After all, for suffering long seemed glorified in me, daily walks and talks with me.
How can I be lonely when I'm Jesus only, to be my companion and unfailing guide?
Why should I be weary, or my passing dreary, when He's walking by my side, I'll ask.
In life's rosy morning, when the skies above are clear, in its clear-dried hours, let me hear the drums of fear.
How can I be lonely when I'm Jesus only, to be my companion and unfailing guide?
Why should I be weary, or my passing dreary, when He's walking by my side?
How can I be lonely when I'm Jesus only, to be my companion and unfailing guide?
Where is Mrs. Sarah Ventura?
Not here, all right.
So be sure to RSVP for that.
Anybody's invited next Sunday.
On the back, special services are planned for Tucson's two-year anniversary.
So that's going to be September 3rd through 6th.
On Thursday night, I'm going to be preaching at 7 o'clock.
Pastor Mejia is going to be preaching from First Works Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California.
On Friday at 7, there's going to be a breakfast on Saturday morning at 9 a.m.
followed by two hours of soul winning, more fellowship, a lunch, and then two hours of soul winning in the afternoon.
And then the normal Sunday services on Sunday with Brother Corbin Russell preaching.
We will be providing a shuttle transportation down there for the Thursday and the Friday.
You'd have to be here by 3.30 sharp, ready to roll.
Sorry, I keep saying that.
It's usually 3.30, but it's actually 5 o'clock that the shuttle's leaving on that Thursday and Friday.
I believe there are sign up sheets over there where you can sign up to make sure that you get a spot
because when those spots are gone, they're gone, gone, gone.
So anyway, you want to make sure that you reserve a spot.
And then below that, congratulations to the Cooper family on the birth of Priscilla Cynthia.
Baby Priscilla was born on Friday, August 21st, 8 pounds, 1 ounce, and 20 inches long.
Weekly events, every Tuesday night we have the preaching class.
That's for participants only.
No lurkers, no spectators, I guess would be a better word for that.
And then the Tucson shuttle for the normal soul winning dinner and church service every Thursday is at 3.30 p.m.
There's also a sign up for that.
Just be aware you might not get back till like 11 o'clock at night.
But you can ride with brother Corbin Ressl down to Tucson.
You leave here at 3.30 sharp.
He'll take you soul winning.
He'll buy you dinner, go to church, and party till 11 p.m. down with the brethren in Tucson.
This is, you know, for us it's a party.
Amen.
Those who love the Lord, you know, we love soul winning, fellowship, preaching.
This is how we party.
All right.
And that's about it for announcements.
Let's go ahead and count up the soul winning from the past few days going back to Thursday the 20th.
Anything from Thursday the 20th?
Gotcha.
All right.
Anything else from Thursday?
Is that a one back there?
All right.
And then is that a five?
Six.
All right.
Anything else from Thursday?
All right.
How about Friday the 21st?
Gotcha.
Okay.
Five.
Gotcha.
All right.
Anything else from Friday the 21st?
How about Saturday?
Yesterday.
We got one in the back.
All right.
Is that a one?
All right.
I'm getting some light through that window.
Sorry.
Anything else from yesterday?
Okay.
How about today?
Let's start with our main groups.
Brother Scott.
Eight.
Eight for the main team.
All right.
We got two for Brother Madison.
What else we got?
Four for Tilson's team.
We got one solo lone commando there.
Is that what that was?
All right.
What else we got?
Anything else?
I thought I saw a hand.
Maybe somebody just twitched or something.
All right.
Very good.
Keep up the great work on soul winning.
And with that, let's go ahead and sing our next song.
Come lead us.
All right.
We're going to do a song of the week.
How Great Thou Art Should Be in Your Hymnal.
A little page in your hymnal.
How Great Thou Art.
Oh Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder Consider all the world I can't have made
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder I count throughout the universe's way
Then sings my soul, my savior God to thee How great thou art, how great thou art
How great thou art, how great thou art When Christ shall come, with shout of admiration
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart Then I shall bow in humble adoration
And there proclaim my God, how great thou art Then sings my soul, my savior God to thee
How great thou art, how great thou art Then sings my soul, my savior God to thee
How great thou art, how great thou art
Song 113
Far away in the depths of my spirit tonight Roles of melody, speech, heard and sung
In the last light of day, I'm facing the cause Of my soul, an infinite calm
Peace, peace, wonderful peace Coming down from the father above
Sweet of my spirit, forever I pray In fabulous flows of love
What a treasure I have in this wonderful peace
Hairy deep in the heart of my soul So secure that no power can mine in a way
While the years of eternity roll
Peace, peace, wonderful peace Coming down from the father above
Sweet of my spirit, forever I pray In fabulous flows of love
I rest tonight in this wonderful peace Rescuing me in Jesus' control
Forget all danger by night and by day And his glory is flooding my soul
Peace, peace, wonderful peace Coming down from the father above
Sweet of my spirit, forever I pray In fabulous flows of love
And it leads my mind to that city of peace Where the offer of peace I shall see
That a stranger, the soul, there's the ransom we'll sing In that heavenly kingdom shall be
Peace, peace, wonderful peace Coming down from the father above
Sweet of my spirit, forever I pray In fabulous flows of love
A soul you hear without comfort or rest Marching down the pathway of time
May Jesus proclaim, ere the shadows roll dark All are said to speak, be so sublime
Peace, peace, wonderful peace Coming down from the father above
Sweet of my spirit, forever I pray In fabulous flows of love
Alright, we have the Master Offering plates around
As the plates go around, let's turn our Bibles to 1 Kings chapter number 1
The book of 1 Kings chapter number 1, as we always do, we'll read the entire chapter starting in verse number 1
Follow along silently with brother Nick as he reads 1 Kings chapter number 1
1 Kings chapter 1
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 salt for my lord the king a young virgin
And let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him
And let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat
So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel
And found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king
And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king and ministered to him, but the king knew her not
Then Adonijah the son of Hagith 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 in saying, Why hast thou done so?
And he also was a very goodly man, and his mother bare him after Absalom
And he conferred with Joab the son of Jeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest, and Nath following Adonijah, helped him
But Zadok the priest, and Vinaya the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Reih
And the mighty men which belonged to David were not with Adonijah
And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zohileth, which is by Enrogel
And called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants
But Nathan the prophet, and Vinaya, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother he called not
Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying,
Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Hagith doth reign, and David our Lord knoweth it not?
Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee 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,
Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying,
Assuredly, Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
Why then doth Adonijah reign? Behold, while thou yet talk is 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 Shunammite ministered unto the king.
And Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance unto the king, and the king said,
What wouldest thou? And she said unto him, My lord, thou swearst by the Lord thy God unto thine handmaid,
saying, Assuredly, Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth, and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not,
and he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance,
and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abidor 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 shouldst 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, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me,
and he shall sit upon my throne, for he is gone down this day,
and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance,
and hath called all the king's sons and the captains of the host,
and Abidor the priest, and behold, they eat and drink before him,
and say, God save king Adonijah.
But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,
and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not showed it unto thy servant,
who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
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 sware 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 stead.
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, Call me Zadok the priest,
and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.
And they came before the king.
The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord,
and call Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule,
and bring him down to Gihon.
And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet
anoint him their king over Israel, and blow ye with the trumpet,
and say, God save king Solomon.
And ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne,
for he shall be king in my stead.
And I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, Amen.
The lord God of my lord the king say so too.
As the lord hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon,
and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.
So Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,
and the Cherithites and the Pelethites went down,
and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
And Zadok the priest took an 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.
And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him
heard it as they had made an end of eating.
And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said,
Wherefore is this noise of the city being an uproar?
And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came,
and Adonijah said unto him, Come in, for thou art a valiant man,
and bring us good tidings.
And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah,
Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king.
And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherithites and the Pelethites,
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 Gihon,
and they are come up from thence 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 moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying,
God make the name of Solomon better than thy name,
and make his throne greater than thy throne.
And the king bowed himself upon the bed.
And also thus said the king, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
which hath given one to sit on my throne this day,
mine 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,
and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon,
for lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying,
Let king Solomon swear unto me today,
that he will not slay his servant with the sword.
And Solomon said, If he will show himself a worthy man,
there shall not an heir 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.
Father Brandon, will you pray for us?
Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for helping us all be gathered tonight for church.
I pray that you anoint Pastor Anderson with the Holy Ghost,
help him to preach your word boldly,
and help us to learn some great truths tonight,
and help us live better Christian lives that please you.
In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
Man, the title of my sermon tonight is,
Adonijah, Presumptuous and Self-Willed.
If you start there in verse number 5, where you are in 1 Kings chapter 1,
the Bible reads, Then Adonijah, the son of Hagith, exalted himself,
saying, I will be king, and he prepared him chariots and horsemen,
and fifty men to run before him.
So right there, our first introduction to this man is that he exalted himself.
And that pretty much tells you everything that's going on in the Bible.
And that pretty much tells you everything that you need to know about this guy.
Jesus said, Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased,
but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
What does it mean to exalt yourself?
Basically, he's lifting himself up.
This is the kind of guy who's prideful, arrogant, a boaster, a braggart,
he's prideful, he's high-minded,
and he exalted himself to be king.
Now, in the New Testament,
when the Bible talks about the qualifications for being a pastor,
one of those qualifications is that he not be self-willed.
And if you look up that word self-willed in the New Testament,
it's used one other time over in 2 Peter chapter 2 verse 10
about false prophets and false teachers.
Here's what it says about them.
Presumptuous are they, and self-willed,
they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
So we see that these two things are put side by side.
Self-willed and presumptuous.
These are two things that go together,
and the Bible will put words together like that sometimes to help define them for you
so you can get the picture of what God's saying.
Now, what does the word presumptuous mean?
Presumptuous comes from the word presume.
And to presume is similar to assume, right?
Except when you presume,
it has the connotation that you're kind of assuming that, you know,
you're going to be the boss, that you're going to be the leader,
that you're going to get these accolades or whatever.
So someone who is presumptuous is someone who is arrogant and prideful
and thinks that they have everything coming to them and so forth.
Now, you know, I'll give you an example of this.
You know, one time there was a guy who came to our church
and he, you know, had mentioned to me,
hey, I'd like to be a pastor someday.
You know, I want to be trained to be a pastor.
And people say that to me all the time.
I mean, I've had many, many people come to me
and express that desire to me.
And I'll typically give them a list of things to work on.
Okay, you know, well, here's some things you can work on.
You know, are you married?
You know, there's a start, right?
That's the big thing.
You know, you've got to be married, have a few kids.
I tell them to read their Bible.
You know, you should read your Bible at least ten times cover to cover
before you're a pastor, in my opinion.
And that's our standard here.
Nobody gets ordained if they haven't read the Bible
at least ten times cover to cover.
You've got to be married, have a couple kids.
And then we also have a preaching class
where you can come to the preaching class
and get experience preaching, get tips, get pointers,
learn how to do it.
We've got books that we recommend and everything like that.
So there's a lot that goes into that.
But here's something that I want to make clear,
and I've made this clear before,
but I want to make it clear again,
if you're looking for a sure-fire ordination,
if you're looking for a sure thing,
like you want to go into the ministry
and you're looking for a guarantee,
it's called Bible college.
Right.
Okay, because we will not just ordain anyone
who goes through the program.
That's not how it works around here, okay.
Because, you know, yes, we have minimum requirements of
you've got to be married, have at least two kids.
You have to have read the Bible ten times.
You have to show us that you have the ability to preach.
You have to be faithful in our ministry here.
But that's not just a guaranteed ordination
because there's a whole list of biblical qualifications
and you have to be approved of your brethren here
and someone that we feel like is worthy of that title
and worthy of that job
and ready to take on that challenge, okay.
Because it's not easy to be a pastor,
especially if you're starting a church.
I mean, it's just very challenging.
So this isn't a Bible college.
Don't confuse Faith Forward Baptist Church
for a Bible college where everybody goes through the program
and everybody gets a certificate.
And it's just like a guaranteed participation trophy.
You show up, you get a C minus,
you get a degree and boom, you're in the ministry.
That's not the way it works around here.
You've got to get an A around here, okay.
Going forward, that's, you know,
we're very serious about that.
We've had some bad experiences in the past, amen.
So the point is that there was this guy
and, you know, he went to the preaching class.
He'd expressed the desire to pastor someday, okay,
but then all of a sudden he just announced in another state,
I'm starting a church here.
He even started handing out literature about the church
that he's starting without even talking to me,
without even asking me, without even letting me know,
without even saying, hey, I want to start a church
in this place at this time.
This is the date.
So I had to hear it through the grapevine,
you know, where people are coming and telling me,
hey, I hear that you're sending so-and-so to start a church
in this other state.
I'm thinking like, I am?
Really?
Because this is the first time I'm hearing about it.
Now, what is that?
That's presumptuous.
That's somebody just assuming, well, yeah, of course,
you know, faithful word's going to ordain me.
I mean, yeah.
Well, guess what?
He didn't get ordained.
And I told him, I said, I'm not going to ordain you.
You don't just take that upon yourself and assume that
and presume that and just all of a sudden
you just start announcing to everybody that you're going to be a pastor
and you're starting a church and you didn't even bother telling me that,
let alone, you know, asking me if you were up to snuff
or if you have met the criteria
or if you have met the requirements that the Bible puts forth.
So, you know, that's just kind of an illustration
of an attitude that's presumptuous.
And I'm not saying that that guy is a horrible person
or a bad guy or anything.
I'm not saying that, you know, he won't someday be in the ministry
and do something great for God.
I'm not saying that at all.
But I'm saying what he did there was presumptuous
to just do that on his own and not, you know, get the blessing
or talk to the leadership and talk to the church
and let us know what he's doing.
So it says in 1 Kings chapter 1 verse 5,
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.
Now, here's one thing I want to point out right away about this guy.
Adonijah, who exalts himself to be king.
This guy is going to be the third king of Israel, right?
Because you've got Saul and then you've got David
and then Adonijah is the next guy, right?
Let's go back and look at the reaction of Saul
when he finds out that he's going to be king.
Let's compare Adonijah with the ones that God chose
because God did not choose Adonijah to be king.
God handpicked Saul, God handpicked David,
and God handpicked Solomon.
The guy who's actually going to be king instead of Adonijah
was God's choice.
God chose King Solomon.
So let's look at the three men that God chose
and compare them to Adonijah.
Go back, if you would, to 1 Samuel chapter 9.
So 1 Kings, we have Adonijah, presumptuous, self-willed,
I will be king.
He exalts himself, he gets a fan club together,
and he takes it upon himself.
Let's compare this to Saul, David, and Solomon,
who are the men that God actually chose.
It says in 1 Samuel chapter 9 verse 21,
And Saul answered and said,
Am not I a Benjamite?
We're in 1 Samuel 9 21.
Of the smallest of the tribes of Israel,
and my family the least,
of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin,
wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
What is he saying here?
He's saying, like, why would you say this to me?
Why would you approach me about being the king of Israel
when I'm no great person, I'm from a humble background,
I'm from a humble family.
Now this is the exact opposite of presumption.
And the Bible describes him at this time as being
little in his own sight.
Little in his own sight.
He's not presumptuous like,
Well yeah, it's about time somebody recognized me for what I am,
and gave me the position that I've needed.
Now jump over to chapter 10 verse 27,
we're still talking about King Saul, the first king of Israel,
and even though Saul ended up in a bad way,
let's not forget that Saul started out as a great guy,
and that he was hand-picked by God.
To be the king of Israel.
First Samuel chapter 10 verse 27,
But the children of Belial said,
this is when Saul is ordained king,
But the children of Belial said,
How shall this man save us?
And they despised him and brought him no presence.
But he held his peace.
So you see him quietly, humbly, taking criticism,
and not lashing out at those who are attacking him.
Now look at chapter 11 verse 12,
because you might say,
Well maybe he was just shy to say anything,
or maybe he just was afraid,
or being a coward there when he held his peace at all the criticism.
Well no, because look at chapter 11 verse 12,
he has the same exact attitude,
And the people said unto Samuel,
Who is he that said, Saul shall reign over us?
Bring them in that we may put them to death.
So the sons of Belial, the bozos from chapter 10,
now that they've been proved wrong in chapter 11,
now that Saul has done a great work,
they're saying, Hey, those guys who hated Saul
and didn't want them to reign over us,
bring them here and kill them.
Put them to death.
Saul's our guy.
And Saul said in verse 13,
There shall not a man be put to death this day,
for today the Lord hath wrought salvation in Israel.
So what do we see here?
We see King Saul, he's not vindictive,
and he's humble.
He held his peace when they were
reproaching him and attacking him,
and then afterward he spares them.
So we see that Saul is a humble man,
he's little in his own sight,
he's not presumptuous at all.
Okay, now let's look at David.
Flip over to chapter 18, 1 Samuel chapter 18.
So we're comparing the ones that God chose.
God chose Saul, God chose David,
God chose Solomon.
We're comparing that with the guy who chose himself,
the guy who ordained himself,
the guy who exalted himself,
the guy who appointed himself.
What's he like compared to the guys that God uses?
Okay.
It says in 1 Samuel chapter 18 verse 18,
and this is David's reaction
to marrying Saul's daughter.
He has the opportunity to marry
one of King Saul's daughters.
Look what he says in verse 18.
And David said unto Saul,
Who am I?
And what is my life,
or my father's family in Israel,
that I should be a son-in-law to the king?
Look at verse 23.
And Saul's servants spake those words
in the ears of David.
And David said,
Seemeth it to you a light thing
to be a king's son-in-law,
seeing that I am a poor man
and lightly esteemed?
Keep in mind,
David has already killed Goliath,
he's already battled the Philistines,
he's already showed himself
to be a mighty man of war,
he's already shown his musical prowess,
he's already got a lot of accolades
and a lot of achievements.
And yet he says,
Who am I?
This is too much.
I don't deserve this
about being a king's son-in-law.
Exact opposite of Adonijah,
no achievements,
no accolades,
but just, you know,
I'm going to be king,
and just exalting himself.
And what I want you to see about this,
if you would flip over to 1 Kings chapter 3,
and we'll look at Solomon.
If you read the story of David,
you'll notice David is not just hell-bent on being king.
David isn't just like,
I need to be the king.
You can tell when you read the story
that he would have been perfectly happy
to keep on serving under King Saul.
He was very happy to be a servant of Saul.
And in fact,
when he had opportunities to kill Saul,
which would make him king sooner,
you know, so he could replace Saul,
he didn't take those opportunities.
And in fact,
when he hears a guy confess to murdering Saul,
he has that guy put to death.
And says,
why were you not afraid
to put forth your hand
against the Lord's anointed?
Your blood is on your own head
because you touched the Lord's anointed.
So we see him,
he's not hell-bent on being the top dog.
He was perfectly happy to serve under King Saul.
And then when we look at Solomon,
in 1 Kings chapter 3 verse 7,
let's look at Solomon's reaction
to being chosen to be king.
Verse 7,
And now, O Lord my God,
thou hast made thy servant king
instead of David my father.
And I am but a little child,
I know not how to go out or come in,
and thy servant is in the midst
of thy people which thou hast chosen,
a great people that cannot be numbered
nor counted for multitude,
give therefore thy servant
an understanding heart to judge thy people,
that I may discern between good and bad,
for who is able to judge this,
thy so great a people?
And the speech pleased the Lord
that Solomon had asked this thing.
So what do these three men have in common?
They're all humble,
none of them is presumptuous,
and they all have more achievements
than Adonijah.
But yet, they're humble,
they're not presumptuous,
God chooses them,
the people ordain them,
but they don't take anything upon themselves.
And those are the kind of people that God uses.
Look, if you want to be used by God,
you've got to be a humble person,
not an arrogant, self-willed person,
or somebody who has to be the boss,
somebody who has to be in charge,
you have to be in the limelight,
you have to be famous.
And here's what you have to understand about kings.
The office of kings started out
as being a job
of protecting the people.
You're the one who's going to lead the people into battle.
You're going to go out there
and be on the front line as a warrior
fighting for the people.
That's what it started out as.
And if you study the history
during the Middle Ages,
the time that we would call feudalism,
that system,
and if you study places like
Great Britain and mainland Europe
during that time,
and you read about the nobility,
what did that mean, initially,
to be nobility?
Because by the time you get to the French Revolution,
you've got the nobility,
and then you've got the common man,
and the nobility is just wining and dining.
They're a bunch of men in tights.
They've got a powdered wig,
and they're eating a bunch of Grey Poupon,
and then you've got a bunch of people
starving and paying a bunch of taxes
so that all these nobility
can live high on the hog.
But is that how it started out?
Because then a lot of people are looking at that
in the 18th century and say,
what's this nobility?
What is this? Aren't we all human?
Aren't we all the same?
Aren't all men created equal?
And that's where you get that kind of language
in the Declaration of Independence
that all men are created equal.
That attitude is coming from
looking at this class of people
that's the nobility
and saying, why do these people think
that they're better than everyone else?
They're living better, they get all these privileges,
what did they do to deserve that?
And here's the thing, they did nothing
to deserve that, but what we have to understand
is that their ancestors actually did something
to deserve that.
But it was handed to them.
How that started is that
in the olden days,
you would have a king
who was actually the guy
who's keeping them safe.
I mean, you know, he's the one leading them
into battle against their enemies,
and then great warriors
and people
that excelled in battle
and did great deeds of daring
and saved the countryside,
those people
would be given titles of nobility
because of their great
exploits, their bravery.
So a guy like Saul, just to kind of
tie it in with the Bible,
would have a guy like
David, for example, who's out killing the Philistines
or David has
guys like David's mighty men.
So those 30 mighty men, if this
were like the Middle Ages, they'd
be knights, or they'd be
getting titles of nobility.
Does everybody understand what I'm saying?
You know, the 30 mighty men would get these
titles of nobility, but then the problem is
the 30 mighty men,
they get married and have kids, and they
raise a bunch of spoiled brats that never did
anything, but they still get that title
of nobility, and then their kids
are even more soft and
weak, and pretty soon you're wondering
where did these titles of nobility even
come from? Pretty soon people are buying titles
of nobility. I got an
ad on Facebook the other day, it showed
a picture of some guy in
tights with a curly wig, and said
this could be you
for $49.99
you can purchase a title of nobility
in Scotland or something. So I can
be a Scottish lord for 50 bucks
on Facebook.
You know, I can buy like
one square meter
of land, and then that's my
duchy or
whatever, I don't know what the word would
be for that, you know. That's going to be my
realm.
I'm the lord
of this little realm or whatever, and I could be
like Sir Lord
Stephen Anderson of whatever
the Loch Lomond
or whatever. So the
point is, though, that
you know, what is the point?
The point is that
being a king started out
as, hey, this guy
is going to save us, because that's what
I said about Saul, like can this guy save us?
Saul rallies everybody,
goes against the Philistines,
wins the battle. What did David do?
He leads them into battle,
he fights for the people, but over
time these positions like
King or Duke or
Earl or whatever, these things
degenerate into
being something that you don't do
because you want to serve, but you
do because you want the power and
the prestige and the fame. Well, guess
what, did you know that pastoring could be the exact same
way? The Bible says he that desireth
the office of a bishop
desireth a good
work.
He that desireth the office of a bishop desireth a
good work. So the right reason to
pastor is why? Because you
want to preach the word of God.
You want to win souls.
You want to evangelize.
You want to minister to people.
You want to be a blessing to people.
You want to lead God's people
into battle.
In the spiritual fight that we're
in today, that's what
being a pastor means. But then there are
people who just want to be a pastor because to them it
just means my name
on a shingle.
Or my name in the tract.
Or my face on the website.
Or going to a conference
and being the big conference speaker
and everybody thinks
you're great. That is a wicked
reason to want to pastor because Jesus
said the first shall be last and the last shall be
first. Jesus said
whosoever will be great among you let him be your
minister. Let him be your
servant. And so that's a
wrong reason. And we see that
Adonijah is a guy, he
doesn't want to be king because
he just really feels like he can
be a great leader of the people
and he just feels like he can battle the
Philistines and he's going to also
be a great spiritual leader and bring
them close to the Lord. You don't
see that in Adonijah at all. You see that in
Solomon because what did Solomon say?
Oh God give me wisdom so I can lead
these people. I want to serve these people. I'm like
a little child. I don't
even know how to come out or go
in. I don't know what I'm doing Lord.
Give me wisdom. Help me to do a
good job. And Solomon did an excellent job.
Solomon led
the nation of Israel into its greatest
most prosperous period that they
ever experienced. They had
peace, prosperity,
they're worshipping the Lord and of course he
made some mistakes at the end also because
you know what? Being a king goes to people's
head and they end up doing dumb things.
But in general, Solomon did a great
job. God gave him the wisdom. He
did well. Adonijah is a
self-serving, presumptuous
self-willed person who
wants the title because he
wants to have somebody feed him
grapes and fan him with
palm leaves. To him that's what it means to be
the king. And you know
when we were kids when we played king?
That's what we played.
You know when we were
kids we'd take a beach towel
and you know put it around us
like some kind of a robe or a cape
or we'd get some kind of a bathrobe and put that
on and we'd put on a Burger
King crown and we had
some kind of a scepter and you know what?
We would literally eat grapes
and be fanned with palm leaves
and that's what to us that's
what it meant to be a king.
But that's not what it was
supposed to be
to be a king. It should have
been you're a leader, you're
serving, you're working, you're
doing a job, okay? Well that's
the way it is with being a pastor
or anything else. It's about
service. And look, you say, well
I'm not a pastor. I'm never going to be a pastor.
Whatever you do in your life
I don't care what position you're in.
Husband, wife, mother,
father, you know
your secular job.
I don't care if you're management
or if you're at the bottom of the
totem pole or you're the owner of the
company. You know at the end of the day all of our
lives are about service.
We live a life of service.
The Christian life
is about service. It's about
working, right? We as
men live a life of work.
Ladies, what do they do?
They work. They
work around the house. They serve
their children. They serve their husband.
They serve in the home. And look, by going out
and working and paying the bills, I'm serving my
family. And when I go to the company
that I work for, I'm serving
that company, right? And as a pastor
of a church, I'm serving the church.
I mean, we are living lives
of service, not lives of
hey everybody, can I tell you the title
that I've achieved?
But this guy
is looking for a title.
That's who Adonijah is.
Saul, David and Solomon?
Nope. And you know what? There's nothing
worse than these guys who just have
to pastor.
They just have to pastor. What am I talking about?
Well, let me give you some examples of guys
that just have to pastor. How about the
guy who commits adultery
and he keeps pastoring?
You're not
qualified. You're not faithful.
You know, what about
the pastor who divorced his wife
and marries a secretary, keeps
pastoring. What in
the world? But why
would he do that when he's clearly
in violation of the
command to be the husband of one wife
and to be blameless and so forth.
You know, commit, and obviously, no pastor
is going to be perfect. Pastors are going to sin
and make mistakes and do wrong, myself
included. Everybody's a sinner. There's not a
just man upon the earth that do good and sin
and not. But you know, when you're out committing
things that are worthy of death,
come on.
You know, you're out committing adultery
and doing other just horrible
things and committing major sins
and when you've got pastors who are
doing things that would get you kicked out of
the church, you know, like
things like drunkenness
or things like, you know, getting high
on drugs or things
like fornication. I mean,
come on. Those should be
like a no-brainer that
you're not qualified to pastor.
But yet you see them pastor anyway.
Why? Because they
just have to be a pastor.
You know what? You don't
have to be
a pastor to serve God.
You can serve God and earn just as
many rewards and do just as many great works
as a layman. Now obviously
we need more pastors. I mean, you
know, we are starving
for leadership in this country. I mean,
in 2020 America,
we need more pastors. I would love
to see some young
men rise up and a generation of
men rise up and become
the pastors that we need.
So hey, if
you want to be a pastor, I think that's a
great desire to have. He that
desireth the office of a bishop desireth
the good work. That is a great
desire to have. But
your motive should be if it's God's
will, here am I,
send me. The motive
should be I want to
evangelize and do a great work for God.
Not just, man, it'd be
great to be up there.
You know, it'd be great
to be the top dog.
No, that's wicked.
And it's not just the wrong motive,
it's wicked.
And the type of person who wants to go into
the ministry, with that actually is a wicked
person. And let me tell you something,
the ministry can attract some great
people and can attract some very
rotten people.
I mean, the worst kind of people
are going to be found in the ministry.
Because I don't think there's anybody sorrier
or more rotten than a false prophet.
There's nothing sorrier.
It's super
wicked. And so I want to make sure
that if you want to go into the ministry,
that you want to do it for the right reasons,
that you're desiring to do a
work for God, not to have
position or accolades or fame
or whatever. And you know, you can tell the guys
who want to have the position and the fame
and the accolades,
I mean, because look, they
trim the message,
they preach what's popular,
they live in millions and millions of dollars
of homes and drive millions
or not millions of dollars, but fancy cars,
they drive fancy cars, they wear fancy suits,
right, they live in
fancy homes, and they're
living like a rock and roll
lifestyle while pastoring
a New Testament church.
You can tell right away what the motive
of a guy like Joel Osteen is,
or T.D. Jakes or Kenneth Copeland
or these guys flying around in a private jet,
they're multi-millionaires,
they own several homes,
okay, that's not a guy
who's in it for the right reason. That's pretty obvious, isn't it?
So, yes,
it's good to desire being a pastor,
but not to have
this attitude of, I've just got to pastor.
You know, if people are telling you
you're not cut out for the ministry,
or you're not qualified,
you should be able to accept that
and just say, okay, you know what,
then I'll just humbly serve in whatever capacity.
You know, I've had
people come to me and ask me if they're qualified
and I told them no.
I don't believe that you should ever be a pastor because of
something in your past, because there are certain things,
and look, it doesn't mean that you're not
forgiven, it doesn't mean that you can't live
a great life for God, but there are certain things that
permanently disqualify you from the ministry.
Okay.
And people come to me and they ask me
and I tell them, look, you know, you're not qualified.
You're never going to be a pastor, you're never
going to be a deacon, but here's all the other ways you can serve God.
And some people, they take
that, and they accept it, and they humbly
serve God, and they do great things for God,
and then other people turn around and just get
mad, and they get bitter, and then they hate me,
they want to kill the messenger
for telling them that they're not
qualified. And by
the way, even people who meet the qualifications
on paper, it doesn't
mean that they're necessarily cut out for the job.
You know, for example, there was a guy
that went to our church
and, you know, he met all the
qualifications on paper, I mean, on paper
this guy checked
all the boxes, but the
guy was just too soft and
too much of a weakling.
Folks, that's not going to work.
Being a pastor is a
fight. You've got to be a warrior.
Okay, what about
being a king? I mean, what about being King Saul,
King David? These guys had to
be fighters. You know, you can't
be a softy
who can't tell people no.
You've got to be a warrior,
okay? And somebody who can't
say no, isn't willing to fight,
wants to get along with everybody
is not cut out
for pastoring, period. Because basically,
you know who the biblical character
is that that describes?
Who is it? Aaron.
Who said it? Yeah, Aaron.
It's Aaron! The guy who
can't tell people no. You know, Moses
was able to lead
and tell people no, but then as soon as
Moses is gone, the people come to Aaron
and they start telling him what to do.
And he's just like, okay. And he, pretty
soon they're all worshipping the golden calf.
That wasn't Aaron's idea. Aaron
wasn't a bad person.
I think the Bible paints a picture that
Aaron is a good guy. But he was
weak. He was not a leader.
Not everybody's cut out for leadership.
And that's okay. Because like I said,
I firmly, look, I'm the pastor of this
church. I firmly believe
that when we get to heaven, there
will be a lot of people in front of me
in line at the judgment seat of Christ
that are not the pastor of this church.
Guaranteed. I don't believe
I, oh, well, pastor, oh,
well, you get in the short line because you're a pastor.
You know, many that are last
shall be first and many that are first shall be last.
And I don't believe that I'm some
super Christian. I don't believe I'm some
phenomenal Christian that's going to be at the front of that line, friend.
I believe there are going to be a lot of people in front
of me in that line. I believe there are going to be women
in front of me at that line.
There are going to be laymen in front of me at that line.
There are going to be a lot of people
who were a better Christian
than me and did better
works than me. Now look,
I've got my job to do.
I play a role. I have,
I'm a part of this body and I have a
function. You have a function.
Other people have a function.
We don't need to compare ourselves amongst ourselves,
but I promise you
that it's not just a guaranteed,
well, a hundred bonus points for you
because you're a pastor. In fact, you know,
pastors are going to be judged more harshly.
The Bible says, Brethren, be not many
masters knowing that we shall receive the greater
condemnation.
And so being a pastor
does not mean you're going to get just
boku rewards and you're going to be on some
lower package if you're a layman.
Let me tell you something. There's nothing
wrong with spending your life as a godly
layman and doing great things for God.
Do we need pastors? Yes!
But we need pastors who are qualified.
And we need pastors
who are doing it for the right reason.
And we need pastors who have
the killer instinct to get up
and fight the Lord's battles
and not be a weakling
coward who lets everybody
walk all over them because
you know what? We don't need another
deacon-run church. We don't need
another woman-run church
where the women of the church run
the pastor. We don't need it. It's out there.
I'm a dozen.
We need a man of God
who can lead. And so, look,
if you're qualified, great! Let's do it!
But you know who decides
if you're qualified? Other people.
Not you. You don't just
say, you know what? I'm qualified now.
I'm starting a church. Here I am.
So, other people around you
are the judge of that.
You serve
in the local church and people observe.
That's what always blows my mind when you see
people that don't even go to church anywhere
and then all of a sudden they're pastoring.
You know, it's like that meme where the guy's
like skipping a whole bunch of steps. You know
what I'm talking about? Where the guy's like
reaching his leg up and going up a whole
bunch of steps at once. You know, it's like
basically, you're not even in church
and then you're like, that's it! I'm starting
a church. I can't find a good church. I'm
starting one.
You need to get into
a church, serve
under some other pastor
and you know what? Before
honor comes humility.
You know, you gotta be a
great follower before you can be a great leader.
Now look, I'm the
leader in my home. I have a wife
and eleven children. But you know
what? Before I had a wife and eleven children
I was a follower. You know who I followed?
My parents. And I had to obey
my parents, honor my parents,
respect my parents. And I learned how to
get along with my parents and do
what they told me to do. And I had
a good relationship with my parents. And
I have a good relationship with my parents right now.
Okay? And the thing is
if you don't have a good relationship
with your parents, then
you're not gonna have a good marriage. You're not gonna
be a good parent yourself.
How can your kids obey you
when you don't want to obey your parents?
First you obey your parents and then
you make your kids obey you.
That's the way the world works.
And you know, first you're a
godly layman and then you become a
pastor. You earn that
respect by first being a follower
and being a good church member.
Okay. I kind of went off on a
tangent there but it's important.
So let's jump back into the story here quickly
with Adonijah. Let's continue the story.
So how does this end? Is this gonna end
well for Adonijah, exalting himself?
Well, look what the Bible says in
1 Kings chapter 1 verse 42.
And while he yet spake,
so you know, Adonijah is talking a big
talk and he's partying with
all the people that are following him.
And while he yet spake, behold Jonathan, the son
of Abiathar the priest, came
and Adonijah said unto him,
Come in for thou art a valiant man
and bring us good tidings,
said Shaggy.
No, I'm just kidding. And Jonathan
answered and said to
Adonijah, verily our Lord
king David hath made Solomon king.
So he finds out that uh-oh,
David made Solomon king
and all the people have rallied
to Solomon. So basically
when they find this out, the
big party with Adonijah where
he's becoming the king,
it kind of kills the mood
at that party. And everybody
just starts kind of slipping out the doors
and just kind of getting out of there.
Nobody wants to be seen
with Adonijah because they can see which way
this thing's going. They don't want to be on the wrong side
of history. So Adonijah
himself feared.
And it says in verse number
51, and it was told Solomon saying,
Behold, Adonijah feareth
king Solomon. For lo, he
hath caught hold on the horns of the altar,
saying, Let king Solomon swear
unto me today 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 to him,
Go to thine house.
So Solomon says, Look,
if he turns out to be a worthy man,
he's going to be fine.
Now, Adonijah's
character is revealed in chapter 2.
Look at verse 13.
Let's see if he's a good guy or not.
Verse 13 of chapter 2, And Adonijah, the son
of Haggoth, came to Bathsheba, the
mother of Solomon, and she said,
Comest thou peaceably? And he said,
Peaceably.
He said, Moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee.
And she said, Say on.
And he said, Thou knowest
that the kingdom was mine.
Listen to this braggart.
Just right out of the gate, just talking this
big talk. This is the guy who's screaming
or he's whining and peeing his pants
saying, Don't kill me, Solomon, holding onto
the horns of the altar, scared to death
with his tail between his legs, right?
And now all of a sudden, he's just like,
Well, you know, I mean, the kingdom was mine.
What a loser. The guy's lucky to be alive.
I mean, he's only spared. Solomon
could have easily just said,
Off with his head.
But Solomon gives him another chance.
Now he comes in talking all big
to Solomon's mom.
He literally goes
to Solomon's mom and starts talking this
big talk.
I mean, he's not talking this way to Solomon.
He's going
to his mom.
Well, thou knowest that the kingdom
was mine and that all Israel set their
faces on me that I should be. Really?
Because you know what? I think you'd be raining right now
if that were true. If all
Israel had set their faces on you to rain,
you'd be raining right now.
Albeit the kingdom has turned about and has
become my brothers, for it was
his from the Lord. Now on the surface
you might look at this and say, Well, look,
you know, this guy's spiritual and he's honoring
the Lord or whatever. But you know what he's basically saying
like, Well, you know, God's the only
one that could have prevented me from being king.
You know, that's actually what he's
doing here. So it might seem spiritual
on the surface, but that's what he's basically saying.
He said if it wasn't for God,
I'd be the king. If it was just based on
me versus Solomon, you know, it's only that
God gave it to Solomon.
Because you know, that's pretty much the only force
that could ever defeat me, the creator
of the universe.
So you can see just the pride,
the arrogance, the presumption here
already just dripping from
every word.
And it says here,
It was his from the Lord,
verse 16, And now I ask one
petition of thee, Deny me not.
And she said unto him, Say on.
And he said, Speak, I pray
thee unto Solomon the king,
for he will not say thee, nay,
that he give me Abishag
the Shanimite to wife.
What's his one request? He's like,
just give me one consolation prize.
I want Abishag
the Shanimite to wife.
Okay, now who's Abishag?
Let's back up to chapter 1, verse 1.
I'm going to go through this fast.
Chapter 1, verse 1, Now king David
was old and stricken in years, and they
covered him with clothes, but he got
no heat. Have you ever felt that way
when you're sick? You just can't get warm.
You know, I've been under like seven
blankets, and I'm just freezing.
I always say, man, I feel like
king David right now in
1 Kings chapter 1. Whenever
I feel that way, I always think of this verse.
And so he can't get
warm.
So it says in verse 2, 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 in 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 Abishag as Shanimite,
and brought her to the king. And the damsel was
very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him,
but the king knew her not. So
this is not David's concubine.
When it says he knew her not,
he's saying he didn't have intimacy
with her. He did not have a physical relationship
with her, okay? She's just
kind of there as a heat pack
apparently, okay? Or she's
just there to serve him
or whatever, okay? You know,
hey, you're the king, so let's get this beautiful
young woman to serve you and
and wait on you. But he does
not enter into a carnal
relationship with this woman,
okay? That's what the Bible tells us, right?
Now, why is it
that
Adonijah wants this
particular woman
to be his wife?
Now, first of all, if she had
actually been with his dad, then this
would be totally perverted, because
the Bible teaches in many scriptures
in both Old and New Testament that that's a perversion.
You know, for a woman
to be married to both, you know,
to be with a man
and his son is a perversion,
okay? It's something that's an
abomination to the Lord.
But that's not the case, but why
is it that he wants this wife?
Now, I submit to you that he wants
a trophy wife.
He wants a trophy
wife. Why, I mean, out of all
the fish in the sea, all the women
that are out there, why
does he want this woman? Because he
wants the woman where they sought
through the whole land and found
the most beautiful young
woman, that's who he wants
to be married to. I mean,
does he happen to be in love with this woman?
No.
He wants her because
he wants the trophy
wife. He
wants a wife that's basically
going to give him position
or power or fame or make
him look good, like, well, hey, look, I've
got the most beautiful wife ever.
And not only that, okay,
but he could
use this somehow
maybe for some future
jockeying for
power of, like, well,
you know, I'm Solomon's
older brother and, you know, this
woman that was with
David, you know, now she's with me
and he's trying to marry
this woman in order to exalt
himself. It's just always exalting
himself. Chapter one is exalting
himself. Chapter two is exalting himself.
He brags, he boasts
and then he wants to have a trophy
wife so that he can show off.
He doesn't want that for himself.
You say, well, maybe she was just that beautiful.
Hey, there's a lot of beautiful women out there
and I guarantee you that a guy like Adonijah
who's rich and
powerful and he's the king's son, I mean,
look, even though he's not the king, he's still
David's son. He still
I'm sure has quite an inheritance
and he could probably
pretty much get almost any woman
that he wants.
And it's not going to be hard for him to find a
beautiful wife. He wants
this particular wife
to be his trophy, his
centerpiece, one that he can show
off and puff himself up
and I am married
to Abishag the Shunammite.
That's clearly the motive.
And you know what? This is more proof
that he's going in to the ministry
for the wrong reason.
He wants to be the king for the
wrong reason.
Because I guarantee you the same type
of motivation of his marriage is the
same type of motivation that he's going to bring into
his ministry. And you know, we see this in
politicians all the time. They're not marrying for love
are they?
They're not marrying for love. Politicians
today, they marry
someone who's going to advance their career.
Or, like the
candidate for vice president, they just
sleep with some dude that's 30 years
older than them to advance their career.
And here, let's just have a little commercial
break. Shall we?
Here's a little
commercial break from the Adonijah story.
Okay.
First of all, let me start out by saying
this. I don't give a rip about this
election. I don't give a rip about
politics. I checked out of
politics a long time ago. I quit voting
many, many years ago.
Many elections ago. I'm
not voting. I don't care.
It's the two wings of
the same bird. False left
right paradigm.
Republicrats and Demakins. And I'm
not falling for it anymore.
I've woken up to the left
right paradigm a long time ago. The false left
right paradigm. Coke and Pepsi
are the two choices.
No thanks. I'll have
a water. Okay.
But here's the thing.
Our country
has sunken to such
a moral low
that today,
we have the candidate for
vice president of the United States of America
as a literal whore.
A literal whore!
What's a literal whore? Is a literal
whore somebody, a woman
who sells their body
and prostitutes
their body and they
give gifts to all whores?
Isn't that what the Bible says? That's a Bible
verse. I know you like
Bible verses like Jesus wept
and for God so loved the world. But
here's another Bible verse. They give
gifts to all whores. It's in
Ezekiel chapter 16. That's the Bible
too.
And let me tell you something. She is a literal
whore. You know how that woman, Kamala
Harris, you know how she got started in politics?
She got started
in her late 20's
sleeping with a married man
who was 60 years old.
And then he
appointed her to political
office. Let that sink
in for a moment. Here you have a
woman in her late 20's
goes to bed with a 60 year old
man. You think she's just really into 60 year olds?
And then
that 60 year old man, the
mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown
just happened to appoint her
to political office. That's how she got
her start in politics.
By being a literal whore.
And this is not some wild conspiracy
theory. This is in mainstream media.
This is a fact. This is a
known, open fact
that this woman
has committed a whoredom
to get where she is today
and the so called
feminists of our nation are
rejoicing. Folks, how is that?
Can somebody explain to me how that elevates
women? Hey
little girls, you want to succeed
and be a great person
someday like Kamala Harris? Just
find some 60 year old
dirty old man to be your sugar daddy
and you can be whatever you want.
You could even be the President of the United
States.
And
Folks, you know what? If she's the vice
president, then that's one heart beat away from
being the president.
I mean, Joe Biden's got one
foot in the grave. His brain's
already there.
Oh, and by the way,
in honor of Kamala Harris, I
wore this shirt today.
So this shirt today is a black shirt.
See
this shirt? I'm not talking about my coat.
I'm not talking about my tie.
I'm saying this shirt is a black
shirt.
Are
you color blind or what? This is a
special shade of, I call this shade of
black Kamala black.
This particular
shade of black is Kamala black.
So I am wearing my
Kamala black shirt today in
honor of the literal whore
Kamala Harris.
Okay.
I'm not talking about my coat now.
She's not this color. She's this color.
Alright. And if you want to know
what an actual black person looks like,
we have black people at our church.
I can show you some people that are actually black
because Kamala Harris's
skin color is pretty similar to mine.
You know,
all I have to do is get a tan
like twice,
and I'm Kamala's color. You know, it's like
oh, the first black
vice president. What?
It's like, do
people just think that we're stupid?
You know what? They think Americans
are stupid and they're right.
It's like, look
everybody, this is a black woman.
It's like, I mean,
I'm trying to adjust my laptop. I thought
my laptop was broken. I'm
like going to tint,
sharpness, contrast,
hue. No matter
what I did, she never was black.
I turned all
the dials.
It's like, do
not adjust your television.
It's working properly.
And it's like, hey look,
this is a role model for little girls.
She's a stinking, dirty
whore.
And it's like, you can't even
make this stuff up, isn't it?
It's like, everybody's mad at the
police? Isn't she like
a cop or something?
It's like we're living in the
twilight zone. It's so
weird. Anyway, that had nothing
to do with the sermon.
I don't even know how I went
off on that, but I'm glad I did.
And I have no regrets.
Alright, so I gotta hurry up and finish. You know,
more proof that he's in the ministry for the wrong
reasons. He wants a trophy wife. Oh yeah,
these relationships that aren't
about love, they're about
advancing their political career. Oh, and by the
way, one more thing.
One more thing, okay. I'm not
done yet.
Okay, when Kamala Harris,
when she got appointed to political office
by Willie Brown, her
sugar daddy, when she got
appointed to political office, here's what she said.
She said to Willie Brown, she said
if you so much as jaywalk
while
I'm the police chief
or police commissioner, I don't know what
her whore, I don't know what
she got appointed to as the whore,
but whore in chief or
whatever, but you know,
it was something about, I think she was like a prosecutor
or I don't know what it was.
Was it attorney general?
Something like that? Yeah, so when she's in that
position, okay,
she said
if you so much as jaywalk
I'll prosecute you.
So here's what she's basically saying to Willie Brown.
Hey, I'm not gonna do you any favors.
And people are like, see, you know,
she's being ethical.
Folks, she's not gonna do him any favors because she already done
did those favors.
Hello, is anybody home?
She did
the favors, that's why she's even the attorney general.
I'm not gonna
show you any special treatment.
That's right, because you already showed him special treatment.
Come on,
people are so stupid.
Unbelievable.
Alright, so let's move on.
Beloved, let's go back to
the word of God.
Where were we, flock?
Um,
okay, let's look at
verse 18. So what's
Bathsheba's response to this
this
misguided request,
this weird
request of give me Abishag
the Shunammite, this inappropriate
request.
You know, sometimes
women can tend to
give people the benefit
of the doubt more than men, and sometimes
women can tend to
kind of, uh,
be naive about things sometimes
and so, you know, Bathsheba, she says,
well, okay,
you love Abishag?
No problem, let me be a little matchmaker
here. I will speak
for thee unto the king. Bathsheba
therefore, we're in verse 19 of 1 Kings chapter
2, Therefore went unto King Solomon
to speak unto him for Adonijah, and the king
rose up to meet her, and bowed himself
unto her, and sat down on his throne
and caused the seed to be set for
the king's mother, and she sat on
his right hand. So, you know, Solomon's very respectful
of his mother, seeds
her at his right hand,
and then she said,
I desire one small petition
of thee, I pray thee, say me not nay.
And the king said unto her,
Ask on my mother, for I will not say
thee nay. It's so funny, because Adonijah's
like, he's not going to say you nay, and then
she's like, don't say me nay, and Solomon's
like, I'm not going to say you nay, and then it's
like, nay.
I've always thought that was so funny in this story.
She said, Let Abishag
the Shanimite be given to Adonijah
thy brother to wife.
And King Solomon answered and said unto his
mother, Why dost thou ask
Abishag the Shanimite for Adonijah?
Ask for him the kingdom also,
for he is my elder-
See, Solomon had been given
wisdom by God. I know where this is going.
And this is even before
he got the mega wisdom in chapter 3.
This is just the basic package that he already had.
And he said,
you know, why don't you just ask the kingdom also?
Why don't you just ask him to be the king
while you're at it? What are you doing?
Why don't you ask it
for him and for Abiathar
the priest, and
and for Joab the son of Zeruiah
he's talking about all the other coalition
that was with Adonijah.
What are they trying to pull?
Is this Joab's idea?
Is this Abiathar the priest?
Hey, well maybe if you can get with Abishag
you know that's going to be step 1 and then step 2
step 3, step 4. He's like, No.
We're not going down this road.
I already spared this guy's life.
I gave him a chance to fly right
and he's showing his true colors
what a rotten person he is.
He's telling the king Solomon swear by the Lord saying
God do so to me and more also
if Adonijah have not spoken
this word against his own life.
Now therefore is the Lord liveth
which hath established me
and set me on the throne of David my father
and who hath made me an house as he promised
Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
So he nipped that in the butt.
You know, these Old Testament stories
are to teach us and illustrate
spiritual truths unto us today.
And you know what this is teaching us here
is don't be like Adonijah
because Adonijah is not
going to be blessed by God
and God is going to wipe him out.
So don't be presumptuous.
You know, what did Jesus say?
He said, Look, when you're invited to a feast
don't take the highest seat
take the lowest seat.
Let other people say to you, Friend
go higher, come up hither.
He said it's better for somebody to say to you
come up hither than for them
to say to you, Oh, excuse me
that seat's reserved for somebody
more important than you.
You're going to the back of the bus, buddy.
You don't want to be told that
so it's better to take the humble
seat out of the gate and let
people advance you.
Don't exalt yourself.
What does the Bible say? Let another man
praise thee and not thine own mouth.
Strangers and not thine own lips.
Don't be presumptuous, don't be arrogant
don't boast, don't brag
praise yourself, let other people
advance you
and let them compliment you
but don't be one who exalts yourself
don't be like an Adonijah
and especially if you're one who wants to go into the ministry
hey, praise the Lord that you want to go into the ministry
but it better be for the right reason
you know, because you want to serve
because you want a good work
not because you want to be like an Adonijah
hey, look at me
trophy wife, we're a power couple
we got the vehicle
we got the house
we got the clothes
we got the lifestyle
hey, that is not a Christian lifestyle
Christians live a
moderate, humble life
we live humble
we live moderate
we do not live in excess
that's about enough words of prayer
Father, we thank you so much for
this story of Adonijah
and how much we can learn from it Lord
help us not to be an Adonijah, help us to be more like
Saul in the early days
or David in the early days
or Solomon in the early days Lord
men that you chose
because Lord, we want you to use us as well
and so Lord, help us to be good vessels
for you to use, help us to be humble
and help us not to be
presumptuous or self-willed
or arrogant, but rather
to just be patient
and let you put us into
the ministry if you see fit
but not to
battle for these things or campaign
for these things Lord, in Jesus' name we pray, Amen
Amen
Ok, let's do one more song
in your songbook, song 1-0-9
Savior like a shepherd lead us
Song 1-0-9
Savior like a shepherd lead us
Song 2-0-9
Seek us when we go astray
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus
Hear, O hear us when we pray
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus
Hear, O hear us when we pray
Thou hast promised to receive us
Poor and sinful though we be
Thou hast mercy to relieve us
Praise to friends and proud to be
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus
Hurry, let us turn to thee
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus
Hurry, let us turn to thee
Hurry, let us seek thy faith, our works
Hurry, let us do thy will
Blessed Lord, a holy Savior
With thy love our blood's unskilled
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus
Thou hast loved us, loved us still
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus
Thou hast loved us, loved us still
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