Thank you very much.
Thank you.
This morning.
227.
227 is saved by the blood of the crucified one.
Him 227.
Once you find your place, we'll lift our voices together right on that verse.
227 saved by the blood of the crucified one.
Lift your voice on that verse now.
227.
I'm saved by the blood of the crucified one.
Now as the promised sin and the new word be done,
sing praise to the Father and praise to the Son.
I'm saved by the blood of the crucified one.
Glory I'm saved.
I'm saved.
My sins are all part and my guilt is all gone.
Glory I'm saved.
I'm saved by the blood of the crucified one.
Saved by the blood of the crucified one.
The angels rejoicing because this is done.
A shout of the Father joined there with the Son.
Saved by the blood of the crucified one.
Glory I'm saved.
My sins are all part and my guilt is all gone.
Glory I'm saved.
I'm saved by the blood of the crucified one.
Saved by the blood of the crucified one.
The Father he spake and his will it was done.
Praise to the Lord in his own precious time.
Saved by the blood of the crucified one.
Glory I'm saved.
My sins are all part and my guilt is all gone.
Glory I'm saved.
I'm saved by the blood of the crucified one.
Saved by the blood of the crucified one.
All hail to the Father.
All hail to the Son.
All hail to the Spirit, the great and one.
Saved by the blood of the crucified one.
Glory I'm saved.
My sins are all part and my guilt is all gone.
Glory I'm saved.
I'm saved by the blood of the crucified one.
Amen.
Good start to our singing this morning.
We'd like to go and ask the Lord's blessing on the service.
So I've asked for the fidelity of His law.
Father in heaven, we want to thank you for the blood of Jesus Christ.
We also want to thank you for faithful word Baptist Church, Pastor Anderson.
Please bless His voice.
Please bless our voices as we lift them up to you in praise.
Bless every aspect of today's sermon and let them pertain to every aspect of our lives today.
It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Amen.
Back to hymn number 22.
Number 22, are you washed in the blood?
Hymn number 22 begins, have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?
Number 22, lift your voice.
All that verse together now.
Number 22, have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour?
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Are you washed in the blood, in the soul-cleansing blood of the lamb?
Are your garments spotless, are they wide as so?
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Are you walking daily by the Savior's side?
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Do you rest each moment in the crucified?
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Are you washed in the blood, in the soul-cleansing blood of the lamb?
Are your garments spotless, are they wide as so?
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
When the bridegroom comes, will your robes be white?
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Will your soul be ready for the mansion's bright?
And be washed in the blood of the lamb?
Are you washed in the blood, in the soul-cleansing blood of the lamb?
Are your garments spotless, are they wide as so?
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Lay aside the garments that are stained with sin
And be washed in the blood of the lamb
There's a fountain flowing for the soul of the queen
Oh, be washed in the blood of the lamb
Are you washed in the blood, in the soul-cleansing blood of the lamb?
Are your garments spotless, are they wide as so?
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Get that good singing.
Alright.
For our announcements together, if you don't have a bulletin, slip up your hand nice and high.
We'll get to you with one.
On the inside we have our service time.
Sunday mornings at 1030 is our preaching service.
Sunday nights at 6. Wednesday nights at 7 is our Bible study.
This week we will be in 2 Chronicles, chapter number 27.
We've got the soul-winning times listed there below, as well as salvations and baptisms.
Also, if you did not yet get your prize from the missions conference,
I know there were some people who brought up their passport and they had it all dialed in and they didn't get the prize.
There's very few people left.
But if not, then go see Brother Reggie Noble for that.
Brother Reggie Noble, you want to just stand up, everybody see who that is?
Alright, very good.
And then on the right there, in the interest of minimizing the spread of sickness this time of year,
we kindly ask that if any member of your family is sick or feeling unwell,
please stay home until they're fully recovered.
We've got a little bit of just normal seasonal sickness going around,
and so we want to just be careful with that and stay home.
Don't call in, crawl in, doesn't apply for church.
And also, there was also something said about specifically hand-mouthed foot disease that somebody had,
and so we want to be really careful about that because that can be like,
you need to wait like two weeks until you're recovered from that because that's super contagious, super harmful.
So we want to be very careful about those things.
And then below that, we are wrapping up with the 2024 yearbook portraits.
Thank you to all those who've already participated.
But speak to the staff if you still need your picture taken because we're at the 11th hour here.
It's the very end, and so you don't want to get left out.
And then also, it says there, share the memories with your photos.
We invite you to participate with the yearbook and share your favorite moments with our church.
So please send your high-quality photos of this year's recent events, activities, or fellowship moments,
and then there's an address there.
So just if you took any pictures, and they better be good, all right, but if you took any good pictures,
then if you submit them, then that'll kind of give us fodder for the yearbook
because we want to be able to put some pictures in of activities and things.
So we'll kind of just take la crème de la crème.
So if your photo doesn't get picked, don't feel bad.
We're just going to be going through just millions of photos.
But send us any cool pictures that you have from any activities throughout the year.
It could be like soul-winning trips to the Indian reservations, activities, field trips, whatever church stuff that happened,
baptisms, whatever you got, send us your best photos.
And then keep praying for our expectant ladies that they'll have a safe and healthy pregnancy and delivery.
Camden, New Jersey, they had nine soul winners with nine salvations.
Also, I heard from Pastor Shelley yesterday that they did a thing out in Miami.
They had 28 people soul-winning in Miami with 48 salvations.
So that was a big hit, too.
So thank you to everyone who participated with Camden, New Jersey, as well as Miami, Florida.
And then parents, please supervise your children before, during, and after church services.
We want to make sure that nobody is running around, roughhousing, getting wild or anything like that.
And we don't want the mother-baby rooms being used without supervision.
So supervise your kid in there if you need to use the mother-baby room.
Below that, we've got the note about Pastor Mejia preaching on Wednesday night, December 4th.
So if you don't normally come on a Wednesday night, make a point to be there on that particular Wednesday night.
And that is about it for announcements.
Let's go ahead and sing our next song. Come lead us.
All right, you should find the insert in front of your hymnal with the Psalm 24.
If you don't have an insert, you can raise your hand and you'll receive one.
Psalm 24, the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.
Sing it out.
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.
The world and they that dwell therein.
For he hath founded it upon the seas,
And established it upon the floods.
Who shall send him to the hill of the Lord?
For who shall stand in his holy place?
He that hath clean hands, and after all,
Who hath not lived enough his soul unto man?
It's either stored distinctly.
He shall receive the blessing from the Lord,
And righteousness from the God of his salvation.
This is a generation of them that seek him,
That seems like they so take us.
He loved, lived, lost, and held.
O ye gates and me, lift up the everlasting doors,
And the King of Glory shall come in.
Who is this King of Glory?
The Lord strong and mighty,
The Lord mighty and thankful.
Lift up your hands, holy place.
He that hath loved ye at your everlasting doors,
And the King of Glory shall come in.
Who is this King of Glory?
The Lord, the Lord.
He is the King of Glory to you.
Amen. Good singing, everybody. Take your psalm.
Let's now go to hymn 321.
Hymn 321, where he leads, I'll follow.
Hymn number 321.
Sweet are the promises, kind is the word.
Lift it up together now, 321.
Sweet are the promises, kind is the word.
He wrote far than any message that ever heard.
Nor was the mind of the sinless I see.
He's a great example, it's a pattern for me.
When he leads, I'll follow, follow the way.
Sweet is the tender one, he does have known.
Sweet are the promises, kind is the word.
He's a great example, it's a pattern for me.
When he leads, I'll follow, follow the way.
When he leads, I'll follow, follow Jesus every day.
Listen to his lovely words, how much they mean.
When he leads, I'll follow, follow the way.
Sweet are the promises, kind is the word.
When he leads, I'll follow, follow the way.
Sweet are the promises, kind is the word.
one. Numbers chapter 23 and Balaam said unto Balak build me here seven altars
and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams and Balak did as Balaam had spoken
and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram and Balaam
said unto Balak stand by thy burnt offering and I will go. Peradventure the
Lord will come to meet me and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee and he
went to an high place and God met Balaam and he said unto him I had prepared seven
altars and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram and the Lord
put a word in Balaam's mouth and said return unto Balak and thus thou shalt
speak and he returned unto him and lo he stood by his burnt sacrifice he and all
the princes of Moab and he took up his parable and said Balak the king of Moab
hath brought me up from Aram out of the mountains of the east saying come curse
me Jacob and come defy Israel how shall I curse whom God hath not cursed or how
shall I defy whom the Lord hath not defied for from the top of the rocks I
see him and from the hills I behold him lo the people shall dwell alone and
shall not be reckoned among the nations who can count the dust of Jacob and the
number of the fourth part of Israel let me die the death of the righteous and
let my last end be like his and Balak said unto Balaam what hast thou done
unto me I took thee to curse mine enemies and behold thou hast blessed
them all together and he answered and said must I not take he to speak that
which the Lord hath put in my mouth and Balak said unto him come I pray thee
with me unto another place from whence thou mayest see them thou shalt see but
the utmost part of them and shall not see them all and curse me them from
thence and he brought him into the field of Zophim to the top of Pisgah and built
seven altars and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar and he said unto
Balak stand here by thy burnt offering while I meet the Lord yonder and the
Lord met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said go again unto Balak and
say thus and when he came to him behold he stood by his burnt offering and the
princes of Moab with him and Balak said unto him what hath the Lord spoken and
he took up his parable and said rise up Balak and here hearken unto me thou son
of Zippor God is not a man that he should lie neither the son of man that
he should repent hath he said and shall he not do it or hath he spoken and shall
he not make it good behold I have received commandment to bless and he
hath blessed and I cannot reverse it he hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob
neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel the Lord is God is with him and
the shout of a king is among them God brought them out of Egypt he hath as it
were the strength of an unicorn surely there is no enchantment against Jacob
neither is there any divination against Israel according to this time it shall
be said of Jacob and of Israel what hath God wrought behold the people shall rise
up as a great lion and lift up himself as a young lion he shall not lie down
until he eat of the prey and drink the blood of the slain and Balak said unto
Balaam neither curse them at all nor bless them at all but Balaam answered
and said unto Balak told not I these saying all that the Lord speaketh that I
must do and Balak said unto Balaam come I pray thee I will bring thee into
another place per adventure will please God that thou mayest curse me them from
thence and Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor that looketh toward
Jeshamon and Balaam said unto Balak build me here seven altars and prepare
me here seven bullocks and seven rams and Balak did as Balaam had said and
offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Dear Heavenly Father thank you for this opportunity to gather here today and hear
the preaching of your word Lord I pray that you just open up our ears and our
hearts to receive the word and be doers and not just hearers alone in Jesus name
I pray amen.
Man the title of my sermon this morning is the message of Balaam the message of
Balaam typically when we look at the story of Balaam in the Bible we're kind
of focused on the story about Balaam who Balaam is what he was told what he did
wrong people debate about you know was he saved was he not saved did he start
out as a good man of God did he go bad what's going on with this guy and a lot
of times in those kind of sermons you end up kind of missing out on the actual
message that Balaam is preaching because obviously we know that Balaam is a bad
person he's a bozo he's wrong the Bible condemns him repeatedly but in this
particular passage the Spirit of God comes upon him and he actually does speak
the truth he actually does speak the Word of God because remember he's being
hired to curse God's people but then God ends up turning that curse into a
blessing if you would just flip over to Deuteronomy 23 I don't want to get too
much into the story because I want to focus more on what Balaam actually
preached the Word of God that God actually put into Balaam's mouth that's
what I want to learn from this morning but just to get a quick overview of the
story we could look at Deuteronomy chapter 23 verse 3 it says an Ammonite or
Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord even to their
tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord
forever because they met you not with bread and with water in the way when
you came forth out of Egypt watch this because they hired against the Balaam
the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia to curse thee nevertheless the Lord thy
God would not hearken unto Balaam but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a
blessing unto thee because the Lord thy God love thee and thou shalt not seek
their peace nor their prosperity all thy days forever okay so there's just kind
of a quick brief overview here flip over if you would to numbers 23 we'll get into
the actual sermon numbers chapter 23 I will say this I don't believe that
Balaam was saved I believe Balaam is burning in hell right now I think he was
a false prophet and that he was a wicked person and that God can sometimes
actually put his word into the mouth of even a wicked person just like when
Caiaphas the high priest actually spoke by the spirit of God in the book of John
he was clearly unsaved and yet being the high priest God put that word in his
mouth and in the same story God literally causes an ass to speak a donkey
to speak and so therefore I personally don't believe that Balaam was saved I
can see where people are coming from on both sides on that but that's not the
point of the sermon the point is what did Balaam actually preach it says in
verse 5 of numbers chapter 23 the Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth and said
return unto Balak and thus thou shalt speak so notice that it's God putting
this word into Balaam's mouth therefore we don't want to get so into the story
of Balaam that we forget that what he is saying is actually the Word of God jump
down if you would to verse 7 he took up his parable and said Balak the king of
Moab had brought me from Aram out of the mountains of the East saying come curse
me Jacob and come defy Israel how shall I curse whom God has not cursed or how
shall I defy whom the Lord hath not defied for from the top of the rocks I
see him and from the hills I behold him lo the people shall dwell alone and
shall not be reckoned among the nations who can count the dust of Jacob and the
number of the fourth part of Israel let me die the death of the righteous and
let my last end be like his now the first thing I want to point out to you
here from the message of Balaam is that if God is blessing someone no one can
curse them right if someone is being blessed by God if God decides that he is
going to do someone good all of the enemies can foam and rage and curse and
nothing can stop someone who is being blessed by God
ok how can anyone even Balaam who was known for being the best soothsayer
around and and being able to curse people and they would be cursed and so
forth he say look how can I curse someone who God hasn't cursed I'm not
more powerful than God no one's more powerful than God and so therefore we
need to understand that if you are being blessed by God no one can actually
curse you
ok look what the Bible says well don't look but I'll just read this for you
from Isaiah chapter 54 verse 17 no weapon that is formed against the shall
prosper no weapon that is formed against the shop prosper and every tongue that
shall rise against the in judgment thou shalt condemn this is the heritage of
the servants of the Lord and their righteousness is of me say at the Lord
and of course remember that when we talk about being blessed by God how do you
get blessed by God
well obviously first of all you got to be saved right if you're not saved then
according to the Bible you're at enmity with God we have peace with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ the Bible says and so until we're saved obviously we're not
going to be under the blessings of God the Bible says he that believeth on the
Sun have everlasting life but he that believeth not the Sun should not see
life but the wrath of God abideth on him right and so in order to be under the
blessing of God you gotta start by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ that
should kind of go without saying but of course we're living in a day where a lot
of people have a strange doctrine that says that Jews are blessed by God even
if they reject the Lord Jesus even if they hate the Lord Jesus that is a false
doctrine okay you must believe on Jesus in the New Testament you you know you
can't just say oh we have Abraham to our father God has laid the axe to the root
of the tree and you know the Jews are of course doomed if they don't believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ which they don't and so the Bible is saying here that if
you are the servants of the Lord according to Isaiah 54 17 and you have
your righteousness from God from the Lord Jesus Christ and you're serving God
no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper and all the the tongues
that rise up to try to lie about you and slander you you know in judgment you
will condemn them you are going to win the Bible is saying because if God be
for us who can be against us how can we curse those who God is not cursed now
let's go back to Balaam's message in Numbers chapter 23 and let's look at
verse 19 because he gives actually four separate messages that are recorded in
scripture that was the first one now let's look at the second message from
Balaam says in verse 19 God is not a man that he should lie neither the son of
man that he should repent hath he said and shall he not do it or hath he spoken
and shall he not make it good behold I have received commandment to bless and
he hath blessed and I cannot reverse it so again if God makes the decision to
bless someone someone else can't reverse that right through some kind of voodoo
or some kind of praying against you or something like that right that's not how
things work with God right God is not some kind of a voodoo doll or a magic
eight ball or a luck charm or something right God is going to judge righteously
in the earth it's sort of like where the Philistines thought well if we just
bring the Ark of the Covenant over to our side then we're gonna win now as
long as we have the Ark of the Covenant with us that's not how it works right
God is not just this luck charm where if you have the Ark of the Covenant you're
gonna win no you got to be God's people you got to love the Lord you got to obey
the Lord and here's the thing the Ark of the Covenant didn't even always work for
the Israelites because the Israelites said oh let's bring the Ark of the
Covenant to battle with us and they lost the battle because they were living in
sin and so this is not some kind of a voodoo thing where you got luck charms
and who is superstitious hocus-pocus rabbit's foot kind of thing with God
right prayer doesn't work that way if we pray for things in order to get answered
we have to pray according to God's will if you pray and ask for things that are
contrary to what God wants your prayers are not going any farther than the
ceiling okay you've got to pray according to God's will and so if people
are out there and they're praying for bad things to happen to you and you're a
righteous person and you're a good person and you're right with God those
prayers are meaningless God will turn that curse into a blessing you know so
when people are praying negative things toward me for example I just think to
myself well that's great that people are praying for me even if it's something
negative because you know what if God hears somebody pray a negative prayer
toward me and he knows that I'm doing right he'll turn their curse into a
blessing and you know we have thrown people out of the church before you know
according to scripture as the Bible lists things that people are thrown out
for we have excommunicated people from the church before and we have you know
prayed basically that God would discipline them so that they could be
restored so that they would get right with God and you know I've had people
that I knew for sure were as guilty as sin and they said to me oh well I just
don't want you praying anything bad like I don't want to be under the curse of
God you got to hear me out and here's what I told him I said you know what if
you are innocent if you're right with God then you have absolutely nothing to
worry about I said I'm gonna pray for God to punish you for your wickedness
and if you're innocent you have nothing to worry about think about it it's not
like some kind of a well well if Pastor Anderson prays something it just
automatically happens and it's so scary you see what I'm saying because at the
end of the day he's only gonna hear us if we pray according to his will if I
mistakenly thought that someone were guilty of someone and these people of
course were guilty but let's say I mistakenly thought that someone were
guilty of someone and I prayed God I pray that this person would get justice
you know what he's gonna give that person justice and if they're righteous
then they got nothing to worry about and here's the thing if other people are
saying pastor Anderson I'm gonna pray that God destroys your ministry I'm just
like great keep praying because you know what's gonna happen is they're gonna
pray that and the Holy Spirit's gonna go whoop pray that God blesses your
ministry because at the end of the day that's how prayer works God is not just
up in heaven just doing whatever people tell him to do God is up there judging
righteously knowing all things and giving people what they deserve and
doing right and judging righteously and taking the prayers that we pray and look
sometimes we don't know how to pray as we ought sometimes we pray the wrong
thing but you know what is better to pray the wrong thing to pray nothing at
all because at least if I pray the wrong thing God will take it and translate and
say well here's what you really meant here's what you really need to pray if
you knew what I know this is what you would be praying but if you don't pray
at all then you just have not because you ask not and so what the Bible is
saying here is that when God commands a blessing other people can't reverse it
you know even if they're powerful people whatever that means right nobody can
reverse it God's gonna do what God's gonna do he's not gonna sit there and
curse the righteous or bless the wicked or anything like that okay he's gonna do
right it says in verse 20 build I've received commandment to bless and he
hath blessed and I cannot reverse it he hath not beheld iniquity and Jacob
neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel the Lord is God is with him and
the shadow of a king is among them now here's a key point here okay if you want
to be blessed by God you want to get the sin out of your life okay why is it that
God is blessing Israel is it just because they're Israel it's funny I was
just reading the book of Numbers over the past few days and reading the book
of Deuteronomy and as I was reading it it stood out to me as always when God
keeps telling Moses hey just let me wipe these people out I'm gonna make you a
better nation than them you know it's like people forget about that or maybe
people just don't read the Bible but God threatens repeatedly to just wipe out
the Israelites and start over with Moses and Aaron and say I'm gonna make you
guys an even bigger and better nation than I was gonna do with them and then
Moses is saying no no don't do that and Moses makes intercession for the people
but God threatens to wipe out Israel and start over with Moses repeatedly okay I
was just reading it in my devotions and here's the thing about this is that
today right we have people that are over in Israel today they don't believe in
the Lord Jesus Christ and people just kind of just assume that they're God's
chosen people just because they have this name Israel just because it's what
it says on the map or something but at the end of the day number one you got to
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ obviously in the New Testament or you're
broken off anyway you're chopped off those branches are broken off but number
two being saved is not even enough to ensure the blessing of God upon your
life because here's the thing if I'm saved but then I go out and live a
sinful life and a carnal life God's not gonna be blessing my life right bad
things are gonna happen to me my life is gonna go poorly and the reason why God
is so intent on blessing Israel at this point is he says that he has not beheld
iniquity in Jacob he's saying look I'm not gonna curse them because they're not
doing anything wrong right now so why would I curse them if there's not
iniquity in Jacob if there's not any perverseness in Israel right now then why
would I punish them why would I destroy them and so we have to stop and think if
we want God to bless our lives then we want to make sure we have the iniquity
out of our lives and the perverseness out of our lives because we want to be
able to claim these kind of verses and say hey I want this verse to apply to me
I want to be like Israel when they're doing right look at the end of verse 10
again we saw it a little bit earlier let me die the death of the righteous and
let my last end be like his well in order to say that you have to also get
the iniquity out get the perverseness out and do right if you want to die the
death of the righteous if you want your latter end to be like his well then
you've got to live a good life right you got to follow the Word of God and again
we know salvation is free going to heaven is free going to heaven is easy
but being saved and going to heaven is one thing living a blessed life on this
earth is another dying the death of the righteous is another right so those are
two different things and so back to the scripture here in Numbers chapter 23 it
says in verse 22 God brought them out of Egypt he hath as it were the strength of
a unicorn they get a unicorn people debate what this is all it really means
is just an animal with one horn and it's probably most likely referring to a
rhinoceros okay so sorry little girls with the trapper keeper with the with
the horse with a horn coming out of its head hey maybe there was such an animal
at some point who knows but it's probably just some other one horned
animal probably a rhinoceros I said one time hey I don't think rhinoceros is
skip because talked about like unicorn skipping somebody sent me a YouTube
video of rhinoceros rhinocerae you know skipping and so when I saw the
rhinoceros skip I'm like okay that's it it's a rhinoceros I'm done I'm ready to
move on with my life so you know whenever I read unicorn now I just
picture a rhinoceros I saw the skipping you know I bless her those that have not
seen and yet have believed but I saw the YouTube video but he says God brought
them out of Egypt he hath as it were the strength of a unicorn right if you
picture like a big old tough rhino or something that that makes a lot of sense
surely there is no enchantment against Jacob neither is there any divination
against Israel and again these words like enchantment and divination they
don't really sound like Christianity do they like they don't really sound like
something that we would be using as God's people Bible believing Christians
but it again it sounds like the kind of like voodoo doll kind of Ouija board
kind of stuff right and you know let's say somebody makes some little Pastor
Anderson voodoo doll and starts stabbing it with needles I'm gonna be fine I'm
gonna feel just fine don't do it anyway though no I'm not superstitious I'm just
saying at the end of the day there's not going to be any divination or
enchantment against God's people because again greater is he that is in us than
he that is in the world and so the Bible says there's no divination against
Israel according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel what hath
God wrought now wrought is kind of an archaic word right but we're maybe
familiar with like a wrought iron fence so we're a little bit familiar with this
word really it's just saying like what what did God do what did God work what
did he produce what is he done you know basically he's saying that in the end
people are gonna look back at the history of Jacob and Israel and say wow
look at the amazing work that God did here and again the right way to read
this scripture is to apply it to Bible believing Christians in the New
Testament don't be one of these people that's like oh actually that's about the
Israel no it isn't God wrote all these things for our admonition upon whom the
ends of the world are come the right way and some people say oh you know you
don't want to constantly be reading Christ into the Old Testament yeah
actually I do yeah it is how I read the Bible every time I'm reading the Old
Testament I'm thinking about Jesus I'm reading Christ into the text and
whenever I see the congregation of the Israelites I'm like reading the church
into that and whenever I see God talking about his people I'm thinking okay God's
people Christians that's the right way to read the New Testament that's how the
New Testament consistently interprets the Old Testament it constantly takes
these things and applies it otherwise what's even the point of just oh that's
cool that that happened you know three thousand some odd years ago that's cool
no no it's applicable it applies unto us today because we're the people of God if
we are free from iniquity if we are free from perversity then God's gonna bless
us too and no weapon that's formed against us will prosper if we are
walking with God if we are serving God and so the main message of Balaam here
in the beginning is just that I can't curse somebody who's got who's God's
blessing that's not the way God works and the reason why I can't curse them is
because they're righteous they're doing right so what can I do there's no
enchantment against them in fact someday people are gonna look back and just be
amazed at the great work that God did in and through his people verse 24 behold
the people shall rise up as a great lion and lift up himself as a young lion he
shall not lie down until he eat of the prey and drink the blood of the slain
and so we see that Israel is gonna be blessed God's gonna do a great work and
they're gonna defeat their enemies now there are other scriptures of course
that support this same idea keep your finger there in numbers because this is
our main text but you can flip over if you want to Psalm 118 Psalm 118 while
returning I'm gonna read free from Hebrews the Bible says in Hebrews 13 5
let your conversation be without covetousness and be content with such
things as you have for he had said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee
so that we may boldly say the Lord is my helper and I will not fear what man
shall do unto me right the Lord's my helper I will not fear what man shall do
unto me look we should only fear God because even if the Balaams of this
world and the Balak's of this world they all get together and they all start
cursing us and trying to use enchantments or divination or whatever
they do they cannot stop us the Lord's our helper we don't need to fear what
man can do unto us look at Psalm 118 verse 6 the Lord is on my side but look
in order for this sermon to work you got to be able to say that if you can't say
that then all bets are off if you're out there just living for yourself you're
not reading your Bible you're not praying you're not attending church
you're out there breaking God's commandments doing a bunch of stupid
stuff then you can't really necessarily say with confidence oh the Lord's on my
side well is he though if you're out there living a life of sin I will not
fear what can man do unto me the Lord taketh my part with them that helped me
verse 7 therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me it's better to
trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man it's better to trust in the Lord
than to put confidence in princes all nations compass me about but in the name
of the Lord will I destroy them they compass me about yay they compass me
about but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them says of course coming
from an attitude of a king of Israel right so he's head of a nation state
other nations are threatening to invade and he says in the name of the Lord I'm
gonna destroy them obviously today we don't have a physical battle we do have
a spiritual battle and so all this is still applicable for us today not in a
physical fight we wrestle not against flesh and blood but we do wrestle
against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of
this world against spiritual wickedness in high places they compass me about
what does that mean compass me about it means they surrounded me that would be
the modern way of saying that right they compass me about yay they compass me
about but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them verse 12 they compass me
about like bees they're quenched as the fire of thorns for in the name of the
Lord I will destroy them now why is it so repetitive because it's a song right
is the book of Psalms they would actually sing this and so that's the
chorus name of the Lord I will destroy them what a great chorus thou has thrust
sore at me that I might fall but the Lord helped me right and so the idea
here is that look they're they're wicked people enemies they lack bail them all
the different people that are out there conspiring and the Bible says here if
the Lord your helper you don't ever need to fear what man will do unto you right
at the end of the day God can protect you God can bless you in spite of all
that Romans chapter 8 you can turn there if you like but we'll be back in numbers
in a moment but Romans chapter number 8 famous verses beginning in verse 31 what
shall we then say to these things if God be for us who could be against us isn't
that pretty much what Balaam said said look if God's for these people I can't
be against them if God commanded a blessing I can't reverse it I cannot
curse whom God has not cursed he that spared not his own son verse 32 but
delivered him up for us all how should we not with him also freely give us all
things who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect it is God that
justifieth who is he that condemneth it is Christ that died yea rather that is
risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession
for us who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or
distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword as it is
written for thy sake we are killed all the day long we are counted as sheep for
the slaughter nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through him
that loved us for I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor
principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height
nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of
God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord if God be for us who can be against us the
Lord's my helper I will not fear what man shall do unto me numbers chapter 24
let's look at the third message from Balaam numbers chapter 24 the Bible
reads in verse number 8 God brought him forth out of Egypt he hath as it were
the strength of a unicorn he shall eat up the nation's his enemies and shall
break their bones and pierce them through with his arrows he couched he
laid down as a lion and as a great lion who shall stir him up blessed is he that
blessed thee and cursed is he that cursed thee and look again we need to
take these promises and apply them to ourselves you know I remember there's a
song that we'd sing in Sunday school as a kid every promise in the book is mine
every chapter every verse every line course today a lot of people want to say
no no these these blessings are for Christians there for unsaved Christ
rejecting Jews in the Middle East God's gonna bless those who bless them God's
gonna curse those who curse them that's wrong false the Bible actually says in
chapter 3 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus
Christ that we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith verse 16 now
to Abraham and his seed where the promises made he says not into seeds as
of many but as of one and to thy seed which is Christ so the promises were
made to Abraham and his seed the seed is Christ Galatians 3 27 for as many of you
as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ there is neither Jew nor
Greek there is neither bond nor free there is neither male nor female for
you're all one in Christ Jesus and if you be Christ's then are you Abraham
seed and heirs according to the promise so the promise made to Abraham and his
seed the seed is Jesus and if you belong to Jesus you are Abraham seed and you
are heirs according to the promise what is an heir an heir is someone who
inherits the inheritance right somebody has a million bucks in the bank and they
die and it goes to their heir right goes to the person who's gonna inherit that
money the heir receives it well we inherit the promises of Abraham is dead
right of course we know he's alive in heaven but physically he died so then
that blessing got passed down on to Isaac that blessing got passed down on
to Jacob right and throughout the history of the Old Testament the
children of Israel inherited those blessings and heard those promises when
they were right with God they inherited those things and now in the New
Testament all those people are dead Caleb and Joshua right let me freely
speak unto you of the patriarch David that he's both dead and buried and his
sepulchre is with us unto this day that's what Peter said right he's got so
who inherits the promises in 2024 well if you're actually going by what the
Bible says if we are Christ's we inherit those promises and God will bless those
who bless us God will curse those who curse that makes a lot of sense doesn't
it that that God loves his children and that God is blessing his children and
that if people hate Christians and persecute Christians God's gonna curse
those who curse Christians and that if people are good unto Christians he'll
bless those who bless Christians makes a lot of sense unlike the political kind
of just right-wing kind of interpretation of Scripture now look you
you know if you want to listen to political talk show hosts and and
websites and and pundits and different people who preach politics in various
ways you know if you're interested in that great but you know what don't let
those people interpret the Bible for you at the end of the day let's make
sure that you get your Bible interpretation from the Holy Spirit
from reading the Bible and from a saved people actually expounding the Bible to
you not just some unsaved guys hey you know I mean God said there's people
right look whenever you hear secular people talk about the Bible it's a big
face palm isn't it it's like it's like watching jeopardy and the Bible category
comes up guys super smart knows everything about you know French opera
and he knows everything about all the different furniture styles of the 18th
century but then it's like he gets on the Bible category New Testament give me
New Testament for $500 Alex and all of a sudden it's like you know he doesn't
know the difference between Peter and John right he doesn't know Saul of
Tarsus from Saul the king of Israel they don't know ok because of the fact that
this world obviously doesn't understand the things of God they can't receive the
things of the Spirit of God so don't let them explain the Bible to you listen to
what the Word of God is actually saying and here's the thing sadly there's a lot
of pastors that you shouldn't even hear what they have to say about Israel
either because they're basically just repeating what they heard on the talk
radio instead of what they actually learned from studying the Bible with the
Holy Spirit Galatians 3 enough said right Galatians 3 Galatians 4 Romans 2
Philippians 3 Romans 9 10 and 11 I could do this all day but the Bible says that
we inherit these promises God will bless those who bless us curse those who curse
us boy you know there's actually some good stuff in Balaam's message isn't
there even though Balaam's bozo even though Balaam is a false teacher even
though Balaam ends up getting killed with the heathen God turns his curse
into a blessing and the Bible says that God put his word into his mouth that's
why it's such a bad guy like Balaam can preach such a good sermon because he
actually got it from the Lord it's a strange anomaly sort of like the donkey
speaking that's kind of strange anomaly as well which is obviously you know
there's there's a lot of literary stuff going on in the Bible right the Bible's
a really complex book obviously it's first and foremost the Word of God that's
the most important aspect but it's also amazing literature it's also superior
literature right and that's why even unsaved people and heathen universities
will literally just spend whole semesters studying the Bible as literature they
don't believe in it the professor won't believe in it none of the students will
believe it and they'll sit around and Harvard or Yale or Princeton or whatever
sitting there and taking apart the Bible as literature because it's powerful
literature because obviously there are all these different you know literary
devices going on like for example that the ass actually represents Balaam in
some ways right in the fact that God could put his word into the mouth of
someone unlikely in order to carry out his will and so we see here in numbers
24 if you want to get back there verse 17 the fourth message of Balaam just for
sake of time I'm just going to read you one verse from this fourth message it
says I shall see him but not now I shall behold him but not nigh there shall come
a star out of Jacob and a scepter shall rise out of Israel and shall smite the
corners of Moab and destroy all the children of sheth and so here we have
the final word from Balaam he has preached four sermons in a row and all
four of them even though he's being paid to preach against Israel he's being paid
to curse Israel he gets up and four different times he ends up blessing
Israel God turns the curse into a blessing God puts a word in his mouth
and of course Balak the guy who's paying the bills gets super mad because he says
I paid you to curse them and you're blessed
he's I wish you would just not say anything just don't don't bless or curse
them just don't say anything
he said I told you all I can say is what God tells me to say and so that's what
happened and that's how the story ends in chapter 24 look at verse 25 last
verse and Balaam rose up and went and returned to his place and Balak also went
his way now that seems like the end of it chapter 22 chapter 23 chapter 24 you
have these three chapters that make up the Balaam saga and in that version of
the story
what happens is that Balak hires Balaam to curse Israel God turns the curse into
a blessing
Balaam is unable to curse Israel he ends up blessing them and then everybody just
kind of gives up and goes home right
that's a great story in and of itself but in real life though
sometimes things like this will happen there will be a great victory
God's people win and then what happens many times great victories are followed
by great defeats because life goes on
right after the story ends life continues other things happen and
believe it or not
Balaam ends up finding a way to curse Israel he ends up succeeding at cursing
Israel which is kind of bizarre because you know you think to yourself the whole
story is about what
it's about how Balaam can't curse Israel he tried to curse them and God turned
into a blessing but guess what plot twist Balaam successfully curses Israel
in the end
it's hard to believe isn't it but look what the Bible says we can just jump
forward to well before we do that let's just look at chapter 25 because this is
the way the the Old Testament sometimes works especially you don't really see
this in the New Testament but sometimes in the Old Testament you'll be reading
and you kind of feel like something's left out
right the story will kind of jump a little bit and again this is just a
literary device where you're supposed to fill in the blanks and it's to kind of
leave you wondering or leave you hanging and sometimes it's explained later which
later in the book of Numbers this is going to be explained but as you're
reading numbers from left to right
you finish chapter 24 you think we're done but then all of a sudden look at
verse 1 of chapter 25 and Israel abode in Shittim and the people began to
commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab now at first blush you might think
maybe this is totally unrelated you know God is blessing Israel Balaam can't
curse them he says hey there's no iniquity how can I curse them there's no
iniquity but then all of a sudden next chapter we got iniquity we got
fornication happening and so again you have to kind of read between the lines
I'm not just making this up because we're going to see how this is supported
later in the book of Numbers and in the New Testament as well what obviously
took place is that Balaam went home and Balak went home and either one or both
of them started to think about Balaam's message a little bit and they started
thinking about it and said so why can't I curse Israel because I want to get I
really want to get paid that was a sweet gig because the Bible says that Balaam
loved the wages of unrighteousness and so maybe Balaam goes home and is thinking
man that could have been such a sweet gig that could have been so much money
that could have been so good maybe Balak goes home and says oh man you know
what's the problem here what you know I thought Balaam was our guy what's the
deal we don't know the whole story God doesn't give us any details but
apparently one or both of them somebody came up with this idea that said well
hey if the problem is that Israel is too righteous and that's why they can't
be cursed then all we got to do is just get Israel into sin and if we can get
Israel into sin then God's wrath will come down on them look what the Bible
says as we keep reading here it says they began to commit whoredom in verse
1 and they called the people under the sacrifices of their gods and the people
did eat and bowed down to their gods so now they're into fornication and
idolatry two super major big sins in the eyes of God and Israel joined himself
unto Baal Peor and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel so look we go
from God blessing Israel if God can't curse them and he's not gonna to all the
sudden now we have God's anger kindled against Israel well that switched pretty
quick didn't it and the Lord said unto Moses take all the heads of the people
and hang them up before the Lord against the Sun that the fierce anger of the
Lord may be turned away from Israel so now it's time for heads to literally
roll because of the wickedness of fornication and idolatry and Moses said
unto the judges of Israel slay ye everyone his men that were bailed that
were joined unto Baal Peor and behold one of the children of Israel came and
brought unto his brethren a Midianitis woman in the sight of Moses and in the
sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel who were weeping
before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and when Phinehas the son
of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it he rose up from among the
congregation took a javelin in his hand he went after the man of Israel into the
tent and thrust both of them through the man of Israel and the woman through her
belly so the plague was stayed from the children of Israel and those that died
and the plague were twenty and four thousand so this guy killed two birds
with one stone right he goes into that tent where the fornication is going on
he takes a javelin and he only has to use the javelin one time and make a
fornication shish kebab right there right and kill them both and then God
basically backs off from his fierce wrath now that Phinehas puts a stop to
the wickedness and later on God's gonna talk about how blessed Phinehas is and
and God's gonna use him you know and his lineage to be the the high priests
and so forth in Israel now flip over to chapter 31 of numbers okay because you
say well pastor Anderson you kind of filled in the blanks there a little bit
between chapter 24 and 25 but are you sure you didn't just make that up
because maybe it's just a coincidence that that story ended in chapter 24 and
the next thing you know they're committing sin God's angry God kills
24,000 because what did Balak originally say to Balaam in chapter 22 when he said
I want you to curse this people he said there's too many of them too many people
curse them for me well Balaam successfully was able to wipe out 24,000
people not bad for one soldier right I don't think many soldiers wipe out
24,000 of the enemy but yet Balaam is able to wipe out 24,000 of Balaam's
enemies how did he do it well the Bible tells us because a lot of people think
of Revelation 2 14 of course because we typically have more of a familiarity
with the New Testament than the Old Testament and that's of course as it
should be obviously the New Testament is super important it's the most
foundational basic truth for us as Christians right if we only had one or
the other we'd want to have just the New Testament right you know like if we were
translating into a foreign language or something we'd we wouldn't be like all
right let's get them the book of Numbers we'd be like well let's get a Matthew
Mark Luke and John okay so the point is we tend to have more familiarity with
the New Testament I'm gonna read this for you you don't have to turn there but
you turn to Numbers 31 Revelation 2 14 says I have a few things against thee
because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam now what does the
word doctrine mean the word doctrine means teaching okay that is what the
word doctrine means we talk about false doctrine talking about a wrong teaching
okay there are people there at that church he says that hold the doctrine of
Balaam watch this who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the
children of Israel to eat things sacrificed unto idols and to commit
fornication now the Bible is telling us that there's no question that chapter 25
is connected to chapter 24 okay it's not just that Balak and Balaam went home and
that was the end of it no at some point Balaam taught Balak and said hey this is
how this is gonna go down here's how we're going to hurt Israel we've got to
get them into sin we got to cast a stumbling block before them let's put a
stumbling block before them let's get them to commit fornication because if we
can get them to commit fornication and to eat things that are sacrificed to
idols that's how you're going to get God's wrath on Israel the problem is
that there wasn't any iniquity there wasn't any perverseness let's fix that
and that's what apparently Balaam and Balak did according to Revelation
chapter 2 verse 14 but this is not something new in Revelation because if
we go back to numbers 31 when I understand that it's not that you know
people reading the book of Numbers had to wait for like 1,500 years you know to
have this explained to them it's actually explaining them right in the
same book of Numbers look at Numbers chapter 31 verse 13 it says Moses and
Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the congregation went forth to meet
them without the camp and Moses was wroth meaning he was angry with the
officers of the host with the captains over thousands and captains over
hundreds which came from the battle and Moses said unto them have you saved all
the women alive behold these caused the children of Israel watch this through
the Council of Balaam and that is what Revelation 2 14 is referring back to so
Revelation 2 14 is not necessarily giving us something brand new by saying
that Balaam taught the children of Israel to commit fornication to eat or
sorry Balaam taught Balak to cast that stumbling block to get them to commit
fornication and eat things sacrificed to idols it's actually coming from numbers
31 16 where it says that these caused the children of Israel through the
Council of Balaam to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor
remember that was the name of their false god the false god was called Baal
Peor Baal means Lord and so this is a false god called Baal Peor and there was
a plague among the congregation of the Lord how many people died total in the
plague 24,000 right so 24,000 people were plagued and died because of the
Council of Balaam Balaam was responsible for these people dying because he taught
Balak who then put the stumbling block in front of them to get them doomed if
you go back to chapter number 25 of numbers quickly I'm almost done but
numbers chapter 25 if you go back notice if we read a little more carefully now
that we know these things now that we've seen numbers 31 and Revelation look at
verse number 1 again of chapter 25 Israel abode and she team and the people
began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab and they called the
people unto the sacrifices of their gods and the people that eat and bowed down
to their gods and so you notice this aspect of the Moabites inviting them
right it says they called the people under the sacrifices of their gods and
so this makes sense and now you kind of put all the pieces together
Balaam explains to Balak in some future meeting hey here's how we get them
counsels him Balak then invites them entices them into committing these sins
with his people so here is the moral of the story
ok the moral of the story is that no one can destroy you if you are serving God
if God is for you no one can be against you no weapon that is formed against you
shall prosper you are invincible if God is on your side but you can destroy
yourself you can't be destroyed by an enemy the Moabites aren't gonna be the
ones that destroy you but you can destroy yourself and so this is why the
devil he knows these tactics he understands how this works he knows that
just maybe smiting you with a bunch of boils or taking away all your money or
killing your children's you know he's tried that before and obviously yeah
that's gonna work on some people but at the end of the day though a truly
righteous man like job he just goes through all that he just keeps going he
he says though he slay me yet will I trust him and just keep serving God no
matter what
ok but typically what is the devil do instead that's not the devil's main
modus operandi ok what does the devil typically do he does it
Balaam style and here's what he does he will try to tempt you to commit sin
because if he can get you sending you'll destroy yourself so you can only
self-destruct as a Christian it's not that the enemies were just too powerful
they just had iron chariots they were just too tall they were just too strong
they were just too powerful for us no no one is too powerful for God's people
the gates of hell cannot prevail against the Church of God and so it's never
going to be that the enemy was too strong too smart too powerful too
cunning too much that will never be what brings anyone down ok as God's
people only one thing can bring us down only one thing can bring our church down
only one thing can bring us personally down and that is our selves by delving
into sin and so that's what the devil is going to do he's not going to come at
you and necessarily frontally assault you what he's rather going to do is try
to allure you entice you tempt you he's going to invite you he's going to want
to be your buddy you know it's not going to be people kicking you out of things
that is your undoing you know I've been kicked out of some things and maybe
you've been kicked out of some things we've all been kicked out of things at
some point right that's not going to destroy us getting kicked out you know
the Bible says blessed are you when men will separate you from their company and
call you evil and also you know it's not going to be kicking at getting
kicked out that hurt you it's going to be invite getting invited in you know
it's not going to be that oh you know you got kicked out of the ministerial
association that's why you felt no it's going to be because you joined the
ministerial associations because you got invited to the presidential prayer
breakfast not because you were kicked out of the presidential prayer breakfast
right because the devil and his minions know that if you can't beat them you
join them and so they will try to entice us and allure us and look you as
a Christian what are the what are the specific sins we're talking about here
we're talking about fornication and idolatry these are still relevant now
obviously we all know what fornication is and this is a huge temptation for
young people huge temptation right God wants us to be pure the Bible says this
is the will of God even your sanctification that you should abstain
from fornication and so God is looking down from heaven and God wants his
people to be pure right to wait until they're married to indulge in that
physical relationship and then once you're married to be faithful to your
wife or your husband respectively and so fornication is a way that that the devil
can get you to destroy yourself right he can tempt you with someone that will
entice you into fornication and then you end up destroying yourself you're no
longer invincible now because you have opened yourself up to that okay just
like the children of Israel did and so the Bible says this flee fornication
flee run away from it every sin that a man do with is without the body but he
that commit a fornication sin it against his own body I mean it's a
self-destructive act to commit fornication don't do it of course Hosea
13 9 says Oh Israel thou has destroyed thyself but in me is thy help so Israel
is later told you destroyed yourself okay they were so they were doing so
great in chapters 23 and 24 and then in chapter 25 they crash and burn do not
allow sin to come into your life and corrupt you and twist you up because
it's not worth it you'd rather go to bed at night with your head on the pillow
knowing God's on my side the Lord's my helper I'm not gonna fear what man's
gonna do unto me if God's for me who can be against me then delay your head on
your pillow knowing that you've committed grievous sin against the Lord
just waiting to see when's the punishment gonna come when's the
chastisement gonna come right boy you got sin in your life you better confess
it and forsake it start living for God start doing right because no one can
destroy you but you can certainly destroy yourself when it comes to
idolatry obviously we in the United States do not have a problem with
idolatry in the literal sense but the Bible also says that covetousness is
idolatry you know so metaphorically the love of money is idolatry and so you get
obsessed with just making money being rich trying to see what possessions you
can acquire and you go down that road you can be destroyed that way as well
you can destroy yourself and what does the Bible say about people who love
money it says they pierce themselves through with many sorrows right and what
did what did Phineas do in that story he pierced some people through didn't they
remember that he put him on a skewer I mean it's it's a pretty graphic chapter
numbers there are a lot of kind of you know dry parts of numbers but man there
are some rough parts in them I feel like numbers kind of paints a really rough
picture of who God is so it's an important book to read don't just get
bored with the genealogies and bail because you need to find out that God
does some rough things and God has got some serious wrath and the book of
numbers really highlights that throughout the whole book but you know
Phineas is the one who physically pierced them through literally but you
know what in a sense they pierced themselves through didn't they they did
that to themselves they should have known when they're just publicly
flaunting their sin and just publicly being an example and showing everybody
we don't care what God says we don't care what Moses says we're just gonna
march into this tent in front of God and everybody and make a big show about how
we're committing fornication and Phineas is just like I just can't take it
anymore I'm just not gonna take it anymore and he goes in there but at the
end of the day they pierced themselves and you know what the Bible says if you
go out and commit fornication you're sinning against yourself in addition to
sinning against God and if you follow the love of money you will pierce
yourself through with many sorrows let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer
father we thank you so much for this great passage Lord and even though
Balaam is a bad guy and we could spend other sermons talking about everything
that was wrong with Balaam Lord help us to just meditate this morning upon the
actual message that you put into Balaam's mouth about the fact that once
you're blessing someone then other people can't reverse that and and and
that the only way for us to end up having you angry with us is when we have
a bunch of iniquity and perversity in our hearts and lives Lord help us to not
ever self-destruct help us to be able to claim these promises about you being on
our side and Lord help us to follow those teachings from the good things
that Balaam said and in Jesus name we pray amen
and man take your hymnals together go to him 303 number 303 my faith looks up to
thee hymn 303 sing it out together with me on that first verse 303 my faith
looks up to thee thou Lamb of Calvary 303 lift it up now
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And that's listening this morning we are dismissed
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