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Alright, good evening everyone. Welcome to First Works Baptist Church. Let's all make our way inside and find a seat.
Grab a song book, open that song book up to song number 183, Oh How I Love Jesus.
Let's all stand together for our first song. Song number 183, Oh How I Love Jesus.
Song 183, everyone nice and strong all together on their first verse.
There is a name I love to hear. I love to sing its word. It sounds like music in my ear. The sweetest name on earth.
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Amen, let's open our service with the word of prayer.
Father, thank you, God, Lord, for loving us first, God, and sending your son, Jesus Christ, God, to die on the cross for us.
Lord, that we may obtain salvation freely, God. We love you, Lord, and thank you again for that, Lord.
We pray, God, that you would bless the service, Lord, every aspect of it, God.
Bless the singing, Lord, and the preaching, God.
Feel pastored from here with your Holy Spirit, Lord, as he preaches unto us, God, and help us in the congregation, Lord.
Focus and be edified tonight by the preaching, Lord, that we would live here, that we would leave here differently than when we came in, God.
We love you, Lord, and it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
You may be seated.
Song number 30, nothing but the blood.
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Song number 30, nothing but the blood.
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Everyone nice and strong all together.
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What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
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What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Oh, precious is the flow that makes me white as snow.
No other fount I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus.
For my pardon this I see, nothing but the blood of Jesus.
For my cleansing this my plea, nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Oh, precious is the flow that makes me white as snow.
No other fount I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Nothing can force in a tone, nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Not of good that I have done, nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Oh, precious is the flow that makes me white as snow.
No other fount I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus.
This is all my hope and peace, nothing but the blood of Jesus.
This is all my righteousness, nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Oh, precious is the flow that makes me white as snow.
No other fount I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus.
All right, great singing. Thank you for being here this evening.
Just a few announcements before we sing our next song, which will be song number 169,
Come Thou Fount, 169, if you want to get that ready in your songbooks.
If you did not get a bulletin, go ahead and raise your hand and one of the ushers can get one for you.
Important information on there. Of course, our Sunday morning service is at 10.30.
Sunday evening is at 5 p.m. and then we have our Thursday night Bible study at 7 o'clock.
And of course, we're currently going through the book of 1 Samuel and we'll be in chapter 22 this evening.
You see the sowing times and teams, the list of expecting mothers, and of course the important reminders there at the bottom.
We have a ladies prayer breakfast coming up on Saturday, June 25th.
You could actually RSVP on the website if you'd like to come to that.
Or if you have any questions about that, you can ask my wife for more details.
The July birthday breakfast in Judea sowing is on Sunday, July 3rd.
We have the 4th of July picnic on Monday, July 4th.
And I actually have a special announcement here regarding that.
Please sign up for the 4th of July picnic in the back tonight.
We will host it based upon interest.
So there's an RSVP sheet as well, optional signup sheet, and volunteer to help sheet at the Usher station.
And so if we don't see a good response to this, we're just going to trash it.
If you're like, well, I'm going to go to do something else and I'm not really interested in going to the church picnic.
I'm not offended, trust me.
It's just less work for me and my evangelist, more so for the evangelist.
But if you do want to do a picnic, it's really based upon the interest.
And so just keep that in mind.
If you want to be a part of that, go ahead and sign up in the back.
And then we have the men's prayer night coming up on Friday, July 29th, and the Samaria missions trip on Saturday, July 30th.
And then you see the reminders there at the bottom.
Please make sure you silence your phones during the preaching so as to not be a distraction during the service.
Put it on airplane mode or shut it off or just turn down the volume, whatever you have to do there.
And go ahead and pull out your prayer sheet there.
Please continue to pray for our church corporately, for God's favor.
Of course, for the Sony in our church that we continue to see more people saved, more people baptized, more people assimilated to the church.
For the Sony teams and missions, protection of our church, of church van, pray for the spiritual numerical growth of our church,
for more labors that we continue to reach new people and train them and equip them to be soul owners.
And then you see the other needs there, of course, at the bottom.
By the way, I heard, did anybody hear about the lightning in Pico Rivera, El Monte, you know, El Monte?
And they're even putting in the news, like, it's just very odd the amount of lightning that they're getting, you know.
And I think, if I heard correctly in Pico Rivera, someone actually got struck by lightning.
And so, you know, is it a coincidence that it happened in June? I think not.
All right. And so, continue to pray for El Monte, okay.
I have not forgotten about that city, my friends, okay.
And pray there for the church families, family salvations, and families to grow for the barren women in our church and expecting mothers.
And, of course, the different needs that we have here at the bottom.
And then, if you have an additional prayer request you'd like to be mentioned, please make sure you put that at the bottom.
And we'll make sure that it gets on the prayer bulletin for the following week, all right.
Brother Morrie's going to come on up and pray over the needs.
All right. Please bow your heads in a word of prayer.
Dear Lord, Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to be able to come to our church.
And, Lord, we just pray that you continue to bless us in our church here.
Thank you for your Bible.
And, Lord, let us just meditate on your word and think about your word and grow closer to you.
And just the different precepts that you set for us in the Bible, let us eat your word up, Lord.
And let us just continually think about it day and night and meditate and memorize your scriptures well, Lord.
Lord, I just pray that you bless our church and all the different ministries that we have, Lord.
And I also just pray that you continue to bless our efforts in us trying to serve you, Lord.
And, Lord, I just want to pray for the soul winning that we do here.
And, Lord, I pray that we're getting people saved and leading people to the Lord.
And, ultimately, Lord, I just also pray that we're just doing a job that is worthy of your praise, Lord.
And, Lord, I just pray that you bless us in our efforts here.
Lord, we pray for the soul winning teams and the church services that we have.
And, Lord, I just pray for all the team leaders that they're doing a great job at leading their teammates and leading the church.
And, Lord, I just also just pray that you protect us, protect our church, protect our family from wicked people going to and from work.
And, Lord, I just pray that you bless us in all aspects of our lives, Lord.
And, Lord, I just want to pray for more laborers.
I pray that more people have the desire to go out and give that gift that they once received, Lord.
And, Lord, I just pray that you put it on their hearts so that they can continue to go out or ultimately start going out and giving the gospel and leading people to the Lord.
Lord, I just pray for the leadership in our church.
I pray for Pastor Mejia and Brother Ulysses as they're leading the church.
And, Lord, I just pray that your hand of wisdom and knowledge is on them.
And, Lord, I just pray that you continue blessing both of them and, ultimately, our church as well and the church members as well.
Lord, I just want to pray for the salvation for family members in our church that may not have been able to hear the gospel.
Lord, I just pray that you soften their hearts, allow them to be able to hear the gospel.
And, Lord, I just also want to pray for the expectant mothers that we have as well.
We have two ladies, Ms. Kimberly and Ms. DJ.
I pray that you bless them and allow them to have a healthy delivery, Lord.
Lord, I also want to pray for the general or unspoken or the unspoken request, Lord.
And, Lord, I just pray that you meet those needs there.
And, Lord, I also just want you to think about steadfast Baptist Church and Pastor Jonathan Shelley as he's going through the battle over there in Texas.
And, Lord, I just pray that you have a hand of protection over him and his church, Lord.
And, Lord, I just pray that you bless him and his church and also for Pastor Joe Jones and his church there, Lord, as well.
And I pray that you keep them safe and allow them to fight the good fight, Lord.
Lord, I just want to thank you for our church that we have and the service.
And I pray that Pastor Mia has her spirit upon him.
And, Lord, I just pray that we're able to listen to the message and grow thereby.
Lord, I pray this in the heavenly name. Amen.
All right, please turn your hymnals to song number 169, Come Thou Fount, 169.
Song number 169, Come Thou Fount.
Song 169.
Everyone nice and strong all together.
Come thou fount of every blessing.
Turn my heart to sing thy grace.
Streams of mercy never ceasing.
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some mellow dishonest.
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount I'm fixed upon it.
Mount of my redeeming love.
Here I raise my Nebaneezer.
Hither by thy help I'm come.
And I know by thy good pleasure.
Safely I'll arrive at home.
Jesus of me when a stranger.
Wandering from the fold of God.
He to rescue me from danger.
Interpose his precious blood.
Oh, to grace how great a debtor.
Daily I'm constrained to be.
Let thy goodness like a fetter.
Find my wandering heart to be.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it.
Prone to leave the God I love.
Here's my heart, oh, take and seal it.
Seal it for thy courts above.
Men, at this time the ushers will collect the offering.
Tonight will be in 1 Samuel chapter number 22.
In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Good evening, we're continuing in 1 Samuel chapter 22.
And the Bible reads,
David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave of Dulam.
And when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down through their tomb.
And everyone that was in distress, and everyone that was in debt,
went down through their tomb.
And when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down through their tomb.
And everyone that was in distress, and everyone that was in debt,
and everyone that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him.
And he became a captain over them, and they were worth of about four hundred men.
And David went thence to Mispu of Moab, and he said unto the king of Moab,
Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.
And he brought them before the king of Moab, and they dwelt with them all the while that David was in the hold.
Then David departed and came into the forest of Harith.
When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him,
now Saul of Boden gave you under a tree in Rama, having a spear in his hand,
and all his servants were standing about him.
Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him,
Hear now, you Benjamites, will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards,
and make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,
that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that showeth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse,
and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or showeth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servants against me,
to lie in wait, as at this day.
Then answered Doak the Enumite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said,
I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
And he inquired the Lord for him, and gave him vittles, and gave him the sword of Goliath, the Philistine.
Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob,
and they came all of them to the king. And Saul said, Hear now, thy son of Ahitub.
And he answered, Here I am, my lord.
And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse,
and that thou hast given him bread and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him,
that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day.
Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David,
which is the king's son-in-law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me, let not the king impute anything unto his servant,
nor to all the house of my father, for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.
And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.
And the king said unto the footman that stood about, Turn, and slay the priest of the Lord,
because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me.
But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priest of the Lord.
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priest.
And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priest,
and slew on that day four score and five persons that did wear linen ephod.
And now the city of the priest smote he with the edge of the sword,
both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen and asses and sheep with the edge of the sword.
And one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of a high-tub named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.
And Abiathar showed David that Saul had slain the Lord's priests.
And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul,
I have occasioned the death of all the persons at thy father's house.
Abide thou with me, fear not, for he that seeketh my life, seeketh thy life.
But with me, thou shalt be and safeguard.
Thank you, Heavenly Father, for this wonderful church.
Dear God, for every precious soul in it.
We pray for our pastor that you bless him with your Holy Spirit as he preaches your word.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Okay, we continue this evening with the book of 1 Samuel.
Of course, we took a break last week.
We had Pastor Anderson preach for us, and so we're going to continue with our series tonight.
If you remember from the previous week in chapter 21, David is on the run,
and he goes to Nob to Ahimelech the priest.
He's with his men, and he essentially just asks for some food, for resources and for food.
He's hungry. His men are hungry.
Of course, Ahimelech extends his hand to David to help him,
and gives him the shewbread, and they eat there.
Of course, that's where he acquires Goliath's sword.
Now, in chapter 22, we essentially see him going into the cave of Dulem.
Right now, what we're looking at in this particular story, in this particular timeline,
is David, he's just simply running.
He's just running from this adversary known as Saul.
He's just trying to get away from the problem,
trying not to cause any issues or have more tension with the king,
but in his venture to do so, he ends up acquiring more men to join him.
They're inspired to follow him. They're inspired by his leadership.
Of course, this is where we see David's mighty men come about.
Now, in chapter 22, aside from David waxing stronger,
we actually see also that Saul is waxing more wicked.
A couple weeks ago, we went over the fact that Saul,
we saw the extent of his mercy, or should I say the lack thereof,
where he's even willing to kill David.
He's willing to kill his son Jonathan.
He's very paranoid. He's becoming very violent.
But we're going to see the extent of his violence in chapter 22
when not only is he still trying to kill David,
but he actually takes the lives of 85 priests.
You think about it, it's like, whoa.
Obviously, everyone, to a certain extent, is tempted with vengeance.
They're tempted with wanting to avenge themselves of their enemy.
Whether righteously or unrighteously.
But there's a certain boundary, right?
Obviously, Saul is exceeding that boundary,
and even to the point where he feels no remorse
over taking the lives of the 85 priests.
And then, even aside from that, he goes further
and goes to the city of the priests
and kills every man, woman, boy, and girl, and cattle in that city
because of his rage, because of his violence,
and his spirit of vengeance that he has.
And so, obviously, Saul is just gone.
I believe he's saved, and we proved that earlier in his life.
But this kind of shows you how far a believer can really go
when they're in the flesh.
They're not walking in the spirit.
He's backslidden. He's away from God.
And he's completely different from the man that we first knew him as
when we started studying his life.
And so, let's go ahead and begin here.
We're going to look at David sparking a movement in verse number one.
It says,
David, therefore, departed thence, and escaped to the cave of Dulum.
And when his brethren and all his father's house heard it,
they went down thither to him.
We're going to see the humble beginnings of David's mighty men.
In verse two, it says,
And everyone that was in distress, and everyone that was in debt,
and everyone that was discontent had gathered themselves unto him.
And he became a captain over them, and there were with him about four hundred men.
Now, any time I read this particular story,
I'm actually reminded of a sermon that I preached a couple years ago.
And it was a sermon entitled, From Motley to Mighty.
And it's essentially referring to the fact that these guys would be, in a sense,
the nucleus of David's mighty men.
But at this point, they're not necessarily mighty.
They're in debt, they're distressed, they're discontent.
I'm sure some of them are depressed.
Some of them are obviously on the run.
And you think to yourself, you kind of wonder what David's thinking.
He's thinking, can I get someone who just has it going on,
and they're not in debt, they're not discontented,
they have a good spirit, or they're not in trouble, or something like that.
But you know what?
This is what God gives him to work with,
and he ends up inspiring these men and leading these men,
and then they end up doing something great,
and later on we see that they end up doing some great exploits.
But you know what?
This is essentially kind of how a church is sometimes, if you think about it.
You say, who comes to church?
Well, you know, sometimes you'll get someone who just has all their ducks in order,
and everything's just right on point, they got no problems,
marriage is great, kids are great, just everything's on point to a certain extent.
But mostly, you get people who are just in distress, right?
They're in distress because of some problems that they're going through,
or you get people who are just in debt.
And because they're in debt and they're struggling financially,
they're seeking after the Lord, they come to church or they get right with God,
they're in debt.
You know, people who are just discontent with the things of this world.
And there's a bunch of other deeds that we can add to this, obviously.
There's a lot of people who come because they're depressed or something.
They need to be delivered.
What's another D? Someone throw a D out there.
They're dumb! No, I'm just kidding.
No, I'm just joking. Sort of.
But these are the type of men that enjoin themselves to Jesus Christ, right?
Because the church is, the head of the church is Jesus Christ himself.
And of course, David is a picture in the Old Testament of Jesus Christ.
And these are the type of people that enjoin themselves into him.
And you know, all of us to a certain extent, whether literally or spiritually,
we're in these types of situations right here, right?
You know, we came to the Lord because we were in distress,
because we didn't know the way of salvation.
You know, we came to Jesus because we're in debt.
We realized that we could not pay the sin debt that we owed, right?
We came to Jesus because we're discontent with all these false religions that are out there
and people who just were not clear about the way of salvation.
They weren't clear about the truth.
And so we came to Jesus Christ based upon those things, and he led us. Amen.
And so he's the captain of our salvation, as the Bible puts it.
But these men, you know, obviously these are the humble beginnings of David's mighty men.
And, you know, obviously David has a great reputation,
because even though he doesn't necessarily have a centralized location
where he can train people and lead people, wherever he's at is where they went.
His mom and dad went there. You know, his father's house heard of it.
They went down to thither, of course.
And then everyone that's distressed, debt, and discontent,
they gather themselves unto him to be led of him.
So, you know, this shows us, by the way, that you don't necessarily need a title to be a great leader.
You know, because a lot of people are like, well, I'll be a great leader once I get the title of pastor,
or if I get the title of a deacon, or if I get the title of an evangelist.
As soon as I get that specific title, then I can be a great leader.
But that's not necessarily how it works, my friends.
You know, leadership is influence, right?
And obviously we see here that the king of Israel is who? Is Saul.
But who are people following? They're following David.
And even though he doesn't have the kingdom, he's not crowned, he doesn't have that authority,
he can be simply in a doulam's cave and people are still following him.
Okay, so it shows you that, you know, God's favor is on David,
and God's going to use David and he's sparking a movement of great soldiers and great men,
honest men of good report who can do something great for God and, of course, build up the kingdom for the Lord.
And so we see that humble beginning there.
And you know what? In the Christian life, we all start that way as well.
You know, and that's why it's important that the longer you're a Christian,
the more you remind yourself of where you came from, okay?
You know, because the Christian life benefits you greatly, right?
If you're consistent in the Christian life, it can add a higher quality of life to you.
You clean up your life, you learn how to behave yourself, just in life in general.
You start adding virtue to your life and disciplines.
And then, you know, if you're not careful, you can become a little prideful.
You can become a little arrogant.
You can become a little big-headed because, you know, now you got your stuff together.
Now you're on point.
And so people have a tendency to thumb their nose at people who don't have their stuff in order.
You understand?
But you got to remember that we all had humble beginnings.
There was a time when you didn't know those specific doctrines.
There was a time when you weren't the best of Christians.
You weren't the elite of Christians.
Or, you know, you didn't know all these doctrines.
You didn't read your Bible all the way through.
You struggled in your Christian life.
And remember, there was a time when you were in distress.
You were in debt and you were discontented.
And then, of course, through God and others, you know, brought you to a point
where now you can actually add value to someone else, spiritually speaking.
And so you see those humble beginnings there.
And then, of course, the king of Moab also harbors David's parents in verse number 3.
It says, And David went thence to Mizpah of Moab, and he said unto the king of Moab,
Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth and be with you till I know what God will do for me.
It's a scary situation for David to think about it.
You know, he's just like, can you take care of my parents?
Can you watch over them until I know what God's going to do with me?
So, obviously, David's in a precarious situation where it's kind of unstable.
He doesn't know what's going to happen on the morrow.
But even in spite of that, he's still trying to take care of other people.
He's still trying to take care of his parents.
And it shows you the nobility of David, that he's still thinking about, you know,
the well-being of his parents, the well-being of others, even though he himself,
you know, they got the green light on his head and they're trying to kill him.
He's still trying to take care of his parents. It says a lot about him.
Look at verse 4, And he brought them before the king of Moab,
and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.
The prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold, depart and get thee into the land of Judah.
Then David departed and came into the forest of Harith.
So, you know, the prophet comes to David and says, hey, you can't hide forever.
You know, you got to go somewhere else, but you just can't remain in hiding.
You can't just keep people in obscurity because eventually, you know,
Saul's going to find you or you just have to realize that, you know,
God's going to protect you no matter what's going to happen.
If you're already anointed king, that's God's will for your life.
You know, don't abide in the hold. You understand?
And, you know, the spiritual application that we can derive from that
is that sometimes Christians want to wait until everything is just right
before they make that move. You know what I mean?
They're like, they want to remain in the hold.
You know, well, I'll get into church as soon as I find the perfect church.
As soon as I get a church where the pastor is just, you know,
he's right on just everything that, you know, I agree with.
And, you know, as long as there's enough ladies in the church
that I can maybe choose which one's going to be my future wife or something.
You know, how about this? Sometimes Christians are like,
well, you know, I'm not going to work right now.
I'll just wait until I get that perfect job. Right?
I'm just waiting for that perfect job. I don't want to work for Domino's.
I don't want to work for McDonald's. I don't want to work for Del Taco.
I don't want to work for anything.
You know, I'm just waiting for that perfect job to give me that specific amount of money.
You know, and what are they saying? I just want to wait in the hold.
But you know what? Anybody who waits in the hold ends up staying in the hold.
You're on hold. Okay?
But what you have to do is get out of the hold and just go do something.
Even if you fail.
And, you know, here's the thing is that so many people spend their lives as Christians in the hold
because they're afraid of what might happen if they actually try something,
if they actually go get a job, if they actually go to a church,
if they actually just start serving God because they're afraid they might fail.
But you know what? What if you succeed, though, as well?
And the possibility of succeeding in the Christian life is a lot more likely if you actually try.
Because if you don't try, you're just a failure period.
So, you know, you not only fail because you're not doing what God tells you to do,
but you're failing because you're just not trying.
Because God wants us to put an effort into the Christian life.
And look, the conditions spiritually will never be just right for all of us.
We're not supposed to be looking for the perfect condition in order to do something or do what God tells us to do.
We need to just do what God tells us to do and work with what we have.
You understand?
And, you know, sometimes Christians can get this critical attitude about churches
and just think, well, you know, my pastor is a pre-tribber or something.
And he is a Zionist, and he has the Star of Renfan, you know, on the platform,
and they've got a Christian school, and so I'm not going to go to that church.
Yeah, but here's the thing, though. It's like, then what are you going to do?
You're just going to stay home and just watch YouTube all day long?
Like, that's not a good option.
You know, YouTube is a great option for sermons and everything
if you just literally have no church to go to.
If church is like two, three hours away and you don't have transportation for that or something,
and you just can't make it.
But, folks, if you live like right around the corner, though, right?
First of all, if you live right around the corner from like a Baptist church
who's right on salvation, they're King James, but they don't necessarily adhere to the secondary doctrines
that we, the new IFB, would adhere to, go to that church.
You say, why? Because that's where the new IFB pastors came from.
Not only did we survive there, we thrived in those churches.
I love being in the old IFB. That's all I knew.
That's where I learned how to be a Christian and how to be a father and a husband,
how to sow in. You can thrive in those churches as well.
And if you can't thrive there, you can't thrive here either.
That's typically how it is.
If you're a troublemaker and your problem's at a church like that,
you're probably going to be problems here, too.
So you know, actually, I take it back. Don't come here. I'm just kidding.
Don't go somewhere else, okay?
But, you know, don't remain in the hold because you want the perfect job.
Just go get a job.
You say, well, you know, they're not paying enough.
If it pays enough to just pay the bills, or you say this,
well, it doesn't pay me enough, then get two jobs.
Well, that's still not enough to get three.
Just go work. Just go get a job.
Yeah, but I'm embarrassed. I gotta work for Little Caesars.
Why would you be embarrassed? You could hook us up with a discount, amen?
You would be like the most valued person in our church.
A job's a job's a job, my friends.
And, you know, don't remain in the hold for a job.
And obviously, you know, don't remain in the hold.
You know, sometimes people, young men and young women,
will often remain in the hold because their level of expectation for a spouse is so high.
You know, they want the new IFB model, right?
Where they have all the doctrines are right, and they're beautiful,
and they want to have at least ten kids,
and they go sewing at least, you know, whatever, six hours to ten hours a week.
You know, they sew in from dusk till dawn.
It's like they have to have all these things right, and they remain in the hold.
But you know what? All of those guys, you guys are gonna stay in that hold.
You're gonna grow old in that hold.
You're gonna be the only person out of the hold for the rest of your life.
Because that person doesn't exist.
Okay?
So what am I gonna do? Get out of the hold and go talk to someone.
And look, you're not much of a prize either, you know what I'm saying?
Sorry to break it to you.
I know you don't believe that.
I know you think you're like God's gift to First Works Baptist Church,
and every other church, but you know, don't remain in the hold.
You know, don't have these unrealistic expectations.
Go to Judah, get out of the hold, go actually do something, and make it happen. Amen?
And don't have these high expectations for a spouse, because here's the thing.
What if they held you to that same standard?
Right? What if they held you to that same exact standard?
You know, you want yourself a Sarah, but are you an Abraham, though?
Like, I want my woman to call me Lord.
But are you like worthy of that title, though?
You know what I mean? I mean, think about that.
And so, don't remain in the hold. There's so many other applications that we can give with that.
But you know, it took the prophet Gad to come and just tell David, get out of the hold.
So the prophet Bruce Mejia is coming to tell you, get out of the hold, go to Judah, go do something about it.
Okay? And so, let's move on here.
So we see the humble beginnings.
We see King of Moab harboring David's parents, which is very kind of him, obviously.
And then of course, David departs to Harith in verse number five.
This is the prophet Gad sent into David, abiding out of the hold,
departed Gethe into the land of Judah, then David departed and came into the forest of Harith.
Now the next thing we're going to look at is Saul scolding his men.
This is the most embarrassing thing that when I read this, I'm like embarrassed for Saul.
This is so like embarrassing for like a leader, for a man.
I'm like, are you listening to yourself, Saul? You sound like a baby.
Okay? Look, let me show you what I mean.
Okay, look at verse number six here.
It says, When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him now saw a bode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah,
having a spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.
Verse number seven, Then Saul said unto his servant that stood about him,
Here now ye Benjamites, will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards,
and make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,
that all of you have conspired against me?
And there is none that showeth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse?
And there is none of you that are sorry for me?
Or showeth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me to lie and wait as at this day?
He's like getting on, his servants are just surrounding him waiting for, you know, a command,
because they're loyal to the king, these are men of principle, these are honest men,
and he's just like ripping on them, and really what he's doing is he's gaslighting his servants.
Because of the fact that no one's conspiring against him, they're there with him.
They're like obeying him, they're out to get, they're obeying him and trying to recover David,
even though they don't necessarily agree with him, but he's like gaslighting them,
and he's like, hey, did David say he's going to give you a vineyard?
Is he going to give you a vineyard, like I'm going to give you a vineyard?
He's like, is he going to make you captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,
is he going to give you fields? Trying to guilt trip them, right?
And he's like, you guys have conspired against me.
He said, you didn't show me that my son had made a league with the son of Jesse.
So he's accusing them of conspiring that his son made a league with David.
It's like, no, your son is the one who conspired and did that.
Your servants have nothing to do with that.
And what does that say about you as a father?
When your son doesn't respect you and is conspiring with your enemy,
and obviously David is not an unrighteous person, but you get the point here.
He says that none of you, and this is the saddest part,
and there is none of you that is sorry for me.
You guys don't love me. You don't care for me. I'm your king.
It's like, this is a bad way to lead.
This is a terrible way to lead.
He's trying to get them to become loyal to him and to obey him,
but he's doing it through means of guilt tripping them.
It's not a way to lead, folks.
People, look, a person, a church, an individual, a family, will follow a person,
even if they're not necessarily the strongest leader,
if they're a person of principle and integrity.
They will follow an individual, even if they don't agree 100% with them,
even if he's kind of like Saul in this area,
but an individual, a family, a church, will more readily follow a person who inspires them to follow him.
You see, the goal should be that we inspire people to follow us, not make them follow us.
It should be that they would want to follow us, not that they're so afraid that they have to follow us.
Same thing with their spouses, right?
I don't want my wife to be afraid of me, and therefore she's obeying me.
I want her to just be inspired to love me and to obey me.
Same thing with my kids.
Same thing with my church.
Saul is obviously showing a lot of insecurity here,
because he's just kind of like, you're not feeling sorry for me.
He's just putting them through a guilt trip.
He's gaslighting them into trying to get them to admit something that never took place.
They never conspired against him.
There's nothing about that that's going on with them, and it's his fault that all this is coming upon him.
So he's scolding them for these things.
You've got to think of the servants.
They're just like, this is awkward.
So do you want us to go get David right now?
What's the next move?
I mean, what do you say when you're just standing there and you're a king?
You're just like, you're not sorry for me.
You don't even love me.
You're conspired against me.
Obviously, they see that he's just losing it.
He's having an emotional breakdown is what he's doing, right?
Whereas he's trying to make them follow him, whereas David, the distressed, discontent, and in debt, they just went to David.
He's just a magnet for people who are looking for strong leadership.
Whereas Saul is almost like a deterrent for that because of his leadership.
And the principle we can learn there is that, again, we never want to make people follow us because they just have to.
We want to make sure that we inspire people to follow us by casting vision, by exhorting them,
by presenting value and following.
Those of you who want to be pastors one day, you want to pastor in such a way that people buy into the vision that you're casting forth for the church.
To win souls to Christ, to do missions trips, to preach the truth, to raise godly families, have successful marriages, do something great for the Lord.
You want to inspire that into the people so they want to come to church.
They want to be a part of the team.
You have to be here because I said you have to be here.
And you have to do what I say because I said you have to do what I say.
Don't you feel sorry for me?
It's nonsense. It's bad leadership on Saul's end.
And so, look at verse number 9 here.
We're going to see Doeg snitching on a himalek.
Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was sent over the servants of Saul, and said,
I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to a himalek the son of Ahitub.
And he inquired of the Lord for him, and gave him vittles, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
So, first of all, he's scolding the servants.
And so Doeg, who apparently is now a leader of the servants, if you remember him from the previous chapter,
when David went to a himalek, and he was kind of divulging what he's going to do,
and he sees everything that's going on, Doeg was actually there.
The Bible says that he was detained of the Lord, and he was there, and he basically went back to Saul.
And of course, here he's telling Saul where David is.
So, Doeg is just, instead of taking responsibility, he's basically doing what Saul would do.
Because what is he doing? He's like, oh, it's a himalek that's conspiring against you.
Now you say, what's the point of that? Well, you know, you will produce the type of followers that you are.
Your people will be just like you.
And you know what? This is definitely true with Saul, because when Saul was confronted with his rebellion, what did he do?
He passed the buck. Oh, it was the people, though, that saved all the people alive.
It's the people who wanted to fly upon the spoils. What is Doeg doing?
Oh, it was a himalek. It wasn't us. A himalek, the priest, has nothing to do with him.
All he did, he's making it sound like, you know, David went to a himalek, and the himalek's like,
take this sword, you're going to be able to slay Saul, and I'll inquire of the Lord for you, and God is with you.
What did a himalek do? Feed him. And then he's like, you have any weapons here?
He's like, all we have is the sword of Goliath. And he's like, that's great. I'll take that.
So it's not like a himalek is just like favoring David in such a way that he is conspiring with them to go kill Saul.
He's just there at the right place at the right time. He's a priest of the Lord. He's impartial towards the whole situation.
Right? He's a man of God. He's just serving the Lord.
But Doeg, this little snitch, is essentially going and saying, like, he's demonizing a himalek,
trying to make it seem as though that guy is the one responsible for this conspiracy against you, Saul.
And he's lying, too. Look at verse 10. He says, he inquired of the Lord for him. No, he didn't.
David went there for food. That's all he wanted. He didn't say, inquire of the Lord for me.
Now, if he did want a himalek to inquire of the Lord, would that be a bad thing?
Why is it bad to go inquire of the Lord of a priest? You know, nothing would be wrong with that.
But he's making it seem bad. And here's the thing. He knows that in Saul's mind, that would bother Saul,
because Saul knows that God is with David. So if David inquires of the Lord through a himalek,
that would give David the upper hand to know what God wants him to do, because he knows that God is against him.
He knows God is against Saul. So it's like, he doesn't want him to have the upper hand.
He's inquiring of the Lord for him. Like, that's such a bad thing. Oh, you're listening to preaching online?
Are you listening to that internet pastor online? Is that such a bad thing?
There's a lot worse things that a person can be doing, my friend. Oh, are you listening to that Anderson guy?
You've been listening to that Anderson guy now, haven't you? Oh, is that such a bad thing?
I mean, they could be listening to rock music if you want. They could be involved in just the worst vice.
But they're just listening to biblical preaching. It's crazy. Oh, what are you doing?
You're inquiring of the Lord of this pastor? Oh, is that such a bad thing? It could be a lot worse, my friends.
It's crazy. And so, you know, Doeg is just simply passing the buck here.
And he's trying to blame a himalec for Saul's imaginations, something that's not taking place.
Look at verse 11. And the king sent to call him a himalec, the priest, the son of a high tub and all his father's house
and the priests that were in Nob. And they came all of them to the king.
By the way, one of the most famous things that I hear all the time, going back to that previous point about the internet pastor,
they'll often say, just be careful. Just be careful with him. If you're listening to Stephen Anderson, you better be careful.
Like, what's going to happen? You just better be careful. It's coded for this. You might just become a better Christian.
I don't know anybody who would listen to Pastor Anderson, just a normal person who just listens to Pastor Anderson,
who just became a really wicked person. And if they were a wicked person, they were a wicked person before they listened to Pastor Anderson.
But they're always like, you know, you better be careful, man. And it's just like, about what? Just be careful.
It's like, chill out. It's like people on YouTube, I make these videos and then I'll get comments like this.
What are you trying to do? And they'll say this, you better be careful. It's a video, dude. It's only 60 seconds long.
And they're just like, you better be careful. What does that mean?
They're trying to sound superior or as if they have like a corner of truth of something, like, you know, so stupid.
So he calls for Ahimelech in verse 11, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob, and they came all of them to the king.
So Ahimelech and 85 priests calls him up. And Saul said, Here now, thou son of a high tub. And he answered, Here my Lord, my Lord.
Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me? Bad way to start off the conversation.
Because he's already assuming that the accusation was true.
What he should have asked is, Hey, I heard through a couple of witnesses that you've conspired against me with the son of Jesse. This is what I've heard. Is it true?
No, it's not. Okay, well, I guess I ain't got nothing then. But he's just like, Why have you conspired against me?
He's kind of like, you know, it's like that old phrase or whatever, like, Are you gay?
It's like, No. Does your mom know you're gay?
And you can't answer, right? It's just like, because if you say no, it's like, ah, and you say yes, it's like, ah, that's like a stupid question.
So he's already going to him, already assuming that this rumor was true, because he wants it to be true.
Because rage and wrath is blinding Saul at this point. He just wants to take his anger out and his violence out on someone.
He says, Why have you conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, and that thou hast given him bread? Shame on you for feeding him.
He says, Given him bread and a sword, and has inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me to lie in wait, as at this day.
How dare you ask, you know, allow him to inquire of God so that he can have the upper hand and so I can die by his hand because God wants me dead.
Because he knows that God wants him dead.
Now put yourself in Ahimelech's sandals. What? It's like he's like, what happened?
Verse 14, Then Ahimelech answered the king and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son-in-law, and go with that thy bidding, and is honorable in thine house?
He's like, Aren't you guys related? Isn't that your son-in-law?
He's kind of like, Doesn't he just do whatever you tell him to do? Isn't he like the most honorable person in your house? What's the beef?
Because Ahimelech doesn't really know what's going on. He's just a priest of the Lord. He's taking care of his business. He's just minding his own business.
And he's impartial. And he's just simply doing his job. So he's just telling Saul like, Hey, you know, David is honorable. He does whatever you tell him to do.
You know, he's faithful to you. He's a great guy. Verse 15, Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me.
He's like, I didn't even do that. I didn't inquire God for him. I didn't ask the Lord what he should do.
Let not the king impute anything unto his servants, nor to all the house of my father. For all thy servants knew nothing of all this, less or more.
He's just telling them like, Hey, we're innocent. We've done nothing wrong. And we've obviously read the story in Chapter 21.
All he wanted was food. He gave him the showbread. David asked for the sword, gave it to him, and he went on went on his way.
He's an innocent priest. He's a priest of the Lord. So we see Doeg charging Ahimelech. Saul jumps to conclusions.
And Ahimelech is confounded by the accusation. We can understand why. Verse 16, the king said, Thou shalt surely die. Ahimelech, thou and all thy father's house.
He's like, you're dead. Like, what? Saul is essentially just violating every single biblical principle that you can imagine.
Because the guy just declared his innocence. There's no proof of what he said other than the testimony of Doeg, which he lied.
There's no evidence of this. And even if he had done what he's been accused of doing, it's still not wrong.
Because if the Lord did answer Ahimelech and told David what to do, that's not a sinful thing.
And then what does Saul do? No, your death penalty. You're dead. Verse 17. We're going to see that Saul has the innocent slain.
And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn and slay the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David,
and because they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me, but the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the Lord.
So they're just astonished at this request. They're appalled by Saul's request. Because he's like, kill Ahimelech and just kill them all.
Eighty-five priests. Just kill them all. And the servants are like, this is too much.
Because even these guys have their limits, their boundaries. They'll follow him, and if he thinks that this one guy is responsible for all this, that David's responsible,
they might follow him to that, but when you start extending your hand against the Lord's anointed, the priests, those who are impartial towards everything,
and you just want them slain for absolutely no good reason, there's no valid evidence to put forth that they're guilty of this so-called crime.
They're just like, we can't do that.
And it amazes me how people today are willing, sometimes Christians are willing to just bash on pastors.
Good men of God, pastors, they just want to extend their hand, and touch the Lord's anointed, and just accuse them, and bring railing accusations against them.
You know what I mean? It kind of shows you that they have the same mentality as Saul here.
A bunch of paranoid, self-righteous people that are just not right with God.
And so, you know, the servants are just like, they're appalled by this, about Saul's request.
But it's okay because, you know, Saul has a pretty wicked person under him by the name of Doeg.
Because remember, Doeg is just like Saul. He's as deceitful as Saul, he embellishes like Saul embellishes, he passes the buck like Saul passes the buck,
and you know what? He's unmerciful just as Saul is unmerciful as well.
Look at verse 18,
So Doeg just wiped out 85 priests. Extremely wicked. Very violent, extremely wicked, Doeg assaults the priest.
And it shows you what a wicked person not only Saul has, but Doeg as well.
Now, what's the principle that we can learn from here?
Well, you know, to be a respecter of persons is not good for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
So if a person is not grounded in biblical principles, they're not impartial, if they don't love justice and all these things,
you know, they're willing to just take the side of whoever will benefit them.
Doeg is not slaying Ahimelech and the priest because he literally believes that they're guilty.
He's doing it because he wants to maintain his position and favor with Saul.
You know, the other guys, they don't care about position.
Obviously, their integrity is a lot higher than their desire to be in a position of leadership or to have the favor of the king.
You understand? Whereas Doeg doesn't care.
And these are some of the worst people ever because you can't trust them.
And you know, sometimes they come through churches and they say the right things, they do the right things.
Why? Because they want favor from some particular person.
Maybe it's someone in church or maybe it's the pastor.
And you know what they're willing to do? Anything to maintain that relationship,
maintain that favor with the pastor.
And this is what's dangerous about them is that they're willing to exceed these boundaries to maintain that.
And that's, you know, they're not people of character. They're not people of principle.
You know, they're just for a piece of bread, a piece of bread that man will transgress.
When a person is a respecter of people, in other words, they show partiality and they favor people over another,
you can give them a piece of bread, they'll transgress for that.
They will violate biblical principles in order to maintain that and have favor.
Doeg is a wicked person.
You know, obviously, you know, we should give pastors the benefit of the doubt.
Love pastors, follow pastors, but pastors are not God.
You know, they're not in a position of divinity.
They're not, you know, some person who's just beyond, you know, making mistakes or, you know,
or they can just get involved in just the worst type of sin and people are just supposed to overlook it or something like that.
You know, for example, in 2012, I think it was 2013, you know, Jack Scott of First Baptist Church
was found to be just a really wicked pedophile.
Extremely wicked pedophile, abusing his position of authority at First Baptist Church of Hammond
and doing just the worst heinous things and, of course, he went to prison and I think he just recently got out, unfortunately.
You know, that guy's going to split hell wide open, by the way.
That guy's not saved. He's a false prophet, okay, and, you know, you say,
Oh, man, he fell into sin. No, he didn't.
That guy basks in sin.
Okay.
He cannot cease from sin.
He has eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin.
And even aside from that, the guy taught some of the worst heresy I've ever heard in my life.
Perverted, just wicked, perverse heresy.
I remember because in the old IFB, you know, that guy was really popular.
And the reason that he was really popular is because he was such an orator.
He was able to just speak really well.
He's very eloquent.
And so a lot of people respected him, of course, because he's also the pastor of the largest independent fundamental Baptist church in America at that time.
And I remember listening to him as a new Christian and I was listening to one of his sermons
and then he's just like, he's talking about Jesus being crucified on the cross.
And he's like, when he did that, he did that because God hated you.
When he's crucified, he hated you.
And he just kept saying that.
I remember thinking as a new Christian, like, I don't think I can listen to this because this is like hurting me.
I felt like, I didn't even know how to express it, but I was like, I just felt grieved in my heart to hear that.
And obviously it was a spirit that dwells within me that was rejecting that teaching.
I don't know how to explain it. I was just like, I just can't hear this because this just sounds so bad.
But that was like mild in comparison to a lot of the other stuff he was teaching.
And of course, he had an entire conference against the King James Bible and pointed out the so-called errors in the King James Bible.
All the while he's saying that he's King James only.
The guy's a major false prophet.
But here's the thing is that when he was discovered, you know, a lot of pastors were still backing him up.
Even after all the, everything that he was exposed for, all the heresy, all the King James heresy that he was coming out with,
all of the, you know, the pedophilia and everything was out in the open, there were still pastors who just went to bat for him.
Why? Because there were not men of principle.
They thought, well, this is Jack Scob. This is Pastor Scob.
You know, we need to pray for him. Yeah, I'll pray for him.
Probably not in the way that you would pray for him, though.
But they're just like, we need to respect him.
And I guarantee you, now that he's out of prison, I guarantee you there's some lame, independent, fundamental Baptist pastor out there
who's just a house Anderson dude who's going to take him in.
He's going to be preaching at these churches and I can't wait to find out about it.
Because those churches need to get called out.
Because that guy's wicked. He's evil. He's wicked.
And, you know, his judgment slumbereth not.
But you know, there's people, it's appalling.
You say, what's the problem with those pastors? They respect our people.
These people could commit the most heinous crimes.
They can molest children and take advantage of the innocent and beguile unstable souls.
But there's always that stupid pastor out there who just says, well, he's still a brother and we need to help him and we need to do this and do that.
Let it be anathema.
Shut up, doeg.
You know, doeg is willing, he's just not a principled person.
A lot of doeg pastors out there who will be a respecter of people.
And again, we should give pastors the benefit of the doubt.
But you know, there's a certain line that pastors can cross where the benefit of the doubt is no longer there.
It's just like, okay, you're wicked. You know, thou mayest no more be a pastor.
Look at verse 19.
So aside from that, it says in Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings and oxen and asses and sheep with the edge of the sword.
Now, I might be wrong. I don't think I am.
But it says in verse 19 that he, referring to doeg, did all this.
Which shows you that doeg is a bloodthirsty person.
He's a violent, bloodthirsty person.
He's wicked. He's evil.
And you know, he's taken the lives of innocent people.
It's just like, this is excessive.
I mean, it's excessive. Like, okay, let's just say Ahimelek was guilty.
Let's say he was just guilty of treason.
He's just committing the worst crime.
Okay, punish him. But obviously that's not the case.
Let's say that was the case. Punish him.
But then the 85 priests? And then the city where the men, women and children are?
It's excessive. It's a person who just loves violence.
And let me just park it right there for a minute.
You know, we as Christians should not love violence.
In fact, the Bible tells us that God hates the soul of the person who loves violence.
You know, we should not love violence.
Even against the enemies of God, we should not love violence.
You understand? Now, obviously we want justice. We love justice.
And we have to separate what justice is from violence, my friends.
Violence is when you violate someone, right?
When you take matters into your own hands.
And let me just say this. We at First Works Baptist Church do not advocate for vigilantes.
And if you're the type of person who's like, well, I'm a vigilante, then get out and go somewhere else.
Go join yourself to some patriotic QAnon church or something like that.
Go to Texas or go to one of these Bible Belt states or something like that where they pledge allegiance to the flag and all that.
That's not our church. We will love justice.
No, you guys love violence. You guys call for the death of sodomites. That's called justice.
And scour through my sermons. You'll never find me deputizing anybody in our church to go and put a 9mm in someone's head or something like that.
And neither do our friends.
Steadfast Baptist Church, Faithful World Baptist Church, Varied Baptist Church, no one advocates for that. Ever.
You can ask the pastors. You can ask the individuals in the church. No one has ever gone out and actually done something like that because we don't teach that nonsense.
You know, the people who want to claim that we do, they're just trying to demonize the new IFB and make it seem as though we're just a bunch of trigger-happy people.
Folks, we're for self-defense, obviously. We're for justice. But this isn't a training ground for assassins.
We don't come to church like, today could be the day. Today just might be the day.
Today's the day. Now is the point of time for salvation for someone out there when we go out and preach the gospel.
Today's the day to listen to the word of God being preached. Today's the day when we gather together and assemble to hear God's word being preached.
But it's not a day of violence because that's not what we promote in our church. And the new IFB doesn't promote that either.
No church in the new IFB has ever promoted that. No pastor in our movement has ever said, hey, here's the 9mm, go put that in the back of someone's head.
Right? Dylan Oz didn't say that. People want to take him out of context or whatever. He didn't say that. Why don't you tell the truth?
Yeah, he did. Okay. Then why aren't the police just arresting him right now then?
Because if that were the case, he should be in jail. Police should have gone after him right away. You know why they didn't? Because they actually heard the whole sermon.
They actually got the context. And he didn't say that.
And the reason that's important to know is because people out there are trying to, like Doeg, falsely accuse us of advocating for violence.
And this world is just a world of irony. We live in irony. Because they're like, you're an awesome fighter.
So I'm sure Abiothar's like, cool. Because I know David can, you know, he's slain his ten thousands. David's an awesome fighter.
So if you're giving me the word that you're going to protect me, I'm good with that. Well you know what? Jesus Christ, you know, he's our God.
He's our savior. He's our deliverer. He's our strong tower. He's our stronghold. He is our rock, the rock of our salvation. He's promised to protect us as well.
And so we're a picture of Abiothar there as Christians. But obviously it only happens to Christians who actually decide to join themselves in the service of David.
Decide to be a part of David's mighty men. And so we'll end it there. Sad chapter, unfortunately, just to see the extent of Saul's violence.
But through it, it's almost as if you see Saul decreasing as David increases. And we see Saul just degrade and become worse and worse as David becomes greater and greater.
Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word. So thankful for the story, Lord. I pray that you'd help us as your people to apply the principles thereof.
Bless us, Lord, and help us to enjoin ourselves unto David. Of course, symbolically representing Jesus Christ, that we would follow him and obey him as our king and as our captain.
And I pray that, Lord, we would never be like Doeg, showing partiality and being violent and loving violence. And Lord, help us to love peace.
And of course, we know that I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. And Lord, when it's time for war, help us to recognize that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God through the pulling down of strongholds.
And Lord, bless us as we go on our way. Give us a great weekend, Lord. A great harvest of souls to save. The word of God that's being preached may change the lives of people on Sunday.
And we love you. We thank you. We pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen.
Alright, we've got one last song. Song number 19, There is a Fountain. Song number 19, There is a Fountain.
Everyone nice and strong all together on that first verse.
There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins.
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.
Lose all their guilty stains, lose all their guilty stains.
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.
The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day.
And there may I go vile as he wash all my sins away.
Wash all my sins away. Wash all my sins away.
And there may I go vile as he wash all my sins away.
Dear dying lamb, thy precious blood shall never lose its power. Amen.
Till all the ransomed church of God be saved to sin no more.
Be saved to sin no more. Be saved to sin no more.
Till all the ransomed church of God be saved to sin no more.
Ere since by faith I saw the stream, thy flowing wounds supply.
Redeeming love has been my theme and shall be till I die.
And shall be till I die. And shall be till I die.
Redeeming love has been my theme and shall be till I die.
Then in a nobler, sweeter song, I'll sing thy power to save.
When this poor lisping, stammering tongue lies silent in the grave.
Lies silent in the grave. Lies silent in the grave.
When this poor lisping, stammering tongue lies silent in the grave.
Amen. Wonderful singing. You are dismissed.