know people that smoke two three packs a day
They don't do it because they want to they do it because they have to because they're the servant of sin and it's shaving years off of their life
Living a wicked fornicating life will shave years off of your life because of the filth that you will encounter and because of the heartache
That you will cause yourself
Man was not meant to live alone, but to have it help me to be married to one woman
to put her on the throne of his flesh so that the devil would not be able to
tempt that man. You know, a man devours himself with harlots and he doesn't, he
doesn't put, he doesn't put God on the throne because he doesn't put, he doesn't
put God's statutes on the throne either. That, that woman is a built-in help
meat for him so that the devil will not be able to tempt him into sin.
And so in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 10 it says,
according to the grace of God,
which is given to me as a wise master builder,
I have laid the foundation and another build there on.
But let every man take heed how he built a there on.
For other foundation can no man lay,
that which is Jesus Christ.
You have an obligation to enthrone the right one and to
build upon the correct foundation.
Because only what you build on that foundation for
Jesus Christ will last in this world.
Everything else will pass away.
Everything that you've worked towards in a carnal way will fail, will fall eventually, and it will become another man's.
We're reading through the book of Ecclesiastes right now, and we're seeing that, aren't we?
Without the hope of the Lord Jesus Christ, the book of Ecclesiastes would be a very disparaging book because there's nothing new under the sun.
Everything that you do is going to pass on to another man.
But what are we here for? Why are we on this earth? We're here to serve the Lord Jesus Christ.
and to reach other people with the gospel because that will endure forever.
I think about the fact that we live in
an adulterous generation where you just look on the billboards and there's nudity.
And it's disgusting, isn't it?
And there's partial nudity and everything on your phone
and on Facebook and everywhere.
It's out in public, even.
People walking around with barely any clothes on.
They go.
They go to the store how people would be afraid to go to bed
And you know with their children at present in their home in past days
But now people just walk around in their underwear like it's nothing, you know
You shouldn't walk around your own house in your underwear, but people walk out in public like that now
You know, I'm saying if you have children obviously because you know, that's not makes sense, but
So, you know, if it's you and your wife, you can lock the door and come out three days
later.
I don't care what you do.
You can walk around however you want if it's just you and your wife, all right?
And so...
But the worst thing about the nakedness in our society is what it does of a man's opinion of that of his own wife
A man should enthrone his wife in his heart
It should that should be the only flesh that is his flesh because they're they're made twain by the Lord by the Lord
He says what God has made twain let not man put us under
And so, if a man would render to his wife the due benevolence and instead of being like nearly dads, be newly lads, and only be taken by her, and be satisfied by her only, a man would be able to enthrone the Lord Jesus Christ in his life, but because he's defeated and because he lusts after evil things, he doesn't have the power of the Holy Spirit, he doesn't walk in the new man.
Because of those temptations. That's why you should have a correct relationship with your wife
So that Satan is not able to tempt you for your incontinence
Let's turn there actually first Corinthians chapter 7. I want to read those verses
first Corinthians chapter 7
Starting in verse 3
First Corinthians 7-3, let the husband render unto the wife the due benevolence and likewise the wife under the husband
And the wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body
But the wife defraud ye not one the other except be it with consent for a time
That you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again that Satan tempt you not for your incontinence
You know, Job said, I've made a covenant with my eyes.
Why then should I think upon a maid?
And so your body belongs to your wife.
And your wife's body belongs to you.
And you should enjoy that relationship.
And you should put your wife on the throne of your flesh,
where you.
Only look to her you don't look you don't think about other women
You know I think about we studied the book of Esther, right?
And it's God's not really mentioned in the book of Esther if you think about it
He's not really mentioned a whole lot at all and you look at a has you where is he's just this week leader?
And he's like he's handing me a mordecai the throne and he's handing Haman the the ring right saying hey
You're in charge you're in charge and he hands his wife the you know the house of Haman, right?
And so you think, who is this Bozo, King of Heirs?
As you are, who is he?
Like, who does he represent?
Well, and if you think about it in a way,
he represents us, doesn't he?
Because you decide who's in charge in your life,
whether you walk in the new man
or whether you walk in the flesh.
And by him handing off that ring to whoever,
he's given that person power over his life
to sign into law what it is, whatever they wanna do.
and Haman represents the flesh.
I think I've mentioned that before,
I'm not going to re-preach that whole sermon.
But Haman was the son of Hamadathah,
the Agagite. Who were the Agagites?
Probably presumably the sons of Agag.
Who was Agag?
Does anybody remember who Agag was when Saul was king over Israel?
So Saul was charged to kill all of the Amalekites, correct?
And Saul spared Agag alive and did not kill him.
He cut off his thumbs and his toes and he took all the oxen,
you know, and he didn't kill him like he was told to.
And so that would have probably been a descendant
of the Amalekites, Haman.
He represents the flesh. They came out to fight
the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.
Exodus chapter 17 and it's verse 8. I believe it says in verse 8 this is
after they they drank of the whole of that holy rock in the wilderness that
rock was represented Christ that rock that they got water out of in the
wilderness that was the spiritual rock that represented Christ and it says in
verse 8 it says then came Amalek and fought with Israel in Refidem
And so Moses said unto Joshua, choose out us out men and go out and fight with Amalek tomorrow.
And I will stand on top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.
And if you remember, as he held his hands and he dropped his hands, Amalek prevailed.
But as they held Moses' hands up, when he sat and Aaron and her held his hands up, they prevailed against Amalek.
And that's a picture of our battle with the flesh.
our life forever. You know he said the Lord will have war with Amalek forever.
And even in that story we see Heyman, the picture of the flesh fighting
against Mordecai, fighting against the new man per se. Because who did the new
man prefer? He preferred Esther, the Jewish
The Jewish woman that is a picture of he's having one wife has you eras
Because he had all these concubines and he had all this mess and he had a wife that didn't listen to him and
her name Basti and
If a woman will submit to a man and a man will take care of that woman and have only that woman to have and to hold
and to have a walk with Christ together
that will put an order in his life to where he's able to put Christ on the throne.
Solomon lost his kingdom because he gave his heart to many women
and his heart was not to the Lord.
It was not perfect with the Lord because he had given his heart to the false gods of the women
that he had thousands of women.
He had thousands of concubines and wives.
Let not sin reign in your mortal body the Bible says and and and there will be no victory in a marriage until the husband and
Throne's his wife and until the wife and thrones her husband and that Christ sits on the throne and Christ is giving the preeminence in that marriage
It cannot be about yourself. It cannot be about
You know
How we're how we're gonna have you know perfect house and we have all this stuff like it can't be about
material things
It has to be about serving the Lord Jesus Christ first.
Turn to Romans chapter 12.
I realize I blew through a lot of that and I'll probably preach a whole sermon about what I think
about the book of Esther. Sometimes I'll do an overview of it because I think it is interesting.
In the Bible, there's many things that are, sometimes there'll be dual fulfillment and
there'll be triple, there'll be different fulfillments in the same thing. And the Bible is a very deep book.
So you may read something through 20 times and not see it, but then you'll read it through again
You'll say a lot. That's that how did I not see that and the Bible is a very deep book and there's very
There's different ways that you can apply something to your life
In the Bible
But the Bible says in Romans 12 verse 1 and 2, it says,
I beseech you therefore, brother, and by the mercies of God,
they present yourself, your body's a living sacrifice,
wholly acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind,
that you prove what is that good and acceptable
and perfect will of God.
So it says there that you need to transform your you need to renew your mind every day
You're gonna have to put the flesh you have to kill the flesh every day
it's an everyday battle to serve the Lord Jesus Christ and
You may have to make an announcement and decide that you're going to do that again
You know sometimes it helps to be accountable to other people
That's why we come to church so you have people that you're accountable to and then you'll go out soul winning
You know, we went out soul-winning this afternoon and we had how many people were saved this afternoon?
Six? Three. We had three people save this afternoon.
And so what a blessing that you have a church that'll send you out so that you'll go out and you'll preach the gospel.
Because if they don't send you, you won't do it on your own.
That's right. And you may do it for a little while, but you won't endure.
And so
There are hidden enemies in this world that want to stop you from putting Christ on the throne.
Turn back to 1 Kings chapter 1, if you would.
You know, David told the Lord to help keep me from presumptuous sins.
There are things in your life that you may not even know that are wrong,
that you may not even realize that they're working against you serving our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Kings chapter 1 verse 5,
then Adonijah the son of Hagath exalted himself saying,
I will be king.
And in verse 11 it says, wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba, the mothers of Solomon, saying hast thou not heard that Adonijah, the son of Hagath, doth reign, and David, our Lord, knoweth it not.
And so he didn't even know that David didn't even know because he's old and he didn't know that Adonijah was reigning.
And you know, the devil wants to have a foothold in your life.
the devil wants to have something secret that he can use later to attack your
life and attack your walk for the Lord Jesus Christ. He wants to steer you ever
so gently in the wrong direction and then you find yourself in darkness in
a really dark path and you're like wow how did I get into this kind of sin and
it was just that implanted little harmless sin that didn't seem to bother
thought you would ever go. People say it's a very quoted thing. People will say sin will take you
farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay and cost you more than you want
to pay. And so, though we walk after the flesh, turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 10,
because our Lord Jesus Christ calls us to reject the wrong thoughts and to have him on the throne
Because that's where sin is conceived, and when it is conceived it bringeth forth death.
You need to even rebuke the thought of sin in your own mind.
And you need to remind yourself to put Christ on the throne.
For 2nd Corinthians chapter 10 verse 3, for though we walk.
In the flesh we do not war after the flesh for the weapons of our warfare
Not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds
Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of Christ
Bringing into captivity
every thought up to the obedience of Christ
It will it will save your life
Do you know the best thing that you can give your and it'll save your children's life
You know the best thing you give your children is what you can give them spiritually
And do you have the dollar on the throne in your life, or do you have the Lord Jesus Christ on the throne in your life?
Because, you know, children are expensive.
And it's really easy nowadays for people to say, well, we can only have one or two children.
you'll see that in you know people go to Bible college and they only have one or
two children and that's it because that they it's a burden to them in the
ministry well children are not a burden to me having small children has been my
entire marriage we got married in March of 2013 I get that right
14, yes, yes, 14, yes, March 22nd of 2014, and we had my first son in January of 2015.
And then we have our son Samuel, that's our smallest son, we had him in 22.
So about every year and a half to two years, we have a child.
And that's been our life as a married couple.
We didn't have our time where we just lived alone
and did our own thing, and we'll wait a couple years
and have kids and go and venture the world.
And I see it's very prevalent in the Philippines
when I was there that people will start a ministry,
people will go and start a church,
like if they're a pastor sign or something,
they'll be 17 years old and be a single pastor
at a church plant, and it's not biblical.
You know and and people that do that are not putting the Lord Jesus Christ first
They're putting themselves first
They're running out ahead of the people that are qualified and saying no I'll sit upon the throne
I'm gonna be the one that's gonna be the preacher is gonna knock everybody socks off right and so and sometimes in the Philippines
You'll have perpetual church plants where it's like it's a church plant for like 10 years
Because nobody's qualified to run it
and you know the reason that that even came about is because
When missionaries send that they have they have like a married couple that's the missionaries
But they only have like some of them have no kids and some of them have one or you know one or barely two
And then so the Filipinos just kind of took that to the other stream and said well if you don't have to have kids
I guess you don't have to be married either
Because the whole point of being married and having kids and making sure that you're proven in your own, ruling your own house well, is that kind of sets a timer to where you have to mature as a person in order to shepherd other people.
Because what's a 17 year old Mormon elder badge, but making him a Baptist pastor, what does that teach the community about Baptist?
you'll put a novice like that. It lifts him up with pride and we come under
the condemnation of the devil as a Baptist movement to tolerate that.
And you notice when you put Christ on the throne, like Solomon was supposed
to be on the throne, you notice Benaiah and Jonathan and the mighty men, they
don't get invited, do they? They don't get invited to the party where Adonijah is
on the throne and it's like, well, I'll make myself king.
You know, kind of like we had an ad in Niger in the new FB that called it Valiant Baptist Church.
You know, come in for it, I heard a Valiant man, he was sneaking around telling other people to come to his church and leave the church that they were at.
And so, you don't build a church by tearing down another church.
You have to give Christ the preeminence in your life so that you one day that you will be able to be qualified
Because you can't go back and do things over like if you had if you got married in divorce and got married and had a really great second marriage
That God does not accept that God does not think that that's right
And so you would not be qualified to pastor if you had a great second marriage and when you know a great second family
When you left the first one in the dirt does that make sense to everybody? I mean that makes sense to me
And, you know, you'll see...
where you have an unqualified pastor starting out that's a 17-year-old single guy that starts a church
and it doesn't work real great and then 10 years later he's married and he's got kids
and he's actually ready to pastor and he takes on a second church you know he goes moves to another
church because the first one didn't really work and then he's like well I have 10 years pastor
experience you know so kind of like as you're a young man getting a new job you know if you feel
like they want they want you to have you know be 20 years old and have 10 years of experience on the
You know, and so that's kind of what it's like, it's not, that's not real, that's not really how things are done.
And so we need to keep Christ at the center of our life and what in your life distracts from the Lord Jesus Christ?
What are you doing on the job that distracts from the Lord Jesus Christ?
If you think about your testament of how you talk to your coworkers and how you talk to people at work,
And we need to put Christ on the throne.
Church needs to be important.
You need to come to church on Sundays.
That's a deal breaker for me.
If a job says I have to work on a Sunday,
I'm not gonna work at that job.
And so, and I'm very upfront, I lay it on real thick anytime I'm interviewing, so they have every chance to say no.
You know, and even when I got my job down here, I told them, hey, I preach at the church every second Sunday,
I song lean, it's really important to me be there on Sundays, and they knew that going into it.
And so, make a bold announcement, tell people what it is that's important to you so that they know going into it.
You know, you don't always have to tell your co-worker,
I don't want to hear your filthy mouth.
Sometimes you just have to tell them, you know,
I go to church and this is really important to me.
And if you lay it on thick enough,
they'll figure out how to act on their own.
And if they keep doing it, then maybe rebuke them.
But I don't always just rebuke people straight off the bat.
I try to give them grace and let them figure out
what's important to me and what my boundaries are
and how it's going to go.
But I don't stick my foot down with unsafe people
and try to fight with them.
You agree with my adversary while they
are on the way with him?
Lest he take thee to the judge.
Turn to 1 Samuel
Yeah, turn to 1 Samuel chapter 2 I'll read some verses here real quick while you're turning there
Matthew 6 24 no man can serve two masters for he will hate the one and love the other or else
He will hold to the one and despise the other you cannot serve God and mammon and Matthew 6 33
But seek he first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you
Turn to 1st Samuel chapter 2 verse 8 and 9
He raises up the poor out of the dust. This is this is Hannah praying
Says he raises up the poor and
Lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill to set them among the princes and to make them
Inherit the throne of glory for the pillars of the earth of the lords and he had sat the world upon them
He will keep the feet of his saints and the wicked shall be silent in darkness for by strength shall no man prevail
No man's able to prevail against the Lord
And that's why even people try to prevail against you
You need to follow the Lord and depend on the Lord to deliver you from your enemies
the Bible says and
So the Lord is even to take the poor up out of the dust and the beggar out of the Dunhill
So the the reason that you have enough money for your family is because of the Lord
And I haven't had a lot of money, but I've always had enough money to get by
And if you have children and you're faithful and you do what God tells you to do God will provide you money for those children
I've never seen the righteous forsaken nor a seed-begging bread
and so
But you know some people wait to have children and they wait too long and they never have children
And people that really wanna be in the ministry,
they think, well, I gotta do a lot of work right now
and I don't have time to have children.
You don't have any time but now to have children.
Now is, if you're married, you have now to have children,
to begin your family.
And if God doesn't give you a family,
That's your conscience is clear, you know, there's reasons why some people can't have a family just physical reasons or
Just because God doesn't doesn't give you a family and that's you know, that's not your fault
But if you're doing something to prevent God from giving you a family, like whether that be birth control or that just be, you know,
abstaining for obscene amounts of time, you know, it says prayer and fasting. So you would starve to death by how long some people
abstain from the marital relationship
if it were prayer and fasting.
And so
God God wants God wants the family unit to work together to serve Christ
We're not just just a lone blue chip doing it all for the Lord because eventually somebody's gonna have to replace you
Even if you are you know the next Billy Sunday or whoever and I don't you know
I don't like Billy Sunday, but but all Billy Sunday's sons were ended up being drunks didn't they because he didn't you know
He was tour in the world preaching to everybody else, but what happened his own family
Are you going to lead your family or are you going to be the picture perfect preacher that leads everybody else and then
Eventually it falls flat
You know there's such a thing as you can fly morally low and have low standards and you crash
But there's also such a thing where you have such high standard that you never let anybody you never you never let your children
Mess up you never teach your children ever anything you just expect them to know everything
And one day it's going to fail and you're going to crash and burn because you're righteous over much and you're not setting up, you're not giving them grace and setting them up to learn how to do what it is the Bible says.
And so more often than not, in our generation, it's just low standards. People fly in too low and they crash, don't they?
But it's also out there where there's this pie in the sky.
You go to Bible college, and then you're a pastor,
and then you're a pastor for 60, 70 years.
As a 20, you know what I mean?
That's the only way you can be a pastor for 60, 70 years
is if you're a 20-year-old man that's newly married.
And, you know, and then at church,
they never find a really good pastor after that, do they?
And it's like, because who's gonna do that?
Because that pastor only has one or two kids most of the time.
We see more and more churches failing in this generation because people aren't stepping
up to do it, because the qualifications have been changed.
The goalpost has been moved from what the Bible says.
People that are genuine and read their Bible are like, well, why do I need to go to Bible
college?
And then it's like, fuck, school of prophets.
You know, Elijah and school of prophets,
they just parrot what they heard from Bible college.
And that's, you know, that's not,
it's not what the Bible teaches.
And so, you know, in our life,
we're gonna have to go out and work
and we're gonna have to go out and probably be bivocational
more, you know, more nowadays
because the full-time pastor,
it isn't gonna be there most of the time.
And a church is not going to have the money to send you out to be a full-time pastor.
You're probably going to have to double and triple dip and work a hard job and be a pastor if that's what you want to be, if that's your desire as a young man.
And that's probably going to take longer than what it used to take, to be honest.
And so I've had a desire to be a pastor. I got saved in 2008.
And so I've really worked on myself and raising my family and making sure that I'm qualified
and that it's actually something that I am actually meant to do.
Because you can desire to do something, but you cannot be meant to do that.
And even as a young person, your brain does not fully develop until you're 25.
So some of you are underdeveloped brains right now, I was kidding.
So your brain does not finish developing your habits until you're almost 25, 30 years old.
You know, I don't think this was a good person, but it was a good analogy that I heard them say,
they said that your 20s is kind of the time that you scoop all of the garbage out of the pond
before you turn 30 and it freezes over.
You know, all the things that are wrong in your life, you need to get right as a young adult and you need to work on yourself and fix yourself and, you know, take the beam out of Vino Nye, as the Bible says, before you go to your brother and say,
get a little moat right here, you need to get out of your eye. When you're young, that's a great time to do that so that you can get your right and so that you can be proven as somebody that's done that, that's living a righteous life.
And I'm not down on people that have gotten saved, you know, late in life and have lived
a wicked life.
But at the same time, a lot of those people will try to impeach your testimony if you've
lived a good life.
They'll try to act like you're a do-gooder, like you're holier than now.
And you know, like me personally, I don't care if somebody drank when they were younger
Or if they're covered in tattoos,
because you'll see people nowadays,
it's just sleeves of tattoos on the face,
on the forehead, you know, crazy stuff.
It used to be people got, this is off topic,
but I'm just gonna say it anyway.
People used to get tattoos because they were in a gang
or because they were in the military
or because just to say, hey, look,
I'm a bad person, I have tattoos.
I can actually hurt you.
That's the reason older people have tattoos.
and younger people it's kind of become an art thing where it's just covered in
tattoos and they look like a child star that didn't make it and and you know
that's gloring in your flesh I don't look bad on you for that but at the same
time the world the world doesn't look at that the same way as what they used to
they used to mean something different than what it means now and living a pure
life for Christ will mean the same thing now as it means 50 years from now
And so if you get right and you live right in your 20s,
it'll be worth it 50 years from now.
Anything that you do that's for the world,
whether it be even just a video game,
or it just be entertainment, or if it be worldly pleasures,
it's not gonna matter 20, 30 years from now.
What's gonna matter is the heartache
that it causes in your life,
because of the mess that you've made of your own life.
And you may think that you've done something really great,
It's not going to last.
The pleasure is not going to last.
And so somebody put a turkey egg under a setting hen one time.
And I had a pastor.
He had all these chickens.
And one of them was very, very ugly.
And we kept telling him, that one's a turkey.
And it turned out it was a turkey.
And it's because it got a lot bigger than the rest of them and you know that turkey as it got bigger
It looked up and it could see birds flying over and it said hey, you know what?
I meant to do that
I meant to fly and so then it would get up on top of the barn and you know stuff like that and so
You know, are you just pecking around with the chickens or are you meant to fly with the eagles as a Christian?
Are you just gonna spend your whole life just doing stuff that don't matter, you know
Just I'm making making your lunch going to work eating your lunch going home from work
Watching TV going to bed, or are you gonna do something that matters for the Lord Jesus Christ?
and so
You know not every not everyone is gonna be a preacher now. I'm not a preacher. I preach but I'm not a preacher
But everyone can honor and glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.
So do you want to do that with your life or do you just want it to be for not?
First Samuel chapter 2 verse 10,
the adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces and out of heaven shall be thunder upon them.
The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth and He shall give strength
God will give his king
God will give God will give the king
Strength and he will give his exalt the horn of his anointed. He will exalt the Lord Jesus Christ
The Bible says and if you and thrown the Lord Jesus Christ in your life, God will lift you up
And he will give you strength
You know you think of an Isaiah where it talks about let's turn there actually Isaiah chapter 40 verse 31
This is my uncle's favorite verse before he passed away
So we mentioned earlier do you want to scratch around with the chickens or you want to fly with the Eagles well
Isaiah verse 40, 31, it says,
but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
They shall mount up with wings as eagles.
They shall run and not be weary.
They shall walk and not faint.
So that there says, if you wait upon the Lord,
the Lord will give you strength.
You don't have to rush around
and get everything done right now, like out of Niger.
Like, I'm gonna be king right now.
I'm gonna do what I wanna do right now.
And so you need to wait upon the Lord and the Lord will renew your strength.
And not only do you need to put Christ on the throne, but there needs to be a bold announcement.
I want you to turn back to 1st King chapter 24.
You know, we tell people this sometimes outsole winning, don't we, because they get saved.
And we tell them, you know, the first step of obedience after being saved is that you want to be baptized.
Because baptism is an easy way for you to come forward in the church,
and evangelist Justin John says,
this is brother so-and-so,
he received Jesus Christ as his Savior,
he wants to follow in the Lord's baptism.
That's an easy way for you to tell people that you've accepted the Lord Jesus Christ.
Because you don't even have to say that you just come forward and somebody else says it for you.
And you were accountable to all those people there,
and you now have a place where you have people that are like-minded
You could also rent a banner that says,
I'm so-and-so and I receive Jesus Christ as my savior
and just fly it with an airplane across Indianapolis.
If you do that,
put Sure Foundation Baptist Church on the sign as well
because it'll be expensive.
But.
You know, the cheapest ways is to drive here and hey, somebody else will say it for you
and you have a local church that you can attend.
And tell people about the Lord Jesus Christ, we'll go out with you and show you how to
tell people.
Before you ever get embarrassed telling your family or somebody else, let us help you
tell them.
Or let us help you tell a stranger so that you can be taught what to say to your own
family when you want to tell them.
Because if you're saved, you're able to get somebody else saved.
Judas was not the best soul-winner.
He was not a soul-winner at all.
If you know, you know.
So we need to make a bold announcement today.
Turn to 1 Kings chapter 1 again.
1 Kings chapter 1 and verse 24.
Nathan said, My Lord, O King,
Hasel said, Adonijah shall reign after me,
and he shall sit upon my throne.
Verse 28 then King David answered and said call me Bathsheba and she came into the Lord
King's presence stood before the King and the Queen the King swear and
Said as the Lord liveth that redeemed my soul out of all distress
Even as I swear unto thee the Lord God of Israel saying assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me and he shall sit upon my throne
Even so, will I certainly do this day?
People need to make a bold announcement today.
He said, I'll do it this day.
He said, this day I'll announce that Solomon is on that throne.
We need to go out and show his salvation from day to day,
the Bible says. We need to go out and
announce to the people that the Lord Jesus Christ sits upon the throne of our life.
Declare his glory among the heathen and his wonders to all people.
I really want to hammer that this it is a daily thing that we need to do in our lives that we need to remind ourselves
Who is the king of our life?
Luke chapter 9 verse 23
And he said to them all, if any man come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
For whosoever shall save his life shall lose it, but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall find it.
For what is the man advantaged if he gain the whole world and lose himself or be cast away?
For whosoever shall be ashamed of me, and my words of him shall the son of man be ashamed when he was come in his own glory,
and his fathers and of the holy angels.
When you make that announcement in your life,
when you live for the Lord Jesus Christ,
there's a joy that comes with it.
There comes joy with serving Jesus.
Look at 1 Kings chapter 1 again in verse 39.
When Solomon began to reign,
there was a great joy throughout the kingdom.
says in first Kings chapter 1 verse 39 and Zadok the priest took a horn of oil out of the tabernacle and anointed Solomon and they blew the trumpet and
All the people said God saved King Solomon and all the people came up after him and the people piped with pipes and
Rejoiced with great joy and the earth rent with the sound of them
And then in verse 45 Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet of the anointed him King in Gihon
they are come up dense rejoicing so that the city rang this is the noisy ye heard
and Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom you know God wants it to come to
pass it doesn't matter what man does and Solomon was the one that ended up having
the joy he ended up being the rightful king of Israel even though Adam and I
just stepped up and announced it first it didn't matter it wasn't true and and
people
People in this world will seem to do really well and it seems like their life's going great
But and what's the end of that thing though because Bible says better is the end of a thing
You're gonna have a better life serving the Lord Jesus Christ faithfully and
Waiting upon him to renew your strength and waiting upon the Lord to bless you
Then you are trying to scrape and trying to make you know make everything happen for yourself
necessarily obviously we go out and we work hard and we go out and we do
the things that we're supposed to do. But at the end of the day, God's promotion comes not from the
east or the west, but from the Lord. And you know, there's no joy, there's no excitement,
there's no outward fulfillment like there is serving the Lord Jesus Christ.
because I could go anywhere and not be ashamed of serving the Lord Jesus Christ.
I'm not gonna go into a bar and say I'm not ashamed, you know, but you can go
you can go in any people group whether they be Spanish or they be Filipino or
they be, you know, a biker gang standing outside somewhere, you know, if you have
the wrong patch on you're probably gonna be really ashamed, you know, if you're in
a stupid biker gang and you just fight people for stupid reasons.
And so if you're in the wrong gang or if you're in the wrong, you know, you're in the wrong neighborhood
You're gonna be ashamed if that's what you glory and if you glory in the flesh
But there's no neighborhood. That's the wrong neighborhood to take the Lord Jesus Christ to and to live your life for him
But sometimes before before we have that joy of enthroning the Lord Jesus Christ sometimes there needs to be a death
Sometimes you have to die to yourself first and you know this this became very real to me recently
And the things that have happened in my life that it's not me. That's important. It's the Lord Jesus Christ and
You work hard at a job or you work hard
You know and you work hard for other people and they don't appreciate it and the Lord Jesus and you need to work for the Lord
You know you don't work for those people you work for the Lord
And so first Kings chapter 35 it says I'm sorry first Kings 1 chapter verse 35
Then he shall come up after him that you may come and sit upon my throne
For he shall be king of my stead and I have appointed him ruler over Judah and more over the king's servants
This is verse 47. I've skipped down to sorry
Moreover, the King's servants came and blessed our Lord, King David, saying,
God, make the name of Solomon better than I name,
and make his throne greater than I throne,
and the King bowed himself upon the bed.
So imagine that saying that somebody else's throne would be greater than your throne,
that somebody else would do better than you,
and the Lord Jesus Christ needs to be that in your life.
You must decrease and he must increase, as John the Baptist said.
You need to put Christ upon the throne and
You're gonna have to die to yourself the things that you want necessarily aren't going to come to pass
But the things that Christ wants you to do you need to help make those things come to pass
and so
Sometimes when you lay down and you die to yourself the devil will make you feel like hey now you got nothing
It's how he makes you feel but
When you have when you serve the Lord Jesus Christ, you'll have joy and a peace will come over you
That those things do not matter God is shaking out the things of your life that are not important
So that those things that are not shaken will remain
So that you'll be sure and steadfast in the truth
and that you won't be offended because the Bible says let's turn there actually I
heard this we went to a revival meeting you could fault us if you want but we
went to a revival meeting on Thursday because we really like being in church
you know so I'm sure nobody will fault us but anytime church is available we
like to go to church you know whether we're whether we're here or not we like
to be in church somewhere and so we had church Friday evening this week and so
Wednesday and Thursday we went to church
At a revival meeting and I heard this verse it was I needed it actually it was in Luke chapter 17
You'll turn to Luke 17
Said in Luke 17 verse 1 it says then he said unto his disciples it is impossible the defenses will come
But woe unto him through whom they come
If it were better for him for a millstone were hanged about his neck and he would cast into the sea that then they should offend one of these little ones
Take heed to yourselves if thy brother trespass against thee rebuke him and if he repent forgive him and
if he trespass against thee seven times a day and seven times in a day turn again and saying I repent thou shall forgive him and
The Apostles said unto the Lord increase our faith
And, you know, you're gonna have to increase your faith to forgive other people.
You're gonna have to have the faith to forgive the bad things that have happened to you and
move on with your life and move forward and serve the Lord Jesus Christ.
You're even going to have to forgive yourself for the wrong things that you've done,
and you're going to have to ask the Lord to forgive you and move on with your life
and serve him better in your future.
And that's dying to yourself and dying to your own wants and your own needs
and the things that, you know, maybe make you happy
or the things that you think, you know, maybe, like,
getting back at somebody you think is going to make you happy, but it's not.
It's not.
And so you need to forgive your brother
and whether that's seven times seven in a day.
It's funny they say it will increase our faith
because it does take, that is what it takes.
It takes faith to move on and realize that the things
in your life God is using for good in your life to help you.
Unless you're living in like wicked sin
and something happens and then you bear it patiently,
God may not be using that to work good in your life.
You know like if you rob a bank and kill a bunch of people and you get arrested God may not be using your print
That may not be your prison ministry that God is bringing you to that's all you're going to have time to do
You know if they if you end up in prison you may get killed robbing the bank
You know as a child of God you're probably gonna be made a worse example than just your average normal person that does wrong
And so that's an extreme example obviously so
But all things work together according to for good according to those that are called to his purpose and then love God
If you love God and you serve him with your life, he will work it for good and though he slay me
I will trust him
Job said and
So let the kingdom of God the kingdom of God cannot be established greatly in your life until you and thrown the Lord
Jesus Christ and you cannot and thrown the Lord Jesus Christ until you die to yourself and you have to do that daily
And so it says in first Kings chapter 2 verse 10 it says so David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David
and the days of David reigned over Israel were 40 years and seven years he reigned in Hebron and
33 years he reigned in Jerusalem
Then sat Solomon upon the throne of his father David and his kingdom was established greatly
Turn to John chapter 12
John chapter 12 verse 24
The Bible says verily verily I say unto thee except the corn of wheat fall into the ground and die to bite it alone
But if it die it bringeth forth much fruit
If you die to yourself, you're gonna bring forth much fruit for the Lord Jesus Christ
You're gonna win many people to the Lord
And so what's going to be the verdict in your life?
Who's going to reign supreme in your life?
Is it going to be self or is it going to be the Lord Jesus Christ?
Because your children and your wife and those that looked up to you,
even those in your church, your fellow church members,
are looking to you to see who you set on the throne.
And as Christians, we're called not to be offended if somebody else falls away.
But people will be offended if everybody just quit coming.
It'll offend people.
You know, you'll stop other people from coming if you quit coming.
You'll stop other people from serving God if you quit serving God.
And you'll cause other people to sin if you live a life of sin.
Sometimes your children will take the sin that you accept further than you ever would
have taken it.
Because they don't know why.
You know they don't know why you didn't do that or why you only took it to a certain extent because you knew it was wrong
And you did it anyway, and then they see you doing and they say well dad did it so it must not be that wrong
Well, just because dad did it doesn't mean it didn't matter wrong, and they'll accept something as
Fact because they're looking to you of who you sit on the throne in your life
And so let's bow our heads and pray dear Lord Jesus. Thank you for the state. You've given us Lord
I pray that you would help each and every one of us Lord
to die to ourselves Lord daily and to serve you and to reach many people with the gospel Lord.
I pray that you would help keep everyone here Lord pure and unspotted from the world Lord.
We love you and in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
All right. Amen. Let's go in our binders and let's go towards the back to
To a great song before the throne of God above
Before the throne of God above. I have a strong and perfect plea
Let's all stand for that last song stretch our legs
Little give them a little more time to I'm sorry our fuzz before the throne of God above
It's a great great hymn
See it on that first stanza before the throne of God above I have a strong and
perfectly a great high priest whose name is love whoever lives and pleads for me
my name is graven on his hands my name is written on his heart I know that while
in heavy stands no tongue can bid me hands depart no tongue can bid let's try
one more time when I first stands before the throne
strong and perfectly a great high priest whose name is love whoever lives and
pleads for me my name is graven on his hands my name is written on his heart I
No tongue can bend me hands deep on that second
When Satan tempts me to despair
And tells me of the guilt within
Upward I look and see him there
Who made an end to all
sing it out now because the sinless savior died my sinful soul is counted
free forgot the justice satisfied to look on him and pardon me to look on him
My perfect spot is righteousness, the great unchangeable I am, the king of glory and of...
Sing it out now!
One with himself I cannot die, my soul is burnt, just by his blood, my life is hit with Christ on high.
with Christ my Savior and my God, with Christ my Savior and my God.
Brother Miguel, can you praise out the service please?