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Psalm 55 the Bible reads in verse number one give ear to my prayer Oh God and hide not thyself from my supplication
attend unto me and hear me I mourn in my complaint and
Make a noise and these first two verses of Psalm 55. We really get the picture of
Desperation saying please listen to me. Please pay attention to what I'm saying
You know, he's begging God to hear him and he's saying I'm making a noise and and what this
Pictures is just he's so desperate. He doesn't even quite know what to say
He's calling out to God and he's even just making a noise. Just like
You know, he's just basically crying out for help and you know
the Bible talks about how sometimes when we pray we know not how to pray as we ought we don't know what to say and
A lot of times we just have to pray
What we can and just make a noise and then the Bible says that the Holy Spirit makes intercession for us
according to the will of God, so even though we don't always know how to pray as we ought the Holy Spirit will take our
prayers and
Convert them into what needs to be prayed
And so the bottom line is it's better to pray wrong than not to pray at all
Because if you pray wrong
you're still praying and the Holy Spirit will fix everything before it gets to the Father and he'll sort of translate it and and
Actually make it something that's according to God's will
So if you don't know what to pray about a situation if you don't know how to pray about a situation
Just pray something just do your best say something to God and if you really don't know what to say just make a noise
I'm not talking about praying in tongues now, but I'm just saying yeah, you just make a noise
You just call out to God and God is going to hear you
And so the the idea here behind this just making a noise
Complaining is just he's desperate. I mean he's in a really bad situation
This is not a minor problem that he's going through in this song
It says in verse 3 because of the voice of the enemy
Because of the oppression of the wicked for they cast iniquity upon me and in wrath
They hate me. My heart is sore pained within me and the terrors of death are falling upon me
Fearfulness art and trembling are come upon me and a horror has overwhelmed me
So he's horrified. He's scared. He's trembling. He's upset
Hateful enemies have surrounded him. They've cast iniquity on him. They're accusing him of things
They're oppressing him and he's just at the end of his rope
He says wits in and he's just calling out to God for help. It says in verse 6 and I said oh
That I had wings like a dove for then would I fly away and be at rest?
Low, then would I wander far off and remain in the wilderness?
Selah and I'm sure you felt that way before I know I've felt that way before of just being so upset or angry or overwhelmed
That you just say I just want to just leave I just want to get away from everybody
I just want to go be by myself do my own thing go off into the wilderness and
Remember there was an episode in the life of Elijah where this is how he felt and it was even after Elijah had had a
Great victory where he was on Mount Carmel and he called down the fire of God
Defeated the prophets of Baal, but then if you remember in the aftermath of that
Jezebel had put out a warrant for his arrest and she was gonna have him killed
And put to death and he had a little bit of a lapse in faith because he's human and all of us are human
And so he got worried about that. He was sad and depressed about that
He felt like he'd won and the battle was over and then the battle started up again, and he's just like that's it
I give up. This is too much and
if you remember he went sat down under the juniper tree and God sends the angel to wake him up and give him food and
Try to get him going again and then finally he just ends up just
Wandering in the wilderness just wandering way out into the wilderness and he actually back tracks
The route of the children of Israel to Mount Sinai, you know, he just goes out into Arabia
crosses the desert and goes to Mount Sinai and
Just hangs out there and then of course he communes with God there and the story continues but at that point
He's ready to die and even says to God, you know what God just take my life
It's better for me to die than to live
Similar like what Jonah said and other men of God who got to the end of their rope at times
And so we see even a guy like Elijah could feel this way
I'm sure you felt this way and you know, a lot of people today are tempted to want to live this lifestyle of
just withdrawing
From
everything just get away from everything get away from all the junk get away from society get away from the city and
Everybody wants to sort of strategically relocate out to the boonies out in the middle of nowhere
But but here's the thing about that, you know, we're not on this earth to just exist in an idyllic
abode
We're not on this earth to just go out and enjoy nature every day and live a peaceful and tranquil life and you say well
It's a healthier lifestyle
Okay, but here's the thing going out by yourself and living a healthy lifestyle isn't why you're on this earth
You've been placed upon this earth to minister to other people. You've been placed upon this earth to win souls unto Christ
You've been placed upon this earth to be the light of the world
And so in order to be the light of the world
You can't hide that light under a bushel
And if you go out and just live in some cabin in the middle of nowhere totally withdraw from society
Read your Bible for a few hours a day enjoy nature. Guess what you're hiding the light under a bushel
You got to go where the people are
You got to go where the ministry is where the soul winning is so that you can actually be used by God
and you know what King David was a man greatly used by God he was important leader and
The last thing we would want if we were living in Israel about 3,000 years ago
The last thing we would want is for David to just go disappear somewhere and then we're left with whoever you know, we're left with
Absalom or we're left with
Amnon or whoever, you know is just gonna take over whichever of his sons, you know
No, we want David right and so David is
Frustrated he wants to just go into the wilderness. He wants to take off. It's normal to feel that way because
Everybody in the Bible and everybody that you know in real life goes through low points in their life
And the difference is those who can get through that low point push through that low point and those who quit on God
Throw in the towel and and folks we've seen it so many times here at this church where you know good people
Godly people people that are serious about serving God and and and they come soul winning. They read their Bibles
they love the church and
They end up quitting
Not because of anything going
Horribly wrong or that they have any issues, but you know the most common reason for people to quit is
Just that they just get burned out and fade away. They go through a low point and they just quit coming
I mean, usually it's just that simple with most people, you know
I think about some of the great people that have gone here over the years that have just kind of faded away
They just faded away the honeymoons over
You know, they've been coming for two years
they've been soul winning for two years the honeymoon sort of over and
they just start to get a little down or something goes wrong in their life or they
Get low on money or something and then the next thing, you know, they just kind of fade away
You've got to be able to push through those low points and keep on going. That's what men in the Bible did
That's what you need to do. And so it says in verse number eight. I would hasten my escape
From the windy storm and tempest he say look I just want to get away from the storm
I want to get away from the battle
Now in verse number nine, he kind of changes gears and
Instead of just talking about how bad things are going and talking about how he wants to get out of there
He actually prays for God to do something. He says
destroy Oh Lord and
Divide their tongues for I have seen violence and strife in the city day and night
They go about it upon the walls thereof
Mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it wickedness is in the midst thereof deceit and guile
Depart not from her streets. Now. What does he mean there when he says?
Destroy Oh Lord and divide their tongues
Well, the thing that comes to mind right away is the story of the Tower of Babel where God divides their tongues
And what did that mean when God divided their tongues at the Tower of Babel?
Well, if you remember they had joined together to do a work that God did not approve of God wanted them to be fruitful and
multiply replenish the earth and he wanted them to overspread the face of the earth and inhabit the earth and
He wanted them to go separate ways
but instead they decided to all remain united and they were gonna build a tower to reach unto heaven and
What's pictured there with the Tower of Babel is what's actually coming in the end times?
Which is one world government one world religion a one world system
Which is where we're heading in the end times as well. The end times is known as Babylon and in Genesis
It's known as Babel
That's where Babylon even comes from and so at the Tower of Babel in order to put a stop to their evil plans
God confounded their languages
He divided their tongues and basically people who in the past were able to harmoniously
Live together work together
Communicate they couldn't communicate anymore communication broke down. He separated the languages
So before this happened, there was only one language on this planet. Everybody just spoke the human language, whatever that was and
Then God ended up dividing their languages into dramatically different languages
So they had to go their separate ways and if you look at the languages of this world
Obviously a lot of the languages of this world are just sort of different dialects of the same language or different spin-offs
You know, you have a language like Latin and it's spun off into Spanish Italian French Romanian
Those are all branches though of a big giant language family called
Indo-european languages, okay, and if you look at indo-european languages, they're not really that different from one another
But then if you go to really different languages, you know
You could look at like a clicking language in Africa and you know, I might seem funny but but even
languages in Africa that aren't really a click language
Pretty much every African language that I've looked at in sub-saharan Africa has a couple clicks in it
You know, even if it's not just a total click fest
They have a few different clicks like like if you learn Zulu, I believe it has like three different clicks
There's one of the languages in South Africa even has a click in the name it's called Xhosa
I don't know. I'm not really good at clicking. But anyway, Navajo is also one that has a click in it and
You know then you look at a language like Chinese where it's tonal or it's like a musical up and down and you know
There are these really dramatically different languages in this world that you can tell they don't share a common ancestor
You know, you look at all the European languages and you can see how they all share a common ancestor
But when you look at a click language over here
You look at Chinese over here
You look at English over here and then you look at say the Hawaiian languages where they have what eight?
Consonants or something some ridiculously small alphabet. I think it's like 13 letters in the alphabet or something and
they have these really strange long words where it's just a bunch of L's and M's and H's over and over again and
These languages obviously they don't share a common ancestor
They go back to the fact that at the Tower of Babel these languages were split into
Dramatically different languages and the people could not
You know, if you can't click it's just not gonna work. You know, you got to go your separate ways
So basically when God is saying here, actually, it's it's it's God that's saying it because God's the author of the book of Psalms
But of course, we're reading this from David's perspective
So when David is saying here destroy Oh Lord and divide their tongues
He's saying that he wants his enemies that have united against him to fight amongst themselves instead of fighting with him
You know, let them
Destroy each other instead of coming after me, right?
And God does this many times in the Bible where there's an enemy coming against the children of Israel and he causes them to fight
Amongst themselves he caused them to defeat
Themselves and if you think about it a lot of times people will band together
To fight against righteous people because look at Psalm 2 where the kings of the earth rise up and the rulers take counsel together
Against the Lord and against his anointed so in the end times world leaders and nations are all going to join together
Now a lot of nations right now are at odds with each other over various things and they're they're very unfriendly toward one another
But you know, they're gonna find something that they can all agree on being against Christ and that's gonna draw them together
this is also foreshadowed when Jesus Christ is on trial and he's before Pontius Pilate and the Bible says that before that time
Pontius Pilate and King Herod had been enemies
But when it came to crucifying Jesus, they teamed up on that and then they became friends
So they actually become friends over
Crucifying Jesus think about the Jews themselves, you know the Jews and the Romans are not allies are they but they teamed up to do
What kill the Lord Jesus Christ the Jews and the Romans got together for that now?
He's praying divide their tongues now
Did that work out for the Jews and the Romans that little alliance that they made to crucify Christ?
Nope, because what did God do God ended up sending an evil spirit between the Jews and the Romans and in 70 AD
The Romans ended up completely
wiping out the Jews and Jerusalem and then again in 135 AD they
completely 100%
destroyed the city of Jerusalem to where not even one single Jew was left in that city and they weren't even allowed to enter the
city limits of
Jerusalem after 135 AD except one day a year so they could go there and cry about it
But that was the only time they were even allowed to go there on the 9th of off once a year
And so we see that yes these
Persecutions of God's people they make for strange bedfellows, you know, they bring people together that you wouldn't expect to join up
But they all have one thing in common
Let's fight against faithful word Baptist Church
Let's hate on Pastor Anderson, you know, let's hate on past three minutes away and you have people they have nothing in common
They they have totally different heresies that don't even line up with each other
It's like heresies perverts, it's just like everything just comes to get flat earth
It all just kind of comes together and it's just like doesn't matter if you're oneness your flat earth you love homos
It's just like it all just joins together
To you know, let's fight against very Baptist Church or whoever the enemy of the month is
and so the bottom line is that God is going to
Destroy these people because again, you know, he's gonna answer this prayer because we know this prayer is according to the will of God here
It's in the book of Psalms for crying out loud. So we know these prayers
Here's the thing when you read the prayers and Psalms they all get answered
All right
And so God's gonna answer that prayer and he's gonna divide their tongues and what you'll see is wicked people
They join up to do some dastardly deed and then they end up
Defeating each other is what ends up happening. They end up hurting each other
And so that's that's one thing that we could pray, you know
when people are attacking us and persecuting us wrongfully, you know, you could pray that God would divide their tongues and
That they would be at enmity one with another
So he's praying he's saying look these people are wicked. They're violent. They're deceitful
They're filled with guile and he said divide their tongues destroy them now look at verse 12
Here's what you have to understand about this psalm it can get a little confusing from verse 12 onward
Because the first 11 verses are clearly just David praying to God very easy to understand but from verse 12 onward
There's a little bit of a back and forth where sometimes he's just talking
Sometimes he's talking to God. Sometimes he's talking about God and sometimes he's to actually talking to his enemies
And so you have to just pay close attention to this poem how it keeps switching perspectives starting verse number 12
So it says in verse 12 for it was not an enemy that reproached me then I could have borne it
Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me then I would have hid myself from him
But it was thou a man mine equal now clearly he's not talking to God anymore
Right because God's not the backstabbing enemy and God is certainly not his equal
Okay, so we've changed perspectives here, you know verses 1 through 11. He's praying to God now
He's actually talking to his enemy
He's just having like an internal
Dialogue where he's just in his mind talking with his enemy
He says for was not an enemy that reproached me then I could have borne it
You know, I could I'm used to my enemies attacking me and hating me saying I can handle that I could have borne that
He said neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me
I mean, that's what I would expect to happen and
What he means there when he says him that hated me he's saying, you know
The one that openly hated me the one that I knew hated me because obviously this person hated him as well
He just didn't know it and that comes across in other verses of the psalm it says
Then I would have hid myself from him
But it was thou a man mine equal my guide and mine acquaintance
We took sweet counsel together and walked under the house of God in
Company, okay now
He says I would have hid myself
Here's what he's saying. He's saying because this was someone from church. I had my guard down
You know because we took sweet counsel together as we went to the house of God in company
Then I didn't hide myself, you know, cuz I thought oh, okay. This guy's my friend. This guy loves me
I don't have to worry about hiding myself. You see it's better the devil, you know than the devil. You don't know
The enemy within is always more dangerous than the enemy out there because at least enemy out there, you know who they are
It's the enemy within that is most dangerous
He says we took sweet counsel together and walked under the house of God in company
He said otherwise, I would have hid myself. You know, I would have been on my guard and
Then he again prays for God to destroy these people in verse 15
Let death seize upon them and let them go down quick into hell
For wickedness is in their dwellings and among them now
Here's a quick English lesson here. The word quick is an adjective
All right quickly is an adverb. All right now I
Don't know how many people here know the difference between an adjective and an adverb
Probably a lot of people know that really well
Some people it might not really be fresh in your mind if you did it in school a long time ago
And you haven't really stayed current on those things
But an adjective is something that modifies a noun or a pronoun
whereas an adverb
Modifies a verb an adjective or another adverb. Okay, what in the world? So here's the idea
Typically in English the pattern is that if you want to turn an adjective
Into an adverb you put an ly on the end, right? So quick is an adjective
So I'm gonna use quick to describe things like I could say a quick meeting
Right and don't don't zone out on me or anything
All right, if you don't know what I'm talking about, you're probably the one who should be listening up the most right now
All right, so just pay attention because this actually is important on how we interpret the Bible
Yeah, you know, we got to know English if we're gonna read an English Bible. Amen. So here's the thing quick is
Describing nouns or pronouns like I could say I'm quick or you're quick or I can say the car
Is quick or I can say that you know, the meeting is going to be a quick meeting
Quickly on the other hand is an adverb
It's gonna answer questions like how to what extent how much in what way?
So it's gonna talk about how something was done so I can't say a quickly meaning I cannot say I am quickly
But what I can say is I run
Quickly or I drive quickly or we meet quickly if I change that to a verb now
I can use an adverb to describe that verbs everybody see the difference between quick and quickly
Slow and slowly, you know people say drive safe. Hey drive safely
You
Can't drive safe cuz safe is an adjective and drive is a verb. All right, just saying
So the point is when he says here let them go down quick into hell
This is not talking about the speed at which they are going to hell because that would be quickly let them go down quickly
Intel quick is it an adjective or is it an adverb is quick an adjective or an adverb?
It's an adjective right because the adverb would be
Quickly that would explain how they're going they're going quickly
Quick is an adjective
adjectives modify what
Nouns, okay
So let them go down quick
Into hell so the adjective quick is gonna modify some noun the noun is them
Let them actually a pronoun because it actually can modify a noun or a pronoun. Let them go down quick
Into hell now this adjective quick can either be referring to speed
like a quick rabbit or it can mean alive like Jesus Christ the judge of the quick and
The dead now you can understand how this word can mean both things because when things are dead they typically don't move
So they're not very quick. Are they so that's one way to remember but these are two different words different meanings
Quick
So he's not saying hey. I want them to go down into hell fast I
Want them to go there with speed he's saying basically let them go down
alive
Into hell okay let them go down alive
Into hell if you know English grammar, that's the right way to interpret this
Understanding that it's an adjective not an adverb, so he's saying let them go down quick into hell
Let them go down alive into hell now. How can that be how can someone go alive into hell?
Well if you remember in the book of Numbers when Korah Dathan and Abiram
rebelled against Moses, and they taught the children of Israel to rebel against Moses and
Again, it was what the enemy within you know these are people within that church in the wilderness that rose up against Moses and
Moses prayed that the ground would open up and that they would go alive into hell
That the ground would actually open up, and they would drop directly into hell basically what it is
is that you know the earth's gonna open up and they're gonna fall into the hot lava and
Obviously they're gonna die on the way down
You know they're not gonna. They're not gonna make it all the way to hell alive, but the idea here
It's a poem remember. He's basically just saying let them go down quick into hell
He's saying look let the earth open up and swallow these wicked people
Just destroy them let a chasm open up and just drop these people straight into hell
Let them not pass go let them not collect $200 is basically what he's praying here
so he says let death seize upon them and let them go down quick into hell for wickedness is in their dwellings and
among them as for me I
Will call upon God and the Lord shall say you know I just thought of something
You know I typically don't like to just jump on something in the middle of a sermon that pops into my mind
But let's go back to that Cora Dathan and Abiram
story because I just thought of something and it might be a
Rabbit trail it might be a wild goose chase, but I think I just noticed something interesting
There and so let's go to Numbers chapter 16
And let's look at that
I want to show you a parallel here with that story that just kind of popped into my mind
But because I didn't plan this in advance
I'm just kind of going by the seat of my pants here, but Numbers chapter 16. I want to find that part
Somebody help me out if you find it where he basically prays for them to go into the into the earth
Let's see well
let's start reading verse 31 for now and it came to pass as he had made an end of speaking all these words that the
Ground clave asunder that was under them and the earth opened her mouth that swallowed them up and their houses
and this is the part that I wanted to focus on and all the men that appertained unto Cora and
All their goods and all that appertained to them went down alive into the pit notice the difference in word
They're alive versus quick same meaning and the earth closed upon them, and they perished
From among the congregation. Where's the part where Moses predicts this happening can somebody?
Okay, yeah verse 30 there we go, but if the Lord make a new thing and
The earth open her mouth and swallow them up
With all that appertain unto them and they go down quick into the pit
Then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord and then I want to point out also verse
26 it says this is what I was looking for and he's speaking to the congregation saying depart
I pray you from the tents of these wicked men and
Touch nothing of theirs lest you be consumed in all their sins because when the pit opened up and they went down into hell
Didn't the Bible say everything went basically?
their stuff
All the people that pertain to them all the stuff that pertained to them whoever was in their dwellings
And so this warning is given get away from these people depart
I pray you from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs lest you be consumed in all their sins
He said look get away from these people or you're gonna get sucked in to the pit with them
Back up everybody because look you don't want to be standing next to the guy
Who gets dropped alive into hell because you know what you might fall into
That's what the Bible is saying now compare that with Psalm 55. This is why that just popped into my mind is
Because when I was reading in Psalm 55 verse 15
It says let death seize upon them and let them go down quick into hell
For wickedness is in their dwellings and among them see the wickedness is in them, but it's also in their house
It's in their dwelling and it's among them
Get away from these people because they're going down
Fast and hard and you don't want to be there when it happens
So that's another interesting parallel that really shows that number 16 and Psalm 55 are connected
They're both dealing with the same subject matter
And so it says in verse number 16 as for me in contrast with them, you know
They're gonna go down quick into hell everybody that pertains to them everything that pertains to them
But as for me
I will call upon God and the Lord shall save me
Evening and morning and at noon
Will I pray and cry aloud and he should hear my voice sounds like Daniel right praying three times a day
He had delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me and watch this last phrase for there were many
With me there were many with me
Now when we are going through a battle when we're going through a hard time when we're under attack
Sometimes we can feel like we're alone and the devil wants us to feel like we're alone
I can remember when I was a young child
My parents going through a hard time and our church had a major
church split and there are all these problems and then the pastor started going totally liberal and
He started to to go get tips from the big mega church down the street and and bringing in now
which is all
contemporary and whatever and so our church was turning super liberal and then we were having trouble finding another good church and a
Bunch of our friends just seemed like they were happy to just switch over to some NIV Church or whatever
And I remember my parents
Saying maybe we're crazy
We're the last ones left
You know, where are all the fundamental Baptists? We're the last ones left in a fundamental
Maybe we're just crazy. And you know what? They basically decided was you know what? Let's just go try going to the liberal church
That's what everybody else is doing. Everybody else going to the liberal church. Maybe we're just crazy
Maybe maybe that's where we need to be. And so we spent the next five years
Going to what would still be considered very conservative churches by the world standards and and even by Baptist standards
They were pretty much, you know, the most conservative you could be without being a fundamental independent Baptist
And so, you know, we we switched to these other style of Baptist churches these watered-down
liberal churches and you know
Of course eventually we got out of that mess and and five years later we got back into the you know
King James preaching soul winning fundamental Baptist type churches, but there's a five-year period there where my family
You know went to those liberal churches and you know why we ended up going there, you know why that happened
Is because we were made to feel alone
You know that and I you know this obviously I was a kid
But I'm observing these things as a kid and I'm listening to my parents talk
I'm hearing these things and I can remember it like yesterday. I can remember my dad saying that you know, maybe it's just us
Maybe we need to rethink things, you know, maybe we're crazy
maybe these other people are all right and
And
You know what? It wasn't true. There were still good churches out there
There were still fundamental Baptist churches out there that hadn't dipped their sails and water down
But here's the thing. We didn't know where they were life before Google. Amen
Folks life before Google was different. It was a lot different
You know and finding a church was a lot harder than it is now and you know
We even in fact that you know, the church we ended up going to was called Regency Baptist Church five years later
We found it and it was an independent fundamental hellfire and damnation kind of a church and we loved it there
We grew it was great. But here's the thing five years earlier
I kid you not we drove around looking for Regency Baptist Church and we couldn't find it
We didn't have GPS. We didn't have Google and you know, we went to the address that was in the phone book and
We couldn't find it. It wasn't there
We called the number couldn't get through is the wrong number and because what happened was the church just happened to be at a time
Even though it was a good-sized church, you know 100 150 people
They were going through a period where they're moving a lot, you know
They lost their building had to get into a different building
And so it was a confusing time for finding the church
it just happened to be that we were looking for the church at the one time when they were hard to find and
so as a consequence we spent five years wandering in the wilderness and
Before we got to Mount Sinai and got the commandments from God and so, you know
We spent five years in the liberal churches
Which obviously all things work together for good to them to love God even though we shouldn't have been there
At least I kind of learned, you know, what's going on with the other side and you know
I definitely found all the problems in the NIV, you know sitting in an NIV Church for five years
Okay
So and when I see liberal things creeping in I can kind of spot them right away because I've been there
I've done that
So the point is, you know, the devil wants us to feel that way
Maybe we're crazy. We're the only ones there's no else out there, you know, just like my parents were feeling
but in reality
there are always still 7,000 men that haven't bowed the knee to Baal and
If you remember that's what happened in that story with Elijah. He went to Mount Sinai and
He's there in the mountain of God and he keeps saying to God I only am left and they seek my life
I only am left and what sayeth the answer of God unto him yet? Have I reserved to myself?
7,000 men who've not bowed the knee to Baal and so even though you feel like you're alone
You're not alone when you're with the Lord
Not only does being with the Lord mean that you're not alone, but there are always
Always lots of people on this earth that are with the Lord and on the Lord's side
You know, don't don't get this weird idea that well, you know, everybody was Catholic for a thousand years, you know
Everybody was a Roman Catholic and then thank God that you know
The Protestant Reformation came on I guarantee you that at any time on this earth at any time there were multitudes
Literally millions of people who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior and trusted in him for salvation through faith alone
You know, I you know
They might be in different geographies at different time in different concentrations in different eras in different places, but there are always
always in every generation
lots of people
Worshipping the Lord following the Lord even at times in Israel's history where they have a wicked King
It seems like everybody's into Baal worship and everybody's got the golden calves up and Dan and Bethel
Hey, even at those dark times there were always
People who were saved
Worshipping the Lord reading the Bible. That's a fact. That's the way it always is but the devil wants you to feel alone
He wants you to feel like you're the only one and like you're just crazy and nobody feels this way
and you know the news media is designed to make it seem like
Everybody has a certain opinion and it's just these few very few radical
Wild-eyed people who are but you know, actually a lot
of
The you know politically incorrect views that I preach
Literally like half of people in America agree with me
Think about it. I mean look if you're against abortion
That's like 60% of America agrees with you
The majority of Americans are against abortion. The majority of Americans think abortion should be illegal. It's only the Supreme Court
That makes it legal which is is not a representative body of the United States at all
That is not a representation of us if you look at the way the court is made up
I'm not sure at this moment how it breaks down because I think there have been a few changes and I don't follow politics
But I will say this there was a time very recently when I think the court was made of six Catholics and three Jews
That's not America
That isn't America or five Catholics for Jews, okay Jews make up less than 2% of America
Okay
Roman Catholics are you know, don't quote me on this but maybe a fifth of Americans
Maybe I'm not sure what the you know, I might be wrong on that number
I'm just kind of throwing that out there, but I'll tell you what the the most Americans are
Evangelical Christians, I'm not saying they're all saved but there are 50 million Baptists in America
You know one out of seven people in America professes to be a Baptist let alone all the non-denominational
And other branches of evangelical Christianity. So why don't we have a bunch of evangelical Christians on the Supreme Court?
Isn't interesting how we don't have evangelical Christians on the Supreme Court. We have Jews and Catholics, okay
so
What was my point with that? They are the ones who make abortion legal
It's by decree of the Supreme Court Roe versus Wade if it were put to a popular vote or if the people's
Representatives actually represented them the majority of people are against abortion and think it should be illegal
Because this common sense would tell you that everybody knows that you're murdering a human life when you do that
That's what the majority of people believe. That's what all righteous people believe
Amen, but then you know, that's an issue where you're in the majority, but even on the issue of the sodomites
Let me tell you something when YouTube and let me tell you something YouTube is not a fundamental Baptist website
YouTube is not an evangelical Christian website
Okay, now look don't you think that worldly people probably spend a lot of time on YouTube
For sure, or do you think it's just all Christians going there for preaching?
There's a lot of worldly people on there doing a lot of things
Well, guess what? Whenever YouTube puts out some video promoting trannies or promoting whatever
Sodomite thing have you ever noticed the comments and the thumbs down, you know when they promote that stuff. It'll have just an
overwhelming number of dislikes
It'll have an incredible number of dislikes and the top comments and YouTube will delete the comments so fast
But they can't even delete them fast enough and it's just worldly people on there saying hey, this is the seventh time
I'm leaving live this comment. I don't want to see this faggot II bleep or whatever, you know, and they're you know
It's just worldly people
Just leaving those comments like crazy and then you know
You can like or dislike comments those comments will have like a thousand thumbs up
Who's seen that and knows what I'm talking about?
Yeah, when YouTube and what I'm talking about is when YouTube like promotes this to you on their homepage
It's just like all thumbs down. You know why because the vast majority of people are
Disgusted it's not just some radical pastor. It's not just well, you know, it's just
Verity Baptist and steadfast Baptist, you know, it's just these couple of guys and and their radical views
Folks it's every normal person that feels that way
Every normal person is like don't show me this. This is gross
I don't want to see it, but you know what if you turn on the TV and movies up
You'd feel like you're in a super minority if you're gets it
You'd feel like oh man, you know on a college campus. You'd probably feel like oh man, you know
Am I the only person here that that feels this way? Guess what the devil wants you to feel that way
He wants you to feel lonely. He wants you to feel like it's just you
He wants you to feel like you're the odd man out. Let me tell you something there are
Many with you look what it says at the end of verse 18
He had delivered my soul in peace verse 18 from the battle that was against me for there were many with me
Even if you don't know it, let me tell you something. There are many with you tonight
There are many with you and those that are listening on
YouTube right now there are many with you and
You know what of course all my youtube channels got deleted, but there's always one more amen
There's always that you know that that that hidden channel
That I had a channel. There was just kind of on ice hadn't been touched in seven years
We blew the dust off that channel
Rebranded it and here we are back on YouTube and by the way
We're by the way, we created a whole bunch of other YouTube channels
How many you know we're gonna create at least like 10 YouTube channels let alone all the other people that are creating channels and helping
Us upload stuff. We're creating channels. They all have different. You know we're buying more burner phones than drug dealers all right
We got a pager and a phone all right, and we got we got all the burner phones
And we got all the the channels popping up and all the videos being uploaded and every time
They were like a starfish you know they they they cut us, and we just we just keep like splitting and multiplying
You know every every channel they destroy three more pop up all right
So the point is there are many people with us. Don't feel you and you know why they keep deleting our YouTube stuff is
Because of the fact they want people to feel alone
Because you want to know one of the most common
Comments that I get from people when they find out about my preaching they say oh, man
I was so great to find your preaching because I realized wow somebody else believes this stuff
They're like you were saying stuff that I've been thinking for years
I've been reading my Bible and thinking these things and I was like man is anybody else see it
And then I heard you say it, and I said wow somebody else sees it
Somebody else thinks like I think and you know what the devil wants you to think you're the only one who sees that
You're misinterpreting that you're reading that wrong when in reality there are millions of people just like you
That's why the devil tries so hard to silence our voice
I mean, what good does it do to delete our YouTube channel block us on Facebook? You know or whatever?
I'll tell you what it is
It's to create an illusion that everyone has the non-christian view that
everyone has the ungodly view that illusion is created by just hiding and
And ghosting everybody who has the biblical view and that's what the devil always wants to do
So look if you ever get to the point where you're feeling alone
Always remember what the Bible said here. You know that you're not alone
There are 7,000 men that have not bowed the knee to Baal there were many with me David said he felt alone
But there were many with him verse 19
God shall hear and afflict them
Even he that abideth of old see law now notice the last part of verse 19 here because they have no changes
Therefore they fear not God
What it's saying here is they do wickedly and nothing bad happens. So then they think like
There's no God look at me. I'm doing all this bad stuff and I'm not facing any consequences. Nothing's changing
I'm still doing well. I'm still prospering. I have no changes. Therefore. Why should I fear God?
What you have to understand is that God's wrath God's justice does not always come immediately
It is often a delayed reaction because with the Lord a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day
And it often comes later
another story that comes to mind that I think ties in really well with Psalm 55 is
The story of King Abimelech in the book of Judges. So in the book of Judges, of course
you have the bastard son of Gideon Abimelech who ends up killing his 70 brethren and
He seems like he gets away with it
You know the one youngest brother ends up rebuking him and escaping and and running off and hiding
But Abimelech seems like he's doing well and he becomes a king
For three years now three years a pretty long time. I mean, that's more than a thousand days
So he seems like he got away with it he murdered his brethren he's king he's prospering
but what happens three years later God sends an evil spirit between
Abimelech and the men of Shechem and he ends up getting killed and he even ends up getting killed in a
Humiliating way because a woman ends up killing him and then he says to his armor-bearer
Thrust me through that it not be said that a woman slew him and then his armor-bearer kill, but then guess what?
David says hey
He was killed by a woman. All right, so people still kept saying it
They didn't stop saying it
All right
So the point is though people seem like they get away with things but they don't they never do
no one ever gets away with
wickedness and evil
The haters of the Lord the haters of the righteous the persecutors of good people will get what's coming to them
100% of the time now they don't have any changes so they think that everything's okay
But when they say peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape
You will reap what you've sown
Just as when that seed is sown and a woman is pregnant nine months later a baby is coming and
It comes suddenly right the water could break and boom the baby's here, you know, how many stories have you heard?
Oh, man, 20 minutes later. The baby was here two hours later and the baby was here, right?
It can happen quickly and it can happen unexpectedly can happen suddenly
But it's coming and it's a clock that's ticking and it will surely come now
We notice in verse 19 that they have no changes
But let's keep going
It says in verse 20 he had put forth his hands against such as be at peace with them
These talk about the bad guys the bad guys rewarded evil for good. They put forth their hand against those that were at peace with them
They broke the Covenant right? He had broken his covenant the words of his mouth were smoother than butter
But war was in his heart his words were softer than oil yet were they drawn
Swords and how many people have we known the flattering? Oh, they're so loving. Oh
They're so loving as they as they private message and text message every member in the church
Gossiping slandering telling people to leave the church, right? Because that's what they do with their lives
Hypocritic losers wicked people who get either thrown out of this church or thrown out of other churches
Right or thrown out of other churches Chad Morgan
And then they want to spend their time doing what?
Private messaging our churchmen. So first here's what they do first
They message all the church members telling them to leave the church. Then they message me pretending to be my friend and give me
Advice from a friend
After they've already sent the messages around to people telling people to leave the church
gossiping busybodies
Tattling that on things that they know nothing about that they understand nothing about
Why because of the fact that they are?
Infiltrators, that's why and so they are so loving and flattering and so friendly and kind
but guess what in their heart is
Wickedness, they have guile in their heart. They are waiting for the opportunity to stab you in the back
They're waiting
For me to be out of town for a week and a half dealing with an emergency
So they could spend that entire week and a half while I was gone
Sowing discord in the church trying to poison people against me trying to turn me against or trying to turn people against me while I was
Doing something good
Well, I was helping people and I didn't have to do that
I didn't have to go and do that
but I go help people for a week and a half and while I'm gone these devils are spreading all this garbage and trying to
Just deceive and and turn people against me while I'm gone because when the cats away the mice will play and you know
What that's what the Bible is talking about these kind of backstabbers who pretend to be your friend and boy
They talk so smooth and everything's just praise the Lord hallelujah
I'm praying for you brother and there isn't amazing how spiritual everything is to them
Everything's so spiritual and so godly there, you know, and by the way beware of people whose language is overly spiritual
That's a red flag when everything's just oh, well, praise the Lord. Hallelujah, brother, you know, and they're just so hyper
Spiritual and let me just give you some signs of the hyper spiritual ones
How about this one people who take issue with you calling this my church now doesn't any normal person say
My church who who it's who would say this is my church
Yeah
Well, it's actually God's church
But you know what's really going on is their heart is that they don't love the church so they don't want to own it
They don't want to take hey everybody knows. Hey, this is my church people would say like hey
Would you like to come to my church this Sunday?
Can I invite you to my church this Sunday? Wait, you think you own it?
Folks if I had a nickel for every time I had someone correct me when I said my church
It's like I'd be a wealthy man, but it's these hyper spiritual types
They're always the first ones to stop you when you take a bite of food before you've prayed or something
Little do they know that you prayed in your heart
Amen
But the point is I'm just saying they're just always so quick to just be
Hyper spiritual eyes everything and just everything is just they're so pious aren't they? You know what?
When people are that pious around me, I've been around the block long enough to know this person's
Overcompensating this person has something to hide this person is a phony
That's that's that's my immediate thought when I hear the overly pious
hyper-spiritual where they just want to find fault with everyone and everything and just they're just oozing this godliness
You know what normal people don't have to put on some big display about how godly they are
And you know what in the Bible the people who made a big deal about how godly they were were the Pharisees and turn out
They weren't that godly
They would sound a big trumpet and they want to pray
loudly in public and in the corners of the streets and they want to make a big show about everything and they want to just
Show everybody how pious there are. Hey be careful of people like that
okay act normal and
Watch out for people that don't act normal and look I'm all for look
I'm all for talking about the Bible talking about the things of God, but you know what I'm talking about
I'm talking about the super fake sloppy agape over-the-top just oozing
Just you know what I'm talking about
What do you mean my church
Well, you know what I meant what I said because you know what this is my church and it's your church too
And guess what the fact that it's owned by Jesus Christ does not prevent it from being your church and my church
Because you know what we're all part of it
It all but that back if I said my family
What if my what if my daughter said my family is a well, who do you think you are Miriam? I'm the head of this house
What do you mean my family?
I'm the head of this house
Is that what you think Jesus is up in heaven saying when you say my church?
You think he's just like what what do you mean?
now he's probably these he's probably just glad that you go there and
That you love it and that you want to take ownership of it and that it's near and dear unto you that you would stick
That personal pronoun my on it because it's your church this church is your church
This church is my church, right?
This church was made for you and me
So it says he had put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him
He had broken his covenant the words of his mouth were smoother than butter
But war was in his heart his words were softer than oil yet
They were drawn swords cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee
He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved now again
I told you this psalm kind of switches perspectives a lot
Sometimes he's praying to God sometimes he's talking to the enemy sometimes he's talking within himself talking to other people here
I believe it's the moral
To the reader, you know
I think this is the moral
To the listener or to the reader or you could say he's just saying this to himself
Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved
Look at verse 23. Here's the final thought but thou O God
Shout bring them down into the pit of destruction
Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee
So all they don't have any changes
Well, they got a change coming
Because these deceitful men will not live out half their days. They are not going to be blessed their destruction
Maybe it'll be three years from now. Maybe it'll be ten years from now
You know you look at people in the Bible. They got away with things for a long time. Sometimes they'd reap it 20 years later
Sometimes they'd reap it five years later ten years later, but you know what the righteous will never be forsaken
God will bless his latter end like he blessed the latter end of Job
But let me tell you something just as guaranteed it is that all things will work together for good to them that love God
These deceitful workers will get what's coming to them. They will be destroyed. They will be wiped out
Let's buy rods never work prayer father
We thank you so much for this great Psalm Lord and and help us Lord if we go through a dark period
To remember that we're not alone
That you're with us and that lots of other people are with us Lord and help us not to be discouraged if we see the prosperity
of the wicked Lord because we know that their day shall come and
Lord we just pray that you would just help us to have the faith to continue on
To trust in you and to understand that you in the long run will right every wrong and in Jesus name we pray