verse four, "And Gideon came to Jordan and passed over.
"He and the 300 men that were with him,
"faint yet pursuing them."
So I mean, look, these guys are working hard.
I mean, they're going by day, they're going by night.
They're chasing after the enemy.
They're in a big hurry, and they're faint, right?
I mean, and if you've ever done any kind of a big hike
or a long distance run, you've got to eat.
You've gotta have fuel in order to keep going,
or you're just gonna run out of steam.
And they're chasing after this enemy.
They've already fought this great victory,
and they're doing this for everybody.
I mean, the whole nation of Israel's gonna benefit
from defeating these enemies of the Lord,
because if you remember, again,
going back a couple weeks,
the Midianites are taking all their food,
trashing the land, destroying everything.
That's hurting everybody.
And Gideon's doing something about it.
He's being used by God.
He's doing the work of God.
He's faint, but he's still chasing after them.
And he said it to the men of Sukkoth,
"Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me,
for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zeba and Zalmana,
kings of Midian."
He's like, "Look, I'm going after the kings of Midian.
We've already defeated the princes, Orab and Zeb.
We're going after the kings of Midian."
And he's not even asking for himself.
He's saying, "Look, give the men that are following me bread.
These guys are doing God's work.
You've got to help us out."
And the princes of Sukkoth said, "Are the hands of Zeba and Zalmana
now in thine hand that we should give bread unto thine army?"
And Gideon said, "Therefore, when the Lord hath delivered
Zeba and Zalmana into my head, then I will tear your flesh
with thorns of the wilderness and with briars."
So then he goes after them.
Now what's going on here?
I think a spiritual application that we could make from this is,
number one, people that aren't participating in the work of the Lord whatsoever
are part of the problem.
Like, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Because here's what Jesus Christ said.
He said, "He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathereth not with me scattereth
abroad."
He said, "Look, if you're not gathering toward Christ, you're scattering."
If you're not, you say, "Well, I never preach the gospel.
I never give the gospel or witness or go soul winning.
I don't do that.
So I'm just kind of a neutral entity."
But the Bible says you're actually a negative on the kingdom of God.
He said, "If you're not gathering with me, you're scattering."
So you're not at level zero if you do zero preaching of the gospel, zero witnessing,
zero soul winning.
You're actually a negative.
You're in the hole.
You're going into the red spiritually.
We need to be in the Lord's army.
We need to be serving God.
We need to stand up for Jesus.
And if we're not willing to participate in the work of the Lord, we're actually dead
weight.
We're actually dragging down the work of God.
And look, I'm not the one who made up this concept.
Jesus said, "He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathereth not with me scattereth
abroad."
If you're not, and what's the gathering, you know, the metaphor there is about gathering
the sheep.
You know, going out and finding the lost sheep and bringing them back to the fold, that's
a metaphor for soul winning in this case.
You know, going out and finding the lost and bringing them to Christ.
And he's saying if you're not doing that, you're actually scattering.
You're actually harming.
You're actually a negative.
And so what I see here is that these people that refuse to have anything to do with the
work of God, he's not even asking them to be on the front lines or risk their lives.
He's just asking them to support the people who are risking their lives.
Support the people who are doing the work.
And they just won't pitch in.
They want to benefit spiritually, but they don't want to pitch it.
You know, it kind of reminds me of, for example, you know, obviously this is kind of on everybody's
mind, Pastor Bruce Mejia's situation where the sodomites bombed his church building,
literally bombed his church building.
And that's not the worst thing that they did.
The worst thing that they did was just parading their disgusting selves around his church and
bullhorning while he was trying to preach.
And they're trying to disrupt his services and defile the minds of the children by screaming
and yelling perverted things and dressing and looking in a perverted way.
And so he's in a battle.
And obviously myself, Pastor Mejia, other pastors who preach the word of God, we're
actually putting ourselves at risk because Pastor Mejia is getting so many death threats
right now and obviously there is real danger in a sense because they've already blown up
his church building.
So obviously these people are willing to use violence on some level.
And so the point is that when you've got a guy like Pastor Mejia, he's putting himself
out there, he's standing up to an agenda that we all agree is wicked, any child of God is
going to admit that this LGBT sodomite agenda is a wicked agenda, it's destroying America,
it's corrupting our youth, it's destroying their minds, it's brainwashing them with filth
and it's just turning our country into a Sodom and Gomorrah, I mean everybody agrees, every
Christian agrees with that, not even just independent baptists, I mean just every Christian
says hey this is really bad, but then you got a guy who's doing something about it,
he's actually confronting these people, just like the apostle Paul was brought before like
Felix and Agrippa and stuff, he's being brought before like the city supervisor and the mayor
and the police chief and he's preaching under these people and he's preaching in the media
and he was on the Alex Jones show which is a pretty big audience and he's preaching the
gospel and so can people just at least back him up?
At least help him out, encourage him, back him up and then you've got the armchair quarterbacks
kind of just sitting there and just kind of like "well you know I wouldn't have said it
exactly like that" but it's like what are you doing to stop this sodomite onslaught
in our country?
What are you doing?
What are you really doing to actually teach people the truth on this?
Because you know when we get up and we preach these sermons about the truth on the sodomites
and they get 100,000 views on YouTube, 10,000 views, some things even get up to a million
views on these subjects, you know what we're doing, we're actually changing people's minds,
a lot of, we're changing a lot of people's minds.
Why?
Because the truth is powerful and the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than
any two-edged sword and the word of God is not going to return void, it's going to accomplish
the thing that it's sent out to do.
God's word has power and that's why there's so much censorship right now of the word of
God because God's word is powerful, they don't want the truth to get in there and cut to
the heart because I'm telling you it changes people's views on this.
It makes a difference, it matters.
But you've got this attitude amongst the men of Sukkoth and basically their attitude is
also one of, number one it's like we don't want to get involved, we don't want to pitch
in even though they're all going to benefit, they don't want to contribute anything, they
don't want to be a part of it, but I think there's also an attitude of waiting to see
how things turn out. Because what is it that they actually say? Well, are the heads of
Zeebun Zalmanah now in line hand? Come back and talk to us if you win. Because you wonder
maybe are they thinking well we don't know which way this is going to go, so we don't
want to side with the man of God because what if the Midianites come back with a vengeance
and they win, we want to be like oh man we didn't help out, we didn't help Gideon out,
we weren't with Gideon at all. They're kind of waiting to see how it's going to go, do
you see what I'm saying? And there are a lot of people like that too, they won't support
you, they won't stand with you, they won't encourage you or help you until they see whether
you're going to win or not. Well, spoiler alert, we're always winning. And so Pastor
Mahia is going to win. But here's the thing, I don't care if he wins or not, I'm still
on his side. You know what I mean? Like whatever that even means, whatever it means to win,
to me, I'm not waiting to see how it's going to turn out. I don't care how it turns out.
I'm going to side with the man of God that's preaching the truth and I'm not going to side
with a bunch of perverts. You know, this is simple for me. I'm not going to wait and see
well is it going to be the Midianites or is it going to be Gideon? It's just Gideon. We're
just going to go with Gideon, okay? We're just going to go with the Lord. We're going
to be on the Lord's side all the time. These people are like, well let's see how it turns
out. They're not involved. They won't even give moral support. In fact, that's discouraging.
I mean how do you think Gideon feels for his troops to hear that message? Oh man, thank
goodness. These are our friends. We can just get a quick bite to eat so we can just get
some calories so that we can chase after the enemy. And it's like, well what'd they say
Gideon? Well they said, you know, we don't even know if you guys are going to succeed.
Oh well thanks for the vote of no confidence. Think about that. So you've got idiots that
will literally discourage preachers when they're in their time of need. And I remember going
through this back in 2009 and again in 2014, just having people literally call me, like
people that I hadn't talked to in years, just people from the past just calling me out of
the blue just to tell me what an idiot I am. You know, while I'm in the midst of taking
the sodomites to task, and I'm thinking to myself, you call yourself a Christian, you
call yourself a child of God, and you're going to just side with sexual perverts and pedophiles
and rapists against your brother in Christ who preached exactly what the Bible said.
You know, I mean, it's not like Brother Mejia and myself and everybody else don't have chapter
and verse on these things all day long, because we've got Leviticus 20, 13 all day long, we've
got Romans 1 all day long, we've got Jude, we've got 2 Peter chapter 2, we've got clear
scripture all day long, okay, and yet they want to side with freaks and weirdos and people
that literally hate the Lord, and you know what, brother Mejia loves the Lord in his
heart, the sodomites hate the Lord in their heart, who do you want to support, whose side
are you on?
I mean that should be a no brainer, and you know what, Gideon versus the Midianites should
be a no brainer, it should just be, we're with Gideon, sword of the Lord and of Gideon,
let's do it, here's a sandwich Gideon, here's a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, get out
there and continue chasing these guys, that's the right answer, and not to sit there and
say well, you know, I mean, I don't know how this is going to turn out, and he said, okay,
well here's what I'm going to do, I'm going to come back here and I'm going to knock down
your stupid tower and I'm going to give you guys a whipping, he's going to actually whip
them, he's going to physically punish these guys, you know, he's going to actually do
something worse than that because he's going to tear their flesh with thorns and briars,
he's going to throw them into the briar patch, amen, so, but they're not like the tar baby,
you know, or a burr rabbit, rather. Does anybody even know what that is? Who knows what I'm
talking about? Virtually no one. Man, what's wrong with this generation? Uncle Remus stories,
come on.