Bonsoir à tous, bienvenue à la chrétienne de Steadfast Baptist Church. Si vous pouvez, trouvez vos sièges et prenez vos livres de chansons.
Nous allons commencer cette soirée en chantant 343, revivons-nous encore. 343, revivons-nous encore. 343, revivons-nous encore.
343, sur le second, apprised. Père, merci pour ce service d'avance. Et à la fois que nous vous priveons cette soirée, je prie que vous vous blessiez tous ici.
Et je vous prie que vous vous blessiez, frère Ben, quand il nous prie cette soirée, vous nous priverez. Amen.
Bon, pour notre deuxième chanson, allons-y sur 351, dis-le à Jésus. 351, dis-le à Jésus.
Cette fois-ci, nous allons passer par nos annoncements vraiment rapidement. Si vous n'avez pas un bulletin, raisez votre main et un usher vous apportera un.
A l'avant, nous avons notre vers de la semaine, Proverbe 31,17. Il y en a un ici, frère John. Proverbe 31,17 pour tous les 18 ans d'âge ou plus jeune, si vous pouvez dire ça à moi-même.
M. Shelley ou un usher, vous aurez un ice-cream. Comme d'habitude, nos temps de service et des temps de soulage sont listés à l'arrière de la gauche, faites attention à ceux-là.
N'oubliez pas de mettre vos maps de soulages de ce jour dans la salle en bas d'ici. Rappelez aussi vos saletés à vos captains. Si vous n'avez pas un capitaine, laissez-moi savoir après le service et je peux vous aider.
Nous avons nos stats listés ici, nos hôpitaux et notre liste de prières. Et juste un petit rappel sur les deux événements à venir.
Le 20 janvier, nous allons commencer une classe de prière de 10 semaines. Je vais vous aider un peu avec ça aussi et j'ai hâte de l'avoir.
Pour les hommes qui sont les soleurs, je crois que le Président Shelley a dit qu'il y a 18 ans, je le confirme, mais oui, j'ai hâte de l'avoir.
C'est un bon moment. Et puis nous avons les hôpitaux en liste pour Mme Catherine Kreikert et son bébé-fille sur le 3 décembre.
Dès 12h30 à 2h30 à l'église, "Nurslings only" préférée. S'il vous plaît, Mme Lauren Millstead.
Et s'il vous plaît, prenez du side-dish ou du dessert pour partager.
C'est vraiment tout ce que nous avons pour l'annonce cette soirée.
Allons-y et allons à la Somme 67, notre Somme de la semaine.
Somme 67, vos handouts blancs sont dans votre Bible de King James.
Je vais chanter ensemble la Somme 67.
As the offering plates are being passed around, please turn your Bibles to 2 Samuel 23, 2 Samuel chapter 23.
The spirit of the Lord spake by me and his word was in my tongue; the God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, he that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds, as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Although my house be not so with God, yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure; for this is all my salvation and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands.
But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear, and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
These be the names of the mighty men whom David had. The Tacamite that sat in the seat chief among the captains, the same was Adino the Esnite, he left up his spear against eight hundred whom he slew at one time.
And after him was Eliezer the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, of one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle and the men of Israel were gone away.
He rose and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword. And the Lord wrought a great victory that day, and the people returned after him only to spoil.
And after him was Shema the son of Agge the Hararite, and the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentils, and the people fled from the Philistines.
But he stood in the midst of the ground and defended it, and slew the Philistines, and the Lord wrought a great victory.
And three of the thirty chiefs went down, and came to David in the harvest time, unto the cave of Adulam, and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
And David was then in enhold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
And David longed and said, O that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate.
And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate,
and took it, and brought it to David. Nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord.
And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this. Is not this the blood of the men, that when in jeopardy of their lives, therefore he would not drink it?
These things did these three mighty men. And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three.
And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three. Was he not most honorable of three?
Therefore he was their captain, howbeit he attained not unto the first three. And Benaia, the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lion-like men of Moab.
He went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow. And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man, and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand.
But he went down to him with a staff and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and slew him with his own spear.
These things did Benaia the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighty men.
He was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
Asahel the brother of Joab was one of them of the thirty, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, Shema the Herodite, Elika the Herodite,
Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anethothite, Mabune the Hushothite, Zalman the Ahoite, Mahari the Natophothite,
Helib the son of Baana the Anethothite, Itai the son of Ribi out of Gibeah of the Children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Parathenite, Hedi of the Brooks of Gaiash, Abilabon the Arbathite, Asmavath the Bar-Humite,
Eliabah the Shalbonite of the sons of Jashin Jonathan, Shema the Horarite, Ahayim the son of Shehrar the Horarite, Alephalette the son of Ahasphai the son of Mayakothite,
Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gielinite, Hezri the Carmelite, Perai the Arbite, Igol the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
Zilech the Ammonite, Nahari the Berithite, Armorbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah, Eirah an Ithrite, Girub an Ithrite, Uriah the Hittite, 30 and 7 in all, let's pray.
Lord, thank you so much for this evening, for the chance to hear the word of God preached.
I pray that you would fill brother Ben with the fullness and power of the Holy Spirit and help him to deliver his message to us boldly tonight.
We love you and you send me prayer. Amen.
Amen. I want to begin by thanking Pastor Shelley for the opportunity to fill the pulpit this evening and to all of you for coming.
Look down at 2 Samuel chapter 23 and we'll begin reading in verse number 8.
The Bible read there, "These be the names of the mighty men whom David had.
The Tacmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains, the same was a dino, the Esnite.
He lifted up his spear against eight hundred whom he slew at one time.
And after him was Eliezer the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David,
when they defied the Philistines that were gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away.
He arose, verse 10, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and pay attention to this.
His hand clave unto the sword, and the Lord wrought a great victory that day.
And the people returned after him only to spoil.
So what we have here in 2 Samuel 23 is a highlight reel, and it's a highlight reel of David's mighty men.
If you want to look for some positive examples in scripture that we should follow in our Christian lives,
you have it here in this chapter, but specifically there's one of them that I wanted to highlight.
There's one of them I really wanted to focus on here this evening, and his name is Eliezer,
one of David's mighty men who defied the Philistines, and the men of Israel, they were gone away.
So what that tells me, I think what we can surmise from the text is he was outnumbered.
The Bible also says that he smote them until his hand was weary, yet what does it say about him?
How can we look at Eliezer and define his character, his hand clave unto the sword, didn't it?
That's the title of my sermon. His hand clave unto the sword. What does that mean?
Well, it's the past tense form of the word cleave. To cleave, to stick, to adhere to, to hold.
Turn to 2 Kings 18, if you would, 2 Kings chapter 18. Meanwhile, I'll read for you from Deuteronomy
chapter 10 as you turn to 2 Kings 18. And in Deuteronomy 10, the Bible says, "Thou shalt
fear the Lord thy God, him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave and swear by
his name." We see this concept in Scripture multiple times where the Bible talks about
cleaving to the Lord, holding on to God with everything we've got, sticking to him, sticking
to the doctrines found in the King James Bible even though we're pressured on a daily
basis to do the opposite and to let go. And we'll see as we go through the message that
Eliezer did not let go. His hand was almost, you could say, stuck to that sword, congealed
to it. I mean he just did not let it go no matter what. And I think there are so many
powerful truths that we could take from that, and we will, but first of all I want to show
you another way that this word is used, and this has something to do with Hezekiah here.
In 2 Kings 18, notice verse 5, 2 Kings 18, notice verse 5 where the Bible read, "He trusted
in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah,
nor any that were before him." Verse 6, "For he clave to the Lord," but there's more, "and
departed not from following him, but kept his commandments which the Lord commanded."
Moses, when you study the line of Judah, and I'm talking about the kings, so many wicked
kings, one after the other after the other, that Hezekiah sticks out in a good way. And
how was he described? Like Eliezer, he clave, didn't he? He's special. He did not depart
from following him, the Bible says. Look at Ephesians 6 if you would, Ephesians chapter
6. Let's go back to the New Testament for a second and I'll quote for you as you turn
to Ephesians chapter 6, Hebrews 4. I read it this morning, Hebrews 4 says, "For the
word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to
the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner
of the thoughts and intents of the heart." The Bible tells us about the Bible in Hebrews
chapter 4. It is so precise. We let this sink in. It is so precise, it can divide even
soul and spirit, which if you've studied that, they're intertwined, the soul and the spirit,
and yet the word of God is so precise and so sharp, it's possible to divide them. You
know, when I think about that verse, there's only one translation in English that comes
to mind. It's the King James Bible. You know, when I think of the modern versions, not
to go on too long of a rabbit trail here, but when I think of the modern versions, I don't
think of a sharp sword that's able to divide soul and spirit. I think of a slinky. Pastor
Shelley has used that analogy before, and I thought of ripping him off and bringing a
slinky. I ended up not doing it. I'll leave that to him. That's his thing. I would just
be a second rate ripoff. But my point is, it's a slinky, isn't it? It's because they
take sharp words in our King James Bible like sodomite and sharp words, fornication, things
of that nature and turn it into things like sexual immorality and other vague terms that
the modern perversions of scripture use because they're not sharp. They resemble a plastic
butter knife and if you've ever used one of those, you know how easy they are to snap
in half. I've experienced that many times in my life, trying to eat Chinese takeout
with those cheap knives and they always break. Well that's the modern Bible verses. Look
at Ephesians chapter 6 if you would. And what's the title of the sermon? His hand clave
onto the sword. What is the sword spiritually or what does it typify? Verse 17 tells us
in Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 17, notice this, "and take the helmet of salvation and
the sword of the spirit." Which is what? The word of God. So what can we learn? We learn
this, that when you cleave onto the sword like Eliezer did, you're cleaving to the word
of God. You're cleaving to the word of God. But beyond that, when you cleave to the sword,
you're also, like I just said, cleaving to the word of God. But when you cleave to the
word of God, if you read John chapter 1, what do we know about that? Well, we know that
the word is Jesus Christ, isn't it? So when you cleave to the sword, who exactly are you
cleaving to? You're cleaving to the Lord Jesus Christ himself. Now some people, they freak
out when you say that, that the word is Jesus. They don't like that. It kind of sounds a
little weird to them. But of course, I'm not talking about the binding on this book. I'm
not talking even about the paper. I'm not talking about the Meriva calfskin. I'm sorry,
this is French Morocco. Sorry. You've got to be accurate, okay? Anyway. I'm not talking
about the way that this book is constructed physically, but I'm talking about the words.
They are Jesus Christ. They are Jesus Christ. And so when you cleave to the sword, you're
cleaving to him. But let's zoom out a little bit further. When you cleave to Jesus, I
believe what you're doing is you're cleaving to the Christian life itself. You're cleaving
to the Christian life itself. And the reason why I wanted to preach this sermon, you know,
it wasn't just to fill the hour. I wanted to preach this sermon because I want to inspire
you. I want to inspire you to cleave to this Christian life that we're all living in right
now, no matter what, no matter what. And turn back to 2 Samuel chapter 23, 2 Samuel chapter
23. And let's learn about Eliezer because he is our example of this. He's an example
for us of a man who cleave no matter what. He's someone who did not give up. He never dropped
his sword. Even after the battle was over, I believe he still held on to that thing.
He still held on to the sword. And in verse 9, we'll read this again, "And after him
was Eliezer the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when
they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of
Israel were gone away." So the men of Israel gone away. His allies gone away. Verse 10,
he gave up and went home. No, no. He arose, the Bible says, and smote the Philistines
until his hand was weary and his hand clave under the sword. Even in hard times he stood,
he claved and he did not let go. Realize what Eliezer was faced with. Turn if you would
to 1 Chronicles 11, the parallel passage in 1 Chronicles chapter 11. And what you have
to realize when you compare the account in 1 Chronicles chapter 11, there may be numbers
that are seemingly discrepancies. It may seem a little different, but there's no contradiction
in your King James Bible. It just offers in 1 Chronicles 11 a different perspective.
And if you pay attention to verse 12, look at verse 12. Let's look at the parallel passage,
1 Chronicles 11 and verse 12, the Bible read, "And after him was Eliezer, the son of Dodo,
the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties. He was with David at Pasdamim, and there
the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley,
and the people fled from before the Philistines." So again, you have people fleeing likely out
of fear, and verse 14, "And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel and delivered
it and slew the Philistines, and the Lord saved them by a great deliverance." I'll have more
to say about that later on, but the Philistines are gathered where was a parcel of ground
full of barley. Like I said, the people fled from before the Philistines. We see that Eliezer
is left with David to defend the ground. I believe he was outnumbered. The odds are stacked
against him. Understand what Eliezer was faced with. Just to recap, we have a significant
challenge for him here. What's the significant challenge? The Philistines are gathered together
to battle and the men of Israel fled away. He's pressured to surrender his ground. We noticed
that in 1 Chronicles 11, didn't we? He's pressured to surrender his ground, the parcel
that he ended up standing in the midst of, he's pressured to give it up and yield that
to the Philistines. He's fatigued. On top of all of that, the Bible says he smote the
Philistines until his hand was weary, which tells me he was also dealing with fatigue,
wasn't he? Yet, what does the Bible say? His hand clave unto the sword. He held his weapon,
he would not let it go. And understand this, as a Christian, you will go through challenges
like this in your life. I don't come to church and dump all my problems on you guys. Nobody
would want to talk to me that, all right? If I'm just constantly just depressed and just
constantly venting about things and being negative all the time. But I go through issues
in my life, I'm sure you guys do as well. There's ups, there's downs, there's challenges,
there's times where you're wondering, where is God in this situation? As a church, we
went through significant challenges over the last few years and I'm talking about persecution.
And yeah, there's times where you start to wonder, what is the end of this going to be?
Where is God, are we going to be victorious? But it's in those moments where you're starting
to doubt and it's in those moments where you're kind of down in the dumps even though you
really shouldn't be, but it's in those moments where you're kind of wondering what's going
to happen here. I can't see the end from the beginning. It's in those moments where we
have to remember his hand clave under the sword. We have to remember Eliezer. We have to remember
this example. Even as he was weary, challenged, faced with a coming onslaught of Philistines,
he didn't give up. He kept swinging that sword. How though? See, here's the thing. I could
just get up and repeat that over and over again. Don't give up, don't give up, don't
give up, don't give up. And then we could all just close our Bibles and go home. And
some of you are like, well, that sounds pretty good. But here's my point. Let's get into
some specifics. How exactly was he able to cleave under the sword? Well, turn if you
would to Hebrews chapter 11, Hebrews chapter 11. And my first point, and I only have three,
my first point is this. Eliezer clave unto the sword because he had faith. Eliezer clave
unto the sword because he had faith. And it turned to Hebrews 11 like I said, I'll quote
for you this about Eliezer. It says, "He arose and smoked the Philistines until his hand
was weary." Eliezer was weary. I already went over that. Yet, his hand clave anyway, because
he had faith. Eliezer was weary, but he had faith. He had faith. Even when the men of
Israel went away, he still stood. Why? Because his faith, I believe it wasn't in the men
of Israel. His faith was in God. Man will let you down. Man will disappoint you. Man
will flee when the going gets tough. They get going. But God doesn't do that to us.
You know, he could not have possibly done it on his own though. And the Bible tells
us in Galatians chapter 6, "And let us not be weary and well-doing, for in due season
we shall reap if we faint not." Spiritual warfare. Eliezer, he was going through carnal
warfare, physical warfare, but spiritual warfare, what we're engaged in as New Testament
Christians, it can be tiring, it can be tiring, but we shall reap if we faint not. Here's
the thing though, you can't do it on your own. We need God to help orchestrate victory
in our lives like we need oxygen to live, folks. Hebrews 11, it builds to this epic crescendo
towards the end of the chapter, and it's awesome. I don't know how else to describe it other
than this word, awesome. Look at verse 32, great victory requires faith. Look at verse
32, and what shall I more say for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak,
and of Samson, and of Jephthah, of David also and Samuel, and of the prophets who through
faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness, were made
strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Kind of makes what we've been through seem like nothing in comparison.
Subduing, think about this, through faith subduing kingdoms, quenching the violence
of fire, escaping the edge of the sword, their lives were on the line, they escaped, but
how did they do it? It wasn't through carnal means, they for sure didn't order storable
foods from Infowars.com. I tell you what they did do though, they had faith that God would
deliver them and so that's why the Bible tells us what it says in Hebrews chapter 11.
Through faith though, this is my point, through faith strength can be derived from weakness
and when you're fatigued, you're weak, you're tired, you're not as strong as you normally
would be and we see the part that I really wanted to focus in on in verse 34, Hebrews
11 verse 44, it says, "Out of weakness were made strong."
Eliezer was weak, Eliezer was weary, Eliezer was fatigued because of his weariness.
He was a strong man, but he was weary.
He smote the Philistines until he was weary, yet he had the persistence to cleave under
the sword, no matter what, I believe, because of his faith, because of his faith in God.
It can be tiring to fight the flesh every single day as Bible-believing Christians we're called.
This is the battle that we have to engage in, which is what?
Fighting the flesh, subduing the flesh.
It can be tiring to do that on a daily basis.
It can be tiring to do that.
It can be tiring to raise our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
And keep bad influences away from them.
In a world that's getting darker and darker by the day, it can be tiring to do that.
It can be tiring to home school your children.
It can be tiring.
It can be tiring to come to church every single time the doors are open.
It can be tiring to go soul winning.
Every single time you're able to do so once a week, maybe even twice a week.
My point is it can be tiring to do that.
It can be tiring for men potentially to lead their family.
The responsibility on your shoulders to protect.
The responsibility on your shoulders to provide.
That can be tiring mentally, physically if you work a hard job, a physically hard job.
That can be tiring.
It could be tiring to have that pressure on your shoulders, there's no doubt about that.
But how do you overcome that weariness by faith?
Because the Bible, here's the thing about this folks.
The Bible says out of weakness we're made strong, doesn't it?
How do you overcome that weariness?
By faith.
Because faith is the victory that overcomes the world.
Faith in God's promises that, hey, he will reward me for the work that I'm doing and
at the end of the day everything will work out.
Faith that if I keep going, hey, just one more church service, just one more soul winning
time.
Hey, I've got my Bible just one more time in the morning to do my daily reading.
Hey, just one more homeschooling session, just one more day on the job.
You take it a day at the time and you chip away and if you have faith that God will keep
you going, if you have faith in the rewards that are waiting for you in heaven, if you
have faith that God will bless you for continuing to stay on the right path, that's the fuel
that you need to overcome your weariness like Eliezer was and continue to cleave onto
the sword.
One more church service, one more soul winning time.
By faith, you can keep your hand held tight to the Christian life even when you face the
temptation to drop that sword and go back into the world again.
No wood to God that it could be said about you.
His hand clave onto the sword because of his faith.
Look at 1 Chronicles 11 again, 1 Chronicles 11.
We can't do it on our own.
We have to have faith that God will see us through.
We have to have faith that it will all be worth it in the end.
That when we get to heaven, there's going to be a lot of rewards waiting for us for
our persistence.
Now my second point is this, Eliezer clave onto the sword because he had fight.
Eliezer clave onto the sword because he had fight.
If you remember I said he faced a significant challenge.
He faced a significant challenge, but he had fight.
He had fight.
And in first Chronicles 11 we'll look at verse 13 where the Bible read, he was with David
at past Ammon and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle where was a parcel
of ground full of barley and the people fled from before the Philistines.
So the parcel of ground is under attack, I have more to say about that later, but the
people fled.
And that can be discouraging.
I don't know about you, but I'm discouraged when our allies flee when the going gets tough.
You know, if I know somebody, if I know a brother in Christ who's been battling with me
by my side and that person decides to go back home out of fear and that person gives up
on the Christian life and gives up on God because of the persecution or the difficulties
or the challenge that we face as Christians, whatever reason, that's discouraging.
Because you know what, when I come to church and I see you guys, I'm encouraged by that.
When I see you guys here and we're serving God together, I get encouraged by that.
It's great to see the brethren who actually care about the things of God and that can
serve as rocket fuel, that could serve as something that kind of keeps us going and
keeps us encouraged and keeps us engaged in the battle, knowing that we have brothers
and sisters fighting by our side who care about the word of God and want to fight the
good fight of faith. That's encouraging. And so when the opposite happens, it's discouraging.
And Eliezer faced that, but he had fight. He had fight. And specifically, he had fight
to do what? To deliver that parcel of ground that was under attack from the Philistines.
He had enough fight in him to deliver that parcel from the Philistines. Go to 1 Timothy
6 if you would, 1 Timothy chapter 6. You say, "I want to cleave under the sword no matter
what." You need fight. You need fight yourself like Eliezer had. Bible reads as you turn
to 1 Timothy 6, I'll quote this to you from Jude. Went over it on Wednesday night from
Brother Oz. It says in Jude, "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the
common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that ye should
earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." What's the
emphasis in scripture? Contention, fighting, the spiritual battle, being a part of a spiritual
army, God's army, being a good soldier of Jesus Christ. This language is used repeatedly
in the New Testament that we have a fight to fight. We should be contending for the faith.
The emphasis in scripture is that of being a fighter. Fighting the right battle though.
I can go get involved in the political battle. I can go enlist in the army of the Republican
party and try to get Donald Trump elected and all this useless garbage that will solve nothing
because Trump will not save America. The word of God will. I could waste my time doing that.
That's the wrong battle. We need to enlist in the right battle. We need to fight the
right fight. The spiritual fight. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places, the Bible says. We need to contend. You want to cleave
under the sword, you need to have fight. It's unfortunate though that so many Christians
and some of them are so-called Christians, instead of having fight, what are they doing?
They're laying their sword down on the ground willingly and yielding the parcel that they
were supposed to be defending to the Philistines. It makes me sick. You know, it angers me.
I get upset about it. I'll try and control my emotions though. Let me give you one. It's
the fight about the King James Bible and I want to read a quote for you from a pastor.
This is one of the reasons why he decided to drop the King James Bible from his church,
a church I used to attend. He said the third thing, this is the third reason why he wants
to drop the King James, why he did it, I should say. This is why he's transitioning. Don't
use that word in 2024, please. There's a connotation there. This guy is leading the textual transition
movement. And this is what he said. One of the reasons why he switched his church away
from the standard sacred text known as the King James Bible, the Preserved Bible, he
said, I did it for the future of my church, feeling like the next pastor cannot be bound
by this, as if you're in some kind of bondage by being King James only. Give me a break.
Chances are, he's likely, talking about the next pastor who will eventually replace him,
he's likely going to be younger than me. I mean, I'm in my mid-forties now. The chances
of me resigning and the next pastor being older than me are slim to none. It's likely
going to be a young guy. Of course, by that time, I might be 60, so he might be 40. That
guy is not going to be King James only, nine times out of ten. And if he were, he certainly
would not be interested in my church or he will be in training. So let's go ahead and
deal with it. So here's what he's saying. Let's just rip the band-aid off now and transition
away from the King James Bible because the following generation, the next generation
isn't going to be King James only anyway. So let's go with the flow. Let's acquiesce
to that which is going to be the popular thing and transition, quote unquote, over to a modern
Bible so that way when the next pastor comes in, who's reading from the ESV or the NIV
or the HIV or whatever, that this guy feels comfortable enough to take over the church.
Now I think that's garbage. And let me tell you why. Because we're called to fight a spiritual
fight. And obviously this guy doesn't want to fight that fight because he's not King
James only anyway, and he doesn't see that as a battle that's worth getting involved in.
But let me tell you something, it shouldn't matter if every single other church on the
face of the planet is using the NIV. We should be the one church that says "not here." It's
not going to happen here. We're going to stick to the King James Bible. We're going to fight
for the King James Bible. We're going to use our spiritual sword to slay the false doctrines
that are contained in the modern Bible perversions. We're going to stick to what God has given us,
not the strange fire known as the ESV, or the NIV, or the NKJV. Yeah, New King James version.
You could throw that one in the trash as well. It's like fake conservatives. No, no, no, no, no.
They're not that much better. I'm not going to hitch my wagons to them either. I'm not going to
hitch my wagon to New King James. But here's my point. This is a battle worth fighting. And this
same pastor, he'll lament the fact that these King James Only, they're just so divisive. They just
constantly want to fight about the Bible. It's so horrible. And you know, one of them, I'll just
drop the name. It's already been dropped behind the pulpit, so I feel like I can do it. Jonathan
Burris, this guy on YouTube. I'm getting blank stares. I'm actually happy that you guys don't
know who this is. But anyway, this guy, Jonathan Burris, used to be King James Only. Now he's
not and he's made videos. He's put videos out there, just lamenting, just so upset, so sad that
these King James Only is out there are so divisive and they just want to fight and they just want to
contend over the Bible. Well, you know what? If the very words of God aren't worth fighting for,
my question is what is that? You know, you want to get up and you want to get all upset about the,
you know, the political battle and you want to get all upset about your favorite sports team losing
and all this useless junk, but you don't care about the fact that they've changed the words of God?
That doesn't bother you at all? And you know, last time I checked, the Bible says about Jesus Christ
that he came to bring division, didn't he? Matthew chapter number 10 tells us, "Think not that I
came to bring peace on earth, I came to bring a sword." Isn't that what he said? And it said a man
had variance against his father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter-in-law against
her mother-in-law. Folks, he came to bring division and that division will revolve around the word of God.
We need to fight that fight in 2024 and beyond because that battle is not going away. It's only going to
rage even more. There will be more Jonathan Burruses out there. There will be more James Whites out
there. There will be more people who want to undermine the very words that are sitting in your lap
this evening. There will be more people who want to destroy your faith in that King James Bible
that you have in your hand and we need to be willing to fight that battle. We need to be
willing to go out into the high wages and hedges and yes preach the gospel of course. How about we
couple that with handing them a version or I should say let me let me repeat this here. How about we
couple that with handing them a documentary called the Preserved Bible. How about we couple that with
handing them some material that they can use to understand the significance of this issue.
You know now more than ever it's it's time to stand up and fight and we need to have fight. If you
want to be someone whose hand clave under the sword you need to have fight and take this issue
seriously. But this is the only issue out there. There is plenty to fight about. There's false
prophets out there every day deceiving people. All hours of the day seemingly deceiving people.
False prophets are they're seething kids in their mother's milk. Remember that sermon that was
preached. They're seething kids in their mother's milk. They're taking that which should be
nourishing babes in Christ and helping them to grow and they're cooking them in it. They're hurting
them with it. They're hurting them. There's innocent people. They're being hurt by false prophets
every day and and their faith is being overthrown by false prophets every day and that should light a
fire inside of us to say I want to have fight. I want to be involved in the fight. I want to
support the man of God who's getting up behind the pulpit and preaching against false doctrine.
I want to support the ministry that's committed to the spiritual fight. I want to get involved. I want
to get plugged in. I want to make an impact. That should be our attitude. You want to cleave under
the sword? Have fight like Eliezer did. He didn't just lay down and allow the Philistines to trample
him and take that parcel of ground. No, he fought. He fought and that's one of the reasons why he
never let go because in him was fight. I'm sick and tired of having to hear about young black men
getting sucked into black Hebrew Israelite cults. And if you give up, if you just say, you know,
I'm done with the Christian life, hey, that's one less person that you could pull out of that filth.
That's one less person that you could lead to getting sealed with the Holy Spirit and out of,
or defend them rather from getting sucked into this black Hebrew Israelite garbage,
which is a scourge and a cancer on this area. Multiple times I've had to hear from soul winners
that they ran into some black Hebrew reprobates interfering in a gospel presentation,
stopping a gospel presentation to preach their satanic filth, their garbage, their lies.
These people are psychopathic demon-possessed freaks, and if you lay down your sword,
you know what you're doing? You're helping them win. It's not just them though.
You have, you have Paul Washer, you have Ray Comfort, you have these false prophet devils
undermining the faith, undermining the gospel of Jesus Christ. We need to have fight to defend
right doctrine from them, defend that parcel of ground from them. Now we need to fight for the
la trinité.
Que ce soit le an où nous continuons de se battre pour la trinité.
Cela continuera d'être sous attaque.
Cette partie du terrain continuera d'être sous attaque.
Deliver cette partie du terrain des Philistines qui veulent prêter l'unité.
Nous devons se battre pour la diénie de Jésus Christ.
Nous devons se battre pour la Bible du roi James.
Nous devons se battre pour la victoire de la âme.
Nous devons se battre pour le baptisme par immersion.
Nous devons se battre pour la repentance.
Nous devons se battre pour la définition biblique de la mariage.
Et ce que la mariage a vraiment l'air, pas la perversion féministe que ça a devenu dans la société en mainstream.
Hey, nous devons se battre pour la création.
Vous allez au système public fou aujourd'hui.
Qu'est-ce qu'ils enseignent aux jeunes, aux impressionnables minds ?
Qu'est-ce qu'ils enseignent aux jeunes, aux impressionnables minds aujourd'hui dans le système public fou ?
Que leur ancêtre biologique est un oiseau.
C'est stupide !
Et puis ils nous appellent "dum".
Non ! Nous devons lutter pour la création.
Nous devons lutter pour les fondamentaux de la foi.
Nous devons lutter pour la bonne doctrine.
Si vous voulez accueillir les armes, vous devez lutter.
Juste comme Eliezer l'a fait.
Il y a plein de choses à lutter sur.
1st Timothy 6 est où je t'ai tourné.
Regardez vers 12.
Le Bible dit là-bas.
"Faites la bonne fête de la foi.
Assieds-toi à la vie éternelle.
Où est-ce que vous êtes aussi appelé et qui a professé une bonne profession
avant d'autres témoignages ?
La main d'Eliezer a accueilli les armes.
Il a été commis à la bataille.
Il a battu la bonne bataille de la confiance.
Physiquement, faisons la même chose spirituellement dans nos vies.
Faisons la bonne bataille de la confiance.
Et bien sûr, comme Eliezer a accueilli les armes,
nous devons mettre en place, comme le Bible le dit en I Timothy 6,
une vie éternelle.
Et bien sûr, ce que je pense que cela signifie,
c'est avoir une perspective éternelle sur votre vie.
C'est pourquoi, plus tard dans le chapitre,
c'est que les gens s'occupe d'un bon fondement contre le temps qui vient,
et qu'ils peuvent s'occuper de leur vie éternelle.
C'est avoir une perspective éternelle.
Mais voici une potentielle application secondaire.
Nous savons que dans I John 5 et autrefois,
Jesus est appelé à une vie éternelle.
Donc, quand on s'occupe d'une vie éternelle,
on s'occupe de Jesus.
Regardez I Chronicles 5, si vous voulez.
I Chronicles 5.
Mais si vous faites du combat,
vous pourriez être skilfaits.
Vous pourriez être skilfaits.
I Chronicles 5, c'est là que j'ai fait le tour.
Je vais vous le lire,
de Hebrews 5, où la Bible l'a lu.
"Pour tous ceux qui utilisent du beurre,
ce n'est pas skilfaits.
Car il est un bébé."
I Chronicles 5, c'est là que j'ai fait le tour.
Les bébés ne sont pas skilfaits dans le Word.
Et c'est comme ça que vous le savez.
Quand ils disent des choses comme "judgez pas,
lest vous soyez jugés",
ce que ça me dit, c'est "non skilfaits dans le Word".
Vous devez aimer tout le monde,
même les pédophiles,
"non skilfaits dans le Word".
Et c'est ok, nous sommes tous là,
nous allons les aider à grandir,
nous allons amoureusement expliquer à eux
ce que la Bible nous enseigne.
1 Chronicles 5, nous regardons vers 18,
"les sœurs de Rubens et les Gadites,
et la moitié des tribes de Manasseh,
des hommes valants,
des hommes capables de porter de la boucle et de la sœur,
et de tirer avec le couteau."
"et skilfaits en guerre."
Les Gadites, les Rubens, la moitié des tribes de Manasseh,
s'établent dans l'est de Jordanie,
et, je devrais dire, dans l'est de la terre,
en dehors de Jordanie.
Valiants, capables, skilfaits,
c'est ce que je pense que tu peux les décrire.
"Eliézor clave under the sword, il a eu un combat,
mais je crois qu'il a eu un skill aussi,
ou il aurait perdu."
Tu dis, comment peux-je être skilfaits dans cette bataille?
C'est le point le plus évident de la guerre dans le monde.
Lisez la Bible, puis utilisez la sœur.
Mais au-delà de ça, va-t-on à la victoire de la sœur?
Vous savez, cette question, comment faire avec le temps de la Bible?
Comment faire avec le temps de la famille?
Nous assisons nos enfants,
et si vous êtes une femme,
si vous êtes un homme,
et vous les enseignez la Bible,
vous avez une étude de la Bible ensemble,
vous avez le temps de la Bible.
Comment faire avec ça?
Venez à l'église avec tous vos pouvoirs.
Vous voulez être skilfaits dans la Sœur?
Vous pouvez aussi faire attention à l'apprentissage.
Vous pouvez aussi venir à l'église
et vraiment essayer d'écouter
et ne pas utiliser la Sœur pour des naps.
Si vous voulez des naps,
mon conseil pour vous, c'est de rester à la salle.
C'est beaucoup plus confortable.
Donc payez de l'attention.
Pouvez prendre des notes si vous voulez.
Je ne dis pas que c'est obligatoire.
Tout ce que je dis est ceci.
Payez de l'attention et appliquez la prédiction.
C'est l'une des compétences d'aller à l'église avec vos pouvoirs.
Faites attention. Appliquez la prédiction.
Comment ceci? L'apprentissage.
Vous dites que les gens ne parlent pas à moi.
Commencez une conversation sur quelque chose.
Peut-être que vous avez trouvé quelque chose de cool dans les scriptures
que vous voulez partager.
Féliciter avec les gens de Dieu.
Et vous pouvez gagner de la compétence.
Vous pouvez être compétent.
Ainsi, utilisez la poitrine pour couper le mal de votre vie.
Et cela va vous rendre un chrétien plus compétent.
Parce que le mal est ce qui vous choque
et vous prévient d'arriver à votre potentiel.
Utilisez cette poitrine
pour choper certains de ces malades
qui vous prévient d'arriver à votre potentiel,
que ce soit de la chaleur ou de la douleur,
ou de quoi que ce soit.
Utilisez cette poitrine pour choper ceux de votre vie.
Regardons la première chronicle 11 encore.
La première chronicle 11, c'est mon point final.
Bien sûr, ce n'est pas automatique.
Nous savons que Romans 8 nous dit
que nous devons mortifier les feux du corps.
Juste comme Elie Azer a tué les Philistines avec la poitrine,
nous devons mortifier les feux du corps.
La poitrine est là et nous devons la battre.
Nous devons la battre.
Il n'y a pas de question de ça.
Et si vous le faites, ça vous aidera à gagner de la capacité et à être plus skillful.
Nous avons peut-être un défi important.
Nous avons peut-être un adversaire formidable qu'on s'occupe de,
peut-être que ce soit des false-profits ou même notre propre corps.
Mais hey, comme Elie Azer,
cela peut être dit de vous, chaque et chaque un de vous.
Sa main clave sous la poitrine.
Pourquoi ? Parce qu'elle avait du combat.
Maintenant, la première chronique est l'elevente.
C'est mon troisième point et mon dernier point.
Eliezer clave sous la poitrine parce qu'il avait de la fortitude.
Parce qu'il avait de la fortitude.
Et c'est ce que je veux dire par ça.
La fortitude peut être définie comme la force de l'esprit
qui permet à une personne d'encontrer le danger avec courage.
Eliezer a rencontré le danger, mais il l'a rencontré avec courage.
Il clave. Il a arrêté et il clave.
Il avait de la fortitude.
La première chronique est l'elevente, regardez le verset 14.
Regardons son fortitude, le verset 14. "Et ils se sont situés dans le milieu de ce parcours et l'ont délivré."
Payez attention à la phrase ici, c'est intéressant.
"Ils se sont situés dans le milieu du parcours."
Ce qui me dit c'est qu'ils étaient dans une position invulnerable.
Ils n'étaient pas à côté de ça, en se cachant dans un arbre ou quelque chose comme ça.
C'est là, dans le milieu, qu'ils se sont situés, en réponse à la difficulté qu'ils ont face à la Philistine.
Ils se sont situés dans le milieu et ils l'ont déployé.
Et pour se situer dans le milieu de la lutte, ça prend courage, ça prend fortitude.
Turnons à l'acte de l'acte de l'acte de l'acte de l'acte de l'acte de l'acte de l'acte de l'acte de l'acte de l'acte de l'acte de l'acte de l'acte de l'acte de l' scripte.
Qui représentent les Philistines ?
Vous pouvez argumenter le sang. J'ai déjà parlé de ça.
Mais je dirais que les Philistines représentent les ennemis du New Testament.
Les Philistines représentent les ennemis du New Testament, et nous connaissons exactement qui ils sont.
Philippe 3 nous le dit quand il dit
"Faites attention aux chiens. Faites attention aux travailleurs evils. Faites attention à la concession."
Alors dans l'Old Testament, vous avez les Philistines, entre autres, qui étaient des ennemis de Dieu.
Et dans le New Testament, nous avons aussi des ennemis.
Vous avez vos false prophets et des choses comme ça.
Mais vous avez vos chiens, vos travailleurs evils, et la concession.
Et les chrétiens doivent se réveiller de ça.
Oui, nous avons des ennemis.
Ils sont vraiment des ennemis.
Et nous devons avoir la fortitude pour défendre notre terre contre eux.
Et je vais vous dire quelque chose.
Ces ennemis sont réunis ensemble pour se battre.
Juste comme les Philistines étaient réunis ensemble pour se battre contre Eliezer,
les ennemis du New Testament aujourd'hui sont réunis ensemble pour se battre contre nous.
Acte 17, vers 5, acte 17, vers 5,
Mais les Juifs, qui n'avaiment pas croire, ont allumé avec l'envie,
et ont pris à eux certains des frères de la base,
et ont assemblé une compagnie, et ont installé toute la ville sur un terroir,
et ont assalté la maison de Jason, et ont cherché à les ramener à la population.
Et quand ils ne l'ont pas trouvée, ils ont tiré Jason,
et certains des frères, sous les règles de la ville, pleurent,
"Celles qui ont tourné le monde en haut et en bas, sont aussi sortis."
Il y a des doigts, des travailleurs evils et la concision, représentés ici,
dans le vers 5 et aussi dans le vers 6.
Et je vais vous donner un summary de cette passage.
Les Juifs utilisent des fagots pour attaquer les gens de Dieu.
Ces fagots, ils se situent dans la ville en haut, n'est-ce pas ?
Ils assaltent la maison. Pourquoi ?
Pour assurer le travail de Dieu, pour éviter la cause de Christ d'aller à l'avant, d'être perpetué.
Pourquoi les Juifs, dans leurs tunnels bas, utilisent des fagots pour attaquer leurs gens de Dieu ?
Je vais vous dire pourquoi.
Parce que les Sodomites sont capables de tout mal.
Ils sont remplis de tout malheur, selon l'article 1 de la Romanie.
Tu lis Genesis 19, tu lis Genesis 9, tu lis Judges 19.
Et tu sais très rapidement ce qu'ils sont capables de faire.
Tu comprends très rapidement qu'ils sont des prédateurs.
Tu comprends très rapidement qu'ils n'ont aucune conscience.
Et ils sont donc le parfait outil, le parfait minier
pour les Juifs utiliser pour attaquer les gens de Dieu.
Il n'y a rien qu'ils ne feront pas.
C'est pourquoi nous devons entendre des histoires
de l'un de nos soeurs, la Spurgeon,
par une mère dont sa fille, un individu malade,
a tenté de l'abattre.
Elle a tenté de l'abattre, sa petite fille.
Pourquoi? Parce que les sodomites n'ont aucune boundé.
Ils feront tout.
Et ce mec, c'était un fagot, d'ailleurs.
Tu es entrainé ou t'es couché.
Tu vas chercher les enfants, t'es couché,
ce qui te rend un fagot.
Mais qu'est-ce qui se passe? Tu n'aimes pas ce mot?
Est-ce qu'il y a un problème?
Je te le dis encore.
Un fagot. Ils sont des fags. Ils détestent Dieu.
Écoute, fais-moi un favoris.
Tu vas à la Somme 139, pas maintenant, mais après le service. Tu n'aimes pas ce que je dis?
Tu vas à la Somme 139, tu vas à la Seconde Chronicles 19.2, tu vas à la Jude, tu vas à la Seconde Peter 2,
et puis tu reviens à moi et on parlera.
Mais ne me dérange pas d'utiliser le mot "fagot" et de rester silencieux à propos des fagots,
en blessant les enfants.
Il n'y a rien que ce qu'ils ne feront pas.
C'est pourquoi ils ont tué les écoles et tué des gens innocents.
Trani après trani après trani,
en marchant dans une école élémentaire
et en tuant des enfants innocents.
C'est pourquoi les dragues, les fagots,
chantent "on vient pour vos enfants"
en bas et en bas,
à des parades de fierté,
loudement, ouvertement,
en vous disant ce qu'ils veulent faire.
Et ensuite, vous avez les chrétiens
en mettant leur arme et en disant
"Hey, come take this parcel,
we'll roll out the red carpet for you."
Charles Lawson,
"We'll roll out the red carpet for you, Philistines.
Come take the parcel of ground."
This is why the San Francisco Fag Choir
said this will convert your children.
There is nothing they won't do.
They said it happens bit by bit,
quietly and subtly,
and you will barely notice it.
Just like you're worried they'll change their group of friends,
you won't approve of where they go at night.
And you'll be disgusted when they start
finding things online
that you kept far from their sight.
What kind of animal,
a subhuman scumbag
would say something like that? I'll tell you.
A faggot, a sodomite.
They're vile, they're reprobate,
and they want you,
make no mistake about it, to drop
your sword.
They're gathered together to battle.
Let me give you a sampling.
Here's a voicemail our church received at one point.
This was directed at Pastor Shelley.
"I hope your children are expletive.
I hate you. I hope that you die.
I hope that you rot
in expletive hell.
You're a stupid blank blank.
I hope that your wife is,"
I'm not going to say forced carnally.
"I hope that your wife gets a bullet to the head
like she deserves. Like you deserve.
Just like your children deserve.
Because if you're going to sit there and talk about
LGBTQ, you expletive deserve that.
Jonathan Shelley,
I hope that you rot in hell.
You stupid blank. And you better hope
that I don't fly to expletive Texas.
You blank. Blank you.
Blank your family and blank your
wife. You blank. All of you guys
can take a bullet to the head. I hope your
mother dies. I hope your children die.
Oh, but I'm wrong for saying faggot.
Here's another one. Hey, I want you
all to know that you should probably commit
mass suicide and do the world a favor.
Here's one I got. I've only gotten one in like
a few years, but it says
somehow they got my email. Homophobic
piece of expletive. I will kill
you. That is a written
thread. I'm shaking in my boots.
The Bible says, "The wicked plot
it against the just and gnash
it upon him with his teeth. The Lord
shall laugh at him, for he seeth that
his day is coming." No, like the Philistines,
New Testament enemies
are gathered together to battle.
Those voicemails prove it. And what's
their goal? To get you to drop
your sword and acquiesce
to them and give up
your parcel
of ground. And Pure Words Baptist
Church is going through that right now.
Those are our brothers. And the
demon-possessed dogs won't leave
them alone. They want to make us drop our
swords. They want to flee. They want us to yield
our ground. But if you're going to cleave under the
sword, you need to have the fortitude
that Eliezer had. You need to have the
fortitude to say, "I'm not
budging. I'm going to
stand in the midst of this parcel
and I'm not going to move
a muscle. If you want to take this
from me, you're going to have to make my
heart stop, somehow,
in some way. You know, we need more
Christians to follow the example
of new IFB pastors
who faced the Philistines head on
and said, bring it on. Go ahead.
I'm not apologizing. I'll double down.
I'll say fag it even more.
Fag it, fag it, fag it.
Doesn't matter to me. You know, we need more
Christians to follow the example of new
IFB pastors and instead of yielding
their parcel of ground to the Philistines,
they stand in the
midst of it and say, hey, come and take it.
They stand in the midst of it and say,
you know what? I'm not giving up my
dress standards. I'm not giving up
my soberness. I'm not giving up
my King James Bible. I'm not giving up
the old fashioned hymns. And
I'm definitely not going to
give up my Biblically
grounded hatred for fags.
My Biblically grounded, check
Psalm 139, hatred
for sodomites. I'm not going to
give that up no matter how many of you gather
outside my church and foam at the mouth
like a bunch of subhuman freaks.
It doesn't matter to me. I'm
not giving it up.
You can threaten me a thousand times.
It won't change a thing.
I'm standing in the midst of this parcel and I will
deliver it from you. We need more Christians
to follow that example.
The Bible says only let your conversation be
as it becometh or suitable.
The gospel of Christ that whether I come and see you
the apostle Paul said. Or else be
absent. I may hear of your affairs
that ye stand.
Ye stand fast in one spirit
with one mind striving together
for the faith of the gospel
and in nothing, and in
nothing, terrified
by your adversaries,
which is to them an evident token of
perdition, but to you of salvation
and that of God. Eliezer was in
nothing terrified by
his adversaries and what happened?
God wrought a great
victory through him.
He delivered that parcel of
ground from the Philistines.
The last time I checked, the Bible says,
"Hey, resist the devil
and he will flee from you." And I think
this church knows a little something about
that over the last several years
when we followed the example of the man
of God who stood in the midst of his
parcel in spite of the death threats,
in spite of the intimidation, in spite of
the pressure to yield his ground and compromise
on what the word of God says. And he said,
"I'm not gonna do it." And he
stood and he defended the
word of God. And what happened?
God wrought a victory through him.
I don't see him anymore. They've moved on to
something else. And they may come back. I don't know.
I don't care. Because we need to stand.
Eliezer not terrified.
He stood. He clave. He was
delivered. Would God, more Bible-believing
Christians, would stand up and cleave
and refuse to yield their ground to faggots,
to sodomites, to New
Testament enemies? I want more
men to rise up who have
a backbone and a spine and say, "Hey,
you can't have our culture.
You can try and cram it down
our throats every June
until you're blue in the face.
You can't have our culture.
We're going to defend that parcel of ground from you."
Would to God there'd be more men
who would rise up and say, "You can't have
our churches. Get the hell out.
If you're a faggot, we're going to throw you
out, buddy." Would to God there'd be more
men who would stand up and have that attitude.
And would to God
that there would be men who would stand up and say,
"You sure as hell,
you sure as hell can't have
our children." Back off,
freak. Go back to the deepest,
darkest, hottest part of hell where you belong.
And stay the hell away from our
kids. You want to propagandize
them. You want to shove your filth
down their throat. You want to snatch them
from the streets. You want to put them in trafficking.
We know what you're up to.
We know who you are. We see right
through your mask. And we will not let
you come within a hundred feet
of our children. You back off.
Now we need more men of God to have that kind
of attitude. And then sit back
and watch. Just watch
as God delivers you.
It happened here. It'll happen
in Houston. It happened
in Tempe. It happened in
LA. It happened in
Sacramento. It'll keep happening.
Turn back to 2 Samuel 23 and we'll be done.
You know, like Elie Azer, it can be said
of you. He stood. He
defended his ground.
His hand clave.
His hand clave under the sword
because he had fortitude.
Because he had fortitude.
Now, I heard you turn back to 2 Samuel 23.
Last verse.
You say, "Why preach this?"
Well, here's why. Look at verse 10.
"He arose and smote the Philistines
until his hand was weary,
and his hand clave under the sword,
and the Lord wrought a great
victory that day, and the people
returned after him only to spoil."
Eliezer's hand clave under the sword.
What happened as a result?
Victory. Why would I preach this sermon?
So you can have victory too.
So you can have victory in your Christian life too.
How? Faith, fight, fortitude.
Faith, fight. If you have faith,
if you have fight, if you have faith,
even if you're challenged like Eliezer was,
and you're weary, and you fight,
and you have fortitude, I believe
you will be another person
that we could look at and say,
his hand clave under the sword.
He did not give up.
They threatened his life.
They tried to pressure him.
They told him, if you keep preaching that,
we'll kill you. Didn't mean anything.
Water off a duck's back, his hand clave
unto the sword. Why?
Faith, fight, fortitude.
Here's the thing about Eliezer.
What was the end of his story?
It was victory. The end of his story was victory.
And my question for you is,
how are you going to finish your story?
How are you going to finish your story?
We're just set and done, alright?
At the end of the day, we're not going to live forever physically.
We're not going to live forever.
And I think it would be a shame
if your children sitting next to you
right now in this building,
it would be a shame in my mind
if they look back at you and your life
and what you accomplished and the legacy
you left behind.
And the only thing they can say is
"Man, he could name every single player
on the Dallas Cowboys roster,
but he couldn't name
the 12 disciples."
That would be kind of embarrassing in my opinion.
You know, rather, I think it would be cool, I think it would be better,
I think it would be a heck of a lot better
if your children
can look back at your legacy
after you're gone
and they can say "That guy had
faith, that guy had fight,
that guy had fortitude." You know, they could say
"Hey, that guy, he spiritually,
she spiritually thought
the Philistines of his
or her day." They could look back
and they'd say "Hey, this person was
victorious, like Eliezer
was. This person never,
ever gave up on
God through the ups and downs of
life. This person persevered.
This person was
persistent. This person didn't care
what the world thought of him. This
person loved the Lord Jesus
Christ." It'd be great if your
children could look at you as an example
one day and look at the legacy you
left behind, and they can
say about you. They could say about
what you've done. They could say about what you've
accomplished. It may not have been perfect,
none of us are, but they can say
through it all, his hand
clave onto the sword
no matter what. Powerheads
for a word of prayer. Father in Heaven, we just
thank you Lord for
this church and
the courageous men of God
in our movement who
stand up to New Testament enemies,
who have faith, who have fight, who have fortitude.
And Lord, I just pray
that you would enable us to be like
Eliezer and enable us to
cleave under your word, to cleave to
the Christian life, to cleave to the
sword, no matter what,
through the ups and downs of life.
And Lord, that somebody in this room,
even if it's just one person,
is inspired by this message
to make some changes. In Jesus' name
I pray, Amen. Right, before we go,
let's sing our final song, 355.
What a friend we have
in Jesus. 355.
What a friend we have
in Jesus.
355. What a friend
we have in Jesus.
Let's sing it out together.
Jesus, all our sins
and griefs to bear.
Watch me for the timing on this. Ready?
Now, dismissed.